The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-16 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY
HARWICH ELECTION PETITION.—
formed the house that it was not i

AUGUST 2.

further with the petition.
The South Sea and other Annuities, Provision for Pay-
ment, &c., Bill, was read a third time, and passed.
TRANSPORTATION OP CRIMINALS.—The house went
into committee upon the Transportation Bill
PALMERSTOIF gave an exposition of ti
vernment upon the subject of seam
The question, he observed, was one of
The object of punishment was to make it a penalty to
offender, and an example to others, without shocking
feelings of the community, and at the same time to corn
bine reformation with punishment. Hithl
had enabled us to make transportation I

, when Lori
s of the go.

reme difficulty

one of our secondary punishments ; but
having now failed—the feelings of the cok
against being brought into contact with our crimir___,
a great event having changed the condition of our Aust
lian colonies—the system must be altered.
to which the government were led was t
ceasing to transport offenders to the colonies, except a
small number to Western Australia ; and the bill proposed
to empower the courts to alter the sentences. It was pro-
posed that, after a certain period of preliminary imprison-
ment, the offender should be capable of receiving a ticket
of leave in this country, liable to be revoked. He thought
that, with regard to a great portion of those who were
sentenced to transportation, reformation was by no means
a hopeless object, and every effort would be made to
accomplish it. When those persons who had conditional
tickets-of-leave were to be released. 11
arose, where were they to
employed F He had
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upon the public works, apar
able wages, from which occu

might slide into the of
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be a vety considerable annual savi
whole system must be considered _a_
mental; but he believed that this was the best mode
could be devised to meet the great change to which he had

referred.—Sir J. PABINGTON and °the,.
pressed their opinions upon the general question,
clauses of the bill were then discussed and agreed to
Plasm,/ DISCIPLINE.—On bringing un
the Committee of Supply, and, on the
the Government prisons in Great Brim.,
—Mr. LUCAS observed, that two different systems of
prison discipline, in respect to the religious instruction of
the prisoners, prevailed in the prisons of Great Britain and
Ireland respectively ; that in Ireland, as in the colonies,
there had been a system of perfect religious equality,
which did not exist in the English prisons ; and it was an
important question,
as transportation was about to be abo-
lished, whether the same system was to be introduced into
the prisons of Great Britain as was actually enforced in Ire-
land.—Lord PALMERSTON said, that upon the entrance of a
prisoner into prison, he should be called upon to state his
religious persuasion, and it ought to be known by him,
when he made that declaration, that nothing in respect to
his treatment in gaol depended upon his declaring himself
of one persuasion or another, and that he would 3-
equal means of religious instruction by a der--
his own creed. As far as the
concerned, he had taken steps to carr.
views expressed by Mr. Lucas—namely,
and Dissenters, as well as prisoners belo.
Church, should have religious instruction from cle4„
of their own persuasion, this being one of the ingredx
of the improved system of prison discipline.
The Metropolitan Sewers Acts Continuance Bill, and
many other bills were advanced a stage.
Tnn LONDON CABMEN.—On the third reading of the
Hackney Carriage Duties Bill a clause was inserted, the
object of which was to prevent the withdrawal of carriages
for two days in one week without just cause or previous

vote of £407,000

;overnment prisons were

sat Romanists

TIER APPROPRIATION BILL.—Mr. WILSON brought up
the Consolidated Fund Bill, which being an indication of
the approaching termination of this prolonged and arduous
session, was hailed with cheers.
The house adjourned at one o'clock.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10.
TRIBUNALS OF CONMERCE.—MT. HORSFALL.preSertted
petitions from the Chamber of Commerce and the Guar-
dian Society of Liverpool, and others representing the
London Society for Promoting the Amendment of the
Law, the London Society for Promoting the Establish-
ment of Tribunals of Commerce, and the Bristol, Brad-
ford, Blackburn, Stoke-upon-Trent, Worcester, and other
societies, in favour of the establishment of tribunals of
commerce. _ _

LIMITED Lresumr.—ln answer to a question, Mr.
CARDWELL said, that at present joint-stock companies in-
corporate had not limited liability, but there was power
in special cases for the Queen in Council t 9 grant charters