The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-06 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY.

A number of petitions were presented, amongst them one
by the Earl of GALLOW AY from the Protestant Association,
of Edinburgh, praying for inquiry respecting the books used
as class-books in the college of Maynooth, and alleging that
if these books were such as they were described to be, it was
inconsistent with the duty of a Christian government to sup-
port that college. He would not give any opinion as to
whether the books were immoral, anti-social, and unchris-
tian, as they were described to be ; but if they were so, it
was as much the duty of the government to suppress the in-
stitutions in which they were used as it was to suppress the
Socialist communities, against which the house had ad-
dressed the Queen. _

In answer to a question from the Earl of ABERDEEN,
Lord DUNCANNON replied that there was not, nor never
had been, the least intention of breaking up the Royal Bo-
tanical Gardens at Kew.
The Earl of ABERDEEN could assure the noble viscount
of such an intention, for an offer of these plants had been made
to the Horticultural Society, whether with the authority of
his colleagues or not he was not aware, but the society refused
the offer so made, thinking it injurious to the interest of the
public to remove the plants. The condition on which they
were offered was, that the public should be admitted to the
society's gardens, gratis, one day in the week. He was
happy to find the project was abandoned.
Viscount DUNCANNON said that the gardens were in the
lord steward's department, and he could assure the noble earl
there was not the least intention of giving them up.
In answer to a question from Lord REDESDALE,

Lord MONTEAGLE said the documents which' had been
destroyed lately, belonging to the Exchequer, were mostly
duplicates of documents connected with the old proceedings
of the Exchequer, and they had not been destroyed until
there had been a full inquiry and due deliberation upon the
subject. Two gentlemen competent to the task were ap-
pointed to make the inquiry, and they had reported upon the
subject, and if the house required it there would be no diffi-
culty in furnishing that report.
The Duke of RICHMOND begged their lordships to give
a first reading to a bill which was rendered necessary by some
transactions. In 1740, an act was passed which prohibited
any person from running more than one horse in a race, or
from running any horse otherwise than in his own name. Up
to the present time that act had never been put in force, nor
could it. If a person bought a horse under an engagement,
it ran under that engagement, as a matter of course ; yet,
according to that act, the horse was forfeited, and the owner
liable to a penalty. A clever solicitor had ferretted out this
act, and he had lately served notice of action upon six gen-
tlemen under it. Now, according to that law, the member
for a borough or county, subscribing £lO or £2O to the races
there, was liable under it to a penalty, or number of gentle-
men entering for a sweepstakes. 'His late Majesty, who
kept race-horses for the purpose of supporting an amuse-
ment in which all could join, and to maintain the breed of
horses, frequently ran three horses in one race, and that in
the name of the Master of the Horse. His Majesty was lia-
ble to one of the penalties and the forfeiture of the horses,
and the Earl of Albemarle to another penalty. The act had
clearly fallen into desuetude, and he asked them to read this
bill, in order to repeal it. He had followed the precedents
of the acts relating to pluralities and newspapers of the last
two sessions, so that the party might get his costs, but no
penalties.
Read a first time, and ordered a second time on Thursday.

The Duke of RICIIMON c moved for a return of the number
of stage coaches which, during the last year, were allowed to
pass on the turnpike roads free of toll, in consequence of
bearing the mails.
The bills on the table were then advanced a stage, and
their lordships, adjourned till Thursday.
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