The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-04 00:00:00

NEW STRAND THEATRE.

M. PHILLIPPE'S SOIREES and MA.7 INEES MYSTERIEUSES,
Two Morning Performances daring the Week.
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At the urgent and reiterated solicitations of many distinguished
families, and in order to accommodate the crowds who flo .1c to
attend his Morning Performances, M. PtIILLIPPE will give his
Orand Juvenile Entertainment every Wednesday and Saturday
Mornng, gt Two o'clock.

M. Phillippe's most Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Experiments
will be repeated every Evening, varied by the Amusing Per-
formances of the Chiarini Family, and the astounding Feats of the
American Brothers.—Doors open at a quarter past SeN en, to com-
mence at a quarter before Eight.

Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 21:; Pit, Is.; Gallery, Sd.; revate Boxes,

11. Is., and 11. 11.. 6a

AATLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.

The most extraordinary and u;paTi;lielecil,ioY---elties ever Produced
at this Theatre, which nightly command overflowing houses. Mr.
Batty has much pleasure in stating that, after great research, he
has succeeded in procuring the greatest wonder in the world ;
namely, an Elephant who performs the most difficult feats on the
Tight Rope without the aid of a Balance Pole. Also, the great
performing Elephants in the Spectacle of " The Raja of Nagpore."

THIS EVENING

Will be performed a is,;, Drama, entitled THE RATA. OF
NAGPORE ; or, the Sacred Elephants of the Pagoda. In which the
whole of the extensive resources of the Establishment will be
brought into requisition.
Brilliant Scenes of the Circle, combining the unequalled Feats of
the British and Foreign Company.
The whole to conclude with the favourite Farce of ANIMAL
MAGNETISM ; or, Love and Physic.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 3.
THICRXONZTER, Lowest, 46; Highest, 61; Noon, 56.

BAROMETER, 30.02.—W1ND S.W., fine.

dIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 10 agnates after 6. I Evening .. 33 minutes alter 6,

Mr. P. BORTHIVICIC seconded the motion.
Mr. T. Dtarcomez hoped the Government would oppose
the motion. If it was true that forgeries had taken place,
the House had nothing to do with it, the parties being
amenable to the law elsewhere. He had complained of the
system of registration long ago, and he was happy to see
gentlemen on the other side of the House had found out its
defect.

Mr. ADDERLEY supported the motion.
Mr. WAKLEY hoped the Hon. Member would not press his
motion, and that a Committee would be appointed specifically
to consider the subject.
Sir R. PERI, did not think it wise or prudent that a Com-
mittee appointed to inquire into a question of privilege
should be instructed to make the inquiries proposed by the
Hon. Member. He thought the matter ought to be made the
subject of separate inquiry.
Mr. R. SPOONER would advise the Hou. Gentleman to
withdraw his motion.
Sin GEO [.GE GREY trusted an inquiry would be gone into
upon the whole question, believing that the Registration Act
put voters to the greatest inconvenience.
After some observations from Mr. Disraeli, Mr. W. Ellis,
Lord Sandon, Mr. Lawson, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Ferrand, Mr.
Fox Maule, Mr. Packe, and several other Members,
Mr. C. Butax.* said he did not see any necessity for an
inquiry at all ; and if it would be a proper amendment on
the motion, he should feel inclined to move that leave be
given to the Hon. Member for Staffordshire to bring in that
Bill that he had got in his pocket. It was not a question
of party, but affected vital interests in the country.
Lord INGESTRE thought the Government ought to intro-
duce some measure to put an end to this crying evil.
Mr. C. WOOD had known a good deal of what had taken
place with respect to the registration of the West Riding, and
he recollected a case where a notice of objection was served
upon the uncle of the Hon. Member for Knaresborough,
signed by that Hon. Member himself.
Mr. Alma-Tn.—What year?
Mr. C. WooD could not tell, but it did not matter, for he
believed that the person was in that House who served it.
He thought inquiry ought to take place upon the subject.
Mr. FERRAND said that he did certainly object to the vote
of his Hon. Relative, and the reason for his doing so was
this. His (Mr. Ferrand's) vote had been objected to for
four years, and the person who had objected to it had received
for his services a :silver tea-pot, to which his uncle was a
subscriber.

Mr. JAMES STUART WORTLEY thought inquiry ought to
take place.
After some observations from Mr. Bright, Mr. Stafford
O'Brien, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Monckton Milnes. Lord John
Russell. Mr. Home, Mr. Aglionby, and Lord Ebrington,
Mr. NEwDEGATE withdrew the motion.

eoursd), cut off five sigriatuies fc•oiii the enil-Vilie
and Pasted them on the first sheet. Now, here is the bead
and front of the League offence. Why it would have been
no very serious offence if the League agent had written two
or three signatures on the first sheet, in order to make the
petition presentable. What he did do, though not strictly
regular, shows bond fides.
We hope the free-trade electors at Cheltenham will mark
their representative's conduct on this occasion. They may find
many better representatives§ of free-trade principles, unless
the lustre of the house of BitniszLaz dims their eyes to
all other merits. But we believe that they know Mr. CRAVKW
BaannLay, and have made up their minds what to do with
him.

Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY, in moving the names of the Com-
mittee on the Cheltenham petition, denied that he was
actuated by any hostilit.y to the Anti-Corn-law League, or any
of its Members, especially towards the Hon. Member for
Darham, who had moved for a Committee on the game-
laws. He stated that because the organ of the League had
asserted that such motives had actuated him.

The House then went into Committee on the Corn Impor-
tation Resolutions, and the adjourned debate on Mr.
VILLIERS' amendment for the total and immediate repeal of
the corn-laws was resumed by
Mr. G. BANKES.—He would not give his support to any
part of the measure of the Government, without it was ac-
companied by some alterations in the law of settlement.
He could not agree to the amendment of the Hon. Member
for Wolverhampton.
Capt. HOWARD, although he thought the present a fitting
time for the immediate repeal of the cern-laws, considered that
the measure of the Government was so valuable that he would
not peril it by supporting the amendment of the Hon. Mem-
ber for Wolverhampton.
Sir J. HANJIER would support the Government measure
in preference to the amendment, though he was in favour of
an immediate repeal of the corn-laws, and had presented
petitions to that effect.
Mr. MovFarr would vote for the amendment.

The House of Commons have appointed a Committee to
inquire into the circumstances of this Cheltenham petition ;
and the following Members were last night proposed by
Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY as members of the Committee :--
Mr. Craven Berkeley, Mr. Bright, Mr. Newdegate, Mr.
Thomas Duncombe, Mr. Ferrand, Mr. Ridley Colborne, Sir
R. H. Inglis, Mr. Redhead Yorke, Mr. Repton, Mr. Milner
Gibson, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, Mr. Charles Villiers, Major
Bereaferd, Lord Worsley, Mr. Baum.
We believe there is hardly anything more wanting reform
than the mode of appointing public Committees in the House
of Commons. We do not say that a worse Committee than
the above might not have been nominated; but we say it is ,
not a fair Committee, as between the League against which
a charge is made, and the protection party, into whose
hands Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY plays, to make it, and Mr.
lizmixt.zy is only consistent in trying to give an advan-
tage in the nomination of the Committee to the protec-
tionists. Mr. CRAVEN BELKELEY names himself first
according to custom. We do not know whether custom will
be further followed by making Mr. C. BERKELEY chairman,
but a more unfit chairman we cannot conceive ; and as in
this case he has made the charge, he ought not to be chair-
man. The remaining fourteen Members are taken, seven
from the Ministerial and seven from the Opposition side.
This looks impartial, but let us go a little further. How are
they taken from each side? From the Ministerial side all
the seven were in the minority on Friday's division—that
all the seven are protectionists. On the Opposition
side, one of the seven is Lord WORSLEY, a protec-
tionist; and as Mr. Ca.tvlat BERKELEY'S sympathies are
decidedly with the protection party, we may say that protec-
tion has nine Members on this Committee, and the League
only six. Immediately connected with the League, indeed,
are only three Members—Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. &wax, and Mr.
VILLIERS. Mr. T. DUNCOMBZ, Mr. COLBORNE, and Mr.
REDHEAD YORKE. will, we have no doubt, do their duty as
just and honourable men; but still they are not connected
with the League, as are the seven Conservative Members os
the Committee with the protection party. We go into these
particulars to show that if the Committee should
gratify Mr. BERKELEY'S inclination, and make a fuss
about this trumpery case, all that this Committee may say
must not be looked upon as gospel. The League probably
are so confident of their integrity that they are willing to
leave their case in the hands of a hostile Committee ; but
they have very unscrupulous foes to deal with. We matt
not conclude our remarks, however, without saying that we
are sure Sir R. Ixaus, Mr. BANKES, and Lerd WORSLEY,
will be parties to no unjust proceeding; and we understand
that Mr. RErrox is a young Member of promise and of in-
dependence. As for the remaining Tory Members pro-
posed to be appointed, Mr. Nzwazakrz, Mr. FEERAND,
Mr. FORBES MActuratztz, and Major BznEsuronn, we would
rather be excused for giving no opinion respecting their
political bias.

THE SUN LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORN ENO, MARCH 4, 1848.

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-apprortal' and unanimous support in preference to the
possibility of acquiring some better measure. The sub-
' stance is superior in actuality to the mere shadow of the
substance, however much that shadow may become more
and more palatable. When human subjects have been re-
duced and debilitated by long abstinence, pathology shows
us the necessity of a gradual nourishment instead of reviving
vigour by the sudden application of a hearty meal. Pre-
cisely on a similar, though more extended, plan should na-
tions be treated under circumstances so singularly
alike. OzwAr was choked by hastily devouring a crust
of bread in the pangs of famine ; a certain amount
of moral convulsion, might, in like manner for the moment,
seize a country on an abrupt introduction of this nature.
Many of these considerations have undoubtedly so impressed
themselves upon the clear judgment and scrutinising intel-
lect of Lord Jonx Russuu., as to induce that Right
Honourable Member to discountenance the amend-
ment of Mr. Vlnunns, and to express his deter-
mination to uphold the Ministerial measure,: in which
declaration he spoke with the most decisive emphasis.
And on these accounts we ourselves cannot but regard that
same amendment as most injudicious, and as like to em-
barrass still further the wise and rational policy of the
present Ministry. We have already more than once insisted
upon the necessity of Parliament being more expeditious in
its mode of meeting the demands of emergency : we have
pointed to Irish poverty, to railway legislation, and dives,
other paramount exigencies—exigencies that demand some
instant interference; and, as another drag upon the settle-
ment of these great points, we consider that the amendment
of Mr. Irmunts merits the most decided deprecation.

Lyons and Avignon, 2---Luxerelsourg, ➢iedr!'l and 'Valentin, I%
—Orleans and Bordenaz, 12% —Paris and Roden, 42% —Rated aid
laTre, 29%.

We understand that the retort of Sir George Clerk's being
about to be appointed to a seat in the Council of Calcutta is
a mistake, and has originated in the appointment by the
East India Directors of Mr. Clerk, an old civil :servant of
the Company, and a cousin of Sir George Clerk's, to a seat in
She Council.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.