The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-21 00:00:00

i;rI!IIIAMENTARY SUMMARY•

The Longs did not yesterday.
In tho Comm°Ng several pet: ions for and against gran"
to the Scotch Church were presentee:.. A petition from
Preston, against bribery and intimidation, tvt:.s presented by
Dr. BOWRING. Sir R. FERGUSSON presented A Petit°
from. Mid Lothian, against the game laws.
from Perth was presented, praying for a remission of the
sentence on the Dorchester labourers. Mr. O'CoNNt?
gave notice that he should on Wednesday next move for
leave to bring in a Poor Law Bill for Ireland. Mr• 11.°:
BINSON fixed Friday, June 5, for his motion on the talat°i
of the Empire. Petitions were presented for and aPinrse
the Sabbath Bill. Mr. HAWES moved an amendment °.
its committal to a Select Committee of the whole 11°?ge'
Sir R. PEEL was against the Bill. The amendment, het
u
a long and desultory discussion, was withdrawn, ancl„";
Bill, with its amendments, ordered to be printed. A ;74
discussion also took place on the several clauses of
Wills Execution Bill, which passed through the
The Seamen's Enlistment Bill, and the Manure tea
Exemption Bill were read each a second time. The HO"
voted Eight Millions from the Consolidated Fund for the
A petition
service of the year. Mr. EWART obtained leave to bring'
in a Bill for allowing Counsel to prisoners, and for the ndb°;
lition of Punishment by Death, in certain cases.
HAWES obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the regulal
of inns and public houses. The House adjourned at b
past 12.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS'

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY.
..,397
I. Mr. Plumptre,—Minutes of Evidence at the Trial by Court is
tial of Captain Acheson, of the Royal Artillery, at 1111"- t,
th year 1824.
2. Mr.e Wyse,—Resolutions relative to Diocesan and Royal Sei#l°
in Ireland, with a view to extending their utility. ,the
3. Mr. Barron,—Select Committee on giving employment
people in Iland in dran bogs, &c.
4. Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood,—iniSeg lect Committee regarding -1
jesty's Consuls resident in Foreign States. fl
5. Mr. Buckingham,—Bill to authorize the purchase of 10;4, of
the purpose of snaking Public Walks, Gardens, and P4,,,,,ph
Recreation in the open air, in the neighbourhood of all'
for the use of the population generally. blia
6. Mr. Buckingham,—Bill to authorize the erection of Po
grier
stitutions, to embrace the means of diffusing literary and ;0 ill
tific information, and forming libraries and museums
'
towns, for the use of the inhabitants of the same. poile
7. Mr. Buckingham,—Bill for the better classification of _de,
Houses, and for improving the regulations affecting thep
with a view to the better preservation of the public heal
morals. rim at
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8. Dr. Rowring,—Correspondence between his Majesty ‘,--
Tripoli od the British Government. SO'
9. Mr. A. Trevoi;
—Return of the number of Electors in
Morth
and Tavistock.
10. Mr. ,
Divett,—Bill to 611,:franchise the Borough of S.--"frn,itlier
11. Mr. Poulett Thomson,—elect Committee on the
Duties. h rinitb"
12. Mr. Tooke,—lnstruction to the CoOmittee on t-e
Harbour Bill, not to enter into the question of comphan
the Standing Orders. Vin,Sov
16. Mr. Wallace,—To move that the Counties of Afitllotludd•
kirk, and Roxburgh, be added to Mr. Trevor's rnOtiOn
ing the constituencies of Mahon, &c. If"
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14. 317-. Jervis,—Bill to amend the Law relating to
against the person in certain cases. Bd
iGr
15. Mr. Hume,—Petition from Mr. John Child, imprison; s°l'
non-payment of Church Rates. tlf°
16. Mr. Henry Lytton Bulwer,—Amendment on Mr. .•eveiploOr
motion, that the Committee be on the Consular and
tic Departments.
ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DO'
1. Ennis Election Petition—Ballot for Committee at threo•4ooo
2. Halifax Election Petition--Ballot for Committee at a

after three.
3. Foreign Enlistment Repeal Bill—Second reading.
4. Wood Duties Bill—Second reading.

5. Ways and Means—Report.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS GIVEN LAST NI"-
FRIDAY, MAY 22.
1. Mr. Baring,—Commissariat Estimates (in Committee °
C.
qg
2. 3lr. C. Buller,—To move an Amendment on clause
the Registration of Voters Bill.
3. Mr. Hutt,—Bill to alter and amend the Guild of tiliercbgit
House of Kingston-upon-Hull Trustees for the
Seamen's Fund of that port.
MONDAY, MAY 25.
Sir Eardley Wilmot,—Petition from Warwickshire, rein
of Agricultural Distress.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27.
I. Mr. Elphinstone,—Bill to limit the time of taking the
ir
Contested Elections. Lite°
2. Mr. O'Connell,—Bill to establish a Poor Rate for de-
milies in Ireland. Vil
3. Mr O'Connell,—Bill torestge the Trial by JurY ie Ire

all cases of Assaults and of Trespasses.
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,THURSDAY, JUNE 11. 4,0 tbe
1. Colonel Sibthorp,—Select Committee, to inquire ill—. tbs
diction of the Local Testamentary Courts. Well tr
2. Mr. Winthrop Praed,—Copies of Communications be ty
India Board and the East India ComppY,
relative to over
vocation of the appointment of Lord tieytesbury as G°
General of India.
• „. to
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17. ttofce
Sir Andrew Agnew,—Address to his Majesty, that •° st
forwarded to all Governors of Colonies, and Ministello et,
reign Courts, recommending that all their arrangeoreo
be made with a regard to the due observance of to
Day.

THE PURE AND THE F 010)

INFLVENCES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SO; pool I°
SlR—Will you permit me to say a word supPleaeet>bsfij
your correspondent " Plebs." He holds up, without
non
sufficient verbal distinction, the aristocracy, the corp°lt iota
the clergy of South Devon, as having exercised the loci
fluences" for the Tory triumph. Perhaps some '411,,,014
of this assertion may be conducive to a right unders"--
one branch of the subject which he handled. 000°
There are, as regards the direction of the electoral 'tee
two distinct kinds of influence—one corrupt, the otherh,
one is an immoral, the other a moral influence---111-0010,41
relation to the mind and to the conduct. When a •Desa:ll,
for instance, threatens to turn his tenant out of doors eri
not vote for his nominee—or if he threaten a tradesalor;
the loss of his custom, a corrupt influence is clearly
This is Intimidation. If a landlord bribes, either U 0704
or promising to give, at some future time, money, Or Otis d
worth, he stirs up a foul and immoral influence. Dever e'
Bribery : intimidation and bribery, in which variety als
the manifold forms they assume, constitute the iinl:e°r4a:gt
ence. The moral influence is that legitimately fl"nolit'
property. Such moral influence is pure and healthy, ti
with free will, conducive in a high degree to 190141:cc ita_.d
and conservative of the general interest. It exists in neer.;
as well as the eternal nature of things. Moral inilee-oer.„i
not be excluded—and if any person were unwise eaooo3l7r
desire the abrogation of this social necessity, on iejto of the
the question, he would soon see that to subvert the 'am 00%1
nature referred to, would be impossible, since it reabe-oelir/c1
basis of inherent and immutable principles. In
influences
constitution, and all-wise ordering of human inireitige'l
tendencies. I recognise additional proofs of Divine iat odeli
—I see in them the hand of the Beneficent Superiate
0
the world. /Jo -et,
From what I have said, it will be apparent thatto es ii,
think the clergy of Devon did not possess the rig" por
cise a moral influence. If they went out of their viaYofeisco
tical partizans, and misused the legitimate influence 00 I,
tion—if they appealed only to the selfishness, or actcr,
fears of the electors—in that case, they ought to those
As
dered as criminals, more dangerous to society than gall°
fortunate individuals! whose lives are forfeited on the
to the offended laws of the country. A Orr j.
I know that in Devon, landlords, clergy, and
-can je
all entered into a corrupt conspiracy to defeat thetach oSai,
who was an exponent of political justice ; but to at to 014
fined ceesure to them as parsons aid landlords, fle fop
rect.- blame c,::1 bodies and classes of ,men instez! :000eSt'ho
it fall specially pn the particular offences found le enigeliet
with, and committed by, them. lam not for leasto roe's
influence of the rich axed the educated. i
_°°.,„fitioa„ece of
augment it, because I am persuaded that mom" ijeles'"
beneficial to those whom it acts upon. The 1 ss'ae
Mind must be for good. the 00.
All have not had the same means of attaining
ore ger
op
degree of mental culture, and until education be tad 0", b,,,
rally diffused, efen the half-educated must take ors'
the population is wholly sunk in ignorance. t•'•'"
pulation is deplorably destitute of knowledge. Mr. ?afro,
It would be curious to discover bow many of
voters had any notion of their duties as moral agentshor af't
politically knew right from wrong. The total nuelgli°o6
not be great. I should also like to see published the 01 tooir
those poor fellows who were driven against their f 15,0,
poll. If lists made from both of these classes ? 000001
ker's voters were before us, I apprehend a mass e the
able corruption would be presented—produced bY
influences. pg 00 '
ONE OF THE
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A rail-road between Dublin and the south
015 f
is projected.
A t a meeting held last night at Marshall.!
the
Hampstead-road, a subscription was entered into isonrd otOlt,
pose of indemnifying Messrs. Ford, Johnson, for reed
against the-expenses of a prosecution against them
_'ore
vo
ing the payment of Assessed Taxes ; and thanks of itnP,J,
to the present Ministry for remitting the sentencen cboti.e
sonment prior to the removal of the above gentle
tzlia
bath-fields prison, where, if they had gone, they ds ,boem
had to submit to the degradation of having their Ilea
oi,
and of wearing the prison dress. delP
An actress at the Theatres des Varietes, b,
rte,
selle Pougaud, was lately imprudent enough to loaatot; eic7l
to a bill for 500 francs to the order of a mereb osideredao
conceiving that her doing so would no more be ee Nieonori,
valid obligation than the famous one signed bY
PEnelos for the Duc de la Chatre. But it seere.aotehiev, ctio
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had differiut ideas on the subject, and passed tia.
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third, who, after having formally protested it, ca be yrribna,,
thebY the
de Commerce. The cause for this act,
barity so far as to cite the charming debtoarssbigefnoerde 4 a
op:
Counsel, is stated to have originated in the jealot!sYtou arbitrSo
planted lover. The case was, however, referred s
its birthrlio
anti°lL exceedinglyß eortsa2u. bee°
the subject of an amusing Vaudeville.
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