The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-10 00:00:00

COUNTY COURTS BILL.

be had to say that he had receivwd communications from
Jever al po ti o' cnunt ;3., hich a- -
pone the introduction or that or another mettsuro till some
fature time. With respeet to the Mercantile Marine
Bill, be might add that it was not his intention to intro-
elm., during the present session any provisions for the
material alteration or amendment of that Act.
PAPAL AGGRESSION BILL.

Lord BROUGHAM announced that it was his inten-
tion to make divers alterations in this Bill, in conse-
quence of suggestions which be had received, and if he
had not noticed all the suggestions which had been
transmitted to him it was not from disrespect to the per-
sons making them.
DESIGNS ACT EXTENSION BILL.
On the suggestion of Lord BROUGHAM,
The Esil of GRANVILLE ccnsented that this Bill
should be referred to a Select Committee.
PAPAL. AGGRESSION.

Earl FITZ WILLIAM gave notice that he should to-
morrow, on presenting a petition, make some observations
on the subject of the Papal aggression.
Their Lurthhips then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Tne SPEAKER took tb Chair shortly bofore Four.

Mr. MOWATT presented petition from Falmouth
against the Bill.
Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND gave notice that if the
Government still persevered iu their intention of
omitting the 2d and 3d clauses of this Bill, he should
when any motion to that effect was made in Committee,
move that the chairman do leave the chair.
JEWS' (ABJURATION OATH) BILL.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice that he should
on Thursday next move fir leave to bring in a Bill for
the amendment of the Abjuration of Oaths Bill.
SMITHFIELD MARKET.

PRIMA FE BUSINESS.

Mr. MASTERMAN gave notice of a motion for
conn6el to be heard at the bar against the Removal of
Smithfield Market Bill.
The SPEAKER intimated that, in its present shape,
the motion could not be entertained.

Mr. EVANS moved teat in the case of the Man-
chester, Burton, Matlock, end Midland Junction Rail-
way Bill, the Standing Order No. 152, be dispensed
with:—That leav^ be given to present the Bill, not-
withsianding the a,me was not pr. dented within three
clear days after the presentation of the petition for leave
to bring in ran soma—Agreed to.
Mr. BROTHERTON that on the motion for
the s,cond reading of the Caledonian Railway (Glas-
gow, Garokirk, and Coattridge, Polinc and Govan, &c.,
Railwa,7s) (AmencimPat and Continuation, &e.) Bill, to
move, tbas St4nding. Orders, Nos. 160 and 163, be sus-
pended; and that th, condideratton of the second reading
be postponed Lill Frtd v ',ext.—Agreed to.
SECOND READINGS.
The following Bilis %w,:re then reaAl u sccond
Buckingham, Brackle,v, tad Banbury Turnpike Road.
Cork and Waterford hallway.

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Mr. MASTERMAN was aware of that, but all he
desired was publicity for his object.

Lincolnshire Estuary.
Mayfield Railway.
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway.
Toweester, Bra. kley, and Weston-on-the-Green Turnpike
Waterford and Tramore Railway.
PETITIONS.
L.)rd HOT euenteu a petition against the hler-
cabti!e Mann•; ..cc.

SeverAi other =a,- titions were presented to a similar effect.
HENRY preserved a petition from the County
Down against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Mr. W. 'WILLIAMS pre..en-ed a petition from several
rtal.intm of high. reipecteni.lity in the City, corn-
pLioing t,be proceedthp of her Majesty's
Custom-house authorities.
Mr. PLUMPTRE presented a petition against the
removal of Smithfield-m..rket.
Mr. T. EGERTON presented a petition from a place
in Cheshire egainst the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Several other petitions were presented to a similar
Isfr•ect.
SCHOLFIELD presente'l a petition from Bir-
13mIglinm praying for the repeal of the window tax.
Str B. HALL presented similar petitions from Mary-
leb ;ne.

PORTAL presented a petition from Kingston, in
jaTtmpshire, przvitg- for the removal of agricultural
distniss•

Alderman COPELAND
presented a petition against
the removal of Smithfield-market.
2,1 r. STUART presented e. petition from the attorneys
and colicitors, praying that the salaries of the Vice-
Chancellor and the officers 0
t be appointed be not paid
out of the suitors fund; also a petition from Newark
against the paper ditty.
Mr. H. GRATTAN presented several petitions from
Ireland against the principle of centralization; also se-
Teral others coinpliining of agricultural distress.
Colonel criATTERTON presented several petitions
against Papal tt''"r,.;;in'''S presented petitions from se-
Air. R. 1) MANGLE
vt.rftl places in Surrey epics; the removal of Smithfield-
market.
Mr. ALCOrli presented petitions to a similar effect.
S!milar petitc.m. w.-.re preseetPd by the SOLICITOR-
GENERAL frotil
.• •
hurt;tterli of Southampton, had by
Mr. WARL;;;IT f:...rn Stoke 1,4-4vioqr.,n.
711 E SIERCANTIT.E MARINE AND CONSOLI.
DATION BILLS.
Lord JOHN M ANNERS beggs.d to ask the Right
non. Geutlsman at the head of the Board of Trade
10-tether ':e had taken any notice of the .7svertsl dis-
turhances .hich taken place in vitAfAis por;it in
cor:sequence of the oper ttion of the :ttlero,intile Marine
13i, anti whether he contemplated any alteration in the
provisions of that Bill. 113 would ;deo st.k the
Right Honourable Greittlen•an whether he intended
during the pre ens sessiou to renew the Consolidation
.Marine Bill, whiott land been broe-31it 11, der the notice
of the Hcaso diving the last year?
Mr. LABOUCHERE said that the Noble Lord had
sail-,.d him qa,.,stiot,s on Iwo stit.:;-eta which were totally
distinct in character, th.---zp,h both referrA to the mer-
.canTale marine of this country. With respect to the
Co.uoddation Act, to whiclvthe Noblo Lori had referred,

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,

teen issued for 1850, it appeared that the expenses
of 92,4651., and wisbe.l to know whether ~it was
the intention of the night Honourable Gen-
tleman to introduce any measure during the
present session, for altering or amending the present
Commission?—(Hear, hear.) Ir was also statad, in the
report for 1850, that the Commissioners shortly in-
tended to raise a large sum of money upon the security
of the rates, and he should be glad to know if the Right
Hon. Baronet would sanction such a loan?—(Hear.)
Sir GEORGE GREY replied that the Act establish-
ing the existing Commission would expire at the end of
the present session, and it would therefore be necessary
that some Bill should be proposed to Parliament for its
continuance; but what changes would be proposed
by that Bill, or when it would be brought
in, he was as yet unable to state.—(Hear, hear.)
with regard to the loan it would be seen by the report
that the Commission proposed to raise it in the exercise
of the power which they enjoyed under the Act of
Parliament, and he had, therefore, no authority to inter-
fere.—(Hear, hear.) As to the expense of the Commis-
sion all he could say was that the accounts had been
annually audited by an accountant appointed by the
Home-office, and hitherto they had been found strictly
correct.;.(lslear, bear.)
CHURCH PREFERMENT.

Sir B. HALL next directed the Right Hon. Baronet's
attention to a return which had been laid on the table
in pursuance of an order of the House. The return
related to the number of preferments held by each
bishop, but the Bishops of St. David, Ely, and Exeter
had made no returns, and he wished to know if any-
thing was proposed to be done to obtain the required
information from those three Right Rev. Prelates.
Sir G. GREY said he had received no communication
from the Bishop of Ely; but the Bishops of St. David's
and Exeter wrote last summer to say that the return
would take a deal of time, and occasion some trouble to
collect.—(Hear, hear.) Since then he had not
heard from either of them ; but the order of
the House had been forwarded to them, and they
had been pressed to make the necessary returns.
Sir B. HALL, under the circumstances, gave notice
that to-morrow be should move that the returns be
made forthwith.—(Hear, hear )
JAMAICA. _

Mr. BERNAL wished to know from the Hon. Gen-
tleman the Under Secretary for the Colonies if Govern-
ment intended to take any steps for supplying the isltnd
of Jamaica with free labourers, since the cholera had
swept off more than halt of its labouring population?
Mr. HAWES must decline answering that question
till to-morrow, but he could state now that the return
moved for by the Honourable Member for Cambridge
would giv- the fullest information on the subject.

REFUSAL TO RECEIVE ADDRESSES,-TO HER
MAJESTY FROM ORANGE LODGES.

Captain ARCHDALL asked the Secretary of the
Home Department why he felt it inconsistent with his
duty to lay before her Majesty certain loyal and dutiful
addresses against the Papal aggression from Orange
Lodges in Ireland, he having in 1848 presented to her
Majesty similar addresses from the same body.
Sir G. GREY replied that he had receivei three ad-
dressee within the last few months to be presented to
her Majesty, and they were of the following character.
The first was from the Grand Lodge of the Orami,e-
men of Great Britain, purporting to be signed by Lord
Enniskillen, the grand-master, and other parties.
The second was from the Loyal Lodge of
Orangemen in Ireland, also signed by Lord Enniskillen
as the grand master; and the third was from the Orange-
men of Liverpool. He thought it was not consistent
with bis duty to present these addresses to her Ma-
jesty, on the ground of their purporting to come
from societies which used secret signs, and
*hick on that account were illegal. It was tru-
he, had presented addresses in 1848 from the same
bodies; but this was an overeignt, and he alone ought to
be c•ensured —(Hear.) But us regarded the addresses
referred to by the HAI. Member, he thought he was
only acting in strict accordance w:th his duty in declin-
ing to lay them before her Majesty.—(Hear.)
BOROUGH OF DUNGA VON.

veloclen keys, 3,0371. HP states that if the whole rail-
v, e„is LA 'Li 47..: c
the present renwal find wouA he sufficient.

Mr. LAWLESS asked the Secretary for Ireland (Sir
W. Somerville) the reason why no vaclucy had been
announced in the representation of the borough of Dun-
g rvoli?
Sir W. SOMERVILLE replied that all he could say
,t 1714,,, that the nvitti,r was not conutcted with his depart-
ment.—(Laughter.)
GRANT TO MAYNOOTH.

Mr. SPOONER, wished to aik whether the Chancel-
lor of the Exhequer intended this year to propose a
grant to Maynooth.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that tho general expanses for
Maynooth were provided for by an Act of Yerliament
passed three years ago, and he was not aware of any
extra expenses which required to be provided for by an
extra grant this year.
JEWISH DISABILITIES.

AN INDIAN TOWN DESTROYED

Sir R. H. INGLIS inquired whether the Noble Lord,
in giving notice of his motion for the removal of Jewish
disabilities for Thursday night, had considered whether
Hon. Members who had motions on the paper would give
way to him on that night?
Lord J. RUSSELL said he had not considered that,
but he was anxious to bring it on as soon as possible, as
the House had passed resolutions ou the subject at the
close of last session.
On the motion for, that the Speaker leave the Chair,
Mr. W. WILLIAMS said that as the Chancellor of
the Exchequer intended to make alterations in his
Budget, ho should move that no votes be taken
until the intended alterations were stated.—(Hear.)
In 1848, the House would recollect, that after various
statements had been made respecting the estimates for
the Army and Navy, and Ordnance, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer had consented to greatly modify the
amount of the expense. He did hope that a similar
course would be pursued on the present occasion. He
would only refer to the reports of former years, and
he thought that after the House had heard the facts,
which he had to state sufficient reason would appear for
an alteration in the plan now laid before them by the
Government. By a reference to those reports, he
found that in 1830, the Duke of Wellington,
the highest authority that could be adduced
on military matters, had for 138.500 men,
asked the country to grant 10,993,0001., less by
2 442,0001. asked fur the Government this year, though
they only wanted 122,000 men. In tne last year of
Earl Grey's Administration, in 1834, the number of
men proposed was 137,000, and the money 7,583,0001.,
less than the money asked for this year by
3.015,0001. It was also worth while to notice, that in
1835 Sir Robert Peel asked for 135.000 men, with a
sum of 7,146,0001., being 3,787,0004 less than the
money now demanded from the House. He would
now ask the House to remember that 3,000.0001. was
more than the amount of window-tax and paper-duty,
end went far to meet the liquidation of the income-tax.
He trusted that the House would never agree again to
the exorbitant increase which had bean made in the
military establishmeut of the country. In his opinion it
was disgraceful. Talk of the Duke of Wellington's Go-
vernment, why that Noble Duke hod set an example
to the present Government on the reductions be made in
the army, and no man in the kingdom knew getter the
necessities of the country than the Noble Duke. The
Hon. Member concluded that no supply should be voted
te.fore the amended Budget was presented to the House.
Mr. _HUME thought tee House ought to have some
explanation with respect to the estimates before they
:sent into a Committee..

BY FIRE.
(From the Calcutta Star.)

The following is an extract of a letter from Rangoon,
dated the 29th of January, giving au account of a terri-
ble fire which occurred there on the previous day. It
should perhaps he stated that the edifices are without
exception constructed of wood, and constquently dating
the dry season are much more inflammable than at any
other time:—

"I may in truth Lay, Rangoon is no morel' Yester-
day, at 11 A.M., a dreadful coeflegration broke out in the
heart of the town, utterly dseying every measure put in
foree to check its progress. Tte Custoet•house, Main
Wharf, Armenian Church, end the p: iecipal mere hunts'
houses, are totally destroyed; whole streets of great
length present to the view heaps of ashes, and so com-
plete have been the destructive efft:cts of the fire that
old inhabitants have difficulty in pointing out the site of
their former residences. It is estimated on a rough cal-
culation that at least 2,000 houses have been utterly de-
stroyed, and the loss of property at the lowest estimate
amounts to fully 30 lacs of rupees, while that of
life is incalculable. The fire extended about two
miles in length and one in breadth, and in its
fearfully rapid progress communicated to a number
of country cargo-boats loaded with inflammable goods
of considerable value. From these the fire ex•
tended to the shipping in the river. Nine vessels,
of which five had completed their lading, were burnt to
the water's edge, and the remainder barely escaped de-
struction by slipping their cables and anchoring on the
Della side of the water. The schooner Thane, the pro-
perty of Messrs. Crisp and Co., had a most narrow
escape, but by the skill and coolness of her commander
and officers was extricated from her dangerous position.
Surrounded by burning vessels, her foresail and top-
gallant sail took fire, and were speedily burning from
their respective yards; her bulwarks also caught in
several places, but the flames were soon extinguished,
and lam happy to say that she escaped in safety. In
the neighbourhood of the Armenian Church the fire
raged with inconceivable fury. Scarcely an article of
any description could be saved, so rapid was the progress
of the flames. A large portion of the natives saved
themselves from destruction by rushing into the river,
where -they remained, deaf to every entreaty made to
them to strive to arrest the progress of the devouring
element. At 10 P.M the Custom-house, in which was
stored a large quantity of gunpowder, blew up with a
tremendious explosion, causing death and destruction
tar and near; in fact, with the exception of a few mean
huts in the suburbs, scarcely a single house remains of
what once formed the large and thriving town of Ran-
goon. It is out of the power of language to express the
misery and destitution shut meet you on every side;
the eye behelds whole families crouching id ab-
ject dispair under the still sleeking ruins, and thousands
whdhave saved scarcely sufficient covering for the pur-
poses of decency. A visitation so terrific in its nature
has never before been experienced in this town. Which-
ever way you turn, the half consumed carcases of dogs,
pigs, and other domestic animals meet your gaze; it is
altogether the most complete scene of misery and deso-
lation that can be well conceived; and it will be many
years, I fear, ere Rangoon again assumes its former im-
portance as a tradine port.

Sr F. BARING sad he should give the neePssary
r.xpltinatiqn when the Houie.,vras in Committee of Sup-
ply.)—Hear, hear.)
Tito SPEAKER then put the question that the House
.hould go into a Committee of Supply on the Ne.vy
Estimates, and also the amendment of the Hon. Mem-
ber for Ltinbeth.

Mr. WILLIAMS declining to press his amendmen,
to a division,
The House resolved itself into a Committee f
Supply.

" The origin of this dreadful conflagration iz some-
what remarkable. The Burmese ship Yathna yo Mahon
had just dropped anchor on her arrival from Calcutta,
when a native, induced by curiosity to see her, left a
handy of oil on the tire in his housr, and betook him-
self to the Main Wharf for that purpose. During his
absence the fire by some means communicated with the
oil, and in an instant the house was in a blize, which
speedily communicated to the adjoining habitations, and
to sn incredibly short ~pace of time the whole town was
wrapt in one boly of flume. A strong easterly bre:, ze
blowing at the time greatly aided the pr,gress of the
fire, and rendered its extinction hopeless."

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NAVY ESTIMATES.
Sir F. BARING then rose to bring forward the Navy
Estimates, aLd was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

MARCH 10, 1851.

which an advoczte,coulci he placed; but, appearing ea

namely, to farther the tetereete of truth and justice, it
became an imperative duty upon him to take care that
the jury „ere not led owey by any eloquence or sophistry
from the real question at issue, and that they should
clearly understand what were the points of evidence upon
which the prosecution relied for establishing the perpe-
tration of an enormous crime against the prisoner; and
if the evidence should be conclusive upon that point,
that justice should not be defeated or a great criminal
escape. The Learned Couniel then proceeded tem-
prat-ly and clearl to bring b fore the iury the prin-
cipal points in the overpowering evidence that had
been given on behalf of the prosecution—the appoint-
ment to meet, the fact of the prisoner having left
his house evidently with the intention of meeting
his intended victim , the entire ebsenee of any evidence
to account ler his time during !he eereid when the mur-
der was no doubt committed; the Wool upon his clothes;
his false representations with regerd to the deceased,
and his conduct when he was informed of the discovery
of the dead body of the murdered girl. He sail that it
th. y could reconcile all these circumstances with the in-
nocence of the prisoner, no one would be more gratified
than himself at their coming to such a conclusion ; but,
upon the other hand, if they should, as he teared, be sa-
tisfied that these circumstances clearly made out his
guilt, their day to their country, and the solemn oath
they had taken, demanded of them such a verdict as
would alone be satisfactory to their own consciences, and
the justice of the country.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE commenced summing up
shortly before tour o'clock. He said that on the jury
now devolved the solemn duty of saying by their verdict
whether the prisoner was guilty of the crime laid to his
charge; and it had been truly said that his fate was in
!heir hands. Is was alleged on the part of the prose-
cution, that the prisoner, having had illicit connexion
with this young woman, had formed a determination to
destroy her, and in such a manner as that it should appear
to be her own act, and that with this object he had wade
the appointment with her on the evening of the 12th Oc-
tober. The first question they would then have to con-
sider was. whether the deceased was murdered; and se-
condly, if she was, whether the prisoner's was the hand
that destroyed her; and in coining to that conclusion
they must not give any effect to suspicions or probabili-
ties, but it was the they of the prosecution to satisfy
them and to leave no moral doubt upon their winds th at
he had committed the offence before they found him
guilty of it. Ou the part or the prisoner it wascontended
that the deceased might have destroyed herself, and it
was, therefore, a very important cousideration for the
jury whether the case was one of suicide or murder.
His Lordship then proceeded most carefully and minute ly
to go through the whole case, telling he jury in conclu-
sion that if they should entertain any fair or reasonable
doubt of the guilt of the prison. r they ought to give him
the benefit of suet! a doubt, and acquit him.
The jury did not deliberate more than ten minutes,
when they returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Streight, the clerk of arraigns, then called upon
the prisoner in the usual form to state whether he bad
anything to urge why judgment should not be passed
upon him according to law.
The prisoner made no answer. He appeared very
slightly affected when the verdict was pronounced.
The LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE then put on the black cap
and passed sentence of death in a most impressive man•
ner upon the prisoner. He said that atter a very long
and anxious trial the prisoner had been convicted by a
jury of his country of the crime of murder, and he must
say the.t he entirely concurred in that verdict. His guilt
had been brought to summary punishment, and his of-
tence had been accompanied by such circumstances of
aggravation that he could not trust himself to comment
upon them. His Lordship concluded by telling him
that his days were numbered, and he conjured him to
endeavour, by penitence and prayer, to obtain pardon
from above, as in this world no mercy could be expected
by hima. He then passed sentence of death in the usual
form.

The prisoner did not seem in any way affected by the
awful sentence. He was speedily removed from the
duck, and on his being taken to the carriage to convey
him to the gaol he was received with yells and hooting
by the assembled crowd.
(B, fore Mr. Baron PARSEE.)
William Wood. 20, was indicted for the wilful murder
of Robert. BAmborough.
Mr. T. Chambers prosecuted; Mr. Hawkins defended
the prisoner.
It appeared that the deceased was one of the officers
of the Essex constabulary, and in the month of Novem-
ber last he had to convey the prisoner to Chelmsford
gaol, where he had been committed by the magistrates
at the Billericay Petty Sessions upon a charge of poach-
ing. The prisoner had a handcuff upon one wrist, and
the deceased held the other, and it appeared that as they
were passing a pond by the side of the road between
Billericay and Brentwood, the prisoner suddenly
snatched his hand away from the policeman, and struck
him a blow on the temple, which knocked him into the
pond, and before he could recover himself be jumped
upon him, and forced his head under water. When the
deceased was almost insensible the prisoner ran away,
leaving him on the ground, but it appeared that shortly
afterwards he came back and pulled the deceased to the
side of the pond, where he left him. He was taken out
soon afterwards, but died in a few days in consequence
no doubt, as it appeared, from the medical testimony of
his being immersed in the water.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of Manslaughter,
and he was sentenced to be transported for life.

These eases concluded the nusiuess of the Essex
assizes.

OXFORD CI 116' U T.— Worcester, March 7.

CR° N COUR r.—(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
Benjamin Baldwin was indicted for the manslaughter
of Hallman Cooke, at the borough of Tewkesbury.
Mr. R. Kettle appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Huddleston defended the prisoner.
On Christmas-day the deceased Hannah Cooke and
her husband, who kept a public-house called the Severn
Trow, at Tewkesbury, were bitting at home with several
other persons in the house. About eight the prisoner,
with three of his companions, came in. The prisoner
and one of his companions were tipsy. After they had
been in the Severn Trow some time they began quarrel.
ling. The deceased endeavoured to step the quarrelling,
and remonstrated with the prisoner, who, upon being
spoken to, struck the deceased with his fist on the heat:.
At first she went about her houseboldaffairs much as
usual, but gradually became less and less disposed to
" move about," until the day week after she had bean
struck, when she sunk into a state of partial stupor,
from which she never rallied. She died on the 10th of
January. . _

After some deliberation the jury found the prisoner
Guilty, strongly recommending him to mercy.
Sentence —One month's imprisonment without hard
labour.