The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-06 00:00:00

DEATH.

Mr. KELLY gave notice that he should bring forward
his motion for the abolition of the punishment of death on
Tuesday, 23d June, which stood on the paper for Tues-
day next.

'Mr.
E WART gave notice that on Tuesday the 23d
June he should move that the House resolve itself into a
Committee of the whole House, for the purpose of consi-
dering the propriety of making a reduction in the duties on
sugar and coffee ; and if the Sugar Duties Bill should come
on before that day, that he should move an instruction to
the Committee on that Bill, that the Sugar duty be
reduced.

COURT OF APPEAL.
Mr. GODSON gave notice that he should on the 23d
June bring forward the motion of which he had before
given notice, relative to the constitution of a Criminal
Court of Appeal.
DRAINAGE OF LANDS (IRELAND).
Lord MORPETH gave notice that on Tuesday, the
16th of June, he should move for leave to bring. in a B;11
for the drainage of Lands in Ireland.
GRAND JURY CESS (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion of Lord MORPETH the Grand Jury
Cess (Ireland) Bill was read a third time.
Mr. PIGOT moved the insertion of the following
clause after clause 9 :—And be it enacted, that the In-
spector-General of Police in Ireland shall, with the as-
sistance of the Receiver, ascertain from time to time the '
amount of money which shall be chargeable, under the
provisions of the said Act, for the regulat►on Gt. Municipal
Corporations in Ireland, or under any other Act or Acts
of Parliamnet, upon or in respect of any of the said
boroughs, for the Constabulary force stationed or
acting therein, and make out a certificate thereof
under his hand, specifying the force or service in
respect whereof such charge may have been
inc:,rred, and shall transmit the same, when approved and
certified by the Chief or Under Secretary of the Lord
Lieutenant, to the treasurer of such borough, who shall
lay the same before the Town Council of such borough ;
and such Town Council shall, and they are hereby re-
quired to provide and pay out of the borough fund, such
sum as, according- to such certificate, ought to be pro-
vided and paid by or in respect of such borough, within
one month after such certificate shall be received by such
treasurer.

The clause having been agreod to, it was ordered to be
added to the 13i11, by way of rider, and the Bill was
passed.

WAYS AND MEANS.

Mr. BERNAL brought up the report of the Commit-
tee on Ways and Means, which was agreed to.
QUALIFICATION OF ELECTORS (IRELAND)
BILL.

On: the motion: of Mr. PIGOT, this Bill was read a
first time.
The House then adjourned till Wednesday next.

CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

Appeal motions, of no general interest, occupied his
Loalsbip the whole morning.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. HARTLEY.
THE POOR KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR.
This case came before the Court upon the petition of
Lieutenant James Holeman, one of the Poor Knights of
Windsor, under the foundation of Samuel Travers, praying
that it might be declared isy the Court to be lawful for her
Majesty to dispense with the attendance of the petitioner
at Windsor, and to make such bye-laws as they should
think proper for dispensing with the attendance of any of
the Poor Knights who required it. In the year 1724, Mr.
Travers, by his will, left a sufficient sum of money to pur-
chase an estate in Essex, the produce of which was to go
to the support of seven gentlemen, to be added to their
then present number of the Poor Knights of Windsor,
who were to have 601. a year allowed to them. In 1791
his Majesty George the Third was graciously pleased to
approve of the Charity founded by Mr. Travers, and ap.
pointed seven gentlemen as the' recipients of his bounty.
A charter was also granted, by which the Charity was in-
corporatein-
corporated,and the Governor of Windsor Castle, the
Dean of Windsor, .and the Provost of Eton were ap-
pointed the Visiters. In the regulations provided by that
charter it was stipulated that the Poor Knights should at.
tend chapel and levee in a collegiate manner, and they
should not absent themselves from their place of residence
for more than ten days in a year without a license from the
Visiters. The charter also provided that Ouch feture regula-
tions might be made for the carrying en Of the charity as the
reigning Sovereign and the Court of Chancery should think
fit. Under this proviso an applieetiop was made to the Crown
to dispense with the attendance of the petitioper, 9a the
groUnd of his blindness, and the air of Windsor not agree-
ing with his health. Upon the memorial being presented
to her Majesty, she referred it to the Attorney-General,
who thought that her Majesty had not the power to make
the order asked without the authority of the Court of
Chancery, and in consequenee of this suggestion the pre-
-sent petition was presented.
Mr. RICHARDS appeared for the petitioner.
Mr. WIGRAM and Mr. WRAY appeared for the Crown,
and were quite willing that which was sought should be
granted, provided the Court thought it could be 4one.
The Vice-CriaNcet.t.oe thought the prayer of the peti-
tion ought to be complied with by the Cour't ; and be
would therefore make the declaration asked for, with the
addition that it was lawful for her Majesty to make such
regulations or bye-laws for dispensing with the attendance
of any of the ;Poor Knights of Windsor upon such terms
and in such manner, es her Majesty pr. her heirs and suc-
cessors might think proper.

-BREAKING OUT OF THE POPULATION OF
I.IIKICK.—We are sorry to announce that the populace of
Lim rick, many of them, no doubt, prompted by the cravings of
hunger, have broken out in violent attack on the flour stores
and provision shops throughout that city, sparing none in their
devaitations. The stores of Sir David Roche, and those of
Mr. Caswell, Mr. Poole qal)l,Ntt, itrtd Messrs. Harvey, all were
attacked, and from each flour has been taken arid distributed by
the ringleaders i►i the coolest Way imaginable. Far from justi-
fying such conduct, we may account for it thus :—provisions
having risen so high, they are now beyond the reach! of the
poor—potatoes being Bd. per st;mit in the town, although we
are informed by the Ilepo•Or that no actual scarcity exists.
The crowd were at length dispersed by the military, and the
Mayor has called a meeting of the inhabitants, to provide some
means of meeting the distress. In the meantime he has dis-
tributed ten tons of oatmeal amongst the most wretched, which,
foi; the present, has quieted their cravings. But while all this
is going on, the absentees are spending a thou:a.enrdbi::)aupnpdraiecad.c._h
on a single ball! Repeal the Union, we say to people of
Limerick ; no other permanent remedy can e
Dublin Pilot,

It was related of a Reverend Baronet, who gott,
rished some years ago in London as an editor, that when he
came short for a paragraph to make up his paper, he would
break the neck of an imaginary st4alre-L-some Smith or Sib-
thorp—over a five-barred gate, or exhume an antediluvian
corpse, in a state of perfect preservation, from its bed, a fog."'
or so beneath the surface of the Bog of Allen. Qtly Tory pur-
veyors
of " Irish enormities" appear to have been lately put to
similar shifts, in order to spin oust the slow length of their State-
of-the-CoontFy column. Att Murder" is now going the rounds
of all their publications, for which they are indebted to the an-,
tiseptic•preperties of peat-moss. A human head was found
lately by some turf-cutters, in Mayo, which, it is acknowledged,
must have lain for many years in the ground. For. aualon
belonged
can be known or conjectured, the female to whom it.
might have fallen a victim to the brutality of the Dutch
in 1690. or been sacrificeel by the late Sir Watt iins
discoveryliiy,h
gallant troop of Ancient Britons, in 1798. Yet tch___so.lnd:ei
er,ss
is gravely and ver ostentatiousl t forward
Lord Ebring-
illustrative of the ?`state of the country" as a "murder ,"
underntli borrowed from
ton. This process of vilification .
IS a
who was buried a man, is dug "p,s,a.om'
Curran's vivid description of an Irls}:,,tPinli'leaosrrseur —B`u`t'llil'hecdewrrneticnh-
i of our fathers, for even
genuity has improved upon toe wt
re made to rise up in iwlerneUt the miimmies of past ages a:
.• aur l e iroVe ihlb.- ''.
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against. the rulers of this genet a,..toa, 1 1 .
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ino raper, •
Lord eaclogan has given instructions for a pier
to be erected in Cheync-walk, Chelsea, for the accommodation
of the steamboats above bridge. It will be opposite where the
Bishop of Winchester's Palitoo formerly stood.
Sheridan Knowles, with the tight generous feel-
ings of a poet, has not only written an address in verse to be
spoken at Dowton's farewell on Monday, but' s to speak it him-
self. His robust heart and manner will