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

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. HUME 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-
sideration of the Bill was deferred till this evening.
The Prisons Bill passed threugh Committee.
Report this day.
The Common Law Courts (Ireland) Bill was read a second
time.—Committee this day.
AC/r u
On tI e leLopr tToRf tEh erose
to Committee
recordo f S Supply ypbeing brought up,
against the
grant voted for the National Board of Education in Ireland.
Mr. M. 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. M. J. 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
edit. ation, in connection with the Established Church. In
all the Kildare-street schools Scriptural education was given.
Mr. L EFROY complained that the Noble Lord had attacked
him personally, the other evening.
Lord EI.IOT had not alluded to the Hon. Gentleman at all.
The Report was then brought up and agreed to.
Mr. EWA RT moved for a return from the Assistant Poor-
law Commis!ioners•of the Chalton 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 retutu.
Mr. EWA RT withdrew his motion.
BOLTON POLICE.

Mr. GRIMSDITCH moved for an account of all monies
levied and raised under the Act 2 and 3 Vic., 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 tc, the Commissioner, the Receiver, or Treasurer, and the
Superintendent respectively ; and also the wages of the con-
tables, and the sum) laid out in clothing, and other c3ntingent
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
for 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
on the table next week. _ _

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ABUSES AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUt'.
Sia,—l 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." Asa 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
Menai 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 fronci 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.

him,however, at length been recog-
nised, extraordinary career of Dias- I
and the copious and strictly authentic nature of the
which have come down to us,
make it remarkable that his unparalleled history has not hither-
to been wied as the ground-work of a Romance.
which give their best value to all
The singular
syclanpr iia:buli °lsi't capabilities detailsof the r have,esguarkideficnatgets
nised, and the reading public may look in a few days for a work
Doubtless, the extraordinary connexion
under the editorship, of Air. Horace Smith; the author of
‘. Brambletye House, which is likely to realise the most vivid
Salvator Rosa with the rebellion of Naples,
imaginations connected with this topic, without falsifying those
of
still more
ermi
caoacrice,m p interacting
ishromances,ed
and with its leader Alassaniello, 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
SW= Cutlery Razors,
Massaniello himself.
MECIII'S SUILLING PENKNIVES —These, and the
asknands'd everything for the work-
, sixpenny tooth-brushes will prove that whils.thlelext:aseithreeseminogs.t
elegant shop in London, he is determined to do business on the
most reasonable terms He manufactures on his premises, 4,
to have to announce a most
t the
i. d at ye r,
-
cagesLtii acahazl de o Bagatelle-tables,
dtaraodlglir-a,esst:sersleilßeee....trivatsbeiLlltleo,essnir.decooTgnrea—inbtlbDese,
I)ItrADVITI:ACCIDENT AND LOSS or LIFE AT
the river Mersey, and for that
:11reAal:IfutillNaGercrdenTwWhieich took place at Warrington on Saturday.
It appears that the old 99ay Company have for some time past
edn'aitoeimnipongrary railway upon bulks of timber,
mdinuriusitgof the
ctit:eacuner ipael
canal at
nseaet‘n..l!yvaa engaged
trehredierneigchntti repairingblocks
. e f s
to their
ne.. locks
o. tlseat
operation, the foundationtave way. and the whole machinery,
carriages, engines, &c., fell into the excavation upon tine work-
men below, two were instantly killed, and nine others had their i
backs, legs, or arms broken n the most shocking manner,
.everal of whom it is supposed cannot recover. One of the
unfortunate men killed.leaves behind hinl a wik And nine
. children.