The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-16 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—Faion, JULY 13.
The Luau CUancttlkit took his seat at 6 o'clock.
Ljew IP EVIDENCE AND PROCEDURE BILL.
Lord BROUGHAM wished to Gall attention to auim-
portant matter. in which his Loble and learned friend on
the woolssek, his noble and learned friend the Lord Chit
Justice, and himself had • tight to complain. He alloid
to the treatment elsewhere of a most important bill which
had been Nut down by their lordships to the other bowie eel
patham. tit. lie introduced a bill in November Lot on the
Law of kle idiot.* and Procedure, which was reed a second
tame th 10th of March. it wee then t mod that tn. re
was no d•lTrrenee of opinion between his noble and learned
friend on th • woolsack, the Loyd Chief Jestime hati
mit up in one porti in of that bill, which was a supplement
to the act of ItSil, enabling parties to ba examined se wit-
s.... •, or colt:moiling them to he easmina, as the env
might or. Of the great bent which had resulted from
the set of ISD it was needles, for L:rl to speak, because
testanosy had been borne to its merits by all the learned
judges. Dot then was coo important unsi‘sion in that
iset—that which regatded husband and w.fe. His nohle
and learned friend on the aele differed on the subject
two years ago, but he heel rate, with his wasted candour,
distinctly admitted that he hal changed lii. opinion, and
wee in favour of that portion of the bill which wee read a
second tune in March last fur supplying that defect. Ilia
noble and !tensed friend, however, and Vie Loud Chief duo-
tin did not agree upon all the other points of the bill ; nod
it nes sugetsted by them that the bilk bould be divided
late two so that the portions of it anon which thisre was
no dtlference of .opinion should Os made • .eparete mea-
sure. He acquiesced ; sail thus, parts as to husband atid
wife formed tne sole sulj.ct of one bill, the other being
patient. d. Toe bill paseed their lordships' house on the
6th or nth of June, and he was given to understand that it
would not be opposed in the other house. It went down
to the other hoe e, and there it had slept ever since. What
had ht the cousequenc, ? The circuits had begun, end
they se uuld all be holden without the great ROA necestary
benefits ot that act. A similar bill bad poised for Seet-
hed, and the Seineli courts were now acting under it. He
thought he had a right to complain of his bill having been
committed to its lone net of seven weeks, mud he wished
to nib fors .me explanation of SO important an omessien.
The LOUD CHANCELLOR would state how the mat-
ter steed, he then thought that his noble and leaned
friend would he satisfied that no disrespect was intended to
tine. Aft. r brie Sy recapitulating the stat.ln nt of Lord
Broughaui as to tne progress of the bill through that house,
the wild, ant learned lord proceeded to say that the Com-
mon-law Conitui,locers mode their first report abidut two
year, •igo, upon which the hill of Ilia was framed. They
were: cages. I: during last winter and the greater part of thu
spring in further ins' stigation of the subject of es ideate
and tune:dare, end he cayman] a wish that his noble and
learn .1 (newt should not pi:•ss his bill on until they sow a
urea of what those ceimniasionen wcrc about to sug.
gest. They made en elaborate report en the 30th of April,
and they Lad incorporate d in a bill founded on that report
the enactment of his noble and learned friend on this mite
jest. A ...mit of their proposed bill ass put into his hands
for the tint time yesterday, mid lie felt that it was impos-
sible to entertain the mee.ure without looking very care-
fully into its details, and that it could nut pass during the
present session of parliament. (Hear, hear.) Ile had
received many anonymous letters stating that he
was obstructing these reosruis. lie would devote all
his energy to that and other measures of legal reform,
but they regulted great and m careful consideration.
(Hear, hear.) When his motile and learned friends could
tie with reference to the bill which had just been prepared
what they had done with the bill of 1851—when they
could meet, nut in committee, but, night by night at lac.,
othe rte house., and go through clause by clause, the Wes.
sure would receive that suiontit of attention which was
necessary to its well working. They had adopted that
course with regard to the other bill, which contained 200
elan e ,and there never was an enactment that had worked
smiothly. (Hear, hear.) He had consulted with the
Attorney-lienerul, who had promised, os the principle in-
volved in tho bill of his uubie and learnt d friend load been
approved, to use his utmost efforts to carry it through the
other how eof parliament this session. lice regretted that
he (the Ltd Chancellor) had not been sufficiently awake
Co the importance of the measure being passed before the
serener circuits commenced. (Hear, hear.)
Lord CAMPBELL said, that several times within his'
emperience the want of such a bill had been severely felt,
suit the truth had been excluded because the wife could
not bo called. His mottle and learned friend on the wool-
sack des. reed the thanks of the public for the great seal he
had menifested in the cause of law reform, and the efforts
he bad m de to promote it. (Hear, hear.)
LANDi IMPROVEMENT COMPA-N V (No. 2) BILL.
The Doke of ARGYLL, in moving the third reeding of
this bill, *aid its principal otket was to authorise the com-
pany to issue debentures. Die chairman of committees
had taken wake objection to it as enabling the company to
evade the stamp duty on deeds; but this would not be the
ease. The act provided the same machinery for securing
that the improvements were good and safe, as was provided
in the Inclusive Acts. The ;kind of improvements to be
•
promoted were such a. were least likely to be undertaken
by individuals on their own account. The committee on
the bill had consieeeied the objections, and did not think
they ought to prevent its paseing.
Lord ItEDEteDALE said his objection was founded on
the Remind that advantages ought not to be given to one
company which were not soiled under the general law ;
but ae a bill had been passed making debentures generally
transferable, that objection was removed.
Lord ST. LEONARD'S thought the provisions of the
bill so important that it ought to have been brought before
the house m a public bill. He would not oppose the third

CatrtnLc, the Duke of BUCCLItCH, and the
Marquis of 24ALISIICKT bristly addressed the house, and
the bill was then reads third time and passed.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
The Earl of ELLENISOROCOH moved for the follow-
lag velure.:—" Copy of the oath now takes by the direeton
MOW East India Campaay. Copy of any bye-law of the
Bast ladle Company probibitiag the directors thereof from
deriving pecuniary advantage (rem their patronage. Copy
of Ley bye-law of the East India Company prohibiting the di-
rectors thereof from using their patronage to n muneration
fur votes given to them and services rendered to them at
their cleanse. Return of the establishment of a regiment
of Langston infantry in the service of the Eut India Com-
pany, and of the total usual charge thereof. Return
showing the rules by which °Moen are appointed to the
several ranks on the formation of a new regiment in the
service of the East India Caapany. Return of the casual-
ties in cash European regiment in the envies of the East
India Company in each of the last ten yeass,epeeifyiag such
as occurred is action with the enemy, or ia consequence of
wounds resolved is action. Return of the number of men
invalided is each of such regiments, in the URN year, It.-
tuns of the number of men removed from each of such re-
giments, la thesis' years, for envies in saliva regiments,
or in the oldness, or in the impartment of publiworka,
or for ether public employment. Return of the esMblish-
saint of each of her Majesty's regimeats 01 India according
to the last revision thereof, and of the total I charge
of inch regiment in India and at home. Return of the
total pay sad emoluments of the isommander-ice-chief of the
forces in India and of the commander-in-chief of the forties
at Madras and Bombay respectively, when such officers are
eoninuaders-inchief of the East India Company's ae
well as of her Majesty's forces, and also members
of council ; distinguishing their receipts as members
of council from their receipts in the military department"
La he apprehended there would be no objection to the pro-
duction of thus pepen, he would confina bib etherealise.
to one topic—the proposed increase of the company's Euro-
pean troops in India. He would not discuss the provisions
of the India Bill, is the hope that, when it cams before
them, the government would take into fair and favourable
consideration any reasonable objections that be
might urge to matters of detail; his whole ob•
jut being to make the bill as perfect as pos-
sible. Undoubtedly, the event. of the last two
or three weeks had not caused him to feel less the ur-
gency of increasing the military force in India, and be was
ready to do it in any manner, so urgently did he feel the
necessity. The arrival of the India mail ea the preceding
day mut have convinced many of their lordships that more
fonts would be required there than they possibly might
have supposed. That change had not been prods on his
mind ; for, from the first he had deprecated the wax in
Lea, and had stated his opinion of its great importance and
of the great embarrusnsent it would produce. He had
never entertained the slightest expectation that the Burmese
goverossont would emi ,etarte is Use session of the provisos
which we had appropriated and annexed to our dominions;
therefore he was not disappointed by the resent news. He
took the same view of cur position there which he had
always taken. He regretted that in the commencement of
that war, in its conception and its conduct, he could
nowhere perceive the impress of a statesman or of a general.
(Hear, hear.) We had given op that frontier which
was the most easy to fortify, and had taken the
very worst one which could be found. We had placed our-
selves in a position in which we could neither stand firm
with safety, nor advance with advantage. It was a pecu-
liarity in that war, that the greater the succor, the greater
the eraberrasement ; and if we were to advance to Ma, and
to drive the King from then, our difficulty would only be
greater than it was at present. At this moment, no rea-
sonable man could look to the termination of the war with
the same degree of confidence with which most persons
looked to it when it lint began. This was a very serious
state of thing', and he was deeply impressed with the con-
viction that on account of our position there—irrespective
of the change which the t
inevens now taking place in the
east of Europe must necessarily ake in our position every-
where, and especially in India—an increase of our military
force was absolutoly required for our security. (Hear, hear.)
But he could not approve of the manner in which it was
proposed to increase it. He saw in the proposal some indi-
cation of an apparent intention, not of increasing the
European military force in India, but of substituting for her
Majesty's troops an equal number of the company's Euro-
- troops. He should deprecate that change as most in-
'
'ca to her Majesty's service and to the interests of
elia and of England. The &dealings which her Majesty's
troops acquired in India was infinite, eves when they
were not engaged in active service. The very march through
the country was instructive. On every station the soldiers
might learn as much as could now be learnt at the
Gasp at Chobham. Re would only allude to ens
point in the India Bill now before the other house.
It contained a provision by which the directors to be
appointed by the crown were to be permitted to sit
in g &filament. Ile cons;dercd this provision in the last
degree perabiour, especiaily taken is conjunction with
beeecent alteration in the bill, whereby persona who bad
es la ladia tea years, whether in the smite of the go-