The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY.

After the presentation of a number of petitions the
House went into committee on the Places of Worship
Sites (Scotland) Bill. This measure, after considerable
discussion and two divisions, in which the Government
were successful by very narrow majorities, passed through
committee, and the report was ordered to be received
next day.
On the question being put for resuming the adjourned
debate on Mr. O'Connell's motion for the Repeal of the
Union,
Mr. REYNOLDS moved its further adjournment till that
day three weeks, which was agreed to. (This" important
measure" was introduced as tar back as the 11th of April
last, and since then both the mover and seconder have ab-
sented themselves—while at the time of its introduc-
tion there were not more than a dozen Irish members
present !)
Mr. KEoGx denounced the motion for a repeal of the
IT-ion as a false pretence, and accused the Repeal mem-
for playing with the question, holding it over the
House in terrorem, without having any serious intention
of bringing it to a vote.
After some observations by Mr. REYNOLDS,
Mr. KEOGH charged the Government with having
played fast and loose with the Repeal question during
the last election, and with having supported Repeal can-
didates in order to obtain supporters in the House.
Sir G. GREY emphatically denied the charge.
On the motion of Mr. EVELYN DENISON a select com-
mittee was appointed to consider the best means of pro-
moting the dispatch of public business in the House, to
consist of seventeen members.

HOUSE OF COMAIONS.7THURSDAY.

The debate was resumed on Mr. Hume's notable
scheme for disarranging and dislocating the representative
system of the country. On a division there were found
—For Mr. Hume's motion, 84 ; against it, 351 ;—majo-
rity, 267.
The speakers in favour of the motion were Mr. B.
Osborne, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Locke King, Mr. O'Connor,
Lord D. Stuart, Mr. Muntz, and Mr. Villiers; but some
of these only gave a qualified support, though they voted
with Mr. Hume.

The speakers against the motion were Mr. Sergeant
Talfourd, Mr. Urquhart, Mr. M. Milnes, Mr. Sidney
Herbert, and Mr. Newdegate.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD declared, and declared truly,
that Mr. Hume's resolution is founded on no principle,
attains no end, and is but an instance of delusive and
mischievous quackery.
Mr. COBDEN made a violent and unscrupulous chartist
speech. He declared that 130 meetings have already
been held in favour of the scheme (we have never before
heard of them), and that it has already excited as much
feeling in its support as had been acquired by the Anti-
Corn Law League after five years' agitation (this too is
new to us).

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HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY.

The Bankrupt Law Consolidation Bill was, on the
motion of Lord BROUGHAM, read a second time.
After some discussion, the Public Health Bill, which
stood for committal, was referred to the consideration of
a select committee, the noble lords urging the latter
course, stating that their object was not to impede the
progress of the measure, but to render it more perfect.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCH recommended that the bill
should apply to Scotland, or that a similar measure appli-
cable to that country should speedily be introduced.
The Usher of the Black Rod reported at the bar that
having made every inquiry for Viscount Arbuthnot, or-
dered to be arrested under a warrant of the house conse-
quent upon a charge of the commission of forgery, he
could not be found, and there was every reason for believ-
ing he had left the country.
The Imprisonment for Debt (Ireland) Bill was read a
third time.