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bill He thought under the circumstances it would be
better to accede to the bugge, tio a of the ri„lht hen,
baronet.
ft, Sir GEORGE GREY said ht %tisbed to know the
course intended to be ptirs.2,..!lt by the hon. member for
Yougha.:l after the ,:-A-tendon of opinion on the bill that
day. He loolccA 'cp in the postponement of the cowl•
deratio,.-: of the bill in the early part of June as an
ab"..ndortrmmt of the measure for the session.
Mr. 1. BUTT defended his conduct in reference to
the bill. He called upon the house to affirm the prin-
ciple of the hill by a second reading, to show the bou.e
was in a position to legislate on the subject, if they re-
fused after to proceed further with it this session. If,
however, the house wet of a contrary opinion, be had no
wish to press the Bond reading.
• Mr. DRUMMOND called upon the hon, member for
Youghal to press the second reading, and not take the
advice of false fri.nds an-I withdraw it. 5
Lord R. GROSVENOR supported the bill.
Mr. CARDWELL supported further inquiry on this
question before the house affirmcd the practical operation
~f the bill and afterwards placed it in the statute-book.
By so doing they would be consulting the interests and
happiness of the operatives engaged iu this branch of
trade.

Mr. COBBETT said be visited many of the bleaching-
works in England and Scotland after the session of 1853.
He then found that the operatives worked 16, 18, and 20
h 'ors a day, and in PLI atmosphere varying from
90 to 130 degrees, He had attended several meetings
of the operatives on this cuhject, and from all he bad
seen and heard he was of opinion the operatives desired
legislative inti-rference in the manner proposed by this
bill. He learned from the wet-king-men that they had
frequently to carry three and four females a day from
the "roasting alive" shops, as they were cared, into the
open air, on account of faintness from excessive
heat. The beat was so great that the nails in
the floors of the bleaching works got so hot that
they frequently blistered the feet of the workpeople.
The operatives were looking with great anxiety to this
house for relief, and be asked the bon, and learned •
member for Youghall to go to a division on the sub-
ject, or, if not, to obtain a pledge from the Home Se-
cretary that a committee of inquiry should be appointed
early next session,
Mr. BAINES, on the part of the Government, said
there would be no obstacles thrown in the way of the
appointment of a committee early next session. It was
desirable to avoid a decision on the question, so that it
may gu before a committee without prejudice on either
side. •

After some remarks from Mr. Kirk, Mr. Muntz, Lord
Naas, Mr. Walter, Mr. Wilkinson, Admiral Jones, Air.
Napier, Mr. Richardson, and other hon. members,
The house divided, when the numbers were—
Fir the second reading 65
Against it
Majority against the bill ---44
REGISTRATION OF LEASES (SCOTLAND)
BILL.

This bill passed through committee.
SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY SOCIETIES
BILL.
The bowie then went into committee on this bill.
Mr. BOUVERIE objected to the further proceeding
with this bill, which was one to exempt certain societies
from local taxation. The effect of the bill would merely
be to increase the rent of the premises, by which the
landlords of the buildings would be the only parties
benefitted. On these grounds he moved that the chair-
man do now report progress.
Mr. HUTT defended the bill.
Mr. HADFIELD regretted the opposition that had
been given to the bill, which was one to benefit institu-
tions raised mainly by the exertions of working men.
L,rd LOVAINE objected to the bill. lie thought
the decision arrived at, viz., notto exempt these societies
from local taxation, was light, as if this bill passed the
number of buildings for which exemption would be
claimed would be enormous.

Mr. BUTT objected to the bill. The law as it at pre-
sent stood with respect to these institutions was as much
as conk' he exp, wed,
Mr. BOUVERIE said this bill was not one to ex-
empt mechanics' institutions from the payment of taxes.
It was the exemption made by this bill to w hich he ob-
jected. By the present bill the exemption was so wide
that the end of it could not be seen. It was on this
ground that he opposed the bill, and he trusted the house
would avve to the proposition he had made.
Mr, E WAR C maintained that the present law was
unequal. A certain number of institutions were now
exempted, and he thought it was but a matter of justice
to the others that they should share in the benefit. He
regretted that the hon. member, the PresEent of the
Poor-law Beard, should have been the person who opposed
this bill, becalm-, if anything more than another tended
to decrease pauperism, it was education. On the occasion
when he brought forward a bill to enable parishes to
levy rats in favour of public lihraries, he was supported
in his endeavours by the then President of the B on
the ground that the establishment of such institutions
would decrease pauperism. He trusted the present un-
equal law would be altered.

Mr. HENLEY said the exemption by this bill wa-,
wide enough 10 exempt a nobleman's picture gal-
lery and her Majesty's theatre. The bill was,
in fact, an attempt to make the #law equal
upon unequal subject., which he did not think it was
possible for the house to accomplish. If it was intended
to merely exempt mechanics' ins':,itutior,s, why did not
the hon. member bring in a distinct bill for that
purpose.

Mr. STRUTT supported the bill. He did not think
because there was some objectionable words in the bill
it was fair to throw it over tor the session, without even
an attemct to improve it in committee.
Mr. TITE supported the bill.
Mr. LIDDELL also supported the bill.
Mr. MASSEY said the committee was asked to ex-
tend the provisions of an act of Parliament beyond what
was contemplated when the existing law was passed.
He thought that exonerating all societies claiming to be
established for the advanceo.ent of science, literature,
and the fine arts very like permitting an injustice to be
perpetrated at the expense of the ratepayers. He was
sorry to find from the Court of Queen's Bench that
reading cheap penny newspapers at any of these insti-
tutions deprive(' them of the privileges of the present
law, but he thought, on the whole, it would be far
oett,r-r to furnish these societies with the standard lite-
rature of the country than with the ephemeral publica-
tions referred to. He saw no reason for altering the
present law.
Mr. HILDYARD regretted the opposition that had
been raised to the bill, all of which were untenable, and
he hoped the committee would reject the proposition for
reporting progresi.

Mr. JOHN MACGREGOR complained of the nar-
row views entertained by the members of the Treasury
bench on this bill, and hoped the committee would ne-.
ga►ive the motion.
Mr. HEADLANI said he was of opinion some altera-
tion should be made in the existing law, and that if the
committee proceeded, amendments might be made in the
bill to 'meet all objection.
Mr. ATHERTON concurred in opinion with the hon.
and learned member for Newcastle.
After Romp further discussion,
Mr. BOUVERIE withdrew his motion, and the com-
mittee pr )ceeded.
Clause 1 was agreed to.
On clau-e 2,
Mr. BOUVERIE said he was at a loss to know how
the building was to be described aad be exempt from
rating, except for the "exclusive" use of scientific pur-
poses, &e.

. .
Mr. HUTT Raid that if the committee would pass the
clue he would he prepared on bringing up the report
to submit to the bou.te a remedy for the difficaty.
Ultimately Mr. BARROW moved that the chairman
do report progres..
The committee divided, when the numbers were—
For the motion 25
Against it 117
Majority —92

On the question that clause 2 stand part of the bill,
Mr. H. BAILLIE objected to this loose system of
legislation.
It being a quarter to six o'clock. the committee (in
accordance with the standing order) was postponed till
to Morrrov, and the house resumed.

Mr. HENLEY said he hoped the hen. member (Mr.
Hutt) would then commit the bill, pro forma, and re-
print it with the proposed alterations.
PROCEDURE BEFORE JUSTICES (SCOTLAND)
BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
RATING OF MINES BILL.
The order fur the second reading of this bill was dis-
charged.

DISTILLATION FROM RICE BILL.

Thig hill wag read a third time and tiasaed.
OXFORD COLLEGE ESTATES BILL.

ThiM bid %Va. read a thiri time and pam-nd.
TURNPIKE ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL.

Tois bill passed through commitee.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the house adjourned at five minutes to six o'clook.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, July 2.--Wind this day at noon, N. ;
light breeze, and fine clear weather.
PonTswaUTH, July 1. —Wind S. S. E. --An ived—Bahiln%
(s.s. tpt.), from Constantinople. Sailed—Tasmanian
Maid, for Australia ; Cape of Good Hope (s.s. tpt.), Wool-
wich. Off the port - Benares, from St. John's, N.B. ;
Devonshire, New York. The Babiana (s.s. tpt.), arrived
here, towed the brig Eamont, for Spithead, with batteries
of artillery on board, to within 21 miles S.E. of Cape St.
Vincent.

PLYMOUTH, July I.—Wind E. N. E.—Arrived —Orrient,
from London, for Adelaide, S.A.; H.M.S. Acorn, Sheer-
ness, for the coast of Africa. Sailed—Dunbar, for Syd-
ney, N.S. W. ; Johannes Antonius, Batavia.
FALMOUTH, July I.—Wind S.E.—Arrived--Neptune,
from Laguna ; Zebean, Rio Grande.
SHIELDS, July I.—Wind E,-Arrived—Penza Menuto,
from Havana.
SWANSEA, July I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Valdellur,
from l-ivasco. Sailed.—Sunbeam, for Cuba; Pearl, St.
Thomas.

Bittwlerc, July I.—The Hope, of Perth, which got on
shore on the 2, th June on Goswick Sands, proceeded to
Newcastle.

(PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived—Simla, steam transport, from Portsmouth ;
Jane, Swansea; Mechanic's Own, Newport; Purveyor,
Swanage; John Daniel, Crirdiff.
lonia, for Sunderland Judy Macdonald,
Melbourne; Millicent, Swansea; Charlotte, Guernsey.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning.

Wind S.W.
Arrived—Paragon, from Akyab ; James Lnmsden, Sin-
gapore ;" Missionary, Benin ; Free Trade, Savanmib ;
rice, -Montreal ; Foahound,-Dragiheitoo.

VAPTAIN MAYNE REID.

The Forest Exiles. By Captain. Mayne neid.
With Twelve Illustrations. Bogue. 1855.
The Bash Boys. By Captain Mayne Reid. With
Twelve Illustrations. B.)goe. 1850.
Scene—Front of a bookseller's shop window in a
country town. Persons—A casual passer-by and
a couple of urchins (just home from school) ou the
look out for fun and frolic even in the streets.
Time—commencement of the Christmas holidays,
a period, as everybody knows, sacred to snapdragon
and presents of story books, to tip, plum-pudding,
and pantomimes. Lognitvr—Jne of the urchins
aforesaid, spying (with a caper of delight) a bran
new volume, prettily gilt and enticingly ticketted
in the shop window—" 0 my ! here's capital sport
—another of Captain Mayne Reid's books of ad-
venture !" Now, at once be it remarked, this is no
imaginary sketch, but a mere homely and actual
reality--what novelists sometimes designate (de-
lightfully) " founded upon fact"—telling us so
through the pleasant medium of an asterisk and a
foot-note. And no wonder the schoolboy jumped
for glee when he caught sight of the familiar name
on the new story-book. For Captain IVlrayne Reid
has come to be a welcome name indeed upon the
lips of those boy readers who are already book-
: worms in their young way—children wao can pore
!by the hour, enraptured, over the pictured
pages of " Sandford and Merton," of " Philip
Quarl," of " Peter "Wilkins," and best of
all of dear old " R ,hinson Crusoe." The
writer of books for boys we take Ctpt. Mayne
Rid to he among all living men-of-letters, at least
in England. A wholesome, charming, imaginative
• story-teller, whose minor works in their way are
not unworthy of being coupled with the goblin
legends of the Brothers Grimm, and the fairy tales
of dear Hans Christian Andersen. Acceptable,
I therefore, to every intelligent boy in the laud will
be these two last contributions of his to the book-
shelves of Young Hopeful, bookshelvesalready stored
with such a verys motley gathering of old and new
literature. Grammars bound in roan and fright-
fully dogseared ! Dictionaries yellow in calf and
thumbed at the top corners, and freckled, inside
and outside, with ink-splotches innumerable !
Here the Gradus and there the Delectus—there
prim, old, catechetical Pinnock, and there again
garrulous, gossipping Peter Parley, with his chat-
tering pages crammed from top to bottom with
amusing anecdotes. Yonder the Pilgrim's Progress
with those preposterous old woodcuts of Vanity
Fair and Christian, and yonder the Arabian Night's
Entertainments, as much a casket of marvel in
themselves as ever was the brass casket they tell
of, out of which the mighty Geni slowly rose to
the awe and wonder of the poor fisherman. There
they ad stand that astonishing collection of belle
lettres—the volumes ranged ide by side upon the
schoolboy's bookshelves. Volumes among which
may be already recognised as especial
favourites the earlier of Captain Mayne Reid's
" Books of Adventures for Boys." First of
all, " The Desert Home," being the adventures
of a Family lost in the Vilderness ! Then " The
Boy Hunters," being adventures in search of a
White Buffalo ! Then " The Young Voyageurs,"
or the same boy hunters in the North ! And lastly,
in due succession, these two charming companion
volumes, en,itled " The Forest Exiles'' and " The
Bush Boys"—the former recounting the perils of a
Peruvian Family amid the Wilds of the Amazon—
thelatter(chanaing theground completely)giving us
the history and adventures of a Cape Farmer and his
family in the Wild Karoos of Southern Africa.
" From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but
one step,"•aaid the Great Napoleon. It is but one
step to Captain Mayne Reid from America to Africa!
Although the waters of the Atlantic roll between
them, he strides across like Gulliver sauntering
among the fishponds of Lilliput, or like a rover
fresh from the land of Brobdignag. He is equally
" at home " upon either continent, and relates all
about the wonderful creatures seen in both, as well
as the incidents met with here, there, and every-
where, among the Africans and among the Ameri-
cans, with the same ever-fresh and sparkling anima-
tion. And what things he does tell, to be sure !
Why the dullest boy reader in the world could not
but be roused to some show of interest in adven-
tures such as those related by Captain Mayne
Reid—particularly related as those adventures are
with such a fervour of eloquence, and coloured as
they are with such a glow of imagination. Here, for
example, in "The Forest Exiles"—don't we " hear
tell " of the Monkey Bridge, the suspension bridge
made of living monkeys, along which old Jacko and
young Jacko scramble safely across the water, far
up in the air, from tree top to tree top ? Don't we
learn, breathlessly, how Leon was saved from the
Puma—how Guapo caught the nimble-peters—how
the tapir fell into the trap—how the conder was
captured—how the encounter with the anaconda
terminated—how the armadillo escaped from the
apparently certain perils of either seizure or destruc-
tion by curling itself into a ball and rollingover the
edge of the precipice like a ripe pumpkin ? Again,
00, in " The Bush Boys," of which friend Stvartboy
is the hero, as Guapo, we cannot but think, is the
hero of " The Forest Exiles" don't the boy
readers listen with opened eves and pricked-up
ears, while Captain Mayne Reid tells them all
about the deadly encounter between the
elephant and the rhinoceros ; about the trap-
ping of a lion in a chimney ; about the blinding of
a quagga ; and about Totty's escape in the nick of
time from the horrors of being torn to pieces by
a mob of apes, the ugly-visaged chacmas ? Yes—
such are actually among the number of those
sparkling tales of adventure which havebeen recently
recounted by the old familiar voice of that most
delightful story-teller, the author of the " Rifle
Rangers," and the " Scalp Hunters," and the
" 'White Chief "—Captain Mayne Reid, the idol of
the Boy Readers of England, because par excellence
and beyond all manner of comparison, the writer for
them of these healthy, invigorating, delightful
books of adventure.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-YESTERDAY.
The SPICA/LER took the chair at a quarter•past 12
o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the Leeds Water Bill
were considered and agreed to.
Shipton's Disabilities Removal Bill was read a third
time and passed.

The order for going* into committee on the Earl of
Perth an4l Alelfort's C myensation Bill was read and
discharged.

JURIES (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion of the ATTORNEY•GENERAL for
IRELAND the order for the second reading of this bill
wa4 discharged, and the bill withdrawn.

COURTS OF COMMON LAW (IRELAND) BILL.
The committee on this bill was resumed.
The remaining clauses, from 9 to 100 inclusive, were
agreed to, and the bill passed through committee.
DEEDS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This bill, consisting of only one clause, also passed
through committee.
The house suspended its sittings at 20 minutes to
four, and resumed at six.

QUESTIONS.
Mr. J. EWART asked the Secretary of the Treasury
whether any priveQs bad been made in the inquiry
stated to have been instituted in the department of Cue
tome at Liverpool, and whether any steps were about to
be taken in c,.nsequeoce thereof?
Mr. WILSON said the Commissioners of Customs
had instituted an inquiry, and the result was a recom-
mendation for a revision of the services of the port and
a considerah e improvement in the payment of the offi-
cers. This recommendation had been sanctioned by the
Treasury, and he hoped it would give satisfaction to the
parries e‘incerned.

Mr. OLIVEIRA asked her Majesty's Government
whether some substantisl mark of:Approbation might not
be given to Lieut.• Colonel Lake and Lieut.• Colonel
Teesdale, for their distinimished services at Kars
Viscount PAL MERSTON was understood to say that
the rank ~f colonel to which this officer had attained
would enable him to receive the honour of the Order of
the Batb, but that it was not usual to recommend Parlia-
ment to make a provision for any officer who bad not
the good fortune to be at the head of a force which had
achieved success.

Mr. COWAN asked the Lord Advocate if his atten-
tion bad been drawn to the recent alarming increa.e of
the crime of housebreaking in certain parts of Scotland,
and to the difli,ulty hitherto experienced in its suppres-
sion ; and whether, in these circumstances, it was the
intention of the Government, by the revocation of tickets
of leave, by the establishment of a Scottish constabulary,
or otherwiNe, to afford a greater measure of security to
property than was at present possessed in some districts
of Scotland I

The LORD ADVOCATE said he knew nothing of
the circumstances in question except what he had read
in the newspapers. Last year there were many cases of
housebreaking in the country districts and neat Edin-
burgh ; but he believed the delinquents had all been
apprehended. As regarded the tick et•of-leave system that
was before a select committee of the house, and no doubt
it would receive all the consideration which it merited.
ADJOURNED DEBATE ON ENLISTMENT IN
THE UNITED STATES.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then
moved the postponement of a'l the motions on the
paper, for the purpose of proceeding with the adjourned
debate of the previous night.
Mr. NAPIER complained that this course was very
bard upon him, inasmuch as it probably prevented his
getting another day for his motion on the subject of pre-
paring bills for legislation for the remainder of the ses-
sion. A resolution of the house had been come to on the
let Feb. on the subject, but at the instance of the Go,
Ternmeut be had deferred acting on it until the Statute