The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-28 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION IN PERSIA.

Colossi SYKES asked the Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs the remit of the delay in signing the con-
vention with Persia for the establishment of telegraphic
communication between Khanikin and Bushira

Mr. LAYARD replied that there was no wind delay in
signing the convection, but there was to be • double set of
wires, sad a question arose as to the division. He hoped
that that question would shortly be settled, and as soon as
the convention was signed it would be laid upon the table.
ROAD BETWEEN BAYSWATER AND KENSINGTON.
Lord R. CECIL asked the First Commissioner of Works
if he had given attention to the prayer of a petition from
the inhabitant, of Bayswater sad Kensington?
ldr. COWPER said when he first proposed that the
house should vote the asperses of establishing a communi-
cation between Bayswater and Kensington-gore he sug-
gested a new road, which was to be eo separated from the
perk that it scold be opened at night. That arrangement
would have involved considerable expense, and ultimately
a more economical plan wu adopted by which existing
reads were used. The plan answered very well in several
respects, but it had the disadvaotage that if the road were
used at night access would be gives to the whole of Hyde-
park. If the request of the petitioners were adopted, and
the gates were to be open after ten o'clock at night, he could
not consent that they should be opened to rich persons and
caniagea, while the poor on foot were excluded, and if they
were open to all, consequences, in a police point of view,
might arise which might be highly objectionable. (Hear,
hoar.) There was every reason to suppose that if the gate;
were thrown open dung the dark online the park would
become a nest of evil-disposed and disorderlypsnooa It
was quite impassible that the 300 acres could he properly
watched, and to light them would be out of the question.
Even at the present moment, while the gates were care-
fully closed between ten at night and five in the manies,
there were soenes oecurrieg which called for the constant
vigilance of the police.
__ INDIAN PRIZE MONEY.

Mr. FITZOREALiFiesiiedtO Tia—k-i.-1; 'right boo. gen-
tleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer a question in re-
fereoce to a distribution of Indian prise moon. The sub-
ject had been brought under the notice of the government
a few days ago by the hon. member for Stamford, who
then asked whether government considered that the prize
mooey in question should be distributed exclusively amongst
Sir G. Whitlock'. force or among the army and militia
generally. The noble lord at the head of the government,
in reply, stated that the papers relating to the prize-money
should be taxi upon the table of the house immediately,
and that no decision would be COO2O to by the govern-
ment until the house bad full opportunity of ex-
peassiog an opinion of the matter. To the sur-
prise, however, of Sir George Whitlork's force,
papas were forwarded to them conveying intelligence that
the decision of the government had been come to on the
subject, acid that the money was lying in the hands of the
Treasury. He wished to learn what course the government
intended to taken reference to the matter, and whether
the house would have a fall opportunity of 000sideriog the
question and expressing its opinion upon it before the final
distribution of the prise.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the
papers which had been laid on the table relating to the
iis-nioney would show what bad taken place. It was
true that his noble friend had given an assurance that the
matter would remain without prejudice until the house had
an opportunity of considering the papers. He did not
think, however, that the noble lord bad said that the
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decisiOn of the Treasury should be kept in suspense, b7c;usii,
so far as the judgment of the Treasury wag concerned, that
wail known and avowed when the question was brought be•
fore the house. He believed the pledge gives by his noble
friend wam that the papers on the subject would he laid
Wove parliament before the decision of the Treasury was
acted 'moo. It was quite true that the decision of the
Tresanry was made known to the parties concerned by official
bitters.