The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-16 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY.

The Friendly Societies Bill passed through committee pro
forma, and was appointed to be proceeded with at a day sitting
oil Monday next.
On the motion of Mr. HAYTER, new writs were ordered to
he issued for the borough of Devonport, in the place of Sir
John Romilly, appointed Attorney-General ; for Southampton,
in the place of Mr. Cockburn, appointed Solicitor-General.
Mr. Alderman THOMPSON asked Lord Palmerston if he had
received any satisfactory answer from the Portuguese govern-
ment to the remonstrance relative to the impost of .t 6 per pipe
levied upon wine imported to England, when 6d. the pipe only
is imposed upon wine exported to America?
Lord PALMERSTON, in reply, regretted to say that he was
not able to give the house any assurance of a satisfactory result
to the communication which had been made to the Portuguese
government upon this question • there could be no doubt that
the difference of duty which had been described was not only
a great injustice to the British consumer. but to the Portuguese
wine-growers. Her Majesty's government, however, would
not desist from making such representations to the Portuguese
government on the subject as appeared most likely to induce
them to alter the existing regulation.
In reply to a question from Mr. G. THOMPSON,
Sir GEORGE GREY stated that he had not felt it to be his
duty to call upon Mr. Baron Alderson for any explanation
Of the terms which the learned judge had used in passing
sentence upon the man Pate, convicted of an assault upon
her Majesty.
THE LATE SIR R. PEEL.

Lord J. Russ ELL, again eulogising the merits of Sir Robert
Peel, moved that the house go into committee to consider the
propriety of erecting a monument to the memory of that
lamented statesman. The noble lord, in the course of his
statement, said that her Majesty had desired him to inform the
house that it was her desire to bestow the same rank on Lady
Peel as had been bestowed upon Lady Canning and her family
upon the death of the late Mr. Canning. He had received a
letter from Lady Peel in answer to her Majesty's wish, and it
was to the effect that it was her desire to bear no other name
than that by which her late husband was known ; but Lady
Peel added besides, that there was a special direction left to
his family by the late Sir R. I'eel, that it was his desire that no
one of his family would accept any title or public reward for
any services he might be supposed to have rendered to his
country. After the honours of a public funeral had been
declined, there was the stronger reason why the house should
consent to the erection of a public monument to the memory
of the late lamented deceased.
The house then went into committee, Mr. Bernal in the
chair, when a resolution was sdopted, amidst profound silence,
for an address to her Majesty to give directions for the erec-
tion of a monument in Westminster Abbey to the memory of
the deceased. The address was ordered to be carried up in
the usual form.

Mr. GoutnußN then moved that the Speaker issue his writ
for the election of a member for the borough of Tamworth in
the room of the late Sir R. Peel. Carried.

On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. S.
CRAWFORD called the attention of the house to several peti-
tions presented on behalf of the depositors in the Rochdale
Savings Bank with reference to the losses sustained by the
defalcations of the late actuary of that bank, and asked the
Ch'ncellor of the Exchequer whether he intended to propose
any measure to parliament for the relief of depositors who had
suffered in such cases?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply, said he
was not prepared to propose any measure of the nature
referred to by the hon. gentleman, because it would be
admitting a liability on the part of the government which the
government had never yet undertaken—a liability to which he
could never give his assent.
Colonel SIBTHORP then introduced the subject of the exhi-
bition of 1851, and delivered an invective against it, which
elicited no reply whatever.
Mr. HUME next moved for an address to the crowns praying
for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the
slaughter of the Bornean pirates by the combined forces of
the Queen and the East India Company.
Mr. COBDEN supported the motion, which was opposed
by several hon. members, and an animated discussion took
place.
The house divided, when there appeared—for the motion,
29; against it, 169: majority, 140.
The house went into committee of supply, which occupied
the remainder of the night.
A new writ was issued for the city of Chester, in the
place of Sir John Jervis, appointed Chief Justice of Common
Pleas.