The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-20 00:00:00

PETITIONS PRESENTED.

Lonl ILEDESDALE tad petitions from places in
Nerthomborlsod, the oils at intoxicating liquors on
Sundays.
THE CASE OF MB. BISHOP.

The Marquis of NORBANBY pm notice that shortly
alter the Easter rooms he shoal ea the attention of their
lordships to the owe of Junes Bishop, an English gentle-
man, who wee coollned in the city of Alessandria, under a
commuted sentence of ten years' imprisonment.

SALMON EXPORTATION BILL.
Their lordships went into oommittoe on this bill.
The cloture were agreed to, with some verbal amend.
meets, sod the bill wee ordered to be reported.
UNION BELIEF AID ACT CONTINUANCE BILL.
This bill was reed e third time sad paned.
THE CITY POLICE.

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The Earl of DALHOUSIE be thought scamp' t
time had now elapsed since he drew their loMahips' :Attu-
Lion to the confusion that took place in the City on the 7th
of March, to have enabled the government to make up their '
minds as to the snot neceasery to be taken to prevent the
recurrence of such unfortunate circumstances. (Hear.)
Earl GRANVILLE said he could to • certain
degree,
from personal experience, confirm what bad been rsti
by hie noble friend with regard to the different arrange-
ments of the metropolitan police and those within the pre-
rinds of the City of London. His noble friend the Post-
master-General and himself contrived to see a very large
portion of the route, both within and without the City, and
there was no doubt that the whimsies within the City was
very great, almost preventing them from wain. Indeed,
when they arrive's at the Manna-bore it &poorer:lto them
quite impossible that the ground could be cleared so u to
allow the royal procession to past. They were, however,
never so much !truck by anything as by the wonderful
good humour of the people—he would not call them the
mob—whether reahained by the police outside the city, or
left very much without guidance within its limits. (Hear,
hear.) He wa s also bound to ss that particularly at Tem-
ple-bar, when to portion of the City police ware oo duty,
they appear* d most melons in maintaining order;
but in of ben parts of the route, where all
progress se smed impossible, they were he thought
nearly the* c.quarters of an hour without seeing a
policeman of any kind, or any attempt to clear the way.
But so far from this being • reflection upon the City
police, who i they considered the very small number of men
at their die pawl, and the hundreds of thousands of people
collected, it was impossible without some other arrange-
ments that . the police could have controlled the multitude.
With rep rd to the particular questioo put by his noble
friend as t .o what the government intended to do with re-
open to t bi• important subject, he had to state that the
Home-o 8 is lost no time whatever in directing its attention
to the is atter. The Home ;Secretary wrote at once to the
Lord Ma Tor, calling his attention to the facts which bad been
stated u Ith regard to the confusion which accompanied the
proossei an through the City, and asking for explanations
as to t he number of the police on duty, and the ar-
rangem ants made to insure order during the interesting
commis ny of the 7th inst. This communication was imme-
diately acknowledged, the Lord Mayor stating that a search-
ing in vestigation was taking place, and that the result
would be communicated to the Hoene-office. Up to the
Arse, it moment that information had not been received.
The I Tome-office, however, bad taken other means to inform
then selves generally upon the subject, but it would clearly
not 1 XI right for them to take any action till they were in
post onion of all the particulars. He might, perhaps, be
cello wed to add that it was certainly the more to be regretted
the t any confusion should have occurred, on amount of the
pro ;orations made by the City to receive the Primus, par-
ticularly at London-bridge, where the decorations were
ch sracterised by great good taste and magnificence.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE thought he might be per-
m itted to sav a few words with regard to the mita
o aide for this royalprogrem, as he had been all to in
• rather place, so far as the military assistance on that
i cession was concerned. He felt bound to say that in the
' first instance all military assistance was refused by the
City. On the Tuesday he had a meeting of all officers
who were to be on duty, as well u the Chief Commissioner
of the Metropolitan Polio*, and they felt very strongly the
-neoeasity for some military assistance in the City ; but, at
^the same time, he was aware that such assistant* could not,
'be given without almost an actual demand from the City.
He therefore replotted Sir ft. Moyne to put himself iota
-communication with the City authorities oo the subject,
and to suggest to them the expolioncy of making similar
arrangements to those which were being made for the Won-
end. skirl:nun* morning he received • commuoicatiou
from the soperintendeot of police of the City of London,
stating that no military aid was required. This seemed
oo pee eotfymoestroaa that, being personally acquainted
with the Lord Mayor, he took the liberty of sending to him
Sir It. Airey. the gnarterineeter-General, with • request
that he would oblige him (the Duke of Cembeidp) by al-
lowing • certain number of troops to go into the Of
into fear-
ing that otherwise something very serious might occur. In
the first instance be believed the Lord Mayor though ex-
tremely amiable and courteous in hie reply, 'did not eon-
eider it necessary to have such assistance, but on Sir R.
Airey further pointing out the desirability that the subject
should be fully considered, and one or two others of the City
authorities having been called in to take part in the deli-
beration, It was arranged, after some little dismission, that
some troops should be asst. The Lord Mayor had stated
that if they had seat Life Guards instead of Artillery there
would have been oo occlusion. (Hear, hear.) He did not
underetand upon what pound that argument wee based,
for he could not see why one body of troops
should be better than mother for the purpose.
Ha was quite aware that the household cavalry
had great experience in dealing with large bodies of people
in the streets, and it was very well known that they in-
variably acted with great forbeininee, and did their work
really well. (Hear.) He felt the responsibility of seatiog
other troops into the City, but he had particularly instructed
the officers commending UN artillery to warn the men to
exercise the greatest fotbearuce, sad to allow the people to
see as much as possible. (Hear.) He had spoken to per-
sons in the crowd, and it had been especially pointed out to
him that there never was anything like the good humour
and forbearance shown by the artillery • and he had been
further told that but for the ten or a diz'ssen men in front of
the Mansion-house the "on never would have got on
at sit (Hear.) It hail been mid that the tromp*, of the
artillery rendered them unsuitable for the performaace of
this kind of duty, but he could only say that the trappinp
of the artillery were the same as the rest of the army.
He was also bound to say a word for the volunteers of the
City of London. He had read the letter of Lieutenant-
Colooel Ward, and he thought that that officer was com-
pletely exculpated. If soy one was in fault is detaining
the volunteers at the Guildhall it was the City authorities,
who if they wished to have them elsewhere should Lave
issued orders to that effect. With respect to the question
of whether or not the City of London should retain its own
exclusive police he wished to say a few words. He believed
that the fora was composed of very good men, but on
Saturday week they uoderteok a task which was entirely
beyond their strength. To take charge of the whole line
from London-lbridge to Temple-bar with such an amount of
force was impossible. He thought it highly objectionable
that as great occasions like that of Saturday week two or
three authorities should divide amongst them the rseponsi-
bility of preserving order, and whether the two forces
were amalgamated or oot be hoped that some arrangement
would be made to produce uniformity of action in future.
(Hear, hear.) At present the City of Ludes was hermeti-
cally sealed against the military authorities. As corn.
niaader-io-chief of the army he could at any time ootomuni.
oath with the thief of the metroliolints police, but with re-
spect, to the City it was only by the courtesy of the
corporation that any arrangement could be 001110 to. He
bad admitted that that courtesy was always shown, but he
did feel that some better arrangement was oeeeseary if they
did not wish to en • frightful accident occur oe some future
great oecesion. It bad bees said that the voluntems were
told not to interfere with the crowd. If that was true he
thought that every wise precaution had been takes. (Hear,
hear.) The armed force which was allowed to interfere with
crowns should be under the strictest discipline and accus-
tomed to be trusted, two conditions which they could not
'semi to dad fulfilled in the ease of the volunteers. He I
could oat sit down without expressing his great satisfaction I
at the order and regularity which had been maintained by
the menesoliten police. The order they preserved and the
courtesy they exhibited towards the public were beyond all
praise, red be was only too happy to have that opportunity
Misting their meant before the house. (Hear. hest-) lord TAUNTON said that eleven years since it was him
duty to investigate this grunion of the City police. and so
distinct wee the impniesion then left on his plied, that
he should sow very much regret if when:eat should
not lake the present opportunity to remove exist-
* anomalies.
Lord ovzicsroNE was surprised that such an anomaly
as the City pollee should have teem allowed niacin so lug,
and he toasted that the present opoortuorty would not Le
allowed to peas away without some legulatim measure rp.
Mposatsiedblea 10t
present produce greater efficiency sad harmony than were
The Earl of SR AkTESBURY presented several petitions I
from dimming ehapesh, praying that the sale of intoxicating I
Broom might be seconded from 6 o'clock es Saturday
evening to therms hour on Monday meriting.
Their lordithips adjourned at 25 miming past 6 o'clock.

I101:1811 OF COMMON& —Thrriumuy, MAZCE 19.
The Sneeze took the *heir at 4 o'clock.
CLOTHING FOR THE ARMY.

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Colonel DIOILSON owe Ratios that, cw tow( into cow-
maim of supply, he should will the attentioe of the Secre-
tary for W. to the fact that the clothing maieufactured at
the establiehmeot at Pimlico was mot subject to the same
inspection se that supplied by cam.

THE LEGATION IN PEMMLL.
Mr. H. SEYMOUR gars patio" that as an fatly day la
shoold Bell the attention of the house to the stale of hot
Mijosty's legation in Persia, and more far PoPtro "data"
to the dismissal or superoersaino of M. Eutrkb, bar
Jiajady's aectetsa7 of legation at Teheran.