The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-24 00:00:00

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS.

Lord REDDIDALE rose to premot eighteen petitions
from landowners, road trustees, and others, praying for
general legislation on this subject.
Lord ATHERTON stated from his own knowledge,
living, as he did, in the centre of England, where a peat
number of these road lines passed, that there lied been the
greatest complaints of interference with private rights in
the erection of telegraph posts.
. . .

Lord STANLEY ofr ALDERLXY was quite ready to
admit that the powers given to electric telegraph com-
panies had been most extensive, =I had operated in many
instances most injurionely. Up to a very meant time
telegraph companies had been entitled with laying their
wires along railways and canals, and is those cases no dif-
ficulty was experienced, but recently powers had been con-
fired upon them by private bills of which the public were
. not aware, which gave rise to very great inconvenience, and
created a very strong feeling of surprise and animosity on
the part of persons whose property had been injured by
them. Petitions had been seat to him of the some nature
as those which the noble lord had presented,
from persona in the neighbourhood of towns, com-
pinining of the injuries they bad 'attained by the
manner in which telegraphic wires were permitted to be laid.
The fact was that the powers given under private bills bad
been extremely varied, and, in some mass, very eccentric,
sometimes giving power to *roes private property without
the comsat of the owners or occupiers, and to peas
along roads without the consent of surveyors or trustees.
He concurred with his noble friend, that it would be most
desirable to have, if they could, a general measure, laying
down some principle which might not deprive the public of
the advantage arising from thekootapstition of visions com-
panies, and which, at the same time, would not violate or
interfere with the rights of property. He would undertake,
on the part of the government, that the matter should be
taken into consideration, with a view to legislation if
practicable during the present 11.16011.
After a few words from Lord RIIIIBIIALZ, the petitions
were ordered to lie on the table.

PEACE PRESERVATION (IRELAND).

Upon the order of the day far the second reading of
_this bill,
Earl DESART referred to the recent anmesinationa in
Ireland, and those agrarian mimes which in peat times had
disgraced that country, and which appeared to be reviving
in all their form. Ha expremed-hia conviction that the
Roman catholic priesthood might, if they pleased, do much
towards preventing such acts by exercising their inSuence in
aiding the authoritiee to bring the offenders to justice, but
he had little hope that they would do so, seeing that the
• of heretics was a principle of the Romisla

church.

The Earl of CORK was not surprised that a noble lord
connected with Ireland should have called attention to
those outrages which had lately occurred in Ireland, but
doubted whether the present was the moat fitting time to
enter upon a dimension of the subject. He denied that the
Roman catholic clergy were in any way chargeable with
sympathy for the CAMS or the criminals, but on the oon-
trse was satisfied that they detested them as
as the noble earl, or any one else,
mach
were ea wises to Wag the perpetrators of such
diabolical acts to justice.
The bill was read • second time.
COPYRIGHT (WORKS OF ART) BILL.
This bill was postposed to Friday next.
CHANCERY REGULATION BILL.
The report of the amendments in this bill was brought
tip and agreed to ; and
Their lardehips adjoureed at 10 edictal to 6 o'clook.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FinDAy, MAT 9&
The BMX= took the chair at 4 o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The billowing bills were read a third time sad posed :
Ashborne and Helper Road, Cheadle Roads, Dundee Water,
Hatfield ad St. Alban's Railway, Beat Water, North
Rastern Railway (Blaydoa sad Coaside), arid the Vale at
Clwyd Railway.