The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-26 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TxuRsDAy.

Many petitions, on different subjects, were presented.
Lord POWERSCOURT presented a petition, signed by 200
inhabitants of Bath and its vicinity, and, among them, by
Colonel Napier, praying that the house would take some
means for the suppression of the National Association of
Dublin, the objects of which association petitioners stated
to be seditious. They therefore prayed that her Majesty's
attorney-general should be directed to institute proceedings
against political offenders of whatever degree, or that the
parties now in prison for sedition should be liberated. (Cheers
from the opposition benches.)
Mr. HUME wished to ask the noble lord if he meant to
accuse his hon. and learned friend, the member for Dublin,
of treason ?

Lord POWERSCOURT said he had merely read the prayer
of the petition.
Mr. O'CONNELL said that he did not mean to oppose the
receiving of the petition, although he thought he might do
so. It appeared to him, however, that he should have had
notice of the intention of the noble lord to present it.
Lord POWERSCOURT.—I gave you notice the day before,
yesterday. I left a letter on the table for the purpose, and
I myself saw the hon. and learned member read it. (Oppo-
sition cheers.)
Mr. O'CoNEELL said that was perfectly true (hear, hear),
but he had mistook the signature to the letter, thinking it
was Estcourt. He would appeal to the speaker if he had
not spoken to him on the subject at the time. (Hear, hear.)
With regard to the allegations contained in the petition
against him, he had no hesitation in saying that they were
totally false. (Hear.)
Mr. CHRISTOPHER gave a notice in regard to the bill for
imposing additional duties, which had reference, we think, to
Ireland, but the effect of which we were unable to hear dis-
tinctly.
Mr. .PAKINGTON gave notice, that on the bill for the
government of Canada being brought forward, he should move
that it be considered that day six months.
Mr. HUME also gave notice on the same bill of an amend-
ment for an address to her Majesty, praying her to remove
the suspension of the habeas corpus act in Canada.
Mr. GODSON gave notice of a motion. 2nd June, for
erecting the fifteen judges into a court of appeal in criminal
cases—(hear, hear, from Mr. O'Connell)— snd, on the part
of his learned friend, Mr. F. Kelly, that the motion respect-
ing capital punishments would be put ofl till the same day.
Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that to-morrow he would
move that the house, at its rising, do adjourn till Tuesday
next.

Mr. J. E. STANLEY moved for a new writ for the borough
of Coekermouth. in the room of Mr. Horsman, who had
accepted the office of one of the lords of her Majesty's
treasury.

In answer to a question from Mr. Herries, who was
wholly inaudible in the gallery,
Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to say that the bill with
regard to the taxes would be proposed to-morrow.
Sir R. PEEL begged leave to inquire what the noble lord
proposed to do on the 29th respect to the business of the
house ?

Lord J. RUSSELL said that he proposed the house should
sit on the 29th of this month.

Sir R. PEEL asked why the papers relating to the differ-
ence between this country and the United Sates had not been
presented ?

Lord J. RUSSELL thought it better that all the papers
should be presented together, and all had not yet been printed.
In answer to Mr. PAKINGTON, Lord J. RUSSELL said it
was his intention to introduce a bill on the subject of the
clergy reserves, which would not merely confirm the general
provisions of the former bill, but be likewise founded on the
same principle. He could not say when it would be ready.
Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that, on going into committee
on the registration of voters' (Ireland) bill, he would move
an instruction to the committee to define the nature of the
existing franchise, with a view to better legislation on the
subject.
Lord J. RUSSELL, in answer to inquiries, intimated that
the bills to carry into effect the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
financial resolutions would be proceeded with to-morrow.
He proposed that the house should sit on the 29th instant.
Sir R. INGLIS deferred his motion on the subject of church
extension.

Mr. F. MAULE obtained leave to bring in a bill for taking
an account of the population of Great Britain.
Returns of certain regulations of Chester gaol, respecting
the treatment of prisoners therein confined before conviction
and after sentence, were ordered on the motion of Mr. WAR-
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Mr. FRENCH moved, but afterwards withdrew his—motion,
for a committee of inquiry into the petition of Mr. Roberts,
on the subject of preserving animal substances from putre-
faction, with a view to the putrefaction of anatomical science.
Mr. PAKINGTON moved that the house resolve into com-
mittee on the sale of beer bill. It was, however, moved that
the house be counted, and it was accordingly counted out.