The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-22 00:00:00

CRICKLT.

UNIVERSITY OF OXFonD UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
This annual coutes• cutureetati d at " Lords" 3:.( ste. thy
mornii,g, in the presence of a large giv herir,g of specta-
tors. L will be r. marked, when the reader loots at, the
score, that there were some long hands made. Our
limits will not allow us to enter into any details of
the play. When " time" was called the score stood as
follows:

OXFORD.
Mr. 0. Haribury—b Blore
Mr. J. Aitken—c King, b flora
Mr. C. Coleridge—c King, b King
Mr. J. C. Pattison—b Potter
Mr. C. Riditing—not out ...
Mr. J. Chitty-1 bw b King
Mr. W. Ridding—c and b Potter
Mr. A. Ridding—run out ...
Mr. A. Wilson—b Blore
Mr. C. Willie—b Blur© ...
Mr. M. Jones—b Blore
Bye; 18; wide, 13 ...

CAMBRIDGE.
Mr. C. Blayds—b Jones ...
Mr. W. Barnett—c Willis, b Jones
Mr. S. Deacon—b Willis ...
Mr. R. T. King—c C. Ridding, b Willis
Mr. T. Jonyns—b Banbury
Mr. J. Walker—not out ...
Byes, 7; wide, 5; no ball. 1 ...

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The game will be resumed at ten o'clock this morning.

REGISTRATION OF VOTERS FOR THE CITY OF LON-
DON, &C.—The following notice has been issuA by toe
overseers of the different parishes in the city of London
and Westminster, the metropolitan boroughs of the Tower
Hamlets, Finsbury, Marylebone, Lamheih, Stuthwatk,
Greenwich, and the con ties of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey,
Essex, &c., respecting the registration of voters in the re-
turn of Membi rs to Parlisment:—" We hereby give
notice that no person will be entitled to have his name
inserted in any list of voters for this city or borough
now about to be made, in respect of the occupation 01
premises of the clear annual value of 101, whether
situate wholly or in part within the parish of —,
unless he shall pay on or before the 20th day
of July next all the poor-rates and assessed taxes
(schedule B, No. 2) .which have became payable from
him in respect of such premises during the twelsi:
calendar months next before the sth day of January
last past, and will tre incapable of being upon the
next register of votera for this city er borough."
(Sgneri by tle overseers.) "Notice is hereby given
that all persons entitled to vote in the election of
knight or knights of tire siire for the county of
&c., in respect of any property situate wholly or is part
within the parish of —, who are n:,t upon the IN gists r of
voters now in force, and who are desirous of hasiog their
names inserted in the register of voters about to be made of
the said c,unty of —, are also requestial to send in their
names on or before the 20th day or July with their name
and surname in fell, t'reir place of abode, and the par-
ticulars of their qualification, which must be legibly
written according to the form set forth. Any person
who is upon the present register may also make his
claim if he thinks fir but it is not necessary he should
do so if he has the same qualification and place of abode
now described in the register."
Mr. Macready will commence an engagement at
the Theatre Royal, in this town, on Monday weLk.--
Liverpcol Courier.
POST-OFFICE NOTlCE.—Foxford, county of Mayo,
Ireland, having been constituted a post town, the post-
(Abe there will be opened for the issue and payment of
money orders on and after the 6th July next.
PETERHEAD, JUNE 20.—The Flamingo, of Aberdeen,
arrived off this place today, left the ice on the 3d inst.,
and reports having seen the Traveller, of Peterhead, 6th
ult., very much stove and with 1,800 seals, and on tha
same day the Sarah and Elizabeth, of Hull, going N.,
with 300 seals. On the 12th saw the Enterprise, of
Peterhead, and on the 18th the Eclipse, of Peterhead,
both going N., but did not communicate with them. On
the 3d inst. spoke a vessel belong:ng to Gluckstadt, and
was shown a piece of a foremast, cut by the deck, which
is thought to have belonged to the Mary, of Aberdeen,
supposed to be lost. Off Port—Flamingo, of Aberdeen,
Greenland, with 1,400 seals-20 tons.

I.AX 1,11 It A. h . rARLIAMENT,

HOUSE cr ct ,v 1 .110,1 V S. June 21.
EQUALIZATION OF POOL -RATES.
Mr. PACKE and Lord NUGENT presented several pe-
tions in Isvour of the equalization of poor rates.
Lord NUGENT then rose, pursuant to notice, to
move for a Committee to inquire into the practicability or
better providing for the maintenance of the indigent poor
of Eng,lind and Wales, by an equal and general Apportion-
ment of the burthen of the same. He was perfectly aware
that this was not a most invitteg subject for the
consideration of the House ; at the same time.
as it was a question of the utmost importance, he ask, d
the indulgence of the ]louse while he stated the prin
cipal points connected Kith the subject. Ile felt flint
he should have no right to ask I,:r any favourable
consideration of his motion if he contented Isimsel
with laying before the House the inequality o
the mode of rating, and the grievous hardship
upon the rate-payers. He would have no right
to ask for an inquiry upon the euhject, did he not
think he could lay bete), e the House the means b)
which those hardshiss might btu avoided.—(fleer.)
He need nut dwell upon the grievances which resin-
trom the present mode of rating, because he bslievet
InA should be justified in darling with those es ecknow
lodged evils. There could be no doubt that the presen
system of rating was [nest unjust and at:ow:titers, it.
in,- qualities were universally admitted. Ile could not g,
the 1, ne:11 of saying that they were increased by Lb.
amended LLVV of 1834, but. th, re was no doubt of tine, ml. a.
it had bad the EM:ct, 01 ['lacing the guardians in tintw,.
nism to the: rate-payt rs and both to the poor. The pre.
sent system of rating was most uni quel; iL was m..st in•
furious, it not absolute spoliati In to many of the rate
ply yrs ; and, above all, it was most injurious to the ob-
jects of parochialrelies;—(Heir.)ln many instance,
the rate had bi en twen,y- five shillings in the pound.
or, more properly speaki g, five shillings abovt
the pound. From a return it appeared that the anima!
charge up to Lady day,1847, fur the its-door maintenance
of the poor in all the unions was 769 690/.; and to Lad) -
day 1848, 95.5,700/.; tin -1 the establishments and salaries
for 1847, were 76'2,4204 anti for 1848, 970,985/. Thi'
shoeed that the sleet of keeping up the eA.blishments
and paying salaries amounted to 15,000/. more that.
was required for the maintenance of all the poor.
The tote! poor-rates expended in England and Ovules;
during the year ending 25th March, 1848, was 3,£47,4851.
Ot this sum there was expended in law charges, expentts
of proceedings before magistrates, payments under the
Parochial Assessments Act, and " for other pur-
poses," no less than 1,856,720/. There was thus nearly
2,000,0001. expended annually in the mere machinery of
the poor-laws, and of that sum there was an item o'
214,7111. for " other expenses." Ile thought that even
official gentlemen would think that that was an enormou:
sum to be put down und.r such a head. It wouli be
found, both in town and country, that the poorer
parishes were rated enormously higher, and the riche'
parishes enormously lower, than they ought to be. The
representative system in the beard of guardians had
been likened to the system of representation which pre-
vailed in that House. No two things, however, could be
more different or opposed in their nature; because whilst
in Parliament all classes were represente, in boards of
guardians one only was represented, being the contribu-
tors to the poor. rate. He would now point out the ine-
qualities of the pour-rate in different localities, then the
principal difficulties to be overcome in equalising it; end
thereby he would suggest a means, as it appeared to
him, whereby the equalisation might be safely made.
With regard to the inequality of the rate, he might state
generally, that it ranged indefinitely from one farthing
to fourteen shillings. From a paper presented to Parlia-
ment on the 21st of Marcia,lB4B,itappeared that the total
sum expended during that year, ending on the 12th of
March, 1848, was, under the poor-law, 8,047,4851., of
which only 6,108,7651 was spent in relieving the poor;
the balance of 1,938,7201. being expended in the follow.
ing manner:—viz., 70,380/, in law charges, 58,000/. in
proceedings before magistrates; 14,158/. for parochial
assessments, surveys, and valuation; 11,539/. for ex-
penses of parish property; and an extraordinary item
of 214,711/. for " other purposes." There was a large
item, also, for " petty cash." Expenses under the lie.
gistration Act, 56,9821.; county, borough, and police
rates, 1,391,3761 These charges amounting together
nearly to the sum of 2,000,0001., were expended entirely
in moving the cumbrous machinery of the poor.law. The
system of rating the several parishes in the country was
so unequal and unjust, that it demanded the serious at-
tention of the House. Under this system the poems!
parishes were rated enormously higher, and the richer
enormously lower, than in the medium. Notice, metro-
politan parishes, the richer ones at the west (nu P"°

very little, while the poorer suburban ones vvereop-
pressed unbearably. Notice Eait London Unb,n, the
parishes were rated at 9s. ad. and 3s. 4d. ,__ -.James's,
• m int that 'was the
rate in Bethnal-green ; whereas in S
Westminster, it was Is. lid-. and in St' George's, in
1847, 91 Now it was ordy 7id., which vi,s rim one-
fifth of the rate paid in Bermonds y. In proportion lo
the vale of the property in a pari,b, it at,ghL have bet a
supposed that the rts'e would have been er2iluab d. T• 10
reverse of this was the case, as wz,s siiilieLm:ly 1 ai;
"
fested in the casts of the parishes of the Exe..11:.,/,,, 1--.
of one in Lt.actenhall-street. There v.,,,,.e 3-,,-,:" alio
rishes, rated at from 6d. to Is. ; 838 '"27 Pa.
Is to 4s. ; and 383 at from 45. to 14,, at from
parochial clis•-ricts •17•,585 inhabit, dbr 1"
""".
at nil, and all this was owhig to tte hu'es II ere rated
imilittte antagonism with
gliat7erous kcni
most unnatural at d peri,teb,os jav,; °PPrtvioii of that
was in absol ' "'"
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tlemengt.m.dT,l;inadt
pl./judicially to the country., b
every
I, and .pt-tua (1 most
circulation of labrur, Which, 3- interfering with the
most essential to promote. IV;:41-.13"e all the s. it it
was
,i6i9n, he would leave
~zi. ~. regard to weal aiper-
La t entirely to the discretion of