The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-30 00:00:00

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Congon, out of condition, sold at Is rtti to is 7d, but mid
coarse and flat H M flavor Is Bd, but middling blksk leaf ra str
Son fi and Pek Sou fl 2s, mid blksh leaf str Pek fi 2s 6id to
2s 7 d ; Pouchong mid fresh burnt rather scntd Is 8d ; Im-
perial, but mid ra str burnt 2s Id to 2,s 4d ; Gunpowder, but
mid strong burnt 2s 64d, mid ra str 2s lld ; Hyson, good mid
ra str lit old 2s 6d, but mid ra coa 2s 4d; Twankay, but mid
ra str Is 90, good ord flat and but mid coa Is Bid.
RlCE.—There has been an i ncreased demand for Bengal
Rice this week, and a large business has been transacted at an
advance of 3d per cwt. Good middling white at lOs 6d to Ils,
and middling lOs to lOs 6d per cwt. Privately some parcels
have been sold at 8s 9d to lOs for common to middling, and
lOs 6d to lls 6d for good to fine white. Java at stiff rates :
10s 6d to 12s for middling and fine white, and 9s to 9s 6d for
common. Patna at 14s to 19s. Carolina Rice, fine quality
30s, good 28s, middling 265, and low 25s per cwt.
SPlCES.—Malabar Pepper, good fair bright clean at 3d to
3d, fair clean grey 2id to 3d, ordinary 2/d ; Eastern at lid
to 24d for good light quality, and common grey 2id per lb ;
Penang bought in at 3d fur good bold half heavy, sea damaged
sold at 23i1 to 20 ; white at full prices. Casein Lignea has
been much inquired for and stiffer rates have been offered.
Ginger has sustained the previous value, 12s. For Pimento
the market is quiet. Nutmegs at 2s 6d to 2s 9d for common
quality. Cloves are looking down. For Mace full rates have
been paid._

membered the Noble Marquis said, before moving for the ret urn •.
that ha had been in office for more than two years, and had not
appointed more than 50 or 60 Magistrates; but why? Be-
cause the places were already chock full of Whigs.
(Laughter.) But when did his Noble Friend begin his
appointments? At the end of May, whereas Parliament
was dissolved in the m.ddle of June. Put how did
the Noble Marquis distribute his appointments ?
In this manner.—six to Birmingham ; five to Harwich ; three
to Norwich ; and one to the sacred borough of Taunton.—
(Laughter.) Shortly before there were five given to Bridge-
water, and three to Hastings. In every one of these boroughs
a severe contest ti,ok place ; so that after 50 or 60 appoint-
ments of the Noble Marquis, 24 Were made just before the
election commenced. Nothing was done then until the 19th
of August, the very day after the meeting of Parliament, when
the fate of the Government was decided. Then his Nobl,
Friend renewed his activity, and from the 19th to thi 27th,
just eight days, he created 33 Magistrates, as a reward to his
partisans. Something had been said about following the ad-
vice of a town-council. This • was very well when
they were of • the same politics as you self.—(" Hear.
hear," and loud laughter.) Now when the Reform Bill
was passed,. the borough of Poole, which had a Conservative
*town-council, recommended seven gentlemen to the Secretary
of State, Lord John Russell, and his Lordship rejected every
one of them, and appointed six Whigs and one Conservative;
but the Conservative had voted for Sir John Byng at the elec-
tion. He certainly was at a loss to know the reason why the
Noble Marquis had attackei him, unless it was to show their
Lordships a specimen of practical irony.—(A laugh.) He
hoped their Lordship; would think the explanation he had
given satisfactory.—( Hear. ) At all events, if he had sinned,
his sins were scarcely visible in competition with the accumu-
lated mass of sin of the Noble Marquis.—( Cheers.)
The Marquis of NORMA NB Y said if the Noble Lord
had only given hi I. a sample of what he (the Marquis of Nor-
manby) had done during the last seven or eight months in
office, he (the Marquis of Normanby) had only given a sam-
ple of the misrepresentation the Noble Lord had made. On
the. last occasion of discussing this question, the Noble Lord
said that in no ease had they changed the majority. He (the
Marquis of Normanby had shown four cases where they had
done so.
The Lord CHANCELLOR—Out of 150.
The Marquis of NORMANBY— Out of 150 he would go
on and find plenty more similar examples. But if the Noble.
Lord had admitted that he had done so four times he had
abandoned his former assertion. If they looked to Gateshead
and Bath, they would find there also the majority had been
changed from Whigs to Conservatives. He (the Marquis of
Normanby) denied that any of the appointments which he had
made during his last seven or eight months was made with any
view to the elections; and if they wanted proof, he would refer
their Lordships to Birmingham. After the riots there many
Magistrates refused to act, and it was absolutely necessary to
make new appointments for the sake of the proper administra-
tion of justice. The Noble Lord referred to Bridgewater;
that was a case precisely similar to that of Birmingham. In the
case of York, he added four Magistrates on account of reports
which he received of the insufficiency of the Magistracy; but
to show that he did not act with any view to the elections, what
did he do ? He added two Conservatives and two Whigs.
The Noble and Learned Lord had spoken of practical irony,
but what would the country think of 360 Magistrates, all of
one aide of politics, added in that short time without any
reason whatever, and without any communication with the
town-councils ?—(Hear, hear.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR reminded the Noble Marquis
that all the additions to the Magistracy with which he (the
Lord Chancellor) had charged the Noble Marquis took place
after the majority of 91, which decided the fate of the late
Ministry.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY was surprised at the
taste exhibited by the Noble Marquis (Normanby), who came
to their Lordships night after night to be beaten again and
again. He (the Marquis of Londonderry) held in his hand a
list of the appointments in Sunderland, which completely made
out the case brought forward by his Noble and Learned Friend
on the woolsack. By his recurring to the subject after such
repeated defeats, he thought the Noble Marquis must have
been pressed into the service by his Whig and Radical friends.
He contended that the same partiality in the selection of Ma-
gistrates had prevailed in the county of Durham as well as the
boroughs.
The Marquis of XORMANBY said as far as he could
follow the very rambling statement of the Noble Lord, all his
suppositions were entirely and totally unfounded. As to the mo-
tives that had been alleged for his bringing the subject for-
ward, he could not allow the Noble Lord nor any one else to
insinuate that he was actuated by any other motive than that
of honestly doing his duty.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY had not intended to
impute any motives to the Noble Lord. He thought the casti-
gation he had received this evening would deter him from
bringing the subject forward again.
The Earl of R ADNOR said, he must express his unfeigned
disgust at what had taken place with respect to the late ap•
pointments to the Magistracy. If what been said by the Noble
and Learned Lord were true, that their appointments had
been made a means of influencing the electors, he had better
give his proofs to some Member of the other House, and obtain
articles of impeachment against his Noble Friend, and Lord
J. Russell. He was surprised at the line taken by the Noble
and Learned Lord ; he had not shown that any one of these
Magistrates had misconducted himself, but had gone entirely
on the ground that there ought to be a change of politics.
What ? were those Magistrates to be arraigned as partisans?—
( Hear,.hear. ) Had they in any way;misconducted themselves?
—( Hear.) They had not.—( Hear.) On the contrary, it
appeared that they were fit for their situation. Why then
were they to be accused of being partisans ? Yet, what he
particularly complained of was the kind of defence which the
Noble and Learned Lord Chancellor resorted to.—( Hear,
hear.) It was the last which the Noble Lord in his situation
ought to tolerate.—( Hear, hear.) It was a defence which
the Noble and Learned Lord ought to abjure.—(Cheers.) He
(Lord Radnor) could not refrain from saying one word for
the people of England, and he protested against the principle
that the persons who were to administer justice should be
chosen, not according to their fitness, but according to their
politics.—( Hear, hear.)
The Earl of WARWICK bore testimony to the truth of
the charge against the late Government, that they were influ-
enced by party feeling in their appointments to the Magistracy.
The effect in the city of Warwick was, that no one who was
not of the Government faction could obtain a license for a
public house. In Birmingham and Coventry the appointments
were made with a similar bias; and at the time of the riots in
Birmingham, there were but four Conservative Magistrates,
and on them devolved the whole duty of preserving the town.
What was the state of the town of Warwick when the present
Administration came into office ? There were forty Magis-
trates, and out of that number there had been but one Con-
servative. Had they not been appointed for their political
opinions in this case ?
The Marquis of NORMANIW said the Noble Earl was
Lord Lieutenant of the county, and if he had seen any impro-
per appointment, he might have complained. He (the Mar-
quis of Normanby) wished to say one word in reply to what
had been said by the Noble and Learned Lord on the Wool-
sack. He had said that he (the Marquis of Normanby) had
appointed parties for their political bias. These appointments
had alway s been made upon the recommendation of the town-
councils.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said it was not his intention
to detain their Lordships, but in consequence of what had
fallen from the Noble Earl, he would just call their Lordships'
attention to what his Noble and Learned Friend had stated
on the subject a few evenings ago. The Noble and Learned
Lord had stated that having found on examination of the list
of Magistrates, that they were composed of a majority of persons
of one political party, he had felt it to be his duty to remedy
the evil, and the inconvenience which it certainly was; for how-
ever fit. the parties might be for the performance of the duties of
the office, still it was bad to have a majority on one side
or the other, for when the parties were placed nearly equal in
respect of party, justice was more Lkely to be done.
Under these circumstances, he did not think that his Noble
Friend had made himself liable to the attack which had been
made upon him.—(Hear, hear.) He was sure that he did not
deserve the charge made against him.—( Hear, hear.) The
Noble Marquis commenced by stating, that his Noble and
Learned Friend had not exactly acted up to the principles
which he had laid down. He (the Duke of Wellington) was
riot sufficiently acquainted with the case to say how that parti-
cular matter stood ; but this he did say, that his Noble and
Learned Friend was not liable to the charge of having esta-
blished Magistrates on party principles; on the contrary, he
had endeavoured to establish the principle in that House, that
Magistrates should be appointed solely according to their fitness
for the duties.—( Hear, hear.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that on the former oc-
casion he quoted the opinion of a Noble Baron, now no inure,
and also of a' Noble Lord who lately held the office
which he (the Lord Chancellor) now held. But
as the Noble Earl was nut present upon that occasion, ho
should read them again. Lard Holland said, " that the real
responsibility of appointing Magistrates rested wholly with the
Lord Chancellor, and it was the duty of that high functionary
to appoint such persons only as were fit for the office; in
common with the great mass of the country, the Noble Lord
thought that, if men of one political colour were admitted to
these others, though justice might not be corrupted, the adminis-
tration of it would be subjtet to doubt and suspicion."—
( Hear. ) Lord Cot.tenham's opinion tvaa equally distinct. Ms
Lordship said, " that it was his opinion that there should be
an admixture of pei sons of both parties in the Magistracy; ."
Lord W YNFORD said that, on the general question, he
thought that, as far as the appointments to the Magistracy
generally were c ncerned, polities had nothing whatever to do
with them.—( Hear,
'1 he Earl of RADNOR explained. Was the Noble and
Learned Lord called upon to create all those new Magistrates?
The LORD CHANCELLOR—In almost every instance.
The Earl of RADNOR-13y whom? But he must say he
retaised the disgust he felt at the explanation given by the
Noble and Learned Lord on a former discussion of this ques-
tion. If the conduct of the existing Magistrates had been
complained of by the inhabitants of their respective districts,
there might be some excuse for the late infusion, but it wasdis-
creditable to give cause to have it said that this had been done
from political motives.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE assured the Noble Earl that the
inhabitants of many districts had complained of the conduct of
the Magistrates with whom the late Government filled the
Bench. The complaints did Ant come from town-councils, but
from respectable inhabitants, who complained that justice was
not fairly administered ; and when these statements were made
to the Secretary of State, it was the duty of the Government
so to reform the Bench by an infusion of new members, as to
remove this ground of complaint.—(Hear, hear.) He had
made the remarks lie did for the express purpose of warning his
political opponents of the conseeuences of such conduct as
they were pursuing. If any inconvenience had arisen, he must
say it proceeded from the conduct of the late Government.
The Earl of WARWICK explained, and the conversation
dropped.

lidp thinking that that gentle.nan was quite rq,ht.—(Lotxt
laughter.) He thought he had shown that the protection .wo
not beneficial to the apple growers, but, on the contrary, tilat
it injured them.
After a few words from the Earls of WINCHILSEA sad
RADNOR, the petition wit; laid upon the table.
ELECTION COMMITTEES.
Lord BROUGHAM said that he should put off the moti°l
of which he had given notice, on the subject of Election Coo'
mittees, till Monday next, when he certainly should bring
forward. At the same time he must say that he had lo4sf
in vain, in the Votes of the other House for a compliance wit°
the most important part of a most important Act—the Bribe"'
Act. There had been several cases of bribery reported.
which the sitting Members had been unseated, but y, t he could
find in the Votes no compliance with this ye. y important;Pa6,
of that Act : " And also that the Committee shall rept,'
whether or not it shall have been proved that such bribery was
committed with the knowledge and consent of the sitting
Members, or candidates." The Committees might have so rr
ported, but he saw nothing of it in the Votes. The provisions
of the Bill seemed to have been overlooked in other respects;
i. enacted that Election Committees should receive evideaci
touching the alleged matters of bribery, without its being need"
sary that previous bribing agency should have been proved;
and that Committees in their Reports should separately repot
on the fact or facts of bribery, and also whether or not it shall
have been proved that such briberies were committed with till
knowledge and consent of any sitting Member or candidata
Now he found• no traces of compliance with this provision;
but he would go into details on Monday.
Their Lordships then Adjourned.