The Express. — London, England, 1853-07-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENI HOUSE OF LORD&—TrEsDAy, JULY 26. The Lows CMANCIILOIII leek kis seat at 6 o'clock. IIiENERAL BOARD OF MALIK (No. 3) BILL. The Deka of ARGYLL withdrew the order fur going Leto committee oei this bill, with the view of refusing it to • select committee. BRECON COLLEGIATE CHURCH BILL. This bill was reed • second time. PARISH VESTRIES (No. 2) BILL. The E,rl of CIIICHEStEIt moved the weond reading of t►is bill. Earl WALDEORAVE moved that the bid be read a second time that day three months. After a few words from the Marquis of Seitenette, the louse divided, when the numbers were : Fur the second reading Against it The Bankruptcy (Sootlaud) Bill and the Public Houses (Scotland) Bill were read a third time and passed. COURTS OF COMMON LAW (IRELAND) BILL. Lord BROUGHAM, in avivieg the second reading of this bill, said that it was a bill which had been prepared with very great care:by persons of consummate learning and great knowledge of the praetiee of the law, partscolerly in Ireland, to is hie! it referred, and of great skill in the pre paration of legislative measures. Atter having been pre ; pared in part by hie hen. and learned friend the late Sole limiter-General for Ireland, It was submitted to other mem bers of the profession in that eguirry, including the heads of the courts of law and equity, from whom it had met with general approval. It was sow a quarter of acentury since, in the other house of parliament, he called attention to the various evil. and defer• of the judicial system ; and it was satisfactory to him to find that not one of the principles which he then laid down, not one of the propositions which be thea made, had been neglected or overlooked by the learned persons who prepared this measure. This bill would tend to diminish unjust litigation and to reduce expense. In cases of debt both plain tiff and defendant would have to swear that their ease was true to the best of his knowledge and belief. At present ao defendant could be heard in equity except en his oath ; but, by a singular inconsistency, the plaintiff was nut requited to swear. He was anxious that the judges should have the power of willing both the plaintiff and defendant before them, and of examining them, so as to elicit the truth which it was the object sometimes of the plaintiff, and sometimes of tho do• fondant, to keep concealed. He was a:sio anxious that every facility should be given for compromising disputes, so as to avoid the necessity of having recourse to legal pro cess. The dr ferelant had now the power of lodging money in court in eases of contract, or quasi contract. But in cases of slander, seduction, trim. rot. —in all these, end similar Mies, money could not be lodged in court. But this bill provided that money might be paid into court. One principle pervaded it throughout. It adopted, as far as was possible, the natur-I mode of procedure, and re jected, or where it could not reject abridged technical procedure. Having gone through the whole of the provisions of the bill, he said that great as was his desire to see them:become the law of the land, he did not hope, at that late period of the session, that they could be carried in their entirety. But he thought that a most materiel part of them might become the law even in the present session, and it was with that hope that he moved the second reading of the bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the present bill was another obligation added to the many which the country already owed to the exertions of his noble and learned friend in the cause of law reform. (Hear, hear.) He con curred with his noble and learned friend, in thinking that the bill would be an immense improvement on the judicial system in Ireland. After a few words from Lord Boottnitaiit, the bill was read a second time. SPITALFIELDS AND SHOREDITCH IMPROVE- MENT BILL. This bill gamed through committee. The following bilk were read a second time:—Belfast Municipal Boundaries Bill ; Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Bill; Customs Duties Bill; Dublin Parlia mentary Registration Bill. MISSIONARY BISHOPS DILL. On the rn;iojKirgoinliint7coo3;:itteei;:ais bill, The Bishop of OXFORD repeated the statement he had made last night as to the provisions of the bill. he bill passed through committee. The horse adjourned at a quarter to eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TULSDAY,II:LT 26. The SrELAks took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords amendments to the foauwing bill. were con sidered and agreed to, •is.:—London and South Western Railwey (Bawnestoke and Siltsbury Rewash); Newry and Enniskillen Railway ; and IVestminater Improvements. The Galway Harbour Bill was read • third tiros and paseod. The special report on the Eastern Union Railway Bill was considered and agreed to. PUBLIC BUSINESS. OF INDIA BILL. the two departments as aforesaid ; and the said board is hereby empowered to sell the buildings and premises now occupied by the Court of Directors in Leadenhalbstreet, is the City of London, end to :apply the proceeds thereof to defray any espenses which may be inmated la providing convenient officie, in one building, for the use of the said Board of Commissioners and the said Court of Directors." His object was to establish a more speedy, effective, and less expensive administration of Indian aff.ure in England. It would be difficult to show why there should be two departments, destined to act together for the e irryiug on of the government of • great country, sitting at • distance from each other of two miles anill,2oo yards, which the new distance table be believed showed the India House was from the Board of Control— (hear, and • laugh)—and which separation occasioned much useless labour, considerable delay, and great expense. The hon. gentleman argued, at considerable length, and quoted various authorities in favour of his proposition. On the question of expense—he stated that the cost of the es tablishment in Leadenhall-street, including the salaries and the allowance to the Directors, but exclusive of pensions, was 141.00 W. a year, and the charge made upon the Indian revenues for the Board of Control WU 29,14 U , in addition —making • total of 170,0001. for the government of India in London. Compere with this the cost of the government of this country. I hefeharge for the Home-ogee was 27,0001; for the Colonial-office—(which had jurisdiction over forty colonies, and hail to carry en correspondence with forty colonial governments)—the charge was 19.0001. ; and for the Foreign-office, 69,0001. — making • total of 13.1,000 ~ which was several thousands a year less than the charge fur the establishment in Leaden ball-street alone. He could not understand why this charge of upwards of 180,0001. (including pensions) should be continued (or carrying on the horns government of India, when they had it upon the authority of the right hon. member for Edinburgh (Mr. Macaulay), the right hon. baronet the member for Carlisle (Sir J. Oraham), Sir C. Trevellian, and others, that the principal government of India should be in India, and that the government of India here should be merely a government of revision and con trol on great questions of policy, cad that the system of constant intermeddling in minute matters cramped and fettered the government in India, and occasioned a delay which was fatal to all improvement in Indian administra tion. What he proposed was that there should be a build. ing provided in the immediete et ighbourhood of Parliament mreet, sufficiently capacious to receive both establishments —the India house and the Board of Control. He should surged the transferring of the museum and library at the India Heim to some public purpose, and that the building itself be meld, the proceeds to be applied to the expense of a new 'ruddiest. and any surplus might he de voted to beneficent objects in India. littlest) two depart ments were in one building together there would be an end of a great deal of stupid and tedious correspondence be tween them, and a great deal of the delay, expense, and want of e ffi ciency, which was the result of the present ar rangement, would be got rid of. There was no reason why the direetors should not be brought nearer to Downing street, where there was an excellent plot of vacant land, on which • building might be ereved. If this plan was adopted the President of the Board of Control would be brought more closely into co-operation with the direc tors, and many matters being discussed by word of month instead of by letter, would take a tenth part of the time in being settled ; while it would be possible to reduce the staff of the Indian establishment both in this country and in India. He believed there had not been a more useful or practical suggestion offered to the house during the discus sion of this lull than this, and if hereafter some change was made in the present mode of governing India, this arrange ment would be • step in that direction. Sir C WOOD thought this was a question which would be better left to the consideration of the authorities inter ested, than that the House of Commons should by this bill impose it on them. Mr. V. SMITH was glad this question had been em bodied in s clause. Without meaning any imputation on the President of the Board of Control and the Court of Directors, he must say that they did not do their business so fast as it might be done, and he wished to enable them to do it faster. After a few words from Sir H. MADDOCK in rapport of the clause, The committee divided— For the clause Against it Mr. V. SMITH then rose to bring forward the following clause, of which he had given notice :—" And whereas, by an act pima in the third and fourth year of his Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled, 'An Act for effecting an amngement with the East India Company, and for the better Government of his Majesty's Indian Territories till the 30th day of April, 18.54,' it M enacted, that the Presi dent of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, but no other commissioner, as such, and the secretaries and other officers, shall be paid by the said company such fixed salaries as his Majesty shall, by any warrant or warrants under Ilia sign manual, countersigned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being, direct; be it enacted, that such fixed salary shall in no cats be less than the sa lary which shall be paid to one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State ; and that only one of the said secre taries to the said board shall be capable of being elected sr sitting and voting in parliament." Lord PALMERSTON said there were good reasons why it was impossible that the President of the Board of Con trol, in the existing state of things, should net assume the name of Secretary of State. But he concurred with hia righf hoe. friend in thinking that the President of the Board of Control ought to be placed, both as retarded the dignity of his offin and his salary, in the position of a Secretary of State. TM e.sea;iitZeonTh Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE proposed the insertion of the following clauses:—"And whereas it is expedient that a tribunal should be constituted to decide upon and take cognisance of any disputes that may mime between the groverameat of British India and any native prince not a British subject ; and to interpret any treaty of which the waning may be disputed between any native prince and the British government, be it enacted, that the Queen's judges at each presidency shall henceforth be respectively a competent court to decide any question in dispute between the government of British India and any native prince not • subject of the British crown, who shall sppeal to such tribunal, and that an appeal from the decision of such tri bunal shall lie to the Court of Privy Council in this country, and that such decision of the Court of Privy Council shall be final. That every person having a vote for the election of a member of parliament in this country, who shall have resided five years in India, shall have a vote in the election of such directors of the East India Company as are not nominated by the crown." This was a matter of great importance to India. It was • question which was not new, nor was it now . brought under the notice of parliament for the first time. Both Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox had in their time pressed the subject epos the attention of the legislates*, while, at a still later period, Sir Robert Peel endeavoured to impress upon the legislature the importance of establishing such • tribunal a• that which was now proposed. He had tense wally sufficicnt authority for the treasure he was recom mending to the committee, and he had only to state that the tribunal he would establish would be similar to the Su- prime Court of America, which exercised an appellant andan original jurisdiction. This tribunal would have power to de cide upon all matters of dispute which might arise between dependent states and the East India Company. At present no such tribunal existed in India, but the East India Com pany, contrary to every principle of jurisprudence, deciied for themselves, and pronounced the law in all eases of dis pute that might arise between them and the native prinoes. As might be espected, the law administered under such circumstances was grossly partial, and always unjust, and doubt and uncertainty was constantly hanging over the heads of the four hundred states that were dependent upon the Est India Company. These states had to pay a mil lion of money annually to the East India Company, and to support an army amounting to 4.50,008 men, of whom about 290,000 were provided by the company ; and it was only natural that disputes of one sort or another should be constantly taking place between some of these states and the company. Too frequently it happened that the states were most unjustly treated, in deed history scarcely afforded any parallels to the instances of cold-blooded cruelty and injustices, which occasionally characterised the proceedings of the company, with refer ence to dependent states. Honesty was the beet policy here as every where else, and he earnestly implored the com mittee to take this one step towards making our Indian empire rest upon the solid foundation of truth and justice, rather than arrogance, cruelty, and oppression. (Hear.) The clause was then brought up and read a first time. On the question that it be reed a second time, Mr. LO WE said it was not worth while, at this stage of the discussion, to go back to any former act of injustice which the East India Company might have been guilty of,, and therefore, without following the hos. and learned gen tleman through the whole of his discursive speech, be should confine his attention to the clause itself. Well, thee, be could hardly see the advantage of establishing such a tribunal as this in India. It might be of great service in settling disputes between independent states ; but in India, where the people were familiarised to a sovereign of a despotic form, it would be quite out of place. The Oriental people could not be made to understand our no tions of • civil tribunal with limited power. Their genius, their habits, their feelings, were opposed to any species of control placed between them and the supremacy of the government, and it would be dangerous to break in upon a system which, although highly despotic in its character, was yet respected—if not venerated—by the natives. For these reasons, and others which he would not stop to go into, he must oppose the clause. Mr. BRIGHT was afraid the native princes would not be satisfied with the decisions of this intermediate tribunal. Ile however thought the suggestion of the late Sir Robert Feel, to convert the Privy Council into • Court of Equity, for the settlement of disputes between native princes and private individuals, might be judiciously and safely engrafted upon this bill. Sir C. WOOD observed that it was quite unnecessary for him to add • single word to the argument which had been adduced against the claims, but with regard to the case put by his hon. friend the member for Manchester, the committee would observe that it we, not a dispute between the East India Company and • private individual, or there would have been ample means open for obtaining re dress. (Hoar, hear.) Bir J. W. HOGG deprecated the introduction of motions like this, which were only brought forward to gratify a schoolboy feeling of indulging in vapid declamation or gratilyiog • rancorous teeing of malicious spite. (" Oh.") After some discussion, The clause was then put and negatived. Mr. BRIGHT moved the following clause: " Whereas it would tend tea mere speedy and effective administration of Indian affairs in England, and would materially diminish the ezpendicire of such admini•tration, if the business of the two departments of the Based of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, and the Court of bisectors of the Rut India Company, were transacted in one and the same build ing, it shall be lawful for the said Board of Commissioners to pro-ide, and the said bored shell, within two years from the 30th day of April, 18.54, provide, in some suitable situa tion, ealleisat Aces let the tzenaection of the boniest; of Sir J. W. HOGG thought that the proposition of the right bon. gewlernan put the matter upon its right footing. The duty of President of the Board of Control entailed upon the gentleman holding that office quite as much labour, and that, too, of a more continuous character, as the office of Secretary of State upon its holder. Mr. Vt ILL:AMS said that when hon. gentlemen looked at those who had held the office of President of the Board of Control, they would come to the conclusion that they bad hitherto received quite as much salary as their abilities deserved. (Laughter.) Sir H. WILLOUGHBY thought that the name given to the President of the Board of Control was very likely to lead to confusion. In point of fact, there was no ►oard at all. After a fcw words kat Mr. Pima:moan tad Sir C. By Kama., The house divided : the smabses wen— For the clause Against . . . The cause therefore stood part of the bill. Mr. WISE then moved the following cause: " Anl be it enacted, with regard to the admission of persons to the Military College at Adliscombe, that at least one-third of such persons shel be selected from the sons of officers who are, or who have been, in the civil or military service of the East India Company, and the selection of such persons shall be made by the Oovernor•Oeneral of India for the tints being." The right hon. gentleman (Sir C. Wood) at an earlier period of the discussion, stated that he would throw open Addiscombe, and at a later period he had stated that, acting upon the reprementati.ns of the Indian committee, he had resolved to make no alteration in the admission to Addiscorobe. He (Mr. Wise) considered that this was a course giving just ground for complaints; to obviate which he proposed the introduction of this clause. Sir C. WOOD said, that it the observetion of the hon. member, touchiog the alteration which had taken place in his (Sir C. Wood's) opinion upon this subject were a just one, no alteration whatever could be made in committee. Ile thought that the proposed clans' would tend to lessen the number of appointments given to sone of °Moen. After a few words from Mr. 131.e.CIrrr and Sir D 2 LACY Eva ea, The committee divided, the numbers were— For the clause 29 Against The clause was therefore lost. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress. The house then adjourned until 6 o'clock. The House resumed at 6 o'clock. POOR LAW. Mr. A. PELLATT rose to move for leave to bring in a bill to abolish the removal of the poor, and to equalise the rates for their maintenance, and to make other amendments in the laws relating to the relief of the poor, bat almost imme diately notice was taken that there were not 40 members present. The SPRAKtiI consequently counted the house, and there being but 38 members, the house stood adjourned at hall past 6. REMOVAL Or NUISANCES IN ST. LIIKE'S.—The Board of Guardians of this parish have given public notice that they have formed themselves into a sanitary committee, with a view to put into forte the powers gives them by the Nuisance Removal Act. They purpose visiting all those parts of the parish where nuisances exist. STRIKE or SOUTHWARK LABOURERS.—The Mater side of the borough of Southwark is in a great state of excitement in consequence of the strike of nearly 2,000 labortren who have been working at the different suffer ance wharves. The pay of the labourers for the last GO years hae been, their employers my, three pence per hour, including the time occupied in breakfasting and dining, and two pints of porter per man, the working hours being from 6 till 8, thui producing 3s. Gd. per cloy. They had received this price when provisions were dear, when bread was Is. 3d. per quartern, meat Is. per pound, and porter Gd per pot, and they now strike and require fourpence per hour, with all' the above advantages. The reason they assign .forinereasing the demand is that the sufferance wharves having the privilege of landing foreign goods, the coasting trade has recently been eupeneded by the rail way.. The wharfingers state that if they are compelled to pay fourpenee per hour, the labour will be increased 33 per cent. in expense, which will ultimately fall upon the merchants and consumers. 300 men paraded round the wharves in the course of yesterday, and threatened to do desperate mischief to any labourers who dared to go to work for less than fourpenoe per hour. It is said that from 400 to 500 men struck at Scovell's, from 200 to 250 struck at Humphery's, from 150 to 200 struck at k'enning's, from 200 to 2.50 struck at Allen and Thompann'a, from 200 to 250 struck at Curling's, and that several other strikes of similar extent were made in the conies of the day. Most of the above large concerns have been obliged to submit, on account of she number of foreign vessels and craft lying aloopide the wharves, laden with most valuable cargoes. PARLIAMENTARY PARALLELS.—" Mr. Spooner pre sented • petition from parish(' in Wiltshire against the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays." Suppose Mr. Lucas were to present a petition from parishes in Meath, praying for the dome of butchers' shops es Fridays 1-- ranch. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1853 ELECTION CLITHEItOE. When athe committee met 'eaten* morning, Boothman who bed been partly 'humbled on Monday, was re-called, and said he saw a number of flags flying from different public-houses in Clitheroe during the election. He was asked if those flags were considered to indicate that these hosees were open house', but the committee decided that the question could not be pressed. Joseph Dugdale, a green-grocer, said he was a voter of Clitheroe, and had been canvassed by Mr. Aspinall, and Mr. Hartley Baldwin was with l.im. Subsequently he saw Mr. Aspinall and Mr. Leonard Baldwin at the Wheat. sheaf public house. There were a number of carters there at the same time, and they asked for something to drink. Mr. Baldwin ordered a half-gailon of ale for them, and he afterwards ordered a second half-gallon of ale, and treated witness to two glasses of gin. At that time Mr. L. Baldwin praised witness to vote for Mr. Aspinall, but he (witness) did not then'promise. John Pulman, landlord of the Craven Heifer public house, said he held some land untie:. Mr. Aspinall, and paid him 401. a year rent. He also held some land under Mr. Hall. Nr. Aspinall and his steward (Southward) can vassed him repeatedly, separately ; also Mr. Dewhunt and Mr. Bailey; and, on one occasion, Mr. Bailey, in Mr. Aspinall's pretence, gave him half-a-crown to get drink. He had a bill against Mr. Aspinall for drink furnished to people during the election. When he went to Hall to pay his rent, he asked him when he would be paid his bill against Mr. Aspinall for the election, and Mr. Hall laughed, and said they were not going to pay any bills yet. After that he applied to Southward, Mr. Aspinall's steward, for payment, and, on one occasion he got some wood from Southward, and S nithwud said that wood would go to pay part of his bill. Richard Dean, a beer-seller, stated that Mr. Aspinall, Mr. H. Baldwin, Mr. A. Dewhurst, and Mr. F. Bailey, ceme to his house to canvass him. They called for five glasses ot ale (which included one for witness himself), and Mr. Bailey put down halt-a-crown to pay for it ; witness was about giving him his change, when Mir. Bailey told bins that be need not give him any change, but to treat himself and friends with it. On the Saturday before the election, Mr. Hall (Mr. Aspinall's solicitor) give the witnew uuatkede an order to give away to his friends at his house if. worth of ale. Witness doubled the order, and gave 41. worth. Some of those who partook of it were electors. Ile gave them to understand that he had got an order from Mr. Hall to give it. He bad sot since been paid the 41. Some time after, when he met Mr. Hall, he told him he had doubled his order, and Mr. Hall replied, " It's all 'eight." Ile sup plied Mr. Hall with coals, and they " reckoned together." At the conclusion of this witness's examination, Mr. Serjeant Kinglake informed the committee that was the ease of the petitioners as regarded the treating alleged in the petition. Mr. Slade said, in the event—which he did not at all apprehend—of the other side claiming the seat, ho should enter into a recriminatory case. The committee then adjourned. Mr. James will this morning sum up the whole of the evidence for the petitioners. ARY COMMITTEES. EARL FITZWILLTAM AND THE ELECTIONS FOR PETERBOROUGR. The select committee appointed to consider the petition of certain electors of Peterborough complaining of the interference of Lord Fitswilliam at the last and previous elections for Peterborough, met yesterday for the first time, to consider the course of proceeding. The committee con sisted of the Right Hon. J. S. Wortley, chairman ; Hon. Locke King, Mr. Ingham, Mr. T. Greene, Mr. Adderley, Hon. H. J. Liddell, and Mr. Hutt. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., said that be and bis learned friend Serjeant Kinglake were instructed to appear on be half of Earl Filzwilliam. Mr. Coppock said that he appeared on behalf of the elec. ton petitioning, but had not yet instructed counsel, though he intended to do so. The Chairman said the committee would not require any opening address from counsel, but proposed to go into the evidence at once, with reference to the elections in July and December. The committee then, after some conversation, adjourned to this day at one o'clock LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN (STOURDRIDOR Ex- TENSlONS).—Yesterday a committee of the House of Lords, consisting of the Duke of Wellington, Lord Ashburton, Lord Hastings, Earl Bethune, and Lord Abieger, met to consider the merits of this measure, which involved a pro posed outlay of 300,0001. The bill, as passed by the Com moos, contained clauses for the London and North Western to run over the Orford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line, and as their lordships intimated their intention to pals the bill with those clauses, the promoters withdrew the bill. THE " COUNT OUT," LAST NIGHT. The following is a list of the members who were in their places in the House of Commons last night. Rt. Hon. W.E. Gladstone Mr. W. Ewart Mr. Hayter Mr. Bass Sir Charles Wood Mr. Oliveira Sir James Graham Mr. Apsley Pellatt Mr. Cardwell Mr. Keogh Talbot Baines Mr. Bagshaw Sir J. Shelley Mr. Craufard Sir J. Walmsley Mr. Cairns Colonel Dunne Mr. Walpole Mr. Wilkinson Mr. J. Martin Mr. Murrough Mr. Urquhart Mr. J. Bell Mr. Frewen Mr. Barnes Mr. Kendall Mr. Cobbett Mr. John Ball Mr. Magan Mr. Abel Smith Mr. Biggs Mr. John Walter Mr. Morris Admiral Walcott Mr. Brotherton Lord John Manners H. G. Langton Lord A. Hervey PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. ROUSE OF COMMONS—Jou! 21 STAMP DUrizs (N 0.2) BILL. (Ocesidered in Committee.) Curse 3 (Bailee on Newspapers and Supplements) :- Qoestlon put, "That the elanse stand part of the Bill." The COMMiltee Mr Wed Ayes, 92 ; Noes, 40. AYES. _ . _ _ Babies, Matthew Goodmin, Sir G. Palmer, Roundel' Ball, Joh. Gonad, Wyndham Valmeiston, Viscount Bell, James Graham, Sir J. reel, Fiederick Bland, lidlus Greene John POMP, Ansley Benham, Carter Grenfell, Char les Peto, Samuel Bowyer, George Grerille, Col. Philipps, John Boyle, Col. Hall, Sir B. Phillimore, R. Brady, John Hank, Arch. Pigott, Francis Brace, Lord E. Herbert, Sydney .11. James Bruce, Henry Hervey, Lorl A. =Urquhart Butler, (Titles Howard, C. Ricardo, Osman Cardwell, Edward Howard, Lord E. Rweell, F. C. Cayley, Edward Jondirme, James Sadldr, James Challis, Ald. Kennedy, T. Bandar*, Gasps Cockburn, Sir A. Keogh, W. Bawl., C. B. Cowper, Wm. Kingscoto, Robert Soobell, Capt. Craufurd, Edw. Kinonaird, A. Scully, Franc's Duffyp Alta. , Charles Locke, Joseph Scully, Viper nt Dunlop Lucas, Frederick Selmer, Henry K. , Ekho, Lord 'Mann, James Seymour. Lord Eimoncle, J. Maguire. John Struts, Edward Ewart, William Wall, Edward Stuart, Lord D. Fagan, William Mill., Thomas Sullies, Michael Ferguson, Sir R. Moksworth, Sir W. Thorarly. Thos. Milroy, Henry Monet, Viscount Vernon, G. Forster, Charles Hommel', William Wilkinson, W. Vac, Richard Mostyn, Edward Wilma, James Freeetna . C:l l. .. k urn, Colonel Young, Sir John Gear* Murrough, J. Gladstone, William Honeys, Si. D. Gladstone, Capt. O'Brien, Patrick Ilayter, William OoderirA, lard O'Connell D. Berkeley, G. .. NOES. A u e IT Chao. Galway, Vier.. Michell, Wm. A l M. Gore, Wil , iam Mulling; Joseph Lewd Grogan, Edward Newport, Lord B B Ta r rr i Vioael Hamilton, Lord C. North. Colonel Booker, Thomas Hamilton, J. Takeitharn, FAw, Booth, Sir R. Hayes, B:r Edm. Stanhope, James Banbury, Wm. Hill, Lord A. Tykr, Sir G. Butt, ham Hume, W. F. Verwittart, Geo. W. re, Cairn, Jol ert lifte, Sr, W. June., Captain lien/CT, Sir Williams, Thos. Conolly, Thomas Lewisham, Lord Crook, Joseph Lkidell, IL Geo. 71131k114 Demean, Maearthey, Geo. Spooner, Bkhard Duane, Col ° Ter Wanner% Lord J. Newdegata, Chas. Irewen, Charlet Maxwell, James THE LATE COLLIERY ACCIDENT AT B EDMINSTER.-- The coroner's inquest on the body of William Tyler, who was killed on Thursday last by the breaking of a rope at the Old Bedminster Coal Company's Dean Lone pit, was held yesterday at the Bummer T , Bedminster, before J. 11. Grindon, Esq. Mr. Herbert Mackwortb, one of her Ma. jetty's inspectors of collieries was present, and the proceed ing excited a great deal of interest. It appeared from the evidence that on the day before the accident the pit rope was taken off the drum, drawn out into a field, and minutely I I examined, and that although no defects were apparent, 12 feet at the upper end was cut off from it, and a splicing made, so as to have the strength of the rope at the upper end, where it was most required. Mr. Mackwortb, the in spector, considered that the accident arose from the iron splicing, which threw an unequal strain on the fibres of rope. Ile recommended that splices should never be used in ropes to which men's lives were to be trusted, and also that ropes should not be used more than eighteen months or three years under some eireumstsnces, where the action was slow, and two years under others, where it was fast. He had and that in one half of the accident., from the breaking of ropes, in that district, the breakage had occurred near the splices, and he was sorry to add that the number of accidents from ropes breaking was in Gloucestershire and Snmersetshire, three times greater than in the other parts of his district. The coroner having summed up, the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." THE Pore.—A letter from Rome, dated July 12, states that the health of the Pope is daily becoming more precarious. lie is suffering from a severe attack of asthma sad general debility. The Pope is 61 years of age. ghe erprelso. TO CORRESPONDENTS. 4eemd Edifies ef " The Faprem,. oontaialog tha Num evening's " Gazette," ts published am, Tuesday aad Friday algid. la Ulna kr post• tracts/wide intended for " The Expreee," London Seesaw paper rust be et the Od!ee, 10, Boueerlastreet„ by Two *Weak os tbi lay of pablie.atiort. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan DAT —Magill& int. !!)117. Afyrsete. 714 Is. 70. Rim.. 711.45 m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27. ANOTHER " Count Out" took place last night. A Contemporary seemed inclined, yesterday, to persuade the Members of the House of Commons that they are very ill. treated gentlemen, and that they have at least as good ground for " striking" as the "hands" in any manufacturing firm who complain of long hours and short wages. The suggestion does not seem to have been thrown away. There is some reason, also, to fear that the gentlemen in question, after such advice, may, under feelings of virtuous indignation at the oppression to which they arc subject, give themselves a few hours more bed in the morning, and a few MOTS boars after dinner in the evening ; and that our legislation consequently may suffer in two ways. It will be less considered before hand, and more hurried afterwards. We shall have the after dinner legislation in a more aggravated shape. This will never do. The price which honourable mem bers pay for their seats is sufficient to show the value they put upon them. They let their money flow like water at the time of election. They abandon the virtues of whole constituencies to the temptation held out by unscrupulous agents with endless purses and unlimited stores of beer, wine, and spirits. They are prepared to suffer in their own pockets to any amount, and to expose boroughs to an influx of immorality from which they can never wholly recover, in order to obtain seats in the House of Commons. The price paid for seats shows their value in the estimation of the class who buy them. But if the buyers shirk the duties they are pledged to fulfil, the seats are is danger. Mem bers should either do their work, or should make way for better men. If the House of Commons, with all its members, were swab lowed up to-morrow ; or, if some successful Gum FAWKES should scatter it to the winds, the columns of the newspapers would the next week be filled with the addresses of hundreds of gentlemen, all anxious to take the places of the martyred sena tors. There are only two answers to be given to a plea for mercy in favour of hardworked legislators. They are either unfit for their work, or they plan their work badly. They have the whole arrange ment of senatorial business in their own hands; if the present arrangement is bad, let them remedy it. If they cannot, the fault is their own. It is the more necessary to speak oat on this point, because the public is certain to lose the benefit of a l number of proposed measures, if the House is per mitted to shirk their work ; and it is in the highest degree expedient that the number of those permitted to play truant should be as small as possible. First and foremost amongst the important mea sures still to be dealt with this session is the Charitable Trusts Bill. For the first time in the history of the agitation of this subject, which began in 1786, does, there seem a fair prospect of passing a measure which is calculated to be of great benefit to the country. The Bill has passed the Lords, and is now waiting the seal of the Commons. It is of such immense importance that no Liberal member can be considered to have done his duty to tho country who dces not exert his utmost to prevent the measure from once more slipping through amidst the batch of lost bills which each year sifp]alife the closing of Parliament. The country is languishing on account of the deficiency of education. The Charitable Trusts Bill will be the means of organ ising due regulations for the disposal of an income of more than 300,0001., applicable to educational purposes alone. Districts have been often subject to heavy exactions for the support of the poor. The Charitable Trusts Bill will liberate large sumsof money left for the relief of local distress, but which have not been applied to the purposes for which they were intended, owing to the existence of legal difficulties which the bill will sweep away. The whole income over which the provisions of the bill will give the Commissioners power is more than 1,200,0001. Such a measure must not be sacrificed by the indolence or the incapacity of members, who are injudiciously told that they are so hard-worked, that there is every excuse to be made for their mistakes lor their neglect. Thousands of pious men who lived in past ages, and heaped up wealth in order that posterity might be benefited by it, could they look down now, and see the present application of their, pious bequests, would regret that they took so touch trouble for the accomplishment of so little good. Many of them would see the pro perty they left for the use of the indigent spent on the luxuries of the rich. Many would see funds, intended for the education of the needy, ab sorbed by schoolmasters who refuse to teach any but the children of the rich, by which they obtain large additional incomes. Many would look in vain for the property they left behind. It has long ago disappeared, having passed into the hands of faith less stewards, who were asked to decide upon the disposition of it. Justice to the pious and the benevolent of past ages, and to the poor and needy of the present, makes it an impe rative duty on the members of the House of Com bons not to throw away the opportunity of passing a measure which the greatest statesmen of modern times have declared not only just, but necessary. Lord BROUGUAM owes a great portion of his well founded reputation to the earnestness with which he once advocated the enactment of 'tome measure of this kind. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government adopted the principle of the measure, but did not succeed in carrying a bill through the houses. No opposition worthy of notice has been made to the bill as it now stands. The amendments in Committee have removed whatever defects were involved in the original measure, and its fate now depends merely upon the sincerity and activity of men who have been long pledged to the principles it involves. We call upon these men not to neglect this opportunity of signalising the session by the passing of so great and desir able an act as this. Too little has been done to allow us to look calmly on while another sacrifice is made. The list of dropped mea sures is sure to be long, if not disgraceful. Let members redeem past neglect, by passing a bill which will have the effect of liberating large sums of money I for public services, and putting an end to some of the grossest jobs which disgrace our social system. loucil occasionally obscure in its language the Fifth and last Report of the Railway and Canal Committee is in most respects an able document. It very properly condemns the great amalgamztions with which the present session of Parliament pre sented so plentiful and alarming a crop ; and it argues that, practically, railway competition fails to afford to the public the same security in respect to accommodation which it gives in the transactions of ordinary trade. But it rejects what many persons I are inclined to infer from that argument, that a con cession of a certain territory should be made to • particular Company, and Parliament be held to be pledged against any intrusion. And very properly. For, whilst we are compelled to submit in case of railways to the absence of the ordinary consequences of competition, the very worst thing we can do is in any way or degree to give legal or implied sanction to a Monopoly. Particular districts will ordinarily be served (and generally well served, too) by particular companies; but the only grounds on which they can ask the Legislature to keep out rivals are the existence of those good and amicable relations with the inhabitants, which naturally and properly spring out of cheapness, speed, safety, and excellence of general accom modations. On these terms—and they are easy terms—oompanies will gain such a character for public usefulness in their districts as to repress all I thoughts of aggression, or to repel invasion if at tempted. Such is the monopoly which first class tradesmen very frequently possess. When compa nies, however, do not regard the wants and wishes of their districts, but attempt to ride roughshod over them, then Parliament, as the guardian of the general good, may very prorerly introduce competition. Then, too, it will tell ; for though, even udder such circumstances, the outlay of two capitals may not be as remunerative as one, the public benefit will have been secured by rivalry and by increased accommodation, and an overgrasping policy cor rected. At first sight what are tilled Running Powers, —that is, a power conferred by the Legislature on one company to run over the line of another,—would appear to be for the public advantage, by increasing railway competition without increasing railway capital, and by securing to the public the shortest routes between given poit t But experience has shown that in a great majority of instances they have operated to the public injury. It is rarely these powers have been honestly obtained. Under pretence of serving the public they have really been acquired as a means either of bringing a rival to terms or of sell ing a smaller Company t) a greater one. And where this has not been the case, the terms on which Par liament has granted Runnin; Powers have been quite insufficient to work and carry them out. The tolls have been fixed too high; water supply and sta tion accommodation have not been compulsory; and so the principle of Running Powers has not, in practice, been successful. Besid es, there is great danger in one company nsing the rails of another, On the whole, therefore, the Committee condemns Running Powers, and recommends the Legislature to give greater encouragement to working agree ments—for limited periods. Working agreements are, of course, where one line finds the rolling stock and carries on the traffic of another. Under the present law these arrange ments are legal on then scrvation, to the company of the line worked, of a mileage toll. Fixed payments or rents, or a percentage on the capital, cannot, how ever, be given as the consideration for a working agreement; and hence—as a mere mileage toll leaves profit an uncertainty to the line worked these arrangements are rarely formed. For what a company, on letting out its line, wants, is a fixed and certain profit. The conse quences of the present state of the law, therefore, are, leases which require the subsequent sanction, at a large expense, of the Legislature. The Committee recommends that, under proper conditions, and for limited periods, working arrangements, involving a division of profits, be sanctioned. But, as everything depends on the "conditions," and as the Committee does not hint at what they are to be, it leaves a re commendation, very sound in principle, quite in the dark on the all-important point of details. It ex- ' presses a strong opinion, but gives not even a hint how it is to be applied and worked out. Here the Committee might obviously have gone much further with great advantage to the Legislature and the public. But, after all, it is neither by Running Powers nor Working Agreements that our railway system can be made to subside into one harmonious and consistent whole,—and that the Committee has felt. The great and first thing to settle and lay down is a scheme of Railway Policy. At present nearly every company has a railway policy of its own ; and the country has no railway policy at all. Having none, there is annually a huge and discreditable scramble on the part of railways for extensions of their particular policies in the Committees of Parliament ; and sel dom more so than in the present session. This ab sence of a definite national railway policy, and this ' discord and Babel of special railway policies, is a very discreditable state of things; and is, no doubt, greatly owing to Sir Roneirr PEEL having refused to support, with the force of his Government in 1846, the recommendations and reports of the then Board of Trade. That refusal has led to the expenditure of probably not lees than 50 millions sterling in Parlia mentary contests about schemes for which the Legis lature refused bills. And even now, neither Mr. CAkDWELL nor his Committee has dared to re commend that the Government of the United Kingdom shall have a flxed•railway policy. All the Committee proposes is, that there shall be a standing Committee of the House of Commons of a more per manent character to divide the country into districts, and decide on questions of principle; and that before this Committee all railway bills shall in the first in stance be sent. As a substitute for a national railway policy, this suggestion is poor and meagre enough. But, as an improvement on the present systemless system of railway legisla'ion, it will be a great and substantial step, provided that the Committee be composed of the ablest men of the House of Com mons, and can be got to work satisfactorily with the House of Lords Under the influence of such a Committee, well composed and (*.operating harmoniously with the Upper House of Parliament, it is quite possible that in a few years our railway system may be licked into shape. At all events, by its means a vast and useless and even mischievous expenditure of money in contention and rivalry will be stopped in limine ; the investigations referred to Select Committees will be limited and restricted; and the passage through the House of Commons of unopposed bills will be fa cilitated. But it comes late; the horse has been stolen before it was proposed to shut the stable door ; and do what we now can, it will be impossible hereafter to look back on our earlier railway proceedings and progress with anything like national satisfaction and complacency. For the plain fact is, that our rail ways have cost more by one-half the sum they ought to have been constructed for, and no one —but selfish landlords—is the better for the outlay, simply because up to 1853 the British Parliament never would look the railway question fully in the face. It is, however, a long lane that has no turn ing ; and happy will it be if even now Mr. CARD WELL'S Committee should prove to be a new and better point of departure. ARCIITIMIOr WIIATELY AND "UNCLE Tom." The following letter has just been received by Mr. Lloyd Garrison, of the Boston Liberator, from Archbishop Whitely, of Dublin :—" Roblin, 16• h June, 1843.—Sir, A copy has casually fallen into my hands of the Boston Liberator (4th March), in which I ant described as the author of a review, in the North British, of Uncle Tom's Cabin.' lam not the author. I happen to know that it is from the pen of a Icily, a clergyman's widow, in the south of Ireland. As I wish for neither credit nor discredit that is cot fairly due to me, and as I presume you do oat mean to mislead your readers, please to give rotico and correction of the mistake.—Your faithful, humble servant, RICIIAILD WiIATELY, Archbishop of Dublin."—W. L. Garrison, Esq.; INDIA AND CHINA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) TItIESTE, TUESDAY, Jt iv 26, The steamer Bombay arrived here to-day, at 2 p.m., in 111 hours from Alexandria. The India mail brings dates from Rangoon 4th June; Calcutta, 16th June ; Bombay, Nth June ; Hong Kong, ith June. Feorn Burmah the intelligence is that no advance is to be made on Ava unless our troops or civil ser vants are mole.ted. Our present position is to be maintained. Many officers have died. Trade in India is dull, owing to the season of the year. Exchange at Calcutta on London. 2s. I ;d• The empire of China is divided, and Nankin is indelmndent of the Tartar dynasty. Great anxiety was entertained for Canton, and a rising was daily expected there. iho screw steamer Lauriston, on her passage from Shanghai to Hong Kong. struck on Turnabout Island and was totally lost ; crew and passengers ail saved. LATEST FROM THE CONTI\ ENT. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Jttv 22. The Vienna plot is reduced on inquiry to an illegal students'union. Visits to Switzerland are forbidden to Austrian workmen; those now present in that country must return to the imperial dominions within two months. DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. JASSY, JuLv 14. On the 13th, the birthday of the Empress of Russia was celebrated by a solejEn service in all the churches throughout Moldavia. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The Const ytionnel gives the following very un satisfactory account of the present state of the nego tiations : If we are well informed, the following is the true exists nation of the delay of the prompt and pacific solution of the Turco-Russian difference, so generally expected. When the Emperor Nicholas received the divers propositions of the western powers tending to bring about a friendly com promise, he thanked the representatives of those powers for their good office.. The Czar even acknowledged that the projects submitted to him were of a nature to permit the hope of a solution, but added that he w o compelled to decline the intervention of the Western Powers in this de. bate, even in a form purely ogle/ease and friendly. In a word the Emperor Nicholas does not recoznize any right either for France, Eng'and, Austria, or Prussia, to interfere in a dispute which he contends is personal to Rus sia and lurkey, and regards only those two nations. In consequence the Czar ts said to have declared, that however conciliatory the propositions made by the Western I'owers might be, he could only entertain and answer them in so far as they might be addressed to him directly by the divan in the name of the Turkish government. Now, taking the most favourable view of the matter possible, it is permissible to suppose teat in ciniformity with this resolution it has been decided to advise the Sublime Porte itself to propose to Russia an arrangement founded doubtless upon a basis similar to that of the jrojects submitted to the Czar by the Western Powers. Turkey, for her part, before attempting this new and last mean', will have desired to be assured that the proposition she was about to make offici illy would not be rejected; and this explains the olficiemse and preliminary communication to tke Czar, spoken of in the telegraphic despatch from Berlin. We have seen, from the text of the despatch itself, that the proposal of Turkey will not arrive at St. Petersburg before July 28 at the soonest, and the answer cannot reach Constan tinople till the sth of A ugust. It results from all this that the official note of Reschid Pada, which is afterwards to be taken to the Czar by an Ottomon ambassador, will certainly not be re mitted to him t efore August 15. It will, therefore, not be till the end of August that we can learn in Paris the de finitive conclusion of the Turco-Russian difference, assum ing always that nothing intervenes to hamper the progress of the negotiations, that no unforeseen event should com plicate the Eastern question, and that the Emperor of Rus• sia is really dispos"d to lend himself with a good grace to the speediest possible arrangement. The Debate has letters from Constantinople of the 11th, giving some further particulars respecting the late ministerial crisis. On the evening of the Bth it was known by the people that warlike coun. eels were prevailing at the palace, and that Mustapha Pacha, the Grand Vizier, and ltcschid Pacha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, had received orders from the Sultan to remain at home until they were replaced in the ministry, and people began to assemble in crowds. The next morning, at eleven o'clock, a company of the Guard arrived at the Bagtchi-Capousson, with the Kavass and inferior I miilves of the Porte, to receive the new Grand Vizier, and escort him with pomp to the old seraglio, where the hatti-sherif of investiture was to be read. A large crowd had been drawn toge ther, and great was the disappointment when, at four o'clock, the soldiers received orders to return to barracks. The multitude then learned that the changes which had been announced would not take place. The news was very ill received by the soldiers and the public, who were anxious to see Find Effendi take office, an event which they would have regarded as a pledge of active and immediate hostilities. Within the palace, ac cording to the correspondent of the DAata, Mehemet Ali and :Mehemet Resehid Pacha, pressed to take office, recoiled before the responsibility of the hour. Lord Stratford arrived at the palace at this juncture, and, alarmed at the projects entertained, demanded I audience of the Sultan, remained with him an hour, and finally persuaded him to maintain the ministers in their offices. The German papers which arrived yesterday ex plain the current rumour that Russia has accepted Austrian mediation, by stating that the Czar has intimated his willingness to allow the Vienna cabinet to terminate the strife, if it can promise to find a form in which the ma i itime powers will acquiesce in his demands on Turkey. Letters from the Wallachian frontier state that the Turks are strongly fortifying Pravad, between Shumla and Varna. Omer Pacha is constructing a fortified camp near Shumla. The mountains, which form a semicircular amphitheatre around the Bulga rian city, are being crowned with walls of earth like those which gave so much trouble to the Russiansin 1828. It was from the earth walls of Shumla that Romanzoff, in 177-1, and Kaminsky, in 1810, were repulsed with great loss. The ruinous tendency of the delay which Russia causes, and the other powers permit, in the settle ment] of the Turkish question is thus pictured in the Journal de Franejial by its correspondent at Constantinople :—" If the summer be lost in negotia tions; the Black Sea will not be navigable for the allied fleets in the autumn, the marshes of Bulgaria will not cause fevers amongst the Russians, Turkey will exhaust her resources in expenses, atd the fanaticism of the Tarks will be discouraged. Tho bay of Besika is excellent during three-fourths of the year; there is no spring at Constantinople; the north wind blows to the end of June; then it cedes to the wind of the Archipelago, which arrives all at once with the twat of the summer. Now, this wind from the Archipelago must be injurious to the sqa drons cf Besika, which are exposed to it. Some vessels have dragged on their anchors. There are 30 vessels great arid small, and they might run into each other if there were a squall. One of the admirals is said to have already demandt d to go into the sea of Marmom, or to Ourlac in the Gulf of Smyrna." DENMARK. The draft of a fundamental law for Denmark, which was presented to the Volksthing at its last sit ting by M. Oerstadt, President of the Council, con tains the following modifications to the fundamental law now in force:—" The Danish Diet is to meet only every two years, in place of every year. An electoral law shall be examined and voted. Func tionaries cannot accept the place of deputy unless with the assent of the King." This draft con tains 11l paragraphs and three temporary provisions. After making this communication the Minister read a royal rescript, pronouncing the close of the session. The Assembly separated amidst ci ics of "Long live the King."