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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1854,

derived from municipal corp orations. Why, if the in-
dividuals who seek to delude the people with this cant
knew anything of this subject, they must acknowledge
that uniformity in the laws of a country is one of the
best proofs that can be adaueed of the extent of its
civilization—one of the best defences of the liberties
of the people—one of the best guarantees of the
wisdom, and the honesty of a government. The
weakness, the brutal ignorance, of feudalism, arose
entirely from a diversity of lzws, and a division of in-
terests. And did the Poor laws' Amendment Bill
include no clause worthier of support than that
which enacts the establishment of a Central Board
for the purpose of bringing etite whole Kingdom to adopt
a similar system of relieviLlg the poor, not according
to arbitrary and local rules and regulations, con-
fined to particular parishes, but in accordance with cer-
tain fixed and general rules common to every parish in
England and Wales—it sl to uld have our most cordial
support.

We observe that much of the clamour which has
been raised against this Bill has arisen from supposing
that it will entirely put an end to the system of out-
door relief. It will do no such thing. On the con-
trary, the 50th clause provides , that the Commissioners,
on being satisfied of the necessity of affording some
relief, may direct the overseers of any parish to grant
out-door relief to able-bodied labourers, provided it
be received as a loan, and, repaid when the earn-
ings of the so relieved individuals will permit.
Surely this is all that any honest poor man would
require—all that any honest Government has a
right to grant ! As to the right of the poor to
sustenance without labour, the less that is said about
it, the better for all parties. Society cannot admit an
undefined, unlimited right anywhere. If there be a
right, define it. Point out its boundaries, and how far
it may be carried without becoming an abuse. A
right to sustenance without labour never existed--
never could exist, being in the teeth of the Divine
malediction, " in the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat
bread." Without labour the earth would be a sterile
wilderness, in which man would be without a right
beyond that of preying upon, animals weaker than him-
self. And yet the absurd idea of an abstract right to
support, even in idleness, has so rooted itself in the
minds of the poor, that many of them make a merit—a
boast, of becoming chargeable to the parish merely to
enforce it ; and like the defenders of other vested
rights, to preserve the inheritance, and hand it down
with an undisputed title to their children.
We are happy to have an opportunity of congratu-
lating the Duke of WELLINGTON on the very able
and statesman-like speech delivered by him on this oc-
casion. His Grace well observed, that such were the
difficulties with which the amendment of the present
system of Poor Laws was encompassed, that all for-
mer Administrations shrunk from them in terror, and
that the present Government was entitled to great
praise for having the firmness to grapple with these
difficulties, before they had acquired a stamina too
strong for eradication. There is no doubt that if the
Poor Laws were much longer suffered to remain in the
same state in which they are at present, but that we
should see pauperism devastate the whole kingdom,
and end by casting lots for the possession of the wil-
derness which it had itself created. Could the evils to
which the Poor Laws gave existence remain stationary,
they might be borne a little longer ; but from
the very nature of them—from their perversion of every
moral principle in the breasts of the people—from their
spreading wits the increase of population, and acquiring
a deeper hue from time—every hour's delay which takes
place in the adoption of the remedy now proposed is a
matter of the deepest regret to all who have well con-
sidered the subject.

Our contemporaries who have opposed this
Bill—especially a Morning Journal, not the most
consistent, nor the most delicate in its sar-
casms—will now see the extent of their influence,
when they oppose themselves to the good sense
of the country. Instead of the majorities in the
House of Lords, which they imagiried themselves
capable of commanding, they find their recommen-
dations despised by all but a most miserable minority.
On the division which took place last night on the second
reading of the bill, the numbers were, for the original
motion 76, for Lord WYNFORD'S amendment 13 ;
so that there was a majority of nearly six to one in
favour of the Bill.

There is evidently some misconception on the part
of Lord WESTERN, relative to the part which Mr.
ELLICE took in the Colchester election in 1831.
From his evidence as reported by the Committee, it
would appear that application had been made to the
Treasury through the Secretary for a grant of money
to support a Reform Candidate, and that the sum
of 5001. had been granted for that purpose.
Every one, on reading the report, would infer
that the sum was paid out of the secret service money
for electioneering purposes. Mr. ELLICE'S explana-
tioft is at total variance with such a conclusion, and
both the letters which he read, as well as the fact that
the charge was not pressed by the candidate who had
been deprived of a share of the sum, fully bear him
out in his statement. He accounts for the money,
proves that the 5001. was merely transmitted by him
from a subscription fund, and asserts in the strongest
terms, that not a farthing of it was paid out of the
Treasury. From the character of the Right Hon.
Gentleman, and, indeed, from all the circumstances of
the case, we believe there are not the slightest grounds
for imputing to him conduct so unconstitutional, and
so utterly subversive of the freedom of election. That
such a practice prevailed at one time, there can be no
doubt, but the day is gone by when a Minister of the
Crown can spend the public money in order to prop up his
own power, and control elections for party purposes.
It is utterly at variance, too, with the prOfessed prin-
ciples of Earl GREY and Lord ALTHORP. Their
characters stand too high to allow us for a moment to
suppose that they would connive at such a transaction.
The money could not go out of the Treasury without
their knowledge.

We have time and room only to call the attention
of our readers to the statement of Mr. ELLICE yes-
terday relative to the discipline of the Army. From
that it is quite evident that there is some great defect
in the system, and that no time ought to be lost in
instituting a rigid inquiry—not only into the practice
of flogging as a means of discipline, but into the whole
system of military punishments. The alarming fact,
that within the last two years one-fifth of the whole
army on English stations had passed through the
public gaols, together with the assertion of the
Secretary at War, that cases of violent insubordination
were daily increasing beyond all precedent—are
surely sufficient to warrant the Commander-in-Chief or

the Government, in taking the most prompt measures to
put an end to a system so disgraceful to the army, and
so dangerous to the peace and security of the country.
One thing is certain, that flogging is not the best
mode of raising the moral character of the army.

The Paris Papers of Sunday are almost wholly en-
grossed with the discussion of two topics—the late
change in the Ministry of War, and the affairs of
Spain. All parties seem to look on Marshal SOULT'S
retirement as an affair of little or no moment, and to
treat with equal indifference the nomination of his suc-
cessor. As regards Spain, the newspapers in the in-
terest of Don CARLOS talk of reported engagements
between the QUEEN'S troops and those of the insur-
gents, in which the latter were successful. The Mi-
nisterial Journals, however, assert, on authority, that
the French Government had received intelligence
from Navarre, dated the 17th instant, stating
that no serious conflict had as yet taken place
between the troops of General RODIL and those
of Do x CARLOS. It was said, that on Sa-
turday the 12th inst., the whole of General Ro-
DIL'S forces, estimated at 20,000 infantry, and 15,000
cavalry, and 7 pieces of cannon, had been concentrated
near to Puente la Reyna. It was also said that 17
vessels had passed before St. Sebastian's, laden with
arms and warlike stores for the insurgents. The Ga-
zette de France mentions that news had been received
at Moldavia, of the arrival, on the 27th, of a foreign
fleet of 40 sail in the Bosphorus, from the Ar-
chipelago. This rumour, however, was not credited.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.-(THIS DAY.

A discussion took place this morning respecting a rumour
that the business of this Court was to be carried on
at Westminster till the rising of the Court, and it was objected
by the members of the outer bar that such would materially
affect their interests.

As the question entirely depended on the sittings of the
LORD CHANCELLOR, the matter was deferred till the SOLICI-
TOR-GENERAL ascertained his Lordship's intention.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Montreal papers to the 24th June, Quebec to the 25th,
Halifax to the 24th, and Prince Edward's Island papers to the
'lBth June, have been received at the North and South Ame-
rican Coffee House.

The Montrpal papers are chiefly filled with news from Eng-
land. The Quebec papers statethat nine vessels are announced
by the telegraph ; the greater part of them have emigrants on
board. his Excellency the Governg-in-Chief arrived yester-
day from Seville, and was received with a salute from Upper
Canada. It is stated that the sale of Crown lands in Hamilton
were 11,000 acres by public auction, at a price of from 15s. to
235. per acre ; proceeds 12,0001. ;gone-fourth was paid in cash.
The Halifax papers are also void of interest, chiefly con-
tainining English information.
The Prince Edward Island papers are of the same cast.
A Malta mail has arrived by the steamer Colombia sailed
from Malta on the 3d July, from Gibraltar 12th July, from
Cadiz 13th July.
A Halifax mail, by the Lapwing, sailed on the 19th June.
The former Mail brings accounts from Greece, that Colo-
cotroni and Kalcopulo have been declared guilty and cast for
death ; but their sentence was commuted to 20 years imprison-
ment ; that the English squadron had assembled at Toulon ;
and the cholera prevailed at Gibraltar.

THE FUNDS.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 921 for the Account,
opened at the same price this morning.
Spanish stock has improved, owing to the statement in a
morning journal of a meeting between Prince Talleyrand and
Lord Palmerston, to consider the-question whether it will
be necessary to append an additional article to the quadruple
treaty for the marching of a French army into Spain. Spanish
done at 43A- ; Portuguese, 801 f.
We: have a report that Mendizabal, Ardowin, and Ricardo,
have contracted for the Spanish Loan, but as yet this requires
confirmation.

HALF-PAST ONE.

We are informed that an American vessel has sailed from
the river with ten thousand stand of arms for Don Carlos's
army. Also, that two of the largest steamers lying in the
river have received orders to sail at two hours' notice from
Portsmouth.

Richard Thornton, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of
the Spanish Bondholders, went up this morning to the Spanish
Ambassador's, and presented him with the resolutions agreed
to at the meeting of the Spanish Bondholders, which were very
favourably received by the Spanish Ambassador, and would
be forwarded with all speed to the Spanish Government. The
above gentleman, with the deputation, is also to have an inter-
view with Lord Palmerston this day, at three o'clock, on the
subject.

Consols are at present 921 sellers ; Spanish 43-1 ; Por-
tuguese 86 to f.
We can positively state that an express has been received
from Madrid with an account that General Rodil has come up
with the Carlist army, who refused to give battle, and imme-
diately dispersed. and ran into,the mountains, destroying the
crops.

liodil is at the head of twenty thousand good troops.

Conicls for the Account, 92f.

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.).

HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses).
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay Z 3 15 to £4 0
New Meadow Hay 4 5 4 10
Useful Old Ditto 4 15 5 5
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 5 10 5 lt,
Clover Hay 4 5 5 15
Oat Straw EI 10 to £1 12 I Wheat Straw 1 14 1 16

SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 15 to £4 0
New Meadow Hay 4 5 4 15
T.Jsefill Old Ditto 4 15 5 5
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay
Clover Hay (extra fine ..£6 0 Generally -, ..... 4 5 515
Oat Straw .Z 1 12 to Zl4 1 1 Wheat Straw 1 14 1 16

HUN GERFORD.

Coarse Meadow Hay £3 15 to £4 0
New Meadow Hay 4 0 5 A
Useful Old Ditto 4 15 5 10
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay
Clover Hay 4 0 5 15
Oat Straw £1 12 to £1 14 1 Wheat Straw - 114 , :18

COLONIAL MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.)
BRITISH PLANTATION SUGAR.—The deliveries continue
pretty large, and last week they exceeded 2,300 casks. Fine
Sugars continue in demand, and at full prices, but low Sugars
are not taken to any extent.
FOREIGN SUGARS are not altered in value this morning, and
but little is doing. There is a strong demand for Mauritius
Sugars.
REFINED SUGARS are heavy, though the supply is not consi-
derable.

COFFEE.--The finer and clean samples of British Planta-
tion Coffees continue very firm, and at good prices. The
lower sorts are not much inquired after. In the demand for
Foreign Coffees there is no material change.
TrAs.—The Tea market is steady at the advanced prices
realized since the last sale.

COAL MAR
Per Ton. s. d
Adair's
Bensham Main l6 9

Chester Main l6 3
East Percy l6 0
Holywell lB 3
Ord's Redhugh l6 9
Pontop Windsor lB 0
West Hartley
Willington lB 3
Wylam lB 6
Walls End Bewicke and Co lB 3
Wills End Carr and Co l7 6
Walls End Clark and Co. l6 3
. .-

WX11; End Heaton lB 9
Walls End Hilda lB 0
Ships arrived since

SET.—July 21.
Per Ton. • s. d.
Walls End Northumberland 17 9
Walls End Perkins l7 6
Bell's Primrose l6 ii
Eden Main lB 0
Lambton's Primrose
Walls End Hetton l9 9
Walls End Lambton l9 9
Walls End Russell's Lyon's lB 0
Walls End Stewart's
Walls End Tees
Walls End West Hetton
Cowpen
Silkstone Wilson l6 6
Walls End Henderson l7 0

last market-clay, 14.

Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore, in the Melville 74,
was at Bombay on the Bth of March, but was about to
sail for Madras. _

The Imogene 28, was daily expected at Bombay,
and was to follow the Vice-Admiral.

The Curacoa 26, was to leave Madras for Calcutta
on the 16th of April, with Lord William Bentiuck.
The Hyacinth, 18, and Harrier, 18, were at
Malacca, and the Magicienne, 24, was ordered to
Bombay.
Vice-Admiral Sir Josias Rowley was in Vourla
Bay on the 25th of June, in the Caledonia. He
arrived there on the Bth, with the Britannia, Thun-
derer, Edinburgh and Talavera. The Endymion
joined him on the 19th.
The Tyne arrived at Malta on the 15th Of June,
and the Cano.pas on the 16th.
' Vice-Admiral Sir John Cockburn was at Bermuda
on the 24th of May. The Vestal sailed on the 30th
of April from Bermuda for Barbadoes, and the Comus
on the Ist of May for New York. The Arachne on
the 4th for Jamaica ; the Wasp on the 6th for Barba-
does ; and the Pickle schooner on the 17th, to cruise
off St. Thomas's.
The North Star is ordered to South America to
relieve the Pylades, and is to take out Mr. Hamilton
and his family.

Captain Sir William Augustus Montagu is ap-
pointed to the Malabar, 74, which is ordered to be
fitted for sea at Plymouth.
The Spitfire is ordered 'from Woolwich to Fal-
mouth, to take a -mail to Malta.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

THIS DAY, TUESDAY, JULY 22.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 20 minutes past 12.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
The Marquis of CHANDOS presented a petition from the
landed proprietors of Buckinghamshire and Bath against the
Great Western Railway Bill.
Mr. R. PALMER presented a similar petition from Berk-
shire and Henley-upon Thames.
Mr. HARCOURT presented a petition to the same effect
from Great Marlow.

Lord G. SOMERSET then moved the second reading of
the Amendment to the Great Western Railway Bill.
Mr. R. PALMER opposed the second reading of the
amendments at some length. He contended that the Bill was
not the same as that originally introduced to the House. The
Hon. Member concluded by moving, as an amendment, that
the amendments be read a second time that day six months.
The Marquis of C H AND 0 S seconded the amendment.
Mr. G. L ANGTON supported the amendment.
Sir R. VY V YAN said he felt it his duty to answer the
arguments of the Hon. Members on the other side. The
assents and neuters among the landed proprietors, through
whose property the railroad would pass, amounted to 25 miles,
while the dissents were only 21 miles—this referred to the por-
tion of the line between Bath and Bristol. It hadbeen alleged
that the town ofßeading was opposed to theßill, but he( Sir R. V. )
denied that such was the case. There was a petition from
that town, signed by the Mayor and 800 inhabitants in favour
of it ; and he was satisfied that the Hon. Member for Read-
ing would not have taken the active part he did, in support of
the Bill in Committee, if he did not think that it would be
advantageous to his constituents and the country generally.
The railway would be of essential benefit to the entire of the
West and South of England. The objection to the railroad
generally was, that it tended to depreciate the value of
agricultural produce. That objection, if fairly argued, would
be found to weigh in favour, instead of against, the project.
One of the great benefits to be derived from increased civili-
zation was the facilities of increased communication which it af-
forded, and they would be pre-eminently obtained by the con-
templated measure. The advantages which it would con-
fer upon Ireland it was needless to enlarge upon. He
( Sir R. V.) thought that the merits of the Bill had been
sufficiently investigated after being .57 days in committee.
The Bill was not opposed because it was bad in principle—
it was not opposed because it would injure the land through
which it passed—but it was opposed through selfish motives,
because the interests of Hon. Members would be affected di-
rectly or indirectly by the measure. It was opposed by the
shareholders of the Kenneth and Avon canal, and by those
of the Grand Junction canal, from a fear that it would
be injurious to their respective properties.—( Hear.) There
has lately been meetings in all the towns on the line
from Basingstoke to Bath, for the purpose of organizing an un-
fair opposition to this Bill by making rail-roads, which would
render the present unnecessary—the Bill before the ,House
was the original plan, and therefore he trusted that the House
would protect it from such unfair opposition. It had
been at first intended to make the line from Bath to Bristol,
and this had been afterwards extended, as the practicabi-
lity and advantages of the plan had been hitherto developed.
He trusted whatever was the opposition this Bill had met
with in Committee, that it would come out of the House as
safely as it did out of the Committee. It would be unfair,
after having given the same advantages to other lines of road,
to deny it to this.
Mr. MILDMA Y thought it would be much more unfair to
Ireland and to Bristol to pass this Bill. Having established
one line, let them take care that they did not injure:it by esta-
blishing a new one, and, in fact, destroy the advantages of both.
Mr. METHUEN said, when first this railroad was pro-
posed he received petitions from various towns in its favour,
and these petitions were signed by the most respectable inha-
bitants of those towns ; but at the same time he must admit,
that in that division of the county which he represented, there
was a general feeling of hostility against the Bill.
Lord LOWTHER said lie should oppose the Bill as being
replete with annoyance and inconvenience. The proposed line
of road was the worst that could be chosen. Had it com-
menced at Paddington instead of Brompton, it would have
been much more central, and advantageous to the metropolis.
Lord GRENVILLE SOMERSET said his Noble Friend
had called this the worst line of road that could be adopted ;
he gave his Noble Friend credit for sincerity and accurate
judgment as far as his information extended; but after hear-
ing numerous witnesses in Committee as to the best line of road,
he could not bow to the opinion of his Noble Friend.
He was astonished at what the Hon. Member for North
Wiltshire had said in reference to his constituents. Had
they taken the trouble to examine the prospectus, they would
have seen that this line of road would have been equally
convenient to them as to other divisions of the county,
while a different line would certainly cut them out. The
Committee, after sitting many days, had decided, by a large
majority, in favour of the Bill; and therefore he trusted the
House would pay more attention to that fact than to the
arguments of his Noble Friend, who knew very little of
anything of the evidence given before the Committee.
Mr. BARING was of opinion that two schemes of the
kind proposed were rather calculated to do mischief than
good. He should therefore oppose the Bill.
Sir CHARLES BURRELL said the majority in Com-
mittee in favour of the former Bill was only six out of 58,
and he would leave the House to judge of that fact.
Mr. PEASE said he should vote for the Bill; on the prin-
ciple that a large Committee, after a long sitting, having by
a decided majority declared in favour of the Bill, he thought
the House might safely entertain it.
The Gallery was then cleared for a division, when there
appeared—

For the second reading of the amendments 83
Against it

Majority in favour of the Bill ... —2B
On our return to the gallery, we found Mr. BE CK F ORD
proposing the addition of a clause to the effect that the Grand
Junction Canal-Company should receive compensation for the
loss they would incur by the passing of this Bill.
Lord G. SOMERSET was surprised at the proposal of
the clause by his Hon. Friend, as it was not usual to propose
such a clause without notice. The proposition was in prin-
ciple so monstrous, that he would certainly take the sense of
the committee upon it.
The clause was then negatived without a division, and the
Bill, with the amendments, was then ordered to be engrossed.