The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-11 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1869.

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Tag CS= OF nu Ray. Mi. limirrox.—Soas•
weeks ago we gam • brief account of the proceedings of •
comnsheisa hiessel by the Bishop of London to halvahs tato
°stein Merges against Me Rev. Henry Hampton, of Iloilo-
way, at t gentiemen'a request. The Mahar has ammo-
Waded to //r. Hampton Ns declaim, after a very patient
end metal Investigation of the charges, and an interview
with the reverend gantlets.° who formed the commiseion.
The result of this decision is that hie lordship cannot with
proprie. y sanction Mr Hampton's of/Sating in the tem-
porary church of fat, John's, Holloway, but, under cer-
tain condsions, the judgment of the referees ambles his
lordship to grant a limme for his officiating in any other
part of the diocese. In reference t t Mr. Hampton'. long-
coat inued &Lai:Mime to episoopal anther ity, by officiating,
geld without any license, and subsequently against • moni-
tion issued from the Condstorial Court, his loroiship expresses
his willingness to condone, on condition of the rev. gentle-
men'e at oars submitting, and desisting from further officiat-
ieg at the temporary church. The report of the en:omis-
sions°. (Arehdescon Hale, )rev. Canon Dale, and the Rev.
Miehmd Gibbs) le the Bellhop of London thus concludes:
"We certify to your lordship that, alter maturely consider-
ing all the evidesce which has been adduced in support of
the several charge.e alleged against Mr. Hampton, we have
come is the conehrilon that his embermesments were 'mainly
attributable to the miecondaet of others; that he bad no

iateation of pereasaestly alwrecting any porticos of the
soaks collected ea seemant of the Church Budding Fund,
nor of wilfully miippropriatfas the mcrementel fried'; end
that, though &Mg sport from his wife, sad ender circum-
steams will& tempted hies to misrepresent her reel and
withal entails's, his life, tempt es rated in this report, has
bees without jut cause of censure or reproach. In roped,
theeefore, of the charges submitted to oat Isquiry, we can-
not consider him a. morally dhqualiiled far redwing In this
diocese"
THE Counrrtnvz SYSTEM FOR THE INDIAN
ARTILLERY ARE EMOINZERS.—The competitive system at
Addisoombe will, we widen-tamed, take visit from the be-
ginning of wilt year, which will allow the old system fairly
to work its It out bitten the new one commencer. Under
the sew system, cwltte riveting the senior depurtusest, after
saccessful competition, will remain et the college47.telear;
at the end of which they will ts examined sod ac-
cording to merit to the engineers and artiilwy. he engi-
neers, we are informed, will then go to Chatham, se com-
missioned oflicere, for use year ; sod the artillery mans, fa
the same panne, to Woolwich for six menthe. To bonen
the expenses of oducatioe, and to extend thereby the sees of
compritioe, We proposed, we believe, to give eery
sa-
gleser and artillery cadet lOW. after passim his two terms at
addinembe. These, we believe, are the sena ilentares
the schseoe for the renter competitive department et Addis-
combs. The competitive extenuation, it may be
will be to mathematics, incleding the Mem =B5
statics, dynamics, and hydrostatics ; sad Is ben, erne,
of eight other branches ol 'lady, early— 'im!!! now
and litersten,lsagneg• sad his=Sreztem now and
history of Imes, experimeatallisti
sand civil), the use ad aserwaradad ban-
anis. The test is tots by whin
examination is empaktory,haviag a 'mask hien anuabw
than any."—Owlsed lea
Boodsau.sol PROVIDENT!' Isrrirmoit.—The
rend grand mediae of the 'recoilsthis thatitutko
wee haid len eves the Albin Tan; Wanton-
street ; Enna Req., la the chair. The nem
tan read therefore, Metes " that thong the peg yaw
9494 bed ben illnithseal wpm; a're'as..' woman% es
their widen awi anthem This ma eameied the =east
sees prded la the preteen year. The members now awn-
5, anA the ••••••••• 4..01 ''M
at enn amentell to KAM anifitliZriCa wbel
W
of the beam at the retreat at e were I&
The elheina wed the adepties et do lapo!t, sad awes
=lB.Bthe asawiree mann wpm 1Y estleractory car
4 Ktaa the leatitaalsa wee founded its most sengutee
enstemegind aagestuktmg a TENETS feed of
ihoy W men them doable& that sum, the intoner
of which *Nei Sill ; but as then aneaditare in relief for
the past year areenthist ma by NM, it behoved the mem-
bers to sequin awe ding& It wee most desirable that
they should erne yens enathen as, in accordance with
the rule, son 40 mane Ohs bed satecribed for 20 yews
had darn the yen bessmo basanry members. On look-
ing over the month illenthateit he found that there were
two of the twins mane wile bad received 4201. each, one
$461. ix VAL irk an Ahern who had received wades'
sums hotness 1041. sad 9901. The evert and statement of
wools% wen easimeasty Mined
The ROYAL Ammon/mow FOR THE Pioitoros
or raw Fin Awn tN SOOTLLED.—We en glad to we
that the name relating to the pomedble dieentiaraws of
the noun el this medal society ere nelson fountain.
The plea he the =neat year is herd, sad the u
=wisp sad prematatios objects are se Mei adn=:
THE LIVIMPOOL rNXICS AND THE RAILWAY AND
CANAL INTILRETS.—At the meeting of the Liverpool Dock
Board yesterday, Mr. Formed brought forward a geodes to
the effect that the solicitor be tentacled es week tiny bale
introduced into mudiamest afinetther rallwaye ea nady
which have their termini to Liverpool, sad le report to the
Board se to the rates et charge for goods, silo. lin Forepaw'
thonht that as the redraft) of the comma of the poet
was largely dependent upon cheap tenant nem Into the later
eke the board should adept sue& a tmelaties. The Chair
ens thought that the amnia wadi' be better tarred to the
Chian of Camsmeree, mad after eon Mend= Kr. For-
tran wtddirow hie menu.
ROYAL Cou.sos or Sozosors---Ilt• Miming
ems, barks unman the asseirry andardne kw
leg =.none inal andree en anew at a neer
art elKenthere ensft& thetthm:--11thewa.
Kee Conan Oneth Keen Pewee Wan, Aar
thanaarLyas ; rande Hampton, Beensa. et. Bane,
J ; Pen Jeep►lt 11.1thangt ; Tha-
Althere Munk ; Jon DAM% Nada%
gn▪ i
esftedl Tire; Hwy Frededek Belden"
etaatheen-gewernireldre ; Jen Aaron Meta*,
Sawa% Teelohltu
like2eleda Thane Ran, mtheen.gtoset,
Kinn& j adMom hot. 117,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDl3.—Tnummy, MARCH 10.
Their lordship* resembled at 5 o'clock.
PETITIONS.
Pritious ware presented by the Earl of SmArrsomuzY,
from Rugby and other places, again* the opium testes, end
from the congregations of a chard at Xing a Hewn, and of
the Old Greed Pit Chapel, Harney, praying that direntees
may not be emended from say trusts, except he 01861 whore
It is so provided the founder.
Pathless wares yr. seated by the Earl of Doom from the
Protestant dbeenters of several dispels at Doreen, for the
removal of all restrict ons upon the trustees, madam and
pupils of Pre Grammar School, other than thole imp( sad
by the frockr.
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ASIONAL FORKS OF PRAYER.
The want into =amines om the Otorional Forms of
1 Pra which was then reported, with amendments.

MANOR COURTS (IRELAND).
On tbe motion of the Earl at Dintoroonmon; the
Kam Comte (Ireland) Bill woe reed a moon& time.

BINGAPORE.
Lord STANLIT of ALDIRLIT, In premnting a peti.,
ties from the bankers, merehont., and other retidenta at
Singapore, inked her blejealy's government what their itera-
tions were with emard I. the future government of that
settionient. The hoportanee of the position wee millelestly
Mown ag Ms empalattime which the France, Dutch,. nod
Spanish seeker were making in the Indian Archipelago,
and ha thought we ought to have an officer with the mama
minors as the Governor of Hoag Kong, oompotent to maim
tratietwith neighbouring &atm, end to watch the ammo-

ekes of Euoprieinatiams.—`•
Lord CABSAIIVON screed will the noble lord on the
knpwrenee el Singapore es • naval end comae role" stetion,
end stated that the que,tlen whether Singapore should be
made a BM& °okay bed been referred to the Governor-
/Naiad at ladle, sad the ultimate steps taken would depend
• •

upon the intem;rvosivott.
Lord ELLINBOBOUGH stated that Singapore Is, In
fact, under the preeminent of the Secretary of State for the
Colontos. It was • meet troportust posi, as it was a
rsating-plaos far troops going to China. As a meal station
It wee neases, on =count of the extraordinary shalom's=
of the water. He thought that Singapore and all the =tile-
insets in those waters should be placid ander the govern-
ment, not of the Eleortnry of State for the Colonies, bat
ander the fleaostory_of State for India.
The Hari of DARBY said that he thought, when the
noble lord gave notice of his question, it referred to the
tauter of the amendment of Singapore to the Colonial-Aloe,
tad that he wished to draw ateaVon to that subject, but he

trielnot sz;ertti; Iht7;)breTord would have tirouirbt for.
ward the subject of Sarawak, or he would have tarn better
prepared to give the noble lord an answer. The noble lord
wee crake emit in raying that a deputation had came to
hie (Lard Derby) in the interest of Sarawak, and expiated
their anzliKhat the popositicms of Sir James Brtoke should
be avowed the governrarni. This was net a newt epee.
dos, as the m lad been pressed in various ways for the
Let tea years, and there were no new facto connected with
the wsbject. Among the other difficulties of the caste there
Tam
a Irrhalard°;librt.land 1
ame.l°°nrookelmde had snit/
.thetdtoin big
min "nor
divots of Sarawak. He might add, tans the attempts to
raise coal there had been a hailer„ and there was a Utter
chance of obtaining coal at Lamm. If the noble lord would
repeat hi question he would be able to give him a better

eirwer. -
Earl GRIT said that at the that that Berawak was set-
tled as a celery it was distinctly understood to baths policy
at the goverment that there should be no territorial settle-
ment in the mainland of Borneo. It was well knows that if
such • setthenent was made, if British power was estab-
lished on • small part of a territory of that kind it had a ten-
dency to farther. In intercourse with barbarous na-
tive amass it wee found ths(theyeattered lightly intonation,
whir wen equally lightly brass, sad in a short time it was
fined that the power of this roomy wee engaged In carry-
leg eat trestles, end we armed Unto oontals which entailed
bteeLlty "Lere a liaigherb. s
hed
to No
t one James
Brooks than be bad, but be wished to ;re his testimony that
In 1846 it was understood by the government that Foreman
was to be taken of Labatt, which woo • small island and
copal° or ring fare valuable in orenesion with its coal ;
but as repred Sarawak, Ns James Brooke was to act as •
private iselivideal. The government undertook to aid in
preventing piracy en the own, which, in the ggerneral inte-
ream of CO•11011111•16 Inglead meld properly • to do,
but that broad this Sir James Brooks had no olelm upon
them. He believed that it would be eons& policy to adhere
to that undemanding.
Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY sad that all he wished
to oak from the government was, what wee to be dose to
protect British interests in Base; ? He was glad to bear
that It was fa contemplation to appoint • governor with
greater powers at Singapore.
The *abject Him droperd.
GRAND JURIES.
The LORD CHANCELLOR roes to call the attention of
the bones to the garden a inimical charges
and presetting Indictments to grand juries in the
metropolitan police districts, Be raid that a few
renege since, when his noble and learned friend
the Lord Chief Justice of England moved the second
reading of his bill for the:prevention of vexations indictments,
he (the Lord Chancellor) expressed his entire concurrence in
the principle of the bill, but sad that he thought it did not
go
far enough. His noble and tearer friend, acting on his
meagre of certain classes of misdemeanours, owing to
the retina of grad juries being used for purposes of ex-
tortion sal oppression, proposed that parties charged with
these canoes should not be put on their trigs without pre-
liminaarry examination before a magistrate. He (the Ltd
Chancellor) could state from his own experience that various
other matters in the shop of criminal charges, beyond thane
stated by his noble and hare I Mend, were used for pa-
rcel of extortion, and he was of opinion that it
should not be in any one's power to bring any charge
against any person by means of a secret tribunal
Be thought that In the metropolitan districts, at least, there
should in every car be a preliminary inquiry before • magi-
strate. But be then end, if It wee me &climbed, It would
be noctosary to inquire whether there seed be any farther
tapir before a party was pat on Isis trial; and as far as be
understood the feeling of their lordship they roared, and
he hod toned his attention to the subject, ant he had pre-
pared the bill which be now offered to the house. The Brat
subject to which he bad directed his attention was this. The
bill of his soble and learned friend applied to a ac.naloas
abuse of rend juries, by persons going behind the becks of
other, accusing them of offences, and converting that tribu-
nal into an engine of extortion. He (the Lord Chancellor)
prposed in hie bill that the object of the Lord Chief Joe-
tice's bill should not be confined to the cases to which it ap-
plied, but should be extended to all criminal chairs.
His noble and learned friend had mentioned cans of pers.=
who bed used grand juries for the purpose of venting their
maim and of extortion, and he (the Lord Chancellor) bad
mentioned other cases, and he thought it *marry to the
policy of our law that a peesen should atria without knon-
ieg who wee hie accuser, who were the witnesses, and what
wee the nen* warn him. He proposed In his MB that no
charge abosli be meal nand • person in respect of an in-
dictable sane le he tried at the Central Criminal Cart in
the City of Laden, or he the metropciltan district, melees
the charge bed been pee mealy levestigated by a police
magistrate or a justice of the peace. The next step wee
almost inevitable, fee be could not bellow that their I irclahips
could apse that all criminal charges abeeld be subjected to
airy 17.1 k. I.,74."atalgll&.lllbgeti
:r2bi.
was barely to believe that in a elegised eclair'', used
with theenlightened ideas we were supposed es pager such
• anon of criminal justice could es .t to be peen' time.
We bed a body of magletrates of great legal experience,
accustomed to dealing with evidence, sitting daily in open
court to =amiss into all criminal charges hinted i ths
accused was brought bee to bee with his monism; be
beard the witnesses, who wen open to cross-examinatin,
end was allowed to make any explanation or defence be
chow. If there wee say dont or (lanky the m
did not decide fa haste, but adjourned the nee toe ter
retht:
inquiry; and all this wee done, not to haulm into the
guilt of lancers of the party seared, bet esly whether
there were sufficient mends be swan him ha trial.
The depositions wars permed with great are' they were
reed over to the arena in the peentenoe of the
ww• signed, and ant to the Newt where 17:8"4
was to take place. The Judges were seems and COI
en would ppose that *mashie( bed been dome teary to
the trial • but before that molt take 'Sem MN MO
flteutuf through nether tribunal la craw that it night be
resented to court he Wel. Theirsad jury soneshied—
an irrommeible boty—te •• secret chamber, sworn to
the acensed wee notbehre them, the winos's were tarribilwris
one by see balder to eve if theemstetealebediedged=
in seeding the party seemed Sege It It was not
that mud isles should Ignore WM, beeenee eppictindty
foe iseltreng with whammies wee melee theseefrosmenores
easy, who wen mate span may ladistesen tar t ol
the Mold Jury wee swore to secrecy, end
or sitar whet they had and Were the 2gils
dawn doubt" sad difikultissom me tendon the gene jury
to throw out the bill. If the ore wen direst to the item,
ft was impossible for may whores, within isailf, 111 vary his
Whew, es he would be econeceed lry the depostilass. He
wee aid that Mr Clark, the late elan al arraigns et the
Gabel Criminal Coco urt,
pamphlet
to call the great tun the line
tithe Leedom t• et bad hem lean published
1411= el cr• eresertaan who sere • lest et the
by mewl Is at **Coates! Celestial
Coon to al: mode la VAL Met wire twootrt" la
allmbets med_be one the onion 'dads, to twelve el them,
which *seri that ths assewed sweat to hive beta pat
ort Ye trieLasi but s seek behave bees same&
la ems at dr NMI *spot Yen Ihmell " " bale sir"
imewme sell op ellikee let MO se
gar t
was Mal sail es assinel *mid guilty. Hs the( Lent
would maw to a as abkit bed around la his
own sad which wee Maim to the noble red

near him (Lord Shaftesbury). Two or three years ago •
patient in a lunatic asylum OW Loudon struck the medical
offiwr, who ordered him to be plead in a slower-bath for
haft-ao.hoer, and after that, teat a dose of tartar emetic
should be administrred t o him, and than the newitcal °Meer
lelt the imbue for the day. The patient was pl lest in the
ba shower-th for 28 minutes, was taken out shivering, the
medicine wea administered, and in ten hours after he died.
He (the Ind Cheocellor) was consulted by the Commis-
sioners of Lunacy. and he expansed a strong opinion
' that they would not discharge their duty unless a
podia inquiry took place. That Inquiry did take place,
Wow the of the most able end careful of the police magi-
strates, Mr. Henry, who cams to the denote:motion to send
the cue for trial. The matter had made agr at impression
ea Lim (the Lord Chancellor), because he tome from • con-
siderable distance to conduct the prosecution. There was no
doubt on the minds of any one concerned but that the ass
would come on, but, to the astonisheamt of en rya**, the
maM jury throw out the bill. He made no remark an the
inamence or guilt of the party implicated, but it was • coos
for inquiry, end if the individual was innocent, as ha believed
he was, it would have been more sat4faotory to him if he
could hive proved his innocence by • public trial, than to
have had the inquiry thus stopped short. The grand juries
in the metropolitan district had been from time to time Wk.
Sad of their I:wrote...new and uselemneos, and he& been
in the habit of preecnting themselves u maims at venoms
asesions of the Central entrain ol Court, hoping that a mea-
sure for their abolition, which would be for the benefit of the
public, would be introduced ; bat finding it hopeless that
loch a inseame would be brought forward they have ceased
to anent. He would read two or three el them present-
on res. (The noble and learned lord then read several pre-
sentments, beginning from August, 1861, to the effect that
the labours of grand lanai were unprofitable; that the time
hod arrived when they ought ti be done away with; that in
the preliminary inquiry before a magistrate there wee ample
opportunity for securing a dm administration of justice,
and that that inquiry superseded the duty of grand
juries, which were worm than useless, sad ought
ter be eboliebed as bringing the administration of
jostles and the law of the land tato contempt.) He we.
anxious to give their lordship. not only. hie owe experience,
but than of men more practically sormoutted with the sub-
ject, and he would read port of a charge delivered by Mr.
Stuart Wortley, whoa Recorder of London. (The noble
end learned had read the poser, which was to the effect
that, with regard to the mess which had undergone preli-
minary inquiry, be concurred with the grand jury in thinking
that their terms, in that district were melees, caused loss of
time, increased the expease of prosecution", ant enabled per-
sona to cause injustice by temptable with witnesses
and preferrieg unfounded charges against Mammal per-
sone.) He would quote another authority —that of
Lord Dammam, who was not one likely W give
up anythieg which was connectel wi.b the liberty or 'rowe-
d= of the subject. (The noble and learned lord read the
pseesge, to the effect, the Uwe. difficult to rem the effect and
me of the functions of the grand jury; for when they
' Mod a MI they only echoed the decision of the magletrate ;
end It they differed frem him sod Ignored • bill, that mould
not clear suspected character, mad might do irreparable Is-
junior.) There were other evils attendant on the system of
gramiljaries in the metropolitan district. livery semion a
snit asap win:loses, prosecutors, and friends of socosed
IMeinembled at the Control Criminal Court end shout
P/el , poems of all sges and sexes were gathered together at
each pitting of the court. There was no accommodation pro-
vided for them • It was une rtain when their oases were to
ooze on, and they had to attsad day by day. Evidence was
eus by the present Lord Meyer before • committee of the
Rowe of Commoss as to the demoralising effect of such as-
semblages, sad ft wan easy to Imagine what the posid m of
reemotable per ems who wen prosecutors was in such an as-
semblage. When • bill wee toned by the grand jury, it war
still unont•sin when the ors would came as, and the parties
connected with it spurt remaba. The mows of proem-
thee was thus made enonnons,and Smash that alone wee not
• 'efficient reason for setting rid of grand juries, yet it wee
worthy of attention as showing a way in which a oonaider
able raving might be effected. If Mt emations only were Ire
mired, arrangement' might he made to prepare
lists of owes for ditto:est days, and the peruse
need only attend on the days when their COMM
were likely to come on. All Mos he thought would
satiety their lordships that what he wee Moat to propose was
very deetraMs. By the almond closes 14 was provided that
when a party wee commit ed, or bound over m his wog-
ntranoes to appear to t,ke Iris triaL by a magistrate, there
should be no interposition of a mud jury, but that en in-
formation should te prepared at the Central Criminal Court,
and that It should have ell the "Sect of en keret, by •
grand jury. is 1848, when be (the Loyd Cheseeffer) Wes
citetheY-gmeral, he made a report to the HomoreAke on the
I criminal taw generally, thwtuan ne recommeeded that grand
juries should be abolished te the metropolitan &Mich. In
1649, a bill was brought in by the governmental the day for the
gressepuroose,snd a select committee°, theHomeof Commons
wee app lolled to inquire into the 'object. Six witne.see were
ezetedned —mem of great practical experience, namely, Mr.
Mit the clerk of arraign et the Central Cr nenal Court ;
Mr. Humphrey a, an attorney at greet respectobility and ra-
criennal cum; Mr. Alderman Wire ; Mr. Mire-
=M le a
then Conimon Bedews ; Mr. Prickle, chairman of
the Sung Sessions; and Mr. Beanooh, a marokuret of Lon-
vie all were in favour of the abolition of greed jar's.
do
Is when he (the Lord Chancellor) wee Averred,-
he brought in a hill for the awns purpose, which
failed k eensequeuce of a change of government. in 1867,
with theaancion of the late government. he introduced a
imam measure, which also failed. Under than circus-
Weser he hoped that their lordship would agree that there
wee soprapmition involved in his measure which badnot been
mdaelf erweidsred sad which was not deeirable. Provides
was in the bill for came where parties were committed
eel booed ova to take their trial, but he bed further to pro-
vide he the ham of • noble sad lisented friend (Lord Wets'
E.:, who was of OkilliCll that it was the right of every
act to put the criminal law in force according to the este-
law. He (the Lord Chancellor) did sot slog:thee
adapt that doe' rine, but it appeared to hire to be one of the
strongest arguments against the establishment of • public
for he hod aver heard. He was aware that, the
L°:"Chief Justice considered that when the evidence
before the mesterei° Ira not sufficient to justify
the committal of the accused, the accuser should
have the opportunity of applying to a judge or some
other tribunal in order to pet the party upon nis trial, if
sufficient evidence could be addeteed. Hs had provided for
such area, and he treated that he had, in the comma aa it
wood, met MI objection", and be might almost say all pre-
judices. He did not propose to dispense with grand juries
altogether, and he provided that when the magistrate thought
there was not aufficient evidence to warrant a committal, the
party bringing the sconastion might go before the grand
jury and prefer an indictment, provided he gave notioe of he
intention to do so within two days, and also gave notice of
the court to which he intended to carry the case. Then
he prop eei that the grand jury of the Central Criminal
Court should assemble three times a-year, end that the grand
Jodie of gearter sections four times a-year, when charges of
Obis seism shield be received and determined. There would
be so egnathweasesiesceis such a counts, es the amused would
bees who wag the passeator and who were the .dense;
mid be farther peeped that upon the notice being gives the
=should- be mat to the court before which tbe
Ig o take place, and also to the grand jury which was
to dekembe whether there should be any Mel or not. These
were the general provisions of a bill which he thought would
accomplish important objects. It would get rid altogether of
lll•Cftt oenotioes—it would get rid of the absurdity of a
second *cornea levestrgeten of a charge after • complete,
tall, and .atietactory examination before the tomistrate—aM
It would provide for what some persons thought the accuser
aweght a. have. Mx. the opportunity of going before a gaudJoey, sad pressing his aocusaton on Deem where the masts-
We considered the evidence immanent.
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i•Y
The Reel of SHAFTESBURY could state from personal
esperissoe that the present grand jury systn leflided great
haecanniesce noon ptoreantors and vitamin. Some few
years ago his pocket wart p eked, end as he succeeded in
captor* the criminal he proncired him. The ease was
sent to the Middlesex Sessions, where he had to attend two
whole days in • place where the accommodation of a seat
even was sot provided, waiting until his turn came to be
called before the grand jury.
Lord CRANWORTR repeesped entire coneerrecce in the
mantra of his noble and learned friend. He thought it right
to mention that a letter hod been rent to him a few days ago
is reforests to Lord Campbell's bill suggest* that a greet
and unseeeseary extreaditere might be raved if the pre:rice
of prefeerbg indict:oasts in cases whom ceereasea:l=
Maned verdicts of manslaughter or murder awe.
and the partite were pot epos their trials by vides d the
coreser's committal. He did sot altogether epee with hie
oirrespomiest, for it might happen that important evident"
might be discovered sebeepieury to the inquest.
The LORD CHANCELLOR would torn his at'ention to
the plat, bet obeerved there was a clause is the Sid which
exempted proceedings in reforeste to coroners' inquests.
Lord WENSLEYDALE, while admitting that some
ahem,* of the law was desirably, thought the rights of pro-
secutors to put the criminal law in force aboald be preened;
but the clause introduced by his noble and learned bind is.
moved mach of the objection be had expressed oft a lamer
occasion upon that point. Hereprded the grand jury as a
constitutional and a useful imatitution, sad should be sorry to
sob it abolished in ell oases.
The bill was brought is and read a first time.
Their lordship' adjourned ate quarter to seven o'clock.

HOUBB OF COMMONS.—TauuDAT, M&zcu 10.
The Braaxaa took the chair at the usual hear.

71; itartof Itasca took the oaths sad his rat as Na re-
agoottoa for Wart Bum.
AMENDMENTS TO THE REFORM HILL.
Mr. MILES-1 Lai to give sake that In coanalttoo on

ths Rehm Bill, It Is imy &tenths to introduce seisms Tr
tails! the *DU of freeholders in cities and boreagbe to
Aare in the representative of counties, as long se they eon-
those holding those freehold', sad to vote for counties sup-
posing they en on the register for 1868-68. (HOOO