The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-20 00:00:00

AYLESBURY ELECTION.

[ln a spirit of fairness to Lord Nugent, who con-
siilers that justice has not been done him in a para-
graph relative to the electioneering proceedings at
Aylesbury which appeared in The Sun of yesterday,
we gibe insertion to the following letter addressed by
his Lordship to a Contemporary. It would have het n
more n accordance with the fair play claimed by b's
Lor had he, instead of writing to the Chronicle
in the first instance, addressed himself to the Journals
whosa reForts he impugns as rartial and inaccurate.]

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
Sir--I see in the Sun and Globe newspapers of this evening
articles commenting upon the course 1 have felt it my duty to
pursue with respect to the pending election for Aylesbury. These
articles demand an instant answer from me. They are inserted on
the authority, of course, of some correspondent. lam far from
charging them on the editors of those papers. But they insinu-
ate facts which I will not suffer to go uncontradicted, and
are written in a tone which I will not brook being held respect-
ing any conduct of mine, by papers professing the same princi-
ples which I have through life professed and maintained. After
the close of the contest for Aylesbury at the last general elec-
tion, when I opposed unsuccessfully Mr. Praed's return, a
paper was given to me sirmed by my committee, and by divers
other electors, pledging themselves to support me whenever I
should again offer myself to represent them. In answer, I said
that hoping for a better result on some other occasion, I would
never originate a contest in Aylesbury except when I might
feel that there was a fair chance of thereby obtaining success
for the cause of Reform ; for that I would not uselessly sub-
ject my friends to the trouble of a contest, or the poorer of
them perhaps to persecution for their votes. A few
weeks after, I went to Mr. Charles Cavendish's horse
at Latimers, and told him 1 intended to offer myself at
some future time, but in order to avoid the possibility
of misunderstanding or collision between us, I asked
him whether he had any intention of offering one of his own
family there; for that, at all events, I could not surrender to
any man the claims which I felt that twenty years of eager
and faithful representation of the reforming interest in that
borough, gave me to the support of the Reformers there.
Mr. Charles Cavendish distinctly told me that there
was no one of his family not in Parliament to whom
Parliament could be an object, and that he had
no views whatever on Aylesbury for his son. I appeal.
to Mr. Charles Cavendish's recollection for this fact.
Ever since that time I have invariably held to everybody the
same language respecting my intentions whenever there might
b, a tit opportunity at Aylesbury. Some four or five months
ago I stated the same fact to a distinguished friend of 31r.
Cavendish's, who I am sure would, if required, allow me to
appeal to him.
. .

About a fortnight ago I repeated it to my friend Lord Tavis-
tock, stating that I felt convinced that no Libetal would have
a chance at Aylesbury at a single election, that I should cer-
tainly not offer myself at a single election, unless there were a
prospect of any other Liberal doing so, but that then I certainly
would, it it were only to assert the claim I felt I had to be the
candidate on the Libcral side. And this declaration of mine I begged
Lord Tavistock to repeat to Mr. Cavendish from me. For confir-*
oration of this I appeal to Lord Tavistock, who will, I am sure,
hear testimony to the correctness of my feeling and conduc t.
in every part of this transaction. Upon Mr. Praed's death
then, in pursuance of my expressed determination never to
wantonly originate a contest, which I knew for any Li-
beral was absolutely hopeless, and which could only have
the effect of giving trouble and disappointment to one class
of Reformers, and risking persecution to others, I did not
offer myself. But, when I saw, without any communication
with me, a hand-bill from Mr. C. Cavendish's son offering
himself as a candidate, and that a contest ,was thus inevitable,
I did, in pursuance of my previously-expressed determination not
to alluw the claim which I felt I possessed to be abstracted from
me, state my intention " to go to the poll if Mr. Cavendish
did." This is my case, to which I add no observations, but to
which 1 only desire attention.

On the very foolish, false, and violent comments of the corres-
pondent of The Sun and Globe (I say and mean nothing
disrespectful of the papers themselves) I do not think
it necessary to bestow one word. If my eager sin-
cerity for the cause of Reform, maintained and shown
through life, require any defence now, against the slan-
der of any anonymous agents, that life has indeed been
spent hitherto to little purpose. My whole public life has
been a series of personal sacrifices to the cause of Reform.
But there are limits to forbearance, beyond which forbearance
would be neither manly nor reasonable. The conduct which
Mr. Cavendish, in his address, declares that he considers it
was his duty to adopt (hut which he whimsically acknowledges
he shall not nersist in at the next election)—namely, the
retiring rather than injure the Liberal interest in Ayles-
bury, is a line of conduct of which I have not failed
twice to set an example in Marylebone, once at the
general election, and once at the single election last
year. In Aylesbury the case was different as it re-
garded me; I had been for years in the field as the candidate
in the Reform cause thefe, and the Fne I adopted was what I
owed to the cause, to myself, and to my friends. For myself,
I felt I had earned a right there to have my claims preferred to
those of any other Liberal candidate. And, for my friends, I
felt that, till they should tell me they considered another can-
didate (who never has served them, ybet only promises faithful
services) to he more deserving of their confidence, 1 should not
have been justified in thus abandoning them, nor in believing
they would abandon me.
July 19.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
N UGEN T.

LLOYD'S SHIPPINki.-(THISDAY.)

DEAL, JULY 19.—Wind, S.W.—Arrived the Glouces
ter, Brooki, from Alatanns.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 19.—Wind, S. W., blowing hard.
—Arrived the Everthorpe, Storey, from Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, JULT 19.—Strong gales from the S. W.—
Arrived the Tweed, Lakeman, from. Quebec ; Hero,
Broekinshin, Prince Edward's Island.
FALMOUTH, JULY IS.—Wind, S. E. to W. S. W., strong
gales and heavy squalls.-off port, the Underwood,
Morgan, from Sourabaya.
LivEßrooL, JULY 19.—Wind, S. E. to S. W., very
fresh.--Off port, the Oscar, from Monte Video ; Fame, do. ;
Triton, Pernainbueo ,• 'Mountaineer, Lagtaayra ; Indefa-
tigable, New York ; Benjamin Hart, Quebec; John, do. ;
Juno, Wyburg. Sailed:the Chesney, Alsey,- Tor Charleston.
BRISTOL, JULY 19 —Arrived Indus, Jopling, Quebec.
PORT TALBOT, JULY 18, 9 A. M.—Wind blowing a gale
from the S. E. ; 1 P. M. It has blown a hurricane for up-
wards of an hour; wind shifted to S. W. 10 P. M. blowing
very hard from W. S. W. 10 blowing a gale at S. W,
MILFORD, JUNE 18.—Sailed Cheviot, James Quebec.
SUNDERLAND, JULY 17.—Arrived the Anna Maria from
Stetin. Sailed the Crescent, Crown, for Miramichi.

CORK, JULY 17.—Arrived the Childmark, Penny, from
Civita ; Urania, Clark, Quebec.
SCARBOROUGH, JULY 17. Arrived the Branstuns,
Foster, from Riga.
MARGATE JULY 19.-01 T Port, the Lady East, Emery,
Bombay,
COWES, JULY 19 —Arrived, the Sophia Ceilia,
—Off Port, the Amiterdam, for Surinam, towed in, with
loss of main mnst head, fore top-mast, mizen- mast. boat,
and other damage; rresident, Buffington, City
Point
Rajastan,

ARRIVED IN TIIE CIIANNEL.—The Prince of Coburg,
Smith, Trinidad.

S HUDLAND BAY, JULY 19 —Arrived, the Reaper, Bad.
cock, Quebec ; Andicania, Burridge, ditto.
OFF THE START, JULY I7.—The John Cree, Boyd, Cal-
cutta.

BRIDPORT, JULY 19.--The Naomi,
ef,roilimbetchoemSe. Hughes, from Lon-
don to Bristol, was driven on shore this day during a vio-
elennnttignael,
.fearetl, should the gale
The Margaret,, t Taylor,from Tobago to London, has
„ e ,
this moment come on shore. Crew saved.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 18.—The Drake, Richard, of Swan-
aWtOtaalndwii.it,Ck
sea, is on shere on the Battery Point, and bilged. Crew
saved.

SALCOMBE, JULY 17.—1 t is blowing a strong gale from
the southward and westward.

The Si, Adams, has been driven on shore, but
got of without apparent damage.
Greater part of the vessels have hen driven from their
anchorage, hut arc now riding all well.
PORTSNIOUTII, JULY 1 .—lt has blown very hard all day
from the S. W.—Several brigs and schooners have broken.
up at the Northern Bank.
LYNN, JULY 19,—Arrived the Vibelia, Janson, from
Konegsberg.
KINGSTON, JULY 18. Arrived the Richebucto, Ganston,
from Quebec.
LLANF.LLY, JULY 19.—Arrived the St. George, Moore,
from Malta.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 19 —The Falkland, from Dantzic, is
on shore on Woodside Pier, with her keel out.
PENZANCE. JULY 18.—The George Lockwood, M‘Ken-
zie, from Quebec. started her anchor at noon to-day, and
drove in close to the back of the pier, where she grounded.
The sea is making heavy breaches over her, but it is ex-
pected she will be hove off next tide ; crew landed.
The Perseverance, Smith, from Aberavon, to Truro, was
totally wrecked near Porthlevin to-day; crew drowned.
It has blown a very heavy gale since before day-break this
morning from S. S. E.. shittiria in squalls to S. S. W.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

COVENT GARDEN.

The market was thronged in every corner. Vegetables and
fruit were in abundance, and the demand was in propor, ion.
New potatoes Id. to 3d. per pound. French beans Is. Gd.
perls
100. Peas, per sieve. 2s. Gd. to 4s. Currants,. per ditto,
~s. , .
lbC.lunenSultn-rba7bserrliideesr
to Bs. Gooseberries, per ditto, 3s. to bs. S
per
dl.).unclAL Onions 15.
ditto. Cabbages 93. to Is. per dozen.
to Is. per brace. Cherries 4d. to Is. per .
neAxtLenLt.. The de-
mand
Gd. to I s Gd. per pottle. Rhubarb Ocii)upnerieb. bundle. Apples
•
per3s. 6d.
sieve.to 7s .Cepleerr
Celery is.
to Tsurn6irt.s 43. per
to 10s. per bundle.
much as last quoted. Beef 3s. to
were to
aLEmAodDeEraNte"
The
,s,auspgpi‘l'ioiEsi
good, and
Cr,,;ApaTrt
prices
esAr
4s. ; Mutton .435. '2.d. to,4s. 2d,. ; Lamb 43. 43. to ss. 2d. ; Veal.
3s. Bd. to 43. Bd. ; I ork, 3s. to 4s. 103. ; Poultry in large
supply, and the demand good, prices unvaried. Turkey Poultr
43. to ss. Gd. ; Fowls, 23. Gd. to 43. Gd. ; Chickens, Is. to
23. Gil. ; Leverets 3s. to ss; Rabbits 10d. to Is. 6d. ; Gees!,
4s. 63. to 6s. Gd.ll u;
NP(ig;Eeo:Fs
06iRi.0 MARKET.to9I. ; Quails Is. 3d. to Is.
6d. ; Eggs 4s. to ss. 3d. per 120.
The Market was well supplied, and a fair business was done.
Turbot, ss. to 21s. ; Soles, 9d, to 3s. per pair; good Salmon
Is. to Is. 6d. per lb. ; and Lobsters 103. to 3s. each. Beef
7d. to 81,-(1. ; Mutton, 70. to 80. ; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; Pork,
7d. toeV.

Dr. Bowring left London yesterday for BetEn,
to Le present at the meeting of the Gi rmaii Commercial
Lea;zue.

The letters received to-day from Stockholm
mention the arrival of the Marquis of Anglesea in that
city. His Lordship has been visiting several of the l3a:ti
ports.
Count Matuscewic, so well known to the fashion-
able circles of London, is, we hear, about to assume the
functions of Russian Ambassador to the Court of Stock-
holm. It was supposed for some time that his Excel.
lency would have had the Emcassy either to London or
in Paris.

ACCIDENT FROM TILE EXPLOSION OF GAS.
_Con Thursday evening between eight and nine o'clock,
a young woman, named Jane Appleton, in the service
of Mr. Watson, baker and confectioner, of Judd-streo,
New-road, before lighting the gas in the shop, incautiouslY
attempted to adjust souse part of the meter, which she COO
ceived was out of order, and thereby permitted an escoPe -
of gas, which immediately exploded from a candle .
Led in her hand, and very severely scorched her.

SECOND EDITION.

S LTA 0 CE, Seven o' CA,uck.

THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRI CES

BRITT.II FUNDS

Bank Stock 189% India St Jck cvl
3 Per Cent fled
3 tier Cent ('c its. -' ; Ditto Old A impair,
3% per C. nt. Red 997i Ditto New A tinuities—
New 3Y 4 per Cent...—.
Ncw 5 per Cent — Ditto 50'/ 1-, pm.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 17 pm.
Jan. 1860
Oct. 1s.)0 .. ........... ..... India Stock fm• Op'
Jan 1560 . 'Consols for Opg
FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian, 5 per cent 1 Portug etc.: 'tends, 5 per cent. --
B 'gian, 5 per ern.' !Ditto !sew Ditto .. .............
''.r !,'!ian licnds !Prussian, 5 per ecur —
Euello3 Ayres, 6 per cent — ; Ruisiai4 11onds, 5 per cent ...
Chihan, 6 per cent ;Ditto, Metaliic.. ..................
Colombian, 6 per cent 3l ISpanish, 3 per :ent IS
Ditto, 1924 — !Ditto, Deferred B%
Danish, 3 per cent — ' French, 5 per cent.
*** I I 1 f. 75c.
Greek Bonds, 1 re 4), 5 per ct. I ExchatigY
Mexican, 5 per cent — 1 French, 1 per cent —l. —c,
Ditto, ti per cent.. 1995 — ;Dutch, 24 per cent. 55
Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent — I Ditto, 5 per cent.
SHARES,
IS Irmingham and Gloucester Railway
Fastens Counties Railway
Great Western Railway
I.ln,rinrt Junctim, Rai1way.........
London and Brighton Railway ll%
I-A,, an airs Ci.,, don RallWdy t fru, ) ..4,
York and Neal] Midland Railway 4O .

IMPERIAL PAR LI AMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
(Continued from our Fast Edition.)

On the qUestion that the Speaker do leave the Chair,
Dlr. DA It BY complained that the Noble Lord was now
about to continue the Bill for two years, when the Noble Lord
had admitted that there were many amendments which it was
necessary to introduce. No one could say the Poor-law Com 7

mission Was to be permanent—it could never however be laid
down without some preparatory legislation. Why,then, not begin
now? He must confess however, that so many new and ex-
traneous duties had been thrown upon the Commissioners, as
to give rise to a suspicion that it was intended to make their
offices permanent ; but such a proposition, if ever made,
would be most strenuously resisted. He had always tried to
stop any excitement respecting the Bill out of doors,
but he had no hesitation in saying that as concerned
those persons who had married and had families under
the old law, it was an act of great injustice. When it
was seen that a man, notwithstanding all his industry, could not
maintain his family, out-door relief ought to be afforded to him ;
and they ought not to be compelled to enter the workhouse.
No distinction appeared to be drawn by the Bill between
the idle and the industrious.--( Hear, hear.) That was
the mischief under the old system ; and therefore it. was
that so many abuses and evils had always arisen. Under
the present system a man with a wife and sik or seven children,
if he earned only 6s. or is. a week, was obliged to break up his
establishment and go into the workhouse, and thus he gave up
all hope of ever being able to procure the means of again living
out of it. He would, therefore, move an instruction to the Com-
mittee to insert a clause in the Bill authorising tint Guardians
t° afford out-door relief to persons who were unable by their in-
du`--try to maintain their children.
1111. FOX MA ULE opposed the motion, because it
Would go to upset the main principle of the exist-
ing law and the Bill before the House was only to con-
tinue that law for a certain time. The proper time. for such
a motion would be when the Poor dew Act itself came before
the Rouse for revision.—( Hear, hear.)
Sir E. KNATCHBULL supported the motion. If the
existing law was violently forced on the people, instead of doing
FTd, which it was said was the object of the Bill, considerable
‘n.lttrY would be inflicted, and a spirit of discontent might be
created that would entirely frustrate all attempts at legislation.
Alr- E. R. RICE thought this was a subject of such pressing
4enessity, that it ought not to be postponed till another Session
of Parliament.
Mr. 'VODEHOUSE said be thought it matter of congratu-
lation rather than lamentation, that, as the Commissioners had
lated, four_ fifths of the relief was out-door, because it showed
that the workhouse had not been resorted to, save as a matter
fnecessitY.—( Hear, hear ) He was sorry this Bill had not
been introduced earlier.
sidMr. BRISCOE could not rote for the clause proposed, con-
ering it unnecessary. Nothing could be more pernicious
',Jan allowing the wages of labour to be made up out of the
a-oar-rates.----( Hear, hear. )
FRESHFIELD thought the more stringent parts of
the Poor-law should be relieved.
, Mr. AGLIONBY hoped the clause would be carried, and
he expressed this opiniom as a sincere friend to the Poor-law
Act. He totally repudiated the assertion that this was to be
Considered a mere question for the benefit of the landlords, as he
thought it was intended for the social amelioration of the labour-
ing classes, which he believed to have been its effect, and he
'rusted it would have, a fairer trial, as no measure had been so
unfairly attacked. At the same time he was in favour of re-
;axing some of the more stringent regulations, and therefore
he should support the proposition of the Hon. Member for Sus-
sex. which he believed was calculated to introduce a uniformity
of system.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL would allow the introduction of
this clause if he thought it would conduce to the beneficial
working of the Act; but being of opinion that it would
not do so, he felt it to be his ditty to oppose it. With
regard to the question of able bodied labourers, he must say
that lie had never seen any provision with which he was
satisfied.. What was the evils which chiefly existed under
the 'old system of the law? Why, that instead of the
labourer receiving his proper wages, he only received part
from his employer, and the other part in the shape of
alms. If it was proposed that part of the maintenance should
be paid by the parish, or by the Guardians, they would in a
great degree make the labourer dependent upon the pa-
rish, and it had always been found that there was
the greatest disposition in different districts, when the employer
labourers saw any chance of their being paid by the rates, to
was la out of employment. By the present
Let'. it was proposed to avoid that by making distinction
tn,,werri the labourers that were married before the pass-
h is of the Poor-law Amendment Act, and those that
ad t)erl married since. The Honourable Member who
ad proposed the amendment had said that it Ns as in-
tended by it to introduce uniformity ; where, he would
ask• could be the uniformity when one man was to be
relieved by the parish while his neighbour was not because he
had married at an earlier period. He thought that would
lead to great discontent : (he thought that those who
had married since the Poor-law Amendment Act ought
to be put on the same footing as those that had been
married since. The Act was no doubt accompanied with very
considerable severity, but in saving this he did not mean it to
inferred that that severity could not be relaxed. In conclu-
sion he felt bound to consider the amendment would be ex-
kremely dangerous, and lie should therefore give it his decided
Opposition.
sitirA.MES GRAHAM shared with the Noble Lord
the responsibility of the introduction of the measure,
but he was certain that upon the whole it had been be-
neficial to the rate-payer and labourer, and had encou-
raged industry. At the same time experience had shown
them that it had borne hardly upon some classes, particularly
widows, who had suddenly been deprived of their husbands, and
were left totally unable to support themselves or their children.
lie had been Chairman of a Board of Guardians, and had re-
garded the working of the measure with great anxiety. There
Was a large body of handloom weavers in the union. He was
persuaded that it would have been utterly impossible to have
conducted the affairs of the union during the past winter,
if. out-door relief in kind had net been administered with,
"e would observe, a cautious and sparing hand.—(Cries of
, Hear, hear.") The Noble Lord said if they admitted
the principle of out door relief, even on special occasions,
they would revert to the worst features of the old system. It
should be recollected, however, that although it was proposed
''",e operation of the law should be carried into effect in a
given day throughout England and Wales, the Poor. law Corn-
Imssioners had found that impracticable—the same principle
IniPht be applied to out-door relief, the exclusion from which
could not always be observed. In the South of England the
rule was carried into operation, but in the Northern Counties,
`jumberland, for instance, no such rule existed. If the Hon.
Member pushed his amendment to a division, his (Sir J.
Graham's) own feelings would lead him to support it; but as
liathe subject was likely to come under the consideration of Par-
ment in the next Session he thought it would be more ad-
visable not to press it.—( Hear, hear. )
Lord TYNEMOUTH would have most willingly supported
theamendment if his Hon. Friend h.,d introduced it at an ear-
period of the Session, but it would be impossible to discuss
that Point without going into a variety of others. If, therefore,
the Hon. Member pressed his motion to a division, he feared he
should be compelled to oppose it.
HAINES, agreeing as he did in all that had fallen from
Sir •GRAHANI, and acting under the same influence as
actuated him, he would pursue the same course. He had at
first been opposed to the Bill, but wherever he had seen the
working of it, he had uniformly found it for the benefit of the
',;)°1.% Had as much pain, been taken to rouse the people against
-ower-looms as had bee taken to rouse them against the Poor.
law Amendment Bill, there would not have been one left in the
countey,—( Cheers. )
Mr. ACLAND was sorry that he was not able to vote for the
instruction of the Honourable -Member for Sussex. The speech
of the Noble Lord ( Lord John Russell) was the best security
for the mildness of the administration of the law during
the entitling winter, and that there would be a searching inquiry
into the whole question. He thought the instruction was
therefore unnecessary.
Mr. EASTHOPE would support the clause, in order to
force on a full and deliberate discussion of the whole question.
Tile people of Leicester, who were in former times earning 20s.
a-week, were now not able to earn more than 10s. and 12s.
Per week, and he trusted that Hon. Members would consider
that the uuestion was intimately connected with the Corn-laws.
Mr. PAKINGTON said it appeared to him tie sooner the
Principle of this clause was adopted the better, and he
differed with the Right Honourable Member for Pem-
broke, and the Honourable Member for Somersetshire, that
they ought to postpone it till next Session, because the
Noble Lord had. promised the subject. should be then fully dis-
eussTd. hear.) He was against the principle of ex-
tending out-door, relef to able-bodiedw labourers, but he thought
re i'f ought to be afforded to omen_ and children, otherwise the
greatest hardship might
be .inflicted..—(Divide divide.)
Mr. HODGES felts to be his duty to support the motion
of the Hon. Member rot' Sti:slx.
Sir B. HALL said it wt,
possible there might be a
great depression in the ensuingrywinter and he should like to
know whethe t was the intention of the'
Government to make
any suggestion to the Poor-law Commissioners to relax the
rules in such cases as those alluded to by the Hon. Member for
Sussex.
Air. DARBY replied, after which the House. was divided.
when then appeared—
For__ the Clause
Againstit

Majority ........................... __23
Lord J. RUSSELL said the further consideration of the
subject might now be as well adjourned till Alonda3 •
.
FACTORY BILL.
On the motion of Mr. F. MAULE this Bill was committed
pro forma.
Mr. F. EGERTON suggested that the silk manufacturers
who had been unexpectedly introduced into the Bill should
hive a year's notice.
Mr. MAULE thought the suggestion had some fairness in
it, and it might obviate the difficulty in the way of the Bill
la sing this year.--( Hear, near.)
Mr. SHEPHERD gave notice of his intention to propose a
c ause..
Air. BAINES objected to bringing forward such an import-
ant subject at so late a period, and suggested the postponement
of the Bill to another Session.
Lord G. SOMERSET hoped the Government would come
to no decision without a previous consultation with the Noble
Lord the Member for Dorsetshire.
t J. GRAHAM hoped the Hon. Gentleman would come
poot?Ito determination until all the manufacturers had had an op-
-I,,,itY of perusing and considering the Bill, which he did
,s, think could be done so as to bring the Bill forward before
4oridry se. •
ntuer.t.
Mr, -
Bill sh Fox
MAULE thought it would be desirable that this
sho
uld - be • r eceded with this Ses i - He In.d.
.ffceiv-ed Itrcrug assurances • from the manufacturing interests

that the Fill, as pule:lc:ed. would prove sr.t s'ac'o-y to the
He thought that it would be desirable to postpene the rew re-
gulation, relative to the silk factories, until another Session;
but the present Bill would, he thought, he proceeded with on
Monday, or ;he Monday after.
Mr. FIELDEN said a tow words, which was inaudible in
the gallery.
After a few words from sir. BRO'FiIERTON, the Bill was
reported, tie Committee to sit apin on Thursday.
The Highway Bill ( No. 2.) t..%ent through a Committee.
The Constabulary Force (Ireland) Salaries and Expenses
Bill went through a Committee.

The Assaults (Ireland) Bill, the Sheep Stealers' (Ireland)
Bill, the Sale of Spirits (Ireland) Bill, and Juror and Juries
(Ireland) Bill, were severally read a second time, and ordered
to be Committed.

The Excise Licences ( Sale of Spirits) Bill w•as read a second
time, and ordered to be committed.

The Timber Ship Bill was read a third time and passed.
The Report on the Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill was read.
Mr. F. 111AULE, in the absence of Lord J. Russell,
obtained leave to bring, in a Bill to provide for the more effec-
tual collection of rates for the relief of the poor. The Bill was
then brought in, read a first and ordered to be read a second
time on Monday.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House Adjourned at Five ()Mock.