The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-15 00:00:00

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Own o'Oiocz.
British mining shares are in fair demand to-day,
owing to the firmness of the metal market. The
settlement, which will be completed this afternoon,
tends,however,tocheck freshbusinessat the moment.
West Chiverton shares are quoted 6Gi to 68; Wheal
&ton, 106 to 116 ; Prince of Wales, 51s. toots.; Great
Retallack, 41 to 5 ; Clifford, 5 to 4 ; East Caradon,
sto 4 ; Chiverton Moor, 61 to ; South Caradon,
340 to 360 ; Devon Great Consols, 390 to 410 -
Wheal Uny, 1 to 11; and North Retallack,
to 3f.
At Prince of Wales Mine meeting yesterday the
accounts showed a credit balance of 1,8771., and it
was mentioned that the mine is now making a profit
of 6001. per month.

RAILWAY&-(THIS DAY.)

olham.

The railway market is firm to-day ; but the
changes in the chief stocks are confined to a riot)
of per cent. in Lancashire and Yorkshire, South-
Eastern, and London, Chatham, and Dover ; and
a reduction of 4 in Great Northern A.
Metropolitan stock is now quoted 116:k to ;
Great Western, 41), to 11 ; London and North
Western, 112 to ; Midland, 1001 to 107; ; Lam-
ceshire and Yorkshire, 123 i to k ; Caledonian,
lotli to 107}; South Eastern, 63i to 1 ; Great
Eastern, 28 to I ; Great Northern, toq to
1094 ; ditto A, 10911 to 11q; London, Chatham,
and Dover, 16 to 17 ; North British, 33.1 to
34 ; and Brighton,
Shan etas
(For to-day's • t see page 4.1

It was stated at the farmers' dinner at Bland-
ford, in Dorsetahire, last week, that a broker in klark•taoe
sold 25,000 quarters of grain during the first week of this
month. _ _

WHITEHALL, MAY I3.—The Queen has been
pleased to constitute and appoint the Right Hon. George
Earl of Hadaington, to be her Majesty's High COlllllllll.
sioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
FRENCH PROTESTA NTII4II. —A Paris letter in the
Sal at Public of Lyons says :—" The Pastoral C.nfereno.s
of Paris last week opened their :34th annual meeting in the
hall of the Societe Imperials d'Horticulture, Rue die Cr...
nelle St. Germain. The portion called orthodox, which
just now holds the highest place in the protestant church
of Pans, bad refused all the localities dependent on the
protestant places of worship in the capital. The Prefect of
Police, however, being more liberal, granted them the hall
in question. The election of M. Martin Psachoud by a Lug.,
majority, as definitive president of there conferences,
may be considered as • significant protein against
the arbitrary acts of the Paris Consistory in no-
sped to that clergyman. The election of M. Mejanelle-
Vincent, en elder of the Nimes Consistory, has been at
the same time • well.tuerited homage to the firm and
liberal attitude assumed by that assembly in the recent
divergences produced in the reformed church of Franco.
An interesting incident marked the first pastoral eon-
ferenoe. The assembly decided that a letter should be
written in their name to the minister' of domino is Ger-
many, to testify the ardent desire felt by all French pro-
testante to see peace maintained between two nations
which God made, not to tear each other to pieta, but to
labour in common, each in its own sphere, for the progress
of civilisation and spread of the Gospel throughout the
world."
A NORTHERN SENATOR AT CHAR LEATON The
well•known member of the republican party, Senator Wil-
son, addressed some 5,000 coloured people in • square at
Charleston on the aural inst. The Nero York ileralel reports
thefollowing aapartof his address:—You are now the peers
andequals of every other mania the country in your rights,
and I trust you will be the squal of every other nom in
devotion to country, in love of liberty, of justice of
education, and of industry. You have been roads free.
No man can now enter your cabin, and take from
you the wife of your bosom or the children of your
love. (Sensation, and murmurs of "No, good Lord.")
No one can separate you now. (A negre-a, " No, my
Lord, they cannot.") Another add, " That is a glorious
thing. Your rights have now been secured, and aro
hereafter to be seoured, in the constitutions of all the
States. Never vote unless you vote for your isountry•
which made you free. (Expressions of went.) Regis•
ter your names. (" We will.") Vote for • united
country. (" We will.") Vote for the old flag. (" We
will.") Vote so to change the constitution of this State
that your liberties may be consummated and made secure.
(. Yea, bless the Lord.") Cherish no hates nor prejudices
growing out of your past relations. Never say or do any.
thing to provoke a war of races. Do not Lite your late
masters. No body of men since the world began Lae ever been
punished more than they have been punished in this
great contest. Their brave leaders—wbere are they
Defeated ; some of them are in exile, their M all lost,
every object in their lives gone, never to saw
so back
again. As the country grows sad becomes the foremost
station of the globe their record will grow darker and
darker. It is • terrible fate. God knows would sot
lay any more burdens upon them.
Oltverat PALACE. ONE SHILLTNO DAT..—
TUESDAT, MAT 14. —Admissions on paymeet, ditto
by smarmTUESDAT,
tickets. 799 ; total visitors, 2,060.

IMPERIAL

HOUSE OF LORD .--T.. ,7AY. MAY 44.

IN the HOINZ of Lour, ymtcrday, the Karl of
altArrasaritv moved the aucond reading of the
Clerical Vestments Bill. He said the ritualistic
giractices .ow existing in many churches belonging
to the establishment oompletel, altered the charm,-
terof man of ou*hurches, and assimilated the mode
of conducting the services to that of the church of
hums. The object of the bill was to prevent that
in future, lad this he propot.ol to effect by giving
the force statute law to the bath mom.

510 An bbishop of CANivrx.t.: lIV Said, an there
escre m.,!vi:•al cases now pending in the courts of
Saw, b:•hops had not thonght it advisable to
Saki; acts, until those cases were decided. The
linc.ient bill he looked upon as unnecessary, and
thought thl heads of the church might be left to
deal with Vie difficulty. Ho moved the adjourn-
!wilt of th • debate for two months. In the mean-
time the ,nuitission which had been appointed
'would sit, and their recommendations be made
'known.

The Bishop of LONDON felt that the time had
come when the heads, of the church must act, and
Iwheit ling must be done to remove the state
Of uncertainty in which the law was at present
ishrouded-i lie supported the bill, although it did
loot remedy all the evils complained of.
The Bishop of OX KIDD strongly oppoeed the bill.
lIL vas impossible to overrate the gravity of the
Suoveutent, but this bill dealt with the least part of
the evil. Ile appealed to Lord Shaftesbury to
*wept the proposal of the Archbishop of Canter-
fbury, and to let the commission prepare the way
jor legislation.

The Bishop of DVIIRAN stongly denounced
Vitus.lima, which he said was alienating numbers
of devout p.:raons from the church, and driving
them over 0 dissent.

The Earl of DRIIIIY supported the amendment.
The bi!! dealt with a very narrow fringe of the
whole subject, and left untouched the observances,
which were :he real object of censure.
The house• divided, and the adjournment was
carried by 61 to 46.
The Inclusure Bill, the Local f:overnment Sup-
plemental Bah, and the Land Drainage Supple-
mental Bill were respectively read a third time and
pried.. _ . . .

Th,.? house adjourned at 2 minutes to 9 o'clock.

EOULNE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY, MAY 14.

IN the Housg of ConmoNm, a new writ was or-
dered for the University of Oxford, in the room of
Mr. O. Hardy, who has accepted the office of one
of her Majesty's principal secretaries of state.
Colonel Haar-raw?, in moving for a select com-
mittee to inquire into the operation of the malt
tax, stated that there were several matters the
committee might inquire into—first, as regarded
the producer, whether the existence of the tax
hindered the proper rotation of crops; and se.
condly, whether or not malt was good as food for
cattle ; and thou, as regarded the consumer, to
what extent the malt tax increased the price of

- Mr. RIAD seconded the motion. The real argu-
ment against the repeal of the malt tax was that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not spare the
'money. He suggested that the tax should be put
on the beer instead of on malt.
Mr. GtaDSTONI said it was desirable that some
of the matters which had been referred to should
be inquired into, and he should also be glad if an
inquiry were made into the operation of two acts
'lei& he introduced—one for levying the duty by
weight, and the other for the application of malt
to the feeding of cattle. He hoped the effect of
this debate would not be to create an impression
out of doers that the present or any future Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer °mild dispense with the
revenue derived from malt, or from the conversion
of barley into beer. He suggested that the subject
should be considered in connection with the spirit
duties.

The dincuseion was continued by Mr. Henniker-
Major, Lord C. Cavendish, Mr. J. More, Mr.
Greene, and Mr. Barrow, all of whom spoke in con-
demnation of the tax, some from one point of view
and some from another. _

The CUANCILLOII of the Faciieuusa approved
of the motion, sayingit wasalong time since the in-
cidence of the tax had been investigated, and he
had no doubt the result of the labours of the com-
mittee would be advantageous to the country.

Mr. Arwrox asked if it were intended to inquire
into the expediency of substituting a tax on beer
for the malt tax.

Colonel Bsarretor replied that it was, and stated
that he did not think it well to include the duty
on spirits in the inquiry.
The motion was then agroed to.
. .

On the motion of Lord-Ilovipim, a select com-
mittee was appointed to inquire into the origin of
the military reserve funds, the sources from which
they ate derived, and the objects to which they
are applied.
Mr. SIND% obtained leave to bring in a bill to
amend the 49th and tr.trd sections of the Bth and
loth Viet., cap. 118, for facilitating the inclosure
and improvement of oommons.
Mr. rawcisrr obtained leave to bring in a bill
to provide for the education of children employed
in agriculture. His object, ho said, was to get it
referred to a select committee, to which had
already been referred the bill forthe ex tension of the
Factory Acta to the agricultural districts, and the
bill for regulating the hours of labour in certain
trades.

Mr. Pim obtained leave to bring in a bill to
facilitate the improvement of landed property by
extending the powers of limited ownen of land
in Ireland.

Lord Nast; obtained leave to bring in a bill to
provide for keeping safely the public records in
Ireland. A public Record-office has been erected
in Dublin, and the bill is to make provision for
the deposit of public records therein.
On the order of the day for the second reading
of the Ecclesiastical Titles Repeal Bill,
Mr. MseEvov said the government had con-
sented to refer the bill to a select committee, and
be would therefore postpone the second reading
for a fortnight, when he would move that the bill
be referred to a select committee, and that it be
an instruction to the committee to repeal the
24th section of the Catholic Emancipation Act.
Mr. NEWDEGATZ said the matter had taken an
unexpected turn. However, there might be an
advantage in this, for there was much ignorance on
the subject. He had given notice of his intention
to move the rejection of the bill, but as the govern-
ment bad consented to refer the matter to a select
committee he should not make that motion.
After some observations from Mr. WHALLEY,
who persisted in addressing the house amid re-
peated calls to order, the second reading was post-
poned for a fortnight.
The Offices and Oaths Bill was read a third time
and passed.
The Transubstantiation, &c., Declaration Aboli-
tion Bill was read a third time, after a protest from
MY. NHIWOEHATE, and a prediction from him that
the Act of Settlement would be assailed next, and
a complaint by Mr. WHALLEY that the government
did not resist these aggressions.
The West India Bishops and Clergy Bill was read
second time.

Several other bills were advanced a stage, and
the house adjourned at five minutes to 9 o'clock.

TAR TAILORS' STRIRR.—The London Working
hen's Association have called an agireguito meeting of the
trades of London for this evening iu Trafalgar.s.mare, to
Consider the best means of rendering support to the Lon-
don operative tailors in their present struggle with their
employers. Mr. George Potter is announced as chairman
of the • meeting, and the ground is to be kept clear for the
public by the members of the Tailors' Association.
.

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