11th.—Metropolitan Interments Bill further considered in
Committee.—Margate Harbour, motion for Select Committee
carried.—Resolution as to levying duty on bonded spirits carried.
—Bill to confirm Incorporation of certain Boroughs, read a first
time.

12th.—Landlord and Tenant Bill considered in Committee.—
Court of Chancery Bill read a second time.

13th.—County Court Extension Bill, and Marriages Bill,
considered in Committee and reported,

14th.—Factories Bill, Metropolitan Interments Bill, and
Marriages Bill, considered in Committee.

17th.—Lord Lieutenancy (Ireland) Abolition Bill read a second
time.—Landlord and Tenant Bill, and Borough Courts of Record
(Ireland) Bill, reported.

18th.—Incorporation of Boroughs Amendment Bill (No. 2)
read a second time.—County Courts Extension Bill went through
Committee.

19th.—School Establishment (Scotland) Bill thrown out on
second reading.—Friendly Societies Bill read a second time.

20th.—Mercantile Marine Bill read a third time, to be
recommitted.—Metropolitan Interments Bill, and Factories Bill, read
a third time and passed.—Court of Exchequer (Ireland) Bill read
a second time.—Charitable Trusts Bill considered in Commiittee.
—County Courts Extension Bill read a third time and passed.—
Railway Audit Bill laid aside, with a view of bringing in
another.

24th.—The Prussian Minister's Residence Bill, as amended,,
was considered.—The General Board of Health Bill and the
Court of Chancery Bill were read a third time and passed.

June 26th.—County Rates Bill thrown out on second reading.
—Larceny Summary Jurisdiction Bill read a third time and
passed.—Copyholds Enfranchisement Bill read a second time.—
Accidents on Railways Bill thrown out on second reading.—Bill
for Improvement of Towns in Ireland, brought in by Mr. Keogh.

THERE was a grand Protectionist Demonstration at
Liverpool on the 6th;—a meeting, in the Royal
Amphitheatre, attended by between 2000 or 3000 persons
admitted by ticket. The Earl of Wilton presided; a
number of well-known protectionist champions were
on the platform; and there were delegates from counties
and agricultural towns, from sea-ports and from
manufacturing towns, by way of representing the various
branches of industry. The oratory was abundant, the
meeting having lasted eleven hours; but the speeches
and resolutions were of the usual character on such
occasions.

The Tenant Right movement is spreading in Ireland,
and several large meetings on the subject have been
held within these few weeks. At one of them, held at
Navan, on the banks of the Boyne, on the 30th of May,
ten thousand tenant farmers are stated to have been
present, Protestant as well as Roman Catholic.

Another meeting of great importance was held at
Belfast on the 12th inst. The Music Hall was crowded
with substantial farmers from all parts of Ulster; and
Presbyterian ministers joined with Roman Catholic
priests in the business of the meeting. Resolutions
were passed of which the leading points were: the
rights of the tenantry to profit by their own improvements,
past, present, and future; their right, founded
on ancient custom, to a continued occupation of their
lands at a fair rent; and the approval of the proposed
tenant right conference in Dublin, and the formation
of a tenant league for all Ireland.

The Roman Catholic Primate has received a
communication from the Vatican declaring that Romish
clergymen cannot hold office in, or be instrumental in
advancing the Queen's Colleges in Ireland, and
prohibiting the Roman Catholic laity from sending their
children to those colleges.

Some interesting parliamentary returns, relating to
the convict system, have been printed. In England and
Wales in 1847, 51 convicts were sentenced to death, 60
in 1848, and 69 in 1849, while in 1847, 2,806 were
sentenced to transportation, 3,251 in 1848, and 2,844 in 1849.
In Scotland only 11 were sentenced to death in the three
years, 1,180 were sentenced to transportation, and 5,206
to imprisonment. In Ireland, in 1847, 25 persons were
sentenced to death, 2,185 to transportation, and 11,221
to imprisonment. In 1848 the number in Ireland was
60 sentenced to death, 2,698 to transportation, and
12,968 to imprisonment; whilst in 1849 the number
sentenced to death was 38, to transportation 3,050, and to
imprisonment 15,443. In England and Wales the sums
paid by the Treasury for food, &c., for convicts and
misdemeanants in the year ending the 30th of September,
1847, amounted to £95,932 15s. 5d., in the following
year to £81,954 1s. 1d., and last year to £75,167 6s. 1d.,
besides £19,353 6s. 4d. last year for transports in gaols.
In Scotland the expense paid by the Treasury for food,
&c., was £10437 5s. 7d. last year, and in Ireland it was
£9,792 3s. 1d.

A return has been printed, giving some useful
information respecting Savings Banks and Friendly Societies
as to the amount of "loss of interest sustained by the
public." In the year ending the 20th of November,
1844, the excess of interest paid to the trustees of
savings-banks and friendly societies by the National Debt
Commissioners above that received by them, was
£112,235 15s.; in 1845, £36,537 8s. 4d.; in 1846, £35,420
10s. 3d.; in 1847, £36,553 10s. 6d.; in 1848, £48,663 10s.;
and in 1849, £57,592 14s. 10d. From the 20th of November,
1844, the rate of interest payable to savings-banks
was reduced from £3 16s. to £3 5s. percent, per annum.

Between the 15th and the 20th, thirty-one new
Petitions for the Sale of Irish Encumbered Estates were
lodged. Several of the inheritors in this list are
petitioners in their own cases. The total number of
petitioners is now 978. At this rate of progress, the
commissioners, before the end of the summer, would have
more estates to sell than they could dispose of in four
years. They are, however, preparing for vigorous
operations after the recess. Within the week ending on
the 19th, no less than fifty-two conditional or absolute
orders for sales were pronounced.

NARRATIVE OF LAW AND CRIME.

THE proverb "Murder will out," has just been strikingly
illustrated. Stephen Carlin, a beast-jobber, residing near
Skipton, in Yorkshire, was last seen alive at Pateley-bridge,
in company with his partner (a cousin), eleven or twelve
years ago. His cousin said that he had gone to America,
but foul play was always suspected; and on Saturday
the 20th of May, a digger of peat on Roggin-moor, near
Pateley-bridge, found the body of the missing man, a
few feet below the surface in such a state of preservation
(owing to the antiseptic nature of the soil) that it
was readily identified. A tailor, too, knew the clothes
to be Carlin's; and a married woman, whom he had
wooed in her maidenhood, recognised as her property a
handkerchief and comb that were found in the pockets.
The cousin, Jonathan Bland, was apprehended at Skipton
two days afterwards.

The Earl of Lincoln's Divorce Bill was read a second
time in the House of Lords, on the 28th of May. Lord
Lincoln, the son and heir of the Duke of Newcastle, was
married, in 1832, to Lady Susan Hamilton, only daughter
of the Duke of Hamilton. They lived together up to
August 1848, and had five children. In that month
Lady Lincoln went to the continent without her
husband's leave, but ostensibly to consult the German
physicians about her health. On the continent it was
soon found that she was constantly accompanied by Lord
Walpole, eldest son of the Earl of Orford. While it was
believed that her conduct amounted only to indiscretion,
Mr. Gladstone, M.P., as the friend of both parties, went
in search of her. After some time he discovered that
she was living near Como, under the assumed name of
Mrs. Lawrence, but found it impossible to obtain access
to her. She gave birth to a son at Como, in August
1849, who could not have been her husband's, and was
christened by the name of Horatio Walpole. These,
and other circumstances, establishing her criminality,
were proved by evidence before the house, and it was
stated by her solicitor that she had given instructions
that there should be no opposition to the bill.

In October 1848, a small deal box, labelled "Mr.
Watson, passenger, Exeter," was found on the railway
platform at Slough. No one applied for it, and after a
time it was sent to London to the "lost property"
department. On the 1st instant the box was opened,
and was found to contain the Mummy of a Child,
supposed to be a girl, about eighteen months old. The corpse
was quite shrivelled up; round the neck was tied a
cambric handkerchief; attempts had been made to
separate the limbs, and there were other mutilations.
No arsenic was detected by analysis. A coroner's jury