The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-27 00:00:00

'IRAN SOCIETIES BILL.

This bill was read • third time and passed.
HIGHWAY MTV; BILL.
This bill was read a seemed time.
Et'CLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION RILL
This bill was read • second time.
COUNTY VOTUE.
Sir E. BUXTON moved for leave to bring to a bill t 6
allow candidates to give refreshment to voters at county
elections to a limited extent.
Mr. THORNELY eyeeeed to theimbedustienafthe bill.
Sir J.TYRELLiwlimetebjestbtbmniwi hat be
had been informed that tee Immo ware eraveseteg in
Ewex for the boa. bertmet open the stalli et this very
measure. (Loud lamkter.) He was Me that the
hoe. revaltmen emit webs aware of hat Ms thought
it right to mention the dreametemee.
ADLIERLBY erappertsd the viatica.
Mr. AG LIONBY prietsoted against the assamee se lOW
tag the door to coOra
Hr. CHRISTOPHER recommended hon. geuthwitm to
see the bill beGire they objected to it.
Sir E. N. BUXTON explained that the object of his bill
was to permit candidates at county elections, tletithe
returning officer or ponces appointed by Isis, to ye to
each voter • nfrothaseat ticket to the mama of •
crown. He believed this would toad to peanut rather
than increase bribery sad treating at electimm.
The M.tSTER of the ROLLS objected that this would
be a means of bribing the keepers of pablic-hesses and
beervholo, et whose homes the tickets would be presentable.
Lord GALWAY thought if each a bill paused at ell, it
ought nut to be °Naked to moaned.
Sir B. HALL moved the adjoureaseat of the debate.
After a bncf coinreisation,
The motion for the adjournment was withdraws, sad the
house divided on the motion for bringing in the bill.
Ayes l4
Noes l9-39
Mr. MULL' NOS moved that the petition of the Society
of Attonnm, Solicitors, Proctors. and others, incorporated
by charters of King William IV. and Queen Victoria (pre-
sented 23rd April), be printed with the IMAM
Mr. THORNBLY objected, intimating that. if sues-
miry, the committee on public politicos would direct it to
be pentad in due coarse.
The house divided.
Ayes l2
Nam 44-32
Mr. STA/FORD moved for litanp to bring in • bin Ss
the better promerraties and regulation of the ports sad
karbonn of the United Kingdom, sad
Lord NAAS, (or • bill to mead the laws relating le the
valuation of rateable property in Winn-
Both motions were agreed to.
Oa the motion of Mr. Anneal, Mr. Charles Villien
and Mr. H dwerde were added to the committee on wine
duties.
Sir E. BUXTON having beenght up his bill to allow
refreshment to county man,
Mr. ANSTEY meets that the betas be counted, and
only 32 members pNss.t, the lease stood adjourned
at hall peat oss

PARLUMENTARY COMMITTEES.
IitETRUPOLIA WAIF.). SUPPLY COMMITYZIL...,
Yesterday, the enmities were engaged is eassidering eie
mines cisme pennessi a he heseried la the acivermain
waseaure, the promenesef whisk Mee inalket lined
base brought Deemed a eamabeenaddielemel eleneesetat
meet with °bleed" gams* kern the roseessisdess of
the water companies, sad diaessies belbiees.es
day today with • view is cis e[ma
to the adoption of a measure that hall, a Ise as possible,
be satisfactory to balk sides.
SUL TH-EA•TSILS, LIED RILADINO, GUILDFORD AND
Ruuatt KAILWAY.—The comantne, is repeetleg,
the preamble of the bill fee ...lime the Mete the
former company, MO donne ennetittee ennideffied
and right that the ethedeies is the shape of
to be sins le the diesebeiders is the
Guildford, and Reigate, sesda iths pesesdesey et
refire:ice shwa la de* thesdfrliesews, ississeletl4
are to be us substitution et se smog stst:evtiere by
the South-}:astern, sad which nat, a keg as Is •
pnor thugs to the psymest et Meseta et ea pre-
ference shares.
looting, THWS?, AND .011113XD SAILWAT.—Tits
mounittee, in reportiag the peseethis el tin bill, set forth
that the capital to be raised u 400.000 L awl loan 100,0001.,
that the mouse of shares subscribed it 321,7401. and de-
posits paid 40,2171., and that the larger proportion of the
subscritan ate the Eastern Counties sod Blackwell Railwey
Company, who are promoters of the bill, sod of whose lines
it is in extension. The length of line is 38 miles, the esti.
mated coat 382,2771. That the bill proposed to authorise
the lia.tern Counties and Blackwell to purchase and use
steamboats between Tilbury and Gravesend, but it appeared
to the committee that inasmuch u the efficiency of the rail•
way, so feed regarded the Gravesend trifle, would be ne-
m..Ai-ay dependant on the proper working of the steam
communication between that town and the railway ter-
mini., it ear desirable that such steamboats should be
under the management of the railway company.
EAU 11.4uxtatt Ramo/ay.—The committee on this coin-
pail's bill for new lines to Huntingdon, St. ins, Wished',
and Lyn, report it to be withdrawn.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 27.

Tin greuteagr which ousted the whip and
esesolie the DERBY ministry—the vital
bum whether defence of our "sea-girt isle"
Aida be entrusted to youthful or to adolescent
milidemeet—whether they should be drawn by bal-
loter be bribed by bounties--whether they shall be a
local or a locomotive body—was last night resolved,
so far as a question can be resolved upon a first
division, by a majority of 150 in favour of the tory
militia plan. The Peelites ai.d *some of the liberals
conspired to put the late Premier in a minority, and
to take the first step for inflicting on the country a
new army of 80,000 half-trained soldiers.
The division of last night disposes of the amend-
ment of Sir DE LACY EVANS, but that of Mr.

MILNER GIBSON may--and certainly ought to—be
urged upon the house when the question is put for
going into committee on this Militia Bill. Cmsti-
tueneses should bestir themselves, and represents-
lives should be written to upon the subject. All that
has—up to this stage—been affirmed is that the
' House of CoMmons are favourable to tho principle
of a Militia Bill. Whether such a bill should, or
should not, be proceeded with during the present
session has yet to be settled.
Even with the hot blast of Mr. --.lThEauck's andel-
pat ions of war and devastation still soundin g in our ears,
we are raskenough to foretel that even if the decision
of last night should not be hereafter reversed, and if
the WALPOLE militia be raised as rapidly as its pro-
moters suppose, it will be but an inefficient national
protection. We shall want realities should real
danger arise, and such are not to be had in a raw
militia. This fact is too strong to be lost sight of.
Nearly every argument made use of by Lord
PALMERSTON the other evening in favour of a
land force composed of an incompetent soldiery of
civilians, has tie advantage of telling much more
strongly against the side he espoused upon the
question, than in favour of it. Ono instance
we pointed out yesterday. Here is another : " The
improvements and application of steam navigation,"
said his lordship, " have effectually made a bridge
across the Channel, and given means of attack of a
magnitude that never existed before." But of course

these advantages offer no MAWS of defence to our
side of the Channel. We possess nothing whatever
in the slap of steam-packets crossing from Dover
and Folkestone to Calais and Boulogne, and rice
rerm, twice withevery tide—nor from Southamptokto
Havre, nor from Brighton to Dieppe, and back again,
continually, to give such timely notice as would
save us from the French darting over a /a capeur
from Cherbourg "in a single night," and put-
ting everybody and everything between Beechy
Head and Blackwell to _ fire and sword.

C~ Tp,.~

Oh no! We have no ships—at least not
above, on an average, a hundred or two a.
day—which in leaving any of our eastern imdaiglihesal
ports for any part of the world, gagg elglit the
French fleet (unless bribed bT the Froni 11.=..
to look another way) and give the meisenny
Then, supposing the French fleet fairly afloat, with
prows pointed towards our white cliffs we have nail
a mail, nor a funnel, nor a gm to oppose its
7Lour regular royal loot
nits.PrbliS
Cold Coast, or idle in
awes " the improvements and appliatien of chess*
navigation " have been taken advantage of solely by
our natural enemies. We (such is the enrollary to the
PALMEASTON predicate) have done nothing whatever
with all the" improvements and applications of gem
navigation." M e have only—so a recent parliamen•
lacy return tells ne—an aggregate of 1,300 steam ves-
sels belonging to public trading and conveyance
private owners ; with the total power
7,4lMhorses, and total capacity of 300,000 tons.
After all, this is but a mere bagatelle of twenty
stamen for England to one for France! The steam
fleet et the Peninsular and Oriental Navigation
Oompas7 alone is no lam than the entire Hopi
Navy—steam and sail pat towline—of Denmark. And
lot it be asked, firstly, have not these maddeeson-
stems sapesesded the wad old aresien-walled sa
mesh, the pride awl they et tbe aides ?t
essondly, of what nee would them page eteassee be
for war-purpose?
Such quondam 'are easily answered. Pinny,
Iwhethse stamen have lessened the number of swi-
ll ing roods or not, may be judged of by the fact that
one company alone employs from
300 tour coal tenders, and some of these
Ma ea as double the Coped Good Hope. Secondly,
hyneannent has not stopped at steam; it hoe also
been going on steadily in anther important Niece,
that of destruction. The pas and gums of to-
day and the gnat anld==re w (the
hvanalla Mirent
ils sour word am as di DMA baps and a mart
Tama elioner. Tbairabless: morn el the old
thee—Sdlb their ahoy mid& lehe a whole
atm ph gun to walk-wee so sorsZaavje &led
weeps, Ships mil not nye be
an pewee to carry raso, but gene ewe en edit ae to
be depalis of being ended in, mei of !slag
bou, say ososissi slums to sceally are
sedan weepse min that the emeeuticm soh eh a mo-
an. "Long Tem` MS dewith ane eery sods that
of which a whole Iseaddie of the daopilmaweapon
le capable. In prod of this we an adds* the
highest possible satkon:ty—that of Captain Own,
of the Excellent. whisk *hip has Una hr years
the head-quartos of oh= nassfaji=ry. On
being asked beforein 1849,
if some of the main mouhael don maga
might be saaadeivmsi d eameing long
ln or a hag •be ats: I would
have no arasswalt a and I
believe there in IND *OM Mst that mama
awry a 32-poomilit of ref imodpdan cc the other.
I do not think that thtse b a steamer upon the
river, of any kind, tfdwm net tarry
.a 32-poendsr."
If the " terraiddes navy* of the nver Thames be
capable of anyleg an 32-pounder per vessel, what
amount at tbstraotive large san Asa ships as the
Orinoco, the Bentinck, the Amalie is the Cumbria
stimible of in opposing the Chertiemrg on the
of its promised e: tics MOMS **channel
to the south downs ei P Mr. ANNUS
Ateawasont. M.P. he Woary, not ally answered this
eproodsa is a recast speech bi the home, but pat the
prastleability of employing these ships for defence in
a slier light ;
hasonn of lbws 400 tip Isle se 1,000 toes, have been
elided Is be the W wry the lean immersing or pivot guns
la but MOS" ormaters. Now, if time government
were to wake enssaments with the owners of 100, 130, or
MO a tare yank is as ease test asp lIMPOId base the
swage segivieltsr sited kam to swan a heavy war
swat. tamale/alp any wee micro se ; oleo that
MaaVd bs salsa sa he re immanent
required—the ones% alb MO, to be in-
en for their Wig as aka aid us*. aa re award
ototpott ostitooloOotubs amen* applaeld by the
=B:t and as maws al rehip—a mans st coast
IN as alp us assenied, would bo provided,
imaii.lllo meet asp mile attempt at invasion of our
chorea

The friends of a militia will be curious to know
whether the power of misting the foe possessed by
our mercantile steam marine as equal to its power of I
attack. Upon this head one of the best scientific and
practical gunners in the service, Mr. ENGLEDUE, late
gunnery lieutenant of the Excellent,explessed him-
, self to the committee thus:
I consider "'early the whole of our tea-going steamers are
capable of armament, and that, according to their Macs and
scantlings, guns of ■ certain size, weight, and bore may be
placed in them. I also consider that all those ships with
spur decks, with half a dosen additional beams and a few
extra stanchions abets and below, might be made efficient
to carry the heaviest gun we have in her Majesty's service.
Thirdly, would the most important amonir the
officers of the commercial steam navy—its engineers
—be willing to serve her MAJESTY as faithfully, and
as spiritedly, as they serve their owners in time of
need ? The superintendent of the largest steam com-
pany in existence testified strongly in the affirma-
tive. Referring to the convulsion of Europe in the
year 11418 as "a bit of a disturbance," this Mr. AN-
Dlikty LAMB said that—
No one knew what the result would be at the time I re.
Nivea orders to have so many ships in readiness, as they