The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-19 00:00:00

SUPPLY.

The House went into a Committee of Supply, and a vote
was taken on the Militia Estimates. The Chairman reported
progress, and cbtained leave to sit again this day.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BILL.

On the order of the day being read for going into Committee
on the South Australian Bill,

Mr. HUME objected to going on with the Bill at that
late hour of the night. The Bill involved an expenditure
of 250,000/.

Lord STANLEY said it was very difficult for him to tell
at what time he could 'bring it forward, as the Poor-law Bill
was fixed for this evening.
Mr. IIUME said if it was brought forward that evening at
half-past four o'clock, by giving it the precedence of the other
public business, all objections would be removed.
After a few words from Mr. V. SMITH, the further con-
siderat ion of the Bill was deferred till this evening.
The Prisons Bill passed through Committee.
Report this day.
The Common Law Courts (Ireland) Bill was read a second
time.—Committee this day.
On the Report of the Committee of Supply beingbrought up,
Mr. PLUMPTRE rose to record his protest against the
grant voted for the National Board of Education in Ireland.

Mr. N. J. O'CONNELL wished to ask the Right Hon.
Baronet whether the Irish Education question had been left as
an open question by the Cabinet ?
Sir R. PEEL had proposed the vote this year as he had in
1835 ; the question had never been discussed. He did not un-
derstand that the Solicitor-General for Ireland had opposed the
vote. There were few open questions in his Government.
Mr. Sergeant JACKSON had, the other night, distinctly
said he should not oppose the vote.
Mr. 111..1. O'CONNELL wished to know whether, for the
future, it was to be an open question.— ( A laugh.)
Captain JONES said the petitions for Ireland were so much
in opposition to this grant as to ask for another grant for
een-ation, in connection with the Estab!ished Church. In
all the Kildare-street schools Scriptural education was given.
11r. LEFROY complained that the Noble Lord had attacked
hint pets,nally. the other evening.
Lerd ELIOT had not alluded to the Hon. Gentleman at all.
The Report was then brought up and agreed to.
Mr. EWART moved for a return from the Assistant Poor-
law Commissioners of the Chaltott Union, near Manchester,
showing the results of employing the able-bodied poor in that
union, in reclaiming the waste land of Trafford Moss, both as
respects the poor so employed and the improvement. of the land.
Sir J. GRAHAM said there were no materials for making
such a retutri.

Mr. EWA RT withdrew his motion.
BOLTON POLICE.
Mr. GRIAISDITCH moved for an account of all monies
levied and raised under the Act 2 and 3Vie., c. 25, for maintain-
ing apolice force in the borough of Bolton, and of the application
of such monies ; distinguishing the amount received and paid
in each year, and specifying the amount of salaries or allow-
ances t., the Commissioner, the Receiver, or Treasurer, and the
Superintendent respectively ; and also the wages of the con-
tables, and the sums laid out in clothing, and other contingent
expenses.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that the account had been
already laid before the House, and the Hon. Gentleman with-
drew his motion.

FORGED EXCHEQUER BILLS REPORT.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in moving
fir leave to bring in a Bill for further regulating the prepara-
tion and issue of Exchequer Bills, announced that the Report of
the Commissioners appointed to investigate the circumstances
attending the alleged forgery of Exchequer Bills would be laid
cr: the table next week.

The remaining Orders of the Day where then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Two o'Clock.

ABUSES AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV:
SIR,—I. have been attracted by the justice and
public utility of certain observations, contained in
The Sun of the 9th and 11th inst., under the head of
" Abuses at the Custom-house." As a recent tra-
veller, exposed to these annoyances, I desire to offer
you my thanks for the good which these observations
are calculated to effect, and to add another corrorro-
boration to their truth and necessity. In confirma-
tion of the injustice and inconvenience of the present
abuses, I take leave to state a fact, which took place
lately under my observation. I was passenger in the
Meriai steamer from Ostend to London, on Wednes-
day, June 22 ; on arriving at Gravesend, the custo-
mary Excise officers arrived on board, in their formal
blue coats and trousers, and took the luggage into
their safe keeping. Among the passengers was a
cranky, gouty-looking old gentleman, whose outward
man bore little note of his rank or pretensions ; and,
in further explanation of these pretensions, his luggage
was limited to a rickety deal box, that might have
disgraced a displaced cook-maid. This passenger in-
timated his intention of transporting the aforesaid
deal box, accompanied by his aforesaid self, on shore
at Blackwall, which intention the officer strongly
resisted, stating the imperative nature of his instruc-
tions, until the gentleman produced a card, on which
was engraved the "Earl of Orford." This talisman
wonderfully altered, the tone of the official ; and, after
a short consultation with one of his brethren, the less
aristocratic passengers were surprised and mortified
to see this homely-visaged peer step into a boat with '
his box and bag under his arm, and exempt from any
of the delays opposed to less lordly travellers. A de-
mocratic passenger remonstrated with the officer on
the injustice and impropriety of this proceeding, and
threatened to report it to the proper quarter; the official
looked vacant—had he been a Frenchman he would
have shrugged his shoulders with infinite meaning,
acknowledged it was very wrong, but that even the
Custom-house would not distrust the. deal box of a
peer. The remainder of the passengers, of which I
was one, had to endure all the delay, and pay .all the
extravagant expense of which you complain, and
against which, as a constant traveller in this line, I
am glad to enter my protest.
Having given a date and a fact that might implicate
the officers employed, I beg to subscribe my name,
and sign myself, your obedient servant,
DENIS SHINE LAWLOR.
Tralee, July 13, 1842.

MASSANIELLO.—The extraordinary career of Mas-
saniello, and the copious and strictly authentic nature of the
various details regarding him, which have come down to us,
make it remarkable that his unparalleled history has not hither-
to been used as the ground-work of a Romance. The singular
capablities of the subject have, however, at length been recog-
nised, and the reading public may look in a few days for a work
under the editorship of hfr. Horace Smith, the author of
4. Brambletye House," which is likely to realise the most vivid
imaginations connected with this topic, without falsifying those
still more interesting facts, which give their best value to all
historical romances. Doubtless, the extraordinary connexion
of the accomplished Salvator Rosa with the rebellion of Naples,
and with its leader Massaniello, will be taken due advantage of
in this forthcoming romance, for the part played in it by the
wild and eccentric painter is as well authenticated as that of
Matsaniello himself.

MECHI'S SHILLING PENKNIVES —These, and the
sixpenny tooth-brushes will prove that whilst he has the most
elegant shop in London, he is determined to do business on the
most reasonable terms He manufactures on his premises, 4,
Leadenball-street, London—Desks, Work-bares, Dressing-
eases, Bagatelle-tables, Table and Small Cutlery Razors,
Razor-strops, Brushes, Combs, and everything for the work-
table and dressing toilet.
The St. Catherine's Wharf, adjoining the Tower,
was, ov Sunday morning last,
a scene of the greatest bustle
and excitement. The splendid steam-ship Antwerpen, under
the command of Captain Jackson, started thence as usual. and
the passengers who took their departure by her were so tremo-
rous as to amount to 120. A considerable part of them were
persons of rank and f ishion, on their way to the Rhine ; and
her parents, M. David, and
Alademoiselle Rachel, with
(idlers of the French troupe, also proceeded by her on their
journey to Brussels.
Persons qualified to register as county voters, and
those who have changed their places of abode during the past
year, should remember that to-morrow (Wednesday) is the
last day for sending in claims under the Reform Act.