The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-04 00:00:00

firtptrial Vaditimtitt,

HOUSE OP LORDS.—THURSDAY,
The metropolis improvement bill was read a third tioe,

and passed

The Earl of ROSEBERY laid on the table a bill for altering
and amending the present law regarding Se.oteh entails. The

bill was read a first time

Lord ELLENuoitoumt presented a petition from divers
merchants and others of Bombay, praying for better protec-
tion to them in their trade to China. Owing to such want
of protection and of interference, there had taken place a de-
crease in the amount of exports, during a certain period, of
no smaller a sum than £12,000,000 sterling, and in the im-
ports of £1,294,000. . .

Lord ASHBURTON supported the petition.
Viscount MELBOURNE said there was no information be-
fore ministers at present touching the statement contained
in the petition, except what was to be found in certain preli-
minary papers lately communicated to the government, and
ministers could not legislate upon such information as those
papers contained.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said the petitioners had not
made an exaggerated statement of their case, especially as it
referred to recent operations at Canton.
Earl STANHOPE expressed a similar statement.
The Earl of GLENGALL gave notice that be would call the
attention of the house, on Monday next, to a recent case of
falsification of returns made by an officer of the government
to their lordships' house.
The Marquis of NORMANBY said that Mr. Stanley, the
individual no doubt alluded to, had resigned his situation in
connection with the Irish poor-law commission. He believed
that his character was altogether unimpeached.

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The Earl of lIADDINGTON inquired the intention to ap-
point the Rev. Mr. Candlish to the Chair of Biblical Criti.
cism in the University of Edinburgh were entirely aban-

doned ?
The Marquis of NORMANBY said it was not his intention
to pursue the same views he had heretofore entertained re-
specting Mr. Candlish's appointment.
Earl FITZWILLIAM, in presenting some petitions against
the corn-laws, took the opportunity of stating his opinion,
that if parliament wished to keep up the revenue, they would
find themselves under the necessity, if they were also re-
solved to keep up the corn-laws, to levy new taxes, not upon
those who were engaged in acquiring property, but upon those
who had already acquired it : they must, in fact, resort to a
property tax.
Earl STANHOPE said that the revenue must necessarily
fall, if government every year continued reducing and re-
pealing taxes.
Lord ASHBURTON denied that the revenue could be con-
sidered as a falling revenue. The reduction of the postage
charges had certainly caused a serious fall in the revenue,
but the resources of the country were as flourishing as ever.
Earl STANHOPE having presented a vast number of peti-
rinns nollinst the new noor-law bill, gave notice, that if the

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bill now in the other house of parliament should be brought
up to their lordships, having for its object to continue the
inordinate powers of the poor-law commissioners, he would
move that it be read a second time on that day six months.
Adjourned.