The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENINA AUGUST 3. 1849.

IMPERIAL PA RL.

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- HOUSE OF COMMONS.
ucempi Ole 110110, MUCH STAND 111 tit; OptDlll Itoos
role Nair SMINIIOII. •
COPYHOLIIII.--Mr. &amorist —To move ley Taws of
all entaanisements ere donteititatiest which have Imam
effiet-.4 by the oopyhold commiesion in each year alewife
appointment, rating the number of entire manors, emit the
number of separate tenements is each manor respectively,
enfranchised or commuted. Also the entire cost offal sew
missies la mak year. Also, bill to effect the compulsory
enfranchisement et laud of copyhold end customary towire.
IRISH FISHERIES, Re—Mr. Anew—Bill to, she
assemdment and conolidation of the law relating to Irish
{plead &befits and nesigation.
BOARD OF HEALTH —Lord MALAY—To call the
attendee of the house to the necessity of appointieg one
medical commiationer to the beard of health.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT. Mr. BASET
BALDWlJl—Aeotnint of the contract pricey of meat per
pentad, sad of bread per four-pound loaf, in England, Scot-
land, and Wales, from the year 1829 to the dose of 1849, as
fir no relates to the commissariat department (is continua
tin of parliamentary retwn No. 192 of the 20th of Mareb,
1830).
CHARITABLE DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS
(IRELAND) COMMISSION.—Mr. BARRY BALDWIN—
Copy of the report of these commiesinsers to the L els Lieu.
tenant of Ireland of the 17th of April, 1849. r dative to the
embinlereint of several sums by Edward Wellesley Mao
thews, the late seer unseat to the b ard.
LANDED PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT (IRE-
LAND) COMMISSION.—Mr. BARRY Bennwis Copy
of the instructions from the Treasury to these commissioner',
Mating the distribution of the funds voted by parliament
for land improvement ramosee to the mast dune/seed dis-
tricts of the south awl west of Ireland.
SALMON FISHERY. RIVER SEVERN. Mr.
GaAxTLLT BERKELZY-13111 to alter ant, emend the lace
at present in force for the protection of 'anion in the river
&v n.
WOODS AND FORESTS COMMISSIONERS.—Van
count DeNCAN—To call the attention of the haute to the
provision made by per iaseent for the delivery of the reports
of erase commiaionert, anal to the period of the session at
whit h those reports have hitherto been presented.
POOR LAWS (IRELAND).—CoIoneI Durum—Bill to
ear ad the Irish poor lime
PARLIAMENTARY FRANCHISE —Sir D L. Even
—Bat plains the parliamentary franchise to all direct tax
paver., government+lo, parcehial.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES.—Mr. ZWART—BiIIs for enabling
town councils, and town courails of borougne to levy retie
for the establishment, formatioo, and maintenance of public
libraries.
PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.—Mr. Ewartr—Bill for
the total rape al of capital punislment.
TAXATION. Mr. Ewear —Substitution of a more
direct es stem of unties for the indirect es stem now in use.
COUNTY COURTS.—Mr. FITZROY—B.II to extend the
jur alvtion of these c torte
CHURCH AND 14TATE.—Mr. W. I. Fox—Select
Cominittee to inquire into and report upon the .xid ine
relations between the Church of England lied the State,
with a view to their revisien.
EDUCATION.—Mr. W. J. Fox—That the howe resolve
itself into a earns tat on the state of educati^n in Egeland
and Win, and the wane of rendering it efficient and
national.
LAW OF PATENTS, &-.—Mr. M. (Imams S•lect
committee to invite into the operas{ n of the present low of
patent. for invertions and registration of deal as for copy.
right, arol to report whether an and what amendments are
desirable.
ATTORNIES' CERTIFICATE DUTY.— L Ti,
Osoncettua—Bill to repeal the attornia' annual certifi:ate
due
THE UNIVERSITIES.—Mr. HBYWOOD—A4drrre to
ha r Majesty, pea fog toad sh • will he graciously planet to
issue her says) commission at inquiry into the Univers'. of
Oxford. Cambridge, and Dublin, with a view to the tame-
d= and Improvement e national e ducotion.
NATIONAL REPRESENTATION, &c.—Mc. Hese—
Bill to amend the national representation, by rotten lire rho
elective franchise, so that every man la:* full an, endow. pith-
j. et to any mental or legal nubility, who shall have been t' e
mod-lent occupier of a bowie, or pert of a hone* is a loiter,
for twelve month., and sh have bee* duly rat Al to the
poor of the* parish for that time, shall be reentered es at.
elector, and be entitled to vote for a reerefientritie • In n. 'la-
ment Also, by enacting slat votes shall betaken by hallo;
that the duration °fp irliamenis shell not exceed thy. Tam;
and that the prop rtioa of mores wenn' be ma-1 mere
enlister t with the amount of populet on and mopeds..
ADMIRALS.—Mr. being before the heart
the receowendation of the Committee on the Navy of last
sestina, to reduce the I nether of 'owe.% ham 150 to 100,
which the g art entrant have refuted to attend to.
HALF PAY, &e.—Mr. lirste—To remit to the hoore
the amount of navel and yellowy half ray, and of (jail
supereenuati see, with the vi. w of pl• eing them on a m are
lust and eqni•ohle fnotino.
NEW PARLIAMENTARY BOROUGH.—Mr. MAC-
°ERROR —To move, that in consideration of the parishes of
Kensington. Chelsea. Fulham. anal itemearernith, cent-fir-
foe a populatirm of ahnitt 120 000 it.habiliste, residiee Gt•
an area not ex.e.iTRRS,POO sore', end comori-inir Rho abase
15,000 hoot's. of the annual r• ntal of 101. and upwards
tied farther, in c• esideratien that there is no other di trier
in Great Britain with so great a reuniter of inhabitants OW'
wire unrepresented dir ctly in Chit house, it it pepolieet
en I jolt to incorporate, ho en aa of path .ment, the parishes
at Kensington, Chelsrs, Fulh an, nod 11 anm r mith, into a
parliamentary borough, empowered to return two tat mben
to this hong,, to till tin the TVA, c,es wire I by the disfan-
chi, meet of the lee borough • f Sudhory.
Mr. Jotter O'CoxxELL -At an amendment on Mr. Marne.
par's motion for new member; to K usington, &e., to move
Hint the two members Riven to Ireland.
MANNING OF MERCANTILE MARINI?. Mr.
MACORROott—Resoluti..n ter the repeal of the legal limita-
tion to the manview of Br'tish ship..
MARINE ASSURANCES. Mr. MACORIGOR To
bring under the consideration of the house the suhiee• of
stamps aa aff -tine *twine assurances, nil all decennia'
connected with *Monier.
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (IRELAND).—Mr. MAC-
muvina —To brine unoer the coital ler vita of rho howl),
the exams of the rependi ure of Ireland over the rev, nue
collect, d in Ireland since the Union, with a view to relieve
the taxation or Great B itain from an &nue' contribution
to Iteland, mere from a minimum of shout two millions
to a mini ~,orn of about viola million, per annum.
SMITHFIELD MARKET.—Mr. MACRINNON—To sill
the attention of the house to the report of the select com-
mittee on the removal of Srotrf 11.1d-mrrket.
MANAGEMENT CLAUSES OF COMMITTEE 01
EICUCAI lON.—Mr. MILES—To call the attention of tA
home to the c volition imported wan the trustees of church
schools by the Committee of Council on Effivatior.
STAMP DUTIES ON NEWSPAPERS, &e. —Mr.
IlowATT—Bill for the aholiti-n of the stamp tax on sees-
MOM, and of all duties obstructing th.. diffusion of know-
ledge.
NATIONAL POOR-RITE. Lord Nrorwr Salttt
committee to irquire into the practiesbffity of better eye
viding for the maintenance of the indigent pn,r of Eneland
and Wales, by an equal and general apportionment of the
burthen of the Fame.
MANUFACTURE OF PAPER AND EXCISE DUTY
THEREON.—Mr. R.SYNOLDI—SeIect cortni'tee to inquire
and resort on the paper manufactute of Great Britain and
Ireland, and en the effect of the excise law* in relation
thereto.
EXCISE LAWS.—BRITISH AND IRISH SPIRITS.
—Mr. RRYNOLDB-8 leer committee to inquire and report
on the effect of the pacts- laws upon the manufacture and
sale of ferrite in Great Britain and Ireland.
FEVER HOSPITALS IN IRELAND.—Mr. SCVLLT
—To bring eerier the consideration of the hone, the control
exercised over the tensperary fever hospitals in Ireland by
the Central Board of Health.
THE WORKING CLASSES.—Mr. SLaxaT—To move
for the appointment of a standing committee or unpaid cam-
-121i1,6011, to consider and report from time to time on praetieal
measures (unconnected with poll iral changes), likely to im-
prove tee am-Irina of the working claws' to encourage
their industry, and increase their contentment.
CASE OF CRISEINA RAO WITHUL OF BA-
ROD A.—Lord D Svraax—Select committee to inquire into
the deism of this person.
PARTY PROCESSIONS (IRELAND).—Sir W. Yen-

OUTGOING MAILS.
Ma* ler EMMA /Meta annum sod the Matta States win he
made up this ireening, the 3rd of August-
7be mails tor Madatra„ the Maud* and linerma Ur* malbe awl*
' en tororrow, thud* of August.
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M orb lip ea the 17th of August.
ne sins for Vtrw Oporto, Lebo. Madeira, Cadiz, mad Gibraltar,
alb, male op= the 7th Manuel.
The alai* eta Ilareeillee, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, (eyloa.
haw. Uongairag, Sva.. will be made up ea the evening of the ith
August
tar mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Gomm, the lonian Islands, Vgypt.
Goyim. India, and Clow. too ureithanspron, wth be made up ea
the mendag of the Seth of August.

MOH WATIIIt AT LONDON DRUMM.
Ts_ D•i -11ars1se.M Ws. past 1; sllstsses. SI obi. Ise 1.
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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUG UST 3.

The annual financial acc mots of the East India
Company have lately been delivered amongst the
parliumentary papers ; and though Indian Finance
is not a very attractive theme, we nevertheless desire
to draw public attention to it. We do so became
taxation is smatter directly and most deeply affecting
the material welfare and the moral progress of our
fellow sabjects in India, in whcse improvement
both our commerce and cur hoaour are interested;
because we have the authority of no lees a
financier than Sir ROBERT' PEEL for saying " that
the c Alteeral and indirect eff ct of disorders
in the Indian finances must be extensively felt
in this country r and because these accounts have
for a series of years exhibard that state of pc tm:neet
or chronic die order in the Indian finances which Sir
ROBERT PEEL, in his great budget spo ech, dreaded.
Bef ire, however, stating the foal they disclose, some
remarks naturally sugost themselves as to the time
when these mounts are annually presented to
parliament, and as to the mode in which they are
made out.
By the 3 & 4 WILL. IV., c. 93, s. 116, the East
!Audis, Company are directed to present to parliament
"within t:.e flied fourteen sitting days next after the
lint day of May in every year," accounts of thee
receipts aod expenditure, "made up acaording to
the latest advice. which shell have been recear.d."
One olject of the legislature in fixing this date ob-
viously was that accounts up to the retest possible
dates should be laid before parliament at such a
period of the se-sion as would admit of their exami-
nation and discussion in the aims session b 7 the legis-
lature if needful, or it were so amended. This object
has, hoaevr r, been completely frustrated by the disre-
gard the E est ledia Company have shown to the
directions of tiois s otute as to time. For, on exami-
nation, it will to fund that, es for from the ace. uuts
having been presented to pu Bement on thelsth of May
in each year, they have °rely been presented on two oc-
caslons in the month of May ; that, in general, the
month of July has very consideratey advanced be.ore
they have been kid on the tables of the two houses;
and that, on several occasion', August has been en-
toted on ere they have been pre dated. This dime-
gird of a pee:Wye enactment by the East India Com-
panyo. to whom parlioment has entrusted such large
and liberal powers, and in whase administtation it
reposes at n.O h faith, is not at all creditable to it. Its
ladies has practically, even if not intentionally, the
I fleet of disabling the 1-giilature from discussing the
creation of Indian finances whilst their latest
a• counts are fresh, and whilst their discussion
might be eminently useful ; and it is, we
anemia only proper that s ome notice be taken
iu the :epialatnre of this habitual inatt.n ion by
the East lo din Company of a provision, and ace
important provision too, of the Charter Act. Were
these setteme44 ready and printed, in the hands of
m- niters and in perversion of the putnie on the 15. h
of May anrually, a man might airs, an opportu. ity
might bee found, and an end-avour might be mule
to on es' the greying disorder of the Inrhau finances.
Bu', kept b k until the legislature is already over-
powered by more husluess than it can gut through,
it is hopeless to expect parliament to enter on the
myster:es and obscurities of Indian finance in the:
di g days.
Sur can the Rost India Company set up the excuse
V at it is tot p istible to produce these nocuunts
eh 'ter ; for tit- a r qu'rieg the it pr,duel ion on the
15th of M-ey yearly d'.es not fix any incon-enient or
impossible le rind to which they ere by that thee to
he brooeht down, And this consideration brings us
to the detente of the accounts in point .of form. Wiest
the statute regents are arc runts "made up acoordirg
to the latest teethes which shill have been re eived
and so Snootily do the East India Company adhere to
thi- provision of an set which, when convenient, they
di-regard on other points, that they actually produce
am:tints wish out any precise or sp,cific d:ites. Thus,
for itatanee, the d cements la e ly pros-o.ted are
des ribed as "Accounts reseecting tie annual e
iiel el revenues and disharerments ot the Zile IrmiaCom-
pany for the ye Mt 1814-3, 1815-6, and 1846-7." But
down to what m. nth or to what dale in those ye are the
accounts are broughl, nowhere appears on their face.
Now this is a very grave defect; in the ordinary
concerns of life it would render accounts almost
worthless. N or can there be any necessity for the
omietsian ; as the ugh the latest dates of one y ear may
not coincide ex ely with the lee at dace cf another
year ; yet in every year the figures ought in these ac-
counts to repo scat a fix• d and certain period; other-
wise " cooking " to any extent may be the result ; and
there can be no re awn why the date ti which they
are yearly made up should not be given. Indeed,
now that steam r.avigetion has rendered c-mmuni-a-
lion with the sea's of the Indian government as cer-
tain and more ri p'd than enmmunicalon between
those seats and their more distant province., there is
every real in why the Indian finance accounts should
not be mule up to a c-rtain even date in evert, year
with as much regularity as are those of taro British
Treasury.
The first improvement that ought to be made in
their form is then the introduc ion of dates, so that
we m .y be su:c that the yearly accounts, as stated,
afford accurate means of comparing the comparative
receipts and expenditure of each year.
Another defect in point of form, and one involving
grave matter of substance, is the omission to state whe-
ther the amount of revenue given in these pec:.wTs is
the gross or net revenue. Thus, for eemote, the
revenue for the year 1843.44 is, in these amulets
for 1848, set down as 17,173,7881. sterling ; but the
reader is left in the dark whether this be the net or
gross revenue for that year. On turning, how-
ever, to a valuable return (No. 406) moved for
in the session of 1645 by Mr. STUART WORT-
LEY, it will be found to be the net re-
venue only. The total gross revenue levied in the
year 1843-44 from the people of India app are
by that return to have been no less a sum than
21,809,182/. So that the cost of c dlectir g the
revenue of India is little under five milliot a sterling
a year; or nearly 25 per cent. of the whole revenue
collected. Now, in this enormous cats: of c 11 ction
there is an hr. sistible reason, we submit, for exhibit-
ing on the face of the annual finance accounts of the
India Company the gross and the net revenues. With-
out such comoarative statement., the lull weight of
taxation borne by the people of India is conce
from the Imperial parliament; and by such conceal-
ment wrong is done to cur fellow-subjects in Lid's.
A third defect in these accounts is that the revenue
and exnenditure given in them for the lest year in each
annual ac mint is partly estimated only. Now, whit
the act requires are actual, not estimated accounts;
and the practice of introducing estimates is eminently
calculated to reslead the, legislature. Thus, for ex-
ample, in the accounts presented in 1848, this revenue
for the lust year even therein—viz., 1846-7—was
estimated at 18,400,485!., and the expenditure at
18,965,615/. ; whereby parliament was lel to expect
that the defic'etcy for that year would net
be greater than 565,130!. Whereas, by the
accounts just pre:it:toed, it appears that the
actual receipts for 1846 7 were 18,653.145!,
and that the actual expenditure was 19.624,3171.;
thus leaving art Rand deficiency of 971,2021., or
upwards of 400,000/., more then the estimated deft-
c'ency. In this difference there is an untecere tety
slovenliness that is tar from cr. ditable to the financial
administration of the government of a great • moire.
which pays nearly four millions sterling a year in
collecting its reve..tus.
Considering this enormous cost of collection and
the greatly increased facilties of communicating
with India established since the enactment of
the last Charter Act, it is really difficult to see
why we should not in the month of May, in every
year, have perfect finance accounts of ihe India
empire, made up to the 31st of December in the

ean—That the report of an inquiry int, the affrey which
took plae• rear Cerlewellan, in the county of 1)3W13,
on the 12. h of July last ; also, the report of an
inve tigstion to inciters into a procession of rihbonmen,
which took plan at Crow-par, in the enunty of Down, on t►e
17th of March hat ; ala, of a meeting of rihhonmen, hold
near Reedy, in the county of Armagh, on the 28th of June,
be laid upon the table of the house.
SETTLEMENT OF THE POOR.—Mr. C. Vir.ciens—
To call the att• Trio& of the house to the evidence taken in
1847 before the select committee on the settlement of the
poor.
LAND TAX.—Mr. Woozmorez—Committee to inquire
into the ineqoalities of th► apportionment tithe present lard
eas ea regards the quotas in the several districts throughout
Befriend reed Wien and Seotised.
MINES AND COLLIERIRS.—Mr. WILD—Bill to
enable her M-jes•y's Secretors. of Stete to appoint inspector'
of mines and collieries, and for providing the means of pay-
ment for such inspection.

REVIVAL OF THE ENGLI4I GLOVE MAISVFACTURE.
—Some time aeo we demerit), d the formation, at Worcester, of
a echo .1 ter teaching children the art of glove.msking, which,
as every one knows, has very greatly declined in these parts,
and we have now to state that the experiment has been most
euccesful. The chanth.r of Commerce at that city thus
report on the subject : The committee of the Gloving In-
stitution set forth that the sanitize attendance of pupils was
22. The conduct of the 'Were...abed given great ratitfao
I lion. The expenditure during the pee year had bet Al
721. 1. 5d., and t.e balance in hand on the 30th of June
was 171 8.. 4d. The committee expressed their belief Oat
the institution w s well calculated to fulfil the os,j.ct for
which it was Inter ded, namely, to provide a sowtee of em-
loyment f r young fi males of our own city, instead of send-
ing for Rinses to thy', towns and districts. Since the orea-
log of the school 200 persons hat been taught. and 70 bed
left the rchntl with ee,tili.ates f superior ability. The
greater pt elan of the whole number had *ince Weined tm
ployment. While in the school, too, they heel been well
supplied with work, rY. the manufacturers lure tdr‘se.l
with the way in which it was done then.—liereford Journal.