The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-24 00:00:00

MISSION TO PERSIA.

Mr. Hoax moved for an estimate of the expense to be in-
curred by the East India Company and by thel3ritish Govern-
ment-for the diplomatic mission to Persia. stating the names of
those persons appointed, the office, and the allowance of every,
kind,to,be received by each; also, an estimate of the contingent
expenses of the mission. Agreed to.
Mr. Hoar loosed for some returns 'respecting the consump-
[too At' omit, the quantity Made, and the duty paid therevn,
from the 10th October, 18'32, to the 10th October, 1834;fand
also. for several other returns, which were ordered.
PASSENGERS IN MERCHANT VESSELS.. •
Mr. W. E. GLA PsTONE moved for leave to bring, in 0411 to
repeal the act 9 George IV., c. 91, for regulating the cai ridge
of passengers in merchant vessels from the United Kingdom. to
the continent and islands of North America, and to Make fur-
ther.provisiOn fur regulating the same, and explained its provi-
sions.

Mr. Hunt expressed his anxiety that the most efficient mea-
sures should be taken to provide fur the comfort Linn security of
the emigrants.
Mr. BARING suggested that the bill-should be brought in in
the first instance, and that iu committee they might consider
such amendments as might be. proposed. It was quite clear,
from the ill success of the system of leaving clime, ' that legi-.
slation on the subject was absolutely necessary. One of the
principal things to be regarded by this bill was the greediness
of captains, which often induced them to take a greater number
of passeevrs than could be conveniently or safely ~ecounnod-
ated in their vessels. The danger of such a practice. bad
already been fatally evinced iu the sacrifice of 7l) lives in two
or three vessels which went down, and from being inconveni-
ently crowded. A feeling of humanity atone then ought to urge
the house to lose. no time in devising souse remedy for evils
affecting parties who had not the means of protecting them-
selves. If the hon. gentleman opposite could devise any better
remedy than that proposed by his hou. friend, he would; gladly
support it. • . •
Mr. It UTHVEN supported the bill.
Lord SA NDON thought the bill was greatly wanted. Ile had
a hit of 96 instances in which vessels had• left our shores• with
emigrants, scandalously deficient in the means of giving due
accommodatiou to the numbers of passengers they took on
board. He would trouble the house with only one. In a ship
which left England for Van Diemen's Land, with 130 Passen-
gers. there were in one part of the vessel 26 persons in,cspace
not exceeding 23 feet by 11 feet 5; and in another part ,of the
ship, in a space not exceeding 53 feet by 28, were stowed away
102 persons, and this during a voyage of five mouths
Sir R. BATESoN said, that as a very large share of the emi-
gration from Ireland went from the part of Ireland with which
he was connected, he begged in the name of the •inhabitants of
that part to thank the hou. member fur having introduced this
Mr. P. M. STEWART suggested that some arrangement
ntslitrubl
be made by which the sea-worthiness of vessels taking Out emi-
grants should be ascertained at the responsibility of th
govern-
ment. it was well known that vessels which were hardly sea-
worthy for other purposes were taken to convey emigrants, and
be believed that there was not a greater hindrance to emigra-
tion than the dread entertained of the unscaworthineas of,ttruse
vessels generally.
Mr. M. PHILIPS thought the proposed measure as necissary
and practical an improvement as could be devised.
venture to suggest, as an encouravment to parties euile grret\)ula
ng,
and as a means of preventing them fromsquandering by 'gaining
or otherwise on the passage the little funds they had prepared.
for their settlement in the colonies, that an opportunity ahnuld.
be given to'them of depositing the surplus beyond the expense
of the voyage in the hands of government here, they receiving
an order on the government of the plane where they landed ty
be paid on their arrival. 4
Mr. -BERNARD. adverting to the inferior kinds of ships he-.
qiiently.tatien up for emigrants, suggested that noetl,srisshould
be permitted to be engaged which were not of CIaSsNP,. anti
vessel over twenty years old should on anVaccintut be'pitimitred
to take out emigrants.
After a few words from Mr. Ewa rt and Mr. O'Dwyer, Which'
were not heard iu the reporters' gallery, leave was given to•
bring iu the bill. . .

Some returns were moved for and ordered respecting the con-
veyance of colonial newspapers.
The house adjourned at eleven o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY.
ROYAL COMMISSION.

• The royal assent was given by commission to the following
bills :—the newspapers regulation bill, the exchequer bills
(E 15,000,000) bill, and the Chester criminal's execution bill.
The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl
of Itosslyn, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.

THE CHURCH. •
LOrd BROUGHAM presented a petition which he said was
respectfully worded; but he would not name the petitioner, nor
read,• nor make any cominc:'s, because he would nal he an-
swerable for any petition he might present to the house,
The Clerk read the petition. It was from Thwn" Peter Gur-
ney, a clergyman of Truro, complaining that he had been thirty-
eight years curateof his parish, and that on a vacancy, recently,
the Bishop of Exeter had conferred the living on a-cleigyalaii
not known in the neighbourhood, who was very rich, and liihom
the right rev. bishop had never seen.
The Bishop of EXEThR considered the motives whio, raighl
induce patrons of livings to confer them on p trtictilar inaividu-
als could not he a fit subject for debate in their lordships' house.
The living io question had been given to a ciliate of whom he
had received it very high character. A very large proportion of
livings in his diocese had fallen in within the last four years;
the number of them was sixteen. Out of those sixternAvings
he had given thirteen of them to citrates. all of ali iii he seteeted
on the ground of merit atone. (Hear, hear.) No one of those
curates was personally known to him, or cotatected by relation-
ship or otherwise with hint. ( Hear.) There were three livings
which he hail not given to curates. One of them he had given
to his son, who he was proud to say was a deserving son. Of
the two other livings one was disposed of in rather a return ka-
bie wanner, on account of the singular scruples cf conscience
of the peisiar who oecame patron of it by purchase. The natron.
after hosing it. said that his conscieoce could not allow to
dispose of it, and he, consequent!, refused the patronage of it.
winch horn Came into his (the Bishop of Ex. ter's) hands. It
was a rich living. and he wished to give it to his son, but he gave
it to a meritorious clergyman in the neirhlamihood to whom the
patron intended utigiuully to give it. the ildid living, which
was in a popir!ons place io Cornwall, was conferred, in order to
break done a plurality, on a popuior andnieritori,,ns pi 'aches.
After this explanation he did nt:t think it nsceSstry to add a
word more. • . . .

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I ord 1 EY MIA NI moved aresolution respecting the malt duty,
which was negatived without a division.—Adjoarned,