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

AUGUST 4

THURSDAY,

ROYAL ASSMICT.—The Royal
mission to the following bills, viz. The Successio
Duty ; Common Lodging-houses ; Convicted Prisoners
Removal and Confinement ; Savings-banks Annuities ;
Coinage Offences, Colonies ; Colonial Bishops Act Exten-
sion ; Patronage Exchange ; Taxing-officers, Common Law
Business (Ireland) ; Bankruptcy (Scotland) ; Land Reve-
nue ; Copyholds ; Customs. Duties ; Dublin Parliamentary
Registration ; Stamp Duties ; Stamp Duties (No. 2) ;
Resident Magistrates (Ireland) ; Turnpike Trusts Arrange-
ments ; Sheep, &c., Contagious Prevention ; Battersea
Park ; Westminster-bridge ; Spitalfields to Shoreditch
Improvement ; Pimlico Improvement ; Whittlewood,
otherwise Whittlebury, Forest ; York and North Midland
Railway (Reissue of Hull and Selby Purchase Shares) ;
London and North-western and London and Blackwall
Railways ; Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction Rail-
way ; Warrington and Altrincham Railway (Stockport) ;
Carlisle Canal and Port Carlisle Railway ; Electric Tele-
graph Company of Ireland ; Wakefield and Sheffield
Road ; St. Helen's Canal and Railway ; Leeds Northern
Railway ; Holme -Reservoir (No. 2) ; Lianidloes and New-
town Railway ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Railway (Barnsley) ; Nantwich and Woore Turnpike-
road ; Caledonian Railway (Connecting Branch with Edin-
burgh and Glasgow Railway) ; Furness Railway ; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow Railway ; Edinburgh, Perth and

Dundee. Railway; London. and North-western. (Oldham
Branch) • British Electric Telegraph Company ; London
and North-western Railway (Northampton, &c.) • London
and North-western Railway (St. Alban's, &c.).) ; East
Lancashire Railway (No. 2) • Southport, &c. ; Birkenhead
Dock Trustees ; Llanelly Railway and Dock (No. 2) ;
Ribble Navigation ; Whitehaven and Furness Junction
Railway ; Birmingham and Oxford Junction ; Birming-
ham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley and Great Western
Railway ; Birkenhead Dock Company ;

Newport;

West
gavenny; and Hereford Railway ; W London
tal Palace Railway ; Chorley Improvement ; and a gre
number of other bills, being a total of 115.
INDIA BILL.—Lord WYNPORD presented a petition frog
the East India Company, agreed to at a general court,
against the provisions of the Government of India Bill.
The Harbours (Scotland) Bill was read a third time and

mittee.

number of oth,

and their lordships adjourned.

bilis were advanced a stage

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Numerous petitions were presented from Manchester
and other places, in favour of the Combination of Work-
men's Bill, which was withdrawn on the mot.
second reading,

ion for the

TEE INDIA BILL.—Earl GRANVILLE moved the second
reading of the India Bill.—The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH
said he didnot intend:to oppose the second reading. He

regretted that, after haring-seen three India bills, he was
not destined to seethe• complete reconstruction of India,
and to behold thegovernment founded on principles which
afforded a prospect of happiness to her people, and of
grandeur and honour to England.—Lord MONTEAGLE
said, that this was the first instance, in his recollection, in
which both houses of. parliament had appointed com-
mittees to inquire into a complicated question, and then
had been suddenly summoned to rush into legislation be-

fore either of those•committees had pronounced an opinion.
The present bill would complicate, instead of simplifying,
the administration of India, and he should feel it his duty,
in committee, to propose several amendments, which he
considered essential to the efficiency of the measure. After

some further discussion the bill was read a second time

without a division.
The Entry of Seamen's Bill was read a third time and
passed, and the house adjourned at forty minutes past
eleven o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMAIONS.—TITESakT,

AUGUST 2,

CueuiT.LBLE TRUSTS.—On the order for going into
committee upon the Charitable Trusts Bill, Lord ions
RUSSELL said he should propose a few albei-ations of
the bill in committee. One was that, as the services of
the three persons named in the bill, who were to receive
salaries, might not, probably, after a time, be required,
one of the appointments should, at a certain period, cease.
Another related to Romanist charities, the placing of
which under this body, without special provisions, might
lead to questions affecting the very existence of some of
them, unless great care were taken. He proposed, there-
fore, that Romanist charities should be excluded from the
operation of this bill, not, however with a view of omit-
ting them permanently. He thought it would be a great
advantage that they should be brought under a body of
this kind, to prevent their being diverted from their pro-
per objects ; but this would require a separate bill and
very special provisions.—The house then went into commit-
tee upon the bill, the clauses of which were agreed to ; after
much discussion, the amendment of the 60th clause, ex-
empting Romanist charities, being deferred until the report.
PETITIONS.—Mr. COBBETT presented petitions, 37 in
all, from operative bleachers and dyers in Lancashire and
Cheshire, praying that the Ten Hours. Factory Bill, with
restrictions on the moving power, may be extended to the
petitioners.—Mr. FEILDEN presented petitions from ma-
nagers, overlookers, factory-workers, and operatives, for
the reduction of the hours of labour of women and children
in factories to ten hours daily, and for. restriction being
placed on the moving power:
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.—In answer to a question, Lord
J. RUSSELL said, when the ambassador of the Emperor of
. Russia left Constantinople, it appeared to her Majesty's
government that it was desirable that there should be a
conference of the representatives of all the Great Powers
of Europe, in order to arrive at the terms which might
put an amicable termination to the difference between
-Russia and-the-Sublime Porte. It was the opinion of the
. government of Austria that it was not desirable to have
any such conference while the matter remained in the
state of diplomatic relations, and that it would not be
desirable to have such a conference unless the Emperor
of Russia, by invading the principalities, should for a
time, indeed, have disturbed the status quo of Europe.
When that event occurred, the government of Austria,
in conformity with its previous declaration, declared its
willingness to hold a conference at Vienna, and it sum-
moned the representatives of the four other Great Powers
of Europe to attend, for the purpose of a conference on
the affairs of Russia and Turkey. The minister of the
Kmperor of Russia did not attend ; but the ministers of
England, of France, and of Prussia attended that con-
ference. Certain- terms were then agreed upon, which,.
in the opinion of the representatives of the foiir powers,
might be accepted with honour by the two governments
of Turkey and of 'Russia. Those terms have been assented
to by the governments of England and France ; and, ac-
cording to our belief, have been transmitted from Vienna
to. Petersburg and Constantinople.
THE PARSEE MERCHANTS.—Mr. J. Pnummonn, after
an elaborate exposition of his " case," legal and equitable,
moved, "That an humble address be presented to Her
Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to
cause the case and memorial of the Parsee merchants,
Jevangee Merjee and Pestongee Merjee, to be referred for
the examination and direction of the Judicial Committee
of Her Majesty's Privy Council."—Sir C. WOOD resisted
the motion.—ln the course of the discussion which en-
sued, Mr. H. LIDDELL reminded the House that the firm
to whose case their attention was drawn by the present
discussion had come forward at a moment of danger to
render assistance to the British Government—assistance
which it could not have derived from any other source.
The right hon. gentleman said that the debt had been
incurred contrary to the law of the country ; but, if so,
how happened it that the British Government through
their Resident sanctioned the act for a long course of
years ? (Hear, hear.) The act, if originally illegal, was
purged of illegality by the sanction given to it by the
British Resident. The silence observed by the Supreme
Government for a very long period respecting these
transactions must in fairness be construed into tacit
assent to the acts of their Resident. (Hear, hear.)
Was not the obligation of honour equally binding
between a Government and an individual as between
two individuals ? Not only had the firm assisted the
British Government in the hour of danger, but they
were recommended to the notice of the Nizam in the first
instance by that government. Then, how had the firm
conducted themselves in. the Nizam's territories ? They
had improved the means of communication, and promoted
the growth of cotton. That circumstance alone entitled
them to favourable consideration. The unfortunate peti-
tioners had been bandied about between the Indian and
the home government. This was their last chance of
obtaining redress. Let it not be refused. The House of
Commons had always been distinguished for the attention
it had given to eases in which a claim, for justice was
involved. Let it not belie its character on this occasion.
The interests of numerous respectable families depended
on the decision to which the house was about to come, and
lie trusted that decision would be influenced only by consi-
derations of justice: For his own part, nothing which had
fallen from the President of the Board of Control had
changed the opinion he had formed from considering the
facts of the case, and he felt bound to give his hearty sup-
port to the motion.—Upon a division the motion was
negatived by 113 to 71.
Several bills were read a third time and passed.
COLONIAL Cnuncir.—On the order for the second read-
ing of the Colonial Church Regulation Bill, Lord JOHN
RUSSELL moved that it be deferred until Monday, in order
that the house might see the amendments which had been
prepared by the Solicitor-General.—Mr.KlNNAlnD opposed
the motion, and moved to defer the second reading for three
months.—A discussion ensued, inwhich the objects of the bill
were explained by Lord J. RUSSELL, and warmly defended
by Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER, and the CIIA.NCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER took a general view of the status of the
Church of England in the colonies, and of its exigencies.—
Mr. V. Smith, Mr. Henley, and Mr. Newdegate opposed
the further progress of the bill, and Mr. Kinnaird's amend-
ment was agreed to.
Various bills were forwarded a stage; aria the 1191,150 rose
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