The Sun. — London, England, 1834-06-04 00:00:00

lip \ .•**li' ;\ \\ SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The motion of Lord AUorp on Monday night in resistance to that of 4 _%fr. Ward was stated by the noble lord to be neitler more nor less than a demand upon. the " confidence" of the House of Commons. An appeal to confidence ought above 411 things to be founded on some conspicuous proof of candour and integrity in relation to the subject with reference to which the appeal, &c., has been made. Now, let us ask whether, and to what ex tent so fair a title has been established by the noble lord and his new colleagues on that subject, which produced the separation of Mr, Stanley and Sir J. Graham from the former cabinet ? It is alleged by Lord Althorp that the majority of the Ministers had agreed to leave to the consideration of Parlia ment the question whether that body had or had not a right to divert to different objects from those which already engrossed it, any surplus arising from the revenues of the Irish church, beyond what might be nftegsary for such a number of clergymen as would adequately administer to the spiritual wa.uts of the Protestant population of Ire land. It is alleged again, and stated or implied by Mr. Stanley, that the oceasion of Mr. Ward's motion having brought on that moment, at which there was no longer a possibility of stifling the difference between him and the majority of his colleagues with regard to the propriety of considering such a question, he, the right hon. gentleman, and those who thought with him, resigned. One would suppose from this that the new Cabinet bad now an open road before them —one would suppose that the professed dis sentients having retired and left the hands of the ministerial majority unshackled, the latter persons would have come forward with eagerness to prove the truth of their declaition—that they had sacri ficed their colleagues to the assertion of the right of Parliament to deal as it might deem fit with super fluous church property, and that in consequence they would support that one of Mr. Ward's resolu thins which went no further than to reeognize that very principle for the maintenance of which in the Cabinet they took credit to themselves as the ground of their practical dismissal of Mr. Stanley and his friends from office. We repeat, that the fair, the natural, the single, manly, and straightforward course for men sincere in their avowal of a certain princi ple, was to acknowledge, and support, by their votes, that principle, when it should be pro posed in the House of Commons. Mr. Ward proposed it. Lord Althorp, and the professed ad vocates of the power of Parliament, so far from concurring in Mr. Ward's motion, would not even suffer the subject to be entertained by the house - they moved upon it the previous question—the common trickery of men already superannuated in the tortuous ways of office—and carried it by a majority, composed in part of 80 or 90 Conserva tives, - who have always been mad when a redress of Irish grievances was recommended, partly of old stagers, whose vocation is to wait upon the Down ing -street Providence, for whatever offal they can contrive to pick up ; in no small degree it consisted also of gentlemen whose consciences were tender upon the point of encountering their constituents at another election, and who •therefore dreaded such an overthrow of the Ministry as might lead to a dissolution of Parliaincnt ; and, finally, of well meaning but timid men, who were for giving a feeble Cabinet one more trial, and preferred Lord Grey to that which has been made the studied bugbear of the last six days—namely, the advent of a mere Tory Cabinet ! as if such chimera could exist anywhere beyond the confines of a crazed • imagination. Such was the ma- jority—a majority, tiiio large sections of which viz., the first and the last, will not be found avail. able for any further purposes of the administration, and must therefore not be counted among the per manent elements of the ministerial victory. But if such was the majority, what was the motion of Lord Althorp ? He boasted that his difference with the Stanley division of the Cabinet was on be half of the principle that church property is ame nable to the will and wisdom of Parliament. But what light does his lordship's conduct throw upoi, this his ostensible doctrine ? We grieve to say that they are utterly irreconcileable . He dares not _ _ put on the records of Parliament his belief of his own words. If he and all his colleagues held in reality that opinion, why did they tell the House of Commons " That is a sore subject—we bar you from discussing that ?' No ; they give a commission of inquiry, not subject to the control of Parliament— not bound by any Parliamentary authority—a com mission which this or any succeeding Cabinet may tear in pieces or burn as they please, and one, more- over, of which the duration will be for what ever number of years may suit the convenience of government, should it require a quarter of a cen tury. We ask, then, if the commission be really enjoined to act in furtherance of a given principle, what folly is it to begin by refusing the recognition of the principle for the enforcement of which the commission has been so ostensibly established! Is it pusillanimity ? Is it duplicity? Is 'it some scheme for baffling Parliament, and blinding the people of both countries, that the minister would palm his mere word upon the country as a substi- - tute for a declaratory resolution of the House of Commons ? The commission _ ought, in common sense, to flow from the principle, and to originate . - in it. But we are put off with a commission of in quiry ; and when we demand the object and con- templated result of that inquiry, they actually re- fuse to answer us. Well did Mr. O'Connell fix the challenge upon ministers. Mr. Stanley (and nobly dicrthal right hon. gentleman redeem his error of -opinion by the manly and con- :,cientious hardihood 'With which be main- tamed it)—Mr. Stanley, said Mr: O'Connell in his eloquent speech, " has boldly asserted. his principle ; will you, ministers, assert yours ?" No 1 • • such thing. God knows it gives us pain enough, in our discharge of the duty we owe our country, to reproach them with it ; but ministers, we do from our hearts declare, have, under some pressure or difficulty to us inconceivable, displayed on this occasion a mean, trimming, truckling demeanor, of which the cause can no otherwise be so much as even conjectured, but on the hypothesis that some intriguing power is at_ work, beyond the walls of the cabinet, though perhaps not very remote from the closet, which, in accordance with the hurrahs and exultations of the Tory prints, continues to paralyze the timid endeavours of the ministers, and to make good the menace conveyed in those signifi cant words of Mr. Stanley, that he had not yet seen the English-,sovereiga who would give his as sent to a law, even slundil it pass, for executing the purposes ostensibly indicated by this ministerial commission. To talk of this cabinet, therefore, as purified—to dream of it as being more effec tive—to shut our eyes to its still augmented em barrassments, as compared with those of the former cabinet, is absolute want of common sense. The former cabinet contained a great deal more ability than this, and was not one iota more restrained in its free agency. We tell these Minis ters, that in the public estimation, and in ours, through their late frivolous attempt to repair a dilapidated edifice with chips and shavings picked up from the kennel, they have lost what confidence they ever before possessed ; they are looked down upon by the whole country, and will yet, and that ere long, be ruined for the want of that very class of colleagues of which they have now with such selfish cowardice trembled to avail themselves. Poor fellows! The natural ascendancy of a strong mind has frightened them out of their wits and out of their principles. Lord Grey's letter in reply to the inconsiderate address presented to him on Wednesday or Thursday of last week, by 150 Whig Members of Parliament, betrays a tone of querulous and spiritless conservatism, which is quite in keeping with the Parliamentary transactions of last Monday. It has all 9K..4mr. -Stanley but the • ' ' Much surprise has been expressed that the To ries, during the last few days, have exhibited so little the appearance of any design to repossess \ themselvei- pi' the Government. V. happen to -know that the conservative leaders have more saga city and eircutespection than their " hangers on." Sir Robert Peel is well assured that if the conser vatives could regain, they cannot retain office ; and at the coteries held in Privy-gardens, the divisions of the Tory party—the deadly nature of the reform bills—the evil consequences of a dissolution of Par liament—have all been maturely discussed. In fact the conservatives are a divided house. A large section look with enmity and suspicion on Sir Ro bert Peel ; the right hon. baronet, on the other hand, is much incumbered by the dead weight of many of his old friends and political opinions. It is now notorious that not above fifty members of the House of Commons constitute any real party of conservatives—that thirty members embrace the totality of the Ultra-Tory wing—and that thirty " moderate Tories" comprise the entire corps of anti-reformers. Such a fraction of the House of Commons could never long act together, or maintain itself as one-sixth of a consti tuent assembly. If the Tories Could prevail on the King to dissolve the Parliament, their utmost gain, on their own calculation, and under circumstances temporarily disadvantageous to the Liberals, would not exceed fifty. The embarrassment of a Tory Ministry in a House of Commons opposed to the Government in the proportion of three to one, may well be imagined, and is fully foreseen by the older Tories. Mr. Croker cunningly perceives that the present House of Commons is probably the most Conservative Parliament of his generation ; and if the Tories would obtain a small accession of strength, they well know that their natural enemies, the Ra dicals, would be more numerous and double distilled in a new house. Indeed, we do not believe that the Tories could form a Cabinet, under all their diffi culties. It is true that four public men are recently turned loose on parties ; but of these Mr. Stanley alone possesses any real powers ; and, in his last speech, he raised an impassable barrier between himself and office in liberal times. As the letter of Lord Grey, in reply to the address of the 150 members of the House of Commons last week, in the Chronicle of yesterday, has excited much obser vation, we now publish a verbatim copy of the address itself (having already given the substance of it) : " TO EARL GREY. " Mr Loan—We have heard with deep concern that the changes which have taken place in the Administration might possibly lead your Lordship to contemplate retire ment from office. " Impressed with the firmest conviction that the country is indebted to you' for the success of measures the most essential to the public welfare, and assured that your re signation at this crisis would produce consequences most injurious to the peace and prosperity of the community, we venture to express to your lordship our undiminished con fidence in the wisdom with which you have held the reins of Government, and our unshaken attachment to those principles which you have so efficiently and consistently maintained. We desire, therefore, to convey to you our anxious hope that you will not be induced to retire from his Majesty's councils whilst you can continue to preside over them as you h ave hithe r t o done, with so much honour to yourself, and so much benefit to the country." We forbear to comment on the obvious political spirit of Lord Grey's answer. The document was doubtless designed to suit a combination of various parties. Enough has been said on the composition of his administration ; we shall wait its acts, and if its policy is liberal, the Cabinet will have our con sistent but independent support.---Morn. Chronicle. Last night was devoted to plans for moral im provement and instruction. Mr. Buckingham moved for a committee to inquire into the extent, causes, and consequences of intoxication, with a view to prevent the spread of it. No one can doubt that drunkenness is a great evil, but the remedy is not so obvious. We suspect that both in the United States and Thitain (the two most drunken countries in the world), the absurd war, waged by the Puritans against all innocent sports, is the main cause of the drunkenness. We have always ob served that light-minded people are less disposed to be drunkards than grave, owlish-like persons. The best way, perhaps, of attacking so resolute a force as the love of intoxication, is to create a rival. Mr. Buckingham carried his motion ; and if the inquiry be carried on in a proper spirit, that is, if we inquire what the practices are of the sober nations, we may do some good. We have such an abhorrence of drunkenness, that if we knew man or woman to be addicted to it, we should never think of employing either—having never known a drunkard to be good for anything, and believing the sooner he is Out of the world the better it will be for him self and for those connected with him. For all vices and crimes there is some hope—for drunken ness none. We have never known a drunkard re formed.—Morning Chronicle. Even when the administration was in what might be called a fixed and consolidated position, it was not very easy to discover what portion of the press might be looked upon as its recognised organs. In this respect, indeed, symptoms of disunion have been all along apparent. Two parties in the cabi net, if not more, have all along had distinct and very opposite channels of conveying their self eulogies or dislikes to the public, while an exterior or undermining party has been equally sedulous in putting forth feelers and vituperatives, .not the less annoying and galling because issued under the mask of hollow attachment. Of - this last class Lord Durham has been at once both the organ and the object ; indeed there are those among our con temporaries keen-sighted enough to declare that they perceive in many of the articles to which we allude the actual style and composition of the noble earl himself. On this latter point we do not pro fess ourselves competent to form an opinion ; but this we know that, if such be the case, many of thos‘ articles betray a tone of virulence, not to say of libel, far exceeding anything in any of the many publications of which the noble earl in question has been the prosecutor in various courts of justice. The secret as to the noble earl's rejection among the late changes of office is at length fairly avowed. After certain hints on the part of one evening paper, and flat denials from two morning journals, the Globe distinctly and authoritatively avows that it is to the noble earl's want of temper that his recent exclusion from office is entirely owing, and that not only one, but all his former colleagues po sitively decline to be again associated with him in the Cabinet. If any thing could teach a man wis dom, by showing him his own peculiar failing, one might imagine this would do it. It is, perhaps, the most degrading position in which a public man could ever have been placed. "We acknowledge your talents," say the noble earl's colleagues ; " your principles, too, are exactly to our taste ; but you are naturally and habitually so captious, so irritable, ant so quarrelsome, that there is no such thing as carrying on public affairs in concert with you." What would a wise man do under such cir cumstances but set about sedulously and resolutely to cure a defect, which generally grows into conse quence by the encouragement which is given to it ? Mr. Pitt, in the early part of his career, was called the " angry boy"—a fault which he took care to correct, and which was, therefore, never imputed to him in after life. It is true that Lord Durham is no " boy," and that there is an adage which says— " No man alive Did e'er improve past forty-five." But, in this latter respect, the noble earl has not yet passed the rubicon, but has still a locus peni !entice left, which he would do well to avail hirn of.—Morning Herald. though it has not diminished our respect for his talents, nor our regard for the principles on which he has acted, in separati ng hi mse lf from - his late colleagues, has wholly estranged from us the slight est portion of regret that he has ceased to be a mem ber of the ministry and of the cabinet. We, indeed, conscientiously congratulate our readers upon the fact of his secession ; for a speech more selfish, more narrow-minded, more bigotted, more opposed to, the spirit which pervades the community —more adverse to church reform—more confined in its views—or more domineering in its spirit', kad never been delivered even by the Corypheus of Irish Pro testantism himself within the walls of the House of Commons. He out-heroded Herod. Lord Eldon is a cypher to him in his gigantic imagination of the sacredness of 'church property ; and even Peel— anxious as he is to form a coalition with him—ho nourable we cannot term it—shrunk from abetting to their full extent the startling doctrines of the ex- Secretary for the Colonies. " His principles," to use the language of The Sun, in which a very just and proper article appears on the subject, " are, that no matter how the Protestant population fall off, no matter how Catholics increase, and no matter how injurious to the Protestant re ligion may be the existing establishment, still it must be preserved at all hazards --o n in roads must be made on the church—a clergyman must 15'e paid for in every parish, whether he resides there or not—whether there are five hundred Pro testants or not one, and all the staff of archbishops, bishops, deans, and prebends must be maintained in Catholic Ireland precisely as it is now maintained in England." We will not treat the ex-Secretary to a. dissertation upon all the consequences which would result, and all the conclusions which might be drawn, from these premises, and for three rea sons—first, because both are so obvious as not to be mistaken—secondly, because any school-boy could expose their sophistry and absurdity—and thirdly, because the maintenance of such opinions is utterly inconsistent with the conduct of the right honour able gentleman, when at no distant period he voted into perpetual oblivion no fewer than ten Irish bi shoprics! For all these reasons we withhold any com ment upon what—considering that he lately formed no inefficient member of the reform ministry —we must term his very extraordinary, most Conserva tive, and anti-liberal speech of Monday last ; but it would be injustice to our own, as well as to the feelings of the public, not to withhold our congra tulations that lie has no longer a seat in the Ca binet, nor any influence over its decisions. What a drawback he must have proved—what a clog upon every measure which had the promotion of liberal principles for its basis ! But to be brief—The ministry, if not strong, is now at least free from conservatism. The chaff has been winnowed from the corn, and if the corn be not of the first quality, it is at all events sound and wholesome. Let it but have good soil and good cultivation--let it but deserve the dew of popular favour—and no one will have to regret that the produce has not been intermingled with a luxuriant crop of t ares .— Morning Advertiser. It is understood that the Administration have determined to put an end to tbe present Session of Parliament with the utmost possible speed. They intend, however, to pass, if they can, the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill and the Irish Tithe Bill. The movement party are to be induced to favour the Ministerial object of getting rid of the two houses for the present, by the promise that Government will be prepared to make the most unlimited con cessions to them in the next session, and that mea sures shall be ready for introduction at its com mencement with which they cannot fail to be sa tisfied.—Morning Post. COURT CIRCULAR. The Princess Augusta, attended by Miss Wynyard and Sir Benjamin Stephenson, left town yesterday morning for Pope's Villa, Twickenham, the scat of Sir Wathen Waller and Baroness Howe. The Duke of Gloucester, attended by Colonel Higgins, left town in a carriage and four, also for Pope's Villa. Their Majesties came from Windsor Castle for Twicken ham, to honour with their presence the entertainment given by Sir . Wathen and the Baroness. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria drove and walked in Hyde-park yesterday for some The Ministers held a meeting yesterday afternoon, at the residence of Earl Grey. There were present Earl Grey, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscounts Melbourne, Palmerston, and Althorp, the Earl of Car lisle, the Right Hon. Charles Grant, Lord Auckland, Lord Wl?land, Lord John Russell, and the Right Hon. Edward Ellice. The Ministers were two hours in deliberation. A deputation from the Wesleyan Missionary So ciety, including the Rev. Jabez Bunting, and the Rev. J. Taylor, Messieurs Harlope, Matthews, and J. Beecham, had an interview with Viscount Althorp yesterday at the Treasury. The Right Hon. Spring Rice left town yesterday morning for Cambridge to attend his election. A deputation from Manchester, accompanied by Messrs. Wood and Philips, had an interview with Vis count Althorp and the Right Hon. Poulett Thomson yesterday at the Treasury. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SETTLING FOR DERBY AND OAKS. Like the postscript of a letter, which generally con tains more than the letter itself, the settling for the Derby is far more interesting to a betting man than its immediate result. It isvery well to look over your book and say " I have won so much ;" but the im portant query, " Shall I get it ?" will always present itself to those who have acquired experience in these matters ; an old stager can tell in a moment how it will be ; he can put his finger on those who won't come and those who will come but won't pay ; he can cal culate pretty closely what he shall receive in money and what in I 0 Us ; in short he will not have much trouble to ascertain what he has won by the race and what he shall lose by settling. Without departing from truth, the business transacted on the Tuesday after Epsom might be styled the " unsettling of the Derby and Oaks," for we will take upon ourselves to affirm that since the good old fashion of levanting has become obsolete no man has been able . to wind up his accounts for six months after their decision. There was no thing in the transactions of yesterday to distinguish it from other settling days ; the premises were crowded, the bank notes were handed about like waste paper, the winners smiled, the losers looked as losers always look, and all apparently went off smoothly ; one or two " outsiders" of the mushroom genus were " want ing," bOt all the principal sufferers were present. As we stated at the time, the winners were almost exclu sively confined to the gentlemen ; the balances, how ever, are moderate, a reasonabl e dread of Shilelah and Bubastes having induced most of them to hedge their money. The betting men are losers almost without exception, and most of the money won on Rockingham was lost on Bubastes. The Oaks came off more favourably for the book -masters, notwithstanding that many of them were "picked up" at thousands to twenty-five thousands to forty, &c., to a considerable amount. It is gratifying to add. that both races were run perfectly on the square, and their results were cal culated t o o p erate beneficially on racing, as the money returns to those who have ever been the best friends of' the turf. The honourable, straightforward, and sportsmanlike conduct of Mr. Batson throughout, especially for refusing an enormous sum for his horse (a sum exceeding what he was in bets), is spoken of in all quarters with the highest admiration; of the integrity of his jockey no other proofs need be adduced than that he won on the horse and lost on the race ; he was present yesterday, and received substantial marks of approbation from several noblemen and gen tlemen. The only bets we heard were as follow : ASCOT CUP NEXT WEEK). 5 to 2 agst th e D u k e o f Cleveland's Muley Moloch (t) Even orr Muley and Rockingham agst the field (t) self The debate of Monday night on Mr. Ward's resolutions has told in fovour of the new cabinet — for new in many respects we may , now very fairly term it—to an extent which has as greatly disap pointed its enemies, as it has gratified all who were inclined to deal fairly with it. Mr. Stanley, in fact, furnished the most complete vindication of it, in the elaborate speech which he- delivered, which any cabinet could possibly have desired. We ad mire the talents of that right hon. gentleman—we have repeatedly mentioned with deserved commen dation his powers of reasoning and debate—we have regretted his secession from the cabinet, as a diini- I Ascot Heath races commence on Tuesday next ; nution of the strength of the ministry in the House they promise excell e nt sport. The entry for the Ascot Of Commons ; but his speech of Monday night, Cup next year is one of the finest ever known. DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 10 to 1 agst Mr.Hese'tine's Warlaby Baylock (t) It is stated that Conelly, the rider of Plenipoten tiary, has received nearly a thousand pounds in pre sents; Mr. Batson gave him 300/. SURREY SESSIONS, Juin S. Mary Greenwood, a fine-looking young woman, aged seventeen, and her mother, .Mary . Ann Green wood, aged forty-five, with an infant in her arms, were indicted, the former for stealing a large quan tity of wearing apparel, and other articles, the pro perty of her employer, Mr. John Heasman, oilman, of St. Saviour's, Southwark, and the latter for re ceiving the same, well knowing them to be stolen. The case presented another instance of the flagrant offence of robbery by servants, and being clearly proved, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The COURT sentenced the younger prisoner to seven years' and the mother to fourteen years' trans portation. An agonizing scene ensued after the convicts were conveyed from the bar. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. The Honourable Mrs. Portman yesterday attended to prosecute the driver of the cabriolet, 1,121, Richard Ayres, for furious and negligent driving, whereby her carriage was injured.j From the evidence of Thomas Tett, the footman, and Greeves, the coachman, it appeared that the carriage was passing along Warwick-street, Golden square, on Tuesday, when the cab, which was being driven at a furious rate, came in concussion with it, and the shaft struck the off-side door-pannel, and broke the lamp. The cabman tried to pull up, but from the speed with which he was going he found it impossible. A bill from the coachmaker proved the damages at 8/. The defendant was convicted in the penalty of 51. (the highest penalty) for the damage, and 11. for furious driving, with the costs. LAND SHARKS.—Among the night-charges brought before Mr. CHAMBERS, was one John Thompson, a hardy weather-beaten tar, who had been found taking a comfortable " snooze" under the columns of the Quadrant the overnight, and who, when questioned by the policeman, gave as - his reason for choosing such an airy berth, that he was " regularly stumpt," and without one copper to jingle against another. Mr.CHAmsEßs—Well, John Thompson, how long have you been ashore ? Sailor—A week, your honour ; came home in the 6' Minerver Ingyman, and got paid off last Wednesday. Mr. CHAMBERS—HOW much did you receive ? Sailor—Twenty-five pounds, your honour. Mr. CHAMBERS—Twenty-five pounds ! What, spent all that money already ? No, your honour ; didn't spend a dump of it ; got cleaned out the same day by a land-shark. Mr. CHAMBERS—Come, tell us how it occurred. Sailor—Why, d'ye see, your Honour, arter I'd got my money at the Ingy-house, and was bearing right a-head for Westminster, a young hooman came alongside, and I ax'd her if she know'd of ever a steady lass as liked a can of flip and a sailor ? Well, your Honour, she said as how she was just the girl to suit me, and sowe claps in all sail, and turns into a house somewhere in Lambeth, where we got pretty well drunk. When I Bits up in the morning, I found my messmate had cut and run, and taken my jacket with her. Mr. CHAMBERS—And how much money did she leave you ? Sailor—Elevenpence half-penny, your Honour. The Sailor told the story of his loss with the greatest unconcern. Mr. CHAMBERS—What do you mean to do ? Sailor—Get a ship next week, and take another trip. Mr. CHAMBERS—And come back and lose your earnings in the same way. Well, get away, and be more careful for the future. The tar made a step or two out of the dock, but returned, and stood twirling his " nor-wester" with a sheepish air. Mr: CHAMBERS—Why don't you go away ? Sailor—Ax pardon, your Honour, but I'm so " hard up" that I ain't had a mouthful of bakker or biscuit these twenty-four hours. It's " hard lines" to be obligated to ax for a copper or two from strangers 7 Mr. CHAMBERS finding the " tact" which the sailor was upon, ordered him a trifle from the poor box. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday Thomas Bendy, alias Old Bandy, the father of the Westminster comers, was charged with coining. —The prisoner was committed for trial. THAMES POLICE. SAVAGE ASSAULT.—Yesterday John Skelton, a private belonging to the first battalion of Grenadier Guards, quartered in the Tower, was charged with assaulting a lad named James Graham. The complainant stated that on Saturday evening he was nursing his little brother, an infant, on the swivel bridge in New Gravel-lane, and was standing near the defendant, who was talking to two females. The defendant, without any provocation being offered to him, turned round and said, " What do you want here ?" He made no answer, and the de fendant lifted up his foot and gave him a violent kick in the eye, which knocked him down and nearly deprived him of the sight of it. The de fendant immediately ran away and went into a house in Farmer-street. Mr. Jackson, a respectable tradesman, confirmed the evidence of the boy, and said the defendant, who seemed the worse for liquor, laid hold of the boy's -collar, and kicked him in a very ruffianly manner. The soldier, in defence, said that he was having a few angry words with two women, and the com plainant was behind him, listening to their conver sation, and in sharply turning round to drive him away he knocked him down. He denied kicking him. Mr. BALLANTINE ordered the prisoner to pay the doctor's expenses, and sentenced him to pay a fine of five shillings for the assault. MARYLEBONE. On Monday, a poor man, far advanced in life, and suffering under the dreadful affliction of a recent para lytic attack, which had deprived him completely of the use of one side, applied to the sitting magistrate . ,s Messrs. R AWLINSON and H OSKINS , for an ord er t o be admitted into Marylebone poorhouse. The old man stated that he had lived in Marylebone parish upwards of 31 years, and that during the greater portion - of that period he had been master of a flou rishing business, and spent thousands of pounds in bringing up a numerous family ; his trade, however, went gradually to decay ; and to crown his misfortunes, he had in his old days been seized with paralysis, which deprived him wholly of the means of obtaining a live lihood, and he was now in a state of great destitution : in this extremity he .had applied to the parochial au thorities to be admitted into the workhouse, which had been refused him. _ Mr. RAWLINSON asked Mr. King (one of the parish officers in attendance) why the man had been refused admittance ? Mr. King replied, that it was in conse quence of his having refused to say where his wife was, as the Board had decided that they could not receive one without the other. The old man said that she had run away from him, and that he did not know where to find her. Mr. RAWLINSON directed that he should be sworn to that fact. The old man took the book in his hand, when Mr. King, addressing him, said, " Are you a Ca-. tholic ? Old man—l was bred to that persuasion, but have long since renounced it. Mr. RAwLiNsoN—What are you?„ Old man—Your worship, that's best known to my Maker. ( After a short pause)—l'm of no religion at all. Mr. RAWLINSON—Then I shall not compel the parish to relieve one who professes to have abjured religion. Go about your business. The old man then quitted the office, sighing as he limped away. The Marchesa Talga (late Lady Strachan) and her husband, the Italian nobleman of that name, have arrived in Park-lane, from Paris, where they stopped a few days, on their route from Naples. Her ladyship is accompanied by her youngest daughter, Miss Strachan, whom she will leave in this country under the care of a relative of the late Admiral, her first husband, and then return to Italy. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 3. The house sat to-day at four o'clock for the purpose of proceeding with the examination of witnesses on the Warwick Borough Bill. The Earl of ELDON presented petitions from Congleton and other places, in favour of the established church, and against the admission of dissenters to the universities. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented similar petitions from parishes in Dorsetshire. WARWICK BOROUGH BILL. Their lordships then proceeded with the further consideration of this bill. Mr. Harrison thought the examination of witnesses might be considerably curtailed, if his learned friends who opposed the Lill were to admit the amount of expenditure in the public houses. After some discussion, at the suggestion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the further consideration of the bill was ordered to be postponed till to-morrow at four o'clock, in order to give the parties an opportunity of agreeing, if possible, upon the amount to be admitted by the opposers of the bill of the expenditure at the public houses. Lord ROLLE presented petitions from the diocese of Exeter in favour of the established church, and against the admission of dissenters to the universities. The Duke of CUMBERLAND presented similar petitions from parishes in Gloucester. The Marquis of BUTE presented similar petitions from parishes in the county of Denbigh. Lord DE LA WARR presented petitions from Stratford-upon-Avon and Flint against any alteration on the corn laws. The house adjourned at twenty minutes before five o'clock, upon the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, to to-morrow at half-past three o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 3. The SPEAKER entered the house at twenty minutes past five, and proceeded to count the house, when there being more than forty members present, the right hon. gentleman took the chair. On the motion of Mr. C. WO OD, a new writ was moved for the borough of Cambridge, in the room of Mr. T. S. Rice, who had accepted the office of one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. (Hear.) CASE OF MR. D. W. HARVEY. ____ Mr. POLLOCK moved that certain papers which had been laid upon the table of the house, connected with this case, be Vrinted. Mr. O'CONNELL said the papers were before the committee, and that they would be ready by Friday. Mr. HUME objected to the printing of the papers ; they had been ordered to be printed, but were subse quently submitted to the committee. When the com mittee had read them they appeared to contain certain statements which it would not be right to make public until the committee had made inquiries as to how the evidence contained in them had been taken, and they had unanimously resolved that these papers should not be printed until they had ascertained how far it was proper that they should be laid before the house. The SPEAKER said these papers had been laid on the table by order of the house, and the commission had no right to inquire whether those papers so laid on the table should be printed or not. These papers, after being laid on the table, were ordered to be printed. Subsequently a motion was made that those papers be laid before the commission, and the order for printing them was suspended. The pro position of the hon. member for Middlesex appeared to be this—that a commission appointed for a particular purpose should control the judgment of that house after the house had ordered those papers to be printed. Mr. HUME explained. Mr. O'CONNELL said that there was one fact which he wished to put the house in possession of. Certain papers were ordered to be laid before the house, and these consisted o f the certificate of the benchers in the case upon which a committee had been appointed. A second certificate was subsequently pre pared, and as it was an irregular certificate he hoped the hon. and learned member would agree with him, that that was a document which was not called for by the house. He suggested that the motion should not be pressed until the committee met to-morrow. After a few words from Sir J. SC ARL ETT, The SPEAKER said that a motion had been made and acquiesced in for laying certain papers before the house. Those papers were produced, and the hon. and learned gentleman said more had been laid upon the table than were called for. This was an every day occurrence. The papers had been laid upon the table in order that the members of the house should be ac quainted with their contents. A motion was made that they be printed. Nothing was more common than to object to the printing of documents, if it was shown that they were very voluminous or comparatively useless. Mr. O'CONNELL, after a word or two in expla nation, withdrew his opposition. Mr. POLLOCK moved that an humble address might be presented to his Majesty, praying that a return of all cases of indictments for misdemeanors, &c., should be laid on the table. Sir H. PARKER presented two petitions from parishesoin Suffolk, praying for a labour rate. Mr. Alderman WOOD moved for leave to bring in a bill for the better regulation of cabriolets and other hackney carriages. Mr. HUME presented a petition, signed by several thousands of the inhabitants of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and another from the inhabitants of Berwick, against taxes on knowledge, and praying for,a system of na tional education to be established. Mr. BUCKINGHAM postponed his notice of mo tion on the subject of duelling. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented four petitions from different parts of the country against drunkenness. Mr. PATTEN presented a petition from Burn ley, in Lancashire, to the same effect. General SHARPE presented a petition from the inhabitants of Annandale on the same subject, and to the same effect. Mr. LLO YD and several other members presented petitions from different places of a similar nature. The Marquis of C H ANDO S wished to know when the noble lord opposite meant again to bring forward (as we understood) the question of the Tithe Commutation Act, as on that day he (the noble marquis) intended again to bring forward the sub ject of agricultural interests. Lord ALTHORP could only answer, that he should give due notice of the time when he should bring it forward. Mr. PEASE asked a question which was not dis tinctly heard in the gallery, on the subject of the flour and grain imported into the Isle of Man. Mr. P. T HOMSON said his attention had been called to the subject from events that had come under his notice, and he had directed an inquiry to be made into it ; as far as that inquiry had gone, not one of the alleged facts had been borne out,. but it should be proceeded in. DRUNKENNESS. Mr. BUCKINGHAM then rose to bring forward his motion on this subject, but from the continued noise in the house it was very difficult to catch the hon. member's observations. He said he felt assured that the house was not aware of the very great extent of misery and loss that was occasioned in this country by the vice of drunkenness. He feared he should render c iheooenanmv that es f edo o hcin. r t eu o s eHfsn o ht of e t usd h l e dmd boner houseoetta people, ob i e factst t h o a than satisfy whichalone, seand thneohtehhwionuse that the himself liable to the imputati on o f me ddli ng w i th the at as c w o a s n v i n more ce d foreign from his intenti ons . H e would draw the at habit of drunkennes s was more extens i ve, and its ci nojpuro upon o u t s h i t s h a: o j w e it e as generally tbhee opinion of private individuals, but to records of a public nature. The hon. member then referred to the report of the managers of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, Middlesex, to prove the effects of drunkenness. In that asylum there were 72 out of one hundred whose insanity was attributable to drunkenness ; and it had been ascertained that on a Monday 2,800 men, 1,855 women, and two hundred and eighty-nine children, visited a gin-shop in Holborn ; and on the Sabbath, which was the most prolific day of the whole, the numbers were considerably greater ; the sum total of a single week amounted to 269,438 men, 108,593 women, and 23,276 children. As this country was celebrated for its promotion of education and morality, it ought to be consistent, and endeavour to suppress this demoralizini , prac tice. In Edinburgh, in the royalty, there had been issued 736 new licenses in one year. If he turned from Scotland to Ireland, the fact was much more conclusive, for he had the evidence of a man who had made this a subject of fresh investigation, and in the province of Ulster he proved there were 30 spirit-shops to one shop for the sale of bread ; and in a town in which there were 800 houses there were no less than 18 spirit shops. In the central part of England, the towns of Manh chester, Leeds, and Sheffield, and those towps were the most populous, which influenced very inuc" P • the actions of those in the surrounding townS, he could prove, from incontrovertible testimony, that the system-of drunkenness was carried on, to an alarre ing extent. In Manchester in one shop 112 men, 163 women, and 137 children, making in all 412 persons, had been seen to enter upon an average every hour, and this was on a Saturday, before the poor had received their wages. In Leeds there were 297 hotels, 289 beershops, or in all 586 places, where in , toxicating liquors were sold. It was calculated that in Leeds 307,6321. was spent every year in spirits. The hon. member proceeded; amidst the Confusion ei the house, which rendered his details unintelligible the gallery, to make numerous statements in order to show the increase of the consumption of ardent spirits, and the consequent demoralization of the poor. He It ha contended that the bulk of th e E ng li s h , p o pulation had deteriorated dbeen o in alo gr ul o a w to t d h o th w a i t ng on to a t re hi o s e i n n t ro c p reas o i o n s g sio v n ice o , f the Trades' Unions about 50,000/. in wages had been lost by the poor in their absenting themselves from labour; but this was not more than was spent ever° day by the poordr classes in intoxication. It was sup posed that 2,500,0001. was spent every year in the con sumption of intoxicating liquors. For his part he looked upon the g i ns h o p t o b e a grea t er evil than any other as regarded the demoralization o f t people. ( Hear.) He wou ld now see if a ny legs slha e tion had ever been attempted on this subject in a n Y country, and, if so, whether it h a d succeeded. In America he found both law and usage worthy of iraP tation, as applicable to the general use of arcl el i calling th e a t tent i on o f t h e h ouse. I n t h at cou ntr t Y spirits, and to these h e was p ar ti cu l ar ly desirous the a public feeling indeed seemed to be strongly disP° se towards habits of sobriety ; b u t b es id es this the di, had grant e d a comm i ttee to i nq uire if the use of spirits amo ngs t th e A mer i can army w as belle , cial or injurious to the troops, and on that comnlittd:r reporting that th e use of spirits was an evil, an or a was sent forth to prohibit the use of it in futur e, an, since then it had been altogether discontintlec.l Shortly after the experiment had been so successit) , l Y tried in the army it wa s e x tended to the Amerww ., navy, a service in w hi c h it was su pposed to be impos sibleo' to do away with th e use o f s pi r its - but here too the attempt had be en em i nent l y succes sful both as re garded the A mer i can navy i tse lf an d the trading ser ,', vice of that country, f or ou t o f 1,706 trading vessel s that now belonged to the diff eren t states of Amer there was not one i n w hi c h th e use of ardent sp irits was either permitted o r w i s h e d for by the men them' selves. So far, -then, as regar ded America e ver y ha a lly , tempt to abolish the vi ce o f intemperance e fully succeeded. There was a danger. connected with the use of spirits on b o a r d s hip s t o w hi c h he had no t al luded, but which he th oug ht oug ht not to be over looked. He meant th e h azar d o f fi re, an d the great evil which was well known of the sailors rushing inulle di ' ately to the spirit-room in any confusion that arose. He did not see any difficulty, if the committee for which he meant to move should be granted, there would be of carrying out the report of that committee. into all enactment. Much of the evil of drunkenness he attri• buted to the practice of paying the labouring classes their wages on the Saturday, and more particularly oil the night of that day. This it was which certainlf led to the drunkenness that was witnessed to such an extent on the Sunday morning. The labouriof ,4 classes should never be paid at a public-house at. all , or those who kept such houses should be held respell' sible for the sobriety of those of the lower classes who went there to get their wages. His ,wish would be to , have all public-houses closed during the whole of St l e day, and on other days be open only so long thing beer-houses were permitted to be open. Every: should be done to decrease, and nothing to inie,r exist the number of public-houses, and those that should be compelled to afford as little acco as possible to induce persons to remain in them-every" looked upon drunkenness to be the source of if the other crime and vice. It had been said that_ ginshops were shut up persons would resorthtaot churches to concoct crime. He did not s ay t be T . .' might not be done, but he thought it would e c i i , better to run the hance of that than have the s tainty of their meeting in public-houses for th e c ri purpose, and get drunk besides. If any ° d n had no show him a man who was a drunkard only an so other vice he would admit that drunkenness was no t bie bad as he thought it; but he considered it illlP,°sl a d to meet with such a man. For the reasons he stated he should move that a select committee DI the pointed to inquire into the extent, the causes, an the consequences of the vice of intoxication amongst t° labourino• classes, and what means would be best m:lodatilione adopt for remedying so great an evil. Mr. STRICKLAND rose to second the motioll• He (Mr. Strickland) was not at all disposed t o inter fere with the mode of paying labourers' wages tha t was at present established throughout the country' This was a subject to which he had paid particular attention, and he knew that there was a great object' tion to altering the day of payment f ro m Saturday to Friday. Indeed he did not think it practicable to do this with any good effect. He fully agreed that the gin shops and the beershops should be placed on an equa l . footing, for he could not see why beershops should l, e closed while ginshops were permitted to be ope n all meansts night. hn reryp e tonopflsHoe checkingent h a t ah l s ti also thv a ei g eyt r eh e eseshdoluituchlmeda much cfu i h t o dk wason si ntktothehentohneei chief ns e es education u e a s c a a ß i ned i .e o b n : volas o snast f former times drunkenness was much more barni le . than at present. (A laugh.) Although he d id not accord with the general views taken of ' this subject by tm t h h oa e tt i h oa o n n e, . committee m it iii still m iht b et ee should hoownuoltduhledsgroundsiot some newuhsi becauseech fu l li b e ien n lt t , a he de th ou ght tions into the police regulations as regarded puthse, houses. He should certainly wish to see those ho closed altogether on the Sabbath Day. agaiandinatlresdly undergones hube L jne o gg r ht d ,t a AfttheLiarntTt thathl -Ite various rh ß a ioso P said uus seedeoiensls su sa t e h r vsy a ie t otrnea h sl e tgote s ac h tas o i u it 0 1 h d nrse.v ii a o i t Te eh h dt e a hi : n could be no doubt that much drunkenn ess p There ells ; but the country, and particularly in the nlet r° , P to ap point he did not think that it would be desirable g a pros a committee on the subject, without there means. The d T o h in e g he so n m . g e e b n e t n le e m fit an to wh th e e se c e o e un nd tr e y: t t ba h r e_ oug m em o h t be io it i objected to the grounds laid for it by the hon. _ w an d s of who brought it forward ; but he laid other gre ~oht to • 0-1,.. • his own on which he thought the committee 4. o public be granted, and these were chiefly tha. l an spirits houses should be open on Sunday, an d thsl . To ac .. e ntlen° should be sold except where beer was sola complish these two objects, if the hon. L'oll fo r $ thought them so desirable, there was no °cc, —i don e by, committee, as it might be much more easily t se e, i f a simple bill. For his owanpywahpyiaoinnrlegtphe could 11 ? m ade as a p d na e y o tph(l earlye e Ay wl would go u n un l h d lr d) o;gnae havent ds d aa r tstu u hr n tedo k, what difference 'tatar.. whether they got drunk on the Friday or the ' - ' es at hour, he thought the change wou rt d l eh d a fe y e b inr e e t nt e f h o ce r ° g i t r e th t oweag ii i vo rs ok; atec' (Laughter.) He had always been of opinion , ° v i ce of so still, that the best means of lessening the. c iha drunkenness, as well as all other vices, amen _i,b7te people, was to educate them ; but he did not D: -- .. that it was possible at all times to prevent p . 117_ d from getting drunk, if they chose toch? . so ly : Wet to a rise not 'see any beneficial effect that was o _ l ember , ha d , the from the committee for w ttii ; heu i eb c r h iseiufs t o ; osmi moved, li.n c !.n o d j3 h ß e E c o T u T I d not, had s N i r o o w u , s if to the..put ut noble au ct l ot o h u r: one of which was p , G overnment drun n k .e e r n e ne d s : the best thingsermon, and il • al stop to that stu:eP e l° g vi r le a di . n e . r g n e lv:i a c ne : they coo ff p ! c eus : i a d wo d f n o ot w h i o s u t urc h an a y s ef eh n wi e s the motion. n ness"" ls t o h r em two th r m o i n i probability that.., g ob.. • tee it it facts would come out before this commit , n it fro m laugh.) PEASE said the crime of drunk e _._ ex tent. be appointed. Seeing no good that could res increasing and extending itself to an arnaz! , "• l6 , i tile coun much evil as the dramshops. (Cries of " No, no.") He travelled throouuld- say, from try as much as most gentlemen, and c is ,. Regular °:anctnouounnt once. ere country,. c wool ,:hfierr d .. w p ioz u ti t oi d al l ini!usdt support his own observation, that it was ineV n :t produce so t v h i victualling-houses I p i l n o g y - m ho e tts nt es of a c n h d ild b r e e e n r s h h i cg a " ,i 1 arising from f a etorlu : h ow- UCStiOll, when compared with this. U ' iio:7 e.-Sn there Was 3 the P reset i t e mbers, while upon left a!' house. It was .. 0 occasion there was a very t in hi b n ers for towns and el" most exclusively to thr feuvlelr,atatnedudaunpcoon ofth ei:grieultural questio s lu t e dramshops. 0 to fight the battle ag fullvalandmitted the evils of &mik e 5 Mr, HUME - on the Ina anal sup.. these classs, because they were more abund 0 'a m ong the lower classes it certainly increased. g io. nnleisesd, but „,. with t lt h : c a d st e ic : e i e d i no t en h a a ltl t hs a e m oo o fo n ui gnt contrary, the better : t ie b h t a t d t a t ' o e l q c r ; g e e lariassetsid:tsacrli :flieg remedy proposed was an increase of taxation upon