The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-15 00:00:00

THE LAED TRM4ISP.ORT CORPB.

Lora A V. TIIMPEST leggedto set 11:' chewer,
of State kr Wee whether sny and what steps bad been
taken by her Mejestre government to cony est ths meow
mendations of the coonearttee of last see/ s with reference to
the half-psy of the carers at the Ws Lend T
General PEEL—I bog to ham my nobleriaa rem=
steps have been taken to carry out the recernmendatione of
the committee. Those oMoers who held certain make in the
army sad who bad been placed on half-pay wII be placed as
the fall pay of timer utak. end those who received only tern-
priory half-pay wM receive It permanently. The asses of
several oilers of the caps who were sppethted tv commis-
sions wine In the Crimea. and whom appointmente wore not
mediesed by the antheridea at borne, are ender con-idene,-
don, and I hone will be matiefactorlly enraged.
GOVERNMENT ADVERTISEMENTS IN NEWS-

lIMITIR IN LUNACY.
Mr. G. CUTE, movies formally the mijonnumat of the
be said what ru'e was followed la the selsetion of
=m kr the governmest Advertisements ? The hon.
ain east ettestien to the recent app+lotment by
las Lemi et his see.ht•law to le a master in
bensey. He inui sin Ele importance of the olio', the
high qmiliEni emeasery foe Ito disaluags. the great re-
sponmollitles inveteed, and the experience reqoteed. It
that the gnieleman appointed was oily toe:dually
sppssnde
bar, end was net poseseted either of the knowledge or
experience medial kr the due discharge of the office. The
appointment hod given great disealistaction to the profeseket
et large, se the gentlemen in question had peed the greater
pest of his time as • cl• rk Is Me C4lonial-oille. He trusted
that there might yet be time to cancel it, sod emeluded by
elides If it was true that that appoin,ment had been mule P
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER complained
that he bed neither piddle nor private notice of this quc.tloe.
He knew wale. shawl the setter, but he felt sore that the
statement mode by the hesemable gentlemen would mesh
the ems fee wile it wee Wooded, sad that it world In due
time elk& en tercet.

OF

ets W. ifiLLlliii—Perhape the beam will al'ow me to
maser the firm garetion put by the has. gentleman te my
tight \ambient', sad width I WWI to fiesitsWit publicly, at
the metier to shish it Mire 'shale a greet trumbon on the
department is aid* I bake,. It la a rale at the Treasury
to ere to rainpapen with the Urged circulation the go-
versment rtieemeats. There la an inereadag ditScu'ty
is the Treesary in this matter in oonsequeeee of the Is-
ere ward number of newspapers and tie demises of the
number of those which ere 'Lammed. May of them are not
stamped, and a still 'pester number are not remitted through
tic putt. The rule at the Treasury is to »vim the number of
plain cm the government lift for @detriment:it*, and we
bare (elected whet we thought the beet for the parrots
without refareste to politic.—(hear, hoer)—and includieg
Permit porde= of what is called the ebe ip pm*. This is
the rule, and I am anxious to Mete it publicly.
Mr. CLIVE-1 beg to give notice that I shall repeat my
gumption on the eubjah of the appointment of a master is
lans7 tomorrow.
The M 91105 for the mdioarnuant of the hoagie was then

OPIUM TRADE IN CHINA.
Mr. GILPIN begged to ask the &oratory of State for the
Gamin whether any nineties bed been given by the Chi-
nese government to the trade in opium, or shwinv the in •
trodortion of that po!son Into China by Brideh tuarchents is
WM in ei,Lition of the lairs of that country P He found that
this notice ought to have been given to the Under-Secretary
for Foreign Affa;ra, bat melte found that it had reached the
right quarter, perhaps the bon. gentleman could reply to it.
Mr. 8. FITZORRALD—I do not quite comprehend
the object of the bra. gentleman's gins ion, but se
pow it is ink toted to 'Jae information to the
mercantile community, I will state that, in tabor,
the Introduction of opium hi.° China will not be
a violation of the law of that country, as it is
sancloool by the treaty intend into between the two coot
trite. The conditi.e is that opium will pay a duty of JO per
cent. ad valorem on Introduction into a Mame port, and
tbers is a metric ion on the imp‘rters ragbag anywhere bat
in the port ; it will he carried Into the interior only by Chinon
trader., and the seller is not to be alb.wed to accompany any
one of the traders. By one of the provisions of the treaty of
Ties-Sing, British aubjftta ate allowed to go into the interior
of China with pesepwts, but that privi'es• does not extend
to rreons engaged In this to Ale, nor do the proviaions in
the tree y raiting to the traria dues:extend to ihie walk,
nor are the Tale. which ere estabishel on other grounds
applicable to the opium trade.