The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-17 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—ThuzeDAY, JULY 16.
The LORD CiuNcr.l.Loa took kis stet out the wookock
at I o'clock.
THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.

Lord HftUUUUAW, at tis ret,wst of tia7Wahaneellor,
postponed till this day a motion d which he bed given notice
on this subject.

INDIA FINANCE.

Lord ELLENBLiiitfiilaliaiiiilTiought before their
lordship• the pta.pecta of India, •nd recommended that thu
government at eine contract • loan for 6,000,0001. to
relieve her dream of the burden the present mutiny, with
ell Its unfortunate cossequenou would cut upon thous.
Earl GRANVILLE made • brief reply, and tho subject

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY (CAPITAL) BILL.
An animated &ranks than acrd apse I Great
Northers Railway BM, to which Lord ST. LEON ARDS
took a prominent perk
The tell, upon a division, vas raid a third thin and passed.

CROWDED DWELLINGS PREVENTION BILL

fie; lordshipsi" then Wei- Into cooTiait Tee— on this WIL
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY mid the act of 1823, re-
teeing to the regulation of lodging-houses, bad been eu sac-
multi that he felt justified in asking their lordships to agree ,
to an extension of its provisions. He held in his hand the
testimony of no ICAO than forty-eight medial men, some of
whom resided in the most crowded parts of the metropolis,
who stated that the result of the preview measure had bum
a complete imitation of fever and • greet abatement of disease
in them dietriebt where the meatiest had been carried mt.
That testimony was confirmed by the statements of the Me-
tropolitan Puttee foee. In addition to that evidence, he
would tender his own °Nervation. Ile had visited many
of the lodging-houses night after night, and Wend
the change which had taken plate moot marvellous.
Instead of indecency and drunkenness, cleanliness,
decency, and order prevailed. Ho would mention ono in-
Mance. There WY one house in the Mint, the Jack Shep-
pard, which was foreseely so celebrated for violence and
disorder that the police seldom dared to silk it. The state
of that house was now precisely the reverse. On visiting it
be found it occupied by no lees than eighty person., all of
whom were peaceable and orderly, and on examining the
rooms up-stairs be found them sweet and clean, and the in-
mates declared their perfect astonishment at the change
which had been effected sines the passiog of the act. The
minieters of religion of varieue denominations had now free
access to them hedging-honeea, and one of the visitors on
the Sunday before hat found that all the lodgers in one place
were attending the mimic. at Exeter-hall. He begged to
esprem his gratitude to the metropolitan commiesioners for
the manner in which they had carried the act into effect.
During the hug four year,. 760,000 visits had been made,
end the police had conducted themselves with so
math prudence that in no one inetenee had they met with
anything like violence. About 20,000 persona were to the
habit of sleeping in the registered bilging-houses every
eight, and in every an. which he had visited he had found
the rooms decent and wholesome. But something more wee
required. There still remained a eertelu clam of houses
which ought to be brought within the operation of the act—
ha meant tenement homes or tenement rooms—a tern. up.
Old to rooms occupied by a large number of persona belong-
ing. ox professing to belong, to one lenity. The magistrates
led decided that such tenementa were private rooms, and
did not come within the meaning of the set. Now, to show
the condition of these roams, he would mention one • sac.
On one ommion them were found in a room lI feet 6 in.
square no less than 27 men, women, and children, all lying
together on the floor like beasts, with scarcely any covering.
Similar descriptions might be found in the reports of Ur.
Letheby on the state of the City. Ile considered it moot de-
' citable toperide a remedy for mach a date of thing..
He proposed that private tenements ahould sot be exempt
from exantinetion on the ground of their being occupied by
the manse family, unless the said family consisted of gran&
father, gnindmother, father, neither, grandchildren, and
children, which he thought would 1.4 a autthient definition
of • family. By the 4th clause, power woe given to the
continiesimers of police to call on the lout authorities to put
into op ration the !sluisances Removal Act, and in default of
their doing so, the commissioners of polio would have power
theniselvm to pot the act in operation, end charge the ex-
pellee on the localitiet. The bill created no new powers,
though it crested some new duties, and if it mut Netted it
would °induce to the removal of a mighty racial evil —fur
Its elms of persons to whom it applied were willing to help
themselves if help woe given them, and every effort made on
their behalf would be repaid by industry and gratitude.
The bell then pseud through committee.

JOINT STOCK COMPANIES BILL.
The bonne went into committee on this bin.

Lord WENSLEYDALE, on behalf of the Newer*ls
Banking Company, moved the insertion of a donne which
would retain for them the priority of jushpuenta obtained by
them ageiort the Tippertury Bonk.
The LORD t ILA NCELLOR wu sorry that he could not
agree to the proposal of hie noble friend. Thia wan Mat the
"motion which was diecussed on the .cooed reading of the
till. The only remedy, as the law now abed, which de-
ranee* in the Tipperary and Britieh Hanka had, was by
odious, which vim m fort en impracticable one, and the
eases Mitts by the other berme wee to cut the knot, and it
wee proposed that the ammo proceeding should be adopted
ea took plere under the late bankruptcy Act, by which live-
Fixate of the eroditore could ruler into en arrangement which
weak! bind the other, and under that arrangement no
priority of one over the other could preyed, but a common
fund wax created which wee divtrilmted nimbly among
them. I■ this we the Tipperary Bank had already paid
dividend of 2s. is the pound, which no doubt the Newcoette
Dank bed trot.
The clauve wee sot pressed, end the bill peosod through
committee.

The hoe adjourned at Svc minutes to 8 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TnntsDAT, InT IG.
(Continued from yesterday's Repress)
THE SLIGO ELECTION.
Mr. I. BUTT moved that the proper officer of the
Queen's Bench in Ireland return to the house a copy of all
the prorredion in the action against Mr. &mere mentioned
In the petitinn.
Sir (.1. GREY admitted the importance of the question,
but adviecil the hotter to proceed with caution. AR an
amendment, he would move that the petition be referred to a
committee, with instruction to report upon the question of !
breach of privilose.
Ultimately the amendment wee uttered to.
NEW MEMBER.
Mr. MARSIIALL took the oaths and lila seat for East
Cumberland.
LUNATICS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The donee went into committee on thin bill.
On the let clause, a converation sprung up on the general
queetiun of the treatment of lonelier, but the facts referred to
have apparel at least a down time, in pried.
Mr. DRUMMOND added some little piquancy to the
ditriadon by remarking that there were plenty of repreeen-
tatives of the rateraen in that Louse, but nu repreeentativea
of the lunatics. (A laugh.)
The time for erljoumtnent found the committee in the
middle of CIMINO 17, end the home accordingly remised.
ASSESSMENTS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This Lill was reeds second time.
BANKING BILL.
This bill was committed pro tonna, at the instance of Mr.
Lowe, who stated that he had several amendments to in-
troduce.
The sitting was suspended at 4 o'clock.
The bones rewind at sin o'clock.
QUEEN'S COUNTY ELECTION PETITION.
The SPEAKER informed the Lovett that he hat received
a letter, elating that it was not the intention of the parties to
proceed with the petition complaining of an undue return for
the Queen's County.
TRANSPORT OF TROOPS TO INDIA.
Sir C. NAPIER wiehed to ask the Find lord of the Ad-
miralty if, in the event of the government deciding to Rend
troops to India by steam, he had one *crew ship in either
Sheerness, Portsmouth, or Plymouth, in commit...ion, tit to
esr7 troops, and reedy for immediate eervi-e P
Sec C. WOOD—Certainly not. Three was not a single
Grew ship in commission fitted to carry troops to China. AU
the screw ships wem calculated for home scilicet, and not fur
the conveyance of troop*.
CIVIL SERVICE SUPERANNUATION BILL.
In reply to Lead NA A 4,
Lund PALMERSTON said that whomever the more
argent bueineee of parliament would allow it, he would give
the noble hied a day for the diseumion of the bill ; but, at
present, be waa not able to ensign any du for that purpose. Lord NAAS said in that we ha should move the second
rending at soy hour of the night.
MR. COLVILLE'S PROCLAMATION IN INDIA.
In reply to Mr. W. VANAITTAHT, who inquired whether
Mr. Colville had not Issued • certain proe &million en re-
Arena to the mutiny in India, which bad been disapproved
of by the Governor-General, in consequence of which Mr.
Colvfik maimed,