The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-08-07 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS,--MorinAy.

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After the presenthtion Of • petitions, Sir W. RAE complained
that the members "of the Scotch Church Commission bad been
tinfairlyselected, being all, with a single exception, adherent's
of the governthent. Lord J. RUS"SEILI, replied, that as the subject
into 'Cvhieli they had to inquire involved not a party question, he
thought it •diti not matter what•the •politieal °pillions of the
borntrussieners might be. If the rest of the government be of
the same-opinion, may we be allowed to ask how it happened
that the commissioners have been carefully selected from one
party only
The SPEAKER informed the house, that he had received a
letter freer' one of the members for the eastern division of the
count}, of Norfolk, stating that the grand jury for that county
Would have no business before- them after Tuesday next, and
desiring him to acquaint the house that, in the opinion of the
counsel and attorney for the prosecutor, the evidence of Mr.
Keith was necessary to that prosecution.
M. I VCSIE then !moved. -a -resolution 10 the effect, that Mr.
Keith be permitted to go down to Norwich in the custody el
the sergeant-at-arms to give evidence in the prosecution against
Pilgrim.
Lord Sroesiorir nuked, as an amendment, that he (Mr,
Keith) be brought to the bar, reprimanded, and discharged.
This amendment being opposed,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL " begged the house to consider that Mr.
Keith was the seventh prisoner whom it had detained in New-
gate for interference in the Ipswich election. Therefore, with-
out denying that his offence was as great as that of Mr. Spar-
row, he thought it would be better for the house, as it had now
secured the benefit of example by the numbers whom it had de-
tained, and the time which it hail detained them, to proceed to-
the immediate consideration of Mr: Keith's case. If the'mat-
ter went to a division, he, should certainly support the motion
that Mr. Keith be brought to the bar at once and discharged."
TheJuong-AnvocaTc (Mr. C. Fergusson) declared his in-
tention of voting against Lord John Russell; so did Lord Eb-
rington, and others.
On a division, Mr. Hume's motion was carried, and Lord
StOrmont's amendment, though supported by the head of the
goiernmera in the House of Commons, was lust by HO to 102.
On the motion of Lord John Russell, seconded by Sir R.
Peel, a resolution was agreed to expressive of the sense enter-
tained by-the-house of the services of Henry Seyinour, Esq.,
while Sergeant-at-Arms.
Mr. S. Rice explained to-the house. the terms on vihich the
West India loan had been contracted for.
Nearly the whole of the remainder of the sitting was occupied
with the consideration of the Irish Church bill in Committee,
• The, Limitation of Polls bit/ 'Wes'read a third time and pasied.
Lord John Russell obtained leave to bring in, .and brought
in, a bill for the "reduction of the militia staff in Great Britain
and Ireland. The bill, it seems, will effect a reduction of one-
' half of the staff; but his lordship said he did not propose it as
a final measure, as he hoped to atile to bring the whole subject
of the, militia before the house next year.
The house adjourned at one o'clock.