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SUN OFFICE," Six o'clock

WARWICK RACES.—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE.

Little Charley
Odiharn

Jurnpaway ...

Thirteen ran.
SELLING RACE.

Assayer
Speculator

Eight ran.
SCURRY HANDICAP.

Little Tom
Twa Shon Catti
HUNTERS' STAKES

Twa Shon Cita
Decamp came in first but was disqualified

LATEST BETTING.-1 r. 31.
STEEPLECHASE.
100 to 30 agst Forest Queen
4to 1 agst any other
7to 4 agst Forest Queen and Odiham coupled
Odiham is expected shortly.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(This Day.)

The &TAKER took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock.
The following bills were read a second time :—Aber-
deen, Peterhead, and Fraserburgh Railway, and Dee-
side and Alford Valley Railway.
ABERDEEN AND SCOTTISH MIDLAND
JUNCTION, &c., BILL. _ _

On the motion of Mr. THOMPSON, the order for the
second reading of the Aberdeen and Scottish Midland
Junction and Dundee and Arbroath Railway Companies
Bill was discharged, that the bill might he withdrawn.

THE ROYAL NAVY.
Sir F. BARING presented a petition from the guar-
dians of the poor of Yortsea, complaining that workhouse
boys were refaced admiision to the R.,yal navy whilst
they were admitted into the army. The hon. baronet
stated that after the recess he should call the attention
of the house to the sulject.
THE POLICE BILL.
In answer to a question from Sir F. BARING,
Sir G.•GREY said he would give the house and the

country every opportunity of considering this measure
as amende3, and therefore it was that be proposed the
committal of the bill, p 2.0 forniz, on Friday.

COMMISSION-MIS OF SUPPLY (SCOTLIND)
This bill w:ls read a secoNi

REFORMATORY 5CH.001.13 (SCOTLAND) BILL.
On the motion for the second rea,dir,g of this bill,
Mr. MAGUIRE, on the part of the Irish Roman
Catholics in Scotland, norultering about 250;000, who,
he said, were not represented in that house by Scotch
or English members, obk.cted to this bill on the ground
that no provision was male in it far providing
religious instruction for Roman Catholic children
by the priests of that Church. The hon. gentleman
complained of the manner in which vagrant Raman
Catholic children were treated in houses of refuge in
Scotland, with a view to compel them to adopt the
Presbyterian religion, and which be said would be
carried out to a much larger extent in reformatory
schools if established in that country. He condemned
the abominable proselytising system carried on there,
and which was a curse to any land. The Government
gave free tolerance to idolatry and paganism in India,
and why should not the same freedom of religion be
practised in reformatory schools 2 Re wanted
the Government to
.a.lopt the principle, that
in all the reformatory schools throughout the
clom certain hours should he set apart for the religious
instruction of Roman Catholic children by their own
priests. Roman Catholics had a right to the same pri-
vileges that were granted to the more favoured denomi-
•nations of the kingdom. The priests of that church
were as anxious for the maintenance of gco i order and
peace in the country as the rnini:ters of any religious
persuasion, and in order to inculcate those princip'es on
the children belonging to that church it was necessary

they should have free access to them. In committee he
should be prepared with an amendment to carry out his
views.

Mr. BOWYER concurred in the reason Ale demands
of the bon. member for Dupgarvon, and expreFse I him-
self opposed to a inixcd system of education. Religious
instruction could only be effectually carried out by the
children of difft,renp religious persuasions being in•
structed in separate classes, and that applied e:pfxially
to Roman Catholics.

Mr. DRUMMOND regretted the speech of the hon.
member for Dungarvon had not been delivered in the
Papal States, Pruse.ia, or France, rather than in that
house. L. was all very well fr.r the hon. gentleman to
condemn proselytism, but he (.Ir. Drummond) believed
ihere wa; not a place in which a Roman Catholic priest
eould poke his nose that he did not do so for the Jove
of making niiiichief. He did not consider there was so
much harm in Roman Catholic children being taught
by Presbyterian rniakters to hate the religion of their
fathers as the hoc. inembtr appeared to think. It wns
a notorious fact that the members of the Roman Ca-
thsolie Church Were the nioi,t ignorant of any, :tint he Coil-
thinned the mode of teaching alopted by them as objec-
tionable. He had no faith in reformatory echoole.
Sir"G. GREY, after alluding to the powers of the
bill, sail there was a peovision in the bill to remove a
child confined in an institution to another where he
might receive religiims instruction according to the de-
nomination to which be belonged, and which he thought
answer od the purpose the hon. member had in view, and
he hoped therefore he tv.lultl net move the amendments
referred to by' him in committee.
Mr. ADDERLEY considered the views of the hon.
member for Dungarvon with refeiemce to t':ie queston
most reasonable. He lupe,' Iriah members would not
peril the bill by presidrig these objections.
Mr. A. BLACK also agreed in the principle laid
down by the hon. member f Dun,/,arvaii. If R mita
Catholic countries did not give that religious toleration
they ought, let this country set them a „nil example.
Mr. KENNEDY addressed the house In favour of
the lion. member's proposition.
The LORD ADVOCATE was of opinion that
a bill of this kind ought not to be used with
a view to proselytism. He reminded the house
that they were dealing with Scotland, and he
thought the hence should not thwart the object
they had in view. They were not dealing with this as'
a Goverament question, but one relying on the voluntary
benevolence of the public of Scotland. With regard to
giving power to Roman Catholic Iniest.; to enter these
school, he could not give his consent that it should be
by Parliamentary enactments without the consent of the
supporters of the schools. To the question of removal of
children from the Scotch schools to any other in England
he saw no objection, but he thought it required further
considerat.in.
Mr. LIDDELL agreed in much that had been said
by the hon. member for Dangarvan. He referred to a
reformatory school in the north of England with which
he aas connected, and said that one of the rules per-
mitted the attendance of ministers of religion of all deno-
minations to give religious instruction to the children,
but with the exception of a Roman Catholic
priest claiming that right on one occasion, no other
minister had interefered with the religious instruction
given in that school by the clergymen of the Church of
England.
Mr. KINNAIRD suggested that the difficulty
might be got over by the wealthy members of the
Roman Catholic religion establishing a reformatory
school in Scotland for the reception of children of that
persuasion.
Sir S. NORT&COTE was opinion that to make re-
formatory schools of benefit to the country there should
be a uniformity of religious teaching within their walls.
He was greatly opposed to the mixed system of educa-
tion. _ _ .

After some further discussion, in which Mr. A. }ladle,
the lion. Mr. Scott, and Mr. Dunlop took part,
Th 4 bill was read a second time and ordered to be
committed pro forma to-morrow.

MUNICIPAL REFORM (SCOTLAND) BILL.
On the motion for the second reading Of this bill,
Mr. EWART repeated the statements he made on
introducing it to the house, and the remedies he pro-
posed.
The LORD ADVOCATE opposed the measure.
The Royal burgles now s)ug,ht to be made elective
were places thought too insignificant to be constituted
burghs under the Scotch Municipal Reform Act.
Mr. G. ANDERSON supported the second reading.
He asked the Lord-Advocate to allow the bill to be
rsal a second time, rep. r ring his objection to it in com-
mittee.
Mr. DUNLOP raid the burghs really existed but
were self elected, and it was that which the present bitl
proposed to deal with and make them elective by the
rate payers. He supported the second reading..
The LORD ADVOCATE said that if this bill were
withdrawn he would take into consideration the (po-
tion, and endeavour to devise this ECESIOI3 a bill fur the
better management and good of these burghi.
Tte bill was then withdrawn.
BANKRUPTCY (SCOIL iND) BILL.
The LORD ADVOCATE moved the second reading
of this bill, which was a consolidation of the bau,ilupt

law of that country, and its assimilation to the English
bankrupt laws.
The bill, after a short discussion, was read a second

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