The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-14 00:00:00

THURSDAY, MARCH 9.

Petitions were presented by Mr. CHEETHAM, from
Rochdale, praying for the abolition of the law of settle-
ment, signed by three county magistrates and upwards of
1,000 others ; by Mr. W. 0. STANLEY, from incorporated
guardians of the city of Chester, in favour of the bill for
abolishing the law of settlement, and for a more equal
mode of rating; by Mr. BAINES, from the guardians of
the Stockport Union, in favour of the Settlement and Re-
moval Bill ; by Mr. GREENALL, from the mayor and cor-
poration of Warrington, in favour of the establishment of
reformatory schools, and in favour of a decimal coinage ;
and also from the overseers of the township of Warrington,
in favour of the Settlement and. Removal Bill ; and by Mr.
GREENE, from the guardians of the Lancaster Union,
against the relief to the poor of each township being borne
by the common fund of such union.
VANCOUVER'S ISLAND.—In answer to a question, Mr.
PEEL said the connexion between the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany and Vancouver's Island had not terminated.
MINISTERS' MONEY.—Mr. FAGAN moved for a com-
mittee to consider the law relating to the rate called
" ministers' money" in Ireland, with the view to repeal
the same, and to provide a substitute out of the revenues
of the Eccleasiastical Commissioners, as a provision for the
Protestant ministers in certain corporate towns in Ire-
land.—Sir J. YOUNG said that after considering the
various remedies which had been proposed from time to
time, and denying that the funds of the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners were sufficient to bear the burden, he made
a proposition, by way of compromise (similar to that con-
tained in the bill introduced last session), for exempting
houses under £lO a-year and houses hereafter built,
making an abatement of 25 per cent., and changing the
mode of collecting the rate. He moved, formally, as an
amendment, that the acts relating to ministers' money
and the Church Temporalities Act be read with the view
of obtaining, by a committee, leave to bring in a bill to
carry the proposition into effect.—After some discussion
the amendment was carried by 105 to 90.
EXECUTIONS.—Mr. CRA.UFURD obtained leave to bring
in a bill to enable executions to issue in any part of the
United Kingdom, under a judgment obtained in any court
in England, Scotland, or Ireland.
NEW WRITS.—Lord J. RUSSELL moved that no war-
rants for new writs for Barnstaple, Cambridge, Canter-
bury, Hull, Maldon, and Tynemouth be issued before Fri-
day, the 17th March.—The motion was agreed to, after a
few words from Mr. DIsRAELI.
The second reading of the Public Prosecutors' Bill was
ordered to be postponed for three weeks.
The Marine Mutiny Bill was read a second time.
The Consolidated Fund (£8,000,000) Bill was read a
third time and passed.
The Mutiny Bill passed through committee.
The house adjourned at 20 minutes past 9 o'clock.

FRIDAY, Alatucix 10.
Petitions were presented by Mr. HORSRALL, from the
guardians of the poor of West Derby, Lancashire, in
favour of the new Poor Law Bill.
LONDON CORPORATION.—In reply to a question, Mr.
LABOUCHERE said the report of the City of London Cor-
poration would be presented either immediately before, or
immediately after the Faster recess.
PRIVATEIRING.—III answer to a question, Lord PAL.
MERSTON said, that in the course of next week a com-
munication would be made to the] House relative to the
rights of neutrals and to privateering.
NEUTRAL VESSELS.—In answer to Lord JOCELYN, Mr.
WiLsoN stated that the Russian produce from a neutral
port, belonging to a British subject, and imported in a
British ship, would be regarded and treated as neutral
property.
The Bribery Prevention Bill was postponed.
The Valuation (Ireland) Bill was read a third time.
Sir J. YOUNG moved a resolution in committee, on the
subject of Ministers' Money (Ireland), and obtained leave
to bring in a bill by a majority of 138 to 95.
In reply to Sir F. THESIGER, Lord PALMERSTON ex-
pressed his regret that Lord J. Russell was unable to
attend, but hoped he would be able to be in his place on
Tuesday.
The Marine Mutiny Bill went through committee.
The Highway (Wales) Bill was read a third time.
UNIVERSITY REFORM.—In consequence of the indis-
position of Lord J. Russell, the Oxford University Bill
was postponed.
EXCHEQUER Brim (£1,750,000) BILL.—The CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that this bill be read
a second time.—Mr. SPOONER wished to know the object
of this bill.—The CHANCELLOR of the Exciimatrsa : I
have propoposed to provide a sum £3,000,000 or £4,000,000
for the service of the Crown by means of an addition to
the income-tax. That will be levied during the six months
between April the sth and October the 10th, but no part
of that addition can be received until after the 10th of
October, and it will be, in fact, levied between October
and next April; but the money is to be spent during the
early portion of the present year, and I propose to be
enabled to issue as many Exchequer-bills as I may want,
within the maximum of £1,750,000, in anticipation of the
augmented proceeds of the income-tax.—The bill was then
real a second time.
The House adjourned at 5.20 pm.