The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-17 00:00:00

TITHIC BILL

On titts motion of Lord JOHN Ki SSKLL, the order of the
day for thP,cousideration of tile lordsZ amendments was read.
The atnendmeots were considered and severalty agreed to.-or
diss"ored fr,nn, witil!tur_ opposition or iftference of opinion
on either side. of. the hou-e. When the whole of them had
tO,en dispoled of, Lord J aussoll Kahl, ;oat as an impression
very ‘,4enerally prevaile!i that ;he sorts had introdbeed
atoeudrnents to aoer lhe cou(lil,;ons on which the grant of
otopeKhapteeo in:ide by tbe commons for the extitletion cif
the arrear of tithes, be re!t bound to state that upon a care-
ful revision Af as it had been returned from the upper
he eou4 discover no 3;nel-oh:lent which would have such an
V;ear, hear.).
I.ted. STA N r.%Y observed that. n amendment had certainly
been contemplated by toe lords; the of ect of which would mn
have been joalter time condition on which the
grant was made; but their lordships, thinking that such an
aweltdineUt milltfit interfere with the privileges of ;he house
of, Vomntong-, and iniJit otherwise be objectionable, deter-
mined.to -withdraw it. (Hear, hear )
Toe CitPada Indemnity Bill having been brought up from
ti., 1,7 11, r house,

I.ord JOHN 14ssizt.1,,_with a view not to lOngthen the

session, ,i.,r,•ady so redih'usiv prat rected, nitnieil the suspension
o the standing Unie'r; and ihe seas reriat a first and second
tia;e. kll uVrdship'exidaitred that he meant to propose the
co.:Lind.. al fo-d.orrovi-, as it wotdd then he printed, and the
ilis(us.aou might be taken upon the question that the Speaker
leAr,- the chair.

.
Mr. LEA DElt was aux:ous to, know whether the noble.-roid
in.,tni prullose any amendments, to witieh it +gas very
naturally replied that this was not. the stage for considering
and deliidlog
gliltqed himself against the supposition
that ne approved the measule bee...pe he agreed to the
seeond as :veil as to thc, first reading for the sake of pulAic

COO VPII

Lord JOHN nr,ELL added, that he should to-morrow ad-
dress buo-'elr to the various questions raised by the bill; and,
after ei f•it7 interrogatories as to the nature and atnoont
received by the colonial office, and as to thelit7
ne'4' of laying it upOn the table, the whole subject was
l:uscp,•ned. •
ord J. 111.7F5.r.r.r, proposed that the coniideralion of the
lords amendments to the Registration of Electors Bill be
postponed till to-tnorrhw.—A,,reed to.

HOUSE OF IMRDS.—TUESDAY.
. . NOYAt ASSSNT. . .
At four o'clock the Lora UN A NCELI.OII, the Marquis of
LANsPowNE, -and the Earl of Sti FrEsna v.. gave the royal
assent, by coinmission, to the Exchequer bilk bill, Exche-
quer bills.. (public works). bill, four-and-a-hair per cen tom
bill, transfer of funds ( ar-office)_ bill, Duchy of Cornwall
and Lancaster hill, slave trade treaties bill, corporate pro-
perty (Ireland) bill, coal trade (N 0.2.) bill, the pension bill,
the benefice pluealiiies bill, the militia pay bill, the militia
ballot suspension bill, the judges' jut isiliction bill, the oaths'
validity bill, the mails nu railways bill, the Mediterranean
mails bill, the joint stock banks bill, the county of Clare
treasurer bill, and the patent sugar duties bill.
The private bill deposits bill passed through a committee
without amendments.

The valuation of lands (Ireland) bill was read a third time
and passed.

Upon the motion of Lord BuouGuA sr, the bill for omit-
ting the obligation upon newspapers for receiving advertise-
ments of whatever length at a fixed price, from the "schedules
of debtors bill," was read a second time. The standing orders
No. 26 and L 55 were suspended upon this occasion. Lord
Brougham said he should not have asked their lordships to
this hasty legislation if he had not been persuaded that their
lordships would agree to it on account of its necessity, to
prevent hardship and injustice. The bill was eventually
passed:

Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from Glasgow
complaining of "the stateofthe foreign trade of thiscountry,"
which led to long and intere,ting discussion.
(In t.t,e, "trading companies'" bill being• moved,
Lord BROUGHAM resisted it, and proposed that it hn read a
third time that day three months, a proposition•that, on a di-
visien, was carried ; the is consequently lost.—Nti-
jou'rned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TCESDAy.
On the motion of Lord J. itt:ssat.t., thetord,' amendments
to the ecclesiastical appointments suspension bill were read,
and, it was understood, agreed to.

There were 'conferenees with the lords on the subject of
the sheriffs' cOutt (Scotland) bill and the imprisonment for
debt' bi)l.
Lord J.lll.;ssutt„.in moving that the hiease resolve into
committee on the Canada indemnity bill, entered into a long
ar,,unient to show that the act uniter which Lord Durham
was appointed did-give severe and arbitrary powers and au-
thority, if there were a necessity for suspending the laws;
and in proof-thereof he quoted the language used by himself,
Lord Glenelg, &c., and appealed to the protests of lords
against the bill; otr the groundarf its arbitrary and unconstitu-
tional 'character.

Lord STANLEY and Sir W. Fott.urr declared that they
neither contemplated the granting of such power, nor ad-
mitted that it was granted; and contended that Lord Dur-
ham's unconstitirtion ii exercise of power exceeded any thing
they had ever witnessed or heard of.

Thp bill was further discussed, Mr. LEADER, the ATTOIINEY.•
GENERA 1., sz,_-.; t,iking pArt in the discussion ; but there way
fl opposition to " indemnity" given by the