The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-09 00:00:00

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NEWMARKET RACES..

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Jockey Club Plate. B.C.

Glutton ...
Ulysses
Mint° . .

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Three yrs old Sweepstake.

Cayenne ... ...
10ne...

The Suffolk Stakes.

Essedarius ... ...
Beauclerc ... ...
Collingwood ... ...

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
TURNPIKE TRUSTS.

Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved that Mr. Cornewal 1
Lewis be added to the Committee to which all turnpil;
Bills in England and Wales have been referred, and tha
the Committee have power to consider the unoppose.
Bills w hick have been refi.rred to them.—Agreed to.
PETII lONS.
Sir IL HALFORD presented petitions from places i a
the county of Leicester praying for the establishment c .1
county financial boards.

Mr: WILSON PATTEN presented petitions froi
places in Lancashire to the same effect.

Lord DUDLEY STUART presented petitions to a ►e
same effect.

Mr. M ACKINNON presented a petition from tl to
Health of Towns Committee against intramural burial:- 6
Sir GEORGE GREY presented two petitions, or to
against the Marriage Bill and the other in favour of tl tp
Scotch Marriage Bill.

Mr. W. BROWN presented petitions from places in
Lancashire in favour of the County Rates Bill,
Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a large number of pc
tions, all in favour of the Bill for legalising marriag 91
with a deceased wife's sister.

LAND IMPOVEMENT (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was brought in and read a first time.
DROPPED NOTICES OF MOTION.

The dropped notices of motion and orders of the d 0
were reappointed._

MARRIAGE BILL.
Mr. STUART WORTLEY fixed to-morrow for the
adjourned debato on the Bill for lrgalising =aria) ;es
with a deceased's wife sister, and stated his intention 'to
bring fnrwa,rd the discussion at any hour.
Sir R. 11. INGLIS did not think it would be fair 0
take the discussion at any hour, and appealed to ?
Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for the Home D
partment to interpose his authority to prevent so 11 a'
portant a question coining on at a late hour.
Sir G. GREY could assure the Hon. Baronet that it
would not he gone into at a late hour.
Sir R. H. INGLIS—Not after 10 o'clock.
Sir G. GREY could not give such a promise.
The debate on the Bill was then adjourned till t
morrow.

CROWN PROSECUTIONS IN IRELAND.
Mr. KEOGH asked the indulgence of the House while,
in a few words, he entered into an explanation of a p
sonal character. Last week he brought the subject of
Crown prosecutions in Ireland under the considerate DO
of the House, and it had since appeared that some of
his remarks bad given offence to many gentlemen
in Ireland, particularly Mr. George Bennett, the Cro ova
prosecutor of the county of Meath, 'and he wished wry/
to disclaim all intention iof throwing blame or censu
upon any one. All that he did was to attack a systeto.
and he carefully abstained from saying anything of t bo
individuals engaged in it.--(Hear, hear.)
CHICORY.

Mr. MOFFATT wished to ask the Right Honour:ego
Baronet the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether 00"
vernment intended to impose any duty on chicory or t°
revise the Excise law?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, if
on inquiry it were found that the use of chicory inter-.
fered with the consumption of duty-paid coffee, it wow a
be advisable to impose a small duty on chicory used fc $
adulterating coffee. It was not the intention of Goveri t'
ment, however, to re-appoint the Excise survey.
Mr. HENLEY asked if Government also intend(
to impose a duty on burnt bread, which was some go 0
used for adulterating coffee.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER milc a
certainly not.

ADVERTISING VANS.
Lord DUDLEY STUART wished to ask the gig! it
Honourable Baronet the Secretary for the 11°131e P‘ .b partment a question of some interest to
meLropolis. It was thin--in the event of its being n'
cessary to introduce any Bill for amending the Metro? )-
litan Police Act, would any clause be introduced in 10
it to put a stop to the practice of perambulating OA
streets of London with huge advertising vans, which is sti
recently become a most intolerable nuisance?
Sir G. GREY replied that, in the event of the Metro-
politan Police Act being altered, the nuisance referred .to
by the Noble Lord would be a very proper subject for
the consideration of the Legislature, with a view to ills
abatement.—(Hear, hear.)
DETENTION OF STEAM-VESSELS IN BOMBAI.
Mr. URQUHART said he had given notice of hit
intention to ask the First Lord of the Treasury a quer
tion respecting the detention of the Bombay steam"
vessels, but not seeing the Noble Lord in his place, he
wished to know if any other member of the Government
was prepared to answer it?
Sir G. GREY said his Noble Friend at the head of
the Government would be prepared to give an explaret"
tion of the circumstance to-morrow.
EMPLOYMENT OF LABOUR (IRELAND) BILL-
Mr. P. SCROPE moved the second reading of thi°
Bill, and in doing so he took occasion to point out to
the House the evils which had resulted in Ireland from
not providing employment for the able-bodied poor at
a small stipend, instead of providing them with out'
door relief. It could not be said that the able-bodied
poor of Ireland were averse to work, for experiments
had been tried in some parts of Ireland, and it was found
that the poor worked very hard when employment
was given to them, and that they preferred it to
out-door relief.—(Hear, hear.) Without having re'
course to the reclamation of the large tracts of waste
lands in Ireland, there were ample means and fields at
the disposal of the guardians for providing work for
their able-bodied poor, if the law only permitted them
to do so.—(Hear, hear.) The present system imposed
the responsibility of supporting the resident poor
upon the landlord.—(Hear.) It, therefore held out a
premium to the landlord to get rid of his
poor by clearance, and thus absolve himself from era-
ployiug them in the improvement of his estate.—(Eleare
hear.) Something must be done, then, to remedy that
evil. How it could be done he could not at that moment
say, but certainly the system of settlement proposed by
Government would never accomplish the object.—(Hear;,
hear.) His own measure, however, would, to some eie•
tent mitigate the evil ; it made no alteration in the pre'
sent area, but it simply exempted those who fount'
employment for a certain portion of the poor from being
liable to contribute to the rate for supporting the able-
bodied poor.—(Hear, hear.) It was admitted by the
most practical men in Ireland, that if this principle
were carried out it would set most of the able-bodied
poor to work at once, instead of keeping them idle
in workhouses. The measeres:of:improvereent at pre-
sent propounded for the relief of the landed in-
terest of Ireland would be of no avail, for while
landlords had to pay such heavy poor-rates as were im-
posed upon them at present they could not pay interest
on borrowed money, and he hoped, therefore, this Bill
would meet with the serious attention of the House
before it were rejected. (Hear.)
The SPEAKER then put the question, and declared
the Ayes had it, when
Sir W. SOMERVILLE rose, and said, amidst some
laughter, he should oppose the Bill. He fully appre-
ciated the motives of the Honourable Gentleman
for introducing this Bill, and he thought every
Irish Member owed him a deep debt of gratitude
for the constant endeavours ho had made to remove some
of the miseries of the Irish people.—(Hear, hear.) He
could assure his Hon. Friend that the Bill would meet
with no contemptible reception from him, but at this
period of the session it was not possible to go fully into
the consideration of the subject, even though the Bill
were referred to a Select Committee, as his Hon. Friend
had suggested.—(Hear, hear.)