The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-21 00:00:00

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NOTICE OF MOTION.LIiaa ins Noir; or iram—The Earl
of ABERDEEN, oa Thursday amM., to arm tar laftwaation with re.
Viet to the renewal of the war In Oa walk of Italy.

BANKRUPTCY a --".."""tNCY
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govA aULIDATION EILt.
Lord BROUGHAM, on presenting the petition from the
Provincial Law Association, said the petitioners complained
that they did not know the nature of the bill, whereas he
had, in fact, stated it twice, as clearly as he could. He made
every exertion to have it properly undentood, and be found
upon inquiry that his observations were heard at that end of
the house, although they appeared not to have reached the
other. He said that the proposed alterations well in favour
of the creditor end against the debtor, the recent alterations
of the law having been too much the other way. He also
stated, when last he had the honour of addressing their
lordships, that he should postpone the bill until afar the
Easter recast, expressly to afford the legal profession sn
opportunity of meeting and discussing the merits of the
I mums and suggesting any alterations in it if they should
think them ntressary. He had also before stated that
the bankers, traders, and merchants of the city of London
were fully heard lest session before the committee; that they
had sinew had a meeting on the subject, and they were so
fully satisfied with the improvements made in the bill since
last session that they had unanimously withdrawn all oppo
sition to the measure. He had no doubt they should have
another petition next week complaining that they had re
fused to put off the bill until after Euter ; but he would
not present it—any other noble lord might. Liberari
animism mann —he had stated three times over what tr. ea
intended in he alone with the hill he Owl told the peti-
tioners they had better come below the bar to hear what he
was going to say then, and be would not repeat it.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Lard STANLEY asked a question relative to the business
of the house and the adjournment Sr the Easter recess ; but
the observations of the Marquis of LAMBDOWNZ in reply
were totally inaudible In the gallery.
Their lordships adjourned at half-part 5 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEsDAT, MARCH 20.
The SPSAILIZ took the choir at 4 o'clock.

PRIVATE BUALSES4.
REPORT CONSlDERED.—Whitelmeen Waterworks Bill.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
AMENDMENTS CONSIDERED.—Protection of Jusners (Ireland)
Bill.
PETITIONS.—By Mr. HOUSMAN, from Sunderland (3,000 signa-
tures), from Bishop Wrings& (3,0e0 signsoure), praying for a re-
arrangement of Senna* eeminews of Bishop Weamoute. —Mr. S.
CRAWFORD, hem Wegtmenth, in favour of tenant Tight —Mr.
HENRY, teem Hwy, Is Lancashire; Mr. SCROLLHELD. from
kg insesensal arbitration Munn of war.—Mr.
ittrrlrtir ins pawky paeans of the union of Dse, Open
town, and Cl., tram twin eommimineen af from
rate-payers et mown (el Is In nasty ifyienta), from the rate.
payers of thsessety Tyrom at a ribs meeting milieu by
the high AM. ; Sir- W. 11/1411114 hen lbelniewn ; an HON.
MEMBER, Rem Armagh, 'plot the IYn is Aid SUL—Lord ASH-
LEY,
stem from nwitasal Mikenen other nasal no, hr intendment in
the sy el lawmen relief, esd nweelpalations respect-
tags ears el Ile prell gene .-4k. NEwDEGATE,
from a plan in Hareits ; Mr. BUM from Bradford, in
Yorlualre, fee mem elleetisl suppression of and prostitu.
tloo.—Mr. COMM. hem lbeeeld ; Mr. MUM from Lancashire,
for reduetiesed twastles.--Ont. PECRELL. tam John CM. Rai.,
omagistrate at theaenty of Dorset, of the prothedings
f the guardien al the mermen Ullioll ml Ye the poor law board,
in refereuee to the ors of Beale, 91 years et age, an in
of the
workhouse. (To be tirinted.with the Totes.)
RETURNS ORDERED.—Mr. Lo
for return of the
number of person taken into custody by the police, discharged by the
magistrates, WISE idly convicted, and committed for trial in the
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towns of Olsagew, Dundee, Edinburgh, and Liverpool, in the years
In4B, 1847
CPS , ando n
O ItMOTION laig
.—STATetfteTtliem (Ann in form to the returns
far the
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OFalready laid before this house.
F AFFAIRS IN THE PUN.
JAUB.—Mr. O. THOMPSON postponed his nodes as this tit that day
krualabc.
ADULTERATION OF COFFEE.—Mr. ANSTRY—On sn early day,
to move that the house disapproves of the adulterators of coffee by
chicory m sanetiesed by the odious of excise.

THE LAND TAX.
Mr. WODEHOUSE asked the Chancellor of the Ex.
chequer :
Whether it is the intention of her Majesty's government to intro.
duel any manure for the purpose of remedying the presets' inequality
title Mod tan, as adverted to in the report trim the select committee
of the House of Lords (melon UM), on the burdens affecting real
=referring to the evidence given open this subject by Mr.
tie chairman of the Baird at Enda*, and also by Mr. Coale,
the 'gasket-secretary to the Poor LP gam* and mding by declar-
ing " that It appeanthat the queers
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property,eintitaral districts
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4,esereir=rZi4 dietelete ofh eoistey;*thistrgether
lese preenemest WM, to adopt the sespetket contained
In the raped Owe matkeed, r whisit the etommittee say that,
" eaneineeing the sinew esesehnsi try tbe ereetten of real rty,
as weit es tire to plese In the Motive velem ef the different de-
ruttiest' trot peoperty, It Is seseeely Deemer, he they to point
out the adweolege smell as puttee of periodical sod =Mom vain.
atkos."

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it wee
not the intention of the government to introduce any mea-
sure to Equalise the land tax ; and if the hon. member would
refer to the esidenca alluded to in his question, he would
find that such a =suers would be attended with great in-
justice, particularly at a time when the land tax had been
commuted to a certain fixed sum, with power of redemption.
That being so, it would be utterly impossible to equalise it
upon the present assessment of property. Respectiog the
second question he quite agreed with the hon. gentleman
that it was c'esirable that there should be periodical valua-
tions for the purposes of adjustment ; but he entirely ob-
jected to the government being &lad upon to interfere.
Every county could do it of itself, and it bad been done
twits in the last fourteen years in the West Riding ti
Yorkshire.

Mr. WODEHOUSH led he would give notice to call the
attention of the hews to the subject soon after Easter.
KAFFIR WAR.
Mr. V. SMITH moved for a copy of any report of the
corarniseicners of audit, to the treasury, upon the despatches
vete' red to them by a treasury minute of the 2nd day cf May
1845, of Sir H. Pottinger, relating to the great irregularities
which, in his excellency's opinion, existed in the system of
paying and maintaining the native levies at the Cape of
Good Hope, and generally in the public expenditure occa
sioned by the Kaffir war. The hon. member iuktel if any
further report was received or expected.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hat no oh.
jection b the motion, and replied that another report had
been received, but, as it was only preliminary, perhaps his
hon. fr:end would prefer waiting for both. —Motion
agreed to.

NAVIGATION RETURNS.
Mr. MILES pat a question respe-ting the returns et the
importation of cattle and the navigation table. In reply to
which,

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
the chairman of the board of customs being absent at present
be could not speak positively, but thole tables were sub-
stantially correct, and mien be relied upon. The cargoes
and tables tallied in the end, although not always on the
same day.
ACCIDENTS TOSTEAM-BOATS.

la reply to a question from Mr. Demean,
Mr LABOUCHERE said that a very valuable report had
been received on this subject from Ca?tain Denham, and
thus was no objection to lay it before the house.
LIVING OF BISHOP WEARMOUTH.
Mr. HORSHAM, en rising to bring forward his motion
respecting the living of Bishop Weermouth said that the
Tendons he had just presented from the 6,000 parishioners
of that place and Sanderland, were themselves illustrative of
it. They said that as members of the Established Church,
and representing a popufation of no lees than 60,000, they
were desirous of being continued in the blessings of its
teaching and its community. They complained that, not-
withstanding the enormous revenues of the parishes
to which they belonged, the religious teach-
ing for which those revenues were destined
war withheld, and they asked the interference of that hoax
to enable them to derive the advantage which the law in-
tended they should. Their prayer was so simple in its object,
and .so just in itself, that he could not conceive there
could be any hesitation on the part of the house to accede to
it. The noble lord at the head of the government much
misunderstood the object of the question which he put to
him on a former occasion respecting Bishop Weermoutb.
His object was, not to impugn any act, nor to call upon the
house to impugn any proueding of the patron of that parish ;
his object was to get from authority a confirmation of what
had been stated, namely, that that patron bad declared that
the income was much too large for the incumbent, that it
ought to be reduced, and the surplus applied to general paro•
cheal purposes. Having got that statement from authority,
he felt that he had acquired parliamentary ground for his
motion, which would only be prospective and not retro-
'retire in its operation. It was not antagonistic, but
auxiliary to the patron, who had declared that there ought
to he a redistribution of revenues preceded by inquiry; but
that redistribution could not be curled out without the
interference of parliament. The living of Bishop Wearmouth
mightbe said to be very wealthy. It nearly approached if it did
not exceed 5,000/. a year, and the manner in which it was
made up arose from tithes commuted, 1,6001. a year; rent of
glebe farm, 4201. ; surplice fees, at leut, 1801. ; rents and
way leaves, 1,7001. ; coal rents, 3501 ; rectory park ground
rent for buildicg, 7201. ; making a total of 4,670/. He
believed this to be en extremely moderate statement and
within the mark, because the coal rents were taken at an
average of many years, whereas new coal grounds had been
opened, which last year and the year before produced 1,0001.,
and he believed the coal rents might he taken at least at
that sum, instead of 3501. The late rector returned his
net income at 2,9001., and the noble lord stated the
t xpenditure at 1,6001. for parochial kurpons. But that
was made upon a return eighteen Jeers ago, since when new
coal w • rks had been opened. But he would admit that it
war quite immaterial to his motion whether the amount was
as he calculated or not; he was willing to take it at 3,8001.,
as salted in that house, and the surplus excuses at 1,6001.
It was to that surplus that his motion was directed. There
wan besides the parish church four district aimpelries, en4i
mit frequently happened with artificial as well as natural
bodies where there was much blood at the head, the es-
enmities were proportionately markt d by coldness and poverty.
There were seen is contrast the enormously wealthy bene-
ficed clergy, and the poor half-starved curates. In the rec-