The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-04 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

A man named Dalston was charged by his wife with
neglect, and refusing to maintain her. She stated that
although her husband was nearly thirty years her senior
in point of age, yet that she could not keep him at home
or from looking after other women. He had some pro-
perty, upon which they could live comfortably without
labour of any kind ; but instead of enjoying himself with
his family, he was never easy but when he was roving
about and intriguing. He humbugged her for a long
time by saving that he was in the habit of frequenting a
public-house where he met company. She, however,
having some suspicion that he employed himself differently,
disguised herself on several occasions recently, and followed
him when he left home. lie usually crossed the bridge
into the City; and no sooner was he out of the district in
which he lived, than he commenced ogling every woman
at all decent-looking; and if he received any encourage-
ment, he availed himself of it, and hastened off with his
lady to a place of retirement. She added that if he did not
receive a check such as would correct his cruel propensi-
ties, it would plunge the whole of them in poverty, and a
workhouse would inevitably be their portion.
Dalston, in tears, implored his wife to forgive him. He
admitted that he had been a wild man, but that from the
present time he should renounce all bad company.
The Magistrate said they had better arrange matters to-
gether, and advised the wife not to proceed to extremities,
particularly after the contrition he evinced.
The parish officer said that the wife had applied for re-
lief. —Mrs. Dalston expressed her forgiveness of all that
had passed, and her husband having refunded the parish
money, they left the office in perfect amity together.

DUBLIN, JAN. 30.—As the Royal Mail was
on its way from Castlebar to Ballinasloe, a few miles beyond
this town, on Saturday last, it met with a most dreadful
accident :—The two leaders took a start and got a-head in
spite of an unskilful coachman, who had no command of
them for the space of two miles; when coming to a bridge
the two restive horses bolted over, and were suspended by
the traces, and could not be extricated until the traces were
rut, when both horses were precipitated into the river and
their necks broken. The off was killed, a❑d his brains
were dashed against the battlements of the bridge. Great
blame is attached to the driver, as he indulged himself in
drink that day. He was overjoyed in consequence of his
fellow-jarvey gaining a point of law at the Tuam Petty
Sessions, hail on that day. Fortunately the passengers
escaped unhurt.— Castlebar Chronicic.

In the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, on
Monday, the Hon. FREDERICK CAVENDISH was called up
for the judgment of the Court for a libel on Lord BING-
HAM, published in the Mayo Telegraph, of which de-
fendant is proprietor. The libel was a publication of
some letters on the occurrences of a misunderstanding and
duel between Major FrrzcEßAT.o and Lord BINGHAM.
Mr. CAVENDISH was heard at great length in mitigation,
and disclaimed any personal feeling towards the Noble
Lord. The Court sentenced him to pay a fine of 501.,
which was at once done, and Mr. CAVENDISH was dis-
charged.—Dublin Morning Registerr.

There is a great talk in the city about the Mi-
nisters not being able to stand their ground ; and the
Tories are in high spirits, in expectation that their party
will be shortly in power. " Heaven help the silly ones !"
Poor things, what could they do if they were in power ?
It would be only marching up the hill to mach down
agai❑ ; or rather to tumble down head foremost. Wise
men now laugh at the Anti-Reformers.—Morn. Herald.
Extremes are said to meet. We are told by
one of those ingenious publications called " Magazines of
" Fashion," " that it is now the custom at dinner parties
to place a glass vase of rose-water before each guest, in
which A naor of the essence of mint has been infused.
The extreme coolness which form one of the properties
of that herb leaves a pleasant freshness in the mouth
during the rest of the evening !" Peppermint ! gill and
peppermint. We congratulate the distillers and retailers
of the two essences. The " ladies in aureoles of scol-
loped blonde" ca❑ cool their mouths with a drop of the
essence of mint, as well as the more natural belles of Bil-
lingsgate with the essence of juniper.—Times.
NEW WORK, BY THE AUTHORESS OF
Tit DIARY OF AN ENNUYEE."—“ More valuable
biographical sketches than Mrs. JAmEsotes Memoirs of
Female Sovereigns,' just published, have rarely been offered
to the public. The authoress shows not only an intimate
acquaintance with the various periods of the world's his-
tory, in Ivhiell each Sovereign mentioned in these Me.
moire figured, but likewise, very considerable tact and dis-
crimination, in seizing upon the strong and most interest-
ing features of their lives ; her style is also elegant and
perspicuous. We consider this work, in fact, a valuable
addition to our standard literature."—Scotsman

THE NEW HACKNEY COACH ACT.—UII
Thursday at Queen-square Police-office, the Duke of 13En-
"An, Messrs. TIVININGB, of the Strand, and a number of
other persons, were fined ss. each and costs, for having
their names painted on their carts in unlauful colours.
For instance, the Duke of BEDFORD'S -name was in white
letters upon a green ground, whereas, according to the new
Hackney Coach Act, it ought to have white letters upon a
black ground, or black letters upon a white ground.

Viscount STRANGFORD moved for a series of re-
turns, relative to the foreign shipping Which had arrived in
this country for the last three years ; also for a return of
all sums paid by the Treasury to corporations, as a
compensation for their loss of dues under the Reciprocity
Act, from the Ist of Jan. 1826 to the let of January,
1832. The Noble Lord said he did not mean to blame
the Government for paying these sums. They had only
acted in this respect as their predecessors had done, but
both had acted illegally in so disposing of the public money.
Lord AUCKLAND said it had only come to his know-
ledge a few days ago that such payments were illegal. A
Bill of Indemnity was in preparation, and would soon be
before the House.

Lord TENTERDEN moved the third reading of the
Arbitration Bill.

The Marquis of WESTMEATH was perhaps irregular
in making any remarks on the third reading of a Bill, but
he was very anxious to see this Bill extended to Ireland.
Lord TENTERDEN observed, such an amendment
might be introduced in the other House of Parliament.
He could not now do it.

The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
The Embezzlement of Public Money Bill went through
a Committee, and was reported without amendments.
Their Lordships then adjourned till Monday.

HO USE OF COMMONS, FEBRUARY 3.

At Four o'clock the SPEAKER. took his seat.

Mr. HODGSON brought in a Bill fur making a
rail-
way from South Shields to Monkwearmouth, which %vas
read the first time.

Mr. CHAYTOR obtained leave to bring in a Bill for
constructing some wet docks in the port of Sunderland.
Mr. BLAAHRE presented a petition from the owners
and occupiers of customary lands in Brampton and its
neighbourhood, in the county of Cumberland, against the
General Registry Bill. The Hon. Member contended
the Bill made an invidious distinction betwee❑ customary
tenants and copyhold tenants. He also presented three
similar petitions from different parts of Cumberland, in one
of which, so great was the feeling against the Bill, that the
petitioners suppressed their willingness even to forego the
benefits to be derived from the great measure of Reform
rather than be compelled to receive and adopt a general
system of registration.

Mr. CAMPBELL presented a petition from the no-
bility, clergy, &c. of the county of Argyle against cert.iin
parts of the Scotch Reform Bill.

Sir G. MURRAY was extremely happy that he hap-
pened to be in the House when the lion. Member pre-
sented the petition, because he was sure the Honourble
Member and himself would entirely concur in the respect-
ability of the parties from whom it came. He agreed
with the observation made by the Hon. Member, that the
persons signing the petition were not Anti• Reformers, in-
deed he thought very few entitled to that appellation
were resident in Scotland. He was not absolutely
opposed to Reform, but joined hand and heart with
the petitioners in praying for moderate Reform. He per-
fectly coincided with the petitioners in considering that
the clause which threw the great mass of the constituency
into the hands of the 101. householders was ex-
ceedingly objectionable in that part of the country from
whence the petition came ; it would be the means of over-
whelming the landed interest.

After a few observations front Mr. CAMPBELL, the pe-
tition was ordered to be printed.
The HON• MEMBER then presented a petition to a simi-
lar effect from a borough in Argyle.
Also petitions from Fifeshire, Argyleshire, snd the island
of Isla, praying that a Reform as extensive as the one
brought forward by Ministers might be passed into a law.
Mr. AIORRISON thought the petitions which
had just been presented, slimed the great neces-
sity there was for a Reform in Scotland.
Mr. CAMPBELL then presented a memorial from the
inhabitants of Argyle, praying for no alteration on the
drawback on malt.

Mr. HODGES presented a petition from a person re-
siding in Kent, complaining of the mal-operation of the poor
laws. The Hon. Member also presented a j etition
from the solicitors of Kent, signed by upwards of 100
persons, against the General Registry Bill. It had been
stated that gentlemen in the situation of the petitioners
had a private interest in opposing this Bill. He was
however quite satisfied that no motives of a selfish na-
ture could be attributed to that respectable body of which
the petitioners formed a part.
Sir F. BLAKE presented a petition from Berwick-
upon-Tweed, signed by the Mayor and several Magistrates,
against the General Registry Bill, and praying that it
might not pass into a law. The Hon. Member entirely
concurred with the prayer of the petition, believ-
ing that the most injurious effects were likely to en-
sue if the Bill should become the law of the land.
It was a great hardship that such a measure should be
forced upon the country against the wishes and inclinations
of the landed interest. He gave every credit to the Hon.
and Learned Member who introduced the Bill, but it was
an injudicious measure—it was an innovation amounting
almost to an invasion of the right of property. If
that Honourable and Learned Gentleman would still
persevere, he might expect the determined opposition
of every Member in that House, who, in the true English
spirit, might be led, but would not be driven.

- Mr. CAMPBELL said that if, after the Bill was dis-
cussed and understood, it did not meet the public approba-
tion, he would most willingly withdraw it.---(Hear.) At
present, however, it was wholly misunderstood, or rather
misrepresented. He felt it his duty still to press the Bill
into Committee ; for he was certainly most anxious that
it should be discussed in that House, and understood out
of doors. Ili* own private opinion was that it would lie
beneficial in its operation ; but if, after its merits were
known, it met the public disapprobation, he would most
willingly withdraw it.—(Hear.)
Sir F. BLAKE also presented a petition from the
Justices of Peace and Grand Jury of the General Quarter
Session of Berwick-upon-Tweed, against the General
Registry Bill, and stated that landowners were more com-
petent to judge of what was for their own interest than the
promoters of this Bill ; and while the general opinion of
the country was so unequivocally opposed to the measure,
he hoped the House would pause before it allowed it to pass
into a law.

Mr. BAYNTON presented a petition to the same effect
from the city of York. Instead of facilitating, the General
Registry Bill would greatly obstruct the borrowing of money
upon mortgage; while the deposit of deeds would be inju-
rious, and might promote litigation.
. . _

Mr. CROkEit highly approved of the principle of
the Bill, but would not be thereby precluded from ob-
jecting to some of its details in Committee.
Mr. CAMPBELL would feel proud of the Right Hon.
Gentleman's assistance in amending the Bill in Committer.
In answer to the objection made by the Hon. Member for
York, he would only say that the effect of the Bill would
be greatly to facilitate the borrowing of money on mort-
gage, and the objection proved only that the Hon. Member
and his constituents who objected to it had not sufficiently
considered the Bill.

Mr. FRENCH presented a petition from Roscommon
for an additional number of representatives for Ireland.
O'CONNOR DON supported the player of the petition.
Mr. (RATTAN regretted that the Irish Reform all
was so different from t heEnglish one, and contended that,
as far as the machinery of the measure was concerned, the
Irish Bill should be the same as the English Bill.
Mr. HUNT presented a petition from the Reformed
Association of Paisley against the Anatomy Bill now before
the House ; the petitioners stated that they viewed that
Bill with horror and disgust. The petition being signed
only by the chairman and secretary, altliong4 agreed to at

Lord ALTHORP did not think it would be long before
he should be able to lay the information before the House.
Lord G. SOMERSET wished to know whether it was
the intention of Ministers to bring in a Bill, and when, :ix
the purpose of amending the defects of the Beer Bill ?
Lord ALTIIORP said, whatever regulations might I e
thought of with respect to that Bill, be trusted none would
ever be adopted calculated to alter the main principle of
the Bill. At present he was unprepared to say he would
bring in any Bill on the subject.
Lord G. SOMERSET was of opinion that some altera-
tion should be made in the enactments of the Bill. And
unless some abler person than himself took up the subject,
he should himself set about preparing a measure for
the consideration of the House.

Col. DAVIES did not conceive there could be a more
mischievous Bill than the Beer Bill, as it at present
stood. There was not a Magistrate who did not complain
of it.—(" Hear," from Mr. Hume.) The Gallant
Colonel did not understand that cheer from his Hon. Friend
the Member for Middlesex, who he believed from one year's
end to the other, though a county Member, never left Lon-
don, and knew as much of the effects of the Bill: as the
table before the Speaker.—(A laugh.)
Mr. HUME protested against the evidence of Magistrate 8
on this subject—the evidence of men from whom by tl.e
Beer Bill a monopoly had been taken away—(Hear and
cheers)—and who, no doubt, were anxious to get
that monopoly restored. With regard to his ignorance
On this subject, he would assert that he knew just as much,
and probably snore, about the effects of the Beer 13,11
in its present shape, than the Hon. Member who had
taken upor. himself to pretend to so much knowledge. He
had a great deal to do throughout the county which he
represented, and both front his personal observation, and
from all that he had heard, be could assure the House, in
Middlesex at least, the Beer Bill was extremely beneficial.
Colonel DAVIES said, it was not with a view of
keeping up the desire of a monopoly that he bad al-
luded to the Magistrates at all. The Magistrates did
not object to the Bill, because it deprived them of a mono-
poly—it was only against the clause permitting tippling
on the premises that they objected to.
Mr. WAYLAND put a question to the Chancellor of
the Exchequer respecting the poor laws, upon which
Lord ALTHORP could only say, as he had said last
night, that the inquiry was now going on on the sub-
ject of the Poor Laws—that inquiry could not take a
long time, and as soon as possible after it was concluded,
he intended to bring in a Bill.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the