The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-06 00:00:00

►MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

1( it*:•zE OF COMMONS.—CFRN DAY.)
• t.A Ell took the chair at a quarter-past It
NEW MEMBER.
took the oaths and his mat for the county
iu the room of Mr. Maxwell Close.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
is.dedonian Railway (Bradshaw and Tsanochside
and the North Eastern Railway (Kinkledeld
were read a third time and patted,
METROPOLITAN RAILWAYS.
•l ~TER moved that the order for the second read.
1, Metropolitan Districts Railways (No. 2) Bill
nud ,Ivicharged ; that the bill be referred to the
•i of petitions for private bills, and that the
I:.tre leave to sit and proceed forthwith.

COPYRIGHT Brix.
• 'CE withdrew this bill, in order to substitute for
. • -. better calculated to effect the object in view,
ti,sitng been withdrawn, another Will was brought
• and amend the laws relating to copyright.
IioNIBARDMENT OF SONDERBORG.
• I,WVN gave notice that to-morrow he would
'.l,iebtr's government whether they had received
• .. information as to the bombardment of Bonder-
Prussians without previous intimation to the
. i• •-. and whether the government had, by reps-
. to the Prussian government, upon them
: of carrying on war in accordance with the
nations.
CABLES AND ANCHORS RE-COMMITTEE
BILL.

..,se went into committee on this bilL
4,- 1.
• ,• NI RERSTONE moved that the words " person
• • ," be left out of the clause ; the object of the
• being to confine the operations of the bill to
And public bodies.
1...3 0N said he should vote for the retention of
.• lk thought it would be unwise to exclude licensed
• , ,te persons from testing materials in this bill,
- would be an officer appointed by the Board of Trade
. ; machinery, in order to ascertain that whore
rated to the required tests.
• , .one remarks from Mr, Henley, Mr. Laird, and
• , Ilankey the amendment WWI negatived.
- ,ediamssion, the clause as amended was agreed
which the remaining clauses were considered and
I to with amendments.
JERSEY COURT BILL
'!.K ti I: then moved the second reading of this bill,
said was precisely the lame bill which wee in-
e! in lz4ll, and which then met with the general
t: n of the house ; the object being to effect a re-
.. t!.., Royal Court of Jersey.
[Left speaking.]

LISBURN' ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)

I ~,tutnittee met at 11 o'clock. The mem-
- were Mr. H. E. Adair (chairman), Mr. W. E.
• r. Mr. Paull, and Mr. F. North.
Q.C., and Mr. Clerk appeared in rapport of
t..n. The sitting member was not represented by

i'Linn said that from the non-appearance of the
1 for the sitting member an inference might be drawn
, •committees had no powers of sitting, end that they
:,.1 to take advantage of a technical slip, and to insist
.• fUOCtIODS had ceased. He should not consider it
.r% to address the committee unless they felt a diffi-
c the subject, and wasentirely in their heads.
•I offorth, the agent for the sitting member, said he
• Id. sot of respect to the committee, to state that the
member did not appear by conaseL He had been
—4 that the committee DO longer existed, and os be-
t.: .4 the hon. gentleman he (Mr. Spofforth) protested
....t .my further proceeding on the part of the committee.
,i.otforth then retired.
Chairmso intimated that the committee desired to
: the ovuusel for the petitioner on the question of the
of the adjournment and the power of the commit.

Mr. said the question for consideration was,
••,•r thv adjournment which had taken place wan in
ty ir.th the statute, and whether Mho committee
i.ot to hare adjourned to Monday, the day on which the
• met, instead of to Tuesday, the day after. The
:,I,:ontleman at considerable length pointed oat the
to the oonstittition of the committee, and
t'L • d,roctell the attention of the committee to the 73rd
o • on the contraction of which the difficulty bad
• . The section provides " that every such select core-
✓ shall meet at the time and plan appointed
a purpose, and they shall proceed to
: it •• merits of the election petition so referred
• . •.:, and they shall sit from day to day, Sunday,
_• . a-day, and Good Friday only excepted, and shall
t- • ..!jouro for a longer time than twenty-four hours,
• -aoday, Christmas-day, or Good Friday, intervene,
: : 101 l case not more than tiventy.foar hours, exclusive
:! • . Sunday, Chriatmas-day, or Good Friday, without
. ::rat obtained from the house upon motion, and special
• assigned for a longer adjournment ; and
• house be sitting at the time to which
...elect committee is adjourned, then the business of the
shall be stayed, and a motion shall be roads for • fur-
:. adjournment for any time to be fixed by the house ;
led always that if such select committee have 00ellaiOn
ply or report to the house, sod the hone be then
lined for more than 24 hours, such select wen-
t_ •:re may also adjourn to the day appointed for
meeting of the house." He submitted that this
0 applied entirely to something that might occur in the
✓ ..iedings of the committee, to cure which an application
t house was necessary. The 75th section provided that
•.,ember should absent himself—that the committee
.' I not sit until all the members were present—and that
f dote of all meeting within an hour the committee
uld al -urn and report to the house. In that clause no
troe was n.yntioised for the adjournment.
The i'L,rtnan—You soothed that the 73rd Mika applies
to a awe of necessity which may arise, and the 75th to any
itterropiloo arising in the countitution of the committee?
Mr. Phinn—Yee ; the 73rd section applied to the pro-
of the committee, the 75th section to its oonsti.
t.isor,. The 73rd clause was permissive, the 75th ini•
lie submitted, taking all the eircumstaposs
• consideration, that the adjournmeat was a good one.
the committee should proceed, and report that
sating member was not duly elected, the question for
t... hues would be whether the report should be received,
s: then'thequestion could be fully disowned ; and, if the
I should decide on receiving the report, the queetioe
a -I then arise whether the boo. member would not be
f: that moment a stranger in the hone.
Clerk followed on the same side.

At the cocclnsion of the learned gentleman's address the
r.-n. was cleared, and the committee deliberated for about
b•Air and a quarter.
.a the readmission of the parties,
TiL Chairman said—The committee desire me to state
'_it in their opinion they are not in a position to continue
inquiry.

TUE COLONIAL Carat-H.—We have received by
'..tst mail, and publish in a ealsequeet column, the
acts and coortitnikes wend in Synod at Capeiown,
tLe Metropolitan and his two &drags° Bishops of Gm-
-1.-.:L•toeti and Orange Free State. They will be found to
very important bearieg on the status sod freedom
colonial church generally. They assert the lode-
;,' :.'race of the church of South Africa from the final
of Appeal "by law established" In England.
say. "As the laws of England have by treaty no
! • - to the colony, thew laws which have been enacted
....state for the English church as an nitablishment
d t apply to and are not binding upon the church
Africa ; and that this church, therefore.
• the English ecclesiastical statute law only
• far as it may serve to remedy and supply
'•'t defects or omissions of the caws law, or of laws
' ~clenacted by the synods of this church." Speaking
'renal case of Bishop Colombo, the synod considers
:We desirable that he should be allowed an appeal
. .

.‘rchbishop of Canterbury, but without expresiing
upon the general question of appeals to
. .n.l. Should the Bishop of Natal attempt to exercise
• °phi functions in his diocese after the pawing of the yen-
,- -.o.lwithout haring madeany appeal to the Primate. he
•• -. trt‘i tp.. excomminioate, arid after due adman-
:. f,lnl.tl sentence of excommunication wiU be pronounosd.
" zr..tois wane dour readers will do, toles= by the same
... • .

w it h.lreWal of the Central African miation from the

' ••• su. Bishop Toner haedestried it advisable tobreak up the
',in at Morumbala, and by the last advime was cm his
to Cal.:town. Plans. however, are proposed by
!.1 the onion..: objects of the mission may yet be
ro;lout from •ssother direction. It is suggested that
ous.ion au,...1.1 resume operatic's& amongst the
• to the u..rtb of Natal, the chiefs in that
continually asking for missioesries. It may
• it the mission more readily penetrate the interior
•flotintoi from that quarter ; at any este it will gives
~.us chain of porta from Cape Town along the coast
• t) miles. Livingstone is alive and well, the dory of his
being appareotly sod happily without foundation.
oiahopric of Tasmania has been at length
The colonists, unable to find as eligible candidate
• • ac,-rot the office, requested, we believe, the
u• • r t snterbury to nominate a successor to Bishop
i;-f•rs le.tving office the Duke of Newcastle baa
• • is poet to the Rev. C. H. Bromby, Principal
•• I ti-u . Training Col lege —a moderate evangelical,
hshitk—G.ltzrdiari.
' ..r MR. T. P. Coolie—The public will
that this gentleman, one of the last re-
s•ri ..f the old school of British actors. expired
ii ~....ttr•ltrtfts.rooco, in bin 7sth year, at his re-
:. 'ft 11.1.4-equare. Mr. T. P. Cooke was born is
at Nye _Sul .tpnl, ; was educated at the
Mane So 'let! ; awl, subsequently enteneg
s r.,.1 ler Nelson at the bombardment of
.r which he mewed a medal. Ilia first ap-
• oil tho st.ge took plaza as the Royalty Theatre,
1,04 and for many years he wee recognised as
•• !neat mai type of the British seaman.
• • !it C '; TEA is choice and strung, moderate
....1 usotesorne to oar. Theta advantageshave secupsd
•general preferance, It tabula in packets by SAO
• • t.l...rtarmrat.j

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

IT =craw TILMAPIL)
THIRSK MEETING.—{THIS DAY.)

SILVER CUP. About one mile mad three-quareen.
Fly by Night, Misr. Agnes, Nancy, Nelly Grey, Chance.
Clara, Nies Gilbert, The Witch, Bounty, A 66 of
Young Tollerton, Southern Cress, Goth, Yrs. Nick,Stlinj
Lind, Rue Barge* Lady Sutton, Skyrocket, Rosemary,
Kathleen, Dr. Bowe, Squirrel, Prier Tick. Griller On,
Bonnet so Blue, Marietotizod.and h by Cariboo. All the
above are in the neigh

THIBSK HANDICAP. About one mile six furloup.
Bonny Bell, Newchnrch, Unfashionable Beauty, Jester,
Brother Sam, Hypermneetra, Alice Gray, and Hyntethm
are here.

FARMERS' CUP. Two miles.
Beaming, Willey, Polly, Lord Clifton, Young ToSefton,
The Jew, Skyrocket, Caller On, g by Leopold, and Silver
Stripes. Nearly all these are sweated to ran.
Azarno.—Folubd Again and Fatty c.

DSSTRUCTITS FIRE NEAR GROSVENOR-
SQUARE.-(THIS DAY.)

Shortly before 4 o'clock thin morning a fire bunt
forth on the extensive manufacturing premises cl
Meson. De Barry and Co., &molests Arabia"
food importers, situate in George-streot,
square. So So sudden was the outbreak that the police
on daty in the neighbourhood were not cognisant of the
danger till the atmosphere became lighted up by the flames.
The interior of the premises in question was found
then to be on fire from the basement to the roof,
and flames were hissing forth furiously from all the
windows at the back. Captain Shaw, as soon as • sup-
ply of water could be procured from the plugwmmand s, arranged
his branclunes in different points where • full of
the fire could be obtained, and eventually succeeded in
sotpckinfjotrefrotati
,tl.7..her progre
was x 2; hue: weserirlh6e
damage is very extensive, es will be observed by the follow-
ing extract from the official report of the fire brigade :
The premises of Meows. Du Barry and Co., modest&
arabica food importers, machine rooms, tins department, and
filling rooms of the manufactory burped down and roof
destroyed ; steam mills, stove hones, carpenters' shops, end
other pert of the establishment severally blunt and
damaged. The property WY insured in the Sae and Alliance
Fire-offices. Houses damaged in George-West, No. 6,
Mr. J. Worth, private, heck portion damaged ; No. 7, let
out in tenements, back windows burnt out and contents
damaged by fire and removal ; No. 8, let out in tenements,
b pert partially burnt ; No. 9, Mr. B. Hatchman Tur-
ner, back-rooms burnt out, roof and staircase severelydaiatiged by fire; No. 10, let out in tenements, back
portion partially consumed ; Nos. 14 and 15, Western
Brewery Company, side wall and roof damaged by fire.
No. 1, North-row. Mr. Craker, coach-builder, acme of the
• damaged. North Audley-street, St. Mark's
Ch stained glees window over altar broken and altar-
piece damaged by fire.

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&

MA RH-LANS. —(THIB DAY. )
Fresh up to-day, the snivels of English wheat cemeteries
and by land carriage were on a very limited scale, whilst
the general quality of the supply waa by no means fine.
For all kinds the demand ruled heavy ; nevertheless, com-
pared with Monday, no change took place in the quotations.
With foreign wheat we were fairly supplied ; good and
line qualities sold to a limited extent on fanner terms. In all
other kinds so little was doing that the cummaiss ruled
almost nominal.

Floating canon of grain off Falmouth and Queenstown
were very dull • but ths of
for wheat for forward
shipment was 4;1'4, though at reduced rates, say la. per
quarter..

' The show of both Eagliah and foreign barley was tole-
rably extemdve, and all kinds moved off heavily at about
stationary prime.
There was only a limited inquiry for malt at the late dr
aline in value.

The at trade was firm, at fully the late upward move-
ment in the quotations.
Beans were firm, at Monday's currency ; but the demand
for them was by DO means active.
The inquiry for peas was sady, ou former term'.
Most bath off flour sold at foil prices.
The seed market was quiet, at late quotation. In cakes,
wry little was doing.

T NUM.
1121..

-171
Per Q
WNW S. ?. a. .
lam Zack red.IAS Ittl to 41
De. whits, sea 40 to 47
14;tolk Lod Llotooln
red. HOS le to 411

Poo Qt.
OM. a. I.
Bcotolt potato
11. whits
black

Itiam
Imam IS to 29
Tick IS ta
Harrow
P 13103

Orel -
29 to 110
White
..._ --$4 to 86
86 to 11"/

Town made: ierlll3
lbs.
Household lt to U
Country
Norfolk and kidfolk,
ex ship

OATS S. A.
Daidsb sad Swedish 17 to 20
&NW= ....... 18 to 10