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Parliamentary Oaths Amendment.

The bill to amend the law relating to Parliamen-
tary oaths has been issued. It is as follows:
" Whereas it is expedient to amend the law re-
lating to oaths to be taken by members of both

Houses of Parliament on taking their seats in every

Parliament. Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's

Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice
and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and
commons in the present Parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows :

" 1. The oath to bemade and subscribed bymem-
bers of both Houses of Parliament on taking their

seats in every Parliament shall be in the form fol-

lowing :
" < I, A. 8., do swear that I will be faithful and
bear true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria,
and will defend her to the utmost of my power
against all conspiracies and attempts whatever
which shall be made against her power, crown, or
dignity. So help me God.
" 2. Where in the oath hereby appointed the
name of her present Majesty is expressed the name
of the Sovereign of this kingdom for the time being
by virtue of the act for the further limitation of
the Crown, and better securing the rights and liber-
ties of the subject,' shall be substituted from time
to time, with proper words of reference thereto.
" 3. The oath hereby appointed shall in every
Parliament be solemnly and publicly made and sub-
scribed betwixt the hours of nine in the morning
and four in the afternoon by every member of the
House of Peers at the table in the middle of the
said house before he takes his place in the said
house, and whilst a full house of peers is there with
their Speaker in his place, and by every member of
the House of Commons at the table in the middle
of the said house, and whilst a full House of Com-
, mons is there duly sitting, with their Speaker in his
chair, in such order or method as each house is
called over.
‘, 4. Every person of the persuasion of the people
called Quakers, and every other person for the time
being by law permitted to make a solemn affirma-
tion or declaration instead of taking an oath, may,
instead of taking and subscribing the oath hereby
appointed, make and subscribe a solemn affirmation
in the form of the oath hereby appointed, substi-
tuting the words solemnly, sincerely, and truly
declare and affirm,' for the words 'swear,' and omit-
ting the word So help me God ;' and the making
and subscribing such affirmation with such substi-
tute as aforesaid by a person hereby authorised to
make and subscribe the same, shall have the same
effect as the thaking and subscribing by other per-
sons of the oath hereby appointed.
" 5. If any member of the House of Peers vote
by himself or his proxy in the House of Peers, or
sits as a peer during any debate in the said house,
without having made or subscribed the oath hereby
appointed, he shall for every such offence be subject
to a penalty of £5OO, to be recovered by action in
one of her Majesty's superior courts at Westminster
—and if any member of the House of Commons
sits as such in the said house, or votes during any
debate after the Speaker has been chosen, without
having made and subscribed the oath hereby ap-
pointed, he shall be subject to a like penalty for
every such offence, and in addition to such penalty
his seat shall be vacated in the same manner as if
he were dead.
446. There shall be repealed the several acts and
parts of acts specified in the schedule hereto to the
extent in the said schedule in that behalf men-
tioned.
7. This act may be cited for all purposes as
The Parliamentary Oaths Act, 186(l.'
The following petition is in circulation against
the bill :
"The humble petition of the undersigned inhabitants
of (or others).

Showeth,—That your petitioners regret to have
been informed that a bill, entitled the Parliamentary
Oaths Bill, has been introduced in Parliament.
" That your petitioners object to the said bill,
because the:present parliamentary oaths were settled
after long debate and mature consideration, and
after one or more conferences between the two
houses of Parliament, only eight years since.
" Because your petitioners do not believe that the

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" Because your petitioners object to the abandon-
ment of the securities for the constitution which the
present law affords by requiring that members of
Parliament shall publicly declare on oath that they
will resist the intrusion into this free and indepen-
dent country of any foreign jurisdiction, power, or
authority, whether Papal or other ; that they will
defend and uphold the Protestant succession to the
throne; that they will defend the settlement of pro-
perty and the position and possessions of the Esta-
blished Church ; all of which legal obligations and
securities the said bill proposes to abrogate.

" Your petitioners further object to the abroga-
tion and abandonment of the public profession of
Christianity which the present law requires that the
vast majority of the members of both houses of Par-
liament shall make in their acceptance of the terms
and in the manner of taking the present parliamen-
tary oaths.
" Since your petitioners believe that this pubric
profession of Christianity on the part of the Nast
majority of the members of Parliament has a salu-
tary effect upon the conduct of Parliament, and is
requisite, in order to justify legislation by Parlia-
ment in matters connected with and for the Chris-
tian Church, which is in union with the State—

" Your petitioners therefore pray that the Par-
liamentary Oaths Bills may not pass into law.
" And as in duty bound will ever pray, &e."

Archce alogical Society.

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An ordinary meeting of the members of this asso-
ciation was held on Wednesday evening, at their
rooms in Sackville-street—Mr. Godwin in the chair.
Mr. Syer Cuming exhibited, from the collection
of Mr. J. B. Greenshields, a disc-shaped perforated
cover of a small vase, turned on a lathe out of a
piece of deep-green pot stone, which had :been
found at Thebes ; also, from the same collection,
pieces of granular quartz, chipped from the colossal
statue at Thebes, called the vocal Memnon erected.
B. C. 1692 1661. Pieces of brown and red granular
quartz from the base of the same statue were also
exhibited. In the course of a short discussion as to
the cause of the sounds that issued from the statue
of Memnon, Mr. Godwin took occasion to denounce
in strong terms the mutilation of the statue by
breaking from it the pieces that were on the table.
Javelin and arrow heads, of conchoidal hornstone,
from the ancient sepulchral mounds of Upper Ca-
nada, in the collection of Mr. Greenshields, were
exhibited, which bore the marks of more carefuland
elaborate workmanship than the great majority of
what are considered flint arrow-heads. Front the
same collection was exhibited a cleddyo, or leaf-
shaped sword of bronze, of very delicate outline
and fabric, recovered from the Thames in 1859
and a sketch of the hilt of a very large cleddyo of
bronze, in the Bateman collection, that was found
at Battersea, was exhibited by Mr. Cuming, who
made some remarks on the numbers of bronze
swords that have been found between London-
bridge and Battersea. He stated that the dis-
covery of these weapons on the banks of the
Thames eastwards commenced near London-
bridge, where a few only were found, and that,
proceeding up the river, the quantity increased
until at Battersea there had been found a large col-
lection. Higher up the river, however, there were
Fared)* any, from which circumstance it was in-
ferred that a great battle had been fought at Bat-
tersea, the commencement of the fight having been
near London-bridge, and that after'the battle the
combatants attacked had been dispersed. A leaf-
shaped sword of steel, copied from an ancient one
of bronze, in the library of the Faculty of Advo-
cates at Edinburgh, was exhibited by Mr. G. Vere
Irving, who said his father wore it at the beginning
of the present century as a captain- of au Edin-
burgh corps of volunteer artillery. It was very
thick and heavy, but all the officers of the corps
wore biLullar swords. The only recounuendatlon
of such a clumsy weapon was that it was of the
true Roman shape.
A bronze vessel, of the form of two truncated
cones joined together at their bases, was exhibited
by Mr. Gordon Hills, from the collection of Mr.
Davidson, which was supposed to be the standard
Roman measure of 101 b. of water, made by or-
der of Vespasian, and to have come from the Far-
nese Palace. Mr. Hills read a short descriptive
of the vessel, and exhibited a book printed in 1624
that contained an engraving resembling it of the
standard measure of Vespasian, which was described
to be then deposited •in the Farnese Palace. The
importance of this vessel, if genuine, or if a correct
copy of the original, as indicating the real value cf
the Roman pound, was noticed by several members.
Mr. Cuming was of opinion that the quality of the
metal was different from that of ancient bronze, and
he thought it was probably made in the 15th cen-
tury. The further consideration of the subject was
postponed until the next meeting, when the vessel
will be again exhibited.
An interesting paper by Mr. Lucas on " Cham-
bered Barrows" was then read, in continuation of a
paper read by him at the congress of the association
at Leeds. Mr. Lucas entertains the opinion that

all cromlechs were places of burial, and that they
were originally covered with mounds of earth, which
had since been swept away from various causes. In
his excavations in several barrows in Brittany he
discovered stone chambers in which the bodies had
been deposited in the centre, and in some of them
skeletons were found. These chambers consisted
of upright large stones, covered either with single
slabs of stone—which were the most ancient—or
with several smaller slabs overlapping each other.
Mr. Lucas conceives that all barrows were originally
round, and that long barrows have been formed by
additional burials adjoining the central one, so that
by these accumulations the round barrow has be-

come long or oval. In this manner he disposes of
the notion entertained by some archaeologists that
the long barrows were constructed by people who
had long skulls, and that the round barrows were
formed by round-headed people. The chambered
barrows are supposed to be more recent than those
in which the dead were interred without being so
enclosed.
The meeting adjourned to the 14th inst.

The Rev. A. D. Campbell, M.A. of Gorleston,
Suffolk, an I Captain J. D. Milne, R.N., have
joined the Board of the Saloon Steam Packet
,
Company (Limited.)
LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.
ROYAL NATIONAL L A
meeting of this institution was held yesterday at its house,
to £134, were grante
d
of to
shore
boats, the
John-street, Adelphi, Mr. T. Chapman, F.R.S., V.P in the
chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having been
saving the crews of
erreeawd,sroefwtahre amountinglifds,eboatsfo institution and those of h
t heir
duringgallant t serviceshec alos. in
Rewards, amounting to
bwrecked°atsfor vessels
£222, were also granted to the crews
of the institution for putting off in ' of different lifeboats
dis-
tress, but the vessels had in the replies to signals of
of danger, or their crew had meantime either got out
The silver medalof s been saved by other means.
the institution
to Mr. W. was ordered to be given
Taylor, chief officer of the coast guard at Ro-
bert's Cove, County Cork.- t .
trian barque Eva, and
to I, ic, Captain Moreno, of the Aus-
Regiment, in appreciation of t Private
hßobert Love, of the 63d
with others in saving the crews of severalve ie
srvvesess aselisn irn. ougs
other honorary amd pecuniary rewards were granted to
persons who had laudably exerted themselves during the
late gales to save life on our coasts. New lifeboats had
been sent by the institution during the past month to
Cullorcoats, Bridlington, Ramsgate, Rye, Lizard, and to
Cahore, in Ireland. The cost of these lifeboats was the
gift to the institution of various benevolent parsons. Pay-
ments amounting to £2,120 were ordered to be made on
various lifeboat establishments. It was reported that the
late Mr. Travers Taylor, of Southport., had left a legacy of
£5OO to the institution ; the Goldsmiths' Company had
sent, through Alderman Copeland, an additional dona-
tion of £lOO to its funds; the Merchant Taylors' Company
had also sent £26 ss. ; and a donation of £5 had been for-
warded from hamburg by "Ono saved, by God's help, by
British lifeboat from a wrecC ked steamer." The A
expenses of
lifebhats to be called the ivil Service," the " maig.a-
-' mater," the " Working-man," &c., were also being col-
' lected by different benevolent persons. The annual Meeting
' of the institution was to be hold on. .Tuesday, the 13th
inst., at the London Tavern, Earl Percy having
promised
to preside, on the occasion.

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OUSES.—Messrs. TOPLIS and ROBERTS
have numerous furnished and unfurnished TOWN,
Atourtan, au(' Country RESIDENCES to LET or SELL.
rarliculari upon application forwarded for two stamps,
upon st g, requirements and rental. Offices, 2,
street, Repent-street,
Regent-mreet, and South Kensington, facing the
Museum.

SOUTII KENSINGTON, HYDE-PARK,
Queen's, and -flatland Gates, Queen's-gate and Peters-
ham Terraces, Queen's-gate, Cornwall, l'rinces and Beaufort
ardens, Elvaston-place, Cromwell-road, Onslow and Thurloe
Squares, Boßons, &c. Messrs TOPLIS and ROBERTS have
_BE DEN CES to SELL and LET in these and surrounding
localities. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent-street, and
;South Kensington, facing, the Museum.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms
of the past year the National Lifeboat institution, by
it s life boats and other means, contributed to the savin.; of
107 persons from 61iflerent wrecks on our coasts. Theits life-
Insti-
tution also expended £21,3:4 in the same per
o 0n
for le-
teat tabshmeats, iu addition to the lifelZats.
grantio, £4,0
wards for saving life and exerzising
Toe Committee of the Institution earnestly
A ePEAL to
the public for ASSISTANCIi: to enable them to meet the
continued heavy demands on the institution's 150 lifeboat
6tations.
the London and cn
Contributions are received boUtry
bankers ; and by the Secretary, hi,
Lewis, Esq., at the
institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London.

TII EAT RE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.-
Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and 10. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, the Play of TfIE JEALOUS
'WIFE. Mr. Phelps ; Messrs. 11. Marston,
Barrett, Warner,
G. Velmore, E. Phelps, Harcourt; Mrs. llerman Vezin,
Airs. Vandenhoff, Misses It. Leclercq. Seymour, Sze.
At ter which. the Pantomime, LITTLE KING PIPPIN;
or, llarlequin FOrtUrlattlf3 and the Magic Purse and Wishing
Cap.

Commence at 7.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.—
Sole Lessee and 31anEvr, Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, A ROMANTIC ATTACU3IENT.
7lr. W. Farrell, Mr. Compton ; Miss Ada Cavendish.
To be followed by BROTHER SAM Messrs. Sothern,
33uckstone, Compton ; Mesdames Nelly Moore, Snowden,

4c.
After which, ORPHEUS IN THE HAY3IARKET
Blessrs. W. Farren, Fisher, Bartleman, Weathersby, Au 3. ;
Mesdames Keeley, Snowden, Moore, Lindley, Woolgar.
oward, Wright, Coleman, Lovell, l'revot, &c.
if o conclude with A KIS
ncl at S N THE DARK.
Comme Seven.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.-
Under the sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
THIS EVENING, THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER
31r. 11. Widdicomb.
Atter which, THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD.
Mr. Etchter ; Messrs. Jordan, Emery, Widdicomb, Vezin,
J. H. Fitzpatric'd, 1). Evans ; frLesdames Ternan, Etsworthy,
Lavenu, and C. Leclercq.
Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, at 7, a new farce called PIPKIN'S
RtisTlC ItErHEAT. Messrs. J. L. Toole and P. Bedford.
After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE.
of
(his 153 d
appearance), Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. Billing-ton,
Y. Bedford, R Phillips, Felix ROgCIII, Ashley, hburne, C. J.
Smith; Mrs. Biltingtor, &c.
To conclude with L
J. EIIIN D TIME. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R.
Phillips, Eburne. C. Smith ; Miss AA. Seaman, &c.
____..--------..

'ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVENING, QUIET LODGINGS.
After which, at a quarter to Eight, IT IS NEVER TOO
LATE TO MEND. Characters by Messrs. Vining, T. Mel-
ville, T. Mead, D. Murray, S. Calhaem, F. Villiers, J. G.
Shore, G. Murray, D. Mellon, C. Seyton, R. Cathcart; Miss
L. Moore and Miss Katherine Rodgers.

ROYAL STRAND TIIEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, at Seven (22d time), a new and origi •
nal Comedy, THE FLY,AND THE WEB. Mears. Par-
selle and Price; Misses Swanborough and Raynham.
After which will be produced a new Opera Burlesque,
L'AFRICAINE; or, The Queen of the Cannibal Islan 18.
Messrs. Stoyle, James, Thorne ; Mesdames Swanborough,
Itaynham, Johnstone, .tc.
To conclude with LENDING A
Turner; HAND. Messrs. Belford
Misses Simps on and Hughes.

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