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Bill?
The House of Lords has not been stirred so pro-
foundly since the repeal of the Corn Laws as on that
occasion. It was agitated to its utmost depths.
From remote castles and feudal halls came old men,
who had not entered Parliament for years, to mea-
sure their strength with the House of Commons,
and to vindicate the privileges of their chamber.
Peeresses and other ladies of disti.
The are a around the throne was thronged with
future peers and distinguished commoners. The
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space below the bar was so crowded that Lord
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smiles and sympathy like the a, expelled.
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tournament, The
younger sans of peers and mem-
bers
rained down
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Imes of old at a
Great issues were at b take;
toul eut was almost
upon the Earl'
unprecedented.
of Derby,
and all
eyes were at first centred
who had taken upon
himselfsef
what Mr. Gladstone afterwards described AS "the
the most dangerous intr.) ration
that has been attempted in our tile."
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His lower limbs seem almost
helpless, and he is as-
sisted with pious care by a brother peer. The old
man is led, almost carried, indeed, to his
usual seat.
That seat has now become historic, like the Great
Duke's, or the cross bench now occupied by the
heir apparent. It is a seat on the second bench be-
hind Lord Derby, but at its extreme end,
nearest to
the bar, and consequently next to the gangway.
Great sensation is excited by the appearance of this
venerable old senator, and still more wonder is felt
when the spectators observe that a little hand-rail
covered with red cloth—the only one in the House
—has been affixed to the back of the bench below,
so as to enable the aged peer to grasp it and address
their lordships without falling. It is Lord Lynd-
hurst, who enters that day on his eighty-ninth year,
and is about to celebrate his birthday by a speech.
which, as we can already predict, will be accepted
by all the peers on his own side of the House as
perfectly conclusive and unanswerable.
The debate is opened by Earl Granville, who
moves the second reading of the bill. His smiling,
good-humoured face prepossesses the audience in his
favour, but his style is that of one who tries to coax
by a persuasive tone rather than convince by incon-
trovertible arguments. He twitters round his sub-
ject, and pecks at it, like a sparrow amusing him-
self with an empty periwinkle. He holds weapons
of the best edge and temper, but handles them feebly
and inartistically, and too often
thrust by a jocose smile. After
a long speech, in
which he quotes many authorities in literature
against the paper duty, Lord Granville resumes his
seat.

PRICE.— „ ...„4.d.
STAMPED ....sd.

lishments summarily confiscated in case of any con-
traband article, such as arms, ammunition, uni-
forms, or military equipments of any kind, being
found on their premises. To carry on business un-
der such regulations as these is of course impossible,
The police of Warsaw can find bullets wherever
they please ; but even if it were certain that they
would always conduct their researches in the fairest
manner the proprietor of a factory would still be
liable at any moment to be ruined, and sure to be
ruined if the Government desired it. The workmen
of Warsaw began the insurrection.. Numbers of
them are at this moment with detachments in the
field, and those who remain at their ordinary occu-
pations are at the same time doing all they can to
help the insurgents. To pretend that their actions
can be constantly controlled by their employers is
more than unreasonable.

The ironworks of Messrs. Evans and Co. must
necessarily be closed. Polish factory owners will,
it is said, not be allowed to shut up. _

I find that whenever any act of tyranny is per-
formed or meditated here the Russians turn naturally
to Imperial France, and ask what the French Go-
vernment would have done, or would probably do,
under similar circumstances. It is a favourite boast
in France that French ideas penetrate everywhere,
and they certainly have penetrated here, As the
Russians, when they were trying to raise themselves,
demanded in their assemblies the introduction of
reforms based on the principles of the English Con-
stitution, so, now that they are degrading themselves,
they inquire what in their present'case the Emperor
of the French would do. " When Napoleon's troops
were fired upon from a house in Dec., 1851, he did
not content himself with arresting the inmates and
bringing them to trial," they remark ; and they are
now considering whether he did not, in January,
1852, cause employers of labour to keep their work-
shops open so as to prevent disaffected artisans from
being turned out idle upon the streets. It is as easy
to introduce such ideas as these from France as it
is to put French forage caps upon the heads of Rus-
sian soldiers—a change, by the way, which has
given to the old Muscovite bear somewhat the ap-
pearance of a monkey. Some day, perhaps, when
the present madness of Russia has ceased, the Rus-
sians will discover that there is something better to
imitate in France than its administrative despotism,
which joined to the original Russian despotism of
Oriental pattern gives a result that neither East
nor West can stand.
I have already had occasion to mention that the
Polish newspapers p üblished in Warsaw never men-
tion or allude in any manner to Polish affairs. One
might imagine from the contents of these sheets
that no such place as Poland existed. On the other
hand the Russian journals which arrive here from
St. Petersburg and Moscow speak with considerable
freedom, and not always with admiration, of what
is now taking place in this unhappy country. A
letter from Warsaw published in the St. Petersburg
Vedonzoste gives an account of the sacking of the
Zamoyski house, which is very like the accounts
printed in the foreign papers with the adjectives and
adverbs left out. Thus the writer tells us that the
soldiers destroyed 6,000 volumes belonging to Pro-
fessor Kowalewski, and that he heard a Pole atPiotr-
kow say that several persons were killed during the
pillage, and that an infant in its cradle was thrown
out into the street from a fourth floor window.
Sucl words as " infamous," " barbarous," &c., are
not once used in the description; nor, indeed, are
they necessary.
The truth, by the way, as to the cradle story is
that a cradle was thrown out of window, but there
was no child in it.

The increase in the receipts of the year
1862-3 over the corresponding year of
1861-2 is

The total sale of land to Michaelmas, 1863, is £330,370 8 6

Being an increase over the returns to
Michaelmas, 1862, of £15,683 15 7

The total withdrawals since the formation
of the society (Sept., 1852), to Michael-
mas, 1863, are £205,883 8 0

The returns of the register of the order of rights are as
follow :--

... .
Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Tot Al.
5,061 3,191 1,631 9,933
Deduct rights exercised on estates, &c, .... 7,501

Unexercised rights 2,432
The last share number on the register by seniority is No.
13,853, and the last share issued up to the 30th September,
1863, was No. 19,711.
The balance-sheet 1862-3 and the annual report of the
committee will be submitted at the usual yearly meeting
next December.

The candidates for the two auditors to be elected by the
shareholders this day, under Rule 30, are the Rev. Wm.
George Goodchild, Mr. James Goad, and Mr. Harding.
The committee have the pleasure to state that they have re-
elected Wm. Astbury, Esq., and Newnham Winstanley,
Esq., as their two auditors, and when the members have
nominated their two auditors, the society's accounts for the
past year will be audited in due course.
The Henwick Road Estate, West Worcestershire, was
allotted at Worcester, on the 27th of August, after a public
meeting, at which Sir E. Lechwere, Bart., presided, and at
which Viscount Ranelagh, the Hon. and Rev. W. Talbot,
the Hon. Robert Bourke, attended as a deputation from the
Board, to explain the general working of the society, and
the mode of allotment of estates. The meeting was highly
satisfactory, and the sale of land has been equally so ; and
as the Henwick Road Estate is within an easy walk of
Worcester and of a first-class station, has a gravelly soil,
stands high, with fine views of the Malvern Hills, the pro-
perty bids fair to be speedily built upon,
The Ipswich estate was offered for sale on the Bth of July,
after a public meeting, at which Viscount Ranelagh wes
the chairman, supported by J. C. Cobbold, Esq., M.P., the
Hon. and Rev. W. Talbot, and Capt. Jervis, M.P., mem-
bers of the board. After some plots had been selected, a
wish was expressed by the inhabitants of the town that the
formation of a crescent, leaving an open space in front for
ornamental gardens, should be abandoned, and the whole of
the land thrown into allotment : a new plan has been issued
to meet the local views. `the estate adjoins the Handford
Hall Villas, and is close to the station, and is essentially
building laud. Owing to the new line of railway which will
soon pass through the Kentish-town estate, it has been re-
quisite to issue a new plan of allotment for this increasing
neighbourhood, The station will be within a few yards of
the property. The second portion of the Woodhouse estate,
Wanstead, which will be offered for sale has been included
in a new plan, affording futilities for the erection of either
small or large houses, which are much required in this
healthy district. The executive committee will allot the
Avenue estate, Bevels Mount, Southampton, after a public
meeting in that town, on Wednesday, the 21st of Octo-
ber. The land has been divided into 44 building plots,
ranging in price from £44 per plot up to £4lB. The 11th
anniversary was completed on the 7th of September last;
and the executive committee cannot enter on the 12th
year of the Conservative Land Society without a word of
congratulation to the shareholders on its prosperous pro-
gress, with a renewal of the assurance on the part of the
board, that no exertions shall be spared to secure its con-
tinuous prosperity.

Earl of Dudley and Sir J, Pakington on

Piison Discipline.

WORCESTER, Oct. 19.

What do we seo now ? The venerable figure that
we saw enter the House is showing signs of life
and animation. He grasps his hand-rail, and, after
two or three convulsive efforts, gains his feet. His
lower limbs are so weak that he dare not let go his
hold, for fear of falling either forward or back-
ward. Sir Charles Barry's magnificent chamber
has never offered a more curious and remarkable
spectacle than it presents at this moment from the
members' gallery. The Liberal peers who sit on
the opposite benches look at the old man with
visible interest, but of course without movement or
change of position. Not so the peers on his own
side of the House. They are compelled to turn on
their seats, and thus rows of eager, anxious, in-
quiring faces, in which admiration and respect are
equally blended, are upturned to view as they are
directed to the aged orator. It is impossible to
describe the intense interest with which men of all
parties and statesmen of both Houses listen to an
old man who has come to be viewed as the Nestor
of his time. The Iron Duke, even in the later days
of his lite, was scarcely regarded with so much.
pride and respect. That a statesman who is almost
a nonagenarian should address their lordships at all,
is almost unparalleled in Parliamentary annals.
But that a peer of so great an age should bear the
brunt of a debate, should "get up" a constitutional
question, and exhaust all the precedents and

full me to
w collect ith
masterlyu ehltfs-
in the pauses between his sentences, and deliberately
choosing his words as he goes along, the noble and
venerable peer defends the privileges of the House
of Peers, and contends for the constitutional right
of that estate of the realm to reject Mr. Gladstone's
bill, if financial difficulties and a dark and troubled
European horizon warned their lordships to inter-
fere. Loud and long were the cheers that greeted
the close of his masterly speech. The love of praise,
that " last infirmity of noble minds," was by no
means dead in Lord Lyndhurst, and the old man
was evidently gratified by the plaudits and the ad-
miration he excited. While other men of fewer
years have sought to gratify their craving for noto-
riety by rushing into eccentricity, his cool judgment
led him to eschew all singularity except that de-
rived from legitimate oratorical distinction. A

arguments bearing upon the privilege in dispute,

The Michaelmas quarter sessions for the county
of Worcester have been opened hers to-day, and
among other subjec.s brought under discussion
were prison discipline and capital punishment. The
Earl of Dudley, chairman of the court, presided,
and there was a very full bench of magistrates,
among whom were Lord Lyttelton, Lord North-
wick, Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington, Bart., M.P., &c.
A report, presented by the visiting -magistrates
of the gaol, was read, recommending, infer alia,
that for the future the prisoners' bedding, instead
of mattresses, should be boards, with proper cover-
ing for warmth, for the first month of their con-
finement. The question of selecting a place for
erecting a public scaffold having also been referred
to the visiting magistrates, they recommended a
site, but that nothing should be done until a capital
sentence had actually been passed.
Sir J. PAKINGTON approved of the proposal for
sleeping the prisoners on boards, but objected to
defer action with respect to the treadwheel (which
it was recommended should not be used again for
associating prisoners on it) until the Legislature
had settled the question of prison discipline.
The Earl of DUDLEY explained that the object
was to keep the separate system, and hen.. went
on to express his approval of the proposia.on of
the visiting magistrates to defer erecting a
was
bo long
actually
scaffold until a capital sentence
passed—an event which he hoped might
deferred. He considered a public execution was
nothing wore than a public spectacle of a
tendency, and he added
most demoralising
an opinion that the railway companies which
helped this abominable system for their own profit
ought to be brought to a better sense of the duty
which they owed to the public. It was true, as
was stated, that the late
Sir Joshua Jebb (who was
known for his humane tendencies in the matter of
prison discipline)
recommended, " hard fare, hard
beds, and hard work as the most serviceable means
for the reformation of offenders, he thought they
could not no better than adopt it. He (the Earl of
Dudley) would have every prisoner commence his
imprisonment (for whatever term he might be sen-
tenced) with the severer treatment applied to pri-
soners for short terms. Ho would not propose to
wait for that undefined period when the Legislature
should have settled the general question of prison
discipline, but would suggest that they should P r
ceed at once to employ such means as they had in
their power for the suppression of crime. (Hear,
hear.)

they listened to his peroration the peers could not
help thinking that they might be listening to the
honied and persuasive accents of the venerable
Nestor for the last time. Every one felt that the
scene they were gazing at possessed a certain his-
torical interest. Some Royal Academician may
yet try and make a picture of the ancient lawyer
on his legs, with every peer on the Opposition
side turning round to look at him.
When he lets go the hand-rail, and sinks into his
seat, the old man falls back with such a want of
elasticity that nothing but an apparatus of pulleys
and chains seems likely to lift him on his legs again.
When he leaves the house, the Earl of Lucan well
nigh carried him out, and one would scarcely have
been surprised if the Crimean general had, like
pious ./Eueas, seized the old man, and borne him
out on his shoulders. When the division takes place'
and Lord Chancellor Campbell announces the nun''
bers to be—For the Paper Duty Bill, 104; against
it, 193; astonishment at so unexpected a majority
for an instant arrests the Derbyite cheer. IVI-len it
'
bursts forth, a number of strangers in their lordships
gallery are so carried away by the excitcrobtch of
they, too, join in the shouts of victory—lse
cannot
order which the oldest officer of the that
b:asses almost
remember to have before occurred. '
unnoticed, however, so absorbed are the peers in
n the probable
rs are scarcely less
congratulations and conversation o°-
results of the vote. The auditors
the
speech of the
interested. And all admit that which was weak,
night was not Lord Granvhlici:
stirred his hearers
nor even Lord Derby's, which of an old man with
like a trumpet, but the sPe
one foot in the grave.
dl_uiresiet's. last great spcech
Parliament: T h wasis
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Lord Ly ri

Sir J. PAKINGTON replied to the remark of the
noble earl on the subject of capital punishments, and
said he did not object to the recommendation that
no steps should be taken for erecting a public
scaffold until a capital sentence should have been
passed, if, by deferring operations, there would still
be left sufficient time should the emergency arise.
Lord Dudley had expressed a hope that the time
for using the scaffold would be long deferred. If
by that remark he meant that he hoped no capital
crime would be committed in the district, he (Sir
John Pakington) heartily joined in the wish. But
if he meant to express a hope that whatever crime
was committed no capital punishment would follow,
he (Sir John Pakington) could not agree with Jain'.
He was not prepared to express an opinion that
when the life of a man was taken by the lawn.,
sentence should bo carried out in priyat.ct.ta
contrary, he thought that so long as e
tnent was inflicted it should be curried out l in
and not in private. public,
The discussion then ceased.

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TUE LATE COUNT D'ORNANO, marshal of France,
qanator, Grand Cross of the is of Ifonour, and Gover-
nor of the Invalides.—Th° 1';
mprror attended his deathbed.
Tuot before his arrival the Archbishop of Paris hafl adrai-
nistered extreme unction to the sick man. Tt is said that
Emperor. and raising. ‘l,iilmeshelafilinn
he recognised th© heviserbed,
squeezed his Majesty's hand, saying,
you again, sire, but we shall meet in heaven !" Thesee Eni_
peror left the bedside affected to tears.
LORD FITZLIARDINGE'S HOUNDS have killed up-
wards of thirty brace of cubs this season ; in by
-gone
the average number of foxes killed o.nrin, 1 103 who's--g oli
"a"n
e days,
scarce!y amotuated to t4at number, i4l

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