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which he had

nce, on tl
ties, the purport of which was to pr
cori►miss►on to inquire into the sta
Colleges of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, witl
assist in the adaptation of these important institu
requirements of modern times.

given noti

subject of the Univer
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view to
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the propriety of withd

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upon t

carried by 273 against 31
Mr. ROEBUCK moved for a s
of Sir T. Turton,
The motion was agreed to

the defalcation!
Court at Bengal

Ir. Hen]

Mr. MITCHELL, in postponing the committee on the Wood
used for Shipping Bill, inquired of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer what were his intentions with respect to this bill.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that as he
ludiPtri,l it itiinticsiihin to rin,ices ~e - ..•

OF COMMON
moved the secon

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juienit

ing thei
taken
present
a year.

.nt of asylums, with a r

idence from various

REY opposed the bill, as did Sir (

land. M

mittee upor

to those
tion to t

and Col. Thump Son, and ultimately Mr. Manes

different
pursued
to (lecith
ing too n
be el:min-
Mr. Cr

D, in moving that the house
the Affirmation Bill, obser

who had a religious
oath. As the law n(

rutuaN had heard nothing to lead him to take a
Purse with respect to this bill from that which he had
st session. The leaving it to the option of the judge
7hether a parry should he sworn or not was intrust-
ch to judicial discretion. Ile moved that the bill
ted that day six months.
Ft T 1 ET RN admitted the importance

cases, the principle should be carried out in all

oaths, as afford-
ly ground upcn

Unwed in some

NEIVDEGATE having spf,ken against the bill, and Sir E.
BUXTON in its favour, the house divided, when the amendment
was carried by 118 against 129. This bill was therefore lost.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—
Mr. J. :-A'L'A RT gave notice of his intention to move,
amendment, to Mr. Ileywood's motion for a royal commission
to inquire into the universities, a resolution to the effect that
any advice given to her Majesty to issue a royal commission to
inquire into the revenues and management of any college or
hall in the universities, not of royal foundation, tends to a vio-
lation of the laws and constitution of the kingk
rights and liberties of her Majesty's subjects.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHLFWER stated that he had
found upon consultation that the course he had last propoF-

r II URSDAY

tom, and of the

rest). ct to the stamp duties %,ould lead to evasion ; he
would, therefore, postpone the committee on the stamp duties
bill for a week, to take time and see whether or not it was pos-

Dr. Gutzlaff attended a large meeting, at Amsterdam,
on the 20th inst., and the King of Holland has had
several interviews with the learned gentleman, and takes
great interest in his labours.
The Sardinian Government is about to execute a grand
engineering project; it is going to pierce the summit-
ridge of the Alps with a tunnel twice as long as any exist-
ing tunnel in the world, nearly twenty miles.
In Madrid the talk runs very confidently that Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte, the President of the French Re-
public, has solicited a matrimonial alliance with a sister
of the King Consort ! A Bonaparte seeking to wed a
Bourbon:! What next ?

M. Thiers is going to quit Paris for Italy, for the bene-
fit of his health. This is the alleged reason, but there is
good ground for thinking that he finds himself distrusted
by his former friends, and therefore deems a short retire-
ment from public life indispensable.
Two officers of the 45th Foot, stationed at the Bolem
fjontier post, in South Africa, in the month of January
last, killed five fine lions and a leopard, in the course of
two mornings' shooting excursions, within an hour and
a half's ride of the cantonment.
Two American whalers were destroyed by fire in the
harbour of Honolulu, in the Sandwich Islands, during
the month of November last. It is suspected that the
fires were wilfully caused by some of the crews, with the
view of freeing themselves from their engagements, in
order to proceed to California.
The government has received accounts from Switzer-
land to the effect that M. Mazzini refuses to quit that
, notwithstanding the reiterated orders of the
The French government threatens that

government

overnmentcannot enforce its orders, othe

powers will do so in its stead

The Washington correspondent of the Montreal Pilot
tes that Sir H. and Lady Bulwer are exceedingly popu-
.

She has est.

of dinner anti tea, doing the honours
Her parties are described as

tea table herself

very pleasant anc

ion now fitting out by Henry Grimnell, of
w go in search of Sir John Franklin, will be
co sail by the first of May. Tt consists of two yes-
'lied the Advance and Rescue, which are to be
ipped, guarded, and strengthened in the most
manner against the ice, and provisioned for a

The expe
New York,

corn plet

two years' voya-Te