The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-01 00:00:00

THE STOOK CERTIFIOATZE TO BEARER BILL.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in movuq
to commit the Stock Certificate. to Bearer Bill, grated that
the object of the measure was to make a certificate of stook
payable to bearer an negotiable • sonority an a Bank of
England note. It also proposed to prohibit trustees from
dealing with the stock, and to take all needful precaution.
against fraud.
Mr. E. D. HODOSON gore his approval to the bill,
which he said would have the effect of largely incites*
investmeets in the public funds.
The bill, after some discoaaion, pealed through com-
mittee.

ilia Tetsgsaplis Bill was read a third dam and pissed.

OONSOLIDATED FUND (80,000,0001.) BILL.
EXOHEQURR BONDS (1,000,00 W.) BILL
Theft bills poised Utmost committee.
BOROUGH RESIDENCE UNIFORM MEASUREM
BILL.

On the motion for going into committee on this bill,
Mr. WCANN moved that the order be discharged.
Mr. DENMAN seconded the motion. He thought
the home hied been treated with scant courtesy as
to thin measure. There was a general feeling that this bill
had been read a second time per incurious, and that it did
no credit to the house. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. VANCE said he thought that this was the first time
that an order was snored to be discharged in the absence of
the hon. member who bad chugs of it. There was a general
impression that the committee would not he taken before 10
o'clock.
Mr. 11IINTaaid he thought the same courtesy ought to be
extended to the bill of the hon. member for Knareboroogh
es had been extended to a former government bell (which
had been postponed.
Mr. EIItNATCHBULL-HI7GESSEN said he asked the
bon. member for linareeborough yesterday whether he
meant te being in his bill that night, and be distioctly said
yes. (Hear, hear.) The bill had now been teed a second
time, end he thought it was highly disrespectful to the house
to say that if an Loa. member happened to come down to
the house after dimes in time, the bill should go on ; if Dot,
that it should not. He disclaimed the imputation of dis-
courtesy which bed been thrown out against that side of the
hoes&

RIDLEY moved the adjournment of the debate.
After some further conversation, during which the hon.
member for Knareaborough entered the hotue amidst some
ahem.

Sir G. GREY said he thought that side of the house hada
right to complain if a general intimation that the bill was
not to come on had not been communicated to them.
Sir H. RIULEY begged to say he distinctly understood
an hour aglthat the menus would not come on to-night.
Mr. COI INS said, in answer to the right 1100. gentle-
man the Home Seeretary, that it was his intention to go on
with the bill. (Hear.) He had no reason to suppose that
the government Wainer would be finished before 11 o'clock.
This was the first Thursday that the government had
pet on the paper no business for the house to tram:wt.
He had net therefore thought it neoemary to be there
earlier. (Cries of " Oh, oh," and interruption.)
As he bad to speak on the question of adjournment, he
might take that opportunity of saying what Ise wished to
say respecting the bill. It appeared to him to be a most
harmless measure. It contained only—(the hon, member
here commenced reading the number of lines in the bill
with mush gravity, to the great amusement of the house)—it
coeteined only live lines and a•brilf. (" Hear" and cries
of " D vide. " ) They were not going to church for some
time. (Laughter.) The bill went on to say, "Be it enacted
by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, a most excelleot
provision. (Laughter.) He hoped that so loci as he held a
senors that house he should never prefer that • measure should
be enacted in any other way. (Continued laughter, and cries
of " Oh.") Had they ever heard of the government busi-
ed= being Relished at nine o'clock ? (' Time.") He
knew be was talking against time. ("Oh, ob.") The
bill provided that every elector should reside within seven
miles of the borough. (" Time," „Order.") He had not
the slightest idea why hon. members called "Order." That
had always been the limit, but the house would be surprised
to learn that the mode of measuring the distance was
different in every borough. His proposal was to measure
from theboandsry. If the law of Scotland were anomalous
and mishit° be rectified, to ought the law of Ireland to be,
instead of the kind aetborities there having the power of
fixing the pines of periling at elections. He came now to the
wise of Ragland and Wales. The law with reference to
Wale' was twofold in almost every borough, but in one re.
mect it warn se improvement on the law of Ireland sod
Scotland, because there was so uncertainty as to the point
tom which the seven miles should be met. In Ragland the
Mika were measured from the place where the poll was
" heretofore" taken, which might mean the centre or the
aubvbsoleisreagh. Why, he asked, should not every
elector in Ragland have the miles measured from the
bouedary of a borough? He concluded by moving that the
Speaker do leave the chair.
Mr. MARSH denounced the bill as a job, and as a measure
for the encouragement of bribery sod corruption. Who,
he leaked, were freemeu but men whom they knew could be
amity corrupted ? (Oh, oh.)
Sir H. BRUCE said the hen, member made a most
offensive charge against those whim supported the second
readiest of the bill, hot it was wholly unfounded.
Mr. E. P. BOU VERIE observed that it was unexampled
hi the home that a member should complain that a bill
of which be boil charge had come on at an earlier period
than he aeticipeted. With regard to the noun adopted by
the he.. imenber for Knermbormigh, he would repeat what
had once been said is the house, that the rules of the
house were made by gentlemen for gentlemen, and be would
add, that if those rules were disregarded, the sooner they
were mended the better. (Cheers.)