The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-07 00:00:00

IMPORTATION OF FOP-EIGN COFFEE.

An hon. MEMBER begged leave to ask the right hon.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it was contem-
plated to take any steps to prevent foreign plantation coffee,
which had been imported into British colonies, from being
imported thence into Great Britain under the name of British
plantation coffee?
Mr. LABOUCHERE thought it would not be right of the
government to express any opinion on the subject till he was
prepared to say what measure they would bring forward.

IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN FLOUR INTO IRELAND.

Mr. ROCHE begged leave to ask the President of the Board
of Trade, whether he was about to bring forward any mea-
sure with regard to the importation of foreign flour into Ire-
land.

Mr. LABOUCHERE was anxious to give the house an op-
portunity of discussing the subject. He had accordingly
given notice of his intention of bringing in a bill with respect
to it almost at the commencement of the present session.
He would postpone the second stage of the bill, in order to
enable hon. members for Ireland to ascertain the principles
of the measure.
PRINCE ALBERT'S NATURALIZATION BILL.

The house went into committee, and the bill was then read
a third time, and passed.

PRIVILEGE.

The deputy-sergeant-at-arms reported that a messenger
from the house was at Mr. Burton Howard's, but he could
not be found, and his wife said that he was in the country.
Mr. HUME wished to know whether Mr. B. Howard's son
had been directed to attend ? _ _

Lord Jonx RUSSELL moved that Mr. Howard be ordered
to attend at the bar of the house, and that the sergeant-at-
arms be authorised to take him into custody for that pur-
pose.
Sir E. SUGDEN suggested a milder course, which he thenght
would be equally satisfactory. It was, to come to a resolu-
tion, that leaving the notice at the house of Mr. Burton
Howard should be deemed good service of such notice. Such
was, the practice adopted by courts of law under similar cir-
cumstances.

After some further remarks from Sir ROBERT INGLI§, Mr
GOULBURN, and Mr. Sunw, the motion was carried.

DISCONTENT OF THE WORKING CLASSES.

Mr. S LANEY moved for a select committee to inquire into
the causes of the discontents and difficulties of the labouring
classes, &c.
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN seconded the motion.

Mr, LAMBTON was of opinion that the proposed inquiry
was of too indefinite a nature to be productive of any good
results.

Mr. INGHAM thought the inquiry should he confined to a
few objects, and those of practical utility.
Mr. BROTHERTON supported the motion. He urged the
importance of inculcating temperance, to the want of which
he attributed a great part of the crime which has increased
the misery of the poor.
Mr. VILLIERS believed that the intelligence of the people
was the cause of their discontent; they had learnt to know
the faults of the laws under which they lived. He wished
Mr. Slaney to limit the terms of his motion.
Lord Jon Rusau.i. said, that as a ministerof the crown,
he.could not agree ,to so large an inquiry as:the terms of this
motion would embrace, but that he would not resist an in-
quiry-limited to the matters which had formed the chief topics
of the-mover's speech. He would not pleadoguilty to having
held 'out false . hopes of constitutional change, but the house
would itself be guilty or this. Should it appoint a select coin-
mittee_to report upon such such subjects ballot, annual
parliamenlS, and universalsuffrage. The large towns were
probably better 'Ordered in. their internal arrangements than
the new manufacturing villages, where great populations had
siiddenlY grownup, and this last class of districts might, be
usefully brought under inquiry. If, therefore, the motion
could be lina4cd:so as to exclude the political, and confine it-
self lathe Ideal, class of topics, he should be inclined to ac-
cede.to it. . , '" •

Mr. BitzscaElhoUght it better to have no inquiry at all
than one which would exclude what he thought the main
grievances.
Mr. WAKLEY deemed the discussion ridiculous in a House
of Commons which wanted the disposition, or else the capa-
city, to apply the proper remedies : and he repeated an opinion
expressed by other speakers, that the mover was not adequate
to the task he had undertaken.
Sir H. VERNEY then proposed, apparently in concert with
Lord John, an amendment, for a committee to inquire into
the conditiou of the working 'classes in the manufacturing
and mining districts.
Mr. BRINES explained the evil endured by the poorer in-
habitants of Leeds and other populous towns, from the want
of sewers in inferior streets. He was decidedly in favour of
the motion, limited as it had been by Sir H. 'Verney.
Both motions were ultimately withdrawn.

BEER HOUSES.

Mr. PAKINGTON then brought forivard his motion for a
bill to amend the laws regarding the sale of beer. He ob-
tained leave to bring in such bill.

JUVENILE OFFENDERS.

Sir E. "WILMOT obtained leave to bring in hills to autho-
rise the summary couvic,tion of juvenile offenders in certain
cases of larceny, and to authorise trustees of free grammar
schools to enlarge the system of education therein pursued,
under certain restrictions.