The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-17 00:00:00

NAT 141.11.141LET5.

SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 188 to 4/15s ; useful
do., 4l 16s to 51 8s ; fine Upland do., Si lOs to 5/ 15s ;
Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 16s to 11 18s ;
Wheat Straw, 21 to 2l 2s per load. Both Hay and Straw
sold freely at the above quotations.
CUMBERLAND. —Coarse Meadow Hay, 4/ to 4/ lOs; useful
ditto, 4/12s to 5/ 5s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 8s to 5l 12s ; Clover
Hay, 4/ lOs to 5/ 18s; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2l; Wheat
Straw, 2/ to 2l 2s per load. A short supply and a steady
trade.

WHITECHAPEL—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 16s to 4/ 153,
useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 5/ 4s ; tine Upland ditto, 5/ 63 t•
5/ 14s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 11 16s to 1/ 18s ,
Wheat Straw, 21 to 2/ 2s per load. Trade tolerably fair, at
our quoted prices. In New Meadow Hay a good business
was doing, at from 315 s to 4/ lOs per load.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES' OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended July 12, 1845, made up from the Returns of thfi
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Walus,
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. 1 BARLEY] OATS. I RTE. I BEANS. I PEAS.
PRICE ..4 is 10d 29s Od 21s Gd 33s lld 39s 8d 38s lld
DUTY .• • 20s Od 9s 0(1 6s Id lOs 6d 4s 6d 4s Gd

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The House met at Twelve o'clock.

The Highway Rates Bill was read a third time and passed ;
as were also the Militia Ballots Suspension Bill, the Loan So-
cieties Bill, the Turnpike Acts Bill, and the Unlawful Oaths
(Ireland) Bill.

ECCLESIASTICAL PATRONAGE (IRELAND) BILL.
The report was brought up, and the Bill was ordered to be
read a third time to-morrow.
COMMONS INCLOSURE BILL.

The Earl of LINCOLN moved the third reading of this Bill.
Colonel SIBTHOHP protested against a Bill of this import-
ance being proceeded with with the haste that marked its pro-
gresi. ire knew it was useless to contend against the determi-
nation of the Government, but it might at least have been pro-
posed at that portion of the day when the House was fully at-
tended, and not when the Members were sure to be few.

Mr. H. R. YORKE supported the Bill, and believed it to
be a very useful measure.

Mr. gHARMAN CRAWFORD opposed the Bill as an in-
vasion of the rights of the poor. If, indeed, these commons
had been inclosed and the value of them formed into a fund for
the benefit of the poor, there would have been some plea of
justice for it, and some utility might have followed, but, as it
was, it was evidently an attempt to increase the property of the
rich. There was no evidence that out of the 10,0001,00 of
acres of land any of it would be appropriated for recreation, or for
allotments for the benefit of the poor. It should be considered
that it was the very poorest portion of the poor who resorted to
the commons. It was not the commons that made the people
poor, but because those who had no other means resorted to the
commons for support. With regard to the objection that these
commons would be turned into potato-gardens—what if such
were the case ? It was better for these potato-gardens to be
formed than that the independence and spirit of the poor man
should be broken down. He should contend that the lands, if
taken at all, should become the source of a fund for the relief or
enjoyment of the poor, for he believed it would be hard for them
to be ejected from their allotments without recompense; and
he should, therefore, divide the House on the motion being put
that this Bill do pass.
Mr. E. B. DENISON said that the character of the Hon.
Member for Rochdale (Mr. S. Crawford) stood ao high, both
in and out of the House, for kind consideration for the poor,
that he was anxious to secure his vote for this Bill. He him-
self conceived that it was of the highest utility and likely to
be most beneficial in increasing the wages and means of em-
ployment, and in improving the condition of the poor. As a
magistrate, and occasionally as chairman of quarter-sessions,
he had had many opportunities of ascertaining that those per-
sons who lived on the edges of commons were the very persons
who committed the greatest number of crimes, and he
lieved that it would tend to save much evil, and he should
therefore give it his warmest support, and he thanked the Go-
vernment far its introduction.

The Earl of LI COLN said that the speech of his Hon.
Friend the Member for West Yorkshire had saved him the
necessity of entering into any elaborate defence of the Bill.
But he was anxious to say one word upon the statement of his
Hon. and Gallant Friend that th;s Bill had been hurriedly
pushed through the House. The Bill had in fact been before
the House for three years. There had certainly been several
alterations made in it—(" Hear, hear," from Col. Sibthorp)—
but the Bill in its present state had been under notice for
nearly three months. There had been sixteen hours' discus-
sion in Committee, and one very long night's debate on its
principle. With regard to the objection of the Hon. Member
for Rochdale as to the allotments for the purposes of recrea-
tion, and for the advantage of the poor, that was
the very first consideration entertained by those who
prepared the Bill, and adopted it in its provisions.
And as to the observation respecting the remuneration for
manure and growing crops, the omission was quite uninten-
tional, and after the Bill had been read a third time, he pro-
posed to introduce a rider, whieh he had prepared, and now
held in his hand. He trusted, therefore, that the Bill would
be allowed to pass.
The Bill was then read a third time, and the rider was
adopted.
On the motion that the Bill do pass,
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD said there was no distinct
provision for allotments, and he should therefore feel it his duty
to record his opposition to the Bill, by. dividing the House.
Stangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House
divided, when there appeared—
For the motion 4B
Against it
Majority ..
The Biil then passed.
DRAINAGE OF LANDS BILL.

On the motion that the House resolve itself into Committee
on this Bill,

Colonel SIBTIIORP stated that he had more objection to
this Bill than the former, and he also thought the period of
bringing it on was exceedingly ill-timed.'
The Earl of LINCOLN was assured that the Gallant Mem-
ber for Lincoln had not read the Bill or he would not object
to it.

The House then went into Committee on the Bill. The
different clauses were agreed to with a few verbal amendments,
and the report was ordered to be read tomorrow at Twelve
o'clock.

LUNATIC ASYLUMS AND PAUPER LUNATICS
BILL.

On the motion that this Bill be read a third time,

Mr. H. BERKELEY moved to insert the following proviso,
which was agreed to :—" Provided always that in case the asy-
lum so declared inadequate or unfit as aforesaid shall be a work.
house, it shall be lawful for the said Secretary of State, if he shall
think fit, upon the application in writing of the guardians or
overseers of the union or parish to whom such workhouse shall
belong, or of the major part of them, to direct such ad-
ditional buildings or such additional asylum as afore-
said, to be erected or provided by the said guardians or over-
seers; and every such workhouse which shall be so added to,
and every such additional asylum which shall be erected or
provided as last aforesaid, shall be and be deemed to be a
lunatic asylum for such county or borough, and shall be in-
cluded in and shall be subject to the provisions of this Act • and
it shall be lawful for the guardians or overseers to whom
such direction shall be given, and they are hereby
authorised to apply, or to assess, raise, and levy such sum or
sums of money as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid
from such funds, or by such powers, ways and means as are
now by law belonging or given to or vested in such guardians
or overseers specially, or in churchwardens or overseers of the
peor generally, in relation to the purchase or hiring of lands,
or the purchase, building, hiring, enlarging, or maintaining of
workhouses."

The Bill was then read a third time.
, On the motion that the Bill do pass,
Sir J. GRAHAM rose, and was
(LIFT siluxixo.)

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The total num-
ber of deaths during the week ending July 12, was only 777,
the smallest number we believe that has been returned since
the establishment of the Registrar-General's office. This
shows a decrease of 26 as compared with the previous week ;
it is less by 127 than the weekly average of five summers,
and is little more than one-half of the number of deaths that
occurred during one of the weeks of the last spring. With
the exception of bronchitis, measles, and hooping-cough,
which are respectively as follows-12, 44, 34, there
is a considerable decrease under almost ever head. The
deaths from small-pox, which amount to 13, occurred
to persons under ten years of age. The violent deaths have
been 16, of which 5 were from suicide, 1 murder, and the rest
from accidents.

The appointment of Mr. M'Lane as Minister in
England for the United States is regarded as an event of much im.
portance by those who take interest in our relations with America.
The greatest possible respect is testified for Mr. Everett, the pre-
sent Minister, but it has been considered that as he differs in
politics from the present Executive, he has less power than will be
possessed by Mr. M'Lane, who is completely in the confidence and
favourable to the views of President Polk. Mr. M'Lane is also
well and favourably known in this country, and as he is, we believe,
A personal and intimate friend of the present Foreign Secretary,
his appointment may be considered as evincing a disposition on the
part of Mr. Polk to maintain the friendly relations with Great Bri-
tain which Mr. Everett has been so successful in preserving.
The Jesuits have established themselves and their
schools, within the last few years, in and near the city of Dublin,
in the following places, viz.—ln the magnificent house, late the
residence of the Earl of Belvidere, in Great Denmark street, fac-
ing Great George-street North, on the splendid chapel and ad-
joining presb) tei y of St. Xavier, Upper Gardiner-street. In the
school and adjoining monastery Margaret place, North Circular
Road ; and at Drumcondra House, purchased for a trifle from the
new Corporation of Dublin, where they have a college for mis-
sionaries.—Cork Examiner.

STATE OF FRADE.-1 he demand for yarn conti-
nues as good as fo► some weeks pa=t ; and, the quantity on the
market being exceedingly small, prices, especially of the counts
under No. 40, have still an upward tendency. In the goods'
market there i. a fair business doing, and purchasers have
shown more inclination to enter into contracts for future deli-
very of good shirtings and printing cloths, but lighter fabrics
are not quite so good to sell as the better qualities.--Manches-
ter Guardian.