The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-07 00:00:00

THURSDAY, JUNE 2

COUNTY COURT EXPENSES:—Lord BROUGHAM pre-
sented a petition, complaining of having had to pay
19s. 7d. as expenses in a suit in the county court for a
balance of £4 Gs.—being 24! per cent. upon the sum
recovered—and this without including any expenses for
professonal assistance.—The LORD CHANCELLOR said he
was quite alive to the importance of this subject, and that
it was his anxious wish to have the whole matter sifted
with the least possible delay.— Lord CAMPBELL said, that
the monstrous evil brought under their notice did not
arise, ho believed, from the fees alone, but from the fact
that, according to the present constitution and procedure
of the county courts, there could not be a judgment
without trial.

CONVERSION OF STOCK.—The LORD CHANCELLOR
stated that, owing to the unfavourable state of the money
market, no further assent would be given to the accept-
ance of the new 21 per cent. stock on behalf of suitcrs in
Chancery. _ _

OATHS.—On the order of the day being read for going
into committee on the alteration of Oaths Bill, the Earl
of ELLENBOROUGH said that, though he was anxious to
be relieved from the mummeries of some parts of the old
oath, still he regarded the wording of the new oaths with
great suspicion. Besides, it was not desirable that ano-
ther opportunity for a debate on Jewish disabilities should
arise during the present session. He therefore moved,
as an amendment, that the bill be committed that day
three months.—Lord DERBY expressed his suspicion of
the bill in its present shape, but was willing, if a similar
measure were introduced at an earlier period next session,
to give it his support.—Upon a division, the amendment
was carried by 84 to 69, and the bill was accordingly lost.
The Common Lodging.houses Bill, the Aggravated
Assaults Bill, the Sale of Bullion Bill, and the Evidence
Amendment Bill were severally read a third time and
passed.
Certain returns connected with the accounts of the
Ecclesiastical Commission were then agreed to on the
motion of Lord Pawls.

The Earl of ALBEMARLE presented a petition from the
citizens of Bristol, praying the house not to legislate per-
manently for India till full inquiry had taken place into
the condition of the several presidencies.—The petition
was ordered to be referred to the Select Committee on
Indian Affairs, and their lordships adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY, MAY 31.
BLACKBURN ELECTION PETITION.—The SPEAKER in-
formed the house that he had received a letter from the
agents of the petitioners against the return for the
borough of Blackburn, stating that it was not intended to
proceed with the petition.
PETITIONS.—Mr.CH A ALES TURNER presented petitions
from the bookbinders of the town of Liverpool, from the
letter-press printers of Liverpool, from the journeymen
coopers of Liverpool, from the operative tinplate workers
of Liverpool, from the sailmakers of Liverpool, from the
operative millers of Liverpool, and from the engineers of
Liverpool, in favour of theCombinationof Workmen Bill.—
Mr. TOLLEMACHE presented a petition from the saltboilers,
flatmen, and tradesmen of Northwich, in the county of
Chester, and Mr. PILKINGTON, from Blackburn, to the
same effect.—Mr. PILKINGTON presented petitions from
Blackburn against opening the Crystal Palace on Sundays ;
from the solicitors of Blackburn against the Registration
of Assurances Bill ; and from Darwen, in favour of
granting members to the University of London.—
Mr. CHARLES TURNER presented petitions from the
operative ropemakers of the borough of Liverpool, pray-
ing that no further reduction be made in the import
duties on foreign cordage, cables, cable. yarn, or standing
and running rigging.
CUSTOMS' ACTS.—Mr. BOUVERIE brought up the re-
port of the Committee on the Customs' Acts, and the re-
solutions were read and agreed to.
THE IRISH CHURCH•—Mr. G. H. MOORE, in a length-
ened speech, moved for a select committee to inquire into
the ecclesiastical revenues of Ireland, with the view of
ascertaining hour far they are made applicable to the
benefit of the Irish people. He enlarged upon the evils
he attributed to the Irish Church Establishment, upon
its vast revenues, exacted from Romanists. and generally

upon the religious policy pursued in Ireland, which was

worse, he said, in' principle than in practice, which
endowed the religion of the rich, and handed over that of
the poor to the uncontrolled operation of the voluntary
principle.—The motion was seconded by Mr. M. O'CON.
NELL.—Sir J. YOUNG inferred that the object of Mr.
Moore was the total abolition of the Church establish.
ment of Ireland, which a Romanist might be expected
consistently to advocate; but in ascribing all the evils
of that country to its Church establishment, he had over-
looked its bad commercial system, and other agencies to
which those evils were really attributable.—Sir R. INGLIS
opposed the motion, the object of which he considered to
be, not the gratification of abstract curiosity, but, as dis-
closed by the speeches in support of it, the overthrow of
the Established Church of Ireland, though its existence
was guarded by the Act of Union and by the oaths of
members of that house, and it was an integral part of the
institutions of the whole empire.—Mr. LUCAS supported
the motion, which he remarked was said to be unconsti-
tutional; but how could they talk of a constitution in
Ireland when they were discussing the monstrous iniquity
of the Established Church there, and when inquiry into
this despotism was refused ?—Lord JOHN RUSSELL
opposed the motion, and after some further discussion it
was negatived by 262 to 100.
Mr. KERB obtained leave to bring in a bill to prevent
the spread of the contagious disease commonly called
glanders.—(A laugh.)
DURHAM ELECTION PETITION.—The adjourned de-
bate on the motion for a select committee upon the Dur-
ham election petitions, was resumed, and ultimately the
motion was agreed to.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1.
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PETITIONS.—Mr.CHARLESTURNERpresented petitions
from the shipwrights, shipjoiners, and journeymen tailors
of Liverpool, and from a meeting of the industrious classes
of the borough of Liverpool, in favour of the Combination
of Workmen Bill.—Mr. T. PARKER presented a petition
from Preston to the same effect.—Mr. THICKNESSE
presented a similar petition from the painters of Wigan.--
Mr. TOLLEMACHE, from the weavers of Congleton, in
the county of Chester ; and Mr. CROOK, from the opera-
tive members of the trades at Bolton—viz., the cotton.
spinners, stonemasons, ironmoulders, tobacco manufac-
turers, engineers, millwrights and smiths, carpenters and
joiners, brushmalcers, cloggers, tinplate-workers, boot and
shoemakers, cabinetmakers, bedquilt weavers, curriers,
bricklayers, coachmakers, and brassfounders.
CRIMINAL APPEALS.—Mr. I. BUTT. in moving the se-
cond reading of the New Trials (Criminal Cases) Bill,
represented the present state of the law, which, by a
fiction of modern times, had departed from the ancient
principle, as full of anomalies, denying to a party whose
honour or life was in jeopardy an appeal which was granted
in the most trivial civil cases. He proposed to give a
right of appeal from the finding of the jury in matters of
fact as well as upon points of law, without the consent of
the judge, providing that it should not interfere with the
execution of the sentence, a special tribunal of appeal
being appointed in capital cases. He had framed his bill
with reference to Ireland only, but he submitted this as
an imperial question, equally applicable to England.—
The 'motion was opposed by Lord PALMERSTON, who
said punishments were not intended as vengeance wreaked
upon the accused, but to protect society by deterring from
crime, and the sentence of the law should be certain, and
as rapid as was consistent with the ends of justice. His
opinion was that the present state of the law afforded to
an innocent man every protection against an unjust sen-
tence ; judges could reserve points of law, and, as to facts,
recourse could be had to a quarter where a remission or
commutation of the sentence was never refused in proper
cases. After some further discussion, the bill was thrown
out without a division. _

EXCLUSION OF JUDGES.—The third reading of the
Judges' Exclusion Bill being moved by Lord Hotham,
Mr. DRUMMOND moved to defer it for six months, re-
marking that the bill, though it professed to be a measure
of reform, did not look to history as a guide for the future,
but sought to surrender many present advantages on a
mere speculation of what might hereafter occur.—Mr.
MACAULAY said he would throw open the house not only
to the Judge of the Admiralty Court, but also to the
Lords Justices of Appeal and the Vice-Chancellors, who
would, in his opinion, add to the credit of that great
assembly, and render it far more efficient for the dis-
charge of some of its duties.—Upon a division the
amendment was carried by :226 to 125, and the bill was
consequently lost.
COMBINATIONS.—On the order for the third reading
of the Combination of Workmen Bill, at the suggestion
of Lord PALMERSTON, who, on the part of the govern-
ment, did not object to the principle of the bill, it was
read a third time, and further proceedings were post-
poned for a fortnight, in order to afford time to prepare
amendments.