The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-21 00:00:00

THE JEWS AND SATURDAY SITTINGS OF
PARLIAMENT.

In the division of the Commons on the Habeas
Corpus Suspension Bill, a difficulty was solved
that oppressed, as long ago as December, 1847, the
mind of Colonel Sibthorp. In a debate on one of
the oft repeated Jewish relief bills, he asked Lord
Russell how government proposed to enforce the
attendance of members of parliament profeseing
that faith, if the houses sat upon their Sabbath
day. Lord Russell replied that if such gentlemen
were admitted to seats among the Commons, they
would doubtless be able to meet that difficulty
thout the aid of legislation. The division list of
ffaturday last proves the justice of that reply. The
appearance in it of the names of Salomon and
Rothschild shows that they, like their " even
Christians," feel that obedience to public duty
overrides the requirements of the day of zest.
The House of Commons, while waiting for the
royal commission beyond the midnight hour of last
Saturday, dwindled down to a scanty band of about
thirty members. The benches of the house were
not so em on the instance of its protracting
its procee rigs beyond what the Scotch would term
the " lawful days" for basins's. The akesost Snal
effort of the conservatives to throw over the Reform
Bill that subsequently became law was then being
carried on ; and the Sunday morning of the 18th
December, 1831, saw their defeat by a majority of
182 votes, is a house of 600 members. This inva-
sion into the " small hours" of Sunday was canoed
by the general wish to avoid the postponement of
I this stage in the great parliamentary struggle
beyond the Christmas recess.

THE HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION.
The rapid rapid pastage of a bill through all its parlia-
mentary stages is not an event of infrequent occur-
rence. It has been resorted to from time to time,
as much to meet public convenience as occasions
of grave public need: to provide for the suspen-
sion of mercantile business on the fuheral day of
the Duke of Wellington' as well as to guard against
insurrection in Ireland. But that a bill should
become an act within twelve hours of its introduc-
tion into the House of Commons hi a pvnceeding
almost unexampled. Two or three days elapsed
between the agreement of parliament to the two
last bills to suspend the Irish Habeas Corpus Act
and the declaration of the royal resent to those mea-
-1 sures. The legislative promptitude shown last Satur-
day has been equalled on but two previous occasions.
On thel day George IL announced to parliament
that le had declared war against France, 3rd April,
1744, be assented to a bill for the more speedy
recruiting of his land forces, a bill that had been
only that morning laid on the table of the Com-
mons ; and an act passed with no lees unusual expe-
lditiou to meet an event of even more serious
moment, the insubordination in the royal navy,
Ithat culminated in the mutiny at the Nora.
Soothed by promises, and by the presence of Lord
Howe, the fleet at Portsmouth had returned to
their duty in April, 1797; this submission was,
however, of bet few days' duration. The sailors
• required that their grievances should be righted by
act of parliament, and broke out into mutiny
on the 7th of May ; they gained their object
almost immediately, foe an act was pushed, through
all its stages on the 9th of that month, in spite of
the opposition of Fox, Sheridan, and Whitbresd.

THE YENLiIf CONSPIRACY.

DUBLIN, TIMIDLY Inas%

About twenty arrests were male in Dublin to-
day ; one of the persons is a man named M'Don-
nell, alleged to be " head centre" of Dublin. In
Limerick fourteen persons were arrested, nine in
Athlone, and four in Longford.

With reference to the military arrests in Limerick, the
correspondent of Saunders' News writes on Sunday night:—
" Arisiog oat of the wart of isqedry held at the New
Barracks in this city last week, sad of which the colonel of
the Ist Royals was president, oonoerning charges preferred
against some of the non-commissioned offiows of the
73rd Regiment in coneezion with renianlsen, General
Napier arrived here special on yesterday, accompanied
by his aideedepearap, to further investigate the particulars
and obtain additional evidence. Previous to mitering upon
the ioveetigation, General Napier inspected the 73rd. under
Lieutenant-Colonel Burns, in the square of the New bar-
racks. With their evolutions and efficiency the gallant
sewer expressed himself pleased, and them withdrew to the
aim? meseroom, where he was accompaied by Colonel
Borne, and the seosesary witnesses (some of whom were
civilians) having been examined, at 5 o'clook four moo-
commissioned officers, including the armour-sergeant, the
sergeant of the band, and two colour-serpants,
were placed under close arrest. The whole tramp
action is said to have arises out of a visit by the re-
puted ` Colonel Byron' (who was yesterday arrested
in Dublin), with other suspected Pinions, to • dancing
party in the qaarters of the non-oommissioned officers of
the 73rd Regimes*, when he and other disloyal subjects
wen allowed to associate, tied there tradeevourol to coo-
homiest& the company by inculcating the mischievous
notions and ultimate vile tateutione of the confederacy to
which be was attached. To-morrow (Monday) the inquiry
will be spin resumed is privets."
Withrespeettothe attack upon the polies in thermanty of
Tipperary, the correspondent of the same kmroal writes
from Limerick,on Monday evening : —"eta:oasts have re.ohed
here this afternoon of &Fenian demonstration made oa Sa-
turday night, at Glenbate, in the county of Tippe-
rary, dose upon Outs, in the county of Limerick,
bed upon which coosaion a police constable was shot,
and it is feared mortally wounded. It is thus r,s-
wels.ted :---' Between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday night, as
a police patrol, consisting of Constable Dunn and two sub-
constabln (ore of whom is named Thompson) were taking
their usual roue& in the vicinity of lateness.). county of
Tipperary, quite close to Oak, on the borders of the wanly
of Limerick, they pissed a labourer's house upon which
for some time previous suspicion had alighted as the
rendezvous of the Penises ia thit quieter, but nothing
turned up to warrant an arrest. Coos the three rhizomes
approaching the house in question, the sound of voices
was heard, as if giving orders for drilling, sad they
halted for • while to make sure, but an almost eces-
plots silence followed. Whereupon they walked on
to the plow, and upon looking into • window on the
ground Boor, the y saw a party of from fifteen to twenty
men, some armed with guns, sad others with revolvers.
Surprised at toil unexpected demonstratemt, the constable
in charge was rather timid as to the beet course to pursue,
bat prompted at once to • resolute discharge of duty,
west, accompanied by two subconstahles, to tee
*atrium door, and knocked loudly, whereupon three
shots were fired from the ieside thee/ugh the door*
panel, wounding Constable Dunn in both hetes, tom-
pleiely disabliog him, while his commies were so
terrified at the occurrenoe that they lost all power of
action, at the same time that one of them was also
wounded slightly is the shoulder. The police beldam been
disabled, the weals peg rushed out, shooting in triumph
over teem victims, burrahing for the Fenian,. and firing
shots slam the route they took in the direction of the
mountain,. After some time Constable Dana, whose
wounds are said to be of a dangerous character, was TO-
moved home to the polies st.tioe, and surgical aid pro-
cured, but little hope is eateetained of his recovery, as
amputation of both his lags must ensue. It is said the
owser of the house is which the gang of Feoiaos had as.
sembled is in custody.' The foreerieg has bee. taken
down as Meted by the party who onamosiceted the
iw-
*ellipses, and additiouM particulars are anxiously looked
forward to."
The Due/in Evening Mai/ states that there is no founds-
ties for the statement that a guard of the mail van bad
bees fired as during the panpipe of the vac from the Pest.
Gilles to the Great Sontneru Railway on Sunday manna&
The authorities of the Post-odice have made tbe strictest
inquiry, and are satisfied that there is so foundation what-
ever for the statement. Large escorts of cavalry and
mounted polies were teemed Zit nearly midoiglit on Satur-
day assisting is the removal of the prisoners apprebeeded
by the police from the poliowatetioss where they bad been
temporarily lodged, to the waviest prison at Mountioy sad
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the fleies, which is due to-morrow week. Sh..wwiilt big
mews hoot Jamaica to the 6th last.
-Chxgruait BAILWAL—Tbe half-yearly meeting
of this railway company wasifired to he held yesterday at
the offices, Westminster Chambers, hot at tellies the shalt
Bari Yeseeliseldv mov.d that the meeting be adjoureed to
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The annual congress of the associated Chambers
of Commies was opened yesterday at Westminster. Oh
the motion of the Leeds Chamber it was resolved to peti-
tion parliameat in favour of the compulsory registratice of
all persons who ere is partaerhipe ; to trend a &panties'
to the Prided of the Board of Trade urging that a bat
should be iotrodecat into putament providing that whoa
persons nod sums of money to • trading firm on nedides
of getting • share in the profits but without bespeaks
partners, gush loan mid ills 000dition shall be registered;
and to memorialise the Chancellor of the Exchequer is
favour of suilhorhing the Sander of government stook, sad
the payment of the dividend thereon at ell breeders of the
Bask of Ragland. Oa the motion of the Halifax Chamber
it was agreed to send a deputation to the Board of Trade
to urge the latroductioa of a bill for the Wavered= of
Chambers of Commerce, •
Mazaung IN TBILTRICIL matrimonial
'Masco hae been formed between Mr. W. H. Chippendale
aid Mao K. J. Beowdee, both of the Haymarket Theatre
TMI ADMINISTRATION 01 TIM POOR LAIC—,
Yesterday Kr. H. B. Yarnell, 0.13., the Comeaknoner if
the Poor Law Board, made an official inspection of Pad-
&mina Workhouse. The canal wards were first in-
spected. The new wards and all the airangemints for
bathing and sleeping were approved, and the commissions
gave three who designed the sleeping places great praise
for so oonstrucitinig them as to completely separate oath
vagrant from his neighbour. The workhouse itself was
then inspected. sod the commissioner passed through
ward in the pine, examined evert department, q
He inmates, who comprise aged, sick, infirm, " able-bodied,"
and children, sad thoroughly respected all the arranparste
foe vieetilathig the words and guarding against noxious
effluvia. As showing what a misnomer the name " work-
house " has become, it may be stated that the term "able-
bodied" was found to he applied in penal to people who in
mit-of-door life would be considered as past work. Of the
400 inmates generally is the house, 220 are neatly of the
aged, disabled, sad infirm classes, sad 130 are &Urn, this
bong owe of the four Loodoe onions which keep the chil-
dren within the workhouse walls, a distinction shared with
Paddington by Holborn, Bethnal-green, and Fulham, all the
other 35 toad°d usiona and parishes placing their children
in country and district schools to be brought up apart front
workhouse meoeiatiuos. One good feature of the Padding-
ton management is that it has paid nurses, and only makes
use of the beet of its paupers to act under these curiae. This
is toned to be more ecnoinioal ,bas employing all pauper
anises, as some parishes insist upon doiag, Greenwich foe
instance, where the met for "extras" alone for the pauper
series amounts to upwards of 31.31. • year. The old mils and
women questined by the commirsioner, withous amp-
tion, said they needed nothing, and io not • few instances
this acknowledgment wee made with a hearty "Thick
God." Tbo arse id sielmeas were mostly of Winn sad
aged people ; but here sod there was • ease of a young
pereou—one, for instance, of a gill 17 years of age, who
bad bean lying there for two yearn in • oonsomptioo, and
another that of • yeast man, "a Berkshire man," he
called himself, sufferer from the same brought
os, be stated, thresh overwork and exposure. One sick
man stated that be had been in the employ of a seighbeer-
Mg firm for some tee years, and directly be fell ill be was
packed of to the " house," his long service not bring con-
sidered to entitle him to an assistance from his employers
The oomensinar expressed himself satisfied with all he
saw, and signified his opieirn by writing a note in the
vision' book to this effect.
Tim Sun CANAL—Advises from Alexandria
manioc the definitive settlement of the Baez Canal gear
tion. The company do not retain a single acre of mound
except snob as is needed for the maritime channel. In
coosideration of this main the viceroy adds 10,000,000 fr.
to the already Inge indemnity fixed some time beck by
the Emperor Napolen, sod pays the whole within four
years from this, intend of 16 as stipulated originally.
furthermore, the company sell the property called Ono&
(which they pruchand a few years ago foe 2,000,000 fr.)
to the viceroy for the sum of 10,000,000(r. ; but, °onside:,
big the great sums emended in improvements by the nom.
paoy,this amount Snot thought extravagant. Politically the
arrangement removes all possible questions of dispute,
while for the acesney it hes the greet edentate el
enbtiog them to avoid as appeal for mini with moss
likely would have created discontent among the share-
.holders. Although purchased dearly, the viceroy, it is
said, will turn these new asquisitiost to scoonek A Bee
will soon run through them, of which the terminus already
°elitist is Esprit will form the commencing point, whence
it will pan bmsliell sad go divan to Suez, traversing the
valley and anoint movies* of Giro. It is Wed that
that the **sedation; were ably inducted by Haber Paeba.
.sow chief of the foreigs-offiee, whim meet appointment
:to that post is behaved to have bean effected is view of this
affair.

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premien the wended nee, Mr. Byen, bas cot bow preo-
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for the napes, of. Immo bed offered in bls baron. Ws ,
believe it is in•essied to bold a coosultet;oe of doctors Witt
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