The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-19 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.

RAILWAY CO3llllTTRE.—Yestexclay, in the coin-
mittee, consisting of Mr. Bernal and other memben, the
preambles of the following bills were devlared proved:
Exeter and Crediton Railway (for raising further capital
and enlargement of Cowley bridge station); South Eastern
Railway (fir power to discontinue payment of interact on
calls); Londonderry and Col• mine and Londonderry ad
Enniekillen ; Dublin and BA-set Junction Railway.
BRIGIITON PAVILION AND IMPROVEMENT.—Yes-
terday, the select committee on this biil, censi•tina of the
Hen. T. Vevey (chairman). Mr. P. Szrope, Mr. G. Berke-
ley, Earl of Mulgrave, Col. Chatterton, and the m‘mben
for Brighton, assembled to consider this bill, which proposes
to authorise .the town commissionen of Brighton to pur-
chase the pavilion and grounds, together Ili' the stables,
formerly occupied by Mm. Fitzherb rt, for 63,000 i., for the
benefit of the inhabitants, subject to compensation for pull.
log down and removing a chapel therein. The reams for
the purchase are stated to be that visitors will he greatly
benefited and the prrperty he prevented from falling into
heeds whereby it might be made detrimental to the inhabi•
tante, instead of being made use of for tee purposes of health,
recreation, amusement, or profit.

LORD BROUGHAM'S NEW BILLS.—Of seventeen
bills which have bete in.roduced into the Rouse of
Lords since the commeecement of the session, end
which are still pending there, six are the production
of Lori Brougham. Two of them are copies of the
bills which wrra laid by his lordship before the house in
previous sessions, one for the coosialidation of the criminal
law, and the other for the consolidation of the backrupt law.
This last is accompanied by a paper of observations explana-
tory of thc ofj.et of the bi 1 and of the amendments and
alterations propelled by it, showing especially the omirions
and the blunders in the Bankruptcy Act mired In the last ses-
sion. It is stated in the last page of the explanatory paste
that if this bill be paned the ev ntwl minuet saying tithing
from the reduction of existing offices will be 21,160/ ,althcugh
it is proposed to make a chief commissioner in Landon with
a salary of 2,4001. Unfottuni tele for the cause of financial
reform the events on which this alleged saving is to be
effected, are the deaths of the officers, woo ere to revive thw
21,1601. (with a smell deducti m of travelling expence4l
as
long u they live for doing nothing. The whey bills of L
Brougham are,abill ' to give the Masten in Chsoceryrrimary
jurisdiction in certain cases,' a bill to extend the Trustee Act
of 1349, a bill for she rtening the language of acts of par-
iment, and a bill to remove obstructions in the earn trice of
Scotland. This last is the only one of his lordship's six bills
that has yet made any progress in the house ; it hss gone
through the usual stage. up to the third reading, for which
it stands waiting. Let it sot be sulsoled that this bll hat
any reference to the Kestrel repeal of the corn laws: i•s
only object is to protect the bona fide purchasers of corn. or
flour, or hay, or straw, or other farm produce, in open mar-
ket, against all latent lien or anteced. of cl tins for the debts
of the seller or smart of rent, Ste , unless the pur-
chaser had due notice of such lien or claim.
The bill for shortening the language of acts of
parliament contains eight short sections. The first pro•
poses to enact that all acts of parliament may be altered.
amended, or repealed in the same session in which the. 5h.,11
be passed, so that the clause to that effect, added to all acts
now, may, for the future, be omitted. The second section
proposes to divide all future Pets into sections, and to omit
the frequently recurring introductory words. '• be it enacted,''
&a. The third proposes where, in any future act, former
sets are to be referred to, it shall be sufficient to cite the year
of the reign, and chapter, Ac., of such act, without reciting
the title or provisions of it. The fourth section proposes
to enact a general interpretation clause tor future acts instead
of the clause of that nature now usually incorporated in
every act. The remaining sections propose to enact, that
when an act repeals a former act, the acts repealed by the
former shall not be thereby revived unless words to revive
them be employed; that when an art repeals the provisions
of another act, the provisions so repealed shell be in force
until the repealing act come into operation; and that
this act shall apply to all future acts of this
and all future sessions. By these proposed ietreathments
of the common form of acts of parliament, much paprr sad
printing will be saved; bat his lordship might well apply
the pruning-knife to the redundant verbiage, the tiresome
abreviations ind synonymes, and the fatiguing and unneces-
sary repetitions of them. It would be especielly &Mashie
that his lordship should get this set passel before his two
consolidation acts, which together contsia no leis than :119
close folio pages, the really useful parts of which are, lila',
the spilled crews in Virgil's nautical games, " rare nantes
in
wide vasto."
INCENDIARISB IN BUCKO.—On Saturday night the
firm promises of Mr. Till, of Burnham. were &alloyed by
fire, with th,s exception of a few sheds. The buildings were
insured In ',he Royal Exchange, and some coin which formed
part of their contents in the Sun office. Immediately after
this occurrence, another and Mete() extensive tire was
observed in the neighbourho..d. This resulted in a very
large destruction of property on the firm of Mr. Nash, of
Langley, about four miles front Burnham. Mr. Noah Was
oleoloeured. Bath firee are believed to be the weak of ir
cendiari,e. who have of bde been eery active in the web'
honchoed.