The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-22 00:00:00

MUTINY BILL AND MARINE MUTINY BILL.

aka taw holm to give these bills, whisk
Wen wholly unopposed, a third reading, la °Mar that they
sift be seat up to the Lords that sherucos.
hills were severally read e third time.

MARRIAGES BILL.
Mr. WORTLEY laid that, looking st the state of the
pope, sad thiakiag ft doubtful whether his bill would sou*
at be thought it would be for the convenience of the house
if he ova himself of a new regulation and fizsd the son.
minor as the bill for Thursday, the 18th of April.—Ordered
actordiagly.
pucipla OF CORNWALL AND LANCASTER.

their 'prairies. Primogenitors exerted also es evil Isla
ease, ad • review of eke law of Witmer mese various
madams of satiquity proved kew ris that @ream had been
admitted eyes with reeldemble sedifitatiess.
Deravimg
that the sabeliviricia of properties emadmid es • highly
improved 'sedition at saltivation—a belief whisk he
seppermil by the examples cm shirr side of Proses is
the preset sad het centuries. Holland. /elem. and
Ireland—the honorable samba sided that 114 wee
sot within his purpose to mash the dismillf
land amen eti-heire compregy, milel&Magas el
To farilitato sad there. the ten siggehf seri paltreqy
mad to the same malt, and lee allering Ipslelhassue vwM
ether the load into its oatmeal elaumeisesem
ree of semi-
sa me and smartie! for produetios. balsa d* it
be expired to relit large ly by re siliptiem dm priori .
Mr. 'WART referred to as asemenneglai steempt he
himself made to terry an asalogre moseneethemegh pair-
meat fifers ago. He was emaressd lima both soar
neercislly and gesedtationally its teeth memM w hemefird,
sad therefore sesoadod the modes.
Mr. NE WDEGATE hand that the pilipedlisa woe oaly
a prewar of that " resale reeoludis "r the state of
society air tare of property ia this weary, of which Mr.
Cohdes had gives sorsa reessm/y. He wished to hams its
real old_ort.
Mr. HUME said that, kris, bees owe of those who
fifties yeses ago supported • melon somewhat similar to
that which hit hes. irked (Mr. King) brought forward at
preseet, he wee ensiose to soy a few words on the abject.
The hen. member, whose mod he supported 16 year. ego
moved for loam to bring is a till, smoothie that whore parr
died fastigiate the law, inetrel of heading all the property
over to the eldest son, should equally divide that property
between all the ehildrea, as mortal property was at mom%
divided. (Hen, hear) He believed dine 'saki be toad
is no °retry in the world to many examples of enormous
wealth and prosperity, and at the Mae time of wretabodnom
sad misery. He wished to know why that woes° ? (Hear,bear.)
He wished to know If it nor set tie cut, of the legislature
to Inquire into tho principle of tee thing, and reertals if
any same were at work to prime such an effect. Is no
part of the world could there be found sash • proportion of
poor as is England. (Hoar, hear.) He (Mr. Hume) alwas •
coupled capital with employmeat, and employment with
wages. It was a well-kaow• fact that in Begird rem was
vast capital at the disport of several which could be applied
to labour, and yet they Sew daily a rester amount of
wretchedness than could be seen elsewhere: did it sot, then,
behove them to inquire the cause of it ? (Hear, hear.) It
might to a matter of surprise to boa. gentlemen to know
that, according to the returns. then were in the British
WHIM the year 1821 only 60,000 landed proprietors;
whilst in Denmark, a small state comparatively,
there were no fewer than 60.000 small estate proprietors.
(Hear, hear.) Ie the kingdom of Prussia there were 200,000;
is Austria, 660,000; la fish:orients, 200,000, or fear times
the number la the Bride\ Isles; and in Portugal, 1.54,000.
This 'retry was at the bottoms of the list as regarded the
number of leaded proprietors; and if there existed more
wretchedness is this country than in any other, was it sot
worth consideration to laviire if it were or were meowing
to the feudal lyre? (Hear, hear.) There were lags
tracts of land hold in this creamy under the laws of primo-
geniture and entail, on which no pumas were over em-
ployed. sad the land csnesquently was allowed to lie waste.
His (Mr. Hump's) opinion was, that it was meet impolitic to
have • law sanctioning such a state of things. Losg experi-
ence convinced him that much of the present ampere of the
country was incurred by rearm of the aristocracy quarter-
ing their poorer relatives ea the perils taxes of the country.
(Hear, hoar.) Oa • loran erasion he IMr. Hume) in-
curred much displeasure by reading the wills of two noble-
men is that house-which he obtained from Doctors' Com-
mons. At the time there were three anus of one nobleman la
that hors ; but one will bequeathed 6001. a year to the
eased the dammed, until thee should be better provided
for by goverament appointer t. (Hear, bear.) 241 W, let
them look at the position list He did not mean to say that
all on that list were members of the aristocracy. But it they
took the 10,000 army officre,and 7,000 navy officen,they would
find that the uistoracy were paramount in prelim sad pro.
motion, though many of them had never seen—he believed
he might say sought—anything that con d be regarded as
series. (Hear, hoar.) He believed no such proceeding
could take piece if that hour were differently constituted,
and if it were not filled with the scions of who
benefited themselves much more than the country. Einar.)
It was with the view to alter such a state of thine, that new
legislation was required. (Hear.) He (Mr. Hume) would
abolish the law of primogeniture altogether, as being in-
jurious to the state, as being uonatural, and also believing
that its abolition would be productive of great benefit.
(Hear.) He supported the motion on the principle that the
law of primogeniture entailed great wealth on one
elan whilst it imposed great poverty and wretchedness on
another, and also took from the country the advantage it was
otherwise certain to have, namely, the application of csoital
to the land, were the land f.ivided into smaller portions.
He admitted the present war only • half measure of benefit ;
but still, If carried, it would ensure at least the certainty of
a man being at liberty to dispose of his landed property with
the same facility as at pretest 'listed for disposing of his per-
earl. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. ld MILNES merely rose for the purpose of statist
that, in his opiaios, his hon. friend who had just sat down
much time rated the nature of the motion before the
hour. He should say, as a landed proprietor, the boa.
gentles= was ranch mistaken if he thought the landed
proprietors would ;object to any measure that would enable
them to dispose of their landed property without being
compelled to resort to the present cumbrous process.
( Hear, hear.) Whether the present measure passed or
sot, he was certain any sours having for its object the
facility of transfer of property would receive the support of
the landed interest. He saw no objection to the
assimilation of the law as regarded landed and per-
sonal property. He thought, however, they should es-
tablish Me principle of every man having a right to dispose
of OM own property, whether Willed or perional, as he
pleased ; became he clearly foresaw the time was not far
distant whoa they might be forced to adopt the principle
which worked so beat &daily on the other side of the At-
lantic. (Hear, hear.)
The CHANCILLOR of the EXCHEQUER (who spoke
in so low • toss of voice as to be almost totally inaudible la
the gallery) was understood to say that the motion before
the house comprehended two subjects, the facility of the
transfer of land sad the assimilation of the laws affecting
landed and personal property. With regard to the first
'measure, he thought it could sot be advantageously die.
rimed at present, until the measures which her Majesty's
ministers had already sirified their intention of bringing
forward, aad some of which had already been brought for-
ward, were disposed of by that house. As regarded the
'sera branch of the motion—the assimilation of landed
sad pereciaal property—he did sot agree in the view of the
hos. (talisman ; and be believed the general °piers wee
in assordesee with the existing law.
Mr. BRIGHT repudiated the charge of desiring any era-
pulsar, laterference with this rights of rime. property.
It was, however, repugnant to nativist ja•tiee to conf r
wealth apes one child cut of • family sad leave the rest
wholly noprovidod for. Why should not the prineiple which
was found appropriate for all other descriptions of property
be applied to land, 3 far from destroying the value of
real property, the change would in many instances be worth
six or seven yeses' additional purchase. To the labour, the
impossibility of nit ag himself into the proprietary class
formed a serious obstacle to his moral sad physical ad-
macentest.
Sir H. VERNEY was conviseed that, by • proper regu-
lation of the laws of property, the labourers whom we were
assisting to 'nitride could be mach better employed at
home. He imported the trips.

Mr. I. KING replied that the right bon gentleman the
Chancellor or the Exchequer had alluded to the real property
conialmiesore. This. gentlemen maameneed their labours
in 1830, and lied not yet concluded this. The present state
of thins wee a barbarous remnant of feudal times, end a
diagram and scourge to a civilised country ; and la reply to
the question of the hoe. member for Warwidishles what wes
his object, he begged to reply, to do justice,
and by the division of land to secure the em
Moment of apical in the cultivation of the soil.
The hones then divided—
Poe the motion 62
Against it
THE PRINCES OF INDIA.

Lard J. rid he saw that the hon. asember for
Tatra** (Mr. Talaway) had a motion an the paper, re-
lating to the managewat of the Duchies of Cornwall sad
lAssaresr. He dad a= think it would lead to a very loag
dismission ' • hat as scma has. members, who had looked into
the subject, thosakt that it involved • question of the pro-
reptile of die mows, and se the riobt hos. gentleman the
member fee Tamest*, who would probably take some part
is the dleismiss, was obliged, as well as himself, to be
=seat la the wares of the erasing, he would submit to his
lea. Mead that it wood not be eoavenient to bring oa the
motion that sight. At the same time, is sekiag tor its post-
ponement, he felt bolted, if el sable, to make some arrange-
ment for it to come a; sad. as it was not a quamtioa that
would take • eery long time, be proposed to take is bilk=
the orders of the day on Monday.
Mr. TRELAWNY sail be =odd readily accept the noble
lord's offer • at the some time, h. was sorry not to have the
opportunitiol bringing on the motions immediately.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.
Lord J. RUSSELL said it would, perhaps, be convenient
that he ehteld state the order in which he proposed to pro-
ceed with certain Wail. Toe committee on the Australian
Colonies Bill would come on neat day. He could not de-
cidedly say whether the committee ea that bill would have
proceeded beyond a point which would render It memory to
take the ball again on Monday, or whether it would be
ferth.r I ostponed ; but the course he at present intended to
take wee to go into committee on the Australian Colonies
Bill neat day; to take the motion of ►is hon. friend (Kr.
Trelaway) with respect to the duchies of Cornwall sad inn-
easter on Monday ; then to ge to the orders of the day, nod
take t►e distressed Unions Bill ; and then to no on, if neces-
sary, with the oraanai.tre on the Australian Colonise BBL
In answer to Col. Si atm one,
Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to say dist he pre
peed to she the second reading of the Distrait's/I Unitas
Bill neat day. Certain returns which were ri gaited weak'
be before the house before going into committee on the bill ;
at ell events, he would postpone going into committee till the
returns were received.

Sir E. COL/iIia:JOKE then roes, in pursuance of
notice, to motet for a select committee to inquire int the
rights of succession of the allied and dependent princes of
India. The hon. baronet proceeded ter a few minutes to
address the home on the subject of his motion ; but his
voice was remarkably weak and at times scarcely audible.
Ultimately it become manifest that he was indisposed, and
h• was, in feet, compelled to resume his stmt.
Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE would recommend his bon. friend
to adjourn his motion, as in his then state of health it wu
evidently impossible that he could do justice to it or to him-
self by attempting to proceed. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HUE Putted In this suggestion.
Sir E. COLEBROOKE said he would adopt the coarse
recommended. (Cheers )
The motion was accordingly withdrawn.
BORNEO.

Mr. HUILE moved for the (atoning returns:—" Copies
of the Instructions from Sir Francis Collier to Commander
Farquhar, alluded to in Mr. Farquhar's Report of the 25th
day of August, 1819 (page 9); of Sir Francis Collior's Ro-
nan adverted to in Lord E Idisbury's Lotter of the Stn day of
November, 1849 (pigs 11); of Sir James Brooke'. Despatch
to Lord Palmerston, relative to the buildings fort at the en-
trance of the &hernia river, noticed in Sir James Brooke'.
Letter of the lit day of October, 1849, and of the answer of
Lord l'a/menton thereto ; and, of the depot:Woos taken by
order of Sir C. Rawliason, Recorder of Singapore, respecting
the pirates destroyed by a force under the orders of Comman-
der Farugqshar, on the 31st day of July, 1849, for which Sir
C. Rawlls.os has granted certalkiatos for bounty "
Sir F. BARING said be had a* objection to the prodaction
of these papas; but as some of them would have to be
written for, and others were as yet only on their way
to Eciland, there would necessarily be some delay.
Mr. HUME said there was in the estimates a vote of
98,00 W. for remuneration and other purposes to which he
objected, and he wanted the liven to substantiate his ease.
The motion was than agreed to.
The following return was also agreed to, on the motion of
Mr. Hume Account of the East hubs Company's
charges for steamers and troops employed at Libyan, and on
the coast of Borneo, from 1839 to 1819, inclusive."

TRANSFER OP LANDED PROPERTY.
Mr. L. KING m.ved, "That cons.dering the sour
plaints which is many parts of the kingdom have promeled
from the wain and hccupiers of land, an.t considering also
the benefits which have arisen to all other classes from re-
cent legislation promoting free trade ; it is expedient now to
adopt measures for diminishing the existing restrictions ma
the tree transfer of landed property, and for distributing
such property in can s of intestacy according to the yams
milts es prevail in nerd of personal property." The
'violin, state of the law, argued the hon. member, tended
perpetually alienate Papilla from the land. Founded
Is feudal limes, wnen the principle of keeping lead in imams
was neetwary and meted, tness laws had continued to exist,
thoutth their influence was now pernicious. i tracts
were now to be men left almost unproductive, sralfir aa &l-
une Vile and destitute population dwelt upon its border*.
There were properties belonging to the crown, the churls,
to puttim chanties whose uses had well nigh pissed away,
to eccentric and guns preserving lendlorda, whom futility
was bet is a alight degree developed is eemperieoa with

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
Mr. HUME also moved, " in addition to the papers
already before the house, respecting the proclamation of
martial law, aad panishmenta under that law in 1849, for
copies of all papers relating to the proclamation of martial
law in Use bland of Cephalonia in the beginning of that
year 1833' together with the correspondence that took place
on tot between the then lord high commissioner
and C Covers, then resident la and for that island,

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THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1850.

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pertasity of aa attacks that sition. Wks taa
.minutes mem before the bone hie bolo Mesa maim be
able to aster into thee girds fatly, but he loped that b.
would at hart allow the bill to paw IMMO eppielliss. He
depeesated hi. maiden roma*" os that mantles fa pants
tibia lsoolsoal las beams of savel Ohms.

Mr. RUMI did sat wish M.ena the program of the bill,
but snit Wise his grease aphid the payment of say per.
Noe of this is the abases ef amtileates cad ratans
as to the pectin g pintas. He ems prepared to show
that that w use Wiz character, aad, therean, that they
were asked te pay for the capture of (ascent perms.
air F. BARING said so payment would be mad* without
sertileates.
Afar rose ameadegeate, all the slimes were agreed to, aad
the bill weal thrown committee.