The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-17 00:00:00

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TORTURE IN BENGAL

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the motion of which he had given notice for Friday next, on
the subject of torture in Bengal.
LIGHTING OF TOWNS (IRELAND) ACT AMEND-
MENT BILL.
This bill wee read • third time end mowed.
COMMISSIONERS OP SUPPLY (SCOTLAND) DILL.
This bill pared through committee.
INCOME TAX BILL.
Earl GRANVILLE moved the second reveling of this bal.
The Earl of DERBY, in accordance with the notice be
had given, called attention to the eirenneihmeee under which
her Majesty's minister had reeolved upon a dimolution of
parliament. He sketched the course ef legislation en far aa
the leseion had hitherto proceeded and which wee now to be
prematurely interrupted. Fiat:Chi topics had attracted
much attention in puliament, and were of the highest im-
portance to the country. Entering into many detailed calcu-
lations on this subject, the noble earl argued that the equili-
brium permuted in the ministerial budget for the
year was fictitious and unstable, and that for the future year
up to IMO their own estimate* showed a prospective de-
fleieney of 6} millions per annum. This formidable de-
ficit required the exercise of most vigilant economy,
which he thought could only be examined to any
extent upon lb* military and miscellanenus branches of ex-
penditure. In the Conner be ocauteelled the maintenance in
full efficiency of everything relating to the science and mei-
n:slot war, accompanied by • reduction to the grosteat_pos-
sible extent of the mere numbers of men employed. 11,1 th
mord to the udecelleneous estimate., he Omitted that per
and the executive government had lately changed
plants. Instead of maintaining a check over extrav
Um legislature had stimulated expenditure which the
verament always endeavoured to restrain. But its elate
at reememy would, ha added, be vain, if we pave-
'wed in an 'armoire eyetem of foreign alley.
It was, he contended, a dangerous doctehe that
the proceedings of every British representative In any
pan of the world were to be supported by the borne adminle-
Widen to the extent even of investing that parliament itself
should not criticise or censure their conduct. If this prin-
ciple were maintained, the country meet always keep itself
gut for war, and ready to take the field at the shortest notice.
Lord Derby then adverted to the cireueistennes • the
recent debater on the China questieninbothhousr,jrufi erg
the conduct pursued by the °acetic'', and repudiating
very indignant and emphatic language the charge of
coalition. He cited many Siete to prove that this elleation
I was Wee, and adduced many argu to to chew that it
I was aboard. Ho had never a word with Kr.
Cobden la his life. Adverting le the dieanlution, the noble
laid contended that the government had designedly contrived
the to an appal to the country, in which he
leilmred the tem had bake the constituencies in-
volved the of confidence in Lord
Pehaenate, TotVqltraistrt:elathen eddresied himself,
dYeasiag Is detail the recent acts of the noble viscount,
era/ aaabjeiag his policy with regard to the church of
=sl towards different foreign nations, and upon the
of domestic administration and
ci Ilmenc4""raltentercialt end electoral reform, which
had been ventilated since hie assininpdon of the
Primiseellip. Strange to Fay (continued Earl Derby)
notwithelendbm the long period during which the noble
Amount end I have been in public life, I am utterly et •
lose to rag what his policy is. At any rate, before he mks ua
to give him our conMenee, let him make known to us what
is hie pelk7. Shakespeare says that " Each man in his turn
plays many parte," but the noble viscount iupolitios hem played
eye/ put. (liter.) Ha la sot merely a Bantu Biceps, hat a