The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-19 00:00:00

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Etnperial t3arliaturnt.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDM
THE AFFAIRS OF CANAIIA.

Lord GLEsiELG presented sooplementary parrs on the
aff.irs of Glnada. and gave notice that nmrsd.ty he would
move art address to her Mijes!y nn the sut,i Ile was pre-
pared to enter into the question ei!hf2r now or on moving, the
address.

. Lord BROUGH Aat concurred in the course proposed.
The Onk- of We.t.i.ris:rosr.—My lords it vrottld be desirable
t ) know what is the n 'titre of the proceeding 3 to he prop ised
by the noble lord. I confess that I have a very strong opinion
upon the so' jeet; arid it ,ippe trs that the course of proceeding
lot way of address to th. crown is not the regular course.
( lie tr.) My opinion is that the war. for such it is, having
actually taken place. the only tootle of proceeding ought to be
by a message from her Majesty to both houses of parliament,
and your lordships would be called upon to express your opinions
in answer to the measure. lam the more anxious on this oc-
c tsion. my lords, that that course of proceeding should have
to•en adopted, because I think it the most likely to lead to a
. termination —a successful termination —of the state of affairs in
that colony. (Hear.) My lords. I think her Majesty and her
Majesty's government ought to speak nut upon this subject—
( hear. hear,)—that the houses of parliament and the country
may know on what grounds her Majesty and her Majesty's
government intend to stand in the relation between this country
and Canada, and the sooner this is' understood the sooner will
be the termination of the present posture of affairs. I have no
doubt that her Majesty's government will before long have to call
upon p trliament to sal-yort toe government in their transactions,
n,l I hooe they will cal! upon parliament to do so in such a manner
that both houses of parliament will pledge themselves to support
the government in those transactions. ( Hear, hear.) I hope
also that preparations will he made on such a scale as shall
bring to a termination the present state of affairs in that colony
as auto as the season opens. lam anxious to support her Ma-
jesty's government. and I entreat her Majesty's ministers not
to forget th it we ran nave no such thing as a little war. I trust
Ow the nature of the operations will be such as to make it qu;te.
certain that it will be attended with success. It would be ad-
eisahle to know what the nature of, the address is which is to lie
solenitted on Thursday, and I think, as I have already said,
that her Majesty's ministers ought to declare themselves ex-
p;icitly on the subject. ([leer, hear )
Lord M6LBOURNK agreed with the noble duke that her Ma-
jesty's ministers ought to be explicit, and that the preparations
ought to be such as to bring the matter to a speedy conclusion.
There were teebnical ol,jeetions to the course of proceeding by
'message; but he trusted that mocha tone would he taken.by ber
M ijesty's ministers.and by the parliament, that would show to
the world a determination to maintain the dignity of the position
which this country possessed among the nations of the earth.
Lord GLENELG, in answer to inquiry, said thut the address
would he couched. in general terms, expressive of regret at the
events that had taken place, and pledging the house to support
measures to protect the well-affected, &c.
The notics accordingly stands for Thursday (yesterday,) to
which day their lordships aajourned. •

HOUSE OF COMMONS-TUESDAY.

Mr. James, Mr. Childers, and Mr. Itippon took the oaths and
their seat•, after which

The SPEAKER stated that the sureties not having been duly
completed in the cases of the Pontefract, aulley, and Bodmin
election petitions, the orders for considering them were dis-
charged. The Dudley case, however, it will be seen, was after-
wards mentio,,ed by Mr. Aglionhy, and was to be again brought
forward on We lnesday.

The CHANCELLOR Or the EXCHEQUER presented further
papers regarding the Canadas, &c,
Mr. HUME pre.,ented ten petitions from the " Brentford Po-
litical Union,' and fur measures of peace and conciliation as
regardA the Canadas.

S4veral petitions, and numerously signed, were presented for
the repeal of the post-horse duty, the window tax, the duty on
rn trine insurances, &c..
The ATTORNEY GENERAL (in answer to Captain Pechell's
inquiry) stated that the Lord Chancellor was preparing bills to
extena the jurisdiction of sheriffs' courts to sums as high as £5O.
Also to amend the law as regarded the recovery of small debts
all over the country, and to assist the administration of crimi-
nal justice at quarter sessions.
Lord JOHN licssEr.r. (in answer to Mr. Williams's inquiry.
who doubted whether the course would give satisfaction) said
that the commissioners appointed to inquire into the distresses
of hand•loom wearers would have assistant commissioners—a
mode of proceeding adopted in the poor laws inquiry, and which
gave satisfaction.