The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY

After some conversation on the order in which the pub-
lic business would be taken next week, and which Sir R.
Peel declared would be that which he had previously
stated—viz., to give preference to the tariff, and afterwards
to take one discussion on the Poor Removal Bill, it was
arranged that the adjourned debate on the Factory Bill
should be taken on the first vacant government day after-
Wards. . .
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Mr. SPOONER brought forward the case of Mr. Toni-
min Smith, a barrister, whose house was searched for a
private still on anonymous authority ; but Mr. Cardwell
defended the course pursued by the Excise, and the mo-
tion for a select committee was negatived by A majority of
134 to 125. _ _

Lord G. BENTINCK, in moving "for copies of the
speech of Earl Cathcart, the Governor-General of the
Canadas, to the Legislative Assembly of those provinces
—of the despatches which be had addressed to Mr. Glad-
stone, the Colonial Secretary. remonstrating against cer-
tain presumed changes in the Imperial commercial policy,
—and of any petition from the Quebec Board of Trade
addressed to the same high functionary, on the subject of
apprehended changes in the Imperial tariff affecting the
produce of the Canadas," observed that he considered it
-very important that the attention of the house should be
called to these documents, before it finally decided on the
fate of the corn bill. He believed that the facts con-
nected with these documents were shortly these. Early
in March last, Mr. Gladstone had addressed a letter to
Earl Cathcart upon the measures recently propo,ed to
Parliament by Her Majesty's Government. It appeared
from the letter that Earl Cathcart had previously ad-
dressed a letter of remonstrance against that policy to Mr.
Gladstone Acting upon the same principles, Earl Cali•
cart had, in his address to the Legislative Assembly, ob-
served that the last intelligence from the mother country
indicated that important changes were to be made in the
commercial policy of Great Britain—that he had pressed
onthe Imperial Government the necessity of preserving
the existing relations between the Canadas and the mother
country unimpaired—and that he had recommended the
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Canadians' until they received further nfo
rmation from
Great Britain, to anticipate that their claims to a just
measure of protection would not he overlooked. Earl
Cathcart bad since assured them that in every measure
calculated to secure to them that just protection, they
should have his hearty co-operation. Surely it was a
matter of serious consideration for that house, when they
found the Governor-General of the Canadas telling their
Legislative Assembly that lie would co-operate with them
against the policy of the mother country. Besides this
declaration, there were other indications of the dissatis-
faction which was felt in the Canadas in consequence of
the recent adherence of her Majesty's minister to the
-trines of free trade. A meeting had been held at To-
few days before the meeting of the Legislative
which there was a distinct intimation given,
• a our new commercial policy might

❑adas into annexation with the United States
wage had also been employed by the Attor

he province, and this language he quoted
It therefore became the house
adopt measures which

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