The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-19 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, THCRSDAX. MAY 19,

Upon otir return to the gallery we found,
The Duke of RI Cfl MON 1) proposing the
.if the following words from clause G 4 :—" Provided, ce-
;ertheless, that nothing in this Act contained shall be con-
•trued to disqualify any such Recorder from being cliaiblc
t ► sit in Parliament otherwise than is herein provided." His
Object was to prevent the Recorder from being eligible to
sit in Parliament at all. He could perfectly understand
that if agitation prevailed to a great extent, for the pur-
:mses of a fair and impartial administration of justice, it
mist be necessary that the Recorder not only should not
be in any degree a political partisan, but also that lie should
lot be deemed to possess that character by the people at
large. He remembered one case that fully bore him out
it that opinion. It wag the case of a Learned Gentleman
vho was a Recorder a very few years back, and who was
Aso a Member of the other House of Parliament—he al-
uded to Sir C. Wetherell, than whom, he believed, there
never was a more honest and conscientious politician—
( Hear, hear)—yet he must beg to remind their Lord-
ships of • the result of the part which that Honourable
Gentleman took in the House of Cw.mons. He (Sir C.
Wetherell) Ind felt it to he -his duty to oppose the
whole, or at any rate the greatest part, of the Reform
Bill ; and the result of his pursuing that course was, that
when he went to Bristol, where he was Recorder, a fearful
excitement was produced, the consequence of which was
the destruction of that great city. Even in England. then,
it was clear that the circumstance of' a Recorder's sitting in
Parliament might lead to the most disastrous issues. He
(the Duke of Richmond) held it to be most expedient that
in Ireland the same practice should be observed which had
been maintained England—he• meant the holding of inter-
mediate quarter sessions ; now •'' the Recorder of a city in
Ire!and was elected as a Member of Parliament, and if be
stayed here only the space of an ordinary session of Parlia-
ment, it would beimpossible for him to attend to both duties ;
and yet he (the Duke of Richmond) looked upon the interme-
diate quarter session as the easiest, nay, the only, means of
preventing crime, by insuring to parties the blessing of speedy
justice.—( Hear, hear.) But even without any reference to
the duties at the intermediate quarter sessions, he should wish
that no man who was connected with the administration of
justice should be permitted to sit in the other House, and
so become an avowed political partisan. The principle for
which he contended was admitted in this very clause, by
which the Noble Lords opposite, who had altered the measure,
said that no person should be a Recorder for the borough
for which he was returned to Parliament ; they admitted
that it was not expedient for a Judge to be a Member of
Parliament for that borough in which he was a Judge ;
then he (the Duke of Richmond) said he ought not to ise
a Member of Parliament for any borough.—( Hear.) It
was an argument which he had often heard in that House
that Judges should never be placed in any situation which
would render them in the slightest degree dependent upon
popular favour.
Lord LYNDHURST objected to taking the discussion
on that subject in this stage of the measure. The proper
course for the Noble Duke to pursue, in order to effect his
object, would be to introduce a Bill for that especial purpose,
and which should affect not the Recorders alone, but all
persons holding any judicial situations whatever. Their
Lordships would then have an opportunity of discussing
that important question, stage by stage. He decidedly ob-
jected to such a motion being made at the very last stage
of the Bill, upon the third reading, and he should therefore
oppose the motion.
The Duke of RICHMOND certainly would not think
of pressing his motion to a division ; but he must beg to
state that it was not his (the Duke of Richmond's) fault
that the subject had not been brought forward before the
third reading. Further, he would only ask, was it proper
that the Recorder should be a political character, when, be
it remembered, only the other day, their Lordships would
not allow a police constable even to vote at the election for
Members of Parliament.
The motion was then negatived.
Lord TEMPLEMORE moved that after clause 64 a
clause be inserted to the following effect :—" And be it
enacted that the borough of Belfast be deemed arid taken
for the county of a borough."
Lord LYNDHURST said that that would create in
that borough an entirely new jurisdiction—a jurisdiction
which had hitherto been confined to counties of cities and
counties of towns.

Lord TEMPLEMORE did not see wily Belfast
should not be placed in the same situation as Cork, Dub-
lin, Kilkenny, Limerick, and other places were under
this Bill.
The motion was negatived.

The question was then put that the Bill do now pass.
%vhereupon " the Contents had it," and the Bill accordingly
passed.
The Rouse then adjourned at Twenty m'nutes to Eight
o'clock.

Lady Noel Byron arrived at'. tht Loadon Hotel,
A:bemarle-street, on Monday, from her seat. Fordbrook Lodge,
near Harrow, to visit her daughter, Lady King (late the lion.
Absd Augusta Byron), who was safely delivered of a son and
heir on Thursday last, at his Lordship's new re.iidence in St.
James's-square. Her Ladyship's i^fant son, who will take tl►e
name of Noel Wentworth, will inherit the extensive estates of
his progenitor, Thomas, second Viscount and ninth Baron
Wentworth, on whose death 17th April, 1815, the title of
Viscount became extinct; but the Barony of \%entworth fell
into abeyance between the heirs of his two sisters, the Hon.
Nathaniel Curzon and Lady Noel Byron. • .

It is very desirable that females marrying soldiers
should be made aware, that unless such marriages are pre-
viously consented to by the commanding officers of the regi-
ments to which the soldiers belong, agreeably to an order
issued from the Horse Guards to that effect, the female will
neither be permitted to live in garrison, nor to follow the regi-
ment. Clergymen ought on no account to perform the mar-
riage ceremonial without previously satisfying themselves of
the regularity of this procedure ; for it is plain that, by doing
so, in the absence of any evidence to this effect, which ought
always to appear on the certificate of the proclamation, they
inflict a cruel injury on the female.
We briefly stated some weeks ago that an anxious
desire had been manifested at Cockermouth by several influ-
ential inhabitants for a new church, and since then the sub,
ject has not been suffered to sleep. The friends of the sista,
blishmont will rejoice to learn that measures have been so suc-
cessfully put into operation as to leave little doubt but that the
religious wants of the extended population of that rapidly im-
proving town will not long exist. Amongst the most anxious
and active promoters of this good work is Mr. Wordsworth, of
ilvdale Mount, who is exerting his utmost power to wider a
lasting benefit on his native place. One gentleman has given
the munificent sum of 3001. towards this laudable design,_
Carlisle Patriot.
At about fourteen minutes after five on the morning
of the 13th inst., the shook of an earthquake was felt at An-
gers It lasted nearly half a minute, and was sufficiently
powerful to make the windows and furniture of the houses in
the town tremble and vibrato. —Galignani.
BMW s NEM—On Thursday Mr, Clark, of Pat.
rington, being engaged in his garden, observed a bird with
something white in its bill ; lac marked its course, and saw it
alight upon a tree in a plantation adjoining. On climbing up
the tree he found a nest, the outside of wich was, as usual,
composed of straw, moss, hair, wool, &c. ; the inside, how-
ever, was newly lined with a neat pair of child's socks, a piece
of linen rag, four yards of broad cotton net, a woman's net
pap, and a pair of net cap-strings. About 2 yards of narrow
net was found entangled in an adjacent tree, and a cap dropped
at a little distance. It was subsequently ascertained that all
the drapery had been purioinea the same morning by the serial
pilferer, from the adjacent garden of Mrs. Andrew, where
they had been laid to bleach. —Bat Advertiser. •
At Hawick a very fine fat West Highland Kyloe,
which when alive was supposed to be about 130 stones, was
slaughtered on Tuesday last. The weight 'of the carcass,
after it was slaughtered and dressed, was 70 stones, 31b„ and
thg offal was 34 stones, 41b. It contained upwards of 12
Wines of tallox- and the bead, foot, anl tongue, weighed
5 stone, 31b.—Kelso Chronicle.
Last week a small boat set sail from the Island of
Coll for Eileen Mor, a small island adjacent, with four women,
two men, and a boy, when, melancholy to relate, on returning
home, the moreilesa vortex swallowed up the boat, and every
suet perished, save the two men, who, being very athletic,
saved themselves by swimming.
MR. HALLIDAY.—An alarm of an escape from
our City Gaol was given in Friar-street, on Tuesday morning
last. On Sunday, a man of highly respectable appearance, a
stranger. about 50 years of age, was placed in the care of
Mr. Griffiths, the Governor, in consequence of various acts
evidencing a deranged mind, in order that his friends might be
discovered, and apprised of where he was. He was permitted
to range the domestic part of the prison, under the care of one
of the inmates, when, soon after breakfast, on the morning
mentioned, he contrived to slip away from his guard, ran up
stairs into one of the bed-rooms, and taking the sheets from ,
the bed, tore them in two. He then tied the halves to-
gether, and getting on to the roof of the Governor's house,
by .the front door, fixed them to the iron palisades in front,
over the entrance, and was letting himself dovn into Union-
street, when within about l 3 feet from the ground, he fell.
He sprained his ankle severely, but notwithstanding he ma-
naged to crawl to a neighbouring public-house across the
street, where he was secured. On Wednesday some relatives
of the unfortunate gentleman arrived here. It seems that his
name is Halliday, and that he resided at Chelsea. That
about four months since he was removed from his situation as
Inspector of Stamps, in Somerset [louse ; and although he
was informed that he would be appointed to an equally lucra-
tive office, the circumstance so preyed on his mind, as to pro.-
ldegfr hisin PhnottlmledoTeng:deaTeinats.t
wlenetit,llasnliditllll3if ya,mlitley tleloaunlddesotii,taeliyn
no tidings of him, until information reached them of his having
been placed in the City Gaol here, We understand be has a
wife. and several children,— Worcester Herold,
aßiisideßlA 11R4 1-10P11 in Keith
last week, by the report that a daughter of a respectable far-
mer in the vicinity had been delivered of a child, which was
immediately deprived of life. An investigation has been en-
tered into by the public prosecutor, which, we believe, notwith-
standing the child has not yet been found, has ended in her
e, mmitment as seon as she can with safety be removed.—
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