The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-02 00:00:00

THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON TAX BILLS.

"The report of this committee, with a record of
their proceedings, lists of bills, index, &c., occupies 98
pagm
It appears that the committee held eleven sittings, the
first taking place on the Ist of June. At the sseowl sitting
it was resolved that a summary of precedents should be
prepared by the officers of the house, under the direction
of a chairman. At the third sitting, on the Ilth of Jane,
this summary was laid before the committee, who pro-
ceeded to consider it. Two divisions took place relative to
• proposed omission from the collection of precedents ; Mr.
Sotheron Estcourt, Mr. Bouverie, Mr. Henley, Sir J.
Pakington, and Mr. Bentinck, voting in one sense, and Mr.
Bright, Colonel Patten, Sir W. Heathcote, Mr. Villiers
Mr. Disraeli the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir (1:
Grey, and Lord Hotham in the other. In the second
division Sir J. Pakington and Mr. Bentinck were alone.
Five sittings having been occupied in deliberations upon
the summary, at the next sitting on the 25th of June, a
draft report, proposed by Mr. Walpole, the chairman, ind
another proposed by Mr. Bright, were brought up and read.
A division then took place on the question whether the
chairman's report or Mr. Bright's should be read a second
time, and carried paragraph by paragraph. For the chair-
man's report there appeared 14 votes, viz., Lord Palmerston,
Col. Patten, Sir W. Heathoote, Mr. Bouverie, Sir H. (Sams,
Mr. Bentinck, Mr. 8. Estcourt, Sir J. Graham, Mr. Massey,
Sir G. Grey, Sir J. Pakington. Mr. Henley, Lord Hothams
and Mr. Disraeli. For Mr. Bright's report there voted,
besides Mr. Bright himself, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and laid John Russell. Mr. More O'Farrell was absent.
Several amendments on paragraphs were negatived, and
others adopted, without a division.
At the sitting of the 27th the following paragraph wan
proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer :
" No one of these bills, rejected or otherwise lost in the
House of Lords, appears to have had for its object to repeal
any tax constituting a large branch of the revenue, or im-
posing a burden of sensible amount. Of the acts which they
repealed or altered, some had the supply preamble, but it
cannot be certainly averred that in any of these cases the
repealing or amending bill reduced the charge laid upon the
nation. From the subjects and terms of the bills, or from
other sources, it is in most instances plain that they were
dealt with on legislative grounds other than those of
finance ; nor is there any came which suggests a contrary
conclusion."

Seven members of the committee voted for this paragraph,
viz., Lord Palmerston, Mr. Bright, Mr. Bouverie, Mr.
Collier, Sir G. Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. and
Lord John Russell. Nine voted against it, viz., Sir W.
fleathcote, Mr. Bentinck, Sir J. Graham, Mr. S. Eetcourt,
Sir H. Cairns, Sir J. Pekington, Mr. Henley, Lord Hallam.
sad Mr. Disraeli.

The voting was the same on the following paragraph, pro-
posed by Lord John Russell :—"For the rejection by the
lords of a bill repealing a burden of more than a million
of pounds a year upon the branch of industry, your com-
mittee can find no precedent whatever." A paragraph
was then proposed by Mr. Bright :—" It does not appear
that the Home of Lords has in any We, before the year
1880, rejected any bill, purely ono of taxation or re-
peal of taxation, materially affecting or interfering with
the quantum of ways and means provided by the House of
Commons for the service of the year." The ayes were 5,
viz., Mr. Bright, Mr. Bouverie, Mr. Collier, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lord J. Ruse
sell. The noes—ll in number—included Lord Palmer.
ston, Sir J. Graham, and Sir George Grey. The follow-
ing paragraph was then proposed by Mr. Bright
" It may be well to state some facts in the ordinary prac-
tice of parliament connected with bills imposing or repealing
taxes. The crown speaks only to the commons at the open.
ing end closing of each session, or by menage, during the
session, on the subjects of grants of money and supply for
the service of the year. The lords are not asked for money,
and are not thanked by the Sovereign for the sums grunted ;
and bills granting supplies are presented by the Speaker of
the House of Commons to the Sovereign, and not as other
bills, through the officers of the House of Lords. The
crown does not order estimates of expenditure to be laid
before the lords ; they are furnished cooly to the commons ;
and these estimates and any other documents relating to
taxation and expenditure the commons never send to the
lords, even though the lords should ask to be furnished with
them. The lords, therefore, have no official knowledge of the
necessities of the crown ; they cannot grant money ; they
are never consulted as to the expenditure for the year, and
hence they are not responsible for providing any portion of
the supplies." Seven members of the committee voted
for this paragraph :—Lord Palmerston, Mr. Bright, Mr,
Bouverie, Mr. Collier, Sir G. Grey, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and Lord J. Russell. The noes were 10, in.
eluding Sir J. Graham. This was the last division.

The Gazette d'Augslntrg says :—" We are able to
announce, upon good authority, that the Prince Regent in-
tends to return the Emperor Napoleon's visit at the Camp
of Chalons immediately after his Imperial Majesty has
taken up his residence there."
' '

A report is current in Paris that the Emperor
will confer on Prince Napoleon all the political prerogatives
enjoyedby Prince Jerome,particularly the post of President
of the Privy Council and of the Council of Ministers, in the
absence of the Emperor. It is stated that the Legislative
Body, before its separation, will have a bill presented to it
for giving Prince Napoleon the dotation of Prince Jerome,
and the former is also to occupy in the PaLus Royal the
apartments of his late father, and make a considerable
ia-
creaae in his household.

Notices of the first two appeals to the French
Court of Csamation from the newly annexed provinces of
Savoy and Nice wore given on Saturday. One is from •
judgment of the Court of Appeal (now the Imperial Court)
of Chasabery—the other from a provincial tribunal.
A few days ago there appeared a letter from DL
Seigle, Directeur de la Loire, on the reception the Or-
phennista have met with in England, and stating that they
were all full of enthusiasm at the manner in which "the
English nation, so impassible, treated them." In the last
paragraph of his letter he complains .4 the rapacity of
certain hotel keepers, and of the refund to receive them
with their insignia of Orphennists. The Gazette de Francs
prints, in its second page, that portion of the letter only
which complains of the innkeepers ; and it is given in a form
which would lead the public to believe that it was complete.
But it does not print a tingle word of what the writer says about
the favourable manner in which the OipheoniAs have been
received by the public. Everything that lunt the remotest
resemblance to praise in the letter the (la:ette de France
carefully and meanly suppresses ; and it givca only the re-
marks on the innkeepers.

"The bowels of the King of Naples," says the
" prevent the Boy of Tunis from sleeping. The
latter is about to promulgate a constitution and create
ministries of the interior, foreign affairs, finance, war, and
marine." - _

The American packet-ship City of Boston, which
arrived in Liverpool on Saturday, reports that on the 22nd
of June, in lat. 45, long. 30, she exchanged siznals with the
Great Eastern, which had the fore and aft sails all set, and
she was making good progress through the water.
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE—By the kind permission
of the Earl of Ellesmere an amateur concert will be given at
Bridgewater Howie, os Friday evening next, in behalf of
the funds of the Free Ward of the Royal Hospital fur In-
curables., at which Mr. Frederic Clay's Operetta, "Out of
Sight," and a selection of miscellaneous nmeie, will be pre-
sented exclusively by amateurs. The entertainment is moder
the patronage of her Royal Highness the D111:11,6 of Cam-
bridge, her Royal Highness the Grind Duchess of Mecklen-
bnro Strelitw, her Royal Highnesa the Princess Mary of
Cambridge, and a very large number of ladies pitronenes.
HANDSOME TESTIMONIAL—The Inquirer, of
Saturday, records the presentation by his congregation of
a testimonial consisting of a thomand guineas and a
splendid silver salver to the Rev. Thomas Ibulgo, minister
of Eisen-street Chapel, Strand.
GARIBALDI—A numerous committee has been
formed et Woolwich, and a public meeting convened to
sympathies with Garibaldi and the Sicilian revolution.
THE imnr.—Tlie discovery of the cornet,
which is now visible a little after sunset in the north-
western part of the heavens, is due to M. Rumker, the
astronomer of the Observatory at Hamburg, who first saw
it on the 17th of April hint, and has determined its ale-
meets as follows : Longitude of perihelion, 45 deg., 10
min., 16 sec. ; longitude of ascending node, 8 deg., 35 min.,
4 sec. ;inclination, 4$ deg., 9 min., 39 see. ; perihelion
distance, 1.2691 deg. ; direction of motion, direct. Its tail
has now become very •conspienous, having attained a length
of 15 degrees. It will soon dieappear, however, since it is
fast approaching the emu It will, however, be visible
for the hut time during the pest eclipse, which will be
total in Spain and Algiers.
CRYSTAL PALACE--HALF-A-CROWN
FOURTH DAT or THE ORPHIONISTB.--SATURDAT, JuNr 30.
—Admissions on paymeat, 7,532; ditto hyseasou tickets,
6,874 ; total, 14.406; total visiton for week ending Satu-
rday, 64.204. Total visitors since opening of the Palace,
June 10,1854, 8,642,580.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(TRW DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(More ths Miaow at Um Rells.)
prri.,sima =WARDS.

Ili. Honour oive juncoes& in this case, which tame eh
upon further reanimation. The Tootle° was whether the
oft over contained in the will it the teenenur O the came
tiob effect under the circuin.tances stated below. The
„:ift ran thn. ; - should one or more of them, his nephews,
111,141.1 W lief ore inama4r, sal les. e so issue, their part or
pert. should fall to the remaining nephew or nephews,
.•r their issue, share awl share a:lke." One of the nephews
merited awl ibed. lesein,; issue ; And the surviving nephew
Iminog no issue.

Mr. Teed and Mr. Chez les ountentled, on the part of the
hildren .4 the first-mentioned nephew, that the weed
•• Aid" in the clause ought to be read " or," and that as
t 1., death of the last-mentiosed nephew, alter marriage and
itlond iwue, the gift over took effect.
HI. Honour MAI that though Lord Hardwick, bad deter.
mined in • caw preciaely resembling the present that the
words might he read a. contended,vet ixasmach as the
11,416• of Lords in a recent came had decided otherwise, he
was hound by the decision of the euperior court and must
hold the gift over did sot {eke effect.
Mr. It. Palmer, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Follett, Mr. ().borne,
Mr. Southgate, and Mr. Deuce appeared for the parties.
INGLII 0. ax HAZE..
This ..aume •Lio came on upon further consideration. It
ws. in the piper for judgment on one point on Saturday,
when his Honour held that where • testator had ap...
P.nted three person. executrix and executors of his will,
soil one of thine person. was indebted to hi. estate, and the
other two alone proved the will, and upon their dermae the
indebted exe.utor CAM., in sod proved also, that the latter
u. doing discord himself of the immunity arising from
hi. do ht, brio: lorred by the statute of linuta-
t on.. This nioru.ng his Honour added that the
dafen.bad, the deldor, had acted most candidly
and lionoomlily in di.cluiing the existence of the debt, of
which proof sdiunde would have leen difficult. ft WWI not
the prat-tics .1 the court to charge inherent upon
staid laibincrs, 1114 mies properly in the hands
of persons irtliteFluently becoming legal repre•
sentstiVlM. its to • 'balance of 1.0004.. which
had been phased in a hank to the credit of the estate, inch
intere.t only wind be paid as had been received ; and as
h. the debt of difilf., properly the amount of in.
Serest ou it would be determined by the note
...curing it, but an that errs not forthetod7im
given
the usual ride by the court (4 per rent.) mast be •
free the .lato of the probate granted to the debtor the
day .4 pity nient.
Mr. It Palmer, Mr. Selwyn, Mr. C. Barber, and Mr.
Hristowe appeared for the different parties.

Thomas $ ticket collector, and Wiliam Hardin,
en impactor, in the IeI7ICC of the Loodoo and Blackl
pany
Johnson stated that the prisoners came to the Shadwell
station with the 45 min. met 10 o'clock train on Saturday
night. The train was from Woolwich. The prisoners were
very disorderly and mach intoxicated. One of them jumped
dorm on the line and put his life in danger, for other trains
were due and approaching the station. There wee a dog
with the prisoners, which they refused to pay for. One of
the prisoners seized him by the throat, and a struggle took
plasm in the course of which the inspector came up and he
waliansaulted awl kicked.

Mr. Harding stated that be new one of the prisoners fight-
* with the signal men, and upon laying hold A him be
swore most terribly and kicked him on the side. The con-
duct of both prisoners was very groom indeed.
Mr. Yardley--Who kicked you?
Witness— the primmer Kay.
The prisoners said the dog was paid for at the Berkley
road.station, and that so ticket was given them at that
place, and they would call a wits.= to prove that fact.
A person was called but did not arum
Mr. Yardley said it would have made some difference in
his estimation if the dog bad bes paid for. He fined Kay
20s. and the tither prime'? 10a

THB NATIONAL BULB ASSOCIATION.
MAISTING AT WIMBLEDON.-(27118 DAY.)

This morning Wimbledon-common, large as is it&
area, was literally covered with people, who assembled for
the double purpose of ascertaining the result of the contest
for the prizes offered by the National Mille Association
and of witnessing the arrival of the queen. It was originally
inteailed that her Mejesty would arrive ►t three o'clock, but
at that time her Majesty had not appeared, and it was an.
pounced that half-past three was the time axed for receiving
the address determined upon by the council, and firing
the lint ride.

Volunteers in their various uniforms, and foreigners from
various nations appeared on the scene of action to contend
for the prizes under the regulations which have already been
published. Her Majesty's prize of 250/. will not be con.
tended for until Monday or Tuesday in next week.
Amongst the earliest arrivals this morning were the Duke
of Wellington, the Duke of Cambridge (who took an active
part in superintending the arranfiements), Lord
Echo, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Sir De Lacy Evans,
Lord Combermere, Lord Cardigan, Colonel North, M.P.,
Colonel Knox, M.P. The inner circle, in which her Ma.
jests will receive the address, was filled with distingnialwd
visitors.