The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-11 00:00:00

LONDON :
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1840.

Petitions against the intrusion of ministers and
against the abolition of the Corn-laws were last night
presented in the Lords.
The Municipal Bill for Ireland was read a first time,
and the second reading fixed for the 30th inst.
A little further explanation of the numbrr and
respectability of the petitioners in Newport on behalf
of Feos•r and his companions was given by Lord
TEYNIIAM, who difftrs from the Marquis of Non-
MANLY on this fact. Lord TEYNIIAM said the petition
contained the names of five of the present Town
Councillors.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition
from medical men, praying for medical reform. One
object of the petitioners was to promote vaccination,
500 persons having died of the small pox in one
year in the south of England, and they recom-
mended that persons should be employed to vac-
cinate the poor. The idea seemed to please the
Lords, and Lord ELLENBOROUGH recommended a short
Bill to enable the Guardians of the Poor to contract
for vaccinating the people.
At. a Quarter before Six the Lords adjourned.
In the Commons, the Taff Vale Railway Bill nar-
rowly escaped strangulation. It was read a second time
by a majority of three only.
Mr. PRY MME postponed his motion for gradually put-
ting an end to the Corn•laws, for a fortnight.
Sir E. SUGDEN gave notice that he would move in
Committee on the Printed Papers Bill, to omit the
clause which puts an end to pending actions. He will
probably, on the same principle, stop the Race Horse
Bill, which does the same thing. The same thing
was done when the late Lord STOWELL
brought in his Bill to stop an informer who had
brought a number of qui tans actions against Clergymen
for non-residence, and at a much later period when a
similar series of actions were brought against newspaper
proprietors for a little informality in printing their
names. We see no reason for the Legislature being
more tender to Mr. STOCICDALE than it was to these
informers.

Sir JOHN WALSH withdrew his motion for a reso-
lution to settle the privilege dispute by legislation.
The Bill introduced by Lord JOHN RUSSELL has ta-
ken the matter out of his hands.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in a speech
remarkable for fairness and candour, in which he indi-
cated with great clearness ample reason for inquiring
into our banking system, without casting a slur on any
one establishment, moved for a Committee to inquire
into the effect produced in the circulation of the coun.
try by the various banks issuing notes payable on de
mend.
Mr. GISBORNE wished to have Joint Stock Banks
which did not issue notes included in the inquiry.
not
Mr. JOHN ELLIS would oppose any measure for
Placing the Bank of Ireland on the same footing as the
Bank
in of
f England.
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also expressed an opinion favourable
to a metallic
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Mr. M. ATTWOOD wanted not
modelling of the currency. inquiry, but a re-

Mr. CLAY approved Of the terms and limitations of
the inquiry proposed by the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER.

Si; R. PEEL wished the Committee to be limited_ to
practical inquiries, and pointed out several, as, for ex-
ample, what ought the Legislature to do when the
Bank Charter expires, to which he wished the Commit.
tee to be confined. He could never consent
to an inquiry into the basis of the currency, be-
cause that would indicate that the Parliament had
not made up its mind on the subject. But we should
like to know what business. Parliament has to make up
its mind in ignorance, when 2,000 pamphlets are pub-
lished in two years on the subject? Is it not possible
that the mind of Parliament can be made up when that
of the nation is not ?----and if it be, the sooner it be
111:made, or set loose, like the mind of the constituency,
she
better. It will then inquire freely, and may learn
the truth.
Nobody opposed the motion, which was accordingly
agreed to.