The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY

Lord DUNCAN moved for leave to bring in a bill for the
total repeal of the window duties. In so doing he ad-
mitted that serious objections might be urged at this time
to the reduction of taxation in any shape ; but in propo-
sing an increase of the property-tax, he thought that the
ministry should have done something to relieve the
working classes from the taxes which pressed most
grievously upon them. In proposing a repeal of the
window-tax he did not wish to impoverish the Exchequer,
as he had a substitute for the tax which he sought to
repeal. The plan by which he proposed to get rid of the
tax was as follows :—The additional estimates in eon-
Tiexion with the army, navy, ordnance, and militia, pro-
posed for the present year, amounted to upwards of
£600,000. He would ask the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer to content himself with the estimates of last year,
and deduct this sum from the anticipated expenditure of
the year. In that way he would provide for at least
£600,000 of the entire sum which would be lost by the

abolition of the window-tax. There was also a very use-
less luxury of which they might get rid, the squadron on
the coast of Africa, which cost them £300,000 a-year,
which, with the sum already named, would provide for
£900,000 of the tax proposed to be repealed. Again,
there were 5,000 soldiers on their way home from India,
whom it was proposed to add to the military force at
home. What he would propose was, that these soldiers
should be permitted to rest from their labour, and tha
instead of admitting them to the home force, the Govern
went would give muskets to 5,000 of the metropolitai
police force, capable of being thus rendered a most effi
cient body. By this means they would save £lOO,OOO
making a total saving of upwards of a million.
Mr. Hums seconded the motion.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought ti
statement made by the First Lord of the Treasury c
bringing forward the budget was a suffic;-^f
those gentlemen who desired the repeal of
were on the paper that night notices of r
repeal of taxes that would cause a loss to
nine millions. At a time when it was nece
to increased taxation it was impossible for
well disposed he might be to do so, to sacril
of revenue. He felt there were objections t
duties on the score of public health. The
came as near as possible to an income-ta
surprised that those hon. members who ad
taxation should be opposed to them. The r
tleman intimated his intention to cons
with the view of modifying their anomali
After a long debate the motion was r
ritv of 160 to 68

-FRIDAY

, in a speech condemnatory

HOUSE OF LORDS
The Earl of HARDWICKE •
free trade, moved for the appoinr
mittee on the navigation laws.
Earl GREY would not oppoec though 11,
might not consider a committee necessary ; yet it could do
DO harm, as the more information their lordships had

nt of a select corn

the mo

before them the better they would be enabled to deal with
any measure that government might submit to parliament
on the subject to which the motion referred.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

FRIDAY

The questions put to and answered by the government
were relative to the late murders at Canton, the rate-
navine elauses of the Reform Bill, the Irish loan, foreign

. .
tariffs, and the present state of affairs in France.
On the question of going into committee of supply, Mr.
as an amendment, " that it is expedient
dilure of the country should be reduced,
ise in taxation in this season

ewhalprotracted debate ensued upon the general
nditure of the country, and that of the army and

ttee was carried by a majority of

The house having gone into committee, the CHAN-
CELLOR of the Excu EQUER proposed a vote of X 1,100,000
to defray the expense of the Kaffir war.

After a debate t

cornn:itte

d that the chairman report progress.
ae d'ivided, when the vote
may of 191, the numbers being

',cress in 1846-7. NI

'reed to

Mr. WAKLE'

land to

tposed the printing of a petition rela-
, which being opposed, on the ground
t the petitioner sought to print his views on that sub-

adjourned

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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL,

'vernment may think proper to employ them

d that the wellknown Jesuit Padre Ryllo has
been murdered, along with six companions. by the natives
of Nubia, near the frontiers of Abyssinia.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.-A second edition of the Bom-
bay Times announces the pleasing intelligence that, by a
judicious arrangement of the troops by fir H. Pottinger,

the whole of the Caffre chiefs, with their wives and

NIARTIAL LAW IN LOMBARDY.—The files of German
received in London on Friday, announce that the
the Lombardo-Venetian States of Italy

state of

martial

been proclaimetf by the Austrian government at Milan,

At a grand hall given by the Turkish ambassador, in
Paris on Monday, and at which the young Turks polked
with great delight with the ladies, the Marquise de Boissy,
late the Countess Guiccioli. of Byron celebrity, attracted
much attention. She is still conspicuously fair, and of
striking appearance.

.• ; rope is now, 1u
his turn, besieged himself for a constitution,—which be
may not grant! What right had he, then, as a petty
temporal sovereign, to stimulate other little sovereignties

o adopt reforms, in a direction w

'lobe is

late radical doliness. Pills' will cut a fine figure with
a representative. overhauling his infallibility. Let the
leaven work ! We predicted this state of things several
weeks ago, when the Pii were io reforming extaeies.

THE TRIPLE MURDER AT BRUSSELS.—O❑ Saturday
morning at a quarter to nine, Rouseel and Vandenplaas,
accompanied by the chaplain of the prison and the Abbe
Trist, left their cells. The cortege proceeded along the
Rueaux-Laines and the Boulevard-de-Waterloo, as far as
the Gate de Hal, against which the scaffold was erected,
'-onti• 0- Rue 11^-1-',. V Ito 1-

..ing .saute. andenplaas appearec ot
greatly cast down, but Rouseel walked with firmness. At
nine o'clock they arrived at the place of execution ; they
embraced their confessors, and Vandenplaas was then ex-
ecuted. The sound of the knife made Roused tremble
greatly, and his whole frame shook for sometime ; but he
regained confidence, and gave himself up to his execu-
tioner, and soon after the crowd dispersed in silence.
THE WEST INDIES.—From Jamaica we learn that on
he north side of the island the plantations had been
- d

visited with very heavy rains, .n hai .ione muc.
damage, destroying the roads, &c.: while the planters on
the south side were complaining of the continuation of
drought, and expressing great apprehension about the
crops. All the Windward Islands were in a state of great

cantile firms in England connected with West India affairs
having produced much depression in commercial circles.
The Trinidad (Port of Spain) Gazette has the follow-
ing paragraph in its leading article of January 18th on
the state of the West India colonies :—" The provoking
sang-froid with which all discussion on the disastrous
state of West India affairs has been put off by Ministers
until Parliament re-assembles in February is really more
bitter to endure than the most determined opposition to
all measures of relief proposed, or the most obdurate re-
fusal to abate a jot of the cruel policy of which we are
the victims. Neglect and indifference are oftentimes
hvder to bear than downright injustice. There is more
OT mercy I. the fatal stroke at once puts the victim
out of his suspense and misery than in the do not say
I will, and I do not say I will not' policy of the present
Administration." The yellow fever was making sad
havoc in the BSth Regiment, at Barbadoes. Colonel
Phibbs, of that regiment, died on the 27th of January.
Forty men had fallen victims to the malady, which is for-
tunately confined to the regiment.