The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-02 00:00:00

—Paris paper

whose serious illness we have
-This gentleuaan

prorettito(o4

HOUSE Or LORDS—THURSDAY.
The Duke of WaLLticGTON,. in pursuance of notice to that
feet, moved for an address of condolence to her Majesty on
Le lamented death of his Royal Highness the Duke of

issex.
The address was agreed to

HOUSE OF COMMONS-THURSDAY

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Mr. LANE Fox gave notice that, on the 11th of May, he
would call attention to the agitation in Ireland for the pur-
pose of procuring a repeal of the union, with the view of

)utting a stop to it.
Mr. MACKINNON moved for a select committee to ascer-
ain the revenue, expenditure, and condition of the harbours
►nd lighchouses on the coast, from the mouth of the Thames
:o Portsmouth.
Mr. CURTEIS seconded the motion.
Major BERESFORD moved as an amendment that the in-
quiry be extended from Languard Fort to Portsmouth.
Sir R. PEEL said that the selection of the sites, and all
other matters connected with harbours of refuge, should be
left to the Government. If they were to enter upon the pre-
sent inquiry propositions would be made to extend it to other
parts of the coast, and they would ultimately find that they
had entered upon an interminable inquiry.
After a few words from Mr. A. CHAPMAN the house
divided, and the motion was negatived by a majority of 79

to 34.
Lord WORSLEY moved for returns of the fees received by
clerks of petty sessions in England and Wales ; and also of
the number of convictions during the last three years, and to
what purposes the fines had been applied ; also similar re-
turns respecting fines paid on convictions before justices.—
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. JERVIS obtained leave to bring in a bill for improving,
the proceedings in the supreme courts in certain actions for
amounts not exceeding £2O.
Lord ELIOT moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend
and continue the laws relative to the registering of arms, and
the importation, manufacture, and sale of arms, gunpowder,
and ammunition in Ireland.
Leave was then given to bring in the bill, and the house
adjourned

HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY.
Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of the bill for
acilitating the conveyance of real property, by shortening
_he verbose prolixity of such conveyances. He proposed the
adoption of a parliamentary form of conveyance which might
be contained within the compass of a bank-note, and that
solicitors should be paid according to the value of their
services, and not according to the length of the documents
they had to furnish.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took several objections to the
bill which rendered it impossible for him to support it. The
bill would only apply in cases in which its application would
be of little use, and he was wholly opposed to having a par-
liamentary form of conveyance, the smallest mistake in copy-
ing which would vitiate the transaction. He, therefore,
moved that the bill should be read a second time that day
six months.

Lord LANGDALE was opposed to the bill, and said that the
great evil was the system of paying all departments of the
profession according to the length of the proceedings, and
not according to the actual service performed.
After some observations from Lord Campbell, the Duke
of Wellington, and the Lord Chancellor, the second reading
of the bill was negatived without a division, and their lord-
ships adjourned.