The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-25 00:00:00

110 USE OF COMMONS, !Tag 23

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
The Clerk of the Crown attended to amend the return for
the borough of Nevreastle. under-L3 me, prsuant to the order of
the House.
DISTRESS IN IRELAND.
Mr. SH AR NI AN CRAWFORD gave notice that he should
call the attention of the House on Monday, on going into Com-
mittee of Supply, to tie distressed state of Ireland.
Mr. MACKINNON gave notice that he should postpone
the motion of woich he had given notice for Monday, of a new
writ for Southampton, till Friday next, that the Report sent
in by the Committee might be read and considered by Hon.
Members.
Lord STANLEY gave notice that he should bring in a Bill,
on Monday, for the better government of the western pto-
vincos of *Australia.
DESIGNS COPYRIGHT BILL.
On the motitm for the Order of the Day being read for
going into Committee,
Mr. M. PHILIPS said he should oppose the Order of the
Day, as it was his intenti,n to oppose the Bill to the utmost of
his power in every stage. He particularly protested against a
Bill of this kind being discussed on a Saturday, after a week
of unexampled Parliamentary toil and exertion —( Hear, hear.)
Mr. G. W. WOOD expressed his determination of giving
the Bill his molt zialOus support.
Mr. M. PHILIPS then moved, there not being forty Mem-
bers present, that the House be counted.
strangers were ordered to withdraw, but Sir James Graham,
with about twenty Hon: Members at his back, rushed into the
House, amidst cheers and laughter.
Mr. M. PHILIPS then moved that the Bill be committed
this day three months.
The gallery was again cleared for a division. The House,
however, did not divide, the motion having been negatived
without a division. The House then resolval itself into Com-
mittee.

Clauses 1 to 4 were agreed to without dissent.
The other clauses were then agreed to.
The Bill with amendments, was ordered to be Reported on
Monday next.
NEWFOUNDLAND BILL.
On the Order of the Day being read for the House resolving
itself into a Committee on thi- Bill,
Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from the Delegates
of the House of Assembly of Newioundland against the Bill.
—Ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed with the Votes.
On the Order of the Day being again read,
Mt. O'CONNELL said he had no desire to offer any factious
opposition to the Bill, but having only received the important
petition which he had read about ten minutes before he entered
the House, he hoped the Noble Lord would allow the Bill to
be postpotied till that day week.
Lord STANLEY said, looking at the peculiar circum-
stances of the colony, and at the fact that there was at that
moment no legal authority in the island under which the duties
could be collected, he could not consent to the vostponement.
The Noble Lord concluded by reading a letter from Sir John
Harvey. stating his approval of the measure.
Mr. VERN, IN SAI I I. 11 tt ought that the letter of Sir J.
Harvey ought to be printed, as also the petition presented by
the Right Hon. Genteman. He suggested that it would meet
the convenience of all parties, if the discussion on
the subject was postponed to Wednesday next. He understood
that the Hon. and Learns/I Gentleman had consented to with-
draw his motion fur the postponement of the' Committee for six
weeks.
Mr. O'CONNELL expressed his .willingness to withdraw
both the motions of which he had given notice on ►the subject,
' if the Committee were postponed to Wednesday.
Mr. ESCOTT said that both the documents ought to be
printed before proereding further with the measure.
Mr. HUME concurred in the opinion of the Hon. Gentle-
man who had just sat down.
Lord STANLEY had no objection to postpone the further
consideration of this Bill to Wednesday, provided the Hon. and
Learned Gc rifleman would throw no obstacle in the way cf
the consideration of the Bill on that occasion.
Mr. O'CONNELL said his object was not to cause any delay
to the measure, but he certainly would not promise that the
principle of the Bill should not undergo discussion.
'I he Committee was then poaponed to Wednesday next.
The Lunacy Bill was read a second time.
Ihe Report on the Grand Jury Presentment (Ireland) Bill
was received.
The Manchester, Birmingham, and Bolton Police Bill was
read a third time and passed.
The House then adjourned at Half-past Twe o'Clock till
to-day. .

THE NIGER EXPEDITION.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY Evewreo.--By the accounts brought
from the coast of Africa, by the Termagant, Third Lieutenant
Commander Henry F. Seagram, which left Ascension on the
Oth May, this expedition had not proceeded up the Niger a
second time, in consequence of there not being sufficient water
to admit of it, until after the rainy season, which has only now
terminated. The Albert was lying at Ascension, but the Sou-
dan, and Wilberforce, under the command of Captain W. Allen,
were off the coast. Captain Allen intended to proceed,' as
soon as the depth of water will admit of it, up the river as far
as the model farm ; but whether he would continue his voyage
higher up would entirely depend upon the state of his crew
when at that point.
The Madagascar, 44, Captain John Foote, was to be at
Ascension in July. It wilt be recollected that it was against
an officer and boat's crew of this ship that the Bordeaux
papers made an accusation respecting the boarding the
French ship Les Deux Smuts, in which it was stated that the
officer was not in uniform, and not to be distinguished froin
the men, and that he behaved in a vexatious manner in un-
necessarily detaining the ship, &c., and that the men took
away twenty tureens of preserved meat, and several other ar-
ticles. The whole of the statement, Frith the exception that
the Deux Sceurs was hoarded by the boats of the Madagas-
car, is utterly at variance with the truth. The following may
be relied upon as the correct account of the transaction :
U 1 .on the Madagascar falling in with the Deux Scours the
wind was exceedingly light, and as the French ship was at
some distance ahead, and was mistaken for a large
slaver, four armed boats were despatched from the
Aladagascar to give Chase to and" board her. Each of the
boats was under the command of an officer in the usual uni-
form worn when on service,' with his sword on, and cap with
the gold band round it. There was also a marine officer, like •
wise in uniform. Upon boarding the Deux Scours the senior
lieutenant in command of the boats requested the French
merchant captain would show him his papers, and altheugh
the request was made in the most courteous manner, the
French captain at once refused. Upon being asked his reason,
he stated that he would not show Ms papers until the British
officer had shown him his slave papers. It was necessary for
the Lieutenant to return on board the Madagascar to procure
them, consequently there was a delay caused by the French,
captain himself. With regard to the charge against the men
of taking away twenty tureens of preserved meat, the fact is,
that not one of the cre.v was allowed to go below, and one of
the officers merely looked down in the hold to see that all was
correct. So far trom there having been any delay caused
by the officer of the Madagascar, the vessel was allowed to
take her own course as soon as the examination was over, but
she remained in company with the Madagascar while the sur-
geon of that ship went on board to attend a passenger or super-
cargo, who was ill on board the French ship. This proved that
there was every disposition on the part of the officers of the
English man-of-war rather to assist than annoy the Captain of
the French vessel.

RIOTS IN SHROPSHIRE.
( Abridged from the Shrewsbury News of this day. )
During the early part of tne week, the conduct. of the miners
was much the same a, it had ben for some weeks past. but on
Wednesday morning rime railer alarming symptoms of riotous
condwit took place among them. Early of that morning a
body of men from the works in Stafford,hire, to the number of
twenty or thirty, made their appearance in the works at Don-
nington Wood, where they stopped some workmen who were
going to their work as usual, and induced them to join their
ranks. They then proceeded to the pits, and ordered the men
to come up trom work, which order the men were compelled to
obey, and their ranks swelled considerably. In this manner
they proceeded from pit to pit in the whole of that populous
trict, and compelled every man at work to desist, but without
committing any actual violence.
illr. Baxter, superintendent of police, and the few men under
his command, had watched the proceedings of the mob during
the day, and when night fell in, and the great body of them had
dispersed, he arid his men proceeded to different places, and
succeeded in captu'ing five men, whom they had observed
directing the proceedings, and acting as ringleaders during the
day. The prisoners were immediately conveyed to Welling-
ton, under guard of a strong body of the police, and safely de-
posited in the lock up horse. On the following morning they
were brought up before Thomas Eyton, Esq. and the Rev.
Henry Bruton, who, after listening to the 'evidence adduced
against them, committed them for trial at the next assizes, for
riotous and tumultuous assembling, and they were conveyed to
Shrewsbury gaol the same day. The prisoners are generally '
young men, and are named as folio ss : —Henry Edwards,
'illiam Pool, Thomas Williams, William Haughton, and
Moses Staveworth.
Numbers of the police force from every portion of the county,
armed with their cutlas-es, arrived in the neighbourhood during
the night and the early part of the morning ; and a body of
South Salopian Yeomanry, from Shrewsbury, arrived at lartor's
Lee at an early hour in the morning, and remained there day•
tog the day. The Wellington Yeomanry were under orders to
be ready to assemble at a moment's notice, and the horses of
many of the members remained ready saddled throughout the day.

THE TURN OUT IN THE POTTERIES.
BURSLE3I, FaIDAY Aloasusto.—The whole of the potters
are now on ortunately out of employment; owing to the want
of coal. A few of the largest manufacturers contrived to find
employment for their men till yesterday ; but the supply of coal
becoming exhausted a complete stoppage in every department
of the trade has been the consequence. The men continue
quiet on the whole, a state of things which is of course to be in
some measure attributed to the military force stationed in the
district, but as the Magistrates have considered it necessary to
swear in between 600 and 700 special constables in the course
of yesterday, and are still engaed enrolling more, the appre-
hensions for the peace of the district cannot be altogether allayed.
A large meeting of the eolhers is appointed to take place in
the neighbourhood on Sunday next, which is to be attended
by delegates from the mines in the adjoining counties, and it is,
in all probability, with a view to meet any emergency which
may arise, that the Magistrates have adopted the precaution of
sweating in so large a number of special constables. It is cal-
culated that there will be at least 30,000 hands out of em-
ployment at the beginning of next week, should Messrs. Sparrow
and Forrester still continue to resist the claims of the men, to
which claims none of the other extensive coal-owners are op-
posed.
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the course of the afternoon.

RAILWAY TRAITIC.—The following calculation of
the last weekly returns of thirty-eight railways, 1,337
miles in length, given in our present number, will, we
tr.,liewe, be of interest :—Number of passengers on
twenty-five railways, 561,738, consequently the total for
the week must be about 400,000. The receipts for pas-
sengers on thirty -seven railways, 76,9211-19 s. ; .ditto for
'roods, on thirty-one railways, 17,3691. 4s. 2d. ; • total,
94,9911. 3s. 1 td. Ti.is is an average of 70y. per mile
per week. The traffic, therefore, is certainly at the rate
of about four millions a year, and. carrying.fifteen
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