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hundred thousand have 1,472 benefices, many of
which are richly endowed, and 850 glebe-housesl I
But let it be observed, as the most monstrous part of
this system for propagating the Christian Gospel, th4t
of all these benefices there are only 118 which can
boast of more than one church in each, there are
1,057 in which there is only one church in each, anki
there are 210 in which there is no church at all ! Of
course the Ministers who receive their tithes and en-
joy their different kinds of income from these 1,472
benefices, reside upon them, ready to preach the word
" in season and out of season," by way of showing
their readiness at least to earn the luxuries they so
abundantly possess. Of the whole there are absolutelY
no more than 889 benefices, out of the 1,472 endowed
in Ireland, in which the incumbents are residents
There is a specimen of a Christian establishment!
But this is not all. The table shows that there
are 339 of these benefices, so deserted by the
cumbent, in which the duties are performed by
himself (occasionally) or his curate ; and that there
are 157 benefices " in which," to use the words of the
Commissioners, " the incumbent is non-resident, and
no Divine service is performed by him or a curate in
a place of worship." They here add the words " place
of worship," because where there is no " church,' the
service is sometimes performed in a school-house, or
other building convenient for the purpose. We shall
see hereafter in how many of these latter 157 utterly
abandoned benefices, churches or other places of wor-
ship have been actually provided. But the comparative
numbers of the population upon which this enormous
establishment has been bestowed by the favour of Par-
liament and the Crown, exhibit the Irish Church in its
most shocking aspect. There are, in all, only twelve of
the Irish benefices in which the actual number of Pro-
testants exceeds 5,000 ; there are 91, in which it
fluctuates from that number to 2,000 ; there are
139, in which it falls off towards 1,000 ; there are,
209 in which it dwindles towards 500 ; there
are 286, in which it sinks towards 200 ; there are 224,
in which it diminishes towards 100 ; there are 160, in
which the descending scale terminates in 50 ; there are
124, in which the register points to 20 ; there are, po-
sitively 99 where that 20 is the highest number, and
it falls away to a unit; and there are 41 benefices in
Ireland in which the " Protestant people " of Ireland
are not represented even by a unit—not containing a
single member of that Church I Therefore, if we were
to begin at 200 as the number of persons fairly en-
titled to an Establishment in Ireland upon the existing
scale of benefices, the remainder to be provided for
upon some more rational and more economical plan,
here we have no fewer than 648 benefices in that coun-
try, the revenues of which the Legislature may apply
at once to the education of the people at large, with-
out the slightest injury to the real wants of the Pro-
testant Church in that country I—Morning Chronicle.

The Municipal Corporations Bill is to be committed
to-night, and as there are many amendments to be
moved, it has occurred to us that our readers may like
to see in a small compass, a description of the measure
as it stands, so far as regards the parts sought to be
amended. We propose, therefore, to make such
description without note or comment. The Governing
Body should perhaps be first mentioned. It coirsists.
by the Bill, of a Mayor and Common or Town-
Council ; but the Bill requires no qualification either
for the Mayor or the Councillors. Sir R. Peel has
given notice of an amendment " to establish a qualifi-
cation for councillors." These are the words of the
Right Hon. Baronet's notice. It will be recollected
that he alluded in a recent debate to Lord Brougham's
Bill, which, making the governing body to consist of
Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Councilmen, required
the same qualification for all,—namely, the possession
of property (real or personal) to the amount of one
thousand pounds. The Franchise is the next point to
be mentioned. The 6th clause of the Bill regulates
the franchise, and it runs thus :
" And be it enacted, that after the passing of this Act every
male person of full age, who, on the last day of August in any
year, shall have been an inhabitant householder within any
borough, or within seven miles of such borough, and shall
have occupied any house, warehouse, counting-house, or shop
within such borough during that year, and each of the two
preceding years, and who shall have been rated, in respect of
premises occupied by him, to all rates for the relief of the
poor of some parish, wholly or in part within such borough,
made in that year, and in each of the two years next preceding
that year, shall, if duly enrolled according to the provision>,
hereinafter contained, be a burgess of such borough, and
member of the body corporate of the mayor and burgesses of
such borough : provided, that the premises in respect of the
occupation of which any person shall be so rated need not be
the same premises, or in the same parish, but may be different
premises in the same parish or in different parishes : pro-
vided also, that every person who shall come to occupy any
house, warehouse, counting-house, or shop in any borough, dur-
ing the time for which any rate for the relief of the poor shall
have been made, to which he would have been rateable if he
had been occupying there at the time when such rate was made
may claim to be rated to such rate in respect of the property
which he shall so come to occupy, and upon his so claiming
and paying or tendering the amount of rate, if any, then due
in respect of the premises, he shall be taken to have been rated
to the relief of the poor in the parish in which such premises
are situate, from the time at which the rate in respect of which
he shall have made such claim shall have been made : Pro-
vided also, that no person shall be so enrolled in any year who
shall not have paid all such rates due from him at the time of
the revision of the burgess roll, hereinafter provided, except
such as shall have been made or become due with six calendar
months next before such revision : Provided also, that no per-
son shall be so enrolled in any year who within 12 calendar
months next before such revision shall have received parochial
relief or other alms, or any pension or charitable allowance
from any fund intrusted to the charitable trustees of such
borough hereinafter mentioned."
. .

In- this clause several amendments are to be pro-
posed. On the one hand, Sir R. Peel has given
notice, that he will move " that the payment of rates
for borough purposes should be equally necessary for
the qualification of a burgess with the payment of
rates for the relief of the poor ;" and also, " that the
overseer shall place on the list of burgesses those only
who shall, on or before a given day, previous to the
making out of the lists, have paid all rates due in re-
spect of the premises occupied by them (except such
rates as shall have been made or become due within
six calendar months before such day), and that the
right of voting shall be limited to such persons." Mr.
Scarlett is to move at the end of the 6th clause the
following proviso :—" Provided also that no person
shall be entitled to be enrolled upon the burgess roll,
who shall not have paid in local and parochial rates the
annual amount of twenty shillings for three years pre-
ceding such enrolment." On the other hand, 111 r.
Divett is to move, in clause 6, " that the qualification
of a burgess depend on one year's rating instead of
three." The Registration of Municipal voters is much
the same under the Bill as the registration of vote's
for Members in Parliament—indeed, the registration
clauses of the Municipal Corporations Bills are copied,
mutatis mutandis, from the Reform Act. The Mayo:
is to act as Revising Barrister. In reference to these
clauses Sir James Graham is to move " the insertion
of words directing the Town-clerk to examine the vali-
dity of all claims to be inserted on the burgess roll, t(
make objections where he shall see just cause, and t(
sustain such objections on the revision of the
lists before the Mayor, the cost of making and sus,
taining those objections by the Town-clerk to b..
paid out of the borough fund." The Mode
conducting Elections is, to state it shortly, tha-
the voters are to sign their names to the lists o.
candidates for whom they vote, and hand those lists,
so signed, to the Mayor. Lord Stanley is to move al
amendment " to prevent fraud and facilitate the pub.
licity of votes." The object of this amendment may
no doubt be gathered from his Lordship's speech th(
other evening, in which he observed that this mode o`
voting may be made a secret mode of voting, not an
open. Mr. Barlow Hoy is also to move " that the
votes be taken openly in the manner now usual at elec-
tions for Members to serve in Parliament." Lord John
Russell has pledged himself to supply an omission in
this part of the Bill. As it stands, the Mayor, solely
and without check or control, having to make the re-
turn, to decide upon whom the election has fallen,
might make a false return. On the suggestion of Sir
Robert Peel, Lord John Russell promised to put an
efficient check upon the Mayor by means of scru-
tineers, or otherwise. There is an amendment of
quite the opposite tendency threatened. Mr. Grote
has given notice, that he will move that " the town
Council in any Municipal Corporation, have the
power to declare, that the votes "of the qualified
rate-payers at Municipal Elections, shall be taken
by way of ballot, in a manner similar to that which is
directed by the 15th and 16th clauses of the ist and

2d William IV., c. 60, entitled -An Act for the better
Regulation of Vestries." The object of Mr. Grote,
as declared by himself in the House, is to introduce
vote by Ballot in Municipal elections. Again, in re-
.,rence to this part of the subject, the Bill divides only
'ie very largest boroughs into wards. Lord Stanley
is given notice of an amendment " to extend the
• inciple of division into wards ;" and Mr. Barlow Hoy
to move " that every town or borough containing
,ove 15,000 inhabitants shall, for the purpose of
acting the council, be divided into four wards. The
.6ctions of the Common Council are in the Bill to be
iennial, and one-third of the council are to go out
.-ery year. Lord Stanley is to move an amendment
to diminish the frequency of elections." It will
) remembered that Lord Stanley said, on the second
ading of the Bill, that it would be better if the
ections were fixed for every six years, one-half of
.ie Council going out every three years, or one-
iird every two yea's. Contrary to the spirit of Lord
tanley's amendment, is that of Mr. C. Buller, who
as given notice that he will move " That the whole
',ouncil shall be elected every year ;" and conse-
,uently that the provision respecting one-third going
ut annually be struck out of the Bill. The Licens-
ig of Alehouses is committed by the Bill to the Colu-
mn Council, or. to a committee thereof appointed by
he whole body. Sir James Graham has given notice
hat he will move " That in boroughs to which a se-
iarate commission of the peace shall be given, ale-
`louse-licenses be granted by the Recorder and borough
ustices : in boroughs to which no such separate commis-
;ion shall have been given, that the alehouse licenses be
granted by the county magistrates." Against and in
favour of the Recorder and Town Clerk, amendments
are also directed. Thus, Mr. Harvey is to move,
" that no person shall hold the-pffiee of Recorder of a
city, town, or borough, who practices at the assizes
or sessions of the county in which such town or bo-
rough is situate." Mr. Barlow Hoy is to move,
" that no person being the Representative in Parlia-
ment of a town or borough shall gold the Recordership,
or act as Judge, in such town or borough." Lord Stan-
ley is to move an amendment, "giving to the town clerk,
hereafter to be appointed, a tenure of office during good
behaviour." The administration of justice is intimately
connected with this part of the measure. Mr. C. Buller
is to move " that provision be made for the adequate
administration of civil and criminal justice, by a com-
petent judge constantly residing in the borough." The
rights reserved by the Bill are merely pecuniary
rights, and the reservations are objected to by some
Hon. Members, while others desire to carry them
further. So Mr. Praed is to move—" An instruction
to the Committee on the Municipal Corporations Bill,
for the reservation of existing corporate rights, whe-
ther inchoate or complete, to those who at present
enjoy them." Mr. Divett, on the other hand, is to
move—" To omit the exemption of existing -burgesses
from tolls and dues ;" and if that motion should be
lost, then Mr. Seale is to move—" That the exemp-
tions be only preserved to those existing bur-
gesses who may have legally given a valuable- con
sideration for their franchise." Some general
reservations will complete our description.
They are as follow :—Mr. Scarlett is to move,
by way of instruction to the Committee, to 4pro-
vide " That every person now being an Alderman shall
during his life remain a member of the Town Council
by virtue of his office, and shall enjoy henceforward all
the rights and privileges of a Town Councillor." Mr.
Scarlett is also to move an instruction to the committee
" to exempt the cities and towns corporate mentioned
in the first and second section of Schedule A, from the
operation of the Act, with the view of placing them
under different regulations." Sir R. Inglis has given
notice that he will move clauses :

" 1. That the said bill shall not come into operation in any
borough (the making up the roll of burgesses therein always
excepted), until it shall have been accepted by the absolute
majority of the said burgesses.
_ _

That the town council shall be styled the Court of the
Mayor and Council of our Lord the King in and for the bo-
rough of A, and shall have the powers of a Court of Record.
"3. That members of the town council shall not be amove-
able, except by the absolute majority of the burgesses regis-
tered in the borough.
"4. That the municipal oaths shall be liken by the bur-
gesses, and by the mayor and members of the town council,
and by the recorder and town-clerk.
" Lord Stanley—to move in clause 22, an amendment to
diminish the frequency of elections.
" Clause 27. Amendment to prevent fraud, and facilitate
the publicity of votes.
" Clause 30. Amendment to extend the principle of division
into wards.

" Clause 42. Amendment giving to the town clerk, here-
after to be appointed, a tenure of office during good
behaviour."

Lord John Russell will doubtless, by propositions of
his own, render the moving of some of these amend-
ments unnecessary. For instance, he has pledged him-
self that he will adhere to the
.franchise as regulated
by the Bill, and has promised that he will enforce it
bond fide; that he will not object to secure open
voting ; that he will (as we have observed above) put
some efficient check upon the Mayor in his capacity of
returning officer at municipal elections, and that he will
consider favourably all other suggestions which may
tend to improve the measure.—Times.

Sir Robert Peel, at the late Harrow School ince-
ing, in proposing the health of the Governors, preface:l
the toast by an observation which we cannot help
thinking might as well have been spared. That ob-
servation was, that "although they were self-elected,
he believed they stood in no need of reform." And
this remark, which was received with loud cheers by
the company, the Right Hon. Gentleman illustrated
by stating that " there could not be a stronger instance
of the deep interest which these noblemen and gentle-
men took in the welfare and prosperity of this eminent
school, than the fact which had occurred during the
past year—viz., that owing to agricultural distress, the
estates of the school, which were devoted to provide for
scholarships, were found non-productive ; but rather
than this deficiency should be an interregnum in the
annals of the school, the Governors themselves had
made up the deficiency, or rather, provided a scholar-
ship at their own expense." This act of liberality
on the part of these noblemen and gentlemen may, for
aught we know, be entitled to all the eulogiurn here
bestowed upon it ; but there is a high authority, which,
rightly taken, is calculated to curb excessive vanity
on this as well as on other occasions. That authority
says " these things ought you to have done, and not
have left the others undone." And we feel strongly
persuaded that not only the Governors of Harrow
School, but of nearly every other of our numerous
public schools and colleges, are guilty of a sin of omis-
sion, which is inflicting much present injustice, as well
as entailing serious national injury. We allude to the
enormous expense of education in this country, so far,
so preposterously far, exceeding anything in any other
country in the world where sound and valuable instruc-
tion for youth is to be obtained. We take the case of
Harrow, because it is put forward in terms which carry
with them its own self-condemnation. " Owing," says
Sir Robert Peel, himself the author of the fatal Cur-
rency Bill which has produced the evil—" Owing,"
says he, " to agricultural distress, the estates of the
school, which were devoted to provide for scholar-
ships, were found non-productive." And have not
estates of parents whose sons are at Harrow, Eton,
Westminster, Winchester, Oxford, and Cambridge,
undergone similar defalcations, and from the same
cause ? And are those whose duty it is as governors,
trustees, guardians, visitors, masters, tutors, or under
whatever other designation this singular variety of
personages may be classed, are they, we ask, one or
all, justified in allowing every head of charge at these
places to remain undiminished, while the youth of Eng-
land are consigned by shoals to seek a wishy-washy
education in France, or one, of more value it is true, in
Germany, at the expense, however, of having in early
years their affections too often weaned from their
mother country ? With all our respect for Sir Ro-
bert Peel, we assert that this does want reform
that cries aloud for it, and that, instead of afford-
ing a proof of the value of the self-electing system,
it carries with it a strong presumption at least against
it. Is it just, is it honest, towards parents, that
the already overgrown profits of those connected with
the places of education we allude to should increase
just in proportion as the means of paying them dimi-
nish ? And are we to be told by those whose indivi-
dual wealth is so excessive as no pressure of the times
can reach, that this is a system which stands in need
of no reform ? And is not Sir Robert Peel himself,

we would ask, a Governor of a public school, where
this system of self-election prevails, and where reform
is as much called for as in any public establishment in
the kingdom.? We are aware that when Lord
Brougham's Charity Commission first issued, a stand,
and that an effectual one, was made against any of
the establishments we allude to coming within the
range of its inquiry. The reason given was something
like that now put forward by Sir Robert Peel, that
the persons who had the control of them were all per-
fect, and beyond even the whisper of doubt or suspi-
cion. That these establishments, most of them at
least, possess the "plura nitent" we do not deny ;
but they, at the same time, possess faults and defects,
of which we have pointed out a glaring one, which
calls loudly for correction, and cannot, if cherished,
much longer escape the searching hand of reform.—
Morning Herald.

In a letter which has recently appeared in the news-
papers Col. Evans, while he deplores his inability to
answer with due courtesy and despatch, all the letters
addressed to him, talks of the " British Auxiliary
force" about to proceed to Spain. When Colonel
Evans, in his double capacity of Commander-in-Chief,
and Member for Westminster, shall have again occa-
sion, while he advertises his courtesy and punctuality,
to speak of the force under his command, we take
leave to require from him that he designate more cor-
rectly the body of men over whom (by whose authority
we know not) he has been appointed to assume (or
has assumed, without having been appointed,) a com-
manet?-- If Col. Evans has been nominated by his
Majesty the King of England, to take the command of
an army of intervention, sent into Spain by the Royal
authority, and under the Banner of England, he
would, with perfect propriety, call such an army
" The British Auxiliary force." The epithets,
" British" and " Auxiliary," would not be misap-
plied, nor would the meaning of them be prostituted.
In the present case they are both ;—and Col. Evans,
if he have that knowledge of military etiquette
which he is generally supposed to possess, should know
that when he speaks of a body of men over whom he
holds command, by other authority than that of the
King of England, he should hesitate before he applies
to such a force the honourable and respect-com-
manding designation he has chosen to usurp for his
present irregularlarly-banded and heterogeneous mer-
cenaries. At the head of those men Colonel Evans
may ride or walk, with the ensign of the Queen of
Spain displayed, and with all the pomp and circiiiu
stance which may belong to such blazonry. He may
do more. He may set forth his own shield and quarter-
ings in .whatever size and dimensions it may please him
to have them displayed, and for ought we know he may
obtain permission, under such a talisman, to lead his men
into action. We have no doubt that the Gallant Officer
(for he is a British officer) would strike a good blow
for his own banner, if required. But to hold the
standard of England we have other hands I Our gal-
lant Sovereign and our countrymen will never trust
that precious ensign out of their own sight and keep-
ing, but in such custody as that it shall run no risk of
touching the dust—or of being defiled. But we will
preserve even its attendant attributes intact. To call
any force over which that banner does not wave " The
British Auxiliary Force," is to hang out false colours.
Let the muster be called " The Palmerston Rovers,"
or " The Evans Brigade"—Zumalacarregui will still
fight with a light heart, for he is not a deeply-read
scholar, and the names may not have reached him.
But the STANDARD OF ENGLAND I—The Guerrilla
Chief would fight with the sun in his eyes ! The
" Palmerston Rovers," even though Mr. Place should
clothe them, will not be quite so dazzling.—Morning
Post.

The mock Reformers in the House of Commons
purpose to unmask to-night on going into Committee
on the Municipal Corporation Bill. Every effort will
be made to limit the franchise, impede its exercise,
and destroy in its details the great principles acknow-
ledged in the Bill. Sir Robert Peel, deservedly
I entitled to precedence whenever justice is to be as-
sailed by traitorous wile, leads the attack, in the
shape of an amendment, that the payment of rates
for borough purposes, as well as the payment of
poor-rates, should be equally necessary for the quali-
fication of burgesses ; and that the right of voting
should be limited to those who have paid all rates due
in respect of the premises occupied by them. Should
this amendment pass, it will at one fell swoop cut
down to less than one-half the number who would
otherwise be admitted to the franchise. We have
opposed, from the first, the principle of making the
exercise of the franchise dependant on the payment of
more than the annual rates. The law is already effi-
cient to enforce the payment of the rates, and even if it
were not, why should the right of voting be made the
instrument of collecting taxes, and thereby placed to a
certain extent at the discretion of a factious or partial
collector ? Is not the property and person of the in-
dividual sufficient security for the amount of taxation
on that property, without, in addition, making the de-
faulter an outcast from the body politic ? The payment
qualification clause in every case is the stab of the assas-
sin—of a false friend, who would present the cup to in-
sure the deadly blow. We trust therefore, that the really
liberal Members will be on the alert in the Connnittc(,,
and so modify the clause that the qualification will be
co-extensive with the rating, and not limited to the
actual payment thereof. The Peel amendment would
not only be destructive of the first principle of the
Bill, but also a source of endless litigation and quar-
rel.To cheat any individual of his vote, it would be
only necessary to let any one of his many borough
rates remain unpaid, which would be secunduin Peel
a legal ground disfranchisement. Lord Stanley is
to move amendments to diminish the frequency of
elections, and make the office of Town clerk
depend on good behaviour only, so that when
the Council have time to become corrupt they
may act the censores triorum of the Town Clerks.
An amendment, properly so called, is to be moved
by Mr. Grote, that the Town Council may order
the votes at Municipal Elections to be taken by ballot.
The other motions are as follow :—Mr. Scarlett is to
move that all persons now Aldermen shall, during
their lives, remain Members of the Town Council ;
and that no persons shall be enrolled who have not paid
in local. and parochial rates 20s. for three years prece-
ding such enrolment. Mr. Harvey is to move that the
office of Recorder of a city, town, or borough, shall
not be held by any person practising at the assizes or
sessions of such city, town, or borough. Mr. Charles
Butler is to move, in clause 87, that provision be made
for the adequate administration of civil and criminal
justice by a resident Judge. It is evident from the
foregoing that there is a most urgent necessity for a
strong muster of the friends of Reform to watch to
consummation the great measure at present in progress.
Otherwise many improvements necessary in the pro-
posed Bill may, be omitted ; and many injuries of a
fatal tendency inflicted by the lurking liberticides on
both sides of the House.—Morning Advertiser.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Friday, at about
half-past nine o'clock, one of those accidents which are of
such frequent occurrence, arising, on the one hand, from the
carelessness of cab drivers, and, on the other, from the ex-
hausted state in which their horses but too frequently are, oc-
curred to a gentleman who was riding in a cab near the New
Church in the Strand; just as the cab had approached a
waggon, the horse fell, and the gentleman was precipitated
immediately before the wheels, one of which passed over him.
The horses were fortunately stopped before the hind wheels
had reached him, or the consequence might have been fatal.
The gentleman was picked up very much injured, and placed
os bhlaomrseescatnheattmacohmtoootthheedrpiveer-r
in a coach,
waggon, and swhoent home.stopped
ofce the
ed
the accident.

" THE STUDENT," BY THE AUTHOR OF " ENG-
LAND The subjects of these vo-
lLuAmNeus AarNeDveiri;Z:ll;:!HlCis curious, however, to observe, in the
way of interest merely, the result of Mr. Bulwer's masterly
mode of treatment. Here are many subjects examined, not
one of them, however, seems limited to itself—to the single
and critical inquiry. We read as we are told to inquire by the
light of imagination. Objects are presented to us as in poetry,
not as they are in themselves actually, but as they are moulded,
by other thoughts andleelings, into an infinite variety of shapes
and combinations of rower. We feel the greatest interest,
single as well as vanous. There is the observation which
keeps all things distinct, yet the imagination which fuses all
things. There is the unlimited power of suggestion, yet the
point at which the mind rests satisfied. Mr. Bulwer speaks
in one part of the book of possessing himself in thought of a
shadowy and unreal
future.' His future is neither shadowy or
unreal. Posterity is, indeed, a difficult mark to hit, but if ever
man did it, Mr. Bulwer has sent the arrow home."—Examiner.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

NOTICES of MOTIONS and ORDERS of the DAY, which
now stand in the Order Book for the Present Week.
MONDAY, JUNE 22.—ORDERS OF THE DAY.
I. Municipal Corporations Bill—Committee.
2. Stafford Disfranchisement Bill—Committee.

3. Supply—Committee.
4. Ways and Means—Report.
b. Ways and Means—Committee.
6. Dissenters' Marriages Bill—Committee.
7. Parish Vestries Act Amendment Bill—Second reading.
S. Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Bill—Second reading.
9. Church of Scotland—Adjourned Debate thereupon.

10. Loan Societies Bill—Report.
11. Dominica Indemnity Bill—Report.
12. Corn Trade (Isle of Man) Bill—Second reading.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

1. Mr. Bannerman,—Bill for uniting King's College and Univer-
sity, Aberdeen, and Marischal College and University, Aber-

deen.
2. Mr. Winthrop Praed,—Copies of Communications between the
India Board and the East India Company, relative to the re-
vocation of the appointment of Lord fleytesbury as Governor-
General of India.
3. Mr. Wyse,—Committee relative to Diocesan and Royal Schools
in Ireland, with a view to extending their utility.
4. Sir Robert Inglis,—To present Petition from Birmingham, in
reference to the oath taken by Roman Catholic Members of

Parliament.
5. Sir William Brabazon,--In Committee on the disfranchisement
of Stafford, to move that an additional Member be given to
Mayo.
6. Mr. W. S. O'Brien,—ln same Committee, to move that the
privilege of sending two Members to Parliament be transferred
from Stafford to the County of Cork.
7. Mr. Edward Buller,—ln same Committee, to move that a Select
Committee be appointed to inquire into the bribery and cor-
ruption which have prevailed at Elections for Stafford.
8. Mr. Wakley,—That the Ballot for entering Members having
the proceedings of the Civil Bill Courts in Ireland.
Petitions to present take place 20 minutes before the time of
the Speaker taking the Chair.
9. Mr. Buckingham,—Amendment on Mr. Wakley's motion.
10. Mr. A. Johnston-- Address for the consent of the Crown to the
introduction of a Bill to repeal so much of the Act 1 Anne,
c. 9, as refers to the consent of three parts of the Heritors for
disjoining of parishes in Scotland.
11. Mr. Attorney-General,—Bill to regulate the Ecclesiastical

Courts in England and Wales.
In Municipal Corporations Bill.
I. 3lr. Seale,—To present Petition against Clause 10.
2. Mr. Winthrop Praed,—To reserve existing Corporate Rights.
3. Sir James Graham,—To move Amendments to Clauses 13, 52,

53, and 54.
4. Mr. Scarlett,—To move that the present Aldermen remain
Town Councillors for life. To exempt the Cities and Towns

in Schedule (A) from the operation Of the Act. Also, an ad-

dition to Claiise6.
5. Mr. Divett,—ln Clause 6, That the qualifications of a Burgess
depend on one year's rating instead of three. In Clause 10,
To omit the exemption of existing Burgesses from tolls and

dups.
S. Mr.'Seale.--That the exemptions be only preserved to those
Burgesses who may have given a valuable consideration for

franchise.
7. Mr. Barlow Hoy,—That no Representative of a Borough shall
hold the Recordership, or act as Judge.
8 Sir Samuel Whalley,-,To insert September instead of August

in Clause 6.
9. Sir Robert Peel,—That the right of voting be limited to such
persons as shall have paid all rates to within six months of the

day of election.
10. Mr. Harvey,—That no person shall hold the office of Recorder
v,ho practises at the Assizes.
11. Sir Robert Inglis,—To move four additional Clauses.
12. Lord Stanley,—To move Amendments on Clauses 22, 27, 30,

and 42.
13. Mr. Charles Buller,—To move Amendments on Clauses 22,
23, and 87.
14. Mr. Grote,—To move an Amendment on Clause 23.

Last Day for receiving Reports on Private Bills.
TUESDAY, JUNE 23.—NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Mr. Sharman Crawford,—Bill to relieve Roman Catholic Vo-
ters in Ireland from being required to take any Oaths except
such as are taken by other Voters.
2. Mr. Clay,—Committee of the whole House to consider of the
propriety of permitting Corn, Grain, Meal, and Flour, the
growth, produce, and manufacture of any Foreign Country,
to be imported into the United Kingdom for consumption,
upon the payment of fixed Duties instead of Duties regulated
from time to time, according to the average price of British
Corn.
3. Lord Ashley—Bill to continue Acts relating to the treatment of

Insane Persons.
4. Mr. W. S. O'Brien,—Bill to enable Grand Juries in Ireland

to present money for the construction of Public Works.
5. Mr. Sinclair,—Bill to enable the Inhabitants of Burghs of Ba-
rony in Scotland, to elect their own Magistrates.
6. Mr. Mackinnon,--Committee to inquire into the state of the
Roads under the Turnpike Trusts in England and Wales.
7. Mr, Bradshaw,—Repeal of so much of the Foreign Enlistment

Bill as relates to Spain.
8. Colonel Verner,—Case of Mr. Harpur and others at Dungarvan,

in December last.
9. Mr. C. Lushington,---Address for Copies of Documents relat-
ing to Female Emigration to Australia.
10. Mr. Hawes,—Petition of John Thomas Loader, complaining
of undue interference at the last Lambeth Election.
11. Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood,—Select Committee regarding his Ma-
jesty's Consuls resident in Foreign States.
12. Mr. Henry Lytton Bulwer,—Amendment on Mr. Fleetwood's
motion, that the Committee be on the Consular and Diploma-
tic Departments.
13. Mr. Sheil,—Papers relating to the affairs of the late Rajah of
Tanjore.