The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-27 00:00:00

ESTABLISHED CHURCH.

Petitions were presented in favour of the Esta-
blished Church, by the Duke of Richmond, Lord
Rolle, the Bishop of Gloucester, the Bishop of Lon-
don, and the Duke of Wellington.

COERCION- BILL.
Earl GREY gave notice that he should move the
renewal of the Coercion Bill on Tuesday next.

BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then rose and said,
My lords, I am now about to take a step which,
after more than 24 years being a member of the other
house of .Parliament, and, God knows, it has not been
for any want of occasion, but a consequence of my
habitual forbearance, I have never before done ; I
mean, my lords, the bringing before your lord-
ships a breach of the privileges of this
house, which had it been committed against any other
member than myself, I should at any time have felt
the reluctance, which I have always entertained upon
principle, to visit with the severity of the displeasure
of this house, and even now that it is aimed against
myself, I do assure your lordships that nothing

but absolute, and I will say overruling necessity could
have induced me to condescendjto take notice of it;
but, my lords, when the grossest falsehood, the most
palpable, base, , and audacious; falsehood, is put
forward, and that,"too, accompanied by the most gross,
low, and detestable ribaldry, and that, too, relative tt
one of the officers of your lordships' house, I think
I should be wanting in duty to your lord-
.hips, if I did not bring the subject forward.
But, my lords, I shall not have read to the end
of what I am about to lay before your lordships,
till you will see that I am left no choice
upon the present occasion, and that those noble -lords
who were kind enough to call my attention to the ar-
ticle (for I myself would never have seen it from
my other occupations) were perfectly correct
in their opinion, that it was no matter of choice with
me in bringing the matter under your lordships' no-
tice. I understand that in similar quarters there has
been going on for the last six or eight months a series
of systematic attacks against me, directed to one object
to misrepresent me in the foullest manner, of which
I have seen some specimen on the present occasion,
and to those who are acquainted with the facts, it will
be at once seen, that it is in my judicial character that
I have been so foully calumniated. Ido not bla me
the tool who has been made the cat's-paw in sending
forth their driuelling spite, when it was found that their
was no truth in the false reports put forth as to the
business of the Court of Chancery being in arrear ;
that, on the contrary, the business was reduced to so'
low an ebb, that I was obliged to close that court, ex-
cept for two causes, in which the parties were not
quite ready for the regular seal days; when they
found that all the chance of arrears in that house
was as small as they could find in the Court of Chan-
cery—when they found that the business of that house
was reduced to such a state, that there would be no
one cause of any kind ready to go on for weeks
before the end of the present session—when they
found that all their former statements had ended in
falsehood. They looked abroad for food—for grounds
upon which to found their attacks. They had re-
course to the attacks which he would presently lay be-
fore their lordships—attacks the most calumnious—
upon the character of a judge and a member, that
had ever been penned. Those attacks are to. be
judged of by you and not by. me, and then it cannot be
said of me that I am a judge of my own cause. ( Hear.)
This cause was tried before the judges, when they
gave an unanimous opinion against the appeal. I had
made myself master of the arguments ; 1-had attended
to the judgment, to the opinion of the judges, and to
the authorities cited ; I had made up my mind, and
came to this house and delivered my opinion. I
moved your lordships' judgment, and gave a very strong,
opinion, which was very clearly formed, and very deci-
dedly entertained, and upon further reflection most
confidently and firmly held by, that a more groundless
writ of error never came before your lordships' house,
and that your lordships were in justice called upon to
decide against the appeal with costs. I moved the
affirmance of the judgment of the learned judges,
and the usual entry was made in the usual man-
ner in which such entries were always made,
and according to the regular form of proceedings
in your lordships' house—a form not introduced
in recent times, but established long before I
had the honour of a seat "in your lordships' house,
from which the course of proceedings as to costs,
either in substance or in form, in reality or in
outward appearance, had been ever interfered with in
the slightest particular, except to conform to it and
obey it. No one thing was said—no one thing was
done—neither a word was spoken, nor a judgment
given—or any entry made, altered, or suppressed in
this case, which was not regularly, constantly, and,
according to the literal fOrms of the proceedings,
in this house done daily—aye daily, in every other
case which had ever come before your lordships' house.
I have read the comment that has been made on tl'ese
proceedings—l have further read a great deal of
ribaldry which I shall not at present refer to, I will only
at present read to your lordships that part of the com-
ment which contains a grave accusation against myself—
a member of your lordships house, a judge acting as a
judge, and giving judgment in this house, and pre-
siding over its proceedings, I have been charged with
having garbled and falsified the entry that was made in
this case. It was not by insinuation, it was not by an
interrogatory mode of charge, that this scandalous,
accusation is made. I will read it to your lordships.
Lord Brougham then proceeded to read the article as
follows :

" These circumstances are already, perhaps, known to
and remembered by our readers ; but what follows will
surprise them, however familiar they may be with Lord
Brougham's eccentricities."
If it be eccentric to sit, as I have sat, in the Court
of Chancery, and this house to hear appeals, I hope
I shall always be so eccentric.-
" The Morning Herald, which contains the fullest re-
port of Lord Brougham's speech in moving the judgment
of the House of Lords upon the case, st•tes that Lord
Brougham concluded in these words : I more, my Lords,
that the judgment of the Court below be affirmed, with
costs not exceeding 3501.' And the Morning Herald
proceeds to tell us that the judgment of the Court below
was affirmed accordingly.' "
." The Morning Herald is not alone. The solicitors,
the short-hand writers, the. Peers (What Peers? Your
Lordships are slandered also by this-paper), all concur in
asserting that Lord Brougham moved, that the judgment
be affirmed,' and that the judgment -was 'affirmed accord-
ingly.'
Now, hew do we find the motion of Lord Brougham
and the acquiescence of the house recorded in the Jour-
nals of the House of Lordi? ,

" Thus—' Solarte v. Palmer. Further considered ;
and Judgment thereon PO STPONED sine die !' "
(The word " postponed" is printed in large capitals.)
Is it true that the Lord Chief Justice hinted to the
Lord Chancellor that the point which had appeared to the
Lord Chancellor much too plain for doubt appeared to the
Lord Chief Justice far too dark for certainty ?
" Is it true that a friendly functionary hinted to Lord
Brougham that'he had formerly been Counsel in the cause
upon which he was now Judge, and that he had strongly
advised the course in the one capacity which he coarsely
condemned in the other ?

" Is it true that upon the one hint, or-the other hint, or
both hints, Lord Brougham prohibited the insertion upon
the Journals of the House of the motion which had been
made by himself, and the assent which had been given to
it by their lordships ?
" We cannot answer these questions ; and we do not
advise Lord Brougham to attempt an answer to them. We
know, however, quite enough. Lord Brougham has done
an act of such wanton oppression, of such cruel injustice,
that the Journals of the House of Lords must be garbled
for the reversal or the concealment-Of it. If there is one
nobleman in the Upper House solicitous in the very
least degree for the dignity of his order this matter
must be noticed without delay. If what we tell is true,
Lord Brougham is unfit to preside in the Court of Chan-
cery as a Judge, to sit in Parliament as a Peer, to move in
society as a Gentleman. If what we tell is false,—there
never was committed a grosser breach of privilege than
that of which we are to-day guilty." (Cries of " Hear.")
Therefore, said his lordship, it was that he was com-
pelled, with all his regard for the freedom of discussion
and of the press, as to every public man's
conduct, both public and private—be would not
stop at his public conduct, but would say, public
and private—with all his disposition that every
Ipublic man's heart should be open to the
canvassed, it was impossible for him to continue sitting
on their lordships' woolsack with a view to maintain
the privileges of the house, without bringing this
publication before their lordships. It was painful to
go back to answer the questions that had been thus
published, but he had no alternative ; well then is it
true that the Lord Chief Justice, &c. certainly,it was not
true. " Is it true that a friendly functionary, &c. ?"
It was not true. He knew of no friendly functionary,
nor hostile, nor any other functionary, except the pub-
lic newspaper which he had happened to see, thad had
stated to him he had been counsel in the cause. Un-
doubtedly he had been counsel in it at an early stage.
" Is it true, &c. ?" It was utterly untrue, scanda-
lously false, wickedly libellous, and slanderous as
every one must see, but not more so than it was from
beginning to end, an entire fiction. He knew the
origin of this, and the house would see how dangerous
a lie was. When a motion was made, and an order di-
rected to affirm a decree,with 3501. costs, the real amount
of the costs was left to be ascertained. 3501. was
the maximum sum, but it might be much less. - By an
order of his noble and learned predecessor, it had been
directed that the amount should not be entered till the
sum was ascertained. This great improvement had
been made years and years before he had entered that
house. On all occasions the order was pronounced,
as he had pronounced it, but the entry of the exact
sum postponed until the real amount of costs was
known. On the occasion alluded to, the gentleman at
the table had made the entry without any communica-
tion to him whatever; not a word, nor a hint, nor
a wink passed from him, but they made their
MSS. entry in the usual manner. ( Hear, hear. )
Tii:s hal happened twenty times since he hao
come to the woolsack. It happened almost every
day ; it never took any other course ; and by
by no possibility could it have taken any other course.
Therefore, their lordships would see how plainly those

et:interested inquiries into his judicial procoo-
- ( Hear, rear, hear), thou it:lts, thu c•
adepts Lon Sc:,, S.-. 114 al t e
eatmi that eunid be ins ited into their base and
cr iwlirg natures, had not the common sense—
h.d not the sense that even the very lowest
nimals wno were endowed with such poisonous ',gifts
'mad, but they must run themselves into every ape-
ies of exposure, and that no man could question
not only that, but they ran their unhappy victims into
nisery, whom they primed with information, and who
said—l had it from such or such a one, he knows a
Treat deal, and it must be true. .-( Hear, hear.)
then they wrote their own-comments, and there was
ashered into the world a piece of slander, gross and as
malicious, and at the same time as destable, both in
its origin and execution, in the feelings that gave rise
to it, and in the blundering, the want of common
tact as well as honesty as any thing could be.
All this was the consequence of that conduct of which
he had been speaking. Now, he would not look at
the last part of the paragh, fur he could assure their
Lordships most sincerely that it produced no other feeling
in his mind thin that of the most unutterable con-
tempt. (Cheers.) Be would not pretend to say
he felt injured by it, it did not do hint
he slightest injury in any one of his feelings, so Arai
hey bad failed in that, if that were one of their ob..'
ects in bringing forward a charge which had not the°
shadow of foundation. But he would say a word
.vith respect to another thing that he was
:doused of, namely, of having recoittriOded
course which it was said he had decided a&ainst.
was usual formerly when judgment was aft 'medi td
say :nothing, but he had always. given reasons for
',is affirmation, because he had found it mOki
iatisfactory to the suitors, and the courts of law,
,vho were to be regulated by the judgment of their
lordships. When he had followed that practice on the
present occasion he had stated that opinion unre-
servedly.

LEFT SITTING.}

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER, took the chair at a quarter past five
o'clock.

The house was summoned to attend a conference
with the Lords.

Lord SANDON presented a petition from the
31ergy of Liverpool against the admission of Dissen-
:ers to the Universities.

Mr. ROBARTS presented a petition from Maid-
stone against the Church Rate -Bill.
Mr. WARBURTON presented .a petition front
Bridport to the same effect, and one from Dumfries
and Westminster for reform in the medical laws.

Mr. R. TREVOR presented a petition from a
parish in Carmarthen in support of the church.
Mr. SHELL gave notice that on Wednesday next
he would present a petition from the parish of St.
Thomas, Dublin, relative to church-rates.
Lord ALTHO PE presented four petitions against
clauses in the Poor Law's Amendment Bill, and
for :the better observance of the Sabbath day.
The noble lord then moved the further consideration
of the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill.

Mr. O'CONNELL begged to know from the right
hon. the Secretary for Ireland, if it was intended to
bring in the hill for the abolition of imprisonment fni
debt in Ireland. _ _

Mr. L ITTL ETON said as soon as the mode of its
working had been experienced in England the princi-
ple would be extended to Ireland.
Mr. 0' REM L Y asked if the laws of the treaty be
tween Don Miguel and Don Pedro, as stated in the pa-
pers, were authentic. He understood that the religious
members of convents were excluded from the general
amnesty.
Lord PAL NIER STON was not able to say when
he could lay the treaty on the table of the house, but
the moment he had received the authentic copy, he
should feel it his duty to do so. ( Hear.) He thought
that the latter part of the question had reference to
domestic policy, which the Government was not called
upon to answer, although the Government would do
their best to have the terms of the treaty fairly acted
upon.
Mr. O'REILLY expressed 'kis satisfaction at the
explanation of the noble lord.
The further consideration of' the report of the com-
mittee on the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill was then
proceeded with.
On the question that the amendments be read a
second time,
Lord G. SOMERSET rose to call the attention
Of the house to the circumstance of the difficulty in
which the poor would be placed in cases of extreme
distress, in consequence of the clause in the bill,
which gave the parochial ruthoritics a power to refuse
relief in certain cases. There was another point to which
he would direct the attention of the noble lord, relative to
the power of the commissioners to alter or suspend the
regulations under which the paroel i 1 autl,crities
acted. This power in his opinion should be modified.
Mr. WAL I ER thought that the objections which
originally existed against the hill still remained in full
force. It could not be denied that the measure, to all
purposes, a revolutionary one. The three principal
objections which he made were to the central board,
the workhouse system, and the emigration clause,.
The first would be productive of the most un-
bounded patronage, and no alteration to meet
his objections upon that point. ( Hear, hear.)
With respect to the work-house sfstem, had there
been any salutary change made ? He contended that
there was not, and that the cruelty and oppres-
sion of the work-house system as set forth
in the bill still remained untouched. ( Hear, hear.)
The report recommended that the poor should
not be brought into contact with the parochial
authorities, and yet the bill brought them into direct
contact with them by compelling a residence in the
workhouse. It appeared that the principle of the emigra-
tion clause was, that one part of a parish can transport
the other out of the country, for no other crime
than that of poverty. Nothing could be more cruel
and unjust than such a power. He thought the pro-
visionrelative to voluntary emigration was quite absurd,
for no man, whatever his destination might be, would
consent to become a voluntary emigrant for life.
A portion of the rules was to be set aside for this
purpose, and the remainder would be barely able to
support the resident paupers. But what would become
of the pauper poopulation that was growing up ?
Where would the funds come from the growing popu-
lation ?

(LIFT SPEAKING.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, JUNE 26.

CASTLE A 1413 SEWELL'S PROPERTY.

The bankrupts in this case were bankers in Lom-
bard-street, against whom a commission of bankruptcy
was issued so long ago as 1804. The proceedings
under the commission have been extremely long, the
estate having been very considerable. The total debts
proved against the firm amount to not less than about
204,000/. Dividends have already been declared,
amounting to 12s. 2d. in the pound, and a meeting of
the creditors was called for to-day, in order that the
accounts might be audited. The two last dividends
declared show the nicety with which calculations are
made to pay over to the creditors the available balance
of money in hand. One dividend declared was to the
amount of eleven-sixteenths of a penny in the pound.
A great number of dividends were uncalled for, and a
further dividend arising from this source, among others,
was announced, of a farthing and a half in the pound.
A small balance out of this extensive estate now
re-
mains in the hands of the official assignee, with which
another fractional dividend of small amount will be
declared.

The Rev. Mr. Artindm, British Chaplain
at Smyrna. is about to publish a narrative of some
highly interesting Discoveries in Asia Minor, in-
cluding a. description of the ruins of several ancient
cities. As Syria and Mesopotamia illustrate the Old
Testament, so does Asia Minor the New for, inde-
pendently of the Seven Churches of the Revelations,
it is in Anatolia that Antioch is situated, rendered so
memorable by St. Paul. The actual site of this re-
nowned place in sacred history hasbeen ascertained by
Mr. Arundel', beyond a doubt ; the account of Which
will, of course, form a prominent feature of his wcrk.
Lord Liverpool wanted nothing but cotnage
to have been the best and wisest Minister of mecLrn
times ; he was always well informed, always conside-
rite, and always judicious, when he ventured to act
upon his own sense of right. But in compromising a
great principle, he virtually (not intentionally) be-
trayed it ; and more evils are likely to follow from that
compromise than broke loose from Pandora's box.—
Autobiography of Sir Egerton Budges.
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JUNE 25.
—A fair extent of business has been done in our Cat-
ton market at steady prices—the transactions are f-nly
3,000 bags, viz., Pernams at 12d. to 1210., Sea
Islands, 16d. to lad., Egyptians ( Crimson). 13d.,
and a few Bahias at 100. to lOkd. per lb.