The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-09 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Although the Home of Lerch re-assembled yes-
terday after the Whitman bulldogs, the Peers
transacted very little business. The vote of thanks
to Fir R. Napier and the troops engaged in the
Abyssinian exitioa wan, in the absence of the
official despate,
.again postponed.
Of the notices gram in the House of Commons
only two pewee-4 more than a very =all amount
of importance. lie. Cavendish Bentinek's interest
in the relations wbich subsist between Mr. Glad-
stone and other gentlemen who sit en the oppo-
sition benches has been excited by the statement
contained in a letter of the right hon. gentleman
that Mr. Rearden is not a supporter of his ; and
amid a good deal of laughter he announced his
intention to inquire on Friday next whether the
member for Athlone did not on the 27th of March,
1867, attend a meeting of liberal members which
was held at the louse of Mr. Gladstone. And Mr.
Bright intimated that he should on the 16th of
June call attention to the allegations of the peti-
tion fres the colony of Nova Bootie which ho
preprinted to the house a short time ago, and
should save the appointment of a commission to
inquire into die existence of the grievances com-
plained ollirthepetitioners. The information which
Mr. Childers obtained from the Chancellor of the
Exchequer as to the intentions of the government
with reference to the voting of supplies was defi-
nite and complete, but die terms in which it was
conveyed, and the observations by which it was
aerompanied, were not such as to encourage the
hopes IA 'Those who are anxious to witness the dis-
solution of the present and the meeting of the
new parliament as early as possible. After a
decided statement that the government had, after
mature consideration, come to the maclusion that
it was their duty to ask the house to
grant the supplies for a whole year--an an-
wanicement which appeared to give great
satisfaction to the gentlemen behind him—Mr.
Haut catered upon a long argument enthe subject
of the precedent of 1841, upon which he under-
stood the member fur Pontefract to found his
question, in order to show that the einumetancea
of that year were so different from those of the
present time, that nothing that occurred then
could afford an example for the course which
ought to be pursued now, either by the government
or by the House of Commons The announcement
with Which the right hon. gentleman concluded
his PoTriewhat elaborate argument, that the go-
vernment would consent to postpone the report of
the resolutions already agreed to in committee of
pply for a week, in order that the house might,
when asked to confirm them, have before it the
proposal of -the government for expediting the
registration, was received with general cheers ;
and -so for the prising the question of supply
was allowed to rest. In replylto Sir F. Heygate,
Lord Mayo denied most emphatically that Mr.
Anderson, the Crown Solicitor, had offered a
bribe to one of the prisoners who had been con-
cerned in thoJackmel expedition, to induce him to
give evidence against his companions. In answer
kr Captain Verner, Mr. Disraeli, while disclaiming
any .knowledge of a statement in the Freeman's
Journal to the contrary, declared that the govern-
ment had no reason to believe that the man who
shot at the Duke of Edinburgh was not insane ;
and the interpellations of the day concluded with
an effectual attempt by Mr. D. Griffith to obtain
some information as to a letter addressed to a
newspaper by one of the assistant boundary com-
missioners.

The orders of the day were reached early, and
no difficulty wax interposed 'in the way of resum-
ing the consideration of the ,postponed and new
clauses of the Scotch Reform Bill. In committee
Mr. Graham took advantage of the clause which
provided that at elections for the city of Glasgow
no.person should vote for more than two candi-
dates to utter a formal protest against the manner
in which the metropolis of the west of Scotland
wee being treated in 'the matter of repre-
mutation, but the clause was agreed to ;
and for some time 'the committee was
emeaaed in considering and arranging the
details of the lodger benehise, the requisitions as
to the payment of /star, and the framing of the
registers, and the manner of taking votes for
the Scotch universities. No warmth of interest
was excited by the discussion, until Sir J. Fer-
guson, humanely relieving his colleague the Lord
Advocate, who site for Thetford, one of the
doomed boroughs, proposed a clause disfran-
chising the following seven English boroughs
in order to -obtain an equal number of mem:
ben for .Hartland—via : Arundel, Ashburton,
Dartmouth, Honiton, Lyme Regis, Thetford,
and Well's. Mr. Neville-Grenville moved to
omit from the list of condemner the city of
Wells, and to eubstitute the borough of Evesham,
a which was dutifully seconded by
Captain Hayter, one of the members for Wells.
Sir Lawrence Palk having delivered • protest
which lie imperfluously described as " solemn,"
against any interference with the repre-
eentation of English boroughs, for the sake
of giving additional members to Scotland.
At the close of a short discussion, Mr.
Gladstone .expressed a preference for maintaining
the representation of Wells rather than that of
Evesham ; and Mr. Disraeli urged the house to
accept the proposal of the Under-Secre-
tary of State. The right hon. gentleman,
commenting upon a complaint which bad
been mode by Mr. let‘Laren, and adopted
by the member for South Lancashire, that
f3cothunl Lad in the matter of representation been
treated with scant justice, declared that ho was
not only surprised but gratified at the compensa-
tion, as he termed it, which he had obtained for
Scotland, and that Scotch members must be un-
reasonable if they were not satisfied with what
had been done. Mr. Neville-Grenville did not
divide the home.; a motion made by
Lord Edmund Howard to omit Arundel
from the clause was too late to he enter-
tained by the committee ; and the clause
was ultimately adopted as proposed by Sir J. Fer-
guson. A rather dry discuseion upon schedule
A, fixing the boundaries of the city of Glasgow,
was only enlivened by a passage of arms between
Mr. Bright and the Lord Advocate. The hon.
member fur Binuingluun had suggebted, or had
been understood to suggest, that Sir J. Fergusson,
in recommending the schedule on the grouud that
it would give votes to working men, was
using an argument to which as a member
of the government be could not really
attach importance and the Lord Advocate
replied by 'vehemently taunting Mr. Bright with
having voted against the Factory Acts because they
were supported by conservative 'members. In the
result the schedule was upon a division rejected
by a majority of five votes 91 against 86 ; and
atter the other schedules had been settled the bill
was ordered to be reported. No progress was
made with the Boundary Bill until after some debate
upon the position of the question generally, and
upon the course which it was desirable that
the committee should pursue with reference to the
provisions of the measure. Mr. Gorst, who started
this discussion (upon the question that the pre-
amble should be postponed). criticised the report
of the select committee, in order to show that the
house ought not to receive it without examination,
and recommended that the committee should ac-
cept without question all the boundaries in regard
to which the decision of the oommiseioners had
not been challenged, or with reference to which
they and the select committee were substantially in
accord ; but that in those instances in which a
difference of opinion existed between these two
bodies, they should themselves enter upon the dis-
cussion of the individual cases. Mr. Walpole, who
spoke on behalf of the select committee, admitted
that this question of the settlement of boundaries
was surrounded by difficulties--difficulties which he
mainly attributed to the imperfect instructions
and directions which bad been given both to the
commissioners and to the select committee; but
pointed out that the controversy was now really
confined to the 15 cases in which the select
committee bud differed from the commissioners.
He examined cursorily the circumstances of each
of these cases ; and, having stated generally the
reasons which had influenced the members of the
'elect committee in their decision upon each of
them, he concluded bi expeosing the willingness

of those hon. members to enter into their discus-
eir.n, and to give to the house the bersisfit of all the
information that they 1. The general
cheering which followed e lucidstatemait of the
sight hon. gentleman ermined to hold out the P 41-
1111/4' that ha remarks would be allowed to clom
the preliminary discussion, and that the committee
would
be permitted to proceed with the conside-
ration of the denim of the bill. This promise was
not, however, redeemed. After the interposition
of a maiden speech by Mr. Rtopford, the member
for North Northamptonshire, which had nothing
to thetinguish it from other maiden speeches,
XT. BRIGHT appealed to the government to state
what course ought hi their opmton to he
raider t.tliiregzesent circumstances. Then
Isaw,tie 11=italilit they ouught toon therefeuuse
ee to re-open
these •questions, and ought to accept the unani-
annirdotisiona of the committee, which were gene-
rally satisfactory to the populations whom they
meet concerned. Mr. NEWDZOATE, speaking as a
amity member, and with special reference to the
interest of county constituencies and their repre-
sentatives, as illustrated by the relations of Bir-
Mngham and North Warwickshire. warned the com-
mittee against in this matter abandoning their power
of review. Mr. Pener-WrennAm added tittle to
the discussion except words.; and after Rir R.
PALK= had commented upon the =desirability
of unduly increasing the extent of large town con-
stituencies by annexing to them considerable
urban populations taken from the eoenties, while
in other =see, such ss those of Roraima, Wen-
lock, and many others, large rural populations,
which were really parts of counties, were dealt
with as boroughs ;
Mr. Dtsitioru rose to answer the appeal of the
hon. member for Birmingham, and, as be said, to
endeavour to bring the committee to some prac-
tical point. He; declined to attach to the report
of the select committee any more authority than
was attached to that of the cosnalission, or to re-
ceive it without criticism and fair parliamentary
scrutiny; and recommended as the only method of
making progress that the committee should go on
with the bill, promising hon. members that if they
exhibited sufficient determination they would find
no more difficulty in /Nettling the details of this bill
than they had encountered in arranging the pro-
visions of other similar measures. Mr. GLanirro=
did not deny the possibility of making progress
by the method recommended by the Prune Mi-
nister ; but he pointed out that the bill with which
he asked them to go on embodied none of the re-
commendations of the select committee, which
had fuller powers and larger means of in-
formation than the nismaission, and com-
plained that if those recommendations
were to have no more authority than the argu-
ments which individual member* might address to
the house, the members who composed the select
committee would not have been treated with
proper ia.ipei.t, and time would have been wasted
in merely pitting one aatherity against another.
An impassioned denunciation by Mr. Paull of the
party objects of those who sat opposite to him in
the house, and their repeated attempts to throw
difficulties in the way of the government, was
contrasted by some moderate remarks from Rir F.
Crawley, who renommended the committee to
follow the advise of the Prime Minister ; and then
Mr. B. Osborne delivered a sharp criticism upon
the conduct of the government and the house
with reference to the boundary question, which he
concludedby_movingthattlethairman should report
progress. Mr. Whitbread indignantly repudiated
the party objects which Mr. Paull had attributed to
the liberal party ; and, with the assent of Mr.
Disraeli, the motion for reporting progress was
agreed to, and the home went out of committee,
it being announced that the Boun Bill would
come on after the introduction of the Registration
Bill on Thursday.
The Regulation of Railways Bill, the Consecra-
tion of Churchyards Act, 1867, Amendment Bill,
and the Alkali Act, 1863, Perpetuation Bill, were
read a second time. The Endowed Schools Bill
was passed through committee.
Mr. Adderley obtained leave to bring in a bill
to remove doubts respeetMg the operation of the
New Zealand Company's Act of Bth and 9th Vic.,
e. 382 ; and Mr. Russell Gurney leave to introduce a
bill to amend the Law relating to Laroency and
Embezzlement.

The house rose sta for to 1 o'clock.
ELECTIO-17—lifTkafilLYCE

Wittrr7nNerms.-11ae committee to promote the
re-election of the Men R. W. Oreevener and Mr. J. S.
Mill for the city of Westanizuder brae homed • circular,
stating that the Bon. B. W. firearm= haring under-
taken & moiety of such joist election eirpmwes as shall be
incurred Ly the ossamittee, the other moiety will have to
be subscribed for by the friends and auppoeters of Mr.
Mill ; it ►wring perfeetly tnidereteed that Mr. Mill declines
upon a distinctly wowed principle, its on the previous
occasion, to bear any part of the oost of his election.
BATH.—Dr. Dalrymple has been inTitod to come
forward for this eity against Colonel Hogg, the conser-
vative member. The other repreeentatiee is Mr. Tile, a
liberal.

Molotorrnatung.—lt is ourvently rumoured in
Aberdare that Mr. Richard Psthergill has received an invi-
tation to offer himself as a candidate for this county.
ROCTIESTEIL-It has been announced that the
eceservatives intend bringing forward Major M. G. Best,
of Bosky-lodge, near Maidstone, aN a candidate for this
city at the approaching general election. Maier Best pos-
sesses considerable property in the adjoining borough of
Chatham, and has great local influence, but it appears to
be uncertain whether he will accept the invitation to con-
test the city on conservative wimples. In the meantime,
the present members, Mr. P. Wykcham Martin and Ser-
jeant J. A. K' e, recorder of Bristol, have signaled
their intention of again offering themselves far election.
GLOUCERTRR (err-4-11e conservative conch-
date will probably be Sir Samuel Baker, the African tra-
veller, whose father was a Gloucester merchant, and
who is himself a Gloucestershire mail. One of
the present liberal nionbers for the city, Mr. W. P. Price,
will, it is said, contest the Western division with Colonel
Bingsoote, in opposition to Colonel Somerset; and it is
also 0.4.1 that the lion. Charles Berkeley will again oome
forward for the city in conjunction with Mr. Monk, now
the second liberal member.

COLCHESTER. borough it has been for
some time understood that Dr. Brewer, who U121111(X.ICIUF
fully contested the representation in February, 1867, with
Mr. E. K. Karslake, Q.C., will again offer himself as a
liberal candidate, as the liberals consider that their pro s-
pect° will be materially insproved by the operation of the
Rt prese.ntation of the People Act, 1867. The other liberal
candidate will probably be Mr. J. G. Rebow, one of the
present sitting members. The conservative candidates
will be Mr. Karslake and Colonel Learmonth, who was
introduced to the constituency so long since as October,
1866.

MALDoN.—Mr. G. M. W. Sandford, one of the
present sitting menabera is expected to again
offer himself as a conaervative candidate. Mr. It. A.
Earle will probably retire. The liberal candidate l ex-
pected to be Mr. T. Sutton Western. son of Sir T.
/Western, M.P. for North Ewa. Mr. Western sat for the
borough from 1869 to 1886.

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THE GarKRIMIDIT AND THE BISHOP OF NATAL.
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by the Duke of Buckingham to the Lieutenant--
Governor of Natal about the proposed consecration
cf a rival bishop: "Downing-street, January 30,
11168.—&r,--You will probably have read in some
of the English papers a report that it is in contem-
plation by some colonial bishops to consecrate a bishop tr
take charge of the diocese of lista!, on the assumption
that 1)r. Colenso has been deposed. You will not be sur-
prised to bear that her Majesty's government look upon
this intention with great apprehension and regret. And,
in case you should learn that the consecration is
intended to take place within your government,
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legitimately belongs to you to prevent it. And I
think it proper to add that if, after being warned of
the views of her kfaj's government, aanseecalescbiastical
officer, holding a salari onoe during the pleasure of her
Majesty, were to be a party to any such oq her
Majesty's government would consider it their duty to
advise the Queen to camel his appointment.-1 have, &e.,
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e." A copy of this despatch was forwarded bo
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eiastial officers within his diocese the views enter-
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