The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-19 00:00:00

DURHAM RAILWAY.

Mr. 111 ME gave notice that he would move that the
Chairman t?‘4 report progress on this Bill.
Mr. WAR3URTON Loped the Chairman would not
have leave to delay the Report till after the recess. Ile
hoped the House viould insist upon the Report being
brought up to-morrow, etherwise the opponents of the Bill
would have a very great advantage.
Mr. HUME gave notica that to-morrow he would move
that the Committee he revived.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented three petitions from
places in Antrim and Mayo, in favour of the Bill regulating
the law of landlord and tenant. He postponed the 2d reading
of the Bill to-night cn account of the absenfe of Irish
?Members until after the recess. lie wished a full diseuE-
s;on of the matter.
IRISH MUNICIPAL BILL.
In answer to a question fron: Mr. Smith O'Brien,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that .!! was his inten-
ticn when the hour for public Lusioesg ::rrivet!, to
move that the Lords' amendments to the Irish I%inth.:eij'al
Bill be printed ; he had not read all those amendments, but
it would be affection in him to pretend ignorance of their
import. He Incited that those amendments be printed, in
order that thellouse might enter upon their consideration with
u calmness and dignity befitting this branch of the legis!a-
tuft' ; he had no hesitation in saying when the time for their
discussion arrived, he would be prepared to argue that
the house ought not to agree to any amendments
the lokiect of which was to annihilate the muni-
institotions of. Ireland unless they were propoaed to re-
peal the Catholic Relief Bill, and re-enact the penal code.
The Noble Lord concluded by moving that the amend-
int-mts be printed.—(Loud and continued cheering.)
N.7".r, HUME seconded the motion.
Mr. SINCLAIR rose and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1836.

The Irish Municipal Corporation Bill was read a
third time, and passed the House of Lords last night,
in the exact state in which it came from the hands of
its foster-father, Lord LYNDHURST. We are right
glad of this. We wiali that/the Hereditary Obstruc-
tives should appear to the people of the United King-
dom in their true colours—as the implacable enemies
of every thing in the shape of Reform iii gpneral, and
immoveably bent on the degradation and destruciicn of
Ireland in particular. This, we repeat, is the light iu
which it is for the interest of the country that the Lord
should be regarded, and in this view we cannot but re-
joice that the Amendment moved by the Duke of
_RICHMOND was lost ; for had it been successful, the
effect would have been to diminish in some degree the
public akin which they have incurred, and which
must be alloyed to accumulate, until the people can no
longer refrain from dealing with them in the only way
that such Incurables deserve to be dealt with. It is a
common saying, " Give a dog rope enough and he
will hang himself," and so say we of the Lords just
give them their own way for a little space, and they
will seal their own fate. Led by the nose as they are
by an unprincipled adventurer, whose political infamy
never had, and, we trust, never will, have a parallel,
what can they he but objects of hatred or contempt to
a high-minded nation ? Why, even the Spanish Pro-
ceres, ignorant and bigoted as they are, are respectable
compared with them. Ignorance and bigotry we pity ;
but dishonesty and depravity we despise and detest.
The Duke of RICHMOND wished to except Dublin,
Cork, Limerick, and one or two more of the principal
cities of Ireland, from the sweeping destruction with
which the Ex-Chancellor, and his lordly myrmidons,
have visited the Irish Corporations. The Noble Duke,
in the simplicity of his heart, imagined that he might
stir up some penitent emotion in their Lordships'
bosoms. He fancied that they might be brought to
reflect that the citizens of one of the capitals of the
United (!) Kingdom, might feel it anything hut a
compliment, if so sage an Assembly should declare
in the face of the world that they were not yet arrived
at that degree of eiviEzation which would warrant their
being entrusted with the management of their own
affairs.- But no, Lord LYNDHURST is not made of
relenting stuff. The proposed amendment would re-
*ire the alteration of a considerable number of
clauses, and the introduction of some new ones,
and that would be at..enclod with trouble, and
cause a delay not to be thought of ! Reader,
,A-e are not joking ; this was literally the Learned
Lord's argument, and his only argument. Will
the people of Ireland forget this treatment ? If
they do, they deserve all the contumely, all the' degra-
dation, all the misery, which the house of Lords haw
inflicted, and all that it may in future inflict upon them.

Thank GOD, we have done with ST. AGNEW for
the Session ! The House of Commons decided last
night against the second reading of his Sunday-starva-
tion Bill by a majority of 32 ; so that the poor may
continue to enjoy their innocent and healthful game of
cricket on the village green, or their glass of Oc-
tober on the rustic bench outside the ale-house,
for at least another year. For the same space
of time, too, the proprietors of tea-gardens, of
pleasure-boats, and job-horses, together with the
barbers, bakers, and vendors of stall-fruit, may
take their natural rest, without fear of having it
disturbed by horrid visions of stiff-necked Agnews,
lean and long as vinegar-cruets, grinning like hyamas,
and redolent of Prussic acid—visions which might
scare a lion into fits, and erect the bristles on the back
of a Westphalian boar. It is not, however, the fault
of this apostolic Baronet that his Bill was thrown out.
He stuck by it to the last, careless of the rush of
fjembers to the door that followed each sentence of his
diseoh:_se. We take for granted he will now dis-
miss all thougti of moving an Address to his MA-
.-.
JESTY, respecting the eL'sing of the Parks on Sun-
days. Hto coerce aving failed poor, it is totally
impossible he can succeed in e(.o:,rcing • - the rich,
were he even gifted with the ,‘ inspired" attributes
a ROGER GREISLEY—who, it may be remembered,
received one night a direct command from Heaven to
break faith with his constituents, and support the
malt-tax. We would, therefore, advise our Scottish
Saint henceforth to console himself with the reflection
that " virtue is its own reward ;" or, if he must. uplift