The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-03 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

TUESDAY.

The Royal assent was given by commission to the Conso-
lidated Fund (£10,000,000) Bill, Education of Poor Children
Bill, Insurance on Lives Abatement of Income-tax Continu-
ance Bill, Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, Stamp Duties on Matri-
culations and Degrees (Oxford) Bill, Grant of Lands Bill,
Public Libraries and Museums (Ireland) Bill, Spirit of Wine
Bill, St. Helens Improvement Bill, Wigan and Preston (North
of Yarrow) Bill, Lands Improvement Company Bill, Warring-
ton Water Bill, Newton-in-Mackerfield Improvement Bill
and other private Bills.
Lord PANMURE, in reply to Lord Vivian, stated that
Colonel Egerton, Sir John Campbell, and Colonel Yea had
been recommended by Lord Raglan for the honour of the
Bath, though they had not survived to receive it.
BUILDING SOCIETIES.—In committee on the Friendly
Societies Bill Lord RIVENSWORTH.MOVed the omission of the
following proviso to the 39th clause :—" Provided also that
no exemption from stamp duty other than such as is con-
tained in section 8 of the act passed in the session of parlia-
ment holden in the 6th and 7th years of the reign of His
Majesty King William IV., chap. 32, shall extend to any
benefit building society."—The amendment was opposed by
the government, but supported by the Earl of Derby and
others, and on a division was carried by 47 to 43.
The Accidents on Railways Bill and the National Museum
(Dublin) Bill were read a second time.
Carnegie's Restitution Bill and the Weights and Measures
Bill were read a third time and passed.
AUSTRIA. AND THE WESTERN POWERS.—Lord LYNDHURST
called attention to the position of Austria, with reference to
the belligerent powers, especially as regarded the treaty of the
2nd of last December. He stated his belief, that, had a bold
course been pursued from the beginning, a far more perfect
co-operation on the part of Austria would have been secured.
While admitting the advantages that had been obtained by the
neutral position taken up by the Austrians, he contended that
timid councils had diminished the chance of such benefits
being permanent. From a sketch of the successive operations
in the principalities and elsewhere, he argued that the result
of the struggle, up to the present moment, had tended to
benefit Austria, as it had given her both moral strength
and practical advantages, while she remained free to act
with Russia, if such a step would be to her interest. Lord
Lyndhurst then adverted to the conduct of the Ministry,
comparing the statements made by the several members of
the Aberdeen Cabinet, and contending that, while professing
to secure the integrity of Turkey, and the maintenance of the
balance of power in Europe against the aggression of Russia,
they had really committed themselves to terms which, if carried
nut, would have left Russia unchecked. Ile expressed his grati-
fication that tire Vienna Conferences had been without result,
and urged the propriety of exacting from our enemy condi-
tions which would permanently deprive him of the power to
'disturb in future the tranquillity of Europe. For this purpose
he considered it absolutely necessary totally to destroy the
fortress of Sebastopol, and concluded by urging upon the
government to act with greater vigour and determination
than they had hitherto manifested.—The Earl of CLARENDOI
condemned the principle of declaring that every country
which did not act accordingly with us against Russia was
•hostile to us. A feeling of this kind had been incessantly
manifesting itself in this country. It was the interest
of 'the Western Powers to discourage these sentiments. He
proceeded to defend the conduct of Austria, pointing out
some causes which renderedler position extremely delicate in
,the present war, and declaring, from a review of the events
and of the negotiations which had taken place for the last
year, that Austria had shown a manifest tendency to-support
the Western Powers. She Thad, he added, materially. assisted,
as far as she could consistent with the maintenance of her
‘neutrality, and had deserved the patience exercised- in courting
lher friendship.—The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH was of opinion
that the leaning of Austria towards the Western 'Powers had
been prevented at the,ctitical moment by the njudged expe-
dition to the Crimea. By the removal of troops 'that might
have defended her frontier, her vindication became a danger-
ous one, and she was'compelled to adopt a cautious and tem-
porising policy. From the doubtful position Of ‘our German
alliances, he drew a warning that we should not neglect our
own sources of military strength.—The Duke of kna YLL, Lord
DENMAN, the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, and Earl GRAN-
VILLE, having added-some remarks, the subject -dropped, and
their lordships adjourned at twenty minutesTaet nine o'clock.