Parliament continued.

Refusal of the Greek Government
to give compensation to certain Bri-
tish subjects, the Piræus blockaded,
great excitement caused by the ques-
tion, [58]; our relations with France
seriously compromised, questions
asked in Parliament, [58], [60]; pro-
posed intervention of France, [61]; in-
tervention broken off, the French Am-
bassador does not attend the Queen's
birthday, and leaves England, [62]; in
the Lords the Government represent
the matter lightly; in the French
Assembly the Minister of War admits
that the Ambassador was recalled,
[63]; discussion in the Commons,
[64]; Lord Palmerston explains the
circumstances of the withdrawal of
the French Ambassador, [65]; Lord
Stanley, in the Lords, brings the
subject forward in a general attack
on the Foreign policy of the Minis-
try, his able speech, [66]; answer of
the Marquess of Lansdowne, [68]; im-
portant debate, Earl of Aberdeen,
Lords Beaumont, Canning, Brougham,
Ministry defeated by a majority of 37,
[71]; Lord J. Russell's view of the
position of the Ministry in conse-
quence, [71]; Mr. Roebuck's friendly
motion, [73]; debate, Sir F. Thesiger,
[76]; Mr. W. P. Wood, Sir J. Gra-
ham, [77]; Lord Palmerston's defence
of himself and colleagues, [78]; Sir
J. Walsh, Mr. J. Herbert, Sir G. Grey,
[81]; Mr. Gladstone, [82]; Mr. Cock-
burn, [83]; Mr. Walpole, Mr. Cobden,
[84]; Sir Robert Peel's memorable
speech, [85]; Lord John Russell, [86];
Mr. Disraeli, [87]; majority of 46 in
favour of Ministers, [88]; Affairs of
Hungary; Lord Dudley Stuart's mo-
tion respecting the extradition of
Hungarian refugees by Turkey, Lord
Palmerston's reply, [88]; debate, mo-
tion withdrawn, [90]; interesting de-
bate on maintenance of the African
squadron, [90]; debate, Mr. La-
bouchere, Sir R. Inglis, Mr. Cardwell,
[92]; Mr. Gladstone, Lord J. Russell,
[93]; motion negatived, [94]

Affairs of Ireland-The Govern-
ment measure for relief of distressed
unions and repayment of advances,
it is adopted, [96]; Government Bill
for extending the elective franchise,
[98]; several amendments moved in
Committee, [99]; Bill passes the Com-
mons, it is received with great oppo-
sition in the Lords, [100]; Lord De-
sart's motion to substitute 15l. for 8l.

Parliament-continued.

as the qualification is carried against
Ministers, [102]; who are again de-
feated on Lord Stanley's amendment,
respecting registration, [102]; the
Bill is passed by the Lords, and re-
turned to the Commons, when Lord
J. Russell proposes a 127. qualification
as a compromise, but insists on the
registration clauses, [102]; the Lords
agree to these alterations and the
Bill passes, [104]; Abolition of the
Lord Lieutenancy; Bill for this pur-
pose brought in by Lord J. Russell,
[104]; it is vehemently opposed by
the Irish members, speech of Sir R.
Peel, [107]; Sir G. Grey, Mr. Sheil,
[109]; Mr. Disraeli, Bill carried, but
not further proceeded with, [110];
Lord Stanley attacks the general
Irish policy of the Ministry by a mo-
tion respecting the conflict at Dolly's
Brae, [110]; that policy defended by
Lord Clarendon in person, [112]

Finance-The financial statement
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
favourable condition of the revenue,
[117]; proposes to reduce the stamp
duties and abolish that on bricks,
[118]; discussion on the stamp-duties,
they are modified, [119]; Ministers
defeated on Sir H. Willoughby's
amendment, [121]; the Chancellor of
the Exchequer withdraws his propo-
sals, and introduces a new measure,
which is adopted, [122]; motions for
retrenchment, Lord J. Russell's mo-
tion for a Committee on official sala-
ries, [123]; which is adopted after
debate, [127]; Mr. Cobden's motion
for reduction of 'the annual expen-
diture to the standard of 1835, [127];
Mr. Labouchere defends the present
system, discussion on the subject,
motion negatived by a large majority,
[130]; Mr. H. Drummond's motion
for retrenchment, [130]; Mr. Fox
Maule replies, [131]; motion sup-
ported by the agricultural interest,
after debate motion negatived, [133];
Lord Duncan's motion for a repeal of
the window-tax, [133]; reply of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Govern-
ment obtain a majority of 3, [135];
Mr. Cayley's motion for the repeal of
the malt-tax, [135]; reply of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer and im-
portant debate, [136]; Mr. Disraeli,
Lord J. Russell, motion negatived,
[139].

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A Bill

Miscellaneous Measures ·
for a Court to try Ecclesiastical Ap-

Parliament-continued.

peals in lieu of the Judicial Com-
mittee of the Privy Council, intro-
duced by the Bishop of London [141];
his speech answered by the Marquess
of Lansdowne [143]; measure op-
posed by Lord Brougham, Bishop of
St. David's, Earl of Carlisle, Lord
Campbell, supported by Lord Redes-
dale, Bishop of Oxford, Lord Lyttel-
ton, Bill lost, [147]; motion of Mr.
Heywood for inquiry into the state of
the Universities, [147]; strongly op-
posed by Sir R. H. Inglis, [148]; de-
bate, Lord John Russell intimates the
intention of Government to issue a
Royal Commission, [149]; this pro-
posal indignantly protested against
by Mr. Goulburn and others, [151];
the subject discussed in the Lords,
Earl of Carlisle gives assurances with
regard to the selection of the Com-
mission, [152]; discussion on Mr.
Heywood's motion resumed, Mr.
Roundell Palmer's speech, [154]; Mr.
H. Drummond, Mr. Gladstone, Lord
J. Russell, motion for the Government
Commission carried, [157]; Law of
Marriage, Bill to legalize marriage
with a deceased wife's sister again in-
troduced, [157]; debate on the second
reading, speeches of Mr. Hope, Mr.
S. Herbert, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. R. Pal-
mer, [158]; Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Sheil,
[159]; Mr. Cobden, Mr. Goulburn,
second reading carried, Bill passed
notwithstanding great opposition,
[160]; in the Lords the Bill is tem-
porarily withdrawn, [161]; Lord Ash-
ley's motion respecting Sunday La-
bour at the Post Office, [161]; it is
opposed by the Government, but car-
ried, the Government resolve to carry
the motion out strictly, great sur-
prise and dissatisfaction throughout
the country, but Government profess
obedience to the commands of the
House, [163]; measures taken ac-
cordingly, great inconvenience and
enormous increase of Sunday labour
occasioned, Mr. Locke King moves a
resolution in effect rescinding vote,
[164]; the regulations of the Post
Office restored to their former foot-
ing, [166]; Amendment of the Factory
Act, evasions of the statute, Lord
Ashley draws attention to the relay
system, and moves a declaratory Bill,
[166]; Sir G. Grey, on the part of the
Government, assents, discussion, op-
position by the mill-owners, Sir J.
Graham declares his view, intro-

Parliament-continued.

ducing the original measure, [168];
Sir G. Grey proposes an arrangement
by way of compromise between the
mill-owners and operatives, [169];
various amendments moved by Lord
Ashley, Mr. Edwards, Lord John
Manners, for further limitation; Bill
as proposed by Government, carried,
[170]; measure severely scrutinized
in the Lords, amendments moved by
the Earl of Harrowby and Duke of
Richmond for further limitation of
labour, Bill carried in original form,
[171]

Death of Sir Robert Peel-Deep
feeling exhibited by the House of
Commons, Mr. Hume's motion that
the House do adjourn without pro-
ceeding to any other business, [174];
Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Napier, and Sir
R. Inglis express the feelings of the
House, and the motion is agreed to,
[175]; in the House of Lords similar
feelings expressed by the Marquess of
Lansdowne, Lord Stanley, and Lord
Brougham, [177]; the Duke of Wel-
lington's testimony to the moral cha-
racter of the deceased, [178]; Lord
J. Russell proposes a public funeral,
which is declined by Mr. Goulburn
on behalf of the family, [178]; Lord
J. Russell states that Her Majesty
had proposed to confer a peerage on
the family, but that Lady Peel de-
sired to bear no other name than that
of her deceased husband, and that
Sir Robert had expressed his wish
that none of his family should accept
any public reward for services ren-
dered by him, [179]; Lord J. Russell
therefore proposes that a public mo-
nument be erected in Westminster
Abbey, and it is unanimously
agreed to, [180]; Death of the Duke
of Cambridge; message from the
Queen respecting a provision for the
family, [181]; after discussion vote
agreed to, [182]

Admission of the Jews to sit in
Parliament-Baron Rothschild pre-
sents himself at the table and proposes
to be sworn on the Old Testament,
protested against by Sir R. Inglis,
[183]; adjourned debate, Baron Roths-
child is called in and asked why he
demanded to be sworn in that form,
his reply, [185]; Sir R. Inglis moves
to adhere to the usual form, Mr.
Hume proposes amendment that he
be sworn on the Old Testament, [185];
debate, Sir F. Thesiger, Lord J. Rus.

Parliament-continued.

sell, Mr. P. Wood, amendment car-
ried, [187]; Baron Rothschild being
called to the table to be sworn on the
Old Testament, omits the words "on
the true faith of a Christian" from
the oath of abjuration; he is ordered
to withdraw; debate on motion that
a new writ be issued, Mr. P. Wood
speaks in favour of Baron Rothschild,
the Attorney-General against, [190];
resolutions moved by the Attorney-
General that Baron Rothschild is not
entitled to vote or sit in the House
until he has taken the usual oaths,
and that the House will take into
consideration the form of the oath
early next Session, his speech, [191];
Mr. Hume's amendment, debate, re-
solutions carried, [193]

Minor Measures of the Session-
Intramural interments, extension of
the County Courts, Mercantile Ma-
rine Bill, [193]; Parliament pro-
rogued by the Queen in person, the
Speaker's Address, [194]; the Queen's
Speech, [195]; the Queen's passage
to the House of Lords, 101
Parliamentary Elections-Lymington,

62; Devonport, Southampton, Mayo,
90; Lambeth, 96; Cambridge, 128;
Limerick, St. Alban's, Aylesbury,
158

PATENTS, 472

Peel, fatal accident to Sir Robert, 81, see
PARLIAMENT

PIEDMONT AND SARDINIA-Address of

the Senate in answer to the Speech
from the Throne, [295]; liability of
ecclesiastics to the secular tribunals,
the Siccardi laws, [296]; opposition
of Franzoni, Archbishop of Turin,
[296]; is summoned before the Court
of Appeal and condemned, [297];
refuses the sacraments to M. Santa
Rosa unless he repudiated the Siccardi
laws, [297]; he is arrested and sen-
tenced to banishment, the Servi
monks expelled, [298]; the Arch-
bishop of Cagliari ordered to depart,
[298]

POETRY, 477

PORTUGAL Speech of the Queen on
opening the Cortes, [280]
PRICES OF STOCK in each month, highest
and lowest, 415
PROMOTIONS, 291
PRUSSIA, see GERMANY

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS-FINANCE ACCOUNTS

FOR THE YEAR 1850, 344; TABLE OF
STATUTES, 13 & 14 Vict., 363; STATE
PAPERS-Treaty with the Republic of

Public Documents-continued.

Liberia, 375; Treaty with the Re-
public of Costa Rica, 378; Treaty
with the Dominican Republic, 383;
Convention with the United States
relative to a Ship-Canal between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, 387;
Convention with Denmark for the
cession of the Danish Possessions
on the coast of Africa, 390; Austra-
lian Colonies Government Act, 391;
the Pope's Bull, establishing an
hierarchy in Great Britain, 405; Dr.
Wiseman's Pastoral from the Flami-
nian Gate, 411; Prices of Stock in
each month, highest and lowest, 415;
Average Prices of Corn, Hay, Straw,
Clover, and Butcher's Meat, 416;
summary of Tables of Mortality,
417; Marriages, Births, and Deaths,
1840 to 1850, 417; Table of Bank-
rupts, 417; Meteorological Table,
417; University Honours: Oxford,
418; Cambridge, 420

QUEEN, The-Attack upon Her Majesty
by Robert Pate, 73; accouchement
of Her Majesty, 63; christening of
Prince Arthur, 79; Parliament pro-
rogued by the Queen in person, 101;
Visit to the King of the Belgians,
103; Summer visit to Scotland, 105

Racing Meetings-Epsom, 74; Ascot,
76; Goodwood, 94; Doncaster, 115
Railway Accidents-Explosion of gun-
powder on the Glasgow and Dumfries
Railway, 81; at the Liverpool ter-
minus, 86; on the Edinburgh and
Glasgow line at Cowlairs, 94; fall of
the Bricklayers' Arms Station, 103;
on the Eastern Counties line at the
Brentwood Station, 116; on the Great
Western line at Wootton Bassett, 119;
double collision on the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway, near Hud-
dersfield, 139; collisions on the East-
ern Counties line, 155; on the Leeds
and Selby line, 156

Rio Janeiro, ravages of the yellow fever
at, 108

SHERIFFS for the year 1850, 162
Shipwrecks and disasters at sea; the
Hottinguer, the Charleston, the
Richard Dart, the Emily, 7; disaster
to a boat of the Ganges at Salamis,
16; fearful storm and shipwrecks in
February, 21; of the Royal Adelaide,
200 lives lost, 51; gales and ship-
wrecks, the Teresa Jane, the Howard,
52; steam-boat disaster in America,

Shipwrecks continued.

the Orville St. John, 52; of the Cushla
Machree, 60; collision on Lake Erie,
thirty-eight persons drowned, 65; of
the Orion steamer, 100 lives lost, 79;
wrecks in the ice, 84; collision in the
Irish Channel, the Minerva and Wil-
liam Rushton, eleven persons drowned,
102; Indiamen wrecked, 108; of the
Superb steamer, seventeen persons
drowned, 121; storm and wrecks, the
Providence (twenty-one persons
drowned), and others, 128; in India,
the Manchester, Ariadne, and Ne-
reid, 128; blowing-up of a line-of-
battle ship and her crew at Constan-
tinople, 131; explosion in a French
line-of-battle ship, 139; wreck of the
Emperor of Russia's steam yacht,
134; of the Edmond emigrant ship,
ninety-six persons drowned, 140;
fatal boat accident at Worthing, 142;
blowing-up of a Portuguese frigate
and her crew at Macao, 160
SPAIN Accouchement of the Queen,

death of the infant, [277], 90; the
Comte de Montemolin married to a
Princess of Naples, [277]; renewal of
diplomatic relations between England
and Spain, [277]; a new Cortes sum-
moned, circular of the Minister of
the Interior, result of the elections,
[278]; Speech of the Queen, [279]
STATE PAPERS-Treaty with the Repub-
lic of Liberia, 375; Treaty with the
Republic of Costa Rica, 378; Treaty
with the Dominican Republic, 383;
Convention with the United States
relative to a Ship-Canal between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, 387;
Convention with Denmark for the
cession of the Danish Possessions on
the Coast of Africa, 399; the Austra
lian Colonies Government Act, 391;
the Pope's Bull establishing an hie-
rarchy in Great Britain, 405; Dr.
Wiseman's Pastoral from the Flami-
nian Gate, 411

STATUTES, TABLE OF, 13 & 14 VICT.-

Public General Acts, 363; Local and
Personal Acts declared public, 367;
Private Acts printed, 372; Private
Acts not printed, 374
STOCKS-Table of the prices of, in each
month, highest and lowest, 415
Suicides of Mr. Novelli and murder
at Manchester, 10; suicide and mur-
der at Clayton, 35; from the Duke
of York's Column, 67; on the South-

Suicides continued.

Western Railway, 75; in Newgate, of
W. Watts and D. B. Donovan, 89;
murder and suicide by a madman
near Cavan, 113; suicide of Mr. Pen-
nington, 140; of George Spence, esq.,
Q.C., 153

TRIALS, LAW CASES, &c.-Ecclesiastical
Causes The Gorham case, 303; law
of Divorce-the Church of Rome,
Connelly v. Connelly, 318; law of
marriage, trial of the Rev. Moor-
house James for refusing to marry H.
Fisher and A. Hardman, 320; charge
of false registration, Regina v. Dun-
boyne, 322: Civil Causes-Doe dem.
Bainbrigge v. Bainbrigge, 323: Cri-
minal Causes-Trial of Robert Pate
for an assault upon Her Majesty, 331;
poisoning case-trial of William Chad-
wick for the murder of Samuel Tun-
nicliffe, 339; Boston, U. S., trial and
execution of Professor Webster for
the murder of Dr. Parkman, 341;
For trials, &c., recorded in the "Chro-
nicle," see LAW AND POLICE.

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Oxford, 418;

UNIVERSITY HONOURS
Cambridge, 420
UNITED STATES-Report of the Secretary
of the Treasury in favour of protec
tive duties, [333]; piratical descent
on Cuba by General Lopez and Ame-
ricans, [337]; his failure, arrest, and
trial, and acquittal by negligence of
the Government, [338]; sudden death
of the President, General Taylor,
[338], 88; succeeded by the Vice-
President, Mr Fillmore, new Minis-
try, [338]; Bills passed by Congress,
the Mexican Boundary Bill; the
Utah Government Bill; Bill admit-
ting California a state, Fugitive Slave
Bill; great importance of the latter,
[338]; the President's message to
Congress, [339]; its topics, general
policy, [339]; foreign relations, [341];
finances, [342]; land laws, [344]; navy,
[344]; post office, [345]; creditors of
Government, [346]; measures of the
Session, [346]

West Indies-Resolution of Sir E. N.
Buxton, that it is unjust and impo-
litic to expose colonial free-grown
sugar to competition with slave-grown
sugar, [51]; debate thereon, motion
negatived, [56]. See PARLIAMENT.