The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-01 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TIICRIWAT, JAN. 31.
reltilllllollt was opened this day by commissima The
Leeds Commassoners were—the Lind Chain:eller, the Mar-
got' of Lansdowne, the Earl ot Miato, the Earl ut Breadal-
bun, and the Bishop of Loudon. There wen but few pain
present. The body of the home was occupied by Win,
111011 t of whore were la full dress. The Strangers' 0 diary
wee tolerably well fll ed, sad seasidenble anxiety was mini•
felted to witness the ceresioey of the opening of parliament,
although divested. of a• regal splendour of such a wane
when her Majesty is paws presides over the august as.

eembl.
They Veber of the Black Rod having sasmined the Com-
mons. the Speaker, accompanied by an imam.' number of
anthem, appeared at the bar, when Ike Lord Chancellor
read the royal speech, which appeared in yesterday** Ez.

pre SJ.
Their lordships than adjourned daring pleasure.
The house resumed at 5 o'clock.
LAW OF BANKRUPTCY.
Lord BROUG HAY introduced • bUI to 'amid the law of I
bankruptcy.
SCOTCH REPRESENTATIVE PEERS.
The Dukes. RICHMOND wished to call the attention of
hie noble friend the President of the Conned to a great oink-
Eon which ought to be avoids.' in future. Re found that
two vacancies had occurred in the Scotch peerage by the
deaths of Lord Airlie and Lord C hills, and although by net
of parliansmit • prods:nation should have been belied forth-
with, he found that, in consequence of the delay which had
*lapsed, 24 days mast now elapse after the
peemting of podia-
west bekini two peen could be elected in pae of those
dommed noblemen. In that part of the United Kingdom
Os peers were not properly represented. Now, he would
Mk Ms noble friend what his defence was?
Tke Marquis of LANSDOWNE, who was shoos'
edible, was was understood to lay that the I/overflown% were not
roppoweible for Me osaiieim.
The Earl of EOLINTON thought the explenation was
anything but satisfactory. He thought the government bad
been gii.ity of unwarrantable neglect.
The 'Marquis of LANSDOWNE repudiated the charm of
neglect on the panot government, who had strictly followed
the usage in similar cues.
After a conversation. in which the Duke of Duccleach,
the Dube of Argyll, Lord Stanley, Lord Redesdale, and
the Marquis of Lansdowne took part, the mater dropped.

SELECT VESTRIES.
The liar cis of LANSDOWNE introdusd • bill for
regulating select vestries.
lIEH MAJESTY'S SPEECH.—THE ADDRESS.
The Royal Speech havieg bees read by the Loan Coax.
caMos and the C'erk at the table,
Tae Earl of ESSEX rasa to more the whims, and, after
an appropriate rpsreh, is the course of which ha paid a high
compliment to the public prim for im exertions in the muse
of order, and espremed his conviction that the distress under
which the agricultural portion of the community at present
laboured was of • temporary nature, moved the &dimes,
whisk was as echo of the sentiments contained is the speech.

Lord rue to wooed it. He regretted ex-
esedingly the (complaint" that had been made in different
pare of the onatry, and which complaints would not WY,
lest tim in ocegratulatiog them cm the este of the agricul-
tural classes or duteous. (leer, bear.) lie was telly
sweet that a panic existed in reference to the masons
ef ewe trade ; at the same dm* that he believed the
musk was much increased by the exckentent kept up by the
peetutlealet pulp threstpbcnit the kingdom. (Laughter
aai " Hear, beer.") Be wished them to refer bath to the
years 1821, 1823, sad 1824, whoa they would find that tura
was then cheaper than at presoak (Meer, hear.) lie
thought the,, were several cameo to which the loner of
rain might at prawn be attributed. (Hear, hear.) Let
them caremplate the enormous amount of capital locked up
Is railway 'petulance, together with the immense sum
looked up is fte {Jen of the 13 iak of England, as in all
the miser beaks throughout the It'agdom, and then be
=at they weeld be of *piston, aq he unguse-
, Rap that all that amount Lai been withlraws.
He had stub pleasure is seueding the address is reply is
the speech uf her met gracious Majesty.
Oa the gustiest being pat,
Marl STRADBROYE toes to propose an amendereat
to the adobes% but for the greater pert was
totally iesedible la the mdlery. lie should have bees
wanes, is kis duty if he did sot embrace the very firm
oprretunity that offered to declare to their lordship' the
custence of rep great and deep duress acmet the agri•
cultural clams, the existence of winch was admitted in the

speak tram the throne, but which the proposer and the
sectiesler of the address would wish to make appear of a
merely temporary astute. Hear, bear.) He begged to
mem as as amecdmmit—'• That we regret to have to repre-
sent tnat is ma .y parts of the united kinglom. particularly
Iresad, ageism, manes of bier M•jesty'v subjects °oasis:tea
with tie cultivation of land arelab.unog under severs dia-
l/me in conveqoence of meat legislative enactments, the
operation of wbiak iseggninved by mai taxation."

The tan of I)ESART said, that it was net without en_
bathe of regret that he felt himself obliged to support the
aminounect which had been so ably moved by his noble
friend, because he was unwilling that any thing 'hosed stand
in the way of that unanimity with which the speech of her
Ifsjetty should be answered. But when he found that •
more net was expressed in that speech for the agricultural
distress whin ...Sited throughout the kingdom, but more
particularly iatihat wake senate country with whieh he waitron.
anted, because it possessed less capital to bear up against the
heavy reetriction unposed upon her; and when is found that
that regret wes unaccompanied by any suggestions for its
alleviation, but was merely cloaked over by a reference to
the prosperity of commerce and manufactures, be felt called
ea to joie in the opinion of his noble friend, and to support
the amendment which he moved. Thus could be little
doubt that agricultural distress prevailed is this country, bat
he could give, from his owe personal obeervatios and know.
ledge, such • picture of its extent and intensity in Ireland,
that be was suntan it did not call forth something stronger
than a casual e xpronionof regret. (Hear.) As the chairman of
a board of guanine in a highly-favoured portion of Ireland,
he could state that at that moment, earn I. that part of Ire-
land, all later**, laadlords, labourers and tenants, were
fast programing to atter aseihilation and ruin—(hmar, hear)
—and that the bad legislation of Ragland inflicted more
distress and vainly epos them than did the visitation of
Providence. (Hwir, hear. Of the distress of the farmen
there could be as bider proof than their inability to meet
their engsgemesite to their landlords, and their other kinds
el liabilities. This was the first year that the landlords had
mot been able to get their rents. He hoped their lord-
ships by assenting to their amendment, would show to the
Wand classes that they were determined as far as they
could to protect them, and with them those national institu
doss by means of which, ander divine Providence, this
gantry had attained its present rank amongst the nations of
the world. (Cusses.)
The Sul of CARLISLE said that in dealing with
the address, and with an amendment of 0)4 des-
cription, and having considered which was best, he
would advise their lordships, not merely to look at the casual
expressing in either, but to consider the view in whist' the
amendment was proposed the hopes by which it was
ingested, and the practical results which would sane If it
were adopted. (Hear. hear.) There was no groat difference
in the terms used. Toe ameadment, indeed, made allusion
to local burdens, but their lordship would agree with him,
that any question as to local burdens, whether they
should be reamed or redistributed, would be more cones-
nientiy and properly considered when the subject was
brought directly under their notice. (Hear, hear.) It also
made mention of recent legislative change.. His opinioa
was, that If they sanctioned the amendment, and substituted
it lee the originl wade—if they allowed it to be understood
throughout the whole length and breadth of the land that
perliameat threw any doubt ea their recent lerielation—
that they were prepared to reacievider it, and, Jades I, at
length to reverse it—it would, in his opinion, be a most
miebalma sad diesetrone meelesioa for their lordships
to wive at; sad it was in that hope—not to gin rise
to meek a constriction—an to give rise to sun a de-
ludes—that he called opus the house to give a
positive sad unqualified negative to the amendment just
mond. (Hear, hear.) The noble earl who had just spoken
sailed attention to the distress is Ireland. No person could
be less unwilling than he (Lord Carlisle) was to underrate
the dieter which prevailed in that country. But it was
plain, after the experience of three years, that Ireland could
only he brought through (if he might ate that expression)
the horrible state of destitution and guff, ring to which she
was exposed by the cheapness of foreign corn. (Hear, hear.)
But after all, it was not, as connected with Inland, they
11/0f• to try the system of free Vide. (Hear, lust.)
They had, after serious discuesions, which eagroesed the
attention, 'swayed the feeling, sad enlisted the passions of a
large portion of the community, resolved to make en experi-
ment of free trade. Now, he thought their lordships would
agree with him, that since the con trade was made per-
fectly free than was not time to test that experiment. (Hear,
hear) Then the failure of the potatormot Inl did sod
in other part of the country, the un d ranged=
which took place in every corner of slope, were eo may
disnarbiag and occasional ranee@ to prevent free trade is eon
MOB betas fairly tried even in the abort period that elapsed
sines it was adopted as the policy of the empty. (lien Under these circumstances it would be unfair, and, Indeed, preposterous at once to retrace their step,
and be expect them to adopt a different policy.
Ile mould not en how they could consider that they were at
present in a situation to pronounce on whet might be the
island and permanent results of the great elperinerat
which they were now making. They could not now say
whether they would continue to line the mum abundance
and cheapness in this country, or whether the Imports would
continue in the same quantity. His own impression was not
one of deepeadesey, ft was not en of dinourageth at,
nor was it GNP of dank. All he wished to enforce on
-their lordships was that they were not now is a condition to
prnoanos that the corn grows in ibis mientry will fetch
better pricee, or that the nom degree 61 foreign importa-
tion w uld continue. Ile wad net Imeeetly stop hen; he
could not mane hilbeltif within these ambiguous and hypo-
thetical limits, and he felt Mead to tell their lordship that
even if be were convinced Out the enrage price of corn
generally would not ascend gas farthing higher, still he was
not prepared to revere the policy on which they
had 'petered, or to return to the principle of
teetion. Ho had made geferesee to the ealeu
which were metained la the speeches of the noble lords who
had preceded him, and which had reference to the remune-
rative prices received by the agriculturists ; but at the same
time he most say, that the 'pump to enure such matters by
any find oe anthem redo would always be a most delusive
=a. Each ere must be governed by its own peculiar
new ; Mal farm must be considered as a specialty
in itielt, is sub de;euded 711 its pcsitif,o, its sesta". 84