The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-24 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, FEB. 23.—Wind, fresh breeze, from S. to S.W.,
and tine clear weather.

DEM, FEB. 22.—A.m. Wind E.S.E. to E., blowing strong.
Pau. N.E. by N., fresh breezes.—Arrd. Sarah Maria, Old-
ridge, Algoa Bay. Sld. Mars, Trinidad ; Massachusetts,
United States.

OFF BEACHY- HEAD, FEB. 16.—Friedrich Jacob, Nark-
men, New Orleans; Gwthe, Homann, Baltimore; Julia,
Dauneman, Charleston, (all for Bremen) ; Susannah
Christina, Corbrie, Batavia.
OFF WEI-mot:Tit, FEB. 21.—John George, Calcutta.
OFF DUNGENESS, FEB. 20.--4ohns, Rio for Hamburgh.
YARMOUTH, FEB. 21.—1 t is reported that a vessel bound
to Rotterdam with coals and copper, had gone on shore and
broken up at Pallino, yoatonla3:,.naa.tos• araw.oa.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 22.—Wind E.N.E., blowing hard.—
p.m., more moderate.—Arrd. Colombo, London, for Mauri-
tius and Bombay'; Prince George (transport), London, for
Bermuda. Sld. alway Lass, IN ; Energy, Jamaica ;
St. James, New York
TORBAY, FEB. 22.—Sid. Atlas, Martinique; Perilian, Ha-
vannah ; Ferdinand, Vera Cruz.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 23.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Chronometer,
Furse, Mauritius ; her Majesty's ship Larne. Off—Hope,
from Java. Sld. Johanna, Havannah.
WHITSTABLE, FEB. 22.—A schooner, reported to be the
Favourite, of London, bound to Cork, got in the Spanand
yesterday, but came off with loss of foretopmast.
DEAL, FEB. 22.—The °raven, bound to the Cape of Good
Hope, ran foul of the wreck at Deal Bank to-day, and was
obliged to slip from her anchors, but has been supplied.
LivEßrooL, FEB. 22.—Wind E.NE., moderate.—Off,
Quintin, Leitch, China; Montrose, —. Sld. Universe,
Bombay ; Aristocrat, Buenos Awes ; Ashburton, Entaw,
New York ; Sirion, St. John's, New Brunswick. The flat
Enterprise, on shore near Southport, has become a wreck ;
crew saved.

CORK, FEB. 20.-ofl, Alceste, Demerara. Sid. Lady
Napier, St. John's, New Brunswick.
SWANSEA, FEB. 19.—S1d. Black Diamond and Ferrier, Cuba.
WIIITEHAVEN, FEB. 21.—The Royalist, of Mar port, which
was driven on shore at Caldersfoot 18th inst., has been got
off, and towed in here.
The Sarah, of Barking, took fire on the 22d inst., between
the Shipwash and Whiting Sands, and soon after sank ; crew
saved by the Rancona steamer, in the river.
VESSELS SPOKEN WlTlL—Fortitudea Westbrook, Singa-
pore to London, Nov. 4, in the Straits of Baum ; Ann
Lockesley, China to Batavia, Bth, in the Java Sea ; Brigand,
27th ult., lat. 23, lon. 37 ; Codrington, 14th inst., lat. 43,
lon. 15, by the Aden, arrived at Liverpool: Agricola, of
Liverpool, lat. 5 N., lon. 21 W., by the Quentin Leitch, arrived
off Cork. John Tomkinson, out 103 days, lat. 23 S., lon. 71 E.,
by the Eliza, arrived in the Downs. French barque Cosmo-
polite, bound to Bombay, 11th ult., lat. 4 N., lon. 20 W. ;
Trinity yacht, bound to Algoa Bay, 13th, lat. 5 N., lon. 20 W. ;
barque Achilles, bound to Sydney, New South Wales, lat.
5 N , lon. 20 W. ; British barque Cigar, lat. 10 N., lon. 24 W.,
by the Avoca, arrived in the Downs. Brig Cambleton,
10th inst., lat. 43, lon. 13, by the Mary Jane, arrived at Mil-
ford. Tranby, (Aland from London, 14th ult., lat. 2 N.,
lon. 21 W. ; Chronometer, Mauritius to Plymouth, 28th,
lat. 20 N., lon. 36 W. by the Ambassador, arrived at Milford.
BLOCKADE OF ALICANT AND CARTHAGENA, IN-
CLUDING THE LINE OF COAST BETWEEN THE
ABOVE PLACES.
Spanish Consulate-General, 37, Old Broad-street,
London, Feb. 23, 1844.
Sir,—l have just received from his Excellency, the 111

nister of my august Sovereign at this Court, the following
communication :
Her Majesty has been pleased to order, that the Ports of
Alicant and Carthagena, together with the line of coast com-
prehended between them, be regularly blockaded, and that
the following regulations be observed :-
1. The blockade shall be continued so long only as shall be
necessary, and during the state of insurrection of those two
places, and cease the moment the sway of law and
obedience to her Majesty's Government shall have been re-
stored therein.
2. During the continuance of the blockade the aforesaid
ships of war (mentioned in the preamble of the decree as
ships of war and coast guard vessels) are to hinder all ves-
sels from entering the said ports, whatever cargo they may
carry ; but are, notwithstanding, to detain such as shall
convey munitions of war, for the purpose of being tried ac-
cording to law.
3. Foreign vessels lying at the blockaded ports at the
time this order shall be enforced are to be allowed to leave
freely for their respective destinations.
4. All vessels proceeding to the said ports after the decla-
ration of blockade, but in ignorance thereof, shall not be sub-
ject to any penal responsibility, if not previously notified or
advised.
5. Those that shall receive notice of the prohibition to
enter the blockaded ports, may direct their course to any
other Spanish port, but no goods, or articles of illicit trade,
shall be admitted, or allowed to be discharged thereto.
6. Every vessel containing munitions of war to the vessels,
or which shall knowingly break the blockade, shall be deemed
a good prize.
7. The commanders of the blockading vessels are to search
all vessels, for the purposes of hindering and preventing the
supply of the aforesaid munitions, and the escape of the chiefs
and agents of the rebellion ; but are to protect that of the
faithful and loyal. .
8. It is to be understood that the line blockaded by the
Royal order of this date is that extending from the port of
Benidorme, inclusive, to and as far as the River Almemzora,
upon Vera, &c. &c. (Signed)
JOSE MARIA BARRERO.
Spanish Consul-General.
Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals—Chronometer, Furse, from Mauritius, at Ply-
mouth, sailed 21st Nov., St. Helena, 31st Dec. Hope, Goss,
from Java, off Plymouth. sailed from Sourabaya. Sept., St.
Helena, 10th Dec. Sarah Maria, Oldridge, from Algoa Bay,
in the Downs, sailed from St. Helena, 6th Jan. John George,
Storey, from Bowl, off Portland, sailed 9th October, St.
Helena, 28th Dec. Nelson, from China, at Gravesend, sailed
14th Oct., Anjer, 4th Nov., St. Helena, Ist Jan. Quentin
Leitch; Gray, from China, off Cork, sailed 3d Oct., Anjer 3d
Nov., St. Helena, Ist Jan. Adam Clarke, from China, of Li-
verpool, sailed 22d Oct., St. Helena, Ist Jan. Bella Creole,
Purchase, from Mauritius, off Falmouth, sailed, 25th Nov.,
St. Helena, 2d Jan.
Arrivals at St. Helena—Pollux, Jan. 1, from Batavia, and
sailed 3d to Amsterdam ; Caroline Augusta, 2d, from Su-
matra, and sailed 3d to Salem ; Vasco de Garna, 3d, from
Batavia, and sailed sth to Amsterdam ; Margaret, Thomas,
sth, from Algoa Bay ; Rambler, Hutchinson, 6th, from Mau-
ritius; John William Dare, Ellis, from Calcutta; Lucie
Marie, from Batavia.
Departures from St. Helena—Elephanta, Ross, Jan. 3, to
Cowes; Duchess of Kent, 3d, and Tanjore, sth, to London.

eTCPULKO

HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 23.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took. his seat on the Wooltack a
few minutes after Five o'Clock.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE brought in a Bill to simplify the
transfer of real property, which was read a first time.
POOR-LAWS.—RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
The Bishop of EXETER presented two petitions from
Penryn, in Cornwall, and another place in the diocese of
Exeter, praying their Lordships to adopt some means of se-
curing spiritual instruction to the inmates of union work-
houses. The Right Reverend Prelate then proceeded to
move, pursuant to notice, for a Select Committee,
to consider the provision which might require to
be made for religious worship and spiritual instruc-
tion in the union workhouses in England and Wales. He
begged to state that he would not press this question to a.
division, as he would leave the question of Committee or no
Committee to the responsibility of the Government. He bad
paid attention to the defects of the Poor-law Amendment Bill
and to their operation for the last ten years, and in no portion
of it had he seen such defects as in that which related to
spiritual instruction. The inmates of the workhouses he had
seen exposed to the greatest spiritual destitution. He spoke
of what he had witnessed in his own diocese
and other places. He did net say things were not now ordered
better in this respect. He particularly instanced the union of
, Liskeard, where, in consequence of the Commissioners
, having originally omitted to nominate a chaplain
there was no spiritual instructor, except a Dissenting minister,
who came there without being sent for by the inmates. This
union formed a sort of precedent for the other, and this joined
with the exertions of the Dissenters, led to their having
no chaplains in any union throughout the diocese.
He held in his hand a remarkable proof of the accuracy of that
statement. In the union house of St. Austell there was a
large room originally designed for a chapel, but no chaplain
was appointed, and an unlicensed Dissenting minister preached
there twice every Sunday. In Bodmin, where the population of the
union amounted to 4,000, there was no chaplain, but the curate
gave his gratuitous services one day in the week to instruct the
poor.. But in consequence of the extent of his parish it was
wholly out of his power to visit them on the Sunday. There
was in that house 56 inmates who were old people and unable to
walk out of the house to church. There were also 45 children
who had no other instruction in religion but what they received
from schoolmasters. On Sundays, prayers were read by the
master, or sometimes by the porter. In St. Germain's union
workhouse there was no chapel, and there were thirty-two aged
persons who could never stir from the house. He came next
to a case of a grave character, that of Penzance. The union
contained nineteen parishes, and the population extended to
45,951. There too every exertion was made by the board of
guardians to obtain the appointment of a regular chaplain, but
the party who resisted that measure succeeded in procuring
the appointment of a clergyman who had apostatised from the
Church. The clergy of the neighbourhood offered to do the
duty gratuitously, but the board of guardians rejected the
offer on the ground that it would be against the law, as the
statute required that the chaplain must be an officer of the
union, and be paid for his services. He did not say anything
against the moral character of the person who was appointed,
but that he had cast off the office which he held in the Church.
He took away the prefix of reverend from his name, and
even went so far as to appear in public in a blue
coat and other coloured clothes. Having cast himself
from the Church he attached himself to a lady, who was a
daughter of a rigid Dissenter, a banker in the town of Pen-
zance. He went so far as to attend her chapel, and he had his
children baptised there. Their Lordships would suppose that
the appointment of that gentleman was not made with his (the
Bishop of Exeter's) sanction. It was reported to the Com-
missioners, and they sent down an Assistant-Cowmis-
sioner to inquire into the matter, but having re-
ceived his Report, they took no further notice of it.
It was not long before this time when one of the most bar»
barous instances of cruelty' was enacted in that union, when
the master imprisoned an unfortunate female in a dark hole,
although she told him that it would be the cause of her death,
owing to the state of health in which she was ; and the eons.-
quence was a premature labour and death. The Board of Guar-
dians notwithstandingretained him in his situation, and it was not
until the Assistant Commissioner heard of the matter, that he was
discharged. Baptism in that union was administered in the
workhouse instead of the parish church, and no registry was
made until long after birth in the parish books, in conse-
quence of it being considered a private baptism. The Lord's
Supper was administered by an unlicensed person, and contrary
to the laws of the Church. He should next allude to the parish
of Redruth, which consisted of nine parishes, containing a po-
pulation of 48,589 souls. The appointment of a chap-
lain to that union was opposed, and the consequence was, that
Divine service was performed by a Dissenting preacher. The
Assistant-Commissioner said the law required that some salary
should be given, and a nominal sum of 1/. per annum.
was given. This was then raised to 201., to which 60/.
was added by subscription ; and although the salary was
thus raised to 90/., no gentleman could be got to discharge
the duties in all the`, workhouses throughout Cornwall.
Divine service was performed in the dining-room of the
workhouse, to the great detriement of religion; and be
trusted that their Lordships, in any Bill they should bring be-
fore the House, would see that care was taken to provide
proper room, which should be alone devoted to the performance
of Divine service and the administration of the sacrament.
In the union of Oakhampton, the letter of the resident clergy-
man stated that the children born in the workhouse
were all illegitimate, and were never brought to the church
to be baptised. The consequence was, they were
never baptised, because the vicar of the parish had no power
to go to the union work-houe to baptise a child, unless it
was dangerously ill. Hence a great number of those un-
fortunate children died without baptism, and he need not point
out the awful result of such a state of things. The Tiverton
union presented an equally lamentable state of matters. He
thought that those cases which he had mentioned, and which
he could authenticate, formed sufficient grounds for his obtain-
ing the Committee. The north of England did not present
a more cheering aspect. The union of York contained 79
parishes, of which the population was 39,600,000, and in this
large union they refused to appoint a chaplain, solely, he be-
lieved, on the ground of expense. The appointment of a chap-
lain was, he thought, generally in the north of England, a
question of pounds, shillings, and pence.—(Lord Wharncliffe
here nodded hishead. ) The Noble Lord seems to assent.—( Lord
Wharncliffe here made a gesture of dissent with his head.)
The Right Rev. Prelate continued to say that he was glad
that the Noble Lord did not assent, because that was anindi-
cation that things were not so bad as be had been led to sup»
i pose. In December last the friends of religion made another
pffort to obtain the appointment of a ehonlaie. but their oppo-
nents said that ttie matter shad been reported to the Commis-
. sioners, and that they expected a mandamus, so that the
• friends of religion were again defeated. In the union of
Preston, with a population of 69,000, and seventy-three
parishes, there were five union workhouses, in the
principal of which there were 418 inmates, of whom 139 were
children, and two-thirds of these were members of the
Church of England, but there was no chaplain, and the state
of health and morals in the workhouse was such that he was

sure the gaol was greatly to be preferred. He (the Bishop of
Exeter) had received that morning a letter from a clergyman
in Macclesfield, who had given his gratuitous services to the
poor in the workhouse beyond his strength, and he stated that
the board of guardians had given permission to the Wesleyan
Methodists to preach twice on the Sunday—a course of reli-
gious instruction which was attended with more harm than
good, for he found it quite impossible to awaken a wholesome
religious feeling in the minds of the poor people who attended
these preachers. In the union of York, during the last
four years, fifty persons had been consigned to the
grave without the consolations of religion. In the
union of Macclesfield, the gentleman to whom be
had alluded informed him that a young woman, who
had heen shamefully seduced, was admitted into the work-
house, and after she had been some time in the women's ward
she fortunately fell ill—for it was indeed a fortunate thing to
be removed from her depraved companions to the sick ward.
The young woman assured him that if she had remained many
days longer in the same part of the house she would have gone
mad. He believed that no woman who was not infallible could
remain in the workhouse three weeks without becoming a
confirmed prostitute, The schoolmaster, who was a pauper,
and could scarcely read and not write at all, was dismissed a
few days ago for being intoxicated during Divine service.
The writer of this letter, not for any private reasons of his own,
requested that the name might not be mentioned, as if it were
he should be debarred from carrying out his good work by
the Dissenting guardian. If this be the case, he (the Bishop of
Exeter) would not longer delay an application to the Poor-law
Commissioners to induce them to send down to Macclesfield to
compel the appointment of a chaplain to the workhouse there,
and if they refused to give that order, he would move that their
Lordships send an humble address to her Majesty, praying
that the Poor.law Commissioners be dismissed, and he was
sure such a motion would be successful, because their Lord.
ships must he anxious to promote the cause of religion and
morality. The Commissioners had declared that they pos-
sessed the power to compel all guardians to appoint chaplains
to all workhouses under their control. In England there
were 587 unions, of which 20 were without workhouses, 51
with sufficient houses, and of the remaining 516 unions, 102
had not chaplains, and in' those which had chaplains, the
average salary was only 30es a year. The Right Reverend
Prelate thin -went through numerous statistical documents
with respect to the conditions' of the poor-law unions, after
which he passed an elogium upon the courtesey which he had.
received from the Poor-law Commissioners, when he went to
them a few days ago for information on which he framed his
present motion. 11e was aware that the cry of "Do justice Is
the Dissenters," was a leading point, and even in matters of
the greatest and most vital importance, the saving of 6d. was
considered. But he was determined that the matter should not
rest here, and felt sure their Lordships would agree
with him that he had given quite sufficient reasons
for the motion he was about to submit to them.
It was the duty of the Noble Lord (Wharncliffe) to res-
cue those poor paupers from their wretched condition. He
would not do the Noble Lord the injustice to believe that any
paltry motives of economy would prevent him from interfering,
or that any wretched opposition from Dissenters, whose mon-
strous assumption it was impossible the Noble Lord could re-
spect, would for a moment deter him. The many inmates of
prisons and lunatic asylums had their chaplains. Chaplains to
prisons, where the number of prisoners was fifty, received 1501.
a year ; where the number was a hundred, 2001. a year ; where
the number was more than a hundred, 2501. The Dissenters—
and it was they who opposed the appointment of chaplains to
workhouses—were very numerous as guardians, but very small
in the workhouses. He asked their Lordships to grant the
Committee of Inquiry. Indeed he did not well know upon.
what ground the appointment of that Committee could be
reasonably resisted. The law was in favour of the appointment
of chaplains, and all he required was that the law be enforced.
With respect to the question of expense—if a salary of 100/.
per annum was given to each chaplain, as there were only 600
unions, the salaries would amount to about 60,0001. Now the
value of the property, rated annually to the poor was sixty mil-
lions sterling, and the proportion of 60,000/. to 60,000,000/..
was only that of 1/. in 1,000/., which was somewhere about
one farthing in the pound, and this farthing the sordid guar-
dians of the north were unwilling to sacrifice to the best in.
terests, temporal and eternal, of the poor paupers. He was
happy to see that powers were to be given to create district
schools, so that he entertained the hope of seeing England
studded with schools like that of Norwood. The Right Rev..
Prelate then read a Report of Mr. Tuffnell on the state of
the poor-house schools, which he submitted was an-
other cogent reason in support of his motion. Whether
Ministers granted the Committee or not, he had done his
duty. The responsibility must rest with them. If they re-
fused a Committee of Inquiry into the matter, the glory of this
Ministry—the best and most powerful that England had had.
for many years—would be eclipsed. The Right Rev. Prelate
concluded by moving for a Committee to inquire into the best
means of promoting religious instruction in the workhouses of
England and Wales.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE was sure their Lordships would
not expect that he should attempt to answer the able and eon?
elusive speech of the Right Rev. Prelate, in much of which
that theo
he entirely and heartily concurred. But he believed
d
course which the Commissioners had pursued
tact 7.1.2
wastn
boards of guardians, by persuasion,
ree.by
far more judicious, and was likely
to
law.—( Hear, hear.)
resorting to the harsh enforcement !Lees,
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there were now only
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Out of 600 unions in England and w
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of a clause for the purpose into that Act.
the 'introduction
' The Bishop of SALISBURY agreed with the suggestion,
a the Noble Baron, and he thought that the Right Rev. Pre/
way to effect
.the object of the

itte_r intitled to the thanks of every friend of religion and
hulutol" or. Still, he must say, that in his diocese the destitu-
tion e
e poor in workhouses was not so great as the Right
Rev . Prelate had proved it to be in other parts of the country.
Lord CA.MOYS said that he had always supported the
'principle of allowing a chaplain to every workhouse; but he
.ehought that it might appear a hardship upon the Dissenters
that they should be obliged to pay the salary of a clergyman
whose services would be devoted to one particular class. Now,
as the clergy of the several parishes in a union were relieved
from the most unpleasant part of their duty, by the removal of
the paupers to the union-house, he thought it would not be un-
fair for them to contribute to the salary of the chaplain.
The Bishop of EXETER rose to express his thanks to the
Noble Baron ( Wharncliffe), and to the Government for
the declaration that they would introduce such a clause.
. Lord WHARNCLIFFE had not said anything of the
sort.—( Hear, and a laugh. )
The ishop of EXETER had understood the Noble Lord to
say so ; but, atall events, it was much to know that the Noble
Lord would support such a clause. He (the Bishop of Exeter)
would not withdraw his motion, but would allow it to be
negatived.
The motion was then negatived without a division, and the
House adjourned at Half-past Seven o'Clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Fel,. :23.
The SPEAKER took the chair at Four o'Clock.
The following Bills were read a second time and ordered to
be committed :—The Ribble Navigation, the Lancaster and
Carlisle Railway, the Ramsay Inclosuie, the Bury (Hunting-
don \ Inctosure, and the Liverpool New Gas and Coke Bills.
SEWBURY AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
BILL.
Mr. CHARLES RUSSELL moved the second reading of
.this Bill.
Sir WILLIAM HENTHCOTE said he should oppose the
second reading of this Bill, unless he had a clear understanding
from the Hon. Member for Reading (Slr. Russell) that no
opposition wouldbe offered to the second reading of another Bill,
to which the present one was closely allied. Two competing
lines of railway had been proposed, one by the South Western
Railway Company, from Basingstoke to Newbury; and the
other by the Great Western Railway Company, from Hunger.
ford to Newbury. The former Bill he (Sir William Heath-
cote) would introduce in a few days. He thought, there-
,fore, that it would be well to postpone the second
reading of the present Bill for a fortnight, in order that both
Bills might be read together and afterwards be referred to the
same Committee. If the Hon. Member for Reading would
uncle. take not to oppose the second reading of the Bill, for the
Branch Railway from Basingstoke to Newbury, he (Sir W.
Hrathcote) would not offer any opposition to the present Bill,
but unless the Hon. Member gave this pledge, he should move
that the second reading of the Bill be postponed for a fort-

-night.
Mr. R. PALMER hoped that the Hon. Member for Read-
ing would agree to the proposition of the Hon. Baronet. He
should have a petition to present against this line from nine-
tenths of the landholders through whose property the Newbury
and Basingstoke line would run. He had, however, no wish
to oppose the second reading, if the two Bills were permitted to
go together before the Committee.
Mr. C. RUSSELL would not consent to any delay. The
Hon. Gentleman had said they weuld sustain no disadvan-
.tage by delay—neither would they gain any great advantage
by having the Bill now read a second time. All the Stand-
ing Orders had been complied with. The Bill would be re-
ferred to the Committee of Selection, and he should wish
,st once to take the judgment of the House. He thought he
~was not asking too much, in moving that the Bill be now read
st second time.

Mr. FRANCIS BARING had no doubt but that the Right
Ron. Baronet would withdraw his opposition to the second
reading of the Bill, if the Hon. Member for Reading would
give the House his assurance that the second reading of the
Bill for the competing line should not be opposed, but that
loth Bills should be referred to the Committee at the same
time.—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Reading,
however, had not consented to give any such assurance.
He believed that the inhabitants of the part of the
county with which he was connected were much
opposed to the present Bill, but he desired nothing unfair.
He only wished that both Bills should be referred to the same
Committee, and unless the Hon. Member for Reading gave
some assurance that the second reading of the other Bill
should not be opposed, he should certainly vote for the post-
ponement of the second reading of this Bill. He should like
very much to hear the sentiments of the Right Hon. Gentle-
man at the head of the Board of Trade upon this subject.
Mr. GLADSTONE said he regretted that his Hon. Friend
the Member for Reading, who was the Chairman of c ne of the
great railways, seemed to be disinclined to a postponement of
this Bill.—(Hear, hear.) He thought it would be much
better if these two Bills were to be brought before the House
at the same time.—( Hear, hear.) He agreed with his Hon.
Friend that it would be most unfair if the consideration
of this Bill were to be postponed for any very long
time, because he was aware of the great advantages to be
derived by the public from diligence and celerity, but there
could be no suspicion of a want of either on the part of the
promoters of these Bills ; but still he thought their postpone-
ment for a fortnight would do no harm.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. AGLIONBY said one of these Bills was before a Com-
mittee, of which he was a member, and he thought that before
the next meeting of the House the Committee would be pre•
pared with its Report.
Mr. C. RUSSELL said that on behalf of himself and of the
Company to which he had the honour to belong, he begged to
say that he had no desire to act counter to the wishes of the
House, and he should consequently accede to the required
postponement.
The second reading of the Bill was then postponed for a
fortnight.
REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES—SUPPLY.
Mr. FIELDEN presented three petitions from Manchester,
Liverpool, and Oldham—the last bearing 3,200 signatures—
praying that the house would not vote the estimates for the
army and navy until the grievances of the people were in-
quired into and redressed.
Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND presented a petition to the
same effect from Preston.

- Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented a petition,
signed by Andrew Cross, chairman of a public meeting of the
inhabitants of Taunton, complaining of the unjust and extra-
vagant legislative, and oppressive, and partial monopolies, civil
and ecclesiastical ; and they prayed the House not to vote the
supplies necessary to support the present enormous military
force till these causes of complaint were redressed. Also, peti-
tions from Crediton, in the county of Devon, and from Whit.
church, in Hampshire, to the same effect.