The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-07 00:00:00

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'IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

SOUSE OF LORDS.-THIMSDAY, Arum 6.
Sake lonLb* shot at sco'clocir.
PRIVATE MINES&

Whiteohepelend Higbee' Improvement Bill wee teed
• and time and peened.
lard REDESDALE moved "that so private bill brought
from the Heard Commons shall be reed • second time
after Thursday, the Mt day of June next; that no ban
aiming say provisional ,er of the Board of Health, or
emstioneng any indents of lends under special report of
the Inolosure Commissioners for England and Wales. or for
sesdrosieg any scheme of the Charity Commissioners for
ArEleed ead Wales, shall be teed • second time after
Thorley, the 29th day of June seat; that so bill we-
litelins any provisional order made by the Board of Trade
wider the General Pier and Harbour Act. 1881, shall be
seed a seemed time after Thursday, the 29th day of June
sect ; that whoa • bill shall have paned this hors 'Alb
esewidomeets, them ceders shall net apply to say new bill
ma}},, up from the Hoeft of 00112111100 M which the chatrinse of
ens rnitteee shall repeat to the house is substantially the
SOS as the bill so amended. "
/steed to.
REGISTRATION OF TITLES (IRELAND).
The LOMILIKANOELLOR said that although that ex-
.silent Uostitutioo, the Landed Estates Court, could give
Serbementasy titles, it had so power to centime the record
a them. He bashed, thirster., to lay as the table a bill
this object of which wee to 'stood to Indeed the same
memo of rehistorieg titles that were enjoyed in Eagland.
He would describe the details al the measure at • tube,-
hams Mahe.
The bill was read a Bat time.
BANK OF IRELAND BILL.
This bill wee reed • third time end passed.
FAST LNDIA HIGH COURTS BILL.
This bill was alio read a third tame end pumd.
PRIVATE BILL COSTS BILL

Lord HOUGHTON moved the wood reading.
The Duke of CLEVELAND thought it would be vary
lard if a person could not defied his own interests without
nedoring himself liable to be heavily mulcted in meta. He
bagged, therefore, to mow* so addition to the second section
saving theirights of landowners.
111 The LORD CHANCELLOR concurred in the object of
the amesdnurrit, but observed that it would not meet the
IMO of a nvsl railway getting up a vexatious opposition is
Us name of some landowner whom it might indoor. to lend
Bieseell to their object. He would suggeat, therefore, a
Merest form for the unewdmetaL
I. The Doke of CLEVELAND accepted the noble and
learned lord's weeds.
Lord HOUGHTON bad no objection to the amendment ;
and after some eonversatine,
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that the clause
stand ea talows :—"Pnividad always that no landowner
who.book fide opposes a bill which proposes to take any
portion of his property for the purposes of the bill shell
M liable to any costa is respect to his opposition to the
1.11.•
This was agreed to, sad the bill as amended then paned.
EAST INDIA GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S POWERS
BILL.

0. the motion ol Lord DurniuN this bill was read •
Ismail tiros.
The house thou adjourned at 20 minutes to six o'clock.

BOO= OF COMMONS.--THURSDAY, APRIL 6,
The SMARR took the dear at 4 o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
Lieut.-Colonel BOURNE took the oaths and his seat for
',ethane in the room of the late Sir H. Willoughby.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bilis were road a third time and passed :
Leto. and Brentford Railway, Banbury Water ; Harsh,
Hoodoo. Hampstead, sod Loodoo Railway ; Bristol and
Inter Railway, Bristol Docks, Coventry Cashel Station
and Southern dahlias Railway, Great Eastern Railway
(Ad
Pewees), Littlebarough klarcheater Im-
provement, Marypoet and Carlisle Railway, Metropolitan
and Seiat John's Wood Railway, Redhill Gas. Scarborough
and Whitby Railway, South Metropolitan Gas, Stafford
sad Uttaiester Railway, and the Suoderland Corporation.
WIMBLEDON COMMON BILL.
Lord BURY moved the mooed reading of this bill.
lb. COX moved that the ball be reed a seoood time that
ley six months. All he would say was, that if the bill
passed the common would cease to be a common. He op.
peril the bill oa bebalf of the three million inhabitants of
the metropolis. (Hear, hear.) If this bill passed it would
be an encouragement to hellos" every common round the
metropolis.
Mr. LOCKE .plied to an attack of Lord Bury, whom
be reproached with having appeared in the committee as
the briefed advocate of Lord Sommer. With tepid to the
eight" that that noble lord was said to be giving up, be
bad never vet been able to discover what them were.
Mr. LOWE observed that Lord Spencer was the owner
of the fee simple, and might do *hat he liked with the
oseuroos The public were consequently there by sufferance
merely.
Mr. ROEBUCK rebuked Lord Bury for haying entered
into details that were suitable only for discussion in • select
committee, to which, however, in common decency, the bill
ought to be sent.
After some observations from Mr. L. KING and Mr.
PIACOCRE, both of whom expressed themselves favourable
to the mooed reading,
Lord ELCHO said he was authorised by Earl Spencer
who seated under the gallery during the whole of the
) to state that if the hill were read a second time be
was prepared to go before a committee, on the understand-
ing that he should give up all idea of enchain the oommoo,
aid suspend the operation of the sales' clauses until it was
sees whether the inhabitants could raise, by voluntary con-
tributions or by rate, a sufficient sum to maintain the park.
The debate was continued by Mr. Alderman Rose, Mr.
Cowper. and Sir G. Bowyer, bat the amendment was nega-
tived without a division, and the bill reed a second time.
THE HIGH WYCOMBE UNION.
Mr. DISRAELI gave Who that he would upon en early
day call the attention of the hoots to the conduct of the
Toor.law Board in reference to certain transactioas in the
Unioe of High Wycombe, Bothingliamthixe.
THE IRISH CONSTABULARY.
Sir R. PEEL gave notice that he would on an early
day ask leave to introduce a bill for the better distribution
of the othatabulary in Ireland.
THE BHOOTAN EXPEDITION.
Lord DUNKRLIIN asked the Secretary of State for
Idle whether .the presort iavaeioa of Mohan had been
undertakes with the consent and sanction of the home
inept! Whether it were true that two of her
Erie'ty's European reginseste had been ordered up to sup-
port the invading force! And) whether it were the icktesa-
boo of the Indian government to keep the troops in the
unhealthy country of Bhootan during the coming rainy
mho ; sod, if so what, if any, arrangements bad been
sari% for nuttily; them under cower.
WC. WOOD was understood to say the instructions
ggrtney in India ware to occupy the pates leading tutu
Bheoten, and not to make any occupation in that country,
and the right hon. gentleman said that he was very averse
to any occupation of that territory, bosom be did not see
bow they could withdraw their troops if they once were
snowed to occupy it. (Hear, hear.) He had received in-
formation up to December last, from which it appeared
that her Majesty's forees bad lost only five moo. In
January the Bbootioss bad taken up a position
which led to her Majesty's troops evacuating two
of the passes. The result of the whole opera-
tions was that the government of India bad sent forward
see regiment and a half of British troops into that country,
bet he could not say what arrangement' had been made
for the purpose of ensuring protection against the effect of
the weather. The following was from a despatch which be
bad just received:—" We shall spare no pine to provide
shelter for the troop end to secure their health." (Hear.)
COLONIAL BISHOPS.
Mr. H. SEYMOUR asked the Secretary of State for the
Moms Department if the government intended to take any
Mega to mimed the patents of the colonial bishops, defining
their jurisdiction.
Mr. CARDWELL said the patents which had bees issued
by the Patent-aloe ware now undergoing carotid examine,
tics, with a view of submitting a case for the opinion of
the law officers of the crown. It was the intention of the
government moat carefully to examine the late decision of
the Privy Council before any further patents wise issued.
(Hear, hoar.)
THE EPIDEMIC IN RUEELL
Sir J. PAK INGTON asked the Secretary of State for the
Boole Department whether the attention of her Majesty's
✓ehement had been directed to the dimes' sow prevail.
fag in Russia and some parts of Prussia ; and whether the
government proposed to take any steps to ascertain the
line nature of the disease, and to avert its introduction
Into this country.
Sir G. GREY—The attention of the government was
&rooted to this subject by a statement which appeared in
the month of March last in one of the daily papers, and
thereupon isstructioos were sent to Sir Andrew Buchanan.
at St. Petersburg. directing him without delay to maks fall
inquiries upon the subject, and to report from time to time
oil the information which he might acquire as to she mien
and the nature, and the of the disease, and the
mode of trashiest which kr tom adopted at St. Petah.
berg. Instructions were also sent to our repose-
tally", at Berlin, Visalia, Copenbages, and Stock-
holm, and to our consuls at different places, in.
iffsdiog the parts of the Baltic, directing them
in case the disease appeared at any of them places, to send
the "oiliest information by telegram to this axistry, and
afterwards more fully by post, regarding the disease. A
medical officer has also been directed by the Privy Conseil
to proceed to St. Petersburg to iovestigato the disease, and
by report fully on the subject of it. Aod the officers of the
Osstdine Lave been directed to examine closely all ships
which antes from the Baltic. The Information which I
bah resolved has only hest by telegraph, sod I pro.
peed to state the pa
the of it. Sir kadtew
leehaaaereports that the disease is said to be
• freer, new in Russia, but not unknown elsowttere,
red that the mortality which had been up to 80 a day was
esersorlsg. Lead Napier states that en uelneown disorder
bat smeared atom the hams of the Vistula, but thall it
the knows that the thaws had Naha from Rasa.