The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-03 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY, JULY 2.
The LOAD CHANCELLOR took his seat at five o'clock.

PUBLIC.

commirrEE.,.—Poor Reikf ThifsrciZat (Ireland) ; Peor.laws
Admtniagratica ; Trustees Relief; Bilis.
REPORT.—Clergy Gilbert" Bill.
THIRD RlADlNGS.—Qualification of Peers (Scotland) ; Ponien.
gen dot Anteadment ; Pollee Clauses ; Bilks.
ROYAL ABSENT.
The royal anent was given by commission to the follow-
ing bills
Naval Mutiny, Naval Prisons, Royal Mariam Service, Quakers and
Jews Marriages, Masters in Chancery, Hatha and Waahhome., Corn.
wall Railway, London and South-Western Railway (purchase of Earl
Ellesmere's Interest), Vale of Beath Railway, General Terminus sad
Glasi ow Harbour Hallway Branch, (Imamate and Dean Forced Rail.
way -SonMuction of Do* East Lincolnshire Railway (Deviation at
Boston, and Branch to Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway
at Grimaby), An:Margate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern June.
clanßailway (Alteration of Line and Branches into or ncar
the Town of Nottingham), Llyravi Valley Railway Eaten.
'ion, Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Act Amendment
and Branches, Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway
and Aust Farm Caledonian Railway, and Glasgow Garnkiek,
and Cambridge Railway (Branch to (Haggai. Srction), Caledonian and
Durobartonshirelunction Railway (Deviation between Duntocher.lane
Works and Bowling), Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland,
Newry and Enniakilien Hallway Act Amendment, Newport, Aberga-
venny, and Hereford Railway (Deviations), Herne Bay and Canter-
bury Junction. London and South Western Railway (Widening, .ke,),
Dundee and Perth Railway (Alterations and Exteasion),
Ilankhead, and Ballston hired Railway, Great Western Railway
(Branch to join the Wert London Railway). Eastern ()aunties Rail-
way (Malden, Witham, and Braintree Railway Purchase), Great
:leathern and Western Railway Extension (Portarlington and Teta-
mont), Norfolk Railway (Branch from Wymoodham to the Norwish
Extension of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway, and the
proposed Thetfmd and Reedham Railway, near Dim), Glas-
gow, Barrhead, and Madam Direct, and Glasgow Southern
Terminal Railway. Amalgamation, Southampton and Dorchester
Railway, New Forest Deviation and Branches, Lowestoft Railway and
Harbour (Alteration near Itercham), Norfolk Railway (Yarmouth
Extensions), Dublin and Drogheda Railway Branch from Cavan to
Hells, Southampton and Dorchester Railway (Weymouth Branch),
Swansea Valley Railway, Manchester and Lincoln Union Rail-
way Deviation, Manchester and Leeds Railway (Branch from
the Hudderatteld Railway), South-Eastern Railway (North Kent.
and Bricklayers' Arms Junction), Liverpool, Crosby, and Stour-
port Railway and Branch, frond, and Nevrtyle Railway, Icondon
and North-Weatern Railway (Newpmt Pannell, Olney and Welling.
Branch), North ittafforehhire Railway (Alterations and
Broaches), South Wales Railway, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction Railway, Dublin and Belfast Junction and
Narita Branch Railway, Baton, Stairford, and Birmingham
Railway (Peterbonsigh and Thornly Line), East Lincoln.
'hire Railway (Louth Navigati n Purchase), London and
North-Western Railway (Coventry and Nuneaton Branch),
London and South-Western Railway (Aarlover to the Ilishopetoke
and Sallabury Branch), Manchester, Sheffield, and Lineolmhire Rail-
way (Branch to Brigawor dab York and Newcastle Rilway, and Wear-
mouth Dock Enlargement, Midland Railway (Leicester and Swan-
ninaton), London and North-Western Railway (Atherstme and
Whitacre Branch), Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and radioman Railway
(Amendment and Deviation. and Branches), Birmingham and Wol-
verhampton and Stour Valley Railway (No. ), Shrogshire Colon
Railways and Canal Lease to the London and North-Western Railway
Company, Swansea Docks, Croydon Commercial Gm and Coke Com-
pany, Dunfermline Water-works, Falmouth Water-works, Maeduff
Harbour Improvement, Warkworth Harbour, Loudon, (Ito (small
DOM), Westminster and part of Middlesex hewers, Mad Building
and Improvement Act Amendment, Bristol Commercial Inaurame
Company, Wyndham's Estate, Low's Estate, Poyntageld's Notate,
Horne's (Ferguson'.) Lstase, llMpon ,Hande's Eatate, Lcgh'a
Estate; Bills.
The commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Spencer, and Lord Denman.

MILITARY PUNISHMENTS.
Lord BROUGHAM, who spoke in a low tone of voice,
was understood to cell the attention of the noble duke, the
Commander•in.Chief, to a recent act of self-destruction, com-
mitted at Baßinioloe by a soldier of the 75th Regiment.
This man had been accused of a very grave offence, no leas
than that of giving a bullet out of his ammunition to a eel-
diet of the 7th Hussars, to supply the place of one used by
the latter in tiring at the serjt.-major of his regiment. He
(Lord Brougham) admitted the gravity of the charge, but
what he wished to call his noble friend's attention par-
ticularly to, we. the extraordinary letter written by the
officer commanding the regiment, ordering that the man
should have his hair cut off, that he should be marched in
hens ten miles to Athlone for trial, and threatening that he
should be punished with the utmost severity. This order had
such an effect on the unfortunate man's feelings as to cause him
to cut his throat. He complained that such severe treatment
should be inflicted upon a man previous to trial, and that he
should be threatened with the severest punishment for an
offence of which he had not as yet been proved guilty.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the facts of the
case were theme. A soldier of the 7th Hussars, by name
Smith, fired at and shot the serjt.-major of his regiment, and
the man alluded to by the noble and learned lord, a private
in the 75th regiment, gave this soldier a ball in order to
enable him to evade the ends of justice. This was a most
atrocious act. (Hear, hear.) It was infamous, atrocious,
and particularly deserving of notice in Ireland, where
it was too much the practice of the community
at large to enable the murderers to escape from
justice. He thought that it was incumbent on the
conimanding officer of the regiment to 'nark his sense of
the act both to the regiment and the country; and he there-
fore approved of his having done so. The only fault he
found with the commanding officer was, no; having
stated in his orders for what the man was to be sent to trial,
because he thus left it to be supposed that he had prejudged
the case. The offence for which the man was sent to trial
was not for being participant in a murder, but for either
abstracting his own ammunition, or purloining that of one
of his comrades.

Lord BROUGHAM said that no murder h►d taken place,
as the ma► had missed the serjeant major, and in his defence
alleged that his gun had gone off by accident. All he com-
plained of was, that the commanding officer should have
threatened the man with punishment provioua to trial.

PEERS (SCOTLAND) QUALIFICATION BILL.
The Earl of ROSEBERY moved the third reading of this
bill. He said be had introduced some amendments to meet
the wishes of noble lords, but he could not alter the provision
respecting the oath as suggested by his noble friend on the
cross benches (the Duke of Buecleuch).
The Duke of BUCCLEUe:LI persisted in his abjection to
the oath us provided for by the bill.
A discussion followed, which was carried on in so low a
tone as to be wholly unintelligible in the gallery.
The Duke of BL CCLEUCH was understood to move the
rejection of the bill; and the gallery wan c'eared for a divi-
sion. None however took place, and we were informed
that during the abeence of the reporters the bill had been
read a third time and passed, an on our return we found
Lard BROUGHAM addressing the house on another
measure.

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