The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-23 00:00:00

HOUSE or corrtivioNs.

• WEDNESDAY, APRIL 171
(Adiourned siftin(r.)
Soon after five Aock the Speaker resumed the Chair.
Mr. 'rooKE presented a petition from
.Truro, for the re-
moval Of disabilities affecting individuals of the JeWish , per-
suasion.

THE LIVEItPO

Mr. A. BARING presented a similar petition, signed by 17,000
merchants, bankers, and traders of London and its vicinity.—
The petition exhibited the names of the principal members of
the East India-house, the Bank, and other influential bodies.
They were informed that in France and other foreign coun-
tries the Jews were often employed in agricultural and rural
pursuits, but in England such a thing was unknown. 'the
Jews neither held nor occupied lands ; they lived in the busy
haunts of trade and commerce, and therefore it was right that
the house should know the opinion which those amongst whom
they resided entertained of them.

Mr. HUME presented a similar petition, signed by 500 Jews
in London and its vicinity,—a fact that showed that they were
not, as had been asserted, insensible to the disabilities under
which they laboured.
On the motion of Sir T. Fremantle, copies of all reports
made to that house relative to the price of corn in foreign coun-
tries were ordered.

Mr. O'CoNNELL wished to know whether the right hon.
secretary for Ireland had seen an account of a trial which took
place a few days ago in that country, when the counsel for cer-
tain defendants, who were charged with a violent assault, dis-
covered, after they had been convicted, that the indictment
was drawn on paper instead of parchment. On that ground
he moved for an arrest of judgment, and his application was
allowed to be good. The assistant barrister, however, called
the grand jury together—another bill was found, and the ease
proceeded to a second trial. The defendant's solicitor chal-
lenged the jury for cause ; and he had a right to do so, as they
had already decided on the case. The trial, however, proceeded,
the defendants were found guilty, and sentenced to transporta-
tion. The whole proceeding appeared to him to be illegal,
and he wished to know whether any steps had been taken re-
specting it.
Sir J. 11011H6USE said he had that morning only seen a short
report of the case in one of the papers. The matter was not, he
believed, vet decided, an application having been made for the
opinion of the Court of King's Bench on the question.
Mr. O'CoNNELL, allitding to the evidence given before the
committee of the House of Commons relative to the Dubiin
corporation, observed, that if the right hon. secretary had read
that evidence, he must see the ,necessity of legislating for that
corporation without delay. The courts iu which criminal cases
were tried in Dublin were under the influence of the corpora-
tion; that exclusive corporation, from which all Catholics were
shut out, appointed the sheriffs, and by them the juries were
selected. Such a system had the effect of polluting justice at
the fountain head.
On the motion of Mr. Hume, an account was ordered of the
Admiralty from the commencement of the present reign, the
name of the receiver, the amount paid over, and the expense of
the establishment. _