The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

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SE OF LORDS.-MONDAY

In moving for some papers relating to the income and
other taxes, Lord MONTEAGLE entered into some finan-
cial statements and callulations, which, he hoped, would
meet with due consideration from the Chancellor of the
Exchequer.

The -D

of WELLINGTON said be v

!ling to

afford every information on the subject ; but he thoZight
the noble lord would not expect that any statement should
be made by him until the financial measure had been
brought forward by the government in the other house of
parliament.

SE OF COMMONS.—MoNnAv

On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the following re-
turn was ordered :—Return of the number and names of
the persons summoned for offences against the Factories
Act, between the Ist day of January, 1844, and the Ist
day of January, 1815 ; specifying the date of the convic-
tion or hearing, the place of hearing, by whom each con-
viction was made, the offence in each case, and the man-
ner in which the penalties and costs were appropriated
—Also, a summary of the total number of informations
and convictions the amount of penalties and costs.
Mr. J. YOUNG moved for a new writ for the borough
of Lewes, in the room of the Hon. H. Fitzroy, who since
his election has accepted the office of a Lord of the Admi-
ralty.—Ordered.

Lord DUNCAN gave notice that on the 20th instant he
should move that the house resolve itself iuto a committee
of thewhole house, to take into consideration the window
tax.

Lord EBRINGTON presented a petition from the Rev.
Dr. Carwithen, rector of Stoke Climsland, in the diocese
of Exeter, praying that the statutes 2 and 3 Edward VI.,
c. 1, and 1 Elizabeth, c. 2, may be repealed ; and that the
house will procure a calm and temperate review of the
Book of Common Prayer, rubrics, and canons of the
Church of England. The noble lord also presented a si-
milar petition from Sou' h Molton, and expressed a hope
that the house, at an early day, would take into consider-
ppy disputes which had taken place in the

ation the IL . _
of Exeter

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEs

)ved a series or resolutions respect

ing the management of railways, contending that the
whole system required alteration, in order to secure for
the public, without any injury to the interests of the
railway proprietors, additionA speed, greater accommoda-
tion, and cheaper fares. He believed the members of the
;ment of the Board of Trade were slaves to
..osting companies, and discouraged new projects ;
t they had caused great mischief, and produced all the

ra,lway depar•
the
bu

r night in t

Gazelle.

After a long discussion t
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n made by C

pt,in PECRELL for returns
relative to employing paupers in workhouses in grinding
and crushing bones, led to an animated conversation, in
the course of which Lord EBRIN GTON defend
tice, saying that he knew not why, because tb
offensive, it should be thrown upon the ind

pauper.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM moved for leave to bring in a bill
to consolidate and amend the laws relating to parochial
settlement, and to the removal of the poor. It might
startle the house to hear that one-tenth of the whole po-