The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-18 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-SATURDAY.

After a considerable amount of mere routine business
had been transacted. the order of the day was read for
the third reading of the British Possessions Bill. On
the motion that the bill be read a third time,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that be in-
tended to bring up a clause which would introduce such
amendments into the bill as would obviate the objections
of Mr. Gonlburn, and as would prevent the colonial
legislatures from levying unfair discaiminating duties on
British produce and manufactures.
Lord G. BENTINCK objected to the bill as a measure
destroying the monopoly of the British manufacturers,
and producers in the British colonies, and as overturning
the whole system on which those colonies had hitherto
been managed. He contended that the passing of the
Corn Bill, and the prospect of the passing of the Sugar
Bill, had not produced the anticipated effect of securing
the prosperity of our manufacturers. At various places
in Lancashire and Yorkshire the master manufacturers
had given notice of their intention to make a reduction of
5 per cent. in the wages of tbeir wcrkmeu, on the ground
that they could stand reduction, as the price of food was
cheaper. I❑ consequence of the fall of the price of wheat,
the farmers would not purchase manufactures, until they
saw whether they could pay for them ; and in Canada
flour and timber had already sunk so much in value, that
one house alone had recalled an or der for £lOO,OOO worth
of dry goods to be sent to that colony. Under such cir-
cumstances the manufacturers could ill afford to lose the
monopoly of the colonial market; and be therefore called
upon the house to pause before it gave a third reading to
a measure so important, introduced at so late a period of
the session. As this bill would also ultimately abolish
the navigation laws, he felt it his duty to move, that it be
read a third time that day three months.

Lord J. RUSSELL defended the bill, contending thatwe
ought not to expose the colonies to the disadvantages,
when we took from them all the advantages of protection.
It the manufacturing and agricultural part of the popula-
tion had a right to consume the cheapest sugar they could
get, the colonies were also entitled to have their provisions
and manufactures at as cheap a rate as they could be ob-
tained. He declined, upon this occasion, to follow his
noble riend into that discussion, on the policy of the na-
vigation laws, into which he had so recklessly entered.
Mr. SPOONER declared his intention of voting in favour
of the amendment, for he thought that the colonies ought
not to be entrusted with such a power of imposing differ-
ential duties, as would enable them to establish a mono-
poly against the mother country.
Mr. BRIGHT turned the manufacturing experience of
Lord G. Bentinck into utter ridicule, by showing that it
was chiefly derived from the columns of the Standard
newspaper. lie denied that wages were falling in the
manufacturing districts ; asserted that the statement to
that effect which had appeared in some of the journals
was totally false; and declared that, as the price of food
was now low, and the demand for labour abundant, the
manufacturing population had never enjoyed such great
physical comforts as at the present moment. He refuted
the various arguments advanced by Lord G. Bentinck,
and concluded by expressing his gratification at the intro-
duction of the present measure.

After some further discussion, in which Mr. Bernal,
Mr. B. Escott, and Mr. Brotherton supported, and Mr.
Henley, Sir H, Douglas, Mr. M. Gore, and Mr. Newde-
gate opposed the bill, the house divided, when there ap-
peared, for the amendment, 8; against it, 47; majority
against ir, 39.

-The bill was then read a third time and passed.
The house then disposed of the other orders of the
day and adjourned.

The Bishop of Winchaster consecrated a new church
and cemetery adjoining, in the island of Guernsey, on
Tuesday.
Geo. Hudson, Esq., M.P., has subscribed £2O towards
the fund fur the relief of the widow and daughter of the
late unfortunate Haydon, the painter.
WESTMIIk:STER BRlDGE.—Yesterday, notice was given
to the public by the Commissioners of Westminster-
bridge that the thoroughfare for carriages would be closed
till further notice on and after Saturday the 15th instant.
T. C. Foster, Esq., the Times' Commissioner, and
formerly a reporter on the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, who
has been recently called to the bar, appeared at our
Assizes in his robes yesterday.
He looked extremely
well.

INQUESTS.—Yesterday, before P. F. Curry, Esq., in-
quests were held, first, on the body of a child, named
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accordingly.—Se-
condly, on view of a female named Margaret Ryley, aged
34, who kept a lodging-house in Plueobe-street. The de-
ceased had been subject to fainting fits, and, on going to
bed, fell down a few steps of the stairs, and, though she
did not complain at the time, it appeared that, on a post
mortem examination, she had died of concussion of the
brain. Verdict accordingly.
INTERRUPTING A STREET PREACHER.—A young
man was yesterday brought before Mr. Rushton, charged
by a police officer with having made some dissentient re-
marks to a preacher in the street, which gathered an ad-
ditional crowd, and caused some commotion. The
defendant (who had got at large on bail) said that be had
happened to differ from the doctines held forth by the
preacher, and had certainly interrupted him by a remark;
but that the preacher did not quarrel with him for what
he had said, but mer,ly told him he would argue the point
with him after his congregation bad dispersed. Mr.
Rushton said that, no doubt the preacher had the best
intentions towards the people around him, of nhatsoever
opinions he might himself be, and that it was very wrong
to annoy or disturb him. With this rebuke he discharged
the prisoner.
ROBBERY OF MONEY ON BOARD SHlP.—Yesterday,
a boy named David M'Arthur was brought before Mr.
Rushton, at the Police-court, charged with robbing a
seaman, named Harrigan, on board of the Commodore,
complainant,Glasgowste a fine-looking-sbip,o man,ntleirp andsag alsoeto a witnessthisport.h
Thewo
was on board, proved, in effect, that while the parties
had lain down to rest before they landed here, the pri-
soner ransacked the pockets of complainant of a half-
sovereign and a quantity of silver. The act was observed
by one of the witnesses, and about 15s. was found on the
prisoner when he was apprehended. It appeared that
the latter had come from Scotland ostensibly in search
of work. As the complainant had made an engagement
to go to sea from this port in a few days, Mr. Rushton
committed him for trial at the present Assizes, so that
the party aggrieved may not be compelled to relinquish
his voyage, by waiting until the next Borough Quarter
Sessions. It is of some importance that the public
should know that summary jurisdiction before the bo-
rough Magistrates (and which is legally restrictive) need
not be resorted to in such cases, and be a sort of salvo
for a guilty party, as the Learned Judge who pr' sides in
the criminal court will be always found ready and willing
to try such cases during his stay, which would be other-
wise sent for adjudication before the Recorder.
FRAMES FOR THE SAILORS' HOME.—TO those of our
readers who intend framing their engravings of the Sai-
lors' Home, we would recommend an inspection of the
many beautiful designs in papier mache, by Air. J. R.
Keys, of the Music-hall, Bold-street, some of which may
be seen at our office. Many of the frames are expressly
adapted in design to the architectural style of the build-
ing, and their appearance being equal to that of the most
elaborate carvings, they give a richness and beauty to
anything they encircle. A notice of papier mache, from
the Art-Union, appears as an advertisement in another
part of our paper.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
MONDAY, AUGUST 17,—Wind S.W.

ARRIVED.—Swan, Taylor, from St. John, N.B.—aud Louisa,
Preitz. from Rita.

SAT LED.—Undaunted, Whitewas. for Valparaiso—Schoodiac,
Griffin, for St. Stephen—Emanuel, Burn. for Quebec—Dumbar-
ton. Pendleton. for New Orleans—Mary. Page, for Montreal—
Den Unge Svaine, Wulff, for Iceland—Nancy, Way. for Dordt
—Fern Sodskende, Neilson, for Bergen—Pickwick, Cornish, for
Valparaiso—John, Politz. and Caroline, Ahrens, for Riga—
Oporto, Barnes, for Oporto—Pereciosa , Soundberg, for Stock-
holm—amd Michigan, Mason. for Portland.
John Peat, Guthrie, from ttio Grande. at Valparaiso