The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-06 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY.

Mr. HUME gave notice that on Monday he should move
amendments to the resolutions to be then proposed by the
Attorney• General relative to Baron Rothschild, to the following
effect: That the member for London having taken the oaths of
allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, as directed by the house,
in the form most binding to his conscience, could not be liable
to any penalties but such as might be imposed under the statutes
in a court of law. And that next session the house would
seriously consider the oath of al juration, with a view to meet
the case now before them, and to make all the oaths more con-
sistent with the changes which have taken place since the pas-
sing of the acts by which they were enacted.
'the second reading of the Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Act
Continuance Bill having been moved,
Mr. J. O'CONNELL observed that the bil! being one of pains
and penalties should have originated in that, and not in the
upper, house. . . .

-the SPEAKER ruled that the objection was tenable. and
Lord J. RUSSELL said that the measure should be at once
-withdrawn ; moving immediately afterwards for leave to intro-
duce a new bill.

M r. HUME considered the measure unnecessary while Ireland
was so perfectly quiescent.
In reply to Mr. Ileathcote,
Sir G. GREY stated that it was notthe intention of the govern-
ment to bring in, during the present session, any bill for the
removal of Smithfield-market.
In answer to a question from Mr. STANFORD,
Sir G. GREY gave a similar disclaimer of any intention to
propose a measure restricting or regulating the sale of poisons.
Lord R GROSVENOR having presented a petition from some
practitioners of homcepathy, complaining of the conduct of the
deputy coroner for Middlesex,

iIr:WAKLEY, on the motion for going into committee of
supply, took the opportunity to defend the deputy coroner and
retorted the charge of misconduct upon the homcepathic pro-
fessors, whom he designated quacks, and accused of a design
to advertise their system through the •medium of the House of
Commons.

The house then went into committee of-supply.
Shortly after midnight, the passing of the last vote of supply
for the present year was hailed with much cheering.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-SAnyaDAY.

On the motion for bringing up the report of the committee
of supply, Mr. Hum pursuant to notice, .called the attention
of the house to the publication and distribution of the historical
-work called Monumenta Historiea Britannica, the price of
which, he contended, should be reduced to the public.
Atter a few observations from Mr. C. Lewis, Colonel
Sibthorp, Mr. Bernal, and Mr. G. Thompson, the subject
•droop 0:

On bringing up the report of the committee on ways and
means, Mr. 'HuskE informed the house that, if he should live
till next session, he would reigiouslv attend to the estimates,
and refuse all votes that were proposed after twelve o'clock at
alight. He should decline totting in any. committee, in order
that he might be in his place every night to watch closely
the financial proceedings of the government, and he
therefore took the opportunity of giving them notice to be
prepared in future with early and accurate accounts. He
advised them to reconsider their estimates and •cut the votes
.down to the lowest figure, or they would find in him a rigorous
and uncompromising opponent, but one always ready to .agree
to those supplies which the wants of the public service abso-
lutely required.
Mr. BROTH BETON said it was his intention also to turn over
a new leaf, as he found that when he gave the governmeat an
inch they took an ell; and he should propose the first -thing
siert session, that the Speaker do leave the chair every night
at twelve o'clock, believing that course would induce lion.
members who-were fond of .speakipg to economise time, and
way more attention to the real business of the house.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained, that the
house had got in its possession already both a detailed account
and a summary of the whole accounts.
Mr. Comm( thought that many of those works which had
been begun in times .of panic should be abandoned and dis-
continued as soon as possible. A sum of £513,000 was asked
for to complete the harbour of refuge and other works at
Alderney, a sum which would buy that island twice over.
Mr. fizN,LEv suggested that there should be a provision for
the inspection of those works from time to time.
The subject then dropped, and the report was agreed to.
The Grand Jury Cess (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and
Passed. The Fees (Court of Common Pleas, No. 29 Bill was also
read a third time and passed. The National Gallery (Edinburgh)
Bill passed through committee. The Spitalfields and Shore-
ditch New Street Bill was read a second time.

NEW Ifousz OF COMMONS.—The lowering of the
ceiling of the new chamber decidedly facilitates the trans-
mission of sound, but at the sacrifice of whatever beauty
or symmetry the hall could beast of. The windows, the
most elegant features of the chamber, are cut in two,
and deprived of their fair proportions. So much has
been gained by the lowering of the ceiling, that hon.
members cart DOW make themselves heard in the report
ter? gallery,