The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-09 00:00:00

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description had been made out, and said he
ely write to Mr. Nichol on the subject, but,

the interim, hoped that the holm
on the whole matter until h
explanation of the commisE
The Duke of WELLINGTON felt this to be a most serious
arge, and gave notice for Thursday next of a motion upon
e subject. _ _

should be in post

Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that no explanation by letter
could be sufficient, as it appeared to him a gross breach of
the privileges of the house had been committed, and he be-
lieved it would he necessary to examine some of the pai-tie:
at their lordships' bar.
The Marquis of NORMANDY said, that if the answers tc
his letters were not satisfactory, of course the investigation
must be followed up
Some returns mo

_ _ for by Lord GLENGALL, in connection
t, were ordered, and their lordships adjourned.

with the subjec

HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY

Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that on Monday he would
move for leave to bring in a bill for the improvement of the

criminal law

On the bringing up of the report on Lord Keane's annuity
bill, Mr. HUME moved its postponement until the corre-
spondence upon the subject between the President of the
Board of Control and the East India Company should be
upon the table.

Lord J. RUSSELL said it would be unjust to Lord Keane
to be huckstering with the East India Company about the

payment of this annuity.
Lord STANLEY said it had been erroneously supposed that
the proposed pension to Lord Keane was the same as that
which had been given to Lord Nelson. A pension of £2OOO
a year bad been conferred on Lord Nelson when he got his
peerage, but after his death the additional amount of £5OOO
per annum was annexed to the pension, not for three lives,
but for ever. Independent of this the two sums of £90,000
and £20,000 were vested in trustees for the benefit of the
family.

Mr. Hume's amendment was. lost by a majority of 127 to

The house then went into committee of supply, and a great
number of the navy estimates were voted.
Mr. MACAULAY then made his statement relative to the
army estimates, from which it appeared that the vote of last
year, including a supplemental vote, was £6,158,000, showing
a decrease of about £27,000. The number of men he asked
for was 121,000, but of these 29,630 would be paid for by the
East India Company, so that the number to be provided for
by parliament would be 91,491. The right hon. gentleman
entered at great length into the details of the charges, and
concluded by moving that a land force, not exceeding 92,000,
be granted for the year commencing the Ist of March, 1841,
for Great Britain and Ireland.
This led to some discussion, in the course of which Mr.
HIIME contended that the number of men was too great;
and Sir H. HARDINGE that it w'ks too small, under the pe-
culiar circumstances in which the country was placed ; but
the vote was agreed to. •

On the proposal of a subsequent vote of the staff for the
army, .

Mr. HureE drew attention to the state of the 11th hussars,
and strongly condemned the conduct of Lord Hill in throw-
ing his shield over the Earl of Cardigan.
Mr. MACAULAY expressed his surprise that a subject
which had excited such a feeling throughout the country
should have been so unexpectedly brought forward on that
occasion. The right hon. gentleman said that not even Pro-
bert nor Burke could have been so hunted down as Lord
Cardigan had been by the press and the public, and contended
that Lord Hill's character was sufficient to shield him from
any charge of impropriety, and that Lord Hill had declared
that no ground for inquiry had been placed before him. The
right hon. gentleman further contended that government
were shielded from all blame, because Lord Hill was their
political opponent. He had no doubt but, in the course of
time, the public would be convinced that they were wrong in

taking np the mat

s they had done

blam-e that he threw on the govern-

m no pains to cause an inquiry.
I his belief that Lord Hill de-

ith perfect imparti

subject would have beep brought forward; but as it had
been, he must say that neither the answer of the noble lord
or the right hon. gentleman was satisfactory. The facts
which had come before the public demar.ded inquiry, as it
was clear that a feeling existed in the regiment, between the
officers and their commander, most detrimental to the public
service. The noble lord contended that, after the former
circumstances relative to the trial of Captain Wathen, it was
imperative, as Lord Cardigan was restored, that if any sub.
sequent allegations of misconduct were made against him,
the closest sifting should be made into his conduct, if only
for the satisfaction of the public. The refusal of inquiry was
not only unjust to the officers of the 11th and to the public,
but was to the last degree injurious to Lord Cardigan, who
could not be indifferent, for it was impossible for any man to
be so, to the loudly expressed opinion of his countrymen.
Sir H. VIVIAN defended Lord Hill, and said he could not
I otherwise than he had done.
ked if it was to be understood that officer

have ac

after officer should be driven from a regiment in the service
ort of conduct which was felt to be intolerable without
a possibility of looking any where for redress ? If so, he re-
vetted that such a lamentable defect should exist in the con-
titution'of the army. _ .

thought the conduct of the Earl of

Sir I
Cardigl

ggerited by the press and by individa-
opinion that something like a cabal
be regiment against him, for before

3t in India three

nonths

he had joinea ms - .
libelled in the public papers there, and was informed by th,
editor of one of them that those libels came from an officer of
the 11th.
Lord HowicK said that the right hon. gentleman had fur-
nished the strongest ground fora court of inquiry by the facts
which he had just stated.
General F-
hardly do

thought Lord C

bought, however, that. an inquiry
and was of opinion that the matter

could have taken pl

hould not rc.,_
The conversation dropped, and the house soon after ad-

t as it now stooc

We are sorry to learn, from an authentic source, that Mr.
Anthony Wright Biddulph, the unfortunate, but deservedly-
respected partner of the late banking firm of Wright and Co.,
is in a very broken state of health, and that Dr. M`Caragher,
who has always attended him during his illness, has lately
signed a certificate, which has been sent to the assignees, in
which he stated that he had attended Mr. Biddulph in a very
severe fit of apoplexy and paralysis between three and four
years since, and subsequently in two others and he bad also
an enlargement of the heart, and that his life was not safe for
a single day, and may be terminated at any moment. Mr.
Biddulph has a wife and four children, whose prospects are
completely blighted by the unfortunate failure of the bank-
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