The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-02 00:00:00

FACTORY BILL.

Lord STANLEY presented several petitions in fa-
vour of tho Ten Hours Bill.
In answer to a question from a NOBLE LORD,
The Duke of RICHMOND declared that he was deter-
mined to propose the clause which Lord John Manners
had propos©d in the House of Commons.
In answer to a question from the Earl of FEVER-
SHAM,
The Earl of GRANVILLE said that he should
move the second reading of the Bill on Monday, and
take the discussion on the motion for going into Com-
mittee on the Monday following.
(LEFT SITTING.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve
o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following Bills were read a third time, and
passed :
Cchrow's Estate.
Glasgow Markete and Slaughter-houses.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolw,hire Rti!way.
RIVER LEA TRUST BILL.

This Blil, zs emended. W3l considered and agreed to.
Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved, that jt should Le re-
ferred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bit's,
to ingaire whether the amendments involve any infruc•
tion of the stat.ding orders of the House ; that they
should have leave lo sit and Irecetd fortha itb.
Agreed to.

Ashby's Divorce Bill wad read a second titre, and
ordered to be commtted.—Agreed to.
Mr. LACY moved, that it be an instruction to the
Committee of Selection, that they have power to fix
the first sitting or the Committee on the Saint An-
drew's and Quebec Railroad Bill, for the 10th day of
this instant July, notwithstanding fourteen clear days
will not have elapsed between the second readings of
such Bills and the,meeting of the Committees thereon.
Agreed to.

The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment
Against it
Majority _

The Bill wai then read a third time and passed.
Tho House then adjourned until Five o'clock.

The Homo resnmed at Five o'clock.

THE IRISH CHURCH..

For the motion ... ...
Agaiovt it ... ... ...
Majority ••• ...
The motion was consequently lost.

PIRATES READ MONEY.

SIR ROBERT PEELS

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 21 1850.

part of what was due to them. Instead. therefore, of
injuring the tenant, he felt that in supporting the Bill
he was doing hies a benefit, and he should resist the
amendment.

Sir G. GREY, in a few words, stated the grounds
which would induce him to support the Bill as it stood.
The circumstances which ronderod the Bill necessary
in this country also existed in Ireland, and however
they might differ as to what would be the
operation of the measure, at least there could be no
harm in extending it to Ireland. Their doing
so would not at all interfere with any future
legislation on the subject of tenant-right in Ireland, and
he therefore hoped the House would negative the amend-
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Sir R. PRICE presented a petition from Hereford,
complaining of the recent poseal alterstions.
BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.

The Birkenhead Duck Masters' Bill gamed through
Committee pro forma.____
____

Mr. B. OSBORNE said be had this day received a
letter from a near relative of the Hon. Member for
Sheffield (Mr. Roebuck), stating that he was so unwell
as to be unable to leave his bed. He had, then fore, on
the part of the Hon. Member for Sheffield, to postpone
libe motion relative to the Irish Church which stood on
the paper in his name for this evening. Had it been
competent for another Member to bring forward the
motion in question, he (Mr. B. Osborne) would'have
undertaken to do so.—(Hear, bear.)
PETITION OF CHARLES RATHBAND HYATT.

Mr. F. O'CONNOR moved that the petition of Charles
Rathband Hyatt, complaining of the conduct of Mr.
Commissioner Fonblanque, and praying for inquiry (pre-
sented 24th of June), be printed.
Mr. TEIORNELY, as chairman of the Committeo on
Public Petitions, said the Committee had had the peti-
tion in question under their consideration, and that,
owing to the nature of several of the statements con-
tained in it, the Committee had declined to print it.
Atter a short discussion, in which Sir R. H. Inglis,
Mr. Brotherton, and Mr. O'Connor took part, the gal-
lery was cleared and the House divided, when there ap-
peared— •

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TEMPORARY BRIDGE AT WESTMINSTER.

Sir R. H. INGLIS moved the appointment of a Select
Committee on the temporary bridge at Westminster,
consisting of Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Lord Seymour,
Mr. Cardwell, the Chafcellor of the Exchequer, Mr.
Disraeli, Viscount Duncan, Lord Robert Grosvenor,
Mr. Peto, Sir Charles Burrel Mr. Bankes, Mr. D'Eyn-
court, Mr. Vernon Smith, Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr.
Greene, and Mr. Teruel!.
BUSINESS ON THURSDAY.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that, on Thursday, be
meant to take the Mercantile Marine Bill, contrary to
what he had stated the other night ; on that night, also,
the discussion on the Public Parks would come on,
that taking precedence of all other tinniness.
TENANT-RIGHT (IRELAND) BILL.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved that the second reading
of this Bill should be postponed until Thursday next.
After a few words from Mr. BRIG LIT, who urged
the Government to state what course they intended to
take with respect t, the measures before the House,
the motion was agreed to.
SUPPLY. _ _

The report of the Committee of Supply was brought
up and agreed
COURT OF EXCHEQUER (IRELAND) BILL.
The report on the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) Bill
(compensations and allowances) was brought up and
agreed, to.
BOROUGII-BRIDGES BILL.

The Borough-Bridges Bill as amended was considered
and agreed to.

The Piratos Heal Money &peal Act Commencement
Bill went through Committee.
SHERIFF OF WESTMORLAND BILL.

Tho Sheriff of Weitmorland Appointment Bill also
went through Committee.
PORTLAND HARBOUR BILL.
The Portland Harbour and Breakwater Bill was read a
second time and ordered to be referred to a Select Com-
mittee.
The House then adjourned shortly before Six o'clock.

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The following bulletin was issued at Seven o'clock
this evening :
" Sir Robert Peel is much exhausted, and alto-
gether not so favourable as in the fore part of the
day."

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON, and Barons ALDER
SON, ROLFE, and PLATT.)
THE BISHOP OF EXETER V. GORHAM.

Mr. Martin, Mr. Peacock, and Mr. Badeley were
heard to-day on the part of the Bish,op.
At the rising of the Court Mr. Badeley had not com
pleted his arguments.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius r.frPr Term, at Guildhall, before
the Lord Chit f Justice WILDE.)
The Court took special jury cases this morning; but
the business was of interest merely to the persons con-
cerned.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The July Sessions for the county of Middlesex opened
this morning, at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green.
Henry Allen, a little boy, who hal been convicted se-
veral times, pleaded guilty to stealing a handkerchief.
The JUDGE, in passing sentence, said this was one of
the pupila of the Summary Jurisdiction Bill. A father
brings up his children to steal, because he knows that
should they get convicted all his responsibility over
them ceases for ever. This state of things would be
averted if the Legislature would compel him to pay
2s. 6d. or 3R. a week for the child's maintenance while
in prison. He should pass what would seem a sfvere
sentence, so that he might be sent to Parkhurst arid learn
a trade. The sentence of the Court was that ho be
imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the Coldbath-
fields House of Correction for tvel years.

Devonshire, New York. Arrived from the River,
Pemterten, Aden ; Mathilde, Luckie, Demerara.
Arrd. Jrmes, Alogadore; Conservative, Waterson, Mau-
ri:ins•' Neptune, Leigh, Havanush, for Copenhagen;
John Bull, Duffell, Montreal; Nova Scotian. Corning,
St. John's, New Brunswick; Elizabeth Ilnlderness,
Morgan, ditto. Arrd, from the River, Barge, Bombay;
Reckless, St. Vincent.
COWES, JULY I.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Indus, Cox,
Bahia; Pelar, Havannah, and sailed for Antwerp; Flo-
ranee, Woodyard, ditto; 17th Mai, Sarck, ditto; Muck,
Valentin. Porto Rico; Daniel, Forster, ditto.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 30.—Wind W.S.W.—JULY
W.S.W.—Arrd. H. M. steamer Medea, Hong-Kong.
PLYMOUTH —Cetro steamer, Sanchez, New York, for
London.

OFF Dovtn.—Kosmos, Hartsmar, New Yolk, for
Bremer.

BRISTOL, JUNE 30.—Wind W.N.W.—Acrd. Cc-
cpiette, Barnes, Trinidad; Victoria, Avery, Newfound-
land; Ajux. Stark. Trinidad.

FALMOUTH, JUNE 30.—wind S.—JULY 1, W.S.W.,
fresh.—Arrd. Veers, Norrie, Havannah. Off port,
George, Bleeker, La Guavrn, and sailed for Altona.

IVIARLBRO'-STREET.—(TIIIS DAY.)
ROBBING A BENEFIT SOCIETY.--Patrick Mullins was
Silver-street,
brought, before Mr. Bingham.
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Patrick Corcoran stated that he was one of the trus-
tees of the society, and resided at No. 3, North-place,
Portman-marker. On the 11th of last month the trus-
tees received from the Provident Institution, St. Mar-
tin's•lane, the sum of 251., which sum they delivered
into the treasurer's hands on the 15'1, at the club-room.
Mullins, who was the treasurer, put the money into a
leather purse in the presence of witness and the other
trustees, and the purse was carefully locked up in the cash-
box. On the 20th of June the box was handed over to
the landlord. Last night, when the club met, witness was
told that the money, with the exception of 5/., was missing,
and as the prisoner was suspected to have stolen it, witness
went for an officer and the prisoner was given into cus-
tody. No portion uf the money had been found.
James Ker, landlord of the Royal Tent, 5, Silver-
street, said the society was held at his house. On the
24th of June last witness received the club box from
his wife, and placed it in his bar parlour. The keys of
the box were kept by the society.
The prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery.
The box had three keys, one of which was kept by him
and the other two by the trustees. He was positive the
money was safe when he gave the box to Mrs. Ker, on
the 20th.
A witness [proved seeing the prisoner take out the
notes on the night of the 20th of June, and put them
in his pocket. Witness did not take any notice of
this as the prisoner, in his capacity of treasurer, had the
paying of the sick members. When witness heard that
the money was missing, he informed the members of the
club of what he had seen.
The prisoner said he could explain this, ho had occa-
sion to take out of the box two sovereigns to give to
some sick members, and as the notes were in the way
he removed them, and held them in his hand until he
had put the remainder of the gold away, when he placed
the two 101. notes in a separate purse, and locked the
box in the presence of the trustees.
Mr. BINGHAM said the circumstances of the robbery
were very suspicious, but as there was not sufficient evi.
dence to warrant a further remand, he should discharge
him.

SUNDAY POST-OFFICE LABOUR
(From the Dcronport Independent.)
It is fair to presume that those well-meaning but
not over-reflective people who demanded a cessation
of Post-office labour on the Sabbath, have really
asked for more than they intended, and like many
other extravagant petitioners who get ail they
entreat, they have had the misfortune to obtain more
than they want. Because they do not like to open
a letter on a Sunday, all the people of these
kingdoms must be deprived of the advantages of postal
communication for two days. There are to be two
blank days to the man of business, two days without
intelligence of commercial matters, two days with-
out information between friends in times of afflic-
tion, when into an hour of suspense is crowded
the agony of years, two days before tidings of
distress are to reach the benevolent capable of re-
lieving it, two days' delay, by pious obstacles, in the
performance of deeds of piety or mercy. This
measure, passed by the Sabbatarians for the better
obstruction of all kinds of business, is the perfection
of folly. Let us inquire what many of the rigidly-
righteous of the House of Commons, who voted for
this embodiment of their wisdom, really do. They
open their eyes upon the Sabbath, and ring for the
attendance of their valet to go through his accus-
tomed task—not remembering the words " that thy
man-servant, and thy maid-servant may rest as well
as thou ; " they go to the breakfast-room that has
been prepared on the Sabbath, to take the breakfast
that with busy care has been laid out on the Sab-
bath for the satisfaction of their Sabbath creature
comforts ; they order their horses, groomed on the
Sabbath, to be harnessed in the carriage—Sabbath
cleaned, that the coachman who has to put the
fourth commandment in his pocket with his wages,
may drive them to church as the Sabbath bells are
ringing; the serving part of the household are en-
gaged in their Sabbath duties, connected with their
master's eating and drinking on that blessed day.
They may have learned that it is lawful to do good
on the Sabbath, and may have heard their employers
in secular humour exclaim that there is nothing
better than a good dinner. Leaving these gocd men
in Sabbath meditation, perhaps with their wives—
perheps over their wine, until they take their coffer,
we see every requisite has been associated with Sab-
bath-breaking down to the milk, for which the sinful
eadrymeid troubled the sinful cow. They take their
Sabbath supper through the Sabbath industry
of the larder, cook, and kitchen departments;
they retire at length to their bedrooms, arranged
on the Sabbath, and go to sleep on the beds so
somniferously Sabbath made; they read next morn-
ing with the greatest pleasure the Times or Chronicle,
the greater part of which was "got up" on the Sab-
bath, and in the evening go down to the House,
like unexceptionable saints, to denounce by their votes
the heinous crime of a widow receiving through
the pest a letter on the Sabbath or the day
after, from or about her dying child ! It generally
requires care in condemning the extravagant or
inconsistent regard 'for what is abstractedly a
great good, since the opposition to the intemperate
advocates of a principle might be taken for scoffing
at the principle they practically degrade, rather than
elevate. Hallowed indeed is the institution of the
Sabbath, but it becomes so, not so much from dis-
continuing thereon what is good belonging to other
days, as in adding to it much of goodness that belongs
peculiarly to itself. The position we take, therefore,
is not likely to be misunderstood by any reasoning
persons ; it is the position adhered to by those who
have inquired what it is that reason has to say on the
subject.
The only question is this—is there more of good
than of evil done by the delivery of letters once on
the Sabbath ? If people really believe that there is
more cf evil than of good, that the receivers of
letters are made more worldly, that the stream of
mercy and benevolence is not strengthened, that
kindly affections are not promoted, that it is not in-
telligence absolutely neceessary to be given on that
particular day that it is transmitted, then of course
they did perfectly right in opposing the continu-
ance of a Sunday post ; only they should
bear in mind that if it be wrong to run mails
on the Sunday, it is wrong to sail ships,
that it is wrong for clerks in the Post-
office to work under any circumstances, it is wrong
for clerks in any other dace to work, and a delayed
dispatch, instructions kept back which might have
been forwarded, the machinery of Government sus-
pended in particular cases in which it might have
been kept going, and numberless other aberrations in
the'ordinary course of affairs that may result in the
greatest confusion, or most serious accidents, must be
esteemed as slight sacrifices on the altar of resolute
principle.
If on the other hand, however, there be—and we
contend there is—more good than evil resulting from
the Postal communication on the Sunday, and if the
opportunities for good which were thereby possessed
will become, as we contend they must become, seri-
ously circumscribed, then there is no valid argument
for discontinuing that communication. We maintain
that the question is not simply whether a certain
number of persons in the employ of the Post-office
ought or ought not to do duty a short time on the
Sunday, but whether the whole population shall be
deprived, for two days out of every week, of some of
the greatest facilities they have ever possessed, not
only for commercial, but even for moral purposes.
With respect to the determination of Government
to give effect to the resolution of the House of Com-
mons, though we regret that determination, we must
be free to confess that few possessed of their discre-
tion in the matter would have used it otherwise than
they did. Tne representatives of the country chose
to allow a small compact party of Anti-Sunday-Post
men to place the Ministry in a minority, upon a
question far more important to their constituencies
than to the Administration. Mr. Rowland Hill had
previously met with every species of misrepresenta-
tion and abuse. Had he been a thorough reprobate,
and had every member of the Government resolved
to support him in an attempt to ignore the observance
of the Sabbath from the ritual of Christian obliga-
tions, scarcely more reproach could hare been cast
upon them. An absurd cry was raised, it was em-
bodied in a resolution, and the onus of rejecting it
was thrust upon the Government by the members
who preferred rushing to their dinners, or riding to
the races, to voting on the question. The Govern-
ment, therefore, found one party making earnest de-
mands, in ignorance as is believed, of the practical
effect of them, if conceded ; and another party with-
out sufficient interest on the question to abstain from
a race or postpone a dinner. Under these circum-
stances the Government resolved to let one party
know exactly what it was they did, and the other feel
what it was they neglected to do. It is very provok-
ing unquestionably, especially since Lord Brougham's
legal doubts as to the correctness of the course pur-
sued, turn out as light as his own political reputation;
but in the end this affair will prove the surest means
of silencing for ever an agitation characterised by
such an extraordinary disparity between motives and
results.
The suspension for two days of all Postal commu-
nication will never be tolerated when the inconve-
nience and loss involved come to be felt. As it is,
the success of the righteousness of the House of
Commons only springs out of a love for horse-racing,
and an impatience for a dinner !
(From the Welshman.)
SUNDAY LABOUR IN TEE POST.OFFICE.—OO
Sunday last the recent regulations (published
elsewhere) respecting the non-delivery of letters on
the Sabbath Day came into operation in this and all
other towns throughout the kingdom, and although
it would naturally be less felt here than in other
places of more extended commercial importance, in
consequence of the comparative strictness with which
the Lord's Day is usually observed in Carmarthen,
yet even in this town the public was subjected to a
great amount of inconvenience and annoyance, which
will, of course, be considerably multiplied in all cases
where an emergency shall arise for the rapid trans-
mission of intelligence. We may remark, en passant,
that if the regulation was intended to promote relax-
ation from labour on the part of those employed in
the Post-office here, it decidedly failed, for there was
no remission of toil on the part of the usual employes,
if we except the actual delivery of the letters and
newspapers. It is only an act of justice to acknow-
ledge the convenience afforded by the deputy-post-
master
'of this town, by giving an extra delivery at
seven o clock on Monday
morning, thereby affording
an opportunity of replying by first mail to London.
lit is evident that a recurrence to the old mode must
be speedily resorted to, but it is, perhaps, judicious
that the present system should be, permitted to dis-
play the full amount of vexatious inconvenience it
entails.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY 2.—Wind this day at noon S.W. to
S.S.W., fresh breeze and fine, but cloudy at times.
=The Mendschap (Dutch galliot) was struck by light-
ning on the 27th of June, in the Bay of Biscay, and
abandoned ; crew, except one man, saved by the Pro-
pantes steamer, arrived in the River.
LIVERPOOL, JULY I.—Wind N.W. Arrd. Lan-
caster, M•LAlan, Demerara; Hore, Trinidad; Satellite,
Markham, Mobile ; Hebe, Hargreaves, Savannah;
Camelia, French, New York ; Izzeraza, Now York;
Robert A. Lewis, Vaughan. St. John's, New Bruns-
wick; St. Andrew, Paton, Montreal; Toronto, Ballac-
tine, Montreal; Dauntless, Johnson, Maranham; Sarah
Botsford, Tstatanzas; Majesty, Waters, Rio Ilache; Lord
Elgin, Ilchester, Demerara; Austria, Borland, New
Orleans; Emma Field, Snow, New Orleans; Frances
P. Page, Robson, New York; Weft Point, Allen, New
York ; Margaret steamer, Leetch, New York and
Sydney; C. K. Elvers, St. Jelin's, New Brunswick.
Sld. James Wright, New York. The Angelo, Ame-
rican, hence to Bocton, went on chore on Rushlin
Island, on the 24th instant, but has fbated off in a
few hours with loss of part of false keel.
DEAL. JUNE 30.—Wind W. t) W.S.W., fresh.—JULY
I.—Wind W.S.W., fresh.—Arrd. Hamilton, Callao ;
Tullertere St. Vincent ; Yorktown, S',2bur, New York ;
Buenos Ayrean, Major, Whatripos ; Archimedes, IV y-
chelae. Cape of Good Hope ; Retorm, Porto Rico. Ar-
rived from the River and sailed, Northumberland, Mel-
bourn, South 4uotralis ; Australasia, Hobart Town ;

(From the Car:isle Journal.)
THE NEW POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS.-At a
numerou4 meeting of the members of the Cooker-

First
Second
Third

mouth Mechanics' Institute, on Wednesday last, the
following petition to the House cf Commons was
unanimously adopted on the motion of Mr. Smet-
hurst, &,ec,.-mded by Air. Thomas Martin :
" To the Honourable the Commons or the tfeited

dom of Great Britain and ?laud in Parliament as-

sembled.
" The humble petition of the members of the Cocker-
mouth Mechanics' Institute, in the county of Cum-
bHland,
" Sheweth—Tliat the above institute has been estat-
lishod many years, during which it has been the means
of doing much good, by promoting the welfare and hap-
piness of its members generally by being open on the
Sunday afternoon as a refuliog room.
" But as your Honourable House has lately been
pleased to pass a resolution prohibiting the delivery
of newspapers and letters on the Sunday, which dry
they arrive iu Cockermouth, keeping them locked up
till Monday, when the great majority of your petition-
ers, being working men, have no means of reading or
seeing them;
" 17e v:erefore humbly pray that your Honourable
House will be pleased to rescind your lute resolution, so
that we may learn the passing; events, end read the de-
b Ates of your Honourable House es usual.
" And your petitioners will ever pray."
Another petition of the electors and inhabitants of
the place has been numerously signed by all parties
of politicians, and a general feeling,* of indignation
exists in the town against the Comtnons resolution.
We trust the example set by Cockermouth will be
speedily followed by every town in the kingdom, for
a more insolent, dictatorial, inconvenient, absurd,
and canting measure was never btfore heard of in
England.

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CHELMSFORD, JUNE 28.—Prices to-day were as follow:
Wheat, white, old 365 to 475; new 37s to 48s; red, old
33s to 4Ps; new, 345 to 41s ; barley, 23s to 235 ; chevalier
245 to 26s ; grinding 21s to 23s ; oats 15s to 20s ; malt 53s
to 555; clavalier b4s to 565; peas, partridge, new 25a to
27s ; old, —5 to --s ; white, new, 26s to 28s ; old, —s to ;
dun, new, 24s to 26s ; beans, tick, new 23s to 26s ; old, 945
to 275; harrow ticks, 'new 21s to 275; old 25s to 28s; ma-
zagan, new 22a to 24s ; old 23s to '2ss per qr.
KIRICALDY, JUNE 29.—The following are the quotations
up to this date :
Wheat. Barley.
First 41s Cd 21s 6d
second 403 ed 20s 6d
Third 3ss Od 173 Od
Oatmeal, per hay: of 280Ibs
lIADDJNGTON, JUNE 28.—T1
grain at our market to-day
heat.
,Vs O i
393 7,1
.. 36s Od

Oats. Beans.
21s Od —s Od
Ai 6d —s Od
17s Od ,—s Od
imperial, •27s Od to
'he following are the

Barley. I Oats.
25s Od 21s 10d
21s 5d 20s 4d
;8s Od 1155 Od

Peas.
—a Od

—s Od

I—s Od
03 Od.

prices of

Pans.
32s Od
28s 7d
259 Od