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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Wan AT, Fn. Mk
(Continued from yesterary's Erpreu.)
TRUSTEES OF CHARITLESJRLL. _

Mr. SELW YN mse to move that the bill be second
time that day six swaths. The boo. maim for Swamies
had raised two distinct questions; one wrs as to the admis-
sibility of the appointment of trustees, and the other was
ea attempt similar to that made by the bills d last session
to divert certain endowed schools from the church of Eng-
land to disseutm; communities. lie eauld scarcely think the
boo. gentleman was serious in &skim; the house to do that in-
directly by moans of trustees, which parliament refused to
do last seesioo. He certainly felt the bouse would not en-
tertain a proposition of that bind.
Mr. MELT OR cousidered this a reasonable bill, be-
cause it declared that ;articular chases of her Majesty's
subjects should Out NJ debarred frosts being trustees of
eliarit*. On the ground of religious liberty, and ou the
ground el jungle., he asked the house to read this bill a
second time. _ _ _

fines W. HEATIICOTE said the real question before them
was the house prepared to apply a different rule of
evidence with raped to one class of eile from that which
they applied to all others. The hon. and learned member
alio spoke lest had imported into the discussion the ques-
tion of who were dissenters, :aid he had insisted on the wa
crafty ad avoiding the expense of litigation. But these
mattere efter this bill was passel would remain in precisely
florae position that they were in now. This bill would
de aseglamega-to church et Mislead than to other schools,
bower ifithapperd that there were more at these schools
in eanneadoe with the church of England than with other
• &negotiations. But as thew pliiiciple of the NIL it wield
apply just as Much to any Worsting lustre+ to the church
of England.
Mr. LOWE said the first grist question which the house
should consider was, whether the state of the law was such
as to require legislation. New, the slate of the law as de-
cided in the Ilminster case was thL—Lord Campbell said
the questith *hailer they should appoint a iliweateea
trustee was • matter of discretion, and bird Cliehusford
aPPcnred to think that there was • rigid and
embending 'rule of law which could only be applied
ewe way. if it were considered that it was • matter for
the discretion of a court of equity—if the court should
look to religious profession, hut should not regard it as an
absolute ion, he should be very well soatent to leave
timber es t stood. But the difficulty existed, and sa long
as ft existed it was desirable that by legislation It should be
paean end to. Passing from that to the policy of the
peepthed merman, Mr. Selwyn had told them that it was a
vele of the court of eqaity to eaclude persons from being
trustees and to remove them when they were of • different
denomination. But by proving that, the boo. and learned
gentleman did not prove his ease, he only proved the ease
cm which this bill rested. As to the preamble of the bill,
ft could be easily altered. The simple question They had to
decide was, whether it was expedient to declare that
the mere fact of a trustee being of • different
Breed from that which was taught in the grammar
school should be--to use the words of the Lind
Chancellor in the Ilmineter case—as absolute •
disqualification as a conviction of felony. It bad been
argued as if it were a care of the construction of the deed,
but that was not the rule in the courts of equity. Tha
mate of equity had derided that a person could nut be ak
pointed • trustee who was of a different creed. By the
dowed Schools Act of last radon trustees of schools were
kmnsi to open them to the children of dissenters thaw*
icaposieg au them any doctrine of the church of linglanda
and if that
_principle bad received legidative sanctioa a
sot far and reasonable that there should he 00111 d 06111/11 the
boards of trustees to protect the filtered.; of such e
sad to see that they were not deprived of the benefits
were intended for them by the legislature ? (Beer, hear.)
to far from that provoking quarrels it would prevent end
allay them, and put • stop to those small beginnings of eta
croachments which led to litigation in courts of law. Was
it not within the experience of hon. members the
is small country neighbourhoods there were purser
whom it was exceedingly desirable to have oa
thews boards, whoa° religious difference of opinion
would not in the judgment of those with whom
they would have to act in any degree irepacitate them? He
knew of lease in which a clergyman made meet zealous exer-
tions to get rid of a Roman catholic trustee of a grammar
school ; but be was opposed by persons of various
because they said the person objected to was the 1741
soul of the school, and devoted more of his time to it than
'ell the rest of the trustees. For the rearms he had g
and also oa Use ground of civil and religious libert ;lit
' without eau wish whatever to injure or weaken the church
of Engla he thready hoped the home would stylise
the mere fast of religious disagreement should not be an
absolute and irretrievable disqualification. (Hear.)
Sir H. CAIRNS sad his right hon. friend had fallen into
• mistake la supposing that the bill was not founded on any
doubt as to the law, for the preamble recited that doubts
had arisen as to the eligibility of certain persons to be
trustees of charities. It was the duty of • member placing
such • bill on the table to prove the truth of its preemble,
but that had not been done in the present case. Ho (Sir H.
Cairns) asserted, without fear of contradiction, that there
was not and never bed been arty doubt whatever on the
question, and that no judicial authority had ever proceeded
ou any such doubt in regard to it. The invariable rule of the
courts of law on the subject was, that in the case of •
charity endowed for teaching one particular religious doe-
tries or creed, the trustees to be appointed should be of
Elmithetaine or creed. (Hear, hear.) -Doubts would always
i sere upon the onestruotion of the deeds of some particular
'Amity, as to whether the religion observed was the reli-
gion meant by the founder ; hut thew doubts could not be
&sett with by an act of parliament, but must be solved
according to the general principles and rates of low Sp-
plicable to the particular case. His first objection to the
bill was, therefore, that it proceeded on • false basis, and
if the house should affirm it on the seemed reading, they
would he affinning that which could not be substan
The second objection he made to the bill was that it pro-
posed that no person should be deemed ineligible, unless it
was expressly declared in the deed that the trustees should
be members of a particular sect to which he did not belong.
Why was thatqualification added ? Heoould understand some
Es, entertaining strong opinions on the subject, asking
nTro per • law that no person whatever, on account of
religious belief, should be deemed ineligible for a trustee.
ship. But he would ask for an answer to the question—on
what *Peri principle could it be maintained that they
▪ ehsy end follow the will of the founder if he
experd declared his will, and not obey it if
Jr truly his will by necessary implication? (Hear.)
He would also ask the hour if by buying on the board of
trustees three members of the church of England, three
Roman catholics, three unitarians, and three presbyterians,
the peace of the charity and good will among its cowhides;
were likely. to be promoted? (Hear.) That was certainly
• nice specimen of a happy family. (Laughter.) His right
bon. friend said they were bound to take a step like that
consequence of the act of last session, which
• =d in
the children of dissenters to obtain secular education
hp @school without being bound to accept religious instruction.
Ms right hon. friend argued that as parliament had made
2a si there ought to be some person on the board
isc lllltom seethat it was complied with ; but what rule
vas ho be adopted with regard to the number of pewees
.aiming from the religion of the charity who should he
=or the board! Experience showed that from care.
or indifference the trustees of charities were being
constantly reduced to one, two, three, or four in number,
aid as in nine eases out of ten the surviving trustee; filled
up the vacancies, it might happen if the present proposal
were adopted that the only surviving trustee who might
hold religious opinions different from those of the founder,
would have to till up all the vacancies, end might appoint
persons belonging to the same denomination as himself.
As !reganled, however, the act of last year, there was
ample redrew by applying to the charity commissioners, in
the
children of dissenters were concerned. In conclusion, be
trusted the house would, on the grounds he had mentioned,
adopt the amendment. (Hear.)
Mr. HENLEY entered his protest against the dogma
laid down by the right hon. gentleman opposite (Mr.
Lowe) who, speaking r the minister of education, said that
as they by the act of last year admitted the children of
different religious beliefs into schools, to have secular edu-
cation without religious teaching, they ought also to admit
tauter of different religious beliefs. He contended that
if that doctrine were legitimately acted upon in every school
where there were children of six or seven religious denomi-
nations it would be uecessary to appoint as
i many trustees,
a course which he need scarcely say would result n codices
confusion. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. DILLWYN, in reply, said there were numerous in-
stemless in which, in the present state of the law, dissenters
and members of the church of England acted as trustees of
endowed schools with general advantage, and without pro.
during the injurious effects which were predicted if the
present bill received the sanction of parliament. With re-
• to the remarks of the bon. member for Belfast (Sir H.
Cairns), he thought that where the intention of the founder
of an endowed sahaol was perfectly clear, even by implica-
tion, it should be allowed to have full force ; but he die-
puted the right of any legal tribunal to place an interpreta-
tion upon the wishes of a founder where there was the
slightest possibility of • mistake being committed. (Cries
.of • Divide.")
The house then divided :
Fur the second reading
Against it LIT—T
This nosh was received with some cheering.
ATLANTIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
Mr. DUNLOP moved fora copy of • memorial to the
Lords Commie:were of her Majesty's Treesury from mer-
chants, bankers, traders, and others interested in the trade
with (heads, praying that the contract between her Ms-
jesty's goverment and the Atlantic Steam Navigation Com-
pany might be desired at ea end.
Agreed to.
LIBRARY OP THE HOUSE. I
moved to emahame the standing

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[TWOPENCE;

committee of fifteenenths:es to assist Mr. Speaker in the
direction of the library:—Colonel Wilson Patten, Lord
John Rowell, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James
Graham, Kr. Walpole, the Lord Advocate, Lord Hdas. Lord
Harry Vane, 31r. Moncliton ]limes, Sir Wallop Heath.
cote. Mr. Massey, Sir Coorge Lewis, Lord Stanley, Mr.
Stirling, and Mr. 'Whitoaide.
Allreett
AFFIRMATIONS.
Sir J. TRELAWNY moved for leave to bring ink bill to
allow affirmations or declarations to be made tnitead of
oaths, in certain cases, in Great Uvitsin and Ireland. The
object of his motion was to redress a practical grievance, of
which there bad already been several outs, and of which
there would probably be many more. Re could mdse. how
, the obligation of a witness' to tell the truth could be in-
, creamed by compelling hint to state what might probably be
a lie, namely that be believed in the doctAils of future re-
wards and punishments. There was a geutlensaa-in London
who was actually obliged for the protection of Lis gproperty
to have a person to swear for him, because he mold not
himself conscientiously take an oath. He (the hoe. mem-
ber) merely proposed to enable so affirmation to be received
for an oath when the party sincerely stated that in his
judgment the taking of au oath would not increase his obli-
gation to tell the truth.
Mr. DILLWYN seconded the motion, 'Rich was
agreed to. CHURCH RATES.
Mr. ALOOCK obtained knee to bring in a bill for the
voluntary eomnautatiou of chinch rates.
The house Tomcat a quarter past 5.

ZNAIANAMISSIGENr OP_ a 1 Ed AND
.4KENSINGTON.
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oumeroun Uld influent.— WAS
held last night In the Chebealiidh lanesaormil to take
into considenttion the provisions of the government bill,
"which allocates one member to the united perisheUof Ken.
abigton and Chelsea. The meeting vni ifs Mat& of a coo-
kout* between the two parishes, at which Al wits agreed
that, the inhabitants of both should be advised to nue their
claim to the two *eats forfeited by St. Albans ; Lad that
in earningteit on the government bill the question Might to
be raised by way of ameadnient e ,ustanwous fooling ap-
peared, however, to be last night avers.) to any proceeding
calculated to endanger the passing of the piopoted mea-
sure and the following resolutions were adopted am con.:
"That this meeting has been! with the greatest .surprise
and regret the proposition of her 3fajeety's govertinent to
give one member only to Chelsea and Kensington, dad that
haring regard to the exiwas enactment* contained in the
bills brought into the Home of Commons by TAN John
Russell and Sir James Graham in Mk, and :by Lofil John
Ruseell, Visoount Palmerston, Mr. Glatt:steam and Sir
George Lewis in 10130, to the absence of any claim in the
present session by any other constltnencv tothe pdority of
Lonl Enfield's notice for the onfmachavotent of this dis-
trict, and to the paramount claim thole potashes have over
the rest of the kingdom to a direct representation in the
council of the nation, by reason of population, property,
taxation, and intelligence—his lorilsh be requested to
move en amendment to the government measure, with a
view to obtain the right of three parishes to be reresented
by two menibers in the Commons House of ParliaMent."
"That this meeting tenders its best {haulm to Lord
Enfield for the put he has taken in promoting thq enfran-
chisement of the united parishes."

THE THIRD DISIIBIR FOR SOUTH LANCASHIRE.—
The coneervative party held a " *mu" meeting A Liver-
pool yesterday, with reference to the selection of a third
representative for South Lancashire. It was unanimously
resolved to request Lord Stanley to allow himself to be put
in nomination. Should his lordship consent, no opposition
is anticipated, but failing hint the conservatives will fall
back upon Mr. Charles Turner, the chairmen of Bei Mersey
Dock Board. The liberal are also on the gets terve, and
they are at present in negotiation with Mr. J. P. Heywood,
Mr. Oliver Heywood, and Mr. J. Cheetham, for miny years
the colleague of Mr. Wm. Brown.
REPRMENTATION OP BlRKENHEAD.—Thejiberale
ofßirkenheed held a large anti influential mettipg at the
Woodside Hotel there yesterday (Wednesday) ' Morning ;
Mr. J. Rameseroft in the chair. There were also present
Meagre. C. Harrison, S. Still, B. J. Thomson, J. It Spence,
Morecroft, Townsend, Heywood, J. Craven, F. Boult, &c.,
Thomas *mem jun., eldest son of the emieent con-
tractor, was introduced to the meeting, and tested his
political opinions to be those of the advanced libeml party,
and his determination, if elected for the new
borough, to support the foreign policy of the
present government, and that he was • opposed
to church Wes. Resolutions were unanimously passed
approving of Mr. Illressey es a readiest*. it repeisttiou was
preparedand numerously signed, committees formed for the
venous districts, and other necessary armogenients made to
support Mr. Betsey and oppose Mr. John Laird, the tory
capato.

PARLIAMENTARY RRPRDIENTATION OP SCOTTISH
UNITERSHIJA.—A meeting of the General Council of the
University of Glasgow was held on 'Tuesday, and a petition
was approved of praying that in the bill for the allocation of
the astir for the disfranchised burghs, the University of
Glasgow be considered entitled to a fair share of represen-
tation.

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IX)NDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 21.

NOBODY expects the Emperor of CIOIA, the
Grand 'Arne of Tether, or the Emperor of
Ausreis to know anything of the common people.
From the very moment of their birth they have
been taught to believe that they belong to a higher
order of beings—that they are not as other men
are—and so long as the humbler order of human
creatures live euietly and pay their taxes there is
no reason why such potentates should trouble them-
selves any further. But what seems pardonable
in a descendant of the Ceases becomes somewhat
ludicrous in a nobleman lately elevated from among
the people. What right have those who have had
their poor relations, their Christmas bills, their
days of toil and their nights of weariness, to
ignore the existence of such annoyances 1 There
is no one in the House of Lords who has
more worthily earned his high position than
Lord Sr. Le',Nsau.. Without connexions and
without fortune, ho has forced himself, by mere
merit, into the assembly where he now sits. But,
unfortunately, his gaze has so long been turned
upward that ho can scarcely look down for a
moment to the regions he has left. Hearing his
lordship discourse, even upon matters of law, it is
difficult to discover that there are any such beings
as suitors, or indeed any one under the dignity of
a Master of the Rolls. For years it baa been
notorious that not only the public but the legal
profession—solicitors as well as counsel—have
suffered the most grievous inconvenience by the
want of proper courts and offices. And this
opinion has lately been confirmed by a Report
drawn up by Commissioners appointed by Lord
Deasv's Government, and including such men
as Sir Joss COLERIDOE, Sir W.,Psile WOOD, and
Sir GIOADE C. Lewis. After a most elaborate
investigation, and after ascertaining the opinion
of the whole legal profession, they reported in
favour of concentrating into one spot all the courts
of law and the offices attached to them. And
considering the evidence, it was impossible for
them to do otherwise. Of all the elements of
expense of litigation there is none more important
than time ; of all tho sources of vexation atten-
dant on it there is none more bitter than unneces-
sary delay. But look at London. Here we have
the Superior Courts sitting at eleven places, often
at more, and all at the same time. From West-
minster to Lincoln's-inn, from Lincoln's-inn to
Guildhall, from Chancery-lane to the Old Bailey or
Basinghall-street, the same judge, the same solicitor,
the same counsel, or the same clerk, may be hasten-
ing on foot at a useless expense of time, or in
scab at the expense of his client. The first thing
a manufacturer does is to collect his machinery
under one roof. What aro the courts but a vast
legal manufacturing machine, and what the decrees
aad judgments pronounced but the articles flume-
lectured for the public! And just sa the cotton
goods would cost more money and be inferior in
quality if the machine were distributed partly in
one place and partly in another, so the legal articles
turned out under such circumstancia show similar
defects.

who has

There is not a judge in WI
ever felt the sorority of hurrying along the Stroud
to chambers in Chancery-lane--there is not a bar-
rioter who has in vain dawdled away a whole day
at Westminster-hall in the expectation of his case
being called—there is not a solicitor who has
waited in agony for the arrival of his leading
counsel from the ends of the legal world—there is
not • lawyer's clerk who has found himself too
late to get his order or his rule—there is not a
client who has ever paid a bill of costs and
cursed its items—in short, there is not • single
individual who has any the very slightest
connexion with litigation, who does not
admit the enormous advantages which would
result from the various legal buildings
being brought if possible under the erne roof, or,
at all events, within a reasonable distance. Happily,
sot only the Limn ensecimum and the Arroanur-
GZXL/LAL, but Lord PAILMIOSTON himself en of this
opinion. But Lord Sr. 1.110/11ARbo seems to have
taken up his parable against it, and delivered him-
self the other night at so much length against the
proposal that he left himself without an audience.
Ignoring the labours of the Commission to which
we have alluded, his Lordship says that the Master
of the Rolls is admirably accommodated, and that,
therefore, no change is required. The unanimous

opinion of the legal profession is not worthy to
be mentioned. The convenience to the great
mom of people is a matter of indifference. Lord
by. LEm4seini has probably forgotten that he was
once a practising barrister, and all the inconveni-
ences of useless delay and vexatious loss of time.

But he has forgotten something more. The
fund out of which the 1,500,0001. required for
building the new courts is to come, is an
important part of the question, and it is
right that the public should clearly under-
stand it. It is to be observed that when
money is paid into the Court of Chancery to
await the result, the suitor may either have the
fund invested in Government stock or may allow
the fund to remain cash. In the former case the
suitor takes the risk of the investment—if the
funds fall in the meantime, the suitor loses ; if
they rise, ho gains ; but in both cases he is
entitled to the interest or dividends.
This fund no one proposes to touch. In
the latter case the cash which the suitor de-
clines to invest is invested in stock by the court,
acting as a banker under the authority of Parlia-
ment. Like a banker, therefore, the court is
entitled to any prniit which may accrue in con- 1
sequence of such investments, but in any event
the suitor is entitled, at the end of the litigation,
to the precise suxu—neither more nor less than
that which he deposited. The accuintdations of
the interest derived from this fund evidently be-

long to the State, and are applicable to general
purposes. And accordingly this is part of the
sum which the Government, following the ad-
vice of the Commissioners, have agreed to
appropriate to the erection of the new courts.
Lord MT. lAA/MARIA, however, professes to be
grievously scandalised at what he seems to regard
as a spoliation of the suitors. But how is it
that this notion did not occur to him when he was
Chancellor of Ireland? In Ireland the funds of
suitors in the hands of the Court of Chancery
have actually been taken for the purpose of erect-
ing courts of justice. Lord ST. I.4IOICAILDIS whilst
Chancellor in Dublin, wrote an elaborate memo-
randum to the Chancellor of the Exchequer of
the day, but throughout that memorandum there
is not a syllable of remonstrance against the prin-
ciple upon which these acts were founded. Ac-
cording to the present scheme nothing what-
ever will be appropriated which can by
the most ingenious interpretation be held
to belong to any of the suitors. A portion
of the proposed building fund belongs exclu-
sively to the State, and the rest will be made up
by the fees paid by the suitors-about which
there can be no question. A capital of 1,500,0001.,
representing an annual sum of 45,0001., is the
sum required for the new buildings, and the Re-
port conclusively shows that this sum may be had
without imposing any burden upon the country.
And with the exception of Lord Sr. Law/saes
and Lord CRANWORTH,everybody admits the

enormous advantage which the new courts—
erected in one place—will confer upon the public.
If the question at issue concerned some nice,
curious point of conveyancing law, the opinion of
Lord Sr. LaONARU9 would be valuable; but in
a matter of Law Reform it may be safely dis-
regarded. His conduct on succeeding Lord TRURO
as Chancellor is not yet forgotten. After opposing
every alteration before the Equity Commission, he
assumed the Great Seal and carried into effect
every recommendation of that Commission to the

very letter. We are at liberty to believe that if
he resumed the seals to-morrow he would follow
a similar course, and become a vehement advocate
for concentrating the law courts —a step to which
be is now so vehemently opposed.

Now that Mr. Bantam's Bill for extending the
Borough Franchise is in Parliament, we wish to
say a word to all Reformers whose interest in the
cause does not depend on the fluctuations of
party politics. They have now a duty to perform
to the courageous and honourable man who, under
difficulties such as our Parliamentary report of
yesterday disclosed, has undertaken to fight the
battle of the unrepresented in the House of Com-
mons. If in such circumstances they did not
sustain his hands by all means in their power, the
world would wonder at their folly even more than
at their ingratitude. But they willdeso,unless they
wholly misconceive the requirements of the occa-
sion. On Tuesday Lord PA L CRXTON amply
justified that patient abstinence from clamour of
which so many recreant politicians have taken ad-
vantage when he referred to the unanimity of all
parties in admitting the necessity of Reform. But
having seen what this wonderful unanimity conies
to—evasion one year, a faction fight the next,
then a battle fought to be lost, and finally, an in-
definite postponement—they must perceive that
henceforth Reformers must trust only to their
own exertions, leaving administrations and parties
to find out their true interests.

Mr. Wises has proclaimed in Parliament that
" nothing is more certain than that the delibe-
" r►te opinion of England is in favour of Reform,"
and the facts he pointed to on Tuesday night are
amply sufficient to sustain that assertion as a
matter of evidence. But just now something more
is wanted. The hon. member must be sustained
by Reformers out of doors. Petitions for his Bill
must be prepared and sent up to the House
of Commons in large numbers. Already we hear
from Leeds and Norwich of an energetic com-
mencement of the good work, and many
petitions have already been presented. But
we doubt whether the urgency of the
case is generally understood. The Leeds working
men understand it, and, by the Secretary of their
Reform Association, have addressed their fellow-
eountrymen. They say that they feel earnestly
about the abandonment of Reform by the Govern-
ment, and "are fully resolved to use all proper
" means to show their rulers that the people,
" whatever the Government may be, are in
" earnest in demanding an immediate and
" thorough reform of the Howe of Commons ;
" and also to teach faint-hearted, if not recreant,
" Reformers that an early day of reckoning will
" come for their non-fulfilment of their hustings
" pledges." They add : " The times are critical,
" and such as to call upon all earnest men to
" Ann and cordial action on this one question ;
" and while it may be desirable to pre-
" serve intact local organization, it is still more
"so that all the different bodies throughout the
" land should act in cordial and simultaneous
" union at the present moment, and with the
" least possible delay, and with promptitude too,
" in support of the measure of Mr. BAINIS, if his
" scheme should be such as to deserve support."
Timm are points on which there must be no mis-
understanding. Electors and non-electors should
join hand in hand to support the hon. Member for
Leeds. No point in the Reform programme is un-
important, but Mr. Banesa's point, the extension
of the Borough Franchise, is supremely important.
Let, then, the exertions of Reformers be worthy of
their cause and its representative.

THE. RZVI/UNO Baaiturrzaautra.—Mr. J. Fraser
Macqueen. on beownieg ow of her Majesty's amulet, has
resigned his apposetineot as revising barrister for the metro.
pohilan boroughs and the cot of Westminster ; so that the
three nwitropolitaa revising pa are amid, the
other two having become so by the reason deaths of Mr.
tilialwell and Mr. Veen leChristie. These are is the
ggi~ft of the Lord Chief Justice, and are the only revising
harriahsnhipa given to the Chancery bar, the others resting
with the judges of the respective circuits.
laitsitovnaLs Pout—The bill introduced into
the Meese et Comma= by Mr. Villiers arid Mr. Oilpin, to
amend the laws regarding the removal of the poor and the
coutribettioe of parishes to the common fund in anima, has
bees printed. It provides that three years shall be sub-
*United fee flee in 9 and 10 Viet., e. 66, a.
1, wed residenee in • union shall be ainiva-
lent to nisidimos in a parish. Provision is made for ex-
' empties orphan children under 16 years of age from reinovaL
Where a married woman shall have been or shall be deserted
be her husband, and shall after his desertion reside for
three years in such a manner as would, if she were a widow,
render her exempt front removal, she shall not be liable to
be removed from the parish wherein she shall be resident,
unless her husband return to cohabit with her. Provision
is made for the chargeability of wayfarers, sick persona, and
lunatics. Orders in lunacy may be obtained by
or appealed against by boards of guardians. The
chargeability of union paupers upon the eon*
moo fund is made perpetual. Contributions to the
common fund are to be calculated according to the annual
value of rateable property. The guardians of every such
anion, in computing the ainoatit of contribution to the
common fund from the several parishes, are to take the
annual rateable value of such property In every parish therein
horn the valuation upon which such pariah was assessed to
the county rate, or, where there is no county rote, to the
barengli or ward Mkt, or other rate in the snore of a county
rate, is the last amemenent made not leas than one month
next pewordieg Use day when the order for such contriba-
tioa is weds.
ONTITAL PALIVIL..-01/1 SHILLING DAY.—WED.
NESDAT. Via, 20.—Admissions on payment, ; ditto
by season tickets, 440; total 1,275.

Ebe Coun.

THE LEVEE.

Her Majesty held a levee, the second this season,
yesterday afternoon in St. James's Palace.

The Queen wore s train of black Indio trimmed with black
gimp and rosettes. The petticoat of black satin, trimmed
in front with black lace and gimp. Her Majesty wore a
diadem of emeralds and diamonds as a head-dress.

The Foreign Ambasmadors and Ministers were introduced,
when the following presentations to the Queen took place
in the Diplomatic Circle :
By the Persian Ambassador-11km Hassan Khan, First
Secretary of the Peruian Embassy ; My Khan, Second Score.
tary of the Persian Embassy.
By the Brazilian Minister—M. de Collaco Sarmento,
Attiich'i to the Legation.

The General Circle was well attended, and comprised most
of her Majesty's Ministers.
One hundred and four noblemen and gentlemen had the
honour of being presented to the Queen. Among them were
the following:

Hon. Major Anson. on promotion and return from China, by
the Duke of Cambridge.
mirfleorge liowycr, Bart., M.P., on succeeding to the title, by
Viscount castierosse. _

The Hoo. George (Welngan, by his father. Viscount Chelsea.
Earl de Grey and Ripon. on appointment as Under !Secretary
of State for India, by the Secretary of State for India.
Major Wilberforce Oreathed, C. 8., on return from service In
India sad china and nomination to the Order of the Bath, by
Ur Duke of Cambridge.
The Very Rev. Dr. Onede. Dean of Ripon, by the Earl of
Darnley, in the absence of the Arehblsh•.p of Caisterbery.
Deputy Inspector-Gentral of Hospitals A. (.00daU, Madras
Areinzity his brother-Inds,. Mr John M Lawrence.
I fgr A. Horsford, ou appointment as Deputy. Adjutant•
General of the Yorces, by the General CumniandiandnAltief.
Mr. Oeo. JAMMU Hunt, her Majesty's Consul at Puerto Rico,
by Lord John Russell

Viscount Ktrkaldie, by him father, the Earl of Leven and
Melville.

The Karl of Leven and Melville, on rucceeding to the titles, by
Colonel Hon. Mr Charles Phipps.
IJeut.-Colonel Macdonald, by the Doke of Cambridge.
Colonel J. D. Macpherson, late Military Secretory to Govern-
ment of the Arnim'', and ofaciatingguartermaster-General Ben-
gal Army, by Sir J. Lawrence.
The O'Connor lion, M.P., by Viscount Castkrcuse.
Mr Laurence Oliphant. on appointment. as Secretary of Legs.
ties at Japan, by Hight Hon. Lord John kuassli.
General SirChaa W. Pasley, on promotion, by the Duke of
Cambridge.
Mr. Peel, M.P., on appointment as Secretary to the Treasury,
by Viscount Palmerston.

Jaa L1;;11:• sost RV
CaSala • • ••
her Majesty' First Commis-
d between Great
glover for determining the line of aster sinn ary
Britain and the United States, by Lord J. Remelt
Mr. J. Scott Robertson, Purveyor.iu-Chief, by Lord Herbert
of

—Colonel Simmons. on retnrn from foreign ser►ice. and appoint-
ment u Commanding Itoyal Engineers At Aidershott, by the
Duke of Cambridge.
Captain Tom Taylor (Civil Service Vobuiteers), by Viscount
Bury.
Dr. B. R. Woodward. on appointment's Librarian in Ordinary
to the Queen, by the Lord Chazaberlain.

The Queen and Prince Consort returned to Buckingham
Palace after the levee.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Major-General the
Hoe. R. Bruce and Major Teesdale, left Buckingham Palace
yesterday forenoon for Maddingley Hall, Cambridge.
The Princera Alice, attended by the Hon. Horatia Stop
ford, viaited the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary,
at Bt. James's Palace.

In the evening her Majesty's dinner party included the
Princess Alice, the Dulce of Cambridge (attended by Colonel
the Hon. J. Macdonald), Viscount and Viscountess Pal.
mouton, Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Radcliffe,
Lady Fanny Howard, Lady Augusta Bruce, Lord Lianover,
the Right Hon. W. E. and Jim Gladstone, and Gemmel Sir
Frederick ittovin.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were Vis-
count Palmerton, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke cf Awn, Sir G. Cornwall
Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle,
Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer the Duke of Somerset, the
Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, Sir George Grey, the Right Hun. C. P.
Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.

Mr. G. Fropier, member of the Legislative Conseil of
Mauritius, had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle
yesterday ►t the Colonial-office.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday
from the Governor of Malta. Despatches were sent to the
Governor of Canada.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Ails have ar-
rived at the Harlington Hotel, Cork-street, from Colman
Castle, Ayrshire.

The Earl of Granord has left town for Ireland.

Lord and Lady Colchester entertained at dinner,
bat evening, at their residence in Berkeley-square, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marchionem of My,
the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and Counter of
Darnley, Viscount Holmesdale, Lord Rideable, Lord and
Lady Colville, Lord and Lady Chelmsfonl and the Hon.
Me Meager, Colonel the Hon. P. W. and Lady Emma
Talbot.

Lord and Lady John Russell entertained at
dinner, last evening, at their residence in Cheriham-place,
his Excellency the Russian Ambassador and Baroness
Brunnow, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, the Earl
Granville, Sir David Dundee, Mr. Motley, M.P., and Mrs.
Motley, Mr. Loch, Mr. George Farquharson, Miss Lister, &c.
Sir George Oornewall Lewis and Lady Theresa
Lewis entertained at dinner, Lust evening, at Kent House,
his Kleelleacy the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de
Weyer and Mies Victoria Vaa de Weyer,the Earl of Clams.
dos, Lord sad Lady Herbert, Frances Countess Waßisme
and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., Hoe. George Cadogen, Hoo. John
Warren, Sir John Ramsdell, Mr. Hayward, &c. Later in
the evening her ladyship had an assembly.
The Right Hon. the Speaker gave hit second
parliamentary dinner last evening to the following mem.
bees of the House of Commons :—The Right Hon. B.
Disraeli, Lard Burghley, Lord John Manners,Lord Stanley,
Lard Mass, Lord Dwaine, Lord Claud Hamilton, General
Lord Hothem, Sight Hos. Henry T. 1.. Corry, Roe. Fred.
Lyra, Hoe. Gerard Noel, Right Hon. Colonel Forester,
Right Hon. Sir J. S. Pakingtok G.C.8., Right Hon. S. H.
Walpole, Right Hon. Joseph W. Healey, Right Hon. T.
SAheion-Fritcourt, Right Hon. General Peel, Right Hon.
C. B. Addetley, Right Han. J. R. Mowbray, Sit Stafford
Northoote, Bart., Sir Henry Willoughby, Bart., Sir Wm.
Mee, Bart., Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Sir Hugh Cairns, Colonel
Taylor, Colonel Dunne, Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, Mr. Whit-
more, Mr. Henry &Mkt, Mr. Blackburn, Mr. George, Mr.
Wray, Mr. Hernia& and Mr. Tolleniache. The Hon. G.
L. Wahlegreve and the Rev. Henry Drury had the honour
of joining the party.

A meeting was held at Willia's Rooms yesterday,
to receive the report of two gentlemen connected with the
Baptist Missionary Society, who had been seat out to the
Wee Indies for the purpose of inquiring iota the actual
state of affairs in those colonies. The statement of one of
these gentlemen. Mr. Underhill, showed that emancipa.
tion bee greatly benefited the great mass of the popula-
tion, and that the material interests of the colonise
Lase not suffered to nearly tho extent that is some.
times alleged. The ruin of Jamaica Mr. Underhill
attributed, in a large measure, to the evils of absentee-
ism and bad management. Since the passing of the
Act of Enuincipation the negroes of that island have
become possessed of property of the value of two and a half
millions,

A noir& of the National Freehold Land Society
was held last night. Many interesting facts, illustrating
the success of the institution, were brought forward
by the various speakers. Mr. Gilpin, M.P., presided,
and Mr. Scholefield also took part to the proceeding+.
The meeting was very numerously attended.

A large alidieuce assembled last night at Mr.
Spurgeon's Great Tabernacle, for the double purpose of
hearing a lecture from Mr. layard, M.P., on Nineveh, and
of contributing, by their payments for Ildalllll4oo, towards
the expense of building this monster edifice. The ap-
pearance of Mr. Spurgeon, accompanied by Mr. Layard,
M.P., was the signal far load cheering. When it
had subsided, Mr. Spurgeon came forward to introduce
Mr. laiyard, and in doing so said that the connexion
of " such • man with such • borough has a tendency
to lift it out of it. primeval mud," and that he would make
" Horeemonger-lane equal to the hanging prdsas of

Nineveh." (A laugh.) Mr. Layanl, he said, was a wan
who was such • tenor to all parties opposed to him in
polities on account of the terrific onslaughts which be made
upon them, that they would have been greatly obliged to
anyone who would have kept him out of the House of
Commons. After making various references to the influence
which he supposed Peace had exercised in the retest elec.
tioo for Southwark, the reverend gentleman solemnly 1a•
yoked " the blessing of the Moot High co,'" upon the
newlpolocial member.