The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-16 00:00:00

prottebingo in Vadiament.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY.
On the motion for going into committee on the Home-made
Spirits in Bond Bill,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that the house
go into committee that day three months.
The house then divided :—For going into committee, 120;
apinst, 121 ;—majority, 1.
The announcement of the numbers was loudly cheered by
the minority.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY was anxious to move on ad-
' Ministers
out of regard to the late Duke of Cambridge, but
Ministers objected, and, instead, addresses of condolence were
voted to the Queen and the Duchess of Cambridge, the Nlarquis
of Lansdowne, Lords Brougham and Redesdale, (the latter in
the absence of Lord Stanley,) bearing testimony to the good
qualities of her Majesty's deceased uncle.
Several important hills were advanced a stage. -The report
on the Benefices Plurality bill, with its amendments, was
broiled up by Lord LYTTLETON was agreed to. The third
reading of the Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) bill was fixed for
Friday. The Metropolitan Interments bill passed through
oommittee ; and the General Board of Health bill, and the law
Hof Copyright Design bill, were read a third time and passed.

HOUSE OF OOMMONS.--TEMSDAY.
The Mercantile Marine bill passed through committee, two
amendments being rejected by overwhelming majorities on
division. In the afternoon sitting, similar votes of condolence
'to those in the House of Lords were passed to the Queen and
the Duchess of Cambridge on the proposal Of Lord Join Rue-
SELL, and seconded respectively by the Marquis of Gstmostr
and Mr- D,IsRAELI.
A new writ was ordered for the comity of Mayo.
After a lengthened discussion, a moticm of Mr. LOCKE 1CT740
for leave to bring in "a bill to make the franchise in counties
-in England and Wales the same as in boroughs. by giving'the
Tight of voting to all occupiers of tenements of the annualNaltie
of .e 10," was rejected by 159 to 100.
Mr. LOCKE then brought forward his motion fee rescinding
'the late postal regulations for the better observance of thelab-
bath.

• Mr. ROEBUCR seconded the motion.
Sir R. 'Nauss thought her Majesty's honour concerned in
adhering to an arrangement which had so lately been 'reooin-
mended to her by the government. The right hon. baronet
• asked:—" Did the house know low the employes in the :post-
office had spent the first Sunday during whichttis measure had
liberated them from their ordinary duties? At Bristolhetween
forty and fifty of them assembled to render thanks to God for
',the boon which had been conceded to them. In Mandhester
sixty-five of them attended the church of the Rev. Hugh Sto-
well, who took an active pact in the movement; and in Liver.
pool seventy-five post-office clerks and lettercarrierawalked to
church four abreast on the occasion."
Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved as an amendment to omit the
'last few lines of the resolution, so as to allow the present sys-
tem to continue until an inquiry could be carried •out as to
whether the business of the post-office could not be transacted
on the Sabbath in a shorter time, so as to-allow the clerks and
carriers to attend divine service.
Mr. GLADSTONE wished the question had been more fully
discussed when Lord Ashley's motion was,carried, but theught
time had not yet arrived for its being re-apened :—" Bat the
*motion was passed by the house, and toTescind the decision of
the house was rather a serious matter, the more so when it was
.done so suddenly that it was perfectly plain that it was not
done fromexperience. However anxioushe might be to-secure
to working men the immense boon and blessing of cessation
from Sunday labour, he was not prepared to say that, in some
cases, for the public convenience. that boon should not be with-
held, but you could not say you were sensible of the public in-
convenience that arose from the cessation of the delivery of
letters, when, in point of fact, you had mot watched the work-
ing of the new system for any length of time, and were merely
acting upon a foregone conclusion, entertained before the mo-
tion of his noble friend with the same force as it was entertained
now."
Sir THOMAS ACLAND and Mr. CARDIN-ELL supported the
amendment, and Mr. A. B. HOPE the original motion, " wish-
ing to establish a rational and Christian, and not a Judaising
observance of the Sunday." Lords ASHLEY, R. GROSVENOR
And J. MANNERS, declined accepting the amendment of the
Premier, which was carried, on a second division, by 195 to
112; the original motion of Mr. Locke having been first nega-
tived by 234 to 92.
A motion by Mr. ANSTEY for a select committee to inquire
into the declining state of th, colonial and foreign coffee trade
was negatived by a majority of 205 to 60.