The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-11 00:00:00

IMPi!,RIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, Oct. 10.

This being the day to which Parliament wa3 prorogued
both Houses met, for the purpose of further proroguing
then tid December. Shortly after one o'clock the Lord
Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, and the Earl of Dalhousie,
dressed as L,)rds Commissioners, took their seats blow
the the Throne, and Mr. Putman, the Deputy Usher of the
Black Rod, was ordered by their Lordships to summon
the House of Commons, to hear her Majesty's Commis-
sion for the further prorogation of Parliament read.

Mr. Pulman then retired from the House to summon
the Commons, and in a few minutes Mr. Ley. the junior
table clerk, together with several other officers of the
House of Commons, appeared at the bar.
The commission for the further prorogation of Par-
liament was then rend by the clerk at the table, at the
conclusion of which,
The LORD CHANCELLOR, in the name of her Majesty,
declared the Parliament prorogued to Thursday, the 12th
of December.

The whole proceeding did not occupy their Lordships

ten minutes.

ti PUBLIC JOURNALS.

r:1101I THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
STANDAE,D.—Tus REVENUE —We are most
h ,p_ry it) b-ing able to state that the public revenue
ti!e quarter ending to-day will show a very con-
si.lerz,!e increa-e on the corresponding quarter of
last year. The accounts, h weever, not having been
11 received, the exact amount of increase cannot, at
t tinie of our going to press, be ascertained. In
'ilst.,o;s it is most gratifying to announce that
e ;,n increase of between 400,0001. and 500,0001.

s,Il the account to be made up this evening, as corn-
' are ' iv th the corresponding quarter of last
year. In the important department of Excise the
accounts, as far as they have been received, appear
eb.iut the same as in the corresponding quarter of
last year. In the Post-office there is an increase,
probably ab ,ut 20,0001., on the quarter. In the
revenue derived from Stamps and Miscellaneous
Taxes there is little variation.. The Property-tax, we
understand, has realised about the same amount as on
former quarters, but there will appear a small de-
crease in consequence of the re-payment of moneys to
parties who had been improperly assessed. On the
whole the revenue for the quarter will exhibit a con-
siderable increase—a certain index that the trade and
comMerce of the country are improving.
GLOBE.—The immense pile of buildings boas,
known as the Fleet Prison, is offered for sale by
public competition. The site occupied by them will,
of course, be appropriated to what are usually termed
" metropolitan improvements." The nature of these
"improvements" will he the subject of grave delibe •
ration. Whether the space thus obtained will be
covered with spacious streets, formed of splendid
shops, whose windows, bedizened with bur-
nished brass, and at night illuminated by gas,
will be the admired of all beholders; or whether
the fevourable opportunity will be seized upon for
providing some much-required means for improving
the house-accommodation of the labouring classes in
that vicinity, limn the topic of daily gossip me of
grave discussion in many circles. To us the present
seems to offer a. favourable opportunity for improv-
ing the physical condition of the labouring poor
of that densely-crowded neighbourhood, who have
Thug made the lines of wretched lanes and
alleys between Holborn and Clerkenwell their resort.
Previously to the demolition of the many dilapidated
dwellings whose removal was required for the new
street in a line with Farringdon-street, the numbers
of squalid beings which were crowded into these
houses—two, and in some three, families being the
occupants of a single room—generated fever, and
other diseases which are produced and fos-
tered by filth and imperfect ventilation. The
forced removal of the former denizens of the
destroyed houses has driven them into others,
which yet remain. Such is now the crowded
condition of these filthy receptacles of the
lower classes, that the parochial officers, and others
whole attention has been drawn to the subject, enter-
tain serious apprehensions for the public health ;
and unless some nu:ens of providing suitable duel.
lings for the surplus population be devised their
fears are likely to be realised. The evidence given
before the Health of Towns Committee, among other
important facts, proved thit disease and death have
receirly increased in the localities where the lowest
'clogs ref the labouring peer chiefly dwell. The
exce=l •.ssiesee I by the rnedual men who were exa-
!uineil on this point is worthy of attention. They
agreed in opinion, that the improvements that have
wide in different crowded districts of the metro-
poll- a-A compelled the poor people, who chiefly inha-
bit. 1 houses which had been pulled down to make
way for :hese improvements, to seek admission to simi-
lar dwelling,: in the adjacent parts. The addition of so
many new inmates to houses which were already more
than lid, d with occupants, generated miasma. Thus in-
ems dist.ase and death were introduced; acid these
effects will continue to re ult, in an increased ratio, if
the cause be .not arrested by these who are, or ought
to- be, invested with power to watch over and pro-
vide for the public safety. Death, to use an Irish
phrase, stalks through many of our streets. The
woinir is, not that his victims are so many; but that
—with the ands afforded to his ministers by tile
neglect of She means by which they may be kept at
bay—the death-stricken are so few. It is iii vain
to leave the question to the con-tant and exclu-
sive care of Parliament. The Legislature will not
act a patriotic or enlightened part, if it do not
invest the people with the power of helping themselves
in this, awl such like matters. If part of the money
expended in making, and the care bestowed on im-
proving, great thorougfares, were extended to provtd-
ing means for preserving the health of the poor and
partially destitute, by improving the dwellings they in
habit, and in providing others, the occasion for hospi-
tals, supported by public charity, and union houses,
maintained by compulsory rates, would be greatly les-
sened. Were Governments wise, they would dimi-
nish their labours. If they were actuated by the
purest and most benevolent intentions in all matters
they undertake to manage, the limit which time sets
to all human exertions would thwart the honest pur-
pose. There never existed, from the creation of the
world till now, a Government of experience so ex-
tensive and various, or of mind so active and inde-
fatigable, a 3 to be able to conceive and grapple
with the manifold wants of the community.
Yet this is the impossible undertaking the respon-
sibility of which successive administrations have
been ambitious to assume ! There seems to be no
reason, beyond the reluctance of the rulers of the
land, why the inhabitants of every locality should not
have the power conceded to them of dealing with mat-
ters that relate to the improvement of the respective
districts. The Parliament is barely competent to the
functions of supreme government (if judgment may be
formed by the snail-like pace of its proceedings) where
the general interest of the nation is involved. Can
it stop in its course of national legislation to deli-
berate with advantage upon the peculiar condition of
districts ? Such a system resembles the half-fertile,
helf-desert Egypt. Its great river inundates and fer-
tilises the country through which it passes; but im-
mense tracts beyond are unrefreshed by its bounties.
A country which should everywhere have competent
Veal authorities to watch the rising of its wants in
every quarter, end to supply them, would be as one
wetere 1 this,ughout, and at all times, by springs,
streems, and rivers tributary to each other, and by
their all'ed resources, covering the face of the land
with fertility and gladness.

NloN EY .1' ARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

C!I RONICI.E.—The prospectus of the " New Gra
na !a Company" has bees broeght out, or, more properly
to 'a rite, we say that it has been officially an-
nounced that the New Granada Company " has been
forea,d." We are fold that this Company has been
formed because the holders of Colombian Bonds " are
n„t an A,s,,ciated body," and that, therefore, they are
not in a s tuation to avail themselves of the proposals
made loy the Government of New Granada for assigning
to them, at a fixed price, tobacco of the factories of the
Republic, in payment of the interest on the proportion
of the foreign debt of the Republic attaching to New
Granada. The circular states that the New Granada
Company is also ready to undertake the agency of the
New Granada Company in London, in all matters re-
specting its foreign debt ; and with this end it has been
already orovided with a board of directors, six in num-
ber, who are to be remunerated by assigning to them
" one-tenth share of the net benefits which may be made
by the Company." It does not appear how or in what
manner " the board " was called into existence.
They appear before the public ready rondo to order,
and not in the light of a provisional cdmrnittee, or
as holding office until their appointment should be
confirmed by a general meeting of Shareholders.
Nothing of this kind is to be permitted. It is at
once openly and unconditionally announced that the
affairs of the Company " are to be managed" by the
Directors narnal in the circular, one of whom only is to
go out of °glee annually, and " to be immediately re-
eligible." This is really taking care of the main chance,
and keeping the good things amongst themselves in a
nice, snug little family way. It occurs to us, neverthe-
less, that it would have been more consistent with prac-
tice, if " the board" had been left open for the choice of
the Shareholders, after the proposed capital of 200,0001.
in 10,000 shares had been subscribed, and if time and
opportunity had been afforded to the Bondholders, by
means of a public meeting, to consider the proposals
made by the Government of New Granada, and the
proper course i5hi;..11 should be adopted for the protec-
tion of their interests. It is quite plain that the opinions
of the Bondholders should have been ascertained by a
public meeting, previous to the constitution of this New
Granada Company, of which more than the name of one
member of the Committee of Bondholders appears in the
list of self-constituted Directors.

In Shares there was a fair amount of business trans-
acted. Another scheme for a line to Portsmouth has
made its appearance, and has had the effect of lowering
the price both.of the South-Western and Brighton shares.
It was also known in the market this morning that the