The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-31 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY.
Several petitions were presented against the municipal corpo-
rations' bill. The Earl of Falmouth, who presented one from
;the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Weymouth and Met-
combe -Regis, gave notice that, at the proper time, he would
move that the petitioners be heard by counsel at the bar of the
• -house airaimit cm lain parts of the bill.
The stamp duties' offices' consolidation bill went through
-commit tee.
Lord Bitouettam postponed the bringing up of the report of
the certiorari bill until the sth of August, in order that he might
communicate with the chief justice of the Court of King's Bench
on the subject of the introduction of a clause suggested by the
Duke of Richmond, tar allowing magistrates to receive bail in
minor cases of felony.
The Earl of A a RR UEEN presented several petitions against the
union of the Marischal and King's Colleges, Aberdeen. The
noble lord said. that the bill providing for that union was not
then before their lordships; but still, some of the petitions were
an worded, that he thought they might be received. Much dis-
satisfaction was manifested throughout Scotland at this mea-
sure, with reference to which he had received petitions from va-.
riot's parts of that country. lie hoped that his Majesty's
ministers would pause before they sanctioned a measure of such
a nature. Lord Melbourne said that ministers had not sanc-
tioned the bill, which had been introduced by an individual
member of the Howe of Commons without the knowledge of
government.
A conversation took place between the Duke of Newcastle
and Lord Brougham, relative to the legality of the municipal
corporation commission, the former denying, and the latter as-
serting, that the commission was legal. Lord Brougham, in
defending the legality of the commission, said—" It had always
been a eeseta qii,e,itio whether the crown had the power, in ex-
amining into matters of this nature, to compelindividuals to
produce documents, and to answer upon every point on which
they might he examined; and, therefore, it was sometimes
thought better that the commission slniuld proceed rather under
an act of Parliament than tinder the
,mere authority of the
ernwn; and, for his own part, he was not prepared to say that
the crown had the power to cnaspel persons against their wills
to produce documents or to answer interrogatories; or that pee-
sons refusing:to answer would commit any illegality by-doing so.
But still the crown hul a right to issue such a commission, un-
der which peonle might answer certain questions, though not
compelled to rfo so. Some might answer, and some might not,
as had been the case in the present inquire."
The Marquis of CLANKICAROR postponed till Thursday the
second reading of the Ronan Catholic marriages' bill.
The Duke of NEWCASTLF. said he wished to ask Lord Mel-
bourne a question of great importtince, as it had reference to a
subject which had greeted a strong feeling throughout the coun-
try. Some mouth 4 wee he observed an article in a newspaper,
in which it was mated that W 33 acres of land had been sold to
the Rev. Mr. Hunt, a Roman Catholic clergyman, at Lough-
borough, for the purptele of blinding a Roman Ca'tholie monas-
vary forio.lividimis of the order of Jesuits. It. was added, that
Mr. C. Gisborne, to whom the land belonged, meant to end his
days in the new monastery.-- He wished to know whether Lord
M;lbourne could give him any information on the subject. It
was important that no colleges of this description should be
founded. Ile censitlered that the principles taught in them con-
tained the groundlstoik of everything that was injurious to the
established religion of this country. Lord Melbourne replied,
that be was no further acquainted with the matter to which the
noble duke referred than the noble duke himself' was. He had
seen the circuinstarrce mentioned in the public papers, but no-
thing had been done which gave him auy right to interpose.