The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-01 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PArALIAMENT.

A good deal of the time of the House of Lords
last night was octrapied by the dismission of
private bills ; but all that need be said of these
debate's is that, despite an opposition led by the
Marquis of Clanricarde, the London sad Brighton
Railway Company retained a power to increase
fares which they had persuaded the House of
Commons and a committee of their lordships to
confer upon them. Most of the clauses of the
Reach Reform Bill were agreed to in committee;
but the section fixing the boundaries of the city of
Glasgow, which excites the greatest opposition.
was postponed for future consideration. The Irish
Reform Bill was read a second time, and their
lordships soon afterwards adjourned.
The principal sullied of &amnion in the House
of Commons was r. Monk's bill for the removal
of the disabilities of revenue officers, which stood
as the first order of the day ; but before that stage
of the proceedings was reached there were several
short debates upon minor topics. Mr. Maguire
called attention to the reluctance which had In
many instanere—the county of Middlesex was the
subject of a special referf•ms---been exhibited by
county magistrates to give full effect to the pro-
visions of the Prison Ministers Act, and
moved a resolution asserting the necessity
of substituting for the permissive enact-
ments of that statute compulsory legislation
tqfon the subject. This view was supported by
Lord Edward Howard, Mr. Monsell, Mr. C. For-
Ulmer. Sir George Bowyer, and other members.
Mr. hardy did not go so far as to assert that ma-
gistrates had in every instance made sufficient
pre %it4ion for the religious instruction of Roman
catholic prisoners in gaols ; but he maintained that
the returns which bad been laid before the house
Showed that there had lately been a greet improve-
ment in this respect, and appealed to the member
/or Cork to allow a little more time to elapse be-
fore asking the house to alter the character of its
legislation in this matter. This appeal was to sonic
extent supported by Mr. Monsell, and partly upon
the ground that nothing could be accomplished
during the present session, and partly in the hope
that the ?.overnment would be induced to take
up the Aeration, Mr. Maguire withdrew his
motion. Next Sir C. 0' Loghlen drew atten-
tion to a class of incidents which frequently excite
a good4wal of merriment in the house, viz., the
straying of meTills•rs. when dividing, into wrong
lobbies, mid proposed such an alteration of the
istandir g orders as would enable a member so
-erring afterwards to torn ct his vote, and have it
recorikd us he intended to give it. The motion
oltai-c '1 no support : and, as the general opinion
apiece d to be that to have his vote counted
agai st his real opinions was a proper punish-
men- for the I arcles,.nes: or negligence of arty
rut inl•er to whom it occurred, it was speedily
withdrawn by its author. Mr. Ba/lcy made an
ine:fietual ',tempt to obtain from Lord Stanky
ROT IC definite information as to the course which
tb • gore rtniwnt were disposed to pursue with
refer OM to a fore4,mer named Adjouri, who has
absconded from Manchester, owing large RIM, to
merchants in that city, while he had at Aleppo a
rich partner who was capable of paying his ertsli-
tom in full. The hon. member for Manchester
appeared to suggest that under similar circum-
stances the Russian, French, or American govern-
ments would, by some naval demonstration,
specdPy enforce the payment of the outstanding
accounts ; but the Foreign Secretary gave hint no
hope that such a step would be adopted by her
Majesty's government. As the result of what
occurred a few nights ago, Mr. Monk was
held to have already moved that the
fipeuher should leave the chair, and was there-
fore unable to explain the provisions of the Revenue
Officers' Disabilities Removal Bill, or his reasons
for introducing it. The rejection of the measure
was proposal by the Chanceller of the Exchequer,
and was supported by Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Hunt
dwelt with a good deal of emphasis upon the fact
that in some towns the votes of the revenue
officers might turn an election, and maintained that
in such a case the motives and actions both of the
officers themselves and of their superiors would be
exposed to the gravest suspicion and the most
serious misconstruction. The leader of the oppo-
sition laid more stress upon the relations which
might exist between revenue officers and members
of parliament, and, pointing to the inconveniences
which might result from passing the bill, reeom-
mcmded that the whole question should be made
the subject of a careful parliamentary inquiry.
The claims of the revenue officers were ad-
vocated by Mr. Clay, Mr. W. Martin, Mr. M.
Chambers, Mr. Otway, and other members, who
maintained that their exclusion from the franchise
was unnecessary and unjustifiable, and would be
rendered still more invidious by the largo exten-
sion of the suffrage which would take place under
the Reform Act of last session. After Mr. Monk
head replied, the motion that the Speaker should
leave the chair was carved by a majority of 32
79 to 4 —an d the bill passedthrough committee
amid the cheers of its supporters. The discussion
of Mr. Scrjeant Barry's M, for prohibiting the
employment of military at elections in Ireland, did
not, as at the outset seemed probable, lead to any
angry controversy among the members from
Ireland, but it led to the narration of some
half-dozen amusing stories of proceedings at past
Irish elections. In the end, the motion for the
second reading was negatived by a majority of
dl-96 to M. When the order for resuming
the adjourned debate upon the second reading of
the Municipal Corporations (Metropolis) Bill was
reached, Sir S. Northcote, who it will be re-
membered was in possession of the house when
the morning sitting came to an end the other
day, said that he did not intend to make any more
observations upon the subject. Mr. Mill availed
himself of his right to deliver a brief reply ; and
the house decided against the bill without a
division. Nothing remained but to read through
the orders ; and this process having been duly
performed, the house adjourned.

CONVOCATION OF THE PROVINCE OF CAN-

TERBURY.

Boih Houses of Convocation met yesterday. The
bishol seemained deliberating vith closed doors the greater
part of the day. At about I o'clock reporters were admitted,
when the Bishop of London read the report of the com-
mittee appointed in a previous session to " report on the
canonicity of the judgment of the Bishop of Cape Town"
in reference to the case of Dr. Colenso. The document
was of considerable length. It stated that, although on
the supposition of the invalidity of the letters patent the
Bishop of ('upe Town can claim no coercive jurisdiction
as metropolitan, he was fully 'entitled to act in the ques-
tion under dnembion ; that he so duly acted; and that
the granting of the appeal to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury was in due accordance with the tenor of the letters
patent. The committee were not equally agreed
as to the proceedings in synod. With regard,
however, to the whole case their lordships are
of opinion that substantial justice was done to the
seemed. That though the sentence, having been pro-
nounced by a tribunal nut acknowledged by the Queen's
caller, whither civil or ecclesiastical, can claim no legal
efect, the church as a spiritual body may rightly a
its validity. The Bishop of London made a formalaccler
lion to the report, dating his inability to append his
signature to the report, as it does not set forth those
grounds which have rhielly prevented his acknowledging
the validity of the trial and sentence. A discussion fol-
lowed, wbuti lasted till five o'clock, and several bishops
being 11112i0111 to speak, the archbishop said the debate
sseet be adkierned, and their lordships then separated. In
the, Lower Home, which assembled in theJerusaleni Cham-
ber, the hominess was not of very great interest.
A notice of a resolution promising an exciting discussion
to-day was given by Dr., .Jebb, declaring that the dis-
neverauoe of the Irish poetion of the united church of
England and Ireland frees the state would be most in-
jurousio the best intereste, both civil and religious, of
-the natio% would be a breach of the solemn compacts
between Great Britain end Ireland made at the time of
their leflielsdive union, and the violation of a fundamental
principle of ear national polStach has immamorialy
recognized the ehurchAas an in part of the conetitu-
Canofilleimlurpresen a petition signed by over
lAOO churchmen, =hiding some of the most gistn-
divines of the province of Canterbury, pray-
ing for a foetal deanon that the church of
England would no longer hold COMMUIOII with Dr.
Coleus), 'rho had so gnevenely departed from the faith.

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