The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-14 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF LORDS —MONDAY.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, who had bee:, unable to
be present on Thursday last, added his meed of eulogy to
the gallantry of our troops, the -skill displayed by their
leaders, and the exemplary moderation of Sir Henry

Hardinge.
Lord BEAUMONT denounced in strong terms the con-
duct of the Austrian government, during the late Polish
insurrection, especially in exciting a servile war against
the nobles, and setting a price upon their heads; and in-
quired if any means had been taken to express the disap-
probation of the English Government of such proceedings.
Lord ABERDEEN said, that the subject was one in which
this country was not directly concerned, and it was ex-
cessively difficult to discriminate, among the conflicting
statements and counter-statements, the amount of truth or
falsehood they contained.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNnwy

A discussion of general importance took place, in the
course of which Sir R. PEEL observed, that no person
could have viewed without great anxiety the railway spe-
culations of the last autumn and winter. Unless those
schemes were likely to be profitable to individuals, it was
not for the public interest to permit them to proceed ; and
be, therefore, thought that it would be for the public ad-
vantage to pass a bill with this limited object—that where
a majority of the shareholders in a company, or a majority
bolding more than half the stock of the company should
represent to Parliament that they were not desirous of
proceeding with their bill, they should have a full oppor-
tunity of declaring it by petition to either house of Par-
liament ; and that, in such case, Parliament should refuse
to sanction any further proceedings upon it. He proposed
that those who originally proposed the scheme should
still remain responsible for the expense which they had
authorised. He thought al-,o that a trustee, or an official
assignee, should be appointed to take possession of the
property of the company. He thought that they should
all be postponed for the present; and the adjournment at
Easter would be most favourable for allowing the subscri-
bers to deliberate whether they would proceed further with
them or not. _ .

After some discussion the bill was read a second time.
Sir J. GRAHAM then m Ned that the order of the day
for the first reading of the Protection of Life (Ireland)
Bill be then read, but was met by obstructive objections
to it by several members. The order, however, was at
last read.

A conversation then took place on a proposition of Sir
W. SOMERVILLE, to adjourn the debate till that day three
weeks. Sir R. PEEL declared his intention of not giving
way to such a proposition, and after some sharp observa-
tions, Sir W. Somerville withdrew it, reserving to himself
the right of renewing it, if he thought fit, next day.
The debate was at length adjourned till next day.
In reply to a qnestion from Col. SIBTHORPE, as to the
period when the budget would be brought on,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wished that he
could give the gallant officer as distinct an answer on that
point as he could upon the state of the revenue. Last
year he had anticipated the surplus of income ()ter expen-
diture at £90,000. He was happy to state, that indepen-
dently of the money to be received from China, it now
amounted to £1,750,000.
Colonel SIBTHORP intimated that he would believe that
fact when he saw it, but not till then.