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      divided on the original motion , when tli « numbers were— .-For the-motion' 62 Against it ' . 290 Majority against the motion —228 KEBUILDEG OF THE FOREIGN-OFFICE . ' On the motion of Mr . Hope , a select committee was appointed to consider and report upon the reconstruction of the Toreign-office in relation to tlie future rebuilding of other offices on a uniform plan , due regard being had to public convenience and economy . The other business having been got through , tb . « House adjourned at twenty minutes to three o ' clock . IVeduesdai /) June 2 nd . Bill . WASHINGTON WILKS . A further petition from Mr . Washington TVilks having been presented to the House of Cosimoss , Mr . I&iuner GriBSOX moved that he be discharged from custody . —Mr , Cuve oiFered no objection ; Mr . Walpolb considered that th « retractation had been made complete . ; and the discharge was ordered to take place on payment of the fees THE MEDICAL BILLS . f The first three orders of the day were for the second reading of the Medical PitAcrinoflEBS Bill , the MEDICAL FilOiFESSIO ^ f AND MEDICAL CORPORATIONS Bell ., and the Medical Profession Bill ; and the debate upon the first extended to and embraced the others . —Mr . Cowper . moved the second reading of the first named of the measures , which -was opposed by Mr . Black . —Mr . Walfolb proposed to introduce certain amendments in committee ; and an amendment of Mr . Black , that the bill be read a second time that day six months , having been withdraw ™ , the bill was ordered to . be committed on the 8 th of June .-: —Mr . Duncombe then postponed the second reading of the Medical Profession , and Medical Corporations Bill ; and the third u » ea " 3 uie "was withdrawn by Lord Elcho . PROPERTY QUALIFICATIONBILI ,.

      The adjourned debate on the order forgoing into committee on this bill was resumed by Mr . Bentinck , who objected to the measure , chiefly because it was part and parcel of a Reform Bill , and it was not fair to call on the House to deal with a great subject piecemeal . Besides , he thought the property qualification useful in keeping bankrupts out of the House . —Mr . Dbummond looked npon this as the first attempt ' to separate power from wealth , and as likely to lead to the destruction of the right of property ; while Sir G . C . Lewis took an exactly opposite view . —Mr . Ker Sevmicr supported bil

      the ) , and appealed to the example ' of Scotland , where there is no property qualification . —Mr . Nkwdesate objected to the bill on the ground that a measure of reform should be submitted to the country as a whole . — The measure was further opposed by Mr . Knightley and Sir W . Farquhau ; and Mr . Henxtcy said he retained the opinion he had formerly possessed , that the question belonged to a larger subject . —On a division , the amendment was negatived by 222 to 10 D . —The House then went into committee ; after which , certain formal business was transacted , and an adjournment took place at twenty minutes to six .

      Thursday , June 3 rd . SIR JAMES BROOKE . In the Housis of Lokus , the Earl St . Germans complained of a series of notices placed on the paper by Lord Kingston , relating to a perfect " catechism of questions , " and , amongst other things , to a charge against Sir James Brooke , to the effect that lie had " desecrated the name of English humanity . " No day had been appointed for tlie discussion of the charge , which , meanwhile , had obtained a wide circulation , while no opportuuitj' was afforded for explaining or refuting it . —After some discussion , Lord Campiiell reminded the House that the minutes containing the charge were circulated all over the kingdom , and were sent to every public librury . —The subject then dropped .

      LKQA . L HILLS . Tho STon-Paroohial Rucus-runa Bill and the Chamckry Amendment Bill wore respectively read a second time on tlie motion of the Lord Chanckllor , and , after a brief discussion , were ordered to bo referred to a select committee . The object of tho first of these bills is to enable tho registrars of dissenting chapels to give evidence in court * of justice respscting their duties which they cannot now do ; the object of the second of tho bills is to onablo the Court of Chancery to enforce its deoreea , and to provide for taking evidence in Chancery by a l « n » cumbrous method . TII 10 niOCKHE OF NKW ZEALAND .

      Earl 1 owis naked whether any measures are now in progress for the subdiviHJon of tho diocese of jN t « w Zealand . —Tho Karl of Carnarvon said that the arrangements ho hoped uud believed wcro on tho eve of completion . He had reuaon to think that the various sees propos « d , to be erected in New Zealand would soon corao i nto fu ll play and nativity . Tho House adjourned at balf . pnst six . THli HUKZ OANAL ,. In tho Housia av Cimihoks , In answer to Mr . Mu , mcn Gihrox , the Ciiancicllou op THE ExoHictjuicu suid that ho did not think it would

      be convenient to Jay on the table the correspondence between the Government and the English Embassy at Constantinople , and also between the Government and certain foreign countries , with reference to the projected ship canal across the Isthmus of Suez . THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE ARMY . In answer to Sir John Walsh , the Chancellor of the Exchequer said her Majesty's Government would always treat with great and due respect auy decision at which the House might arrive ; but , considering tlie great importance of the question which was under discussion on Tuesday , the comparatively small number * of members in the Ilouse when the division took place , and tlie bare majority by which the resolution was carried , they did not feel that it was their duty to recommend any measure in consequence of the vote at which the House then arrived .

      NEGOTIATIONS TVITII CHI 2 TA . Iii answer to questions by Mr . Kinglake , the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the hon . gentleman was under an erroneous impression that'there had been a rupture of negotiations with China . What the emperor had done had been , not to send a minister to Shanghai , but to transmit a message to Lord Elgin to return to Canton , there to meet his representative . Lord Elgin had , however , advanced towards the north . He would remind the lion , gentleman that we are acting at present with allies , and , therefore , it would be inconvenient to lay on the table any instructions given , by the predecessors of the Government , ox by themselves subsequently . BARRACK-MASTKRS , &C .

      Replying to Mr . "Warren , General Peel stated that no revised scale of pay had been recently prepared in the barrack department . The head of the barrack department had informed him that the pay of barrack-masters is now under consideration ; but there were so many difficulties in the way that he did not think it likely that any change would take place in the present financial year .- —In answer to Mr . Nicolx , , General Peel said that the principal storekeeper at Weedon absconded on the 19 th of May , and had succeeded in escaping to America . The subject wa 3 under investigation ; but he was assured that the accounts of the establishment had been regularly kept and balanced up to the 31 st of December .

      3 IR . IIOllSMAN . The report of the Committee of Supply having been brought up , Mr . Horsman ( in connexion with the vote for the Chief- Secretary for Ireland ) entered into a long personal explanation , in reply to charges urged fcy some of the Irish representatives , to the effect that he had neglected his duties while Irish Secretary , and that members had found it impossible to sec him . " The lion , member for Wcxford had stated that he was fortunate enough to find him on one occasion , but had never been able to do so since . He was not prepared to dispute the fact . He recollected the hon . member coming to him to

      offer a suggestion , and Ins answer was that he Avould receive no request from the hon . member , unless it was put iu writing , and he would then give a written reply . He steadily acted upon the principle that he would have no communication with the hon . gentleman , or his friends , except in writing , in order that it might be ' produced at any time . { Oh , oh !) If any member of the House on either side called upon him , he was , as a rule admitted ; but , when the hon . member called , he was referred to his ( Mr . Horsman ' s ) secretary , who requested that the business miglit be put in writing . " QO / i , ohf ) When first he entered office , he ordered that business should

      commence every morning at ten o ' clock ; but he soon found that there was little or nothing to do till mid-day . He had certainly transacted business at his own house , which was exactly opposite his office ; but anybody calling at the latter place waa sent over to him . A . good d « al of discussion , on tho part of the Irish members , ensued ; but the subject at length passed , and the report was agreed to . The House then wont into Committee of Supply , and discussed a large number of votes belonging to tho Civil Service Estimates , which , however , were agreed to . — On resuming , the Ecclesiastical Coki-orationb ' Leasino Bill , and the Pkomsktv Qualification Bill , were respectively read a third time , and passed ; other kills were forwarded a stage ; an < l tlie House adjourned « t a quarter past one o'clock .

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      THE ORIENT . PEK 8 IA . Tun Pans ynperB publish » statement that Mr . Murray , Minister of England a t Teheran , lias proposed as basis of a treaty to be concluded with the Shah , that Peraiu should cease to occupy Merswroud . The Persian Government has refused to uccedo . r . . MOHOCCO . I he military demonstrations directed tigninst th « tribes of Zemour , who dwell in the country between Fez and I ' etounn , have not k-d to Iho submission of the latter , who aro preparing for a desperate resistance . Tho Emperor of Morocco hm taken up n position twenty miles from Vox ,, with his « miy of 22 , 000 men , and was to commence ; his attack in tUq boginuing of Judo .

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      ¦ ¦ . ¦ ? - : ' ¦ ¦ . ¦¦• ¦¦ ¦ . ... ¦ ' A large mass of intelligence from the East has been received during the week , and presents features of a very chequered character . Prom Oude it is reported that a number of the principal talookdars have made their submission to the Chief Commissioner , either personally or by their representatives , and that the settlement of tlie country round Iiucknow is rapidly proceeding . Tlie rebeL Moulvic , and the mother of the insurgents' king , are said to have abandoned , a place obscurely described in a telegram as Batsowlil , where they had taken refuge , and to have fled into the Baraeta Pergunnah , beyond the Gogra . According to a later account , the Moulvie and followers were flying back to Maguldee , in Oude . The main body of the Ghoorkas , under Jung Bahadoor , was proceeding , at the last advices , to Nepal , via Fyzabad , which is held by Maun Singh . They did not expect any opposition ;'¦ and intelligence lias already been received of their having passed through G . orruckpore . Three discomfitures of our arms are reported in the batch of news which have arrived this week . On the 15 th of April , General Walpole ' s division made an unsuccessful attack on the fort , of Howa ' s , and sustained considerable loss . One hundred of oaf men , and four of ouv officers , purished on tliis occasion ; and among the latter was Brigadier Adrian Hope . Notwithstanding the ill success of the attempt to take the fort , it was evacuated , by the rebels during the night ; after which ' , our column moved on . On the 22 nd of April , it encountered a large body of insurgents opposite Kanouje , and dispersed them , with the loss of four guns , their camp , and five or six hundred killed . Five days after thisviz ., on the 2 ? th of April—General Walpole , vitli his heavy column , reached Jfuttehgliur , where he was met by the Coniinander-iu-Chk'f , who advanced towards Bareilly , now the head-quarters of the rebellion , on tlie 2 nd of May . It was expected that that town would bo invested about the 10 th of May , and it . is said that Nana Sahib is there . The Hindoos are reported to be friendly , and tlie Mussulmans were escaping . Sir Colin Campbell and General Walpole , on their road to Bareilly , entered Sh ahjehanpore , without opposition , on the UOth of April . The people , who had deserted the town , were passed returning as our army proceeded on its way . The English Commander expected to be joined by three additional columns . The second reverses which we have sustained took place near Arrah , the scene of a lamentable catastrophe in the early days of the struggle ; and it was of a nature -very similar to tiiat previous disaster . A forco of three hundred men , under Captain Legraml , advanced from Arrah , and followed tlie enemy into tho jungle , where it was defeated . Three onieers anil one hundred and thirty-tlnxo men were killed , and two guua were lost . Tlie reverse took place in an attempt which was being made to intercept Koocsr Singh , who , with about two thousand rebels , was making for thu Ganges , which he succeeded in crossing on the r > th of April , though hotly pursued by Brigadier . Douglas , by whom he hud been driven from Azimghur . Tho rebel clik'f arrived at Jugdespore on tho 22 nd ; since ) which date , DougluH ' u brigade liua also crossed the rivor . Sir lid ward JLugard , with tho rent of tho division , was to cross on tho Urd of May . Kooer Singh is reported to have died of wounds .

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      . 534 , ; : THE LEADE & . [ No . 428 , June 5 , 1858 .

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      THE INDIAN llETOLiY

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      CHIXA . The latest intelligence from China states that , iu replr to an address from the British merchants at Canton Lord Elgin assured them that the demands of the allies were moderate , but that they would insist on their beinrr complied with . They are prepared to resort , if necessary , to force , and they will not shrink , should it be found requisite , from carry ing ' hostilities to the very walls of Pekin . The . Hong-Kong-papers say that Teenl-Sin , a small harbour about fifty miles from Peicin will easily fall into the hands of the allies ,. and' tliey ' uro-e that gunboats should be sent up to the capital . At Cauton , the native authorities Ot j s added ) secretl y persecute and torture all who are suspected of favouring the allies . Great atrocities are said to have been discovered In the inland ' provinces , anarchy appears to be on the increase . At Shanghai , Lord Elgin received at the ' British consulate a body-of mercantile men , who . presented an address of congratulation , in which tliey expressed their hope that he miglit be able to subdue ( he hostile spirit so long exhibited by . the Cantonese , develop tlie resources of China , and extend the blessings oC a higher civilization . Lord Elgin , in his reply , said thsit he liad large discretionary po . wers j that he never ' made -what he conceived to be an unjust demand , nor receded from any demand once made ; and that , in course of time , the superior civilization of Europe , backed by a religion which gives the highest guarantees for public and private morality , must supersede the inferior civilization anil materialistic ideas of China .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 5, 1858, page 534, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2245/page/6/