The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-10 00:00:00

BANKING CO-PARTNERSHIP BILL.

On the bringing up the Report on this Bill,
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated, that in conse-
quence of objections made to this Bill he had made some
verbal amendments, which he trusted would prove satisfactory.
It had been objected that a " nnmber of persons" was an in-
definite description; he had, therefore, limited the operation
of,the Bill to co-partneries consisting of above six persons ;
he had also provided against forfeiture in the case of Clergy-
men becoming directors, and also for future co-partneries, by
the insertion of the words " partneries formed or to be formed."
These, as well as we could hear, formed the substance of the
Learned Gentleman's amendments.
RATING OF SMALL TENEMENTS.
On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL for the ap-
pointment of a Select Committee on the Rating of Sinai!
Tenements, the following Members were nominated :—Mr, M.
Philips, Mr. Brotherton, Lord Viscount Sandon, Mr. Gordon,
Mr. Bethel, Mr. Briscoe, Mr. Scholefield, Mr. Pryme, Mr.
Slaney, Sir John Mordaunt, Mr. Burroughes, Lord Viscount
Barrington, Mr. Lascelles, Sir E. Knatchbull, and Sir Harry
Verney.
CUSTODY OF INSANE PERSONS BILL.

Mr. BA RNE BY moved the third readingr, of this Bill.
Mr. WARBURTON said that as the Bill still contained
the clauses to which every one had objected during a former
nage he had no alternative but to move the third reading of
the Bill on that day six months.
Mr. WA KL EY supported the amendment.
Sir E. KNATCHBULL was of opinion that the Bill had
better be postponed.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL concurred in the opinion
that the Bill had better be postponed.
After a few words from Mr. BRISCOE, the third reading
was postponed until Tuesday next.
The Sheriffs' Courts ( Scotland) Bill and Court of Session
(Scotland) Bill were recommitted, reported with amendments,
and further consideration, ordered for Monday fortnight.
Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice of a Bill to facilitate the
proof of bribery at elections of Members of Parliament, by
compelling witnesses to make a full disclosure of the facts,
and to indemnify such witnesses.
Colonel SIBTHORP hoped the Bill would apply to her
Majesty's Government.
Lord MORPETH obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
enable Grand Juries of the County of the City of Waterford
to make presentments at the Spring Assizes for the year 1838
for the houses of industry of said counties.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL gave notice that on
Tuesday next he should bring in a Bill to amend the law of
registration of voters in England and Wales, and which would
contain a clause abolishing the shilling.
The other Orders of the Day were *then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve.
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_HE ATE MELANCHOLY FIRE IN GRAVEL-
LANE. —Last evening a Jury was impannellcd, in the Board-
room of Guy's Hospital, on view of the body of Eleanor
Sweeney, one of the unfortunate sufferers by the late dreadful
catastrophe in Gravel-lane, Southwark. The Jury having
viewed the body, which was much burnt, several police con-
stables were examined concerning the discovery of the fire,
and the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."

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THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE WRITER
who has started up in the person of Mr. Miller, appears to
have made a successful debut. " After Ivanhoe," observes
the Literary Gaztte, " it became a dangerous task to weave
the eternal human passions, and ever-changing manners, on
personages and periods remote, for our sympathies are not so
readily awakened for beings unlike, as for beings like our-
selv,s. Mr. Miller has boldly essayed this achievement, and
produced an extraordinary work. He has put life and blood
into the time of King John ; and, by resting his story mainly
on the barbarous ancient Forest Laws of the Normans, in
which Robin Hood and his merry men of Sherwood arc deeply
implicated, has presented us with much remarkable antiqua-
rian matter, whilst his woodmen, knights, barons, priests, and
high. born damsels, carry on the stirring plot through court
i,
and camp, judgment-seat, and conflict, intrigue and vvassai
just as it is usually presumed our ancestors in these rude days
were wont to acquit themselves of their social, religious, rnl-
litary, and amorous devoirs.

THE RIVER.—OPENING OF THE NAVIGATION.
Thursday the river Thames below bridge was a scene of uni-
versal bustle and confusion all day. The thaw of the pre-
cedingto day, and the rain on Wednesday night, had so far con-
sumed the fields of ice that a number of ships were enabled
come up the Pool, and enter the London and St. Katherine's
dock, and others were enabled to go out and proceed on theirn
respective voyages ; whole fleets of smacks, billy boys, and
other trading vessels, got under way ; and the steamers arid
steam-tugs were in motion. About three-quarter flood several
i
ships, which have been detained for twenty and thirty days n
the eastern London dock, were hauled out at the Lower Shad-
well entrance, and proceeded down the river, several of them in
tow of the steam-tugs. Between eleven and twelve o'clock the
large American packet-ships the Ontario and Toronto, bound
to New York, which have been detained for three weeks in the
St. Katharine's dock, were hauled out and immediately taken
in tow ; the former by the Albion, and the other by the Fame.
The ice at Blackwell and Greenwich, which on the former day
extended from side to side and filled the bights, had become
so much loosened by the thaw and the rain, that it was brought
up the Pool in vast quantities by the flood ; and it was feared
that the Al ion and the Fame, although furnished with engines
of great power, would not be able to proceed far with such
large ships against the tide and the ice. The two steamers,
however, ploughed their course through it, smashing the ice as
they went along until they reached Blackwall, where the
stream was more clear of ice ; by that time it was high water,
and they were enabled to proceed faster, and reached Graves-
end in safety. The paddles of both steamers are much cut up
by the ice. Towards the period of high water the river pre-
sented a very animated appearance.