The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-09 00:00:00

PUBLIC BUSINESS.

SECOND READING.—Defeem in Leases
CO3IMITTE B.—Protection of Women Bill.
THIRD READING. Bankrupt Law Cmiolidat:on
Bid.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.

PROTECTION or WONIN.—By Lend MILFORD, antral
from various plums in favour of this bill.

THE BI ER ACT.

The Eul of HARROWHY gave notice that on bitchy
next he should mote for the appointment of a select com•
mittee, to take into consideration the act relative to beer
shops.
CANADA.

Lard BROUGHAM postirned his motion cm Canals
until next Tu Ada, week, and stated that he would Bit*
notice of knos
CASBOF MR. RYLAND.

The Duke of rtiedaP;tlion from a Mr.
Ryland, complaining of his having been deprived of the office
of clerk to the Executive Council of Lower Canada without
having received a retiring pension. The father of the petttioser
had held the cffiee for many years,and had been honorably men-
tioned as a public officer in 1804. by Lord Camden, and tub-
pequently by Lord Liverpool and Mr. Conning. Lord
Gounelg, when in office as colonial tecretary, consented to his
reigning in favour of Lis sox, the petitioner, and Lord
Durham appented the petitioner to the office of clerk
of the Executive Council, the emoluments being 1,0301.
a year. He wassubeequently, in 1841, on the passing et the
Canada Act of Union under the administration of the late
L'.rd Sydenham, sworn in as clerk of the united prose-Meer.
Afterwards 12:s lordship made some alterations with regard
to the ciuncil, and propped that the petitioner should rc- '
sign his office on certain conditions. but they were no: de-
fined oi:h sufficient Mimes.. His excellency appointed
elm registrar of Quebec, and moped that he was willing to
make up his sclary to 5151., which would have been the pe- ,
titioner's retiring allowance as clerk to the council. Soon
after he had taken the office of vgistrar of Quebec he found
the expenses of the office wire very heavy, be having to
make certain advances before he could derive any emolu-
ment. It was supposed that during the first year of the
creati a at the office the receipts would be 26,000:. front
the number of dee:s which would be registered, and
that afterwards the income would be about 5001. a
year, and the petitioner was finite willing to receive the
appointment on thee' terms ; out he had been greatly d. -
ceivcd in his expectations, and became involved in pecuniary
embarrassment by the advances which he had made. The
petitioner then wished to bi. allowed to retire en the allow-
ance of 5151. per annum ; but the then Governor o,nerel
of Canada, Lord Metcalfe, cc:IA.I Oct accede to his request.
The noble duke went at leng.h into details, to show that Sir
Clkarlc e Bagt.t, L. rd Metcalf, —varicose colonial secretaries,
and a committee of the legislative. council of Camels—had all
from time to time acknowl.dged the justice of Mr. Ryland's
claim. He had been Auba quently appointed reeisrr..r of
Montreal, and allowed 1111 out of the +nod of 5,0001. per
annum, which bed been reserved to the crown for pensions
nods rthe Act of Union, until a =oar lucre ive office cool I
be found; hut this 101 l ohert of making up his income to the
proposed sum, namely, 5151. The 1. ((Wetlye committe ad-
mitted the justice of Mr. 1.4 land's claim, but said it ought not
to be paid out of the colonial, but (rem the imperial fund..
1,91 d Metcalfe, how/ewe, had expressed an opinion directly
the menu. A committee appointed by the cal.inet
of le rd Elgin to inquire into the subject, in 1847, recom-
mended that the sum of 2,2411 should be given to Mr.
Ryland ; he objected, however, to such a sum. A change
took pl.ce in the cabicet of Lord Elgin, and when the mat
tor was brought before a committee again, they denied the
claim altogether; but it did not appear to him that the
Canadian legislature was actuated ty the came sense of
justice which governed the parliament of this e.untry.
E CFI GREY said the noble duke had not suggested that
their I,rdthips could in any way interfere. Lord Metcalfe
had said that if the erraopetnent made by Lord Sydenham
was legal it ought to be hieding on the local government,
and he went on to say, " But I will see, en what ground to
is entith d to a pension, holding de fact) the office of clerk
to the executive council, which he had voluntarily resigned
for another." As the control of their own pecuniary afftirs
had been given to the people of Canada, it rested alone with
them to consider this clam, and he certainly wished they
had taken a mere favour.ble view of Mr. Ityland's case.
Lord BROUGHAM considered the me of Mr. Ryland a
hard one, and the more so u the sub-secretary, it appeared,
had received compensation. Mr. Ryland's claim, which was
held to be good two years ago, was bad now only because In-
other party was in power. He hoped, however, from the
kind spirit in which the noble earl (Grey) had enewsred the
statement of the noble duke (Argyle) that some compensa
tion or allowance would yet be made (Hea-.)
After a few words in reply from the Duke of ARGYLE the
whims was ordered to lie on the tcble.

LEASEHOLD TENURE OF LANDS (IRELAND)
BILL.
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Lord STANLEY presented a petition from the Lord
Mayor, it'd rmen, and common corned of the city of Landon
in commcn council asteroid d, pregi g that the lam!' of
the Irish Scciaty m'ght he exempt d from the operaeion
of this bill. The petition stated that the proper: ot this
society had always been well menu. d, end that the pr. tits
derived from it were devoted to educate nal and rel.gious
purposes ; and that, in order to retain rff.etn, I control over
tt, their practice was to lease it to the t :tants fora °attain num-
ber of years, such Isaacs beind renewable in all cane where the
conditions of the original I. ass lad been meetly kept, and
they complained that to compel them to convert three Laws
into perpetuities w..,uld degive them of that nscestery
con'rol.

The Earl of WICKLOW bad, when the question of the
Irish Society had been brought under consideration in pre-
vious stages of the bdi, objected to the amendments pr posed
to meet this earl ; but since then he found that a clause had
been introduced to prot•ct the property of one individual
from the operation of the bill, and though he wag not dis-
posed to think that every proro.Pion for exemoting
any particular company or individual should be adopttd,
ye, am the change bad teen made for the bent& of one per
son hx did not see how it could be refused when demanded
by when whose cue way equally strong. Under these cir-
cumstances if his noble friend al,ould think fit to wore that
the bill be permissive and not compulsory, he (Etrl of
Wicklow) would support him. (Bear.)

Lord CAMPBELL thought it would be the mops con-
venient course for him new to move th third resdinr of the
bill. He had prepared a clans* to carry out a stupid= of
the noble earl's (Liman), that the amistent birrister should
adjudicate in all difference. arising ur.der the bill when the
rent did net exceed MI., which he would move after the
third reading. He hoped the preposition for oeteying the
Irish Society would not be pressed. With regard to the
clause the noble earl (Wildow) hat referred it had been
inserted in this way. It was found that a private act of
Parliament had pissed enabling the ncble proprietor
of the property in qu.rion to grant leases on
certain conditions, and that much benefit bad resulted from
that power. It was represented to the Lord Chancellor
that it would he hard to deprive t►is party by Goo act of an
advantage which parliament hed conferred him by
another ; and his noble and 1 armed friend considering that
objection reaeonable, the exemption had been introduced.
Lord MONTEAGLE objected to g;ving in a bill of this
kind an advantage to one person which was refused to
others._ _ _ _

Lord BROUGHAM invested. that as the bill was a
most important one, srrionely affecting the rights of pro-
perty, and as the clause of the noble baron was also of great
importance, the bettor way would he to have the third reed-
ing of the bill postponed, in order that the clause might be
printed, and fully and carefully considered by their lord-
ships. He suggested that Use third reading be postponed
until Monday next

Dud STANLEY wished before the motion was dispels d
of clesrly to understand whet wit, to ho the rostrum of th
nubile businus. H. had understood that the Incumber. d
Estates Bi I was to he taken on bf n- di, rent. and as that
was a meuure of the utmost importance, calling for the
most careful consideration, both of principle end detail, be
thought there would hardly be time to take the present meo-
ws' on th. same runic" With regard to this hitter, he
regretted they had not the opinion of the nnhle It rd who had
welded over the commission from which it emanated. His
(Lord S-aoley's) opinhe we., dist it should be permissive,
no' compulsory, an arrangement that would effset the ne-
, usury change "vitt out injury to ex sting interests.

Lord CAMPBELL gall that be proposed to take the
Ia umhered Basics Bill first on Monday next, after whi,h
h, trusted there would be time for the third reading of this
biU —ibird resding postponed to Monday next.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

The Marquis of NORTHAMPTON presented a petitinn,
the prayer of which, u we ander.' odp, was that govern-
ment aid na,ght be given towltos estahliling MOTO frequint
exhibitions of agricultural implements. The noble ma-quis
a-oompinird 'he presenteti..a with acme observations, bat,
notwithstanding the recent alb in the house, and that
his lmoship make rather loudly, they woo almost whmly
inaucible in the tall ry.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.

Eerl STARROPE po4t:.unt.i, until Thursday next, the
prse..tatioa of several petitions ou the subject of agricultural
distress.