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

THAMES POLICE.

Yesterday George Clemmins, a tn:m of very respectable
exterior anti good address, was brought before Dir. BAr.-
LANTINE, on a charge of stealing twenty-one gallons of
wine, a quantity of sugar, spices, and other property, from
the London Docks, in which he has been employed for
some time under the Crown, as a Custom-house officer.

The investigation excited much greater interest than any
case within our recollection, and the office and the avenues
loading to it were crowded with persons connected with the
revenue departments. The prisoner, who • has hitherto
borne a very high character, was surrounded Ly a hot of
friends. Mr. Pelham, the attorney, appeared on his behalf.
Mr. Weston, a solicitor, attended on the part of the Dock
Company, and there was a gentleman connected with the
Customs Solicitors' Office present, to watch the case on the
part of the Crown.

After a long escubination, the pricner was remand. ,l for
a week,

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

The Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the'Frisoners
hereinafter named (the same having been filed in the Court)
are appointed to be heard, at the Court-house, in Portugal-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields on MONDAY, May 30, 1836, at
Nine o'Clock in the Forenoon.
Laing, D., Upper Stamford-street, Lambeth, architect.
Stiff, G., .Holywell-strect, Strand, artist.
Roberts, 'l'., (heat Wilde-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, baker.
Cosgrove, J., Raven-row, Mile-end Old-town, rope-mak, r.
Fletcher, J. R., Cumberland-market, Regent's-park, fishmonger.
Stevens, J. 11., Granby-street, Waterloo-road, basket-maker.
Evans, J., Belvidere-place, Southwark Bridge-road, journeymm
.'• cow Aeeper.
Wand, 8., Emerson-terra •.(-, New Park-street, Sou i.wark, r uard
to a starr°e-coach.
Wareing, J., Spung-hill, Oldham, retailer of beer.
Paley, T., Illacelestield-street, City-road, journeyman millwrig,t.
Leach, G. De Blois, St. John-street, Oxford, auctioneer.
James, T., carpenter, Waibrook.

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WiLics, ESQ., M.P.—We are sorry to hear
that the Hon. Member for Boston is at present confined to
his house by an alarming illness, by which his country, and par-
ticularly, the friends of civil and religious liberty are deprived
of his valuable servim both in and out of Parliament.—Hull
Observer,

Tio lb ilow.ng is a table of the times of the com-
mencement and et d of the eclipse of the sun,
principal places f!om whence it was visible : at some of the
Commencement. End..
LiAkort „. .
Madrid . Ih. 3m. P.M. 3h. 4m.
1 40
London
Paris
Berlin 1 a ......... 5 40
Rome 4O
Vienna
......... 6 69
St, Ve.te;iburgh
...... .. 0 0
Algiers
The point where it first becitino visible was near Quito, in
South America; and that, where it was last EON), was in the
middle of the !slaw( a Rhodes.

“ I shall, for the reasons I have given, now more tlrit
the Bill he read a third time, but I do so with a decit/,ed
protest against the supposition that such a motion inv,cives
any approval of its contents ; or at least of that port;An of its
contents which affects the perpetual destruction• of all cor-
porate bodies in what once was the sister Ici.zgdom of Ire-
fhod. Having made that protest in a mair:-,er wiiiek I think
wi'll be nuderslood in the House AND T-41,. COUNTR I', I can
have no hesitation, on the grounds -1. have stated, and on
those grounds alone, in asking V"iur Lordships at once to
give to this Bill a third rea01,„:”
Their Lordships sli:,,wed- by their cheers that they
understood the fore.,; of the allusion of the Noble Mar-
quis to the Coto r ",,,j... The country %rill also understand
the allusim'.. All remarks from us on this consum-
mation `•:::: on' of the most barefaced insults ever offered
to e. nation, would he superfluous. By a course of
e•riAed, policy, the Tories have made the people of Ire-
'land the most wretched of any in Europe ; and. now
they make their wretchedness a pretext for refusing to
them such an improvement in their municipal institu-
tions as would, above all things, the most conduce to
their social improvement. The argument, that becauso
Protestants have availed themselves of Corporations to
opprour the Catholics, in order to prevent Catholics in
turn from oppressing the Protestants these institutions
:should EL! desitroyed, can deceive na one. The majority
can Only oc licid in subjection to a minority by oppr:s-
sive means—means subversive of every principle of con-
stitutional government. Every Catholic felt that be was
insulted by a, Government of ascendancy, of which
corporations were an instrument. The religion was
mei.ely the pretext by which the small minority mac
enabled, by the aid of the wealth of _England, to trirn-
ple on the great major:ty. But it is of the very es-
sence .
of constitutional government, that the imuonty
should viel:l to the majority ; and to make religion a.
praext fur violating this constitutional rule, is an l'.l.
sn:t to the people of Irelani, which they ought tc.wer
either to forget er forgive. If it he wished the, ti,,.
Union should be more than nominal, the pr.orle of
England and Scotlainl must resent the insult to their
Irish brethren, as if it were offered to theans%;tves. We
must have nu divisions—no miserable Sectarian feel-
in,2,s. The question now to he decitlel is national, in
the truest sense of the word. lulu, day the Members
of the Connnons will here an tirportunitv of evincing
their sense of the wrong (low: to the people of Ireland.
The people will xratelt.th..: movements of their repee-
sentatives with i:itense nit2rest. They will act on the
signal. Th, erl.s is momentous.— Morning
Ch roilicic.

The que',tion ther it were better that gentlemen
°flicit'llj connected With ,t-fovernment should sit in the
House of commons cis Rediesentati:eF or ca. O//icii.c
is one ..)f homense peaches: importance to the coon-
tee. Ceitain It is that the exiw.ing practice of sub-
ect:lig the -..note weight of official influence to the
coalman?. of local interests, as often a; eonstitueoc:es
ellin..ic to badger their Government Representatives
for a particular service, is not more embarrassing to
these gentlemen themselves than: prejudicial to the
national welfare. How desirable socver it may seem
that some popular velo should he provided in the case
of persons accepting place, it appears to us that the
edo may safely he left in the hands of the parties in
Parliament, on whom such placemen must always de-
pend for support ; while the doubtful advantage sup-
posed to arise born the principal andsubordinate inein-
b.is tai Gevernmeot beim dependent o: Par:intrlntatv
constituencies is tar more :hail countervailed by the
evil of allowing sit h members to beset entangled witli
local bonds, as may tempt them to support interests of a
merely sectional and selfish kind at the expense of tile
onnno:i instahco or this. as regalds the
agency of the Attorney-General and Lord Advo-
cate in the Edinburgh Debt and Leith Dock ;484\
was shown up by us some four or live `leeks ago.
About that time, intending- to drive the private cre-
ditors of the insolvent corp.:nation of I.;;:iinbureli jot,
the acceptance of a comr.sition (dere(' by Goverimunt
out of the public pume, a letter from the Attorr.ev-
Genera! to the Lord Provost declared, that utiles!: these
cleditors acve:,,ed the proposition, Ministers a.id him-
self woe p3.,dged to allow the Trinity Harly.nir Bill to
go forward, whereby Leith wet clocks, \void' were
equally depended OD by the Exchequer and the private
creditors for paymeot of the Edinburgh debt, would
be ci.fectually ruined. It torus oat that this threat,
followed' up by the actual advancement of the Trinity
Bill, has had the desired effect ; and, perceiving
that Government had recklesFil determined to sa-
crifice Leith docks, with the 237,000/. of Exche-
quer money secured thereon, the private, creditors
have taken alarm and agreed to receive I.ro. in the
pound, whic}. the country is to be taxed for ott behalf
of the littorney-General's Whir-Radical insolvents.
The Edinburgh town-council used the city trustees
have accoalingly sent a i,oint deputation to London
to oppose the Trinity' Harbour Bill, and to get
a 'satisfactory 40.j'ustim:nt," or, in other worth:,
to secure the Attorney's influence in obtaining
as large a w.n as his professional diffidence can venture
to ask, or Yir. Rice's integrity can he expected to
yield. How readily the Leariied and Right Hon.
Puppets hare danced to this pulling of the wires would_
be seen by Moudav night's proceedings, on which ce-
sion Sir John Campbell proposed that the 'I r'
Harbour Bill should be postponed for a fort•iight ;
while at a later period of the evening tip springs Mr.
Rice, and intending no doubt to tai;
support for the necessary additional inches, of Excl e-
quer prodigality, moves for a Select'
'srim'inrch
Co.mmttee to tak,::
into cousideration the Report on the .„
All this we shall watch with a vigilant eye. A'. pm-
stmt, we merely refer to it as showing the imprary and
danger of exposing the country to the leech-bitesand
hlood-sucking of constitucocies, whose l arliamentary
Representatives fotirld their principal clai:iistitimi.,%thacial:
official connect;on with thepnovernalciA. 1 hen tli acre
is Mr. Poulett Thoinsmis conectton
chestel and the Factories' Regulation Bill. Cased
though lie be in the massive mail whit;): renders
the whole order of modern political economists so
proudly impervious to whtever militate agains
their cold and heartless trana sscendentalism, we can t
not doubt that this grand master of the brothethotid,
could never have so far divested himself of ltir.rin
charities as to propose "the Fa-Aory Children's W,ork-
ing-to-death Bill, had it not been that he is (*lint!
officially to net the ink of town-agent to the cotton-
spinners wllord lie represents in 'Parliament. This
oterag^ upon legislation is obviously an article of Man .
„
coester maim!'acture, and few things have given us
greater surprise and concern than that many of the; es_
tunable and enlightened persons who divided in r.avour
of the Right lion. Gentleman's barbarity, shoulid have
incautiously lent themselves to a measure sj :destruc-
i humane
with the correlative analogies of a sound a
tive intlefeaiih'e rights, and so entirely at
nqi variancehun