The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-15 00:00:00

PArtzrArdENTAlalr.

On presenting a petition last night in the House of
Lords against the tariff, Lord Western said the peti-
tioners accused the Government of having deceived
them. The Duke of Wellington was obviously nettled
at the charge, and while he deprecated the use of such
language, he gave the accusation a flat denial. Lord
Western repeated the accusation, and was loudly cheered
by the Earl of Winchilsea.
The presentation of a petition against Maynooth en
shied both Lord Cloncurry and the Earl of Wicklow to
say that the grant for the College ought to be enlarge 4;
not lessened, es desired by the bigots.
The Spirit Duties (Ireland) Bill went through ajCom-
rnittee, after Lord Monteagle had objected to it at some
length that it would promote illicit distillation.
A little conversation took place about the 'reenwich
Naval School, wbi.h Lord Dtmcannon cen ured, but
hich the Earl of Haddington defended. he House
adjourned, to get rid of Lord Dancannon's otion to
send an inspector from the Privy Council to look after
the school.
In the. Commons Mr. Iledington report° from the
Sudbury Election Committee that the two sitting Mem-
bers were not duly elected, • and that the elecoon was
void. Such bribery had been committed that cie Com-
mittee recommended that the borough be disfranchised.
Lord Francis Egerton moved a series of rei4lutions
confirming the present 'practices of the H4se as
to receiving petitions, but discontinuing thei;prac-
tice of not receiving petitims against a tat* for
the service of the year, and converting those practices
into standing orders. The motion was opposed oeihe
ground that it would finally establish the present
practice of not discussing petitions, but, on a diVi-
sion, was carried by 262 to 46. A resolution, almost itt
the very words, Mr. T. Duncombe originally moved-
on the subject of petitions, was carried, so that,'
the right to present petitions against a proposed
tax is secured.

Mr. Wakley complained that Sir John Easthope had
usurped his seat, and would not give it up. The Baronet
replied that Mr. Wakley had requested him rudely to
resign it.

Borthwick had given notice of a motion about the
metropolitan roads, but was obliged to withdraw it be-
:cause the Hon. Member, from ignorance of the forms of
the House, had not complied with them.
A Bill to settle the question of patronage in the Kirk
of Scotland was, on the motion of Mr. Campbell. or-
dered to be brought in ; and was brought in and read a
first time ; but the Government does not sanction the
'measure. It is to be read a second time on May 4.
The Colonial Passengers' Bill went through a Corn-
miite,e. The Australia and New Zealand Bill was read
a second time.
-The Resolutions for equalising the duties and draw-
baol§a..on Irish and Scotch Malt were agreed to in a
Committee, and ordered to be reported.
Adyoutned at Ten o'Clock.
• PUZLIC OPZINTIOIT.

The. Herald finds fault with the Colonial Customs Bill in
the following terms :—" The Colonial Customs Bill, which
stands for discussion in the House of Commons this evening,
is more Whiggish than the Whig Bill proposed List year by Mr.
LabouChere •' it is a measure of very doubtful policy ; if it do
benefit .our West Indian colonies, it will be at the cost of our
North American dependencies. It is a complete breach of
the principal of reciprocity in matters of commerce, by which
Sir Robert Peel professes to regulate his trading policy. It
proposes to convert that trade, now carried on indirectly through
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, between the West Indies and
the United States, into a direct trade, and will thereby throw
out of employment a large portion of colonial shipping, and
roost probably destroy the comrxercial intercourse between our
northerneand southern American coloniei ; it proposes to open
the markets of those colonies to foreign European manufac-
tures; and it proposes either object without obtaining from the
United States, or the manufacturing nations of Europe, any
countervailing advantages."
The Times contains some remarks suggested by Lord
Francis Egerton's resolutions on the subject of the right of
petitioning :—" Sir Robert Peel," says our Contemporary,
" will lose me credit with the public by the frank avowal that
the Opposition has simply beaten him, or by the easy tone
which he has taken in the debate. It would, indeed, have
been little in accordance with his consistent deference (exagge-
rated as we have sometimes thought it) to the decisions and
authority of the House of Commons, had he allowed himself to
be led into any tidier course • yet, still we confess we were not
without our fears that it might have been so, and that either
the provocations of an angry Opposition, or the supposed
necessity for unusual firmness in making his power telt bv
friend and foe, might have induced him to adopt a tone and
policy whitli we should have felt less satisfaction in recording.
We repeat our hope, that he and his supporters may continue
to understand the diff,rence between those great occasions
when he may fairly expect a decisive and unwavering support,
and those more open questions on which, like the present, it is
necessary, for the independence both of the country and its re-
presentatives, that the Miniver should allow free play to the
judgment of the Legislature."

The Post has the following observations The division
of Wednesday night was a great triamph for the Conservative
Administration. Every one knows what the R higs prophesied
after they had taken time to consider the possibility of getting
'up a great public discontent on the subject of the income tax.
Every one knows what they calculated upon doing during the
Easter recess, and with what persevering efforts of mere fac-
tion they postponed the resolution of the Committee on the
ground that, were the public allowed sufficient time, such a
demonstration would be made against the Ministerial policy,
as it was of the utmost importance the House should take into
account before coming to a vote. All this has turned out to be
mere miscalculation and blunder."

The Chronicle says :—" London, Liverpool, and all the
other commercial towns, are loud in their exclamations against
the delay in proceeding with the tariff. But the income tax
discussion has nothing to de with the tariff. It is preposterous
to pretend that the Liberals are in any way responsible for the
delay which has taken place in proceeding with that measure.
Sir Robert Peel may have had reasons for not proceeding
which he does not choose to avow. It may have been neces-
sary for him to negotiate with -some of those who told him
they could unmake him as well as make kim. But, to use the
common adage, let the saddle be put on the right horse. The
delay is a pure Tory affair. The Opposition offered to take
the tariff first, but the Government hung back. Indeed, so
little were Ministers disposed to discuss the tariff that it has
actually been only two days on the table. Let, then, those who
wish to participate in the benefits which the tariff is about to
confer, and those who suffer from a stagnation of trade, apply
the spur to Sir Robert Peel, and not to the Opposition, for the
progress of the tariff rests with him alone."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
At a meeting last night to oppose the income tax, Mr.
Smith quoted the old remark of the late Mr. Cobbett—" That,
let taxes be put on in what way, or under what guise they
might, they were sure at length to reach the working-man."
Meetings against the income tax have, within the last week,
been held in the Tower Hamlets, at Newcastle, Leominster,
Bath, Chatham, High Wycombe, and Edinburgh. Against
the tariff, by the agriculturists at Worcester, the Isle of
Sheppy, and Nonington in Kent, with petitions and memorials
from each.

It was stated at a meeting of the Edinburgh Chamber of
Commerce, upon the discuss:on of Sir Robert Peel's financial
scheme, that the proposed reduction on cork would do no good
to the revenue, while 30,000 men would be set idle.

PUBLIC nurROVEIVIETTICS.
A large building, intended to be a of commerce, and a
place (if meeting for public bodies, is now being erected on the
site of the French Protestant Church in Threadneedle-street.
The front is 100 feet in breadth, and 60 in height ; the in-
terior consists of two great halls, and several smaller rooms.
Mr. Moxay, biscuit-baker, is the proprietor.