The Sun. — London, England, 1847-11-30 00:00:00

's C 42 c distinction in principle between the law of property in En :laud and the law of property in Ireland with respect to ibis tenant right. We admit here the justice of the principle that the tenant improving his land lan ought not to he disposs_used of it and made to forfeit the money he has laid outlffimprovements at the mere caprice of the landlord. I think that to be a principle of justice in England, and I think it also a principle of justice with respect to Ireland ; but no man who considers tnis sub ject and desires to make it the subject of direct legisla tion can enter on the discussion without being soon aware of the very formidable difficulties in the way. Only last session, or in the preceding session, there being a general concurreuce in the principle acted upon in Lincolnshire, viz., the principle bil'hich the tenant, being dispos sessed of his farm, has a right (not recognised by law, I believe, but recognised by the landlords) to the value of the inesiaausted improvements he has made on his land, when an attempt was made to introduce by law that principle throughout England, we know how great were the difficulties of the subject, even while we did not, at the same time, contest the justice of the prin• ciple.—(Hear, hear.) So it is with respect to Ireland, and even with respect to the limited view of tenant right taken by the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last, namely, that the tenant should have the right to recover for improvements made by him on the soil. Speaking of bona fide improvements, I admit that to be just, and though I should cordially rejoice to see the principle giving such security to the tenant embodied in a law, yet, having considered the subject, I am fully aware of the difficulties of it—difficulties which ought not to make us despair, but ought, at any rate, to render us not too stiognine.—(Hear, hear.) So with respect to many other matters deeply connected with the social state of Ireland. !ing as I do the vast importance of giving them earlf • c - Lsideration, I am yet not sanguine enough to hope that, great as the effects of the proper treatment of them may be ultimately, it would tell immediately on the pre sent condition of Ireland ; and, as I said before, I will on no account wait. I will take an immediate step with respect to assassination, conspiracy, and assassins ; and will enter into no negotiation or capitulation with them. --s Cheers.) It is not my intention, in giving my support to the Government, to make any reference to th bygone transactions of 1846.—(Hear, hear.) It has been said by an Honourable Gentleman that it is due to the late Government that you should resist this Tn-asure because you defeated a similar measure when they were in office. The best reparation you can make to the late Government is to pass this law.—(Cheers.) As for reparation in any party sense—l speak for my self—so far from wishing to see the passing of this measure in any way urged against the Government as - triumph in reference to any proposal made at another time, I utterly disclaim entertaining such sentiments. Tie state of society in Ireland is the paramount consi deration, and all party disputes and squabbles are itterly unworthy of consideration.—(Cheers.) The Tight Honourable Gentleman opposite has proposed a measure which, on the responsibility of the Govern ment, he thinks adequate for the purpose. I think we mist regard the decision of the Government as almost final in this respect. I think that a popular assembly representing the people ought to be most unwilling to force on the Government any measures which they do no- think necessary, and they being of opinion that with the proposed measure they will be able to cope with the existing evil, I think wo should be unwilling cs , suggest proceedings departing in a more extraor ' 7.ary degree from the established law.—(Hear, hear.) I wish to observe, however, that there arc parts of the pu-posed measure which Ido not understand. Ido not understand what is to be the nature of the tribunal before which, in a proclaimed district, offenders are to be carried. I understand the Right Hon. Gentleman to Say that the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland should have un limited power to proclaim districts in Ireland corre sponding with the limits of counties or smaller divisions. Then I understand that the Lord• Lieutenant is to have a double discretionary power in respect to the possession of arms—namely, a power to interdict the carrying of arms except by parties named in the Act or specially authorised. Sir G. GREY—That would necessarily follow from the proclamation. sir R. PEEL—I will take the ease of a witness called on to attend a trial, in a district where the sympathy is with the murderer and not with the murdered man. I take it for granted that the Lord-Lieutenant would allow that witness the possession of firearms—that that was a case where he would exercise his discretion. Then I understand that there might be cases where the peace was threatened in a higher degree, in which the Lord- Lieutenant would have, by additional proclamation, the power to prevent the possession of arms even in the houses of persons holding them, as well as on the high way. But the Right Hon. Gentleman has not said whether this offence is to be tried by the ordinary or special tribunals. Sir G. GREY—Precisely as Whiteboy offences are now tried. Sir R. PEEL—I am also bound to say that I think the state of the law with respect to the possession of arms, after this Bill has' been passed, will be unsatis factory. In instances named by the Lord-Lieutenant the population may be disarmed, either partially or totally; there will be a power of domicili w visits, and of depriving all parties of the possession ortrms, except • those who are specially permitted to retain them; but I am afraid that, unless the exceptions are very wide, you rain 7 create great insecurity in some of the disturbed districts by almost indiserirainately disarming the popu lat,on; because, with the exception of magistrates, of persons in the public service, or of persons who are specially excepted from the operation of the Act by the Lord-Lieutenant, all parties, without distinction, will be required to deliver up their arms. retaining none fur elr defence. There can be no doubt that many per s „le in the lower ranks of society are now in the pos sez-sion of arms for no dishonest or illegal purpose, but ..cwijide for the purpose of offering that resistance which i, the most effectual check upon the invader of the public peace; for I believe that the shooting of one man by the brave, determined occupier of a house, has ',lore effect in repressing outrage than half-a-dozen executions —(Hear, hear.) But, if the intention of the Bill should be to disarm, indiscriminately, all persons het those who are excepted from its operation, I am atraid the effect of the measure will not be such as I am acre the Right Hon. Baronet is desirous that it should be—to afford additional protection to life and property. in certain districts, proclaimed by the Lord-Lieutenant, there will be a general disarming of the people. In the aujoining districts there will be no prohibition, no restric tion whatever, as to the indiscriminate possession of arms !..v all persons. Now, I must say that, although the Heins Act has been given up, there are many districts in iodised in which repeated murders do not occur, yet in which I think there is no justification whatever for per mitting the perfectly unrestricted possession of arms. Tile Lad-Lieutenant will have the power of issuing his proclamation to disarm certain persons ; but I think it would be infinitively better to have a general Act, re gulating the possession of arms, applicable to the whole country, rather than to provide that in certain districts, almost as had, and immediately adjoining the prohibited districts, the people will not only have the power to keep arms in their houses, but to parade those arms in the face of the authorities at mid day, and to carry on those shooting operations to which the police-constable of whom we have heard referred. I think the state of the law in this respect, under the Bill before the House, would be very imperfect and unsatisfactory; and I hope the Right Lion. Baronet (Sir G. Grey) will not abandon altogether the notion of having some Arms Act, which, with as littri vexation as possible, may regulate gene rally the possession of arms throughout the country. What will be exactly the state of the law with respect to Whiteboy ()Minces under the proclamation it is impos sible to say, and I do not think that it is the occasion for entering into those details. I consider that the Right Hon. Baronet has offered a full vindication of this mea sure. He hay proved that there exists in Ireland a de gree of insecurity which ought not to be permitted to continue. I cannot say whether the Bill he proposes will be effica&ous or not; but I earnestly hope, that if before Parliament may separate there should be reason to believe that it will nut be efficacious, no fear of taunt will prevent in.m from appealing to Parliament to strengthen the hands of the Government, My firm belief is, speaking from the experience of 30 or 40 years, that there are certain districts in Ireland subject to all those great causes which lead to the disorganization of society, and that there are sense districts, for instance, in Tipperary, where crime is inveterate and almost ineradicable. In 1814 s I detailed cases of organised conspiracies to mur der, directed against gentlemen of the highest respect alaity, exactly similar to those which have been laid heffirre the House by the Right Hon. Baronet. I recol ',ct perfectly well a case in which, on each of three dif ilunt roads approaching the town of Clonmel, five assins, hired by a party of considerable wialth, were se '.ioned, in order to insure the execution of a maeis th to of the highest respectability. By one of those i• Ala this magistrate travelled, and by the five assassins it'.*,,ioned on that road he was murdered. It appeared ti.st the assassins had been hired at two guineas a piece t. commit the deed. A reward of 1,000/. was offered to any person but those who actually fired the shots, for the •!enviction of each of the assassins. The person by whom they were engaged laid open the whole plot, and ,flaimed the reward. Two of the assassins whom he 7l'PloYed were convicted, and in consequence of the !t&%au ance given by the Government, I paid that 111 n r 2,000 unfair to L—(eries of "Hear, hear.") But it is quite umst unjuat to j. imputeur Ireland crimes of this nature; it is ge of the general disposition of Ireland from the i i of.these particular districts.—(Hear, hear.) I instance,rdecgatrer,with respect to the great towns of Ireland—for 'seem are publin, Limerick, and Cork— where the collected together in large bodies. that they seem to be almost rr.lanre submissive to the laws, morale obedient to the authorities, than they are in this y—Mer, hear)—andit'tehs ande same may be said of the inhabitants of Wicklow ehteher counties. In many districts of Ireland I think t patient tlieenoupel people pa are amt. jocTlie, peaceable, more resigned and are quite as than the people of this country, and to the laws; and I conceive this3tr he mo ©tunjust to judge of the general character nothing Can Jooplo of Ireland from those plague-spots which ha.the ve :en mentioned. But, if these crimes are so hive! ~,rata in certain districts, I greatly mistrust the ificaey of any mere temporary law is not absolutely neces sary for their suppres ',aim. I greatly doubt whether to subject some districts to a permanent discipline. I do not think it would be necessary to have enormous -penahies or unconstitutional powers; but I would have new police districts, I would have the strictest registry of every person within them, and I would subject those districts—as the Right Hon. Baronet proposes—toexpense entailed by such measures; se th ocuaghhe from n the e people are suffering, as is at present the w ex treme poverty, I do not know whether this step would afford any very effectual remedy. I would .also have a detective police, as well as a protective police.—(lleac, hear.) I consider that this is what you want in Ireland. __ You have an excellent police for defeating powerful edrobinatioins, but I think you are wanting in a detective Dolice.—(llfar, hear.) I think you ought to have a police especially engaged in the detection of these offenders. I think you should also give some assurance to witnesses that, if they aid you in carrying the laws into effect, they shall hare valid protection. I know how difficult it is to deal with this question. You must take care not to hold out inducements which might lead to unfounded accusations ; but when a man who comes forward to give his evidence in aid of the operation of the law is doomed, if not to murder at least to certain ruin, it is a discouragement to the due administration of the law for which it is almost impossible to find a remedy. And, even if you sent such a witness to Canada, or to some of our other colonies, I fear that, with the great facilities of communication which now exist, you would not give him the protection he needs. I very much fear that he would be a marked man in the colo nies, and that those facilities of communication which now exist would be employed for defeating the due ad ministration of the law. These subjects, as it appears to me, deserve the serious consideration of the Govern ment. As I said before, I think the necessity for the immediate passing of a law against murder, and con spiracy to murder in Ireland, is most urgent. I will quarrel with none of the details of this measure. I will give it my cordial support ; and I trust that those who opposed the measure brought forward in 1846, if they have any consideration for the feelings of the late Go vernment will not withhold their support from the Bill now before the House.—(flear, hear.) Mr. M. O'COI\TNELL hoped, that if Government ob tained leave to bring in this Bill they would accompany it, as far as possible, pari passu, with a landlord and tenant Bill. Mr. CALLAGHAN congratulated Ministers on their having escaped the trap that had been laid to prevail on them to introduce a Coercion Bill. He confessed it afforded him very great gratification not to deny a Go vernment, to which he gave general support, the as sistance of his vote on an occasion like the present. Mr. DISRAELI said, I had not intended, during this debate, to trespass one moment on the attention of the House ; but, with every wish to remain silent, I cannot, after the speech which we have just heard from the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth, but feel it due to myself and to those who opposed his Irish Bill in the last Parliament, to take some pains in order that the present House of Commons may understand the position in which we stand towards the House and each other with regard to the present Bill. I will not say—though it would he at legitimate reason for the course which we took—that it arose from a general want of confidence in those who were then the responsible advisers of the Crown. We did not oppose the Bill of the late Government for regulating the possession of arms in Ireland because we had no confidence in them. On the contrary, though that would have been a per fectly legitimate ground of objection, it was not that which we used; for I myself and other Members of the last Par liament objected to that measure, not because it was brought in by the Government then in power, but because we took exception to the provisions of that particular Bill, and I therefore wish the House to understand the differences which subsisted between the Right i flon. Baronet and the last Parliament on the sub ject of his measures of Irish legislation, and I desire especially to call attention to the difference between the policy towards Ireland of the present Government as contrasted with that of the Right Hon. Baronet. At the commencement of the session the administration of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth announced to Parliament and to the country, that life and property in Ireland were in imminent danger. I hope the House will recollect—though many who are now present did not belong to the late Parliament, but they, I trust, even then took too strong an interest in the condition of the country to remain ignorant of what was at that time passing in this House—they, in common with other Members, will, I hope, remember that Par liament was in a most hurried manner called together, and we were informed that life and property in Ireland were in imminent peril at the time of our assembling ; yet the Bill of the Right Hon. Baronet for giving pro tection to life and security to property in Ireland was not introduced for months after the meeting of Parlia ment—was not laid upon the table of this House till the month of June. Mr. HUDSON—It was brought in in the month of ApEiL _ _ . .11r. DISRAELI resumed—lt was not before Parlia ment for any purpose of practical legislation till the month of June. That session of Parliament, as we all remember, was occupied with business of great import ance ; but, in the interval of its labours, time, I should have thought, might have been found fur those mea sures which the state of Ireland required, and, however important the affairs which engaged its attention, they could not have been more important than the protection of life and property. We, who opposed the Bill, did not resist it merely on account of the conduct of the late Government in the management of that Bill, though that of itself supplied a fair ground of suspicion ; neither did we resist it on account of the extraordinary circumstances which attended its introduction and dis cussion in the House of Lords, although even there the circumstances were sufficiently remarkable to attract peculiar attention for, so little were the Members of the Cabinet in that House agreed as to the mode of pro ceeding, that on more than one occasion the solitary Member of the Cabinet who had charge of the Bill was on the point of resigning his duties in a pique. The measure was one brought forward with very little pros pect or chance of success ; leave for its introduction was obtained, and it was then laid on a dusty shelf until the session was drawing to a close, and yet that was a Bill for the protection of life ; hence we were entitled to say that the late Government could not have seriously in tended to go on with that Bill. Months were allowed to pass away in important and exciting debates, yet neither that nor the other circumstances to which I have adverted formed the only or the principal reason why we opposed the Bill ; on the contrary, our objections were of a more important character and spirit. My Noble Friend the Member for King's Lynn, who is, I regret to say, prevented by indi,position from attending here this evening—that Noble Lord took the lead in op posing the Bill ; he denounced it as a Curfew Bill— as a measure which would compel men to stay within their dwellings after sunset. When I examine and analyze the crimes which gave rise to that measure, as well as to this, do I not perceive that flagrant and nume rous instances of noonday assassinations are to be found, and that they were frequent before the introduc tion of the measure which the Right Honourable Member for Tamworth submitted to Parliament? This objection was often urged, and I never could learn that it was ever satisfactorily answered. In my opinion, it is much to the credit of the present Government that when they did feel the necessity of interfering by means of a legislative enactment they have done so early in the session, and, as I believe, with a sincere intention to pass the measure. It is not for me—and I agree with the Right Hon. Member for Tamworth that it is not for any one sitting at this aide of the House—to urge the Queen's Government to advance in an outrago upon the constitution. If the present measure be not strong enough fur the occasion, on the Government, anal on the Government alone, rests the responsibility ; and I need not remind them that that responsibility is not a light one. I must say I am happy to find that, after all we have heard of the state of Ireland, an addition of 200 constables may secure the peace and prosperity of that country.—(Hear.) But I have no doubt the Govern ment have well considered the subject. I have no doubt they have groat confidence in the officer who has to administer the powers given by this law. It is not our part, under any circumstances, to urge the Govern ment to exceed the powers which they have esti mated to us as necessary for attaining the purpose which we all desire ; and I am glad to find that there will be almost a unanimous consent in supporting the measure which they have introduced. All that I have risen fur is, that it should be clearly understood that the passion of party . did not induce us, even for the purpose of terminating the existence of an Administra tion which we did not wish to endure—that nothing hut a legitimate consideration induced us to oppose the measure of the late Government.—(An ironical cry of " Hear.") I will answer that ironical cheer; I am not saying that we did not embrace legitimate opportunities, which every gentleman and every party would—(Hear, hear)—and if there be any party in this House holding the existence of a Government to be generally injurious to the country, I should think the whole character of of our constitution was lost if that party did not exer cise its power upon a legitimate opportunity.—(Hear, hear.) I :say that that was not a factious opposition, fur these reasons which I give you, and let them be answered; first, that the measure that was introduced by the late Government, which, at the commencement of the year, announced as the basis of its legislation that the lives of her Majesty's subjects were in danger, was not really proceeded with until six months after Parliament had been sitting; and secondly, that that measure contained a principle of legislation which we considered unnecessary and arbitrary.—(Hear.) Sir G. GREY begged to say a few words with regard to the spirit in which the measure of the Government had been received, and to offer his thanks to those mem bers who came down to oppose the Bill fur having suf fereci it to go on, because it was of great importance that it should be brought on with promptitude. The Bid would be in force till the 31st of December, 1849, and then till the end of the next session of Parliament. With regard to the observations of the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel), he (Sir G. Grey) had intended to state that there was an advantage in the small farmers retaining their arms, and that as to the license for carry ing the rule, and licenses would be granted to them to have them in their houses for the purpose of protection. With regard to the detective police, he was glad that the Right Hon. Baronet had mentioned the subject, be cause it reminded him to say, that Lord Bessborough, in the early part of last year, had had his attention called to it, and an organisation of such a force had been commenced, and bad been carried on by the present Lord-Lieutenant, who a few days ago, reported favourably of its efficacy in the detection of offenders. With regard to a general arms Bill, having read the resolutions of the Fermanagh magistrates, the Government still had no intention of reviving the former Bill. There were, however, some regulations as t• the indiscriminate possession of arms, under the consideration of the Lord-Lieutenant, and on w . ere not precluded by th e p resent Bill f rom ex tendingti t i l Y t u t i e s wouldmea measure re, only i f remindnecessary,the 0 i h n i t o o u as with nett general regardrog u to the Bill of the Right Honourable Baronet in 1846, that there was then an arms Bill in force, and powers were naked fo r far beyond the ordinary powers of the law, while thatltwas atis his s s the Bill did not expire till the end of e lie 3 f thear'at the auenhSolPar ft amenshe Government,tohi s e a a n s d u measure iwtof.ualidiedstirnenigtsthe then object, and s crimes tn and outrage continued, ask the responsibi the Government waoruilidananoe for such power as and e k tle ithfully lity of coining P would enable them, fa their duties to the Sovereig n nand the peetuoalily to perform Mr. WAKLEYproposed as an ainendrlene.t— -is not just to the people of Ireland to enact a " coercive i t measure without, at the same time, proposing to enact ive such measures as would tend to her permanent relief." There was never any Government that had been more kind to Ireland than the present one, and they were en titled to the gratitude of Ireland and of England, too, for their conduct in that country, They had been as sembled especially for the consideration of the state of Ireland, and the Government met her with a coercive measure and an indistinct promise of remedial ones. Experience had shown that though there may be great promptitude with coercion, there was very little as re garded remedial measures. When he was asked to vote for a measure which gave such vast powers to the Lord Lieutenant he had a right to ask, what were the measuers of a remedial nature, and to see if they were worthy of that character. No distinct promise had been given by the Government. The Hon. Member for Rochdale brought in a Bill to amend the relation of landlord and tenant years ago, but if met little attention even from the Irish Members of that House. The principle of that Bill was now acknowledged. The proposed Bill might be perfectly justifiable— indeed, crime of so horrible a character existed in Ire land that there was scarcely any powe which the Go vernment might ask that he would not give, provided he saw at the same time propositions in the shape of Bills which had for their object the striking at the root of the evils of Ireland. In the absence of any such mea sures, he felt bound to propose his amendment, and he should take the sense of the House upon it. Mr. S. CRAWFORD seconded the amendment. Mr. BROTHERTON had heretofore always opposed coercive measures towards Ireland, unless they were accompanied by legislative enactments to improve the social condition of the people of that country. lie was, however, very hsppy to find, from the sentiments ex pressed to-night by Irish Members, that the proposed measure was not to be characterised, like former Bills, as a coercion Act; and having the fullest confidence in the present Lord-Lieutenant, and feeling sure that until life and property were rendered safe in Ireland the condition of her people could not be improved, be should certainly ♦ote in favour of the introduction of the Bill. Mr. REYNOLDS moved that the debate be now adjourned. Mr. F. O'CONNOR seconded the motion. Strangers were ordered to withdraw, but Lord J. RUSSELL interposed, and said he had un derstood it to be the general and anxious wish of Mem bers on both sides of the House that the introduction of the Bill should not be delayed. Indeed many Members had, he believed, come down to the House intending to oppose its introduction, but after the statement of his Right Hon. Friend the Home Secretary, declared that they were ready to allow the Bill to be brought in. If that were the case, he (Lord J. Russell) submitted that to adjourn the debate, not until to•morrow (because it would be most inconvenient to postpone the business which his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer had to bring forward), but to some future day, would greatly impede the progress of public busi ness, and prevent Irish Members from having that full opportunity of considering the Bill which it was most desirable should be afforded to them.—(Hear, hear.) He (Lord J. Russell) therefore hoped the motion for adjournment would not be persisted in, but that the House would at once agree to the introduction of the . . . Mr. REY/4OLDS withdrew his motion. Thu House then divided on 51r. Wakley's amend , meat:— For the amendment . Against it ..,. . ... 20 ... 233-213 On the quastion, " That leave be given to bring in the Bill," another division took place at the instance of Mr. O'CoNsou. The numbers were:— For the bringing in of the Bill Against ... 224 18-206 The Bill was then brought in and read a first time, and the House adjourned at a . Quarter before one o'Clock. THE DIVISION LAST NIGHT. The following Hon. Gentleman voted in the minority of twenty last night, on Mr. Wakley's amendment to the Irish Coercion Bill: Anstey O'Brien, T. Blenett O'Connell, M. Devereux Power, N. Fagan Reynolds Fux, R. M. Scholefield Green Scully, F. Keatinge Thompson, G. Morgan TELLERS. Maher, N. Wakley, T. O'Connor, F. Crawford, S. Mr. John O'Connell did not vote on either Mr. Wakley's amendment or that subsequently proposed by Mr. Feargus O'Connor. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Ader the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will no produced a new and original Comedy, called FAMILY PIMA. Mr. Chapman, Mr. Tilbury ; Doctor Dodge, Mr. Farrsn ; Arthur Conrtnay, Mr. henry Farren ; Captain Shangenah, Mr. Hud son; Blandish, Mr. Brind4l; Mrs. Willoughby Courtnay, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Sophia Chapman. Mrs. Nisl)ett; Letitia Bradley, Miss Reynolds; Grace, Mrs. Ilumby. After which, a sew Comic Drama, called TAE ROUSED LION. Characters by Messrs. Webster, Howe, Wigan, 11. Yaaden hoff ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Seymour, and Mrs. itanley. To conclude with the Farce of MORE BLUNDERS THAN ONZ. Stage Manager, Mr. Fanen; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-task keeper. flexes, ss. ; Pit, as. ; Gallery, ks. ; lipper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commen c e at Seven. IMEATRE ROYAL, ADELPLII. Cider the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new and original Drama, called GAIIIIIELLI or, the llequeathed Heart. Fitzgerald O'Carrol, Mr. Moyee ' • Mayor Dunmore, Mr. Worrell; Marquee di Minclo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Bal thazar Valtlarno, Mr. 0. Smith; Rob Bit, Mr. Wright ; Gabriel!. Madame Celeste ; Signora D'Oasuna, Miss Ilrouks. After which, a New Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD the property of the late William Shakepeare), inquire Within. Cha racters by Messrs. Wright, Cullenford, Worrell, O. Smith, Paul Bed ford, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c. To be followed by the original farce, called HOW TO SETTLE ACCOUNT, WITH YOUR LAUNDRESS. Whittington Widgets, Mr. Wright; Jack Brown, Mr, Menyard ; Squibb, Mr. Redmond ttyau ; Mary White, MISS Woolgar ; Mdlle. Cherry Bounce, Mite I..:niqui Harding. To conelude with the Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which Mr. Lambert, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Munyard, Miss Harding, and Mite 2liablin will perform. isoxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. . _ ?' , ors open at Half-past ails, ierformance to commence at Seven, ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. eider the Managemeit of Madame Testrls. Gold Lessee, Mr. Charles Matkows. THIS EVENING, Will be presented the Farce of SIATIIEWS and CO. Atter which, a estate Drama, called ♦ BOUGH DIAMOND. To be followed by UliBD UP. To conclude with a Romance if Real Life, called BOX and COX Principal charasters by Mr. Barley, Mr. Ituckstone, and Mrs. Mac, tiara ara. The interior of the Reuse kas been entirely re-designed ly Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. PRINCESS'S THEATFE. Thugagenaeat 14 lir. MICREADT and MISS CUSHMAN. THIS ETENING Will be presented Coleman's comedy of THE POOR GIINTLE MAN. Sir Robert Bramble. Mr. J. Gilbert (from the principal American theatres); Sir Charles Cropland, Mr. J. Webster ; Lieut. Worthington. Mr. Ilughes; 011apod, Mr. Compton; Emily Wor thington, Miss Cooper; Miss Lucretia Mac Tab, Miss Winstanley. To eon Jude with the Opera of GUY MANNEIIING. Celonel Manuering, Mr. Conway; Henry Bertram, Mr. Barker; Dentinie Sampson, Mr. Compton ; Dandle Dinmont, Mr. Neville; Lucy Ber tram. Miss Ann limner; Meg 3ierrilles, Miss Cashman. Dross Circle, i 5.: P.exes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. DaTidge, Ne. 1, Davldge•terrace,Kenaington-read, Surrey. THIS lITENING, the performances will commence with the First and Sekxmd acts of the celebrated Opera 01 THE BONDMAN. Principal characters by Messrs. H. Horncastls, Rafter, Maynard, Jones, D. W. King, and eittwood; Miss Pools, Mrs. R. Hughes, and Miss Rebecca Isaacs. To conclude with the Farce of LOVE, LAW, and PHYSIC. A distinct entrance to tie private boxes has been made (which have heck re-bitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the eriuclpal Librarians ; and at the Box-Ctlze of tie Theatre, which is open daily trout Ten until lour. Boxes, 25. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, Gd. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. Tills EVENING The Grand Spectacle of TIER CAMP OF SILESIA. Entirely new Scenes In the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the t: , 4tabllthment, in the various modes of egnestration. To conclude with a new Domestic Drama, called THE WHITE FARM. Box-office open from 11 till 5 ♦ctiir and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TE S A very small attendance, and business entirely at a stand-still until five o'clock, when the following bets were laid : TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 400 to 100 agst Col. Anson's Blaze—taken 100 even on the field agst Blaze, Assault, and Sesostria CHESTER CUP (NAME OR NOT). ,000 to 15 agst Mr. Drinksld's Mathematician—taken ~000 to 15 agst Capt. Kennedy's Sir Tatton Sykes—t ,000 to 15 agst Mr. J. Day's Clarendon—taken ,000 to 15 afterwards offered on the field. DERBY. 1,000 to 100 agst Mr. Mostyn's Surplice—taken 1,000 to 60 agst Mr. Bowes's Springy Jack—taken 500 to 23 agst Mr. J. Scott's The Stinger—taken 500 to 20 agst Mr. J. Day's Nil Desperandum—taken 750 to 25 agst Mr. B. Green's Beverlac—taken 2,000 to 60 agst Mr. Payne's Corvus—taken 1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Nunn's The Fowler—taken 10 to 1 offered on the field, and 12 to 1 agst Glendower. LIrERARY NEWS.—We hear that the popular Danish poet and novelist, Herr Andersen, has just com pleted a new work, which ho calls "A Christmas Greeting to my English Friends." The recent visit to this country of this delightful poet, and most amiable man, has given him a popularity among us possessed by no foreign writer. Andersen is also rori:ing, for the English public, his " Journey to the Hartz Mountains, which is in course of translation, under his eye, by Mr. Beckwith. Mr. Richardson, the well-known traveller and philanthropist, is engaged in preparing his " Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara and Visit to Ghat, Ghadames, and Mourzuk," a subject full of interest, while the incidents and adventures this enterprising traveller encountered, give to this book all the entertain went of romance. Mr. Richardson's book will be pub lished in December. Captain Forbes, of the Royal Navy, who has just returned from China, where he has been five years, is about to give the public a work, which he entitles, " Five Years in China." It is to be accompanied by drawings made by the author. The gallant Captain was present at the capture of Labuan by her Majesty's forces, and relates many interesting particulars of Mr. Brooke and his visit at Borneo, whilst his pictures of Chinese life in the interior of the Celes tial Empire, only recently opened to our countrymen, are in the highest degree interesting and important. DEATH OF THE HON. SAMUEL HAY.—We have to record the demise of the Hon. Samuel Hay, brother to the late and uncle to the present Earl of Erroll. He expired a few days since at Cliff Hall, Wells, in his 41st year. l He m arr i e d , i n 1832, Louisa, only child o f t h e o . Captain Duncombe Bouverie, and leaves no issue. M g,ti r , • o h u lay p v c : wg as a o e n r e . of the Equerri es to her Majesty the Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., MRS. TROLL OPE'S NEW NOVEL " TOWN AND COUNTRY." Henry Colburn, publisher, 13. Great Marlborough-street. COMPANION - TO THE STORY OF WATERLOO. Now ready, Part 1., with Portraits, price 2s. 6d., STORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR, By the MARQUIS of LONDONDERRY. A Companion Volume to the STORY OF TILE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Henry Co!burn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had of all Booksellers. RAILWAY SHAUES BY PUBLIC SALE. WESSRS. LAMOND a n d C o ., RAILWAY LVJL SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every WEDNESDAY, at One o'clock, (instead of Tuesday and Friday, R 3 hitherto), at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions k with a reference), aro respectflilly requested to be addressed. All Scrip and share Certificates must be deposited, the day pre dons to their being offered ; and advice' of results will be f.cwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds Imme diately disposed of according to instructions. N.B. Sales and purchases of all descriptions of stock and shares effected by private contraet, every day, as asaal. (Alice& Ball of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. 11EETINGoF PA RL LAMENT THE THIRD EDITIONS OF TII E SUN" CONTAIN, AS USUAL, THE LATEST PARLIAMENTAIt INTELLIGENCE, ♦ND ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO TIIE HOUR OF POST. *.* Orders received by all Newsmen, and at tha Sun-office, 112, Strand. THE WEATHER. —SUN OFFICE, Nov. 30. THERXJMETZR, Lewest, 36; Highest. 49 ; Noon, 55 BAROMETER, 2 9.82.—W1ND S.W. ; hazy. Moll WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. iNfornin , :.. 23 nliautes after 7. 1 Evening .. S 2 'limit/ s titer T. -14 S i /, V ~ .64 , ..., • i 'N4c , A i , , ?. • . I!: a 4 , '• ~: ir .4.S.S,V4,ArAIika. . ,*- 11 .4 .. , v . zt.'.• 1 ) hi.,.:,,,.=•.-!:: ~. :-,.....-...- ,-, ..... , .' 11. 7 . I wo • , „,..,- " iiito •., Li p , .. .. ' 1 " ,„ • L f,,,,,,,, ~.....,•:". -,... - • '.....,--„ 14) AYielting LONDON, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1847 The measure introduced last night to the House of Commons by the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, appears to be as little objectionable in its character as any Bill in any degree restrictive of the liberty of the subject can pos sibly be ; indeed it is scarcely deserving of the title of a " Coercion Bill," and appears simply to be in accor dance with its title—"An Act for the better prevention of crime and outrage in Ireland." We confess that we, in common with many others, are agreeably sur prised in finding that there is so little departure from the principles of constitutional government, and also that it is not the intention to punish the innocent with the guilty, or to make the whole of the country—in the larger portion of which the peasantry (notwith standing the unprecedented distress and severe sufferings with which they have been afflicted) have exhibited a most praiseworthy forbearance— responsible for the atrocious acts of bloodshed that have been perpetrated in some of the disturbed dis tricts. There is to be no interference with the great palladium of our liberties, the trial by jury. Every person accused of an offence against the laws has still a right to be deemed innocent until convicted by twelve of his peers ; there is to be no martial law, no new or extraordi nary tribunals, nor in any case is the man who is necessarily absent from his house to be punished, therefor, unless he should at the time thereof have arms in his possession, which (unless satisfactorily explained) would lead to the inference that he was engaged in some unlawful pursuit; above all, it is not intended to dispense with the necessity of a search ing investigation into the causes that have led to that fearful state of society that has been so eloquently described by the Right Hon. Baronet in his brilliant and effective statement, or as a remedy for the evils from which the crimes have had their origin. "It would (►aid the Home Secretary) be a short-sighted policy for any Government to think that the mere prevention of crime by police regula tions or penal measures, was the great object of their rule. It may be necessary at a period of the preva lence of peculiar crime to enforce the law stringently, and if it prove inadequate for the conferring of that protection which the law guarantees to indivi duals, that the law should be amended so as to make it thoroughly efficient; but, on the part of her MAJESTY'S Government, I earnestly disclaim the idea that these remedial measures should be, or are, limited to this Bill ; or that a Bill of this kind, limited in its scope, and temporary in its duration, is to be regarded as a panacea for the evils which press upon Ireland. I willingly concede that it is the duty of a wise Government and Legislature to look rather to the causes of those evils, for symptoms of that kind are not to be neglected, nor are we simply to wait for that slow curative process which may arise under an improved state of the laws regulating the relations of landlord and tenant—the remedial measures for freeing encumbered estates —a revision of the grand jury laws, and other measures of that nature which it is the intention of Government to propose." This is the true principle. The present Bill is not to be regarded as a substitute for any of the ameliorations that may be requisite, or neces sary. But it will accompany those enactments, and while they are working out improvements in the state and condition of the country im provements which will speedily (although, perhaps, not immediately) render any Acts of extraordinary , stringency quite unnecessary —it will afford pro tection to those gentlemen anxious to reside upon, and efficiently to discharge the duties incidental to the possession of their properties, and enable them to co-operate with the authorities in carrying into effect the laws which may be passed for the general good. The following are the chief provisions of the pre sent Bill :—The Lord-Lieutenant is to be empowered, with the consent of the Privy Council, to issue a proclamation, that the provisions of the Act should be extended to any disturbed district, whether county or city, barony or half barony, or any district of less extent. Copies of the proclamation, together with an abstract of the provisions of the Act, are to be posted in convenient places in the locality about to be brought under its opera tion. His Excellency is also, whenever there should appear to be a pressing necessity therefor, authorised to increase the police force of any district, to any ex tent which he might think fit, out of the reserve force, which is to be augmented from 400 to 600 men. This additional force is to be under the same con trol as the rest of the body. The expense thereby occasioned is to be entirely borne by the proclaimed district, thus following the precedent set by the wisest of our Alonarchs, the English LY CURGUS, ALFRED, who made every locality liable for the crimes which took place therein. The payment is not even to be postponed, but an estimate is to be formed of the probable expenditure for three months, and the amount thereof is to be immediately levied as part of the county cess, and so on for each successive term of three months, so long a s the disturbances shall continue. With respect t o th e po li ce regu lations there is to b e a general prohibition within the proclaimed dis tricts upon all persons whatsoever, irrespective of rank or the, amount of rating, with certain excep tions, to carry or have fire-arms elsewhere than in his or her dwelling-house; this is to be deemed a misdemeanour, punishable with imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding two years. The granting permission to carry fire arms to persons for their own protection is not to he entrusted to the local magistracy, who might be exposed to increased danger for any re fusal, but to a Government officer appointed for the purpose. The police are to be empowered to search all persons coming within the provisions of the Act for fire-arms ; and in the event of finding them, op their pOrsaps to take them away. The Lord-Lieutenant is also to be authorised to call upon all persons , ' not within the exceptions in a proclaimed district, or in a limited portion thereof, to deliver up their arms by a particular day at the nearest police-station, and the neglect to do so is to be punished as a misde meanour, in like manner as for having arms on the person if a license has not been obtained for retain ing these arms. A search may be made for arms in the districts thus proclaimed, on a warrant by the Chief or Under-Secretary ; but this search is only to take place in the day-time. Persons sending threatening letters within the pro claimed districts are to be amenable to the penalties imposed by what are termed " The Whiteboy Acts." The most valuable provision of the Bill, however, is, that where any murder has been com mitted or attempted, or there is reasonable grounds to suspect that such an attempt had been made, the justices and constables are to be empowered to call upon all persons between the age of sixteen and sixty, residing or being in the district, to assist in the search for and pursuit of the parties charged with the crime ; and any person refusing to assist in such pursuit and search will be guilty of misdemeanour, and liable to two years' imprisonment with or without hard labour. This will strike most effectually at that apparent apathy with which those frightful murders that have disgraced the country have been regarded by the people. Among the different recommendations contained in the Royal Speech, delivered by commission, not the least certain to obtain the attention of Parlia ment and the encouragement of the popular voice, is the one which has reference to sanitary improve ments. Under any circumstance this reform would inevitably be promoted by all classes of politicians, if only from the motive of self-preservation. A variety of occurrences have tended, however, to enforce the arguments of its more distinguished advocates, and to precipitate those movements which can alone lead to its realization. The deplorable increase of mortality, as shown in the periodical returns of the Registrar- General, has acted as an additional and irresistible incitement to those who are struggling for the phy sical preservation of the community. The prevalence of crime and immorality in the more abandoned lo calities of our larger towns has proved an effectual stimulus to those who are labouring for the moral advantage of the population. The havoc ef fected by contagious and epidemic diseases, and the exaggerated terror inspired by the westward progress of the Asiatic cholera, have alike hastened the exertions and given force to the agita tion in favour of the establishment of a wholesome scheme of sanitary regulations. In co :sequence of the reflecticns inspired by these endeavours to secure the health and lives of the mul titude, th 3 fact has latterly forced itself upon the comprehension of the more intelligent that, in spite of all our vaunted civilization and all our boasted en lightenment, we are, in regard to all matters apper taining to physical comfort and enjoyment, im measurably inferior to the people of a pagan antiquity. Enormous and substantial sewers—con structed with materials as durable as granite, and on a scale of such peculiar magnitude that a carriage and six might be driven through them with more facility than under the gateway of the Victoria Tower—still attest among the ruins of Rome the en terprise, the judgment, and the unbounded luxury of the inhabitants of that imperial metropolis. The re mains of those extraordinary fabrics still con tinue as if to constitute a practical satire upon the miserable system of drainage which cha racterises the capital of Great Britain in the middle of the nineteenth century. Instead of such costly productions as were raised in the excavations made by the Roman engineers, and which carried away all noxious and pestilential refuse alike from the palaces and workshops of that gigantic city, the most strag gling, the most incomplete, and the most inefficacious channels—of a size ridiculously diminutive and of materials as perishable as brick—undermine the streets of London, to carry away immense quantities of decomposed matter to contaminate the waters of the Thames, and to arise in putrid exhalations to the windows of those dwellings which are contiguous to the silent highway. What is strikingly dissimilar between the ancient and modern systems of sewerage is still more remarkable in reference to the facilities afforded of old and now-a-days, for the supply of water to a , dense population. Before the science of hydraulics had demonstrated that most beneficent law of nature, that liquids will rise to their original level, the Ro mans had conquered the most extraordinary engineer ing difficulties, and the most singular geographical obstructions, for the purpose of conveying water to the seven hills along the grooves of their superb and splendid aqueducts. Such was the importance attached in those days to that ; most necessary of all the elements of existence ! And now, when more can be effected through a pipe of iron or even of earthenware than was formerly effected by structures of marble built arch upon arch, connecting the hill-tops and span ning the valleys of Italy, there is a perpetual drought in many quarters of our metropolis ; and the miseries arising from insufficient drainage are enhanced by those produced by the insufficient supplies of the water necessary for household con sumption. These two grievous wants on the part of the com munity will, of course, be the principal objects to wards which the enterprise of the Sanitary Commis sioners will be directed. Better sewerage, and the conveyance of water to every tenement, will be the foremost of the improvements which those offi cials will endeavour to insure to the population. The abolition of that most extravagant and unnatural of all imposts—the window-tax--will enable the people to obtain larger quantities of light ; and the organization of a regular plan of inspection will secure to the labouring classes a proper amount of ventilation. The law will secure this'advantage to the industrial poor by rendering the ventilation of their dwelling-houses incumbent upon their land lords, and the ventilation of their workshops incumbent upon their employers. Excellent as have been the former efforts made for effecting speedy and comprehensive sanitary improve ments—the employment of lecturers—the publica tion of pamphlets—the establishment of a magazine and a newspaper—and similar plans of agitation based upon a system which has been legitimatized by the suc cess of the Anti-Corn-law League, we are sanguine that these great social reforms may be in a particular manner hastened by the grand demonstration which will shortly take place under the presidency of that most distinguished nobleman the Marquis of NOE,. MA.NIIY. Coming, as this assembly will do, so soon after the emphatic recommendation of sanitary im provements contained in her MAJESTY'S most gracious Speech, it will be impossible that the progress of the cause can be much longer retarded, either through the apathy of individuals or the procrastination of the Government. The impulse has been given; it cannot be counteracted. A sanitary commission has been organized ; it cannot be disorganized with impunity. The present Administration, through the first Lord of the Treasury, is pledged to this great labour of moral and physical amelioration. The QUEEN already wills it—la Reine le vent. Parliament cannot shrink from its deliberation—the popular demands must be at once and permanently satisfied. The following account of the Ministerial crisis in Naples, appears in the Allgemeine Zeitung .•--- " On Sunday, the 14th, the King sent for Santangelo, and expressed to him his intention of dividing the Mi nistry of the Interior into two departments, and to entrust one of them to Prince Comitini. Santangelo defended the integrity of his Ministry, and finished by tendering his resignation, as his 6lajesty turned a deaf ear to his counsels. The King accepted it. Pietracatella has, it is said, followed the example of Santangelo. The Prince of Canspofranco is spoken of as his successor. Ferri, the Minister of Finance, has, at his own request, been placed on the retired list, and is replaced by Giustino Fortuna:o. Delcaretto is spoken of as the new Minister of War." Madrid journals of the 23d have arrived. The Chamber of Deputies is still occupied with the verification of the returns. Mr. I3uLwsa had, it is said, remonstrated against the decree recently issued, imposing additional duties on foreign mixed woollen and cotton goods. It is expected that the French Ambassador will also re monstrate against it. - MADRID Bome., Nov. 23.—The Three per Cents. 264 atl 50 dirys; and # 3-16ths cash after the close ; Five per Cents.; 15.1 sellers, 15 buyers, after the close ; Passive DAt, 41 sellers, Coupons, 10 . ,i sellers ; Exchange on London, 48 70. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The capture of Lucerne is the theme of comment in all of them. This event is generally considered as the termination of the war. The Debats, however, still urges the small cantons and the canton of Valais to resist. The late Government of Lucerne has retired with the troops of Uri and Untemalden ; and, inas much as those, reinforced 1 0. - the troops of _Lucerne, were defeated by G eneral DUFOUR, and the out works of L ucerne carr i ed by storm in spite of them, it is not probable that they will attempt further re sistance. The Couslitutionnil has the following sen sible observations on this subject : " Humanity,' said the Journal des Dards in one of its lucid intervals, humanity imposes on us the duty of wishing that the resignation exhibited at Friburg may be imitated at Lucerne.' That wish has been carried into effect, since Lucerne has capitulated like Friburg. There have been several engagements in which the troops of the Sonderbund have been constantly worsted. This terrible canton of Lucerne, which the Debuts, re penting its humanity of a day, endeavoured to represent to us as almost invincible, was invaded, run over, and brought under subjection in the space of 24 hours at most. Is was not that- Lucerne was deficient in brave soldiers, military vanity, experienced generals, well fortified towns, and valleys easy of defence ; but Lucerne, like Friburg and like Zug, had not faith in its own cause ; the population revolted with regret against the Diet —everything was factitious on the side of the Sonderbund in this civil war. Had it been otherwise, is it to be supposed that the canton of Lucerne would have given in with its whole population in such haste ? Were not the troops of Schwytz, Uri, and Unterwalden united to those of Lucerne, and could they not support a long siege ? Were not the Jesuits perfectly aware that M. Guizot was making infinite efforts to draw Europe into an Intervention, and that above all he demanded, in order to succeed, that the war should be as much as possible prolonged ? But if the Jesuits had in their favour M. Guizot and his journal, they had not the heart of the populations, compromised by them in the quarrel. The prompt fall of Lucerne after that of b riburg, that is to say of the two most considerable cantons of the Son derbund, consequently complicates exceedingly the enterprise of our inventor of European congresses. Tho English Government, in its moderation, had judged matters with a much sounder mind. After a lengthened resistance to the importunities of M. Guizot, the British Ministry did not yield except on conditions which render all intervention impossible. The very phrase employed in the Queen's Speech, and which has not been sufficiently remarked, is a check for the system of inti midation which our Ministry wished to adopt with re spect to Switzerland. England, in fact, seizes on the opportunity to characterise the first the conferences proposed between the five Powers to determine their object, to specify the very conditions of their adhesion; and it does this in terms which may re-assure the Helvetic Confederation by promising it implicitly a support against every attack on its neutrality and its independence. Her Majesty,' says the British Go vernment, is in communication relative to the affairs of Switzerland with her allies, and is anxious to em ploy, in concert with them, her friendly influence to re store to the Swiss Confederation the blessings of peace.' There is a very great difference between this amiable, loyal, and pacific language, and the furious articles of our Ministerial journal, and the odious act of our Ministry in smuggling in cannon into Switzerland in order to prolong the civil war. The victory of General Dufour is not an embarrassment for the English Minis try, the representative of which is still at Berne ; but it is a grave contradiction given to the provisions, hopes, and designs of our Ministry." It would appear from an article in the same paper, that the French are extremely dissatisfied with the convention with England regulating the fisheries. The French have already the power of fishing within six miles of the English coast ; but with this they are not content. We trust, however, that our Govern ment will resist any overtures that may be made for conferring on the French fishermen further powers, and that they will rigidly enforce the law against all French fishermen found fishing within the forbidden limits. M. NAPOLEON DUCIJATEL has refused the embassy to Turin, in consequence of the ungracious manner in which the offer of it was made to him by M. GUIZOT. The French Three per Cents. were on Sunday, in the Passage de l'Opera, 76f. 971 e. "Very little busi ness was done. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVIMBER 29. Boulogne and Amiens, 15—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 15 3 / 4 —Namur and 'Liege, W l —Northern of Framce,l2l4,—Orleans and Bordeaux, VA—Over Yssel, dis.—Paris and Lyons, 6 1 ,1y—Paris and Rouen, 35 1 ,4 — Paris and Strasbourg, 4%—Sambre and Meuse, 6 1 / 2 —Tours and Nantes, 4. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY). (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND sat fo-day in his Court in Lincoln's Inn to give judgments , and hear motions. To-morrow is the first seal after Michaelmas Term, and consequently the first regular motion day, but his Honour sat this morning for the convenience of the Bar, and in order to dispose of any cases that might press. GILLESPIE V. DIRNEWELL AND OTHERS.--ZUDGMENT. His HoNotre gave judgment t•-day in this case, the arguments in which were concluded on the sth of the present month. The case came before the Court upon the motion for an injunction, to restrain the defendant Barnewell, who is the public officer of the London Commercial Bank, from proceed ing with an action in the Court of Common Pleas, to recover the sum of 4,0001., which had been advanced to a society of which the plaintiff was a member. It ap peared that a society, which was called the Colonial Society, of which the plaintiff, Lord Mountcashell, and other gentlemen were members, about the year 1842, became in need of funds, in consequence of some changes which had lately been made in the constitution of the club. Under such circumstances a meeting was called, and it was resolved the committee of manage ment should be empowered to borrow a sum of 4,0001. from the Commercial Bank of London, of which one of the directors was also a member of the club. After some negotiation the bank consented to advance the necessary amount, on condition that the banking account of the club should be transferred to them. The sum so advanced, however, proved insufficient to free the society from its embarrassments; and accord ingly, the loan not being repaid, after some delay the bank commenced an action against Lord Mountcashell, as a principal member of the club, for the amount. The action was at first defended by Lord Mountcashell, and set down for trial; but it was eventually compromised, on Lord Mountcashell giving security for the debt, the bank at the same time undertaking, as was alleged, to bring such actions, within certain restrictions, as Lord Mountcashell should request, against some other mem bers of the club, of whom the plaintiff was one. Pre viously to this agreement a meeting was held by some members of the club, at which it was agreed that a con tribution should be made; and, accordingly, several hun dred pounds were raised and paid to Mr. Westmacott, who was a member of the society, and took an active part in procuring contributions, in order to be paid to the bank. In pursuance of this arrangement, a sum of 1,0004 was actually paid to the bank, in consideration of which the bank gave further time to Lord Mountcashell for pay ment of the sum secured by his bond. Of the 1,0001. so paid, a portion of 2501. and 1001. was contributed by the plaintiff, who was ignorant of the arrangement between the bank and Lord Mountcashell. Under these circum• stances the plaintiff, considering that he had paid more than his share of th e debt of the club, which it was stated consisted of five hundred members, filed his bill for an injunction to restrain the proceedings in the action brought against him. His Honour, after going shortly through the facts of the case, granted the injunction in the terms asked by the plaintiff. Injunction granted. BTROTHER V. DUTTON.-4UDGMENT. His HONOUR also gave judgment in this case, agreeing with the Master in the rejection of certain evidence, and several of the exceptions, with costs. The Court then proceeded to hear motions, but no case of any interest, except to the parties concerned, came before his Honour during the morning. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) :Sittings at Nisi Prins, before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a Common Jury.) FELTHOUSE V. KING. This was an indictment for perjury. The defendant had gone before a judge at chambers and made affidavit that the prosecutor owed him 24L upon an I 0 U, and was about to quit the country, whereupon the Judge made an order for the arrest of the prosecutor ; and on his subsequently being declared a bankrupt it turned out that he owed no such sum as 24L to the defendant, nor had ho ever given him any I 0 U, and hence arose the present indictment for perjury. Mr. PARRY addressed the jury for the defendant, and stated that the I 0 U, although it could not be forth coming, was still in existence, and it would therefore be an act of cruelty to convict the defendant of perjury upon the evidence of a man who had been imprisoned by the Bankruptcy Court. The jury, after a short consultation, found the de fendant guilty. The defendant was then called upon to state if he had anything to urge why judgment should not be passed upon him. The defendant replied that a party had just come into Court who had possession of the I 0 U. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE directed the document to be given up and impounded, and the judgmont of the Court was deferred. DEATH OF JOSHUA. FIELDEN, ESQ. — We regret to have to record the death of Joshua Fielden, Esq., which took place about nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, in the 71st year of his age, and in the presence of his sur viving brothers, including John Fielden, Esq., late M.P. for Oldham. He was the eldest brother of the well known firm of Fielden Brothers, cotton and silk manu facturers, Waterside, Todmorton.—Leeds Mercury. EXPORT OF LONDON PORTER.-011 Saturday the East India Company announced their intention of ex. porting the extraordinary quantity of 236,953 gallons of London porter to, Bombay. Cap 0 -- - THE MATRICIDE AT HACKNEY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—You will greatly oblige me if you would permit the accompanying letter to appear in The Sun to- morro w. Yours faithfully and obediently, R. B. SHERIDAN. House of Commons, Nov. 29. House of Commons, Nov. 29. Sir,—My attention has only this morning been drawn to some observations reported in The Sun of Saturday last, as having been made by you as coroner of East Middlesex in your charge to the jury in the case of ma tricide at Hackney. " You are there represented as having stated that the unfortunate 3 oung man, William Stewart Sheridan, nO W confined within the walls of a prison on the dreadful charge of matricide, was no other than the grandson of the celebrated Sheridan,' who, you were pleased to add, on the authority of a libellous work, never spoke in the House of Commons without the inspiration of half a pint of brandy;' after which you are reported to have remarked, 'Bitter ind ee d must h ave been his re tlectiops, could he but have been conscious of the lqacY he thus bequeathed to his posterity, viz., the hereditary inheritance of a broken constitution, a debilitated bodY, and attenuated form.' “ I will not trust myself to comment on these gra tuitous and cruel observations. I hope I may give you credit for not i n t en di ng to woun d t h e f ee li ngs o f the late Mr. Sheridan's family. The assertions you have made are totally without foundation, and I beg they may be immediately contradicted as publicly as they have been made. " The unfortunate man now committed to prison on . s charge of wilful murder, bearing a name very common 112 Ireland, is not only no relation to the family of the 114° Mr. R. B. Sheridan, to whom you have so disrespectfully alluded, but his existence until now was wholly unknoss:n to them. The only male descendant of Mr. Sheridan tot " Your most obedient servant, - " RICHARD BRINSLEY SIIERIDAIC " To Mr. W. Baker, Coroner of East Middlesex.' MARYLEBONE THEATRE. Beaumont and Flet c h er ' s come d y o f the Scornf u l Lady was revived here last evening, with great success' Mr. T. J. Serle was the adapter, and of course he hi? used the scissors un s p ar i ng ly, for so grossly licentious is the play as originally written that it is absolutely not producible in its orignal state. Mr. Serle has not only omitted much, but he has also introduced much, and that always with good judgment and excellent taste. 1111 :. Warner's assumption of th e S corn f u l L a d y wa s all t., 118 " could be desired. Sh e was well supported by .atr• Graham, and the others members of the companY• Th costumes (taken from the drawings of Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith) were minutely correct, and the mac e scene was superb. - Mendelssohn's Elijah is to be again perform ed by the Sacred Harmonic Society on Friday next. Th e subscription for erectin g a memorial in honour of the late gifted composer is proceeding very favourably. Mr. D'Eyncourt, M.P. for Lambeth, who arrived from the Continent on the 22d to attend Parliament, if confined by a violent attack of influenza. and was unable to attend the House of Commons on Sir Georg e Grey's motion. The Earl of Eglinton' contradicts, in the most ex'' plicit terms, the report which appeared in several of oar contemporaries, t o th e e ff ec t t h a t his Lordship h a become bankrupt, had given up the whole of his propertY to his creditors, and been placed on an allowance of 5001. a year. THE LATH ROBBERY Or 8001. AT THE GRE AT WESTERN TERMlNUS.—Yesterday morning, about half past six o'clock, as some car t ers wer e coming along the Bath road, leading from Hounslow, their attention was attracted to a large substance in the water of o ne of 111 branches of the river Colne. It was found to be a !a sk containing some weighty substance. On being examineur it was found to be the sid e s and all other parts of 6a iron chest stolen a few days since from the Pa ddington Terminus, containing a large sum of money, the propertY of the Bank of England. Information of the discovery' was promptly communicated to the railway authorities. This discovery is considered as likely to lead to the de tection of the guilty parties. ; tbe SIAMESE PRODUCE.—The vessel Isis, arrived .n _ docks from Siam, has brought 7,487 bags of s ugar. The rarity of an arrival of th e kind, especially of late, from this place, renders th e importation one of interest and. importance. The same ship had on board 1 , 248 bags o f rice, th. produce of the same district. THE TWO•SHILLING CoINAGE.—We understand ". that the new two-shilling piece will not be i ssued ia few days, as the public have been led to believe; maul months to come. SUICIDE IN THE SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDE Ng.. -. ' Yesterday, between the hours of one and two o'clock, * respectably-dressed female presented herself at the en ' trance to the Surrey Zoological Gardens, and paid for ticket of admission, there being nothing in her aPPeer• ante or manner at the time to excite the slightest we picion on the part of the person receiving her monei; After passing through the gate, she proceeded throng the gardens to the south-west corner, where she wa s lost sight of. Soon after Jo se ph Roberts, one of Mr* Tyler's servants, having occasion to go into 0110 of th_be l g places of convenien ce near the gi raffes ' house , was tau % shocked at finding the unfort unateyoung woman,: corpse. Mr. Iliff, a surg eon , was sent for , and proraPtii attended, but at once pronounced h er d ea th to h ave bee t . ° instantaneous, dpehad yl fpoison upon h h found s and she hear.d In prod ta u hkrn c ee ed by prussic acid, of whic h quantity p a ock la e r t g w e as found pa pe r, on a fr :ir e r: on which was written, " Ann Smith, at Mrs. MeenAgo Crown-court, Fleet-street." The body was remo ve to the George public-house, in New -street, to await tile coroner's inquest. IRON, HARDWARE, AND METAL TRADES' 11ERSION SOClETY.—Yesterday a meeting of the subs cribers to this charity was held at the London Tavern for the pur; pose of electing four pensioners to the benefits of th_ , institution. The chair was taken by Esq., one of the trustees. The report of the tom mitU r submitted to the meeting showed the balance in favour Afte of the society at the last audit to be 1,8831. 7s. 2d. the business of the election was over the meeting se* parated. R. W. liennarde Wermoiru.—lt is reported t hat no less than twelve writs connected with t he late contested electio have been issued from the Court of the Queen'aßes nch. this 0. 4 served on J. A Devenish, Es , borough.—Salisbury Herald. . late bipor of IMPORTATION Or APPLES' A vessel ar rived fro m 0 Jersey has brought 5,000 bushe ls, bein g an entire cargo of apples, the produce of that island. the THE DUNSTABLE RAILWAY. — O n Satur day s uv Government inspector went over this railway, reported it fit for public tra ffi c ;it will be opened on L Ist of January. .nylellst MELANCHOLY SUICIDE. Yesterday En 1 was taken before Mr. Baker , a t the City of art Bonner's-fields, Victoria - park , on view of the body ws e t e Catherine Kaerschmidt, aged 22, a German, who seduced and abandoned un der the following heartlt. tis! circumstances. It appeare d from the evidence that deceased, about twelvemonth s since, was brought r:.; this country from Germany b y a lad y , when she elite into the service of the family of Mr. Caen, the proprriee for of a printing establishm ent in the City. She , mained there about ten m onths, when it is suppose: she was induced to leave her situation by a gentlem with whom she had formed an unfortunate attachment, who took a lodging for her et No. 7, Barossa-terrace. Cambridge-heath, wh ere the y p assed as Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick. He paid for the apartment Ss. 6d. per wee k for three weeks, after whioh she saw nothing more 0! him. In the course of the previous week she pawned her wedding ring to support herself and to pay her lodging. On Saturday morning she wrote a letter to. Mrs. Caen, in which she stated tha t befor e she received th.t letter she should be no more. She requested her t; inform her parents that she had been doing wrong, *e h been deceived, and hoped for their pardon. IJP e h t b e receipt of this letter an ii quiry was made, upo n w " — , l it was discovered that she bad drowned herself is ornamental sheet of water in Victoria - p ark , 'Verdict the body had been taken to the City of 'aris. —" Found drowned." T mg g or WRECK ON THE GOODWIN SAKIIS AND J" -- . the LlFE.—Yesterday. intelligence reached Lloyd's thit",,,io barque Penrith, of Liverpool, 326 tons, bound from R IO barque s Janeiro for llamburgh, with a cargo of 6,435 bag aie and that of coffee and 14,000 horns, had been totally lost °ll The night of the 26th instant, on the Goodwin Sands- o w master, Phillip Lequesne, who descended into the r c lo te to save the ship's papers, was drowned. The chie f and thirteen of the crew, after being tossed about ?.cilic:4ll open boat, without oars, for several hours, wer e P l ossi up by a lugger, and landed at Ramegate. The v , belonged to Charles Ironsides and Johnson, 0.1 vorpool. g b Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte passed c h iotl Basle on the 25th inst., on his way to Berne. BIRTHS. On the 19th inst., at Prospect House, Sahash , the la dy et Captain J. Jervis Tucker, R.N., of a daughter. p o ly 0 ' On the 23d inst., at Balsdon Lodge, Torquay , ,tain Lee, of a daughter. are , thO r in the 25th inst., at Elizabeth-street, Eaton-_ cgati wife of the Rer. A. W. Hanson, of Cape Coast 61 tle a son. On the 25th inst., at Penshurst, the wife o f the ibe" Green, of a daughter. Cie ° On the 26th inst., at Grosvenor-place, the lady of F. P. Bouverie, R.N., of a daughter. MARRIED. 06 At the Protestant Church, Port Louis , M auritius, 12th of August, by the Rev. A. Decry, Henry Dur n ., t hte r Esq., to Margaret Madeline Michele, youngest aallb— the late Captain John Michele, R.N. inp ri• On the 25th inst., at Hornchurch, Essex, by the D., sy e- G. Stacey, D. C. Thompson, Esq., of Brook-street, 6%4,, nor square, to Ellen, eldest daughter of T. Airoodfinef of llornchurch, Essex. On the 20th inst., at his residence, Southanipton-e trot. Strand, William Rintoul, drawing.master. k . c orfiert On the 234 inst., at St. George's-place Hyde-Par Elizabeth, wife of John Taylor, Esq., aged 67. wife of 157111410 On the 234 inst., at Clapham, Charlotte, - On the 24th inst., at his house, Beams, Esq., aged 78. Spencer, Esq., aged 64. ~,,I 48, Franca, On the 25th inst., at Richmond, Surrey', all; wall. relict of the late D. Howell, Esof Ethy taor n-- ' A te. , q-, , f Dowt, On Friday evening last, Mr. 'l'. G. Smith, ° hill, in the 80th f I • year o its age. i . j Brewer , On the 26th inst., at Lorne-road, Brixton. E. • Esq., of the Stock Exchange. in 111yddelton-squere, 'l% GELNV at London: Printed and Published MURDO Y j 124 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at ilse Sun Office, N°• t . Strand, in the Precinct 'ef the Sayoy, in the curi a biiddle3ea, Tuesday, NV/ember 30,1847. THE SUN, LONDON, .S.I)A 'tlc, A