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JUDGMENTS EXECUTION BILL.

This bill was read a second time.
On the motion that it be committed,
Col. DUNNE said it was hopeless to expect that the
bill could be framed at that late period of the session,
and suggested its withdrawal.
Mr. NAPIER doubted the working of the bill in
Ireland.

The ATTORNEY. GENERAL for IRELAND gave
it as hie opinion that the bill was sound in principle, and
would be found beneficial to Ireland. The object of the
bill was to render judgments obtained in England or
anywhere within these realms effective in Ireland.
Mr. I. BUTT objected to many of the details of the
bill, and pointed out what he considered its defect. He
moved that the bill be committed on that day three
months.

The LORD ADVOCATE supported the bill on
the ground that it was desirable not to continue this
system of law within the United Kingdom, as at present
existed, with reference to this en ject, and expressed his
surprise that any hon. member should otject to the re,
moval of such an absurdity, admitting there were defects
in the details of the bill. The principle of the bill, was
sound; and as it was impossible to legislate against the
possibility of fraud, he called upon the house to accept
the proposed reform of the law relating to judgmenss.exe-
eution in Ireland.
After some further remarks from Mr. Neran,
Mr. BAINES said he hoped the house would allow
the bill to be committed. The objections stated to the
bill affected its details, which should be di-cussed in
committee, and not on the present motion. He had the
authority of the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General
to state that they considered this a very proper bill, and
er3o sound in principle. The Law Society of Ire-
land had withdrawn their opposition to the bill.
Mr. G. BUTT was in favour of the principle of the
bill, which was one that ought to be extended to the
three kingdoms. It was necessary there should be a
reciprocal- petver of enforcing jud ments in the three
kingdonas. He thought the machinery of the bill
would substantially effect what they all desired.
Mr. VANCE opposed the commitment of the bill.
The present law gave sufficient power to creditors over
their unfortunate debtors.
After some remarks from Mr. Hadfield, Mr. Craw-
ford, and Mr. Deasy, the amendment was withdrawn,
and the bill ordered to be committed on Wednesday
next.
BLEACHING, &c., WORKS (No. 2) BILL.
The debate on the second reading of this bill was re.
Slimed by
Mr. BAXTER, 'who said he was not prepared to
argue the question of the non-interference of the
LeßifdAtare between master and servant, but stated his
objections to the house proceeding further this session
with the bill. All the masters on the east coast of Scot-
land had petitioned against it, and so bad sections of the
operatives. He objected to Mr.Tremenhere's report on
which the bill was hued, and the manner in which he
had taken the evidence, as one-sided and partial. The
hours of labour did not now exceed those pr Toeed by
the bill, and so far from occupying 60 hours a-week, as
stated in the report, did not amount to 50 hours a. week.
The honourable member entered into many of the
difficulties with which the manufacturers had
to contend against, especially from the weather,
and said that unless the hon. and learned member for
Youghall postponed the bill and obtained further inf or-
Illation on what he proposed to legislate, the bill in its
present form would inflict material and serious injury on
an important branch of trade. The provisions of the bill
showed that those who bad drawn it up were not con-
versant with the subject. One of the effects of the bill
would be to substitute female for male labour.
Col. DUNNE supported the second reading of the
bill.
Mr. DUNCAN opposed the bill on the ground that it
was uncalled for, and would not act beneficially for the
teperatives.
Mr. M.URROUGH supported the bill, and complained
of the conduct of hon. members who expressed their ab-
horrence of slavery abroad, but did not trouble them-
selves about the slavery that existed in this country. He
called upon the house to rescue the operatives in bleach-
ing and dying_ works from the slavery they were subject
tr in these works.
Sir J. GRAHAM thought there was no good to be
effected by lengthening the discussion on this subject,
because it would be impossible to pass the measure at
this late period of the session. Much benefit would re-
sult from delay and further consideration of the measure.
The bill before the house did not correspond with Mr.
Tremanhere's report, which bore on the face of it errors
of so grave and palpable a character that, if the bill-
rested on it, he (Sir James Graham) doubted if
the house could with safety adopt it. He looked_
upon the minimum of inter erence by Parliament in these
matters as the maximum of wisdom, and he always
looked with jealousy on measures of this kind. He was
desirous of consulting the health, comfort, happiness,
and wealth of the woiking classes, but if they uninten-
tionally and accidentally inflicted an injury on trade by
legislation of this kind, instead of conferring the benefit
they wished on the operatives, they would be inflicting per-
ixtanent evils, the effect of which on the working classes
would be of the greatest- magnitude, and such as they could
not foresee. The bleaching trade of this country was
open -to the keen competition of foreign rivals, which
was admitted by Mr. Tremanhere, and the error into
which that gentleman bad fallen appeared to be this—
: 114 whilst admitting the keenness of that competition,
- he admitted that by following his advice the cost
of production would be increased 10 per cent., and
the finished article one per cent. That Mr. Tre-
matihere considered would have but a trifling effect on
the trade. On a matter of trade he (Sir J. Graham) was
.. not disposed to follow blindfolded the advice of Mr.
Trensanhere, for if it be followed in this instance he (Sir
J. Graham) predioted with confidence that by a hasty
and wild legislation they would ensure the success of the
trade of Saxony and Bavaria the rivals of this country.
Se suggested that the question should be properly in.
vestigated by a select committee. To appoint such a com-
mittee at this late period of the session would be a delu-
ti" and a fare-, Rnd hP thrlog;lt it better to p •stpone
going into a elinthitt.te for :tx months. ( leer.)Mr. WDEGATE approved of the principle of the

bill. He thought under the circumstances it would be
better to accede to the Eugge: tio a of the right hon.
b&ronet.
idt Sir GEORGE GREY said be wished to know the
course intended to he pursued by the hon. member for
Youghall after the expression of opi❑ion on the bill that
day. He looked upon the postponement of the consi-
de;ation of the bill in the early part of June as an
abandonment of the measure for the session.
Mr. I. BUTT defended his conduct in reference to
the bill. Ile called upon the house to affirm the prin-
ciple of the bill by a second reading, to show the house
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-was of a contrary opinion, he had no
wish to press the second reading.
Mr. DRUMMOND called upon the hon. member for
Youghal to press the second reading, and not take the
advice of fAlsefrisnds and withdraw it.
Lord R. GROSVENOR supported the bill.
Mr. CARDWELL supported further inquiry on this
question before the house affirmed the practical operation
of 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 in this branob of
trade.

Mr. COBBETT said he visited many of the bleaching.
works in England and Scotland after the session of 1853.
He then found that the operatives worked 16, 18, aid 20
trwrs a day, and in Pn atmosphere varying from
90 to 130 degrees. He had attended several meetings
of the operatives on this subject, and from all he, had
seen and heard he was of opinion the operatives desired
legislative interference in the manner proposed by this
bill. He learned from the working-men that they had
frequently to carry three and four females a dap -from
the "roasting alive" shops, as they were called, initt► the
open air, on account of faintness from excessive
heat. The heat was so great that the nails in
the floors of the bleaching works got so hot that
they frequently blistered the feet of the workpoople.
The operatives were looking with greatanxiety to. this
house for relief, and he asked the hon. and lea reed

member for Youghall to go to a division on the sub-
ject, or, if not, to obtain a pledge from the Homo Se-
cretary that a committee of inquiry should be appal nted
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 thrtt it
may go before a committee without prejudice on either
side.

After some remarks from Mr. Kirk, Mr. Muntz, Lord
Naas, Mr. Walter, Mr. NN%lkinson, Admiral Jones. Mr.
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
REGISTRATION OF LEASES (SCOTLANIO)
BILL.

This bill passed through committee.
SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY SOCIETIMS
BILL.

The house then went into committee on this bill.

Mr. BOUVERIE objected to the further proceeding
with this bill, which was one to exempt certain socil3ties
from local taxation. The effect of the bill would mu rely
be to increase the rent of the premises, by whit►i. the
landlords of the buildings would be the only patrties
benefitted. On these grounds he moved that the cihair-
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 melt.
rd LOVAINE objected to the bill. He tho Tight
the decision arrived at, viz., notto exempt these soci tles
from local taxatien, 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 could be expected.
Mr. BOUVERIE said this bill was net one to ex-
empt mechanics' institutions from the payment of taxes.
It was the exemption nude by this bill to ss hick he ob-
jected.. By the present bill the exemption was. so vt ide
that the end of it could not be seen. It was on this
ground that he opposed the bill, and he trusted the hi:iuse
would az-ee to the proposition he had made.
Mr. EWARF maintained that the present law was
unequal. A certain number of institutions were now
exempted, and he thought it was but a Matter of juittice
to the others that they should share in the benefit. He
regretted that the hon. member, the. President of the
Poor-law Beard, should have been the person who opp,:,sed
this bill, because if anything more than another tended
to decrease pauperism, it was education. On the ()nem ion
when he brought forward a bill to enable parisho to
levy rates in favour of public libraries, he was supported
in his endeavours by the then President of the BJard 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 ttis bill %vas
wide enough to exempt a nobleman's picture gal-
lery and her Majesty's theatre. The bill was,
in fact, an attempt to make the law eqival
upon unequal subject,, which he did not think it vas
possible for the house to accomplish. If it was intended
to merely exempt mechanics' institutions, 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 otjectionable words in the bill
it was fair to throw it over for the session, without even
an attempt to improve it in committee.

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 advancement of science, literature,
and the fine arts very like permitting an injustice to be
perpetrated at the expense of the ratepayers. He liras
sorry to find from the Court of Queen's Bench tluat
reading cheap penny newspapers at any of these insti-
tutions deprived them of the privileges of the present
law, but he thought, on the whole, it would be far
better to furnish these societies with the standard lite-
rature of the country than with the ephemeral publica-
tions referred to. He caw no reason for altering the
present law.
Mr. HILDrARD 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 progress.
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-
gative the motion.
Mr. HEADL AM 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 learaed member for Newcastle.

After some further discussion,
Mr BOUVERIE withdrew his motion, and the com.
mittee proceeded.
Clause 1 was agreed to.

On clause 2,
Mr. BOUVERIE said he was at a loss to know how
the building was to be described and bo exempt from
rating, except for the "exclusive" use of scientific pur-
poses, &e.
Mr. HUTT said that if the committee would pass the
clause he would be prepared on bringing up the report
to submit to the house a remedy for the difficulty.
Ultimately Mr. BARRO W moved that the chairman
do report progress.
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-mormw, and the house resumed.
Mr. HENLEY said he hoped the bon. 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 for the second reading of this bill was dis-
charged.
DISTILLATION FROM RICE BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
OXFORD COLLEGE ESTATES BILL.

This bill was read a third time and passed.
TURNPIKE ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL.

Tuis bill passed through commitee.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the house adjourned at five minutes to six &cloak.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Jul't 2.—Wind this day at noon, N.;
light breeze, ansi fine clear weather.
PORTS/J*I3TH, July I.—Wind S.S.E. ived—Balfana
(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 Bahiana (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.—Wing 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 Huasco. Sailed.—Sunbeam, for' Cuba; Pearl, St.
Thomas.

BsuwicK, July I.—Th6 Hope, of Perth, which got on
shore on the 2:th June on Goswick Sands, proceeded to
Newcastle.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived—Simla, steam transport, from Portsmouth ;
Jane; Swansea; Mechanic's Own,• Newport; Purveyor,
Swanage ; John Daniel, Cardiff.
Sailed—Caledonia, for Sunderland • Judy Macdonald,
Melbourne; Millicent, Swansea; Charlotte, Guernsey.
Wind S. V. Lruirtpoor,, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived—Paragon, from Akyab ; James Lumsden, Sin-
gapore ; Missionary, Benin ; Free Trade, Savannah ; Ame-
rica, Montreal; Foxhound, Dragomestee.

CAPTAIN MAYNE REID.

The Forest Exiles. By Captain Mayne Reid.
With Twelve Illustrations. Bogue. 1855.
The Bush Boys. By Captain Mayne Reid. With
Twelve Illustrations. B.)gae. 185 G.
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 schodol) on 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. Loquitv r—one 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 Mayne 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 who 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 Capt. Mayne
Reid to be among all living meta-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,
therefore, to every intelligent boy in the land will
be these two last contributions of his to the book-
shelves of Young Hopeful, bookshelves already stored
with such a very 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 pour fisherman. There
they all 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 Wilderness 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 duo succession, these two charming companion
volumes, entitled "The Forest Exiles" and " The
Bush Boys"—the former recounting the perils of a
Peruvian Family amid the Wilds of the Amazon—
the latter(changing 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," said 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 eyes 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 have been 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.--YESTEILDAY.
The SMILER took t'ae chair at a quarter-past 12
o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendment; 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 and Melfurt's Cimpensation 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 hill
was 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 progress bad been made in the inquiry
stated to have been instituted in the department of Cm.
toms at Liverpool, and whether any steps were about to
be taken in consequence 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 considerable improvement in the payment of the offi-
cers. This recommendation bad been sanctioned by the
Treasury, and he hoped it would give satisfaction to the
parties concerned.
Mr. OLIVEIRA. asked her Majesty's Government
whether some substantial mark of approbation might not
he given to Lieut.-Colonel Lake and Lieut.-Colonel
Teesdale, for their distinrnished services at Kars ?
Viscount PAL MERSTON was understood to say that
the rank of colonel to which this officer had attained
would enable him to receive the honour of the Order of
the Bath, but that it was not usual to recommend Parlia-
ment to make a provisien 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 increa4e of
the crime of housebreaking in certain parts of Scotland,
and to the difficulty 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 otherwise, to afford a greater measure of security to
property than was at present possessed in some districts
of Scotland ?

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 near Edin-
burgh ; but he believed the delinquents had all been
apprehended. As regarded the ticket-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!1 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
hard upon him, inasmuch as it probably prevented his
getting another day for his motion on the subject of pre-
wing 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-
vernment he had deferred acting on it until the 6tatuto