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he was sorry tosay, that there were at present 6000 or
7000 cases of typhus in the hospitals of that town, and
that disease and death were spreading in every quarter of

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borough informed him, that in the course of the last fort-
night the authorit!e3 had paid not less than £l6O foi
With these facts before their eyes, he hoped that
nor ;es of Parliament would give their support to
6uvernr nt in carrying this bill. If experience shoul
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rich it ought to include, and_ that

twined much machinery which might be as well lef
ut still, upon the whole, it was a good bill and de.

, .
serving public support. If the government had power to
include in its operation the city of London, it would un-
doubtedly exercise it ; but it had not the power, and
therefore it was not fair in the opponents of the measure
to twit the government with not doing that which it had
not the power to do.
Mr. SPOONER objected to this bill, as it was founded on
the principle of centralization, on which we had acted too
much already. If the system, of which the bill was a part,
continued to be acted on, we should have nothing but
commissions to govern the local affairs of the country.
He sympathized with the present condition of the borough

of Liverpool ; but was the house, on account of the di-s-
-tress of that town, to pass a general and permanent mea-
sure--from which, however, the city of London was to be
exempt—to meet a special and temporary evil ? The bill
established a most expensive machinery, of which nobody
knew anything ; and the most objectionable feature in it
NM.% that it placed no limit to the expense which might be

incurred on it.
Mn. HUDSON also objected to the bill, which was one
of patronage and jobs. He also objected to the bill be-

cause it contained powers that were monstrous in respect
to the unlimited rating of towns. Other bills contained
niting the amount of rates to be levied in one
no such clause was to be found in the present
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The house then dividedpwhen the numbers were—For
the committee, 117 ; against it, 26 ;—majority, 91.
The house then went into committee ; and before any
clause was proposed, Lord MORPETH, to mollify opposi-
tion, announced his intention of reducing the number'of
commissioners from five to four, and of making only one
of them a paid commissioner.
The rest of the evening was consumed in the discussion
of the first seven clauses of the bill, upon which some
verbal amendments were made, but not without the con-
sent of the Government. _

The Chairman was then ordered to report progress, and
the committee was ordered to sit again this day.
The other orders were then disposed of, and the house
adjourned

HOUSE -OF LORDS.-FAIDAY

The Royal assent was given by commission to avast
number of bills. _ _ _

Lord BROUGHAM aaked the Duke of Wellington whe-
ther he had received any information respecting the late
case of suicide in the, 75th Regiment.

The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that the offence of the
private who had committed suicide was a most atrocious
case, and that, in his opinion, he fully merited the severity
with which he had been treated ; the only fault he found
with the commanding-officer was that he had not suffici-
ently explained the grounds of the order which had worked
so unfortunately on the prisoner's mind.
On the motion for going into committee on the Poor-
law Amendment Bill,

Lord BROUGHAM stated his objection to the connexion
of the Poor-law department with the Government, and
to making its head removable by, and intimately con-
nected with, the party in office. The consequence would
be that all Poor-law measures, good or bad, would be at-
tacked and defended in a spirit of party, and there would
be an end to all dispassionate treatment of the subject.
He always considered the „greatest blot in the bill to .be
the clause which had been introduced into it in the other
house, providing against the separation of married pau-
pers above a prescribed age, and he tendered his hearty
thanks to the Government for having opposed that pro-
position. Again, the requisite knowledge of the details
of the department was not to be acquired in a day, and
still less the firmness necessary for the discharge of so de-
licate and so difficult a duty. Yet the president of the
department would, if his Government went out, retire
from office before this firmness and this knowledge of the
details could possibly be acquired. Such a functionary
ought to be acquired by knowledge, by temper, by firm-
ness of character, but, above all, he ought to have a seat
in Parliament from which he could not be expelled.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was glad to find that Lord
Brougham was disposed to admit the heads of the Poor-
law department to seats in Parliament, for he was con-
vinced that a great portion of the obliquy that had been
thrown upon them resulted from the fact of their acting
so much in the dark. He could not agree with the noble
lord in thinking that the president ought to be uncon-
nected with party, but, on the contrary, was sure that the
department would not work well unless its head was in
intimate and confidential communication with the govern-
ment.

Lord STANLEY thought that the question was beset
with difficulties on all sides, but, though he was fully aware
of the political inconvenience which might arise from the
connection of the head of the Poor-law department with
the government, he still thought that such a connexion
would be advantageous, and for this reason he quite ap-
proved of the principle of making the chief functionary of
that department personally responsible to the government.

The house then went into committee on the bill, and all
the clauses were agreed to, with the exception of the 23d,
providing that married persons above 60 years of age
should not be compelled to live apart in workhouses, which
was negatived without a division.

• The bill was then ordered to be reported. Several
other bills were forwarded a stage, and their lordships ad-
journed.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

-FRIDAY

The following Bills were read a third time and passed :
—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Sup-
ply of Surplus Water to Manchester, Salford, and Stock-
port); Portsmouth Paving, Lighting, and Improvement :
Taunton Improvement and Market.
Lord G. BENTINCX questioned the Foreign Secretary
as to whether, in the event of the Prussian Government
and the Zollverein refusing to renew the treaty of inter-
national commerce with this country, it was the intention
of the British Government to make reprisals.

Lord PALMERSTON answered that the Prussian Go-
vernment had the option to terminate the treaty, and he
had received an intimation of their intention to do so.
He would have no objection to lay that intimation on the
table.

Mr. HuFT wished to know whether the Foreign Secre-
tary was aware that negociations were on foot with the
intent of inducing the Hanse Towns to unite with the
States of the Zollverein in an arrangement to impose
differential duties on the ships of all nations which would
not accord to the German States the same privileges of
navigation which the German States extended to them.

Lord PALMERSTON said it was true that the German
Governments had been in communication with the Hanse
Towns for the object indicated ; and he had been informed
that a person had been sent from Berlin to Hamburgh,
Lubec, and Bremen, to induce the Hanse Towns to be-
come members of the Zollverein. Hamburgh and Lubec
had, he believed, become parties to the arrangement.
Lord J. RUSSELL moved the second reading of the Bill
for the renewal of the suspension of the Navigation Laws.
Lord G. BENTINCK opposed the Bill as an underhand
attempt to repeal the Navigation Laws—as a stepping-
stone to their total abolition—which he felt convinced
would be a measure most disastrous to our commercial
marine, and which would put in peril the naval supremacy
of England, by restricting the source from whence the
Royal Navy is supplied with seamen. He maintained
that the .suspension already tried, as far as experience
proved, had had no practically beneficial effect ; and he
insisted that the Government, instead of suspending the
Navigation Laws, ought to have employed all the vessels
of war that could be spared in carrying grain to this
country. By September next there would be no further
pretence for continuing the suspension of these laws.
Lord J. RUSSELL assured the noble lord that the mea-
sure was designed to be only temporary, and had no
reference whatever to any ulterior change in the perma-
nent Navigation Laws.
After a slight discussion, Lord G. BENTINCIE consented
to withdraw his opposition, as Lord John Russell had
announced that he would impartially consider the evidence
taken before the Navigation Laws committee.
The Custody of Offenders Bill passed through com-
mittee, and the report was ordered to be received on
Monday. .

The Stock in Trade Exemption Bill was read a second
time after some opposition from Sir R. Inglis and Lord
G. Bentinck, the latter of whom moved that the House
be counted. Sir G. Grey was then the only occupant of
the Ministerial benches, but by a sudden rush of members
the House was saved. _ .

Dr. Bow RING asked the Attorney-General whether the
property of Tawell, who was executed for murder, and
respecting which an official inquiry had lately taken place,
instead of escheating to the Crown, would be restored to
his widow ? _ _ _

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had been wholly
surprised at the turn given in various quarters to the late
inquisition into the property of the convict Tawell. The
hon. member was aware that the goods of convicts es-
cheated to the Crown ; but the widow of Tawell having
petitioned the crown that an inquisition into her late
husband's property might be made, with a view to itsbeing
vested in herself, the petition had been granted, and the
inquiry had taken place accordingly. ',Hear, hear.)
Lord SANDOM asked if the Governor of Hong Kong
had acted on his own responsibility in his expedition to
Canton ?

_ Lord J. RUSSELL replied that he had received instruc- I
tions to demand redress for injuries inflicted by the Chi-
nese authorities, of which he had sent home information ;
but other circumstances having since arisen, he had acted
without instructions as to the particular expedition.
To a question from Mr. Horsman, Lord MORPETH
replied that he intended, on the passing of the Health of
Towns Bill, to discontinue burials in crowded towns.
The House went into committee on the Health of

city of London, was carried on a division by 112 against
70. The Chairman reported progress, and obtain leave to
sit again at twelve o'clock on Monday.
The House then adjourned to Monday.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

This week the installation of Prince Albert will take
place at Cambridge. The Queen is to be present, and
would arrive there yesterday.

The Lord Bishop of Exetsr has been pleased to appoint
the Rev. William Maskell, M.A., of Broadleaze, near
Devizes, one of his lordship's domestic chaplains.
Friday's Gazette contains Orders in Council ratifying
three schemes of the ecclesiastical commissioners. The
first authorises the sale of certain lands now forming part

of the endowment of the prebend of Bishopshall, 'hi the
cathedral of Lichfield. The second and third assign dis-
tricts to the consecrated church of St. Peter, Birming-
ham, and to Newport Chapel, Bishop's Tawton, Devon.
COLONIAL SEES. —We have now twenty-two colonial
sees and dioceses ; viz., Antigua, Barbadoes, Bombay,
Calcutta, Gibraltar, Guiana, Jamaica, Madras, Montreal,
Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Tas-
mania, Toronto, Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide, Melbourne,
Cape Town, Colombo, and Fredericton. This ia a goodly
and a godly array ; but it is the forerunner only, we trust
and believe, of a far larger distribution of spiritual aid to
our vast colonial empire. The field for labour is bound-
less ; our duty, as a Christian state, to cultivate it, impe-
rative. Until recently, this duty was but feebly and par-

tially recognised ; but 'we are beginning to understand it
better; and we look forward to its future performance with
confidence. The impulse which has been given will have
a natural tendency to develop its own energies.—John
Bull.

OF THIS DIOCES.

the Bishop of Chester has divided the ruri-
t hitherto presided over by the " Rural dean

Ties of

he archdeaconry
.on (of Chester,

lof Chester." Hereafter, each
I Manchester, and Liverpool) will
his own district

e as rural dean over
1 and Archdeacon

s some of our read
a rural dean, we n

Ts may not

uties of the 'bisho,

better to inspect the Conduct of the

y, to inquire into and report dilapidatio
line the candidates for confirmation, and

.med, in minutt7 matters,. with an inferior degree
dicial and coercive authority.--Manchester Guardian

I FOREIGN 4- COLONIAL qNTELLIGENCE.

INDIA

By the last mail of the 20th of:May, we learn that Hy-
•derabad;the Metropolitan of the .Deccan, had been the
scene of military tumults in consequence of long arrears
of pay which were due to the soldiery. The consequence
had been that for the first time a body of English troops
entered Hyderabad; and should their presence fail to re-
store tranquillity, it appears the'Nizam's territories are so
surrounded with British bayonets, that large reinforce-
ments from the three Presidences can be instantaneously
despatched. The Deccan has long been in an unquiet
state, and the British authorities, not only in Madras,
but in Bombay and Bengal, have had to maintain an
uneasy attitude of preparation which renders it extremely
desirable, now that we have at last moved in the business,
to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion, which we have no
doubt Lord Hardinge will do.