The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-04 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuaaDaY, 'Via 3.
The Luso Cs
114 VtOIII.LOSI tookINDIA) him seat at lye o'clock.
11. KIAOKS ( BILL.
Lord DIIOUO:ITON moved the committee on this bill.
The Earl of ItLLENBOKOUGH said it was of the
Wood beeportmoe that hoilities should be !riven fee eon-
gtosism isarrity, amid establishing • system of registration
&Wk. but the prosest bill woo set at all suited to the
der.a moiety is -India. sad wee most defective in its aim-
INISIMm Thu alinis which made it imperative to molds
hgesly-ese days is a place bellore marriage. would aware
E11ie1....t il=ii.rte.h
iy:zdedt.ho bill
rted itweeild eerily =
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Cissiwirc the opportusitise whisk di Nile bird bed
leberomi sir acquainted with the stole of umkoly la
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it cue a matter of sgesiahmest to him OM be
hive pumil seek a memsre.
Lad LIKOWIITON isle segless le reeetarldit
NM he the hopriemeared et di MIL He it had
idler go thresh esnatiftipe Area, is that it
might be printed, aid this llhe sells seri theesbe it had
letter be set reed to • NOW stellisliatOlemssli nisi object
111 that maw being a
The Ear! e ELLIMILOUGH sessiseeed. sod the
hell Ws west thrones sommlaradramml.
CO U N 1' If 00011111 SION BILL.
Lewd lIROUWIAII mooed the wend soft et this
MIL He had stated the Wore ef the bill ha. 'boa he
lieboloood it, sod be seed oily rozzarg isisiVirsz
Ile *lnfer so the Canty Osorts Y
is that altinatrly there edged • lassies at apieaft.
The Load's didriet bipedm es
lased oi*
bees of gee sat, an lb sable hind
is the wietheek wield Moist his attention to the metro-
Cuwith it view to the esesehisties of the two salmis(
of liatiompler god lisisheasy. This was a favourite
EWES with tit^ late -Lard Collashes. The details of the
ere bed bees very anderially Improved: and he pro-
f' that the hill 'beta be read a second any pro final,
be assasitted at the ant illsOing of the hones, when
mead side the emsoilmetto tibia be had intodoced
It. The noble sad locoed boa the. alluded to the &d-
-isobliges of usometime% sod digest of %Iv. criminal law,
nod oareinoil himself dreogly in favour of the appoint-
Nest et a public priosesisr.
The hill wt. then read a wean time.
CIIt:ItCH DULLDINO ACT ANIENDIIRST BILL.
Os the rnot:u i of the Earl of Catmint this bill was read
a third time and passed,
DUCHY or LANCASTER BILL.
Os the sootiest of the Earl of CAILIIIJI the bill was read
*third time mad pomed.
Their lordships then adjesrsol at Is o'clock.

MOUSR OF COMMONS.—Tozsmr. Just 3.
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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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ToaKisaew—lloalsa 4.10. S. 10s.

LONDON, lIRDNESDAY, JUNE 4.

THE committee of the National Society, having,
we suppose, ascertained that the motion they in-
headed to propose at the meeting to-day would not
satisfy any considerable party in the society, have
withdrawn it ; issuing in its stead a statement which
embodies its substance, but deprecates all discus-
sion on the subject, as " calculated to embarrass the
operations and to impcdo the efficiency of the
illociety."
On sack a document the first inquiry that sug-
gests itself is, who constitutes the committee, and
what authority ought to be paid to its recommends-
lions In theory the committee consists of the
bishops and a considerable number of lay peers and
gentlemen of groat influence and high respectability,
• large majniity of whom there is every reason to
hope is individually opposed to the extreme
.preten•
ions advanced on behalf of the National Society by
Mr. 0. A. I)csisots and his friends. But this is the
en •ttee in theory only ;in practice it consists only
of thaw who attend and act thereon ; the gnat pro-
portion of names placed on the list are show
saints only ; a majority, both of bishops and of Wy-
ss n, rarely, if ever attend; and it becomes difficult
ao constitute a quorum to transact business, and the
result is, that the committee is really in the hands of
a few active busy members of the tractarian party,
sad they infused
. have into the society a policy
srhielt it 1.4 generally understood its Prisideut, the
Archbishop of CAN ntionntY, does not heartily and
cordially approve of. To the recommendations of
sloth a body, it is not possible then to pay very great

rotpeet.
Fur two years successively the committee allowed,
without interference, remonstrance, or any depreca-
tion of discussion, Mr. A. Ihistitox to move and
tarry a resolution which het libelled the policy of
the )'rivy Council as "inimical to the education of
the poor in the doctrines of the established church."
And now, when a sense of truth, of honesty, and of
the interests of the poor, has roused a great part. as
we believe by far the greater part of its sub-
ribers, to take steps. to disassociate the society from
this cc
is on the State, and
the (time's government, this committee, becoming
exceedingly sensitive to the inconvenience of debate.
interferes, and requests all parties to abstain from
&Miler discussion and controversy.
Sir JOHN Psninuron, Mr. CHILDERS, and their
friends, will be west if they yield to any such
request, except, indeed, upon terms. For in what
position would their implicit and unconditional emu-
pli.ince leave the society? It would leave Mr.
Q. A. Prsatinix's resolutions as its avowed and
repeated opinions ; as the directions of the sub
. scribers to the committee ; as the policy of
• great incorporation with the QUEEN at
its bend. This, we submit, is quite intolerable.
To entitle the committee to ask fur silence, it ought
lest of all to be prepared to ask the meeting to erase
the offensive and false resolution adopted at the two
preceding annivenearies from its records. To be
nil lit, as long as it remains themis, in reality, to re-
peat and confirm the opinion twice expressed. If
the committee be sincere and earnest in their desire
to restore pew to the society they must concede this
point at least; otherwise the restoration of peace is
not possible.
But even this concession ought not in itself to in-
duce Sir lons PAM/ft/TON and Mr. CHILDER.4 to
abandon the advantages which the present move-
ment has placed in their hands. They have • right
to require that their views shall be more proud-
nmitly represented to the committee of the Na-
ti ilia Society than they now are : and that the
vacancies to be to-morrow supplied in the committee
tilled up with tho names of men of
icoderation and sobriety of opinion, than or It
t eh
persons as, for instance, Aredescon HARMON.
The very step just taken by the committee is, for all
practical purposes, an admission that success was
li'.ely to attend Sir 1011/4 PAKINOTON'S motion; and
that motion ought not, under such circumstances, to
be abandoned, unless the fruits of its 'lumen, if it be
persevered in, be eqjoyetl.
lit dealing with such questions as this, it has ever
been the
.practice of the high church, and particularly
of the episcopal party, to avoid contest and collisions;
for, by averting them, they, and they only, are
sure to gain, and their opponents have too frequently
yielded to the voices of prelatical charmers. We are
free to confess we have no sympathy with this weak-
' " sat stake in thi. contra-
temporising cotnrwo-
''..ns ; and we look

policy which, for the
accustom* men's minds to
:.nvielvc. and disastrous in
encouragement Isms given
that encouragement
my of church synods.
iso..* was encourawf.d
the false posi•,ion
seeks to reaeue it.
imp oliey of triflirl with
,be hoped that. Sir Jour
"144 the committees
f the Ne".ional Society
dis►nrl',ed its tranquil-
'lo 90 as long as it is
'

Leisladen for the relief of
I attempts of the kind Luce
ed, for they hare induced
assisted to abandon that
more for them than all

pl!I , ......
nem; we regard the matter; at eta
very as far too important fur tem
muses or comfortable aceummodutie
with distaste on that Fabian poll
sake of a little tranquillity. accustot
principles pernicious in thenvielte+
I their effects. It was thus eneuural
to tractarianism; it is the. th
I is heing bestowed on the theory
and it was thus Mr. U. A. DENIte
to place the National Society in 1
front which Sir Joan PAWINOTO%
II Oti the ground, then, of the impot
1. great principles. it is much tube h
PAKINGTOM will altogether resis
entreaty, and take the sense of th
Oil the great question that has dim
lit', and that will continue to do
t *Bowed to remain in its present s
1
We. have little faith in legisia
agricultural distress. All attenr
failed, and worse than failed, foi
i the classes intended to be assist
1 i self-reliessoe which can do mor
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