The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1844.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 22.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock, at
hich time there were exactly forty Members present.
Mr. WARBURTON presented petitions against
the bastardy clause in the New Poor law.
Captain PLUMRIDGE presented a petition from
the Dissenters of Falmouth, against the Dissenters
Chapel Bill.
Mr. WARBURTON brought up the report of the
Medical Poor Relief Committee, which was ordered
to be printed.
Lord SANDON presented petitions from sixteen of
the building societies of Liverpool, against any enact-
ments which render the builders of cottages
liable to the poor-rate ; also a petition from the
journeyman coopers of Liverpool, praying the House
to take into consideration the distressed state of their
trade ; and a petition from the Liverpool Chamber of
Commerce, praying the House to take measures to
cause landing waiters to be paid partly by fees.
SLAVE TRADE SUPPRESSION.

On the motion of Sir G. CLERIC leave was given
to bring in a Bill to enable her Majesty to carry into
effect the existing treaties for the suppression of the
slave trade.
FORESTALLING AND REGRATING.

On the motion of Mr. LABOUCIIERB, the
Forestalling and Regrating Prevention Bill was mad
a second time, and ordered to be committed on the
3d of June.

gradations of official and ministerial labour. To narrow
the limits of those schools—in many instances to break
them up, and disperse the elements of which they
are composed to the winds—was the object of that
measure. It was prevented from passing into law
solely by the force or public opinion. The combinel
opposition of the Wesleyans, acting in close and friendly
co-operation with the various denominations of regular
Dissenters, accomplished its defeat. Ministers—who
would have willingly conciliated the High Church
party by this " effective check upon the active and
aggressive spirit of Dissent"—were compelled to with-
draw the measure. They abandoned their Bill.
They retired, discomfited and confounded, before the
power they had provoked, and of the formidable num-
bers and influence of which in the country they were
manifestly ignorant. But the disposition which pro-
duced, and pertinaciously persisted in pressing the Bill
upon the House of Commons, to the latest moment that
there existed a possibility of carrying it, will not be
soon forgotten by -the religious bodies whose schools
and societies it assailed, and threatened with extinc-
tien. The sectaries, thus exasperated, will not be
easily propitiated. Recently delivered from so great
peril and danger, were the Wesleyans to give their sup-
part to a candidate pledged to the policy of the Govern-
ment which devised that insidious and effective engine
iv.;ainst their schools, they would be inviting a repetition
of the attempt, and would also provide the means of
rendering it successful. This influential body, and, in
South Lancashire, comparatively numerous portion of
the county constituency, are too wise in their
generation to act so foolishly. Besides, on
the present occasion, the Conservative candidate
is not merely committed to the policy of the
ministry which brought forward that illiberal and
odious Bill ; he has personally avowed principles, and
delivered himself of sentiments, which plainly show
that he, at least, is prepared, whenever opportunity
offers, to originate, or aid in. carrying out, the very
purposes of the—in more senses than one—abandoned
Factory Education Bill. We refer to a re-publication,
most opportunely put forth, of Mr. Entwistle's opi-
nions, as explained by that gentleman at the Man-
chester election in 1841, when he was a defeated can-
didate. Mr. Entwisle's opinions on those subjects have
undergone no change. And yet, with a courage
truly admirable—with a dependence on the forget-
fulness, or forgiveness, of the religious denominations
he has there unchristianised Mr. Entwisle now
comes forward and asks their votes. He seeks a seat in
the Legislature. For what? Why, if there be any
truth, or consistency, in him, that he may increase
the power of the Church, by aiding the Government to
discourage, limit and, if possible, destroy the educational
institutions and the religious operations of the sectaries
throughout the land. Such a candidate may solicit aid
to his views from such quarters. The answer will be
an indignant refusal, accompanied by an avowed deter-
mination to vote for the friend of religious as well as of
commercial freedom, from every man who knows and
feels his duty to the religious denomination of which he
is a member.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 111 per
mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10id.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25
44 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short
being 25 57}, it follows that gold is 0.54 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.

By advises from Hamburgh the price of gold is 436
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13101;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 10i, it follows that gold is 0.17 per cent.
dearer in Hamburgh than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London is
1084 per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng-
land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows
that the exchange is 0.83 per cent. against England.
But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills
at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from
the above difference.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, May 22.
This being the first day of term, the Courts sat as u3ual in
Westminster-hall. •
(Before the LORD CHANCELLOR.)
His Lordship took his seat on the bench at eleven o'clock.
FEARENSIDIC V. DERILAM.—THOMPSON V. DERTIAM.—EX PARTE

matters of conversation or menace. An end must be
put to such practices on the river as lead to irreparable
calamities, and I shall take care to represent the circum-
stances to the Court of Aldermen, and to recommend to
them to take all the power the Watermen's Company
have out of their hands altogether.
Mr. Banyon stated to the Lord Mayor that he should
faithfully report his Lordship's impression upon the
subject to the Watermen's Company, and respectfully
withdrew.
Ten able-bodied young women, who have been some
time inmates of the East London Union Workhouse,
were brought up, charged with having acted most riot-
ously.
Mr. Baylis, the chief of the guardians of the East
London Union, stated that the guardians upon visiting
the house on Wednesday, found it in a most horrible
state of confusion and uproar. The prisoners; who had
a place allotted to themselves, separate from that allotted
to the old and respectable inmates, had locked up the
matron and assistant matron in the room with them, and
refused to let them out, and at the same time broke the
table, and did other mischief, which could not be re-
paired under 41, They had commenced the row on Sun-
day morning, and actually kept it up until Wednesday,
when it became necessary to call in the aid of the police.
The assistant matron, it appeared, had taken their
breakfasts to the defendants, who swore they would not
accept their victuals from de hands of a pauper ; and
the matron having subsequently gone into the room, all
the girls moved towards the door, detained them in the
place, which they filled with most frightful screams,
alternated with filthy songs and choruses.
The defendants—Well . They locked us up without
a fire.
The LORD MAYOR—Fire ! What do you want with a
fire at this season ? The defendants—Why others have
it, and why should not we? We are as good as them..
The matron said that fire was kept in the infirmary
and in the rooms of the old people, to whose existence it
was necessary.
The defendants—They shove us our victuals in through
a hole in the door, and why should we stand that?
The matron stated that their dinners had been handed
into them through an aperture in the door, in conse-
quence of their violent conduct, which was sufficient to
deter anybody from approaching them.
The LORD MAYOR sent the defendants to Giltspur-
street Compter,. to undergo the rigours of confinemetA
there for fourteen days.
C.CERKENWELL.

George Barneq, police-constable, 194 G, was charged
with an assault an the person of Edward Joyce, a shoe
maker, residing at No. 62, college-court, Cow-cross.
On Monday Joyce applied to Mr. Greenwood for a
warrant against the prisoner ; his face was on that occa-
sion covered with blood and contusions. The warrant
was granted.
The complainant deposed that on Saturday night, or
rather Sunday morning last, about a quarter past twelve,
being somewhat under the influence of liquor, he was
standing in Cow-cross within a few paces of his own
door, talking to his wife, when the policeman came up
and told him to walk on, and at the same gave him a
shove. Witness said he would walk on, but requested
of the officer not to do so again. Witness then walked
on a few paces further, to the corner of College-court,
where he was giving his wife some money to redeem an
article of clothing at the pawnbroker's. The prisoner said
"If you don't go on I'll make you go," and whilst witness
was quietly standing beside his wife, with both hands in
his pockets, the prisoner, seizing him by the back of the
neck, gave him such a push that he fell with great vio-
lence on the pavement, and remained quite insensible
there for five minutes ; he bled from the mouth
and nose, and also from the wounds (which were now
visible) on his face. When he recovered the prisoner
said he would take him to the station-house ; and wit.
ness said he had no objection to go there. A gentle-
man who came up at the moment said, "it would have
been better to have taken him to the station-house than
used him in that manner." Witness's wife made the
same remark, whereupon the prisoner turned round to
her and said, "You b-- b--, if you don't go away
I'll do the same to you." The constable went tatty
soon after, and did not take witness or his wife (who was
perfectly sober) into custody.
Mr. GREENWOOD inquired if pawnbrokers kept their
shops open so late as half-past twelve at night ; and
was told by inspector Barton that they did on Saturday
night, in order to give the poor an opportunity of re-
deeming art;cles of clothing for wear on the Sabbath.
Peter Queen, a labourer, residing in Lily-court, Saf-
fron-hill, who had been out of Court whilst the com-
plainant was giving his evidence, corroborated the above
statement in most respects. The man was lying on the
pavement for five minutes after the officer knocked him
down. He seemed to be insensible, and bled a great
deal. The policeman told witness to lift the man. up,
and witness told the policeman to do so, as he had
knocked him down. The prisoner attempted to kick the
complainant's wife, and made a kick at her. His foot
touched her dress, but could not say that it reached her
person. Witness told the prisoner he ought to be ashamed
of himself.
Sarah Joyce, wife of the complainant, deposed that
when the prisoner knocked her husband down, she ex-
claimed, " You ought to be ashamed of yourself for
treating the man in that way." Her husband was bleed-
ing and insensible. The policeman told Queen to pick
him up, when Queen refused, and said, " Oh, look at the
man's blood." The officer observed, " Oh, it is only white
blood." The prisoner made a kick at her, which, if she
had received, she could not have got the better of. He
called her a foul name.
The policeman's defence was that Joyce was in the
habit of getting drunk, and resisted him in the execu-
tion of his duty on this occasion. He had not struck
him. He took Joyce into custody, but he was rescued.
Mr. GREENWOOD—Did you report that at the station-
house ? Policeman—l did,
Mr. GREENWOOD—TO whom Policeman—To Ser-
geant Gray.
Inspector Barton—lf you had, it would have been
communicated to the inspector, but it Was not.
Policeman—Oh, but I did not tell the sergeant until
Sunday evening. The sergeant is not here.
Mr. GREENWOOD observed that the complainant had
been seriously injured, and he believed the policeman
had used a great deal of violence. He was now, how-
ever, only punishing him for the assault, for which he
would fine him 21.