The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-19 00:00:00

Hastie, -A.

He.;tor:, C. J.
Herbert, Hon. S.

WILLIAM BAINES.
Motion made, and Question put, " That it appears by the
Petition of William Baines, a Protestant Dissenter, that he has
been confined in the county gaol of Leicester since the 13th
day of November last, for the non-payment of 21. 55., being
the amount of a Church-rate assessed upon him for the parish of
St. Martin, in the borough of Leicester, and also for the non-
payment of 124/. 18s., being the amount of costs incurred by
the proceedings taken against him in the Arches Court of Can-
terbury ; and it appears to this House, that thus to imprison
William Baines for refusing to contribute towards the expenses
attending the worship of the Established Church, from which
he conscientiously dissents, is to punish him for acting in ac-
cordance with what he regards as a religious duty, and is a vio-
lation of the principles of religious freedom."—(Mr. Easthopo. )
The House divided :

NORITY—AYES,
Lushington, Charles
Marsland. H.
Martin, John
Morris, David
Muskett, G. A.
O'Connell, J.
Pease, Joseph
Pechell, Captain
Philips, Mark
Salwey, Colonel
Scholefield, J.
Stansfiehi, W. R_
Strickland, Sir G.
Strutt, Edward

Barnard. E. G.
Berkeley, F. H.
Brockieliurst, J.
Brotherton, J.
D:•nnistoun, J.
Duke, Sir James
Duncombe, T. S.
Dundas, C. W. D.
Ellis, Wynn
Evans, G.
Fielden, J.

Style, Sir Charles
Tancreti, H. W.
Thornely, Thomas
Turner, E.

Warburton, H.
Ward, H. G.
White, Andrew
Williams, W.
Wood, G.W.
Wood, Benjamin
Yates, John A.

Greg, 11.-H.
Hector, C. J.
Flindley, C.

TILLERS.
easthope, John
Hume. Joseph

:lolnson; General

9dam, Admiral Sir C
Alston, R.

,JORITY-NOES,
Grimsditch. T.
Halford, H.
Hope, Charles
Hope, G. W •
Howard, P. H.
Inglis, Sir li. H.
James, Sir Walter
Jones, John
Mahon, Lord
Maunsell, T. P.
Melgund, Lord
Miles, W.
Miles, P. W. S.
Morgan jpetay. us
Morpeth, Viscount
Nicholl, J

Packe, C. W.
Peel, Sir R.
Pusey, Philip
Rae, Sir William
Rolleston, Colonel
Rose, Sir George
Round, C. G.
Russell, Lord John
Seymour, Lord
Teignmouth, Lord
Trotter, John
Troubrislge Sir T.
Worsley, Lord

Baldwin, C. Barry
Bolling, W.
Broadley, Henry
Bruges, W. H. L.
Burr, Higford
Campbell, Sir John
Chetwynd, W.
Darby, George
Drummond, H. H.
Estcourt. T. G. B.
Farnham, E. B.
Gisborne, T.
Gladstone, J. N.
Goulburn, H.

TBLLERS.
Stanley, E. J•
Elliot. Hon J. E.

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POLITICAL SUMMARY OF TH
MORNING JOURNALS.

The Morning Post tof this day, in a' leading article on the
subject of the Irish Poor-law, observes as follows:—" The ex-
amination of witnesses at the bar of the House of Lords, re-
specting the conduct of the Irish Poor-law functionaries,
proves more and more clearly as it proceeds, that an unprin-
cipled attempt has been made to apply the machinery of the
Poor-law in Ireland to political and party purposes." The
Morning Chronicle, alluding to the question of Church-rates,
and the imprisonment of William Baines, says :—" Aro we to
be astonished that the case of William Baines has produced a
great sensation, not only in Leicester, but throughout the
country ? In Leicester he has been returned to the Town
Council by the most important ward, containing nearly 20,000
inhabitants, since his incarceration. Nearly the whole of the
municipal authorities of the place have petitioned in his behalf.
Were the impost less objectionable in its nature, the means by
which it is enforced would alone render it obnoxious. When
men of exemplary lives are sudjected to the pun-
ishment which awaits the vilest criminals—merely be-
cause they hold in regard the dictates of conscience, the
best feelings of our nature are in arms against the proceed-
ing." The Times thus expresses itself on the subject of Lord
Ponsonby's late diplomacy at Constantinople :—" We believe
that at this critical juncture the British Ambassador at Con-
stantinople has descended from the dignified station of the
Queen of England's representative, to share the vile animosity
of the Turkish Ministers towards their defeated enemy. But
the animosity, which is at least natural to their race and their
position towards Mehemet Ali, is odious and contemptible in
the heart of a British nobleman, who ought to be as much a
stranger to the passions of an Oriental Court as to the crooked
artifices which belong to the diplomacy of some other e
Turk
ran Cabinets. But Lord Pensonby has exceeded th Tu
in violence, and the Russian in intrigue."

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEVVS

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FROM THE MORNING PAPERS or THIS DAY.
TIMES.—Some attention has been drawn in the City to
the situation in which the Ministry.' are placed relatively to the
iiltl only,r and :10 stands
tu ptohnt
wiolt bteh Latbltehe aetrsoee
South Australian Commissioners in the affair of the proposed
guarantee of the loan of 210,0001. It is observed, that when
any party is in a state of snodpeurrait:scree
,:iv
Bankwho
degree of belief in his means and resources, but that: thenraty
hraisiseowin-nonreesypcfnersibainhyty,gityhein terms on which he
of Eng-
land." the Treasury
will be most materially altered if it should turn
is another party willing to endorse his draughts,
said, in common parlance, to be "as good as the be
no tl. i cy
hint brought
was
g i
‘, for-
warden,
land." This is an exact parallel to th\evhceanse
and the Australian Commissioners.
their original propositions for a loan,
existed, that the Go-
vbeerenamuseenntowaeuutlhdobrieteyeonif
e thege
akrianndtete
then
nor the interest and re-
payment. Ihe ter ms acceded to were, therefore, exact])
what the credit of the Conimissioners, and the probabili•
ties of success in the undertaking on which they had
I entered, would justify.
Now comes on, however, the