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intended to apply to Scotland, but would be extended to
the English Universities, and also to private schools. It
was en these grounds that he opposed the Bill.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL owned that he had heard
nothing which ought to induce him to oppose this Bill.
The speech of his Hon. Friend who Lad charge of the
Bill, he thought, was unanswerable, and the last speaker
had failed to controvert any arguments which had been
urged in favour of the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) It was said,
indeed, that the law as it now stood was not obeyed, and
the House was asked of what use the repeal would be.
—(Hear, hear.) And ho was surprised to hear the
Right Honourable Gentlemen the Secretary for the
Home Department following up the same ar-
gument, for he for one believed that a
law, which was systematically disoheyed, ought no
longer to remain in force. In point of fact the law was
never enforced at all except in some few individual
cases, and in the generality of these eases the law never
contemplated touching those individuals. Well, then,
ought such a state of things to continue? Ho confessed
he was favourable to a change, and nothing which ho
had heard in the course of this debate was calculated to
alter that opinion. The last speaker told them that the
students were not subject:to any test, and the consequence
was all classes of religionists were admissible into the
Universities, and yet he wanted to impose tests upon the
professors who were to teach these stndents.--(Hear,
hear.) Such an anomalous state of things was a dis-
grace to the Legislature; it was both unjust and intole-
rant, and he owned to a conviction that the House ought
at once to put an end to it.—(lleise, hear.)
Mr. C. BRUCE insisted that the law ought not
lightly to be repealed and done away with.—(hear.)
The practical inconvenience was supposed to arise from
the existence of these tests, and in the absence of any
further reasons for the Bill than those which he had
already heard, he must offer his decided opposition to
its further progress.—(Hear, hear.) Religion and edu-
cation should not be separated, and that, he believed,
was the opinion of the people of Scotland; and as this
Bill would have that effect they were unanimously op-
posed to it.—(Hear, hear.) Let the House then pay
some deference to the opinion of the great body of the
people, and agree without more delay to reject this
highly objectionable, because irreligious measure.
Mr. OSWALD claimed the attention of the House for
a short time upon this momentous question. He did not
in the least disguise the momentous nature of the sub-
ject, but in 1843 the House neglected to take advantage
of the crisis that then existed to settle this matter, and
they had only themselves to blame for the delay which
had taken place in the settlement of it.—(Hear,
hear.) He had listened attentively to the arguments
which had been urged from the Treasury bench
against this Bill, and he confessed without hesitation
that he had heard nothing which should induce him to
reject the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) It was said in the first
place that the Bill was opposed to the Act of Union,
and in the second that it would endanger the religion of
Scotland.--(Hear, hear.) Now he was not lawyer
enough to decide upon the first of these objections, but he
thought there was nothing in the Act of Union which
ought to prevent the House doing justice to the people of
Scotland—(Hear, ,hear)—while as to the other objec •
tion, he knew that the existence of these tests retarded
rather than promoted the interest of religion.—(Hear.)
It would have been much better, therefore, if the Go-
vernment had issued another Commission t 3 inquire
into this subject, rather than oppose the Bill.—(llear.)
Had the Government taken that course he should
have been prepared to support them, more espe-
cially as it was exceedingly desirable that this
session should be shortened as much as possible.—
(Hear, hear.) Ho should, however, vote for the Bill,
and endeavour at all risks to get rid of a grievance
which the people of Scotland could no longer tolerate.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading ... 157
Against it ... 172
Majority against ...
The Bill was accordingly thrown out.
COLONIAL BISHOPS BILL.

Oa the order of the day for the second reading of this
Bill,
Sir J. PAKINGTON requested that the motion for
the second reading of the Bill might he postponed until a
future day.
Mr. GLADSTONE, who had charge of the Bill, had
no objection to postpone the second reading if the House
would allow him now to state the object of the Bill.
Mr. HORSMAN objected to this, but was called to
order, there being no question before the House.
Mr. GLADSTONE then rose to move the second
reading, and proceeded to state the object of the Bill. It
was to enable the Church of England in the colonies,
if it could be be legally so designated, to manage
its own affairs, subject to certain limitations,
which Parliament would have to decide.—(Hear;
hear.) The same privilege was enjoyed by every
other church in the colonies, and he hoped the House
would eventually see the necessity of conferring a
similar power upon the clergy and laity of
the Established Colonial Church.—(Efear, hear.)
The Bill in no respect trenched upon colonial legisla-
tures, but if it were thought fit he should be very glad
to insert an express clause saving the rights of those
legislatures. The Bill, in feet, was not so much a
Colonial Bishops Bill, but rather a Bill for the colonial
clergy. It proceeded on a great principle which he
hoped to see more acted upon in that House,
that of leaving the colonies in the uncon-
trolled management of their own local affairs,
whether ecclesiastical or civil. He had not the slightest
wish to trench in any degree on the religious liberties
of any community, because, even if the gift of civil pre-
ference in the colonies were offered to what was called
the Established Church in this country, ho for one
should reject it as a fatal gift, and ono containing a
soarce of weakness to the Church herself. Full and
perfect equality was the condition which be
should desire for the Church in the colonies,
and none other. He held in his hand an
Act of the Parliament of Canada for the disendowing of
certain rectories, in the preamble of which was contained
an express declaration that the principle of perfect re-
ligious equality among all religious denominations was
that on which colonial legislation was to he conducted.
Now this Act had gone torough the natal formulas, it
had been laid on the table of Leh Houses for
forty days, and lied, therefore, with the consent
of both Houses, received the assent of the Crown, and
this House now stood committed, as well us the
House of Lords, to the principle of religious equality in
the colonies. Ho hoped, therefore, he should have the
assent of Hon. Gentlemen in his efforts to establish a
system, founded on this principle of religious equality,
a system which in his opinion was the only one that
could be made to work in the colonies. In 1850 he had
introduced a subject of this nature to the atten-
tion of the House. The ground of his case
was that the state of the law in the colonies
was so tangled that it was impossible for any ono to
understood it and act upon it. The objections which
were urged against that Blll—that it was a part of
ecclesiastical legislation, that it was partial, that there
was no evidence, that by adopting the Bill they would
be acting in ignorance of the views of the parties con-
cerned—were no longer to be applicable to the pre-
sent Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Thera was a great
difference of opinion among lawyers as to whether
the ecclesiastical law of this country could be extended
to tha colonies; but whatever might be the real strength
of the legal power, this was certain, that for all prac-
tical purposes the ecclesiastical law had no operation
whatever in the colonies. There were no ecclesias-
tical courts in the colonies; nor was he one who would
be ready to introduce them there. Efforts, however,
had been made to establish such coasts, particularly by
the Bishop of Tasmania; but his efforts had re-
sulted only in an examination by the Dis-
senters, who objected to these courts, of
the very patents under the authority of which
the Bishop proposed to establish them, and
in the ultimate decision by the law officers of the
Crown that tho patent had pretended to give power
to the Bishop which her Majesty was not competent to
give, and therefore the whole attempt fell to the ground.
The whole powers exercised by the bishops in the colo-
nies was merely arbitrary; he did not mean it offensively;
but there was no legal authority to back hisjuelgnaents, and
he had no means of satisfying the public that justice had
been done. This ho thought was not what ought to be
the state of the case, and he called on the House to
step in and alter it. It was said by some persons
that there was a power of appeal from the
colonial bishop to the archbishop at home; and with-
out dwelling on the fact how absurd it was to send a
man 16,000 miles for redress, ho himself was not csrtain
that there was such a power of appeal. Iu fact one gentle.
man, Mr. Wigmore, had travelled the sixteen thou-
send miles to appeal against Lis Bishop to the late
Archbishop of Canterbury, who, however, was obliged
to tell him that he had no power because there had
been no process. If such was the case with the
clergy, it was much worse with the laity, who had no
appeal whatever even in cases most extreme in their
nature. With respect to the feelings of the colonists
themselves on the subject, they were well aware
of the difficulties of their position ; they dis-
claimed any civil preference whatever, Out of
the thirteen dioceses to which his Bill would be
extended, eleven of the bishops had expressed their de-
cided opinion in public acts, that some provision was
necessary to give a more settled and legal
position to their powers and operations. The
same was the case with the clergy and the laity iu at
opinionle to the same effect, that for the governmentast seven of these dioceses, who had declared their
of the Chareh some synodical action ought to be
given by legislative enactment to the clergy and
laity of each diocese. The question was, hew the
remedy was to ho applied. Seine advocate the es-
tablishment of a Parliamentary constitution of the
Church in the colonies. He would be the last
man to sanction any such establishment, neither
did he think the Honse of Commons would sanc-
tion the introduction of such a scheme, nor the colonists
accept it. He himself wished to leave it a matter for
the colonial legislatures and the members of the Church
themselves to settle what should be their mutual rela-
tions and connexions. The Right Hon. Gentleman
concluded by moving the second reading of the Bill.
Sir J. PAKINGTON said that after the able speech
of the Right Hen. Gentleman the (louse would feel that
it would be requisite for him (Sir J. Pakington) to go at
501310 length into this subject. Ho should therefore
move the adjournment of the debate.
The debate was then adjourned until the 19th of May.
The House then adjourned at Six o'clock.

FATAL. ACCIDENTS ON THE LANCASHIRE AND
1 ORKSILLUE RAILWAY.—On Saturday evening working
man w .
as killed at the Middleton station on thi3 He
had hocked for Oldham, but ran, amongst a crowd of pas•
sengers, to the door of a
carriage,, before the train had
stopped. The result was that be
was pu3bed down between
the footboards of the train and the landing stags and
crushed to death. A servant of the company, named Richard
Walker, was also kille4 the lime uftcruwn at the Miles
Plgtim4 rotation.

FRANCE.

A grand funeral service, in honour of Marshal
Gerard, was celebrated on Monday in the church of
the lavalides. At eleven o'clock battalions of all the
regiments of the garrison, commanded by their Colo-
nels, a battery of artillery, two squadrons of Municipal
Guards and Gendarmes of the Seine, and two ~qua.
drons of Lancers, two battalions of Republican
Guards and Gendarmes Mobiles, and a battalion of
National Guards, took their station on the espla-
made, and along the Boulevard, adjoinging the Hotel
des lovalides, which they completely surrounded.
The National Guards, who performed duty for the
first time since their re-organization, obtained the
place of honour. At twelve o'clock the religious
service commenced, and was chanted by the
chaplain of the Invalides, assisted by a numerous
clergy, in presence of the staff of the Hotel, the
Marshals, the Minister of War, Generals Magnan
and Loewestine, the officers of the National Guard and
of the regiments of the garrison, &c. The President
of the Republic was represented by General Roguet
and several of his aides-de-camp. During the cere-
mony the drums and bands alternately played, and at
the elevation of the Host, the whole of the troops
outside presented arms. Minute guns were fired un-
til the conclusion of the service.
Among the brilliant uniforms worn at the saloons
of Marshal Jerome Bonaparte, was that of Malta, as
worn by the Russians, of which the Emperor is the
chief, and many of which uniform are seen in the
aristocratic Courts of Germany.
Amongst the Arab chiefs who are to come to Paris
for the fele of the 10th of May arc two Ishalifas and a
bachaga, with their suite of forty parsons. The Colonel
of the Ist Regiment of Spahis, M. Durrieu, is to ac-
company him.
General Dufour has arrived in Paris from Switzer-
land. Wo read in the Public:—
"General Dufour has just arrived in Paris. It is well
known in what high esteem the Prince President holds
the iliusLrious General, whose eminent qualities he was
enabled to appreciate during his residence in Switzer-
land. It cannot be forgotten, moreover, that it was
General Dufour who removed the difficulties which arose
some time since between France and Switzerland on
the subject of the presence of refugees in the latter
"
The last member of the Parliament of Burgundy,
eNolu.turillet de St. Pierre, died last week, near Dijon,
in his 100th year.

ITALY.
Prince PASKEWITSCII, Governor-General of Po-
land, returned to Warsaw on the lath from St. Pe-
tersburgh. Orders have been given by the police of
Warsaw to make preparations for the arrival of the
Emperor and
Empress of RUSSIA ; the houses in the
principal streets are to be repaired and embellished.
Eleven refugees had been restored to civil rights, and
it was hoped that his MAJESTY Oa his visit would
pardon a greater number.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
.. ...
THE IVEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1152.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases —.4204
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ••• ••• ••• 44
Tubercular Diseases .
*"
...
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses...
... 119289
Diseases of the Heart and 13lood-vessels ... ... 33
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Regpiration ... ... ... ... ... ... 172
Dioceses of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... •.• ••• .•• •• • 54
...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. .., ••• •.• 17
Chihihirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ... ... 8
Diseases of the Joints Bones, and Muscles —. 1e
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ..• ••• `" ." 4
llalfcrmationi... ... _ A
. ... ••• ••• •
rrc mature Birth ... ... ~. ... ... 28
ittrup'ay , 21
011 Ago
ziullen ... ... ... ... ...
Violence, Privaticn, Cold, and Intemperance ... 20
Causes not specified ... •-• ••• "' "' 7

DEATILS FROM ALL CATISEd ... ... 1,021
Population Deaths In eon's- Deaths
Enumerated, sponding week In the
1851. cf 1851. Week.
SVe3t Districts... 376,427 . . 169 ••• 148
North Districts.. 490,396 ~. 213 ... 197
Central Districts 393,256 ~. 188 ... 178
East Districts ... 485,522 ... 211 ... 198
South Districts .. 616,635 —. 294 ... 300