The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-03 00:00:00

THE TOOTING AFFAIR.

Colonel SIBTIIORP said, as there had been lately two
important new appointments in connexion with the Poor-
law Board, he wished the Noble Lord to assure the House
that the strictest inquiry would be instituted into the con-
duct of all the parties concerned in the Tooting transaction,
and take steps to prevent any repetition of that calamity. ,
Lord J. RUSSELL said the subject was under the consi-
deration of the Secretary of State fbr the Home Department
and the Poor-law Board, who, no doubt, would institute the
fullest inquiry into the matter.
INSURRECTION IN IRELAND.
Mr. H. GRATTAN gave notice that, on Monday, he
should move for the following returns :—First, the number of
the troops of the line employed in the insurrection in Ireland,
with a list of the number of killed and wounded, and of the
number and description of the forces engaged on both sides;
second, a return of the amount of expense incurred in send-
ing over troops from Great Britain to Ireland, and of main-
taining the several regiments and other armed forces em-
ployed in various parts of Ireland on the occasion of
the recent outbreak ; third, a return of the number of persons
arrested under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, and
for what offences they were so arrested ; specifying their
situations in life, or their offices and callings, and the length
of time they had been imprisoned.
SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT.

The Hos. GENTLEMAN also stated that he should, upon
the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of Sta:e for the Home
Department proposing a continuance of the measure for sus-
pending the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland, move a call of the
House.

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Member for Bury on his subject, for that Hon Gent e
man's constituency was closely Connected with an
agricultural county, and the House,
A right to expect from him therefore, had
connected with the welfare of the some explanation.
a
country.—(Hear, hear.) lie beggedgricultural interest of the
Gentleman whether S uffolk to ask the Honourable
was very far from Cambridge-
shire, and whether he had meetings which not heard of certain agri-
culturalin the latter count ch had recently been held
those meetings 3: • If the Hon. Gentleman bad heard of
the H psrhaps he would be good enough to inform
House 'whether some of those who attended those meet-
ings did not state the nature of their difficulties, and pro-
pound and enforce upon the resident gentry
of the neighbourhood a remedy for those difficulties, which
remedy would probably be very acceptable to the
Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer.—(Haar.)
If he understood the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Hume)
aright, his statement last night amounted to this, that
i the constituencies of this empire were so well satis-
fied with the working of the new system of free
trade that they would not, under any pretence, ever
return to the old system, which expired last night;
but (proceeded the Honourable Gentleman, who, in the
early part of his speech, was but indifferently heard in the
gallery) if the Honourable Gentlemen would recollect
the intelligence which they had leaned yesterday
of the reaction which had taken place in a
neighbouring country—if he would turn to a country
had
abolished her monarchy and her form of governm.enet,
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position had been evinced to ;return to protectiv
.d les,
and it was by no means chimerical to indulge
the hope that the time was not far distant when France
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adopt the protective system which England had.__ abolished.
Further, he would ask the Hon. Gentleman if he had not
found in his intercourse - with society, not with
"besotted farm rs " e , as agriculturists had been called, a
with expressed during these few weeks, that there should
be a fair but a low duty upon corn. The Hon. Gentleman
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