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London, England, 1866-06-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EvENrna.
Their lordships assembled this evening, but the busi-
ness was solely confined to giving the Royal assent to a
number of public and private bills.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING.

The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.

There was a pretty full attendance, and previous to the
commencement of public business, the various members
formed themselves into separate groups the subject, it is
presumed, under discussion being the state of the Govern-
ment.

BLACKWATER (YOI7GIIAL) WOODEN BRIDGE
BILL.

On the motion for the third reading of this bill,

Mr. CHILDERS, on the part of the Government, said he
had to oppose the motion because the consent of the Crown
to the measure had been refused. He was interested to
the extent of a large sum of mewl', which had been ad-
vanced, and, therefore, having directed the attention of
the house to the circumstance, he hoped some notice would
be taken of the matter. The Crown could not appear and
oppose the bill in a private committee, and therefore ho
adopted the present course of calling the attention of the
house to the subject.
The SPEAKER said the consent of the Crown not
having been given to the bill he could not put the third
reading.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

Tho following bills were road a third timo and passed

Blackwater (Youghal) Wooden Bridge, Caledonian and
Scottish North Eastern Railway Companies, Caledonian
Railway (Lanarkshire, &c., Branches), Dublin and Antrim
Junction Railway, Forth and Clyde Navigation, Furness
Railway, North British Railway (Wishaw, &c., Branches),
Swansea Vale Railway, Tamar, Kit Hill, and Callington
Railway, and Thames Subway.

CHOLERA AT LIVERPOOL.
In reply to Mr. SAMUELSON,
Mr. BRUCE said ho had received private information of

the existence of a nuisance at Liverpool which might re-
sult in an outbreak of cholera. There were certain diffi-
culties in the way with respect to the pox er of the local
authorities, but steps were now being taken to prevent
any evil arising.
PUBLIC MEETING.

Mr. B. COCHRANE said he bad seen an announcement
fora large public meeting in the vicinity of that house, and
what he wished to know was whether it was legal to hold

such a meeting.

Sir G. GREY said ho bad not seen the announcement
referred to, but it was illegal to hold a meeting, except to
petition Parliament, within a mile of the House of Com-
mons. If the hon. gentleman would forward him a copy
of the announcement, he would inquire into the matter.
THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then rose
and said —On Monday, when proposing the ad-
journment of the house to Thursday, I said that I
should probably then be in a position to ask for a
further adjournment, by authority of and in com-
munication with some person who would probably
have received the Queen's commands by that time
to form an Administration. I have had a commu-
nication from the Earl of Derby to the effect that
it is his wish, with a view to the convenient progress
of arrangements for that purpose, that the house
should adjourn for not less than a week. Con-
sequently, I came down here to-day prepared to
move that the house adjourn to Thursday next.
Without doubt, as far as the substance of that re-
quest is concerned, it will be readily acceded to.
But it has been intimated to me by the right hon.
member for the University of Cambridge (Mr. Wal-
pole) that, independently of any question connected
with private business, there are proceedings con-
nected with the appointment of a committee to try
the election petition for the borough of Helston
which it would be inconvenient to postpone. I also
understand that the highest authority in the house
concurs in that view of the case. Ido not, there-
fore, feel any hesitation in so far deviatingfrom the
request I have received as to waive any formal
motion of adjournment from to-day until Thursday
next. What I understand will be convenient is
that the house should meet both to-morrow and on
Monday for purposes connected with the Helston
petition. On Monday, I believe, there will be no
obstacle whatever to an adjournment until Thurs-
day ; and that arrangement will, I think, meet with
general assent on both sides of the house. What I
conceive to be the rsubstance of the communication
and the desire expressed on behalf of Lord Derby is
that no public business, as we understand the term
"public business," shall be transacted from now
until Thursday next ; and, as I understand the '
matter, a formal adjournment may very well take
place on Monday to Thursday.
Mr. B. OSBORNE—Before the motion for adjourn-
ment is moved I hope I shall not be thought to in-
trude myself unnecessarily on the house if I take
the opportunity of making a few observations upon
the posture of public affairs. At least this House of
Parliament has exercised a most remarkable for-
bearance and reticence—(hear, hear)—during the
Ministerial crisis which has occurred within the last
week. I think the keenest critics of representative
Government can scarcely take exception to the con-
duct of a popular assembly which has displayed
symptoms of neither curiosity nor impatience at
such a time. What has happened ? I will be bound
to say that in the history of this country so remark-
able a series of complications at home and abroad
never existed as at the present moment. Why, sir,
what have we at home ? A commercial and finan-
cial panic, the Bank discounting money at 10 per
cent., and a threatened attack upon oue of our
colonies, Canada. (A laugh.) Well, these are in-
gredients in the series of complications which exist
at present. What have we abroad ? A threatened
revolution in Spain, war in Italy, and war
in Germany. In the middle of all this we have
been without a Government for eight days, and, by
the adjournment that is to be moved to-day, we are
about to be a week longer without a Government.
We shall have been one fortnight without a respon-
sible Government, with the world in the state in
which I have sketched it. I want to know if the
House of Commons was elected to sit quietly during
such a state of things ? Nothing could be more
skilful and conciliatory than the explanation which
the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the
Exchequer made the other night ; but at the same
time I must be presumptuous enough to say that,
however successful he was in vindicating his hon-
our, which, in my humble opinion, required no