The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-28 00:00:00

BECCLES-TUESDAy.

A Silver Cup, with a Sweepstakes added ; 12st each ; winners
71b extra.
Mr. Pierson's The Stranger (Mr. Baker) 1
' Mr. Griumnull's The Rector
Three others started. A good race.
The second race was also won by Mr. Pierson's Stranger
(Mr. Barker) beating Mr. Fenn's Columbine and others, af-
ter a fine race.

ESSEX-Tu ESDAY.

Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with a purse added ; 1 lst 71b
each, &c. About three miles and a half.
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Mr. It. Knight's L m Julia ...(Mr. Bode) 1
Mr. Ellmore's Barrister 2

Two others were not placed. Won in a canter.

SHIP STON-ON- ST OUR-WEDNFSDAY.

Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 90 added. About three miles.
Mr. Pierse's Sarah, aged, 19st
Mr. Garrett's President, 5 yrs, llst 71b
Three others started. Won easy, President having fallen.
The seco:id race was icon by 11r. Pierse's 'Dirso it, list 71b
(Mr. Bretterton), beating Radical and others cleverly.

HORNDON-ON-HlLL—THuasnAv.

Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. cacti, with 35 guineas added ; llst 71b
each, &c. Four miles.

Mr. Langham's Barrister (Mr. Thomas Mason) I
Mr. Cassidy's Bonniyard
Mr. Wilson named Matilda
Julia and Flecknoe wet e distanced. Won cleverly.
The Handicap (three miles) was won by Mr. Pollett's Ring-
leader ( Byass), beating three others easily.

STEEPLE CHASING.
CHELTENHAAI ANNUAL STEEPLE CHASES.
Acceptances for the "Grand Chace."—Zethus, The Weaver,
Jacob Faithful, Cheeroot, Arthur, Cigar, Lottery, Cannon-
ball, Vivian, Seventy-four, Patron, The Sea, Sarah, Physi-
cian, and Tobacconist.
Entries for the Second Race.—Clearvrell, Haidee, Napoleon,
The Disputed, Palatine, Salopian, Rory O'Alore, Miss Fanny,
Perfection, Mary Anne, and Cruikshank.

NORTHAMPTON STEEPLE CHASE—THURSDAY.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added, and 10 for the se-
cond, for farmers' horses. Four miles. Ten subs.
Mr. H. Higgins's ch Is Weathercock, aged....(M`Donagli) 1
Mr. I). Higgins's Little Boy Blue, 6 yrs 2
Mr. Canning's Crazy Jane, aged 3
Mr. Lebird's Village Lass, aged
Five others started. \Von by about two lengths.
The Grand Chase of 25 sovs each, with 100 added; the second
to slve his stake ; l2st each. Four miles. Nine subs.
Mr. Elmore's br g Lottery (Mr. J. Mason) 1
Mr. Robertson's gr g Cigar....
Mr. Helines's Crosby ...
Mr. Anderson's ch c Vespasian
Mr. Elmore's b h Jerry .
Mr. Lambden's Winchester ••• 0
Mr. Anderson's Carl:sle. 0
A beautiful race between the four placed. Was won by two
lengths.

POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE

MORNING JOURNALS.

The Morning Chronicle of this day, returning to the
important question of the Corn-lawn, observes Look
to your home trade ; think of your home customers, the
agrieultu ists ; and when you pay double for your bread,
remember how much of the difference you receive back
again in exchange for your silks and cottons.' Such has
hitherto been the palmary argument of the monopolists.
A little flaw in it has always been obvious, inasmuch as
this surplus wealth in his home customers, on which the
manufacturer is to thrive, has previously been extracted
oct of his own pocket. So far as the Corn-laws act on
the home market, he sells his goods to recover his own
cash back again. The shopkeeper might, in like manner,
grow rich by the profits on the articles that he vends to
the thief by whom his pulse had been taken. The custom
of the bread taxers can never replace the value of the
bread-tax to the industrial interest on which it is
levied.".— The Morning Herald, in the course or
a leading article suggested by the approaching
discussion on the Corn-laws, makes the following remarks :
The discussion on Mr. Villiers's motion for a repeal
of the Corn-laws is fixed for Tuesday? By way of pre-
paration for that event, the Anti-Corn-law party has agi.
tated the country without intermission for twelve months.
The agriculturists, on the other hand, have contented them-
selves with getting up a few petitions in favour of the ex-
isting system. Never were parties more equally matched
as tacticians. The enemies of the Corn-laws exhibit
boundless energy_consurnmate impudence—mendacity
without measure. They try to coax the labourers—to
mystify the farmers—to render the class of land-
owners odious. They act in concert. They never
throw away a chance. They are not to be baf-
fled by occasional discomfiture."—The Morning Post
observes, with reference to the debate on Thursday night,
on Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill :—" Nothing
can exceed the bitterness of mortification and spitefulness
of rancour with which the O'Connell or Ministerial party
have received the decision of the House of Commons upon
Lord Stanley's Bill far the amendment of the registration
system in Ireland. This unprincipled party seem inca-
pable of conceiving that any measure should be at-
tempted from a pure and simple desire to promote truth
and honesty, and to put an eed to wickedness and
fraud. They are so blundering in their rancorous rage as
to attribute all that has been done, arid successfully
done, to the hostility which Conservatives entertain
towards them, and the principles upon which they
affect to stand. Now,
however great that hostility may
be. the success in the present instance is not of that kind."
—The Mot tiny Advertiser thus expresses Itself on the sub-
ject of Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill :—Lord
Stanley's Bill—which, under pretence.
of amending the
laws relating to the registration of voters in Ireland, vir-
tually aims a death-blow at one-half of the Liberal consti-
tuency of that country—should serve as an emphatic warn-
ing of the evils to be expected should that Noble Lord, or
those who co-operate with him, ever gain an ascendancy
in the Councils of the State. Like all propositions from
the same quarter, the object is not to amend, but to vitiate
and destroy."

Madame Vestris has prevailed on Mr. Charles
.
tremble to perform five nights more previous
_to his departure
for Italy to join his (laughter, Miss Adelaide kemble Bone-
diet and Charles Surface will be his next characters. The re-
ceipts at Covent-garden on Thursday evening equalled those on
Tuesday night.
Lord Milton has quite recovered from the effects
of his late accident. His Lordship was out with Lord Fitz-
\valiant's hounds on Monday. Among the guests of Lord Fitz-
William this week have been the Bishop of Peterborough and
the Um Mr. Toiler, a Dissenting Minister of Kettering, &c.

The Duke of RICHMOND was surprised at the
statement of the Noble Marquis, that the repeal sf these
laws would not have the effect of injuring the agricultural
interest, because it would not reduce the price of corn.
Then why all this agitation for their repeal. It was no
such thing. They knew that if they could persuade
Parliament to repeal the protection of the agriculturalists,
their interests would be destroyed. The farmers would
not be able to employ half the men, nor to pay them half
the wages they now did; and what would be its effect in
Scotland and Ireland ? He complained of this, and the
landed interest had a right to complain, that year after
year this question was agitated, and thereby no landed pro-
prietor could sell his land, nor any tenant think it safe to
take a lease, while certain paid parties went about the
country teaching the labourer not to look with confidence
to his employer, and preaching that the interest of the
landlord and the tenant was not one and the same. Neither
was this a question on which all the manufacturers agreed,
for many looked forward to these discussions, year after
year, with great alarm ? He hoped the Bill would not
pass the House of Commons. He believed it would not,
but if it should, he hoped their Lordships would reject
it by a large and triumphant majority.
The Marquis of WESTMINSTER said the Ncble
Duke felt strongly, and expressed himself warmly on
the question. He (the Marquis of Westminster) thought
the only means of putting down the agitation the Noble
Duke complained of was to agree to this Bill, which he
hoped would reach their Lordships. He did not say it
would not affect the agricultural interests, but that it
would not materially do so. He was satisfied it would put
an end to the agitation which existed, and benefit most
materially the country. lie could not but earnestly ex-
press his hope that the Bill would be passed.
Lord WYN FORD presented a petition from a place in
Essex, against certain clauses of the Irish Corporation
Bill.

The Bishop of L L ANDAFF had a petition to present,
which was the first of a class that he believed would soon
be numerous. It was a petition from the Minister, Church-
wardens, and others of the parish of Granby, in Nova
Scotia, praying that that House would not sanction any
law taking away the endowments of the Church in any of
the colonies long settled upon her by Act of Parliament.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented numerous petitions
from the owners and occupiers of land in the West Riding
of Yorkshire, praying that the House would allow no alte-
ration to be made in the Corn-laws.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented a pe-
tition in favour of new endowments for the Church, and
extension of Church accommodation; also one signed by a
large body of Clergymen, against certain clauses of the
Tithe Commutation Bill.

CLERGY RESERVES BILL.
The MOST REV. PRELATE said that on behalf of his
Brother of Exeter he had to give notice, that on Monday
next that Rev. Prelate would move for a copy of the de-
spatch written by Sir F. Maitland, dated December, 1827,
in so far as it related to clergy reserves in Canada ; also a
copy of a despatch to Lord Bathurst, mentioned in the
said despatch, which contained the views of the legal
authorities in Canada upon that question. Ile had further
to give notice that it was his intention on Friday, the
10th of April, to move an address to her Majesty,
humbly praying that her Majesty would not give
her Rlyal assent to the Clergy Reserves Bill, which
had received the approbation of the Legislature in Canada.
It was mot his intention then to occupy the time of their
Lordships, but the subject was one of se much importatte,
that he could not but ask that, in the meantime, their
Lordships would give their most serious attention to the
matter. He would have considered himself guilty of a
criminal neglect of duty had he failed to give their Lord-
ships an opportunity of resisting such great spoliation as
would be committed by that Bill.
MESSAGE: FROM THE QUEEN—LORD
SEATON.

The Order of the Day for taking into consideration her
Majesty's Message relative to Lord Seaton having been
read,

Viscount MELBOURNE said—My Lords, I now rise
to move that an humble address be presented to her
Majesty expressive of your Lordships' approbation
of the sentiments contained in her Majesty's mes-
sage, and to assure her Majesty that your Lord-
ships would be happy to concur with her in carry-
ing her wishes into effect. Upon the early life and
career of the Noble Lord, who is the subject of
the present message, it is not my intention to ex-
patiate, particularly in the presence of so many
Noble Lords whom I see around me, who are so
much better able to speak upon such subjects than I can
possibly he. Suffice it to say that from his youth he has
been a soldier, and a distinguished soldier—that he has
held the most confidential situations under the moat
distinguished commanders, and borne a considerable share
in that series of triumphs which have shed such a lustre
upon the British nation, and conferred so much glory upon
the British arms.—( Hear, hear.) But, my Lords, allow me
to call your attention to the subject of the present Mes-
sage. After having been Governor of Upper Canada, the
Noble Lord became Commander of her Majesty',
Forces in both these Provinces. During the
period of that command there broke out that
unfortunate insurrection which, for a time, entirely un-
settled that country, and which he met with the
promptitude and decision, and prudence and precaution,
which rendered it of very short duration, and speedily
restored the tranquillity of that country.—(Hear, hear.)
This happened under the Government of my Lord Gos-
port, and when he left Canada Lord Seaton succeeded
to the Government of the Provinces. When her Majesty was
advised to send out Lord Durham as Governor-General
of the Canadas the Noble Lord instantly accepted,
under the new Governor-General, the post Ito had
formerly held as Commander of the Forces in these
provinces; not, in my opinion, the least prudent or
signal act of his Lordship's life, and evincing at the
same time the moderation of his character, and h.s
anxiety to serve her Majesty in any capacity. He put
aside all personal feelings, and acted in the most
cordial manner with the new Governor- General.—( Hear,
hear.) I think, my Lords, this was not the Ica It noble
trait in his character.—( Hear, hear.) He acted in a
manner which did honour to the service, in performing
the duty required of him without regard to personal
considerations, or to circumstances which might by others
be considered humiliating.—(Hear, hear.) When the
war broke out again, he acted with the same promptitude and
prudence, and the disturbances were soon put down. I
say, my Lords, that the prudence and wisdom of his civil
services were equally conspicuous and valuable,
and such, I believe I may say, as to command
the universal approbation of the House and the country,
and to merit the honours which her Majesty has beettyad-
vised to bestow upon him. I call upon your Lordships to
concur with the other House of Parliament to give him the
means of supporting that honour. To this applica-
tion there has been but one exception, and that a
most honourable one. The only obstacle was a doubt in
the mind of the Noble and Gallant Lord himself, whether
the services which he had rendered were such as to merit
the honours and rewards bestowed on him. That doubt
was expressed to the Commander of the Forces, and I be-
lieve that it was the only doubt expressed in any quarter,
but we, my Lords, rather agreed with the general voice
of the country, than with the Noble and Gallant Lord
himself; and therefore, in the confident expectation of
your Lordships' assent I move, " that an humble Ad-
dress be presented to her Majesty, thanking her Majesty for
her most gracious message informing the House
that her Majesty, having taken into consideration the
services of John, Lord Seaton, as Governor-General of
Canada, and Commander of the Forces in that province,
and had determined to confer upon him a signal mark of
her favour, and to assure her Majesty that this House will
most cheerfully concur in any measure necessary to accom-
plish that most important purpose."
The Duke of WELLINGTON entirely concurred in
what had fallen from the Noble Lord respecting the ser-
vices and character of his Noble and Gallant Friend,
with so much feeling and good taste.—( Hear, hear.) He
had had the honour of being connected with him in
service at an early period of his life, and he must
fay that at all times, and under all circumstancos, he gave
that promise of prudence, zeal, devotion, and ability which
he had since so nobly fulfilled. He entirely concurred with
the Noble Viscount in all that he said respecting the con-
duct of his Noble and Gallant Friend, in taking
the command of the troops, although it was
not expedient for the purpose of the Government
to place him again in the Government of the Provinces.
He agreed with the Noble Lord in wishing that such ex.
amples as that which had been shown by the Noble Lord
might be always followed in her Majesty's service, for
he must say that there never was a brighter example
of devotion to his duty than that which had been
manifested by the Noble Lord. He was most happy
therefore, to hear that the Noble Viscount declared
in such strong terms his approbation, and that of her
Majesty's Government, of the conduct of the Noble
Lord. He viewed with the greatest gratification the intima-
mation of her Majesty's gracious favour to the Noble Lord,

Visconnt STRANGFORD complained of an error
in certain returns which had been laid upon the Table of
the number of Royal Marines employed on shore, the
sum total of which did not correspond with the amount of
the items.

The Earl of MINTO gave some explanation, which
was inaudible.

Lord FITZGERALD presented a petition from a
County in Ireland, praying that ni alteration nitlit be
made in the Corn-laws.

The Marquis of BUTE presentel two petitions from
places in Ayrshire, praying for the abolition of patronage
in the Church of Scotland.

The Marquis of NORMANBY, in moving that the
House should go into Committee on the Metropolitan
Police Courts' Bill, begged to say that it was not intended
by it to increase the power of stipendiary magistrates—
it was merely a Bill to settle and define the limits of the
districts governed by the Courts, and not to trench upon
the powers of the local magistrates. One new power it
gave which he thought would not be objected to, it was
giving the Government power to appoint a magistrate, not
to one Court alone, where he would have to sit for six
hours a day, probably there would not be business to oc-
cupy him half thai; time. They therefore proposed to ap-
point him to preside in several Courts. He thougnt that
in removing nuisances, the Metropolitan Police Courts Bill
of last year had given rise to another nuisance, by the
encouragement to common informers. He proposed to in-
troduce a clause to remedy that, and he understood from
the Commissioners of Police that they were willing to un-
dertake the responsibility of removing the nuisance without
the intervention of the informers.
After a few words from Lord WYNFO RD, the House
went into Committee on the Bill.
Lord W YNFORD rose to object to the Bill, but his
Lsrdship's observations were quite inaudible in the ,gallery.
We understood him as stating that its effect would be to
do away with County Magistrates, for if any number of
them were assembled to hear any cause, and a Police Ma-
gistrate entered the room, that instant their jurisdiction would
cease, and therefore tile), would not degrade themselves by
holdinOgee under such circumstances; but his chief ob-
jection t was that it would corrupt the rural population
if they were sent to the same prison with the population
of the town, who were versed in the most approved modes
of committing crime. He therefore proposed as amend-
ments, to substitute the words " limits of the Central Cri-
minal Court," for the words, "metropolitan police dis-
tricts ;" a clause providing that no more than twenty-seven
Magistrates should be appointed to execute the duti.s of
the said Courts, and one or two other clauses, the purport
of which did not reach us.