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1 competent for the military authorities at Malta to place
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referred. It must be decided on the state of facts in this
country, by an appeal to evidence, by the truth. On a
fernier occasion he (Sir J. Pakington) drew a comparison
between the state of crime in England and in Austria as
compared with the population, stating, however, that be
would only have it for what it was worth. His right hon.
friend applied his misCroseopic eye to Mr. Kaye s tables,
and disdovered that the tables did not include what he
called summary convictions. Now, his right hon. friend
was quite right in the view he then took on the subject ;
but he had omitted to notice one error into which he (Sir
J. Pakingt re) had fallen. On that oocasion he stated
the number of seminary convictions in England to have
been 35,000 in the year tti which he teferred, but on look-
ing at the reports of the inspectors of prisons he found
the number to be 60,000. On referring to the statutes
of crime in Denmark and Hollered, he found that in Den-
mark the amount of convicted crime *its vet,- Enna less
then in England, and iii Holland it was less than in Eng-
land, but not in so large a ratios His right hon. friend had
not only accused him of, error with regard to the tables cf
crime, but had also statedthat the proportion ofpeisons at
school in Austria was not so great as in England. 'stow, he
(Sir J. Pakington) held in his hand official papers on this
subject, which showed that in the Austrian e.npire—in-
eluding Hungary, Lombardy, and some other provinces—
taking a population of 18,000,000 as against the same
population
in England, the number of persons attend-
ing schools was in the proportion of 1 in 8 of the 'popu-
lation. Now, his right hon. friend made his comparison
in a most unfair manner, for he took the state of educa-
tion in Austria in 1846, whilst with respect to England
he availed himself of the census-of 1851. (Hear.) He
had shown that in England, deducting children of very
tender age, the number of children not attending school
was nearly 1,000,000, being a third less than in Austria.
What he had contended was, that in this great matter
of education England was lagging behind the rest of the
civilised world. The only countries behind her being
Italy, Spain, and the slave states of America. He had
not referred to Austria alone, but to Denmark, Holland,
Wurtemberg, Pru-sia, Bavaria, and above all Switzer•
land and the free states of America. All these nations
were ahead of us, and the state of education in Eng-
land was less satisfactory than in any of them. But
after all the main question related to the state of edu-
cation at home. He had been accused of exaggeration
in his former statement, but he altogether denied the
justice of this charge. The first of the statement he had
made alluded to the condition of eight metropolitan
parishes, four north and four south of the Thames. Iu
those eight parishes there were about 110,000 children,
of whom 47,000 were not at school at all. His next
statement referred to five counties in the west of Eng-
land, and he male it on the authority of Mr. Ruddock,
the inspector. His statement was, that the workhouse
children between 10 and 15 could neither read nor write,
were completely ignorant of religion, and scarcely knew
that there was a God in Heaven. His right hon. friend
(Mr. Henley) supposed that this statement referred to
only about 6,750 children, but he forgot that this was a
constantly fluctuating bipcly, and that these children came
from every part of the unions to which they belonged.
From a letter written by Mr. Ruddock, in reference to
the construction placed upon his testimony in his right
hon. friend's speech, it appeared that this state of
things was not confined to five counties, but extended
over as many more. His next statement referred to
the condition of ignorance in which the militia of the
eastern counties were found to be. This statement was
founded on the report of the Rev. Mr. Mitchell, the in-
spector, which stated that in five regiments, including
about 6,000 men, two-thirds were unable to sign their
own names. His right hon. friend objected that these
were men of only 20 years of age, and that the fact could
only illustrate the state of education five or six years
ago. On applying to Mr. Mitchell he found that his
opinion was that the progress of education was so slow
as to be almost imperceptible, and that the state of the
existing agricultural schools was such as to hold out little
hope that any amendment would take place during the
next 8 or 10 years—that many of the school-houses were
in a condition almost ruinous, and that the schoolmas-
ters were often men of low moral tone and rude manners.
In reference to the use he had made of the reports of
Mr. Clay, chaplain of Preston gaol, his right hon.
friend had sneered at his predilection for stereotyped re-
, ports, He had taken the year 1849, when Mr. Clay
stated that out of every 100 children of the criminal
population filling the gaol and house- of correction, 41
per cent, did not know the name of the Saviour, 67 per
cent. did not know the name of the months of the year,
61 per cent. did not know the Queen's name, and 62
per cent, were quite ignorant of the distinction between
virtue and vice. The question was, were these things
true ; and if so, what could be said of the state of educa-
tion prevailing in England. He had received extracts
from Mr. Clay's report, yet unpublished, for 1854, from
which it appeared that the same state of things con-
tinued unchanged. He had obtained similar state-
ments from Mr. Gregory, relative to the county gaol
of Lancaster ; Captain Willis, relative to that of Man-
chester ; and also relative to the gaols of Durham and
Sussex. He contended that the gaol class, as it was
called, was a fair sample of the labouring class generally,
and there could be no doubt that amongst the working
classes of the agricultural community the same dense
ignorance prevailed. He had been sorry to hear the
appeal made by his right honourable friend against levy-
ing a tax or rate on real property for the purposes of edu-
cation. His proposition was to levy a rate of 6d. in
the pound, and that an equal amount should be contri-
buted for the maintenance of the schools out of the con-
solidated fund. He would ro3a.rd a Minister who would
hesitate to propose grants for education in the same light
as a landowner who refined to advance for drainage. It
was far better to expend money on schools than on gaols
and workhouses, and the funds so invested would yield a
return to the State in rearing up an active and useful
population. He was happy to be able to quote the
authority of Sir James Kay Shuttleworth in favour of
his proposal of a local rate to be applied for public ob-
jects. In the volume of Minutes of Inspectors, lately
published, he found additional testimony in support of
his views. Amongst others, Mr. Kennedy strongly en-
forced the necessity of additional fends to support our
education establishments. He need not refer to the
numberless testimonies to the same effect from all ranks
of the clergy, but‘he could not resist mentioning as a
strong example of the necessity of measures being
taken to remedy the present deficiencies, that he
had received a letter from the Rev. Mr. Ellis, of
Burslem, in Staffordshire, informing him that in his
pa"isb, containing 7,000 inhabitinti, three school-rooms
had been closed for %mit of funds during.s years past.
He had applied to the committee of council to obtain
some particulars of the applications made by the clergy
in support of their ptroohial schools. He found that
there were 32 applications, in which the incumbents had
been obliged to support their schools by yearly contri-
butions vary ing from 41. to 741., and -averaging 261.
each. Oct of 118 applications for the first three months
of the present year, there were 34 in which this defi-
ciency appeared to have been made up the incumbent,
in addition to his ordinary subscription. He was in-
formed also that 100 letters had been sent in to the
Church of England Society by clergymen who urged
their inability to support their parochial schools. No
one who looked at such facts could fail to be con-
vinced that some extraneous aid was necessary, and
from what source could it be obtained, except from such
a rate as he had suggested. His right hon. friend said
that his proposal would have the effect of pauper-
ising English education, but he should like to ask if simi-
lar measures had been attended by this result in Massa-
chusetts and other American States, in 'Holland, in
Switzerland, and in Scotland? It had been complained
that his bill contained no compulsory provision for secur- i
ing attendance, but he considered that it would be pre-
mature to attempt any enactments of the sort until there
were more schools for the children to go to, and until
they were in a working condition. But he denied that
his bill would not have a tendency to meet this evil. Its
first result would be to improve our schools, and we
might reasonably hope that the attendance would in-
crease. That this result would occur appeared from the
case of Lochabers, in Scotland, where the school was in
excellent condition, and the inspector, Mr. Gordon, stated
that it was attended by 1 in 4 duringabe winter months,
and 1 in 5 during the summer. Similar. statements were
made by Mr. Keienedy relative to the school in Rochdale.
In the parish of King's Sombre, an entirely agricultural
parish, with a population of 1,100, in consequence of the
clergyman having succeeded in establishing a thoroughly
good national school, the attendance embraced 21 chil-
dren from that parish and 53 from adjoining ones. Thus
more than one-sixth of the population were at school.
The poor manifested an earnest desire to obtain the
benefits of education. In this school there was an in-
stance of the mixing of the children of farmers and la-
bourers. 152 of the pupils were children of labourers,
and 70 of farmers and tradesmen. At present ho be-
lieved that no class of the community stood more in
need of improved means of education than did the middle
class—farmers and tradesmen, who paid very high prices
for a very bad article. and one effect which heanticipated
from a system of free schools supported by rates was
that the children of farmers and labourers would receive
their elementary education together. An hon. friend of
his on the other side of the house had succeeded in bring-
ing these classes together in a school in his neighbour.
hood. His right hon. friend (Mr. Hen'ey) had said that
this bill ignored the existence of the clergy ; such would
not he its effect, because itrecognised all existing schools
and in these the action of the clergy would continue to
he precisely such as it was at present. His right hon.
friend had also objected to the substitution of parishes
for districts, but that arrangement was necessitated by
the various sizes of parishes, owing to which, while in
some cases you could require but one school for five or
six parishes, in others you would require five or six schools
for one parish. His right hon. friend had compared this
plan to that adopted in the United States, and had said
that it must end in the secular system. The plan in the
United States, however, was, that there should be no re-
ligious teaching in any school, while his plan was that
each school should have a Cistinciivereligious character,
therefore it was very illogical for his right hon. friend to
say that it must end in the secular system. It was the
system which was adopted in Scotland, where Roman
Catholic children were admitted to Protestant schools,
and as no evil consequences had resulted from it in
that country, there was no reason to apprehend that any
such would flow from its adoption in England, where,
in fact, it was already adopted at the school at Birming-
ham, at a school at Wallingford, and in other instances.
The only danger ;that the secular system should be
adopted would arise from the pressure of extreme views
•on the part of the Church. There was danger; that if a
moderate system of this kind was not adopted by Par-
liament, and was rejected by the Church party, the
public feeling would demand some improvement of edu-
cation, and those who were sensible of its defects would
be driven to adopt the secular system. His right hon.
friend asked where the children of Jews and Roman
Catholics were to be taught religion. That responsi-
bility would rest with their parents ; and he thought we
might presume that if the religious scruples of a parent
lel him to make an objection in writing to his child
being taught religion at the school ,his conscience would

AORICiILTtrRA.L STATISTICS

Lord Vir.GRAHAM asked the Vice-President of
the Board of Trade whether Government intended to
continue the collection of agricultural statisti33 in Eng-
land, and, if so, whether it Ras intended to appoint the
clerks of unidro as iiermahent collectors at a stated and
litVeral salary ; and whether it was intended to intro-
duce any compulsory measure for making a certain class
of returns imperative ?

Mr. BOUVERIE said that the recent attempt to ob.
tain agricultural statistics in England had failedj for iti
ten out of eleven counties the returns were incomplete
to the extent of 16 per cent. In the West Riding of
Yorkshire alone the returns had been satisfactorily filled
up, for there the deficiency amounted to only seven-
tenths of 1 per cent, of the whole Amount of the infor-
mation demanded. Under these circumstances hiq noble
friend the President of the Board of Trade had given
notice, in the House of Lords, the other day, that he
would move for a select committee to inquire into the
best mode of collecting agricultural statistics in Eng-
land ; so that the subject, as far as regarded this coun-
try, was about to be re-opened. In Scotland, however,
the recent attempt to obtain agricultural statistics by
means of the agricultural societies had been eminently
successful, as the failures in the returns amounted to only
one-fifth of 1 per cent. The Government, therefore,
proposed to continue the system in Scotland, and to lay
before the house a vote for meeting the expenditure
which that system would necessitate.

be sufficiently strong to induce him to make some other 1 prayer of her faithful Commons, on tlie to .ton of the late
provision for its obtaining such instruction. The Dean Joseph Hume, Esq.. ;in the ye0.,r1849 ;of instrue-
of Salisbury had in a recent pamphlet stated that in tions Oven to the Attorney-Go e• a c ,0,,,.qn-,nt up ,n the
some schools in Wales, where there were children of report of the said comitti,:sion•2rs, t proceed against
Dissenters, they learned the Church Catechism and , Francis Earl of Guildford ;of any ietteror letters a:tdre ,sed
Church doctrine, but were told by their parents not to by the Bishop of Winchester to SirJ. Jervis, the then At-
believe it. Which was better, that they should do that, torney-General, or to his solicii.,,r Mr.- Fearon, having re-
or that the children of parents who objected to the reli- ference, directly or indirectly, to this suit or charity, by
gious teaching should not receive it. The only remain- I way of compromise or otherwise ;of all propositions made
ing part of the bill to which he had to advert was that in any letter or letters containing propositions for a coin-
which had reference to the appointment of local boards. promise, from the Attorney General or his solicitor, to
lie had reason to hope that the action of those boards Francis E.trl of Guilford or his solicitor, or from Francis
would tend in a great degree to remove the indif- Earl of Guildford or his solicitor to the Attorney-Gene-
ference of parents to send their children to the schools. ral or his solicitor return showing the state the suit
He hoped that by the exertion of those local, boards was in in 1851. and 1852 ; copies of the costs incurred
they would secure a better attendance of children at i from the timejof filing the information to the present
the schools, and such local boards would be under date ; -of all memorials presented to her Majesty's !ate
the control of a central department in London. This and present Attorney-General with reference to this
was not only a question of religion and of belle- charity ; of,the valuation made by Mr. Glutton of the;
violence, but a political question also, because he be- property of St. Cross Hospital, and return of the sum of
lieved no danger was greater than democratic in- money he charged for the same ; of the report of Mr.
stitutions with an ignorant and unenlightened people, Tite, as the valuer employed by the Attorney-General
They had heard of the extension of the suffrage and of to value the property of St. Cross Hospital, and of his
rpular rights, but nothing could be more dangerous charges ; returns of property belonging to *he hospital,
than to make extensive changes of this kind before the under leaseon fines or other ise, the names of the lessees,
education .?f the people renderad them fit for their en- the fines that have been paid, and the amount received in
joyment. lie jot bring forward this bill in rivalry respect of them by Francis Earl of Guilford from the year
to the noble lord opposite, who had shed lustre on his 1808 to the present time ;of property belonging or said
name by his exertions on the s,...!hjeot, but their duty to to belong, to the charity, specifying what portionis in the
their country and to their God requir,;'d them to remove possession of the hospital and what is nut ; copies of
from England the curse of ignorance. Let them bear in the late Sir W. Wynne's oo'ninn on- the private act of
mind the first words of the first lesson which the Church Parliament passed in the 18th year of; Elizabeth, probi-
prescribed for that day, ." A wise judge will instruct his biting the hospital from leasing any of their property ;
people." (Hear, hear.) of the late Sir W. Wynne's letlers to the late Dr. Lock-
Mr, HADFIELD proposed that the debate should man, master of St. Cross Hospital, relative to the said
be adjourned for four weeks. hospital ; of the original information filed against the
Lord J. RTISStLL proposed that the debate should Earl of Guilford, and date, and of the prayer thereof ;of
be adjourned to Monday next. a letter from Sir F. Thesiger, in reply to the memorial
Alter some discussion, the debate, in accordance with of Mr. R. Andrews and the Rev. H. Holloway ; and of
the proposition of the noble lord, was adjourned to the proposed scheme for the future, management of the
Monday. 1 charity.
I The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that no commis-
sioners had been appointed, as stated in the motion ; all
that had been done was, the then Attorney-General was
instructed to inquire and report. He said that legal
proceedings were going on elsewhere respecting this
charity, and pending such litigation it would be highly
unjust to produce the papers asked for by the hon. mem-
ber. For 200 years the revenues of St. Cross had been
grossly perverted, and the Earl of Guilford followed the
practice of his predecessors, but proceedings were insti-
tuted against him ; but, looking to the principles that
guided the Court of Chancery, they never expected to
do more than produce a better state of things for the
future. The papers sought for were all before the Court
of Chancery, and it would be a most unfair proceeding
to brine them bef,re the house.
Mr. MURROUGH persisted in his motion, and the
house divided—
FOr the motion
Against 24
Majority against —l7
The house adjourned at half-past one o'clock.

THE PUBLIC 'BUSINESS.

Mr. DISRAELI suggested that it would be conve-
nient to the house if some understanding were come to
with respect to the mode in which the public business
would be carried on. On every day during that week
there were to be morning sittings, but the arrangement
had not been made in a formal manner. He begged
hon. gentlemen would consider what would be the con-
sequences of having morning sittings every day. He
felt he would not be able to bear a morning and even-
ing sitting every day, and no one, he thought, could
bear the consequences of an arrangement of that kind.
Last year it was a later period before they had recourse
to morning sittings to enable them to carry on the
business, and they only took place on Tuesdays and
Thursdays. But on every day during this week im-
portant business was fixed for morning sittings, while
business of equal interest would occupy their attention
in the evenings. (Hear, hear.) On the next day
the Metropolitan Improvement Bill would be taken, and
in the evening there would be a motion brought forward
with respect to decimal coinage. The Capitular Estate
Bill was fixed for a morning sitting on Thursday, and in
the evening there would be a discussion on the colonial
measure of the noble lord. On Friday there would he
also a morning sitting for the discussion of the Tenants'
Compensation Bill, and in the evening there would be
tha adjourned debate on the Testamentary Jurisdiction
Bill. He thought that, as a general rule, the rule of last
session should not be exceeded, and that the morning
sittings•should take place only on Tuesdays and Thurs-
days.
Viscount PALMERSTON said the measures that had
been put down for the morning sittings during the week
were measures of great importance, which could not be
brought on in the evenings ; but in future he thought
it would be better to adhere to the rule of last year,
and to fix Tuesdays and Thursdays for morning
sittings. It should be recollected that the other house
had a fixed time beyond which bills could not be pro-
ceeded with, and it was important that measures should
be carried through that house in sufficient time to be
sent to the House of Lords.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—June it

Louisa Harrison, a well-dressed, good-looking young
woman with an infant in her arms, surrendered to take
'her trial upon a charge of wilful and corrupt perjury.
Counsel stated the case, which has been already pub-
lished in our police reports. The pri4oner, some time
ago, swore, on the trial of a man named Mallett, that
he had entered her house, tied her hands, and robbed
her, " with violence." Mallet was sentenced to death,
but his sentence was commuted to transportation. Soon
afterwards the prisoner brAight a similar charge against
another person, and suspicion was created. Malletts re-
ceived a pardon, and the present prosecution was brougt't.
Formal proof of the trial and conviction of the man
Mallett was put in evidence, and Mr. Buckler, one of the
short-hand writers of the court, produced the notes of the
evidence given by the defendant upon the occasion. Her
statement was to the effect that sbe was sitting in her room
about half-past six o'clock on the evening of the 11th of
December with her two children, the eldest of whom was
four years of age, when a man who was c irrying a bundle
knocked at the door, and told her he had brought her
some dressmaking work from his sister, She said that she
asked him into her room, and that he immediately blew
out the candle, and said he must have her money, and
forced her pocket from her gown, and took from it 20s.
in silver. The man then produced two pistols, and
threatened to shoot her children if she made any noise,
anil then beat her with a stick, and afterwards tied her
hands together with a rope, and forced her down between
two chairs, in the position in which she was found by
the neighbours. She said that she described tie appear-
ance of the man to a constable named Finnic, and in
consequence of what he told her she went on the follow-
ing night, the 12th Dec., to a penny theatre in White-
chapel, where she saw the prisoner Mallett, and imme-
diately recognised him as the man who had robbed her,
and she swore positively to his identity.
John Harvey, a potman at the Bull tap, said that upon
hearing the alarm on the evening of the 11th of Decem-
ber, he went into the defendant's house, and found
her sitting on the knee of a man named Koster. Her
hands were tied together, and she was bleeding from the
temple, and seemed almost insensible.
Cross-examined—The defendant's hands were tied
tightly with two knots, and he was obliged to use his
teeth to untie them. There was not the slightest ap-
pearance of "shamming" in the conduct of the defend-
ant. The oldest child of the defendant first ran into the
tap and gave the alarm, by saying that a man had killed
her mother. The child appeared to be very much
frightened.
Thomas Koster, a person employed at the Bull-inn-
yard, said that upon hearing the alarm given by the de-
fendant's child he went to her house, and found her
jammed in between two chairs, with blood flowing from
several wounds in her head. Her hands were tied toge-
ther, and the last witness had soma difficulty in loosening
the cord.
Cross-examined—The defendant's child was present,
and -she appeared very much frightened. From the
manner the cord was tied round the wrists he did not
think it possible for the defendant to have tied it herself
—at all events, he (witness) could not have tied it round
his own wrists in the same manner. The defendant did
not appear to know him when he picked her up, and she
appeared almost insensible and unconscious of what was
going on.
Emma Ferguson, the conk at the Bull tap, said that
she saw the defendant very soon after the alarm had
been given, and assisted in bringing her to herself.
Her husband was sent for, and a policeman came with
him, and the defendant then made a statement of her
having been robbed and assaulted by a man.
In answer to a question put by Mr. Ryland, the wit-
ness said that she did not think any one could have put
on such an appearance as that exhibited by the de-
fendant.
Mr. J. H. Cook, a surgeon, residing in the Minories,
deposed that he was called in to see the defendant on
the evening in question, and found her sitting on the
knee ofthe itness Koster, insensible and unable to
speak. She was bleeding from the nose, and upon ex-
amining her, be discovered two abrasions on the right
temple, and also a contused wound on the back of the
head. He was now of opinion that all these injuries
might have been caused by the defendant herself.
Cross-examined.---Upon the trial of the man Mallett,
witness was examined as a witness for the prosecution.
He did not then say that the injuries might have been
caused by the prosecutrix because he was not asked the
question. He considered that the wound at the back of
the head might have been occasioned by the defendant
knocking it against some- hard substance, such as the
corner of a mantel-shelf. He had never in his experience
met with a case where a person had wilfully caused her•
self such an injury. In big evidence at the former trial
he stated that the injuries were in all probability in-
flicted by a stick that was 'found in the house, and such
an instrument would certainly have occasioned them.
There was blood on the stick when he saw it. If the
defendant had inflicted the injuries herself by that means
she must have tied her own hands afterwards. On the
11th of December he considered the defendant was three
months advanced in the family way, and she had since
been delivered of the child that was now in her arms.
During the evening the defendant had a convulsive fit.
It was undoubtedly a real one.
Charles Mallett was then examined. He declared
most positively that he was quite innocent of the rob-
bery, and said that he did not even know' where the Bull
Inn-yard was.
Some other witnesses were then examined, who to a
certain extent confirmed the statement of Mallett as to
the manner in which he had 'passed the evening of the
robbery : and this closed the case for the prosecution.
The Recorder, upon the whole of the evidence that
had been adduced, said it appeared to him to be insuffi-
cient to support the charge ; they might, in charity,
come 'to the conclusion that the man Mallett was inno-
cent, and that the defendant had made a mistake as to
his identity ; but he really could not see how the jury
upon the facts before them could come to the conclusion
that no robbery had, in point of fact;- been committed,
which they must do before, they could convict the .de.
fendant.

vv
Mr. DISRAELI reminded the noble lord at the head
of the Government that the morning sittings last session
did not commence until the 16th of June. _

Mr. WALPOLE complained that the Capitular Es-
tate Bill, a most important measure, and on which the
Government had as yet expressed no opinion, had been
fixed for the morning sitting on Friday.
Mr. CARDWELL expressed a wish that the bill re-
lating to limited liability in partnership would be fixed
for an early day.
Mr. S. FITZG,ERALD was afraid that the state of
affairs on Friday next would be the reverse of what had
been supposed by the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Dis-
raeli), and that the house, instead of being exhausted by
the Tenants' Compensation Bill, would pay little atten-
tion to that measure, and reserve itself for the evening.
Lord PALMERSTON understood that the bill had
been fixed for Friday, as a matter of convenience to those
interested. (Hear, hear, and "No.") Some arrange-
ment would now be made.
Mr. WILSON said that in reference to the bill of the
noble lord the member for Woodstock, the arrangement
was, that it should be taken only in the event of the de-
bate on the Scotch Education Bill, which stood first for
Thursday morning, being concluded at an early hour.
Mr. HENLEY objected to proceeding with so impor-
tant a measure as the Scotch Education Bill at a morn-
ing sitting, when no member of the Government could
be present.
Mr. BOUVERIE wished to state that the Govern-
ment were fully determined to proceed with the Part-
nership Bills.

Mr. DISRAELI said there were great objections to
taking the Scotch Education Bill at a morning sitting,
when no members of the Government could be present.
He wished to know whether he rightly understood the
noble lord to say that the Tenants' Compensation Bill
would not be taken at a morning sitting. The noble lord
had said that supply would be taken on Friday, to give
an opportunity to the hon. member for Aylesbury to
bring forward his motion ; that was not consistent with
the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that
supply would not be taken till late on Friday ; if the
supply was to be moved. only to give the member for
Aylesbury an opportunity of making his motion, he
thought it would be more convenient for the house if the
hon. member was allowed to make it as a substantive
motion.

Lord PALMERSTON said the hpn. member had
given notice of his motion as an amendment in going
into supply, and they took it-as he gave it. He. could
not, in the absence of the Secretary for Ireland, say when
the Tenants' Compensation Bill would be taken.
Mr. V. SCULLY expressed a hope that when a day
was fixed no further change would be made.
The order of the day was then postponed.
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill was
read a second time.
The Cinque Ports Bill passed through committee.
SPIRIT OF WINE BILL.
In answer to Lord W. GRAHAM, .4.

Mr. WILSON said that the object of the bill was to
relieve a large number of manufacturers from the burden
imposed on them by the present spirit laws. A mode
had lately been discovered of mixing spirit of wine with
naphtha so as to render it unfit for anything but 'manu-
facturing purposes ; the object of this bill was to relieve
this mixture from duty. The loss of revenue would be
seventy or eighty thousand pounds.
The bill was then read a second time.
STAMP DUTIES' REPEAL ON MATRICULA-

A verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly taken.
There was a second charge of the same kind again t
the defendant, but it was arranged that it should not be
'taken until Friday morning.