The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-14 00:00:00

VOLUNTEERS IN IRELAND,

Mr. BRADltlw;;;;;to.libi7;il;iii.;,l the hones
to the subject ct the enrolment of volunteers in Ireland.

THE PAPER DUTY.

Mr. WHALLEY then rose, pursuant to notice, to call the
attention of the house to the excise duty on paper, and to
ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it was his
intention to enforce the payment of that duty.

ITMIARATED EXCISEMEN.

Mr. BLACK asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether
there were any regulations prohibiting men engaged in the
peensitivir service on the coast of 8. land from getting
maid ; whether those regulations were placed in the
lamb cf the men when they joined the service ; and whe-
ther the Lords of the Treasury imagined that such regula-
tions, if they existed, ought to be maintained! He (Kr.
' Black) understood that the reason assigned for this rule was
that unmarried men were supposed to be more reliable than
married ; but it appeared to him that the reverse would be
the mom correct idea. At least he remembered hearing a
sermon from a rev. divine on the Prodigal Son ; in which,
emmienting on the opening words of the parable—" A cer-
tain man had two sons"—the rev. gentleman laid it was clear
that this man mint have been married, for he was called
a ' certain' man ; and it was known that married
men were much more certain than unmarried, who went
palivanting over the country, no one knew where.
Poughter.) There had lately been a good deal of talk
shout the number of illegitimate births in Scotland ; and it
war a curious fact that since we had obtained more accurate
returns we bad discovered that we were not only not better
ia this respect than the wicked nations of the continent,
but were even sornewht worse. There bad been anxious
inquiries as to the cause of the evil ; and it appeared to
him that the Lords of the Treasury were somewhat in
fault ; for it MY obvious that they could not keep a burgs
number of men from getting married without the
natural result snBin the births of illegitiant• chil-
dren. He brgget, therefore, to call on the government to
remove as far as they were able this disgrace from the
country to which he belonged. (Hear, hear.)
Sir S. NOKTHCOTE, in putting a question as to the
stato of the negotiation for the transfer of the Galway
packet contract to the Montreal and Ocean Steam Naviga-
tion Company, entered upon an explanation of some length
connected with the trsunction.
The question and the statement of Sir Stafford gave rise
to a debate, in which Mr. Buxton, Sir F. 13aring,Mr. Mali-
burton, sad Yr. Hennessy took part, and
Mr. LAING, on the pan of the government, explained
the actual state of the negotiations between the Treasury
and the representatives ot the Canadian government on the
subject of the transfer, whence it appeared that they were
at one time on the point of being broken off.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHNUKR observed
that the matters to which his hon. friend the member for
Peterborough had called attention, in reference to the paper
duty, were matters no doubt of gnat importance for the
legislature to consider—but he did not imagine that on
account of any difficulty in carrying the law into execution,
the government would be justified in taking any step in
regard to that law, whatever might be their opinion, which
they would not take in reference to any other similar law.

THE CHINA WAR.

The report of the resolution parsed iu committee of
mply on account of the war with Chum, wail brought up
speed to.
The order of the day foe the house to go into oresunittee
of seggi7 as Or remaining portion of the vote wee then
rad, -sad on 11111 motion that the .speaker do leave the
chair,
Mr. B. COCHRANE rose pursuant to notice to move,
" That, in order to remove one great obstacle to pes*, with
China, the British plenipotentiary be instructed mot to W-
aist ea the fulfilment of the third article of the tasty of
Tima-isia, by which his Majesty the Emperor of China
arms that the ainbenador, minister, or other diplomatic
egad appointed by her Majesty the Queen of Great Bri.
tails, may reside, with his family and establish.
meat, permanently at the capital, or may visit it
comisionelly, at the option of the British government."
The question having been put,
Lord J. RUSSELL said the hon. gentlemen must be
aware that he had made his motion not only in a most un-
usual form, bet he seemed altogether unmindful cd the fact
that Lord Elgin bad been sent out to China by her Majesty,
and had received instructions from her Majesty, and that
be would here to conduct himself according to those in-
structions. It wonLI be impossible therefore that the house
could agree to the motion that the government should
send out the instructions which he migrated.
The bon. gentleman referred to the Treaty of Tien-tam, but
V be wished to obtain any alteration of it, he should have
mowed as Kamm to the crown to that effect, because it
war very rovusual for the liaise of Commons to send in-
atnietiom to our inialetere at foreign court', and besides, to
give each instructions would bo acting contrary to those
"Oven 1-7 her Mujestty. With regard to the motion itself,
be would merely observe that the has. gentleman imagined
,a.! to enforce the demand would be 'Ascii)! the Chinese
thst leis aotborit would be in dancer d beilmideing.rdocbole?api:::l:4l;
ruined. But the hon. gentleman should remember that rt