The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-16 00:00:00

seetiliag lath cent scorn as they thought had neglected to l 1
peers the meditates of their cootracu. (Her,
The km. sad pliant admiral asked bin. to mention the
aims of the Fireboat' which had her built with the then
101 l arid the mama of the builders. He should have no
duacidiy In Itiviag that information, nor would the Admi.
salty desire to withhold it, were it not that they felt it
woad be manderly unfair to all parties that
the names should be rival when the subject was,
to use the Napl term, sub Judas. They (the
Admiralty) were taking the opinion of the law ofßoen of the
crown as to the propriety of parenting certain of those
parties, and be Could not give their names without
fairly
dicing the public against them, and
_perhaps unfairly in-
eventing the minds of those who would bevel° try the vale.
He was Dot prepared to my that they would after all be in a
oesditinu t„pr,,,ecote ; but whether or sot, he coneadered that
it would ,g 1 some time before& legal ease would be weipieji,
the opinion of the law officers obtained, and all the step. pre-
liminary to a legal inquiry before the ordinary tn
taken. Aral as no man in this oonntry was to be held guilty
before be was tried and convicted, be was not disposed to
prejudice this, persons by making their names public. There
wail be no objection to the second part of the motion, the
return of the number of gunboats Bf for service so fat as it
could be ascertained ; but it should be borne in mind that
the defects could only be ascertained by close enminalks,
and as many of the gunboats were now lad up in ordinary,
it would scarcely do to take the men from the other work
of the dockyards to haul these boats up and examine them.
Mould the opinion of the law officers be that there was Do
car in law against the contractors, the government would
set object to any other mode of isiqi:l7e house might
think it right to Institute. (Hear, kw.
Lord LOVAINE—AII that was was the plain
simple fact what gunboats then IMO it for ierviee, is
what boat, the defects of consignation had been found, and
what were the names of the Whirs of thole defeatist
boats. There was no wish to prejadiee the delis of the
courts of kw, or to dictate to the gorwreemwit whether they
should presents or not.
In the diecomion which followed, Lord Lovante and Mr.
Biles:non supported the motion, which was opposed by
111 r. WEITIZZAD and eir H. firriimm.

iTaidiiieqTmetio• wan not one
of granting or 'sham' papers, bit d time. In ten dere
or a fortnight it amid be decided whether there could be •
prosecution or sot, sad the returns at present would not
give full information.
The motion was withdrawn.

ACT (ISM).
Lowe was even to Übe la • bill he swarm cortain
proritionsl orders under thir NA, rod tor ether purpose in
Mita= thereto.

LOCAL GO,

TRAMWAYS POOTLAND).
Sr E. OOLEBROOKE obta loam to brie( is a bill to
pert& for the formation of tramways is turnpike and
statute Mom roads in Scotland.

THE LATH PRIZE FIGHT.
Lord LOVAINE, ie anerfag an adders for copy of
all correopondence between the Herr ries wad the
directors of the South Iselms Whim Oempesy, is
the year 1860-410. = Mthe miempamws of
prom interns to a broth of the law, oh.
,erred that he wet an kr rho a reach as the
merits or arrits of Oa • rear occa-
sion ae ethibition el kir oat no per di levee frees
i'elageW
wee direlared-ralher rehmemitly sad
, be meet say-bet it wee declared
he of err for the Here Department to be
; and it essomenetly followed that them who M-
aim et promoted thorn we ere enern Were
the test, and were es /silty se the m=als. (Br;
baser.) This imiesee was set the int on
W bees made whet the esidnet of
trord, the Seenh
, Inik a wry ed is=
Conway. Tbat comproLibi M
pee en en
s--he algid almos r every-
body knewtiet
O•Fr .°••• a 1•••°P017 -el India is the enuaties over
IMO their lime sae • lied they bad bees mimed of the
amity of aiding aid abed* pine lOW by himself,
whoa he was • member of the ho. gememiest. It was
then understood that wain el the seri amid spin take
Wloot year • latter wan Nest Is them by the Surrey
ii of merraelmidememeladVr regret Chet the ar-
ray sherd es fir oath
rlubitises ; mil the hold replied le the elleetaVrttriel
rrangemesis meth' be made by the diehis of the cow
easy without went,m, bat that they bed gives
onion wideb meld m hr se they seshi„ y-
this of the hid is future. So far bus thag, how.
err. they bed asierly allowed two nodal hulas
Ile gp dews Orr Yoe en the aeoraing et the bite light, and
to aim at every Medea whim them might be ileitis suitable
he the eamies. At every *Mee la Ow may_ they found
dopgre
ispollirs. • Gm.
sathemaereee they
arre esillatipedin
.bet
the
esesty se the light tea pima He wee belenwed by
the 4 the somealmallsey tame as seem of the
wan=Mr. =alto, asseeilmit el tealset Lemke.
to the use as mememesie of ass of
the had ; and QM me of Isiippli wee denied be
the authorities while the -: wee =4. Usher thew
circumstances he (the melds that the era
Pith of the company weektedy exlialideal As le
A was pould• M Wag the tem Is beer es the
dirathere; It would not be itglitos be peosoleed see of the
law Ahem at the mows prisma; be mit dot spies el the
wr=a; but be hoped- the beam veil set Ist mem
ttley hid gives opal pewee wield tree prows
la 6111•••• ef the kow. Mew. beer.) low amid
/ma as adeseele idea it the ismosesiume whisk mom
tress limes spoil halms, trews while fl,oBo err MOO if the
worst mamba Larks were la • oesment lanashed epos •
%she unglibeerhood. Pier hear.) He was happy to
apses the rem* of the Smith Western Oarromy es or
that load err y glom mi the pmctioe, aid fiat bed
nem* retard to grail tries for say seek
alear, bear.) They all bow that the easeate=e
toreseity ma by no mime purtisiderly Wes& sad OA it wee
may rarely Striped to ear iheM when it was opposed by
arabers He might mho, fee three% to the sees of St.
Osergewin-the-Ear, where a mob of keys sod ruiner
bed bills allowed for the lest three morn to disturb n-
arked the devotions of the onigremthr (gar, beard
The home would, however, concur with h fib oaks for
indenntioe which would show whether the geverreset had
tier its beet efforts to enforce the law, and whether awr-
-4mm:l be dose in order to put a step to those bridal
' ye, (Hear, base )
t PALMERSTON-I do sot intend to offer any
objection to the motion, mid I will 'sly pest ester a sort of
=spies. that esaggratice- Omer, head-in which
le lord hoe indulged. He hes &Method this railway
company for having bromilit dowa 2,000 or 3,000 ruffians
and launched them in a moonset tine a quiet neighbour-
hood. One would have imagined from his description that
these persons were a set of banditti -(laughter)- robbing
and plundering, and web ing to ravish the country-
mordenng person., honing house*. sod committing every
sort of atrocity. (Hear, hear.) Technically,• fight between
two persona, though not fighting from any feeling of
esmity, is a breach of the peace, sod, being a breach of the
=it is clearly an act which is subject to prieecution.
he persons who go to those places, though they may
be technically open to a charge of breach of the peace, an
harmless and commit no breach of the peer • theylt!
looking at what roes, which are exhibition; of ...
courage, characteristic of the qualities of the people ora
country. (Hear, hear.) It re wry the other day •
French newspaper, speaking if ' Slt, described it all •
type of the national ehmeder--mierauce sod preen
under suffering, aid Nagar holding it %a
a specimen of the edieshelle gymel the
race. (Hear, hes r. ) Idemem. that b s metier demos
but setting aside the bpi tedisiselithe Ili ere,
I cloned is that am amber of prase who anosside to
witness • pehe4dhe tee wee guilty of • breath of the
than poems who go tornens • hare went. ( Laughter.)
ha. dens
slie • eight. and. that rem, they return without
la dens bra to anybody : adobe therager to those
=alethe engage in thorns tglite. I udder the damp, te
etts se op to • balloon is lasi greater. ("bier,
beer," awl a leach.) Therefore, I think Obese eineald be a
medruse in all things and moderatioa is skyline ; ad
though it may be desirable to prevent thee eigrjet I de
Dot think any advantage is to be epirole et te the
murals of the people is to be eseetellei.bythe
d the noble kr. At the sane time the mel=limelse
which I cannot see any objenion, and I shall set therelerie
refuse to prodare ths oorrespondsoce. (Chown)
Lord LOTAINE said the noble lord was SD meth is
favour of priae-fighting be should not be gpepieed if be
brought in • bill to legalise it. The noble Ter had very
skilfully put the drumlin on the merits of paseigliting,
whereof he (Lord Lorre) had specially graded biros&
against Paying one wool What he said was that the mil-
ways should out bring down 2,000 or 3,000 Miens. He
granted that all those who attended the late light were not
of that description ; but if the noble lord Ind beet, as be
(Lord Lovaitie) but been, a passenger in that train-hood
langhteri he wan merely a color traveller- be was sure
that the pro.-eedings of the passengers were not *oche. would
love
.pleased him, as they certainly did not give him (Lon,
Lovs in any satisfaction. If they clicestooppre those things
let them d•• as : hut do not let them call noon magistrates to
preserve the pewee, while in that house they were
throwing the whole weight of their authority into the
Mil! to Mill and shot three who break the laws.
Mr. V SCULLY dirt not think it right to let it go abroad
that the Doble lord (I,nl !Amine) stood aloes in that house
is hi. coml.-Tomato's, of thine prise-fights. He, on his own
part, most enter his protest against there ; but he thought
the noble lonl who brought forward this InOtioll should fly
at higher gam*. The noniuers of the crown, instead of
putting dom. this prize-fighting, lent every eacouragemeat
to it. They had the Home Secretary, whose peculiar
bonne*s it mss to put down them prise•fights, defend-
ing them : arid now they haul the made lord at the head
of the government speaking of them rely as playful exhi-
bitions of the animated nature of the 'British lion. (A
kora i Rut he thought it was the duty of the government
to tromp the law, even if it were a bed law. He re -
hired that in hie shod dam the boys who wen- the most
anions to set the other boys fighting were generally con-
sidered the greatest cowards in the school,
Mr. W. EWART was an enemy to pin orfighting, tut he
begged to be understood he did not object to ighting with
the ginvea-la laugh) a. a good sort of exercise ; neither
did le object to a perm learning the art of self -defeat's.
But be drew a great distinction between these practicer and
he oat in the way of prieedightin. He drew
the lain/. diatinetiou between them practices and
two as.. fighting with the ordiaary foils, and two other
ame roar rot nth Inlet foils. The sore loot had mid
three was • numeric is • French erspaper on the. late
Int The roper which the sore lord &Soiled to ems the
Aurae/ 4t. .100,1,. net PaPer, however, did sot Middy