The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-10 00:00:00

BILLS WITHDRAWN.

The ATTORITEIf-OF;ERTI.;;d it was his dedre
to have bittodeted a bill with newt to Breaches of True,
of white there lad Ithdy been so many sample. by directors
ef 01•11111.1111. (Hew, hear.) In the Farm mate of mitts
It wan be idle to proceed with it. but that and another
memos mietlaat to Joint Stock Companies would be amongst
the Mame which he should introduce, if be had the heater
of a seat `the sent parliament. (Hear. hear.)
)fr. LOWI withdrew the Passing Tolle Bill.
Mr bum rose at &quarter pest ten.

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SOCIETY.

A meeting of the members of this was held
ywiterday awning, at than rooms in Whi ; the
peeminnt, SW R. Mt: aCnnON, in the chair.
Arai these prerent were ()camel Fox, Osaand Mar.
taltb, Celina Sir Henry Rawlinson, In* Verb% Dr.
Lielt Captain Wilbs, R.N., Cants& flartko,
Coloorl STka (clidemma of U. Eng
Indio Commemr), Colonel Sotheby, tc.
She CEASISIAN expand his damp mink he the isms*
elt by waled Mend tho larl of Usissaws. Ire postbag of
Ids sod bons Medway fa thalweg
ends In soiraa, litters, and ary ansuZatikrahL
ti
unenlip sod
The liset pier mad was "On tha Claarnrity and Hydra-
tor of Inith-West Africa," by Dr. Jams Cempipt•
IMandhies hilafrig &la paper woe one tress thejsumat
of the lan Ovinla Ryas Parker, R.N., " On
bydos Ofilbst at
W Reed imellsed." immesnakatedelatimiLtith-
Mtplan, ILL It eimmenced
the pmdt sued et dr bratiii. Thewimmie limn two
albs Inlet asi dildieguiduibis b e lii itligh, lad&
teem The it the month is knead by twe swim simi-
tibliAtek Wadded remota* maw et Its Wilt. Wied■
dr dem widens, and d m aniesle spin. Ms
rise mil et valor at Ude mouth st 'pig dim is shout
tamely bet, soil vend. mold sielly pit et Oa deo.
WM el ate imam slams eared he twig, befweem, are
Is assamid IS along the Mites
_the Ititogems mei beep
istendsbd le tionmehes el Se simeless
le be bind Om. In the rift mem the Wm-
bed lbsimmftemerliews 1Y Inmhe, makbe do waft the •
sendieubb &Weser peitbite. The mime bom-
b abed eight er tia loge. An tidos "'baptise.*
be fall a shed Mums up lie rim, sod • pod ail
elardeaht be humi InMIA psi .eke nniedha •
graft of sellsse r sha
and, Id nese seerY saludei Ile WI
feint. 'la
peihmig almost emeglied via
lames of lie dim RR RI sr 30 sae up
lie shed The End brmnikl see be iburl arm
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=ere althethat. "Yea mem ithe Ir
th • bell* pillittnitat Oil esothty thisht le.
ez6 swirl:de. Captain Prtsward elk bte
61•11 1111 OM al It =Mai tILle wererrul6he
es be the eselpthe of the river lathissi
athela ereaadw year.
nip Comma, sedd the thireewory of the se at thie
imperere dyer tree tartaialy sabered I. *wad wheat
la • esemerdth pelt ef view, and he leathelthe fit dis•
emits up= the stride& Then thee heed pima The
mid ilea a
.greet dial if thibeerstisa spin I, end reseas
*here was Dr. lakteeples. with led Owe Sthetlether
ethadas, Ile wen ewe OD Tabitbe weal hem with
ewe eare nada width thet gentimen we
als be seed
Dr. LITIMOOTON adiermi are smirks te the
ethirwatery d hie diwarwiss Is Tehran* le the inomebt
the elver lasabeni, whisk be ilinetrated W meths el a shirk
sad hashers of the emadry_thersesh thde it rem, It
sesard le La. Ens the lehemallen be amid that
a amlisdis was d w tendleth is saylphie 61 dips
ef *me blade's yr tattled Off le* with the it ; bet he
would net yesenewal • embed le le seat up the thee,
thane" • wry help weed add we sp. Greet dithealty
w. eld dentlthes lath be be itheuthwei *wing the months
that the river le hi, yet il wall le thvbebbe, in rag si-
tingt te rarer lb thithahlity,a 'wad • weed el the
eery lighted inersee they night pi desk ea lOW
Mat la It Val pet of the dyer sad the whale
attempt be hutheled Meth PM sibs ta Meth of
the fiver was antialie Were the het sold wee easear
heed, sad that baba pried shwa WI to is awe wee tee
ten dillenity. lie ad Is wee hese cat is his
*thee Sr that sii=le Oat it wenbl be meet
thimble iv did set aspen far •
..neat that • gnat tsar 46:1-twateiniely spethr up, bet
be bed sallehat Salifint• In the braid neseeths dela
arery ea this /kw thet he thithaded te devote the se-
pethadar ef ide Iths thwiswthe thaw Es was ceavieted
wt • hearth wines" will that pert et the we
• lath the dial el abeashirtg the sieve heir See.
Amass slur Midis et asmarie le M head r greet
abinime was Way end bass, the her et which we ef
• wad isullfllva. Iledwisit the imilmedsmo et the meth
try wail midi espy way rear& est sight be on.
derteirs.
ire diesemice took slam in width Yr. Crealked.
XV., Yr. Oaken, Capon None* Meier Verdun', sad
edam task ewf. hen which It append the* wthe
telly woad be exper ie•
ssed la say attuthth * *Myth the
river hen the wont of • baths* and thaw; tat this hew.
OM' wield NO, it was stated, has ea inseperable ebethin I
The Caanthur mid • eenthealeation had ben waded
beer the itheignathee wait an makes, heat the
at Mal, Wads. that the Wei of Petiapi bad pleekell
with isibibedes ea aerostat ef the worn in k I
this shear, et Dr. Ltthagetea, sad bh lope
that ear awe* wait be fellewed
The AIM pare anneumeed wee "On • JoesneyjnPellw
trees dikes le Drab, awl was weetherd te
galla.Canuel Abbott, eesemsdeided by Or of;
bet the Cbeinuesa athalund the Wow Ist
wash hewed, that it wield not be addable a wile igen
it at that hie hew pa o'clock). He weld thmilbes pe-
rm dal peso
be Mind be the at=
This wee weal to, and the assetthy

SUAKII/1312.8 BIRTH-PLACE—A Ends, et the
71.0*-pice Committee was held ea ThErity Idt The
?maw* (Dr. Timms), Mr.OSPerse Oilier, Mr. CIR.
Mr. D. like. Mr. Z. 7. Mr. R. B.
11.14:riCr. kw. 0. Granville, **SM. T.
Mr. J. Attdarce. awl Mr. H. O. Ina 11111111 IN=
akar **hag thp birth-plare it Ins molionoir mini es
lemma so father In the work et sesseesslas ~tH the
aphdria atinfteseeinrnt ft:elided lees Dna tam um the
saleset.—Bim.esgibes Osulte.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 10.

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Tau political destinies of England are again in
the hands of that comparatively restricted portion
of the population to whom is entrusted the exercise
of the franchise. The issue of the next few weeks
will determine the course of public events for a
period of time sufficiently extended to exert a con-
siderable influence on the history of a people. We
all of us know only too well how this matter of the
franchise stands. Restricted even in theory to an
area far too narrow for the demands of justice and
political expediency, it is exposed in practice to every
sinister influence that wealth and power can bring to
bear upon cupidity and fear. We want Secret Voting,
we want Extended Suffrage, we want an Equalisation
of the Constituencies, before we can expect to find
in the collective result of the votes of the electoral
body a just and fair expression of the real mind of
the English people. And even if these were conceded
we should still desiderate a more frequent recurrence
of general elections. Rank, and wealth, and power
have ever since the great political revolution of 1832
been steadily and stealthily working the new system
to the old ends. The general character of our poli-
tical history since the Reform Act has been a gradual
recovery by the dominant closes of an ascendancy
that had only been shaken for a time. Until
the mind of the country is thoroughly aroused
to the necessity of arresting this retrograde movement,
it would be idle to expect from the existing consti-
tuencies any very bold or decided declaration in
favour of political progress.
It is one misfortune attending the present diasola-
: lion, that the circumstances under which it has taken

place are only too lardy to divert the attention of the
electors to questions which, however important, are
irrelevant to the great issues on which the political
rights of the community principally turn. Every effort
will be made by those interested in keeping things as
*my us, to render the contest one of men, not of
aseasines—one of foreign policy, and not of internal
progres• We do not under-rate the importance of
the China question ; of all we have written on the
subject, not one syllable would we retract or alter.
It is important—nay, it is of the last importance—
ant only that the country should withdraw its sanc-
tion from all participation with proceedings so
utterly indefensible as those of Sir I. Bowls's°, but
also that it should emphatically impress on its re-
presentatives the principle, that the foreign policy
of the empire should be subject to the roper-
vision of the Imperial Legislature—that it
should henceforth be impossible for the people
of this country to find themselves at war with
any power, whether civilised or barbarian, without
the previous knowledge and sanction of Parliament.
On these points it is well end right that the consti-
tuencies should hays a power of expressing their
opinions. But it mast never be forgotten--and, from
the tone of most of the electoral addressee which
have yet fallen within our view, we are glad to see it
is not likely to be forgotten—that the question of the
Mimes war in particular, and of the Pausuurrox
Ibreign policy in general, are not the only—not even
the most momentous—subjects to which the atten-
tion of the electoral bodice ought to be invited.
Even in the present state of the constituencies
there are certain broad principles of civil and reli-
gions liberty, on which we shall indeed be disap-
pointed if the response of the electors be not empha-
tic and unmistakeable. There are certain relies of a

past order of things whose existence in this advanced
period of general enlightenment is a strange re-
proach to the good sense of the English community.
Year after year, for many parliamentary generations
these venerable abuses have been made the ob.,
jests of attacks which ought long since to
have become unnecessary, and of defences
so humiliating in their absurdity that we cannot
pay those who are compelled to make them
so bad a compliment as not to 'appose they would
rejoice if the obligation of that imposed advocacy
were done away with. Foremost among theme
opprobria of our civilisation is the annual noisome
of the Church Rates. That a battle should still

have to be fought year after year over the dry bossy
of this wretched controversy is (next to the simular

exhibition on Maynooth) one of the most deplorable
facts in oar political history. Is it too much to hope
that one result at least of the coming elections may be
to return to the House an overwhelming majority of
men determined to put an end to thisancient grievance ?
To talk of arguing such a question is really very
much like sustaining a general thesis in favour of
religious toleration, laboriously evincing the justice
of the repeal of the Test Act, or proving on prin-
ciple that an auto da fe is an objectionable method
of dealing with theological opponents. If in the
year 1837 the principle be not self-evident that it is
unjust to compel any man to contribute to the
pecuniary support of a form of religious teach-
ing and worship which in his conscience he
disapproves —if this plain axiom requires
further illustration, after all the Liberal triumphs
of the last thirty years, then it is conceivable
that there may be an argument on the subject
of Church Hates—otherwise not. There will be

plenty of demands on the time of the rooarombled
Parliament; an abundance of social and politicul
questions of real importance will bo pressing for a
solution—let us, at all events, be spared more than
one other discussion on Church Rates. Let
the constituencies throughout the country make
this one of the tests of Liberal candidates—let

no man pass muster as a Mend of civil
and religious liberty, who is not preparea or. this
plain question to give a plain and straightforward
vote. Nothing but an overpowering majority will
be of any avail against the professional hostility of
the House of Bishops. This is ono of the questions,
too, on which a vague profession of Palmerstonian-
ism (we must have the word, for we have the thing)
will not suffice. We don't trust the PREMIEIN sin-
cerity on this point ; we are not ware that he was ever
very much in earnest on the matter, and his present
relations with the right reverend bench will not
probably have done much to quicken his zeal. On
this point, as on so many others, the constituencies
must take nothing on tract, but press the question
home and hard, refusing their confidence to any
professing Liberal who, on an elementary point of
principle like this, fails to conic up to the requisite
standard. The Abolition of the Church Bates and of
the Civil Disabilities of the Jews belong to a class of
questions which it is an utter disgrace to this
country to have left thus long unsettled. Let it be
the business of the constituencies in the coming elec-
tion, as far as in them lies, to wipe away both these
grounds of reproach.

We understand that Sir Henry Rawlinson has
been requested by Lord Palmerston to accept the
mission to China, bat has not yet made up his mind
to undertake the delicate and difficult task.

be Court.

WINDSOR, Bingen 9.
The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds ad-
joining the Castle thin morning.
The Prince of Wake went out hunting.
The younger royal children took their accartancd exer-
cise.

A deputation from the Corporation of London bad an in-
terriew with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yerterday, at
his odkial reeidene• in Downing-street, on the subject 44
the Coal Delft Bill. The deputation condoled of Mr. Cos
(chairman), Mr. Seamen, Mr. Connell, Mr. Cockerel, the
City Itanembenneer, end Mr. Scott.
A depatation from the Canadian Loan and Investment
Society bad ea Interview with Lord Stanley of Alderley yes-
terday at the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of
Mr. W. R. Wagetaff (acting under power of attorney from
Sir Allan DPNab and others, the promoters in Canada), Sir
H. Maddock, M.P., Lord Buoys and Mr. Wm. Austin (pro-
moter' to En eland), end Mr.
The Royal Commission for deaseining the mite of the
New National Gallery met yeetedsy at 17, Greet Queen-
" Diet, Weetminater. Prerent Lord Broughton (chairmen)),
the Dean of St. Pea., Premier Faraday, Mr. Cockerel),
and Mr. Richmond. . _ . _ _

DZStches were 'received at the Cotedid-off ice yesterday
from the Governors of the North American Provinces, and
the °overawed Liman, Hoeg Kong, and Ceyka.

The Duchies Dowager of Beaufort and the Ladies
Somerset are expected in town shortly from Badminton, the
hinny seat in Gloucestershire.
The Counter of Westmoreland arrived in town
last evening from Apthorpe House, Northamptonshire.
The Earl of Strndbrokc is expected in town to-
day from Ireland.

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