The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-16 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PA KLIAMEN 1.

HOUSE OF LORI/S.—THURSDAY, Jules 15.
The LoaD CILINIMIELOII took his Peet at 6 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS,
SECOND RP.ADINCIS.—MiIIer' Estate; Marlborough College
Chapel; South Yerkehire, Dom:watesr, and Goole Railway Amendment
(emeneion to Penistatle anti *lteration of Lindwo
pu
rah meth); Cheater
and Holyheestead Railway (power to purcheae, he ); ma., uth,,,,y;
Menshr, Sheffield, and lAncolnahim Railway (junction with the
Midland hallway, via nameless, and branches therefrom); Man-
chester Willed, and Lincolnshire Missy (station approach at
Menehe'ster); Manettester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (eta-
lion at Sheffield and broach to the Sheffield Camel); Ma
can
South
Junction and Altrlncham Railway; (Word, Worceeter, and Wolver-
hampton Railway (No. I), Oncreame of cutout ; Vale of Neath Hell-
aw:LSPM'ewe eetrorac:rit;CalVehm"teirta= f. ;' .71.; ns.tr,`"iti w"„d,
wo-Aryf Sheliteld-alleet in Manchester): Kendal and Windermere
Railway Art Amendment; London, heighten, and South Coast
lall-
way I.rinelon-bririge and New-:nos elution.) ; (Word Paving;
Payne a relents (anima., meat In preverving segoublernattera);
THIRD REAM:SUS. - Karat Gaisaniissi hole Company; Battle-
Mktg. sod Holloway-road Act
Litt RepAeaN.CV.l • Ms.
VA
Lord PORTMAN, on presen•ing the petitions from Bland-
ford and ether places, complaining of the number of vagrant",
suggested that some means should be provided for their emi-
gration.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE thought it would be de-
sirable that boards of guardians should be able to provide
work fur such parties, which would no doubt he disagreeable
to them, and be in some measure a cure for the evil c
plained of. The whole subject wee under the consideration
of tho government, with a vi 'w to • new distribution of the
charge on parishes and unions in reference to this particular
matter.
After • few words from Lord Recleedale, Earl Fitzveilliam,
the Earl of Chichester, the Earl of Stradhroke, and Lord
Bieuruont, the matter dropped.
PRIVATE BILLS.
Lord MONTEAGLE said that two or three private bills
connected with railw.iys, the termini of which were at ports,
and which grave the companies the power of investing certain
sums of money in esteem-buats, bad piece el that house. He
thought their lordships ought carefully. to guard against at y
attempt at monopoly in the transrut,sion of the mails by
such steam-boats to foreign ports. Tho noble lord concluded
by putting a questiiin to the First Lord of the Admiralty,
which was not diet inct ly heard in the gallery.
The Earl of AUCKLAND said the Admiralty were pre•
pared, where companies provided ute ful packets for the con-
veyance of the mails, to ewer lot i contracts with them. The
more the Admiralty could be relieved from doing the Post-
office service, the better it would be for the proper adminis-
tration of the n,ival affairs of the country. It was a subject,
howevi r, which ought to he approached with great care.
Earl G RAN V I LLE said the railway commissioners had
communicated with a select committee of the other house on
the sufjett, and that committee wire about to make a
report, which would he betels their lordships in a few days.
After a few words from Lord WHAItSit'LIFFE,
The Earl of RODEN said that great caution ought to be
exercised in taking the Path( Rice communications with
our colonies and foreign countries out if the hands of the
Admiralty.
TILE RAILWAY COMMISSION.
Lord REDESDALE, pursuant to notice, inquired of the
Lord President the duties which the railway commissioners
were expected to perform, and the position in which they
were considered to stand in relation to her Majesty's govern-
ment It was • question of very great importance. We
had • board of superintendence of railways rendered so in-
s gnificant tha, hardly any notice of it was taken. In I/141
it was thought that there would be such a mass of tills,
that, unless some assistance was given to direct commit-
ters, great contWion and difficulty would arise. The
whole management of railweye devolved on the Board of
Trade ; and Earl Dalhousie, when at the head of the Board
of Trade, gave great attention to the subject. (Hear, hear.)
It was found, however, that reports of the Dieted of Trade
were frequently upset 1 y committees, and, so sensible was
the parliament at the co.d of the session of the evils which
had resulted from tuba state of things, that resolutions
on the su Ij. were moved in bib houses, and
a kill was introduced by the government. It was
considered desirable to give more consequence to •
hoard which shetilil he appointed specially to real with the
matter, and a bo drd wai therefore constituted, calk,' the
" railway hoard." It was intended that the board should
make a rep fa entry session on the subject, but they Two
rally felt reluctant in making a ri port whit o should lie up-
set by either house or by committees of either h time. He
did not think it desirable for :he country that matters should
remain as they were ; and he hail therefore thought it eh sire-
ble to ask the quesii an of which he had given notice. (Hear.)
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said the subject had
bet n hr ught fr 4 queb4 before the h' use the important
subject of carry log nn the railway business of the country,
The question whi.h the noble leril had put seemed to raise
two points-6rd, whether it wns i xpedient that the railway
business should he conducted a.d controlled by a public
honed ; and secondly. .what powers that board should have ?
The hoard itself end but tr en • principle of
economy, Ps original object hut riot lieen filly carriol °W.
It was, however, operating day by dey fur the public
benefit, and for the assistance of parliament. ( Hear,
bear) The noble lord meat be aware how very
numerous and important the functions of the board were ;
they embraced the in,pe ction of railways before they were
opened the subj. ct of the tip trains ; the disputes between
company and company; making repc.rts of colanial reilways;
and varions wher subjects which must naturally cline under
their cremes nice. Seven hundred mi es of railway had been
inspected by them and r ports d upon is the last year ; and
33U cases of accidents had Teen inquired hat°. Special re-
ports had been made by engineers acting under their autho-
rity, •ni aelmieablo euggestions h-al been made by those
engineer., width in meet instaneee had been reach y and
wilitnely acted upon by the . ompanies. (Hear, hear.)
Acts to parliament, on not lees than fifty different subjects
connected with railways had come under their coneiderutton. '
(Hear, c ar.) 1h" noble lord :skeet what authority the
board had ? It must be manifest to all who had obierved
their operatious that great moral weight was attached to
their decisions ; but he could not a.y that the
governmeir. ought In be li mild by title opinion on all
qn istions. (He-r, hear.) He was not prepared just now
boar I to state whether fresh powers would b given to the
or not; but that was a matter ,tor future coacideratime
The president and vice-pre-.ident of the tinted of Trade gave
their wisist tree to the railway board, and its operations were
of great lumelit to the public. ( Hear, hear.)
Lord REDEsDALE dill not think that any weight was
given to the reports of the Ina away Boned. If they save an
opinion, they were not prepared o support it in pediment,
and therefore their opinion was of little use. They appeared
, to be a board which had nut the courage to support it own
views.
Earl ORANVILLE did not know any opinion of the
board which had been overthrown by parliament. lie
thought the board might be made more useful, but it was by
no means on law now.
Alter a few weeds in explanation from Lord REDZSDAES,
the conversation drooled.
THE SPANISH CORRESPONDENCE.
The Marquis 01 LANSDOWNE, in mining that their
lordships should now adjourn, be peed to express his regret
that it was not then in his newer to lay on the table complete
copies of the late Spanish carresponili nee. lie trusted,
however, that to-morrow (this day) he should be enabled
to do to.
The Louse then adjourned at a quarter to seven o'clock.

HOUSE 1F COMMUNS.—THURSDAY, luse 15.
The Erg-inn took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PHIN'ATE BUisINESS.
SECOND READlNGS.—PhilantLropic S wiely Charity Estate RBI
lined.); Rawlims"or Hi.ll4ltll Hull Curacy) Estate Bill Lords).
eiNAlDEßElX—Abairdten Railway (eiditioual capi-
tal); rialtalaniaa R tilway (Is:tactic, connecting the t:lyelerstale Junr.
Om and Wishaw and (..Inters ltailatiy,, ; Inindet and .trbroath
Railway (Dundee Juni:Mtn, ; Dundee anti Perth Railway (Dundee
Jun.itint); LuntLai anti North We.ternlway (beonchen WWI en-
WM3.4 from Leamington, Ste.); Walsall Improvement and Cemetery
IN.. 2,; Windsor, Staines, and Soleil Weatern Railway Act (No. I)
1317 (Stough extension and deviations) (Nd. 2) ; Wishaw and Dullness
Railway (deviation, connecting branch, and improvement) ; White-
luiern *Junction Railway (extension, alteration, anti branches, eze.);
Volk, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (tireat North of Final...int,
eimency and flank pool Junction Railway, ;and litarUepool Disk and
Railway loading); Lill,.
ILEA UlNtiS. Glasgow, Pal•ley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr
ltai.ssay (rt vision of 111211/11U11 to, and shows en the tatsgow,
Paisley, Etlmarnock, and Ayr Railways) ; Loudon and South-Western
daiiwayeumpun)'s Act. Amendment, citendon, deviation, and new
s, kot; Nortit ststlordshirr Railway (,talth aim branch and approach
SIO POnglito3 Station); Ninth Sttlford-hlrc Railway (declaims at
WilanAtoui ; Newry and Enniskillen Railway (amendment of acts,
nut to uutliur lic arrangements w.th other companies); Bills.
PUBLIC hIJSINE,S.

PETITIONS.—fIy Mr. C. LUSIIINGTON, from two persons in
Westminster, in favour of the charter, also, a petition in favour of
pirli inentary retthal.—Scrjeant T.tLEOUItD, two petitions from
Jr:matte perfol niers, at the Haymarket and other thtutc 11, against
tore,gn performines. in England.--Sir T. 11111c1I, from Liverpool, in
favour of pndection to the colonlea.— Sir O. sTRICKLAND, SO leti.
:ions hum Preston, for reduction of national exsenditure, and paha.
nie. tau Reform.—Mr. MAS l'Elt3l.ol, (tom Um Directors of the
East tutu Company, for protection to Riot India sugar.—Mr. W. J.
ioN, 33 pettioe, (ruin Panto', thillimi, otel other places, for reline.
i,oll of lapendi,on• oil po.lictnentiry rtoorin. Mr. It. BERNP.I.LY,
3 tetition. troth thiss I, io favour orf ''ol ihtiornory ri form; I front
Mr. Webster, !ethic of the Ilaymarketllieutre, complaining or the
gauntry bring ov..rron by foreign druniotints.—Mr. K. SIYMEIt,
Irmo Lyme Reg.a, against any alteration of the Dame Laws..—Lord
'I. bk.). ftscK, tlel end pennons (planes not heard), in favour of pro-
. tortiou to the West India Co:tint:a—Mr. S. CRAW FORD, from Small-
midge, in favour of a Iceal Educational rate.—Mr. Dia Eli, from
Exeter, for parliamentary reform—Sir U. L. EVANS, from WPCs
niith.er, in lavour of the People's Charter.—Serjeant TALFOCRD,
from the Western Literary Itsditution, fur exemption front local rates.
Mr. EWART, from the London Mechanic. Institution against
a clause it the ',eremitic Sthietiis Bill. Mr. HUME, from
magistrates and town council of trebles, Linlithgow-slide (2), Perth
(2), Arbroath, Lincolnshire, shropthice, Sun. rtet.bire, Bath, Bridip
I venter (2 , Tauoton, Deptford, Stratford, Sonthininder, Dorking,
Richmond, Bermondsey, City of London, London, Wedminstur and
!viiinny (7), Notulogliani, Northamptonshire, Coventry, and York—
in a!) 32 petitions, in favour of the parliamentary reform con-
• templatcd on Mr. flume's resolutions, to be submitted on the loth
lastauit.
SE. OND READlNG.—Administration of Criminal Justice Bill.
COMMITTEE.—AppeaIs on Civil lit In (Dublin) Bill.
REPORT.— Commons' Incithure Bill.
THIRD RE.tDlNUS.—Adminietration of Justice (Nos. I and 2) ;
Prntectain of Justices from Vexatious Actions; Bills.
NOTICES OF AlOl lON.—VACANT ScAm.—Sir J. PAKINGTON,
on Tummy. to move the issue of the writs for Derby, and other place.,
Mr which the seats are now vacant, with the exception of Yarmouth
mil another.—tiltßAT INDIAN PINISMILAft RAILWAY.—Mr. BRIGHT,
to-morrow (this dot ), to put a situation to the President of the Board
04 Control, relative to the negucuitions now pmsling between the Mat
India Company and the Board of Control, and the Great Indian Pe.
uinsular Railway Company.
DUNDEE AND PERTH. RAILWAY (LEASE OF
DUNDEE AND ARBItOATII RAILWAY) DILL.
Mr. DUNCAN having moved the further consideration
of the report on this bill,
Mr. BERNAL objected to the provisions of the bill, as
being in contravention of the third report of the teleet Corns
isiticre OA railways, La it gave the company on undefined
power or 'twilit( limy not tamed.
Dlr. DUNCAN consented to postpone the bill to to-morrow
(ttis day),

WHITEHAVEN JUNCTION RAILWAY (EXTEN-
SION, ALTERATION, AND BRANCHES) BILL.
On the motion for the further conaidetetlon of the report
on this bill,
Mr. BERNAL pointed out that the bill contained lensing
powers which contravened the standing order No. 12G.
Mr. HILDYARD defended the bill, contending that the
order in question did not at all apply, as the select coin.
mittee had given special permiuion for the introduction of
the leasing clauses.
Trtearaciort was then received, and the bill ordered to be
eng

DEPARTURE OF TILE SPANISH. MINISTER.
Mr. BANK ES wished to know whether the departure of
the Spanish emb,uisadur from this country had been at the
instance of our governor. nt, or of his own; also, whether
any correspondence would be laid on the table of the house
with regard to him defott,ure ; also, any further corre-
spondence or papers relative to the dismissal of our ambas-
sador from Spain?
Lord J. RUSSELL—The dismissal of the Spanish am
haseadot from the court of her Mojeety has been the result of
a correspondence betw.en my noble friend the Secretary of
State for Fur. ign Affairs and the Spanish minister, and not
the result of a neat by his own government. (Rear. hear 1
My noble friend will lay ou the table of the house additional
papers, by command of her Majesty, relating to the dismissal
of Sir 11. Bulwer, as well as the dismissal of Senor Isturim
(Roar, hear.)