The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-01 00:00:00

THE LI'VERPOOL STANDARD.

HOUSE OF' COMMONS.-MONDAY.

Several petitions were presented to the house, among them
Mr. P. M. STUART presented a petition signed by an im-
mense number of merchants of Glasgow, complaining of a con •
travention of the treaty regarding Java. .By that treaty, where
Dutch goods were introduced duty free, those of England were,
not to paY more than 6 per cent. ; but by encroachments,.
English goods were now saddled with a duty of 25 per cent.
Lord PALsiErtsTort said that the alteration undoubtedly was
not "conformable to treaty;. but that he had no doubt, on further
representationS being made to the Dutch government, that it
would do what was right and remedy this just complaint.

BUSLNESS OF THE. HOUSE

• . .
Lord J. RussELLmoved that after July 1, all orders of the
day have precedence of notices of motions, because, his lordship
said, it was "important to have their bills in the House of
Lords before August next." The regulation was adopted.
The house then once more went into committee on the regis-
tration of voters bill, in the course of which,
Sir R. Piur.., referring to the clause regarding the appoint-
ment of revising barristers, complained that they were likely to
be Made political appointments, which ought to be averted, as
they might largely influence elections all over the country; and
that on the report, he should call further attention to the sub-
ject, contenting himself with now stating that he should prefer
the appointments to be vested in the Lord Chancellor instead
of the Houle Secretary.
Several new clauses and amendments were proposed in the
committee.
The tithes bill, (England) after an extended conversation,
and the disposing of some amendments, was read a third time
and paSsed.
The sugar duties bill went throuali a committee, as did the
horse patrol bill.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY.
Evidence was heard at the bar in support of the Stafford Dis.
franchisement bill.

•
RAIL ROADS.
The Duke of IlticitinoNn presented the first report of the
railroad committee which was ordered to be received.'
The ether bills before the house were each forwarded a stage.
Adjourned to Thursday—yesterday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. TUESDAY.
The House was chiefly occupied in the reception of petitions,
and in railway discussions. •
Lord JeHN RUSSEI4, brought in a bill to abolish personal
tithes.
The registration of births bill was read a third time and
passed.
The marriages bill was also read a-third time and passed.
The house adjourned at two o'clock.

CURIOUS APPROPRIATION OF PENALTIES UNDER AN ACT OP
PAHLIAMENT,—By a singulaT.. oversight iu the wording of the
act fur the better regulation of
,parish registers, 52d Geo. 111.
cap. 146, the following whimsical arrangement occurs with re-
gard to the penalties imposed upon persons found guilty of of-
fending against the provisions thereof. Sec..l4 provides that
any person or persons tionvictesk,Of making false entries in re-
gister books, or copies of entries in such books, or of destroying
or mutilating any of such books.or entries, shall be adjudlied
guilty of felony and transported for fourteen years"—exception
being made,te cases of accidental alteration, &c. if duly and
timely rectified. This, it may
,be observed, is the only "tine or
penalty" impesed by the act in question; and section 17 enacts
that " One half of the amount of all:fines and penalties to be le-
vied id pursuance of this act shall ga to the person who shall in-
form or sue Jar the same!" rThe informer would be,-co'nse-
quently, entitled to seven years transportation !1 "And the
"remainder ,j the fine, if imposed on a church or chapel-warden,
shall go to the poor of the parish" in which the fpnce shall be
committed ! ! LThis easy mode of reducing parish-rates might
furnish a hint to -some of our, modern "farthing-candle and
cheese save all" calculators.] And lastly, "if imposed on any
rector, vicar, minister, curate, or registrar, the remainder of
the 'fine shall be applied to such charitable uses within the pa-
rish'as shall be directed by the bishop"! !
....•

A gentleman residing within twelve miles of Brigg, abou
eleven years ago,.sold a horse to a stranger, at one of the Bar-
ton fairs, for £l4. A few days since the same horse was sold
again, to its original owner, for the same sum of money, after
a lapse of, so many years; and though the circumstance 'Was
not then known to the purchaser,. he has' sinew discoVered his
sad Mistake;.--the horse is now twenty-three years old r=—Lincoln
Gazette. •

At present, there are five of the eig,ht coining-presses at work
on 'the coinage of the new silver fourpence. Each press is
,ca-
pable of coining seventy per minute, or on the average about
four-thousand an hour • so that supposituz them to he. at work,
ten hours, each day, the daily produce of the five would be equali
to two hundred thousand, or one million two hundred thousand,
a week.