The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-16 00:00:00

I Sir ROBERT PEEL said the Budget would be brought
forward an Monday week, the 29th instant.
A brief discussion took place relative to the late
delivery of letters in the Midland Counties, when Sir
ROBERT PEEL stated that the Government were most
anxious to afford every facility to the speedy trans-
mission of letters, but they w ere hampered by the
great expense to which the public were put by making
terms with railwv.ys. He at the same time intimated
that railway proprietors would best consult their own
interest by facilitating communication through the
Post office.
Mr. WILLIAMS said if railroad companies refused
to give every reasonable facility for the transmission
of letters, and every other communication, they ought
to be c-mnpelled by law to do their duty.
After some questions and notices of motions, the
House went into Committee of Supply, and on the
motion that a vote of .59,3.50/. should be passed for
salaries and other expenses of the officers of the two
Houses of Parliament, Mr. WILLIAMS objected to it,
on the ground that the House of Lords did not give
in an estimate, like other establishments, for what
they might want. After some discussion, Mr. Hums
moved that the vote be reduced by 15,000/., and, on
a division, there were for the amendment 13, and
against it 69. A number of other votes were agreed
to, and the House resumed.
On the motion of Sir J. GRAUAM, the County
Courts Bill was read a second time.
A new writ was ordered for the borough of Wood-
stock, in the room of Mr. THERIGER, appointed
Solicitor-General. - -
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed
of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Twelve.

The Irish Registration Bill was last night post- '
poned, and an attempt, as atrocious as any that our
times have witnessed, to deprive the Irish people of
their fair share of political privileges, and to fritter
away the little semblance of justice which a Tory Go •
vernment can afford them, is for the present sus-
pended. Never was anything more monstrous than
the Tory notions of justice to Ireland. Justice, in-
deed !—injustice is the English of it—one-sided legis-
lation on every subject ;—law making, with a view
only to the benefit of the party, and with an entire
denial of all equality, or claims to fair dealing. For
years the Tories have been annoyed by the state of
the Irish representation ; they have cursed the liberal
majority which that kingdom sends al-q-1 must send to
Parliament, so long as the grievances of Ireland re-
main unredressed, and its cry for justice is unheeded.
But instead of removing the cause, they seek to re-
move the effect—instead of giving justice, they seek to
perpetrate woful wrong—and, regardless of the voice
which proclaims injuries and evils, existent and
pressing, they seek to stifle the power of complaint,
and to smother the complainants. The constituency
of Ireland, small as it is, at present is beyond the
Tories to manage. They have long sought, and they
now seek, to cripple, and to destroy it. Their Regis-
tration Bill is only a continuance of their attempts to
govern Ireland by means of their own ; by the sup-
pression of the public voice, and by the domination of
Tory landowners and Tory tools. But we know
little of Irish perseverance if this Bill, this worthy
follower of the Irish Arms Bill of last session, be
allowed to pass into a law ; and disgraced indeed will
the Irish Members of the House of Commons be, if
they do not in one body join to repel such an insult,
and prevent such an injustice as the PEEL-and-
STANLEY Registration Bill. Registration for Ire-
land, in Tory phraseology, means annihilation of the
constituency ; and no man more bitterly hates in
Ireland, that which in England the Chandos clause,
and the reservation of old and corrupt rights, enabled
him to use for his purposes, than does Sir ROBERT
PEEL.

A new writ was last night moved for Woodstock,
vacant by the promotion of Mr. THESIGER to be So-
licitor-General.
But it would seem that the Learned
Gentleman must get into the House of Commons by
some other means than Woodstock, for the Marquis
of BLANDFORD stands for that place. His address
to the electors, dated yesterday, pledges himself to
nothing but to oppose the aims and objects of Whigs,
Radicals, and Destructives. He is canvassing the
borough, and with very little success, from the good
feelings of the constituency ; but the powers of the
Duke will be put into full force for his son, and no
doubt their votes will be given to the Marquis at the
poll. But where is Mr. THESIGER to be returned
for ? It was supposed that the safety of his seat gave
him the call before Mr. KELLY, but it was not S 3, is
it now seems, and Sir ROBERT PEEL must find a
place in Parliament, as well as at the bar, for his new
Solicitor-General. Will he try Horsham ?

It is a curious fact, no less strange than true, that
Tory jobbery and mispanagement have been found
out, even in the highest quarters ; and not only found
out, but exposed and corrected. Up to the time of
the Liberal-Government quitting office, the QUEEN'S
Household was conducted on a scale of great liberality,
but at the same time its expenditure was kept within
the bounds of the income allotted to it. No sooner,
however, was a Tory Government ins inlled, than, from
some unexplained cause, Tory tradesmen are substi-
tuted for Liberals, and, either from a too profuse sup-
ply of articles, or from a general want of management
and economy, the cost of the Royal household be-
comes alarmingly increased. To such a pitch
did matters get, that the QUEEN herself took
the matter in hand, and, under the orders
of Royalty, the most searching inquiry took place
into the cause of the very great additional expendi-
ture. Some very extraordinary results of this in-
quiry have reached us, but the summary may be
stated in a few words. It was found that a system
1 of jobbery, and of something very like peculation, had
been introduced, and that a total want of manage-
ment had been shown by those who ought to have
attended to the details. The dismissals and the
changes in tile Royal Household, and the various
other reductions in the Palace expenditure, have all
been done by the express orders of her MAJESTY, who
has shown that she will neither sanction waste in her
household, nor allow her servants to rob their mis-
tress, and through her, the country.

An important Meeting of Delegates from the Lan-
cashire Districts was held at Manchester on Sunday
morning last, at which, among other resolutions, one
was moved " expressive of regret" that the Delegates
should have been compelled to meet on the Sabbath
—a circumstance to which Mr. HIGGIXDOTIIAM
alluded in the following terms :—" His experience
among the working classes of England convinced
him that they were as anxious to keep sacred the
Sabbath-day as any other class of society; but the
Factory Bill question was one upon which a united
expression of opinion from the representatives of the
manufacturing districts could not be given, unlessupon
that day." Highly creditable as this resolution of
"regret" for-meeting on Sunday is to the religious
feelings of those who passed it, we cannot but think
that it was in a great measure superfluous, for who
but the veriest fanatic could possibly have 'blamed the
Delegates for holding their meeting on the Sabbath—
more especially when the selection of that day was
one, not of choice, but of stern necessity ? Had the
question which they assembled to discuss been one of
an ordinary business character—had it involved none
but pounds-shillings-and-pence considerations, their
conduct might then have been justly reprobated as being
—to say the least of it—grossly and wantonly irrever-
ent ; but the object of their meeting was of a far higher
and nobler order—it was to assert the sacred rights
of humanity—to make known the temporal, aye, and
spiritual wants, too, of thousands of toil-worn, neg-
lected, and defenceless women and children—and to
what more righteous purpose than this could the
Lord's Day be possibly dedicated? If, however, the
prejudices of the ultra-orthodox should chance
of
to
receive a shock on hearing of this Smiclay meeting
the Factory Delegates, we would remind such well-
intentioned, but bigoted persons, that to advocate the
rights of the poor is at least as creditable an act as
giving a fashionable dinner party on the Sabbath,
figuring on the promenade in Hyde Park, or counting
the pleasure•wherries, from a palace-window at
Fulham, that may happen' to be floating
along the Thames ! But to pass from matters
of pure cant to those of charity and benevo-
lence—to those, in short, which intimately concern
the dearest interests of human nature. At the Dele-
gate meeting in question, it was proved, by incontro-
vertible evidence, that the anxiety for a Ten Hours
Bill was general among the operatives in the manu-
facturing districts, whO were quite prepared—to