The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-27 00:00:00

the isssnal swoons wee delivered, this. weald hi my
bog. gognatasity far the eppeeittes to ateamplia tbm dp-
iirpok Mien afterwards. lie was set kr remitting the
iolfolo of the aides ea timber. bat hi was la favour of
mastitis midi a eabotaatial relief is that impost as would
sled Misfit to the bumbler dawn of the pee*.
Ifs. R. FAI.MRR hoped that is se this a his. es the
ewes the MO.inS eagle mot be pressed to a divides.
•
ph L. BET WORTH supporta the meike, mad hoped
tRe ,h,,,, Cease speedily ernes whoa duties weal& be takes
eaarb entered lase the esairessaties sad
Its oftereheft srtk
tea
Rt'Mll replied. Be said hi had Abased his wish
—test eeerseinisty the feekemt of the low ups this
• Ilipertat t gawks. The Mem had exposed Well
Jet.attly as favour ef the satire repeal of the hook dal,
sod herloatild \amnier move Its total repeal is lima of the
priiirat ball esomale. sad implored that he should his he
mictendel is coafersiag a Milt MGM gearrea bum& ea ell
• ,of 11. e people.
The is. tue was, by leave, withdraws.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
Mr. RICARDO moved for leave to brim I. a MR he the
brier review.. of railway trate°. lie said hit allied ems
go *tare sulkiness to step in sod rectify aa admitted
drll let •• maatey. Is some pi .cee trains did net sap at
dist Miriam ; is ethers, heavy tolls were emceed, sad large
bg..e ‘.l vether, Amoroso is the limbs sad lives of pee-
ps/etc were tritassitted sided the IMO and the object et
r. leg,t bill, the detail. of which would hereafter tone
tbe ss.j.c. sneer of mosideratioa, was to remedy these sad
ether railway imperfections
LW. *me Imo to kin is the
RLL HIGHWAYS.
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Lird EMLYN moved for leave to bnag ia. bill to mead
we lees Meting to highways I. Beath Was.
Mr C LEWIS said the bill which he had had the homey
to intnla.• n lived to the whole of Ragland and to South
wake. He iris gait* wiling that the bill shield be ia-
trodeeed.
Liege w then Om to introduce the bill.
EXTRAMURAL INTERMENTS.
Mr LACY, ou rising to move for have to be*
is • ,ill to promote eitranarel interments, explaised
that the objecte of the bCI were to give powers ander
tenni lig* a ion to railway goupanies to have 1111 -
t. ri" There mist first be the sanetioa of two-
te ids of the shireholden, and th. n, if they &aid bey
a I,,ee of waste lend 20 or 30 sites eat of tows, they
* etlit go to the railway eomwiseigaigelasd if they gave
waistline wake their resete,y. Then be proposed
.:.at they should is halted w to then mita.
Sir O. ORET said he did sot collect my clearly the
rt of Ilse bill, bet he asderstond that Gas object of it sas
that railway eempaaies should also be c-watery mammies. Ile
*odd put it to taio boo. gentleman that the report to which
he tad alluded bad net yet bees delivered. Tbe @abject
meet row, under the considering* of puliament at an early
prod, sal be pat it to lila Whether it wee worth whlle to
broil it forward now.
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Lod ASHLRY sai anthe Nkomo of die Board of
wetr•wJ preparedd would be laid before parllemmit
day or two.
Ile. WELD believed the bill would be harmless, and
brew that the cemeteries were much welded.
Mr LABOL'CBERII olifeseed to • bill being inundated
irtula cad •e slimes of obtataing the suasion of t►e loose.
Mr AOLIOKBY sepported the bill.
Atter some observations hem Mr. Ch•plis, Mr. M. J.
C'Corselt, Mr. Spooner, sad /Mr U. Orey,
Mr LACY ceaseated to postpone hie motion.
}UNCTIONS OF THE BOARD OF TRADE.
Mr. MoFFATT stowed Ise einem, Mowing the •amen of
the m• mun if her Mejn.y'e Privy Conseil constituting the
apposated for the coaseekradea of matters relating
to trade sad foreign plantatioes ; the Meeker of the mid
items:tut ; the Bomber of members of said sammittee t►at
etteetitate • quorum far the despatch of Dewiness ; the mum-
bee 01 time the committee met is the twelve tomtits ending
the +l.• December, ISI9 ; the number of members of mid cm-
sttee that attended sees meeting.
Mr LASOUCHERE Mt obliged to oppose the motion,
ireliag that II would he impossible acenrauly to define the
...arose foactioas of each • body es the Board of Trade.
With ?evict title other part of the motion, It wonlil be
equally dubeolt to live se accurate return of the number
if Um sauces. The most important Wainer was often
does by a Nag:, member, a•d therefore • return of their
Wiliam se • board 'mid give bet • very teammate notion
of** animist ot beware dose. TM heard rosily sonaistsd
si the peewits% sad ewe-president, but se important eolo
Mal qmetions they had the sesimanse of the sac stary sad
seder mental of the coloaies.
/b. MOFFATT isid that the Esplanades of the right
geademo ie sateifectory. ea to remise it annum-
eirey he geoid press ►u motion. Mottos withdrawn.
COMMONS I NCLOSU RE BILL.
This bill wee read • third time and pared.
PROCESS, Az.,(IRELAND) BILL.
his bill passed through committee.

NEW BILLS.
Sternal bensissibor; breubt is bills widish woe »-
natively nee a lint tine ; mass ethics the ideation bill
. r e.kt is by Mr. Fox.
Du bow a it amid at 12 eslask.

giu erprelSO.

otTOOING MAIN

Welt lade Mails, including Bermuda, Hammel,
14,a4 H, dorm, New OrMaas, sad Ilssioo;imid melodist
tt••• Madeira. St. Joaa-divNioaraana, Now Granada,
(r Peru.will be niadosp on Marelt 2.
to mei.e for Maderia, the Braila, sad Buenos Ayres, will
w r.V.e a,. on the 'mauve of March 4.
1 tr, mails for Lobos', Spain, and Gibraltar will be made
ar .t Bora 7.
Tut made vol Marseilles, to the Mediterranean. ',opt,
C.yi-o, lidia, Hoorlioag, Me., will be mad* up art tie
of Mardi 7.
DA mails for Brisieh North America and the United
eful be made ap on the evening at Muth 8.
The math los Gibraltar, Malta, Grime, the loalas Islands,
Lq;.t. Ceylon, India, and Chins, via Bouthaiwptes, will
w caw up as the movable of March 20.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY; FEBRUARY 27.

Howtrea the friends of things as they am may
depreact or censure the tory exhibition of Monday
mF►t lost in the House of Commons, we certsinly
thick the fronds of progress have no jest reason to
en n. The attempt made by Mews. Ouperoxit
andlh-natt.l to stop the coon of public business
10 Leery respect as factious and as foolish as their
worst enemies could wish ; and we, who have no
'amity towards tither, but who ees in their re-anion
for party obj,cts nothing that is surprising or nnna-
tami, can atf.trd to pity the blonder, and to forgive
the stupidity wherewith they have signalised the
cosonei.c.ment .of their new crusade against the
rights and immanitiee of the people.
The biil for the repair and restoration of the Irish
%Mill* has been well nigh two years before parlia-
sect and the cluntry. It was read a mooed 111110 in
l'la without opposition ; and a second time on
Friday lett without a division. Everybody who
awed to know anything of its mope or aim
was perfectly acquainted long ago with both ;
!ad any one who took the trouble of looking
iato the reprint in 1830 of Sir W. Sons-
ttt.t.et bill of 1848, must have men that the
riar.utt of the franchise was the Nam, and that the
*hoe details of registration and voting were verbs-
transcripts of the clauses introduced two years
Moe. There was no decent pretenoe, therefore, for
!Lat'iteting the progress of this too tardily prose.'
cited measure. Its principle bad been twice formally
fir Led. Its peovisioas might admit of discussion
loured= ; but they were thoroughly well known,
Palnnasly understood, and generally deemed accept-
ahe.

A tt w and unusual motive for resistance offered
tutu 'Thursday last the schism of 1846 still
sabered among the occupien of the opposition benches.
lbe homilies were as well disposed for mischief as
nrat prosperous days ; bat they felt their week-
nese and shrunk from incurring unnecessary expo-
ewe. The numerically smaller section bad left them
uk • hepere mats. But for their leader their condi-
tion ni:gi.t be described spessh_less. For one
tanaot recognise " the ioarticulate sounds" of which
alone they seem in general to be capable, as fit to be
tlasailled among weapons either of defence or of attack
ths wordy war. Great, proportionately, wee the exult-
shot and irnstrainable the revulsion o, dumb courage,'
ekes:Ley hew to feel that they had onoe more got some
braise in the place where brains ought to be. The'
trkerttLi or reliability of the acquisition they were
in no mood to criticise. They had got what they had
bete four Scars in quest of—a man who had been
s Ithough but for a few months) a cabinet minia-1
ter and who was not like the superannuated II r.siuss,
pat otok. .4 A compact alliance was forthwith
efirfacl an. Mr. 1 )ISRA CU, with his usual
104 sot , intimated his frank and cordial
VFuses to act for common objects on the
141winc;ples toryism with Mr. GLADSTONE,
t Rite no one whol esalport he valued more highly sod ll trusted that past feuds would soon and for
eiir be kneed in oblivion. What Mr. GLADISTOXI
1'644 should, or might have felt, thought, or said
4m finding himself than condescendingly dropped
Ate cm. of Mr. I /1811ALLI'd skirt pockets, we de not
Penrod to say.
Cf#rtiin it
Lespie 111, h—Ammo that no moue wu the
complood, sad the miming goods mound,

than as irreeiedble desire arose to make see of them.
They were taberedesed and exhibited forthwith,
to thaw the weadering world how meth richer the
hitherto despised Disraelites had soddenly grows.
And as a fit opportunity for this display might not
arise for eons weeks or days, it was resolved at a
meeting held in it. Jeaseerequare, to seise the first
government measure that stood on the list kr Monday
night, and make Mr. GLADIPTOI4I sad his adherents
help to throw it ander the table for this. weeks.
Had it happened to be the Amtrak's Bill, the same
theorems and dignified soaves would dashikis have
been pursed. It happeath to be the Irish Franehiss
Bill, sad therefore the sew months were drawn oat
is lime, aad ordered to take their appointed
part is the anbeard of . What toldthey
ey do? Tbey had ja the &tali; bow could they
Jump book again ? cTd warm looked mid sad
grave „. bat deigned not to esposial**. Thq had
qaitted his standard t sad though deeertaa Sir
Bosses must have hit that his individual pciftine
and re-eminenoe, in the eyes of the nation,
_wax only
eeadwed the mere amepisoomp thereby. Mean; fuse
the hoer of testing their fidelity came. The proposal
to odious the committeeon the Irieb Franchise Bill.
for the obvious purpose of defeating it altogether for
this year wee received with a bust of inendvioes
morn fries two thirds of the Hesse of Commons.
A dividers wee celled for, and bat 111 members weld
be induced to reseed their votes in iti favour.

But among those 116 weeMr.T3trxerro---nit and
many of his adherents. They had been marched
through Coventry. That object had beea gained
there still remained another, namely, to try whether
the go eramsat might set be actually frightenbd or
fooled into acquiesornee in a course which would
have placed the bill in jeopardy. Apparently for this
purpose Mr. DISRAELI repeated the same motion, in
other terms. This was met with a peremptory
negative by Lord Joule Roseau.; sad thus be-
gan the erseeputabla some of mere obstruction by
which the entire of one evening was consumed. Mr.
Otanerrona's heart failed him, and he left his new
amciates to reap the undivided honours a the &Id.
On the second division the minority had fallen to 93 ;
and on the third to 81. At each sacesseive plunge
the strength of the faction grew gradually less and
Ilees ; awn towards midnight there was left of the
, exultant coalition, which on Thursday sight had
mustered two hundred sad fifty strong, a remnant of
but seventy to obstruct, by mere doll dint of
reckleasnews the business, which a majorityv:ret3
from 194 to Ida, seven times successively declared
themselves ready and anxious to praised with. Toe
climax of this affair consists in the fact, that while
the sole pretence set up to justify this trilling with
the public time and patience, was the allegation that
the representatives of Ireland had been taken by sur-
prise—in every division, a majority of Irish members,
sometimes exceeding two t 2 one, voted against the
foes of the franchise; and many of them, during the
debate, repudiated as an empty sham the demand on
their amount for further time.

War ministers should, in the erasion of 1849, ori-
ginate the .Eeeladastical Commission Bill in the
Room of Commons, and in the session of 1830 origi-
nate the very Mae sesame, is the Howe of Lords, is a
question only to be solved by turning to their general
chilly-shallyieg conduct on church affairs. In neither
session has the bill been a labour of love with Lord
Joan Russau. sad Sir Owitoa Ow. last year
they introduced it into the lower house to stop Mr.
Houstates mouth ; and this year they whipped it,
without notioe, into the upper house, to intercept his
motion on the Ecclesiastical Commission. In that
they were, however, disappointed ; but the
biabope and the high church peers have
turned this piece of ministerial trickery to
their own advantage, and to the serious injury of the
government measure. And now ministers must
either abandon the only part of the bill that really
would have been useful, or risk a collision between
the two houses about a clause on which the church
reformers in the anemone have set their
hearts. So in a short time it will be seen whether the
views of the bishops or their own opiaions, supported
by their own party, have to prevail.
Recent legislation has made over two funds to the
custody and appropriation of the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioo. Under the Episcopal Reform Act of 1836,
there is a growing surplus, after paying all the sti-
pends of the bishops as therein flied,-which will
soon reach 16,0001. a early and this is known as the
Episcopal Fund. Under the Cathedral Reform
Act of 1840, there is a surplus which will
ultimately be 300,0001. a Year; it is called the
Commonlrund, and is applicable to church extension
purposes. Originally -there was no distinction
between these two funds; but a clause was clan-
destinely smuggled into a bill whilst passing through
parliament, which enabled the commission to mate a
Ifund in favour of the bishops; and no sooner was it
created than the prelates of our couch hippo to =w
use it,

To what extent this misuse has gone is not posi-
tively known; for we have accounta up to the end of
1847 only. Oa the second reading of the bill under
consideration, the PRIMATE spoke of 9,0001. as the
limit of the sum which had been spent on epis-
copal palaces. Bat herein his Grace was
altogether within the mark; fur, by thenprt of
Mr. EVELYN DENISON'S ciaimittee, we find fol-
lowing paymen'is have been made thersont
New palace at Ripon £13,880
Alteration of palace for Bishop of Lioecin 6,000
Alteration of palace for Bishop of Gloucester
Alteration of palace for Bishop of Worcester 2,815
Alteration of palace for Bishop of Osford
Or, up to the end of 1847, nearly 30,000 L, instead of
9,0001. And, in addition, the fund is now charge-
able with the payment of 3,0001. a year, the interest
of the money borrowed to repair Lambethi Palace
and Addington House in the late Primacy, with the
interest of a sum mimed to repair the rpm:opal pales!,
at Welland Exeter, and with some 300/. or 4001. topay
the neat of a fitting residence fur the Bishop of
Maft-
anneE. Nor are these sums, large though they
be, all that have been laid out on biehopi palaces
of late years. For, no sooner were the episcopal
stipends fixed in amount, than old residences were
sold, other estates bought, new houses built thereat,
and a system of extravagance pursued, that bas
seriously damnified the episcopal property of the
church, as Riseholm, Danbary, and Stapleton testify.
All this expenditure was gone into by Mr. EVELYN
Dmitiores committee; and, though it is very true, as
stated by the Bishop of LONDON, that committee did
not recommend the fusion of the episcopal and com-
mon funds am a remedy, the committee' it neverthe-
less, did what the Bishop conveniently for got to tell
the Lards, viz., censure the expenditnre in the faloW-
ing language :
Your committee are compelled to as expression of regret
that email lisp contributions tow's& the building and re-
pairing of
*sea should have been made front this fund,
and that more reserve tree not beat made la the disposal
of it

After so strong an expression of opinion, the go-
vernment had but one course to pursue; and it was
to protect the fund from similar misapplications.
Now, as the extravagances practised in building and
repairing episcopal palaces dated only from the time
when the separation of the funds was surreptitiously
made, the most natural and obvious remedy was, of
course, to re-unite them. This ministers, by the 12th
clause of the bill before the House of Lords, proposed
to do. Bat this proposition Lord Fowls and the
bishops have defeated.
On what ground? That the church needs more
bishops; and that the continuance of the episcopal as
a separate fund is neoeseary to provide for the endow-
ment of the new sees. But where is any expression of
parliamentary will and determination to endow more
bishoprics to be found ? Not certainly in the statute
which authorised the formation of the Episcopal Fund.
Still lees in the act for establishing the bishopric
of Manchester; for all reference to the endowment of
more sees was, after grave deliberation, excluded
from that act. To say, therefore, that this fund must
be kept distinct and separate from the general fund,
in caw that new bishopncs may be established, is
to carry the proposition foe new sees by a aide wind,
after the House of Commons, at the close of the ses-
sion of 1848, refused to pass a bill containing a refer-
ence to the possibility of farther creations of that sort.
To MUM! the Episcopal Fund on such a ground,
and for such a • purpose, is au attempt to settle
incidentally and inferentially a question which has as
yet never been fairly and broadly presented to parlia-
ment. Were it, therefore, deemed advisable to add
to the number of the English sees, this is not the way
to proceed to their augmentation. But when the
very meatiest of mach an addition is hateful to a mejo-
rity of the people of England, alter ministers were
obliged, in the of a general election, to withdraw
all ethesam to nob em addition from the ptemaido of