The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-14 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.-LAST -'E'SriNING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at
five o'clock.
ESCAPE FROM, A CONVENT.
Lord SIIAPTESRURY 'said that he wished to
call their lordships' attention to a paragraph which
had appeared in the papers relative to the escape
of six young ladies from a convent, and who had gone to
the police station at Sheffield for a night's shelter and pro-
tection, and that instead of receiving it were sent back to
their convent again. Ile would ask the noble lord at the
head of the Government what steps had been taken in the
matter ?

The EARL of DERBY said that he had not been
able to ascertain what had been done by his right
honourable friend the Secretary for the Home Depart-
ment, to whom the matter belonged, as he had not
returned to town till that afternoon, but he
would direct his attention to it. But he (the noble earl)
must inform the noble earl opposite that, according to the
statement in tho Times, those young Catholic ladies had
been conveyed to the convent at Sheffield, and
not to. the one from which -they came, which
appeared to him was perhaps the most proper thing to do
The subject then dropped.
THE DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG.

Lord DERBY said he had great pleasure in announcing
that a treaty which had been the subject of a conference
lately held in London with regard to the Duchy of Lux-
embourg, had been satisfactorily adjusted and signed. The
question had arisen in consequence of what had taken
place by the recent events on the Continent. It
provided that Prussia should withdraw her gar-
rison from that of the fortress of Luxembourg;
that it should 1$ dismantled and should not be repaired,
that Luxen;bodg should be guaranteed to the King of
Holland, and that Luxembourg should form an integral
portion of that kingdom.
After a few remarks as to the gsarantee from Lord
STANLEY of ALDEramthe subject dropped.
INCREASE OF TILE EPISCOPATE BILL.

The house went into committee up.ni this bill.

Lord STANLEY of ALDEELEY stated that, in his
opinion, no incroaso -in the episcopate should take place
unless Parliament sanctioned it..

Lord DERBY was 'of opinion that the words or any
part of it" shonl l bA juserte,i. that it might bit
referred to the commission t,) amend the scheme.

The amendment was then put, add, on a division it was
rejected by a large majority.
Further progress with the bill tiasAhen postp9ned, and
the house adjourned. • 'et.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
NEW WRIT.

A new writ was ordered to issue for Sutherlandshire in
the room of Sir D. Dundas, who has accepted the steward-
ship of the Chiltern Hundreds.
MU/4ICIPAL CORPORA.TIONS.

Mr. S. MILL gave notice that on the 21st of May ho
should move for leave to bring in a bill to establish muni-
cipal corporations in the various districts of the metro-
polis, and also for establishing a c:mtral federal municipal
corporation for the whole of the metropolis.
THE FENIAN PRISONERS.

Mr.,VERNER asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, if
thet3(l.4-erado who twice attempted to shoot the police in
the streets of Dublin was the same Cody or Byrne who was
arrestedqit:a Fenian council, after violent resistance, on
the 13th April of last year, and was liberated late in the
autumn; and if the noble lord had any objection to grant
a return of the number of Fenian prisoners who have been
re-arrested out of the 509 and odd whom ho stated at the
beginning of the session he had sot free ?
Lord NAAS said the identification was not perfectly
complete, but there was hardly any doubt but that it was
as the hon. member had stated in his question. With re-
spect to the number of persons re-arrested, he had to
say that the entire number arrested since the suspension
of the Habeas Corpus Act in February, 1356, amounted
to 961, and the re-arrests only amounted to 26.
THE SOUTH KENSINGTON CATALOGUE.

Mr. DILLWYN asked the Vice-President of the Com-
mittee of Council on Education whether the publication
by advertisement of a universal catalogue of art books,
compiled by the Science and Art Department at South
Kensington, the first part of which appeared in the Times
newspaper of the Bth inst., had been duly authorised, and
if so, what was the object of publishing the said catalogue
by means of newspaper advertisements, what was the esti-
mated cost of publishing such catalogue in this form, and
whether it was intended to publish it in any other form ?
Lord R. MONTAGU said the publication of the cata-
logue was authorised by the late Government, and
their object in inserting it in the .Times was that
it would at once secure a circulation of 65,000,
and be seen all over the world, by which the correction
of errors would be more likely to be corrected than by its
publication in a book. The cost of the advertisement was
£ll a column instead of £2O as he was informed was the
usual charge. Only a portion of the catalogue had yet
appeared, but the publication would be spread over a period
of three years, and the cost would be £3,000. (Cries of
"Oh, oh.") A portion, however, of the amount—viz.,
£2,400—would be returned to the Government for the
stamp duty on advertisements, so that the real cost of the
publication would be £2,600.
Mr. GLADSTONE would like to know what was meant
by stamp duty on advertisements?
Lord R. MONTAGU said ho could give no further in-
formation at that moment. He was informed that a portion
of the money that would come back to Government would
be derived from stamps and advertisements.
Mr. GREGORY asked whether before the whole of the
arrangemenis were completed the house would have an
opportunity
%g its opinion on the matter ?
would inquire and give an answer
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