impression on the Irish mind;
but, instead of this, the leading Roman Catholic member in the house of
commons gets up and tells them that, unless they went ten times as far
as they had yet gone, they would have an insurrection in Ireland."
This he believed, however, was not the feeling of the Irish people; he
believed that government had made an impression on the feelings of
the Irish people. After a few words from Lord John Russell, the house
divided on Mr. Osborne's amendment, which was negatived by a majority
of one hundred and sixty-eight against ninety-one, and the bill was then
read a third time and passed.

The second reading of the Irish education bill was moved in the house
of lords by Lord Stanley on the 21st of July. The Earl of Shrewsbury
opposed the measure. Government he said, had been overawed by the
fanatic feeling of the English people; and he urged ministers to
withdraw the bill for a season, and reintroduce it in a shape better
suited to the wants and wishes of Ireland. The bill was further opposed
by the Earl of Carnarvon, who protested against the divorce of religion
from education, and expressed his fears that such a precedent might be
applied to Oxford and Cambridge. The bill was defended by the Duke of
Newcastle, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Bishop of Norwich, and Lords
Brougham, Beaumont, and Clifford. The second reading was affirmed
without a division; and subsequently the bill passed through committee,
and was read a third time without any fixed opposition.

COLONIAL POLICY.

In the early part of this session intelligence had arrived which
announced a disastrous collision in New Zealand between the natives and
the settlers at the Bay of Islands, and which terminated in defeat
and serious loss on the part of the latter. This intelligence produced
considerable sensation in the public mind, more especially among those
connected with the colonists in those islands. The New Zealand Company
loudly accused the colonial office, and the administration of the
governor, Captain Fitzroy; while other parties contended that the evil
which had arisen had been in a great measure induced by the company
itself. The event became the subject of several discussions in
parliament. The first of these discussions took place on the 11th of
March, when Mr. Somes moved for all copies of correspondence between the
colonial office and the governor of New Zealand, respecting the issue
of debentures and the rende