The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1842.

M. W. Murphy, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bor.-
eherds, who resigns, July 22.
2d West India Regiment—J. P. Whelan, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, July 22; B. W. A. Sleigh, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without rurchase, July 23.
3d West India Regiment—Lieutenant G. Jeffrey, from the
Ist West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant without purchase,
July 22.
To be Ensigns without purchase—C. D. Addison, Gent.,
July 21 ; H. J. Trench, Gent., July 22 ; E. T. Fitzgerald,
Gent., July 23 ; F. A. Davidson, Gent., July 24.
St. Helena Regiment—Captain H. Straith, froth half-pay
Unattached, to be Captain, vice W. Carruthers, who ex-
changes ; Lieutenant W. F. Hoey, from the 61st Foot, to be
Cdptain, by purchase, vice Straith, who retires, July 22.
BREVET.—Major-General Sir W. M. Gomm, K.C.8., to
have the local rank of Lieutenant-General in the Mauritius,
July 22. _ _

To be Majors in the Army.—Captain H. Straith, of the St.
Helena Regiment, June 28, 1838 ; Captain E. Boyd, of the
29th Foot ; Captain J. E. Muttlebury, of the 3d Foot, Nov.
23, 1841.

AIEZIORANDU3I.—The names and designation of Lieut.-
Colonel Honyman, of the lit or Grenadier Regiment of Foot
Guards, are Sir Ord John Honyman, Bart., not Sir John
Ord Honeyman, Bart., as previously stated. The army rank of
Surgeon William Lucas, of the 96th Foot, has been antedated
to the 2d July, 1841, but he is not to receive any back pay.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 18.
Corps of Royal Alarines—First Lieut. R. Wright (2d? to be
Captain, vice Brevet Major G. Meech, deceased; Second
Lieut. J. Huskis.son to be First Lieutenant, vice Wright, pro-
moted.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Kent.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—Wm. A. Munn, Gent., to
be Ensign, July 19.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire.
Ist or Queen's Own Regiment of Oxfordshire Yeomanry
Cavalry—J. L. Stratton, Gent., to be Cornet, vice E. Wright,
resigned, July 5, 1842.
DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
STEPHEN KNIGHT, cattle-dealer, West Hoathley,
Sussex.
JOHN M'GAKEY, printer, Liverpool.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
RICHARD BURGESS SCALE, farmer, Halstead, Essex.

BANKRUPTS.
SAMUEL RUSHTON, ironmonger, Nottingham, to sur-
render July :29 and Sept. 2, at two, at the George the Fourth,
Inn, Nottingham. Yallop, Furnival's Inn, London; W. and S.
Parsons. jun., Nottingham.
WILLIAM SEDDON and FRANCIS JORDAN, millers,
St. Helen's, Lancashire, August 3, and Sept. 2, at twelve, at
the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Battye, richer, and Sudlow,
Chancery-lane, London ; Crump and Hassall, Liverpool.
LAWRENCE YABLONsKY, jeweller, Birmingham,
August 1, and September 2, at eleven, at the Waterloo-rooms,
Birmingham. Harding, Birmingham; Stafford, Buckingham-
street, London.

JOHN WALSH and ELIJAH HALFORD, tailors and
drapers, Nottingham, July 29, and September 2, at twelve, at
the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham. Lees, Nottingham:;
Taylor, Featherstone-buildings, Holborn, London.
JOHO MILLS, canal carrier, London-wall, Aug. 1, and
Sept. 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Wood, Wondbridgs, Suf-
folk; Waterman, Wright, and Kingsford, Essex-street, Strand.
HENRY FAWCUS and ROBERT FAWCUS, timber-
merchants, Stocton-upon-Tees, Aug. 4, and Sept. 2, at one,
at Murray's Hotel, Stockton-upon-Tees. Scaife, Newcastle-
upcn-Tyne ; Swain, Stevens, and Co., Frederick's-place, Old
Jewry, London.
GEORGE SKIPP, cider merchant, Malvern Wells, Wor-
cestershire, August 1 and September 2, at eleven, at the Offices
of F. T. Elgie, Hop Market, Worcester. Clarke and itledcalf,
Lincoln's Inn• fields, London ; Reece, Ledbury ; Elgie, Wor-
cester,

CHARLES TIMMIS, flint grinder, Darlaston-green, Staf-
fordshire, August 13 and September 2, at twelve, at Trentham
Inn, Trentham. Smith, Southampton-buildings, London ;
Harding, Burslem.

Per Quarter
Boston
draintree
Brighton
Cambridge
Chichester
Dunmow
Grantham
Grimsby
Hailshata
Hitchin
Ipswich
Lewes
Lynn
Maidstone
Norwich
l'etworth
Romford

Sandwich ,
Tnetford ,

Viisbech
Witham
Yarmouth
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WHEAT, Engli

DISTRICTS.

Funs:mtg.—We have to report a firm market for all descrip-
tions of Foreign, and holders have again refrained from off,r-
ing any at public sale.
COFFEE.—Prices have been sustained for middling and good
descriptions of British Plantation Coffoe this week, but other
sorts have declined in value Is per cwt, the market having' been
well supplied ; the demand, however, has been good for all de-
scriptions.
This afternoon the home trade operated with caution, and
importers were disposed to sell; at auction 1,546 bags Ceylon,
120 casks 134 brls 91 bags British Plantation, and 120 casks
Porto Rico, via Cape, were offered; Ceylon was only partly
sold at a further decline of 6d per cwt., fine fine ordinary
went at 80s to 88s, fine ord pale 7tis to 795, real good ordinary
green 74s to 755, triage 25s 6d to 28s tid per cart ; British
Plantation went 2s to 3s per cwt lower, Jamaica mid sold at
109 s to 113 s 6d, low mid lUOs 6d to 105 s, fine fine ord 955,
good and fine ord 70s to 795; Porto Rico was taken in at 54s
per cwt.
TEA.—Since our last report the trade have come forward
more freely. Importers have manifested firmness, and for both
black and green tea the demand was very good for actual con-
sumption; the' prices paid have been fully equal to those of last
week.

To-day there were further public sales of Tea. Of the
total quantity put up 4,500 pkgs were readily disposed of.
Congon sold as follows:—but mid coa Is t=!;d to Is Hid, mid
blackish leaf Is 9d to Is 9:ld, good strong to fine blackish leaf
Is 10d to 24 4d, Twankay common Is 8d to Is 8-I,d per lb.
The market closed with a firm aspect, and common sound
Congou for cash is not to be purchased under Is 81d per lb.
Cocoa.—This afternoon 302 pkgs West India were sub-
mitted to public competition, a part only sold, but fielders
refused to give way further in price, good red Grenada went
at 3.5 s to 36s 6d.

SeicEs—Ho/ders of Pepper are firm, and have obtained for-
mer rates; Cassia Lignea at improved rates. Nutmegs have
been little asked for. For Cloves late rates are asked. Mace
has s-astained the former value. Ginger is firm in price and in
fair request. This afternoon Pimento at 2ad for low mid.
fi um, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—lmporters of Jamaica
Rum have submitted to a reduction of 2d per gallon on former
quotations, 30 to 32 per cent over proof at 4s to 4s 2d, 34 to 36
over 4s tid to ss, superior quality of the same strength 5s to
Sc 6d. Leeward Island Rum sold at 2s Id proof. Calcutta
Rum, without certificate, at is 6.1 proof, and the
low duty is 7(1 to Is 9d per gallon. Brandy in good demand.
Cognac of the best brands of the vintage of 1837, hhds 5s Id,
puns 43 lld ; 1838, hhds 4s I Id, puns 4s 9d; 1839, hhds 4s 4d,
puns 4s 2d ; 1840, hhds 3s 11d, puns 3s 9d ; 1841, Bads 34 10d,
puns 3s 8d per gallon. Geneva at Is 10d to is lld for shipping
sort, and fine fit for duty 2s 6d to 2s ticl per gallon. British
Corn Spirits at 10s per gallon cash.
Rim—lmporters of Bengal Rice have been more disposed
to realize th's week, and having brought forward a large quan-
tity, has eta zed a decline in prices of 3d per cwt; good mid
white at Ws 6d to I Is, middling lOs to lOs 6d, low 9s bd, sea-
damaged Ist class 9s to 9s 6(1, 2nd class 8s 6d, 3rd class 7s 6tl to
Bs, 4th and sth class in very bad condition 3s to 4s 6d, good
sound white siftings 9s per cwt; privately good and fine white
have been disposed of at lls 6d to 12s 6d per cwt. For Java
former rates have been sustained. Madras, fine bold yellow at
9s to 9s 6d, good at 8s 6d, sea damaged Ist and 2d class 3s 6d
to Si 6tl, and sea damaged and repacked 2s 6d to 3s 6d ter cwt.
Carolina, Ist sort at 30s, 2d do at 28s, and inferior 26s per cwt.
Patna at 15s to 20s per cwt.
INDIGO.—To-day 868 chests have passed the sale, a great
proportion of which was Madras and Kurpah, which sold with
spirit at the rates lately established ; there is no alteration to
notice in the prices of Bengal, which continues in good de-
mand at the rates previously quoted.
OILS.—Pale Seal Oil at an advance of 5s to 10s; 371 103 to
371 15s for new first sort ; straw and yellow at 331 lOs, and
brown at 321 lOs to 32/ 153 per tun. Southern and Cod' Oil,
the former at previous rates ; the latter 32/ per tun ; Sperm,
831 10s to 84/ for the best British ; Rape Oil, 45s to 45s 3d for
pale, and 44s 6d to 44s 9d for brown ; Linseed Oil 31s 9d to 32s
forward contracts have been entered into at 32s per cwt. Olive
Oil: Gallipoli at 561, Spanish 501 to 521, and Barbary 491
to 501 per tun. Palm Oil at 32/ to 33/ for the best, and at
3'/. to 31/ 10s. for inferior sort. Cocoa Nut Oil Ist quality at
39s to 39s 6d per cwt.
This afternoon Southern Oil, fine pale quality, fetched 341.
to 34/ 10s, good, 3315 s to 33/ 10s, mid 32/ to 33/, low and dark,
30/ to 31110 s per tun.
TALLOW.—Holders of Russian Tallow are firm ; on the spot
P. Y. Candle has realised 483 per cwt ; for delivery
at 483 9d for the last three months of the year,
and at 49s for the early part of 1843. South
American at 43s to 48s for common to fine quality. Town
Tallow has been in good request. This afternoon the market
was firm fur Russian Tallow, and a fair business was transacted
at 48s on the spot ; and at 48s 9d to 49s for delivery in the last
three months of the year. South American good and fine qua-
lity fetched 46s to 47s 9d, common to mid 43s to 45s 61, and
grease 27s Gd to 42s 3d per cwt.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.

Wheat. / Harley. I Oats. i Beans.

Peasc.

8. to s, s. to s. s. to a. la.to s.
55 70 22 38 18 22 j 35 38
52 70 27 34 93 29 31 38
63 73 27 82 20 26 33 41
65 23 16 , 29
53 65 26 30 20 24 31 36
42 52 21 28 19 25 125 40
611 73 28 33 22 28 j 36 40
56 74 28 33 lb 21 136 40
66 72 23 32 19 21 130 34
50 67 27 34 20 30 34 45
53 60 22 23 21 26 29 SO
611 66 27 28 18 22 X 34 35
58 68 24 23 16 20 I f. 9
59 117 36 39 26 32 138 40
60 65 25 27 24 215 ; :12 34
57 64 26 33 21 24 133 40
56 66 24 28 18 28 ;26 34
61 71 23 34 25 nn 33 C 9
61 64 32 36 24 28 40 44
57 63 28 34 19 21 31 30
54 C 4 21 23 21 27 :A 31
60 69 Z:0 32 24 30 38 40
V ERPOOL CORN Al 4.111(.0.7.—Ju1y 19.
ih, White, per 701 b...•
- Red
Scotch, Welch, and Manx
Irish, White 7 6 8 6
Red 6 9 7 9
Foreign .
OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per ,Islb. ......
Irish
Foreign c
BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 3O A 33 o
--- Scotch and Irish, pet 60Ibs.
Feeding 3 8 4 0
BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 3B U 42 U
Irish, &( •
- Foreign
44364630
00(10 :44:50
0000
PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter
Foreign
FLOUR, English, per 2601 b
- Irish
OATMEAL, English and Irish,per 2,1111bs . 26 6 2i 6
INDIAN CORN, per 4801 b. ........... , 4O 41
RYE, per lmper;al quarter
MALT, per Imperial quarter „„„ 46 0 CI 0

8, L. g,
39 48
35 40
36 36

fA 35
Di 24

29 :32

29 30
33 34
3C 34

32 34
31 .38
26 34
39 38
28 41
34 36
28 ,‘.l

HAMBURO

MARKETS.
A IN,

GA,
Wheat, Marks 420 to 504
—.—.. Magdeburg WO to 5101
-- Anhalt, white 450 to 525'
red 390 to 510'
-- Brunswick 421 to 5 41
- Mecklenburg 290 to 401
... Polish 474 to 571:11
------ Holstein
Rye, Mecklenburg
--- Marks lBO to 195.
-- Elbing old Ko
nigsburg lBO to 195
Pomeranian ISO to 195
..-- Anhslt -

Barley, Mecklenbargh 105 to 189
1, ---- Magdeburgh , HO to 195
:----- Holstein lB5 to 189
---- Odetbruck 165 to 184
lOats, Eider l5O to 168
-- Mecklenburg
--- Holstein 174 :01101
.-- Upland
jruase, Mecklenburg
Beans 258 to 4,7
Buck Wheat 231 to 901
Rapeseed, Hanover
Malt
Tares
VON.

Carolina and 'Tennessee 7t4 to 9%
Georgia, Ist 50rt......... 73,
2d.......... (N
3d and 4th ... 4% 6 I

Mar:nhzm
Madras 6 toE%
Swati 43.6 .
1% 4%
Domingo
'EE. 5 6

--
Cof
Noche 13 to 13%
Batavia 4lk 5%
Sumatra —.
Rio 23 5%
Bahia 2% 5%
SUGAii.—(Wit
Havannah, White...—. a to SA
Brown. 2% 2%
Rio, White 2Y. 4
Brawn
1%1311111a. Brow

Domingo
La Guayra 3% to 4%
4 7
Porto ftico
flavannall 5% 6
Ul4 6%

b 8% Discount.)
- Bailin, White 9/. t• 2
Brown
Pernambuco, White l7 2
Brown I% 3

254 to 21i

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending July 16, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—

Weekly
Average
1838.9.40.1
Total.
Four Four
Yl9O
Epidemic, Endemic. & Contagious Diseases I:39Su mmers
I 191 Yl9O
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 157 150 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ..
INseases of the Hea-t and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. 3 4 4
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c 6 8 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles 7 5 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat. ll4 95 104
0!d Age, or Natural Decay 5l 54 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem-
perance
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes . 785
Average Weekly Deaths B4B 912
Population: Average Deaths
enu. Weekly in
merated Deaths the
West-1641. 1153t,i-ii-4--1. Week.
Kensington. St. George •
( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four I Four
J ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye r, Swniners.
St. James ..... 300,705 135 124 120
North— St. Mary-le •bone, St
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 1 Sr. 149 117
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon.
don, West London, City of
London _373,806 188 174 - 154
East—Shoreditch,Whitechapel,
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;493 206 198 179
South—St Saviour, St. Olave,
St„George( Southwark),Ber-
mondsey, Newington, Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Bother-
hithe, Greenwich .............438,060 221 203 215

CAUSES OP DEATH.

Total 10,727 912 84V 185
It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised .the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of LW..
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties oi'
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—.
and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
ten
Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea),
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newing), St. Leonard ( Brom-
Pad_
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. The weekly aversge for 1838, 1839, 1840, and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
July 9. July 16.
79' 8.30
52 53
64
21, 1842.

Highest
Lowest
Daily Mean .........
General Register Office, July

BANK OF ENGLAND.
Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the
Bank of England, from the 23d day of April, to the 16th day
of July, 1842, both inclus.ve, published pursuant to the
Act, 3 and 4 W. IV., cap. 98.
£21,713,000
CireulatiLZ. ASSETS.
Deposits
..
........
8,56279:000000
Bullion
nties
7,818,000

£26,844,000
Downing-street, .14)y 22, 1

£29,631,000

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 22
Their Lordships met at Five o'Clock, the Earl of
Shaftesbury sitting on the Woolsack, in the place of the
Lord Chancellor, who was prevented from attending by
illness.
A Messenger from the Commons brought up the South
Australia Bill, and other Bills, which were severally
read a first time.

SUDBURY DISFRANCHISEMENT.
Lord CAMPBELL gave notice, that on Monday he
would move that it be a standing order of this House,
that no Counsel be heard for or against any Bill pending
in this House, who is a Member of the other House of
Parliament.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE postponed to Mon-
day the second reading of the Sudbury Disfranchise-
ment Bill.

MINES AND COLLIERIES BILL.
Lord SKELMERSDALE gave notice that on the
next stage of the Mines and Collieries Bill, he should
move that women of mature age who had been accus-
tomed to work in mines and collieries should be allowed
to continue in that employment if they chose.
DISTRESS OF THE COUNTRY.
The Earl of RADNOR said that as the distress
of the country was going on at an alarming
rate of increase, and threatened to lead to very frightful
results. He wished to ask the Noble Lord, the Pre-
sident of the Council, what grounds he had for saying
that there was reason to hope that the country would
soon right itself, and that the distress would be abated ?
The Noble Earl concluded by moving for several re-
turns relating to the importation of corn and provisions
under the new tariff.
Lord WHAR;iCLIFFE said that he could perceive
symptoms of improvement going cm in the present state
of things, and he believed that if it had not been for the
agitation which was still kept up, the law would have
operated to the advantage of the country. Unless
it was seen that the Government had the firm-
ness and the power to resist the demand made
on them for a further alteration of the law,
the change which they had already made
would not have fair play. The agitation prevented its
coming fairly into operation, and but for that it would
have by this time done great good, and he was con-
vinced that it would do great good.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE would be glad to
knoW what the Noble, Baron (the President of the
Council) meant by saying that the Bill would do
great good. Some people thought that a Bill would do
good which kept up prices, and others which would keep
them down. He wished to know in which sense the
Noble Baron promised the country that his Bill would
do good ?—(Hear, hear, and laughter.)
Lord WHARNCLIFFE—What I said was, that I
thought the Bill would do good, by keeping prices
steady.—(Cheers, and counter cheering.)
The Earl of RADNOR said he co_ ld not understand
on what grounds it was pretended that the agitation
of the Corn-law question prevented the Govern-
ment measure from coming into operation.—(Hear.)
If the law would allow corn to come in
it would have come in, for there could be no doubt that
the people wanted it.—(Hear.)
LAW OF ARREST.
Lord BROUGHAM brought in a Bill for the abolition
of arrest in execution. The Bill was framed with a view to
relax the severity of the present, and at the same time to
give creditors greater facility for obtaining possession
of the property of debtors, or rather of their own pro
perty in the hands of their debtors. Another object of
the Bill was to protect from oppression honest debtors
who made a fair and full surrender of their property.
His Lordship likewise laid on the table a Bill for facili-
tating voluntary arrangements between debtors and
creditors.

Lord COTTENHAM hoped that his Noble Friend's
Bill would not prevent them from eventually adopting
the wider course of abolishing imprisonment for debt
altogether.

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.
A Messenger from the House of Commons brought up
the Customs Act Amendment Bill, and several private
Bills.
THE COUNTY COURTS BILL AND BANK-
RUPTCY LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
These Bills passed through Committee and were or-
dered to be read a third time on Monday.
MINES AND COLLIERIES BILL.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from
some place in Yorkshire again st this Bill.
The Marquis of NORMANBY took this opportunity
of explaining his views upon this Bill. He was
convinced that the whole of the evidence col-
lected by the Commons had been collected in
a very praiseworthy manner, with very great
zeal, and with every attention to correctness and im-
partiality. Great pains bad been taken in the selection
of the Commissioners, and he hoped that the Bill would
pass their Lordship's House without any impediment.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY repeated his
opinion that the evidence was not to be relied on.
The Earl of DEVON thought that there was enough
in the documents before the House to justify their Lord-
ships in passing the enactments, which he had proposed
in the Bill, which he had supported.
• Lord CAMPBELL said that as the petition prayed for
a grant of money, the House could not receive it until
such grant had the sanction of the Crown.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that the petitioners did
net directly ask for a grant, but put that part of the
prayer hypothetically. The petition said no more than
that if their Lordships passed the Bill. they ought also
to provide for compensation to those who would be
injured by it. •

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
Several Bills on the table were advanced a qage, and
the South Australia Bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed on Monday.
The House then adjourned till to-morrow (Saturday)
at twelve o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMOIVS, July 22.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock.
Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from the medical
practitioners of Bolton, praying that no new charter might
be granted to the College of Physicians till the whole
question was brought before the House.
Mr. PARKER presented a petition, praying that the
metropolitan bridges might be opened to the public toll-
free.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition, signed by
1,000 of the electors of Nottingham, praying that a new
writ might be issued for the election of a burgess for
that town.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL presented a petition
praying that the metropolitan bridges might be opened
to the public, toll-free.
Mr. S. FRENCH presented a petition from the
electors of Athlone praying for leave to defend the seat.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition, agreed to
at a public meeting in Sheffield, held on the 13th instant.
The petitioners complained that they were interfered
with while holding a public meeting, and that eight in-
dividuals were arrested and confined in Stafford gaol,
which they consider to be a tyrannical invasion of the
constitutional right to petition, and they prayed for
inquiry.
• NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME ELECTION.
Lord ASHLEY reported that the Committee on the
petition complaining of an undue return for the borough
of Newcastle-under-Lyme, had come to the following
resolution :—" That J. Q. Harris, Esq., was not duly
elected to serve as a burgess at the last election fur
Newcastle-under-Lyme, and ought not to have been
returned ; and that J. C. Colquhoun, Esq., was duly
elected, and ought to have been returned."
REPEAL OF TILE UNION. •
Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Leeds,
numerously signed, praying for a repeal of the Legisla-
tive Union.
NOTICES OF MOTION—NOTTINGHAM
ELECTION.

Mr. S. CRAWFORD gave notice that he should, on
Thursday next, move, in pursuance of a petition which
he had presented from a number of electors, that a new
writ, do forthwith issue for Nottingham.
JOINT•STOCK BANKING COMPANIES BILL
On the motion of Sir G. CLERK, this Bill was read a
second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow.
LUNACY BILL.

Sir J. GRAHAM moved the first reading of this Bill,
which had just come from the Lords.
Mr. C. BULLER wished to know whether it was the
.intention of the Government to proceed in that House
with all these Bills which were coming down from the
Lords. Some of those Bills, the County Courts Bill and
the Bankruptcy Bill more particularly, were of very
great importance. He wished -o know of the Right
Hon. Baronet, the Secretary for the Home Department.
whether it was intended to proceed with such Bills
as those at a time like the present, when so many
Members were absent, and almost all the Members of
the legal profession were out of town.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said the Honourable Mem-
ber must be aware that the County Courts Bill
had been discussed in various sessions of Parliament. It
was the intention of Government to submit the meast; s
referred to to the House this present session ; and if at.y
objection should arise, which he did not anticipate, per-
haps, then they would not proceed with them.
Mr. W. PATTEN said he should be glad to know
when the County Courts Bill would come on ?
Mr. V. SMITH wished to know why these Bills had
not c-,eme down before ?
Sir i; GRAHAM said they had not come down from
the Lords.

--Tocsin-LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
Sir J. GRAHAM proposed the third reading of
this Bill.
Mr. FIELDEN was not aware or the contents of the
propoied Poor-law Bill. Ho trusted, therefore, they
would not proceed further with the measure this evening.
Mr. R. ORKE was surprised at the course that had
beet/ pursued by the Government. He trusted that the
Bill would not be proceeded with further.
Mr. DUNCOMBE believed that all the bad clauses
in the 11111 were retained.
At th,
g, suggestion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the fur-
ther Consi3eration of the Bill was postponed till the un-
opposed Oclers of the Day were disposed of.
BRIBERY BILL.
Mr- C-BULLER wished to know whether it was the
intention of the Government to proceed with the
Brib.ry Bill.
Sir ROBERT PEEL did not see any reason why they
shoul d not.

The Customs Act Amendment Bill was read a thir.l
time a and passed.

EXCHEQITER BILL.
The Exchequer bills Preparation Bill was read a third
time and passed.
Sir It—INGLIS wished to ask the Right Hon. Gen-
tlema n when they might expect to receive the Report of
the Exchequer bills Commissioners.
The • CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
expect eu that the Report would be on the table of the
House in the course of next week.
Mr. sC. BULLE.R wished to call the attention

Lord PALMERSTON wished to ask the Right
Honourable Barouek if he would allow him to take
that opportunity of adverting to his (Sir Robert
Peel's) intentions with regard to education.. Some
time ago the President of the Council presented
a petition to the other House of Pediment from
the classes at Exeter-hall, and accompanied the presenta
thin of that petition by a speech of liberality of sentiment
and enlightened views, which did credit to himself and the
Go, eminent to which he belonged. In the course of that
speech he stated that he thought it the duty of the Go-
vernment to increase the annual grant for the purposes
of education, and of course the general impression
created by that sentiment was, that it was the intention
of her Majesty's Government, of which he was so promi-
nent a Member, to increase that grant by proposing an
additional estimate for that purpose. The Committee
of Supply was drawing to a close, and he (Lord Palmers-
ton) would ask the Right Hon. Baronet whether it was
the intention of her Majesty's Government to propose
an additional grant fur that purpose; he (Lord Palmer-
stun) at the same dew would say, that if such were the
case, he %%ed(' give it his full support.
Sir ROBERT PEEL said it eo happened that he was
OS have tact the President or the Council this day on the
subject, but he had net dune so ; and therelOre he could
not undertake to give an assurance with respect to an
additional grant, but he would give the Noble Lord an
answer to-morrow.
Mr. FIELDEN then proposed, as an amendment to
the Poor-law Bid, that it be re-committed and printed.
Mr. S. CRA WFOR I wished to know if he could pro-
pose the amendment of which he had given notice.
The SPEAKER said he could take but one amend-
ment.
Mr. FIELDEN then said, he would propose his
amendment on the motion that the Bill do pass.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD then rose and said that he had
divided the House on the second reading and in the
Committee, and he should now divide the House in the
last stage of the Bill. He thought since the Bill had
been altered it was more objectionable than before. It
was now exposed in all its naked deformity. The first
objection to the Commission was the forcing the in-door
test when it was unnecessary. This had been proved by
facts, and those facts had not been denied or refuted.
The next objection was the diet, which created disease,
and they still forced it on the poor. The aged
were treated in the same way as the able-
bodied poor. Those charges had not been refuted.
The clause giving the poor access to a committee was
withdrawn. They were called upon to renew the Com-
mission for five years, without any amelioration what-
ever of the law. The Government engaged to bring for-
ward a general measure on the subject next session,
which measure was to remedy the evils of the present
law. He did not mean to impute to the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet any intention of violating that pl:dge ; but circum-
stances over which the Government could exercise no
control might occur to prevent them from redeeming that
pledge. The present Bill was an instance of the possi-
bility of the occurrence of such circumstances. The
might Hon. Baronet had been repeatedly asked whether
it was his intention to go into the whole subject of the
Poor-law, or merely to renew the Commission. He had
repeatedly said that he would go into the whole subject,
and yet he had been unable to do so. That was an evi-
dence f the powerlessness of the Ministry to fulfil such.
intentions. Besides, it was possible that the present
Ministry might • not be in office next ses-
sion, and they might be succeeded by a Minis-
try which was more adver ;e to the interests of the poor.
A new Ministry would not be bound by the pledges of a
former one. What would be the value of that pledge if
a new Ministry were to come to power ? It was said
that if this Bill were rejected things would get into con-
fusion. He did not think so. He thought it would be
much better that the Commission should be suffered to
expire at the end of the present month, but if it were
deemed desirable to prolong its existence, it would be
easy to introduce a Bill continuing it for one year. 'to
such a Bill he would offer no opposition. He therefore
called on the House to do its duty at this, the last stage
of the Bill, and to throw it out. The people considered
that this Bill emanated from a desire of the rich to op-
press the poor, and he put it to the House whether
it was. proper for the House to permit the people
to entertain such an opinion. This law also
had the effect of lowering wages. Another
objection to it was it being of an unconstitutional
nature. To those who declared thiS law to b., unconsti-
tutional, it was said that they had not made themselves
acquainted with its provisions, but that objection could
not apply to him, for he had carefully read over the
Bill, and he could i niut out many of its clauses which
were of an unconstitutional chara•ter. The Hen: Gen-
tleman here enumerated several clauses which he consi-
dered of the kind mentioned ; among them were the 15th,
21st, 25th, &e. ; and .theil went on to say—Hon Gentle-
men might vote in favour of the Bill in the first instant: ,
but now, after seeing how injurious it was to the people,
he could net imagine how they coo d support it. l.e
did net exp ct, on this occasion, to have a large Maio..
rity, but he was better pleased to have his name in a
small minority, voting for the rights of the poor, than in
the largest majority voting against them.—(Hear, hear.)
The Hon. Gentleman c ncluded by moving that the Bill
be read that day six mouths.
Mr. FIELDEN seconded the motion. They might
depend upon it that if the Government proceeded eith
the Poor-law as it at present existed, for the next five
years, their reign would be short.—(Hear, hear.) The
fact was that there was no person on the Ministerial
side of the House who could define what the principles
of the Bill were. It was an Act to starve the poor and
to reduce wages. It was an Act of oppression against
the able-bodied hard-working poor man, and against the
widow and orphan childri n. He had received a letter
from the country, relating the case of a labourer who
had gone fifty miles n search of work, and could not pro-
cure any. That man had applied to get his family into the
workhouse, and had been refused. They were treating
the poor worse than dogs. If they would but employ
the labourers there would be no need of any Corn-laws,
fur if they employed the labourers they would raise food
enough at home to feed the people; but they would not
do that, for that would make corn cheap. They kept up
a Corn-law to make food dear, and they kept up a Poor-
law to keep labour cheep.—(Hear, hear.)
.This law
was unjust. Why did they treat the poor like
.prisoners ?' If the man refused to work punish the
man, but do not let the poor man, who was unfortunate,
be punished with separation from his family ?
He would advise the Members of that House to beware
in time ; they would not have their Corn-laws and their j
Poor-laws. He would entreat the Right Hon. Baronet ]
to withdraw the present Bill. If he withdrew it, he
would have nothing to regret. If he persevered in it, he
(Mr. Fielden) sincerely believed he would one day have
reason to repent such a course, for it would raise the
poor against the aristocracy ; and if they raised the poor
against them, their own destruction would follow.
Mr. MUNTZ said this was a most important law ;
it
had already overturned and destroyed one great ,end
powerful Government, and it was very likely, if
-- -perse-
vered in, to destroy the present Government, Peeling
strongly, as he had ever done, that this law was one of
the excrescences of an unwise legislation, whieth for many
years had destroyed the good of this coseesey_that it
went hand in hand with the Factory Bills the Truck Bill,
and the Emigration Bill, he could not allow it to
pass that House, without protesting, in a solemn
and serious manner, against the effect of it. If
he had no other reason for opposing this Bill, it would
be sufficient alone that the Commissioners had the
power to interfere with all the local acts throughout the 1
country. Who could be such good judges of the
misery
and wants of the people in -any particular town as the
inhabitants of that town?" One of the strangest anomalises
of this law was the support it met with from the Lib.,eat
Members in that House. He had never been s'.ol, to
ascertain how men who always supported local
ments should support this law, but he could r
.nderstund
why gentlemen cn the other side should sae govern-
ppples. He
art it, for
it was in accordance with their general inei
should only repeat that he believed Joe sal governments
were the best that could be appliee e His firm bag
was, that the greatest good that rsould be done to this
,
country would be to allow the law to die a natural death
tulfklea.prsiinciple of the
and let every union manage its
Bil►, but thought some of tt, , :rale
too stringent.
claw.es
Mr. ESCOTT would °fee. tio opposition whatever to
the third reading or the Wee,
iu fuantudrelleOnly. hoped
*that
it
would work much bestee.
than it had hitherto
AGLIONI3I7 should voteagainst the third read-
ing, but he could not egree with sons of his Eon, d the aigument; or rea
en 4 the members for Olclhain and
Rochdale.
Captain PECHELL rose 'chit cries of Divide."
He said that 'if Hon. Gend'eltennlein wished. to go off to
dine, they could do so, and let the subject be eiscussiel
by those who remained, wnd who, he trusted, would
fairly fight out the matter, and decide it by a division.
He had at all
' events, clue gratification, that when he
returned home he would t save the satisfaction of saying
that the Gilbert Unions were safe for a certain
period. He had done 41 is duty in attending on every
occasion in the House a then the subject was brought
fiirward: He had not been actuated by any factious
motives in his opposition to the 13i.1, but solely by a sense
of duty.
After a few words from ?t r, R. YORKE, which were
inaudible in the gallery,
Sir J. GRAHAM said, that after what had fallen from
the Hon. Member for Yuri k, he did not think it his duty
to remain silent on the pre sent occasion. He was bound
to say that, if he consulted time popularity of the Admi-
nistration of which he was v. Member, nothing could have
been more agreeable—not king: more easy, than for him
to have yielded to the forci e appeals made to him not to
to proceed with the Bill. -II a had for many years taken
part in the local administratic .n of the law; he had been a
party to the measure of 183 4 ; he had most anxiously
watched the progress of that measure, and he should feel
himself guilty of a gross dirt Action of duty if he were to
yield to any solicitation of Hon. Gentlemen opposed to
the measure; and, if he cEd . not counsel the House ear-
nestly and anxiously to con, sent to the third reading
of this 13i11.—((sheers..) He felt confident that
the whole scheme of governing nt by unions for the relief
of the poor would fall to the I Found ; that it would be
umposeible to carry it out it 4 were not controlled by