The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-03 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY

Lord CAMPBELL gave notice, that on Thursday next he
w)uld call their lordships' attention to an occurrence which
tok place at the last assizes for Stirlingshire, namely, the
examination of a witness as to his religious opinions.
The Duke of WELLINGTON then moved an address to her
Majesty, congratulating her on her recent escape from the
hangs of an assassin, who had fired a pistol at her Majesty
on Monday. He was in custody; his crime was in a train
of :egal inquiry ; and in due course he would be brought to
justice. lie would avoid entering into detail, and would
confine himself to moving an address of congratulation on
the failure of the atrocious and treasonable design upon her
life, which the interposition of Divine Providence had so
happily defeated. He would subsequently move that the
House of Commons should be invited to a conference, with
a view to joining with their lordships in the address.
The Marquis of LArisnowNE seconded the motion, and
expressed a hope that the government would probe the mat-
ter to the bottom, with the view of adopting a measure to
prevent the repetition of such attacks hereafter.
Lord PoaTasArt said that her Majesty had on the previous
day declined the attendance of her ladies, on the ground that
she would not expose them to danger. If any existed, it was
sufficient that she herself should bear the risk, without also
endangering them. (Loud cheering.) He felt himself called
upon to state this, as her Majesty :s consideration had been
thus shown to members of his family.

Lord BROUGHAM said, in reference to what had fallen
from the Marquis of Lansdowne, that the law of the land
was abundantly sufficient to prevent such atrocities in future.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNZ said, he did not mean to
imply any necessity for measures of legislation.
The address was then agreed to, and a conference being
held, at which the assent of the Commons was obtained, a
deputation was appointed to ascertain when it would be the
pleasure of her Majesty to receive the address. At a subse-
quent period of the evening a message from her Majesty
intimated that she would receive the address at St. James's
Palace at three o'clock to-morrow.

Lord 1101VD-1;;;;;;Cla qu;stion of the Bishop of London
respecting the refusal of the Bishop of Quebec to allow a
tablet to be placed in the church of that city commemorative
of an officer who had died there, and to whom his brother
officers were desirous of erecting this last tribute of affection.
The Bishop of LONDON said that a tablet had been placed
in the church prior to the death of the officer in question,
full of eulogiums on the character of a man who had been
notoriously a profligate. Some regulations were in conse-
quence made to the effect that no tablets should be erected
unless the inscriptions were previously approved of by the
bishop, and unless, also, the parties to whom they were
erected were regular communicants of the church. The
officer alluded to happened to be the first respecting whom
an application was made, but as the rule was made before
his death, there could have been no reason personally invi-
dious on the part of the bishop in acting upon that rule.
Lord BRouGuAst thought the defence a feeble one, but
that was owing to the badness of the case.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE drew attention to the cir-
cumstances attending the recent execution of Good at New-
gate, which were sufficient to fill every person with indigna-
tion and disgust. The noble marquis read the account of the
proceedings in the chapel from a newspaper, and strongly
condemned the prison regulations which could allow a man
to be erected into a sort of hero because of the greatness of
his crime.

Several noble lords expressed the fullest coincidence in the
opinions expressed by the Marquis of Clanricarde, and in
the necessity for an alteration.
The Marquis of NORMANBY said that the gaol of Nesvgate
was altogether under the control of the corporation of London.
The conversation then dropped, and their lordships ad-
journed.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—TUESDAY.
An address was agreed to, similar to that in the House of
Lords, congratulating her Majesty on her escape.
The adjourned Income Tax Bill was about to
be resumed debate on the
m 1 when
Prench""oucuEßE asked if it was the intention of the
sir nitovernment to raise the duties on linen yarn.
received ?haat. said that information to that effect had been
regret tbatY the government, which promptly stated their
Freed, at any such intention should be entertained by the
ing ptae•;l7.l.lment. There were communications now tak-
make the ;Za‘aother wine countries, which would probably
of their intevig of,the south of France regret the suspension
Sir .1. linutiri:a with this country.
raeli, respecting tita_, in reply to a question from Mr. D'ls-
nected with the aasaPpression of some documents con-
if every one of tboaa'i of Afghanistan, said he did not care
was concerned, but nclirnents were published as far as he
on the face et them pvotorment on the table did not
be perfect, they were extracts,
and no government could be Fried
g from on if compelled to pub-
lish all documents comin
:persons who must have con-
fidential communications to
On the third reading of there t° that government.
o
Mr. Hume entered into an e T Bill being moved,
prospects of the country and exposition of the commercial
Government. Lord Palmerston be tano;_i_al measures of the
genius of the late Administration, pl itcd upon as the evil
4uglag the
oultdePeel would
war after war until it got into the predica,,... count into
of deal with his
present Government found it. He hopcd-gr4 in which the
deal with the affairs of the country as he w
establishrneenptsublic
. _ far
own, and not allow of any wasteful expenditure
money in keeping up naval and military
beyond the necessities of the state. The counti....ry being in a
condition far from prospeTrhoteishwonas.less able
gentlemanto
"'""r taxation
than in former times.concluded by

opposing the bill.
Sir C. N.apLeit strongly disapproved of any reduction ;,„
our naval and military establishments ; but he was opposed
to any additional taxation as long as the monopolies in corn
and sugar were kept up.
After some remarks from Colonel WYNDHAM and Mr.

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CURTEIS,
ally on the public.
Mr. F. T. BARING said that by this bill the burden of
taxation was not imposed fairly and equ
A merchant might have to pay the income
in the funds, while his losses in trade might.
income from his stock, and thus he would have
income ta
ben doublehismoney
hi e
income tax, when, in fact, he had received to pay an
what-
ever. He considered it a breach of faith to tax the stock no
be-
longing to foreigners not residing in Great Britain, a
the tax on industrial capital might cause its withdrawal from
the country, nd feared
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER contended for the
necessity of an income tax to meet the necessities of the
country. The income tax of 1815 was collected at an ex-
pense of about 4300,000, but by the proposed machinery
under this bill it was estimated that the whole cost of col-
lecting the present income tax would not amount to above
half the expense of 181.5.
Captain MANGLES entered into an exposition of the
finances of India, in order to show that their condition
formed no just ground for the imposition of an income tax
on this country.

—Sir R. INGLIs argued in favour of exempting the first
£l5O from the income tax in all eases, a suggestion which, if
'adopted, would, he believed, render the tax much more ac-