The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-08 00:00:00

INDIA.

Lord HATHERTON presented a petition from Cal-
cutta, in the East Indies, agreed to at the first public
meeting ever held in that place. The petitioners com-
plained that by the Act lately passed for the re-
gulation of the affairs of the East India Company, the
interests of the inhabitants of India which it was
it was intended to promote had been altogether overlooked.
They also complained of the operation of the 43d section
of that Act—that no natives had hitherto been appointed
to civil situations ; that no provision had been made for the
moral education of the people of that country ; and that
discriminating duties upon tobacco, spirits, and sugar, were
still permitted to continue.
GRAND JURIES (IRELAND).
On the motion of Viscount DUNC A N NON the Grand
Juries (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed.
Mr. BERNAL and others from the Commons brought up
a Message,, stating that an amendment, which appeared on
the third reading of thb Secular Jurisdiction (York and
Ely) Bill, did not form part of the Bill sent up from the
other House. The same Messengers also brought .up the
Caurch Temporalities (Ireland) Bill, and the Edinburgh,
Leith, and Newhaven Railway Bill.

Lord MELBOURNE moved that the message from
the Commons relative to the Secular Jurisdiction York and
Ely Bill be now taken into consideration.—Agreed to.

COMMON FIELDS ENCLOSURE.

On the motion of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, the
Common Fields Enclosure Bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed to-morrow.

Lord Torrington, the Bishop of Bristol, Lord Hatherton,
and Lord Strafford.

The managers of the Conference on the part of their
Lordships having returned to the House after an absence of
a few minutes,

The LORD PRESIDENT reported that they had
met the Commons in Conference, and had made the ameud-
ill-lents required in the Bill.
Lord REDESD ALE presented a pCtition from Corn-
wall against the Stannaries' Courts Bill.

The Valuation (Ireland) Bill went through a Com-
mittee.

CONFERENCE WITH THE COMMONS.

On the motion of Lord MELBOURNE, the following
Peers were named to confer with the House of Commons
on the Secular Jurisdiction York and Ely Bill—the Lord-
President, the Lord Privy Seal, Earl of Albemarle,
The Duke of WELLINGTON presented a petition
from the Licensed Victuallers of Macclesfield, against the
Sale of Beer Bill.

On the motion of Viscount DUNCANNON, the Turn-
pike Acts (Ireland) Bill was read a second time.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH brought in a Bill for
enabling the patrons of Livings to make presentations to
Ecclesiastical benefices, which was read a first time.
PAROCHIAL ASSESSMENTS.

On the motion of the Duke of RICHMOND snme
verbal amendments were' made in the Parochial Assessments
which was then read a third time and passed.

NEWSPAPER STAMPS.

Viscount MELBOURNE, in moving that the House
do go into Committee on the Newspaper St amps Bill, would
not trouble their Lordships with many observations, as the
principle of the measure, which was to reduce the duty on
Newspapers to one penny, was well known. He believed that
there would be some falling off in the revenue in this branch
which amounted to about 450,0001. a-year, but that would
be nearly counterbalanced by the additional number of

I newspapers that would be published, and the addi-
tional quantity of paper that would be consumed. In-
depodently of the general demand that had been made
by the country to take off the tax.l!s upon knowledge,

there had been-of late. a great increase in the contraband
trade in newspapers, and it had been found that the legal
newspapers which paid a duty of 4d. upon each sheet
could not compete in point. of circulation with those
which paid no stamp duty. The persons concerned
in this contraband trade had been repeated' prosecuted,
fined, and likewise- imprisoned, and yet the fraud
upon the revenue still went on. There were only
two unstamped papers to which the names of the bona fide
proprietors were attached, and they had, alWugh watched
with the greatest perseverance, continued-to.evale the
law.—( Hear, hear.) It had been calculated that not less
than 250,000 tmstamped paper's were weekly published,
in the metropolis. It was to put an 'end.to„this state of
things which was likely, if not checked, to- continue and
increase ; that the present Bill had been introduced, and
which he trusted would obtain the sanction of their
Lordships.
The House then went into Committee on the Bill,
and the clauses up to 10 were agreed to without observa-
tion.

On clause 11 being read,
Lord LYNDHURST wluld feel it his duty to oppose
tl:e clause now under consideration, as well as the following
clause and Sche.lule B annexed to the Bill, all relating to the
same subject, namely, the registration ()fall the proprietors of
a newspaper at the Stamp-office. He should move that
these clauses and the schedule be expunged from the Bill.
The Noble Lord opposite would recollect that he had
on a former occasion stated his insuperable 'objection to '
these clausci, and he would now show their Lordships
that these clauses were altogether mine.Tsiary for the.
protection of the public. These clauses had not, he un-
derstood, been introduced by any
,member of his .Majesty's_,
Government, but by an individual or party professing ex-
treme liberal opinions, but. who knew nothinc, of the prin-
ciples .of liberty.—(A laugh.) The Noble Lord quoted
the authority of Lord William Russell anti Mr. Sheridan
against the plan of registering all the proprietors of a
newspaper. If the Clauses to which he referred were intro-
duced, they would subject persons having no concern with
the management of the paper to all manner of personal at-
tack and annoyance. It would compel them to
withdraw their property from such spectilation, and would,
as he had been assured by Mr. Baldwin, one of the pro-
prietors of the Standard, deteriorate his property 50 per
cent., and all property of the same description. He denied
that the omission of these clauses would be any infringement
upon the privileges of the House of Commons. If it was,
they could send up another Bill, omitting these clauses,
and their Lordships would at once pass it, or what would
be better, let them send up a Bill to take off the duty alto-
gether, and not keep up so extensive an establishment for the
purpose of levying a paltry tax of a penny upon each:News-
paper.
The LORD CHANCELLOR rose and was
(LEFT SPEAKINCL.)

We regret to learn that Mr. Justice Williatns has
been twice taken seriously ill during his progress on the Wes-
tern Circuit.

According to a statement made by the adminis-
tration of the hospitals and other jsylums for the poor in
Paris, there are employed in these establishments, which
amount in number to 28, in the medical department 75 phy-
sicians, 36 surgeons, 15 apothecaries, and 138 pupils or
dressers ; in the general service of the wards 349 sisters of
charity and novices, 206 nurses and under-nurses, and 1,236
servants ; in the ecclesiastical department, 30 chaplains, 1
sacristan, and 1 chorister ; in the building department, 14
architects and their subordinates ; for the contracts, 7 in-
spectors and receivers; for the service of the establishments
142 agents, stewards, clerks of offices, messengers, school-
masters and mistresses; and for the central administration 105
persons, of whom four are directors. The total of the persons
employed is 2,422. The average of their stipends and salaries
is only 418 f. each per annum. In 1834 the number of per-
sons in the asylums was 12,729. The number of sick in the
hospitals was 66,521, of indigent persons relieved at their own
dwellings 75,250, at the Foundling Asylums 16,417, and at
the Orphan Asylum 1,037. The mortality among the chil-
dren was lin 4. Of the 66,521 sick admitted into the hos-
pitals, 56,862 were discharged cured, or by their own desire,
and 4,534 remained under treatment at the end of the year.
Only 5,305 died, that is, rather less than lin 12. The ave-
rage term of the stay of the patients in the hospitals was 25
days. During the 10 preceding years it had been 40 days.
The average cost a-head for each day in all the hospitals was
about If. 6:3c. The receipts for the year amounted to
11,320,490 E, and the expenses to 10,509,033 f. 24c.
On the 23d ult. a thunderbolt fell on a house at
Vellenon in the department of the haute Saone, and set it on
fire. The flames spread with such rapidity that the inhabit-
ants had not even time enough to save their cattle. One wo-
man unfortunately perished amidst the ruins of the falling
house, 18 of which fell a prey to the flames.
JUDICIAL Pox.—The clerk of the Court, in calling
over the names of the jurymen at the assizes, called one of
the name of George Martin, when a gentleman immediately
stepped into the box. The clerk asked him if his name was
George Martin. He said his name was Martin George, and
that Mr. Hobson had summoned him. " Oh, then," remarked
Chief Justice Tindal, "as it's Hobson's choice, I suppose we
must have you."—Suffolk Herald.
VALUE OF TIME.—The National gives the fol-
lowing as an extract from a foreign paper :—" Lord
Brougham, the most indefatigable man in *England, often
does not quit his study before midnight, and lie is always up
at four. Dr. Cotton Marther, who knew the value of time in
everything, was never willing to lose a moment of it. To
effect this purpose, he had written upon the door of his study,
in large letters, " Be brief." Ursines, a professor in the
University of Heidelberg:, wishing to prevent the idlers and
babblers from interrupting him in his hours of study, had
written at the entrance into his library, Friend, whoever you
may be, who enter here, be quick with your business, or go
away.' The learned Scaliger placed the following phrase
upon the door of his cabinet My time is my estate.' The
favourite maxim of Sbakspeare was, ' Consider time too pre-
cious to be spent in gossipping." Friends are the real rob-
bers of time,' said Lord Byron. An old attorney of Chatelet
was accustomed to get rid of such of his clients as were impor-
tunate, or he had little to hope fiarn, by these words My
good friends, time lust goes for nothing.' Sire, one word,'
said a soldier one day to Frederick the Great, when presenting
to him a request of a brevet of lieutenant. If you say two,'
answered the Prince, I will have you hanged.' Sign,' re-
plied the soldier. The Monarch, surprised at his presence of
mind, immediately granted his request."

•
A SKELEToN.—Considerahle excitement prevailed
in Islington on Friday, by the following remarkable circum-
stance. A box was found at the door of the George the Fourth
public-house, Liverpool-road, to be taken up by the Bedford
waggon, which calls there, and several persons having seated
themselves upon it, the top broke in and exposed to their view
the complete skeleton of a man. Their surprise and conster-
nation were, as may be imagined, of no ordinary kind, and a
report, with the quickness of lightning, spread for miles
around that the remains of a murdered individual had been
found. Overseers, beadles of the parish, policemen; and
others, were soon stirring to unravel the mystery, and it was
discovered, in the course of the morning, by Inspector Mil-
ler, and May, No. 90, of the N division, that the skeleton
formerly belonged to Mr. Semple, surgeon, of the Upper-
road, Islington, and that he had made a present of it to Mr.
Rose, a neighbour of his, whose wife objecting to have it any
longer in the house, her husband had packed it up in the box,
intending that it should be forwarded to a relative, Mr. \Vot-
ton, a snrgeonritt Harrold, B4fordshire. ' The skeleton was
removed to the vaults of the parish church, where it will re-
main until further 'inquiry has .been made.
The Hull Packet has found a mare's nest, having,
after much research, made the notable and very important dis-
covery that Colonel Thompson's name stands in the list of
General Evans's British Legion as thus :—" Lieutenant-
Colonels : •T. Perronet Thompson, unattached !" The Packet
asks " whether the Hon. and GAllant MeMber holds a sine-
cure employment in the service of the Queen of Spain—
whether General' Evans counts him among his Lieutenant-
Colonels ?" and then with whimsical gravity'says, " we shall
wait for a reply ;—the question may startle some of our
readers." Startle nay, it will congeal their life-blood, and
absolutely horrify them. 0 1 Colonel Thompson, cruel
Colonel Thompson—" unattached !" Hoc flayitissimum est.
SPANISH COURTESY.—The Spaniards are in ge-
neral the most amiable people in the world, and no one ever
passes another on the road without wishing him good day, and
without lifting his hat to those of better appearance ; ati:d they
are nowhere more so than in the province we had just left, as,
since our entry into Spain, every Spanish soldier and officer
gave us a friendly welcome. Even the women did not omit
the.usage ; and in the close of the. day, as we passed through
the villages, it was pleasant to hear the sweet adios &mores !
vayan ustedes con Dios! But He found a harsher tone in
Navarre, and every man passed his way with that sulky inde-
pendence which a true John Bull is taught from his youth to
attain. —llonan't Don Carlos.

THE GRAND BALL AT HERTFORD LODGE.—
The Marquis of Hertford gave his fourth grand entertainment
during the present season, orFriday night, at his villa in the
Regent's Park : it was on tb'e- ame splendid arrangement as
the preceding parties; but the company, owing to the depar-
tures from town, were less numerous. The grounds and fa-
cade of the buildings nest the lawn, the St. Dunstan's tower,
terrace, pavilion, &c., were also illuminated with the same
taste and splendour, as we have recently had occasion to de-
scribe, and the effect was delightful ; the weather proved ex-
tremely auspicious. The company began to arrive at ten
o'clock; dancing commenced shortly after eleven o'clock, in
the grand Russian ball-room, to the music of Weippert's
band, who performed the most favourite quadrilles and waltzes,
&c. At half-past one o'clock, a sumptuous supper was served
up, consisting of the choicest viands and wines. Dancing
was only suspended for a short interval, and was then sustained
with great spirit until a late hour on Saturday morning. The
Marquis of Douglas and Miss Strachan were amongst the most
graceful and animated in the dance. The whole arrangements
were made with much taste and judgment, under the direction
of Mr. Mackay, of his Lordship's establishment.
IVlcim EnE.—The Town Council of a place in the
South of France have discovered, it seems, an armed chair in
which Moliere used to sit, talk, and be shaved ; and which
they therefore determined to send to Paris as a precious relic.