The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-16 00:00:00

JEWISH DISABILITIES,

Dr. BO\VRING wished to know whether it was the Li-
tention of his Majesty's Government to propose any meal; re
for thc removal of the civil disabilities that attached to_our
Jewish brethren?

The CHANCELLOR of. the EXCHEQUER said that
it was the intention of his Majesty's Government to introduce
some measure on this subject during the present Session. ,-

CARLOW ELECTION.

Mr. WALLACE, in answer to a question from an lion.
Member, said that it was his intention to bring forward his
motion on this subject on Wednesday week. The Hon. Mem-
ber also laid on the table two petitions he had received from
Ca I nv, relative to the same matter.
CLEAV'E'S CASE.
Mr. WAK LE Y said, that having seen Mr. Cleave since he
last put his question to the Attorney-Genera!, lie now begtrcd
to repeat that question—namely, under what Act of P.trlia-
ment the officers were justified in seizing the papers in
his possess'.on, and whether the Magistrates were justified in
placing him in prison, and upon the silent system ?
Tha ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that since the Hon.
Member for Finsbury had put the question to him he had
made inquiries upon the subject, and the result of those in-
quires was, that the Act under which the Magistrates had
convicted Cleave was the
16th of George the Second, which
enacted that any person carrying about newspapers unstampecl,
'ittlias a
stoppedboy and carried before containing 32 quires of
were liable to be carried before a Magistrate, and ordered to
be imprisoned for three months. Some time since Cleave had
been found
u,ndG e;
in z
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t cab '
be v
v Magistrate, and was ordered to be imprisoned three months. a
With respect to his being put upon what was termed the silent
system, he had only to state that though he might justly have
been
been so treated, he had been appointed to be c. a teacher to the
boys in the prison.—( Laughter.) With
respect
to the sei-
zure of thenewspapers belonging to Mr. Cleave, he believed
that the law never could mean that
restored to the individual who violated newspapers should
b°
, had -ated the law, that he
might distribute them in violation of that law. If, under the
advice of .the lion. Member for Middlesex, . r. Cleave
M should
think it right to do so, he might
bring an action of trover for

the recovery of the men'', and thus his right to them might
1)e tried.

Mr. WAKLEY rose amidst cries of " Question." He
never had, and never would, advocate breaches of the law.
But 400 persons had been committed to prison for selling what
had not been proved to be newspapers.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that Cleave had
been convicted by a jury for selling unstamped newspapers.
Mr. WAKLEY denied that the papers seized by the
police were of the same character.
Mr. ROEBUCK begged to ask the Attorney-General a
question. A person named Reeve had been searched by the
police, who demanded to see the contents of a bundle, which
Reeve refused; upon which the police attempted to take the
bundle by force, and Reeve, in his own defence, knocked the
constable down ; for this offence he was brought before a
magistrate, who committed him for three months to the House
of Correction, when he was subjected to every species of bad
treatment. Now he (Mr. R.) begged to ask his Majesty
Attorney-General whether this was in accordance with the
feelings of the peo;tle of England, or whether it was in accord,
ance with the spirit of British law
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replie I that the conic-
tion was perfectly lwal, being under the 27th sec. of 9th
George IV.