The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-05 00:00:00

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Mr. HUME presented several petitions from Scotland
against calling out the militia.
Mr. WILLIAMS presented a petition from Lambeth
praying for: the repeal of the post-horse duty; also a
petition from the same place, praying for the r. peal of
all taxes on knowledge.
EDINBURGH AND CANONGATE ANNUITY
TAX ABOLITION BILL.
Sir W. G. CRAIG wished to ask the Secretary for
the Home Department whether the Government has
decided whether the assent of the Crown should be given
to the Edinburgh and Canongate Annuity Tax Abolition
Bill.
Mr. WALPOLE said he eould not advise the Crown
to give its consent to the Bill as it now stood, and he
would advise that it should bo withdrawn upon the un-
derstanding that the parties interested in it would be
consulted upon the best means of devising a scheme
which should meet the views of all parties.—(llear.)
On the motion of Sir W. G. CRAIG the order of the
day for the committal of the Bill was discharged.
GRAND JURIES.
Sir F. THESIGER gave notice that on Monday, the
19th, he would move for leave to bring in a Bill with
respect to the summoning of grand juries in the metro-
politan districts, and for the amendment of the law re-
specting them.
PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE FRANCHISE.
Colonel ROMILLY said he saw a notice on the paper,
that it was the intention of the Secretary of the Home
Department to propose that persons who had served two
years in the militia should have a county vote, and he
wished to know whether he contemplated extending a
similar privilege to any other branch of the military
service?

Mr. WALPOLE said he had intended, with refer-
ence to the notice he gave the other night, to take
the earliest opportunity to-day, though the Gallant
Colonel had put the question to him, to state that he
thought the notice had been given rather too hastily.—
(Laughter from the Opposition.) The proposition ori-
ginated with himself, and he thought it would have been
a good proposition for three purposes, viz., to
ensure respectable people as volunteers for the
militia; secondly, to insure continuous residence, so that
the volunteers might be ascertained from year to year;
and thirdly, as a reward for public services done by
them in volunteering in the militia. Since he gave
notice he had had an opportunity of consulting more
fully with all his colleagues, and they thought there
were so many difficuties and objections to the plan that
he had intended to take the earliest opportunity of
coming down to the House and stating, as he now did,
that he would not propose the alteration in
question in the Militia hear.) In an-
swer to the particular question of the Gallant Colonel,
he said he did not think there was any analogy between
a militia consisting chiefly of those who were civilians
during the greater portion of the year, and soldiers and
sailors, who remained entirely under the control of the
Crown.

the Irish distilleries was equally unaccountable.
There were now hybrid animals going through
the country, called Free Taade Protectionists; they
went to counties as nnmigated Protectionists, and to
towns as Free-traders. He wised whether such a course
conduced to the character of a body of gentlemen who
prided themselves upon their great honour and chivalry,
abandoning, as they had done, the theory of Protection,
and calling out for a modification? They had got into
office on the cry of Protection, and then left
the public in the lurch. The course pursued by the
Earl of Derby was not one which the country thought
worthy of the conduct of a British Minister. Unless the
Right Hon. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer)
gave some explanation of his future policy, neither he nor
the Ministry would stacd high in the opinions of the
people.—(Hear, hear.) They could not forget the
taunts and aspersions which were thrown on a late great
statesman fur his change of opinion—(Cheers)--nor
that the Right Hon. Gentlemen built his party on en-
deavouring to injure the reputation of that great de-
parted statesman; and he therefore thought it was in-
cumbent upon the Right Hon. Gentleman, if he wished
to sustain the reputation of his party, to state what were
the measures he considered indispensable for the good
government of the country, and what was the po-
licy the Government intended to pursue, mot only
with regard to this country, but also with regard to
Ireland.—(Hear.)
Lord JOHN MANNERS said the Government had
nothing new to say on the topics mentioned by the
Hon. Gentleman.—(Laughter.) They had simply to
repeat the declarations made by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer; and he denied that there was any
discrepancy between his statements and those made in
another place by the First Minister. When the Hon.
Member told them that the country would have
no confidence in men who used such language
as the Earl of Derby and the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, he would tell him, in return, that
the Government did not shrink from the issue of a
general election, which they courted and wore prepared
to abide by.—(Cheers.) He seised the House to judge
what was meant by these nightly interruptions to
the regular business of the country.—(Hear, hear.)
If they were prepared to continue these interrbptions,
why not bring them to a head, and force the Government
to appeal to the country.—(Hear, hear.) However,
the Government would not be.deterred from proceeding
with those measures which were necessary by any taunts
or recrinainationse--(Cheers,) As long as the Hon.
Members opposite did not exercise the power which
they boasted they possessed, he asked the House, in
justice not to the Government, but to the country, to
suffer them to conduct, during the remainder of the
session, the necessary business of the country without
further interruption.—(Cheers.)
Mr. ROEBUCK felt himself called upon to express
an opinion on the conduct of the Government, and also
on the conduct of those who opposed them, and he should
ask why the question as to the conduct of the Govern-
ment was not brought to an immediate issue by a vote
of the House. It appeared to him that they
had gut office under false pretences.—(Cheers.)
They got into office on one set of doctrines, and being
Tthheeadlivoenn't
in office had endeavoured to shirk them.—(Hear, hear.)
ob-
served that the Right Honourable Gentleman
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the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had made the party,
and had breathed life into their body, and that
they had traded upon his ability. The Right Hon.
Gentleman who was now in office by their support, ac-
quired the whole of his renown by his attackson the
late Sir Robert Peel.—(Loud cheers.) He had fastened
the envenomed hand of most prepared irony upon him,
and he had night after night, encouraged by the shouts
is
man sacrificed—nay he would not say sacrificed, but
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changed his views for the benefit of his country, and the
Right Hon. Gentleman never left him until ho had been
driven from office. In fact the present Chancellor of
the Exchequer told the late Right Hon. Baronet, at last
that he was in a minority, and had therefore no right to
retain office, while before the late Right Hon. Baronet
carried his corn-law measure, he told the Right Hon.
Baronet that as ho had changed his principles,
he was bound to resign office.—(Hear, hear.)
Well, now the Right Hon. Gentleman came into office a
Protectionist, and ho wanted to know whether he still
clung to that principle? The Right Hon. Gentleman
shrunk from answering that question, and attempted to
put the House off by stating that the Government in-
tended to go to the country after the preening business
was disposed of. But what were they going to the coun-
try upon? "My policy," said the Noble Lord at the
head of the Government; but what was " my policy?"
—(Hear.) Out of office it was clear and distinct—`here
was no mistake about it—it was Protection.—(Hear.)
but in office it became general and confused, and from
protection it merged into " our general conservative
policy."—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) Now all this was
acting very prejudicially upon the interests of the
state, and in order to settle the public mind the House
ought to insist upon being told when the Government
intended to go to the country, and upon what?—(Hear.)
The fact was the Protectionists were shirks in office,
evading any questions that were put to them, they
wished to sacrifice the country for the sake of office;
and he therefore insisted that it was the duty of the
House to put an end to the anomalous state of things which
the present Administration presented to the world of
being in a minority, and yet able to govern the House
of Commons.—(Hear, bear.) Where he tho leader of
the Opposition ho would bring the matter to a
speedy issue. What was there to fear ? Was
the leader of the opposition afraid of finding him-
self in a minority ? If he was, let him
bravo tho danger, so that the country
might know it, and try if something could
be done to bring matters to a crisis, so that the country
might know what it had to fear and what it had to do to
avert the impending danger.—(Hear, hear.) Then the
interest of the people would again become of a little
more importance than party or place.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. ADDERLEY denied that the Government held
office under false pretences, but the lion. Gentleman
whoir,
umadeooed a policy that charge
declaredwh which w
thatas nthoet Governmentooly had
announced
vague
belied upon false pretences. Well, now, how could buldeat
pulley bo vague and yet false too ?—(Hear.) It ap-
peared to him that the policy which Lord Derby had an-
nounced in another place was clear and straight-forward,
The Noble Lord asked Parliament to pass such neces-
sary measures as the immediate wants of the country re-
quired, and then he should be prepared to go to the
country ?—(Hear.) Now what could be plainer than
that? It Hon. Members opposite found that the Noble
Lord was pressing measures which were not necessary,
surely, as they were in a majority, they could at
once stop them, e„d wily he asked, should
the Opposition be continually throwing obstacles in the
way of the Government.—(Hear, hear.) There was no
comparison between the case of Sir Robert Peel
and that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The former surrendered his principles without consulting
his party, but the latter had done nothing of the sort,
and ho insisted that the Right Hon. Gentleman had
proved as consistent in office as he was out of it.— (Hear.)
Tao Hon. and Learned Gentleman wanted to know
what they were to go to the country upon? Why,
it was to decide the simple question whether the
country should be governed by a Conservative or a Whig
Government.—(Bear, hoar.)
Mr. VILLIERS wished to make a brief explanation
to set himself right with the House and the public.
—(Hear, hear.) It would be remembered that
some time ago he gave a notice of motion
on the subject of the Corn-laws, and he was
now asked how it was that he had abandoned that no-
tice ? Well, he would tell the house. At the very
time he was giving that notice the Noble Lord
at the head of the Government was stating
in the House of Lords that ho was in a
minority on the subject of the corn-laws, and he
did not intend to submit his commercial policy
to Parliament until ho had taken the opinion of the
country upon it.—(Hear, hear.) Now, after that decla-
ration, he felt himself jnetitied in abandoning his
motion, but it should not be forgotten that he did so
upon the understanding that there was to be an imme-
diate appeal to the country.—(Hear, hear.) To keep
faith with him, therefore, there ought to be an imme-
diate dissolution, or Government ought to give up pro-
tection altogether.—(Hear, hear.)
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

IMPORTANT TO STOCKBROK ER3 AND DEALERS
Volt TIME BARGAINS.—At the Liverpool assizes, on Saul!.
day, an action was tried before Mr. Justice Cresswell, n
which the plaintiff, Mr. Falkner, a stockbroker of Liverpool,
sought to recover the sum of 3,6:381. from the defendant,
a Mr. Steele, who had been induced to speculate in
shares ; and the amount claimed was the aggregantet.
balance due upon settlements extending over a perwah d
the accuracy of the account supplied
nearly three years. It was stated that the defendant had
verbally acknowledged .
' debt. The various transactions which had
by the plaintiff, but had refused to give a written acknow-
ledgment of the.
provedg
sbys.
a clerk of the plai coofmlii ri
a .s. Steele
on e i awregreed
t.) Mr. Hugh 11111, Q.C., for the do-
per
ded that the contract,
if any had ever been
been entered into buytittrii,rectbtieon
fence, conten
of the nature of the transactions
void, by reason
made, wasgambling character. Mr. Justice Cresswell, in
being of a ,
C 4 per cen
potting • f the case
gaming were what were called " debts of
contracted by gam..
100/.
betore the jury, said that although debts
honour," and
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top ay a liability so contracted, yet
ble person. would refuse
t case to deal with a strict question of
they had in the present probani not one of the jury or any respecta-
opinion that the transactions in which
law. if they were of
led to recover the amount claimed ;
the very
fide delivery, he was entitled
accumulation of differences, that was
but if it was a mere
be for the defendant. The jury
the plaintiff had engaged for the defendant were for bona
gaining, and the verdict must
accordingly found for the defendant.
AMATEUR THEATRICALi,—
DII 11 LIN GARRISON
an excellent finale to
"The last night of the season" was
Theatre on Friday
rison. The attendance in the Queen's,. , -,
afforded
night, though not so full as on previous occasions,
had not
a proof that the interest in these entertainments 1
agreeable performances of the officers of the gar-
the Countess of Eglinton were revented from attending,
been exhausted. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and
but some mrinbers of the family ut their Excellencies occu-
corps dra»uttique sangbetWecn
pied the box usually assigned to them. The pieces selected
arc favourites with the public, the Boarding Seltool and the
hiller mai hi,, Men, both of which afforded much scope
for the abilities of the amateurs and the professional
actresses who had been engaged for the performances. The
National the acts of the i . .
the Anthem with considerable effect, and amongst
the incidental Crests must not be omitted the Minuet de la
Cour, which will always
address was enhanced by its having
be associated with the achieve-
ments of the garrison amateurs. An epilogue •ulite comedy
was spoken
by Captain Gust,
A.D*C" Bth Ilussara p the value of the
reciter. been written by the

RELIEF OF THE Poolt Fon PAssoV
un-
derstand that the quantity
°. Passover cakes distributed this
week to the poor belonging to the various metropolitan
synagogues, as also to the itinerant poor, was hot less than.
la
55,00011 m. weight, at a colt of vlcis. 4d,—JewishChronicle. EU.—We
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