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London, England, 1860-07-18 00:00:00

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THE CASES OF BRIBERY AT WAKEFIELD AND
BEVERLEY.—Our readers will be aware that criminal in-
formations have been filed against certain parties for al-
leged bribery at Wakefield and Beverley, at the general
election of 1859, and that it has been arranged that the
several cases shall be tried before special juries at the pre-
sent Yorkshire Assizes. Mr. Overend, Q.C., on behalf of
the solicitor-General, has applied to Mr. Baron Martin,
before whom the case will be tried, to name a day on which
they will be taken. His lordship accordingly did so, and
fixed Thursday next.—Alffnehester Examirner.
ZIARIBALDI AND LOUIS NAPOLEON.—A letter
has been received in London, within the last few days, from
Garibaldi, in which that noblest of men and greatest of
patriots expresses himself in terms of burning indignation
respecting the dark and daring efforts of Louis Napoleon
to ruin the cause of Italian independence in the Two Sicilies.
Garibaldi paints the Man of December in colours so black,
that it would be difficult to deepen their sable hue. It is
consolatory to know that the Liberator of Italy not only
comprehends the character of the arch-intriguer of the
Tuileries, but that he is in a position to defy alike his secret
plottings and his open hostility to the Italian cause.—
Advertiser.

PROGRESS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—Captain
Wilson, commander of the Great Britain, arrived in London
from Montreal, reports having exchanged signals with her
nTuhael
Majesty's ship Hero, having on board his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales and suite, on Wednesday the 11th
.
inst., at noon, in lat. 49.45 N., long. 9.15 W., accompanied
by the Ariadne steam-frigate.
yesterday.T h e
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this OF
bank a ni'l r
balance-sheet for the half-
um7freeedirfecitnocrosmheavtaext2hmereakinforge
year ending 30th ult., shows a
net profit of £16,535, inclusive of £1,285 brought for-
ward from last account. The
been enabled to recommend a half yearly dividend at the
rate of sent.er cent. pe . osvN-The
heldN .
a'
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£551 remains to be came The Chairman (Mr.
M. Hunter) mentioned that the bank has sustained no loss
71 per for the I st twelve months.
from the recent failures in the leather trade.
Of the old police of Naples nothing remains, not
even the name. The new police will be called " the Direc-
tion ot
La France .Hippique relates the following. anec-
dote :—" Gerard, the celebrated painter, was charged by
was composition
represented
Emperor Napoleon I. to paint the battle of Austerlitz. In
his Public Safety."
ofthaeot
mgrineagtufpeaatt
fotaf alrmgaisioGep
to neral
announceßapp
the gain of the battle. Everything was prepared on the can-
vass, and there only remained to place Rapp on horseback,
but Gerard could not find a charger which suited his
ideas. The Emperor had placed at his disposal not only
all the horses of his own stables, but ordered that
those of all the cavalry regiments should be opeln to
him. The animals were made to gallop, rear, and .per-
form all kinds of movements, but none of them pleased
the painter, and Rapp still remained unmounted. One
day, while walking along the Boulevard, the painter, in
passing before a toy -shop, uttered an exclamation of delight
on observing a small pasteboard horse painted grey and
with a black head, which, from its position, looked as if it
was about to leap out of the window.—' Ah I' cried Gerard,
' that is the horse for Rapp,' and entering, he asked the
price of it.—' Twenty-five sous,' was the reply ; and the
artist, paying the money, carried off the horse under his
arm. It is the animal which, it is said, figures in the
famous picture of the museum at Versailles carrying Rapp
to the Emperor; the General, in his haste, haying lost his
hat."

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Sudbury, Melford, and Clare Railway and the Hay
Railway bills were read a third time and passed.

THIRD READINGS.
The Postage, Army and Navy, the Nuisances Removal,
the Common Law Procedure (Ireland) Amendment, the
Crown Debts and Judgments, and the Inclosure bills were

read a third time.
SMITHFIELD MARKET BILL.
. Lord CHELMSFORD said he had charge of this bill,
and he intended to move its second reading on Monday

next.
COLOURED PASSENGERS
KETSON BOARD MAIL
PAC.
Lord BROUGHAM said about a fortnight ago a state-
ment was made to the effect that a coloured lady
had been refused a first class passage by one of the Cunard
steamers, and was told she might go second. He should
like his noble friend to inform him, however, whether it
was to be understood that coloured passengers would not
be allowed to travel first-class on board those steamships.
Earl GRANVILLE was not surprised that the noble
lord had asked the question, but it was one in which the
Government could not interfere.
Lord BROUGHAM observed that a similar case oc-
cured some years ago, and the person brought an action for
damages under the Common Carriers' Act, but it was com-
promised, as the parties felt they had no defence for their
conduct.
COLEWORT BARRACKS (PORTSMOUTH) BILL.
On the motion of Earl DE GREY, this bill was read a
second time.
ANNUITY TAX (EDINBURGH) BILL.
The Duke of ARGYLL moved the second reading of
this bill. The objects of the measure were so well known
that he would detain them but a short time in the observa-

tions he should have to make. Various attempts had been
made in Parliament to arrange this vexed question, and in
the measure now before them, which had received the as-
sent of the other house, he thought a most satisfactory
arrangement had been come to. The chief object of the
bill was to give £6OO a year to 13 clergymen in Scotland ;
and, as that amount was securely guaranteed under the
measure, he hoped it would receive the assent of Parlia-
ment. The bill had been opposed by several parties, and,
as he should have another opportunity of going into the
details of the bill when it was in committee, he would
simply then move its second reading.
The Earl of DERBY said he hoped there would be no
opposition to the second reading of the bill.
The LORD CHANCELLOR highly approved of the
measure.
The bill was then read a second time.
BURIAL GROUNDS (IRELAND) AMENDMENT
ACT.

This bill was read a second time.
METROPOLITAN BUILDING ACT AMENDMENT
BILL.

This bill passed through committee, and was reported
without amendment.
BLEACHING AND DYEING WORKS BILL.
On the motion that their lordships go into committee,
Lord OVERSTONE thought the committee on this bill
ought to be postponed for a few days.
The committee was postponed until Friday.
LEITH HARBOUR.
This bill passed through committee.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT AMENDMENT
BILL.

On the motion of Lord PORTMAN this bill was read a
second time.
TITLES TO LAND (SCOTLAND) ACT,

The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading
of this bill, which was one to simplify the law and diminish
the expense of the transfer of land held by burgess
tenure. One of the improvements was to abo-
lish long rentals which were perfectly useless,
and another was to empower persons to refer to cer-
tain legal documents elsewhere, instead of requiring
them to be entered in the register. There were other minor
improvements which he would not allude to at any length
at that time, as in committee there would be ample oppor-
tunity for going into details.
The Earl of DERBY said it might be quite true that the
facilities now for passing bills through the house were
greater than formerly. He saw a great desire on the part
of the noble and learned lord to pass the bill, and in the face
of the great irregularity that marked its course he did not
think he was unwarranted, on a former evening, in saying
that it appeared to him very much like an attempt by the
learned lord to " smuggle" the bill through Parliament.
Lord BROUGHAM said the houses were upon occasions
nothing but what was called a " Parliamentum," that was
" talk, talk, and nothing but talk." As he understood,
those bills had been " hung up" since May last, and no
effort until now had been made to pass them. He thought
it wrong in the noble earl to have charged the Lord Ad-
vocate with irregularity.
The Earl of DERBY explained, and assured their lord-
ships that he did nst mean to charge the Lord Advocate
with wilful irregularity in relation to those bills.
The LORD CHANCELLOR could not but express his
surprise at the noble earl having charged him and the Lord
Advocate with having entered into a " conspiracy " to
smuggle those bills through Parliament.
The Earl of DERBY again explained.
The bill was then read a second time and ordered to be
committed.
LAW OF MARRIAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said he had now to intro-
duce to their lordships "the brother bill" of the one which
they had just read a second time. It was a bill to amend the
law of marriage in Scotland, which was now very defective.
After a short conversation upon the objects of the mea-
sure, the bill was brought in and read a first time.
MASSACRE OF THE CHRISTIANS IN SYRIA.
Lord WODEHOUSE regretted he was not in the house
when, as he was informed, a question had been put by his
noble friend (Lord Stratford de Redcliffe) respecting the
reported massacre of Christians in Syria by the Druses and
other tribes. He lamented to say that the reports in the
newspapers of the cruel massacre of Christians was con-
firmed. Five hundred persons—men, women, and children
—according to a telegram received from Paris, had been
massacred. The Dutch consul was killed and the American
consul was wounded. It was not, however, correct that the
house of the English consul, as reported, was burned. With
regard to the papers on the subject asked for by the noble
lord, they would be laid on the table in a few days.
The business on the paper having been disposed of, their
lordships adjourned at half-past six o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.)
The S2EAREI took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the Hayling Railway Bill
were considered and agreed to.
EPSOM AND LEATHERHEAD RAILWAY.

On the motion for the consideration of the Lards' amend-
ments to this bill,
Sir W. GALLWAY objected to these amendments on
three grounds. In the first place they would create a new
description of preference shares, they would offer temp-
tations to directors to abuse their powers, and they would
afford facilities in dealing with preferential stock that would
be injurious to the interests of shareholders. For instance,
directors might expend money on other purposes than
prying their debenture debt or their preference share-
holders.

Mr. MASSEY considered that if this question was dis-
cussed at all, it should be in a full house.
The amendment was negatived, and the amendments
were considered and agreed to.

EDUCATION BILL.

On the motion for the second reading of this bill,

Mr. PEASE moved that the bill be read a second time
that day three months. He said the chief clause of this bill
was the first, and it enacted that children under twelve
years of age should not be employed without having a cer-
tificate that they had received a certain amount of
scholastic tuition, or that a guarantee was given
that they should be placed at school for twenty
hours in the month. He considered it would be
unjust to deprive children under 12 years of age of the
benefit of employment, because they had not obtained a
certain amount of education. /13 objected also to the bill
that it had not machinery to carry out its provisions.
Sir G. LEWIS said that this bill was connected in
principle with the Mines Bill, which had recently been
before the house. Exceptional legislation in refer-
ence to persons employed first took place in re-
spect to those engaged in factories, by which children
under a certain age were not allowed to be employed
without having obtained a certificate from a school-
master of having attended a certain time at school. Some
years afterwards there was a bill introduced for the regu-
lation of mines, and the employment of women was pro-
hibited as well as children under a certain age. It was
thought desirable to go further, and accordingly this
ae"jou the bill was brought forward requiring a
C ertificate of the attendance of children under 12
Yr:jail:sof age at schools prior to their obtaining employment in
ar•reed to the abstract principle of the extension
of a similar regulatiit was not the on in regard to children generally, but
up
on
theory, in this country to proceed
theory, but to select someextieme cases and then legislate
experimentally. Under the
circumstances ha felt bound to
support the amendment.
Sir S. ESTCOURT considered that the house should
discuss
affirm the principle and thei details in committee or
postpone it till next Session,
system of education was deficienet considered the present
, and that it required
amendment.

The CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER said that
this question was one of as Treat diftieul
liamentary Reform Bill, and they were called even a Par.
its principle in a thinly attended house. Ilaa°tl to discuss
eovuestion
been taken up by Government the house would have
crowded, and it could not be expected that it Would beenhave
passed without several nights' discussion. The present
debate was, in fact, a mere exercitation, in which hon.
members might make abstract speeches, but which at this
period of the session would lead to no practical result. With

regard to dealing with children in masses, it was a totally
different matter from the present proposition, which pro-
posed to institute an inquiry into every private family in
the kingdom, and impose penal consequences for neglect of
the education of children. And this proposition as made
without there being any machinery provided for its being
carried out, and it would be necessary to introduce such
machinery in the bill at the late period of the
session in order to render it effective. Having ad-
verted to the great increase in the public expenditure,
which if it proceeded at the geometrical rates of late
years, would present a most threatening aspect, the right
hon. gentleman contended that any additional expenditure
must be considered with the greatest care. Again this was
the state of public business. Last night an appeal had been
made to Government not to proceed with any bills this
session which they were sure they would not be able to

carry, and they had endeavoured to proceed on that prin-
ciple. He thought that a similar appeal should be made to
private members, and he called on the house to reject the
present measure, on the ground that it could not properly
be discussed. _ _

Mr. HENLEY and Mr. BUXTON strongly opposed the bill.
Mr. ADDERLEY said that there was no objection to
the principle of his bill, and contended that tho right
hon. gentleman (Sir G. Lewis) was most inconsistent in his

opposition to the bin, when he had supported measure
with reference to mines, which had been so discussed

during the present session. The principle of the bill had
been frequently affirmed by legislation for the last twenty
years, and it was nothing more than that children under a
certain age should not be employed all their time without
obtaining even the rudiments of education. He denied
that in the State undertaking to see that a certain amount

of education was provided for the poor there was anything
compulsory, or at variance with the functions of Govern-
ment. With regard to its alleged vexatious interference
with employers, the bill merely proposed that employers
_ . .

should net take children into their service, under a certain

age, who were totally uneducated, without making pro-
vision for their receiving instruction for at least.five hours
a-week.

Mr. EWART supported the bill on the general prin
eiple.
Mr. HARDY opposed the second reading because
the bill was compulsory when it prevented chil-
dren obtaining employment unless they had re-
ceived a certain amount of instruction, If that
proposition were carried out the State should
provide education. (Hear, hear.) The situation of foreign
countries in respect to education should not be a guide to
this country, for what the former gained in method they
lost in freedom. He contended that the education which
children received by being sent early to earn their
bread was of a more valuable character than
that derived from the mere acquisition of reading
or writing. He asserted that there was no analogy between
the Factory Bill and their recent legislation in reference to
children employed in mines, and he utterly denied the doc-
trine that because they had adopted partial legislation they
should proceed to entire legislation in reference to the sub-
ject of the education of children. In his opinion it was
most unwise at this period when labour was scarce to im •
pose any restriction on employment, and he believed that
nothing would be so injurious to the progress of educa-
tion in this country than the introduction of the principle of
compulsion.
Mr. BAZLEY bore his testimony to the advantages
derived from education in factories. He believed
that the introduction of education into Lanca-
shire had been the means of rendering the working
population of that district, not only better able to provide
for themselves, but less criminal. (Hear, hear.) He had
sent out more than 2,000 children, who had received edu-
cation in his elementary schools, who had proved most re-
spectable members of society, and from whom he had
selected clerks and overseers. In his experience none of
these had been convicted of an offence against the laws,
and he regretted that they could not devise some means of
extending education to that Pariah cl iss who were wander•
ing about our streets without food or instruction. Not-
withstanding, he believed they could deal practically only
with the children of the labouring classes who were
employed in large numbers. He hoped, however, that
this bill would be the means of the introduction of some
practical and comprehensive system of education.
Mr. NEWDEGATE opposed, and Sir J. P.A.KINGTON sup-
ported, the bill in principle.
After some further discussion, in which Mr. Bruce, Mr.
Whiteside, Mr. H. Taylor, and Mr. Baines took part, the
house Liivided—
Fe; the second reading 5l
Agaost • 122
Majority —7l

This bill was hsc cordingly lost.
OPIRITS BILL.
On the motion for the third reading of this bill,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
as he would have to introda,le new duties, founded on the
resolutions agreed to last evenlng, he would move that the
bill be recommitted.
The order for the third reading was then discharged, and
the bill was ordered to be recommitted.
SALE OF GAME ACTS.

The house went into committee on this hill, and several
clauses as amended were agreed to ; after which the Chair-
man reported progress.
•
NEW MEMBER. .
Mr. White took the oaths and his seat for Brighton.
The house then suspended sitting.

The house resumed at six o'clock.
SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.

Lord A. CHURCHILL asked the l'resident of the Board
of Trade when the report of the commission appointed to
inquire into the merits of submarine telegraph cables would
be laid upon the table of the house ?
Mr. M. GIBSON said he understood some experiments
had been made which were successful, and the report would
be laid on the table before the end of the session.