The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-27 00:00:00

EVENING ED TION • PUBLIC DINNER GIVEN BY THE JEWS IN DAMASCUS TO COLONEL CHURCHILL. the The principal event attending arrival of General Jochmus at Damascus, and which has created a very great sensation, has been the splendid reception given by the Jews to Colonel Churchill, as the bearer of the Sultan's hatti-schcriff to that hitherto oppressed commu nity. This mission was entrusted to Col. Churchill by Sir Moses Montefiore, and several otherimport sot papers and documents were also transmitted through. the same chan nel by the Hon. Knight to his fellow-countrymen, not only in Damascus, but in several other cities of Pales tine. A splendid entertainment was given to Colonel Churchill on the Ist of March, at the house of Signor Farki, the chief banker of Damascus. All the British and Austrian officers on the staff of General Jochmus were invited. The gallant guests were received on their entrance into the grand court by Signor Farki and a deputation of the principal resident Jewish merchants, and were immediately con ducted to the state apartment thrown open for the oc • casion. The grand court occupies a space of fifty yards square, paved throughout with large :dabs of native and livourne Marble, and relieved in the centre by a magni ficent reservoir of water, with a jet d'eau ; several orange trees in full fruit of about forly feet high adorn various ether parts of this beautiful area. On entering the great ception•room, the eye is perfectly dazzled with the rich ness of theornameets which cover the walls a 1:1 ror.sf—the latter is oat:rely coated with every var;ety of the Arabesque pattern, in the richestt• gilding, interspersed with de signs in diff:rent colours ; the former to the height of twenty.five feet from the ground—presents one mass of the most costly mosaic all round. Seven immense glass chandeliers hang down midway at regular intervals throughout the apartment. A marble fouut, eight feet squire, occupies the im mediate vicinity of the entrance, in which the clear est water is perpetually sparkling up in six jets d'eau. At an interval of four feet the floor is raised thre:-quarters of a yard, on three sides of the xoom, to form the divans, which recede in three •directions to a distance of 40 feet, and arc surrounded by silk and velvet cushions, and covered by the richest Persian carpets. The party having been conducted to the principal divan, and the Jaws having ranged themselves in order all round, pipes, coffee, and sherbet were handed round. In half an hour the dinner was announced, and the whole adjourned to a large and lofty corridor, where a long table bad been prepared, a 1 'Europecn, with covers for 70. The dinner was of the most costly description, and comprised every delicacy which nature could supply or art suggest ; the cntrenzet of sweetmeats was of extraordinary research, and baffled the senses by its richness and variety. At the con clusion of the repast, the haalths of Queen Victoria, of the Emperor of Austria, of the Allied rowers, and of Sir Moses Montefiore, wero toasted, and warmly responded to. At seven o'clock, the state apartment was lightel up. and the brillie.ncy of the chandeliers was 'almost over powering. In a few minutes after the guests had re sumed their seats on the grand divan—the great Court burst forth as if by magic into one blaze of effulgence, the handsome corridors presented the most beautiful illumination which can possibly be conceived, while every orange tree was hung in festoons of variegated lamps, reflecting a thousand colours. The sky above was studded with stirs, the waters of the grand fountain played forth from va rious hitherto concealed springs, a band of music striking up Oriental airs, and consisting of the dulcimer, the hautboy, and other stringed instru ments, filled the air with the richness of its har mony ; and last, though not least, the presence of the temple branches of the community now contributed to wards the beauty and splendour of the matchless scene. The loveliness of some of the young Jew esses was most captivating, and the gracious manner in which they received the attention of the gallant strangers, left an impression which never can be effaced. As the evening drew to a close, Col. Churchill re turned to the state-room and delivered a farewell ad eiress to the assembled guests. Amongst those present wet e the fourteen Jews who had so horribly suffered (luring the late persecution, and most of whom were (till suffering severely from the effects of their barbarous treatment. The Colonel spoke in the French language, and was most ably assisted by Signor Pistochi, the son of the Austrian Consul at Cairo, who per formed the part of interpreter. After hating ex ;;resnd the extraordinary satisfaction he had re ceived frot!n the splendid hospitality of the circle around him, and at his singular felicity in being placed in so novel and interesting a position, he spoke in the highest terms of the exemplary and patriotic con duct of Sir Moses Montefiere, who had so success fully applied himself to procure for the Hebrews of sue Levant and Syria a full and complete recognition from . the Sublime Portsi of their political rights privileges. He trusted that, under the mild and ,%aternal Government of Sultan Abdul Medjid, the Jewish community would not only mainta'n their present iractage ground, bat grow in importance and conzidera tion as an indispensable support of the Imperial power ; concluded in the following words:— " I trust, my friends, that I may claim for my country the. first place in your recollections. In the hour of your darkest trial and adversity, England hastened to eatend to ynu the protection of her glorious and triumphant aegis. Other powers, no doubt, exhibited a generous sympathy in your behalf ; but in England :your woes, and misfortunes, and sufferings found an echo, and exercised a rational exhibition of feeling v hich struck down the fiendish malice which oppressed you to the earth, and rescued you from the bands of your ma liquant persecutors. She has proved herself to be your 'most steady, persevering, and uncompromising defender and friend. May this happy meeting be looked upon as a pledge of that friendship, and as the forecast of such a con nection and alliance between the English and the Jewish people as shall be alike honourable and advantageous to both. Yes, my f, iends, there was once a Jewish people, t'amous in arts and renowned in war. These beautiful plains and valleys,. which aro now tenanted by the wild and wandering Arab, on which desolation has fixed her iron stamp, once revelled in the luxuriance of their fertile and abundant crops, and resounded with the songs of 'the daughters of Zion.. May the hour of Israel's de liverance. be near at hand."—[Here the gallant speaker was interrupted by cries of " Inchallah ! Inchallah ! May God grant it ! May God grant it !—To England alone we look."]—‘ , May the approximation of western .eivilizition to this interesting land be the dawn of her rrg, neration, and of her political existence ; may the JewiTh nation once more claim her rank end station among the powers of the world !! Tne descendants o f the Maccabees will yet prove themselves worthy of their itustrious ancestors." After a few further remarks, the Gallant Colonel concluded, and the whole party broke up, highly delighted with the hospitable treatment they land emperrenced. This o.trair has created the greatest sensation in Da mascus, and th e English are everywhere received with 'narked token s of respect and consideration from a ll parties. SPIRIT ...........__ - . 7-7, - ....--- ...1•01, of the PuBT - '— FROM THR RVIINING VAPERS Op ' Vt3TXRDIT -AC. JOURNALS. .h--,--fl'irettlieoL7lw%Lpthroerporisekiersoba.yatilie I:eg.islature i. G ail L r O en ß a E l laretzet the revenue of the •which arc deemed necessary to State or the property respect to the e( 14 Of individuals, should o t 1 :1 1 individual; and be designed wore mid not vindictive : they should have nuttily rather than to the, wore to prevent than to punish ofTences. To effect this object, it is essential that publicity should invariably be given to the detection and punishment of those who Lave violced the law, in order that shame *nay op: I/At , upon. the individuals—the public be put uron their Enord against the porintration of such frauds---and .ntaers, rrba 7 , .1;5' b 3 disposed to engage in similar nefarious sehe.nes, be deterred from conduct which, !collet or latr, would be thus followed by the for feifurz of property and the loos of reputction. The ad . :oiziatration of the justice of 'tile country in public I t;ourti, and the publicity given to the nam;:s of the individuals cud t':.e Mature of their offences with L e eircurnst:dnvs attndant on their commission, by toe frolitie press, restrain crime more effectually than read of any punishment, unattended by publicity, could effect. Wh y , Then, is not this salutary course invariably al, ptti with re revenud- 1 7: 4 1, mar ry vct to offences against the of which, from their peetniar elm rrter.oot only involve frauds upon the revenue, but Uett ) Y ea l Etoger, doubtless, in many instances, if tzlenly, yet eertaialy, destroy life ? Tne adultera tion with deleterious drugs, and other poisonous ingredients, of articles used in the preparation of human food, which p ay honey duties to the G;- Vernment, is known to be f ear : u l l y on the i ecreasc. The pritetic , by the large gains it a ff or d s , h o ld s out a powerful teme deteerion tation to the unp r i nc i p l e d tra d er, w h o, if be tieape but for a s m elt t i me, i s we ll satisfied to pay the penalty out of the immense pro fits helms mall,' by the sli.tincful and cruelly Ganda lent course he baS pursued. 'let in su c h cases i t is by no means unca:union fur t!A; fine incurred to be ednimutel by the t'ounniFsiouers of Excise br a pri yate arrange:punt with the offender ; and thus a trader who ought 13..; held up to the public as a pub lic pois Oner, spreading disease by vitiating human food—for which offence against the public there is scarcely • any punishment, however infamous, which Would be Lao • severe—is allowed to pass without any other penalty up .3n detection than having to pay a small portion of the profit derived from his infamous fraud, after a correspondence with the Solicitor of the Excise, or the llonnurable Commissioners, who seem to look E ti . SP. k a aid of the revenue, than to a punish -- ..„......- -Mgr aid b ear some proport i on to t h e h e i nous . ' J u r ..,l t", jp, ler, and warn ot h ers aga i nst em b ar ki ng e • • , ,ions.. :( 7;4' e e ,, ._., D. The division of this evening, -" e e T I 4, O I .A in reference to the vital principle it -,-et - • ~.. .74 effects upon the existence of her Ma- - is, beyond . all ~.,,,.._ . 1 comparison, the most \ T i. flu , ',. -of the year. S hould th i s rave -4 4 fu .e be carried,--should th e Chartist principle. that mere ooeupation ei a certain nominal ncrtiou of property, independent of all profit or in. PArp , it• GOO 11 Lt . fit,,..... 1 W 01.: gilt . o4ho d , fien, girunti*gra sa4 SI'AINO: R, hether 1 , 4,1 de colves, df , i s 4 _ mi . to rs, To ev en; tiori y 171C351.11 terest arising from its possession, be once affirmed !for Ireland ; what, we would confidently ask, is to im pede or even delay the introduction of the Fame de seriptiota of franchise into England ald Selland y On the other hand, should this import int proposition of the Government be thii night scouted lay the House of Commons, what we wculd demand is the con dition-of her Majesty's Ministers ? Can a Govern ment, which in February proposes a plan for the scttLment of a great question ; which alters that plan in March ; and is defeated even in its amended scheme is Apra —can such a Government be said to possess the qualifications or the means of settling any point el-of carrying any doubtful measure ? We may be sanguine in ascribing an honest conviction of any kind t 3 her Majesty's Ministers, but we do declare our belief that if defeated this esening their further continuance in office is utterly impracticable. Now, let us look to the business which will this evening come before the House. First, there is the Government plan for a mere occupation franchise ; —in other words, that a pauper who holds as much land as is u °rib eight pounds, but who pays for it six teen, that is twice as much as it is worth, shall have the franchise! and this is the sober proposition of Lord Morpeth. We all in this country know well the p!o -verbial anxiety of the Irish labourer to obtain possession of a portion of land at any price. This is his highest ambition, ned to gratify this, to be the owner of his field, he voi 1 give such a rent for it, as reduces his a,aual candltion below the daily labourer whom he hires. He will live in filth and misery to pay this rack-rent to his landlord ; and yet if such a human being pays a sufficient amount of such rent—that is to say, eight pounds a year—he is to bo one of the constituency of Ireland. To this proposal Lord Howick says N 0 ! You shall not depart from the principle of the English law and the nominal principle of the existing Irish one. You shall sea that the man not only holds and occupies a sufficient portion of land, but that he shall hold it at such a rent as to leave him as much profit, as great a " beneficial interest" as will en able him to live like a human being, and not like an Indian or a beast of burthen. But, continues his Lordship, the present law demands too high an amount. Ten pounds is too much, aid I propose to reduce it from ten pounds to FIVE. This is Lord Howick's ameadment for this even ing. But on what data does he ask the House of Commons to entertain it ? What information is he [ possessed of or has he gives to show what the effect of his proposal may be? Has he any access to facts by which to show what constituency he expects to create by the new Reform Bill? Will it be the same in amount as the present? He cannot tell. Mr. C. Wood declared on Thursday night that lie could not. Will it give a greater constituency than the present ? He-does not know. Will it give a less ' He is equal ly ignorant ; and yet he comes down to the house to ask it gravely, and seriously, and deliberately, to commit itself to the hap hazard experiment, and up set the existing law without knowing either the ne cessity or the affect of the change. Tu both these propositions, we should say the Conservative mem bers of the House must necessarily be opposed. COURIER.—The extraordinary and increasing number of Post-office robberies, that is, of abstractions of money from, or the theft of, letters with inclosures, by Post-office clerks and letter-carriers, under the penny system, is the subject of common remark and general discontent. It is scarcely possible to take up a news paper, in town or country, without encountering, under the heads of police or assize reports, a variety of aggra vated cases of post-office plunder, whilst detection, con viction, and punishment, far from leading to the de crease of this class of crime seem only to stimulate to its commission. The Solicitor of the Post-office, than whom a more humane and meritorious functionary need not be desired, instead of the sinecure birth to which he was to be condemned,according to the exaggerated fan cies of penny-post wisdom, must find his labours quad rupled or quintupled in the special and least grateful department of criminal prosecution. As, exclusive of the large economical benefits which were to result, to say nothing of the fiscal profits for the realization of which its advocates are now con tent to draw upon the next century, it was strenu ously contended that the morals and education of the people at large were to be wondrously improved and refined by penny postage, this first beginning in the demoralisation of the Post-office itself looks singularly inauspicious, and not less suspicious for prospective per formance of the original contract set forth. For prima facie it is difficult to imagine how the morals, say of the industrious classes, can be materially amended.by a system under which they can be, and are, so readily de frauded of money, gifts, payments, or earnings, coming to them by post. It should rather seem that, as ex ample is better than precept, finding themselves plun dered with impunity, and without the chance of re dress, they should be'ake themselves to retaliatory practices in some other line, so as to adjust their morals by the new Post-office standard. T,lis, to be sure, would be an ungracious as insufferable retort for all those strategic resources contrived by the Whigs for reinforcing the outworks, at the same time as throwing up so many inner defences, on which, in case of aced, national morality may fall back for support and re ' invigoration. If the penny post line of morality be forced, as it is, the poor, who are put to the rout and ruined by the disaster, have only to re treat under cover of the new Poor-law, the eminent merit of which consists io starving them first, as a pre paration for moralizing them after ; a beautiful applica tion to morals of that operative process by which birds or animals are half slain and half mangled, in order to establish by experiment some theory in physics. Then, besides new Poor-laws, there are education laws, drain age bills, &c. &c., all, if Mr. Ewart may bo believed, contrived to improve the moral 'condition of the poor, whilst the Chancellor of the Exchequer performs his Smagrado operations for purifying their physical and plethoric habits by the drastic purgation of supplemen tary taxation. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, ArniL 26. The Lord Chancellor did not attend Court to-day. ROLLS COURT, APRIL 26. SANDERS V. BENSON AND OTHERS. The arguments in this suit, which were partly heard on Saturday were resumed this morning. Tha suit was insti• tuted to'cbarge the defendants, Thomas Starling Benson and others, with the rent and covenants of an indenture of lease, bearing date 2811 September, 1795, and made by Samuel Sanders, deceased, father of the plaintiff, to John Oxley and Frederick Tench, viregar merchant,. The premises leased co:lsis:el of a house, yard, and lanai, in Cartwright-street, and Derby-street, in the par:bh of St.. 13otclph- without Aldgate, and were leased for 34 years at the rent of 761. per annum, with covenant for the tenants to repair. The plaintiffs also sought to charge defendants, as asalgr;ees of the lease, with the costs, damages, and ex pense; resulting from various ac ions and suits respecting the rents of eavenaLts of the lease, and the dilapidations of the prriatm. Ili; Lcumilp, ark'. i etring Mr. Pemberton and Mr. L~f ti Wigtam fir the plaintiffs, and Mr. Kindersley and Mr, flacon for the defendants, reserved his judgment to a future day. PR3DEN V KINDON. This wai an execrion to the Master's report, by which it was found that ti:re was a legacy due upon an instru ment on which probate had been grante3, and application Was now made to withhold payment until another suit, cii.irg out of the same instrument, should be dispot , ed of. Al , . Pemberton and Mr. 13,:thrl fur the plaintiff, and Mr. Kindersloy and Mr. Dixon fur the defendant. LottPstuP said such a course would be directly con trary to the ordinary practice of the Cour', and an order must, th-refore, be made for payment of the legacy and costs out of the funds, with liberty to apply for their transfer. VICE-CfIAiVCELLOR'S COURT, APRIL 26. SMITH AM OTHERS V. COLEMAN. The arguments in thin C3SC, which was an application for an i a l unet i on to restrain the dVeadant from taking Fecurities alle ge d to. legal proc ee di ngs on ea.taiu bills of exelanga and other have been frauduiently givon, and which was partly reported in our paper of Saturday, were resumed this morning. Mr. JACOB and Mr LITTLE the defendant, con.. een his client and money firrr borrowed T had tended that there was no collusio i in the Mr. .Lock, nor aoy evidence that the et strongquity c t c o ' not btien employed for the benefit of the plain. Itcircumstancesogethc. r ftti failed to suspicionshow any slifficiently e o ti r a.s an l' Y ad authorise their appliortion for an injunction, which they therefore trusted his Honour would refice. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said it was his opinion that the plaintiffs cught to have moved fir an inju::(t' on, and he also thought the money duo upon the noo, should be paid i-ito Court. These gentlemen we ; , in partnership together, and the motion cf a part_ if nership implied a coctract. Then Mr. CA:lea - tan knaw that they were partners, he knew there ,was a contract, and he had in that Court constructive notice of all the terms which bound the partners together, one of which was that no one partner should use the signa ture of the firm for any other than partnership purposes. Therefore, %then the defendant advanced money to Mr. Lock upon the signature which Mr. Lock gave, it scared to him that :t lay on the defendant to show that the money so advanced was advanced for partnership pun pwo3. He might have supposed from some statement of Mr. Lock that it was so advanced, but it struck him (the Vicc.Ctiancellor) that if the conversation that had been given in evidence led to this inference, it olio lel to the in ference that the money borrowed was not borrowed for partnership purposes. Enough, therefore, had op pearei for inquiry in that Court as to the circumstances cjin injunction, the equity of the plaintiffs in poiat of law. The therefore, was gran,ed, and the money paid into Court. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Ar!lL 26. THE M R ATO AND COhPORATION OF CHESTER V. BEARS. The COURT gave judgment is this case, which was an action against the toaster of a mud, to recover a sum of Is., 'Demi; the . amount of dues claimed by the Corpora tion, for entering the port o f Ch es t er . The Jury found a verdict om n platffs, an d an app li ca ti on was m ad e to se t thu gr oun d o f i mpro p er evidence, agi2e verdict tits f e o r the mis direction, and the verdict being against evidence. It was urged that the toll being payable to the water bailiff, the actionshould have been brought by him; the the bailiff being in the employrrm , t of the Corporation, and the tolls being allowed him in lieu of salary, he was m ere ly th e sersan t o f the Corporation, and received the tolls ftft their use; it Wa3 also said that the toll had been originally an anchorage toll , but it bail been given in evidence that vetoes which THE SUN, LONDON, TU.ESDAN, APRIL 27, 1,841 bad never dropped an anchor had paid tha toll. Tha rule for a new trial therefore must be discharged. DRAPER V. SIIURMAR AND OTUERS-LIABILITY OF CARRIERS. Lord DENMAN gave judgment in this case, which was an action brought by the plaintiff, a lace manufitcturcr at Chard, to recover the sum of 4781., being the value of a bale of lace forwarded by the defendants, who arc car riers, to Nottingham. The property was conveyed by the defendants in their waggon to Cheltenham, and there put upon the railway to be conveyed to Nottingham, and in consequence of some sparks being communicated from `the engines to the carriages, the property was consumed. It was alleged for the defendants, that, there being n o other mode of communication, they were justified in send ing the goods by the railway, and that their liability coated as soon as the goods had been transferred to the railway carriages, and that the action should have been brought rgainst the Cheltenham Railway Company. The Jury found a verdict for the plaimiX, and a rule had been sub sequently obtained to set aside the verdict on the above grounds; but the Court was of opinion that the finding of the Jury was correct, and the rule, theref,re, must be discharge 1. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, APRIL 26. MUNTZ V STURGE. This was an action brought by the Mayor of Birming ham against the defendant, to recover his share of the ex penses incurred in that erection of busting!, &c., for •h 2 purposes of the late erection fnr that town. The facts had b-en agreed upon by both part:es. and the ca , e came be fora the Court upon a qp( ci..l case, for tll, opi iun of their Lordship . The defendant did not consider himself becaucc two days before the diy of nomination he had given distinct notice that he would not go to a poll if the show of hands was decidedly agsiast him. The re queStion ti be decided war, what constituted a candidate. The care was argued by Mr. Erie for the defendant, and Mr. Humfrey for the plaint' ff. That COURT considered the question al of ton much im portance to be decided hastily. They would consider of their judgment. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'Clock. Tne Indemnity Bill was read a second time. Several private Bills were advanced a stage. Lord STRAFFORD presented petitions from the County of Tyrone against lay patronage in the Church of Scotland. PATort (:f the In3pecto-s of 1 7 .1ctories, and rcturas relafive to the Birmingham polce.—Adj.)urnesi. ROUSE OE COMMONS, APRIL 26 The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'Clock. Mr. BERNAL brought up the Report of the Com mittee on the Coventry and Warwick Roads Bill, and the Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be en grossed. Mr. BERN AL, in moving that the Lords' Amend mer.ti to the Dovenby and Paocastle Improvement 8.11 be al - reed to, expressed a hope that the House would take into consideration the difficulty in which Committees ou private 13.1 is were placed, in conse• ( - pence of the thtermiration of the Lords to throw from private Bills all clauses for exempting towns or indivi duals from tolls on any part of turnpike roads. After a few words from Mr. Estcourt and other Hon. Members, who thought that something should be done to relieve the Committees on private bills from the difficulty in which they sere Owed by the resolution of the Lards refel•re.l to, the amendments were acre to. 'l'fic Kiddermintt ,r Small TentAr.crits Rating Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be engrossed. Mr. THESIGER preseated a petition from St. Anne's, WestminAer, for the abolition of toys on the Metropolitan Bridges. The ItJxbur i l,li and Dumfries It ad Bat was read a se,;ond time. Mr. 131lOTHERTON presented a petitio❑ from the inhabitants of Broadway, Westminster, pr lying for the abolition of the tolls on ttie Vauxhall add Waterloo L'ridg s. Mr. CRAWFORD presented a petition from the Commercial Committee of the Island of Bombay, pray ing the House to t die into its consideration the state of our relations with China, with a view to urging the Government to adopt such measures as should sccm to them best calculated to promote the speedy renewal of the trade. The Hon. Mem ntr said he would move to morrow that the petition should be printed, with a view to calling the attention of the House to the subject. Mr. M. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Trace, in favour of Lord Morpctli's Irish Registration Bill, and aminst that of Lord Stanley. Mr. HI NDLEY presented two petitions from Ash. ton-under-Lyne against the Corn-laws. _ _ Sir G. StRICIKLA ND presented a petition signed by 6,500 inhabitants of Saddleworth, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, praying the attention of the House to the evidence taken before the Import Duties Committee in such a mariner as should lead t) some satisfactory Parliamentary enactment. Alio from the Poor-law guardians of the union of Todmor den, praying that the guardials may be relieved from the burden and responsibility of the present system of vaccination. Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a petition from the board of guardians of the city of Lincoln, praying the House to enable the guardians to grant out-door relief, and complaining of the bastardy clauses ; also from Slcaford, complaining of the uncon stitutional powers of the Poor-raw Commissioners, and praying the House entirely to do away with Assistant-Commissioners, and to give to the guar dians power to grant out door relief. Mr. DILLON BROWNE presented petitions from the counties of Londonderry, Cavan, Ross, and Galway, in favour of Lord Morpeth's Registration Bill, and against that of Lord Stanley. Mr. G. EVANS presented a petition from the county of Dublin to the same effect. Mr. BAILEY presented a petition from the city of Bristol, praying for a revision of the commercial tariff ; also a petition from the same plsce in favour of Church Extension. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Birming ham, praying that the Borough Court in that town may not be abolished by the County Courts' Bill, but that provision may be made for extending the new regula tions to the existing Court ; also two petitions from public meetings hell in London, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws. Sir C. BURRELL presented a petition from a place in Sussex, praying that Unions under the Gilbert Act might not be abolished without the consent of the Guardians ; also a petition from Ashur,t, praying for Church Extension. Sir G. CLERK presented two pctitions from South wark in favour of Church Extension. Mr. C. VILLIERS presented a petition from the Uaivcrsal Rational Religionists of Finsbury, praying for an inquiry into grievances of the labouring classes. Petitions for the Repeal of the Corn-laws were pre sented by Lord Duncan from Warrington ; by Mr. Muntz, Mr. Hayter, and Colonel Salwcy, from the ope ratives and inhabitants of different parts of London; Mr. Hindley, Mr. Baines, and Mr. Villiers from Cheshire. Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from two ladie, Mrs. and Miss Chambers, the wife and daughter of Mr. Chambers, formerly a banker, in Boud-street, complaining of the severity of the treatment of Mr. ' Chambers, who had been now sixteen years in gaol, and praying that the - law under which it was inflicted ought be altered. Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from a place in Ireland; in favour of a repeal of the Legis lative Union. Also petitions from places in the counties of Antrim, Mayo, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, in favour of Lord Morpeth's Irish Registration 13i11, and against Lord Stanley's. Mr. INGHAM presented a petition in favour of Church Extens:on. Mr. PALMER presented a ?cation in favour of Church Reform. The Glasgow House of Refuge Bill was read a se cond time. Captain PECHELL pre!ented a petition from Arundel praying the House to pass a law for the bet ter Observance of the Lord's Day, so as to prevent in future a similar exhibition being made by commanding officers of regiments to that which was lately made by the flogging of a soldier on the Sabbath in Hounslow Barracks. Mr. LITTON presented petitions from Colerain, Port Stewart, Ballywillan, and other places in the North of Ireland, on the subject of lay patronage. Also petitions from Dublin and another pliee, against any further grant to the College of Maynooth, and two petitions in favour of Lord Stanley's Registration Bill. Lord MORPETH presented a petition in pursuance of a meeting of ireeholderF, held in Dublin, in favour of the Bill brought in by the Government for the Registration of Parliamentary Voters in Ireland—it made in addition to the petition already presented by him, on that subject the number of signatures nearly 200,000. Also a petition from Saddleworth in Yolk shire, to the same effect. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition against the Se vern Navigation BIP. Lord J. RUSSELL presented several petitions from places in Ireland, iu favour of the Bill introduced by the Government for the amendment of the laws of Re glitration in Ireland. Lord STANLEY presented a petition from a Grand Jury in Ireland, and one from Finsbury in favour of his Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill, and 'against that of the Government. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the Provost, Magistrates, and Council of Musselburgb, and one from the inhabitants of the same pLce, praying for a modification of our tariff, tr.:cording to the plan proposed by the Import Duties' Committee. Sir M. WOOD gave notice that on an early day he would move for a Select Committee to consider the various plans for the improvement of the metropolis, and the best manner in which the tolls and bridges over the Thames might be abolished. Sir G. GREY gave notice that on the lnh May he would move for a' Sel2et Committee to consider whether it might not be expedient to convert Labra dor into a Penal Sottlem , nt. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. Mr. C. LUSHINGTON gave notice that he should to-morrow present a petition from the Society of Friends in Great Britain, remonstrating against the grievances to which they were subject, and especially against the imposition of Church-rates. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE NAVY. Capt. PEC HELL movel for a rettrn of the number of instances of corporal punishments inflicted in the navy of Great Britain. The Hon. Member sa;d he wished this return as an addition to that moved for by the Hon. Member for Lambeth respecting the army. PENSIONS. Mr. HUME moved for a return of pensions granted by letters patent by the Crown since the ar....cession of Queen Victoria; also for a return of the amount of noney levied by the Commissioners of Sewers, from 1832 to the present period. Sir C. GREY said he wished to put a question to the Noble Lord the Member for North Lancashire, with reFerence to one of the Orders of the Day, namely, whether it was the intention of the Cabinet, of which the Noble Lord formed a part, on the 25th of June, 18:32. to give the right of voting at ekctions of Members of Parliament for counties in Ireland to all persons occupying tene ments for which they paid an annual rent of 101. The lion. Gentleman said it would eXplain the meaning of his question if he stated to the House, that having re ferred to the Noble Lord on the subject, the Noble Lord had referred him to the Bill. That Bill, however, did not afford the means of deciding the question. The question referred to Junc, 1825, and the Bill of May, 1830, was evidently not in the state in which it stood before the House at a subsequently period. Lnrd STANLEY said the lion. Gentleman had been kind enough to put into his hands a copy of the Mirror of Parliament of 1832, and at the same time he had asked him to give an explanation of a speech of his which he there found reported.—(Laughter.) That speech was made by him (Lord S.) in explanation of the Bill as it stood at the time for consideration by the House, and as it was intended to stand by Earl Grey's Government. In explanation of his speech he had taken the liberty of referring the lion. Gentleman to the Bill as he would find it upstairs, considering that a more authentic explanation than any which he could furnish. however, he well recollected the passage, because he bad often looked at it since, and he had noticed on various occasions that that speech contained a fundamental error throughout, arising out of a misprint he had no doubt, which made the whole statement perfectly unintelligible. The only explanatiarr he could give was this, he was made to speak through out of a rent of 101. He had little doubt the mistake had ari: en from substituting the word " rent" for " interest," whereas he had been speaking as the Bill spoke of an annual interest of 101. It never was the intentian of Earl Grey's Government to introdu c e th e w or d s i n th e report as part of the Reform Bill. He had no doubt that the error had arisen from the slim t-hand writer having., in copying out his notes slier werds, mistaken the mark, so that the word interest had been mistaL,n for the word rent or rental. It certday never was intended in the time of Earl Grey's Government to take such a course, and there were many Hon. Members present who could corro borate that starement.—(Hear, Lear.) Colonel suiTHffitt , begged to ask the Noble Lord oppa,ite when it was intended to bring forward the Miscellaneous Estimates ? L'ird J. RUSSELL could not fix the precise day, but he should give due notice to the House. Col. SIBTIIORP gave notice that to-morrow sehinight he should call the attention of the House to the appointment of Mr. ITzard as Solicitor to the Houle Department. Mr. GODSON inquired whether the Committee. which had in en appointed to inquire into the opera tion of Joir,t Stock Companies (except B itiking Com panies) was intended to include Insurance Companies ? Mr. LABOUCIMRE said there was no doubt that Insurance Compan . es would be included in the inquiries of the Committee. S:r E. KNATCHBULL complained that several returns connected with the Poor-laws, which had been moved for some time since, had not been laid on the table. He should next week move that they he fur nished forthwith. PARLIAMENTARY VOTERS' BILL (IRELAND). Oa the motion of Lord MORPETII the House then went into Committee on the Parliamentary Voters' Bill (Ireland). The preamble was postpoceJ. On clause 1 being read, Lord HO WICK rose to move the following amendment, at page 2, Inc 11, after the words "no person " to omit all the words to the end of the clause, and to insert " claiming under any Act cr Acts now in force, to be entitled to be registered, and to vote as a Parliamentary elector for any county, in respect of any freehold or leasehold property in his actual occu@ation, shall be required to have a beneficial interest therein of the clear yearly value required by such Act or Acts, except as hereinafter provided." The Noble Lord said that in moving the amendments of which he had given notice, he feared it might seem to the House that he had taken upon himself the responsibility which (lid not properly belong to then. It might he thought, that to bring with advantage before the House a proposition of so much importance to the county franchise in Ire land, the person submitting it ought to possess either that intimate and minute local knOwledge of Ireland to which he (Lord Howick) had no pre tmsion, or else that he should have a claim to the con fidence and support of a powerful party in the House. He (Lord H.) was fully sensible of his own inadequacy to'do justice to the cause he had undertaken ; but if he had not a minute local knowledge of Ireland, so, on the other hand, having no personal connection with that country, ho had not been mixed up with those political and religious animosities which there unfortunately prevailed to so great an extent, and if he had no right to expect the support of the or ganized party of her Majesty's Government on the one side, or of gentlemen on the opposite benches on the other, if he had no right or title to expect the support of any great party in that House, he did trust this very circumstance would convince the House that he was only speaking the simple truth, when he declared most sincerely that in bringing forward this proposition he sought no party interest or advantage ; and that his only object was, if possible, to assist in promoting the adjust went of a question which he was convinced could not contiaue unsettled without imminent detriment to the in terests of the country, perhaps not without danger to the safety of the empire, subjected as it had hitherto been to fierce party contests both in that House and in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) The importance of settling the question must be obvious to all ; but it must bo equally obvious that if both sides of the House insisted upon their own views such a settlement was impracticable. In the course he was taking he was not actuated by any hostility to her Majesty's Government. His Noble Friend who so ably conducted the business of the Government in that House knew that nothing could be farther from his mind ; but he had thought it better to move some substitute, than to con fine himself simply to giving a negative to their proposition. lie could not support the measure in its present shape. The clauses for the regua lation of the franchise in Ireland seemed to him to be liable to very great and serious objections. He felt the extreme importance of giving to Ireland a simple and easily-ascertained right of voting ; he felt the very great importance of giving to Ireland a constituency of a wide and popular character. But the more closely he had looked into that measure—the more pains he had taken to make himself master of the question, the stronger had become his objections. In the first plat, he felt that the great change proposed was unnecessary and therefore unwise. The right of voting both in England anti Ireland had hitherto been based on pro perty.—(Tory cheers.) It was so before the Reform Acts, and continued so the present moment. The single exception which apparently existed in Eng land was the 50/. tenant-at•will right of voting, but that was an exception not in reality but apparently, because the clause proceeded upon the assumption that when a tenant paid .50/. of rent, it necessarily impl:ed that he was in possession of a capital fully equivalent to that which a freeholder was required to possess. The principle was the same in Ireland ; for much as had bean said about the beneficial interest, yet all admitted that some benefit or some interest beyond the lease and beyond all other charges was necessary. The clause of his Noble Friend would entirely set aside all principle. A tenement of 8/. was no proof that the party possessed capital ; in :Ireland, at least, it was not the slightest proof of the possession of capital, in virtue of which he should be allowed to vote. The clause of his Noble Friend was therefore objectionable, as it at present stood, as subversive of the principles univer sally followed in their legidation.—(Loud cheers.) In his opinion that was highly inexpedient—he thought the principle of basing the county franchise upon property was not only consecrated by the long practice and usage of the coasftution, but was in accordance with sound sense and reason.—(Hear, hear.) There was a legitimate inference that the possessors of proporty would be the class most capable of exercising that franchise with independence,and, having themselves a stake in the coun try, they would he most anxious to discharge the duty im posed upon them. The principle of the existing law he held to be wise, and the defect of the franchise in Ire land was not in the principle, but in the manner in which that principle was applied under the particular test adopted of the amount of property which the person claiming to vote was required te possess. The evils of the present system were admitted on all hands. It was generally admitted that they arose not merely from the want of agreement which existed as to the proper construction of the words, beneficiel interest, but also from the circumstance that the only test of value was the opinion of parties having a strong interest at stake. All experience was D...Ain-A the application of such a test. It was with the view to obviate that objection and provide a means of ascertaining the real interest, that tha first amendment. which he was about to submit, had been framed. What he proposed was that the value of the property should be ascertained by the value of assessment for the purposes of the Poor's-rate. It appeared to him that this was a perfectly unobjectionable test. It had indeed been said that the valuations at pre sent were imperfect, that the repo) is which had been laid upon the table showed that they were net so cor rect as to enable the House to proceed upon them. It undoubtedly did appear from these papers that the valuations hitherto made had not been altogether satis- It undoubtedly did appear from the papers that the valuations hitherto made had not been altogether satis factory ; hut for other purposes, for the purpose of the administration of the Poor-laws it was necessary that that valuation should be correct. He was convinced that the machinery to accomplish this object was already in existence. Under all circumstances th's valuation would be one which had no reference to the claim to vote. The parties would have a direct pecuniary in terest in avoiding too high a valuation, and this would always be stronger than the desire to obtain the fran chise ; if wrong in any respect, it would be that the property would generally be calculated upon rather a low scale. But then the im portant question arose, what amount of interest, so ascertained, should confer the right of voting ? If they were to take so high an amount as 101. excess of value, as shown by the assessment to the Poor rates above the rent paid, they would practically raise the franchise even higher than was contended for by those Gentlemen who had taken the solvent tenant test. He (Lord Howick) thought that in adopting a mea sure of this kind they should look a little further. If they looked back to the history of what had occurred in 1832, they would see that it was the intention of Parliament to make some extension of the right of voting as it then existed. That such was the intention of those who introduced the Reform Act, seemed to him perfectly obvious from the!r recorded speeches. He should propose, therefore, testeeiyorred increased that in adopting the principles to w hich he referred. they should take a lower a paryionugnta osf b of excess rent than 101. In p severity, they were bound to wake a con siderable abatement in the amount of interest constituting the right to vote. In the amend ment which he was about to move, he should.pro pose that a sum of 56 excess of value beyond the DUNN U. ALEXANDER. The pl:intiff having appeared in Court, Mr. Baron ALDERSON said they had made inquiries, and found that judg neut had been signed before he made his application on Friday. They, therefore, could do nothing for him. Mr. DUNN was prepared to pay the costs of the judgment, and upon those terms he trusted the Court would allow him to come in. Lord MUNGER —According to the rule 3 of the Court they could do nothing for him. Mr. DUNN hoped teak Lordships would not permit so gross a fraud to be successful. Mr. Baron ALDERSON said it waa no fraud to sign a regulvr judgment. Mi. DUNN said it was a gross fraud to have him arrested for the purpose of preventing him from making his appli cation in due time. Lord ABINGIIR—Was your arrest the cauEe of your ab sence at the time you were called upon ? Mr. DUNN-I have made affidavit of the fact, and have sworn that a most intelligent member of the English bar told me I would be in time. Mr, B. ALDERSON—That must have been in ignorance of the real facts. Mr. DUNN still hoped their Lordships would suffer him to re-open the Court. The COURT.—A regular judgment is signed against you—if you have any materials to set it aside you must,ap ply to the Court upon affidavit as you may be advised. Mr. 'DUNN would wait till the bar had been gone through and renew his application. At (he rising of the Court the plaintiff renewed his ap plication for a rule nisi to set aside the judgment signed in this case, his only ground was that he had not been able to apply for a new trial in proper time because of his being arrested, and he insinuated that it ve a s done for the pur pose of preventing him, but it appeared the arrest took place upwards of a month ago. The COURT refused the rule, on which the plaintiff, who was much excited, cxclaimei " You have treated me with gross injustice, but thank God, your judgment is not final—there is another tribunal to which 1 will appeal." Lord &INGER—Mr. Dunn, you will now be happy —you have got another grievance to boast of. CROYDON PETTY SESSIONS. (Before D. R. WARRINGTON, Esq., J. REID, Esq., and J. W. SUTHERLAND, Esq.) A young man named Frederick Jervis attended before the Bench to answer a charge of wanton cruelty, under the following circumstance; : It appeared from the evidence of several witnesses, that on Wednesday last the donkey in question, which is the property of an old man named Hedgecock, was turned out to graze at Norwood, and it strayed into the premises of a gentleman named Morison, at whose house the defendant was staying on a visit, and the defendant, who was observed walking about the grounds smoking a cigar, was seen to unloose a fierce Newfoundland dog, which immediately, with another dog that belonged to Mr. Morison, attacked the donkey, and one pinned it by the nose while the other literally tore out a portion of its entrails, and injured the poor animal in such a dreadful manner, that it was found necessary to kill it immediately afterwards. Accord ing to the statement of the witnesses the defendant looked on, smoking his cigar, while the dogs were worrying the donkey, but it appeared that Mr. Nierison, the owner of the dogs, upon an alarm being rai,cci, came out and tried all be could to get the dogs off, but was un able to do so until the injury was effected. The value of the donkey was estimated at a The defendant, in his defenc2, said that donkeys were continually trespassing, and did a grew: deal of misahit f, and the dogs had been used before to turn them off Mr. Mo rison's premises, and they had never done any harm until the present occasion. He said he did all he could to get them off the donkey, and he was sorry for what had hap. pened. Mr. Morison assured the Bench that the dogs were quiet, docile animals, and he could not account for the oc currence in question. Inspector Collier begged to be allowed to say a few words in reference to the dogs that had just received such a good character. He had reason to believe that they were a complete terror and nuisance to the whole neigh bourhood. One of the constables of his division bad been attacked by one cf them, and he only escaped being se verely injured by using his cutlass ; and a number of other persons ware also then present, who had come on purpose to represent the danger and inconvenienca they had expe rienced from these dogs. George Weston, the constable referred to, was then sworn, and be confirmed the Inspector's statement ' • and he also said that the postman was so afraid of the dogs, that he would not take Mr. Morison's letters to the house, but always left them at the Post-office. The constable also stated that the dogs were in the habit of rushirg out upon persons passing along the road, on horseback or otherwise, and they caused the greatest alarm to every body in the neighbourhood. He added that he saw the donkey after the transaction, and it was in a most dreadful state. There was a gash down the thigh eight or nine inches long, end the fish appeared to have been torn away. The Bench after a short consultation, told the defen dant that-they would give him an opportunity of retiring and makin g his ewe with time complainant if he felt in clired to d o sr. The defendant said that if beldid so it would be al ad misiion of the offence imputed, to him, when he denied al together havingacted with any cruelty. SUTIIEWLAND told hini that if he did not choose to adopt the suggestion that had been thrown out to him, the Magistrates would very soon decide the matter for him. There could be no doubt that an act of great cruelty bad been committed. The defendant, after consulting with his fiends, eon sentei to make an arrat vment with the complainant. and they retired for that purpose. Iu n short time they returned into C.)tart, and the detendant said he eauld not come to terms with the complainant ; he added that he bad offered him 1/ , and he wanted 41. for the donkey. The Magistrates, having consulted together, ordered the defendant to pay a fine of fatty shillings, and' also five pound., the value cf the donkey, and ten shillings costs. They at the same time expressed their opinion that a most gross act of cruelty had bean committee, for which the fact of the donkey's trespassing was not the slightest justi fication, as the parties had a remedy for that by impound ing it, or adopting other legal methods of redress. An applirwion was then made to allow the amount of the damage done by the donkey to the crop to be do- - ducted from the fine,t,o which the Bench consented, and upon Mr, Morison swearing that the a.nount of the da mage was ten shillings, that sum was ordered to be de ducted, Tho CITAIRMAN then, addres:ing► the parties, said there could be no doubt after the evidence thr.t hail been ad duced, that the dogs in question were very ferocious and quite unfit to be at large, and the Magistrates felt it to be their duty to caution them to keep them properly secured to future. The defendant, in a very careless tone, said that the dogs were always fastened up, and they could not do any harm. 1 he CHAIRMAN said he hoped the caution wou'd be at. tended to, fur if the dogs did any mischief after this occurrence, they Would find it a very scr'ous matter. Mr. Mori;on then paid the amount of the fine and costs, and the value of the donkey, and t'c parties retired. It affords us pleasure to be able to state that law, and supoptoirit:e o L p o p r o d i l? .g e_n a f l e i r a a i i i l d in a e n h y a o s i g t o h n e e N to o . n L - o in n t d ru on sio f n or no tl s i t e ru p in u s rp ‘ o c s b e ic o h f tl7e 'e L L :Y u t i. ) .l e i n e d ti v to c ,i i i t n e d litst at British ri D tis u i l: e pe o e f r A o r i g le yle s ' u s pr ß e i m a a , cy an c d f that the S i r a ti protect the existing law of Patronage, as prefer , aole to any stead of it. And quackeries which have been proposed in ?at and support the petition of ship has undertakcn'etoare gratificl to lea-n that his Lord for protection from the ty rannousthe Presbytery of e i General Assembly and the eke'sitinwwalich that 'whit. family arc placed poe:ed, would have been effi proceedings of of Richmond, but tendency pc S ai c a il i ti n tf t ui y s i . cd joric T l eu h ibl a ly t s : al a i . lil3 0 , a ,:u th e Duke ,the . have teason r l ,i if t e ircment and at present, altogether exclud e that ' natural expectation a pro_from being realised. Lord Dunfermline, vitt to bclievc, has been induced to leave mingle for a time in the turmoil of pulsulicand found feeling of the disastrous natur e recent proceedings in the Church ; and, vi ith such en" of donoble men as Lord Aberdeen and Lord Dunfermline, ~x el . not apprehend that the Duke of Argyle and the Mar Breadalbane are fit to grapple on the high aretsagouflathoef House of Peers. The , discussions on these topics will probably come on in the course of the ensuing week, and in our next publication we hope to be :.b!e to vi v ,, our fricnda in the nen to some news- worth, r,Nttling. —.Aberdeen Herald. rttENc II EXTRAVAGA NC E.—Futiowkng the example of the Sovereign, every man of fashion considered it fashionable to possess one or more ml-tresses, on whom tile most extravagant expenditure was lavished. The Prince de Souhise, the intimate friend of the King, was foremost in this species of prodigality. Not content with casting gold at the feet . Gf une reine de boudoir, ten or twcivc ladies received his homage and his presents. Each of these was provided with a large retinue of servants, all Clothed in one livery, their equipages being also all uniform. ...7'heodore Hook's french Stage, CORN-LA WS. The Earl of RADNOR presented a great number of petitions for the repeal of the Corn-laws, from Barn staple, St. Alban's, Horteord, Bihton, Taunton, several places in Somersetshire and Cornwall, and from various other places, of which we could not catch the names. The Earl of CARLISLE presented petitions from Morpeth, and other places, in favour of the Drainage of Towns' B;11 ; also a petition from a place in Middle sex for the abolition of Church Rites ; and a petition from inhabitants of Hackney, for the abolition of tolls on the Metropolitan Bridges. The Duke of WELLINGTON presented a peti• tion from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Barcesses of Hastings, in favour of the Jews' Declaration B 11; also a petition from Bath against the County Courts' B 11. The Eail of FALMOUTtI presented a petition from medical practitioners in Cornwall, agaiest the Mtalical Reform B 11. The Archbishop of CA'NTERBURY p7es?,nted a pe tition from 13atli-Easton, in the county of SJinersct, for the exclusen of Roman Catholics from Parliament. Ile thought, under present circumstances, it would be im possible for any reasonable man to concur in the prayer of the petitiu'. SUBMARINE MINES, CORNWALL. Lord DUNCAN NON said, that in consequence of what ha I fallen from the Noble EArl opposito (the Earl of Falmouth), respecting the claims of the Duchy of Cornwall to the produce of mines which wire worked under the sea, he had in quired into the subject, and the correspondence thereon was too voluminous for him to read through, but. he would say that the 1 tw•officers of the Crown and the Duchy had been consulted, and by their advice ,it was ntcndcd to try the right of the Duchy to the produce n question. The Earl of FALMOUTH said that the proprie tors of those mines had engaged their propel ty in the submarine produce from time immemorial. The present claim was a revival of an obsolete right which had never existed but in theory, and had never been enforced. The Nullum Tern pus Act shut out the Crown from receiving claims to rights which a subject had exercised for 61 years, and it was supposed that the Duchy of Cornwall was included in that Act. It now appeared that through some technical error the Duchy was omitted. If an advantage were now taken of the oversight to interfere with the rights of individuals, the whole of the county would rise as one man against the injunction. Lord DUNCANNON said that none of the mines proceeded against or to be proceeded a i ainst it, including the mines of 'the Noble E trl himself—(Laughter)— had been worked under the sea to the invasion of the rights of the Crown more than 40 years.—(Heir, hear.) After a few words from Lord ABINGER and the Earl of CAWDOR the conversation dropped. The Earl of WINCH ELSEA presented several petitions from places in Suffolk and Essex against any further grant to the College of Maynooth ; also a pe tition ;from a place in Suffolk against a repeal of the Corn-laws ; also a petition from the Archdeacon of Sudbury against the Tithe Commutation Act ; also a petition praying for certain alterations in the new Poor-law, for a limitation of the power of the Commis sioners, and for authorizing the guardians to grant out-door relief in certain cases only. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENT BILL. 'Viscount DUNCANNON having moved the se cond reading of the Metropolitan ImproveMent Bill, The Earl of WINCHELSEA wished to ask the Noble Viscount whether it was the intention of the Government to take measures for opening as much as possible the Regent's Park to the public, and whether they were resolvel on forming a park at the eastern end of the metropolis ? Viscount DUNCANNON said that he bad great pleasure in stating that her Majesty's Government were prepared to open the whole of the grass part of Regent's Park, as far as it could be done with a due regard to the rights of those who had laid out large sums in the purchase of villas in the neighbour hood. The whole of the Park would be thrown open to the public except the private enclosures. He was most anxious to throw the Park open as quickly as possible. Lord ASHBURTON thought it was a great mis take to suppose that throwing open every part of the Park was the best way to consult the pleasure of the public, for the preservation of the ornamental gardens was as necessary to their enjoyment as was the access to the open parts surrounding those necessarily inclosed spots. The Bishop of LONDON, in connection with the subject of the improvement of the metropolis, wished to bring the attention of the House to the state of the churchyards of the city of London. It was such, that he was most desirous to see a general law passed for the purpose of preventing any future interment in that city.— (Hear, hear.) He thought that it. would be possible to frame an Act for the general establishment of cemeteries in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, without injuring the pecuniary interests of the metropolitan clergy, one of whom had suffered a diminution of 2001. a year in his income, in conse quence of the interment of his parishioners in the ce metery at Kensal•green. The Reverend Prelate was most desirous also that those of the cast part of the metropolis should participate in the proposed im provements. He wished to know from the Nobl.e Lord at the head of the Woods and Forests, whether it was intended to provide a Royal Park for the East end ? Lord DUNCANNON said that he was most anxious to do the Ltmost to improve the neglected and unhealthy' localities in that part of the metropolis to which the Rev. Prelate alluded ; and, in fact, in the Me tropolis Improvement Bill, and in the Drainage Bill, that object was to some extent provided for. But with re spect to the proposed purchase and planting of the Royal Park, he thought it better not to state at present what his intentions were, for by doing so he should render it impossible to carry them into effect.—(Hear.) The Marquis of NORMANB Y said that he was desirous to frame such a measure as the Right Rcvcrcnd Prelate had alluded to, for the prevention of interment in the metropolis, and for providing cemeteries. But be had found the subject so beset with difficulties, that he had as yet made no pro gress with it. However, he did not despair, and he would be very happy to assist the Right Rev. Prelate, if the latter would take the question into his own hands. The Bill was then read a second time. The Ecclesiastical Commission Amendment Bill was read a second time, on the motion of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Lord ['ATHERTON prctented a n:!ti.ion from 500 boatmen on the Liverpool and - Canal, praying the House to take steps to prevent the necessity of their working on Sundays. The Earl of ABERDEEN prevented a petiiion from a Chamber of Commerce in Scotland, praying that no alteration might be made in the Banking System of Scotland. SUNDAY TRADING ON CANALS. The Marquis of NORMANBY, in rising to move that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the ex pediency of preventing Sunday trading on Canals, Navi gable Rivers, and Railways, said he could not consent to any measure which would tend to limit the innocent en joymmes of the people, or even to interfere with those oc casional pursuits which the state of society rendered ne cessary—all be wanted t 3 do was to give relief, and the means of moral and religious improv merit to those who, under the present state of the law were compelled to work revers days each week. The present system was one which subjected the boatmen to much misery. asd the inhabitants along the line of canals to much inconvenience; it was also the cause of much of the leaser crimes, as they had an op portunity of pilfering on Sunday, when the people were engsgad in the services of the day. lie proposed to ex tend the provisions of any measure to the carriage of goods by rail ways on Sundays, for it was rendered wholly unne cessary by the rapid communication now established throughout Oie country, and it would be giving then an unfair advantage over canals if they were allowed to carry goods while it was prohibited on water. There were some chfliculties in the way, but he did not think they were in superable, and he hoped they would in Committee find means to overcome there. The Bishop of LICHFIELD *e motion of the Noble Marquis would be received throughout the country with great sstisfactien—he could answer tor it that it would be hai!ed with gratitude by the whole of the people in his diocese, which Ives more intersected by canals than any other in the country. Not only the boatmen employed on the canals, but the carriers, were anxious that Sunday traffic should be put a stop to, and numerous petitions had been presented to their Lordships on the subject. Some respectable and high-minded men had stopped their boats from travelling on Sundays, but in consequence of their doing so they lost their turn in the trade, which was a se lious detriment and loss to them, and they were obliged to put them on agsin. They nose, however, most anxious that some legislative enactment should be framed to put an end to the system. Many of the boatmen lived in these, canal boats, and the consequence cf their trading on Sun days was, that their wives and families w ere e q uall y de prived of the proper observance of the Lord's day. Lord COLCHESTER inquired whether it was in tended to include navigable rivers, and to prevent vessels arriving from abroad from entering ? The Marquis of NORM ANB Y said he thought such a measure would he produetiv of great inconvenience, and he would remind the Noble Lord that they were not now legislating. be egislating, but merely arranging as to tire duties of a Committee of Inquiry. Lord HATHERTON said that was one of the diffi. culties of the subject. He wished to kno w how estuaries and t id e r i vers were to b e cons id ere d ; but as regarded The the canals an d cana l r i lcrF , h e t h oug h t go ods and merchandize publi c . co s i t n o m p n p it e te d e on wa S s u t n h d en ayi ap w p it ,, h in o t u e t d. any inconvenience to Bill Lir re O m ß ov D ing C d ll o , u k b N ts C a l4 s : LtoLtOheßliaTidlityonto the mni t s abe a Punishment of Peers and Lords of Parliament, in certain casesof felony. The Marquis 01 IiORMANBY laid on the table the EVENING F.IDITIFON. I rent and charges to which the person who laid shim to vote was liable, should b e su ffi c i ent to qua lify him to enjoy the franchise. He thought the • Honourable Gentl men on that side of the house ought to agree to this proposal. The words of the clause, which was introduce] left year into the 811 by the Ris slit Hon. and Least Gentleman the Attorney-Goner d for Ireland, were— " That the beneficial incrust should be define I the profit or advantage derived or derivable by such chimant from such premises, after deducting the tithes-rent charge, and their expenses, if any, of cultivating the same." The Right Honour- ' able and Isoarned Gentleman admitted that 101. profit beyond all these charges ()sight to constitute the right to vote. In the recent debete, when he (Lord Howick) contended that the occupant's own labour was not to be deducted in calculating tilt' beneficial interest, the Hon. and Learned Gentlemen, the Member for Dub lin, himself corrected him ( Lord llesvicks), and said that it was never contended that any such construction should be put on the law —that a fair deduction was to be suede for the v slue of the occupant's own labour. If; then, those deductions were to he mule, he (Lord Howick) could not clearly understand what line of di s ti nc ti on cou ld b e d rawn by lion. Gentlemen bet seen the cistern proposed and that course sugg,sted on the opposite side. Ile was really at a loss to discover, speahieg only technically and legelly, what could he t diffsreace between the con struction of the beneficial interest contended for oy the Ilon. and Lsarned Member for 'Dublin, and thet by the gentlemen on the otl:er aide of the near.) interest than 101., would not be very unfairly r e ore stam! by 5/. excess of value beyond the rent, a. 4 in the manner he ( Lord H.) professed. If the Hoe. aed Learned Gentleman's construction of the existing law was to he taken, his (Lord H.'s) proposition might 114 considered a fair substitute and equivalent for the ex isting law. 'lf that sere granted that Si, excesses olf value beyond the amount of rent payable was the bene— ficial interest, as contemplated by Parliament when the existing law was passed-1 such would he the effect of the clause, he could see no good reason for rejecting the amendment he propo.c t. Taking the admission of the lion. Gentlemen on the other side of the House • during the recent debate, that it was necessary t o form some easily ascettaieed tea', he thought they could hardly consistently reject his proposal. Neither, s,„ lie thought, could lion. Gentlemen on that side reject ,jI The effect of adopting the amendment he proposed! would be to continue a class of voters to whom be wast,,sik' sore no plausible objection could be made. All tboses voters who claimed a right to vote in respect of a free - ' hold in fee, not for a mere technical freehold but. ono consisting of a freehold for lives, ell these voters would receive gre it advantage from adopting the amendment lie (Lord Howick) proposed, and in the same manner it was perfectly obvious that all persons who paid a low rent for their property according to the . • clause as proposed by the Noble Lord (Lord Morpeth) could not claim a right of voting unless their property was actually rated at 8/. Perhaps now a person . voted for property that was not worth more than 5/.—why was such a man to be disfran chised ? In the acme manner persons who paid 11. rent for land, and had greatly improved it, having perhaps reclaimed it from some bog or mountain land, might have made it worth something less than 81- These persons would have a right to vote under his (Lord Hossick's) clause ; but would! be excluded from that right by the clause of his Noble Friend, Surely he (Lord Howick) was not called upon to argue that it was desirable these men should not have votes. He found in a Reports • on the table of the House that electors who were rated at small sums, so far as they were ascertained, paid an ex ceedingly low rent. In the Bandon Union there were two of these persons, one of them had fifteen acres, being subject to no rent, and was rated at 71. 10s., and the other had tea acres, and was rated at 4L These persons ‘, would vote under his clause, but would be excluded 1 1 that of his Noble Friend. This clause as it stood would exclude some of the best and most intelligent persons who enjoyed the right of voting under the existing law- He was aware that be should be told that the amendment he was about to propose would admit some voters on the franchise who would be excluded by the clause of his Hon. Friend, and on the other hand it might be said that leaving the law as it stood would have the effect of greatlf restricting the constituency of Ireland. any and support might be inclined to resist his amendment ana support the clause of his Noble Friend, because they thought it absolutely necessary to supply the deficiency in the constituent body in Ireland. He agreed with thrill in that necessity, and he certainly did not propose that that should be the only change adopted: On the con trary, it appeared to him that it was necessary that some further measures should be adopted, in order to prevent the franchise from Icing confined to very much fewe r hands than was desirable. But the question was how Oa; was to be accomplished ? His Noble Friend propo se ; that it should be done by giving the right of voting W all persons rated so low as 81. who bad a lease for not 105 s ‘ than fourteen years. The proposition which he woul d • submit was (and he thought it right to explain his two propmit'ons at the same time, although there was no ne cosset), connection between them) aid it would be for the House to adopt or reject it as they thought pro. per. The difference between his Noble Friend and himself was this—that his Noble Friend proposed to have a very low amount of ratirg as conferring thefran chise, but that such persons should have a lease for not less than fourteen years. Ile (Lord Howick) wished to propose to the House that a very considerably higher . amount of rating should be insisted upon as the qualifies.. tion, but that no lease should be insisted on—that the' yearly tenant should be admitted to the franchise in con , ' . mon with the tenant for fourteen years. One of the motives which induced him to propose those changes wag that, in his opinion, supposing some additional franchise to be requisite in Ireland, it was of the utmost importaae e that it should be so formed as not to give rise to further demands of the same kind in future. He strongly held the opinion so frequently and so ably insisted on by his Noble Friend the Secretary of State for the Coloaiess that the recurrence of political changes was in itself an evil of the greatest magnitude.—(Hear, bear.) 11° wished to avoid as far as was practicable any attempt to dis turb the distribution of power established by the Reform Act; but lie could not help thinking that the clause , as proposed, would be very objectionable on that head. (Hear.) He thought it would be so; both inasmuch as it would produce a totally new class of voters, a class of voters unlike any other which at this mo ment was to be found, he believed, in any other part of the kingdom ; and also a class holding a lower position ire JO; • ciety than any class of voters to whom the Reform Act OP extended the franchise. On the contrary the proposition' which he wished to submit to the House was founded strictly on the analogy of the Reform Act. He found that in England a 50/. tenant without a lease was entitled tothe franchise ; and it would be but a natural proceeding. grant a similar right to the people of Ireland. By doing' so it did not appear to him that they would give rise to Ipy fresh claims on the part of the people of this country; boV when he said a similar right he did not mean to say that be thought the payment of a rent of 50/. would form a desire ble qualification in Ireland. Far from it ;it was perfect'," obvious when they compared the difference of wealth i° the two countries, as well as the very great subdivision of landed property in Ireland, that if they vrete t , ( l require the same value as in England , they won t only be giving a franchise which would be almost illusory But more than that, they had, for reasons which he though ; perfectly valid, refteed to Ireland a 40s. franchise—a cir cumstance for which he thought they should make some allowance in fixing the amount of the value to be require d of the occupying tenant. He was not prepared to give a po sitive opinion as to the amount of value ehich should be required ; for, from the very late period et which the re turns had been plsced in their hands—the most important having only reached them that moruing—it was utterly int' possible for him to give that close consideration to the subject which its importance deserved. The object, how ever, which they should base in view might, he thoughts be easily fixed. They should endeavour to give to Ireland as la-ge a number at least of voters, as enjoyed the fran chise there immediately After the passing of the Relearn' Act,—( Hear, hear.) With that number ha should b ° swished, and he would not ask Hon. Gentlemen opposite to give more. It was no easy matter to decide at wha t amount the franchise should be fixed, in crier to a ttaia that end ; and be felt persuaded that the subject would rt quire some further consideration. All ho then 114E4 the house to do was to consent to the principle, that instead of a4opting a very low amount of rating, with a lease, they should dispense with the lease, and take a considerably higher amount of rating than that which had been proposed by the Gsysrnment. lie did I not think the qualification should be determined by the amount of rent, but on the amount of sating ; for, if tbel were to adopt a contrary principle, they would give premium on high rents, which, he believed, was already ore of the greatest grievances of Ireland,. In proposing p hi o s p a u m la e r nd o n b T e n e t ti , o h n e „ g entlemen attrib ute d a pre j u di c i a l ope ration the wthaastaawtaerneanthtawtithheomutigahtlbecasmeedtidby not possess the independen ce which sho uld qualify hi • rfraatinaenhit7.theMelaanufse introduced into the Reform Act by the present Duke of Buckiageam ; but he confessed that, in his opinion, 'the objection was one to which very un,duo force was attached. As far as he had observA the work ing of the s ystem in England, it certainly appeared to him that the tenant was in general disposed to vote with his landlord, unless on occasions of extraordinury excite ment, such as that which preceded the passing of the Re' form Bali, when tenants. in spite of threats, acted in opposiion to their landlords, He remembered very well that at an election at whiter complaiiits of inticeid elm had been made most loudly, namely, at the election at whic h his Hon. Friend the Under-Secretary for the Home Dep art ' ment had b een d e f eated in Perthshire, that intimidatto° had been used principally in regard to tenants holding leases for a longer period than nineteen years. In , the case of I re l an d, he found it stated as a universal f act t the Rep or t s l a id b e f ore t h em , t h a t th a t land for wh ich , there was t h e highest competition was that which was let to small holders. It had been stated that such land wad sometimes let at four or five times the rated value, Jon - this circumstance would show, that in general th is heldelss' was in a much lower condition than those who hick larger farms. But there was another conseq uence ought to be looked to—the multiplication of small "' el menta.—(Hear, hear ) What would be easier than tee ass at a landlord should create a number of small tenerne that nominally high rents, with the understandi n g v eted there should be an abasement if the tenant according to the landlord's bidding ?—( Hear, freehold Such was the case under the old forty-shilling. free l . l .sh with wnle franchise, notwithstanding the many guardsreserv that franchise was surrounded, for the purpose of p ing the tenant totally independent of the landlordre the present measure of his Noble Friend there were ;J ar such contrivances to prevent evasion. The leas n e.,° .. . l o . from adesing to the independence of the tenant woad red, bear.) der him truly and irretrievably at the mercy of his /.1 . V ET lord . mot , '"4 Noble Friend illill : 4 : ll: 7_ ; : ittii :_ l iO :l oint : bllll4 f . j e ci: c} (3 ?.ess ti r : s S i p eat !3 u o nhr u c s dYe i l .i 4 "th t , a much ertending kt Pod by 4i s Ito .!coied on eit ki Tr-lnw Inc] fact,: that ~ ankl- in till i He (Lord to dlotcleconi Pair land s . H I Mute in Irelanl '41 4 7 that the h ., Power ._(I had fr, :great of hi s co et of land. in ti actin g on t expireei 2 ",e Friend's r iu -man ag, Cied, ell mourn he .Idings il l whc were fin,.__ g , ht it we •su' ~ GI IL~! t -..,.