The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1834

CONYNGHAM, Lord MUL GRA VE, Lord DUNCAN

NON, Colonel and Lady MARY JONES, Mr. ELLICE,
Sir HERBERT TAYLOR, and Mr. ALLEN.

We presume
A Cabinet Council is now sitting.

in consequence of last night's division.

Whoever will take the trouble to observe the
immense number of public Bills now in various ad..

vanced stages on the table of the House of Commons,

and mark the mute precipitancy with which they
are pressed forward or rejected by the few Members
whom the fatigues of the session have-not driven out
of town, must be convinced how much more beneficial
it would have been to their constituents, and creditable
to themselves, had the long-winded orators. who
converted the legislature into, a bear-garden in the
beginning of the Session, allowed the public business
to proceed in proper time, instead of reciting harangues
composed a twelvemonth before, and then, with all the
self-sufficiency in the world, marching off to the moors,
as if their duty entirely consisted in the grave enun-
ciation of rigmarole speeches, as intelligible to the
Mace as to either the Members or the country. It is
curious to glance back at the gradual extinction of

these lights of the Senate. The greater the glare in
the beginning, the quicker, and the more impenetrable
the gloom into which they disappeared. We could name
nearly th hundred of these extinguished luminaries,
who, for a month or two after the meeting of Parlia-
ment, promised to light on the world, to the day of
doom, in paths never before disclosed to mortal eyes.
According to them, all was wrong, and that they might be
heard with attention, they failed not to spoke the wheels
of legislation in a retrograde direction. The business of

the State stood still, till they had declared it a heap
of absurdities, and then one after another they disap-
peared, leaving the world to wonder how it came to
lose their glorious guidance.
But a truce to ridicule. The matter of which we

are now treating is of too great moment to the country
to be passed over thus lightly. A number of shallow
brained individuals, whom parish vestry applause had
puffed up with an extraordinary opinion of their
oratorical powers, wasted the best part of the Session
in attempts to figure in the Mirror of Parliament, for

the edification of themselves, their wives, and their
daughters ; they neither did anything themselves,
nor allowed the Government to do anything, till-they
had spoken themselves out—till they had made an end
of the speech's manuscript—and then they moved off
—and there was an end of them.

At present it is computed that two-thirds of the
Members of the House of Commons are out of town,
and yet, among the orders for this day alone, there are
no fewer than twenty-one public Bills, and eleven no-
tices of motions before the House ! We leave the
country to make its own comments on this.

The fetes of July have been celebrated in -Paris
with more demonstratiOns of national festivity and po-
pular enthusiasm, than we were led to expect from
the intelligence which reached us yesterday. The
French Government took every precaution to preserve
the peace of the capital, but exhibited none of the
alarm which marked their movements at the approach of
the " three days" last year. What seems most curious
is, that in the programme issued by the command of
the CITIZEN KING, only two days are mentioned
for the celebration of the fete, the 28th and the 29th.
How the 27th came to be omitted is not known to
us, for we can hardly conceive that its being Sunday
would have much weight with the Parisians. The
omission, however, was little noticed, the people were
in high spirits, and the KING, whenever he appeared
on Monday, was hailed with shouts of Vive le Roi.
On the nights of the 27th and 28th (Sunday and
Monday) the calm -was only occasionally broken
by the explosion of petards, the firing of •
musketry, and the throwing of rockets. Around

the tombs of the martyrs of the " Three
days" lamps curiously variegated, and throwing a pro-

fusion of coloured lights, were suspended.
crowds of people who visited them were very great

The

the greatest good order prevailed among them. An
account of the KING'S reception by the National
Guards will be found in another column.

We have received accounts from Spain up to the
23d inst. The Chambers of Peers, and Representa-
tives, or Deputies, haVe held preliminary meetings, at
which temporary presidents, clerks, and other necessary
officers were appointed. The Procuradores, or Deputies,

;o the number of 60, met on the 20th, in order to make

the necessary arrangements for conducting the ses-
sional business. At their second meeting, they chose

from among themselves five members as a Committee
of Privileges and Enquiry, for ascertaining whether
the Deputies returned by the several provinces were
eligible by property qualification, and otherwise._ The
Committee lost no time in entering upon its
Several Members, especially Eeclesias-

uties.

tics, were declared disqualified, as their property
qualification consisted in pensions from the Crown,
and benefices bestowed by theN Church, which
the Committee was of opinion ought not to be ad-
mitted a qualification, inasmuch as the State might re-
cal its bounty, and the Church withdraw her property.
The majority of the Deputies were of the same opinion,
adding, however, that if the incomes of the clergy
were admitted as a proper qualification, they might
hand over the Legislation of the whole kingdom to the
priests. The cholera was disappearing ; and the
QUEEN had issued a proclamation stating that she
would again open the corks in person on the 24th
instant.

The haziness of the weather prevented any tele-
graphic despatch6' being received in Paris from Bay-
onne, since the 24th ; consequently, we have no intelli-
gence respecting the doings of the Carlists in the
Spanish provinces which has not already appeared in
The Sun. A report was circulated in Paris on Mon-
day, that the French Government had received a copy

of the speech intended to be delivered by the Regent
of Spain on opening the Cortes, and that it con-
tained no accourit of an intention to propose a reduc-
tion of the national debt. Various opinions prevailed

in Paris as to the truth of this report. The greater
number of
well-informed persons thought it extremely
doubtful.

of Parliament, who shut out those persons who can
give a correct report, and compel them to trust for in-
formation to servants and doorkeepers.

The KING dined yesterday at Holland-house with
Lord and Lady HOLLAND. There were present to
meet his MAJESTY, the Duchess of BEDFORD, Lord
and Lady GREY, Lord MELBOURNE and Lady
COWPER, the LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord CAR-
LISLE, the Duke of ARGYLE, Lord and Lady

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

THIS DAY, THURSDAY, JULY 31.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at a quarter past Twelve,
COMMON FIELDS INCLOSURE BILL.
_ _

Mr. ESTCOURT moved the second reading of the Com.
mon Fields Inclosure. Bill.

Major BEA UCLERK objected to the Bill. He thought
there was too great a desire at present to deprive the poor of
the few advantages they possessed ; and the object of the pre-
sent Bill was to place the property in these inclosures in the
hands of a few wealthy persons, to the detriment and inconve-
nience of the poor man. He moved as an amendment, that
the Bill be read a second time that day six months.
Mr. HUGHES HUGHES seconded the amendment, and
contended very forcibly against the principle of the Bill.
The question having been put,
Mr. HAWE S contended that the great majority of the in-
habitants of the places to which the operation of this Bill would
extend, were decidedly favourable to the measure,
Mr. TOOKE objected very strongly to the Bill passing at
this late period of the Session, it having been brought in only a
fortnight ago. There was no emergency which required its
immediate passing, and he greatly feared that it trenched upon
common rights. For these reasons he cordially concurred in
the amendment, and if the principle was unobjectionable it
could be introduced again early next session.
Mr. C. FERGUSON opposed the Bill. He thought it
would be productive of serious injury to the rights of the
people of England.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY thought that the arguments
brought forward against the Bill were of a very unim-
portant nature, and arose from Honourable Members
confounding commons and common fields. It was absurd to
suppose that the bill would interfere with the amusements of
the people, as they never thought of amusing themselves in
the middle of an arable common field.
Mr. E STC OUR T replied he should be sorry to support
the bill if he thought that it would surreptitiously inclose com-
mons, or interfere in any manner with the privileges of the
poorer classes. On the contrary, it would tend much to the
improvement of agriculture throughout the country. He would
himself be the first to object to the inclesure of commons, such
.as Wimbledon Common, Hampstead Heath, or similar places,
and he had voted against a bill brought in to inclose the latter,
but common fields were quite a different matter, and the ob-
ject of the bill was to enclose those so as to enable the owners
to cultivate them properly. It was his intention to insert a
clause in Committee by which it would be impossible to extend
the provisions of this bill to Commons, properly so called.
Mr. CUTLAR FERGUSON explained.
Mr. BLAMIRE trusted that the clause which the Hon.
Member for Oxford intended inserting would set all discussion
upon the matter at rest, and he hoped, therefore, no further
opposition would be given to the second reading of the Bill.
After a few words from Sir John Tyrrell, Mr. Potter, Mr.
Fysche Palmer, Colonel Williams, Lord Sandon, Mr. Hume,
and some other Members,
_ _

Major BEAUCLERK was willing to consent to the House
going into Committee, as the clause of the Hon. Member for
Oxford had removed many of his objections to the Bill.
Mr. MILLS altogether objected to the House going into
Committee on the Bill, against which he had the strongest
objections.

The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading 39
Against it
Majority for the second reading —l2
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COLONIZATION BILL.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee of the
whole House upon this Bill, Mr. TOOKE in the Chair.
It being three o'clock the Speaker left the chair.