15th. Bills of Exchange Bill read three times and passed.—
Mr. Brotherton's motion against Late Hours negatived by 260
to 64.—East India Company Committee obtained by Mr. Herries.

16th.—Mr. W. Patten appointed Chairman of Committee of
Supply.—Committee obtained by Mr. Baines on Juvenile and
Destitute Criminals.

19th.—Derby Election, petition not received, being informal.
—Bill brought in by Mr. Whiteside for Law Reform in Ireland.
—Mr. Hume's motion for a Call of the House carried by 147
to 142.

22nd.—Bank Notes' Bill read a second time.—Mr. Hume's
motion for Call of the House withdrawn.—Bills brought in by
Mr. Napier to Amend the Law of Landlord and Tenant in
Ireland.

23rd.—Mr. Villiers' Resolutions on Free Trade, Debate begun
and adjourned.

24th.—County Elections' Polls' Bill read a second time.

25.—Debate on Mr. Villiers' Resolutions continued and again
adjourned.

A large public meeting of members of the Church of
England, held at Plymouth, having presented a memorial
to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the subject of
the conduct of the Rev. Mr. Prynne, in Establishing a
Confessional in his Church in that town, the Primate
has made the following reply, dated the 29th ult.:—

"Sir,—I have the honour of acknowledging a memorial which
you have addressed to me, as agreed upon at a public meeting
of clergy and lay members of the Church of England, assembled
at Stonehouse on the 12th inst. The memorial alludes to the
introduction of doctrines and practices into the Church during
the last few years which cannot be reconciled with the principles
of the Reformation. This is a subject upon which, unhappily, I
have been so often obliged to declare my opinion, that I need not
repeat it now. The memorial, however, proceeds to complain of
a practice, originating in these erroneous doctrines, which can
scarcely be distinguished from the auricular confession of the
Church of Rome. I agree with the memorialists in believing
this practice equally unscriptural in principle and mischievous
in effect. But I trust that public opinion is so uniform in
condemning and repudiating it, that the continuance of such a
system, either at Plymouth or elsewhere, will be more effectually
prevented than it would be by the voice of authority or by legal
enactments; both which, we know by experience, it is commonly
too easy to evade.—I remain, &c., J . B. Cantuar."

Mr. Macaulay Addressed his Constituents at
Edinburgh, on the 2nd inst., for the first time since his
election, the state of his health having prevented him
from sooner paying them a visit. The meeting took
place in the Music Hall, which was crowded to excess.
Mr. Macaulay was received with immense applause.
Mr. Adam Black took the chair, and most of the principal
Edinburgh liberals were present. Mr. Macaulay
addressed the meeting at great length, in a speech of
extraordinary power and brilliancy, touching on the
principal political topics of the day, and commenting on
some of the recent ministerial blunders, particularly
Mr. Walpole's proposition to bestow the elective
franchise on every man who served in the militia, which
he placed in a most ridiculous light. At length he was
compelled by physical exhaustion to bring his address
to a close. He concluded amid cordial cheering; and
the meeting separated after giving three additional
cheers for the "History of England."

A great Free Trade Meeting took place at Manchester,
on the evening of the 2nd inst. Its object was to afford
an opportunity to the advocates of unrestricted
commercial intercourse, on the eve of the meeting of
parliament, of declaring their firm adherence to those
principles of free trade which were adopted by parliament
in 1846. It was held in the Free Trade Hall, and
upwards of 3000 persons were present . Mr. Wilson, the
president of the old Anti Corn-Law League, was in the
chair. About sixty distinguished members of parliament
were present; and about the same number, who had
accepted the invitation, sent apologies for absence.
Among the vice-presidents were delegates from thirty-
five towns; and the assemblage fully represented the
commercial and manufacturing industry of the north of
England, and of Scotland and Ireland. The principal
speaker was Mr. Cobden, whose health was given as the
representative of the largest constituency in the kingdom.
Able speeches were also made by Mr. Bright, Mr.
Keogh, Mr. H. Berkeley, Mr. Milner Gibson, Lord
Goderich, and Mr. Cheatham.

At a meeting of the Clergy of London, held in Sion
College, on the 8th inst., it was resolved, on the motion
of Dr. M Caul, "That a report having been widely
circulated that a majority of the clergy of the Church of
England and Ireland are desirous that the Convocation
now Assembled should Proceed to Business, the President
and Fellows of Sion College beg to be permitted to
state that they do not participate in that feeling, nor
believe that under present circumstances such a
course would be expedient." An amendment to
adjourn proceedings sine die, moved by the Rev. Mr.
Scott, was defeated.

A large meeting, summoned by the Committee of the
Protestant Defence Association, was held on the 10th,
at Freemasons' Hall, to protest against the practice of
Auricular Confession, and against the Revival of
Convocation in the Church of England. The Earl of
Shaftesbury was in the chair. Resolutions to the above
purport were adopted.

The Society of the Friends of Italy had a Conversazione
on Wednesday evening, the 10th inst., at the
Music Hall, Store-street, which was crowded by an
audience composed of English, Italians, Germans, and
Hungarians. M. Kossuth was vehemently cheered
as he took his place on the platform. The chair was
taken by Mr. P. A. Taylor, and on either hand were
M. Mazzini and Kossuth. M. Mazzini delivered an
eloquent address, with the view of getting up a petition
on behalf of oppressed Italy, to be presented to parliament.
M. Kossuth, after taking the hand of M.
Mazzini, whom he addressed as "friend and brother,"
to show not only his personal sympathy for the
illustrious Italian, but to demonstrate the identity of the
cause of Hungary with that of Italy, proceeded as
follows:—As to the rest, obedient to your call I have
risen, but only for the purpose of apologising for not
making a speech. There is a time and a season for
everything in the world. There is a time and a season
to speak, and there is a time and a season to be silent.
You English are happy. Your may hope to carry all
that you require by the peaceful means of the free word.
For us we can carry nothing with words. And therefore
I have taken—in consequence of my duty I have
taken—the rule, that for the future I have only a single
speech, which is reserved for the due time, and, depend
upon it, to be spoken in due time; and that only
speech that I have in future is, 'Up, boys, and at them
—follow me.' " This unexpected communication was
received with perceptible astonishment, but the
concluding phrase of the sentence produced overwhelming
applause. "Until," added M. Kossuth, "I have an
occasion to deliver that speech I will have none else. So
am I done with oratory."

The two Houses of Convocation met on the 10th inst.;
and on the 17th Convocation was prorogued by the
Archbishop of Canterbury to Wednesday the 16th of
February. During the sittings, various discussions took
place on the question of the renewal of Synodical
action, but they led to no result. The Bishop of Oxford
entered a protest, in which he was joined by the
Bishops of Salisbury, Chichester, and St. David's
against the prorogation, on the ground that the
archbishop had no right to adjourn the Synod sine consensu
fratrum.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech on the
l5th, on the funeral of the Duke of Wellington,
contains a passage which the Globe has pointed out to be
a plagiarism from a panegyric pronounced by M. Thiers
on Marshal De St. Cyr. The following parallel passages
are given:—

"It is not that a great                                 An engineer, a geographer, a
general must be an engineer—a              man of the world, a metaphysician,
geographer learned in human                  knowing men, knowing
nature—adroit in the management           how to govern them, an
of men—that he must be                          administrator in great things, a clerk
able to fulfil the highest duty                     in small—all these things
of a Minister of State, and then                it is necessary to be, but these are
to descend to the humblest                      as yet nothing. All this vast
office of a commissary and a                   knowledge must be exercised
clerk; but he has to display all                  on the instant, in the midst of
this knowledge and to exercise                extraordinary circumstances.
all those duties at the same                      At every moment you must
time, and under extraordinary                  think of the yesterday and the
circumstances. At every                          morrow: of your flank and of
moment he has to think of the eve           your rear. Calculate at the