reports of the Crown and Anchor speech, which, having been read, Mr. O'Connell declared that he had purposely and deliberately uttered the words, and thanked the noble lord for bringing them under the notice of the House, as his object was to direct public attention to the defective system of trying election petitions; having done so, he said he should leave the matter for the decision of the House-and the hon. and learned member then walked out of it.-Lord Maidstone then moved two resolutions:-1st, "That the expressions in the speech of the hon. and learned member for Dublin, containing a foul charge of perjury against members of this House, in the discharge of their official duties, is a false and scandalous imputation upon their characters; and 2nd, That Mr. O'Connell, having avowed that he had used those expressions, is guilty of a breach of the privileges of this House."Lord Howick moved that the matter drop, and that the House do pass to the other orders of the day.-Several hon. members shortly addressed the House, and Lord Maidstone having replied, a division took place.-Against Lord Howick's amendment to evade the question, 263; for the amendment, 254; majority against ministers, 9.-Lord Maidstone then moved that Mr. O'Connell, having uttered a gross calumny on the members of that House, be reprimanded in his seat.

Feb. 27.-Lord John Russell announced that on the 13th of March he would move for a committee on church leases.-Lord Maidstone moved that the order of the day be read for resuming the adjourned debate on the question that Mr. O'Connell be reprimanded in his place by the Speaker.-Mr. Pendarves moved as an amendment that no further notice should be taken of the matter.-After some discussion a division took place. For the reprimand, 249; for the amendment, 225; majority against ministers, 24.-The original motion for the reprimand was then put and carried.-Lord Maidstone afterwards moved that Mr. O'Connell be ordered to attend in his place in the House to-morrow, which motion was also agreed to. Feb. 28.-Lord Maidstone moved that the order of the day be read, requiring Mr. O'Connell to attend in his place. Mr. O'Connell accordingly rose, and was reprimanded by the Speaker.

March 1.-Nothing of public importance.

March 2.-On the motion of Lord John Russell the House went into committee on the Poor (Ireland) Bill.—After a long discussion, the 47th, or emigration clause, was agreed to, though Mr. Henry Grattan had moved, as an amendment, that it be struck out. The House resumed, and Lord John Russell announced his intention to proceed with the Bill on Friday next.

March 5.-Lord Teignmouth, who was received with loud cheers from the Opposition benches, took the oaths and his seat for Marylebone.-Lord John Russell, on bringing up the answer to the address to the Queen, concerning the promotion of Marine Officers, said, her Majesty will take into her consideration the best means of affording promotion to the officers of Marines, consistently with a due regard to economy, and the just claims of the other branches of her Majesty's service.

March 6.-Sir William Molesworth brought forward his motion condemnatory of Lord Glenelg, the Colonial Secretary. The hon. baronet proceeded to specify the reasons which seemed to him to justify a movement against an individual member of the Cabinet, on account of a course of policy which every member of that Cabinet must be understood to have approved, and for which, consequently, every member of that Cabinet must be understood to be responsible; and concluded by moving"That an humble Address be presented to the Queen, respectfully expressing the opinion of the House that, in the present critical state of many of her Majesty's foreign possessions in various parts of the world, it is essential to the well-being of her Majesty's colonial empire, and of the many and important domestic interests which depend on the prosperity of the colonies, that the colonial minister should be a person in whose diligence, forethought, judgment, activity, and firmness, this House and the public may be able to place reliance; and declaring, with all deference to the constitutional prerogatives of the Crown, that her Majesty's present Secretary of State for the Colonies does not enjoy the confidence of this House or of the country."-Mr. Leader seconded the motion.-Lord Palmerston condemned the unfairness of proceeding thus against an individual minister, eulogised the whole policy of the present administration, and moved a direct negative to Sir William Molesworth's motion.-Lord Sandon could not consent, with Sir William Molesworth, to fix blame exclusively on Lord Glenelg, which he did not believe exclusively attached to him; yet he was equally unable directly to negative the motion. He was forced, therefore, to take a course different from both parties; and in consequence moved an amendment.-Sir Charles Grey entered into a defence of Lord Glenelg and a dissertation on Canadian policy. The noise in the House, however, completely drowned his voice, and at half-past 12 o'clock the debate was adjourned.

March 7.-The debate on Sir W. Molesworth's resolution and Lord Sandon's amendment was resumed, Mr. Leader, as seconder of the original motion, opening the debate, and was followed by Mr. Warburton, who disapproved of the colonial policy of Government, but wished them to remain in office, notwithstanding.—Sir Robert Peel justified the course pursued on this occasion by the Conservative party. -Lord John Russell complained that Sir Robert Peel was overruled by his sup. porters. The ministry had not been unsuccessful against the rebels, nor yielded any point to them. It was said that ministers might have prevented the revolt; but that sort of hypothesis was incapable of proof. The noble lord then 'recriminated on former governments, and put forth some bitter sarcasms against Lord Stanley. As to the present motion, its object was to eject the government; but this had not been a usual proceeding with the House of Commons, except in a very strong case of culpability. He did not wish to take any but a direct course, and would beg Sir W. Molesworth to withdraw the original motion, that the amendment might be substantively put, and met with a flat negative.-To this Sir William Molesworth agreed, and the House then proceeded to a division, upon which the numbers were against Lord Sandon's motion, 316; for it, 287.,

March 8.-Sir R. Peel inquired whether the Goverument intended to make any proposition on the subject of church accommodation in Scotland?-Lord J. Russell answered that he should, but he could not till after Easter. His lordship afterwards deferred the notice regarding the "Church Leases" Committee.

March 9.-Lord John Russell stated, in answer to a question from Lord Stanley, that he hoped to be able to bring in the Irish Tithe Bill in the course of next week. -The discussion of the Controverted Elections Bill was fixed for Friday next, when it is to take precedence of all other business. On Monday, the two first votes of the Army Estimates will be moved, in order that the Mutiny Bill may be proceeded with as soon as possible. The remainder of the sitting was almost exclusively occupied with the Irish Poor Law Bill. The Committee having proceeded as far as the 63rd clause, the chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Monday. March 12.-In reply to a question by the Marquess of Chandos, Lord John Russell said that the Earl of Durham would not receive salary as Governor of Canada, but that his expenses would be paid on the scale always adopted in cases of special mission.-Several hon. members having asked in what state the nego ciations were on the recent increase of duty upon British linen cloths and yarns imported into France, Mr. P. Thomson answered that remonstrances had been made to the French government, and that he hoped some good would result from them.

March 13.-General Sir G. De Lacy Evans rose to move "That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she would be pleased to lay before the House copies of any correspondence in which her Most Catholic Majesty the Queen of Spain may have expressed the opinions or feelings of her government relative to any services rendered to her government by the British Legion." His object, in moving for these papers, was to show the gross misrepresentation which had been made by hon. members in that House, and a portion of the public press, with regard to the conduct of the expedition, and the sufferings of the legion, which were not more severe than those usually experienced from the common casualties and occurrences to which every army was liable.-Sir Henry Hardinge said, that nothing in the gallant officer's statement induced him to retract any of the opinions which he had formerly expressed on the subject of the Spanish campaigns, and which indeed he had formed on the authority of officers of the legion; and if the press, and the country at large, had imbibed unfavourable notions of the expedition and its proceedings, no one could wonder at that, when 250 of its officers had quitted in disgust, and come home to spread their opinions among their countrymen, as well on the Liberal as on the Conservative side.-Lord Eliot gave notice that on an early day he should bring on the general question of our Spanish policy.-Sir Hussey Vivian defended General Evans; and Lord Mahon defended himself from certain attacks which he imagined had been made somewhere against him in reference to his views of the war in Spain. He should, however, reserve what he had to say till the motion just announced should be brought forward.—Sir R. Inglis urged the moral guilt of this kind of mercenary service.-Lord Palmerston declared that, as far as that House was concerned, nothing had passed within its walls to call for the vindication his bon, and gallant friend had thought proper to make; and if there had been attacks made upon him in other quarters, he thought the statement they had heard that night was calculated to secure him against their repetition. He had no objection to the production of the papers asked for.-The motion was then agreed to.

INDEX TO VOL. XXI.

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

A Day in Iona, 317.

Alice, or the Mysteries, 428.
Autobiographical Sketches, 207.
Aunt Kate's Five Nieces, 92.

Better Late than Never, 293.

"Bit o' Writin'." By the O'Hara Family, 60.

Blockade of the Island of Curaçoa, 85.

Burke, Dr., on Hot Baths, 80.

Man, 345.

on the Physical Effects of Moral Agents on the Health of

Cadet, Memoirs of a, 221.

Canada Question, the, 113.

Chronicle of the Bridge of Notre Dame, the, 398.

Daughter's Request, the, 324.

Deception, 361.

Devotees, the, 270.

Enclosed common, the, 20.

England, England, 351.

Ghost, and the Gallon o' Cordial, the, 193.

Graveyard at Secundrabad, East Indies, the, 220.

Human Flowers, 213.

Imaginary Colloquy, 191.

London Newsmen, the, by the Author of the "Great Metropolis," &c., 41.

Madrigal, 325.

Mariner's Daughter, the, 100, 214, 302, 413.

Match-Breaking, 67, 179.

Mems in the Mediterranean, No. I. 278; II. 374.

Most momentous Sea-Fight in the Past Century, the, 337.

Nature and Art, 1.

Note Book of an Irish Barrister.-No. IV. Judge Perrin, 22; Nos. V. and

VI. the Hon. Michael O'Loughlin, 122 and 225.

Parliamentary Portaits, by the Author of the "Great Metropolis," 139,

Sailor's Farewell, the, 292.

Sailor's Mid-Watch Reflections, a, 344.

Salvator Rosa; or, the Two Portraits, 389.

Scenes in America, 153.

Solitude, 316.

Sonnet to Mrs. Jameson, 269.

Stanzas on hearing the Bells ring in the New Year, 40.

Storming of the Dutch Camp, 133.

IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND,