The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-12 00:00:00

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og the
Lava C. HAMILTON observed that Irish sassabere op-
posite had Set year lid peat strew on nineties. He re-
pealed ad*. as
hes. gestlemsa bad sot amorapaaied
the fatredmilms el hie asomme with some statements sod
poetises ea that sable& At t the valuation was
mucely in a peeper mate Mbe the basis of the franchise.
MS a (VW win lima Sir w. Sositsvma, Have was
gives to bring Is tbe
Sir W. SOMERVILLE then moved for leave to bring in
• bill to shorten the duration of elections in Ireland, and for
establish's, additional places for taking the poll thereat.
Tee right boa. baronet said the bill was precisely similar to
that whisk he had introduced last year.

Coload DUNN' it:premed a hope that mote polling
places would be provided, and that every man would he
enabled to give his vote and return home on the same day.
(Hear, hear.)
The mod= was then agreed to.
Oa the motion of Mr. HUMS, rehires were ordered of the
smasher of editors of the public press that have beta
expelled, duricg the year 1849, from the lonian Islands,
stating the names of public writers and of the editors so
banished, the titles of the papers they edited, the offence for
whisk banished, and whether tried end mistimed by any
court, sr banished by the Lord High Commissioner's autho-
rity ; of the number of person, tried by °aorta martial
daring the existence of military law is Cephaloaia, sou the
sentences awarded, stating how Jassy of thins sentesees
Dare been carried out; also the number of person. flogged
in Cephalonia, in the year 1849, end by what tribunal sen-
teased
stating the greatest Salt the smallest number of
Labia inikted, end the total number of lashes inflicted.

PRISON DISCIPLINE.
Sir G. GREY then moved for a sleet commlttoe to in-
gone into the rules and discipline cstablish,d with regud to
the treatment of prisoners In gaols and houses of correction in
England and Wales. He hoped that Lo objection would he
offend to the motion. _

Mr C. IHARSON amid that if It was to be understood
that the object of this motion was to take out of his bands
the proposal which he had made last ',salon, he should take
the seams of the house on the question. In that twee he would
not be compromised. He would on an early day submit to
this house a specific motion, tallies in the mean time the
right hon. baronet consented to mould the terms of the in-
quiry so uto embrace his object, That there might be no
satsteke, he would repeat his former statement, that under a
sound sestets of piton discipline the criminal class, which
now coat the nation 450,0001. a veer, might be made to
maintain itself by its own iadustsy, without inflicting injury
on any class of the community. Give him a fairly selected
committee, and he was prepared to pledge himself that if
that committee did not r,port that his object wee practicable
he should no longer desire to reties' • seat in that house,
being there whel:y and solely for the porpoise of endeavour-
ing to et/Wince the house that the result which he
had stated would flow from the application of
the principles on which he had taken his stand. If the
right hon. baronet would enlarge the motion and give him
en opportunity cf concurring with him in the nomination of
• few numbers of the committee, he should be eatiiticd
but if the right hon. baronet folded himself in the dignity of
his office and chose to put down an independent member,
which he might do, he would look forward to a future day
when he should ;become stronger in the house and struggle
with him more niceiessfully an the question.
Mr. MONSELL thought the tribunal a very good one,
and suggested that the inquiry should extend to Ireland,
the gaol' in which were in a deplorable state.

Si; 0. GREY thought the holt. gentleman opposite (Mr.
Pearson) had been rather hard upon him, because he did
not take the motion cut of his hands at all. He thought he
was acting now u the exponent of a large majority of the
house at the close of last session who thought that an inquiry
into the *IN With
which the hon. centleman had in view was
expedient. With regard to the terms of the inquiry, he thought
they were large enough to admit if the committee thought fit
of an inquiry into an improv2d system of discipline, but he
should inject to any terms which should specifically direct
the attention of the committee; he should object to any
terms which should commit them to any putieular system.
Lord NAAS expressed his disappointment that the inquiry
did not extend to Ireland, where the state of the prisons
was becoming worse every day. He would move that the
words, " and Ireland," be added to the rerolutien.

After a short discussion the house divided, when there
appeared
For the amendment lB
Against it
The amendment was consequently lost, and the motion
agreed to.
The other orders were then disposed of, and the house ad-
journed at twenty minutes to two o'clock.