The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-28 00:00:00

THE SUN,

Mr. P. MILES presented a petition from a place in
Somersetshire, praying for the abolition of tithes.
Colonel FREESTIJN presented petitions, very nume-
rously signed, from the Wesleyan Methodists of Wey-
mouth, and Melcombe Regis, Wimprith, Preston, Broad-
way, Osmington, Fortune's Well, Wakeham, and South-
well, in the Island of Portland, and other places in the
county of Dorset, against Papal aggression, and praying
the House that the penalties attached to the offence may
not be made dependent upon the sole discretion of the

law officers of the Crown.
Mr. CHILD presented a petition from Hanley, Staf-
fordshire, signed by the high bailiff, clergy, and up-
wards of 500 other inhabitants, praying that the use of
foreign titles under the authority of the Bishop of Rome
may be suppressed, that no further grant to Maynooth,
not secured by treaty, may be made, and that all mo-
nasteries and convents in this country may be subjected
to civil inspection and control.
Mr. FARRER presented a petition from Darlington,
in the county of Durham, and another from a place
in Hampshire, against Papal aggression.
Colonel MURE presented a petition from the tenant
farmers of Renfreswhire complaining of undue pressure
of the income tax; also one from the minister and the
congregation of Auldhouse Chapel, Pollockshaws, against

Papal aggression.
Mr. BAINES presented a petition from upwards of
8,500 inhabitants of Hull for more stringent and effec-
tive legislation against Papal aggression.
Sir G. STRICKLAND presented a petition from
Preston for secular education.
Mr. HORSMAN presented petitions to the following
effect:—From the justices of the peace for the West-
ern Division of the county:of Cumberland, praying that
in the Bill relating to the expenses of prosecution, the
clause prohibiting justices' clerks from conducting prose-
cutions in cases where they have acted as clerks to the
committing justices mayjnot pass into law; from traders
and inhabitants of Cockermouth, against Excise duty on
paper; from certain inhabitants of Cockermouth, praying
for amendment in the game laws; from Roman Catholics of
Cockermouth against the Bill for preventing the assump-
tion of titles by the bishops of the Roman Catholic
Church; from the Rev. Thomas Williams, vicar of
Ellough, in the county of York, complaining of the
conduct of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and praying

for redress.
Mr. PUGH presented a petition from the Wesleyan
Methodists of Llaidloes, Montgomeryshire, against
Papal aggression.
HOLYHEAD HARBOUR.
Mr. REYNOLDS gave notice that he would move for
a return respecting the money expended in the works
connected with Holyhead Harbour.
HOP DISTRICTS.
Mr. FREWEN gave notice that, on the motion for
going into a Committee of Supply, he would move a
resolutions respecting the distress existing in the hop
districts in Kent, and the inability of the hop-growers to
pay the excise duty.
RESIDENCE OF FOREIGNERS IN THIS COUN-
TRY DURING THE EXHIBITION.
Mr. S. WORTLEY gave notice that on an early day
he would call the attention of the House to the residence
of foreigners in this country during the approaching
season, with the view of preventing any disturbance in
our relations with foreign powers.—(Hear.)
Mr. B. COCHRANE wished to ask the Secretary of
State for the Home Department whether any communi-
cation had taken place with foreign powers as to the
inconvenience arising from large bodies of foreigners
coming to this country in uniform and side arms during
the ensuing Exhibition—(Laughter)—also whether her
Majesty's Government intended to take any steps to
prevent large bodies of foreigners collecting together and
making seditious speeches to the danger of the lives of
the public.—(Hear.)
Sir G. GREY said he was not aware that any such
communication had been made to foreign powers by the
Government. As to preventing large bodies of foreigners
assembling and making declaratory speeches, he could
only state that the Government would not fail to avail
themselves of every legal means to prevent a breach of
the law of any description, whether by foreigners or
other parties..—(Hear, hear.)
STREET NUISANCES.
Colonel SIBTHORP wished to ask the Right Hon.
Gentleman whether he had given any orders to the Com-
missioners of Police to put a stop to the continual
nuisance of barrel organs—(Laughter)—and also to
another nuisance—he meant rows of five, six, and some-
times seven advertising vans being driven along the
public thoroughfares?—(Hear and laughter.)
Sir GEORGE GREY said he communicated some
time ago with the Commissioners of Police, and he
found they were quite ready to exercise those powers
which the law placed in their hands for removing all
dangerous obstructions and impediments in the public
streets. They had th• power of removing barrel organs
in certain cases, such as when a person was suffering
from sickness in a house. Those large organs which
were drawn by horses were no doubt calcu-
lated to excite alarm, and occasion accidents
in the streets, and on a representation being made to
the Commissioners of Police on the subject, it would be
their duty to interfere.—(Hear.) Advertising vans
would also, he apprehended, come under the operation
of the Act, though there was no particular clause ap-
plicable to them.
HIGHWAYS BILL.
Mr. RICE wished to ask the Secretary of the Trea-
sury if it was the intention of the Government to in-
troduce any Bill this session for the better management
of the highways.
Mr. C. _LE WIS said that a Bill bad been prepared on
that subject, but he could not at that moment say whe-
ther it would he introduced this session.
ORDNANCE SURVEY.
Lord H. VANE asked the Clerk of the Ordnance when
the Ordnance maps, on the scale of six inches to a mile,
for the North Riding of Yorkshire, and the counties of
Durham and Northumberland, would be completed?
Colonel ANSON said that the survey was progressing
northwards, hut he could not hold out any hope that the
maps in questicn would be ready for some time.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

Mr. REYNOLDS begged to ask the question of which
he had given notice last night, and on which the House
had expressed a resolution in 1848, through the Com-
mittee which had been appointed to consider the matter
every Member of which had, with ono or two exceptions,
voted for the abolition of ministers' money in Ire-
land, and stated that the cost of that expense,
if defrayed at all, ought to be defrayed out
of the revenues of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
for Ireland. The question which he had to ask, then,
was at what time did the Government intend to introduce
any measure with a view to the abolition of ministers'
money. That money amounted to 16,0001. a-year, out
of which his constituents paid 2,0001. a-year, and there-
fore he thought a sufficient case was made out fur the
alteration of its assessment.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that, instead of imme-
diately answering the question, he thought that the
better plan for him to adopt would be to stat e
the course which the Government intended to pursue. It
was necessary, in the first place, as the second reading of
the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill had been passed, to proceed
with the Army Estimates, in order to go into a Corn-
mittee.—(Hear, hear.) The Government, therefore,
proposed to go on with the Army Estimates on Monday,
in order to provide for the exigencies of the
country. Having got these settled, ,they proposed on
Friday to go into the great financial statement,
and his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer would intimate what the intentions of the Go-
vernment were. It had been his intention to enter on
Monday into the matter which the Hon. Member for
Dublin had opened up, but the events of the last few
weeks had so disarranged all the public business of the
moat importance. He regretted this, the more as he had
intended to proceed with the Committee for the Eccle-
siastical Titles Bill on Monday, the 28th, er to
take the first day which was an order day,
but that was] Friday during the holidays, and, there-
fore, he should propose to take the Committee of the
Ecclesiastical; Titles Bill on Monday, the sth of May.
He regretted this much, but he would proceed with the
question of ministers' money immediately afterwards.—
(Hear, hear.) There was another matter which had
also occupied much of public consideration—that was
the retention of the office of Lord-Lieutenant
of Ireland, which it was proposed to suppress by the Bill
brought in last year.—(Hear, hear.) His own opinion
still remained the same, but he had received intimations
from so many parts of Ireland—(Loud cries of" Hear,
hear")—of the feelings of the inhabitants of that part of
the country, that he should not, this session, introduce
any measure for the suppression of the office of Lord-
Lieutenant.—(Load and repeated cheers from both sides
of the House.) With respect to the question which the
Hon. Gentleman the ➢Member for Dublin had proposed
he would observe that although it was his intention to
deal with the matter, he could not say at what time the
measure would be introduced.
CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT IN IRELAND.
Mr. MOORE was proceeding to ask a question with
respect to his motion, which stood on the paper regard-
ing the Church Establishment in Ireland, when he was
stopped by being called to order by both sides of the
House.

- PAPAL ENCROACHMENTS.
Mr: STANFORD rose to ask the First Minister of
the Crown, whether it was the fixed intention of the
Government, in conformity.with the declaration made by
the
Secretary of State for the Home Department, to
limit the measures of the Government for the repression
of .4 papal encroachments" to the single clause of the
" Ecclesiastical Titles Bill," which declares the meaning
of the 24th section, of 10 Geo. IV., c. 7; and whether her
tesiastic
Majesty's
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LONDON,

any alterations or additions on the subject, but he could
not possibly pledge himself to any ,positive reply to the
question.—(Hear, and a laugh.)
(LEFT SITTING.)

SEARCH FOB SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.

COMMANDER PULLEN'S EXPEDITION.

The following is an extract from a letter by Lieut.
Hooper, to a relative at home; it is dated
" Fort Good Hope, McKenzie River,
Tuesday, July 16, 1850.
" In my letter of the 28th ult., I told your of our
intended second trip to the sea, and that we were just
returning from Great Slave Lake to Fort Simpson to
prepare for the voyage at that place. A quarter of
an hour after that letter was sealed we were on
our road,' the epistle also proceeding in the oppo-
site direction. We reached Fort Simpson on the
3d inst., and util the 11th were busily engaged in getting
our boats and all matters in readiness, which, with few
bands and small resources took up much time. On that
day we quitted Fort Simpson and descended the river to
Fort Nurna, which we reached on the night of the 13th;
stayed there the night, and started the next morning for
this place, where we arrived this morning. To-morrow
we leave: this, the last post on the river, as also the last
place from which I can communicate with you until our
return, which will probably be about the end of Septem-
ber or beginning of October.
" Our boats are two—the larger one brought from the
Plover; the other is a river boat of the Hudson Bay
Company, and called the Try Again, with reference to
our attempt this time. We are 17 persons in all—Cap-
tain Pullen, myself, 10 of our old hands, 3 new ones of
the company, and 2 Indians for hunters. We may ex-
pect to reach the sea about the 23d of the present month,
and if we meet with no detention ought to get to Cape
Bathurst in a few days, then across to Woollaston
or Banks' Land as opportunity may best serve.
It is not impossible that we may winter in one of those
lands should provisions be plentiful there, in order to
extend our search as far as may be. Therefore if you
do not receive from me an announcement of our return,
which I shall not fail to give if we return back this year,
you must not be alarmed at our absence, nor fancy a
thousand horrible contingencies; but, on the contrary,
rejoice that we have fallen upon a never-before-trodden
land, and are prosecuting with ardour a prolonged
search, instead of confining oar operations to one
brief summer (we are as safe you know, in the
greatest danger as in a feather-bed in the security of
our native land, and be assured not many of our
party are easily daunted with trifles). We are not
sanguine of success, but we look forward with great
hope, as the region we propose visiting is one which
has not before been explored, and in a direction which
the most experienced of Arctic voyagers imagine to be
the most probable situation for the missing ships. Should
we find them, what delight would be ours could we but
succeed in restoring the distressed and gallant party to
their anxiously-sorrowing friends.
" Sir J. Ross left at Port Leopold, on the land of North
Somerset, provisions sufficient for sixty men for twelve
months, with a steam launch.
" Now, should we reach Banks' Laud which is about
300 miles from Cape Bathurst, and find the sea to the east-
ward clear of ice, with a fine westerly breeze, we might
perhaps make for that place, where the provisions would
support our party fir four years nearly, and enable
us to search away properly. But this is only a
remote chance, as it is impossible to say what we shall do,
depending, as we must, on the weather, which in these
hyperborean regions can never be determinately calcu-
lated upon. We take energy and determination to the
task and hope to the onset ; these should smooth all
difficulties; the issue is in the hands of an all-wise God.
To him let us leave it.
" Enclosed is a likeness of an Indian woman of the
slave tribe, taken at Fort Simpson. The costume I can
answer for as being correct. Her dress is of smoked
moose skin, her belt of porcupine quills. Her knife
hangs in a sheath from her neck, and she holds in her
hand a canoe paddle. Her name is Clo. tel-hee-ah-zee,
or the Little Rabbit. These Indians have very odd
numss;: there is one: called Pass-under-the-Ground;
another, Thirty-six Tongues—l suppose from his talk-
ing disposition, he being super-eminently loquacious.
"This is a noble:occupation—endeavouring to save life;
far more ro than destroying it, and I trust I may never
be forced to that necessity, or at any rate but in a just
cause."

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCIE 26, 1851.

The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour
of Knighthood upon John Katie Haberfield, Esq., mayor
of the city of Bristol.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 28.
The Queen has been pleased to constitute and ap-
point Sir John Romilly, Knt., to the office of Master and
Keeper of the Rolls and Records in Chancery, vacant
by the surrender thereof by the Right Honourable
Henry Lord Langdale.
CRQWN-OFFICE, MARCH 26.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Dungarvan— Ihe Honourable Charles
Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby, of St. James's-
place, London, in the room of the Right Honourable
Richard Lalor Shell, who has accepted the office of
Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.

WAii-OFFICE, MARCH 28.
18th Regiment of Foot—Ensign John Edward
Swindley to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Minter, deceased, Dec. 22, 1850; Ensign Arthur Henry
Thistlethwayte, from the 97th Foot, to be Ensign, vice
Swindley, March 28.
25th Foot—Lieutenant Douglas Ernest Manners, from
the 63d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Newenham, who
exchanges, March 28.
31st Foot—Ensign Edward Temple, to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Leeson, who retires, March 28.
55th Foot—Lieut. Charles Cliffe, from the 3d West
India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Quantrillo, who
exchanges, March 28.
63d Foot—Lieut. William Henry Newenham, from
the 25th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Manners, who
exchanges, March 28.
65th Foot—Lieutenant Duncan Bazalgette to bo Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice O'Connell, deceased; En-
sign James Barton to be Lieutenant, vice Bazalgette,
Aug. 19.
86th Foot—Ensign Hopton Bassett Scott to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Baxter, who retires; Ensign
James Kenneth Douglas Mackenzie, from the 77th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Scott, March 28.
3d Foot—Ensign William George Conway Gordon to
he Adjutant, vice John Gordon, killed in action, Dec. 30.
3d West India Regiment—Lieut. Charles Monckton
Gibbon Quantrille, from the 55th Foot, to be Lieutenant,
vice Cliffe, who exchanges, March 28.
WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 28.
List of Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates of the
91st Regiment killed in the recent action with the
Kafirs, 29th December, 1850, or who have subse-
quently died of wounds received in that action.
Sergeant—Houston, Robert.
Corporal—Stevenson, Moses.
Drummer—Smith, William (Ist).
Privates—Cleaver, William; Clegg, Thomas; Cul-
verwell, John (died of wounds); Deans, Thomas;
Harding, John; M`Donald,John; M`Nair, James (died of
wounds); Morrison, Donald; Nicol, James; Phillips,
William; Potter, John; Ramsay, David; Reeves,
Samuel; Robertson, William C.; Scott, Alexander;
Smith, Thomas; Sweeney, John; Thompson, Alexander;
Tollard, Thomas; Walsh, Robert.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey.
The Right Hon. Charles Edward Viscount Crowhurst
to be Deputy-Lieutenant.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 22.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Francis Green,
of Carmarthen, in the county of Carmarthen, Gent.,
to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of
Chancery.
The Lord Chancellor has also appointed Henry Fen-
wick, of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster,
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court
of Chancery.

WHITEHALL, MARCH 26.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Etty, of
Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Gent., to
be a blaster Extraordinary in the High Court of Chan-
cery.