The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-28 00:00:00

LONDON :
TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1940.

Lord BROUGHAM last night presented a petition
from Mr. OWEN, referring to the observations of the
Bishop of EXETER, on Friday evening, which Mr.
OWEN said did great injustice to him, and would be
wafted over all the world. He had a wide-spread re-
putation, and, therefore, he prayed to be beard against
the imputations thrown on him ; he prayed for a full
inquiry into the principles which he taught. Lord
BROUGHAM, in presenting the petition, mentioned
several instances of Mr. OWEN'S great munificence,
and his extensive philanthropy ; and bore, at this time,
a most important and valuable testimony to Mr.
OWEN having been a most energetic friend to educa-
tion, and having spent a fortune in promoting the hap-
piness of his fellow-creatures.
The Bishop of EXETER deprecated discussion at
that moment, as he was not prepared for it. He in-
sisted, however, that something should be done to
protect the morals of the people, and assured the
House that he bad that morning received an account
from Hampshire of horrible and chilling atrocities
uttered at a Socialist meeting. If men only talked
wickedness, it would not be of much consequence ;
but some men commit it, even while they cant about
virtue and religion. The Bishop of EXETER gave notice
that he would, on next Monday, move an address
to the Crown to prosecute persons who might, by their
language' outrage religion and morality--the Rev,
Prelate should add, by their deeds.
A petition was presented from MICHAEL BROOM-
FIELD, complaining of the intended grant to Prince AL-
8... RT, and praying that the principles of the Poor-law
might be applied to the rich. The Marquis of Los-
DONDERRY, who seems not more discreet than Bishop
PIIILPOTTS, bad the petition read at length.
A brief conversation took place concerning Monte
Video, in which it was stated that the French are still
in possession of that place, and there is little hope of
seeing a favourable issue of the negotiations.
The second reading of Prince ALBERT'S Naturaliza-
tion Bill was moved by the LORD CHANCELLOR, but
objected to by the Duke of WELLINGTON, on the
ground that he was not aware of the importance of the
Bill, particularly as it conferred on her MAJESTY the
power of raising the Prince to a rank above the Princes
of the Blood. The Noble Duke proposed that the
debate be adjourned to next Friday. Viscount MEL-
BOURNE explained that the Bill was entirely drawn up
according to former precedents, and explained that, if
Parliament gave the power, it was intended to give
Prince ALBERT rank in the kingdom next her MA-
JESTY. If the Noble Duke required further time, Lord
MELBOURNE said it must be given.
Lord BROUGHAM called their Lordships' attention
to the extraordinary situation in which the Royal family
would be placed, should her MAJESTY—which he said
Gcti forbid—die without issue, when we should have a
King on the throne, and a Prince of Wales inferior in
rank to Prince ALBERT. The discussion was, after
some conversation, adjourned to Friday next, and the
House adjourned.

In the Commons several new Members took their
seats.

A number of petitions were presented, but none of
them of any mark or note.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL presented another petition
from Messrs. HANSARD, informing the House that
another action had been commenced against them by
Mr. HOWARD, as attorney to Mr. STOCKDALE• The
Noble Lord moved that Mr. HOWARD should be ordered
in attend the House forthwith. After a short discus-
'on the motion was carried by 181 to 67.
in reply to a question from Mr. O'CONNELL, Lord

Alt RUTH stated that he knew of no successful attempt
to r pread Socialism in Ireland.
The House, on the mo:iou of Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
a ent into a Committee of Supply on a provision for
Prince ALBERT.
Mr. HUME objected at considerable length to the sum
of 30,000/. as too much for Prince ALBEItT, and moved
that the sum be 21,0001. instead of 50,0001.
Mr. WILLIAms seconded the motion.
Lord ELIOT spoke against it, declaring that he thought
30,000/. the suitable sum.
The CHANCELLOR of the ECHEQUER defended the
proposition on the ground of what had before bean voted
under some analogous circumstances, and on the ground
that her MAJRsTY, having given up all her hereditary
revenues, had no power to make a provision for her hus-

band.
After a considerable debate, which we have not room
to say anything further of, Mr. HUME'S motion was lost
by 38 to 305.
Col. SIDTHORP then moved that the sum of 30,0001.
be substituted for the 50,000/. proposed by Ministers.
After another debate, begun by Lord J. RUSSELL and
ended by Sir R. PEEL, in which motives were somewhat
imprudently, but perhaps justly, attributed, the Colonel's
motion was carried by a majority of 104. He never
previously had such an honour.
The House then resumed.
The Sergeant.at-Arms reported that he made the
return he had been ordered to make to the Court of
Queen's Bench, and the bodies of the Sheriffs had, by
that Court, been returned into his custody. Mr.
DARBY immediately gave notice of a motion for Wed-
nesday to discharge the Sherqfs.
In a Committee of the whole House on the Corn-
laws, Mr. LABOUCHERE moved a resolution on which
to found a Bid for assimilating the Corn-laws in
Ireland to those of England. At present
flour cannot be imported from England into
Ireland. After a brief discussion, in which, es on all
things Irish, local and personal observations were made,
the resolution was agreed to, and ordered to be reported
to-day.
Sir MATTHEW WOOD'S motion for a Committee on
Metropolitan Improvements, which contemplates pro-
viding the means for throwing open Southwark and
.Vaterino-bridges, and embanking. the Thames from
taines-bridge to Gravesend, was ordered to be with-
drawn, because it was considered too gigantic a project
even lightly to appoint a Committee to inquire into it.
Lord MORPETH moved for leave to bring in a Bill
for reforming the Corporations of Ireland, and declared
that it was the intention of Ministers to propose a Bill
which they thought would satisfy all reasonable claims.
After a brief conversation, in which Sir R. PEEL
expressed a hope that the Bill might lead to an amicable
arrangement, leave was given.
Leave was also obtained by the LORD ADVOCATE to
bring in a Bill fbr the better regulation of Corporations
in Royal Burghs in Scotland.
The House adjourned at Half-past Twelve.

We rejoice to find from the debate and the divi-
sion of last night, that the Tories have become eco-
nomical. Sweet are the uses of adversity ;it makes
the corrupt put on patriotism ; the Tories pretend
to care for the people. Had they been in office,
how eloquently would Sir ROBERT PEEL have
expatiated on the impropriety of allowing a young
Prince, who has given up his own country to adopt
ours, to be wholly dependent on his wife ;
how unanswerably he would have demonstrated
that the country was bound to provide liberally
for Prince ALBERT ; how forcibly he would have
explained that the House could not consistently
treat the young Prince, the expected father of the
future Sovereigns of England, worse than a young
Princess, the expected mother of our future Sove-
reigns ; that a man had more expenses than a
woman, and that it was more degrading for
him to be dependent on a wife, than
for a woman to be dependent on her husband.

How triumphantly he would have quoted the
Tory precedents of the provision for Queen
CHARLOTTE and Prince LEOPOLD, and the

Whig precedent of a provision of 100,000/. for
Queen ADELAIDE ; and how convincingly he
would have put it to the Commons and the
generous, the magnanimous people of England
whether they could tempt a young Prince
to leave his native country, and come here
to share the dangers and splendours of Royalty,
surrounded by Nobles possessing 100,0001. a-year,
above all of whom he was to tower in rank, on a
less pittance than 50,0001. The Right Hon.
Baronet would have laughed to scorn the claims of
a people, at present labouring under a momen-
tary distress, as he would have said, and have
dwelt with emphasis on the vast wealth and re-
sources of the country, though it might be la-
bouring under a momentary difficulty. Fortunately
for the country, the Tories are obliged to court
popularity, and Sir ROBERT, perfectly out of his
element in defending a popular course, made the
most blundering, lumbering, mouthing speech, full
of mistakes, we ever heard from him. He re-
pudiated, as grossly unjust and unpopular, the
Tory precedent of -Prince LEOPOLD, and boldly
dared to avow that he was prepared to follow Colonel
SIBTIIORP, though he did. not know exactly
what his motion was, and vote for a much less
sum than was moved for by the Ministers. The
result was, that the Ministers, who were forsaken
on this occasion by nearly all their Radical and
Liberal supporters, were left in a minority of 158
to 262 ; and we congratulate the country on the
beginning, we 'hope, of greater economy in the ex-
penditure for Royalty. We always thought the
Civil List exorbitant ; and, had that been less, the
House of Commons would probably now have
voted more.

At the same time we ale free to say, that, look-
ing at the manner in which the mothers of our So-
vereigns have been provided for, looking at the
rank which Prince ALBERT will occupy, at the
great expenditure of those Nobles by whom he
will be surrounded, and the sort of society he must
and ought to keep ; looking at the fact that he is
to be the daily associate of the QUEEN, while he
must not subsist on her bounty as a pauper, we
cannot say that the Whigs did wrong in making
the proposition to give him 50,0001. a-year. We
rejoice, however at the virtue of the Tories ; that
they have resolved not to bid for Royal favour; that
they look to the opinion of the people, and ho-
nestly stand up for economy in the public expendi-
ture. This is a marvellous • conversion, which
ought to be encouraged by all means, and particu-
larly by keeping them out of office, where alone

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they learn to behave themselves with decency, and
show some little deference to popular opinion.

It will be seen, both by our report of the proceed-
ings in the Queen's Bench yesterday, and in the
House of Commons last night, that the Judges
have held the commitment of the Sheriff's by the
House of Commons to be legal, and have returned
them to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms. The
barristers and attorneys who have been forward to
denounce the democratic House of Commons will
DOW perceive that their admired Courts and Judges
are not quite so powerful as they esteemed them. j

Mr. PALMER last night asked Lord JOHN
RUSSELL whether the report that the Crown had
incurred debts beyond the allowance made by that
House to her MAJESTY, were true. Lord JoHN

RUSSELL said that he had only heard of the exist-
ence of the report that morning, and he could
assure the House that it was totally un-
founded. This unfounded report has been
diligently circulated amongst all the Tory
cliques and clubs of the metropolis for the last
month, and has been repeatedly inserted in more
than one Tory Journal. We refrained from no-
ticing it at the time, because we would not—by
contradictions which might not have been credited,
it is so usual and natural, in this country, for the
Crown to exceed the enormous allowance made to
it by the nation—give extended circulation to
the unfounded calumny.
We may now, however,
state what we then learned from an unquestionable
source, confirming Lord JOHN
P
asser-
tion, not only has the Crown ‘notus contractedsEi L's
any
debt, but her MAJESTY has lived within her in-
come, so far as her private expenses are concerned.
She is almost the first of her family, we believe,
who has done so, and it is, therefore, for her, at
her time of life, the greater honour. Of course
however, her MAJESTY, must be somewhat in-
fluenced in such matters by those about her., and
the economy, of which we are well assured, does
equal honour to her MAJESTY'S friends and
advisers.

Reports have been put into circulation that pre-
parations have been made at Monmouth for the
execution of FROST and his companions. In some
communications to this Journal it is asserted, even,
that an executioner Ims been sent down to be in
readiness to carry the law into effect, and that 800
troops are collected in the neighbourhood to prevent
any outbreak. These reports have also bceu com-
municated to other Journals. We cannot place
the slightest confidence in them, because we are
firmly convinced that if the Sheriff of the County,