The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-02 00:00:00

ORDERS OF THE DAV.

Rale and Purchase of Shares 11111—adjourned debate on
amendment on second reading :--(Order fur second
reading read ; motion made and question proposed, "That
the bill he now read a second time :"—Amendment pro-
posed, to leave out the word " now" and at the end of the
question to add the words " upon this day air months :*
(Mr. Fades) -Question proposed, " That the word • now'
wand part of the question ;"j Execution of Leeds Bill
—committee.
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WRONESDAT, MARCH 6.
Oanzrui or rme DAY.

Tests Abolitionßiliort reading ; Refl.
gious, &c., Buildings (Sites) Bill— second reading.
THURSDAY. MARCH 7.
ORDERS Or THE DAY.

Metropolitan Poor Bill—coimnittee; Shipping Local
Dues Bill—committee ; Vice•Prcsident of the Board of
Trade Bill—committee ; Laud Tax Cominbsioners' Names
Bill—committee : Railway Companies' Arrangements
Bill—second reading ; Lyon King of Arms iscotlanill Bill
—second reading; Metropolitan Improvement* Bill—
second reviling • Thames Embankment awl Metropolis
Improvement (I:oans) Bill—second reading; London Coal
and Wine Duties Continuance Bill—second reading;
Dublin University Professorships Bill—committee.
Sorters or Mori..ss.
Mr. Ayrtm—East London Water Bills, &a., Committee
—That all petitions which have been presented during the
present session relating to the utattas referred to this
committee, be referred to the said committee, awl such of
the petitioners as pray to be heard by them,elves, their
counsel, or agents, be hoard upon their petitions, if they
think fit ; and counsel heard in favour of the bills :—That
the committee have power to send fur persona, papers, and
records.

The Attorney-General—Bankruptcy—Bill to oonsolidate
and amend the acts relating to hankniptcy in England.
The Attorney-General—Judgment Debtors Bill to
abolish arrest on final process in civil actions in England,
except in certain cues ; and otherwise to amend the law
relating to judents, decrees, and onler..
Mr. P. Wyn&am—ln committee OH Metropolitan Pear
Bill—After clause 81, insert the following clause : "Where
the asylum is provided for the reception and relief of the
sick, every such asylum shall he provided with a hospital
carriage, of such a pattern as the Pour-law Board shall
approve of, for the conveyance of run.ollo suffering from
email pox, fever, or other infection. disease.
Colonel Barttelot—On second reading of Railway Corn-
Nunes' Arrangements Bill, to move that it be read a
second time upon this day six mouths.
FRIDAY, MARCH 8.
ORDERR OF THE MAY.

Petit Juries (Ireland) Bill--ercund reading; twat el
Chancery (Ireland) Bill—second reading; Common Lan
Courts (Irel.uul)Bßl—seeoud reading.

NOTICEM OP MOTT‘7NR.

On going into committee of supply,
Mr. William Forster—To call the Attention of the house
to the uncertainty as to the position of the volunteers
consequent on their late employment as :in armed force at
Chester ;ant to ask the government what steps, if any,
they intend to take to remove this uncertainty.
Mr. Bermford Hope—To move that :ix the Customs
revenue is now derived from an exceedingly :melba
of articles, the prices of most of which w London and
Paris are equal, this house considers that no appreciable
injury would be indicted upon the income of the country
were the present practice of the '.arch of the baggage el
travellers at Dover, Folkestone, Newlin, to, and is
London suspended during the period of the French
Exhibition of 1+4117.

Mr. Gregory—To call the attention of her Majesty's go.
vernment to the condition of the Royal Irish .Ividcmy.
Mr. O'Reilly—To call attention to the position of the
present officers of the Straits Settlement. awl to ask the
Under Secretary of State for the Colonise whether he tut
state which of these officer. will be retained and which
auperstsled ; and, with regard to the latter, what measures
are proposed to prevent the transfer of the settlement
fnim the Indian to the colonial govermisent injuriously
affecting their position and future career.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge hnd
a dinner party on Thursday at Gloucester House, Ticeti
dilly.

The Marquis of liartington, M. P., has gone on
a visit to the Duke and Duchess of hlancliester :Lt Kira.
boltou Castle, Hunts.

The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury had a
dinner party last evening at their resiiienee in litieacnor•
square. hater in the evening A ',elect circle
The Earl and Countess of Dudley hail a small
and early party yesterday evening at Dudley Ilieise, Park•
lane.

Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last
evening his Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio, the Mar-
quis of Sligo, the Had and Count, ,a of Essex. V iscounte,i
Hohuesdale, Lady Augusta Cailogan, the 11. n. 113*Til
Temple, Lady Egerton of Tateon, (;,neral
Mr. F. Courtenay, Lady Tierney, Mr. Millais, li.A., and
Mr. Pakenham Aldet son.

—•
The Hebdomadal Council at Oxford hire declined
to take action upon the memorial present. .1 to them,
praying that the honorary degree of M.A. shoahl be givot
to Mr. Robert Browning, in onbv to qualify him to be a
candidate for the Poetry• Professorship.
In consequence of the high price of all kinds of
food the caterers of the line regiments in France experience
great difficulties in providing for the support of the men.
The Emperor, taking into consideration thin mate of
things, which can only be aggr.tvattal in Parit. during the
Exhibition, has decided that there shall hr accorde.l to the
troops a daily supplement of three centimes per man for
those quartered in Paris, and two to those in the neigh-
bourhood, from the lit of April to the dose of the
Exhibition.