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THE SUN, LONDON,

ad there planted their standard. Let them tell them as a Government, to their preservation ! They
that they had taken their position, and that they chain the dead carcase to the living body ; and thus
Would not be driven from it—that they had corn- fetter the movements, and jeopardize the health, of the
Inenced the battle, and that they would continue it, I latter. And this is the result of Sir Robert Peel's
however few they should get to support it. Let them promise to reform the Ecclesiastical Courts, in con-
tell them that they had put their hand to the plough, formity with the recommendations of the Ecciesias-
to Plough through this old, hard, weed-grown land of tical Courts Commissioners, and by virtue of the
protection, and that -they would never take their hand powers possessed by his " strong Government !"
front it until the field was all turned up, and the seed STANDARD.—We will not recur at unnecessary
"n had produced a rich and abundant harvest.— length to the proceedings in the House of Commons
(Great cheering.) last night, because, in truth, we could say nothing
The CHAIRMAN then announced, that Lord Kin- upon the merits of the question discussed that wehave
Intird would take the chair at the next meeting, not already said. Sir J. Graham had acted with re-
after which the meeting separated. spect to Mr. Ferrand upon a statement which proved
to be incorrect. Mr. Hogg had given a vote upon
the Nottingham Election Committee, so clearly
opposed to law and evidence, that we loudly remon-
strated against it at the time, and have never heard
a man since who would seriously undertake to
justify it. These were errors, but such errors as
the best men might commit, and the characters
of the Right Honourable Home Secretary and of
the Learned Member for Beverley stand so high,
that every unprejudiced man feels that they
cast no stain upon the integrity or honour of either
gentleman : but Mr. Ferrand, who is not an unpreju-
diced man, who as the party injured by one error, and
as the friend and political associate of the party injured
in the other, cannot be an unprejudiced man, takes a
prejudiced man's views of the errors referred to, and
ascribes them to motives which certainly could never
enter the breasts of the upright and honourable men
whom he accuses. Is Mr. Ferrand to blame for this,
to blame for not being infallible in judgment in a
case in which his feelings are warmly excited ?
Where are the judges who will condemn him ?
We, certainly, who remember how often we have
unjustly imputed bad motives because we saw
bad acts for which we could not find good ones
—will certainly not be the first to cast a
stone. But a locus penitenticr is left open to the
Member for Knaresborough : if on Friday he con-
fess his error he may be forgiven. What error is
he to confess, error in fact or error in opinion ?
Error in fact—is he to declare the dismissed
Assistant-Commissioner Notes report correct, or
Mr. Hogg's vote on the Nottingham Elec-
tion Committee a proper vote ? If he does this,
he will do what scarcely another man in Eng-
land would do, and what would degrade him—
may we be permitted to say the House of Commons
with him—below what tbe worst enemies of that
House could ever bring it to. But if it is the
erroneous opinion which Mr. Ferrand is re-
quired
to retract, we ask by what authority
does this new inquisition—the House of Com-
mons—claim to exercise a despotism over men's opi-
nions ? And in what a base light would Mr.
Ferrand appear to the country if he should be the
first to submit to such tyranny. The House professes
to be wonderfully chary of its honour, as committed
in the honour of its Members. Be it so; let the
House guard its honour, and the honour of its
whole household, with the jealous vigilance of a
Spanish husband. Let its self-elected sentinels of
Parliamentary and personal honour—Mr. Papineau
Roebuck, Mr. Black-is-White Hume, and Mr.
Mexico Ward keep watch, and Lord John
Russell take command of the guard, confident
that he will not be compelled to fly from his post,
as he did from the Castle-yard, Exeter, by the cry,
" The Bishop is coming," with a certain
Totnes speech in his hand ! let the House,
we say, jealously guard the honour of its
whole household, but let it -be impartial in
the exercise of its guardianship ; and let it
not, in order to protect two of its Members from a
loose, doubtful, and wholly unsuccessful aspersion,
insist upon the solemn degradation of another, by
compelling him to state what he thinks a falsehood,
or ensure its own degradation, by challenging from
him that refusal. which it is almost certain to
receive.

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IRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF Tnss DAY.
GLOBE.—The course which the Government has
,taken with respect to the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill is
calculated to lower it in character, and to brand it
- With merited and lasting reproach. The Bill has
, passed its second reading. Dr. Nichol!, who has
been appointed dry-nurse to the Lord Chancellor's
• bantling, gave notice last evening that he
intends on Monday to move the committal
of the Bill pro forma, in order that the House
snag get through the money clauses awarding compen-
sation to the sinecure holders, who have been allowed,
by sufferance, to fill posts, and perform the duties, by
deputy. It may, therefore, be a bootless task to per-
• gist in denouncing the Bill. The public will have to
bear the burdens which it will impose. The Ministry
founded its claim to public confidence on many
; Pounds. Among others, the Reform it undertook
to effect in the administration of justice were espe-
. VallY dwelt upon. The Bankruptcy Law Re-
• °M—fraught with patronage to the Chancellor,
" with increased inconvenience and ex-
Pease to the creditors, while it' afforded additional
Chances of escape to the fraudulent and improvident
Reform.
the first fruits of the promised Law
-"eforre. The Ecclesiastical Courts Bill—rendered
Worse by the efforts to improve the measure which
Was abandoned in despair last session—is the second
of the series. Party power was never prostituted to pur-
' Poses of mischief with perseverance so determined. No
bleasure was ever forced through Parliament with such
admissions of defects, by those who framed and fa-
thioned it : these have been humiliating and complete.
What, in effect, has been the language held by its
supporters ? " We admit that in pressing the pre-
• tent measure we are without excuse, except on the
• aeknied plea of expediency. We are open to re-
' Pr,oach ; for we are compelled to reproach our-
'.
,sseives• We confess that we have gone so far as,
versonally, in our places in Parliament, to expressly
and deliberately utter and pronounce the sentence
ocondemnation on ourselves, with reference to
141-18 very proceeding. But we are a strong Govern-
, tnent !' and, right or wrong, blamed by ourselves,
and condemned by others, we will do what we please.
We will, in fact, if we so like, do what we well know,
' and admit, is wrong. It is our fancy. Argue, or
not, as you like best—the end will be the same.
• We Can beat you on the division, and therefore
Care little for the case you make out against us.
fact, it may save you some trouble if we state
e n
.6 once that the principles upon which we con-
.. st_• uct the business of the country are briefly these—
vole, sic jubeo, stet pro ratione voluntas."
fl'ast session, in a discussion upon a Bill on the
• blame subject, which the Government withdrew, Sir
' R. Peel asseverated, " So help me God, I have no in-
' terest in the matter !" We have no desire to impugn
fortunate for
declaration. We certainly do think it un-
• Vrtunate for the Right Hon. Baronet that:the Bill, on
1,4 very face, raises a presumption that some one in the
::Cabinet has more concern in the adoption of the
tles•sure than the Premier himself. Certainly, if the
t:elinkTuPtey Court Reform Bill be excepted, there has
law lint°. recent change in the administration of the
• port; leh creates so many snug berths, and so large
I\4ol n, ° of law patronage, as the Bill before us. Dr.
b °I, would certainly have taken a larger amount
ho benefit under the Bill of last year. The present,
sn ever, secures an increase of emolument not to be
14._eezed upon. As Judge-Advocate, the Hon. and
0 fss,r.n ed Doctor receives 2,0001. a year. The duties
• A, office are performed by. Deputy Judge-
• th"voeates—a set of functionaries who perform all
drudgery, while the Principal rejoices in
rigood fortune, snugly ensconced in his mansion in
grave•square. Dr. Nicholl is also Vicar-General ;
at, office the duties of which are almost as laborious as
' that of Judge-Advocate ; the emoluments are, how-
ever, considerably less, being only about 4001. annually.
__plust, therefore, be obvious, that to one so ill-pro-
ided for as Dr. Nicholl—whose duties are so onerous,
iueL his emoluments so light—it is a matter of supreme
• ''lPortance if not of absolute necessity, that he be
better provided for at the public cost. The salary fixed
1y the present Ecclesiastical Courts Bill is not quite
v"Val to that of the last session, the untimely fate of
Deh no one deplores so deeply as the Learned
. 1,2001. a year is not to be rejected, espe-
•sally when the office is one of little work. Doctor
Icholl is therefore content to take the good the gods,
or rather the Lord Chancellor, has provided for him,
and earnestly wishes he may get it. In addition to
Providing for Doctor Nicholl, the Govern-
• 'gent has also to propitiate the country attorneys,
• 141? Practice in the Diocesan Courts. Their profits,
derived from following. the bipartite profession of
attorney
' bjrney and proctor, would have been diminished
• not the Diocesan Courts been retained ; and the
Public interests—which, as the Government had
explicitly admitted, required the abolition of these
trts—has been sacrificed, because these practi-
. -tnters, backed by the Bishops, were too formidable
oe dealt with by the " strong Government."
Were was a little job- work also to be done in the way
;.! Providing about thirty snug posts for juvenile bar-
itsters. These gentlemen, though too young at present
o be of much use to the Government, will in time
grow into use. Their political influence, in the places
•Vhere their tiny Courts are to be held, may be of ser-
vbiee at a pinch. Perhaps, once in two or three
'ears they may exhibit, to the conviction of some
• querulous Dissenting cobbler, the awfulness and or-
thodoxy of ceesiastical law; proving to him, that for
refusingto pay a few pence, as church-rates, he may
se, sent to prison " for his soul's health," until he
:Dr/lit • Now,, returning to the assertion with which
set out, that argument must be vain when em-
Played with a Ministry which admits that its policy is
; Plxlsed to its own sense of justice, we may be held
'll.llllBtified in adhering to our opinion, that the " So-help-
' thl*God" declaration of the Premier is all moon-
- ee'ne• Let Ministers throw over the utterly unne-
, abssarY and expensive Vicar-Generalship. Let them
°lish that office entirely, and blot it from the Bill.
• et them—as the Report of the Ecclesiastical Courts
Commissioners after mature deliberation, recom •
iu
ended—annihilate all the Diocesan Ecclesiastical
IC Courts.;i there will _be then no slight passed, and
njury inflicted, upon a highly respectable, learned,
aQi honourable class of men, the College of Advo-
. .14-,V, by the appointment of a number of suckling
• Judges, such as the Bill now proposes to create.
bet them allow no man to ride rough-shod over
er°, under the apprehension of losing his Parlia-
ti
• el'tary support. Let them, in short, do that
which in their own consciences they know, and
vo
ii.",_ten their own lips have admitted, would be
&ant' Let them abide by that which they pro-
s to have made the basis, and which ought really to
tt. their guide, in legislating for the improvement of
" e Ecclesiastical Courts. The report of the Ecclesi-
astical Public.
Courts Commission is in the hands of the
37'"i!o• The reforms recommended by that Corn-
' -"awn were such as the public interests de
. e —"Led' and these the ;public had a right to
inlPect. The excuses which were urged for delay
wea.rrYing out the recommendations of that Corn-_
• tClon are no longer available ; for the grounds of
se excuses no longer exist. The Government,
were it honest in its professions, is possessed of
trther sufficient to counteract the influences opposed
Whasejecommendations and to carry a measure
nesC should embody them, as a whole. lnstead of
Y rising superior to the weak and beggarly.
urnents which have combined to perpetuate the
Itstitu •
tions of a by-gone age, and to fasten them
3421 i a state of society to which they are not
AticielY inappropriate, but a positive nuisance
an injury, they determine to lend themselves

NEWMARKET RACES.
(THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.)

THE ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES,

by Subs. of 100 Sol's. each, h ft, for fillies,

Bst 71b each. D.M.
Mr. Osbaldeston's Sister to Martingale .. .......
Lord Exeter's Merope
Colonel Anson's The Princess . . . .
Lord Chesterfield's The Bee . .. 0
Captain Daintree's Redshank filly .... 0
Mr. Greville's Jamaica.. ... 0
Colonel Peel's Zenobia
Col. Peel's f by Slane, out of Seakale
Baron Rothschild's Emerald..
Mr. Thornhill's Example . . 0

MATCH.—Duke of Bedford's Espoir, 9st 71b, beat
Lord Glasgow's fby Bay Middleton, out of Imper-
tinence, 7st. First half of Ab. M. 200, h ft.
Won easy.

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old, colts,
Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. First half of Ab. M.
Lord Exeter's Mocha
Mr. Greviile's Molly Mogg .
Five horses started. A good race.

MATCH.—Duke of Bedford's Espoir beat Mr. Os-
baldeston'3 Escrick.
Won by a length.

DUELLING.-THE ARMY.

In the amended articles relating to duelling, just issued from
.he War• office by her Majesty's authority, " for the purpose
of more effectually discouraging and prohibiting a practice
which is a violation of her Majesty's orders, and a flagrant
breach of the law of the land," we find that—
"These articles declare that it is suitable to the character
of honourable men to apologise and offer redress for wrong
or insult committed, and equally so for the party aggrieved
to accept, frankly and cordially, explanations and apologies
for the same.
" If such redress be refused to be given, or to be accepted,
and the friends of the parties have failed to reconcile the
differences, a reference should, in conformity with the sig-
nification of her Majesty's pleasure in the 106th article, be
made to the commanding-officer on the spot, who will use
his best advice and influence to reconcile the parties ; and
the differences having been honourably settled by the good
offices and responsibility of the commanding officer, ought
never to be revived by either party, or by any other officer,
or body of officers ; if, however, the commanding officer fail
to reconcile the parties, it will become his duty to take such
measures as he may deem necessary in order to prevent a
duel, or to maintain good order in her Majesty's service, and
the person refusing to be reconciled will be liable to be
brought to a court-martial, and, if convicted, cashiered, or
suffer such other punishment as the Court may award.
" All parties implicated in duelling are liable, on conviction
before a general court-martial, to be cashiered.
"Her Majesty's pleasure is expressed in the 107th article,
that officers, being the friends or seconds of the parties, shall
exert their influence to adjust a difference on terms consis-
tent with.the honour of each of the parties. The failure in
settling a difference being generally attributable to excessive
demands for preparation made by one of the parties, the con-
duct of the seconds, by the 107th article, is made liable to be
investigated as well as that of the principals, in all cases in
which a dispute shall be referred for the consideration of a
general court-martial.
" Personal differences between gentlemen living together
as brother officers can seldom fail to be honourably and
promptly adjusted, in the first instance by explanation be-
tween their mutual friends; the propriety of an early ex-
planation and acknowledgment of error was so forcibly
pointed out by Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, in
confirming the, sentence of a general court-martial, in 1810,
that Sir Henry Hardinge inserts the following extract of his
Grace's sentiments on this point :
" The officers of the army should recollect that it is not
only no degradation, but that it is meritorious in him whe
is in the wrong to acknowledge and atone for his error, and
that the momentary humiliation which every man may
feel upon making such an acknowledgment is more than
atoned for by the subsequent satisfaction which it affords
him, and by avoiding a trial and conviction of conduct un-,
becoming an officer.'

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday. night, about
halt-past eleven, a watchman in Candleriggs, Glasgow,
found the dead body of a man, dreadfully mangled, lying
in a back court off the above street. It appears that the
deceased lived in the fourth storey of a tenement over-
looking the court, and the supposition is, that he had
been attempting to get admission to the house by
stepping from a stair-case window to the kitchen
window, when he lost his balance, and was preci •
pitated to the ground. It is known that, on previous
occasions, he had effected an entrance in this way ;
and there is scarcely a doubt that he was makinc,
the effort in the present instance, when he failed,"
and met his dreadfnl fate. The deceased was a
stout heavy man, and death must have ensued
instantaneously, as his head was bruised and
battered in a shocking manner. The attempt to
enter the house by so dangerous a path, and at such a
giddy height, seems little short of madness; but perhaps
an explanation is -to be found in the fact that he was
much addicted to liquor, and there is too much reason to
fear that he was intoxicated when the accident occurred.
Glasgow Argus.
Our military friends have now got their new
" military cap. and of course we civilian lookers-on
must give a diffident opinion on such matters. We hope
they will not be distressed when we express our opinion
that the " cap fits" them extremely well. Its appear-
ance is rather.foreign, but so was that of the curvilinear
" chako" at first, which was a Prussian importation.
The " poke" is a far more sensible thing than the up-
and-down affair, which gave no shade or comfort, how
ever knowing might be its look. The leather chin-strap
is bad, but then that was used latterly with the former
chako ; it has an especially shabby appearance, whereas
the lately introduced brass curb chain, fixed on one side
and hooked on to the other—looked both serviceable
and elegant. Why discontinue it ? One great advan-
tage realised by the smallness of this head gear (besides
lightness and comfort) is, that it is so much more becom-
ing to the figure ;—it adds two inches of apparent breadth
toithe shoulders. We wish it might furnish a hint in this
way about those monstrosities the Grenadier caps.—
Hampshire Advertiser.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 24.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
NEW MEMBER.

The Marquis of BLANDFORD took the oaths and his
seat for Woodstock.

Mr. DENNISTOUN presented petitions against the
Prisons Bill, from the Magistrates and Councils of
Glasgow, Rutherglen, and Renfrew; from the Glasgow
Emancipatinn Society, against the admission of sugar
produced by slave labour, and from the merchants and
bankers of Glasgow, for the repeal of the Duties on
Cotton Wool.
MASTERS AND SERVANTS BILL.

Mr. GIBSON presented a petition from Nottingham
against the Master and Servants Bill.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from Cocker-
mouth.

Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from Exeter to the
same effect.
COMMITTEE ON PRIVATE BILLS.

Mr. GREENE, as Chairman of the Committee of Se-
lection, begged leave to state to the House, that some in-
convenience had been occasioned to the persons inter-
ested in the Hull Docks Bill, in consequence of the
agents not having received notice of the adjournment of
the House and the Committee till Friday. That Com-
mittee had been appointed for Thursday, and as it could
not sit on that day, he now moved that it should have
leave to sit on Friday.—Ordered.
An HON. MEMBER presented a petition from a place
in Tyrone in favour of Presbyterian marriages.
The British Iron Company Bill was read a third time
and passed.

SUGAR DUTIES.
Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from Exeter, pray-
ing for the admission of sugar the produce of free labour.
Lord HOWICK presented a similar petition from
Sutherland.

Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition to the same
effect from Kendal.

COAL DUTIES.-COTTON DUTY.

Lord HOWICK presented a petition from the Town
Council of Sunderland, praying for the repeal of the
export duty on coal.
Lord SANI)ON presented a petition from the manu-
facturers of Heywood, in Lancashire, praying for the
repeal of the duty upon-the importation of raw cotton.
THE CHARITABLE PAWN SOCIETY.

The NOBLE LORD also presented a petition from the
pawnbrokers of Liverpool against the Charitable Pawn
Societies Act.
Mr. HAWES presented a similar petition, but the
names of the petitioners were not hciard in the gallery.
Mr. TATTON EGERTON presented a petition
against any alteration in the Bishoprics of Bangor and
St. Asaph.
Mr. DICKENSON presented a petition from a regis-
trar in Somersetshire, praying that Taunton might be
placed in schedule C in the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill.

NEW ZEALAND.
Mr. AGLIONBY said, that on Friday evening last,
when the estimates were before the Committee, a consi-
derable part of the discussion arose on the subject of
New Zealand, the state of the colony, and the manage•
mant of the Company's affairs. He then implored the
Government to grant an inquiry, and the Noble Lord
at the bead of the Colonial Department acknowledged
that the matter was a very important one, and, as ha be-
lieved that the Noble Lord would not object to the ap-
pointment of a Select Committee, he now begged to
move that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire
into the state of the Colony of New Zealand, and the
proceedings of the Company, the said Committee to re-
port its proceedings to the House.
Mr. LABOUCHERE thought that the consent of the
Colonial Secretary was not alone necessary. The House
ought also to decide whether the subject was of impor-
tance enough fora Select Committee, and was entitled
to have some notice of the motion.

Mr. AGLIONBY said the blame of not having given
notice was entirely- his own ; he would comply with the
suggestion of the Hon. Member, and give notice of his
motion for Friday next.