The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-05 00:00:00

TEIOUSII OF COMMONS.

MONDAY, APRIL 1.
The Speaker took the chair, this day, at a quarter-past 12
o'clock. •

Lord CAVENDISH brought
up the report of the select coin-
mittee on the petition against the return for the borough of
Ripon, which stated that 'l'. C. Staveley and J. S. Crompton,
Esqrs., (the sitting members,) were duly elected; and that
neither the petition, nor the opposition thereto, was frivolous
or vexatious-.

Captain .Wmtvss brought up the report of the Portarlington
election committee, stating that Thomas Gladstone, Esq., (the
sitting member,) had been duly elected; and that neither the
petition, nor opposition'ithereto, was frivolous or vexatious.
Mr. Sheriff tIUMPHREY presented a petition from certain
inhabitants of the Borough of Southwark, against the London
and Greenwich Railway Bill; and petitionsio the same effect
from the overseers of the parish of St. °lave; and from the
guardians of Queen Elizabeth's grammar school, Southwark.
—Laid on the table.
• SOANE'S MUSEUM PETITION.
Mr. CoasErr presented a petition from Mr. George Soane,
the only surviving son of Sir John &mile, against the bilistand-
iug for a third reading this day, and praying to be heard in. per-
son, and ley his counsel and witnesses, or for such other relief as
to the house should 4eRIZI meet. As he (Mr. Cobbett) had ne-
ver in his life either heard of Sir John Soane or his son until
the latter brought him the petition, he was not influenced by
any feeling of partiality, but he should, when the hon. mem-
ber for Middlesex moved the third reading of the bill, propose
an amendment. He was informed that the wife of Sir John
Soane had brought him £30,000, arid that the petitioner had a
large family of children, who, with their father, were in great
distress, and-he hoped the house would pause before it consent-
ed to alienante from the grandchildren so much valuable pro-
perty. He would admit that the petitioner had given his father
just cause of offence, but still the grandchildren could not have
offended. Under these circumstances he hoped the house would
pause before it consented to the third reading of this bill.
Mx. HuME was anxious that the house should not be led away
from the object of the bill by the statement of the hon. member
for Oldham, because the hill would not, in fact, do any injustice.
With respect to what had been stated by the hon. member, he
must say it would appear from that that the petitioner was an
only son of Sir John Soane, and that on his death his children
would become entitled to the property as heirs-at-law. The
fact, however, was otherwise, for the eldest son, though now
dead, had left a family, who would be the heirs-at-law of Sir
John Soane, and therefore, if Sir John Soane were to die to-
morrow without a will, the petitioner or his children would not
be entitled to one farthing of this property. Whatever rights,
however, the petitioner .had, or could claim to have, were
completely protected by a clause for that object which had been
introduced into the bill, which reserved to him, and all other
persons who might have interests, the right of suipg for all that