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      £ ^ S * . second reading b ^ J © mc S £ **** wra «> mored that the order be dischatgeds--a ^ S « which . iie pursued out of deference to th * wish IrftHfe House , and from a belief that any present "Lirionon the bill would be taken under very dis-« A ^ Ate « reous circumstances . —After a brief discus * S * Tttte orders for reading the three Education « £ L-the Education ( No . 2 ) Bill , the Education aa TJand the Tree Schools Bill—were discharged-.

      ¦ " '" . MEBIROPOtlS . LOCAL MANAGEMENT BILI-,. The House of Commons , on Tuesday morning ; went into committee on this bill , and discussed the xanaiiijtegbchuises ,. witn the aj ^ 4 iition of two pro posed JveSu * John She ^ lex , providing far the appointment ofr jelerks , 'surveyors , &c , by th © Metropolitan Board of W orks , and for the employing of crossing-sweepers te'V estcie * and district boards . These clauses were agreed to . ^ Thirteen clauses of the Passungjers Act Amenjdmbmt Bull were agreed to ; and the House adjourned $ J the evening .

      THE CRYSTAL rAEA . CE . Sir- J : S&elxey stated that in consequence of the advanced period of the session he did not propose to a&-the--House to allow him to introduce a bill to providte for opening the Crystal Palace on Sunday , bnfc he-would do so at an early period of next session ; REPRESENTATION OF THE CIXV OF LONDONDt reply to , a question , from Mr . WALPOiiE , Mr . Buncombe stated that it was not iiis intention / to proceed with , the motion of which he ? had given notice until the select committee now sitting had made their report .

      THE OEDBEOF THE BATH . In reply to Admiral Walcott , Lord Palmerston said the Order of the Bath would be conferred without reference to the projected Order of Merit , and that , in the cases of recommendations for the Order of the Bath in which death should intercept it , the names of the parties would be published , with a record of the recommendation and of the reason why the order was not actually conferred .

      THE RIOT IN HYDE PARKSir Geobce Grey , in answer to Mr . Roebuck , explained' the delay that had occurred in examining the prisoners taken up in Hyde Park by stating that it was thought advisable that counsel should appear for the prosecution , and some difficulty was experienced in finding them .

      ARMY PROMOTION . After the discussion on the Queen ' s message regarding Lord Raglan , Mr . Rich rose to move a resolution on the subject of army promotion , and was proceeding in his speech when the House was counted out , shortly after half-past seven o ' clock . The Friendly Societies Birc was read a third time and passed by the Lords . QUEEN ' S MESSAGE . —LORD RAGLAN . On Wednesday , the report on the resolutions in the Queen ' s message , recommending- pensions to Lady Raglan , the present Lord Raglan , and the next successor to the title , were brought up in the House of Commons and ngreed to ; and leave was given to bring in a bill founded on the resolutions .

      The Truck Act Amendment Bill was withdrawn . — -The Mor / xmain Bill passed through committee * . DWELLING HOUSES ( SCOTLAND ) ' BILTL . The : third reading of this bill having been moved , JSxi Diraxop proposed a clause designed to enable labouring men to become proprietors of dwellings by some * easy and inexpensive process of transfer . Some discussion took place on this proposition ; but the decisioiv was ultimately postponed , on the suggestion of the Chancellor op the Exoiiequbh , until the following day .

      DlflSENTJ' . r tS MAUIUACSKS BILL . Tfie . House having gone into committee on thia 6011 several clauses were agreed to , and two additional clauses , on the motion of Mr . Ciiuetham , making certain technical arrangements , with respect to the registering nud licensing of Jews' and ( Quakers ' marriages , were also ufflrnicil by tlio llouso . Several other bills were advanced a stage . TDDE INCJU-3 ASI 0 Ol' SOMHllKS' 1 'AV . vlnithe . House of Lords , on Thursday , the Earl of KtumiKMiouGU oxpreasod ditMtpprovul of the ; plan

      Wtply announced for giving-double pa } -to the sol-< Uer » MOttuservice in the Crimea , Ho would prefer •• me-relocation in the existing restrictions on enlist"Wntywhiah he considered too » triri £ x > nr , and in many « J » M frivolous . —Lord PANMimis adhered to his plan , WW ^ oxproesed his willingness to modify tho details wwteiiextant of permitting the soldior to receive at Pjjjfc sixpence out of tho uddilionul shilling per day , " Hho naino of nold allowance . He denied that tho * P [ M 9 hip 8 of a soldier ' s life wore so prrcat as had been ¦• "toted * ftnd'dofeudud tho principles of cnlistinont .

      . After a rather desultory * conversation tlw subject : dropped . NAVAL CADETS . The Eaxl of Habj > wicke called attention to the ; deficient provision now made for the instruction of cadets in the Royal Navy , and suggested , the re - establishment of the NavaL College abolished- , some years ago . —Earl Granville mentioned that the First Lord of the Admiralty had beeu consulted on the subject , and he believed tlie result would be that the number of naval instructors employed in the .-service would be largely increased . Several bills were advanced , a stage * and their lordships ,

      adjourned-NUISANCES . RBMOVALVBEL . L . The House of Commons * at the morning sitting , was occupied- in committee withi the detailsi of the Nuisances Removal Amendment Bill and the Huddersfield Burial Ground Act Amendment Bill . TH-B ORDNANCE SCHOOL' AT CAKSHALTOK . In answer to Mr . Stirling , Mr . Monsbix said it was- not intended to keep up this school permanency , but it > would be kept up for a time sufficient to . allow the education of the boys now there to be : completed .

      THE COAL MINES AT HERACLIA . In the . evening , in reply to Mr . Ewart , Mr . Wilson said , the . quantity of coal produced at Heraelia and other plaees on the south coast of the Euxine had increased to 60 , 000 torn per annum , sufficient for the supply of the French and English navies in that sea ; that it was expected the price would be reduced to about 20 s . per ton ; and that the quality of the coal is very good .

      THE POLICE IN HYDE PABJR . The excesse s of the police on Sunday were again referred to , on the occasion of Mr . IJoebock . presenting a petition from a gentleman who alleged that he had been wantonly assaulted by an inspector afld some constables in Oxford-street —Sir J . Gr . Phillimore having asked whether it was . the intention of the Government to institute any inquiry into the conduct of the ponce , Sir George Gbey said he was not aware that there was any occasion for a special inquiry . He had received communications from several gentlemen , stating that the police had acted : with the greatest forbearance and moderation , and that there

      was nothing to blame in their conduct- There werej however , some particular cases of complaiut against the police . —Mr . Duncombe , in presenting petitions from several injured persons , described and commented on the savage conduct of the policemen . Several attempts were made by Lord Palmerston and others to prevent him from proceeding , on the grouud of hisrbeingsouii : of order ; but he persevered ; , by resorting to the expedient of moving that , the House adjourn . He declared that he was ready to substantiate the allegations in the petitions . —

      Sir Geokgk Giusv said that . if the charges had been originally laid before him , they would have been inquired into ; but they were of too sweeping and general a character . The policemen were distin < - guished by number and letter , and could be identified if they had misbehaved themselves . He protested against these general charges . It was the duty of the police and the Government to give protection : to the quiet and peaceably disposed . —Mr . Roebuck : defended the course taken by himself and Mr . Duncombe ; but finully the motion for adjournment was negatived .

      TENANTS IMPROVEMENT COMPENSATION ( IRELAND ) BILL . The consideration of this bill in committee was resumed . Clause 14 , which relates to compensation being given for retrospective improvements ^ gave rise to a long discussion and several divisions . It was ultimately expunged , on the motion of Mr . J . G . Phillimork , by 13 tf to 102 . —Mr . Serjeant She is hoped the Government would not go on with the bill now that its chief worth had been taken from it . He doubted , indeed , whether Lord Palmcrston ever intended to pass the measure . —Lord Palmeuston said Mr . Serjeant Slice had dono his best to throw obstacles in the way of tho bill . Did he really wish to pass a practical measure , or did ho merely desire

      to keep up a grievanco for the sako of a hustings cry ? Ho would mention Thursday next for resuming the consideration of the bill . — Mr . Serjeant Sukis retorted , by charging Lord Palmerston with dealing treacherously with the bill ; by asserting that there was no humiliation of any kind to which ho had not submitted for the sake of keeping in place , out of which ho had not been for forty years ; and by wondering how a man who "lived in a glasshouse" could 1 luivo tho presumption to charge him ( Mr . Shoe ) as ho hail done . —Lord Palmkrston said ho should bo guilty of a like presumption whenever ho thought proper . Ho briefly defended tho compromises ho had thought it necessary , for tho sake of practicability , to make with respect to tho abstract principle of the bill . —Tho Chairman then reported

      progress . Some routine business having boon got through , tho Houso ndiourned .

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      THEREVENUE ; TfaE official return for the Quarter ending . June 30 fii lias teen published , and shows an increase of 1 , 005 , 5757 . upon the corresponding quarter of last year . The chief figures are as follow : — INCREASE . Customs . jE 244 v 0 fcl Excise 635 , 269 Stamps 54 ^ 942 . Property Tax 201 , 534-Miscellaneous 165 * £ 1 , 301 ^ 12 . DECREASE . Taxes . £ 198 , 904 Post-Offiee & 4 , 733 ? Crown Lands 2 , 009 £ 295 , 63 , 7 'Net Increase £ 1 , 005 , 575 The increase on the whole year ending on the 30 th of June is to an extent still larger in proportion : it amounts to . no less a sum than 7 , 741 , 588 i as compared with , the Returns for the preceding year .

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      THE WAR .

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      The death of Lord Raglan ,, though ; it occurred yesterday week , and was known , in London on the following day , is still the latest event of importance in connexion with the war . In common with many of our contemporaries , we hinted last- week that the illness of the Commander-in- Chief , was . likely to-terminate fatally ; and those predictions have been realised . Our jaunty Government , on the night of Friday week , pooh-poohed , in its accustomed jaunty manner , the idea of the English General being in . any danger , and were very lofty , by implication , with respect to the statements of the press ; it being the habit of most Governments to disbelieve anything which the newspapers assert . On the following morning , the ministerial Post echoed the disclaimer , and , with a most sonorous lecture against " alaimdsts , " passed on its even way . But Lord Raglan was . dying at the very moment when Ministers were rejoicing over his recovery , and was already dead when the journalist delivered himself of his * lecture . Perishing many miles away from his own home , in the midst of all the fierceness and the misery of war—without the consolation , of seeing around him the beloved members of his family—with n » tender hand 3 and sympathising looks of wife or children to lighten the weariness of sickness or sweeten , the . bitterness of deaths—with the ebb . and reaoil of our late sanguinary repulse yet eddying round , him ,, and . the mortification of that failure still rankling . ia his heart—there is something so truly mournful in the circumstances attending the death of Lord Raglan that criticism may well be silent , and may call to mind that , whatever may have been the deficiencies or errors of the late general , he may justly claim the great merit of having carried on the military intercourse of allies , who were once bitter foes , without any relapse into old jealousies and hostilities ; and that , with sixty-seven years upon his head , he remained at his post through a season of immense trial and danger when younger men retired from the first rough attrition of war . Like MarshaL St .. Arnaud * he passed away without gaining the fortress against wliicli both , were sent : unlike him , he died , not -under the light of victory , but under the . cloud—though but the temporary cloud—of defeats This , circumstance alone ( not to speak of his courage and his . amiability ) should moke us look with gentleness and sorrow on the memory of his . life . The full accounts of our reverse on the 18 th are now published , and are not of a nature to diminish our mortification . Tho affair seems to- have been managed with precipitation , and General Polissier is greatly blamed for having altered his plans with ' Bespaet to continuing tho bombardment , for hurrying on tho attack , and for making other alterations in ' his original design . There is stiH , however , a great deal of obscurity about the proceedings of that fatal day . By sonu » , the English are accused of being too lato ; whil e' other accounts would ' , make' it appearthat - \ t o moved up sooner than wo intended , in order to divert the lire of the Hcdan from tho French * A despatch from Marseilles , of June 30 ) says : — " The- English General Williams , accompanied by Tassif Pacha , has left Erzeroum to defend Knrs nguinst tho Ktissiana . It wan oxpoctod that Kupatoriu would shortly bo attacked by tho Russians . " Thirty thousand " Russian infantry arc said to liuvo joined the- largo cavalry force lit fcunatona . Accounts from tho Crimea , of the 29 th ult ., state that tho Allies had received fresh roiuforcomeo . es . DEATH OF LORD RAGLAN . From , a despatch signed by General Simpson , and communicated to tho pubJUc by Lord . Panmure , we earn that—

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 7, 1855, page 639, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2098/page/3/