The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, t. 53.

(lltrby) had not more explicitly It tated his prtsent opinions
upon this matte!.....,.....
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'The Earl of WINCIIILSEA then replied, and repeated
that his ultimate intention was the abolitiuu of the May-
math grant—(bear, hear)--and be expres•ed his intention
to divide the house if he was alone in the division. (Laugh-
ter.) lie also expressed his conviction that this commis-
mica would not give: satisfaction ; and if this were the cue,
then the result would be to keep alive public feeling and
excitement upon the subject. lie, however, would have no
objection to the commission proposed if the noble earl
(Aberdeen) would undertake to rominate it himself and
without any concert with those around him. (A laugh.)
The house thtn divided, when there were—log the
motion—
Content
Isiou.coutent

Majority
in favour of the governii.ent.
The other orders of the day veer° digosed of, and the
house adjourned at a quarter plait 11.

HOUSE OF CONINIONS.-11oNatr, APRIL 18.
The SettAKEu took the chair ehortly before 4 o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.

Mr. KEEN E took the oaths and his scat, on his election
for Lanc.iskr in the room of Mr. Armstrong, unseated on
petition.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

Mr. 131tOTIIER.TON moved that tLe order referring
the Holm: ll,serroirs Bill to the committee of selection be
read and tignl.trged—That the bill be withdrawn—that
'r ire be given to bring in a bill for the adjustment of the
debts of the commissioners of the llolrne reservoirs, and of

the interest due thereon, and fur ena'iling them to restore
and repair their reservoirs, and for other purpoms ; and
that Mr. E. Denison and Mr. Bretherton do prepare and
bring in the same.
Agreed to.
Mr. W. PATTEN moved that the report from the
select committee on standing orders, in the case of the
Lands Improvement Bill, petition fur additional provision,
and the order ut the house thereupon, he read ; that the bill
be withdrawn, and that leave bo given to Mr. Mulling.,
Mr. M. (jibson, and Earl Jermyn to bring in another bill,
with an instruction to make provision therein, pursuant to
the said order.

Agreed to.
The follnwing bills wars read a third time and passed:—
Bognor Railway; Irwell Valley IVaterworks ; Runcorn
and Weston Canal; Shipley Gu; Teignmouth Harbour
and Teign Navigation; Bills.
The tollowing bills were considered, agreed to, and
ordered to be read a third time :—Midland Railway
(amendment of acts, &c.) ; Scottish Central Railway; Bills.
The following Mils were read a second time, and ordered
to be committed :—Banhridge, Dublin, Newry, and Belfast
Junction Railway; Portsmouth Railway; Amhergate,
Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Junction Railway
,(sale, &a ), (No. 2); Ayrshire end Galloway (Smithstown
and Dalinellington) Railway ; Criiff Junction Railway ;
Great Wmtern Railway (Henley) ; Great Western Rail-
way (power to run over Shrewsbury and Birmingham, &c.
Railways) ; Great Western, Shrewsbury and Birmingham,
and Shrewsbury and Cheater Railway Companies Amalga-
mation; Great Western, Shrewsbury ;Ind Birmingham,
and Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Companies (Traffic
Arrangement) ; Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester Railway ;
Limerick and Foyers Railway ; London and Finsbury Im-
prov,ments and Railway, &c.• South Eastern Railway
(Canterbury and Whitstable, ; South Eastern Rail-
way (Lewisham' Croydon, and Bromley) ; South Stafford-
shire Railway ; West Cornwall Railw.,y ; Worcester and
Hereford Junction Italtway; York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick, York and Nortb Midland and Leeds Northern Rail-
way Companies (Amalgamation, &c.) ;
EASTERN UNION RAILWAY.

On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Lord A. PAGE L' opposed the Prcood reading. The ob-
ject of the bill was to enable the Evitern Union Company
to run for fifty miles over a rival line, namely, the Eastern
Counties, and he contended that it would be danaerous to
public safety t grant such a lower. He, therefore, moved
that the bill :,e read a second time that day ►ix months.
Mr. 11. ADAIR supported the bill. There woof! be no
danger in passing the bill, because the directors of the
Eastern Union Company were really to place the regula-
tions for running trains under the control of the Board of
Trade. Ile hoped the house would allow the bill to go be-
fore a committee.

Mr. CAYLEY said this was the case of a small railway
company that required protection against the oppression of
the Eastern Counties Company. The E-astern Union route
to Norwich was shorter by 13 miles than that of the Eastetu
Counties line, and since toe district through which the
Eastern Union It 'away passed had unanimously petitioned
in favour of the bill, there ought to be no difficulty thrown
in its way.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said he had received a deputation
from the neighbourhood of Ipswich in favour of this bill.
None of the deputation were in any way connected with
the railway itself, but they urged that it would be for the
public interest that the bill should pass. The railway cons.
:Mtn e had reported vnerally against running weir., but
a reservation had been male in favour of exceptional cases,
and perhaps this was one of them. He had, however, only
heard oue side of the case, and was therefore not in a poal•
tion to speak for or against the bill.

Mr. WADDINGTON compared the struggle of these
two companies to that of • young man fighting with •
giant, the fernier twin anxious to put down the latter—
(e iliac he could not have all his own way.
&a far from the Eastern Counties Company:having oppressed
the Eastern Union, the fact was just the •averse, for the
Eastern Union had foritare been coquetting with the Nor-
folk Company and others to the detriment of the Eastern
Counties. Be called upon the house to affirm the amend-
ment.

Mr. COBBOLI) sold the Eastern Union wes nothing
more than part of the original scheme fur making the
Eastern Counties or the Giant Railway, and it would be
most unfair to allow the Eastern Counties to stand in the
way of Eastern Union traffic.
After a few words from Mr. &THERON and Mr. BALL,
the amendment was withdrawn.
The bill was then read a second time aad ordered to he
committed.

PUBLIC BUSINESS.
TAUNTON ELECTION.

Sir G. GREY brought up the report of the select
committee appoiuted to try and determine the
matter of a petition presented by Sir Edward
Culebrooke and certain electurs of the borough of
Taunt in, complaining of an undue return at the last elec-
tion. The committee had determined Arthur Mills, Esq.,
was not duly elected at the last election to servo in the pre-
' sent parliament for the said borough. The committee bad
further to report that Arthur Mills,Esg ,wu, by nis agents,
guilty of bribery at the last election for the said borough;
and that it was proved to the committee that James Lea was
bribed in the sum of 21., but notwithstanding the bribe, that
said James Lea had voted fur the defeated candidate.
(A laugh.) It was also proved that other parties were
bribed in similar sums; but it was not proved to the satisfac-
tion of the committee that such acts of bribery took place
with the knowledge or consent of the said Arthur Mills,
Esq. The committee had also to report that the peti-
tioner, Sir Edward Colebrooke, Bart., was, by his agents,
guilty of bribery at the last election for the said borough, as
various acts of bribery were proved before the committee,
but it was not proved to the satisfaction of the committee
that such bribery took place with the knowledge or con-
sent of the said Sir E. Colebrooke, Bart.
The petition was ordered to be printed.