The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-09 00:00:00

THE REFORM BILL.

PROPOSED AMENDMENTS IN COMMITTEE.

In committee on Representation of the People
Bill, Mr. Gladstone will move in clause 3, page 2, line 5,
leave out "two years," and insert "twelve months."
Sime line, leave out "an inhabitant" and insert "the."
Line 6, leave out " dwelling house within the borough
and," and insert "house, shop, or other building, being
either separately or jointly with any land within such
borough occupied by him as owner, or occupied by him as
tenant under the same landlord." Line 8, leave out from
" has" to " and," in line 11, and insert " such premises
must be of the yearly rateable value of 5/. or upwards."
And, after the last-named words, insert :-4. Such occu-
pier must have resided in the borough, or within seven
statute miles of some part of the borough, for the six
months immediately preceding the said last day of July
in such year.
Mr. Ilibbert—Clans3 3, at end add, " Provided that
where the owner is rated in respect of a dwelling-house
instead of the occupier, the occupier may claim to be rated
for the purpose of acquiring the franchise, in the same
manner, and subject to the tame conditions in and sub-
ject to which an occupier may claim to be registered under
the net of the 14th and 15th Victoria, in reference to com-
pound householders of a clear yearly value of not less than
and all the provisions of the said act shall apply
accordingly."
Mr. Goddard—To move an amendment that the consi-
deration of the first and second pecuniary franchises for
voters in counties and boroughs, in clause 6. be postponed
until the house shall have had an opportunity of coining
to a decision with reference to the lodger franchise, and
subsequently to move that, in the event of • lodger fran-
chise being adopted, these two qualifications for the
franchise be struck out of the bill.

Sir H. Verney—To move a clause repealing the Act 22
George 111., c. 41, which "disables certain officers em-
ployed in the collection or management of her Majesty's
revenues from giving their votes at the elections of mem-
bers to serve in parliament."

PENIANISM AND THE WHITEBOY ACTS.

MEMORANDUM TO IRISH MAGISTRATES.

This morning was printed a copy of the circular
lately issued to the Irish magistrates, in which their at-
tention is directed to the following summary of their
powers and duties under the Whiteboy Acts, " the pro-
visions of which," writes Lord Naas, " will be found very
valuable in the present circumstances." It will be seen
that prominence is given in the summary to the fact that
the various classes of offenders are liable to whipping.
" 1. All persons armed with fire-arms or any other
weapon, or appearing in any disguise, or wearing any un-
usual uniform or badge, or assuming any name or denomi-
nation not usually assumed by ordinary persona in
their lawful occasions, who shall assemble, or who
shall appear, alone or with others, by day or
night, are guilty of a high misdemeanor, subjecting
them to penal servitude, imprisonment, and whipping.
2. All persons who assemble and unlawfully compel, or by
force or threats attempt to compel, anyone to quit his
dwelling or employment, or who shall maliciously assault
any dwelling-house, or who shall break into any house or
outhouse, or cause any door to be opened by threats, or
shall carry off any horse or mule, or any gnu or other
weapon, money, or other property, or shall by threats
cause same to be given up to them, are equally guilty, and
liable to the same punishment. 3. Any person who shall
write, poet, publish, or give any notice, letter, or message,
exciting, or tending to excite, any riot or unlawful
assembly, or combination, or threatening any violence to
person or property, or demanding arms, ammunition,
money, or other property, or requiring any person to
quit any employment, is liable to the same punishment.
4. All persons aiding and abetting others in the commis-
sion of any of the above offences are equally guilty, and
liable to the punishments abovemeutioned. L. All per-
sons who by drum, horn, fire, shouting, or any signal,
excite, or promote, or attempt to excite or promote, such
unlawful meetings, are also guilty of a high misde-
meanor. 6. Any persons who, by force or threats, un-
lawfully impose on or tender to any person any oath
or solemn engagement are guilty of a grave misde-
meanor, and are liable to whipping and imprisonment.
S. All magistrates and constables are empowered and
bound to apprehend, disperse, and oppose all persons so
engaged, and may call upon and command all persons who
are not disabled by age or infirmity to assist them in so
doing; and are fully indemnified for happening to kill,
maim, or hurt any person in discharging such duty.
8. Any two magistrates having reasonable cause to suspect
any person to be guilty of such unlawful rising, assem-
bling, or appearing as above mentioned, or of having been
at any such unlawful assembly, or of intending so to be,
may and are required to summon before them any such per-
son, and bind him over in his own recognisance to appear at
the next assizes, and to be of good behaviour in the mean-
time ; and in case of refusal, such magistrates have power
to commit such person to gaol. 9. Every magistrate has
authority to summon any person within his jurisdiction
whom he thinks capable of giving m►terial evidence as to
any such offence, and examine him or her on oath, and
hind such person in recognisance to appear and give evi-
dence, and on refusal to answer or to enter into recog-
Dimino., to commit such person to gad."

The above receipts, compered with the corresponding
two quarters of the previous year, show an increase of
4,14411. 10s. ; the returns for the last quarter of 1867, com-
pared with the corresponding one of 1666, show an increase
of 11,317/. 16a. Id. ; the total withdrawals since the forma-
tion of the society (1852), to Lady Day, 1667, are
296,2241. Ns. id. ; the total sale of land for the same
period is 511,245/. P.. ; the reserve fund to Lady Day,
12147, is 13,256/. I ls. ; the register of rights ',tends as fol-
lows :—Cornplete.l, 6,4(16; drawn, 3,356; seniority, 1,608 ;
total, 11,660 ; deduct rights exercised on estates, lc.,
9,116 ; unexercised rights, 2,542. The last share number
on the register of rights by seniority of membership is No.
16,066. The last share number issued to Lady Day, 184 W, was
No. 2...,(Wr.5. The new estates allotted since the previous re-
port were :—East London Estate, Forest Gate, 14 portion,
Lith December, 1666 ; North London Estate, Finchley, Ist
portion, 22nd March, 1867. As nearly the greater portion
of the first allotment of the Forest Gate Estate has been
already disposed of, the board will offer a second section of
this fine building property near the Wanstead Flats in the
course of the spring. The mansion and ornamental
gardens of about seven acres, admirablT adapted for •
private residence, or for a charitable institution, being
close to the Forest Gate station of the Great Eastern
Railway, w ill be for sale by private contract ; but if not
disposed of before the end of May, will be allotted in due
course. The executive committee, in the acquisition
of the Forest House Estate, were persuaded that,
from its extent and peculiar position as regards sepa-
rate roads, it was adapted for houses and villas for all
classes of the community. The number of cheap trains
running from the Ilishopagate station to Forest Gate, and
the shortness of the transit, will enable the operatives to
secure dwellings in • healthy locality, and to reach their
places of work and business promptly, Forest Gate being
only five miles from the City. The Finchley estate has
been bought since the list report of the board, a portion
allotted, and the whole of the plots thereon sold. The
land has a frontage to the Regent's-park road, and is
close to the new station on the Edgware, Highgate, and
London Railway, which is connected with the Great
Northern at the Seven Sisters' station, as also the King's.
cross station, with extension to Moorgateadreet, City.
The executive committee have the pleasure to report to the
shareholders that two eligible estates have been purchased,
namely, the Putney estate, No. 5, within a short distance
from the station, and with frontage to the Wandsworth-
road, and the Malvern Link estate, at the foot of the Mal-
vern Hills, with frontage to the high road to Wor-
cester. The new Putney property is bounded on
one side by the fourth Putney estate, which met
with such a prompt sale. The board anticipates that
the allotment will take place in the course of the en-
suing month. As regards the Malvern pink ettate, the ten-
ders for the roads will be advertised forthwith,and theland,
which is near the Malvern Link station, will he offered in
plots, commanding fine views of the Malvern Hills, on the
Ist of May next. Despite of the inclemency of the weather
the sale of land has been large, and satisfactory reports
here been received of the progress and pnevect of building
operations on the society's estate. Advantage will he
taken of the spring for the completion of roads and works
on various properties. The Conservative land Society
has acquired since its formation ill estates for alkeinent,
situated in 36 counties.-04ignedl RANF.I.ACIL Chairman.
(Countersigned) CHARLES LEWIS WLENBISEN, Secretary."
(Left sitting.)

Mr. Hubbard intends to move on the 33di,
" That it is inexpedient to raise a surplus revenue through
the operation of terminable annuities by retaining as part
of the inland revenue for the service of the year the pre-
sent duties on fire insurance, which are unjust in their
incidence on property, and egpecially injurious to the less
opulent portion of the community."
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FAMILY QUARRELs. —I wonder whether anyone
will read these pages who has never known anything of
the b:tterness of a family quarrel ? If so, I shall have a
reader very fortunate, or else very cold-blooded. It would
be wrong to say that love produces quarrels ; hut love
does produce those intimate relations of which quarrelling
is too often one of the consequences—one of the conse-
quences which frequently seem to be so natural, and some-
times seem to be unavoidable. One brother rebukes the
other, sod what brothers ever lived together between
whom there was no such rebuking?—then some warn,
word is misunderstood and hotter wonls follow and there
is a quarrel. The husband tyrannises, knowing that it is
his duty to direct, and the wife disobeys, or only partially
obeys, thinking that a little independence will become her ;
and so this is • quarreL The father, anxious only
for his son's good, looks into that son's future with
other eyes than those of his son himself—and so there is a
quarrel. They come very easily, these quarrels, but the
quittance from them is sometimes terribly difficult. Much
of thought is necessary before the angry man can remem-
ber that he too in part may have been wrong ; and any
attempt at such thinking is almost beyond the power of
him who is carefully nursing his wrath, lest it cool ! But
the nursing of such quarrelling kills all happiness. The
very man who is nursing his wrath, lest it cool—his wrath
against one whom he loves, perhaps, the heat of all whom
it has been given him to love—is himself wretched as long
as it lasts. His anger poisons every pleasure of his life.
He is sullen at his meals, and cannot understand his book
as he turns its pages. His work, let it be what it may, is
ill done. He is full of his quarrel—nursing it. He is
telling himself how much be has loved that wicked cue
how many have been his sacrifices for that wicked one, and
that now that wicked one is repaying him simply with
wickedness ! And yet the wicked one us at that very mo-
ment 'hearer to him than ever. If that wicked one could
only be forgiven how sweet would the world be again!
And yet he nurses his wrath.—The Last Okroxicie of
Baran, No. 18.