The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

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EDUCATION IN IRELAND.—SeveraI bills were forr7arded
a stage, after which Lord CLANCARTY called attention to
the fact that certain returns connected with national edu-
cation in Ireland, which had been ordered to be laid
before the house in April last, had not - "
ducA.—The E ,r 1 of ABERDEEN promised that inquir
should be made into the matter, and
contradiction to Lords Wicklow and Donoughmore, that
the national system of education was the greatest blessing
ever conferred upon Ireland.

yet been pro-

The Bishop of SALISBURY moved for returns connected
with the revenue of his see, and made a statement to meet
the charges that had bccn made agaiast him of receiving
a larger income than the legislature had intended.
In reply to Lord Waldegrave, Lord CLARENDON stated
that the fleet on the coast of Africa had been maintained
in full efficiency, and that no exertions would be spared
to suppress the slave trade.

Their lordships adjourned at a quarter before ten o'clock.

FRIDAY, JULY 29.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH presented a petition from
a place in Cheshire, on the subject of the salt dut
India, praying the admission of

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factures into that country. He expressed his dissent f
the prayer of the petition.

BANKRUPTCY.—In reply to a question, the Lord
CHANCELLOR. said that it was the intention, in a fow days,
to appoint a commission to '..7.ri.Yre into the law of bank-

ruptcy

'SCOTCH SCHOOLMASTERS.—In reply to the Duke of
Buccleuch, the Earl of ABERDEEN said it had been in-
tended to bring in a bill on the subject, but subsequently
it was thought better to incorporate the bill with Lord J.
Russell's general education measure, which had unfortu-
nately fallen through for the session. The schoolmasters,
however, might rely upon receiving their s?l..lries up to
June, 1854.

The Resident Magistrates (Ireland) Bill, the Turnpike
Trusts Arrangements Bill, the Sheep, &c., Contagious
Diseases Prevention Bill, the Public Libraries (Ireland
and Scotland) Bill, the Burgh Harbours (Scotland) Bill,
the Elections Bill, and the Sheriffs Courts (Scotland) Bill
were read a second time.

The Registrar of .Ileetings Bill went through com-
mittee.

The Customs' Duties Bill and the Dublin Parliarnen-
rary Registration Bill were read a third time and passed.
The Stamp Duties Bill was passed through committee.
Their Lordships adjourned at a quarter to seven o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY, JULY 2G.
Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from the medical
profession in Liverpool, praying the house to consider
the case of the naval medical officers.

GOVERNMENT or INDIA.—The house went again into
committee upon the Government of India Bill.—Mr.
J. PHILLIMOSE moved to insert a clause, the object of
which was to constitute a tribunal to take cognizance of
disputes between the Government of British India and
native princes, giving an appeal from such tribunal to the
Privy Council.—ln the debate which ensued, the case of
the Rajah of Sattara, the Rajah of Coorg, and the Ameers
of Scinde were commented upon.—The motion was ne-
gatived.—Mr. V. SMITH moved a clause, enacting that
the fixed salary of the President of the Board of Control
shall in no case be less than the salary paid to one of her
Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, and that only one
of the Secretaries to the Board shall be capable of being
elected to a seat in Parliament.—Lord PALMERSTON
said, there were very good reasons why it was impossible
that a President of the Board of Control should, in the ex-
isting state of things, he a Secretary of State, whose pro-
vince it was to signify the commands of her Majesty ; but
he agreed with Mr. Smith that it was desirable that the
President of the Board should be placed, in position and
salary, upon the footing of a Secretary of State.--Upon a
division the clause was carried by 118 to 31.—Mr. M.
MILNES, as a person deeply interested in this measure,
begged to tender his thanks to the government for having
allowed this " one" amendment to pass. (Cheers and
laughter.)—Another amendment,respecting theadmission
to Addiscombe, was rejected by 103 to 31, and the Chair-
man reported progress.—Upon resuming the sitting at six
o'clock the house was counted out.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27.
Mr. ADDERLEY presented a petition from the visiting
justices of Preston, and the Committee of Management
of Stretton-on.Dunsmore Reformatory School, in favour
of the Juvenile Offenders' Bill, and requiring immediate
legislation on the subject.
THE LONDON CAB STRIKE.—SiT R. K. INGLIS drew
attention to the cab strike, and asked the Under-Secretary
for the Home Department if he was ready to refer the
question to a select committee, with a view to an amend-
ment of the new Cab Act.—Mr. WALPOLE said the great
ground of complaint was the abolition of the back fares.
—Mr. Frrzao.v declared that, on the whole, the new
Cab Act was worked exceedingly well, and the proprietors
were generally satisfied with sixpence a mile ; but cab-
drivers were sometimes unjustly treated by the public, in
being taken long distances beyond the Metropolitan
districts, and then discharged, with only the common
fare. It was, therefore, proposed to amend the law, so
that a cabman should not be compelled to go beyond a
distance of five miles, when lie should be entitled to an
additional fare, to be fixed by the House, in the event of
his being taken out of a certain radius.
LUNACY.—The house went into committee on the
Lunacy Regulation Bill, and the 154 clauses were agreed
to with some verbal amendments. The house next went
into committee on the Lunatic Asylums Bill, and the
clauses—above a hundred—were agreed to with some
verbal amendments.
FACTORIES BILL.—On the order for the second reading
of this bill, it was suggested that as there was no chance
of the bill passing this year, the order should be dis-
charged.—Mr. COBBETT, who had charge of the bill, said
he had consulted the order-book-, and found that there
was no open day this session, when the next start could
be made, if the bill was read a second time ; he, there-
fore, thought it best to postpone the bill until next session.
The order for the second reading was consequently dis-
charged.
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The house adjourned at a few minutes before 6 o'clock.

THURSDAY. JULY 28

The House met at noon.
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moved resolutions to the following effect :-
1. That provision be made out of the Consolidated
Fund for paying off the stocks of the South Sea
Company in respect of which assents to commute
shall not have been signified, and for paying to the com-
pany the amount of their capital not commuted under
the act of the present session. 2. That the company be
permitted to commute, within, a limited time, the in-
terest on their stock in respect of shares standing in the
names of the Accountant-General of the Courts of Chan-
cery, of the Accountant in Bankruptcy, and of trustees
and others disabled from voting in the General Court of
Proprietors, into any of the stocks or securities autho-
rised to be created by the act of the present session, am'.
the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents (1844), upon such
terms as the Lords of the Treasury may see fit to offer,
provided the assent of the company be signified within
a certain time. 3. That the company be permitted to
commute, upon the same terms, the interest in respect of
such further amount of their stock as may be required to
be invested as a guarantee fund for their administration of
private trusts. He explained the reasons why he pro-
posed to extend this option to stock held in trustees' or
joint names, which amounted to the largest portion,
whereas, these parties being disabled from voting, the
decision of the company was carried by a minority of the
property, and he had been informed that a large propor-
tion of these parties were desirous of the commutation,
from which they were precluded by the law. The object
of the third resolution was this :—The South Sea Com-
pany had long entertained a project of undertaking the
office of voluntary trustees in private trusts, and a bill
was being passed for that object, which required as a
condition the establishment of a guarantee fund. The
effect of the second and third resolutions was to prevent
the necessity of launching upon the money market next
year £2,500,000, to be immediately absorbed again. He
thought the best course was to enable the Treasury to
offer to the parties either the power of accepting the
option given by the statute of this session, or the Three-.
and-a-Quarter per Cents, created in 1844, which would
shortly become a Three per Cent stock. It might, perhaps,
be thought that parties who had commuted under the act of
this year should be placed upon a similar footing ; but he
thought it would lie better to await the result of expe-
rience, to intrust the Treasury with a discretion, and to
deal with this part of the question next session.—Mr.
DISRAELI observed, that these resolutions involved very
serious considerations. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
had expected from his scheme of commutation not less
than £lOO,OOO, whereas his plan had entirely failed, the
calculations upon which it was framed having proved illu-
sory. The first resolution merely fulfilled an obligation
with creditors, and to that he did not object ; but with
respect to the second, he objected to adopting a new
scheme to prop up one that had failed. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer proposed that a power should be granted
to the Government very unusual, if not unprecedented,
framing the terms of a financial proposition. In the first
place he thought it most unwise to confer upon any mi-
nister power to enter into a financial bargain of any kind ;
and, secondly. the antecedents of the present ministry
were not such as to make it an exception to the rule.
The wisest course, in his opinion, was to conclude the
arrangements as soon as possible, and let it be understood
what the loss would be ; and he thought it would be most
unwise, at the end of a session, to be patching up a scheme,