The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-03 00:00:00

THE TOOTING AFFAIR.

Colonel SIBTHORP said, as there had been lately two
important new appointments in connexion with the Poor-
law Board, he wished the Noble Lord to assure the MUM
that the strictest inquiry would be instituted into the con-
duct of all the parties concerned in the Tooting transaction,
and take steps to prevent any repetition of that calamity.
Lord J. RUSSELL said the subject was under the consi-
deration of the Secretary of State for the Home Department
and the Poor-law Board, who, no doubt, would institute the
fullest inquiry into the matter.
INSURRECTION IN IRELAND.

➢lr. 11. GRATTAN gave notice that, on Monday, he
should move for the following returns :—First, the number of
the troops of the line employed in the insurrection in Ireland,
with a list of the number of killed and wounded, and of the
number and description of the forces engaged on both sides;
second, a return of the amount of expense incurred in send-
ing over troops from Great Britain to Ireland, and of main-
taming the several regiments and other armed forces em-
ployed in various parts of Ireland on the occasion of
the recent outbreak ; third, a return of the number of persons
arrested under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, and
for what offences they were so arrested ; specifying their
situations in life, or their offices and callings, and the length
of time they had been imprisoned.
SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT.

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the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of Stare for the Home
Department proposing a continuance of the measure for sus-
pending the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland, move a call of the
House.
THE ADDRESS.—ADJOURNED DEBATE.
Mr. A. STAFFORD then rose to resume the adjourned .
de-
bate on the Address in answer to the Speech fromtthmeore Throne.
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con-
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country.— welfare of the interest of the
(Hear, hear.) He agricultural
Gentleman whether Suffolk was very far from Cambridge-
shire, and whether he had not heard of certain agri-
cultural meetings which had recently been held
in the latter county. If the Hon. Gentleman had heard of
those meetings perhaps he would be good enough to inform
the House whether some of those who attended those meet-
ings did not state the nature of their difficulties, and pro-
pound and enforce upon the resident gentry
of the neighbourhood a remedy for those difficulties, which
remedy would probably be very acceptable to the
Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer.—(Hear.)
If he understood the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Hume)
aright, his statement last night amounted to this, that
the constituencies of this empire were so well satis-
fied with the working of the new system of free
trade that they would not, under any pretence, ever
return to the old system, which expired last night;
but (proceeded the Honourable Gentleman, who, in the
early part of his speech, was but indifferently heard in the
gallery) if the Honourable Gentlemen would recollect
the intelligence which they had learned yesterday
of the reaction which had taken place in a
neighbouring country—if he would turn to a country not
far separated from us, ho would find, though France had
abolished her monarchy and her form of government, a dis-
position had been evinced to ,return to protective duties,
and it was by no means chimerical to indulge
the hope that the time was not far distant when France would
adopt the protective system which England had abolished.
Further, he would ask the Hon. Gentleman if he had not
found in his intercourse with society, not with
" besotted farmers," as agriculturists; had been called, a
wish expressed during these few weeks, that there should
be a fair but a low daty upon corn. The Hon. Gentleman
said that the faith in the present system was so strong that