The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-17 00:00:00

FRANCE

(From the Private Correspondent of the Standard.)
REPORTED RUSSIAN CAPTURE OF TEHERAN.

PARIS, Jor,Y 12.—The news received yesterday of the cap-
ture of Teheran by the Russian troops, but which has only
arrived here from London, has filled the government and the
public with surprise and alarm.. We all knew that Russian
engineers and artillerymen were in the service of the Sebah,
and that they were present at the interminable siege of
Herat. The Bombay Gazette adds, that a corps of the Russian
army entered Persia to maintain the influence of the Czar.
Whether the army of Nicholas has acted as it has done in
pursuance of the old system of Russian intervention in the
quarrels of the neighbouring states, and has combatted a
pretender to the throne, or whether the troops of the Schah
have been attacked and overcome, one thing is certain, and
that is, that the inflneuce of the Autocrat must be very
firmly established in Persia. This influence has already lea
to the retreat of the English Ambassador; and it is not to
be presumed that Russia will now hesitate to proceed in con-
sequence of some naval demonstrations in the Persian Gulf.
Persia, far from being a maritime country, only touches the
ocean at some points; and es-en suppose England should
now occupy this very limited coast, would it be able to send
into the interior of Persia an army sufficiently imposing to
intimidate the ambition of the Emperor of Russia ? The
King of Lahore, the famous Runjet-Sing, could with his
powerful and well-disciplined artily stop the Russian army
on the high road from the Indies; but dues not the King of
Lahore conspire, on the contray, with Russia to effect the
ruin of British power on the banks of the Indus and the
Ganges ?
The Toulonnias of the Bth brings intelligence from Algiers
of the Ist instant. Three large block-houses, sufficiently
spacious to contain 800 men, and defended by eight pieces
of artillery, had been erected within. 400 yards of Belida, in
which to lodge the inhabitants and protect the ;Europeans
who are shortly to he allowed to settle in that town, Ben-
Aracht, the Envoy of Abdel-Kader, was still in Algiers. An
Exchange, on the plan of the Paris Bourse, and a theatre,
were about to be constructed in that city. The brass eight-
pounder by which General Damremont was killed before
Constantine had been brought to Toulon by the Stvx steamer.

Einperiat Varliament.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
Mr. S. LEFEVIZE moved the second reading of the parochial
assessment bill.

Mr. GOULBURN moved that the bill be read a second time
" this day six months."

On a division the amendment was negatived by a majority
of 101 to 42, and the bill was read a second time.
Sir W. RAE moved the third reading of the small debts
(Scotland) bill.
Mr. WALLACE moved that it be read a third time " this
day three months."

The amendment was carried by a majority of 63 to 45, and
the bill is consequently lost.
Mr. Serjeant Jackson's registration of voters (Ireland)
bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on
Wednesday next. The Court of Chancery (Ireland) bill
went through committee, and was ordered to reported on
Thursday. The local commissioners relief bill went through
committee, and was ordered to be reported on Friday. The
qualification of members bill was read a third time and
passed.

On the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, the itnpri-
sonment for debt bill was read a second tifne, and ordered
to be committed on Monday.

In answer to a question I lon Lord STANLEY, the

ATTORNEY-GENER L said, that it was his intention to press
the bill this session; and he expressed a hope that there
would be no opposition to it.
The-Dublin police bill then went through committee, and
was ordered to be reported on Monday.
On the motion of Lord MonPETti, the Clare county ad-
vance bill was referred to a select committee. _

The house adjourned at a quarter past nine o'clock

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TIICRSDAY.
IRISH MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BILL

On the question that their lordships resolve into committee
on the municipal corporations (Ireland) bill,
Lord LYNDIIURST stated the amendments which he in-
tended to propose, and the principles on which he thought
they ought to proceed in fixing the qualification, &c. With
respect to the towns in schedule A, which were large and
'populous, there was no intention on the part of the noble
lords on his side of the house to object to corporations being
granted to them ; but with respect to the towns in schedule
B, many of which were small, and possessed of little or no
property, it had occurred to him and many.other noble lords.
that it would be highly unjust to force corporations on them,
but that it should be left to the town themselves—if a
majority of the rated inhabitants were so inclined-6 appiy
to the crown for charters. With respect to the qualifiea
tion, he proposed it should be £lO, including rent, allowance
for repairs, and insurance. His amendment was, ":The
qualification should be of the yearly, value of not less
than £lo,to be ascertained and determined as hereinafter
mentioned." The first question was, whether .the house
would accede to the proposition for raising the Value to £10;
and the next was, whether they thought his mode of ascertain-
ing the value -was correct.. He proposed to continue his
amendment, " And such yearly value shall be ascertained
and determined in the manner folloWing, and not otherwise;
that is to say, it shall be composed of the value of the pre-
mises rated as they are hereby requited to be under the pro-
visions of an act made and pasSed in the present session of
parliament, entitled An act for the relief of the poor in Ire-
land,' and of the amount of the sum at which the landlord's
repairs and insurance is estimated in such rate." Their lord-
ships were already await!, that by an amendment introduced
into the poor relief bill there was a schedule attached to it in
reference to the rating, in one column of which were men-
tioned the landlord's repairs, while in the other the insurance
was set out. The- poor-law commissioners were to appoint
valuers, and the valuers were to act under theirorders, and the
rates were to be made under their direction, and these points
were to be ascertained in the rate, and these persons, there-
fore, who were to decide on the qualification would have only
to take the three sums which he had mentioned.
_ _

Lord iNIELBouitNE complimented the noble and learned
lord on the fairness of his statement. He differed, however,
as to the leaving it to the towns in schedule B to apply for
charters. There might be many reasons, internal dissensions
and feuds, Which might prevent an application ; whereas if
the corporations were given at once they would be well re-
ceived, and they would be conferring on the town a form of
government which was now admitted generally to be produc-
tive of advantage and benefit.
Lord Wmfumy always considered that this reform ought
to be granted; he knew that it was only a question of time, '
and it was therefore peculiarly satisfactory to him that the
session would nut be allowed to pass without the adoption of
a satisfactory measure. With respect to the qualification, he
feared that there would be much difficulty in arriving at a
perfect knowledge of what the repairs and insurance might
be, and he should prefer a bond fide qualification fixed at a
lower nominal amount on the ratiug.
In committee, Lord LYNDHURST'S amendment, to the ef-
fect that corporations should be given only to part of the
towns, was agreed to without a division.
The other amendment of Lord LYNDHURST, that the £lO
he composed of rent, repairs, and insurance, was opposed by
Lord MELBOURNE.
It would appear, from an answer returned by Lord LYND-
HURST to an observation from Lord MELBOURNE, which was
not heard, that the latter had suggested the fixing the quali-
fication at £8 rating, thus getting rid of the perplexity of de-
termining the allowance for repairs al.tl insurance.
(ht a division the amendment was carried by 96 to 36.
Lord MELBOURNE said, after that division., he would not
press their lordships with further debate; he considered that
their lordships' opinion had been expressed in that division.
Lord LYNDHURST said, he should propose to retain sche-
dule A, and to omit schedule B; that where there was a trust
for Protestant purposes, no Roman Catholic should be a
trustee; and that the constabulary should be the only police
force of the different towns.
The house having resumed, the report of the bill was or-
dereil to be received on Tuesday, after which their lordship's
adjourned.