The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-10 00:00:00

HOUSE OF 001111ONS.—]Mace 9.

WEIGHTS IND -11A-STIL-lii(ILETRIa SYSTEM)

BILL.
Order for wooed roadie; reed ; motion made and question
proposed. " Then the till be now reed • second time;'
amendment propound, to leave out the word "now." and at
the end of the question to add the words "upon tine day
six months." (Mr Welter)—Question put. ' That the
word 'now' stand. part el the question." The house
divided :—Ayes, 9V ; Noes, 52.

AYMi.
Adair, H. E. Gibson, T. M. Paget. C.
Adderley, C. B. Goddard, A. L. Patten. Col.
Ayrtos, A. 8 Oreeasll, 0. Paxton. Sir J.
Bobs" E. Greene, J. Pto=l46. 3.
Barnes, T. Gordon, & P .I.TrqulisutW.
Baxley, T. Hamilton, Major Poreceby, A.
Beaumont, S. A. Blakey, T. Potter, L
Beecroft, 0. S. Henderson, J. Zamell, H.
Blake, J. Ileygate, W. L. Russell, A.
Bruce, H. A. Hlbbert, J. T. Itiumagl, F. W.
Buchanan, W. Hodgson. R. St. Anion. J.
Buller, J. W. Holland. E. Sheridan, R. B.
Hutto. C. Hood, Sir A. A. Sheridan. H. B.
Cato, J. Horoby, W. H. Smith. J. B.
Clay, J. Hunt, O. W. Stuart. LienL.CoL
Clifton, Sir K. J. Hutt. W. Sullivan, 111.
Cobbold, J. C. Jervoire, Mr J. C. Sykes, Col.
Crawford, K. W. Johnstone, filr J. Talbot, W. C.
CrigAler, Sir F. Jotliffe, H. H. Tolleroache, F. J.
Cubitt, G. Leathern, E. A. Tracy, C. R.
Dent, J. D. Lee. W. Turner, J. A.
' Duff, M. E. Lewis, H. Vernon, H. F.
Dunbar, Sir W. Locke, J. Watkins, CoL
Du Pre, C. 0. Hackle, J. Whitbread, S.
Enfield, Vlsct. Moffatt, G. White, J.
Evans, T. W. Monism. W. White, L.
Ewart, J. C. trllagan, T. Wickham, H. W.
Fergusson, Sir J. Gnaw., G. Winningtoo, Sir T.
Forster, C. Packs, C. W. TLLIIIII
Gaol, R. S. Pucka, Col. Ewalt W.
Gavin, Itsjor Putnam It. Langton. W. G.
.

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NOES. _
Ambit*ll. Capt. Harvey, R. B. Neste. C.
%Dile, H. J. Beatheote, Sir W. Parker, Major
Baieurr, W. H. Heygate, tii- F. W. Peacurke, 0. M.
Bartlelot, Col. Boßred, B. 8. Phillips, 0. L.
Bridges, Sir B. W. Humberston, P. S. Ridley, Sir M. W.
Bruce, Sir H. H. Kekewich, 8. S. Scourneld, J. H.
Burghley, Lord Knatchbeil, W. F. Selwyn, C.J.
Copeland, Mr. Aid. Knight, F. W. Smith. Augustus
Cox, W. !Aeon, Sir E. Smyth. Colonel
Davey, R. Laird, J. Stewart, Si, N.E.
Edwards, Col. Leslie, W. Stmt. H. G.
Egerton, A. F. Longtleld, R. Vandelear. Colonel
Loraine, Lord Verner. E. W.
kgreiltlnfikute,Ceir J. Lygon. F. Walker, J. R.
Ferrer, J. Makulin, J. W.
Yellowee, L Mlles. 84 W. MUMS.
Fernand, W. Montgomery. gir O. Henley, J. W.
Ploy( r, J. Morris, A Walter, J.
Gilpin, Col. Murray. W.

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WINDSOR CASTLE, Ices 9.

Princess Helena, attended by Lady Churchill,
the Hon. Harriett Phipps, and Colonel H. Ponsonby, went
to London yesterday, and honoured the performance at
the Lyceum Theatre with her presence.
The Duchess of Wellington, the Belgian Minister and
Madame Van de Weyer, and the Bert of St. Germans had
the honour of dining with her Majesty.
The Duke and Duchess d'Aumele visited the King of the
Belgians this morning, and took luncheon with her Majesty.
The ambassadors from the Queen of Madagascar were
Presented to the Queen to-day by Earl Russell, Secretary
of State for Foreign Affair,. They ware accompanied by
Mr. John Dulfus, their interpreter. Earl Russell bad ea
audience of her Majesty. Lord De Tsbley was the lord-
in-waiting.

The Priam= of Wales took a carriage drive yesterday
afternoon, attended by Countess De Grey.
The Duke of Cambridge visited Prince John of Clucks-
burg at Marlborough-house.

Despatches were seat yesterday from the Coloaialwelee
to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian bilsads.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge en-
tertained their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge,
the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and the Prin-
ces Mary at dinner, last evening, at Gloucester House.
The following were 'svitedi to meet the royal Tarty
Excellency the Minister for the Netherlands, the Earl of
Clsrendon, the Hight Hoc. Sir Hamilton Seymour, Lady
Geraldine Somerset, Colonel Tyrwhitt,

The Right liou. Sir John Pakington, and
Lady Pairinton entei.ained at dinner last evening, at their
residence at Eaton-square, the Erd and Countess Douotigh-
more, Lord and Ledy Cokhester, Lord and Lady Robert
Ceed, Baron end Boraxes Maroehetti, the Right 800.
Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., and Mrs. Disraeli, the Right
Has. C. B. Adderley, M.P., and Mrs. Adderley, Mr. sod
Lady 'hum Pakiagtas, Mr. Seymorr Fitzgerald, M.P., Sir
William Fraser 11. P 1:c.

The ainbiumadors from Madagascar, attended by
their interpreter, Mr. John Dudes, left town yesterday
morn* for Windsor Castle, to have an sudieece of her
Majesty. The ambassadors returned to Challis's Hotel,
Piccadilly, where they have been 'laying Woe' their artival
in England, last eveniag.

The eelect committee to tty and determine the
Beinstapie borough election petition will be chosen on the
11th of Apt:l next.

To-morrow Sir Lawrance Palk will call the atten-
tion of M. Attorney-General to a tulle obtained for a com-
mission to examine the Pacha of Egypt and other witnesses
at Cairo to obtain evidence against the steam rams detained
at Birkenhead ; and ask how long this investigation is likely
to take, and the probable expense of A ; whether the trial
of the Birkenhead irooelacts wiU be postponed from May
next, anti this information be obtained ; and, why this
ride was not applied for when the vessels were first
detain(' d.

Mr. Bonny B. Sheridan brings forward his bill
to reduce the duty ou fire ittsurawres oa the 15th.

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Mr. Adderley, on the motion that the Speaker
leave the chair for going into committee on Penal Servi-
tude Acts Amendment 1311, will move, "That this home
is of opinion that the system of discharge of prisons:a from
penal servitude on Homes without police supervision should
no longer be continued."

The O'Connell National Monument Committee
has published a luguta iota appeal to the people of Ire Lend.
After two long years of begging through the column of the
preen, at chapel-doors, and in every other way they could
imagine, they now confess that, " up to the present time,
the funds at their divas,' are miserably insufficient."
The grand jury of the coanty Fermanagh have
found a true bill against the Rev. Mr. M'Loughlin for
aiding the celebrities of the marriage between Peterson (a
Roman catholic) and Mims Quinton (a protestant and a ward
of Chancery). The rev. gentleman was admitted to held
(personal security to the amount of 200/., with two sureties
in 100/. each), and bound over to appear in the Court of
Queen's Bench oo the first day of neat term.

The death is antionueed of Mr. Eneas Macbean,
the banker, at ROOM Mr. Maelsean had bees established
there nearly 20 yams. The immediate cones of his death
was disease of the /mart.

ROYAL MASoNIC INSITICTION FOR Bova.—The
sixty-shah anniversary festival of this meritorious insti-
tution WIN held last evening at the Freemasons' Hall,
Great Queen-street. It bad been announced that the Duke
of Newcastle, K.G., would preside; but as his grace
wan, in consequence of indispositioe, absent, the
chair was taken by Kr. Aeguatus Smith, M.P., provin-
cial grand roaster of Cornwall Al >et 300 brethren were
present, all attired in full masonic craft costume.
In proposing the toed of the evening, " The Royal Masonic
Institution for Boys," the chairman observed that this sumo
of the four moat important institutions in 0131300ii012 with
the craft. It wan founded in 1795, and during the but two
or three years the old fouodation had been abaedoned for a
new one, under which the benefits arising from it would be
greatly extended. It was to be hoped that for the future
so leas than 100 or 150 boys would receive instruction. The
foundations of the new building, he wee glad to say, had
been completed out of the earplug of the year's receipts.
The estimates for the building, however' were very large—
not less than 16,0008—sod great efforts wan to
bring the institution to that perfection which all mem
of the craft desired. The subscriptions received daring the
evening sinonnted to about 4,5001.