The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-14 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENLYG, JUNE 14, 1861.

A-YA.STLEM EVIDTINO. —The most
-uer,atai spectacle rear prudaced.—MAZEPPA. wttti New
scrncry and Meets. T.. be 1.411. red by the &way llnunt.do
Won', is. Flying Trapeze. and SCAN Di IN THE CIRCLE CM-
eltullot enh the Ballet id TUE MILL IN AN UPROAlL—Me-
duced prices. U.R. open at lalf•posit IL

IMPERIAL P.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—Tatraiwas, Juni U.
The Loss Cissacacoa took kis mg es tin wooksek et
5 'Muck.

POSTAL CONTRACTS.
On the motion of the Martinis of NORMANDY, the fol-
lowing return wail agreed to : Return of each of the dif-
ferent breaches of contract committed by the Cunard, Nein-
BMW' and (Mental, and West India Companies during the
first two years of their contract ; the anionnt of the penal-
ties to which they were liable for each of these cues, and a
statement as to whether any, and if any, which, of those
penalties were enforced.
Their lordships adjourned at 20 minutes put 7.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TIICIteDAY, Jczcz 13.
The Smut= took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSLNEIgi.
The following bills were read a thinl time and passed :
Booelli a klectrio Telegraph Company ; Charing.cross Rail-
way (City Ternuntud ; Great Western Hallway ; Herefonl,
Hay, and Brecon Railway ; Londonderry and Lough Swilly
Railway:. Raley. Pocks and' Harbour Board ; Victoria
Station andlimhoo Sailtray.
MERCHANT RHIPPTNG ACT.
Sir H. STRACEY asked the President of the Beard of
Trade ettrhet day be intruded to bring in the bill of which
he bed tiers patios, ter the amendnant of the Merchant
Shipping Act!
Mr. M. GIBSON said he was very aexio•a to bring in the
bill, but he was not able to tell the hon. baronet when he
should be able to introduce it. Ho hoped to be able to give
• positive answer to the hon. baronet in the come of a day
at two.

-iir7Git4GORY said, seeing the Secretary to the Ad-
miralty was not In his place, be *mild ask the Secretary to
tic Treasury the number and date at the different breeches
et Metre/it committed by the guard, Pee and
Oriental, wild West India Compaums during the fin* two
years of their service, and the number of penalties imposed,
and ig how many instances such penalties were remitted by
the Treastry.
Oolonel FRENCH said before the right bon. gentlemen
answered the question he wished to aak how it was that the
papers he had moved for in reference to this matter, and
which had been ordered by the house, bad not been pre-
sented.

Mr. F. PEEL mid with regard to the latter question the
matter was one under the oogiaisaoce of the Admiralty, and
he was therefore unable to state when the papers would
be produced. With regard to the question asked by the
hen. member for Galway, owing to the length of the period
to which the question referred, he had bad some difficulty
in obtaining the information. He bad, however, he be-
lieved, succeeded, and what be had to state in answer to the
question was correct as far as he knew. The Cunard Com-
pany had been in existence since 1840, sod not only during
the first two years of their service, but at no time from the
Snit to the last had they committed any breach of contract.
They had incurred no penalties, and never that he knew of
had they asked for any indulgence or allowance from the
government. They had in fact carried the mails with no.
deviating regularity during the 21 years that their 00(1,7110i
had existed. The Peninsular and Oriental Company had
been almost equally successful le the regularity in which
they had performed their contrast, and he could only find
cos inetanco of the inmostion of a pushy, sad that was
with regard to the branch eseviesilistnees Malts and the
louipiu Islands. In 1841 or 1842 they failed to provide a
vessel for the conveyance of the mails between Malta and
the lonian Inland', and they were fined 1,0001. for that
breach of contract, and they were required to pay that sum.
With regard to the West India Company,s the meals of Mu
company should have commenced their voyages on the Ist
December, 1841, according to the contract, but in conse-
quence of there 'being some delay in the completion of their
vowels the service was allowed to be postponed for • single
month. He could only find one instance of • breech of con-
tract on their part, as regarded the departure of the nude
from thiseoutry,
_which wee in themonth of December, 1812,
when a vessel of theirs was five days behind time in having
the port of Falmouth. In consequence of that delay they
were lined 3p001., and although they remonstrated very
Oro* spied the imposition of that make, the layman
of it was insisted upon by the government. He bed referred
to the evidence of Captain Chappell before the edict com-
mittee 1121849, and be found that in one of his answers he
said, " There have been 181 out-mails despatched from this
country which have all gone at the appointed moment,with
one inception, for whieb the company was, in my opinion,
most unjustly fined3,soo/., ?which they were obliged to pay.
As regarded the inter-colonial part of the West India man
service, it fell into great confusion and irregularity during
the first year of the contract. The company alleged that
the reason at that irregularity was that the
scheme of routes was so intricate and extensive '
as to be almost impracticable. The Admiralty, however,
acateaded lies As cause of the irregularity WM in the cow
pay not keeping • sufficient number of vessels in the West
Indies, and thef fined the company B,ooof. on account of
the deficiency in the number of their cools. The objee-
tion, however, made by the company to the scheme of
meta was afterwards admitted, and the routes were shoed,
and the penalty of 8,0001. was waived by the government.
The only other fine in the nature of • penalty he
could trace was in the year 1842, in connexion
with the disarrangement of the inter-colonial sorrier, when
the mammy were compelled to pay 2,7151. for assistance
which the government rendered in carrying the mails be-
tween the West India colonies. Their own vessels not being
ready ea the appointed days the government sent a ship of
war, or the mead lured a vemisj, and in consequence the
company were made w PB7 Thif he believed to be
a compote s atement of the breaches of ming by, and
the penalties impose d, upon, these companies. (Hear.)
HES MAJESTriI STEAMER JACKAL AND THE,
SHOOTING OF A FISHERMAN.
Mr. CAIRD asked the Lord Advocate in the dames of
the Seeretary the Admiralty, wheels/wise bad Issied that
• isheouse on the coast of Argylesbire bad besy
and another wounded, by shots fired from her Majesty:a ,
steamer Jackal or her bone ; and wbeelor nwould explain
to the home by whose weber* thin was bran
The LORD ADVOCATE midi of comes be was ngehle to
give an mower to the latter part of the questloo. He bad
received 'pretty full account of the unfortunate ocusreece,
bat as it would necessarily form the subject of judicial in-
vestigation it would not be well that he should now go into
the details. The accounts were rather conflicting. Optima me
hand. there wee the evidence of the crew of the fisherman's
boat, and on the other head there was the seldom,
of the revenue officers. It appeared from the statement of
the revenue officers that they had gone out for the purpose
of seeing whether these fishermen were engaged in illegal
ilutirei, and they found them In the act of trawling. They
an ofilowand two me., and amnions went cooed till
they got into the vicinity of the /eking best. They tolled
to the fishermen, who coatinned the opteopetioo in which
they were engaged. They the. fired blank cartridges, and
afterwards shot, which was Weeded to p wide of the
mark. The fithermen, on the other hand, did not admit
that they were trawling ; they rid they were bailed, and
that immediately upon being hafied, they replied tint they
were coaling on shore. and that while they were coming
ashore the shot was fired.
Mr. OAlRDentespently pve notice that to-morrow be
should ask the Seerelery to the Admiralty if he would lay
en the table a copy al the instructions under which the
commander of the Jackal was acting.

Sr J. FERGUWN ;161/120 Secretary for Foreign
Affairs whether it was true that a decision bad been ar-
rived at by the representatives of the powers assembled at
Oseeteatieople, that the Lobules should be *nod umber
the government of one man, and be one of tie 'Luepke
sect ; and, secondly, that he was apt to be under the or
of the Ooveroor.General of Syrh, but to communicate direct
with Constantinople ; and whether that decision had been
arrived at with the concurrent* of the representative of her
Mar
Lord J. RUSSELL mid the emunivimmd Tod to wt*
that there should be a Christian governor of Lthanoo,
bat it was not specified in the sposment Whether he should
be • native of Be Lehman et ask The ecemaimics is
Syria had agreed, with the amen* of all the commissionesk
except the French commissiouer' that be should not be a
Wive; but when the question came to be considered at
Constantinspik the representatives of the foreign powers,
:lon instructions from their goversmente, speed,
e propa Mos of the Prussian minister et Con-
that a Christian governor of the Lebanon
should be appointed, but without any specification se to
whether be should be a motive of the Mountain or mot, and
in that declaim her Majesty's ambeenador concurred. With
mord to She other artawmasts, he believed the governor
would be subject to the Packs of Syria (so the noble lord
wee understood, but he spoke in a very low Mae); but be
could not answer positively as to that or other points,
because her Majesty's ambassador informed him that the
various data were to be embodiedpr in :orrotocol, and he
bad BM yet reesived a copy of that
RUMOURED MEETING OF TEE EMPEROR OF

Lill; THE KING OF ITALY.
OBAWFORDmIted the Foreign Secretary whether
there was say *nth In a statement which appealed in an
Italian newspaper that the Him of Italy had left Tarim sad
to a town ems the Freneh frontier, in order to
teclindetfereeoe with the Emperor of the French.
Lord J. RUSSELL replied that he had received no intel-
ligent* m the subject.
UST INDIA LOAN BILL.
On the eider et the day for going into committee oa this
bijar H. WILLOUGHBY observed that this ken of
4,030,(1001. would increase the debt of India to aossiderably
more the 100400,0001.; that the prospects of the Indian
inseam were tetsß7 unintelligible ; that the bonne was
eateelog upon a &wow num ; that it was its duty to
twist wen the imam al the Indian government and
time sr the Indian railways being Mint ildiset, there being
no IMMO of cenetring enpseditare I mid that it yes hard to
throw these burden. apse the aarepreeented people of India.
Hi pre his vete to this sew tun, he said, with peas
uctance.
A few remarks wen mode by Ocieard Su" sad