The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH)
DUBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING.--The Peel manifesto for
the regeneration of Ireland ,ortns the all-engrossing
topic of conversation here; nothing else is spoktn or
thought of. Even thus early it may be safely predicted
that the gigantic project will be favourably received
by a majority of the Irish people.
Four baronies in the county of Cork are suddenly left
without a high constable to collect the rates. The offices
have bet n thrown up in utter despair, and no one can be
found willing to undertake a duty which is felt to be
worse than useless.
The county of Cork Grand Jury have petitioned Par-
liament in favour of a ss. dusy on foreign corn, the re-
venue to be applied 10 the support of the poor in Ireland
whenever the rate shall exceed 3s. in the pound.
The cholera has nearly disappeared in Limerick, and
confidence is being quickly restored.
The petition in favour of the non-prosecution of Mr.
Gavan 1 taffy was exposed for signature to-day at all the
Roman Catholic chapels in this city. Thousands of
names were affixed to the memorial.

AMERICA.—Bir ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL—Accounts
from New York of the 9th ult., via Glasgow, have been
received. Their contents are unimportant. Exchange
on England was quoted at 107 f to 108.
CORE, MARCH 31. The weather for the last
twenty four hours has been seve►e, wind variable, blow-
ing very strong last night from the southward, and
this morning from the east, with heavy rain occa
sionally.

DEPARTURE OP THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS.--
Her Maj, sty the Queen of the Belgians reached the
Bricklayers' Arms Station, from Claremont, shortly
before 11 o'clock on Saturday morning, accompanied by
the Duke de Nemours, and attended by the Counte,s
d'Hulst and Major de Moerkerke. Hi, Excellency the
Belgian Minister, M. Van de Weye., and Madame Van
de Weyer, M. Drouet (secretary to the L gation), and
Sir Edward Cust, were in attendance on her Majesty at
the railway. Mr. Renshaw, deputy-chairman, and AIL
Smale, director of the South-Eastern Railway, received
the Queen at the station, and attended her Majesty,
with the royal suite, to Dover. On the arrival of the
special train at Dover, salutes were fired from the
heights, and a guard of honour conducted the Queen to
her Britannic Majesty's steamer the Vivid, in which the
royal party embal ked for Ostend.
THE REVENUE.—We are hopper to be able to state
that the receipts of the Customs, the most important
criterion of trade, will exhibit an increase of not less
than a million on the year, as compared with the ac-
counts published in April, 1848. An increase will also
appear in the Excise, which will be more than counter-
balanced by the telling off in the Stamps, which, we
regret to say, has not yet been checked, and which is
not to be wholly accounted for by the transference of
the carriage duties to the Excise. There is no doubt
that the stamp duties levied upon the transactions of
commerce, and on the transfer of property, have very
seriously declined. The department of taxes. will ex-
hibit no great difference from the estituates of last year.
The property-tax also will be much the same, and the
Post-office will show no m.iteritl alteration. In the
a
miscellaneous there will be truing
increase. Upon the
whole the areount of revenue for the 3 elm will mere
than amply realise the estimate of the Government,
and will show the satisfactory balance of an excess of
income above the expenditure of the year.—Observer.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons had his last Parliane ntary dinner this session
on Saturday, at his official residence in Erten-square.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The Graham's Town
Journal states that the Queen has been graciously pleased
to giant to Lady Smith, in consideration of Sir Harry
Smith's gallant suppression of the insurrection at Boem
pints, 101 pummel) from the Civil List of 5004 Si year.

CHANCERY..-(THIS DAY.)
'The L.,rd ChaLe, nor did nut sq. to-day

VICE-CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.)
Neither Vice-Chancellor Knight ?Ku-4e nor Vice-
Chancellor Wigratn ,at to-dar.

MARLBRO'-slitEi-..T-( THIS DAY).
Ann Savage, a well dr, ssed young woman, in the ser-
vice of Mr. J.-.seph Collard. superintendent of the. Great
Western Balk ay police, 32, Castle street, Cavendish-
,quare, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with
having stolen a gold watch, value 161, the pro[erty of
her master. She was also charged with stealing a silver
watch, the proiA,rty of Frederick Thomas Collard,
Frederick Thomas Collard stared that he resided with
his father at 32, Carle street, Cavendi,h-square. The
prisothr wcs servant thee. On Saturday bight he was
winclieg up his watch, when he accid, ntally broke the
glass. lie phiced she watch on the molt, 1 shelf in the
kitchen, ant proceeded up stairs to b-d. When he en-
tered the kitchen on Soon-lay morning he looked for his
watch, but cou'd hot, find-it. Ile then asked the pri-
soner it' she had se. n it. She said ,he had not, nor cid
she knew an). thieg stout it. He then made inquiries
of his sisters, who searched the how(' over, but
the watch could not be found. Daring the search the
prisoner left the house, and on witness going into the
parlour he missed his tether's watch from the watch-
stand on the chimney-piece, where it had been left but
a few minut. s previous. Neither of the watches had
been seen since-.

Mary Collard, aunt to the last witness, said, on Sun-
day morning, about ten o'clock, she left her brother's
house for the purpo-e of ordering iu some brandy from
the public-hou-e opposite. O❑ crossing over the street
she met the prisoner coming up the street ill an opposite
direction. Witness asked her where she had been,
when she replied that she had merely ran out to bring
witness her slippers, which ahe had left behind. Witness
then returned to the house, where she was told of the
robbery. Witness had seen the gold watch previous to
her leaving the house to order the brandy. The
prisoner shortly after came in ar d was given in charge.
Wilkinson, 74 C, proved that the prisoner had been
in custody for a simrlar offence on the 23d of January
last, but was discharged for want of sufficient evidence.
The prisoner denied the 'charge; and was remanded
until Thursday next.

TO THE SIaCiiETAIII OF THE
METROFOLI FAN REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Wednesday the 28th the Insolvent
Members Bill as altered was considered. The ten-
dency and aim of the Bill becomes plainer every time.
As was stated by a Member of the legal profession
in the debate, the Bill makes no proposal for enabling
the law to take its ordinary course upon a Member
of the House of Commons by removal of his present
privilege but applies itself entirely to what is the
real object of the Bill, the giving a power beyond the
law, by means of the dangerous application of expul-
sion from the House.
It is all. very well for sanctimonious and purse-
proud men to set up imaginary cases in which it
may be clear the House would be better without the
presence of the insolvent debtor. But what moderate
men, and above all things men jealous of the right of
constituencies to determine who shall or shall not re-
present them, should look to, is the danger of what
may be done in cases which are not so clear. For
example, in the actual question, there is no substan-
tial doubt, or more properly it is well and accu-
rately known, that one immediate effect from the
proposed Bill, is to be the freeing of a wealthy Liberal
or his connexion, from the unpleasant rivalry at a
county election, of a candidate supposed likely to be
acted on by the Bill.
For reasons which were not very plain, the mover
was advised to withdraw his Bill ; and then was
allowed on the spot to bring inanother with the same
title, saving the addition, probably fortuitous, of the
word " certain" before " Persons having privilege of
Parliament."
I may be allowed here to correct an error implied
in a former statement. It is not the fact, that after a
legal decision on a debt, the ordinary process of law is
open against a Member of Pediment. He is still
privileged, during the sitting of Parliament. And this
it is which straightforward men would propose to
alter. But something else is the object in view.
On Thursday motion was made for a Select Com-
mittee to inquire into the circumstances connected
with the failure of a Savings' Bank in Dublin, to
which it was further moved to add three other places
in Ireland and Scotland. The facts are strange and
frightful ; and likely to continue so. Every man in
his conscience and conviction knows, that the indus-
trious and poor were urged by those who profess to
care for them, to lodge their savings in Savings'
Banks. Every man knows that the Government of the
day took credit for engaging in the patriotic work, and
that there would have been as much use in suggesting
suspicions against Mrs. Hannah More's " exemplary
clergyman," as in intimating that the poor might not
be sale in entrusting their money as proposed. And
now it turns out, that anybody may run away with
the money that likes, and there is no remedy. The
Government is magnanimous in declaring that there
is no remedy, that it was never intended there
should be any remedy, and that special care was
taken there should be no remedy ; out of all which
it works up the conclusion, that there is at
all events no remedy against them. They
specially plead, that the trustees of Savings' Banks
were left tree to make themselves responsible for de-
falcations among their agents, or to do it; after
which it is unnecessary to point to the fact that they
let the thing alone. And now, agents have run
away witn the money, to the amount it appears of
fifty thousand pounds in Dublin only, and there is no
responsibility. The poor are to be robbed of their
savings by anybody that pleases, because the Govern-
ment, or some Government, chose to send a ship to
sea with a hole in the bottom, and invite the poor to
embark their savings in this hull.
The question that arises on this is, whether the case
is not one where, without quarrelling about what
particular Government the blame of the past should
light on, the first operation of the community through
such Government as it may have, should be to replace
what deficiency may remain after all due efforts to
recover. That there was a moral contract with the
working classes, is as clear as that there is
a moral contract that a ship shall not have
a hole in the bottom. In a somewhat parallel
case relating to Exchequer-bills, the Govern-
ment, to prevent greater evil, refunded. And
they must refund now, or the question must be tried.
And the decision will depend very much on the spirit
the working classes shall show. If they sit down
sleepily under the damage because it has not come
to their own doors, it may come to their own doors
next. Those who may have particular reasons for
thinking themselves safe, must take their own risk.
But the geeeral principle on which a friend of the
working classes ought to act, is to give them
notice that the security for anything lodged
in the Savings' Backs is worse than nothing,
and that their true policy is to "Go for gold,"
while there is anything to get. If they will do
this, they will quicken the movements of the Go-
vernment, and instead of making' a whip to defeat
inquiry as it was within three of doing on Thursday
night, it will set about two things—first, the providing
for replacing the money as was done in the case of the
Exchequer bills, and secondly, the placing the money
in the Savings' Banks avowedly under the security
of Government. If it says there will be trouble
and expense in this, let it take payment for it, as it
does for other things. Who asked-the Government to
leave things at sixes and sevens, on the score that
setting them to rights must be paid for ? Is there a
soul among the contributors to the Savings' Banks 30
stupid es to say, let every body be free to run away with
my money, only let me not be charged with the
expense of altering it ?
A better thing for the working classes to employ
their leisure hours on, than most they have engaged
in lately, would be to look after the salvation of their
money in the Savings' Banks. If they do not do it
themselves, nobody intends to do it for them. The
present is the time for a constitutional 'demonstration,
if they have it in them. At all events do not let them
say their watchmen were all dumb dogs that cannot
bark. I should have been glad to have given mouth
myself to as much as is here ; but the Irishmen after
Bp( ndieg five hours in weary speeches (except their
lawyers), were anxious not to'clelay going tog division.
The appointment of a Committee was :finally carried
by 51 to 48. But a Committee will be nothing, un-
less the thing is followed up.
On Friday the House was occupied all the night by
debate on the Rate in Aid (Ireland). Bill, which was
finally adjourned till Monday.
am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, April 2, 1849.

COMMISSIONERSUIP OF TUE lONIAN
Ward, the Secretary of the Admiralty, will not enter
upon his new appointment until after the navy estimates
have been passed. The present Lord High Commis-
sioner of the lonian ',lands, Lord Seaton, receives a
salary of 5,000/. per aneum, besides 1,200/. a year as
Lieut. Colonel of the 15th Dragoons. We hear that
Mr. Ward has accepted the office with the reduction
from its present eaaolutneiLts of 1,0001. The tuture
Lord High Commis,ioner of the lonian Islands, there-
fore, will receive no more than 4,0001. a year.

DIED.
On Friday, the 30th ult., at Keydell, near Horndean,
Hampshire, the residence of her son, Charles Kean, Mary
Kean, relict of the late Edmund Kean.
On the 2tia inst., at Middleham, Yorkshire, aged 72, L.
Topharn, Esq., clerk of the peace for the North Hiding of
that county.
On the 29th nit, at Brighton Edgar Cripps, youngest son
of the late W. Cripps, Esq., M.P., for Cirencester.
On the 28th ult., at Newark-upon-Trent, Elizabeth, relict
of E. :3. Godfrey, Esq., a,ed
On the 29th ult., F. N. Muller, Esq., of Hamburgh.
On the 28th ult., at Doctors'-commons, Landon, S. B.
Burnaby, ETq., D.C.L., agel 77.
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