The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

1101:SE OF LOIMS.—)MONDAY, Jrmv. 6.
' The Lout. CHANCELLOR took his seat at 6 o'clock.
AFFAIRS OF THE EAST.
The Marquis of CLANILICARDE gave notice that on
klqiday he would call attention to the affsin of the East.
TILE MALTESE CODE.
The Evl of SHAFTESBURY said that a rumour had
reached this country of a revision of the Maltese code, in
which terms were used very derogan ry to the church of
Ragland and of all other churches except the church of
Home. He wished to ask if it had reached this country ;
and if so, whether the noble duke would object to lay it on
the table ? If it had not been received, he wished to ask
the noble dolts to give the house en opportunity of dinos-
aur it before it received the sanction of the government?
The Duke of NEWCASTLE said the governor of Malta
bad not yet sent the revised code to this country, but he
would do so as soon as it could be translated and printed.
Whether it would be necessary to lay on the table of the
house the whole of the crimina! ehde he could not say; but
as to the particular point to which his noble friend alluded,
he would give him an opportunity of seeing the code before
any steps were taken to confirm it. At the same time,
without entering into the merits of the case, he must beg
his noble friend not to allow his feelings to carry him away
to this matter and induce him to take any rash step with
reference to the alteration of the code, until he had made
himself master of the whole bearing of the case, for he could
assure him that on both sides a strong religious feeling had
hems exhibited.

EVIDENCE AMENDYENT BILL.
On the motion of Lord BioVOHAM this bill was read a
third time.
WIIIC II WOOD FOREST BILL.
On the motion of Lord STANLIT of ALDWILLEY this
bill was read a eeennd time.
THE WAR IN BURMAH.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH uked the governmeat
for papers explanatory of the war in Burmah, and took that
opportunity of condemning the policy, conduct, and ex-
penses of the war.
Earl GRANVILLE said that the government had no
further papers beyond those which had been already laid
upon the table of the house. He might, however, state
gig it was their wish to give every information's this
t to the house, and as sown u any further despatches
were received, and ready for promstatios, so ussemssary
delay should take place in proosseMir Mom Under thew
circumstances, he be might be emu s& fir isehisfse to follow
the noble earl into the details to whisk he had drawn at-
tention. (Hear, hear.)
P 'After a few words from the Ead of Albemarle, Lord
Binumont, Earl Grenville, and the Earl of Elbsaborough,
the ersivereation dropped.
Thou lordships adjourned at a quarter put six o'clock.

ROUSE OF OOMMONS.—McomatT,Jtarr 6.
The BPRAII.II took the chair shortly beton four o'clock.

NEW MEMBER.
Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER took the oaths and his mat for
the borough of Plymouth.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
TutaD READlNGS.—Aberdeen Railway; Leominster
Markets and Pairs; London, Brighton, and South Coast
Railwa
eeb Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway
(TaffVale); 'Ples Railway; Rooker's Disablilities
Amoral ; Lands Improvement Company (No. 2; Bills.
CONSIDZILATION OP BILLS ORDZZID TO LIE lIPON
THZ TLlLl.—Chorley Improvement ; Cork and Bandon
Railway ; and Holderness Railway ; Landon and North 1
Western and London and 131ackwall Railways ; London and
North Western Railw (Crewe to Shrewsbury) ; New
Roes (Free) Bridge; Rochester Bridge; Saint Helen's
Canal and Railway ; South Eastern Railway (Canterbury
and Whitstable, dm.) ; South Eastern Railway (North
Heat Railwayto the Thames, &a.) ; South Eastern Rail-
way (Strood to Maidstone) ; United Guarantee and Life
Amanita Company ; Warrington and Altriocham Railway
(Stockport) ; Witham Drainage Second District; Bills.
81COND RHADlNoll.—Mean's (Brown's Trustees) Es-
tate ; Thames Embankment ; Bills.
PIMLICO INIPRGVEMENT BILL.

Oa the Maims for reading of this bill,
Mr. WILLIAMS complained that no estimate or plan
nal bees laid on the table of the intended works, and com-
*Waal 'moray of the sums expended on royal palaces,
sad wildly of the large amount of 100,00 W. which had
bees eltettly expended on what were Galled Pimlico Ins-
but which was, in fact, clearing sway of houses
C= to Buckingham Palace. He objected to pro-
▪ will the bill fill se estimate was produced.
• MOLISWORTH eigdateed that the expense of
Impenetexes in quietism well be biome by the Land
Pas d Ow Crowe, and le ewe of tbe elegem of the bill
▪ eilleate end plea would be WI beim the hone..
• bill wee Am reed a semi demt.
PUBLIC BIIIMII9B.
BURT BT. ILDHUNDII ILECTICN.
• • •

WlLPliLiFireashoWilie report of the whet
areandttee appointed to wy the polition aphid the return
for the borough of Buy ft. limb. whisk elated that
Jame Hoary Porteous I:laliori!nA_, wee duly solarsed.
111.100 BLBOTION. _

Mr. DI VETT aseught up the ripen of Se Mot sew
alias aptea t.Wy the sedge the NOM at
the hst fee hip. The ownesiMse mated hot
Charles Towneley, Eaq., was set duly slosh* to sanea
pediment he the Immesh etilise; thst the lest &Won
wee • void &Nis ; that Mlles Tawnier. Bet., Ime, tr 7
:nixes, guilty of balmy sad train ; that it was
that Sweetish Jaya O'Daseves, an alder-
man' of the him& of &go, wss bribed by IA.
honer, lea.,
tabs walk possahe of s payment of 10111.,
• an ouneendlowelselies neesun to
onsslara is pestles gle of
be Ms "NA whim\ le bid peowdedt, le Mr.
Sem" sad ilat he
of esassitnally obsealedilrkeedl; that it
woo not pawed the sets bribery were haws es et mow
timed by Cheeks Towneley, Neg. ; that the Whom of the
Zama waft phials we asisslssi is • armee Iseeasis-
test with heir duty as =Wen of sad deeleuetive
et freedom 'ldaho ea the pert of the deeloot. (Chsers.)
ZISIONATION OF THE AMAX CATHOLIC
1111413111t3 OF THE GOVERNMENT.
The hew being at this sesswit crowded, sad in evident
expestaties el taterpsantisas,"
Mr. 0. H. ROOM rees sad mid—air, wig Ow mobil
sea the masher he the City of Leaden la hie ples4l,lll
se pat to his two guidons, of whisk I should ban gloss
aides, bat that, aaferteastsly, I only sow the eserespea-
hese to which they rake within the hot two bears. Oa
the Het of het math the sable lord nude a speak in this
home whisk sot ealy exalted sass napriss hen at the
Vas, bat whisk sprain to have iszsltsd stew reprise la
seer cassabas if the revermiat. Far I lad la the sub-
tle man that • eerresposdasee has Won plus betimes
Mr. Maassil tad Lord Absalom; sad, strangely
'sough, that essreipsndeaes is digmatly gives, sad
the differsase is ea • nutter of sore imports:tee, la
the news sad is the Yarning Chrosick. Mr. Monesll
wits' to Lord Aberdeen thus :—" It appears that in the
SOWN of a honed= opts the witistiestical manes ef
Imbed, Lord Jahn Russell, who it the emu of the go-
venonsuit is the House of Cameras, spoke of the
Boma Wiens skunk la • =saner whisk mothl
set fail to be stun olbssive to the aissabsee
that coutieweias. His lordship described, sot indl.
vidul aunbon of the Hosea catholic dm*
bat that shank itself, ' leader the direction of he
heed,' as Kalil. to free institutions sad disloyal to civil ge-
versants, sad, therefore, the qualiAestion whisk his lord-
ship added to his atusare could not apply to say one who,
like. myself, are Is deep sad thorough unity of seatineat
sad spirit with that church end its head." To which Lord
Aberdeen replies—" I bars to inform you that while the
vote on that occasion (and by ' the rote' I suppose the
oohs earl mew the vote which the noble lord the member
for the City of Leaden aid not give—(laughter)—for I be-

Ikea he did set vote at all) had the unction of the severs.
mutt, the reasons for that vote gives by Lord John Buseell,
•ed the sentiments of which you complain are not shared by
me nor by any of my colleague." This is what the Mau
givse-." nor by any tot my colleagues the Mornay Chro-
nicle gives it, " nor by many of my oollesgses." Now, I
wish to ask the noble lord, first, whisk is the correct copy
of Lord Aberdeen'sletter, that in the Timm, or that in the
Morning Chronicle ? That is to say, whether it is by the
whole or only by • majority of the government that the
opinions of the noble lord are repudiated ? had, if the
latter, who are those members of the government ?
In else sound place, I wish to know if the House
of Ocarina is now given to understand that only the
votes gives by the noble lord the member for the City
it London have the sanction 01 her Majesty's government,
and that the reasons offered and the opinions expressed by
the 'obis lord es the " leader " of the house may be repu-
diated, on all occasions, by the whole or by • majority of the
government ?
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Lord J. ILINISELL—With respect to the Brat question
whisk the has. gestleneen has asked me, I have to state that
I hays bees isfornted by Lord Aberdeen that there lass
poctsat ealspriatia the letter edge which heves is the Tanen
and that aisprist sonata in stating that certnia °Odom
are not shared " by Nee or any" instead of " by ste or by
many." The transcript in the Morning Chronicle is,
therefore, correct. Bo far with regard to the Ant question
the hon. gentleasa has asked. As to what members of
the cabinet they are who share ay opinions and which
Recaben of the cabinet do not, I an totally unable to
answer the boa. 'estimates gaieties. I have °sly to
say further, sad t►is shall be the answer to the lost question
asked, that Lard Melbourne sled always to say—and I
think that that was a very seseible opinion of hie—that
it was emits sudsiest for the members of a primmest
to agree on the coarse they should pursue, and that it
was sot at all seeseeszy that they should agree is all the
reams In that warn.
INCONE TAX BILL—THIRD READING.
Os the motion (the Chancellor of the Rechequer's) that
♦Be /seems Tan Hill should be read a third tins,
Col. iLt/ECOTIRT called attentios to the seas of Cowes
p 0" solland a grievous sear she imams tees

After some conversation, the hones divided—
For the third math; g
Against it
On the question that the hill 110 pass,
Sir F. K ELLY moved a clause to reduce the tax upon
incomes between 100/. and 2001. a year feats lid. to 31d. in
the pound, and upon incomes between 2001. and 3001. a mar
to 81d. in the pound.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be
was very sorry it was quite impossible for him to secede
to the request of the right hoe; gentleman, that govern-
ment should take this clause Into consideration, and for
reasons which were obvious. All persons felt that one
great danger respecting the income tax was the exemp-
tions that it involved ; that there was a serious danger in the
principle involved in these exemptions. If they once opened
the door, they would find a vast number of parties whom
the hon. gentleman did not contemplate attempting to
rush through it. (Hear, bear.)
The committee then divided ;

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For the clause-
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Agaiwit it
The clause wu therefore lost. . ...

Sir F. KELLY then moved another clause, namely "to
deduct 5 per cent. from the amount of the tax paid upon all
incomes under 4001. a year in respect of each child of the
party paying, born in wedlock, and under 21 years of age
and unmarried."
This clause was negatived without a division.
Sir A. CAMPBELL moved the following new clause:
" In charging the duty under schedule A of this act, ic
respect of lands, tenements, hereditament', and heritages,
in Scotland, as allowance or deduction shall be made for
the amount of all parochial and county rates, taxes, and as-
sessments, which by law or custom are paid by the owner
thereof."
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
hon. gentleman bad founded himself partly on the general
argument, and partly on the ground of a special concession
which he supposed was to be made to Ireland. The general
ground had been discussed on a former evening; he had
oppoeed a clause more limited than this, and it had been
rejected by a very large majority of the house on the ground
that it would be impossible to make the concession without
=nettling the whole structure of the income tax. Upon
that ground he was prepared again to oppose it.
The house divided:
For Sir A. Campbell's ....... • 54
Against
On the motion of the Catexcu.Loa of the Excnencra
three new clauses were added to the bill, in reference to
deductions for poor rate paid by one party for another.
Some verbal amendments were made in the other clause.
On clause 43,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed
the insertion of certain words in regard to assurance com-
panies. This clause could not come into operation till after
the sth of October. That being so, and as there was a
committee sitting on the subject of the registration of joint
stock companies, he thought it better do take advantage of
what remained of the present Stegall, in order to determine
by some simple provision, to which he did not anticipate
any objection, under what conditions exemptions should be
allowed for the annual premiums. This would give no pre-
ference to one company over another, and would leave the
matter quite open.
After a short conversation the amendment was agreed to.
On the motion that the bill do pass,
Captain ARCHI)ALL asked whether the Chancellor of
the Exchequer would make the allowance which the poor
law commissioners promised should be made to the rate-
payers of Lowtherstown Union for the money paid by them
under the Relief Act.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
as he understood the matter the advance was made under
the Temporary Relief Act, and not under the General Re-
lief Act. It was said that the Poor Law Commissioners

bed given an asearance that this money would be paid
back, but they declared that they had given no suet ma-
rine!.

After a few words from Mr. J. BALL sad Mr. Fauraw,
The bill was read a third time, sad passed.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIABILL.—ADIOURNED

DEBATE.
On the order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate
on this bill being read,
Mr. J. 0. PHILLIMOBE said it was with no ordinary
anziety that he rose to empress his opinions on a q
on the proper solution of which depended the hoppin=
by far the larger proportion of their fellow.subjeets.
Differing as he did from the right hon. gentleman (Sir C.
Wood) in much which fell from his the other evening,
than was one point on which he opal with him—namely,
that, however theoretically Mod end anomalous the
hems of our Indian govenumest might be sop.
to be, still, if it had really promoted the
posed
and welfare of thou who were subject
to its dominion, it ought not to be abolished ort ems
altered. It; however, he were obis to slow lidbed
failed in the discharge of its @Mad ditlion,_ lbet sot
through spiiiimsles but owing to MIME lit lei Mu
repeatedly eat by the grease& se wheel Wanes,
. Pen Mr. Burke eatiheaville that
stead that unigns onmrisese, as well a
general sesessing, was in farm el the dinneneeme
amen. He was reed/ to meet Ilts eight ben
a the hese, whether the petast node of
gewmaset had beim mesh* ad to tbs
Man el Wis. 'Whoa the aorta wader the
esselimas of the how, the right hon. geallomemthe
member hridialturgh, who propena the bill Ise isosememot,
Mined espedelli on two points—the nesearity etengloples
the me, see the necessity (the lawman
ensir
he tasted it) of a code for India. Tliv tight hen
mn seid—"There is one part of the Wes VW
Mat boo passed elsewhere, I feel massif Will he-
es say a few werdo. I allude to that wise, that
that noble abase, which enacts that no native
et our empire shell. by ram hie solar, his
issesa, or his religion be dialled ken heldhe aka"
New Mn bed been tbe Goode* of the Bea lan Con.
pay sines that esp, so weeny of as selighissed
a= was 1W ? -Wish how that time to this,
sada el lan hest alined ea case to which
he wee set oltible helm (Zan Inse.). Again, the
Ogle his. geatimis (Mr. Illessal add so wassizy ever
aced se each la need of a ale se Win ad be added—
sad he (Yr. Maim* regeseled the Maths of the
heese to this stalenisil—drit then sear was a esentry in
whisk that seed mid he a mad anal. la &scri
the Mb of the leer the Elgin hes ly
. gesliones a bing
dd, " The
whole as smiler et saw Ives G this 'why we have
had hashish et judasneie Mk whore then is every
idea int ea litigate the ails el soil Rana ; but
jedgemode law. where these is MAO p•eeemesat sad
lea nonlity—wbeee dare is as her Who poblis—is a
am mil a seasiel set to be osiereL" ifew. Met wee
the eswestary this teat ? of the ma able ivC
mash of the crown tend this thee ashen had
bees dm and that when he eiwe reasseheans and re-

to tiedikeetses, the only elle* was that be
rushed a enuring onswer, and was told to take Went-
miaow Halls • maid. These was no port of the iglt
her. Igmasmaa's (lik C. Wood's) veldt * whisk he
Isisetwitit so wadi gergeise smiggleatign that in
whisk be Nabs et the *rat* of Se law In India.
Wtefibe whole snide* in a Oaken manes, the
. gentionwin sold no dank lbere woes abases of
the Ifer r laglia.4kees woes Awes of that idol is ail
essiakke. nil *AIM etie elegb age eagembsdhicire
kw abases want le M wdei ai In &sea orb* sdbe.
as he had been inionmal by a judge. Whs.* Mk
this last statement had palely aluMniesd the sdeilMes.
den of law ia this esualey. (flosw. lqic.) pfr. Hob
Ploolmnals said Ilmajlest is geognetkw *Orley had beam
indhsesd la India hod doe people NOW ; and he (MA;
Pliiiimere) Wined that if any ahem of * same Ids'
were dissoeseedin lighad the whale iteggle7 would be is
a r.=sad peelimamit mud& Weems Am *own for tbe
if the M. robs hal boss guilty of it. Mr. Lewis
mid *re wire are mete brook at Maim who
wen sot oi•ptreinit Arthaelles whisk they bat who
had bees of ash whisk rendered them salt to be
trusted wit the life of • lea. (Laughter.) In one ease
there wu a document, emmiesing of a side and a half of
foolseap, in which it was Alder* that one man was to be
hanged, another to be tramparted, and a third to be set
free ~ because there was net a wedge of evidence against
him." (Laughter.) Sash was found to be the spelling of
the word. The judge bad evidently not examined the do-
cument to whisk be Washed kis name. In another cue—
a cam in whisk ama we by a nabob in an
affair of sessante—the sensate by the nabob's wife
were admitted as evidence. Many of the cases in India were
of such a nature that if they wanted anything like •
parallel they must look for it in the °mime of Cicero
against Verres. The question was not one of refinement or
comfort, it was one of existence. The right honourable
gentleman, when compering India under native rule
with the peewit government, bad gone to the period buss-
distely preceding one invasion, when the country was torn
and convulsed. sad had not alluded to the time of Akbar
when it was contented and happy. He might as well hays
gone to the days of Attila for an account of the Augustan
era. Suppose the Hindoo were to refer as to Europe in the
17th century, to the times of the Regent Orleans, et Leak
XV., of Catherine of Russia, or to the inosstnons court of
Berlin, or more recently to ohs sack of Wusaw, the parti-
lieu of Poland, or the still freshly remembered' horrors of
the French revolution t (Hear hear.) Did not
the house think that in sail events • Hin-
doo might find counterparts for the worst seises
in the history of his own country 1 (Cheers.)
The next question to which he should allude was the tenure
of land, a question respecting which it was scarcely passible
to eraggerate the difficulty. With respect to the land, the
But India Company had assumed all the rights of the na-
tive proprietors, while, at the same time, evading all the
duties. The settlement of Beegal in '93 was perhaps
adopted from good motives, but it laid been adopted in
ignorance, and had ended in complete failure. It was
called • permanent settlement, but each were its elute
that at the present moment only ono family rem** that
bed signed the compact, all the rest hairier bees ruined or
totally destroyed. Mr. Mill condemned the settlement of
113 as having rained both the Zemindars and the rye%
dr latter b.lag in a state of utter poverty and degradation.
With OS the state of this same Bengal previous to
osf ids is wadi quote the testimony of Mr. Holwell, a
blkinerieller, who described it as the beet ordered and
mi...i
of India, and the only one that *lmbed
tril W= of the old Hindoo system. At *gems*
=r there was the one level of uniform mien in the
een in the world, under the
Übe* pewee the house was sow ge
Siam At Madras they had Ihe
3= the great defect of which was nee eslisiner was
to unlit terms with 300,000 ryote, sad there could
Is he bower deep of human degradation thus the audition
.111edras :yeti under the sway of Madras collectors.
___lll°Xblsh4:::_,,drubeen introduced t
t Bombay h
obliged
te of
INOOMIInr La the portb-westera plosion an entirely