The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-01 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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HOUSE OF CONIMONS.—(THIS DAY.)
The Stuatut took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock.
PETITIONS.
Mr. 11AZLEY presented a petition from the merehanla
of Calcutta, praylag for ea Improved guarantied of India.
Numerous peaches ware presented from various pans of
the country against the abolition of chunk rates.
CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS.
Mr. E. JAMES gave notice that on the ossend
reading of the bill for unending the Corrupt Practit
Acta, he should move, ran amandamat, the appointment of
• select committee to inquire into the of those sots,
and report ups such alteranons ha tie law of elections en
they might deem to be nromeary.
APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES BILL.
Mr. u•SI ARON moved the mooed reedier of this bill,
which, with one or two exospliose, wee ysatiotl with a bill
the bowie had adopted in a former mdse. The principal
difference was cordbasd to the alteration of one of the clauses,
whereby the Crown was precluded from appealing In oases
where the accused was acquitted. The necessity for a Court
of Criminal Appeal was admitted by most of the judges 1
and legal authorities of the day. The presoak
system of appeal to the Home-oaks was tar from
itaiefaermy. Au immix:. or =jest Terd,ct Moeda be
maw the subject of appeal to a properly-constituted legal
tribunal, and he repeated that was Übe opinion of our most
eminent jurists. The :notices for a new trial
to the admiatetratice of jmuma In maga& as In civil mom.
lu fact the absence of such • right of appeal was the may
rsomikag blot upon the 'dottiest:slam of our Mabel kaw.
sad he hoped the home would wipe it out by prig
thi blll.

'MART seconded the motion, believing that h
was highly derirsbis that all right of appeal on =non ad
hot as well es law should be given is anemias! cam. He
tkoranikly wind with the principle of the bill, bat Wlt
yessed s slosoil reading be would suggest that it should
adierwords be rehrred to a select cominittes
Itir 0. C. LZW IS said the .6 of of the bill would be to
shoe the whole operation of the criodnal law. and the import-
ances' the anon could sot think", be well overrated. The
right of *Mho +, so tar from being in farce of aiming I ap-
folastrersther 11/1111Did at, while the tiodsocy d cricatool
la civilised cowries were trial by jury prevailed
was dirt cily oppoelto to the counts proNoad by AM bOl.
The right bon. gentleman coat .aded at some length that
there was ao practical grievant,' telling for the
bill, because although wrongful acquittals might be
frequent, a wrongful conviction was a rare oticamenos
and that being so, he had so alternative bat is as x
the motion with • aspative.
[ rho debate wee preosediai whin our repot MR.]

OPPOSITION TO Xilltl4oll WI 171 A DZOIASED
WIPE'S ILSTEJ.-/THII D 47,1

This afternoon • public meeting of persons opposed
to welege with s deesseed wife's/Aster wee hid at WlllWs-
mow, St. Jaeteie ; the Delis of Mmu.soaotrom prodding.
Amost those present WWI the Bishops of St Itavkl's sad 01.
ford, Vice- Chaseellor Wood, Hr. Beresford Hops, the Demo
of Weetmlneesr, Arohdeack • Deeds*, the Rev. Dr. Irmo,
the Rev. Mr. Randolph, the Rev. B. Asebett, the Rev. N.

The lithowtag watelatiees wan eirmeelly adephed :
al. That this rest iag is coaviscati that ay alteration c 4
the instriage law which should permit marriage with a olds
*Mr or aay other perm withia the darer sew prohibited,
would be frawrit with raw danger aid fajta, M religiae,
varelliy, sal •rUy Me."

11. "finials meeting madders the Yanks* Lew De-
lmar Aimee Yam satiny at the yapped et all permute den-
rous of sprang Mae threallead cheapen the marriage law."
" 3. TIM this =SW preaders he see tie beet ardearosre
to penmen the signaaresed preenetallonef the Mowing peo
titian to both house at parliament To the right honour-
able the lords spirited sad temporal el the nand kingdom
of Great Britain and boned in peritoneal seenabbod,—The
humble petition of the undersigned shows* that year peti-
tioners view with alarm the attempts which ham beta so
perseveringly made to bring about • change in the low of
wartime. Year petitioners therefore humbly prey your
right honourable house not to peas any bill that has be its
object the legalising etroarriage within the degrees now pro-
hibited by law,' "

On the second readiug of the Loudon Corporation
Bill Ayrton will move, " that tt be referred to a select
committee, with Inatructions to inquire into and report apes
the charges and taxes on the metropolis, and tha expedient*
of constituting the metropolis a county td itmlf, for all per,
poses of loos& sienesentest, and for the sheatieeretkin of
justice."

The 000duot of the rev. clergymen who under-
took the duty of ezemieleg for the wpm of lawilicatios
sad burial tome 230 bodies of the 600 left is the Royal
Charter has been the theme of universal praise. It ha r been
thought that they &NO twelve ease moes subetantial
minieoeooa of their kludeess the the owe acprenden of
grateful hells.. and Kr. H. S. Phrase, Kr. IL H. Sotheby.
sad Mr. Arthur Risk (the letter of whom del, witnessed
awing a period debt weeks, the wareeentleg wartime of the
rev. grodersee) have salted others to rein the., Is preesat-
lag to the two oWrgyerru a puns, for the parson of repay-
Wg the soma cost their sawn' sad well-fulilled dudes key
reed.

- The iron-makera in Scotland met on Moeda), and
agrotd to blow au .11 farmer to-day (Wedassday), mans
the ores resume work at the Gov.& Weeks, whom they have
struck for dd. salts par day.

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THE COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH FRAHM—A
lallaWOO• and influential meeting of ribbon nmesheterers
was belt at St. Mary's Hall, Coventry . am Iliset, whim It
wee remind sem lamely to appolat admitted.. preseed
to Lossil.m. to reemeernite Mame the eemesendel
treaty with France. The Chamber of Csmmmee Modems.
ogled the
dgedprogeerd treaty, sad km eggeisted • oommithe ell
Ile e.
ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEOII.—oA a asstise
of the mentors of the charity woe hiWsolopileg Mr
limiantin Webster la the chair, for the einetioe Warms
sale mil see female manliest' epee the feeds. The
report 'Wed that the etemittee, helms that there were
whom lbs secoritoes ambers of the preemies nosy
who required 'immediate relief, rot power from a special
ineatiett to afford theme the a... Warms required, Miro
mailbag for the completi,to of the College haildispe,
eastedicaly 'bey caned • teaming for the electioe of three
hash prosiest"' oat of • list of sit approved eaatildatee.
Mote thei• is. of the ladies elected, the youogeet of them,
evil @ivy twe, bed died, and It was sow determined to ell
the varsity se emeeleepd, mid sled three other pmalessie
keen the lit ef meta emlidatee. Tb. payment to each pas-
airier bed hem et the me of 231. with 6e per west ie lies
eldhisee. Tenders have tees sempted for the head
of *
Ms home% seeemmodate twoety peemioners, at May-
Imez„.itml it le 'spooled that the first mom will he mid early
esaller semmer. Of the en bower, only ass MN be
et the met of the irmitutins, the other sae beteg
preasesi bed deco... This meet was adopted, Am
„we a wee opened for the election of the number of
snotelleote mietimed is the resort. There were six NO-
d idOss lee the elm seals • warm sat the gmr nuatm
hubs mole waseeeire. The epee at the lady oandidetee
ended hem Mite 72, and 'hose of the gentlemen emalklatee
he. SS M 76.
TILII SCOTTISH UNIVRReITIRS AND THE MIDDLE
lempoetmst privilees has hers recestly trued r• is the Ueivereities of Soothed, which to Neel of ear
eememposo or look to the Eardieh bar as their future Rohe-
elan may le of uml.rial advantage. The Society of the middy Tiapids, no the emotion of Jaime Atideeme, Hog ,
Q Q,biwitreenived that monibere of the Scottish Univers
ties dell lo Sayre be admitted membere et that lea without
making • deceit of 1001. um admfeeke ; mid the mesembere
of the Ise who *hall, at the mot. thee, be mseebme of my
of the herd& Usiversitiem, shall be madded to keep a tom
by dials( le the H.II soy three days. Prom •
eournenication which the &sates Academicism of the
University a Idiehergh have received from the
loused tenthemn with whom thl. mothm ovigioered,
emetre that (he term " Ideesh.re of the Scottish Union-
eider Melody. est eel, ITSIO4IIIII had members of the
general mesa", bat ell emrieel.ted coolest'. ,It will, how.
nes, be mew, that • eratent availing himself of the
Univenity privilege. width esetepte him ken saying a
&pewit, had see*. \Sue te beg hi. tom is the,. lee vet of
eh days, shall. before helm celled 'o the bee, reduce
dines that besides bawls( matricelated be bee best two tense
at a miversity. Thh WI realities w5l bawd* be emir
by two Mare' ewes/ma et wee of the IWO& Never-
'May which are thee stared oe pretheip the ease Ikeda(
to Hitt mane or the tiettereithe of Ordied mod Oembvidge.-
111.4.weA Orwareet.
GMT NORM= HOSPITAL. HIIIII*C1101116.••
Monter et ;ethos srthe wets nag Jia It, Olio of
whisk 828 were sew New.