The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-27 00:00:00

WAR IN THE PUNJAUB.

Mr. G. THOMPSON, r;firTrisiii; i reply Pima by Sir J.
Hobhouss to questions put by him on a former eveninerith
respect to the war in the Punjaub, claimed the indulgence
of the how while be stated the authorities on which his
questions had been put, the facts of which tbs right hon.
baronet had flatly contradieted. The hat. mamba then
quoted the authorities famed to, sad contended that they
lay justified sway question Its had put.
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Mr. ELLIOTT, in the ahem* et Sir 1. Rebhan' after
bevies rekrad to the anewsee, add Ide right hon. Maid had
principally objected to the length et the questions, and he
trusted, generally, means would be taken for meats' them
within proper Balta.__

fiIIOPLY.MB. EMMA AMENDMENT.

Mr. titan said that having given notice of his Quit=
to submit a motion to the house to the *that that is the
pros= state of the foam of the eostatry, her =C
ministers, Were galling aa the hew to oft tie
for the public service, amid satnak a mural ague= is
the year'sexplams, in had =me dews to the how fully
prepared to propose his modem, hat had hoe leery to leers
that thus could be only eft am=deadlot ea the mot= hr
committee of supply. Whoa be treed to the rootage= at
the commencement of the sensise,lt wee ia the hen =Oka
that ameedasents on supply would be examplad hem their
o 'wn but, of course, he bowel to the authority of the
shah. He mast wafer that be eullend by his emu act, ia
haying been a cotweadog ErLqualse resolution, bat he
had been Rader the strew that supply sad ways
sad means were exempted. 11:17ralow been the moo of
restoring things to their old state tad was himself the Ilea
victim to the ausagement. (Loud leaghter.) However, it
could set be helped ; he would =ape= his media excel
Friday, giving way on the pros= essaidea to hie Imo telled.

Ihn—that wee the Pettis( apart the coal rents and wayless*
rests *sr the benefit of these four chapelries would commence
from the 13th of May. The astonishment which that an-
swer occasioned was, as might be expected, considerable, mad
several egotism& came to him to Join In mgrianuratulatimm
the noble conduct of the Bishop of Durham. Odin,
egois. shook their heads, and knowing
matter themselves, complained that the noblow"rsmik,dl
in a speech of only three cr four minutes' duzatigy been
made the medium el cominsankatlng more missommption
then had ever before bees pat forward within the same lied
space of time. But the fourth point of the noble lore* re-
ply was the most extraordinary of all. ligesiez
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the adaists,. they were told, we aod
to ing kr the changewhich had been made,
and the amebae VOW, of Bishopmementh was hresght
into out M MAW As house believe it. They were
told tillfi g Sielpliatiell foes. this vestry had been received by
the WM% end bed made the suggestions on which this new
me Sewage& owl -that afterwards the head of
that had orgesmsi thole thanks to the right rev.
prelate in a letter foe laths 0) readily complied with their
request. The letter which bad thus hem addressed to this
Bishop of Durham had bees,he mdentood, transmitted by the
right rev. prams to the noble lord, and was read by him to
' the house, and if it was meant to infer anything, it was that
the deputation had represented a mon numerous body of the
•;=, who represented the wishes of the inhabitants of the
generally in the matter. (Rear.) On this point,
however, he must take leave to undeceive the noble lord,
end show him not only that he bad been misled, but that
the whole story of the vestry and the deputation and the
letter of thanks should be regarded rather as a hoax than
anything els*. The facts were, that the ancient select vestry
was so select, that it was sell-elected. It. bus
am was treasacted by three individuals, and he was told
that on the occasion alluded to these three gentlemen
met and constituted themselves a reetry. Then they re-
solved themselves into • deputation from the vestry to the
bishop, and in that character proceeded to the Wshop of
Durham, and made certain suggestions to him as to the rec-
tory of liishopwearmouth, which bad become vacant. They
received their answer, and, returning, reported to the vestry
they were deputed by, 'is., themselves ; and, having so re-
ported to themselves the answer received by themselves,
they lay aside the character of a depatatioa and again be-
come a many representing the inhabitants of the perish,
and cm behalf of the inhabitants repairs that the whole
of the proceedings be kept secret, sad write • letter to
the bishop thanking him for ado tint their meggestiewo
the inbabitaate heaths; nothing of the proposed amass-
sent until the whole affair was °occluded. (Floses, hear.)
Such, as he was informed, were the real came/Menses of the
ease and be had felt Mosel( bound to bring time adder the
notice of thehoble lord. He wished now to ask the noble lard
whether in any of the points referred to ia his former answer
2/ to the gross income of the rec•ory—the future income of
the incumbent—the application of the surplus revalue, or
the feeling of the pariationen es represented by the ancient
metz7—the statements contained in the noble lord's previous
answer were in any respect immoral* and requiring correc-
tion ? (Hear, hear.)

Lord J. RUSSELL replied, that on the third point there
had certainly been an error, not as the hon. feentleman sup-
posed in the statement sent the Bishop of Durham, but in
his (Lord J. Russell's) reading of it. The Bishop of Dur-
ham stated that the wayleaves and coal rents would be
placed in the heads of trustees for the benefit of the
chapalrin„ amounting to 1,6001. a vear, and on the honour-
, able member's aging whether thit sum would be paid to
the incumbents of the other chapelriss, his reply was,
eomdading that that was the contemplated arrange-
ment, la the affirmative. In that inferesce, however,
it appeared he had been mistaken, the 'dud state of the
one being, as the Bishop of Durham informed him, that
after the 13th (not the 30th) of May the funds arising
from wayleaves and coals will be paid to trustees (the
bishop and rector). They will pay to each &nein at least
the amount they at present receive, so long as the way-
leans remain. Any exrplus will be put into the funds to
messaalan for the spiritual benefit of the parish and its
!lapel/in; but not to add one farthing to the income of the
incumbent Among other objects, greatly desired, is the
building of a church at Hendon, in the parish of Bishop-
weannouth, some two or three miles from the mother
church, with, lam told, 6,000 inhabitants. I have little
doubt but we shall improve the present payments of the
chapels, is proportion to the population ; but, so long as the
question of the wayleaves remains unsettled, we do not
think ft prudent to hold out expectations which it may not
be fa "our power to gratify." As to the lea point, whether
the inhabitants generally were satisfied with the arrange-
ment, the statement he had received was that the =tunnel-
late who had addressed the bishop were satisfied, and that
had been his answer to the hon. gentleman.
Mr. HORSMAN inquired whether in the noble lord's
opinion the bishop had any authority to divert any portion
of the temporalities provided by law for the incumbent to
any other purpose ?

Lord J. RUSSELL did not consider be would have any
authority to divert the revenues settled by law as the income
of the living, whether arising from rents or other sources,
and if that bad been done in any can he imagined there
would be some legal remedy.