The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-19 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS..-WEDN MAY, Fn. 1&
(Cosamod from yesterday's Express.)
METROPOLITAN TURNPIKE ROADS.

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Mr. G. HARDY gave entice that on Friday next ha
would aok for leave to introduce a bill to amend the law re-
to turnpike roads in the neighbourhood of the metro-
PAL

QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICES ABOLITION BILL.
Mr. HADFIELD moved the aeoond reading tithe bW.
Mr. BAINES wooded the motion.

Mr: TgER'DIKIATE said the hoe, member who moved
the mooed reading of the bill seemed to think that the
house ought to assent to the motion. ("Hear, hear," from
members below the gangway on the ministerial side.)
The boo. member thought he was so completely in pores •
eon of the will of the house that the minority would not
venture to stores, their opinion, but he seemed to have
forgotten that last year the ball was only pseud by • small
majority of 11 an that house, ind was re*ted
by the House of Lords by a majority of 33.
VIM did all this come to ? Hon. members
opposite were carrying on a warfare against the House
of Lords and the Church of England. Liberalism led them
to pursue a strange course. Upon various occasions they
took the most direct means to destroy the order of things as
by law established. That might be political consistency—it
might be progress in their sense—but it was a downward
comae to the absolution' of democracy. He should not have
thought, under the existing circumstances of the world,
that this view would be so popular as it bad been, but, at
the same time, boo. members on the other side of the
hones were pledged to meet the convenience of the
more absolute members of their constituencies ; they were
pledged to carry out the decrees of intelligences far inferior
to their own ' • and pledged, on certain questions, to vote as
blindly as if they did not possess the talents and discretion
which were known to exist amongst the majority of the
house. This bill proposed to sweep away the Test and Cor-
poration Act, which required members of municipal corpo-
rations to declare, on their acceptance of office, that they
would not use the power and infineuce that office conferred,
in order to small, weaken, or spoliate the established
church. That declaration bound no man in hie private
capacity, or as as elector, or as a member of the house.
But the bill went further, because it left any one bolding
any office under the state to use the power he so acquired
to attack the church. If this were not a direct attempt to
introduce warfare between the several elements of the
state, he did not know what deserved the name. He trusted
the house would reconsider this subject, because the hon.
member asked them to reverse the whole course of legisla-
tion for the last 32 years. The principal enactment the bill
repealed, was contained in the Roman Catholic Relief Act,
and the acts for the relief of Quakers and members of the
Jewish Pervaosion. Bogging the house not to undervalue
what they were now asked to do, the hoc. member am-
ended by moving, ea an amendment, that the bill be read
a second time that day six months.
The motion was seconded by Mr. Snvortr.
The house then divided. The numbers were:

For the second reading
Against
The announcement et the numbers was received with
cheers. _ .

The bill wee then reed a mond time.
AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS ON WOMEN AND

CHILDREN BILL.
Lord RAYNHLH, fa moving the second reeding of this
bill, which, he said, was one of peat intpreienes, and had
been repeatedly before the homes, examined his regret that
it had not been taken up by asammore aids and experienced
member. So much had been said as to the object of
the measure in previcsta debates, that little remained to
be added. The principle that these assaults no women
sad children should be rapeseed bad been geoerally ac-
knowledged, end it was to be regretted that the house bad
hitherto refused to sanction legialatimi for that purpose. It
had before bees complained that the bill empowered magis-
trates to inflict corporal punishment for every one of these
offeeces ; but while he still maintained that such punish-
ment was sad desirable for the castigation of all
offenders of this ascription, in consideration of the feeling
of the house on the subject he now proposed that corporal
punishment should only be inflicted on the third conviction.
He thought that public opinion was in favour of an alto-
ration in the law, and he trusted that honourable members
who objected entirely to the introduction of flogging would
agree to the second no:bag. and consider whether the other
parts alight not have the effect of potting a stop to these
offeeees.

—Alderman SIDNEY thought the preseut law quite suffi-
cient to meet the case, and should therefore move that the
mooed molls( be postponed for six months.
Mr. BRISCOE eseonded the amendment.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed—the bill, and re-
gretted that • subject which had so reently been decided by
the house, should spin be brought under He consideration.
The noble Iced when he brought forward the subject in 1861
was not so fortunate as to find • seconder, and there
had certainly been no chance of circumstances, for the
worse winos that time. On the contrary, the m-
cards of oar police offices showed • diminution in
the number and gravity of the classes of crime with
which the noble lord proposed to deal. Having analysed the
provisions of the bill, and pointed out Its defects, the hon.
and learned gentleman concluded by expressing his opinion
that the hill would be rather • retrograde movement than
an advance in the arrangement of the criminal law. He
trusted the house would not consent to the second reading
of the bm.

Mr. BRNTINCK supported the bin.
Far replied, sad the hoses divided
the nosed reading 4 I
Against
The ham adjaerand at 4 o'clock.