The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY.

Sir T. BIRCH presented the petition against the exten-
sion to Liverpool of the Habeas Corpus Act.
On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the order of the
day for the second reading of the Bakehouses Bill,
brought in by Lord R. Grosvenor, was discharged.
Mr. FAGAN withdrew his Life Policies of Assurance
Bill.

Sir W. CLAY moved the second reading of the Reme-
dies against the hundred Bill.
Sir G. GREY regretted that he was obliged to oppose
the bill. He could not consent to make the hundred
liable in every case of disturbance; but he was quite wil-
ling to consider whether some better test than felony
might not be applied to the offence making the hundred
liable- .

Mr. BANKES supported the bill; and after some further
conversation, in which Mr. Bernal, Mr. Hume, Captain
Pechell, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Elliot, Mr. Cardwell, Mr.
Henley, and Sir H. Willoughby joined,
Sir O. GREY said th t if Sir W. Clay merely wished,
by carrying the second rerding of this bill, to obtain an
expression of opinion favourable to some change in the
law, he would not oppose it; but in that case it must be
understood that the bill was not to go into committee.

The bill was then read a second time.
The Sale of Beer Bill was read a third time.—Several
clauses were then proposed by way of riders to the bill,
but they were all negatived, after a curious conversation
between Mr. Hume and Mr. Brotherton, on the propriety
of protecting whores and thieves in their respective avo-
cations. Mr. Hume denied the " soft impeachment "
that he was en encourager of prostitution, and declared
that he never frequented those haunts with which Mr.
Brotherton seemed so well acquainted.—The bill was
then passed.
Mr. S. WORTLEY postponed till the next session the
introduction of his bill for legalizing marriage between a
widower and the sister of his deceased wife. He wished
it to be understood that, as the law now stood, such mar-
riages were absolutely null and void. He had, however,
formed the strongest opinion that such marriages ought
to be rendered legal, and the Commissioners were unani-
mously of that opinion.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TIIIIRSDAY.
Lord BROUGHAM moved for copies of proclamations is-
sued by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for the apprehen-
sion of certain persons in that country, and then proceeded
in a rambling speech to descant on the insurrection in Ire-
land, on the activity which the government had shown in
repressing it, and on the measures which should be taken
to extinguish discontent. In his opinion the regal remedy
for the evils under which Ireland had so long laboured
would be found in a ludicrous system of colonization, and
in the suppression of illegal assemblies and seditious
clubs.

After some observations from the Earl of WrcgLow!
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, that though the in-
surrection in Ireland might be said to be suppressed, yet
the state of that country might be said to require the
greatest care and precaution for some time to come.
Under that conviction her Majesty's government were re-
solved to make ample use of the means confided to them
by parliament.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that though it ap-
peared there was no danger of an actual outbreak, it was
still admitted that an extensive conspiracy against the
cmstitution existed in Ireland. Before all things, it was
absolutely necessary that the clubs should be put down,
and he was, therefore, happy to hear that the existence of
those seditious bodies would receive the attention of go-
vernment.

After, some observations from Lord MoNrsAGLE, the
motion was agreed to.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY.

The house went into committee on the Sugar Duties
Bill.
In the committee Lord G. BENTDICK pointed out se•

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veral inaccuracies in the schedules of the bill, and divided
upon several of them. He also brought up two clauses
which he wished to have added to the bill, but both of
them were negatived on a division.
The bill was then reported to the house, and the report
was ordered to be taken into consideration next day.
On the motion, that the Corrupt Prac ices at Elections
Bill be committed, . .

Colonel SIBTHORP opposed the Speaker's leaving the
chair, and in the course of his observations gave a sum-
mary of the business of the session, in which he imputed
all kinds of corruption and trickery to the government:
which was incapable of carrying through parliament any
honest or useful measure. He put it to Lord John Rus-
sell, as man to man, whether it was fair, in the pr'sent
state of the house and the session, and in the absence of
all the Irish members, to press forward a measure of such
vast importance and of so painfully a searching character ?
Little progress was made with the bill, when the house
adjourned.