... The House of Commons met yesterday at twelve o'clock, but uutil two o'clock a succession of desultory conversations occupied the attention of the House. At two o'clock the order of the day for the second reading of the Factories Bill was put from the chair. Mr. Hi'ME then rose, and having remarked upon the importance of the subject, and the consequent impropriety of discussing it in thin house ...

... the bill relative to the Bordeaux and Cette Kailway. The subsidy proposed by the government amounted to 18 millions of francs, 6 millions of which were called for by the branch to Castres, which was rejected in the previous sitting. M. Mortimer Ternaux was of opinion that the subsidy should be reduced to 12 millions. The committee could not agree to this, and subsidy of 15 millions was voted ...

... Customs Bills Lord Brougham has threatened to take them • within a fortnight « The Votes give no their progress. 0l We have not yet forgotten the consternation dismay struck into the ranks of the League, when an early period of their career, Lord volunteered to undertake the management tk«, case. A formal offer of his sen-ices was made by of his numerous emissaries. The League were all in ...

... to address us in confidence will find their confidence respected. XEITHER CAX UXDEI!- TAKE TO RETURX AX MAXUBCRIPTS WHATEVER. ...

... they are obstructing liberal and imperial measures for the sake of throwing difficulties in the way of a measu e of merely local oppression. The Premier rose on Monday to support his Coercion Bill. And what was his great argument? The acquiescence of the Irish members in 1835 with a similar bill. So that all the concessions which Irish members thought fit to make in return for the conciliatory ...