The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-10 00:00:00

HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.

Lord MO IiYETH brought up therepo;t—Of the Com-
mittee appointed to draw up reasons for dissenting with
thv House of Lords on certain amendments which had been
made by their Lordships in the Health of Towns Bill.
The report was read by the clerk at the table.

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PETITIONS.
Mr. CAREW presented a petition against the Copper
Ore Bill.

Sir GEORGE GREY presented a petition from a
place in Northumberland in favour of the Scotch Mar.
riages Bill.

Mr. ANSTEY presented a petition from the high
sheriff and the grand jury of the county of Sligo at
the last Summer assizes, stating that they viewed with
great alarm the increase of able-bodied paupers in that
county, and praying for some amenument of the pre-
sent Irish poor-law.
The Hort. MEMBER also presented a petition from the
same petitioners, praying for the abolition of the office
of coroner in Ireland, by which 25,0001. might be saved
annually to the cess-payers of Ireland.
DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE.
Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR, Chairman of this
Committee, moved for leave to adjourn the sittings of
the Committee until Tuesday next, in order to allow
time for witnesses to come from Ireland, the evidence of
whom was required for a fresh branch of the case.
The motion was agreed to, and leave given for the
Committee to adjourn to Tuesday.
SUPPLY.
On the order of the• day being read for bringing up
the report of the Committee of Supply,
Mr. HUME called the attention of the Howse to the
great expense of the army, and also to the manner in
which it was at present managed. Commissions had
been appointed on different occasions, particularly in
1837, to inquire into the grievances of the army, and
they had recommended various alterations to be made,
with the view of applying a remedy; but those recom-
mendations, which would have greatly economised the
expense and promoted the efficiency of the army, had
not been carried out.—(Hear, hear.) The Duke
of Wellington had so long been at the head of the
army without effecting any improvement, that un-
less the House interfered no attention would
be directed to the complaints which had been made
with reference to the army. He did not intend at
that late period of the session to bring any
substantive motion before the House, but he
could not help expressing a hope that his Right
Honourable Friend (Mr. F. Maule) would con-
sider it his duty to bring the matter before the Govern-
ment during the recess, in order, if possible, that some
reduction might be adopted. He believed it the recom-
mendations to which he had alluded had been carried
out the army would have been greatly benefited, and a
saving of nearly a quarter of a million effected.
The report was then agreed to.
COURT OF JUSTICIARY (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The report upon this Bill was brought up and agreed
to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
CRIMINAL LAW ADMINISTRATION AMEND-
DIENT BILL.

The report upon this Bill was brought up and agreed
to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time tomorrow.
REGISTER OF SASINES, &e (SCOTLAND)

BILL:

The report upon this Bill was brought up and agreed
to. and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
RECOVERABLE LEASEHOLD CONVERSION
(IRELAND) BILL.
Upon the order of the day being read for going into
Committee upon this Bill,
Mr. LAW opposed the further progress of the mea-
sure, which, he said, involved difficulties of no light or
trivial importance. The Bill was brought in on the
13th of July, and it was now presented to the attention
of the house for the first time, in order that it might be
discussed. He should have thought, taking into account
the magnitude of the interests which it involved, and
seeing that it would have the effect of converting the
fee simple of an estate into a mere holding of
a fee farm rent, and transferring to the middle
man that fee simple which at present belonged
to the proprietor, that the Secretary for Ireland
would have stated the grounds on which he intro-
duced the measure at that late period of the session,
when four-fifths of the Members who were interested
were absent from the House. He contended that it
would be a complete spoliation to give such a right
to a middle man, to the prejudice of the real owner or
occupier. The rents derived from the lands of the Irish
Society were devoted to public purposes, unlike those
derived from other estates. He urged the House not
to consent to the further progress of the Bill, but to
leave the. owners of the estates which it would effect
in the same condition as they had held them during the
last 240 years. The preamble recited that the Bill was
necessary for the purpose of preventing litigation; it
would have a contrary effect, inasmuch as it would lead
to expensive and destructive legal proceedings. The Irish
Society were the best landlords in the district, and no
complaint having been made against them, he could not
well see with what justice this Bill could be proceeded
with. It would be subversive of the rights of property,
and, looking at the fact that the Bill for the Enfran-
chisement of Copyholds had been withdrawn, and the
exhausted period of the session, and the absence of Irish
Members, he implored the Noble Lord not to proceed
with this Bill, or at any rate to exempt the Irish Society
from its operations for the reasons he had stated. If
the Bill were proceeded with, those who opposed it would
be forced to seek justice at the hands of the House of
Lords.

Sir W. SOMERVILLE said, the dates the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman had given were perfectly correct,
but the session was not 40 near its close as the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman seemed to suppose. If the Hon.
Gentleman were acquainted with what had of late years
taken place in Ireland respecting land, he would be
aware that a measure of this kind was imperatively
called for on public grounds. Having quoted the opi-
nion of the late Mr. Lynch with respect to the tenure of
land in Ireland, to show the necessity of the Bill, he said
Gentletnem seemed to impugn the justice of some of the
Courts in Ireland.
Mr. LAW—We do not try our own causes in
England.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE—Neither do we in Ireland.
—(Hear.) The object of this Bill was to give in-
creased security to property in Ireland ; and he could
not bat think, in all the observations of the Hon. and
Learned Member, he had given the go-bye to what were
the real objects of the present measure. The statement of
the Hon. and Learned Member that this species of tenure
was not calculated to create litigation in Ireland was
contradicted by every authority on the subject. The
report of Lord Devon's Commission was also deci-
dedly against this species of tenure in Ireland. Especial
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ELECTION COMMITTEE.
DUBLIN.
The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds' ma-
jority was resumed yesterday, but the petitioners did not
succeed in striking off any additional votes.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sift,—lf I dare intrude on your valuable time, I would wish
to call the attention of the immediate inhabitants, and those
interested in the suppression of such nuisances, to a very
great one existing in Newcastle street, at the corner of
Wych-street, Strand. On the spot to which I allude there
are three street gratings, opening into the sewers, constantly
emitting such an effluvia that any one passing that way, as I
am in the habit of doing, must be painfully aware of, and as
if to make the nuisance the greater; there has lately been in •
serted another outlet in the centre of the street; in addition
to this, there is no sewer for some distance up Drury. lane ;
the water thus flowing such a distance, collects a quantity of
filth on its way to the spot, ',flukes the drain, and the water
thus flows down the street instead of passing into the sewer. It I
might urge anything as to the baneful effect of such a vile
nuisance, I would mention the significant fact, that while at
one corner of the street flourishes a gin-shop, at the other a
baker's vainly endeavours to raise its drooping head with an
apology for intruding thus much.
I remain, your obliged servant,
H. HARDING.
1, New Inn-buildings, Aug. 10.

ELECTION or Sinaurrs.—Yesterday the Livery
assembled in the Guildhall for the
purpose of receiving the
declaration of the result of the election just concluded, when
the Recorder declared that the election bad fallen upon Mr.
Thomas Quested Finnis, alderman and bowyer, and Mr.
Jacob Emmanuel Goodhart, citizen and grocer. Both these
gentlemen duly returned thanks to the Livery, and the Hall
WAS then dissolved.
SINGULAR FACT.—It is not, we believe, generally
known, and indeed it would appear almost an incredible
fact, that mice, in the absence of other more appropriate
articles of food whereon to exercise their denies
molares, have been actually known to gnaw through
leaden gaspipes. Such, however, is the case, and we
have this week examined a piece of gaspipe from the
shop of Mr. Hall, of Mary-le-Port-street, in this city,
which had a hole in it fully an inch long, gnawed by
these destructive little creatures, who thus fully rebutted
.11:sop's contemptuous appellation, " ridiculus mus."
Consumers of gas, bearing this fact in mind, would do
well to snake a practice invariably of turning off their
gas at tho main.—Bristol Mirror.
LONDON JOINT-STOCK. BANK.--A special general
meeting of the proprietors was held to-day, at the Banking
Offices of the company, in Prince's-street, Bank, to supply
a vacancy in the direction, when Mr. W. Blunt was unani-
mously elected.

METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONERS or SEWERS (THIS
DAY.)—The Metropolitan Sanitary Commission, held a
Court of Sewers this morning; Lord Morpeth in the chair.
After the transaction of some routine business it adjourned.
EITHER WAY Do.—A Mr. Day advertises
the loss of his dog, whereupon an editorial wag says he
hopes he will succeed in finding him; for if "every dog
has his day," every hay ought.to have his dog.
The _Great ,Br tain _steam-ship is advertised for
sale by auction in this town in September.—Liverpool
Standard.

ENCUMBERED ESTAVgki•
(IRELAND) BILL.
From this measure it is expected that the land now so
inconveniently tied up in a few hands that cannot use it,
will be opened to the enterprise of hundreds or thousands
of little capitalists, anxious to become the owners of
small estates secured by a Parliamentary title. The
great fact sot forth is, that the nominal owners of the
land in Ireland are not the real owners ; and that this
Bill, if carried into a law, will convert nominal into reel
owners, and leave all the conflicting interests of the ex.-
isting incumbrances uninterfered with. This great and
effectual change is to be made in the most expeditious
and cheapest manner known to the law; sad the change
of ownership will at the same time to some extent bring
about, or even compel, a division of the land. The
3 000 owners may be expected to be indefinitely multi-
plied; and each of the new owners, all of whom are sure
to buy the land with a view of making a profit by cul-
tivating it, will be an employer of labour. What the
effect of this will be was well explained by Mr. C. P
Villiers. " When Captain Kennedy (he said) took the
management of the Devon estate, he found the populr6-
tion on it redundant to excess; but ho set to work drain-
ing and inclosing, and carrying on the other iniprove-
ments familiar to English agriculturists. He then found
that, so far front havit g a redundant population of
labourers, he had not a man too many." Now this
measure is calculated to plant a Capt. Kennedy, if peace
be preserved, on every one or two hundred acres of
Ireland, and thus be the means of employing the bulk of
the Irish in the only labour in which they are proficient•
We bave shown in another article, with reference to
other countries, that prosperity and peace go hand in
hand. There can be no doubt whatever that the check
which in later years has been given to the progress of
population in Ireland, previously stimulated into excel•
sive activity, is at the bottom of all the unquietness, in-
surrections, and rebellions, on which demagogues have
thriven. A measure, therefore, which promises to era-
ploy the people, and provide means for employing an in-
creasing number, which beginning with the improve•
ment of land, then extends to the arts in the towns that
supply the immediate wants of the agriculturists, thus
encouraging enterprise to explore the mines and fisheries,
for which an enterprising agricultural population supplies
the means and the market for the produce, is precisely
that which is most requisite for Ireland, and most within
the compass of ordinary legislation. It is quite pas'
sible that a more sweeping measure of dealing with the
land might have been more efficacious; but it is equally
certain, as the opposition given to this measure shows►
that no Government could now pass a more sweeping
measure. The Incumbered Estates Bill seems exactly
adapted to the times and circumstances of Ireland; it
promises to be the most efficacious, economical measure
ever passed for that country; and we see, with deep re-
gret, that the promise of improvement it holds out for the
people is likely to be marred by turbulent agitators,
who, pretending to be their friends, are their worst ene'
mies.—Economist.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

READING RACES.-WZDNISDAY.

The Ladies Plate of 401., one mile, was won easily, in tfo
heats, by Mr. Bosley's -Conquest, 3 yrs, let Ilb (Brooks),
beating Mr. Rice's Black Cat, 5 yrs, Bst 81b, Mr. Death's'
Lady Frances, 3 yrs, 7st 11b, and Mr. Waller's Columbus, 6
yrs, 9st.
The Berkshire Stakes of 20 revs. each, h ft, and only 5 if,
declared, with 50 added. Two miles. (25 Subs., 16 er
whom declared.)'
Mr. Elwes's Antagonist, 4 yrs, Ist 10lb ... (Donaldson)
Mr. Parr's Sponge, 3 yrs, Est 121 b
Mr. S. Scott's Tot, 3 yrs, sst 101 b .•
Mr. Drinkald's Marquis of Gonyngham, .5 yrs, Bst 61b •••
'The following also ran :—Mr. J. Day's Milliner, 5 yrs, 751
81b—Mr. Adams's Ellerslie, 3 yrs, 7st—Lord Strathmore!
Lattitat, 3 yrs, 6st, and Mr. Etwall's Acanthus, 3 yrs, bet SW;
Betting-5 to '2 agst Tot, 3to 1 agst Sponge, 7to 2 east
Ellerslie, and 5 to 1 agst Marquis of Conyngham. Ant"
gonist made nearly all the running, and won by a neck, 'l(4
a moderate third, and the rest tailed off.
Match, .50 sovs. One mile.
Mr. Elwes's Conveyancer, 3 yrs, lest 31b (Owner), but
Mr. Harrison's Hippona, 3 yrs, 10st, by a length.
The Easthampstead Park Stakes of 5 soya. each, and 35
added. Heats,. once round and a distance. ( 8 Subs.) ,
Mr. 'Turner's Foxwhelp,6 yrs, 7st 121 b (Wakefield) 0 !
Mr. Southby's Cupid, 3 yrs, 6st Ilb 0 1 ,
Mr. Death's Urania, 3 yrs, 7st 81b
..„ 2 4 a.
Mr. Drinkald's Moodkee, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b ... 4 0 ".
Mr. Parr's Mr. Caudle, 3 yrs, 6st 41b 0 0
Mr. Hussey's Embrace, 3 yrs, sst 121 b 3 3 rif
Mr. S. Scott's Daughter of the Star, 4 yrs, ist Ilb 0 2 dr
Mr. Stanley's Frank, 5 yrs, Bit 31b... ty dr
Each heat won by three lengths.
The Borough Plate of 25 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 3
soya. each ; winner to be sold for 801. Heats, three quer,
ters of a mile. ( 7 SubS.)
1
Mr. Wood's Amaaement, 6 yrs, Bst 13Ib ... 0 5 1
Mr. Drinkald's Man of my Heart, 5 yrs, Bst 1 llb 2 1 2 5
Mr. J. Day's Mignon, 4 yrs, Bst 51b 1 6 3 Ae
Mr. Hussey's Ploughman, aged, Bst 131 b 0 2 0 `"
Mr. S. Scott's Grammar, 3 yrs, 7st 71b... co 3 0
'I di!
Mr. Jones's Ellen, 4 yrs, Bst slb 0 4 0 '
Mr. Bray's Cerberus, 5 yrs, Bst Illb 0 dr
..

Won in a venter: •
LEWES RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, and 50 added; the second t°
save his stake. Heats, one mile. (3 Subs.)
.1
Mr. Clarke's Self-defence, yrs... ...(W. Planner) I /
Mr. Hall's Widred, 5 yrs, 7st Blb .. *3
Mr. Smith's Lady Constance, 5 yrs, 7st Blb 2
Won by half a length. The winner was claimed.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, the New Course;
Mr. H. Hill's Pyrrhus the First, 5 yrs, lOst (A. Day)
A 1 2
Sir J. limwley's Miami. 4-yrs, 9st 61b
Mr. Clarke's Alpheia, 3 yrs, Bst 2113 . 3 t"'
Won by two lengths. •
The Sweepstakes of 3 soy's. each, and 35 added, T.Y.C;'
4 subs., were won cleverly, in two heats, by Mr. Bartley
Grit, 3 vrs, Bst 21b (C. Hornby, jun.), beating Mr. Dor-
ritn's Sylvia, 2 yrs, sst I.llb, Mr. Nevin's Princess Chir
lotte, 2; yrs, sst 71b, and Mr. Dockeray's Awkward, 3 Yr*
ist 1016. •

CHELMSFORD RACES.--.WEDNESDAY. •
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, two mile!, I
Lord Exeter's Tophana, 3 yrs, 7st 51b .. (Pettit) 0
Mr. Shelley's Tarella, 4 yrs, 9st 111 b 0
Lord W. Powlea's Franconi,3 3 rs, ist 51b
... 3 3
The first was a dead heat, the second won by a length s"
a half, and the third by a length.
The Mark's Hall Stakes of 10 sow. each, 5 ft, and 25 addei'
About two miles. Gentlemen riders. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Sail's Khondooz, aged list... •• (Mr. C. Brooke) y
Mr. Dyson's Kimblesworth,4 yrs, lOst 41b 5
Mr. G. Simpson's The Witch, 6 yrs 10st 41b
Won by a length.
The Cup Stakes of 10 sove. each. Three miles. 5 Phi'
Mr. Lowther's Chapelgorie, S yrs. Walked over.
The Maldon Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 25 added, the s—
to save his stake. The straight mile. 7 Bibs.
Sir S. Spry's m, by Sir Hercules, 6 yrs, Bst-121b (Nat)
Mr. Hobson's Bowstring, 4 yrs, Bst 191 b
Mr. Cook's Faunus, 4 yrs, 7st 41b
Mr. Peter's Velure, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b
Mr. Wilson's The Hind, aged, Bst 31b . •••
'Wen by two lengths. "
The Town Plate of 301. was won easi!y, in two heats•g
Mr. Snsith's Lovelace, 3 yrs (May), beating Mr. Pe'rs
Genuine, 3 yrs :(Dian), and Mr. Nevin's Hecuba, ‘3
(Dockeray, juur.)
WEYMOUTH RACE S.—Wzror ESDAY. The Members' Plate of 501., added to a Handicap of 10 °-
m'S•
each. 5 ft.,_ and 3 only if declared. Two miles.
Mr. Whieldon's Wvke, 4 yrs, Bst 10Ib;: ,„ „, , Sly/
Mr. Parr's Lethargy, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b •.. ••• 3
Mr. G. King's Fallow the, 3 yrs, bat 121 b...
A Free Plate of 501. Heats, one mile and a dis.
Captain Sands's Royalty, 5 yrs... Sly
Mr. Smith'i Gazelle, aged
... ... • • 5
Mr. Parr's Twin, 4 yrs ...
••• ••• "
Mr. G. King's Fallow Doe, 3 yrs bolts

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On Friday sleeper was thrown across a par It
the railway near Cashel, by some evil disposed persons., r,
bruashed the protectors of the train which drove up, but
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innately no other injury was sustained. 110
THE WEATitua.—The weather since our last he
continued of a very unpleasant and unseasonable
ratter. The temperature has been low, the maxi°,
having been on Saturday 65 deg., on Sunday 63 ue';
and on Monday 63 deg ; and rain has descended dal,
a great part of the time, both heavily and co-mimic:4ls"i;
no less than 1.71-5 inches of rain having fallen
Avi,
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Satilrff
was throughout gloomy, and some long and 10,40
showers fell during the day and the following night- "'„c,
early part of Suuday was gloomy, and in the
ceeding part of the day it rained nearly contino
ously. The morning of Monday was showery ;
afternoon and evening were, however, fine `al
clear. The early part of yesterday was gloomy and. ro
rain fell; the evening, however, was fine. There of
from various places, by electric telegraph, show tllider,
seven o'clock yesterday morning, there was a priV° he
ance of fine weather at the different places througr d eo
country; this preponderance was even more decide
,ibe
Monday morning, so that it would appear tbfaio
unfavourable state of the weather us Manche'r
has been but local :—Glasgow, N.E. very hazy 1;111
burgh, S.W. very hazy ; Newcastle, W.N.W. I
rain ; York, S.E. very fine ; Hull, S.W. by W. 1.:4
Normanton, S.W. very fine ; Leeds, S.W. by S.lO,
cloudy ; Rotherham, S.W. fine ; Manchester, eft
fine ; Liverpool, S. very hazy ,• Lincoln, N.E. :„ I
fine ; Norwich, S.W, fine ; Brandon, S.W. "Ales
Lowestoffe, W.N.W. fine ; Nottingham, S.W.
Derby, W. by S. tog ; Birmingham, N.N.B. very fi nit,
Rugby, N. fine; Landon, S.E. fine; Chelmsford,
very tine; Colchester, S.W. fine; Gosport, S.W. ell's:
Southampton, N.E. fine; Weymouth, W. fine.-"'-
chester Guardian of yesterday.

BIRTH.% - fE.
On the 'kb inst., at Leo-villa, Kentish-town, the 16.r 1 '2
Huggins, Esq., of a daughter.
On the sth inst., at Clapham-road-terrace, Kenwrio-
the lady of J. Samuel, Esq., of a daughter. „..,,, ro
On the sth inst., at Portsmouth, the wife of the i'''
W. Milner, of a son.
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On the sth inst., at St. Catherine's, Dumfries, the
J. Lindsa Scott, of a daughter. .bifer
On the 6th inst., at Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorgsr3l'
Mrs. H. A. Bruce, of a daughter. "t the
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On the 6th inst., at South-place, Kennington-corny°
wife of Mr. F. J. Chester, of a daughter. gre'
On the Gth inst., at Woburn-place, Russell-squire'
W. Rutty, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., at liellina-villas, Kentish-towut 2411 °'
I. llawkes, of a ion.

DIRD.
Of apoplexy, on the 28th [of May, at Katagne''',
Southern India, Theodora Amelia Mary, wife of lolio
Frere, Esq., Madras• Civil Service, and eldest dau
Lord Bishop of Madras.
On the 2d inst.,. at, Wydale, Emma, wife of E. S.
Esq., M.P. Nicol S's'
On the 3d inst., aged 50, Sir Nicholas Harris
G.C.M.G. and K.H. cceil
On the 4th inst., at Wellow Vicarage, near Bath, Fri
Began, wife of the Rev. Charles Paul, vicar of We11°,":„.," wet,
On the 7th inst., at Parson's-green, Sybella G. I.`"-
eldest daughter of the late J. A. Hammet, aged IS. A (oat
On the 7th inst., at Hastings, aged two years an" '
months, Emily, daughter of D. Anderson, EN. ,of the
On the 7th inst., at Portland-place, Emma, relict
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