The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-10 00:00:00

PRISONERS COUNSEL BILL.

Upon the motion of Mr. EWA RT the House resolved itself
into Committee on this Bill—Mr. HAWES in the chair.

After a desultory conversation, in which several members
took part,
Mr. GORING moved that the House be counted, when
there being more than forty members present, the Committee
resumed.
Mr. A. SANDFORD moved an amendment to the effect,
that unless the Counsel against the prisoner should make a
speech for the prosecution, the Counsel for the prisoner should
not be allowed to address the Jury. •
Mr. EWART opposed the amendment, which he said had
been negatived on a former day, in almost precisely the same
words. He hoped it would meet with the same fate at present.
After a few words from Mr. Pease, Mr. Talbot, Mr.
Ronayne, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Goring, and Mr. O'Dwyer,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL complained of his having
been attacked by some Hon. Members for his absence on the
present Committee—( Hear, hear)—but it was abso-
lutely impossible for him to attend to his official
duties elsewhere, and be in the House at the same time. As
to the objections to the original clause, he could not see their
force, and he could not support the amendment. In Scottish
courts the indictments were so minute, and the discussion prior to
the delivery of the evidence, that the House should not imagine
there was any parallel between the two cases. He was afraid,
however, that the present number of tribunals were not suffi-
ciently numerous to allow the full operation of the proposed
measure.—( Hear. )
Sir D. K. SANDFORD said he should not press the
amendment.
After a few words from Mr. LLOYD and Colonel WILLIAMS
the clause was agreed to.
Mr. C. O'DWYER moved for the introduction of a new,
clause, to the effect that prisoners should be permitted to have
a copy of the evidence deposed against them before the Ma-
gistrates.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he did not think the
intention of the bill would call for the admission of such a clause.
After a few words from Mr. BERNAL and Mr. C. BULLER,

Mr. O'DWYER consented to withdraw the motion.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL proposed that the Bill
come into operation after the 31st of October next.
Mr. EWART assented to the proposition, which was
agreed to.
The House then resumed, and the Chairman brought up the
report, which was ordered to be received on Monday next.
Sir R. HILL presented a petition against the Bill from a
parish in Suffolk.
After the presentation of a few petitions in favour of the
Dissenters, the SPEAKER left the chair.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT,
BASINGHALL-STREET, TO-MORROW.

(From the London Gazette.) N. H.
F. Pistrucci, artist, Broad.street, Golden-square 2 at 10
W. Tewsley, grocer, Mortlake 2 11
W. Harper, butcher, New-street, Dorset-square 2 11
H. Sandy. and Co., scriveners, Crane-court, Fleet-street
P. A. Ducote, lithographic printer, St. Martin's-lane 2 11
R.. Bennet, draper, Worcester 1 2
11 Prior, stationer, Ludgate-hill 1 12

The Lord Chancellor will sit in Lincoln's Inn Hall
on Thursday next.

On the 21st ult. the diligence of the iron railway,
which set out from St. Etienne at eight for Roanne, was
overturned in consequence of the breaking of a wheel, by
which accident all the passengers were more or less injured ;
two were killed, six dangerously hurt, and the remainder were
forwarded in another carriage—Paris Paper.
The New Grand Jury Act has turned out a com-
plete failure in the county and city of Kilkenny, in many of its
leading provisions. Not a single presentment has been con-
tracted for in either county or city under the new act. In
many of the baronies the cess-payers out-voted the magistrates,
and ignored the applications. In other baronies, where the
attendance of cess-payers was less numerous, applications were
approved of, but there have been no contracts entered into,
owing to the confusion and multiplied securities required by
the act. We believe such has generally been the case, more
or less, in every county and city in Ireland.—Limerick Chronicle.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Tuesday a pleasure-
boat, in which were Mr. Smith, of the Portadown Distillery,
Mr. Montgomery, excise-officer, and his brother (from Derry),
with Mr. James Spence, of Newry, his son (a youth not more
than ten), and three boatmen, was upset near Portadown,
when the Messrs. Montgomery and two of the boatmen, named
Tennison and M'Donald, were drowned. Mr. Spence clung
to the boat until he got assistance from shore, whilst his son
preserved himself by seizing an oar. Mr. Smith and the
other boatman swam to shore. The boat was only fifteen or
twenty yards from the bank when it went over.—Newry T -
legraph.