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HOUSE OF LOP,DS.—TuEsDay.

The Constabulary Force (Ireland) Bill and the Parlia-
mentary Elections Bill, were severally passed through
Committee.
Lord CAMPBELL moved that the House should not
insist upon some of its amendments to the Public Health
Bill, which had been objected to by the House of Com-
mons, or ti►e bill, which still contained some valuable
principles, must be l►st for another year.
. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, though objecting to
many of the amendments of the House of Commons,
because they gave a power of jobbing to the local boards,
would, nevertheless, not give an excuse to the House of
Commons for depriving the public of the advantages the
bill even yet contained.
A short conversation ensued, after which the motion of
Lord Campbell was agreed to.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
At the early sitting, Mr. P. MAPLE in reply to Major
BLACKALL, stated that the subject of separate accommo-
dation for married soldiers, by taking them out of bar-
racks altogether, was under the consideration of the
government, and he trusted that ere long that object
would be effected.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR, at the instance of Mr. G. Thomp-
son, on behalf of Mr. J. Williams, explained the course
he intended to pursue w ith respect to the National Land
Company.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. Hume, stated
that it was the intention of the government to cause a
special inquiry to be made in Edinburgh, with reference
to the annuity tax for the support of the established
church of Scotland during the recess.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. SPOONER, ex-
plained the circumstances under which the gratuity of
£2,500 had been awarded to Sir C. Trevelyan by the
Treasury. The noble lord further stated that since the
matter had been debated Sir C. Trevelyan had expressed
an earnest desire to repay the amount in question ; but
his answer to that gentleman was, feeling fully convinced
of the valuable services performed, that he could not con-
sent to any repayment being made. If the hon. member
thought fit to bring forward a formal resolution of censure
on the government that would be a perfectly constitutional
course to take, and one which they were prepared to meet.
Mr. B. ORnorINE intimated that he should move
the disallowance of the whole sum, when the civil con-
tingencies out of which it had been paid were moved.
The House having gone into committee of supply, and
the vote for the sa!aiies and expenses of the Foreign-
office having been put,
Mr. D'ISRAELI proceeded in condemnatory terms to
bring the whole foreign policy of the government under
consideration.
Lord PALMERSTON replied seriatim to the allegations
brought forward by the hon. member.
Lord J. RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. Grogan, made a
statement relative to the new Queen's Col►eges in Ireland,
concluding his observations by stating that the course re-
cently taken by the Lord Lieutenant had been to make
these invitution3 as effective its it was originally propogoc.l
they should be. They were intended to be such as per-
sons of all religious denominations might resort to, and
the purpose of Parliament would not be answered if Roman
Catholics were excluded.

On the question of resuming the committee of supply,
Mr. URQUHART moved, as an amendment, "That from
the correspondence laid upon the table in reference to the
suppression of the slave trade in Mussulman countries, it
appeared that her Majesty's servants had adopted pro-
ceedings calculated to aggravate the horrors of the traffic
•and to alienate from this country the good will of the
governments and nations so•interfered with.
After an able reply from Lord PALMERSTON, and some
observations on the subject of the means at present taken
by this country for the suppression of the African slave
.trutle,
The amendment was put and negatived, and the
house went into committee, when the vote for thePoreign-
office was again put, which gave rise to a further debate
on foreign policy, in which Mr. MACGREGOR, Sir DE
LACY EVANS, Mr. HUME, Mr. P. HOWARD, Mr. UR-
QUHART, Mr. B. OSBORNE. Lord PALMERSTON, Lord
GEORGE BENTINCK, and Sir J. WALSH, took part ; at
• the termination of which the vote was agreed to, as were
various others, after some discussion on most of them,
and the house, having resumed, adjourned.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TIIURSDAY.
On the motion for the further consideration of the re-
port of the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill,
Some conversation took place between Sir H. Mermen
and Lord J. RUSSELL relative to the appointment of
a subordinate officer of the Post-office in the county of
Leicester, upon the recommendation of Mr. Gardner, the
rejected member for the borough of Leicester. In the
course of it his lordship remarked, that if Lord Clauri-
, carde had known that the late election for that borough
. had been made void in consequence of the bribery prac-
• tised at it by the agents of Mr. R. Gardner, he ought not
to have listened to their recommendation. He therefore
regretted that through inadvertence Lord Clanricarde had
taken the recommendation of Mr. R. Gardner ,and his
agents, but he was convinced that his lordship had not
done so with any view of encouraging corrupt practices in
the borough of Leicester.
After a short speech from Colonel SIBTUORP,
Sir C. BULLER, Mr. H. DRUMMOND, and Mr. MUL-
- LINOS made some observations on the distribution of the
patronage of the Government in the Post-office and the
Stamp-office at Shoreham, at Cirencester, and at some
village in the county of Surrey, which induced Mr. TUF-
NELL to enter into a brief but very satisfactory vindication
of the proceedings of the Treasury in that respect.
The report was then brought up and agreed to ; after
which the bill was recommitted and several clauses added
to it. The bill, as amended, was reported and ordered to
be read a third time to-morrow.
Lord PALMERSTON, in moving the second reading of
the Diplomatic Relations with the Court of Rome Bill,
. observed, that the grounds for this measure were so sim-
• pie and so much upon the surface that it was not requisite
for him to enter into any abstruse or refined argument to
show its necessity. Doubts, and doubts only, existed,
whether, by the interposition of certain old acts of Parlia-
ment, it was lawful for the Government of this country to
hold diplomatic intercourse with the Court of Rome.
Those doubts arose on the interposition of the word
" communion ;" but it appeared to him that the meaning
of the law prohibiting any " communion" of the Sove-
reign with the Court of Rome was simply this—that the
• Sovereign of England must be a Protestant. The " com-
munion" prohibited was only spiritual communion, and
was not the interchange of political and diplomatical com-
munications. As doubts, however, were entertained on
that point, it was deemed necessary to introduce a bill
authorising diplomatic intercourse and communication
with the Court of Rome. He then proceeded to obviate
the objections raised against it, and to explain the advert-
' tages which were !ikely to accrue from passing it. After
showing that the presence of an English Ambassador at
the Court of Rome and of a Roman Ambassador at the
Court of St. James's could not injure the faith of our So-
vereign, he proceeded to demonstrate that the want of in-
tercourse with the Court of Rome was injurious to our in-
terests; for we could not now make any commercial treaty
with the Court of Rome to obtain for our merchants and
manufacturers those advantages which commercial treaties
afforded to them in every other part of the world. As no
constitutional danger could arise from the enactment of
this measure, and as great commercial advantages would
arise from passing it into law, he had no hesitation in re-
commending it to the support of the house.
Mr. C. ANSTEY had expected to hear some explanation
of the bill itself and of the objects which it was to accom-
plish ; but not a word on either of those points had the
noble lord uttered. After analyzing the bill clause by
clause, and condemning them all one after another, the
hon. member coacluded by moving, that it be read a
second time that day six months.
Mr. thee:Lunar-ex seconded the amendment.
Sir R. INGLIS complained, like Mr. Anstey, of the
insufficiency of the speech which Lord Palmerston had
made that evening for the introduction of so important a
change into the constitution of England, and almost pitied
his lordship for having been reduced to the painful neces-
sity of pleading as his reasons for this bill the importance
of consulting the commercial interests of England in Italy
and the increased facility which it would give to British
subjects to obtain the ccnstruction of a railroad over the
Pontine marslaes for abridging their communications with
India, He called en the bonse to reflect at what time

nis bill was brought in, who was Pope, and what the
Court-of Rome now was. The bill was introduced into
this house on the 10th of August, at a time when the
Pope had violated all his obligations to Austria, the chief
benefactor of the Papacy, when the Pope had been unable
to protect the Austrian Ambassador from the attacks of
the rabble of Rome, and when he had absolutely blessed
the arms of the soldiery whom he sent to attack the Aus-
trian forces ' • and all this, too, at a period when England
was more alive than ever to the rampant and aggressive
character of the Church of Rome against the Protestantism
of the world. He did not object to enter into negotiations
with the temporal Sovereign of Rome, no matter what his
religion might be. He did not object to recognize the
civil governor of Rome, even though he should be another
Rienzi ; but he did object to recognize the spiritual
governor of Rome and of all the Roman Catholic popula-
tion of the world. The Pope had millions of subjects in
this country, and he would not give to the Pope the direct
means of issuing his powerful edicts to them without any
restraint. He had another objection to this bill—it nei-
ther conciliated the affections of the Protestants nor satis-
fied the wishes of the Roman Catholics, who in March
last had denounced it to the Pope in the strongest lan-
guage. Besides, the result of the diplomatic communi-
cations of other Protestant states, especially Prussia,
with the Pope was most unsatisfactory.
Several other members then addressed the house, after
which the second reading of the bill was carried by a ma-
jority of 125 to 46.