The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-06 00:00:00

CHELSEA PENSIONERS.

Captain LA YARD said that he had given notice some days
ago of his intention to ask the Right Hon. the Secretary-at-
War, if it was the intention of Government to take into con-
sideration the petition presented on the 21st day of April, and
since printed by order of the House, from certain Chelsea pen-
sioners, complaining of bl. per cent. being stopped from their
pay. He now wished to know whether it was the intention
of the Government to comply with the prayer of the peti-
tioners ?
Mr. S. HERBERT was understood to say that he could hold
out no hopes of the request of tha petitioners being complied
with.

CORN IMPORTATION BILL.
miOttenethone tmhoetCioonrnoflSmiproßriaPtioEnEßlLifi.the House went into Com-
reaod,n the clause for the reduction of the duty on oats being
Lord G. BENTINCK rose and said, that no part of the
considered that
these discussions than Ireland. When they considered
all of whom
I
'United Kingdom was more deeply interested in the result of
there were 585,000 occupiers of land in 1
a runt op fo
rtthaenmu
e,
he thousslit at was a matter
were growers of oats, or,atolfeatsht
e, the
mostgreater
to a decisionto Ireland ibat they should not hastily come
rseeri o ups
on
this
the last and former years, to a sum of money
had amain to d,
Bill. TA annual importation of oats from Ireland
little ; h (sr t
2,500,000!. Supposing that they came to
they. cat . •
f admitting the free importation of
oats Tito Ecestsn d from foreign countries, and that the
effect would Ise &dowering of the price of oats to the extent
oft 0!. t. would effect Ireland in a very grievous
degree., I t Onu 1 upon the simple article of oats
amount tot t itx as it were upon the agricultural
produce eourt`7 of 250,0001. per annum.
He'vlseln 'Fat d a return of the prices of all oats that were
exporeetts trtslatel from the year 1817 to 1839, compris-
ingL
,Ot tfeisty-three years, and the average price of
into t stl. - n;atito'veas Ils. 7d. per qr. ; and if oats were allowed
to bei -(l`catattrigland from foreign countriesfree of duty,
itwss litm'WGr elm that Ireland would be grievously affected.
K is, * state what the prices of oats were in the years
1844," t, .d Dig, respectively at foreign ports.—( The
Noble kt d -tint ;gad from some documents he held in his
gys id, 1 i said it appeared that in 1844 the
priceoiss, t s as Amsterdam was 12s. 9d. ; at Hamburgh, 10s.
9d.; t; ) an tlic',l2s. 6d. ; and at Riga, 6s. 6d. In the year
1845, t e prices were, at Amsterdam, lls. 9d. ; at
Hambiigh , 1 A.10d.; at Dantzic, 10s. 6d. ; and at Riga,
10s. ri I . He next proceeded to read similar lists, which
gave I et. ail s 'equally minute relative to the price of
the iatir, ar tele in the years 1824, 1825, and 1826,
at ArchaVgel, Riga, Konigsburgh, Stettin, and Copenhagen.
The Right Hob. Gentleman the First Minister of the Crown
asked w;sy he would give to the distress in Ireland a suspension
of the Born-law ? Why he never thought that the suspension
of Mse laws could do any good to the people of Ireland.
never said that their removal would confer any benefit.
they said emphatically that in the present state
sof the eOatinent of Europe they could not afford in a
ssve.if scarcity to export corn or wheat. They proposed
eto a suspension of the corn-laws as a practical proof
Isislllaw the people of Ireland and England thatno good would
(we from their repeal. They said that if the people of Ire-
land were excited by representations of the good that would result
from a repeal of the corn-laws, that they (the protectionists)
would not stand between them and that suspension. He had
said that there were 585,000 holders of land in Ireland. Five
hundred and eighty-five holders of farms not exceeding fifteen
acres each—men who had no capital but their industry—no
capital but their honesty.—( Hear, hear.) That was his state-
ment. Was it possible that farmers holding but fifteen acres
of land could have much capital, or employ skill in the cultiva-
tion of their farms ? How could they possess threshing ma-
chines, drills, harrows, and other useful agricultural imple-
ments?—(Hear.) But such was the state of things as they
found it. They found 558,000 farmers holding but fifteen
acres—men who, if they believed Lord Essex, having no capi-
tal and skill, should not be:farmers. These 558,000 farmers, with
3,000,000 of souls dependent upon them, were to be sacrificed
to their political economy. Now this was in accordance with
the language which had been held by the Right Hon. Baronet
at the head of the Government, when speaking of political
economists. He gave the House to understand, that human
beings were to be sacrificed, in order to ensure abetter cultiva-
tion of the land. There was a time when the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet would have scouted the idea of such political economy as
this; there was a time when he recollected the Right Hon.
Baronet referring to the letter which the Noble Lord the Mem-
ber for'London had addressed to his constituents, and describ-
ing those who were in favour of such political economy as a
body whose doctrines it was to buy in the cheapest
market, and substitute the corn of Russia and of Po-
land for their own—a body of men who were described
as sacrificing the interests of the world to the advancement of
their own—as a body of men who would sacrifice the hardy race
of the farm labourer—a body of men to whom wealth was
their only object. He recollected that the Hon. Member for
Montrose interrupted the Right Hon. Baronet in that descrip-
tion, and that the Right Hon. Baronet, addressing the Hon.
Member, said,—You sat for the likeness—(Cheers from the
protectionists)—you are the representatives of ;,these harsh,
cold-blooded, political economists. In his (Lord G. Ben-
tinck's opinion the Right Hon. Baronet was rather himself the
hard-featured, harsh, cold-blooded economist which he repre-
sented the Hon. Member fur Montrose to he. —(Hear, hear.)
The Right Hon. Baronet had said that the protectionists had
made things worse, and he had asked what had protection done
for the 558,000 holders of land in Ireland ? It was certainly a
difficult matter to say whether those individuals were in a
better or a worse condition since the passing of the Corn Bill ;
he had no very accurate data to go upon, but he had heard
from an authority which he he had often quoted—Captain
Foster—that in spite of the famine alleged to exist in Ireland,
these holders of land were rapidly progressing towards improve.
ment. That Gentleman had learned from the secretary of the
savings' banks in Cork, that during the last year the small
farmers in that district alone had deposited ir
in the savings banks 200,0001. and the sums deposited by each
individual did not exceed 34/.—(Hear, hear)—and yet they
were called upon to sacrifice their capital at the shrine of
free trade which had been created by the Right Hon. Baronet.
He admitted that they were not going to shut out Ireland from
the British markets, but they were depriving he of that favour
and partiality whieh she had so long enjoyed. It was true this
was not done by direct means, but it was done by introducing
more favoured competitors into the British market, upon the
same terms.—(Cheers.) He regretted that for the last thirty
zmrt the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Govern-
... thy. course of a great statesman,
and the course which a great minister ought to • and be
regrettea neepiy, mpursue;
for the House, that the warning iihiett WiTilirown out, as
for as the sake of the country, had not been used in this mea-
sure. It was with exceeding regret that he had alluded to this
subject at all, but still he conceived that it was incumbent on
the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Ministry that
measures should be taken which were in consonance with the
measures of the Government ; that the subject taken in these
discussions should be in consonance with the impressions which
had been promulgated in furthering the resolutions of the House.
In the course of these discussions he was taunted, or rather
ridiculed, because he took notice of the fact that a ship with
60 tons of potatoes had come to England from Ireland, and he
was asked if he would interrupt the supplies destined for the
people of England by purchasing this food for the apprehended
scarcity? He would retaliate by asking the Right Honourable
Baronet why the 60 or 80 tons of oats which had been recently
shipped from Deptford to Ireland were not detained here in-
stead of being sent to Ireland ? It seemed that this proceeding
was the converse of their own political economy, which was to
buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market. In this in-
stance they had bought in the dearest to supply the
cheapest market. They did this instead of going to
the localities in Ireland where scarcity did not exist,
in order to purchase food for the support of the
people. Ireland was the cheapest market from which they
could have been supplied, while it would have been conferring
a benefit on the country by circulating the money there. He
never denied that distress existed; that was, partial distress.
There was distress—great distress—in some localities, but it
was not general. What he denied was the statement of her
Majesty's Government respecting the prevalence of a general
oalhdtohcgeoonn
istauorl
ktseetthos ot.
Isaenf
adwehtt
to make
n sab
ku
es int
he
consultsesi
their
t pwouoarresn_ht-aofs_aeaestt,toeransnd
datntohdetylmi the
lsol teuaritsde,
pestilence, and a general scarcity and famine. Let them go
find the case was not what her Majesty's Government had re-
presented. He Hsheiphsa,dorfe2cooeivteodnsa
bleutrtdeernb,utthtahtrewe
edays
l a daegno e
with-
oats in a bay in the west of Ireland. The Noble Lord then
entered into details to show that the ' scarcity was not so great
as it was represented to be. Now, to return to the r
eal 1
of Ireland. The Right Hon. Baronet had thrown
outa sostate
doubt as to the correctness of the returns which he (LorclGe
Bentinck) had several times referred to. But he could in-
form the Right Hon. Baronet that he held in his hand returns
how that out of the 658,000 holders of farm in Ireand, not less than 558,000 held farm f
564,374 holders of soo only s
16 acres. There l
were
farms not employing labourers • 95,339 oc-
cupiers of farms emp_lo • labourers •
659,613 holders of land in
Ireland. ; making a total of
crease in the holders of land for
the
This would give an in-
Now he thought that this wasseuffiacsiet 15 years, of 25,696.
sufficient proof that Ireland
was in a prosperous condition andaifthey added the remedies to
which reference had been made' on for nights—namely, namely, a
liberal poor-law, to meet the wants ofmtehr nig
e labouring classes,
and an attention to the condition and interests of the poorer
classes of tenant-farmers in Ireland, he had no doubt that a
material improvement would take place in the social condition
of the people in every district, whether distressed or not, in that
'unfortunate country.
Sir H. BARRON said that the people of Ireland very much
doubted the sincerity of their lately acquired friends (the pro-
tectionists), and the question the poor farmer of 15 acres asked
himself, was, What has protection done for use ?—( Cheers. )
lie confessed that he had himself been opposed to any altera-
tion of the corn-laws as at present existing ; but, on calm and
careful consideration, he was now fully convinced that the mea-
sures propounded by her Majesty's Ministry would be of the first
and most beneficial importance to Ireland ; and some of his
tenants, men of great intelligence, holding farms of from 2 to 3
and 500 acres, were
of the me opinion. He remem-
bered that on the late alteration in the tariff,
Ireland it was
wold
pro-
phesied that the stock and butter trade of
be completely ruined.—(Hear.) But it was not so. Theseu
trades had increased from 15 to 20 per cent., and lan
in the iobutter countries" had increased from 15 to 18 per
cent., and he challenged the Noble Lord (Lord George
Bentinck) to contradict the fact that land in his part ofcen t
the country had increased from 10 to 15 per
(Cheers.) He was t
satisfied that the people of this great
country
and that they would not be
country required these changes,
inimical to any of the interests of England or Ireland.
of
the poor
When the Noble Lord appealed to this House on behalf
ask,
had landlords in Ireland, what on earth, he would
had the poor of Ireland to expect from the continuance of
a tax on human food ?—( Cheers.) Hetrusted that this
agriculture, which would
oblige would give an impetus to
oblige the farmers to adept better measures of cultivation.
But he contended that Ireland was not a corn growing
country ; that a system of green crop growing ; that an
encouragement to pasturage would be far more likely to
yield the farmers a certain return. He was quite satisfied
that the Irish farmer would be continually in difficulty
while he reaped only one crop of corn instead of three, as
under the present system. It was not for him (Sir H.
Barron) to defend the Right Hon. Baronet, the First Lord of
the Treasury from any charges brought against him, but
he thought that a lecture on consistency—and he said it
with all good humour—came with an exceedingly ill grace
from the Noble Lord.—( Cheers.) The Noble Lord, he
(Sir H. Barron) remembered came into that House as a
strong supporter of the Whig party, and men asked them-
selves, therefore, Did this lecture on political consistency
come from the unchanged and the immutable ? He con-
ceived that the recipe of the Noble Lord for ass
isting the
people, namely, to send Government emissaries
intoei the
market to buy up food for them, was a perfectly
This was the Noble Lord's plan for lowering the nomv arkentes.
He (Sir H. Barron) would have conceived that the better
.
and surer way to lower the markets would have been
to purchase corn in foreign markets, and to
sell that cheaply to those who required it.
He could tell the House, from personal observation, that nearly
one-half of the people of Ireland were living upon the charit-v
Pith* neighbour and were it not for_thischaritb he could
•":

assure Hon. Members that hundreds and hundreds of thou-
sands would die of starvation. It was the knowledge of this
fact that induced the mobility and gentry of Ireland to come
forward and make some exertion to alleviate this distress.
Mo,t of the gentry in his own neighbourhood had doubted the
numbers of persons employed on their estates, but this was in
the country ; and unless the Government made most extraordi-
nary exertions to assist the clergy and gentry in their efforts to
lessen the distress, the misery in town would be most appalling.
toe hduany reeedd f
ha
emwi ei wn
t hoe
high? Why, of his own knowledge, he knew that the price
namehlna ismhoeef mansPc:ormi sm 000fnf subsistence
rs
eeinas nei tchoeur lfedr day
tw
when provisions were so
of potatoes was double what it had been for the last six years.
But it was said, why do not the country gentry and clergy come
forward and put these families in the way of getting
their living. Now, how could they ? Many of these
resided in the mountains, and had no claim upon the landlords
of the district ; but with aid from Government these landlords
would undertake works which would go very far to employ and
relieve the wants of many of these starving families. Within
these last few months several ships had arrived from America
laden with the very food which was wanted for Ireland, but it
was shut out from the markets of that country by the delay of
this measure. And what, let him ask, would be the conse-
quence of this delay ? Why those who had money in their
possession now would be compelled to expend the whole of it
in purchasing provisions for their immediate wants, whereas, if
this Bill were passed, this money would perhaps supply them
with food for the whole of the autumn. Under these cir-
cumstances he should support her Majesty's Government.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not rise
to follow the Hon. Baronet who had just sat down in answer-
ing the speech of the Noble Lord who had moved the
amendment, but to point out to the Noble Lord that
his amendment would not accomplish the object he had in
view. The Noble Lord moved that the words 6° there should
be levied upon oats on and after the Ist of February, 1849, a
duty of Is.,', should be omitted. Now, as a previous clause
repealed the duty on all grains including oats, if this amend-
ment were carried there would be no duty on oats at all, which
he was sure was not the object the Noble Lord had in view in
proposing this amendment.—( Hear, hear.) He put it to the
Noble Lord then, whether it was fair to take up the time of
the Committee in discussing an amendment, which could not
accomplish the end he had in view.—(llear, hear.)
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK apprehended that the clause
to which the Right Hon. Gentleman had just referred did
not absolutely repeal the duty, and in this opiminion he be-
lieved, from a conversation he had had with him, thathis Right
Hon. and Learned Friend the Attorney-General, would bear
him out.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, it was hardly fair
for the Noble Lord to introduce his name in this matter, but
independently of this the Noble Lord was wrong in supposing
that the Bill did not absolutely repeal the duty on oats in the
event of the Noble Lords' amendment being carried. It did
not require the mind of a lawyer to see this.—(Hear, hear.)
Captain LAYARD had come down to the House, intending
to vote against the Noble Lord's amendment, but he was glad
to find now that the Noble Lord was so stanch a free-trader.—
(Cheers.) Instead, therefore, of opposing the amendment, he
should new support it, if the Noble Lord had pressed it ; but
he put it to the Noble Lord whether it would not be better,
seeing that the country was anxious that the Bill should pass,
for him to withdraw his opposition altogether.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. STUART was understood to dissent from the
opinions 01 the Attorney-General.
Mr. P. BORTHWICK said, if they introduced into the
first clause of the Bill, which repealed the existing duties on
grain, the words " excepting oats," Le apprehended his Noble
Friend's amendment would only have the effect of negativing
the Government proposal, so far as it related to oats. He would
ask the Learned Attorney-General whether the effect of the
first clause, already passed, would have the effect of repealing
the existing duty on oats.
The ATTORNEY-GFNERAL apprehended it would.
Mr. STEWART thought that the whole of the clause
should be rejected, and another clause remodelled should be
introduced in lieu thereof.

The SPEAKER intimated that no amendment could be
proposed on any part of the clause already past.—(Hear,
hear.) The only course to be adopted would be to pass or
reject the whole clause.
Mr. F. BARING thought that if the Noble Lord wished to
make any alteration, he should propose his amendment in a
proper form.
Mr. SCOTT understood that the amendment of his Noble
Friend was that the word " oats" should not be expressed.
He thought the whole of the clause should be rejected.
Lord G. BENTINCK then withdrew his amendment with
reference to the word " oats."
Mr. GREENE then read the first clause.

"Be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's most excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parlia-
ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from
and after the passing of this Act, in lieu of the duties now pay-
able upon the entry for home consumption in the United King-
dom, and upon the importation into the Isle of Man of corn,
grain, meal, and flour, there shall be levied and paid unto her
Majesty, her heirs, and successors, en all corn, grain, meal,
and flour, already or hereafter to be imported into the United
Kingdom or the Isle of Man, from parts beyond the seas, and
entered for home consumption, after the passing of this Act,
the duties set forth in the Schedule to this Act annexed until
the first day of February, which will be in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and on,
from, and after the said first day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine, the following duties :—namely,
Upon all wheat, barley, bear or bigg, oats, rye, pease, and
beans, for every quarter one shilling, and so in proportion for
a less quantity. Upon all wheat, meal, and flour, barley meal,
oat meal, rye meal, and fl Jur, pea meal, and bean meal, for
every cwt. fourpence halfpenny, and so in proportion for a less
quantity.
Lord G. BLNTINCK moved the omission of the whole
clause.

Mr. FINCH considered that the protecting duties were of
great benefit to the people of Ireland. The reneal of those
duties would therefore, in his opinion, be tantaMeunt to a re-
peal of the Union. The Hon. Member proceeded to animad-
vert upon the currency introduced by the Right Honourable
Baronet. He considered that if the House agreed to the pro-
position of his Noble Friend it would be a great boon to Ireland,
to which the agriculturists of Ireland were well entitled. He
would, therefore, most cordially support the motion of the
Noble Lord the Member for Lynn.
Mr. 0. GORE considered that the present question was
peculiarly an Irish one ; and, therefore, as an Irish landlord,
he should offer a few observations to the House regarding it.
He looked upon the measure as the most important which bad
ever come before the Legislature during the forty years that
he had the honour of a seat in that House. And the passing
of it would be—and he feared it would be passed—the era
from whence to date the decline of this great empire. The
object of the Bill—as it was stated to be—was to bring waste
land into cultivation. Now, he had reclaimed wrte biz:
In frelandit was their Custom to take four, five, 4%, or seven,
aye, ten crops of oats in succession from' reclaimed
lands, whilst in England they thought a great
thing to take two—( Hear, hear)—and they therefore would, by
passing the measure, reduce oats to such an extravagantly low
price that it would not pay the farmer the capital which he in-
vested in the reclamation of the waste. His Noble Friend,
(Lord G. Bentinck) had already demonstrated the evil which
weuld be inflicted by the measure upon Ireland; he proved it
by quoting the price of the foreign markets. But he would
put the House in mind o f a statement made by Mr. Gladstone
in 1842, namely, that he could procure 793,000 quarters of
wheat, at an average of Its. 5d., adding about ss. for
freightage—(Hear, hear)—which plainly demonstrated the low
price which grain would bring in the home markets. But he
would quote a higher authority than Mr. Gladstone, a higher
authority than the Home Secretary, and a higher authority
than the Prime Minister himself. He would quote Mr. Pitt
who said, " that the agriculture of Ireland ought to to pro-
tected, and that it would be a blot upon England should they
cease to support it."—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. SCOTT said that there was nothing which could
alienate Ireland from this country more than the circum-
stance that she could not get an adequate return for her pro-
duce. If this Bill passed, she would not get an adequate re-
turn, but would be obliged to enter the market in competition
with the foreigner. He denied, therefore, that it would do
good to Ireland. It would, besides, have the effect of throwing
the land of inferiror value out of cultivation.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw that the House
might divide, but on our re-admission to the gallery we found
that no division had taken place.
Lord G. BENTINCK having withdrawn his amendment,
The remaining clauses of the Bill, with the schedules, were
then agreed to, and the Report was ordered to be received
on Friday next, amidst loud cheers.
The House then resumed, and immediately afterwards re-
solved itself into Committee on the
CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL,
The different clauses of which were agreed to without oppo-
sition, and the report ordered to be read on Friday next.
The House then resumed.
The reports on her Majesty's message relating to Viscount
Hardinge and Lord Gough were brought up and agreed to.
THE POLLING PLACES IN IRELAND BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at a qurter-past Nine o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
TUESDAY, MAY 5.
The following Railway Bills were withdrawn :
Preston and Pyre Railway Harbour and Dock (New Dock and
Railway).
Cornwall and Devon Central (Hayle, Lelant, St. Austell, and Bodmin
Branched).
Cornwall and Devon Central.

The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the Bills
ordered to be brought in by the undernamed Hon. Members :
Bristol and Birmingham (Bath Line)—Mr. Hudsoi & Mr. Phillpott:4.
Warwickshire and London (Worcester and Weedon Line)—Sir C.
Douglas and Mr. Dugdale.
Midland (Nottingham and 3lansteld Railway) —Sir J. Trollope, Mr.
Hudson, and Mr. Mundy.

The followinSgr rAeNeol?
eltNieG.; OwßeDreErßepSe'rtCeodAtlr3ol.lTtThEisECommi
ttee
:
1. That, in the case .
Mansfieldlllailway) l, e Midland Railway (Nottingham and
with :—That the parties b e petition,
the standing orders ought to be dispensed
ermitted to proceed with their Bill.
2. That, in the case of the
NNlntehaven and Furness Junction
Railway petition, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with.
Railway petition, the te East and West of England Junction
4. That, in the case of standing
orders ought not to be dispensed with.
petition, the standing orders the Launceston and South Devon Railway
ought
5. That, in the case of the not to be dispensed with.
Railway petition, the standing Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction
orders ought not to be dispensed witk.
6. That, in the case of the
(Bath Line) petition, the standing ristol and Birmingham Railway
orders ought to be dispensed with :
—That the parties be permitted to
abandoning that portion of their line the plane with their Bill, on
proceed
have not been deposited with the clerk of the aanridosteectti sons
alof which
7. That, in the case of tile Londoc, Salisbury and .Ywcov
n ck.
Junc-
tion Railway (Salisbury to Yeovil) petition, the standing orders ought
to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to
proceed with
their Bill, on the insertion of a clause restraining them from taking
any land from a field (Ne. 2) in the parish of Sutton Bingham, to the
termination of the line as shown on the plan.
8. That, in the case of the Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway
petition for additional provision, the standing orders ought to be
dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to Introduce such
additional provision, on proving to the Committee on the Bill the
consent of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company.
9. That, In the case of the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Rail-
way petition for additional provision, the standing orders ought to be
dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to introduce sach
additional provision, on proving to the Committee on the Bill the con-
sent of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Company.
10. That, in the case of the Kent Atmospheric Railway petition for
additional provision, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :
—That the parties be permitted to introduce such additional provi-
sion, on proving before the Committee on the Bill the assent of all
the owners, lessees, and occupiers on the line of the proposed deviation.
That the Committees on this and the four preceding Bills do exa-
mine in the first place how fur such orders have been complied with,
and do report the same to the House on the report of the Bill.
11. That, in the case of the Warwickshire and London Railway
(Worcester and Weedon Line) petition, the standing orders ought to
be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with
their Bill.
First, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh resolutions
agreed to.—Report to lie on the table.

THE WOUNDED MAN BLEWITT.—Last night, on in-
quiry of Mr. Duncan, the house surgeon of the hospital, our in-
formant learnt that not the remotest hope was new entertained of
the patient's ultimate recovery, mortification of the injured parts of
the body through which the ball had passed having at length taken
Place, notwithstanding the favourable symptOMS Which A few days
duce APPArOIItIY PAWPAW thalliting.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
CHESTER RACES.
CHESTER, Moxn,ty iS.TIGHT, 12 O'CLOCK.
THE CUP.
It is generally calculated that at least 35 horses will start,
a number exceeding all precedent, and not at all improbable;
up .cards of 40 being niw in the city or at Delamere Forest,
amongst them Inheritress, The Baron, Corranna, Sweetmeat,
St. Lawrence, Sorella, Glossy, Intrepid, Queen of Tyne, Vol-
au-Vert, Hope, Ralf, Pride of Kildare, Hooton, Roderick,
Little Hampton, Warp, Salopian, Polish, Lady Wildair, The
Roper's Daughter, Crim. Con., Pedometer, Redstreak,
Clumsy, Cataract, Miss Burns, Connaught Ranger, Plaudit,
The Magnet, Vitula, Best -Bower, Stream, I-etit Morceau,
Marquis of Conyngham, Mermaid, Punch, Finvaragh, Bro-
ther to Sir Henry, Billy Purvis, Elena, Clara, Caren Bawn.
Dawson starts Inheritress, Glossy, Cries. Con., and Brother to
Sir Henry: and Wadlow, it is said, Sweetmeat, Salopian,
The Roper's Daughter, Redstreak, and Intrepid—nine out of
two stables. We take for granted they will be started in
triple lines, and that the final quotations will be in some
measure influenced by the draw." Assuredly the rear rank
will rua at a disadvantage.
7 to 1 agst Best Bower
10 to 1 agst Magnet
10 to 1 agst Sweetmeat
11 to 1 agst Clumsy
11 to 1 agst Miss Burns
13 to 1 agst Vitula
14 to 1 agst Pedometer
15 to 1 agst Polish
16 to 1 agst Inheritress
20 to 1 agst Hope
25 to 1 agst Lady Wildair
25 to 1 agst Connaught Ranger
30 to 1 agst Crim. Con.
31 to 1 agst Glossy—taken
33 to 1 agst Plaudit
40 to 1 agst Corranna
40 to 1 agst Billy Purvis
Weatherbit is struck out.
THE DEE STAKES.—The following norses are nere .
Dulo, Princess Alice, Chartist, Kismet, Tooacconist, c. out of
Miss Thomassina, Malcolm, Alliance, Fancy Boy, bre. to
Sir Henry, Sharston, Drifileld, King Charles, and the Sister
to Johanna colt.

THE DERBY.
3 to 1 agst Lord E Russell's Sting
9 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's Tom Tullock—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. D. Cook's Fancy Boy
25 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's The Traverser
33 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Peri colt—taken
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FIVE O'CLOCK.—A list, at the
best of slender pretensions, was rendered almost to a skele-
ton by a walk over for the Produce Stakes, and had it not
been for the Two Years Old Stakes, would have afforded
but an indifferent opening to the meeting. To eke out the
sport, the running did not commence until a quarter before
three. The Grosvenor Stakes, as usual, being the first event;
the walk over succeeded ; and at .ps quarter before four, the
two years old were started (the rain descending in torrents at
the time), leaving us barely time to save the express train.
The Plate race has yet to be run, and as the Cestrians are pro-
verbial for making the most of racing of this kind—always
having an eye to the interests of the innkeepers—we shall
not be surprised if the running is spun out until between
six and seven o'clock. The only changes in the cup of any
consequence, are in Polish, Connaught Ranger, and Hope;
the former is backed at 14 to 1, and the Ranger at 20 to 1,
while 30 to 1 is offered against Hope. It is still imagined
that nearly thirty-five horses will start; that all will get
comfortably round the Ship-yard Turn, now that it is de-
prived of its " fair proportions," may be questioned, Time
will not permit us to add more than a brief return of the
racing;—
The Grosvenor Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 30 added
for 3 yrs old, 6st 41b ; 4 yrs, Bst 51b ; 5 yrs, 9st 21b ; 6 yrs
and aged, 9st 61b; winners of 501. once 51bs extra; mares,
&c. allowed 31bs. Grosvenor Course. (6 Snbs. )
Mr. A. W. Hill's Burlesque, 3 yrs (Tasker) 1
Mr. Mostvn's c by Phoenix, 3 yrs
Mr. Meiklarn's Lightning, 5 yr.; .. . .
7 to 2 on Burlesque, who made all the running and won
easy by a length. Run in 2 minutes, 21 seconds.
Produce Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft, colts, Bst 41b ;
fillies, Bst. Two miles. (4 Subs.)

•
Mr. F. R. Price's kismet walked over.
Sweepstakes of 25 sow. each, for two yrs old colts, Bst 51b ;
fillies, &c., Bst 21b. Nearly three-quarters of a mile.
( 15 Subs.)
Lord G. Bentinck's ch c Glentilt (Nat) 1
Hr. Pedley's F0rec105ure......... - 2
Lord Eglinton's Nerissa
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. E
R. Clarke's Miles's Boy, Mr. R. Peel's Credential, Mr. F. R.
Price's The Prarie Bird, Mr. Buckley's Saddleworth, Mr.
Worley's Wintonia, Mr. Jaques's Dipthong.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Glentilt, 2to 1 agst Miles's Boy, sto 1
agst Credential, and 7to 1 agst Dipthong. Nerissa took the
lead at starting, and with Glentilt in close waiting, made
running round the turn; Glentilt then headed her, went en
with a decided lead from the distance, and won by nearly a
length, Foreclosure beating Nerissa for second by a head.
Run in one minute twenty-seven seconds.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
EPSOM, 1846.
THURSDAY.—The Grand Stand Plate of 200 sow., in specie,
given by the lessee of the Grand Stand, added to a Handi-
cap Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each. The winner of the
Chester Cup or Suffolk Stakes, to carry 71bs, or of both,
1 Gibs extra. The last mile and a quarter of the New
Derby Course.
Coratma, aged, 9.-t 41b—St. Lawrence, aged, Bst 111b—Old
England, 4 yrs, Sat 81b—Trueboy, 6 yrs, Bst 71b—The
Merry Monarch, 4 yrs, Bst 61b—Akbar, 5 yrs, Bst 51b—Dis-
cord, aged, Bst—Maynooth, 4 yrs, ist 1 21b—Alamode, 5 yrs,
7st 81b—Polish, 6 yrs, 7st 81b —Miss Elis, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—
Lady Wildair, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—iEgis, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Con-
naught Ranger, 4 yrs, 7st lib—Javelin, 4 yrs, 7st lib—Miss
Burns, 6 yrs, 7st—Clumsy, 4 yrs, 7st--Manglar, 4 yrs, 7st—
g, by Advocate, out of Dexterous's dam—Best Bower, 5 yrs,
6st 121b—Flattery, 4 yrs, Est 121b—False Report, 5 yrs, Est
121 b—My Mary, 4 yrs, Gst 121b—Cocoa Nut, 4 yrs, Gst 81b
—Alkali, 4 yrs, fist 71b—The Wreck, 4 yrs, fist 71b—Lon-
don, 4 yrs, Est llb—c, by Don John, out of Peri, 3 yrs, Gst
—Wild Roe, 4 yrs, 6st-Buttress, 3 yrs, .sst 121b—Gamet,
4 yrs, sst 121b—The Premier, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Blackbird, 3
yrs, sst 121b—Marquis of Conygham, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Lord
llarry, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Sir Peter Laurie, 3 yrs, sst 61b,
MANCHESTER, 1846.
Acceptances for the Manchester Cup,
Lord Saltoun, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—Philip, 6 yrs, 7st 131b—Coeur
de Leon, 4 yrs. 7st 91b—Beatrice, aged, ist 81b—Hooton, 6
yrs, 7st 71b—real:thin, 6 yrs, 7st 41b—Dr. Husband, 5 yrs,
ist—Fair Rosamond, 5 yrs, 6st 131b—Bedale, 4 yrs, Est 41b—
Burgundy, 3 yrs, sst 121b—The Slayer's Daughter, 3 yrs,
Sat.
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.1- (I'4' Leoace of' th. Tl.ce
Course.

Trueboy, 6 yrs, Bst 51b—Philip, 6 yrs, Bst—Fair Charlotte,
5 yrs, Bst—Beatrice, aged, 7st 91b—Quebec, 6 yrs, ist 71b—
emir de Leon, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Lancashire Witch, 4 yrs,
7st 51b—Dr. Husband, 5 yrs, 7st 31b—Surety, 5 yrs, 7st 41b—
Cariesima, 4 yrs, 7st—Psalm singer, 4 yrs, 7st—Little John,
5 yrs, 7st—Princess Royal, 4 yrs' Est 111b—Barbara Young,4
yrs, 6st 61b—Burgundy, 3 yrs, Est—Robert de Gorham, 3 yrs,
sst 71b—Lord Harry, 3 vra, sst 41b—Fitzwilliam, 3 yrs,
sst 21b—The Red Vixen, 3 yrs, sst.
ASCOT HEATH, 1840.
Nominations for the Ascot Stakes.
Rowland Hill, 4 yrs—My Mary, 4 yrs—Master Stepney,
4 yrs—Mowerina, 3 yrs---:The Wreck, 4 yrs—Beaufront,
5 yrs—Merryman, 4 yrs—Carissima, 4 yrs—The Dart, 4 yrs
—Queen of Tyne, aged—Subduer, 6 vrs—Spur, 3 yrs—
Queen Pomare, 4 yrs—Arthur, 4 yrs—Javelin, 4 yrs—Co-
lumbus, 4 yrs—Aristotle, aged—Whip, 5 yrs—Crocus, 6 yrs
—Miss Burns, 6 yrs—Satyr, 5 yrs—Deodara, 4 yrs—Agis,
4 yrs--Polka, 3 yrs—Connaught Ranger, 4 yrs—Marquis of
Conyngham, 3 yrs—Vol-au-Vent, 5 yrs—Jenny Wren, 4 yrs
—Rufl; 4 yrs—Devil to Pay, 5 yrs—Miss Elis, 4 yrs---,
Glossy, 6 yrs—Wood Pigeon, 4 yrs—Clumsy, 4 yrs—Fuzbos,
4 yrs—Vitellius, 6 yrs—Tbrapiton, 3 yrs—Needful, 5 yrs—
Nereus, 4 yrs—Ould Ireland, 4 yrs—Morpetb, 5 yrs—
Sheraton, 5 yrs—A-la -mode, 5 yrs —Punch, 3 yrs—lnherit-
ress, 6 yrs—Akbar, 5 yrs—Rowena, 5
.yrs—The Roper's
Daughter, aged—Footstool, 3 yrs—Pride of Kildare, 5 yrs—
Wild Roe, 4 yrs—Headsman, 3 yrs--Lothario, 3 yrs—
Muscatel, 3 yrs—Trueboy, 6 yrs--Lightning, 5 yrs—
Gamecock, 6 yrs—Stream, 4 yrs—Tugnet, 3 yrs—
Mongrel, 4 yrs—Astonishment, 3 yrs—Camera Obscure,
3 yrs—Mentor, 4 yrs—Petit Morceau, 4 yrs—Brush, 5 yrs—
I-am-not-Aware, aged—Mosque, aged—Keppel, aged—
f by Touchstone, out of Languish, 4 yrs—Misdeal, aged—
Pineapple, 6 yrs—Leopard, 4
yrs—Cornelius, 3 yrs—The
Witch, 4 yrs—Ohio, 3 yrs—Gaiety, 5 yrs—Tit Bit, 3 yrs—
g by Advocate, out of Dexterous's dam, 4 yrs—Humdrum,
3 yrs—Leaconfleld, 3 yrs—London, 4 yrs—f by Sir Hercules,
out of Taglioni, 4 yrs—Best Bower, 5 yrs—Lord Saltoun,
5 yrs—Crim. Con., 4 yrs—Flattery, 4 yrs—Lord Harry, 3 yrs
—Stoker, 4 yrs--Buttress, 3 yrs—Farthing Candle, 3 yrs—
Antler, 5 yrs—Petitioner, 3 yrs—Wolf-dog, 4 yrs—Flahow-
lagh, 4 yrs—Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs—Lynceus, 3 yrs—Red
Deer, 5 yrs—Discord, aged.

(RECEIVED
CHESTER, Ti
CHEST.
9 to 1 agst Best Bower
11 to 1 agst Sweetmeat
11 to 1 agst Miss Burns
12 to 1 agst Polish—t.
12 to 1 agst Clumsy .
14 to 1 agst The Magnet
15 to 1 agst Vitals
15 to 1 agst The Baron
15 to 1 agst Pedometer
Betting

THIS DAY.)
ESDAY NIGHT, NINE O'CLOCK.
It CUP.
16 to 1 agst Inheritress
20 to 1 agst Connaught
Ranger
25 to 1 agst Lady Wildair
25 to 1 agst Hope
40 to 1 agst Glossy
40 to 1 agst Billy Purvis
40 to 1 agst Roderick
very flat.

REPORTED DEATH OF MR. A. IV. HILL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stn,—l am most happy to inform you that the report of
our respected neighbour, A. NV. Hill, Esq.'s death, is totally
false—a report, no doubt, citculated for a PURPOSE—which
report, I hope, did not emanate from this neighbourhood.—l
am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
A SALOPIAN.

BRIGHTON, MAY s.—Lord Drumlanrig and family
arrived here vesterday afternoon
evening by:
m the t
and Lord Littord left last
en route to Paris.
LIVES OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND.—By T. ROSCOE,
he steamersteam steamer
fo m r Dieppe
EsQ.—Vol. 1., William the Conqueror (to be completed in
about six volumes). Mr. Roscoe has earned for himself a
great reputation for learning and scholarship, which this
work is well calculated to enhance. His work is not a new
history of England, but it forms a necessary companion to
those we already possess. Compiled from official records and
other authentic documents, private as well as public, Mr.
Roscoe has quitted the beaten track of recording merely
public deeds and events. Ills object has been to explore the
peculiarities of individual kingly disposition, character,
and way of thinking; to search out the real motives
of actions, to follow his hero into the privacy of domestic
and social life, and to draw a faithful picture alike of his vir
tues and his vices, his passions, propensities, and eccentrici..
ties, in short, to exhibit his personal history, comprising
every trait by which he is distinguished from the rest of
mankind. His task has been executed with a spirit and
zeal which imparts the profoundest interest to the narrative
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