The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-28 00:00:00

4MPERIAL

HOUSE OF LORDB.—TunsaLy, Fs. 27.

The LOUD Caen =Loa took his eat on the wookaak
at 5 *taloa.

SMALLPDX AMONGST MOM

The Duke of PLIORMOND eked vbetbaz the cormo-
rant had reosired any information of the existence of
smallpox unapt ■ to this countri, end if so, in what
coon ty the diners had Mahn out.
Earl GRANVILLE was understood to my thatmail-
pox had appeared among sheep in Northamptonshire and
in another part of the country. P.!"
The Duke of ILARLBORDIJGH wished tolnow whether,
as that was the case, the government had !taken or Con-
templated taking any precautions ac porhe of entry spinet
the importation of &sewed sheep. t.""1"
Earl GB.ANVILLE said the Gartner authorities lad
taken the suns pmentions in regard to sheep as than
which had fora keg time been in force with respect to
• aattie.
The Earl of CAENARVON inquired where was the
emend piece in which the smailpor had tehken out among
sheep ?
Earl GRANVILLE replied that his memory did not
serve him urn the point.
THE ()ATTU PLAGUE BIER,.

Earl GRANVUJA in pursuance of the understanding
arrived at en the pe moue evening, said be now loth the
course which it then appeared would be sloth agreeable to
the house, by moving the mooed reeding of the bill
as he bad already intimated, be um not able to deftetat
measure both in principle and detail, in the usual meow
when the government proposed! a bill.
The bill, after some discussion, was road a second time
and ordered to be referred to a select committee, tiorwisting
of his Royal Highness the Priam of Wales, Berl Graaville,
the Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of
liarlborwegb, the Duke of Bnoldngham and Chandoe, the
Marquis or &Rehm, the Earl of eta, the Berl of
Air)* Earl Co all Spenosr, the Bari of tlarnarvos,
Earl Grey, er,ey, Lad Barnes.,er Lord Stanley of Aldsrley, and
Lord Lyveden.
THE CATTLE PLAGUE.

The Karl et AIRLIE moved for a copy of • memorial to
the Privy °mead flan the proprietors and tenant farmers
of Hiseardiseehire, praying for the suspension of that part
of the eat of 29th Viet, Gap. 2, alarm lb, which relates
to the slaughter et cattle, and fora copy of the answer to
that memorial. The seernorial, he had bees told, wee
signed by a large number of persons ot the highest standing
in the county, and by many of the most reepeetable te-
nant farmers. Thy elated that under a system of can
whieh they had reesplk adopted they had succeeded in
saving 90 per wet, et_thtanimals eated.
Earl GRANM.I.S wtr
eeded to the erotica, but declined
reoliseumion on a question which had been decided by •
large majority in eoroasittee on the bill. Motion agreed to.
The house adjourned at 20 minutes to 7.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—'TtrasDAy, Fes. 27.
The Seam took the chair shortly before at 4 o'clock.

NEW ADMEN.
Lord J. HAY took the oaths and hie seat for Ripon, in
the room of Sir Charles Wood. now Lord Halifax.
GENERAL ELECTION PETITION!!! COMMITTEE.
Mr. Bonbans•Oarter, Mr.l Clay, Mr. Whitbread, Mr.
Walpole, Mr. W. Hunt, and Mr. Oorry, were sworn at the
table, as the general sommittee on election petitions.

PRIVATE 8118T21839.
The following bill. were read a seized time :—Oleethorpen
Ow Bill ; Colebrook Railways Bill ; HsTaltam, Blaudlced,
and Dorchester Road Bill ; Wy• Valley Railway Bill.
The Kensiggtos Improvement sal was teed • woad
time.

THE NOTTINGHAM =mot/ PETITION.
Mr. WATICIN preeentad • petition from Mr. John
Plum, the sheriff, and Mr. Christopher Swoon, the under-
sheriff of Nottingham, oomplaining of a paragraph in the
petition of Laurence Tarr and others, spinet the return
of Mr. Samuel Morley, stating that the poll-books were
takes by the sheriff or uoderariff, and that at a private
'nesting, the evening before the declaration of the poll, the
sheriff and under.sheriff bad unlawfully allured assiala
vote. that had been given in favour of Sir Robert Clifton
and Mr. Marten, and counted them as having bean given
is favour of Mr. S. Morley and Mr. Para, and praying that
the said paragraph may be expunged.

ELECTION TIMMONS.
On the motion of Sir W. GALLarnv,a return wea ordered
of all election petitions oomplaining of the return on the
wound of bribery and oorrapt practices for any borough in
the Celled Xiagdom, which have been derided sham *ha
year 1832, with the decision in each cam.

THE OOLONY OF VICTORIA.
Lord R. MONT/LOC said as pavan were about to be
laid on the table of the house with reigned to the
colony of Viotolia, he should postpoee his motion on the
,object, which stood for to-sight, until the 25th of March.

DEVONPORT ELECTION PETITION.
Sir J. PAKINGTON gave notice that co going into oom-
mittce of .apply on Thursday next he should call the atten-
tion of the government to certain etatements ea to the
manner in which dockyard workmen who were voters in
the borough of Devooport have been examined in the
dockyard with reference to the nature of the evidence they
conid give before the election committee for that borough,
and that he should uk for en explanatioo on that subject.
SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES OP THE AMIE.

MALTY BOARD.
Mr. FEBMAND gave notice that is the event of the re-
turn ordered by the house on Friday last of the salaries
and allowances of the Admiralty Board. Whitehall, not
being printed before vote 3 is moved by the Secretary of
the Admiralty, be will move the postponement of the vote
until such return has been delivered with the votes of the

THE PALMERSTON MONUMENT.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER appeared at
the bar, and brought up her Majesty's most gracious answer
to the address of the house relative to the erection of a
monument to the memory of the late Lord Palmerston in
Westminster Abbey at the public expense, in which her
Majesty was graciously pleased to date that she had gnsa•
direetioes for the monument to be erected in accordance
with the address.