29th.—Spirits Act Amendment (Ireland) Bill reported.

Monday July 2.—Railway Accidents Bill committed.
Spirits Act Amendment (Ireland) Bill read a third time and
passed.

3rd.—Friendly Societies Bill read a third bime and passed.

5th.—Railway Accidents Bill reported.

6th.—Religious Worship Bill withdrawn. Assizes and
Sessions Bill read a third time and passed. Friendly Societies
Bill read a third time and passed. Stock in Trade Bill read a
second time.

9th.—Accidents on Railways Bill read a third time and
passed. Indemnity Bill reported. Stock in Trade Bill
reported.

10th.—Victoria Government Bill, and New South Wales
Government Bill read a second time. Waste Lands (Australia)
Bill read a second time. Places of Religious Worship
Registration Bill read a second time. Youthful Offenders Bill read
a second time.

12th.—Dwellings for the Labouring Classes Bill reported.
Dwelling Houses (Scotland) Bill read a second time. Endowed
Schools (Ireland) Bill read a second time. Victoria Government,
New South Wales Government, and Australian Waste
Lands Bills committed. Places of Religious Worship Bill
committed. Youthful Offenders Bill committed. Encumbered
Estates (Ireland) Bill read a second time.

13th.—Bills of Exchange Bill read a second time. Endowed
Schools Bill reported. Victoria Government, New South
Wales Government, and Australian Waste Lands Bills read a
third time and passed. Places of Religious Worship Bill read
a third time and passed.

16th.—Raglan Annuity Bill read a first time. Religious
Worship Bill referred to a. select committee. Irish Endowed
Schools BIll read a third time and passed. Youthful Offenders
Bill read a third time and passed.

17th.—Bills of Exchange Bill reported. Public Libraries
Bill read a second time. Coal Mines Inspection Bill read a
second time. Raglan Annuities Bill read no second time.

19th.—Scotch Education Bill thrown out on second reading.
Religious Worship Bill recommitted. Dwelling-houses (Scotland)
Bill read a third time and passed. Crime and Outrage
Act Continuance Bill read a second time.

20th.—Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Bill read a
second time. Bills of Exchange Bill read a third time and
passed.

23rd.—Public Libraries Bill and Coal Mines Inspection Bill
passed through committee.

24th.—Metropolis Local Management Bill read a second
time. Dissenters Marriage Bill read a second time. Public
Libraries Bill read a third time and passed.

House of Commons.—Tuesday, June 26th.—Metropolis Local
Management Bill in committee.

27th.—Parish Organisation Bill withdrawn. Youthful
Offenders Bill read a third time and passed.

28th.—Tenants' Improvements Compensation (Ireland) Bill
in committee. Excise Duties Bill read a second time.
Indemnity Bill committed.

29th.—Victoria Government Bill, New South Wales Government
Bill, and Waste Lands (Australia) Bill, read a third time
and passed. Partnership Amendment Bill, and Limited
Liability Bill, read a second time. Indemnity Bill read a third
time and passed. Endowed Schools (Ireland) Bill read a
second time.

July 2nd.—Sunday Trading Bill withdrawn. Education
(Scotland) Bill committed. Three English Education Bills
withdrawn. Stock in Trade Bill committed.

3rd.—Metropolis Local Management Bill reported. Lord
Raglan's family, Queen's Message considered and Resolutions
agreed to.

4th.—Dwelling Houses (Scotland) Bill read a third time.
Stock in Trade Bill read a third time and passed. Coal Mines
Inspection Bill reported. Dissenters Marriage Bill reported.

5th.—Nuisances Bill in committee. Tenants Improvements
Compensation Bill in committee. Merchant Shipping Bill
committed, Union of Contiguous Benefices Bill read a second
time. Stage Carriage Duties Bill in committee. Public
Libraries Bill committed. Lady Raglan and Lord Raglan's
Annuities Bill read a first time.

6th.—Dwelling Houses (Scotland) Bill passed. Endowed
Schools (Ireland) Bill read a third time and passed. Stage
Carriage Duties Bill read a first time.

9th.—Education (Scotland) Bill reported. Partnership
Amendment Bill in committee. Raglan Annuities Bill read a
second time. Public Libraries Bill read a third time and
passed. Bills of Exchange Bill read a third time and passed.

10th.—Nuisance Bill in committee.

12th.—Nuisance Bill reported. Education (Scotland) Bill
read a third time and passed. Coal Mines Bill read a third
time and passed.

13th.—Roman Catholic Charities Bill withdrawn. Tenants
Improvements Compensation Bill in committee. Sale of
Spirits (Ireland) Bill read a second time. Lunatic Asylums
(Ireland) Bill committed. Dissenters Marriages Bill read a
third time. Stage Carriage Duties Bill read a second time.

16th.—Sir E. Lytton's motion of censure withdrawn.
Merchant Shipping Bill read a third time and passed. Stage
Carriage Duties Bill committed. Leases and Sales of Settled
Estates Bill read a second time. Schools (Scotland) Bill
thrown out. Dissenters Marriage Bill read a third time and
passed.

17th.—Public Health Bill withdrawn. Sebastopol
Committee, Mr. Roebuck's motion of censure, debate adjourned.
Maynooth, debate adjourned for three months.

18th.—Episcopal and Capitular Estates Bill withdrawn.
Dwellings for Labourers (Ireland) Bill in committee.
Convention with United States Bill read a second time.

18th.—Sebastopol Committee, Mr. Roebuck's motion
disposed of by the previous question.

20th.—Metropolis Local Management Bill read a third time
and passed. Turkish Loan Convention, Resolution adopted.
Maynooth Report, Select Committee granted. Convention
with United States Bill read a third time and passed.
Absconding Debtors (Ireland) Bill read a third time.

23rd.—Nuisances Removal Bill read a third time and passed.
Metropolitan Buildings Bill went through committee.
Passengers Act Bill considered in committee. Report on Turkish
Loan brought up and agreed to.

24th.—Turkish Loan Bill read a first time. Encumbered
Estates (Ireland) Bill went through committee.

25th.—Act of Parliament Amendment Bill, Marriage Law
Amendment Bill, and Irish Grand Juries Bill, orders for
second reading discharged. Bleaching Works Bill thrown out
on second reading. Union of Contiguous Benefices Bill in
committee.

26th.—Limited Liability Bill committed. Turkish Loan
Bill read a second time. Committee of Supply, Education
Estimates.

Sir William Molesworth has succeeded Lord John
Russell as Colonial Secretary; and Sir Benjamin Hall
has succeeded Sir W, Molesworth as Chief Commissioner
of Works. .

The second meeting of the Administrative Reform
Association was held in Drury Lane Theatre on the
27th ult. The house was crowded. The members of
parliament present were Mr. Scholefield, Mr. Mowatt,
Mr. Apsley Pellatt, Mr. Otway, Mr. Murrough, Mr.
Wise, Major Reed, Mr. Layard, and Mr. Tite. The
Course of proceeding did not differ from that of the
former meeting. The meeting was addressed by Mr.
Charles Dickens, Mr. Torrens, Mr. M'Culloch, and Mr.
Layard, As on the previous occasion no resolutions
were moved.

The Convocation of the Clergy of the Province of
Canterbury assembled on the 28th ult, in pursuance of
adjournment from last session. In the Upper House
the Bishop of London brought up a report from a committee
appointed last session. It contained an opinion signed
by her Majesty's Solicitor-General and Dr. R. Phillimore,
M. P., pointing out a mode which, with the
sanction of the Crown, would be both safe and easy for
removing the anomalies at present existing in the
representation of the clergy in the Lower House of
Convocation. The report further said: "That it appears
to them most important that those anomalies should be
corrected, in order that the Houses may address
themselves to the consideration of the great subject of church
extension with the fullest confidence of the church in
the clerical body which shall deliberate thereupon; and
that they therefore report that, in their opinion, it is to
this preliminary point that it would at this time be
expedient to limit the address to be presented to her
Majesty, and that they have prepared accordingly the
heads of such an address." The Bishop of London
moved, and the Bishop of Oxford seconded, the adoption
of this report. The Bishop of St. Asaph objected to it.
He said that the real question at issue was whether it
should be an acting, or enacting, or a merely deliberative
body. The Archbishop of Canterbury said that the
report which had been presented was in direct opposition
to that agreed upon last July. It was then
decided that it was undesirable to adopt measures for
the revival of the active powers of convocation. A
debate hereupon arose which was terminated by a
division when there appeared :—For the adoption of the
report, 6; the Bishops of London, Oxford, Exeter,
Salisbury, Gloucester and Bristol, and Bath and Wells.
Against it, 3; the Bishops of Winchester, Lincoln, and
St. Asaph. The motion was therefore declared carried,
and an address to her Majesty in conformity with the
recommendations of the report was then agreed to. On
the 29th, the Lower House discussed the Bishop of
London's report, which was eventually agreed to with
some modifications.