The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-23 00:00:00

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LONDON:
TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1041.

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The Lords did nothing but receive a few peti-

tions,hear a defence of the Rev.Mr.M'CANDLEISII,
and prosecute their inquiry into the appoint-
ments made by the Poor-law Commissioners of

Ireland. So very uninteresting are their Lord-
ships' labours cOnsidered to be by the Times, that
it does not generally condescend to waste a line
on their nightly sittings. Their Lordships
amused- themselves till dinner-time.

The Commons, after the presentation of
a great ' number of petitions, the announce-
ment of a motion for a Committee on NewfoUnd-
land, a little gossip about the arrangdment of;
business, in which Lord JOHN RUSSELL said hdi
should state on Wednesday what he means to
do as to many of the amendments proposed td
the new Poor-law—went' into a Cointnittee or.
the Consolidated Fund Bill. The CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER gave the explanatibn• to Sit
G. CLERK which he was unable to give on Fri
day, and said that :the mistak.e arose from the
Hon. Baronet having moved for and obtained
incomplete return, which took no notice of tl
money in the Treasury.
In reply to Mr. HUME, the ,CHANCELLOR of

the ExcIiE4LTER admitted that he had used som6.
of the money of the Savings Banks, which tl4
Ilion. Gentleman said was enough to alarm the

House and the country. The. Right Hon. Csen4
tleman was increasing the debt without the con!-
sent of Parliament.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated
that he was authorised to do what he had done.
The SPEAKER called the attention of the
House to the mode in which the extra exi-
pense of last year was to be provided fole
and mentioned in the. Appropriation Act,
which he said was directly the reverse cif
the only precedent he could find; which occurreil

in '1790, of a surplus . expenditure being aftei'7
wards provided for. In that case the vote wets
reserved till the end of the Session; and was not

mixed up with the ordinary business of Bupply.
An appeal to Sir R. PEEL'S opinion however—
who is the real guide of the House—and a few
words from the Right Hon. Baronet, settled the
question.

The House resumed, and after a long prelimi-
nary discussion, about what specific object we
cannot say, further than it referred to the Poor-
.

law Commissioners Continuance Bill, and' the
administration of the law, went into a Committee
on that Bill. Mr. WAKLEY was, as before, very

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inflammatory, and this time he had- Lord Hal,y-
ICK for a critic and opponent.
In Committee there was a considerable debase
on an amendment proposed by Mr. EAsTinpr 'to
limit the duration of the Bill to 1843, instead of
1846, which vas lost by 174 to 135. The Hotise
was occupied with this important Bill through
the greater part of the evening, and.rose at Half-
past Twelve o'Clock.

Some of our Contemporaries writing about Nee
trade, whether they advocate or oppose it, seem
not to be aware, or at least' not always to remem-
ber, that free trade nowhere exists, and never
has existed, in modern times so as to iupply:us
with evidence derived from experience.eitheri of
its deformity and mischievousness or of 'its
beauty, and usefulness. It is rather an, ideal
state of perfection for which good `men strie,
than an actual state of society of Which we. can
othert h
dreadfullyl tEngland;'
European
advances
a6enraec
nef
.osnria:t i
'unless
ogne ra
Arguments
s,e
say such are the :advantages
.or,,suclf are the
miseries. Free trade, therefore,' We ivish to im-
press en our reader;, is: less to be
_7t-Ldvocated by
facts than by principles, and it is more within
the domain of moral reasoning than statistics.
There are few countries, for example, which
are at present more curgecl with reitrietionS, or
which feel•more the restrictions they area cursed
nglandy'uneasy though 'she now ii; and
' with, than England ; and yet cannot be, denied
ashaarme hampered. as asss ostile- ie
prosperityif•.epeelosp' ll:
(e,ahtswieal
nals herself`
f,raaaonridin3de,
suffering
e also-ai.e .
quite able .
at to
greater _
moral causes of. the progress or
statistics,discriminate the
to truth.
ofo people,conduct us
u s
ary co
apt to lead astray
of Europe in which
an ap-
The only country
sta toil
'free trade prevails, isBwitzerland;
proximation to
be at the same time remarked
and it deserves to.
the statistics of the ques-
that its prosperity, or
nditioans.
tion as exemplified by 11
S ritierland, are riot op-