The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-10 00:00:00

LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1539.

ILord BROUGHAM, last night, had the order of the
day for the third reading of the Beer Bill discharged,
and is on Friday to move a resolution on the subject of
Leer, to be communicated to the House of Commons,
by means of which the Lords and the Commons may
be in good fellowship over that very interesting subject
The Noble Lord also changed from Monday to Friday
his Education Bill.
The Blackwall Railway Bill was read a second time,
after a short, but smart debate, and a division, in which
the Duke of WELLINGTON, who led on the oppo-
i sition, was on the losing side. The second reading was
carried by *3 to 2ti. Other contests, however, await
the promoters of the Bill, for which they must be pre-
pared.
Lord STRANGFORD postponed till Monday his
i motion concerning Mekico, in consequence of the Earl
;., of Mtwro's absence from illness.
The Tithe Commutation Act Amendment Bill was
I read a second time, most of their Lordships declaring
their approbation of a measure which, according to the
showing of the Parsons, goes to mulct them o a very
consideralo'e portion of their claims.
s The Prisons' Bill (Scotland) Was also read a second
rime. Their Lordships then went to dinner, having
earned it by their extraordinary labours.
It appears by a conversation between Lord MAHON
and Lord PALMERSTON that Russia has been interfer-
i ing to mitigate the horrors of war in Spain, she having
no :horrors of her own in Poland, Circassia, or else-
; where, to instigate ; and that the result of her inter-
ference, stirring up the lazy humanity of the Western
Powers, has been a convention with CABRERA to
exchange prisoners, instead of murdering them. Russia
1 pleading for humanity is worthy of all admiration.
It further appears from a statement made by Lord
PALkartsTux that a French officer has been dispatched
with the concurrence of our Government, to promote a
suspension of hostilities between Turkey and Egypt.
In reply to Mr. O'CONNELL, the Noble Lord stated
that the practice of this country was to acknowledge
i every State de facto independent ; but though applica-
tions had been made, Texas is not considered in such
circumstances as to warrant being acknowledged.
In reply to Mr. HODGSON litNimc, Mr. POULETT
TuorasoN stated that he is not to introduce a measure
this year to carry the Report of the Steam Navigation
Committee into effect.
t Oa the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the
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Lords' amendments to the Jamaica Bill were
agreed to. Sir ROBERT PEEL made no objec-
tion of course, because the amendments were his
own. Thus he has his own way, by going through the
House of Lords to get at it, and so be overrules, with
the assistane of Ministers, the majority of the House of

Commons.
Sir ROBERT PEEL, referring to the outrage committed
by the Magistrates at Birmingham, which is very un-
justly called by some journals Chartist riots, cautioned
Lord JOHN RUSSELL how he sent the police on such
errands. Lord JOHN RUSSELL then gave a history of
the transaction, which does not much differ from our
reports of it. We are happy to see that the Noble
Lord does not approve of the conduct of the Magis-
trates. _ _ . _ _

Mr. VILLIERS brought forward his motion for a Com-
mittee to inquire into the timber duties, but, after a
short debate, the motion was withdrawn, Mr. POULETT
THOMSON having promised to take the matter into
zonsideration.

The House was subsequently counted out.

Our country is overdone with monopolies. 'We
are ai:nost as badly off' on this score as were out
'orefathers prior to the great rebellion ; and it
would seem, so obstinately are they clung to, that
nothing less than another rebellion will ever get rid
of them. On the greatest monopoly, that of corn,
we have frequently expatiated, and the public,
thanks to the lecturers who are going through the
country, and a short harvest, seem at length
getting fully alive to the immense m►s-
chief that monopoly is causing. We have
never attempted to estimate with any ac-
curacy the sum which it transfers from the
pockets of the right owners to the pockets of
those who have no other right to it than that
which the law they make gives them, because it
extends through so many branches, affecting all
the co►:mmerce of the country, that 'we thought it a
hopeless undertaking. If we were to rate it,
however, at 100,000,000/. annually, we should
not, perhaps, be beyond the mark, to say
nothing at present of its limiting the supply of
human food, and deranging the commerce of the
whole of Europe.
There are two other audacious and scandalous
monopolies, that of the supply of the metropolis
with coals, and that of supplying the whole empire
with sugar and coffee, to which we have fre-
quently called attention. Both these monopolies
levy each a large tax on the people, who are by
their means plundered under the authority of Par-
liament.

The night before last Mr. HUMS brought under
the notice of the House of Commons the Bank of
England monopoly, and demonstrated that it
continually inflicts on the country great ai
d
irreparable evil. What it costs is not easily esti-
mated, but we can show that it levies at least
800,000/. a year on the people without any consi-
deration whatever. Every one of its notes is a pre-
mise to pay—a debt it contracts—a sum it borrows
of the public. On the average, it has about
20,000,000/. sterling of such promises to pay
in circulation, or it borrows that sum permanently
and continually of the public. On this loan the
Bank pays no interest whatever, while for every
shilling of this borrolved money which it lends
again, it charges a high rate of interest. Tak-
ing it at an averaffe of 4 per cent., it takes out of
the pockets of the° people a sum of 800,0001. a
year, without any other consideration than merely
issuing a .few pieces of badly printed paper.
Last night Mi. VILLIERS, in an able speech,
brought another of those monopolies under the no-
tice of the House of Commons, called the Discri-
minating Duties on Timber.
Those duties, on