The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-21 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY.

In the LORDS', last night, two petitions were presented ; the
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Bill was passed ; and the
Mutiny Bill and the Marine Mutiny Bill went through Com-
mittee.

In the Comm°Ns', on the motion for the further considera-
tion of the Grand Junction Railway Bill being made, Lord G.
Somerset moved, as an amendment, that the Bill be re-com-
mitted. The House divided, when there appeared for the
amendment 106, against it 43; majority 63. An interesting
conversation ensued on the subject of allowing the votes of
Members having a direct pecuniary interest in any particular
private Bill. Sir S. Whalley, standing in that relation as a
shareholder of this railway, was declared incompetent to vote
upon it. Lord Palmerston stated, in reply to a question from
Mr. Hume, that Sir F. Lamb, our ambassador at that Court,
would proceed on Monday to Vienna, and that for the sixteen
months he had been absent, one half of his allowance would,
according to the usual practice in such cases, be deducted.
The remainder of the evening was almost exclusively occupied
in the discussion on Mr. M. Stewart's motion respecting
our relations with Russia, the protection of our commercial in-
terests in Turkey, and the occupation of Cracow. As we have
elsewhere alluded to the important subject of this motion, it is
not necessary here to say more than that being opposed by
Ministers it was withdrawn.

DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)

At the sitting of the Committee this morning the argument
c3mmencecl on Wednesday, respecting the validity of votes
given by persons licensed to sell stamps in the city of Dublin
was resumed by
Mr. HARRISON, who contended on the part of the petitioners
that this class of persons did not come within the meaning of
the Act of 43 Geo. 111., which disqualifies voters engaged or
concerned in the collection of the Stamp duties.
Tice Committee, after a short deliberation, resolved—
" That it is the opinion of the Committee that the voter,
Michael Browne Lacey, does not fall within the provisions of
the Act of the 43d George 111., chap. 25, by which persons
concerned or employed in the collection, receipt, or manage-
ment of any of the duties, are disqualified from voting."
Another vote was presented by Mr. Joy, but was ruled to
fall within the terms of the last resolution.

Mr. AUSTEN next proceeded with class No. 8 of the ob-
jections taken by the sitting Member, which contained the
names of certain voters on the poll for the petitioners who
were, at the time of voting, officers or persons ap-
pointed under an Act passed in the 48th George 111.,
entitled, "An Act, for the more effectual administration of
of the office of Justice of the Peace, and for the more effectual
prevention of felonies within the district of the Dubl;il metro-

polis." The policy of that Act was to prevent the undue in-
fluence of Government in elections, and the fact justified the
apprehension of the Legislature, for in this class there were
twenty-two policemen all voting for the petitioners, and not one
for the sitting Member. The voter whom he proposed to
strike off was Bernard Callaghan, a policeman in the city of
Dublin. The Learned Gentleman having read the evidence
given in this ease, and the admission given by the petitioners'
agent, said he should submit that he had stated sufficient to
entitle him to have the voter struck off the poll.
. .

Mr. HARRISON contended it was not sliewn that Bernard
Callaghan had been appointed under the Act mentioned in the
heading to this class. There were four acts on the subject,
under any one of which he might have been appointed.
Mr. AusTEN said the 48th George 111. was not repealed by
either of the two subsequent Acts, on the contrary, it was in
full force. He did not find any power of appointment under
the Act of the 3d or sth of George IV. He would leave the
matter in the hands of the Committee, directing their atten-
tion to the last section.

Mr. ElAntasort submitted that no presumption of appoint-
ment should disqualify him from voting, thus subjecting him
to a penalty of one hundred pounds. Ile admitted if the ob-
jection had been taken as well under the sth of George IV.,
a 3 under the 48th George 111., it could be maintained.

The Committee adjoCtrned at half-past one o'clock till to-
morrow at eleven, without coming to any decision on the

THE MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The second Fer-
forniznce, last night, was attended much in the same way as
the first—by a numerous, but by no means a crowded, audience.
The Oratorio of Israel in Egypt consists in a great measure
of a series of choruses, connected by a few recitatives, and two
or three ducts and' airs. It depends, therefore, almost entirely
on the quality of the chorus, and very little on the abilities of
the principal singers. The only remarkable things for solo
vcices arc the duet, " The Lord is a Man of War," and the
solo of Miriam, " Sing ye to the Lord," which introduces the
final chorus. The duct was extremely well sung by Mr. Ma-
chin and Mr. Stretton ; and Madame Caradori Allan delivered
the inspiring address to the Israelites with a power of voice and
energy of expression which could not, certainly, be surpassed,
by any siner of the present day. The instrumental band also
acquitted themselves ably, playing with accuracy, smoothness,
and delicacy.
TIIE GOLDSMITHS' BALL.—The Goldsmiths'
Company gave last night a splendid ball, at their magnificent
new Hall, the exterior of which, notwithstanding its confined
position, is generally acknowledged to be one of the most
superb architectural ornaments of the metropolis, and the in-
terior, which we for the first time visited, is arranged and fitted
up in a style worthy of the most opulent of our City Compa-
nies. We observed in the crowd the Dukes of Devonshire.
Wellington, and Argyll, the Duchess of St. Alban's, Earl
Grey, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady .John Russell ; ire
short,‘to enumerate the company, would be to enumerate all
who are most distinguished either in the fashionable circles of
the West, or in the City.
SUICIDE OF MR. SEYMOUR.—Yesterday morn-
ing, soon after seven o'clock, the maid servant of Robert Sey-
mour, Esq., was proceeding into the garden of her master's
residence, situated at No. IC, Barlisbury-place, Barnsbury-
park, Liverpool-road, Islington, when she discovered her mas-
ter stretched across the path a lifeless corpse, with a gun lying
by his side. Assistance was immediately called in, and a sur-
geon sent for, when it was discovered that the deceased must
have been dead nearly an hour. On lifting the body up it was
ascertained that the contents of the gun had passed through his
heart, and made its way out through the back, perforating his
clothes. The gun must have been charged with bullets, as
three distinct holes were visible in the folds of his cloak. Some
hundreds of caricatures, published under the title of " Sketches
by Seymour," " The Political Looking-glass," and many other
productions of the like nature, were by this gentleman. Mr.
Seymour was about forty years of age, and has left a wife and
two children. A Coroner's inquest will be held on the body
this evening.
The ship Charles Kerr, from London, with female
emigrants, arrived at Launceston, Van Dieman's Land, on the
15th November—all well.

MURDER.—Iii December last a boy named Kettle,
belonging to the brig Sandwich, which arrived last week in the
river, was brutally murdered by Manuel Antonio, a man of
colour, the cook of the ship, at Zanzebar, on the Coast of
Africa. It appears that the parties, with some others of the
crew, went ashore in the jolly boat, and some words passed
between the boy and Antonio, a tall athletic fellow, who
knocked the other down and otherwise ill-used him, leaving
him senseless on the ground. The boy, on recovering, ran
away towards the shore for the purpose of regaining the ship,
but was pursued by Antonio, who again beat him, threw him
down, and when he was down, knelt upon his breast, awl
treated him in the most cruel manner, from the effects of
which the lad died in half an hour afterwards. Antonio was
secured, the testimony of those who saw the cruelty exercised
towards the boy was taken by the British Consul at a neigh-
bouring settlement, and the culprit is now on his way home,
in another vessel, in irons, to take his trial at. the next sessions
of the Central Criminal Court.
A report is prevalent that it is contemplated to re-
move the Ely Assizes to Cambridge. Perhaps this intention
may originate with a design on the part of the Government to
do away with the secular authority of the Bishop of Ely, as in
the case of Durham, and to assimilate the administration of
justice to other parts of the kingdom.—Cambridge Press.
When the Duke of Ormonde was made Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, in Queen Anne's reign, one of his friends
applied to him for some preferment, adding that he was by no
means particular, and was willing to accept either a bishopric
or a regiment of horse, or to be made Lord Chief Justice of
the King's Bench. This, however, is surpassed by Horace
Walpole 's anecdote of a humane gaoler in Oxfordshire, who
made the following application to one of his condemned pri-
nMy good friend ! I have a little favour to ask of
you,e
from your obliging disposition, i doubt not you
s
will readily grant. You are ordered for execution on Friday
week. I have a particular engagement on that day ;if it
makes no difference to you would you say Friday next in-
stead ?".—Life of Cowper.