The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-28 00:00:00

NEW WRIT.

Mr. PINNEY moved that Mr. Speaker do issue his
warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new
writ for the electing of a Burgess to servo in this pre-
sent Parliament for the borough of Cheltenham, in the
room of the Hon. Craven Berkeley, whose election has
been determined to be void.—Agreed to.
LOSS OF THE OCEAN MONARCH.

Mr. fIUME, seeing the Right Hon. Gentleman the
President of the Board of Trade in his place, he wished
to put a question to him respecting the loss of that ili-
fated vessel the Ocean Monarch; and he wished at the
same time to take the opportunity of recaling the cen-
sure which he felt called upon on Saturday to throw out
against the Cambrian steamer. It was right that the
House should know that the commander of that vessel
had written a letter to the newspapers, in which he
stated that he was proceeding to Liverpool with two
hundred passengers, and with his decks full of cattle—
he had given up to another vessel all his coals except
what was absolutely necessary for the purposes of the
voyage to Liverpool—that when he saw the vessel on
fire he was ten or twelve miles nearer Liverpool than
the Ocean Monarch, and that had he gone to her
assistance he would not have had sufficient coals to
carry :him back again. Now that appeared to him
(Mr. Hume) to be a ,complete justification of the com-
mander's proceedings, and he was therefore glad to have
that opportunity of retracting what he said on Satur-
day.—(Hear, hear.) The question he wished to ask
the Right Hon. Gentleman the President of the Board
of Trade was, whether he intended to make any inquiry
into the loss of this ship?—(Hear.)
Mr. LABOUCHERE said the Board of Trade had no
power to inquire into the less of any sailing ship, ex•
eept in the case of British vessels. The Ocean Monarch
was a foreign vessel, and he could not say, therefore,
that the Board of Trade had any power to institute the
inquiry which the Hoe. Gentleman referred to.
Mr. HUME remarked that when a vessel was lost in
the Baltic Russia invariably caused eveay enquiry to be
instituted into the circumstances of the loss, no matter
whether the vessel belonged to her or not, and he hoped
some arrangement would be made by which England
could obtain and exercise the same power.—(Hear.)
Mr. LABOUCHERE said, without going into the
question of its being desirable that England should have
the power, he wished his Hon. Friend and the House to
understand that the Board of Trade had been guilty of
no neglect, inasmuch as it had not the power to inquire
into the loss under the circumstances of the case.

Mr. HAWES, in reference to this subject, was happy
to inform the House thant an Emigration Commissioner
had been sent down to Liverpool to render what assis-
tance he could to the survivors, and he was able to
state that arrangements had been made with
the charterers of this ill•fated vessel to for-
ward the survivors at the earliest possible period.
He was sorry to add, that the loss, both of life and pro-
perty, had been very great—the loss of the property
belonging to the emigrants could not be less than
20,0001.
Mr. STANLEY said he was personally acquainted with
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the Commander of the Cambrian, and he could assure
the tlouse that ;be was a gallant seaman and a most
humane man. Nothing but the peculiar situation in
which he was placed himself could have prevented him
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The subject then dropped.
SLIGO ELECTION.

The SPEAKER informed the House that he had re-
ceived a report from the examiner of recognizances,
stating that the sureties
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SPJRIT (DEALERS IN) BILL.
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The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
thet the House should resolve
itself into
Committee on
this Bill.
Captain PECHELL complained of the delay of the
Government, with respect to this measure, and then
forcing it on at the present late period of the session ;
From the 9th of. June to the 28th of August not the
slightest statement had been given by the Government
with respect to a measure that effected so large a body
as the licensed victuallers and wine merchants of this
country. He had endeavoured to extract from the
Chancellor of the Exchequer what were the objects of
the Bill, but his attempts had been unsuccessful. He
trusted that the Government would now give some ex-
planation with respect to the measure.
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the licensed victuallers in different parts of the country.
He believed that the Hon. and Gallant Member was the
only person who objected to the measure.
Mr. MACGREGOR trusted that no further opposi-
tion would be given to a measure which every one
seemed to approve of and bore testimony to the atten-
tion that bad been given by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer to the deputation that had waited upon him on
the subject of the Bill.

Mr. BERNAL also bore similar testimony to the
kind manner in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer
had received deputations on the subject of the Bill.
The House then went into Committee on the Bill.
The clauses were agreed to after a short discussion,
with the exception of clause 7; which was struck out.
(LEFT SITTING.)

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)
HORSHAM.
Tho Committee were again occipied the whole of
the day in receiving rebutting evidence on behalf of Mr.
Fitzgerald, the sitting Member.

MONEY ORDERs.--Edenbridge, in• Kent, having
been constituted a post town, the post-office there will
be opened for the issue and payment of money orders,
on and after the Ist of September.

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