The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-11 00:00:00

DISSENTERS' RELIEF BILL.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL brought in his bill for the re••
lief of the dissenters, which was read a first time. The
noble lord proceeded to observe that although be did not
the objections which had been made to the bill were in
many respects well founded, yet be allowed he was not
very sanguine as to its being acceptable to the great body
for whose relief it was intended. It was, therefore, his
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intention to move that the bill be printed, and then to put
off the second reading for a considerable time, in order to
give an opportunity for ascertaining what was the precise
nature of the obj, ctions made to the measure, and whether
they were such as to afford any hope of their being obvi-
ated. He confessed that he did not himself see that he
could make any extensive alteration in the bill ; and if the
disinclination which had been manifested towards it were
persevered in, he would only say that he should be the
last man in the world to think of pressing upon a body of
individual., for whom he entertained the greatest respect,
a measure which had been introduced by him solely for
their relief.

The bill was then ordered to be read a second time on
ae 28th of April, and be printed.

PRIVATE BILL FEES.

On the motion of Colonel LEITH HAY, a Select
Committee was appointed to investigate the nature and
amount of fees, charges, and expenses attendant upon the
progress and passing of private bills, consisting of the fol-
lowing members:—

Hay, Colonel L. Baring, F.
AI th orp. Lord Guest, J. J.
Ridley Sir M. W. Johratone, Hope
I.A.:c,•e. C. S. S.rickland, G.
Wrottioley, Sir John Carter, J. B.
lice, I. Lambert, H.
Adam. A,lmiral Fitzroy, Lord C.
Knatibbull„, Sir E. Bannerman, A.
Jaffrey, Et. Hon. F. Denison, Evelyn
Tooke, W. Hallyburton, D. G.
Grey, Sir G.
METROPOLITAN PO.

Clive, Robert
Murray, J. A.
Ward, H. G.

o'Feriall, R. N.
Ysuing,J.

I Tan cred, H. W.
'Sandon, Viscount
R te, Sir William
Hawes, W.

~Orraclie, Lord

On the motion of Lord HOWICK,
was appointed to take into considerat
police of the metropolis, and the state
consisting of the following members
Hosterlk, Lord Spankie, Sergeant
Eitcuarc, I'. G. Paw, W.
Lowther, viscount Villiers, Viscount
Fremantle, Sr T. :101...,w0rth. Sir W.
GeurEe. Seymour, Lord E.
Miles W. Inglis, Sir R. H.
Woad, Alderman Calvert, N.
Peel, Sir It. D:ni'on, W. J.
Brougham, W. Wood, Colonel T.
LAniox, Lord G. Ross, Charles Ross
Lelevre, J. S. Hardinge, Sir H,
Knatchbull, Sir E.
The other orders
at a few minutes be

LICE.
a select committee
ion the state of the
of crime therein,

Hotham, Lord
Carter, J. B.

Davie;. Colonel
Dare, Hall
Hawes, B.
Horne, Sir W.
Dandas, Captain
Hume, Joseph
Somerset, Lord G.
Cavendish, Lt.iCol.
Grey, i G.
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of the day were thi
Mare one o'clock the I

!n disposed of, and
louse adjourned.

MR. GLEIG'S NEW WORK." Mr. Gleig is
deservedly a popular writer, and Allan Breck' is a
novel of highs: pretensions than any which has yet pro-
ceeded from his pen. It is composed of the hair breadth
'scapes and adventures of the hero (after whom the work
is called) in the armies of the Duke of Cumberland and
the Young Pretender, mingled as these are with the
hard fortunes of the clan to which he belongs. The cha-
r:eters of his mother and cousin are most skilfully drawn
—and other personages are brought out with much inte-
rest. The author has also bestowed a good deal of pains,
to some purpose, on the character of one Hatfield, a prac-
tised gambler. We must acknowledge that ' Allan
Breck' is one of the most powerful and highly-wrought
tales we ever read ; it teems with passages of intense in-
terest."—Edinburgh Evening Post.
MARCH OF INTELLECT.—A chimney sweep
was yesterday afternoon observed contemplating the at-
tractions of a bookseller's window, in which he was as.
sisted by a very handsome eye glass, apparently silver-
mounted !—Birnainyhana Advertiser.
CHANGE OF FORTUNE.—A fact transpired
at Mountsorrel on Wednesday, which has ever since formed
the general topic of conversation among its inhabitants,
namely, that a wealthy shoe contractor named James
Biddies, who left Mountsorrel for London more than fifty
years ago as a journeyman, had died the preceding day in
the metropolis, leaving behind him money and property to
the amount of more than two hundred thousand pounds,
to be divided between sixteen of his relatives and their
children. The bearer of this intelligence was Lewis Slight,
Esq., the town clerk of Brighton (formerly of this town),
who is one of Mr. Biddles's executors. Mr. L. Biddies,
a sheep jobber of Mountsorrel, who is eighty years of age,
is the only surviving brother of the deceased. Another
brother, John, died last year, after being in the employ
of Mr. Priestly, maltater, of the same place, for many
years. The other relatives are the sons and dauehters of
these two brothers, some of whom Mr. Slight found at
work as labourers in stone quarries, but who, by their
uncle's death, have become entitled to about twenty thou-
sand pounds each. The testator, although he would have
acted more wisely by distributing some of his wealth
among his kindred while living, has acted judiciously in
making his will : for, with the exception of five thousand
pounds to be paid immediately to his brother, and a few
sin di legacies to other persons in London, he has ordered
that the bulk of his property shall remain together for ten
raaartse,e
s iandn theth a that
ehaenittilinteere. s t
ei t
hoanl y
sads she
db e paid
this course,
otutshe
e,
we understand, in the hope that by the expiration of that
period they will have become better able to take care of so
large a sum of money, than they would if the whole
amount was placed in their hands at once. The deceased
at one time contemplated the foundation of a public cha-
rity,
institutions
but hisa
attentionre o
t ofrequently being callers
liable, ab
t othle, he altered the abuses
which
such his
mind in favour of his poor relations. To a young man
who was his shops:lan, he has left his stock in trade and
2001. in money, with a request that he may be permitted
to reside on the premises two years, rent free. To the
wife of a neighbour, who sat up with him five nights be-
fore he died, he male a codicil to his will leaving her
boa for her attention. When taken unwell, he would
neither have medicine nor a doctor, and only lingered a
very few days before he died. Although his property from
small beginnings is so immense, it is by no means so great
as it will be when a division is made at the end of the ten
years, as he was the proprietor of many plots of building
ground upon which whole streets have been erected, and
the leases of which will fall in by that time. His brother
and two of his nephews left this town yesterday morning
by the Union, in company with the executor, to attend
his funeral, which takes place on Tuesday (this day).
Mrs. Biddies survives him, but, unhappily, is, and has
long been in a state of mind which renders her incapable
r)f knowing tYkukt sat paqflos swnsAnd Hr.=phcisvicr
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LAMBETH-STREET.

Yesterday, Mr. Gray, one of the overseers of the poor
of the hamlet of Mile•end Old Town, in the course of an
investigation of a case relative to the allowance made by
the officers of that hamlet to the mother of an illegitimate
child, stated to the magistrates that the following were the
charges of the hamlet for the past year, viz.:--
Nurse-book, 1,0501. Expense of twenty children in
the workhouse, 2001. Allowance to other parishes for
illegitimate children chargeable to the hamlet, 801. Inci-
dental expenses, 20/. Making altogether 1,350/. ; or a
tax of sd. in the pound annually on the rate-payers of the
hamlet.