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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING MARCH 16, 1846.

prevent the recurrence of similar scenes. His amad-
merit on the standing order in question would appoint
some fixed day by v.hich Sunday would be avoided.

OREGON TERRITORY.

The Earl of CLARENDON said that he would.move
to-morrow for the production of the correspondenee
that had taken place between her Majesty's Government
and the Minister at Washington, relative to the Oregon
territory.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented a peti-
tion ih favour of the Irish Great Western Railway (from
Dublin to Galwny.)
METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCII stated that he would
move the second reading of this Bill on Thursday next.
The Earl of DALHOUSIE gave notice that he would
move for certain returns relating to the production of
flax in Ireland.
Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that he would move
for a return of the number of archbishop and bisheps
in Ireland, and the amount of fees and revenues which
they had received in 1831, and the amount they re-
ceived at present.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

menu might
,pass into law as soon as possible.—(Hear,
'hear.) The petioners stated that their application nes
their own spontaneous act, and that they were unin•
fluenced in so doing by their employers.—(Hear.)
-STATE OF IRELAND.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that he wished to give notice
that he would postpone his motion with respect to Ire-
land until after Easter.—(hear, hear.)
Mr. OSBORNE desired to ask whether the attention
of the Government had been directed to the facilities
which the Irish Arms Act afforded to ill-disposed
persons to possess themselves of arms; and whether
it was the intention of the Government to bring in any
measure for the amendment of that Act ?

Sir J. GRAHAM observed that the Irish Arms Act
did not realise all the benefits anticipated, nor was it at-
tended with the evils that some Hon. Gentlemen sup-
posed. The Act terminated in that session, and he d:d
not see any reason "Why the Government should not
propose its renewal with proper amendments.
Mr. SHAW wished to ask whether it was the in-
tention of the Government to adopt the same course with
regard to the Coercion Bill as they did in 1533 with regard
to the Arms' Bill. The course then pursued was, the
Bill was read for the first time on a Friday, and Lord
Althorpe moved its second reading on the Wednesday
following. He wished to know whether the Govern-
ment meant, in point of time, to follow that precedent.
Sir Ft. PEEL said his earnest desire was to name the
earliest day that he possibly could for the consideration of
that measure. But he must say at the same time he was
most anxious to proceed with those measures which
were of vital importance to the trade of this
country—( Hear, hear)—and of such importance
did he deem them that he must postpone . for
the present the Irish Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Ho did
not know whether the House would go through the
tariff this night or not, but he hoped they might
—(Hear, hear.) They would fix the second reading of
the Corn Bill for -to-morrow, and he would then name
the earliest day that he could for the first read-
ing of the Irish Bill, and he was determined to pro-
ceed with it as rapidly as he could.—(Hear, hear.)

Member for the city of London had an opportunity
of forming an Administration, he would have
done so, and would have acted upon the principles
which he propounded in his letter to his constituents
Instead, however, of doing so after some petty squabble,
the Noble Lord abandoned the prospect of forming an
Administration, and the predictions which the Right
Hon. Baronet made at the close of the last year had since
been fulfilled. Now, he should like to ask the Hon. and
Learned Recorder for Dublin, whether he was satisfied
that the accJunts with regard to the deplorable con-
dition of the people of Ireland the Right lion. Baronet
had given to the House were not exaggerated.—(Hear.)
He should propose that the poor-law should be at once
amended in preference to their passing any fever Bills.
If that were not done, or if it were not distinctly stated
why a different rule of conduct was to be observed by
the Imperial Parliament the poor of the one country and
of the other ; until that statement were made
he for one (although he acknowledged that
what the Government was doing with respect
to supply the Irish poor with fever hospitsls was very
right and proper), thought that one paramount duty was
being neglected, namely, that the law should be made
to provide for the poor of Ireland. It was
admitted by nearly every one who bad furnished
these statistics that the cause of fever was to beround in
the deficiency of food or in the bad quality of it. Ile
had stated on a pevious night that prevention was
better than cure, and he considered it the Government's
bounden duty to adopt such measures as would for the
time coming render the sister country less: liable to the
visitations of famine and consequently of fever.
Sir ROBERT PEEL hoped that the House would
not get sap a debate which must necessarily postpone the
consideration of the measure, which had been
agreed upon as to occupy their attention for the
whole of that evening. The tariff had provided for
the remission of duty on most ,of the articles of sub-
sistence as soon -25 it bad received the sanction of the
House, and when the resolutions which he had bad the
honour of proposing to the House should be reported.
an order would be made for an immeattete reduction
of the corn in bond to the terms of the tariff. He
would remind the Hon. Members that the more haste
that was used to pass this measure, the sooner
would they be able to supply the poorer of
of her Majesty's subjects in that country with food,
and therefore it was that he deprecated any debate
which could in any degree interfere with the passing

COMMONS' SUMMARY.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
Mr. NEVILLE took the oaths and his seat for Windsor, and
Captain CannEcrE for Stafford.

Several Railway Bills were read a second time and ordered
to be committed.

The order of the day for the second reading of the Great
North and South Wales Railway Bill was discharged upon
the motion of Mr. MORV.IS, after a few observations from Sir
Ds LACY EVANS.

• Mr. F. FRENcir presented a petition from a clergyman of
the Irish Church, complaining of the course pursued by the
Bishop of Limerick in the distribution of livings in his
diocese.

Several petitions were presented for and against the Go-
vernment measures with respect to the corn-laws.
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK presented a petition from Cum-
berland, against any alteration in the corn• laws. The Noble
Lord stated that the petition was signed by every one of the
tenants of the Laird of Netherby, with the exception of
one.

Sir ROBERT PEEL presented a petition from a vast
majority of commercial houses in the City of
London, connected with the India House, the
Bank of England, and the corn trade, praying the House to
relieve commercial stagnation, by coming to a speedy deter-
mination on the questions relative to the tariff.
Lord JOHN ReSSELL postponed his motion relative to the
state of Ireland till after Easter.
Mr. SMYTHE, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, in answer to a question from, Mr. MONCKTON
MILNEa, said he had no objection to lay on the table of the
House a continuation of the papers respecting the operations
of the Consular Jurisdiction Act in the Levant.

Sir JAME;GRAT;;:illE11;;;;r to•a question from Captain
OSLO:HINE, stated that it was his intention to propose the re-
newal of the Irish Arms Bill during the present session.
Sir R. PEEL, in answer to a question from 'Mr. SHAW, said
that it was his intention, as speedily as possible, to proceed
with the Life and Prol:Qrty (Ireland) Bill.
Mr. SMITH O'BruEN wished to know whether it was in-
tended by the Government to read the Fever (Ireland) Bill
a second time that night, because if it was, he trusted it
would not be read after twelve o'clock. _

Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that such was his intention, and
he trusted that he should be permitted to do so even after
twelve o'clock.

Mr. P. ScuorE said that the people of Irdind wanted food
and not physic.
Sia JAMES GRAHAM could assure the House that ample
measures had been taken to relieve the necessities of the
people of Ireland.
Mr. Hume said the people of Ireland wanted labour by
which they might procure food, and did not desire to be made
a nation of paupers.
Sir J. GRAHAM said that it was the intention of the
Government to provide not only labour, but facilities fur
obtaining food at a cheap rate for the people of Ireland.
After some observations from Mr. WAKLEY and Captain
JONES,
Sir IL PEEL, trusted that the House would not now be
led into a discussion on the subject at the present moment,
and thereby prevent them proceeding with the further con-
sideration of the tariff:
O'BRIEN felt bound to assert that what the
Government had done and was doing would not relieve the
waits of the people of Ireland, and that he could consider no
subject so important and so well-deserving the consideration
of the House as the famine that was at present existing in
Ireland.

The subject then dropped.
Sir R. l'Exr, in answer to a question from Lord George
Bentinck, said that since the repeal of the auction and glass
duties, although there had been a falling off in the Excise,
there had been an in the customs duties.

punishable with death.. However, in their case, that punish-
ment would probably not be ~ carried into effect, but they
must prepare themselves for the next severe punishment,
that of being banished from their native land for the re-
maining period of their lives. The Judge then ordered 51.
to be paid to Mr. Haigh for the valour he displayed in re-
senting the attack upon him.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE proceeded to pass sentence upon
prisoners whose cases stood over for judgment. Amongst
others were the following important cases :
Isaac Martin, who had been found guilty of stealing wear-
ing apparel from his employers, Messrs. Levi, of Sheffield,
was sentenced to 14 years' transportation ; and John Martin,
a brother of Isaac, convicted of receiving part of the same
property, received the same sentence. James Taylor, a ser-
vant of the same firm, who was convicted of stealing other
articles from his masters, was sentenced to 18 months' im-
prisonment.
Thomas Sladding, aged 29, convicted of having, at
Northowram, made a savage attack upon John Mitchell,
feloniously cutting and wounding him, was sentenced to 15
years' transportation.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT—Nottingham, March 13.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Lord Chief Justice nsaa.L.)
Joseph Rollinson, aged 34, and William Longdon, aged 18,
were arraigned for the wilful murder of Thomas Soar.
Mr. Wildman appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Macaulay
for Rollinson, and Mr. Wilmore for Longdon.
On the 22d August last Rollinson was the engine-man at
the Cinderhill Colliery, in the parish of Nuttall, and Long-
don his stoker and occasional assistant. The latter fur the
last three months had been permitted to draw up coals, and
being a very attentive lad he bad been allowed for the last
two months to draw up the men. It was the engineer's duty
never to let the engine go on without the signal, which was
given by means of a bell, the handle of which was in the pit.
If the bell rang once while the engine was still, he was to set
it in motion ; if it were going on, to stop it. These signals
we,c perfectly well understoed in the pit, and the enginemen
had repeatedly received strict orders to attend to them.
When a man at the bottom put his foot on the cage he was
to cry " held on," which words were to be repeated by the
man at the top to the engineman. This was a sort of warn-
ing to the engineman to be more than usually particular, and
nobody ought to get upon the cage, on any pretence what-
ever, without shouting those words. On the day in ques-
tion the deceased was employed in pushing off the empty
waggons from the cage, and from the evidence of Amos
Wardle it was necessary for him to put his foot on the cage.
Wardle swore also that the deceased had shouted, but rat
was denied by a boy named Smith,- who was at work
close by, and the banksman, Harry Starr. The bell,
however, was not rung, but • -the cas:;, started up.
When it had gone about four or five feet, the deceased was
knocked off by the " brow" of the pit, fell against Wardle,
knocking him backwards, and then dropped into a sumph
of water. lie could not be got out for nearly a quarter of an
hour, and then he was quite dead—drowned. The pit is
220 yards deep, and the wire to the bell was naked, and
worked in staples.
The prisoners were Acquitted.
The Learned JUDGE said he thought the verdict a proper
one, but he hoped this investigation would have the effect of
making`men, whether employed in this or any other pit,
extremely careful. They could not be too particular, nor
the laws too strict.

• March 14.
(Before the Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.)
MURDEM-William Horner, a butcher, aged 18, was
placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of Mary
Ann Perkins, a prostitute, at the borough of Newark.
The prisoner had been seen in company with the deceased
a short time before she was drowned.

The Counsel for the prisoner made a very elaborate speech
in defence, after which

The JUDGE summed up, and
The jury, without letaving the box, Acquitted the pri-
soner.

This terminated the criminal business in this Court.
(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
filaday Bell, alias Maday Barrowrliff, aged 16, was in-
dicted for unlawfully . and maliciously stabbing William
Hayes, on the 12th of December last, at Kirkby-in-Ashfield,
with intent to maim, disfigure, or disable him, or to do him,
the said William Hayes, some grievous bo:nly harm.
The jury returned a verdict of Gailty upon the last count
of the indictment.

To be imprisoned eighteen calendar months.
There was not a single cause entered for trial at the
assizes either for the town or county, a circumstance quite
unprecedented within the recollection of the oldest person
living. The assize business terminated at half-past four
o'clock this (Saturday) afternoon.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Cambridge, March 14.
The judges of assize arrived in this town at two o'clock
yesterday, when the commission was opened, and attendance
given by them at the University Church. Both the Courts
were opened this morning at one o'clock, there being an entry
of 9 causes, 4 of which are for trial by special juries, and a
calendar containing the names of 40 prisoners for the
county, and 10 for the borough ; among the former arc to be
found 4 cases of arson, 2 of manslaughter, 2 of rape, 6 of
sheep stealing, 2 of night poaching, 1. of burglary, and 2
cases of stabbing. The only case in the borough calendar is
one of assault arising out of the recent " town and ;own"
rows, the prosecutor being Mr. Walsh, of Trinity College,
the son of John Walsh, and the defendant one of the
police force of the town

Mr. Baron Parke has been engaged nearly all day in try-
ing two common-jury causes, one of which was referred,
while the other involved matters of no moment to any one
save the parties concerned.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice MAnee.)
Robert Boit:tell was indicted for stealing a 201. Bank of
England note from the person of the Rev. E. Warters.
Mr. Bureharn conducted the case fur the prosecution, and
from his statement, connected with the evidence of the pro-
secutor and others, it appeared that the note in question was
lost, together with a pocket-book, from the pocket of the
prosecutor, on the occasion of the recent " town and gown "
rows. On that day the prosecutor deposited the note in his
pocket-book, at the bank of Messrs. Mortlock, intending, no
doubt, to place it in some place of security ; but the riots
coming upon the "dons" rather suddenly, he rushed from
his co!lege ( gagdalene), of which he was president, fellow,
and tutor, in order to allay them by his presence. He was
thus occupied for some time, in various parts of the town,
and on his return to the college missed his pocket-book.
Notice was given to all the banks early on the following day,
and especially to that of Messrs. Mortlock, from whom the
prosecutoe had received this note, and not without effect, for
that establishment had not been opened many minutes before
the prisoner, who keeps the Boar's Head, in the market-
place, presented himself with the missing note, which he
requested change for, stating that he had-taken it in change
on the previous night from Mr. Baker, a Member of Trinity
College, or a gentleman who represented himself so to be.
This account not bsieg quite satisfactory, inquiries were
made, and there being no such individual as "Baker, of
Trinity," the prisoner was taken into custody on suspicion of
having stolen the note. On his way to gaol, he Galled out
to his wife, and told her not to forget to make his daughter
all right as to her having brought him down 191. 10s. in
charge for the note on the night before.
On the part of the prisoner, it was contended that there
was no proof that the note had been stolen by any one at all,
much less by the prisoner, whose conduct throughout bad
been that of a man who had given value for the note. As
for there not being any " Mr. Baker, of Trinity," it was not
to be wondered at, for it might very well be that the pocket-
book, being lost or stolen, had been changed by the prisoner
for the thief or finder, who had assumed the garb of an under
graduate, and thus put off upon the prisoner the property of
the prosecutor.

His Lordship having summed up the case to the jury, left
it to them to say whether they thought the account given of
his connelion with the note was the true one or no,
The jury remained in consultation for nearly half an
hour, when they returned a verdict of Guilty, and the pri-
soner was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, with hard
labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

James Boulter, aged twenty, was brought up, charged
with being an idle and disorderly person.
Mr. Mortleek, the master of the East London work-
house, stated that the prisoner had been an inmate of
the house for many years. He had been discharged;
with clothes and money, to seek work, but he constantly
returned to the workhouse. On Monday he had been
sent to a Mr. Solomons, nho wanted a stout lad, and
who offered him 6s. a week, to be increased to 12s. as he
improved and became worth so much. The prisoner
positively refused to take the place under half a-crown
a day. Mr. Mortlock said that persons who had been
long in the workhouse, cared not whether they were in a
workhouse or a prison ; they were, therefore, uncon-
trollable. Another lad had thrown up a place of 12s. a
week, to come and live in the workhouse.

Mr. Alderman CHALLIS said the judges were coming
to the opinion that it was a mistake to think that impri-
sonment was a punishment to such reckless, unruly lads,
and that a good sound whipping was more likely to pro-
duce a change in their conduct. A third conviction
under the Vagrant Act left it to the option of a magis-
trate to send the offender to be tried at the quarter ses-
sions, when the magistrates might order corporal punish-
ment to be inflicted. He would now commit the pri-
soner for one month, after which he would be qualified
for the whipping if he did not behave differently.