The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-05-11 00:00:00

MILITIA BILL

The house resolved itself into committee on this bill.
Upon the third clause, which repealed the provisions of
the act of 1802, and subsequent acts relating to property
qualifications of persons to be appointed officers, with
certain exceptions, Mr. Hume moved the omission of the
latter portion of the clause, with the view of repealing all
the existing militia laws, and consolidating the whole law
in the present act, in conformity with the title of the bill,
which professed to be" a bill to consolidate and amend
the laws relating to the militia in England."—This motion
was opposed by Mr. WALPOLIC, and, after a very brisk
........ogotiwod upon o diviaion by 165 against 82.
—Mr. M. GIBSON moved other amendments of the same
clause, the effect of which was to abolish the property
qualification of deputy-lieutenants and officers in the
militia of the rank of major upwards.—Mr. WALPOLE
objected to this proposition, but consented to add a pro.
viso at the end of the clause, that the qualification should
not be restricted to real estate. This compromise was
agreed to.—On the ith clause which prescribed the num-
ber of men to be raised, Mr. CHARTERIS, meaning to
propose the omission of the compulsory clauses, suggested
that, instead of 80,000 men, 40,000 be raised to serve fire
years, each man to be drilled 56 days in the first year and
10 days in each of the four succeeding years ; 20,000 to
be called out in 1852, 10,000 in 1853, and 10,000 in 1854.
—Mr. WALPOLE resisted this alteration, which would
counteract the design of the bill, that of having a suffi-
cient body of men to meet an emergency. With respect
to the compulsory clauses, Ile added, it was his intention
to propose that the 16th clause, which authorised her
Majesty to order a ballot where men cannot be raised by
voluntary enlistment should not come into force until the
31st of December next, so that time would be afforded to
ascertain how far the experiment of voluntary enlistment
had succeeded, and the new parliament would have a lull
opportunity of stopping the ballet if it was deemed unad-
visable to have recourse to its machinery. This intima-
tion diverted the discussion in a great degree from the it.t
h
clause to the 16th, several members contending that
was so essential a change as to give a new character to a:
er
,easure, which would leave t}),• prnnosed addition to ou

nn.
defensive force to accident, notwithstanding. the plea of
urgency.—Mr. WALPOLE, on the other hand, maintained
that it was only carrying out what the government had
announced from the first, namely, that the ballot should
not he put in operation until it had been ascertained that
voluntary enlistment had failed.—The committee divided
upon the question of filling up the blank in the 7th clause
with the words "eighty thousand, which which was affirmed

by 237 against 106
and obtained leave to sit

Trade Bill was read

PROPERTY

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d, the

corporal punis

stion, whether it was advisable to do away
nent, could nor be determined at
Ise Mutiny Act had passed, whereby
.gular army were liable to corpora/
punishment, the only question was whether the militia
~l,ced upon a better footing. He thought that
the regular army would in such case feel
--Ted, and that if corporal punishment

yes de

were done away with in the militia it snould be done away
Iwith in all the forces.—Tie- committee having divided, the
proviso was rejected by 199 to 92.—The CHAIRMAN then
reported progress and obtained leave to sit again on Mea-
-1 day ; so that the 7th clause is not yet decided upon.
PROPERTY-TAX BILL,
In committee on this bill, the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER brought up a new clause, the object of which
was to provide that the assessment of last year under
Schedules A and B should remain in force, so a
assessment would be unneces.sary.—The
to, and the bill passed through comm"
were advanced a stage.

a new

clause was agreed
ttee. Other bills

1 COUNTY ELECTIONS BILL.
Sir E. BUXTON moved that the County Elections Bill
be read a first time.—Mr. COBDEN protested against the
principle of the bill, which, as he considered, authorised
corruption.—The bill was supported by Lord Galway, Mr..
Seymer, Lord R. Grosvenor, Sir J. Tyrell, and Atm.
Booker; and opposed by Mr. Roebuck, Mr. W. Brown,
and Mr. Williams.—Sir E. BUXTON said, his rer,son for
introducing this bill was that it was almost if not quite
impossible that, according to the spirit of the rules of that
house, a member could positively declare that his election
had been conducted in a perfectly pure manner.—Upon a division the motion was negatived by 77 against 61 so
the bill is lost.—Lord R. GROSVENOR obtained leave to
bring in a bill to limit the time of taking the poll in
counties to one day.—The house adjourned at half-past one o'clock until Monday.

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