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IE ME AMERICAN AGRARIAN REFORMERS . THE THE ASn-BESTERS—AGRARIAN VIEWS OF THE MEXICAN WAR . We haWe Have already announced the liberation of the ipriso * prisoned Anti-Renters . On this Agrarian victory 5 find } find the following editorial c mmentsin Young ntriemcriea : — The ; The Anti-R « nters are liberated ! and the war-cry hicfa Kiich baa hsda place at the head of this paper since eirinieir incarceration gives place to the watchword , next i ordei order . . It is It is time bow that the public mmd shoald he dismsedtased respect ** the « A-U-Bent victim . W their luse . iuse . For many years the Anti . Renters have vainly ideandeavoured to obtain legislative redress for grievances ¦ at thiat the principle * ofthe revolution entitled them to re .
lef froef from as soon a * the National Indipendence was » taine . tained ; and yet , although two or three generations of 3 bem hjem have gone to the grave as dependent tenants in . ! U » d <• . » WOTe to ° much enSaS « d with their own grieviiicea i ices tote able to investigate the subject of the feudal Itenunenures ° f the Anti-Renters , until it was forced upon Ithehtheir attention by resistance ofthe law , the death of an ( 0 « r . oT «" . otticious public officer , a threatened insurrection . land and the costly pre parados * to meet it .
S . Sow , shall we profit by these events , or are they to be lthrotbro « n away upon ns ? There is certainl y reason for Ihopthope . The country that hunted Anti-Renters like wild Ibessbeasts ba « elected Anti-Rsntws as legislators . Anti-Ren Renters condemned to imprisonment for life , and others coa < condemned to be hanged , are now at liberty , and will sooi soon riceive high honours from the people . 1 The following is a list ofthe names of tbe liberated An An ti-Renters : — let lersk PtesVaw Daniel Xoithrop Dai Daniel W Squires John Latirnn Jot John Phcenix "W Brisbane Cil CiMn Madison W Jocelitt Isj Istac S Barhang C T McComber Jo ! John Borch John B Coons ff if Reside Thomas if organ The foregoing are not only pardoned but restond to * li ilieriehts of citizenship .
The foUowingnamed persons bave been pardone * , out lot restored to citisenship : — ? nmh A Houghton John Van Steenburgh Sdward O'Connor Hoses Eaile The editor of Yo ** g America concludes his remarks by raising tbe cry , — Restoration to Citizenship of the Anti-Renters ' Boo ^ hton , Earl , Van Steenburgh , and OXJonnor . The noble stand taken by the American Agrarians surainst the unjust and wicked war of which Mexico is the victim , entitles them to the thanks of tbe wen of all nation ? , who bold fast by tbe great
principle , tbat " wfeat is morally wrong cannot be politically right . " The following extracts are from Young America : — Stasoisc Amies . —It used to be the democratic doctrine that as ' . anding army was the bane of Republic *; but tills war of conquest is to increax our standing arsay iastead of abolishing it . The President already wants ten addiri .-nil regiments , and Congress , with extraordinary munificence , have offered tcelee dollars a . piece-tor ; ari ; lsnders , to be < mp ! oyed" to conquer a peace ! " By and bye , when the cripples , and men with broken down jonstitutiacs and bioiitnup nierals , return among -js , 1 t ' nsk ths matter will be better understood .
W 1 CKEEKESS OF SEE WAK . If it be demscraey , to invade and conquer a reighkraring republic , and maintain the conquest by a standing army , I be : ; leave to wash my hands of it at quickly ss possible ; but . as I understand it , it is not democracy , ir anything like it . If every tcan has a right to a home en the earth , as we believe , we have no right to invade tie homes of other * . If we could not trade with them ye shoald have kept away from them . It they were in car debt , how much bitter it would have been for gottrnment to have assumed the debt , and prohibited all intercourse with them till they had paid ns . Can
anything be imagined more wickedly and stupidly absurd mu to take advantage of the necessities of tbs poor ^ tklscders congregated among us from other countries , 5 well as our own , to send them to kill or be killed in Mexico because some of their ciiizsus had wronged some « ' vox cwu T ; b . o choose to . go among them for trading pwilations ? If . Mexican men , women , and children came death because they belong to a nation sac ; of it members of which h ; , re taken oar property , what do firv deserve Who virtually rob our landless eitiirns cf their right to the soil by refusing to co-operate-to reflore it ¦ :
what congress ssoma have nose . If isstead of voting- this Uexican «* ar , Congress bad Tj ;« d the public lands free . Mtcieo must inevitably have f , Howed-suit , for it would be impossible long toinonop lliie land and keep la . cklar . 4 srE , to a state adjoining one ii which there was free land . Thus would the whole c , sliced have become really free without bloodshed . EElVrs TO TE 2 SLZXGHTEB . A tew days since our attention was drawn to a comfiny cf volunteers paraded at » he battery , f . r the $ ur » P ' . se of being incarcerated on-Governor ' s Island , cniil tley should be transported to the slaughter grounds in : ie interior of Mexico . We made an ante-mortem oamiuatioa upon this forelora body of landless wretches , a :: d give the facts as they were elicited . They were :. ' . tml «« only » n name , having , es themselves averred , hiudri & en -to enlist by being oat ot employ , and necessitated by hopeless destitution arid gnawing starvation .
Jlany of these wen mechanics , and others , with no avontionc , except that of compulsive idleness . They had ken enrolled ia tlie rnanufactcrkg tonne , Pittjburfi ai d Pittsfield , Pennsylvania . Tbey looked woe-begone , 6 jeeted , and unhappy ; presenting any other appeav-£ i , ce thanihat of bein ; tbe bulwarks of a Republican notion ' s liberty . It occurred to es -that if President P-ifc could have been an eye-witness to this scene of har-K * io ; -wr ett & tdness , if he co ^ ld have looaed npon these bia ^ troktiiEitn , compelled by starvation and want to alienate themselves from poverty-stricken homes and fcrlora and neglected families , to be cruelly butchered Mi the battle fields of Mexico , or die from fevers and ex-I' sure among damp marshes and wild teas , for its glory , bi could not but have repented in gall asd bitterness the huL & us and wicked war policy which is sowing broad-: a ; t over the land , murder , wretchedness , famine , and ii . immense national debt .
THE DCTr OF SATIOS & L KEf 0 SXE £ S Ssems plain . Kothing can be imagined more absurdly sr ; ust , than that men deprived of their right to the soil * i' » ald be required to risk their lives , or pay their money , " » carry on this war . If it must go on , it properly bt ouis to the land-lords , and those who hare obtained * talth through land monopoly , to do the fighting and to faniib the means . Instead of which , tbe President proposes to tar tea and coffee , so that Astor with his thirty Bullions maj pay rjo more than the poor seamstress earn-* " &** tntj . fivea day of sixteen honrs , and to get an additional half million from tbe people ' * lands by cheapena ? them to the " grasping speculators ¦ " while Congress I'ri . p , ses to the landless men to leave their destitute faaiiies in rented houses , saVmit themselves to the arbitrary rale of well paid oScers for ten dollars a month , and a bounty of their own land if they happen to eir . Hre tbe bloodthir sty contest ! It will never do ! The War must hi stopped .
As tt is the policy of Monarchies to fight with Lack-Ian 3 ers , so should it be tbe policy ol republics to fight * ith Freeholders . One freeholder wonia be a match for tW } or three laekhuders , because he has a " stake in tbe hedge , " something to fall back upon . It would be the aim (< ffreeholders to terminate a war ae soon as possible , but Ucklanders , having no home , care little about terminating a war that they onee engage in . In republics all 'iiild be freehol 4 ers ; and the way to bring this about is ' jr lacklanders to leave all righting to the landlords . *»»'« tiiose who profit by landfordry pay the expense , -indlordrj- is anaiien , who , instead of being naturalised » this republic , shoald be expelled , with as little cereffiaay as possifcu
The monarchists of Europe hare looked upon oar war * ll ! > asi"errepnb ] ie with the greatest delight ; and it a the darling policy of the British Toriei , and their tundmongering allies in this conntry , of whom tbe y * TUran & Euaiiirer it the chief organ , to burden this republic with a national dtbtand a standing army , the ttmt efleetcaVmeans they could devise to destroy its aZ ^ L rb ' salne iB becoming plain to the people , t ; f , tTV ^ \\ " > * topftU fflost "" Mtneal war without further bloodshed . The Tories must be defeated ! ioe Republic mast be saved ! Toung America must become a model for a Yonnr World »
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i , jurors . —A gentleman in India writes thus -. — 1 wish I c mid send you some of our potatoes so oeaatifnl and white . I am sore the reason the pota-™ Hin England have become so bad ia from over estivation . All those fine manures have altered and octroyed the natural structure ofthe root , and if araers would let the ground alone , the potato may nufl " j i entifal and good . Some time hence they W nod that not only wheat bat other grain may bonne like the potatoes . " \ hJ ? HX a p «^ ssiA .-It is a lucky thing that » oc ^ was not a Prussian , otherwisehis " Song of the an- , ? tnaTe co * thim dear . A Dr Von Meyer , m ,-S- ' e been accused of what are called com" ¦ "Stic tendencies at Berlin for onlv readinff a
} JeS ° r ? - cal , ed ' The Weaver ' s Song , " by * S He , ° « tho Utera , 7 exile at Paris . One Mid iS , f xamined . to incriminate the doctor , is be , ^ n ^ e a e 1 ^ that he informed against him S na ^ d him . Dr Meyer was , nevertheless , j te ~ l to , wng imprisonment , and although he ^ f oealed against the . sentence he ia to remain feJJp meat nntii the decigjon oa the appeal is
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MOVEMENTS OP THE WEEK . The arrangement entered inlo betweea the Bank of France and the Russian Autocrat , by which the Russian Government has purchased French Govern , ment stock to the extent of 50 , 000 , 000 f . ( £ 2 , 000 , 000 sterling ) has been the princi pal topic of discussion in the French journals . The organs of the moneyjugglers generall y approve of an arrangement by which the Bank is relieved of its pressing
embarrassments . The "National" regards the transaction with indignation , as placing in the hands of the Tsar the means of operating at the Bourse gainst French interests . This is , without doubt , a prelude to that closer connexion of tbe Russian despotism with the present villanous French " system , " which Louis-Philippe has so long desired . The tyrant and the traitor are about to combine to keep down democracy , but democracy will be too strong for them .
Of the right-royal immoralities just now at fracting the " eyes of Europe" to Madrid , " we have spoken elsewhere . According to the latest accounts from Portugal , Saldanhahad " made no sign " of reducing the " rebellious" Junta to obedience . In Italy , tbe Pope is progressing in his good course ; one of bis latest acts has been the tak ng to task of the Roman aristocrats : — " If you will not cultivate your lands , " said Pius , " I will take them and cultivate them for you . I will not endure any longer the spectacle of a rich but uncultivated soil , and a starving peasantry . '' This is an example which the British Government would do well to imitate in Ireland .
The Turkish Sultan has replied to King Otho ' s letter to tbe effect , that the adjustment of tbe differences between the two governments sbould be left to the two cabinets . The Ottoman Ministers still demand " satisfaction . " The Sultan is marching with the age , and daily giving proofs of a sincere desire to promote the enli g htenment and happine' s of those over whom he rules .
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INDIA . The Overland Mail has arrived , but brings but little intelligence of any importance . With the exception of marauding in Scinde , and some hostile operations in the Gransoor territory , tranquillity reigns supreme in every part of the land . Affairs in the Punjaub are progressing favourably . Rajih Lall Singh has been taken to Agra , and placed with his family in the fort , where thecefebrated gates of Somnauth are stHl in'' durance vile . " De is said to look happy and jovial enough , and doubtless , were it not for the loss of wealth and power , be would be clad rather than sorry to escape from tbe silken chains of bondage imposed on him by bis imperious mistress . . Nor has the Kanee ' s prief been long-lived . She is represented by those who have seen her to be a pretty little creature , with black eyes—" fair , lively , and intelligent . " She will probably soon supply the Joss of her cavalior'Scrvente .
A revolution is reported to have taken place amongst tbe Birmans . The son and successor of the late Tharawaddie . is said to have been murdered .
FRANCE . Tub ScABCirr . —Baron James de Rothschild has expressed the intention of deveting a cum of five miRion francs to the bnying of grain and flour for the supplying of Paris . The grain and flour will be bought in tbe foreign cntrepctt of Europe and America , and-sold in the Paris market at the current price of tfee day . Should the operation be attended with loss , it will be tupported by the Rothschild firm . If , -on the contrary , there be a profit , it will be converted into loits de pain , to be distributed to tbe poor of the capital . Several of tbe journals
mention tbe report of serious disturbances having broken eat in the neighbourhood of Orleans owing to the rising prices of food . In the department of the Loire , outrages of the most alarming character . Plunder has been perpetrated in the presence cf the troops sent for the protection of property . In one instance 100 soldiers have been disregarded . In another , fifty infantry and tweaty-tive hussars « ere defied \ k the populace , pressed upon and hemmed in so completely as to be incapable of moving , while boat-loads of grain were carried off by the thousands of peasantry assembled .
The Gbjuhjeh of Deputies resumed , on Tuesday , the discission on tbe proposition of M . Duver ^ ier de HaurauEe relative to electoral reform .
SPAIN . A curious state of things ezUt at Madrid . The queen wishes to change her ministry , but none of them will resign , and > he cannot get any to coanterbign ber dismissal of tbem . The ministry distrusting General Ferrano , and wishing to get rid of him , had appointedbiui Captain-general of Navarre . This office he declined accepting . He was then desired to go and inspect tie troops in tbe Basque Provinces . Ue was ordered to start forthwitb , and told tbat his instructions should be delivered to him at Pampeluna . A regater passport accompanied the order . The general replied by a respectful memorial to her Majesty , declaring that his station as a senator did rot permit his-qui tt ing bis parliamentary post , unless real peril threatened . On this the ministry demanded permission of tbe-senate to prosecute Serrano , which permission was granted . According to the latest accounts Serrano was still in hiding . The cause of
this curious affair is thus explained : —The queen , for whom foreign Powers have been at such pains to select a husband , has already , following the example of other ladies of her family , allowed her affections and favours to stray from their legitimate claimant . She has , to use a favourite Spanish-expression , proiiwneed herself in farour of General Serrano , a young man towards whom we have ourselves observed in public such behaviour on her part as would .-istonish tbe demure ladies of England . Her ish has been for some time to get rid of tbe present ministry , and to form another , with General Serrano at the head ef it . This plan , however , she has not been allowed to carry through . The king objects to the irregularities of his wife , and has , jointly with the ministers , used his endeavours to remove General Serrano from Madrid , . by offering him the Viceroyalty of Navarre . Serrano refuse that honour , ace is doubtless sepported by the queen .
PORTUGAL . The Civil War .-On theflth instant the Duke of Saidanha , who has collected the materials for a bridge , made a demonstration of an attempt to cross the Doufo , somewhere near Carvoiero , but a large force having soon shown itself on the opposite side , Jte withdrew again , after the popular army had fired a few cannon shots at his men . The " converted " Miguelite General Guedes surprised a detachment oi the Queen ' s troops at Pezo de Regoa , on the Douro , killing twenty and capturing fifteen soldiers , a colonel , and five other officers , and eleven horse ? , besides
a considerable number ot muskets , left on the field by the fugitives . Another quondam Miguelite , Bernardino , captured a Miguelite guerilla ( for there are yet a few sueb ) of eight men , and sent them off prisoners to Oporto , thus giving a proof of the sincerity oi his conversion to the new political creed he has adopted . At Oporto tbe greatest confidence is felt in the success of the popular cause , provided that England will be neutral herself , and oblige Spain to be bo likewise . That " tough man-of-war " ( a 7 i by the way ) , old Povoas , has set out again for the province of Beira , th < s scene of his recent surprising achievements .
GERMANY . Viesxa , March 10 th . —The winter appears not at all disposed to leave ua . Last night a great quantity of snow fell ; it is several feet deep , ai , d the told is s : ill very severe . In consequence of this continued unfavourable weather , together with the high priefs of provisions , the public health , especially ofthe lower classes , has suffered very materially . The hospitals are all so full that there is no room for receiving any more patients . March 13 . —The proceedings against the officer an d ctdets implicated in the conspiracy of 1839
most of whom belong to Count Mauakelh s regimen of infantry , as well as to some other regiments , are now concluded , and sentence has been passed—in most instances , the sentence is confinement for five years in the fortress of Munkatz , in Upper Hungary . Ejucbajioh . —Almost every day , the "Suabian Mercury" brings accounts of the increase of emigration . It is a sign of the times in Germany that a new 'word—Europamude , tired of Europe—has come into fashion to express tbe discontent of the people . Prom the 1 st to tbe 17 tb of March , 26 vesselssailed from Bremen for 2 \ ew Yoik , carrying out 3 , 804 emi grants .
SWITZERLAND . Scakcitv . —Aecounts from Berne of the 15 th inst . state that misery prevails to a frightful extent in that canton , usually regarded as one of the most opulent in Switzerland . One of the journals estimated tbe number of persons subsisting on public charity at no less than a hundred and some thousands , which is equal to one quarter of the population of the canton . In seme of tbe district * , especially in the Bernese Oberland , provisions are so scarce , and of so bad a quality , tbat some epidemic disease is feared in tho spring . Bankruptcies occur daily , and sales by auction increase on a similar scale . It was remarked that during the whole year of 1807 thera were fewer bankruptcies than are indicated in one ofthe last numbers of " Official announcements" of the canton . The budget of the to * nof Berne for the present year shows a deficit of l 27 , o 7 < jf ., or about one-tenth ofthe cantonal deficit . Tlie scarcity of
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focd increases . Domiciliary visits have been made by order of the authorities in the establishments of certain individuals accused oi hoarding up stores of grain batthevled to no other result than to prove S ?!^ Sfw £ In the midst of all thfe misery , party spirit is as violent asi ever .
ITALY . Rom « , March 9 .-The sovereign Pontiff has appointed a commission to draw up the statutes for an order of chivalry . The order is to be the reward of merit and good actions , without regard to the faith and the country of the individual . It is to be divided into two classes . The first will confer hereditary rank the second nobility for the life-time of the member . Tho order is a starwith themotto— " Virtuti et merito . " Owing to the high price of provisions , and rot to deprive a number of persons of the means of earning their bread , the Pope has authorised the theatres to remain open during Lent this is the first example of such a measure .
The "Aix-la-Chapelle Gazette" states from Rome , tbat a conspiracy against the liberal pohcj' ot the Pope had been discovered at Ancona , and that several monks were at the head of it . Some arrests have , it is said , taken place . . Cardinal Grasst lini , governor of Rome , has introduced the most liberal reforms in the department of the police , and decreed the walling « P of & n the under-ground cells in the prison of the Palazzo Madama . Six unfortunate men . confined in them at the time of the cardinal ' s visit , were set at liberty . TcscAirr . —A letterfrom Leghorn of the 13 shsays : " Arrests continue to be made in Tuscany . Amongst the prisoners are MM . Barbanera and Georgini , and M . Grossi , a physician . " Austrian Tvraknt . —Mr . Mazzini has published the following letter * . —
Giovanni Sforandini , a young engineer from Sienna , ( Tuscany , ) after having journeyed through France and England , re-eutercd Italy from Vienna , in the mouth of SeptembiT , 184 C . Having never takrn any part in the political agitation of the country , he was suffered to travel unmolested throughout Austria ; but once arrived in Venice , he went to pay a visit to the mother of the Bandieras , who was so moved at the mark of sympathy she was receiving ; by a stranger to her , that she fainted during tbe conversation . Some persons were present , and the incident pra < luceda certain sensation at Venice . In consequence of this Horandini was arrested , and taken to Milan , where he is still imprisoned , without any trial . Jforandini is the nephew of the Bishop of Massa Marit . tima . Giulio Bargnani , ot Brescia , Cattaneo , and one Mettelli , employe in the Royal Civil Tribunal , are likewise , during fire months , in prison at Milan , for no other crime than having received a work of l'Abbe Gioberti . — Joseph Mazzini . 19 , Cropley-street , New North-road , March 23 , 1847 .
POLAND . The Cologne Gazette announces that the Grand-Duke Michael of Russia ia to be nominated Viceroy of Poland , with the same power and attributes as were exercised by the Grand-Duke Constantino up to 1830 .
THE WAR IN THE CAUCASUS . Coxsiasiinoflb . Feb . 27 . —It has been lately stated in the Journal de Frankfort , that a Russian fort in Abasia , by name Soabchi . had been attacked hy the Circassians , who had been decidedly repulsed by the Russian garrison . This account is so far true ; but the most important feature of the affair is left out of it . The attack on the fort was made by eight thousand men from seven independent Circaisian tribes , who have been for the last : five years in truce with Russia , and consequently have taken no part in the campaigns of Sharail . Wororuoff , by endeavourisg to convert ' this truce into peace and alliance , has provoked thfe outbreak into open war . He had bren for some time carrying on negotiations with these tribes , and seemed to be making way
towards his object , when the chiefs , drcadiag to be seduced frem their neutrality into overt hostility against their coimtrymen , thought there was no other way of terminating the negotiation than by at once taking up arms apainst the subtle negotiations . The purpose of their attack on tbe fort was therefore , not so much to take it , as iobe relieved from the persecution of negotiations , in which they felt they were overmatched , and to come to the aid of their heroic -countrymen tinder Shamil , whom their orators told ( hem they ought to feel shame and sorrow for having so long left to defend theircountry without their active assistance . The eeven
independent tribes in question inhabit the ceast country of Abasia , which forms a shore of tbe Black Sea . The next fact or report is well attested , yet wants confirmation . It rs -said , and pretty generally believed here , tbat two Armenian officers of Georgia , in the R , assiaservice . General ; Bebuton and another general , who were with the army ia Dagbestan , have deserted with masy followers to Shamil . It is added that the Patriarch of Etchmialzine , tbe spirtual head of the Armenian church , an intimate friend of these generals , is implicated in their desertion ; and tbat he has been carried prisoner to TJflis , where he remains under arrest .
Missions of a Tbibe . —A letter received at Constantinople from Circassia gives an account of a terrible act of vengeance taken by Chamyl on the tribe ofthe Achenes , for an actof treachery on the part of the laiter . The Russians had persuaded the tribe of the Achenes , who had made their submission to them , to send messengers to Chamyl , demanding of him to send them 1 , 200 men to aid them in rising against the Ruesians . Chamyl , not suspecting any thing , sent the 1 , 200 racu required , who were received in the raostho'pitable'Bianner by the Achenes . The insurrection was to take place on the 13 th of January ; but on the night ofthe 13 tb , the Achenes , aided by a regiment of Cossaoks , fell upon the
followers of Chamyland massacred tbe greater number ; some , however , . escaped , and carried the sad tidings to the Circassian chief . After the massacre , the Achenes and the Russians took possession of the village of Cassaban which they fortified . Meantime , great activity prevailed in the Circassian camp , numbering 50 , 000 strong x they swore by Allah not to spare a living soul . On the 27 th January they appeared before Cassaban ; on the following day they stormed the village , and man , woman , and child , Russians and Achenes , were put to the swerd . On the evening of the 28 th , 5 , 000 lives had been destroyed . The few Achenes who contrived toescape , crossed the frontier , and have been distributed amongst the different Russian forts in the Crisaea .
UNITED STATES AND MEXICO . By tbe packet-ship Garrick and Montezuma we have accounts from Sew York to the 4 th and 6 th inst . inclusive , respectively . The accounts are important . Close op me Session . —The sittings of Congress erminated on the 4 th of March . The Three Million Billhad received , previously , the sanction of both branches of the Legislature . The Wileraot proviso was rejected . The following is tbe substance of the bill : — This resolution enables the President to conclude a treaty of peace , limits , and f « undarie 6 , ivitb the republic of Mexico , to be used by him in the event that said treaty , when signed by the authorised agent of thetwo government ? , and duly ratified by Mexico , shall call for tbe expenditure .
The bouse of Representatives had refused to sanction the levy of a duty on tea and coffee . The Irish Relief Bill passed the senate , but was thrown out of the house by a vote of 10 'i to 53 . The Irish relief fund in N > w York amounted to 55 . 000 dollars . One vessel with the supplies of American charity had already been dispatched from New York for Ireland . A second was to follow . Tbe news from the seat of war promises a speedy collision . While the army of'Geneial Scott was preparing to march upon very Cruz , the Mexicans suddenly appeared before Saltillo , and drove in the outposts of General Taylor . General Taylor was , however , exceedingly strong there , having with him 6 , 000 men , who had marched with him from Monterey .
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THE TEN HOURS' BILL . { Ur Oastler has addressed the following letter to the Editor of the Horning Post . ] Sjb , —It was natun , ] that J should read tbe report of tbe speech delivered by Mr Bright on the second reading ofthe Ten Hours'Bill with marked attention . The Honourable Member for Durham , although he refused to meet me in the Free . trade Hall , Manchester , had given me reason to expect that he would prove , in the House of Cotnmoas , tbat factory children , engaged twelve hours per day in actual lilour , may be educated ; aud also , that if the hours of labour should he reduced from twelve to ten , a reduction of one-sixth in wages would be the result . Judge , Sir , of my surprise , when I found that , after all , no reasons , on ttese points , were given by the would-be Member for Manchester .
Tbe perusal of tbat speech convinced me that " a little learning is a dangerous thing . " It was well that Mr Bright told tbe house how very imperfect bis education had been . I heartily wished , tor bis own „ 8 ake , as well as for that of those whom he represents , and for the constituency of Manchester , sbould he ever represent them , that he had remained a few years longer at school . Certain persons require long memories , and , in a legislator , consisteacy is a virtue . In this wonderful speech our hero blows botand coldat one time insinuating the Ten Hours' Bill would notic . jure the millowners ; at another , declaring tbat it would rob them of one-sixth of their production ! He said , " Let it not for a moment be supposed tbat in his opposition to
the Ten Hours' Bill he was actuated by the belief that it would in any degree injure his personal property or prospects . " Having made the above assertion answer his purpose , hy giving its author a disinterested position in the debate , Mr Bright , before he sat down , asked tbe house , " Was it possible tbat a measure which would at once cut oft" one-sixth of all thegreat manufactures of the country could be considered unworth y ef deliberation and discussion , or could be passed without producing confusion and disaster amongst all the producing classes ! " This "disinterested" manufacturer next hinted at some scheme which the masters will adopt to rid themselves of loss , by throwing it upon the operatives ; he says , « It would be necessary for the manufaetureri themselves to tskethe
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proper steps ( by redwing ihe wages ) to prevent the ruin which must inevitably fall upon them if this course of legislation should be persisted in , " Mr Bright also assured the houis tbat "be bensvtd in his heart that the proposition was a most injurious and destructive one "—this from the lips of a man ( a millowner ) who , a few minutes before , bad said he " would not have the house believe that it would * n any degree injure his personal property or prospects !" Again he contradicts himself—saying , « ' If you tafce off two hours in time , jou must take off two bouts in wages "—and then , *• This bill is a protection to raise wages , at the expense of capital , by Act of Parliament !" This honourable member would have the world believe that none can understand the T en Hours' Bill better than he ; still , it is thus he fences with himself .
Mr Bright professes to have great regard for truth , " he cannot conceive of a guilt more dreadful" than that working men should be deceived ; yet , it is clear that he thinks there is no barm in misleading the house . He said , " Tbe object of these parties ( the advocates of the Ten Hours' Bill ) from the beginning was not what it pretended to be , but to interfere by law with the labour of all persons , of whatever age and box , employed in the mnnafactores ofthe country . " Now , nothing is easier of proof than tbe fact tbat , for thirty years the advocates of this measure have consist , ently sought to protect those who were not adults or free agents . Their efforts have been all that time before the public—the records of tbe two Houses of Parliament furnish proof of their consistency . Pity that Mr Bright should use his privilege as member of Parliament to pervtrt truth—to denounce thousands as hypocrites !
The member for Durham was resolved to become "Grand Inquisitor ; " passing from the condemnation of a vast multitude , he singled out one Individual for his most malicious shaft . Mr Bright said , "The things formerly stated by Lord Ashley were now given up , aad his own friends would not credit them . It was acknowlodged-that on no question . had a grea tor number of exaggerated statements been brought forward to justify this unjust interference with factory labour . " Had the unfortunate member been bettir educated , he would have been more courteous—had he been honest he would have met the noble lord at the public meeting in Rochdale or Manchester , and there charged him , in person , with falsehood ! Had he not known that he was " bearing false witness , " he would have given proof of his assertion .
Mr Bright wve the house to understan 1 that he had no objection to meet his neighbours iu public ; he said "he was not afraid of going before that oranyothermanufacturing constituency iu Lancashire , so far as this bill was concerned . Wherever he was known be was sure no one would charge him with any want of sympathy for the class for whom the house was now called upon to legislate . " What could induce him to deny himself tbe pleasure ( teeing that an invitation was given to bis firm ) of confronting the noble Lord Ashley % The true answer is-Mr Bright knew tbat all Lord Ashley ' s statements were true ; he therefore reserved their denial for a place where he was well aware Lord Ashley could not reply . I may also bo excased asking the hon . member why he refused to meet me at a public meeting in Manchester , In Manchester it is commonly reported that he dare not . Mr Bright knows that the friends of the factory children have no need to exaggerate . Language cannot describe what those victims have suffered . Their wrongs are
only known to Cod 1 The man who expressed such deep anxiety lest the operatives should be deceived ought to be very careful not to delude his hearers by false statements . Again , I . charge Mr Bright with stating an untruth . He said"Now , with respect to the -question of wages , the noble marquis ( Marquis of Cranby ) opposite said , 'He believed tho quasti-. n had been put to the working classes , and they were wilting to work a shorter time even with less wages . ' He ( the hon . member for Durham ) denied that assertion . "
The truth ofthe statement made by the noble Marquis of Granny is attested by the votes of great numbers of public meetings . Lord Ashley , Mr Fielden and Mr Crawford have themselves thus tested the operatives . In very many cases I have -distinctly asked them , when thousands have been present , " Whether wages shall fall er -rise , are you for tbe Ten Hours' Bill ?' , The unanimous and reiterated answer has been , " 7 es ; let wages tssUe their chance . ** STow , sir , when one member of Parliament presumes to deny tho assertion of another , be is bound to give some proof . I dare Mr Bright to the proof . Has he ever attended one of those meetings ? Has be received Oils information from those who have been there ? Let • him answer . Thexe is no mistake about the matter with tha factory operatives . They have * een too well schooled in factory ¦ s uffering to be duped < by those who would uphold the oppressive system .
Mr Bright was not 'less trustworthy when he ventured to touch on tho financial part of this great question . "When this precocious schoolboy turned financier , it « as laughable to witness what capers he cut . He calculated the millions of millions of poundsof our annual produce of < 6 r'Kefahrics' ( among which textiles tbe learned gentleman specified £ 1 ; 0 § 0 , 000 worth of hardware , ) and then he positively asserted that the sixth part of tho wh « le will assraredly be lost , if the women and children work only ten hours a day in factories . ! It wasthus that Mr Bright attempted to alarm the Chancellor of the Exchequer— " Taking into consideration ( says the hon . member ) the fact that tke diminution of imports and exports would . c : < osen loss to the revenueef nearly £ 7 , 000 , 009 , he would put it to any man whether it woald be possible to carry on the affairs of the country under such circum . stances V
Such absolute madness cannot impose upon any sano man . Mr Bright knows very well that it io not the custom for factory operatives to be employed , on an average < rfyears , more than ten hours a day . He is well aware that the Ten Hours' Bill will not reduce the annual production—that its operation willbe a beneficial regulation —merely distributing the labour equally over the whole year , and preventing those altercations from excessive toil to no work—alternations that are so destrttutive to the health , comfort , and prosperity of the factory operatives . * * # Mr Bright has not an operative in bis mill who could not inform him that his own production has not been reduecd by the regulations and reductions of time heretofore made by the Legislature , or that could not tell him that , for a series of years , his mill had not regularly run ten hours a day .
The truth is , the Ten Hours'Bill will not reduce the average hours of labour , it will oaly regulate there . Sir Robert Peel cannot be ignorant of this fact . Just now many mills are sot working—many are only working four hours , six hours , or eight hours a day . I am told that Mr Brigbt ' s mill is now closed against his factory operatives . Before any Member of Parliament permits himself to talk of one-sixth loss in production and wages , he is bound , i" justice to himself and the house , to prove that practically twelve hours regular work per day at all our mills has , on an average of years , been the custom . Failing in this proof , his statement is not worth the breath it cost him ,
I cannot omit to notice the self . gratulation with which Mr Bright informed the house , that his workmen had ¦' dared" ( yes , that was the word ) "dared to petition this house . " Granted , this is an improvement ! But , DO thanks to tbe opponents of the Ten Hours' Bill . Had that party ( now represented in the house by Mr Bright ) had their way ; the tyranny of the system would have re . maioed in its pristine state . Thanks to the friends of the Ten Hours' Bill , factory workers dare now petition the House of Commons 1 Tberecords ofthe house contain proofs that , formerly , factory work-. rs have been discharged and proscribed ( the hon . member for Durham knows the meaning of those words ) , for no other crime than obeying the summons ofthe House of Commons ! I allude to those factory operative ? from Scotland who were summoned to appear before Mr Sadler ' s committee , and who , on their return , finding themselves discharged and proscribed , for no other crime than obeying the speaker ' s summons , petitioned the House of Commons for compensation . I
Mr Brigbt ' s illusion to Lowell , is simply dishonest . The factory workers there can never be compared to ours . They ( of Lowell ) are farmers' daughters , working a few months in tbe factories , and then returning home , A wise opponent of the Ten Hours' Bill will never name Lowell ! Mj Slight ' s garbled extracts from my observations about Mr Aekroyd , of Halifax , call for no remarks at present . We shall meet in Manchester—then I will settle all private scores with mg accuser .
I remain , Sir , your obliged servant , London , March 13 . JUchard OiSTLEa . P . S . —I am told that Mr Escott informed the House of Cor / . mons that I had attended meetings to advocate an Eight Hours' Bill . If the hon . member for Winchester did so , he told the house that which was false . Jt . O .
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Pbinters' Watz Goose . —The Era says-. — "The derivation of this term is not generally known to those who annually open their jwrse strings at the customary festival of the gentlemen of the press . It is from an old English word * wayz , ' stubble . A stubbio goose is a known dainty in some places of our own days . A ' wayz-goose' was the head dish at the annu al festival of our forefather of the fraternity of printers . These wayz-geese were formerly kept about Bartholomew tide ; and till the employer had given this feast , the journeymen did not work by candle Sight . " [ The " wayz goose" is now generally held the last Monday in June or first Monday in July . however
It is . , the custom , in many respectable printing establishments , to defer " lighting up" till Bartholomew Fair , —when the days shortening , the workmen has the privilege of working an hour a day less than usual . ) Mas Caodlb at a Conckrt . —Russell was singing the dismal song of " The Gambler ' s Wife , " and having uttered the words Hush ! becomes not yet ; The clock strikes one ! had stru ck the key to imitate the sullen knell of the departed hour , when , a respectably dressed lady ejaculated , to the amuBtment of everybody , " Wbuld ' nt I ha fetched hira home ? " Ten volumes ef Mrs Caudle ' s were concentrated in that little sentence .
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tt «„«„ MONDAY , MAKCH 22 . HOUSE OP LORDS . —Loan Buor / eiuic moved ths second reading of the Bankruptcy and Insolvent Bill , which , after a few wOV ( l 6 frorathe Loro Chancellor anA Lord Ashburton , was agreed to . The Drainage Lands BUI was alto read a second time . The Bill to facllitatt the Sale of Encumbered Estates in Ireland , was read * first time , and their lordships adjourned HOUSE OP COMMONS . — Oovekkment Plan o » BnucATio » . _ Mr C . Beskblev asked whether it was the intention of government to persevere in the syst-mof education founded on the minute of council : and , if go , when the miscellaneous estimates would be brough ' ton « ' Lord J , Russell said that b wag tha intention of tiia government to persevere in the plans which were laid down in that minute . ( Cheers , ) The miscellaneous estimates would be brought forward after Easter , and the education estimate on Monday , the 19 th of April . Pooa Lkw Ajseih > hemt 3 . — In answer to Mr Bonn .
wick , the noble lord stated that it was his intenlfon to bring forward the proposed amendments in the poor law shortly after Easter . Posr . omcE . —Mr MorFATT asked whether any steps bad been tiken to prevent public servants employed in tbe Po « t-office being also employed in a private speculation , called the "Post-ofSee London Directory . " Last session grave charges had been made against certain officers of the Post-office for employing the public servants of the Post office in collecting information for a private publication of their own , and an inquiry was to be instituted . The result of that inquiry h .-id not transpired , but it was understood that tho public servants wete sVUl employed on Mr Kelly's " Directory . *'
The Chancellor of the ExcHEQ ' . mit said Mr Kelly had made a claim forcompansatioii which was valid to a certain extent , and it was necessary to allow hiro to con » tinnethe " Post-office Directory" for a time . Ithadbesn decided that Mr Kelly , who bought this work from his predecessor , and had spent a good deal of money in machinery for the printing of the "Directory , " and was in partnership with his brother for this purpose , should continue to superintend its publication , receiving no compensation , but he was prohibited from emplojlng the servants of the Post-office , and if any one of them accepted employment from him he would do so under the penalty of dismissal .
MrT . DuncoMbe understood from what had been stated that Mr Kelly was no longer to conduct tho " Pos * -o £ 8 ct Directory" at the public expense , and that he was to receive no compensation . He was glad to hear it ; for if anything , he ought to have made restitution , A return had been made to the bouse stating that Mr Kelly ' s profits were £ 1 , 200 a year , but he ( Mr Duncombe ) said th « y were £ 12 , 000 , and were made by means of the lettercarriers . He understood that Mr Rowland HU 1 had ob . taiued an office in the Post-office—that he had a room there , and two or three clerks . What ho ( Mr Duncombe ) wished to know was , what were Mr Rowland Hill ' s duties , and what was his salary ! He seemed to be quite powerless , and was not likely to be assisted by Mr Kelly and Mr Bokenham ; and a notice bad been given at the Post-office , thatdanyof the letter-carriers who had any suggestions to make to Mr Rowland Hill should lay thtm before him through the heads of their department , and
those heads were Mr Kelly and Jfr Bokenham . Th « principal complaints were made with relation to th «' " Post-offlce Directory , " and it was not likely tbat the men would make such complaints through Mr Kelly , but they ought to go direct to Mr Rowland Hill . To prove the animus with regard to Mr Rowland Hill at the Postoffice , and how Colonel Maberly and Messrs Kelly and Bokenham felt with respect to hiro , when Mr Hill left the Post-office in 1842 , a notice was given that , as Mr Hill ' s office in the Post-office had ceased , any officer holding any communication with him directly or indirectly would be dismissed the service , ( Hear , hear . ) He ( Mr Dun . combe ) wanted to know what chance Mr Rowland Hill could have of obtaining information from those heads of departments who had given such a notice ? It was important that it should bo known what were the duties and salary of Mr Rowland Hill , and what chance he had of improving tbe Post-office service through such channels .
The CoiNCBLLoa of the Excheooeh said , with regard to Mr Rowland Hill , it would have been more convenient if his hon , friend had given him notice of the question ho had put , because he had made statements relative to what had been-done in 3842 , and spoken of notices which were given in the Post-office at the present time , \ tbich were no doubt true , but he ( the Chancellor of tho Exchequer ) bad bad no opportunity ef ascertaining whether they were so or not . It was notorious that the business of the Postoffice had increased to an enormous extent . This being o , it was desirable thatthere should be additional assistance , and tho government were of opinion that no one was move qualified for that duty than Mr Rowland Hill : early in the autumn , at the suggestion of the Postmaster , general , he had been appointed his secretary , not to the Post-office generally , at a salary of £ 1 , 200 a year . Mr Buncombe—What is tbe salary of the clerks ?
The Cimncellob of the Exchequer was unable to * ay . If be had had notice of the question ho would have obtained the information required by his hon . friend , and if he liked to move for a return on the subject he should have it . There were two or three clerks attached to tha department . He had been informed by his noble friend , tho Postmaster-general two days ago that he thought most highly of the services ot Mr Rowland Hill , and that sIlcc he had held his office he had been the means of further improvements in the Postoffice . ( Hear , hear . )
ACCOMODATION W THE NEW HOUSE OF LORDS . —Mr Home complained that space enough had not been provided for the members of that house , when they were required to attend the House of Lords . Indeed the approaches to it were such as to hazard the personal safety of members , and thespaee below the bar would not contain more than twenty-two persons without pressure . Lord UonpsTB said it was impossible to find space below the ^ bar for all the members consistent with Sitting up the house for bu * ines < s , but every arrangement possible for the convenience t > f the Commons had been made .
THE ARMY SERVICH BILL Mr Fox Madli , ia moving the second reading of this bill , stated the principle and explained the provisions of the bill . He was not sanguine enough to look to limited enlistment as a cure for all the evils connected with the service , but he believed that it would operate to the removal of many of them , particularly if accompani . d with other improvements . What the Government now proposed to do wns to enlist recruits for ten years in the infantry , ' and for twelve years jk the cavalry , at tillery , and ordnance . At the expiration of these periods it was proposed tbat they might further enlist for eleven years in the infantry , and twelve years in tbe cavalry , artillery , and ordnance . Should the period of service of any soldier expire when his regiment was abroad , his commanding officer was to have the power of detaining him for one year more , on
showing that iuch detention was necessary for the public service ; and sbould he become entitled to discharge when the country was engaged in war , and his regiment was inactive service , his commanding officer would have the power of detaining him for two years beyond the period for which he had enlisted . It was also proposed that after this period of service had expired , the retiring soldier might enrol himself for a deferred pension , to which he would he entitled for life , provided he were s » enrolled for twenty-two years , nud served for twelve days each year during that period The earliest period at which a recruit could , under these regulations , become entitled to a deferred pension , was when he attained
his fiftieth year . The operation of the bill was designed to be prospective , and was not to extend to the existing army , Not only would the proposed alterations render tho service more popular , but a limited system of enlistment recommended itself to them in an economical point of view . The right honourable gentleman concluded by pointing out the benefits which would accrue to the army itself from th « j > ronosed system , as well as to the State , from the readiness with which it would ocnasion the ranks ofthe avmy heterfter to be filled up , and from having at home , independently of tbe army , the nucleus ef a well disciplined force to repel attack , should the country ever be called upon to do so .
Sir Howard Dooglas was not prepared to meet the motion with a direct negative , nor was he disposed to move an amendment to it . He maintained , however , at considerable length , tbat the proposed changes WOUld not be benerici . il to the soldier , to the class from which the soldier came , to the service , or to the country . In addition to this , be contcnd . d tbat no more inopportune period cnuld have been chosen than tbe present for making such an experiment . Col . Reid , Co ) , Lindsay , Col . Sibthorpe , and Col , Wood opposed the bill ; Sir De Lacy Evans and Major Layard supported it ,
Col , Sibthokp said that the bill before them was a proof that at tbe present time nothing was right , ( A laugh , ) They had attacked church , law , and physic . ( Renewed laughttr . ) No profession wns safe nownothing was as it ought to be . ( Laughter , ) The wisdom of our ancestors ( laughter , ) for which he entertained a great res-pect , was totally neglected , if not deprecated , within the walls of this reformed house , ( Laughter . ) And yet the people were nono the happier , or tbe better . Here they were going to meddle with the army . He should have thought that the past services of the army were sufficient to prove that it required no change , having ever proved itself invincible , ( Hear , hear , and a lautih . ) Ue strongly deprecated the use by the right honourable gentleman tbe Secretary at War of tbe term " unhappy " as applied to individuals enlisting in the avm . r . For his own part he had been ten years in her Majesty ' s Dragoons , before he had come into this
refined society , ( laughter , ) and he must say that he had met with as good men and as good manners In military circles as he had done since he begun to listen to the long speeches in the house—speeches which , if he was unlearned before , had made htm ten times more unlearned still . ( Loud laughter . ) He had heard with great regret thai the majority of men who entered the service were disgusted with it . Tho right-honourable gestleraan op . posite bad asked whetherlt was to be wondered at . He thought yes , it was to be wondered at very much that any such sentiments sbould be entertained . He thought the proposed term of service too short ; it would tak « three years to make a raw recruit a good dragoon , and what length of service had they afterwards to recompensei them for the expense of training « Ai to opposing the bill , he presumed that there was no use in kicking against th * ptwas , laughter , ) hut he wished that a division might take place , to give him and those who
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thought with him , an opportunity ef putting on record their opinions , The bill was read a second time , and ordered t » be committed on Monday next . Deaths fbom Fakihb in Ibkland . —Lord O . Bsk-HNca observed tbat Mr Labouchere , in answer to s motion made by him some evenings ago , had said that the Irish clergy kept no records of the deaths which occurred in their parishes . Since that time he had received ! several letters from Irish clergymen , informing him that by the eanons every Protestant clergyman wag required , on the 25 th of-March in each year , to make s return of the marriages and deaths which had occurred in hfs parish . It was evident , therefore , that if the- go . vernment wished to receive such returns as he had moved for , on the occasion referred to , the machinery existed whereby such returns could be made .
) Ir Labouchbbe observed , that he had objected to tbe returns alluded to , because he believed that it was im . possible to get accurate information on the subject . The noble lord had alluded to the oanoa law , by which Pro testant clergymen were obliged to keep a registry of tho burials which occurred in their parishes , but he ( Mr Labouchere ) was much deceived if that law had been generally observed by them . Lord J . Rossill briefly vindicated the coureo whfcfr the government had pursued fn reference to the importation of grain into Ireland . That the government had acted on tbe safest principle , in refusing to interfere with private enterprise , was evident from the fact that vast quantities of provisions were now being poured into Ireland at all points by the private trader ,
Mr DisBAtu contended that if private speculation was now doing anything fur the relief of Ireland it was not until many of the population had died from famine . So far as these were concerned , therefore , the relief now afforded was like locking the stable when tho steed was stolea . After some further talk , the house went into committee on the Poor Relief ( Ireland ) Bill . On clause 9 being reached tbe committse rose , tha chairman reported progress , and the house adjourned at a quarter past one . TUESDAY , Maech 23 .
HOUSE OF LORDS . —Lord Brougham presented a petition from the Spanish bondholders , in which they complained that their claims , to the enormous extent ol seventy-millions sterling , were still left unliquidated , and that no provision was made by the Spanish government for their payment . The coble lord hoped that a country which bad the character of entertaining , i veryhigh sense of national honour , was not about to follow the example of repudiation which bad been recently presented to the world by certain itales in America , Tbe Earl of Clarendon admited tbe high sense of national honour which generally actuated the Spanish people . The government of Spain had never denied its
obligations tothe parties to the petition before their lord * ships ' . He believed that the chief obstacle which existed in the way of an arrangement , which would be satisfactory to the creditors of Spain , was , that before any govt rnment in that country could complete such an arrangement , it was driven from power by some new revolutionary movement . Tho British minister at Madrid wns at this moment in communication with the Spanish government upon the subject , and he hoped that his exertions would prove successful , ; The petition was then laid upon the table . The Drainage of Land Dill then went through com * roittee . Their lordships then adjourned .
HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Mr John Romilv moved for and obtained leave to bring in a bill for the better oilministration of charitable trusts for the benefit of Utv Majesty ' s Roman Catholic subjects . Viscount Sandon then moved for the & vT >«« tment of a select committee on the present state of our commercial relation with China , Tho motion was agreed t } , Capt . Wyn . v—MrC , O'Bsiek then moved for a select committee to inquire into the conduct of , and into the letters of Capt . Wynn during his employment in tbe county of Clare , in November , and December , and January last , as inspecting officer under the Board of Works , The government had refused him the inquiry for which he now appealed to the house—a poor reward , certainly , for sixteen years' undeviating support to the "Whi gs . Major MACNAMASi seconded the motion .
Mr Labouchere would , as a member of the government , be sorry to conciliate any support in the house by pursuing a course different from that which he had pursued towards an officer of the government whose conduct had been traduced . He could not assent to the inquiry sought at present , and he regretted that the motion had not been deferred for a few days . Papers relating to the conduct of Captain Wynn had , on the motion of tbe hon . gentleman , been laid bifore the house , and .. were now in tho course of being printed . In the course of a few days they would be before the house , and if what they contained were not satisfactory to the house , be was far from saying that inquiry should not then be made . At present there was not even a pnmos facie case against Captain Wynn , and he could not consent , until a better case were made against him ,
that he should be dragged as a criminal before any committee , of inquiry . The right hon . gentleman then defended the conduct of Captain Wynn , who , under circumstances o ' . the most trying nature , had behaved with firmness , spirit , and forbearance . He ( Mr Labouchere ) had defended the conduct of the relief committees generally in Ireland , but be was bound to say , that in the county of Clare the relief committees had been guilty of a very gross neglect of their duty , which had magnified the difficulties with which Wynn had to contend . In tbe course of a few days , however , hon , members would have an opportunity of judging of the conduct of that gentleman for themselves fiora the printed papers which would then he in their hands , He hoped , under these circumstances , that the hon . gentleman would withdraw his motion fi ; r the present .
MrW . S . O'Bbien supported the motion , being at a loss to conceive why the government should refuse the committee , considering the charge , which , on an tx parte statement , had been suspended for two months over two hon . members of that house . Lord J Rcssell observed that Mr Labouchere was not averse to the inquiry sought for , but thought , under all the circumstances , tbat that inquiry should bo defrred until the house was assured that there was a sufficient case against Captain "W ynn to justify inquiry . If the hon . member would frame his motion so as not to contain objectionable terms , and defer naming the committee until the printed papers alluded to were in the handsof members , there would be no objection to tbe committee demanded . After some further conversation , The motion was withdrawn , whereupon Mr W . S . O'Ubiek renewed the motion [ in terms pro » posed by Sir R , Peel . The amended motion was then agreed to .
The National Fast—Lord J . Russell moved the adjournment of the house to Thursday . At the same time he thought it right to state that it was the Speaker's intention to be in tho house on Wednesday , in order to give such honourable members as might wish it an opportunity of attending Divine worship there . Mr M . Philips wished to know what effect the fast would have in Ireland . It was said there wire 700 , 008 persons employed on the public works in that country , and he was , perhaps , not wrong in supposing that they were each paid on an average one shilling aday . He wished to know whether tliey were to work oa the fast day , and if not , whether they were to be entitled to pay from this country , without giving « nj consideration whatever for the money ?
Mr hsaoVCBERB said it his recollection served him right , they had a fast in Ireland since tbe introduction of the system of public works , and it was then tl , ought right that the men employed on these works should be allowed to work on the fast-day , and should be paid for so working . The government considered that where the money of the counties and baronies was to be paid away , it was quite necessary that the people should work , while at the same time they felt it would be inconsistent with tho principles of humanity and religion to let them starve . ( Hear . ) Mr M . Philips said he was anxious to hear the ex . planation just given , as it showed the great injustice done to the working classes of this country in being compelled to remain idle . Lord G . Be . nti . nce asked if the reduced rations of ^ lb . of bread , per day , which appeared in tbe morning orgaa of the government , the Times , was really the quantity of food ordered by the Irish government for those employed on ihe relief works !
Mr Labouchere cDUld not say , as he had not seen the order , Mr B ; . ight said he should bo one of the last persona in tbe bouse to say a word against any religious observance adupted by the people of this country . But ho could not help saying that , considering the proposed fast would have no effect on a large proportion of the English people who did not assemble for worship in the churches of the established religion , while in Scotland a large portion of tbe population were also opposed to tbe established faith , and that in Ireland , according to the statement they had just beard , the government acting on a late precedent , would not require the people te fast it would have been more wise if such a step had not been taken at all . Instead of doing honour to the Deity he
thought it was insulting to religion . On the one hand it would tend to encourage a gross superstition amone some , while it would strengthen infidelity on the other ( Ilear , hear . ) He had spoken to many persona on the * subject since the fast was ordered , and he had not foun 4 among any a feeling that the affirmations of the proclamation were verified , or that any reasonable ground existed , from what they know from Scriptural revelation , for expecting that any advantage would result throughout this country from a fast , ordered by a civil power , and disregarded b y nino-tenths of the people of the country when it was ordered . ( Hear , hear . ) Hedidnot wish to gay more on such a matter , but considering that the fast had been ordered by the government , and wu supposed to be sanctioned by that bouse , he could net
allow it to pass without entering bis protest against it . He considered it a useless ceremony , a remnant of the days gone by , and not in accordance with the enli ghtened opinions of tbe present time . ( Hear , hear . ) Sir G . Gasv said be hoped the bouse would not enter into a discussion on tliis question . ( Hear . ) His own impression was , that the fast wns in accoi dance with the general feeling of tbe people of this country . ( Hear , hear . ) i Mr P . How abb thought the government in appointing a day for fust and humiliation bad acted in perftct accordance with the feelings of a majority of the people . The motion was then agreed to . ""
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 27, 1847, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27031847/page/7/
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