The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-07 00:00:00

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noble lord the member for London had to princes another
re-adjustment of the army and navy maimates, and smother
alteration in the income tax, and be took the whist posidhb
opportunity to bring forward the financial atatemest of the
year. Happily their object was not now to Mellen mitharates
or impose tame, but the reverse, to removetame sad diminish
estimate.. (Hear, leer.) He (Mr. Cardwell) humbly mg-
gonad that the proper course now would be to follow the
precedents of 1846 and '4B, and that the house &aukd be in-
formed what motley would be necessary for the service of the
year, when they would be in a proper position to confider the
reduction of taxation.

Mr. MALINS said that the object of his right hon. Mood
the member for Buckeyes principally to provide that the war
ninepence should mew one year after the war, the same as
the tea sad excise war duties. Whatever melmetes might
be necessary, the people of England would sat leave them
unprovtded for.
SUPPLY.

The have west into committee of supply pro forml sad
immediately resumed.

THE BANK CHARTER.

The CHANCELLOR et the EXCHEQUER moved for
the • of a Said esmaittes to inquire Into the
el **Hank Act at 11144,_eed of the Bak Ade
he Ireland sod bootlend Y Mit nod abo Inquire
Le
the law misting to enhe. Mein*. that
the pooled hod when theh
Insisbarre meet dedde
epos the einewel, whit sr without ordneettemh Um Dank
Mame, air G. Lade entered Ima fi Me

Same statute was pith: lit Hal
had boa onoder, and the MM. II MIMI* its "alb
week Imger and lees beetsating.• then helm. Under
Re voodoo do esiarOey hod yawl though many vicissi-
rWilk ueen4 !Mika sal liwoolle lidewoh soliffieW any
Maim d penksies er shock to trent. The go-
sornment, Ma as kindest, propene any she-
tads& In Ho ad er in the keno wild the
Bank direciess Wit their chorine.
.4.totock
banks, bethought that the COrasitta, might Mom-
Ugate the statue( the law, especially with the view of pro-
viding a better winding-up machinery, in eases of insolvency,
to supersede the existing system, which recent tramples haul
sitcom to be so extremely unman/factory.
Mr. DISRAELI remarked upon the inccovegenee of
=two questions so essentially distinct ea those el the
of Englund and the joint-stock banks before a Niggle
consuittee. He saw, Indeed, little need of the committee
all, slam the government seemed to have made up their
minds urea every important point.
Purthw eionment. upon
sod ter nt2ise internalt .rajhaniem of the
am exercised
gile=ent over the *app.) ly oef lcapital, the rata.
_of
bond toper circulation of the country, were Aired
by Mr. 'Mr. Glyn, Mr. Matins, Mr. Ling, Sir C.
Wood, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Iliklyard, and many other mem-
berg The debate was protracted to considerable length, and
embraced aemaltitude of details. Ultimately the motion was
agreed to, end the select committee appointed, the inquiry
into the joint-docks being, by consent of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, withdrawn from their investigation. -
PASSING TOLLS ABOLITION.
The home having now into committee,
Mr. LOWE moved for leave to bring in a bill which ha
dentriled as a reproduction of the measure introduced teat
asselekt• sheikh the passing tolls levied upon chipping for
,the aides harbours of Dover, Burlington, Whitby, and
Ramsgata
Atm a lbw wank from Mr. Deedee, Mr. Rice, Mr. Base,
and 1111111102/1" the motion wee agreed to.
The ken roared, and adjourned at 12 o'clock.

MEETING OF CON I'OCATION.

XPPER HOUSE.

Yesterday the Upper House met for business. The
B E 10.413 Arebbisho of CANTEXIIr Rif presided ; and there were pre-
...t the of London, Exeter, Salisbury, St. Duval's,
Bath and W Oxford, and other prelatta.
The Dean of ittliTUL, as prolocutor of the Lower Howe,
Mended and brought utitite2edaddreaa of that Lod on church
dacamwhich av pa yegterily.
ionukip, next conaideml Canon Wonisworth'a re-
sciatica on the necessity etf more miasionary work at bottle
and In foreign parts, and paved a resolution expressing their
to it. spirit and email lent.% and V soother n *west - itialistimLowee House to appoint • committee to confer with
another to be appointed by their lordships on the whole sub-
ject. The house afterwards adjourned.

LOWER HOUSE.
The Lower Home of Convocation re-assembled yesterday,
morning, at the Jerusalem Chamber, under the presidency of
the Very Rev. the Dean of Brigid. Among tine strangers
forming the auditory wee the 11ev. Thomas Biuney, of tho
Weigh House Chapel, who was admitted by the intenention
of Archdeacon Thorp.
The day was spent in considering the proposed admission
of the laity into convocation, the adjourned debate bring
taken on the resolution of Mr. Seymour, favourable to that
raeStlro.

PIITARIATiy UlO PROLOCUTOR put "the previous question,"
and the remit wee a deeinina that Mr. Seymour's motion
shorts wit new be put on a division. The numbers were—
for the_pwelona question, 29; &plum it, 18..
The - inoaocuTon, acee with his race's deeire,