10th.—Transportation; Lord Grey's motion negatived by
54 to 37.

13th.—Common Lodging Houses Bill read a second time.

24th.—Chimney Sweepers Regulation Bill referred to a
select committee.

House of Commons.—April 27.—South Sea Annuities Bill
passed.—Sale of Lands &c. (Ireland) Bill read a first time.

28th.—Adjourned debate on Income Tax.—County Election
Polls Bill (Scotland) passed.

29th.—Adjourned debate on Income Tax.—Aggravated
Assault Bill passed.

May 2nd.—Debate on Income Tax; Sir E. B. Lytton's
amendment rejected.

3rd.—County Franchise, Mr. Locke King's motion withdrawn.
—Motion to prosecute Sir F. Smith negatived.

4th.—Probate of Wills Bill read a second time.—Payment
of Wages Bill thrown out.

5th.—Debate on Income Tax on Mr. Lawless's Motion to
exempt Ireland.

6th.—Mr. Lawless's Amendment negatived.—New writ
ordered for Maidstone.

9th.—The Budget, Mr. Palmer's Amendment negatived.—
Tynemouth Election Commission agreed to.—Berwick Election
Select Committee appointed.

10th.—Regulation of Nunneries, Mr. W. Chambers' motion
carried.—Barnstaple Election, Commission agreed to.

11th.—Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill thrown out.—County
Rates Bill in Committee.

12th.—The Budget, Mr. Vansittart's Amendment rejected.
—Legacy Duties, Mr. Gladstone's Statement.

13th.—Legacy Duty Resolution agreed to.—Income Tax
Bill read a first time.—Customs Duties Bill read a first time.
—New Writ ordered for Rye.

19th.—Excise Duties on Spirits Bill read a second time.—
Customs Duties on Spirits Bill Committed.—Committee of
Supply, Civil Estimates Voted.—Hackney Carriages Bill
Committed pro formâ—New Writ for Clithero.

20th.—Income Tax Bill read a second time.—Committee of
Supply.—Civil Service Estimates.—Hackney Carriages Bill
Committed.—Lunacy Bills read a second time.

21st.—Report of the Select Committee on the Dockyard
Appointments brought up by Lord Seymour.—Colonel
Dunne's motion for a Select Committee on Fiscal Relations of
Great Britain and Ireland negatived.—Income Tax Bill
considered in Committee.

The New Act for the Reduction of the National Debt
has been printed. It enacts that the annuity on the
capital stock of the South Sea Company, continued
under the 6th George II., cap. 28, and certain Three
per Cent. Stocks—viz., the Old and New South Sea
Annuities, the Bank Annuities, 1726, created by the
12th George I., chap. 2, and the Three per Cent
Annuities, 1751, created by the 24th George II., chap.
2., "shall be paid off and redeemed or commuted as
hereinafter mentioned." On or before Friday the 3rd
of June next parties are to give notice of their assent
to receive other stock instead of money. Proprietors
of the said Three per Cents, may for £100 of their stock
receive £82 10s. New Three–and–a–Half per Cent., or
£100 exchequer bond, carrying interest at £2 15s. per
cent., not later than the 1st of September 1864, and
after at £2 10s. per cent. Certain South Sea Annuities,
&c., are to cease from the 5th of January, 1854:, and
dividends on Old South Sea Annuities are to cease from
the 5th of April next. Persons not assenting are to
receive on the 5th of January, 1854, £100 for £100
stock. There are a number of provisions in the act to
carry it into force. Exchequer bonds are limited to
£30,000,000. The Bank of England is to continue a
corporation for the purposes of this act until the
annuities granted by it shall be redeemed. The
statute is known as "The South Sea and other
Annuities Commutation Act."

A deputation of gentlemen connected with the City
of London waited on Lord John Russell on the 21st,
for the purpose of receiving from him an explanation
of the intentions of the government with regard
to the Admission of Jews to Seats in the
Legislature. Lord John sent a note apologising for being
unable to see them, but expressing his opinion that no
step ought to be taken by the government until they
had ascertained the nature of the bill announced
by Lord Lyndhurst, upon the subject of the oaths of
abjuration. His advice was that nothing should be
done until they had ascertained the nature and result
of that measure. He added, that, although he was then
attending the council, he would be happy to answer
any question they wished to put to him. A note was
in consequence sent to Lord John, stating that all they
required to know was the nature of Lord Lyndhurst's
bill, and whether it was likely to meet the views of
the deputation. In reply, he stated that he did not
know the nature of the bill, as it had not yet been
printed; and therefore he could not answer the
question.

The Convocation of the Province of York assembled
in the Chapter–house, on the 18th inst. The Reverend
Canon Dixon and the Reverend Canon Harcourt, the
Commissioners of the Archbishop, took their seats
on either side of the Archbishop's secretary. Canon
Dixon inquired whether any writ had been received
from the Queen authorising the Convocation to proceed
to business. The Registrar replied in the negative;
and thereupon the Secretary read the order of adjournment.
Archdeacon Thorpe requested, in the name of
his brethren, that they might be allowed to elect a
Prolocutor and consider of an address to the Queen:
if not, he hoped an application which he presented in
writing might be placed on the records. After the
paper had been received, the Reverend Canon Trevor
made several unsuccessful attempts to ask a question.
Canon Dixon then read the usual schedule declaring
those absent guilty of contumacy, with the usual
passage—"and in penalty of such their contumacy, we
decree to proceed further in this holy Synod or
Convocation, their absence notwithstanding:" then he
prorogued the Convocation until the 28th September;
when all present are admonished to appear again.

             NARRATIVE OF LAW AND CRIME.

A HORRIBLE case of Piracy and Murder has occurred
on the South American coast. A ship, which had been
abandoned, was discovered by some fishermen near
Cape Antonio, and was found to be the Reindeer,
Captain Wilson, which had sailed from Valparaiso, with a
large amount of specie. She was lying between two
banks, where she had evidently been run and scuttled,
and then plundered. The fishermen, after much
exertion, managed to get out some of the cargo, by which
they were enabled to get at the scuttle holes and fill
them up. When she floated they got her off the bank,
and, making sail, contrived to run her into Monte
Video. Previous to her discovery, a number of her
crew, who had landed from an open boat at Saladin, had
been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in
wilfully casting away the ship. They were conveyed to
Buenos Ayres, where two of them confessed to certain
of the crew murdering the whole of the ship's officers
and the passengers who were on board.

Emanuel Nathan and Samuel Michael, the occupiers
of a house, called a café, in Jermyn–street, appeared at
Bow–street on the 30th April, to answer the charge of
Dealing in Spirits, Wines, and Ale, Without a License.
John Salvage, an excise officer, described a number of
visits which he had paid to the house in question, since
November last, up to the present month, with the view
of taking out an information against the defendants.
He arrived usually in the middle of the night, in a cab,
and was admitted by a boy, after a preliminary investigation
through a small square wicket in the front door.
He was sometimes accompanied by a brother officer, and
on every occasion he partook of wine, brandy–and–
water, chops at 2s. each, ale, and stout, at 9d. a glass.
They were supplied by waiters, acting under the evident
direction of the defendants, and sometimes the brandy
and water was served up in cups and saucers. The
rooms on the ground floor, as well as these up–stairs,
were crowded with gaily–dressed women and men—
about thirty in each room. On one occasion, when
witness was present, there was an alarm raised that the
police were coming in, and then a great conlusion arose
in consequence of the hasty removal of the wines and
spirits, and the substitution of coffee, tea, and chocolate.
The waiters acted, at this time, under the special
direction of Nathan. This account was confirmed by
other evidence; and the magistrate having been informed
that the defendants were old offenders, enforced the full
penalty, which amounted to £290.

A dreadful Murder has been committed near Conway,