The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

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the medical officer of. an union had the power of
drugs distributed by him
to the union itself."
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Of the EXCHEQUE

board would 1

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£5,000

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expense of the poor law commission.
A discussion then took place in the committee on the
inefficiency of the present medical relief for the poor. In
the course of it Mr. WAKLEY expressed his reluctance to
vote these salaries, because the house had not the New
Poor-law Bill before it, and because he understood that
that bill had been mutilated in the House of Lords of two
of its most humane and important clauses, and that, too,
without any effort having been made by government to

The vote for the Poor-law Board was then agreed to

without division;
On the vote for granting £lO,OOO to defray the ex-
penses connected with the capture of slave-trading vessels,
Mr. P. BORTRWICK called the attention of the house
to the great evils and cruelties resulting from the system
adopted under our treaties with foreign powers for sup-
pressing the slave trade. He showed that that system
cost us more than a million a year—that it produced no
advantage—and that it retarded the progress of civilization.
Furthermore he contended that the loss of life among our
seamen and officers employed on the coast of Africa was
very large, and was perfectly useless ; and, lastly, he
maintained that for every thousand negroes sold into sla-
very, seven times that number died in the most excruci-
ating agonies. He concluded by calling on Lord Palmer-
ston to consent to the repeal of the statutes enacted for
carrying out our treaties with foreign powers in reference
to the slave trade, to abrogate the treaties themselves, and
thus to free humanity from the terrible curse which they
had entailed upon it.
Lord PALMERSTON supposed the object of Mr. Borth-
wick to be to legalize the slave-trade, and observed, that
under the guise of great regard for humanity he had in-
sinuated that conclusion by every means in his power.
He believed that the slave-trade could never be entirely
and permanently stopped until the condition of slavery
was itself abolished. He then took a review of the va-
hich the government had taken for the
bominable traffic, recounted the va-
were bound to co-operate with
1 that we could not suddenly

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loss of honour and national

division

.edlo without a

The rest of the evening was taken up in discussing the
her estimates.

RAILWAY

IFFAIRS

The opening of the railway from Newcastle-upon-Tyne
to Berwick will enable travellers to make a journey from
London to Edinburgh in 13 or 14 hours.

The bill for the amalgamation of the Chester and Bir-
kenhead, and the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire
Junction Railways, has passed through all its preliminary
stages in both houses of parliament, without the intro-
duction of the restrictive clauses. The bill has therefore
passed in its integrity, and is quite safe.

LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OE A RAILWAY
TUNINEL.—On Friday, the first stone of the tunnel, about
to be made under a considerable extent of the north part
of the town, for the Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding
Railway, was laid at the corner of Great George-street, by

rge-torry, Esq., one of the directors, in the presence

'and other friends,

3.K CALI

The banking house of

Smith, Payne, and' Co. was so completely besieged on
Wednesday, by parties coming to pay the call, that many
of the shareholders were obliged to wait full an hour
before they had an opportunity of paying their money
and aetting their receipts. On the day in question no

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