The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-23 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF COMNIONS.—TUESDAY, Nov. 16.
Lord STANLEY, in answer to Mr. Hume, with regard
to the imprisonment of Mr. Newton at Verona, stated
that the gentleman in question had not in the first in-
stance pursued the proper means of obtaining redress ; but
that on the representation of his case through the Foreign-
office, the Austrian authorities had explained the oc-
currence as a mistake of the officials, and expressed their
regret

REFORM IN THE CUSTOMS

In answer to a question whether it wl
the government to bring in a bill to car

ention of

out the recom-

mendation of the committee appointed last session to in-

quire into the constitution and management of the board
of customs, the CHANCELLOR of the ExcitEctuEß said
he had transmitted the report of the committee to the

port to him u

a very elaborate one, only last month. H

considered it ; and it was the intention of government to
place on the table a treasury minute indicating all the
changes which they thought ought to take place in the
present administration of the customs, and some of the
changes would require legislative interposition.

THE DUK

r•UNBRAL

Sir C. WOOD brought up the report of the select com-
mittee appointed to inquire into the necessary steps to be
taken by the house for attending the funeral of the late

Duke of Wellington

THE SIENIILE-BRIDGE AFFAIR

On a motion

FITZG

ALD for a report a
ler's innuest at. Sic

mile-bridge, which he prefaced with
condemnatory of the proceedings of the government in
this affair, Mr. NAPIER said, there was no possible ob-
jection to the production of the evidence at the•proper

:ions strongly

time ; but, as the subject was
the Court of Queen's Bauch in
convenient to defer the motion
Court had been pronounced

it woul

sion, which was done at the requisition of the ma-
The motion was withdrawn.

gistrates of the county

COUNTY ELECTIONS.
On the motion of Lord R. GROSVENOR, leave sv
given to bring in a bill for restricting the polling at coun
elections to one day.

THE STEAMER MELBOURNE

On the motion of Mr. DIVETT, an order was made for
copies of all correspondence between the admiralt
Mr. Scott Russell, on the subject of, and stateme
the ultimate terms and conditions of the sale effected to

sold to the Royal Australian Steam-ship Company under
the new name of Melbourne ; and report of the surveyor
of the admiralty on the state of this ship ; also, any spe-
cial one which may have been made immediately previous
to her departure with Her Majesty's mails for the Austra-
lian colonies
Upon the motion of Mr. HERRIEs the following were

appOinted the Select Committee on Indian Territoiies :
Mr. Herries, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord John
Russell, Mr. Baring, Sir Charles Wood, Mr. Baillie, Mr.
Gladstone, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Labouchere, Sir James
Graham, Mr. Alderman Thompson. Sir William Moles-

worth, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Viscount
Cobden, Mr. Hardinge, Mr. Milner G
files, Sir James Hogg. Mr. Hume, M

Jocelyn, Al
lir. Mai
Mr. Ve

Bankes

non Smith, Mr. Robert Hild
Mr. Spooner, Mr. Keogh, Mr
Mr. Robert Clive, Mr. Edwnrd Ellie(

1, Mr. James W

eaulev, Lord Stanley
d Viscount Pal

merston

THE DUKE'S FUNERAL

On the order of the day for going into committee of
supply, Lord D. STUART complained that no estimate of
the expense attending the funeral of the late Duke of
Wellington had been laid before the house, and that all
the cost of the pageant should have been incurred by the
prerogative ; and Mr. S. CARTER condemned the expen-
diture of any money whatever upon a pageantry which
could benefit neither the dead nor the living.

THE FINE ARTS

The house went into committee, Mr. Wilson Patten
took the chair, and a supply was voted to Her Majesty
with reference to the paragraph in the speech on the ad-
vancement of the fine arts and practical science.

WEDI

ESD AY, NOVEMBER 17

MORTALITY IN AFRICA

In answer to a question as to the truth of a newspaper
report stating that all the officers on board the ship Dover
on the African station had been carried of by disease, Mr.
STAFFORD said that the advises which had been received
from the African station ,ould lead to the belief that the
rate of mortality was below the average.

MR. VILLIERS

MOTION

The following was announced as the form of Mr. Vil-
liers' motion for this day (Tuesday) :
" That it is the opinion of this house that the improved
condition of the country, and particularly of the indus-
trious classes, is mainly the result of recent commercial
legislation, and especially of the act of 1846, which esta-
blished the free admission of foreign corn ; and that that
act was a wise, just, and beneficent measure. _

. _
" That it is the opinion of this house that the main •
tenance and further extension of the policy of free trade,
as opposed to that of protection, will best enable the pro-
perty and industry of the nation to hear the burdens to
which they are exposed, and will most contribute to the
general prosperity, welfare, and contentment of the people.

" That this huuse will be ready to take into its consi-
deration any measures consistent with the principles of
this resolution which may be laid before it by Her Ma-

jesty's ministers

TIIE DUKE'S FUNERAL.
Same discussion took place as to the order to be observed
at the funeral of the late Duke of Wellington, and the
house shortly afterwards adjourned till Friday.

FRIDAY,

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ILLIERS'S :
CHANCELI

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to improve the condition and increase the comforts of the
working classes; and that, unrestricted competition having
been adopted, after due deliberation, as the principle of
our commercial system, this House is of opinion that it is
the duty of the Government unreservedly to adhere to
that policy—(laughter from the Opposition)—in those
measures of financial and administrative reform which,
under the circumstances of the country, they may deem it
their duty to introduce."