The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-30 00:00:00

FaLTlT.—There has been several fresh arrivals lately of
Currants, three cirgoes of Chesme and Red Smyrna Raisins,
and a cargo of Valencia Raisins from Liverpool ; the market
has been rather quiet this week, the exporters taking only
small parcels of Currants. Of old Red Smyrna Raisins some
sales have been made at 31s to 32s for shipping.
SPIKITS.—For home consumption a brisker demand has
been experienced for Jamaica Rum, still no material im-
provement in prices can be quoted In Leeward Islands the
operations are upon rather a more extended scale, and 3s 7d
to 3s 8d paid for proof strength. East India has been sold to
a fair extent, and 3s 5d to 3s 6d are the rates paid for proof,
with certificate. Demerara sells more freely at 5s to 5s 3d
for strong sorts. For Brandy the market is in a dull state ;
the stock is still on the increase, and there are free sellers.
Geneva is wanted for exportation, and several parcels have
been sold, common at 25 7d to 2s Bd. Fine 3s to 3s 8d per
gallon. For British Corn Spirits and Gin prites remain the
same, but the market is in a dull state, and stocks are accu-
mulating.
INDIGO.—The next quarterly sales of Indigo will take
place on the 11th May. The demand lately has been
limited, but prices remain very firm at last February rates.
Spanish brought previous terms, but only a part of 54 serons
sold—ordinary Cortes to good Sobres 2s 6d to 4s Id.
Hors.—The market has a dull appearance. There are
sellers upon the fallowing terms :—Sussex pockets 78s to 88s,
Weald of Kent 86s to 98s, Mid and East Kent 95s to 130 s.
OILS.—Of Linseed Oil only a moderate quantity having
been taken for home consumption or exportation, and prices
have given way, 27s 6d per cwt being taken on the spot.
Of Rape :iced Oil may parcels have been disposed of, brown
at 365, pale 375, and tine pale foreign 38s. Olive Oil met
with less attention. Of Cocoa Nut the supply being
still trifling, holders are enabled to obtain high rates.
Of Palm further parcels have been received, and the stock
being heavy, holders are inclined to realise. Lard Oil is in
fair request at 45s to 50s. For Sperm Oil a much better
demand prevailed, and prices have improved. For God Oil
the market has a quiet ammarance, and a limited business
was transacted. Southern has been disposed of to a fair ex-
tent, but not at better prices.
TALLOW.—The demand is still on the decrease for Russian
on the spot, and a further decline in the value has taken
place. For delivery in the last three months of the year,
however, a fair business has been transacted. Of home•made
there is an increased quantity offering for sale, whilst the
demand has been limited. With other sorts of Tallow the
market is yet plentifully supplied, and prices are on the
decline.

MYER] NIA PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
ROYAL ASSENT.
The Royal Assent was given to-day by Commission at
Four o'clock, to the Drainage of Land Bill, the Llynvi
Iron Company, and the Whiteburn and Kelso and Lauder
and Kelso Road Bills.
The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Shaftesbury-, and Lord Monteagle.
Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure.

'The LORD Ch ANCELLuR took his seat on the Wool-
iack at Five o'clock.
WATERWORKS CLAUSES BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed ; as were
also the Gas Works Clauses Bill, the Markets and Fairs
Clauses Bill, and the Commissioners Clauses Bill.
GOVERNMENT PLAN OF EDUCATION.
The Earl of CLARENDON presented several peti-
tions, on the part of the Marquis of Lansdowne, from
congregations of Baptists at Uakham, from Protestant
Dissenters at Bocking, in Essex ; and from Protestant Dis-
senters at Eddingtou, i❑ the county of Bedford, against
the Government scheme of education.

POOR-LAW SETTLEMENT.
The NOBLE EARL also presented a petition from the
rector and churchwardens of a parish in the county of
Pembroke, praying for a repeal of the Poor-law Settle-
ment Bill.

POOR REMOVAL.
The NOBLE EARL also presented a petition from the
guardians of the poor of the Bath Union praying for a
repeal of the Poor Removal Act, passed last session.
ELECTORAL DIVISIONS.—POOR RELIEF
(IRELAND).
The NOBLE EARL then presented a petition from
the aldermen and corporation of Cork against the
system of electoral division in the proposed Poor Relief
Act.

GOVERNMENT PLAN OF EDUCATION.
Lord BROUGUAM presented a petition from the
teachers of a Sunday-school at Salem, in the county of
Dorset, against the proposed Government measure of
education.

POOR-LAW SETTLEMENT.
The NOBLE LORD also presented a petition from the
inhabitants of Shepton Msllett, praying for an altera-
tion of the law of settlement ; also a petition from the
board of guardians in Glamorgan upon the same subject.
BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY LAWS.
Lord BROUGHAM wished to correct a statement
which had appeared in one of the Sunday papers, to the
effect that ho had changed his opinions with respect to
arrest on mesne process. The statement in question
had caused him considerable annoyance by the number
of letters which he had received upon the subject from
persons who were at present under arrest, and whose
intention it was to take the benefit of the existing Acts.
But it was possible that the wrong construction of the
Act by the Commissioners might have worked the effect
of which the complaint was made. The Commissioners
had a power to imprison for twenty days, and in some
instances for forty days, and it appeared that in some
cases the power had been overstretched. This was
- _

tainly an evil, but it might very probably lead to the
abolition, the more complete abolition of imprisonment for
debt. He had received a communication from Nottingham
in which it was stated that the labourers had a right to
support from the produce of the land. Now he had not
been able to pay muoh attention to the matter of this
communication, and the petition on which it was based,
but thusi much he might say, that, in his opinion,
the labouring poor were entitled just equally to support
from the whole of the national capital—from the funds,
stock in trade, and all other capital of which the
country is possessed. The only title which any
poor man had, in his opinion, was upon the produce
of his own work. It was the primeval curse, inflicted
by a higher power than man, that he should obtain his
bread from t:;e sweat of his brow, and he (Lord
Brougham) thought th.t it was perfectly right that it
should be so; for he believed that if there was no such
condition imposed there would be but little work per-
formed.

The Bishop of LONDON—Surely his Noble and
Learned Friend did not mean to say that no person
Vai to obtain any subsistence but that for which he
worked ?

Lord BROUGHAM—OnIy the able-bodied poor.
SCOTTISH PEERAGE.

Lord COLVIai rose to draw the attention of their
Lordship to gin ,niotion which ho had been requested to

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Earl GREY, with the view of meeting the conven,
ence of Noble Lords in Ireland, proposed that their
Lordships should adjourn till Thursday the 15th, instoah
of Tuesday, the 13th, and he begged to give notice that
after the holidays their Lordships would meet in the
new buildings, her Majesty having been graciously
pleased to appropriate a portion of her palace to their
Lordships use.
Their Lordships accordingly adjourned to Thursday,
the 15th of April.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
ASSESSED TAX COLLECTORS.
Mr. BENBOW presented several petitions from the
collectors of the income and assessed taxes, praying for
a higher scale of remuneration for their duties.

ROYAL ASSENT.
The Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the table of
the House for the purpose of summoning the Commons
to hear the Royal Assent given by commission to several
public and private Bills, for a list of which see Lords'
report.

SECOND READINGS.
The following Bills were read a second time :
Blackburn Improvement, Market, &c.
British Commercial Insurance Company (No. 2).
Coventry, Banbury, and Oxford Junction Railway.
Dublin Consumers Gas.
Falmouth Waterworks.
Inverness Harbour and Navigation.
Inverness Municipal and Police, &c.
Rathmines Improvement.
funstall Paving, Lighting, Cleansing, Watching, Im-
provement, and Market.
SHIPLEY GAS BILL.
Mr. GREENE wished to call the attention of the
[louse to a special report from the Committee on the
Shipley Gas Bill, showing a direct variance, on the part
of the Committee, from the report of the surveying
officers appointed under the Act 9 and 10 Vic., c. 106, to
make the preliminary inquiries, and moved that the Bill
be re-committed.
After a few words from Mr. 11. BERKELEY,
Mr. HUME moved that the Bill should be referred to
a Select Committee up stairs.'
After a few words from Mr. Brotherton, Sir W. Clay,
Dr. Bowring, and Mr. Aglionby,
Mr. CARDWELL said, that as a Member of the
Private Bills Committee, he wished to say one word,
and he did not wonder that the Hon. Baronet with whom
he had served was anxious that the proceedings of the
Committee should not be judged by the present case.
The circumstances were these : there was a large
district which required lighing by gas, and it
was desirable by every means to save expense,
and with the furtherance of that object the
Commissioners had sent down surveying officers to see
what really the state of the case was. Their report was
in every respect favourable to the object of the petitioners,
but it was stated that the population of the district were
quite unable to bear any heavy expenses ; and with a
view to save the outlay, the Committee had agreed to
avoid any of those preliminary expenses which are so
frequently made the grand difficulty in obtaining an
Act of Parliament. Notwithstanding all this endeavour
the Hon. Member for Cockermouth wished the Bill to
be treated as an opposed Bill, and this was the way in
which the expense was to be saved. He sincerely trusted
that the Hon. Member for Lancaster would oppose such
a course with all his might. Be had only to say that he
had personally no interest whatever in the district ; but
he could not but observe that he was now not at all sur-
prised at the way in which the able reports on railways
had been treated when they had beon made by the Board
of Trade..

Mr. STRUTT said it was extremely unfair to judge of
the utility of those local inquiries by one instance. He
:ldgive his support to the original motion, but at the
ahmouetime he did not wish to cast the slightest slur
whatever upon the report of the local officers.
After a few words from Mr. GREENE,
Mr. HUME thought if the local surveyors had been
called it would have been satisfactory. But as it was
not to be drawn into precedent, he would withdraw his
amendment.

The motion was then agreed to.
DUBLIN IMPROVEMENT BILL

On the motion for the second reading of this Bill,
Mr. GREGORY begged Mr. S. O'Brien to postpone
the second reading till after Easter, in consequence of the
absence of certain returns which he bad moved for rela-
ive to the Bill, and he moved accordingly.
DUBLIN IMPROVEMENT BILL•

Ors the motion for the second reading of this Bill,
Mr. GREGORY begged Mr. Smith O'Brien to post-
pone the second reading till after Easter, in consequence
of the absence of certain returns which he had moved
for relax ive to the Bill, and he moved accordingly.
Mr. GROGAN seconded the motion.
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN had no objection to the post-
ponement of the Bill if the Government considered such
a course advisable.
'Air. D. BROWNE opposed the postponement. There
had been no reason given to justify it. The corporation
of Dublin, who were the promoters of the measure, re-
presented a constituency of 200,000 persons, and they
were very desirous to have it carried into effect. lie
thought, therefore, it would be a great injustice to them
If IL were postponed, and would lead to the
belief, already strongly impressed on them, that

UTION.
Mr. SPOONER presented two petitions from congre-
gations in Bradford, praying for a measure to suppress
trading in seduction, and for the better protection of
fe males.

Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR presented five peti
ions to the same effect.

MERCHANT SEAMAN'S FUND.
Mr. AGLIONBY wished to ask a question before
the order of the day was gone into. It was one of
the greatest importance to the public, and had
reference to the Merchant Seaman's Fund
some days ago, he had been led to understand
that a Commission of inquiry was about to be issued,
and he wished to know it such were the fact.

Captain BERKELEY said that he had every reason
to suppose that the Commission would immediately be
issued and the inquiry gone into.
BILL TO SUPPRESS TRADING IN SEDUCTION

AND PROSTITUTION.
Mr. SPOONER then proceeded to ask leave to intro-
duce the Bill of which he had giveu notice for the sup-
pression of the trading in seducticn, and for the better
protection of females. He could assure them that he felt
great difficulty in bringing the question under the
notice of the House, as he was persuaded he could not
do it that justice it deserves. He would have been better
satisfied had the measure been placed in abler hands,
and if the Members of the Government opposite had
taken it under their protection. There existed in the
metropolis an association—
Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEV—Sir, I rise to a
point of order. The Hon. Member, to make good his
case, must bring before the House matters and details
which are altogether unfit fur publication. I therefore
call the attention of the House to the fact that there are

strangers in both galleries.
The Galleries were then cleared, and the debate pro
ceeded with closed doors.

THE EDUCATION MEASURE.—PROPOSED GENE-
RAL CONFERENCE.—The Patriot of last night states that
steps hive already been taken for calling a !general confer-
ence to discuss the subject of the proposed measure of national
education.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTHWARK.

Mr. John James, a surgeon, residing at Champion-
hill, Camberwell, was brought before Mr. Cottingham,
charged with wounding Caroline Jones on the preced-
ing night.
The complainant, a woman of the town, who showed
much reluctance in coming forward, stated that she
lodged at 9, William-street, Walworth, and that on the
preceding night the prisoner, accompanied by another
gentleman, called to see her. They were in the back
parlour together, and after some time the prisoner said
something offensive to her, and she immediately threw
the contents of a pot of porter in his face ; that she was
about to strike him with the empty pot, when she was
thrust out of the room by some other persons, and then
discovered that she was bleeding from a wound across
her right hand, when a policeman was called, and her
assailant given into custody. She added that she did not
think now that the prisoner wounded her intentionally.
In reply to Mr. CorrniorrAx, the complainant said
that she believed the prisoner was paring his finger nails
with a penknife at the time she was wounded ; that she
heard him exclaim that be had a knife in his hand, and
desired her to stand off. This was after she was wounded.
The prisoner asked the complainant whether she did
not attempt to strike him with the empty pewter pot, and
that he put up his hand to ward off the blow, which was
the way the accident occurred ?
16.1.0• I
Her reply was that she did make such an attempt, and
that she still believed that the wound was accidentally
given.

Mr. Corm/mum—Then if that was the case why did
you afterwards give the prisoner into custody ? Com-
plainant—l was in a passion with him then.
She then explained that she received a visit from the
prisoner and another gentleman that morning, and that
the former made her a present of a sum of money, and
promised to pay the doctor's bill if she did not press the
charge. That as she was still under the impression that
it all arose from accith nt, she consented to the proposed
terms, and therefore now wished to decline any further
proceedings in the case.
Mr. COTTINGSAN said that he should not permit a
case of so serious a nature to be settled in the manner
desired ; that if offences of that kind were allowed to be
made up persons would frequently go unpunished who
deserved to be prosecuted; that he should certainly have
a further investigation of the case, although the com-
plaining party had exhibited such a disinclination now to
press the charge.
Sarah Selina Parish was then called, and, on being
sworn, she stated that sho was present on the above
ZCC34OII. That sho beard an altercation between the
parties, and saw the complalWat imatcll up csi pewter

Mr. lIUME gave notice of his intention to move for
leave to bring in a Bill for the better administration of
charitable trusts in England and Wales.
Mr. BOND CABBELL moved for an address for ac-
counts of the amount of duty charged upon malt, the
number of quarters of malt upon which such duty was
charged, and the population of England and Wales in
the year 1700 ; of the amount of duty charged
upon malt, the number of quarters of malt upon
which such duty was charged, and the population
of the United Kingdom in each year, during the
years 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845, and 1846,
respectively ; of the amount of money received from the
duty on malt, and the net amount available for the
public revenue, in each year, during the years 1840, 1341,
1842, 1843, 1844, 1845, and 1846 respectively ; returns
of the number of beer-shops licensed to sell beer to be
drunk upon the premises, in each of such years respec-
tively ; of the number of acres of land now lying waste,
uncultivated, and uninclosed in England and Wales,
Scotland and Ireland respectively.
Mr. DISRAELI moved that an address he presented
to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously
pleased to lay before this House, copies of, or extracts
from, any correspondence between her Majesty's Secre-
tary of State, or written at his desire, and the Govern-
ments of Spain, Portugal, Greece, Mexico, and the
States of South America, respecting loans made lay
British subjects to those Governments. Also, copies of
any communications made to British claimants from the
Foreign-office on the subject of such correspondence.
SUPPRESSION OF SEDUCTION AND PROSTI-