The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-05-04 00:00:00

11
and the substitutio

WEDNESDAY, APRIL
A number of petitions were presented on various nouns
subjects. COUNTY ELECTIONS BILL.
A division was taken on this bill, when it was found upon a I
that. there were not sufficient members present to form a disappro

e system of exe

id estimated the amount of t
"
.louse. Some other members having entered,
CHRISTOPHER. said that, as the feeling of the house ap-
and e x
peared to be against it, lie should withdraw the bill. l
UNIVERSITIES OF SCOTLAND BILL. la
On the order for the second reading of this bill, Mr, ending the sth of April !act-
SCOTT opposed the measure (which was intended to abo- a
lish tests), as subversive of the character of the Scottish
£310,000, notwithst uing a I arge r
Universities, as well as injurious to the Church, and op-The customs, est'
posed to the provisions of the Treaty of Union. H e
moved that the second reading be deferred for six months. £20,6;
—Mr. MONCREIFF supported the bill, and Sir ROBERT turned out
INGLIS opposed it.—After a few words in support of the
bill, from Mr. BETHELL, Mr. WALPOLE said the Govern- had produced £6,346,001
ment felt it to be their duty to oppose the bill, because,
first, it was a direct violation of a fundamental article of a duties, only £3,691,000 had been recir.iv
national compact at the Union of the two countries,
which ought not to be broken in upon without the and Income tax, estimated at £5,380,t
£5,283,000 ; the Post-office, instead of
coclec e-
hp
ar odd uyci
yielded
lddfdl,o£sl6o,
000,000;0 t; h
tehleVomo
ids sc,e emullsatni
eoaui es
raetc
pl 6t
so,oaonOci
adopted,stronge s nweocuelsds i tuyn; d secondly,ermino te becausefoun d a itstio npsrionfciapllle
e,
siastical institutions throughout, the realm for the educe-
and instruction of youth.—Mr. Anstey, Mr. Ewart,
Mr. Hume, Lord John Russell, and Mr. Oswald sup-
old stores, which had been estimated at £712,000, had
ported the bill ; and Sir A. Campbell, Sir G. Clerk, and produced £682,000. The esthteienmdraiuttreurdreenewtsaypselsdoi,t:2;o.
expenditure
Mr. C. Bruce opposed it; and on a division the motion
TbeheeneXstsiom,2a-ite7d,Oeoxop;
etnhdeiatuctrueafloerxp
was negatived by 172 against 157. The bill is therefore lost.
COLONIAL BISHOPS BILL.
On the order for the second reading of the Colonial April, 1853, was £51,163,979, namely :
Bishops Bill, Mr. GLADSTONE defined the object of the Debt and charge:onConsolidated Fund,
bill, which was, that in the colonies included in the sche- Army ...
dule and others declared by her Majesty in Council,
what was called the Church of England in the colonies Navy (including packet service).
should he put, in regard to its own ecclesiastical affairs, Ordnance
on a footing of equality with all unprivileged and unesta- Civil Estimates
blished denominations of religion, subject to such restraints
War ...
as Parliament thought fit. The bill in no respect trenched Caffre...
upon the rights of colonial authorities; it meddled not Militia.....
with religious opinions; it had no relations, notwithstand-
ing its title, to colonial bishops apart from the members
of their communions ; and its principle was to leave
the colonies, subject to any restraint upon imperial He now came to the sources of sun grounds, to the unrestricted management of their own respective amounts as follows :
colonial affairs, ecclesiastical or civil, without infringing Customs
the religious liberty of members of any other commueion.
Excise
After noticing the objections urged against a similar bill
..
•
introduced in a former session, he applied himself to shew Stamps,
the reality of a demand for legislation upon this subject. Taxes
There were no ecclesiastical courts in tile colonies, and it
would be absurd to introduce them. The colonial bishops Property-tax (half a year:
had powers, but they were of a bad kind, and his object Post-office . .
was to enable parties in the colonies to frame regulations Woods .
for themselves, instead of remaining, in this respect, in a Miscellaneous...•
state of anarchy, tempered only by that good sense which
regulated the great hulk of these communities. He read Old Stores
various declarations from bishops, clergy, and laity, in
seven or eight colonial dioceses, in favour of mixed svnodi- '
Total income
... £48,983,500
cal conventions for the administration of Church affairs • s would leave a deficiency of X2,180,-179 ; but, without
and, assuming that a want existed, he examined the two This
opinions which prevailed as to the mode in which the the moiety of the Property-tax the deficiency in 1854
want should be supplied. The proposal that it should be would amount to £4,820,000. If that tax had been con-
done by a Parliamentary constitution for the Church in
the colonies he repudiated ; the other plan was that which timed :for two years instead of one, its produce in the
he had embodied in this bill.—On the motion of Sir J. year ending the sth of April, 1853, might be estimated at
PAKINGTON, the debate was adjourned until the 19th of £5,187,000, which would make the whole estimated in-
May.—The house adjourned at 6 o'clock. came of the year 1852-53 £51,625,000, and as the esti..
mated expenditure was £51,163,979, there would be then
a surplus of income over expenditure of £161,021. It
appeared to her Majesty's ministers that the course which.
under the circumstances, they should recommend—one
which no prudent man, he thought, could hesitate its
adopting—was the continuance of the Property and
Income-tax for a limited period. They would not shrink
from the task of surveying the whole system of our
finance, with the hope of inducing the house to come to
some clear and decided opinion as to the principles on
which the public revenue should be raised. It would
have been, he observed in conclusion, more agreeable to
him to relieve the industry of the country, and to attempt
a fair adjustment of taxation upon right principles ; but
his duty was only to place fairly before the house the con-
dition of the public finances, and to offer the advice which
her Majesty's Government had felt it their duty to tender.
He accordingly moved a resolution to the effect that the
Property and Income-tax be continued for one year.—
Sir C. WooD concurred not only in the course pursued by
Mr. Disraeli, but in most of his observations. lie accepted
his statement as affording the strongest testimony to the
success of our commercial and fiscal policy for the last ten
years.—Mr. Hume drew the same conclusion, and hoped
that Mr. Disraeli reflected with some remorse upon the
attacks he had made upon the late Sir Robert Peel_fpr
commercial policy.—Mr. T. BARING observed that the
taking off of taxes was a popular course, but if there was
one duty more than another incumbent upon a Govern-
ment; it was, not to endanger the future for the sake of
r present popularity. He thought Mr. Disraeli had taken
too favourable a view of the results of our cornmereia:
policy during the last ten years ; he believed that, taking
the results of our imports, there would appear to have-
been a serious loss.—Mr. GLADSTONE was ready to let the
result of our financial policy during the last ten years rest
upon the speech of Mr. Disraeli. Since 1842£11,000,000
of taxes had been remitted, and, excluding the window.. tax, which was not reproductive, the revenue had nearly
recovered the loss. He concurred in the course adopted
by Mr. Disraeli, who, he said, deserved credit for that wise
and prudent course, and he was sure the house would rally
round him.—Mr. WAKLEY thought that the Chancellor
of the Exchequer had acted inconsistently with his past
opinions in leaving things as they were, and that he was
mistaken in supposing the public to be opposed to a real
property tax.—Mr. BRIGHT participated very largely in
the general satisfaction inspired by the speech of Mr.
Disraeli, who had acted, he said, consistently and honestly
in determining to prolong the Property-tax until the
house had before it the report of the committee.—The
discussion continued for some time, extending to all the
topics adverted to in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
speech, which received a tribute of praise from every
speaker.—The resolution was agreed to.—The other busi-
ness having been disposed of, the house adjourned at a
quarter to one o'clock until Monday.

.1. be late Chance!'

he year

ctual Income was X 52,468,317, exC

taxes.
ielded

000; the excise, es

£14,513,000 ; the stamp.

000, had
,310,000„

elated to

give £4,348,000, owing to the repo

of the window

Property

I realised
)00, had

ending in

6,491,893

6,493,000

2,437,000

4,182,086

660,000

350,000

C 51,163,979

and he took their

14,604,000

G, 339,000

3,090,000

2,641,300
938,000
235,000

400,000

THURSDAY, APRIL 29.
A large number of petitions were presented, chiefly
upon the subject of the Crystal Palace.

THE CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT.
The Marquis of BLANDFORD moved for leave to bring
in a bill for the further regulation of the duties of eccle-
siastical personages, and the better management distribu-
tion of episcopal and capitular revenues. The noble lord
explained that his object was to enable the Established
Church to extend its ramifications amongst the masses of
our population, and to provide a practical remedy for the
abuses known to exist in the Establishment, arising from
the want of a sufficiently active legislation in matters of
this nature. The modifications be proposed related to
the constitution and duties of chapters, which would leave
a disposable revenue of nearly £60,000 a-year. He pro-
posed to erect two new dioceses, Westminster and Bris-
tol, and to give a permissive power to divide existing dio-
ceses. He explained the manner in which he proposed to
effect these divisions, and specified the respective incomes
which it was intended by the bill to assign to the future
occupants of the old as well as of the new sees, the result
of which would be that a surplus of £27,000 a-year would
be applicable to the general purposes and wants of the
Church. In the last place, he proposed that the capitu-
lar property, and the episcopal property under certain li-
mitations and conditions, not the fee, but the manage-
ment, should be transferred to and vested in the Eccle-
siastical Commissioners.—Lord R. GROSVENOR seconded
the motion, and Mr. WALPOLE said that there was so
much in the arguments of Lord Blandford that the house
should lwe.a9.2pportuilvAt.sB&t,hiu,tnPindaltre-,
which was supported by Sir B. Hall, Mr. Hume, Mr.
Cowper, Mr. Horsman, and Mr. S. Herbert.—After some
observations by Sir H. Verney and Mr. Aglionby, and
from the Marquis of Blandford in reply, leave was given
to bring in the bill.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
Mr. HEYwoon moved for a select committee to consi-
der the preservation of the Crystal Palace, or the central
portion thereof, for the purposes of public instruction and
recreation.—Mr. HIJME seconded the motion, and urged
the advantages which had resulted from opening the'Bri-
tish Museum, the National Gallery, and other places.—
After a few remarks from Col. SIETHORP, Lord JOHN
MANNERS explained the reason why Government were
determined to adhere to the original contract to remove
the building after it had fulfilled its object. He read ex-
tracts from scientific parties to spew that it was not fitted
to be a permanent structure, and urged that attractions
for the people should not be concentrated, but diffused.
Government would cheerfully accede to its removal to
Battersea Park.—After a debate, in which Mr. D'Eyn-
court, Mr. G. Cavendish, Mr. M'Gregor, and Lord Pal-
merston took part, in favour of the motion, and Mr. La-
bouchere and Lord Seymour against, Mr. WAKLEY urged
that the motion was only one for inquiry.—Mr. Geach,
Mr. J. Evans, Mr. Alcock, and Sir R. Peel spoke in fa-
vour of the motion, amid symptoms of impatience.—Upon
a division, the motion was negatived by 221 against 103.
Some other business was then disposed of, and the house
adjourned at 1 o'clock.

FRIDAY, APRIL 30.
RECEPTION OF GENERAL ROSAS.
In reply to some inquiries made by Mr. ROEBUCK, the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that a treasury
order had been sent to Plymouth, as a matter of form,
directing that General Roses, the late ruler of the Argen-
tine Confederation, should be treated by the customs
officers with the courtesy due to a person who had filled
so exalted a station ; but that the authorities at Plymouth
had not acted under any express orders from the govern-
ment.

SAD FATE OF A MISSIONARY PARTY.

Rear Admiral Moresby has forwarded to the secretary
of the Admiralty from Valparaiso an official report of the
death by starvation of Commander A. Gardner and the
whole of the party sent out by the Patagonian Missionary
Society in September, 1850, to Picton Island, the southern
extremity of America. The report mainly consists of a
despatch from Captain Moorshead, of H.M. ship Dido, ad.
dressed to Admiral Moresby. It appears that in compli.
ance with instructions from the Admiralty and information
which he had received from other sources, Capt. Moors-
head proceeded with a supply of stores in search of the
unhappy party, whom he traced from Picton Island by
written directions left by them upon the rocks, to Spaniard
Harbour. Here the reconnoitering party he sent on shore
found on 21st January the dead bodies of Captain Gardner
and Mr. Maidment lying unburied hard by one of the
boats which was drawn up on the beach. That of Mr.
Maidment was found in a cavern where they appeared to
hsve kept their stores, and occasionally slept. At the
head of the harbour a wreck of the boat and two other
bodies were subsequently discovered, which were supposed
to be those of Mr. Williams, the surgeon, and a Cornish
fisherman, the papers which were found clearly showing
the deaths and burial of all the rest of the party. From
Captain Gardner's papers Capt Moorshead gives the fol-
lowing among other extracts :—" Maidment was so
exhausted yesterday that ho did not rise from his bed till
noon," " and I have not seen him since." Again, on
September 4, alluding to Mr. Maidment, he writes :
" It was a merciful providence he left the boat, as I could
not have removed the body." Captain Gardner's body
was lying beside the boat, which apparently he had left,
and being too weak to climb into it again, had died by the
side of it. They were directed to the cavern by a hand
painted on the rocks, with Psalm 62, v. 6-8, uncle! it.
The papers give an interesting account of the wanderings
and many of the sufferings which beset the party up to the
time of their unhappy end. These it appears were mainly
caused in the first instance by the hostilty of the natives,
who, when the party had effected a landing at one point,
compelled them to embark and seek for safety at another.
The memoranda or journals are singularly touching, show-
- they do the gradual diminntion of their means of
subsistence, the sw.-

essive d

and the Christian fortitude and pat

o ramous persons,

calamities of nll were borne „ .

ce with which the

e been

these aza

, while
Their

unced t

ant of water.

The re
1

ns of

arduer a

'ere coi-

re. Capt.
read by

rock near t

head states he could pay to

SHIPWRECKS
voccnlß belon

of which 600 were sailing vessels of 11C
11 were steam-vessels of 1,306 tonnage

Loors-
ad his_.

,Uawka

ast year,

v txecked

Vie, and