The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-28 00:00:00

GOVERNMENT MEASURES.

Sir R. PEEL said he bad to present a petition from the
merchant-, bankers, and other persons at Bristol, who stated
that the stagnation of trade was great, and that it was to be
remedied by the measures proposed by her Majesty's Minis-
ters, and they therefore prayed the House to pass them into a
law. The petition was signed by over two hundred of the
largest and most respectable houses.
The petition was ordered to lie on the table.
BRISTOL WATER-WORKS.
This Bill was read a first time.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.

Mr. CARDWELL moved the adjournment of the House, at
its rising, until Monday.—Agreed to.
WINDOW DUTIES.

Lord DUNCAN, according to representations which had
been made to him by his constituents, owing to the delays
which had taken place in the discussion of the corn-laws and
the commercial duties introduced by the Government,
deemed it expedient to postpone his motion on the subject of
the window duties until after Easter.
THE GOVERNMENT MEASURES.

Mr. NEWDEG ATE wished to askiher Alajesty's Govern-
ment when it was their intention to introduce the Bills for
affwrding facilities for the draining of estates, for the consolida-
tion of highways, for the payment of schoolmasters in union
workhouses, end the Bill respecting the payment of the Irish
constabulary force, which were referred to in the speech of the
First Lord of the Treasury when announcing the Government
measures ?

Sir R. PEEL said—With respect to the last two questions
—namely, what steps the Government had made for intro.
clueing Bills for the payment cf schoolmasters in union work-
houses, and for supporting the constabulary force
in Ireland at the public charge —he begged to
inform the 'Honourable Member that provision could not
be made for these objects until the next Committee of Supply.
With respect to the Bills for improving the drainage of estates,
and consolidating the highway rates, the Hon. Gentleman was,
no doubt aware, that since the announcement of these
measures, there had been an extreme pressure on the
time of the Government. Their announcement brought
a great number of suggestions, which required
touch time for consideration.—( Hear.) They had, however,
lost no time in doing so, and he hoped on this day week to be
in a condition to lay them on the table of the house.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.

Sir It. H. INGLIS inquired when the Bills for improving
the metropolis, and for making a park at Battersea, like the
one at the east end of Loud in, would be laid on the table. The
Iliaht Hon, Baronet obsery 'd. that his only ehject was that the
Bill should be laid on the table of the House.

Sir I(i,BERT :'EEL said that the Bilis were already pre-
pared, and thr (baits had hewn printed. Ilia Noble Friend had
gone ti Ireland; and, as he tank such great trouble in pre-
paring them, he vii-hid the (hafts to be sent after him for his
revision.

LOANS TO LANDED PROPRIETORS FOR THE
IN! PRO% ENIENT OF PROPERTY.

Mr. ESCOTT wished to ask the First Lord of the Trea-
sury whether he was prepared to lay on the table of the Hoot
that portion of his scheme for the improvement of land, where-
by it was intended to give loans to landed proprietors on proper
security ?
sir It. PEEL said that the Government had been exces-
sively occupied, but he hoped by this day (Friday) week that
he would be able to la!, that Bill upon the table of the House.

INFORMERS' (IRELAND.)
Mr. S. O'BRIEN said he would move for a return of the
total amount of money which had been paid for services, by the
Government, to a man named Robert Reilly, alias Robert
Alexander, alias William Roberts, alias Hugh O'Neil, who
had been sentenced to transportation at the last Tyrone assizes.
He would also move, on Tuesday next, a resolution to the effect
that several royal commissions had been instituted with a
view to the improvement of Ireland, and that these commis-
sions had laid before the Government a variety of sugges-
tions, riot one of which had been acted upon.
PRIVATE BILLS.

Mr. HUME gave notice of his intention to call the atten-
tion of the House on Wednesday neat to the adoption of means
by othich the private business of the House might be lessened.

ADJOURNED-b—i:"B'Tr—nC?OusßeN7thAt \VS.

On the question being put that the order of the day be now
read,

Mr. COPDEN rose to present a petition from 114 tenants
on the Right. lion. Baronet's (,the Secretary of State fOr
the Home Department) estate of Nobel by, in Cum -
berland. The petitioners stated that they viewed
with satisfaction the measure of the Government, but they
would rather that the repeal had been total and immediate.--
( Hear, hear.) The petition was signed by twenty-seven
names, and he, found that the rentals placed opposite these
names amounted in the aggregate to B,oooi. Ile might
state, that on a former occasion, the Noble Lord, the Member
for Lynn, had presented a petition, which he said emanated
from 3,000 of the Netherby tenants. He (Mr. Cobden)
congratulated the Right. Hon. Baronet on the fact, that sonic
of his tenantry entertained more rational opinions upon this
great question.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM then rose and said—l can assure
you, Sir, that I am very unwilling to protract to any fur-
ther length this debate, which the country generally, I be-
lieve, are as anxious to see brought to a termination
as I am by a decision in some way or other, be
that what it may.—( Hear, hear.) But not har-
ing been able to secure an opportunity of addressing you
last evening until an hour so late that I could not then
think of trespassing upon the time of the House, while I was at
the same time extremely desirous that this discussion should
not terminate until 1 had made some reference to the discus-
sions and arguments that have been used by some Hon Members
on this side of the House, I will now take this opportunity of
addressing the House.—( Hear, hear.) And I can assure the
House that in respect to what has fallen from one Hon. Mem-
ber upon a subject somewhat personal to myself, that I was
not cognisant of the occurrence he has stated with regard to I
my tenantry. I can, however, assure the Hon. Member and
the House, that I have never, either directly or indirectly, in-
terfered with the expression of the opinions of my
tenantry upon this question—( Hear, hear ) but on the
contrary, I have invariably left them to the full and free exer•
else of • heir own opinions ani judgment upon a question in
which 1 conceive they hat as deep an interest as myself.—
( Hear. ) With thi explanation upon this point, I shall
now proceed, wan the permission of this House, to make some
allusion to the speech of the Noble Lord
.the Member
for Lynn. I shall first dispose of his peroration, and which I
must say was, like many of the other speeches delivered by
Hon. Members in opposition to her _Majesty'e Minister. from
this side the House, characterised amost entirely by a continual
eutpeuring of personal Inv( ctive ( Hear, hoer.) I -hall sot,
in the course et fnv obsi rvatiom, indulge in a like strain of
severity upon the language in which their opinions were,
sine, rely- and honestly mede. Neither shah I say—
." could not say so with truth—that I do not
appreciate the grounds upon which other Hon. Members on
this side of the House differ from the Government, for amongst
them
are several Hon. Members upon whom I have many
times relied, and never relied in vain.--( Hear, hear.) In
em.ttittri: g the public necessity which
Goan, cone• ived e:i-ted fur this m: als.uraes, Idoay it wasai a Minister of the
with pain 1 felt Chet nece.sity urged upon the Government.
Sir, I was prepared, and I am prepared, on public grounds,
reitarsiless of all taunts and obloquy that may be attempted to
mienaces,enlseof
public duty, to meet the
be heaped on me--I repeat, lam
ipnreiThayred,,,onfr,ne
present emergency by the main-
tenanceh
Although, Sir,
persevering
linmg may
that course, I am consoled
firmly and fearlessly,)
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by this single reflection, that the
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yet steadily,
time is not far distant when the country gentlemen of
England will be satisfied that her Majesty's mini,
tors now in office have not betrayed their interests,
but that, on the contrary, they will be reconciled to the fact,
that the interests of the great body of the community, whose
prosperity is more immediately the object of this measure, will
be materially benefited by this House giving its sanction to the
measure.—(Cheers.) I hope, Sir, to be allowed to advert to
some of the arguments of the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn.
The arguments adduced by the Noble Lord were the most
stringent and unanswerable of those urged by the opponents
of the sliding scale ; and I will, Sir, with the permission of
the House, advert to the first position taken up by the Noble
Lord. Speculating on the price of wheat, the Noble Lord,
with a view of forming an estimate of the prices of wheat
in this country and France, went through a most ex-
traordinary process of argument.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
Now, Sir, it appears to me that the great argument in taYena