The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-10 00:00:00

HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

The following is the Report presented to the House of Lords,
on Friday, from the Select Committee. on a plan for a more
convenient temporary accommodation for the House of Lords :-
-4' That the committee had met, and considered the matter to
them referred, together with toe letter from Sir Robert Smirke;
and had alsii considered the petition front Mr. James Dean,
and had examined Sir Robert Smirke, and had come to the fol-
lowinli resolution :
" Chat the committee are of opinion that the plan recom-
mended by Sir Robert Smirke, for erecting a temporary House
on the site described in his letter, between the present House
and St. Stephen's Chapel, will he best adapted for the tempo-
rary accommodation of the House, and ought to be commenced
and proceeded with forthwith, with a view to its occupation at
the'cionmencement of the next session of parliament.'
" ' That the committee are further desirous of calling the at-
tention of the House to that, part of Sir Robert Smirke's evi-
dence, in which he deseribes the present state of the walls of
S't. Step4eu's Chapel, and to the expediency of taking them
down without delay, with a riew to safety, as well as some other
portions of the old buildings adjacent, for the purpose of clear-
ing the ground for the future erection of the new and perma-
nent houses of pa filament :
" And that the committee had directed the minutes of evi-
-deuce taken before them to be laid before the house."

AN ARTIST'S REVENGE.-The temper of Zucchero, the
painter, was strongly tinctured with resentment, as will be seen
by the following anecdote related of him:— Zucchero, while
employed by Pope Gregory XIII., to paint the Pauline Chapel
in the Vatican, fell out with some of his Holiness's officeis.
To be revenged, he painted their portraits with eels of asses,
and exposed the picture publicly over the gate of St. Luke's
church, on the festival of that saint, the patron of painters.
kor this gross affront he was compelled-to fly from Rome, and
hide himself in obscurity, fur beyond the reach of his indignant
enemies.

DEATH OF THE COTINTESS FERRERS.—At Chartley Castle,
at eight o'clock on the evening of Tuesday, the 30th of June,
the Right Honourable Sarah Countess Ferrer", second wife of
the Right Honourable Washinlton Earl Ferrers, and V isconnt
Tamworth. Her ladyship was the eldest daughter of 'William
Davy, of ltacleigh, in the county of Essex, Esq., and was born
on the-20th c;fAugust4.lBol, she was, consequently, in her 31st
year. The highly.accomplisbed and tirbane manners of the de-
ceased countess had endeared her to her own circle of friends,
whilst her condescending affability will make her regretted by
a. numerous and respei.table teuantm.
DEATH op Loan Sureinn.—We regret to.anuounce that
Lord Suffield, who met with an accident.a few days since from
the falling of his horse, in St. James's-park, died on Monday
• evening. his lordship was in his s.lth 5 ear.

Einiieriat I)artiamtnt.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY.

The Marquis Of SALISB CR V presented the report of the select
committee on the Islington market bill.
The Earl of RtroN and the Doke of RICHMOND presented
petitions from Canada praying for alterations iu the legislative
government of that colony.
The Duks of RICHMOND presented a petition from a gentle-
man residinki in Essex, praying to be heard by counsel against
the Islington market bill.
The Marquis of Saussuity opposed the prayer of the peti-
tion, the subject matter of it, having been already discussed
before the committee. _

Lord BitoiGliata complained of the manner in which select
committees of both houses of parliament conducted the business
intrusted to them. Ile recollected, some years ago, when a bill
was referred to a committee of the other house, and a oropost-
lion was made respecting it, which was supported by 14 mem-
bers who had attended to the evidence, down came 16 gentlemen
who had never heard the evidence, and they decided the other
way. The proceeding was, however, complained of in the
house, and by acclamation the decision was set aside.
.1n con-
sequence, the bill was ultimately thrown- out. Such was the
conduct of those judges—not judges of oyer and terminer, but
judges of termineroans oyer. (A laugh.) This being the
mode of carrying on the private bill business, he should always.
as he had heretofore done, protest against such a course of pro-
ceeding. Noble lords and honourable gentlemen ought to re-
collect that on these occasions they were. deciding rights as
judges. T bey were making laws which suspended in many
cases the course of the common law and of the statute law of
the land. They, however, concocted laws and decided upon
important voids in a way in which no judge or juror would
dare to decide a case involving property to the amount of .ClO,
that was, without hearing the evidence ur examining the parties
who were interested on both sides.