The Express. — London, England, 1851-05-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Weosuatr, MAT 2s. Tho S took the chair at 12 o'clock. PIII TATE BUSINESS. The onler of the day for the third reading of the Wrex ham Imvenient Bill was read and discharged. The f o l lo w ing bills were read • third time and passed : Great North of Scotland Railway Bill (with a clause and amendments); Midland Railway (purchase of Leeds and Bradford Railway and increase of capital) Bill; Midland Railway (regulation and increase of capital, &c.) Bill ; and Manchester Improvement Bill. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. County Coiranc—By Captain FITZROY, from Green wich mad a pine: in Wales. io fivoar of County Courts. Havaosita On trIT.-By Mr. FREWEN, from a place is Same; against the Maynooth grant. CHURCH ILATRS.-117 Sir K. INGLIS, from St. James's, Muter, against any alteration in the levy of church rates. NOTICES OF MOTION. Oa the :notion of Mr. RRYNOLIM a copy of the report Made by Captain Spark, relative to certain charges of prose lytism ni the workhnu, of Dingle Union, and of the mi nutes *residence taken by him on the inquiry ; together with copies of any correspondence between the Poor Law Cosamissioners, the protestant chaplain, the hoard of guar dians, and Contain Spark thereon, was ordered. Oa the motion of Lord DUNCAN, a retura of the amount of the mime! MUM paid to the pa company fur as man' in lightin4 the General Post-odice, separately, for the years ending the sth day of January, 1•415, ISO, 18. A, and 1851 invectively ; and stating the causes of the increase or decrease in each year. On th , motion of Captain FITZROY (for Mr. Disraeli), the petition of nay E. Seward and Ana Furnd wart ordered to he prin..ll. DINGLE WORKHOUSE. Mr REYNOLDS Rasa notice. for the 2111th of June, to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland nliether the protestant chaplains of Iht.4le workhouse had been dismiss^ I ? ENCUMBERED E•iTATES (LEASES) IItELAND iii ia:. This bill was postponed Rw a Week. IlttltON EMS BILL. Lord 11. VANE. in moving the second readily+ of this out that t:,. foil WAY 111111,4% identical wide that of the previoa. y. 4r, and lie found that in the lli•CW.i , lol that then link pl. • th. menshire present, including the hon. meni her. fir Oxfordshire nail (:oekermouth and the right hon. iii.. llons• e..eretery, all accepted the principle of the hill. The only alteration that had been since male was as to the amount of salary, but the principle, which was the parnsent of coroners by lieed alma, rematuol untonelied. Objecs tem hail Is i t...4eu to the ton an At multiplication of in q testi, igistrates had ill 111.111 neduocesili.allowed the exp.. ; but still the importance of the insti tution cotlil not be dialed, and his object was to pre* vv.. it frum all impotation of improper influeine. For this purpose he proposed to give the cotton. r a fis...l salary, to be estimated on the aver age of a nalitier Ile trusted th it the house would by agraing to the amendment of the hon. member opleeite, delay the bill by reference to a select committee. Capt. Fl I*ZROY thought that the proper course would In- to refer the whole CAW to a select committee, to inquire Low it was Plat ietinots had, in some place., multiplied at a rite nut ol all proportion to the increase of population. It appeared that in two or three parishes in Milmex, the increase in 12 years had bum from 1,141, to 8,300, and the from 1,1/. to 7,53:7. The number of inquests in Meet Malillesez was, in IteN, 4173, and in Kist hli.l.ll4oex, .111 ; while, in 1/114, it was West 1,067, East 1,027. Thi s roul.l not be accounted for by the inereasie of popolation, which hail only been 30 per cent., while the irepie.ts het increased 110 per cent. During the same pes ss i the hoine•t• in the city of W es tminster kid increased only Inon 2.1.1 to 326, or shoat 30 per cent. Neither had there hen nay inn'. sac in the statistiee of crime to account fur the a.comii!ition. lie h dieved that in C.01.s of suicide, ant other ii ~ion aural death., an inquest was u.elul , hut high 1 4 . 44 1 opinion s were against its indispensable necessity in such can all eases of violent death there was in vestigation by tho magidnites, nail h.- did not see why they should not have exclusive jurimlietion. (Hear, hear.) The honourable member concluded by musing, as Li am. nilnient —That a select constant e be appointed to consider the state of the law and practiee regards tie- takin.; of inquisitions in CA." of death., and the appointment and remuneration of the officers employed then. pe in, nod whether it I. exdient that any and what alterations shooed be omite in any of such matter., and pars tieularly whether it would be of ailvant.gte to transec the whide or any portion of the duties uuw discharged by the 0 , 01 . 01111 , 1.1 any reher persons.' Mr. It. PA LNIEIt igeonibel the motion. Mr. wyritEttoN did not consider 4 141111 eommktec wee n.ceswy in th•• pr.-sent th • hill only proionoing deal with one of th. In.iny points relating to tie• uKrr of mosey. It o thought the better rnurx' would be for the • bonne to aeemt to WI bill, and then for hit hon. friend taptain hiiiroy) to prole", the Klett committee to inquire to the Reneral question in a stdolontivemotion. Sir fl."1111EY * repeated what he Awl aid hot year, that to the principle of paying coroner; by salary inoewl of by lees he had 1111 objection, but in making that change security mint be taken Grid, that the salary wan in proportion to the duty ; and so. lit, that the duty should be efficiently per formed. The Niro( hot year did not provide for either of thew. two rthk.et., awl It, we., hound to say that the peasant bill we.. open to Cie same objection. (llear, hear.) Ile had had deputatam..4 coroner. oimplaiiiing of the mode in which they wer.• imid, not, however. atk.ng to be paid by ...airy, but mend, nnnpl. gof the al bitrary manner in whirl' the mairittrates wed their power of aliening or disallow:mg the wir met. chary,. the erwat that Woo .. an tone , count. t the ellM9l.es incurred in holding neot..ry inqued. wen• rafuted in others, all extravagant and outlive...try addition to the touuty espeu diture took place Sir O. 81 . ItICKLAND rippoted the appointment of a orket committee a. unneeettary, the aulncet having ad rawly ba.ri investigated, awl supported the at entail reading of the bill Mr. WAS LEY supported the bill. The coroners did not object to inquiry. On the contrary. they courted the fulled iuve.tidatioo, in order that the putilie might be mad , min eint•-.I with the importanee of the du•iet of the odic •. The little.. M.vi a judicial une, and the person hold ing it should he relioool front the imputmem of being actuated by low, vulgar, awl sordid motives in the performant- of hi. duties, and plaiinz him in that peition of free and witerwr e d in. dependence in which every judge should stand. The tall wan objected to by hun. gentlemen opposite K rause it would make th • coroner independent of the magi., trate.. and prevent those unseemly collitions which now Souk place in regard to the coronet,' account.. Under the canting modem thou- eotlision. were unavoidable. For in stance, when poi -earn died in gaols inquest,. must be held, awl if the coroner .11.1 hi. duty in anal rata and the result should he to esp.: some improper conduct, ur tyranny in vegan! to the ovulation.. of the gaol for which the magi...- trate* wren...mm.ode, they might retaliate by eh:trona Inns with holihng pewit-wary inquisits in other ease., and joiniiih him by refuting his esisiwies. Th. hoe watt nun (Capt. Fitzroy) had said that cOrtiii,•• held ritiott-oary is tab. lint what wit. an unnecemary inquett ? Were inTiests anniversary in eases of Connie ? (' No," from Captain Fitzroy.) But the hon. gentleman courant that hreaute there were not ututy murder in therefore the holding of inquest. was to a great 'tient superfluou.. fiat was not the two. gentleman aware that the activity of the wile of coroner had a great mural influence in preventing criosi• ? And VIM it not a fact that in the thinly popeated country villages where coroners were Mare under the control .1 the magistrates, awl where, in enowsuene.• cumparatitely few inquest. were held,' the cuirme of jwiwiniug had prevailed to a SPOtter extent Usais in thit drawly peopled metropolis ? filter since hr had held the Oleo of coroner be had born in villa:ion with the magistrates. They had opposed his election in the fat plot, and afterward. had resorted to every wie 3 os „ r annoy. awe, charging him with holding a greater number of in quett. than hi. predecevors, awl entailing iumecomary ex pense on the coxitty, though, on inquiry. it W.ki discover..l that he held fewer on the average, and that the charge to the county wa. W.. than in the time of tlw gentleman who preriowly held the ..'h.'.'. If the bill would make the co roner Wine apprehended, let them give a Iwo. r to the magideate ur tam, other authority to review th e •a lary every tie. or servo yearn. and to fia it aceunling to the average number of inque.t. held. Air J. TIZOLLOVE *poke in favour of the amendment. Mr. Al:Llu\IIY thou,tht the objection to the piyownt of stitursers by fit. invalid. If they wen- paid by salaries tit. 7 • ..111.1 became idle, whereas if they were paid by fires them %Milano: would masifsted. lir. B. DEN IaON believed it wan not the with of anv whet of the boa... to depreciate the *ace of coroner, that brio' 82'104 ancient an well a. a most uteful vflice. The Immo. wanted to keep it an etbient one ; tiny idso desired that the Aker hohliog it should he ftinUlltlailitty paid. If the hon. turruher for Fin.b.iry disliked tituation. he had the r.imitly in hi. band , ; he could re.ign ; hut rtoidnation. sere whims adopte.l by coroner. or other oftiaml person.. (•• llear," and laughter.) Ile thought the whole sulqeet ...rain; the immediate considenitiou of a select committee. Mr. W. WI 1.L1A318 would support the ',toad matins; of the bill. Mr. J. EVANS Laid the remit of giving fixed salaries would be that the tonntelli would take marten vet, coolly. For this reason he thought the principle of the bill was and that tic iubject ought to be eft:recta to a seat committee. __ air J I NGTON would Tate (or the tecolul reading of the bill Lord 11. ANL eonstitted to postpone the second read. snil the bill was oriL!rett to be referrsd t•i • *elect AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOVNTS DILL. Tle house basing gone into committee on this bill. Mr. E. ELLO*6 moved the following aniendment In page 4. line 42, after word •• payments to iimett Ind the auditors ia like manner, onto, at least, in .• every year. requite to be produced to them accounts of every sum of money paid to any engineer employed upon the line of railway and weeb a melt riampsny, and also of every account due by tbo emspulp he any work dose upon such rsilwyank smog be lawful for the the gait atke: l ll ls su w erect r unb, The bill Ag ert wheihsoyeid or unpaid. be owe enspetrat pergola to ex- COUN sane the nese. and to oaten he die auditors upon the Oa the mob therm nes* emomon, amm as to the expediency of sal- read • second Battu. ther le Yr m aosidem of a emennamt court." F l i r . OLYS espurid s ben that name has. mmontoo TUB bill pea wend loon the emitiom of the mine eines Nam mob CAP WM added. booms thoy Medi Intiahoe edam Wenn Eir . PEC drat audit. monind at tit THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY . EVENING, MAY 29, 1851. I Mr. B. DENISON hoped to see the bin tae- Una elan lisalsequer. in teepee! of the treasure and other jetted aTaillialla beard the Spanish frigates captured on the sth Mr. E. ELLICE seal Ise had stated the other day that day of *Saber. UM, by the ships under the orders of Cap he objected to the plied* of the sesseure, and that the tails Moore ; with a retatra of the manner in which object of his mend emessimese wen Is prevent the Ulnas- the sums were appropriated, distinguishing the daring of 'am that was awarded to the cainore.—Ordered. ' Mr. LA 7:-.7J1 HlTrar =toad before that be SAIL NG QUALITIES OF ESSELS OF WAR. did not believe the principleiof lk bill was framed in • Sir G. PECHELL move d for a returner the several trials manner which it was advisalliii Is %Opt, yet that it would of sailing of her Majesty's ships Leander, Phaeton, Are elect a considerable the existing system. thusa, Indefatigable, Thetis, Arrogant, and Dauntless, be ll' the clause were eine& eat eltegetber, the bill would be tween the 12th day of March, Disk), and the 3rd day of May, almost done away with; whereas the passing of the clause 1851, stating by whom the said ships were built, with the would go far to satisfy public opinion. He should resist report of Commodore Martin as to their several qualifica every attempt to strike the clause out of the bill. lions for all purposes as vessels of war.—Ordered. Mr. RICARDO could nut see the possibility of this clause The house then adjourned at five minutes to six o'clock. being in simultaneous operation with the Railway Classes Consolidation Act. Ile would support the amendment, but he should also vote against the whole clause. Mr. ELLIS, believing the bill to be a bed one altogether, thought that the lees it was before the committee the better, and he would do his best to destroy it. It was ridiculous to suppose that men of business in this country could not manage their own affairs and protect their own interests. Mr. BROWN inaseed on the necessity of some trustwor thy method of investigation by competent and impartial persons. Alter a few words from Mr. E. ELLICZ, jun., Mr. HENLEY opposed the clause. The President of the Board of Trade wished to put attorneys and engineers on the s mese footing as regarded taxing their bills, hut this clause did not make the necessary provision for that pur pose. There was established and regular machinery for taxing the C.J4tA of attorneys, but none existed for regu lating the charges of engineers, and no means were pro vided bhe hill. How then was it to be done Mr. L'tBOUCHERE did not think there would be the difficulty in carrying out the clause which some hon. mem bers accused to .141110bC. It enabled the auditors who re presented the shareholders to investigate the accounts of the attorneys and engineers, to refer them to some compe tent authonty, and then to take proper and legal means to cut down such charges, if excessive. The hon. gentleman asked how it was to be done, from which question it might be inferred that railway companies had nes er resisted the exorbitant demands of an engineer ; but he believed they had frequently done so. Mr. .10LIONBY said that although the measure ap peared to be somewhat complicated, and to present some difficulties as to the practical working, he having the same object iu view as that professes' by the bill, would not pre, hi , opinious against those of the lion. member who had in troduces' it. After a few words from Mr. ]lowan and Mr. lIENLET, Mr. E. ELLICE, jun., explained that his object was that the accounts should be over-hauitd by some other tribunal than a hoard of directors. Mr. RICARDO did not really understand what the I amendiu-nt now before them was. The clause, and peed cularly this part of it, ought to be taken not by itself, hat with the whole bill, and then the extraordinary complica tion of the machinery would be seen. k rosi n the accounts were to be kept by the directors in a particular form ; then the accounts were to he overhauled by auditors appointed by the shareholders. Then an accountant was to be em ployed who was to report to the auditors, who were to report to the directors, who were to report to the shareholders. (Laughter .) But that was not all. After this there were twenty shareholders to examine the ac count, again, who were to have the power of calling in special auditors, and they were to have all the powers of the firmer auditors. When eras all this to stop ? Mr. AG LIONBY considered that the amendment, as 7ARY COMNIITTEES. SMITHFIELD MAttErr.—Yeaterday, on the re assembling of this committee, Mr. Cardwell in the chair, several witnesses were examined in favour of the proposed removal of the market. —Mr. S. Holme, a member of the co ration of Liverpool, deposed that the market there had been removed from the centre to the suburb', and that general advantage and convenience had resulted.—Mr. Dugdale Houghton, surveyor, of Birmingham, alleged that like advantage had arisen from the trawler of the markets at Birmingham, Shrewsbury, and Wolverhampton from the interior to the environs.—Mr. J. T. Norris, member of the Common Council of the City, was examined at great length, alleging that the abandonment of the present site of Smith field, and its location in some one of the outlying districts, would be advantageous on various grounds.—Mr. H. F. Hamilton, surveyor, had examined three suburban sites fur • metropolitan market, at Horwsey, Camden-road, and Copenhagen-fields. Thirty acres might be had at Hornsey. —Mr. Symonds, Couunon Councilman, and Messrs. Salt well and Smith, salesmen, were also examined, and ex pressed themselves l re favoura ble to the removal of the exist ing market ; and the committee, at four o'clock, adjourned to Friday. Tae NATIONAL LAND OA CtIARTIST CO-OPERATIVE SO- ClETY.—Yesterday the committee re-assembled—Sir 11. Verney in the chair. Mr. Coates, the parliamentary agent, said that, in the absence of counsel, he had, in consequence of the extreme poverty of the parties, undertaken to repre sent the opponents of the measure, and the principal amendments he bad to propose on behalf of the alluttees in the unfortunate concern were to the effect, that under the winding up process of the undertaking before the Mas ter in Chancery, which was the principal object of the bill, a clause might be inserted for vesting all the property in tbo official manager to be appointed as nt present, all the land that had been taken by the allottees, but parted with, vested in Mr. O'Connor. Many of the ulluttees— poor weavers and artisans—had taken these allotments of land without any deed of conveyance, and discovered that they were so remotely situated from the market towns that they could not send their produce for disposal, and were consequently utterly ruined. Some were in actual desti. tution, and had no resort but the workhouse. Those who had a legal title could nut be evicted without a suit in Chan cery, and provisions to meet these emergencies would be indispensable. The committee reserved the consideration of these questions, and proceeded to examine Mr. M'Grath, one of the chartists, who described himself as of "no business, and a director and original ?remoter of the pica sure."—Adjourned. now amended, was as improvement on the clause, and Afforded addition d proles-thin to the bltarehul&r. 101 , 1 the public. It would give the auditors fresh powders in re ferenee to accounts paid as well us th , A , C unpaid. After some discussion the committee di; ided on the ameadmost The numbers were-- TILE PETITION OF MR. ERNEST JONES. The humble petition of Ernest Charles Jones, of the Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, showeth That your petitioner, for a speech delivered by him in June, IpIY, WWI sentenced at the July sessions of the same year, by the then Chief Justice, to be imprisoned for two years and one week, no other punihmrnt being embraced in the sentence ' but receiving while in the dock, in reply to a question asked, repeated assurances of considerate and lenient treatment. Ayes Mr. 11. BROWN then moved in clause 8, page 4S, line 8, alter tho word " payment" to strike out "ur transactions whether paid or unpaid." Mr. LOCK E had no objection to strike out these words, although he thought that Ly duing so the usefulue,s of the auditor. would be mush impaired. Mr. LAIR/I:CH ERE regretted that his bon. friend (Mr. Locke) bad agr. cd to strike out these word.. There had been quite as mocit misconduct regarding what were called trans. Actions as accounts. Ile would give one invtince. In Your petitioner was subsequently conveyed to Tothill Fields Prison, Westminster, and there, during the entire period to which he was sentenced kept in separate confine ment on the silent system, which was enforced with such rigour that he was severely reprimanded for even reading the Bible to himself, though in a scarcely audible voice. Your petitioner was further compelled to pick oakum, which he did on his arrival, and which labour was remitted only in consideration of a weekly payment of money. Ile was made to wear the same dress and parti-coloured cap as culprits guilty of heinous offences, and marched about the prison iu the same files with common felons, subj..cted to convict discipline so rigorous as to mace uu involuntary smile, turning the head to the right or left, or folding the arms, a punishable offence; supplied with indigestible and unwholesome toed, to the serious injury of his health ; not allowed a kirk, being obliged to use his fingers instead; and not furnished with sufficient underclothing fur health and cleanliness. the case of one of the few railway; where a government auditor had limn appointed there had been a very iMprO.- per contract for iron brought to light. The striking out of the words would, he conceived, greatly impair the efficiency of the ineamre. After a few word, front Mr. Mae.tkoo and Mr. Lsl:ut•- l'll KIM in reply, Sir W. CLAY said that if the word " transactions " re rallill4.ll in the bill it ought to he called " A bill for the con trol of railway directors," as that was the real object of the Mr. HENLEY said the amendment was not confined to the word " transactions." The word " pending " was also taken out, and if the amendment were agreed to in its pre sent shape, the auditors would only have power to inquire into payments made. The hon. member (Mr. Locke) had supported an amendment which he had declared was inconsistent with the bill, and now be supported another aanclidm lit which WAS incamistent with titat amendment. (Liu4litvr.) Mr. EW.tRT admitted with Mr. Henley that the words " pending or complete" were governed by the word pay meads" a. well a. the word "transaction.," and theretaire, that if the amendment were agreed to, the auditors would nut have the power to iuquire into payments winch had not hven iietuaily made. Ile suggested that the words should be retain. +l, oiail that,. to cm. t coquet:o o s 41 e UV r , t • • pvvutuary should be inserted before trans actions.** Mr. HICARDO maintained that the insertion of the word "pecuniary" would leave the clause quite as vague and iwklinite a, it stomp at present. Mr. EVANS hell that it was necemary to give tho auilitura power to report on all transactions. Mr. AtILIONHY supported the retention of the words with the insertion of the word " pecuniary." If they de cided to strike out the wordi they wuull afterwards find that it was necessary to re-insert them with the addition of the word pee tttt irry." Without the word •• pecuniary" the clause might make the powers of the auditors tool pensive. He deprecated the eounie pursued by some hon. lumbers in the last division, who huil voted for the pur pose of making the clause bad in order that they might throw out the bill altogether. It was nut a fair way of acting. . During the greater part of the months of November and December, 1818 (which were remarkably severe), your petitioner was kept without fire, and with the sane clothing as in the height of summer, in a day tell, two windows of which were unglazed, having merely shutters, and its doors (which closed inapt:rim:Cy) opening directly on the prison-yard. In neither winter during his de tention was any addition, even in the met rigonius weather, made to the clothing he wore in summer. Your petitioner was further forced, during the chief period of his imprisonment, to sleep in a small night-cell, about six feet wale by eight feet long, in a thorough draught, lx tween the window and door; the former fitting 60 badly as to admit the rain; the latter, ea did also two large gratings of about our foot square each in that cell where he was principally confined during both winters, opening directly on the outer air. Such was the damp sh ad fog in these cal. during winter, that your petitioner has of mornings brushed the dew oil his blanket, and suffered front the hu midity of his clothing. Your petitioner thence became afflicted with tic douleureux and rheumatism, so severe as Monist to deprive Man of the use in his limbs. Notwith standing this his cell was nut changed %bile suffering dm, till shortly before his leaving the prison, and, though Afflicted during five winter months with the most aggravated attack of neuralgia, ha war compelled to rise at a quarter past viz iu the morning, and even in snow or rain to walk through two yards, and wash and dress in the open air, under a recess in the wall. . Your 'petitioner was, by this treatment, reduced to a state of health so precarious that he Met sixteen pounds in weight in seven weeko, us the infirmary book, will prove, and was unable to walk across his cell; the surgeon was compelled ti order him into the infirmary, where he remained e teen weeks, at two intervals. flu leaving the infirmary the first time, no alteration being made in his treatment; the consequence was, the 1111/NCOII was obliged to send him Inuit, after the lapse of a fortnight, in a more dangerous state than before. During part of this time, as he then asserted on his oath, and as he still believes, his lite was in imminent danger; his wife, therefore, petitioned fur leave that Mr. Cholmoudeley, of 3, Nottingham-place, Regeues-park, who has attended petitioner and his family for tw tiro ' years, might be allowed to bee him, hut was refused. Mr. Wakjey, a number of your him umlde house, applied as such, and in his medical capacity, to see petitioner, limit was also refused permission by both the visiting justices sad Sir George Grey. Your petitioner, after leasing the infirmary a second I time, was (with the inception of obtaining, after a while, a larger night cell), once more subjected to the 1:11010 treat ment as beiore, the elfeet of which was the ruin of his health and the indiction of nervous and rheumatic cunt -111:61It`, from which he is still suffering severely, and from which he believes he can never wholly recover Your pe titioner further begs to state that] (with two exceptions) he was not allowed to see any friend or relative more than tour times in the year, and then only in presence of a turnkey, and for twenty minutes each time; that atter the first three months he was nut allowed to write a letter, even to his wife, more than once a quarter, the permission of writing oftener, after ter period named, having been with drawn without petitioner's having given any cause, or broken a single rule of the prison, but, on the contrary, having been repeatedly com.nettiled for his conduct ; that, nut even during the tearful visitation of the cholera, though petitioner wade • special request to be allowed to hear from holm, was that request acceded to ; that he was, during the tint nineteen months of his imprisonment, not allowed the use of pen, ink, or paiser (except for a few moments once a quarter fur the afeire• said quarterly letter) ; that, though petitioner's wife was so ill as to be long iu danger of her life, permission was refused her to inform her husband, or to communicate with him, and that when p e titi o n e r was himself danuerously ill, h o was not able to acquaint le i his wile with his condition until the time tor writing his I quarterly letter had come round. Such was the treatment to which your petitioner was subjected during two years and one week, the entire la-nod for which he was sentenced; and petitioner bego to remind your honourable house that the sentence of the judge, as delivered in court, was simply this: " The sentence of the court is, that jou bi: imprisoned during two year. on the first count, and one week on the wood: - coupled with the assurances previously stated; and petitioner begs further to observe that the same treatment would naturally be far more injurious to the health of a man in his situation of life than to that of a man long inured to hardships and privations; whereas petitioner can prove that prisoners convicted on infinitely more serious charges were treated in a far more lenient manner. Air akw word. from Mr. 11. Ilitowx and Mr. B. DE "II4ON, Mr. P.S,CKP: Raid he thought the bill was a scrim of in melba...mica. Ile wired that the 4:Warm:to Lave the chair. Mr. LOCKE said it was all very well for railway dine tors to tell them it was desirable there should be a railway audit bill, and that government should introduce it ; but the hour should recollect that ellen they had the oppor tunity, when government was desirous of introducing such a bill, they were the very gentlemen to oppese it. A. deputation waited upon Lord John Rusaell, audl they promised if the government bill were with drawn, they would introduce a bill of their own. 'lll.l went Inch to prepare a bill, but their sharelvilders rejected it, anal they left it to the shareholders to prepare a bill of some kind. tie -It areh idlers did prepare this bill, which might have its defects, but it ale, had its merit., as was proved by the opposition it had met with f rom railway di rector. in the house. Ile thought if they were to throw out the bill it would be a peculiar hanlship upon shareholders. Mr. GLYN said he felt bound to state that the hon. mem ber fur lloniton was only carrying out the intentions of those whom he represent e d , and that he did houestly re present a large portion of the railway body who were called together for that purpose, and who, from tune to time, during the last session of parliament, held their sittings in London, and drew up this bill, and then put it into the hands of the hon. gentleman. Ile never supposed that the directors of railway companies would be willing to support the whole of the clauses of the bill, but he was surprised to find when the hon. member for Moulton brought forward a measure it in the hands of the proprietors to carry sett the audit, he was surprises' that boo. gentiemen belonging to railway comp-attic. opposed that clause. lie thought it only fair to say that the bill now ha ce nslud was introduced under a pledge given to Lord J. Russell, and that the government bill was withdrawn on the repress condi tion that they should brine' forwarl such a measure. Mr. l'E'iO could nut hut feel that if the house rejected this bill that those railway directors who opposed it would deserve at the hand. of the government the most stringent measure that could be devised. Ile thought it inconsistent on the psn of the hnn. member for St. Andrew's, who said he should vote against the third reading. to waste so much time in trying to amend the bill. Captain EtjERTON supported the motion of the hon. member for Leicestershire. and said it was of uo use wasting time in endeavouring to carry such a bill. Mr ELLICE, jun., denied that he wad open to the charge of inconsistency. Ile voted against the second read ing, and if the bill was passes he wished to mak * it efficient. Mr. AOLIONBT said he hoped the hon. member for Leicestershire would withdraw his motion. It would be better fir him to try to amend the bill, and if he did not seemed he could vote against it on the third reading. Mr. M UNIX said be was opposed to the principle of the bill. lle did not see why railway people should be played on a ditLrent principle from other people. Why not as well have a Inn to audit gas ace iunts and to audit every mum's recounts if he could nut audit them himself. Mr. PACKE said he should persist in hi , motion, as he itesight they were only wasting the time of the house by gripasi:diiist with the bill. Mr. LABOUCHEILE said he hoped the committee would not agree to the motion made for disposing of the bill in so summary a mariner. It would not be fair to the hon. gentleman who brought forward the bill, or tra th: shareholders whom he represented. But he thought the house and the public would ere how YAM it was to expect that any gnat alteration in the system of auditing railway accounts would emanate (ruin the directors. After a few words from Mr. B. DZNIsom, The committee divided— For Mr. Parke's motion 62 Against it `I was therefore lost. KNIT COURTS EXTENSION BILL. motion of the Arrusvnir-Ougutax, this bil was four 'set/honer now solicits the attention of your honour. able house to the treatment he experienced when endea vouring to obtain GUM alleviation of his sufferings. Un March the 19th, 1319, petitioner, finding his health unable to bear the treatment indicted, and feeling convinced such treatment was not intended by the court, asked permission to write to the judge who sentence 1 him , for the purpose of inquiring whether his treatment was in accordance with the sentence passed, but the permission waa refu.,ed. Petitioner was then threatened aith additional severities of an ag gravated character if he did not cease complaining of his sulferimrs. lit was even told he would be set to scrub the Boon ot the convicts' cells. Petitioner then applied for leave to see the prison rules, but even this was denied him. Petitioner then desired to see his solicitor, or to write to him, but was refused. Petitioner then asked leave to peti tion your honourable house, which was prohibited by the visiting justices, although he stated, as one reason among many adduced for so doing, that he had several charges to make against them (the visiting justices) themselves. Pe titioner then applied to the board to know under what clause of what act he was prevented writing, foe the purpose named, to the judg e who sentenced him, and from petitioning parhament. The board refused even to answer his questions. Petitioner was further told that he should 1104 be admitted to me the shifting jai ling. at their weekly board-slay, though the act au/ the , iitIii•HOCSES BUILDING BILL. mooed through committee. CAPTURED SPANISH FRIGATES. PECHELL moved for as account of all seam t the Beak of Eaglasal or otherwise, to the so. prison ralesnlike specify sueh to be the right of prisoners. Petitioner had never abused that tight, and had, previously to such refusal (during a period of 10 months), applied only • four times to see the magistrates. The governor thus arm- rated the right to himself of admitting a prisoner to see the magistrates or not, at his pleasure. Petitioner was further told if, in his quarterly interviews with his wife, he alluded at all to his treatment in prison, he would immediately be forced from her presence, though the act gives no such power. Petitioner was desirous of acquainting some members of your honourable house with the treatment he experienced ; and, accordingly, in his quarterly letter, directed his wife to write to Mr. IVakiey, Mr. G. Thompson, and Mr. F. O'Connor, request ing them to come and see him at the quarterly period for seeing visitors. The prisoner was warned to desist, since it would, he was told, be highly injurious to him to ace those gentlemen ; every °hr.:tele was thrown in the way of the interview ; and, as petitioner persisted, the governor, with his own band, added a paragraph to peti tioner's letter, warning his wife not to write to those gen tlemen, under peril of being herself forbidden to see her husband at the periods 'inscribed by law. Petitioner's wife, alarmed at the communication, obeyed the governor's injunction, end petitioner had the greatest difficulty in ac quainting the gentlemen named with his desire for an in terview. Petitioner failed in obtaining attention to his case, owing to the impossibility of again conveying iu formation as to his treatment, and that treatment now became more severe than ever. Petitioner was told if in his quarterly letters he alluded to his treatment those let ters would he suppressed. The weekly payment of money being seven day! in arrear, petitioner was ordered forthwith to resume oakum picking, though his health rendered him unequal to the labour, and his eyesight was seriously injured by the glare lof the whitewashed cell. Petitioner then said that, since, lon his oath, he believed his treatment to be contrary to his sentence; since he was prohibited from writing to his judge to ask if such was the case ; since be was prevented from petitioning parliament, acquainting his solicitor, friends, or relative., appealing to the magistrates, or even alluding to his treatment in his usual letter; and since his health was rapidly sinking under the infliction, he, on his part, refused to perform forced labour, but at the same time expressed his willingness to pick ' oakum forthwith, upon his being allowed to write to his judge, or to petition Your honourable bowie. Petition, r here begs to observe that in not one instance during the , entire period of his imprisonment did he knowingly break a ' single rule of the prison ; and in the case alluded to be- , lie led his treatment to be contrary to his sentence, but even then resisted it only because the common right of every ' prie•lier was denied him, and both the laws of the country I ' and rules of the prison were set aside by the authorities. Petitioner was hereupon, on the third of May, 181), 1 ordered by the governor to be lucked up in a refractory cell • l an bread and water, without hooks. On inquiring " For how long a time ?" the got error replied, "As long as 1 choose. I put you in at my pleasure. and I take vou out 1 at my pleasure. ' Petitioner was then seised by the neck o and uncles, and forced towards the door of the ward, where 1 he was kept during three days in a refractory cell by the , governor's order, though the act expressly provides that U 0 . prisoner shall be locked in a refructory cell on bread and I water, except by order of two or more of her alejeety's justices of the peace. l'etitioner was in the surgeon's 1 hands for several weeks after that, and on somewhat retie. eyeing (the infirmary books will show, by the nature of tile ruedicinesadmiuistered, that petitioner's illness must have been sev ere), he was again sent for is days to a solitary cell on bread and water, without books, having even his Bible taken away. Petitioner was seriously ill of a bowel complaint at the time; the cholera was then raging at its hvig lA, the infirmary being then so full that patients were lying in the common cells, and one died near the refractory cell in which petitioner was locked. Two political fellow prisoners, Sharpe and Williams, received the Ume sentence front the board for the same cause, at the same lilac as petitioner; they were in good health when thus sentenced, but both died inimediately after the completion of that sentence, and the inquest commented on the se• verity of the treatment. .. . itt'the expiration of the six days petitioner was sentenced to b.: sent back to the refractory cell muter the same treat ment, hut the payment of money and the dangerous state of his health prevented the sentence from being carried into effect. From that period, as the infirmary books will testify, petitioner never recovered his health, and he feels convinced that, had his imprisonment lasted a short time loner 01(111 the period of his sentence, he would never hare quitted the prison with life. Vour petitimier, therefore, prays your honourable house to grant some investigation act the treatment to which ho was subjected, by which the authority of the judge was superseded, by which the rules of the frison was violated, the laws of the country broken, and by wit ch the health of the prisoner was ruined and his life imperilled ; an investi gation that may prevent similar injuries from being in dicted on other prisoner; iu future. And your petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c. ERNEST CHARLES JONES. LIEUTEN&NT WYBUItD. The f Mowing is the petition presented in the House of Commons on Mondur night by Mr. Disraeli: The humble petition of 3i:try Elizabeth &award, the wife of John &award, of Dreeknock-crescent, in the county of Middles , x, Esq., awl Ann Farrell, the wife of Jame. Farrell, of 5W411114.:t, iu the county of Glamorgan, gentleman. Sheweth,—That your petitioner% are the sisters of Wil liam Usury Wyburd, Esq., an tinker in the swnicu of the Honour-Ale East India Company, who, in the year 183:4 MAR despatched by the British cntoy ut the court of Persia, on a highly important and perilous diplomatic mibiiiou to -- • 7 lltat is ISta your petitioners being informed that their brother, on his way to Mina, had been seized and put to death by the Ameor of Bukhara, an inquiry thereon vc.s, at their requed, instituted by her Majesty's government. •• 'that sushi inquiry made manliest your petitioners' brother's captivity at Bukhara for many years, and like wise that there existed no reasonable ground for believing that he had been put to death. "That your petitioner. many inn entreated her Ma jesty'. government to recognise. and claim their brother as a British subject and servant, but their request was always met by an unwarranted assumption of hi. death. "'That at length, in August, 181$, an official inquiry was addressed directly to the Aineer of Bukhara, but it wag not despatched in a manner to insure its reaching its destination. " That, moreover, your petitioner's brother had, pre viously to such inquiry, tills test his escape from Bokhara, and had been seised by the Khan of Kholcon, to whom he made him-.lt known by name, and desired of tho khan per mission to write to the British authorities, but which was not granted. hat the Khan of Khokan despatched a letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence, the British agent at Pesha war, in which he says, ' I have seized a Sahib at the fort of Huerut Semite's, who came by the road of Tajkund and Dusht-i-liarak, his nam e i s Wypurt. an Englishman, he says, and not a Russian, and that he has been travelling many years; he has two Persians with him, named Mo hammed and Benue:in, who say they were formerly in Stotl dares service, and were sold at Bukhara, and purchased by Wyport. These men say their master is English. Now 1 have scut Anointed to ascertain from you whether he is really English or not; that, should be be so, I may treat him with honour, but if Russian, that I may punish him." " That, notwithstanding this certain discovery of their brother, made so long ago as April, PSIS, your petitioners have nut since been able to gain any more information of ' him, or of the measures adopted to recover him, than is contained in the following extract from a letter received by them from the &rretitry of the East India Company on the of Jaipiary, 18.111:—." It appears that the agent of the Khan of Kliosien, with whose arrival at l'eshuwar you are already acquainted, was dismissed with all honour, taking with him istters from Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence to his chief and to Lieutenant Wybunl,' but nothing further had been heard of or front him up to the 12th of October last. Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence, however, in a letter of that dat,, expressed his intention of ialmediately deputing trusty agents to Khokun, to elfeet the liberation of the sup posed Lieutenant Wybuid." That your petitioners, being wholly uninformed of the nature Of the reply made to the letter of the Khan of Kho kun, awl being also uninformed of the condition of the agents proposed to be sent to Khokan in October PM, and of the nature of the communication to be there made by them, and assuming the intended agents to be Asiatics, had no confidence in the proposed measure, and protested against it. Sissialfiviostey, reitvrtiting their request to both die govern mtrtt and the Ea-t India Company, that their brother should be for:nally recognised awl claimed as a British sub ject and servant, and finally proposing to procure an °Meer to proceed on that service (proper authority and means being conferred on him), but they have had Ile satisfactory answer to their request. "That your petitioners feel deeply injured and aggrieved that their unfortunate brother, so brave, so enterprising, and so devoted, should thus, in carrying out the purposes of his country, be left in the hands of these despots, unrecog nised and unclaimed by the British nation; they feel bitterly that the proper protection of his country has been withheld from him, and they turn, after long endurance, to ' your hon = orable house, humbly trusting that justice will be done in their painful case, and that their brother will yet be rescued from a captivity which has con-anued so large a portion or his best days. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your honour able house, that their brother may be no longer penuitted to remain in these countries, without being formally re:og nissal as a British subject and servant, and that his restora tion may be demanded, and, if necessary, insisted 911. '• Aral your petitioners will ever pray, &e. "M. E. SEAWAILD. ANN Fukar.i.L." HORRIBLE CREELTY BY A SHIVA CREW.—On Friday night last, Thomas 111'NaIly, second mate of the ship Arabian, of Belfast, was arrested in this town by Constable id•Welliami, on a charge of having been, with other,, ac cessory to the death of an Irishman, whose name we have not learned, during a late voyage between Liverpool and New Orleans. It appeared that the unfortunate victim had secreted himself in the ship's hold, in order to obt a i n a pas sage, which he WU unable to pay for, and that having discovered alter the ship had cleared out, he was sub jected to such a course of ill-treatment that he was driven to throw himself overboard, and thus perished. Informs lions have been taken by order of the Admiralty against all the parties concerned in this cruel outrage. 11I'Nally, who made considerable resistance to the arrant, was trans mitted to Liverpool on Saturday evening.—dmissia Mkt. Jgot published, prier es.. LOGIC for the MILLION; a familiar Exposition al the Art of Reasoning. 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Adverusemente Intended for " The Express," Laudon Evening paper, rout beat the (Mice, 10, itouverie.stiost, by Two o'clock on the day of publication. MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tit. DAT—Morning, 12b. 34m. Afternoon, lb. 14m. To4rnainow—Morning, Ib. Um. Afternoon, lb. 52m. LONDON, THURSDAY', MAY 29. Ir were lobe wished that parliament put more variety into its debates. .This session it has got a set of stock pieces, which interest the actors, because they know their parts, and because they can make hard hits at each other but these pieces have lost all in tercet for the public. The world of London has now witnessed for the hundredth time the duel between Mr. BAILLIE and Lord TORRINGTON, or Lord TOR RINGTON'S champion for the time being. They are acquainted with every cut dealt by the wooden sword of MACDUFF upon the wooden buckler of Nl.ieurrit. They know the thrust and the parry, the declamation and the points. They know that . Lord TORRINGTON must die on the stage, stricken down according to the rule of the drama, and that he may come up and thank the audience for their applause after the curtain has fallen. . . . Not only has the Ceylon drama been played out, but each personage has received his deserts. Lord TORRINGTON, the loose talker and precipitate actor, who, naturally frightened by the rebellion of a people he knew nothing of, exaggerated everything, expense, vengeance, confiscation, cruelty. It was a huge blunder to send such a man to govern any set of human beings. But Ceylon was a crown colony, and there is no fitting clam of men from which governors of colonies can be selected. The inferior officer in the colony cannot be promoted to the post of governor ; what feud, and intrigue. and disrespect, such a system would haul to is evident from the history of Mr. Wont:House and Sir EmEasos TENNENT. It is requisite, therefore, to send some one ignorant of the whiny, and uncon nected with it, an old officer, or a young lord, equally incapable, but both requiring to be provided for. The Ceylon blunder is the result of nur system. And bad as it was, there is the satisfaction of knowing that all the guilty parties have !veil punished, ut least as much us it is in the power or stomach of ' parliainent to punish them:—for the days of impeach. meaty and decapitation arc past. If WARREN lIAS TINGS escaped, Lord TORRINGTON cannot be found guilty of felony. And if Lord Nottut survived the loss of the American provinces to England, Earl Gan can scarcely be sent to the Tower for the maltreatment of even a score of Kandians. We mast confess the labours of that two years' committee seem marvellously disploportioned to their results. It is difficult to say what solid advice could be founded on the information thus afliirded for governing the colony, for that habilitation is must contradictory. What it chiefly reveals is a state of colonial society—that is of official colonial society— which must • have been a perfect hell upon earth. I)ANW:3 Inferno was preferable to it. But the persons composing the society all come from England, front high political circles and connexions in England. And yet such, as it is recorded, was their mode of conduct, thought, and speech, with re gard to one another. Some of the novelists of our day delight in painting a society very black and very mean. But there is no blackly:, i. is no mean ness, in any chapter of any novel at all to be compared with Or me qualities, as developed in the Ceylon blue books, not as regarding the na tives of i r evlon, whom we would not blacken, but re garding the model gentlemen whom the Colonial office selected to govern them. 'There is condign punishment in this public gibbeting, and in truth we almost pity the victims of it . . . We fear:tlittt were any other colonial government sufficiently-sick and expits tig to require such an notopsy as that of Ceylon. they would he found not much better ; and the House of Commons had a very fair opportunity of extending it. inquiries, had it so listetl. IVe cannot but think Sir HENRY WARD'S conduct in 'the lonian Islands just as unwarrantable and cruel as Lord Tottumatts's in Ceylon. We believe there were as many liven lost : a priest was shot in Cephalonia. and we have heard from com i wtent witnesses that he was shot by the soldiers. There was martial law, courts martial com posed of young officers, not understanding the language of t those whom they condemned, or of the witnesses whom they examined : there were prices set upon heads, and so on. There was in Corfu, however, no Mr. Emma, no impartial and indepen dent English witnesses who could come forward. Sir HENRY WARD took care to Lowish all newspaper editors that were not court ones : and so he had the island all to himself, with his doings therein scaled and laureated fur the mystification of the Coloniul office. The Toi , R, we sec, whitewashes Sir HENRI . WARD, and likens his doings to those of Lord CLA RENDON. As well (it says) direct an inquiry into the one as into the other. We beg to say, the eases are in every way dissimilar. There were no men executed, and no priest sh.it in Ireland. Whatever ' Lord CLARENDON did, he did in the hice of a vigi- , lant and hostile Irish press, and in the presence o f the correspondents of the London mfr.... His lord ship and his acts were within tuelve hours of the British metropolis. But who knows what passed at Corfu? Sir IL WARD took care to make away with publicity, and banish its editors. No "own corre spondent" enlightened the world as to his doings. his bloody and tyranideal work, fortunately for him, in this world at least, was done in the dark. It is to be regretted that the only mode of getting parliament to enter upon any brunch of colonial inquiry is to discover a colonial sore, and thus make it a per , sonal question against the government. For the Co according to its stupid rules, exagge rated by the chivalrous eagerness of Lord GREY to uphold and screen his subordinates, soon becomes the chief party in the casts, and thus each question from one of colonial re dri:ss, becomes one of ministerial existence. Let us hope that the greater degree of independence, now in the course of bestowal upon colonies, will first enable them to redress their own abuses, and then allow the imperial parliament to inquire into or animadvert upon them, without always bringing the Colonial-office to the bar. At present we can not censure a functionary at tlw other end of the world, without having Mr. ILtwEs and Lord Gitsv instantly arraigned at the bar of parliament. Colonial affairs are thus made either too much of or too light of. Parliament has evidently no ma chinery to set it in motion, save tho big wheels of party ; and these either crush, tear, and torture, or else fail in even touching the grist which they are intended to grind. There cannot be a more flagrant example than the Ceylon eummittees and debates. Esottsn creditor; of foreign governments are placed in a curious limbo. They have either lent their hard money in return for bonds, bearing in terest •uhich they have never received, as is 'the case with Mr. WAnswoartt; or their money has been forcibly taken front them, in about the 'same way that a highwayman would take it, as was the case with the Baron l) llama. If these wronged gentlemen go to our Foreign Office, the right honourable secretary will assure them that it is a matter of private pecuniary dealing, with which he, as a public minister, can have nothing to do—he cannot interfere, or enforce. Yet, if these gentlemen go away with the opinion that the matter is a private one, and if, finding that the law and the custom of the city of London allow any creditor to attach the property of his debtor— if they take advantage of th is to attach property belonging to the Spanish or Portuguese treasuries, then my Lord Chief Justice steps in, and he tells quite a contrary talc to the Right Honourable the Foreign Secretary. The Chief Justice says that pecuniary dealings of British subjects with foreign sovereigns or governors are not mi. vote; but Lord PALMERSTON would have them not public ; he says that the law of debtor and credi tor does not apply to them, and that no foreign sovereign, or foreign government, or foreign IB•rsone, can be sued, even m the Lord Mayor's Court, although the privilege of the City of London plain ly and positively admit that such memescan be attached, and can be seized. My Lord CAMPBELL, however, declares that it would be highly inexpedient to permit this. We may admit this at once. But at the same time we beg to observe that the judges of her MvasTv's Queens Bench were not appointed to decide causes according to the rule of political expediency, hut according to the rule of precedent, privilege, and right. ' Lord CAMPBELL has sacrificed by such laying down of law one of the most important privileges of the City of London. This may be very acceptable to Senor ISTURITZ, and very convenient to Lord P.tiamtsruN, but it robs the Lord Mayor's court of its ancient right, and those suitors who pleaded the peculia r and ancient privileges of the City of their just right. That right was confined to the city of Lon don. It may be an anomaly to make the limner o f foreign governments liable for the just debts of diuso foreign governments to English subjects in this English metropolis. But it is no more an anomaly titan to forbid her Majesty's self, or her Ma -1 jestv's troops, to enter the city of London ' without the permission of its chief magistrate. It is quite clear that if such a right was question, d before Lord Castrnett., he would instantly declare it improper and inexpedient, and would sweep it aside. We strongly recommend the citizens of Lon. don to watch the lawyers, and to defend their rights better the next time. A lawyer indeed did attend at the time of the WADSWORTII trial to defend the city. But we do not perceive that he defended it with more valour, purpose, or logic, titan the old man in armour, whom boys regret. The attachment directed in this ease against Spanish monies in a London banking-house was, of course, directed against the Queen of SPAIN ill her political capacity. We may think it somewhat disgrace ful that the sovereign of a country, which in the midst of a plethora of wealth refuses even to acknowledge its just debts, should display before the world of London more luxury of jewellery and of regal orna ment than the most ancient or most honest crown of Europe. Thole gems, that aro destined to glitter on the head of IsvisEttv, have been bought out of the abundant resources of Spain. But who enabled the QUEEN to wear a crown at all ? The English capitalist, that lent her and her ministers their money to put down abso lutism. The English capitalist has been cheated more flagrantly by the Spanish government than ever, perhaps, any lender was by airy debtor, that debtor being a rich one. Mr. Wens winern, who lent his 20,0001. to the Queen of may pay his five shillings at the door of the Great Exhibition to contemplate the tiara of crown jewels, and compare them with his empty pocket. And where is his redress? Lord l'ALvmusioN says ho cannot help hint, because his debt is private. Loud Cvnerw. prohibits his right of attachment becau s e his debt is public. And the only certainty is, that Mr. Wanswoarn is most egregiously bamboozled by my Lord PALMEIVTON, my Lord C %strum., and the Queen of Snits. All the powers of the world are leagued against the poor and bond fide creditors of Spain. Even the great capitalists of London are against him, and instead of using their power to force Spanish statesmen to honesty, they are using that power to grind down the poor bondholder to sacrifice. Lord CAMPBELL is the very good friend of Senor 'swami. and your London banker is the very par. titular friend of Senor MON and Senor Mt alum, and amidst all this romm , 'roye honest citizens lobo their rights and their money. FRANCE. PARIS, WPM:MiI/AT EVENINO. To-day the Legislative Assembly enters upon the third and last year of its existence, and motions for the revision of the constitution may be legally brought forward forthwith. No motion has, how ever, been made on the subject. At the close of the Assembly's sitting M. Moulin presented his report upon his own motion and that of M. Morin, relative to revision. ft recommended the adoption of both. 1 have already stated that tho (May proposed is three months. The debate was fixed for Saturday. Military precautions of more rigour than usual were taken as if to protect the Assembly against an invasion of petitioners for the revision. Rut no oc currence took place of a nature to justify these pre parations. M. Thiers is expected to reply . to the grand display of oratory which M. Berrver IS getting up for the illustration of the principlC of traditional monarchy. On Monday night the Club of the Itue des Pyra mides agreed to support General Lebreton as candi date fur the questoiship, in opposition to M. Bare, and decided upon continuing in office the two re maining questors. The first overt step of importance which has been taken towards the revision of the constitution is the motion which has been signed by the men of the Rue des Pyramides. They have torn up their first motion, winch was a pure and simple invitation to the Assembly to proceed to the revision, and have boldly declared the principle of their procedure to be the restoration of the nation to the full exercise of its authority. This expression being aimed at those provisions of the constitution which cramp tho %villa the majority, by excludin g the President from re election, and obstructing the revision by impracticable tbrmalities, it becomes at once evident that the sort of revision proposed by the Hue des Pyramided is par tial, or in plainer words is in favour of prolonging the President's powers. The legitimists, to whose precipitation in invoking a return to the traditional monarchy this decided success and vigorous attitude of the ifonapartists must be ascribed, are perfectly furious at the resolution taken by the ltue des Pyra midis, which they regard, nut without Hawn, as a defiance. hi fact it is clear that the campaign is opened against them, and they will be pressed hard to confirm their vaunts that public opinion is with them. That their pretensions are hollow, and their expectations over-winning becomes daily more ob vious to the government and there is no doubt that the first illegal excess of ardour on tile part of the infatuated ultras will be repressed with vigour. The moderate legitimists are fur the moment, in consequence of the step taken by the ltuo des Pyramides, driven towards the views of the extreme party. The course which they intend to adopt with regard to revision is at present involved in much obscurity. Probably tho Duke of Valmy's mission to Fruhscforf aims at ob taining more positive instructions from head-quar ters before any final decision be taken. In the debate of yesterday General I , amoriciere made a stand for preserving a popular iirineiple psi the composition of the national guard. By the 21st article the eoncoil de recownient, in whose hands lies the arbitrary decision on cases of exclusion, con sists of the same number of members us the muni cipal council of the conunune. According to the bill the sub-prefect appoints the members of this council, half out of the municipal council and half out of the national guard. MM. Monet and Flaudin tempered this despotic power of the sub-prefect by proposing that the municipal council should appoint those of its members who should form the half of the eumeil de ncemeneent. This amendment was admitted by the committee, and ultimately adopted by the As sembly. But Lanioricire set his thee:against it, and adhered to the old law of 1831, which excludes the executive power from any share in the appointment. It seemed to be thought, ho said, that because the government had recourse to the national guard, it ought to have the composition of that force. But, to speak more correctly, that was the very reason why the government ought to have nothing to do with y the appointments; lxviinso the support which it derived from the national guard was more valuable in a moral than military sense ; and the moral effect of the adhesion of the national guard to the government would be completely des troyed, if its formation were committed to the gen- Ual power. When an insurrection broke out the government appealed to the communes. The sol diers ought to be able to say, when they saw the waves of the national flowing towards them from the communes, "trace is with us." (Cheers.) He would cite an instance: If in 1848 the commis- Narks of the thing to do u that when the sent to him hi Denis, to fall barricades, thus acclamations corps. lie ma the national gu mous. At :•pri. struggle ; on parliamentary would seek to to make itself therefore, that action upon tlic no longer serve For these reaso pal character o To-day the A and without d National Guard government tw guards and to I Daiwa moved three months. Flaudin moved Faucher explaii faculty which certain cases. article 119 adop Gramniont most any national gu assign a justifiali marching again out from the list attfr. to 2,900 fr. us a reflection u vocation to discc ful trials, the Ai amendment, wh the Left having M. Eteheeerry out the fine. 1 third dclilierati solve the Mathis the AsNestilily lu aside tir the pi Oil paN,ing to • broke up. Amotig the in terdny for the r liarrot att act. (1 renu a petition for the legal Fel There ult. n, funds. Fi , 30c. ; the 'l'hn•i Several part it to create *Time should mail tin to strike a blow the cigar 1113111 all hud their .” fight intr. 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The Englisl member of tl in Flensburg, secretary, in t orders front thither. His • deal of settsg political talk. DENII