The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-14 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY.

On the motion for the third reading of the Burials Bill,
Lord EBRINGTON, having called the attention of the house
to the inconvenience caused by the diversity of the arrange-
ments required by different Bishops as the condition of con-
secrating burial-grounds, moved the addition of a clause pro-
viding that it should not be necessary for the burial board of any
parish to do more than prove that a requisite line of demarcation
had been made between the parts intended for the interment
of members of the Church and others, and that no proceedings
should be instituted against any minister of the Church on
account of his having officiated at the interment in such
ground after it had been approved by the Secretary of State,
and before its consecration.—This led to some discussion, and
ultimately the clause was rejected by 29 to 26, and the bill
with some verbal alterations passed.
The adjourned debate upon the additional clauses and the
other amendments proposed upon the third reading of the
Criminal Justice Bill was then resumed, and the bill ulti-
mately passed.—The Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Act Con-
tinuance Bill passed through committee.
The Lords' amendments to the Turnpike Trusts Arrange-
ment Bill, the Lunatic Asylums and Regulations Acts
Amendment Bill, the Chinese Passengers' Ships Bill, and the
Sale of Spirits (Ireland) Bill, were agreed to.
The house went into committee on the Leases and Sales of
Settled Estates Bill, when clause 20 led to some discussion, it
being opposed by several members.—The SOLICITOR-GENERAL
said that, as to divide the committee in its present state (there
not being then forty members present) would only lead to an
adjournment, by which the other business on the paper would
be thrown over, it would be better to report progress.—The
motion to report progress was agreed to.
On the motion for going into committee on the Dispatch of
Business, Court of Chancery Bill, Mr. HADFIELD moved that
it be committed that day three months. The house divided,
when the numbers were—For the motion, 0 ; against it, 35—
majority, 35. [Considerable 'amusement was created by the
result of the division, Mr. Hadfield and a gentleman, who
acted with him as teller, being the only supporters of the mo-
tion, and they of course were not counted.l The house then
went into committee on the bill pro forma, and immediately
resumed.

The order for the second reading of the Accidents on Rail-
ways Bill was discharged.
The house adjourned at a quarter before six o'clock.

THURSDAY.

The Speaker took the chair at n00n...
New writs were ordered for Kidderminster, in the,place of
Robert Lowe, Esq., who had accepted the office of Vice-presi-
dent of the Board of Trade ; for Kilmarnock burghs, in the
place of the Hon. E. P. Bouverie, who had accepted the office
of President of the Poor Law Board, in the room of Mr.
Baines, resigned, and for Hertford, in the place of the Hon.
W. F. Cowper, who had accepted the office of President of the
General Board of Health.

The Charitable Trusts Bill, the Union of Contiguous
Benefices Bill, the Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Act Con-
tinuance Bill, and the School Grants Security for Applica-
tion Bill were read a third time and passed.
LEASES AND SALES OF SETTLED ESTATES BILL.—The
house went into committee on this bill Clauses Ito 19 were
agreed to. Clause 20, the object of which is to prevent Sir
Thomas Wilson availing himself of the bill, led to a long dis-
cussion, and eventually the bill was withdrawn.
The house went into committee on the Despatch of Busi-
ness, Court of Chancey Bill, and its provisions were dis-
cussed until four o'clock, when the house adjourned to six
o'clock.

NEWSPAPERS POR THE COLONIES.-Mr. TRORNELY asked
the Secretary of the Treasury whether any steps had been
taken to remedy the inconvenience recently sustained with
regard to newspapers posted for the colonies and for foreign
countries.—Mr. WILSON said that the Postmaster-General had
had under his consideration the numerous complaints which
had reached him on the subject, and that he had proposed cer-
tain modifications which it was intended to carry out by a
letter from the Treasury, with a view of remedying those
complaints. By the act of the present session it was neces-
sary that every newspaper sent abroad or to the colonies
shbuld have an impressed stamp and a postage label besides.
The effect of that was to make an apparent charge of two-
pence upon all newspapers going to the colonies. The Post-
master,General had proposed—and his suggestion had been
acceded to by the Treasury—that newspapers going abroad
should not require the impressed stamp at all, but that a
single adhesive stamp should suffice, so that only a penny
would in future be charged upon newspapers to the colonies.
The impressed stamp, therefore, would be only applicable
hereafter to newspapers, circulated at home, which it would
entitle to transmission and retransmission through the post.
It must be understood that all newspapers going abroad or
to the colonies would requi,s‘ the Queens head affixed,