The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-06 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVJSIONS

(From the rotes and Proceedings of the Howe ot Commons.)
FRIDAY, JULY J.
POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
(IN THE COMMITTEE.)
Fourth Clause (Jnstic s in PettpLession may adjourn the
hearing of the case, but every application shall be heard and
determined within the spade= of forty days from the service of
the summons ; and if within twenty-four hours after the ad-
judication, and making an order on the putative father, such
putative father shall appeal to the General Quarter Sessions,
the Justices in Quarter Session assembled shall hear and de-
termine such appeal) :—Amendment proposed, in page 3, line
10.
24, to Te out from " Bastard child," to " Provided," in line
37 (t er of appeal) :—Question put, " That the words
preposet tto be left out stand part of the Clause:" The Com-
mittee divided :—.

MAJORITY—AYES, 84.
Acland, Sir Thomas Gaskell, J. M. Palmer, R.
Arkwright, George Godson, Richard Peel, Jonathan
Raithe, Colonel H. Gordon, Captain Praed, W. T.
Baird, Wißam Goulburn, H. Price, R,
Baring, W. B. Graham, Sir James Pringle, Alexander
Baring. F. T. Guest, Sir John Protheroe, Edward
Benett, John Hamilton, C. J. B. Pusey, Pisilip
Bentinck, Lord G. Harris, EA. J. Rice, E. R.
Bolden), Henry G. Hawkes, T. Round, C. G.
Bowles, Admiral Herbert, Sydney -liumbold, C. E.
Boyd, John Hervey, Lord Alfred Rushbrooke,Colonel
Cavendish, Hon. G. Hope, Charles Seymour, Lord
Childers, J. W. Hope, G. W. Stanley, Lord
Christopher, R. A. Hussey, Thomas Stanstleld, W. R.
Clay, Sir W Johnstone, Sir John Stuart,p 'niers
.rk, Sir George Knatchbull, Sir E. Sutton, Henry H.
Collett, W. Bickford Langston, J. H. Tenneut, J. F.
Cripps, W. Lawson, .Andrew Thesiger, F
Curteis, IL B. Lennox, Lqrd A. Dm-nein Thomas
Darner, Hen. G. Lockhart, William Trench, Sir F.
Dickinson, F. H. M'Geachy, F. A. Vernon, Granville
Duncan, George M'Neill, Duncan Vivian, J. H. -
Escott, Bichkam Manners, Lord J. Wakley:Thorms
Estcourt, T. G. B. Mitcalfe, Henry Warburton, Ilenry
Fitzroy, Hon, H Napier, Sir Chariot Wodehouse, Edniono
Flower, Sir James Nichol!, J. Wortley, Hon. John
Forman, T. S. Norreys, Sir D. TELLERS.
Forster, Matthew O'Brien, A. Stafford Baring, Henry
Fremantle, Sir T. O'Conor Don Young, John

MINORITY—NOES, 40.
Ainsworth, Peter Egerton, W. T. Pechell, Captain
Aldam, William ' Ellis, Wynn Plumridge, Captain
Barnard, KG. Entwisle, William Pryse, Pryse
Beckett, William Fic'den, John Ito Heston, Colonel
Borthwick, Peter Fleetwood, Sir P. SiMons, Colonel
Brocklehurst, J. Henley, J. W. Strickland, Sir G.
Brotherton, J. Hinde, J. H. Walker, R.
Browne, W. Hindle)+, Charles Wawn, John T.
Buck, Lewis W. Irton, S. Wood, Colonel
Burroughes, li. N. Kemble, Henry Wrighston, W. B.
Chetwode, Sir John Layard, Captain
Colquhoun, John C. Mackenzie, W. F. TELLERS.
Crawford, W. S. Morgan, Octavius Liddel, H. F.
l)'Eyncourt, C. T. Morris, David Denison, E. Becke t
Douglas, Sir H. Morrison James

_ _ _
SIR ROBERT PEEL'S CORN BILL.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN.
SIR,—In returning to town from North Wales, after a
most successful sale of land, I find that I have been
honoured by some remarks from Sir Robert Peel, which,
however complimentary they may at first appear, are still
liable to misinterpretation ; and as I am indebted to the
position that I enjoy in my profession from having pursued
one undeviating course, I hope you will enable me to
show that I have not committed myself in respect to the
corn-laws.
If I am not drawing too much on your valuable time
and space, I would ask you to give a quotation from
the speech of Mr. Gibson, M.P. for Manchester, and the
reply of the Minister. T find it thus reported :—" Why
the guarantee was t,o much relied on as to have induced
a celebrated auctioneer to use it in his announcements,
with a view to enhance the value of landed estates, and
to assert, upon the strength of it, that the question of the
corn-laws was perfectly and safely adjusted, inasmuch
as capitalists might now invest their capital in land with
a certainty that the existing state of things could not be
disturbed."
To this observation I find Sir R. Peel makes the following
remark :—"Ido hope, therefore, that Hon. Gentlemen will,
in future, refer to my statement, and not to that authority,
high though it be, whose lucubrations they may have
time to peruse.—l mean Mr. George Robins, the auc-
tioneer." This may put on at:least an equivocal charac-
ter ; and, therefore, I ask you to let me quote the
remarks I have made in my advertisements, from
the speech of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, on
the first night (I believe) of the present session of Parlia-
ment, and then let the public judge between us. I
copied into my announcements, and verbatim, the cheer-
ing remark that follows, and this " is the head and
front of my offending":—" ALTHOUGH I CONSIDER
IT INCONSISTENT WITH My DUTY TO MAKE EN-
GAGEMENTS Fun ADHERING TO EXISTING LAWS,
UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, IN ORDER TO CON•
CILIATE SUPPuRT, I CAN SAY THAT THE
GOVERNMENT HAVE NEVER CONTEM-
PLATED, AND DO NOT CONTEMPLATE, ANY
ALTERATION IN THE EXISTING LAW."
I have now only to ask in the intelligible language of
Shakespeare, "SPEAK OF ME AS I AM ; NOTHING
EXTENUATE, NOR SET DOWN AUGHT IN MA-
LICE." Perhaps I may be allowed to state that my
anxiety to give publicity to his speech (a per-
fect God-send to the agricultural interest), was mainly
because a large portion of capitalists had doubted his
sincerity, and this could no longer exist after such an
unqualified assertion. The use and great utility of
this straightforward observation, has enabled me TO
SELL LAND THIS SEASON WITHOUT DIFFI-
CULTY, although not at a price which it is fairly en-
titled to, with reference to the high price of the funds.
But last season, while so much of doubt and uncer-
tainty clouded the agricultural horizon, it was all but
impossible to sell it at any price. In my practice, I can
aver that, during four months in last year, I had estates
exceeding in value ONE MILLION POUNDS STERLING
TO SELL, 'WITHOUT A BIDDER FOR ONE OF THEM.
I apprehend this is tolerably good authority for
asking Sir Robert Peel, as I certainly did, to speak
out. The great benefit that the landed interest have
achieved by this unequivocal and good policy, will be
strengthened by a single commentary. It was only
during the last week, at Llanrwst, in North Wales, I sold
estates and houses, in and around the town, and extending
three or four miles from it, at an average of forty years' pur-
chase, on a fair annual value, and this to the extent of
seventy thousand guineas.. I would suggest, also, that the
fate of Mr. Villiers's motion to alter the corn-laws, has
triumphantly put his false theory into the tomb of all
the Capulets, there to rest sine die. It is to the memor-
able declaration above quoted this victory may be
Pawed. I crave your indulgence for this lengthened
explanation, and to add that I trust the consequence will
be, that the UNSOLD MILLION I have alluded to in last
season will now find plenty of competitors at thirty
year' purchase. _ _

I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,
July 5. 1844. GEORGE ROBINS.

PROMISSORY NOTES.
(From Last Night's Gazette.)
An account of the Average Aggref:ate Amount of Promis-
sory Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been
in circulation in the United Kingdom, distinguishing those
circulated by the Bank of England, by Private Banks, mid
by Joint-Stock Banks, in England and Wales, by the Banks
in Scotland, by the Bank of Ireland, and by all other Banks
in Ireland, and of the, Average Amount of Bullion in the
Bank of England, during the four weeks ending the 22d day
of June, 1844, pursuant to the Act of 4th and sth Vic-
toria, cap. 50 :