The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-06 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Lori MONTEAOLTiImTrarei that the Milroy "stars
sedated to be laid Won the bosses this 3rd of May In the
lasts. Nits, end which bays out been as vet produced, be
made ; 16. d also for certain further returns reap eP
'Swap ; aed at the same time to put • question tu the
Vare-Pr, elek of. of the Board of Trade rupee:jog the intro-
duction of • bill for VI! Irtlir audit of railway involute.
He held it t•,oe r -.st fair that wbta a eszapany came before
Path. want to se k new or additional powers—ants for in-
stance as to raise an theresaed asemat of capital—it was the
duty of PITIISIMISE to inquire how the power which they
already bolt hod been exercised. and hew their capital had
been Issue d. (Hear, hear.) lie would, therefore, con-
clude by wore, for " a r. turn of this shares cf capital of
every MN, ;In the Gaited Kingdom, and that such be laid
before the It ei 4—remise to the order of the 3rd May last
—together sink a det of the railway rampant." whose re-
turn' to sat . ender had nut yet been received." (Hear.)
Lard GRANVILLE, who was scarcely audible, could as
no objectini to the motion. It the returns had nut been
made, the teialt WAS t,,at of the government, bat of the
peruse themselves. D...ting the recess the government had
resensidered the question of audit bills ; and should railway
elear-Yeiter. not came forward with a Mil of their own, or
should the hal which they might bring forward be not satis-
feet rye he was in a paeidoo to stets that government would
be prepared to or in the matter. (Hear, hear.)
Earl I Z WILLIAM was understood to censure the ors-
duet of railway direstors,owing to whose malvereation of the
!ands, in inn.; lutes s, depreciation of railway property
had taken pace That m detention had had the effect of
depreearg ill railway property ; and, in addition, the facili-
ties affoseliol for their constrrati,n had canted the country to
lee saturated with lines of railway. In his opinion oath
Ham of reilwq as should be proved to be not yildieg •
poet shou:d ant b • rated to the relief of the poor.
Toe Duke of RICHMOND said that if that principle
were to hula good, few !semen in the country at present
should be rated. (Laughter.)
L BEAUMONT izguired if it were the intention of
revealment again to introduce the bill of last session, which
not bee it pr weeded with, to enable comp es to wind
up their affairs? He inked the lushes in order that
—ea the eta jest affected many important interests at
that monsea•, and several parties were extremely anxious
about the initttr, their money being locked up in specula-
tionr—the intention of government might be declared and
suidentood ; and tbtt, at the same time, attet,tiou might be
Balled to th- fact nf the difficulty experienced by the owners
of Lad throuah which lines ef railway pawed In ob'aining
what he conceived they were justly entitled to—namely, the
right at preemption, to recur, them which, he thought, a
special clause thqul.l b • introduced.
Lord GRANVILLE was understood to ray that the
government intended, at an early stage of the session, to
Introduce a bill an the subject.
Their lordships adjourned shortly after half-pest six
o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TIIYADAT, FEB. b.

The Smut ER took the chair at a quarter to 4 o'clock.
NOTICES OF MOTION.
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AOILICVLTURAL DICTITU.—Mr. DISRAELI, on that
day fortnight I move fir a committee of the whole house en
the goer law.
Tilt MAXIMO Chastiss.—Mr. SLANEY, on that day
fortnight, to move an address to her Msjuty preying for the
appintmese of a permanent unpaid commisuon for pro-
moting the ',Weie of the working classes.
PCNIbIIMENT Or DZATIL—Mr. BRIGHT, tomorrow
(Ws div) to move for copies of all the memorials, addressee,
=times, together with the number of signatures sp-
to them, which Iced been mended to the govern•
mud is law UT of Margaret Hamilton, remedy executed at
Olsogow ; also for similar copies and returns respecting the
omelet Cbarlotto Harris, convicted at the Bristol Assizes,
together with a copy of the verdict of the jury in each we.

THE POOR LAWS,
111. DISRAELI, arcing the right hon. gentleman at the
head of tie poor law board in hie place, wished to inquire
when the r port of the eoramis,ioners on the operation of
the law ? of settlement would be laid upon the table of the
home

Mr. BAINES said that the report was in the handsof
che right h n. gentleman, the Secretary for the Home De-
partment, aid would, he believed, be laid upon the table
either to-night t r avarow.
In answer to questions by Capt. PELHAM,
Sir 0 GREY stated that papers woald shortly be laid
before tLe house with valuable iaformatioa, on which a bill
would probably be founded, on the subject of pauper settle.
runt and vagrancy; and that the government has no 'atm-
tion to lo.roduee any mnuaree for facilitating the sale or
caching* of estates In England and Wales, or for borrowiag
money of real property us additioa to the statutes that had
very ',calmly bees passed for the purpose last mentioned.
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