The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-20 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14,

CEILTECII RATES.—On the order for the second reading
the Church Rates Bill, Mr. PACKE announced his in-
tention to withdraw the The session, he said, was
.top far advanced to warrant the expectation that it could
Pe carried through both 'houses.—A discussion of the sub-
4eet was stopped by the SPEAKER as irregular, and the
(3rder was discharged.
„ ii coLEsrlsrrcn Coins.—The house went into corn-
"littee on the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, which Mr. R. J.
,_lllLLimoan said was a very simple measure. Its object
merely to transfer to -the ecclesiastical courts the
uwer of taking evidence civil voce—a practice which had
been attended with such beneficial results in the Admi-
`
~,41ti—The bill then passed through committee.
Xll agreed
report of the Committee-of Supply was brought up
agreed to.
h The house went into committee a second time upon the
,411blic Revenue and Consolidated -Fund Charges Bill, the
mouses of which underwent a fresh discussion, occupying
ItPwards of three hours.
• Suomt IN BREWERlES.—ln.committee of ways and
'Pans, Mr. J. WiLsow moved resolutions, the effect of
Zinich was to permit brewers who ,desired to use sugar in
ALevveries to do so on payment of a itaty equivalent'to
erenee between the duties on sugar and malt, and on
t'e condition of taking out a license of £1 per annum for
the
1-, purpose of registration, to call the• attention of the
ZteiSe to the fact.—The resolutions Avere agreed to after
▪ ilne 'discussion.
The 'house adjourned at half-past five •o'clock.

THURSDAY, JUNE 15.
, Lord J. RrSSELL took the oaths and his seat for the
`49 of London. •
IhiEacjwcME COMMISSION REPORT..-4u reply to a
'location IVu,soN stated that the whole of the report
61 the Mercantile Commission had been printed, with the
that ception of two, heets, which had only been received
morning, buts that he hoped it would he 'finished on
Tuesday. UNIVERSITY REFORM.
I, The house went into committee upon the Oxford Uni-
trsity Bill, as amended since it was last under tonsidera-
Stql in committee.
t Lord J. Russ= announced the intention of tine go-
tPliment to add two commissioners to the five named in
qt.bill ; he reserved their names until the report.
eb.kll the discussion which arose upon the 31st clause, the
,I:gcms,on of the EXCICEQU'ER confessed that the
t,'
~'"l'eSsure put upon the government had reduced them
mhwillingly to the alternative of a modified bill or no bill
k all.
; Mr. BLICICETT lamented that this had been converted
itllto a permissive measure, and attributed the failure of
the original bill, not to the power of its opponents, but to
be want of energy among its supporters.
Lord J. RUSSELL said, the alterations in the bill were,
the opinion of the government, alterations for the
worse ; but they , were necessary ,in consequence of the
•r qes of a majority of the house.
, upon reaching the 33rd clause, the CillumutAN rePorted
I.°giress.
t7s+Aß IN BREWERIES.—The report of the Committee
Ways and Means having been,brougitt up, Mr. DisnAaLt
?ticed an apparent inconsistency between the resolutions
1 the report, allowing the use of sugar in breweries, and
clause In the Excise Duties (Sugar) Bill, which stood
• committee that night, prohibiting stiell use of sugar.
Mr J. WrtsoN explained that the clause referred to
"ould be expunged.----The resolutions were agreed to.
MORNING SITTINGS.-.A discussion took place on the
tn°Pvrlety of basing morning sittings, which was objected
u 9 Mr. DisR.LER,I, but on a division it was carried by
• to (30.
The house adjourned at a quarter to two o'clock.