and assuring her of the readiness of the house to grant
all necessary supplies for the war, but praying the
Queen not to prorogue parliament until some information
had been afforded with respect to the progress of
the war and our relations with foreign powers.—A
discussion of some length ensued, and Lord D. Stuart
offered to withdraw his resolution, but, the house having
refused, it was put and negatived without a division.

PROGRESS OF BUSINESS.

House of Lords.—Monday, June 26th.—Public Statues Bill
passed.—Witnesses Bill passed.

27th.—Finchley Road Bill read a second time.

29th.—Canada Legislative Council Bill committed.

30th.—Divorce Bill recommitted.—Law of Bankruptcy Bill
read a first time.

July 4th.—Cruelty to Animals Bill read a second time.—
Ecclesiastical Courts Bill read a second time.—West India
Encumbered Estates Bill passed.

6th.—Oxford University Bill read a second time.—Poor-
Law Board Continuance Bill read a second time.—Sugar and
Spirit Customs Duties Bill passed.—Sugar Excise Duty Bill
passed.

7th.—Oxford University Bill passed through committee.

10th.—Question as to Bishop of New Zealand's income.—
Captain Carpenter's claim.—Cruelty to Animals Bill committed.
—Divorce Bill withdrawn.—Public Revenue Bill read
a second time.

11th.—Oxford University Bill reported with amendments.
—Poor Law Board Continuance Bill read a third time and
passed.—Public Revenue Bill committed.

13th.—Lord Granville's statement as to Count Pahlen.—
Merchant Shipping Bill read a second time.—Bankruptcy
Bill committed.—Cruelty to Animals Bill passed.—Oxford
University Bill passed.

14th.—General Board of Health, Lord Shaftesbury's vindication.
—Governor of New Zealand, Lord Lyttelton's motion
for papers.

17th.—Merchant Shipping Bill in committee.—Public
Revenue Bill referred to a select committee.—Commons
Enclosure Bill passed through committee.—Bankruptcy Bill
read a third time and passed.—New Forest Bill read a third
time and passed.

18th.—Electric Telegraph Company Bill read a third time
and passed.—Ecclesiastical Courts Bill read a third time and
passed.—Court of Chancery Bill read a second time.—Towns
Improvement (Ireland) Bill read a second time.

20th.—Merchant Shipping Bill report, with amendments,
received.—Court of Chancery Bill, and Merchant Shipping Bill,
passed through committee.—Highway Rates Bill read a second
time.—Savings Banks Bill and Towns Improvement (Ireland)
Bill passed through committee.

21st.—Royal Message, Expenses of War.—Valuation of
Lands (Scotland) Bill, Friendly Societies Bill, and Jamaica
Loan Bill, read a second time.—Highway Rates Bill, and
General Board of Health Bill, passed through committee.—
Joint Stock Banks (Scotland) Bill, and Crime and Outrage
(Ireland) Bill, read a second time.—Judgment and Execution
Bll read a first time.

24th.—Address agreed to in answer to her Majesty's Message.
—Lord Brougham's resolutions on National Education,
debate adjourned.—Public Libraries Bill read a second time.
—Parochial Schoolmasters, and Registration of Births (Scotland)
Bills, read a second time.—Youthful Offenders Bill, and
Usury Laws Repeal Bill, Real Estate Charges Bill, and a
number of other bills, read a second time.—Highway Rates
Bill, Turnpike Trusts Arrangements Bill, General Board of
Health Bill, Towns Improvement (Ireland) Bill, and Acknowledgment
of Deeds by Married Women Bill, read a third time
and passed.

25th.—Usury Laws Repeal Bill passed through committee.
—Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Act Continuance Bill read a
third time and passed.

House of Commons.—June 26th.—Oxford University Bill,
third reading.—Public Revenue Bill considered as amended.
Committee of Supply, Civil Estimates.—Railway Regulation
Bill, Lords' amendments agreed to.

27th.—Merchant Shipping Bill in committee.—Law of Partnership,
Mr. Collier's resolution agreed to.

28th.—Mortmain Bill in committee.

29th.—Common Law Procedure Bill in committee.—Oxford
University Bill read a third time and passed.—Landlord and
Tenant (Ireland) Bill in committee.—Usury Laws Bill read a
first time.

30th.—Supply, Educational Estimates.—Police Bill withdrawn.
—Canada Legislative Council Bill read a first time.—
Married Women Bill reported.—Juvenile Offenders Bill in
committee.

July 3rd.—Public Revenue Bill passed.—Supply, Civil Estimates.
—Poor Law Board Continuance Bill passed.—Merchant
Shipping Bill passed.

4th.—Valuation of Land (Scotland) Bill in committee.

6th.—Church Building Acts Amendment Bill thrown out
on second reading.—Supply, Civil Estimates.—Juvenile
Offenders Bill committed.—West India Encumbered Estate
Bill read a first time.

7th.—Supply, Civil Estimates.—Married Women Bill passed.
—Testamentary Jurisdiction Bill withdrawn.—Leave given
Lord Palmerston to bring in General Board of Health Bill.—
Leave given Lord Advocate to bring in Militia (Scotland) Bill.

10th.—Bribery Bill in committee.—Criminal Justice Bill
read a second time.—Youthful Offenders Bill considered as
amended.—Militia (No. 2) Bill read a second time.—General
Board of Health Bill committed.

11th.—Landlord and Tenant, and Leasing Powers (Ireland)
Bill in committee.—Madras Land Tenures, Mr. Blackett's
motion.

12th.—Medical Graduates, University of London, Bill reported.
—Property Disposal Bill, and Judges and Juries (Ireland)
Bill, withdrawn.

13th.—Drainage of Lands Bill passed.—Convict Prisons
(Ireland) Bill reported.—Standard of Gold and Silver Wares Bill
committed pro formâ.—Youthful Offenders Bill passed.—
Merchant Shipping Bill passed.

14th.—Bribery Bill in committee.—Poor Law Commission
Continuance (Ireland) Bill reported.—Russian Government
Securities Bill read a second time.

17th.—Committee of Supply, Vote for Expenses of Secretary
of State for War.—Bribery Bill in committee.—Stamp Duties
Bill in committee.—Standard of Gold and Silver Wares Bill
passed through committee.—Joint Stock Banks (Scotland)
Bill read a third time and passed.—Poor Law Commission
Continuance (Ireland) Bill read a third time and passed.—Sale
of Beer Bill read a second time.—Returning Officers Bill
passed through committee, pro formâ.

18th.—Vaccination Act Amendment Bill passed through
committee.—Episcopal and Capitular Estates Bill in committee.
—Jamaica Loan Bill, Royal Military Asylum Bill, and
Criminal Justice Bill, read a third time and passed.—Claims
of Mr. Sturgeon and Captain Dickenson, motions negatived.
—Printing of the Houses, referred to select committee.—
Irish Loan Fund Societies, referred to select committee.—
Indian Appointments Bill, Spirits (Ireland) Bill, and Medical
Graduates (Ireland and Scotland) Bill, read a second time.

19th.—Business of the House, statement by Lord John
Russell.—Church Temporalities Bill, Mr. Shee's motion to
bring it in negatived.—Jury Trial (Scotland) Bill passed
through committee.—Leave given Sir J. Young to bring in a
bill for a National Gallery and Library in Dublin; to Mr.
Sotheron, a bill relative to Friendly Societies; and to Sir J.
Graham, a bill to regulate Process in the High Court of
Admiralty.

20th.—Criminal Court Procedure Bill withdrawn.—Bribery
Bill in committee.—Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Bill, Highways
(Public Health Act) Bill, Stock in Trade Exemption Bill,
Enclosure of Land Bill, Common Rights (Ordnance) Bill, and
Admiralty Court Bill, read a second time.—Spirits (Ireland)
Bill passed through committee.—Convict Prisons (Ireland)
Bill, Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill, and Jury Trial (Scotland)
Bill, read a third time and passed.—Borough Rates Bill
passed through committee.—Friendly Societies Bill read a
second time.—Literary and Scientific Institutions Bill, and
Real Estate Charges Bill, read a third time and passed.—
Medical Graduates Bill read a third time.

21st.—Indian Appointments Bill read a third time and
passed.—Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Bill, Stock-in-Trade
Exemption Bill, Enclosure, &c., of Land Bill, and Common, &c.,
Rights (Ordnance) Bill, passed through committee.—Royal
Message, Expenses of the War.—Bribery Bill in committee.—
Highways (Public Health Act) Bill, Burials Bill, and Chancery
Amendment Bill, passed through committee.—Land Revenues
of the Crown (Ireland) Bill read a second time.

22nd.—Sale of Beer Bill, and several other bills, read a third
time and passed.—Bribery Bill in committee.

24th.—Admiralty Court Bill, Land Revenues of the Crown
(Ireland) Bill, and Highways (Public Health Act) Bill, read a
third time and passed.—Bribery Bill in committee.—Vote of
Credit for War Expenses agreed to in committee.

25th.—Bribery Bill.—Vote of Credit, Lord D. Stuart's
resolution negatived.—Bankruptcy Bill, and Cinque Ports Bill,
read a second time.

THE report of the committee of the House of
Commons, appointed to inquire into the Charges of
Corruption against the Irish Members has been
published. Commencing with the two particular charges
of place-selling made by Dr. Gray and Mr. Kelly—
which caused the appointment of the committee—
they state, as regards the charge made by Mr. Kelly
to the effect that Mr. Somers, late M.P. for Sligo,
had obtained for Mr. Howley a Stipendiary
Magistracy for £1,000, "that Mr. Kelly has failed in
substantiating the charge." Respecting the other charge,
made by Dr. Gray, of a negotiation having been
entered upon by Mr. Somers and Mr. Fair, to procure
for the latter a paid Poor-Law Guardianship for £300,
the committee states that Fair made the statement to
Dr. Gray, but that "it is impossible to say, from his