The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-04 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS LAT.
1. Mrs Wilmot Horton—Report laid before the Colonial
-Department by Lieutenant-Colonel Coahuila on the
subject of Emigration ; together with the Instruc-
tions received from t:,at Department on the 26th Ja-
nuary, 18;27.
:qr. Wilmot Horton—Bill to revive and amend an
Act for regulating Vessels carrying Passengers to Fo-
reign Parts.
:3. Mr. Wilmot Horton—Bill to enable Parishes in Log.
/and, under give regulations, and for a limited pe-
riod, to mortgage their Poor Rates for the purpose
of assisting voluntary Emigration.
4.. Sir Matthew Ridley—Retur❑ of number of Stamps is-
sued to Country Bankers in 1821, and following year;
also, amount of Composition by the Branches of
Bank of England in lieu of Stamp Duties.
5.• blr. Hume—Promotions in the Army from 25th Ja-
nuary, 1827.
6. Mr. drattan_To move that service of the Order of
the House on the agent of the Baroness Robeck he
deemed good notice of the Committee on the Bill.
7. Mr. Harvey—Numher of Subrenas ad respondcadans
issued from the Exchequer Office ; as also, the num-
ber of Appearances which have been entered during
the last six years.

ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY.
1. Di%iisions of Counties Bill—Second reading.

2. Killiney Chapel (Ireland) Bill--Seamd reading.
3. Steam Vessels (Ireland) Bill—Second reading.
4. Corporation and Test Acts—Report thereupon.
3. East Retiord Disfranchisement Bill—Committee.

6. Mutiny Bill—Second reading.
'Marine Alutiny Bi!l—Second reading.

NOTICE GIVEN YESTERDAY.
Wednesday, March 5.
Mr. Harvey—Return of the number of Bills filed in the
Courts of Equity, under the authority of the Com-
missioners appointed to inquire Concerning Charters
in England and Wales.
Tuesday, March I I.
Mr. Sykes—Petition from the Merchants and Tervka-
men of Hull, against the Stamp Duty on Receipts.
Tuesday, March 25.
Mr. Leader Alaberly—Bill for preventing the application
of Funds belonging to-Corporations, to procure the
return of Members to Parliament.

LENT ASSIZES.

BERKSHIRE, MONDAY, MARcif 3.

11-1 E GAME LAWS-FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF TOACHING.

This morning at eight o'clock came on the trial of
George Edmeads, Samuel While, George Baker, H.
Barnett, Wm. Walter, Thos. Field., Tho 3. Hunt, and
.Samuel Copc, for maliciously shooting at one James
Mancey, in the park of G. 11. Crutchley, Esq. of Sun-
ning-hill, near Windsor, on the 6th of January last,
" with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm."
The case occupied the attention of the Court mere than
eight hours. It appeared the prisoners, with four others
not yet apprehended, met at Egham, at the house of an
accomplice named Turner, a man of infamous character,
and thence proceeded to the preserves of Mr. Crutchley, of
Sunning-hill, in Berkshire, about three miles distant.
Between one and two o'clock on the Sunday morning they
Commenced firing at pheasants, and killed about 18, when
some of Mr. Crutchley's people came up. The poachers then
formed regularly in line, one of them knocking down a
man namedMancey with the butt-end of the fowling-piece,
and while he was reeling about from the effect of the blow,
another fired at him and shut him in the hip. They then
attacked Mr. Crutchley's bailiff, a man named Glasscock
breaking a gun over his head, which was laid completely
open, and then robbing him of his boots, handkerchief, Sze.
They left bun almost lifeless on the ground. Only three
men could be identified by Mr. Crutchley's servants, viz.
White, Burnett, and tield, and therefore recourse was had
to Turner, the accomplice, to identify the remaining five ;
but the Jury did not believe him, and returned verdicts of
Guilty against White, Burnett, and Field only.
Baron. VAUGIIAN immediately passed sentence of Death
on the wretched men, holding out not the slightest hope
of mercy, and they are ordered for execution on Saturday
fortnight. The miserable convicts fell on their knees in
the dock whilst sentence was pasting upon theist, and ap-
peared quite resigned to their inevitable fate.
Their more fortunate companions were discharged; and
in order to evince their gratitude for so lucky an escape
from the jaws of death, many of them got beastly drunk
at night.

.11URDER AT IfERNE HILL.---CORONER'S
INctuzsr.—An Inquest was held yesterday, on the body of
SUSAN FROGATT, the result of which was, a verdict of
" Wilful Murder against JAmits litoss," who is now in
Horsernonger-lane Gaol.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 3, 1825.

The Marquis of BRISTOL presented a petition from
Bury St. Edmund's, against the Corporation and Test
Acts.

The Earl of RADNOR said he had several petitions
to present on the same subject. He had no connection
with any of the petitions except that from Salisbury,
and could assure the House that that was signed by per-
sons of the highest respectability and of all denominations.
The Noble Lord then presented two petitions from Swansea;
from Hinckley, in Leicestershire; several places in
Merionethshire; Swaffham ; Builth, county of Brecon;
and King-street, Maidstone. All the petitions prayed for
the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts.
Lord GWYDYR presented petitions from the wool-
growers of Spilsby, Steeping and other places in Lincolnshire,
against the importation of foreign Wool.
On the motion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, a Message
was sent to the Commons, requesting that they might
permit Mr. Bradshaw, one of their members, to give evi-
dence before their Lordships' Committee on the Game Laws.
Mr. Murphy, from the Court of Chancery in Ire-
land, rendered copies of papers and other proceedings in
the cause of Blakeney v. Bagot.
The Duke of BEDFORD presented a petition from
Wilton, Wilts, against the Corporation and Test Acts.
Lord KING presented a petition from several parishes
in the Queen's County, it. favour of the Roman Catholic
Claims.
Lord CLIFDEN presented a petition from the Romen
Catholics of Liverpool not praying ter any thing for them-
selves, but beseeching that their fellow subjects the Protes-
tant Dissenters may be relieved from the oppression
of the Corporation and Test Acts. His Noble Friend
behind him presented a petition on the same subject last
week from Ireland, signed by great numbers, and also
praying for a repeal of those laws which were an insult to
the body against whom they were directed. Another
Noble Friend of his, who represented Aylesbury in
the other House, presented a petition, signed by
eleven thousand Catholics, to the same effect. That
petition was signed by seven Catholic Peers, among
whom were the Duke ' of Norfolk, Premier Duke, and
Earl of Shrewsbury, who was at the head of the Nobility
of that grade. It was also signed by five other Peers, and many
Baronets. The one which he now held in his hand,was signed
by 2,000 persons, and the seven first names were those of
Catholic clergymen. This was in his opinion an an-
' saver to those most unjust and unfounded accusations
made against the Catholics of being enemies to civil
and religious liberty. They here asked nothing for them-
selves, but for those to whom they were supposed to be
hostile. As the Noble Lord would not have an opportunity
again of expressing his opinion en this subject, he would
now trouble their Lordships with a few words. Ile denounced
as profane and impious the habit of making the most sa-
cred ordina»ce of our faith a stepping-stone for enabling
men of no faith to occupy office. He would suppose a
case of this dem iption as en illustration of what very often
took place. The patron of a rotten Cornish borough,
offers to one of his retainers an office of 150/. or 2001.
a year. This person, however, replies that he is a Dissen-
ter and cannot take it Oh, says the patron, that is a
mere ceremony, and the man pressed by necessity, and the
calls ofa large family, does that to which he had a conscien-
tious repugnance. Their Lordships, he supposed, all re-
membered the lines of Cowper, and, in repeating them, he
would address himself particularly to the Right Rev. Bench
opposite :

" Hast thou by statute shov'd from its design
" The Saviour's feast, his own blest bread and wine,
" And made the symbols of atoning grace
An office key, a picklock to a place,
" That infidels may prove their title good
" Ey an oath lipp'd in sacramental blood ?
" A blot that will be still a blot, in spite
" Of all that grave apologists may write;
" And, though a Bishop toil to cleanse the shin,
" lie wipes and scours the silver cup in vain."
The laws were enacted in the most disgraceful reign of that
most disgraceful Monarch Charles 11., by the violation of
whose declaration at Breda 60,000 persons were thrown
into prison, 5,000 of whom had perished. An eloquent
writer in the Edinburgh Rericw, in a late criticism of
religious work, which was translated, he had un-
derstood, by the present Bishop of Wincl4ester, called the
two Kings, Charles and James, Belial and Moloch—names
which they justly deserved. He hoped the dry was coining,
however, when those inset unjust laws would be repealed,
through the aid of public opinion and the public press,
which penetrated into every part of the kingdom.
Lord REDESDALE supported the continuance of those
laws as the best security for the maintenance of our Church
Establishment. Ile believed the real object of all these ap-
plications to Parliament, whether coming from Dissenters
or Catholics, was the overthrow of the Established Church.
Lord KING was opposed to enactments calculated to
bring disgrace on the Church of England.

Lord CALTHORPE was also most anxious for their
repeal.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from
the Maltaters of Newark-upon-Trent against the Malt Act.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE wi4led to take this
opportunity of laying on the table of the House a Bill which
he prayed might be read a first time, entitled an Act for
Consolidating and Amending all the Statutes of England,
relative to offences against the person. He declined
making any observations on the introduction of the Bill,
and 14 this reason, that he hoped to be able to bring in
another Bill—indeed he had expected to have been able to
have done so to -day, but had been disappointed—for the pur-
pose of improving the laws that had been under discussion,
when he should claim the indulgence of the House to explain
the principle of both Bills, and upon which their Lonl-
ships would have an opportunity of making their observa-
tions upon the Bills pari passu.
The Bill was read a second time, and the House ad-
journed at Ten Minutes before Six.