The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-02 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Courier of this evening comments as follows on Mr.
Werburton's conduct last night in the House of Com-
mons, with respect to Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's Copy-
right Bill: —" This was sufficiently declaratory of the
feeling of the House ; yet Mr. Warburton, backed by
Wakley, immediately moved the adjournment of the
I t,erse. Now commenced a scene of contest which was
a, novel as it was revolting to every principle of courtesy
a.td of justice. The amendment was supported by nine
Members; it was rejected by a majority of a hurl-
ered and thirty-one ! This minority of nine, resolved to
exhibit not the smallest sympathy with the Muses,
except in number, repeated the same experiment
to various forms of motion and amendment, not less in all
elan twenty-four, and occupied by these factious divi-
sions some six or seven hours of the evening, protract-
tug the proceedings until half-past twelve o'clock. At no
time did their number, in a division for a break up, ex-
ceed nine ; it was seldom more than seven, and sometimes
as lew as five. Such an example of factious perseverance
—of a mischievous and intolerable perversion of the privi-
lege which resides in a minority—has no parallel in the
modern usages of the House."
The Globe thus speaks of Mr. Warburton's divisions last
night in the Commons:—" The course which was taken
last night by Mr. Warburton could only be justified on the
supposition of surprise, or unfair practice on the opposite
aide. But no such justification is so much as pretended ;
it remains, therefore, unjustifiable on any principles of can•
dour or courtesy. And certainly a stroll..* presumption must
be created in favour of a measure which can only be com-
bated by such weapons as Mr. \Vakley's very memorable
Tegg oration, and Messrs. Warburton and Wakley's no
less memorable feats of last night. Sergeant Talfeurd
might well wish, with a view to the success of his cause,
"with those Honourable Members who supported him, that
every part of the conduct of the Honourable Member for
Bridoort and hie friends should be made public."
The Standard denounces Mr. Warburton's conduct last
night on the Copyright question, in the following terms :
—" Nothing of much interest occurred in the House of
Commons, until Mr. Sergeant Talfourd moved for the
Committee upon his Bill for the protection of CopyriAhts,
when Mr. Warburton, aided by seven or eight " philoso-
phical Radicals," opposed the motion in a manner which
they did not deny to be vexatious, and which the public
will certainly think: not only ' vexatious,' but disgrace-
ful, when it is known that these Utilitarian'
gentlemen actually divided the House no less than eleven
tunes, avowedly with the purpose of consuming the time of
Parliament. The pretext for this proceeding was, that Mr.
Talfourd had fixed upon a'Wednesday for the Committee,
an encroachment upon the indolent self indnlgence of
Members not to be endured. We should like to hear the
opinions of practical '.Utilitarians,' who, without making
any profession of extraordinary usefulness or zeal for it,
work six days in the week the whole year round, to main-
tain their families, on this new doctrine that five days in
the seven are an intolerable demand upon the toil of utili-
tarian legislators during half the year, the other moiety
being absolutely idleness."

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF PETERBO-
ItOUGH.—Ou last evening, May Ist, at the Palace, died
Herbert Marsh, D.D. Bishop of Peterborough, Margaret
Professor of Divinity, and Rector of Terrington St. Cie-
mcnts, Norfolk, aged 82 years. He was consecrated
Bishop of Llandaff, 1816 ; and was translated to the Dio-
cese of Peterborough 1819.
DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF BATH AND
Will.ns.—lt appeared in the Bath Herald last week fiat
Bishop of Bath and Wells, and his nephew, Mr. Har-
ness, were dangerously ill ; Mr. Harness's demise has been
already announced, but it was hoped that from the Bishop
having passed through this town on Monday, on his way to
Weymouth, his health had improved ; we have, however,
just heard, from undoubted authority, that he expired at
Weymouth yesterday.—Sherborne Journal,

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY