PARLIAMENTARY NEWS. [From the European Times.] HOUSE OF LORDS, Tuesday, Feb. 10.

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PARLIAMENTARY NEWS. [From the European Times.] HOUSE OF LORDS, T uesday, Feb. 10.

Lord Campbell took his seat on the woolsack, in the- absence of the Lord Chancellor. The bill for abolishing the office of Secretary of Bankrupts, and the Municipal Corporations Acts Amendment Bill,, were read a second time. ,

LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. ~ " 1 Lord Lyndburst brought forward a l>ill for facilitating the despatch of public business by enabling either house to take up and proceed with any measure sent down from the other house in the previous session, but not passed in N consequence of the lateness\ of the session ; which, after a brief conversation was read a first tiraev

NEW ZEALAND. - Earl Grey stated, in answer to a question, that tHe Bill for conferring a constitution upon the colony of New Zealand would be brought forward in the -house as soon as the state of public business would permit.

■ ' , ' THE OUTRAGES IN IRELAND. The Earl of Rbden inquired whether Government contemplated any extraordinary measures for the detection and punishment of the authors of .the alarming outrages which prevailed in certain districts in Ireland ? The Marquis of

Lansdowne said that Ministers were anxious to take every possible means fo,r the preservation of life and property, but~he did not think any extraordinary measures sTjould be taken until the legal powers in the hands of the Government had failed ; which he could not admit to be the case, though they had hitherto not been so successful as could be wished. Their lordships then adjourned.

The subject of the " National Defences "" was being freely discussed in^all circles, THe Port of Portsmouth Guardian, February 4, says : — " It is announced by a usually well informed naval authority that the Admiralty have ordered the guard.-ships at the various, ports to be ad- , vanced to sea-going efficiency. It seems that this wise and necessary precaution was contemplated some time since, when the St. George, 120, was substituted for the old San Josef, at Devonport; Britannia, 120, for the Illustrious] at Portsmouth ; and since then the Neptune, 120, vice the Britannia, ordered tq sea; 'the Waterloo, 120, for the old Ocean, and the Monarch, 84, for the , Wellington, at Sheerness ; and the Cumberland, 70, for the old Poictiers ; and subsequently the Boscawen, .70;* vice Cumberland, sent to sea. In addition to these new and powerful 120-gun ships — one at each of the three principal ports^— there'- is now a steam guard-ship at Sheerness, Portsmouth, and Devonport; two gunnery ships, one at Portsmouth and Devonport ; and a screw steam guard-ship, Ajax, 60 guns, in* sea-going order, at Queenstown." An account of the burning of Earl Grey in effigy at Hobart Town, in August last, is published in many of the January papers. The Morning Advertiser says: — "The Marquis of Normanby, a correspondent assures us, has been appointed Governor- General of India. Lord Dalhousie continues indisposed, and is expected home early next month." The new Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Cape Colony, Major-General Cathcart, was to sail for his destination in the Hydra, 6, steam-sloop, about the 6th of February, On the 7th of February, in a Parliamentary document, an account was given of the public income and expenditure for the year ending the sth of January last. The net receipts were £52,233,006 16s. 5d., and the expenditure £49,506,610 11s. 7d., leaving the excess of income over the expenditure £2,726,396 4s. lOd. Several desperate murders- and other outrages in different parts of the country are reported.On the 10th and 11th January nearly the whole range of English coast was visited with" a tremendous south-westerly- gale, spreading destruction beforedt to an incalculable extent. At some points as many as a dozen vessels were driven on shore, some of them being dashed to pieces. The Times, Feb. 10, has the following in reference to the tallow market : — " The tallow market is quiet at 365. 6d. to 365. on the spot, and 375.. for the last three months." The following report of the money market, is from the city article of the Times, February 10 : — " The English funds opened this morning at the closing prices of .yesterday, and subsequenty experienced a rise of atiliighth, wnich'was not fully maintained up to the iermiriatidn of business. Consols were first quoted 9&\ to f-for both money and account, whence they advanced to 96f to f for money, in consequence of the operations connected with the settlement, which takes place to-morrow." On the continent, the " observed of all observers," is still Louis Napoleon. On the 27th January, that extraordiaary potentate issued a series of decrees, nominating his Senate and Council of State, definingthe formation and composition of the Council, prescribing forms for its proceedings, &c. Many of the senators he has selected from the ancient noble families of France. The Moniteur announces that the Ministry is definitely constituted as follows :—: — M. Abatucci, Keeper of the Seals f and Minister of Justice ; M. de Persigny, Interior, Agriculture, arid Commerce; M, Bineau, Finance; General de St. Arhaud, War; M. Ducos, Marine ; M. Turgot, Foreign Affairs ; M. Fortoul, Public Instruction and Worship ; M. Lefebvre Durufle, Public 'Works ; M. de Maupas, Police ; and M. de Casabianca, Minister of State. On the publication of these decrees, M. Dupin and M. Montalembert instantly resigned their respective offices of Procureur General and Member of the Consultative Commission. Other members of the Consultative Commission also resigned. A decree also is promulgated, which enacts, that the members of the Orleans family, their husbands and consorts, and descendants, cannot possess any property (moveable or immoveable) in France. They are bound to sell them within the year, and in default they will be sold by the domain. Another decree cancels the donation made by Louis Philippe on the 7th August to his children, and enacts that their properties, of about two hundred" millions of francs, shall be employed as follow :— — Ten millions to societies of secours mutuel. Ten millions to the improvement of the lodgings for the working class_es. Ten millions' to the establishment of a credit fonqier. < Five millions for a benefit fund for the poorer clergy. All the officers, subofficers, and soldiers in active service will receive, according to their -rank in the legion of honour — the legionary/ 250f.; the officers, 500f.; commanders, l,000f. ; grand officers, 2,000f. ; grand crosses, 3,000f. ; i It is confidently stated by the London papers, " that an attempt was made on 1 the 20th January upon the life of the President. It seems that the wife of an ex-perfect, who. has been replaced in the Herault by M. Durant de St. Amand, came to Paris to intercede with the President for ' hei% husband. She obtained an audience on .Tuesday morning; but Louis Napoleon having refused to grant her petition for his re-instatement, she is said to have drawn a poniard, and attempted to stab him. The woman, it is added, was arrested and conveyed o the Conciergerie." The Brussels journals announce the arrival in that city of MM. Emile de Girardin, Joigneaux, Esquiros, Noel Farfalt, Saint-Ferreol, Puscal Duprat, Antony Thouret? Charassin, and other ex-representatives ; and they add that .400 French refugees had arrived or passed through Belgium since the 2nd of December. They also say that M. Baze has.applied to the Belgian government for permission to Tie inscribed on the h'st of advocates at Liege.