The Week.

of Clanricarde for returns of the expenses of commissioners in Ireland . There was a short conversation in reference to the Book of Common Prayer ; and , finally , there *>« rome interesting debate in reference to the business in the Court of Chancery and the appellate business of the House of Lords . 0 , 1 the 15 th inst . the Royal assent was given by commission to several

bills . Subsequently there were discussions in reference to the march of the troops from Hounslow the other day , and as to the troops in New Zealand . The Hounslow mismanagement has , it seems , been fixed on a commissariat officer , who has been removed from his post . It seems that the Reform Bill is not to pass through the House of Lords without some opposition . It was

read a first time on the 16 th inst ., and Lord Derby proposed to take the second reading on Monday next . If the debate on the second reading did not extend beyond Monday night , he should propose to take the committee on the following Friday . If the hill , however , should not be read a second time on the Monday , he should propose to take the committee on the Monday

following . Earl Grey urged that the latter day should be fixed for the committee . He did not intend to oppose tbe second reading , but he did intend to ask the House to concur in a resolution that the bill as it stands is bad , and ought not to be passed into law without amendment . He added that he had reason to believe that he should receive considerable support for this

amendment , and that there would be a good deal of discussion . Lord Derby , however , thought what he proposed would meet the requirements of the case . The other business in the House was unimportant . In the HOUSE OV Comioxs , on the 11 th inst ., Lord Stanley gave a very wise answer to a very foolish question . Sir L . Palk wished to know whether the Government intended to bring forward any motion on the subject of the execution of Maximilian . Lord Stanley replied that they did

not . In the discussion of such a motion the much wider question of the Mexican expedition must come under consideration , and the circumstances connected with it might tend very materially to modify their opinion as to the execution of Maximilian . Mr . Otway wished to know if diplomatic relations with Mexico were to be broken off . Lord Stanley pointed out that the Secretary of Legation now in Mexico was accredited to the Empire . He

had received instructions , in case of the overthrow of the Empire , not to recognise officially any other Government until directed to do so . His lordship added that it mattered nothing to the Mexicans whether we had a representative in Mexico ; but it mattered a great deal to British subjects , seeing that the representative was continually employed in making claims ou

the Mexican Government on behalf of British subjects . To withdraw him , then , would be to punish British subjects , not the Mexican Government . On the 12 th inst ., at the morning sitting , Mr . Charles Forster proposed to suspend the standing orders for the purpose of reading the London , Chatham , and Dover Arrangements Bill a third time . To this proposition

Mr . T . Hughes objected , and moved that the hill he referred back to tho committee , to insert a clause reserving tho rights and priorities of certain holders of mortgages or bonds charged or secured on tho undertaking . Mr . Basil Woodd must say , as chairman of tho committeo , that he considered tho proposition of Mr . Hughes a most extraordinary ono . Of course , under the

circumstances , Mr . Hughes ' s proposal was negatived , and Mr . Forstor's motion was agreed to . —Mr . J . S . Mill announced his intention to inquire of tho Foreign Secretary whether tho British naval officer engaged to reorganise tho Turkish navy has retired from hor Majesty ' s service ; and if not , whether his employment for such a purpose is not inconsistent with tho principle of nonintervention . This remark called forth loud and general cries of ' Hear , hear . " —Lord Stanley intimated , in reply to a question

I from Mr . Sandford , that a communication had boon mado by her Majesty ' s Government to tho Government of Portugal respecting tho proposal of that Government to sell tho South Eastern of Portugal Railway , hut a decisive answer had not boon received . —Lord R . Montagu announced that directions had been given by Government for tho preparation of an order authorising tha removal of accumulations of manure in the metropolis , under

certain conditions . —Mr . Hardy , in reply to Mr . Sarnuelson , avowed that tho members of tho Trades' Union Commission had a right to exclude or admit any person they like to tho place where they conduct their inquiry , and consequently they had . full power to turn out Mr . Conolly for speaking disparagingly of so prominent a member of their body as Mr . Roebuck . That

hon . gentleman then claimed to be heard , and avowed that he . had been all his life " an honourable man ; " that Mr . Conolly had cast an imputation upon his untarnished reputation , and » - therefore , he felt that it was impossible that he and Mr . Conolly should sit at the same time in the same apartment . To retain- , the presence amongst them of Mr . Roebuck , the

commissionershad uo alternative but to order Mr . Conolly to retire . —The . House then proceeded to consider as amended the Bill for tbe-Reform of the Representation of the People . Mr . H . Berkeley moved a clause providing that the voting should be by printed papers ; in fact , in another shape , it was a renewal of the hon . gentleman ' s proposal for the introduction of vote by ballot . A .

brief discussion took place , which ended in the motion beingrejected by 161 votes to 112 . Various other amendments were proposed . Some were adopted , and the others either withdrawn , or negatived . The consideration of the bill lasted until ten ; minutes to seven , and had not then finished . The Chancellor of the Exchequer therefore announced that he should ask . leave to proceed with the bill at the evening sitting .

At the evening sitting the consideration of the bill was resumed . Various amendments were agreed to , the most noteworthy being one moved by Mr . Lowther to strikeout of the bill the words which had been introduced at the instance of Mr . Card well , to prevent residents in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge from voting at the eleccion of members

for the cities . This amendment was carried by 145 votes to 84 .. The whole of amendments were disposed of by half-past eleven .. On the 15 th inst . there was a good deal of animation , owing to the first order of the clay being the third reading of ' the Reform Bill . Before that could be taken , however , a large number of questions were asked , and notices of motion

given--Mr . Fawcett gave notice of a question as to tbe proposed ball to the Sultan . Sir Stafford Northcote , in reply to Colonel Sykes ,, denied that there was any truth iu the report that troops had- , been ordered from Bombay to Abysiniuia . The Government woro engaged in a correspondence which thoy hoped would bring about tho release of tho prisoners . —Colonel Knox made a com-

plaint ol tho insufficient accommodation provided for thosemembers of tho Houso who wished to soe tho Naval Review on ,, Wednesday . Ho was replied to by Mr . Cony , who , being pressed ! by Mr . B . Osborne , announced that provision had been made forluncheon for tho members who might go to soe the review . — On tho motion for tho third reading of tho Reform Bill ,

Viscount-Craubourno said ho had no intention of requiring a division on tho bill . Ho denied that tho bill , if it passed , would bo a Conservative triumph . Ho complained that all the precautions and socu- - rities which tho bill provided when originally introduced had been thrown aside at tho bidding of Liberal members , and that , almost tho wholo of the demands mado by Mr . Gladstone on tho

second reading of tho bill had boon conceded . No minister of tho . Crown had given any reasonable explanation of the motives for tho tremendous changes that had been made in tho bill . At somo <