The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-10 00:00:00

MEETING OF P.

Parliament meets to-day. The following are the
notices of motioni now ou the books of the Rowe of Com-
mons, for which no particular day bee been fixed :
Mr. U. BRIMILZT—BiII to protect the parliamentary
decors of (heat Britain and Inland against intimidation,
violence, and the general edalversation of the franchise, by
causing the votes to be taken by way of ballet.
Mr. T. DCNCO3III6—To move the following resolution :
" That it is the opinion of this hence, that the present rata
of the representation of the people in parliament demands
the immediate attention of the legislature, with a view to
an enlargemeut of the electoral franchise, and a correction
of these abuses which the It-form Act of 1832 was intended
I to effect, but which it has failed to accomplish."
Mr. L. K txn—Bill to make the franchise in counties in
England and Wales the same as that in boroughs, by giving
the right of voting to all occupiers of tenements of the an-
; anal value of 101.

Lard D. SICAXT—BiII to repeal the Septennial Act and
shorten the duration of parliaments.
Sir W. CLay —Select committee to e,ntider whether it be
cot expedient that provision should be made fur taking the
votes of parliamentary electors as the votes sr.: now by 14w
taken in the elections of poor-law guardians—uaturly, at the
residences of the electors.

Mr. G. Burr—Ball to shorten the time between the pro-
elamstioo aad day of election in counties, and between the
receipt of the writ or precept and the election in boroughs,
and otherwise to regulate the proceedings in the election of
members to serve in parliament in Eagland and Wales.
Lord Ilt,lllAN—Lill to preclude the judges of the supe-
rior courts of law and equity, and the judges of the ecclesi-
astical courts, from sitting and voting in the Mouse of
Commons.

Sir H. Inoue—Select committee, to consider the best
MUMS of providing fur the execution of the mike of Speaker
in the event of Mr. SNAker's unavoidably absence by rea-
son of illness or of other cause.

Sir Ds L Ev.tvs—That, in any measure which may be
submitted to the hous: for supplying the deficiency in the
representation arising from the disfranchisement of bud-
, bury end St. Alban's, he will bring forward the claims for
two of the four vacant seats referred to, to be given to
Chelsea and Kensington, as containing the largest unrepre-
sented town population in the kingdom.
Mr. Hay woou —On any measure which may be hi...tight
forward for supplying the deficiency in the representation
arising from the disfranehieement of Sudbury and St. Al-
bans, to submit the claims of the University of London as a
constituency to be represented in parliament.
Mr. SPOONER—That the house do resolve itself into •
committee, to consider the Act 8& 9 Vie., e. being
" Au act to amend two acts passed in Ireland for the better
salutation of persons profesaiug the Roman catholic reli-
gion, and for the better government of the college esta-
blished at Maynooth for the education of suck persons, and
also an act passed in the parliament of the United Kingdom
fir amending the said two acts, commonly called the last
Maynootb Act, with • view to the repeal of those clauses of
the said act which provide money grants in any way to the
said college."
Mr. Senot.Erirt.n—On Mr. Spooner's proposed resolu-
tion respecting Mayuooth, to move the following amend-
ment :—To leave out all the words atter the word " consi-
der," and to substitute the following words, " all enact•
meats now in force, whereby the revenue of the state is
charged in aid of any ecclesiastical or relitions purposes
whatsoever, with a view to the repeal of such enactiaenta. '
Marquis of BLANDFORD—BiII to make better provision
for the management of church property, with a view to
swan adequate endowments for existing and future
parishes and districts.
Mr. O. H. Moons—That this house do resolve itself into
a committee on the established church in Ireland.

Mr. IlEankast —To ask whether it is the intention of
her Majesty's government to introduce any measure for the
alteration of the laws of mortmaia.
Sir W. Czar—To move a resolution for the abolition of
church rata,.

Sir B. HALL—BiII to regulate episcopal
Mr. COLLlER.—Ecclesiastical courts.
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Mr. i.;;lZThat the rate or called ministers'
money is a vexatious and impolitic impost, distasteful alike
to the Roman catholic people who pay, and to the pro-
testant ministers who receive it ; hurtful to the beat inte-
rests of religion, and destructive of that peace and good
will amongst Christian sects in Ireland which it is the
duty of this house to encourage and extend. That the
transference of this tax from the occupiers of rated houses
to the owners thereof, while it may diminish its most pain-
ful' incidents, would not contribute to that social harmony
and good feeling in Ireland which this house is by its legis-
lation so anxious to produce—firstly, because the owners
of house property in the right towns subject to the tax are
principally Roman' citholice, and consequently such trans-
ference would be but the placing of an impost for the main-
tenance of protestant ministers on one class of Roman Ca-
tholics instead of another ; and secondly, because it is a
matter of doubt whether the occupiers would by such
transference be effectually relieved therefrom. That this
tax being leviable only off the goods of the occupiers, can-
not without injustice be made payable by the owners of
houses to which it does not attach in the same manner as
does the poor rate, or the tithe rent charge to the property
in land. That, for these foregoing reasons, this house is
of opinion that ministers money should be wholly
abolished, and an equivalent suns for the protestant
ministers who receive toe tax, be made a charge on the re
venues of the ecclesiastical commissioners of Ireland in sub-
stitution
thereof. That such charge, in the opinion of this
house, CM be put on the said ecclesiastical funds without
preventing their efficient application to other church pur-
poses, or without requiring any increase of the annual tax
now paid in contribution thereof b 7 the established clergy.
That this can be effected by making such amendment of
the Church Temporalities Act, as will encourage the pur-
chase of perpetuities by the immediate and under tenants
of church lands in Ireland, as will enforce the annual pay-
ment of renewal fines by the tenants of the ecclesiastical
commissioners, and as will give the said commissioners •
more beneficial control over the Perpetuity Purchase Fund,
so as to enable them to use a requisite portion of the an-
nual receipts thereof as income, if this new demand on
their revenues require it, until the time arrives when their
prospective income, by the avoidance of certain bishop-
rics, dignities, and benefices, will have reached its maxi-
mum amount.

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Mr. Roots—That this house will resolve itself into a
committee to take into consideration the present mode of
levyin it_ the duty on home-made spirits in bond.
air H. LIALIPOELD—BiII to secure the payment of wages
without s
poloneltoltifrinar —Fire insurances.

Mr. Pintas—BM to amend an act passed in the parlia-
ment of Ireland, intituled, "An Act to promote Trade and
Manufacture, by regulating and encouraging Partnerships,
and to promote Agriculture, Trade, Manufactures, and
Commerce, by further regulating and encouraging Part-
nerships with limited liability."
Mr. A. Psra-irr—Select committee to inquire into the
subject of oaths, and the operation of the Act 6 it 6
Will. IV., for abolishing unnecessary oaths, and for substi-
tuting declarations in lieu of oaths, in the customs, excise,
and other public offices named in the said act.
Mr. OLivninx—To move the following resolution :
That a reduction of the import duties on foreign and colo-
nial wines to one uniform rate, not exceeding Is. per impe-
rial gallon, will tend to the benefit of trade, the mecca.. of
consumption, and the augmentation of revenue, and is re-
commended as well by sanitary and moral considerations
as by the encouragement which it will offer to the adoption
by foreign nations in their inters arse with this country of
the principles of free trade, and to the extension of inter-
national commerce, and by the additional securities thus
afforded for the maintenance of peace.
Mr. 11. DAVXMOND—BiII to facilitate the transfer of
land.
Mr.

to establish an office for the registra-
tion of ballast heavers in the port of London.
Mr. Herecurge—To move for the revival of the commit-
tee on coal mines.

Mr. Ewaar—That it is ezpedient that the principle of
unrestricted competition should be especially applied to arti-
cles constituting the food of the people ; that therefore the
protective duties on provisions, as butter, cheese, eggs,
hams, poultry, and other articles of food, should as speedily
as Ws be repealed.
r. of the inequalities of the tariff.
Lord R. GILOSTENOR—BiII to repeal the attorneys and
solicitors' annual certificate duty.
Mr. MUNTZ—Perforated Postage Labels—Copy of all
letters addressed by the patentee of the machine for perfor-
ating postage labels to the Lords of the Treasury and the
Commiasioners of Inland Revenue, since the let day of May,
1852, and of the replies thereto.
Sir CI. PECIIILL—To call the attention of the hens* to the
lion of the Public Health Act, 1848, and to the ap-
tion of the provisional orders to the several towns and
eta.

/dr. W. Witt.taws—To call the attention of the house to
the injustice of exempting real property from paying probate
sad legacy duties, while personal property of every descrip•
does is subjected to the payment of the said duties ; and to
/love that, in the opinion of this house, real property should
be made to pay the same probate and legacy duties as are
now payable on personal property.

Me.. W. Witzlates—Thatit appears, by a return ordered
by this hoses in the present session, that an enormous
amount of the public money is annually intercepted on its
way from the people's pockets to the Treasury, and ex-
pended without the sanction and control of this house, and
' in violation of the constitutional principle, that no taxes
shall be imposed on the people, or the product thereof ex-
' pcnded without the authority of their representatives in
! Parliament That the said return shows that " the amount
!intercepted and expended iu the year 1851, which never
' reached the Exchequer, was 6,072,1511. 9s. 9d., of which
amount 5,622,2571. was deducted from the gross receipts of
the taxes by the various revenue departments and ex-
pended by the said departments for the payment of their
officers, and other purposes, without the supervision and
control of parliament. That for the security of the public
moneys, and accurate keeping of the public accounts, it is'
indispensable that the whole of the public income should,
without any deduction whatever, be paid into her Majesty's
`Exchequer, and that no portion of it should be issued
therefrom, on any plea or pretence, without the unction of '
parliament, as it was recommended by the commiu'uon, I
which consisted of members of this house, appointed by
the Crown in the year 1831.
Mr. Wuth—To call the attention of the house to the pre-
sent law of settlement, with a slew to i,.s total repeal, and
to a more equitable mode of assessing the rates fur the
relief of the poor.
Mr. lle we—To move the following resolutions:-1. That
each person should be taxed for the support of government
in proportion to his ability, and as that ability is measured
more accurately by the value of his property, under the pro-
teotion of the state, than by any other , t..indard, the tax, to
be equitable, should ceuy year be levied on thin value of the