The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-27 00:00:00

THE MODEL PRISON.

Sir 3. GRAHAM said he would not detain the House but
for a very short time in asking leave for bringing in a Bill very
similar to that brought iu by the Noble Lord opposite, for
putting into use the model prison at Pentonville. The reguli-
dons would be in most respects the same as at the Penitentiary,
tud the cost of the building would be about 90,0001.
Leave was then given to being in the Bill, which will be
•ead a first time to-morrow.

PARISH CONSTABLES BILL.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM moved for leave to bring in a 13.11',
for regulating the appointment and payment of parish con-
stables. He proposed by the Bill to make it incumbent em tht'
Magistrates balding Petty Sessions in any township to hold an
annual Session for the appointment of constables for suet.
owuship. Ile further proposed to give to the rate-payers, in
.-ostry assembled, a permissive power to pay the constables so
aprioted ; and he further proposed that the constables so ap•
pointed should be placed under the control of the superintendent
of rural police appointed by the Court of Quarter sessions. He
would not enter into any further details, but would content
himself with moving for leave to bring in the Bill.
Leave was then given to bring in a Bill, which was brought
in accordingly, and read a first time.
COPYRIGHT BILL.

On the Order of the Day for the third reading of the Copy-
right Bill being read,
Mr. HUME protested against the Bill as one calculated to
interfere materially with the diffusion of knowledge. Such pub-
lications as chambers' Edinburgh Journal would be anni-
hilated by this measure. After the manner in which the sense
the House had been expressed on the subject, he would not
do more than protest against the measure.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.

SOAP DUTIES.
The Report on the Soap Duties Bill was brought up.
EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL.
Sir G. CLERK brought in the Exchequer Bills Bill, which
was read a first time.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
Rothe adjourned at a Quarter past Twelve o'Clock.

At an entertainment on beard the steam-ship Chili,
belonging to the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, Senor
Rocafuesti, Governor of Guayaquil, after a long and eloquent
livech, proposed the toast of the Directors of the Company in
London, and Mr. William Wheel Nright, their worthy managing
Director out there.

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PROVIDENTIAL EscArE.—.A. porter named Rolfe,
in the employ of the Great Western Railway Company, had
a most narrow escape from death upon the arrival of the
first up-train at the terminus on the morning of Saturday
last. The porter, just as the engine had entered the shod.
the train still proceeding onwards, was running along
the side of the platform, upon which was a ladder standing
against one of the pillars. This he run against, unperceived, and
tell down with the ladder, close to the edge of the platform, and
within a fow inches of the train ; and had it not been for rune
of the men fortunately catching hold of him just as he was roll-
ing over the side, beneath the wheels of the carriages, and
dragging him back, the man's life must inevitably have been
sacrificed.