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committee with the Government of India Bill, when several
amendments were moved and negatived.

The Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Bill was read a
second time, after a long discussion and amendment
postponing the second reading for three months, which
was negatived by 141 to 23.

"In committee on the Stamp Duties (No. 2) Bill, on
the clause for altering the duty on newspaper supplements,
Mr. NEWDEGATE moved the omission of the
clause, as being calculated to benefit the rich newspapers
at the expense of the poor ones. On a division, the
clause was agreed to by 92 to 40. The remainder of the
clauses were then disposed of, and the bill passed through
committee.

On Tuesday, July 26, on the early sitting, the India
Bill was further proceeded with in committee. In the
evening the house met again, and was immediately
counted out.

                 PROGRESS OF BUSINESS.

House of Lords.—June 27th.—Tynemouth and Barnstaple,
commissions of inquiry agreed to.—Income Tax Bill read a
third time and passed.—Excise Duties on Spirits Bill read a
second time.

30th.—Jamaica, Duke of Newcastle's statement.—
Punishment of Transportation Bill read a first time.

July 4th.—Church Building Acts Amendment Bill
committed.—Excise Duties on Spirits Bill passed.

5th.—East India Company's Forces Bill read a first time.—
Encumbered Estates Court (Ireland) Bill passed.

7th.—Russia and Turkey, Lord Clanricarde's motion postponed.
Wilson's Estate Bill (Hampstead Heath) thrown out.
Soap Duties Bill passed.—East India Company's Forces Bill
withdrawn.

8th.—Savings' Banks Annuities Bill read a second time.—
Prevention of Bribery Bill read a first time.

11th.—Convicted Prisoners' Removal and Confinement Bill
read a second time.—Savings' Banks Annuities Bill committed.

12th.—Juvenile Mendicancy Bill committed.—Convicted
Prisoners' Bill committed.—Savings' Banks Annuities Bill
passed.

14th.—Criminal Law Digest postponed till next session.—
Church Building Acts Amendment Bill withdrawn.—Juvenile
Mendicancy Bill reported.—Convicted Prisoners Bill passed.

15th.—Polling at Elections Bill withdrawn.—Juvenille
Mendicancy Bill passed.

18th.—Transportation Bill committed.—Colonial Church
Regulation Bill read a second time.

I9th.—Scotch Bankruptcy Bill committed.—Battersea Park
Bill committed.—Westminster Bridge Bill committed.—
Succession Duty Bill read a first time.

21st.—Battersea Park Bill passed.—Colonial Church
Regulation Bill committed.—Transportation Bill passed.

22nd.—Succession Duty Bill read a second time.—Colonial
Church Regulation Bill reported with amendments.—Scotch
Bankruptcy Bill read a second time.

25th.—Succession Duties Bill passed through committee,
Lord Derby's amendment negatived.—Colonial Church
Regulation Bill read a third time and passed.

26th.—General Health of Towns Bill passed through committee.
Parish Vestries Bill read a second time.—Bankruptcy
Court (Scotland) and Public House (Scotland) Bill read a third
time.—Courts of Common Law (Ireland) Bill read a second
time.

House of Commons.—June 27th.—India Bill debate resumed
and adjourned.—Stamp Duties Bill read a second time.

28th.—Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill committed.—Ballot,
Mr. Carter's motion.

29th.—Transfer of Land (Ireland) Bill read a second time.—
Ballot, Lord D. Stuart's motion.

30th.—India Bill, Lord Stanley's amendment negatived, and
bill read a second time.—New writ for Liverpool.

July 1st.—Customs, &c., Acts in committee.—Resolution
against Advertisement Duty carried.—Westminster Bridge
Bill passed.—Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill passed.

4th.—New writ for Cornwall.—Succession Duty Bill in
committee.—Assistant Judge (Middlesex) Bill read a second
time.—Savings' Banks Annuities Bill passed.

5th.—New writ for North Derby.—Merchant Shipping Bill
in committee.—Ecclesiastical Courts, leave given Mr. Collier
to bring in a bill.—Limited labour in factories, leave given
Mr. Cobbett to bring in a bill.

7th.—Russia aud Turkey, Mr. Layard's motion postponed.
Succession Duties Bill passed through committee.—Landlord
and Tenant Bill (Ireland) in committee.—Entry of Seamen
Bill, and Naval Coast Volunteers' Bill read a first time.

8th.—Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill in committee.—
Russia and Turkey. Mr. Layard's motion again postponed.—
India Bill in committee.

11th.—Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill in committee.—
Government of India Bill in committee.—Leave given the
Attorney–General to bring a Bill for Suppression of Betting–
houses.—Stamp Duties Bill passed.

12th.—Merchant Shipping Bill in committee.—Malt Tax,
Mr. Ball's motion.

13th.—County Rates and Expenditure Bill withdrawn,—
Probate of Wills Bill withdrawn.—Simony Bill withdrawn.—
Juvenille Offenders' Bill read a first time.

14th.—Manchester and Salford Education Bill withdrawn.
Scotch Universities Bill read a second time.—Succession
Duty Bill reported.—Government of India Bill in committee.
Entry of Seamen Bill read a second time.—Naval Coast
Volunteers' Bill read a second time.—Courts of Common Law
(Ireland) Bill passed.—Elections Bill passed.

18th.—Succession Duty Bill passed.—India Bill in committee.
Thames Embankment Bill committed.—Metropolitan
Sewers Bill read a second time.

20th.—Vaccination Bill read a second time.—Attorneys'
Certificate Duty Bill thrown out on second reading.—Recovery
of Personal Liberty Bill, adjourned debate on Mr. Phinn's
amendment.

21st.—Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill committed.—
Tenant Compensation (Ireland) Bill in committee.—Edinburgh
Clergy Annuity Bill withdrawn.—India Bill in committee.—
Charitable Trusts Bill read a second time.—Posthorse and
Hackney Carriage Resolutions agreed to.—Newspaper Duties
(No. 2) Bill recommitted and reported.

22nd.—Tenants' Compensation Bill committed.—Pilotage
Bill in committee.—India Bill in committee.—Encumbered
Estates Continuance Bill committed pro formâ.—Thames
Embankment Bill passed.

25th.—Entry of Seamen Bill passed through committee.—
India Bill in committee.

20th.—India Bill in committee.—Evening sitting, House
counted out.

               NARRATIVE OF LAW AND CRIME.

A SINGULAR case has arisen out of the Will of the late
Earl of Bridgewater. He died in 1823, and it was
found that he had devised a great portion of his vast
property to Lord Alford, son of Earl Brownlow, with
remainder in succession to the Egertons of Tatton,
Nulton and Malpas in Cheshire, and their heirs–male;
but he annexed to the possession of the estates the
strange condition that the possessor under the will
should obtain the marquisate or dukedom of Bridgewater
within five years, or that the property should
pass to the next heir. Lord Alford became possessed of
the property, and assumed the name of Egerton, in
1849, on the death of the Countess of Bridgewater;
but he died in 1851 without having fulfilled the
condition in the will; and his son filed a bill in Chancery
against the trustees, praying that he might be declared
equitable tenant in tail–male in possession. To this
Mr. Charles Henry Egerton, brother of the late Lord
Alford, demurred; and Lord Cranworth decided, that
as the late Lord Alford had not attained to the dignity
of marquis or duke of Bridgewater, the estates passed
to Mr. Charles Henry Egerton. Against this decree
the son of the late Lord Alford, John William Spencer
Brownlow Egerton, has appealed to the House of Lords;
and the case has been in part heard. A great array of
counsel appeared on either side. The general arguments
for the appellant were, that the condition was a
condition subsequent, and therefore illegal; that it was
against public policy thus to tie up the estate and
embarrass the Crown; that Lord Alford could not
comply with the proviso, for he could not make himself
marquis or duke of Bridgewater; and that therefore
the condition could not be performed. Counsel
having been heard, the Lord Chancellor, on the 30th
ult., submitted several questions to the judges for their
opinion; and the judges requesting time, judgment
was postponed.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, Mrs. Bowden, an
elderly lady, obtained Damages (£150) against the
Great Western Railway Company. As Mrs. Bowden
was crossing Southampton Street, Mornington Crescent,
she was knocked down by a heavy parcel–cart belonging
to the company; one of her legs was broken, she has
suffered much, and will probably be a cripple for the
remainder of her life. When the case was over. Lord
Campbell said, he thougnt it right to state that these
vehicles should not go at the pace they very often do as
they turn the corners of streets. It is impossible to go
along the streets of London without seeing her Majesty's
subjects in fearful peril. Only a short time since, one
of her Majesty's judgesMr. Commisioner Phillips
met with a very similar accident, and sustained most