The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-08 00:00:00

IM PERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MOSIDAY, JULY 7.
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The Royal assent was given by commission to the follow-
* Bill.: Con eilidated Fund (10,000,00 W.) ; Unlawful
Oaths (Irelini) Act Continuance; Sandhurst Vestiug; Ports-
down Fair Discontinuance; Public-homes (Scotland) Acts
Amendinert ; Leeds and Bristol Rood ; Eden Valley Rail-
way ; Rotherham and Wortley Road ; Noith eastern
sad Hull and Holderness Railway Company's Amal.
isolation; Wexford Harbour Commissioners ; Bridge
of Weir Railway ; Great Western Railway (Ad-
ditional Powers) ; Moreton, Hampstead, and South
Doyen It iilway ; Treut, Aocholme, and Grimsby
Railway ; Wern and Brooygarth Roads; United Kingdom
Electric Telegraph Company ; Cardiff Borough; Gersten and
Liverpool Railway ; Kent County Gaol and Lunatic Asylum
(Water Supply); Liverpool Fire Prevention Acts Amend.
meet ; Dundalk and FAniakillen Railway ; Hatfield Chase
Level ,• Dartmouth and Torbay Railway ; Sheffield and
Chapel-en-le-Frith Reads ; Edinburgh and Glasgow and
O•ledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway Com-
panies ; Caledonian Railway (Deviation, kc.); Caledonian
Railway (Leith Branches); Edinburgh and Glasgow, and
Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Helensburgh Railway Comps-
aies. The royal commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Argyll, and Earl St. Germans.
The LOLD CHAICILLOB took his seat on the woolsack at
5 o'clock.
THE EAST GLOUCESTERSHIRE RAILWAY.
Lord PORI'MAN brought up the report of the select
committee appointed to inquire into the circumstances
attending the conduct of William Imam, clerk to Mr. Bundle,
solicitor at Chelteoham, John Preston, and others, with
regard to the mode of obtaining signatures to the petition of
Barbara Robiason and others, presented on the 22nd May last.
The committee reported that the conduct of William beam,
John Preston, Robert S. Liogwood, Charles W. Ramey,
sod Wm. Boodle in obtaining signatures to the petition did
not indicate that they had 'men guilty of wilful misrepre-
sentation in respect thereof ; that William Isaacs was not
sufficiently careful iu the explanations given by him when
obtaining signatures ; that John Preston appeared to have
acted under the belief that the representations made by
him in respect of the petition were correct ; and R. S. Liog-
wood aod Charles W. Massey, his clerk, ought to have been
more careful with the.iustructione given to William Lams
and J. Preston when they eruployed them toobtain signatures
to the petition ; that R. W. Liogwood, as • solicitor, would
have acted more prudently if be had paid attention to the
rumours communicated to him in reference to the petition ;
and that the committee saw DO reason to impute any blame
whatever to Mr. Boodle.
POLITICAL PRISONERS AT NAPLES.
The Maniuis,of NORMANBY rose, pursuant to notice, to
call ablution to the treatment of political prisoners at present
in confinement at Naples, and to move for any information
in possession of her Majesty's government on the subject.
The noble marquis said that recent events had confirmed
his previous convictions, that Italy could not remain both
independent and united. The noble marquis then
referred to the case of Mr. Bishop, an English
subject, who bad been beaten and most cruelly
treated for bringing certain letters to Naples, although
it had not been proved that Mr. Bishop had any
knowledge of the contents of these letters. Mr. Bishop was
treated as if he had been a conspirator, but did any one
doubt that almost every member of the present government
of Naples, from Conforti downwards, had passed their lives
as conspirdoni ? He wished also to know from his noble
friend whether he could give any further information re-
specting the proclamations and the press prosecutions which
had beau denied by the Turin government as having taken
place.
Earl RUSSELL said he felt no sort of doubt that
Italy would make great progress, and the govern.
ment had lately beard that every groat power
of Europe, such as the Emperor of Russia, and
only yesterday, he beard, the King of Prussia
were disposed to recognise this new kingdom of Italy, of
which his noble friend had so very poor an opinion. (Hear,
bear.) That new kingdom was therefore making its way to
recognition 'mall the powers of Europe. With regard to
the particular cases which his noble friend had recommended,
to their lordships' notice, he (Earl Russell) did not appoint
a commiseion. or *rots, or any persons, to make inquiries,
but Mr. Bonham informed him that he had himself sent a
person in whom lie had confidence, named Douglas, in con-
sequence of home communication from Mr. Bishop with re-
gard to his treatment in prison, to visit him. Mr. Douglas
went, and Mr. Bishop complained to him that his person
had Leen searched, and that he had not yet been
brought to trial. At the same time Mr. Douglas was told
that Mr. Bishop was treated with very great lenity, not
to say favour, that he had been permitted to have so apart-
meet to himself. and a convenient one ; and Comul-General
Boehm concluded by saying he thought that Mr. Bishop
had but one cause of complaint, that he had not been
brought to trial. He (Earl Russell) agreed that that was •
very valid ground of complaint, and they had desired Sir
James Hudson to state to the Italian government that her
Majesty's government considered it a great hardship that
Mr. Bishop should not be brought to trial. He (Earl
Russell) had heard within the last few days that the lists
of the jury would be ready on that very
day, the Tth of July, and that the trial would be imme-
diately proceeded with.
The E id of ELLENBOROUGH thought it most desirable
sot to consider Italy as in a state of pupilage ; and even if she
were, their lordships were not her censors or tutors.
(Hear, bear.) Of this he was sure, that, desirous as all
were, almost without exception, from one end of the country
to the other, that Italy should be a great, happy, power-
ful, and well-governed state, the beet thing they could
do was to leave her to the management of her own
aifaire. (Hear. hear.) There would be no feeling of hide-
modem' ; there would be no good government in Italy -
there would not be, on her part, the adoption of a free and
independent hoe of policy, until she felt she was being
treated as one of the great states of Europe, and permitted
by himself. and by her own mesas, to mune her own
affairs. (Hear, hear.)
Lord BROUGHAM entirely concurred with his noble
friend who had just addressed their lordship' ; he therefore
wished to oak whether it was true, as he was rather led to
expect from what had fallen from the noble earl (Russell),
that Russia bail acknowledged the kingdom of Italy! If so,
be (Lord Brougham) heartily rejoiced in the event, which he
considered to be of no small importance
Earl It I'aIF.LL said he believed it was perfectly true that
Emma Lel ilechirol her intention to recognise the kingdom
of Italy. The Raman government hail made a communi-
cating, which hail not yet reached Turin, requiring, he
would not say ,ecurities, but certain assurances from the
government of Italy, which he had no doubt the Italian go-
vernment were deterniioed to give, and upon that the re-
cognition would, take place. The assurances required by
the Itu,ian gnvernmeut were to the effect that the inten-
tions of the governmaut of Italy were pacific towards its
neighbouio, and that the German coofederacy, and espe-
cially Austria, would nut he an object of aggression on the
'part of
Lord BROUGHAM hoped that nothing would happen in
Italy to throw obstacles iu the way of so desirable a coo-
summatiou as the ackaowledvueut of the kingdom of Italy
by the powers of Europe.
The Eat of HARROWBY said that it was most
wonderful for a person coming from Italy as he (the
Earl of Hansawby) had just done, to hear the language
of the noble marquis. who still spoke of the Piedniontese
government us • nun-existent fact. (Hear, hear.) It was
left for the made marquis, as a sort of MOOOMAIIia, to use
this langii..re ; but to him (the Earl of Harrowby) it was a
matter of astonishment that any man should get up here
and deny the existence of these facto. He wondered that
any emu could have gime through that country and not
hare *era a different spirit prevailing. He himself had
found a lie a• sense of freedom of enjoyment, a looking up-
wards en every species of advancement; instead of coo.
'Tinley there was free discussion, both in the press and in
parliament ; in short, improvement of all kinds, moral and
material ; and such a spirit of unity as no one could have
believed could have been realized. He had met with per-
sons elm had said to him, " We were the last to give up
the idea of the autonomy of our own country. When we
!coked ;ovoid us at the battle fields of our nation with
Frame ; a hen we considered that we were a country cut
tip into small slices ; that we were in the midst of abun-
dant men t.. of communimtion by railways and telegraphs,
with the paespurt system abolished, and that there was
no hope for the development of our resources if we were
left in such a condition, there then flashed over the land a
wish to lie free." There were so doubt left in Italy
the remains of maladministration ; for despotism
• was an ill training for liberty. If it were
mot so, it would not be the odious thing it was ; and where
it wan molt odious, there corruption had gone the
deepest, and was the most difficult to eradicate. Where all
the ma ~i.trates were corrupt, it was impossible to trust
them. Theo who was there who could be trusted? The old
meats of government were not only corrupt hot hostile.
He wished their lordships could only see the different spirit
which how prevailed in Italy—he wished they could see the
effect which had been produced by the extension of railways
and steamboats, and by the feeling which hail sprung op in
every part of the peninsula, that it was now a portion of
one great and united country.
The inotioe for papers was then agreed to.
GAME LAWS AMENDMENT (No. 2) BILL
In committee,
Lord POLWARTH proposed to substitute the words
" Greet Britain," in the first clause, for " England."
The Earl of DERBY resisted the motion. It was most
desirali:e to restrict the bill to the simple object it had in
view. lamely. the suppression of pangs of armed night
poachers. It might endanger the bill in tbe other house if
it were made into a measure for increasing the stringency of
the game laws.
After acme discussion the amendment was agreed to.
The Earl of CLANCARTY moved to insert the words
"and belated."
Agreed to.
The LoRD CHANCELLOR moved a number of verbal
ameoduients which were also carried.
THE QUEEN'S PRISON DISCONTINUANCE BILL
(18132.)
The report of amendments was roomiest!.
CROWN PRIVATE ESTATES BILL
This bill passed through committee.
COURTS OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND BILL
This bill was read • third time.
The Earl of DALHOUSIE moved an amendment, the