The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-04 00:00:00

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS BILL.

Mr. cox moved the second raiding of this bill.
Sir G. GREY believed that its object was to apply the
pnociple of voting by ballot to municipal elections. If that
were so, he thought the hon. member ought to give thehouse
some resume for adopting it. (Cheers.)
Mr. HARDY begged to move that it be read that day six
months. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. WILLIAMS said the bdl was a mere supplement to
an act which had been named some time ago for the elec•
tioo of select vestries. The vestries' so elected had worked
remarkably well.
Lord J. MANNERS observed that if they read the bill,
they would be core to have it quoted before the close of the
session by the boo. member for Bristol as a precedent in
favour of the ballot. (Hear, bear.)
Mr. BERKELEY, after the reference which had been
made to him, felt bound to say that he thought the bill a
step in the right direction, and one well deserving of the
sanction of the house. .

-11LT11.1iSTAIRD thought it would be unusual in the
absence of the member who had charge of the bill to
meet it with the amendment which had been proposed. He
should support the second reading.
Mr. I'AGET thought, having regard to the greet num-
bers who believed that this bill would defend them from
intimidation. and tend to give the constituencies the power
of recording their voice according to their own sentiments,
they ought not hastily to refuse the mooed reading. This
bill would afford a test of the applicability of the ballot to
the election of members of parliament, and upon that
ground also he gave it his support.
Mr. J. LOCKE was of opinion that it would be ex.
tremely unfair sot to reed the bill a second time, seeing
that it was distinct from the general bill for the
application of the ballot to the election of members of par-
liament, and that the objections to it, whatever they might
be, would be more appropriately dealt with in committee.
Mr. A. SMITH admitted that this bill was inteoded in a
great =ware to be auxiliary and supplementary to the
general question of the ballot, but at the same time the
adoption of the principle was proposed to be altogether
voluntary, and he thought that that would remove many of
the objections to it.
Lord PALMERSTON—As I have always been a great
opponent of the ballot. and as the mover and the promoters
this bill fairly and 'illy avow that this is the first
step towards:proposing a ballot for parliamentary elections—
for the hon. member himself said that it was auxiliary arid
supplementary to the proposal of a ballot for puha.
mentor, electron—l should on any occasion on which the
bill came before the house vote against it. (Hear, hear.)
Therefore, as the question now is put, I shall have no hesi-
tation in voting for the proposal of the hon. and learned
gentleman opposite, that the bill be read a second time this
day six months. Every argument which has been adduced,
or which I have heard in favour of this bill, is of the same
kind as the arguments adduced in favour of applyieg the
ballot to parliamentary elections, and the objections I feel
and have always stated to the ballot for parliamentary
elections apply in principle to the present proposal—
(hear, how)—because the election of a municipal body is •
political action. It has not the same political cocoa-
queries as the election of members to serve in this
house, but there is no doubt it is a political act ; and
the principle which I think • sound one is, that in this free
country no one should perform a political act without its
being known to all his feilow-citisens bow he has performed
that act. (Hear, hear.) He should take the responsibility,
whether for good or evil, of the course he has deemed it his
duty to follow. (Hear, hear.) I think that responsibility
to go hand in hand with political action, and as the
object of this bill is to withdraw the conduct of voters at
municipal elections from public observation—to make their
voting semet, and therefore to withdrew them from that
responsibility which I think in a free comititution ought to
apply to every political act—l shall certainly vote against
the bill, and concur in the motion that it be read a second
time this day six months. (Hear, hear.)
The house thee divided :
For the second reading
Against
The bill was consequently lost.
The Union Relief Aid Act (1862) as amended was con.
sidered.

The Births and Deaths Registration (Ireland) Bill was
read a third time and plsed.
The house adjourned at ten talent*, put 7.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, MARCH 3.—Arrol
abiproan G. S. La Couto to tie Victory.
Mr. G. H. Eden baa been nominated to a maul cadatahip.

.-Mid-

CHATHAM, Me ca S.
The Cumberland, 70, Captain T. P. Thompson,
flagship of the steam reserve at this port, will be towed to
the Nore to-morrow, for the purpose of joining the squad-
ron which will be etatiooed at the entrance to the Thames
on the arrival of her Royal Highness the Princess Alex-
andra. Orders have been received by the Admindtalt4i,e
screw gunboats Sepoy, Oareation. Spanker, and
attached to the steam reserve, to take their place in the
squadron, the gunboats being officered and manned by the
Naval Reserve, who have obtained the permiesiou of the
Admiralty to take their part in the naval display of the
10th last.

The following appointments have been made in
the lbsyal Naval RAIMITTO :—To be Lieutenants—Ralph
Robson Liddlo and James lidmarah.

UNTV ERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OAYI3.I3IIDGE, 31.Laca 3.

EXAMINATION POE B.A. DPOl22l.—iNll., 1863.
—Examiners : James Porter, M.A., St. Pekes College::
Arthur Calvert, M.A., St. John's College ; Thomas Charles
Haw Croft, M.A., Caine College ; Hammond Roberson
Bailey, k. 9.. St. John's College ; Charles John Evans,
ALA., King's College ; Ralph Benjamin Somerset, ALA.,
Trinity College. Examined and approved: C. J. Atherton,
' Job. ; W. M. Barnes, Joh. ; Bennington, Job. ; Carlyoo,
Emmen. ; Curtis, Joh. : Gardner, Ton. H. ; Garrett"
Caine ; Gritnley, Trim. ; W. Hargrave, The. ; Hawthorn,
Trio. ; Hensler. Trio. ; Nemeth, Oath. ; Lord Pollinslon.
Trite. ; ROOM% Jesus ; Samurai, Trim. ; Sikes. Queens';
Smith-Marriott, The. ; S. Taylor, Oath. ; Ward, Joh.
24rotat ; Ward,Quesse.

At a general ordination holden in the Cathedral
Church, of Norwich, on fineday last, the following persons
were admitted into holy orders :—Debooe Newnham
Comp Philpott. Priests : John William Dover, 8.A.,
Jens College, Cambridge ; Richard Hayward Kidd,
Christ's College, Cambridge ; John Leach, 8.A., Gonville
and Cues College, Cambridge.
Ou Monday last, the Bev. John Fletcher Burrell
was limed to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Mary at the
Elms, in Ipswich, on the nomination of the parishioners.

Mr. &THERON EsTCOURT, M.P.—The right hon.
gentleman, the member for North Wilts, is dill in Italy,
to which country he repaired, under the advice of his me-
dical attendants, some few months ago, on his partial re-
amity from the alarming illness with which he was seized
in July last. We are glad to be able to state, on the au-
thority of letters received in Wiltshire during the last few
days, that, although the right hoc. gentleman has not en-
' Okay recovered, his health has considerably improved
during his stay io Italy. Mr. Eatcourt, however, dot opi-
nion that he shall Dever again be able to take that promi-
nent part in public business which he has done, and that he
shall be compelled to relinquish some of the offices which
he holds in the county of Wilts. It has been stated in the
county for some time that at the next election Mr. &blood
would, in all probability, decline to come forward as a can-
didate for the representation of the northern division of
Wiltshire, and that he will retire into private life. It will
be remembered that in July last the right hon. geotlemno
ruptured a blood reseal, and that he remained in a very pre-
carious condition for some time —Wader's Daily Pnas.
HOTEL AND INNKEEPERS' LIABILITY BILL.—A bill
to limit the liability of these establishments against claims
for property, alleged to be lost or stoke, to the sum of
201., has been introduced into the Hood of Commons by
Mr. P. W. Martin. On Monday a public meeting was held
at the Grosvenor Hotel, Pimlico, lard Arthur Lennox in
the chair, which was attended by deputations from many of
the principal towns. The Chairman stated that the bill had
been drawn and placed in the hands of Mr. Martin by a
committee of hotel proprietors at Manchester, and the
present meeting was convened for the purpose of agreeing
to support the said bill. At present the care sad
management of hotels was very hazardous. He thought
the bill reasonable, and those for whose benefit it was in-
tended ought to exert themselves in getting up petitions
and in calling upon their members to support its second
readiag a the 22nd of April. The agent for the bill. Mr.
Geo. Oaudelet, stated that there was a desire that there
should be no sum named in the bill as a limit, but the best
legal advice had been takes on this point, and the answer
was that par;iament would Dever agree to remove all reopen.
sibibility ; therefore as low a limit as possible had base
Named. Mr. Thomas Johneon, from the Queen's Hotel,
Manchester. observed that at premed their liability was us.
limited. and they were subject to frauds and litiptioe from
unjust clams, amouothig in the aggregate to thousands of
pounds per year. Mr. Joesthan Crowther having
pa sim-
Edile 1411 as resolutions were pared , pledg-
lms meeting to supportitstands,
the =swam bed to coopenite
Use rialisr ecauatlee .