The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, 'TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1851.

At the evening sittingpthe Chief Justices' Salaries' Bill I
was read a third time and passed.
The Inhabited House Duty Bill was also read a third
time and passes, afters protest from Mr. DISRAELI, who
considered it the most impolitic financial measure which
had been in modern times submitted to the consideration
of parliament.
The following 'bills went through the same stage :
The Assessed'Taxee; Composition Bill, the Public Works,
Fisheries, &a. Billrand the Public Works (Ireland) Bill.
The Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill, the Turnpike Roads
(Ireland) Bill, and the Private Lunatic Asylums (Ireland)
Bill, were read a second time.
THE RAJASI OF "SARAWAK.—Mr. HUME moved an
address to the Crown, praying for the appointment of a
royal commission to inquire into the proceedings of Sir
James Brooke on ,the north-western coast of Borneo, and
especially into the attack made, under his advice and di.
rection, upon the `Sakarran and Sarebas Dyaks on the
31st of July, 1849 • and further that her Majesty would
command that the opinion of the Judges be taken and
laid before the house touching the legality of the holding
by Sir James at the same time of certain apparently in-
compatible offices. lie justified his motives in the per-
severing endeavours •he made to obtain an inquiry into
this matter, and obviated any charge of delay by detailing
the obstacles be had encountered. He then read the
official reports of the operations against the Dyaks, and,
observing that the whole gist of his motion depended
upon whether these men were pirates or not, described
the class of boats, or prahus, used by the Illanoons and
Sooloos, who were pirates, and compared them with those
of the Sakarran and Sarebas Dyaks, endeavouring to show
that there was no analogy between the two. But if the
men in Question had been pirates, he contended that the
proceedings against themnwere illegal. Reverting to the
habits of the two Dyak tribes, he read testimonies from
various persons possessing local knowledge, including Sir
J. Brooke himself, to prove that they were not piratical,
though, like other Borneans. the Dyaks were addicted to
inter-tribal quarrels. There being no evidence on the
other hand of the guilt of these two tribes, he maintained
that he had laid sufficient ground for an inquiry, to which
Sir J. Brooke. as he had avowed, had no objection, and
which was indispensable to the vindication of his charac-
ter, as well as that of the Government. In conclusion,
Mr. Hume noticed the various and incongruous offices
united in Sir James,—Sovereign Ruler of Sarawak, her
Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General in Borneo,
and Governor of Labuan,—which alone furnished a fit
subject for inquiry.—Mr. Headlam, Mr. Milnes, Mr. H.
Drummond, Mr. Cochrane, Mr. Gladstone, Lord Pal-
merston, and Sir F. Thesiger justified the conduct of Sir
J. Brooke ; while Mr. Urquhart, Mr. Cobden, and Col.
Thompson supported the motion, which was rejected by
230 against 19.
FRIDAY.—THE COURSE OF PUBLIC BUSINESS.—
Lord JoHN RUSSELL said that it might be convenient for
him then to state the course which he meant to pursue
with: respect to the public business (hear). He proposed
to take the committee of supply on Monday and Thurs-
day, and if it were finished by that latter day, his right
hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed to
take the third reading of the Customs Bill on Friday, and
thereby afford the right hon. gentleman the member for
Stamford (Mr. Herries) an opportunity of bringing for-
ward the amendment of which he had given notice, The
Customs Bill, however, could only be brought on in case
the committee of supply was finished on Thursday

The Court of Chancery and Judicial Committee Bill
was, after a short discussion, read a third time and passed.

EPISCOPAL IscomEs.—On the motion for the house
resolving itself into a committee of supply, Mr. M.
MILNES, on the part of the Bishop of St. David's, denied
the correctness of the statement made on a former even-
ing by Sir B. Hall as to the deplorable spiritual condition
of his diocese ; and he also denied the allegation that the
right rev. prelate had interfered to prevent the usual visi-
tation of the archdeacons to the diocese. Sir B. HALL
declined to retract anything he had stated, for he had the
authority of one of the archdeacons foe what he had
advanced. He could further state of his own knowledge
that the state of the diocese was most disgraceful, many
of the churches being without either roofs or windows,
and most of them in a very dilapidated condition.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS.-ME. MOWATT called the atten-
tion of the house to the case of the Rochester Cathedral
Grammar School, and moved that an humble address be
presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be gra-
ciously pleased to appoint a commission to inquire into
and report upon the administration of the educational
trusts confided to the cathedral establishments of the
kingdom. The SOLICITOR GENERAL was a sincere friend
to the education of the people, but at the present period
of the session he thought it more important that the
housb should go into a committee of supply than to enter
upon an inquiry such as that proposed. All the facts
were known, and he hoped the house would not agree to
the motion. After some observations from Lord JOHN
RUSSELL and other members, the motion was negatived
without a division.

The house then went into committee of supply, and the
discussion of the estimates occupied the remainder of the

evening

SATURDAY.—The House of Commons met this
morning, to forward certain bills their next stages:
Upon the third reading of the Civil Bills, &c. (Ireland)
Bill, a debate arose on an amendment proposed-by Mr.
M'Cullagh, which was ultimately negatived, and the bill
passed.
Leave was given to introduce a bill to amend the mode
of assessing Tythe Rent Charges under the Lighting and
Watching Act and the Public Health Act. The house
rose at half-past two.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL
PARIS.

General Baraguay d'Hilliers has resigned the command-
in-chief of the army, the six months during which a re-
presentative can hold office having expired.
A grand banquet is to be given by the Prefect and Mu-
nicipal Council of the Seine, to the delegates of all na-
tions at the Great London Exhibition. The banquet will
take place next month in the magnificent halls of the
Hot©l de Ville.

The election for the Haute Vienne is said to be nullified
by the abstentions of Republican voters being so great as
that the Government candidate could not obtain the legal
number.

The police have made a most important seizure of a
printing-press and seditious papers, with persons engaged
at work, which will grow to a state prosecution on a very
large scale.

The Opinion Publique, Legitimist paper, declares for-
mally against a revision of the constitution. The leading
Legitimists will nevertheless support the proposition for
calling a constituent assembly.