The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-18 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DI lISION.

(From the Poles and Proceedings of the house of Commons.)
TUESDAY, IvIA Rex 17.
CORONERS OF MIDDLESEX.
Motion made and question put, " That a Select Committee
be appointed to inquire into any measures which have been
adopted for carrying into effect in the County of Middlesex, the
provisions of the Act 1 Vic. c. 63, and also into any proceed-
ings of the Justices of the Peace in relatfon to the office of
Coroner in the said Comity :"—Mr. akley.)—The House
divided:—

MAJORITY.
Baring, F. T.—Portsmouth
Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich
Bowes, T —Plymouth
Brodie, W. B.—Salisbury
Brotherton, J.—Salford
Bustleld, %V.—Bradford
Chichester, J. P. B.—Barnstaple
Clay, William—Tower Hamlets)
Duke, Sir James—Boston
Fwart, William—Wigan
Grey, Sir Charles Edward—Tyne.

—AYES, 31.
Lushington, Ch4rles—Ashburton
Morris, D.—Car.narthen
IPalmerston, Vise aunt—Tiverton
'Parker, John—Sheffield
Rice, Edward Roy,'—Dover
Rundle, John—Tavistock
Strickland, Sir G.— \V • Yorkshire
Turner,lEdmund—Truro
Vigors, N. A.—Carlow Co
1 Wallace, Robert—Greenock •
Warburton, H.—Bridport
White, Andrew —Sunderl.ind
Wood, Sir Matthew—London
Wood, Benjamtn—Southwark

mouth
Hawes, B. -Lambeth
Hobhouse, T. Benj.—Rochester
Hodges, T L.—West Kent
Howard, P. H.—Carlisle
lumphery, John—Southwark
Lister, E. Canlitre—Bradfori

TELLERS.
Wakrey, Thomas—Finsbury
Hume, Joseph—Kilkenny

MINORITY-
Bailey, J. D.—Sudbury
Courtenay, P.—Bridgewater
Cripps, Joseph—Cirencester
Eliot, Lord—East Cornwall
Fre .hfield, James Wm.—Penryn
Gaskell, Jame 4 Milnes—Wenlock '
Grimsditch, T.—Macclesfield
flodgson ft d.—Berwick-on-Tweed,
Hughes, W. B.—Carnarvon
Kemble, H.—East Surrey

-NOES, 17.
Knatchbull, Sir E.—East Kent
Knight, H. G.—Nottinghamshire
Lowther, J. H.—York
Plumptre, John I' —East Kent
Rickford, NV.— Aylesbury
Vivian, John Ennis—Truro
Wodehouse, Edmond—E Norfolk

TELLERI.
Wood, T. J.—Middlesex
Fremantle. Sir Thomas—Bucks

MILITARY OUTRAGE AT WIGAN.

The following are further particulars of the disturbance
which took place last week at Wigan, in consequence of the
riotous conduct of the military :
On Friday Mr. Cash was brought before a full Bench of
Magistrates, in the Moot-hall, under a charge of riot, assault,
and rescue. Several witnesses were examined upon oath. Mr.
Cash was committed to take his trial at the next Assizes. He
was subsequently admitted to bail, himself in 3001. and two
sureties in 1501. each. _ _

On Saturday Mr. Plunkett was taken into custody, and
brought before a Bench of Magistrates, charged with having
committed an assault on the person of Mrs. Burgoine, and with
having aided and encouraged a riot on the part of the military,
and with being one of those who favoured the rescue of the
Hon. Adolphus Fraser, then a prisoner in the custody of a
Sheriff's officer. Four witnesses were against the prisoner,
whose testimony went to prove that he had for nearly two
hours personated Mr. Fraser, in order to facilitate the escape
of the latter from the hands of the civil power. That he had
assaulted the landlady (if the Three Crowns, resisted the civil
power, encouraged the rioting on the part of the soldiery, and
by his presence aided and abetted in the rescue of Fraser while
a prisoner. The examinations lasted several hours, after which
the prisoner was committed to Kirkdale to take his trial at the
Liverpool Assizes. He was, however, subsequently admitted to
bail, himself in 200/. and two sureties in 100/. each.
John Burgin, a private soldier, was also committed to take
his trial at the same Assizes for riot and rescue.

1./0 lb. RAI" ••••. •
Mr. Fraser is as yet at large. On Saturday evening word
was brought to the borough that Fraser had been seen that
morning in the neighbourhood of Bolton. The General com-
manding the troops of this district arrived here to-day, accom-
panied by others high in command. The proceedings conse-
quent upon their arrival remain a profound secret.
As the depositions will be forwarded to the Home Depart-
ment and the Horse Guards, the public will probably learn in a
few days how it is intended to deal with the parties implicated.

POLITICAL SUMHARY OF THE

MORNING JOURNALS.

The Tunes of this morning thus characterizes Mr. Wal-
lace's motion la it night :—" Next came the unimportant, and
as it was aptly called in the debate, the trumpery motion of the
Member for Greenock, prop° ing an inquisition into the convi-
vial and other proceedings of the Glasgow University Peel
Club, which r,rovoked, by its mere absurdity and intrusiveness,
a smarter debate than subjects of real consequence are usually
found to beget in the present House of Commons."—The
Morning Herald, alluding to the question of the Corn-laws, ob-
serves:—" A mere Parliamentary majority in favour of the
Corn.laws will be of little avail. There was, last year, a large
majority against the free traders—yet the free traders are now
more active and more formidable than ever ! This question
will not now admit of being tampered with. The Anti- Corn-
law League must be put down—or the agricultural capital of the
kingdom will be annihilated."—The Morning Chronicle, in a
leading article on the subject of Church abuses, remarks as
follows :—" The extension which the Church really wants
is an extension of moral influence ; and this can
neither be built up with bricks and mortar, nor
realized from the proceeds of taxation. Nearly half
the spiritual duty of the Church is done by deputy. The reci-
pients of its revenues pay the working clergy about thirty shil-
lings a week—rather low wages for a clever carpenter. The
Morning Post observes, with reference to the Church of
Scotland question :--" If ever there was a question in which
it were a sin and a shame to be guide,l by mere party interests,
this is one ; yet the more the conduct of the Government and
of those who generally express Government opinions is looked
into, the more certainly does it appear that they wish to use
this question as they would any other popular squabble, merely
with a view to turn votes in their own favour."—The Morning
Advertiser expresses itself as follows on the subject of the
Opium Trade :—" It has been asserted that the Opium Trade,
being prohibited by the laws of China, it is unjust on the part
of Great Britain to iLterfere in its protection. This argument
might command attention if the laws of China were based on
rational principles, or such as guide the conduct of other na-
tions ; but the Chinese laws are a mass of absurdities, exer-
cised by the most absolute of despotism:" ,