The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-22 00:00:00

NOTICES py MOTIONS.

Tot GaLwri Ciiirnt;itix, to ark the
Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the goyim-mut had
come to say final &tidos with regard to granting a subsidy
to the Galway Steam Packet Company?
Tun Dormer Coats.—Mr. Fume, to ask the Attorney-
General whether the government's attention had hien drawn
to the large number of owes In emu in the Divorce Court,
and whether eittay pyres& to remedy that evil by the ar
pointmoit of edditleaal judges or otberwiee ?
Hover-or Cimino:m-Idr. Lanais, to move for a select
muunitter to inquire Into what alteration• could be effected
fur improving rho Interior of the Howe of Common., by re-
arrenging the seam co es to allow of members being hotter
heard endrepuled (Laughter.)
BRITIOn OREOORT, to move that,o snot
committee be appointed to inquire how far, and in what s ay,
it might be deniable to Etna incieesoi apace tor the flainFioll
and arrangemeot of the rations collectons of the British
Museum, and the best means of rendering them aysilablo for
the pruMOtioll of science and art P
Poeroveice.—Mr. Wier., to put questions relating to
the book poet end other matters.
INDIAN PRIZE MONEY.
Viscount BURY begged to ark the Secretary of State for
India whetlin it wee the isteution of her Mejesty's g imam-
mint to distribate the prize looney taken at Delhi and Luck-
cow to the troops promat on thanoccesioas ?
Lord STANLEY ofd the beat reply he could give to the
noble lord would be to read ea entreat from • despatch dated
the 3lst of March, 1850, and addressed to the government of
India by the late Huard at Directore:—" We folly approve
of poet recommudetions that property taken by the troop,
whichs ashlar eleilieed on behalf of the State nor chimed
end Idendisd by Inlilnidnals who msy establish their loyalty,
I Amid he to be prize. We shell socordirtal7,
aeon u we are isformed by you of the nacereary particulars,
make application to the Crown, in the usual form, preying a
Royal grant of the same as maze. . . . We Must
that no time wOl be lest he undies tea fell pert 'colors of the
captures which wo sow propose to recognise as booty of wu."
Some statements had already bees received with regard to
Delhi; but the gerveraissat were visiting for farther informa-
tion before they
_took any.osit= With regard to Lucknow,
however, they had heard
THE BEQUESTS ACT (IRELAND).
Mr. ENNIS begged to ask the Chief Secretary for Ire-
land if it was kis intention to introdace a bill during the pre-
test merlon to emend the Act 7 end S Victoria, cep. 97, in-
titaled " The Bequests Act (Ireland) r
in-
Lot NAAS replied in the alllnnetive.
:GUANO.
Major EDWARDS begged to ask the Under-Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs whether the announcement ho
made hat seeelon." that the Peruvian government had ar-
ranged that the price of guano should be uniform here and in
the United St the, had been justified by the result, and
U
not, what steps her Majesty's government proposed to
Mke ?
M. B. FITZGERALD said that the only information
else s government pinioned was derived from the
praillsPermi•—no otllasi communication having yet been
man Mares ea the subject. If such • difference in the
yobs et game es was Meted to exist in England and Ame-
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b, It would be the duty of the govern-
ment es the matter seriously under the conaideretion of
the Peruvian government. (Hear.)
CITIES AND BOROUGHS (TAXATION).
Mr. RICH moved an Wrote for • retort of all cities and
boroughs In England and Wales myths en annual amount
of direct taxation teed than 4,5001., arranged in the order of
the amount paid by each, and setting forth snob amount;
also, diet inguhhiog by italice those cities and boroughs which
are included In schedule 0 of the Representation of the
People Bill—Agreed to.
CONSOLIDATED FUND (1,222,383/. Bs. 91.) BILL.
Thie till we teed • third time sad pursed.
CONSOLIDATED FUND (11,000,000(.) BILL.
This bill was also read • third tuna and passed.
THE REFORM BILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER having
moved the second reeding of this bill,
Lord J. RUSSELL rose, to • crowded hour, to propose
the following amendment That this house'. of opinion
thet it is neither just nor politic) to Interfere, in the manner
proposed in this bill, with the freehold franchise as hitherto
exercised in the counties in England and Wales; and that
no readjustment of the freschhe will satisfy this house or the
country which due not provide fir • greater extension of the
suffrage in cities mod boroughs then is coutem-
plated in the present measure." The noble lord,
Meeting to the secession from the government of two of its
most distingoiabed members, observed that it was an
encouragement to him that they had felt objection' to the
bill similar to his own. He cionsiderel that the first eight
lines of the bill containel its whole principle—monely, that
the suffrage In counties end boroughs should be uniform, or,
mi the Chancellor of the Exchequer expressed it, Monti, el,
end that ell freeholders resident in boroughs who had
hitherto voted for their county should vote for the boroughs
alone. This wee • complete chwge of the emanation,
• daI:MUM of rights which had been enjoyed for a
great number of yews, end without any crime
on the part of those in posesiston of it This
change was not only *Oust, but It we. • groat
public injury, es it would deprive the ormaties of
the liberal chaseeter they would otherwise possme, and •
power would be obtained by which smell boroughs might
be flooded with vote% and nomination boroughs be revived,
to the practical repeal of the Reform Act. His oljectione
to the first clause, therefore, were that It would be iujurious
sad neinat—that It would lied to great discontent on Use