The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-28 00:00:00

ONS.-THURSDAY

ensued upon the rno-
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e, for the issue of a new writ for the

interest]

Mr. BLACKSTONE moving
limits of the borough s

umber of elec-
amendment was negatived by 195 to 64, and
nal motion carried by 164 to 63.

)uld be ex-

iew of increasing t

lobate upon the conduct of the borough of

was only postponed until the e

deuce taken

was then for some time _
of Captain Dillon for the capture of a sr
called the Peru. On this occasion it was bro
Mr. F. O'Connor, buf
former attempt
with only eight
Mr. BRIGHT tl
the Game

oft-discussed (
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repeal
COWAN

on by

ith no better success than on
, for the hon, member found himself
supporters in a house of sixty members.
ien moved for leave to bring in a bill to
Laws, which was seconded by Mr.

Sir G. GREY argued that the remedy which Mr. Bright
had proposed was one which the House ought not to
entertain even by the admission of the bill.
pt_to adjourn the debate was defeated by 87
adjourned unanimously.

to 82, but tlie House afterwards

HOUSE OF LORDS

FRIDAY

On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL the Criminal Law
Administration Amendment Bill, giving power of appeal
from decisions of justices of the peace at quarter sessions
and judges of assize upon points of law, was read a second

time ; the Queen's Piison. Bill committed ; and the Audit
of Railway Accounts Bill read a third time and passed.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-

-FRIDAY

The railway bills debated on the question of second
readings were the Chester and Holyhead Railway (power
to purchase, &c.), which was postponed until Monday (yes-
terday) ; the Great Western Railway (branch from Windsor
to Slough), which was read a second time, and the North
British Railway, No. 2 (junction with Leith branch of the
Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway, &c.) Bill, which was
rejected by a majority of 45, the numbers 105 to 60.
Lord MORPETH, in reply to Mr. Cardwell, stated that
he should not, in the present state of the public business.
think of proceeding with the public Health Bill next week,
but as soon after as possible.
Sir G. GREY, in answer to Mr. Bright, with reference
to the two persons under sentence of death at Durham,
for killing one of the Duke of Cleveland's gamekeepers,
stated that the verdict of the jury had not been accom-
panied
.by any recommendation to mercy, but he had re-
ceived many applications to that effect from places in the
neighbourhood of which the transaction occurred, and
also a memorial signed by the jury. He could not, how-
ever, consent to lay that memorial on the table, because
it would involve the necessity of producing counter state-
xnents—a course which would be wholly subversive of the
proper administration of justice.
Mr. BRIGHT gave notice of his intention, after Easter,
again to move for leave to bring in a bill for the total re-
peal of the Game Laws.
Mr. Hawes, at the instance of Mr. Reynolds, ex-
plained the amount and conditions on which a tax was
imEosed on emigrants to Canada. _ _

'the CHANcii.Lon of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to Mr.
Mackinnon, stated that the-repayment of the balance of
the Leeward Islands Loan would be postponed for five
years, on condition of interest thereon being paid in the
interval.

The non-payment of poor rates in Ireland in the Cas-
tlebar union led to some observations, and a further de-
fence of Irish landlords.
The Property Tax Bill was read a second time, Mr.
HUME intimating that on the motion for the committal
of the bill he should move that it be referred to a select
committee up stairs.
Lord J. RUSSELL made a forcible appeal to the house
on the subject of the public business, enumerating the
different government measures in progress, and calling
for the forbearance of lion. members in bringing forward
motions on orders of the day ; stating, at the same time,
that the Income Tax Bill and the Estimates would, in all
probability, take up about two months of the days which
the government had at their disposal.
Mr. BAILLIE, in a speech descriptive of the horrors of
the slave trade, as carried on in defiance of the efforts of
the squadron appointed for that sersice to prevent it,
moved an address to the crown, praying her majesty to
give directions that negotiations be entered into with
foreign powers to relieve this cthintry from the engagement
under which it labours, of maintaining a squadron on the
coast of Africa.

Mr. Hmsty seconded the motion, which was supported
by Mr. G. Thompson, Mr. Urquhart, Mr. Mowatt, Mr.
Disraeli, and Mr. Bouverie : and opposed by Lord Harry
Vane, apt. Pecbell, Mr. Hutt, Lord Palmerston, Sir T.
Acland, Lord John Russell, and Sir Robert Peel ; the
principal objection to the motion being the taking any
decisive step of this nature until the committee sitting on
the slave trade had made its report.

On a division, the motion was rejected by a majority of
136: the numbers, 216 to 80. _ _

Mr. P. SCROPE moved an address for an indictment to
be preferred by the law-officers of the .crown against the
parties concerned in tho illegal destruction of several
houses and the forcible ejectment of their inmates within
the union of Galway-, about new year's day last, and which
appeared to have occasioned the deaths of several of the
unfortunate °Ejects of this ill-treatment.

After a debate the motion wa'a.;;:it'hd;r4;n, and the house,