The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

Varitiunriltarp Vrerertings,

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY.

The house having gone into committee on the sugar
duties, and the first set of resolutions having been put,
Sir J. PAKINGTON rose and moved as an amendment
that the duty on West India Muscovado sugar should,
from the sth instant, be 10s. per cwt., instead of 135., as
contemplated by the resolution; his intention being, if
that amendment was carried, further to move that the
duty on foreign sugar of the same class be continued at
205., the same to continue for a period of three years.
The amendment was Furported by Mr. H. Drummond,
Mr. B. Cochrane, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Godson, Mr. Man-
ales, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Oswald, Mr. T. Baring, and
Mr. Disraeli; and opposed by Mr. V. Smith, the Chan-
cellor of the Richequer, Mr. M. Gibson, and Lord John
Russell.

After some explanations, the committee divided, when
the amendment was negatived by a majority of 62—the
numbers 169 to 231.

After some debate as to proceeding with the resolutions,
Lord J. RUSSELL said, as it appeared that the question
could not he settled before the sth of July, he would
propose that the Chairman should report progress to sit
again on Friday.
Mr. GLADSTONE was desirous of knowing what would
be clone in reference to the duties which would come into
operation on Thursday. It was not a question affecting
merely those who had sugar in bond, but those who had
it on its way to this country.
The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER said it had been
the invariable practice to give directions for the alteration
of duties on a simple resolution of the house. By the
course now pursued, all the sugar that came in between
the sth and the time the resolution was reported, would
cone in at the reduced duty.
Mr. GLADSTONE urged Lord John Russell to give no-
tice of a resolution for Tuesday, for continuing the pre-
sent duties for the interval that would elapse before the
other resolutions were reported; but Lord John Russell
did not respond to the desire thus expressed.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY,

The Game Certificates for Killing Hares Bill was read
a third time.

A conversation took place consequent upon the presen-
tation of petitions by the Duke of RICHMOND relative to
juvenile offenders.
Lord KINNAIRD remarked that the subject was well
worthy of attention. There were 100,000 children in the
metropolis without education, and 30.000 who were va-
grants, and who herded together in dens of iniquity. In
Aberdeen it had been proved that children could be kept
in a school, with a view to their reformation, for £5 a
year, and they could be maintained in London for £G ;
and this would be much cheaper than transporting them.
Earl GREY said the boys who had been sent to Park-
hurst were often forwarded to Western Australia as ap-
prentices, and the system had been found to answer re-
markably well. They must be careful not to place chil-
dren who had been neglected by their parents in a better
situation than the children of poor honest people.
A complaint against the North Wales Railway. Co-
mpany. by a shareholder, embodied in a petition, was stated
by Lord MONTEA.GLE, the noble lord intimating that he
should move for a committee to inquire into the circum-
stances alleged by the petitioner.