The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1953

tention of casting any slur on solicitors. It was true that
the appointment was previously open to all persons, but the
claw of solicitors had no more reason to complain of its
being restricted to barristers than any other class of her
Majesty's subjects.
The bill then passed through committee.

MUTINY BILLS.
The Mutiny and Marine Mutiny Bills were read a third
time and passed.
Their lordships then adjourned at half-past 7.

HOUSE OF COHMONS.—MoNpaY, MAUR 14.
The Sramtia Wok the chair at the usual hoer.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY BILL.
. .

On the order of the day being read for confirming the
report of the select committee or. this bill.
Mr. srooNER objected that this billpropered to con-
firm an agreement between the Crystal Palace Company
and the Bri„hton Railway Company, which agreement was
nut Pet forth in the bill itself. The purport of that egrre-
meet, a copy or which he had obtained from the parlia-
mentary agent, was to allow the frighten Railway Com-
pany to issue ticktts at the Loodon•bridge and New Cruse
stations, which should entitle the holders to admission, as
well as conveyance to the Crystal Palace, the amount re-
ceived for which, after deducting ninepence per ticket for
the railway company. was to be handed over to the Crystal
Palace Company. The effect of this would he to allow
the opening of the palace en the Sunday, and
thus indirectly to defeat the conditions of the Royal
eharter,which prohibited the admission of the public to that
building on the Sabbath except and r the express sanction
of parliament. He had no desire to open a discuuion
the Sabbath question on the present occasion ; it would be
sufficient to justify his motion, that as a general principle
the house ought of to confirm any agreement without
having it before them. He moved that the bill be recom-
mitted, for the purpose of inserting the object, nature, and '
terms of the agreement entered into on the 22nd slay of
June, 18.52. between the Crystal Palace and the London and
Brightun Railway Companies, referred to in the said biil ;
and that it be un instruction to the committee that they
have power to make provis'on accordingly.
Mr. 0 EACH assured the hon. gentleman that the directors
of the Crystal Palace had no desire, by indirect means, to
evade the obiiption of their charter in reference to Sunday
opening. The object of the present bill was merely to
enable them to divert a road, and it was most important as
regarded the progressof their works that there should not be
,a day's delay in their obtaining the necessary power. (Hear,
hear.) If the hots. gentleman would al:ow the reporter the
bill to be considered now, he (Mr. Oeach) would undertake
that the clause relating to the agreement with the Brighton
Company, should be struck oat on the third reading.
(Year, hear.)
Mr. DEEDES, on that condition, was willing, as far as
h. was concerned, to withdraw the opposition to tho bill.
Mr. W. PATTEN observed that the agreement in ques-
tion had been brought under the notice of the committee
on the bill, and he had felt it his duty to take counsel's
opinion upon it ; and the effect was that there was, nothing
in the agreement which would enable the palace to be
opcoed on Sundays. (Hear, hear.) At the same time he
entirely agreed with the hon. member fur North Warwick-
shire, that no agreement ought to be confirmed in o bill of
this kind which was not in some way set forth or deposited
in some place where the public could have access to it.
(Hear, hear.) lie recommended the adoption of the pro-
posal of the hon. member for Covent-
-.

Sir R. INGLIS alas thought the proposal of the hon.
member (Kr. tlerth) would meet the objeetion.
Mr. LAING, as chairman of the Crystal Palace Com.
puny, assured the house that they, as the promoters of this
bill, had no idea that the agreemeut which had been alluded
to could in any on! effect the question of Sunday opening,
and he wished distinctly to disclaim, on the part of the di-
rectors, any iitteation to introduce a clause into this bill
which should affect that question. He did not believe it
would do so, but if there was any doubt upon the matter he
be was quite willing that it should struck out. (Hear.)
Mr. WIGRAK considered that the offer to withdraw the
danse relating to the agreenvint quite exonerated the direc-
Ism of the Crystal Palace Company from the imputation of
asehring. by means of that agrcemeat, to avoid the obliga-
Ilea which the charter imposed upon them.
Mr. SPOONER, upon the understanding that the clause
la question should ba struck out of the bill at the third
seeding, withdrew his amendment.
The report wee then agreed to, and the bill was ordered
W be read a third time.

—Theiiioris;tti;;elect committees on the Liverpool
Borough Court Bill and the Lyndon liwuraoce Bill were
severally agreed to, end the bills ordered to be read a
third time.

Dills read a second time and ordered to be committed :
The Carlisle Canal and Port Carlisle Railway, the East
Anglian Railway, the East Kent Railway, the Edin-
burgh, Perth, ani Dundee Railway ; the South Shields
Improvement, and the West London and Crystal Palace
Railway.
LONDON AND WESTMINSTER THAMES RAIL-

WAY BILL,

The second reading wu postponed to the 4th of April.
PU riLIC BUSINESS.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.

Jrwrsit DISABILITIES —B Capt. JONES, from Lon-
donderry Mr. OOULBURN, from the University of
Cambridge; Mr. BARROW, from South Notts ; Admiral
WALCOTT, from the incumbent and certain parishioners
of Christ Church, Hants ; Mr. DEEDES, from Fordwieh,
and Canterbury; Lord HOTHAM, from Hull; Sir G.
TYLER, from Peterstone-super-Ely, Olamorganshire ;
Mr. R. MOORE, from Eglish, Armagh ; Mr. CHILD,
from Christ Church District, Burton on-Trent; against the
removal of. Col. CLIFFORD, from Hereford, in favour of
the admission of Jews,

OPINING OP THE CRYSTAL PALACE ON SUNDAYS.—By
Mr. HINDLEY, from a place not beard ; Sir R. INGLIS,
from chaplains of various gaols and convict establishments;
Mr. TOMLINE, from the congregation of the Castle Gate
Chapel, Shrewsbury ; Mr. P. BENNET, from Cockfield ;
Mr. DEEDES, from Fordwich, and Canterbury ; Mr.
CHILD, from Wortley Rocks, Stafford ; Mr. KINNAIRD,
from the members and congregation of St. Matthew's,
Islington; against. Mr. MIALL, from working men at
Sheerness, for the repeal of any law preventing the open-
ing of.
CASE or EDWARD Mvaaay.—By Mr. COBDEN, from
inhabitants of the metropolis; Mr. EWART, from places
not heard ; Mr. PHINN, from Plymouth ; in favour of.
Seurrisit UNIVERSITY Tr.sre.—By Mr. HUME, from
Arbroath, and from Forfar ; Mr. &tit. SHEE, from places
in Scotland ; Sir J. ANDERSON, from the United Pres-
byterian Church, Dunfermline; Mr. KINNAIRD, from
the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Perth ;
Mr. CRAUFURD, from lnverary ; for repeal of.
flngrurre COURTS.—By Mr. HUME, from Forfar, for
reform of ; Mr. A. BUSTLE, from the Merchants' House
of Glasgow; Mr. DUNLOP. from the faculty of Pro-
curators of Greenock ; for a select committee to inquire
into the whole procedure connected with the Sheriffs'
Courts, Scotland, and objecting to the perpetuation of sheriff
depute and sheriff substitute in each county.
TENANT RIGHT IRELAND.—By Mr. Serjt. SHEE, front
Holywood, County Down, in favour of his own, and against
Mr. Napier's bill. Mr. SWIFT, from the inhabitants of
the parishes of Kilfree and Kellartaht, in the count of
Sligo; from the inhabitants of the parishes of Cloonoghie,
Chore, and Bilker, in the county of Sligo ; in favour of
Mr. Serjeant Shae's bill.
ATTORNIEA' CERTIFICATE DUTY.—By Mr. P. BENNET,
from the attornies and solicitors of Sudbury ; Mr. WHIT-
MORE, from the attornies and solicitors of Bridgenorth ;
Mr. DAVISON, from Attorneys practising in Belfast;
against.
BALLOT.—By Mr. Serjesnt SHER, from Down, com-
plaining of corruption and intimidation at the late election,
and praying for the protection of the ballst.
REPRESENTATION OF THE LONDON UNIVERSITY.—By
Mr. MIALL, from the congregational church, Kneesworth-
street, Royston; Mr. LEVESON GOWER, from the con-
ofßaptists of New.street Chapel, Hanley, Staf-
rortlati° shiren, in favour of.
CONSOLIDATED ANNUITIES, IRELAND.—By Mr. SerjeaTlE
SHEE, from Kilkenny ; Mr. SADLEIR, from the poor
law guardians of Carrick-on-Suir Union ; for a remission of.
WEST INDIA MAILIL—By Mr. HUME, from Glasgow;
Mr. DUNLOP, from certain merchants and shipowners of
Greenock ; complaining of the irregularity of.
RATING MINES.—By Mr. BAINES, from St. Beth,
Cornwall, for an improvement in the law of.
GOVRELIMENT Or INDIA.—By Mr. HUME, from the
Christian and other inhabitants of Bengal Lower, signed by
406 Mofusail residents, indigo planters, Zemindius, and
others ; 141 commercial men and houses in Calcutta ; 183
tradespeople ; 29 members of the legal profession ; 99 un-
covenanted assistants and others in the public offices, and
132 other periods, including those whose occupations are
not given, attached to it, making in the whole 1,235 sig-
natures. The petitions prayed that if the East India Com-
pany's chatter were renewed, it should be for a limited
perid only.
Tile Boatieoff OF Rya.—By Sir J. PAKINGTON
from a number of electors at Rye, complaining of bribery,
intimidation, and other corrupt practices, at the late and
previous elections—declaring that a large number of the
electoral body. were free from such practices, and praying
for investigation.
UNSTAMPRD NEWSPAPER/I.—By Mr. RICARDO, front
the proprietor and publisher of a publication, celled " the
Potteries Free Press," stating that a bookseller in the
Strand had been summoned to Bowoltreet, :by the authori-
ties of the Sump Office fur selling a copy of that publica-
tion, and complaining that they had proceeded by summary
process against • mere vendor, instead of as in the case of
" the Household Narrative," in the Court of Exchequer,
against the publisher, where the protection of a jury would
, have been afforded. The hon. member gave notice that
to-morrow he would move that the petition be printed with
, the votes.
MAYNOOTII GRANT.—Mr. KINNAIRD, from Free
Church congregation of Newtyle, Scotland, against.
PARLIAMENTARY REpoall.—By Sir C. 11. COOTS,
from the Mountmellick Queen's County Mutual Institu-
tion Society, praying for delivery of.
filietaretta' MONEY.—By Mr. MEAGHEIt, from the
Grand Jury of the city of Waterford and St. l'atricks, end
other parishes of Waterford, for the abolition ot.
Eterowsfaxr or PoPERV.—By Mr. COWAN, from the
Scottish Reformation Society, praying for the withdrawal
of all endowment of popery, and in particular the May-
nooth Endowment Act.
SABBATH ORSERTANCE.—By Mr. PARTEL, lions the
inhabitants of Old Alresford, in Hampshire, for the better
observance of the Sabbath.
D.:TY ON CalculAGre.—By Mr. DEEDES, frost oa
makers and others in Kent, for modification of.
TILE FACTORY ACT.—By Mr. G. DUFFY, from the in-
habitants of Droyhden, in Lancashire, complaining that
the acts intended to limit the boars of labour of tweaks and