corporal punishments in the navy, and charged the
Board of Admiralty with testifying an inveterate
attachment to its severities.—Sir J. GRAHAM, after
repudiating the charge of fondness for corporal punishments
on the part of the Admiralty Board, proceeded to
deny the accuracy of the statements on which the
motion was founded. The conduct of Commander
Warren and his crew had been thoroughly scrutinised
by the appointed authorities; the matter was now
closed, the vessel had gone to the Baltic under another
commander, and the crew were perfectly contented and
orderly. He deprecated any interference on the part of
the house with the delicate question of discipline; and
in the case actually before them contended that there
was no occasion for doing more than the Admiralty had
already done with all the parties concerned. After
some remarks from Mr. L. Heyworth and Admiral
Berkeley, Mr. Williams withdrew his motion.

Mr. J. GREENE moved for a select committee to consider
the cheapest and most efficient mode of providing
for the Printing required by the Legislature or for the
Public Service. He intimated that he was prepared to
show the possibility of saving £40,000 in the single item
of parliamentary printing by the introduction of improved
processes, and he only wished for an opportunity
of submitting his plans to the judgment of a select committee.
—The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER declared
that the printing required for the public departments
was already performed upon the most economical
arrangements. The parliamentary printing might, he
thought, afford some margin for reduction, but the
session was too far advanced to give any chance of useful
result from the inquiries which a select committee might
institute on the subject. As to the new machinery and
processes for printing, he considered that the house
could not expediently interfere with scientific inventions
or private enterprise.—The motion was supported
by Mr. M'Mahon and Mr. Geach, and opposed by Mr.
Wilson.—The motion, after some further discussion,
was carried upon a division, by 56 votes to 32.

On Wednesday, July 19, Lord J. RUSSELL, in moving
that the Lords' amendments to the Oxford University
Bill be considered on the 27th inst., made a statement
relative to the Business before the House. The Lords
having resolved that no bills from the Commons
(except bills of supply) be read a second time after the
25th of July, unless of peculiar urgency, he proposed
that the bills to be sent up to that house should be sent
by Monday next.

The adjourned debate on the motion for leave to
bring in a Church Temporalities Bill was resumed.—
Mr. Serjeant SHEE, in a long reply, answered the
statements made by the opponents of his motion, Sir J.
Young, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, and Mr. Napier. He did
not wish, he said, to press the motion to a division,
unless the house desired it.—Mr. Cogan advised him not
to divide. The subject he thought more fit for the
consideration of a committee.—Mr. NEWDEGATE
characterised the motion as an unprincipled attack upon the
church establishment in Ireland, with a view to its
overthrow.—Mr. BOWYER should vote for the motion,
though he did not concur with the principle of the
proposed measure.—Mr. Brady expressed a similar
opinion and the same intention.—Upon a division, the
motion for leave to introduce the bill was negatived by
117 to 31.

On Thursday, July 20, at the morning sitting, the
consideration in committee of the Bribery Bill was
resumed at clause 33. Considerable discussion took
place upon a more stringent form of declaration, which
Sir F. KELLY proposed to substitute for the words
originally set forth in the clause by which returned
members were to affirm that they had neither paid nor
authorised the payment of any money on account of
their election, otherwise than through the officially
appointed election officer. Ultimately the amended
declaration was carried, as was the clause itself, after two
divisions.

In the evening, in reply to Mr. Disraeli, Lord J.
RUSSELL stated that the amount for which the government
intended to ask for a Vote of Credit was £3,000,000.
The whole of this sum, he further intimated, was expected
to accrue from the ways and means already granted.

The house having again resolved itself into committee,
resumed progress upon the Bribery Bill, and passed all
the remaining clauses of the measure. Upon an
additional clause, proposed by Lord R. Grosvenor, a
prolonged debate ensued touching the legality or expediency
of permitting candidates to pay for the conveyance of
voters to the polling places, or to issue refreshment
tickets. The clause strictly prohibited all payments
upon either account, and was carried to a division, but
rejected by a majority of 190 to 86.—Mr. STANHOPE
moved the insertion of a clause legalising the issue of
refreshment tickets, not exceeding the value of 2s. each,
to the voters at elections. Upon division this clause was
also rejected by 142 votes to 126. Several more additional
clauses remained for consideration, and a conversation
took place respecting the course which should be
pursued with regard to them.—Lord J. RUSSELL, with
the view of getting the bill through a stage, proposed
that it should be reported then, leaving the residuary
propositions to be considered when the report was
brought up.—In the course of subsequent discussion Mr.
BRIGHT expressed some censure of the resolution passed
by the Peers fixing an arbitrary date as the last day for
taking up new bills. This determination, he contended,
fettered the House of Commons, and compelled them to
hurry important measures without proper discussion.
—Lord J. RUSSELL explained the reasons which had
induced the other branch of the legislature to pass the
resolution in question, but believed that it was not
irrevocable, and would be waived if necessary in favour of
a measure so important as the bribery bill.—After
some further debate respecting the time at which the
subsequent stages of the measure should be taken,
the bill was passed through committee, and ordered to
be reported.

On Friday, July 21, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
brought up a message from the Crown, in which
her Majesty expressed her reliance on the loyalty and
affection of her faithful Commons to provide for the
Necessities of the War with Russia. He moved that
the message should be taken into consideration on
Monday next.—Mr. Disraeli declared that he would
give every assistance to her Majesty in carrying on the
war. He trusted, however, that under the existing
state of public affairs, the ministry would give some
assurance that an autumnal session should be held,
or the legislature be called together before the end of
the year.

The consideration of the Bribery Bill as amended
was then proceeded with, but, after some time, on the
suggestion of Mr. SPOONER, the house went into
committee on the bill, as being more convenient for the
discussion of the numerous amendments which were to
be proposed.—An addition to clause 10, prohibiting
flags, bands of music, and the chairing of members after
elections, was moved by Sir F. KELLY, and adopted
upon a division by a majority of 106 to 57—49. Sir F.
Kelly afterwards proposed to modify clause 15, so as
to provide that payments made bonâ fide for registration
expenses, or charitable purposes, should not be
considered corrupt expenditure as defined by the bill.
After a prolonged discussion, the committee divided.
For the amended proviso, 234; against 16.—The
omission of clause 31 (the declaration clause) was
moved by Mr. V. SMITH. On a division there appeared,
for the clause, 128, against it, 120. The Chairman,
having been ordered to report progress, a long and
warm debate ensued, upon a proposition by Lord J.
RUSSELL for proceeding with the bill at the noon
sitting next day.—Lord GALWAY moved as an amendment
that the committee should sit again on Monday.
This amendment was pressed to a division, and negatived
by a majority of 80, the numbers being 144 to 64.
After some discussion and another division, the bill was
ordered to stand for progress next day at twelve.

Lord D. STUART moved that the house should go
into committee on the Russian Government Securities
Bill.—Mr. HANKEY opposed the motion. After some
discussion the debate was adjourned to Monday.

On Monday, July 24, the house having gone into a
committee of supply, Lord J. RUSSELL moved that a
vote of £3,000,000 be granted as a credit towards the
expenses of the war. He briefly stated the extent of the