The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

RETURNS ORDERED.

On the motion of Mr. Btscsarr—Address for return
of the sums annually paid as duty on coals broursht into the
City or port of London since the 31st day of December,
1831, distinguishing throughout the produce of the Sd , the
4d., and the Id. duties, with the respective application
thereof; also specifying, 1. the sums charged on the pro-
duce of the coal duties in force previously to the Act 1 and 2
Will. IV. c. 76 (local and personal), and remaining un-
paid on the 31st day of December, 1831 ; 2. the sums sub-
sequently so charged, specifying the acts of parliament by
authority of which they have been raised, and the purposes
for which the money was expended ; 3. the several annual
payments of interest in the said sums; 4. the several
annual payments in liquidation of the principal sums so
raised ; 5. the amount of the principal rums respectively
charged on the several coal duties, and remaining due at
the date of making up the return ; G. the amount (if any)
of any further sum authorised by act of parliament to be
raised, but not yet raised, upon the coal duties.
On the motion of Lord 1). STCART—Metropolitan end
City Police.—lteturn of officers of the Metropolitan and City
l'ulice charged with offences before magistrates in each
year, from 1849 to 1852 inclusive ; specifying the rank of
the officer, his age, the time he has been in the force, the
nature of his offence, whether convicted or not, the punish-
ment awarded, and whether he we...retained in the service;
total number of men who have been dismissed, fined, sus-
pended, or degraded by the police commis•ivacrs during the
same period, and the number who have resigned their ap-
pointments during the same period similar return of the
City of London police force : return, from each division of
the Metropolitan Police, of the number of robberies com-
mitted, the value of the property stolen, and the value of
the property recovered, for each year, from 1549 to 1832 in-
clusive : similar return from the City of London Police
Force : return of the number of persons taken into ca,tody
by the Metropolitan Police, and the results, in each year,
from 1849 to 18,52 inclusive: and, similar return from the
City of London Police (all in continuation of parliamentary
paper, No. 133, of Session 1849).

THE TRUCK SYSTEM.
Mr. C. FORSTER asked whether, in consequence of the
report of the commissioner for inquiring into the operation
of the truck system, it was the intention of the government
to introduce any measure no that subject in the course of
the session.
Viscount PALMERSTON said he had sot been able as
yet to give any attention to the subject, and he was not
aware that any reptesentations had aeon made about It;
but he shou'd think it his duty to look into it, and if it ap-
peared that any fresh regulations were ncassary, steps
would be taken for supplying them.

ELECTION PETITIONS.
The SPEAKER. read a report from the Emilie,' of
animas stating that the petitions could not be pro-
coded with in the following asses :—(iloucester, Norwich,
Iliddlewl, Kidderminster, Yougtial, County Down, and
wean Norfolk.
Slit C. WOOD'S SPEECH AT HALIFAX.
Er. DISRAELI said he had given notice of a question
0t....4 he intended to put this evening to the right hon.
tmreoet the President of the timed of Control. He ob
serail ,:at the right hon. berooet was not in his place ;
hat it it were mire convenient to the government or
would tie considered more fair, he would mention the sub-
jet .:. net oily of the relation, between this country and the
French .sivernment before the how,e went into committee
of soppy on Friday evening, and thus give as opportuoity
for en eztended esplanstions ; but it was entirely with
the government to say whether they wished the question to
be put n.,w Or not.
Ltd J. RUSSELL—My right hon. friend the President
of the Board of Control is not able to naiad, but, as the
rieht hon. gentleman has given notice of his question, he
n,rtir proceed with it. (Cheers.)
lies DISRAELI, after reading the part of the speech
of sa C. Wood which he quoted on the former evening,
ma which was again loudly cheered by the house, said he
"bed to inquire whither that was en accurate end fair re-
pir:ot the sentiments expressed on that occasion by the
nitit fun. 'pathos in.
Lord J. ItCSSELL—Mr. Speaker, the right hon. gen-
tleman in alluding to this subject the other night, stated
tine mt rght hon. friend, the President of the Board of
Conte :, took oces•ion, in his speech at Halifax. to advert
to at 1610,411 relations, and that, in speaking of France,
ke used the words which have been repeated this evening.
Now, to the first place, L think it may be necessary to
state that what my right hen. friend said was not in a
speech upon our foreign relations, that he was not
pliertiag to that subject at all, but that in his
eisech at Halifax he too marina to argue the question
▪ oniver•al suffrage and parliamentary reform generally,
end need the illustrations which he thought appropriate to
that at+ et. There is a very great difference between
teeing an argument drawn front the state of France ea that
sril going over our foreign relations and speaking
of France in the manner the right hon. gentleman repre-
sented—cheer, hear) ,—but I thought it necessary, after
whit the riot; hon. gentleman said in this house, to call
upon my ei4lit hon. friend; and he has written me a
knee upin this subject, which I will read to the house.
He 4.1)•
" 1 am sorry to hear that any expressions reported to have
been u-sol by me in addressing a meeting of my coati-
meats at Halifax should have been understood as offensive
to the Emperor of the French. I cannot pretend to say I
whether I did or did not ivie the precise words contained iu
the reports of my speech, but it is very passible that, speak-
ing as I was, without any premeditation, in a meeting of
that kind, an incautious expression may have escaped me.
I In• pointing out the advantages of temperate and well-
comidereu rennin as contrasted with more violent and pre
eipitate measures, and in proof of this I referred to the
eyelets of the lest few years in neighbouring countries,
where the temporary success of the extreme revolutionary
party had led to the establishment of arbitrary power, and
la France that this hail been carried to en extent unprece-
dated in the time of the first Emperor, and with the con-
sent of the French people, who bad, on two occasions, voting
by ballot sad on the principle of universal suffrage, Mist
honed the course pursued by the President end Emperor. 1
repressed no opinion on the conduct of the Emperor, a
indeed of any one, though I cannot conceive that ate
English minister is to be precluded (tom adverting to sela
he understands to be the state of things on the Continelt
—(loud cries of ' Hear, hear')—but I can say, with His
inmost sincerity, that in doing so nothing could be further
from my ititenti9n than to use any words which could be
considered as offensive to the Emperor, sad I regret that
soy mires/Ono should have fallen from me on that
ermsinn on which such an interpretation can have been
*ad." (Rear, bear.)
iLeed cheers followed the reeding of this letter.)
THE MILITIA.
Mr. lIINDLEY referred to some proceedings which had
been taken (as we understood) in Buckinghamshire against
parties for exhibiting placards tending to dissuade persona
from enlisting in the Militia, and inquired whether the re-
port was correct ?
Viscount PALMERSTON—I thick the house will feel
that those persons who, by circulating placards or papers,
interfere with her Majesty's service, and prevent the colon.
try from obtaining that means of defence which is sme-
ary, are guilty of a very grave offence—(cheers)—and re-
quire, whether they receive it or not, the punishment which
any I.w may award against them. (Cheers.)
ELECTION OF PROVOST OF ETON.

In answer to a question from Mr. Prams,
Viscount PALMERSTON said that the repent election
of a provost at Eton had taken place in accordance with the
established usage of nomination by the crown. He believed
there bad been another election, but notking had passed to
affect the right of the crown to nominate.