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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-05 00:00:00

INIPERIAL PARLIAMENT:

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. I
Jr_
NE 2S.
ROYAL ASSENT.—The Royal Assent was given by
commission to the following bills :—ln, ome-ta, Bailin
Error, Hackney-carriages (Metropolis), Australian Agri-
cultural Company, Great Northern Railway (No. 1), Ro-
sendale Waterworks, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln-
shire Railway Ateration of atal), Allendale R oad,
Lough Foyle and Lough SwillyCpi Railway, Iligham and
Ashcott Royads, York Drainaze and Sanitary Improve-
ment, and Foss Navigation, Portadown and Dungarvon
Railway, Swaffham and Bottisham Drainage (No. 2),
Gravesend and Wrotham-road, Dareuth Railway Valley,
Ludlow Cattle-market and Slaughter-houses, Belfast and
Ballymena Railway, Lough Foyle and Lough Swilly
brainage and Reclamation, Weston-super-Mare Water-
w?rks, Wigan Waterworks and Police, North and South-
Uestern Junction Railway (Hammersmith), Thames-
havenDock and Railway, Black Dog Road, Stafford
Shire-hall. Limerick Corporation. Leeds and Whitehall
Roads, Adelbeck Reservoirs, Leominster Markets and
Pairs, Sunderland Dock, Drumrnond's (Duke de Mel-
fort's) Restitution, Aberdeen Tailors' Incorporation
Estate, and Pelham Clinton's Estate.
CRIMINAL CHILDREN.—The Juvenile Mendicancy
(No. 2) Bill was read a second time, the discussion to be
taken on going into committee.
The Church Buildings Act Amendment Bill was also
read a second time, the discussion to be taken in corn-
tinttee.

THURSDAY, JUNE 30.
calle
FREE NEGROES FROM LIBERIA.—Lord BROUGHAM
d attention to a proclamation of President Roberts,
of Liberia, respecting wat was called ree emigration
from that territory to the West Indies, f
but which, he
DDuke of NEWCASTLE said the Government were perfectly
acquainted with the emigration referred to, which was
dartedcohen by most respectable shipowners, who would be
t
the slave trade. persons to abet any proceedings connected with
The Excise Duty on Spirits Bill passed through com-
mittee, and the Juvenile Mendicancy Bill was committed
pro Armci.
GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA.—The Duke of NEwCAS-
YLE made a statement respecting the Island of Jamaica,
where the dissensions between the Assembly on the one
hand, the Governor and the Council on the other, had
risen to such a height as to produce a total cessation of
internal government. It ad been that the con-
stitution of Jamaica, which hhad existedfound since the time of
Charles 11, abounded in such anomalies as to render any
combined action between the Governor and the Ass.etabrely.
ttaPossibl
toe; and the recent conduct of that body fusing pass any money bills had resulted in athleionstseromf
about £l,OOO a day to the colonial revenue.
As.
a, the
of office of the present Governor had expired,
Government proposed to supply his place the_ce
at a
late Governor of Guiana, who would accept office
reduced salar
•
Paid at _
h there
y, the greater portion of which would be
were farhome. Several other offices, of which too man in the islad, be shor
abolished, the
preseny t holders receivingu a moderate comtly
._-
Pensation. The debt of the island amounted to £700,000,
on which interest was paid at six per cent. It was pro-
Posed that .£500,000 should be raised, at a lower rate of
interest, on the credit of this country, and that tha
amount of the island debt should be paid off, thus effect-
,H.lg a saving in interest of about £15,000 a year, 139r-
tiou of which saving was to be appropriated as a sinking
fund, so as to pay off the debt in a period of thirtY years.
Be then alluded to reforms in the constitution which he
hoped might be introduced by the exertions of the new
Governor, and after holding out a hope of further finan-
cial assistance under Certain conditions, concluded by ex-
pressing his convictn that what was now proposed
would tend evenly to the immediate advantage of Ja-
maica, but tuallgovernent in the island. After speeches from Lords
3' to the establishment of better
DERBY, GREY, WHARNCLIFFE and ST. VINCENT, who
all agreed in the gloomy view 'which they took of the
Present condition of Jamaica, and in the absolute neces-
sity of remedying it by leaislation, the subject dropped.
SECON PUNISHMENTS.—The LORD CHANCELLOR
laid upon the table a bill for the substitution of imprison-
ment with hard labour, to be followed by labour on the
Public works, at the discretion of the Executive, for the
Dunishnaent of transportation for minor offences.
The house adjourned at ten minutes past eight.
FRIDAY, JULY 1.
CHTJRCH DISTRICTS.--The Earl of SHAFTESBURY Pre-
!ented a petition from more than 500 incumbents of dis-
Itict and other churches. They represented that there
were nearly 4,000 incumbents whose incomes did not
!Mount to £l5O, and very many
below £OO, and they prayed the house to take into their
whose incomes were
Immediate consideration the inadequacy ot the district
system to meet the spiritual wants of the population—
!he distressed condition of a large proportion of incum-
bents—and that the church was in possession of sufficient
Property to remedy those evils.
rentedINDIAN GOVERNMENT.—The Earl of ALBEMARLE pre-
petition a petition from the town of Birmingham, praying
for the abolition of a double Indian government.—After
the Select Committee on Indian Affairs.
(iiatsit EsTATEs.—The report of the EncurnberedEstates
debate
Bill was brought up and agreed to after a short
lor •
debate
other business was despatched, and their
lordships adjourned.
HOUSE OP t•—•

,Tbre_h.olis;cor
etCaOt:MnoINoInO.N.UESDAY, JUNE 28.
ItICICLAND presented a petition from Preston,
ur,.51 in:: public-houses and beershops on Sundays.
ts,-";.11 ScitooLs.—ln answer to Mr. Walpole, whether
117 i-3tanaissioners of National Education in Ireland
!p47e l'jected or expunged from the list of books to be
tred in the national schools The Evidences of Chrif7
iitY, by the Archbishop of Dublin, Sir J. YOUNG
at R
h --nmanists and others had taken an objection to that
'°ol‘ as of a polemical kind, and thisworkand the Easy
Leak
on Christianity had been withdrawn.
SCOTCH SHERIFFS.—The house went again into com-
mittee on the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill, and the
remaining clauses were ag,reed to.
TURKEY AND RUSSIA.—Mr. LAYARD gave notice
'net he would, on the Bth of July, bring forward the
Motion, of which he had already given notice, respecting
the questions pending between Turkey and Russia.
THE BALLOT.—Mr. BONHAM-CARTER moved for leave
to bring in a bill to provide that, whenever a commission
ti 3
n inquire into the corrupt practices at any election in the
ited Rinc,dorn shall have issued, the votes at the two
lectinns next subsequent thereupon in any such Place
shall be taken by ballot. After a brief discussion, a mo-
-I°ll for adjournment was carried without a division.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29.
ZPetitions were presented by Mr. COBBETT in favour of
it: amendment of the Factory Acts, with a restriction on
b.e Motive power, from Crompton, signed by the incum-
ki'nrit, masters. and inhabitants, Crompton overlookers,
Wilw°43eople in the employ of James Cocker, Abel
d'nton and Co. James Cheetham and Sons, James
, and Co., Samuel Lees, Joseph Clegg, William
taytor
" Wild, James Greaves, James Hague, and
t.-e'seP.ll Clezz and Co., and four petitions from the trus-
eV. Of blinding Societies in the borough of Oldham,
°,4l;nst the Registration of Assurances Bill.
toactit WEST INDIA LOAN.—In
answer to Mr. Tolle-
',ern...e' M
Mr. J. WILSON stated the intentions of the go-
theTent with reference to the undischarged portions of
es 1. .Tans to the islands of Antigua, Nevis. and Mont-
-1-1.---narcielY, to reduce the interest from 4 per cent. to
st_Per cent., and to make the principal repayable by in-
celln,Uents of 5 per cent. per annum, instead of 10 per
it! upon certain conditions.
th„";,i.sß LAND.—On the motion of Mr. V. SCULLY,
3,7raßSfer of Land (Ireland) Bill was read a second
'rationnnd referred to the Select Committee on the Regis-
of Assurances Bill.
Idtra.s.—The house went again into committee on the
tYnirts of Common Law (Ireland) Bill, and on the Elec-
;;ons Bill, The Seamen's Say' -banks Bill and the
The
Libraries (Ireland) Billtnwgesre read a second time.
'the house went into committee upon the remaining
clauses of the Public-houses (Scotland) Bill.
THE WRIT FOR LIVERPOOL.
;11k,kr. FRESHFIELD moved " that Mr. Speaker do issue
, warrant to the clerk of the Crown to make out a new
t for the electing of two burgesses to serve in this pre-
°p tint Parliament for the borough of Liverpool, in the
4t° of Charles Turner and William Forbes Mackenzie,
It,irs., whose elections have been determined to be void."
wouVngbain, who was chairman of the c9riamitee,
hat have had great satisfaction in making this
.motion,
cesa ~te Was prevented from doing so by having to discharge
ludicial duties at Newcastle.—Lord D. STUARTe
vote,, t the motion which stood in his name,. that oe. ,ror this boron hat the next election should be
as 11:1,P7 ballot, had remainedg on the paper by mistake,
bribe beet. informed bthe Speaker that he could not
ands the for7ard on this ocycasion The 19th day of July.
aod,
is earliest day at which he 'could bring it forward
ief°re thee desired that that motion should be disposed of
the was issued, he should move that the writ
"e ballot 4,_"
s'9,ntil the 20th of July. He wished to see
tefidwas endeavTiNd in the case of a large constituency. He
ed.
eineedoueTogr
atolotiowl.sthiliT that this writ should be sus-
anciig in a bin', that an opportunity might be given to
divisiPnro
e the votes to be taken by ballot,
the
chair until 6 ececi_ , standing continued cries for a
'et when the Speaker at once left

, Tolle BirkenheTadilDijoilckravAY. JUNE 30.
—"Van Bill and the Birken-
ne,_ Dock Trustees Bill were readYa third time and passed.
~.41.r. GREENE presented a petition from the attorneys of
'A
itcaster against the Registration of Assurances Bill.
from9,INC SUGAR IN BOND.--In answer to a question
._a., slr. Baillie, whether the Government have refused
'uti.,ll,lo.wettiritish plantation sugars to be refined in bondr,
ili._cilaa..her they intend, When the duties on all siagfls
c nsidered
to i
.'_ize, . lized, that the
toerivile of refining in bond, which
a bonus equal I. per cw -,
2 t should refusedd
to the n producerfavo of foreign slave-grown sugar, an
of
the
,of the British colonies, the CHANCELLOR
any abt'XeßEQl:Eit denied that the Government had given
4,, solute and final refusal to allow British plantation
begar to be refined in bond or indeed, any refusal. at all
Yond the si 1
' ' t s yet arrived a.
a elea,,
vie inp e fact, that they had no a.
Porters _ 'N- of any plan or plans that realize
.to
i ate from
refioi_ °,, sugar the advantages which they antic
Ps
to the
reve_n‘g in bond without entailing serious losse
th1t,;1,14..e. With respect to what will be done when the
the 'm-
atter
all sugars will be equalized, thats a
mu
on
ids for further consideration. The duty upon
not be equalized for twelve months t 9. come,
es
n sugars are equalized the position of this q
11 be seriously altered, in some respects, by that
zation.
'VERN,.^-
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qexr or INnlA.—Lord J. ItussELL said the
t Were not wininm to inser'

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el
er of

clse in the
trait its duration, but, of an
course, it was in
the house, when in committee, to make any

intention to a quest ion, Lord J.
) on the part of the
'ps during the present session

or JEWS.—In rep said there w^- •

take any

to sit in Parliament.
THE NAVY.—Sir J. GRAIIAM gave no tica
ay (this day)he would move for leave to bring
nrovision for the entry

13--one to make better
:a of seamen,
2 her Majest

) amend gene

c,...,.ra11y the laws
anti the second to est4it