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Sir G. GREY replied, in substance, that they were still
under consideration, and that they would be introduced as
soon as they had attained a shape in which they could be
presented-to the house. It was now the intention of the
government to remove by the bill the existing limit on the
increase of the police force, to leave the increase of that

aurce LO De ettecteu in any Disturocu oistrict, to toe Dis-
cretion of Lord Lieutenant, to charge the whole ex-
pense of the extra force upon the disturbed district to

which it might be sent, and
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right honourable gentleman

state of the law In England as regards accessories, to
which the law in Ireland had several years since been assi-
milated.

Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL had listened with patience,
amazeraept, and sorrow, to the speech of Sir G. Grey,

reland was concerned, as the lightest thing in the

After alengthened debate,

Mr. SHARIAN CRAWFORD said that if he could per-
suade hiniself that the bill would repress crime in Ireland,
be would.give it his ready support ; but it was because he
believed that instead of repressing it, it would only aggra-
vate it, that he felt himself bound to vote against it. The
system of Irish landlordism was the true cause of Irish
crime. They heard much of the rights of property, but
were they- to have no respect for the rights of labour ? in
Ireland the poor man had no security for the fruits of his
labour. Hence the crime which they all deplored.
Mr. MbowE supported the bill, severely criticising the
conduct of certain organs of public opinion, which " pan-
dered to the vile animosities of race, and poisoned the
social virtues of the English people."
After a few words from Captain llarris and Sir W.
Verner, the house divided, and the numbers were—For
the second reading, 296 ; against it, 19 r majority for, 277.
The bill was then read a second time.
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_ OUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY.

Sir R.lNGLisinqiiirW;TWiiWit was true that the
Earl of Minto was now at Rome, and whether he had
signed a-convention with the Court of Rome for the
establishment of diplomatic relations with the Sovereign
of Great Britain.

Lord PALMERSTON said he was happy to have an op-
portunq of answering the question. The Earl of Minto
bad been, as was well known, for some months in Rome,
but he was not there in any official capacity whatever.
He had no instructions to negotiate any convention with
the Court of Rome, nor was he in any way accredited to
that court. The rumour alluded to by the right hon.
baronet Was therefore, wholly destitute of foundation.
He would add, that as long as any doubts remained of the
legality of holding diplomatic relations with the Court of
Rome, her Majesty's advisers had too much respect for
the law to do anything which would be construed into an
infringenient of it. The doubts he referred to rested
upon thetconstruction to be placed upon the word " com-
munion." The law forbids the Crown to hold " com-
munion" with the Court of Rome, and the question was,
whether this " communion" had reference only to the
sacrament of religion or to diplomatic communion. It
was not for him to state his opinion upon the subject, but
he had no difficulty in saying that until Parliament should
have cleared up this doubt as to the law, her Majesty's
government would take no step which could by possibility
be construed- into a contravention of the law.
A short discussion arose out of a statement made the
previous evening by Mr. B. Cochrane to the effect that
Dr. Ryan, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick, had
in his address to his clergy incited the' people to assassi-
nate their landlords. The Earl Of LincoLN, Mr. LABOU-
CHERE, and other hon. members spoke h very high terms
of Dr. Ryan, and spoke also in high terms of eulogium of
the general' conduct of the Roman Catholic clergy.
The house went into committee on the Crime and
Outrages (Ireland) Bill,•and the discussion of the clauses
occupiectthe remainder of the evening.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
ALTAR CUP,'MEETING, DEC. 9 Aiin 10.
The SEFTON CLTV WaS won by Mr. Woolf's Major ; Mr.
Graham's Lion ran up.
The MOLYNEUX PLATE was won by Lord Sefton's Sea
Breeze ; ;Mr. Swan's Scorpion ran up.
The C,ROXTFTR PURSE was won by Mr. Taylor's Tiny
Salute; Mr. Woolf's Nimble ran up.

GOOD SPORT.—During a short stay at Redeastle, D.
Baillie, Esq., and A. Baillie, Esq., shot 1200 head of
game. The list includes six red deer, five roe, pheasants,
partridges, hares, rabbits, a good many couple of wood-
cocks, and last, though not least in the bag, four seals.
Some of these huge aquatics find their way up the firth ;
their general place of resort is a sandbank nearly opposite
to Redcastle, where the performance of their uncouth
gambols is occasionally arrested by the arrival of a few
well-aimed rifle-bullets.—lnverness Courier.

T H E

CHASE,

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THE CrIES HIRE HOUNDS—On Wednesday (to-morrow),
at BunkeloW; Thursday, at Cholmondeley ; Saturday, at
Wrenbury— at half-past ten.
SIR W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS—On Tuesday (this day),
at Kennels; Thursday, at Queen's Head ; Friday, at
Carden—at half-past ten.