The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-06 00:00:00

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

BRADFORD lIEFORM ASSOCIATION.

Sir,—On Wednesday Ist May, the Landlord and
Tenant Bill was read a second time. The object of
this Bill appears to be to encourage cultivation by
enabling owners for life in certain cases to make
agreements with the tenants which shall be binding
on successors. One danger manifestly attending, is
that owners for life should make away with the inte-
rests of their successors. It is possible to imagine an
owner for life saying to the tenants, Give me five
shillings more per acre, and I will sign anything you
can propose under the Act.
This danger apart, it is probable that the whole
effect of the Bill will not be much, except affording
considerable cover for country solicitors. If a land-
lord sets up one claim under the Bill, it does not ap-
pear difficult for the tenant to set up another ; so that
the tendency will probably be, for landlords and
tenants to counteract each other.

In the Benefices in Plurality Bill, the Member for
Montrose moved to stop at the word "Benefices,
leaving out the " unless" and all that followed. This
may be very well as a juke; like the Frenchmen who
voted the indivisibility of their heeds from their
bodies. But in practice, 13; fore a thing is enacted, it
is necessary to show the way how. It is clearly not
the serious obje-ct of anybody, to settle by a vote in
Committee, that parishes of incomes insufficient to
support a clerical teacher shall have none. There
may be those who would make a sweep of the whole
Establishment ; but, even for them, this is not the
way to go to work. Leaving then the sweeping
question to wait its own time, the present question is,
what is to be done with parishes having revenues only
sufficient to support the third or the fourth part of a
clergyman. One way that may suggest itself may
be, to put three or four such together. But sup-
pose they are not there. Suppose the case is, of a
parish able to support only the fractional part, but
having no other case of the same kind near it, and
bordered only by rich parishes supporting incumbents
it may be in wealth and splendour. Unless the time is
come for a general re-organization of the whole
(which is not to be done by a vote in Committee), the
Committee must make the best provision it can fur
the poor parish having somebody to marry and bury
its inmates at all. And this there seems to be no way
of doing in the case described, except by allowing the
poor parish to cohere to a rich one, under certain
provisions with respect to distance. To which point
the proceedings of the Committee, as far as they have
gone, appear to have tended.
On Thursday the Bill for repealing the Attorneys'
and Solicitors' annual Certificate Duty was carried
against the Government by 155 to 136. It would
seem to be a very ordinary piece of policy, fur a
Government to find out when public opinion has prac-
tically concentrated itself against a tax to the extent
implied in such a parliamentary majority, and avoid the
contest. The argument set up and supported by the
minority, was that there were other taxes which in the
opinion of individual Members more wanted removing.
Which may be quite true, and still it may be a ques-
tion whether it was wisdom in Members zealous to

minish taxation, to vote for maintaining a bad tax
which there was a great present probability of re-
moving, because they could point out a worse tax,
which there was no present probability of removing
at all.

On Friday Sir George Grey gave notice of his
Amendment and Clauses to be proposed in Committee
on the Factories Bill. The marginal descriptions of
them are as follow :

" No young person or fmale to be employed before six
A.M. or after six P.M. or on Saturdays atter two P.m."
"Provisions of 7 and 8 Vic. c. 15, requiring notices
of times of beginning and ending work, to be hung up,
repealed."
" Meal times to be taken between half-past seven A.M.
and six P. M."

" Toung persons or females not to be employed in re-
covering lost time (under 7 and 8 Vic. c. 15, § 33),, after
se Yen P.M."

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN ULD REFORMER.
London, Gth May, 1850.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The following bulletin of her Majesty's health was
issued on 'Saturday :
A Buckingham Palace, May 4, Nine A.M.
" The Queen has had another good night.
"11.er Majesty and the infant Prince continue well.
" JAMES CLARK, M.D.
" CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
" ItonEar FRaGusoN, M.D."

The next bulletin will be issued on Monday.

Her Royal highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited the Queen on Saturday, at Buckingham
Palace.

ller Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
her Majesty on Saturday afternoon.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen
paid a visit to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on
Saturday, at Buckingham Palace.
Yesterday her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent visited the Queen.
The nobility and gentry called on Saturday, at
Buckingham Palace, to read the bulletin.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, with their
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Al-
fred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
attended by Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gor-
don and Mr. Birch, honoured the Colosseum with a
visit on Saturday morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness
the Prince of Leiningen, the ladies and gentlemen cf
Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine
service yesterday morning in the private chapel of
Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald
Wellesley officiated.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess
Alice, the Princess Helena, and the Princess Louisa,
took their usual exercise yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and his
Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen went to
Frogmore on Saturday, returning to Clarence House,
St. Jatnes's,inthe afternoon.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge at-
tended Divine service yesterday morning in the chapel
of the Lock Hospital.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen and
his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre
on Saturday evening with their presence.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge vi•
sited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
on Saturday, at Gloucester House.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
Foreign-office. It was attended by the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey.
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hob-
house, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right Hon. 11. La-
bouchere, and the Right Hon. Fox Maule. Tne
Council sat one hour and a half.
Lord John Russell was prevented by indisposition
from attending the Council.
Governor Higginson had an interview with E,el
Grey on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were received on Saturday at the Colo-
nial-office from the Governors of the West India

colonies. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleugh and
family arrived at their town residence, Montagu-
house, on Saturday, from Northamptonshire.
The Marquis of Angletey and the Duchess of St.
Albau's attended the early service yesterday in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's.

Fox CLUB.—The members of the Fox Club met
on Saturday evening at Brookes's. There were present the
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Hon. Lord Marcus Hill, M.P.,
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Rowland Alston, Mr. 11. F. Stephenson, Right Hon. G. W.
Fitzpatrick, M.
Frederick Dundas, Colonel Ferguson, M.P., Right Hon.
Lord Saye and Sele, Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P., l‘lr.
A. K. Stephenson, Colonel Hon. George Anson, M.P., Mr.
Right Hon. Viscount Enfield, M.P.
Edward Ellice. jun., M.P., Right Hon. Earl of Strafford,
and the
REPRESENTATION OF EAST KENT.—We have only
space this week to direct our readers, attention to a curious
series of addresses on this subject which appears in our ad-
vertising columns this day, the contending parties being the
brother Protectionists, J. P. Plumptre, Esq., DI.P. , Sir
Edward Cholmely Deering, and Sir Brook Bridges, Baronets.
—Kent Herald.
The Nottinghamshire Guardian states that Mr.
Tanner, of Buckholt, has lost nearly 2CO sheep which had
eaten sprouted corn, the seeds of which had been steeped in
a solution of arsenic.
THE NEW MAIL CONTRACTS FOR BRAZILS AND
THE WEST INDIES.—The Lords of the Treasury have just
sanctioned the contract with the Royal 'West India Mail
Packet Company for the conveyance of the Brazilian snails,
and a new mail route scheme for the West India mails. The
Brazilian mail route scheme is as follows : Steamers are to
run.between Southampton and Rio de Janeiro, touching at
tlre Cape de Verd Islands and.i Pernambuco. Branch mail
steamers are to run between Rio de Janeiro and the River
Plate. According to the terms of the new West India Mail
route scheme steamers are to run twice a month between
S,,uthampton and Chagres, calling at Madeira and St.
Thomas. These steamers are to return by the same route.
St. Thomas is to be the foreign packet station at which the
inter-colonial mails are to be deposited, and from which they
are to be distributed. These arrangements are to come into
operation as soon as the necessary ships are complete.
The Ilibtrnia, Captain Lang, sailed from Liver-
pool on Saturday, for Halifax and Boston.
held on
COURT OF ALDERMEN.—A Court
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Thursday immediately before the Commowr:
Queen,
sembled. for the purpose of voting an addressthe
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Councilte
congratulating her Majesty upon
and adoPtaedgo a net was put into the
Prince. The address, which afbouncleidt; as we are given to
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understand, with expressions
by the unanimous vote ()f
Laurie, seconded by
her
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the Court.
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FINE Ftsu.—A
Ouse, at Bletsoe, and at one haul six pike were taken, which
weighed together up
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