The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-19 00:00:00

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Athenry and Facia Junction Railway (Extension of Time)
Bill ; Bishops Waltham Railway Bill ; Galway Water Bill ;
Kettering and Thrapatone Railway Bill ; London and North
Western Railway (Additional Powers) Bill; Midland Rail-
way (Bristol Line) Bill ; Mistley, Thorpe, and Walton Rail-
way Bill; and North British Railway (Wambesk Railway,
tre.) Bill.
The Greet Eastern Railway (Steamboat) Bill was read a
second time.

LONDON (CITY) TRAFFIC REGULATION BILL.
Os the order for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. AYRTON moved that it be read a second time that
day three months. The object of the bill, he said, was to
endeavour to get up a peculiar sad exceptional law for that
part of the metropolis which was within the City, and the
general character of the propositioc was that the City au-
thorities should be authorised to make bye-laws of a maim-
teusire character for the purpose of regulating the vehicular
traffic within the City, and practically for the whole of the
metropolis. The powers conferred were of a most arbi-
trary character. Another objection he had to the bill was
that it ought to have been • public instead of a private bill.
Mr. MASSEY said he could conceive nothing more per.
tinent to the object of a private bill than the regulation by
a municipal or local authority of the traffic of the streets
comprised within its jurisdiction, and he was rather sur-
prised to hear such au objection as that come from his hon.
' and learned friend, who avowed himself an advocate of local
self government. This subject was properly the subject of
a private bill, and he thought that a better private bill had
not been submitted to parliament this session. He would
undertake to say that in the Cityof Westminster, what with
beggars, and prostitutes, and street music, andaawlingealw,
more was endured by the inhabitants than was endured by
the inhabitants of any capital in Europe, and he wished
that the provisions of this bill could be extended so aa to
include not only the City, but the rest of the metropolis.
He hoped the house would not hesitate to send the bill to
• select committee, and that the select committee would
not impair its provisions.
Mr. CRAW FORD said the house would not fail to per-
ceive that the speech of the hon. and learned member!
(Mr. Ayrton) was characterised by the hostility he showed
on every monies to the corponitioit of the City of London.
Considering the great inconvenience caused by the ever in-
creasing traffic. and that shortly there would be three ter-
minal railway stations within • radius of • quarter of •
mile from the Bank, he thought the time had arrived whew
power should be given to the corporation to regulate the
traffic. The commercial claws looked with great distrust
on the meteors, but he was satisfied the Court of Alder-
men would exercise the power with due deference to public
opinion.
Mr. LOCKE said the bill gave power to a small portion
of the metropolis to make regulations practically for all
London. He thought the bill ought to have been • public
bill, audit would then have been referred to a select nom-
mines of 15, on which metropolitan mereben might have
been put, but being • private bill it would be referred to •
select committee of five, and no members who were into-
meted could sit on the committee. He contended that
under the City Police Act the Chief Commissioner of Police
in the City and the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan
Polies bed power at the present moment to direct the
routes through which the traffic should pm.
Mr. COX should vote for the second reading, for he
thought the bill contained many clauses that would be of
peat service not only to the City, but to the rest of the

Sir G. GREY, while admitting that there might be some
hICOOVOI3i4IIIOII in dealing with only a portion of the metro-
polis, felt that the house could not, in conformity with pre.
cadent, object to read the bill. He thought, hoverer, that
when it bad gone through the select committee it ought to
come back again and be considered by a committee of the
whole boon. Meat, hear.)
Sir J. SHELLEY complained of the injustice that would
be done his constituenta, who were greatly interested in the
' bill, but who would have no locus atm& before the select
committee.

Mr. SCiJLLY protested against the ides that none but
metropolitan members had any 00001111 with the metropolis.
They held exactly the opposite language when it was a
question of spending the public money upon London.
The bill was then read a second time.

Sir J. SHELLEY gave ootice that he should to-morrow
move that it be referred to a committee of 15.
NOTICES.

Tux Kirovr. —Mr. Sc Um. r,to ask the noble lord (Palmas-
ton), to-morrow, whether it wu true, as stated in the news-
papers that morning, that General Mouravia had issued
an ordinance proclaiming that the penalty of the knout
—which generally proved fatal—would be inflicted on
all Polish ladies dressed in mourning.
FOLSND.—MR. W. E. FORSTER, to move on Monday Mat
the omission and insertion of such words in Mr. Hennemy's
proposed resolution as should make it run u follows
"That an humble address be presented to her Majesty,
thanking her for the communication of the correspondence
on the affairs of Poland, expressing the regret of the house
at learning from that correspondence that the Emperor of
Russia has persisted in violsting thos, stipulations of the
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treaty of Vienna upon the fulfiln7ent of whgh Great Britain
and the other powers who were parties to that treaty based
their sanction of the sovereignty of the Emperor of Russia
over part of Poland, and earnestly praying her Majesty to
signify to the Emperor of Russia that this violation of the
treaty has freed Great Britain from the contract thereby
concluded to sanction such sovereignty."
THE FORTIFICATIONS.

Sir M. PETO;ii;ati:iri,iii;i4Oftie Treasury when
he proposed to bring in a bill on the subject of a loan for
fortifications, and whether he proposed to recommence the
suspended works of the Spithead forts.
Viscount PALMERSTON hoped very shortly to Intro-
duce a bill on the subject, and be should then have to as-
plain the details of the works contemplated.