Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-26 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.)

HOUSE OF LORDS, TUMBAY, AUG. 24.

The house met at two o'clock.

The Royal Assent was given by commission to a num-
ber of public and private bills, including the Probate and
Letters of Administration (Ireland) Bill, the Militia Pay
Bill, the Militia Bill, the Mutiny East India Bill, the
Consolidated Fund Appropriation Bill, the Scinde Railway
Bill, the Eastern Bengal Railway Bill, the Court of Ses-
sions (Scotland) Bill, the Probates and Letters of Adminis-
tration Bill, the Charitable Trusts Acts Continuance Bill,
the Jurisdiction in Siam Bill, the Reformatory Schools
Bill, the Married Women's Reversionary Interest Bill,
the Valuation of Land (Scotland) Bill, the Joint Stock
Companies' Bill, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Ireland)
Bill, the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill, the Lunatics'
(Scotland) Bill, the Boundaries of Burghs Extension
(Scotland) Bill, the Police (Scotland) Bill, the Smoke Nuis-
ances (Scotland) Abatement Bill, the Dunbar Harbour
Bill, the-Revising Barristers' (Dablin) Bill, the Parochial
Schoolmasters' (Scotland) Bill, the Joint Stock Companies'
Act (185 G) Amendment Bill, and the Mersey Conservancy
(No 2) Bi.l.
Lord Panmure la'd on the t dale the Report of the Com-
mission on the Sale and purchase of Commissions in the
Army.

The sitting was then suspended. At the resumption of
de sitting, it was reported from the Commons that they
had agreed to their Lordships' Amendments to the Divorce
and Matrimonial Causes Bill,

The House then adjourned until Friday at half-past 12

HOUSE .OF COMMONS,-TUESDAY.

The Speaker took the chair shortly after two o'clock.
A message was received from the Lords, acquainting
the Commons Chet their lordships had agreed to the
amendments to the ditia Bill, and the Sale of Obscene
Books, &c., Prevention Bill, and the Burial Acts Amend.
mendment Bill, and that their lordships did not insist
upon their amendments to the Dulwich College.
A petition was presented against the late return for the
borough of Beverley.
Mr. Crawford enquired of the Attorney-General, whether
he had not yet considered the evidence reported by the
committee on the Beverley Election Petition, and ordered
it to be laid before him by the numerous unanimous
resolution of that committee, and whether it was his
intention to take any proceedings thereon.
The Solicitor-General said the Attorney-General had not
yet come to any decision, but the case was now under the
consideration of the law Officers of the Crown.

Mr. Adderley wished to put a question with reference to
the immense collection of troops in British pay at the Cape.
He stated that th were now at the Caps (though they were
told that the c)lony was in a perfect state of tranquility)
15 regiments including the emb died Garman Legion, or
three times the war compliment fixed by Fir George Cath-
cart. He wished to know whether the German Legion
was to remain on full pay, an I how many regiments were
to be sent from the Cape to India.
Mr. Labouchere stated that the German legion was
embodied on its arrival at the Cape, partly because the
colony was not then so traLquil, and because it was con-
sidered desirable to maintain the discipline of the carps.
It was fortunate now that there was such a large f..nce,
as it would enable Lord Panmure to send large reinfirce-
ments to the army in India.
Sir De Lacy Evans wished to know how it was the
house was not before acquainted with the emb3diment of
the German legion.
Mr. Labouchere replied that the information was not
fully complete when it arrived, and he had not thought it
necessary to lay it before th 3 house until he received
fuller information.

Major 8. Wortley naprosazd hie hope that the 45th,
'9lst, and 73rd Regiments', which had been at the Cape
some time beyond their time of colonial service, should be
sent to India.
Sir G. Grey said the government ordered the number
of men that should leave the colony, and had made no
decision as to the particular regiments that were to

Mr. Adderley asked how many regiments the Govern.
ment of B )mba: had asked for.
Mr. Labounbere id bnly two were asked tor, but he
hoped that a larger force would be sent.
In reply to Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr. Vernon Smith stated
that the expediency of making additions to the European
regiments in the service of the East India Company had
been taken into consideration, and it was not considered
desirable to make any such additions.
The consideration of the Amendments to the
Commons' Amendments to the Divorce and Mat-
rimonial Causes Bill was moved by Lord
Palmerston, and the omission of the Jurisdiction
of the Court of Quarter Ses=ions was assented to without
opposition. The Lords' amendments striking out the
amendment of the Commons' relating to Adultery com-
mitted in the conjugal residence, was opposed by Mr.
Henley and Mr. Spooner, but was retained upon a division
by 43 to 11—majority, 32.
The remaining
amendments were then agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. Hayter, a new writ was ordered
to issue for Middlesex in the room of Lord Robert Gros-
venor, who has accepted the office of Steward of
Rempholme.
The House adjourned at twenty-five minutes to fours
till Friday, when the prorogation will take place.

THE RYDAN TAKEN.—A worthy son of ‘• Rule Britan-
" has just taken glorious revenge on the Russian., and
maintained the privileges of Great Britain is a striking
manner. He spends his summer in Kissingea, where his
better half, who has grown to somewhat gigantic proper-
tione, drinks the waters, in the hope cf returning to
reasonable dimensions, while he himself is said to prefer
'strong Rhine wine to the medicinal liquid. Kissingen is
now the rendezvous of I do not know how many Emperors,
Rings, Princes, Princesses, and Grand-Duchesses, and
the German hotel-keepers are in the highest degree subject
to that morbia admiration of crowned heads to which,
alas! many of us democratic Americans must plead guilty.
Our respectable John 801 l had announced his departure
for the 9th., and as the Russian Grand-Dachcss Helen
was to arrive on the 11th., the obsequious landlord told
• the English traveller that his apartments would be occupied
by her Imperial Highness, The pron.] islander at once
changed his mind, and emphatically declared that he
would stay his while life in Kissingen rather than give up
a single room to a Russian. Ile kept his word ; the
Muscovite Princess ha I to go to another hotel, and he is
as proud as if he had taken the Redan by himself.—Cor
respondent of New Fork Tribune.
Tnn LARGEST GIANT IN VIP WORLD.--A few facts are
~
'yea in the American papers in regard to the weight and
dimensions of Miles Darden, who died in Tennesse, and
was said to be the largest man in the world. He was
twice married. His children are very large, but probably
none of them will ever be more than half the weight of
their father. lie was quite active and lively, and
laboured until about four years ago, when he becamo so
fleshy that he was compelled to stay at tome, or be
hauled about in a true-horse waggon. In 1839 he made a
contract with a tailor to furnish him with a suit of clothes
for 50 dollars, the cloth was to cost 5 dollars. Up4il
measurement it took 12 yards of cloth—so the tailor lest
10 dollars and the making. The tailor states that three
men, each
Weighing over 200 pounds, put the coat on,
buttoned it around them, and walked across the square at
Lexington. In 1850, it took thirteen and one half yards
of flax cloth, yard wide, to make him a coat. It took 16
yards of
cambric for a shroud
; 21 yards of black velvet to
.cover the sides and lid of his coffin ; 125 feet of plank to
make his coffin. His coffin was eight feet long ; across
the breast 32 inches ; across the head 18 inches; across
the foot 14 inches ; its depth 35 inches. He weighed in
1854, 871 pounds. His height was seven feat siz i c'res,
His weight when he died, as nearly as can be ascertained,
was a fraction over 1,000 pounds.

WHAT is COMING to LIVERPOOL on the
31st instant P—Why,
TU GIIEA.TE'Sr NOVELTY IN Tt WORLD
WHERE IS IT TO BE SEEN?
THAT'S TAE QUESTION.