The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-27 00:00:00

SUN OFFICE. Seven o'Clock.

TAT TERSALL'S.—THIS EVENING
Six o'CLocK.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

- -
• The LORD CHANCELLOR took his scat on the Wool-
lack shortly after Five o'clock.
The Duke of BUCCLEUGII presented a petition
from the schoolmasters of Lant;ham, praying for pro-
tection.

TEMPERANCE.
• The Bishop of NORWICH presented fourteen peti-
tions, signed by upwards of 2,000 persons residing
in hie diocese, in favour of tt mperance. He must con-
fess that at fir t he was averse to it, but since then
he had entertained different opinions, because he was
convinced that it was attended with the best results. He
thought they were greatly indebted to one individual
for the success of the movement that had taken
place on the subject. The great object of the petition
was, that beer-shops should be closed on Sundays.
These petitions were signed by the clergy of every
parish in his diocese, showing the interest they took in
"the subject, and the advantages they expected to be
deri% ed from those temperance societies.
TIIE RUBRIC.
Lord FORTESCUE said that the petition of which
he had given notice from Exeter and Southmolton,
and from the Reverend William Carwithan,
fur a revision of the law attached to the
observance of the Rubric in the service of the Church,
would oblige him to state the facts of the proceedings
that have resulted from the agitation of that question;
because, although the circumstances themselves were of a
local nature, they were to be talc-n in connexion with
the opinions which were expressed on the subject in the
other districts. On the 19th of last November the
Right Rev. Prelate who presided over the diocese, ad-
dressed a pastoral letter to his clergy, in which he cotn-
.manded a greater uniformity to the directions of the
rubric. Whether the Right Rev. Prelate were correct or
not in his construction of the law of the Church, he
'seemed to be prepared for considerable opposition to his
orders,but he (Lord Fortescine) believed that he was quite
unprepared for the amount of opposition that was offered.
Ttos excitsment was occasioned without the slightest
ffforts of any political party, for in most cazes the
question was taken up by the religious portien of the
community. Indeed, he believed it was confined almost
entirely to the members of the Established Church.
Various meetings were held on the subject
.and requisitions were forwarded to nearly every church- •
warden, requesting them to confer with their congrega-
tiens on the subject. At these meetings resolutions,
strongly framed, and against the conduct of the Right
Reverend I're'a'e were unanimously agreed to. But
even where these meetings were nut held, still
a feeling of great excitement prevailed amongst the
congregations, and the letter of the Right Rev. Prelate
*as spoken of in terms of a deprt catorylcharacter. Th y
declared that the Right Revs:tend Prelate was inciting
them to depart from the est iblished maxims of the
Protestant Church, and numerous protests were entered
against the r commended course. After this fer-
ment and excitement had prevailed for three or four
weeks, more or less, the Right Rev. Prelate issuetl,a
second communication, quashing the directions cOn-
- tained in his former letter. But still this Lad not the
desired effect, for the Right Reverend Prelate found
it a matter of some difficult, to restore the former
peaceful state of his diocese. Notwithstanding the can-
celling of the first letter, the unpopular practices still
prevailed in one of the parishes in tee city of Exeter.
In this state things continued, until the petitioners
thought they had no other mode of proceeding than to
present an eppeal to this Houi.e. The first petition
which he had to present was from the city of Exeter.
This petition was agreed upon at a meeting convened by
the mayor of that city, and wa; signed by upwards
of 3,200 members of the Church of England. The
petition was, he believed, signet unanimously ; and
that circumstance, in his opinion, gave it the
greater weight. The petitioners complained that their
feelings had been outraged by the violations of the
privileges which they had hitherto enjoyed t that these
proceedings tended to impose laws inconsistent with the
feelings of the people ; that the attempt to revive usages
now obsolete were rapidly destroying the uniformity of
one diocese ann another; and that this led to circumstances
which deeply violated their sense of the necessity
of peace and good feeling in the Established Church.
The petitioners said that the effect of these proceedings
had been greatly to disturb the quietude of
Established Church. They asserted that the Book
of Common Prayer contained directions for alter-
ing the usages of the Church whenever the events
of the times should render it necessary. The
petition concluded by praying for an alteration in
the rubric, so as to establish uniformity in the Church.
He was persuaded that the feelings which were expressed
in the petition were entertained by a very' large poriion
both of the clergy and laity in the county with which
he was connected.—(hear.) It was impossible
that the whole of the rubric could be fulfilled, and yet a
clergyman, omitting to conform to it in any par-
ticular, was liable, for the first omission, to twevle
snonths' imprisonment ; for the second, a longer
period ; and for the thiri, imprisonment for life.
He had, both in public and private, uniformly depre-
cated the expresLion of angry feeling or the use of vitu-
perative lariretage. At the only meeting he attended the
petitieo he bad now presented was substituted for a resolu-
tion hat was preposed. He thought the Legislature ought
to interpose for the purl ose of regulating the for•
mulct of the Chticch in all parts of the country. (The
. Noble Lord then read ex to aces from a pamphlet,
written by Mr. Benson, the Masttr of the Temple,
iu which that Rev. Divine reemumench d some alterations
in the rebri :of the. Church.) He cordially supported the
prayer of the petition. lie had another petition to pre
sent to their Lerdships, and although it was differently
Worded, it was to the same effect. It was -numerously
signed by members of the Church of England residing
in the parish of Uppingharo. The last petition he had
to present was from the Rev. William Carwithen,
The Rev. Gentleman complained that the rubric of the
Eetablished Church rind been altered, and prayed their
Lerilships to take the matter into their serious considera-
tion. The Reverend Gentleman had been long attached
to the Protestant Church, and no man performed his
functions of a clergyman more conscientiously, or with
more benefit to his flock, than the Rev. Gentleman whose
petition he had now the pleasure of laying before their
Lordships. Tha!:king their Lordships for the attention
with which they had listened to him, he begged to move
that the petition he had just mentioned be immediately
taken into consideration and afterwards printed.
The Bishop of EXETER asked permitoion to
ce:upy their Lordships' attention for a short time,
while he answered the speech of the Noble Lord
He did not expect that the House would wish hint to
enter upon his defence. Had he to make that defence,
certainly there was no place he would choose for it so
readily as the House of Lords. Ile felt it a great honour
and a great privilege to make his defence before that
Howe. That House was the very sanctuary of honour
and of privilege. But he did not tisk their Lord-
ships to hear his defence, for he had no defence to
make. He was charged with the spiritual care of a
diocese. Ile was amotlicer of the Church of Christ, and
for his. conduct responsible to no other tribunal, but only
to the Church. He should, therefore, at once refuse to
enter into any defence, but he did not refuse to enter
into a statement of what had led to his conduct in the
matters referred to, and of what his conduct had been.
He should Mate, then, that he had not voluntarily
taken up this line of conduct. It hail been
forced upon liird by circumstances. This was
one of the cffecas of the attention to eceleSiastical
subjects in England. When a gentleinan took upon
himself the care of souls, ho took upon himself in the
most solemn manner, by his ordination vow, to observe
the usages of the Church. Several gentlemen who
felt their consciences thus bonnd had applied
to him for permission to fellow out the
usages which the Rubric prescribed. Ile felt
b
ound to grant that permission. But matters had not
stood
there. Complaints had been made, and occurred.
As the eeelesias ical Prop of the diocese, he felt it to be
his duty to seule this dispute, and to attempt to obviate
the objections from Ta enton, and other places, had
arisen the circumstances which prompted the complaints
contained in the petition Prhesentied by the Noble Lord.
Under these eircumstanel.er;ad,e,ia, leilrahicanonical council
to assist him with the were nineteen
members of that council, two third rim
whom tdvised
him to talon the steps which he :tit
and every one 4.f these, hal the ch:e„q(httaly,:(cartoeokof,
a parish. Under these eirentnstaneeqn
that It tier of which the Noble Lot. hadittsPt 1 (11 tb
e
There w re parties in he country alio wanted to make
most imp Trott ehen:,es in society, and they were not
merely cmfined to laymen or to churchmen; they were
a considerable body of men objecting to the liturgy, be-
cause it (pito% d the docktint s tv loch they themselves
advocated It had happent d to Lim (the Lishop
of Exete ) ti be oblied to proceed against
one .or Ow persons for setting at nought the
injunctions of the Liturgy, and (he belie
thing was common) this had happened in ore or
two instances in the parishes of his own diocese,
that pm ti.ems of the I'rayor 130:,k were tampered with
or set at n.,ught. He had heed it said—" How is it
possible for the Bishop to procced.against clergymen for
leaving eel portieres .of the baptismal service, w;hen,
every time he goes to church, he must have portions
of the rubric Set at nought."
LEFT SPEAKING.) -

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Five o'clock.
A messenger from the Court of Bankruptcy brought
up.tlw usual returns.
Mr. Stansfield, Mr. Duncan, and other Members
presented petitions relating to private Bills, of which the
designations were not heard in the gallery.
Mr. BARNARD presented a petition from the parish
of Greenwich, against the Fisher- lane Improvement Bill.
SUGAR DUTIES.
Lord SANIAIDN presented a petition from the surer
refinery of Liverpool, complaining of the hardship they
would undergo if the Governmrnt plan for the reduction
of the sugar duties should be carried into effect, in con-
sequence Of the large stock of sugar which they had
on band, and praying the [louse to give them relief. 'I hey
also prayed that no duty might be imposed upon molasses,
and that a high duty might be imposed upon foreign and
colonial refined sugar. They aLo prayed that grout.d
Manila sugar might be considered as muscovado sugar,
and that no duty might be imposed on sugar refined in
this country.

PRIVATE BILLS.
Mr. Ponlett Scrope,lLord Francis Egerton, Mr. Bro-
...erton,lond Wood, and Mr. Collett, presented
several petitions on private Bills.
LAW OF SETTLEMENT.
Mr. MILES presented a petition from Somerset
against the poor-law clause in the law of settlement;
and also two petitions from laces in the same county,
complaining of the awful extent of intemperance on the
Sabbath day.
Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from Birming-
ham, signed by several thousands of theinhabitants of
that town, against any increase in the navy. Ile &so
begged to present two petitions from the same town,
complainig of the manner in which passengers and goods
were treated on the Great Western Railway.
Sir C NAPIER presented a petition from Marylebono

against the window tax.
Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from Durham
against the duty on post-horses.
Mr. R. PALMER presented a petition, signed by 150
farmers of Bucks, against the malt duty.
POST- OFFICE ESPIONAGE.
Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from the inha-
bitants of Finsbury, agreed to at a public meeting. The
petitioners stated " That they learned with mortification
and disgust that there exists at the General Post-office a
secret spy system, under which lettera are broken open,
their seals counterfeited, and post marks falsely imposed,
in order to deceive the persons to whom such letters are
directed, and to whom they arc afterwards forwarded,
while the information thus obtained has, in some cases,
been used to promote the despotic interests of foreign
Governments—that this meeting strongly denounces the
existence of such disgraceful transactions, and refusing
to be satisfied with the Report-of the Committee
published at the close of last session, deem it essentially
necessary for the honour of this country, and also for
public satisfaction and security, that a sir ict, searching,
and open inquiry should be instituted into all the cir-
cumstances referred wit: certain petitions presented to Par-
liament on this subject, in order that by such inquiry the
manner in which such illegal and unconstituzional prac-
tices have been carried on, may be clearly exposed and
brought to public shame. They also state that they had
read with iedignation, the statement made by our repre-
sentative in his rlace in Parliament, that his correspond-
race had ben clandestinely intercepted and secrecy
opened, ut.der Government authority, at the Post-office.
That, in the opinion of this me,ting, the only exeuse for
the excercise of such power towards Mr. Duncombe, would
be that the Government had good reason to
.deem him
capable of conduct which, if true, would, in our opinion.
render him totally unfit to continue the representative of
a froc and indepentkett constituency ; that we therefore
feel it due to ourselves, as well as to Mr. Duncom')e, to
demand from the House of Commons such a.. 1 inves-
tigation into the proceedings toward him as shall either
justify the implied suspicions of the Government, or fully
es'ablish the innocence of our long-tried and faithful
representative.”—(Hear, hear.)
THE TARIFF.
An Host. MEMBER, on the Conservative Benches,
asked whether it was the intention of the Government
to give up the duty on straw plait and plaited straw.
S r ROBERT PEEL said there were. several descrip-
tions of straw manufacture, which went under the name
of 4` straw-plait"—there was the straw, or grass, for plait-
ing ; then there was plaiting-straw and straw plait. lie
proposed to take the duty oil that particular kitid of
plait made of chips, t.nd of straw or grass But from the
ma nitfactured article
.ct)aimortly call, d " Straw-
the duty would not be removed.
CERTIFICATES OF SEAMEN.
Mr. MUTT wished to put a cpiestiort to the Se-
cretary of the Admiralty, ln the course of last
session an Act had been passed requiring ail
British seamen to register themselves at the port from
which they sailed, and. each received a certificate of
registration. No sailor would be received on board a
vessel without this certificate, and the captain
who so received him would become liable to
a penalty. There hail been a considerable
body of foreign seamen brought to this country.
As the Bill of last year made no provision for the re-
gistering of those seamen, they were thrown out of employ-
ment. Many of them had been t welve, thirteen, and
fourteen years in the coasting trade, and they
were men of the most orderly conduct,
and esteemed amongst the best in the trade.
Those men, having settled, married, and domiciled in
this country, were unable to obtain employment, in con-
sequence of not being registered, and their condition
excited very great commisseration. The question which
he wished to put to the Hon. Gentleman the Secretary
for the Admiralty was, whether the Government intended
to propose any measure for their relief ?
Mr. CURRIE said there was to doubt that foreigners
had b-en for years employed in the coasting trade con-
trary to the navigation laws, and the stringent operatlun
of the Act of last year had pr vented them fr-tin
being
employed. But they could get rid t f the disqual.fication
by takeing the oath of allegiance, which would only cost
ls., and would entitle them to register.
BANKING IN SCOTLAND.
In answer to a question from an HON. MEMBER,
Sir R. PEEL said that he was in communication
with several pe.sons connected with banking in Scot-
land, and he thought he could not he prepared to bring
in a Bill upon the subject, or to state the intentions uf
the Government, until after Easter.
MIXED MARRIAGES IN IRELAND.
Mr. ROSS wished ti put a question to the Right
Hon. Gentleman, the Secretary for Ireland, on the sub-
ject of mixed marriages in that country. The Roman
Catholic clergy had been long subject to penalties for
marrying Preabytetians t Roman Catholics. and tin se
penalties had been reduced from time to time.
The consequence of this state of. things tnust be obvious
to every ot,e, and the question he wished to ask was
this—that as it was impossible for matters to remain as
they were, he wished to know which of the only two
courses open to the Govertauent it intended to take?
Would it reimpose the old penalties on Catholic cler-
gymen celebrating such marriages, or would i; make the
solemnization of mixed marriages by the Catholic clergy
legal.
Sir I'. FREMANTLE said the law on this subject
remained in precisely the same state as before the pass-
ing of the Marriage Act of last st ssion ; no penalties
whatever were imposed by that Act. He could not state
which of the alternatives mentioned by the lion. Mem
ber the Government was prepared to pursue.
Mr. ROSS then gave notice that on an early Jay ha
should move for leave to bring in a bill on the subject.

GAME LAWS.
Mr. BRIGHT presilited petitions. numerously
signet' by farmers and landholders in Horsham,
Sussex, Alne ick, in Northumberland, from the
western side of the Severn, Gleucester,bire, and
Ruyslip, in Middlesex, all praying for the aboli-
tion of the game laws. The Hon. Dumber than said,
the motion ehich he had given notiice of bringing on
this evening, was a motion fur the appointment
of a Select Committee to inquire into the operation of
the game-laws ; and in bringing this motion before the
House, he acknowli dgrd that he was fully sensible of the
importance anal difficulty of this question. Her regretted
extremely that it could not have all the weight in the
House from his advocacy which it might have had in
other hands. He regretted extremely that some
Hon. Gentleman of longer standing in that House had
nut tali( n this question up; he might have been able to
impsrt to it a degree of weight and authority Which he
was unable to give it. But he was so convinced of
the importance of this qui stion, and of the ne-.
cessity of some alteration in the respecting game, that
he considered he should ba neglecting his duty, if he
had hesitated fur a longer period to bring this
question under the notice of the House. lie had
observed that for several years past, a conside
rabic portion of the convictions m hich had taken place
at petty sesions, more especially in the agricultural
counties were I,e. offences against the Game Aet
(Hear, hear)—and thousands of the poorest of
tha population had b. en tined and imprisoned
for such offences. It frequently happened too that vio-
lent a Wines, and ferocious encounters took place be-
tween gamekeepers and poachers, ending frequently in
the infliction of serious injuries, and not unfrequently in
death. We found also tliat the last sentence of the law had
been fr: quently put into operation on unfortunate indi-
viduals whose celarnities had been brought upon them
through the laws fur the preservation of game. It was be-
cause he hada decp sympathy for the poorest classes of the
people, and because he had a deep reverence fir the
sacredness of human life, that he asked the attention of
the House to the motion which he was about to propose.
and he felt certain that no considerable number of mem-
bers would refuse to accede to such an inquiry as he
asked. Looking tack to former legislation e n this sub-
ject,' he felt justifi d in making this proposition,
as there had beta frequent instances of late years of the
appointment of Committees to consider the game-laws.
In the years 1816 and 1823, Select Committees of that
House had beer. appointed to inquire into this subject ;
and in 182,, there had been a Select Committee of the
Hours of Lords, appointed for the same purpose. The
Committee of 1816 appeared to have been appointed for
immediate object of obtaining such evidence as might
induce ilv.! Legislature to abolish the qu dification
then existing which was the possession of a considerable
portion of landed property, and of throwing open the
sight of hiking game to all persons who should purchase
a Government certificate. In 1823 the object of the
clunivaittc, was to obtain such evident e as should in-
duce the Governmunt to legalize the sale of
game,Lords andw'asila' plitantttheel Ste.bletchteesittimmrreti,t,tie.eectof tThiLitlii:tiistehoef
immediate objects otnt,hesoeneCtm,Aitnhi
o)couillt,aid read the
tjIE'CS. were Stich as
he lied stated.
evidence ad!uced before
convince 1 of the fact teat the fail to be
of their appointment had been the preva'ence‘ of poach-
ing,c"'e
and the frequent recurrence of thee disastrous
encounte ra between gamekeepers and poachers, which
they had of lete years so deeply to deplore.--(hear.)
In the year 1816 a Committee of this house was ap-
pointed to inquire into this subject, and they reported