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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1841.

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...ETIREMENT OF Mit. DAVIDGE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—Mr. Davidge, in consequence of the severe indisposi-
tion he has long been labouring under, having intimated his
intention of retiring from the active management of the Surrey
Theatre, was on Saturday, April 3, presented with a very
handsome Silver Cup, from all connected with the theatre.
Mr. T. P. Cooke, surrounded by all the ladies and gentlemen,
presented it, after delivering the enclosed speech, at the end
of which the Band played " Auld lang sync," which was sung
by Mr. G. Stansbury and the company. 1 have no doubt but
.hat you, Sir, will give it a place in your excellent Journal.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
B. S. FAIRBROTHER.

April 5, 1841.

EVIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 5.

Their Lordships met at Five o'Cloitk.
A mes!eagar tram the Housp of Commons brought
up the Houghing of Cattle (Ireland) Bill, the Durham
RAilway Bill, and the Manchester and Salford Water-
works Bill.

The Archbishop of CANTERBURY brought in a
to amend the Ecclesiastical Reienues Bill, which
was reed a first time.

On the motion of the MarqUis of NORMANBY
the Commons' amendments to the Roughing of Cattle
(1ri.14r41) Bill were agreA to, and the Bill was read a
third time.

The Earl of ROSE.BERY presented a petition
from Honiton in farour of the Jaws' Declaration Bill.

Lord STRAFFORD presented petitions from
Denegal and other places in Ireland against Church
patronage in Scotland.
The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented
112 petitions from places in Scotland for the
abolition of lay patronage in the Church of Scotland.
As a Presbyterian, he felt it his duty, in presenting
those petitions, to express his entire) concurrence in the
prayer. He contended that the 'present state of the
law was not only. unsatisfactory to, the people of Scot-
land,
.but inconsistent with the faidarneatal principles
of their Church, which required that no minister should
ie appointed to a parish contrary leo the wishes of the
people. The Bill of his Noble 'friend (the Earl of
Aberdeen), who was too good a Preibyterian to propose
any thing which he did not think advantageous to
the. Church—had been far from //allaying the discons
tentment of the people upon this +estion. Its effects
would be to place the Churcheurseiste the chariot wheels
of the civil power. The Noble IM2rquis referred to the
opinions of Lords Monboddo and Kaimes, in order to
show that, in spiritu-al matters, the Church was all-
powerful. He entreated the House to take the subject
Imo its most serious consideration, bearing in mind that
'h e Non-intrusion principle was the fundamental prin-
ciple of the Church of Scotland. The people of Scot-
e.sod took the liveliest interest in the preseat ques-
e so, and greatly as they valued the privileges conferred
ey the Reform Bill, they valued their spiritual
privileges stsil more li;gli!y, than any political rights that
had been conferred upon them.
The Earl of ABERDEEN wished to know whether
the petitioners were in favour of non-intrusion, or the
abolition of patronage ; and also whether he sup-
pu rre 1 the abolition of Church patronage or not?
The Marquis of IMEADALBANE said the people
o! Scotland were deeply interested in the question, but
they, he had reason to believe, would be satisfied with
a much less stringent measure than the abolition of
Church patronage. With respect to his own opinions
ho was in favour of a veto, with such modifications as
would prevent intrusion.
The petitions were then laid on the table.
The Population Bill was read a third time and passed.
The Chelsea Poor Bill was read a second time.
The Eari of MOU NTCASHEL presented several
petitions from Presbyterian bodies in Ireland against
Church Intrusion in Scotland.
The NOBLE EARL then moved for a return of
the number of workhouses contracted for by the Poor.
la.v Commissioners in Ireland, the unions in which they
ware to be erected, the sum which it would cost for the
completion of each contract, the quantity of land
attached to each, and the number of paupers which
each would accommodate.—Ordered.
The Earl of FALMOUTH gave notice that early
after the holidays he would present a petition from
from inhabitants of Cornwall respecting the removal of
the packets from Falmouth to Dartmouth.
Lord FITZGERALD presented a petition from
Westminster for the abolition of tolls on the metropo-
litan bridges.
The Marquis of L ANSDOWNE laid on the table
returns relating to the population and commerce of
Great Britain, its colonies, and dependencies.
The NOBLE MARQUIS gave notice, that after Easter
he would move that the state of the law respect n;
promissory notes should be referred to a Select Cam-
mittee.—( Hear, hear.)
STATE OF CRIME IN IRELAND.
The Earl of CHARLEVILLE rose to move for
a copy of the criminal calendar, at the Lent Assizes,
1841, in the King's County, and a copy of the rule of
the Court thereon. He felt great reluctance in making
this motion, but his duty to the loyal part of
the population of Irelaad required him to call the atten-
tion of the House to this subject. and to take this occa-
sion of pointing to the consequences of the course which
the Government had of late pursued in Ireland, in not
exercising the prerogative of the Crown in setting aside
improper persons upon the list of Jurors. In the King's
C runty crime had greatly increased of late years.
Several murders had been committed, and many
attempts at murder in the open air, and in the pre-
sence of many of the people, who refused to give any
assistance to prevent the crime, or to arrest the perpe-
trators, and the large rewards that had been offered
in the unfortunate cases of Lord Norbury and
Mr. Frazer had failed to Obtain any information as
to the offenders. The Noble Earl read extracts
from correspondence between the Magistrates of that
county and the Executive on the subject of these
murders, and the extraordinary sympathy with the mur-
deters evinced by the people. In the case of Colgan and
Dogherty, who were tried for attempting to murder Mr.
Biddulph, the sheriff gavcin a panel of fifty names. Eleven
of the persons on the list were absent, twenty-seven were
chellenseed by the prisoners, and the remaining twelve
were sworn as a jury. He must here admit that up
to this time the Executive had done everything to
.assist the Magistrates, and deserved their thanks. But
if ever there was a thee when the Government ought
to have taken the greatest precautions to prevent im-
-1 proper persons being put upon the jury, the period he
elluded to was that time. No doubt the Noble Marquis
( Normanby) would call this an agrarian outrage— ,s he
termed every other atrocious outrage ; but the Noble
Marquis could not peed ignorance of the character of
the persons who were placed upon that Jury. The
names of the persons most known in the county as con-
nected wish the Ribbon Society had beep privately com-
municated to the Govcrnment 'before the trial, and not-
withstanding that knowledge, three of those persons, who
might have been challenged and set aside by the Crown,
Were allowed to he sworn on the Jury.—( Hear, hear.)
The consequence via', that notwithstanding the eviderce,
the Jury could not agree to a verdict, and the prisoners
were discharged. So in the case of the murder of Mr.
Bre)lei eleven of the Jury were agreed upon the verdict of
guilty, but thfi twelfth man stood out, having been known
to declare before he went into the, box that no evidence
would induce him to find Collins guilty, The Jury was
discharged, and the prisoner escaped from punishment.
On this occasion also the Government might have elm,
j cited the privilege, and prevented so improper a person
from being sworn. There were several other cases of a
sireiler nature, in which justice had been defeated by the
determination of the Government to abstain from chal-
lenging en the part of the Crown. By this conduct
they discouraged gentlemen from risking their lives
for the purpose of bringing assassins to justice. The
Noble Earl then read extracts from a placard, posted on
the walls of a chapel, and bearing the signatures of eight
of the jurors who sat upon the trial of Colgan and Do.
betty, repudiating, in very strong language, the impute-
tions that had been cast on them for nut finding those per-
sons guilty. He called on the House to observe the accu-
sations which these persons insinuated against the Solici-
tor-General and their brother jurors of thirsting for the
blood of Irishmen. What he had to complain of was, that
the Executive did not support the Migistrates in their
exertions to vindicate the laws. He concluded by moving

for the returns.
The Marquis of NORMANBY gild that there were
generally two grounds taken for refusing the production of
papers ; first, that such productlert might be detrimental to
the public service i and, secondly, that It was not in the
province of the House to investigate the subleet, He
but he wished the Noble
Lord should not resist the motion on either of these grounds, if
therNoblilmed
fore bringing forward the motion. Their Lordships
Lordgiven
et sihotuhled psrtu,bsjeic tt;
more consideration be-
should recollect that, by this motion, they were
called upon to prejudge criminal cases which would
be tried at the next assizes, The Noble Lord had omitted
to state that when the Jury was empanelled the list was
read over name by name to Mr. Biddulph himself, wi)
had stated that a more fair Jury could not be empanelled.
Much of the Noble Lord's information was derived from
sources on which he could not place reliance. There were
123 names called ova r, and Mr. Bildulph stated that if
50 of these were struck out there would be a sufficient
number left to form an independent Jury. Mr. Btddulph
only objected to one, and the only reason he could give
for his objection was, that be did not like the man. He
(Lord N.) was sure that no man would do his duty
more impartially than Mr, mole,' and among the
most [leasing recollections of his Government of lrelaad
was the fact. that Mr. Moore had said that he
eas convieced that the then mode of conducting the
government of Ireland was a proper one, and that
notwithstanding his previous connections he should give
the Government his support. In the Noble Lord's lett,e.
to Lord Ebrington it was stated that among that Jury was
a person who was master ins Ribbon Scie.y—that was
also stated in a Dublin pap, and the name of the Juror
was teen stated to be Egan. Now there was no person of
that name on the Jury. The Crown Solicitor stated that
never had a Jury been formed more in accordance with the
directions of the Attorney-General, or more approved of
by the prosecutor himself. Mr. Biddulph stated his
opinion that it was a very fair Jury. It would bay
been useful if the Noble Lord had followed the example of
the Crown Solicitor, and abstainel from giving any opinion
as to the guilt of the prisoners. With regard to the case
of the murder of Hughes- at Armagh, and trial of Mr.
Gray at Baltiby, he had information from thel Crown
solicitor tha' the same course was pursued at Are
re ;,;:', a, il,,i I.ypn pariait,ii at ivionagbac, There
were five persons from Baltiby, and_who .had been pat
aside by the Crown Solicitor, because they had been ob-

jected to by Mr. Gray on a previous occasion. Mr.
Samuel Gray was rather a well-known character to their
Loidshipi. There were four other Jurors set aside be-
cause they were known boon companions of Mr. Gray.
In the Noble Lord's last letter to Lord Ehrington he
designated the trial as a solemn mockery cf justice. Now
be must say he thouglit the Noble Earl was not justified
in making' use of such an expression. The charge brought
by the Noble Earl was that the Jury, /eh) had not re-
tnrnei a verdict, had defeated the ends of justice. Now
he thought it but justice to state, that the Jury was ap-
proved of by the prosecutor, and it was admitted that
the evidence brought before them justified a difference of
opinion. There was a further passage of the letter, in
which the Noble Earl said, that in authorizing the
prosecution of those attacking Mr. Biddulph, the
conduct of Lord Ebrington contrasted most favour-
ably with that of himself (the Marquis of Normanby)
in the vise of the murder of Lord Nerbury. Now be
should have recollected the exertions he had made at that
time, and the answer he had given to the Noble Earl in
that H :use. The Noble Eatl had had a Committee of
that House sitting for three months to investigate the state
of crime in Ireland. He had had an opportunity of fully
investigating the subject, and only once incidentally had
that case been alluded to before the Committee. Now
after that the Noble Earl was not justified in making such
insinuations against him, when, having had every opportu-
nity of brirging forward his case, he had not thought pro-
per to do so. The Noble Earl on that occasion had relied
on the information of a person whose testimony was not
worthy of credit, and who had deceived the Noble Lori,
a; the Noble Earl himself had since discovered.
The Noble Earl had alluded to a case at Longford, in
which Mr. Fox, the sheriff, bad selected a Jury of " strong
men." Why, the meaning of strong men was, that they
were strong party men, and their Lordships would not be
surprised to learn that they had come to a different con-
clusion from a previous Jury. He admitted that the prin-
ciple of setting persons aside by the Crown on account of
their religious opinions, originated during his (the Mar-
quis of Normanby's) administration. That had been done
with the approval of Sir Michael O'Logblin, the then
Attorney-General ; and he contended that it was the
sound and proper principle upon which Juries ought to be
selected. %Veen the law no longer made any distinction
between Catholics and Protestants, he did not think it
judicious to keep up these distinctions in the Jury box.
Ho regretted that so much intemperance of language had
been used toward; the members of that religion and their
pastors, by persons whose rank and station ought to have
taught them better. When it was said that the Catholics
of Ireland were worse than Turks or Hindooa, he was not
surprised that there should be dissension and excitement
still kept up. He believed the people of Ireland were
easily led by kindness and conciliation, but they would
not be coerced or dragged by the chains of despotism or
tyranny. He trusted their Lordships would not sanction
the proiuc'ion of those papers under the present circum-
stances, and while these men were still untried; and he
hoped the Noble Earl would see the propriety of aid:-
drawing his motion. Their Lordships would be gratified
to learn, notwithstanding the statements of the Noble Earl,
that crimes of a serious nature were considerably reduced
in number, and that the tranquillity of the country was
much increased.
The Earl of GLENG ALL was ready to admit that,
owing to the efficiency of the police, there had been some
diminution of crime. He regretted to say, however, that
crime was not punished to the extent it ought to be, so as
to operate as a warning to others. There was the greatest
difficulty in procuring witnesses to give evidence or Juries
to find verdicts, and out of 1,446 rewards
bored by the Government and the police for se-
rious offences since 1827, only forty-seven had
been claimed, showing a very large amount of crime still
unpunished and undiscovered. If the system was adopted
of sending the Crown ecliciter down to the assizes two or
three weeks before they commenced, it would prevent im-
proper persons getting upon the Jury, which frequently
arose from the kcal ignorance of the Crown solicitor and
the parties acting on behalf of the prosecution.
The Marquis of NO RM ANBY begged, in addition, to
read the letter which the Lord Lieatenant addressed to
the Noble Earl on the subject of the trial of the men for
the attempted murder of Mr. Biddulph: The letter
stated that the inquiries the Lord Lieutenant had made
from the Crown solicitor and other parties, had enabled
him to ascertain that the Jury in that case had been fairly
and impartially selected,—that the prosecutor had expressed
his satisfaction as to the persons of whom it was composed
—and that he did not think there was- any reason to sup-
pose that any person connected with the ribbon syste.n
had been upon the Jury.
The Earl of CHA RL EVILLE replied. With regard
to the correspondence that had taken place between him-
self ann the Lord Lieutenant he had certainly looked upon
it as. in some respects, private and confidential, and had
not felt himself justified in referring to it. The Noble
Marquis had complained that the Earl of Rosse and himself
had been in the habit of referring, in very improper terms,
to the conduct of the Roman Catholic clergy, but ho cer-
tainly denied that he had ever so expressed himself of that
body. With respect to the case of Mr. Biddulph, after
the communications he had made to theGovernmen the was
surprised to see the names of persons returned whom be
had represented, from his knowledge of the county, to be
unfit. In consequence of the Noble Marquis having de-
clared that he old cautioned his Noble Friend ( Lord
Ebrington) to look watchfully to his (Lord Charlevi'le's)
conduct in the county, he made up his mind that he
would not interfere ie any case in which he
could not be certain that be would have the
support of the Government in the execution of his
duty as a person bearing her Majesty's Commission of the
Peace. But, notwithstanding that determination, he did
everything in his power to assist the Government in dis-
covering the persons concerned in the attempt to murder
Mr. Biddulph. The conduct of which he complained was
the improper, unjust, and unconstitutional interference to
which he was subjected, when, in conjunction with other
Magistrates, he committed a man to prison upon a charge
of robbery and attempt to murder. The officers sent
down by the Government liberated the man, without ilea':
ing the evidence upon which he had been committed.
That conduct gave rise to a feeling that the Government
were nut disposed to support the Magistrates in the pro-
tection of property and the punishment of mime. The
communications made by him to the Irish Government
were of a confidential nature, and he had not expected
that use to be made of them which it had pleased the NAlc
Mai qui; to make ; and he thought that the N ,ble Marquis
bad :received communications from Catholic gentlemen
which might have prevented him (the Marquis of Norman-
be) from noleing him mp as a firebrand in his own county.
He lived in peace and kindness with the people on big own
property, and he defied the Noble Marquis to state a single
instance in which he had behaved unkindly to a single in-
dividual, because that individual was a Roman Catholic.
He thought it right to vindicate his Noble Friend the Earl
of Rosse from the attacks of the Noble Marquis. On the
occasion of the attempt to murder Mr. Sim, an amiable,
but eccentric gentleman, who divided bis property with all
who chose to come and live in a community which he had
farmed, the Earl of Rosse, being Lord Lieutenant of the
county, stated in a letter to that gentleman, that there
could be no doubt that the many attempt; upon that
gentleman's life were occasioned by a supposition that his
proceedings were likely to draw proselytes from the Romish
Church, and that it was an opinion amongst Roman
Catholics that murder in such a case was not a crime. It
was true that on the Sunday following the Roman Catholic
priest did from the altar address his congregati in to in-
culcate a very opposite doctrine, namely, that every person
who concealed from the Government any information cal-
culated to bring a murderer to justice, was as guilty of the
crime as the actual perpetrator. But there had been much
to justify the opinion of his Noble Friend, and the attacks
made by the Noble Marquis were totally unwarranted.
The Noble Marquis had boasted of the increase of crime
in Ireland; but he would refer him to the numerous meet-
iega of Magistrates which had recently taken place, et
one of which it was shown that twenty-six crimes which
occurred in one night wore set down in the returns as one.
After a few words from the Marquis NORM ANB Y,
the motion was withdrawn.
Their Lordships then adjourned at a Quarter to Nine
o'Clock.

ROUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL 5.

Toe SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'C'ock.
Mr. Campbell, from the East India House, presented
an account of the compensation given to the retired
officers of the Company.
Mr. CIIALMERS appeared at the Bar, and brought up
the evidence given before the Committees on the Can-
terbury and Walsall Election Committees.—Ordered
to lie on the table.
POLLOC AND GOVAN RAILWAY.
Mr. JONES moved, pursuant to notice, that the
Committee to which the Polloc and Govan Railway
was referred, should have leave to sit and proceed with
the investigation on Tuesday (to-morrow) at twelve

o'clock.
After a short discussion strangers were ordered to
withdraw, and the House divided, when the numbers
were—
For the motion 42
Against i, 4
Majority
On the motion of Colonel G. LANGTON, the
Portbury Pier Bill was read a second time and ordered
to be committed.
On the motion cf Mr.ORD, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Improvement Bill was read a second time, and ordered
to be committed.
On the motion of Mr. BOWES, •
Ile West Durham Railway Bill was read a third
time and passed.
Oa the motion of Mr. LOCKHART,
The Monkland Canal Bill was read a second time,
and oraored to be committed.
MANCHESTER AND SALFORD WATER-

WORKS BILL.
On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON the Lords'
Amendments to this Bill wore agreed to.
NORTH MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY