The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-02 00:00:00

Bill in operation. What had fallen from the lion.
Member for Finsbury, though reflecting somewhat upon
Lis (Lord John Russell's) constituents, had yet a great
deal of truth in it, because if they had left it to local
bodies to reform themselves, and put no external pressure
whatever upon them, it would be long before any reform
would take place. That was the case with other corpo-
rate towns. But what was the pressure proposed? It
was that the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests
should have associated with him a paid Commissioner,
at a salary of 1,000/, a year, and that there were to be
a certain number of inspectors to visit the towns and
make reports.
Lord G. BENTINCK—Not a certain number; an
uncertain number.
Lord J. RUSSELL—The Noble Lord would propose
ta limit. But there was an effectual limit, which the Noble
Lord seemed not to perceive—Yin., that the salaries of
those officers would be voted in Committee of Supply.
Lord G. BENTINCK—The towns will pay them.
tord MORPETH—No; not the inspectors.
Lord J. RUSSELL continued—The salaries would be
doted in Committee of Supply, and if they were extrava-
ant in arbount, or the number of officers excessive, the
Committee had but to reduce the amount of the vote—
selvt)se from 5,000/. to 3,oool.—and the number of the
inspectors, or the excess of their salaries, would be at
fence diminished. The Noble Lord was entirely mis-
takft in supposing that the whole of this power was
taken out of the hands of the towns, because they would
have the appointment of their local officers for their own
regulation, the chief commissioner merely giving his
approbation to the appointment. Such a power was ne-
cessary to put the Bill into operation. The Bill did not
give a compulsory power to enforce any great expense,
but a compulsory power to have reports, in order to
usaartain the state of the towns, and incite them to acti-
vita,. Seeing that this was the case—whatever fair ob-
ier,tions there might be to an increase of the patronage
'of the Crown (and he did not complain of any remarks
cc that subject, because it was one on which the House
ought to be properly jealous)—he thought it far better
to increase that patronage than lose the very considerable
benefit which would be conferred by the measure.
After a few words from Mr. ROLLESTON,
Lord JOHN MANNERS admitted that the object of
this measure was good, but his lion. Friend the Member
for Oxfordshire had pointed out a more practicable plan,
and he mu-,t join with him in resisting the clause.
The committee then divided, when there appeared—
For the clause
Against it
Majority —72
The clititse was then agreed to, as was also clause 3.

Ciattte 1, the object of which was to provide for the
uppoimment and payment of inspectors was, after a short
discussion, in which Mr. Spooner, Colonel Sibthorp,
Mr. Collett, Lord G. Bentinck, Mr. Henley, Lord Mor-
peth, and Mr. Hudsoon, took part, then agreed to.
Clause 5 was agreed to with some verbal amendments.
Upon clause 6 being proposed,
HENLEY proposed the omission of the word
"ttiatrict," on the ground that the provisions of the Bill.
iftght to be applied solely to towns and boroughs, and
hot to districts where no town existed.
After a short discussion, this clause was agreed to
with the omission of the word.
In clause 7,
Mr. DIVETT moved to add, after the words " several
boundaries," "except of corporate boroughs."
After a short discussion the amendment was agreed to.
Mr. DIVETT then moved to strike out the conclud-
ing sentence of the clause, viz., " and in the case of a
(corporate borough, whether or not the boundaries of
such borough ought to be extended, and in what case."
After some discussion, strangers were ordered to with-
draw.

The House divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment 59
Against it lO3
Majority against the amendment —44
The clause as it originally stood was then agreed to.
On the motion of Lord MORPETH the Chairman
was ordered to report progress, and to obtain leave to
sit again this day.—Agreed to.
NAVIGATION BILL.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the Navigation Bill
stood first in the order of the day for to-morrow. After
it he ProPoWi to proceed with the Health of Towns
Bill.

SUPPLY.
Tr.:eply to Colonel SIBTHORP, who stated that he
tad an important motion on the paper which he in-
tended to bring forward on the motion for going into a
Committee of Supply, the Noble Lord stated that he
should not go into a Committee of Supply to-morrow
(this day).
FISHERY PIERS AND HARBOURS BILL.
The House then went into Committee on this Bill.
`The clauses, with some verbal amendments, were
agreed to.----Report this day.
RAILWAYS (IRELAND) BILL.—(No. 2.)
Thl House then went into Committee on this Bill.
'h't 'clauses were agreed to without amendment, and the
douse resumed.—Report this day.
TURNPIKE ROADS (SOUTH WALES) BILL.
The report on this Bill was brought up and agreed to.

- POST OFFICE BILL.
`On the motion of Sir GEORGE GREY, the House
went into Committee on the above Bill, and passed the
several clauses, and the Bill was ordered to be read a
third time to-morrow.

nECOVERY OF PUBLIC MONIES (IRELAND)

BILL.

This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Monday.
DRAINAGE OF LANDS (IRELAND) BILL.
this Bill was also read a second time, and was
edered to be committed on Friday (this day).
On the third reading of the Prisons Bill,
Mr. BOUVERIE moved the following amendments:—
Clause 3, line 5, after " shall," omit " before employing
any child therein," and inser, " at the end of every
period of six months of the employment of any child
therein ;" line 10, omit, " the first day of the employ-
ment of such child ;" line 20, omit, " and a like certi-
ficate shall be obtained at the beginning of each period
of six calendar months, during which the employment of
that child shall be continued in that print work.,

After a few words from Sir G. GREY,
The amendments were withdrawn, and the Bill was
read a third time and passed.
PRINT WORKS BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at One o'clock.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Queen and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians,
honoured the performances at her Majesty's Theatre
last evening with their presence. The royal suite com-
prised the Countess of Desart, the Countess Vander •
straten, Lord Byron, Colonel Buckley, Lieutenant-
Colonel Seymour, and Major Moerkerke. There were
also present, their Imperial Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Oldenburgh and suite, the Duke

of Wellington, the Prince Louis Napoleon, the
Duchess (Dowager) of Bedford, and Lady Rachael
ilussell, the Duke and Duchess of Cleaveland,
the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Ailesbury,
the Marquis Camden, the Baroness Brunnow and Mdlle.
Olga de Lechner, the Countess of Westmoreland, the
Earl and Countess of Sefton, the Countess Dowager of
Charleville, the Earl of Chesterfield, the Viscount Can-
terbury, the Viscount Somerton, Lord WDonald, Lord
Ernest Bruce, Lord and Lady Clarence Paget, Lord
Gardner, Lady M lesworth, Mr. and Lady Augusta
Wentworth, Lady Trollope, Lady Charteris, Lord
Townsend, Mr. C. deliondriaffsky, Hon. Mr. Arbuthnot,
Hon. R. Cousen, am. Julian Fane, Mr. and the Hon.
Mrs. Anson, Mr. Hubert de Burgh, Major Baring,
Captain Lyon, Captain Manselle, R.N., Captain Smith,
Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson, Mr. Bernal, Sir G. Anson, Mr.
Pultney, Mr. and Mrs. Grimwood, Captain Bidulph.
The Cour Royale of Paris has delivered a judgment,
which is important as it affects the responsibility of
agents-de-change. M. Leis brought an action against
M. Vandermarcq, an agent-de-change, for the value of
twenty-nine shares in the Orleans railroad, which had
been stolen from him, and which had been negotiated on
the exchange by M. Vandermarcq, without his having
any knowledge of the ♦endor. The Tribunal Civil had
rejected the claim of M. Levi, but the Cour Royale has
established it, and decreed the restitution of the twenty-
nine shares, with all the interest and dividends accrued
upon them since the day they were stolen, or else to pay
to M. Leve a sum sufficient to purchase as many new
shares in the same railroad.— Galignani. _

A CORN-DEALING FARMER.—It is a practice in
the Bedford market, to an extent not generally suspected,
and if stated, would probably be doubted, of farmers
becoming purchasers of corn to enhance the price, and
make a profit on their purchases. An instance occurred
last Saturday in this town, of a farmer becoming a pur-
chaser of corn, at this particular crisis, which may be
worth recording. Mr. C. Higgins, sen., was at the
Swan hotel, sheaving a sample of wheat, when Mr. Pain,
of Folmersham, having bad a few glasses of wine, his
optics magnified each kernel as large as a grain of Indian
corn, and the sample was so fine and plump that he con-
cluded a bargain of 675. 6d. per load for 130 loads. As
Mr. Pain seemed to be taken with a corn-buying pro-
pensity, he soon had plenty of offers with better samples
at 595. but he had found out his mistake; the fit was
over, and it was "no go." On the following Monday,
the price at Mark lane fell from 6s. to Bs. per quarter.
Mr. Pain's purchase is therefore not worth so much by
801. as he bargained for. Can there be any commisera-
tion for a large occupier coming into the market, and
becoming a purchaser with a sordid object, if he commit
an error of judgment? He had better have brought
his own produce into the market, and sold it at a market
price.—Bedfordshire Mercury.
ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.-011 Monday after-
noon, as one of the Chelsea steamers was proceeding up
the river with about 300 passengers on board, she ran
foul of the new steamboat-pier at Vauxhall-bridge so
violently that every one on board was thrown (lowa and
the funnel dashed on deck, injuring several persons, and
not only causing the utmost confusion but great con-
sternation for the safety of the passengers, the paddle-
box and floats having been crushed in. With great pre-
sence of mind the commander of the boat instantly
directed the engines to be reversed, and with the well-
timed assistance of the piermen succeeded in fastening
the boat to the dummy, and enabling the passengers to
escape by the pier. They were shortly after conveyed
to their respective destinations by another boat, which
arrived within a few minutes of the accident. The
damage done to the boat will, it is expected, amount to
between 50/. and 601.
A CURE FOR INDIGESTION AND DISORDERED STO-
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disordered for years, occasioned either by sedentary habits, injurious
climates, or unusually' dsiirate state i 7,1 health, and can obtain ne
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greatly alter the first two or three ,loses. This fine medi-
cine lb kIIOWII to be superior to all others for 'Wet complaints, or
where there is weakness, languor, or debility ; and in every case it
imparts strength and vigour, and this so quickly as to astonish the
most unbelieving. It may safely to taken at all times and at all
ages. Sold by all druggists, and at Professor liolloway'a
gent, 244, Btrand, London.