The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24.

Mr. C. TURNER presented a petition from schoolmas-
ters and teachers of Liverpool, praying that the right of
representation in Parliament may be granted to the gra-
duates of the University of London.

BLACKBURN ELECTION.
Mr. DEEDES reported from: he committee that Mr. W.
Eccles was not duly elected to serve in the present Par-
liament for the borough of Blackburn, and that the last
election of that borough, so far as regarded the said Mr.
Eccles, was a void election, on the ground of bribery.
AUSTRALIAN MAILS.
In answer to a question respecting the intention of the
government to enforce the due and more punctual per.
formance of the existing contract for the conveyance of
mails to Australia cis the Cape of Good Hope,—Sir
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J. GRAHAM was sorry to say, that the performance the
contract on the part of the mail contractors had not been
as punctual as the good of the public service required,
and that it was the intention of the government to enforce,
if necessary, by penalties, a punctual performance of. the
contract. ADULTERATION OF COFFEE.
In reply to, a question, the.Cumiczuca of. the Ex.
cassvan said the goverment had come to the decision

that the public interests would be best consulted by
allowing chicory to be sold in a state of mixture with
coffee, provided it was so described in labels attached
thereto. THE LEADER OF THE HOUSE.
Mr. CAYLEY asked Lord John Russell whether it was
true he had resigned the seals of the foreign office, and, if
he had, whether he held any office under the crown to
which a salary was attached.—Lord JonN RUSSELL re-
plied he had resigned the seals of the foreign office, and
her Majesty had been pleased to appoint the Earl of
Carendon to that office. lie had no hesitation in saying
that he held no office now under the crown to which a
salary was attached.—Mr. CAYLEY thereupon gave notice
that upon an early day he should move a resolution to the
effect that it was expedient that a salary be attached to
the office of leader of the House of Commons.

NEWRY ELECTION.
Mr. LASCELLES reported from the committee appointed
to inquire into the Newry election, that Mr. Kirk had
been duly elected.

TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS.
Sir JOHN PAKINGTON drew attention to the state of
the Australian colonies, and to the question of trans-
portation. He explained the reasons which induced the
late government to promise the Australian colonies that
transportation to Van Diemen's Land sbou'd cease, and
he trusted that the present government would, at the
earliest possible moment, state what their views were on
the subject of secondary punishment. —Mr. FREDERICK
PEEL said the present government was prepared to follow
up the intentions of the late in;nistry on the subject of
crown lards. It was intended to cease transportation to
Australia, and parliament would be called upon to provide
some other secondary punishment.—After a few remarks
from other members, the papers relating to the subject
were ordered to be laid upon the table.

ADMISSION OF JEWS

Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved that the house go into
committee to take into consideration certain civil disabi-
litities affecting the Jews. What he proposed was so far
to complete the edifice of religious liberty as to allow the
Jewish subjects of Her Majesty the same rights and pri-
vileges of British subjects as were at present enjoyed by
Protestant dissenters and Roman Catholics. An error in
faith, he contended, was no ground for debarring men
from serving the crown and sitting in parliament. It was
said that the Jews were a separate nation ; but they were
not aliens, and therefore were British subjects by the
force of the proposition. Then it was alleged that they
were meant to be divided from all other nations ; but it
was not for us to carry out the decrees of the Almighty.
—Sir R. 'INGLIS opposed the motion. He did not consi-
der the Jew, who regarded our Saviour as an impostor, a
fit person to legislate for Christian people in a Christian
country.—Sir R. PEEL did not consider the admission of
Jews into parliament was at all a question of religions
liberty. He was in favour of the' removal of all disabili-
ties affecting Protestants or Roman Catholics, but he
would never countenance the admission of Jews into par-
liament, and the opening to them of all the high offices
of the state.—The motion was opposed by Mr. Napier,
Mr. Wigram, and Colonel Sibthorpe ; and supported by
Lord Monck, Lord Drumlanrig, Mr. Digby Seymour, and
Mr. Maurice O'Connell.

Upon a division the motion was carried by 237 to
207. The house then resolved itself into committee,
when a resolution in favour of a bill for the admission of
Jews into parliament was agreed to.

IRISH TENANT RIGHT

The motion of Sir J. Young, for a select committee on
several bills relating to the law of landlord and tenant
(Ireland), gave rise to considerable discussion, and the
motion was ultimately adjourned.