The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-19 00:00:00

CORPORATION OF CASHEL.

On the motion of Mr. Roe, a return was ordered "of the
names of the persons composing the present corporation of
Cashel, when each person was admitted a member of it, and
the corporate office he now holds: specifying such as have re-
gistered their votes under the Reform Act; also a return of the
estates belonging to said corporation, under what charter each
is derived, by whom they are now held, and by what tenure,
with the names of the granting parties thereto, and to whom
granted, term of years, number of acres, and yearly rent, each
lease is actually—for ; together with a return of whatever tolls,
turnpike or customs, belong to said corporation, their yearly
amount, and how disposed of; also an account of to what uses,
corporate or otherwise, the rents and revenues of said corpora-
tion have been expended, stating the items for the year 1832, up
to the 29th of last September."

CHURCH OP SCOTLAND.
Mr. SINCLAIR said he rose for the purpose of moving for leave
to bring in a bill to emancipate the church of Scotland from
the yoke of patronage by which it had been so long enthralled.
The hon. member, after a few observations, moved for leave to
bring in a bill to repeal the act of the 10th of Anne, c. 12, by
which the yoke of patronage was again imposedupon the church
of Scotland.

Mr. H. Ross seconded the motion.
The LORD ADVOCATE was ready to admit the great impor-
tance of this question, and the great interest that the people of
Scotland felt in it. He could assure his hon. friends who had
just spoken, that they could not feel more anxiously desirous
than he did, and his Majesty's government did, that whatever
abuses existed in the present system of patronage in the church
of Scotland might be safely and satisfactorily remedied. Yet
he felt it to be his duty on the present occasion to submit to his
hon. friend that it would not be prudent or expedient to persit
in the motion which he had brought forward At such a period
of the session, it would be obviously inexpedient to go into the
discussion of so long and comprehensive a question. He had,
further to state, that this subject had been discussed at the last
general assembly of the church of Scotland, in May last, when
a motion to a great extent embodying the views of his hon.
friend was brought forward by Dr. Chalmers, and only lost by
a majority of 12 in a meeting of 300. He would therefore
recommend his hon. friend to withdraw his motion,and leave the,
matter in the hands of the General Assembly, who had already
exhibited such a desire to take it up, and by whom all the regu-
lations touching the church of Scotland since the time of John
Knox had been framed. He was confident that the General
Assembly would next year adopt some measure that would
attain all the objects in view, and place the exercise of this
privilege upon a safe and tranquil foundation. Besides, he
had to remark, that if the motion of his hon. friend went sim-
ply to repeal the act of Anne, it would revive the act of Wil-
liam, passed in 1690, which would give satisfaction to no party.
Lord AI.THORP observed that he did not wish to take any
course as if he wished to throw an obstacle in the way of the
motion ; but it was impossible for him as a minister of the
Crown. whose rights and privileges were involved in the ttl9-
tion, not to ask the chair whether the aclof Parliament in
question, giving certain patronage to the Crown, could be sub-
mitted to the house for repeal without the consent of the Crown.

The SPEAKER said he had not read the act before that mo-
ment, but it was quite clear that the motion could not be enter-
tained without the previous consent of the Crown.
intimated
Mr. SINCLAIR that, as far as he was concerned, he
should not press the motion, but should bring it before the
house on a more favourable occasion.

Mr. PRYME expressed his surprise that a simple act of Par-
iliament could not be repealed without the consent of the Crown.
(Hear.)
The SPEAKER said that that depended up9n what the act of
Parliament was (hear); hence, if the act gave rights and pri-
vileges to the Crown, according to the rules of the house, it
could not entertain a motion to take away those rights and
privileges without the Crown's consent previously obtained.
Mr. SHEIL thought the rights of the Crown might be re-
served.

The SPEAKER said that the motion reserved nothing, it went
to repeal the entire act. He was to blame for putting the ques-
tion, but as it referred to an Act without specifying the nature
of it, he did not know the contents of the act. The debate had
been 'Proloned, and he sent for the act, and seeing that
,it could not %e entertained without the consent of the Crown,
he had intimated this to the noble lord.

HERTFORD ELECTION.
Mr. BERNAL obtained_leasre..to bring in a bill for the more
effectual prevention of brilery and corruption in the borough
of Hertford.

On the motion of Mr. GODSON, the bill to amend the law
'respecting patents for inventions was read a third time and
passed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned at two o'clock.

The very cloudy state of the atmosphere on Monday night
rendered the eclipse of the moon only visible at intervals.

A SIMPLE AND USEFUL INVENTION.—A blacksmith of this
city, named Pontisick, has, to the great comfort of his neigh-
bours, especially the rich, successfully parctised a very simple
contrivance to diminish, in a remarkable degree, the loud noise
caused by the percussion of the hammer on the anvil. It is
merely to suspend.a.piece of iron chain to one of the horns of
the anvil, which carries off a great portion of the acute sound
usually produced. Sig. Gauderzio Vicini,_ of Asso, in the
province of Como, has, however, introduced an improvement
on this contrivance, by the addition of a spring fixed in the
basis of the anvil, which, keeping the chain stretched, dimi-
nishes the sound in a much greater degree; and it is equally
easy to remove the ring of the chain from the horn of the anvil,
if needful, by a mere blow of the haunner.-11.1ilan, 20th Feb.