The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

PRESERVATION OF IRON STEAMERS.

We have received the following letter, addressed to Mr.
M'Cormick, Waterloo-road, from Captain Thompson, of
the Sea Nymph, to which we willingly give publicity, and
recommend those interested in the preservation of iron
steam-boats to peruse it :
" DEAR SIR,—In May, 1846, I called on you to paint
and cover the bottom of the steamer Sea Nymph with
your anti-corrosive varnish. It has now been on two
years, and is quite clear of corrosion. You or any person
interested can examine for yourself, as the Sea Nymph
will be in the Queen's Graving Dock till Tuesday next.—
Remaining yours truly, " JOSEPH TllompsoN.
" Mr. M'Cormzek, Waterloo-road,
Limpool,l9th May, 1848."

THE BRUNSWICK CLUB.-1t will be seen, on reference
to an advertisement in our paper to-day, that in addition to
the many excellent features already attached to this dub,
Mr. Whiteman has arranged for healthy our-door exer-
cises by engaging four bowling-greens, and a field for the
purpose of cricket, &c., all of which will be free to the
members. The excellent management of this club is de-
noted by its daily increasing subscribers, who we are
glad to learn now number nearly five hundred,---a fact
that speaks volumes for the energetic enterprise of the
originator.

Varliamentratp prorteb MO.

HOUSE OF 'LORDS.-MONDAY.

Lord STANLEY, in moving that the name of Lord
Redesdale be added to the Banking Committee, in conse-
quence of the vacancy occasioned by the demise of Lord
Ashburton, the noble lord passed a high eulogium on the
private and public eharacter of that deceased nobleman,
the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Brougham also bear-
ing their testimony to the estimable qualities of him whose
loss they, in common with the house, deplored.
The second reading of Lord Stanley's measure, entitled
the Parliamentary proceedings Adjournment Bill, gave
rise to a debate, but without provoking sufficient opposi-
tion to go to a division—at the termination of which the
bill was read a second time, and their lordships adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY.

A new writ was order:elfor—thenorthern division of
Cheshire, in the room of Mr. E. J. Stanley, raised to the
peerage. _ _ .

Petitions were presented against the sale of intoxicating
liquors on the Sabbath, in favour of amendments in the
Poor-law, against the Diplomatic Relations with Rome
bill (by Lord Ashley, from Manchester, signed by up-
wards of 17,000 persons), and in favour of sites for free
churches.

In a committee of the whole house upon the navigation
laws, Mr. Labauchere drew the attention of the commit-
tee to the necessity of effecting some alteration in these
laws to suit the altered state of our commercial relations,
and the different mode in which commercial matters were
now conducted as compared with that which prevailed
when those laws Nvere enacted. The right hon. gentleman
proceeded to give a history of the navigation laws from
the period of Richard 11., when, for the first time the
principle was introduced of giving a monopoly to British
shipping, by insisting that certain articles enumerated
should only be imported in British ships, or in ships of
the country from whence they were imported. The hon.
gentleman concluded by moving a resolution upon which
to found a bill to be hereafter introduced. [We have
given an outline of the measure elsewhere.]
After a good deal of discussion it was determined that
Lord John Russell should state on Thursday when the
discussion would be resumed.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY.

Sir D. L. EvANs, in moving the second reading of the
Parliamentary Electors Bill, which he described as al bill
for repealing the rate paying clauses of the Reform Act,
repeated the reasons usually urged for such a repeal: If
his bill were made law, no elector for a borough would
be required to have paid any poor-rates or assessed taxes.
except such as should have become due previously to the
11th of October in the preceding year.
Sir G. GREY gave his vote in his individual capacity in
favour of the measure, which did not affect the principle
of the payment of rates and taxes, but only extended the
time, and therefore came within the spirit of the Reform
Bill.

On a division the second reading of the bill was car-
ried by a majority of 60 over 25 voices.
Sir F. BARING, in moving the second reading of the
Audit of Railway Accounts Bill, said that its object was
to enable a minority of the shareholders in any railway
company to require that the accounts of such company be
audited by some impartial person, unconnected with the
company, and appointed by a Government department.
If this bill were not acceded to in its present moderate
shape, he had no doubt that a much more stringent mea-
sure would be eventually adopted.
Mr. G. BANKES moved that it be read a second time
that day six months.
Mr. LABOUCRERE urged that railway companies were
very anomalous bodies, and stood in a middle position
between public and private establishments. He therefore
could not join with those who resisted this measure as an
improper interference with the concerns of private com-
panies. It was not contrary to sound principle that Par-
liament should provide specially for railway companies a
satisfactory audit. At present tne directors virtually ap-
pointed the auditors, and it was therefore idle to suppose
that the auditor had any real check over the management
of the company. He should vote for the second reading
of the measure, although it was not a Government bill ;
but in so doing he did not consider himself pledged to
support all its details.
After some further discussion, the amendment was
carried by a majority of 100 over 38 voices. So the bill
was lost.

Mr. BOUVERIE then moved the Sites (Scotland) Bill,
which he contended was rendered necessary by the con-
duct of various proprietors in Scotland, which injuriously
affected the interests of their fellow-subjects, and which
was not consistent with the principles of toleration.
Mr. EWART seconded the motion, and the house im-
mediately divided, when the numbers were,—For the
second reading, 80; against it, 25 ; majority in its favour,
—55.

On the question that the bill be committed, a conver-
sation of considerable interest took place, in which Mr.
S. Wortley, Mr. Elliot, Mr. Christopher, Mr. B. Coch-
rane, Colonel Thompson, Mr. Oswald, Colonel Mure,
Mr. Henley, and Mr. Scott, expressed their disapproba-
tion of the measure, and contended that the house had
been taken by surprise on the last division. In the latter
position Sir G. Grey concurred, and accounted for his
absence on that ground.
Mr. Fox MAULE congratulated the house on the pro-
gress that the measure had made—for it was now admitted
that a grievance existed, and that a remedy must be ap-
plied to it. The bill was then ordered to be committed
on the 7th of June.
The report of the Joint-stock Companies Bill was fur-
ther considered, and the bill was ordered to be read a
third time on Friday.
A discussion, in which it was proposed to discharge Mr.
Cobden from attendance on the Slave Trade Committee,
and to add to it Mr. Cardwell, Sir E. Buxton, and Vis-
count Brackley, and in which Lord Palmerston objected
to the appointent of Mr. Cardwell on that committee in
consequence of the direct interest of his constituents in
the slave trade, and proposed to substitute Admiral
Bowles in his room, was cut short by the arrival of the
hour (6 o'clock) at which the house is ordered to adjourn.
Mr. Cardwell was speaking, when the Speaker informed
him that the sitting of the house that day was at an end.
[We have referred to this subject elsewhere.]