The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

Robert Fergus
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was agreed to

COMMONS

TUESDAY

Lord John

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opposition ; Colonel Sibthorp
Smith O'Brien, (the leader o
Sir R

ling the calamity

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
Mr. EWART moved that committees on all private as
,well as railway bills, sho_, .sist of five members, nei-
lhergerscnally nor indi # interested in the question
submitted to their consideration.
On a division, the motion was lost by a Majority of 67

In answer to a question from Mr. O'Brien, Mr. GIBSON
said that the state of the agricultural districts was under
the consideration of government, and a bill on the subject
would shortly be submitted to Parliament.
On the motion of Mr. PARKER, the following members
were nominated the select committee on standing orders :
Sir William Heathcote, Mr. Ord, Lord Dalmeny, Sir

. Wilson Patten, Sir John Yarde.
Captain Jones, Mr. Home Drum-
, and Mr. Sotheron.

sked if it was the int,

ion of go

lleries and

temporary measure ?
ould be moved for
d breweries,

sugar .in distilleries
uld be fully discusied, and if it wa,
d be brought in to carry the resolu-

,MMONS

THIIRSDA

USSELL, in committee of the whole House,
sons for proposing to suspend the navi-
first of November next, and the duties

on corn till the Ist of September, 1847. On the termina-
tion of the last harvest the prospect was that the harvest

lelovr the avera

of ordinary years,

of superior quality; aid that the harv—est of
also of
,oats, would be deficient in some parts
rn .

t failure, however, was that

3 crop, wbich was considerable in England—
n Scotland—and the greatest of all in Ireland,

,rs of the erop,-according
iy rate one-half, had been

to some cal-
lost. There

n, last year, a great importation of foreign corn,
-itogether to 4,800,000 quarters. The prices

there had been a consider-
th the prices at the time of the

August wheat w

week of January to 645., in the
,econd week to 665. 10d., and on the 16th of January to
ros. 3d. Having quoted.the price of wheat, he proceeded
o show that the rise in barley had been still greater. In
he first week of January, 1842, it was 295. 7d. ; in the
same week in 1843 it was 265. sd. ; in 1844, 325. 7d. , in
1845, 345. 2d. ; and in 1846, 31s. 11d. In the first week
of January, 1847, it was 445. 3d. ; in the second week, it
and in the third week it was 505., and this
f the price of barley for malting, which
id 70s. Ile then estimated the money
d in parts of

;he potato crop which had fai
4-.14.,.

Lrts of Western Europe. There
1 effort made by all to obtain

supply. The duties on the importation of foreign grain
ad been remitted in France,Belgium, and many of the

le Rhine ; whilst in several of
.1 passed prohibiting the expor-
stock of corn at Dantsic at present
rig so, the sellers expected higher

The propo,

Irices. There were only two quarters from- which a ;up-
dy could be obtained, Odessa and the United States.
i-om the first France had obtained supplies to the amount
f 700,000 quarters, but in the spring there was every
rrospect that a large supply of grain weak! be sent to
_ _

.rom the interior of Russia. In the United
states there had been an abundant harvest both of wheat
and of Indian corn, but hitherto much of that supply
had not come to this country. Now, such being the state

g the defici

y, we ought to

The 4s. deity had_ not prevented

y of, foreign corn from coming into Great

while there was a strong corn' petitioni;
make a considerable difference in future as

He therefore proposed that all duties on the importation
-gn corn should be suspended till the Ist of Sep-
-xt, and should leave it to parliament hereafter
r whether it would continue that
He then adverted to the subject of
s, which were

tension ox

poor law more

Navigation
present an impediment to the impor-

The house then resumed, and the' Corn Law Suspen-
sion Bill and the Navigation Laws Bill were severally
read a third time and passed.
Lord John RUSSELL moved for the appointment of a
select committee to inquire into the law of settlement.
He thought it right to say that Government did not
think it necessary to take any step in reference to the re-
port of the select committee etrsthe Andover inqUiry, un-
less some hon.-member should think fit to bring the case
under the consideration of the house, in which event he
would be prepared to state his opinion upon the subject.
He admitted that the Poor Law Amendment :fit had not
been carried out to the satisfaction of Parliament, and the
Government had, therefore, resolved to propose, that the
board should be re-constituted with a president, having
permission to have a seat in the House of Commons.
There should be also two secretaries, one of whom should
have a seat in the house, in order to give all necessary
explanations, should the president not have a seat. The
rules of the board should have no effect until sanctioned
by the Queen in Council, and the administration of the
poor law in Ireland should be'Wholly separate from that
of England.

Ation of the noble lord appeared to be very
approved of, and after a short discussion; in
which Mr. Bankes, Mr. Hume, Mr. V. Smith, Sir J.
Pakington, and-Sir G. GreW took part,
Mr. FERRAND said he believed there was some truth in
the report circulated during the last few days, that it was
the intention of the Government to shelter the poor law
commissioners from that punishment which they had not
hesitated to visit upon their own subordinates. They
would, however, be much mistaken if they thought the
people of England would be thus easily satisfied. The
hon. gentleman referred to the criminal information
moved for against him by.. Mr. Lewis, one of the poor law
commissioner; the rule.for which was made absolute last
November, but in which no step had been taken until he
moved for papers on Wednesday evening, preparatory to
icesmoving for a committee of inquiry into their conduct next
of show any con-
trrnat Thursday.
He was next day served with a notice that
hP st
the information was filed, which was nothing less, in his
ncr

opinion, than an attempt to intimidate him from the per-
formance of his duty in parliament. He challenged the
parties to go on, and he pledged himself to resign his seat
if he did not come out of the ordeal with honour.
Mr. ETWALL regretted the course taken by ministers

with respect to the Andover inquiry.
Mr. T. DIINCOMBE said that, unless they could render

secretary would ever lie able to get returned to parliament
After some further discussion, the motion was agreed to

HOUSE OF LORDS.—SATURDAY.
Lord STANLEY expressed his regret that the proposed
bill for the allowing the use of sugar and molasses in klis.
tilleries was to be a permanent and not a temporary nu'a.

quire what would be the course 1

L4ansdown, with respect to the Irish polici