The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-04 00:00:00

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ment stole out of the House. It was too late an hour of
the night, and the House was too thin, to determine to
what Members the inquiry should be committed. He
' therefore moved the adjournment of the debate.
Mr. FERRAND said he had applied to several Mem-
bers of the House to allow their names to be put on the
Committee. He had received communications from
hundreds of the working classes, and he was now in a
condition to prove the statements which he had made.
He had communicated to the Hon. Member for Salford
(Mr. Brotherton) the name of a person who gave him
the information respecting the truck system which he,
had detailed to the House, and in a day or two after-
wards two friends of the Hon. Member called upon the
gentleman in Manchester, and held out threats to him.
Mr. BROTHERTON—That cannot be true.
Mr. FERRAND said it was true ; and the Hon.
Member for Stockport had also used him ill ; for he had
communicated to the public newspapers a private note of
his (Mr. Ferrand's), and had exposed a person who gave
him information to great obloquy and persecution.—
(Hear, hear.) He would not bring forward the evidence
which was within his reach, unless the working people
who were his witnesses could be protected against their
masters.

Mr. COBDEN said that there must be some little
mistake again in this matter ; he certainly did publish
the letter of the Hon. Member, but he thought that
there was no objection to his doing so. The Hon. Gen-
tleman seemed to wish to imply that he had attempted
to hurt some working man. Why, the writer of that
letter was no working man ; he was a man in a respect-
able station of life, a noted political partisan and a lead-
ing Tory in Manchester, a corn dealer.—(Hear.) He
(Mr. Cobden) could not then be considered as having
been guilty of a breach of confidence. He was not at
all anxious to serve on the Committee.
In answer to a question from Mr. HUME,
Sir J. GRAHAM remarked that he should be very-
sorry that the Hon. Member for Salford should be ex-
cluded from this Committee, and he thought that the
Hon. Member for Knaresborough would be acting judi-
ciously if he included the Hon. Member.
After a few words from Mr. VILLIERS,
Lord PALMERSTON suggested that some person
connected with the Government, should be placed ou
the Committee.
Mr. WAKLEY seconded the proposition.
After a few words from Mr. BROTHERTON,
Dr. BOWRING thought the best course would be to
adjourn the debate.
The debate was then adjourned.
The Exchequer Bills Bill was read a third time and
passed.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock.

QUEEN'S THEATRE, TOTTEN-
HAM-STREET.
After a creditable performance of the Conscript Bro-
thers, an interesting drama of the Swiss 'school, a new
comedietta, from the pen of Mrs. Hallett, ran lightly
through its scenes. its title is Woman's Whims, or
who's to win her, and the answer involved in these
questionary words, has its own pleasing and pecu-
liar development. Idonea (Miss Rogers), daughter of
a rich county Justice, has determined to wed none but
him who shall woo her from total disinterestedness.
Charles Avonmore (Mr. Reeves), a frank and sincere-
hearted officer, has also predetermined to espouse him-
self to none but from pure motives of affection. The
issue of the piece may readily be judged
from minds so appositely formed. An exchange of cha-
racters on the part of Idonea, between herself and her
waiting girl, produced some good points ; the most hypo-
chondriacal awkwardness characterising every movement
of the false lady, while genuine grace gleamed in the per-
son and demeanour of the young gentlewoman, habited
though she was servantile disguise. Miss Rogers here
was winning. The Hon. Augustus Lavington (Mr. X.
Parry) represented well one of those military epheme-
rals who, gay in gilt and regimentals, seek out pretty
faces to betray them, and wax hysterical at any thing
that is not faint as a rose, or soft as a zephyr. Simon,
at the " Stags" (Mr. Manders), pourtrayed the rustic
waiter quite au fait. Indeed, the cleverness thrown by
him into his peculiar cast of character, was well sustained
throughout the three pieces in which he took a part : nor
should we forget the one sweet warbler of the theatre,
Miss Wrighten, who carolled charmingly in Michael,
Putty, and Berthalcla.