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London, England, 1870-02-19 00:00:00

COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

Canada Government, 6 p c, Jan
and July ,1877-84 100 104 1051 1051 1
Do, 6 p c, Feb and Aug lOO 102 103 -
Do, 6 p c, Mar and Sept 100 1051 106/
Do, 5 p c, Jan and July lOO 941 95i 95
Do, 5 p c, inscribed stock lOO.. 94 96
Do, 5 p c, Dominion of, 1803 - 100 95} 961
C of Good Hope, 6 p c, Dec, 18/3 100 103 155
Do, 6 p c, April and Oct, 1890-
1900 100 111 113
Do, 6 p c, April and Oct, 1880-90 100 109 111
Do 6 p c, Jan and July, 1891 l.OO _
Do, 5 p c, April 15 and Oct 15,
1900 100 102} 1031
Ceylon, Nov, 1878, 6 p c 100 109 111.
Do, 1872 100 103 105
Do, 1882 and 1883 100 112 114
Mauritius, 6 li c, 1873, Jan & July 100 102 104
Do, 1878, Jan and July 100 106 108 1071
Do, 1882, May 15 and Nov 15 100 107 109
T. ) 0 , 1 8 9 5 - 6 , Feb and Aug 100 111 113
Natal Gov 6 p c, April & Oct 100 108 110
Do, 6 p c, May and Nov 100 107 109
New Brunswick Gov 6 p c, Jan and
July 100 104 105
N. S. Wales Gov 5 p c, 1871 to
1876, Jan and July lOO 1001 1011
Do, 5 p c, 1888 to 1896, Jan and
July 100 101 102 1011 1
Do, 5 p c, red by ann draws,
from 1867 to 1875 100 100 101
Do, 2 per c, annual draws, 1872
to 1898 100 1001 1011
New Zealand 6 p c, 1891 100 107 109
Do,spc 100 97 98 97f
Do, Jai), April, July, Oct 100 971 981 97I
Do., 6 p c, 1891, Mar and Septloo 108 110
Do, p ct, 1891, June and Dec 100 107 109
Nova Scotia Gov, 6 p c sterling,
1875, Jan and July lOO 1021 1031
Do, 1886 lOO 1011 105}
Queensland 6 per ct, 1882-85, Jan
and July 100 1081 1091 1081
Do, 1891, Jan and July
S Australian Government, 6 p c,loo 108 109 1 1
1869-77 lOO
Do, 1878-92 100
Do, 1893-1908 100 110 111
Tasmanian, 6 p c, 1895, Jan and
and July 100 108 110
Do, 6 p c red, 1893 to 1897 lOO 108 110
Victoria Govt, 6 p c, Jan and
July, 1891 lOO 113 114
Do, April and Oct 100 1131 1141
j .1)o, 5 p c, J. and Ju1y,,,,1111,100 191/ 102/ 104

The appearance of the House of Commons on
Tuesday evening at five o'clock, when Mr. Glad-
stone rose to bring forward the great question of
the session, was, as it always is upon these histori-
cal occasions, magnificent. Two of the foremost
chiefs of Parliament were missing; that was the main
regret of everyone, on both sides of the House, on
taking a survey of the whole of that grand assem-
blage. One looked in vain for the leader of the
Opposition and for the President of the Board of
Trade. Otherwise, both parties were completely
represented. The strangers' gallery was crammed;
so, too, were the Spe ikec's gallery, the ladies' grille-
fronted ditto, and the long side-galleries allotted
among others to those members who can find no
accommodation in the body of the house. The
peers mustered in considerable force immediately
in float of the Speaker, in two long lines directly
over the cloak--having in their midst three of the
Princes, to wit, the l)uke of Cambridge,
Prince Chi iitian, and Prince Teck : the latter, now
growing his beard, hardly recognisable between the
bald-headed Prince Christian and the yet more bald-
headed Commander-in-Chief. The Prime Minister
was in splendid voice to begin with. Everyone was
attention, and he had wonderful go, and verve, and
animation at the commencement. Bat gradually,
after he had been speaking for two hours together,
when at last he gut into the matter of fact
details of the proposed Bill, the master-rheto-
rician became dull and wearisome, and his listeners
had a dawning consciousness that they had had
pretty nearly enough of it. Another hour brought
him to the last word of his peroration. Whether
Ireland will be satisfied with the measure
that is now the question. The granting
of loans to occupiers desiring to become pur-
chasers, in point of fact, constitutes the very core of
the heart of the Government proposition. The
scheme is incomplete, and is expressly put forward
as incomplete, as a skeleton to be clothed with flesh,
as au outline to be filled up and shaded in, iu com-
mittee. The Irish members were dumb; many of
them were absent. Mr. Hardy, in the absence of
his chief, the member for Bucks, intimated the
magnanimous determination of the Conservative
party to deal fairly with the project adventured
upon by the Govenrment. Since the present Ad-
ministration was formed one has heard nothing
whatever, one could hear nothing whatever, of
"factious opposition," a phrase familiar enough to
parliamentary ears in our past experience. The
happiest portion of the Premier's three hours' speech
was that in which, while numbering ap the various
remedial measures vouchsafed to Ireland by the Im-
perial Government during the last ninety or a hun-
dred years, he showed, with terrible lucidity, the
force and truth of which there was no gainsaying,
that not a boon was granted but had a sting in it,
irritating or rather maddening the people of Ireland
in lieu of exciting their loyalty and gratitude. His
incidental expression of sympathy for the French
Emperor as a Constitutional sovereign was another
hit, and was received with ringing cheers by the
House of Commons.

The Colonial policy of her Majesty's Govern-
ment Lord Carnarvon has certainly lost no time in
bringing formally under the consideration of Par-
liament. Listening to his elaborate criticism of
that policy on Monday evening, I could not but feel
that the speech delivered by the noble earl was, in
very few respects, worthy either of the subject itself
or of his own reputation. It was dull and tame,
being listened to with scarcely a cheer. Lord Cairns
yawned wearily, time and again, during its delivery.
Earls Kimberley and De Grey and Ripon exchanged
smiles almost of derision at points deemed by them,
evidently, points of weakness. Lord Salisbury
fidgetted with an air of impatience ; so, too, for
that matter, did Lord Granville. Only towards the
very close of his address did the speaker warm into
anything like earnestness. The Secretary of State's
reply—though, as a matter of course, regarded
by the Ti►ues as perfectly conclusive and unanswer-
able—was, to my mind, a mere parrying of two or
three unskilful lunges, for which, moreover, that
cool and dexterous swordsman was perfectly well
prepared beforehand. It was, in the phrase of the
fencing gallery, a mere bloodless passage of arms.
It tvas a mere skirmish before that deadlier encoun-
ter, for which, later on in the Parliamentary cam-
paign, the rival hosts of Government and Opposi-
tion are manifestly preparing.
The failing health of our leading statesmen is
particularly regretable at the very commencement
of a parliamentary session that is certain to be more
than ordinarily laborious. Mr. Bright's illness has
precluded him from putting in an appearance at all
on the opening of the Legislature. It debarred
him from leaving London, in the first instance ;
from going even to suburban Norwood afterwards;
and constrained him, through fear of a long rail-
way journey, to prefer Brighton sea breezes to
the more bracing air of far-off Scotland. Scarcely
has the House of Commons realised the necessity
for the absence of the President of the Board of
Trade, when the Home Secretary is also threatened
with the withdrawal from the Treasury Bench
by indisposition. Mr. Bruce has been, happily,
invalided only partially by what Lord Granville
had to apologise for, on the first night of the ses-
sion, as " a very disagreeable but uninteresting ail-
ment"—meaning a severe cold. Mr. Disraeli's
political banquet had, moreover, to be postponed
unavoidably from Wednesday last, simply by rea-
son of the sharp attack of bronchitis from which
the right honourable gentleman had, for some days
previously, been suffering. Lord Cairns, again,
shortly flits off to Mentone until after Easter, when
his services to the party, as leader iu the Lords,
may be once more put into requisition. Accident
has, no less than disease, been dealing rather
sharply of late with our officials. Caution on the
part of Mr. Gladstone may enable him to husband
his physical resources during the session ; but all
the care in the world could not have saved the
Attorney-General, Sir Robert Collier, from being
shot in the leg by some Mr. Winkle of a sporting
companion ; or have guarded Sir John Coleridge,
the Solicitor-General, from being nearly driven
over by a drunken cart-driver.

Charles Lever, her Majesty's Consul-General at
Trieste, the " Harry Lorrequer" of the Dublin
University Magazine, the " Cornelius O'Dowd" of
Blackwood's Magazine, the blithest of Irish story-
tellers, the most slap-dash and helter-skelter of our
serial novelists, seems to have brought a swarm
about his ears by touching with his pen-point the
system (or institution, as it might really be called
by this time) of Cook's Excursionists. Lord Cla-
rendon has been addressed upon the subject by
Mr. Cook himself. Lord Clarendon has even re-
sponded to Mr. Cook by saying that he will com-
municate with Mr. Lever upon the matter referred
to—namely, one of the " O'Dowd Papers" in
Ebony. The simple fact in regard to the whole
imbroglio appears to me to be this, that there
is the mistake of cross-purposes all round. Mr.
Lever, for a humourist, wrote for once just
a wee bit too gravely, and even caus-
tically. Mr. Cook underlined the indiscretion
(to say the worst of it) of the brilliant and genial
essayist by taking his airy badinage all through au
serieux. The Secretary of State has failed to re-
cognise the exceptional and out-of-the-way inci-
dent of a practical joke exciting an outburst of
indignation—et viola tout ! I can only look for-
ward to the rich and racy fun with which Mr.
Lever will serio-comically make the amende honor-
able under his pseudonym of O'Dowd in Blackwood.
Looking to the street improvements made re-
spectively in Paris and London, one can, in one
sense, but not in another, say with Sterne, that
they manage these things better in France. We
escape their municipal debts, but we are without
their imperial transformations. Middle Row, 1101-
born, has long since gone. The block of buildings
at King-street, Whitehall, is doomed. So likewise,
in the fulness of time, is the yet more hideous block
of building, forming the southern side of Holywell-
street, Strand—wedged tightly in between St.
Clement Danes and St. Mary-le-Strand. Mean-
while, both those two last blocks, the block in
Westminster, and the block in the Strand, remain
triumphantly as eye-aoroo, IlQincryo thew; And

two of the noblest thoroughfares in London will in-
stantly become, by the simple fact of their clear-
ance out of the way, transformed, or rather ex-
panded, into two of the noblest thoroughfares in all
Europe. Fortunately for us, perhaps, our Eng-
lish lEdiles are less daring than those of our neigh-
bours across the Channel. The magnificent auda-
' city of the changes adventured upon in Paris by the
ex-autocrat llaussmann, " regardless of expense,"
is long since perfectly well known, and very
thoroughly appreciated. But it is not, by
any means, so well known that Baron Hauss-
mann's successor from Marseilles has, in carry-
ing out his improvements in that grandest of all
the French outports, overbuilt Marseilles to an
extent equivalent to a deficiency of 40,000
inhabitants. Strolling recently down the gigantic
Rue Imperiale there, I found but one out of every
thirty or forty houses in any way occupied. Oae
little detail in the way of street improvements it
might be worth while a loptin; from our friend.;
the Parisians. I refer to the sightly and often
picturesque kioska placed here and there along the
boulevards for the sale of tit?, public newspapers.
Something better, surely, than the tag-rag aed•
bob-tail—often shoeless always more or less dirty
and mud-stained—who pester the foot-passengers
with the ha'penny Echo, the p2nny Globe, or the
twopenny Pall Gazette.
Bishop Cllathorne's letter to the Times the other
morning was certainly suggestive of the small
amount of credit to be attached just now to the
most conscientious and painstaking of the Roman
correspondents. The ecumenical Council being
held, as it is, with closed doors, it stands to reason
that everything said or written,whispered orshouted,
vaguely hinted or explicitly and most emphatically
proclaimed, must be, and necessarily is, after all, the
merest, idlest guesswork. At Rome the impression
is that the labours of the Council will be completed
by midsummer. Until, then, it will surely be
wise to forego, as much as may be in any way pos-
sible, the fantastic luxury of this same frivolous
guesswork (.1 the 7 ivies', the Telegraph's, and even
the Standard's correspondents. The last men-
tioned, as a rule, is incomparably the best of them
all, as the first-mentioned is unquestionably the
worst, the wildest in its guesses, and the least re-

liable in its information.
At the private view of the spring pictures in the
Old Bond-street Gallery on this day week, where
upwards of 400 paintings and drawings of very
variable merit and demerit have been brought to-
gether, I was charmed with a very clever effect of
" Fading Light" (19), by G. H. Boughton, and
fairly surprised into admiration by the world of
grotesque humour thrown into the wonderfully ela-
borate illustration of a passage in " Reynard, the
Fox" (304), by 11. Bright. The passage selected
is the one relating to the advent among the frogs
of the new king they have rashly prayed for in suc-
cession to King Log—to wit, the terrible stork,
King Adebaer. In the extraordinary and fantastic
humour squandered upon this picture by an artist
whose name is altogether strange to me I recognise
a work that, in the old time, would not have been
been unworthy even of the genius of George Cruik-
shank. The picture ought to be at once engraved,
and would for certain secure to itself an immense
popularity. Looking in, immediately afterwards,
on Friday last, at the private view of the Society
of Female Artists, I there found nearly 500 contri-
butions (473) hanging upon the walls of the Con-
duit-street (9) Gallery. The place of honour is
awarded to the (214) " St. Hubert's Stag,"
of Rosa Bonheur, whose sister has also
added to the attractions of the exhibition
(371) a very animated and life-like group
of poultry. Miss Bouvier sends three graceful com-
positions, one of them especially charming (48),
" Come with me," a sketch of three children. G.
Bowers, familiar to the readers of Punch, contri-
butes a Hunting Scene worthy of John Leech ;
Miss Lane, a most admirable portrait of her father,
the Academy Associate ; and Miss B. cock, a deli-
cately-pencilled head of a nun, entitled " Wander-
ing Thoughts."

It was indicative of the intense love for sport
and the profound interest in games of skill mani-
fested by the Prince of Wales, that his Royal
Highness, in company with L.)rd Caring Lon and
others, remained the other night until two o'clock
in the morning among the spectators of the
memorable Billiard Match played out, in the St.
James's Hall, Piccadilly, between the late champion,
"Jack" Roberts, and William Cook the younger,
the now recognised and indisputable chnupion of

that great game, here, in England. The Heir Ap-
parent can, as we all know, ride as well to hounds
as any red-coated lover of a seat on the pig-skin
in the three kingdoms ; but we now learn that his
Royal lii,ghness can find no weariness in watching,
during a long series of hours, the fluctuations of a
game at billiards, where the players were well
matched in dexterity and in science as they were
anything but well matched in the length, and, con-
sequently, in the scope of their experience. Mr.
Roberts has, for upwards of twenty years, held his
own against all corners as wielder of the cue,
whereas twenty years ago the stripling, by whom
he has now been, not ingloriously defeated, was yet
unborn. Mr. Kentfield, of Brighton—world fa-
mous as Jonathan—has never yet been conquered
by either, simply because ho has never come into
competition with one or the other.

Touching upon literary matters, I may mention

that a new poem by Philip James Bailey, the author
of " Festus," will appear in the next number, for
March, of the Gentleman's Magazine. It is written
in blank verse, and will be entitled " The Mystery
of Life." As illustrative of the liberality of the
great American publishing houses, it is worth
recording that very recently one of our most accom-
plished magazine writers, Airs. Cross, instead of re-
ceiving the stipulated sum in return for a contribu-
tion of hers to one of the New York monthlies, had

forwarded to her, from the proprietor of the maga-
zine, exactly double the amount. Mr. Tainsh's new
three-volumed novel, " One Maiden Only," has just
come into my hands as I write. It is gracefully in-
scribed to his wife, whom he speaks of as " a dear

gift from God." In next Saturday's Athenzunt
there will be announced, for the first time, the
name of Mr. Dickens's new serial story, now
almost immediately forthcoming. It is a curious
fact in connection with the " Life of Chatterton,',
just published by the Messrs. Macmillan, exactly
a century after the " Marvellous Boy's " suicide in
1770, that it is the ninth biography of that won-
derful stripling that has made its appearance.
Besides the anonymous life prefixed to the Cam-
bridge edition in 18-12, there have issued from
the press at different times the sketches of that
brief career penned by Thomas Tyrwhitt, Dr.
George Gregory, John Davis, the Rev. Sir Herbert
Croft, John Dix, George Pryce, David Masson,
and now Daniel Wilson. Notwithstanding all these

labours, the "Life of Chatterton" has yet to be
written in a manner worthy of the young poet's
genius and misfortunes.

After listening to Mr. Gladstone's three hours'
speech on the Irish Land Question in the House of
Commons, on Tuesday evening, I attended at Mr.
Dickens's two hours' readings in the St. James's
Hall, Piccadilly. The audience Nuts larger, more
sympathetic, and more enthusiastic than ever. The
stalls applauded like a gallery ; and, very probably
heartened to new effort by the sensitive apprecia-
tion following his every look and his every syllable,
the great novelist fairly surpassed himself. For
this his selections for Tuesday night's readings cer-
tainly afforded him the opportunity, for they were
wondet fully various. First of all there was the
tender and delicate humour of the children's love
story told by the "Blots at the Holly-Tree Inn."
Afterwards there was the terrible murder scene
from " Oliver Twist," with those wondrous imper-
sonations in rapid succession (at moments it almost
seemed simultaneously), of Noah Claypole and
poor Nancy, of Fagin the Jew, and of Sikes the
housebreaker. As an exquisite relief after this
harrowing piece of tragic acting—•a pourtrayal of
crime and character in every way quite excep-
tional—the audience enjoyed, with roars of de-
light, perhaps the most intensely laughter-moving
of all the humorous creations of Charles Dickens's
genius, the inimitable monthly Nurse, of Kings-
, gate-street, liolbora—the immortal Mo.

• Gamp, of " Martin Chuzzlewit." Altogether,
Tuesday evening was, to me, one of very memor-
able enjoyment.
Formerly, in Theodore' Hook's time, the John
Bull indulged the gossipmongers of London with
Court and fashionable rumours, flavoured with sar-
casm and spiced with wit. Latterly the Owl, with-
out spice and without flavour, without wit and
without sarcasm, has from time to time given cur-
rency to reports of this and of that family alliance,
affiancing, or betrothal—call it how you please.
Since I wrote to you last, Toni Hood, the editor of
Fun and of the Latest News, has not only ven-
tured into the same cloud-land, but, in doing so,
has soared high into the social empyrean—an-
nouncing in a rather roundabout way the pro-
bable marriage, one of these days; of her 'Majesty
the Queen and his Highness the Prince Scowler-
burg-Glucksburg. Nobody I have yet spoken
with, in regard to this gravely enunciated ru-
moor, gives it the slightest credence. Only a
little whil: previously, it may be remembered, a
similar rumour was set forth as to the probable
marriage of " the E trl of Derby and the Dowager
Marchioness of Salisbury."
The Thames, d tring two or three lays this week,
has been a sight to sce. The navigation was en-
tirely stopped—the current an archipelago of lee
islands flecked and heaped over with snow—toe
whole river view (meaning no pun, but simply au
artistic allusion) a veritable Branwhite.

LA IV LVTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

THE MORDAUNT CASE.

This morning Sergeant Ballautine asked his lord-
ship if he would allow hint to read a letter which
he addressed to his solicitor, showing that it was
expressly his desire that the Prince of Wales should
not be subpoenaed, Lord Penzance said this was not
necessary.

Sergeant Ballantine—After I had heard the evi-
dence of Sir James Simpson on the sanity of Lady
Mordaunt, I desired that the medical men who had
been in attendance on Lady Mordaunt in her con-
finement should see her, and they having done so
are not in a position to contradict the evidence of
the former witnesses on the point. But the ques-
tion was whether she was sane at th 3 time of
the citation, and for such time afterwards as to be
able to give instructions to her solicitors.
Lord Penzance—lt seems from the advice which
Sir Charles Mordaunt has received, he is not in a
position to prove to the jury that she is now in a
sound state of mind.

Sergeant Ballantine—l wish to put to the jury
the substantial question whether, from the 13th of
April to a reasonable time Lady Mordaunt was in
a position to give instructions to her solicitor.
Lord Penzance said another question which would
at some time have to be raised, would be as to the
state of mind of Lady Mordaunt at the time of her
confinement. That of course would have consi-
derable bearing on her subsequent state of mind.
Dr. Deane said that the admissions of Lady
Mordaunt, said to have been made in a sound state
of mind, would at once weigh in the other suit.
It was impossible now to obtain one word of ex-
planation from Lady Mordaunt.
Lord Penzance recommended the learned counsel
to think the matter over befur the time for him to
address his charge to the jury.

The case of Saurin v. Starr and Kennedy is now
understood to be finally settled, on the following
terms, viz.: The £3OO dowry to be returned (which
is tantamount to a verdict for the defendant);
each side to pay their own costs ; the suit in Chan-
cery to be set aside, each party also to pay their
own costs ; all papers which have passed in the
suit to be returned to the respective parties;
and all imputations on both sides to be with-
drawn.

POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE—This Day.

THAMES.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.—Thomrs
Lalor, alias Lawlor, a very strong and powerful
young man, labourer, was brought up on remand
before Mr. Pager, charged with assaulting and
wounding Elizi.beth Small, in a public-house in
Poplar, four weeks ago. In the course of a quarrel
the prisoner knocked down the woman and kicked
her while she was down in a savage manner, and
with great force. Tue injuries brought on acute
inflammation of the bowels, under which she has
been suffering ever since.

Mr. Matthew Brownfield, surgeon, East India
Dock-road, Poplar, said the woman he had been
attending was now out of danger, and had been
so for the last two days, but she could not be re-
moved from her home at present.

Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for another
week.

STEALING A TRUCK.—David Harwood, aged 42
years, was charged before Mr. Paget with stealing
a truck from the premises of Mr. John Byers, of
Belinda-street, Bromley. The truck was missed a
few days ago. The prisoner afterwards sold the
wheels, axles, and springs of the truck to Mr.
Henry Thomas, of No. 14, Caroline-street, for 20s.
Mr. Thomas offered them for sale to Mr. John 11111,
a wheelwright, of Bower-street, Commercial-road,
who identified them as the same he had made for
the prosecutor.

The prisoner said in his defence that he bought
the truck and appurtenances of a man named Jerry,
in Muddy-lane, Stepney.

Mr. Paget—Wbo is Jerry ?

The Prisoner—l don't know his name ; he is
called Jerry.

Mr. Paget directed Lamb, a detective officer of
the K division, to make inquiries about Jerry, and
remanded the prisoner for a week.

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Earl DELAWARR called the attention of the Govern-
ment to the great ontbreak of sickness which had occurred
in the Royal North British Fusiliers, 00011 after that regi-
ment arrived in Kurrachee iu March last, and asked
whether arrangements could not be made for so carrying out
the reliefs in India as would enable the troops to arrive in
that country between the Ist of November and the follow-
ing Februat y.
Lord NORTHBROOK said that the report of mortality
had been very much exaggerated. There had been since
the arrival of the regiment great sickness, but the deaths that
had occurred from the arrival up to the date of the
latest information had only amounted to 13, which was
by no means an excessive mortality. The regiment had
been removed from Kurrachee, and it was hoped that an
improvement would take 1,1,,c0 in its condition. With re-
spect to the arrival of troops in India, the greatest ca.te was
taken to secure for the troops the most healtby season.

The LOUD CIiA.,ICELLOR then proceeded to move the
first reading of the Jurisdiction of the Judges Bill, the object
of which was to enable one of the judges of the three supe-
rior courts, on invitation of the chief judge of either of
the chiefs of other courts to sit in that court, and to
have equal power and jurisdiction with the judges
of the court to which he might be invited. The bill was
brought in in conseauence of the decision not to fill 1113 the
vacancy caused by the recent death of Mr. Justice Hayes.
His lordship then proceeded to call attention to the report
of the Judicature Commission, and to the measures about
to be brought forward with regard to their recommenda-
tions-for changes in the courts of original and appellate
jurisdiction, and afterwards went on to explain the proce-
dure of the courteunder the present system, and observed
that the separation of the equity courts had long been
looked upon as a great evil, and it had been always con-
sidered inconvenient that a suitor could not have his case
wholly decided in one and the same court. Having alluded
to some of the changes suggested, his lordship said the
commissioners were unanimous in recommending that all
the superior courts, whether common or equity, should
be consolidated into one superior court, with power of
dividing itself into distinct divisions, not for
the purpose of maintaining the other existing
distinction between the common law and equity, but the
despatch of business. Any judge could sit in any division
and a case being once commenced before any division,
would be completely decided by it. The Court of Appeal
would be instituted as a distinct permanent tribunal,
dealing with equity and common law appeals
indiscriminately. It was thought that five judges
would be sufficient for the courts of first instance ;
the Court of Appeal would consistof the Lord Chancellor,
the Master of the Rolls, and four permanent judges, to
be selected by the Crown. Then there were various other
suggestions with respect to the appellate jurisdiction
of the House of Lords, and it would be his great desire
to introduce the bill embodying the recommendations as
early as possible.

After a few words from Lord CAIRNS, the bill was
read a first time, and their lordships shortly afterwards
adjourned.

HOUSE OF COADIONS.-FRIDAY.
The SrEAlatt took the chair at four o'clock.

PRIVATE BILLS.

The foll-)winis bills were read a second time :—Barn-
otapie and Ilfracombe Railway, Hounslow and Northland
Railway, Manchester and Salford and District Tramways
(Nos. 1 and 2), North London Tramways, Pendleton
Roads, Peniculck Railway, Plymouth, Stonehouse, and
Devonport-street Tramway; and York Markets and Flirs.