The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-13 00:00:00

THE StitICESAION bUTY.

Lord Monteagle called the attention of the honse to
certain returns, which had been moved for, some. time
since, in reference to the Succession Duty. At the period
the Sticepssion Duty Act was passing through Parliament
it would be recollected that it rtes Calculated that the
duty would return a very considerable sum. It appeared,
however, that it had r turned about one third of the
sum that had been estimated, The house must feel
greatly surprised when it was told that upon the order
being served up-in the parricular department for this
return, an ansvier %vas given that no separate account of
of the Succession Ditty was kept. The nAle lord said
he should take another opportunity of calling their lord-
ships' attention to the subject.
INCOME TAX BILL.

The Earl of Derby gaie notice, tpoh the second read_
in.; of th- Ijicorne Tax Bill, which would possibly take
place on Mon,lay Or TUesday, he should make a few
observations, which he deemed cspeciall# necessary, as a
dissolution of Parliament was so near at hand.

SMUGGLING IN CHINA.

The Earl of Ellenborough called the a'tention of their
lordships to the aupplettental treaty of 1847 with China,
while moving for certain returns. appeared to him
that when the government exacted such a very strict ob •
servance of the treaty from the Chinese, it behoved us to
see whether we had been as strictly correct in the per-
formance of our obligations which that treaty imposed
upon us. The obligations were imposed upon us with
a view of preventing smuggling being carried on with
China. The nob!e earl then quoted several articles
with a view of showing that we had in a great measure
violated the obligations therein contained by allowing a
contraband trade in opium and several other articles,
which had boen carried on for a great length of
time. In respect to reinforcements that were ordered
out to china, he hoped they had gone long ago. If it
Was true, as was reported, the expedition had not left
until the 10th of this Month, be was of opinion
that it would prove au utter failure, for by the time
it would arrive in India there would he no vessels
at Madras, and very few at CAlcutta, cons-quently
there would be no means of conveying the troops to any
considerable amount The demand would be little less than
20,000 tons of shipping. Even if sufficient shipping were
found at the time, they would very likely be met by the
monsoon and scattered about. The arrangements for the
preservation of the health of the troops on board ship
would require great care, and it was absolutely necessary
that proper awning for the troop ships should be provided.
The noble Earl next proceeded to condemn the sending out
of such large ships as the Shannon and the Resolution.
Such verEels, when they arrived at their destination, would
be found entirely useless ; and another thing that should
also be considered in this country before these great ships
left was the precautions that had been taken to guard
against the action of fire ships which might be sent against
them.

After some remarks from Eirl Grey,
The Earl of Clarendon said there would be no objection
to the production of the papers. 'With regard to the con-
traband trade in China he said it was the duty of the
Chinese to protect their own trade.
The motion was that agreel to.
The Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill
was read a second time.
The Commons Enclosure Bill was read a third time and
pass, d.
The House adjourned at half past six o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY.
The Speaker took the Chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

the following private bills were read a third time and
passed—Rxeer and Exmouth Railway ; Pciee's Patent
Candle Company; and the Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egre.
wont Railway.

The Portland Harbour Bi.l was read a second time, and
ordered to b> committed.

Mr. Langworthy moved that, in the case of the Salford
Borough (Na. 1) Bill, and the Salford Borough (No. 2)Bill,
the eximicers of petitions for pivate bills have leave to sit
and proceed to-morrow.—Agreed to.
Mr. Fitzroy waved the standing orders, providing for
the suspension of private bills in the prcs,nt session, and
for resuminc, prcceedings thereupon in the next session.
The o'ject of the motion was to put private hills in the
same position in the new Parliament as they were in the
p-est nt Parliament, as to their progress through the house.
Agreed to.