The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

The Court was occupied all the morning in trying
Mint cases, but none of them presented any feature of
more than ordinary importance.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The July General Sessions were opened this morning
at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green.
The grand jury having been sworn, they were briefly
addressed by the Assistant• Judge.
The Court was occupied the greater part of the morn-
ing with cases of petty larceny, of which several were
those of children under twelve, and in one case under
ten years of age, for picking pockets. These gave occasion
to the Assistant• Judge to repeat his animadversion upon
Sir John I'akington's Bill, passed in the last session of
Parliament, and called the Larceny Act, by which the
case of such children were withdrawn from the public
eye, by the power of summary conviction given to the
magistrate. The effect of that measure, which had been
in operation now only six months, bad already proved to
be such as he had predicted, and had increased this class
of offenders at the rate of two hundred per annum;
whereas, if they had continued to be brought before the
public, in that court, the public would not rest until an
effectual remedy was found for so deplorable and dis-
graceful an evil.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair to-day shortly after
Twelve o'clock.

EARLY SITTING OF THE HOUSE.

On the motion that the Committees have leave to sit,
notwithstanding the sitting of the House,
Mr. FREWEN objected to the motion, and com-
plained of the inconvenience resulting to Members that
were on Committees, in eonsequence of the sitting of the
House at so early an hour.
Leave was then given to the Committees to sit.
LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were
further considered, and agreed to:—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Station
Approach in Manchester).
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway Amend-
ment (Extension to Penistone and Alteration of Dod-
worth Branch).

Tadcaster and Balton Dial Turnpike Road (Diversion,
&c., of the Road in the parish of Tadcaster).
THIRD READINGS.

The following Bills ware read a ,gird time and
passed:—
Dunbar Customs, Water, and Harbour Dues Amend-
ment.

West of England and South Wales Land Draining Com•
pany Incorporation.
CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS.
The reports on the following Bills were considered
and agreed to:—
Birkenhead Dock Commissioners (Transfer of Powers
to New Commissioners, effecting Arrangements with
the Crown, and Amendment of Acts—No. 2).
Hulme and Eccles Road.

Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction
Railway Deviation and Branches.
Monkland and Kirkintillock, Ballochney, and Slamannan
Railways (Amalgamation or Sale or Lease, and
Amendment or Repeal of Acts).
Royston and Hitchin Railway (Extension to Cambridge
and Branches).
ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion that the House should resolve itself
into a Committee on the Encumbered Estates (Ire land)

Sir LUCIUS O'BRIEN moved pursuant to notice,
that it be an instruction to the Committee to e:ttend
its operation to England and Scotland. His object in
making this motion was to render the law in both
countries analogous, an object which he believed had
been lost sight of in this Bill. He understood that
his motion was to be opposed by her Majesty's Ge.vern-
ment. He was surprised at this, because the
Bill as it at present stood was a one-sided
measure. He trusted that, although this me asure
had met with the concurrence of the House of Lords,
this House would not adopt it without grave con-
sideration. He complained of the course pursued b y her
Majesty's Ministers in forcing on the Bill at the pi .esent
moment, when it was well known Irish Members were
absent in Ireland, in consequence of having to pe dorm
in that country most important duties. This Bill would
alter completely the whole law with respect to property in
Ireland; and it therefore behoved the House of Con imone
to consider well its provisions before they acceg led to
them. He believed that the provisions of this :Bill. if
carried into effect, would inflict great evils upon Ir eland,
and her Majesty's Ministry had been told that such
would be the result of the measure. He thougl it that
the measures that had been introduced with respi :et to
Ireland by her Majesty's Governmenl were not at all
calculated to relieve the burthens under whin! z that
country laboured, or to secure peace or comfort there.
He codsidered the Labour Rate Act false in psi aciple,
and that every one of its provisions ought to be car celled.
He advised Government to withdraw the Bin •for the
present year, or so to modify it that it Should be a boon
to the landlord instead of an oppression. He alw.s ys un•
derstood that it was brought forward to bens .fit the
landlord, and surely if that were so, Government ought
not to object to the improvements hich the lands d pro-
prietors suggested should lbe introduced in to it.
lie denied that the English creditor was sufferini from
the present system; there might be individual eases of
injury done to his mortgagee by the landlord, be t these
instances could be provided for without having rt course
to a legislative enactment. By this Bill they pt oposed
to suspend the law of entail and primogeniture in Ire-
land, although it was upon that law that her 111 tajesty
rested her title to wear the Crown of these realms . The
law of entail might be defective and inconvenient, but it
was a law which had always been religiously of erved,
and he did not think the House would be justi tied in
suspending it in Ireland. He therefore.called ul on the
First Minister of the Crown to pause before he s llowed
this Bill to pass; but of this the Noble Lord might' be as-
sured, that if he persisted in pressing it forward : now he
should certainly move that its provisions be et tended
to Finland as well as Ireland. The landlords of : Ireland
were a calumniated and much abused body. The y were
repeatedly being charged with not only neglect c I duty,
but of aggravating the sufferings of their own ei iuntry;
but when these charges came to be inquired int o, they
proved to be utterly without foundation. For h is part,
he liked to lay the blame where blame was due, and he
had no hesitation in saying that the misery of Ireland
was to be traced to the legislation of that Flora se. Of
late years its legislation had had a tendency to in-
duce landlords to get rid of their tenant s, and
it was unjust to lay the consequences of such a system
at the door of the owner of the soil.
(LEFT SITTING.)