15th.—Examiners in Chancery Bill brought in.—Sale and
Purchase of Land Bill brought in.—Canada Clergy Reserves,
Mr. Peel's statement.

16th.—County Polls Bill passed.—Elections Bill and Cruelty
to Animals Bill brought in.

17th.—Hop Duty, Mr. Frewen's resolution negatived.—
Canada Clergy Reserves Bill brought in.

18th.—Mr. Disraeli's speech on Relations with France.—
Navy Estimates.—Examiners in Chancery Bill read a second
time.

21st.—Election Committees, Reports received relative to
Lancaster, Tavistock, and Canterbury.—Committee of Supply,
Navy Estimates.—Grand Jury Cess (Ireland) Bill read a third
time and passed.—Office of Examiner Court of Chancery
Bill considered in Committee,—Sheriffs' Courts (Scotland)
Bill read a first time.

22nd.—Her Majesty's Theatre Association Bill thrown out on
second reading.—Maynooth Grant, debate on Mr. Spooner's
motion.

23rd.—County Rates and Expenditure Bill read a second
time.—Adjourned Debate on Maynooth, Mr. Spooner's motion
negatived.

Earl St. Germans, the new viceroy of Ireland, held
his first levee on the 7th inst. In answer to an address
of the corporation of Dublin, he thus alluded to the
Abolition of the Viceroyalty:—"I am persuaded that
the abolition of Lord-Lieutenant would be productive
of much practical inconvenience, and of little
countervailing practical advantage. I am, moreover, persuaded
that the maintenance of this office is desired by the
great body of the Irish people; I therefore think that
its abolition would be highly inexpedient. This opinion
I expressed in the House of Commons nine years ago,
and I have seen no reason since to alter it."

Sir Charles Wood and Mr. Cropley, the members for
Halifax, attended a large Public Meeting of their
Constituents on the 3rd inst.  In his speech Sir Charles Wood
adduced recent events in foreign countries as a warning
against precipitate and ill-considered measures of reform,
"There is," he said, "hardly a country in Europe
which in the last four or five years has not attempted a
revolution. There is hardly a country in Europe in
which I may say the mob has not for a time gained the
ascendancy; and there is not a country in Europe in
which the reaction has not been such that, at the present
moment, despotism rules from one extremity of Europe
to another, and the only power acknowledged is that of
the sword. Take our nearest neighbours. Such a
despotism never prevailed in France even in the time
of Napoleon the First. The press gagged; liberty
suppressed; no man allowed to speak his opinion; the
neighbouring country of Belgium forced to gag her press;
no press in Europe free but ours, which, thank God, he
cannot gag. And hence his hatred of our press, that
it alone dares to speak the truth. But how has that
despotism been constituted? Not by the intelligence of
France, not by the intelligent electors; not by the
educated classes of France; because he altered the
constitution before he put the question of his power to
the vote. Twice an appeal has been made in the form
in which he chose to put it to the people of France.
The votes of France were taken by universal suffrage
and vote by ballot. Therefore, gentlemen, let us extend
the franchise, let us extend political rights,—that
has been my opinion and my idea ever since I had
a vote in Parliament; but let us take care that we
do it cautiously and steadily, not beyond what the
general feelings and wishes of the country demand.
Let us extend lower, and let us extend wider the
middle classes in this country—those classes which
in every part of the world have been the depositaries
of liberal opinions, the champions of freedom against
the encroachments of the great and the corruption of
the lowest orders; extend the middle classes with the
intelligence and education of those who have not hitherto
sufficiently benefited by those privileges. Changes of
constitution are but as means to an end. It is but
improving the machine in order that the fabric may be
better for the improvement."

The National Association for the Protection of British
Industry has dissolved itself. A meeting was held on
the 7th, at which the President of the Association, the
Duke of Richmond, took the chair. Among the
members present were, Mr. Newdegate, M.P., Sir Bowyer
Smijth, M.P., Sir Edward Ball, M.P., Mr. Alderman
Thompson, M,P,, Mr. Cayley Worsley, Mr. Chowler,
Mr. Ellman, and Mr. Bosanquet. There were also
several clergymen, and some other members of provincial
societies. A letter was read from Mr. G. F. Young,
dated from Geneva, recommending the dissolution of the
association, as a matter of expediency, but declaring
himself an "unchanged Protectionist." When this letter
had been read, the Duke of Richmond expressed his
general concurrence with the views of the writer. He
was convinced that the nation could never be great,
prosperous, and free, without Protection; but at the present
moment, "we ought not to agitate when we have no
party in Parliament to support our views." Wages
would rise; possibly the Manchester men would find
that the time would come when the manufacturers of the
United States could undersell them even in the
Manchester market itself. The day of reaction would arrive;
but to continue the Association would rather retard than
hasten it. A resolution dissolving the Association was
then passed; and after votes of thanks to the Duke of
Richmond, Mr. Newdegate, the Secretary, and Mr.
Young, the meeting broke up.

The two Houses of Convocation of the clergy of the
province of Canterbury met on the 16th inst.  In the
Upper House, in November last, a committee had been
appointed to consider the address to the Queen in favour
of a measure for better enforcing church discipline. The
report of that committee was now brought up by the
Bishop of London, laid on the table, and ordered to be
communicated to the Lower House. The house then
received a report by the vicar-general on the question
of the right of the Bishop of Cape Town to sit in
Convocation. During the discussion of this question the
time for presenting the above address arrived; and the
Upper House being joined by the Lower, they proceeded
to Buckingham Palace accordingly. The Convocation
was received in full state; and her Majesty returned a
gracious answer, expressing her attachment to the
doctrines of true religion, and her confidence in their desire
to preserve harmony in the Church, while maintaining
its doctrines and her supremacy unimpaired. Both
houses then returned to their several chambers. In the
upper, the discussion respecting the Bishop of Cape
Town was resumed, and terminated in a resolution to
the effect that the house did not feel itself competent,
either to direct a citation to be issued to the bishop, or
to allow him, without such citation, to take his place in
the present Convocation. After some other business,
the prorogation, after some discussion, was agreed to;
and the Prolocutor of the Lower House being summoned,
it was announced that Convocation had been prorogued
to the 18th of August.

NARRATIVE OF LAW AND CRIME.

A Mutiny on board the bark Georgiana, in the harbour
of Geelong, took place on the 17th of October last.
The particulars have been given by Mr. Murray, master
of the vessel, in a letter to the owners. The Georgiana
left Greenock with emigrants in last July; on the 16th
October she was moored at Geelong. "I found," says
Mr. Murray, "every ship deserted by officers and crew.
On my application to the harbourmaster for protection,
I was told it was no use my applying for any, as there
was not sufficient police to protect the town, far less me.
The crew and officers behaved well during the passage.
I used every precaution to keep my crew on board, by
taking all the boats on board, and filling them with
lumber, &c., so as to prevent surprise—myself and
officers only keeping watch by day and night. From the
general conduct of the men, I had not the slightest
suspicion of the occurrence which I will now describe.
About one P.M. Sunday, the 17th October, the emigrants
being at dinner, eighteen of the crew, headed by the
cook and boatswain, came aft and demanded a boat to
go to the Diggings, asking me to go with them; all
standing with their hands behind their backs. I refused.
They then said, 'We will take her by force.' Nearly
every one then showed some deadly weapons, such as
knives, pistols, &c. At this critical juncture, I asked
the doctor and mate's advice, and then went forward
and asked the passengers' assistance; who said they were