The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-25 00:00:00

TEMPORARY CLOSING OF I PARLIAMENTARY DI VISIONS. r)N" DON .B RT. ' ' ' ' T ' (From. the rotes and Proceerttngs of the House of Commons. ' It has beers iltitermilica by the ( ,', ,ration of the City of FainAv, :^;FFT. 24. Lnden, that London-bridge ahall be for a time shui up, COMPENSATION TO THE HON. R. SCAR LETT. for the pu r p ose o f b e i ng repaved, very numerous and heavy Fifty-sixth Clause ( Officers whose offices are abolished may c impla„ints having b een ma d e o f the ruts and dangerous indent make claims for compensation):—Amendment proposed, after tat:ons, more particularly on the Southwark side of the struc- " Court of Exchequer," to insert the words " who was ap ture. A difference of opinion having existed between the lead- pointed to his office or employment prior to the 14th day cf log eorporators as to the sort of pavement which it would be ad- March, 1840." Question put—" That the proposed words be visable to lay down, ouasioned, it is said, the deli , but that there inserted." The Committee divided: — difference is now at an en d, an d the Bridge-house Estates 31INORITY—AYES, 81 ,Committee have receiv e d di rec ti ons to proceed with the work. Aldam, J. J.--Leeds Leader, 1 Temple—Westminster fhe subject had been, some time ago, referred to a Committee, Berkeley, g r on.E..ll t l ,;n —Gloucester r c t i i , n ell Jolm A —:lsci i v i lte d sb o u r r t y who were to take into consideration what sized stone should be i i t k) roine n ton J.—Salford Morris, Mitchell , !Is-d, and in what form the stones should be used in paving so Browne, W. D.—Kerry 'Murphy, F. S.—Cork important an avenue to the metropolis. They called some sue- truysri,liidariiinKmiliselnaydin Co. r 1 Napier,ni O'Connell, i P a j 1 e s J.—Kerry gyr Y 1 e b a n e veyors of eminence before them. Mr. Montague, the Clerk Cave, Robert Otway—Tipperary Paget, Frederick—Beaumaris of the City Works, and Mr. Kelsey, the Surveyor to the Corn- Clements, Visc.—Leitrim Co. Palmerston, Viscount—Tiverton missioners of Sewers. Cobden, R.—Stockport ' Parker, .John—Sheffield ..: Mr. Cadogan, surveyor of pavements of the parish of St. Collins, W.—Warwick Pechell, Captain—Brighton Cowper Hon. W. F.—Hertford Philips, Mark—Manchester Clement Danes, within the cif y and :iberty of Westminster. and Crawfoill S.—Rochdale Pinney, W.—Lyme Regis Air. Some, surveyor of the pavements of the parish of St. Ma • Dawson, 'Hon. 'l'. V.—Louth Co. Plum ridge, ( sprain—Penry rylebone, and Mr. John Newman, surveyor to the Commis- Denistoun, J.—Glasgow Protheroe, Edward—Halifax n stoners for paving the eastern division of the borough of South 0 ive tt , Edward—Exeter Ramsbottom, J.—Windsor Duncan, G.- Dundee Rawdon, John l'awson —Armagh wark, gave opinions. Dundab, C. W. D.—Greenwich Reade, M.—Waterford City .- . Upon the recommendation of these professional men, the Easthope, Sir J.—Leicester Rennie, G., jun.—lpswich report was ultimately agreed to in th e f o ll ow i n g re - Ebrington, I.ord—Plymouth Seale, Colonel—Dartmouth solution :—"That London-bridge should be repaved with stones Ellis, l 'Wynn—Leicester Seymour, Lord—Totness of Aberdeen granite, not exceeding three inches in width, to F:tart n , stt ‘ViTlia H m . - - Du w m e f s ri es gi o rg e h r , s, lt .i. V. --Z ig rthampton • Le laid in parallel lines ; and that it should be referred to the Ferguson, Colonel —Kirkaldy Stansfield, W. R. C.—Huddersfield ' ~-.., .Bride -house Estates Committee to carry such resolution into f• errand, W. B. Knaresborough Stanton, W. H.—Stroud •',, : Chest, being empowered to draw such additional sums of mo- Flelden, John—Oldham , Stewart, P. M.—Renfrewshire Forster, M.—Berwick-onTed Stuart, Lord J.—Ayr " 4 1 ' , WY as may be necessary." - Colonel—Tower Hamlets Thornely,Thos.—Wolverhampton to , .The Corporation were, no doubt, induced to come to the Fox, Gill T.—Plymouth Townley, C —Beverley ‘,4,..,treasplution above mentioned in opposition to the recommends- Grainger, T. C.—Durham Troubridge, Sir E.'l'.—Sandwich ticu of the Committee, by the fact that Blackfriars-bridge, tirey, Sir George—Devonport Tuf.,ell, Henry—Devonport which is acknowledged to be the finest piece of pavement ln Harris, we s J .—New castle under Lyme Wakley, Thomas—Finsbury about the metropolis, is paved according to the principle of B. — Lambeth Walker, R.—Bury, Lancashire three-inch widths and parallel lines. Heathcoat , J.—Tiverton Watson, W. H.—Kinsale Hollond, Robert—Hastings Wigney, J. N.—Brighton '.' •-, It is ex Howard,ected that the Commissioners of Southwark-bridge Hoskins, K.—Herefordshire Williams, William—Coventry Wood, Charles—Halifax it .;tvill throw open that avenue to the traffic of L on d on du r ing -w. Howard,a r t d aiii S Crickl u a r d Y e Wrightson, W. B.—Northallertun the pe r i o d th e i mme nse th oroug hf are , L on d on- b r id ge, must qu;aphe, !John—Southwark Yorke, H. it.—York b remain closed. Jardine, W.—Ashburton TELLERS. Larpent, G. De H.—Nottingham i Ward, H. G.—Sheffield Layard, Captain - Carlow Co I Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermoutd THE • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. -x:t (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) LIVERPOOL RACES. The Knowsley Stakes of 30 sovs. each, with 50 added. One mile. Cu: Crawford's br fby Languar Mermaid...( Francis) 1 Air. Jaques's Playfellow . 2 Sir C. Monek's b c by Languar, d by Filho. . 3 Mr.•W. Thompson na br c Flamingo Won easy. The Heaton Park Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h ft, and 100 added. Once round and a distance. (Col. Crawford's Ermengardis, 3 yrs (Francis) Air. Mostyn's Prince Caradoc, 3 yrs 2 • The following were not placed :—Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Suring-heeled Jack, 4 yrs ; Mr. Painter's Ernest the First, Fi . yrs ;• Lord G. I3entinck's Naworth, 4 yrs; Mr. Bell's La Sage Femme, 5 yrs; Lord Stanley's Cornuto, 4 yrs; and Sir C. Monek's Garland.—Won cleverly. The Meggerine Castle Stakes of 5 sox's. each, with 50 added. From the Bridge-turn in. Mr. Graydon's Miss Heathcote, 4 yrs (Conolly) I Sir R. W. 13ulkeley's Spring-head Jack, 4 yrs... 2 :Mr. J. Osborne's Hope, 2 yrs ... :Mr. Dawson's The Biddy, 2 yrs Mr. Clarke's f by The Mole, out of Mary, 2 yrs 5 Mr. Jones' sister to Broadwath, 3 yrs 6 Mr. Buckley's Gilbert, 3 yrs • 7 Won easy. !The Option Stakes of JO sovs. each, 5 ft, and 80 added. Mile and a quarter. lilr. ilkins' Cem o' the Cleugh4.s yr5......(N0b1e) 4 1 1 Air. Bele's La Sage Femme, 5 yrs ... 1 2 2 • Mr, Buckley's cby Laurel—Shoehorn, 3 yrs ... 2 3 3 Mr. Worthington's Northenden,6 yrs 3 0 0 BECCLES RACES.—TEunsnAT. The Town Stakes of .3 sovs. each, and 20 added, second %saves his stake, two miles, were won in two heats. by Mr. Agnold's Camilla, 5 yrs, beating Mr. Smith's Daniel, Mr. kwald's Mount Eagle, and Mr. Gould's Cavalho. The Cocked Hat Stikes were won in two heats, by 'Mr. Woodcock's Luther; and the Whoo Whoop Stakes, by Mr. Gould's Cavalho. PERTH RACES.-THURSDAY. eepstakes of 5 sons. each, and 30 added. Two miles. 31r. Ramsay's The Doctor, aged Mr. Sandiland's Moleskin, 4 yrs Sweepstakes, of 5 sons. each, and 20 added. Heats, once round and a distance. Lord Glenlyon's Confusion, aged... (Maj. Campbell) 2 1 1 31r. H. Johnstone's The Returned, aged Mr. T. Monerieff's Erin-Go .Brah, aged The Perth Hunt Plate of 501. 2 miles /ion. J. Sandiland's Moleskin, aged (Wetherall) 1 .Alr. Redfern's Slashing Harry, aged air. G. Dawson's Little Bundle, 3 yrs The following were not placed :--.Mr. Stewart's Win-if- Yon-ean, :ged ; Mr. Sanders nd Isla, aged; Mr. Thomp son's The Diver, 5 yrs, and Lord Glenlyon's Hotspur, 4 yrs. T TROTTING MATCH ON SUNBURY COMMON. Notwithstandi ng the very unfavourable state of the weather yesterday a largenumber of well-mounted horsemen and first -I,,ate sporting gentlemen, in various equipages, assembled on ,Antiury C ommon , i m p e ll e d b y t h e announcement t h at t wo first-rate matches would take place. They were, however, in this respect doomed to be disappointed ; for although the bill "t fare had announced a two-mile watch in harness between Mr. Silvertail and Mr. Burke's Lady Hampton, and a second e between Ito Gill's Confidence and Mr. Burke's Doctor, 'the latter only ok place, the former being deferred until "ec o'clock to-morrow (this day). The cause of this post .l,'<ali3rnerit was that the contest between Confidence and the reletor was first started, and terminated so n ea r dark, that the .„,sing sporting gentlemen present very judiciously recom- Z t nded that it sporting be put off until the morrow. The match I "„' ; ', i ch we are about to detail was for 501. a side, to trot two il e ": 3 ; the. owner of the well-known and celebrated horse Con -4,61 once the property of Louis Bonaparte, and subsequently t e h, b ' e .Duke o.` Gordon, giving the Doctor of Burke, of trotting rz tY, two minutes in the two miles. Large sums depended Bari the the issue, the betting being nearly even, Ccotidence slightly the choice. The ground selected was two : from the Staines-gate, to the top of Sunbury.lane, the e , ri nee right out at once without a turn. Confidence iirst iandsout to d o the L'istance, a bright bay horse s ta n di ng 15 d r i ve , , 4 nn in every nespect beautifully symmetrical. He was .1)„..! nY his owner, Air. Gill, and witliout a break performed miles in five mhnites thirty-tine seconds. A trifling 'atc ar ose among the time-keepers in consequence of the 0 12e 11 . , 3 differing a few seconds, but it was ultimately deter 's"pl"bnot to have exceeded the time we have above given, in ihE , one or the watches on the ground it was declared to wit or nine seonds less. This having been disposed of. h rtnd nurko drove the Doctor, a grey horse, standing 12 1 / 2 ,d eiand went off at a beautiful rate, never broke, and comi ty Ight minutes, twelve seconds, in the performance of the $ 4 i en rol les. thus losinr , the match by thirty-three seconds. Con- Rit z! ..." h as thus achieved another victory. The arrangements e then made for the match this day. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. Ato (PROM OUR OWN' CORRESPONDENT. YA L YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. G. 1 8.—Heron cntter, Capt. W. B. Ponsonby, front 17 t f a - "at, to be repa i re d, l e f t Captain Ponsenby at Gibralt ar , se eatne 319 Passage • Anel achooner, Almon Hill, Esq., from Jer into ll ' arbo.n• to lay up. tio l O'Lantern schooner, Earl of Orkney, from Lon- I mm 'and Boulogne.' Xatifa schooner, Earl of Wilton. from Cher st ' r g and Southampton ; Gossamer cutter, R. W. Gaussen, from Beaumaris and Plymouth. )` 'L.—Kestrel yawl, Commodore EarL of Yarborough, from on port and Dartmouth. SAILINGS. • 1 9•—Gem s hooner, Marquis of Ormond, for Dublin 4nllother p orts. '•--Witch cutter, Henry (Vander, Esq., to the westward a crui se ; Brillia n t s c h oo n e r, G. H. Ackers, Esq., for Sou " art_ 'Pton, left for the season. FIsYACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. ` o onyrs—Janette, Hawk, Xarira, Ariel, Gitana, Mischief, I cAvier of Yarrow, Wanderer, Jack O'Lantern. Cu tter. —Ariel, Nautilus, Reindeer, Forest Fly, Ph oe b e , ‘uro ra, Cynthia, A mazon , S a pphire, Hero n , Fl ower o f Yar tw, Gossamer, Will-o'-the-Wisp, Fanny. Ya wls—Kestrel, Breeze. Tii is town was never known to be so full of company. The Coing houses have been taken t!iis week :—Oak-hilf House, 4r ert.iont House, th e P av ili on , Bi rm i ng h am H ouse, 4th tta ge, the 7th Cottage, No. 1, Bath-buildings, Prospect Il cmge, Cannon Cottage, and No. I, Castle Terrace, as well as peat number of smaller houses. RELEASE OF Mn. B RONTERRE O'B RIEN.— " rh Is R ELEASE leader was released from Lancaster gaol yesterday. deputation of Chartists received him as he left the prison, it is intended by his admirers to give him a similar wel 4,:atie to that with which they honoured Mr. O'Connor. On mean Monday he will enter Manchester, accompanied by Mr. /ACa'mnor. The Chartists •of Manchester are making great pt, poirations for the event, and on the evening of the same day 51tose two Chartist chiefs will be entertained at a public soire tin the Queen's Theatre, Liverpool, by the Chartists of that :'lace. • , CO-LAWS.- , -,Amongst, the - otner meetings in th e metropolis • which have been' convened, Sir James Duke, the Alderma - u 'of the Ward of Farringdon Without, has cal led upon its inhaNtants to assemble for the purpose of expressing ihPir.opinions Upon the laws affecting the price of food, at the Nevc.c„ rt, Old Bailey, on Monday next. DISTRESS IN THE PARISH OF ST. MARyLE 411TNE.—On Frida v a special meeting of the Directors and Guar 'ans of th e poor ;51 .'he parish of St. Marylebone, took place the Board.:rsoni of (he Workhouse, New-road, for the pur -I,t'- of considering t t:e state of that e s tablishment, conse rnt .ort.:the alarming 'increase of distress and destitution in the parish, a nd the causes which have led thereto. ta i i r i n v. Low having been unanimously elected to the Chair, a i C" -Upon Mr. S o d en , w h o h a d given notice relative to the to,t e cte , to submit his motion. Mr. Seden detailed the vast l'e t i: a 2e of new cl a i ms f or re li e f b eyon d t h ose urge d at ot h er an t i` " "'!+ and attributed them to the high price of provisions, th, '4 u r i that the only way to meet the exigency, as far as altereramociation of the poor was concerned, was by an li t '"an in some portion of the building, and he thought the stil t : 4 Y w ould be to occupy for the purpose the infant att,„ a . ,nd place the infants out where their health would T ,!,;ied to. Believing that the great distress that pre , th at „ a 'Anainly attributable to had laws, he would move, t :" '6;4 4 ,? , emmittee of the whole Board be appointed to in- L "il t o th. l :' e matter, and also prepare a petition for presenta ltZiil th e " Queen, praying pre sent t to prorogue the Parliament la ws Y r 11'M considerdthere state of the country and I,l e vl e a tk : atin g to the importation of corn. Mr. Perry se s,l:l solution. The distress in the parish was unparal r. .ht 4 scordially agreed in having a Committee to in- A `,. 1 ,c , , e s and into the state of the house, inas -11,041r 0' l ie f(E:relievedit might in some measure be r . emedied. the discussion the resolution was awned unani _ meeting separated. 11 4'1;1•:‘.,_ BILIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF THE MA- Eeti rue Noa th e uan, who__ TING:IA M BA NK.—On Friday a country cM L,ol!4,PCared in a state cf great affliction, called at „ t 7 t joilieuec??rt to give infcrmation of the disappear er Manager to the Nottingham and Pciir ed li qY tj,P,anY' the affairs of which concern have nes.. e c ftj"Ak tin Lon'llutice of the public. Mr. .Millor, it ap b*am io d n ! nt 'f at e i t ga e I t; W 4 .11 th(eTaric Th ursday in last week on bust.. ia in hi s ~a...d during that day and Friday_ , :',ia'llentions to matters relating to the 'l4 ru e +uri v tam t L on s d t:' , have met a deputation of Pro their ahae,t,tto:aludA Lie pt at V 44 1 ,4 ' l l'm 1., as labeajd app, "Ti Friday afternoon, but they very much disappointed at ,lturdai morning"' -;.4rnival''ig under AI ill orTith tion had arrived. hrs ir'''lUir4lg' great anxiety. He on Friday night, and on 7 1 2 ) °" 116 ;A . , thy iL o th 'i l of anxiously if the deputa- London till the after ttne,entilifeest%Ze:it:td:n()r iinec„arid th r e eft . the hotel, and has not • tre. e h ,."" 'cne bells' 12he geo fLeatest anxiety has been that aptio n of Ai A P t int ( a „ let , poste "Tlan was recomineuded A Perso Ts, It fir: I. lee s u along shore, giving a reet and sh is not a uefault 'attest (141141 i w! r; IS but right to stare accounts are strictly col-- ,oe h. R 3 Limned of his integrity. .NOP:S, 140. Hope, G. W.—We mouth Hornby, J. Blackbut n Hughes, W. B.—Carnarvon Irton, Samuel—Cumberland Irving, John—Antrim Co. Jermyn, Earl—Bury, Suffblk Johnson, W. Q.—Belfast Jolliffe, Sir W. J.— Petersfield Jones, T.—Londonderry Co. Kemble, H.—East Surrey Kerrison, Sir E.—Eye Knatchbull, Sir E.—East Kent Knight, H. G.—Nottinghamshire Lawson, A.—Knaresburough Lennox, Lord A.—Chichester Lincoln. Earl of—Not thampton sh,re, South Lindsay, H. H. —Fandwi c h Litton, Edward—Coleraine Lockhart, A. M.—Lanarkshire 'Lowther. J. H.—York Lyall, G.—London Mackenzie, W. F.—Peeblesshire Maclean, Donald—Oxtbrd M.Geachy, F.—Honiton March, Earl of—West Sussex IMarsliam, Lord—West Kent Martin, W.—Newport, I. of Wight Marty!), C. C.—Southampton Masterman, J.—London Morgan, o. Monmouthshire Mundy, E. M.—South Derbyshire Murray, C. S.—Bucks Newry, Lord—Newry Nicholl, J.—Cardiff O'Brien A.—N.North amp t onshire Paget, Lord W.—Andover Pakington, J. S.—Droitwich Peel, Rt. Hon. Sir R.—Tamworth Peel, Col. Jonathan —Huntingdon Pemberton, Thomas—Ripon Polhill, Frederick—Bedford Pollock, Sir F.—Huntingdon Pringle, Alexander—Selkirkshire Reid, Sir John Rae—Dover &lepton, G. W.—St. Albaree Rolleston, Col.—S. Nottingham Rose, Sir George—Christchurch Round, John—'daldon Ruslibrooke, Colonel—Suffolk iSandon, Lord—Liverpool Scott, Hon. F.—Roxburghshire Shaw, Right Hon. F.—Dublin Un. 'Sheppard, Thomas—Frome Smythe, Hon. o.—Canterbury Stanley, Lord—North Lancashire Stuart, H —Bedford !Sutton, C. M.—Cambridge Taylor, Capt. E.—Dublin Co. 'l'ennent, J. E.—Belfast Trevor, Hon. G. —Caermarth onsh. Trollope, Sir J.—S. Lincolnshire Trotter, John—West Surrey Vern, Sir C. B.—East Suffolk Verner, William—Armagh Co. Villiers, Viscount—Weymouth Waddington, H. S.—West Stiflblk Welby, Glynne Earle—Grantham Wigram, J.—Leominster Wood, Colonel T.—Brecon Wortley, Hon. S.—W. Yorkshire Wyndham, Colonel—W. Sussex SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THF. DAIL" PAVERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—If the subject were not fraught with mat ter of fearful import to the tranquillity of the country, involving as it does the question of life or death to thou sands of its population, we should be amused, instead of being alarmed at the nonchalince with which the generally-prevailing and rapidly-increasing distress ,of the country is treated by the new Government. Of this a characteristic instance was afforded last night in the House of Lords. On the presentation of a petition "praying the House to adopt measures without delay for the prevention of national misery and impending ruin," the Marquis of Lansdowne took occasion to ex press his regret " that her Majesty's Ministers were not prepared to enter upon inquiry into a subject of such vast and pressing importance during the present Ses sion." This called up the Duke of Wellington, to whom is assigned the leadership, on the part of the Government, in the Lords. His Grace, doubtless, in tended to put a stopper on the future introduction of topics so annoying to the Government, by demonstrating the fallacy of expecting that any practical good should arise from such discussions. " It;" said the Duke of Wellington, " the Noble Marquis has reflected one mo ment, he must have seen that it would be impossible to enter into any inquiry that could be brought to a con clusion within the probable duration of that Session of Parliament." The Duke, with his usual decision, has set tled the question so far as relates to the present Session. It is to be regretted that the Duke of Wellington did not sooner speak this oracular definitive sentence upon the hopes and destinies of so many thousands of the people, over whom an inscrutable decree has constituted him a ruler. "It is quite impossible to enter ; upon a Parliamentary inquiry into the distress of the country during the present Session." Indeed, says the great Duke, "if the Noble Marquis (of Lans downe) had reflected only one moment, he would have seen this impossibility." Are not the Noble and Right Honourable Gentlemen who constitute the Govern ment impatient to be emancipated from the irksome duties of their offices by day, and attendance in their places in Parliament by night ? Are there not phea sants and hares waiting to be shot, and invited guests impatieht to share the . pleasures and hospitalities of generous hosts, equally impatient to entertain them ? Who would for a moment think of prolonging the Ses sion, and thus postponing gratifications such as these, for the purpose of inquiring as to whether a few score thousands of " unwashed" and •" ragged" arti sans are immersed in destitution, and driven to desperation by want of employment arising from the restrictions imposed upon trade and manu factures, on which they are dependent for support. Sir Robert Peel and his Ministry, therefore, either re fuse inquiry, because he cares not for the distresses of the people ; and thus he, with the Cabinet of which he is the head, stands convicted of inhuman indifference to the desolating march of calamities which are overwhelm ing thousands of families in destitution, and will in evitably consign a large number of them to death—or he refuses inquiry because he dares not encounter the cer tain dissensions and divisions which such an inquiry would produce in his motley Cabinet, and which would jeopardise, if it did not break up, his Government. STANDARD.—Lord Clifford moved last night for some papers connected with a dispute between Irish and Portuguese Roman Catholic clergymen in India relative to the right of possession of certain places of worship which the Portuguese clergymen claimed, and which, as Lord Clifford said, the Irish were compelled to surrender by an actual application of the tor ture, under the authority of a British Magistrate. Torture apart, the quarrel between the Portuguese and Irish Roman Catholic priests in India is amusing and instructive. The Portuguese claim by a grant from the Pope, which they treat as irrevocable ; the Irish assert their right as British subjects within the British dominions, forgetting that most of the Portuguese in India are British subjects also. There have been already, we believe, some anathemas and excommunica tions exchanged, though without effect ; and what can the law do beyond adjudicating the temporalities in dispute, which appears to have been done already, more to the satisfaction of the Portuguese than of the Irish ? We, for reasons which we shall explain, attach much less weight to the existence of Jesuits in Ireland than Sir Harcourt Lees appears by his petition to do, or than Lord Clifford plainly confesses one ought to. do by his attempt to discredit the fact. The truth is, however, that there are Jesuits, and very active Jesuits too, in Ireland, The number of Jesuits and of J esu it establishments in Ireland has considerably increased since 1825. But, after all, what are the Jesuits but the most learned and intelligent of the Roman Catholic clergy ? As such they may have been the most formidable class of the body to which they belonged in other times ; but in the age in which we live, ignorance and violence, not learning and ingenuity, are the enemies from which there is most to fear. The Jesuits, it is true, have been objects of jealousy with all the other orders of the Roman Catholic Church, but this was the penalty of superiority in learn ing and talent. Equally true it is, that in the war waged against the Protestant Sovereigns in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Jesuits were the most active champions, but this was an effect of the same superiority. The worst imputation upon the Jesuits is that founded upon the laxity of the moral doctrine which, in many instances, they avowed,. and in this particular they unhappily came under the heavy hand of one of the best and greatest men who ever lived—Pascal ; but the Roman Catholic Church has long since repudiated Pascal, and experience roves that, as far as moral rules are con cerned, there is no difference between Jesuits and any other Roman Catholic clergymen. As, then, we are to have" Roman Catholic clergymen, let us have the most learned and able of their order. There is one thing we ought never to lose sight o', and that is, the character and condition of the men by whom the Reformation was commenced and perfected. They were all Roman Cathclic clergymen, and they were all the most distinguished schclirs of their time. What may be the conduct of the Irish Jesuits we are in no condition to judge ; but we have not heard that any of them have disgraced them selves by a participation in the recent political vio lences, and we have every reason to believe that the) are extremely unpopular with the priests educated at Alaynooth, which is questionless a strong argument in their favour. It may save the Morning Chronicle the trouble of bringing against us a charge of inconsistency founded upon what we have written above, to mention that we have avowed the same opinion at least 20 times within 20 years. We have never joined in the obsolete cry against the Jesuits, whom we believe to be the best -as indisputably they have been to letters the most use ful—order of the Church of Rome. COURIER.—Our present object is to wait upon Mr. Brooks of Manchester, who, in company with that anti- Corn-law refuse of the Stock-alley, Acland, attended the Lancashire election to question Lord Stanley and support the nomination of his respectable associate, about whose character and antecedents he has, we presume, acquainted himself in those very creditable haunts from whence some years ago hevanished so unceremoniously. This Mr. Brooks, then, the respectable trader, whom his early grammar-school studies should have reminded of the ne sutor ultra crepidam, undertook to catechise Lord Stanley, by way of demonstrating the truth of those Scriptures which teach that out of the mouth of man proceeds foolishness. He asked, " Whether bread was not on the average dearer in this country than in any other ?" .To which, substantially em bodying Lord Stanley?s replies, we answer, yes, and so are wages still more so. He next propounded the query whether " wages rose and fell with the price of corn ?" On which it may be observed, that wages do not fluctuate from that e-tuse alone, but chiefly in pro portion to the state of supply and demand in the labour market. But in the case of a deficient supply, it is quite clear that the operative, who then gives the law, will be inclined and entitled to exact more wages when bread stuffs are dear in price —when cottage rents are high, and clothing, with other necessaries in the same advanced ratio, than when all or any of these necessi ties or comforts are at the lowest rate. The master ma nufacturer gives the law equally when the supply of labour is redundant. There can be no question that wages, the wages of weaving and other unskilled work manship we mean more specially, would have advanced much more considerably during the flourishing times of 1834. 5,6, 7, and 8, but for the cruel and unjustifiable interference of the late Ministry, who were ever found banded under the banners of capital and monopoly against the just claims of industry and the working classes. During those ye.ars, and particularly in the commencing years, it will be remembered that the poor grinding Government of the day did not hesitate to step out of its proper functions, those of dealing impartially by the interests of all classes, but, above all, temper ing impartial justice with Christian mercy and allowance for the children of Lazarus, by, through the instru mentality of its own iron-handed New Poor law Com mission, beating up for factory slaves through every parish in the kingdom, ransacking workhouses for help less and unprotected • children, and rigorously packing up the whole, as so many hales of cotton waste, for car riage by canal boats into Lancashire and Cheshire, into the market places of whose towns they were unrelent ingly carted, and shot as so much " peg and dirt," which the manufacturing capitalists might have on their own terms. The Reports of the new Poor-law Commissioners are there to attest the fact, and to show how they glorified themselves and Lord J. Russell in the success of this. EVENING SUN ..:.. . TELLERS. 'Fremantle, Sir T.—Buckingham !Baring, H. B.—Marlboreugh MINORITY WHO VOTED AGAIN; ANNUITY TO THE LORD C. Bowring, Dr. Forster, Matthew Brotherton, J. Gibson, T. M. Bryan, George Granger, T. C. Busfeild, W. Johnston, Alex. Carnegie, Captain Layard, Captain Cobden, Richard Leader, J. T. Crawford, W. S. Morris, David D •nnistoun, J. Napier, Sir Charles %vett, E. Pechell, Captain Duncan, George Philips, Mark Ferguson, t olonel Plumridge, Captain Fielders, J. Reade, W. M. Fleetwood, Sir P. H. Sibthorp, Colonel 1 . THE RETIRED lANCELLOR. Stansfield W. R. Stanton, W. H. Stewart, P. Thornely, Thomas Wakley, Thomas Walker, R. Ward, H. (3. Wats n, W. H. WiMains, W. Wrightson, W TELLERS. Ewart, W. Hawes, B. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered in the week endin g Sept. 18,1841." The Table is issued from the O ffi ce of the Registrar-General Weekly Total. Average CAUSES OF DEATH. 1838-9-40 Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 169 204 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 147 151 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Flea-t and Bloodvessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion BO 60 .ges. Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, Scc Diseases of Uncertain Seat lOB 103 Old Age, or Natural Decay 65 71 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 21 25 Causes not specified ....__ 8 Deaths from all causes 877 - Average Weekly Deaths .. 926 Deaths in the Average Weekly Week. Deaths, 1839-9-40 Western Districts ... 117 ...... 139 North Districts Central Districts lB3 ..... 190 East Districts South Districts Total 877 It i s Mated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 di str icts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster,, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality-- and the parisl.,es of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington, Fulham, Hams n eesmith(Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad dington, St. AlCry (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (13rom ley), St. Mary-le -bow Camber ell, reenwich, St. Nicholas , and St. Paul (Dept-Orli), and Woolwich. The population, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, and 1840; was obtained by dividing the deaths in the three years by 156. TEMPERATUAE IN THE WEEKS 'ENDING Sept. 11. Sept. 18. 69 79 0 43 50 5 7 66 23, 1841. Highest Lo — west Daily Mean General rtegister Office, Sept. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandizo X s. d. _ _ Sept. 18.:Birmi 3ghamaudDerbyjunction 1,488 8 7 17. 13irmii)ghatn and Gloucester 1,975 3 10 19. ])undue and Arbroath 264 14 4 19. Eastern C.-unties 18. Glasgow and Ayr 1,171 1 11 18. Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock 973 19 6 11. Gran Junct. & Chester & Crewelo,266 9 2 90. Great North of England 1,291 2 9 lg.. Great Western 14,725 19 4 18. Bull and Selby 1,046 10 0 18. ..T.ancaster and Preston Junction 528 19 4 17. L. kverpool and Manchester 5,429 10 3 18. Lo %don and Birmingham 18,370 9 1 23: Lon 'ion and Madman 1,107 8 6 23. Loin, 'on and Brighton 22. Ditto Shoreham Branch 247 5 6 20. Londoh' am! Croydon 23. London .3. - 1 1 Greenwich 18. London :And mouth -Western 952 8 2: 6,522 9 8 16. Manchester, L'olton, and Bury 606 0 114 20. Manchster Birmingham 13. Mancheste r and ....... 4,910 3 4 18. Midland. Counties. Newcast le and Carl.'sle 19. Northern and Easter.l 18. North 3 [idland • ... 5,539 9 8 17. North i rnion „ ........ 1,308 16 3 18. Preston and Wyre , ......479 17 11 19. Ulster 173 14 11 20. York an 1 North Midland 1,802 10 7 PARIS MEETINGS AT 111 KENSINGTON. A meeting was yt IstOrday held in Kensington by the rate payers of St. Mary I Ibb ot's Parish, to take into consideration the intention of the , Viet ropolis Roads Commissioners to cease from lighting the roam ls, 0. a the alleged ground that the rail way traffic had so reds teed the toll revenues of the roads as not to enable them any fur they however, intend to adoi A strer , ginev ures ' ..'o sustain t he char g es. The vestry, alleging that the Com missioners having for ye ar s It ghted the roads, and made their in g, and that if .ar ,_ y own peculiar improver le , itsobe v could not now discontinue the light beund A schism has also again as acc iAc nt occurs th ereb y , would a verdict st isen as to Oro acres of ground in Ken singtonto Park, which in the Bill be fore Parliament were restatedstatd deputation ! is to wait . on Sir T. Frei:wide , be extraparochial. This being c Intested by the p Bill,.upon the subject.. the mover of the —....., FATAL ACCI :N T TO A PAINTg,-- I es terday E terday m orn i ng , b ttwee n e i g ht arid nine o'clock, a fatal aCci . : dent occurred to a j our n qyman painter, who tell from a secoriti floor window at the yelii tence of Mr. Stringfiold, a grocer, in Broad-street, Blorrinsl - Airy. His skull was fractured in so shocking a mariner that . he expired on being removed to the TRADE.—. hospital. A a tt d m , 'Table address has just been issued by the Con mitt" °' r the Metropolitan Y oun g Men's Anti-Monopoly A moc i at i ot , o 'to the young me n of London , eration Ta P calling for their co , i taking measures to proc ure an alteration of the I resent hAvs; % Ceding the price of 'food. With reference to a qu istion like th is, which so c om p letel y involves the prosperity 0 1 the trade of .t.h.e country, there can be no doubt that the al ,peal will, meet a 711=1 and immediate response. MAJORITY• Ackers, James—Ludlow Acland, T. D.—West Somerset Acton, Colonel —Wicklow Co. Adderley, C. B.—Staffordshire Allis, J..P.—Cambridgeshire A ntrobus, Edmund—Surrey BaiMe, H. D.—Honiton Baird, W.—Falkirk, &c. Baldwin, Charles Barry—Totnes Baskerville, 'l'. B.—Herefordshire Beck#l, Sir J.—Leeds Bereslord, Major—Harwich Blakemore, Richard—Wells Bolder°, Henry G.— Chippenham Borthwick, P.—Evesham Boscawen, Lord—W. Cornwall llotSeld, Beriah—Ludlow Broadley, Henry—East Yorkshire Brooke, Sir A. B.—Fermanagh Browurigy, J. S.—Boston Buck, L W.—North Devonshire Burrell, Sir C.—Shoreham Campbell, A —Argyllshire Canning, Right Hon. Sir Carnegie, Hon. Captain—Staftbrdi Chapman, Aaron — Whitby Chelsea, Lord—Reading Chetwode, Sir J.—buckingham Clerk, Sir G.—Stamford Cole, Hon. ArthurH.—Enniskillen Collett, W. R.—Lincoln Colville, C.—South Derby Coote, Sir C.—Queen's County Courtenay, Lord—S. Devonshire Cresswell, , Cresswell—Liverpool Crosse, T. B.—Wigan Dawnay, Hon. H.—Rutland .Dodd, G.—Maidstone Douglas, Sir C. E.—Warwick Duncombe, Hon. W.—Yorkshire Egerton, W. Tatton—Cheshire Emlyn, Lord—Pembrokeshire Escott, B. —Winchester Fitzroy, Captain—Durham Fleming, John—Hampshire Follett, Sir W.—Exeter Forester, Hon. G.—Wenlock Forman, T. S.—Bridgewater Fuller, A. E.—East Sussex Gladstone, W. E.—Newarit-on-! Trent Gordon, Hon. W.—Aberdeenshlre Gore, M.—Barnstaple Goring, H. D.—New Shoreham Goulburn, Right Hon. H.—Cam bridge University Graham, Right Hon. Sir J. R. G —DorChester Grout, Sir A. C.—Cambridge Greenall, P.—Wigan Grimsditch, T.—Macclesfield Grimstoi, Visc.—Hertfordshire Hamilton, W.—Newport, Isle of Wight Hamilton, Lord C.—Tyrone Hanmer, Sir T.—Hull Harcourt, G. G. V.—Oxfordshire Hardinge, Right Hon. Sir H.— Launceston • Henley, J. W.—Oxfordshire Henniker, Lord—East Suffblk Herbert, Hon. S.—South Wilts Hodgson, Rd.—Berwick-on-Tweed Hope, Charles—Linlithgowshire Hope, A.—Maidstone • THE SUN. LONDON, SATtiD'A*, 'I7,PT E - M t'BEit 25, 'lB4l. THEATRE ROYAL OLYMPIC. This theatre was opened last night by a band of amateur performers, who played Othello to a crowded audience. The part of the Moor was undertaken by a gentleman, whose appearance on the boards of the Shaksperians we recollect to have seen under very fa vourable auspice s . l ago appeared to have fallen into experienced hands, and Mr. Cowper evinced judg ment and self-possession to a degree that, joined to a singularly expressive set of features, made him every inch a villain. Cussio, too, drew down well merited applause in the last scene with Desdem ina. there was a freshness and depth of feeling displayed that was hardly e x p ecte d from the maudlin drunkard of the previous act ; altogether the play was well cast, the ensemble much better than is usually seen in amateur performances. After the tragedy, Mr. Ramsay, as Sylvester Daggerwood, gave some verylclever imitations of popular actors, and responded to an unceasing call from the house for Power NN . ith a single sentence t h a t recalled our lost favourite with painful vividity. 'This order from the gods would, under present circumstances, have been more honoured in the breach than t h e observance. The Rent Day concluded the pro rin which some very goo d act i ng was marred by t n voice of the prompter, by far th e most prominent gesture n the performance. m e Two rentlemen argling in the Theme at Nawn. h am lately could not agree upon the appearaice of one of their favourite baits, the horse-By, and they agreed to refer the ques tion to a rustic whom they saw plo ug hi ng at a li tt l e di stance, and accosted thus— Did you ever see a horse-fly?" " Whoy," said Bodge, with some astonishment, " Noa, dr'at it, I never seed khorse fly, but I owe seed a cow fall down a precipice !" IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF CO7IIMONS, Sept. 24. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. Lord Stanley, for North Lancashire ; Capt. Gordon, for Aberdeenshi-e ; and Mr. Pringle, for Selkirk, took the oaths and their seats. CORN-LAWS. Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from the Mi _ tnsters and Congregations of the Presbyterians of Chester, praying the House not to separate without taking into their consid e r at i on t h e state of the laws regulating the importation of corn. Mr. WIGNEY presented a petition from the Minister, Members and Congregation, of Union,street Chapel, Brighton, to the same effect. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Sir GEORGE GREY moved that the consideration of the report of the Private Bills Committee be post poned to Wednesday next. It would be-necessary for the Committee to hold another sitting to consider of certain matters which would be submitted to them, and it would be more convenient for the House to con sider the whole subject together.—Agreed to. Mr. WARLEY presentd a petition from an indi' dual named Inglis, - complaining of the degradation of the public service consequent upon the squandering of the public mo ney b y the Lords of the Treasury,and pray ing fur an inquiry into their conduct. Also a petition from John Joseph Stockdale, expressing the petitioner's regret and horror at having heard that persons had died in this country actually from want of food, and praying for an alteration in the Poor- law Amendment Act. Mr. M. PHILIPS presented a petition signed by 4,000 inhabitants of Manchester, praying the House for the abolition of the Corn -laws ; and that it would be pleased not to delay inquiry into the miserable condi tion of their starving families. • Mr. COBDEN presented, a petition from 692 inhabi tants of Nottingham, praying for a repeal of the Corn laws ; also a petition from a Baptist congregation in Yorkshire, to the same effect ; and another from Hol born, praying the H ouse not to prorogue till the dis tresses of the country were taken into consideration. ELECTION PETITIONS. The SPEAKER informed the House that he had re ceived a Report from the Committee of Contested Elec tions, to the effect that the recognizances entered into upon the petitions against the returns for Shrewsbury and StaflOrd were unexceptionable. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Sir T. - FREMANTLE a new writ was ordered to be issued for the election of a Member to serve in Parliament for East Retford, in the room of the Hon. A. Duncombe, who had accepted the office of one of the Grooms ;n Waiting to her Majesy. Mr. WILLIAMS presented a petition from Geo. W. Buller, of Doctors' Commons, praying the House would be pleased to lay on a property tax, and repeal the taxes on malt and sugar. Colonel SII3THORP moved for a return of all the commissions issued by the late Government since the last return made, pursuant to the order of the House of Commons, on the. first of May, 1838.—Agreed to. Mr. EWART moved for a return of the number of committals, convictions, and executions, for murder in the five years dating from 1820. The Hon. Member said his object was to show the effect of the mitigation of the criminal law.—Agreed to. Lord SANDON moved for a return of the amount of duties paid on Canadian timber in the year ending February, 1841. The CHANCELLOB of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that on Monday next he would move a resohitior relative to Exchequer Bills. WEST INDIA PACKETS. Mr. HODGSON wished to know whether it was the intention of the Hon. and Gallant Member for Falmouth to renew the motion of which he had given notice, for a Committee to inquire into the Report of the Commis sioners appointed to select the best station fbr the West India packets. Captain PLUMRIDGE said his constituents were de sirous that every information should be offered them, no matter what Goverrment was in office. MANNING OF THE ROYAL NAVY. Captain BERKELEY begged to call the attention 01 the Hon. Secretary to the Admiralty to a resolution of which he had given notice with respect to the efficient manning of the navy. He wished to know whether it was the intention of the present Board of Admiralty to issue orders that in future none of her Majesty's ships of war should be sent to sea without a fixed and full com plement of men? Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT said the subject was at present under the consideration of the Board of Admi- iaity. The principle of having a fall and efficient com plement of men on board vessels of war was one of which he entirely approved ; at the same time the Hon. and Gallant Member must see that, consistently with the public service, it was impossible for him to pledge him self to the extent to which that principle would be applied. Captain BERKELEY then begged to withdraw the motion of which he had given notice upon that subject. He begged also to ask whether the Hon. Baronet was aware that Admiral Stopford had made application to the late Board of Admiralty to renew the system of giving prize money to the seamen and marines employed at Algiers and Naverino—whether any answer had been returned, and whether it was intended to carry the re commendation into effect? Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT said the application had been referred to the present Board of Admiralty, and was under its consideration. ROYAL GARDENS BILL. On the motion for the third reading of this Bill, Mr. VERNON HARCOURT said he wished to ad dres'.; a few words to the House in reference to a statement contained in some public documents respecting the price of Russian corn, He had taken the liberty of inquiring of his Noble Friend, the late Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, whe ther he could give any explanation to the House respecting a statement in those papers which had been communicated to the House under his direction, that a single Russian province could produce 38,000,000 quar ters of grain. His Noble Friend agreed with him that there must be some mistake. He (Mr. V. Harcourt) had inquired at the Foreign-office, and found, from a communication with the Under Secretary of State, that not only was such a statement made, but that within the last two days aletter had been received from the Consul at St. Petersburgh, whose attention had been drawn to the subject by seeing the speech of his Noble Friend upon the Address, in which it was stated that 38,000,000 quarters of grain were produced in the Province of Tamboof. He intimated to his Noble Friend his conviction that there was a very considerable arithmetical mistake in the calculation, and that whereas it was there stated that the corn could be brought to the market at St. Petersburg at a price of from 13s. to 145., it was obvious that the calculation there given in Russian money and in Russian measures, when reduced to the English standard, would give a re sult differing from that made in the paper no less than 100 per cent.; that the cost would, in fact, be 275. or 28s. Although the Consul voluntarily confirmed his orieinal statement with regard to the:production of corn, he admitted the arithmetical mistake, and that the cost in the market would be what he (Mr. V. Harcourt) had stated. The SPEAKER reminded the Hen. Member that the question before the House was the third reading of the Royal Gardens Bill.—(Hear.) Mr. V. HARCOURT thought the present was the most fitting opportunity to make the statement, and it showed the importance of making due inquiry before ° leeislating upon the subject of th e Corn-laws. Sir R. PEEL said the mistake referred to by his llon. Friend had occurred at the Foreign-office. The statement made by their Consul at Petersburgh was, that a certain Government in Russia produced 38,500,000 quarters of wheat, but that statement had been commu nicated to him, and he stated that he had some reason to question its accuracy. He further stated that the price at which he originally said the wheat could be sold in the market of St. Petersburgh, namely, 13s. or 14s. a quar ter, was a mistake, and that the price should have been somewhere about double that sum. He should have all the documents in reference to the subject laid before the House. Mr. ITARFORD complained that the Bill would take away all privacy from the Royal Palace; even now there was less ground attached to the Palace than was attached to any private gentleman's house who was possessed of 1,000/. After a few words from Mr. WILLIAMS, the Bill was read a third time and passed. The Frog-more Lodge Bill was read a third time and passed. _ The Population Payment Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. RETIRED ANNUITY TO VICE-CHANCELLORS BILL. On the order of the day being read for receiving the Report on this Bill, Colonel SIBTHORP rose and said, that the proposed m exorbitant. He l a v n o n u u k i l ty not o , r h 3 4 o e o ver, l. a d pp iN e i a d r e ed the to llo h u i se on the subject, as he felt assured it would be useless to do so. Mr. EWART coincided with the Hon. and Gallant Colonel in thinking the proposed annuity too large, and he would propose that the sum of 3,0004 should be sub stituted for 3,500/. Mr. WILLIAMS seconded the proposition. Mr. EWART moved as an amendment that 3,0001., instead of 3,500/., be the retiring pension of the Vice- Chancellor. _ _ .........____. The_ CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER con ceived the duties of the Vice-Chancellor to be equally arduous and important as those of th e ot h er Judges, to whom a retiring pension of the same amount as that now proposed to be given to the Vice -Chancellor was granted. It was not fitting that any difference should be made between the emoluments of the inferior Judges and those of the Judge who filled the important office of Lan the Chancellor Vice-Chancellor. considering the state of Mr. WAKLEY said he should lik . e A to ccao k rri n sd o ei w nf gorw to shu t e h crh e e theyarg argument m w e o n u t l d o begin fthe Rtiog Right l i practise on. ec G o e n n o t r e that there was that his Hon. Friend opposite the the efi n extravaganta E n x c e e h s eoeqfxupeti this Id a ic t n ouu e c rne e t. srsyi Now,t y c w on ou s?l l do d enns always g no money to bestow, but that, in fact, they had got money to borrow, he thought the sum proposed_ was preposte- He (Mr. W.) r o m u r s . ly E h w i a g r h o hilaedwnaost sorry l opOsed a lesser sum. thought that 2,000/. a-year would be enough f or a ret i r i ng pension. It would, indeed, be a profuse sum, considering the bankrupt state of our finances. He was s orr y th e pre sent Administration had not made a beginning on the subject. The last Session they were all committed to the sum, and no blame was ifdue to the present Adm i n i s- Parties would thus to ask which of the they did no t h o ld experieiice he must say t h at b e tg t I r ov a o t i ! Iw o n as th t e ne couples,a, v t toh l r e es a t s p : u . b iiite Butw wasoul dt said the ed t g ly ii n o f out high expectations they would command g r o a t talent. From his (Mr. Wakley's) found great difficulty in meeting with a barrister who made three or four thousand pounds a year by his profession. He was il ayour of rewarding the Judges amply for their services, Lut he thought the sum proposed, cOnsidering th e amount of their salary, was too high for a reti r i ng pension The Lord Ch ance ll or ' s salary was 14,0001., and his re-. tiring allowance was 5,0001. a year. Why, such a sum was really preposterous, considering the mi ser abl e con dition of the working classes. The necessaries they eat were taxed to pay those enormous salaries, which was a reflection upon Parliament. Their bread, their sugar—all that they consumed, was taxed, to make up these enormous salaries. He did hope, although he did not expect, the House would adopt the Suggestion, trifling as it was, as an indication of some thing to be done in future. R. PEEL said the House was well aware of the circumstances under which the Bill was proposed by the late Administration, for the purpose of pro viding some remedy for the enormous evils arising from the accumulation of business in the Court of Chancery—evils accompanying the denial of justice, and arising not from the neglect of the judicial authorities, for they were admitted to be most competent in the discharge of their duties, but from the impossibility, of their transacting the extensive and complicated busi ness of the Court of Chancery. He was quite sure that it would be the worst economy to make incompetent officers. Unless they procured from the bar two men of great eminence for the discharge of these duties, they would not be properly performed. The Hon. Gentleman said he never knew a lawyer who was worth 3,0001. or 4,0001. a year to the public ; but, at the same time, he ad mitted the importance of procuring men of high talent and was on learning to fill these offices. It on ihe second point this proposal was made by the late Government, for if the Judges were inferior to the Advocates, their decisions would not carry weight with them, and the consequence would be a temptation to appeal, and the procrastination of justice. This re retiring allowance was the same as that of the Puisne Judges. He (SirR.P.) had often heard complaint made of Judges retaining their seats after they became in competent to discharge their duties, and he had heard it frequently stated that it would be a safer economy to fix such an amount of salary as would induce Judges voluntartly to retire from the bench before they became incompetent. It was difficult of course on a proposal for the reduction 01' 300/. or 4001. a year to reason upon principle ; but, on the whole, he believed this subject had been well consi dered. He had heard it stated that the salary was hardly sufficient to insure men of the first eminence, but still he had positively refused to make any increase to the sa lary proposed by thelate Administration, since he believed it to be a just one, and he trusted it would be found sufficiently liberal to effect this object. It was on these grounds, and not because it had been proposed by the late Government, that he had adopted it.—(Hear.) Sir J. EASTHOPE said that no person could feel more deeply for the distresses of the people than he did, and as the representative of constituents who were suf fering from the most intense distress, he felt he sho u ld not be doing his duty if he did not insist upon the most rigid economy. But he was convinced that his constituents, notwithstanding the intensity of their sufferin,rs—not withstanding the depth of their distress—would despise such paltry economy as that, and would never seek to remedy their own distresses by rendering less efficient the administration of justice. That was nut a proper system of economy. It was not of those expenses that the people complained. What they complained of was, that they had not the free use of their industry.—(Hear.) It was of another species of taxation that they com plained—a taxation levied not for any services perform ed to the State—from which they derived no benefit, and which, while it fettered their industry, deprived them of their daily bread.—(Cheers.) The reduction proposed was one which, while it could do no good in alleviating the distresses of the country, might do mischief by in terfering with the administration of justice. The true economy was to repeal those laws which tended to fin poverish the people and which produced distress and dismay. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw. . The House divided, when there appeared— For the amendment. Against it. 150 Majority against it -94 The House then m:ent into Committee on the Ad ministration of Justice Bill ; Mr. GREEN in the Chair. Clauses up to 16 were agreed to with a few verbal amendments. On clause 17 being put, Mr. WATSON wished to know whether any altera tion was to be made in the appellant jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery. As it at present existed, it was extremely inconvenient, as the appeal was now from • one Judge to the Lord Chancellor. Snbjects of appeal were now decided by one Judge. He (Mr. Watson) thought that three out of the five Equity Judges should be constituted a court of appeal, to which decisions would be from time to time referred. The great expense consequent on appeals to the House of Loris would be thus put an end to, or at least dimi nished. He trusted that his Learned Friend (the Attor ney-General) would introduce a clause to that effect in the present Bill. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was not prepared to deny that there was room for important improvements in the appeal department of the House of Lords, but he begged to state distinctly that lie had no intiAltion whatever to introduce any clause of the nature men tioned by the Hon.. Gentleman opposite into the Bill. It would be hasty of him to attempt, at present, to legis late on the subject. , The clause was then agreed to. The clauses up to 54 were agreed to. • Clause 44 was struck out. On Clause 55 (the Compensation Clause to the Hon. Mr. Scarlett) being read, Mr. WARD said that the present, he thought, was the time for making his amendment. He felt hurt at inuring the amendment in consequence of an Hon. Member of that House being personally concerned, but the cir cumstances of the case were so peculiar that he felt himself imperatively called on to do so. The House would perceive that it bore upon the case of the Honour able Member fir Horsham, who had been ap pointed to an office in the Court of Exchequer. • In consequence of the officer who held the situation be- 1 fore his appointment having - died, that situation was filled up, by, he believed, Lord Abinger, who gave it to.; his son after March 14, when it might be understood that, no compensation was to be bestowed, notice having been given that the situation was to be abolished. It appeared by this clause that it was to the same Chief Baron, the father of the Hon. Gentleman, in conjunction with the Commissioners of the Treasury, that the ques- • tion of compensation was to be referred, and sup posing the emoluments of office to be from 2,0001. to 3,0001., . which he • understood they were, the annual charge upon the country would • be from 1,2001. to 1,4001. Now, with a laudable care of the public interests, they had just come to a division upon the propriety of reducing the salary of the Vice-Chancellor, but here was a ques tion involving a much larger sum, and a much higher principle. This office was conferred after due notice had been given that changes were to be made in the Court, and if they would look at the 58th clause, where it was provided that it should cease after the Henourable Member succeeded his father, he thought it would be found to tell its own story, and that the charge could not be imposed.on - the country on fair grounds. The 58th clause was a xery remarkable one, because if the Hon. Member was entitled to com pensation at all, he would be 'entitled to it after he became a Peer. lie had been told that there was a tacit understanding with the former House of Commons, but with that they had no thing to do ; and he denied that there had been any understanding or compromise on the subjecct. If the Hon. Gentleman were entitled to the compensa tion, in God's name let hini have it, but he believed he was not, and with this conviction he would propose to insert a proviso that the compensation clause in this Bill should only apply to those officers who were ap pointed to their offiee prior to the 14th of March, 1840. The SPEAKER having put the question, Sir F. POLLOCK, after a few' words, which were almost inaudible in the gallery-, said, it was a mistake to suppose that it was with the entire concurrence of all parties concerned that the Court of Exchequer was abolished. Certainly Lord Abinger was very much disposed to resist it ; and he believed there werr. many members of the pro fession with whom it was a subject of much regret that there had been such a complete severance of law and equity. What was the duty of Lord Abinger when any vacancy, occurred ? The office was one of considerable importance, requiring much professional skill and knowledge, stud the person who should fill it could not be expected to take the office for a short or limited period. Lord Abinger considered that he hadl a right, nay, that in justice to the public service it was his duty, to appoint to the situation, and there was no reason under such circumstances why he should not appoint his own son, who was eminently qualified to fill it with honour and credit. -That gentleman was then in the profession and held two appointments of considerable value, which he had to give up in order to accept the situation. Suppose the Bill had been abandoned or not passed, in what situation would Lord Abinger have been had he not made the appointment? He (the Attorney General) considered that he did right, and that Mr. Scarlett was entitled to compensation the same as any other officer. He trusted, therefore, the House would not agree to the amendment of the Hon. Gentleman. Mr. WARD thought the Hon. and Learned Gentle man went too far when he said the Noble Lord was under no moral obligation to refrain from appointing.— (Cheers ) In his opinion the office could have been as well filled tc mporarily as permanently. He thou,zht this was an inauspicious beginning of the career of the Right Hon. Baronet, from whom so much was expected. Sir R. PEFL—If he recollected properly the Nobla Lord late at the heal of her Majesty's Government in that House, although he had sonic doubts at first, gave his assent to the clause. The Noble Lord had certainly stated that, if he had been aware °flan the circumstances of the case, he would not have objected to compensation. Sir G. GREY assured the Right Hon. Baronet that his Noble Friend's (Lord J. Russell) opinion was against any compensation ; but the House affirmed the clause, and at that time there was nothing said about the period. After that division an Hon. Member suggested that th e compensation should only be during the lifetime of Mr. Scarlett's father, and the Hon. and Learned Member for Exeter thought that a reasonable proposition, and it was al-reed to without a division. His Right Hun. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer had expressed himself in nearly similar words to those used by the Hon. Mem ber for Sheffield.—(Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said at the close of the debate Major Scarlett stated that his brother had given up other offices, and then the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies said, it' he had been aware of the circumstances at the time, he would have admitted his right to compensation to the value of these offices. After a few words from the SOLICITOR-:GENEAL, Sir It. - PEEL said that it was his intention that the Dill brought in now, should be exactly the same as the ..~~ one introduced in the last Session, in which it was pro vided that Mr. Scarlet should received the compensation proposed. The Hon. Gentleman was not correct in stating that there was any compromise. It was neces sary to make the appointment. Lord Abinger was in possession of all the legal rights to enable him to make that apointment, and he appointed a member of his own family, who, upon receiving that appointment, relin quished certain valuable rights. Parliament was nc-w about to extinguish the office,'and in doing so he thought it ought to uct upon the same principle that regulated the abolition of other offices. He thought Mr. Scarlett had just claims to compensation, and that it would be a dangerous thing to say that the notice of the intention of the House to abolish an office should deprive a party appointed to it aof any compensation. Mr. AGLIONBY said nothing could be more just than the request of the Right Hon. Baronet that they would put aside all political considerations, but were the Hon. Gentleman opposite his dearest friend he hoped and trusted .he should vote then as now against him. If personal considerations had any weight he feared it would • be to induce Hon, Members to vote out of their respect and kindness for the individual. He would, therefore, warn Hon. Gentlemen on both sides against allowing their personal feelings to bias their judgment on this question, which was not only im portant in a pecuniary point of view, but in principle.— (Hear, hear.) It was said Mr. Scarlett had given up offices to take this appointment, but no one had deigned to inform the House what those offices were, and what was the pecuniary emolument derived from them.— (I - fear, hear.) Let not the Committee be misled, but require that some Hon. Member should state the nature of those offices to the Committee. One of them (which could scarcely be called an office) was that of Counsel to the Mint. There was no reason to suppose that any Gentleman had performed his duty better than did the Honourable Gentleman, but he had always un derstood that the Honourable Gentleman took the appointment, believing that the office would not exist for many years, and he must therefore have done so upon a calculation of profit and loss. If that were so there could be no claim for compensation. The Solicitor- General had alluded to some understanding on account of the loss of the emolument of the former ()likes, but if compensation were to be given on this account, it would be more reasonable to give compensation for that loss than for the loss sustained by the abolition of this office, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the Hon. Gentle man had misunderstood him. He was mistaken in sup. posing that he said that the offices previously held by Mr. Scarlett were any reason for giving him compensa tion in that Bill. He (the Solicitor-General) had said that Mr. Scarlett was in justice entitled to the compen sation, because he held an office in the Court of Ex chequer which was abolished by the Bill. The Hon. Member for Sheffield said that the Lord Chief Baron ought not to have filled the office up, but by the Act of Parliament the Lord Chief -Baron was bound to do so. If, then, he took a practising barrister, whether he held the situation of Counsel to the Mint or not, he must give up some practice and emolument, and he should therefore like to know if such a person were not as much entitled to compensation for the loss of his office as any other person. With regard to the nature of the offices he held, he (the Solicitor-General) had never laid any stress upon them at all, but he held the appointment of counsel to several public bodies, which he neces sarily gave up upon his appointment to this office. With respect to the 58th clause, it was stated to him by Major Scarlett that it had been acceded to by the friends of his brother, on the ground that, as a Peer of the realm, he could not hold the office. He could not pro= perly be entitled to compensation after lie became one. After this explanation he trusted the Hon. Gentleman would not press a division. Mr. HAWES said did he did not doubt the clause would be carried by a large majority, but that was no reason why Hon. Gentlemen who disapproved of it should not have an opportunity of recording their votes against it. lie wished the Right Hon. Gentleman had stated whether the Lord Chief Baron might not have a temporary appointmeut.—(llear, hear.) Of that he (Mr. Hawes) believed there was no doubt. The Right Hon. Geetlem:.n had spoken of the appointment as merely the exercise of the patronage belonging to the head of the Court, but he thought this patronage should not be considered as part of the emolument of the office, and that they should know whether 7,0001. a year was or was not sufficient for the salary of the Lord Chief Baron.—(Hear, hear.) If this principle of the right to appoint relatives were admitted, what became of the ar gument about professional skill and knowledge.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted the House would uphold the prin ciples of economy, and second the amendment.—(Hear.) Mr. WATSON said, that .when the Bill was first brought in. and before the appointment, there was a general understanding that the office would be abolished. The proper mode of making the appointment, therefore, would have been to have made it for and during the exi,tence of the office.—(Hear.) This was done in 1830, in the case of the Welsh Judicature ; for by that A c t the judges and officers subsequently appointed were not entitled to compensation, but the others were.— (Ikar.) The arguments used, if followed out, would amount to this, that if an appointment was made that evening, the person appointed would have a claim for compensation.—(Hear.) The CHANCELLO.3 of the EXCHEQUER said the Bill, as originally. introduced, had no clause on the subject, but a clause was introduced in Committee by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, limiting the compensa tion in the scanner that had been suggested. Sir R. PEEL said the doctrine he had held was not novel. That on the abolition of patronage attached to a ,judicial office, it was but right to consider that patronage in granting compensation. This doctrine was not move: but recognised by statute. Sir Gr:GßEY'said the offices recognised by the sta tote were distinctly- saleable ones.—(Hear.) Mr. WARD asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he was willing to accede to the limitation of compensation assented to by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer?, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that was not the point.--(Hear, hear.) Mr. C. WOOD said, on the last debate the late Chan cellur of the Exchequer had voted against the amend meat of the present Solicitor-General, because the So licitor-General would not accede to the suggestion to limit the compensations according to his suggestion. Lord PALMERSTON said he thought it would be satisfactory to the House to have a distinct answer to the . question just put by the Hon. Member fur Sheffield. - The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said lie was quite ready to answer that question, because he did not vote for the clause without having satisfied himself as .to the grounds on which he did so. He was not pre pared to vote against it to suit any temporary purpose. —(Hear, hear.) Ho believed the Lord Chief Baron had a perfect legal right to appoint to the office, and he be lieved Mr. Scarlett was properly appointed. No person had been induced to resign in his favour, the office hav ing become vacant by death, and having been so ap pointed, he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) thought that, in conformity with all precedent, he had a right to compensation.—(Hear, hear.) Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when the numbers were— For the clause For the amendment Bl Majority for the clause 59 The clause was then ordered to stand part of the Bill. The remaing clauses were then agreed to, and the Re port was ordered to be received on Monday next. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. Sir G. CLERIC having moved that the House should resolve itself into a Committee of Supply; Mr. P. STEWART rose pursuant to 'notice to call the attention of the House to the petition presented on the olst of September from the Provost, Magistrates' ' 'and Town Council of Paisley, on the p resen t di stresse d con dition of the manufacturers of the county of Renfrew. He believed that the inhabitants of Paisley had not made the complaints which the petition contained upon slight grounds. The manufacturers of Renfrewshire had signed three memorials on the subject of the grievances which they suffered. The first of these memorials had been forwarded to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty might not be pleased to prorogue parliament until some remedy were devised by the Legislature for their dis tressed condition ; the second had been forwarded to the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Home Depart ment, as well as to the Government to which he belonged ; and the third, was the petition which had been laid on the table of the Hon's% on Tuesday last. The petition described in plane and unexaggerated language a scene of distress and suffering, which in his (Mr. Stewart's) opinion was entitled to the favourable consideration of the Legisla ture. He might add, that the petition spoke the senti ments of the entire county of Renfrew. It stated that tha failure of manufacturers in the district., within the last few months, involved a sum of 700,0001. They ascribed that state of things to the fact of foreign mar lets having been closed on them, while the remedy which had been hold out to them had bean refused by Parlia ment. They stated that 650 heads of families were now oat of employment, which, of course, arose from a want of laboar. they further stated, that disease, and suffering, an d death were increasing to an appalling extent, while medical men attributed that either to a want of food, or to the interior quality of food consumed.- It appeared that hundreds of retail shops were closed, and one thou sand two hundred looms were standing still. Priv a t e sources of relief h a d b een frequently applied to, and had been as frequently exhausted ; so that no course was now left to the starving operatives, but to entreat the Legis lature of the country to take their case into its considera tion. lie had himself received communications from in habitants of Paisley and Johnstone, well-informed on the subject, which confirmed the statements of the peti tion. They alleged that such a state of things as that under which they were suffering could hardly be sup posed to arise from any other cause than war or pesti lence, and they attributed the evil to the monopolies in tide to which th e country was subject. The fact was, that the best tradesmen in the country had trans ported theirselves to America or other countries, while a large portion of the houses and shops were unoccu pied. The funds of the Friendly Societies were now exlnaisted, and nothing remained for the operatlyes but o _ to . sink to the condition of paupers.--(Cries aree. t . " liter.") In the town of Johnstone, that t app u e t of 1 t 6 from another communication he had received, a e thanc: cotton-mills, n f mu four hundred, one-fourth fourwu r t and i : 10. no ° po p m ti ore tion, were at present employed.. ('re of operation, ) th s e labouring at 'a fearful rate amongst th4,: su n _ ciency on the inferior attrilutable solely to the ih i ab i i e ta t' i s its ° , ‘6 a s ad sp tWa n t d w in a g s such a state of things w. nity and religion An mina And 1 quality of their food. No,w,,,:snahriesp(riVolacr.hSttomavacrth'sr)ist:ipat co; ntry.—(hear, e i b n e o i v i o thatnp tl massyand of effi efficiently :;(,, ( fl i e d r b e 3 d ,.t t h h e a t 6vernm fo n r our industrious artisans. The by opening markets G sometl h iin a e g r. t s ) h t o o ul r c e l titioners from Paisl ey stated that they would be want n their duty if th e y did not lay thei r case b efore l' g l iirliament, in order that it might be taken into imme diate consideration. They prayed the House not to ad journ until they 4ensidered the subject with a view to EVENING- SEJN devis e some means to remedy the exist—existing di____., s . trees. Such a petition, iu his opinion, was en titled to something more than being simply laid upoe the table of the House.—(Hear, hear.) The pre sent Government should not blame those who preceded them in the management of affairs for that distress, be calve the best Government might be unable to prevent such a state of things ; but any Government holding the reins of o ffi ce i n t h i s country, was bound to devise some means - for its remedy.—(Hear, hear.) What he (Mr. Stewart) complained of, was that silent system pursued by Hon. Gentlemen opposite. A Noble Lord had remarked, in conversation, that the late Govern ment had been strangled by mutes ; and the remark ap peared to him a just one. When the Noble Lord the Member for London had protested against the proroga tion of Parliament until something had been done to relieve the distress of the country, the Right Hon. Ba ron. t the MeMber for Tamworth rose and addressed the House, ably and forcibly no doubt, but no other voice Was heard from the Ministerial benches ; and the Right Hon. Baronet himself would pardon him when he said that his speech amounted to little more than a declara tion that he would not reveal the course of policy which he meant to ptirsue. Let bins remind the House that the late transfer of power had not been made upon an ordinary question.—(Hear, hear.) Ministers had formerly resigned upon the ques tion of a Civil List or on an appropriation clause ; but, in the late instance, it was upon a vital question of fiscal reform and commercial relief that the Goverment had been changed. It was admitted upon both sides of the House that distress prevailed to an alarming extent in the country—a distress which ought to be relieved with the least possible delay. At the close of the last Session of Parliament, the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tam worth protested against even a month's delay in the settlement of the Corn-law question. It was said by him that the measures of the Government so seriously endanmered the commerci a l re l a ti ons an d t h e b est inte rests of the country, that the new Parliament ought to be immediately assembled to settle the matter. The late Government had devised a plan for the relief of the na tional distress, which, in the opinion of all practical men, was well fitted for meeting the exigencies of the ease.— (Ironical cheers from the Opposition benches.) He un derstood the meaning of that cheer, but he must say that, although the Right Hon. Baronet was supported by a insjority in that House, yet that majority was entirely a late I lords' majority.—(Cheering, and counter-cheering.) He said it advisedly ; and although he believed that, personally and politically, he represented as large a stake in the landed interest as any Honourable Gentleman op posite, yet he would contend that the majority returned at the last election was to all intents and purposes a land lords' majority.—(Loud cheers from the Opposition, mingled with cries of " No, no," from the Ministerial benches.) Now, what were the facts ? The counties of Eagland constituted that majority.—(Loud cheers.) Ireland bad returned a majority of Members in favour of the much-abused Budget of the late Government. Scotl.zad had returned a majority favourable to that Budget. The towns and boroughs of England had also returned a majority favourable to that Budget, and it was to the counties of England that the majority in op position to that Budget had been returned.—(Cheers.) Was he not justified, therefore, in calling it a landlords' majority ?—(Loud cheers.) He knew that he might be told to look to the large towns—to Leeds divided—to the representatives of Liverpool, both in opposition to the Budget of the late Government, and to London divided hut his two Hon. Friends opposite (the Members for London) knew as well as he did that there was a certain class of watermen whose votes were purchaseable— (Dere., hear)—and at Liverpool a large proportion of the old freemen.—(Cheers.) He would confess that he had voted for the old freemen retaining their franchise under the Reform Bill, because at that time he represented a large section of them.—(Cheers and laughter.) The reason why he had so voted was because they had re turned him four times to Parliament ; but he would con fess, as indeed he had confessed at the time, that by voting for retaining them he was retaining a weak, if not a rotten, plank in the Constitution. He must therefore repeat that, however respectable . that majority might be, it was, to all intents and purposes, a landlords' majority.— (Cheers.) He would also say that they were now, by their . conduct, torturing the feelings of the country on tenterhooks, and if they were determined to fight the battle of the landlords against what were called the "Cotton Lords," all the great interests of the country must seffer.—(Cheers.) In the absence of all state ment; in that House, he had looked to what had been said .on the hustings, to see if he could gather any hope of relief; and first of all he had read the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, delivered in Newark, in which, after entering into a catalogue of the crimes of the Whig Government, he said it was quite sufficient merit for the Tory Go vern:it:Alt that it had been the means of displacing the Whig Government.—(Cheers and laughter.) Then he had isoked to the certainly able and eloquent speech of the Noble Lord the Member for North Lancashire, but he could find no comfort front its perusal.—(Hear, hear.) He could not tell in what degree the agricultural con stituseey of the Noble Lord might be able to judge of the qiestiohs which the Noble Lord had discussed be fore them. The Noble LOrd had attributed the distress of the country to over-production, but he never pointed out ev we were to be delivered from that distress by extending our markets. But with regard to the Cora laws, the Noble Lord had justified the principle of the sliding scale, and he appeared to be almost as firm a sup porter of the present system as a Noble Duke in the other Rouse.—(Hear, hear.) But the Noble Lord had not ittempted to show how the grinding effects of the present Corn-laws were to be obviated.—(Hear, hear.) He hid also sought for information from the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet opposite to his constituents at Dorchester, but he had been di sa pp o inted.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Honourable Baronet bad said that the secrets of the Cabinet must not be re peated, or, to use his own words, that he must observe that reserve under which he had accepted office.— (Cheers and laughter.) The Right Hon. Gentleman had argued in favour of the present Corn-law, indeed, on the question of protection it was hard to say how far the Right Hon. Gentleman might be inclined to go, for all, his aroments for protection tended to vindicate absolute, prohibition, and it was impossible to say how his advice would be given on the question. He, indeed, indulged jet a simile which, although it might amuse, could not, he should imagine, satisfy the country. He had congentu lated his constituents on the harmony indicated in the present . Government. Queen, Lords, and Commons were now, lie said, in happy unison, and the .Right Hon. Ha- ronet the Member for Tamworth, with the master hand of a umsician, was placed at this harmonious musical in strument, to the delight of the people and the country.— (Cheers and laughter.) He did not know how he wus to play tea this grand political piano -forte, unless he placed the two Dukes as pedals under his feet.—(Cheers and laughter.) The farmers would listen with a hope of hear ing him, with the assistance of his pedals, play the old air of " Speed the Plough."—(Loud laughter.) But while the people were expecting some exquisite harmony, the only tune the Right Hon. Baronet played to them was the mawkish melody. " Oh! no! we never mention it."— (Cheers and laughter.) He thought that the opinion of the Il n. Baronet the Member for Dorchester must be like that of the poet, that— " The harmony of things Like that of sounds, from discord springs.' —(Cheers &tad laughter.) If some explanation were not given as to the intentions of her Majesty's Government —if the Right Honourable Baronet attempted to prorogue the Parliament before proposing some measure for remedying the widely spread distresses of the manu facturing districts, it would be in vain hereafter to at tempt to restore the prosperity, or to maintain the peace of the country.—(Cheers.) If such a course were adopted the results would be disastrous in the extreme. It was a course which did not become them, either as men or as Ministers—as men it was cruelly inhuman, and us Ministers it wits unwise and fraught with danger to the country.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. GIBSON thought the House was indebted to the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down for the statements which ho had made, and the manner in which he had T brought n t t h r e y felt subjectun disgusted der withtlte attention thesil ent of s the e ! l_ House.which had been pursued by the other side of the House. It was not treating subjects of such vast importance with. the attention or the consideration which they deserved. —(Cheers.) . He would admit, however, that silence s si a d y e t ‘ i ‘ i as tt was the safest defence in a bad case • and he dared to givent s h o e m a e d t l b i i c ti e g the 8 to the defendant in a bad case—to hold-- his toltrslie -(Clieers and laughter.) : :So. fur from broughtc a t nl o . e ll a o s n t . h G at ei g it i l v e e n n ien on the other during that the subject ought not to he that the forward, he (Mr. Gibson) was of ophtion usefully on_ House could not appear to be more tl i st e 'f .v il ,r _,_,, ployed than in endeavouring to devise a residtt il distres.ies of the people. With regard financi altn ronet to submit by the counsel mea sures, he did not press the Right Hon. Bs moment. He to them his financial schemes that o ffice ; that he such as that he had not been a month_ official documents which it was tee are of the plausible pretext tllti' had not had access to those efore bringing fbrward was necessary he should consult But if to consult those a permanent financial scheme. :Iniait be urged, necessary, he could not but documents were really re gret that had they had proposed their who bad those facilities when .ewers ._ ) but that they had not been shown to those financial seltentes—(Loud 1 h very outset, and cut off ever, been interrupted in t ' were fully developed.--(L ou d more deferenceso nectdes before their measures that in all probability the . cheers.) But knoalitig Right Honourable Baronet's finan cial result of the and of the Chancellor of the Ex cial in editatiei b is ;tiolls, would end in bringing forward chequer's u 1 I c' propositions: for new taxes, he did not care how some 1 sition of the financial scheme was put off, long toe propo _ d of it at all. But although it had ' I - never heal or ii 1... been stated that even if the Budget of th e l ate ltlinistry had been adopted a loan would be neces sar y, yet it had ;teen s never 'hewn that that Budget w ou ld not produce an increased revenue, and if the prop os iti on f or an Bs. fixed d u ty on corn had beta adopted within the last week, fleet! e • ould have been an addition to the revenue of half a million, whilst corn would have been purchased from t h e te•eigner at a cheaper rate. -- (Cheers.) But the financial question was, comparatively speaking, of no imporzence compared with the consideration of the dis tress , I , * the country. Th e M ember for Renfrewshire had laid bel'ore them a most interesting statement relating to the distress in the county which he represented, and Hite were not fearful of fatiguing the ;House he could relate statements of the distress extstine• at Manch es t er w hi c h ex ceede3 even those mad e b y that Hon. Gentleman. In that town Oere were warehouses piled with goods, of which 110 profitable sale could be effected ; insolvencies and bank rupteiss Were of dully occurrence ; thousands were de - privek of employment—thousands were suffering from, typhus,, brought on solely through the want of sufficieen fool ; and there were 8,000 residing in one disti:ict . livine upon a miserable Pittance of Is. Sid. per head. per week. If they looked to t h e agricultural distr i cts, what did they see ? • A. state of prosperity, produced by the high price of corn, occasioned by those laws which the far.. •A