The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-18 00:00:00

NATIONAL EDUCATION.

Lord STAZILZY gave notice, that on the motion for this
house going into committee of supply, he should move that
an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying her
Majesty to be graciously pleased to rescind the order in
council of the 25th of April last, authorising the formation
of a board for the superintendence of national education.
Mr. G. W. WOOD brought up the report of the committee
on public petitions.

BANK OF IRELAND.

Sir W. SOMERVILLE wished to know whether it was the
intention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to introduce
any measure during the present session, for the regulation of
the system of banking in Ireland.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was his in-
tention to bring in a bill on the subject adverted to by the
hon. member, and he was now only waiting for an opportu-
nity of doing so.
.Mr. O'CONNaLL wished to know whether the object of
the bill would be to continue the present system of banking
till 1842.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that was not
the object of the bill.

JAMAICA BILL.

Sir R. PEEL said it might be convenient to all parties to
state, that the sense of the house would be taken on the third
reading of the Jamaica bill, in so far as the clause relating to
permanent legislation went.
Lord JORN RUSSELL : The motion would be to omit the
whole of the first clause.
Sir ROBERT PEEL : Yes.
Mr. Bsaw.u. then brought up the report of the committee
on the bill, which was ordered to be engrossed, and read a
third time on Friday.

CANADA.

The order of the day was then read for resuming the ad-
journed debate on the resolutions relating to Canada.
The SPEAKER having read the resolutions,
Lord J. RUSSELL said hewould now ask leave to withdraw
those resolutions, with the view of moving for leave to bring
in a bill.
Lord STANLEY said, that the objections which he had
urged being confined to the mode in which it had been pro-
posed to approach the question of an union between the two
provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and being desirous
of expressing no opinion as to the expediency and propriety
of effecting such an union until they could see the details of
the measure by which the government proposed to carry this,
principle into operation, the noble lord also having with-
drawn what he (Ld. Stanley) conceived to be the most unwise
and improper resolution, the purpose which he had in
view was altogether answered. (Hear, hear, hear.) Ile
was satisfied that it was desirable for the satisfaction of
all parties in Upper and Lower Canada, that the views of the
government should be made known as early and as distinctly
as possible; and he only regretted, and regretted extremely,
that the government had felt it impossible to introduce at
present a permanent measure of legislation. As, however,
it was the intention of the noble lord to introduce a measure
prepared by the government, and to state the details by
which they proposed to carry out their own policy, he felt
that it was important that this should not he made a field for
party conflict—(hear, hear)—and he was sure, that, what-
ever might be their views on what had passed, no partial dis-
cussion should take place, and least of all, that no topics of
an irritating nature should be touched upon. He should
now only say, that he should cautiously abstain from ex-
pressing any opinion on the subject until the house was in a
condition to decide upon the merits of the measure about to
be proposed by her majesty's government. The resolutions
were then withdrawn.
Lord J. Rustiest said, that he would now move for leave
to bring in two bills upon this subject. The noble lord
would state generally, that, while it was the opinion of the
government that it would be most advantageous to the people
of Canada that these two provinces should be united, they
thought it would expose that union to great risk, and possi-
bly to failure in a few years, if they did not take every pos-
sible means to provide for legislation in Upper and Lower
Canada, so that there should be no remaining topic of irrita-
tion. It was with this view that he proposed that the union
should take effect, and that certain powers should be intrusted
to the government and the governor of Lower Canada, in
order to carry into effect some important changes. He had
stated that there had been obstacles in the way of legislating
for Lower Canada. Those obstacles it was proposed to re-
move ; and it was with this object that he intended to intro-
duce a bill to make temporary provision for the government
of Lower Canada. This bill would be one to amend the act
of the last session of parliament, entitled, " An act to make
temporary provision for the government of Lower Canada."
He should propose to repeal the clause in the act commonly
known as Sir W. Follett's clause. There was likewise great
inconvenience felt in consequence of the want of power to
impose and continue local rates necessary to defray the ex-
penses of watching and lighting, and the repairs of roads,
and for other local matters. He should likewise propose,
that this bill should give a power to renew laws which had
now expired. By the bill as it now stood, the power of the
governor and special council would expire on the Ist day of
ovember' in 1840; and he proposed to continue the power
till March, 1842. He did not say that it was absolutely
necessary to fix upon that period, and it was probable that
before that time the measure of the government would be
matured ; but he thought that it was, at all events, advisable
not to legislate again on the subject. Of course, if the go-
vernment found that it was the general opinion of the pro-
vince that the assembly could be formed if parliament could
prepare the necessary measures, the union would take effect
earlier period. With regard to the other bill, which
union of the two provinces of Upper and
- would not attempt to pass it into a law
session. The bill would provide, that
strict formed at Montreal, at which place
aid be carried on, and at which the as-
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