The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-04 00:00:00

HALLEY'S COMET.

The first of these is a moveable circle representing,
the surface of the celestial globe, which by being ar-
ranged in a particular way, will shew in what part of
the heavens the Comet is at any hour either in the
day or in the night till next February. It represents
the signs of the Zodiac in various colours, and des-

cribes the path of the Comet through the heavenly
bodies. The pamphlet purporting to be a guide to,
and history of the Comet, is a familiar essay, of which
the cost is only three-halfpence. A wit would find the
title worth double the cost, particularly if he were
in want of a subject for an article in " Fraser" or the
" New Monthly." The following extract from it is
rather interesting •--

" The Comet will become visible in every part of Europe
about the latter end of August or beginning of September ;
that is to say, rather more than two months before its arrival
at that point where it will be nearest the sun. Its situation
also will be favourable to the splendour of its appearance.
It will most probably be distinguishable by the naked eye,
like a star of the first magnitude, but with a duller light than
that of a planet, and surrounded with a pale nebulosity, which
will slightly impair its splendour. We are not, however, to
expect any of those vast and awful phenomena which threw
our remote ancestors of the middle ages into agonies of su-
perstitious terror, and caused public prayers to be put up in
the churches against the Comet and its malignant agencies.
On the night of the 3d of October, about midnight, it will
appear in the east, at an elevation of about thirty degrees :
and will be a little above a line joining the star called Castor,
with the star Alpha in the Great Bear. Between that hour
and sunrise, it will ascend the firmament, and will cross the
meridian near the zenith of London about sunrise. On the
night of the 7th, the comet will approach the well known
constellation of Ursa Major; and between that and the 11th,
it will pass directly through the seven conspicuous stars of
that constellation. In our latitude this constellation never
sets, and, consequently, the comet may be looked for at any
hour of the night. But the time most favourable for its
appearance will be on the 7th, before the commencement of
the morning twilight ; on the 9th, at any time in the ab-
sence of twilight, when it will Hiss during the night from
the north-west to the north-east, its altitude not, however,
exceeding thirty-five degrees; and. on the 11th, after the
close of the evening twilight, when it will be seen approach-
mg the constellation of the Crown, in a direction a little '
north of west, and at an altitude of about thirty degrees.
" Towards the end of November, the Comet will plunge
among the rays of the sun, and disappear, and will not issue
from them on the other side until the end of December. On
its departure from the sun, it is doubtful whether it will be
visible at all ; but, under any circumstances, it cannot remain
long apparent. Its next visit will be in 1911.
" One of the circumstances, not the least surprising, con-
nected with this Comet, is the magnitude of its orbit. It is
a very oblong oval, the total length of which is about thirty-
six times the earth's distance from the sun ; and the greatest
breadth about ten times that distance. The earth's distance
from the sun is, in round numbers, one hundred millions of
miles; the Comet's least distance then will be fifty millions
of miles, and its greatest distance three thousand five hundred
and fifty millions of miles. If the successive returns of the
periodic Comets should establish satisfactorily the existence
of the luminous ether, it will follow that after the lapse of a
certain time, every Comet will ultimately fall into the sun.
Notwithstanding the discovery of the periodic Comets of
Encke and Biela, still that of Halley maintains a paramount
interest; although the former are unquestionably objects of
attention, yet their short periods, and the limited space within
which they are circumscribed in their motion, render them for
all physical purposes nothing more than new planets of un-
appreciable mass belonging to our system. Unlike other
known Comets, they do not rush from the invisible and inac-
cessible depths of space, and, after sweeping our system,
depart to distances under the conception of which the imagi-
nation itself is confounded. They possess none of that gran.
deur which is connected with whatever appears to break through
the fixed order of the universe. It is still reserved for the
Comet of Halley alone to exhibit a phenomenon, so far as we
know, unique ; to afford a splendid result of those powers of
calculation by which we are enabled to follow it through the
depths of space, two thousand millions of miles beyond the ex-
treme verge of the solar system ; and, although disturbances
which render each succeeding period of its return different from
the last, to foretel that return with precision.
" By far the greater number of Comets appear to be mere
masses of vapour, totally divested of all concrete or solid
matter. So prevalent is this character, that some observers
held it to be universal. No rational, or even plausible, ac-
count has yet been rendered of those immensely voluminous
appendages which they bear about with them, and are known
by the name of their tails (though improperly, since they often
precede them in their motions,) any more than of several other
singularities which they present. Seneca mentions the fact of
stars having been distinctly seen through Comets, which has
been confirmed by Sir W. Herschell and his son. The light
of Comets is an effect of which astronomers have hitherto
given no satisfactory account ; the doubt is, whether the light
which proceeds from them, and by which they become visible,
is their own, or is that of the sun shining upon them, and re-
flected to our eyes like light from a cloud.
" Since the above was prepared for press, Sir James South
has had the honour of being the first astronomer to discover the
Comet in England, with the aid of a telescope, on Sunday, the
23d, at four in the morning, in the path indicated in the chart
as that of Damoiseau."

A POPULAR TREATISE ON DIET AND
REGIMEN ;

INTENDED AS A TEXT BOOK 1,01: THE INVALID AND THE

DYSPEPTIC. BY W. H. ROBERTSON, H. B.
London: Tilt, 1835.

We shall be 'greatly surprised if, in the course of a
'ew months, this book be not held indispensable to
,he health and comfort of every well-ordered family

not under the superintendence of a resident physician.
The. subject of it is sufficiently explained in the title-
page prefixed to this notice ; but unless we could ex-
tract follows, we could no, do justic,: :o the
very excellent, non-professional manner in which the au-

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

THIS EVENING.

WAR-OFFICE, SErr. 4, 1835.
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. L. Place to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Armit, who retires ; Cornet W. A. Rose to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Place; T. W. Yokes, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Rose, Sept. 4.
Ist Regiment of Dragoons—Lieut. J. Dalton to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Curteis, who retires; Cornet R. M. Croft to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dalton ; E. H. Lloyd, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Croft, Sept. 4.
17th Regiment of Light Dragoons—C. F. Davidson, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Thompson, whose appointment has
not taken place, Sept. 4.
Bth Regiment of Foot—Ensign S. Browne to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Bewes, whose promotion has not taken place ;
Ensign C. Harte, from half-pay Dillon's Regiment, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Browne, Sept. 4.
9th Foot—Lieut. S. Brownrigg to be Adjutant, vice Donnelly,
promoted, May 25.
10th Foot—Capt. G. Power to be Major, by purchase, vice Wal-
ler, who retires ; Lieut. H. Onslow to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Power; Ensign C. Harford to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Onslow; J. Ciarvock, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Harford, Sept. 4.
14th Foot—Staff-Assistant-Surgeon J. T. Telfer to be Assis-
tant-Surgeon, Sept. 4.
39th Foot—Sergeant-Major J. Brannan, from the 28th Foot, to
be Ensign, without purchase, vice Deacon, appointed to the 61st
Foot, Sept. 5.
45th oot.—Lieut. G. H. Clarke to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Landon, who retires; Ensign H. A. Cumberlege to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Clarke; G. A. L. Bluikinsopp, Gent.
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cumberlege, Sept. 4.
48th Foot.—H. Bromley, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Dalrymple, Sept. 4.
64th Foot.—Lieut. C. 0. Leman to bo Captain, by purchase,
vice Strongitharm, who retires; Second Lieut. R. Is. Levett to
be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bayly, who retires, Sept. 4 ;
Second Lieut. J. J. o'l\ eill Power, to be First Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Leman, Sept. 5 ; Hon. J. E. H. Thurlow, to be
Second .ieutenant, by purchase, vice Levett, Sept. 4 ; R. I Dan-
sey, Gent., to be Second Lientenant, by purchase, vice Power,
Sept. 5.

61st Foot—Lieut. E: Mac Donnell to be Captain without pur-
chase, vice Harris, deceased, May 6 ; Ensign W. F. Hoey to be
Lieutenant, vice Mac Donnell ; Ensign C. C. Deacon, from the
39th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hoes, Sept. 5.
67th Foot—Lieut. F. F. L. Dayroiles, from half-pay 18th Light
Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Bolton, pro-
moted, Sept. 4; Ensign W. Gomm to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Dayrolles, which retires, Sept. 5 ; Ensign and Adjutant W.
Fisher to have the rank of Lieutenant, Sept. 6 ; Ensign J. Foott
from half-pay 96th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Dacres, deceased,'
Sept. 4 ; C. B. Hague, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Gomin, Sept. 5.
71st Foot—Lieutenant Sir H. Dalrymple, Bart., from half-pay
Unattached, to be Lieutenant, vice J. Lawson, who exchanges
receiving the difference, Sept. 5 ; W. Hope, Gent. to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Strangways, who retires, Sept. 4.
76th Foot—C. Fenwiek, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Warden, who retires, Sept. 4.
80th Foot—Lieutenant G. Denshire to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Falconar, who retires ; ensign W. F. Christie to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Denshire, Sept. 4.
82a1 Foot—Lieut. C. S. Eustace to he Captain, by purchase, vice
Elliott, who retired ; Ensign T. W. Hornby to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Eustace ; J. C. Maclachlan, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchass, vice Hornby,•Sept. 4.
89th Foot—Lieut.-Col. R. Doherty, from the Ist West India
Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice H. R. Hartley, who re-
tires upon half-pay Unattached ; Staff-Assistant Surgeon J. Gil-
lice to be Assistant-Surgeon, Sept. 4.
99th Foot—Ensign H. A. Ouvry to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Werge, who retires; A. W. Reed, Gent. to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Ouvry, Sept. 4.
' Ist West India Regirrient—iLieutenant-Colonel W. Bush, from Unattached, to be Lirutenant-Colonel, vice Doherty, ap-
pointed to the 89th Foot, Sept. 4.

4JNATTACHED.
Lieut. J. Bolton, from the 67th Foot, to be Captain, Without
purchase; Ensign Sir H. Dalrymple, Bart., to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, Sept. 4.

Lieut. R. Brown, half-payMEMORANDA 21st Foot, has been allowed to retire
from the service by the sale of an Unattached Commission, he
having become a settler in Upper Canada, Sept. 4.

CROWN-OFFICE, SEPT. 4.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT.
BELFAST.—George Dunbar, in the county of Antrim, Esq., in
the room of John I\l•Cance, Esq., deceased.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
JAMES MACKNIGHT, draper, Dawley, Salop.
FRANCIS COUPEES and WILLIAM COUPEES, straw-
hat-manufacturers, Luton, Bedfordshire.

BANKRUPTS.
THOMAS PULVERTOFT, iron-master, Wisbeach, Cam-
bridgeshire.
JOHN RAVEN, wholssale• grocer, Suffolk-lane, Cannon-street.
GEORGE HEATHER and EDWARD ARGLES, maho-
gany-merchants, St. Ann's-place, Limehouse.
THOMAS TURBERVILLE, grocer, Worcester.
JOHN ASHWIN SHITH, Bilston, Staffordshire.
WILLIAM HINDELL, victualler, Brayton, Yorkshire.

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THE PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

H 0 USE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
ESCAPE OF MACLEAN.
The Sergeant-at Arms informed. the House that Norman
11'Lean, who was in the custody of one of the messengers of
the House had escaped.
The messenger, Williara Bevan, was called to the bar, and,
in answer to the Speaker, said he had his prisoner in the West-
minster Hotel, Bridge-street. Was with him all day on Sun-
day, and locked him in his room at half-past eleven o'clock at
night. He went to the room in the morning, and found him
gone. The window was open and the towels tied to the bal-
cony. He had got from thence to a wall which was a
of 11 feet—from the wall he got down to the river, a height
of 14 feet—he there got into the mud—the messenger slept m
was or
the room immediately adjoining. thenHedered to
withdraw.height

On the motion of Mr. FOX MALTLE a new writ was
moved for Dungarvon in the room of Mr. O'Loughlin, who
had accepted the office of his Majesty's Attorney-General.
Dr. BO WRI NG m.esented a petition from [men against
the mutiiatiw.s of the Corporation Reform Bill ; and one from
General Armstronin complaining of many rievancesf and

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1835.

thor has conveyed a mass of.knowledgewithout which,
humanly speaking, it would be almostin7FM=
preserve health, or even life, in a country filled with the
arts of civilization. We recommend every father of a
family—every master of a household—every guar-
dian of youth—every housekeeper having the charge
of children—every nurse entrusted with the care of
infants—every individual to whom good health
is an object of solicitude, to procure a copy of this
book. There is not a line in it of questionable mo-
rality—not a word about diseases wholly sexual—not
a syllable which may not be conned over in a public
school, without exciting an idea dangerous to the most
spotless purity. Without meaning to detract from the
great merit of many Works of the same kind at pre-
sent before the public, we may be allowed to say that
as a family book, Dr. Robertson's " Popular Treatise
on Diet and Regimen" is unequalled in the languaze.

axing the House to enquire into his case, with a view to
afford him relief.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he was entrusted
with a petition from Spalding, in favour of the Executors'
Administration Bill, and took that opportunity of stating,
that both this Bill, and the Registration of Wills Bill, had
been fully discussed in Committee and otherwise, and that at one
sitting of the House, nine successive hours were occupied in
discussing its details ; therefore the assertion that had been
made in another place that these Bills had been smuggled
through the House was most unfair.—( Hear.) If those who
made that assertion would condescend to meet him in pri-
vate conference, he would soon convince them how erroneous
such a statement was.--( Cries of "Order" from the Opposition. )
Mr. E WART supported the prayer of the petition.
SIR PETER LAURIE.
General PALMER gave notice of his intention on Mon-
day to present a petition relative to the conduct of Sir Peter
Laurie, and others of the Court of Aldermen of the city of
London, and Governors of. Bethlehem Hospital, in the case
of a female lunatic, now confined there ; and being a
question of the deepest interest, not only to the petitioners,
but to the whole country, and to the cause of humanity
throughout the world, he humbly hoped for the atten-
tion of his Majesty's Ministers to the subject, and that nothing
might prevent him (General Palmer) from having an oppor-
tunity of bringing it forward.
Sergeant WILDE presented a petition frow Newark
against the alterations in the Municipal Reform Bill.
COLONIAL AGRICULTURE.
Mr. CR A WFORD presented a petition from the Agricul-
tural Society of Calcutta, a society established to improve the
agriculture of that country, having among its members the
chief justice of Bengal, Dr. Willis, a celebrated botanist, and
many eminent men. The prayer of the petition was for an equali-
zation of the duties on the produce of India with the rates charged
on the same articles imported from the British Colonies in the
West Indies, especially coffee and sugar. India had now
become more essentially than ever an agricultural country ;
in fact, three-fourths of the people were interested in the
prosperity of agriculture. The great resources of the
country required only the removal of restrictions to be
developed. India required encouragement now more es-
sentially, since she possessed no other means of supply-
ing the annual drain on her resources required by the late
Act of Parliament relating to her Government. It had not
been his intention to present this petition at the present mo-
ment ; he had intended to keep it till the commencement of the
next session, in the hope that before the House had many days
met, they should have a discussion with reference to the equali-
zation of the Sugar Duties. He was, however, induced to
present the petition, in consequence of some circumstances
which had taken place connected with a Bill before that House,
under the title of the Custom Duties' Bill. The object of that
Bill was to reduce the duty upon Coffee, the produce of the
British possessions in the East Indies to the duty upon West India
coffee. The Bill had but one enacting clause, and when it
came out of Committee, it stood in this condition, viz. that
from the passing of that Bill, the duty upon coffee should be
reduced to sixpence, the same as West India Coffee__
( Hear, hear, hear.) He had attended the progress of
that Bill with considerable anxiety—he had watched
through the Committee for the purpose, if it were proposed to
insert any clause requiring a certificate of origin, some modi-
fication should take place. The Bill was reported, and stood
for the third reading without any clause to that effect being sug-
gested. He was not a little surprised to find the third reading
of the Bill was postponed at the suggestion of the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, whom he was very sorry not to see
present. Upon bearing of that postponement, he took an
opportunity of seeing that Right Hon. Gentleman, and left
him under the firm conviction that he would not proceed to
adopt any certificate of origin without giving him (Mr.
S.) an opportunity of being heard. He found to his
astonishment, under these circumstances, that the Bill
had been read a third time, with an appended additional
clause to the effect that there should be required a particular
sort of certificate which was not in use, and which was.impos-
sible to comply with. It was proposed to allow coffee
grown in Ceylon to be introduced for consumption at
sixpence duty; and, in the same manner, coffee coming
from India was liable to a higher rate of duty than was
proposed in the terms of the enactment of the Bill. As his
attention was much directed to commercial subjects, it might
be said in a particular manner to devolve upon him, and
he had taken every means to have an opportunity of speak-
ing in his place before this took place—( Hear, hear)
and had been disappointed from a course of events not under
his controul, having been followed in this bill in a way not
usual and exeeedingly inconvenient. He had been de-
prived of this opportunity at the proper time to make these
observations, and to press upon the House the neces-
sity of modifying the certificate, so that it should be in the
power of parties to render one in compliance with the Act.
He had heard it said that there was no reason why East India
Coffee in this country should not be liable to the high duties.
It was stated that it was in the possession of parties who had
bought it expecting to pay the high duties ; in answer to that
he would only say that it was within his own knowledge that
all the coffee hitherto imported into this country grown under
the Madras Government, came here as the property of
the original planters. Under these circumstances he
could not see how the growers of coffee in Ceylon
should be subject to the continuance of this duty, for the
space of fourteen months to come. He thought the measure
one of the highest injustice to the East India growers, and in
direct contravention of the clause of the Act. He had made
these observations, in the hope that something would be done
in the course of the next Session, to relieve them from the in-
justice under which they laboured.
Mr. LABOUC HERE was sorry that the Chancellor of
the Exchequer was not in his place, in order to explain what
he must consider a misconception on the part of the Hon.
Member. He could assure him that it was not the
wish, and never was the intention, of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer to take him or the House by surprise.—
( Hear.) He could only say with regard to the question,
the Hon. Gentleman had mentioned, that he knew it was the
opinion and intention of his Right Hon. Friend, when the
measure was first proposed for the consideration of the House,
while on the one hand he was most desirous to place the
coffee, the produce of the East Indies, on the same footing as
that of the West Indies, with regard to the amount of duty, yet
he considered it due to the West India Colonies to place the
CoiThe of the East Indies under the same restrictions of cer-
tificate of growth. That certainly was his intention from the
commencement. He would only state with regard to the petition
which had been presented by the Hon. Member, that he
perfectly coincided with the sentiments he had expressed.
He was most desirous that the House should give every en-
couragement for the developement of the agriculture of the
East Indies.

SIR ARTHUR WILMOT ;
A TALE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
In 2 Vols. London: Cochrane and Co. 1835.
This is a tale of the civil wars in England—a sub-
ject which ought only to be approached by novelists
of first-rate ability. It is strange that young authors,
(we always judge of an author's age by the amount
of experience and observation which we find reflected
in his works), should almost always treat of inordinate
passions or feelings, and sensations of which few men
can form an opinion from personal experience. Thus,
excessive terror, deep remorse, implacable resentment,
suicidal meditations, and murderous resolves, such as
Steinberg himself would have shrank from, are mere
playthings in the hands of several juvenile book-
makers, with many pretensions to the celebrity of
novel-writers for the season. The basis of the fiction
before us, is Remorse—a state of mind of which we
know but little, and never desire to know more. Seve-
ral of the best passages are, in the expressive language
of Bulwcr, " overwritten," to an extent for which no
beauty in the story itself can compensate. The
writer may not require to know that our opinion of the
merits of his tale is formed from skimming over de-
tached passages—we tried to read it through after our
usual fashion, but the effort was too much for us.

Mr. P. STEWART thought the Act had come up to the
limit intended by the House—namely, placing the duties upon
an equal footing, both in the East and West Indies. The Act
went no further than to prevent Foreign Colonies from coming
in to prejudice to their own.
Mr. CRAWFORD explained. He had no intention of
throwing out any taunt upon the proceedings of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers. He had merely wished to vindicate himself.
Mr. EWA RT admired the manner in which the Hon.
Member for Lancaster had defended the policy of his Majesty's
Government. He should ever support any motion for placing
the produce of the East and West Indies on an equal footing,
and he would say that it was disgraceful to that House to
have these duties so long without equalization. The impor-
tation of sugar from the West Indies was 400,000,000
cwt., while the total amount which was imported from
the East Indies was only 77,000 cwt., although in the latter
country it was the spontaneous produce of the soil, only want-
ing capital and skill to render it most productive. The quan-
tity of coffee imported from the West Indies was 22 millions
of lbs., while that from the East Indies, was only one and a
half millions of lbs. He had often heard the propriety of
equalizing the duties upon sugar, and the articles of agricul
tural produce in these countries, arid the facts he had stated
were corroborative of the necessity of that measure. He
had often called the attention of that House to the ar-
ticle of pepper. In the year 1825 the duty had been
reduced from half-a-crown to one shilling per pound, and the
consumption immediately rose from 900,0001b5. to 1,500,001b5.
Now he (Mr. E wart) contended that a duty of Is. in the lb.,
was a most extravagant one, more especially when the favoured
West India article of Pimento was admitted on payment of a
duty of sd. only. He hoped the East Indies would not sub-
mit to this injustice, but would forward remonstrances, and if
that did not succeed, something more determined than re.
monstrance.
Mr. BUCKINGHAM complained of the depressed state
in which the commerce of India was at present, from the in-
justice with which they had been treated with respect to the
articles imported from that country into England. There
were not less than 800 millions of acres of surface
in that country abundantly productive, and people were indus-
trious to an extraordinary degree; and yet, with all these ad-
vantages, the trade of the country was almost annihilated.
India had been treated most unfairly by this country. They
had given it a charter, and had provided for it institutions simi,
lag to their own; and yet all the time they had been only prac-
tising delusion with respect to India. He trusted that the
professions that had been made would end in something more
than mere words. If not, he hoped the Government of India
and the people of England would press the subject upon his
Majesty's Government in a tone that would be irresistible.
Mr. ROBINSON feared there would be somewhat more of
difficulty attending the equalization of the duties than Hon.
Members were aware of. Whenever his Majesty's Govern-
ment did so, he hoped along with equalizing the duties on
sugar, they would effect a considerable reduction in them.
Mr. GROVE PRICE presented a
,petition from Sir John
Claridge, late member of the Court of Record of Prince of
Wales's Island and the Island of Sincapore, complaining that
the Government of India had not fulfilled the terms of his ap-
pointment, and praying for an enquiry into his case.
Sir J. HOBHO USE was of opinion that the House ought
not to interfere with this case, which was purely one of law,
and did not come within the jurisdiction of the House.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL made a few remarks
which were understood to be confirmative of the opinion of
Sir J. Hobhouse.
Mr. WYNN also t'iought the House ought not to interfere.
Dr. LUSHINGTON, as a Member of this House, felt
that though he had been interested in the case, he could not
interfere.

Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the House at its rising do
adjourn to Monday next.
In answer to a question by Mr. ROEBUCK,
Sir G. GREY said, that the question respecting Mr.
Guillmem, of Canada, was a mere technical question, and was
not at all of a serious nature.
Lord J. RUSSEL moved the third read;,n-r of the Tith©
Instalment Bill.