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imprriat parliament:

HOUSE OF LORDS

MONDAY

Lord Brougham's new Bankruptcy and Insolvency
Mill was read a second time.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then moved the first reading
-of a bill to facilitate the sale of encumbered estates in
Ireland.
After some remarks from Lord STANLEY, the bill was
wad a first time, it being understood that the second read-
ing should not take place before Easter.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

ONDAY

explanatory speech, moved the
service Bill, which proposes

- Mr. Fox MAULT
second reading of the Arm}

the infantry, and twelve in the cavalry, artillery, and en-
gineers, with the option of re-enlistment for a second pe-
riod of eleven years in the former, and twelve in the latter,

making a total service of twenty-one years in the inf
and twenty-four in the cavalry and ordnance, be

BELLEV

BROWI4

man would become entitled to leis discharge on 1.4
- - - -

If at the expirat

Hods a man

he would only be permitted

desired to remain in the army,
to do so with the consent of the commanding officer, will,
an undertaking to give three months notice of his inten-
tion to quit the service. in-the event of qnittingthe army
at the termination of the first period of enlistment, then,
and in order to entitle himself to a deferred pension, a
man would be called upon to enrol himself as a pensioner
liable to be called out for twelve days' service in each year
for a period of twenty-two -years, by which regulatior
supposing him to have entered the
eighteen, at fifty he would be left in the uninterrupte
enjoyment of it during the remainder of his life.

army at the age of

Sir H. DOUGLAS, after a long experience on active ser-
vice in the colonies and els where, expressed his entire
disapproval of the proposed alteration in the system of
enlistment. A discussion, in which several other gallant
officers took part, ensued, after which the bill was read a
second time. _ _ _

The question of going into committee on the Poor Re-
lief (Ireland) Bill, originated a farther discussion on Irish
distress:

, 5,6, 7, and 8, were

In the committee, clauses 3,
agreed to with some amendments
The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and obtained
leave to sit again on Wednesday. The. Prisons Bill and
the Custody of Offenders Bill were respectively considered
in committee, and the reports ordered to be received.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and

the house adjourned

HOUSE OF LORDS.—!
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petiti

holders of Si.
Lion of their t. intertert.
their behalf. Between seventy and eighty millioi,
money were due principally to British subjects, advanet
by way of loan to Spain, 'with the object of enabling that
power to resist the aggressions of France.
The Earl of CLARENDON could say that. the statement
.r.f +b. r..tifinnaska lama tAarfa.rtiii enrrPet. It was nuite true

Maims, and for IE

that the revenues
1836, and if the at
had not hen distr

of 4Spain had doubled

he yea

il by foreign
emotion on ti

Land, and domest

one of the richest Etates in
er, bound to say she had never
repudiation. It must not, bow-

Center

410 RoMan Catholic magistrates in the different counties
of Ireland, it would give the T-qotestant guardians &power
of controlling the Catholio chaplains and of inteisfering
wild the education of the Catholic children in the
hoffses. The clause, thelifore, as it stood, would ,make
provision for religious intolerance, persecution, amd .as-
cendancy in its most cruel? farm. He, therefore, 'called
upon every friend of peace to support him in his amend-

Sir G. GREY supported the clause, and deeply regretted,
that the introduction of ithad occasioned any disaussicrn

involving religious considerations. When it was proposed
that a great burden -should 'be imposed on property in
Ireland, it was thought proper that there should also 'be
an increase in the representation of the property in

boards of guardians He sincerely trusted that ,-tka
clause would not be productive of the results stated lby
Mr. Hume; but if it should, it would be better met Axy.t

law, than by any indirect mode%ef
limiting the number of ex officio guardians.
4. discussion of some..length ensued, in which Mr.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD, Mr. S. O'BRIEN, Mr.
Mr. FITZGERALD, Mr. CALLAGHAN, Mr. V.
STUAurr, arld Mr. B. Escort-1; supported the amendment;
f3RAW, Sir J. B.OrVALSH, the CHANCELL©R 'Of
Mr. :.1.4.111{0Y, and Mr. STAFFORD

)ke in favour of the original clause

The Conrmittee then divided on the amendment, when

Majority against the amendment

The reinaininc, clauses e the bill were then agreed to.
Mr. SHAW then proposed certain clauses, with the in-
tention of rendering the owners of tithe rent charges
liable to be rated according'to their net annual incomes:;
but after -seine conversation, in which Sir G. GREY and
others joined, was induced to withdraw them on the under-
standing that they should be,proposed on bringing up the
report, along with some amendments which Government
wished to make in them.

Mr. J. O'CONNELL, upon a similar understanding, also
postponed till the report his eause, enacting that a chapel
or apartment should_be especially reserved at all times in

nation of Christians among the .paupers.
The Cu AIRIVIAN then reported progress, and obtained
leave to sit again on Monday. _ _ _ _ _

Mr. IlAw2s, in laying on the table a despatch from the
Lieutenant-Governor of New ,Brunswick to Earl Grey,
stated that the Legislative Assembly of that colony had

Mourned.

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HOUSE OF LORI

FRIDAY

nd to report on the recommenda-

ral parliamentary committees and coin-
of the Irish .poor, as relAting to the
ing permanently the system of out-
-bodied labourer; and on the effect
well-beinr of Ireland, and the

id the immi

ation of

upers into Great Britain.; and also to consider
report on the effects .of enlarging the present
31 divisions, for the putpose of raising and levying
;essments under the poor law. The noble lord,
eclaring that nothing could be further from his
Mn than a desire to embark
on their lordships in

very 1

.speech to look

a cont

,ed in various report

bill which would

lower house
[e which, as

to show, had

,
lrown by that experience and those reports.
Ey could not agree to the motion of the noble

Non-cont

Majorit

Mortimer

On the 14th .and 15th of January, a fall of fine ashes
took place in the Feroe Isles ; and as the wind was blow-
ing south and south-east at the time, it was supposed that
an eruption of ?daunt Hecla was the cause of •the pheno-
menon.

Prom inscriptions lately discovered on a tomb at Rome,
it would seem that the ancient Romans had philharmonic
societies ; for one of the men buried in the vault is de-
scribed as a member of the collegiurn symphoniacorum.,
and a cymbal player. ,
Much excitement has been created among the English
residents in Egypt, by the robbery 'of a box containing
1500 sovereigns, which had been sent from England for
Bombay,. and 'was stolen from the offices of the transit
company, at Cairo.
Thousands of persons assembled at Racine, Wisconsin,
to see a manmamed Bonham hung for murder. 'The she-
riff informed the people that Governor Dodge had re-
prieved the prisoner for thirty days, whereupon they hung
the effigy of the governor, and then separated .peaceably.
—Netv Yotk.gun.

A recent .letter from Rome states that a few days ago
Mr. Harford, chairman of the committee in Rome for
collecting ‘subscriptions to • relieve the distressed chish,
waited on his holiness the Pope, with a deputation, to
thank him for contributing 1,000 scudi to the sameobject.
The:Pope was much affected. He replied very graciously
and feelingly.
'Some French surgeons have subjected to the influence
of sulphuric ether several conscripts who were suspected
to feign various deformities, in order to obtain exemption,
from military service. As the muscular systen3 was com-
pletely relaxed after the ether had been inhaled, allartifi-
cial malformations disappeared ; and several " malinge-
rers" were thus detected.

The Prince of Capua has at length effected a reconcilia-
tion with 'brother, the King of Naples. The wife of
the former is to be received at court, and is to have the
title of Duchess of Mascali. The prince is to be allowed
an apanage of 60;000 ducats and arrears to the amount of
150,000 ducats. Hir sons, as princes, are to receive the
annual income.crf 6,000 ducats, and a marriage portion of
30,000 ducats.
An American missionary has discovered a remarkable
ancient monument near the source of the Orontes, in
Syria. It is described as a large solid structure, 25 feet
square and about 70 feet in height, terminating at top in a
'pyramid. The sides are said to be covered with the
figures of animals. The place where this monument has
been found is-supposed to be Riblah, where Nebuchad-
nezzar slew the Jewish nobles.
THE RIVAL kROIiTES TO INDIA.—The Courrier -de
Marseilles of the 20th says,—" We are enabled to state
that the struggle :which has so long existed between the
Marseilles and Trieste routes is at last terminated. The
EngUsh government has given orders that the steamer
Ardent, which had been placed at the disposition.of -Mr
Warhorn for his different trials, should

return to Meltn,
and-it arrived thereon the 15th. The English govern-
ment has definitelv•adopted the Marseilles route."

Important
_intelligence has arrived from Monte Video

by the Danish brig Margarita, arrived at Falmouth. An
action was fought on the 26th of January between
Ri-
veira's forces and a division of General Oribe's troops,
which resulted in the total defeat of the former, who is
said -4 at 111-'2

in have arrrveu _ _..ardonado with two or three hun-
dred followers only. The towns of Paysander, Mercedes,
and Las Vascas have fallen into the hands of General
Oribe's troops ; but Colonia, which is garrisoned by Bri-
tish and French marines, still remains to the Government
of Monte Video.

MURDER NEAR NAmuct.—An event of a very melan-
choly nature is just now the engrossing subject of conver-
sation in the salotu. On last Saturday night, the young
fount de Liederkeke, the representative of one of the
noblest families of Belgium, entered a small chapel, con-
tiguous to his chateau, in the neighbourhood of Namur,
and, without any notice, fired'at his two sisters, who were
engaged in their devotions. The eldest sister fell dead on
the spot. The count then fired twice at the survivor, and
legislation I the second timewounded her mortally. T.he miserable

rpetrator of this double deed then hiirried away, vow-
; vengeance against other members of his family. It is
red that he has destroyed himself, as he has not yet
en found, and as his dog returned late at night to the