The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-31 00:00:00

TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY

The attendance to-day was small, and the betting misera-
bly dull. The prime feature of the afternoon's business was
the appearance of Ha rkawav as first favourite for the hitherto
neglected Goodwood Cup; 1.00 to 40 was taken, and his backer
was anxious to go on at the same price. The Goodwood
Stakes was touched upon, and Loutherbourg backed with
considerable spirit; but beyond this, and the retirement of
Toothill, nothing worthy of observation presented itself.
Cobham will be found to have advanced a couple of points
for the Doncaster St. Leger. No other alteration occurs in
a stake which seems to have lost all interest. Closing
prices :

GOODWOOD CUP.
2 to 1 against Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway. (t 5 to 2)
100 to 5 „ Mr. Worrall's Dormouse. (t)

GOODWOOD STAKES.
9 to 2 against Mr. Osbaldiston's Mahometan. (5 to 1 t)
sto 1 „ Sir G. Heathcote's Valentissimo. (t)
Bto 1 ~ Mr. Fowler's Heron.
Bto 1 ~ Mr. Theobald's Loutherbourg. (t to 1)
12 to 1 „ Mr. Sowerby's St. Luke. (t)
9to 1 Chapeau and Edgar taken; 13 to 2 Edgar and St.
Luke taken.

DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
4 to 1 against Col. Peel's lon. (9 to 2 t)
Bto 1 „ Itg.opmbe's Cobham. (t 9to 1)
/1Z" 16 to 1 „ F. Pa 's Lanererst. (t 20 to 1)
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imperial Varliament.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY.
COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. _ _

Lord J. RUSSELL, in moving the order of the day for the
house going into a committee of supply, stated that, in con-
sequence of the absence of his right hon. friend, the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, he only proposed going into committee
to enable an hon. and gallant officer to make the statement
to the house of which he had given notice: they should then
immediately resume, for the purpose of postponing the com-
mittee of supply till Friday.
Sir E. CODRINGTON called the attention of the house to
the officers of her Majesty's navy, compared with those of the
other branches of the public service. The gallant admiral
complained of the paltry amount of pay and retiring pen-
sions allowed to the officers of the navy. That service, he
said, which had gained such important and glorious sucesses
for the British arms, was placed on a lower footing in this
respect than any other branch of the public service. Officers
of high rank, who had commanded ships against the enemies
of their country, and performed the most brilliant exploits,
were condemned in peace to a life of embarrassment and
difficulties, with a half-pay less than the pension of some
petty clerk in an office of the civil department of the adminis-
tration. The gallant admiral, in support of his statement,
proceeded to detail to the house the amount of half-pay of
the various ranks of the navy, comparing the sums with those
received by officers of the military and civil department.
The hon. and gallant officer moved " That a select com-
mittee be appointed to take into consideration the case of
officers in her Majesty's navy as compared with those of other
branches of the public service."
Mr. C `Moon said his reason for opposing the motion was
this—early this session a committee was appointed to take
this very subject under their consideration. He did not
think, therefore, that they ought to appoint a committee of
that house for the purpose of effecting the self-same object;
for the commission, as he conceived, fully embraced the whole
subject of the pay and rewards of officers of the army, navy,
and marines. He believed that the service never was in a
better state than at that moment. (Hear, hear.) They had
twenty sail of the line at sea; and he would venture to say,
that if they liked they could send out ten times that number
of ships, if they could find men to man them. (Hear, hear.)
But, in fact, the mistakes of his hon. and gallant friend were
so great and so many, that he (Mr. C. Wood) hardly knew
what assertion to contradict, unless he contradicted them
all.

Captain PfiCHELL complained that naval officers bad not a
fair share of public appointments. They would see by the
Gazette even that while there were but six naval officers
raised to the order of knights of the bath, a whole column
was filled with the names of officers of the army and East
India Company, upon whom that distinction was conferred.
After a discussion, in which some recent promotions in the
naval service were complained of on the one hand and justi-
fied on the other, the amendment was withdrawn, and the
committee of supply was postponed until Friday.
On the order of the day for the second reading of the spirit
licenses (Ireland) bill being read, an hoh, member moved
that the house be counted. Strangers were ordered to with-
draw, and, only thirty-three members being present, the
house adjourned at half-past seven.

HOUSE OF LORDS-THURSDAY.
CHURCH DISCIPLINE BILL

Lord MELBOURNE moved the order of the day for the third
reading of this bill.

The Bishop of EXETER rose to oppose the further progress
of this bill, which he characterised as one of the heaviest
blows ever aimed at the protestant church of this country.
The bill proposed to prevent any ecclesiastical court, except
the Court of Arches in London, from passing any sentence
of excommunication or degradation against the clergy. Now,
be contended. there was an inherent jurisdiction in every
Christian bishop, of which no legislature could deprive them.
The Bishops' court were as old as Christianity itself With-
out depriving a bishop of his see, human laws could not de-
prive him of right, or absolve him from the duty, to ex-
ercise the jurisdiction which his office enjoined; and, for
himself, he declared solemnly that he should not feel at li-
berty to obey the provisions which this bill contained, should
it pass into a law. He should continue, in that event, to call
upon the clergy of his diocese to answer to him for any
crimes of which they might be accused; and if a clergyman
disobeyed him, he would pronounce sentence of excommu-
nication against him. Their lordships might pass a bill of
pains and penalties against him ; they might deprive him of
his gown and mitre; but his " robe and his integrity to
Heaven," no human power should or could take from him.
The right rev. prelate denounced what he denominated the
monstrous injustice of a measure which would transfer all
that power which properly belonged to the bishops of the
church and to the Archbishop of York to one court, the
Court of Arches. It was a measure affecting the most im-
portant interests and essential functions of the clergy, on be-
half of whom he earnestly appealed to their lordships. The
clergy of this country had not yet had an opportunity of
knowing one fraction of the provisions of the bill. If it was a
bill for the regulation of master chimneysweepers, it would
have been proceeded with in a more patient and careful
spirit. He did not believe that their lordships would grant
a third reading to the hill, but that they would rather agree
with him when he proposed that it should be read a third
time that day six months.
LDuring the prelate's speech, Marshal Soult came into the
house, and stood below the throne, immediately behind the
woolsack.]
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said, if hard words and
insinuations could secure the fate of this bill, its doom might
be considered as sealed. The measure, however, had not
been framed without consulting the entire bench of bishops;
for no fewer than two preliminary meetings had taken place,
which were numerously attended. (Hear.) Upon one of
those occasions the right rev. prelate bad attended, and ob-
jected to the bill, but certainly not in the strong terms of
reprobation which he had chosen that night to employ,
nor any thing like the same terms. There was, he be-
lieved, only one other prelate who objected to the bill,
upon that occasion, and who did so simply on the ground,
that he was satisfied with the working of his own court.
He (the Archbishop of Canterbury) was requested by
that body of bishops to carry the heads of the bill to the
Lord Chancellor, as having received their approbation.
No remedy could be proposed for the existing evils which
were admitted, that would not be met by objections from
some parties; but still he held that the principles on which
the bill was now opposed by the right rev. prelate were erro-
neously founded, and that, as no mode of amendment could
be expected to give universal satisfaction, he trusted that
their lordships would now allow the bill to be read a third
time.

Lord BROUGHAM opposed the bill, observing that its author
could not be serious in asking the house to pass it. The
principles on which the most rev. prelate had supported the
bill might do very well fur a former age, but they would not
do for the present day. Let the most reverend prelate go
before his colleagues and argue the question, which he was
certain he could not do,—let him produce their authority,
and the authority of reason for this bill, if he could.

The Bishop of LINCOLN, in a few words, supported the bill.
Lord WY N FOR D recommended the withdrawal of the bill
for the present session, pointing out several objectionable
points in the project which required alteration.
The Duke of WELLINGTON, adopting the suggestion of
Lord Wynford, decidedly recommended- the postponement
of the measure till a future period in the present session, or
till the neat session of parliament.
The Loan CHANCELLOR thought, if the third reading were
delayed now, that there would be a risk of even another ses-
sion passing before there was any reform in ecclesiastical
jurisdiction.

The Archbishop Of CANTERBURY said, that nothing that
he had heard advanced against the bill had shaken his opi-
nions respecting the desirableness of its passing into law;
but as the sense of the house seemed to be against the bill,
he was not disposed to urge the measure, and would therefore
consent to its being withdrawn.
The bill was then ordered to be read a third time that day
six months.

The Affirmation Bill was read a second time.
O❑ the motion of Viscount MELBOURNE, the Commons'
amendments upon the amendments of the Lords to the Poor
Relief (Ireland) Bill were considered, and severall!, agreed
to, with the exception of an amendment in the schedule,
from which the Lords disagreed; and a committee having
been appointed to draw up reasons for the disagreement, the
same were drawn up and agreed to, and a conference with
the Commons was fixed for next day.
The Slave Vessels Captured Bill, after a discussion be-
tween Lords- COLCHESTER, BROUGHAM, and bIINTO, was
read a third time and passed.
The Irish Chancery Bill was committed, after which, at
one o'clock, the house adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,—THURSDAY.
CONDUCT OF THE SCARBOROUGH CLERGY.
Mr. CHARLES LUSHINGTON presented a petition from five
inhabitants of Scarborough, praying for protection against
the operation of a notification signed by the vicar and cler-
gyman of that place, relating to the registry of births, and
burials in church yards. These clergymen asserted, that the
act for the registry of the births did not give sufficient evi-
dence of a person's being baptised; and they also stated,
that they should refuse in future to read the service for the
burial of the dead on any corpse, unless they were satisfied
the person was entitled to receive Christian burial; and also
that they would make full inquiry previous to the corpse be-
ing brought into the church-yard, in order to satisfy them-
selves on that point. The petitioners prayed that the inha-
bitants of Scarborough, and other parishes in the neighbour-
hood, might be protected by law from the operation of such
resolutions framed by a portion of the members of the esta-
blished church.

[During the presentation of some petitions, Marshal Soult,
attended by his son, the Marquis Dalmatia, and the Marquis
de Mornay, with others attached to his suite, entered the
house, and were conducted by the Deputy Sergeant to the
benches below the bar appropriated to the distinguished
strangers.]