The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-20 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY).

CORN-EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY
The fresh supply of English Wheat up to our market
since Saturday, coastwise, has not exceeded 170 quar-
ters. To-day, scarcely a parcel was on offer; hence, so
little business was doing that Monday's prices ruled no-
minal. From abroad, only 640 quarters of Wheat have
reached us. The transactions in granaried samples were
on the increase, and late rate. were well supported.
Fine Barley for seed purposes moved off freely at ex-
treme quotations. In other kinds very little was doing.
Malt, the supply of which was small, ruled heavy. In
prices, however, we have no change to notice. Oats
were in fair request, and quite as dear as last week.
Beans and Peas, and all other articles, commanded very
little attention.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.

Barley.

Oats.

Malt. 1 Flour.

_Wheat. •
Qrs Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks.
En;,•lish •••• •• i 170 460 1,601,1!0 1,840
Scotch.. •• '
Irish •••• •• ••1
i
Foreign ..

WHITECHILPEZ.
The general demand was inn very inactive state, yet
the quotations were well supported. Beef, from 2s 4d
to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 10d; Veal, 3s to 4s;
and Pork, 21 104 to 49 per elbe, by the carcase.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT'
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve
o'clock.
Sir E. FILMER presented petitions from Kent
against Sunday labour in the Post-office.
Mr. W. EVANS presented petitions from Derbyabirue
to the same effect, and also petitions for the establish-

ment of county financial boards.
places in
Mr. HODGES presented petitions from
Kent in favour of protection to agriculture.
Mr. MULLINGS presented petitions from Susses..
11
praying for an alteration of the law on rating 5036

tenements.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a pe:ition from the holders
of shares in railways, complaining of the frauds that.
had been so extensively prectised by boards of directorr.
The Hon. Member also presented a petition fron
the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester, praying for

a Colonel reeal et the duty on per.
p THOMPSONa presented a :petition praying
for a repeal of the tax on newspapee, from Bradford.
THE FOREST OF DEAN.
In reply to a question from Mr. GRANTISI
B EIIKELEY, the
Mr. HAYTER stated that his Royal Highnet's
Duke of Cambridge was the Ranger of the New Foresstt!
and he had the sole control of the deer is that for r
but in the Forest of Dean there was no ranger, arld,tibr:
Commissioners of Woods and Forests had the ell,;
control there, and they had decided upon the dis°°"-
tinuanco of deer there.
BANKRUPT AND INSOLVENT MEMBERS 81L,,,t
Mr. MOFFATT moved the second reading of 1";
Bill. To the principle of the Bill he believed (bars,
was no objection, although he understood Was
was some dislike to some of its details. 1'
was at a loss to conceive on what constitutional print
ciple this Bill could be rejected. They declared tbs:,
every Member of that House was in the possession;
9,0001. or 10,0001, or, in other words, that every tir,
ber of that House was in the receipt of 300/. a year'.vi'tt ill,
out any mortgage or other lien. The object of this
then, was merely to deprive any Member of his sest,°ng
did not retain this qualification.—(Hear, hear.) °,l„et
as any gentleman retained this qualification he could
be an insolvent debtor. He might remind the House ti
owa.
I P .
the Members of that House had ,trulior privileges s
the insolvent laws. He who was ;Member bed Will 8°
bee. Was
pass his property over to a relative, .and
werh s
immediately free from all embarrassment; fell
man who was only a trader would have to give ge
and clear account to the Court of all his effects' el;
did not think that this privilege ought to be I.`"h-lrir.)
for it was both inexpedient and unfair.—(Hear'
raised
He was aware that no public excitement had been ae-
respecting this Bill, but he did not think that it „it
cessary for the House to await that excitement be 7d. pot
legislated. The principle was so plain that it eoll' ether
sitog Too
be denied, and the argument, indeed, was
on one side.—(Hear, hear.) It was true that opens'
objected that the Peers were not included in die ,;:t the
tion of the Bill, but he must acknowledge ttue-eees'
Peers had set so good an example that it was no,ytbere-
eary to include them.—(Hear, hear.) He shag' id be
fore sit down with the assurance that the Bill vif:ne he
read a second time. If there were to be a &In; bat
would rather take it now than at any future stg-4 sa-
he did not expect any opposition. In these der '44
nitary refoim, he should wish to see that Houseltught
as well as other places. A man who was insolvent t"of it
not to enter that House, and the sooner he was

the better. Br-
Mr GOULBURN did not give that weight to the Dill
guments of the Hon. Gentlemen who supported,llletjoos
as they perhaps deserved. He had great 00.1" ;able
to the principle of the Bill. The lloootioll
Member (Mr. Moffatt) seemed to think the, 411,Lieet
dwas to exclude from the House all tatil-Wss
-
ebtors, and certainly he thought that there.*
nothing more discreditable than to contract debti stop
out any hope of paying them; still the Bill did nutht be
there, for there might be many persons who raigtliesr
temporarily embarrassed without any blame t°,... "then
would be 4 of
selves, whose sense of family honour had brougo'
es-
into this condition, and who, by this Bill,
eluded from that House. As far as the moral P..5,:0ea
the question went, if the Honourable Memberen'-goP
upon that, it would be incumbent on him 130 t '-proosB
there, but to provide that the Members of that 7. Wer
should be perfectly blameless in every relation
osto.
The Bill would interfere with the right of co
encies to judge of the fitness of their biem er
eta-
constituency might choose a man under temPoor,Jode
barrassinents—the House, by this Bill, woold,e"coo
the Member from entering Parliament, tued the
stituency would persevere in their choice, lin dodo,
House would be obliged to do as it had often to
re-admit a Wernher whom it had expelled, contrtbosritbe
the wish of the constituency. He should more
Bill be read a second time this day six months.
Mr. MULLINGS supported the Bill.
Mr. HUME should oppose this Bill, heetl'ity of
thought, with the Hon. Member for the trilicertjosef
Cambridge, that it would do great injustice to., Id dir
parties. But if a Bill were brought in which Yri:t far
of
enable Members from pleading their privilegeg° deb
liament, he should certainly be in favour
measure.. principle
Sir GEORGE GREY was opposed to the
of the Bill, and should oppose the second reading.
After a few words from Mr. MOFFATT, • • Mist VI
Strangers were Ordered to withdraw, 10d
took place, when there appeared—

... .. _
For the second reading 73
Against it
...........

The Bill was therefore .
lost. ••
Majority . ....................
SMALL TENEMENTS RATING 13ILT":.
Mr. HALSEY moved tho second reading of
In doing so he read letters from certain of the agoiling
tural districts in the county of Hertfordshire, d°,:,-,risg
the miseries and privations to which many of the labu'iheir
poor in that county had been subjected by baviegio re"
furniture distrained for the arrears of rates dttiLt the
spect of their small cottages. Ile contended tleoess
present system operated as a premium upoll,lus tfoll;
~
and dissipation among the labouring classes. oleo
Gentleman then read a long report to show the tif priai
degradation of the tenantry, both in habits nil;ttee °-
ciples. He found also that, in 1837, a Conreeoni.
that House had sat upon the subject, and had d tba
mended almost identically the measure which he itBtee. c;
honour of laying before the House. A C 0,13274; b(311311
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On the motion being was j)°,„.
Mr.
narrow question, for it
,concerned not mere y
eas APL
man, who inhabited a °** f tu"
cottage, but also everyif re o ;0
felt any interest in the promotion of the We'.s class • t
country. The condition of the poor affected eferfoest
should,rseasael ndrieoasseetschOoelport result.
os
tune.ri tei t:0v5,1
t_ `'d no°,,;
the community. Four Commissioners had heei'coadi,riTe
from the Home-office, in order to ascertain tbc,,ts. Lri
of the poorer classes in the agricultural diet Abe rein-ge
Hon. Gentleman then read an extract frail $0 eoti.o.,
of Captain Robertson, who stated that 0301 FLA
accommodation was daily being reduced, sti.„,diy
seeded to say that no one could be more frl'ooecleuthst
himself to some such principle as that Prctderea *lief
the Hon. Member (Mr. Halsey), but COils: t'tie,
it could not possibly be soundly dealt l'wit" of 5,4,30.)
had disposed of that great question—the ',So, ere.
meet—of which this formed a part.---L who of
There was no class of persons in the countriippaths
more deserving cf the consideration and, ,:jYtricts' :hat
that House than the cottagers rural II" a,
he should be ready to accede to al'ditl Weet
con
would tend to improve their
in his opinion, this Bill would bale sothat'
of
that would be quite the reverse cottttg' pt
and would increase rather than decrease th°olerolo
burthen. He found by the report of th less tod
Commissioners, that in four counties nootes, „out
109,700 houses had been excused from thnthroog"coo
taking this, as ho might do, as a fair average 1,000:00
the whole country, there were upwards ° tes. re
houses, the inhabitants of which paid cottagers tli'eetr*
consequence naturally was, that those e" with jar
obliged to enter into arrangenienta;.oo and
landlords, which reduced them in P°s'-ble G°l3.oo'
poverished them in means. The Honours • poSiti
re o°
man then read a series of extracts to Pr°, the bout 039
The effect of the Bill would be to din3juis'oot thil3-0//
commodation for the poor, and he really, roe weesti to
House would be justified in passing it. Thd theY,; wss
to impose upon the occupiers the rates, 50. bit, 1101100os
pay 12,000,0001. cf local taxation; but hiolf bool tette'
proposed to exempt one particular class , 00 of
this tax. She owners of cottages 011
b"ac I d
° bees
manta, if this Bill passed, would t titan 15t.
the rates, and as the experitne° bad to the
tried in Liverpool and Ireland, where it,itieace? st the
tended with the most disastrous coaAsell agtll.l,ll that
wt.
poor, Chief Justice Abbott had dcei"oerc now
expediency of the principle, and, as be %.0 artie:s
Lo trued Judge, he should move, 0 it oloat" *
that it be read a second time this del s'"

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