The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-13 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

In the House of Commons last night Mr. T. DUNCOMBE
presented a petition from Cooper and other chartists, com-
plaining of the treatment they received in Stafford gaol. The
hon. member asked if the detention of the petition by the
gaoler or magistrates fora period of fifteen days was a breach
of privilege?

The SPEAKER said he did not consider it a breach of pri-
vilege, but it was decidedly an improper interference with the
right of the subject to petition.
Mr. flumx gave notice he would on the next open day
move that the payment of a pension to an independent
foreign sovereign was unjust, and that the pension of £21,000
to the King of Hanover should be discontinued.

Sir J. GitAnAm, in answer to a question from Sir A. L.
Hay, said it was his intention during the present session to
move for leave to bring in a bill giving additional facilities
for the endowment of quoad sacra ministers in Scotland,
but he did not propose to ask for any grant of public money
for that purpose. a

1.61,A19 STONE, in reply to a question from Dr. Bow-
id that the government was direcl!ng its attention to
the anomalous position in which British merchants were
placed in their commercial transactions with Turkey.
Sir R. PEEL brought down a message from her Majesty,
assenting to the marriage of the Princess Augusta of Cam-
bridge with the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
Streiitz, and hoping that the house would enable her Majesty
to make suitable provision for her royal highness.
Sir J. GRAHAM, in reply to a question from Mr. Ewart,
said he did not think it fair to extort from members of the
government their opinion as to the legality or illegality of the
meetings now being held in Ireland, but he would say that in
Ireland, but be would say that in considering the question of
illegality, numbers formed a considerable ingredient by which
to form a judgment.

In reply- to a question from Mr. R. YORKE,
Sir J. GRAHAM said he did not contemplate any large mo-
dification of the poor law, but he would, on an early day,
bring forward his bill for its amendment.
The Canadian Wheat and Flour Bill went through com-
mittee after a short discussion, and the report was ordered to
be received on Monday.

Lord ELLIOT then' moved the committee on the Irish
Poor Law Bill, upon which

Mr. REDINGTON moved, as an amendment, that the bill
should be referred to a select committee. He had originally
supported the Irish poor law, but experience of its practical
operation convinced him that the whole system required re-
vision.

Lord ELLIOT declined assenting to the proposition, as it
would open up the abstract question as to whether there
should be a poor law at all—a matter which he conceived to
be settled. There was no desire to treat tile subject as a
party question, and any suitable amendments would no doubt
be adopted in committee.

After some conversation, Mr. REDINGTON withdrew his
amendment, and the house went into committee on the bill.
The first three clauses were agreed to with some amend-
ments ; after which the house resumed, and the chairman
reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned.