The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-01 00:00:00

for 3501. a year. These pensions ought not to have
been granted."
The Advertise• says of Sir Robert Peel, `• It might
be going too far, perhaps, to say, that there is no
parallel to be found to the shabby conduct of Sir Robert
Peel, as exemplified in the course of the debate, not-
withstanding his ostentatious parade of ingenuous deal-
ing, as it drew towards a close. But we run no risk
of exceeding the truth, when we say, that the shabbiest
conduct of the shabbiest Minister that ever sat upon the
Treasury bench, never surpassed the shabby conduct-of
the Conservative Premier, in laying the basis for his ar-
guments in favour of a continuance of the food tax."
The Post remarks, in reference to some late articles in
the Times :—" The Times made a fierce and most unjust
attack, the other day, upon Sir James Graham, and a
similar attack on Saturday upon Lord Wharncliffe. It
is necessary, no doubt, that a vigilant superintendence
should be exercised over the conduct of the new Poor-
law authorities, inasmuch as the latter are entrusted
with very extemive and extraordinary powers, by any
abuse of which great misery may be occasioned to a
numerous and most helpless class of our fellow-creatures.
But it is not necessary that everybody should be vilified
who is not ready to take for granted that every accusa-
-1 tion made, no matter by whom, or in what circum-
stances, against the Poor-law Commissioners, or any
board of guardians, must be well founded. It is not ne-
cessary that everybody should be vilified who is not pre-
pared to abandon, at the mandate of the Times, an expe-
riment in domestic economy deliberately resorted to, and
still deliberately approved by a decided majority of both
Houses of Parliament."
The Times says that the result of the late Corn-law
debates has been the utter overthrow of the Anti-Corn-
League, s,nd adds :—" One result of these discussions
all good citizens will contemplate with unmixed satisfac-
tion—we mean the signal and utter rout of the Jacobin
Anti-Corn-law League. Not only were they unable to
muster more than 91 upon a division—not only were they
beaten by a majority of 303—but they received a still
more deadly blow by the speech in which Mr. Ferrand
(for the second time) gave utterance to the estimation
in which they are held by the working classes of their
own districts, and held up them and their practices to
the contempt of the population of the whole United
Kingdom. The agitators trembled while they heard his
unanswerable facts, one after another, fearlessly and
ably stated, amid the indignant cheers of the House of
Commons."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
At Stratford, in Essex, upwards of 1,000 persons are
employed in stay-making. After labouring twelve
hours per day their earnings do not amount to 21d. each.
At Bolton, the cotton trade is still severely depressed.
At Halifax and Huddersfield the market is dull and dis-
couraging. At Leeds the cloth sale is very limited, and
Leicester gives unfavourable prospect of a spring trade.
At Manchester the masters will be compelled to close
their mills or reduce wages.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
The statue of Sir John Cass, formerly Mayor of
London, and founder of the charity schools which go by
his name, was removed on Friday from the niche in
Aldgate churchyard, previous to throwing open the
corner of Hounsditch and Al. gate. A suitable site will
be selected for its re-erection
NAVAL AND MILITARY.
The increase of the army in India, by which the na-
tive regiments intended for service there, are to have
their establishments raised at once to twelve companies
instead of ten, has been begun. There are to be one
hundred rank and file in each company.
"'• LAW AND POLICE.
A man of the name of Leary, who, in the summer of
the year 1833, murdered the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, near
Bandon, in the county of Cork, escaped, along with
his gang, till a few days ago, when a soldier of the 69th
Regiment, named Burgon, stationed at Fermanagh, was
joking with him, and said, " Leary, I saw you at the
Blackpool, and, if I am not mistaken, you are the man
who murdered the Rev. Mr. Hamilton." Conscience-
smitten, although Burgon was only in jest, Leary sent
for his commanding officer, Col. Motiens, and confessed
the whole crime, with many others. He is now in gaol.
SPORTING.
Yesterday hare hunting ended.
At the meeting of the Queen's stag hounds on Wed-
nesday, near the village of Esher, the Scotch deer,
Robin Hood, was uncarted, and on running to Hamp-
ton-court, as it attempted to leap the high iron-railing
from the Park into the Gardens, fell on the spikes, five
of which entered its body. It was afterwards killed.
COURT--PASIZIONAELE.
Plas-Newydd, the charming seat in the Isle of An-
glesey, has been let by the Marquis cf Anglesey for a
lengthened term to Mr. T. A. Smith.
The Earl of Devon has gone dov• n to Powderham
Castle, and remains there till Easter.
Viscountess Powerscourt was safely delivered of a son
on Friday morning, at Powerscourt House, Wicklow.
Lord Beresford is now on a visit to Boulogne.
The marriage of the Earl of Morley and Mrs. Coryton,
sister of Mr. M. E. Parker, late M.P. for South Devon,
is to be solemnized to-day.
The Duke of Montebello, the French Ambassador
at the Court of Naples, gave a grand ball there on the
4th inst. The King and Queen of Naples were present.
• MISCELLANEOUS.
Yesterday, in 1606, Henry Garnet, Superior of the
Jesuits in England. was tried and condemned at Guild-
hall, for his participation in the " Gunpowder plot," be-
fore nine Commissioners specially appointed for that
purpose. Garnet was hanged on the 3d of May, in the
same year, on a -scaffold at the west-end of St. Paul's.
At a meeting of the Proprietors held yesterday, at the Crown
and Anchor, the Directors, in their Report, recommended the
continuance of the present toll of one halfpenny, on which
an amendment was proposed by Mr. Sangster, that they should
resume the old penny toll, on and after the 15th of March next.
The original resolution was carried by a large majority. It
appeared from the report, that the total receipts for 1840 were
10,1321. 10s., and in 1841, 9,4421. 6s. 10d. In the course of
last month, however, the increase was 161. 15. 7d., over that
of the same month last year.