The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-22 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TorsDAL JULY 21.
The Law Cater CS took Ws mot oo the woolack at
iv. o'clock.

BRRACH OF PRIVILEGE.

The Earl of DONOUGHMORE celled attention to an
article in the Stockton end Hartlepool Merrar!, of the 15th
July, in which it was imputed to him that having bad a re-
lative—the Rev. Henry Crispin—interested in the Went
Hartlepool Dock and Railway Bill, he bad corruptly made
nee of his position its a member of that house and chairman
at the committee to obtain for his relative more favourable
terms than he would otherwise have obtained. He indig-
nantly repudiated the ineinuation, and asked if there had
been Loyally( in his conduct during the twelve years he
bad been in the 1104190 to warrant such • charge. As he
thought their lordships would feel inclined to protect those
to whom they eetrusted important functions in reference to
the conaideretion of private bills, be bad felt ft his duty to
call the attention of the house to the matter.
Earl 1;1; taN VILLE thought their lordships would agree
with bim that the charge was altogether unwarranted, and
that the part taken by the noble earl in the case of this
bill was highly creditable to bbn. The noble earl had
detected very great irregularities in the proceedings of the
coo levy, and had very properly brought them under the
'taxation of the house. It was a matter for grave conside-
rati,,n whether charges of this sort, involving a breach of
the privileges of the house, should be pasesd over, and it
would be for the house to consider whether it was not their
duty to summon the reinter of the article to appear at the
bar. As however, it was perfectly impontible that any one
could attach the slightest importance to the charge which
had been made, perhaps the noble earl would be satisfied
with having called the attention of the house to the matter.
Lord REICIESDALE also vindicated Lord Dononsibmore
from the accusation which woo made spinet him.
The Earl of DONOUORMORE said he bad felt it his
duty to bring the subject under the consideration of the
louse, and having done so, be had no desire to press it
further.

Lord REDESDALE thought the editor of the paper
IE4 to be thankful to the noble earl for his forbearance.
The abject then dropped.
The following bills were read a thirnime and paned :
New Milford Dodo Bill ; Hadlow Railway BW ;
Edin-
bargh and Olugow Railway Bill ; Bonelli's Electric Tele.
ce.Csoermpuny ; North Eastern Railway (Hull and
Branch) Bill ; and Scottish Central Railway and
Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Janeiro Com-
panies Bill.
NAVY PRIZE AGENTS BILL

After a shod dismal)a this bill weed through commit
Ilse with smeedmeats.
ALKALI WORKS AMENDMENT BILL.

The Earl of DERBY moved to omit the clause,
which provided that the recovery of penalties wu to be in
the first Mitten against the owner, and that the owner
might recover them over from a servant acting without
orders; sad that in the event of the owner having made
reguletioas complying in all respects with the terms of the
act, the pushy shuld be recoverable not spied him, but
against his sonnets who infringed those regulations.
Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY said that the clause
was similar so the which existed in the Factory Acts.
Lord CHELMSFORD thought that the clause was in
contraveation of an established principle of the common law.
Their lordships then divided :
Contents 47
Noa.oonteets 24-23
So the amendment was rejected.
The other alteratioes were agreed to.
FISHERIES (IRELAND) BILL.

The above bill was reporiod with amendment&
PIER AND HARBOUR ORDERS CONFIRMATION
BILL.
This ball was read a third time.
MISAPPROPRIATION BY SERVANTS BILL.
This bill was aloe read a third time.
VAOCINATION (SCOTLAND) BILL.

This bill was reported with arneedmenta.
The UM= Relief Aid Acts Contionanee, Company
Clauses, Turnpike Trysts Arrangements', and Exhibition
Yodels Bills, were severally reed a third time.

ROYAL COMMISSION.

The House of Commons was then summoned to the bar
to hear the royal assent given by commission to a number
of bills. The lords Coonnimioners were—the Lord Chan.
cellor, the Duke of Argyll, and Earl of St. Germans. The
following is a list of the bills which received the royal
assent :—Pocr-law Board Continuance ; Loan Societies Acts
Amendment ; Regimental Debra, Re. ; Po/ice and Improve-
ment Scotlaad (Provisional order); Growing Crops Seizure
Ireland ; Volunteers; Way wardens' Contracts ,• Prisons
eland ; Greeswieh Hospital (Provision for Widows) ;
Metropolitan Maim Drainage Eztession ; Officers of Royal
Naval ; Public Works (Manufacturing Dis-
tricts) ; Land Drainage (Provisional Orders) : Sir'
Robert Hitchanes Charity ; •Ruthin Charities ; Local
Government o*l9. 2111,1 M•l7!Politazt
Railway
W; Oarme and Cardigan
Galway Pater ; Millard Haves Dock and Railway ; Great
North of Soaked Railway ; Levertoft Water, Gas, and
Market; Bradford, Wakefiald, and Leeds Railway; Bristol
and North Somerset ,• Birmingham and Sutton Cold-
geld Extension Railway Hsstinp Harbour ; Wex-
ford Free Bridge ; London and North Western
(sew branch lines); Edinburgh Water ; Colo* Ve-
iny sod Halatend Railway ; Banff, Re., Railway ; Dare
Valley Railway ; Hammersmith and City Railway ;
'Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway ; Banff, Be. (Extee-
am) Hallway Nutley. Thorpe, and Walton Railway;
Bala sod Dolgidley Railway ; Friestot Reclamation ;
Madras Irriptios and Canal Company; Midland
Railway (Bristol line) ; Midland Railway (new
k• 1; Newhaven Harbour, kin. ; Wor-
cester, Dean Forest, sad Monmouth Railway ;
Formartine and Buchan Railway ; Great Eastern Railway
ktd4itiond yaw.sts) • Great Northern (Spalding to March)
uWm. Brighton, sod South Coast (sew lineat
=7, lee.); Lynn and Suttonbridge Railway (Wansbech
, &a); Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction;
Thames Bridged ; Bak Valley Railway ; and Great
Western, West Midland, and South Wales Railway Com-
panies Amalgamation, Bills.
Their lordships adjourned at a quarter past eight o'olect.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TIMSDAY, Jri.ir 21.
The house resumed at six o'clock.
NEW ZEALAND.

Mr. FORSTER gave nouns for Thnreda y to uk whether
tu. Goverooe of New Zealand had ietienated his intention of
wending to the Goveroor•Genend of India for Sikh troops to
min in quelling the insurrection in New Zealand.