The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-16 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

John Brittan, market gardener, Rediynch, Wiltshire,
July 30, and Aug. 27, at half-past one, at the Court of
Bankrumptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall.
street; Knight, Basinghall-street.
John Wyatt Sugg, architect, Torquay, July 29, at
one, and Aug. 24, at eleven, at the Exeter District
Court. Hernaznan, official assignee, Exeter; Laidman,
Exeter; Clowes, Wedlake, and Clowes, King's Bench-
walk, Temple, London.
din7or:
B:s.uinkgeh Lang
,s Dolphin, grocer, Bilston, Staffordshire, July
24 and August 21, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
k r u pact?:
Court. Christie,Dudiey. official assignee, Birmingham; Bod.
Langley, baker, Brading, Isle of Wight, July
2Bankruptcy,
at eleven, and Aug. 28, at twelve, at the Court of
6xll-street
row; kieunsbignotti.

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Thomas Green Crofts, draper, Leicester, July 30 and
Aug. 27, at eleven, at the Nottingham District Court.
Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham ; Motteram and
Knowles, Birmingham.

St,phen Hocken, builder, Cornwall-villas, Dalston,
July 28, at two, and August 27, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Groom, official-assignee, Abchurch-
lane, Lombard-street; Cutler, Bell-yard, Doctors' c,na-
mons.

John Snook, builder, Ledhury-road, Paddington, July
27, at half-past one, and Aug. 27, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane,
Cornhill ; Fisher, Queen-square, Bloomsbury.
William Bromley Cooke, tape- manufacturer, Winshill,
Derbyshire.
George Whitehead, John Settle, John Smith, John
Hyde, William Kelsall, James Holden, Thomas Barlow,
Duncan Crighton, John Jones, Thomas MaHinson, Wil-
liam Foster, David Crighton, and James Ashworth,
cotton spinners, Pendleton, Lancashire.
William_Alsop Massey, licensed victualler, Liverpool.

Henry Clark, oil merchant, Redeross-street, City,

George Robert, miller, Frigg's Mill, Gloucestershire,
Joseph Leadbeater Butterell, grocer, Doncaster.
John Fearne Gee, manufacturing chemist, Wakefield.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Aluscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending July 13,
1847, is 275. llhd. per cwt.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

!MUSE OF LORDS,.7uIy 15.
POOR-LAW ADMINIS ['RATION BILL.
_ _

The Marquis of LANSDOV.}.l\TE;novecitriethird
reading of this Bill.

Lord BROUGHAM objected to the Bill being further
proceeded with this session, as, without its aid, the law
could be administered until next session; and during
the recess and next session they would have more time
to consider the new powers which this Bill
proposed. It was said that the salary of
the Poor-law Commissioner, who was to sit- in Par
liament, was to be 2,0001. a year, but it ought
either to be increased, or reduced at the option of the
Government. Now such an officer ought to be placed
in a more independent position ; he certainly would
have no easy task to perform. He should, therefore,
propose that the Bill be read a third time this day six
months. He hoped that Mr. Chadwick and Captain
Nichols, who were in fact the authors of the system,
would still be employed in the administration of the
law. They would be removed as a matter of
course, if this Bill were passed without compensation.
This would be unfair to them and to others connected
with the Poor law Commission, as they had borne the
brunt of all the labours and odium of the offices which
they had held. No term that could be culled from toe
English dictionary was spared upon them—they were
called •' dictators," " hard-hearted," and " cruel." Com-
mon charity was not even exercised toward them ; and
had the other commissioners stood as firm in the
administration of the law, and as heedless of
public clamour, as Mr. Chadwick and Captain Nicholls,
the law would have been better administered. He thought
it right to say this in their behalf, as -he had induced
Captain Nicholls to give up an office worth 2,500/. a
year to take his present office ; and was he and Mr.
Chadwick, who had collected the materials out of
which they had framed all the Poor-law Bills, to be left
penniless ?

- The BISHOP of LONDON said the merit of the
poor-law was mainly due to Mr. Chadwick, who pos-
sessed the facility of making himself master of every
subject into which lie entered. No doubt the differences
between the' Commissioners and Mr. Chadwick arose
from his desire to carry out the law in all its integrity.
He had react the correspondence on both sides, and he be-
lieved this was the extent of his fault, and he thought that
he should not go unrewarded. It was understood that
Mr. Chadwick should take an active part in the admi-
nistration of the Poor-law, and it was but natural that
he should feel some dissatisfaction if, after- a time, : he
found that his influence was not that whialie expected.
He would be an useful man to the. public ,in -particular
departments—in connexion with sanatory reform, .for
instance. He bad known Mr. Chadwick sinceilie com-
mencement of the inquiry with' respect to the Poor-law,
and he considered that he should hot go unrewarded.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said, as a member
of a board of evardianv, acid as ono anxious to carry out
the law, he wished to bear testimony to the high cha-
racter of Mr. Chadwick. He considered that the whole-
sale dismistial of the Commissioners would be grossly-
-1 unjust..
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said the poor law
was passed as a temporary measure, and . the parties
employed under it could not but look forward to some
material alterations in it at a future period ; in fact, that
it might undergo an entire change; and yet the commis-
sioners and others took their respective offices on these
conditions. No expectation was held out that they
would receive retiring pensions—but he did not deny
that they had that claim on the Government which
merit must always have. The Act merely anticipated
the termination of the commission by a few months,
when the employment of all connected with the com-
mission would cease. The Parliament had had the
power, during the whole time the commission had ex-
isted, either to increase or to reduce the salaries of all
the persons employed in connexion with the commis-
sion.-(Hear, hear.) The salaries were left out of the
Bill, and placed entirely under the control of the House
Commons.—(Hear, hear.) If any error had been
committed, with respect to the salaries for the new
commissioners, it was that they were too low—(lt-fir,
hear)—but they might be altered hereafter. He be-
lieved all connected with the commission bad discharged
their duty most conscientiously.
Earl WICKLOW considered that the salary of a
commissioner, who had a seat in Parliament, should
not be increased or decreased at the caprice of the Le
gislature—such a course was at variance with every
precedent.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, in 1831 the
salaries of the officers of State and others were reduced
by the Treasury.
Lord MONTEAGLE corroborated the statement of
his Noble Friend.
Earl GREY said the salary of the commissioner who
would have a seat in Parliament, would be the same as
the President of the Board of Trade.

Their Lordships then divided, when there appeared—
For the third reading
For the amend:..ent .
Majority
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
The following Bills were then read a second time :
Herring Fishery (Scotland) Bill—Post office Bill—Na-
vigation (No. 2)—Muscle Fisheries Bill (Scotland)—
Drainage of Lands (Ireland) Bill—Stock in Trade Ex-
emption Bill—Polling at Elections Bill—Joint Stock
Companies Bill.

The Compensatio❑ for Damages Bill (Ireland) passed
through Committee.

The following Bills were read a third time :—Ec-
clesiastical Jurisdiction AmendmPnt Bill —RailNays
(Ireland) Bill, No. 2—Fishery Piers and Harbours Bill
(Ireland)—Turnpike Roads (South Wales) Bill—Canada
Consolidated Revenue Fund Bill—Print Works Bill—
Shannon Navigation -(lreland) Bill—London Bridge
Railway Termini—Genet al Enlargement Bill.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. July 15.
BISHOPRIC OF MANCHESTER BILL.
Mr. M. PHILIPS presented a petition from the
Mayor and burgesses of Manchester against this Bill (as
we understood).
NAVIGATION•LAWS.
Sir H. DOUGLAS presented a petition from Liver-
pool, signed by 1,51)0 shipowners, against any alteration
inithese laws; also a petition from Barnstaple to the same
eff, ct.

TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND
THE NETHERLANDS.

Lord G. BENTINCK called the attention of the
House to the infraction, by the Dutch Government, of
the treaty of commerce contracted in 1827 between
Great Britain and the Netherlands, in respect to the
trade and commerce of the eastern territories of both
countries, and to ask Lord Palmerston if any remon-
strance has been made to the Government of the King
of the Netherlands.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he was unable to answer
the question, but perhaps the Noble Lord would defer it
till his Noble Friend the Secretary of State for Foriegn
Affairs was in his place:________ _ _

Lord GEORGE BENTINCK said he would readily
do so.

THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE complained that a return which
be had moved fur, relating to the appointment of officers
in the British Museum, and which had been laid upon
the table of the House, had not been made in accordance
with the terms of the order of the House.
Now no appointment was valid unless signed
by the trustees—the trustees being the Lord Chancellor,
the Speaker of the House of Commons, and the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury ; but this return did not specify
whether this appointment had been signed by all the
trustees or not. A Commission had been appointed to
inquire into the manegement of that institution, and he
hoped this Commission would make a point of inquiring
into the reasons why this return had not been made in
the way the House had ordered it, and that they would
ascertain whether the appointment had been made le-
gally or not.
Sir H.. H. INGLIS was understood to say that the
appointments had been signed by the principal trustee,
and that was quite sufficient in law to make them legal.
Mr. HUME said the return was certainly not in strict
compliance with the order of the House. The Commis-
sion alluded to by his Hon. Friend had only met twice
to arrange their mode of proceeding, but he had no doubt
the Commission would not lose sight of the matters
mentioned by his Hon. Frieod. „
CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL.

The House then went into Committee on this Bill.
The whole of the clauses were agreed to, and the.
House having resumed, the CLIAIRMAN reported pro-
gress, awl the report was ordered to be brought up to-
morrow.

TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AN