The Week.

uttering fierce threats against one of the witnesses . He was sentenced to twelve months hard labour , and afterwards to find two sureties in one hundred pounds each to keep the peace for twelve months . At the Mansion House on Monday a deputation waited upou the Lord Mayor , to complain to him of the nuisance created in Bride-lane by the large number of betting men who congregate there daily , and choke up the thoroughfare . The Lord Mayor appeared to doubt whether the law gave him power to interfere ; and after expressing his sympathy with the

objects of the deputation , he said that he should take time to consider the matter . Sir R . AV . Garden made his appearance at the Mansion House , to report that the money which had been contributed on behalf of Frances Johnston had been expended in providing a business for that person and her sister . He expressed a hope that those who had taken an interest iu her case would become her customers . In the House of Lords , on Tuesday , Lord AVodehouse moved the second reading of the bill to legalize marriage with a

deceased wife ' s sister . Lord Dungannon moved that the bill be read agaiu that day six months . He said every woman in England was opposed to these marriages . Lord Albemarle aud the Bishop of Cork supported the bill , which was opposed by Lord St . Leonards and the Bishops of Exeter , Oxford , and St . Asaph , aud eventually lost ou a division . On Friday the Earl of Ellenborough moved for copies of all the notifications issued by the Governor-General in Council , from 1 S 57 to the present time , relative to the terms on which the government of India would receive

niouey on loan . The papers had shown that the condition of the Indian finances was deplorable , and that was the reason he brought the question before the House . Tho Earl of Derby would agree to produce the papers required , and after some further remarks the motion was agreed to . In reply to a question , Lord Derby said it would rest with the crown to confer any further mark of honour on Baron Peunefather . In the House of Commons on Tuesday , tho adjourned debate on the Reform Bill was resumed by Mr . AVilson , who opposed the measure . Sir Bulwer Lytton followed with one of the most brilliant orations ever delivered in tho House

of Commons . He reviewed the provisions of the measure , and insisted that they offered a liberal aud impartial extension of the franchise . The worst enemy of moderate reform , he said , was not the conservative gentleman , but the demagogic adventurer . In tho most eloquent language he deprecated any attempt to Americanize theEnglish parliament , and sat down amidst tremendous cheering . Mr . S . Herbert announced his intention to vote against government , aud after many lion , gentlemen had talked au infinite deal upon both sides of the question , the Solicitor General ( Sir Hugh Cairns ) delivered the other great speech of the night . Ho

traced all the principal features of the bill to measures heretofore advocated by members who now opposed it , and referred to passages in their former speeches to prove the change which their opinions had undergone . Sir Hugh demanded what measures the opponents of this bill would substitute in its place . Lord John Russell ' s conduct he dissected in the most powerfully sarcastic terms , and described the noble lord's course of procedure as a crafty and catching device to confuse , aud if it may be , to dislocate parties , aud amid that confusion aud dislocation to secure

his own political aggrandisement and private advantage . On AVednesday the second reading of the Edinburgh , & c , Annuity Tax Bill was moved by Air . Black , and opposed by the Lord Advocate , who intimated that the government wore preparing a bill ou the subject . The second reading was , however , carried . On Thursday , the Reform debate was continued . Among the crowd of speakers wo may notice that Air . Locke King and Air . AA \ J . Fox were against the measure . Air . Bereslord Hope supported tho government and was followed by a very humorous speech

from Air . Bernal Osborne , who denounced the bill and was very funny upon what he was pleased to call the government " fancy franchises . " The country , he said , wanted no " political millinery . " Mr . Bright was the last speaker of the evening , but his oration fell somewhat flat . Ho contended that the Bill would disfranchise 50 , 000 of the best electors of the kingdom . "Does any one suppose" ( continued he ) " that this is the sort of Bill that the Chancellor of the Exchequer thinks is the best adapted for the country ? No ! this transference of the power from the boroughs to the counties , this refusal to grant au extension of tho franchise to the boroughs—not one of these tilings comes from his own