The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-07 00:00:00

SOCIALISM.

The Bishop of EXETER deferred till Tuesday his motion
on the subject of " socialism." The right rev. prelate did
so, in compliance with the request the Archbishop of Can-
terbury and of the Bishop of London.
The Duke of WELLINGTON presented petitions on the
subject.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY.
Several petitions were presented, and among others one by
Sir E. SUGDEN, signed by 599 members of the bar, (27 of
whom were Queen's counsel, or serjeants-at-law,) deploring
the proceedings which the house has had recourse to in the
privilege question, and praying that the persons now in cus-
tody may be discharged.
Lord ASHLEY gave notice, that on Thursday next he will
move an address to the Crown that the appointment of Mr.
Pare to be registrar of births and marriages at Birmingham
be cancelled : and Mr. Liddell gave notice, that on Tuesday
next he will move for a copy of the warrant by which a pension
has been granted to Sir John Newport,—and also for a copy
of the patent conferring upon Lord Monteagle (late Spring
Rice) the Controllership of the Exchequer. -
THE QUEEN'S MARRIAGE.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated, in answer to a question from
Sir R. Inglis, that be intended to propose that the house
should adjourn from Friday next to Tuesday next. It was
understood in the house that this adjournment is to take
place in consequence of her Majesty's marriage being fixed
for Monday next.

'PRINCE ALBERT'S ANNUITY BILL.
Prince Albert's annuity bill then went through committee,
after an amendment proposed, but not pressed, by Colonel
Sibthorp, for the termination of the annuity, if, after the
Queen',, demise, the Prince should reside in England less
than six consecutive months of each year, or " cease to pro-
fess and adhere to the Protestant religion as by law estab-
lished in these realms."
Sir ROBERT PE EL thought it better that the house should
put confidence in the Prince's disposition to attach himself
to England, and abstain from anything that could look like
distrust.

BILL.
Lord MORPETIIIRISH brought inMUNICIPAL the municipal corporations
(Ireland) hill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be
read a second time on Friday se'nnight.

PRIVILEGE.
Mr. DARBY then moved that Wm. Evans, Esq., and John
Wheelton, Esq., sheriff of Middlesex, " be discharged from
the custody of the sergeant-at-arms."
Sir R. INGLIS seconded the motion.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the motion which the
hon. member had made for the liberation of the sheriff. If
the privileges of the house had been vindicated, he (the At-
torney-General) would have been the last to have opposed
the motion, but if the motion was now agreed to, he would
say that the privileges of the house would be for ever lost—
(hear, heat.) The honourable member had not advanced a
single reas.on to show v..iiv the sheriff should be. liberated. A
large wajcrity of the house had decided that the conduct of
the sheriff was a breach of privilege, and that the privilege
was part and parcel of the law of the land. The hon. mem-
ber seemed to think that the opinion of an inferior court—a
court of law—ought to overrule the decision of the High
Court of Parliament.
Sir R. INctis thought that as the hon. memberfor East
Sussex (Mr. Darby) had abstained from entering into the
question of privilege, the Ationiey-General had unnecessarily
travelled into that part of the subject. Hi(Sir R. I.) would
ask were the privileges of the house not already vindicated,
as the Court of Queen's Bench had decided in favour of the
power of the house to commit for contempt ? The case was
no longer in the state it was before the Court of Queen's
Bench had recognised their privileges. It was very well.for
the Attorney-General to talk lightly of the sufferings of the
two gentlemen. The room in which they were confined did
not exceed in size the table before the speaker—(hear, hear);
and he would ask the Attorney-General how he would like to
be compelled to reside, even in his own house, in a room of
such small dimensions. He would call the attention of the
house to the terms of the oath which a party serving the
office of sheriff had to take. He swears that he will truly
return and truly serve all the Queen's writs to the best of
his knowledge. He would put it to the house whether any
person taking such an oath was not bound by it to act as the
sheriffs had done. He would ask not whether they were jus-
tified in committing the sheriffs, but whether they would be
now justified in not releasing them.
Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT said, that he felt very forcibly' that
the enlargement of the sheriffs would lose half its force upon
the public opinion, and leave them half its grace if there
were to be a division on it, or if the boon were qualified by
a condition. (Loud cheers.) If this course could not, in the
noble lord's mind, be taken to-night, or if the time had gone
by for taking such a course, in that noble lord's mind, he
would now express his hope that the noble lord would be
able to come down to the house on a future night and make
a proposition for their discharge without any condition.
(Cries of " oh, oh," and cheering.) If that, however, should
not be agreeable to the noble lord, and the question should,
contrary to his wish and suggestion, be pressed to a division,
be should certainly vote with his hon. friend the member for
Sussex. (Loud cheering from the opposition side of the
house.)
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opposed the motion in a speech
of consderable length.
Sir E. SUGDEN rose, and there being some indisposition to
proceed with the debate, Mr. Pryme moved the adjournment,
which was agreed to. The house then adjourned.

Some
.I-lOUSE OF LORDS—TUESDAY.
e petitiona were presented on various subjects.
RC OF SCOTLAND.
The Earl of ABERDEEN gave notice, that on Thursday
next, in presenting petitions to the house, he would put a
question to the noble errquie
j opposite, respecting the inten-
tentions of her maestysgovernment, with reference to the
Present state of the church of Scotland.
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TRANCFORD INLAND WAREHOUSES.
Viscount o said that in coneequence of commu-
nications he had received from various commercial bodies
and also in consequence of a bill being introduced into the
other houraieofiparliament on the subject of inland warehouses
precisel) similar
eirovisions to the bill of last year—he
was anxious to know, whether the noble viscount opposite
would have any otjyeeaton to produce any opinions mightthat have been given
of the fiscal boards in the coun-
try as to the probable operation ration of that bill on the revenue.
Viscount NlELBonaxte -would in whether there were
any_ such documents.
Viscount STRANGFORD thought it was impossible to leis
before-
late satthe house.isfactori on the subject without having those papers
ly
SOCIALISM.
The Bishop of EXETER presented a v, titinn f
contributed to Brooicnietthye,
British and Foreign Seamen and Soldier'eepi'''
stating that one of the causes which
immorality among soldiers and sailors, was the spread
so-
cialism, and praying the house to adopt such measures
its judgment might deem meet, to prevent the extensien!iiCi
those pernicious doctrines. Also a similar petition from the
inhabitants and householders of Cheltenham in the county of
Gloucester, and from the householders and inhabitants of
Winterslow in the county of Wilts, deploring that the ?mei-
. alist system had been introduced into the immediate neigh-
'bourhood of the petitioners, and a Sunday evening lecture
established, at which doctrines most dangerous to religion
'and morality were propagated, praying the house to take im-
mediate steps to stop the progress of socialism, and to secure
to the people of this country the religion, peace, and content-
ment which, as a nation and as individuals they have hitherto
enjoyed.
. ... . Lord TZVXMAU presented a petition from . a lady, com-
me thafthe system of socialism had been misrepresented,
and Praying the house to make inquiries respecting it.
Lord PRIVILEGES OF PARLIAMENT.
from two BROUGHAMindividuals said he had now to present a petitiOn
and
aildaruals placed in a situation strange, unprece-
dented,Zal; he presented to
petition from NV their lordships a
sheriffs of London and ~,,ivians, and John Wheelton, Esqrs.,
to be presented to the ddlesex, and the petition appeared
capacity, but as the house,(highest court
not merely in its legislative
front officers
of judicature known to the
laws of these realms, and fro°
judicial decision their lordshipsOffi mighte" of a court on whose
have to sit in judg-
ment; as also upon the conduct of tleesheriffs as officers of
that court over which their lordships' house
jurisdiction. In regard to the hardship o had unquestioned
the high
respectful,
and paramount importance of the subject, and the case,
statements of
touching, and submissive nature of the appealtihsnteade to their
lordships, he would venture to engage for the
the petition that attention whieh ttieirlordships
to the petitions of every class of their fellow-subjewetays gave
by the
noble and learned lord proceeded to read the petition,. whichile
recapitulated the leading points of the whole affair, inter
spersing remarks on the inconsistency displayed
attorney-general and the House of Commons in the proceed-
ing, and offering other comments, but rather avoiding to
give any decided opinion on the subject. He concluded,
however, by saying that neither house of parliament would,
unless they were clearly in the right, and the judges clearly
.n the wrong, long stand a conflict with the courts of law, or
conveniently do so with ti e country, and the suitors of a
Province containing two millions of inhabitants, while the
administration of justice was choked up by the imprison-
ment of those civil officers through whom it was to be ad-
ministered.
LordNIELBOURNE thought his noble and learned friend
could have acted much more prudently, much more justly,
and touch more properly, especially after admitting, as he
had done, that their lordship's' house had not the power to
interfere, had he. abstained trom making these observations.
1111. ~, RMY IN INDIA
On the motion of Lord MELBOURNE, and after some
remarks from the Duke of Wellington, the thanks of their
lordships veers voted to the Gov
to maiol error-General of India, Lord
A uckland, to Lord Keane, eneral Sir Willoughby
Cotton, and the other officers and 11-n
e engaged in the mili-
tary operations to the westward of the us, and that the
Governor-General he requested to communicate the same.
sociAtism.
After a question from Lord BROUGHAM as to a possible con-
tingency requiring a regency,given,
to which no answer was
The Bishop of E XET.E a addressed the house at great length,
and with much energy of argument and language., on th
subject of socialism, and concluded by moving tiiAt- ..-an
hatable address be presented to her Majesty, praying that
Aek test win,l, dbe pleased to command that int/161.k,
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