The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-08 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDS.

Jrsa 7.

In the Houma of LORDS, yesterday, the Public
Librarie, (Scotland) Act Amendment Bill wag re-
ward. ,tnil the : fitt:T.ents agreml to.

The District Prothenotarics Court of Common
rleas 11:iititity Palatine 14 Ltutcaster) Bill, the
Public W..rlog Loans Bill, the eoetir.:ious Diseases
(Anuul.ls) gill, the Piers and Hai-boars Orders
Cowin :atiou hill, and the Intestates' Widows and
Child• a hill were read a thirl time :lad plUISed.
II louse then adjuuruti: until Monday, thu
17th It

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY, Jt•Na 7.
IN 7.1 Illo,NE of COW:1":1-, motion of the
4:111AN4 3LLolt of the EM.111:0"Y.1. it t*::.3 agree,' that
the I. tote at its rising 5h0,!1.1 :olio:Int for the
Vilait...ntide holidays until Thorsday next...

(hi the order fur guine i ut. connititto. of
supply ,
Mr. TI:EVEI.I AN called attent.on to the case of
the.._ seamen who paid the "reeiiwich sixpence
before the year 183.1, and appeai,sl to the holm to
rye these men some relief.
Mr. Ltoo EEL and Mr. 1N 4... It: 111 SO supported
the claims of the seamen who they c-mtended ought
to have some return for the s.xpence per nut:th
they were compulledfor many years to ray..

Mr iNfiLi,Kris said the real fac t was ilia in 1711
an v t was panned defining clearly for what pnr-
poios lreenwich Hospital shoidd ho applied, :ind
it was declared to be for 'Chow: ono had served in
the rural navy, and not for merchant seamen, un-
less tk.ey had huen wounded in action.

Mr. CORRY said there was no doubt that 4 /r en-
wick Hospital was not founded for the benefit of
the in !reliant seamen, but they would receive bens•
tit, bee:time the pensioners had spent en an average
thirteen years in the service.
Sir .1. (1 ItA v called attention :9 the distress es•
;sting in the western portions of and Galway.
her I N %As stated that in sot districts there
was great distress, arising in treasure from
the lateness of the spring, which had forced them
to use the food they had saved for their cattle, but
that drainage works were tiumintacea which would
partially relieve tho distress. The government
would be taking a dangerous course if they were to
bold out that they were going to take upon them-
selves the duties of administiring relief, which
belonged to the wealthier inhabitants of the lis
Iriet.

The house their went into c.intnittee of aupply,
and proeseded with the first portion of the army
estimates which had been postponed. Sums were
voted amounting altogether to 8,440,4711. for the
regular forces, and 827,575/. for disembodied mili-
tia' 90,163/. for yeomanry cavalry, 337,372/. for
volunteer corps, and 44,8951. for enrolled pen-
sioners and reserve force.

On the vote for the volunteer mope, Lord Elcho,
Oeneral Lindsay, and Mr. Simonds, impressed
upon the government the nec.essty of increasing
the grant.
Sir J. PAR ounow said the proposal was an addi-
tional coat of 160,0001. a year, making the total
cost for the volunteers half a million a year. Be-
fore the estimates for another year were framed he
would take the opinion of the cabinet as to whe-
ther they should propose this increased expen-
diture.
On the resumed debate on the motion that the
house go into committee on the Bankruptcy Bill,
Mr. MILTON moved a resolution affirming the
injustice of passing this measure, by which any
insolvent person whohavicontractedadebtamount-
ing to 50f., or several debts amounting to 1001.,
fhall be discharged from liability for all his debts,
while insolvents who have contracted debts to a
leas amount will be liable to repeated imprison-
ment to compel them to pay their debts in full.

Mr. Noawoon criticised- some of the details of
the bill, and said he was glad to see that the
county courts wore to be utilised, but he was sorry
to see a co-ordinate jurisdiction given to the
county courts and the district bankruptcy
courts. He did not think that • debtor should be
allowed to make himself bankrupt, but he thought
that Mr. Ayrton had pointed to a real grievance.
Mr. H/SNLZY thought it a crying injustice that
poor debtors should be sent to prison, and there
treated as fraudulent debtors. The house was re-
ducing year by year imprisonment for debt for large
debtors, and by false pretences they retained it for
the poor debtor ; because it was a mere subterfuge
to say that he was not imprisoned for debt when he
was committed for what was called contempt of
court in not paying the debt according to the judge's
order.

The SoLterroz-Gmtsam. defended the practice of
imprisoning poor debtors.
The motion was then negatived, and the house
went into committee on the bill, but the chairman
was immediately ordered to report progress, and
the house resumed.
The Railway Companies Bill was read a third
time and passed, and several other bills were for-
warded a stage.
Mr. SHERIDAN obtained leave to bring in a bill
to remove doubts as to the power of trustees to in-
vest trust funds in certain !securities.
Thu house adjourned at live minutes to I o'clock.

rRISON DISCIPLINZ IN INDIC—On Thursday a
deputation from the Social Science Association, waited on
the Secretary of State for India, at the India.uffice, to
present a memorial on the subject of the gaols and prison
discipline in India. Among others who attended the
deputation were Miss Mary Carpenter, Sir Walter Crofton,
C. 8., Mr. James Heywood, F. it.S., Mr. T. 13. L. Baker,Mr. T. Chisholm Anater, Mr. C. R. Lindsay, Major Hut.
ehinson, Mr. H. W. Freeland, Mr. F. Hill, Lc. The
Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, having introduced the
deputation, Mr. G. W. Hastings, the hon. general secretary
of the association read the memorial. lie said that
the death rate in the prisons in India was 130 in every
1,000, while the death rate of the army in India. as
given in a recent report, was 69 per 1,000. This
high death rate was spread over all clause and
ages of persons in all conditions of life, and under proper
sanitary conditions ought to exhibit a very small one. He
urged that improved treatment, such as that introduced
into Ireland by Sir Walter Crofton, should be established.
He thought that if reformatory schools were established, and
the young offenders eclat there, precisely the same results
would happen as ce have in this country—you would cut
al' the supply that continually swells the criminal ranks,
and provent young persons growing up into adult ones.
Sir Walter Crofton bad uo hesitation in concurring with
the memorial with reference to the point in the memorial
with repzil to the separation of the prisoners by night.
He said that the statute lays it down as imperative upon
prison officers to provide separate sleeping cells for the
prisoners. The great difficulty in the way of
introducing improvements is the want of money—
s groat stumbling block once in the way of
similar improvements in this country, but which dculty
having been surmounted, no one now regrets the expendi-
ture. It was not expected that the prisons in I.xlia could
be at one* improved, but by beginning as we have dove in
this country with the long-sentenced prisoners, it would
be possible to deal with the difficulty, and to enable
future offenders to be properly and systeniatically treated.
Sir Stafford Northeote, in reply, stated that much good
would be done by drawing public attention to the matter.
At present he could not say anything definite, because, as
a matter involving expenditure, it must go before the
council. lie would be glad to do all he could to forward
the views of the deputation, and considered the surges.
the of sending a ootumi•sion of inquiry from England well
worthy of attention. The establishment in the Indian
empire of 11 system of prison discipline founded on the
same sound principles as those adopted in this country is
the object which the committee have in view in thus ad-
dressing you.

Case or A:utile CHOLERA.—WO regret to bear
that a patient under the care of Dr. Ramekin, suffering
from Asiatic cholera, is now (Thursday afternoon) in the
London Hospital. The man, 45 years of age, attended as
an outpatirut on Tuesday last for diarrhoea, from which
be had suffered two or three days. He was blue, shri-
velled-looking, and his pulse could scarcely be felt. After
admission ho was better, but subsequently he had more
severe symptoms—viz., pulsolessness, rice-water motions,
low temperature (in the azilla, 94 deg.:, and vox choleric*.
When Mr. George Mackenzie, the resident medical officer,
drew our attention to the case the patient's pulse had
returned, and he was altogether better. Still the issue of
the di,eese is doubtful, for we know that when the more
characteristic symptoms of cholera have pared off, the
patient not unfrequently dies in reaction.—Medical Times
and Gimette.

HEALTH RESTORID By Dv BARRY'R FOOD TO THZ
lefonA7ll. Del-yeti Maga. and liver of all and young.
dyspepsia ;Indigeatlon constipation. Warthog, acidity,criV
a:be, neuralgia, hysteria, palpitation, slesploonees,
.4:6041. 4',4401. asthma, fevers. consumption, low spirita. 60.000
IVIL:131 cures which had resisted all medicines, tortndlog that of
hi+ Holiness the Pope. —llns, at Is lid. ; b. ad. ; 111 b,
2411). 40a—Du Harry and Co., 77, Regent street, London abo at
GI, tirecethurebstreet 4, Chenpside 63 and 130, Ostortigireet
and all grocars and cheminta--lAdvartiaamagit.)

THE PROPOSED BYRON MEXOSIAL.--Yesterday
afternoon a meeting was held in the Mayor's Parlour,
Nottingham, for the purpose of taking steps for the erec-
tion of a monument to the late Lord Byron. The mayor
(Mr. Thackeray) occupied the chair. On the motion of
Mr. Cox, seconded by Mr. Dunnington, his worship was
appointed treasurer. T'he committee, formed some months
ago, was much enlarged, and arrangements were made for
a vigorous canvass for subscriptions. Promises of mist-
ance have been received from the Hon. Mr. Murray, Pre-
sident of the Legislative Assembly of Sydney, New South
Wales—from New York, and various other places. A
subscription from Lord Foley wail announced at the meet-
ing. A vote of thanks to the mayor terminated the pro.
oling&