The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-13 00:00:00

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.

The Dublin and Drogheda Railway, and other Bills, were
brought up from the Commons, and read a first time.

TURNPIKE 'TRUSTS.

The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition
complaining of the abuses of the present system of
Turnpike Trusts. He thought that the best plan would
be, for Government to advance a sum of money to pur-
chase up these trusts. If this were not done, the persons
who lent their money would not, in many instances
receive a shilling of interest, and in others the roads would
fall into decay.

Lord DONCANNON admitted the justice of his
Noble Friend's observations, and thought a short Bill ought
to be introduced to provide against the anticipated evils. It
was now too late in the Session to proceed with any general

measure.
SALMON FISHERIES (SCOTLAND).
The Earl of ABERDEEN moved that a message be
sent to the Commons, requesting a copy of the Report of
the Committee on the Salmon Fisheries of Scotland.—
Agreed to.
TITHE COMMUTATION (ENGLAND) BILL.
On the Order of the Day for their Lordships to go into
Committee on this Bill being read,
The Bishop of EXETER said that this Bill, if certain
amendments were adopted by their Lordships, would not
operate very prejudicially to the Church of whose interests
lie felt himself a trustee. The Right Rev. Prelate went
on to state certain objections to the details of the Bill,
which he trusted would be remedied i❑ Committee.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE could not concur in
the objections stated by the Right Rev. Prelate.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH expressed his approbation
of the Bill, and said that much as was the benefit it would
confer on the public, the Church would be benefited to
a much more considerable extent.
Their Lordships then resolved themselves into Com-
mittee.
Upon clause 1 being proposed,
Lord ELLENBOROUGH. said he would suggest that
the Commissioners described in the clause should be ap-
pointed in the same way as the Commissioners under the
New Poor Law Act.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he had no ob-
jection, and the amendment was agreed to.
The clause was then agreed to.
Upon clause 4, Lord ELLENBOROUGH moved as
an amendment that the Commissioners be invested with the
same power of appointing assistant commissioners, clerks,
raid merengers as is given to the Commissioners under the
'Poor Law Act, subject to the control of the Treasury as
to salaries and number.
The amendment was agreed to, -and the clause, as
amended, was agreed to.
Upon clause 10, Lord WYNFORD proposed that
considering the very important duties to be performed by
the Commissioners, an oath should be substituted for the
declaration required by the clause.
The Duke of RICHMOND objected to the system of
requiring oaths from persons appointed to almost every
office.
The amendment was then agreed to.
The clause, as amended, was agreed to.
The clauses up to 33 (with the exception of clause 22,
which was postponed) were severally put and agreed to.
In many of them a number of unimportant amendments
were made.
Clause 34 was agreed to, with the several verbal amend-
ments.
On clause 35 being proposed,
Lord WYNFORD suggested a proviso that the Com-
missioners in any case in which they .stated they could not
find the real value of the tithe, should be required to give
reasons for that statement.
After a short discussion, the question was put and the
clause negatived.
Lord WYNFORD should move the proviso again in a
subsequent stage of the Bill.
The clause was then agreed to.
Clause 36 was also agreed to. •
Upon clause 37 being proposed,
Lord ASHBURTON inquired if the payment of tithes
in a parish would not be varied, according to the fact whe-
ther hops were or were not cultivated. •
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE admitted that it cer-
tainly would be an exception to the principle of the Bill,
which was to fix the payment of tithes.
The clause was agreed to.
Clause 38 agreeSto.
Upon the motion ,of Lord ELLENBOROUGH,
" orchards " were included in the 39th clause.
The remaining clauses were then agreed to with verbal
amendments. The postponed clauses were also considered
and agreed to, as was also the preamble.
The House resumed, and the Bill, as amended, was re-
ported and ordered to be printed with the amendments.
The Murderers' Execution Bill went through Committee.
The Holyhead Road Bill was also committed without
amendments.
The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and the
House adjourned at a quarter past twelve o'clock.

In her new work, " Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw,"
Mrs. Trollope has again taken the ground whereon she for-
merly reaped ,so much renown. Her descriptions in the
above product►on of the scenery on the shores of the Mississippi
are exceedingly grand and striking ; while in developing the
character of her hero (the son of a " squatter in the bush),"
she has displayed with irresistible effect, the mind, morals,
language and pursuits of a genuine Yankee adventurer.
THE PACKET-SHIP INDEPENDENCE.—A few
days since we announced the arrival of this ship at Liverpool,
in the unprecedented short passage of fourteen and a half
days from this port. She returned again on Monday night,
having made the homeward passage in twenty days. She has
thus performed the voyage both ways in thirty-four and half
days, and consequently bears the palm from all other ships that
ever sailed from this port.—New York Gazette.

TIIE 'VIOLIN, AND ITS PROFESSORS.—Among
the signs of the increased attachment to music, now so ob-
viously manifested in this country, a more extended cultiva-
tion of the Violin is clearly perceptible ; and the time is
exceedingly opportune for presenting a work expressly de-
voted to the history of this instrument, and to the celebra-
tion of the chief individuals who have successively figured in
connexion with it. This task, it appears, has been attempted
by an amateur of the name of Dubourg, wlni has just pub-
lished a small volume, in which the progress of the Violin is
detailed under its principal Schools, and a copious Memoir is
given of the marvel-working Paganini, together with a variety
of miscellaneous Anecdotes and Sketches of the most amusing
description.

CURIOUS DISCOVERY.—Weber has discovered a
very remarkable fact, that the left hand is more sensible of
heat or cold than the right in most persons. Thus, when the
hands of a person lying in bed, and of exactly the same tem-
perature, were plunged each in a separate vessel of hot water,
the left hand was believed by the person to be in the hotter
medium, even though the water it was in was really one or two
degrees colder than the other. Weber has rendered it highly
probable, that the greater sensibility which the left hand un-
doubtedly possesses in perceiving changes of temperature, is
Owing to the circumstance of its being covered, particularly
on its palm, b% a thinner epidermis, in consequence of being
less used. —Dr. (Naves on the Sense of Touch.