The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-13 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 1;), 1 4O.

No. 14,902

PASTERN COAST OF CENTRAL
AMERICA COMMERCIAL and AGRICULTURAL
COMPANY.
Capital £200,000, in Debentures of £2O each.
The First Series of 5,000 issued, bearing interest at Four per
Cent. per annum, payable Half-Yearly.
mitEcTans.
William hood, Esq.
Adam Murray, Esq.
David Pollock, Esq., Q.C.
John Spurgin, Esq., M.D.

THE CHURCH of ENGLAND LIFE and
FIRE ASSURANCE, TRUST and ANNUITY
INSTITUTION,
6, King William-street, City ; and
7, St. Martin's-place,
.Trafalgar-square.

GRAVESEN D.-NICHOLSON'S
WHARF.
Powerful, safe, and fast STEAM BOATS, will leave
Nieholson's Wharf on Sunday and Monday Next, asunder.
FARE Is. EACH WAY.
- DRAGON at Half past Eight.
COMMODORE at Nine.
VESTA at Half-past Nine.
ECLIPSE at Ten.
Mind the only way to NICHOLSON'S WHARF is along
Thames-street ; the thoroughfare over London Bridge Wharf
is dosed to all but those who are willing to be dragged to the
two shilling Boats, and pay two shillings for the dragging.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TfIE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

(From the Globe.)

We envy not the head or the heart which can con-
template the horrible attempt upon our beloved Queen's
life with party feelings. At such a moment, and in con-
nection with such a theme, as our Sovereign's escape from
death by the hand of an assassin, it is little short of im-
piety to cherish the exclusive and deadening sensations
of party antipathy, instead of expanding the heart to re-
ceive the hallowing inspirations of devout gratitude to
Heaven, and the cultivation of good-will among men of
all parties among us. These are the most appropriate
thank-offerings we can render to Him who has preserved
our beloved Queen from death, " our eyes from tears, and
our feet from falling." Whether the wretched man who
raised his hand against the Queen be the subject of mental
aberration, or of moral gravity—whether he stand alone,
isolated from ail other human beings, in the meditation and
commission cf this atrocious crime, or be the agent of
others yet more guilty—are questions which we cannot
solve, seeing the particulars of his examination before the
Privy Council yesterday are not allowed to transpire. Most
earnestly do we hope that the miserable being who could
medit ate a deed so vile will be found to be one whose reason-
ing powers are impaired, and that, notwithstanding the cool
determination of purpose with which the act was perpetrated,
the boldness of his avowal as to his design, and the shrewd-
ness with which he is said to have answered some questions,
and to have evaded others ; notwithstanding all this, we
earnestly hope it will be found that he is the victim of
mental hallucination, and not the subject of legal or
moral accountableness. Above all, we ardently hope, and
firmly believe, that he will be found unconnected with

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To be Empowered by Act of Parliament.
Capital, One Alillion, in 20,000 Shares of 50!. each.
One-tenth of the entire profits of this Institution will be ap-
plied to the relief of Distressed and Aged Clergymen, and the
'Widows and Orphans of Clergymen, who may be recommended
by the Bishops, or by the Clergy of their respective localities.

P. 1-1. Abbott, Esq.
Captain I'. D. Bingham, R.N.
Charles Bourjot, Esq.
John Dawson, Esq.

With power to ada to their number.
Sec RETA sty—Phillip D. Souper, Esq.
CASHIER and ACCOUNTANT—L. S. Coxe, Esq.
SUPERINTENDENT IN CENTRAL AMERICA—Yotng Ander-
son, Esq.
BANKERS—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co.
Emigrants to Central America, desirous of availing them-
selves of the September Ships, are requested to signify such
their intention, and also to complete their purchases of lands
(or to make their deposits for the same, at 5/. per section), on
or before the 15th of July next; in order that the necessary
arrangements may be made for their comfort on the voyage,
and for their reception at the settlement.
PRICE OF LANDS AND RATES OF PASSAGE.
The Land will be divided into sections of 40 acres each (at
ss. per acre), in square blocks, with one-third frontage on a
road or river.
The first Agricultural Settlement will bo at " THIRTEEN
WATERS" about sixteen miles from Abbottsville), at which
latter place settlers will be received until they take up their
allotments.
No reservation whatever is made by the Company upon the
Lands they sell.
Priority of Purchase secures Priority of Choice of Location.
Land Orders transferable.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
20/. entitles a man and his wife to a steerage passage, and to
one section, or 40 acres of Land.
Children from 2 to 6 years of age £2 each.
6 to 10

PATRONS.
His Grace the Duke of Beaufort.
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Worcester,
HONORARY DIRECTORS.
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lypei-.rt Thos. Holt, Esq., Registrar to
Park, Gloucestershire. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester
Robert Boille, Esq., Woolston Rev. Robert Harrison, Tem-
Hall. Essex. ple, Sowerby
Rev. 11. S. Claxson, D.D., Dr. Hoskins, Guernsey
Gloucester. Rev. W. Mayd, Withers.field,
Sir C. Bethel Codrington, Bt. Cambridgeshire
C. M. Codrington, Esq., M.P. Joseph Neeld, Esq., M.P.
Rev. C. Cole, Peterhead. John Neeld, Esq., M.P.
Rev. A. G. Cornwall, Ashcroft Rev. H. Nevill, Cottesmore,
House, Kingscote, Stroud. Rutland
Rev. John J. Dimock, Rector Archdeacon Newcom, Clois-
of Uppingham, Rutland. ters, Ruthin
Rev. J. Dudley, Bromyard. Rev. W. Palmer, D.D., Vicar
Rev. John Dolphin, Bath, Rec.. of Yarcombe, Devon
tor of Pebmarsh, &c. Rev. Sir G. Prevost, Bart.
Hon. and Rev. T. Erskine, Rev. A. Percival, Chaplain to
Beighton Vicarage, Sheffield her Majesty
Rev. W. R. Evans, Kingsland A. Pringle, Esq. M.P.
Rectory, Leominster M. R. Scott, Esq., 17, Devon-
Rev. Evan Evans, Llanermore, shire-place
Ruthin Rev. J. Shirley, Frettenham
Richard Fothergill, Esq., Low- Rectory, Norwich
bridge House, Kendal J. W. Shipton, Esq., 'Glyn-
Rev. W. Gray, Brafferton,Bo- cester
roughbridgo Rev. H. T. Tucker, Uppottery
Joseph Milford, Esq., Charle- Vicarage, Devonshire
mont Hall, Staffordshire Rev. T. Tvrwhitt, Whitchurch
E. G. Hallewell, Esq., Long Rev. W. Walton, F.R. S., Al-
Court, Stroud lenheads, Northumberland
H. T, Hope, Esq., M.P. W. Preston White, Esq., Cork
DIP.E(
William Sloane, Esq., Chi
John Anderson, Esq., Duness-I
lin

SHIP FOR NEW ZEALAND
WANTED.—The COURT OF DIRECTORS of
the NEW ZEALAND COMPANY hereby give Notice,
that they will be ready, on THURSDAY, the 18th day of June,
instant, at Two o'clock precisely, to receive Tenders for the
conveyance of from 150 to 'lOO EMigrants, in a Ship of 300 or
more' ons, old register, from London to the town of 'Welling-
ton, New Zealand, to sail on the Ist of September next.
The Tenders to be made at a fixed rate per head for each
Emigrant, and according to a form which may be had at the
Company's House.
The Directors do not pledge themselves to accept the lowest
Tender. By order of the Court,
.101 IN WARD, Secretary.
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New Zealand House,
Broad-street-buildings, June 11, 1840.

MONK'S FERRY HOTEL, BIRKENHEAD, OPP°,
SITE LIVERPOOL.
HENRY HILLIAR, finding that an impres-
sion has been extensively entertained that the Hotel
has been closed, in consequence of the Ferry-boats having
temporarily discontinued to ply to and from Liverpool, begs
to intimate that it IS STILL OPEN for the reception of
guests, and to assure those who may feel inclined to patronise
the establishment, that every exertion will be used to ensure
them the comforts of a private establishment.
To those who are unacquainted with the situation of the
Mo❑k's Ferry Hotel, it will be only necessary to add, that it is
pleasantly situated on the Cheshire shore of the river Mersey,
commanding a view of the town and docks of Liverpool.
Horses and Carriages for hire.

any secret conspiracy; notwithstanding the reports which
were imprudently published, and greedily believed at
the moment when terror had deprived the pub-
lic mind of the caution which is prompted by pru-
dence, and had disposed it to substitute the crea-
tions of excited imagination for the deductions of reason.
After the most careful inquiries in quarters where a know-
ledge of the entire facts justify confidence in the opinion
they have formed, we unhesitatingly and unequivocally de-
clare, that the public mind may be relieved from the appre-
hensions a contrary belief would necessarily engender, that
nothing has transpired to warrant any, the slightest,
picion, that the act was the result of any confederacy with
others.

4 „
10 „

10 to 14
Above 14
Cabin passages extra.
Servants, 81. each.
Provisions on the voyage included in the above charges.
FREIGHT.
Half a ton weight, or twenty measured cubic feet, allowed
far every action of Land purchased.
Settlers will he received on their arrival by the Company's
Superintendent, who will assign them a cottage at a reasonable
rental, and supply their immediate wants at a fair and reason-
able price. He will assist them in reaching the place of their
destination, and will give them the benefit of his local know-
-edge and experience in the country.
Settlers must find their way to the port of embarkation, but
:hey will be received on board on the day they are summoned
to embark. and will be put to no further expence.
For detailed accounts of the country, maps, &c., apply to
the Secretary, No. 60, Moorgate-street, Bank.

:TORS.
irman, 37, Wimpole-street.
Rev. H. J. Knapp, 62, Morti-

THE ROYAL YORK HO TEL
ABOVE BAR, SOUTHAMPTON.
GEORGE QUICK begs respectfully to announce to his
Friends and the Public., that in consequence of the retirement
of his respected neighbour, Mr. John White, from business,
her Majesty's Master of the Horse, the Earl of Albemarle, has
been pleased to appoint him to the honourable office of Post-
master to the Queen.
George Quick, impressed with feelings of dutiful and loyal
gratitude for the honour thus graciously conferred upon him,
will henceforward announce his old and well-known establish-
ment as THE ROYAL YORK HOTEL, instead of the
" York Hotel," as heretofore.
The extensive patronage bestowed on this House by the No-
bility, Gentry, and Commercial Interests of England, strength-
ened and enhanced by his generous brother-townsmen, calls
for the Proprietor's warmest and most sincere thanks. His gra-
titude will be best evinced to the Public by an increased atten-
tion to their comforts, combined with that just and wholesome
economy which the spirit of the day demands.
To those who have not yet visited Southampton, it may be
proper to say that the Royal York Hotel is situated inthe most
respectable, airy, and salubrious part of the town. Every hour
of the day there are Coaches or other conveniences to all parts
of the Kingdom. Vehicles with one or two horses, arc also
ready at a moment's notice, to convey the delighted wanderer
through the varied beauties which environ the Southampton
Water, or into the more magnificent glories of the Forest. For
health, relaxation, or pleasure, there is every auxiliary that
modern taste and modern enterprise can suggest.
The Stabling and Coach-houses of the Royal York Hotel
are built with modern improvements, and are in every way
calculated to insure the approbation of the public.
* * An elegant Omnibus, built by Richardson, the Paten-
, tee, runs to and from the Royal York on the departure and
arr.val of every train.

mer-street
Jobn M'Clure, Esq., 8, Broad-

George Ashlin, Esq.,so, Mark-
lane

street-buildings
'Captain Afacdougal, Fir-Grove,

William Camp Crane,Esq., 12,
Copthall-court
Benjamin Jackson, Esq., 28,
Gordon-street, Gordon-sq.

(From the Standard.)
Last night the Irish Grand Jury Cess Bill was read a
second time in the House of Lords, with the understanding
that the discussion i 3 to be taken on going into Commit-
tee tonight. Of the fate of the Bill we believe there is
little doubt. The House of Lords will refuse their assent to

Brixton
George Sloane, Esq., Temple
Sir William White, 15, St.
James's-square
d to their number.)
OFFICERS.
1.D., Mortimer-street, Caren-

(With power to ad(
MEDICAL
PHYSICIAN—G. C. Child, N

the transferring to the rabble Town Councils, to be elected
under the new Municipal Bill, the varied and extensive
powers which now are vested in responsible and respectable
Grand Jurors. Another Bill also stands for Committee

EMIGRATION.
THE NEW BRITISH PROVINCE OF
VICTORIA, CENTRAL AMERICA, possesses the
following advantages :
A fine healthy climate, a rich and fertile soil, an free from
droughts.
Abundance of valuable natural productions, affording to the
colonists an almost immediate and advantageous means of re-
mittance.
A first-rate position for trade, being in the centre of the
great American continent, and on the banks of a navigable
river, communicating with some of the richest provinces of
Old Spain.
The passage occupies now about six weeks, and will be re-
duced next year to twenty-one days, by steam communication.
Horses, cattle, and provisions of all sorts in abundance, and
easily obtained in exchange for British manufacture.
The natives mild and inoffensive, and much attached to the
English people.
The fullest particulars will be forwarded, postage free, or may
be had at the British Central American Land Company's
Offices, 68, Old Broad-street, London.
By order, C. F. SMITH. Secretary.
Respectable Agents are in course of appointment for every
town in the United Kingdom.

dish-square.
SURGEON—Edward Duffin, Esq., Langham-place.

STANDING COrNSEL.
Chas. Purton Cooper, Esq., Q. C., L. L.D., and F. R. S., &c.
Charles M. Elderton, Esq., Lincoln's Inn.
Peter Laurie, Esq., Temple.
_

to-night--we mean the Municipal Bill itself. We have
heard, indeed, that it is not improbable that Lord Mel-
bourne may again postpone it, but we can scarcely credit
it. It is difficult, indeed, to account for the evident desire
for delay which has already been manifested by Ministers.
If again postponed, we may perhaps be driven to believe
that the motives for this postponement are to be sought
for elsewhere than in anything that has met the public eye.
(From the Courier.)
Last night came on Lord Stanley's motion for a Corn..
mittee on the Irish Registration Bill, and it was met by
our very magnanimous Government with a most pitiful
device, to which Mr. C. Wood was not ashamed to
stand as father. This was no less than an amendment
toisubstitute the Order of the Day for the Committee on

STANDING COUNSEL FOR IRELAND.
Mr. Sergeant Jackson, M.P.
SOLICITOR.
Edward M. Elderton, Esq., 40, Queen.square, Bloomsbury.

mAsAGING nittEcToa.
Benjamin Jackson, Esq.
CLERICAL SECRETARY.
Rev. R. C. Packman, Priest in Ordinary to Her Majesty,
Rector of Langdon Hills, Essex ; and Minor Canon of St.
Paul's.

SECRETARY.
William Emmens, Esq.
SURVEYOR.
John Fulford, Esq., 14, New 'Millman-street.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Herries, Farquhar and Co., St. James's-street ;
Union-Bank of London, Moorgate-street.
The Directors of this Institution think proper simply to point
out the peculiar claims which the CHURCH OF ENGLAND
ASSURANCE INSTITUTION has upon the Clergy of the
Established Church, and the Public generally, for countenance
and support.
Many distinctive classes of society have formed their Insur-
ance Companies, depending. in a great degree, upon the aid and
patronage of their respective Members, and especially adapted
to the circumstances of those parts of the community which
they more immediately represent.
The CHURCH of ENGLAND requires the establishment
of a similar Institution, on an enlarged and liberal scale, not
confined in the benefits it offers to one class of its great Com-
munity, but calculated to meet the wants and demands which
the social relations and complicated arrangements of property
render so necessary and advantageous to all its Members ;—to
supply this desideratum, and to extend the advantages of a well-
regulated system of Life Assurance among its Clergy, Mem-
bers, and Friends, is the immediate object of this Association ;
its resources not being derived from the Clergy alone, but
from the Laity also, its sphere of usefulness, and its success
under discreet and sound management, will be co-extensive
with the great interests it represents.
The Members of the Church possess more than ordinary
power and influence to promote all the great and beneficial
objects which such an Institution is calculated to effect ; and
the Directors of this Company, in undertaking its for-cation,
have determined to base it upon a principle which cannot fail
to give it peculiar claims to the zealous support of that great
and influential Body.
By the constitution of the Company, guaranteed by its Deed
of Settlement, one clear tenth of the entire profits of the As-
sociation will be applied to the formation of a Fund—to be
called the " CLERGY FUND,"—to be vested in Trustees,
(two-thirds of such Trustees to consist of Clergymen of the
Established Church, to be appointed by a General Meeting of
the Shareholders), to constitute an increasing and perpetual
provision for distressed and deserving Clergymen, and their
Widows and Children, when recommended by the Bishops or
the Clergy of their respective localities ; and generally to meet
such other charitable objects, connected with the Clergy, as
may from time to time arise.
This Fund not being immediately available for all those be.
nevolent purposes, it is contemplated to anticipate one of its
chief objects, by insuring the lives of necessitous Clergymen,
and enabling Congregations to do so, or otherwise providing
for them, at reduced Premium.
The peculiar advantages thus accruing to the Clergy will, it
is confidently hoped, induce them to exert their salutary influ-
ence to promote these charitable objects ; that, by their co-
operation, the Company may have the means of diffusing more
widely the boon offered to their less-fortunate but deserving
Brethren. The Laity, and all those who are attached to the
Church and the benevolent principles which it inculcates,, will,
doubtless, be animated by the same feeling.
The Institution grounds its title to the support of the public
in general upon the sound principles on which it is founded, and
offers to them, combined in one establishment, all the benefits
presented by the numerous Metropolitan Assurance Companies,
and at Rates of Premium as low and favourable as are consistent
with its obligations and security to all.
To carry out these great and important objects, this Institu-
tion will embrace several original matters of vast importance,
some of which are peculiar to the CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Company :

the English Registration, on the ground that matters re-
lating solely to Ireland might be better discussed in a
matter relating solely to England. After a most elo-
quent reply from Lord Stanley, the House divided, and
Ministers were defeated by a majority of eleven. As the
debate will be found elsewhere, we need not pursue
the subject, particularly as the arguments pro and con
were little, if anything, more than repetitions of those
which have appeared in the various papers that
have taken the subject under consideration. We our-
selves have so often treated the leading principle of
his Lordship's contemplated reform—the suppression
of the extraordinary and scandalous system by which
the most enormous frauds, backed by perjuries, arc encou-
raged—that we arc discharged from the necessity of en-
tering upon any further explanation. We may, however,
be permitted once more to remark that had it not been for
the manner in which Irish electors have been created to
the prejudice of such as had a real and indefeasible right
to the franchise, the very incompetent persons who com-
pose the Melbourne Administration would have been de.
ficient in those majorities by which they have been sus-
tained in office.

HANTS, NEAR THE LONDON AND SOUTHAMP-
TON RAILWAY.

THE ENGLISH STEEL-IRON AND
ANTHRACITE COMPANY.
Capital £200,000, in 10,000 Shares of £2O each.
Deposit £3 per Share.
DIRECTORS.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq., Horse-shoe Wharf, Thames-

TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CON-
TRACT, ALDERSHOT MANOR HOUSE, with
103 Acres of Arable, Meadow, and Hop Land. Attached to
this Estate are extensive manorial and common rights over
about 3,000 acres of the adjoining common. The House is a
Family Mansion, surrounded by park-like grounds, and is
situated four miles from the Railway Station at Farnborough,
two miles from Farnham, and eight from Guildford, Surrey.
For further particulars, apply to Messrs. Shotter and
Evans, solicitors, Farnham, Surrey ; or to Messrs. Clark and
Cooper, Sessions House, Old Bailey, London.

street, and Swansea.
John Harman, Esq., 63, Chester-square.
Donald Maclean, Esq., 7, Basinghall-street.
William Hasledinc Pepys, Esq., F. rt. S., 22, Poultry.
Samuel Solly, Esq., F.R.S., 48, Upper Gower-street, and
Swinderby, Lincolnshire.
Richard Solly, Esq., Tipton, Staffordshire.
Charles Frederick Weber, Esq., East India Chambers, Leaden-
hall-street.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.—Messrs. Ladbroke, Kingscote, and Co., Bank-

buildings.
Soucurons.-111essrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ewens, and Omman-
ney, 6, Basinghall-street.
Of ricEs.—No. 1, Castle-court, Budge-row, Walbrosk.
One of the objects of this Company is to extend the applica-
tion of a discovery of great national importance, secured by
Letters Patent for the United Kingdom, by means of which
British Iron is manufactured for conversion into Steel of :11
qualities, for which pm pose, Foreign Iron alone had previously
been found applicable. Another and an important advantage to
this Company is, that the Directors have secured some of the
best Anthracite properties in Wales, situate upon the line of the
Llaneily and Kidwelly Canal in Carmarthenshire, containing
ample resources for carrying on an extensive trade in Coal as
well as Anthracite Iron.
Applications for Shares (if by letter, post-paid) to be made to
the Directors, at the Company's Office, or to the Solicitors, of
whom the Prospectus, with full particulars, may he obtained.
Should the Shares not be allotted to the satisfaction of the Di-
rectors, the deposit will be returned without any abatement
whatever.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 12.

Lord LOVELACE presented a petition on the subjec
of the Archdeaconries of the diocese of Winchester.

The Bishop of WINCHESTER said that the Bill
which he had laid on the table, entitled the Farnham Rec-
tory Chapels Bill, provided for the matters to which the
petition referred.
ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY.

The LORD CHANCELLOR then said—My Lords,
1 have to inform the House, that this House has been this
day to her Majesty, with the House of Commons, to pre-
sent the loyal Address to which both Houses had
agreed, and to which her Majesty has been pleased to re-
turn this gracious answer :
" It is with heartfelt satisfaction that I receive on the pre-
sent occasion this address from both my Houses of Parlia-
ment, I am deeply sensible of the mercy of Divine
Providence, to whose continued protection I humbly
commend myself, and I trust that under all trials I
shall find the same consolation and support which I now
derive, from the loyal and affectionate attachment of my
Parliament and my people."
Lord MELBOURNE moved that her Majesty's most
gracious answer be entered upon the journals of the
House.—Ordered.

Lord GORT presented a petition against the Municipal
Corporations (Ireland) Bill. We understood the Noble
Lord, who was almost inaudible in consequence of the
noise prevailing in the House, to object to the Bill as being
contrary to former Acts of Parliament.
The Bishop of EXETER presented two petitions from
places in Derry, and a petition from a place in London-
derry, against the Irish Corporation Bill. Also a peti•
tion to the same effect from the Rev. Dr. Crolly, who
had once been a Roman Catholic priest, but who from
conviction had become a Protestant. He had after-
wards been marked out by the priest of the parish in
which he lived, and it had been given in evidence before
their Lordships, that his life had been in danger, and that
he had been obliged to remove to another part of the
country. The prayer of his petition was, that the Irish
Corporation Bill might not be passed till some security
was given against the machinations of the Roman Catho-
lic priesthood. The Right Rev. Prelate also presented
petitions from places in Devon and Kent, against any fur-
ther grant to the College of Maynooth.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented a peti-
tion from a place in Durham, in favour of Church Ex-
tension.

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Day for going into Committee on this Bill, said the object
was to give to the Town Councils under the Irish Munici-
pal Act the same powers within boroughs which Grand
Juries now had. He believed there was nothing in the
Bill but what was necessary to effect that object, which
had in 1838 been substantially approved of by their Lord-

ships.
Lord L YNDII URST said when be had called their
Lordships' attention to the circumstances under which the
I3ill came before them, he believed they would
not be disposed to proceed further sci•h it. In
1837 the Irish Municipal Bill brought up to their
Lordships contained a clause in which the boundaries
of the boroughs were declared to be for the future, in some
the Parliamentary, in others their ancient and established
limits. This was avowedly temporary ; the Boundary
Commission was appointed, and on their report their Lord-
ships in 1838 annexed the boundaries they pointed out to the
Bill, connecting the rural districts to the adjoining counties.
In 1839 another Bill passed their Lordships, with amend
ments not objected to by the Commons, and declaring the
boundaries fixed in the Bill for municipal purposes, and
the rural districts to be annexed to the adjoining counties for
purposes of civil and criminal jurisdiction. By the present
Bill the rural districts were not annexed to the adjoining

counties according to the principle formerly agreed to by
both Houses of Parliament. The reason for rejecting
that principle required to be explained. That principle
required to be adopted in consequence of a recommenda-
tion of the Cumtnissioners themselves, who stated that a
contrary system would be an intolerable evil. A clause
had been introduced, by which the powers of the Grand
Jury were to be transferred to the new town councils. He
did not think their Lordships should agree to that clause
till they knew well how those town councils were likely to
exercise their authority. A sum amounting to betwe. n
thirty and forty thousand pounds a year would be placed
at their disposal in the City of Dublin, and a sum of be-
tween 20,000/. and 30,0001. a year in the City of Cork.
Were their Lordships so unacquainted with the manner in
which the elections were conducted in Ireland as to have

no apprehension as to the course which those parties might
afterwards pursue? The only way in which he could
account for the plan adopted by the Government Iv as by
supposing that they hoped that by acceding to certain sug-
gestions of their Lordships made [on former occasions,
their Lordships would consent to the adoption of clauses
of which they could not approve. The Grand Jury were
at present under a salutary control in cases of presentment.
Any rate-payer might traverse before the Judges of Assize
the decision of the Grand Jury, and if it were thought un-

reasonable, it might be reversed. That would no longer
be the case under the new Bill. On these grounds he
proposed that the Bill should be committed that day six
months.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE defended that clause
to which the Noble and Learned Lord had principally
objected. If they trusted the new corporate authorities in
one case, why not trust them in another ? He thought
that if they distrusted the.n at all, they should not leave
any power whatever in their hands. But that was not an
extremity to which the House was determined to consent.
Let them reject the whole of the Bill, if they doubted the
competency of the municipal body.—(Cheers from the
Opposition benches.) The species of accountability in
this Bill was, that they were responsible to those who paid
the money ; and if these thought they could be more
cheaply served, they were at liberty to employ others.
Therefore the Noble Lord had no right to say that there
was no accountability provided for in the Bill. There
was the best sort of accountability--that of responsibility.
—( Hear, hear.) He did not mean to institute a compa-
rison between those checks which the Noble and Learned
Lord said surrounded the operations of the Grand Juries
in Ireland, and those which were provided, and which per-
haps might be improved in this Bill, upon the exercise of
municipal authority, but it was an absurdity in itself when
cutting off the agricultural districts from the towns, not
to create one body within the town itself with power suffi-
cient for the regulation of the town. He was not prepared
to say with what degree of efficacy the checks of which the
Noble and Learned Lord had spoken operated upon
the Grand Juries, but he had certainly heard in that and
in another place the presentments of Grand Juries spoken
of with greater familiarity than the character the Noble
Lord appeared to attribute to them would seem to warrant.
He believed, however, that this proceeded in some degree
from the objections which, at one time, were entertained by
some persons as a matter of course to the presentments
of the Grand Juries in Ireland. There was one other
point to which his Noble and Learned Friend had adverted,
—namely, respecting the jurisdiction left to the towns
so separated from th country. He understood that pro-
vision was made purely for the purpose of convenience.
Lord LYNDHURST said,—What he proposed was,
that the Bill should be divided into two parts, and come
up as separate Bills from the other House of Parliament.
The Marquis of L AND SDO WNE resumed.—lt
would be for their Lordships to deal with that
question. He was convinced their Lordships would
feel it was due to justice that those districts should
be emancipated from tt,ntribution ; but he did think
it was but common justice to the towns them-
selves, when they were so separated, that they should
have the power of levying the sums which were raised
in the narrow limits of the town itself. There was only
one point now to which he would allude. A Noble Baron
on a former occasion had stated an objection which he
thought, if it was found to be correct, would be a very
strong one. It was that this Bill would throw that district
which should be considered as part of the liberties of
Limerick into the county of Clare, which lay on the
other ride of the Shannon. He was of opinion, if such
were the case, it would be expedient to alter it in that
respect. The object of the Bill was, that these liberties
shculd be attached to those counties to which they adjoined.
lie thought it right to give this explanation, as he would
not have it supposed that they would annex a district which
belonged to a county on one side of a river to another
county on the other side.—( Hear, hear.)
The Marquis of WESTME ATH said that in his
opinion the smaller the taxing power they gave to those
municipal bodies the better.—( Hear, hear.) The
Noble Lord inferred that because there would be
annual election that there would be a responsibility.
Now he would ask any Noble Lord connected with Ire-
land whether in the course of his experience he had ever
seen a local matter debated in which the real state of the
facts were fairly put to the parties interested in the ques-
tion ? It was certain the Irish were not aware of the
powers sought to be conferred by this Bill, and that if they
were, their cry would be, " Let us alone." It was not
their business on that side of the House to amend the Bill
—that was the duty of the Government, in which they
must not look for assistance from Noble Lords on his side
of the House—(Laughter)—at least unless the measure
were such as would be for the advantage of that country.
The Earl of WICKLOW said, the object of the pre-
sent Bill was to amend the Municipal Reform Bill ; but
it appeared to him by no means indispensable that the pre-
sent Bill should be an accompaniment to that. In this
Bill there was a strange anomaly. They would not give
the municipal body the power of paving the city, nor would
they suffer it to remain with the Grand Jury. With re-
gaid to two of the five towns to be affected by it,
it was clear that this Bill was not calculated to effect the
object desired. Under those circumstances, he thought
it would be better to leave the taxing powers with Grand
Juries, as it was at present. He quite agreed with the
Noble Marquis (Lansdowne) that part of this Bill was
exceedingly desirable. The Noble Marquis admitted that.
lie regretted the Bill had not been divided into two parts,
and had thus at length taken that view of it which he was
urged to do by Noble Lords on the other side of the
House. Under these circumstances, he thought it would
be better to reject this Bill, and proceed with the other
which stood for consideration that night, and then
for the Noble Marquis to exercise that influence which he
possessed over his friends elsewhere, to induce them to do
that which he had been advised to do, and which he now
regretted he had not done, namely, to bring up two Bills
for consideration in that House. The arguments of the
Noble and Learned Lord appeared to him to be so con-
vincing that he felt bound to vote for the amendment.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE explained.
Lord BROUGHAM said he should certainly vote for
the motion of his Noble Friend, not being disposed to ac-
company the conferring of power on municipal bodies
with distrust.
Their Lordships then divided, when there appeared—

For the Bill
Against it 96
Majority
IRISH MUNICIPAL BILL.

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On the Order for the Committee on this Bill,
The Duke of WELLINGTON said their Lordships
had repeatedly waited for the Cess Bill, which had been
considered necessary for the well disposing of this dill.
Their Lordships having rejected the Cess Bill he pro-
posed to delay going on with this measure till the other
House had time to reconsider the former Bill. He, there-
fore, moved to postpone the Bill till Friday.
Viscount MELBOURNE begged the Noble Duke
to recollect that the Municipal Bill had been post-
poned by the advice, aided by the gentle compulsion—
( A laugh)—of the Noble Lords opposite, and that he
(Viscount Melbourne) had never agreed that the two
measures were at all connected.—( Hear, hear.) This
Municipal Bill had already been postponed too many
times, acid he could not reconcile it with his duty—how_
ever much Noble Lords opposite might be desirous of
evading the pledges they formerly gave—to postpone the
measure again, till by repeated delays the Session passed
without its being carried.—( Cheers. )
The Duke of WELLINGTON denied that such was
his design, and said it was within the power of the opposite
party to have prevented any such delay by dividing the
Bill into two parts, enabling then Lordships to pass one
part of it without being tied down to the other.
Their Lordships divided, when there appeared—
For the postponement . 94
Against it 6B
Majority
After some other business the House adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE 12.
ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS.
The SPEAK ER said—l have to report to this House
that both Houses have been this day to her Majesty with
the Address, to which her Majesty has been pleased to
give the following most gracious Answer. ( See Lords'
Report.)
The Dublin and Drogheda Railway Bill (No. 2), the
Banff Municipal Police and Harbour, and the Glasgow,
Paisley, and Greenock Railway Bills, were severally read
a third time, and passed.
IRISH REGISTRATION.
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Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that he should, on the