The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-18 00:00:00

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

Upton's Estate Bill was read a third time and passed.
PETITIONS.

Mr. BROADLEY and other Hon. Members presented
petitions, from various parts of the country, praying for
the continuance of the Crystal Palace.
Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from Aberdeen
against the Public-houses (Scotland) Bill.
Mr. HEADLA &I presented a petition is favour of the
Arrest of Absconding Debtors' Bill.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from the Society
of Arts, and another petition from Manchester, in favour
of the Patents Bill.
Mr. COBDEN presented petitions from various Wes-
leyan bodies in the West Riding, complaining of the
proceedings of conference, and praying the House to
take steps to secure Wesleyan reform.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Montrose,
praying that the postal communication between Scot-
land and the metropolis may be facilitated.
YARMOUTH MAILS.
Mr. FREWEN asked Mr. Cornewall Lewis, if he
had received any report from the General Post-office
relative to the transmission of the mails from Great
Yarmouth to Leicester and Rugby, in consequence of
the discussion which took place in this House more than
three months ago?
Mr. C. LEWIS said that a minute of the discussion
in question was under the consideration of the Post-
master-General, whose report was expected to reach the
Treasury in a few days.
COUNTY RATES EXPENDITURE BILL.
In answer to a question from Sir J. PAKINGTON,
Mr. M. GIBSON said that the County Rates Expen-
diture Bill, which had just passed through a Select Com-
mittee had received so many alterations at the sugges-
tion of the Government, and as the Right Hon. Baronet
the Home Secretary was not able to attend in his place,
he did not think it would be possible to proceed with
the Bill this session.
THE NAVIGATION-LAWS.
In answer to a question from Mr. DISRAELI,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that the discussion on the navigation-laws would be taken
on Monday, if the Committee of Supply were closed.
Mr. HERRIES, in reply to Mr. M. Gibson, said that
it was his intention certainly to bring forward the motion
of which he had given notice on this subject.
IRISH BUSINESS.
Mr. E. B. ROCHE complained of the manner in which
Irish business was set down in the paper, night after
night, too late for any chance of being brought on; and,
he believed, without any desire on the part of the Govern-
ment to bring it on. He suggested that one day should
be appropriated to nothing else but Irish business.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that the House had lately been occupied on Committees
of Supply, and that, ha thought, was quite as much
Irish as English business. This evening, particularly,
out of sixteen votes which had to be proposed twelve
were Irish. He could not, at present, fix any day for
Irish business solely.
After a few words from Mr. MONSELL and Colonel
DUNNE, the subject dropped.
HARWICH ELECTION.
Mr. BANKES moved that it be an instruction to the
General Committee of Elections, to select a chairman
and six other Members to be the Select Committee ap-
pointed to inquire into the allegations of a petition re
lative to the last election for the borough of Harwich;
and t‘nat the Members so selected do constitute the said
Committee, with power to send for persons, papers, and
records, and that five be the quorum.
Mr. COBDEN said it was not his intention to oppose
the motion, as the Government, whose conduct it
affected, had consented to an inquiry, but he did
BEWILDERED BY BRADS.IIA appointment of a Commtttee. This Committee, if agreed not see that any good result would arise from the
to, would make the fourth which had sat on the borough
It is an affecting instance of the in
easiness and depression on the mind e
smence and un- of Harwich during the present session. Since 1837, he
af
he now commenced wildly to seek r Mr. Lost, that believed there was not one election which was
the object of his not followed by one or more Committees of in-
journey in the strangest directior.s. Abandoning the quiry.—(Hear, hear.) The character of Har-
railreads on which he had under!iene so much, he began with was well known. The blue books contained
to institute a feverish inquiry for it among ' host of a record of its proceedings, and it was well known as
boarding-houses and hot els. " Bed, breakfast, pre-eminent for corruption in every possible form. The boots, aud attendance, two and B;.tpence per last Committee appointed had taken some pains to in-
day. —g Bed and boot& seven shillinegs per week." yestigate into the circumstances which occurred at the
—" Wines and spirits of the ctencest quality." election, and he thought, before a new writ was issued,
—" Night porter in constarst attendance."— the minutes of the evidence should be laid on the table.
" For night arrivals, ring tie priveste door bell."—" Om- Mr. DUNCOMBE considered it was highly creditable
nibuses to and from all Vans of London every minute." to the Government not to oppose an inquiry ; but the
—" Do not confound th'ss house with any other of the House ought to ascertain before it consented to the mo-
same name." Amor.ig such addresses to the public did tion, whether or not there was a prima facie case for hives-
Mr. Lost now seek Peor a way to Worcester. As might tigation. No inquiry, in his opinion, was wanted. The
have been anticir,ated—as he did anticipate, in fact, borough only contained 140 or 150 voters, and being
for he was hop'
His intellect elesa now—it was not to be found there. notorious for corruption and intimidation ought to be
',/n8 greatly shaken. Mr. Lost has left, in disfranchised.—(Hear.) Sudbury would have great
his diary, P. record so minute of the gradual deadening reason to complain if such a borough as Harwich was
of his intelligence and benumbing of his faculties, that not disfranchised. The Noble Lord at the head
he cars. be followed downward, as it were step by step. of the Government had promised a measure of
Thetis we find, that when he had exhausted the board- reform next session, and if it were worth 'any-
ing-houses and hotels, family, commercial and otherwise thing it must contain a good round Schedule A when
(in which ho found his intellect much enfeebled by the such places as Harwich and St. Albans existed.—
constant recurrence of the hieroglyphic " 1-6-51— (Hear, hear.) An example ought to be made of
W. J. A."), he addressed himself, with the same dismal all such boroughs.—(Hear, hear.) He had no
object, to Messrs. Moses and Son, and to Hr. Medwin, boot- objection to the Committee, but believed that
maker to his Royal Highness Prince Albert. After them, the inquiry would be altogether abortive.—(Hear.)
even to inanimate things, as the Patent Compendium Port- Mr. J. STUART said the Hon. Member for Finsbury
manteau, theimprovedChaffMachines and Corn Crushers, was ready to disfranchise the borough without the
the Norman Razor, the Bank of England Sealing Wax, slightest trial or inquiry.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon.
Schweppe's Soda Water, the Extract of Sarsaparilla, the Member held the rights of electors to be sacred, yet
Registered Paletat, Rowlands' Kalydor, the Cycloidal proposed to deprive them in this instance:of those rights
Parasol, the Cough Lozenges, the universal night-light, on a principle of confiscation equal to that
the poncho, Allsopp's pale ale, and the patent knife adopted by the French Directory.—(Hear, hear.)
cleaner. Failing, naturally, in all these appeals, and in He thought the Hon. Member was an advocate for giving
a anal address to his Grace the Duke of Wellington in Harwich the benefit of the same laws respecting pro-
the gentlemanly summer garment, and to Mr. Burton of i perty and the franchise which was possessed by ,the
the General Furnishing Ironmongery Warehouse, he electors of Finsbury, and not for depriving them of it
sank into a stupor and abandoned hope. Mr. Lost is without a hearing.—(Hear.)
now a ruin. He is at the Enston-square HoteL When Mr. B. OSBORNE protested against the electors of
advised to return home he merely shakes his head and Finsbury being likened at all to those who returned
mutters " Ware Tu . . 6." No cabman can be found Members for Harwich.—(A lauh. They over and
who will take charge of him on those instructions. He over again been brought beforeg Committees ahad nd proved
sits continually turning over the leaves of a small dog's- guilty of bribery and corruption, and sb e Hon. Member
eared quarto volume with a yellow cover, and babbling bad no right to make so invidious a comparison with
in a plaintive voice, " Bradshaw, Bradshaw." A the independent electors of Finsbu r —(Hear, hear.
few days since, )
Mrs. Lost, having been cautiously Again protesting against the Hon. M ember for Newark,
made acquainted with his cendition, arrived at the hotel, reps assenting a small and not very I ,are borough, com-
accompanied by the confidential domestic. The first paring Finsbury with Harwich, he hoped this inquiry
words of the heroic woman were:—" John Lost, don't woui 'd be confined to those who had not made up their
make a spectacle of yourself', don't. Who am I?"
replied, " BRADSHAW." "John Lost," said Mrs. Lost,
He mine Is upon this subject.
Su • B. HALL said this was no ne ,w case. Harwich
" I have no patience with you. Where have you been was long ago proved to be COre" apt, and it ought,
put in sriaedule Re was
to?" Fluttering the leaves of the book, he answered, wittit but further delay, be

CAPTURE of the CARLISLE _HIGHWAYMEN.
The cool desperadoes who have recently been causing
such consternation in Cumberland, by their audacious
pranks, have at length been captured. From the sudden
disappearance of two questionable characters from their
lodgings in Botchergate, suspicion immediately fell upon
them. One of them, named Thomas Tinyon, a weaver
by profession, but a poacher in practice, is well known
in Carlisle, especially to the authorities of the gaol ;
the other, Hugh Monteith, about twenty-two years of
age, has been occupied at one time as a gardener in the
neighbourhood of the town, but was dismissed by his
last employers for dishonesty. The capture was rather
neatly effected. Police-constables Snowdon and Ander-
son set off from Carlisle on Sunday afternoon, in a gig,
dressed in plain clothes. They had previously ascer-
tained that Monteith's father lived at Gretna, so they
called there on their way, and contrived to find out that
both he and Tinyon were in Maxwelltown. They pro.
ceeded at once to Maxwelltown, and at half-past one in
the morning, with the aid of a constable from Annan,
they succeeded in capturing both prisoners, though in
different houses of the same street. Each had a female
accomplice, but the police came upon them so unex-
pectedly that they had no time for resistance. Mon-
teith made an effort to reach the six-barrelled
revolver, which was near the bed, whilst one
of the constables was securing his clothes; but
a second officer seized him and prevented mis-
chief, for all the barrels of the pistol were loaded with
powder and ball, with a cap on each nipple. In Mon-
teith's pockets were found the watch stolen from the
farmer, and a guinea which the commercial traveller had
thrown to him with other money in his purse. Tinyon
had a brace of pistols loaded, and two boxes containing
bullets and caps. Monteith, when frustrated in his
attempt to reach the pistol, said with an oath to
Anderson, that had he known it was them, he
would have sent three bullets through their bodies.
However, both prisoners were secured and carried to the
county police-station for the night, and the next (Tues-
day) morning they were brought on to Carlisle, where
they will undergo an examination before the magistratee,.
It is scarcely possible to estimate the satisfaction w}:gich
is on all hands expressed at the timely capture of these
daring highwaymen.