The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-09 00:00:00

operation be limited- to two

AiSrD DOGs.—On the rep
Bill, the CHANCELLOR of the
several amendments, which were agreed tx

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to allow the•proprietor of race horses to fix t

Assessed

He propose

amber of

his stud, and upon that number be assess
required, as at present, to pay upon all horses that replaced
others. Horses used by farmers while attending Divine
service be exempt from the tax, and on parties who,
although not profoonionnl faxmcra, J ef, practising tarmh.s-,
the tax to be commuted to a guinea a year in respect to
horses which they kept for general use. With regard to
the tax upon dogs, the only proposal was to repeal the ex-

at being

emption made at present iii favour of

POSTPONEMENT

PALMERSTON; the Truck Act Ai

supers.
I Lord

poned till next session
GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA..—Lord J
the intentions of the Government respecti
Jamaica. They did not propose to suspend. the representa-
tive constitution in the colony, but to induce, if possible, the
Assembly and the Council to act in harmony. They pro-
posed, in the-first place, that there should
act, containing grants for those officers
deemed fit that permanent salaries should be given

the colony of

3 permanent

.liTom it was

secondly, that the Assembly should make no grant of
money except upon the initiative of a representative of the
Crown, and that the officers of the Crown should be
responsible for the expenditure of the money. On the
other hand,. it was proposed to endeavour to place the
finances of Jamaica upon a sounder footing. The public
debt of the colony amounted to £500,000, upon which an
interest of six per cent. was paid ; and it was proposed that
the Imperial Government should give a guarantee for the
interest of the debt, a sinking fund being provided for its
extinction._ Another guarantee was proposed. The House of
Assembly had insisted upon their right to make a reduction
of salaries,..which the Council had regarded as a breach of
faith. It appeared to the Government that this quarrel
might be, settled by the grant of a compensation, which
might induce the present holders to relinquish their
offices, which could be filled by other persons at reduced
salaries. This would require £50,000, which sum the
Government proposed should also be guaranteed by this
country, making the aggregate sum guaranteed £550,000.
There .was one other point. Sir Charles Grey had already
held his office as Governor, which he had discharged with
signal ability, for the full term, and the Duke of New-
castle was of opinion that Sir Henry Barkly, who had
been many years Governor of Guiana, would be the best
person to succeed him, and he had accordingly recom-
mended her Majesty to appoint Sir Henry to that office.
A question would arise, however, as to his salary, which
the Government considered should not be less than £5,000,
and, to avoid dispute, they proposed to vote £3,500 towards
making up that sum for three years.---Sir J. PAKINGTON
expressed his satisfaction at the proposals of Government,
as did several other members.—Mr. HOIISVAIX regretted
that the noble lord had not given a distinct answer to the
question put to him with regard to the enlistment of
Coolies in the West India islands. He should have been.
pleased to hear a declaration from the noble lord that
orders had been sent to the officers in those colonies not
to adopt a course so injurious to the interest of the
colonists. He then read an extract from a letter, com-
plaining of the hardship inflicted upon the colonists by the
enlistment of Coolies. He trusted that the Government
would direct their attention to the subject, and send out
such instructions that no doubt could possibly remain on•
the subject. The colonists in the West India islands were
at present encountering great difficulties in competing
against slave labour, and it was the duty of the-Govern-
ment not to throw obstacles in their way.
SUPPLY.—The house then went into committee upon
the estimates for the British Museum. After a lengthened
discussion, a vote of £55,000 was agreed on.
The next votes were obtained without any material
discussion, except one for repairs of the British ambas-
sador's house in Paris, and another for £12,175 for pay-
ment of rewards for suppressing the slave trade on the
coast of Africa.
Several Bills were advanced a stage.

New BILLs.—Mr. LOWE obtained leave to bring in the
following bills :—Bill providing places of confinement in
England and Wales for female offenders under sentence or
order of transportation ; bill to render valid certain mar-
riages in the Church of the Holy Trinity, in the township
of Hulme and parish, of Manchester, in the county of Lan-
caster; bill to amend an act of the seventh year of Her
Majesty, for the better apprehension of certain offenders ;
bill for further continuing certain temporary provisions
concerning ecclesiastical jurisdiction in- England ; bill to
continue an act to amend the laws relating to loan societies ;
bill to continue the exemption of inhabitants from liability
to be rated, as such, in respect of stock-in-trade, or other
property, to the relief of the poor.
The house adjourned at a quarter-past three o'clock
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5.
The Clitheroe School Estate Bill was read
and passed.
SOUTH SEA ANNITITIES.—The motion f
reading of the South Sea Company's Arrangeme
Trusts Bill led to some discussion, but the

third time

the third
nt and
lotion was

finally agreed to.
TIIE PILOTAGE BILL.---The committee on this bill was
resumed, commencing with clause 10.—Mr. Housium,
moved an amendment to the clause which gives power to
the Board of Trade to license the masters or mates of ships
to pilot their vessels into port. The object of the amend-
ment was to limit the licenses to the masters or mates of
coasting ships or vessels, and the hon. membe
it, -reminded the committee that the

in moving

trances to many

For in-

ports were constantly undergoing a chan_
stance, in the entrance to the Mersey, there were
banks marked upon the chart which were supposed
to be covered with twelve or thirteen feet water at
one period of the year, while at others there were only five
or six feet. Now how was the master or mate of a vessel
which had been abroad for several months to know when
these changes took place ? The banks and channels
leading into the Mersey were continually changing,
and no one could answer for the destruction of property
which must inevitably occur if this clause was passed
as it now stood. At present, from the efficient pilots
which the port authorities employed, vessels trading with
Liverpool were. carried with safety into port through the
most dangerous channels, and the merchants and under-
writers of that town were therefore averse to this proposed
alteration in the practice of restricting the navigation of
vessels up and down the channel to authorised pilots. The
Power propoml 1)Y tlils clause, w already ojoyed by the

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