The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1858.

issPftheosivo Pisa of medal and legal Wynne with
which the 'lesion opened. Melts et praetors
sessestis—Mineters have promised, and attempted
the following amongst other legislative enterprise':
a wise of maims for transferring and remoulding
the whole jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts—
Testamentary, Matrimonial, and Disciplinary ; for
reforming and settling the Law of Divorce; for amend-
lag the Law of Partnership; and for constituting
a Supreme Cowl of Appellate Jurisdiction. In con-
aexioe with this last measure they ham raised, but
by no means laid, the vitally important constitu-
tions/ question of Life Peerages. In other depart-
ments of general interest, they have introduced bills
for reforming the Corporation of the City of Leedom;
for settling the vexed Tondos of Civil Service Su-
perannuation ; for instituting a system of Agricul-
tural Statietita ; for abolishing Local Dues on
Shipping; for rendering the misappropriation of
Trost Property an offence punishable by the crimi-
nal law. We willingly leave to Mr. DIIIZAZLI the
congenial task of making the list complete. Taking
only the measures we have selected, it is no doubt
sallsiently startling to find that, with the exception
of Appellate heeded= and Church Discipline
Bills. on which Government suffered a positive de-
feat, all the mesa:mem thus enumerated have been
abandoned by the Ministry that produced them.
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' and the People to thiir interests they will not be lost
sight of. ,If Lord Pas tsarror's Ooventiosot is to
sostatsin say character of stability, It must avail itself
to the uttermost of the advantages thus pined. Upon
the results of. session commenced in war sad greatly
occupied in maturing and consolidating the work
of pesos many will, with us, be disposed to look with
ooniparative leniency. But the days of this forbear-
ance are at as sad. Lord Pstmurrott cannot afford
another such 'maim as that which is just passing
away. Lit him he wise in time : let him depend
upon it that tho only way of cosoiliating the confi-
dence and respect of the public is by showing himself
thoroughly in earnest and inspiring a kindred energy
into every department of his administration. The
country is tired of legislative failures ; its demand is
for practical measures of reform wisely conceived,
maturely prepared, timely introduced, and resolutely
proemial.

THE Goverenteet, it seem, has determined to give
Lord WENSLEYDALE an hereditary Peerage, This

is only right. Lord WZNIILITDALI has »Led been
prevented by the usurpation of the Peers from taking
his seat in the Upper Hams, bat this is an indignity
to which neither the QUEEN nor the other branch of
the Legislature ought to submit. It has been proposed
,to alter the limited= from that of • Barony
for life to that of a Barony in tail. Bat this woad, of
coarse, surrender the whole question at lame. Lord
WUN•LETDALImust have his seat smog the Peers,
bat the gnat question of Life Peerages most not be
settled by • nide wind, nor must any encroachment
be made en the Quzas's prerogative.
We need not repeat lure the vicious arguments
which have been urged in favour of a Life Peerage.
To common eines the advantages are obvious—eo
obvious, indeed, that even the miserable Appellate
Bill recognised the expedience of such creations. Nor
is it unimportant to observe that of late the House of
Peen has shown unequivocal symptoms of • duke to
curtail the prerogative. The protudiop of the
Ueda in the WINSLITDALI ow afford ample eri-
daces of this ; and within t►e present month • Com-
mittee of Peers has reported *that it is the peculiar
duty of the House to take care that the prerogative
is not exceeded." And a recommendation accordingly
follows, that in certain cuss the claim to vote shall
be referred, not to the Loan CHANCELLOR, bat to
the Committee of Privileges.
This disposition oa the part of the Peers to en-
croach requires to be finely resisted. It seems to us,
therefore, that in order not to prejudice the question
of Life Peers, and to maintain the prerogative of the
Qum, the proper course is to create Baron Wm&
urrimix a Viscount in tail. This would disarm the
opposition of Lord LTXDRIIIIST and Lord DZILBY,
whilst it would suable the Government to bold their
position on the question of Life Peers intact.

The first and mall obvious internee Ibis Ms
state of things is the Parlissanlesi seenimem of
Lard PALIELIETON'II Goverment u evil sertainly,
bat the least of the evils disclosed by the history of
the session. This wholesale failure of the measures
of administration is not so much the result of factious
opposition or Ministerial want of discipline, es of
the iahert defects of the measures aunties—the
want of statesmanlike grasp of mind 'viand is their
soneptioe—the hasty and imperfect style of their
pragmatics—the curious infelicity with which some
have hese laid before Parliament—the hincomble
negligeese by which the introduction of others has
bees delayed. Instances of all them defects are only
too ready at band. Could anything have shown less
taet and resolution than the mode in which the question
of Life Peerages was allowed to be raised in the
House of Lords P Could anything be conceived more
ealeslated to shake public eseadiece than the whole
basins= of the Appellate Jariedistioe—that notable
bargain by which, in cossidiratios of noon* a
limited Parliameatary recognitioa of a pmessithe
which they had practically mainlined le b ow
limited, the Government would have penned. ke
12,0001. a year of the public mosey, a Omit II
Ultimate Appeal seareely better in any upset than
that which still madams to sit in the House of
Lord', and whose osly virtue is that it east the
soutry nothing—except vendee P Take again the
Partnership Bill—a measure certain to be awed
tooth sad nil by the powerful hostility of the 0.1.
talist shoe, felinity; the most accurate phraseology,
and which ought thereto,, to have been produced, la
the ant instant, as fres as possible from inherent
defects. What were the fact P This Bill—. Bill of
ally throe clume—was, as originally introduced,
loud to be so faulty in expression that it was with-
drawn baron Easter, re-introduced is April, wad
finny abandoned by its author, after a strong app►
since, with the expressio• of as opinion that all
logisistios es the subject was seedless, beanie, k
thl judgment of the best Bailin lawyers, a less se
profits doss sot, sans intended to do so, minstitate
a partneeskip. At the sores time we are bound to
say, that as the Bill now steads it is an adminibie
incises of a well-draws Bill, and that mach of tilt
di catty with which the warn had tessera!' we
due to the apathy of Mr. Lows's collision nil a
most unetespelose oppositics.
The ems of the three bills intended to abolish the
Tulles jurisdiction in the Failasisetical Couto b
stringer still. The list of this battik the awe
Diesipline All, was doomed to a speedy atedultoe s
brought is by the Loin CHANCELLOR shady An
the Easter recess, it fell, es the snood ,smug, on
April 21, before the hostility of the Bishops, by a
majority of 41 to 33. The Testamentary Jarinislike
Bill—the introduction of which had also been lull
mid till after Easter—had amain what huger llk bet
with so other result than that of showing with what
utter absence of fired principle or oomprehensin
statesmanship it had been originally framed. After
borrowing from Mr. Couiza and Sir FITZROY
EZLLY the two peinctiplee of local courts and tan cote
procedure, which sanely destroyed the original
nesters of the Bill, Sir RICHARD Brrnsu, having
with dialling kept his bandies alive till the dog-
days, yielded it without reluctance to the isevitable
doom of July. Few could regret the runt in this
mos. It was otherwise with the Matrimonial ana
Divorce Bill. Had this Bill, instead of being de-
!eyed till after Fester, best brought in, as it ink
have bees, at the beginning of the nudes, ruse
would have been ample time, after it had go*
through Lord LYNDHDINY'II Committee and the
ordeal of the Bench of Bishops, to have carried it
sessissfally through the Common. It is to le
regretted that this thane was not afforded to it.
It may be awed whether a Mailer mann can ever
one down to the Hum ander more favourable U.
madame. We are eare of always having Bishop',
we min not always have a Lord LYNDHURST.
It would be easy to carry them remarks to a
great= length. With so disposition to press hardly
as the Clovernment, with entire freedom from all
spirit of partizanship, it is yet impartible to deny
that the legislative failures to which we have alluded
betray a want sot only of Honed Common manage-
ment, bat of wise deliberation and comprehensive
statesmanship. That this may easily be manufn-
tared into a very showy and effective display foe
the momentary purposes of party triumph, no There is a rumour that Sir Benjamin Hall will be
one ma doubt. But behind the puppet rebid
play of parties, there still exists, thank 00D, Viscount and Viscountess Newark have arrived at
the English people; and the question—the only the Q. 11011.11 Hotel, Upper Norwood.
question of any interest to ae—is to inquire whether, air John I)nckworth, Bart., M.P., and Lady
with all its faults and failures, the closing session Duckworth, have gone to the sontinent, latendiag to reside
may not be turned to some account for the interests for a short time at Wiesbaden.
of the community. We think it may. It barren in The Admiralty yacht Black Eagle, Master Com-
results, it is fertile in admissions, and than admis. mold" F•tleY. Is turning bet it" Attiallt lute the 0.-
barns, liester,Commamder 0. H. U. Bower, at Portsmouth,
dens it will be the duty of the people, and the Press
who is Attie( her out with the utmost ezinditioa for the
who represent them, to press hard and home. Asrvies of their lordship., who are impeded to make th&r
haloes or two will explain what we meas. Our l
air visit se Portsmouth neat Mester Boar-Maier Air
/*Sate Jurisdiction is still unreformed, but there Maurice Berkeley, Cell., will be there to-day.
his been a practical admission by the House of Her Majesty's ship Fairy embarked their Royal
-
it that the existing tribunal is bumper Minna the Crows Prism and Pruners of Penile
Ink end a new form of judicature essential. We Pea►day wereisit at n.
le took them to Pon
have net yet emended in legalising Life Peerages; mouth dockyard, over which actablishamat they wen ma-
lint from the Hues of Peers hart there has been
Muted by Yu-Admiral Air Georg* Boymowr, Illitz•
Admiral Martin, and Corals the Hos. J. R. Drummond,
allided a reeelrattlea of the Piaci* that the C.B. After the iimpeetlea of the establiebseat their royal
mall es of Life Peers is for certain purposes &air- hlshaemes were merriest at Norm by the Com.
dat. 11 fee some purposes, why not for all P If a mener-lc.csist at the Admiralty moose.
Maas" be a Life Peer, why not the successful The Earl and Countess of Jersey entertained the
Mme- Nleen or land—the statesmen seised in gel lad Counter of Partulington, Count Haroti, Visored
rte swin,d didis, ofmtim_th, philosopher who Canterbury, Lord and Lady Latimer., Lord areas, Lord
West, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Lady Rosa Fans, Ledy
billegththigel the boon& of !mewled the Unwary
Moo
(Magian Bathurst, Mr. sad Mts. H. Burg sail =Nubs has added pronely to the treasures of stria,. Kr. "no Rusin. &0.. as (limn. last sienna thseght and the mations of genius !' Our laws of et thy mum,. gerkelay."‘",„ The
eessMq
Dhow are still unreformed, but, in spite of the bads sow& at • setwesmot period older nimbi.
Bishop. there has been made good the conession, Lord Seams, 0.C.8., has purchased Beachwood, a
that dimolution of marriage ought no longer to be the duo property, lately Weeping to Z. Media, Esq., about 7
privilege of the „day chime% bat the common right miles from Plymetith. Hi. lordship was already sesaisted
with the mousy of Dells, bang • seat at Lyatham Park,
of all chinos ; that it is not only the adultery if the
wile, Cron , and Lady &was Is the eldest taunter of the late
but, with certain limitation, that also of the has- leaser Yaw. Bel., of Pulled's, sus Torres.
band that shall dimolre the nuptial tie. These adonis. °mm.
gallant
otiose gives important vantage ground far the kirk- wiadhan ja sobs ism," WsIrDHAH a 117;a0 el. LlT.'"7"inw
dos of the future. If the Press is true to its functions ha, et Newish. /, man ash, „mil amide&

WDe Court.

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08130R2412, JULY 24.

The Queen sod Prises, with the Prince and Prie'
of Pearls, the Prises of Wales, sad the Primus Royal,
goateed is the royal peeks Victoria sad Albert yesterday
shersosa.

Prises Edward el !az►Weimar arrived ea a visit to bar
Majesty.

A deputation' Arm So Aborigines Protootioa !misty bad
on Window yostorday with Mr. esamory Laboertiore, at
tho Coloalal odm. Tlio &petition wasiotod of Dr. Molt
hi., the Roy. Profiteer Moolay, Cowie Is .dy, sod
Maw% Kskola Leine, R. &alib, jut., Jots Malilaid,
W. Deus lissith, P. W. Olitiwie, sad G. L. N.ijhboa►.
A ilopetetioa, omits*/ at Kr. Pries, M.P., Mr. CAW,
M.P., sad Oeissel !easy. Tyste. Y.P. had on ietortriew
with Lord litialey of Aldo/lay and tho Right itos. L Low.
yesterday, M tho *MN M the Board of Trod'.

ELEVATION OP THE RIGHT HON. E. STRUT?.

XP., TO THE PEERAGE.

The Right Roe. R. Strott, M.P., hal imbed the
followiag witlmes to the electors of Nottingham
Chatiemes,— fin Majesty hariag beat graciouly
plowed to *pity her Lineation of raising me to the peer,
age, I eat shoat to mom my seat is patliemeat, sad to is
Ilaqeish the imperteat trot of repreeeatiog poe ia the
Homo of Comatose.

" I mosso retire from year iervies without expressing
my most pastel aeknowledgmeau for the Mad and cordial
eseaser is which yea origisally adopted ma es me of your
representatives, as well aa for the generous ocefidsara with
w►isk you lave sail:truly treated me slam I ham held that
.mow I regard it ma so small avast... to have this be-
am. mere i■tiauay cosneeted with se importaat mid M-
I
telligest s smasnmity as the tows of Nottiosham, and I
hops to motion* to miey the Dealt of the friendships
widish t►at comemicsa his sashed as to form.

"Ia the mommusiesties Is whisk her Majesty's resifts
'mistime were enameled to me, I wu fief muted that 'the
Quin wes desirous of marking the interest width s►e takes
is the great maaafesterieg industry of the usury, sad
her desire that this important elmmeat of oar aadeisal
wealth should be repremated in the upper home of puha-
meat,' Ia aceeptleg, leader thus eiretemetuess, ea
!eow: is which I sever presumed to mph*, I have the
eatislisetlea of *laid.; that I shall net thereby separate
myself free that clue to whisk I have always belonged,
sad that it will cretins* to be my duty, though in another
brush of the legislature, to assist is promoting the welfare
of these peat seasfeetariag sad sommenial Interests of
which I have so lug beea ens of t►e mileometers' in the
Hews et Causoss.

" Wilit ay but alibis fcr year ecatimted propprlty sad
MOW welfare, I hive tbe beam to be, patience, year
obliged sad felibfal servant. 4" Enwoan almost.

0-Kingston, July 24, 1856." _ _
_
"Lord Hisses's" la westie•M as the probable this of the
sew peer. For the Testacy is the rirpreseatatiosi of Net,
thallium, the same of Kr. Rieusiagtes Mises, of Lovadoo,
ha. bees seestioned Is private circler, bet se assesseenett
hes bees sage.

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