The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-26 00:00:00

NEW MUSIC

"Champion of the Seas" Polka. Liverpool :Wray.
Mr. Wray's merit, as a composer, is so well
appreciated, that it can hardly be necessary to say
more in praise of this polka—which is named after
the celebrated Black-ball clipper than that it
maintains the well-earned reputation of the author.
It is not so much the effort of educated skill as the
emanation of an innate spirit of music, which
Iffords a delight better felt than defined. It can-
' '"- - general favourite, and will be in
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LE, the

STLE moved the

Majesty to accept th

The Duke of NEW(
the bill for enabling Her
offers of Militia Regimen
garrisons, instead of their services being, as hitherto, con
fined to the United Kingdom. He explained that, withon,

their free consent, no rg

already mans

iment could be taken, but that

.et invents had volunteers

lan were

ploy them. In spite of all exertions yet 'nacre, the army
was still much below its full establishment, and neither
this measure nor the Foreign Enlistment Bill would
enable it to dispense with the resources it always drew
from the general population of the country.

Lord DERBY, concurring entirely in the general objects
of the bill, objected to the change it would make in the

character of the Militia, which he regarded as essentially
a home force. He contended, too, that the bill as framed
would enable Her Majesty to accept the services of her

itself, and condemned the project of sending them to those
garrisons, instead of an efficient reserve of regular troops,
which had been the great want of the war. He urged the

?on me

m who

enlisted for merely home service, and the probable injury
such pressure would do to future recruiting, and particu-
larly insisted on the hardship it imposed on the medical
officers, who were obliged to give np their private practice,
without any prospect of pension or half-pay. Turning
from the army and the bill immediately before the house,
Lord Derby then animadverted upon the inefficient
blockade which had been kept up on the Russian ports of
the Black and White Seas, from which the Greek mer-
chants reaped all the gain and we all the loss. The
Government had thanked Admiral Dundas for his ex-
Ind it was therefore to be presumed that it was
it of orders that the blockade had not been made
sore strict. As to the Militia Bill, though he disapproved
it, and expected no advantage from it, he was not prepared
to propose any amendment upon it.

ertions,
from war

Earl GRAiVXLLE vindicated the Government from
blame in not having sent out a larger force at an earlier
period to the seat of war, and replied to the objections
against the Militia Bill.

-Earl GREY was opposed to the bill, which was wrong
in principle. He had great doubts as to the necessity of
the force. Prompt steps had not been taken for the aug-
mentation of the army. After urging several objections
to the bill, he stated that it would not, in his opinion, be
expedient to reject the proposed measure.

After some remarks ihnit Lord DENMAN and the Duke
of ARGYLE in defence of the bill,

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGII, though acquiescing in the
second reading, objected to several provisions of the bill,
in which there was nothing practically to prevent the
whole of the Militia being sent abroad to any part. In
committee he should propose amendments.
The bill was read a second time, and it subsequently
passed through committee, all amendments being nega-
tived.—The house adjourned at forty minutes past nine.

FRIDAY.

The MILITIA BILL was read a third time, and passed

A return was moved for by the Bishop of LONDON of
burial grounds open during the present year, with the
number of interments.

EXCIIEQUER BILLS.—LOrd MONTEAGLE moved for a
series of returns connected with the deficiency bills and
other arrangements of the public exchequer, and in doing
so took occasion to contradict a statement in a morning
paper that he had asserted that the security of depositors
in the savings banks would be materially affected by the
contemplated measure of the government.
The house adjourned at half-past five.

SATURDAY, DEC. 23

The House sat at a quarter to nine o'clock for the
purpose of considering the Enlistment of Foreigners Bill,
as amended by the House of Commons.—The lords present
were the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, and the Bishop
of St. Asaph.—The LORD CHANCELLOR having reported
to the House that the Enlistment of Foreigners Billbad
been brought up from the House of Commons, Earl
GRANVILLE moved that the Commons' amendments
should be agreed to, and the motion being put in the

Their lordships then adjourned daring pleasure.

the House reasembled at two o'clock, when the only
nt were those acting as her Majesty's Commis-
e Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, and

peers pres

Lord Canning.

ROTA'

ASSENT.—The royal assent was given by com-
mission to the Militia Bill and the Enlistment of

Foreigners Bill.
The House adjourned until Tuesday, January 23.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

-TUESDAY, DEC. 19,

Mr. W. BROWN presented a petition from the Liverpool
Chamber of Commerce, stating that they addressed a
letter on the 11th of November, 1852, to the President of
the Board of Trade in favour of a decimal currency, recom-
mending the pound for the unit, and praying for its imme-
diate adoption. . _

COAL MINES.—In answer to a question, Mr. Fnzuor
said that a bill for the prevention of accidents in coal
mines was in preparation, and would be introduced soon
after the Christmas holidays.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES.—Mr. EWA-HT obtained leave to
bring in a bill to amend and extend an act for enabling
town councils to establish libraries and museums freely
open to the public.
Mr. V. SCULLY obtained leave to bring in a bill to
amend the Spirits (Ireland) Act of last session.
CHURCH PROPERTY.—The Marquis of BLANDFORD
obtained leave to bring in a bill to make better provision
for the management of episcopal and capitular estates.
THE MILITIA BILL was read a third time and passed,
after a determined negative from Colonel SIBTIIORP.
FOREIGN ENLISTMENT BILL.

Lord J. RUSSELL, in moving the second reading, de-
fended the bill on precedents during the reigns of Queens
Elizabeth and Anne, King William the Third, and during
the rule of Cromwell, by Marlborough and Wellington,
and whenever, in fact, England had been engaged in a
continental war. If we attempt to supply reinforcements
solely from native sources, the risk must be incurred in
sending out recruits imperfectly trained; and he referred
to the precepts and example of the Duke of Wellington in
support of the conclusion that there was no national
degradation attending the employment of foreigners
under such contingencies.
Sir E. B. LYTTON moved that the bill be read that day
six months. He denounced it as a " crawling propo-
sition," chilling the national spirit by the introduction of
mercenary troops ; including the refugee members of dis-
tressed nationalities, who, having been trained in war
and collected into a focus, would be only disbanded for
revolution. Recruits were pouring in faster than they
could be enrolled, and supplies of men could be obtained
in the home market—the cheapest and the best. The
very introduction of the bill argued lathes in the Govern-
ment, who had received abundant warnings of the magni-
tude of the war, and might have long since developed the
military resources of the country sufficiently to dispense
with the beggarly aid contributed by a few thousand mis-
cellaneous hirelings.
A lengthened discussion ensued, in the course of which

Lord STANLEY observed, that from this measure not being
alluded to in the royal speech, it looked as if it was in-
tended to smuggle it through parliament before the country
had time to examine it. He complained of the mystery
which enveloped the measure—no information being given
of to the sources whence those foresgn soldiers were to he
obtained. What, he asked, should we think of the Em-
peror of Russia if he were advertising for soldiers in every
European market. He contended that no case of emergency
had been shown that would override the evils attending
such a measure as this, to which he objected as unnecessary,
unpatriotic. and retrogressive.
Lord PALMERSTON defended the bill, and said he was
surprised at the course pursued by the party opposite in
regard to this question. They admitted the importance of
the object of the war, its justice and necessity, and the
Government had been reproached by the organs of the
party with not carrying on the war with energy and
vigour ; and when they now ask to be allowed to em-
ploy an instrument which they believe would be con-
ducive to the prosecution of the war with success,- they
were met with disquisitions upon the constitution and the
reproduction of antiquated arguments against a practice
which had been adopted by this and by almost every other
Government,

Mr. DISRAELI
a further discuss

tjority of 39.
The bill was

eplied to Lord Palmerston ; and, after
n, the house divided, and the second
213 to 204, being a

by a majorit:

m read a second time
utes before 2 o'clock

DAY, Di

Mr. ADDERLEY Ares
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and the house ad-

General Ass

The CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
t the House should go into
the following resolution, which
That it is expedient to create
a consolidated fund of the united king-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland in respect of the sums
due to savings banks and friendly societies, and to
provide for the payment of interest thereon to the Com-
missioners of the National Debt, at 3 per cent. per annum,

SAVIN(

ented a petition from Nelson, New
,f the delay of the meeting of their

BANKS.
rstyarl

commit
stood c

a charge

fund, or by
difference wb

provision out of the said consolidated
suer bills or Exchequer bonds, for any
ay now or hereafter exist between the

assets in the hands of the Con
of the National Debt, in r
_ .

nissioners

for the Reduction

ect of savings banks and

RS thereon ; and also for I

)OT, RT ANT)APTI

of the session, p:

tiered f

ho has

.SDAY, DEC

In ans'

Washing

ND GENERAL

government to bring in a bill in the cours,
7incipally founded on the recommendation
)n Committee, over which the honourabb