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

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY, FRB. 11.
Th. LOAD CMANCILLOR tack hie seat at five o'clock.
RATE IN AID.
Lord MON TEAGLE moved that the accounts which bed
beta k•pt under the ratc•in.aid an should be produced
thrthwith.
The Menials of LANSDOWNE Imii.l they were in corers
Of praparstion, and wculd shortly be laid before parliament
AUSTRALIA.
Earl TALBOT inquired whether it was the intention of
the gorenmeet to trahlielt a postal entrouoicatian with
Annusha, and if ea, what routs would be trktu, whether
by me) of ffierepore or the Isthmus et Panama ?
Earl GREY said, that soma time ago, an advutheguat
had then published for leaders for the performance of the
etheitre of carrying letters by sterna to Australia. He
believed all the tender: had ate yet been received. The
ultimate dicisios would parity depend ea the terms which
could be speed spots.
MASTERS' IN CHANCERY (IRELAND)this
bill BILL.
Oa the motion date Eel of GLENOALL, was
read a Bret time. •
BANKRUPTCY CONSOLIDATION BILL.
Lord BROUtiIiAM was undelvtod to post2one the
othamittee on this bill.
AFFAIRS OF GREECE.
L2ril STANLEY interrogated the Marquis of Lansdowne
ti
sug the Greek blockade. He asked whets the mere
Oa th lleet would h. Wore the house. Was it trite
that the me lithos of Fran?* had bees accepted ? An
that unshod.l the dispel was desirable, but the
paid= of the coun.ry, with Frame standing forward
to a mediator and protector of Geese., would be humi•

Beano.
Lard LANSDOWNE drew the divinctien between the
"mediate...." and the " good offices" of France. elle latter
had been offered and cfrecitei in the most friendly spirit.
The Rail of ABERDEEN wee glad that the quarrel had
sailed by aediatine, but sorry that we had taught Greece to
Wei ler napes her pr steic•or nod saviour against England.
The Iliaq lie of LA'SSDOWNE repeated his statement
and distinction between trienuly offices and arbitration.
The eonvereation was continued by Lords Ei4lisbury,
Heytesbury, Brennitaw and Canning, when the further
descunlun wee postponed until the redo:doe of the Niters.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION BILL.
The &Impels of LANSDOWNE, In moving that the bill
be read a second time, eel I they wen all amounted with the
fact, that ia 1835, ia consequence of any observations made
both in sad out of parliament, and of inquirl 's made
by her Majesty's government as to the distribution
of the reveawie of the church, it was proposed
to establish a commission for the purpose of
determining is what way than revenues could be more ea-
dilatorily applied and distributed fu the benefit of the
church. Is the same year the commission was appointed,
and in the followirg it made a lull report. In col ei queer
of the recommendations of that report another tem:mission
was established is 1438 f-r the purpose of carrying oat the
plans it set forth for ihr better distribution of the church
revenue.. That coamieouen included the heads of the shunts
and of the stab, and when firs appointed It connoted of 13
nominee, some eceleidaat:cal and some lay. It proceeded te
oany into effert the recommoadations of its predecessor,
and a *cheme was devised for doing so by means of orders
in council. He felt bound to state that he did not tkink
the subsequent cLeages; made in that coandation had had
the effect of qualifying it be.tet to deal with the subject;
but, on the nanny, W.:11 the beet intentions on the part
of the :umbels, it had had the effect of diminishiug their
aptitude. The alteration made in 1840 in the con-
stone that commission enlarged the limited
number of thirteen to no lees a number than
forty-nine, beau :lag the whale bench of bishops. In order
to preeide for the contest attention to the pecuniary objects
connected with the csainsimion, and not leaving them to the
care of perms attuning at one time, and not another, the
bill proposed townie three commissioners for the purpose of
atterod:ng to the management of the estates of the church,
and to be called the Ensue' CollllllliiiiolllM. The committee
of the Rouse of Commons which had inquired into this sub
jest had recsaineaded the appointment of three paid coals
asholoana. It had appeared, on reflection, that it
wee not necessary to go to the extent of three,
and the government proposed that only two paid
commiseinen should be appointed, and it was hoped that
they would be able to find some third linty competent to
deal with the bonnet, but whom it would not be necessary
to pay. The bill provided that then three persons should form
an independent committee. One of the two paid commis
Sonars was to be appointed by the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, and the other by the crown ; the salary of the one was
to be 1,20)1. a year, and of the other I,OOW. It was proposed
that, in order to genus proper attention to the business
under their care, two: of these estate commissioners should
be pretest at all important meetings and resolu-
tions of the commission. It was also proposed that
the offices of treasurer and secretary should not be held
by one sad the same rson, and that the office of treasurer
akou:d be discharged by two of the estate commissioners
holding that office In common. The bill also provided
that for all bishops heriahn to be appointed to that dignity
the commission should have the power of giving them a
fixed income if they preferred it. The noble lord having
referred to the other proe'ni no of the bill for regulating the
income of deans rid chaptere, concluded by moving that the
bill be and a second time.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY then rose, but was
almost wholly inaudible. The right rev. prelate was under-
stood to express his entire concurrence in what had fallen
from the noble marquis. It would appear that it was now
donned desirable to make an 'lteration in the constitution
of the ecciesintical ertamiseion, he could only say that
he wished that alteration bad been made at a much earlier
day, but from recent occurrences it was more than ever
necessary that it should be lone at once. The tininess of
the commission had increased very much; it was of a very
intricate nature and was likely to become still more lain
mite. lie thought it wee highly desirable that a responsible
officer should be appointed to conduct and control the ad-
ministration of the funds of the commisidoo, and that he
should be answerable to the public. While speaking of the
funds of the commission, he might be permitted to allude
to imputations thrown out against the commission for haying
mismanaged them. He could not concede the justice of
those imputations, and he saw around him many noble lords
who, from time to time, had given their attendance to the
business of the commission, and who, he thought, would
rapport him in that dean,. It was true that a large sum of
money had heea nasppropriated by the late treasurer and
secretary, bat it was the sot of the legislature, which
placed then two important functions in the hands
of one individual. The secretary had certainly robbed
the commission cf 8,0001., but snail within the last six months
of his holding that office that gentleman had been a faithful
servant to the commission, and had discharged his duties
with great seal and ability.
The Earl of RARROWBY wished to say a few words.
by. not in opposition to the bill. lie thought it was impe-
ratively necessary to the welfare of the church of England
that the number of its bishops should be increased ; when-
ever an facreen wee made in any regiment in the nay ft
wee always deemed among to lacrosse the number of its co-
noels. The some nale,he thought,ought to apply to the elands.
The Blew" of LONDON would recommend the govern-
ment to attend to the suggestion throws out by his noble
hind. It was highly desirab:e to make provision intensified
superintendence. He wee not quite sathirl se So
ZeTiltive position which was to be occupied by the sow
mimic/ten under the bill. As the bill stood, the Mak mut
always be taken by the crows caramissimeer. Re Wahl
wrest that the three estate. commiesionen should poi&
alternately, being satisfied that, titian the proposed anew.
meat, her Majesty'. commissioner would be everything, gal
the two other oosemesionen were clphen.
Lard STANLEY weld cot allow that opportunity to pew
wittiest saying that, while he ceseuned in the bill, sad
believed it to be at excellent measure, he also concurred
in the onesnations of his noble hind (the Earl of Hanowby)
sod the right rev. prelate who had just sat down, with re-
gard to that particular provision of the bill, which if it re-
named in its present state would take away the chance of
dons what, if it was not unwary mow, woad entaialy he
es hereafter, namely, increasing the number of bishops. By
beigiss, In a bill to effect that object, the governinent had
y admitted that even at that moms% the number of
UnTs.was not sufficient for the wants of the &web. Their
lordships might rely upon it that they thin had before then
their last chines of preserving the wane of doing in Man
for the higher order of the clergy what, for the benefit of all
the clergy, it was absolutely essential should be dale. He
did nova the goontosat to ache prod is is the hill ht
the atatios of the camber of bishop. Sm. he
thought an iwesse most desirable ; all that Ito would
sagest, and alt that he dotted, was that they would sot,
by the pr visions of the bill, pat it oat of thole own power,
sr set or the power of Oak sascessras, for seek would, he
was couviaced, be the offset of ads oeseallidadea of the @pie-
sepal feed and the ammo had, to provide for
tie Imo ei hick sight hereafter boom meet upset.
The Nankai, of LANSDOWNR, whoa ohs wee nearly
lartuditie, was sadareseed to say that astwtheteadiag what
the adds had (Lord Stanley) had urged, be still approved
al the proposed coneelidatioa, sad odd met held out to him
any hope of the oadssica el this slams.
The bill was that real a woad time, sad that day bat-
iste:l= feigning late committee.
pia sill _weed at a quarter peat 7.
1:1017813 OF COMMONS.—MossAI, Fns. 11.
The armadas oak the chair at Ise,
RAILWAY DISSOLUTION OA ABANDONMENT
BILL.

Mr. LABOUCHERZ moved that no bill to authorise tie
dimoidlon of a railway company, nor say bill to authorise
the abandonment of the vim% or part of a railway sad
which does not relate to other objects, be read a emend time
until alter Ratner.

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TYNE CONSERVANCY BILL.
The second reeding of Ibis bill baring bees moved,
After some sontersation,
Ike boom divided—
For the mooed reeding 63
Agaiaet 3l
Majority —32
Bill reed smond time and ordered lobe committed.

PUBLIC BUSINESS.
CORPORATION OF LONDON.
Aid. SIDNEY we notice for Thursday ant, to above
tar leave to briar is • MU to repeal all eery duties 011 the
adatissicat of freemen into the corporal's of Lembo.
LAND TAX.
WODEHOUSE ramrod eau lost 1111110 i hp WNW
rapatag the and tn.