The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-08 00:00:00

:MPELIIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY, A VIM 7.
• The royal swam was riven ley oommandoo to the=
:—Comolidated PQM (16,000,0001.) ; Perth
Order 'emanation ; FJeefiea Potations Act (1848) Amend.
slant ; Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) ;
Provisional Orders emanation ; Bank of Inland ; Ocito-
nal Naval Defence ; East India High Cowie ; Ooke Valley
and Halstead Railway ; Gismo, Otty and Suburban Oes ;
Whiteohmel and Holborn Lnpromenenk
The lords comenniosere was the Lord Chamomile', the
Berl of St. Germans, and Lard Mostagle.
Thar lordships aftermods not as 6 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
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Taw Ayr Water Bill aid the Carina
BM were mad a third time sad yineesd.

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PETITIONS.
The Earl of MUIZOWILIT premoted • petition from Use
March Dehisce Aneociatioa at Cambridge, praying for as
iocresse of the episcopate. The noble lord also promoted
two petitions from Chepstow, the purport of which did sot
reach the gallery.
The Earl of DONOUGHMORE moved for certain totems
sespeoting the police and the collection of the revenue in
Ireland.
Agreed to.
THE MEMO EL
The Marquis of CLANEMARDE aaked whetter It WU
thal intestion of her Majesty's government to tranefer„g..,be
lease or otherwise. the wrn
e and musseeeat of the
of Kildare from the office of Woods and,
Forests to t‘i..l7s;
Department, and to abolish the office of Ranges of the
flisilt 1
Earl DE ti REY sold that the War Department at present
held the Curragh by • homes from the Woods and Forests,
hat that that arrangement having beim found is many
respects ll:convenient. it Ism proposed to lease the property
is lb. Waroilica. The Rangership would not be abolished
during its present tenure ; sod when it lapsed the govern-
ment would be ready to consider the wishes of the people of
Indeed.
The East India

.al's Powers Bill passed
through seramitime.
▪ Lord LYVEDEN asked for infonnation sa to the state of
affairs in Bbootan. He strongly deprecated any annexation
of that territory.
by Lord DUFFERIN said that It had been forted Derametry
to heist oa sone roomettes for depredatiom made by the
Ithootees, and en envoy having been mot to demand it, was
weedy iusulted, and there was so optioe but tossed a force
to the frontier to prevent the recurrence of those depreda-
Moos. Rlieforcemeuts had been sent to the expeditionary
force, which had not been sufficient for its purpose, and
there was reason to believe that the object is view
would be attained. There was no intention of annexing
Ithootan.
The Earl of ELLENBOROIJOH expressed his disappro-
bation of the course pursued In seeding troops to Ilhooten
at an unhealthy time of the year, and of the organisation of
the expeditionary force.
tin the inotrio of the LORD CIANCILLOR, the analog
eider suggested by the Earl of Shaftesbury, requiring
.pro-
motets of railways and public works is the monopole to
make returns of the number of persons deprived of their
homes, was agreed to.
THE PLAGUE IN RUSSIA.
The Bishop of OXFORD—Before the house rims for the
Leiter holidays I should like to ask my noble trend the
Prerident of the Council whether he Ur able to give your
lordships any further isiormation on the subject of the
epidemic at St. Petersburg. already alluded to by my tight
rev. brother (the Bishop of London). My noble friend basso
doubt reeked io tee of the 'midis' papers of the day a
telegram purporting to came from St. Petenburg giving a •
very detailed amount of the symptoms there observed,
which, if correctly described, identifies the dermal link that
minimally knows as the plague. (Hear, hear.) As peas.
meet is about to rise, sod as the opening of the northern
porta, which will sone take plate, will so doubt °maim a
good deal of anxiety. it mould be a satisfaction to the-
country to know that Wm Majesty's government daring the •
recess were an to the aseeseity of making inquiries into
this important subject. (Hear, hear.)
Earl GRANVILLE—It is quite true, my lords, that a
telegram has hem received today from Berlin which gives
a worse account of the ravages of this disease than that re-
ceived from St. Petersburg itself. An officer of great ex-
perience has been seat to St. Petersburg to investigate the
real fame, and another pence of similar qualidcatsoes has
sines been sent to the valley of the Vistula to examine
what are the real characteristics of the disease At pliant
I am not aware that any further steps can be taken. (Hear,
hear.)
Their lordships then &dimmed, at 20 minutes past six,
satil Thursday, the 27th Mat.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY, A'xn.7.
The SP/Ausit took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lanmishire and Yorkshire Railway and Lancashirs
Union Railways Companies Bill, and the Preston and Wyme
Railway, Harbour, and Dock Bill were read a third time
and psaard.
ROYAL COMMISSION.

At the summons of the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod,
the Speaker and eeveral memben attended at the bar of
the Rouse of Lords to beer the rays) anent given by
soma issiou to certain bills (for a list of which see Lords'
report).

METROPOLIS SEWAGE AND Fl4-SFX. RECLAMA.
BILL.

This bill emu ma for corideratioe, but was pulp:wed
until Tweeday, the 25th Met.
BRISTOL AND NORTH SOMERSET RAILWAY
(SOUTHERN EXTENSION) BILL.
Mr. G. LANGTON moved t►e wood reading of this bill.
Mr. GREAVES moved u an amendment that the bill be
read a asoorid time that day six months.
Mr. G. LA.NGTON said that as his name was on the bark
of the bill he had thought it sight to move the sewed reari-
ng. As, however, be had received no communication on the
subject from the promoters, aad as the bill wu opposed, he
would not put the house to the trouble of dividing.
The amendment wxa then speed to, and the bill was, con.
isquestly, rejected.
PETITIONS AGAINST PRIVATE BILLS.
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mt. ii6litiolT;;;;Tiiaisis;tii.ng order 124 be sus•
pearled, aad that the time for depositing witticism against
private bills, which would otherwise expire during soy 'd-
rum:mot of the house, should be extended to Monday, the
24th day of April.
The motion was agreed to,