The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-11 00:00:00

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The following is a translation of the document, bearing
the royal signet of the Sultan of Morocco, by which the
Moorish plenipotentiary received full powers :
"In the name of God, the merciful and clement l Them
in no strength or power but in God, the most high and
mighty I Be it known by this our leller, elevated and pro-
tected by Gad, and luminous as the sun and moon, that we
have, by the help of God, granted to our employed, the
Honourable Had) Abderrahman-el-Ajee, full power and
authority to conclude with the minister, Mr. John Hay
Drummond Hay, the oonventiou, and to treat with the
merchant, Lewis Fords, reprdiog the arrangemente relative
to the loan of 2,000,000 dollars, to be ndvanoed by the
British cepitalista, and that we shall in no way disprove of
any one of the arrangements (which he, the said Had) Ab-
derrahman-al-Ales, may have come to in the negotiation),
for we have ceded to him all the authority (requisite) to act
in the matter, according to him own free judgment, and with-
out having to refer again to us for inatructioss. He has our
fall powers, and whatsoever be may do will be well done.
Peace. _ _ .

" Done on the 14th day of the present month (of Babes
the Second) of this year (1278) (October 20, 1861)."

NEW BILLS IN PABLIAMENT.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning copies of several bills already in-
troduced in Parliament were lamed.

Two bills have been presented in the House of Lords by
Lord Ebury. One of them propose* to amend the law
respecting the declaration of treat to the use of the Book
of Common Prayer required of ministers and others of the
&tablisited Church, by making it lawful for every person
requited to make a declaration, to do so either according to
the form at present in use,or according to the following one:
" 1,1. 8., do declare that ths Book of Common Prayer
[stating the fell title of the book] may be lawfully need ss
such ; [adding if A. be in Aoly orders] and that I will
myself in public prayers and in administration of the Bacm-
ments use the form in the said book prescribed, and none
other."
The other bill of his lordship is entitled "An Act to
amend the regulations for the public worship, tits, and
ceremonies of the United Church of England and Ireland."
In a schedule consistiug of twenty-ono clauses are numerous
alterations referring to the distribution and order of the
services of the church, and the ma, omission, or curtail-
ment of some of the forms. The directions in this schedule
it is proposed shall be deemed to form part of the Book of
Common Prayer.
'•'•• • " " "

Lard Rede;dale has brought is a bill intended to protect
certain garden or ornamental grounds in cities and boroughs.
It is proposed that garden► in squares, &c., of fifty years'
standing, shall be freed from neglect, encroachments,
and rested in a committee of rated inhabitants, or, if such
decline, M the Metropolitan Board of Works, or the corpo-
rate authority. . .

Yr. Hodfield's bill rendering it unnecessary to make and
subscribe certain declarations as • qualification for offices
and employments is very brief, and was sufficiently described
by the hon. gentleman on the first night of the session. The
bill bears the names of Mr. Hadfield, Hit M. Pato, Mr.
Baines. and Mr. Kershaw.
A bill has been introduced to abolish whipping for
otfeaces committed by criminal prisoners, and providing
in the case of juvenile offenders that the oonvicting jus-
tices shall specify in the sentence which they per the
instrument to be used and the number of strokes to be
inflicted. The bill is prepared and brought in by Mr.
Hadfield, Mr. Kinnaird, Mr. Briscoe, and Sir Y. Smith.

The Pope is causing a sepulchre to be built in
the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, similar to those which
exist in the churches of Bt. Peter and St. John de Wren,
with the intention, it is said, of being interred there.
Mr. Severn continues to make urgent applica-
tions to the government of Rome for the arrest of the in-
terpreter Ceocarini, concerned in the murder of tho English
overseer Smith at Velletri ; but the prelate contents him-
self with assuring the consul, in moral terms, that he bas
taken all necessary steps for carrying out the ends of justice.

A correspondent at Rome writes on the 4th inst.:
—" Two American travellers, forgetful of the adage that at
Rome one must do as the Romans do, got into a row yes.
tenlay for not taking off their hate when a procession is-
sued from a church, on the Piazza di Trevi, carrying the
host with the usual solemnity. As the two gentlemen
alluded to rendered themselves rather conspicuous by
standing erect and covered amidst the kneeling and
bareheaded spectators, one of the priests remon-
strated with them on the subject ; but finding that
they would neither withdraw nor uncover, he pro-
ceeded to knock their hats off ; a scuffle ensued, and the
priest rejoined the procession, which, making ► round, soon
after returned to the same spot. The Americans had re-
sumed their h►ts and their stand ; but the priest, instead of
coadenemding to fisticuffs • second time, sent • couple of
gendarmes to remonstrate with the offenders, which they
did in their usual brutal style, inflicting • staggering blow
ea the breast with the butt end of • musket on one of the
Vintners, and a compliment of • similar kind on the other.
The best piece of advice to over-scrupulous protestants on
such occasions is to turn into a side street, if they object to
raising their hats on passing the procession."

MEETING OF BOTH HOUSES OF CON-
YOUATION.-(THIS DAY.)

Both Houses of Convocation of the Clergy of the
province of Ouiterbury met this morning in the Jerusalem
Chamber, Westminster Abbey. His Grace the Archbishop
of CANTERBURI presided during the reading of the prayers,
attended by the Bishops of l oodan, Banbury, Manchester,
Lincoln. and St. Asapb. The mess hess of the lower house
assembled most nameronaly. The moon having been de-
clared open, their lordslups retired, and proceeded to
Queen Ann's Bounty Office, where the proceedings of the
Upper Have are carried on.