The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-02 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WZDNEWAT, thic. 1.
The home tint at twelve o'eliselt.
TRUCK SYSTEM.
Mr. C. FOSTER asked whether in soaseqamice of Mr.
Tosemahmre's report it was the intention of governmeat to
istnedace say oneeram relative tie the Truck system daring
Mee presakl maim.
Yr. WALPOLE mil gintliMeat iateaded to iatro-
fitter an set slur**. Tem* maim immediately aftm
the realm.
BETuaNs ORDERED.
Pooa Laws.—Oa the amnion of Sir Oscura Pecans,
sepias were oedema of the spier Waal the Peer Law
Board. dated the Nth deg of Ang•lM,
the adminiatratima esecleer -pose, is I
talons. Of all application/imbed/sr br oassearial. petition,
reeolutioa, or letter, adthwsed W Ogle Dames of Ouardion
er my or either of them, go the Poor Law Board, respect-
lag the saki order. Of ea Ware or papers addressed to
the said Boards of Ouarrilase, ar any or either of them, ia
answer to such application. And of say ameaded order
which the Poor Law Board have substituted for the said
order of the 26th day of August last.
Oa the motion of Sir (Mown Pacaack.—Copies of dM
several applications that have bees made to the Board of
Admiralty, the Hydrogrenker, sod the Astroaciner Royal,
nacre 1449.
_for pecuniary rewards ea aeeoaat of improve
ad made in chroaoraeten ; aad • list of the several
chromatinic that have bean placed ea the gemerasmat
trials at the Royal Observatory, at Oseeswiek. enraged M
their order of merit, and distinguish*: these ehroaometers
that have been purchased by the Board of Admiralty, with
the prism awarded for than (in °asthmatics el return
US, of session 1849.)
Os the motion of Sir Ciaoacia PRCllllll.—Reterse of all
vessels that have been purchased for the Royal Nary Masa
the date of the last return (July 9 1861), statist; Irma
whom purchased, the price paid, and the tonnage of each,
disrimmiakiag the amount paid for the hall and the stores :
Mid of her Majesty's ships and vowels that have been sold
aims the Ist day ofJanuasy, 1850, stating to whose eold,the
prise paid, and the tonnage of each. distinguishing the
mean paid for the hall and the atoms, matiag Masa and
tivirsiltasjatig built, and whether coastrected of wood or iron ;
' separately stama-venels aad the power of
their engines.
THE MILITIA.
_ _ _

Sir a PEC II 3LLaaedthi7Weer;tary of State for the
Haute Department, if he would, before the ramie, present
the retunta of the ember of men cow carolled la each
Teraina of militia, sad the quota of each, distinguishiag
thine reanimate that bad bees or Were sow in training.
Mr WALPOLE said that the returae were, be behind,
rawly complete, and, as far me they welt, would be laid ea
the table. At seem as nemplete, the remainder would be
gives.
BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL. _ _

Nr R. IN01:11a.,a;;;iai-Liw;;;;;.- t oat. Com-
atissiners la Loamy, ead the observations made by tile
gmeraoes of Bethlehem Hospital 'evicting it, would Do
laid oa the table ?

IaALFOLi mid that be had received the report and
016 Obett66lioll6 of the governors, but wished to read both,
wed seeks biaself empaleted with their purport,
tb
he israi Non se to iMis. He biped to Is .broveisl;
Ihem ett t table 3leadey nest, vibes be 'meld do
Mete the muse cents= by the goverment.
COUNTY lONS POLL BILL.
_ .

es tboeeiet7ei
Mr. BUM leopthell IDA thelbee peeeseasie es OW
WI iambi be setheedth atm Ste la wen
that apahli raves WON Irma as ehwt at saa•
gable( the hefty et thole eselebeenelee. If that AM sot
tamer tite Duthie kM view. peelop be Teeth thesset to
reiey lbe bill le% alba esemittee _ _

Mr. MILES hoped that the aohle lord before going his
'enmities wield stale kb ialeatises distiaetly with mewl
to the bill. The noble lard had esesplisated his erlsbee
=hill by eddies two extremes' pet
te beer really what portion of the Claire eaWs
bed lamella' to perievere with.
Lard R. GROSVENOR, in ref. y to the hoe. member
boa Demsekire, end—That as the prioeiole of the bill hod
already rewired the seethes of her Majesty's perraaset,
mad bees folly dismassel le the bete, he saw no reason te
agree to his enigmatic With respect to the observances
M the hem. somber for fiesaereetshire, he said that the eel,
prepositions be intended to maintain were that polling
should be limited to one dry, and that the &Mambos
should take plate as the following day instead of the day
after. Ile had withdrawn the clause limitiag Me period
between the acsaiaatioa and the poll to mes day.
Sir 0. PBC H ELL supported the bill, and added that be
remanded a borough thirty miles beg and tea wide, and
the poUlag M one day was there owlet ea without the
slightest 1•0111VellitSCIL
Mr. PACKE said be had already oemplaised of the
haste with which the noble lad pressed his bill, sad now
saw no reason to alter his *plaice. He thoet that mem
time should be given to snider its peiroes. He be-
lieved teat the bill would be a measure of difranekies•
meat to a large portion of the meaty electors, sad that too
the most importaat poetise, Wag the holders of property
having votes in various eranties. At penmen eighty aloe-
bens were held on the MEN day, sad with ono day's
polling such voters as he had described would be virtuany
disfranchised. His hostility to the bill reinalaiml as-
ehaaged, sad therefore he should vote that the house go
into committee that day three mouths.
Mr. H. DRUMMOND would support the bill, and
thought that all objections would be obviated by the cow
aloe of additional polling plum,
Mr. O. N. BUTT, in sootier an instruetion to the eon-
Lam, said the house was well aware that the time lied
at present was died by the 24th Geo. 111., paned in 1704
which provided that the oboes was to be held am later
than 16 days after the predantatiem, and alt @OWN due
10 days. His proposal wet, that it should be met later
tluia 1.0 days, oar memo them 6 dark which be tined
would be amply sallsient, gab' pretest elionsimere,
to ferry sa an sissies. Beefy 4WD was amen dee ems,
nous espouse of the precast anions, and the bus of
the hoses was to limit the time ef *ifs sad onsselef ex-
pense, which were assenost the met crying maid the
day, as mash es 'mai& (Cheers.) Uses might
percent
whoa it wield he damn fir elegise to pate the
poll, sod the resseltaiselen had bona aseatiseed as es M-
ateo... Bet the hens nun legisbite se general Flgalpiee,
and set for partisahr ones; sad whim he reesWiid the
fairness facilities new saireng hi tramiy be thought the
time he had mautieeed would he simply salsiest. If the
motile bid preferred 6 sad 12 days he was willies to ma-
our; bet he thought that the time of @zeitgeist oneeetad
with elections, should be limited as meek as
(Hear, hear.) He would farther suggest, it this biEpsned.
that the visa in boroughs should be limited to 6 ark Air
the receipt of the p
Mr. B. DENlBo74"reett that the house WWI IMW ob-
ject to the prim of iple hes. member's reeeledeas, as
they obviated all oldeadems to the bill. If the time is
thoroogba were sot she imMel. he amnia there would be
thilienty is 'saying on the phseinee ef the bill. If the
noble teed add the thy hide hen thi ag to the
Interval bourne the andemies sod On m se to
give the &eters throe deer betwess, remove
his (Mr. Deakea's) Us hod entigted emend
amass own and hog A Inlssmil bin that then
salad be se diliselty is thinieg the poi Is ore
ate
iciatimpeovUoi OM sidlinal piliegliesos won nested.
) U they hal OW, the goosed ambit of
Oise% ma i d t dr mei 41spossailed fozpone of
would be
tiedu le Wien., ethos= se te asimarß
baked nee seemed pdßeg thy es ea sod mil,
Inseniptiag work sad eraillettueseinoos expense. The
onewn lest is the West Miss _ the mend day's boss of
=sod sew wallworan thought tubeless if he
It le the Una (Dear, bon) Bet, if they United
the duns= to ono dn. the pews portion of the saran
sad lon of labour wield he New&
Lest H. VANE euppesmfthe nth bet weebi Fehr ea
additiesel number_ efffiellhig thaws.
Lied J. RUSSELL thee & that as ipmeaseeet had
agreed to the pries{ of the hilk It wend
plc.
gems if es little were added he that ' es
Is the Ern irlarre, he thought his would M•
411.11 to alter his rootless reepeedeg the tine hawses
the sling of the poll hens sad the isolontleKia the /....m..0111-
The men object of the bill was he Ink as nub as
the lon din wed sopmeNnsatt 6. that be theagETT—hey
&end hemesinso. te the amen of
pang plasm On night be ellielsilierthe law as it med,
es the at qpneter melon bed pews, to pen&
sew when asenney. He felt sure they
set to .odes that power. (Hear, beer)
Me theogin the neollin of the nasal between the he,
of the writ sad • mean sheiss should be left for a sips-
rate bill. He thought le would be meets better to extend
the time is many theism On further to curtail that at
mina aimed Is beeesgbA With such views he should
support the osnenttase.
Mr. MULLINOS did not think that the limiting of the
poll to cies day would limit the amount of ozponee. If
they lied separatspolUeg pieties they most have the whole
staff and machlasity atinarr ew% sod the would router-
balance the saving otheled by the limitation of time. An-
other importaat elentheelles was, that they would have to
refop an the bek, the bone, end the blisd, who aow
rad rail thinnd fay la the hope that their votes
weld not be ed.
Mr. EMI wee vapid et the boa. gestalten throw-
lag anoints is the way. The anima of 1636 were
easelmons Is nessmossileg Oat the polling steroid be
United to sae day. The aegenty of the votes were always
polled by ethos err Anil is the first day. The rest of
the time the pollremelnal opts was generally ~played ia
basing up not may the belt sal the tined, as the he..
reatkinan had said, buttes bawl. rarity of amass
would he served by tie big.
Mr. 11ENLBT. la seihreace to the saimmilmest Gelb,
boa. nitaber (Mr. theig, observed that the .suety papa,
whisk was the eniszis. II by whin noisy of the mien
bid notice of the nay same le then ease a week.
He owed with the soli Moil theo. If sighing, more se-
the saki be glee maw that he.
Mr. V. SM 1 nt essidend the 11l WNW prevent then
thiglinale **penes alga wen madly lu=red as the
mud guy. He bond the le wadi be nelned hie
hglients oliset—thet of limineg the awns. of the poll
le a tingle Isif•
Moe a few worths theta Lend I. 0 aces aerie awe a
piss Oman.
The MAZER end that it was out of order to moot am
hatrestios after a intim that the committee be peensesil
die en isonis. If te lastrartiss was to he ninth the
masa sareadosst mast be withdraws.
Ur. BUTT withdrew his awasthemt,
WSW Daibedy ble saggesticas la a srpontehilllMAl t
mend mak Imre to latrines, after Channel.
Mr. V. SCULLY approved of thi prendithe the
the poling to see dm but Illthilthe wit=

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY

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LONDON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2.

To pt into office is one thing ; to act es one wishes
when there is another. Of this even the dullest
follower of the DERBY party must begin to be aware.
"Ah, if Lord DERBY and his friends could but get
in t" once sighed the Conservatives, " they would set
I everything to rights." Lord DERBY and his friends
ore in, and what have they done, or what can they
do, to please the Conservatives ? Lord DERBY was
to restore Protection to the landlords, bat Lord
Dezairs oolleagoes in the Home of Commons have
just voted that the abolition of Protection has bene-
fited the country generally, without injuring any one
interest. LordDensv was to alter, or modify (improve
he called it) the national system of education in Ire-
land; but that he now confesses he has no power to do.
" With every desire," he said on Tuesday, " to re-
move or conciliate es far as possible the feelings or
prejudices of thous opposed to the system, neither
himself nor his honourable friend saw their way to
the introduction of any alteration that would have
the effect desired, without disturbing or materially
altering the present system of education in Ireland.
All he could say was, that he thought it would be a
great evil it they were seriously to disturb or
alter the existing system and her MAJESTY%
Goverment not seeing their way to effect the
object. which one party had in view, with-
out incurring the evils which the other so
stror:agrli deprecated, had no intention of bringing
any measure on the subject." And thus,
with all the promises the noble earl made to his
supporters before he attained to offioe, one after
another he will be compelled to confess that it is not
in his power to perform them.
And herein consists the danger of what is called a
Conservative Ministry. It is not that they will be
able to tamper with Free Trade, or retard or turn
back the progress of national secular education, or
undo anything of good that has been done. But
they will do nothing. Rational ameliorations of our
institutions their party will not allow them to under-
take. Restoration of old abuses public opinion will
deter them from attempting. They will stand idle
with their hands in their pockets, and look on while
new abuses creep in, and evils of older standing grow
inveterate ; and the consequence of their idleness, if
allowed to continue long enough, will be a crash
some day, and a " deluge after Lord DERBY," of
Lord DERBY% making.
A very decided dilemma Lord DERBY found him-
self in, when on Tuesday the Marquis of CLANRI-
CARDS suggested the propriety. of passing. in the
Lords some declaratory resolutions respecting Free
Trade, analogous to those which have lately been
Itislin the House of Commons. roe his own part,
i
Lord DERBY had little objection to do this—nay, he
did not affect to deny that it is right and proper
it should be done. Yet ho hung fire, though Lord
CLANRICARDE as good as offered him the wording of
his own resolutions. He hemmed and hawed; talked
of noble lords who had left town, not expecting any
such proposal would be made ; and asked time to con-
sider how the task might best be set about. No
wonder Lord DERBY hesitates: it was • compara-
tively easy matter to make the House of Commons
" bow to public opinion," and conform to the dictates
of common sense. But with the House of Lords it
is aver, different sffair : especially when the Pre-
mier himself le not earnest. But there are good
Free Traders amongst the Peers who must see to this.
For the House of Lords we entertain all doe re-
spect. It is au institution which has grown naturally
out of the social relations of the country. The peculiar
distribution of property, the peculiar sentiments of
the people lyive made our House of Lords a social
' necessity. And, barring occasional freaks and
escapades, it will be admitted that the 1101190 of
Lords works smoothly enough among the ,ether
institutions with which it is associated; and is often
ireful in the way of revising and correcting laws
width have come from the House of Commons in a
slovenly shape ; to say nothing of the advantages of
IMO Mature and manysided deliberation, the con-
sommes of having every measure argued a second
ter in the Lords after debate is at an end in the
Osmems.

But when the House of Lords does get into one of
these exceptional tantrums above alluded to it is no
joke. Rather than not have its own way, that illus-
trious body will at times risk the shattering of our
whole constitution. And then, when convinced, as it
has hitherto always been in the long ran, that it is
powerless to realise its unreasonable wishes, the
moody, helpless airs it has been wont to give itself,
when submitting, have had a tendency to expose it
to contempt, and to invite attacks upon it which
true friends of our constitution must deprecate.
As a case in point, it is only necessary to
refer for illustration to the perverse and
Beres opposition which the House of Lords
offered to the Reform Bill; the pitiable figure it cut
when that bill received the royal assent, in presence
of the empty benches where the opposition majority
were wont to sit ; and to the popular odium and threat-
stied aggressions which the House of Lards had
tamely to endure for many years after those
events. It must be admitted that there is something
inherent in the composition of the House of Lords
that renders it liable at intervals to such Worms
and dangerous gusts of passion. The number of
Peers who regularly and habitually take part in the
business of the house is comparatively limited.
But when anything occurs that arouses the
pinions and prejudices of the members the
atiendeam I. crowded enough. On such co-
NA= men hie Lords DERBY and ASZADZIN
en thaw Mad, and Lords LANI§DOWNE and GAIT
ea the ether—who have been taught by experience
to farm a sweet estimate of the duties of the house
and extent sif its pewere—are bat • small minority
amen remiss who have sot been so trained. The
ma! men*
_ham hem in the habit of holding
sled km mails lima Exclusive intercourse
with their own eaglet with dependents has in-
spired them with an evenreening estimate of their
own power, end_ *swum of the power of the un-
titled manse. Rads and self-willed, they know not
how to Odd to pais opinion until they have
aroused the imaged el palls indignation, when they
bend bermthe naexpestad and (to them) unintel-
ligible pienemeas with a puillanimity that awakens
contempt.

The -Howe of Lords, on this account at all times
(Moult to keep in order, is peculiarly ungovernable
at the mend moment. The imposing character of
the Duke of WELLINGTON had accustomed many of
the Peers to surrender their judgment. to his on all
important questions. They thought (or fancied they
thought) as be thought, and acted as he bid them.
He hell some sixty proxies to be used in divisions at
his absolute pleasure. So long as this state of affairs
endured, the Hones of Lords wss rational and ma-
nageable enough. Wai.Ltitaro!'s sixty votes were
always brought in emergencies to the aid of
the small number of experienced, practical
politicians, wbo attend regularly the deliberations
of the Peers. But the death of WELLINGTON
has restored the sixty to the use of their own free
will—has reeubjected them to the necessity of
thinking and acting for themselves. For tkis task
their long habit of waiting for and implicitly adopt-
ing the saggestioos of the Duke of WatuttoTort
has quite incapacitated them. They have all the
desire in the world to act rationally, but have no
conception how they are to set about it. The expe-
rienced, practical members of the Howe of Lords
are in an unwontedly small minority ; the declara-
tion of the intentions of Government respecting
Free Trade, exacted from Lord Deane, will arouse
all the prejudices of his order. Hence the Premier
hesitates and asks time to consider how he can
induce the House of Lords to concur in his public
and formal renunciation of Protection. Ho looks for-
ward--and not without good cause—to a repetition
of the peevish and wilful opposition to public
opinion in which they indulged at the time of the
Reform Bill, and the equally dangerous poltroon
submission when convinced of their danger.
If this state of affairs only annoyed Lord Denny

be no greet harm doom. Rill mast
been of his own seeking; the okeidiat•
is upon him have beam 41.1eN,
any outrageous at of tire:it:AM
of the nation that &all
avowedly I explicitly for ever abandosed. stay
endanger thmmehis, and may embroil them with the
people. No exertion ought to be spared b 7 their
friends to open their eves to their real 'position in
society—to the knowledge of what they can and
what they cannot do. Within the range of the
broad general principles of the national political
creed they have great power to flx or modify details;
but to atom great principles they must defer. Were
all the Lords to turn Puseyites they could not force
their faith on the nation ; ma little can they force
their economical creed upon it. There is a great deal
of trickery and mancouvring going on, but the
Peers must pass a Free Trade Resolution.

DECEMBER 2, 1862...

!Maisie de Grenedan has retired his seat in the
municipal council of Qaesnoy Gk.@ du Nord). M.
de Cadman, mayor of Saint- rs-du.llesert (Loire
Inferieure), was lately dismissed by the prefect, and
as soon se the decree of dismissal was known the
whole municipal council resigned.
Count de Thieffries has been sentenced at Valen-
ciennes to six months' imprisonment and a tine of 20!.
for distributing the Count de Chambord's protest.
His servant, implicated in the same charge, was let
off with three days' imprisonment.
The disappointed projectors of the local mortgage
banks expect to be indemnified by allotments at par
of 500 f. shares in the Paris Credit Fonder Bank,
which now sell for I,ooofr. The applications to this
effect were for the most part sent in immediately
before tho election, and therefore the Minister of
the Interior was constrained to send the most
gracious answers possible short of a positive promise
to accede to the requests made. The directors of the
Paris bank, however, stoutly resist these demands,
which they think exorbitant for the mere trouble of
copying the statutes of the central society, which is
all that the local associations have hitherto done.
The Paris bank is disposed, rather than cede the
point, to allow the country banks to be established,
feeling assured that they will not succeed.

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