The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-20 00:00:00

TITHE MODUS PROSECUTION.

Mr. BLAmt RE moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend an
act passed in the last session of Parliament, entituled "an act
for shortening the time required in claims of modus decimandi,
or exemption from a discharge of tithes." He was induced to
bring forward his motion by an anxious desire to allay the irri-
tation which the recent prosecutions of thel clergy under the
Tithe Modus Act had generated; and which would be a serious
obstacle to the introduction, next session as he trusted, of a ge-
neral measure for the abolition of the tithe system in its present
,orm altogether. (Hear.) At that late hour he would only

observe, that his bill was not intended to at all interfere with
Lord Tenterden's act in its general operation; and was only
meant to suspend the workings of a particular provision of that
act till the end of next session, before which period ministers
and the house would haye full time for considering and bring-
ing the tithe question to a satisfactory issue. He proposed that
all the prosecutions which his measure would suspend, should
at the end of the next session be placed in precisely the same
situation they were at present.
Leave was ~,riven to bring in the bill.
Colonel WILMA his would not, at that late period of the ses-
sion, proceed with his motion for a bill to amend the royal mar-
riage act.—Motion accordingly withdrawn.
Sir H. VERNEY, for the same reason, kit disinclined to pro-
ceed with his motion in reference to a new House of Commons.

Lord ALTHORP thought that if such a plan as was suggested
was carried into execution, no sort of benefit would be derived
from it, for the whole expense would nearly be equal to that of
building a new house, and would not increase the convenience
of the present building.
Mr. HurlE reminded the house of the committee which had
been appointed on this subject, by whom the proposed plan had
been rejected.
The motion was, after a short conversation, withdrawn.
The foreign enlistment bill was then read a third time and
passed.
On the motion of Mr. LITTLETON, the tithes (Ireland) bill
was committed proforma, on the understanding that it should be
proceeded with on Saturday.
The spirits licences' (Ireland) bill was read a third time and
passed.
Mr. HUMS gave notice of his intention to move on Friday
for leave to bring in a bill to repeal the acts 60th George
111., c. 10, commonly called the Six Acts.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned at half-past two o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16.
The sea apprenticeships' bill was read a third time and
passed.
Mr. BERNAL and other members of the House of Commons
brought up the foreign enlistment repeal bill, the Customs'
laws repeal bill, the wine and spirit (Ireland) bill, and the land
revenues' (Scotland) bill.
Lord KENYON presented a number of petitions from places in
different parts of the-ountry, praying that the hours of labour
of children in factoriaNbe limited to ten hours. The noble
lord pledged himself to bring forward in the next session of
Parliament a bill to effect the same object as had been proposed
by that brought forward in the other house of Parliament by
Lord Ashley.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.