The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-12 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF I.OROS.—TrEsnAT, FIB. 11.
Tke Loup CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at
o'clock.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.
PAPAL ACMILISSIM4.—By the Arehhilhop of YORK,
from plae.i in the West Riding, and the Earl of BAN-
DON, Irons Cock and other plains in Ireland ; against papal
aggression.
PAPAL AGGRESSION.
Loral ABINGEIt, in presenting a petiti in against papal
siogresdon front the county of surre, called the attention
of the house to the spec id of popery throuchout the country,
sad to the disastrous effects which invariably resulted from
theta... great eviaes of the Roman catholic priesthood—the
celibacy of the clersry and practice of confession. His lord-
ship then preverskd at snme 1, ngth to instance various cav‘v
1a which the influenee of Roman catholic priests had been
the means of its riving families ohthe property they should
have inheritsl. from parties persuaded, in SOM^ caws on
their death-ht J., to make over their fortune to the Roman
catholic church.

POOR LAW.
The Marquis of I.AN'sDOWNP, prenent NI a copy of the
amoral orders issued by the chief comminsioner of the Pour
COUNTY COURTS.
Lard DROUGII t3ll said that, in introducing thin matter,
pro/wes, he wish.' to intimate that when it came on fur
wood r. ts,Und en Tbur.slay U. at, be would be prepared to
Mate in. 11 1....44 as to why th-'e court, nlioul.l be ambula-
tory not .4 tte, nary. At pn,ent he would not dwell fur-
ther on the- nutter. (hear.)
Ih. i, lordship, then, at Cry minutes past six o'clock,
*journed.

1101'SF. OF CONINIONS.—TET-,D‘Y, FEB. 11.
The Sritaarst took the chair at 4 o'clock.
I'IIIVATE 'NI NESS.
Sri ..Nn ItaADtmna.—Applo.hr. Kendal, Kirkby Stephrn,
and Market 'trough Turnpikeßoarl : Bangor and Caer-
narvon. Railway; Birkenhead Docks (farther powers to
Birki nheal Dock tuoipany, &e.) ; liri.tol and Exeter
Railway • Cheltenham and r Di.triet Turnpike
Road; nkans and Pain.wiik ; I).+• Standant
Rostontion • Illconbury Gas ; Dow,ihsiM Ma:li t, &c.,
Draireqe .10.4 et 'mouton Waterworks Evtran I.
Railway; On-at Central GasConoinsce. Com;iane; On at
Southern and Western Railway; Ortat lalsa•roi morose-
ascot, Voter,' Sewers, Waterworks, (Lis, and Market.;
Haleaworth, Bei•eles, awl Iladdiscua Railway; Harwich
Improvisno lit, Quay., and Pier; 'Earth-Tool Pier and
Port (eonsolidation of ar••• Be.); Hereford. Etre, and
Oloueeater Railway ; 11:4yhea4 Railway ur Tram-
way ; Itches Bridge and Roads_ ; Laird's Patent ;
I. u+-der%art...wk..; L, nester Stewerarri• ; liverpool
'Docks (amenilmeot of act., tie.); Midland Railway (ngu.
lotion awl i.trmu.r or capital, Be.) ; Midland Railway
(eaten...Wu of 800 , Re.) • Millthrop and le yen. Turnpike ,
Road ; Ni•wark-tomn-T.rciit Improsa.ment and Market :
North aril South Western Junction Railway ; North I
Shield., Quay. and Improvement, ; Ouseburn Bridge and
Aoproaßo sin Neweietle.opiiii-'lyue ; Priee's l'atentCan. ;
die Company : Reading ati rum k. ; Residing Cemetery ;
Company ; Canal Company ; St. Patrick', Cathe- I
drat (I)iblin;.; Searhormigh Ga. ; Shettii•lil. Rotherham, I
Borw.ley, Iludilerifield, and Gook. Railway ;
South Dreou Itailway (No. I) ; South Devon Railway .
(No. 2) ; Sololieland 'lmprovement ; Taw Vale Railway
and INieli ; 'trinity College (Dublin); Waaelley Valley i
Railway ; Aiirk, Neweistle, and Berwick Railway (branch i
to We.t Dorian) Railway, Ike.) ; York, Newca.tle and
Berwick I:Ail. (abandonment of part of Bishop Auckland
branch, Be.) ; Bills.
PETITIONS PIIESENTEI).
PAPA!. A1141RE,0114,41.—A large number of petitions were
pro...uteri againa papal aggression.
rub 11.0 i ttttt By Mr. 0. A. ITAMILTON,
from Mr 1:114,44 *tedium"), stating that he was agent to
the Roman :dhotis. of Ireland until the measure of 1829
was poised ; that since that period he has faithfully, ear
needy, and persoveringly laboured to eccure the develop-
ment of the heni•ficiul conseipienres expected from that
MP:o4ln% and to iNotintvr.itt all opposite proetices, from
whatever quarti r they may have Adhering still to
th.. Maw vio,a he humbly r. premaits that matter. now oc-
cupying the „Iteration of the home .nay lead to good or evil
according to the knowledge prn....ial on the details of the
isubjcia, and lie entertain, a confident impre.iiin that if a
full and amicable inquiry were imtitiotiall into the actual
position of the Rom,n cathodic,. much benefit would Wise.
and the information he r. 41141 afford would be found nut toe
dies.rsing of ion.iili•ration.
WIN IMW tx.-14y Mr. 1,. O'CONNOIt, from NottinT.
hem .• Nil. T. h. ACLAN I), from a place in Deron ; Mr.
Ell KID 11TON, from Westminster; Mr. D'itYNCOURT,
from I,amb,•th ; Mr. M I I.N Elt BSON, from "Slonehestrr ;
Mr. lIUNIE (21), (nail various places; Mr. J. WILLIAMS,
from ; laird Elllt I NUITON, from Plymouth;
AM. 11C M Pll EltY, from Southwark; Lord DUNCAN,
from St. Ann-'e, Weatininster ; Sir W. CLAY, from Hack-
ney and Non.m Volgate; Mr. (MAMAS, from the Cor-
poration of Satiation; Mr. I.OOKE KING, from Kith-
mond, Surrey ; Mr. Pllloll', from Corporation, Be. of
Reading; Mr. JACOB UELL from Torino.' pbuies,
again.t the window tax.
Poirret-rtier TII AGalerl..7” —Tly Rif J. Y. DUL-
LER, from a place in Ikvon; laird lIOTIIAM, from a
place in Yorkshire; Mr. SINIONItIt, from a place in War-
wirkahire ; Mr. CIIIRIMBVII Eli, from 1.2011 owners and
occupier, of land in Lineolnaltire; Mr. BERRIES (seve-
ral), from Stamford and other places; the Earl of MAUCH
(several), (non Oar.. in Ster.ra ; g.rnyin4 for protection to
egrimeltun• Ity Mr. I;. DANK ES, from ~warn and item-
pkra of land, trod...men, and others, in the neighlinurloael
of Illantlford. Dom I, petsri,il; for relief to agricultural
diatnos, by an alteratiiiii or the import tariff, and a revision
-•Ry Mr. 1100 h ER, from owners and occupiers
of land in the neighbourhical of Cardiff. praying fur relief,
by the imposition of import iliities MI foreign produce, to be
applied ito :lid of paroehial and local tavation.
('.err )Ir. ADDERLEY gay. notiee
that on do- :nth ind. hr should Mrse for the production of
the 1,1,11 wondruce between the governor of the Cape of
Islomod Illope and Earl (trey, since the failure of the proceed-
ing, under the letters patrol ; ..1 petition, to her Ma.
ploy ; at.,, ,epics of resolution, of meetings throughout the
colony (.'luting to the Itronli,ol rvproletiLatiire constitution.
51 MEMIIEIL.
Mr. II arClirt.l. took the malls and his 'seat for Windsor,
on hi, appointment a. Attorney-Goner:al for Ireland.
ST.%NDING °RIVERS COMMITTEE'

The following member were nominated as the select
swimmittee on standing orders: Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr.
Ord. Sir It. Ferguson, Mr. Oreime. Sir John Yards Bul-
ler. Mr. AK'Mohr. Captain Jones, Mr. Dome Drummond,
Wri4ht.m.lMr. Evelyn and Mr. 11.11ry.
(MEAT WESTERN AND sOtAllEltS RAILWAY
DILL.

On the motion for the oryeindreading of Dna kill,
Mr. FIIItW EN said he hail trivia notice of an amend-
ment that the bill he wail a second time that day twelve
months. Ile would not. hoe. sir. press that amendment
now, hut would reserve to himself tit:. liberty of taking
such a course us he thought would he most advisable on
the motion fog the committal of the hill. The object of the
bin was to snaky legal abet the ilinssort had dons fifteen
months ago, knowing it to he illegal -namely, the taming
of prefers 111,' share., which they bait reastin to know, from
the hieb.es authority, they h.ot no right to do.
The bill aent then read is second time.
NOTICES OF MOTION.
Mr lICME gave notice that on that day fortnight h•
would tiring before the house the f'eylon question.
Till: ESTABLISHED CHURCH.
s,r It HALL begged to give notice that on Friday nest
be should pot a question to the noble lord at the head of
ber Majesty'. government with reference to the state of the
entatiltsheil church ; that was, to ask him whether it was the
intention of the government, or if he would inform the
house whether it was the intention of the archbishops and
Antilop.. to prevent the continuance in the church of those
Roman catholic forms which had been complained of. It
was also his design at the none time to call the attention of the
house to certain representations which hail been made, and
to • memorial which had been prewnted, to the llishop of
London. by the inhabitant. of the borough of Marylehone,
complaining of Roman catholic forms in one of the
panwinal ,butches, and to the answer which the memorialists
bad nreired.
In reply to a question from Colonel Spanned.,
Lord SV.YMOCK stated that the marble arch of Buck-
hathara-palace would be finished before the let of May, and
Os estimate for taking it down and putting it up again
would not be exeeeded.
CAPE COLONY.
Mr. ADDP.RLP,Y asked the Under Secretary of State
for the Colonies, whether he intended to lay on the table of
the house the eorresprnsdertee which had pained between
himself end the Governor of the Cape. subsequently to the
Mar ipt in that colony of the orders in Council, empowering
Ike governor and his legislative council to frame a repre-
sentative constitution; and, whether • petition bad been
transmitted to her Majesty from the inhabitants of Cape
Town and other. places in Fs' iiith Africa. praying her
Majesty's sanction to the heads of a constitution embodied
is that petition.
Mr. HAWES wished to any. in reply to the first goes-
lion, that the whole of the corresponaceter would be laid
as the table of the house as soon as it could he dune ea-
lidactorily. It was now in progress, and as tang aa it re-
m▪ ined incomplete it would he In.:lily inconvenient to pro-
dme it. The petition to which the hon. gentleman's
wound question referred would, of course, form part of the
pacers to be produced.
CEYLON.

In reply to Mr. II UT.tw, _ _
Mr. t l AWF.S mid. that no opposition would be offered to
may motion for producing the evidence token before the
Ceylon committee, the only exception being with regard to
pArticulara relative to Captain Watson, the publication
of which would he premature, a. a court-martial, inquiring
WM the conduct of that Mater, was still pending.
LATE EXPLOSION OF A STEAMER MEAD.
0 LA SOOW.

Mr. MI.NTZ wished to know whether the President of
the Board of Trade had received any account of the el- ' I
*Moil of a steamer last week near °Lwow, and whether 11
it was the intention of the government to take any steps to
prevent the recummee of such a fearful lose of life
Mr. L AIROUC H ERE said this matter was being inquired \
tato by the law oaken of the crown in Scotland. It would
s the duty of the owners of the vessel to report to the
Beard of Trade in the tin-mast:mem attending the Reef, '
Mat, and it would afterwards be for that department to
sewsider whether any special inquiry should take plan.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
IA reply to Sir J. WALMSLIT,
lard J. RUSSELL stated that the ministry had no In-
Mistos, Wing the prowl *Moo, of introducing a bill for