The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23.

Mr. C. TURNER presented a petition from the letter
carriers of Liverpool, complaining of the order of the
the Postmaster-General prohibiting Christmas boxes.
Mr. BrtErkrimunGE presented a petition. from Mr. Wm.
Parker, surgeon, of Birkenhead, praying a commission
to inquire into the physical uses of the elements of our
atmosphere. COUNTY RATES.
Mr. M. GIBSON having moved the second reading of the
County Rates and Expenditure Bill, said he merely asked
the house now to sanction the principle of the measure.—

Lord PALMERSTON, on the part of the government, ac-
knowledged the importance of the suject, which involved
matters of national consideration—police, treatment of
prisoners, and care of lunatic asylums—and was, more-
over, connected with the personal feelings of the unpaid
magistracy. The expediency of introducing the repre-
sentative principle into the control of county expenditure,
he considered, had been conceded, and acquiescing in the
bill so far as that principle was concerned, he should offer
no opposition to the second reading.—After some discus-
sion, in which the details of the bill were strongly ob-
jected to, it was read a second time, and was ordered to
be committed pro forma on Friday, in order that it might
be adapted to the views of the government.

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE

ADJOURNED DEBATE.—Mr. FA GA N opposed the amend-
ment as well as the original motion, and denied the
relevancy of the charges brought against the Romish
priests for their alleged conduct at the late elec-
tions in Ireland, which, if true, had nothing to do
with Maynooth, or with its system of education.—Lord
STANLEY, thouzh he deprecated the agitation of this
question, was unwilling that the debate should close
without the expression of an opinion by a member of the
late government upon the motion. to which he could not
give his support. Briefly tracing the history of the May-
nooth grant, he observed that the intention of Sir R.
Peel was that the settlement of 1845 should be perma-
nent and unconditional, and that it would be impossible
now to replace the question in the same position as that
in which it stood prior to 1845. Had the motion been
for inquiry, he should have supported it, for parliament
had a right to see whether the money had been appro-
priated to the purposes for which it was granted.—Mr.
LUCAS was opposed to both the amendment and the ori-
ginal resolution. The former was as objectionable to
those who shared his religious opinions as the latter ; he
considered it, indeed, the same in a different shape, and
dictated by the same feeling of religious bigotry. The
question was not whether Maynooth was a good college
or not, but whether the Romish religion was such as not
to be entitled to any endowment whatever.—Mr. DRust-
➢SOND exposed the dangerous doctrines of the Jesuits,
which were now, for the first time, he said, authorised by
the Romish Church, observing that he wished to treat
this not as a regular question, but as a question of a con-
spiracy of these men against the rights of manki::.l.—An
attempt was made to adjourn the debate, which failed,
and the house divided upon the question whether the
words in the original motion proposed by the amendment
to be left out should be retained, which was negatived by
194 to 164. This destroyed the vitality of Mr. Spnoner's
motion ; but it being six o'clock the amendment could
not be put, so that the main question remains to be dis-
posed of, and was subsequently fixed for to-morrow (Wed-
nesday).
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