The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-04 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS. —TITESDAY Dsc. 3.
IN the Hones of LORDS yesterday, tho Earl of
DERBY Aided that it was desirable that both
houses should adjourn, if possible, on Saturday,
and with that view he hoped their lordships would
ait for a short time this day.
The Sales of Reyersions Bill was read a second
time.

The Metropolitan Streets Act (1867) Amendment
Bill was read a second time.
Lord Dupree's moved for police reports of the
Ertions that had recently taken place in Ire-
order to show sympathy with the Fenian'
who had been executed in Manchester. He depre-
cated the conduct of a portion of the press in re-
presenting Allen and his companions as martyrs,
and he earnestly impressed on the government the
absolute necessity of impartially administering the
Party Processions Act throughout Ireland, without
reference either to religious or political opinions.
lllThe Earl of DERBY, while doing full justice to the
general—he hoped not the exclusive--loyalty of
the Orange Society, said he had never hesitated to
carry out the law with the utmost impartiality.
He deeply regretted that a portion of the press
should have represented the executions at Blan-
chester as dictated by political reasons. The
offence was not a political one, but a simple
murder.
The motion was withdrawn.

The Tuttle', &c.. Write Bill was read a first
time.

The house adjourned at five minutes past 6 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TVISDAY, DEC. 3.
IN the HocsE of COMMONN, the LORD ADVOCATE
took the oaths and his seat for Thetford.

Lord &tartar, in reply to Mr. D. Griffith, who
asked if it was the intention of the government to
advise the Crown to confer the dignity of baronet
on the late member for Andover, on account of his
having vacated his seat in order to provide a seat
for one of the law officers of the crown, stated that
the government had no such intention, and that he
should consider such an exercise of the patronage
of the Crown improper, if not corrupt.
Mr. G. HARDY stated, in reply to Mr. Gilpin,
that it is not the intention of the government to
introduce any bill on the subject of church rates.
Lord STANLEY stated, in reply to Mr. C. Forster,
that it is intended that the sitting of parliament
shall be adjourned on Friday next till the 13th
of February.
The Income-tax Bill was read a third time and
per.
The Consolidated Fund (2,000,0001.) Bill was
read a third time and
The Totnes, &c., rartlsedßill was read a second
time, and also assed through its remaining
stages.
Mr. Huirr moved that the house at its rising
adjourn until Thursday.
Mr. MAurIRE called attention to a statement
made in the Pall Mall Gazette, to the effect that,
though there are 200 Roman catholic prisoners
in Tuthill-fields Prison, the Roman catholic priest,
who has offered his gratuitous services as chaplain,
is not allowed to see more than one prisoner at a
time, and consequently cannot administer the
rites of his religion.
Mr. G. HARDY said the view he had always taken
on this subject was, that every prisoner should
have facility for religious worship and advice, ac-
cording to the form of the denomination to which
he belonged. If the facts were as the hon. gentle-
man had stated, it did not appear to him that the
visiting justices of that prison carried out the
spirit of the law.
Mr. NEWDEDATE said he was a Middlesex ma-
gistrate, and was sure the magistrates were desirous
of granting every facility for religious worship, but
under the appearance of liberty of worship they
would not suffer prisoners to be coerced.
Sir G. BOWYER thought that coercion ought to
be applied to prisoners. They ought to be made
to attend Divine service, conducted according to
the form in which they had been brought up.
The motion was then agreed to.
Mr. NEWDECATS, in moving that copies of all
petitions or memorials, and of all communications
praying for the suspension, commutation, or remis-
sion of sentences of death, or of penal servitude,
be laid before parliament, dwelt at some length on
the necessity of certainty in the administration of
the criminal law. The present uncertainty in
carrying out the sentences was undermining the
confidence of the country in the administration of
justice.
Mr. G. HARDY objected to the production of the
papers in question, because almost every memorial
imputed perjury to somebody. Nor had these
papers anything to do with the improvement of the
criminal law.

Sir G. BOWYER suggested that a court of appeal
in criminal cases should be established, w •
would to a great extent prevent those appeals
through the Home Secretary to the mercy of the
Crown.

The motion was withdrawn.
Bills were introduced by Mr. Hardcastle, for the
abolition of church rates ; by Mr. Hubbard, for
the regulation of church rates ; and by Mr. Walde-
grave-Leslie to amend the law in respect to the
sale and purchase of ahares in railway and gas com-
panies.