The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-20 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY,

Many petitions were presented, chiefly on the subject of
the Church of Scotland.
The Earl of ABERDEEN said that he had received from
Scotland several letters remonstrating with him for, as they
alleged, preventing the Government from bringing forward
some measure to settle that subject ; he wished to avail him-
self of this opportunity to declare that he had not ever made
any such attempt; he certainly had urged the Government
not to bring forward any proposition touching this question-,
except after the maturest and most anxious consideration.
Lord MELBOURNE bore testimony to the correctness of
the noble earl's statement, adding that the Government was
deeply impressed with the importance of the subject, and
that no time would be lost in considering a remedial mea-
sure.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY moved for accounts, in
continuation of those previously produced, respecting the
quantity of stores supplied to the Government of Spain. the
amount due for the same, &c., together with an account of
the allowances made to various Spanish refugees, who, the
noble marquis observed, were walking about the streets of
London eating the bread of idleness, while members of the
Spanish legion, to whom pay was due, were starving.

The accounts were ordered.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that he had seen the poor-law
commissioners on the subject of his vaccination extension
bill, and that they had made several valuable suggestions,
which he desired to embody in the bill, and he therefore now
only proposed to commit the bill pro forma, in order that the
amendments might be introduced, and the bill, in its amend-
ed form, considered on a future day.
The Bishop of LONDON stated that the clergy would be
ready to promote the objects of this useful bill, and suggest-
ed that there should be some regulation to prevent unautho-
rised and incompetent persons from vaccinating or inocu-
lating.

IRISH MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
The Marquis of NORMANDY said he had a petition to pre-
sent from Liverpool in favour of the Irish municipal corpo-
ration bill. The petition was signed by the chairman only,
the mayor of Liverpool, who presided at the meeting.
At a subsequent period of the evening, immediately before
the adjournment,
The Earl of CHARLEY ILLS begged to call the attention of
the noble Secretary of State for the Home Department to
the fact that the petition, instead of being from the borough
of Liverpool, was from Joshua Walmesley.
The Marquis of NORMANDY said, if the noble earl had
done him the honour to attend to what he had stated, he
would have heard that the petition was signed by the mayor
of Liverpool, the petition having been agreed upon at a pub-
lic meeting.

The Earl of CH ARLEVILLE said that the mayor could not
sign for the corporation, nor for the public meeting, conse-
quently the petition was to be regarded as the mayor's only.
Lord .HOLLAN D said that it was quite usual for a chairman
to sign a-petition on behalf of a meeting. It was perfectly
true, however, that, technically speaking, it could only be
received as the petition of one man.
The Marquis of NORMANDY repeated what he had pre-
viously said.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that he had recently
presented a petition agreed to at a public meeting convened
by the high sheriff, which was signed by the high sheriff
only.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH was gratified to find that
thfill in question was intended for the benefit (reading from
the petition) of " the intelligence, moral worth, and the pro-
perty of that part of the kingdom," and he hoped that when
the bill was read a second time, the noble marquis opposite
would be able to show that such was the object of the mea-
sure. If that were the case then he (Lord Westmeath)
would give it his support.
The Marquis of NORMAN BY said that it was for the noble
marquis to put his own construction upon the words as ap-
plicable to Ireland.
The Marquis of VtrusTmEA-rrt said be could not consider
the back streets.and the back towns as being places where
" the intelligence, moral worth, and propeny" were most to
be found.

The conversation then dropped.
Some further petitions having been presented, their lord-
ships adjourned.

In the Commons their was " no house."

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY
THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

On the presentation of petitions regarding the church of
Scotland,
The Earl of GALLOWAY said, that lie could not avoid
(after the conversation between the Earl of Aberdeen and
Lord Melbourne, on Monday) repeating his complaint re-
specting the delay on the part of the government in bringing
forward a measure to conciliate the dissensions now agitating
Scotland from one end of it to the other. Be had abstained
from proposing, and he was willing to leave-the matter with
the government. But he assured their lordships that it was
necessary for the legislature to take some steps for the pur-
pose of reconciling the authority of the courts of law and the
rights of the proprietors, with the interests of the church,
and the proper exercise of clerical authority. His lordship
added that he regretted to see many of the clergy of the
Scotch church resorting to the same unworthy means of
agitation by which the Roman Catholic clergy had acquired
so much notoriety.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, that neither the noble
earl nor any other person was justified in supposing that,
because the government had delayed to bring forward a
measure, there was any delay whatever in its consideration.
On the contrary, that consideration was given to it at an
early period ; and it was only the great importance of the
question and the circumstances that had prevented the go-
vernment from bringing the measure forward. He would
much rather incur, on the part of the government, the re-
proach of delay, than that of launching precipitously upon it
before they had made themselves acquainted with the opi-
nions and circumstances connected with the transactions in
Scotland on the subject.
The Earl of ABERDEEN expressed a hope that the govern-
ment
would bear in mind that an important event, with re-
spect to the fate of any measure, would take place in the
month of May, when the general assembly met ; and it was
of essential importance that the measure, it it were to be
introduced, should be considered before their meeting.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE explained that he had not
stated that the Government had decided upon bringing for-
ward a measure, but that they would speedily decide whether
or not they would do so.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH moved that the registrar-general of
deaths, births, and marriages in London, &c., should pre-
sent a report of the number of persons who had died of the
small-pox in the year 1839.—Ordered.