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. » of whom had his feetandlegs tobenumbed and _Celled with the salt -water and eold ; as to be _^ _Lmq to stand , having * been "fifteen hours in the _[?« _£ As soon as we got on board ofthe sloop , the _P _^ lhearted old captain cried * like a child for joy . jr _^ ll off half the clothes from the backs of the _fflo-msh saflora , and put them on to us -poor naked » V c _n * nngEngu _^ _tm , j _* ra 8 the . work of a few _^ ntes Hot coffee , bread and butter , with fried ? £ was _immetotely prepared for us , and the poor r _& rmeh gave up their beds to us , although they _rSiUwiatsea b * urinsr the whole of the storm of _» v , _-Wcduesdayraad part of Thursday . In r _, t it Waa impossible for ns to have been more 3 lT treated . I shall ever bear in mind , with a 2 _S-1 heart , the kindness and attention bestowed _iHsby _thefSO fishermen ; and I deeply regret that _JTis not in my power to prove the sincerity of my assertions . " . __ _•^ m __^ . _;_ -V _^ 4 K * f . * k _^« _jl _^' . . ' 1 u _» . __ t _» J .. _J
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SURREY SESSIOXS . Sibeet HoBBERr . -Chariotte _-Wlson , » repulsive IflS" - * oman , was indicted for stealing a . hat , shawl " and two sovereigns , from the person of -Rarnctt'Lea , under the following daring _circumrfances . —I _' rosecutor stated that about eight o ' clock m the evening of the 1 st of January , he _ w _» 9 _preying along the Borough towards . London Bridge , and when nearly opposite St . George ' s Church , the _r _e-jsoner accosted Min . * SSot wanting anythingto do _% i ( ji her , witness told her to go about her business , when she suddenly passed a handkerchief across his {¦ _jte , and he hecame very unwell "Sot suspecting _jdv narcotic was contained in the handkerchief , he i _jan iBtoa public-house close by , and called for a class of brandy ; but before he could drink it he | _JecaineT insensible , and knew nothing that took nlace afterwards , until he found himself under the I rare of a surgeon . Before he entered , the
publichouse his hat , shawl , and money were safe . —A t » Hce-COn * _= table of the M division stated , that he L the prisoner and a man walking along the Borough on the evening in question . Knowing her _r- _jelm old thief , he watched her , and saw her aecostthe prosecutor , and pass something across « s face . He then saw them enter tbe _ Dun . Horse _oablic-house , where he saw the woman drinking « th the prosecutor . About ten minutes afterwards « Uiess saw her suddenly run out of the house with a bat and scarf , but she escaped frora him in the intricacies ofthe Mint . He then went back to the uoblic-house , when he saw the prosecutor lying down insensible . Feeling satisfied that some narcotic had been _adtnlnistered te him , he took him to 3 _* ur < _-eon ' s , where restoratives were employed , and Wa short time he recovered sufficiently to be able io . ro home . "Witness then went in search of the _nrKoner , and _cantnred her about twelve o ' clock ,
but he had not been able to find the hat and shawl . _—Oiher corroborative testimony having been given , the iury found the prisoner " Guilty , " and recommended her to the severest semtence which the law empo wered . The court accordingly sentenced her io ten vears' transportation .
Eibl Hikewood Isiekdiciisg Marriages.—Th...
EiBL _HiKEWOOD _ISIEKDICIISG MARRIAGES . —The lifds _Emes says— "Historians inform us that the feudal barons of ancient days , in England , claimed tbe tig ht to refuse permission to their serfs to contract marriages , and by a politic exercise of this power , ; contrived to abstract considerable sums jxom their dependants , who were glad to purchase the lord's * consent , even by a heavy pecuniary sacrifice . We had , however , thought that serfdom aiiditsabhorrent customs had been abolished , but ire were mistaken , for even now the Protectionist ¦ jjjrd Harewood publicly announces the pains and penalties which he will inflict upon the residents , notofa _* rinageonly ; hnt of an entire district , who mav dare to enter into the state of matrimony ,
-fritho _*** having previously obtained his consent " Lest we should be accused of joking in this matter , ire present our readers * sith a verbatim et literatim cop rof a -notice * whieh has been served upon all t & eVorage tenants ofthe Earl of Bare-wood , in the vill age of Harewood , and other places on the estate : — * In consequence of the continued practice of over-crowding , and taking lodgers into the cottages upon the Harewood estate ( more especially within the village of Harewood , ) contrary to the express _aj-reements and regulations , notice is hereby given , that any cottager , being a tenant of the Earl of -Harewood , who shall from the date hereof ,, take in any lodger , or whose son or daughter skall marry anil bring home to tbe cottage , wife or husband ,
without having previously obtained permission from the Earl of Harewood , shall receive notice to quit ; which notice will be strictly " enforced ; and if in the employment of the said carl , shall be . discharged . Wsi . Macgius , agent . Harewood , Jan . loth , 1850 . ' There s a precious document for the middle of the nineteenth century ! A nice specimen of what free and _enlightened and Christian _England wonld become , if these Protectionist _landloi-ds' had fnll swing . ' This is carrying out the principle of * protection' with a _vengeanccl The Duke of _Newcastle innocently asked , " ' May I not do as I like . with my own V when he drove his tenantry to poll like a flock of sheep . Bat he was a mere tyro in the school
of ' protection' when compared with Lord Hare wood . ' Hear it , ye people of Harewood , and country round about , * " proclaims his lordship , 'if any of yon young men and women dare to marry those you love—if any . of jou old men and mothers dare to consent to such marriage—I , Lord Harewood , your ? Protectionist landlord , ' will instantly drive yon from house and home , and employment , to die lithe wayside ditches , or become outcasts and wanderers on the face of the earth ! ' How-does this manifesto of the pattern landlord of Harewood sound in the : ears of the men and women of the "West Biding ? And how can these Harewood tenants be grateful enou » h to the fatherly care of this dear lord of theirs ? Some of our friends at a distance
may not think this quite a satisfactory solution of the difficulty , aDd may , moreover , be inclined to ask themselves—* What object on earth can Lord Harewood have for issuing such a notice—because thc plea , of over-crowding cottages is absurd V To save trouble , it is as well to out with the truth at once . ' Lord Harewood and his tenants know how many labourers they choose to employ—they know , therefore , how many there should be upon the estate so as not to have one over the requisite number—they don ' t like spending their ' nioiiey'in the maintenance ofthe labourer , upon whose blood and sinews they have lived so long as he could work ;
and they abhor the idea cf one child more in a labourer ' s family than is sufficient 'to keep up the stock . In order therefore , to prevent high rents from being reduced b y heavy poor ' s rates , or the princely mansion troubled by the visits of the starring cottager , the foregoing notice is only part of an ' established system for driving the surplus _Tm-al population of Hareirood and other places into Leeds , there to he paupers upon hardworking townspeople whilst the' Protectionist ' aristocracy and their tenants , who have been fed and enriched by the labour Of these outcasts and then' progenitors , escape scotfree . "
_JlranEE £ _sn Seicibe Ef Puns . —The Droit gjves . 'the following detailed account of the murder and suicide case at Havre : — " The Hue du Havre has been the seede __ of a frightful tragedy . The Situr . Jemmes , paymaster of the 50 th llcgiment of the line , in garrison at Paris , was npon intimate terms with a young woman , by name L . de Lausaune . This connexion involved Jemmes in large expenses ; his mistress was exacting , and obtained such an influence over him that iu order to satisfy her demands upon him ne had abstracted a considerable sum from the cash-bos of tbe regiment . His _misiress bad promised to return the sum in the course of January last . Jemmes had recently received an order . to quit Paris and follow his regiment * about
to be . statibned at Caen . The time was approaching when he would be called upon to deliver up his accounts , and it ' -was necessary . that : his mistress should keep her word iu order to enable him to fill up the deficit in thc regimental funds . That he might recover the sum advanced by bin he demanded a furlough and arrived in Paris towards the end of January .. M . Jemmes . ali ghted in the rue du Havre , at the hotel of that name , where his mistress jesided _; and engaged a separate ** partment . He was not long ere he discovered that she was not prepared to meet her promise , and that ' she did not . even dream , of it . He explained to her the em"bai-r-issment'into which he was thrown and ended by Signifying to her tbat he must be reimbursed . M ;
Jemmes , in spite of his pressing solicitations , could obtain nothing . He shortly discovered that while this woman . had been his mistress she had other _, lovers—namely , an actor of the-Boulevard and an officer m his own regiment . _^ Exasperated at such sm extent of duplicity , and ashamed that he had compromised himself for such a woman , M . Jemmes became more urgent still ; for the repayment of his advancefl- The iatal teriri whicli he had granted her quickly expired . At about ten o ' clock injUie morrimgfie knocked at the " door of his mistress ' s room and shut himself up with her . What took place afterwards is unknown- It is certain , : however _^ that a few minntes . after -If .- ' Jemmes came out . trying "Help ! a doctor ! a doctor !' , and immediately returned to his own room ., On rea _' ching
that of the lady she was found bathed in her blood . She had received several wounds with a poniard , and in a short time _Expir ed . - The apartment of the murderer was immediatel y broken into , " and it was found that he had also dealt himself several _rT _^! ntme " ffere of a mortal nature , and he Sad still strength , as the door was being opened , to _™/« _£ pen tba _T- _'intfow and precipitate , himself _EihL _^ 6136 _^ _° » hot el yard . _± 1 ™*** _S _^ _SJTJW _^ «« to hreathe . " j . ni * cold at Chnstiansana fNorwav " ! has "been WL During the months of _BecemhernndjS _^ _zsttass _** _- * _***! _*^^ _£ _stt »» _as _•"•^ ple _** , and the other » Jus shnt-coHa _* - .. **"'* ¦ '" ¦ -
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: THE FACTORY-ACT . —LEGALITY OF THE ; 8 hipt ; : ststem . .. ' . j COU _^ . - . .,- B , tdkkv . Mills . ' . '" . " ; . '' . "' T ~ " / : . Mr . Baron Parke delivered judgment in this case which had been drawn up by agreement , under the _provuidns of a recent statute ; for the purpose of _obtemingajudieial exposition of the Factory Act . 7 and 8 Tic ., c .. l 5 , s . 28 .-The plaintiff , as was mentioned m the report of the argument during th * term , was the inspector ofthe district in whiobj tho mffl of the defendant is situate , and the question sought to be determined was , whether the ten hours to which the labour of women and young persons - < PPP -B A _flTnllV . A * 1 ir _ _T-nniTTHnr _n-r . _n , _n _«
under eighteen is restricted by the * and 8 Tic , c . 15 j are to bt reckoned continuously ior all individuals of these classes from the hour at' which the first of them should commence work In a factory , by which means they must all leave off workat precisely the same moment ; or whether it is legal for the mill-owner to adopt the shift system , by means of which , by shifting the hours of labour , and varying them throughout the period of the day allotted to labour , he may secure the attendance , of some of those classes throughout twelve hours , though' no individual worts more than ten ; the consequence of this arrangement being that tlie women and young persons would not all leave off work at the same hour . Time was taken to
consider this question , which has excited great attention in the north , and now it was announced that in the opinion ofthe court the millowners are at liberty to adont this system . The act was to be construed according to the plain meaning of the words used by tbe Legislature , and that meaning was to be carried out without reference to thepolicy dictating it . The question before the court was , whether the owners of mills and factories , were liable to penalties , and the act being penal , ought to be construed strictly , for a man ought not to be punished except under clear ; enactments . The court , could not act on conjecture , however strong , but must be satisfied before , they enforced this conviction , that the Legislature had expressly prohibited the system
_pnrsubd by the defendant . On this rule of construction , we do not think that the language bf this act is sufilciently _' explicit to . warrant onr , affirming , this conviction : It was agreed on all-hands that the hour at which the calculation ofthe ten hours must be made was fixed as that at which the first woman or young person began work . - 2 Jb other construction on that- point could he tenable , bnt tho defendant argued that the act had not fixed a limit at the other end , and that if such had been the intention of parliament nothing would have been easier than to have said so , as had been dene when , thc act directed by another section that all the workers should take their meals at one time . There is in fact , no express enactment that the work shall
cease at any fixed hour , and in the absence of _suchj all we can do is to ascertain from tbe rest of the statute , whether we can collect that such was necessarily the intention ofthe Legislature as was asserted on thc part of the prosecutors . JtJndoubtedly such an enactment would tend to advance the avowed object of the framers of the statute , —but that can only he attained at the expense of the millowners , andby imposing restrictions on the control over their capital as weU as on that of the workers themselves . This again renders it more necessary that we should be able clearly to collect sueh an intention from the general tenor of . the act , for though , we may think the restriction right , we cannot enforce it on that ground simply . Then , again , the form ofthe schedule on which the prosecutors
rely , though capable of tho construction contended for by the inspectors is not inconsistent with that put on it by the millowners , for under itsome ofthe workers may clearly terminate their labour at one hour and others at another ; and the twenty-eighth section speaks of notice of the times of beginning and ending work , as if several were contemplated . The result of the whole is , then , that we cannot clearly collect from the statute that any . such restriction of the hours of leaving : off work was in ? tended , and it therefore remains open to the owners and their workers to enter into such arrangements on that subject , and oh that ofthe intervals of leisure during the day , as may be found convenient as between thems _** re 3 . The conviction , must accordingly be quashed . —Conviction quashed .
The Ten Houks Bill.—Rev1tal Of The Agita...
THE TEN HOUKS BILL . —REV 1 TAL OF THE AGITATION . Maschester , Tcesdav . —The result , of theargument in the Court of Exchequer has thrown -the Operatives of this district into the greatest state of excitement . Meetings are being nightly held in the various public-houses in which they are accustomed to assemble , at which the most firm and determined resolutions to maintain the principle of ten hours work , and that it be continuous , arc passed .: Manchester , Bolton , Blackburn , Preston , Ashton , Oldham ,. Bury , —in fact , every town in Lancashire is on the move . On Sunday last a very numerous metering of overlookers and managers was held at
the Yhite Horse Tavern , Bolton , at" which the foi- . lowing , amongst other resolutions , were unanimously adopted : — " That in the opinion of this meeting it is of the utmost advantage to both masters and men that an uniform working of ten hours per day be enforced by act of Parliament , and that we . pledge ourselves never to rest satisfied until it be made universal . " On Monday ni g ht the Lancashire Central Committee held its third meeting since the decision , at which it was agreed to call a delegate meeting from every town in the kingdom . On the same night tbe committee of the Manchester overlookers held a
meeting , and have issued a circular calling a general meeting of the whole body , nnd from wbich the following is an extract : —• " Gentlemen , — "We are how in the midst ofa most solemn and important crisis . ' - "We have no longer a Ten Hours Act . ' The Judges of the Court of Exchequer have decided that the norrible relay and shift . system is legal , and although we have all been grievously disappointed , yet it would be perfectly useless to murmur or complain at this unfortunate decision . Prepare yourselves , tben , for another' conflict ! 'Sound an alarm ! " through every ' mill in Manchester and Salford . "
The carders , the power-loom overlookers and managers , and several other bodies , are holding similar meetings , and the forthcoming'delegate meeting will be the most numerous and important ever held .
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_Daiukg _Outhage nr FiuifcE . — The following daring and brutal outrage is related in a French paper of the 31 st ult .: — " On Friday night last a number of malefactors presented themselves atthe _-wir _ido-w of the abode of a small : iarjner , -an aged man , living in an isolated house with his daughter , aged twenty-two , and a servant aged seventeen . They at first stated that they had lost a white mare worth 700 f . or 800 f ., and were in search'of her . Oii being replied to that thc animal had not been seen ; ihey said they were hungry and asked fov bread . The serrant , at her master ' s bidding , rose to , give them some . Not finding a knife , she asked the nocturnal visitors for one . ¦• Cut her hand when she stretches it out , " said one of the latter . At
this speech , which was heard'b y the girl , and was immediately followed by the blow of a crowbar upon the window grating , she fell back with terror , but rising- np immediately she broke the bread in order to make it pass through the bars , thinking thus to satisfy the ruffians ; but these having received the bread , asked to be let in , that they might warm themselves , and , on being refused , they broke open the door . The master was immc- ' diately thrown down and stunned with blows . The servant seeing . him tbu 3 ill-treated , threw herself forward to protect him with a degree of courage beyond both her , age and her sex , but was soon thrown down and pushed nnder a bed ; The thieves having thrown the farmer , in a half 'dying state .
upon his bed , ' asked for the . keys and broke -the locks of the cupboards , which they were unable otherwise to open . They , expected to find a considerable sum in cash , but the farmer had just made a large payment , and had kept only _sixty-fivefrancs . After laying hands on all that they could carry away , they sought ; to gratify their brutal passions upon the two young girls . -They searched the beds ' and every corner of the house in vain , and one of them took up ii pitchfork to probe under all the furniture , especially under-the Tied , where ' the young servant was l ying ; she was however / miraculously preserved from the . deadly instrument' by an old beehive and a sieve . Meanwhile , terror having earned her to give a sigh , thethieves ima-. _ginsd it to havo proceeded from the farmer , and fell npon him to despatch ' lum . At- this fri « rh ' tf ' il
spectacle theyonhggirlwas unable _tb-coritaindierself , and quitted , her : hiding place screaming . _Sle I- T _^ - , 0 _Sek P ast the door without being stopped by the assassins , startled , as they were at this unexpected apparition , and ran distracted in _SK ? ? - _* ' _yf _^ o . . The , daughter of-the farmer had , in the first instance , ; succeeded --in reaching the _garrelv and , after making a hole in the nf _i l _S mt 0 . , _fie ! d , and « m lithe direct ? ° f a . neighbouring farm , crying for help , and exchimmg that her father was beiS g murdered ; The thieves , laden with their spoil , disguised themselves as women , and started off towards the village of : Bosloy en _FleUdimel , where several of themreside On the young women reaching the village of _Lezari drieux , every one started in searckof the assassins , and four . of them were apprehended , and the stolen effects found . " ' - :
EXPEK 6 KS OF _THK-CHOil _* RA IN _DEVOSPO M _^ The sub-committee " of the ' commissioners ' . ' . of "Devonport , appointed to examine the bills of the medical gentlemen for professional assistance rendered during the cholera , brought up their , report on the- 8 th inst . ; and , after having reduced the bills to the greatest possible extent , the total amount is still more than £ f _& 7 . The entire cost of the cholera in the town _w « be » piethan _* 2 . W 0
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"¦ [ Our _publishingamngemeiitipreverited us from g iving moro that a mere notice ' of Lord J . Rcsseix ' s speech on the Colonial policy ofthe Government on Friday night last . ' As the subject is an ; important one , and likely to engage a considerable amount of time and attention this session , we subjoin an abstract of its lea-ling topics . ] HOUSE OF COMMbNS .---CoLOKiAL Polict . — Lord J . _KussuLi , in committee ofthe whole house having moved a resolution in which ' . ' to babeabill for the better government 7 of the Australian Colonies , said it would . be . expected that a declaration should be made of the general riblicy ofthe
government with -regard _^ to our colonies , and he had therefore to staite their views not only as to the present and immediate affairs , \ but the permarieht colonial policy of this greatempire . He would first g ive a historical outlhie of the _^^ growth of our colonial possessions . Our first settlements in the West Indies , were formed at the . close bf the reign of James I . Cromwell added Jamaica ; and other West Indian islands , wero occupied under Charles II . At the commencement of the next century , Gibraltar fell iritr bur hands . After the war of 1756 , Canada and many islands were taken possession of . ; In the unfortunate war with the united provinces of America , oui losses were greater than our gains . " But , in the great , revolutionary war
whicli began in 1793 , we made further additions , by the naval and military forces of the Crown , which were confirmed to . us as , cessions , b y the peace of 1814-1815 . . The following were the colonial acquisitions made by England , in the periods respectively between 1600 and 1700 , between 1700 arid 1793 , and between 1703 and 1822 : —From 1600 to 1700—Nova Scotia- Xew Brunswick ' Prince ' Edward ' s Island , Newfoundland , Bermuda , -: Jamaica , Honduras , Bahamas , Barbadoes , Antigua , Moritserrat , St .. Christopher ' s , _Nevis , Virgin , Islands , ' Gariibia ; St . Helena ; from 1700 to , 1793-r-Canada , St . Tincerit , Grenada , Tobago , ' Dominica , Gibraltar , Sierra Leone , forts and settlements on Gold Coast , New South Wales : froiri 1793 to 1815—St . Lueia . British
Guina , Trinidad , ' Malta , " Cape of Good Hpper ' Vian Diemen _' s Land , Mauritius , Ceylon . _Otbei * additions had _sipce been made , including Ne \ v Zealand arid several Australian colonies . ; _Tnes ' ystempursued by England as by all the rest ofthe world : during the whole , of this long period , ; was that of the ; strictest commercial monopoly , every interest beirig sacrificed to the' presumed profit of tho mother country . Political freedcin was nevertheless carried with them by Englishmen whenever colonising . How early and how large . was the degree ' . of this liberty was shown b referring to . Yaribus patents and ' legal acts , dating back as far as the days of James 'II . With regard only to the colonies acquired in the war that raged between lJ 93 and 1814 a different
system . prevailed . . Instead of British institutions the system of theold possessors—Spanish , . Dutch , or French , as the case might be , was allowed to re- ' main in _forced . Alluding then to the commercial relaxation introduced by Mr . Huskisson , and since so largely extended , the noble lord laid ibdovv _^ i ' as a ride / which could not now . he , departed from , ' jhat the colonies were to be- allowed freedom ' of commerce and comihiinications . _fbrall purposes with ell parts ofthe world _., In bi _* der to show the happy , results of this system ? he . pro ' eeeded to quote frem official returns the enormous increase in population , trade , and revenues -of the yaribus . English . dependencies [ and of tire . United States . .. Reverting more especially , to the Australian colonies , he adverted
tothe rapid growth ; of New South Wales , Port Phillip , and SouthAustralia , since their establishment comparatively a few years since , which he adduced as ; testing the influence of . a . liberal policy , an _o ? contrasted with " . the " opposite results in the West Indies from the ' system Of . protection _^ The proposal that England .. ' should now forego , her colonies . He characterised as an abandonment of dignity , a sacrifice of strength , arid a dereliction ' bf the duties of ' humanity towards the native . races , whom we might be ; able to civilise . As securities for our . commerce , arid . fortresses against enemies
into whose hand they must inevitably . ' . fall if we ceased to defend " them , their value , was incalculable . With respect to the pfesentraspect of affiiirs in Canada , his lordship strongly . upheld the princi ple of local government _. but opposed the idea of _sepai-ation . Some persons even have gone the lenjth of proposing that instead of remaining subjects of her Majesty the Queen , the provinces of Canada should be annexed to the United States ' . To that proposal of course the crbwii can give nothing but the most decided negative . ( Loud cries of _** IIear , hear . - ' *) But I do trust that although that proposal has been made—I trust from the characters of several of
those who belong to the . annexation- association ' , that it is not'theirint ' eritioii to pursue this project Of belonging to a neighbouring state , to the ultimate issue of endeavouring " to obtain their object by _foi-ce oFarms , but that knowing the _dot ' _ermined will bf the sovereign of this cburitr _** , and her determination not to permit of that project-being carried into effect , they will . acquiesce in what they find to be the decided opinion * of the crown . ' ( Hear , ' hear . ) -1 wonder , at the same time / how anyone who has professed loyalty should ; entertain a project , which ] if ever there should be any international difference between this country arid the United States , might , at any moment , place them in the position of rising in arms against British authority , and fighting
against the British nag . . ( Hear , hear . ) -If the present Ministers in Canada met with proper siipport ( as seemed probable ) they would remain iii office , if hot , the Governor-General would call in others in accordance with the Canadian constitution . It had'been . resolved to introduce representative institutions into our Cape colony , where an Asseriibly arid also a Legislative . Cbuncil vrould be : established . New South Wales was to have a single Council , one third bf its-members to be appointed by gbvernmerit , and two-thirds to be elected ; but . the colony _y ? as to have the power , ' hereafter , of demanding two chambers if it wished . Customs duties were to be settled by themselves .. Port Phillip , wa * to be separated from New South Wales , and to form a distinct
district ; and , iu addition . to the introduction of free institutions into Van Diemen ' s Land , South Australia was to have a represent *; tive body . Into New Zealand the Governor had already introduced a legislative system , and : had reported in favour ot" a representative one , which would , after some further information , be granted to that colony . The exception to the representative rule ; would be in the cases wh _^ re we had only military stations , or where the . races we ; e mingled iii a way which rendered such institutions impossible- Barbadoes and Jamaica had long enjoyed their , own governments .. Trinidad was to hare a municipal council in aid ofthe Executive , and so was Mauritius . Malta was to ; have elective members ailded to its council _/ His lordship then wentat
, some length , into tlie British _Guiaca question , and said that ; a species of oligarchy was paramount there ; bnt by an infusion of new electors it rhust be broken down , and this had been done to a certain extent ; arid the reform would have a . still further effect . * Upon _thi-s subject he twitted some members with an imputation of ignorance . He next went info the . question of transportation , a _^ punishment he did not ; much approve , but as parliament did , it was the Colbriial Secretary ' s duty to carry it out with asjittle injury to the colonies as possible ; but , he . warned the . house that opposition ¦ to the system , on the part of ' the colonists , would increase , and parliament would have to consider some new plan for disposing of our criminals . In the meantime he announced that the
resistance of the Gape colonists to the landing of convicts there had been successful , and that the ship had'been ordered on to Van Ditman ' s Land . ; On the important question of emigration his lordship said , with regard to this subject , there are ,. two _, modes in which , this emigration can be carried on , and two modes in which it can be earried on beneficially . . The first is where labourers whose labour is _. valuab ' e in certain ; st . iteand colonies go but in numbers to those' states and colonies arid "fill up , as it were , the interstice _^ in _society—whese , labour . is very , soon in demand , and who ! from beingiri . thiscountry pc ' rs ' ons _pnthebi-iiik of destitution , and scarcely obtaining ! any . ' employment , though ready ' to give their toil _foi-bread , ' obtain high wages _aridample subsistence iriofher countries .
( Hear , bear ) " . Of emigratibh of _thisjund therehas been a very great mass directed to the United States ' and the British North American cblcnies . There is the second and another hind bf . emigration whicb is formed of different , classes of the people forthe purpose of founding riew colonies _iuplacej wheresociety does not already exist . Of this kind , likewise , there has been , a very considerable emigratiqh going , bn from this country . ; As regards _^ _emigratiori bf the first kind ,. I have here some accounts . which , have been furnished to me by Mr . Murdoch , who is how atthe head of the Emigrationi : Board , and it . _appeais . frbm them that the total emigration from these countries for therlast three years , was , 796 , 354 persons ; giving an average of 205 , 450 per-annum . Now I ,, beg " the house to consider how very large , this emigration is ' Itis within . 40 , 000 or 50 , 000 of _jwhat has been computed as the whole annual increase of the _population of _^ _thic _, country , and ; though . it has been no doubt
magnified , in one or two of those years by Jhe famine which took place in . Ireland yet I , consider that as regards this ; first sort of emigration—namely , _tlfat _' _jsvhich consists of _laboarers , and principally going to the ; -United :, States _, and 'British . North . ; _. . _Ame-. rica—it : is : an ¦ emigration which we ' may Icofc ' .-ito-. see _.-. likely . _, to- continue ,. for _Aany _.-years . . I believe that the means ; which the labouring classes having found . for tliem . selves _. of : transmitting , money home to their relations and friends , to enable them to _emigrate , when tbey had- obtained a _fjuffi : eientsum from tlieir wages , is likely to continue , and i » likely Jo furnish the means of a great expenditure for ; the purposes , of emigration ' ( Hear ,, hear . ) . I . consider that there will _bespeedily . a timewhen . there . _sbajlbejno _yery , great ? demands for labour in , the United ; States and British America . _¦? , The difficulty ; which existed hitherto was that of finding , means of tran . _« portationj and of enabling persons almost , destitute here , and obtaining no demand for their'labour , o get a position in other countries , where thoy ooutd I
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Obtain-that demand ; * _irdo not ? belieVd _^ thir'afly _^ _gownmentiMheme . _wuld have been-so extensive- _^ to effect that purpose ; nor : do _i I - believe ; if ? it had _beensoextensive , it would have effected the purpose in . ; the . same , [ way r as this- * - voluntary ¦ emigration . { Hear . ; , IU _( the first place , ifyoudaid out a hundred or two or three hundred thousand ' pouhds for that obr ject _^ _itwouloVnodoubt have be ' en . a very-large ' sum , ; but I believe the sum which had Keen , expended for _thepurpose , in the way I have mentioned ; in one year _has been no less than £ l _, 5 ud , 000 ; _sterling _^ _-friA _^ r t _^ 'i 5 believe _,, if you had laM _^ t £ l , 500 , 0 pp , you would have found every species bf abu e-that you would have carried ' many persons from this country with false _characters'Iand that they
_wo'iia nave oeen found snch a curse by the United States aHd by pur own provinces , that they would soon have put a stop , to it , and have said : — " Don ' t send us the halt , the idle ,, and the crippled-the mere dregs of your population . If _suchis the character of your emigration , wc must interfere and put a stop to it . That I believe would have been tlie _consequence of any great plan . of ' emigration carried on by the government . ( Hear , hear . ) , Ido not mean ' to say that in some cases , and under some particular circumstances , assistance should not be given "by the goyernrnent —( hear , bear)—but what 1 say is tiiis ; that . seemg the people have found out for themselves that by transmitting small , sums , of money ; jtliey ; : are able tohring over their wives , relatives , and children
to countries where their labour is of . value , that it is better not to , intc ' rfere by a government'plaii , which beside being a burden on the country from ; the sum tnken from the taxes , would-be in other , respects , a . positive evil . ( Hear , hear . ) ; There is another species of emigration ; aiid it is that which is ' sent out to our Australian colonies . It is an ( emigration : bf the other description to which I Mve alluded , ' and which goes very much to found new settlements , er to increase the new settlements already established there . It appears that in 1848 and 1849 the emigration of this kind sent out 39 , 600 persons _^ or rat he r more than . 18 , 000 a year . ;; In New Zealand also there has been a project started for 'forming , ' ! ' , hew settlement , called the Canterbury Settlement . There are already
more than 12 , 000 Europeans in New _Zealandi-sand I feel no dbubt'that there will be , in a very ; few years , a large emif _* rati » n to . ihat colony , and _thatNew Zealand willbe . oneof the mostflourishing of our _dependencie ' s _; ( Hear , hear . ) 1 think , therefore , as regards emigration generally speaking , and with , as I . said , a reserve as to any particular measure : and particular districts , we rnay look with satisfaction to the present state of this question , _ahdrtat we may consider one of the greatest wants of this country-that of finding a vent for her increasing population—will ibe fully satisfied , without at the same time doing that of which I' was _^ apprehensive , and ; sending out _people to ' colbnise ! where , their labour was not inde--mand , arid where their condition . would be still worsb
than . it was in the-. country , from which ; they came , The . noble , lord thus concluded his exposition :- — The whole result of what I have to say is ; that in the first place ,, _whatey _^ r discontent— -and , in Bome places , well-fbunded _idiscpnteiit , it must . be ownedhas arisen from a transition , painful to the colonists , from a system of monopoly , as regards the colonies , to . _a-8 ystem : 6 f free trade , we ' ought riot-to _attempt to go back , 'in any respect ; froni that decision- —( hear , hear _. _J- _^ buttbatyoushbuid trade wi thyourcolonies on " the principle -that you- were at liberty , to . obtain productions from other countries which may be produced there better or cheaperr than in the colonies , and that the colonies should be at liberty . to trade with all' parts of the world in the manner which
might seem to thein mpst ; advantageous . ' , ' ( Hear , hear . ) Thait must in future be a cardinal ; point , in our policy . The next point is that in conformity with the policy on which you-have governed your British North American colonies , you should ; as far as _posBible , go oh the principle of introducing and maintaining political freedom Jn . all- your colonies . I - think whenever you say political freedom cannot be introduced , you are bound to show the reasons for thc ' ex ' eiripti'on , and to show that ; the . people are a race among whom it is impoBsible to carry out the free _i institutions—that you must shpw . ic ; is not formed of tho British reoplc ,: 0 r even that there ; is no such admixture of the British ropulation as to make it -safe to ¦ introduce _representative
Jnstitutidns . Unless you can show that ; 1 think ' the general rule , would be that you should , spnd to , the different parts of the ; world ,, and maintain'inj your different Colonies men of the British race , and capable of governing themselves ; men whom you tell tbey shall have full liberty Of governing themselves , and tliat . while you arc their representative with respect to all foreign concerns , iii their : domestic concers , you wish to interfere no further than , may be . clearly-and decidedly necessary , to prevent a _coniflict in the state itself . I believe these are the sound principles on which wc ought , to proceed . I am sure , at-least , _= they are the principles . on which the present government intends , to proceed , and I believe they are those which in their general features
will obtain the assen t and approbation of-the house ; With respect to the question of military fbrco , I " shall reserve , the discussion , of . ( that to ' a ; future occasion , when it will ; . be more immediately _^ before the house . : Wi th respect : tosome of bur colonies , " niy noble' friend the Secretary of State has ; stated that he thinks the force now existing " mi ihli be safely diminished : But ; , I believei these . colonies wiU look to you for their defence in any foreign , war . br against any foreign aggressor . ( Cheers ;) And , I . think you are bound to give it to them . ( Hear , hear . ) I think you are bound to maintain the means by which you will be able to give theni that assistance . ' ( Renewed applause . ) I believe not only _tliatybu may prbcted on those , principles without any danger , ; for . tlie
present , but there maybe questions arising hereafter which you'may solve withoutany danger of such an unhappy Conflict as that which took- place with what are now- the United ; States of America ; ( Hear ' hear . ) Onlookingback at tlie origin of that unhappy contest I cannot but think that it was not . a single error or a single blunder which got us ' into . that contest , but a series of repeated errors and repeated blunders- _^ -of a - policy asserted and . then _^ retreated _frim—again- asserted , and then concessions made when they were too late —( hear , hear)—and of obstinacy when it was unreasonable . - I believe that it was by such a course we entered into the unhappy contest , with what were at the ' beginning ; of it , the loyal provinces of North America . . 1 trust we shall never again have to deplore such a contest . ( Hear , hear . ) 1 do anticipate with others that some of the colonies mav so _grow-in population and-wealth that
_tlnymay say----- ' * Our strength is sufficient to enable us Jo be independent of Enghind . _~ The ' link ia now becoine _, orierou 8 , tpus—the time is " come - when , vye think we can , in amity and alliance with _fingland . main' ain our independence . " I do not think that that time is yet approaching ; ( Hear , hear . ) But let us make theni , as far as _pbss-ible , fit . to govern themselves—let us give them , as far as we , can , the capacity bf ruling . their own affairs—let them increase in _. wealtli aiid p ' opulatibn _. and whatever may happen , we , of , this great empire will have the consolation ; of saying that we ' . have ' contributed to tlie happiness of the world .... ' . .. ' . " : ., ¦ ' _..,- , . ; ,,. . _.-, !' _, , A conversation _i followed in which the leading colonial , reformers with , . the house took part . Its general tone was that of approval ofthe . _princijdes enunciated . by , thc £ " _reniier , but diss _atisfacti'in . ; with tbe names and illusory manner in which they were practically applied . ' - - - -
, .. -j ; .: ; MONDAY , _FUBROAKT 11 . _; ::.. : _" . / HOUSE , OF l 6 RDS .- _^ Thb Giiekk BLocKAnR —Lord Stanley : again d re w the at ten tion of " the house to , the state o _? our relations with Greece , Since'h ' e had moved' for the papers connected with the subject ; be had seen thatthe official correspon _d dence which had passed bet ween the' "Ministers of . the ' great PoVe ' rs ' at Athens had been published in Paris . He now begged to ask Lord Langdowrie wliether ' the mediation of France had been tehdered to England , arid had - been accepted by the English government ; and whether that mediation , if . ithad been accepted , extended ' merely , to the indemnity claimed'for certain British ' subjects or extended fur- ' thei _* _- —to the . still more important question as to . . the
right " of Greece' Or of the innian ' Republic to ! the ' possession of the iiilnnds adjoining them . , | -TheMarqu ' s of Ijansdowne replied that the good offices ' of France had been accepted by the British governmenti ' though-the offer had been at first declined by Mr : Wyse , who did hot know whether his acceptance would be sanctioned at home . ' With regard ! tothe latter part of Lord Stanley ' s question ; ho would reply- that the nature of our pecuniary ' claims ''' and the amount ' of bur pecuniary _itidcnrihity , was the onlyiquestion on which the _'•« good ' _offices * "bf France ; had been accepted . ; The _; dis ' pute ' as !' to the Islaiids of Sa ' pienza and 'Elaphonesu ' a ; had . _- , been ' _eicluded , ' _asrestingentirely bd bther ' groundg . ; " ' ¦ : " _- ''" ¦' ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ' h f V . The Earl of AiJE ' nhEHi- ' _waii , glad ' that _^ th ' e _medial
tion bf . France had beeff . eccepted by the government , but could not ' help " expressing liis regret that ' such a mode of settling our disputes ' with Greece had . not been tried "before resorting 'to _. vibleri ' ce . ' He could hot help remarking that the good ogices ' of France were accepted as ; to claims ; asserjed , tp , b ) e indisputable , while the possession of the _islin _^ s , confessedly a disputed " matter , . ' . had been ' reservtd ; He should be glad to ' heiir that a forcible pecuiJation ofthoseislaiidsi was not contemplated , for , he feared _thiit ' thc Marquis of Lansdbwne' was not per- ; fectly acquainted with all that passed in the Foreign office . '' . ;¦ _,. _'" ; v ' ;; ¦ ; ¦ _- " •' ¦ " - _;¦ ;; ' ¦ ••• -- ¦ - - ' , ' ; _y . „ . ' . ; .
_JECCtKSUSTICAL , ' .. ' Co « MKsioN , ; Biu .- —• _Tlje Maijqnia _^ of EAnsdowne " moved tlie second reading of this bill . ¦ Its ; principalprovision is forthe separa , _tipniof the financial from the ecclesiastical duties of the cqmmifaion _, the . former being transferred , to , two paid and responsible , commissioners , " one to be . tip . _pointed by , the Archbishop , Of Canterbury arid the other by the Crown , arid to be ' paid £ 000 _i ahd £ l , OW a . year . reflpe ( ctively . _( , ; , _, ... _„ _.,,:,-,: 77 " 77 . . The ArchbiBho ' p of _CAKT _^ Buii YV whiie expires ' sing his concurrence as to the desirableness of making an _alteratipn _. in the existing commission , could not : fefraiii from vindicatiii ** it from , the imputations , which had been cast upon it . With respeot to the ' unhappy ' circumstance bj _wblcli * 7 _j 000 or £ 8 , 000 had been
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abstracted _fromithefonds _^ of ' the _Clmrch ,: he cbiild net help saying that the late secretary ofthe commission had , up to within the last six months of hia ' official life ; performed the part of a faithful and useful servant . .. It would appear that Borne unhappy speculation !* , involving him in' embarrassments , had induced him , in an evil hour , to appropriate the funds confided to hini , in the expectation that lie should be _ableito replace theiri ; '" ' _, .,,,. ; , . _^/ Lord Harkowby , _theBishop of London , and Lord StAm . ** _X pressed for an augmentation in the number Ot ' Bishops ; and , after some discussionas . to the proposed consolidation of the episcopal arid common fund ,,. which ( ,. the Marquis of LANsbowNi *! declared ihat ' the government were determined to effect , the bill was read a second Jime , arid ordered to be com mitted that day fort night .
; HOUSE OF _. CQMMONS . — Mr . Hobsman ' s CnABOB ' AGAINST Th ! k GOVERNMENT . —Previous to the motion being put , - of which Mr . Horsman had given' notice , for a _committee to examine the _charges he had ; brought against Lord J . _Russell and' Sir G . Grey , ; _i'X , v : m _.-:-.... _' . - " . ;¦ ¦ . ¦¦ "' ' _¦ _¦¦ ' '¦ ' / ' •" .. - ' r ' _'" . ; Lord Ashley suggested that' a committee of' that house was not a proper tribunal to investigate a case which turned entirely upon a few casual words ; He believed tliat _the'eharge had arisen altogether in a misconception ! and proposed that the house should he contented with-expressing its general sense of tegret \ for the misunderstanding , and its full belief inthe _^ honourable- intention of all the parties concerried : _i' _- ; _--i i _...- _- . , ; : i'i - , ¦ - _¦ •' ¦ : _- ' ¦ "•'
; , ,, Mr , Horsman explained , that in-writing _the'Ietter in which this charge was first laid , he had no intention of imputing fraud to the ministers , but only of haying strained somewhat unfairly the form of the house against a . too-persevering antagonist . His motives throughout had been altogether public . " - He now gladly _cbnsented-to withdraw his motion . 1 Lord J . _Russbu . had felt keenly the imputation ofa design to deceive . As that was withdrawn-he Was willing ' tb dispense with the committee . Claiming for ministers a favourable interpretation bf their conduct in the performance of their respohsible duties , the noble lord accorded to Mr . norsman full credit for the piirity ' of the motive by which he had been actuated .. -, ' ' ; _> _- ' . "Sir IG . Grey' expressed his satisfaction :: with tlie turn affairs ' had : taken , r and- the subject then dropped ;* ' -i ..- _;';'''' _- _''""^ ¦ . ' _¦>;¦ - ¦ ' ¦ ¦ _i- _' // ¦ _--, ' .. _' ¦
- Tn * _Cetion ' Haynau , and _-Ministekiai , _whitewAsniNO . —Lord - J . Eusseli , read a letter-from Capt . Watson , declaring . that the Ceylon proclamatibn , ; alluded to so frequently in the debate on Wednesday last / was altogether spurious . i Mr . Bahlie said that he possessed a copy of that proclamation , purporting to bear the autograph signature of Capt * Watson himself , * _IThe mbtion'being put for the appointment of the Ceylon Committee ,- : '"•'¦• _/ ' _- - ¦ - •• ' r ; vMr . lIcxiE . warned the house against expecting that the'truth could be satisfactorily ascertained by means of that committee . ' Too-successful efforts were made in the colony to stop the evidence , to leave aiiyhope bf a fair trial being thus effected . ... Mr . J ; ¦ Stdart believed that the efforts bf the committee tb _. _' elicit the truth had been baffled last year by the govornment _/ and wbuld probably be ¦
so again . _\ ¦ ' - " Lord J . _"Rossei , i , repeated the explanation given on "Wednesday touching the refusal of witnesses . All the evidence required- by the . committee was granted . - The attendance ' of those parties only was refused which the chairman had taken upon him to demand after the close of the session : _,, Mr . _AdPerlet reiterated the _charge against Earl Grey of having burked the investigation . Expense should , hot have been grudged in bringing over witnesses who ; in so aggravated a case , were worth their weight in gold . _^ ¦ - _; : - " ... Mr . Disraeli , while oh the committee last year , had endeavoured to pursue the truth , and would this yearcontinue the' pursuit , but with no very sanguine hopes of overtaking it . He complained ofthe influence used- " elsewhere' " 'to baffle ' the
_inqiiu'j . . . ,. Mr . _Roeduck thought that any member bf the committee who . believed that . the . inquiry would be swamped ought not to complain only , but to resign . The charge against the provernment of stopping _evi- _^ dence was one of gross dishonesty , and required to befully substantiated . . . Ceylon was a great dependency , held under very delicate circumstances , and he protested against its government being thwarted and carped at for the sake of a -barren popularity . Tho hon . member vindicated the talent ' and humanity of Lord Torrington , and argued that the "law " in Ceylon should not be interpreted according , to the rules of the . _English equity courts . Lawyers , he added , made very bad statesmen , and in India and other cbloriies . were generally at loggerheads with the . government ;
'Mr . nuME ;' with much warmth , denounced the denial of law to Ceylon , by the hon . member for _Sheffiold , and retorted the charge of popularityhunting ; He mourned over the same hon . member ' s desertion from his : ancient principles , _andtotal disappearance . of that watchful jealousy , he had been wont to bear for the liberties ef oppressed subjects ., . ... .. . . . . ., . . ,... ., _,,,, / , / ,, ' ' _; ; Mr . Roebuck was sure of the . kind intentions ' of Mr . * "Qum ' e _7 bulinbt so ' siire of his ' clear-sightedness . He , still believed that it was improper to bring vague accusations , but would be the first tb support amotion for the impeachment of ministers if the charges alleged in the Ceylon affair could but be substantiated . ! , . .- . , ' . The committee was agi'eed to . Pirates ( Head Monet ) Repeal Bill . —On the second reading of , this bill , - - , ,
. Sir G . " Clerk resisted the deprivation of reward and encouragement to the men and officers who exposed themselves in the dangerous service of destroying piracy . . ' ¦ Sir T _^ Baring thought the receipt of blood-rooney derogatory : to the honour , of the British service . He did not propose to withdraw the rewards of any service of danger , but _Jnstead of setting a prico on every pirate ' s head , it was proposed to leave with the Admiralty tlie discretion of granting a fitting remuneration in every case . This was also a fairer mode of distribution , ' ' as"the danger could hot always be-treasured by ; the numbers of the pirate enemy . -The sums lately paid for head-money would require a grant from tho house of about - £ 100 , 000 . ; . _..:.-, : > : , ; : .-
; Mr . _HoMEiho . ught the principle of . giving extra rewards to , . irieinbers _. pf paid services wholly erroneous . [ lit looked like a bribe , and involved . the suspicion that without such influence oui'soldiers and sailors would not do their duty ; much of the large amount ' -mentioned by ; Sir . F . Baring had been fraudulently granted . In the recent attack on the Borncan ; pirates , -the numbers destroyed were very loosely calculated , and no proof shown that the ships . attacked : were really engaged in piracy . ' _. _^ . Mr ,. Cobden protested at once against ; g iving 4100 , 0 p 0 . for .. . thc destruction of the alleged pirates . Informatioh from Lloyd ' s . showed that no dread of piracy had ever existed iri the Borheari seas ; the massacre at Sarabas appeared to be a niere ' 'battue , in which Rajah Brooke had used the British _marine'tbrevenge his private piques . lie should move for a committee to have the subject fully investigated . ?; _.- ¦ '• ; _,: . ¦ _:-, ' ' . , : . Thehill was then read a second time .
_, ; . Tiie Mercahiilb Marine — -Mr . " LADO . ncnERB broun ; ht in three . bills for improving tho condition of masters , mates , and seamen in the merchant service , 'the regulation of the merchant seamen ' s fund , 'hnd the admeasurement ofthe- tonnage of merchant vessels . Their principal features were : — Firt , -The appointment of a ; board of examiners , under tho Board : of . Trade , who were to grant certificates to candidates for the command _, of merchant vessels upon , proof , of their possessing the proppr qualifications . No captain who had . not previously served . to receive an appointment unless , he . had obtained such , a certificate . Secondly , —to arm _captairis ' and _' inates with greater powers to enforce difeei p lino among their crows . Thirdly , —to supersede ! thb ' existing shipping , agents and crimps by
the establishment of offices in the ports under the supervisioniof government , where , for the moderate fees , ! the contracts may bo prepared for the seaman when he ships for jthe voyage , and his pay handed to _: him on his return . Fourthly , —to improye the present . system bf registration of seamen , and to pre . vent the frauds practised on sailors upon their advance-notes by _making those documents legally . recoverable : and fifthly , —to nrovido that marine courts , under the presidency oi some naval officer > may j be ; . constituted in , distinct ports , and armed with verysummary powers for the sottloment of all _gravjoi questions , between merchant , seamen . and theiij oqmmnnders „ Mi _% Labpuchero ! concluded by depi _^ catingthe . objcotion that this bill would , endow _; the government with' any excessive powers over _ipriyato interests .
a -After some conversation the bills wore ordered to _bOibroughtj in _.,- . - _,,,.. . „ ... _,..,.,-. ,,, _i . _^ . _/ Mis _^ cii _^ NT . _^ SKAMBN ' _s _^ _. Fund _" . _^ Mr .. Labouchere -then , addvessod himself ' tb the question of _, ' th ' e _, , Me ' n iclmnt ! Se . amen [ 8 _* Puhd , and the measures . _Jiecessary : to ; ,. place JiVin a .. ' nibre satisfactory , condition . '¦' . Do gave " t _>^ e , t " ch : bf Jtli . e . history of the , fun < _j _, and , of its prcsiBnt state _' _^ t . lio . disp _^ ; to . _thoj _j Capricibus mahnbr , in ( which . ' it [" . works ,, ' the _insolvency of the . fiirid ; ' a ' sa . w . hole , ' [ . [ iw ' d ,, ' the ! _'Iiswh- . tontl generated , by .. ] its present , system , ! , of ; manage-, ment . ui After _^ mhturooon . si ' deraMpn . he . had , come io
the conclusion that thovbest _. _cqui'se . was to , place tho fund under , one , . uniform . cehtral . _managenient . which ho prbposbdto . vest in ' the Trinity Hbilse , incbri-. junction with . the _. Jwb _. mercantile , members of ; tho newjdepfirttnent ofthe Board , of ; Tra . de .: He proposed _, that no seaBnaii should receive a _^ Jess pension tharj _§ di ) a ., d ' ay- _'*! _ihaifi * the [ paymeht tb , [ the , fund , in-Btoad of ls _l , snoulji be Is ,,, 6 d a _riibni ; h , and that the _s , umj _necessaryVtb , restore . the _; fund to _solvencynamelyje 30 , 0 pQ ' a "' ye _^ _r-- _^ shbuld be ; contributed by _tbeState . ' _^ . ' _, _" : , , 7 _tru _^ Xt 7 ' t u , V ; 7 , X _-r . _< 7 _{„ _. : _^ M _^^ HuMK objected . to , . consigning to tho . Trinity , House _[| ho ; _managqmont _, of a fund- wliich should be administered by national responsible ' officers . " . ' . I , " The _, _disw'iBion , _* ff _^ to the '¦ f , ! """ ' "' . _- .. ¦¦ ¦ : - ' . . ¦ . . - '
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details-and ' machinery : of : _the-measure- _"was-protracted- to _some ,: _lenrthji . Sir ; , 0 . . _Cl _** bk , j Mr . W . Paoas , ; Sir W . _Cuv , Mr . C _^ tfEiri , aiid Mr . Head _, mu being the speakers ..- _^ ,, ¦ _< _-. ' .- ; ; The _CnAiBMANwas authorised tb ask for leave to . bring in this bill . ' / . ' . — . . ; .-,-Mr . Labouchebe then brought forward ; h . is . last bill , for regulating the ' admeasurement" of tonnage , which he considered wouid be a'great imprbvement of the _existing system , and would tend , to the advancement bftho shipping interest . He stated that tho new law of _measurement which he proposed to substitute would ascertain accurately the real power of a . vessel to cariy cargo .. " * ¦ This resolution was- likewise agreed to , and , with the other resolutions , was reported to the house . ' " ¦
Electoral : _Qualification ( Ireland . )—Sir W ; Somebvillf . then moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws which regulate the qualification and registration of Parliamentary voters' of Ireland , which , he had introduced last year , when its principle was not objected to . The few alterations be had made since that time wero not material . The £ 8 rating . in towns was retained , but he proposed to give the county franchise to persons entitled to estates in fee or entail , of the value ; of £ 5 , to tenants for life . _, Mr . Staitord regretted that , instead of such a measure as this , of apolitical character , some means of ' _-alloviating : the distress'in the faniihe-stricken districts Of the west of Ireland had not been devised
by the government . . . _- _. . Several Irish " members spoke _upOft the question , but none objected to the introduction of the bill , for which leave was given , as well as tb bring in a bill to shorten the duration of elections in Ireland . Prison [ Disciplinb . — -Sir G . Grey moved for . a . select committee to inquire into the rules arid _dtsoipline established ; with regard Jo , the treatment of prisoners . in gaols in England arid Wales . Mr . : Pearson complamcd that this- subject had been taKen out of his hands , and iritimated _^ hat unless the reference to the committee were so moulded as to embrace the objects lie had in view _^ and- the committee were fairly named , he should bring forward a specific motion in this matter hereafter . .: ' _- ...
Mr . ' MoKSEM . suggested the addition of the word " Ireland' _^ to the motion . 7 .,, ' _-.. ' . . Sir G . Grey objected to giving directions to the committee specifically to take up the plan of Mr . Pearson .. . ; , ' .. " . ' . _- . ' , .. - ; ' ;¦ ..., Lord _"Nt aas inove'd the addition ofthe words " and Ireland . " [ _. ' , - _, .. . _[ ¦' . ' , .. . x , „ Sir G . Grey did not wish to [ overload the committee with too much labour , but if the house was of opinion _sthat . Jt was not too much to intrust to one committee , he should defer to ' that opinion / : Upon a . division , the amendment was nega'tived by 23 against 18 ; and the house adjourned at halfpast one o'clock .,,. ¦ ' :. _- _; TUESDAY , _PebkiuevJ 2 . ; _. _,. ' _¦ : ' ..
HOUSE OF LORDS . —The Transportation Question . —Lord Stanley presented two petitions from the Gape praying that convicts might not be transported to that colony . _<; As the Order in . Council complained of hadibeen rescinded , he would _^ not enter into a discussion which might lead to the expression of angry feeling . He should ; however , be glad to receive an assurance that _tbe-order in _ques- < tion would not be re-issued . ' ¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ . > _v _; - . ¦ , ; Earl Grey had no hesitation in giving the assurance required . He would only observe that it had never been intended systematically to transport convicts to , the Cape . - ..: ,
; Lord _BRouonAMthought the conduct of the colonists most cruel and unjustifiable in not allowing the unfortunate convicts to Jand , after they had experienced _thesufferings'of a three months' voyage . Lord Stanley intimated his opinion that the colonists had gone much too far in their opposition to this order . He certainly-would not vindicate their conduct . ' The Earl of ¦ Ellenborough wished to draw _at-. _tention tb one _circumitanee . connected with the lot ofthe persons whose transportation had produced
such extreme excitement at the Cape . The captain ofa ship engaged by _^ contract to carry convicts to their j destination was- bound to have on board a quantity of provisions and water far exceeding the probable consumption of those on board / In-this case it appeared that whilst the ship lay at the Cape the water was expended , and only 400 lbs . of beef remained , there being hardly any other provision on board . Had . there been a gale off the Cape , the probability was that every one of these persons would have died of famine .
Earl Grey did not know that there was any reason to find fault with the manner in which the contract : had been performed in this case . Very probably the small quantity of provisions on board was to boaccounted for by the extraordinary long passage of the vessel ; The matter then dropped . HOUSE _OFCOMMONS . —The Factory Acis . — Lord Ashley asked-the Secretary of State for the Home Department . whether his intention had been directed to a decision which had lately been given in the Court of Exchequer , ' relating to the construe--tion of certain clauses in the Factory Acts ; and , if so , whether it was the intention of the government tb introduce any law declaratory of the principles of
that act , or to take any other measures with a view to obviate the very evil consequences which he ( Lord Ashley ) apprehended must result from the decision to which he alluded . i Sir G . Grey replied , that he had only , received the short-hand-writer ' s notes of ; the judgment inJhe case referred to that afternoon _^ just before he came down to the house . He had therefore , as yet , had no opportunity of becoming fully informed as to the terms of that judgment ; although he was , of course , perfectly aware of the general nature of the'decision . : The nohle lord was aware that he ( Sir O . Grey ) had been prepared last session to submit a bill to the house which he : thought would have effected a reasonable adiustment of the differences
which existed as to : the construction of the various Factory Acts . He found that from , neither of the parties interested would that bill receive much supportj as tliey each took an extreme view of what they considered to be their rights . There seemed to bo a desire that : the decision _: of oho-of the supreme courts of law should be obtained on the subject , and it was intimated that that would settle the question . Such a decision had heen obtained , but he ( Sir G . Grey ) did not know on _^ what grounds it rested , and he could not at present announce an intention on the part of the government to propose a bill with reference to the subject . The Colonies ;—Sir W . _Molesworth , who had a notice upon the paper , of an intention tb move
_resolutions on-the subject of colonial government , said that , as Lord John Bussell had taken this subject into his own hands , ho should abstain from moving those resolutions . At the same time he observed that , although nothing could be more liberal than the principles laid down by the noble lord , he was sorry that he did riot propose to apply them to an extent whioh would give complete content to the colonics . He was sorry that the noble lord only intendedto revive the bill of last year with regard to Australia ; but still he would not offer any objection to the second reading of the bill , as it recognised the : principle of representative institutions in Australia , and he thought any form of representative institution ' s was better than hone at all .
Ho would , however , try to obtain two elective chambers and-an elective government for them . This power which the Colonial-office at present possessed was a great grievance to the colonists , and he objected to such a measure as would keep up for tho Colonial-office an arbitrary power of interfering in the internal management of colonial affairs . He should propose to denude the Colonial-office of the power , and ho would try to draw a distinction between an inferior and a local parliament . He should likewise object to the details of the measure , because it did not include New Zealand , which was asready for a constitution ns any of the __ Australian colonies .: He would-, withdraw his motion , substituting fov . it one for certain papers _. The papers were ordered .
Packing Irish Juries . —Mr . _Sadleir then moved for a soloct committeo to inquire into tho facts connected with the striking , of the special jury , in the case of ' " Callanan v . Cameron "—a civil , action in the county , of Tipperary— -Itoman Catholics having been excluded from the jury list . The case arose out of the forcible occupation of two houses , in , Ca _&> rick-on-Siiir , during Mr . Smith O'Bnen ' s " rising , " by Major Cameron . Callanan , the owner instituted an action for damages , the . CrownTSoiicitor defended Cameron , and the case being sent to a special jury , ho struck out _nipe of the most respectable gent ' eman . of the county , solely , it was believed , because they were Roman Catholics . ' Mr . Sadleir said . that he meditated no attack upon the government ' ;; be attacked , a system which was at once insulting to
the Itoman Catholic population and an injury to every-ProteBtant in Ireland . . . Mr . Hatcueh ( the Solicitor-Gen eral for Ireland ] gave Mr . Sadleir credit , for having brought forward this motion , as he had declared , with the view of conciliating the people of Ireland and reconciling those dissensions which all lameuted ; but from tho _tenorof'his _. _speeoh , . coupled , with his motion , he thought the course he had taken was not calculated ! to , eneot ; . liis , professedobjeqt . ; The house was still ignorant that this important ease , which was an action lOf . trespass , bet ween subieot and subiect , had
not yet been tried ; it might come on at the assizes at , Clonmel ;; andiit was most . objectionable that the trial should take place while such a discussion and inquiry should be going oh : in , this ; house . He assured the hou 8 e , upon the testimony bf Mr . Kemmiss , that ; there had ; been . no intontion , to cast , ariy : slur uporii the respectable . gentlemen struck off , who were excluded , according , to legal , practice , for reasons irrespective of _^ -: their- religious opinions , "ff Mr . Sadleir declired to withdraw the motion , he should meet it with . a direct negative , .: _^ ' / v - uMr . _. Scuuy _svoke in _flupporgjfthe-moljbn _, _; , _Stoiv Napiee acainstit , and Mr . , \ _Y- _^^ _iot _^ ; ap _*^ are 4-J _# ) - i , ; : _t :: j " _^ W M _^
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 16, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16021850/page/7/
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