The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY, JUNE 27.
The LORD CILINCIILLon took his seat at 5 o'clock.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.
IN•rt(I110% or NuNetutr.a.—By the Earl of EGLIN-
TON, front liihnernock and another place, in favour of.
COUNT NESSELRODE'S CIRCULAR NOTE.
Lord LINDBURSI wished to know whether the noble
Earl at tne head of her Majesty's government would have
any objection to lay on the table of the house a copy of the
State paper recently published in the state jourisai+ of St.
Petersburg, signed by Count Nesselrode, ret,p tic the
differences between Russia and the Parte ? As he was r.ot
ecioneeted with her Majesty's rovernnient, be could von-
tare to stole, without causing
.eadblnaternent, that if the
copy of that document wluea ho had atria vine cornet. it
owl one of the must illogical, oit•nsive, and
insulting ilecuments of that dtacripti in which he haul ever
had the misfortune to read. (Laud cries of " Hear,
hear.")
The E trl of ABERDEEN was unelerstooil to reply that
he comet alt say at the mum. n: whether he could comply
with the r.qtecet et th, nob:r aid learn: ,1 lord, but in a
few days hence he might not beindiaposed to do so.
THE COUNTESS DE ROLLAT.
Lord AIII'NOEIt, paraaant to notice, presented a peti-
tion from the Count as de !Want (bone Conway), claiming
indemnity under treaty for property of her mother, the
Countess Conway, confiscated by the French government
in liter.
Thu LORD CHANCELLOR said if their loreL'aipe enter-
tained the p. titles he did not soo why every ilisappoiated
suitue is es.ry court throughout the kingdom might not,
20) years anew the termination of a suit, w 1 saer it had
been for torten, come turward and sok to be compensated
out of the public tousle. But this lady ealinitted that she
111,111 not a British subject, and, therefore, else had nut a par-
ticle of right from the beginning. Under thou elm's-
stances ho did not think this petition eoula be entertained.
After a few wards frAn Lord ALz.aural in reply, the
aubjeet dropped.

RVSAIA AND TURKEY.
Th. Marquis of CLAN it ICARDE postponed his motion
on this subject, which stood for Thursday, until Friday
week.

THE IMPORTATION OF BRITISH SALT INTO
The Marquis of WESTMINSTER presented a petition
from Nertheriets, praying that English salt may ho im-
ported ante all parts el Britith India neon the same terms
and cenditinne ip other g rode and reinutsctures.
Earl (ALIN ri1.1.1.1 said it would be irneossible to
felDo7,, this tea, without imposing some other tax on the
ewe* of laths, aeft it should be remembered that the
principle applied to all countries, anti especially to oriental
countries, that the people would nay a tax they were trees
towed to. but would not pay a 1111:W tax. He believed that
the Isge ration which bad taken place in Indio had been to
encourage the importation of salt, end he believed the last
returns showed that the silt imsorted into India from
Great Bitain ter the lest six months was equal in quantity
to what hod bees impede: in any previous twelve months.
Ald it the noble tuarquis read the evidence gitt'll before
the eeninsittce of the House of Commons, ho would see it
was a slantiou whether, if the sett duties were entirely
el, !hit would not eselude British salt from India.
Lord WHAIINCLIEFE said it appeared to him there
was tenon troth in the eroeosition which was Ant
enuneWted by a einunittee of tha Hesse of Commons, he
Brought, in the yeir ISM, bat, by judicious dealing with the
salt monopoly in India, and substitutieg a system of import
duffer, and cerise duties, where necessary, a eonselerable
Hems, of revenue might be obtained with a much
greater extension of trade.
The contemn:ln then dropped.
INCCIIDERED EiT.VTES (lIIEL.IND) ACT CON-
TINUANCE BILL.
On the question of stein; into committee on this bill,
Lad ST. LEONARDS suggested that the government
should not prig" is bill in Its erestnt shape, and should not
',ripest any singin bill for a lugger period than six mouths.
If his suggestions were sot accesed to Lu should oppose the
further errors, of the bill.
The LORD CHANCELLOR regretted that his noble
and learned felted had not been present at the previous
stages of the bill, when the objections which he now Mitred
might have been better considered, sad when the
noble and learned lord would have heard the
views of the government as the general question.
Be agreed test this legi-lation was exceptional;
and at variance with established principles. With re-
seed to the second clause, affecting tenancies for life, to
which greet objection w. 13 taken in Ireland, the govern-'
ment would a meet to withdraw it. (Hear.)
After some conversation,
The house went into committee.
Claes, I was agreed to, with verbal amendments.
Clause 2 was, after some discussion, on the suggestion of
Loral Sr. LIONAIRD.S, struck out, the LORD CIIANCELLOR
undertaking to p_ spare and bring up a clause better framed
to carry Put its object, et another stage of the bill.
The clauses, with the exception of 11, were agreed to,
and the hoses resumed.
BARNSTAPLE ELECTIONS.
The Earl of ABERDEEN moved thioir lordships to agree
with the Commons in the address to her Majesty for a corn-
=listen to inquire into the terrain practices at the Barn-
steteile elections.
The motion was agreed to.
TYNE MOL:1 ft ELECTION.
The Earl of ABERDEEN melee their lordships to agree
to the address of the Commons in this case.
The Marquis of CLANIIICARDE thought there was
not sufficient ground for calling upon their lordships to
agree to the address, and ho should divide against the mo-
tion being speed to. There was only one single case of
bribery.
The Earl of ABERDEEN said that although there had
only been one case of bribery by the giving of money, it
mint be remembered that the tickets fur refreshment
were f.deatile. Their lordships had net had the advantage
of bowleg the evidence which had been given on the sub-
ject, and elute( not judge, as well as the other house of par-
liament, the expediency of such a measure.
Their lordsleps then divided, when the numbers were :
Contents 33
Non-contents l3

Majority in favour of the address.. 20
INCOME TAX BILL.
The Earl of ABERDEEN moved the third roadiog of
this hill._ .

Lard BnotoHAm objected to the tax, because it was
a tax on capitol, on out going t zpenditute—a capital used '
by manufactut - re, merchants, and agriculturalists, invested
by them in itoprovements. Ho could net allow this last
stage of the biii to pass without again entering his protest
against it.
After come remarks from Lord MONTEAGLE,
The third reading was then agreed to.
Oa the question that it do pass,
The Earl of WICKLOW rose to state that, at this stage,
be had an amendment to move embodying his views that
this tax would affect unfairly the land of Ireland. Ile
concluded by 'eying tkat as his amendment (the effect of
which would be to make the tax payable byte occupier
instead of by the landlord) would but put the bill in the
form in which it stood when introduced, he hoped the
government would not oppose him. •
The Earl of ABERDEEN said that the change made
in the bill was not owing to the influence of any particular
class of members in thu House of Commons. The change
was the result of a conviction on the part of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, that the plan deprecated by the noble
earl was the only ja,t one. He did nut think ft consistent
with the duty of the government to give any sanction to
the proposition of his noble friend.
Lord BEAUMONT, with pest warmth, denied that this
was simply an Irish question, hut one in which the princi-
ple of the tax was involved. The bill came with a lie on
the taco of it, fur, according to its provisions, it professed to
tat property producing income ; but whsn you came to the
machinery, it was found that a tax was imposed on that
property which produced nothing.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE could admit of no analogy
between Enpland and Ireland, because in the one the inte-
rests of the landlord and the tenant were identical, while
the payment of the tax by the tenant, which would ulti•
motel fall upon the landlord, was easy and unobjectionable.
Slicer, hear.)
The Marquis of CIiANRIC.IIIDE was well convinced
that this was not the last atimu the question would be
brought forward, the mare so because the bill as it now
stood was directed against that class whom the government
should be the most ant'sus to cor.'.iliate, while the rase
would prove that the money which the tax might yield
would ba considerably disproportionate to the opposition
which it would raise in Ireland. (Clear, hear.)
Lor l CA.MPBELL felt it to b.: his duty to vote for the
amendment, as he had often heart It proclaimed in their
lordships house that the law of the two countries ought to
be assimilated as much as vosiible.
After souse further CAITITNItIOI3,
Their lordships divided, when there appeared:
For the amendment ld
Against it
On our mirlminsinn into the gallery,
The Earl of LUCAN was addressing the hoase. cam-
plainiog of the 12nd clause, which allows the deduction of
ore-third in respect of terminable annuities payable by
lam:lords in repayment of loess. He mom!, the entruisioo
of the clause.
Atter some disenstioa, in which the Duke of AUOTIL sad
the Loan CIIANLLI.LcoIi supported the clause, sad the Earl
of Wit Know and the M.isquis of Care.Nlettattli Opposed
if, their lordships div:dtd.
For the amendment lO
Against it
The clause was then agreed t and the bill was read a
third time and passed.
CIIARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.
This bill WAS read a third time and passed.
EXCISE DUTIES ON SPIRITS BILL.
This bill was reed a second time.
Their luedships then adjourned at five minutes past one
o'clock.

ROUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNDAT, JI;NE 2:.
The Ser.ezza took the chair at 4 o'clock.
NEW MEMBERS.

Mr. yitt u..CT l-110-1; .illll-0-16;;;Tiis Rat for rotor-

Kt. U. Vi urcort took the oldie and hi seat for Chatham.

i Rlial E BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to 51;1iollorring... bills were read
and agreed to —Ballyrritna, Ballymoney, Coleraine, and
rortrashgabetiets RaUwallo. ; Bristol Gas and Bristol
mad_Calton Ciaa, CompaaWArnalgamation ; Londonderry,

Coleraine, and Belfast Jimmies It ulway • North British
Railway; Scottish Midland Junction hallway ; South
Shields Improvement;
The following bills were reads third time en I paued :
Dewsbury, Reckmondwike and Batley Water: Rant-
wick and Wooer Road Guth Wales Mineral Railway ;
United Guarantee and Life Assurance Company; Wake-
fkld and Sheffield Road; West Cornwall Railway • Bills.
WARRINGTON AND ALTRINCIWI JUNCTION

RAILWAY (WARRINGTON, Sm.) BILL.
Capt. EIiERTON moved that this bill be recommitted in
order that certain clauses might be added.
General ANSON opposed the bill so foto. It was sup-
ported by a statement containing a tissue of pretended facts,
which were, in reality, false. This statement made charges
against the London and North Western Railway, which had
out a particle of truth in them. He ►eked the house the
more confidently as the reitztion would not present the
formation of the line, but only stop the Warrington Rail-
way Company from using the Loudon and Norm Western
Company's terminus and statiou at Manchester. Re, there-
fore, moved that the recommittal ut the bill be negatived.
The house divided.

For the recommittal of the biU
Ag drat it 96-40
The iiiiiowieg bills were conaidered and ordered to be
read a third time :—Llynvi Valley Railway ; London and
Norh Western and Buckinghamshire Railways; London
and North Western Railway:(l'ring and Oxford);
castle-upon-Tyne Improvement; Pendleton, Swinton, &e.,
Road Ss antea Valley Railway; Birk( natail Datk Com-
pany ; Eirlienhead back Trustee"; Lindaulerry, Ennis-
&Wen, ant S,igo Railway (No. 2); Bills.
The following bills were read a second time :—Baroness
de Village' Euate: Crowe's Dieahiliti. s Removal ; Bills.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
EDUCATION BILL.

Lord J. MANNER'S, en the sreond reading of this bill,
to mole that it be read a sceund time that day three
months.