The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-20 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
TIOUSE OF 0031MONS.—WenxrADAT,ILARcn
The Srnan an teak the chair at 12 &clock.
PIMVATE BUSINF.SS.
Sitcoms, Itawitsna.—Cluring-crum Bridge ; Kensington
Improvement; Bills.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
ECCLES! tSTICAL TITLES ASSUMPTION BILL. •
Mr. S. I'ItAWFOILD gave notice that if the house
agreed to the second reading of the Ecelesiutical Titles
Assumption Bill, he would, in morunittee on that hill, move
an amendment to exempt Ireland horn its operation.
THE FItAISCIIISE IN IRELAND.
On the motion of Mr. ra•Velt, a return was ordered of
the wind, r of registered electors in each county in Ireland,
and r thu tii:t 1:1 rc 14 Vie., e. 65, distinguishing each class
of . tom ; and similar return for rib county of a city,
rowdy of a town, and borough in In returning one
or Law, 1114-011sers of parliament.
31.1YNOOTII COLLEGE.
On the motion of Mr. Stoma en, a room woe ordered as
folloWs Detailed account of the esrenditure of the sum of
3o,isittg., grunted in the year 1813 for putting Maynooth
tIollew• into repair; copy of any estimates and plans fur-
nished by the architect employed on that occasion; awl de-
tailml amsoint of the sum of 5,715/. his. lid., the total
amount of the grants voted from the year Nit to the year
Wok in•7lllsiSv or 100111 pear, for the repairs ;awl main-
tenance of Maynooth Collette.
1101'S 1111.1..
Mr. FItEWIIN moved the s, rood trading of this bill,
which stood first on the orders id the ttiy. lle found, as
he hail antieipatml from the first, a itering opposition against
this bill from the county of Kent; and he certainly did
not think the Kent platiterc were acting very con•istently
in taking this (tours, inasmuch as they had repeatedly sent
up deputations to the' Chancellor of the Exchequer calling
twat him to r. mose the excise duty on hope, and very pro-
perly, in.tolinch as the whole Ohjeet of the bill was to
di 'troy .1 monopoly whi_ls Kent had long enjoyed. A. to
this *seise duty, it was not necessary that he should
now say much about it, for the question was
one, a full et...midi:ration of which would have to
be enters' into by the house on an curly future
day. A few *only, bowel, r, WiTe required to .%plain
how this matter stood. The original arise duty upon
loops was intim..l in the fir-t halt of the last century, and
early in this century that duty wan doubts d in order to
meet the esigenties of the Witt which was then raging.
No neeltheation whatev. r hail, from that day to this,
taken plan-; awl it nags pmbable the only tax which had
been 1. ft intact kince the cline of the war in 11.115. It was,
moreover, the only tax now levied on anything grown out
of doors; and considering that of the hot
few years had been of a character insulting serious injury
to Ow intermts of the hop-planters, he thought that the
planter, we.o•in a pti makeon tel oke out very good against
the Chancellor of the Each, quo r. Sine. 1837, as a return
test furnish.d to the house downistratill,the growth of hopsin
t ,istoutitry 110tV11 rvatly diminishing , and there was very
ilitultt tha t tis di JJJ inutio was to be attributed to the
policy parotid sinhe., 1812. In t n hat year the w tariff
re-
owe. il Al the they from qu Issia, thereby offering strong
induentents to adulterate to the brewers. In ISIS the
duty upon the importation of (union hops was taken off
4.0.-loneth ; and now the duty was menly nominal, and in
pew ot fact no protection whatever to the Itritish grower.
lint the ohject of this 1.41 was confined to placing
114,01 of British philters against another elass* of
llrit,-h planwrs. At present holm brought to market
had to bae stamped with the UAW of the county of
which they w, re the pnuluee, and thus, while Kent re-
reiviel a gnat h mfit, n grint injury was dime to all other
hop growing counties. What lie desired, and what by this
bill he intended to effect, was that bops should I,e sold at-
nonlife: to their actual salue, as te4.11 by *ample, and that
tsi, stamp should In. nemeetrily used, What was
the ...tom in other trades, in the wile of wheat for instance,
Ir• w islied to set established in this trail", anti he did net
doubt that the preeaution• against trawl taken in other
nom would be quite Mb etual in this. (The hon. nietnherr
pnors.c.l.4l to explain more fully the nature Will tenor of
the 1.41, brat as he spoke with his buck to the gallery be was
very imperfectly heard.)
Mr. It 4:1:1) liSt could assure his hon. friend that there uss
arrayed against him on this occasion, not merely the oppo-
sition of the country, of guar muscle, hat the opposition of
majorit., of the hop-growing counties, and that the hill
was further 1..4 1 upon with ilisCiiour by nearly all the
lin.wers. That stamp-mark Fairmont, by distinct legis•
1•110011. )1001 nquin .1 4i Is • used Ibr the purls-ec of
pn•tenting fraud, and the hon. insatiate had not shown
One single rasa why the Irma. should suppose that the
restriction was not n. cesury„ and if done away nth that it
would t 1.4 tllllOOO4. the ,eremite to trickery and ,heating.
II.• Ileate4, so an ado n6uent, that the bill he read a second
time that day six months.
Mr. IL DRUMMOND seconded the amendment. The
alijert of the' hill he would mutiny, translating the
hose nosolter, (Mr. Intwen) to captain in plain English.
It wa. le. II kit..it that the Kent hops were the Mot in
Ymitland. It ivss as Well known that the Sous holm
Were the worst in England; Anil, then fure, the hon.
neettels•r for Siisoli nos selling t 0111131•00 such a mystifica-
tion !einem, Soso, owl Kent, that Kent should 1100 longer
mows. it. advansw. • in the market ~site SW•set. (Laugh-
ter.) Twill such mystilieation lie objected, and he would
th n•fore sole heartily mriiiist the bill.
Mr. lA.H (who had ...emoted the motion for the se-
stool feasible.) suggested to hu hon. colleague (Mr. Frew,n)
In withdraw the bill, in the fare of the earnest opposition
whieti it +teeniest to have canted.
Mr. BASS should vote against the bill, and for this
noun, that even the inset eaperieneed brewers could not
pronounce upon the value of hops until they were in the
tom r, and that, the rk lore, the btailip.initk now used, di,-
taiccinslimc the simony in which the hops were grown, was
required.
Mr. Mr MpTEE should also vole :uraiwt the bill. lie
could only regard it it, a bill for the eunturagement of
trickery. 11...slottild have nu objection to a et-elm-bon Of
duty, hut he „old not support a bill that gave direct enema-
regenout to deception.
Alter a feet words from Mr. lions 1., who was adverse
to du hill.
The t'IIANCELI.OR of the F.XCIIECIL*EII said he was
app-.l to the hill, the object of which was to enable persona
got. ing inferior hops to IWOs them for Kentish hope. Ile was
si wild, that his hon. friend was the but person to take an
Unita 3011:111t:144e. Ind the WV.WtiVil etfeet the bill would
he so If his I . friend did not withdraw the measure it
• sionld Is his fluty to oppose the 51.4 nading.
Mr. Cu irmis shortly ailsorateil the cause' of the Sussex
lug growers. If something wen not dime fur thew he did
Rut we how they could get ma ut all.
Mr. EISEWIII replied, and alter a few wont.. frum Mr. A.
1t,,,,,. and liteneral Lvtowt, the house divided—
For the second reading
Fur the amendment l3l-122
The bill Was conospiently thrown out.
SUNDAY 'I KAI/ING HILL.
Mr. W. WII.I.I.AMS, in moving the +mond reading of
the above bill. said he had undertaken the ehar;.• of it at
the request of a very lame portion or his constituents.
11 th. ll wan read a aveollll time he would offer no
objmiiiin to it going twfon. a whet comminute, when• all the
details mold In• esamined, and the Tnesenlift• rendered as
unoin. v 410144111,, OA islosihle. The h terabie member
then quotml Untanceit of journeymen in various trades
who had 1%411 ohlitnsl to he at shop at seven o'clock on
Plumley morning. and stay kteping the shop open while
the pap', w .re passing to church, and other ins 44 jour-
ncylnell Whiter. wad others, Who Col7llll4.lteetl labour at
four o'eleek on Saturday wonting, and continued until
half-pu.st twelve, resuming at ...no on the Sunday morn-
ing. Here, then, were men who were obliged to work 21)
bows a day and upw arils, Ought any for man In let
placed in such a situation which was not now the lot e'en
of a slave ? Ile knew of no cue calling mon• for protec-
tion. Ile hoped the house would allow the bill to go into
committee.. Then• were no religious. purpons in the rivea,
slate. list wished every 111411 to have the opportunity of
attending ti placte .4 worship on Sunday ; but he attem tied
uo such obligation in the bill. All he wanted was that
there should be one day of rest on the seventh day, and let
every man %LW it according to his COlllssiVllCe. Ile toncluded
by moving the second reading.
Mr. It WALL row to norm., as an amendment, that the
bill lie read that clay six months. Ile could not sec the
grouatle upon which the hon. member propueval w revive
the legislation 01230 years ago. The hon. member made
distinct' between the religious observance of the Sab-
bath and :thstiwitee (rims all Labour on the seventh dray.
Ile would ark the house before they passed any measure
whether the alwtinence from labour iu America was in em-
sequence of the good feeling or •0031 principle of their
transatlantic brethren, or from the sets pseud by the legis-
lature of that country ? By an order of the Excise Bourd,dated
the Ilith Nov.. 1830, the officers of excise Wen: directed to
allow the sale of table beer by ;tenons not licensed when the
rice was not more than Om,• halfpence per quart. Now,
if they mowed this hill they would prevent the poor from
buying this wholeurne beverage from persons not licensed,
and would drive them to the publiehowte. Then this hill
would prevent the wile of own...loped publication.. Thc re
were AI unstamped periodicals published in London,
many of which were respectably conducted, but if this
bill tweed the tale of these periodicals would be
much checked, to they were principally sold on the Sun-
day. This was retrograde legblatWn, winch he trusted the
bows. would not sanction. 'The hon. gentleman then quoted
from , ~dent. given heron• the committee of the House of
Lords On Sunday trading. for the purpose of showing that
is the opinion of those lint qualified to
.100Ige such a bill as
this was undesirable. One of the +num.. was Mr.
Mayne, the Chief Commissioner of Police, who said he
did not think any such bill could be effective. The him.
hriidentio eoneluded 11 Whiting the amendment of which
e hail given notice—that the bill be nod a ...mud time that
day six month,.
Mr. LENN.tRIT seconds! the amendment, which, 1w
said, he did with hearty good will. Seeing what this bill
allowed and what it prohibited, they might say it was a Will
which strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel. It was
a bill which (tressed hard upon the poor, while it did not
interfere with those who WV1•1 in more prosperous Cir-
cumstances.
Sir B. lIALL said he believed opinions were ex-
tremely divided in reference to this propuition, and that
while in some dietricte the people particularly desiresl the
bill, in others they were hostile to it. Now the hurt. gentle-
man, the member for Lambeth. had thrown oat a euggestion
that if his hon. friend would allow the bill to pass without
opposition, the bill should be referred to a select committee
which should be fairly and impartially chosen.
Mr. B. WALL—With power to call fur papers and
witiwom ?
Sir H. lIALL said he hoped his hon. Send the member
for Lambeth would agree to that also.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS signified hit Roust, and
Mr. B. WALL said he would agree to that at one..
Thu bill was then:sad a setond time.