The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-26 00:00:00

THE CASE OF CAPTAIN MELVILLE WHYTE.

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The Earl of SHAFTESBURY salted the Secretary for
Foreign Affairs whether the arbitrator in the case of Cap-
tain Melville Whyte and the Peruvian government bad been
appointed yet
Bin RUSSELL said the arrangements for the arbitration
were not yet complete.
Lord EBURY presented • petition from tbe Metropolitan
Bo- rd of Worts NOMA • clause in the Leases and Sales
1111 &Wed Estates Bill which would enable the lord of the
manor to enclose and build upon Hampstead-heath.
WAYWARDENS' CONTRACTS BILL.
Lord REDESDALE moved the mood reading if this
bill, the object of which was, hosed& to prevent myrmidons
from contracting themselves to traappaeit the road'.
Lord STANLEY of ALDEBIXY said the bill was on.
necergary. Under the old Highway Act wayward's' could
eel enter into such contracts under • penalty, and the
Highways Bill of last 'maim provided that all qualification,
and disqualifications of surveyors of highways and way.
wardens which existed under the old law should continue
farce.
Lord REDESDALE said the Highways Act of last sw-
am applied to the Board of Highways, but not to individual
members of it.
The bill was then read a second time.
LEASES AND SALES OF SETTLED ESTATES BILL.
The above bill pared through committee.
NAVAL MEDICAL SUPPLEMENTAL BILL.

The Duke of SOMERSET moved the mood reading of
the Nasal Medical Supplemental Fund Society Winding-up
Let (1861) Amendment
Lord CHELMSFORD made a few observations in oppo-
sition to the bill, which was them read a second time.
SALE OF BILL SITES (IRELAND) BILL.
Bill reed a mooed time.

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DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LANDS
(IRELAND) BILL.
This NM was also read a second time, and referred to a
select committee.

AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE TREATY BILL
On the motion of Earl Roseau the house went into won-
mitres on this bill, and the several clauses were agreed to
without chscuasion.

VOLUNTEERS BILL
Their lordships went into committee on this bill.
Clauses to six, inclusive, were agreed to.
Tits succeeding clauses up to 34 were also agreed to with
same verbal amendments.
Upon clause 35, which enables volunteer corps to obtain
penada for target practice,
The Duke of RICHMOND, in moving the omission of the
Mauve, said it conferred on the lord lieutenant a power so
arbitrary and unusual that be believed few of their lord-
ship would be willing to poems it, and still fewer ready
to put it into practice. The Secretary for War might refer
to the Defence Act, but it was not a parallel case, u it only
related to the coed defences. So far as he bad heard, three
was no ground for coming to parliament for such compulsory
power". It had not been shown that volunteer crepe were
Les efficient, or that any practical inconvenience had arisen
hem the want of them. With regard to the persons whose
property was to he taken, he did not think that after the
Leal-lieutenant had recommended the taking of the ground,
end the Secretary of War had certified in its favour, the
owner would have mach chance of offering a Bucaimital op-
position to the measure when it mime before parliament for
its sanction. The clause provided that the pound should
be selected with due regard to the " gaiety and convenience
of the public," but the owner, to wham the target practice
alibi be very unsafe and incoaveoiset, was entirely over-
looked. If there was any evil to remedy, which he doubted,
it was so small that it did not warrant such an interference
with private property, and he should, therefore, wove the
sainuo* of theclause.
Earl DE GREY sad RIPON mid the noble duke was

thew. 11;;;;P-prebeamion in supposing that the practice
soder the clause would throw the entire reepomibility on
the lord-lieutenant of the oonnty. The certificate of the
lord.lieutenant was required as an additional security that
no land should be taken that waa not absolutely wanted,
wed could not be obtained except by the intervention of
this power, but afterwards other proceedings had to be
taken. A petition would have to be resented to the Secre-
tary for Wm, who would make inquiries into the dream-
Mumma, and if be approved of the proposal, he would make
a provisional order, which must receive the sanction of
parliament in the same way as provisional orders tither the
Local Government Act. The real question, no doubt, was
whether there was any neceniity for the proposed powers.
In the country districts it was hardly possible that volunteer
Garr should be in want of ranges for practice, but is the
neyrhbourhood of large towns, and especially in the neigh-
bourhood of London, there was gnat difficulty in getting
such ranges. There were 26 metropolitan corps which
practised at the government range at Woolwich, but they
maid old> am it when it wee not required by the regular
troops. The consequence was that they were debarred
horn anything like regular practice. Volunteers ought to
have peculiar facilities ; for, owing to their superior intelli-
gence and the interest they evinced in rife practice, they
were enabled to obtain with practice a high degree of pro.
fthency iu the me of the rifle--so much so that parlament
bad recently, on the recommendation of a royal commission,
decided that His. out of the grant of 30s. to volunteer oorps
amid be dependent on their having parsed through a
seasidemble amount of musketry instruction, involving
the Brad of considerable number of rounds every year.
It won be impossible for them to obtain that money nn-
MSS they had proper facilities for practice. Some time ago
SO
11,0 t wee passed giving facilities for volunteer core to
obtain ranges voluntarily, but it bad not resulted in their
obtaining than. The present bill was framed under the
erection of the late Sir U. C. Lewis. to whom and the to-
varmint it appeared that these claims were justified by
Itia needs of the volunteers, and they were almost a
imeittaary corollary of the vote of parliament,
meth depended upon the efficiency of the msa.
The rejection of the camas would be regarded with moth
motet by a considerable portion of volunteers, but at the
game timed the general feeling of the house were against
them he would not insist upon their retention, as they
teemed no essential part of the
The Rada DERBY expressed an earnest hope that the
Noble earl would abandon the clauses, which involved a
.very
manual sad arteries interference with the rights of private
preparty. No instance had been given of any practical in•
ravenieses to show the necessity for such powers being
granted, and he trusted that if the noble earl did sot
abandon the clauses, he would at least postpone them until a
future day.
Fart GRANVILLE believed that these clauses would be
of great use, and reminded the house that similar powers
were possessed by the regular army; but on the whole, seeing
the force of the opposition offered, which his noble friend
had evidently miscalculated, he would recommend him to
withdraw them.
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-Thr IMIT;fIERBY—I had always a gnat opinion of my
alibis friend's discrettoo, bat I =dem I never taw that dis-
aretioa more remarkably exhibited than on the present oc-
casion.

Earl DE GREY and RIPON said he would withdraw the
datum objected to,bot oubrieging up the report he would
introduce a clause to preserve to the volunteers the permis-
sivepowers which they possessed under the existing law.
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Clause 35, and the other clausal on the same subject,
were thee omitted from the bill.

The remaining claw= were agreedto, and the house re-
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