The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-25 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAT, JULY 24.
The Earl of Set•erssavay (Deputy Speaker) took his
seat at 6 o'clock.
REGIMENTAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES BILL.
Tee Bake ui WELLINGTON moved the woad readiest
of this bill. These societies were (.1.4144aa11, fatabliabed
is
regiments of the army under the authority of the Benefit
Societies Act. 33 Oct.. 111. It had brim the wish of many
caws in the army, mid especially by his predecessors, the
Duke of York and L Hill, to put an end to these societies,
bat it was found impossible to do to without an act of par.
Bement. The object o• the bill was to ions a commission to
ascertain the claims existine in each a. eiety, and redistribute
them macaw the parties entitled to receive the funds, either
to the respective savings banks of the soldiers in actual ser-
vice, or to the pensiunere entitled to receive their several por-
tions. Without this bill such en abject could not be effected,
the fund being now linked op. There re cerownmental charities, administered by the commendin
which wool! be subket to the sprawl of the commisidoe.
There were very many charities existing in the army, he
woe happy to my, the funds of which rowed admisittere&
The bill was then read a second time.
INLAND PORTS (COLONIES) BILL.
This bill pasted through e mantas.
LABOURING POOR ACT
BILL. AMENDMENT (IRELAND)
This bill pasted through committee.
LAND IMPROVEMEN fS (IRELAND) BILL.
This bill parted thrive!' C.
NEW ZEALAND CONVEYANCES BILL.
The Earl of St. GERMANS sieved the second reading
of this bill.
The Duke of RICHMOND mid It was very inconvenient
to have the mcond revtiug of a bill ro which
Wall not on the paper. This Wa4 lime .honeny bills
were smuggled through the bocce, end it behoved their
lordships to be careful. He, however, knew nothing against
this bill.
The bill was then read *second Err*.
COMMONS INCLOSURE (No. 2.) BILL.
This hell was read MAR rd tMe and named.
RIAGE BILL.

On the pretentatisn of the petition .rom Lyme Regis by
Lord RIDISDALII,
L-rd CAMPBELL said he would avail himself of that
opportunity of saying that he was very glad this bill had
been withdrawn to the other house i.f parliament. He
should have telt it his duty most strenuously to have op-
posed it. He thought the marriagea with a wife'. sitter
social
life.
The Earl of MINTO trusted the opinion of his noble and
learned friend would not be taken as representing the feel-
ing in ilootlond.
Lord CAMPBELL Rid the feeling in Scotland was almost
unanimous against the bill.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE regretted to have heard
his noble and learned friend express stv.h an opinion, and
begged to call the attention of their lordships to the mew if
the day.
POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved the third Ned-
lag o' thia bill.
After short conversation the bill was read a third time
and passed.
TRUSTEES RELIEF BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of this bill.
BANKRUPTCY (IRELAND) BILL.
Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading of this
bill. Its object was to extend to Ireland the provisions el
an act which had been unanimously voted for England.
The Duke of RICHMOND objected to the second waft
as being informal.
Lord BROUGHAM replied, and theb LI was then semi a
second time.
BOROUGHS RELIEF BILL.
This bill went through amain'', after some observations
from Lord REDRIMALR, Lord BROVOHLW, and the Earl of
WARWICK.

MILITIA PAY BILL.
This bill wee toad a mood time.
BUSINESS OF THE SESSION.
Lord STANLEY took occdsion to call the tumid= of the
house to the circumstance that they had now arrived at
within four days of the clout of the &orlon, and that seven
new bills bad been brought up from the House of Commons,
all of which wen to be real a first time, end many of which
were of considerable importarce, more particularly the
Pilotage Bill. He mast say that nothing could be more un-
yetis:setup or discreditable than this fact, and he begged to
ask why these bAls had bun delayed to so late a period of
the on ?
Earl GREY said that the complaint was unfortunately
too well rounded, loot it was not a new one, for it had been
made for the last fifty years under every government. He
leered it was a necessary consign( DP of constitutional
government, for the noble lord must know that the minis.
tors had only two nights in the other house, and often they
wen impeded by motions on going into committee of supply.
As to the Pilotage Bill, that woe merely a permissive bill to
enable the Trinity House to relax their rules in favour of
British shipping, and there could be no opposition to it.
He only could again express his regret at the lateness of the
period at which the bills in question were brought in, but it
was unavoidable.
Lord STANLEY said the noble earl's excuse could not
apply to the Pilotage Bill, for that was only brought in to
the other house of parliament on the 12th of July, and it
had met with no obstruction.
The conversation then dropped. Adjourned until to-
morrow (this day) at half-past four o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMHONS.—TrESDAT, JULY 2-1.
The Bram= took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
SECOND READlNGS.—Tcoopest's Estete ; Theophilus
Clive's Edw.; Wilma's (St. Thomas's Church, Woolwich)
Estate; Bills.

NBW ZEALAND.
Mr. AOLIONEY acquired whether the Under Secretary
for the Colonies had any objection to lay on the table of the
house copies of, or extracts from, tLe despatches lately re-
wired from New Zealand, mere especially those relating to
the constintisu of the Legislative Assembly at Wellington.
Mr. HAWES replied that before the se.eion closed he
should be able to lay upon the table certain papen which bad
been received from the Governor of New Zealand; but he
must add, that he should not think it consistent with his duty
to produce those elating to the formation of the legislative
council, and the alteration of the representative constitution
of the colony. Whilst referring to New Zealand, be would
obseeve that nothing crnld be more satisfactory than the
accounts received of the state of the colony generally,
whether thee had regard to the steady progress of the oniony
or to the amicable extinction of the na•ive title, which had
been effeckd to an extent they had little reason to hope,
entirely by the energy and ability of the Governor, in perfect
concurrence with the New Zealand Company and the natives
generally. (Rear, hear.)
RETURNS ORDERED.
On the motion of Mr. Dichaoh, the following returns
were ordered :
Return, is detail, of the particular items composing eseh
of the several sums following, as certified by the Shannon
Commbrioners to have been payable by the county of Lime-
rick, in the savant yeses following, viz.:—
s.
1611. Spring mins
gamma rims IMO 16 o
Mi. Spring swimswi
fommee sms
1615. Bpelst mem 292 19 2
nab =Am 2,530 IS 0

03,334 17 Oi
besides lane sums for interest. Also,
Return of the amount of stamp duties in Ireland, for
each year, commencing with the year 1840, up to the pre-
sent time.
CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.
On the motion that the Speaker leave the chair, is order
to go into committee upon this bill,
Mr. HUME rose to draw attention to the vote for convict
which had been agreed to en • previous evening.
rbrrehote would recollect how anziou of late pan they
had bees, an the resemossallatioa of various emmitemes, to
tzsthe Mama sameregided kr difilment pumas mauler
end sopente Made, with the view- of a
maw sheik and word. In former years the exposes Mr
wades, penmen, and gaols was very widely speed—some
la sae adman sad some in another—so that it was extremely
Mad es asesetsla what wee the expense of each depart-
meat. That smarm, however,had been altered, and fa some
Teen gent those items had been properly classified. He now
4111111pisimed, that under the had of " law and justice," the
alainittee had the other evening in his abeam from the
Masa, mend in one vote of 750,8231. Its dish had
feemetly occupied no lees thea 14 votes. He looked upon
that u a gross deviation from former practise, sad he was at
a lon to understand why such an iamovatlls sisould have
beta permitted. (Hear, hear.) He wished es know from
the tight hon. gentleman, the Cheassiler of the Exchequer,
whether be would le-testate those 14 mesa In bringing up
the appeopriation elates, and place the woman as they
Mead in 1847 and 1848. (Hear, bear.)
Mt O. GREY said, as the greets pad of the vote is
ram cease under his office, be Mahe. whop, be allowed
=why it appeared in the present from. The esti.
bum framed in that shape in arise to carry out
dal be unsolved to be the recommendatioa of the cost-
MOM en the miscellaneous estimates, which at last yesr,
deleted, that so far from the estimate in its previous tors
being perfect it led to the greatest inessamienee, being cam.
=lamely et admiralty, pertly of Weald. md pertly of
votes, so that it was impossais M semtein what
the exposes of that branch of the mblio swim rosily was.
At the same time, if it were thought lassammisat that those
Sim should be brought under one head. it might be possible
la Mom es separate them, but it could net now he dime la
the menet stage of the Appropriation BM.
Hr. V. SMITH telt bead to say, it the right hoes. baronet
thought that in adopting the present arrangement he was
following the recommendation of the committee ea the Ma
cellansou estimates, that he had never made a greater
mistake in his life. (Hear, hear.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER trusted that
hen. gentlemen would remember that on the whole an
amount of information had been given to the public this
year which had never been given them before, and that
votes bad been brought under the public consideration
which they had never had an opportunity of discussing be-