The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-30 00:00:00

After 'l'm words from the Marquis of CLLICHICAIMI
and Lord CASPIICLL, the motion was withdrawn, and their
lordships adjourned at half-past dz.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY, JAN. 29.
The SPEAK'S took the chair ahortly before four o'clock.
PRIVATE RUSINEns,
SECOND READlNOS.—lttrkenhead, WlCOMbire, NM Cheshire
Junction Railway (deviation of main line, its.); Birkenhead,
MI Menne Junction Antiwar, and Chester and Birkenhead
Railways A malmmatlon : Blackburn, barwen, anti Bolton Railway
Acts Amendment olive, liOne of hne fa the parishes of Rtackbul n amt
Bolton in tie: Moor, ; Minot and Exeter Railway (Taunton and
Ceetleeoree Brenehl ; Cheshire Stipendiary Chairman ; Direct Lot-
don and Portsmouth Railway; Dandalk and Ensist.illen Hail lay
Art Amendment; Gbegow, Paial,,y, Kilmarnock, and Ave Railway
;4tilasgow,
kl,ltonfric sad zrstivltiCaw,rylisl(;.ltai. ra;),(ll,ndeatG.irigo‘wi;
Railway (branches to }tan the West LOndon, Ilammeramith,
Great Wedern Railway (Berke aml Matte Amendment and branchin);
Great We-tern 'tallowy )floolches tathon, Stainee, fec.), iisotrada
and Bury St. Edmund's Railway (No. 11 ( Varsmuth Exteuelsm);
LITEMI Valley Itailwav Extennon, Lowestot Railway and Hurling
(Alteration at Reedhain) ; Mareteeter. Sheffield, and Limatachlre
Railways 10ation at Sheffield and Branch to the Shefßeld Canal);
North thaffordahire Railway (Alterations and Branches) ; North Star.
fo.dahire Railway (Churriet %alley and Trent Valley Junction) ; South
Eastern Radius. (Bid Kent and Dina Tunbridgel ; South Eastern
Railway (Croydon and Br poky Branches); South Eastern Railway
(Maidstone to Clue ~1 • South Eastern Railway (Strand to
Maidstone; ; south Eastern Railway (North Kent and Brick-
'sten,' Arms Junction) ; south Eastern Railway (North Kent Line);
Wakefield New Gas, Bills.
PUBLIC BUsINESA.
By Mr. Mese; from the Islands of sellly, to tome
of the ply:neat of legbEhoute dam by the State. —By 11r.
Latiouorees, (non the North Ridng of the county of Tipperary,
praying for impartial legialitim for Irelind, and the adoption of per.
• inancist measures for theallenatien of distress, as calming at the lee.
sent period in Ireland, in the emit of its reeurrenee.—By Mr. Polio
O'Betes, a similar petition from MarvAnrough.
sSSS)ND RE.IDINGS..--Chelara Pensioners, and Diatilliag foam
Roger, Bill.
THIRD READlNG.—Buckwheat, Ite., Importation Bill.
RETURNS ORDERED. Teb,seco— On the motioned' Dr. Rowers°
returns of the number of peunds weght of leaf tobacco, manufactured
tobacco, cigars, and muff gild duty upon quarterly, in the years 1341,
1845, and 1810, and up to the sth day of January, 1617 ; alms, the
From amount of duty renewedthemon. distinguishing England, Scot-
land, and Ireland, and the remectim ports of importation therein, ea
the total• of each qu irter and year. Of the several seisures wage,
sada the pro...muttons for breach of the Low. relating to tobacco,
the year ending the sth day of Jun.. 1547, distinguishing throe in Great
Britain from Bassein Ireland, speed, tag the places, where and naraesof
the pereoto protreuted, or front shwa the seizures were mode; the
quantities and kinds of gooksetusl; whether tine or imprionment
imposed ; whether fine paid, or pane suffer.l imprisonment; fur
what time nnprisoued. Or the minds, r of permits convicted for •
smuggling tobacco, spirits, tra, sick, mil for any other articles, and
the total number convicted, in the year ending the sth day of Jan.,
1847. Also, the number of persons who paid the penalties imposed ;
the number of compromises made; the number of persons committed
to prison; the number of ;tenons in prison for otfene s against the
revenue law, on the sth day or January, 1617. Accounts of the queue
rite of foreign man ufacturnt tob All) and snuff Imported
into tb- United Kingdom in each of the three yews
1811, Ist% and 1848; stating the quantity exported from the
bonded warehouses as merchandise to the linttsh colonies, and to
what colonic.; elm the quantity exported as ship stores in each
of these three year, Of the quantity of Itritash menufactored tobacco
exported as merchandise under drawlnek to the Bonin colonic", in
each of the these yen', 1814, 1815, and ISt 1 • and also, as account of
the quantity exported as ship stores in enirt( these three years: Of
the quantity of British at mufeetuted moff exported in each of the
three years, 1814, 184.1, and 1846. Return of the several artrures
made, and of the pnoeeuttons for breach of the lam, relating to
tobacco, itiacen the .sth day of January, lull, and the sth day of
January, 1117; distinguishing those in Great Britain from those in
Ireland; specifying the places where and names of the persona prose-
cuted, or from whom themicurcs were mode; the quantities:lntl l Inds
deco& wised; the precise nature of the canteen charged or fnr which
the seizures were made ; the remake of the examinations of the
good" by analyne or otheraise, where sewed for adulteration ; wise-
thee any and what Judicial proceedings were taken in each nor; the
result of. uch prose dings, whether convicted or otherwise; amount
of tine paid ..r Imprisonment offered; whether the goods seized were
cooderrietyl or restored.—Granosers is the .(rely- IS. Bowels°
also moved 6.r • return tithe number of boys who hare been received
into the army as drummers from the meioses union noel:homes in the
United Kingdom, year by year, from the year 1840, specify mg the
unions reepectively, down to the end of 1346.
NOTICE OF MOTION, Poor Belief (Ireland) MIL—Mr.
Waronosto on going into committee on the Poor Relief Bill, to move
an Instruction to fix a certain amount in the pound, leviable upon the
rates made by tie bonnie of guardians, which amount not to be ex-
ceeded, except by authority of parliament.
PRIVATE BILLS—COMMITTEE OF SELECTION.
On the motion of Mr. GREENE it was orderei, that it
be an instruction to the committee of selection not to appoint
the sitting of any committee on hills for town improvements,
markets and fairs, harbours and docks, cemeteries, gas works,
water works, or any bills for the amendment of acts for any
of the above purposes, before the Ist day of March next.
PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS.
Mr. lIL'ME called the attention of the house to the report
of the committee on private bills, and submitted the follow-
ing resolutions for the consideration and adoption of the
house "That public general acts should be prepared
for each of the several subjects of police and watching, of
water-works and sewage, of peeing, of improyement of towns
end regulation of building', etre( ts, and roads, tf markets
and fairs, of cemeteries, of bridges and ferries, of harbours,
docks, ports, piers, and quays, of canals, rivers, and naviga-
tion, as recommended in the report of the &elect committee
on private bah=, embodying, u far as possible, the sugges-
tions thereof." 2. " That the recommendation in that re-
port, as to the taxation of eats, be also adopted, and that a
proper taxing offizer should be appointed, and a scale of fees,
ite., be published by the Speakcr." 3. "That the taxing
officer shall present to the house at the commencement of
each session, an account of the total amount of the expenses
for promoting or opposing each bill, taxed and sanctioned by
him during the preceding session, distinguishing the amount
paid as fees on each bill to each of the houses of parliament,
the amount for witnesses, and other expenses, and for pro-
fessional services."
Sir G. GREY concurred in the general tenor of the re-
commendation of the committee, but before the house
pledged itself to the resolutions proposed by the hon. member,
he thought it desirable that it -hould be in possession of the
Consolidation Clauses Bills which were in preparation, and
which would be in his (Sir G. Grey's) hands in a few days.
Bills of so extensive a character as those contemplated by the
bon. member could hardly be brought into operation in the
present session, and therefore no real delay would be incurred
by the adoption of the course which he (Sir (3. Grey-) sug-
gested. (Hear, hear.) On the subject of the taxation of
costs, a separate hill ought to be prepared.
After a few words from Sir W. CLAY, inaudible in the

gaiie,
Mr.r HUDSON complained that the costs of applications
to parliament for private bills had been increased nearly six-
fold within the last few years.
Mr. HUME, after the statement of the right bon. bare
the Secretary for the Home Department, would be quite
content to leave the matter in his hands, and would there-
fore withdraw his motion.
Mr. GREENE said the fees payable to the house were
comparatively small, the great expenses, he might say
enormous exactions, being made out of doors by parties over
whom the house had at present but little control.
Lord 11. VANE was understood to complain of the enor-
mous charges exacted from the promoters of bills.
Dr. BOWRING was glad Mr. Greene bad referred to
the shameful exactions of the legal profes-ion' and hoped
some measure would be adopted to put an end to such a
system. Motion withdrawn.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
In answer to a question from Mr. FIRELLND, as to the
coarse of proceeding on Monday,
Lord J. RUSSELL said it was impossible for him to
know what course the debate might take, u he did not
know whether hon. gentlemen might choose to consider the
whole of the measures for Ireland of which he had given
an outline ; but for himself, he might say that he meant first
to move a bill to render valid certain proceedings which had
taken place under Mr. Labouchere'a letter, the discussion of
which might occupy the whole of the evening. As to two
other measures, after the second reading of that bill he in-
tended to proceed with a bill for the relief of the temporary
distress in Ireland; and next with a measure for the perma-
nent amendment of the poor law in Ireland.
THE SPANISH MARRIAGES.
In reply to a question from Mr. FINCH,
Lord PALMERSTON said he should have no objection
to produce certain papers forming port of a correspondence
between the French and British governments en the subject
of the Spanish marriages.
MEXICAN LETTERS OF MARQUE.
Mr. BARCLAY wished to draw the attention of the
noble lord, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to an adver-
tisement in the Miura on the Sch of January, stating that
the Mexican consul was ready to issue letters of marque
against the United States, and offering to naturalize English-
men so as to enable them to avail themselves of such letters
of marque. He wished to knew what steps the noble lord
kad taken to prevent the revival of such an atrocious pro.
ending ? The French government bad declared that any
French subjects who made use of letters of marque issued by
the Mexican government would forfeit their quality, and be
treated as pirates.
Lord PALMERSTON said the advertisement in question I
was not issued by the Mexican consul, but by some expert
gunmaker on Tower-hill, who stated that at his shop a copy
of such letters of marque might be seen. He (Lord
Palmerston) had ascertained from the Mexican minister that
no
one in this country was authorised to issue such letter of
marque, and bad referred a communication on the subject
from Gen. Mendoza, to the Queen's Advocate for Iris opia.
He believed the British government had no power to declare
that any British subjects abroad should be treated as pirates,
unless they were found guilty of an act which, by the law of
nations, would be piracy.
DISTRESS IN SCOTLAND.
Mr. F. DUNDAS wished to know whether the govern-
meat contemplated establishing any general system of
relief in Scotland ?
Sir G. GREY said the means which the government
had availed themselves of in Scotland for mitigating the
distress of the people had been by making advances under
the drainage act of lest session, which had come most exten-
sively in aid. They had also placed two frigates os the
coast as depots for the sale of food. Grants had also
been made to meet local subscription.; and he hoped by the
repetition of such means the severity of the calamity in Soot
land might be mitigated, without the necessity of establish-
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