Summary Of News For August.

the more important of which were the Turkish Loan Bil > , the Limited Liability Bill , the Sale of Beer Bill , the Exchequer Bills ( £ 7 , 000 , 000 ) Bill , and the Metropolitan Local Management Bill , after which , the Lord Chancellor read Her Majesty's Speech , proroguing parliament to the 23 rd of October next . In the House of Commons , on the 30 th of July , Sir Wm . Molesworth and Sir Benjamin Hall severally took their seats , on their re-election , for then- respective boroughs , Southwark and Marylebone . The Limited Liability Bill was considered

in committee ; and Admiral Walcot complained that officers like himself , who hacl distinguished themselves . against pirates had been passed over in the distribution of the honours of the Bath . On the 31 st , the House resolved itself into a committee of supply , when on the consideration of the supplementary estimate for the navy transport and packet service , the First Lord of the Admiralty mentioned that , since the commencement of hostilities the Government had conveyed 246 , 000 soldiers ( French and English ) and 32000 horses to the seat of war . A sum of 800 / . was voted for

, the erection of a monument to the memory of Sir John Franklin and of his crew . The sale of Beer Bill passed through committee , and the Turkish Loan Bill was read a third time ancl passed . On the 1 st of August , the Carlisle Cannonries Bill was considered in committee , ancl the Union of Contiguous Benefices Bill passed through that ordeal . A message was received from the Crown calling for additional supplies for the prosecution of the war . On the 2 nd , Mr . Frederick Peel justified the conduct of the authorities of the Horse Guards in granting a

good service pension to Lord George Paget . Mr . Milner Gibson enquired if it were true that the Foreign Legion was being enlisted for in a manner contrary to the law of nations , and was informed that such was not the case . It was illegal for a Government to enlist the subjects of any foreign state within the territories of that state , without the permission of its Government , but there was no bar to its affording them means of emigration to any place under its own ride , where their enlistment would be perfectly legal . The sale of Beer Bill was the same evening read a third time and passed . On the 3 rd , in reply to Mr . Milner Gibson , Sir Chas .

Wood stated that Admiral Dundas was armed with a discretionary power as regarded the destruction of Russian shipping . Colonel North mentioned that soldiers in uniform had been refused admittance into the strangers' gallery , whereupon the Speaker stated that there was no rule for this exclusion , provided they were not armed . In reply to Mr . Bright , Lord Palmerston stated that until the papers relative to the Mallayhea expedition wei-e printed , Government could not decide on what steps it should take in the matter . On the same evening , a most extraordinary debate took

place relative to the Vienna negotiations . Mr . Laing having brought the subject again before the house tor the purpose of defending the conduct of Austria from the charge of tergiversation , and of expressing his approval of the course pursued by Lord John Russell ; when Mr . Gladstone openly signified his adhesion to the peace party , and made a speech depreciating the resources of this country and giving a highly favourable view of those of Russia , for which he was complimented by Mr . Cobden , who called upon Sir William Molesworth to retract an expression he

hacl made use of on the Southwark hustings , on the occasion of his re-election for that borough . On the 4 th , the Exchequer Bills , ( 7 , 000 , 000 / . ) Bill , was read a second time , and several other Bills were advanced a stage . On the 6 th , the Criminal Justice Bill providing for summary punishment in the case of petty theft was read a third time and passed , and the Charitable Trusts Bill was committed . During a discussion upon a suggestion for limiting the action of the Crime and Outrage—Ireland—Continuous Bill to an early period of the ensuing

year , the proceedings were interrupted by a count out . On the 7 th , Lord John Rus-ell brought the present political aspect of Italy before the attention of the House , after which the consideration of the Charitable Trusts Bill was resumed in committe . Mr . Stafford , on the same evening , called the attention of the House to the condition of the Military Hospitals in the East , and Mr . Vernon Smith , as President of the Board of Control , laid before Parliament the financial position of the territories of the East India Company , from which it appeared that the treasury of that country had suffered in the course of the year a deterioration