The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-16 00:00:00

'AN LOCAL XANAGIMinfr.ACTB.

Mr. DALTON. purulent to notice, moved "That a map
mittee, consisting of the chairman and &OVID members of
the beard, be appointed to prosecute the bill to bo intro-
duced into parliament for the amentlmeot of the Metro-
polis Local Management Acts ; that they be authorised
to employ counsel, and obtain such witnesses and &wistarias
as they may be advised, and to make sueh concessions,
modifications, and alterations is the bill as is their judg-
ment may become necessary and proper. That such com-
mittee do consist of the following members, viz., the chair-
man, Mr. Le Breton, Mr. I,lffaager, Mr. Savage, Mr.
Dixon, Mr. Adams, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Freeman.
Mr. Lgno moved as an amendment that it should be the
"chairman and nine 'nowhere," which was agreed to, and
the board adjourned.

CORK COUNTY Emerfox.—An unummlly large
meeting of the el of tke Biomes of Cork, Cloyne,
and Rose, assembled at the Battik Monastery on Thursday.
As the meeting was strictly private, we can only give from
reliable report the resolutions arrived at. After an ani-
mated discussion of the claims of the various candidates it
was decided by a large majority that the clergy shoukl act
'dewily on the principle of non-interference. The Very
Bev. Dna Murphy presided. The result of this decision
will bet* throw the respective miodidates on their own in.
&Aar' Nitrite and resources. —Cork Reporter.
TIM LONWN RIELV4 AND LORD DE GREY AND
Rirox.—Yestenbiy, a deputation from the members of the
Loudon Rale Volunteer Brigade waited upon Lord de Grey
and Ripon, at his lordship's 'widows, 1, Carltoa.ganlens, ta
order to present to him an address on the occ-ssion of his
resigning the office of Under-Secretary of State for War.
The deputation consisted of the following gentlemen :
Lieut.-Colonel Montagu Hicks, Major and Alderman Rote,
Captain and Adjutant Ewes!, Captains Sewell, Gardner,
Poole, Porsoa, Hopkinson Finch ; Assistant Surgeon Pro-
pert ; Lieutenant+ Streams, Fortune, Piokney, Tows,
Ensigns Rowse% Barton, Goodman, (.'lode, Blandford, and
Jourdain, and the secretary to the oorps His lordship rir
coved the deputation with much cordiality, bed made a
mart gracious reply.

PROPOSZD VOLUNITIM ENCAIIIIIIIiNT. —A propo-
sitioa has been made to her Majesty's flearatary at War by
Lieutenaut.Colooel Palmer, one of the verderers at Waltham
Forest, for the formation of a volunteer encampment upon
Winstead Flats during the mouths of June, July, and
August ; the forest extending from that spot for about 15
miles in the direction of Epping. If this suggestion should
be carried out, the newly-formed volunteer rifle corps in the
vicinity of London will have the opportunity of going down
there for one or two nights in the week, acquiring a know-
ledge of night duty by posting sentries, pioquets, outposts,
kr. ; and, as the days will be long at that moon, an hour's
held exercise might be obtained after six o'clock in th
ing and before eight in the morning, without inconvenience
to any one. The Forest Gate station on the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway abuts upon Wanstead Flats, and may be
reached in 15 minutes from filioreditch, about the mine time
from Kilburn by the North Loudon line, and from the
River Thames by the North Woolwich Railway in 15 or 20
maintatis.

ITALIAN AFFAIRS.
The Marquis of NORMANBY gave notice, for Friday,
the Ist of March, to draw attention to the correspondence
es Italian affairs meetly presented by the government.
Those papers involved many different cousiderstions, and
his endeavour would be to provoke discussion upon certain
Indio= of the papers which showed an sernmptien—s con-
Lion--and, be regretted to say, &mobile:ice at that dad
regard which bad been hitherto observed as to international
law. He gave th i.l not ice, because he understood th at theday he
had named would he convenient to certain noble lords who
would choose to take part in the discussion. There was also
this convenience in the delay, that by that time
there would have been several dit;cussions on
the topic elsewhere, and we might by that
time obtain some insight into the policy of our immediate
neighbour, which could not but bear very materially on
the future eventuality of the question. It would be a most
important element in that question ; but at present it was
as uncertain as it was important. At the same time, he
should move for the production of additional papers relating
to Italy. 1
NEW LAW COURTS.

Lord ST. LEONARDS, pursuant to notice, drew the
atteution of the house to the report of the commissioners
el inquiry as to the expediency of building new law courts
ou the same spot, and where the money is to corns from,
with • view of pr serving the funds arising from the invest-
ments d moneys belonging to the suitors of the Court of
Chancery fee their helmet and better security, far which
purpose the moneys were laid out, subject to certain
charges, and for reducing the fees payable to the court by
such suitors, for which object the funds stand appropriated
He opposed the design upon the ground that it was Mex.
pedieut to take • sum of 1,400,000/. belonging to the
Suitors' Fee Fund of the Court of Chancery in order to
build courts which those suitors did not require, for the be-
nefit of all the law courts.

The LORD CHANCELLOR could not possibly under-
stand what objections could be raised against the plan if
a guarantee were men by the government fur any clams
that might be made on the Suitors' Yee Fund.
After a few words from Lord CRANWORTH, who dis-
sented from the views of Lord St. Leopards, but thought
the state would gnu no ultimate advantage by the appro-
priation of the Suitors' Fund.
Their lordship adjourned at 20 minutes to 8 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FILIDAY, FEB. 15.
The Brum book the their at 4 o'clock.
PRIV?:TEBUSINKSS._

Several bills wirei;earriiint time or declared to hays
complied with the standing orders ; and the following bills
CZettheir seemed reading :—Chard sad Taunton Railway,
aid Macroom direct Railway, Karma' and Kilkee
Railway aad Poulnasheri7 Reclamation, Mold and Denbigh
Junction Railway, North Postern and Newcastle upon Tyne
and Carlisle Railway Companies' Amalgamation, Shirley
Railway, Southampton and Nutley Railway, Wallasey Im-
provement, Whitehaven, Closter, and F4gremont Railway,
and Workington Tidal Basin and Railway, Bills.
RETURNS ORDERED.
Captain Jerrie moved for copies of the correspondence
between the Muter of the Rolls, and Mr. W. B. Turnbull,
respecting the appointment of the latter gentleman to edit
• certain portion of the State Papers, and his resignation.
Sig R. Nownicovt obtained an order for an account of
the sums claimed from the Imperial government, by the
government of India, for advances or disbursements on so.
count of the War in China, to the 31st March, 1660.