The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-16 00:00:00

WATERLOO OFFICERS.

Colonel CIIATTERTON wished to know if the
Secretary at War had any objection to the names of
these officers who had received Waterloo medals, and
who had retired from the service, being given in the
Army List in the same manner as were the names of
officers who had served all through the Peninsular war?
Mr. F. MAULE said he would inquire what was the
practice on the subject.
CAPTURE OF AN AMERICAN SMUGGLING

BRIG IN 1833.
Mr. GOOLD asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
whether, on an inquiry before Admiral Sir Edward
Codrington, as to the conduct of Mr. Dillon on the 24th
of May, 1833, on the occasion of the capture of the
American smuggling brig Peru off the south-west coast
of Iceland, Sir Edward Codrington did not completely
exonerate Mr. Dillon from any imputation of cowardice
on that occasion; and whether it was not proved on that
inquiry that no man-of-war, revenue cruiser, or preven-
tive service boats were out on that part of the coast on
the night of such capture, excepting the two boats under
the command of Mr. Dillon.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, as
the circumstance alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman took
place as long ago as 17 years, he was not in a position
to give a d:stinct answer. As to the other question,
he believed there was no other boat out from the shore
at the time of the capture.
KILUUSH UNION.

Sir GEORGE GREY, in the absence of Lord John
Russell, moved that the House, et its rising, do adjourn
until Monday, the 28th of April.
On the quesion being put,
Mr. MONSELL said be wished to call the attention
of the House for a vary few moments, to a matter which
he was sure would be of most painful interest to every
person who had paid the least attention to the subject.
A few days ago an Hon. Gentlemen called the atten-
tion of the House to the number of deaths
which had taken place weekly in the Union of
Kilrush. It appeared that out of 5,000 inmates, 200
• died in three weeks, or somewhere about 75 per
cent. Since then he had received the report of the
guardians of the union, and he found from
that report that they did in no degree deny
the statement which was made to the House.
There could not, therefore, be any doubt of the fact that
at 20 hours' distance from the metropolis, 75 per cent.
per annum of the inhabitants of a charitable institution
were dying.—(Hear.) In a letter which he bad lately
received it was stated that in the neighbouring
union to Kilrush, which was under vice-guardians,
the number of deaths had been infinitely greater than
those be bad stated. From the Bth to the 22d of March,
that was to say for two weeks, the proportion of deaths
were 253 gut of 3.893 persons, or at the rate of 170
per cent. per annum. He asked the House to
recollect, that when out of two millions of

inhabitants in the ma, tropolis, two hundred
were dying daily of the cholera, great attention was
paid to the subject by the Houte; and that even railway
accidents, by which comparatively only
a few persons
perished, also came in for a share of legislative care.
Under these circumstances, he theught it was not too
much to ask the House to consider the matter he had
mentioned, when so large a number of her Ma-
jesty's subjects were suffering such grievous and
extreme misfortune. (Cries of " Hear, hear.")
He did trust that something would be done for this mat-
ter by the House, for the affairs of Ireland seemed to
occupy but little of their interest, however often it might
be forced upon their attention. He did hope, therefore,
that the Noble Lord would take some steps for
relieving the terrible distress. 'The facts had been re-
peatedly reported to the Government by the board of
guardians, so that it was vain to say that the Ministry
were not fully acquainted with them. He was quite
sure that the Noble Lord was fully informed of the pre-
sent state of things, and that if it could not be considered
now, that at least he would make some declaration of his i
intention to amend it.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that he bad not lately