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

PUBLIC BUSINESS.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.
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POST-071ICES.—By Sir R. INGLIS, from a kirk session
in Scotland; Mr. A. HASTIE, from Hilmarnock ; Lord
GALWAY, from Spalding and other places; Mr. GLAD-
STONE, from several places in Scotland; Mr. COWAN,
from the minister and Skiff/ of a kirk session ,• Mr. BAIL'
LIE, from the island of Arras; Mr. HENLEY, from •
place in Oxfordshire; Mr. COBDEN, from Basalt in
Yorkshire ; Mr. NI'GREGOR, from two places in Ireland ;
Mr. WYLD, from Bodmin ; Mr. Alderman THOMPSON,
from Westmoreland; for an entire cessation of labour in
Post• Offices on Saadays. Sir J. TYRELL, from a place
in Essex, praying the house not is pus any law for suspend-
ing all post-office business throughout the country on the
Sabbath day.
FACTOST Lanorn.—By Lud J. MANNERS, from Ha-
Wax, Todmordon, litockput, and other places ; Sir G.
GREY, from Bradford, in favour of Lord Ashley's bill—Mr.
O. W. HAMILTON, from Dablin, in favour of the relay
sYstom.
Taxis ox KwowLence.—By Mr. COBDEN, from
letterpress printers of L ads; from the Mechanics' loathe-
Lion of Thornton, Yorkshire; Mr. SWART, from Stock-
port; Mr. M. GIBSON, from Manchester ; for the repeal
of the taxis on knowledge.
OMAN PINNY POSTAGS.—By Mr. 'WILLIAMS, from
some places in Cornwall, and by Mr. VILLIERS, from
Wolverhampton, in favour of &uniform ocean penny postage.
ASSISTANT SVIOSONS IN TIM NAVY. —By Mr. G.
BBRKILLEY, from Bristol, for an alteration in the posi-
tics of these officers wean on board her Majesty's ships.
PIINISINSAT or DISTIL—By Mr. BRIGHT, from
Manchester, praying for the ix:patio. of the punishment of
du&

C"..-OVSTY RATES Bloc—B7 Yr. Y. GIBSON, from
Isneltestor, in favour of this bill.

VOTE BY BALLOT.

Mr. BRIGHT rave wallas that ha would on tomorrow
'this day) runt a patitloa from the electors of Stockport
is the subpet of rota by ballot.

PIRATE3.-HEAD MONEY.

On the motion ;;iMr. HUMS, the was ordered:
Return of all bills t!rawn for the payment of head money
for the capture or deetructioa of pirates. u directed in the
second section of the act 8 Gen. IV., c. 49, on her Majesty's
paymaster-general, eine* the let day of January, 184).
POST-OFFICE.

On the motion of Mr. FORSTER, the following was
agreed to : —Adorns for return of the minute addremied
by Mr. Rowland Rill, on the 3rd lay of February, 1849,
to the Postmeeter•General, on the Sunday duties of the
Poet-dike; of all documents and paper relative to
the adoption of the recommendations of that minute;
of the date when such recommendations were carried

Into effect ; of the number of persons employed fa
the Gen. ral Poet•ofra previously to and subsequently to
such date ; of the numoer of persons employed In tha
Geacral Post-offica on Sunday, the 10th day of Marsh,
; of the number of persons relieved of Sunday labour
in the provincial post•offices of England sod Wales, mail of
the average number of hours per head per Sunday, to whisk
such relief extends ; of copies of ell correspondence betimes
the Post office and the Treasury on the subject of Sunday
duties ; of all Post.ofa minutes and reports thereon, and of
all memorials agsiart Sunday labour in the Post-offire,
ddressed to her Majesty's government.
MARRIAGE AND REGISTRATION ACTS.

Mr. EWART said be wished to Moults of the Secre-
tary for the Home Department whether the government
intended to introduce any bill this session for mama* the
Marriage and Registration Acts passed in the sweenit
year of his late Maksty's reign, particularly with mdmenne
to the repeal of so much of the dretof these sets es regains
a eaves days' notice to be given and read at a meeting M
the board of guardians prior to the kens of a license ?
Sir 0. GREY said that a bill had been prepared on the
subject, making an alteration in the law with regard to the
notWe, tot by taking away the seven days' notice, which
the Registrar General thought to be a useful precaution
against clandestine marriage., but abolishing the neemehy
of its being read at a meeting of the board of guardian&
Whether he would introduce' the bill during the peeessi
I *onion would very smolt depend on the program of public
business.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.
Mr. LABOUCHERE, in reply to Mr. Spooner, stated
that the government had no present intention of proposing
say measure to alt. r the 'tote of the law relative to the
liabilities of railway companies is eases of accidents on
the lines.
KILRUSH UNION.

In answer to a Tunica by the Eul of Aatimmit. and
Suzan',
Sir W. SOMERVILLE was umdentood to say that the
additional papers a Menne* to the liiinah Union were to
Ile•Parsiios.
THE GORHAM CASE AND THE REV.O. A. DEN ISON.
Mr. HUME said that he held two documents in hie
bead WM► perverted to be protests against the late deciaiem
of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to the cue
of " Gorham v. The Bisbee .f Eater," signed by the Rev.
G. A. Demiemevicar of Rut Brett, and dated the 10th of
March. The trot of these protests, atter martini "that
the mainevel church alms peonage, by the commiegima
aad gememamd of ita divine foamier, the power of &Snag
matters of deetrime," says :
1, Omer Anthony Dedeon, sink, 11. A., view of Eat Brest, In
the alma dm Soerset, sad Meow of lath sad Wee, do hereby
ester wy tonne protest against the state at thelaw wWt wopewere
the Jollied Oteatelttee at the Privy Cbulefl to take cognisteee of
natters of doable, and 'giblet the nerd* of that "Mee by the
eau, Jetties' Oceenittee la seek particular ease ; and Ido hereby
pledge myself to WO all lawful meats within my reach toctu.relejt the
CeeltillUallte of such state d the I,w, and of Ow WNW and
medic() under the name.
la the woad document he says; "tech sentence is mem-