The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-21 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OP. COMMONS, APRIL 20.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at half-past three o'clock.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL.
The Imprisonment for Debt Bill was reported, and the fur-
ther consideration of the Report ordered for Wednesday, the
13th of May. The Bill as amended ordered to be printed.
Mr. H. MAXWELL presented a petition from the county
of Cavan, praying for a revision of the General Registry Act.

AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.
The Marquis of CHANDOS gave notice that he should,
on the 18th of May, upon moving the Order of the Day for
the House going into a Committee of Supply, call the atten-
tion of the House to the distress of the agricultural interest,
for the purpose of founding a resolution thereon.
NOTICES OF MOTION.

_Several Hon. Members postponed motions of which they
bad given notice till after the recess.
SABBATH BILL.

Mr. POULTER postponed the Committee on the better
observance of the Sabbath Bill from the 29th inst. to the 19th
of May.
NEW WRITS.

Mr. F. BARING moved a new writ for Inverness in the
room of the Right Hon. Charles Grant, who had accepted the
office of one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
Colonel SIBTHORP made some observations that were
almost inaudible in the gallery, the purport of which was to
object to so long an adjournment of the House as until the
12th of May.
Mr. F. BARING then resumed his motion for the New
Writs.

For the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the room of Lord
Morpeth, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and had
been appointed Secretary for Ireland.
For the Burghs of Haddington, &c., in the room of the
Hon. Robert Steuart, who had been appointed one of the
Lord's of the Treasury.
For Taunton, in the room of Mr. Labouchere, who had
been appointed Vice- President of the Board of Trade.
For Berwick-on-Tweed, in the room of Sir Rufane Donkin,
who had accepted the appointment of Surveyor-General of
the Ordnance. _

For the borough of Sandwich, in the room of Sir Thomas
Troubridge, who had accepted the appointment of one of
the Lords of the Admiralty.
Mr. F. BARING, in reply to the observations of Colonel
Sibthorp, said that he did not think the House would, upon
considering the difficulties which naturally attended first en-
tering into office, grudge the few days which the members of
the new Government would have, after their election, to pre-
pare themselves for the business of the country ; and under
those circumstances he believed the House would not object to
the adjournment till the 12th of May.
Colonel SIBTHORP had heard no reason why he should
not persevere in his protest against so long an adjourn-
ment. He knew very well that it would be not merely
three weeks, but several months before the Ministry were
seated comfortably in their places.—( A general laugh.)
When he looked to his Majesty's gracious speech, in
which he promised so much relief to the agriculturists—
(Laughter from the Ministerial benches)—when he looked
to the state of trade, and considered that agriculture
would be left without hope, trade without support, under
the renewal of the fructifying system of the (for a brief
space) restored President of the Board of Trade, who would
doubtless open our ports to the inundations from foreign
markets—(Laughter)----he thought it incumbent on him to
raise his voice, and to object to so long a postponement of
public business. It was most unwarrantable that such a
stagnation of public business should be allowed, merely
because twenty-three gentlemen wanted to start on a race,
which he was pretty sure would be a hopeless one—
spavined and broken-winded race-horses as he doubted
most of them to be. (A general tlaugh.)—The Gallant
Member then introduced what he described as the old
saying, of "one boy saying he had not stolen an
article, and another boy sayinc, he had not got it ;" but the
text we could not collect. He had seen in the newspapers
accounts that the Honourable and Learned Member oppo-
site (Mr. O'Connell) was the prompter and counsellor of
the new Ministry.—(Laughter.) This was a circumstance
which, if it were true, was to his mind most alarming ;
and he trusted that it was not the case. He was co party
man (shouts of laughter from the Ministerial benches);
and in what he said, he was guided solely by public prin-
ciple. He by no means liked the countenances of the
Honourable Gentlemen opposite—( Loud laughter from the
Ministerial Benches)—he believed them to be the index of
their minds—(Continued laughter)—and he should sedu-
lously oppose them in everything they might bring forward,
from a full conviction that they would do nothing for the good
of the country or the dignity of the Crown. He trusted the
country would soon be rid of such a set.—(Laughter.)
Mr. O'CONNELL said he admired the good humour with
which the gallant Colonel had made his observations, and
although there might be something very remarkable in the
countenances of the gentlemen on this side of the House, yet be
thought the gallant Colonel's countenance—( Laughter)—at
all events, was as remarkable as any upon the Ministerial
benches.—( Laughter.) I will not (continued Mr. O'Con-
nell) abate him a single hair—( Great laughter)—in point
of good humour. It is pleasant, Sir, to have these things
discussed in the good temper and with the politeness which
characterizes the Gallant Colonel. Elsewhere they may be
trs4ated in a different style. Men considered by the reso-
lution of this House as unfit to hold office may presume to
talk of the Irish representatives in a manner highly
unbecoming any Member exceedingly indecent—an
indecency that would be unsufferable, if it were not ridiculous.
Hear, hear.) There is no creature, not even a half maniac,
or a half idiot, that may not take upon himself to use that lan-
guage here which he would know better than to make use
of clsewhere.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") And the
bloated buffoon ought to learn the distinction between
independent men, and those whose votes are not worth
purchasing, even if they were in the market.—( Loud cheers.)
I thank the Gallant Colonel for the good humour with which
he has introduced this, and if we are not to have him as a
friend, it is pleasant to have him as an enemy.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. SINCLAIR then rose, but in consequence of the low
and indistinct manner in which the Hon. Member spoke we
could not hear very well what he said. We understood him
to commence by stating that he could not help expressing his
regret that the good humour the Honourable and Learned
Gentleman had commenced with had not extended to
the observations which he had made with reference to indi-
viduals in their places in Parliament.—(" Ohl ") He had al-
ways admired the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's endeavouring
to avoid actual collision with individuals.—(Cries of " Oh,
oh I") He had refrained from making any observations upon
the structure of the Ministry until it should be completed,
so as to be laid before the House in all the symmetry of its
proportions. It must be admitted that consummate
dexterity and admirable discretion had been displayed
with reference to the choice of its materials ; but still it
wanted the Colossal column from the Giant's Causeway.—
( Laughter. )
An HON. MEMBER of the Ministerial benches, but whose
name we could not learn, rose to order, and said—l do not
think the Giant's Causeway—(The remainder of the sentence
was drowned in the uproar on the opposite Benches.)
When the interruption had subsided,
Mr. SINCLAIR proceeded to say that he believed that,
as to the lonic column, if a trench were cut, the foundation
would be discovered to be formed of the same materials. He
then went on to speak, but in so inaudible a tone, that only
detached sentences could be occasionally caught of what he
said. He complimented the character of the late Chancellor
of the Exchequer. He prophesied that the present Govern-
ment would be destroyed between the Scylla of the Radical
reefs and the Conservative Charybdis, for he feared that suffi-
cient would not be done by them to satisfy the Radicals,
and too much to excite alarm in the minds of the Con-
servatives.—( Hear, hear.) He suspected, however, that
an ominous and temporary conjunction would take place be-
tween the Wellington Mars and the O'Connell Jupiter, with
all his satellites.

[lt is merely conjecture whether the above remarks were
made as repeated, so indistinctly and inaudibly the Hon. Gen.
tleman spoke.]
The appointment of the Election Committees, and such
other business as was fixed for this day, were postponed until
the meeting of Parliament after the adjournment.
Mr. BULWER asked if the late Government measure
respecting Ecclesiastical Courts was completed?
Sir H. HARDINGE was unable to reply in the absence
of his Majesty's late law officers.
The motion for adjournment was then put and carried.
IRISH CHURCH.

Mr. SHEIL gave notice, that on the first day after the re-
cess that the House went into a Committee of Supply, he should
move " That no person who should be appointed to an eccle-
siastical dignity should be considered to have any vested inte-
rest in it, which would entitle him to compensation in case it
should subsequently be suppressed."
Sir R. INGLIS stated that on the Hon. and Learned
Member's making that motion, he should move that the oath
he had taken should be read.—(Great cheering from the Op-
position.)
COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE BILLS.

Mr. TOOKE moved that Committees on Private Bills
should have leave to sit notwithstanding the adjournment.
Several members suggested that the motion should be con-
fined to committees now sitting.
Mr. TOOKE had no objection to adopt that suggestion,
but he considered it hard on the promoters of private Bills,
after bringing their witnesses to town, that they should be sub-
jected to the inconvenience of so long an adjournment. This
observation particularly applied to the Great Western Rail-
way ; he would, therefore, move that that Committee should
sit notwithstanding the adjournment.
After some observations from Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Robinson,
and Sir R. Vyvyan, Mr. Tooke withdrew his motion.
The House then adjourned to Tuesday the 12th of May.

The General Steam Navigation Company's Mail
Packet, the City of Hamburg, from Hamburg, arrived off the
Custom-house, at seven o'clock p.m. The Lord Melville,
from Calais, arrived with upwards of seventy passengers.
The Brocklebank, from Boulogne, which arrived about the
same time, had a great many passengers on board. The
Attwood also arrived from Antwerp.
THE WEATHER.—The frost was so severe on
Wednesday night, that clothes exposed to dry were frozen
quite hard. At Morningside the thermometer fell to 20 deg.,
a very rare occurrence in the middle of April, and very trying
to the constitution, especially coming so suddenly after such
genial spring weather as we have enjoyed for some days past.
On Thursday we had showers of snow.—Edinburgh Chronicle.
A fanner died a few days ago at Jegun, in the south
of France, having nearly completed his 105th year.

POPE'S WORKS.
Ist of May.
THE SECOND VOLUME of
POPE'S WORKS ; with a new Life, Notes, and Critical
Notices on each Poem, by the Rev. Dr. CROLY ; Original
Letters, &c.
The HOMER is not included. To be completed in 6 vols. at ss.
each.
" Of Dr. Croly's fitness for the task he has undertaken, there
can be but one opinion. Himself a scholar, a critic, and a poet,
we have a right to anticipate all the illustration of which the author
is now susceptible; and what is done in the first volume fairly ful-
fils this expectation. The memoir, though excessively severe on
Warburton, contains many just remarks. The embellishments are
very appropriate. "—Literary Gazette.
" We rejoice to see the ' Bard of Twickenham' in his present
attractive and popular form. We do not know that the editing of
Pope could have been placed in better hands than those of Dr.
Croly. The annotations and criticisms on the poems are judicious,
and aid the reading of the text materially. The illustrations are
of a superior order : the getting up of the work is perfect."--
Monthly Mag.
" This is a handsome work. Dr. Croly has written an agree-
able memoir : the narrative is consistent and clear. But it is not
by a new memoir alone that this edition courts our notice ; there
are notices and notes to each poem. To trace the history of every
piece—intimate where he found inspiration in others, or saw with
his own eyes, or versified, as he did in many instances, the pass-
ing events of polite life—is a labor worthy of such an editor as
Croly."—Atheneeum.
There are occasional passages in the Life of deep and eloquent
remark. The edition is very elegantly prepared."—Examiner.
Printed by A. J. Valpy, and sold by all Booksellers.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING will be performed the New Comedy, entitled
PATRICIAN AND PARVENU.
Sir Osbaldiston de Mowbray, Bart., Mr. Warde; Percy de Mow-
bray, Mr. Cooper ; Sir Timothy Stilton, Knight, Mr. Bartley ; Dick
Moonshine, Mr. Harley; Ruby, Mr. Webster.
Ellen Rivers, Miss Lee; Mary Stilton, Miss Taylor ; Miss Sally
Sanders, Mrs. Glover.
To conclude with the Original Domestic Drama, called
THE NOTE-FORGER.
John Brasstoun, Mr. Warde; Diana Brasstoun, Miss E. Tree.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING will be performed Auber's Opera of
LESTOCQ ; OR, THE FETE OF THE HERMITAGE.
Lestocq, Mr. E. Seguin; Count GolotTkin, Mr. Giubilei;
Dimitri
Mr. Templeton. The Princess Elizabeth, Miss Shirreff.

After which the entirely Original Melo-Drama, called
CA RI,MILHAN; or, THE DROWNED CREW.
Carlmilhan, Mr. Bennett ; Magnus Spiel, Mr. Cooper; Uda, Miss Taylor.

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