The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-25 00:00:00

difficulty in the garrison's returning the accustomed
salute fired by tileat vessel on entering the port?
Mr. WARD was understood to reply that he had no
official intelligence on the subject.
HEALTH OF TOWNS' BILL.
Mr. CARDWELL wished to ask the Noble Lord the
First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, when he
Intended to proceed with the Public Health Bill ?
Lord MORPETH said he was afraid he should not be
able to bring it on next week, but the House might rely
upon his proceeding with it on the earliest opportunity.
ELECTION RECOGNIZANCES BILL
On the question being put that the House, at its
rising, do adjourn till Monday,
Mr. STAFFORD urged upon the Right lion. the
Chairman of the General Committee of Elections the
propriety of postponing the nomination of the Com-
mittees on the Cheltenham, Leicester, and Bodmin
petitions till after the Election Recognizances Bill had
been disposed of.
Mr. GARDNER also made a similar appeal to the
Right Hon. Gentleman, insisting that great hardship
would be inflicted on the parties petitioned against if the
appointment of the Committees were not delayed. He
thought the House would do great injustice if it did not
take some further steps in the matter.
Mr. F. MAULE defended the General Committee of
Elections from the attacks that had been
made against it. He did not see what other
course that Committee could adopt other than that
which it had stated its determination to pursue, of com-
mencing the selection from the panels on Monday next.
Any objection that could be urged against the course
the Committee intended to pursue would, he was sure, be
attended to on Monday.
Mr. STUART WORTLEY was glad that the Com-
mittee of Selection was open to suggestions upon the sub •
jest, and he trusted that they would do nothing hastily.
He should ask the House to take the subject of the se-
cond reading of the Bill into consideration on Monday
next the first thing, as it was a question of privilege.
After some observations from Sir G. GREY, the sub-
ject dropped.
GAME-LAWS.—MURDER OF THE DUKE OF
CILEVELAND'S GAME KEEPER.
Mr. BRIGHT, seeing the Right Hon. Baronet the
Head of the Home Department in his place, was desirous
of putting a question to him upon a subject that he was
sure would be painful to him. It was well known that
two men were at the present moment under sentence of
death in the county gaol of Durham for the murder of
the gamekeeper of the Duke of Cleveland. He observed
that a reprieve had been sent down for one of them.
He understood the jury sent up to the Home-office a
memorial in favour of a respite for the unhappy men.
The House, the other e% ening, seemed in favour ofj uries re-
commending prisoners to mercy when there a ere extenuat-
ing circumstances, in which case the extreme penalty of
the law was riot carried out ; but if they had signed such
a memorial, it seemed to him equivalent to a
recommendation to mercy. He wished to ask whether
the Right Ron. Baronet had any objection to lay copies
of such memorial or recommendation to mercy upon the
table of the House ? Having received various commu-
nications from the district, must plead :his excuse for
asking the question.
Sir GEORGE GREY gave the Hon. Gentleman full
credit for being actuated by the best of motives;
but lie could Lot help expressing his deep regret that
questions of this kind, the circumstances of which it was
impossible to bring clearly before the House, were so
frequently brought before it. Such proceedings, if perse-
vered in, would very much tend to impede the discharge
of the painful duty entrusted to him in this
as in other instances. The matter had received his
serious attention, and the decision he had come to
was one he should not wish to shrink from.—
(Hear, hear.) The verdict of the jury was not accom-
panied by a recommendation to mercy. He, like the
tionourable Member, had received varies com-
munications on the subject from Durham. He
did not think he should discharge his duty
if he produced the copies sought, as such a course, he
believed, in such matters, would be subversive of the
practice heretofore adopted.—(Hear.)
EMIGRATION TO CANADA.

Mr. REYNOLDS wished to ask the Under Secre-
tary for the CJlonies whether any additional tax was im•
posed upri emigrants landing in Canada or the North
American Provinces, and if so, the amoui:t of tax?
Mr. HAWES said the house was, no doubt, aware
of the disastrous consequences that accompanied the
emigration last year. Out of 90,000 emigrants
15,000 died during their voyage or soon after landing.
Under these circumstances Earl Grey recommend that the
tax should remain as now, under ordinary circumstances;
when healthy, that there should be no tax ; but if the
ships were in quarantine, thereby showing her passen•
gera were sickly, the tax was to be doubled, and if the
detention was protracted, to be trebled, but in no case
to exceed 205. per head. The tax was also doubled upon
helpless and aged emigrants.
LEEWARD ISLANDS LOAN.

Mr. MACKINNON inquired from the Right Hon.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it was the
intention of the Government to call in the loans, or any
part of them, made after the earthquake in the Lee-
ward Islands, to the proprietors of certain estates
there, or whether the period of repayment was to be
extended?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied
that he had stated on the first day the House met aft.'r
the Christmas recess, that the repayment of the balance
remaining unpaid cf those loans would be postponed for
further period of five years, interest to ho paid in the
meantime. _ _ _

Mr. MACI,CINNON asked if that would be five years
beyond the original period.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said +le
exact arrangement was this: from this time, five years
would intervene, during which interest would he charged;
and, at the expiration of those fire years, the loan
would be put in precisely the same situation as it was at
that moment, whatever might be the term that re-
inained.