The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-24 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND iEALAND GOVERFMENT BILL.

The NOBLE EARL presented a petition from Mr. W.
Brown, merchant, and late of the Legislative Council of
New Zealand, agains the Bill brought in by the Go-
vernment.

Earl GREY stated that upon his accession to office
he had found the draft of a Bill prepared on the subject
of the legislation of New Zealand. The subject was
one which deserved the greatest consideration upon
the part of ony Government entrusted with the affairs
and management of that distant colony. There was a
distance of between 400 miles between Auckland, the
present seat of Government, and Wellington, the most
populous town in the island, which rendered communi-
cation between those places very difficult, and made it
desirable to establish in the island a Legislative
Council in each of these places. There was a
difficulty, however, connected with the existence of such
a state of things which should be overcome, which was
the discrepanpy which might exist in the amount of du-
ties levied at the different places by different authorities.
From the latest accounts, he believed that there would
be no more difficulty in extending legislative represen-
tation to one part of the island than to the other. As
the Bill was, he should be inclined to propose that the
clause which referred to it should stand.
Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from the
Drogheda Steam-packet Company, against that clause
in the Steam Navigation Bill which enforced the neces-
sity for carrying steam paddle boats.
Lord MONTEAGLE presented similar petitions from
the London and Bristol and other steam-packet corn
panies.

WRECK AND SALVAGE BILL.
The Earl of CLARENDON moved the third reading
of this Bill.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH objected to that
clause which made it necessary for the boats to be of a
certain length and breadth, and considered that it would
cause a great deal of inconvenience, unless a more ex •
tensive margin were allowed.
The Earl of CLARENDON said that the same ob-
jection had occurred to him, but the table had been
carefully revised by the Admiralty, and they had ap-
proved of it as being sufficient for safety.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH hoped the Noble
Earl (Clarendon) would postpone the Bill to-morrow,
that this point might be considered in the interum.
The Bill was postponed accordingly.
RATEABLE PROPERTY (IRELAND).
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in moving the order
of the day for going into Committee on the Rateable
Property (Ireland) Bill, said that he wished to call the
attention of the House to it as a Bill having reference
to the present unfortuate prospects in Ireland. The
value of the property was to be estimated by
the grand jury, in order to hinder two or more
different systems of valuation from prevailing in Ireland.
Two clauses, 36 and 37, have been omitted, and those
he proposed should still continue so. He should also
move that clauses 75 and 76 be omitted.

The clauses were accordingly omitted.
CONSTABULARY FORCE (IRELAND) BILL.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then moved the
second reading of this Bill. Their Lordships were
aware that the expense of the force for several years past
had been very severely felt.
Lord MON rEAGLE said he entertained several ob-
jections to the principles and provisions of this Bill,
but he had no wish to throw any impediments
against its being read a second time, as it was
so thoroughly interlaced with the other Irish measures
that lay on the table of the House. He thought it
would be but fair to postpone all these Bills till to-
morrow, without wishing in the least to throw an im-
pediment before the progress of any cne of them.
The Earl of WICKLOW said he admitted with the
Noble Lord the importance of the Bills brought in, and
the number of them ; but he had never seen a session
when it was better, especially with Irish Bills. He did not
see any great reason, however, why a few days should not
be allowed. But in respect to the present Bill, he did not
feel the force of the Noble Lord's remark, as on the
second reading the principle merely was involved, and
details would come after to be considered when they
went into Committee.

Lord MONTEAGLE said that the present wat a great
national crisis for Ireland, and their Lordships would be
guilty of a gross misapplication of public money, if they
gave their sanction to the present Bill.
LZIPT SIT/114.3.)

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING
►SLY O'CLOCK.

ST. LEGER.
11 to 2 agst Brocard—taken
6 to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes
7 to 1 agst Traverser
10 to 1 agst Fancy Boy
12 to 1 agst Sting
14 to 1 agst lago
20 to 1 agst Poynton
30 to 1 agst Mount Callan
25 to 1 agst Pyrrhus the First
30 to 1 agst Dolo—taken
30 to 1 agst Erin go bragh—taken
30 to 1 agst Cranebrook

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 21.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WICIIITMAN. )
Charles Lyon was indicted for maliciously shooting at
John Wainwright, with intent to do him some grievous
bodily harm.

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Mr. Brandt conducted the prosecution; the prisoner was
defended by Mr. Sergeant \V it

It appealed from the statement of the prosecutor, who is
assistant game-keeper to the Earl of Derby, that on the night
of the 15th of April last, he, in company with another man,
was drinking at a public-house in the neighbourhood of
Knowsley, and about a mile from Prescot. The public-
house is known by the name of the Eagle and Child. About
half-past nine he heard several shots fired, and went out
shortly after by the back door, for the purpose of ascertain-
ing the cause. As soon as he got through the gate some one
fired a shot at a distance of about sixteen yards, and he was
immediately struck by several shots, one of which pene•
trated his hand and the other his leg. The landlord of the
Eagle and Child ran out immediately on hearing the shot,
and saw a man making off along the Liverpool-road. He
pursued the man, but the latter got over a wall into one of
Sir Thomas Birch's plantations, and escaped. On searching
the wood the next day, some footmarks were found, which
were said to correspond with the shoes found upon the pri••
soner when he was taken into custody. Some time after a
small gun, the stock of which was moveable, was found in
the same plantation.
It appeared from the testimony of other witnesses, that at
an earlier part of the evening the prisoner was in company
with another man at the Rose and Crown public-house a
little distance from the Eagle and Child. He had a gun,
which was, by a crack in the stock, identified as that which
was afterwards found in the plantation. He produced it in
two parts from his pocket. Ile loaded it. While he was
putting the shot in his companion said, "Put some of the
others in, they'll tell a tale." He put in two kinds cf shot.
He said he would shoot game in spite of any body. When
he was leaving the house he said, "Let either Birch or
Wainwright molest us on the road, and we'll do their job
for them." Another witness, while on his way from Prescot"
to Huyton, saw the prisoner leaning against the wall of Sir
Thomas Birch's plantation, and asked him, what he was
doing there. He said he was looking for a hare. The wit-
ness told him that Birch, the keeper, was out, and he replied
that he did not care—he would have a hare, and do Birch
afterwards. It appeared that in a door near which the pro-
secutor was standing when the shot was fired were found as
many as 25 shots, which had apparently formed part of the
charge.