The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-19 00:00:00

THE UNION.

Mr. M. FITZGERALD postponed the motion
of which he had given notice, for the production of
copies of letters which passed at the time of the
Union, in consequence of the unavoidable absence of

the Home Secretary.
Mr. PLANTA moved that there be laid before
the House copies of the minutes of the Commis-
sioners relative to the surplus, funds to meet the
claims of British subjects upon France.
Mr. MONCK presented a petition from Moses
Levi, Esq., relative to the present state of
the Jews. The present state of the law,
as it was represaated to him, exhibited a very
hard case, for he was informed that Jews could not
purchase estates from Roman Catholics without
taking an oath in some shape in the course of the
proceedings, and this oath was to be made upon the
faith of a Christian. With. respect to Ireland, the
Jews were placed in a still worse situation, for there
the laws were almost tantamount to the exclusion
of Jews. The petitioner prayed that some altera-
tion might be made, as the introduction of Jewish
wealth and industry might be peculiarly serviceable
to Ireland.

The petition was ordered to be printed.
Dr. PHILLIMORE gave, notice that on Tuesday
next he would move for leave to bring iu a Bill for
regulating the office of Registrar of the diocese of
Canterbury.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Edward
Favell, a drisoner in the Marshallsea of the four
Courts in Dublin, praying that the House would
enquire into the state of the prisons in that
jail for contempt of Court. The petition stated that
there were a number of prisoners who had been
committed in contempt for small sums of 10/., 121.,
&T. for five, ten, twelve, and fourteen years. He
could never hear the subject of imprisonment for
debt mentioned in that House without deignating it
as the most barbarous remnant of feudal policy.
The petition was then ordered to be printed.
Mr. HUME then moved for a return of the num-
ber of prisoners confined for contempt of Court
in the Marshalsea of the four Courts Dublin, dis-
tinguishing those who were imprisoned for more
then one year, the amount of their debt, the length
of time they had been imprisoned, and the nature of
the charge against them.—Ordered.
Mr. HUME moved for a Return of the Accounts
of the Receipts and Appropriation of Pew Bents
in the various Churches in the parish of Lambeth.
Mr. WESTERN presented a petition from the
inhabitants of Coggleshall against the continuance
of Negro Slavery.
On the motion of Dr. PHILLIMORE the Cinque
Ports Bill was read a third time, and passed.
Mr. F. PALMER moved for leave to bring in a
Bill to alter and amend an Act for repealing the
duties on licensed brewers retailing their own beer.
A Message was brought from the Lords, stating
that their Lordships had agreed to the Surplus Ways
and Means and other Bills.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
moved the Order of the Day for a Committee of the
whole House' on the Ale-house Licensing Bill.
The SPEAKER having lest the Chair, the 'House
resolved itself into a Committee. The Clause for
allowing County Magistrates to act with Magistrates
of cities, boroughs, ana towns, in granting Ale-house
Licences haviog, been read.
Mr. BERNAL objected to the clause, because
there was no ground for imputing to the Magis-
trates of boroughs and corporate towns the existence
of such abuses in granting licenses, as rendered it
necessary to infuse, as it were, fresh blood into the
body of the Corporate Magistracy. He thought the
House, whilst they left in the hands of Corporate
Magistrates the power of life and death in criminal
cases, ought certainly not to take away the ancient
right of granting licences, unless cases of abuse
to Justify such a proceeding were established
Sir R. GORDON supported the clause, which
had been brought in by the unanimous consent of
the Committee which prepared the Bill. With
respect to the inconsistency of abridging the power
of borough magistrates in this respect, whilst the
power of life and death was left in their hands, he
would merely say that he believed if a preposition
were now made to give the latter power to magi-
strates of small boroughs and towns, such proposi-
tion would be rejected by that House.
Mr. MABERLY—Athough he was one of those
who opposed the Bill originally upon the general
principle that the Licensing of Public HouSes ought
to be as free from the controul of the magistracy as
ally other trade, he should, if this clause were
persist in, oppose the Bill in every stage, be-
cause he considered it an attack by a side wind upon
chartered rights which ought not, his opinion to
be made in the absence of proof of corruption.
Although the clause was now confined to places
where the number of Magistrates did not exceed six,
it would probably he by-and-bye improved upon,
arid a similar clause in other instances would be intro-
duced to apply to Corporation, Where the number of
Magistrates did not exceed nine, twelve, and so on,
until the chartered rights of every Corporation
in the kingdom should have been destroyed.
The clause cast an unfounded imputation upon
Corporate Bodies, and therefore he should not con-
sent to any Bill containing such a clause, and if the
clause were persevered in he should take the sense
of the House upen it. ~7711 i!? r. 3
(LIFT SITTING.)

It has been stated to us that the quantity of
fish transmitted from this port to the London market is so
immense, that the carriage alone amounts to nearly one
thousand pounds aanually.---Bosten Gazette.