The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-02 00:00:00

EDUCATION.

Lord J. RUSSELL wished to ask the right. hon. bart. the
member for Tamworth, whether he intended to take the sense
of the house in bringing up the report of the education
grant? (Hear, hear.)
Sir R. PEEL said, he considered the subject was completely
exhausted, and he had, therefore, no wish to renew the
debate, particularly as the question was identically the same
as all the members of the house except 24 had expressed
their opinion upon. (Hear, hear.) He therefore did not
intend to take the sense of the house on bringing up the
report.

a committee of the whoreYouse on the sale of he beer bill
being read, petitions for and against the bill were presented.
On the question that the Speaker now leave the chair
being put, Mr. HUMS ob;ected to the house proceeding fur-
ther with this bill, and moved that the house resolve itself
into a committee upon this bill on this day six months. After
a short discussion, Mr. Hume withdrew his amendment.
The house then went into committee on the bill.
Lord SANDON moved the insertion of the following clause:
" That, from and after the commencement of the act, it
shall be lawful for the commissioners of excise or other per-
sons duly authorised, to grant a license for the sale of beer,
ale, porter, cider, and perry, under the authority of the said
recited act), to any person applying for the same; but that
such license shall not authorise the sale of beer, &c. to be
drunk or consumed in the house of the person specified in
the license."

A desultory conversation followed; and Lord SANDON
then, as was understood, agreed to withdraw his amendment
for the present.
Mr. PAKINGTON was understood to move, as an amend-
ment on the first clause, that no licenses should be granted
in particular districts to persons holding houses, unless they
were rateable to the relief of the poor at the annual value of
£lO.

Mr. MILLS thought it would rid the committee of the
difficulty that would arise, as the amendment then stood, by
merely inserting the words " shall only obtain such license
for the non-consumption of beer, &c., on the premises."
The house divided, the numbers were—
For the clause
For the amendment
Majority
The clause was therefore struck out.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he was in
the hands of the committee, but at present he should
propose to negative this and the remaining clauses, to
bring up his own clauses, and that the chairman then report
progress. The first and all the remaining clauses were then
negatived.
Lord SANDON then moved the clause of which he had
given notice, the object of which was to restore the law
relating to the sale of beer to its old condition, by prohibiting
the consumption of beer on the premises. lie proposed to
continue the right to sell beer to be consumed on the pre-
mises to those now licensed who had not misbehaved them-
seltes, or come under the notice of the police, for their own
lives and those of their wives; but the clause provided that,
in 'future no licenses should be granted for that purpose.
The noble lord then moved a clause to this effect, on which
the committee divided :
Ayes. ..
Noes
Majority —6l
The house then resumed, the Chairman reported progress,
and asked leave to sit arain.
The Electors Removal bill then came before the house.
Mr. BAGGE moved that it be read a third time that day
three months. The amendment was ultimately lost, the
numbers on a division being—
For the third reading 137
For the amendment
Majority in favour of the bi 11....
The Register of Births bill was recommitted, reported with
amendments, and ordered to be read a third time on Satur-
day.—The Exchequer of Pleas bill went through a committee,
and was ordered to be read a third time on Friday.--The
Ficticious Vote (Scotland) bill ; and the Registration of
Electors (Scotland) bill, were withdrawn till next session.—
The Sugar Duties bill was reported, and ordered to be read
a third time on Friday.
The house adjourned at half-past one o'clock.

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY.
The proposed amendments in the Bills of Exchange bill
were moved and adopted.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, in answer to the Marquis of
Salishnry, said that he should on Thursday week move the
second reading of the Prisons bill.
The Bishop of LONDON presented petitions, praying the
adoption of a regulation requiring public houses to be closed
on Sundays.
Lord BROUGHAM said that he doubted not that publicans
generally would approve of some 'such regulation ; and he
would direct his attention to the framing of a clause for the
purpose. He then deferred his Education bill till Tuesday
week, to make way for the consideration of the Jamaica bill.
The Marquis of SA unto HY inquired what Lord Brougham
intended to do with his beer bill. •
Lord BROUGHAM said that he should pass as much of it as
he could. He knew nothing about the Beer bill in the other
house ; indeed their lordships had only to do their duty with
the measures before them.
On the motion of the Marquis of Normanby, counsel
were called in on the Jamaica bill.
Mr. Burge was then heard at great length, as agent for the
island of Jamaica, against the bill.
The second reading was fixed by the Marquis of NOR-
MANDY for Monday, and the committee on it for Tuesday.—
Adjourned.

HUSE OF MONS.—FRIDAY.
Sir W. JAMES withdrewCOM the Hull Docks bill, and then
moved to introduce a new bill in its stead, but that motion
was negatived on a division.
In consequence of a conversation, originated by Lord
STANLEY, the several committees on the Small Debts bill,
now before the house, were postponed till Monday week, to
afford the committee engaged in preparing some general
measure on the subject, time to make their report.
Mr. HUME moved for various returns regarding the num-
ber of persons now confined for debt in London, Middlesex,
Surrey, and throughout the country, with the view of ascer-
taining the working of the Imprisonment for Debt act. They
were ordered.
Lord J. RUSSELL, on the subject of the Canada bills, said
that it was not the intention of the government to proceed
with them, except on the maturest consideration, after af-
fording the amplest opportunity for inquiry; it was, there-
fore, intended to send the bill for the union of the Canadas,
after its second reading, to those provinces, that it might be
fully known and discussed.
Mr. HUMS inquitedwhen it was intended to bring forward
the question connected with the I3ank of Ireland.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER answered that he
was desirous of submitting his statement on the subject, and
that he would do so as early as possible.
Mr. O'CoNNELL observed that any bill on the subject,
brought forward at so late a period of the session, would give

anything but satisfaction in Ireland. It would, therefore, be
much better to defer it till next session.
Lord INGESTRIE inquired whether information had been
received at the Admiralty of another outrage upon the British
flag in the Mexican seas.
Sir T. TROURBRIDGE said on so important a subject he
should not like to trust to memory, no notice having been
given of the intention to put such a question, he had not
looked particularly at the documents.
Lord INGESTRIE gave notice that he should repeat his
question on Monday.
Mr. HAWES inquired when the subject regarding the col-
lection of poor rates would be brought forward.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that he would give ample notice of
the day.
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The Election Petitions Trials Bill was considered in com-
mittee at great length.
The house then went into committee on Public Works
(Ireland,) and a grant of £50,000 was agreed to.
On motion that the Sugar Duties Bill be read a third time,
Mr. EWART moved an amendment to the effect that sugar
which was the produce of free labour should be admitted at
the same rate of duty as that produced in the West India
colonies.

After some discussion, in which the chancellor of the ex-
chequer, Mr. Clay, Mr. P. Thomson, Mr. Hume, Mr. H.
Hind, Mr. Thornley, and Mr. M. Philips took part, the mo-
tion was withdrawn and the bill read a third time and passed.
The Custody of Infants Bill was also read a third time and
passed.—Adjourned.