The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-05 00:00:00

LATEST PARLLIMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY.
The gallery- was opened at a quarter-past twelve o'clock,
there being then about twenty-five members in the house.
Mr. EWING presented five petitions from the merchants, the
Chamber of Commerce, and other bodies in Glasgow, against
the Scotch Bankruptcy Bill. Also a petition from the same
place, against church patronage.
Mr. HEATHCOTE presented -a petition from the master gun-
makers of the metropolis, complaining of a falling off in trade
in consequence of the operation of the game laws, and praying
for a revision of the same, especially as regards the sale of
game.
Mr. EWART, at the request of Lord Althorp, postponed the
second reading of the Prisoner's Counsel Bill till Wednesday,
the 17th inst.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL postponed till the same day the
Law Amendment Bill.

On the order of the day being read for the second reading
of the Carrickfergus Disfranchisement Bill,
Lord BELFAST suggested the postponement of the second
reading until after his motion for the appointment of a Select
Commtitee, which stood for that evening, had been disposed of.

BANKRUPT (SCOTLAND) DILL.
The LORD ADVOCATE moved tt e second reading of this Bill
to that day six months, in consequence, as he-sag, of the ad-
vanced period of the session.

IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL.

On the motion of the Solicitor-General, this bill was read a
second time, and ordered to he committed on Wednesday next.

THE RANK CHARTER.
3`Lord ALTHORP moved that the house resolve itself into a
committee on the Bank Charter.

Mr. HEartiEs wished to know whether the report in circuta-
lion was or was not true, that it was the intention of the noble
lord to postpone, at least beyond the present session, that part
of the Bank Charter Acts which related to country banking ?
The noble lord in reply said it was his intention to postpone
all that part of his plan relative to country banking, excepting
that which required them to compound for their stamp-duties.
He should be sorry in making this announcement if it were
supposed that he did so because he was convinced by the argu-
ments adduced that he was wrong. He certainly was not con-
vinced of that, but he wished rather to put it on its really true
ground, that he believed he was not able to carry it. (A loud
laugh.)
Mr. THOMAS ATTWOOD presented a petition from the North-
ern Political Union, agreed to at'a public meeting, complaining
of the distress of trade, and particularly of the labouring
class, which they attributed to excessive taxation, and praying
for the repeal of all taxes on the necessaries of life, particularly
the Corn Laws.

After several other petitions were presented the Speaker left
.he chair.

LOCAL NEWS.

SACRILEGE.—The communion plate of Bootle church has
been stolen from the iron chest in which it-was. deposited,
during the past week. The strengfri of the steins to 'have
resisted ordinary force, and to have been blown open. by gun--
pi-m(l.er. No clue has yet been found by which to trace out the
robbers, whose daring act furnishes an additional proof of the in-
adequacy of our police regulations, which leave the suburbs of
Liverpool in a totally unprotected state.
MAD Does.—ln the neighbourhood of Litherland several
dogs have been bitten within the last few days by a cur exhibit-
ing symptoms of hydro .phobia. Two most valuable dogs, be-
longitim to Owen Jones, Esq., of Seaforth, were severely lacera-
ted While fighting with the dog in question, and must,-it is
feared, be destroyed. When the madness of the dog was dis-
covered, means for its immediate destruction were promptly
taken by Mr. Makin and Mr. George Lowe; it was fired at and
wounded by the latter, and ultimately killed in the village, but
not before another dog was bitten. P.Yery precaution has been
taken, by t3ing up and destroying- the dogs bitten, to prevent
a recurrence of the alarming and too often fatal mischiefs re-
sulting from canine madness.
THE LATE STORNl.—During the past week. severaLdead
bodies have been washed up near Blackpool. The bodies were
completely in a state of decomposition, and all attempts to trace
the features were entirely fruitless.. . _

runtous DRIVING.—It really is time that some check shoule
be given to a system by which the lives of the inhabitants are
continually placed in the most imminent danger; we alludd
to the practice of furious driving by drunken or inenperiencel
coachmen. We have frequently witnessed some hair-brearith
escapes, and we can only attribute the continuance of the evil
to the apathy of the public, who having for the moment escaped
the danger, think it not worth their while to further in
the matter. • We are certain. however, that the evil would be
cured if some of the gentry who have charge of these coaches
were more frequently made to know that they are not at their
pleasure to place the lives of his Majesty's subjects in jeopardy.
There is no want of a desire on the pelt of the authorities to
afford the fullest protection; but if the public will not come
forward, the evil must necessarily continue. We have been
led into these remarks-by a circumstance which occurred to a
gentleman well known-to us, on Tuesday night. lie, With his
wife, were on their way home from the Theatr; and had nearly
arrived at the end of Williamson-street, when a car driven by a
scoundrel, who must have been in a most beastly state of
intoxication, turned into the street at such a furious rate, and
at that rate drove so near, or rather on the pavement, that it
was with the utmost difficulty the gentleman saved himself and
wife from being run over. As it is, the mischief done is such
as will not be speedily remedied. The alarm occasioned to the
female was so great that she has been ever since in a very pre-
carioni state; and will no doubt be long ere she perfectly re-
cover from the effects of it. We regret to say that the gentle-
man was too much engaged in rendering assistance to his wife
to be able to take-the number of the car, and thus the scoundrel
who was the cause of the alarm and subsequent illness of the
female, has unfortunately escaped the punishment so justly due
to him.

QUICK DESP ATCH_— Sixty firkins of Butter were shipped, per
the Earl of Roden steamer, on the 14th uit. in Dundalk, for
Liverpool—transmitted from thence per railway, to Manchester,
and were actuallv.ou the grocer's counter in, eighteen hours
from the time of ihipment !—Newry Telegraph.

INQUIRY AT THE LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY.—POMUO/It to pre-
vious announcement, a meeting cf the trustees of the Infirmary
was held on Tuesday, to take into consideration the report
Made by its fi ub -c ommittee, respecting a charge of a delicate
nature against one of the medical officers cf the establishment.
Samuel dope; Esq. was -called to the chair, and !aVeral rese-
lotions were'proposed, 'but as it wet ultiMately decided to refer
the investigation to the medical officers of the Manchester
Infirmary, this would not lie the proper stage of the proceed-
ings to give publicity to details
The Hon. Charles Edward Law, the late Common Sergeant
of London, has been elected, by the Court of Aldermen to the
office of Recorder of that city. The learrild gentleman is the
sou of the late, and brother of the present Lord Ellenborough.
The celebrated Mr. Michael Scales,•has been once more
elected Alderman of the Ward of Portsoken. On a former oc-
casion when the Court of Aldermen refused to admit him of
their body, he sought to compel them to do so by a writ of man-
damus from the Court of King's Bench, to which the Aldermen
replied that Mr. Scales had surreptitiously obtained his freedom.
When the judgment of the court was given, the late Lord Ten-
terden held " thata special return was not necessary, and that
the Court of Aldermen had a right to reject any person re-
turned to them." In consequence of this decision iheVourt of
Aldermen admitted Mr. Hughes, M.'P. for Oxford, who subse-
quently resigned the office, although Mr. Scales had a majority
of votes. On the present election, Mr. Johnson teas the unsuc-
cessful candidate, but we suppose that the Aldermenlvill act on
their former decision and swear in this gentleman.
The advantages the public will derive by the establishment of
railways are daily becoming more an object of consideration.
The two great concerns, the Grand dimetion, and London
and Birmingham, will commence operations in a very short
time, as soon as the Directors of the respective companies have
been elected; and it is calculated that passengers and goods
will be conveyed from Liverpool. to London, when the rairwa ys
are completed, in ten hours. This is a very important consi-
deration to the commercial community.; but another work of
equal importance is in progress. The Loudon and Greenwich
Railway Company have procured an act of incorporation, and
the Company is making great preparations in order that this
concern may be completed at the earliest possible period. .Plans
are also lodged in the private bill office, for. a continuation of
this lire to Dover, in older that a speedy communication may
be established between London and Paris, and the continent of
Europe. The public is probably not aware, that a Magnificent
line of arches from London Bridge, through the very heart of
the city, form this railway.to Greenwich, and. when com-
pleted, will become one t f the most intcreeting improvements
in arehitecure, and with this view, if.others of more immediate
interest did not present themselves, we wish them every success
in their undertaking.

Lord Garlies, eldest son of the Earl of, Galloway, it is stated
in the fashionable circles, is about to unite himself with the Lady
Blanch Somerset, daughter of the Duke, of Beaufort.
The family of the Earl of 'Lauderdale has keen placed in
mourning by the demise of his lordshi,,,'s eldest surviving sister,
Lady Jane Houston, the lady of Lieutenant-General Sir Wil-
liam Houston, Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar. Lady Jane,
before her marriage with the gallant General, was the relict.of
Samuel Long, Esq., brother to Lord Farnborough. Her lady-
ship's marriage with Sir 'Valiant Houston took place in