The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-23 00:00:00

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Their Lordships adjourned at a quarter to eight o'clock. I

HOUSE OF COMIVfONS.
TUESDAY, MARCH 16.—Lord C. Hamilton took the
oaths and his seat for Tyrone.

Petitions were presented by Mr. Seholefield, from Man-
against the Manchester and Salford Education
by Mr. William Brown, from the Postmasters of
..averpool. for the repeal of the post-horse duty and as-
sessed tax on carriares let to hire; and by Mr. Gibson,
from Manchester. against calling out the militia.

chester,
Bill

NIMICHANT STEAMERS IN WAR

Mr. ANDERSON gave notice that on Tuesday. March
30, he would move resolutions to the effect that in order
to provide for the public safety and to preserve peace, the
mercantile steam navy should be made available for the
national defence. •

VENTILATION OF THE HOUSE

The state of its ventilation was brought under conside.
ration by Lon! R. GROSVENOR, mho, with Mr. W. PAT-
TEN, described the sufferings endured by members from
the intolerable heat below, and the gusts of cold air in the
galleries.—LJrd JOHN MANNERS promised that Mr.
Goldsworthy Gurney should have every opportunity of
forming some plan of relief, for it was impossible that
anything could be worse, though Dr. Reid had every op-
portunity of carrying out his alterations as desired.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE

MAN-

NERS stated that the Government had determined upon
carrying out the recommendation of the commissioners

appointed to inquire into the possibility of converting the
Crystal Palace into a permanent building. It could not
be done but at enormous expense, and it therefore was to
come down. The contractors had received notice that it
must be removed

by the Ist of June.
COAL FRAUDS.

Mr. G. TuoMPSON moved for a select committee to in-
uire into certain alleged frauds in the supply of coals by

contract to the dockyards and public offices, in order, he
said, to remove the suspicions as to the integrity with
which these contracts are fulfilled.—Mr. STAFFORB op.
posed the motion, which was not confined to time or
place, and, on the behalf of all public departments, he
rotested against their being called upon to answer vague
this, which it was, indeed, impossible for any
TIT to meet.—The motion was negatived.

itatementslit

RAILWAY IN THE HIGHLANDS.
Mr. J. STUART moved a resolution affirming the expe-
diency of affording Parliamentary assistance to the inter-
course and traffic of the Western Highlands and Isles by
the construction 6f a railway from Oban, in Argyleshire,
to Glasgow.--Iv was resisted by the CHANCELLOR Of the
EXCHEQUER, and the deVate adjourned.

CRIME A

D OUTRAGE IN IRELAND,

Mr. NAPINII (the Irish Attorney-General) brought for-
ward a motion, which after some discussion was agreed to,
for a select committee to inquire into the state of those
parts in the counties of Armagh, Monaghan, and Louth,
referred to in her Majesty's Speech, the cause of crime
and outrage there, and the efficiency of the laws for sup-
pressing those offences. Mr. Napier detailed to the
house the particulars of some atrocious murders perpe-
trated, several in open day, within a comparatively short
period, in not one of which had the law reached the cri-
minals, and he threw out suggestions for rendering the
existing law more efficient in this fearful state of things,
chiefly by providing a higher class of jurors, and chang-
ing the venue away from the scene of crime.