The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-08 00:00:00

GENERAL HAVELOCK.

Lord PALMERSTON brought up a meseage front the
Crown, stating that her Majesty, being desirous of conferring
upon General Havelock a signal mark of favour dot his
gallant conduct In India, and for the successful aid which ha
had given is reference to the siege of Locknow, by conferring
upon him en annuity of 1,0001. a-year, asked the assistance
of the house to enable her to make good that grant.
The mirage was ordered to be taken into consideration
.o-morrow.
_ TIME BANK ISSUES INDEMNITY BILL.

Oa 7lte nto-tioa for the etheed
Mr. OLADSTONE, while hmsatiel whit to Warfare
with the beneficial ernagement width no mode the other
for taking the dithathlen apes the general question ta-
nned la the meow% thought it tight to detain the bons
while be put • few questions relative to the bill itself. la
the firth place, It append to him that the words of the int
death were defective, kr they granted the indemnity direst
to the Bank. Now, he amid not but thik that it wee lm-
pew and inconvatisat to great the limbranity in that
etwerel way to a body, ens white the bear had no
control. He should therein seeepet that the in-
should extend to such banes no wire authorised
by dep . In the next piece, he shank' wish to know
dare the • were not to have the Web of the pleats
epee the lowered ism& It wee oily jest that thet Weald
he we. lye the weeethe Straw_ Alas_siks. 11141 Pa what
tele we ihwe Folks to be areirtei ; the peens of hewn
were WS two per cent., while those of diaconat wire ten.
Thee wee bat one other pmetket to which he should new.
Re MI weiestoad his tight boa friend to say the ether
me i& that the amount of house comprised only the loner
tethearablki, but, as be sperebended the matter, dieAYI
. etnially issued ought to be soneldend es May
within that denomination.. He did out wth to pre ItH

right hon. friend for a reply upon that omission; but he
trusted to receive some explenetion eta future Wage.
Air H. WILLOUOBY walked to know if them wee any
troth In the report that certain joint-stock banks and die-
count booms had combined to enforce from warmed
relaxation of the Bank Act ?

Mr. CITLEY entmed at considerable length into a ge-
neral criticism upon the monetary system of the country and
that of the Joint-stook banks, and their operation upon the
home and foreign wade. He condemned the existing system
ea
impracticable without periodiial collapses.
Mr. CONI MOHAN did not rim to oppose the BM of In.
demnity—far from it ; he thought the country was highly
indebted to the noble lord at the heed of the government for
the manner in which be interposed at a critical moment, and
relieved the country from a minis which threatened its con-
vulsion. He resigned only one thing, and that was, that
the government had not gone beyond the Bill of Indemnity,
and proposed to ahropte the law of 1844, which, though not
the mon of the recent commercial distress, had yet most
seriously increased its severity.
Mr. MALINS said the bill met with his cordial epprobs-
non ; be only regretted that what had bee does wee not
done much earlier. The Immediate died he had in
tieing area to impress his regret at one poet el the connate
of this bill. It we. now proposed that the enspension of the
Bank Charter Act should continue until the expiration of the
28 days after the trot sitting of parliament nest but
the sosparke WM to be accompanied web the tics; that
the sakessia rate of discount should be beet at 10 per Nat.
New, bad the {nowt coseidared whet afoot that high
rate 'welai.:(Er epee the moderate traders of the
arealry hem) When the ielidasuat rate
wpm (Het,
paper wee 10 per ont., :
the seen trader sad lamer could not get hie Me Me-
coseled tsar 16 or 20 par coat. la the faced sock misery
se Oct stale at things lase piothooe be really did hope that
the grovameat would me the expediency of altering Ede
part el the tel. (Hear. bear.)
Mr. P. CROSSLEY would venture to throw eat fur
coodelsrethon whether some elasticity should not be imparted
tato the law. It wee equally ea evil who mosey nue too