The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING,
_VEBRIJARY

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-THCREIDLY, Fix. 18.

Ilis Loan OBANOILLOR took hie scat on tho wooing* at
5 o'clock.

Lord HOUGHTON presented a petition agreed to at a
robe meeting in Manchester in favour of strict neutrality
the Daniels question. The noble lord ,said the petition
tae to he regarded as of some importsece emanating, as it
did, from the centre of commercial activity.
The Marquis of CLLNIIICLILDI gave notice that be will,
ea 'Tuesday next, ask the government whether their rates-
ties has been called to the recruiting going on in Ireland for
the Cnited States, and whether government have taken any
stops to prevent it.

Sir IL PEEL said that the report of the President of tbe
Qnsee's Oollep. Cork, wee presoaked yesterday, and wee
yesterday laid upon the table. As regarded the whole ose-
respondence which had taken plans between the hi & go-
vernment. Dr. Belies, and Sir B. Kass, there wee some
other oorrespooderios sot by Sir B. Kane, but between the
inspector-general of the sendsihnlery end Dr. Bolles, and
there would be no objection, as far aa he (Sir B. Peel) war
oonoerned, to lay the oorrespoodence before the house.
Lord NAAS asked whether it was the fact that the oror-
respondence had appeared in the newspapers before it was
presented to the boom.
Sir R. PEEL said it was not publiahad in the eserspepeTe
with the 00001111112011 of the Irish goversaseet, bat he was
sorry to say it had appeared before it iris laid on the bible.

Ye; 0. PORTESCUII treated the subject from the
Ode*lel-ofbes print of view, end *Milled the goesenermt
is set pronosieg any mess arteaded astern of transposer
Moo to Wadden Australia than the asperity d that eoloey
admitted of. He thought that thus prim= who were
seetenoed b keg tams of imprisonment should esesive a
large parties of their sentences at home, sod amid only
sally find their way to Australis as a boon. and as a
mode of &slim with them at the mid of their seniollollll ;
is feet that tranmadatiee should partake of the character
of exile rather than anything elm,. He believed that the
of the government would eventually artily both
proposals
of Western Australia sad of the Australith
colorise generally.
Sir J. PA&INGTON pronounced &eulogy on the memory
of the late Sir Joshua Jobb, and a:peened his warm appro-
val of the appointment of Colonel on se Sir J othua's
successor. Hs considered that the government were right
in adopting, is principle, the reoommoodatiou of the royal
commiesionera, that the minimum period far pert ser-
vitude Amid be looser than heretofore, end be thought
that eve year, were certainly better thee seven. He wee
sorry, however, "het they. had diaregarded the reopen.
mesdatiOn of the commarociers. that traarportetion

to Western Australia should be greatly extended ; for
transportation wee in his opinion one of the best secondary
punishments that could be adopted ; baton the whole the
government had exercised a wws discretion in not running
the risk of a quarrel with any of ow great Australian de-
pendencies, With regard to the ticket-of-leave system,
which has excited no much well-founded alum throughout
he country, his hoped that it there were so supervision
that there would be no system of limmelag ; and he held
that swab supsrviaioa should be exercised b y the polies or
the recognised agents of the government, sad not by the
irresponsible seemly of voluntary 110atittell, Over Iwhich it
was possible for the home or • government to exercise
sectroL

Mi.CHILDERS gave a full history of transportation to
the Australian ralorues. and argued from the facts that the
I system had not been woosrfnl, and scold sot be repeated
as say large scale, even In Western Australis.
Mr. NEWDEGATE denounced the prodezeitioa by the
eolonies of Australia of soother Monroedoctrine,and the
denial to her Majesty's government of the right to select on
the whole of that enormous continent atingle spot on which
to found a penal settlement. Justice aid charity began at
home, and if we undertook to protect the oolooke from
ftreign eareseica we ought in return to have a sphere to
which we wild remit a portion of our criminal population.
Mr. WALPOLE could not agree that the plan marked
oat by Mr. Adderley would be preferable to the scheme
proposed by the government He thought that, without
haring convicts put under the direst espiorrage of the
police, there was no reason why the should not be required
—whilst they held a ooaditiooal • report them-
selves to the police when they changed the place of their
reeidemos. The system of our convict discipline was sound
and right in itself, sod he believed that it would be greatly
improved by the hasps proposed by the government So
thinking, he for one gave his cordial approbation to the bill
to the iatroduction of which the house wee now Naked to
assent.

8i; a. GREY, ie reply, said hewas gratified It the manner
in which the subject had been disarmed, and in the oon-
carroom of boa gentlemen in the prinmpla of the bill. He
admitted that supervision was the most difficult part of the
whole subject. It woe oot that polio. riporvision which
the commissioners resommended, bat rather a supervision
similar to that which was exercised in Dublin. Voluntary
associations, conducted by bea•voleat people with the oh-
** of repressing crime, were by all means to be spoon-
By that means he beloved a vast amount of good
be By
at was then given, and the bill was read a first time.

tab Intdlipsitt.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—Fin. 18.

Sittings at Niel Prim in leaden. —ll3efore Lord Mist Jodie*
Erie and Spuds' Jury.)
MLR= WM= FLU= GOUDA 00NPLIFY V. HWY
KANN A= ANWMUL AOZWF.
The plaintiffs in this ense were a company established at
atGouda, in Holland, for the manufacture of candles, and the
defeodants, who wereoommission merchants in Friday-street,
had scream agents for the company. In the summer of 1863 a
outran ass entered into to supply two parcels. of 1,250 buss
of candles each, to a Mr. Sided ; and one parcel was deli-
vered on board a ship which sailed for Australia, but Mr.
Sichel objected to receive the candles in consequence of an
objection aa to quality. The present action was against the
defendants to recover the Talus of the candles. and also
some expenses from the defendants, upon the ground that
they were instructed to receive the cesh before they deli-
vered the goads ; but, on the other bud, it wan said that
by the terms of the oontract which the plaintiffs had entered
into, the defendants ware bound to deliver the candles " free
on board an export ship."
Mr. Lush. Q.C., Sir George Honyman, and Mr. Mathew,
appeared for the plaintiffs ; and Mr. G. Denman, Q.C.,
Mr. C. Pollock, and Mr. Taylor for the defendants.
The jury, after burin ultimo* on both sides, found for
the plaintiffs—damages, i,0371. Bs. 11d.