The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

-WAYS AND MEANS.

The report on ways and means was brought up and re-
ceived.

•—•
CONSOLIDATED FUND.—THE APPROPRIATIAM
BILL.
Mr. LAINO brought up the Appropriation Bill, witieli
WU read a tint time amidst some cheers.

EAST INDIA LOAN BILL.
On the order for the third reading of this bill, •
Mr. BUXTON asked what was the number of native and
European troops which the government intended to keep in
India for the future, which now comprised a native army of
180.000 and of Europeans 80,000, besides a large force of
military police. There was not the least shadow of a chance
of invasion in India, and he could not therefore midentand
why we should keep up an army there which was pressing
heavily on the resources of Indef.!
Colonel SYKJ said it was his thorough conviction that
if the present frightful extravagance which now pervaded
every department in India was continued the right hon.
gentleman the Secretary of State for India would have to
coins to the house every veer to ask for money to carry on
the government there. If 22„000 troops were enough to
keep India and to break down the mutiny, surely there
could be no necessity now for the enormous army we kept
there at msent, and at four times the coat.
Mr. HADFUILD complained that we should tax the
Hindom and Mahommedains 140,0001. to maintain our
ecclesiastical institution iu

Mr. DARBY SEYMOUR lamented the want of firmness
and vigour on the part of the right honourable geti-
tleman the Secretary of State for India. He was
convinced that nothing else was wanted to reduce
our expenditure or to avoid imposing new
which many people who knew India well considered
would be dangerous to our role in that country.
He never heard any satisfactory reason why 400,000 troops
should be continued in India after the mutiny bad berm
thoroughly put down. The government wanted the police
to be • thoroughly military force ; against that Sir C. Tre-
velyan stoutly fought, and, happily, successfully, and now
the police of the whole south of India were Iled after
the system of the metropolitan police, and at an annual
cost of 147,000 f. He thought the right hon. gentleman
did not sufficientl allow for the Wan balances, which
at present were larger than they ever were before.
Sir C. WOOD said the loan he was now proposing
had no reference whatever to the matters which had been
introduced into this discussion. He thought many of the
statements made by lion. gentlemen were erroneous. One
hon. gentleman asked why he did not issue an order to re-
duce the number of troops in India. His answer to that was
that he could not issue such an order or reduce the
number of troops in the face of the Governor•Oeneml of
India and the authorities cm the spot, all of whom were of
opinion that in the present circumstances of India they
could not be safe with less than 80,000 European
troops. He need not refer to the remarks of the hun.
member for Sheffield (Mr. Hadfield) as to the alleged
increase of the ecclesiastical establishment in India
further than to say that it bad not been increased—all that
bad been done was to fill up vacancies. With regard to the
observations of the bon. meniber for Poole (Mr. L/ii.
mtroo:rj
be had shown that they were wholly nolo
therefore he accused him of having been guilty of
a disregard for the services of public men in
order that he might found an attack upon Mr. Wilson.
There was one thing which he (Sir C. Wood) was glad of,
and that was that the hon. member had now discovered that
what he (Sir C. Wood) said on • former occasion was quite
true, and if the hon. gentleman
which had been on the had
re oormil taken the trouble
to read the papers table
of the house before he made his pe attacks he would
have refrained from making them. (Hear, hear.) The hon.
gentleman had again complained that he (Sir C. Wood) had
not enjoined economy upon the government in India, but if
he had turned to the despatches which had been printed he
would have found there that he had repeatedly urged upon
Lord Canning, Mr. Wilson, and Sir B. Frere the necessity of
reducingthe expenses, and not a mouth had passed without
his sending out • letter to those gentlemen urging
the strictest economy. As regarded the police
for India the government had taken the opinion of Sir John
Lawrence in reference to the police of the Punjaub, and
they bad sent out that option to the government of India,
and left to them to determine how it should he Zormed for
the rest of India. As to reductions in the expenditure he
might state that they had been made to the extent of 3)
millionsin the past year, and 2) millions this, making toge-
ther 6,000,0001. in the reduction of military expenses
alone—(bear, bear)—andevery exertion would be made to go
forward in that direction in other departments.
Mr. H. SEYMOUR explained that he had never intended
to make any attack upon the right hon. gentleman, and that
it would be far greater pleasure to him to agree with his
policy than to take exception to it. (Hear, hear.)
The bill was then, in the presence of ten members, read •
third time and passed.

THE SPIRIT DUTIES BILL
This bill was read • third time and
THE YUMA PAY

This bill wasmid a ectoToitiiiioe.

THE PARTY EMBLEMS (IRELAND) BILL.
The above bill passed through the committee, after •
long discussion of it. clauses, and with many amendments.
The Local Government Act (1858) Amendment Bill air
vim passed the committee.
The Law and Equity Bill and the Titles to Land (Scot-
land) Act= Amendment (No. 2) Bill were read a third
time and
On the order for the second reading of the Divorce Court
Bill
. .

Hr. HENNESSY raised a question whether the House
of Lords, which had passed the bill, had not trenched upon
the privileges of the Commons.
The SPKEJt gave his opinion at some length upon the
question ; and, on the motion of Mr. Jaitr4, the debate
was adjourned.
Several bills received from the Lords were read a second,
time.

—Re Metropolitan Police Force (Dockyards) (No. 2) Bill
panned through committee.
The Companies Bill was withdrawn.
The Sale at Gas Act Amendment Bill was read a third
time and peened.
The house adjourned at a quarter past 1 o'clock.

INUNDATIONS IN lEKLAND.—The Dublin journals
teens with the most gloomy accounts of the weather in
variotto parts of the country, there having been very heavy
rains for some days past. In Dublin Wolf the deluge was
so great on Batonlay morning that an inundation was
threatened. The Brume and Glendiue (or Oxmantowu)
rivers which run through Parsoustowit, here overflowed,
sweeping away acres of turf and causing great consterna-
tion. In some parts houses were flooded and the inhabit-
ante had to go to other parts of the town. There are
immense floods from Decry to Enniskillen and up to
Drogheda, acres of hay having been swept away.
bridges have been thrown down, the roads have
been cat across in several )laces, and there have been
several extensive slips of railway embankments. Accounts
from the low•lying districts of the county of Leinater give
fearful details of the destruction caused to all kineh of

property. Little rivulets have been swelled into resistless
torrents, carrying eveuthing away in their onward course.
Rivers have overflowed their boundariers and covered whole
tracts of country to the depth of several feet, of course
caning immense Injury to grain crops and meadows. Where
the produce of the latter has been cut it has in many in-
stances been carried away and totally destroyed, while in
sonic cases cattle have been drowned. The bog lying on
each side of the road leading from Maryborough
to liountmellick, on which a great quantity of
turf had been cut and dried, is now one vast sheet of
water which will tell severely on the proprietors, and in-
deed generally on the consumers of turf in the locality, as,
from the severity of the summer, the scarcity of that ar•
tide of fuel was beginning to be keenly felt. The river
' Barrow, becoming swollen in the district near Mountmel-
lick, has
caused considerable damage • and in (h.stletown
and about it, several hundred pounds will be required to
cover the loss occasioned to the crops And dwellings of the
people. The picturesque little town of Timahoe n said to
be entirely flooded, the street. and roads there being quite
impassable on account of the vast accumulation of water.
But the most melancholy account we have is from the town
of Templeniorc, where nearly every house wits filled with
water ; and one poor fellow, a policeman named Eugene
O'Sullivan, lust his life.