The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-28 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED,

HENRY CHARD, merchant, Liverpool, to March 16, at oue,
at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool.

BANKRUPTS.
WILLIAM O'CONNOR, tallow-chandler, Thomas-street,
Dublin.
JOHN SAYRE, cheosemonger, St. Paul, Shadvrell.
JORN VINEY, tailor, Cornhill.
DANIEL BURGESS, jeweller, Duke-street, Grosvenor-square.
ROBERT WATSON WARNER, tavern-keeper, Broad-court,
Drury-lane.
THOMAS BROWN, fancy-waistcoat manufacture, Hulme,
Lancashire.
JOSF,PII ZANETTI, carver and gilder, Manchester.
RALPH HARPER, coach proprietor, Heaton Norris, Lanca-
shire.
WILLIAM HEAP, builder, Dunkinfield, Chester.
GEORGE BOYS, innkeeper, Rodley, Yorkshire.
SAMUEL lIILL, worsted-spinner, Leicester.
WILLIAM DAMN, glass-manufacturer, Manchester.
RICHARD CLTNLIFF, cotton-manufacturer, Over Darwen,
Lancashire.
THOMAS ELLIOTT, lacel-manufacturer, Nottingham.
REES THOMAS, tailor, Chepstow, Monmouthshire.
JOHN PETER BRANDSTROM, commission merchant,
Kingston-upon-Hull.
SAMUEL PONTIFEX and WILLIAM FARR, coppersmiths,
Upper St. Martin's-lane, Middlesex.
JOSEPH BALM and JOHN ROTHWELL, lace-manufac-
turers, Nottingham.
CHARLES ROBBINS, currier, Birmingham.
DAVID CROW, tanner, Sheffield.
WILLIAM HENRY FLETCHER, grocer, Portsea.
THOMAS PREEDY and WILLIAM PREEDY, grocers,
Oxford.

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amsterd +ln C F 12 5
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NGE.--ITHIS DAY.)

.....—.,....... ........
Ditto, at :fight
lot terdain 2 U. 12. 51.
Antwerp...
ila.nburg. M.B.
t1t0na.....
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 55
Ditto ...... ...............2 Us 25 85
Marscillei
Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M 153
Peteratuigh, ruble 3 Us. In 0
Berlin
Vienna, effective fl M. 10 10
Trieste ditto lO 18
Madrid 1514
Cad'?
liillina 'is
Bireclona
Oibraltar

Leghorn iii
Genoa :26 5
Milan 31
Venice 47
Naples 4O
Palermo per oz. 121
Li. bon 5214

Oporto 5:1%.
Rio Janeiro 32
Bahia 26
Buenos Ayres . . . ..

Dublin, 21 days' sight
Cork

PRICE OF BULLION, PER Z.
Portugal Gold, coin .£0 0 0
Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9
New Doubloons
New Dollars

Silver. bars, standard 0 5 0!

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FirsßuAitr 27.
Tho SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.

Mr. Sergeant JACKSON rose in the discharge of an ex-
ceedingly irksome, hut which lie felt an incumbent duty upon
him, to call the attention of the House to a publication in the
Morning Chronicle of last Friday, reflecting upon him in
temp equally false and calumnious, and that in connection
with the vote which he felt it his duty to give upon a question
which recently came before that House, on the motion of the
Hon. Bart. the Member for Cornwall (Sir W. Molesworth.)
He should, without further preface, read to the House the pa-
ragraph of which he complained as a matter of grievous ca-
lumny ; and, as he submitted, involving a gross breach of
the privileges of that House, in assailing a Member in
such a way in connexion with tho vote which he felt it his
duty to give on a subject which was regularly brought under the
consideration of the House.—[The paragraph was then read.]
Then came some ribaldry reflecting on the Hon. Member for
Belfast and his father, who had been in his grave for the last
20 years, and who had been always understood to be one
of the most respectable merchants in the town of Belfast.
Having read the paragraph to the House, he would say it
involved a grievous implication on the moral character of a
Member of that House. As he had stated before, it was as
false as it was calumnious ; and he implored the indulgence
of the House for two or three minutes, while he attempted
very briefly to state a few facts and circumstances
which the writer of the paragraph had in view at the time he
penned it. A very short time after he ( Mr. Sergeant
'Jackson) had been called to the bar, his father died, leaving a
young family. One brother was apprenticed in a manufacturing

offered their assistance—one came into his house the next
morning, and laid upon his table the sum of 1,0001., desiring Ihat
he ( Scrg. Jackson) should make what use he pleased of it. Of
course he did not condescend to accept of another's money to
apply it to his own purposes, but he loved his profession, and
he trusted that God would bless his efforts at it. He formed
the resolution never to be content or to desist from his labours
while a single sl.illing remained unpaid, and he thanked Pro-
vidence that not only was ho enabled to purchase back his pa-
trimonial property, but to discharge in full all the liabi-
lities of the house.—( Cries of " Hear, hear, hear.") He
was sorry to trespass upon the House upon a matter
purely personal ; but he knew that however Hen. Gentlemen
might act upon a question of general policy, they never
would deny to any man unjustifiably slandered its patient at-
tention and protection. Indeed ho did not think it was a
case of a purely personal nature, because the Houso had a
deep interest in the character of those who composed that

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a.sistubiy, and the country at large had au, ratertat in
dia; dhartieter of thesa to whom it entrusted the sacred duty 01
tre:'eriiint„; if. in that 1-lotiae. He was happy to see the
Chancetioi' 1-14,h,vef in his place, for be would be
able to state that the pierldtllf til-ehit he (Mr: Jackson) had
COnStilted oil the occasion referred to, wei'n of the moat respec-
iiiisla i`tiLtrtie'ter. Cf.ne of thedi was Mr. Samuel tiessley, a
most eminent the other was also yet
living, and in business ; as also the agCtlf, fo the eommission,
and the clerk in the firm whose affairs were involved iti
All these persons were therefore capable of refuting him if nd
stated any thing that was untrue. He hoped he had sufficiently
ill lie otlt a else ia ansWer to the slander, that be (Mr. Ser-
geant Jackson) was a bankrupt; and uneettificated until
Llirce weeks before he Waa made a Member," when the
fraii si4s, that the Whole body of creditors had signed the
certificate.—( War, hear.) These transactions had taken
place so f..r back as IPiF. , and yet that audacious paragraph
had asserted that he was an uneertifieated bankrupt until three
wcehs before he was returned to that llottset: He was not anx-
ious to press heavily upon those who had an anitiona duty to
discharge, but there was a limit beyond which the public press
should not go. He admitted that these papers were very much
at the mercy of those who commtinicated facts to them from the
other side of the water; but it was the duty of tho Editor
of that paper to have ascertained what was the character
of his correspondent before he gave publicity to his com-
munications, which were certainly calculated to affect the
character, and harrow up the feelings Of individuals. He (Mr.
Jackson) felt conscious that he had never forfeited the cha-
racter of an upright and honest man—( Hear, hear)—and hav-
ing vindicated himself he was unwilling to pursue the matter,
as he had not been stetstated by any harsh er vindictive
feeling, but would throw himself entirely upon the good feeling
of the House. He should be ready td adopt arty course the
House would suggest, and begged to thank tnd !louse for the
kind indulgence it had shown to him. If the paragrilph was
intended to injure his character, he might safely say that tiro
explanation would tend to raise him higher in the estimation
of even the Honourable Members who were politically
'opposed to him —( Hear, from both sides of the Ilouse.)
Dr. LEFROY would claim the indulgence of the House
for a few moments, and he should not hare felt it neces-
sary if the character of his Honourable and Learned Friend
was as well known in this cout4ry as it was in Ire-
land, and among the profession to which he belonged.
He rose merely for the purpose of making this statement of a
member of a profession to which both belonged, to every
member of whom the circumstances detailed by his Learned
Friend were known at the time. The whole of these circum-
stances came under their cognizance, and he would venture to
say, that his lion. and Learned Friend did not lose, in the
estimation of the profession, any more than he did in the estima-
tion of his friends, an atom of the high character he always held.
Although the circumstances had been dragged forward with
the malicious view of hurting his feelings and injuring his
character in a strange country, he would venture to say that
they were never remembered in Ireland, or spoken of except
to his honour and credit. The members of the profession to
which he belonged were anxious to give him every assist-
ance to extricate him from difficulty, but his Honour-
able and Learned Friend, from a sense of what was
due to his character, disclaimed those exertions, and relied
upon his own talents to extricate himself, and he was happy
to say he had done so by the exercise of his profession, to
which there did not exist a greater ornament. He was satis-
fied that the circumstances that attended the transaction had
been such as to raise his character in his own profession, and
with the House, now that they were apprised of the true cir-
cumstances of the case.—( Cheers. )
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
he was not at all aware until the circumstance had been
brought forward, that any paragraph of the kind alluded to
had been inserted in any paper. He concurred entirely in
the condemnation that had been given to such proceedings.
He thought that personal attacks upon private character for
the purpose of influencing politics were unmanly and ungener-
ous--( Cheers)—because the party attacked must either labour
under the charges made against him or do that which might
be extremely hurtful to his feelings to come forward for the
purpose of vindicating his character. The attack that had been
made on the Learned Gentleman opposite, throwing entirely
out of question the speech that he made, was most unjustifiable.
If then it could be considered unjustifiable, previous to the
statements of the Hon. Member, how much more so must it ap-
pear after the explanations which had been given on the subject.
When the Hon. and Learned Member had so entirely grappled
with the case, that which even if true would have been an im-
proper charge, became doubly unjustifiable when it was shown
that it was entirely unfounded. If the Hon. and Learned
Member had been longer in the House, he would perhaps have
felt less warmly on the subject, because these- charges were
brought every day against individuals on both sides of the
House ; and he was sure that to the greater number of them those
who sat on that (the Ministerial) side of the House were ex-
posed. He was far from justifying this statement, nor did
he bring forward this as any defence on the present occa-
sion; but still he thought that, under the whole of the
circumstances the lion. and Learned Gentleman would find,
that in the eyes of the House, after the explanation which
he had given, and after stating facts and circumstances which
were incapable of controversy, and after having completely
refuted the statement to which he had alluded, that the case
did not call for any further step.--( Hear, hear.) He could
assure the Hon. and Learned Gent. that if he (the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer) thought that any thing further than
his own statement was needed for his justification, he for one
would not call upon the Hon. and Learned Member to stay
where he was, but having satisfied the House, as he trusted the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman had—( Cries of " Hear, hear")
—that no imputation whatever rested upon his character, he
hoped that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman would feel
that he had discharged his duty adequately, and that it
was not necessary that any further step should be taken.
If he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) were right, be would
move the Order of the Day for renewing the adjourned debate.
Mr. Serjeant JACKSON rose in consequence of what had
fallen from the Hon. Gentleman. He had put himself
entirely in the hands of the House, as he did not think
himself justified in passing over so false and calumnious
a charge. He must be allowed to say still, that he felt it to
be his duty to give the newspaper, or rather its informant, an
opportunity of justifying the statement, by taking legal pro-
ceedings.—( Hear, hear).
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL hoped that, beforo pro-
ceeding with the adjourned debate, the House would allow the
third reading of the Municipal Corporations Act Amendment
Bill to take place. It was of the greatest importance that
there should be no further delay in the passing of this Bill,
which was not at all a party measure.
COLONIAL LEGISLATURE.

Mr. HOGGVeggedtokn;;;fietiC; the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman opposite had received any information respecting
the proceedings of the Legislature of Jamaica (we believe)
by which they had taken away from British subjects the right
of appeal to the King's courts from the courts of the country
—he also wished to know whether this proceeding had the
sanction of the Home country ?

Sir JOHN H OBIIOUsh believed it was perfectly truo
that a law such as that stated had lately passed, but it was
passed without any reference to the Home country.
LUDLOW CHARITIES.

Mr. L. CHARLTON begged to present himself for one
moment to the notice of the House. It was well known that
in his absence a petition had been presented respecting the
Ludlow Charity. He begged the House to suspend its judgment
on those charges until the whole ease was before them. In
the meantime ho would take the liberty of proposing that
when the retort of the Committee of Privileges was laid on
the table of the House, ho would draw the attention
of the House to the case of the Ludlow Charities.—
( Hear, hear, hear.) He would likewise take the liberty
of moving for a return of the names of all cities and boroughs
in England and Wales, in which the appointment of charity
trustees had devolved by order of the Lord Chancellor, or tho
giving the names of the Master, and of the Trustees so ap-
pointed,