The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-26 00:00:00

RAILWAYS AND BURIAL -ROUNDS.

The Earl .if I:ELMORE propoo .1 . iteration Vat Anal.
ing oiler In 9, that in all ce-es r a railway company
?maimed to int,rfere with a krial Lio notice
be lieTVO,.. up.r. the Houle Secret...ly the lianae may a,
upon any owner. and thr.t The Horne Sect...Lary
should he ',Towered to onlar ii.•l.-ction, and to report
the rewnit t., committe- I•. 1411. The rea,on
for thi, w:is that the Company. under
the Whit Is a, which anthori,ol thi,••i to snake a tunnel
toiler Mt. l'An_ras churchyard, with the previa., that the
top should not be nearer the miurf...:c !halt 19 feet, ILA for
the putpuae of the work 11113,141 “11 op fi cutting, thereby
rtonovirg. ocronlit.g to Mr. MarEtoy s tottioutte, tho re-
In.tiri of Hurl pet won.. The ~tteotion of the Itishop of
London, tl!r• medical officer of the 1:,..:d0f Health, and the
government had men directed to the matter, but the
company contended that what they done was within
tk_puwers of their act of parlian ant.
Vie !notion w.e. agreed to.

HABEAS CORPUS SCSPEN,ION 'IRELAND) ACT

41•NTINUAN4 E 1:ILII..

The Ell! of DERBY moved the rcessiel rendine or the
Ilshrist!orpto. Suspension lirelanill Act 'ontinminer BB!.
He said if the government had only to deal with the re•i•
dent 'rids population this hill would he wholly unneee+.
el y, for they w.•re its the main thoroughly loyal, but the
Fenian leader+ hod not hese. dinned' t! eir
instance ist-eatco: they had a gte.a sLhOlie to the eisar.i.i:er
of informer..

Earl I:IJSSEL,. gave a cordial :writ to the hill. con•
aidering that circlinigtoincenremiereti it imperative.
The Earl of KIMBERLEY also c..t.curred in the neca•
sift of the Hu:Aare.

The bill was then read a second time, and, the standing
milers having been suspended, was read a third thus and
pawed.
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VOLUNTEERS IN CASE OF RIOT.

Lord ST. LICONARDS, adverting to the position in
which the eolonteers at Chester were recently placed,
cited eeveral authorities, defining the legal position of
soldiers and other armed forces in connexion with riots
and other domestic disorders, aml enunciated Ito own
opinion th. t volunteers, as such, coie.d not be called upon
to quell riots, but were not e‘empt from Acing summoned
as citizens to act in defence of the public peace, and if
thew opposed to them were armed there was no legal
iapediment to the volunteers actint: as special constables
and using the arms furniehed to the: i lv the government.
The IAHtD CHANCKLUM generally concurred with
the opinions exprmsed by Lord St. Leonard'', but upon
ewe point differed from him. holding that volunteers
acting as special constables in ease of riot might legally
avail themselves of their organisation in the former cha-
racter. _

Lord DE GREY thought the question was still in an
unsatisfactory position, and doubted the expediency of
'employing volunteers in civil tumults, except as ordinary
special constibles.
Lord HARDINGE said the volunteers had felt con-
siderable anxiety in consequence of their uncertain posi-
tion, but they hail now hada full expositionof the law as it
now stood. In his opinion, volunteers should not be al-
lowed to use their arms on the requisition of the magis-
trate., or by any less authority than that of the Secretary
of State. A clause had been intert,d in the Volunteers
Act permitting the interference of volunteers in local
disturbances, but it was withdrawn by the Under-Secre-
tary for War.
The Earl of LONGFORD mid that the proper depart-
ment was being consulted, and the fullest and clearest
instructians as to the cases in which volunteers might be
employed would be circulated.
Earl GREY thought the magistrates who, in such a
case as that of the recent Fenian attempt in Chester,
should neglect to accept the aid of the volunteers, would
commit a very great mistake. He thought that the law
was not at present in a satisfactory state.
Earl RUSSELL believed that the House of Commons
bad refused to discuss the expediency of employing volun-
teers in case of insurrection, and he thought there would
be difficulty as well as danger in substituting them for the
troops of the line, who, under the command of their
officers. had always shown the greatest discretion on
critical occasions. He trusted that It would not be found
necessary to alter the law.
Earl of BELMORE thought that a distinction should be
drawn between a simple riot and such an occurrence as had
taken place at Chester.