The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-12 00:00:00

THE GREAT HATCH.

Even between Voltigeur and the Dutchman

SONERSETSHIRE STAKES.
7 to 4 agst The Ban
4 to 1 agstlCheerful
10 to 1 apt Terpsichore
DERBY.
5 to 1 agst Teddington
5 to 1 agst Hernandez
12 to 1 agst Marlborough Buck
14 to 1 agst The Ban
16 to 1 agst Prime Minister .
18 to 1 agst Theseus
20 to 1 agst Constellation
20 to 1 agst Heartbreaker
40 to 1 agst Newzninster
50 to 1 agst Glenha77l::
50 to 1 agst Hippolytus
OA KG.

7 to 2 agst Payment
5 to 1 aga Aphrodits —taken
7 to 1 agst Hesse•llomburg

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seattipon the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
• CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL said, in:reference to the:two Bills
relating to the amendment of the criminal law which
stood for committal that day, he had received a commu-
nication from Lord Denman, stating that he approved
of the principle of those Bills, and that he should
wish to suggest some amendments in them; now
as the suggestions of his Noble and Learned Friend
could not but be most valuable, and he was happy to find
that his Noble and Learned Friend still took an interest
in the subject, he would move the postponement of the
•Committee on those Bills, in order to afford him an op-
portunity of receiving the very valuable suggestions of
his Noble and Learned Friend.—Agreed to.
EXCHEQUER-BILLS BILL.
This Bill was read a third time, and passed.
INDEMNITY BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
PETITIONS.

The Bishop of WINCHESTER presented several pe-
titions against Papal aggression.
, The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented several
petitions against Papal aggression.
Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from a parish
in Perthshire to the same purport.
The Earl of ENNISKILLEN presented several peti-
tions from places in Ireland to a similar purport.
The Duke of ARGYLE presented several petitions
from places in Scotland to a similar purport.
The Earl of lIARROWBY presented several peti-
tions praying for a repeal of the Sale of Beer Act; also
several petitions in favour of copyhold enfranchisement.

FOREIGN FLOUR.
The Earl of GLENGALL presented a petition of
which he had given notice from the grand jury of Tip-
perary in favour of protection to home-made flour.
The Noble Earl said this was a most serious question.
There was as large an amount of capital invested in
flour mills as there was in cotton-mills, and in Ireland
the flour establishments were as large as the cotton es-
tablishments in England, and now the French had
erected mills and undersold them in the market in the
finer specimens of flour. The Irish mill-owners had pur-
chased up all the corn in Ireland, and had driven
a most profitable trade in it, and now their profits would
be sensibly diminished by the importation of French
flour, and the carriage of corn and flour would be di-
minished. Ho had frequently been in the town with
which he was connected 500 or 600 carts employed in
carrying ; corn to these mills, and bringing the
flour away. The consequence of free trade had
been that these mills had bean ruined, and
that the people had been compelled to live upon that
nasty filth called Indian meal, which was positively
poisonous. The people could not work upon it. In all
the milling districts the workhouses were crowded, and
they had been compelled to take auxiliary workhouses,
and those auxiliary work-houses Pad formerly been stores
for the millers for Irish corn. This was a positive fact.
It reacted on this country, producing a deluge of Irish
paupers, who were sent over ty the Itish unions at half-
a-crown a head; and! if they continued the free-trade
system they would have all the paupers sent over
to England. Now for the facts. In 1849 there had
been imported into England of foreign flour 3,349,899
cwt.; in 1850, 3,890,440 cwt.; whereas in 1847 there
had been imported only 1,339,000 cwt. of flour.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)