The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

PIRATES HEAD MONEY BILL.

The Earl of ELLEN BOROUGH directed the atten-
tion of the House to this Pill. It had come up from the
Commons a month since, and it was to commence from
and afttx the Ist of JuLe. Being a money Bill they
could not alter it, and it. consequently would nut come
into operation for twelve months.
Earl GREY would consider the subject.
LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET BILL.
Lord STANLEY drew the attention of their Lord-
ships to a clause introduced into this Bill, prohibiting
any pereon from ndling a single heed of cattle, except
in the mat ket of Liverpool, or the markets authorized
by the company within the district under the juira-
diction of this BP, which district included the
whole of the Southern division of Lancashire. There was
a provision authorising the company to make their shares
30/. shares instead of 25t. shares, in order to reduce tie
nominal amount of their dividend, and giving this cern
ran), a monopoly of the market; and this Bill find teen
introduced and carried through the Home of Commons
by the f.ec-trade Members of Liverpool and Lancashire.
He presented a petition against the Bill. He did not
object to the second reading, but before it went into
Cotiumitte he wished to draw the attention of the Pre-
sident of the Board of Trade to the subject.
Lord BEAUMONT thought that the Bill might be
rejected en its own merits, and he hoped the Noble
Lord would move its rejection on the second reading.
It established such a monopoly as never was heard of
before.

Lord STANLEY would not move the rejection of
:he Bill at once, but wuuld leave it to their Lordship
:o deal with it.

GREECE.

Lord STANLEY hid on the table the words of .the
resolution be intended to propose on Friday. The reso-
lution was—" That while this House recognised that it
was the right and duty of the Government to afford to
her Majesty's sufjecis residing in foreign states the
fullest protection, yet they had found, with regret
from the papers laid before the House, that
of late certain claims had been urged upon the
Greek Government of doubtful justice, and of exagge-
rated amount, and that recourse had been had to coer-
cive measures to enforce those claims, measures which
were detrimental to our amicable relations with the
Greek Government, and calculated to interfere with our
friendly relations with other powers."
ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL.
kip Tee Marquis of WESTMEATH rose to draw the at-
tention of the [louse to the Bill which he had introduced
on this subject..
Lord BEAUMONT urged the Noble Marquis to post-
pone the second reading of the Bill.
Lord STANLEY also urged the postponement.
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Ti-;e Ea! of GLENGALL hoped the Noble Marquis
would persevere. It waz absolutely necessary to put a
stop to the sale of encumbered estates by the COMMii-
sioners, which was a wholesale confiscation. It was a
robbery and a confiscation to sell estates in this way to
pay encurnherances.
Lord LANGDALE called the Noble Earl to order.
Thera was no question before the House.
The Earl of GLENGALL at first refused to sit down,
but on his being reminded that there was no question
More the Howse, he ultimately gave way. •
The Marquis of WESI'MEATH postponed the
second reading of the Bill to Monday next.
SUNDAY TRADING PREVENIION BILL.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH wished, before pro-
ceeding to another stag© of this Bill to draw
their Lordships' attention to the subject. Not
one of their Lordships, not ore of the upper classes,
would be interfered with ; they might have their carriages,
they might make their journey, they might take their
pleasure, but the poor men could not buy one pound of tea
or one pound of bread after twelve o'clock on Saturday
night; and tha poor man who received his wages late,
and unable to purchase his provisions, would be driven
to the cook-shop for his dinner; and nothing could be
more detrimental to the morality of the lower classes than
to drive them from their homes on a Sunday. There
was one clause authorising the police to seize provisions
sold on Sunday. he believed, and he was borne out in
this opinon by Mr. Mayne, that were the police to en-
force that 'provision it would create a strong feeling
against them and against the law, and would excite greet
conftnian, as there were more than 20,000 persons who
would be violating the law, and Mr. Mayne had refused to
suffer them to make suezurea under local Acts, because
it tended to a breach of the peace, as the women and
children flew out and resisted, and ho did not think the
selling things in the street on Sunday existed to such
an extent as to authorise the interference of the police.
He was desirous to put an end to Sunday trading, but
he thought it was better to suffer Sunday trading then
to create a Sunday riot. He thought that public-houses
should be closed earlier on Saturday night, and that the
markets should be permitted to remain open until
two o'clock on Sunday morning, and he
would stop all trading on Sunday morning
between ten and OD° o'clock, but he did not feel
disposed to propose any amendment in the Bill,
He would, however, caution their Lordships as to how
they legislated on a matter which would nut affect their
comforts, but which did affect materially the comforts of
the poor man.
The Earl of HARROWBY rose, and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)