Burials Bill. At the evening sitting Lord J. RUSSELL
called attention to the recent Minute of the Education
Committee, altering the management clauses in respect
to church schools; and complained that the present
government, immediately on their entering office, should
have interfered with a system with which dissenters as
well as the great body of the members of the church,
clerical and lay, were satisfied. The present constitution
of the managing body recognised the lay element
of the church, but the effect of the minute would be to
deprive that element of its due influence, and to lower
the condition of the schoolmaster, by placing him
altogether in the power of the clergyman.—Mr. Secretary
WALPOLE said the object of the minute was to give to
the established church that power and that influence
which parliament had originally intended. Originally
the grant was left to the management of voluntary
bodies, but in 1839, when it was proposed to transfer
that management to the Privy Council, in consequence
of the stir made in the church, the proposal was withdrawn.
An understanding was then come to between
the Privy Council and the government that no
interference would be attempted either in the discipline or
internal management. In 1846 the management
clauses were first introduced; put forward as suggestions
or recommendations, but drawn up in such a
manner that unless the church acquiesced in them they
were not to partake of the grant. All that was done by
this minute was to enable the promoters of church
schools to say whether they would be subject to that clause
or not, and that when they had reason to object not
only on account of the religious instruction given, but
also of the moral education afforded in their own schools,
they should be at liberty to do so. The management
clauses had been made a sort of watchword of party
religion, and the change now proposed would put an
end to strife and jealousies, and by allaying differences
give free course to the best element of the church's
strength, union—Some remarks were made by Mr.
GLADSTONE, Mr. HUME, and others, and the conversation
dropped. The Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Bill
passed through committee, after some opposition
from Mr. V. SCULLY, Mr. COGAN, Mr. F. SCULLY, and
Mr. J. O'CONNELL. The Encumbered Estates (Ireland)
Bill also passed through Committee. The third reading
of the Disabilities Repeal Bill was opposed by Mr.
NEWDEGATE and supported by Mr ROUNDELL
PALMER, who explained that Lord Lyndhurst was its
author, and pointed out the uselessness of the penalties
the existing law imposed on persons voting in the
House of Commons without taking the oaths, which
was the case the bill was intended to meet.—Sir W. P.
WOOD, Mr. ANSTEY, and Mr. HUDSON, also spoke in
support of the bill.—Mr. Secretary WALPOLE would
oppose the bill if he looked upon it as Sir W. P. Wood
did, as an instalment towards the removal of those
disabilities which prevented Jews sitting in parliament,
but believing the penalties it sought to repeal were
unnecessary for the maintenance of the existing law,
he supported it.—Mr. NEWDEGATE having withdrawn
his opposition, the bill passed.

On Tuesday, June 22, Mr. BERNAL called attention
to the Distress in Jamaica, caused by deficiency of
labour; and Sir J. PAKINGTON promised to consider
whether there were any means of relief.—At the evening
sitting, the Committal of the Irish Valuation Bill
was opposed by Mr. F. SCULLY, who moved the formal
amendment of postponement for three months. After
some conversation the amendment was withdrawn, and
the bill went through committee.

On Wednesday, June 23, Mr. GLADSTONE moved, in
committee of the whole house, for leave to bring in a
second bill to enable the Church of England in the
colonies to meet in Synod for the purposes of
ecclesiastical government; his object was to make such
changes as would meet some of the minor objections to
the previous bill (which was opposed by government),
and to have it printed in the corrected form, and sent
out to the colonies preparatory to legislation in a future
parliament. After a conversation of some length, and a
warm altercation between Mr. Gladstone and Sir J.
Pakington, leave was given to bring in the bill.—Lord
JOCELYN called attention to the Case of Meer Roostun,
the late Ameer of Scinde; the manner in which, by
treachery, his brother Ali Morad had obtained the aid
of the British power to deprive him of his territory.
After drawing a picture of the sufferings of the injured
prince and his family, Lord Jocelyn appealed to the
consideration and sympathy of parliament in a question
in which not only the principles of humanity and justice,
but the honour of the British name were involved, and
concluded by moving for papers.—Sir R. INGLIS seconded
the motion.—Mr. BALLIE reminded the noble lord that
the policy of the Indian government in reference to this
question had been that of a previous government, and
had been justified by the late Sir Robert Peel. The
further discussion of the question was postponed until
next day.

On Thursday, June 24, the above debate was resumed
by Mr. BAILLIE, who stated that the deposed Ameer's
family had been treated with every consideration, and
with regard to the act of deposition, complained of the
practice of re-opening questions of state policy long since
settled.—Mr. HERRIES offered, on the part of the Board
of Control, to give the principal papers asked for by
Lord Jocelyn, and suggested that the others should not
be pressed for.—Mr. HUME remarked that the facts of
the case showed the government had been made the
dupe of an artful man, Ali Morad, to perpetrate an act
of the grossest injustice. The motion, as amended at
the suggestion of Mr. Herries, was agreed to.

On Friday, June 25, on the further proceeding with
the Metropolitan Burial Bill, Lord EBRINGTON moved
a proviso to prevent buildings being erected in private
burial grounds closed under the act, which was opposed
by Lord J. Manners, and on a division lost by 80 votes
against 21, after which the measure passed.

The General Board of Health Bill was read a third
time and passed.

The amendment of the Lords on the Corrupt
Practices at Elections Bill, after some discussion, was
ultimately agreed to.

          PROGRESS OF BUSINESS.

House of Lords.—May 27. Common Law Procedure Bill read
a third time and passed.—Income Tax Continuance Bill read a
third time and passed.

28th.—Masters in Chancery Abolition Bill, and Improvement
of the Jurisdiction of Equity Bill, read a third time and passed.
House adjourned over Whitsuntide.

June 8th.—London Necropolis Bill read a second time.—
Industrial and Provident Societies Bill read a second time.

11th.—New Minute of Council on Education.—Case of Baron
de Bode, Select Committee granted.—Surrender of Criminals
(Convention with France) Bill passed through Committee.

14th.—Surrender of Criminals (Convention with France) Bill
withdrawn by Lord Malmesbury.—Corrupt Practices at
Elections Bill considered in Committee.

15th.—Militia Bill read a second time.

17th.—Ecclesiastical Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Bill
thrown out on second reading.—Enfranchisement of Copyholds
Bill passed through committee.—Lunatics Bill postponed to
next session.—Suitors in Chancery Relief Bill read a second
time.—Militia Bill passed through committee.

21st.—The Commons Enclosure Acts Extension Bill, the
Appointment of Overseers Bill, and the Hereditary Casual
Revenues in the Colonies Bill, read a second time.—Corrupt
Practices at Elections Bill, Enfranchisement of Copyholds Bill,
Trustees Act Extension Bill, and Militia Bill, read a third time,
and passed.—Poor Law Continuance (Ireland) Bill passed
through Committee.

22nd.—New Zealand Bill.—The Passengers Act Amendment
Bill, the Pharmacy Bill, and the County Rates Bill read a
second time, the last referred to a Select Committee.—The
Sunk Islands Roads Bill, the Commons Enclosure Acts Extension
Bill, the Appointment of Overseers Bill, and the Hereditary
Casual Revenues in the Colonies Bill, passed through
Committee.—The Poor Law Commission Continuance (Ireland) Bill
read a third time and passed.

24th.—Militia Pay Bill, Militia Ballot Suspension Bill.
Turn-pike Acts Continuance Bill, Poor Law Continuance Bill, and
Metropolitan Water Bill, read a second time.—Suitors in Chancery
Relief Bill and Pharmacy Bill passed through Committee.
—Navy Pay Bill and Hereditary Casual Revenues in the
Colonies Bill passed.

House of Commons.—May 27th.—Militia Bill considered in
Committee.—Valuation (Ireland) Bill and Patent Law Amendment
Bill read a second time.—Law of Wills Amendment Bill
considered in Committee.

28th.—Debate on Maynooth question.—Resolutions for Morning
Sittings.—House Adjourned over Whitsuntide.

June 3rd.—Committee of Supply, Miscellaneous Estimates.—