The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY

Lord COURTENAY brought up the report of the com-
mittee appointed to inquire into the state of the Andover
Union workhouse. _ _

_
Captain PECHELI., Mr. WAKLEY, Mr. ETWALL, Mr.
J. WORTLEY, and Mr. CHRISTIE, all bore testimony to
the fairness, courtesy, and impari iality of Lord Courtenay
as chairman of the committee. Mr. J. 'WORTLEY, how-
ever, cautioned the house against taking the necessarily
imperfect reports of the proceedings before the committee,
which appeared from day to day in the newspapers, as
verbatim reports of what really occurred.
Lord COURTENAY acknowledged in return the kind
manner in which he had been supported 'by every member
of the committee, in the du,iea which he had to discharLe
as their chairman.
The report was ordered to be printed. .

Mr. BORTHWICK hoped that the report would be
printed as speedily as possible, in order that it might be
in the hands of members before Mr. Home's motion on
the conduct of the Poor Law Commissioners came on for
discussion on Tuesday next. If the published reports of
the proceedings before the Andover Committee were any
thing like correct, it was impossible for the house to allow
the Poor Law to be managed any longer by the hands to
which its management was entrusted at present.
On the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moving the
third reading of the Customs' Duties Bill,
Mr. BORTHWICK presumed that this was another of the
blunders of the late government which the house was
called upon to remedy. _ . .

Mr. HUME, after a'few remarks on the unfair spirit of
Mr. Borthwick's insinuation, proceeded to recommend to
the Government to reduce the articles in the tariff to 150.
He hoped that during the recess the Chancellor of the
Exchequer would inquire into the expenses of the Cus-
toms' establishment, with a view to their ;eduction. He
thought that a number both of tile commissioners and of
the subordinate officers of Customs might, in consequence
of the reduction in the amount of business which they
had to transact, be safely reduced. He likewise recom-
mended the Government to keep every Custom-house in
the county open from 9 o'clock in the morning until sun-
set.
The bill was then read a third time and passed, as was
also the New Zealand Government Bill.

On the motion that the Small Debts Bill be committed,
Lord G. BENTINCK dPclared that he could not allow it
to go into committee without hearing some further state-
' romoters of it. lie knew that the present
-ted from their predecessors this mea-
ge into he hands of the

Ministers had inh
sure, which threw

executive government than any measure introduced for
many years into Parliament ; but still the house was en-
titled to a full explanation of the extent to which the pa-

of the expense whiefi it

thus c

)uld entail upon the coun

'cond clause of th

the Government power

divide each county in

ny district

to nave a separate page ; eaen Judge vs as IV nave a salary
of 13,200; and the Lord Chanevllor was to have the no-
mination of all these judges. ,Each court was to have a

opium, or allow a reduction in the salt tax. But as min-
ing is prove' bially a lottery, it would perhaps be best to
let the mine to adventurers to contract, rather than to
istrict was I form an expensive establishment for what may prove to be

—Calculta Englishman

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