The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-01 00:00:00

IRELAND

Counties
Boroughs

5
4
-9

Total corn law repealers

On the 2Gth of May, 1840, Mr. Villiers submitted a motion
to the effect " that the house immediately resolve itself into
a committee to take into consideration the act regulating the
importation of foreign corn," which was negatived by a ma-
jority of 123 ; and the votes on each side of the question
were distributed in the following manner :

FOR THE MOTION
ENGLAND.

Counties
Boroughs

WA LES

Counties
Boroughs

AGAINST THE MOTION
ENGLAND.

Counties
Boroughs 105
Universities 2

SCOTLAND

Counties
Boroughs

- 128

Counties
Boroughs

IRELAND

Counties
Boroughs

WALES

-- 20

Total for the motion.. 177

SCOTLAND

Counties
Boroughs

- 217

11
4
- 15

IRELAND

Counties .
Boroughs lO
Universities . 2

Total against the motion 300

The undermentioned members who voted against Sir R.
Peel's resolution, fixing the maximum duty on foreign corn
at 20s. per quarter, on this occasion voted against Mr. Vil-
liers's amendment, and are to be found in the majority
against the corn law repeale-s
Acheson, Viscount
Baring, Right Hon. F. T.
(Portsmouth.)
Berkeley, Hon. Grantley F.
Browne, Hon.W.(Kerry Co.)
Buller, Charles
Chapman B. (Westmeath)
Childers, John Walbanke
Colborne, Hon. N.W. Ridley
Colebrooke, Sir Thos. Edw
Cowper, Hon. W. F.
Curteis, Hubert Barnett
Duff, J.
Duke, Sir J.
Ebrington, Viscount
Esmonde, Sir Thomas
Evans, William
Ferguson, Sir Robert A.
Fitzalan, Lord
French, Fitzstephen
Gill, Thomas
Gordon, Lord Frederick
Grey, Right Hon. Sir G.
Hatton, Captain Villiers
Wason, Rigby
Watson, William Henry

1 Howard,Hon.C.W.G. Cum

berland.
Howard, Hon. E. G. G.
(11,1orpeth.)
Howard, Sir R. (Wicklow-
shire.)
Labouchere, Right lIon.II.
Langston, James Haughton
Mitcalfe, Henry
O'Brien, W. Smith (Lime-
rick Co.)
O'Conor, Don
Ogle, Savile C. H.
Palmerston, Viscount
Redington, Thomas N.
Russell, Lord John
Smith, J. A.. (Chichester.)
Stanley, Hon. C. (Anglesey)
Stanton, William Henry
Staunton, Sir George.
Towneley, John
Traill, George
Tuite, Hugh Morgan
Turner, Edmund (Truro)
Wood, Charles (Halifax)
Wrightson, Wm. Battye

REGULATION OF APPRENTICES BlLL.—This bill is pre-
pared and brought in by Sir James R. G. Graham, Sir P.
Pollock, and Sir W. W. Follett (the Attorney and Solicitor-
General,) and contains only two clauses. The first clause,
in which lies the whole gist of the bill, enacts—" That all
the powers and provisions of the acts 20th George 11., cap.
19, the 33d George 111., cap. 55, and the 4th George IV.,
cap. 29, and each of them shall be taken to extend to appren-
tices where no sum or premium of apprenticeship was paid on
the binding of such apprentices."
THIEF EXTRAORDINARY.—A landlady of all inn at Har-
lington, near Uxbridge, havinc, reason to suspect that a
regular abstraction of moneys from the till had been going
on for some time, made up her mind to make a strict search,
in the hope of discovering the depredator, without casting
suspicion upon her servants. After some time a nest of
mice was' found near the place, and, extraordinary to relate,
in it was found concealed 160 farthings, two halfpence, one
sixpence, two shillings, a dollar, and a sovereign. This
sum had been from time to time carried off by them from
the drawer, the only egress from which was over the top, as
it was found to be in a perfect state of repair.
With reference to the corn law discussion, we may observe
that, according to the latest return of the average price of
corn, made up to Saturday week, and published on Thurs-
day, a still further decline in the price of wheat has taken
place, according to the aggregate average of the last six
weeks, which has occasioned a corresponding advance in the
duty. The aggregate average price of the last six weeks is
61s. Ild., and the duty on foreign wheat imported during the
week will consequently be 265. Bd. ; but, according to Sir
Robert Peel's proposed scale, the duty would only have been
125., or less than one-half the duty now payable. Surely this
is a boon not to be despised, independent of the greater uni-
formity and steadiness of price which will be produced by the
projected scale of duties.