The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-03 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL. P-A,RLIAMENT.
&OUSE OF LORDS, July 2.
The Bookie sat to-day at Five o'clock.
ROYAL ASSENT.
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The Royal Assent was given to-day by Commissi
to the following seventy-three public and private
Naval Mutiny Bill—Naval Prisons Bill—Roy 'al
14arine Service Bill—Quakers and Jews Mar-
riages Bill Masters in Chancery Bill Bsetba
and Washhouses Bill Cornwall Railway Bill
London and North-Western Railway (purchase of
Railway
Ellesmere's interest, &c.) Bill—Vale of Neaartbhoußratail_
Bill—General Terminus and Glasgow
Rail-
way Brandies Bill—Gloucester and D.eaniFlinoahreirset Railway
y
(Construction of Docks) Bill—East Li
(Deviation at Boston, and Branch tuorelGarbeya)t_GArimmbt
and Sheffield Junction Railway at G
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, ftildEaßstznehJeusncitniotno
Railway (Alioration of Lineot and
Nottingham)—Llynvi Val-
or near the Town of Isl
Val-
ley Railway ExtensionA—Shrewsbury
Birming-
ham Railway Act
Bristol and South WalesmJun(eGtiloanagoßwa,ilwGaayrnaknirdk,Aatillsdt
Perry—Caledonian Railway,_
Coatbridge Railway,B Branch to Glasgow and Station)
Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway (De-
viation between Duntocher Lime-works and Bowlin see—
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland—N awry
veld Enniskillen Railway Acts Amendment—Neu sport,
Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway (Deviate- eis)—
Herneßay and CanterburyJunction—London and South-
Western Railway (Widening, &c.)—Dundee and. Perth
Railway (Alterations and Extension)—Gleegow, Barr-
head, and Neilston Direct
Railway (Branch to join the West London Mule fey, &c.)—
asteßrnailwCoay Counties Railway (Maldov, , Witham., and Brain-
treePurchase)—Greae 'Southern and Westert
Railway Extension (Portarliagean and Tullamore)- _-
Norfolk Railway (Branch from Wymondham to- the
Norwich Extension of the Ipswich and Bury Ste :Ed-
mund's Railway, and the, proposed Thetford and 'Re;ed-
ham Railway, near Diss)—Glasgow, Barrheade and
Neilston Direct, and Glasgow Southern Terminus
Railways Amalgamation—Southampton and Dorc-hester
Railway, (New Forest Deviation and Branches)—
Lowestoft Railway and Harbour (Alteration
near Reedham) Norfolk Railway (Yarmouth
Extensions)—Dublin and Drogheda Railway Branch
from Navan to Kells—Southampton and Dorc'aester
Railway (Weymouth Branch)—Swansea Valley Rail-
way—Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway De-
viation—Manchester and Leeds Railway (Branch from
the Huddersfield Railway)—South-Eastern Railway
(North Kent and Bricklayers' Arms Junction)—
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway and Branch—
Dundee and Ifewtyle Railway—London and North-
W estern Rellwtry (Newport Pagnell, Olney, and Welling.
borough Branch)—North Staffordshire Railway (Altera-
tions and Branches)---South Wales Railway—Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway—
Dublin and Betfast Junction and Navan Branch Railway
—Boston, Sta.meord and Birmingham Railway (Peter-
borough and 'Thorney Line)—East Lincolnshire Railway
(Louth Navigation Purchase)—London and North-
Western Railway (Coventry and Nuneaton Branches)—
London and South-Western Railway (Andover to the
Bishopstoke and Salisbury Branch)—Manchester, Shef-
field and Lincolnshire Railway (Branch at Bugsworth)
—York and Newcastle Railway, and Wearmouth
Dock Eulergemstit—hlidland Railway (Leicester
and Swannington)—London and North-Western
Railway (Atherstone and Whitacre Branch)--
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan Railway (Amend-
ment and Deviations and Branches)—Birmingham and
Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley iteilway (No. 1)—
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Lease to the
London and North-Western Railway Company)—Swan-
sea Docks—Croydon Commercial Gas ane Coke Com
pany—Dunfermline Waterworks—Falmouth Water-
works. Macduff Harbour Improvement Wark-
worth Harbour—London, (City) Small Debts—
Weetaiinster and Part of Middlesex Sewers—Bristol
Building and Improvement Act Amendment—Bristol
Commercial Insurance Company—Wyndham's Estate
Bill—Long's Estate Bill—Poyntzfield's Estate Bill—
Horne's (Ferguson's) Estate Bill—Hodgson Hinde's
Estate Bill—Leigh's Estate Bill.
The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
Feed Spencer, and Lord Denman.
PUNISHING A SOLDIER, IN THE SEVENTH
HUSSARS.
Lord BROUG HAM wished to ask his Noble Friend
a question with respect to the punishment of a soldier
of the 7th Hussars, named Radcliffe, who had
been charged with a very grave offence, namely
shooting at his sergeant with a pistol loaded
with ball. If the charge was true it was a very
grave one. He wished to ask his Noble Friend (the
Duke of Wellington) whether be had received any in-
formation that the colotel had ordered him to be
marched to his trial on the following Wed-
nesday "t t receive the greatest punishment
that could be inflicted upon him." This was an extra-
ordinary letter, hut he (Lord Brougham) supposed that
it referred to the punishment he should receive if he was
found guilty.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said he had received
information of the transaction. The fact of the matter
was this, A e tlier of the 7th Hussars, of the name of
Smith (not Radcliffe) shot a sergeant-major of the same
regiment by the aid of his fire-arms. This was an infa
mous and atr ;cious Act, and was particularly deserving
of notice in Ireland, where it was too much the practice
of the country at large to connive at the escape of mur-
derers.—(" Hear, hear," from Lord Brougham.) It was
an Act deserving of the notice of the commanding officer
of the regiment ; and it was incumbent on him to mark
his sense of its atrocity, not only on account of the regi-
ment, but of the country,where it occurred. The sol-
dier committed one of two military offences, and the
commanding r,eficer was riaitt in ordering him to be con
fined, and in the other step he took to mark his sense of
the atrocity of the , crime wi1iA.,h9,4.-beSil SOAP*
found with him was, that he did not say, when he ordered
the soldier's hair to be cut, what was the reason for
which he heel given that order, for this might lead to the
supposition that he was prejudging the case. He was,
of opinion, however, that in the main the commanding
officer had acted rightly in the course he had taken.
Lord BROUGHAM said that his Noble Friend was
quite right in describing the offence as a grave one, but
his objection was against what had t Ikea place before
trial, and elso to the terms of the order.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the man was
not tried for being concerned in the murder, but for im-
properly using his own ammunition, or for purloining
that of another.
The subject dropped.
QUALIFICATION OF PEERS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of ROSEBERY, this Bill
was read a third time.
The Noises EARL then moied an amendment, giving
power to a foeeign corml to administer the oath of alle-
giance in those cases that came under the provisions of
the Bill.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCH opposed that clause, as
he thought ne such power ought to be conferred.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw; no division,
however, took place.
The amendments were then agreed to, and the Bill
was read a third time and passed.
POOR-LAW ADMINISTRATION BILL.
On the order of the day for going into the Poor-law
Administration (Ireland) Bill,
Lord BROUGHAM said that he should not give his
support to this measure, for in his opinion it was not im-
portant, in the administration of a law of this nature, to
have an officer connected with it in Parliament, to whom
any questions concerning it could be addressed. But
there was one very serious objection to the method in
which it was proposed to connect that officer with the
general administration of the country. In all ministerial
questions which were proposed, there must be one of two
terteinations to the question—either the defeat of those
who opposed the Govetnment, or of the Government
itself ; and as this poor-law officer would be connected
with tile Ministry, every question which was proposed
by the Ministry and disputed in Parliament, must affect
him and his office, as one of that Ministry ; so that, in-
stead of having a calm and unbiassed administration of
these laws by that officer, the poor-law and its adminis-
tration would be shaken or affected by nearly every ques-
tion which wiss discussed in Parliament. Let them once
agree to any such connexion with the Ministry, and every
sort of cry that could be raised against the Ministry,
would be faised, and every act of the Poor-law Commis-
sioners, though done with the very best intention, would
be urged against them in every possible way. Acts
which might be really humane in themselves, and have
for their Intimate object the alleviation of the sufferings
01 the poor, would for their apparent severity be cavilled
Min Parliament, and furnish a constant matter of corns
against the Government of the dap. The exist-
ence of such an officer in connexion with the Ministry
'would famish
an additional and fruitful source of
political wet --e
se and combinations, and while the
question of
be in mall:: P°°..tters:.law was nominally raised it might
would be in agistaamlit
be, the poor-lawson of a very different
.sort t.critiat
tbut whatever the question
.mient
had known a Government ts!sarilY
with a small majority, and 'c' be affected by it. He
on for one or two years
defy to pursue a steady such
%ears,„l(leesernment he would
'respect to the poor-
law. It might be said that he nth
be no hindrance
to the commissioners doing their be
The motto
etelum
might be " fiat justitia, runt ecelum"—eaetl.
utterly
nuuirilbeblYes from
the heaven of Downing- street, beeit w
impossible to hinder the moat serious
being thrown in the way of this officer. This would be
the consequence, and the inevitable consequence of the
introduction of this officer into Government. S
that at the present time—when the country was uuPpu posintia
eve of a general election—that such an officer
wereot le
existence, and had laid down with the consent of the
Government, a particular mode of administering the
poor-laws, could it be expected that if the existing
Government had a small majority, they would attempt
in conjunction with this commissioner to carry into effect
so obnoxious an order as the one upon which they were
beaten the other night—namely, the separation of the
sexes? The Government had been defeated the other
evening in attempting to enforce this principle--a prin-
ciple which was a most proper one—and he for one
tendered them his hearty and sincere thanks for resist-
ing the opposition which was brought against it. He
thought that this Bill, if carried, would give a very
unfair means of annoying the existing Government,
without any eetteesponding benefit to the poor. He did
not indeed think that such an officer was necessary, and
it would be very difficult to get one with the knowledge
of the class over whose interests he
would have to preside,
and with the firmness which would be required
to carry into effect that which it would be his
duty to do. Supposing that this officer were in office,
and just as he had acquired all these i e sites suffi-
ciently for the discharge of his tamitifokd. duties,cl that he
sh ,old he compelled to sto out of office by a ,
Ministry, w.mld :het not involve the necessity etapnlF're•
ag
another officer in office, who, just as he haul learhiedinall
that his predecessor had acquired, might leave his office
at the same critical period? These were hie reeking

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