The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-05 00:00:00

*mptrial VarTiamtnt.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoNDAY.
The royal assent was given, by commission, to forty pub-
lic and private bills—namely, two public—the Bishops' Re-
sidences and the Windsor Castle Stables Bill—and 38 krivate
bills.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY moved for various pa-
pers, returns, treasury minutes, &c., already submitted to
the House of Commons, on the subject of national education,
The most rev. prelate intimated, moreover, that on Friday
(this day,) he should submit a motion thereon.
Lord BROUGHAM observed that, as his Education Bill
differed from the government plans, he should defer its
second reading from Friday until Monday, in order that it
might be kept distinct from those plans, and from the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury's motion.
The Marquis of NoRMANBY moved the second reading of
the Jamaica Enactments Bill.
The Earl-of HAn.woon opposed the motion, and moved,
as an amendment, that the bill should be read that day three
months.
Lord BROUGHAM urged that the noble earl's opposition
would be better directed in the committee on the bill, as it
was necessary that parliament should do something in refer-
ence to Jamaica.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that he felt bound to sup-
port the second reading, and all measures calculated to carry
out that emancipation of the negroes which had been enacted
by the British legislature ; but he considered the Marquis of
Normanby's speech as threatening the destruction of the
House of Assembly, and consequently as ill calculated to con-
ciliate or create confidence. _

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After remarks from_.... Lord GLENELG (who was unusually
animated and energetic,) &c.,
The Earl of HAREWoon consented to withdraw his amend-
ment, and to reserve his opposition till the bill was in com-
mittee.

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The bill was then read the second time, and their lordships
adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from John Thoro-
good, confined during the last six months among felons in
Chelmsford Gaol for ss. 6d. church rates ; and asked whether
it was with the sanction of her Majesty's government that
such a prisoner was confined among such persons ?
Mr. Fox MAULS declared that he had never before heard
of the case.
Mr. BAINSS remarked that this was extraordinary, inas-
much as he had some time ago presented a petition from this
same John Thorogood—a petition, which had given rise to a
considerable discussion!
Mr. WOOD (in answer to Lord Ingestrie's inquiry) entered
into explanations regarding an alleged outrage on the British
flag on the coast oeMexico. The " explanations" were (as
usual, when whig officials make them) of a very unsatisfac-
tory nature.
Mr. P. THOMPSON (in answer to Mr. G. Palmer) said
that, as the last report on shipwrecks had not yet been printed,
he could not state whether it would be possible to introduce
this session any measure on the subject.
Lord J. RUSSELL (in answer to Mr. Miles) said that he
intended to defer the further proceedings on the summary
jurisdiction bill until the week after next.
The house afterwards resolved into committee on the fac-
tories bill, in which considerable discussion on several clauses
and amendments took place.

TURNPIKE ACTS.

On the motion of Mr. Fox MAULE, leave was given to
bring in a bill to continue until the Ist day of June, 1841,
and to the end of the then session of parliament, the local
turnpike acts for Great Britain which expire with this or the
ensuing session of parliament.—The bill was afterwards in-
troduced, and read a first time.