Mr. T. L. Corbett, M.P. for North Down, asked leave in the House of Commons, on the 18th June, to introduce a Bill to appoint a Commission to inquire as to the need for the inspection of monastic and conventual institutions. The Irish Nationalists, of course, opposed the motion with fiery unreasonableness, but the House divided, and the motion was carried by a majority of 4,125 to 121. Last year the same motion was defeated. Mr. Corbett, then, brought in his Bill, amid Nationalist interruptions and interjections. The Bill was backed up by two other members, also—Mr. Hugh Barrie, M.P., Londonderry, North, and Mr. Harmood-Banner, M.P., Everton, Liverpool. All three are Unionist members. We earnestly hope that this successful entrance of the Bill is a forerunner of its final adoption as an Act of Parliament, for it is an absolute disgrace to a Protestant country like ours that these wretched monasteries and convents, which are open to inspection in every other country, Spain not excepted, are closed against it among us. May the Lord arise and overturn the whole system!