The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-22 00:00:00

LOAN.

Mr. HAWES seeing the Noble Lord the Secretary for
the Colonies in his place, wished to ask him if it was
true that her Majesty's Government had received from
the Legislature of Demerara an ordinance-for the pur-
pose of raising a loan for the promotion of immigration
into the colony, which ordinance was accompanied
by another, voting a civil list for a number of years; but
this ordinance was contingent upon her Majesty sanc-
tioning the first ordinance. He also wished to ask whe-
ther any measures had been adopted with regard to emi-
gration for India, and he trusted there would be no ob-
jection to lay before the House any documents connected
with the subject.
Lord STANLEY said the Hon. Gentleman had been
correctly informed as to the terms for the Tote for an
emigration loan for Demerara. He had receired that
ordinance by the last mail. He stated to the colonial
authorities that it appeared to him that the Bill had
been passed in great haste, only two days having elapsed
between the time of its introduction and the time of
its passing, and that as it was clear sufficient time
had not been afforded for the colony to express
its opinion on the subject, he should postpone
submitting the ordinance to her Majesty, until the
colony had had an opportunity of expressng its opinion.
All the papers relating to emigration to the %Vest Indies
had been laid before the House with the exception of
one dispatch, and that he had no objection to lay before
the House. With regard to emigration from India, a
correspondence had been going on with the Governor-
General on the subject ; and he could state that a mea-
sure requiring that a certain number of females should
accompany every batch of emigrants from India was
at present under consideration ; but the question had
not been decided as yet, because great difficulty
existed in prevailing on respectable females to ac-
company their husbands in these emigrations ; and
if it were insisted on that a certain number of females
should accompany each batch of emigrants, the class
of females who would so accompany them would not be
likely to conduce to the reputation of the country for
morality.—(A laugh.) With regard to the ordinance
for the civil list it certainly depended on the other
ordinance, but the civil list related to the year 1847, so
that there was ample time to take it into consideration.
_ _ FEES TO CLERKS OF THE PEACE.

Mr. B. ESCOTT wished, in order to prevent mis-
apprehensions, that the Right Hon. Secretary for the
Home Department would explicitly state that the Bill to
which he had alluded last night related to a totally dif-
ferent class of fees than those to which he (Mr. Escott)
had alluded, and the receiving of which was at present
illegal.
Sir J. GRAHAM agreed that the fees to which the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman had alluded were illegal.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
On the motion of Sir G. CLERK, it was agreed that
the House, as its rising, do adjourn till Monday.
MEDICAL PROFESSION.

Sir J. GRAHAM, in answer to a question from an
Hon. Member, stated, that he should certainly intro-
duce the Bill for the regulation of the Medical Profes-
sion during the present session. Whether he should be
able to pass it would be another question.—(A laugh.)
ABINGDON ELECTION.
Mr. CHRISTIE, seeing the Solicitor-General in his
place, wished to put to him a question. It would be in
the recollection of the House that the Government had
introduced a Bill for the disfranchisement of the
borough of Sudbury on account of bribery. He
wished to ask if it was true that, at the newt election

for Abingdon, the newly-elected Member had at his
chairing distributed 50/. among the crowd from a
bag of money in his lap ? The following account
of the chairing had appeared in the newspapers.
(Here the Honourable Gentleman commenced read-
ing a description of the chairing of the Solicitor-
General. It stated that the procession started from
the Town Hall, which consisted of a brass band, with
twenty pensioners. The Solicitor-General sat in a chair
ornamented with flowers and ribbons ; the chairing of a
Member was considered important, for it was customary
for the gentlemen who were elected to take a bag of silver
money with them, which they distributed among the
crowd. One gentleman, Mr. Mabberley, distributed
120/. in this way, Mr. Duffield not more
than 701—(A laugh)—and the Learned Solici-
tor-General threw away but 50/. It was amusing to
see the old women holding out their aprons to receive
the money which the Hon. and Learned Member, like an
elegant gentleman as he was, threw away.—(A laugh.)
There was a great deal of scrambling, scratching, shout-
ing, and fighting, such a scene took place as baffled all
description, and thus terminated the Abingdon election.)
—(Much laughter.) He (Mr. Christie) believed that
the words of the late Act of Parliament did not
apply to the custom of" scramble-money," but one could
see that with a little arrangement it could be converted
to the purpose of direct bribery. It could not, at all
events, tend to exalt the purity of election ; and he
therefore begged to ask the Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man, whether it was true or false that he contributed, in
the manner he had just described, to promote the purity
of Parliamentary election ?—(Hear, hear.)
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that a very in-
correct and, he believed, irregular practice had been intro-
duced into that House of putting questions not relating
to matters before the House, or with regard to Bills with
which Members might be charged, but upon matters
wholly foreign to it, and occurring in a different place,
and which might excite the curiosity of Hon. Members.
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, it was true, gave
him notice of his intention to put this question so long
ago as yesterday week, but circumstances prevented
him (the Solicitor-General) being in his place
at the time for asking questions. He had, however,
hoped that the opportunity afforded the Honourable
and Learned Gentleman in the interval for reflection,
would induce him to consider what extreme impropriety
there was—(Oh, oh !)—in putting a question of this
description. He certainly should not give sanction to
the practice which had been introduced ; and, therefore,
he begged leave most distinctly, at the same time with-
out any want of respect for the Hon. and Learned Gen-
tleman, to decline answering such a question.
Mr. CHRISTIE said that the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman could take what course he liked, either to
answer or not the question which he had put ; but
he put it to the Hon. and Learned Gentleman as a Mem.•
ber of her Majesty's Government, which brought in a
Bill to disfranchise Sudbury.—(Cheers.)
COMMONS' INCLOSURE BILL.

In answer to a question from Lord J. MANNERS,
respecting the Commons' Inclosure Bill,
The Earl of LINCOLN said that it was not true that
the Government had taken charge of the Bill. On
Monday, probably, he would be able to state what were
the intentions of the Government with regard to it, as he
intended before then to have an interview on the subject
with the Noble Lord who introduced it.
NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
_ _

Mr. SHEIL wished to know from the Right Hon.
Baronet at the head of the Government whether he had
given any directions to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
with regard to the distribution of the patronage of the
Church with regard to education.
Sir R. PEEL said he did not know upon what the ques-
tion of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was founded,
and what he stated to the Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land was that he was desirous that the patronage
of the Irish Church should be appropriated to those who
had the best claims on the ground of professional merit
and character, and that he hoped he should never hear a
word respecting any appointment on political grounds.
He gave his cordial approbation to the system ofNational
schools, but it was untrue that he desired the Lord
Lieutenant to require any test on the subject of education.
He would again caution Honourable Gentlemen not to
place implicit credit in reports which appeared in news-
papers.—(Hear, hear.)