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Mr. TUFNELL, in the absence of Lord Palmer-
ston, moved for leave to bring in a Bill to continue to
the end of next session of Parliament the Acts of the
present session, for suspending certain actions grounded
upon several statutes for the prevention of excessive

gaming.
Leave was then given to bring in the Bill.
Dr. BOWRING inquired whether the Right Hon.
Gentleman, the President of the Board of Trade was
cognisant of a project of the Belgian Government, for
introducing differential duties on tobacco imported into
that country, seriously prejudicial to British interests.
Mr. GLADSTONE said he believed it was true, but
an Act had passed both the Chamber and Senate of
Belgium, which imposed a certain differential duty upon
tobacco. He could not conceive anything less likely
to answer the object contemplated. It was a mimicry
of the course pursued by greater countries.(Hear,
hear.) He believed that the differential duty in this
instance was exceedingly small.
The orders of the day were then disposed of, and tl e
House adjourned at Twelve o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
MONDAY, JULY 1.
UNLAWFUL OATHS (IRELAND BILL.
(IN THE COMMITTEE.)

Eirst Clause ( That the Act 2 and 3 Vie. 3. 74, shall con-
tinue until ) :—Motion made, and Question pro-
posed," That the blank (page 2, line 6) be filled up with 6one
year :'"—Whereupon motion made, and Question put, " That
the Chairman do leave the Chair :" The Committee divided :
MINORITY—AYES, 40.

Aglionby H. A.
Archbold, Robert
Barnard, E. G.
Barron, Sir H.
Bellew, R. M. ,
Brotherton, J.
Busfeild, W.
Curteis, H. B.
Dennistoun, J.
Duncan, George
Dundas, Frederick
Esmonde, Sir 'l'.
Feilden, d.
Forster, Matthew
French, F.

Gore, Robert
Greenaway,
Hawes, IS.
Humphery, J.
M‘Taggart, J.
Morris, David
Mo:rison, General
O'Brien, J.
O'Connell, M. J.
O'Conor Don
Ogle, S. C. EL
Plumridge, Captain
Power, James
Rawdon, J. D.
Shell, it. L.

Somerville, Sir W.
Stansfleld, W. R.
Stewart, P. M.
Stuart, Villiers
Strickland, Sir G.
Tancred, Henry W
Thornrly, Thomas
Wallace, Robert
Wawn, J. T.
Wyse, 'Thomas

TELLERS
Norreys, Sir O.
O'Ferrall, R. More

MAJORITY—NOES, 51.
Ackers, James Gordon, Captain Palmer, G.
Aeland, I'. D, Graham, Sir James Peel, Sir Riii.rt
Baird, William Grogan, Edward Price, It
Baring. W. B. Hamilton, Lord C. Pringle, Alexander
Bentinck, Lord G Harcourt, G. G. Rushhiooke,Colonel
Blackstone, W. Hayes, sir E. Shaw, F.
Boldero, H George Henniker, Lord Smith, T. BC.
Bowles, Admiral Hepburn, Sir T. B. Smollett, Alexander
11, uce, Lord Ernest Herbert, Hon. S. Somerset, Lord G.
Buller, !Sir J. Yarde Hodgson, Richard Stanley, Lord
Burroughes, 11. N. Hope, Charles Sutton, Hon. H. M
Cockburn, Sir G. Dope, G W. Vevey, Hon. Thomas
Corry, H. Jermyn, Earl Vivian, John Ennis
Darby, George Knatchbull, Sir E. Wortley, J. Stuart
Dougla.,, Sir C. .Lefroy, Anthony Wortley, Hon. Jobn
Drummond, H. H. Lincoln, Earl of Yorke, R. H.
Eliot, Lord M'Geachy, F. A.
Escott, Bichkam M`Neill, Duncan TELLERS.
Gaskell, James Milnes Meynell, H. Young, John
Gladstone, W. E. Milnes, Richard Lennox, Lord A.
Gladstone, Captain Neville, Ralph

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TILE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The proceedings in the two Houses of Parlia-
ment last evening indicate increased embarrassment and un-
popularity to Sir Robert Peel and the Government of which
he is the chief. The Bill introduced by Earl Powis to the
House of Lords for repealing the Act for uniting the sees of
St. Asaph and Bangor, had passed the second reading by a
considerable majority, notwithstanding the efforts of
the Duke of Wellington, as leader of the Government in
that House .of Parliament, to obtain its rejection. In the
course of Sir Robert Peel's memorable " explanation" hi
the House of Commons, on the adverse vote on the Sugar
Duties, the Right Hon. Baronet showed how greatly he had
felt himself personally annoyed, and his position injured, by
the vote of the Lords on the Welch Bishoprics; indicating,
as it did, an indisposition, in that quarter also, to place im-
plicit confidence in her Majesty's Government. The embar-
rassing effect.of the decision of the House of Peers on Lord
Powis' Bill was increased by a difference of opinion reported
to exist between the Head of the Board of Trade and the
rest of the Cabinet respecting this measure. Mr. Gladstone
was known to be in favour of the retention of the two Bishop-
rics, and is said to have intimated that he would be com-
pelled to vote for the Bill if it came before the House of
Commons. The alternative, in such a state of things, must
be a resignation of office by Mr. Gladstone; the effect upon
the efficiency and character of the Government would be
most injurious to both. Pledged to resist the Bill—which
was certain to pass through all its stages in the Peers, with
the prospect in the Commons that it would cause one of the
most efficient members of the Cabinet to withdraw from his
connexion with it—a course has been taken which, if it has
relieved the Government of an immediate difficulty, has
increased in intensity and extent the dissatisfaction of
the High Church portion of its adherents. The prero-
gatives of the Crown were involved. Her Majesty's
advisers had not thought proper to obtain her Ma-
jesty's consent, so as to justify the House in proceeding
to pass the measure. And this preliminary objection—only
imperative when taken, but not essential to give Parlia-
mentary validity to the Bill—was interposed to stay the
further progress of the measure, which was thus dishonour-
ably " burked," to prevent it from working worse mischiefs to
the Government in the House of Commons. The
Duke of Wellington " had no authority to give her
Majesty's consent to the discussion of this Bill ; and
on that ground alone the Right Rev. Bench ought to
withdraw their support from this Bill, and allow it to drop.
He had not the power or the inclination to amend the Bill
and implant such machinery as to carry out all those objects
in relation to these dioces3s which were proposed in the
report of the Commissioners, and which her Majesty in
Council had power to execute if this Bill was not passed."
This objection might have been taken ab initio ; and
would have prevented the unfortunate vote on its second
reading. To take the objection after the House of
Peers had, by a considerable majority, in effect passed
the Bill, was most ungracious. The Duke of Newcastle pro-
nounced the course taken by the Government as a "manoeuvre
—a State trick." The meekness of the Episcopal Bench was
ruffled; and Bishops spoke unadvisedly with their lips;
while lay Peers were fired with holy zeal in behalf of the
Church. The Duke looked more than usually grim, un-
moved by the discord that prevailed; and Earl Powis
closed the scene by referring to precedents which showed
that, with reference to similar measures, the preroga-
tive of the Crown had never been interposed, as a bar-
rier to their being entertained by their Lordships' House. It
is obvious that the prerogative of the Crown was never
thought of by the Government until it became necessary
to get rid of the Bill, which was fraught with the elements
of discord among the members of the Cabinet. To pre-
Vent this, the prerogative of the Crown was made a pre-
text for getting rid of the Bill—a mere stalking-horse,
kept in ambush, to be used whenever the exigences of
a tottering Ministry require its aid to serve their pur-
poses. If we turn to the Commons, we see the Premier
compelled, from very shame, to forego his purpose respecting
the Irish Registration Bill. The second reading of the mea-
sure was announced by Sir Robert Peel for last evening.
After shelving one Government measure after another, as im-
possible to be proceeded with at this late period of the ses-
sion, the order of the day was moved; the Irish Registration
Bill was to be discussed, and then its further considera-
tion postponed till the next session. This trifling with
the public time, and "manoeuvre" to entrap Members
into premature opinions, was well exposed. At length Sir R.
Peel, seeing the hopelessness of resistance, gave way ; and the
Irish Registration Bill, which more than three years ago was
deemed essential to preserve Ireland from a host of evils, re-
mains among the useless parchments on which abandoned
measures are engrossed—fit only to be cut into slips fur
" measures more useful, but of less dignified appellation.
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle threatens that the
great "Mazzini question" is to be anew agitated in the
House of Commons to-night. We have no objection to this
provided that the question be treated fairly, which it cer-
tainly cannot be without a full and searching investigation
into the custom of the Home-office for some considerable pe-
riod of years. As we have before said, " The custom of an
office is the law of that office"—a law rigidly binding
upon all who occupy the office, and the investigation for
which we call is indispensable to the ascertaining what is
the custom of the Home-office. Let Sir James Graham's
immediate predecessors in the office—Lord Normanby, Lord
John Russell, Lord Duncannon, Lord Melbourne—make a
clean breast as to their practice, and then the public
will be in a condition to form a correct judgment of the
present Home Secretary's conduct, but not before.
This consideration is not offered as a to quoque
argument, a kind of argument which we, at
least, shall ever disdain to offer in behalf of any Conserva-
tive against a charge brought by Whig-Radicals, because we
think that a Whig-Radical practice ought generally to be
known only to be shunned—" Ut fugerit exampla vitiorum
qunque notando." But we recur to our proposition, that the
custom of an office is the law of the office ; and it will
hardly be disputed that the uniform practice of his four
immediate predecessors in office must be to Sir James
Graham a conclusive evidence of "the custom." We are in
possession of some curious facts and revelations connected
with this subject, which would astonish those who see the
Members ofLord Melbourne's Government—particularly Lords
John Russell and Palmerston—joining in the cry against Sir
James Graham. We have heard something, too, of the
history of M. Mazzini, which, independently of his sup-
posed connexion with the only conspiracy that
threatens the peace of Europe, would properly render him an
object of peculiar vigilance. It is better, however, to wait
until the ex-Home Secretaries shall have had a distinct invi-
tation and sufficient time to explain their practice, and M.
Mazzini's history will come out more conveniently upon
a formal inquiry. Meanwhile, though this gentleman
has lent himself to very worthless persons on the
present occasion, we would not, even by implication, offer
him an injustice. We are not aware that there is any impu-
tation whatever upon his honesty or honour as a private
individual ; but he is said to be an extremely prompt,
energetical, and bold person—admirable qualities in
a good cause, but which, in the warm temperaments
of the south may lead men concerned in political intrigues
to contemplate the use of means which our more phleg-
matic disposition reject, and which we would not willingly
see resorted to among strangers, much less among our friends.
Again, we disclaim making any charge against M. Mazzini,
except that he is a man of an impetuous and daring
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the sake
noifeenthesrusr,eleyu,ghftorto thheeicrlosoewlynwastackheesd,
when they are supposed to be engaged in dark political in-
trigues. In justice, thereft,re, to M. Mazzini, of whom, as
we firmly believe, a great deal more than the truth has been
told by some officious agents of the Austrian Government—
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HOLY ROOD PARK.—The improvements in this
Royal
.park, under the direction of the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Woods and Forests, are at present proceeding
very satisfactorily. A number of workmen are employed in
completing that portion of the new carriage-drive between
Dumbiedvkes and St. Leonard's, which was commenced last
season. The old wall which divided the valley from the
fagade of Salisbury Crags is being pulled down, and the ad-
jacent ground tastefully formed into gradually sloping banks.
To the eastward, the Washing-house," with the unseemly
walls around it, have been cleared away. The house over-
looking St. Ann's-yards, long occupied by Mr. David John-
stone as a public-house, together with the house adjoining it
on the west,are also removed. The remainder of the south
wall of the Archer's-garden, part of which was lately blown
over during a high wind, is now taken down. We trust that
the " Rood-well" will be preserved and properly protected.
The draining of the meadows—one of the most important
parts of the contemplated improvements—will, we hear, soon
be proceeded with. Thus, Holyrood is, at last, in a fair way
of being rendered fit fur the occasional residence of our
beloved Sovereign and her illustrious family.—Edinburgh
Courant.
Lord Milton's yacht the Merlin came up the river,
from Cowes, Isle of %%right, and to-day the Noble Lord sails
for the coast of Scotland, intending to visit the Earl of Mor-
ton's, Dalmahoy-Caatle, Mid-Lothian.