The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-02-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY  Petitions were presented in favour of a ten hours' bill; ;ainst repealing the corn-laws; and against calling out ie militia.  In a committee of the whole house upon the piers and harbours of Ireland, a resolution was agreed to that the sum of £50,000 should be granted for their improvoment. Lord G. BENTINCK moved for a return giving the numlo?rs of the importers of foreign grain now in bond in the Queen's warehouses in Great Britain and Ireland, together with the quantities held by each individual. He entered into some calculations in order to show that the course proposed by the government with respect to corn would deprive the revenue of half a million in order to put it in the pockets of two or three hundred corn merchants. —Agreed to.  HOUSE OF LORDS,-THURSDAY  The Earl of DALHOUSIE brought up a report from the select committee on railways, which was laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. His lordship said the object of the resolutions contained in the report was to assimilate the practice of their lordships' house to that of the House of Commons. His lordship also intimated that the competing lines would be grouped together and proceeded with as soon as each group should be completed. In answer to a question by Lord KINNAIRD, The Earl of DALHOUSIE said that the report of the gauge commission had been that afternoon placed in his hands.  Lord MONTEAGLE gave notice, that in the event of the motion of Lord Beaumont, which stood for Monday next, for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the burdens on real property, being carried, it was his intention to move the addition of these words : "and also to inquire and report on the legislative exemptions from the pecuniary liabilities proved by law in respect to the taxation affecting real property." The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved for a return of all murders, or attempts to commit murder, in Ireland since the year 1842. Crimes, he declared, prevailed to an extent almost unprecedented ; and he accused the government of very great remissness in not having taken earlier measures to repress the system of combined outrages, which are now more general than had ever been known, and given efficient protection to honest men in their honest callings. He referred to her Majesty's speech as justifying the expectation that energetic means would be instantly adopted, and described a number of outrages wl-ich had recently been committed, and which proved that there was no longer any safety for the property of the rich or the life of the poor. He exposed the absurdity of attempting to improve the agriculture of Ireland while no man was allowed to pursue the system which be preferred. It was said that people should not submit to such intimidation, but the government itself had recommended submission in one remarkable instance, which he cited.  Lord ST. GERMANS offered no opposition to the motion, and informed their lordships that such a bill as Lord Clanricarde bad described would be submitted to their consideration on Monday next. Lord FARNHAM bore testimony to the firm support he had received from Government in one of the most disturbed districts of Ireland; and Lord Grey, while agree. ing that at whatever cost security of person and property must be attained, urged that the opportunity should be taken of considering the state of Ireland generally, and accompanying 'any coercive bill that might be necessary with measures of another kind, and having more comprehensive reference to the evils which have so long affected Ireland.  The motion was agreed to, and their lordships adjourned