The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-04 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1859.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—ThruDAT, Mks= S.

stesedleg to the eighth Slide el that ken% wee given to
the Henewerka goveramme: Whether Kei notice was
_Alva or users ad; * me, 'bead k bed been re-
nented,ard OA what dale the eel Sooty would setuelly Wea-
sels ROM the netts simmensed to the hems as having been
ghee by the Under-fiesetery of State.
Mr. S. FITZGERALD replied that the notice for
the termination of the treaty between this country and
Hanover :erasing the Stade Does wee provisionally and
formally communicettd to the Hanoverian government, In
aoceedurce with the Bth article of the treaty, our the 14 h of
August last. Shortly afterwards, when the head of the
Ihneiga-office was in attendance on her Majesty at Hanover,
he VS/ urged by Count Claten to withdraw the notice, but
deelinsel doing so. Lord ILahneeWry, however, intimated
thin if hie Excellency would import to bias the reasons why
he wished the notice to be withdrew' they should be care-
' lay eonsidered, sad if they should be deemed satiefactory
osmotic* should be withdrawn. Some communications had
sirs taken pier., and it wee stated that the notice bad been
withdrawn or ausptioded; hut to that view the British iv-
cerement refused to accede, and in the last communication
which hod pared between the two governments It was stated
by Lord Msbnesteuy that any °hangs in the date of the
notice could only be made by official negotiatios, and that
the British government could not do otherwise than meta-
-1 We that the notice of the 14th of August was in full force
1 end effect. Her Majesty's goverment had mot thought it
roan to withdraw that notice,as it lei wow been either
withdrawn or suspended, and the treaty would therefore ex-
LIl
. the Ith of Asyut in the priest year.
SUPERANNUATION ALLOWANCES.
' k H. WILLOUGHBY mind the Semelmy to the
Tram, whether he could Mks. the hew, °crime a does-
en the taste to show what untsiter of perms la the I
doff service, what!'" their remuneration be etompatid by day
pay, weekly weg.s, or anneal salary, will he entitled to en.
menasuctien allowance and at what amount of charge to
the mobilo, nods elause'2 of the Seperessuati to Bill.
Sir 8. NORTHCOTE thought it sliest impossible to
give the mews whet for_ by the ben. baronet, for it would
aid may melee • great dud el ems, but the consideration
of widens te In sellled lameites On "Aug into COW -
allW is ihe bill he wool eademour to giro the home
mum 'Mil baformation es to tha amber of permits likely
to NM miler Its priviskos.
Ms. MOH thought it would he censaleat if the hen.
Weed uvula mammies not to mew the committee after tan
Welsch Ilemserner sight.
Sir ft NORTHCOTE Intimated his intent oh not to pro-
ved With the bill alter that hour.
THE CLOCK TOWER.
Mr. HARKEY eked the Chief Commtnioner of Works
whether the bells win now all Reed in the clock tower; win-
es,: the works of the dock had also bon pieced there;
whin the clock would be in working order; sad the total ea-
pease et the click. et Hear, hear," and laughter.)
Led J. MANNERS mid he would read to the home two
legilers which he bad received on the subject The fret VS/
ken Sir Charles Barry, dated Old Palace-yard, Mare 11:
'la reply to your letter of this day's date, I have to infant
you that the belle of the great dock at the New Paha, at
Westminster, were hoisted as soon me they Mere approved by
the referees eppo.nted to judge of their tone and quality, sad
have been Seed more than Shia. months. With respect to
the clock, I em unable to say what pogrese hes bees made
with it, or when it may be comply ; but Mr. E. B. Deni-
son, under whom wile superistendeoce the manufacture sad
supply of it is pieced, will, doubtkee, be able to afford
the informat'ou which the First Commissions 40
her Majesty's Werke requires ting it I sm,
sir, your -otedleat wryest, Charles Berry.—Alfred
Annie, Esq." Mr. Denison in his letter said :
. The answer to the drat part of the quests you here met
see is that the bells have been fixed in the Clock Tower ; but
they are now let down • httle, testable some pieces M beret
intothe frame, piths natant cidiagonalbraces, to straighten it
Mhmtthe abate owed by the blow of the great hemmer.
olock Is not fixed, Weems the Bork-room will not be
ready for it until the weight-Ash it properly covered over,
and the peoduhusesees ametrested M it, end= iodised
mange merle through the airethaft to give exam from the
dock room to the west dial works. This must also be made
of iron, boesuso the mirteleaft in, is feet, a chimney ; and
it most be mods carefully, so se to be sir-tieht, m die the
home of the ventilating Are will come into the elock-rocus.
lam wined that the nook-room will bs reedy fir the
sleek in a week, and that the bell teens with be dashed very
sees, sad therefore I ses no Tessa why the clock should not
drive the Ueda and besteildngia after months" (Laughter.)
The noble lard added that he would endeavors& to ascertain
whether he could gist the informatics asked lee by the hon.
member.
THE NEW FOREIGKOFFICE.
Mr. CONINGHAM naked the First Commlosioner of
Works mina he intended to exhibit the designs he the sew
Forelem-olleer?
Did J. MANNERS replied that es seen se he received
the working drawings and the pion at which the engrafts,
had swimd to complete the proposed Foreign-Mhos he
would sleet them foe exhibit's; and there would be no
ro ppped Lir a vote loath the designs led been submitted to
the impieties of the homer.
MAINTENANCE OF CONVICTS, eke.
Mr. iIIetChRTNEY asked the Seoreta7 to the Treasury
whether it eras the Intention of her Majesty's goveramoot,
in pupating. the estimates, to bring forward vets for the
yeatenanee of (mishits and convicted minute wants con-
knel in county 'sob after sentence, the expenses of 'dummies
at seises sad senior, sad half the medical relief In unless,
Is Ireland, as remenniended by• committee of this home In
the Let swims oi parliament, and In accordance with sillase
grants is Greet Br tale since the year 11148 ?
Sir 8. NORTHCOTE replied in the atarmetive to the fret
part of the on, and meld that the question of medical
relief was under the coosideratioa of the government.
ITALY.
Mr. HOESMAN gave notice of hie innate* (this day),
to sat the Under Seeming' for Feeder' Affairs shocker the
different treaties ooncludt d between Anemic and the various
gammuseste of Italy, eitlo rpectng their binned rovers-
meat or their =Ult.', am sby Arnim armies, bad
been comonsalcietel to her sjosty's government; whether
copies of snob documents was in the /wigs-oKce ; end If
se, whether there wen objection to lay them on the Mins ?
THE ARMY ESTIMATES.
Mr. WILSON Inquired whether the army estimates
"weeded those of the preceding ma by upwards of
1,000,00 W., and if so whether the government had say
objection to lay ea the Mlle the cerrespendeme which had
taken place en the snared Mimes Ges Timmy and the
War Deportment?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER suggested
that the questioa had better be put when Gesmal Peel wee
present. He believed the item did not refer to tbe expiring
year, but to the previous year, when her Majesty's govern.
meet weee net respendble.
INDIA LOAN BILL.
Mr. BRIGHT understood that ems dimension was likely
t o take place es the second rending of the lodic Leen Bill,
and thought is wash be °encomiast if the noble lord would
name seem thee for bringing ft toward.
Lord STANLEY hopel to be able to take the second
resdag es Holiday ant.
Tll3 JEWISH OATH.
' Mr. T. DDNDOKBE moved for kan to bring to • bill
torde that the tooolution. whisk hes ban twice agreed
to the home, that any perms prollmeng the Jewish
re • may heseeketh, la takieg Om oath prescribed In
an sot satinet him to sit and vote in the bow, omit the
words, "sad I nolo this declared= mom the tree faith of
a Christie'" "be made a standing order. He mid there
wee is doubt it was ;indented, both by that hoses and
the Home of Lorne, that the resolution would mews not
osly far this parliament but for all succeeding perlimmenb.
All he wasted wee to make the resoletion • stesdieg order.
When it wee a standing order their cons iterate might still
tall them at a general election whether they thought Jews
ought to be admitted to parliament and if they thought sot
the members soled of coarse *Memo": to mecind the stand-
hog order, and if they did not think so. of coves thesis:Ong
ceder world remain where it was. New, he wee eatisdA
fie his own Wad that the sepenee frees all the conatitueocite
Liam Joan a' Chows to the Lends lad would be in favour
el the smiling weds remaining se it was They weld
say, "Let as have dons now ma Ike sow with that Wok-
mace and bigotry which has existed ft img." When once
the re-olution bodkin a standing area he wee eatisfill that
no future parliament would disturb it, bat is would remain
as a memento of the bigotry, tettoleream, and tOjWilift of a
by-sous time.
Mr. NRWDEGATE moved as sn emendement, that ao
resolution, under the proviems of the mot 21 and 22 Vie.,
et. 49, shall be moved in this boom =lse at ireineme day's
notice of ash resolution shall have, been previously &ISIS
be VOWS mad that this be a etanding_order of the hones
The CHANCELLOR dthe EXCHEQUER said, he
was sorry for his own pert thet this treposhion had been
made by the has. member for Finsbary. Remember what
took paw last year. He would we my that • soaped was
entered into, but certain representations were made which
iodated many gentlemen who had a steeng Wing on this
eutject to come to an arrangement shish, on the whole,
he thought woe highly satiebetery, and le very
much regretnithettishen member bed tam smarm whMh
most reeves pied diecomiomoad tend to • ansuodsretand-
ing witts the other house of parliament. Had it been in their
power to lave cheesed the resokatioa tots • winding order
without Issistative tuberosities, he should have felt that
sonde might have been urged In favour of such • proposition,
sad he ihould net ham despaired of Its being osmW with the
gemeral cenennense of the house, bat as he wee advisor that
wee dearly impmethis. They could only by bill.
The aimendmist of the loos member for North Warwick-
shim was epee to the same ohjethisa as the isethik end he
should 'ppm it. Of seems they We. that them was • ma-
kwit7--end no mean nmejority—she mind &Wein kegs,
a the proposithes, but it would be kr the his. masher he
Fisaltery I. oassidor whether, gar ell diet ad park ft
w ould net be mere athistageoss met to Piroh
posal tam he hed =b. 111 missiles whit *GP lildi
have immeastely te deeik mead be the semendlmeneef the
bon. member (Ms Nowdegate), and to that be amnia of
al lki,6llPSlitioa thst he coold,tm thorny grimed on whisk
1ne1.1.131 he Se peepoesl 91 ad Ka amber for Iliittax