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the second clause being read, it was proposed by Mr.
GLADSTONE that the Chairman should report pro-
gress, in order to go into Committee on the Railways
Bill. The motion was agreed to. _ _

On the order of the day being read for the House
going into Committee on the Railways Bill, Mr.
MORRISON made some objections to the details of the
Bill, and the House went into Committee.
On the first clause being proposed, Mr. GLADSTONE
gave an outline of the alterations which had been
made in the Bill. Among other details, he stated
that the option of revision and purchase was appli-
cable to existing railway companies, and that all of
them would be included in the proposed regulations
for third-class passengers. We are glad to see the
Government at last show some regard to the work-
ing classes. By the clause relative to third-
class passengers, the rate is fixed at one penny
a mile, and the carriages are to be covered.
There is to be no huddling together like
sheep in a pen, as on some railroads at present,
a practice disgraceful to the directors. These rail-
roads, the wonder of the world, have been con-
structed by the nerve and sinew of the working
classes, and it is only fair that they should profit by
them.

The House divided on the fifth clause, respecting
the running of third-class carriages on Sundays, when
Ministers were left in a minority of 32.
Several Members announced that they would make
no further opposition to the Bill.
Clauses up to 24 were agreed to, and the House
resumed.

The Joint-Stock Companies Bill was read a third
time and passed. The Metropolitan Buildings Bill
was also read a third time and passed.
A brief conversation then took place relative to
Captain WARNER'S experiment against the John
&Gaunt at Brighton, but, unfortunately, little in-
formation was communicated respecting the manner
in which the operation was conducted. Notwith-
standing the report read by Lord INGESTRE the pub-
lic will suspend their judgment. So much secrecy
has been observed that persons tolerably well in-
formed are as incredulous of Captain WARNER'S ex-
ploits as those of Monsieur ALEXIS.
Mr. SHELL brought forward his motion relative to
the possessions of the French in Algiers in an altered
shape. The original motion was for a Committee of
Inquiry, but in introducing the subject last
evening he simply moved for papers. Af-
ter giving historical details of the occupation
of Algiers by the French, and the heavy duties im-
posed on foreign manufactures, he concluded by,
moving for papers, in order to show how far the pos-
session of that country by the French was consistent
with the political and commercial interests of this
country.

Sir ROBERT PEEL opposei the motion, which after
some discussion was withdrawn.

Mr. HumE moved for an Address to her Majesty,
praying for a revision of the regulations of the Royal
Academy, which was opposed by Sir R. PEEL, and
negatived without a division.
The House then went into a Committee of Supply,
and several votes were agreed to, among them a grant
of 8,0001. for completing the Nelson Monument in
Trafalgar•square.
The House having resumed, the other orders of
the day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at
ft Quarter to Two o'clock.

In the course of a debate on the Railways Bill last
night in the House of Commons, Mr. 'I'HORNELY,
on the sixth clause being proposed, observed that
he had no wish to interfere with railways which
refused to run aay trains on the Sabbath, but he
thought that in cases in which companies ran first
and second-class trains on Sundays; they ought also
to be compelled to ran third-class trains. To this
just and rational proposition Mr. GLADSTONE
emphatically replied, that " he, fur one, would be
no party to compelling companies to run par-
ticular trains on the Lord's day. He was aware
of the difficulty of enforcing the observance of the
Lord's day by legislation, but he would never hold
out a bonus to a violation of the Lord's day. He
was aware that railroad Companies were compelled to
carry the mails on the Lord's day, but that was a
case of necessity. The respectable working man who
wished to change his place of abode, would rather
give up a working day and the wages of a working
man than travel on the Lord's day. The ob-
servance of the Lord's day was a great support to
religion in this country, and it was the chief
support to religion in Scotland." This passage
is remarkable, not only as being impregnated with
the true spirit of the Conventicle, but as conveying
a Cabinet Minister's notion of what constitutes re-
spectability among the working classes. The opera-
tive who would wish to be considered " respectable,"
must, according to Mr. GLADSTONE, entertain a pious
horror of travelling by railway on the " Lord's Day."
No matter how pressing the necessity may be, for
his " changing his place of abode," he must abandon
all thoughts of Sabbatical locomotion, otherwise he
forfeits his claim to respectability. No working
man can be truly " respectable," in the Gladstonian
sense of the term, who is not prepared to sa-
crifice a day's wages in order that he may be
enabled to stay at home on the Sabbath, and travel
on some other day f Truly it is sad twaddle, and
still worse, if possible, is the Right Hon. Gentle-
man's remark, that the " chief support to religion in
Scotland" is to be found in the general disinclination
of the people to travel by railway on the Sabbath !
Heaven help the Scotch if their piety rests on no bet-
ter foundation than this ! But though Mr. GLAD-
STONE enters a pious protest against the poor man tra-
velling on Sundays, we do not find" that he so much
as whispera a remonstrance :against the rich man
travelling on the same day. It is only against the
running of "par/kw-tar trains on the Lord's Day"—
that ii•to say, the Cheitip 'trains, which are intended
for the accommodation of the working-classes—that
he inveighs in a strain of very superfluous and some-
what officious
,piety. The rich may travel as-much
as they please on the Sabbath, but for the poor to
avail themselves of the same privilege is an abomina-
tion in the eyes of the Saints. There is something
very sickening in this one-sided Pharisaical cant. It
is not dictated by devotion but liy hypocrisy, and
exhibits a disposition on the part of Mr. GLADSTONE
to confound the mere ceremonial observances of reli-
gion with the sterling thing itself. We had hoped
that the spirit of Andrew-Agnewism was long since
extinct in the House of Commons, but we now find it
revived in the august person of a Cabinet Minister.
As we have more than once observed, in all matters
relating to the observance of the Lord's-day, it
is far better that they should be left exclusively to the
good sense and religious. feelings of the community.
Parliament has never interfered on the subject, and
never will interfere, except 'to do mischief. In the
present instance, had Mr. GLADSTONE'S opposition to
Mr. THORN ELT's amendment been successful, it would
have had no other effect than to put money into the
purses of the railway proprietors, by compelling all
poor people who might be forced from necessity
to travel on , Sundays, to travel by second-class
instead of third-class trains ! . And this op-
position to the just and sensible amendment
was offered by the Right Hon. Gentleman on the
plea of religion Fortunately, Mr. TnoastELr car-
ried his point, and Mr. GLADSTONE, greatly no doubt
to the discomfiture of his pious sensibilities, was de-
feated by a majority of 34. In the course of the
evening, by way of diversifying the entertainment of.
Hon. Members, Sir ROBERT PEEL read a brief and
pithy lecture to Mr. HUME on the subject of "impu-
dence," which showed how highly he appreciated the
value of this statesmanlike qualification !

LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1844.

the House of Lords Mr. SERGEANT WiANG •
was heard in opposition to the Bill for the Dis-
• franchiiement of SuclNiry, and concluded his speech
at half-past five o'clock, when a discussion took place
which passed through Com-
on the Gaming Bill, will.
rnittee, and was ordered to be read a third time

this day.
The House then resumed the order, of the day for
' the Disfranchisement of Sudbury, and the LORD
C BANC ELLOR strongly urged the expediency of the
Th.easure, as a warning to other corrupt electors.
Aft. r a few words from Lord BROUGHAM, the Bill
was tread a second time- without opposition, and
.ordered $.44 be committed.
The coji,,ty Coroners' Bill passed through Com-
mittee.
The LORD cfmNCELLOR moved the second reading
of the Charitable TrL'sts Bill'
The Bishop of L ONI. ,o.g hoped the Bill would not
'be passed this session, as many of the Bishops were
obliged to leave town ibrOwith, and such a Bill
should not be discussed in their absence.
The Bill was read a second time, and after the
transaction of some other business, the House ad-
journed at Eleven o'clock.
The House of Commons met at Twelve o'clock, and
after some conversation relative to the Poor-law
Amendment 13i11, and the marine explosion at
Brighton, went into Committee on the Joint-Stock
Banks Bill. T be first clause was agreed to, and on

Oar readers will of course have remarked the re-
cent proceedings before Committees of the Houses of
Lords and, Commons, on the subject of certain gill
tam actions which are still pending; -against various
Noble Peers. and 'Honourable Members connected
with whatis called the "'Sporting World." The acts
of these individuals which have rendered them sub-
ject to the oppressive machinery of " qui tam" informa-
tions, under an almost obsolete statute (9 Ann, c. 14),
are, very numerous transactions on the turf, in which
they have won various stakes, waders, purses, Sc., &c.
Under tilt' Act (which was an extension, as it were,
of 16 Car. 11., c. 7, the first statute that raised any
question as to the illegality -of sporting wagers or
gambling Gt races), the winner of any stake above
10/. at one time, ".at cards, dice, tales, tennis, bowls,
or other. game or games whatsoever;" is liable in the
penalty, under one section, of foil; times the amount

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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING,' JULY 23, 1844.

visitations of dormant statutes, wherever these may
be awakened by private passion, malice, or caprice.

We have intelligence from Madrid to the 15th.
The Gazette of that date publishes a decree relative
to the possession of arms by parties not regularly
authorised to have them. Those placed in that situa-
tion are ordered to deliver them up within a certain
time, under a penalty of 160 ducats and thirty days'
imprisonment. The armourers throughout the: coun-
try are ordered to render in a monthly account of
their sales. The Government papers state that pre-
parations are still going on for an attack on Morocco,
but the prevailing opinion was, that the affair would
be settled without recourse to arms.

The Three per Cents. were done at 27, for sixty
days ; and the Fives at 20i, for cash.

Dispatches were received by the French Govern-
ment on Sunday from Marshal BUGEAUD, dated
Lella Magnia, the 6th of July. These dispatches do
not contain any news, with the exception of a great
rhazia executed by General TsuPounr's column upon
the Ouled Belagh, the Ouled-el-Mahr, the Beni
Muthar, and the Ouled-Sidi-labia fraction of the
Djafra. These tribes were come up to at fifteen
leagues to the south of Sebdou, and made a stubborn
resistance. They had thirty of their horsemen killed,
100 prisoners taken, with 20,000 sheep, 600 oxen, 150
camels, besides many horses and mules.
The Chamber of Peers adopted, without amendment,
the Bill for constructing the northern railways, one
to the English Channel, and another to the Belgian
frontier. The works on the trunk line, namely, that
from Paris to Amiens, are considerably advanced, and
will be ready for laying down the rails by the end of this
year. The Chamber brought the business of the session
"to a close on Saturday, by passing the budget. This
is regarded as the- signal for the Commencement of
the vacation, and accordingly the greater part of the
Members had left Paris, some to watering places,
and others to their country seats. The Journal des
Debuts thus sums up the business of the session :
" The Chamber of Deputies has, in fact, terminated
its deliberations. The session opened on the 28th of
December, 1843, and as the Chamber will not be
closed until the Peers shall have terminated their la-
bours (probably towards the commencement of the
ensuing month), it will have lasted nearly seven
months. During this interval the Chamber of De-
puties assembled 150 times. It was presided over
three times by M. LAFFITTE, the senior Member;
105 times by M. SAUZET, its President ; and 45
times by MM. BIGNON, LEPELLETIER D'AULNAY7
DEBELLEYME, and DR SALVANDY. This session has
been the most laborious, and perhaps the most fruitful,
since 1830, with respect to the number and the im-
portance of the Bills passed, which amount to 37,
besides 66 private Bills and 21 'public Bills intro-
duced, and upon which reports have been prepared.
The Chamber experienced serious losses during the
session by the death of ten Deputies. Three resigned,
and two were created Peers of France."

The Toulonnais of the 17th instant says, "a Turkish
fleet has left the Dardanelles for the coast of Syria.
It is commanded by the Capitan-Pacha, and is com-
posed of seven ships of the line, two frigates, two bri-
gantines, a cutter, and a steamer."

The same journal of the 18th gives the following
list of the fleet under the Prince DE JOINVILLE :
" The ships of the line Suffren, bearing the flag of
Admiral DE JOINVILLE, Jernmapes, and Triton; the
frigate Belle Poule ; the steam-frigates Labrador,
Asmodee and Oraoque; the steam-corvettes Pluton,
Gassendi, Veloce, and Cuvier ; the steamers of lesser
power Phare, Castor, Cocyte, Etna, Tartare, Eu-
phrate, Sphinx, Chimere, Rubis, Var, and Gregeois ;
and the lighters Aube, Provoncale, and Perdrix.

THIS DAYS NEWS.

THE LATE FATAL. ACCIDENT AT
BLACKFRIARS-BRIDGE.
(LATEST PARTLCULARS.)
ONE O'CLOCK.—Up to this hour no other bodies have been
recovered, and the tide is running down so fast, and the
water so low, that the men have ceased dragging, and will
not renew their exertions until between three and four
o'clock this afternoon. The four bodies found yesterday,
together with that of Amelia Mundy, aged twelve years, the
daughter of the landlord of the Lamb and Lark, Printing-
house-square, which was picked up this morning, remain at
the dead-house in Ireland- yard ; and Mr. Payne, the coroner,
has issued his warrant to the ward beadle to summon a jury
at the Glaziers' Arms, at four o'clock this afternoon, when a
searching inquiry into all the circumstances attending this
lamentable affair will be commenced.

From the best intelligence, this moment collected from the
surgeons who were so actively engaged in attempting to re-
suscitate the unfortunate victims, it appears that there is
reason to fear that not less than from nineteen to twenty
bodies still remain under water. In the confusion that pre•
wailed the numbers stated to have been immersed necessarily
greatly varies, but upon the most correct computation it
would seem that thirty persons were at the same time strug-
gling for their lives.
Mrs. Brabook, of N
Bray o. 222, Strand, has just been making
the most anxious inquiries after her nephew, a young and
promising youth, who, although not in the habit of remain-
ing out all night, is missing, and is suspected of having gone
to witness the boat-race. She describes him as being about
twenty years of age, and having a ring on his finger with his
name inscribed on it, and a silver watch and chain in his
pocket. The excitement among the crowd of persons on the
bridge continues to increase rather than diminish ; and the
inquires at the Glaziers Arms, at the time of writing, are
most numerous by all classes of society.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
The drags were kept at work till long after midnight, but
without more bodies being recovered. The labour was re-
sumed at dawn, and about seven o'clock the body of a girl,
about nine years of age, was drawn from beneath the barges
and conveyed to the Glaziers' Arms, and was shortly after
owned, and proved to. be Amelia Mundy, daughter of the
proprietor of the Lamb and Lark, Printing-house-square, who
had been missing since the sad catastrophe. The body was
ultimately deposited with the others at the dead-house of St.
Anne's, Blackfriars, to await the Coroner's inquest.
Many persons remained throughout the night, some as
espole,cetarytoorf spectators,
eor friend. As the
day light approached the crowd on the bridge, the steps, and
)toefrsslo vmaietinlogst relative in anticipation of the re-
wharf leading to the pier had materially increased, and a
dense crowd was again formed around the Glaziers' Arms.
Among those at the wharf was a young woman who had re-
mained throughout the night, partly sleeping in a boat,
haendbodo!i
anxiously waiting in anticipation of a missing sister being
found ; she was however not disturbed to receis4e this melan-
choly gratification.
As the tide receded, boats were out, the drags were used,
and other attempts made to discover the bodies of missing
persons.
On examination of the platform by daylight, it appears
to have been formerly constructed of good sound deal, which
was originally about an inch and a half in thickness, but
has been materially worn away, so that at the part broken
it scarcely shows an inch in thickness. The cross-pieces or
bearings 'beneath are not very strong, and are rather wide
apart, and appear so far to differ with the gangway which
has been substituted this morning, which has stout bearers
placed diagonally, and at right angles with the cross-pieces.
It has been currently reported that several other bodies
have been found; but up to this time (12 o'clock) no more
than five bodies have been recovered, viz., the four mentioned
in the morning papers of this day, and that above described.
The report that money was taken by the pier authorities
to allow the unfortunate people to go on the gangway is, it
would appear, wholly without foundation.

CLERKENWELL._(THIS DAY.)
Ann Fitzgibbon, a heart-broken-looking poor creature, was
charged with annoying and assaulting J. P. Fitzgibbon, her
husband.

The prisoner was separated from her husband in April last,
since wlien he has allowed her a weekly sum of 4s. Last
evening, having been informed that her husband was going
to Bombay next Monday, she went to his residence, No.
4, Britannia .street, where, having quarrelled, she struck him
a blow on the breast.
The plaintiff admitted that he was going to Bombay, but
alleged that he had made a provision for the payment of the
allowance to his wife.
The prisoner said, fearing the allowance on which her ex-
istence almost depended, would terminate on her husband's
departure, she went to his residence. She heard herhusband
had received 551. yesterday morning.
Mr. CO3IBE said he would not punish the woman further
than, by binding her over in her own recognisances to keep
the peace, and expressed a hope that the complainant would
provide for the payment of her pension before he left the
country.

TAKING THE VElL.—This morning the imposing
ceremony of taking the black veil was performed at the
Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, at Parker's Folly, Ber-
mondsey. At the early hour of eight o'clock the chapel of
the convent was crowded by persons, principally ladies, to
witness the ceremony. At that hour the convent bell
began tolling, announcing the entrance of the procession,
which consisted of the priests, incense-boys, and assistants,
followed by the nuns, each of whom bore a lighted wax-
taper. The ceremony
was then proceeded with, during
which solemn mass was celebrated; and at the conclusion
each of the nuns embraced their newly professed sister, and
they returned to the convent in the same order in which
they had left. The young lady who has thus embraced the
profession is a Miss Duff, and was possessed of considerable
property. She has been in the convent upwards of two
years, arid is of great personal attractions.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—TAISI evening, at half-past
nine, a young woman threw herself off the suspension bridge
at the east end of the Zoological Gardens, leading out of the
Peg-cries Park towards Chalk Farm, into the canal. A by-
stander was happily in time to procure the assistance of the
I olice, .who were Lear at hand with drags, and after being
about four minutes in the water she was extricated, and taken
to the Albany Tavern, where medical assistance was promptly
procured, and every means adopted to restore life. When
our informant left, no particulars had transpired except that
she was a very young girl, and hopes were entertained that
she would survive.
ODD iI'ELLOWS.—The growing importance of this
body is not generally understood. At the Selby anniversary
last week, where gr. Hook of Leed., preached, himself a
brother and warm friend of? -the order, it was stated after
dinner, in his presence and with his concurrence, that the
memberhs—fotirlethseulPaPs°tsyeelarinteiaodmbe
funds of the order consisted of upwards of one million of
money
been 25,000.
The increase of