The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-20 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORI:OB.TUESDAY, JUNI 19.
Thar Loship sot sit 6 o'clock.
THE RELATIONS S
ERN POWERS
BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND THE
WE l .
Lard LYNDRURST-1 wish to take this apportraity of
Patin that is :s tai inteatios to pastorali taw motifs of
whisk I have gists sada, is reform" to this relations be.
Swim Austria and the Western Powers.
Ths Bail n MlNTO—laddisit•ly ?
Lora LYNDEURST
will
I will ow a future Post=
woo lbo day oa yawl' I will bring it forward.
The Moral, &natio bill was Pow road a erased Sao,
awd ordinal to bo orassittad.
Thar lordships aojograiiill at tow pirates past sis Valera,

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TIMILMT, lIINS 19.
The firmlug took the chair st 12 o'eleek.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lards' amendments to the Lands Improvement Com-
pany were einsidered sad weed to.
Vie followieg bills were then teed • third time:—Halos
wad Hull, to Road ; Shrewsbury Imptonsont ; Imams
Mhieral Branch Railw%; Eoglaad sad Ireland Impend
Comaissiestioa ; earl isbeeh Port. ,
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
TENANTS' IMPROVEMENTS COMPENSATION
(IRELAND) BILL.
Cossiderable app sides sad two division were interposed
se the motion for go into eommittee era the Men bilk
D fleshy the home ng
west into sommittice and passed • fiser
Mims or the sneer,.
The boon teemed at six o'clock.
CHURCH RATES ABOLITION (No. 2) BILL.
Sir W CLAY pool., mad the committee on this bill MIR
the llthJalHy.
TE CORPORATION OF LONDON.
Sir J. V. SHELLEY asked when the goverment in-
headed to istrodoes the promised measure for the reform of
tias corporation of the City of London, and obi/titer each
bill would be founded upon the recommendation of the
inamissimen appointed to inquire into that corporation ?
It had been stated on • former occasion that the bill would
be brought in as eon as the Metropolis Local Management
Bill had parsed tbroueb cotton stages. That bill was sow
very far advanced. aa the surliest me a very great ha-
penance, especially to d the ',kabinet& of Leedom.
Sir 0. OBEY said that th. bill foe the refine of the
eorporatim of the City of London was founded, is its main
features, upon the recommendations of the commissioners
of inquiry, Filthiest to some soodarations as to details, in
which those recommendations would be to a mien Meat
departed from. As to the other question, he maidenly say
that he certainly bad iatended, and linped to be Maki to any
that intention into effect, to submit that bill to the hoses la
time to secure for it the coesideration aid atteotioa whit* its
importance demanded. But the debates which had vim
on subjects of great importance,and had amemerily
occupied much of the attentiaa of the house, hod anavoido
ably retarded the progress of tenons bill.. The Metropolis
Local Mansguseat Bill, nferred to by the hoe. member,
was ••• of them ; it had not yet got through committee ;
the* it had to be &omit:est through its other stages. Then
were also the Australian Constitution Bills, the bills for
establi-hing limited liability in partnerships, and the Cam-
bridge Uoiversiiy Bill, which had just come down from lb.
Hon •of Lords. la addition, they knew that the Home
of Lords bail passed a resolution deelariog that tiny
would not read any bill • second time nem it
were a bill of supply, or one rendered setessary by
urgent cireurmanees after the 24th of July. He
ma bound to say that he thought the public business
was rather retarded than slimmed by having••
multitude of important bills before the house at one tinie.
(Hear, hear.) Under time eirenmstanots be did sot see
any prospect of being able to lay the bEI referred to before
the house this srasion—that is, with say hopes of its ~wing.
Therefore, it would he introduced at an early period next
session. That, he thought, was the best mane to nears its
paining.
REPORTS OF FACTORY INSPECTORS.
.
In answer to Mr. hiackatnnx,
Sir G. GREY stated that the reports of the inspectors of
factories, for the half year ending 30th April last, bad been
received is the present month, sad would be presented to
the house that evening.
MONEY ORDERS FOR THE SEAT OF WAR.
In answer to Mr Eunsaaw,
Mr. WILSON stated that tbe attention of the Postmaster-
General had been directed to the importance of establishing
money order posnofficss in Constantinople and in the
Crimea ; but the noble lord had funad that there could not
he that regularity which must necessarily attend the
operations of the Money Order Office, with respect to •
camp which was moving,and the arrangements of which must
be to some extent uncertain. At the some time, the Post
masterGenoral had suggested that some gement might
be made for transmitting all sums of money through the cow
missariet chest; aad this was nader consideration.
DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE.
Mr. MACKINNON gloved for •• select committee to in-
quire into the circumstances of the expedition to the Arctic
Seas, commanded by Captain M'Clure. of the Royal Navy,
with a view to ascertain whether any and what reward
might be due for the services rendered on that occasion.
He referred to the preeedene of Captain Roes who dis-
covered Boothia, in 1834 ; and in consequence of" the diffi-
culty of the question a select committee of that home was
appointed, woo recommended that Sir James Rose should
receive • reward of 6,0001. His discovery was of no benefit,
beyond giving • slight increase to our pogrom' ical know-
ledge. Captain M'Clsre, on the other band, had achieved
• mighty discovery, which had been attempted for the last
three centuries. The first expedition was made by Babas
tins Cabot in 1667, with • view to discover the porthole's'
peerage ; and in the present century there had been no leas
than 34 expeditions for that object. Every one of them had
failed, and some had been attended with a eon,tderabls loss
of life. But for the discovery of Captain )(Thin these
attempts would have gone es, gad the loss of life would have
been still greater. Therefore, en the ground of humanity,
the discovery was valuable. Another consideration was the
large expenditure which had been incurred in these a:-
politicise. In the present century the expense incurred by Sir
John Franklin's expeditions, and those sent oat in search of
him, from 1818 to the present time, amounted to 837.0001.
See what Capiain Welfare had done. He mailed from Eng-
land in Jam ay, 1860, and after a great many hardships
he succeeded in dip:overtop the north-west mange, which
would save • great deg of mull and a great missy lives
that would othei wise be loft in similar attempts. He
would sot at that time go farther into the case, seeing that
the Speaker had bees in the chair up to an early hour that
morpiag. (Hear, hear.) He should, therefore, content
himself wit" simply moving for a select committee.
Mr. JACKSON smosided the motion,
Admiral W ALCOIT bore testimony to the merits of
Captain Wenn. The north-west pump had been
attempted 48 times, sad it wee satisfactory to and that it
was accomplished at last by idiom sad meta belonging to
the British navy. (Hear, hear.)
Lord PALMERSTON sold he should give his cordial
meat to the motion. (Hear, bear) Great merit was due
to Captain M'Clare for the peneverasce, mange, and
Deering by which he solved the problem of the aorth-west
parer, which had excited the intense ass of naval
ma in every part of the world. (Hear, hear. Having
iel
said so man, he hoped it would be undentood tbe did
not wish to prejedise the opinion of the committee on the
particular clams of Captain Il'Clare which would be both
sajmt to that gallant officer and alsoi to the feelings of the
ham. He gave his cordial assent, however, to the motion.
The motion was then agreed to.
THE STA, UTE LAW.
Mr. L. KING moved the following resolutions;
" That., in the month of March, 1863, a paid onamiasien
of dee banisters was appointed by the Lord Chamber, 'ln
pioinied without delay in the work of the Consollialim al
the Statute Law' (Pint Report, page 200), of whisk ' tie
Ant proms would be to secortaia precisely the toot 40
di,
statute law, as it then existed, by determining what MIMI@
had been repealed, expressly or virtually, what had expired,
and what bed become obsolete or unnecessary in the pa►
sent state of society ; whereof a special and detailed report
should be made, and should fors the the groundwork of a
declaratory bill to repeal such statates, to be introduced, if
possible, at the end of the then mina' (Parliamentary
Papa-, No. 78, of session 1836) ; and that, in pursuance of
`I said commusin, a special and detailed report, embracing
sryentire act of the descriptions above mentiosed, and
containing in all 10,047 acts, was prepared by Messrs.
Aastey and Rogers, two of the said commissioners, and sub
mined to the Lord Cbameellor in the course of the same
session, under the title of Bapurgstory List, sad by way of
Appendix to their joint Minute of the 26th of July, 1863.
"That it appears from the papers oommanicated to this
d 0•111 by Her Mejarty, that no bill of which the said ex-
purgatory list is the groundwork has as yet been prepared,
although, la an undated report of 1864, made by Mr.
Stickful', the cormissioiser to whom (First Report, page
109) ' the task of canful revision by • fresh hand was as-
agreed, by Mr. Bellsnden Kew, the chief commissioner, the
-et itself bas been certified to evince ' the great familiarity
his two colleagues with the Statute B olt,' and to came
aim ' to feel hardly any doubt that they had sot meted as
obsolete soy act which had in fact been repealed,' and
although Mr. BeUnden Ker has reported it to be' a vary
laborious, useful, sad valuable paper, and to have shown
their ladustiy and familiarity with the Statute Bork.
" That it is the opinion of this house, that it would
greatly conduce to the improvement of the statute law of
this country. if the preparatiiin of ' a declaratory hill, of
which the said special and detailed report shall form the
groundwork,' wen no longer to be delayed, and NM mob'
bill ought to be forthwith prepared, for the pargeneeflMaill
laid before parliament."
The hon. member said, looking at the general progress of
the nation, he must say it was very much behind in the
state of its laws, writtea and unwritten, and it was time
for Parliament to show its interest in the aglijeet. It was
mortuary that the bens law should be repeated from the
deed law. At premise stony were breaking the law bemuse
they did not know what it was. A popes, written by Mr.
Taylor, and read betas the Statistical fLaiety, showed an
extraordinary increase is the mambos of public statutes.
Is the niga of William 111. the number of public
statutes pained was 317, or at the nee of sixty
statute. a year ;• in Me reign of Queen Arun the somber
was 340, or at dm rate of 79 • year ; in the reign of G
L. the number was 377, or at the nate of 68 • year; in:
'lts of George 11., the ember wee 1,647, ft at the Meal
46/1e: ;in the 'eggs of George ILL, the amber
6 ter as the rats of 246 • year ; in lie reign of Gems.
1.. awake was 1.066 or at tie rate of 322 a year ;is
the swims of Willis. IVs, the .ember was 678, or at the
ran el 367 • pear ; sad daring reign op to the
mewl was the umber wee All Mem alloialir

the thatat• Law' (Yie
first process would be
statute law, as it then
had bees repealed, eel
' . and what bed beoonia
seat state of satiety ;
should be lade, and i
deelaratory bill to rep
possible, at the end
Pape-, No. 78, of sei
I the laid ecoomissiats, •
every entire act of t
. 1 costainiag in all li
Matey and Rogers, t
twitted to the Lord
session, seder the tit
Appendiz to their jo
" That it appears
house by Her kiejea
purgatory list is the
although, la an tin,
Briakciale, the some
1014 'the task of ca.
&ivied,' by Kr. Bell
flit itsslt has been
of his two collesget
1 . his 'to feel hardly
obsolete any act e
although 11r. Boll'
t laborious, useful, a
their ledustiy sod
"That it is the
greatly conduce to
this country, if tb
which the said spy
groundwork,' we,'
bill ought to be for
laid beton parkas
The boo. member
the nation, he mu
~ 1 .... stets of its laws,
for Perham's% to
necessary that the
dead law. At pre
they did not kao
Taylor, sad read
sztrea;dinary tat
Is the reign ol
statutes pared
statutes a year;
wee 840, or at du
I. the number •
a reign of George I
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6 ee ez the i
I/r. 11.6• assishei
the reign of NW
tow of 287 • 7.se
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