The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-12 00:00:00

House of Lords—and bat told th, in that. one of the great
usages id that house was to check hasty and unfair legisla-
tion on the part of the House of O,IIIOIOOC lie (the Duke
of Newcastle) admitted that that was owe great attribute
of the House of Lords—but if there was one thing more than
another on which they were bound not to legislate against
the spirit if the times as expressed in parliament and out of
parliament it was in regard to this qutstion of corrupt prac-
tices in the representatiou of the people. (IL ar, hear.)
Fur years past there had been a gentian.: feeling in the
country, that this was one of the ♦ices of the representative
system—and that one that was more likely to awry' it than
any other, and it ton it lord:hips were to show any dnpnsi•
•i.ts by adopting the course now reenmmentled, or by any
more direct mode to uphold or to screen those practices,
they would lose, and justly lose, much of that respect with
which he now rejoiced tusay their lordships house was held
by the country. (Cheers.)
bird ST. LEONAHDS had not said that the bribery
could not have been entenaiee !steatite confined to the sitting
members, but that the committee had cut reported it to
have been "extensive." .

LYNDIII.7IiST also .aid a few words in a:plana-
tion. _ .

Lord WHARNCLIFFE considered that they were no•.,
in a C.IIC of this kind, to be guided by niece technicalities,
but were bound to look at the report in its general terms,
and with reference to the cireumstan.i s under which it
emanated ; and in them there were ample grounds for con-
cu►ring in the address. (Hear, hear.)
Lord ItHUESUALE thought if the ease had been
allowed to rest on what the noble duke had stated, much of
the difficulty would have been rernovel—viz., that the
chairman of the committee had himself stated that the
words required by the act had been omitted (ram the report
erroueou•ly and by mistake, and that the committee, being
of opinion that bribery had extensively prevailed, were de-
sir ma that the comnti=siuu should issue. This explanation
removed much ,if the danger of establishing an erroneous
precedent. (Hear, hear.)
Lord LILAUMONT remarked that the whole question
was in a nut-stun. The only point was—had the committee
of the House of Commons reported fa;rly that corruption
exteneively existed ? He maintained that they had, and
the circumstances alluded to in the present debateconlirmed
that siew.

Lord LYNI)IIURST had felt it his duty to call attention
to the point he had raised, but after the expression of
iminien which had been given, he would not press his
amendment.

The motion was then weed to.
The Earl of ABERDEEN gave notice for the appoint-
ment of a conference to-morrow (this day), to communicate
their lordships decision to the House of Commons
The 3lctropolitsu Improvement (repayment out of Con-
solidated Fund) Bill, passed through committee.
OATHS CHANCERYBILL.
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The Cemmonv' amendments to this bill were agreed to,
with the exception of some verbal alterations in claulee 2
and 8, which were dissented from.
The house then adjourned at 7 o clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, Aram 11.
The house met at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
AMALGAMATION BILLS.
Oa the motion of Mr. 80THEItON, it was agreed that the
period limited by the house for the second reading of all
railway or canal bills, containing any powers of amalgama-
tion, lease, working arrangement, or other combination of
interest between different companies, be extended to Mon-
day, the 18th day of April.
THE RAILWAY BILL RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. CARDWELL, by leave, postponed the resolutions
which stood on the pap rin his name until this day. The
cause of the postponement was the sea ption of various
sugaestions from parliamentary agents, and to consider
these another meeting of the committee tram which the
resolutions proceeded would have to be called.
THIRD Reatitxcs.—Eastern Counties Railway (North
Weolaich, &c.) ; Evesham Bridge ; Bills.
CONSIDEKATION OF BILL 011DRIIED TO LIZ UPON THE
Tanta.—ltuncorn and Weston Canal Bill.
Stetesu Reanisos.—Bedale and Leyburn Railway;
Bideford Extension Railway ; Birkenhead Dick Com-
pmy ; Birmingham and Oxford Junction, Birmingham,
Wolverhampton and Dudley, and Great Western Rill-
ways ; Boston and Midland Counties Railway and Docks ;
Cornwall Railway ; Darlington and Barnard Castle Rail-
way ; Dean Forest, Monmouth, Usk, and Pontypool Rail.
way ; East Grinstead Railway ; East Lancashire Railway
(No. 1) (Clifton to Salford) ; East Lancashire Railway
(No. 2) (Sauthport, &c.); Furness Railway; Great West-
ern, Shrewsbury and Birmingham, and Shrewsbury and
Chester ; Hereford, Raw, and Gloucester Railway ;
Holt and Wilderness Railway; Leamington, Vie arwickomd
Stratford-upon-Avon R ; Leeds, Bradford, and
Halifax Junction Railway ; Leeds Northern Railway
Limerick, Emil', and }Cilia:oe Junction Railway ; Lime-
rick, Ennis, and Killaloe Junction Railway (power, W
sell, &c.) ; Llynvi Valley Railway ; London and Nag*
Western and Buckinghamshire Railways; London and
North Western and London and Blackwall ; Landon and
North Western and Midland Railway Companies Amalga-
mation ; 81.nchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail-
way (Barnsley) ; Montgomeryshire Railway ; Newry and
Enniskillen Railway ; North and South Western (Hamp-
stead and City Junction) Railway ; Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Railway (Wolverhampton Station,
Sea.) Peebles Railway ; Portadown and Dungannon Rail-
way ; R Mere, and Panonstown Junction Railway ; Saint
Ives and West Cornwall Junction Railway; Severn and
Wye Railway and Canal ; Shrewsbury, Ironbridgc, and
Bridgnorth Railway ; South Wales Mineral Railway ;
South Wale( Railway (Monmouth) ; South Wales Rail-
way (Pembroke, &c.) ; South Wales Railway (power to
parch-ise, &e.); STISOSVI Valley Railway; Wimbledon
and Croydon Railway ; Worcester and Hereford Railway ;
York, Newcastle, and Berwick, York and North Midland
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