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tiNIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes after
Twelve o'clock in the new Home.
The attendance was not so large as on last Thursday,
and as the novelty of sitting in the new chamber had in
'OOl4 degree passed away, the Members appeared quite
44 much at ease as in the old House. On Thursday
?Iseh a continual buzz of conversation was kept up that
it was only wish difficulty Members could be heard, but
as more order prevailed to-day the capacity of the House
for transmitting sound was more fairly tested, and we
it'e gratified in stating that in tbis respect the fears
*alai we at first entertained have in some degree

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Liverpool Corporation Waterworks (Extension
of Time for Purchase of Land, tk.c.) Bill was read a third
tiro and Teased.
- The Edinburgh Slaughter Houses Removal Bill as
amended was agreed to.
PETITIONS.
Mr. FREWEN presented a petition in favour of secu-
lar education.
plAlr. YORKE presented a petition from the Isle of
Ely,
signed by 1,000 persons engaged in agricultural
Pursuit, complaining of the depressed state of agricul-
ture, and praying for relief.
/.11:1** 'VYLD presented a petition from Bermondsey
sarnast the Ratropolitan Interments Bill.
from Wakefield
MONCIcION MILNES presented a petition
Wakefield in favour of the eufranchisement ol
„ L°lllhold tenements ; also, a petition praying for a re
r'''ll of the malt-tax.
T, Mr. RaasKES presented a petition from clergymen in
'°raet Rent nst the admission of Jews into Parliament.
Mr. FORSTER presented a petition in favour of the
„
"Plieintment of Government auditors for savings' banks.
lir• M. GIBSON presented a petition from Man-
t•ester praying that an address might be presented to
?:,1. Majesty for the purpose of obtaining more correct
urns of the statistics of education in the different
eciatinties of the kingdom.
411)ERANNUATION FUND FOR POOR.-LAW
OFFICERS.
tsea, Ptain FITZRO Government to know whether it was
s intention of the to introduce this see-
-4111 a Bill to provide a superannuation fund for poor-law
"'"cers,
ti,Mr. BAINES said the subject was one on which a
it—m number of petitions had been presented to the
13118 e in the course of the present session, and he was
ja-ieus to take that opportunity of stating what the
44r-law Board had, done with respect to it. It had
44r-law
to him that the only principle which was
1.31"13' to receive the sanction of the House was, that of
p-r,rtning a fend from deductions out of the salaries of the
p7,?t'..aar officers themselves,. without resorting to the
er.rates or any other public fund, end, in order that
'46°,,tbisapprehension should exist on that point, he. Lad
"rusred the draft of a Bill to be prepared, and had cir-
tititilitted copies of it, among all the poor-low officers in
country, and although the Bill was approved by
'4ll-1,113' there were a considerable number of dissentients,
03". not wishing to proceed on the principle of compul-
eftY deductions of their salaries against the opinion
the ma•orit or without their general con-
tr j
enee, it appeared to him that the only result he could
44'44 at aftsr the pains he had taken to ascertain the
,fib expedient course to be pursued was not to proceed
a,t' the Bill; therefore, in answer to the Hon. Gentle-
' rni he had to state that it was not the intention of the
B, and to submit any measure on the subject to
~rlatianoetit this session.
1,
ttAIiING FROM THE GALLERY IN THE
NEW HOUSE.
'l3
a „sr. saA.NKES wished to put a question with reference
al.ue construction of the new House. On the occasion
kkgen they. last met there an Hon. Member addressed
hieuse f,om the gallery , and he wished to know
,ether it was in conformity with the rules of the House
;,,
7° 80, as th" gallery was situated behind the bar?
sas'''tla SPEAKER replied that, though the gallery was
uitt ins bar, it was ithin the House, and a Member
at tterarore a right to w
speak from it.
EDUCA !lON BILL.
,On the question for resuming the adjourned debate on
second readiree of this Bill,
!It''lC. C. ANSTEY, on behalf of the population of the
tilted Kingdom, thanked the Hon. Member for ad-
:11 for having introduced the Bill, and expressed his
I,eP regret that a man like the Noble Lord the Mem-
for Arundel should have felt himself called upon to
lark'° the liberal design which the promoter of the
treasure contemplated, namely, conferring the blessings
i.ucation upon the great mass of the people.—(Bear,
43e 49 Whatever might bo said of the measure, or the
, tires of those who had brought it forward, it was the
1,1 or all parties to discuss the Bill in a calm and dis-
tlnate spirit.—(Hear, hear.) It had been said that
Atr4ilgreat question a; issue was between Christianity and
tae ehro between heaven and hell, but be fir
ti -k did not accept that as a corn ct definition
)1a1" matter in dispute between the promoters of the
pai and the supporters of the amendment. If, however,
discussion w ere really tantamount to a struggle be-
lt leo heaven and bell, all he could say was that his vote
st,:elist would not be on that side which the Noble Lord
s j Member for Arundel bad termed heaven.—(Hear and
1/411140a) He bad listened 'with much attention to this
te:,:tc'i in the vain hope cf finding out what the objections
rte,,B measure were. The House would remember that the
ttal` ,eh of the Hon. Member for Oldham, in introducing
t'Qe.il), was at once explanatory of its object and of the
mlnery by which it was proposed to carry out that
aeeti but the objections urged against the Bill did not
111/4 to him to be quite so clear. An Honourable
eab
er, who represented the peculiar interests of the
a; 4blisbed Church, bad declared that the only
it'neettion he entertained to the Bill related to the
Ve-,.4ers which lurked under it, and not to those that
ta3;,e apparent.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member was
laious of evil because none appeared—(A laugh)—
ht4when the second reading came, and the Bill was
14 to be precisely the same as that which the Hon.
teettiber for Oldham had described in his introduction,
hall the cry was raised that Christianity
It danger.—(Hear, hear.) He therefore
as": 1310 naturally anxious to ascertain what
-t(i)!1,8 could be Urged in favour of that cry, hut when
a.„,atn ascertain what the objections really were, it
,timlieri to him they were no objections at all.—(A
14,gut) It vas said that in France the adoption of
13 patens propounded in this Bill had proved injurious
4p, State, while other Honourable Gentlemen who
tsicci)B,ed the Bill, said they did so because it was nut in-
oto make education subservient to religion. Now
tee Who entertained the latter opinion ought to
e strenuous supporters of the principle prevailing
jailce, for there the education commonly known as
tt "iiiversity of France SN stem, was based entirely
teligieu.---(Hear, hear.) These then appeared
ikti„," the objections to the Bill. On the other
am, what urea the object of the measure? Why
tel" 88 to establish a system of education which made the
tiaging of religion its first principle, but denied the
tell ,tit the State to dictate to a parent the peculiar
lii/t)118 tenets with which he should inoculate
titart'd. The Honourable Member for Oldham had
sea Ine term education in its popular and vulgar
Pat as anonymous with instruction, but, for his
tati' he should prefer the Bill better if '° secular in-
,lisa:Ll9ll” were substituted for the term education,
`ease religious teaching, which some Honourable
tf uers seemed to think was the true definition
trkii the term education, was not all that
tale necessary to form the moral and in-
hetual character of a child.—(Hear, hear.)
e
ta,_ fifth clause enacted that the master and mistress of
14ti.! free school should allow the children committed to
ta,t,reare sufficient time to receive religious instruction
441", r. their parents. But there was no provision in the
ttidi:er giving those poor children religious instruction
'kelt the ministers of religion, under whose teaching
kittth!'light desire to be brought up. Instead of the
Ise eery proposed by this Bill he should have preferred
Sn'rde of governing those free schools laid down in the
.14 L't of the society for the establishment of free schools
th474a.ster. If the House meant to separate secular
eligious education, they had better not have two sets
adlieoers, as was proposed by the Hon. Member for
Atit 441. It was an infringement of civil liberty for the
't4illette educate at all ; and it was even more objection-
for the State to teach religion.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)
tee.-

Walt? 40NEILIS INQUEST. r Yesterday H. M.
totale2 held an inquest at the Lord Hill, North-wharf-
kon'tkraddington, on the body of a child about eighteen ,
ttititit'S old, which was so horribly mutilated that its sex
-uqatot be discovered. It aeared that on the 29th of
,
eti""ef, 1848, a deal box, about fourteen inches square, and
thitilb”-a-half deep, sewn up in a piece of canvass, and
Estnad the direction on it, " Mrs. Watson, passenger,
Itilti7r, °even," was found on the platform of the Slough
bY one of the porters. As no one applied for tin
cat weeks it was brought up to London and placed the
;'tt "fr;Derty department. It was there till Saturday last, the
9ne that being the annual day when lost property
i'ait,""oned. Mr. Bailey, the superintendent of. that de-,
tlitTent, opened the box, and then discovered the body or
• e?fli,leceased, which was carefully folded up in a piece of
• e,vlf„', It had all the appearance of a mummy, having been
wlisirlY pressed down in the box. A cambric handkerchief
,e4tir,-,:,eu tightly round its throat. The sexual structure was
-,',tersely rtmov-ed, as if by some sharp instrument. There
. fits about the arms and legs, showing that there had
Iktelii4.ttelnpta to sever the limbs from the body. Mr. Col-
ti::4l:lerintendent of police, and Mr. Seymour, manager
Ptlrki„,e°raPany have been attempting to discover the per-
. W-jf,,, of the' murder, but without effect. A verdict ot:
'f,4% lie*Ltininendr.der against some person or persons unknown"
pconimer i 1 advices from New York by the
1/itlr4 describe continueda firmness in the stock-market,
Ati.4 sudden rise in allspeculativa investments. There was
littl,,ihg.later from California. The Cuba invasion occasioned
iety among the mercantile classes, a disastrous
-.413011 bein generally predicted, although at New
45,48 and othergcities in the south the prospect of its suc-
. itbriiseirs to be entertained. Advices had been received
monoae ,aYfi to the 2d of May, announcing the repeal of the
y 11tt law from the Ist of July next. The Governor of
t; \e of Maine in his inaugural message had suggested
• trAtnitP,,edietcy of bestowing the agricultural public lands
4,1 &"": sly upon actual settlers. At New York an agency
o established by the Lafayette Insurance Company
rt of. proposed to include the insurance of aebts
4a business.
'11148,14)2413R, or A CLUED BY ITS FATHER .
~T4hain.)%las, t frightful occurrence took place in the village
aYlor__p.nam, near Malpas, in Cheshire. A man named
cp7 ab 0470 lives in that place, killed one of his children, a
uanxadee:reinnlts3a, ieu:irs
of
age, by striking him on the head
ityu.pposed that the wretched man is la-
t. he
111,
b iar
Itritt to ./ 0
f the, Liverpool Zoological Gardens
op fie,„ the ground on Monday night through some of
which were displayed on that eveninroin
hitched roof. Seve:al of the birds were scorched

THE MAGAZINES, &c.
BLACKWOOD.

Uninfluenced by the geni4l effects arising from the
dawn of a beautiful summer, we regret to find that
dear old Christopher is rather crusty. The " leafy
month of June" seems to have dropped a little bitter-
ness into his temperament by anticipation. HiS,first

outpouring is altogether acrid in its flavour, being a
most sarcastic torrent of sneers and sarcasms, poured
out with an unstinting hand upon the devoted head
of Mr. Thomas Carlyle. The opportunity fur so do-
ing is seized in the way of a criticism upon the
" Latter Day Pamphlets." And certainly we must
confess that no writer ever held out so many irresist-
ible temptations to ridicule as the author of these
most eccentric productions. Unless the reader of
them is prepared at the very outset to make large
allowances for a rugged mannerism that has grown
into a sort of uncouth second-nature, the lucubrations of
the publicist must appear simply an accumulation of
extravagances. It has been thus with Blackwood, who
comments ucon the work in the most irate and
scornful mood imaginable. " Mr. Thomas Carlyle,"
saith his reviewer, " has of late years devoted a good
deal of his leisure time to the denunciation of shams"—
and t.f all the shams in existence this same critic seems
to conceive that Mr. Thomas Carlyle is himself the
most egregious. The caper is worth reading—if
only as a specimen of ironical and satirical composi-
tion. Equally amusing is the metrical " skit" en-
titled the " Hungarian Joseph," in which Mr. Hume
is apostrophised as—
" Oar enlitary Joe!"
_ _ _ _ _

" My Peninsular Medal" proceeds in dashing. style,
and indicates a sound digestion in the old
peninsular. Mr. Albert Smith's recent book,
.* A Month at Constantinople," is reviewed
very favourably, and affords the materials
and the subject for a most interesting article. Mr.
Smith ought assuredly to enshrine in a supplement
to the next edition of the work that most facetious
personage, bight " undecided Mr. Parker," whom he
has 'so quaintly and graphically described in his re-
cent monologue. A most entertaining chapter fol-
lows this, upon the vicissitudes of the Opera of late
years in London, and upon the artistic resurrection
of the celebrated vocalist Madame Sontag. From
this contribution we cannot resist quoting the follow-

ing amusing anecdotes upon a great maestro :
" Rossini's desperate idleness and habits of procrasti-
nation are proverbial. On more than one occasion
pe-sonal restraint was resorted to, to compel the fulfil-
ment a his engagements. Thus, at Milan, sentinels
were placed at his door, and no exit allowed him, until
he had completed an opera of which the two first acts
were already in rehearsal. Barbaja, the celebrated im-
presario, kept him for some time prisoner in his palace
on the Naples Toledo, refusing him liberty until he
:could have composed e long-promise l opera of thello.
Remonstrances were disregarded by the inflexibie
manager, so Rossini set to work, and, with his usual
facility, soon sent down a portion of the score, headed
ktreduzione. This was transmitted to the copyist; but
the same evening Rossini applied for it again, on pretext
of alteration. Next morning another MS. reached Bar-
baja, inscribed Caratina. It followed its predecessor to
the copyist, and, in like manner, was re-demanded for
correction. 13arbaja gleefully rubbed his hands at find-
ing that these recisions did not delay Rossini. who sent
down page after page of copy, to the extent of an entire
act. But the irritable manager was like to go distracted
when, on applying to the copyist for the whole score, he
found the introduction was all that had been composed.
It had been travelling to and fro between Rossini and the
theatre, end, at each journey, the incorrigible composer
had headed it with a different title. The trait is charac-
terintic and strictly au:hentic. The sums story is told,
at greater length. and with some embellishments, in one
of Alexander Dumas' volumes of Italian travelling
sketche,. Managers, however, found compensati,,n
in Rossini's rapidity for his provoking idleness.
When he did set to work, he got over the
paper at a gallop; and, when driven to the ltot minute,
his fertility and invention were wonderful. Some
of his finest things were composed on the spur of the
moment, and in breathless haste. The celebrated air Di
tanti Palpiti is one of these. His dinner hour was at
baud, when, driven to the wall by urgent solicitations,
he one day sat down to compose it. His cook, learning
that the maestro was really about to work—no very
common occurrence—thrust his head in at the door, and
ventured a supposition that he had better not put the
rice to boil.' On the contrary, boil it directly,' replied
Rossini, who was hungry. Before the rice, that indis-
pensable preface to an Italian dinner, was fit for table,
the air and its introduction were composed. Di tanti
Palpiti is still familiarly known as the Aria dei

The " Short yarn" of " The Green Hand" is yet
spun out to a tenth part, without any immediate
token of its termination. " Palace Theatricals,"
a very vivacious " day-dream," gives us the
infinite felicity of an introduction to the Prince of
Schnapselzerhauben. Mr. Aytoun—we can't mistake
the sound of his voice—not content with assailing the
Free-traders on the platforms of London, must needs
hurl his animosity at Mr. Bright in the shape of a
rhyming oddity called " The Quaker's Lament."
The pasquinade, though over-long, is humorous. The
last article i❑ the June number of Blackwood, being
a mere reprint in extenso of the proceedings at the
late Protectionist meeting in London, requires no
comment from us, seeing that we have already cri-
ticised in our leacling columns that most extravagant
exhibition.

BENTLEY.

The interest of Mr. Robert Bell's admirable
English Story, " the Ladder of Gold," is wrought up
to the most intense pitch in the present number.
Richard Rawlings insists on Margaret's marriage
with Lord Charles Eton; the poor girl herself has
given her heart to Henry Winston, whom the father
savagely orders from his house. Clara—the noble=
minded Clara--stands between her father and her
sister, and cornforts the disconsolate Margaret. the
character of the two sisters is finely developed in
these chapters, and the dark points of the character of
Richard Rawlinis are brought out with great force.
The recollections of Madame Catalani, by Mrs.
West, are interesting, as contributing towards
the history of the opera in the early part of
the present century. The " Galerie du
Bourreau," by the ex-Hanger-on of Royalty,
promises well ; it is a tale of the Court of Louis
In the " Pen and INk Gallery" we have a
portrait of the Rev. G. C. Gorham, with a memoir of
his life, from which it appears that the Rev. Gentle-
man while at Jesus College, Cambridge, obtained
the mathematibai, classical, and theological prizes,
and was third wrangler of his year. At the time of
his ordination the Bishop (Dampier) of Ely, wished
to impose on the candidate his own private expositions
on the effects of bs ptism, instead of those of the Thirty -
nine Articles, Mr.. Gorham resisted, and Bishop Dam-
pier, wiser than Bishop Phillpotts, did not insist. The
writer of the me moir thus alludes to the contest
going on between Mr. Gorham and the Bishop of
Exeter—

" The Bishop fof Exeter found Mr. Gorham a more
learned and able theologian than he had expected to
encounter; the Bishop put forth all his powers to im-
plicate the clerk, by what the Judicial Committee have
called intricate, perplexing, and difficult questions."
But the Presbyter was resolute, firm, cautious, and not
to be shaken in the maintenance of his doctrine. Thus,
both parties became committed to a struggle from which
neither could with honour retreat, and the result has
been a trial--AK both sides allow—of immense im-
portance to the Church of England—probably of greater
moment than any which has taken place since the Re-
formation."
We have besides several' reviews of new works,
another batch of " Horace Walpole's Letters to
Lyseus," and several tales of more than average
merit.