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even, if carried into stringent effect, be sufficient to
prevent the practice of bribery under the cloak of 1
giving a fair remuneration to a voter for the '
expenses which he incurred in going; to the poll. The
Noble Lord then cited the case of Mr. Strutt, and stated
his firm belief that no man could have been actuated by
higher motives than that gentleman—(Loud cheers)—
and yet he had been unseated by the decision of a Com-
mittee, and if this Bill bed been the law of the land, he
could not possitilea—aveeeenee up to the table and make
the declaration :which—it required.—(Loud cries of
a Hear, hear.'-}-' On the whole he thought that the Bill
would preiduce Mere of injury than benefit.—(Hear.)
Sir ROBERT PEEL was induced to object to this Bill
because he conceived that it was only leading the House
to take delusive securities. The Right Hon. Baronet
then went on in a very happy strain of humour, to show
how the provisions of the Bill might be avoided by any
clever solicitor in a small borough, where he was a man
of influence, and who chose to take his reward in the
shape of a Government office instead of a pecuniary re-
turn. He had merely made these observations with a
view to show that the security, if taken, would be only a
delusion, and that it would be simply giving the dishonest
and unscrupulous an advantage over the sensitive and
cemuientious man.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BROTIIERTON said that although there was an
evidently expressed desire for the suppression of bribery,
yet:the question still remained—was,that really the case?
He could conscientiously say that he had never been
guilty of bribery—(Cries of " Hear, hear")—but yet his
election had not cost him less than 4,0001; and he knew
that the expense of such affairs must always be consider-
, able.—(Hear, hear.) If this Bill were not sufficient for
its purpose, the measure of his Hon. Friend the Member
for Montrose (Mr. Hume) was so. Members of a consti-
tuency generally supposed that they were doing a candi-
date a wonderfully great service by sending him to that
House; but what he (Mr. Brotherton) wished to impress
upon constituencies was, that Members wore sent to that
House, not for a privilege, but to do their business.—
(Hear, bear.) At any rate this was a move in the right
direction, and he should support the proposition of the
Hon. Baronet.
After a few words from Mr. Sharman Crawford, from
Mr. Hume (who said that if his proposition, with re-
spect to the ballot, was adopted the mischief would be
avoided altogether), and from Mr. Aglionby,
Sir J. PAKINGTON, in reply, said that after the
opposition which had been offered to this clause of the
Bill, he did not feel justified in putting the House to the
trouble of a division, but still it was due to those lion.
Members who had supported him to proceed in the way
which they deemed to be most advisable.—(Loud cries of
" Divide, divide.") He was satisfied with the testimony
which had been borne to the singleness of his purpose
in introducing the Bill.—(Cries of" Divide, divide.")
The House then divided, when there appeared—
In favour of the clause ... ... ... 54
Against it
Majority against the clause .
On re-entering the gallery we found
Sir J. PAKINGTON speaking, and moving that the
Chairman report progress and ask leave to sit again.
This was agreed to.
BANKRUPTCY (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed.
SUNDAY TRAVELLING ON RAILWAYS.
Several petitions were presented both in favour and
against this Bill. After which
Mr. LOCKE said that, in moving the second reading
of this Bill, he should have thought that he might have
relied on the good sense of the House to affirm its pro-
visions, especially when his only object was to attach a
certain number of carriages to the trains which were
already required to run under the authority of the law,
and he should not have felt justified in occupying any
considerable portion of its time. But after the nature
of the opposition which had been developed, he did feel it
necessary to say something to justify his determination
to proceed. It might be necessary to premise that he
did not propose to add a single additional train on the
Sunday. By the Ist and 24 Victoria, chip. 98, all
railway companies were compelled to provide carriages
for the conveyance of the mails, on any thy, or at any
time of the day, which the Post-office authorities might
require. All he proposed to do was, to add some car-
riages to those trains which already ran ; and if Hon.
Members were as well acquainted as he was with the
numerous cases of great individual hardship, they would
agree with him in the nscessity for some remedy.
Among others he might ci:e that of the Duchess of
Sutherland, who, in consequence of a notice of the immi-
nent danger of her father, had posted all through the
north of Scotland to the terminus of the Caledonian Rail.
way, having sent messengers before her to secure a
place in the train; but, on her arrival, was refused a
place, and as all knew, had arrived too late to find her
parent alive.—(flear, I:ear.) The Hon. Gentleman then
cited the case of a physician in Glasgow, who had re-
peatedly been presented either from attending his
patients, or returning to his practice, on the Sunday.
No later than last Sundry an Hon. lNlember of that
House, who had posted from the Highlands of Perth,
before parting with his postilion, but after the latter
had received his fee, was told by him that he hoped he
was going to London to vote against this Bill, and on
being asked why, answered, because it was the only
day on which he had any business.—(Hear, hear.)
The Hon. Member then wenn on to show that the provi-
sions
of the Bill could be carried out without employing
any additionAl hands, with the exception of a clerk
to take and give tickets to the passengers. Before
railways were thought of, mail conches, ferries, and post-
horses had been employed in travelling on Sundays in
Scotland, and he would ask the opponents of the Bill
why the people of Scotland were to be deprived of those
advantages which they possessed before railways
existed? Not a single petition had been pre-
seated by the working :men, who would be most
affected by the measure, against it, but, on the contrary,
he believed meetings of their body had taken place in
order to petition in favour of the measure. The
Honourable Member then proceeded to contend
that the greatest demoralization existed in Scot-
land,
which he attributed to the strict stop put
upon the innocent recreations of the people there, under
the semblance of the observance of the Sabbath, and
concluded by moving the second reading of the Bill.
Mr. COWAN thought that a more obnoxious or
tyrannical measure than the present could not be intro-
duced. More had been made of the Duchess of Suther-
land's case than it called for. He thought the case of
the railway servants ought to be taken into con-
sideration, and that some thing ought to be done
to give'' them rest on the Sabbath-clay. Be be-
lieved also that it was the wish of the Postmseter-
General to lessen the labours of the officers of the
Post- office on Sundays. He thought the House ought
not to legislate on the question of travelling on railways
on Sunday; but that the solution of the question should
be left to public opinion, and entertaining those opinions
ho would move that the Bill should be read a second time
that day six months.
Mr. MACGREGOR opposed the second reading of
the Bill, as being directly opposed to the religious feel-
ings of the reonle of Scotland.
Mr. LA BOUCHERE claimed for the House
the full right to legislate oe :this question, and
in anything he might state: he begged it to be under-
stood that he was speaking personally, and not as a
Member of the Government. Believing that the Bill
would give a great shock to the feelings of a large
number of the people of Scotland, he should vote
against the second reading of the measure.
his impression was that they had better leave the mea- I
sure to the progress of public opinion, and such being
the u se, be should certainly vote against the second
reading.
Mr. PLTJMPTRE said that the lion. Gentleman (Mr.
Locke) wished to introduce a new principle into legisla-
tion. Ho wished to make a human law to induce peoele
to break a divine law, when they had no ieclinntion to
break it. When he and his late: friend, Sir A.
Agnew, had brought in a Bill, to oblige a due
observance of the Sabbath, they were accused
of endeavouring to make people religious by Act
of Parliamenr..—(Hear.) Such an absurd idea never
entered their heads ; but he might observe that this was
a Bill to snake people irreligious by Act of Parliament,
and this, he trusted, would never be countenanced by
that House.—(Hear.)
Mr. HUME said that, as a representative of Scot-
land, be was bound to say that he had presented twelve
petitions from the burghs which he represented against
the Bill, and three in favour of it ; but in making this
statement he was also bound to remember that he did not
sit there as the representative of one particular
place, but to consider the interests of the
whole empire.—(Hear, hear.) No one was more
desirous in this country than he was to preserve a due
observance of the Sabbath day, but so far as he could
observe no attempt had been made to grapple with the
i real arguments of the case. At any rate they bad not
been answered—(Hear, hear)—and he was, indeed,
astonished to hear the decision of the Right Hon.i Gen-
tleman,:one of the Ministers of the Crown hael',come to, to
oppose the second reading of,this Bill. He must protest
against any such dogma as that which had been pro-
claimed, that railways were to be treated as private pro-
perties. The very grounds on which permission had
been erased by the promoters of those railways was,
that they were to be made for the public benefit.—(Hear,
hear.) Such being the case, what became of the objections
which had been made to the permission proposed to be
given to the people of Scotland to avail themselves of
the benefit of railway communication on the Sabbath-
day? Taking the matter only in its theological view, it
was well worthy of the consideration of the House.
They had it in the evidence of Mr. Hill and others that
one of the great causes of crime was the prevention of
ratioual amusement to the people. What was the reason
that
more
the people of Glasgow and of Edinburgh were
deeplymanufacturing ditnowernie ofmi Englandnalitythan? tNhoostehienvge,naco!
the large
cording to the best authority, but the deficiency of op-
portunities for reasonable recreation. Again, it should be
observed that by the enactment of this Bill they would
be reducing the amount of labour employed on the Sab-
bath-day, for according to the Hon. Member who brought
in the Bill, only' ten persons more were required to give
full
yult accommodation to the public than those who were
engaged in the transmission of the mails. All
these reasons combined to induce him to give the Bill
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Mr. PETO said that_he would yield to
no one; in that
House in .his desire to secure a due
the Sabbath day, but then he conceived observance of
that it ou,,ht •
order to be useful, to be an intelligent observance'' In
and! he trusted the House would affirm the principle o,
this til4 in .order to give to the people of Scotland thatf
„yflagl'S ad Va)aine which the railway system was calculated
tccoftfer,;-,,i -
Mr, li', etitTLE said that it was a singular circum-

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stance that patitious signed by upwards of 36,000 per-
sons had been presented against this Bill, and but very
few in favour of it. The principle of the Bill was alto-
gether against the feelings of his countrymen, and he
should giie it his decided opposition.—(Hear, hear, and
cries of
a few
'' Di-vide,
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rdivifdreo.")
After
Mr. C. BRUCE,
The LORD-ADVOCATE briefly expressed his dis•
approbation of the Bill.—(Loud cries of " Divide.")
Mr. CHARTERIS arose, in the midst of repeated
cries of " Divide," and said that he had but one word to
say in reply to the remarks of the Hon. Member for Mon-
trose on the moral state of Glasgow by reminding him that
" It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest."—(Hear, hear,
and laughter.) It was evident that the system of rail-
way communication had superseded all other means of
conveyance, and some means were evidently necessary
to obviate the evil which such a monopoly was likely to
occasion.

Mr. MOORE said that the Right Hon. Gentleman at
the head of the Board of Trade had justly stated that
this Bill was a balance of tw•o evils. That Right Hon.
Gentleman had come to one conclusion, but ho (Mr.
Moore) had come to another, and should support the
Bill.

Mr. REYNOLDS said that he found by a return that
there were sixteen railways in Scotland in active use,
eight of which were worked on Sunday, and eight of
which were not; so that it appeared after all that it was
merely a geographical question, and the religious an•i
the irreligious railways were set against each other.
The Honourable Member was proceeding in a
humorous strain to descant upon the assumed sanctity
of those who opposed the measure, when the feeling of
the House was so expressed: that he refrained, and con-
cluded by regretting that any theological consideration
should be mixed up in a question which was purely com-
mercial in its character.
After a few words from Mr. SCOTT, who expressed
his opinion that the feeling of the whole of Scotland
was against the Bill, the House divide', when there
appeared—
For the second reading ... 122
Against it
Majority against the second reading... --9
The Bill is consequently lost.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of
and the House adjourned shortly before Six o'clock.

EAST INDIA HOUSE.-(THIS DAY

THE RAJA OF SATTARA.
A special general Court of the Proprietors of the
East India Company was held at their House in
Leadenhall-street, this day, at twelve o'clock, at the
desire of nine Proprietors of East India Stock, as
expressed in the following letter :

" London, April 9, 1849.
To the khairman and Directors of the East India Company.
" Honourable Sirs,
We, the underSimed Proprietors of East India Stock, duly quali-
fied by law, request that you will convene a Special General Court of
Proprietors, for the purpose of taking into consideration the Papers
now before the Court, Alutive to the disposal of the Sattara State.
" We. have the honour to be,
" Honourable Sirs,
" Tour obedient Servants,
(Signed) " J. Sullivam.
" Arthur J. Lewis.
" Joseph llnme.
J. Williams.
" Alex. Raphael.
" Chas. Forbes.
" John Briggs.
" Chas. Grant.
" J. W. Graham."

Sir ARCHIBALD GALLOWAY (the Chairman) said
he had to announce that the Court had been made
special to take into consideration the subject men-
tioned in the requisition. • • -
Mr. J. C. MELVILL, the Secretary, having read
the requisition,
Mr. SULLIVAN rose to move the following resolu-
tion :
" That this Court is of opinion that the treaty con-
chided by the British Government, in 1819, with Per•
taub Singh, Reja of Sattara, and subs( Trendy renewed
with his brother and successor, the late Appa Sahib, con-
ferred upon and guaranteed to those Princes the heri-
ditary sovereignty in the principality of Sattara; and
this Court being farther of opinion that the heirs and
successors to those Princes, whether by adoption or in
right of blood, are entitled to the inheritance under the
tenure and conditions of the said treaty, this Court
consider it to be right and necessary to record its opinion
that no case has been made out to justify the annexation
of the said principality of Sattara to the British terri-
tory."
In doing so,_ he said the question they had to discuss
was one of the most important that had ever been
propounded to that Court. They were not about to
discuss merely the justice or expediency of annexing
the Sattara territory to the British Government, but
they were to discuss the question whether the East
India Company had a right to seiza upon and
to appropriate the territory of any native Sovereign
Prince of India, whom the East India Company
might determine to have died without heirs. On
what foundation Was that most monstrous proposi-

tion made to rest ? It was this, that the East
India Company were the lords paramount of
India, and stood in the place of the Mogul
Emperors, whose right it was contended had devolved
upon the Company to treat all the native Sovereign
Princes of India as vassals. He strongly repudiated
that doctrine, and concluded a speech of considerable
length, and marked by great ability, in favour of the
claims of the family of the deceased Baja, by moving
the resolution which has been give above.
Major General BRIGGS seconded the resolution.
The CHAIRMAN addressed the Court at some length,
and contended that the late Raja having died without
male issue, an adopted son could not be looked upon as
his heir, and that, in accordance with the ;terms of
the treaty, the territory lapsed to the East India
Company.
The late CHAIRMAN of the Court followed, and
contended that the late Raja had clearly violated his
treaty.
A Pnoratrroa suggested that the whole matter
should be referred to a court of law in India or at
home.

Mr. BAINES sail the treaty mentioned the
Raja's " heirs and successors," and therefore,
like the sovereigns of England, the nearest
of kin or the adopted heir ascended the throne. lie
quoted Mr. Justice Blackstone and Puffendorf in
support of this view, and was much applauded by
the Proprietors.
Mr. WEEDON said the only question that the Court
had now to consider was the expediency of adopting
the child whom the late Raja had adopted, and it was
unnecessary to discuss any other matter.
At the conclusion of this gentleman's speech,
The CHAIRMAN proposed that at that late hour
(nearly five o'clock) it would be advi-able to adjourn
the debate until Friday next, as the Directors had
to send off itnvotant dispatches by the mail to-night,
respecing the vote of thank 3 passed by the Court to
the army in India.
The Court then adjourned until Friday, at eleven
o'clock.

AUSTRIA.
Galicia is •in a state of indescribable ferment.
SErious disturbances, the Vienna journals inform us,
have broken out at Cracow, where the country people
make common cauae with the insurgent citizens, and
burn the barns in which the Imperial soldiers are
quartered. An engagement between the insurgents
and the soldiery took place at Chrzauow. The sol-
diers were routed.

The Allgemeine Zeitung has letters from Walla-
chia, of the 7th instant, which positively contradict
the late news of the entrance of another Russian
corps into Transylvania. However this may be,
letters from Bucharest, of the 9th instant, state that
the Russian General Ltiders had gone to the Tranayl-

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vanian frontier by way of
PESTII, Aram 17.—Yesterday afternoon a brisk '
cannonade was again heard, and the insurgents who
had appeared at Palota yesterday were now seen in '
great numbers at Rakos, below Czinkcta. The Itaa=
perial troops were drawn up in a long line- on the
north-west of the capital.
At half-past nine the insurgents commmenced a
brisk cannonade on the Rakos bridge, and made a
feint of attacking the Imperial right wing. The
Imperialists, however, returned the fire with great
energy, and compelled them to withdraw the
artillery pad fall back upon Czinkota. The
Imperialists, seeing this advantage, advanced
their artillery, and opened a very destructive
fire. The insurgents again bad to remove their field-
pieces, and withdrew the troops on the right wing,
where they met with a very obstinate resistance to
the mountain ridges lying to the left of Czinkota.
The cannonade continued without intermission
till half past five, when it suddenly caaied, and at
this moment the Imperial troops are rallying to the
right wing of Baron Jellachich.—Pesth Gazette.
DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Kolner Zeitung has advice's from Apenrade,
of the 21st, stating that a brigade of Schleswig-
Holstein troops entered Jutland on the morning of
the 20th instant. The brigade consists of the lit Rifles
and two battalions of foot, with the usual comple-
ment of horse and artillery. The statements of the
Cologne Gazette are borne out by our Hamburgh
correspondence, which is of the 22d instant. Our
correspondent further informs us that the preparations
for storming the Island of Alsen are still going on.
Some heavy battery trains have been brought to
Duppeln, and among them some 84 pounders.
A postscript to our Hamburgh letter announces
the taking of Kolding by the Schleswig troops,
under General Bonin, on the 20th instant. Kolding
lies about one mile and a half from the frontier cf
Schleswig, and nearly five miles from the fortress of
Fredericia.

The Dowager Lady Carington died on Sunday
night, at her residence in Bath. She was the widow of
the Rev. Walter Trevelyan, born in 1770, and married
the late Lord Caringten in the year 183 G, his Lordship
being then iu his eighty- sixth year.
'We understand that a son of Mr. Reynolds, the
Member for Dublin, has been appointed to a situation at
the.Mtut of the value of 4001. per annum.