The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-29 00:00:00

i2IPERIAL PARLIKIVIENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, May 28.

The Royal Assent was given this afternoon, by Coin-
mission, to the following Bills:
Property-Tax Continuance.
Copyright Amendment.
Linen, &c., Manufactures (Ireland).
Poor Relief Act Continuance.
•
Loan Societies.
Repayment of Advances Ants '(lreland) Amendment.
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.
Stock in Trade.
Highway Rates.
Barnsley Gas.
Bristol and Exeter Railway (Yeovil Branch).
Macclesfield Improvement.
Great Munster Fair.
Skipton and Crisco Road.
Portsea Gas.
Derby Gas.
Stockton Extension and Improvement.
Vale of Neath Railway.
Barnstaple Markets and Fairs.
Medina River Navigation.
Lockwood and Meltham Road.
Stockton and Darlington Railway.
Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland).
Belfast Gas.
Rhyl IMprovement.
Droitwich Junction Canal.
Sunderland Waterworks.
Thetford Fen District Drainage.
Eastern Counties Railway (Branch to the River Nene,&a.)
Cheshire Constabulary.
Eastern Counties Railway (Junction with the East and
West India Docks, &o.)
Glasgow Union Arcade.
Ilkley Waterworks.
Norfolk Railway.
Cork and Bandon Railway.
York, Niiwcastle, and Berwick Railway (Thirsk and
Malton Branch).
York, Newcastle, and Berwick; and Malton and DritEeld
Junction Railways.
London and Southampton Road through Bishop's
Waltham.
Bury (Sussex) Road.
Retford and Littleboroagh Road.
Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway.
Dudley Waterworks.
Aberdare Market and Slaughter-houses.
Deptford Gae.
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway.
Lmionderri e.nd Enniskillen Railway.
British Empire Mntaal Life Assurance Company.
Porthdiallaea and Naothwynant Roads.
Easaarn Counties end Newmarket and Chesterford
Railway Companies.
Vvorpool Corporation Waterworks.
Forth and Clyde Navigaioa.
Glaacfard Briggs Watarworks.
Sheffield Bridges and Saae!s.
Cheaezharn Improvement anti Iltalth.
Abardeea Fire and Life Assurance Company.
Accidental Death Inzuranco and Railway Assurance
Companies AmAgataation.
Sott';dan2 to Kinston
Massey, Broughton, StcAtoridge, and Wallop Roads.
and North Midland and East and West Yorkshire
Junction Railways.
Dumfries and M'4X
HAW Bridge and Road-. 3.
Bedford and Kinal.olton Road.
Deeside Railway.
LiTbut's Es!at?,
Bradford Eele
Maneticster Hotr.e of Recovery.
The Lords Comtuisaionr..rs were the Lard Chancellor,
the Eel of Lonsisle, and the Marquis of Salisbury.

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own Waterworks.

The LOAD CIIANCELLOB took hi seat on the Woolsack

at Five o'clock.
The Earl of GALLOWAY presented several petitions
again:A the Maynooth grant.
Th. 3 Masters in Chancery Abolition Bill was read a
third tiMe and passed.
MR MATTER. - -

E:irl FITZ WILIT6.III;Ti iquestion to the Noble
Lord at the head of the Foreign office relative to the
case of Mr. Mather, the English gentleman insulted at
Florenc and the damages awarded to him by the Tuscan
Gs,verntnent. •
The Earl of MILMEDURY said that the amount
of darcr,'es awarded to Mr. Mather wrs not so great as
Mr. Scarlett had been directed by her Majesty's Govern-
ment to claim, but they were of such an amount
as was considered equivalent to those which would
have been awarded by an English court.
Her Majesty's Government certainly had not considered
that that sum would be sufficient to compensate Mr.
Mather for the injuries which he had suffered; but he
had no doubt that it would be found that Mr. Scarlett
had actedin the Iron jalicious manner by accepting the
sum of 240/. which V 33 awarded, especially as the Grand
Duko joined with that the concession of releasing two
Englieb gentlemen who had been for some time impri-
aonf,d st Florehee.

Lord CAMPBELL bore testimony to the very great
ability and skill with which Mr. Soarlett, who though
only Secretary of Legation, had for the last six years
fuldiled the duties of Ambassador at the Court of Flo-
rence, at tithes most arduous and delicate in their nature.
After a few words from the Earl of ABERDEEN and
the Earl of MALMESBURY, who both expressed their
great approbation of the manner in which Mr. Soarlett
had. always carried on the duties v,ith which ho had
been entrusted, -the subject dropped.
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.
Earl ST. GERMANS moved for copies of all corre-
spondence relating to the Sanitary Conference lately held
at Paris. The Noble E irl proceeded at some length to
enter into the history of quarantime, which he said had
first been instituted a: Venice, and had not been intro-
duced into this country before 1720. With regard to
this conference, he believed the result of it had been the
expression of an opinion that the regulations were injuri-
ous to the interests of humanity and of commerce. Think-
irg that the subject was one which required the immediate
attention of Parliament and of the Government, with
that viece he desired to sea all the information upon the
subject laid upon the table of the Howe.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY agreed that this was a
subject of the greatest importance to the commercial
interests, at the hiss which was caused by these quaran-
tine regulations was enormous in a commercial point of
view. Ho believed that the result of this conference
would be to abolish many of the most iejuiious regula-
tions, and to equalize anclassimulate the rules of every
port.
The Earl of MALMESBURY said that her Majesty's
Government were fully cognizant of the great importance
of amending the quarantine regulations of Eu-
rope, but the subject was one of great difficulty.
The Government had no objection to grant these papers,
although as there was now being negotiated a conven-
tion on this subject between France and this country—
a fact of which the Noble. Lords might not be aware—
it might be rather unusual tosproduce the correspondence
before the affair was concluded.
Earl ST. GERMANS said that he would not now
press for the papers, if it was inconvenient to produce
them, and the subject dropped.
THE BARQNESS VON BECK.
from BEAUMONT, in rising to present a petition
Constant Derra do Marods, observed that the peti-
talibtuererawre,lF. native of Pesth, in Hengary, and that shortly
with a Tait/lag in this country he became aecieeinted
Beck, an?, who hed bane the name of Baroness Von
vv)rk narrawho had become known as the authoress of a
That wooi
wilt! certain events in the Hungarian war.
prevail"
on
tleiextrcm;:ly sucNrsaful, and the publishers
the petitioner, nbioldY to write another. She engaged
_ecit seemed, was of a good family in
ffungary, but
and a prospectus
wa dy circumstances, as her secretary,
:ftacear ye? up of the work. That pros-
pectus was printed,
von
of introduction were fur-
nished to the.Baronoss Beck and the petitioner for
presentatlon m Binu •
nghare___and other towns, a tour in
having beenl r
the countryrecommended for the purpose
of obtaining subscriptions.
ua
Thec ettending the Noble Lord then went
on to relate the well-knowncite
arrest of the flaroness Von umatances
Bork,: at the house of
arrest of theiaßaßriornmeisnagtvaz
Mr. Tindal,charge of having
obtained a •sethe of IL 4s. nutlet
the conduct of th
false pretences; and
proceeded to animadvert.. upon
the parties who prosecuted on the
he
magistrate and
occasion. He contended grant uneer t
isaued
a summons, and not a wa, should have been. Circumstances,
by the magistrate, and that the matter Should havevroe'cie__n been
treated as a civil and not as a criminal
was said there was something written n 0111741
If-
Mr.it
Pulsky in the poor lady's former book, ,but
that
reason for civil proceedings at his suit—(Hear,
hear
sr)a
The whole affair was so monstrous that he attrork •
whether moat to condemn the parties who had inithr
Mr. Toulmin Smith, the barrister who had condnoted
m
prosecution, or the barrister himself for the manner i;
which ho had done; or the magistrate who had issued
the warrant, or the officers who had executed it so bar-
barously.—(Hear, hear.) He really hoped some inqairy
would be instituted into the case, and some means taken
to make magistrates see that such things could not be
permitted to pass with impunity.—(Hear, hear-) If pro-
vincial magistrates were so ignorant of their duty it was
high time measures should be taken to restrain them.
It was most dangerous that large discretionary powers
should remain in the hands of men so ill-qualified to ex-
ercise that—(Hear, hear.) And if the course which
had been pursued in this instance was usual,
inwas imperative on the Legislature to interpose, and,
by Act of Parliament, limit and define the powers of
magistratee in issuing warrants.—(Hear, hear.) The
petitioner had taken legal proceedings against the par-
ties, which were now pending; and into his case he
(Lord Beaumont) did not propose further to enter than
by stating that the petitioner set forth the proceedings
at full length; the information on oath; the warrant;
the depositions taken on the hearing; and the decision
of the justices. The petition concluded by representing,
that the proceedings bad been harsh, cruel, and unj usti-
!table by law, and prayed that an inquiry might be made
into the circumstances and into the conduct of the jus-
tices, especially as to their right to hand-over the papers
of
the deceased lady to the prosecutors, after she and
the • •
(Heap,e)t_ittobnersh had been acquitted of every offence—
d hjeh which evidence, which would have este.
The petition ater, was suppressed.—(Hear, hear.)
Particularlyprevent
t prayed that precautions might
be taken to er unprotected foreigners from
being exposed to similar arbitrary arrests—(Hear)—and
against the discretionary issue of warrants, or, at all
eveute, against their belnftetiacuted in such a manner as
in the present instance-- dead of the night—even
in the case of a lady in ill health, and deprived of all
power of defending herself from the accusations brought
against_ber, for the pnrPOSI of gratifying the malice of
her enemies by obteinine her temp,,lariarrest.
1e The 2,rcnala of SALISBURY ,aid the matter bad
. ,
been brought before him some weeks
.ss and o,then, as
now, he thought it a very lame story. wile Noble Baron J