The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-08 00:00:00

QUARTER TO ELEVEN.

Nugent
Thompson ......
Mildmay
Hope

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TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Nugent 428
Thompson 429
, INfildmay 545
Hope 541
The Liberals are now making their grand push, and
two hours will decide the election.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
GLOBE.—The alterations made by the Lords in
the Mines and Collieries Bill have been agreed to by
the Commons, but not without strong dissatisfaction
having been expressed by Lord Ashley at the damage
the measure has sustained by the amendments that the
Peers have thought fit to add to it. We agree in the
policy of accepting little where much cannot be ob-
tained ; and by a continual exercise of the energy that
Lord Ashley has shown in following up his benevolent
object we have little doubt that he will obtain, by
degrees, all that he originally proposed. The inci-
dental discussion that arose upon the adoption of the
amendments was enlivened by a few hits at the Mi-
nisters on their want of understanding themselves,
which had led to the giving of a Government pledge
in one llouse, which was afterwards broken by a
member of the Cabinet in the other. Sir J. Graham
had promised the cordial co-operation of the Minis-
ters in promoting the Bill of Lord Ashley: and
yet, when the measure came to be deliberated on
by the Peers, in was announced by Lord Wham-
cliffe that he considered himself quite free to take
any course he chose—which was a virtual repudiation
of the pledge given by the Secretary for the Home
Department in the name and on behalf of the Govern-
ment. Lord Palmerston made some happy allusions
to the charge of yielding to coercion, which it was cus-
tomary to bring against the Whigs when in office.' If
there were any truth in the accusation. it must, at all
events, have been admitted that "when they yielded
to such a pressure, they did so only to go forward in
the-progress of improvement, while the present Go-
vernment allowed themselves to be coerced to abandon
improvement." The reply of Sir James Graham,
that "he and his colleagues had commenced the
session with the confidence of Parliament, and he be-
lieved they had not forfeited it at its close," is some-
what ill• timed, at a moment when the organs of the
party which brougbt the Tories into place are casting
up accounts, and have declared the balance in favour
of Conservatism to be nothing by the accession of the
present Government.
STANDARD.—The whole country participates
in the regret of Lord Ashley at the treatment received
by his Lordship's Bill in the House of Lords. The
measure has been, indeed, cruelly mutilated in that
assembly, but still it lives; and though a longer
term has been extended to many cruelties
and many immoralities, still the living Bill ensures
that these cruelties and immoralities will not
be perpetuated. We do not pretend to consider it
a light thing that, for a year, or two years, or may
be longer, women arc to be exposed to indecencies and
Children to slavery. Such abuses are not light things,
though they were to endure but an hour; and heavy
indeed, is the responsibility of those whohave,forlucre,
or the less justifiable motive of party policy, protracted
thent so long as there is reason to fear they must
he continued. But still, between the temporary and
the perpetual evil there is a wide difference, and
-we repeat it, Lord Ashley has by his Bill, mangled
as it has been, struck a death-blow to the impurity
and slavery of the mine as well as to the impurity
and slavery of the factory. In the road into which
the Noble Lord has, so much to his honour, led the
Legislature, there is no going back ; every step must
be a step in advance; and whatever the noble coal-
owners, who have for one year thwarted the wishes
of the country, think, the whole of Lord Ashley's
Bill, and even a larger measure, will be
the law long before their Lordships can have
pocketed very many pounds by the effect of their
obstructive proceeding. The course taken has been
indeed a mast unfortunate one for the House of Lords.
It has deprived that House of much of the opinion of
sympathy with the labouring classes to which it is
in no small degree indebted for its safety during
the political tempests of the last twenty
years, completing almost the fatal work which the
too favourable reception of the New Poor-law had
begun. There is an opinion rapidly gaining ground
among the people, that the happiness of the
masses, their liberties; and their morals, are
all to lie sacrificed to the augmentation of
the wealth of the rich. Up to the late disastrous
proceeding in the House of Lords it was•
hoped that the nobility of the land would oppose
themselves to the course of injustice, and ultimately
of national ruin. It was hoped that, contented with
the wealth which they enjoy, and the honours eon-
nected with that wealth, they would not at least
descend to the level of mill-owners and corn
regraters, in extorting more wealth from the wants
and anguish of their fellow-creatures.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING.

Six O'CLOCK.

7 to 4 agst Attila—taken
11 to I agst Cabrera
12 to 1 agst Policy
12 to 1 agst Fireaway
14 to 1 agst Dodger
17 to 1 agst Ca:tonite
28 to 1 agst Master Thomas.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordshis met at Four o'Clock.
A Message from the Commons brought up a num-
ber f‘f Bills.
The Newfoundland Bill was brought up and read a
first time.
The Ecclesiastical Preferments Bill was read a
third time, andlpassed.
MEDICAL CHARITIES (IRELAND) BILL.
The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from
the Grand Jury of the Company of Druggists, pray-
ing that medical charities in Ireland should not be
placed under the control of the ;,,Poor-law Commis-
sioners.
The Tobacco Regulations Bill passed through Com-
mittee, and was ordered to be read a third time
to-morrow.

The Four Courts (Dublin) Bill was read a third
time, and passed.
THE COPYRIGHT OF DESIGNS BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of RIPON, the Copy-
right of Designs Bill was committed, and several
amendments having been agreed to, the Report was
brought up, and the Bill ordered to be read a third
time.

BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS BILL.
On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, the Bribery
at Liections Bill passed through CoMmittee, and was
ordered to be read a third time.

EAST INDIA SLAVERY.
The bill tbr the suppression of the Slave-trade in
the East Indies, alsoassed through Committee.
OUTRAGES IN IRELAND.
Lard FORTESCUE brought forward his motion
for a return of outrages reported to the Irish con-
stabulary in July last. He said that the
returns which he held in his hand had been prepared
by Col. M'Gregor, a gentleman whose accuracy might
be relied on ; and they showed that in the present
year outrages (of which there had been a rapid and
progressive decrease during the time that he had the
honour to preside over the government of that
country) had fearfully increased. Of twelve classes
of crime, including homicides, maiming, shoot-
ing, with intent to kill, and firing into
dwelling houses, the number in the first
half of the year 1841, was no more than 651;
whereas, of those offences, the number in the last
half of 1841 was, 2,449, but in the first half of the
present year the number had fearfully increased to
3,53 . —(llear.) This struck him as indicating that
there was !ome change in the manner in which justice
was administered,—(Bear.) The Noble Lord then
referred to the late trials of Ribbonmen at Armagh,
at which, be said, the Judge who presided showed, in
his charge to the Jury, the vehemence and earnestne§p
of zn advocate rather than the impartiality of a Judge.
He (Lord Fortescue) then went into an analysis
of the evidence upon the trials, 'from which he con-
tended that the chief witness against the prisoners
was a professed spy, and, according to his own state-
ment, not to be believed on his oath. He etincluded
by moving for the return.
The Duke of WELLINGTON could not see
any objection to the returns asked for ; and
he should not have thought it necessary to occilpy
their Lordships' time upon this occasion, but
that the Noble Earl had thought proper to draw
cot:elusions from the .papers in his (the Earl of For-
tenues) }LW* in which be could not concur, and
which he could not pass over without observation.