Common Law Procedure Bill and Improvement of Equity
Jurisdiction Bill read a second time.—Industrial and Provident
Partnerships Bill read a third time.—Protestant Dissenters Bill
read a second time.

4th.—Committee of Supply, Miscellaneous Estimates.—New
Zealand Government Bill in Committee.—Passengers Act
Amendment Bill in Committee.

7th.—Committee of Supply, Miscellaneous Estimates.—Militia
Bill read a third time, and passed.—Navy Pay Bill considered
in Committee.—Poor Law Continuance Bill passed through
Committee.—Passengers Act Amendment Bill read a third
time and passed.—Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill read a
second time.

8th.—Maynooth, adjourned debate.—Case of Mr. Bennett,
Mr. Horsman's motion for a Select Committee carried by 156 to
111.

9th.—County Elections Polls Bill in Committee.—Mr. Feargus
O'Connor committed to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms.—
County Courts Extension Bill considered in Committee.

10th.—Mr. T. Duncombe's motion respecting post-horse duty
negatived by 94 to 43.—Sir De Lacy Evans' motion respecting
carriage duties negatived by 57 to 17.—New Zealand Bill passed
through Committee.

11th.—Mr. Slaney's motion for a Commission of Inquiry into
the Condition of the Working Classes debated and withdrawn.
—Improvement of Equity Jurisdiction and Masters in Chancery
Abolition Bill passed through Committee.—Metropolitan
Sewers Bill read a second time..

14th.—Mr. Mather's case brought forward by Lord J. Russell.
—Maynooth adjourned debate.

15th.—Prevention of Crime and Outrage in Ireland, leave
given to Mr. Napier to bring in a Bill.—Mr. Anstey's motion
respecting Scotch Missionaries in Austria, house counted out.

16th.—Bishopric of Christchurch (New Zealand) Bill read a
second time.—Mr. Feargus O'Connor transferred to a lunatic
asylum.

17th.—Metropolis Water Bill considered in Committee.—
Metropolis Burials Bill read a second time.—Metropolis Sewers
Bill passed through Committee.—New Zealand Government
Bill read a third time and passed.—County Elections Polls Bill
thrown out on third reading.

18th.—Militia Pay Bill passed through Committee.—Improvement
of Equity Jurisdiction Bill read a third time and passed.—
Common Law Procedure Bill passed through Committee.—Mr.
Bennett's case, Select Committee abandoned by Mr. Horsman.—
Crime and Outrage in Ireland Bill, and Encumbered Estates
Bill, read a second time.

21st.—Poor Law Board Continuance Bill read a third time
and passed.—Metropolitan Burials Bill considered in
Committee.—Metropolitan Sewers Bill and Nisi Prius Bill ordered
to be read a third time.—Metropolitan Water Bill read a third
time and passed.—General Board of Health Bill read a second
time.—Patent Law Amendment Bill, Crime and Outrage
(Ireland) Bill, and Encumbered Estates Bill, passed through
Committee.—Disabilities Repeal Bill read a third time and
passed.

22nd.—Militia Ballot Suspension Bill and Militia Pay Bill
read a third time and passed.—Consolidated Fund Bill read a
third time and passed.—Metropolitan Burials Bill considered in
Committee.—Bishopric of Christchurch Bill passed through
Committee—Nisi Prius Bill read a third time and passed.—
Common Law Procedure Bill read a third time and passed.
—School Sites Acts Extension Bill and Property of Lunatics
Bill passed through Committee.—Master in Chancery Abolition
Bill read a third time.—Distressed Unions (Ireland) Bill and
Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues Bill passed through
Committee.—Excise Summary Proceedings Bill passed through
Committee.—Secretary of Bankrupts' Office Abolition Bill passed
through Committee.—The Bishopric of Quebec Bill passed
through Committee.—The Colonial Bishops Bill read a second
time.

23rd.—Public Health Act Amendment Bill read a third
time and passed.—Metropolitan Burials Bill, and General Board
of Health Bill, considered in Committee.—Crime and Outrage
Bill, and Encumbered Estates Bill, read a third time and
passed.—School Sites Acts Extension Bill, Property of Lunatics
Bill, and Distressed Unions (Ireland) Bill, read a third time
and passed.—Colonial Bishops Bill passed through Committee.—
Metropolitan Sewers Bill read a third time and passed.

24th.—The following Bills passed:—The Valuation (Ireland)
Bill, the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues Bill, Excise
Summary Proceedings Bill, Bishopric of Quebec Bill, Colonial
Bishops Bill, and Bishopric of Christchurch (New Zealand) Bill.

Mr. DISRAELI, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has
issued an address to the electors of Buckinghamshire,
which is chiefly important as expounding his present
views, and of course those of the cabinet to which he
belongs, on the subject of commercial and financial
policy. What these views are, will appear from the
following passage:—"The time has gone by when the
injuries which the great producing interests endure can
be alleviated or removed by a recurrence to the laws
which, previously to 1846, protected them from such
calamities. The spirit of the age tends to free
intercourse, and no statesman can disregard with impunity
the genius of the epoch in which he lives. But every
principle of abstract justice and every consideration of
high policy counsel that the producer should be treated
as fairly as the consumer; and intimate that when the
native producer is thrown into unrestricted competition
with external rivals, it is the duty of the legislature in
every way to diminish, certainly not to increase, the
cost of production. It is the intention of her Majesty's
ministers to recommend to parliament, as soon as it is in
their power, measures which may effect this end. One
of the soundest means, among others, by which this
result may be accomplished, is a revision of our taxation.
The times are favourable to such an undertaking;
juster notions of taxation are more prevalent than
heretofore; powerful agencies are stirring, which have
introduced new phenomena into finance, and altered
the complexion of the fiscal world; and the possibility
of greatly relieving the burdens of the community, both
by adjustment and reduction, seems to loom in the
future."

At a recent meeting of the electors of Lincolnshire,
assembled to hear the present members give explanation
of their claims to a renewal of confidence, Sir Montague
Cholmeley uttered doubts of the Protectionist
premier:—"When Lord Derby nailed his colours to the
mast, I did think his lordship would have stood or fallen
by protection to agriculture—that that course would
have been his pride and policy; and in that policy Lord
Derby should have had my support. But now Lord
Derby has got into office, I find all things changed—
all things altered; and after numerous charges and
explanations of what one honourable and right honourable
gentleman had said in one house and another in another
house—after explanations to explain away explanations
—I am literally so mystified that I do not know what
conclusion to come to with respect to the policy and
intentions of the government. I view with dismay the
declaration of the premier, made some days since in the
House of Lords."

The " Gazette," of the 15th inst, contains the following
proclamation against the Celebration of the Ceremonies
of the Roman Catholic Religion except in the usual
Places of Worship or in Private Houses:—

"Whereas, by the Act of Parliament, passed in the tenth year
of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, for the relief of his
Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects, it is enacted, that no Roman
Catholic ecclesiastic, nor any member of any of the religious
orders, communities, or societies of the Church of Rome, bound
by monastic or religious vows, should exercise any of the rites
or ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion, or wear the habits
of his order, save within the usual places of worship of the
Roman Catholic religion, or in private houses; and whereas it
has been represented to us that Roman Catholic ecclesiastics,
wearing the habits of their orders, have exercised the rites
and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion in highways
and places of public resort, with many persons in ceremonial
dresses, bearing banners and objects or symbols of their
worship, in procession, to the great scandal and annoyance of
large numbers of our people, and to the manifest danger of the
public peace; and whereas it has been represented to us, that
such violation of the law has been committed near places of
public worship during the time of divine service, and in such a
manner as to disturb the congregations assembled therein:—We
have therefore thought it our bounden duty, by and with the
advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our royal proclamation,
solemnly warning all those whom it may concern, that, whilst
we are resolved to protect our Roman Catholic subjects in the
undisturbed enjoyment of their legal rights and religious freedom,
we are determined to prevent and repress the commission
of all such offences as aforesaid, whereby the Offenders may
draw upon themselves the punishments attending the violation
of the laws, and the peace and security of our dominions may be
endangered."

          NARRATIVE OF LAW AND CRIME.

JUDGEMENT was given in the Bankruptcy Court, on
the 29th ult., in the case of David E. Columbine, a
solicitor and money-scrivener of Carlton Chambers.
The bankrupt's conduct has been most culpable; and
almost every sentence of the Commissioner's judgment
was a severe censure. For four years Columbine has
been dragging his creditors and the assignees through
the Equity and Common-Law courts, in a vain attempt