The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-24 00:00:00

OATH OF ABJURATION BILL.

On the motion a Yr. Y. Z3l3l;;;:theitTuTis went Int)
eoniasi,tee on this bill. . .

13ir F. TIIESIGER moved bis aessedueest, by wb'cb bo
propeed to remodel tb. omit, so se to S&LCa oil the clauses
that bed become obsolete or steins, but retaining the (tr•
usulaw; kb preven,ed a J,w from si tt too in permanent.

This amendment was onward by Mr GIBBON, and ulti.
safely withorawn by Sir F. Timaatuau
An amendment, proposed by Li iro J RUSSELL, mow
siding the old firm of affirmatioa—" Oa the true t.ith of a
Chrfitian," and substituting di wo.cis So help me God,"
and thus throwing pen the legislature to members of every
faith, underwent anise discuss on. . .

Mr. NIMES nd Mr. NZWDEOLTE 'mewed their onpo•
Gillen tau et opotel woich they deoleted would atchilattanise
the lestiolarsre._

Mr. ROEBUCK supported the amendment.
After a chat aeterisi.o sp.. cis from Mr. DRUMMOND,
Lord PALM ERS lON said be should g vs hie support to
the motion of his n..ble friend (L ied J. R not that
he thought the ittention of the arc if 1701 would have the
tightest effect in eddies to the force of the law, for toe
eattlemeat of the crown rested on a much snoopier founds
thin then the taking of any oath at the table of that house.
Neverthi less be could not bat think that as the re 'tense to
the act had theretofore been insetted in the osth It ought to
betart of the engagement taken. With regard to the ob.
jectipas urged that this was indirectly removing an obstacle
to the introduction of Jews to parliament, be replied that
the obits-ale wh.ch prevented them from taking their seats
is that house had been no less incidental., latroduced He
quite concurred in the argument which had to-u put for-
ward, that if thine word', " on the true faith of a Christian,"
were ceeeisary, they ought to be added to the o. her
oaths as well as to the oath then under consider-
ation. The oa•li of allegisoce was a much mote
impotheat oath than was the one under sonsideratfoa, sea
yet to that these words were aot aided. Bo fey from think-
ing that it was an objection to this amendment that it would
allow Jews to take their seats there, he semeidered It a
reason in its favour. The hoe. and leased gentleman said
that the question ought to be dl.tiaetly taieed. That might
very well be done by him if he wished to add to the words
of this dense the disputed word*, "on Us true faith of a
Christian." He very cordially arsented to the motion Ohio
noble Plead.

Mr. NAPIER thought its would be more conveaieat to
take the di•cvston upon this got-snots on the third reading
He thertfore suggested that the clause should be allowed t 7
pats.
The dame wan thus agreed to.
Lord J. RUSSELL moved to iarert the folowleg eau's: '
Every perms permitted by the said eel of his late Majesty King
WiPism the Fourth, to snake hie affirmation instead of the oath of
abjuration seal assurance shell, Is lieu of the o .th hereby substituted,
and of the affirmation oontained In the lut•mentloned set snake his
solemn afflrmatiou in the following words, that is to my: "I, S. th.
being ans of the people called Quake re (or one of the penmaidos of
the people celled Quarts, or of the United ii.ethres milled Mars.
Blue, se toe can may be), do solemnly pr• alit that I will be Moe
sad faithful t e the eaceea•ion of the Crown. which tun:eat= by an
set intituled 'An set for the further limits Mn of the Crows, and the
better securing of the rights and liberties of the subject,' Is andemods
limited to the Princes. Sophia, Eleetress end Duehres Dowager of
Hanover, and the heirs of bar body, being rotatable'

Agreed to.
The holm then resumed.
The Police (Counties and Boroughs) Bill was considered
as emended M C4Mll3illtf, and some deems added.
Tne Annuities (No. 2) Bill was mad a voind
The r.rler for the second reeding of the Poor Law
Amendment Bill wee discharged, and a new measure
brought in and Lead a first time, on the motion of Mr.
Boum!' . _

To. thartd Jury Astesereents (Ireland) 8.1 l was passed
through coostaittes, altar a pro.rsctol dtscussioa on Foists
of detail. . . .

Tao koala restuntd, and adjourned at half•put ow
o'clock.

PERILS OF TUE CIVIL SERVICE.—On the 6th inst.,
Mr. Muhl, of the Inland Revenue Department, Notting-
ham, having suspected that illicit practices were carried ow
in the neighbourhood in which he resided, o►tained a much
•arrant, and with Serrault Fade, of the polies (ace, visited
the suspected proms s. After a little difficulty th-y oh-
twined almitteau, but moils (mod themselves in darkness,
for every aperture admitting light was stopped up. How-
ever, the sisal odour wising from en illicit distwory loon
made itself kootro to thessues of Mechi, and the 'etyma wee
shout lighting his lantern when he received • heavy blow
from a bludgeon, which made ►im retreat rather hastily,
sot wishing to be dealt with so roughly—thereby leaving
Muhl to shift for ftionelf, who f ad to eneousiter too Inge-
men, and after being bastes dreadfully was decoyed to a
trap door placed ready to admit him to a dungeon below,
•here he teniaieed without being :gleamed •ntil the seat
day, when the sergeant and othen tame to his assistasee in
toosequeee of hi. beteg esiseieg. Os searching the pre-
mises they found the remains of *bat appeared to have beat
• stdl recently worked, the Attlee, of which had no doubt
been removed during the time litchi was lodged in durum
vile. This is the mould time this indefatigable officer ham
been confined vibes= hie discoveries. Some 'heft Oswego
be was fastened is a similar place, bat was accidentally . s-
eemed bye woman, who oommunisated with Mr. Waterer,
• brother officer, os buries his entreaties; but is this in
stelace the key of as understood collar wee Isadore r. timely
turned by Mr. Ash well, his amistant.—Cieil Service Ornate
NARROW ESCAPE FllOll POISON.—A few works
sse saw was •srrsted in our colonise of • man sadder as
▪ g which he found floating in the river Asses, so act that
nearly sat him his life, as the egg bad been impreguated
with stryihnine for the purpo e of killing carries crow.
Again, within the last t w days • whole family, residiagos
• mall firs on an estate is the vie.nity of Dumfries, made
a sorrow escape from poison. It appears that the child's*,
os their way home from schco' through the fields, fousd a
dead here lying at a hedge side, which they carried home
es a grand crag. As the animal appeared to have been
newly killed, it woe skinned, and, made ready for
soap; bet neat foreaooa the 4:hadn't's mother observed
something peculiar is the al pearance of the meat,
and, is place of potting It is the pot, coasigsed
it to the duoghill. Shortly after this the farm dog died,
but so suspicions were entertained ow this account. Neat
day, however, • mu called at the bosses to pnrebase a seek
of potatoes, actimaipaand by a dog; during the few anion*
which *lewd before he we. supplied, ha dog took ill sod
died almost immediately, sod it was then di-co feted t►at
he had eaten • part of the rejec ad bare. It appears, upon
Inquiry, that the gamekeeper hag bee■ is the habit, daring
the winter, of potties that terrible poison strychnine tote
the ladies of sewls-killed hares and rabbi•. (by which the
frees penetrates to every put of the animal), and septets,
them in various plume for tie purpose of destroying curios
crows; and there can be no reasonable doubt estertalsed
that the hare already mentioned hid been so treated. As
bare-soup is by no soups u common dish in a small far-
mer's family the prob &Imlay is, that had the animal been
'oohed, the lives of all the howhold would have fallen a
seerifica. The preservation of gems Is the object for which
lowlifes are destroyed, and it is quite istoleroble that, i.
du to have a few sates orris. of birds on en estate, tie
lives of hasten beings, or *Tea of orient doge, should be
endaniered.—Dwnsfrise Cliobvier.
At a meeting of the Military and Naval United
6 raise Club, Datilinien Siamese, the Maryann( Westmeath
• is the choir, the fatiewleg Weft codlings of • Dragoon Heil-
Meet were *opened trees the ebab-2 majors, 8 captain, 2
Witte( ants, sod 1 dedit. The slumbers were 60 far
aka, sail for Maimieg.—Lieseriat Chrs,s cob.

And to tn. widow. Bad orp. Goa ..I
Cob, el. annually CU AM kr ask &lid Sl6
With c'ere" tea'
„ AI 111
pnAng ... 4. 14
1,9 n
. rank., la ms,
i c.aZ. t,7 n If
„.the., .I flatements " fin le
ee w
—'• l. EINIOS to 27 I I
n
Them alltreanem ells to the widows and orphans of
&Mort almve the rank of major a mum equal to tear-thirds
of the ordinary pennon, and t i the whom of the ordinary
compaanonsta slioaratee, and to the widows and orphans of
relren below that rank, a sum equal to three-fourths of the
ordinary pension, and to the whom of the ordinary enipm-
stomata miasmic,.
...._

Where no pension is grsoted, the allowance from the
Pstrotio Fend to be in 6i:cordate* with the scale final by
the Queen's regulatiook
All silowsocer are subject to the conditions cottained in
the royal commission, sou the sel,pt,osol the two preceding
te.les w.ll elated ea icon's*. of abort 12,0001. per mania la
the expenditure of the fund.

Tilo2o ire at pntost ie receipt of allowance. :
Orpheus who hare
Willows. Children. Wet both triune.

Officers

ion.aenmlrioned °Scars
and prima., Re.

TBE NATIONAL SUNDAY LEAGUE.
_ THE BANDS IN IHE PARKS.

A densely crowded and enthusiastic meeting was
held last evening in St. Martin's Hal ; Sir J. V. Sitizziv,
Batt.' M.P , in the chair. On the p' .tf rm were O. v. Sir De
Lee, Evans, M.P., ffr Joe.hus Welmaley, M.P ' Mr. Sigel,
11l P., W. A.Wilkinson,M.P., Mr B. Ltingley,Mr. Duthie,
chairman of the levee; & The vet. ran general and Sir
Joshua Walmsley were received with deaf, wag agylause.
The CH•IRMAN. in °period the ; r to.edlnge, sairthat the
Babb as could be unproved oh their giound, as it wee
really only their aim to give effect to the original obirct
of the Selobath. Last year the band played in
Kenning on/ardent and no agitation was rattled until
the music was eataded to the lea aristocratic ;Ark.. Sir
Benjemis Hell bore witness to the swell viaduct of the
pai re, and the magistrates of the distrie• of Viet iris-park
stared ttat they lied no polio -cues reitultirg trim those
Sunday sa'herinp. lie feared until the ballot was intro-
duced they would be be iten on he.. question in the
Commons from their opponent.' extreme. organisation.
Prime ministers are weak vessels, and do not like to be in a
mini r.ty. The first persmiage in the reelm wee in
of the view., she was not to be inetruered in her religious
duties by B ball, and it was incumbent on the people
to stand by their sovereign in the p minion she is placed in
by their conduct. The chairman c.mcluded by callieg on
the people to assemble nest Sunday at the usual hour in the
parks, and could promise, if they went with goid conduct
and reto:ution, that they would have the b Inas, and any
one who interfered with them wou.d have the responsibility
of any disturtanc,.
Mr. Sinci, is moving the first resolution, ststed that the
Sabbetb fiction wa. only two centuries oN, and Luther Lim.
sell invited the psuple to t sem and sea g ov the Sanday.
Been la whale New Mislead it was unknown. It wee
confined so this country. K. pointed to the incossistr nay
of the Sahbatarians is making their grooms and lbel,lllllth
WOOL on Sunday. The first ri solution stated tiaras San
der performance in the parks was calculated to promote
heath, lisppinew, and at rally, is accordance with the
Christian religion and the feeling of the great body of the
per pl., who view with indignation this stoppage of an in-
nottent and utietis source of enjoyment.
The resolution, sicende.l Mr.CLanis,was unanimously
adopted. - . .

Cf. no ral Sir Die L. Homes, PCP , la aide( ming • few
writs t t the meeting, acid that th-s resent infringement of
the :leas of the p-ople was really oo proof of tea boasted
• freedom of the country. is justice to cis Scotch members
to should sty that many of teem denied to tiro try know-
. lodge of the repthted interference with the Premier, who
• wee, relieve, only erpreheneiv: on the eut,ject.
Ms. D'lrrsociza moved the second r.solution, " That
to g to socialite •sprierann to our Meting, sod to give the
moister proof of it, we all .rd our heavy co-operation to
the metropolitan consumes formed to carry wt public dia-
-1 mission on the su.j c.."
The reso:ution, secoaded by Mr. "ANGLE; was
adopted.
Sir JOIHU• W•I3ISLET, M.P., gave the S•bbiterians
credit for sinceri y, but ordered that they did not set up to
vele professions. Tht spiritual wants en the people were
Retrieved, for iastanc,, end not one in ten men in London
attended public worabio. Tee present was a great tomtits-
Usual WU, for all classes. Not a Sunday bed Oared
without Ms attending these I or:waiter:es in the parks with
his wife and children, and nothing eerie occurred to bring a
blush to their cheeks. He was glad of this agitation, as it
would arooser the people to • geese of their drstradtd poli-
tical condition, and they would be now *ware that wittiest-
um ballot they wen not tepreeeated io parliament.
A memorial to her was proposed by Mr. Gsoaos,
and 'waded by Mr. Cottniv, and the Wain, &throe
and enthasieetie throughout, broke up withal vote of daubs
to the Onalf•113. . s •• •

VACANCIES. APPOINTMENTS. AND Palermo;
TIONS IN THE VII. IL SERPJCL

The Queen'. Household.—A chaplaincy in oraglary
his become vaunt by the death of Bee Sir Peers,
Ferrari, Bart.
Coloaial Department.—The go nnnnn ritip if Jamaica bah
beet me vacant by toe promotion of Sir Bulky Beady.. .
Woods and Forests—The rasser.bip• otitis idtileadliet
at WlOO, r has became recent by the demie tf Lorcastal-
phasFimeluencie.
Toe Baud of Trade.—A staler clerkship -bat been rei-
&red recant by the death of Mr. Cbarke A. O. Shies. •
Inland Revenue Deputes., (Sider. aik. Taus Frisch).
—Mr. James Chamber,ein, of y , inspector, bu
tired. Mr. Jobe Lee, of Birnainehkee, itemiser' orprnotai'
from a saneyoeseip to an iospect. rship. Mr. Benjamin Celt
den her bees trattted iron Leeds:te Brownwham. Mr:
Robert Herriion has beta prisat.toultruin Metet.to lamb,
lie. Samuel Boon has been sroitetrii fresh Newark tO
Beth. Mr. J F. Harley nas bees prasieted bon Bodnar
to Newark. Mr. Beettard Pearce Imam s% promoted. Thom I
iialeawarth to Bodiaia. (Ceetoms)..Tlir. John B: Cruse
haa hem appointed a alma to the Loatioom in Leiden
Mr. John B. Gray ham bees annotate% . clerk for genera
Mosinee. is Leaden. Mr. W Runt las been apporatert s'.
clerk in the Long-ionm isLootm. its Maim MeOeintsi

rot toss bees promoted from first class of searchers AD be.
leadies-serrepor 01 the third class in Landoll. Idi.7obs
W. DAM bee been appointed from th,rd class soperisteed.-
ins lockers m be a gauger of ;ha siath class is Losdoer
D. Dedgeos bee been prom nod lrom comptroller et Goole
,o be camptoller at Sligo, vice lir Hiagicroe, 'spume's.
sled. Mr. I. M. Ni,bett bss bees rommed treatises",
troller s, Lleselly to be isomptroller at Goole.
Rut lediet—Sergeos 0 N. Ogilvie, of the Bombs,
Medical Zsteolistaisist, he; be.. st poiot.cl importer or
gaols *ad dispensaries is the proiriese of Code. Oaptsis
W. B. Campbell, 28th Nedra. N. I.,bee hues appoisted
wooed 'mists* to the resident et yderabsd. Astistest
Burgeon J. C. L. Bond, of the Madras listablishisede..bn
be.. appointed civil surgeon at Idoslmeis.
Lase, oflicietisi commissioner, Trens•Sethj State•. hes
bon coeflrmed Is the acting sppoistmest.—Carif &rhea
(bootie.

SHIPPING 1111TUNN8.—A series of rearms, Moved
for by Mr. lethal% palatine to sh,pping, have been based,
from which it spleen that the smart sad tonnage of
nide, vessels regulated at the ports of Greet Britain and
Ireland. incaudies de Isle of Man and the Channel Islands,
on the 314 Derrembre tau, was 24,274, with a tossege of
3,978,699. Of steam Teasels there were 1,674, with a ton.
nage t f 380,635. The number of vemele that were built and
registered in the Used Kiegrion daring the year was 866
sallies 'owls, 214,994; sod 242 'teem v. vela, 108,210 tee-
nage. 2.060 "mm 18,413,966 %abseil', were cold or trent-
(erred tiering the likeperuel. Th, re were sr. eked during
lb* Get year 474 miles vessels, 93,161 'oesege, and 12
slams vessels, with 2,646 tonnage, 94 sallies 'easels, 6,121
tosses', and 20 steam mewls, 1,908 tonnage, were broken
up. The solonlal bulk vessels registered in the United
Merles' durlsg the yer was 34, with 21,177 tensile., sad
'9l foreign bails, with 94,437 lessees. Tee somber of ships
employed Is the trade of the United Kingdom that entered
lower,* Including their repeated voyages, were 22,787
Brush, with a tosser of 6,270.792, and 18,193 fore•gn,
3,680,447 tortuous. Time deafen outward" 23,095 British
Tessols, 6,648,940 tossing', sad 19,602 foreign, of 3,889,291
Waage.