ITALY-CONSULAR CHAPLAIN AT NAPLES.-QUESTION. MR. HARDCASTLE said, in the abscence of his hon. Friend (Mr. Hubbard), he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the stipend of the Rev. Pelham T. Maitland, Consular Chaplain at Naples, has been withdrawn; and, if so, then upon what grounds, and especially whether the reasons for such withdrawal affect in any degree the high character Mr. Maitland has always maintained at Naples as a Clergyman of the Church of England? LORD STANLEY: Sir, what has happened at Naples is this. Very acrimonious disputes having arisen amongst the English congregation, and the parties concerned having refused to abide by the decision of the Ecclesiastical authorities, I thought it was not seemly that Her Majesty's Government should be mixed up with the affair, and I therefore felt it my duty to withdraw the grant which had been made under the Consular Act. I am glad, however, to have it in my power to state that what has occurred does not in the slightest degree affect the personal character of Mr. Maitland, whom I have always heard spoken of in the highest terms. CHINA-TREATY OF TIEN-TSIN. QUESTION. REPEAL OF THE UNION WITH IRE LAND.-LEAVE. MR. REARDEN moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the amendment of the Act of Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland, the establishment of a Federal Parliament and independent Legislature in Ireland, the separation of the National Debts and Revenues of the two countries, and the responsibility of each Country for its own debt and its reduction. No hon. Member seconding the Motion, it was not put from the Chair. PROROGATION OF THE PARLIAMENT. Message to attend The LORDS COMMISSIONERS. The House went: and the ROYAL ASSENT was given to several Bills. And afterwards a Speech of The LORDS COMMISSIONERS was delivered to both Houses of Parliament by The LORD CHAN CELLOR. Parliament was read. After which, THE LORD CHANCELLOR said My Lords, and Gentlemen, By virtue of Her Majesty's Commission, COLONEL SYKES said, he was desirous under the Great Seal, to us and other of learning, Whether the noble Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has Lords directed, and now read, we do, in had any communication from the Envoy of Her Majesty's Name, and in obedience to China with regard to the Treaty of Tien-Her Commands, prorogue this Parliament tsin? to Thursday the Eighth Day of October next, to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Thursday the Eighth Day of October next. LORD STANLEY said, he had received no such communication. He was not aware when the gentleman referred to was expected in this country. [TABLE OF STATUTES. RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons, A RETURN " of the Number of DAYS on which THE HOUSE SAT in the Session of 1867-8, stating, for each Day, the Date of the Month, and the Day of the Week, the Hour of Meeting, and the Hour of Adjournment; and the Total Number of Hours occupied in the Sittings of The House, and the Average Time; and showing the Number of Hours on which The House Sat each Day, and the Number of Hours after Midnight; and the Number of Entries in each Day's Votes and Proceedings (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 0.146, of Session 1867)." A TABLE OF ALL THE STATUTES PASSED IN THE THIRD SESSION OF THE NINETEENTH PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 31° & 32° VICT. PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. I. AN Act to apply the Consolidated Fund to N Act to apply the Sum of Two million the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. II. An Act to grant to Her Majesty additional Rates of Income Tax. III. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under "The Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Act, 1863," and the Acts amending the same. IV. An Act to amend the Law relating to Sales of Reversions. V. An Act for the Amendment of "The Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867." VI. An Act to forbid the Issue of Writs for VII. An Act to further continue the Act of the X. An Act to apply the Sum of Three hundred and sixty-two thousand three hundred and ninetyeight Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Ninepence out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Years ending the Thirty-first Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven and the Thirty-first Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. XI. An Act to amend an Act to make further Provision for the Despatch of Business in the Court of Appeal in Chancery. XII. An Act to facilitate the Alteration of Days upon which, and of Places at which, Fairs are now held in Ireland. XIII. An Act to apply the Sum of Six million Pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year ending on the Thirty-first Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. XIV. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. XV. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore. XVI. An Act to apply the Sum of Seventeen million Pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year ending on the Thirtyfirst Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. XVII. An Act to further continue and appropriate the London Coal and Wine Duties. XVIII. An Act to give further Time for making | XLI. An Act to make Provision in the Case of certain Railways. XIX. An Act for declaring valid certain Orders of Her Majesty in Council relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England and to the Deans and Chapters of certain Churches. XX. An Act to enable Persons in Ireland to establish Legitimacy and the Validity of Marriages, and the Right to be deemed Naturalborn Subjects. XXI. An Act to provide Compensation to Officers of certain discontinued Prisons. XXII. An Act to amend the Law relating to Places for holding Petty Sessions and to Lockup Houses for the temporary Confinement of Persons taken into Custody and not yet committed for Trial. XXIII. An Act to render valid Marriages heretofore solemnized in the Chapel of Ease of Frampton Mansel in the Parish of Sapperton in the County of Gloucester. XXIV. An Act to provide for carrying out of Capital Punishment within Prisons. XXV. An Act to extend the Industrial Schools Act to Ireland. XXVI. An Act to enable certain guaranteed Indian Railway Companies to raise Money on Debenture Stock. XXVII. An Act for raising the Sum of One million six hundred thousand Pounds by Exchequer Bonds for the Service of the Year ending on the Thirty-first Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. XXVIII. An Act to grant certain Duties of Customs and Income Tax. XXIX. An Act to amend the Law relating to Medical Practitioners in the Colonies. XXX. An Act to amend the Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Victoria, Chapter Forty-four, relating to the Formation of quoad sacra Parishes in Scotland, and to repeal the Act of the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Years of the Reign of Victoria, Chapter Seventy seven. XXXI. An Act to amend the Act passed in the XXXIII. An Act for the Collection and Publication of Cotton Statistics. XXXIV. An Act to alter some Provisions in the existing Acts as to Registration of Writs in certain Registers in Scotland. XXXV. An Act to extend the Provision in "The XXXVII. An Act to amend the Law relating to Boroughs ceasing to return Members to serve in Parliament respecting Rights of Election which have been vested in Persons entitled to vote for such Members. XLII. An Act to amend the Act of the Twentythird and Twenty-fourth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter Fifty, by abolishing the Rate imposed by the said Act on all Occupiers of Premises within the extended Municipal Boundaries of the City of Edinburgh. XLIII. An Act for extending the Provisions of The Thames Embankment and Metropolis Improvement (Loans) Act, 1864, and for amending the Powers of the Metropolitan Board of Works in relation to Loans under that Act. XLIV. An Act for facilitating the Acquisition and Enjoyment of Sites for Buildings for Religious, Educational, Literary, Scientific, and other Charitable Purposes. XLV. An Act to carry into effect a Convention between Her Majesty and the Emperor of the French concerning the Fisheries in the Seas adjoining the British Islands and France, and to amend the Laws relating to British Sea Fisheries. XLVI. An Act to settle and describe the Limits of certain Boroughs and the Divisions of certain Counties in England and Wales, in so far as respects the Election of Members to serve in Parliament. XLVII. An Act to amend "The Consecration of Churchyards Act, 1867." XLVIII. An Act for the Amendment of the Representation of the People in Scotland. XLIX. An Act to amend the Representation of the People in Ireland. L. An Act to amend the Acts for the Administration of Prisons in Scotland in so far as regards the County of Lanark; and for other Purposes. LI. An Act to amend the Law relating to Fairs in England and Wales. LII. An Act to amend the Act for punishing idle and disorderly Persons, and Rogues and Vagabonds, so far as relates to the Use of Instruments of Gaming. LIII. An Act to continue in force an Act of the Second Year of King George the Second, Chapter Nineteen, for the better Regulation of the Oyster Fishery in the River Medway. LIV. An Act to render Judgments or Decreets obtained in certain Courts in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively effectual in any other Part of the United Kingdom. LV. An Act to provide for the Collection by means of Stamps of Fees payable in the Supreme and Inferior Courts of Law in Scotland, and in the Offices belonging thereto; and for other Purposes relative thereto. LVI. An Act to amend the Act Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Victoria, Chapter Sixty-six, for the safe keeping of Petroleum. LVII. An Act to make Provision for the Appointment of Members of the Legislative Council of New Zealand, and to remove Doubts in respect of past Appointments. LVIII. An Act to amend the Law of Registration so far as relates to the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes relating thereto. XL. An Act to amend the Law relating to Parti- LIX. An Act to amend the Law relating to |