The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 22.

THE resentment with which the right honourable
leader of the Opposition last night so promptly
encountered the mere semblance of an infringe-
ment of the rights of the House of Commons is of
happiest augury. People are mistaken who think
he will sit tamely by and see its privileges in.
vaded : only let anyone lay a finger on them, and
it will be seen how energetic he can be in their
defence. Some electors of Finsbury, taking a
strongly practical view of the British Constitu-
tion, and looking with natural dislike on a
search after precedents against their right to be
taxed only with their own consent by and through
their representative% had sent up their " reepect-
.

" ful remonstrance" to the House of Commons,
complaining of its dilatoriness in resisting the
recent aggression of the Home of Lon* and coil-
ing it to immediate and resolute action in defence
of the rights it holds in trust for the nation.
Mr. Drsowsc, who had charge of the document,
moved that it be read by the Clerk at the table,
but the word " remonstrance " was no sooner
heard than Mr. Dianazu was on his feet. He
would not tolerate that terrible word. It was
against the forms of the House ; it was irregular; no
remonstrance could be received. The &masa,
however, decided that a petition properly and
respectfully worded was not to be rejected. The
remonstrance was read, and proved to be a wholly
unobjectionable paper. Mr. DIMIAIII.B im-
petuosity led him astray last night, but the
example of his zeal was not quite thrown away.
From last night's display we may predict the energy
with which he will defend the rights of the House
when the Committee of Precedents makes its
report. If he would not tolerate the respectful re-
monstrances of tax-payers and electors, who at
least are concerned in the doings of a House
returned as their representatives, how little will
he endure that tho rights of the House of Com-
mons shall be ignored, overborne, and annulled by
the House of Lords.

The attendance in the House of Commons during
the important debete on the Organisation of the
Indo-European Army which followed the presenta-
tion of the Finsbury petition cannot be deemed
satisfactory by those who hoped that the terrible
scenes of the Indian Mutiny, and the change in
the form of the Indian Government, would bring
about in England a feeling of deeper interest in
our Eastern Empire. The question, worthily
brought before Parliament last night by Lord
ISTANLET, was disposed of in a House of only
thirty members. Indifference on the part of sonic,
and a spirit akin to fatalism in others, are robbing
our Indian fellow-subjects of the advantages of
independent and enlightened home legislation. The
conduct of the Indian Minister respecting this
subject has been marked by extreme vacillation.
Last year he was for • local force ; now, the
fact that that force has done a thing which
under similar circumstances the Household Troops
would do to-morrow, he is against them, and all
for • royal army. How India is to be governed,
whether we are to hold the country by moral
ascendancy, or by a lavish expenditure on Euro-
pean troops, draining oar own vital resources, and
disordering the finances of India, an surely great
questions. Yet the Government is without plan,
and tie House of Commons without concern.
Surely never was a vast Empire governed as we
gpvern

A BILL for the regulation of the Supply of Gas
to the Metropolis has been substantially approved
and adopted by the Committee of the House►of
Commons. After an elaborate and protracted dis-
cussion by contending counsel, the preamble,
which recognises the principle of dividing the
metropolis into districts to be supplied with gas,
each by a separate company, subject to a uniform
code of regulations for the benefit of consumers,
was declared by the Committee to have been
proved. An unsuccessful attempt was then made
to come to an agreement between the managers
for the Companies and the delegates of the asso-
ciated parishes regarding the principal clauses of
the Bill. Subsequently the controversy was re-
sumed on each specific provision of consequence,
and it was not until the combined monopolists had
exhausted every argument in defence of their ins-
spoomitile power as regards quantity, quality, and
pries, and found the Committee unanimously re-
solved to do justice to the public as well as to
them, that their learned and ingenious advocates
gave up the contest. Serjeant WRANONAN inti-
mated indeed, on withdrawing further opposition
in the Common., that his clients meant to try
their fortune filially before a Committee of the
Lords. What conclusion such a tribunal may
arrive at in the inscrutable exercise of hereditary
knowledge of gas making, gas measuring, and gas
vending, it were presumptuous in us to
mine. But as there is no political, social,
or sectarian question involved, it is but reasonable
to suppose that the decision of the Peers will be
swayed by the same incontrovertible logic that
seems to have convinced that of the Lower House;
and if so, we may look forward with satisfaction

to the passing of a measure during the present
session of no ordinary utility and advantage to the
inhabitants of this great city.

The principal points contended for by the pro-
moters of the Gas Regulation Bilr were oonstaney
of pressure, purity of quality, adequacy of illu-
minating power, moderation of price, and a cheap
and expeditious method of enforcing by law the
observance of these conditions. So far they have
succeeded M all. By the 17th section a pressure
of ten-tenths, or of one inch head of water, is
rendered compulsory at all times, both in public
and private dwellings. By the 18th section a
uniform illuminating power is prescribed of twelve
sperm candles of six to the pound for every
Argand burner of fifteen lights and seven-inch
chimney. By the same section the gas consumed
is to be free from ammonia, sulphnretted hy-
drogen, and other injurious elements. By the
34th section the maximum price chargeable for
every thousand cubic feet consumed of the qua-
lity in question is henceforth to be four dialing;
permission being given, however, to charge twenty
per cent, more for an article of higher quality,
either upon special contract, or after three months'
notice in writing. Provision is then made in a
series of dawns for the appointment of competent
persons by vestries and other local authorities, to
oversee the fulfilment of these terms, and also for
the adjudication of disputes between the company
and the consumer by the police magistrate of the
district. Much controversy took place as to the
propriety of appointing special magistrates for the
discharge of this particular function ; but we are
glad to find that Mr. SOTEMION &moor=
and his colleagues firmly resisted the
suggestion. Every day convinces us more
thoroughly of the mischievous tendency of separate
and special jurisdictions ; and we hope ere long to
see the day when all such anomalous and excep-
tional institutions will cease to exist amongst us.
Whether a police magistrate will always be found
well fitted to discharge the new duty which it is
sought to impose upon him, is more than we can
venture confidently to aver. But we own we do
not see what better alternative is open to the ad-
vocates of the measure before us ; and in most
instances we have no doubt what is proposed will
be found to work exceedingly well. If the magis-
trate shall think fit he is to be empowered to
nominate a duly qualified person to act spe-
cially as examiner into the disputed facts upon
which he is called on to adjudicate ; and
should the inculpated company neglect to appear
he is to have full authority to enter into the in-
vestigation ez parte, and to give his judgment as
he shall deem right.
Another most useful and reasonable provision
is contained in the Bill as it now stands approved
by the Commons' Committee ; we allude to that
whereby the incoming tenant is freed from all
legal responsibility for arrears of gas-rent due by
his out-going predecessor in occupation of the
premises. The oppression and injustice wrought
by the arbitrary holding of tenants of the poorer
class liable for the default of those who have gone
before them, has long been a matter of odious
notoriety. Public opinion through the medium
of the press has incessantly protested against
this species of exaction, but all to no
purpose. Cases of the most grievous hardship,
when held up to general indignation,
have usually been admitted and defended by
the officers of the Companies. Sometimes the
circumstances have been disputed in their minor
details, but generally the charge has been flip-
pantly pooh-poohed as one unworthy of the serious
consideration of chartered capitalists. Let us hope
that this species of joint-stock tyranny is soon
to come to an end, and that the millions who
inhabit London and its suburbs will no longer
have to complain of being at the mercy of a few
individuals for the supply of what has become an
actual necessary of their artificial mode of life.

THE Lieutenant-Colonel of the London Rifle
Brigade points out to us how entirely the partici-
pation of hundreds of Volunteers in the spirit-
stirring celebration in Hyde-park, appointed for to-
morrow, must depend on the sympathetic co-opera-
tion of heads of business houses. Many of the
Corps, in order to reach the ground at the tune
named by the War Office authorities, must parade
at an hour earlier than that at which they are
ordinarily relieved from business engagements on
Saturdays, and Colonel them oaks us, therefore,
to appeal to the good feeling of the Banking,
Commercial, and Trading community for the faci-
lities required on this special occasion. We feel
sure we do all that is necessary when we simply
ail the attention of heads and managers of homes
to the facts stated by the gallant officer.

We observe that several retail houses announce
in the newspapers the;r intention to close on Satur-
day at an early hour, and a much larger number
notify the same determination in other ways.
But without urging the adoption of this course
where, as in many cases, it would be inconvenient,
we are sure the good feeling of employers, which
ends so many and frequent modes of expression
in this metropolis, will not be found wanting on
the present occasion, when our young men, whose
constancy and devotion to the Volunteer service
has triumphed over the difficulties of • trying
season and the monotony of drill, setting an ex-
ample of patriotism to us all, are about to receive
• reward in the approving countenance of their
Strreastair.

Tim Cadgers. —A memorial against the religions
mem dame bee been addres.ed by the dissenters of Ply-
mouth to gewernenent praying that its proposed provieloas
may not be curried out.
SYNTATIIIT Inn GIZITALDI.--GARAT MEETING
AT TSB OCILDNALL, Itaisrm. —A public meeting of oiliness
was held yeeterdey at Bristol, in compliance with a mend-
Boa, snaserosely and influentially signed, and pre.ented to
the Right Worshipful the Mayor, John Bates, Fag., for the
of expressing sympathy with the patriotic GeneralMMedi. His worship sew some difficulties in the way of
presiding over the meeting as chief magistrate, hut cordially
granted the use of the Guildhall, which at the time
named for the commencement of proceedings was ninth
crowded. W. H. G. Langton, Esl., one of the members
for Bristol, presided, and amongst those by whom he was
surrounded were the Very Rev. the Dean of Bristol, Dr.
Gilbert Elliott, Matthew Davenport Hill, Esq., Q.C., Com-
miasimier of the Bristol Court of Bankruptcy, and Recorder
of Birmingham ; Joe. Couter, J.P C. J. Thomas,
Req., J.P. ; Michael Castle, Fag., J.P. ; 13r Jobe Hare,
John Hare, Peq.. &gam Dunkin, RobartGore, Esq., ILW.
Drees, Fag, At. Mr. Commissitmer Hill moved, Mr.
John Hare seconded, and Signor Anneal supported the fol-
lowing rosolutionawhich were carried amidst great cheerio..
That we, the eitisens of Bristol, in public meeting as-
sembled, express our hearty svmpethy with Gerthald and
with his heroic countrymen, who are now struggling to put
as end to the tyranny which has so long oppressed them ;
mid we honour all those who are labouring to establish in
Italy that rational freedom and constitutional government
which, by God's blessiig upon the exertions of our form
lathes% we enjoy 10 Great Britain under our beloved
Oa the motion of Mr. M. Castle it was then re
solved to Invite the inhabitants of Bristol and it. vicinity
to mime by subscription a fund for the purpose of presenting
the great Italian patriot with a testimonial of their seats.
sesta, such load to be pieced at Lis exclusive and absolute
&Tonal. The speeches delivered were eloquent and heart.
stints., and we regret the pressure on our space precludes
ise from prim. them ; the wrongs of Italy were
dencaoeei
dwelt upon, and the conduct of her °meson denommeM
is the most forcible terms. An iefluential committee Wig
appointed to carry out the resolutions, and • subscription
was commenced, by the chairman with the heads
aerie donation of IV., and comprising many smaller ewe&
Dation., amounting in all to something considerable. Them
cheers were gives for the Queen and three for Osribsidi,
and the pigembnge teemaaract

Sbt Court.
•
The Prince Consort, the King of the Belgium,
Priam Arthur, the Ptinceeses Hahne and Louise, raj the
Count of renders, meat to the lowerehow in the Royal
Betook Gardens, ilegeut's-park, ea liedaseday seregag.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princes Alice, and
attended by the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, took a drive on
Wednaably afternoon in a carriage and four. Hajar-
General Seymour Weeded on horseback.
The Prince Consort end the Count of Flanders rode on
horseback, attended by Lieut,Colonel the Hon. D. de Bee
and Major Burnell.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Major-General the
Hon. R. Brtue sad Lieut.• Colossi Koppel, arrived at
Buckingham Palace on Wednesday maims from Oxford.
The Queen awl Prince Consort, aseomp►nied by the
Primer Alice, the Prince of Wales, and the Count of
Fianden, honoured the Duke and Duchess of Wellington
with • visit at Apeley-house on Wednesday evening. In
attendance were the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duchess of
Atholl, Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon. Horatio. Stoplord,
Viscount Torrington, General Sir Edward Bowater, Major-
General the Hon. R. Brace, Major-General Seymour,
Lieut.-Colossl the Hon. D. de Be., Lieut.-Colonel Keppel,
and Major BernelL

ma Prince Commit, accompanied by the Prince of Wales,
rode so horseback yesterday morning, attended by Lieut.-
Oolong the Hon. D. de Roe.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Keppel,
vidted the Duchess of Cambridge, at her residence in St.
James's Palace, yesterday afternoon.
The model of the status of Handel, which has recently
been erected at Halle by Heidel, the sculptor of Berlin, wen
submitted to the inspection of the Prince Consort yesterday
morning, at Buckingham Pelee., by Sir George Smazt., the
President, and Mr. Klingermann, the Secretary to the Lon-
don committee of the Handel Statue.

The Prince Coasort, the Pried of Wales, and the Count
of Flanders rode on horseback in the afternoon.
Vice-Admiral Arthur Fanshaere wee invested with the
insignia of a Knight Cesnmeinder ef the Order of the Bath
by her Majesty, at a private audience at Buckingham
Palace, yesterday evening. The Vies Admiral received from
the Queen the honour of knighthood.
The Queen had a dinner party in the evening.
The following presentations to the Queen took place at
the Levee on Wednesday :
Admiral of the Fleet Sir John West, on receiving the
Orand Cron of the Order cd the Bath, by the Duke of
Somerset.

The ➢larquis of Waterford, by the Earl of Shrewsbury
and Talbot.

The Hon. Colonel Macdonald, on promotion, by the Duke
of Ombridge.

Owsmal iteeve, on promotion, by the Duke of Cambridge.
Yr. Homy Garnett, High-Sheriff of the County Paktum,
of Lancester, by Sir C. C. Lewis, Bart., M.P.
Mr. Lewis-Barbed, by Vioe•Admiral SW Alexander Dundee
Arbuthnott.

A deputation on the subject of Salmon Fisheries, &c., in
England and Wales, had an interview with Sir G. C. Lewis,
yesterday, at the Hotne-office.

Deepatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday
from the Governor of Malta.

Her Majesty ham been graciously pleased to an-
nounce her intention of inaugurating the first great Prise
Meeting of the National Rifle Association on Wimbledon-
SPOMMICO on the 2nd of July next, on which occasion ad-
dresses will be presented to her Majesty and the Prince
Consort by the President of the Association. The competi-
tion will commence immediately afterwards, the opening
being announced by her Majesty firing a rifle from a fixed
mechanical rest.

His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, as
Captain-General and Colonel-in-Chief of the Hon. Artillery
Company, will make a personal inspection of the regiment
this afternoon, at the heaglquartersof the corps, the Artillery
Ground, Finsbury.

ViscountessPahnerston gave a ball last evening at
Cambridge House. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
bosomed her ladyship with his presence, arriving rattly
after 11 o'clock. Their Serene Highnesses the Prince John
and Prince Jules of Holstein-Glricksburg were amongst
the early arrivals. His Serene Highness Prince Frederick
of Holstein was also present.
Lest night Viscountess Combermere had a mirk
at her mansion Helgrave-equare. A select circle availed
themselves of bar ladyship's invitation. Previously to the
evening party the noble viscount and viscountess enter-
tained at dinner the following friends :—The Duke of Bt.
Albans, Viscount Falkland and the Duchess of St. Albans,
the Earl and Countess of liountcharlea, the Countess Vane,
Lord and Lady Rokeby, Lord and Lady Egerton, Lady
William Poulett, Hon. R. Talbot, Camel and Lady Ross
(bovine, Lady Ifolesworth, Sir Ralph and Lady Howard,
Oolonel North, and Sir Charles Yorke.

Lord Palmerston has recommended to the Queen
the appointment of the Re►. John Newton Hintman, of
Trinity College, Oxford, vicar of Hereford, in the diocese
al Salisbury, to the rectory of Buford Bt. Martin, Wilt-
shire, rendered vacant by the preferment of the Hon. and
Rev. Samuel Waldegrave to the bishopric of Carlisle. The
rectory of Barford, which is worth 700/. a year, belongs to
the warden and fellows of All Souls College, Oxford ; bet
its last incumbent being elevated to a bishopric, the crown
claims the presentation.

The Piaster and Fellows of Trinity Hall, Cam-
bridge, have elected Mr. Deane Parker Pennethorne, of
Lincoln's-inn, the Chancellor's Legal Medallist of 1860, into
one of the Law Studentahips of th►t college. Marrs.
Walker, Romer, Kennedy, Stewart, Francillon, Rolph, and
leaner ham been elected scholar on the foundation.

We understand that one of the Lord Mayor's
pasta, at the Haoaioa•hoaee, on lbund•y, was Count
Frederick Met•sa, a young gentleman 13 yesn old, who
hes just pugged hie examination at the Royal Naval College.
His lordship, in a very Battering manner, conpatulated him
on his success, and has since presented him with • very
handsome watch. Colonel Francis Seymour, the equerry of
her Majesty and the Prince Consort, has also presented him
with • valuable telescope in testimony of his ►pproval of his
good conduct.

The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon writes from Baden-
Baden to the British Standard. Describing the late inter-
views between the Emperor Napoleon and the German
prisms, he stops to express his "gratitude." He says,
"Os Saturday the Emperor might be seen early in the
morning walking in the garden, leaning upon his walking.
stick, and looking more decrepit than his age might justify.
It is a theme for great gratitude that he is not a young man,
sad that, be his ambition what it may, be hos so great time
before him in which to work oat his political adventures.
Oa horseback or in his carriage, all men °oaten his noble
bearing, and no signs of decay are manifest ; bat, when he
is walking, the spectator foresees that the greatest of men
Si. mortaL"

Captain Hutchinson, of the American brigantine
Flying Eagle, reports that the steam-ship Great Eastern
passed him at 3.30 cm. on the 18th instant, Scilly Islands
bearing north, distant fourteen miles. The captain states:—
"Elbe was going ahead majestically, and very fast.• The
vessel Flying Eagle came into Falmouth yesterday, having
bad light variable winds with calm on the 17th and 18th,
so that the Great Eastern mast have had a fine time away.
There has been a sort of Merlin or Murphy pro-
phecy current for many months past, to the effect that the
foul weather with which we have been afflicted since Sep-
tember of last year was to 001318 to a termination yesterday
—the 21st of June—the longest day. The weather to-
day has been all that a volunteer could wish.

Several boats ou a new system, for forming a
bridge of boats to enable NI army to cross a river, hays
been placed on the Swim Lake at Vows'ilea Au experi-
ment is to be tried with them on a small sale, and if it
succeed the experiment will be repeated on a grand scale is
presence of the Emperor on the river Seine at St. cloud.
Under the new system the wooden beams and ropes at
pressat used in the construction of a bridge of boats are
mimed by °somehow.

"We understand," says the Sport, "that the
Count de Morny ham pwehitsed for 75,000 tr. the celebrated
stallion West Australian, which arrived at Chantilly last
week. This fine animal was born on the 24th April, IttO,
en the estate of Mr. Bowes, at Stn►tlem Castle, Durham,
sad woe the English Derby in MS& There ors now in
Prance four winners of the English Derby—Pyrrhus the
iime, Cossack, the Flying Dukthmen,and West Australian."
A Caasel letter says :—" Au escapade of one of
the Elector of Hesse's sow him been the town talk for the
Wt few days. The young piece is an officer, much against
his will, but his father will not allow him to resign his com-
mission. With • view to obtain his dendassl, the prince
lately indulged in the freak of riding about in public on the
shoulders of • stoat soldier."

iSt
.-4.CEtifT INTELLIGENCE.
GERMANY.

The following telegram has bean reoeived by Mr.
Reuter :

BADEN-BADEN, Jess 32.
It is now an incontestable fact that the Piince
of Prussia particularly insisted on the presence of
the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, at the
interview of the German sovereigns with the
Emperor of the French.

The Prince Regent insisted upon the duke's pre-
sence, because, as a German sovereign, who is
intimately connected with the royal family of Eng-
land, he would, having been a witness, inform the
court of St. James's of all that passed in that
interview, and would be enabled to state that the
interview in question, far from being a subject of
mistrust for the other great powers, was a fresh
guarantee for the peace of the whole of Europe.

The ainbamadors had concerted and sent identical
instructions to the different consuls in Syria, in
order to prevent fresh disasters.
1,500 houses had been burnt in the Turkish
quarter of Constantinople.