The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-17 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1852.

THE ,EXP.

The SPEAKER wilt of opinion that it was, and
iea-
*essed upoa the bona the amenity of a strict observance
,gif its rules. •
fat J:PAMINGTOICihmiIir supported the bill, and
Hstrongly
Mr. UME ur int postponement until the
opinion of the colony could *ken.
The house thin dividrd—

For the adjournment
AirainA it 1
.1 llO —79
The house unmedlatelj. dirigd again oa the second
reading—
Ayes
Nee
VEI4IIIIEB BILL.
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Sir DE L. EVANS moved the second reading of this bill.
Ile explained the object of it to he to enable joint parishes
to adopt Debhouse's Act, which at present they cannot do,
the want of which power had been felt in the ease of the
joined parishes of St. Margaret'. and St. John's, West-
minster, and Bt. (Sloe's and St. Osorge's, Bloomsbury, who
were desirous to adopt Ilobbouse's Act, but in the present
state of the law were unable to do so
•

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL onpoen] the bill, in the
first place, henna the bill, though introduced as a public
bill, applied only to four parishes, and the mode of remedy-
ing the defect which ought to have been adopted was to
have introduced a private bill. Another objection to it
was, that St. George's was a much richer parish than St.
Ours'., in which the great majority of the paupers in the
two parishes resided, and in like meaner St. Margaret's
was richer than St. John's ; and if Hobboute's Act were
adopted great injury would be lone to the inhabitants of
St. George's and St. Margaret's. He moved that the bill
be read a second time that day three months.
The bill was supported by Mr. T. l)uncombe and Mr.
name' and opposed by Mr. Henley and Mr. Walpole.
The house then divided:

For the second reeding 2G
Against it B6—GO
The bill was consequently lost.
MR. FRARGUB O'CONNOR.

WALIToLith Mr. brought up • report of the select
committee appointed to inquire into the allegations in the
petition of Mini O'Connor, sister of Mr. F. O'Connor. The
report stated these allegations were true ; that it ap-
peared, by the evidence of Mr. Lawrence end Dr.
Tweedy, that they had visited and examined Mr. O'Connor,
and had each certified that he was a proper person to be
I confined. The petitioner had requested Dr. Tuke to re.
ceive her brother into his private asylum at Chiswick. and
he had agreed to do so. She stated that she was the nearest
relative of Mr. O'Connor in England, and hail signed the
requisite order for enabling Mr. O'Connor to be pticed in
that asylum. The committee had required an undertaking
that Mr. O'Connor should not be removed from Dr. Tuke's
asylum without the authority of the house, and they had
given such undertaking. Ceder the circumstances the
committee recommended that Mr. O'Connor should be die-
charged hem the custody of the Sergeant at Arms, end be
given into the care of Di. Tuke. (Iles, hear.)
The report was received.
Mr. WALPOLE—I beg leave to move that Mr. O'Connor
be discharged from the custody of the Sergeant at Arms
without payment of the fees.
Mr. HUME hoped no time would be lost in making ar-
rangements for Mr. O'Connor to leave the house.
WALI'OLE said that arrangements had already
been made for that purpose.
Mr. HOULBURN asked whether the agreement as to
Mr. O'Connor not being removed without the authority of
the house, applied merely to the present session or to a
future parliament ?
Mr. WALPOLE said the agreement was a verbal one,
and only applied to this parliament.
The motion was then agreed to.
PARISH CONSTABLES DILL.

Atter a conversatiou on this bill, the committee thereon
weeCOlreaßCPToverrlt. ACTICES AT ELECTIONS (No. 2)

BILL.

The ATTORNEY•OEFIEWAL said he should move
that the committee on this bill be iced for that day three
months. It was most unreasonable in its provisions. It
only contained two cliuscs—one empowering actions for
bribery to be brought in county courts ; the other directing
that a county, city, or borough should be taxed by a rate
to defray the expenses of auy inquiry that might be directed
into the circumstances of an election. The bill had been

introduced about two o'clock in tho morotng or it would
never have come before the house.

Mr. ANSTEY defended the provisions of the hill, hut
said he did not attach much im➢ortance to the second clause.
It being within a minute of cm o'clock the house divided—
For the committee on the bill
Against it
The house then adjourned.

erorrws.

sive.

be accounted for. Their ecclesiastical staff, their
increase of chapels, their provision of monastic
homes, are all a you exaggeration, when coin•
pared with the religious wants of their present num-
bers: they arc clearly, obviously, notoriously aggres-

All that is plain enough ; but then they have a legal
license to he aggressive; nay, on religious grounds,
aggression may by. them be considered -a duty. On
the other hand, it is our duty to repel aggression—
hut not by persecution. Now we may have persecu-
tion under the guise of enforcing existing laws quite
as easily as in any other shape. That, indeed, is
its most popular and common form. It was such
persecution which the Doman catholics endured be-
fore the enactment of the 10th GEORGE IV. And
when we reflect that this proclamation is issued by
the government of a party which opposed the enact-
ment of that statute—which subsequently resisted its
spirit—which refused to Ireland for years a proper
franchise on the ground that it would increase the
power of the Roman catholic party—and which is
now encouraging Mr. Sroosizit's attack on May-
nooth ; it is really hard to believe that the motive
which animated and advised that party is not the
old "No popery," persecuting one. At all events, such
is the turn which the government journals give it.
Before advising the QUEEN to issue a proclamation
of the sort, ministers must, of course, have collected a
large body of facts whereon to found their recom-
mendation to her MAJESTY. These should be made
public. Mr. WALPOLE last night talked about pro-
cessione—and danger to public order—let the fullest
'particulars be given on these points. The Roman ca-
tholic community are now warned that the practices
and offences proclaimed " endanger the peace and
security of the QUEEN'S dominions." They, whose
ceremonials and costumes are thus said to be so full
of hazard and danger to the realm, have a right to
ask to be told how and why they are so. And we
protestants, who are thus startled with the informa-
tion that we are sleeping over a volcano, must be in-
formed in what consists our safely. Does the danger
announced lie in the habits, dresses, ceremonies, and
processions now proolaimed ; or in something " within
that passeth show ?" And will the mere suppression
of public displays dissipate and dispel this new
popish plot which, on the eve of a general election,
Lord DERBY has so fortunately discovered ? These are
questions which it concerns the good name and fame
of the loyal Roman catholic laity—and the repose
in security at night of all protestant% —to
have answered. We may smile at Mr. IlEsair
DaesistoNu's announcement of a coming civil and
religious war; for past experience has taught us
that on him, at least, the prophetical afflatus does
nut largely fall. But w hen a royal proclamation
terminates by plainly telling the country that the
Roman catholic clergy are guilty of " offences, • •
whereby the peace and security of our dominions
may be endangered," the announcement becomes a
senous matter. Parliament, it is obvious, must be
told how.

Nothing can be worse than for a government on
slight grounds, or for personal purposes, to precipi-
tato any domestic discord between classes ; but,
above all, a religious discord. To resent an external
insult and assault is a very different thing from pro-
yoking internal disquiet and animosity. And
ministers must, of course, be prepared to show that
the necessity for issuing this proclamation was un-
avoidable; and that a mere ordinary Police Notifica-
tion would have been wholly insufficient to have
met the emergency. Otherwise they will have
to rest liable to the suspicion of having misled their
sovereign for the unworthy purpose of gaining a few
votes at the general election. Let us wait, therefore,
for information and explanations, before clapping our
hands, as the Times does, at this strange proclamation.
Lord DENBY promised a large and comprehensive
inquiry into the whole subject. lie cannot have
advised the issue of the Proclamation without having
materials at hand to explain it.

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ITALY.

TILE CASE OF EDWARD MURRAY.

I sent for to the Elyse° to be cons
sect.
It is said that both Prince Jerome Bonaparte and
General d'Hautpoul, the grand referendary, made
serious objections to the President against the ap-
pointmcnt of M. Laurent de Ardeche, who has ratted
from red republicanism to imperialism, bat they
were answered that this appointment was made with
a view tu conciliation. It the democratic party is to
be conciliated, certainly favour shown to a deserter
from their ranks is b idly likely to procure this re•
suit.

!d on this sub-

The Corps Lcgislatif met to-day in the bureaux
only, Although the motion made in the house
on Monday for the extension by one day of the time
allowed for consideration of the bill on the new taxes
was rejected by a small majority, the members who
complain of the precipitancy with which that mea-
sure is urged on have gained their point. The bu-
reaux met yesterday, according to the decision of the
house, but separated without electing a committee,
adjourning the examination of the bill- till this day.
this morning the following committee of fourteen
has been chosen to report upon the sumptuary law:
MM. Farart, Pougerard, Schneider, Do Kergolay,
Due &Uzi's, Due d'Albufent, Baron do Bussteres,
Baron de Ravine!, Oncel, Haller-Classarede, Comte
FriaTeric do Legrangc, Boissy d'Anglai, Desmaroux
deGaulmin, Deladoucette.

The following committee upon tho Councils-
General and Municipal Election Bill has also been
elected : MM. le Baron de St. Germain, le Comte de
Chanterac, Dubois (d'Angers), de Romeuf, and
Fansjiev.
It is in contemplation to propose to the Legislative
Body a bill for tho abrogation of the decree of Oeto-
her IS, DOS, on juries. This decree was as follows:
Art. 347 of the code of criminal instruction shall be mudi-
fled as follows : The declaration of the jury against the RC-
cu,rd shall be made on the principal fact, ou the aggravating
circumstances, and on questions of excuse or discernment,
by a majority of more than seven. The deeluration id the
jury must announce this majority of more than seven with-
out specifying the exact number, and this on pain of nul-
lity. The declaration of extenuating circumstances may be
made by a simple majority.
The delegates of the paper manufacterers, MM. de
Causen, Illauchet, Mauban, J)ufay, Fermin Didut,
Gratiot, Montgolfier, Ituulhnc, 1/ouinere, Krautz,
Arnault, and Mathias, have just published a memo-
rial against the proposed duty on paper. According
to the calculations made by them the new tax would
not yield more titan three millions per annum, in-
stead of the ten millions estimated by the govern-
ment. The delegates of the printers are also pre-
paring a memorial against the tax.
The statutes of the Sucii'lt.' via Credit Faacier,
authorised by the decree of the *Pith March, last have
been submitted to the Council of State, the constitu-
tion of the company being definitive by the allocation
of 20,000 shares. 'I he largest shareholder is a Polish
count, M. Branicki, who has 3,400 shares, next cornea
the MM. Bartholony, who have each 1,3(0; MM.
Pereire, 790 ; and MM. Fould, de Gernniny, Leon
Faucher, and a number of Polish gentlemen, who
have more than 2,400 shares. The company pro-
poses to lend only on brat mortgage, but not to admit
to the benefit of loans, manuMetories, theatres,
mines, quarries, or property belonging to
several persons, unless all the owners take part in
the loan. The amount of the luau cannot exceed
the half of the value of the property mortgaged, and
only one-third when planted with vines or wood.
The maximum of the loan to one person cannot
exceed one million. The company creates obliga-
tions fonciers of 1,000 fr., which may be sub-
divided into compares of 100 fr. It reserves to
itself the right to fix the annual interest, but it is
thought that it will be one centime a day for com-
pares of 1001 r., or 3fr. 65e. a year. rhe com-
pany reserves to itself the right of uniting to it
other companies formed for the same object, but the
company may be dissolved after the loss of half of
its capital. MM. Drouyn de Lhuvs, A. d'Eichthal,
and -Wolowski are to prosecute the affair before
the Council of State. M. Wolowski has been, it is
said, already appointed director, with a salary of
lS,ooofr., and M. C. Laurent, formerly attached to
the Mahlon Baudon, will be sub-director, with
a salary of 12,000 fr. I understand that a
proposition made by the government, to add an ob-
jectionable clause to the statutes may possibly have
the effect of preventing the definitive formation of
this company. It is proposed that the government
should have power to dissolve the company in case of
fraud. This is considered wholly inadmissible by the
founders. They contend that the courts of law have
sufficient power to repress fraud, and they are un-
willing to enter upon a large financial undertaking
it they are to be subjected to the arbitrary will of a
minister.
At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. fell
10e., closing at 100.35 ; the Threes fell 5, and closed
at 70.10. Bank of France shares fell 7.50. The
railway market was inanimate. Marseilles rose
5; Northern, 3.75; Orleans and Central, 2.50
each; Rouen, Havre, andßordeaux, 123 each. Tours
and Nantes and Lyons fell 1.23 each.

ROME, JUNIC 10.
Murray is still in prison at Ancona. His wife left
Rome a few days ago with her child, for her native
city of Loreto, where she will be within a few miles
distance of her husband. She was supplied with the
necessary funds by the generosity of the British
consul and the contributions of some private
individuals ; indeed, the British residents have
shown themselves extremely ready, throughout
the winter, to afford pecuniary relief to the female
participators in the consequences of this lamentable
affair. Mrs.iMurray, senior, still remains here, to
await the decision of her son's lot. General Lind-
say, who has taken much interest in the case, and
has had several communications and personal inter-
views with Cardinel Antonelli on the subject, is just
returned to Rome.

The remonstrances of Mr. Moore, the British con-
sul at Ancona, have not hitherto availed to procure a
change in Murray's place of confinement. He is
still in the same unwholesome cell, and the prison
authorities affirm, as an excuse tor their refusal to
place him in a more airy situation, that the
prisons arc so full that it requires great in-
genuity /to pack the wretched tenants in
at all suitably. They have consented however to
make some alterations in the cell; so as to render it
less objectionable, until Monsignor Amici, the Papal
Commissary, returns to Ancona, when application
will be made directly to hint by the consul. Mr.
Moore has not yet been allowed to see Murray with-
out the presence of the director of police, the autho-
rities stating that they have received no orders from
Rome to that effect.