The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-06 00:00:00

TELBORAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH
IRELAND. _

Sir 0. GREY, in reply to a question from Mr. D.
Ilerbert, said he had received several proposals from rival
companies to lay down the electric telegraph between Eng-
land and Ireland, and desiring to know the terms the go-
vernment would require, but he had delayed giving any de.
eisive answer, being desirous, in the first place, of making
inquiries as to the parties tendering. Ile admitted that it
was most desirable the. telegraphic communication between
the two countries should take place as speedily as possible,
and the government was most desirous to facilitate that
object.
LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
Sir R. INGLIS moved, that • standine committee of
sizteen members be appointed to assist Mr. Speaker in the
direction or the Library, and to whom shall be referred
all matters relating thereto : Sir Robert Herry Inglis, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord John Russell, Mr. Dia.
raeli, Mr. Goulborn, Sir James Graham, the Lord Ade°.
cite, Viscount Mahout, Mr. Attorney-General, Mr. Pen-
darves. Sir William Somerville, Mr. Monektun Millets, Mr.
Gladstone, Sir David Minder'. Sir John Young, and Mr.
Clive : Ave to be the quorum.
Mr. DUMB hoped that some general rale would be
adopted in the publication of parliamentary papers, and
the present disadvantageous variety of Sine. abandoned.
Sir R. INGLIS considered that the question mooted by
the hon. member fur Montrose belonged to the committee
on printing.
Motion agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. MACKENZIE, a hill, founded on
a resolution of the whole house, was ordered to be brought '
in, for the better regulation of public-houses in
after a protest from Mr. Hume that the obi. et of the sees-
sure was to establish a new monopolin Scotland.
ASSESSMENT OF RATES.

Mr. FRESIFFIETI);;;;,i fur leave to bring in • bill
to consolidate and amend the statutes relating to the woes-
rand and collection of county rates In England.—Leave given.
PUBLIC PETITIONS.
On the motion of Mr. TirositzLz, the following mem-
bers were nominated aa a select committee on public peti-
tions :—Mr. 'l'boracly, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, the Earl
of Arundel and Surrey, Captain Jones, Mr. Mackenzie,
Mr. Bretiterton, Lord Alfred Hervey, Mr. Scutt, Mr.
Carter, Mr. Clements, Mr. Lushington, Mr. Duncan, Sir
Charles Douglas, Mr. Adderley, and Mr. Owen Stanley.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.)
Mr. ADDERLEY moved for an address fur copies of all
eedindem• which have been introduced to the legislative
adonll Nth* Cape 11.11C0 its recent reconstruction, and all
peepseithaa which have been made by that council for
aNdratiess et the constitution ordinances sent out fur their
edeptlea.—Agreed to.
ROYAL MINT.
Mr. HUME moved lor an address fee • copy of any re-
ports to show the changes that ham hem made in the
danagemaent of the Royal Mint, sad be peleas date. It
wee important that the public real knew whether the
recent changes erected I. this Mat wale alleient, and whe-
ther they were more or lees ereadee thee the old system.
He hoped there was me ehludisa to his motion.—
Agreed to.
QUARK'S SPEECH.-4MITIMATBS.
Oa the order of the day far the ausideession of the
Queen's ems h berg rrd,
Mr. C. LBW= sewed that the Muer& p iate seeueitus
of supply tamerrew (this day).
Mr. H CMS riled le sok her )mse geverarest
whether, la the adman the the wry mai as drat to he
Mid rem thehour they W talmacats the
sessareedellwee of the seemitme ea the aroma Bathe
eremidee width had sr reesa4 the riders W arra
the eziemase elver sheer le_biest eL
The 011.ANCELLOR el the OQUIII was trier-
steed se my that the wessaiskeleaset therarielee had
beat arra lute Ake es Ihr Men alVtirl
kis right hr. iriesd are hit pile P. Hated. hes the
estimates were beta. the her, • full mad eamplehl SOW-
mist wood be wade.
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIOIIT.
Lord J. RUSSELL laid, yea the Mlle ef the home
• copy of the treaty reefs* ethelaisi ea this waked
between Grua Briar eiditeter._
LIOUTINO AND VILTTILIMON OF TEI HOUSE.
thr J. rAIIINOTON
thethth if tai arts
Med snide* (Lied whether Muir sereaded
is Yew y ark. Aellelemeat had hoes side
is the ewer Na prieriees=st her romabere were
is war raw trees the eh
Loci IMITMOUIt had seeds *ride el Mr. Batty,
werresee of the oedema* alluded to by the
her rewher_ . Mr. Dm" alibi Sat sly dwaileiler had
err Mlisa her Me Our sod badossi. • yore *wed
by the eseresesr, the Means% sad ether~resesr, shaft that it
wee ad the ere, that the theadellses were pedestly
I and there we so
st=itmover. While imam the
1= workman bed Ist tall • pier elf bee,
hod goer thresh thee of tbe tare. With
Midla the drdellteldleede et, lb, 11.bdft, ke was
that owing te the esweewaistisa ef the works of
the
her
there wee a deleireyie eapplyof ges.
Mr. OftIIOKNE W vetsersisssi the eihry et iota
the ehandeliers as Ma sirs radially. Zs bed M hem •
member of the promerat. The hes. eirelose far Lirh.
deli (Lied A. Pearl
_had reattred we the authority of
the miesemier of the althea (Mr. lomihra Omer.)
Mr. ROME reederad err if the radiation of the
here. The heat in the homy of the herr was at that hest
iusupoirtable; whet the alatiephare of the galleries
almutt e Ise could not tell.
Rehm Lord tier ulna could reply, the orlon "that the
home de wow adjourn" was put sad vented, sad the house
adjoarsed a little after five.

Tux ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY haa just
received a moet important consasunieatiou, through the
Church Ntionun Society, from the Rev. D. Livingvton,
who, with his friend Mr. ()swell, hue finally succeeded in
penetrating (ruin the lately discovered South A triton Lake
Niteroi fer into the interior of Africa. At Setheki (let.
17 28 S.), during a remarkably dry season, the River
litiroshe, a cohtinuation of the Zamberi, was Irons three to
live bothlred yard. wide. The slave trade had during l&50
for the lie.t tune been opened from the west comet with this
portion of the usterior, to which traders with English call-
cues and other article. had arrived, sad, refw.ing to barter
their gods fur anything but slave*, had prevailed upon
Selliteatte's people to go upon • marauding expedition
agaiust •no ighlwering people. The outlives fell to the
share of the trader., the cattle to Stillman...* people. It is
greatly to be Iteptal that these two enterprising African true
seism may he onybl,d to continue slid farther their most
Important discoveries.
A MOTIIKR AN!, I)AIIGHTER I)ftowNP.D.—Thring
the flood or the Nth ult. the suspension luitlee of Feorhan
was swept away, thereby cutting olf all e.mintunication be-
tween Upper and Nether torn, except whet, the state of
the river wehtel allow of wetting through it at particular''
lords. On Turoley lan a widow woman and Ler daughter,
hotting thet it w not sofa to attempt the tordtna, triode a
dangerouv t front of stepping wrote by meets. of a slender
pule that none itentons threw over the river. It i. thought
that the mother sueceedrd in getting safely over, because
the smell parcel she was e.arying was found on the oppeeite
bank ; but the daughter becoming disay MI the pole, the I
mother revived to sere hi r from the la rileue °malted,' that
the giolothitsa planed her in, while the 'weight ei both bent
the INVe into the tide, drifting the temporery but unsafe
brelge on tee current, while it pitched the titifteepy females
into the Neel, where bent mother and &welder were
drowned. —l:ll.lilwrpA Advertiser
NAVAL APPoINTEENT.—ADMIRALTY, FEE. 6.1
Assistant-Surgeon P. C. Elibbsid, to Tyne.

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1852.