The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-10 00:00:00

LON DON :
SATURDAY. AUGUST 10 1839.

The Sheep Stealers' l Inland) Bill was postponed in
the Lords, on the Duke of IlterimoND observing that.
it introduced a new principle into the law, that of com-
muting a feiony for 5/.
A batch of Bills -were forwarded a stage and amongst
them the Postage Bill, which was read a third time and
passed.
Lord BROUGHAM on presenting, a petition from Dr.
TAYLOR compiaininv of the treatment he had received
in Warwick gaol, adverted to the case of VINCENT,
and described it ,as one of hardship. Viscount MEL-
BOURNE adntitteil,. if all true true which the Noble
and Learned Lord vvn% instructedto state, that there
Win just ca'Asr.: of complaint.
A curi'jr s conversation arose on the subject of build.
ing chard,s,without endowing them and making them
perpe4.P.ally churches, and on the subject of performing
put l:ee worship in a private house when more than 20
Pons were present. Lords F.. eeENsortouGii and
FIATHERTON both said that they would build chapels
I if it was not that they would then be obiiged to endov
theta ; and both Lords ELLENBOROUGH and RODEN
complained of not being, allowed to assemble their own
families at Public Worship. Itie Archbishop of CANTER-
BURY seemed to think the interest of the priesthood of
much more im;Jortanee than the cultivation of piety, and
he held out co hopes of his consenting to such an altera-
tion of tie law as would allow chapels to be built and
corrsecrated unless they were endowed, or which would
P.'liow of public worship in private houses. He was
afraid the parish chapel tvould bo deserted, and the
conventicles would multiply. When the law affects the
Peers unpleasantly, we may exp.‘et it will be altered,
and it will be curious to see the lay Lords promoting,
and the spiritual Lords ob.tructing, a measure obviously
• calculated to promote piety and prayer.
Their Lordships shoved a great number of Bills for-
-1 ward, and rose at Half-past Six.
In the Commons, after some conversation as to the
I business of the evening, the Poor-law Commission Con-
! tinuance Bill was read a third time and passed.
I The consideration of the Lords' amendments to the

Irish Municipal B:11 was postponed till Monday. Those
amendments Niol3te the privileges of the House of
Commons, and therefore the Bill cannot be received,
and will not be proceeded with, but Lord J. RUSSELL
stated that he thought a Bill might be framed to agree
w',"th the decision of the house of Lords, and he was
anxious to come to an agreement on it this Ses-
sion. It was understood therefore that the Noble
_ _

Lord will on Monday introduce a new Bill, embodying
the Lords' amendments, pass it presto through the
Commons, and, as such a Bill will be sure to receive
the assent of the Lords, settle the question as they wish
it settled. One journal we see cabs this Bill a rag of
a Bill, and certainly after the manner in which it is
now the fashion to deal with Corporations, it does not
seem of much importance whether this rag of a Bill be-
come a law or not.
The Manchester and Bolton Police Bills were read
a second time. The Birmingham Police Bill went
through a Committee, after one division on an amend-
ment proposed by Mr. C. BULLER, to place the appoint.
ment of the Commis,ioner in the hands of the Town
Council, which was lost by 63 to 29.
A great deal of business was subsequently done, and
a somewhat lengthy debate took place, on some excel-
lent resokitions moved by Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, which
we hive neither time nor spice now to notice. They were
rejected by the House, on a division, by .5( to 22. The
Housesettled the Ways and Means in a Committee, and
adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'C!ock.

In another part of The Sun we insert an article
from the Ghtsgore Argus, commenting with be-
coming spirit on a measure which is silently making
its way through Parliament, under the title of the
Rogue Money (Scotland) Bill, and which goes to
establish a rural police in Sentland. Till we met
with that article we never paid the least attention
tothe•Bill, which ;Tented from its title as unitn.
portant
A meze ure as could well be con-
ceived,i Argun,
. 'account given of it, however, by
t
is correct, and this
Rogue Money .e
find'
Bill,
r"a,. which has attracted no notice
whatever in li_uent, enables the Justices and
Commissioners
o
assessment for e sit abU 12 ii
l s;
~, to make an additional
and maintaining an
: nnt
forming l levied,
efficient constabulary or ,ori• force in any county
of Scotland for the prevention
measure is worse than the crime. This
English Bill, Bill, for it con-
tains no limitation as to tohfe
aasmseount of force
to be raised, or the amount
unitetsilsemi
and it enables counties to
such a police, and to- make
force under the control of an irresponsible buomd
the justices, of almost any extent. Suchatid
,y,e,al
r-ee
a
mea-
sure is not likely to pleasz the Scotch,
not surprised to learn from the ,4rgus that it is not
popular, and is likely to encounter serious opposi-
tion. Even the Scotsman speaks of it as " vesting
new powers,
which may ultimately come to a
formidable, in bodies of men over whom neither
the people nor the Crown have any proper
control." That able, though thoroughly Whig
and ihoroughlv anti• Chartist ..I,iltraal insists, as
we have before insisted, on the decency and pro-
priety of first remodelling the Justices, and first
making them responsible to the people aOl the
elective principle," before entrustina them with
e,
these new and extraordinary powers. A rural
police placed in Scotland under the control of the .
Commissioners of Supply, and in England under
the control of the Justices of Peace, will be
othing but an instrument of irresponsible tyranny, i