The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-19 00:00:00

117110LESALE ROBBE.RIES AT TILE

FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIOXASHIP.

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The London " swell mobmen" never lose an op-
portunity of taking advantage of the slightest ex-
citement to turn it to account, and a prize fight
affords peculiar advantage to ply their dishonest
calling, and that of Tuesday last was looked for-
ward to with pleasing anticipations. No amount of
money can ensure a selection of respectable persons
or prevent an infusion of swell mob thieves from
such gatherings, and if the tickets were charged at
ten instead of three guineas there they would be.
How some of the vagabonds managed to reach
Farnborough may be judged of by one fact, which
has come to the knowledge of the writer. On Tues-
day morning, as the time for the trains from Lon-
don-bridge approached, two Leicestershire gentle-
men made their appearance, with tickets in hand,
and inquired anxiously for the way to the platform
from which the train for the fight was about to
start. Two sharpers, on the "look out," took the
tickets, pretending to look at them ; but they no
sooner got possession of them than they rushed
amongst the crowd, leaving their dupes in a state
of perfect bewilderment, for though they had tra-
velled many miles to see the fight, they were de-
prived of the opportunity, as it was too late then
to obtain other tickets, and they were left to sleep
off their annoyance. All persons who have any
idea of such scenes would consider it an extreme
act of folly to take a gold watch or other property
to a prize-fight; but fortunately for the thieves,
and unfortunately for the American gentlemen, who
ware their chief victims on this occasion, many of the
latter had no conception whatever of what they had
to encounter and the roughs they had to meet, and
they took their watches with them. Some idea may
be formed of the number ofrobberies that took place,

when it is stated that not less than eight watches,
of a valuable description, had been stolen from
eight gentlemen stopping at the same hotel. Of the
number one was a presentation watch, which the
owner would not have lost for 100 guineas.

21115 DAYS MARKETS.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the Liverpool Corporation
Water Bill were considered and agreed to.
The following bills were read a third time :—Chard Rail-
way, Llangollen and Corwen Railway, and Wellington
(Salop) Water.
The following bills were considered and ordered for third
reading :—Central Wales Railway, Great Southern of
India Railway Company, and Horsham and Steyning and
Becding Roads.

PETITIONS.
Several petitions were presented against the 'Highways
Bill ; in favour of and against the 'Wine Licencing Bill ;
against the Savings' Bank Bill, and Legalising Marriage
with a Deceased Wife's Sister; in favour of the Attorney
and Solicitors Bill ; from the National Schoolmasters of
Antrim, complaining of the inadequacy of their remunera-
tion ; for the omission of the 4th clause in the Attorneys
and Solicitors Bill ; against the abolition of Church-rates ;
praying for the consideration of the situation of the medi-
cal officers of the Poor-law unions; for the abolition of
Church-rates, &c.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

On the motion of Mr. ROEBUCK leave of absence was
granted to Sir F. Smith, on the ground of domestic afflic-
tion.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.

Mr. BLACK moved an address for copy of the terms of
the arrangement under which the Queen's printer now
prints acts of Parliament for the public; specifying the
size of the different editions supplied to Government, the
number of copies of each edition supplied, and the price
per copy per sheet ; also the price per sheet at which each
such edition is now sold to the public, and amount of re-
duction, if any, as compared with the prices charged pre
vious to the expiration of the patent of the Queen's printer.
—Ordered.

CONVEYANCE OF VOTERS, &c., BILL.
Mr. COLLIER, in moving the second reading of this
bill, said that the principle of the measure had been affirmed
last session. For some time the question of the payment
of the election expenses of voters had been a vexed ques-
tion. An Act of Parliament had been passed by which
an agent was entitled to pay for the conveyance of
voters, provided the money for that purpose was not
given to the voters. For instance, the money for a rail-
way ticket could not be forwarded to the voter himself, but
might be sent to a friend. That state of things was a gross
absurdity, and should not be permitted to exist any longer,
and it was disgraceful to think that a misdemeanour on the
part of an agent should rest upon so nice a distinction as.
the difference between paying a voter for the expense he
might incur in travelling, and paying for that ex-
pense to another party. Reverting to first prin-
ciples, he considered the practice that prevailed
in regard to the payment of voters' expenses was unjustifi-
able, and he contended that such payments should be done
away with altogether. The best test of the fitness of a
party for the electoral privilege was his desire to use it, and
if he did not take some trouble he was net qualified for the
trust reposed in him. The fact was, that the member
should be the representative of the earnestness and in-
telligence, and not the apathy of a constituency. (Hear,
hear.) He contended that if a voter was to be paid
for his expenses in exercising a public right, that pay-
m•nt should be made by the nation and not by an
individual. Me believed the effect of the present system
would be to throw the representation of many counties into
the hands of manufacturing millionnaires, and he referred
to the Wakefield commission to show that the system of
paying expenses was a cloak to all sorts of bribery. He
proposed by his bill to multiply the number of polling places,
and ho concluded by stating that the exercise of the fran-
chise should be the privilege of the voter and not the busi-
ness •f the candidate.

Mr. NEWDEGATE considered that the effect of the
bill would be to disfranchise a number of non-resident
voters, and moved that it be read a second time this day
six months.

Sir G. C. LEWIS deprecated any further discussion on
this bill as a waste of time until after the report of the
committee on the corrupt practices at elections, which had
taken evidence on the subject of this measure.
Mr. HENLEY approved the suggestion of the right
hon. baronet. _ .

Mr. NEWDEGATE—On the condition that that sug-
gestion would be acted on ho would withdraw his amend-
ment.
After some further discussion, in which Messrs. Mellor,
Lewis, Griffith, Sir E. Colebroke, Mr. Smith, Lord H. Vane,
Mr. Barrow, Sir C. Douglas, and Sir G. B. Pechell took
part,
Mr. COLLIER reminded the house that this bill was
read a second time last session, but he was quite ready to
accede to a suggestion that had been thrown out, and to
consent that the bill should be read a second time, and then
referred to a select committee. Ho had no objection to tie
other suggestion, namely, that the debate be adjourned.
(Cries of "No," " Divide.")
The house then divided on the question that the debate
be adjourned.
The numbers were—

For the adjournment. 94
Against

considered that the bill was a most arbitrary measure, and
sought to restrict the freedom which the house at present
possessed of rescinding one of its own resolutioas. The
only object which the hon. member could effect by this bill
was merely to remove an act from the statute book, which
involved what he considered the principle of religious
liberty, and such an object would be the means of bringing
them into a collision that could not fail to be most injurious.
He concluded by moving that the 'bill be road a second
time this day six months.
Mr. CONINGHAM supported the bill.
Mr. DUNCOMBE denied that he was propos-
ing this bill in violation of any agreement between
the two houses, for it was absurd and unconstitu-
tional to assert that an act parsed two years ago
in another Parliament was binding on the house, ur that it
could not be repealed in any succeeding Parliament. They
ought to get rid of the roundabout mode they now adopted
with reference to the admission of Jews into the house, for,
although it had not yet produced inconvenience it might do
so, and the house was placing itself in an undignified posi-
tion. The constituencies who had been appealed to by
Jewish candidates had expressed their opinion by return-
ing them. By the present system, his hen. friend the mem •
ber for Reading, through the regulations of the house,
would not have been able to vote on the question of the
address to her Majesty in reply to the Royal Speech. Ho
called on them to remove the last blot on their Christian
character, and to "do unto others as they would be done
by." (Hear, hear.)
Mr. KNIGHTLY was strongly opposed to the state of
the law in regard to the admission of Jews into that house,
but at the same time he thought it would not be
advisable to re open the question, as they had
no security that there was any alteration in
the feelings of the Upper,House in reference to the subject.
Mr. HENLEY also opposed the bill on the same
round.
The house divided, and the numbers were—
For the second reading
Against
Majority —42
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the house adjourned at 20 minutes past 5 o'clock.

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