The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-10 00:00:00

WALLA

moved for a select committee to inquire
reatment of the unemployed and destitute people of
:xclusive of the parochial poor) from May, 1841,

Sir J. GRAHAM, on the part of the Government, acceded
the motion, leaving it to Mr. Wallace to constitute the

tee fairly

r. FRENCH moved for leave to bring in a bill for the
r regulation and extension of medical charities in Ire-

land
Lord ELro

said he saw great diffi

ies in the plan pro-

mber, ind in

candour to him he would

could not promise him the support of Govern

1r the measure

Leave was then given to bring in t
On the motion of Mr. Hums

certain returns were ordered

relative to the case o
Mr• ROEBUCK then moved
sented to her Majesty, r"
sons who had
penal

Rajah of Sattara

at an ad

,ould be pre

ing for a pardon for all those per-
I transported from the Canadas to our
Homes for political offences during the late outoreak
e colonies. The hon. and learned gentleman passed
the highest eulogiums on the course pursued by the present
Government towards the Canadas, and said that, as the
leaders of the outbreak were now taken into the councils of
11,ne,rp141k:sti, he hoped that those who had acted in accord-

tam advice might be allowed to return to their
country, and that the Government would thus add the
coping stone on the arch which it had raised, and secure, by
such well-timed clemency, the affections of all classes of the
people.

Mr• Ewmur seconded the motion.
Lord STANLRY said it was always ungrateful to interpose
,aercise of the royal clemency, and it was

more particularly so after a speecn so -
ous, and so calculated to win upon the house, as that of the
hon. and learned gentleman ; but still, he must say. it would
be very unwise for the House of Commons to revive, by such
when,
a course as that proposed, former animosities,
as
the
hon. and learned gentleman admitted, the population of the
Canadas was satisfied upon the whole with the course pur-
sued by the British Government. He feared, that if an en-
tire amnesty were given to the parties in whose behalf the
bon. gentleman had pleaded, those who had stood up in de-
fence of British interests and had risked everything to quell
the treason of which those parties had been guilty,
have great reason to complain if they found that a pardon had
would
been granted to them, and that they were once more placed
upon an equal footing with those who had stood faithfully to
their allegiance. There had been no great or unde severity
ased in the suppression of that rebellion, and considering the
,arions shades of guilt which pertained
to the parties whose
ause the hon. member advocated, nothing could be more
njust and unwise than to include them all in one general
Leasure of pardon, whatever might be the criminality of
'me of the number. Some were transported for seven, some
years, and some for life • and yet to all of them a
',ardor' was proposed by the hon. member to
ied. It would be a most dangerous inter-
prerogative of the Crown, and he, therefore,
a would reject the motion ; but he would, at
say that the Government would be ready, in
case, to listen to any favourable represents-
^ made for mercy, but to an indiscrimi-
',e must say it would be most un-

operate and

or fourteen
measure of fre

h could

Government should complete
run, and, notwithstanding the
irties, should grant a free par-
and thus put a final termina-
neartburnings which might prevail
Canada.

La that th

ice of motion with deeper
)f the hon. member for
le object he totally distil:,

It was an interfe-
therefore calcu-