The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-08 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY

A vast number of petitions were presented against the
repeal of the navigation laws.
Lord STANLEY put the same questions to the govern-
ment respecting the bill for granting compensation for the
losses sustained in the late Canadian rebellion as had been
asked by Mr. Herries in the House of Commons on Wed-
nesday, and condemned in strong terms the practice of
private communication between the governors of colonies
and the Colonial Secretary, as tending to oust the consti-
tutional control of Parliament, and relieve ministers of all
responsibility.
Earl GREY said that Lord Elgin had intimated that the
responsibility rested with him as to whether he shonld
accept or reject the bill passed by the Legislative Assem-
bly, or as to whether he should reserve the measure for
the consideration of the government at home. The go-
vernment had every confidence in the discretion of Lord
Elgin, and would accord to him the fullest support in the
exercise of his discretion.

After some observations from Lord BROUGHAM, the
subject dropped.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in a committee
of the whole house, moved an advance of the sum of
£300,000 to the loan commissioners for the improvement
of land in Ireland, to enable them to give additional em-
ployment to the people by lending money to the landed
proprietors for the purpose of improving their lands, upon
the security of those lands. He also moved the advance
of a sum of £200,000, in addition to the balance now in
hand, for the promotion of arterial drainage in that
country, which sum would be sufficient for the present
year, as government would only advance half the money
required to be expended in the works.
After some observations from Mr. 0. GORE, deprecia-
tory of the advantages supposed to be conferred by the
loan commissioners upon Irish proprietors.
Mr. FRENCH said he could not approve of the proposed
measure, which, in his opinion, would only throw addi-
tional burdens on Ireland, which she was wholly inca-
pable of supporting. This measure was a corollery to all
the former measures df the government, which were
wholly inadequate to the crisis in which the country was
placed, and which, like its predecessors would signally
fail. . . _

After some observations from Lord Barnard, Mr. Gro-
gan, Mr. Trelawny, Mr. A. Stafford, Mr. J, O'Connell,
and Mr. Reynolds, the votes were agreed to.
The adjourned debate on the Marriages Bill was then
resumed.
Sir G. GREY, without at all entering into the theolo-
gical views of the subject,. for such a question was not
likely to receive a satisfactory solution by any decision of
that house, should vote for the second reading of the bill.
Believing there was great doubt in the minds of many as
to whether such marriages were prohibited by the law of
God, and feeling satisfied in his own mind that no such
prohibition existed, he would upon social grounds support
the measure. The great preponderance of fact and of ar-
gument he thought was in favour of an alteration of the
existing law, more particularly as the act of 1835 had not
had the effect of putting a stop to such marriages as the
present bill proposed to sanction hereafter.
Sir R. INGLis, feeling the delicacy and sacredness of
the subject, regretted that it had ever become a matter of
discussion in that house. The question was altogether a
scriptural and theological one, and looking at the bill of
his right hon. friend (Mr. Wortley) in this point of view,

he felt compelled to vote against it. The question was
emphatically a woman's Question, and they were legislat-
ing according to their own feelings, without at all con-
-1 suiting the feelings of the women of England, whom he
believed to be opposed, by an enormous majority, to the
1 measure before the house.
The debate was then adjourned until Tuesday.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL
4
AMERICA.

The Hermann arrived at Southampton on Saturday
from New York with dates to the 20th ult. The Europa
had arrived at New York on the 19. Nothing had occur-
red since the Niagara left. A good deal of political
feeling existed in New York as to the appointments of
collector.

A steamer from California had arrived. There was
severe suffering amongst the diggers. All accounts con-
firm the richness of the deposits. Gold had risen in value
to 141 to 15 dots. All kinds of provisions continue high.
The Mexican government has voted the Pope 25,000
dollars, and also authorised a loan of one and a half million.
The American-Californian expedition had quarrelled with
the Mexican troops, and a collision had taken place.
The tariff in Canada was completely changed in detail
and principal in passing through the house. From a free
trade measure it had become a protection tariff. Great
excitement has been caused by Earl Grey's despatches to
Lord Elgin concerning the Halfax and Quebec railroads.
Hundreds bad joined the British American League, and
they were to issue a manifesto. The Canadian revenue
diture by 10,000 dollars. The weather

exceeds the ex

in New York was cold. The canals were to open on the
Ist of May. The money market was easier. Half a mil-
lion of specie by the Niagara had produced a good effect.
Exchange on London. 107. Cotton had kept up in spite
of the fall in Liverpool, as announced by the Europa. Fair
Mobile Th; fully fair B*. Florida 7-1- to 71. Flour in de-
mand. Ohio and Genessee straight brands 4 75-100, 4
871.100. Pure Genessee 5.3/4 to 1. Corn meal 2 674-100.
Jersey wheat 120 for Genessee.