three powers; that representations had been made
upon the subject by Her Majesty's government to that
of Greece, and communications had taken place between
the British, French, and Russian governments; that
these representations and interventions had hitherto
led to no result, the conduct of the Greek government
being the less excusable, since, if its financial affairs
were properly managed, it had ample means of fulfilling
its obligations; that the matter, however, would not
be lost sight of, and he was in communication with
France and Russia with a view of endeavouring to make
some impression upon the score of right and justice on
the government of Greece.—Mr. HUME, in moving that
the evidence taken before the select committee for
inquiring into the Income-Tax be laid upon the table,
expanded his observations into a review of the general
subject of direct and indirect taxation.—The Chancellor
of the EXCHEQUER, abstaining from extraneous topics,
opposed the motion. The committee had come to the
conclusion, which he thought a wise determination,
that, the evidence being incomplete, it was inexpedient
to lay it before the house, which, he thought, would
not interfere with this decision by ordering the printing
of imperfect evidence.—The motion was supported by
Sir J. Walmsley, Mr. J. Williams, and Mr. Urquhart;
and opposed by Colonel Thompson. Upon a division,
there proved to be but thirty members in the house,
whereupon an adjournment took place.

On Friday, August the 8th, Mr. WAKLEY renewed
the proposition of Mr. Hume, that the evidence
taken before the Income-Tax committee be printed.—
Lord J. RUSSELL opposed the motion, as contrary to
the course determined on by the committee, and as the
enquiry was still incomplete. After a short discussion,
the house divided, and rejected the motion by 62 to 52.
—The house then proceeded to ballot for a deputation
of members to accompany the Speaker to the House of
Lords; and shortly afterwards, at the summons of the
Black Rod, the right honourable gentlemen, attended
by the members on whom the lot had fallen, quitted
the house and repaired to the House of Peers, where the
ceremonial of the prorogation took place.

PROGRESS OF BUSINESS.

House of Lords.—July 28th.—Smithfield Market Removal Bill,
Report received.—Merchant Seamen's Fund Bill read a second
time.

29th.—Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill read a third
time and passed.—Charitable Trusts Bill passed through
committee.

31st.—Stock in Trade Bill, and Charitable Trusts Bill read a
third time and passed.—Court of Chancery and Judicial
Committee Bill read a second time.

Aug. 1st.—Royal Assent to Ecclesiastical Titles Bill and
other Bills.

4th.—General Board of Health (No. 2.) Bill, Emigration
Advances Bill, and Metropolitan Interment Bill read a second
time.—Commissioners of Railways Act Repeal Bill read a third
time.

5th.—Lord Monteagle's additional Ecclesiastical Titles Bill
thrown out.

7th.—Royal Assent to a number of Bills.—Commons
Amendments to Episcopal and Capitular Estates Bill agreed to.—
Commons Amendments to Patent Law Amendment Bill rejected.

8th.—Royal Assent to Bills.—Parliament prorogued by the
Queen to 4th of September next.

House of Commons.—July 26th.—Improvement of Towns
(Ireland) Bill considered in committee.—Other Bills advanced
a stage.

28th.—Medical Charities (Ireland, Bill considered in
committee.—Valuation (Ireland) Bill abandoned by Ministers.—
Greenwich Petition to be heard by Council for Alderman
Salomons, and London Petition for Baron Rothschild, refused.—
Lord John Russell's resolution that Mr. Salomons is incapable
of sitting carried.—Conveyance of Mails by Railway, Bill
considered in committee.

29th.—Ballot Bill read a first time.—Metropolitan Sewers
Bill passed through committee.—Crystal Palace, Mr. Heywood's
motion for an address to the Queen carried.

30th.—Patent Law Amendment Bill committed pro formâ.—
Church Building Act Amendment Bill passed through committee.

31st.—Metropolitan Sewers Bill read a third time and passed.
—Metropolitan Interment Bill passed through committee.—
Petty Sessions (Ireland) Bill considered in committee.—
Episcopal and Capitular Estates Bill (No. 2.) read a second time.

Aug. 1st.—New Writ for Downpatrick, Mr. Ker resigned.—
County Courts Further Extension Bill passed through
committee.—Episcopal and Capitular Estates (No. 2.) Bill committed
pro formâ.

2nd.—Charitable Trusts Bill withdrawn.

4th.—Patent Law Amendment Bill considered in committee.—
Episcopal and Capitular Estates Bill passed through committee.

5th.—Patent Law Amendment Bill in committee.

6th.—Episcopal and Capitular Estates (No. 2.) read a third
time and passed.—Patent Law Amendment Bill passed through
committee.

7th.—Rules for Members attending the Sovereign at the
prorogation.

8th.—Parliament prorogued.

The Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill received
the royal assent on the 1st instant. It is the joint
production of Her Majesty's ministers, Mr. Walpole,
Sir Frederic Thesiger, and Mr. Keogh. The portion
contributed by each is marked out in the copy of the
act which follows. The part which belongs to her
Majesty's ministers is printed in roman letters, the rest
in italic, with the names of the respective authors
appended. "Whereas divers of Her Majesty's Roman
Catholic subjects have assumed to themselves the titles
of archbishop and bishops of a pretended province, and of
pretended sees or dioceses, within the United Kingdom,
under colour of an alleged authority given to them for
that purpose by certain briefs, rescripts, or letters
apostolical, from the see of Rome, and particularly [Sir
F. Thesiger's] by a certain brief, rescript, or letters
apostolical, purporting to have been given at Rome on
the 29th of September, 1850; and whereas, by the act of
the tenth year of King George the Fourth, chapter seven,
after reciting that the Protestant Episcopal Church of
England and Ireland, and the doctrine, discipline, and
government thereof, and likewise the Protestant
Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and the doctrine,
discipline, and government thereof, were by the respective
acts of Union of England and Scotland, and of Great
Britain and Ireland, established permanently and
inviolably, and that the right and title of archbishops
to their respective provinces, of bishops to their sees, and
of deans to their deaneries, as well in England as in
Ireland, had been settled and established by law, it was
enacted, that if any person after the commencement oj
that act, other than the person thereunto authorised by
law, should assume or use the name, style, or title of
archbishop of any province, bishop of any bishopric, or
dean of any deanery in England or Ireland, he should
for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of 100l.
[Mr. Walpole's]: And whereas it may be doubted
whether the recited enactment extends to the assumption
of the title of archbishop or bishop of a city, place,
or territory, or dean of any pretended deanery in
England or Ireland, not being the see, province, or
diocese of any archbishop or bishop, or deanery of any
dean, recognised by law; but the attempt to establish,
under colour of authority, from the see of Rome or
otherwise, such pretended sees, provinces, dioceses, or
deaneries, is illegal and void: And whereas it is
expedient to prohibit the assumption of such titles in
respect of any places within the United Kingdom: Be
it therefore declared and enacted by the Queen's most
excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent
of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in
this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, that—1. All such briefs, rescripts, or letters
apostolical, and all and every the jurisdiction, authority,
pre-eminence, or title conferred, or pretended to be conferred,
thereby, are, and shall be, and be deemed unlawful
and void. [Mr. Walpole's.] 2. And be it enacted,
that if, after the passing of this act, any person shall
obtain, or cause to be procured, from the Bishop or see
of Rome, or shall publish or put in use, within any
part of the United Kingdom, any such bull, brief,
rescript, or letters apostolical, or any other instrument
or writing, for the purpose of constituting such
archbishops or bishops of such pretended provinces, sees, or
dioceses within the United Kingdom, or if any person
[Sir F. Thesiger's] other than a person thereunto
authorised by law in respect of an archbishopric,
bishopric, or deanery, of the United Church of England
and Ireland, assume or use the name, style or title of
archbishop, bishop, or dean of any city, town, or place,
or of any territory or district (under any designation or
description whatsoever) in the United Kingdom, whether