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  The debate was valuable only in giving occasion for a very sensible speech from Sir George Cornewall Lewis on the whole subject, which left the Member for Montrose with no alternative but to withdraw his motion.

Out of Parliament there is little domestic matter of interest, and Parliament itself is unusually dull. The most spirited debate took place a few days back, when the general subject of international maritime law was brought forward by Mr. Horsfall. The House of Commons is just now in the thick of a thorough discussion of the Revised Code of Education.

The Exhibition building is completed, and the interior arrangements are being rapidly carried out The Vimiera, with the New South Wales contributions, arrived in the Thames yesterday.

The subject of the condition of the London poor has just been brought before the public by an unexampled act of munificence on the part of a citizen of the much-abused United States. No one who has not walked with his eyes and his heart open through the obscure and narrow passages of life in this huge human hive can form any adequate idea of the multifarious forms of wretch-