The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-28 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

The railway bills debated on the question of second
readings were the Chester and Holyhead Railway (power
to purchase, &c.), which was postponed until Monday (yes-
terday) ; the Great Western Railway (branch from Windsor
to Slough), which was read a second time, and the North
British Railway, No. 2 (junction with Leith branch of the
Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway, &c.) Bill, which was
rejected by a majority of 45, the numbers 105 to 60. _ _

Lord MORPETH, in reply to Mr. Cardwell, stated that
he should not, in the present state of the public business.
think of proceeding with the public Health Bill next week,
but as soon after as possible.
Sir G. GREY, in answer to Mr. Bright, with reference
to the two persons under sentence of death at Durham,
for killing one of the Duke of Cleveland's gamekeepers,
stated that the verdict of the jury had not been accom-
panied
.by any recommendation to mercy, but he had re-
ceived many applications to that effect from places in the
neighbourhood of which the transaction occurred, and
also a memorial signed by the jury. He could not, how-
ever, consent to lay that memorial on the table, because
it would involve the necessity of producing counter state-
ments—a course which would be wholly subversive of the
proper administration of . justice

-Mr. BRIGUT gaup notice of his intention, after Easter,
again to move for leave to bring in a bill for the total re-
peal of the Game Laws.
Mr. HAWES, at the instance of Mr. Reynolds, ex-
plained the amount and conditions on which a tax was
imposed on emigrants to Canada.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to Mr.
Mackinnon, stated that the repayment of the balance of
the Leeward Islands Loan would be postponed for five
years, on condition of interest thereolobeing paid in the
interval.

The non-payment of poor rates in Ireland in the Cas-
debar union led to some observations, and a further de-
fence of Irish landlords.

The Property Tax Bill was read a second time, Mr.
Howe intimating that on the motion for the committal
of the bill he should move that it be referred to a select
committee up stairs. _

Lord J.-R-USSELL made a forcible appeal to the house
on the subject of the public business, enumerating the
different governMent measures in progress, and calling
for the forbearance of hon. members in bringing forward
motions on orders of the day ; stating, at the same time,
that the Income Tax Bill and the Estimates would, in all
probability, take up about two months of the days which
the government had at their disposal.
Mr. BAILLIE, in e speech descriptive of the horrors of
die slave trade, as carried on in defiance of the efforts of
the squadron appointed for that service to prevent it,
imsved an address to the crown, praying her majesty to
give directions that negotiations be entered into with
foreign powers to relieve this country from the engagement
under which it labours, of -maintaining a squadron on the
coast of Africa.

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Mr. Htatic seconded the motion, which was supported
by Mr. G. Thompson, Mr. Urquhart, Mr. Mowatt, Mr.
Disraeli, and Mr. Bouverie and opposed by Lord Harry
Vane, Capt. Pe,cbell, Mr. Hutt, Lord Palmerston, Sir T.
Acland, Lord Jan Russell, and Sir Robert Peel; the
principal objection to the motion being the taking any
decisive step of this ,nature until the committee sitting on
the slave trade bad =ode its report._

On a divisiOn,thetnotion Was rejected by a majority of
136: the numbers, 216 fog°.
Mr. P. SCROPE moved an address for an intlictinent to
he preferred by the law-officers of the crown against the
parties ,concerned in the illegal destruction of several
houses and the forcible ejectment of their inmates within
the, union pi Ilivay, about new, year's day last, and; which
appeared to have occasioned the deaths of several of the
unfortunate objects of this ill-treatment.
After a dente tie MOM wee wig drawpi d the 119140

went into'Committee of Supply,'Col. ANSON entering into
an 'explanatory statement otthe Ordnance Estimates. The
votes taken were sums on account of different herds of
expenditure, but which circumstance did not prevent a
discussion arising on the items as they were severally put
by the chairman. _ _ _

On the resumption of thehouse, the Game Certificate
Killing of Hares (Scotland) Bill was read a second time,
and the house adjourned.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL,

MANCE

In the provinces of France, the Commissioners of the
Government have been using to the full the almost un-
limited powers granted them by-the circular of M. Ledru
Rollin. The proceedings at Blois, as detailed in an article
from the Constitutionnel, which will be found elsewhere,
have justified all the fears entertained from the publica-
tion of M. Rollin's circular.

The Minister of the' Interior has directed a government
commissioner to confer with the English consul relative
to the claims ef the English workmen expelled from Rouen.
It is said that the government contemplates the purchase
of the railways, paying the shareholders in 5 per cent.
stook.

A great demonstration has taken place in the Champ
de Mars, on the occasion of planting the " Tree of
Liberty." 'M.'Ledru Rollin was present and addressed
the people.
_

Ailtlie'Russians residing in or visiting Paris have re-

-ceived an order to leave it.-
" We have learned (says the Daily News) from quarters
the correciness of .which can be relied upon, that the de-
monstration made on Friday, at the Hotel de Ville, by
the 200,000 operatives, was got np by the Government, at
the cost of 500,000 francs. Each operative was paid 2
francs, and the officers 5 francs."
It would seem by the following extract from a private
letter, written on Friday in Paris, that a re-actionary
feeling has already commenced :
The people of France are beginning to learn that there
are other despotisms bevides that of kings. The no-
torious circular of M. Ledru Rollin has not proved a dead
letter. His pro-consuls already begin to show that they
have no intention of allowing the powers conferred upon
them to become dormant. M. Emmanuel Arago,
brother, we'believe, of the late Astronomer-Royal and
present Minister of Marine, is the commissary of M.
Ledru Rollin at Lyons. It appears that this functionary
has issued edicts anticipating and surpassing those of the
Government itself. While the Government has decreed
an immediate contribution to the state of 45 hundredths
of the year's taxes (the said taxes meanwhile being ex-
acted), M. Emmanuel Arago has, by a decree published
under his sign manuel, decreed against his subjects, the
Lyonnais, an immediate impost equal to four contri-
butions. ..By another ukase the pro-consul of Lyons
ordains that no one shall go out of the city with more
than 500 francs in specie.

And see here what a Lyons correspondent of Republi-
can Presse Eays—

" Our Municipal Council was dissolved on the 27th of
February. The private authority of individuals was sub-
stituted for it. Whither are we are going ? God alone
can save France. The most enormous sacrifices are
nothing to us, but arbitrary power crushes us. Since the
28th of February we are subject to the will of an indi-
vidual. Better-live in Russia than under such a regime."
So much for the " great and glorious revolution of