The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-05 00:00:00

TRANSPORT OF TROOPS TO INDIA.

Sir DB L. IiNTANI roes tOraT;efor; select oonnnitte.
to inquire amorally the measures resorted to, or which
were available, and as to the lines of communication adopted
for reinforcing our army, during the pending revolt in India,
sad jo report thereon to this house. The hon. and
member spoke in so low a tone as to be almost whoVrn!
softie in the gallery. He was understood to oosgratulate
himself on the fact that the government had assented to his
motion, and to exculpate the right hon. member for Wells
but the drip of having used any diplomacy to induce him
to postpone It previous to the adjournment-. He could inform
the hones that In that matter the right hon. member was
kaanat. He meant and hoped that the inquiry
should be of the most searching and impartial
charaelnr, mad that honourable members should approach it
free hos all party Whores. The hon. and gallant member
was understood to conclude by reading his motion as we have
given it above, but the low tone in which ha spoke rendered
this a matter of uncertainty.
Lord PALMERSTON mid, that as he had stated on a
former occasion, government could have ne pomade objec-
tion to the motion—on the contrary, he should be happy to
give highland every information on the subject.
Sir J. PAKINGTON was understood to express a hope
that the inquiry would include all the topics upon which
complaints had been made In reference to the transport of
troops to ladle, both in and out of puihmat.
Sir DE L. EVANS said his wish was to have the inquiry
piths most searching and hapartialchareder.
Mr. DISRAELI wished the hon. and plant oiler to
a-in distinct weeds the dieled kr
DE InEVANS•plabarlmoths that umbra. gudenten on
tide dale hawse lei objected to the la* manes of the
medusa it hell hem placed upon the pew, emi he bed at
their ingwelfen matted it. If, however, these was anything
armories la thee smouovs to non. gentian= on the other
side, he had as objection to retain it.
The quakes was then pat, " That a select committee be
appointed to inquire concerning the mecum resented to or
which were avail^ and as to the lines of oimmtmication
:Mrfor our army, during the pending revolt
s, and to report thereon to this house."
Sir J. PAKINOTON and Mr. DISRAELI commented
on the alteration which had taken place in the motion since
it was drat placed upon the paper. The latter right bon.
gentleman intimated a surmise that the alteration had been
arranged with the government so as to preclude the mem-
, bore of the opposition side from bringing the whole of the
Indian question under the consideration of the bore.
SIR DE LACY EVANS disclaimed any each agree-
ment with the government. He was quite reedy to propose
the original motion.
Lord PALMERSTON said he preferred the motion as it
originally stood on the paper.
Some discussion ensued, after which
SIR DE LACY EVANS withdrew his motion, and
proposed the original one in the following terms :—" That a
select committee to inquire concerning the measures resorted
to or which were available, and as to the 'lines of oommuni-
oaths adopted for reinforcing our army durths the pending
revolt in India, and to report thereon to this ; with •
view to ascertaining the arrangements which should be
made, towards meeting any future important emergencies
involving the security dour eastern dominions."
Lord J. RUSSELL moved the minion of all the words
aka the word " house," for it was wakes to make recom-
mendations skid' must be useless, makes the ciretunstanoes
could be foreseen.

—Mr.DiiRABLI again contended that the subject ought
to be further debeted—that it wee understood, at Me close of
bat session, that it was to be so debated, and that the go-
vernment was open to blame for shrinking from sending the
troops overland. The government should enter into due ex-
planations on this important subject. The motion ought to
be withdrawn, and another brought in hereafter, so that the
matter might the properly discussed.
Lord PALMERSTON said that an inquiry before a 'elect
committee would be a better method of enertaining the
trade than a desultory discussion in that house. Tim gm/li-
tho teemed upon a variety of complicated details, which
send enly be sifted by a committee. The noble lord enth-
roned the government as to the hesitation felt in using the
imbed route. He approved of the motion ae it stood, and
themght that all inquiry would have reference to future
N
ermegarients.
Er C. APIER objected that there Wert a yet no
papers before the hours. The government was right in not
attempting the overland route, but wrong not using at
once steamers in the place of wiling:
SIR DE LACY EVANS contended that there had
been already suiScient discumion on the subject, and re-
peated his denial as to any arrangement with the govern-
.,

BENTINCH said that to refer such a question to •
edam committee was 'Madly to shelve it.
Sir J. ELPHII4BTONE contended that sufficient prepa-
rations were made to enable the troops to pun by the overland
route, end that the troops could easily. have crossed the
Isthmus of Sues at the time.
Mr. VANSITTART thought that a very extended inquiry
ea A
Lardto be instituted.
V. TEMPEST blamed the government for not
making more offirplete statements, and for not sending effi-
cient supplies of men to the East.
The home then divided—
For the amendment
Aiming et. 147-69
Ths original motion was then put and agreed to.
LONDON CORPORATION.

Sir G. GREY, in moving for leave to bring in • bill for the
heifer regulation of the Corporation of the City of London,
said it would be unneosieary for him to occupy the time of the
house with any protracted observations, inamouch as the bill
was, in its main features, the same as that which had been
laid on the table on a former OCCII3iOI4 and the nature of
which he then fully explained, and bad only been
subjected to certain modifications. The bill was
based on the recommendation of • commission of
which treat fully into the question, and embodied
tinlrys the recommendations of that oomtaimion,
not adoptlug them implicitly, bat deporting from them on
certain points where he thought departure deshable. The
object of the caminiedon wee to apply to the city of London
the main provides' of the Y Cerpmation Ad, 'ab-
ject only to those &troth= which the mailer deduces
of the emputatisa of Isedea rowed expedient. He pro-
posed to adopt the reccemeendstica of the commimicesers with
respect to the number of wade, end to GI that number at 16
toted of 26. He proposed that them 16 wards should, es
needy se posible, abew the seine mot end the mese
amount of population, and that the present inequility in the
population of the diarist wards should no longer
continue. The gisvmsfrig body would be
anon Colagag di the lard Mem t
eaanes,
sad catoasoa The number of the 00•111011
cauweilleus wee et Is the hewer LIU is was
that each the 16 treads should time as aidereaa
=Ai common coundlkee. He led been mg=
pressed to enlarge that alwahrr, sad mow
ward should elect cousace =would sake
the total number 112. The waattalaey Use am=
councillors would be altered end extended ; on this paint
he wee happy to my that no dighneweadehs between the se-

tunmendatione of the oommlitioners and the proposal of the
common consaillon in the readation which they had adopted
an
dth ies at su
ch old centirsee--thM e proposed that the qualification of home-
bomit rated andpy to
the yaks of 104 should hen aper ene—and to donaying with
the restrietion that every person voting for common coon-
cakes should be a Oman of
pthelEt, and be on the
parliamentary_ resister. He that the con-
mca 00=M4 km should be annstelly ; but
with regard to the elation of elders= be had dirtied both
from the recommendatim id the comnpledonere and the pro-
posal contained in the Lim Val: The oomminionin did
not think it right that the MOS Mkt should be adopted with
zzect to Wawa in the eity of London which wan=
tow
fa beankthe. the edema in
Mc Mead_ position Fisk the eldsnesn he other
boroughs, and eakauses megiderial hoodoos ; aid VW
reconsimided thee the aidenesa should be elected dais
years, and also Vast *eyeball oredinne toed ea nieghtimies
and be w
and the expiation M their sit of {Moe
se aldermen ; wilt
maid to ads,
the comminicatire reccumaded that the city al
cif
London should be an the ekes footing. es
ether boroughe, , that power should be thumb
etimdiary min other bereughe. 2Ate YEZiy wkoh ha oat on a former 001Sda is adopt-
ing the eif the cremilehatire, same ono,
the oomideration that ft was oppond to time
width had hitherto hem eaoogn
Pithat = should be a dam of poem
functions who wen Naked to eiestlekuuliVe"
such
i!dtat the ease of the room of&
who a= et hie y defiles baba
magietrate. Oa whelp be thoughtu it baker not fie nail
aand
altrention ta the asking taste of the dike of adman,
dew =lslide in tie/Vesialublitike IMlMiltigli
rwith& • immated Rota the Came,
tuttimid Its vested in then, on omen being shown,
pdr smjmity of the comedluemey tithe
wen der which the , thiamin me elected, •to mom
the Women from hie 'Moe. He thought that was the bet
solution tithe difficulty. The recommendations of the aces-
minima with regard to the 'election of Lord Mayor wire
embodied to the firmer bill Indeed of requiring the Lord
Mayor to be elected tam the aldermen or aharifi, he pro.
peerthatzr parson ahead bee qualified to serve the Idles
who the qualification f comet& COURCinO; lad
that should be think fie in other orporationa, by the
Common Council. The qualification ce sheriff was also to be
the name. The denim of the chief oflioas of the corpora-
tion would be veiled in the Common Council, as was the cue
under the Municipal An, with ens exception-:that of Re-
corder. In other places the Raced. wee appointed by the
Crown. In London be me elided. He ht it objec-
tionable to pleat die denim of the Recorder in bands of
the Common Council, and thought it mink be bettor to
leave It to the heads of the aldermen. He proposed that the
Court of Aldermen should be abolished as a court, and that
the Lord Mayor end alderman should no longer form
a part of the Central Criminal Court. The bill would also
contain clauses abolishing the enclusbre tight of trading,
street tolls, the light of metal., andthe rights of the fellow-
ship porter,. There were chum in former bills relating to
county courts which were not contained innk the present M,
became they had been embodied in a pli act passed by
the City of Landon in the course of the lest annion, and
Chardon it was no longer to deal with that part of
the nowerandation of the commiadonMa The same ob-
esnalion applisd to the question of , which was
MUM during the kit session by a private . This bill
differed in one important from former bilk, inso-
much as it contained no pro= relating to the mil dudes.
The sum of fourteen per ton was claimed on the pert of the
City estate, subject to a charge of 600,0001..
That duty could not be dealt with - except
to that charge, and ft would be a long time before it awls
paid off out of that duty. Subject to trJatiesyment of that
charge the firmer bill proposed that the d should cease.
But since that time a question has been with mend is
other bodies which embodied the same principle, namely, that
property of that kind ought not to be dealt with except by °
errangemont. He did not mean to say that the objecting
was a sound one ,• but in deference to the objection which bed
been raised, a bill on the subject had been withdrawn, and
although the question had been settled by compromise, it
might be dealt with by the house with regard to
generally. He did not now propose to deal with
don at preasat, but to leave the matter for kiss
oonaidr-
atin. There remained two other coal dntiss, one of 3d., sod
the other of ld., in which the City of London bad no real in-
terest, and which was paid to the Board of Works,
subject to a charge of 12,0001. Both these duties
would ex** In 1862, and he did not propose
now to deal with them. From the communications which
be bad received from gentlemen connected with the concre-
tion, he was led to believe that with the exception of tie
VauMaths to the qualification and mode of
d Xay, and me or two other matters, no greelatuU2
ikon of opikn existed, and that no objection ins enter-
tained to the prple of the bill, which he now moved for
Taro to mtreian. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Alterman CUBITT outvoted me or two grounds of
objection to the proposed bill, especially as to the election of
the Lord Mayor and the frmstions of the alderman. _ _ _

Allot come remarks Ly blr. W. WILLIAMS 11214
IrWAMON,
Lard J. RUSSELL approved of moat of the unewinmata of
the bill.

Leave was then given to introduce the bill, which was
read a Bret done, and the sexed reading was fixed for Fri-
day nott, the 12th inst.
HEIRS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
Mr. DUNLOP obtained leave to bring in a big to abolish
=Ts of heirs in Scotland in regard to the Anna
VALUATION OF LANDS (SCOTLAND) ACT
AMENDMENT BILL.
Mr. DUNLOP obtained leave to bring ht • bill to do away
with the exemption from valuation under the Valuation of
Lands (Scotland) Act (18.54) of certain descriptions of beads
sad heriee.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (1848) AMENDMENT BILL.
On the motion of Mr. Cowr an, the second reading of this
bill was postponed until Monday next, after a few remarks
from Sir G. B. Pientau. and Sir H. WILLOUGHBY.