The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-05 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

On the motion of Mr. DUNDAS, the Edinburgh
Police Bill was read a third time and passed.
On the motion of Mr. BAILLIE, the Bristol Compen-
sation Bill was read a third time and passed.
New write were ordered. to . issue for the borough of
Caine, in the room of Mr. Macauley; and for the borough
of Cricklade, in the room of Mr. Robert Gordon, who have
been appointed Commissioners for the affiirs of India.
Mr. STRICKLAND presented petitions from the
townships of Heptonstall, Stansfield, Blitchley, Erring-
dale, Wadsworth, and another the name of which we
could not learn, all in the parish of Halifax, complaining
of the proposed boundaries of the new boroughs. They
stated that the Bill confined the representation to a town-
ship which consisted of only 15,000 inhabitants, and they
prayed' that it might be extended to the whole parish,
which would include a representation of about 100,000
persons.—The petitio❑ was ordered to be printed.
Sir R. FERGUSSON presented a petitio❑ from certain
females of Nottingham, praying for an abolition of Colo-
nial Slavery. Also petitions from Nottingham against
the Registry of Deeds Bill ; and one from Kirkaldy, in
favour of Reform.
Mr. GRATTAN presented a petition from Dublin for
an alteration in the police system in that city. The
Hon. Member stated that the multitude of wretched pri-
oners in the gat Is, where they were obliged to lie until
it suited the convenience of the Honourable Member
the Recorder (Mr. Shaw) to attead his duties in Dublin,
occasioned a great expense, and a considerable increase in
the burdens of the city. The Learned Recorder ought
to be at his post performing his official duties, instead of
being in this House ; but he (Mr. Grattan,) hoped that
that inconvenience would be remedied by a Reformed Par-
liament.

Mr. SHAW complained that the Hon. Member had not
given his notice of his intention to present the present pe-
tition. He should not, however, receive from him a
lesson as to how he was to perform his duties--(Hese)--
either in that House or elsewhere. With respect to
grand juries, the Honourable Member had wholly mis-
represented the facts. He lamented as much as
any man that the same persons should so often per-
form the office of grand jurors, but he believed it arose
from the unwillingness of persons to accept onerous duties.
With respect to the poor, nobody deplored more than he
did the poverty of the city o' Dublin ; the Honour.
able Member had recommended him to relieve its
poverty by appropriating part of his income. Now,
in answer to that, he must state that as great a portion of
his income was devoted to charitable purposes as that of
the Hon. Member, and he had done so without distinction
or reference to party.—(Hear.) With respect to the
state of the prisons, he admitted they were bad, and he had
taken every opportunity of bringing that matter for-
ward. The Honourable Member had stated that
in consequence of his absence -from Dublin, persons were
confined in prison much longer than during the time of his
predecessors. Now the very reverse was the fact ; for, by
the :returns during that perid, individuals were much
longer in prison than at the present moment. He had
never suffered his duties in that House to interfere with
those of the situation of Recorder of Dublin. There was
no department of his Court in which there was a single
case in arrear. What, therefore, the Hon. Member had
to complain of he could not tell, but this he could assure
hint, that if he had not a seat in that House, he should not
long hold the situation of Recorder.—(Hear.)
Mr. O'CONNELL did not think the Recorder deserved
the charges that had been made against his], and he could
❑ot but think that his Hon. Friend opposite was under a
mistake, in attributing. what he had done to the Learned
Recorder.—(Hear.) He bore testimony to the state-
ments of that Learned Gentleman, that-there were no
arrears in his Courts he could not but. designate the
gaol of Dublin as a tremendous job from the beginning
o the end, and it was not a fit place for a hog—(Laughter)
—much less a human being. He tiusted his Hon. Friend
opposite would turn his attention to the Dublin Police Act,
is he concurred fully with the petitioners in what they
.tated with respect to it.
After a few observation, from Mr. GRATTAN, Mr.