The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-03 00:00:00

IMPER/AL PARLIAMENT.

MONUMENT TO THOMAS CAMPIIELL.—We have
much pleasure in stating that it is contemplated to erect a
monument in Glasgow to Thomas Campbell, author of
" Pleasures of Hope."—Glasgow Saturday Post.
The Hon. James Erskine Murray, whose melan-
choly death in Borneo will be found detailed in the
extracts from the Overland Mail, was of the Elibank
family, and married the only child of Mr. James Erskine,
of Man, which name he assumed upon his marriage. He
was uncle of the present Lord Elibank, and an advocate
at the Scotch bar. He published, a few years since, a
very interesting work, detailing a pedestrian tour he
made across the summits of the Pyrennees. He was in
bis 35th year.
DEATH OF MR. RALPH LAMBTON.—We regret
we have to announce the death of the above gentleman,
who has been, since February, 1837, confined to his
couch, from the effects of a fall while hunting. The
Venerable Gentleman expired on Monday last, at his
seat, Horton-house, Durham. Mr. Lambton was son of
General and Lady Susan Lambton,daughter of the Earl
of Strathmore, and uncle of the late Earl of .Durham.
Mr. Lambton was well known in the sporting world es
having for many years been a master of bounds in the
INorth, which he only gave up at the time of his accident
although of a great age, and sold his hounds to Lord
svffieht fcpr a higher price than was ever given before,

HOUSE OF LORDS, August 2.
Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
Lord CAMPBELL moved for a message to be sent to
the House of Commons for a conference between the two
Houses upon the Commons' amendments to the Common
Law Process (Ireland) Bill.—The motion was agreed to.
SLAUGHTERING OF HORSES BILL.
Lord BEAUMONT moved the :second reading of the
Slaughtering of Horses Bill, which he said was an
amendment of the 16th George 111., commonly called
the " Knackers' Act."

The Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Monday.
The Bishop of LONDON presented petitions from
Sir Harcourt Lees and others against the repeal of the
penal laws affecting Roman Catholics.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a great number of
petitions from individuals upon various subjects, the
purport of the majority of which were not distinctly
caught in the gallery. One was a petition from Thomas
Easthope, Esq., of Lancaster, praying the House to
pass a law for the purpose of preventing Roman
Catholic priests from abusing the confidence
of dying persons, by extorting legacies for their Church.
The Noble and Learned Lord presented also a petition
from Lord Dundonald, stating that he possessed a secret
of a destructive power, surpassing any of the imple-
ments of war at present known, and requesting to be ad-
mitted to competition with other inventors. He (Lord
Brougham) had been fur many years his legal adviser-in
all matters relating to his patents, and he (Lord Brougham)
would say that Lord Dundonald was the only projector he
had ever known who did not exaggerate the powers of
his own constructions.

The Metropolis Buildings Bill was read a third time
and passed.
BARBARY STATES—TUNIS.
Lord BEAUMONT put a question to the Noble Lord
the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, respecting the execu-
tion of a British subject at Tunis by the Moslem autho-
rities.
Lord ABERDEEN said that in the case referred to
by the Noble Lord, the Maltese had committed a
double murder. He had murdered a Tunisian and a
Maltese. For the murder of the Maltese the crimi-
nal was tried by the tribunals instituted according
to agreement with the Turkish States ; but for the
other murder he was tried by the Tunisian tribunals.
The Consuls applied to the Dey to delay execution until
the opinion of the English Government could be obtained.
When the matter was laid before him (Lord Aberdeen),
he did not see any reason for interfering. He was con-
vinced that the execution ought to take place. If it had
been left to him to say whether the criminal
should be capitally punished or not, it would
have been his painful duty to say that he should be
punished. This view of the case was not taken by the
other Powers of Europe. The Swedish and Sardinian Con-
suls had been withdrawn. But it appeared to him that this
only showed that the English Consul had more influence
and more prudence than all the other Consuls of Christian
Europe put together.
CONFERENCE WITH THE COMMONS.

The business of the House was for some time inter-
rupted by the departure of the Earl of Glengall, Lord
Duncannon, and other Peers, to a conference with the
House of Commons on the subject of the Common Law
Process (Ireland) Bill.
TUNIS.
Lord BEAUMONT resumed the discussion. He said
that he could not give any credit to the Noble Earl
opposite for hanging the Maltese.—(A laugh.) If any
credit were due to any one, it was to the Bey.—(Hear
and laughter.) It might be laughing matter to their
Lordships, but it was no joke to those Christians whose
lives were in jeopardy in the Turkish States.
The Earl of ABERDEEN could not guess what the
Noble Lord wanted. Her Majesty's Government had
taken care that justice should be done in the case of this
Maltese. The Bey delayed execution until he consulted
the British Government, and the criminal was pro-
perly put to death.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
If the man had murdered only a Maltese he would have
been tried by the Christian tribunal ; but he murdered
also a Tunisian, and that crime brought him under the
jurisdiction of the Turkish tribunals. The Bey, how-
ever, showed so much deference to the English Govern-
ment as to suspend the execution of the sentence until
he had communicated with her Majesty's Government.
The Earl of MINTO said he was sorry that the
Noble Earl saw nothing to complain of in the interference
of other Consuls in a matter which concerned England
only.
The Earl of ABERDEEN said that he had nothing
to ask for in the way of reparation, for the man was
strangled before the resolutions of the Consuls were
known in England.—(Hear, and a laugh.)
RAILWAY TRAVELLING ON SUNDAYS.
On the order of the day for the third reading of the
Railways Bill,
The Bishop of LONDON moved an amendment on
the 6th clause, for the purpose of relieving railway
companies from the obligation of dispatching third-
class carriages on Sundays, Good Fridays, and Christ-
mas-days. He begged their Lordships to understand
that he did not wish to prevent the railway companies
from carrying this class of passengers on the Sabbath.
His only object was to release the Government of this
Christian country from the necessity of enforcing tra-
velling on the Lord's-day.
Lord BROUGHAM agreed with the Right Rev. Pre-
late as to the importance of the due observance of
the Sabbath. He believed that the interests of the work-
ing classes were involved in the due observance of the
Sabbath, as a day of rest and a day of devotion. But
the moral and religious feeling of the people of Eng•
land was sufficient without any stringent law. With
the exception of the country in which he was born and
bred—Scotland—there was no part of the west of
Europe where the Sabbath was better observed than
England.—(Hear, hear.) He thought it would be quite
sufficient for the observance of the Sabbath, if those who
never saw the sun during the week were to go to church
in the morning of Sunday, and afterwards to enjoy the
green fields and the country.—(Hear, hear.) When lie
was returning from Brighton lately on a Sunday, he
found in the third-class carriage a number of persons
who, with their wives and families, had been enjoying
the great treat of the country and the sea for an expense
of ss. each. His heart leaped in his breast to see the
happiness of his humble and industrious countrymen
and countrywomen.—(Dear, hear.) He hoped their
Lordships would not agree to any enactment which
would interfere with such wholesome and such innocent
enjoyment.—(Cheers.)
Lord MONTEAGLE said that the conduct of the
railway companies in making the accommodation of the
poorer classes as painful as possible, rendered it neces-
sary that the Government should be empowered to in•
terfere. He opposed the amendment. The arrange-
ments for keeping the Sunday sacred were in most cases
futile. In the Post-office, the Christian conscience of
the Legislature was strict on Sunday in the metropolis,
but it ceased to exist twelve miles out of town.—(Hear,
hear.) He had found himself an instance where a steam-
boat was prevented from crossing the Severn on a Sun-
day, and yet he was allowed to transfer, from one side
of the river to the other, his carriage, luggage, and
family, by human labour. The amendment of the
Right Reverend Prelate would not interfere with the
travelling of the rich, whilst it would amount to an in-
terdiction of the travelling of the poor. As had been
well said in the other House, the object of the amend-
ment was to indulge Dives and to restrain Lazarus.—
(Hear, hear.) He implored the House not to introduce
such an inequality between their Lordships and their
less fortunate fellow-countrymen.—(Cheers.)
The Earl of WICKLOW supported the amendment.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE denied that the
clause would compel any railway company to run a
carriage or a train on Sundays. It only compelled them
to carry Lazarus if they chose to carry Dives,—(Hear.)
It would only compel the companies to provide accom-
modation for the poor as well as for the rich.—(Hear.)
The Duke of WELLINGTON thought that the Bill
was not rightly understood, and suggested that the dis-
cussion should be postponed for a day or two in order to
give their Lordships time to consider the measure, in
detail. He would suggest the adjournment of the debate
till Monday.—(Hear, hear.)
The Earl of WICKLOW explained.
Lord CAMPBELL thought the adjournment unne-
cessary, for he believed that the House was now pre- '
pared to negative the amendment, which he would most
strenuously oppose.
Lord BROUGHAM said that, on the Sunday on
which ho came from Brighton, seven hundred persons
came up by railway, and these required the assistance of
three labourers only; whereas, if they had gone by
coach to Hampton Court, they would have required the
service of a hundred and twenty Sabbath-breakers.
After a few words from the Bishop of LONDON and
the Earl of RADNOR, the discussion was adjourned till
Monday.
UNLAWFUL OATHS (IRELAND) BILL.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the third reading of
this Bill.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE took that oppor-
tunity of calling the attention of their Lordships to the
conduct of the police, in seducing the people into crime,
as it was exposed in the trials of Ogle and others. The
Noble Marquis then read at length the evidence of the
man Shanaghan, at the trial of Wade at the North
Tipperary Assizes. (The reading of this extraordinary
evidence created a very marked sensation in the Housei)
He greatly deprecated the use of the spy sysstecm.ions t
had never done any good. Persecutions, proeut,
and informers, did no good. What had been the effect
of the late trials of O'Connell and the others ? It had
been to increase excessively the amount of the rent,
which, since Easter, had amounted to upwards of
25,000/.—(Hear, hear.) The power of the Repeal As-
'ation had been greatly increased, and presented now
sarbolder front to the authorities than ever be-
fore.—(Hear.) He read extracts from the reports of
speeches delivered at the Repeal Association to show
that the Eepealers had become bolder in their language
since the conviction and imprisonment of O'Connell. In
1834 the subject of repeal was brought before the
House of Commons, in a substantive motion, by Mr.
O'Connell, and a debate of great importance took place,
in which his Noble Friend (Lord Monteagle) rendered
most valuable service to both countries, by entirely de-
stroying Mr. O'Connell's arguments, and proving that
Ireland was more benefited than England by the union.
—(Hear, hear.) But in all the measures which had
been passed of late years respecting Ireland, the Legisla-
ture had shown the greatest distrust of the Roman Ca-
tholic people of that country. That distrust was con-
spicuous in the Municipal Corporations Act, in which
every care was taken to exclude Catholics from muni-
cipal office and influence. The result had been that
the great mass of the population, and the
large majority of people of rank and wealth and
station were united in calling for the repeal of the union,
having no longer any confidence on the Imperial Parlia-
ment. The present Administration had dOne nothing
for Ireland, and if they allowed three years more to
pass over in the same way, they would find the repeal
question to have taken so deep a root, as to require