The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-02 00:00:00

TITHES.

The Marquis of LANSikriiilTiE then presented a petition
from the Rev. Chairs Miller, vicar ot Marlow, wapiti,/
their lordships to institute some inquiry ism the origin of
tithe.
OFFICIAL PAPERS

The NOBLE MARQUIS laid on the table the third and
fourth pins of the currespondenc plating to the affairs of
Italy, and also the new Spinish tariff.

ROYAL. COMMISSION.

The noble marquis then said—My I ads, I have to acquaint
your lordships that her Mak sty has been phased t 3 grant two
several commissions—one giving her mat assent to several
bills which have passed both hours of karliament, and the
other for proroguing parliament.
The Marquis of Lowdown' (President of the Council),
the Earl of Minto (Lord Privy Seal), the Marquis of Clanri
cards, the Earl of St. Germans, and Lord Campbell, tte
lords commivionets, arrayed in their robes as peers, took
their seats immediately under the throne, when the Deputy
Usher of the Black Rod (Mr. Putman) was requested to
summon the liuusa of Commons to the bar to hear the com-
missions read.

Ina few minutes the Speaker, accompanied by Lord John
Russell, Lard Pal.aerstou, Mr. Latr,uchere, and a large at-
tendance of members of the House of Commons, appear-1 at
the bar.

ROYAL ASSENT.

The commission having been read, the Royal Assent was
given to the following bills :
Consolidated Fund (appropriation) ; Cruelty to Animals
Prevention; Boroughs Reliel ; New Forest and Width=
Forest ; Lelosures Act (':tension of piwers) ; Municipal
Corporations (Ireland) ; Collection of Rates (Dublin) ;
Dublin Impr Armful ; Pilotage; New Zr.lsnd Land Con-
veyance; Adaiirell Jurisdiction in the Colonies; Lease-
hold Tenure of Lands klreland) ; General Board of
Health ; Mirropolitan Sewers ; Stove Tn.& (Persian Gulf);
Treasury Instruna-nts ; Customs ; Stamp, &c., Allowances ;
Workhouse Loans (Ireland) ; Turnpike Acts C.intinusises ;
Small Pete° Act Amendin• nt ; Pror Relief (Iceland) ;
Joint, Sock Companies Act (1848) Amendment ; Royal
P..vilioa (Brighten); Chapels of R tee ( Ireland) ; Judg-
ments (Ireland) • Petty Bug-office. &c., Amendment;
Bankruptcy (Ireland) ; Poor-law Union Charges Act
Amendment ; Bankrup!ey Law C oisolidation ; Drain-
age of Lands; Nuisances Removal and Dvease
Prevention • Defects in Lease Suspension • Com-
mercial Road (comprising the Cannon-street ;cad, the
Cinamersial-road, the liorseterry branch of road, the Esst
India D vk-road, and the Barking-road) ; Edinburgh and
Northern Railway (erection of slips, quay, and other
works at Granton ; extension of stations at Edinburgh ;
regulation of Perth stations ; and amendments of acre) ;
Lancashire and Preston Junction Railway Acts Amendment
(power to alter tslla, fur the appointra nt or officers) ;
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardross.n Railway, and Are roe
san Harbour Acts Amendment; Airdrie Police and Mani-
cipal ; Binhrooxe St. Gabriel, and Binbrooke Bt. Mary In-
closure; Caledonian Railway (lease and purchase of the
Glasgow, Barrhead, arid Nedston Direct Railway) : Eastern
Uoitin, and Eastern Counties Railway Company (amend
meat of acts, and power to lease, sell, or amalgamate to or
with the E totem Counties Rail ay Company); General
Land Drainage and Improvement Company (incorporation
and conferring of powers) ; General Indian and Peninsular
Railway ; Great Northern Railway (amendment of acts,
deviation and enlargement at and near 80-ton, Rend'',
Lincoln, and King's cross) ; Hospital for C:nsumption ;
Manchester, Shetfield, and Lincolnshire Railway (consolida-
tion and amendment of acts) ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Railway Act Amendment (b-ariehes and deviation); Sailing
and Dunfermline Railway (deviation of branch to Allos
Harb:ur, &c.); Ent lodic Railway Company (for making
and maintaining one or more railwayslii„the East Indies)
Incorporation ; Bowling hon,Conspany; Louth Markets and
Impr.vements; London Corporation; Norfolk Estuary
(amendment of acts); TreoeusriPs Estate; Creswell (or
Salem's') Estate; Wilson's (St. Thomas's Church, Wool
with) Enact; Grenvelle's.Estate ; Osborne's Estate; Sir Ro.
Pigot's Estate ; Tempest's Estat ; Clive 's Estate; Tae
Hun. C. C. Cavendish's ( Burlington House) Estate; Caven-
dish Estate; TALI'S Naturalization; Crippe Divorce;
•Faussett's Divorce; Hill's Divorce; Bills.