The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-23 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

{THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve
o'clock.
HORNE'S (FERGUSON'S) ESTATE BILL.
The report on this Bill was brought up and agreed to.
CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS.
The reports on the following Bills were further consi-
dered and agreed to:—
Leeds Waterworks (No. 2).
Manchester Corporation Waterworks (Power to sell to
the Manchester and Salford Waterworks Company).
Taunton Improvement and Market.
THIRD READINGS.
The followingßills were read a third time and passed:
Caledonian Railway (Edinburgh Station and Branches
to Granton and to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail-
way).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Branch from Burn-
tisland to Dunfermline Branch, &c.—No. 2.)

LORDS' AMENDMENTS.
The Lords' Amendments to the following Bills were
further considered and agreed to:—
Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway.
Norfolk Railway (from Thetford to the Lowestoft Rail-
way, near Reedham, with a branch to Halesworth).
HEALTH OF TOWNS.
Mr. MONTAGUE GORE presented petitions from
different parts of Devonshire in favour of the Health of
Towns Bill.
Mr. JOHN O'BRIEN presented a petition from S.
Maxwell Cullinan, of Ennis, praying that the same pri-
vileges in relation to professional communications which
are now enjoyed by lawyers, clergymen, and solicitors,
may be extended to surgeons and physicians. Also, a
petition from the citizens of Limerick, in public meeting
assembled, praying for the abolition of ministers money,
and that the present incumbents may be indemnified.
DROPPED NOTICES OF MOTION.

The dropped notices of motion were re-appointed.
DROPPED ORDERS OF THE DAY.
The dropped orders of the day were also re appointed
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
Lord J. RUSSELL, in moving that the orders of the
day be now read, stated that it was his intention to
move to-day that the Encumbered Estates (Ireland)
Bill, which stood first in the orders of the
day for committal, should be committed pro
forma, in order that the Bill might be reprinted,
and committed on a future day. He also wished
to state, with respect to the Health of Towns
Bill, that he proposed to take that measure into consi-
deration, not as he had stated the other day, to-morrow,
but on Friday. He should on that day, on the motion
for the House resolving itself into a Committee of
Supply, move, that the House proceed with the further
consideration of that important measure.
Captain HARRIS was anxious to know what course
the Government intended to pursue with respect to the
Highways Bill. That was a measure of great import-
ance, and ought, in his opinion, to be proceeded with.
Sir GEORGE GREY agreed with the Gallant
Member that the measure was a most important one,
and he trusted that the consideration it would
receive in Committee would remove the objections
that had been urged against it. He had been
in hopes that he would have been enabled to have pro-
ceeded with the measure that day, but as he did ❑ot wish
to interfere with the measure on which the Hon. Mem-
ber for Dorsetshire addressed the House last Wed-
nesday—the Poor Removal Act Amendment Bill—he
would refrain from proceeding with the measure to-day,
trusting that the House would sit at twelve o'clock on
Monday, in order to proceed with the Bill, and thereby
enable it to pass during the present session.
Mr.BANKES felt indebted to the Right Hon. Baronet
for the course he proposed to pursue. He trusted, how-
ever, that the Government would not neglect to proceed
with the Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill, as that
was a measure of the utmost importance. He had been
informed that the insurance offices had declined to enter
into any new transactions until either the Bill was re-
jected or adopted. He hoped, therefore, that the Go-
vernment would fix some early day for proceeding with
the measure.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD corroborated what
had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman, and he hoped the
Noble Lord would inform the House of his intention.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL admitted that the Bill was
a very important one, but at the same time very difficult.
It was felt to be so before its introduction. It was, how-
ever, introduced by the Lord Chancellor, and had come
down to the House of Commons. He proposed now
that it should go into Committee pro forma. When it
had gone through Committee he should fix an early day
for its consideration, which the Government were de-
sirous to have soon. He was convinced that the opera-
tion of the Bill would not be such as at all to give any
ground for those fears which bad been mentioned in
certain quarters.
Mr. F. FRENCH objected to the Bill proceeding, for
it would injure proprietors to a very great extent
indeed.
Mr. ESTCOURT asked whether he was quite right
in understanding that the Noble Lord had postponed
the Health of Towns Bill to Friday, for he did under-
stand before that he had given notice of it for next
week ?
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said ho had given notice of
it for Friday, and he was sure that after this early no-
tice it would not produce any inconvenience.
After some further conversation,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice that he would
take the Highways Bill on Friday next at twelve o'clock.
ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL.
The Bill then went through Committee pro found, to
be further considered on Friday at twelve o'clock.
HIGHWAYS BILL.

This Bill was also committed pro forma, in order to be
considered on Friday at twelve o'clock.
SEDUCTION AND PROSTITUTION BILL.
The House went into Committee on this Bill.
Mr. SPOONER, in answer to a question from Mr.
C. Berkeley, :aid he would certainly move that the
second clause should be expunged.
On clause three being read,
Mr. C. BERKELEY objected to costs being allowcd
in case of bills of indictment which had been preferred,
but not sustained. lie moved that the clause should be
expunged.
Mr. HENLEY thought the words " compensation for
trouble and loss of time " in the clause were much too
wide, and gave a great deal too much power to compen-
sate a prosecutor. '
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL thought these words
might be omitted, and the whole left to the present
course in criminal law.
The clause so amended was agreed to, as were
clauses four, five, six, and seven.
Mr. TRELAWNY thought that clause one would
clearly encourage conspiracy against individuals.
Mr. ROEBUCK felt he had a disagreeable duty to
discharge, but he did it as one of the Committee. Ile had
*always objected to the Bill, and his ground for so doing was,
that the Bill travelled altogether out of the sphere of legis-
lation, and the effect of the law would positively be vicious.
(LI.FT SITTING.)

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JOSEPH ADY DEFEATED AT LAST.—A summons
was heard on the 18th inst., before Mr. Sergeant Man-
ning, the Judge of the New Court at Whitechapel, in
which the notorious Joseph Ady was the defendant, on
the plaint of Mr. G. R. Dodd, a solicitor, of New Broad-
street, City. It appeared from the statement of Mr
Rhodes, the clerk to the plaintiff, that the latter, some
time back, received from Ady one of his circulars, pro-
mising, as usual, some valuable information on the re-
ceipt of a fee of 11., which was afterwards paid to him
on his giving a receipt in writing, coupled with an un-
dertaking to return the money in case the promised in-
formation proved erroneous or useless. In return for
his fee Joseph sent the plaintiff a number of papers, con-
sisting chiefly of lists of unclaimed dividends, and re-
ports of cases in which he had figured as defendant be-
fore the magistrates, and, as ho asserted, proved his.
innocence of 'the fraud imputed to him, together with
some absurd cautions against joining certain public
companies, all of which were utterly, useless to the
plaintiff, who, in consequence, demanded the return of
his money, according to the condition upon which he had
paid it. This being refused _by Ady, the summons was
taken out against him, and the Judge, after hearing
Ady's solicitor, who made the best of his bad case, de-
cided that the money should be repaid to the plaintiff,
with all his expenses, within a week from the hearing of
the summons.
THE DAGENHAM MURDER.—Yesterday large pla-
cards were exhibited at all the station-houses of the me-
tropolis, and also posted in other places, offering a
reward of 501. for the apprehension of William Parsons,
police-sergeant, and Isaac Hickton, police-constable,
lately in the K division, charged with conspiracy and
perjury at the inquest held at Dagenham, in the county
of Essex, upon the body of George Clark, a police-
constable, who was brutally murdered on the 29th of
June, 1846. The placard states that " Her Majesty's
Goverment will give the above reward to any person
who shall give such information as will lead to
the apprehension of these men, or a proportion of
it for the apprehension of either of them.'Parsons
is described as being thirty years of age, sft. 71in. high,
fresh complexion, small grey eyes, sandy hair and
whiskers, much freckled, walks upright, and is well-
proportioned ; by trade a miller, and born in St. Peter's,
Norwich. Ilickton is described as being thirty-three
grey
years of age, sft. ”in. high, fair complexion, eyes,
light brown hair, small sandy whiskers, round-shoulder-
ed, draws his mouth on one side when talking, especially
when excited by trade a carrier, and was employed at
a tanner's at Halesowen, near Birmingham, about three
months since, and born in Warbus, Derby.
YEOMANRY CORPS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. It
appears from a return to the House of Commons, that
to
to
teen the
the total charge for the Yeomanry Cavalry in Great
Britain, for the year 1842, amounted to 10l
m,7 of
u mOO4/n. ;
number of officers to 845, and the numbera
13,358. In the year 1843, the total charge
95,470/. ; the number of officers to 893, and the number
of men. to [4,311. In 1844 the charge
the numberbr
amounted to
number
80
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officers
torrtsshoto 8
charge
873,
andgern amounted to
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f 2,
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ot hle4n,3usm3b;e r of
amounted to 87,948/. ; the number 1846,
the and
totalhe charge
amounted officers to 884, and
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PAISLEY, the last trade report,
s'.ort as that time has been,itis gratifying to state that
a very favourable change has taken place. A coniider•
aablet
by severalnumber of
houses, have been
hndsenr
various
descriptions d these two daysof
pas
and for va
work. Among these areengements for filled shawls,
wool
n s tartan rltoawn shawls, striped shawls, and different descrip-,
io
and a cloth. The.various parties en-
gaged in preparing fittings for
for these new goods are very
busy these two days, tt
generalthe
crisis over, impressionoarm,
andon g
all parties seems to prevailthat
that now more abundant employment will be provided
kr the wojkWg classes,—North British Mail.