The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-01 00:00:00

PARLIAMNTARY SUMMARY.

In the LORDS' yesterday, after sonic petitions had been pre-
sented, Sir Charles Wetherell, Counsel for the. Corporations;
resumed- and concluded a speech of extraordinary length. Mr.
Knight followed on the, same side ; he, however, did not finish,
and will resume his speech before their Lordships to-clay :.t
one o'clock.

In the COMMONS', the case of Mr. Keith, who is in NetVgate,
was again the subject of conversation : its further consideration
was postponed till Monday. Mr. Prentice, the individual who
refused to give evidence before the Yarmouth Election Corn
mittee, was, after a division on the question had taken place,
called to the bar, when, still persisting, he was ordered into
custody: The Bill relating to the revenues of the Established
Church was read a third time. A petition complaining that com-
pensation was withheld from certain officers of the East India
Company was presented. The York and Great Yarmouth
Election Committee was separated into two Committees. Mr.
Sergeant PERRIN then brought forward a Bill for amending
the existing state of Corporations in Ireland--which was reed
a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday.
Our limits will not permit us, in this, place, to do more than ex-
tract one short passage from a speech abounding with informa-
tion illustrative of Corporate corruption. Would it be believed,
said the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, that in the town of
Belfast there were only sixteen freemen ? Then as to Cashel,
his own Cashel, the place he represented in Parliament, the
personage misnamed the patron of it. owned the Mayor as his
son, six other sons were aldermen I the seventh alderman was
a grandson ; the eighth was a nephew I and so was the ninth,
and the tenth, and the eleventh I and so forth, still further up.
In the course of the debate one of those personal scenes, now
so common in the Hon. House, occurred. Lord MORPETII,
brought in a Bill to prevent offences against the peace of Ire-
land. The provisions of this Bill, founded on the. Reports of
Committees, met with no opposition from Mr. O'CONNELL,
and it was generally admitted, that his 'Lordship's Bill was al- -
together different in spirit and principle from the Coercion
Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that the
Budget could not be laid before the House on Monday, in con-
sequence of the negociations respecting the West India loan
not being in a sufficiently forward state to admit of it. The
Music and Dancing License Bill went through a Committee.
The Report of the Imprisonment for Debt Bill was agreed to,
and the third reading fixed for Monday. The Stafford Dis-
franchisement Bill was postponed for a fortnight. Mr. Al-
derman WOOD obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the regula-
tion of steam. boats on the Thames. -

MURDER BY A BOY.—At the Derby Assizes,
William Wild, aged only fourteen years, was indicted for the
wilful murder of Martha Smith, aged four years, and
Smith, aged two years, the two daughters of his master, Mr.
Smith, farmer, at Church Broughton, by drowning them in a
pond on Friday the 22d of May. The evidence was entirely
circumstantial, and occupied the whole of the day ; at the
time of the coaches leaving Derby, the trial had not ended,
but we have just heard, before going to press, that he was
found Guilty, and sentenced to be hanged on Saturday morn
ing.—Nottingham Review.