The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-09 00:00:00

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.-IRBLAND,

Mr. SHAW asked the noble secretary for Ireland when the
report of the commissioners of public Instruction in Ireland
would be laid on the table ?
Lord MORPErH replied, that he expected the report would be
ready in the course of next week.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. s s s s s

Sir R. PEET, asked the attorney-general whether it was his
intention to bring forward in the present session any measure
for the improvement of the jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, it was only very recently he
had been informed that his ho.n. and learned friend (the late
attorney-general) did not intend to persevere with' his bill on
this subject. having learned the fact, the matter had been
taken into consideration, and it was the intention of government
to have a measure brought forward on the subject without delay.

ADJOUItNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
On the motion of Lord J. Russell, it was ordered that the
house, at its rising, do adjourn till Wednesday next.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL in moving for leave to bring in a bill
for the better regulation of municipal corporations in England
and \Vales. entered into a long explanation of his proposed
measure. Ilis mode of elucidating the subject was so exceed-
ingly obscure that we can scarcely collect from his speech the
exact nature of the proposed alterations. We, therefore, ie.
publish from the Courier (London) the following, it is said, offi.
cial•corninuuication, embodying the noble lord's views on this
subject :

" HEADS OF A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION OF
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIoNs IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
"The bill is entitled A bill to provide for the regulation of
municipal corporations in England and Wales.' It recites,
that divers bodies corporate at sundry times have been consti-
tuted within the cities, towns, and boroughs of England and
Wales, to the intent that the same might for ever be and remain
well and quietly governed; but that, partly by defects in the
charters by which the said bodies corporate have been consti-
tuted, partly by neglect and abuse of the privileges by such
charters granted and confirmed to the inhabitants of the said
cities, towns, and boroughs, and partly by change of circum-
stances since the said charters were granted, the said bodies
corporate, for the most part, have not of long tune been and are
not now useful and efficient instruments of local government;.
and first it enacts the repeal of all acts, charters, and customs
inconsistent with the bill.
"The bill commences with the usual interpretation clause,
defining the construction of certain terms. It then provides as
follows:
" I. That after the first election of counsellors the body cor-
porate shall take and bear the name of 'The mayor and bur-
gesses of" (city and borough) and be constituted a corpora-
tion.
. .

"2. That the boundaries of certain cities and boroughs, in
certain sections of schedules A and B of the bill, shall be the
boundaries settled by the parliamentary boundary act, 2 and 3
William IV., c. GI; and that the boundaries of certain other
sections in the said schedules shall be settled by the King in
council, determined by a commission.