The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-08 00:00:00

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f-tnprriaL 4iiintairtcnt.
HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY

(Continued front the Stan.lard of .Friday.)
PRIsoNEns COL NsEL BILL. 'rue house un the motion. of
Mr. Wiz Ewart went into comteit Pe on this bill. '['be clause
ring to prisoners 'the right of hving defended when charged
ore a justice of the peace by counsel, attorneys or agents
was negatived; 110' voting for autli9:l against it. The other
clauses were agreed to add the house resumed.
CORPORATION OF PoOLR., Mr. Poulter's motion for the ap-
Poiutment of a select .ctiniMittee to inquire into the circum-
stances attending theelection of the municipal town-council of
route was negatived by a majority of I'2B against and 70 fur
that proposition.
The house adjourned at one o'clock.
HOUSE OF LORDS.. THURSDA Y.
MI% BERNAL brought up the report of a select committee of
the House of Commons appointed last session to inquire into
the subject of bribery at-elections.
Petitions were presented by Lord Hatherton, from Berwick,
praying for poor laws in Ireland; by Lord Wyuford from the
owners of land in the hundred of Dartford, Kent, complaining
of attricultural distress; by Lord Ellenborough from a place in
Cumberland against the probate clause of the ecclesiastical
totals bill; by Lord Ashburton, from the guardians of the poor
or a union in Norfolk praying for amendment in the poor taw
amendment act; by the Duke of Newcastle from East Retford
cenaplaining of the spirit duties (Ireland) act, and praying for
the repeal of some of its provisions, and by Lord Vernou, from
a body of protestant dissenters praying for relief.
On the motion of Lord Wvnford,•as chairman of the agricul-
tural committee, certairrrettirns of paper money, issued by the
Bank of England, for the last ten yea's, were ordered, as well
as, for a like.neritl, the amount of bullion in the coffers of the
Bank, and the amount of deposits.
ORANGE LODGES. At the request of the Earl of Winchil-
s,ea, the Marquis of Londonderry postponed his motion to Mon-
"Y, fur a message to be sent to the li,use of Commons, re-
questing the report of the Select Committee on Orange Lodges
• with the minutes of the'evidence given'.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY.
`Leave was given to. bring in the Durham South West Juric7
tion Railway BilL
Petitions -were presented to the. house by Captain Gordon
,rout Aberdeen, against the equalization of the timber duties;
by Sir It. Ferguson. from the dissenters of Nottingham praying
for relief, and anodic-r from the mayor and corporation of the
same town praying for an alteration so that part of the munici-
pal reform bill which requiFed a declaration from dissenters be-
fore they could fill any office to-Which they might be elected ;
by - Mr. Bernal from the licensed victuallers of Chatham
against the duty on spirit licensa; by Mr. Sliiiiinan Crawford,
from a parish in Ireland, praying for the "total extinction of
tithes in name and reality ;" and by Mr. Leonard from a place
in Essex, complaining of dissenters grievances.
Tistnim DUTIES.. Mr. RoniNsoN presented a petition from
Nova Scotia; against the scale of duties recommended by the
select committee of the timber duties. He expressed his entire
concurrence in the views of the petitioners. The proposed al-
teration, in his opinion, would inflict seriousinjury on the ship-
Ping interests, .without conferring the slightest benefit on the
Public. On the contrary, he was convinced that the consumer
Would be a loser, instead of 4 gainer, by it. As a commercial
!nail, he thought that the public had a right to know what the
ntentions of the government were. He thought it extremely
hard that the government could not answer the question put
the other night, whether or not they intended to bring forward
IU ItlY question on the subject in the course of the present session ?
his opinion the.question in importance yielded to none, not
"en to that of agriculture itself. ..He th.ought, therefore, it
9ught to he brought forward at an early period of the session—
if at ali—and not at a period when there would be but a thin
attendance ofinembera. He trusted-thaWheathe question was
Drought forward, an opportunity would be given for its due
consideration, and that members would not allow their votes,
IPcm a question which affected the best interests of the coon-
,ry 1
and the colonies, to be swayed by any party feeling. He
trusted they would not read the evidence of the committee par-
for he was convinced that • no impartial man who read
that evidence carefully could bring his mind to consider that
any alteration of the timber duties was necessary. He could
Illet but call to the attention el the house to the great length of
time that had elapsed between the making of the report of the
select committee on the timber duties, and its being printed
and delivered.
84fter a few words from Mr.. Roebuck, Mr. Young, and Lord
radon, the petition was ordered to lie on the table. I
BOROUGH OF P ats LEY. A new writ was ordered for the bo-
V4agb of Paisley, in the room of Alexander Spiers, Esq., who
(1 accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
CHURCH RATES.—Sir ROBERT PEEL asked Lord J. Rus-
sELL whether he intented to bring forward any measure on the
su.ltject of church rates, and when? Lord John Russell le-
Phed after the Easter recess.
Poott RetrEs.—Mr. Powlett Scrope brought in a bill to pro-
N'i,ide for the levy Of the poor and highway rates in all parishes
°' England and Wales upon a uniform system of valuation and
assessment.
COUNTY BUSINESS (IRELAND.)—Sir R. Musgrave obtained
eave to bring in a bill to improve the system of grand jury pre-
''eirments in Ireland.
POOR LAWS FOR IRELAND.—Mr. W. O'BRIEN obtained
leave to bring in a bill to provide for the destitute poor of Ire-
land.
iieuelia.caLo:r DuT tEs (IN Dis) uRAH A m moved for a ge-
LuAingitrteeeedtotoi.oquire into the state of the salt monopoly in
PUBLIC REVENUES.—Mr HumE moved for returns connect-
" With the public revenue.—Ordered.
The Slave Compensatiou Bill was read a second time. ,
The Stafford DisfrauChisethent73ill was read a second time.
ourned.