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London, England, 1848-02-03 00:00:00

St. Paul's for promoting church and school accommoda-
tion in the said parish, and the numbers and extent of
sites allotted for such accommodation.
Sir R. 11. Inglis—Select Committee on the present
state of the new Palace of Westminster, a ith a view to
the reception and accommodation of the House therein,
and the probable expense of its completion; and also to
inquire into the present state of Westminster-bridge:—
Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Viscount Morpeth, Sir Robert
Peel, Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Ilerries, Lord Granville
Somerset, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Wilson
Patten, Mr.. Hume, Lord Ernest Bruce, Mr. Deering,
Mr. Stafford, Mr. Tufnell, and Mr. Evelyn Denison.
Mr. Brotherton—Select Committee to inquire as to
the expediency of abolishing the office of Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster, and of the propriety of trans-
ferring the duties appertaining thereto to the Secretary
of State for the Home Department.
Mr. Hindley—Bill for the amendment of the law
against Sunday trading.
Earl of Arundel and Surrey—Select Committee to
inquire into the discipline and regulations now in force
in prisons, penitentiaries, houses of eorrection, and
other places of confinement for criminal offences in
Great Britain, with the view of ascertaining the best
practicable means of securing to every prisoner, not in
communion with the Church of England, the benefits to
be derived from a due observance of the religious duties
of his faith; and also the best practicable means of se-
curing the proper attendance of his priest, or other
minister of' his religion, for the purposes of religious in.
struction.
Mr. Urquhart—Copies of correspondence between
the Hon. Captain Denman and members of her Majesty's
Government, in respect to the proceedings undertaken
by her Majesty's Government, in defence of the actions
brought by Baron and others against the said Captain
Denman, and now pending in the Court of Exchequer.
Mr. Horsnian—Resolution, to the effect that the dis
tinction between the episcopal and common fund ought
no longer to exist.
Mr. Horsman—Motion respecting the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge.
Mr. Raphael—Bill to exempt from the legacy duties
all charitable bequests sot to private individuals, but to
public bodies, such as the royal hospitals, and the many
charitable and benevolent institutions in which this
blessed country abounds.
Mr. Raphael—Bill to alter so much of an Act of Par-
liament of the Ist and 2d Victoria, entitled, " An Act
for the better regulation of Hackney Carriages and
Metropolitan Stage Carriages" (cap. 79, c. 5), as im-
poses the obligation on the drivers of the several num-
bered vehicles to wear a numbered ticket.
Mr. Monckton Milnes—To call the attention of the
House to the injuries alleged to have been received by
Mr. Rayson, merchant, from the agents of the Austrian
Government at Constantinople.
Mr. George A. Hamilton—To ask the Chancellor of
the Exchequer whether it is the intention of the Go-
vernment, in consequence of the acceleration of the con-
veyance by railway between London and Liverpool, by
the opening of the Trent Valley line, to make any ar-
rangement for the conveyance of letters for Dublin by
an afternoon express train, which, arriving in Liverpool
before the sailing of the Dublin mail-packets, might
afford persons receiving letters from Dublin in the morn-
ing the opportunity of answering them, and of the an-
swers reaching Dublin on the following morning ; or of
otherwise accelerating the transmission of letters be-
tween London and Dublin.
Sir P. Nugent—Return of the sums of money paid to-
wards arterial drainage in Ireland, from the Ist day of
January, 1847, to the Ist day of January, 1848, under
the Act 9 and 10 Vic.; distinguishing the sums paid for
actual labour from those paid to the staff; and also the
sums allotted and paid towards each particular work, dis-
tinctly set forth; and stating the original estimate for the
completion of such works, and the number of labourers
daily employed on each particular work, during the
above period; whether any or which of the said works
fsumit
operation.will now take to finish
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Mr. Osborne—Select Committee to inquire into the
state of the law as respects the appointment of re.
ceivers under the Courts of Chancery and Equity Ex-
chequer in Ireland; and the effect of the present laws
and regulations of the said courts in the management of
estates, under their control, and how far the improve-
ment of the said estates and well-being of the tenantry
have been thereby advanced.
Sir De Lacy Evans—To ask the Secretary of the
Board of Control the cause of the delay in the issue of
the Sinde prize money.
Lord Arthur Lennox—When the army estimates are
moved, to call the attention of the Committee to the
warrant of May, 1846, which gives a retirement after
thirty or more years full-pay service, ten-twelfths of
the said full pay to the two junior regimental staff
officers, the quartermasters, and veterinary surgeons;
whereas the two seniors and much more responsible
staff officers, the surgeons and paymasters, obtain only
eight-twelfths of full pay after the same service.
Mr. Osborne—On reading the order of the day for
going into the first Committee of Supply after the recess,
to call the attention of the House to the sums of money
expended on the new Houses of Parliament, and the
present state of those buildings.
Mr. George A. Hamilton—Before going into Com-
mittee on the educational estimates, to move, that an
humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying
that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to direct
that such a modification of the system of national edu-
cation in Ireland may be made, as regards children of
the Established Church, as may remove the consei
, entious objections which many of the clergy and laity
entertain to the system as at present carried into opera-
tion; or otherwise, that means may be taken to enable
these of the clergy and laity of the Established Church,
who entertain such conscientious objections, to extend
the blessings of scriptural education to the children of
the Established Church.

THE ABOLITION OF JEWISH

DISABILITIES.

CAMBRIDGE, A meeting, conversed by
requisition, was holden yesterday evening in the
Town-hall, the Mayor in the chair, "to consider the
propriety of petitioning the Houses of Parliament to
pass a Bill for the relief of the Jews from the civil
disabilities under which they labour.
The Mayor presided.
_ _

Mr. W.-ASHTON (Clerk of the Peace), in moving
1 the first resolution, said that he considered the re-
moval of the Jewish disabilities a measure of justice
to the only portion of his fellow-countrymen who were
excluded from a seat in Parliament. This was not a
time to contend that the Jews were not as respectable
a class of society as any other. The matter had been
treated as a religious question, but in his idea wrong-
fully.
Mr. P. 13EALEs seconded the resolution.
Mr. R. M. FAWCETT considered himself entitled to
move an amendment. He should do so, that it might
be known not only to the inhabitants of Cambridge
but to the world at large, that they were not unani-
mous ; also to strengthen the hands of their respected
member, Mr. Shafto Adair, who had promised his
consistent opposition to this innovation upon a Chris-
tian people.—(flisses, and cries of" We'll vote for
Adair no more.") He had attended to propose an
amendment as a matter of duty, and not with any
idea that it would be carried. He merely meant to
enter his protest. The measure had not been desired
by the Jews as a people, no agitation had been raised
by them like that which preceded the repeal of the
Test and Corporation Acts, Catholic Emancipation,
or the Reform Bill, and it was his firm belief that the
honest and straightforward Jews did net want it.—
(Laughter.) He would move—
" That this meeting views with dissatisfaction a
Bill now before Parliament to relieve the Jews from
the disabilities under which they now labour."
Colonel GLOVER seconded the amendment.
Mr. T. MORTLOCK declared his unqualified opposi-
tion to the object of the meeting.
After some few observations from Messrs. W. Ekin,
H. S. Foster, R. Foster, J. D. Fetch, and R. Newby,
in speaking to some minor resolutions, having for
their object the obtaining of signatures to the petition,
and its presentation in the House of Lords by the
Duke of Bedford, and in the Commons by Mr. Shafto
Adair and the Hon. Mr. Campbell, the petition was
read. From its brevity it is somewhat a curiosity :
" To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal in Parliament assembled.
" The petition, &c., showeth,—That your peti-
tioners have observed with satisfaction the introduc-
tion of a Bill into the Legislature for the removal of
the Jewish disabilities, and do most earnestly pray
your Right Honourable House to pass the same into
a law."

The meeting then broke up, Mr. Fawcett having
retired some time previously.

GERMAN PAPERS.
RUSSIA AND POLAND. PROM THE RUSSIAN
BOUNDARY, J. 19.—The levy of recruits occasions
much surprise. None are exempt except those who
are so by their official situations or incapacity, and
even lads of 16 are entitled. In answer to the ques-
tion whether the sons of such officers of the State
whose position accords them the privileges of nobility
are exempt from military service, it is stated that only
the sons of those who possess the rights of hereditary
nobility, as well as of those landowners whose nobility
has been acknowledged in regard to the privileges of
the Ordinance of 1836, are not subject to be entitled
as recruits.

CHLOROFORM.
The Azigsburg Gazelle of the 2Gth ult. gives the
order issued by the Bavarian Government on the
25th -respecting the use of chloroform during surgical
opera tions. The application of this drug is hence-
forth to be confided solely to scientific and duly au-
thorised physicians and surgeons, but cuppers, coun-
try practitioners, surgeons, and dentists, who have
not taken their degree, as well as all mediciners and
unlicensed accoucheurs, are strictly prohibited from
using- it. The sale and purchase of chloroform shall
be subject to the prescribed restrictions which apply
to poisons and other injurious drugs.
PRAGUE, JAN. 22.—Charles Prince of Savvy,
zenburg Hannibal Frederick, Prince of Thurn and
Faxes, and Edward Count Clam Gallas have received
orders to repair with all speed to the Austrian Italian
army, the two first in the capacity of Lieut.-Field
Marshals.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 27.

ARRIVAL OF SPECIE AT LIVERPOOI. —The Colum-
bia, New York packet-ship, arrived on Sunday with
6,0001. The Columbus, from the same port, brought
14,00Q4 Tho Sir 14. l'eol brought 12,0004