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THE FIELD. 
/SPROUSE, and, indeed, game of all kinds, form, to the eye of an experiei 
>5’ sportsman, the chief features of a moor-land landscape. Little docs he 
for beautiful prospects, rugged hills, or the wild scenery about him. The bad 
ground of his picture is filled up by a covey of birds ; whilst a couple of do; 
with himself and gun, may very conveniently form the foreground. The Germ; 
red-grouse is distinguished from its burly cousin, the moor-coclc, by the blaekis 
blue feathers on its wings, back, and throat. Its tail is of an exceedingly curio 
form, resembling that of the lyre bird. The taste of its flesh, by feeding on t 
juniper-berries, with which some parts of Germany abound, makes it dainty 
for epicures. When started they fly slowly, but increase in speed ns they procec 
and woe to the unlucky sportsman who gives them time to get well on the win 
He may just see them in the distance, leaving him as quickly ns friends leave a m 
who has his elbows out, and nothing left but a stout heart to support him in 1 
misfortunes. 
RED-GROUSE SHOOTING IN AUGUST. 
This amendment was carried, upon a division, by 23 votes to 13. Tho 
bill is consequently rejected. 
Other bills were advanced a stage, and their lordships adjourned at 
half-past 8 o’clock. 
Commons.— The House met at noon when the second reading of the 
Public Health Act Amendment Bill was moved by 
Lord Palmerston, who explained the nature and purposes of the powers 
which tho bill would entrust to tho Board of Health, and entreated the 
House to grant a renewed lease of existence to that board under tho 
modified conditions, and for the limited term proposed by the bill. Asa 
department, he added, tho board would be henceforth placed under tho 
control and responsibility of tho Home Secretary ; and as individuals all 
the present members had left their functions nt his disposal, awaiting 
any expression of opinion, on the part of tho House and the government, 
that their retirement from office was expedient. 
Lord Seymour opposed tho bill, and moved ns an amendment that it 
be read a second time that day three months. His opposition to the 
measure was occasioned, he said, by no antagonism to the government, 
but from a decided conviction that the Board of Health had not dis- 
charged their functions in such a manner ns to justify their continuance, 
and that the changes indicated by tho present bill did not promise any 
security for the better performance of tbelr duties in future. 
The amendment was seconded by Sir B. Hall. 
Mr. M. Milnes supported the bill, and defended tho Board of Health, 
the high character nnd talent of whose members ho complained had not 
secured them from defamatory attacks. 
Mr. Henley was convinced that the board stood condemned both in 
the eyes of tho country and of the government. The bill, he contended 
would effect no further change than that of transferring the control of 
the board from the Chief Commissioner of Works to tho Secretary of 
State for the Home Department, tho practical result of which would be 
merely nominal. He recommended that a Short Continuance Bill should 
be brought in, and the present measure rejected. 
Lord J. Russell reminded the House that the measure now proposed 
was but to endure for a year. In that time the whole subject might be 
Investigated by a committee. 
Mr. Heywood announced that Mr. Chadwick had been recommended 
by his medical advisers to discontinue the very arduous duties incumbent 
upon his office in the Board of Health. 
Mr. Hume confessed that his vote upon the present bill would turn 
upon tlie'question whether Mr. Chadwick remained or retired. 
The statement that this gentleman had been professionally advised to 
retire was corroborated by Lord Palmerston. 
After some observations from Sir T. D. Acland, the house divided - 
For the second reading, 65; for the amendment, 74; majority against the 
bill. 9. 
Lord Palmerston stated that a government prosecution would be 
instituted against Lieutenant Austin, tho governor, and Mr. Blount, 
the surgeon of Birmingham Borough Prison, on account of their 111- 
treatment of the prisoners therein confined. 
On the motion for going into committee of supply, 
Mr. Lucas called the attention of the House to tho subject of manu- 
facturing industry in Ireland, which was, he declared, threatened with 
rapid extinction, owing to the unchecked current of emigration out of 
the country, lie suggested the expediency of instituting an inquiry into 
the means whereby this process of depopulation might be arrested, and 
especially whether the industrial condition of Ireland would be ameliorated 
by the establishment of training and apprenticeship schools or other 
■imilar institutions. 
Lord J. Russell with regard to the suggested establishment of industrial 
schools, submitted that no case had been mode out for deviating, on 
behalf of Ireland, from the course pursued in this country for the pro- 
motion of industrial education. 
After some remarks from Mr. J. Macgregor, Mr. Maguire, Mr. A. 
Pellatt, and Mr. Kennedy, the subject dropped, and the House went into 
committee of supply. 
The consideration of various votes belonging to the Civil Service 
estimates occupied the committee till half-past twelve. The House 
then resumed, but immediately went again into committee on the 
Customs Duties, for the purpose of passing a series of resolutions pre- 
liminary to tho introduction of a bill for effecting certain alterations in 
a long schedule of duties charged upon divers imported commodities. 
One of these resolutions referred to the hop duties, and, being opposed, 
was postponed. The rest of the series wus agreed to, and tho House 
resumed. 
The Slamp Duties Bill was read a third time nnd passed. 
The House adjourned at five minutes to three o'clock. 
Tuesday. — Lortps. — The Earl of Clarendon stated that a vessel of war 
from tho station at Gibraltar was specially charged with the duty of 
watching the proceedings of the Riff pirates 
Lord Brougham withdrew tho Criminal Justice (Metropolis) Bill for 
the present session, nnd his Education in Corporate Towns Bill. 
The Med'unl Graduates (University of London) Bill passed through 
committee with amendments. 
The Burials beyond the Metropolis Bill, and the Parochial School- 
masters (Scotland) Bill, were read a third time and passed. 
The Spirits (Ireland) Bill was rend tho third time ; and on the question 
that it do pn's, 
Lord Montoaglo called attention to the fact that this measure con- 
verted, to all practical purposes, the constabulary force of Ireland into 
officers for the collection of revenue, contrary to the whole current of 
authority upon the subject, and in opposition to tho principle upon 
which the force was constituted. The bill turned the constables into 
excisemen, who knew nothing of such duties; nnd tints produced a > 11 - 
vided duty, which would lead to grent embarrassment. lie should pro- 
pose the omission of the clauses, three In number, which authorised tho 
employment of the police in Excise duties. The noble lord then moved 
his first amendment, which was negatived, and their lordships after- 
wards divided upon clause 13, which enables the Lord Lieutenant 
to employ the constabulary in the suppression of illicit distillution. 
Tho number wero : — 
For the clause 17 
Against it H 
Majority for. — 0 
The bill was then passed. 
The Earl of Shaftesbury moved for papers relative to the proceedings 
of the Board of Health. 
Tiie papers wero ordered, nnd their lordships adjourned. 
Commons —A t the morning sitting, 
Tho Attorney- Genera I moved the committal of the Bills of Exchange 
(No. 2) Bill. 4 „„ 
On division, tho committal of tho bill was carried by 06 to 30, and its 
discussion occupied the remainder of the morning sitting. 
At the evening sitting, . 
Lord Palmerston explained that the release of Mr. Jeremiah Smith, 
late mayor of R> e, from prison, to which he had been sent on conviction 
of perjury, had been granted on account of the precarious state ot that 
person's health. „ „ 
Sir John Pnkington gave notice of his intention to call the attention ot 
the House to the circumstances under which Mr Lawler had been ap- 
pointed Governor of South Australia, and he asked tho Government tor 
an early day for the purpose. 
Lord J. Russell named Monday. 
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, In reply to Mr- Dauby Seymour, 
said that it was the intention of Government to propose to Parliament 
to build a new gallery for the national collection of pictures, but the 
consideration of the subject was not sufficiently advanced to enable him 
to say whether the designs would be open to public competition. He en- 
tered into some explanations respecting the newly-purchased Mm -eti 
Gallery, and added that there was no intention to give the ttoyni 
Academy notice to leave the apartments hitherto lent them. 
Lord Dudley Stewart called the attention of the House totlic termi- 
nation of all obligation on tho part of this country, Inconsequence of the 
conductor Russia, to continue to make any payments on account of the 
Russo-Dutch Loan, and he moved a series of resolutions, the effect of 
which was that Russia, by her neglect to maintain at the Sullna mouth 
of the Danube the works necessary to prevent obstacles to Its navigation, 
had violated the treaty of Vienna and Injured the commerce of this 
country ; that upwards of £4,000,000 had already been paid towards the 
principal and for the Interest of the Russo-Dutcb Loan, and that 
£3,386,000 more would be required; and that, Inasmuch as tho conven- 
tion of 1631 between England nnd Russia secured the payment to the 
latter of part of her old Dutch debt, In consideration of her adhesion to 
the general arrangements of tho Congress of Vienna, the withdrawal by 
Russia of that adhesion made it proper to suspend the payments. 
Mr. Digliy Seymour seconded the motion. 
Sir W. Molesworth, In resisting the proposition said, for two centuries 
it had been the custom of civilised nations to pay debts due to an enemy, 
the single exception being in the case ol tho Silesian loan, u case In 
which the conduct of the King of Prussia hud been pronounced to lie 
contrary to the law of nations. If the Emperor of Russia hnd money in 
our funds this time ho would receive the dividends thereon, and there 
was really no difference between such a case anil that In question. He 
admitted the general violation of tho treaty of Vleifnn, which, had wo 
not been at war, would Imvc been a casus btlli, but neither that nor war 
would justify tho required repudiation; and ho contended that the Em- 
peror of Russia had not committed tho specific violation requisite to In- 
validate our agreement. Sir William showed that we had purchased 
from the Netherlands, tho Capo of Good Hope, Dcmcrnrn, hssequlbo, and 
iicrblce, on condition of applying a part of the purchaso-moncy In tho 
discharge of the obligation in question; and that In 18.11 wo had ox-* 
press! y purchased the assent of Russia to the now arrangement between 
Belgium and Holland, and that we wore bound to continue our pay- 
ments, except in the case of Russia ceasing to concur In our policy In 
regard to those countries, n contingency Which hud not arisen. \V o were, 
therefore, engaged by treaties and acts of Parliament to fulfil our obli- 
gations; ami he made an eloquent appeal to the House to resist '‘ pro- 
position which would have como belter from the obscure delegate of 
some bankrupt transatlantic stato than tho representative of a great 
metropolitan constituency. 
The House divided, and tho numbers wero- 
For the motion " 
Against it 07 
Majority against It 
Mr W Williams moved for a return, stating In detail the force of the 
cavalry under orders for tho East; but the motion being resisted by tl.c 
Secretary-nt-Wur, and denounced us mischievous by Colonel Dunne, wm 
negatived without division. , , . . 
Sir William Molesworth moved for leave to bring In a bill to muko 
better provision for the ndminlstrutlon of the laws relating to the public 
health Ho proposed to constitute a new hoard precisely us tho Pom - 
law Board wus constituted. Its president should have a seat In tho 
House, and should have a secretary nnd ail iinder-secrclnry. I ho 
superintending Inspectors should be salaried officers of the board, and 
therefore incapable of taking private work lie proposed to give Mr. 
Chadwick compensation to tho amount of £1,000 n-yeur, and paid 
a tribute to tho valuable services which lmd been rendered by that 
^AfteFafcw observations, leave was given to bring In the bill. 
Tho Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Bill went through committee. 
The Militia Bill (No. 2) w as advanced a stage, and amendments wero 
introduced. 
The other orders wero then disposed of 
WEDNESDAY —Commons. — Mr. Gordon, tho new member for 
Beverley, took the oatluf pod his scat. 
The House went into committee on the Russian Government Securities 
I 1! Lord Palmerston, for tho Sollcltor-Gcneral, moved an Wjndment 
| for remodelling the first clause. The provision of the «auso was 
to tho effect that if. during tho continuance of war be '**'"“ 
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