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London, England, 1855-07-06 00:00:00

BREVET.

Brevet-Colonel John Joseph Hollis, who has been per-
mitted to retire upon full pay, of the 25th Foot, to be
Major General, the rank being honorary only.
Archibald William Cockburn, M.D., being attached to
the Irregular Cavalry under the command of Major-General
Boatson, to have the local rank of Deputy Inspector-
General of Hospitals while so employed.
Quartermaster George Allen, of the Royal Sappers and
Miners, being attached to the Turkish Contingent Engi-
neers, to have the local rank of Captain while so employed.
MEHORANDUM.—Staff-Assiitant-SurgeOn James Alex-
ander Eames, whose appointment was stated in the
aosatte of 9th June, 1851, has been permitted to resign
his commission.
Errata in the Gazette of the let June, 1855.

To be Acting Assistant-Surgeons-4or G. L. Hinde,
Gent., read George Langford Hinde, Gent.; for T. A. Fin-
nimore, Gent., read Thomas Arthur Finnimore, Gent.;
for John H. G. Meares, Gent., read John Henry Goulds-
bury Meares, Gent. ; for Spencer B. Gibb, M.D., read
Spencer Boyd Gibb, M.D. ; for Richard .IJniack Cash-
man, M.D., read Richard Uniacke Casllman, M.D. ; for
Thomas Claytor Beale, Gent., read Thomas Chaytor Beale,
Gent.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 15.
The Queen has been-graciously pleased to approve of the
Renfrew Militia being styled The Prince of Wales's
Royal Regiment of Renfrew Militia."
The Queen has been graciously pleased to approve of
Colonel William Mare becoming Honorary Colonel of the
Renfro w Militia.

[The following Appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of the 22d June, 1355.]
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Regiment of Royal London Militia—Lieutenant Henry
Martyn Kennard to be Captain, vice Christian 'William
McNeill, resigned.
The Prince of Wales's Royal Regiment of Renfrew
Militia—Captain Wm. Findlay Hamilton to be Second
Major.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—En.
sign Willis Peat to be Lieutenant, vice Wyatt, who re-
tires.

Regiment of Stirling Dumbarton, Clackmannan, and
Kinross-shire Militia—James Edmund Christie, Esq., to
be Ensign.

Ist Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—Thomas
Vivian Gurney, Gent., to be Ensign.
[The following Appointments are substituted for those
which appeared in the Gazette of the 20th June, 1855.]
?nth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia Ensign
Thomas Arthur Mills to be Lieutenant, vice Searle, re-
tired ; Ensign Frederick Sumner Brockhurst to be Lieu-
tenant, viceThursby, appointed to the Coldstream Guards;
Ensign Richard Topham to be Lieutenant, vice Suckling,
appointed to the 95th Foot ; Ensign John Bomford to be
Lieutenant, vice Parker, appointed to the Ist Regiment of
the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia,; Algernon Sidney
Bicknell, Gant., to be Ensign, vice Mills, promoted ;
Sumner Mitchell Sumner Brockhurst, Gent., to be Ensign ;
Richard Henley, Gent., to be Ensign.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday the 30th day of June. 1855.
185172 DEPARTMENT.
Noteailssued .. • • .... 31,305,t70

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities...... 2,9114,900
Gold coin and bullion 17,305,070
Silver bu11i0n........

£31,305,070

£31,305,070
'. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier..

Dated the ith day of July, 185.,

BANKING DE'
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ...... ........ 3,140,067
Public deposit (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-

:PARTMENT.

Government securities

(Includg.Dead Weighi

Annuity) •• -
.. 12,896,064
Other securitte,s...... 13,197, 443
Notes • • • • • • • • .. 11,139,525
Gold and silver coin .. 713,505

ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 6,146,959
Other deposits ...... 18,434,749
Seven Day and other
Bills ........ . 971,726

X 38,246,541

£38,246.541
'. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the sth day of July, 1855

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending July 3,
1855, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British Possessions in Ainerica 2ls. 4d.
4g
IS it Mauritius
East Indies 23s. 64d.
The average price of the two foregoing descriptions of
Sugar, computed as above, is 21s. 7d. per cwt.
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Robert George Rose, draper, Cowley-terrace, North
Brixton,

BANKRUPTS.
John Mitchell, builder, Great Bourton, Oxfordshire, to
surrender, July 13 at two, and Aug. 17 at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Paterson and Longman, Old Broad-street.
Thomas Price Smith, factor, Birmingham, July 20 and
Aug. 17, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston,
official assignee, Birmingham ; Southall, Birmingham.
Robert Turner, gas lamp and chandelier manufacturer,
Birmingham, July 20, and August 18, at eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee,
Waterloo-street,Birmingham ; Motteram and Knight, Bir-
mingham.
Henry Williamson, cloth merchant, Leeds, July '2O and
Aug. 9, at eleven, at, the Leeds District Court. Young,
official assi.•nee, Leeds ; Blackburn, Leeds.
Thomas Philps, carpenter and builder, Green-lanes,
Highbury-park, July 14, at eleven, and August 17, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basin vb all•street ; Brown, Finsbury-place, Finsbury-
square.

George Newey, grocer, Birmingham, July 16, and Aug,
8, at half-past ton, at the Birmingham District Court..
Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Southall, Bir-
mingham.
Jonathan Alurgatroyd, worsted spinner, Keighley,
Yorkshire, July 20 and Aug. 17, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Weather-
head and Burr, Reighley ; Bond and B,:.rwick, Leeds.
Robert Reed, grocer and draper, Middlesborough, Yolk-
shire, July 23, at one, and August 13, at eleven,
at the
Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ;
Hodge and Harle, Neweastle.upon-Tyne ; Preston, Leeds.
Hugh Henry Ross, draper, Liverpool, July Band Aug.
15, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenovo,
LiverpoPl,
licial assignee; Sale,Worthington, and Ship-
man, lln Greatley, Liverpool.
jnAnt4Afacteuhicesy,rm; machine maker, Manchester, July 25 and
Avg, S at twelve, at, the Zianclisster District Court.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ELOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.)
THE ENFIELD RIFLES.
Captain KNOX inquired whether the attention of
the Board of Ordnance had been directed to the state-
ment made by the correspondent of. one of the daily
journals in the Crimea, to the . effect that, during tke
recent attack on the Russian works, the Enfield rifles,
with which the men were supplied, became unserviceable
after firing 18 or 20 rounds.
Mr. MONSELL stated that attention had been
directed to the complaints which had been made, and
steps had been taken to rectify the error by the superin-
tendent of the small arms department of the Govern-
ment. The failure in the case of the rifles bad arisen, he
believed, from the swelling of the wood of the ramrods.
CONDUCT OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE.
Mr. ROEBUCK presented a petition from Mr. Chaffin,
upholsterer, of Oxford-street, complaining of the conduct of
the police towards him on Sunday last. The petitioner stated
that he was standing in the shop of a newsman when an
inspector of police with four ;nen came into the shop and
said, "D— you ! why don't you shut your doors?" To
which the shopkeeper replied—very indecorously no doubt
—" I will see you d—d first !" Whereupon the policemen
drew their truncheons and struck away right and left at the
shopkeeper and the petitioner. From that time to the pre-
sent the petitioner had been confined to his bed in conse-
quence of the blows ho had received, and had not yet re-
covere 1 the use of his arm. The petitioner also complained
that all attempts to discover the policeman who had so
maltreated him had been obstructed by the authorities at
the police-office, and he had found it perfectly impossible
to obtain any redress. The petitioner prayed that the Se-
cretary of State for the Home Department would give
directions that the police should ha marshalled before him,
in order that he might identify the inspector and some of
the men who were with him, the number of only one of
them being known to him, and that was 20 D.
Sir G. GREY stated that the present was the first time
any of these allegations had been brought to his notice, and
he could not assume that the Commissioners of Police had
refused to any one the means of identifying any person
who by his conduct had rendered himself liable to criminal
proceedings. If it should turn out upon inquiry that any
such obstruction had taken place, he should certainly
feel it his duty at once to remove such obstruction, and
afford to the aggrieved party every means of obtaining
redress.
In reply to a question put by Sir F. THESIGEII,
Sir G. GREY stated that it was not the intention of the
'Government to proceed further with the Roman Catholic
Charities Bill.
CONDUCT OF' THE POLICE IN HYDE-PARK.
•
In reply to a question put by Mr. PHILLIMORE,
Sir G. GREY stated that he was not aware of the exist-
ence of any cause for special inquiry into the conduct of
the police. In cases where any specific or tangible charge
could be brought against the conduct of the police, the
courts of law would be open for the examination into such
cases.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he had several petitions to
present, which prayed for immediate redress ; he should
therefore be justified by the rules of the house in calling
the attention of the house to circumstances set forth iu
them. The petitions which ho would present were
similar to that presented by the honourable member for
Sheffield ; they complained of the brutal conduct of the
police at the demonstration in Hyde-park last Sunday.
The first petition he would present was signed by nume-
rous inhabitants of Mount-street and other places in the
vicinity of Grosvenor-square. They stated that they viewed
with horror and regret the horrible and brutal conduct of
the police upon the Sunday to which he had referred, in
truncheoning peaceable people in the park , and they set
forth several cases, the description of which fully bore out
the terms in which they had been described. The second
petition was from Mr. Meyer, ofPimlice, who was afflicted
with paralysis. The petitioner stated that he was in the
habit of taking a walk in the park ; that he was on the
Sunday in question—although he offered no obstruction
twhateveri t 0! to the police—brutally i bTrhuA. ltl
hyest
eyeauckinbwyhthiceirioh, aonwdatncaolnly.
fined was an exceedingly unhealthy place, and so very
small that be was obliged frequently to lie down upon the
ground for the purpose of obtaining a supply of purer air.
He also stated that two respectable persons came in the
course of Sunday afternoon and offered bail, but the police
refused to accept the bail, and he was consequently kept
incarcerated till the following day. The third petition was
from a person whose head and face was dreadfully cut.
Ho was a builder in Finsbury. He stated that, in common
with several other parsons, he was brutally driven back
from the iron railings by the truncheons of the police.
Among other things he stated that he saw a wellelressed
female of middle age, who, struck down by the police,
and while struggling upon the ground, was brutally struck
by four or five other policemen. The right hen. baronet
the Secretary of State for the Home Department might
perhaps say that all this was unsupported by evidence.
Mr. WALPOLE rose to order.. He considered it very
inconvenient to get into a discussion upon petitions of this
kind without notice to the house. The exception which
was proyided for by the rules of the house for discussing
petitions referred to cases only of petitions which required
immediate and urgent remedy; they were the only cases
which could be discussed ou presentation. He really did
not see how the matter of which the petitioners complained
showed an urgent necessiey for providine an immediate re-
medy. He thought it would be better Co give notice and
bring the matter before the house te•morrow.
Mr, DUNCOMBE declined to agree to the postponement
of the motion.
The SPEAKER said the hon. member for Finsbury_ put a
very different interpretation on the case to what he (the
Speaker) should pct upon it. No doubt these ersons had
personal grievances but the question was whpether there
was urgent necessity' for providing an immediate remedy.
The courts of justice were open to these parties. The ques-
tion was whether such urgent necessity existed for the
house to provide an immediate remedy as to render it ne-
cessary to discuss this question without notice. He thought
the question would not come within the extent, but that
the hon. member should give notice of his motion.
Mr. ROEBUCK suggested that, as there was a commit-
tee of supply appointed for to-morrow, the hon. member
might bring forward the subject.
Mr. DUNCOMBE said the right hon. the Speaker had
stated that the courts of justice wore open to the petis
tioners. He (Mr. Duncombe), however, contended that
there was no redress to be obtained for them in courts of
justice. (Cries of "order.")
Lurd PALMERSTON said, upon the showing of the
hon. member for Finsbury himselr—the announcement
which he had made of his intention to move the appoint-
ment of a committee—he (Lord Palmerston) apprehended
that the hon. member had put himself out of order. He
(Lord Palmerston) understood the hon. member to state
that he should refer this matter to a select committee.
(Heat, hear.) It appeared to him that the appointment
of a select committee was scarcely that immediate remedy
required for an urgent matter upon which the hon. mem-
ber might speak on the presentation of a petition. A com-
mittee which might be appointed to-morrow, and which-
might make its report some weeks hence, could scarcely be
considered to be an immediate remedy for an urgent case'
of necessity.
Mr. DUNCOMBE rose to order. Tho noble lord (Lord
Palmerston) was completely out of order, for he (Mr. Dun-
combe) had not moved for a select committee. He had
made no motion for a select committee.
The SPEAKER said it was against the rules of the house
for the hon. member to speak on presenting a petition, un-
less it was for the purpose of showing the necessity of an
immediate remedy. He (the Speaker) did not perceive
anything in the allegations of the petitioners themselves to
justify a departure from the ordinary rules of the house on
the present occasion. (Cheers.)
Mr. DUNCOMBE said he would move that the house do
now adjourn. He certainly did intend to move for a select
committee, in order that a searching inquiry might be made
into the atrocious conduct of th police in Hyde-park,
whirl would report its opinion to the house. But as he
could not do that, he should move that the house do now
adjourn. Upon this motion he should proceed to support
the allegations of the petitioners by statements which had
been made to him by other parties. He,was confident that
if the house did not listen to those petitions they would
regret in a few days the course they had pursued. s
Lord PALMERSTON rose to order. He put it to the
Speaker whether it was not required by the rules of the
house that when an hon. member made a motion he should
speak to the subject of the motion. Tho hon. meneber
moved the adjournment of the house. He (Lord Palmer-
ston) submitted that that was the only question upon which
he could speak. By the course which the hon. member
bad taken in bringing forward matters unconnected with
the motion, he had in fact made it impossible for the house
to adjourn.
Mr. ROEBUCK said the noble lord was mistaken in the
interpretation which he had put upon the motion for the.
adjournment of the house. He (Mr. Roebuck) contended
that upon such a motion the hon.member might speak upon
anything which came uppermost in his mind. (A laugh.)
Mr. WILLIAMS was not surprised at the conduct of the
noble lord in endeavouring to put down this discussion.
(Order, order.) He contended that the noble lord was
entirely out of order in interrupting the hon. member
for Finsbury. (Order, order.) The grounds which had
been laid before the house perfectly justified the course
taken. He (Mr. Williams) had himself received numerous
communications— (Renewed cries of "Order.")
The SPEAKER said the question before the house was
that the house do now toljourn. The hon. member must
confine his remarks simply to the motion before the house.
It was perfectly clear that when the rules of the house
precluded an hon. member from addressing it on the pre-
sentation of a petition, he was 'unable to make a speech
which he was prevented from doing on the presentation of
a petition by moving the adjournment of the house. It
W.)E4 for the house to take into consideration whether it
would see all its authority broken down, and the rules of.
the house disregarded. (tTheers.)
Mr. WILLIAMS said they all felt the highest respect,
r ant
htenet deservedly so, for the opinions entertained by the
ignSpeaker, but ho contended that the course
which had been taken by the hon. member for Finsbury
was only analogous to that whitth had been pursued by
the noble lord the member for Middlesex without inter-
ruption on a recent occasion.
Mr. DUNCOMBE again rose, amid cries of " spoke,
spoke." The hen, member said that.he was there in the

performance of h tittialie duty. He did not, wish to break
deem the authority of the house, or to titate its rules;
he wished to do nothing of the sort. He believed he was
perfectly within the rules of the house in the course he had
taken. He hail been requested, for the sake of his
subjects, for the sake of property, and for the tranquillity of
the town upon Sunday next, to make the statements which
he had made. It was necessary tor the public peatie that
security should be given to the principal inhabitants of this
town against the proceedings which he understood were
contemplated on Sunday nett. Let a committee of inquiry
be appointed and he would bring evidence to support the
charges which he had made. The hon. member then pro-
ceeded to read several letters which had been communicated
to him from persons who had attended in Hyde-park on
Sunday last. One of them stated that hehad received a blow
on the side of the head from the police, and on turning
round received another on the other side. The same person
stated that while going home he saw a man lying insensible
on the ground, who was struck by the police repeatedly
while in that position, and they afterwards told him
ironically to go to the hospital and get his wounds dressed,
and that if he did not go directly they would give him
three times more than he had yet received. Another case
was that of a woman who was struck savagely in the
breast, and loft groaning repeatedly under the pain of the
blow. Surely these were cases that the house ought to
listen to; and, so far as he was concerned, the house
should not proceed to the consideration of any other
business till this was disposed cf. (Hear, hear.) The
honourable member then stated to the, house the case of
a man who, in running away from the police, was struck
by them upon the ahkle with their truncheons, in order
to bring him down to the ground. He also read a letter
from a soldier who had lately returned wounded from
tho Crimea. He stated that ho had received a bloiv from
the police on Sunday last which had caused a wound in
his leg to break out afresh; that he was struck repeatedly
by the police, although he kept calling out that he was a
cripple and could not get out of their way. Another letter
was read from Colonel Aldridge, late Colonel of the Horse
Guards Blue. The letter was addressed to a committee of
working men, who were now sitting for the purpose of
getting evidence against the police, and obtaining their
punishment if possible. The writer said that he had never
in the whole course of his life witnessed greater brutality
displayed by a body of cowards and ruffians than by the
police upon Sunday in Hyde-park. He stated that he was
prepared to detail numerous cases of brutality, and that it
would afford him great pleasure to do so to the committee,
and that, he should be still more happy if by this means he
should be instrumental in obtaining the punishment of
those " savages," for he could call them by no other name.
There was, he could assure the house, the greatest excite-
ment in the minds of the working classes on the subject of
the proceedings in Hyde-park on Sunday last. (Hear.)
The bill of the noble lord the member for Middlesex had
gone, it was true, but that was insignificant in comparison
with what might happen on Sunday next, unless some-
thing were done to meet the wishes of the people on this
subject. He pledged his word to the house and fully be-
lieved that serious disturbances would take place next
Sunday unless something was done by the House of Com-
mons. If the house granted this committee, or a promise
that a full and fair inquiry should take place, the people
would be satisfied. They would net, however, be satisfied
to have the matter "hushed up," and merely be told that
the offensive bill had been withdrawn, and that they might
go home. It was quite true that the bill was gone. But
who had been compromised by its withdrawal? Clearly
none but the House of Commons. (Hear.) The house had
been greatly compromised by the manner in which the bill
had been withdrawn, and the general opinion among the
people was, that the House of Commons had concedd to
tumult that which they would not concede to reason.
(Hear, bear.) That was the view which they took upon_
the subject. Former Houses of Commons had not
refused to entertain these questions, and the brutal mas-
sacre at Manchester in 1819 occupied the attention of the
House of Commons of that time. True there was no com-
mittee appointed, and the Government and the House of
Commons now, as then might be too strong to grant in-
quiry. One of three things, however, the House of Com-
mons must now do if they wished to prevent mischief next
Sunday. He was told that the parties who felt aggrieved
were determined to go to Hyde-park next. Sunday armed ;
and if they had been armed last Sunday there could be no
doubt that a most serious collision would have taken place
between the police and the people. The House of Commons
must either grant the required inquiry or the Government
must close the park next Sunday; and that, perhaps, was
the best course they could adopt if they refused the in-
quiry. He had now placed the house in possession of the
facts of the case, and was prepared to prove and support
the allegations contained in the petitions which he had pre-
sented by the evidence of many most respectable persons.
He would not be satisfied with thereport of the Government,
nor the report of the commissioners of police. Something
should be done to arrive at the truth of the matter. At ail
events he had done bis duty. He believed that the tran-
quillity of the country depended on the manner in which
the House of Commons received the statement he had-laid

before them, and the way in which they would lnstitute
inquiry. He had moved for a committee, but as that mo-
tion was objected to without notice, lie should move that
the house do now adjourn. (Hear.)
Sir G. GREY said as the motion for the adjournment of
the house was the only question under discussion, he wOuld,
not enter into a debate upon the conduct of the police on
Sunday last, nor into the sweeping statements made aginst
them by his hon. friend. Bat ho wished to correct one
statement made by the hon. member, which was that he
(Sir George Grey) had denied the truth of all the state-
ments made in reference to the police. He could not
possibly have denied the correctness of those statements
for the very sufficient reason that he had only heard them
that night for the first time. The honourable mem-
ber said that he (Sir G. Grey) was in possession of infor-
mation that had b•-)n repeatedly laid before him ; but he
had instituted the, strictest inquiry into all the alegations
made which were capable of proof. The hon. member was
aware that the allegations he made were of the most gene-
ral and sweeping character. He was also aware that the
policemen wore a number and a letter, and that every
policeman could be identified ; and it was hardly possible
but that some of those policemen whose conduct was
alleged to have been,so bad could have been identified.
However, he (Sir G. Grey) denied no statements that had
been made ;. but on the part of the police he felt bound to
protest against the sweeping charges which had been made
by the hon. member. Should the hon. member move for a
committee at the proper time, he should be prepared to state
his opinion on such motion. He also felt bound to state, in
reference to the threat made by the bon. member, that the
people would go to the park on Sunday next and go armed,
that he believed the hon. member did great injustice to
the-inhabitants of this metropolis by thinking or by as-
serting that they were inclined to'disturb the public tran-
quillity. (Hear.) It was the privilege of the inhabitants
of this metropolis to go to the parks, but they had no right
to go-there for the purpose of molesting ethers in the en-
joyment of the recreation which they could there obtain.
Should they go with any such design, it would be the duty
of the police and of the Government to give protection to
the peaceably disposed, and to take care that others are
left in that peaceable enjoyment of the parks to which they
had an undoubted right. (Cheers.)
•
Mr. ROEBUCK said he had made specific statements,
giving time, and place, and names, and he had charged
members of the police with misconduct, who had neither
letter nor number on their coats by which they could be
identified. He had stated the names of the persons injured,
and he had asked the Government to protect these. M-
t] eated men, and ho had ask d the assistance of the right
hon. gentleman the Home Secretary iu finding out the in-
spectors -of police who were said to have misconducted
themselves. He had made no accusations against the po-
lice, but be might have made accusations against noble
lords and right hon. members in that house for bringing
forward a measure conceived in bigotry and fraught with
injustice to the working classes.

Sir G. GREY said the observations he had made were
not in reference to the statements of the hon. and learned
gentleman, but to the statements made by the hon. mem-
ber for Finsbury. With respect to the statements of the
hon. and learned gentleman, if ho would make them in
writing and give them to him (Sir G. Grey), he wpuld_
in-
stitute an immediate and searching invefitigation. - - •
Lord EBRINGTON, alter the pointed manner in which
he had been alluded to with others by the hon. andlearned
gentleman, felt called on to disclaim the charge that he
had supported the Sunday Trading. Bill in consequence. of
any bigdtry. He had voted for the bill at the request of
several small tradesmen,' and the object of it was to
secure to them, and to all who wished to keep Sunday as
a holiday and a day of relaxation, the option of doing so.
Ho had received representations rom humble working men
and tradesmen in humble circumstances complaining of the
misrepresentations to whicA the bill was exposed, and of
the consequent defeat of a measure they so much desired.
He assured the house that he had supported the bill on
economical and sanitary grounds(laughter)---he had sup-
ported it likewise on religious as well as irreligious
grounds. (Much laughter.)
Sir H. -WILLOUGH BY thought the petitions of so
much gravity should not be discussed without notice, and
without having been first printed for the information of the
house. He !ingested that course to the hon. member for
Finsbury.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE insisted that these petitions be-
longed to the category of petitions which claimed imme-
diate redress. The Secretary of State had asserted that the
allegations made that evening wore of ageneral and sweep-
ing character ° • but they were not more so than the state-
ments made by the hon. and learned member for Sheffield.
The names and addresses of the parties were given.
After a few observations from Mr. V. Saint v, to the
effect that there were evidently " English rows" as well as
" Irish rows,"

The SPEAKER put the question, " That this house do
now Adjourn."

The ;lotion was negatived without a division.
TOWER-HILL, &c., PAVING.

On the motion of Mr. WILLIAMS, an address for copy
of all correspondence between the authorities of the Tower
of London, the Commissioners of Woods and. Forests, the
inhabitants of tho Tower District, and the corporation of
the city of London, respecting paving Tower-hill, Postern•.
row, and George-street, and the removal of the bats placed
therein by tho Tower authorities, which deprive the pub-
lic of the use of those thoroughfares, was agreed to.