The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-14 00:00:00

HOUSE 01. LORDS.

The Lour) CuaNcELLon took his seat on the Wool
tack shortly otter Five o'clock,
NEGRO SLAVERY.

Petitions against Negro Slavery were presented by Lord
D•Chle, Lord WYNFOIta, and the Bishop of I.4.*lnort.
Sir A. GRANT, and others from the Commons, brought
up the Colonial Validity Bill.

The Earl of SHAIIIiiSBURY presented a petition from
St. Albans, praying for a repeal of the duty on eta .borne
coal.

Lord BEXLEY presented a petition from the Jews re-
siding iu London, preying for relief from their disabilities.

TITUES.

Lord KING presented a petition from Southampton,
praying for redress of the grievance, under which
they laboured, but more especially from the impost of
tithes. Seeing Reverel of the heads of the church an their
places, he would take that opportunity of stating a few of
his views on the subject of tithes, which otherwise lie
would have been unwilling to enter upon. It could not be
denied that great complaint, very justly existed on the
subjects of tithes, It had been said • by some that the
tithe system worked well—that the corn laws worked
well, and that corrupt Parliaments worked well—
(Hear* hear, -hear)--he denied it altogether. He
believed no doubt existed in the mind of any honest
man of the injurious effects produced liv the tithe system.
Great differences, however, he would admit arose
as to the manner in which that injury was pro-
duced ;--some believed it to arise on account of
tithes being an impost on gross produce ; some
took quite a different view of the Subject ; however,
for his own part he believed tithes to belt public nuisance.
Under the existing circumstances of the country, they
were highly prejudicial to the public, because they pre-
vented a larger investment of capital in the cultivation of
land, Land lied been driven out of cultivation by its pejo-
dicial effects, and liven Allowed to go to grass. As an example
of the ill effects produced in land by this infamous system
he would only mention to their Lordships that in France
land of a very inferior nature to that in Ettgl,nd was in a
high state of cultivation. There, before- the Revolution,
the tithes were not near so rigidly enforced es in England,
and since that important event tithes had been abolished
in that county altogether. As to a commutation of tithes
at the present day, it would never do, they in his-(Ltird
K.'.) opinion must be eradicated altogether. Scotland
was free from tithes, and free cultivation of land went on
rapidly thare. Many parts' connected with the church
Deans, Chapter., wanted purging. He (Lord King) would abolish
means, 4,,napters, and all such trumpery. The Bishops
themselves Were nut sow tne Representativea of the
Clergy they formerly were ; they were like Old Sarum,
and Mlle few other places he could mention—rotten, and
good fur nothing.—(lfear, hear.)
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said that the
Noble. Lord had been pleased reflect opt* those who
presided over the Established Chutel, rather eevesely.
He would not follow that course with resp4mt to the
Noble Lord, bUt would only remind him that in the,

La the course of this inquiry Wet RV, wni brought for-
word to prove the agency of parties ; their treating, by
dinners, the ont•voters in London, the travelling of
these out-voters at the expellee of candidates frum
town to Eveshem ; their being supported there,
and their receipt, by tbo-e wl o chose to have if, of
sums of money from rttch candidate after the election, in
most cases to the amount, between the two candidates, of
from la to 121., as a payment for expenees and loss of
time ; when the parties themselves acknowledge those ex-
penses not to have exceeded from 20s to 110 a., including
coach•hire. It t.t..ea attempted to prove, on the part of
Lord Kennedy and Sir V. Cokerell, that promises were
net made prior to the election but on the side of
Lord Kennedy the agency of parties atifseAred io evidence,
and on that of Sir C. Cockerel' the providing of carriages
by hi, agent to: convey the voters from town, and the
custom of former elections, as to their receipt of money
afterwards. But it appears, that a man of the name
of New did make promisee nn the part of Lord Kennedy,
and commit sundry other acts of agency also a man of
the name of 111dlvollam appears to have been very active.
Mr. Serjeant MitaxtVretize. summed up the evidence
of the pekitioners, and stated he had proved clear and dis-
tinct cases of bribery at the last election at Evesham--.the
one against Lord Kennedy, the other against Sir Charles
Cockerel'.

Mr. Serjeant ?Arnow, on the part of Sir C. Cockereii,
roar. The point he should direct attention to was,—
" Does all the evidence, euppOsing it true, amount to
bribery ? and if an, whether Sir Charles Cockerel] is to
be affected by what has been done ?" lie argued that
Serjeant Mereweather had not established either. The
giving of money after the poll, unbr' it exist. in some
preconceived bargain before the vote, cannot be considered
as bribery. lie referred to the case of Lord Hunting.
flower at Ilchester, and the opinions of Mr. Justice Bay-
ley, Mr. Baron Holroyd, and Mr. justice Best, and read
a part of the Bribery Act, to prove it related solely to the
act and understanding with the party before voting. He
then alluded to the banking account of Sir Charles, which
was produced in evidence, to prove the small corn actually
expended on the election account, part of which *us for
coals for the poor.
Mr. lbaity then rose for Lord 'Kennedy, and addressed
the Committee at great length. This morning (Monday)
he resumed Iris argument, contending strongly, that if there
was treating, it was totally unknown to Lord Kennedy;
if there was agency, it was equally unknown to hint.
At about two o'clock the Committee, after being closed
for a considerable time, delivered the following decision:—
" That Sir Charlie Cockerel! is nut duly elected; that
Lord Kennedy is nut duly elected : and that the last elec-
tion at Evesham is void. That the promotion of the pe-
tition was neither frivolous nor vexatious ; that the oppo-
sition to it was neither frivolous nor vexatious; that Sir
Charles C.,ckerell is declared guilty of bribery. That
Curd Kennedy is declared guilty of bribery.
Thus terminated this anxious and interesting cam on
the ninth day of its sitting.