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cf barrel-organ , and chorus of all _ase _** , saxes , and conditions , _ard which is destined to live in the annals of regenerated Italy . , , „ INJfO DI GUERUA THE NE W ITALIAN _ITALIAN . _MASSBILI-AISB . Gnerra ! Gu-rra ! "War ! War ! Let the shout Sull' _Itala terra Bing throughout DiVittoria Length and breadth _Grandezzia il _veallo . Ot this land that ia Italy S del' angel Our &> g , yonr dark eagle
_DilTortelofquiUo Shall flout ! Che chi desta- And death and the devil , Allinsultostran'er . Itsfitallki ! _ < 3 aerra ! Gaerra ! For the land of etch Muse , Per l'ltala terra , Arc , and Sons ' Per la insdre Tor the old Sorgiamo o redenti . Bright abode of the happy June ; Oh I nel _pfgno Tf ield the _wespon ! Di liber ti genti Arras spring for tbe strong Ogna ronca - While an eak cudgel E nn _acciaro guerrier . Grows upon Apenmae !
n , ii . ¦ _"TiA le rose ' . _Leas e to fat lands 3 ? orti Itale spDse , The weaving of garlands . Far' d'infamia tessate Maids and wives S d _' _oliraggio . Ofthe land they would trample ; TJilia terra che senate For the bright classic brows Ii _servaggio 0 : _Rome ' s maiden and spouse Df gno strto alia Donna Freedom's head-dress 33 il cim ' ter ! Is ornament ample 1 Gnerra ! guerra ! But if _naeas be , ay , well met Sulla' Itala terra That brow and a helmet . ' Di Yittotia . Eali & _ted Granaezxia il _vesillo _, With legions of freemen , £ del' angel de morte ; Palermo is won ! to sauillo . Bat the deeds that were done Che ci desti Tell the world All' _insalto stranier . _What ' s tat worth , _otout women
III . III . Pera ! peral Foreign hordes . ' of your swords Quell' orda stranitra S And your swagger Che di prodl Be our land , onto for ay , Si brama del _sangus ! Disencumbered \ II ploral del Lon ; arrears _Lombardo che langue _, Are still due to our dagger Sia di mille For the tears _Vandette il forier ! 0 ? onr brother the Lombard . Guerra' gaerra ! War ! war ! let tho shout Per _l'lca ' a terra , King throughout Per la _midro The expanse of ths land Sorgiamo 0 ! redenti . That is Italy ' s ! Ob nel pngno , Our Qag Tii libera genie j Your dark _eagle shall & out , Ogni _ronci -. _ Aad death aad the devil , E ua guerrier ! Ita fit allies !
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. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS . Northers Star . Office , Saturday morninu , March 25 ih THE FRENCH REPUBLIC . On Wednesday a great demonstration took place in the Champ de Mars -when the Tree of Liberty was plantfed . Ledru-Rollin delivered a soul-stirrinz address tr . the assembled thousands . Commcrc'al _failures continue , and the bourgeoisie over-awed in Paris , are plotting manifestations against the Republic in some of tbe departments .
GERMANY . Accounts from Vienna state that the whole town was then completely intoxicated with joy and criumph ; thc preliminaries of a universal constitution for all the Austrian dominions had been proclaimed , in which even the Lombardo-Venetian kincdom was included . All the P 61 e 3 condemned for tbe conspiracy of February , 1 S 16 _, have be ? n est at liberty by the Kins of Prussia . They were escwted in triumph through ihe streets of Berlin by immense masses of the _pe"ple . It 11 reported thatthe King of Bavaria has abdicated .
rTALY . INSURRECTION IN LOMBAKUY _. Despatches have been received in Paris , announcing the important fact that Lombardy is in high insurrection . The movement commenced in Bereamo and Brescia , and ensued at Milan . The _Jeinits hare beea driven from Naples . POLAND . RE 70 LUTI 0 N IX CEiCOW . Cracow , March 17 . —The _Sassu _Gazettb says * Our political prisoners are free . About nine thia morning immense masses of _ocople assembled and demanded the liberation of ths political prisoners . Count _Dsjm was obliged to drive with Marshal CastigHon to the prison , and effect their desires . The people also demanded the removal of the custom lines and gourd , the _arminji of the people , and ofthe burgher rai _' _s'ia ; all of which demands will no doubt ba ooncedfcd . *
HOLLAND . The republio has been proclaimed ia Dutch . Lus embur £ , with the exception of the town of _Luxem burs itself , whicii is under the cannon of the for tress-
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THE NATIONAL LAND PLAN . SPEECH OF F . O'CONXOE , ESQ ., M . P ., IN" TEE HOUSE OF _COMMONS , OS _THUB . 3 IUY , THE 16 th OF MARCH . Fbiexdlt Socmzs . —Mr F . _O'Cossos _. in rising to mere for leave to _brinu in a bill to alter and amend the act of 9 and 10 Victoria , c . 27 , entitled , ' An Aet to Amend the Laws Relating to Friendly Societies , ' said ho wished to ask the right hon . gentleman the Home Secretary , whether he had any objection to the introduction of this bill ? Sir G . _GBErsaid , he would consent to the introduction ef the bill if the Bon . member would show sufficient ground for it .
MrF . _O'Ccskor then said , that he did not wish to introduce a new law , or to extend the present law to ths prejudice of any existing companies , but on the part of the vrnrking classes , who had been baulked ofthe fruits ofthe various _raessures that had been passed for their benefit , h . 8 asked fer the consent of the house to ihe introduction of this bill . Perhaps it might be imprudent to introduce a novel subject , the principle of which would require considerable developement , at that late hour of the night , and he must , therefore , claim its indulgence while he stated sufficient grounds for bringing in the bill , leaving to the house the power t « deal with the details in ita
future stages . Thefirefc reading of the bill was looked npon rather as matter of form , and ha trngted -that the zeal of the advocate would not damage the interests ef h ' s clients , as he eandidly confessed bin determination to leave nothing unexplained , but to develope all to the house . ( Sear , hear . ) He was happy to find the effect that petitions now had tipon tho _flonso of Commons , as con . fessed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer , vrho , under their wholesome influence , had abandoned his budget ; and b . 3 would remind the house that he ( Mr O'Connor ) had presented a petition , signed by 205 , 000 individuals , in favour of his
motion . and th 2 t several hon . members had presented petitions from different societies of Odd Fellows , and to the _protection of which societies his ( Mr O'Connor's ) bill would extend . ( Hear , hear . ) The Land Plan , which he would presently submit to the house , _tci 3 of a social character , but did not at all partake of the nature of Socialism or Communism . It meant individuality of _possession and co-operation of labour —( hear , hear)—and if he was asked to define the results anticipated from the Plan , hia answer was' That , after a quarter of a century ' s continuous political agitation , he discovered that tha working classes had been invariably used ns tools io gain power for political leader _* , who promised great social results as tbe frnit _, which , however , they sever received . ( Hear , hear . ) The people were _alivavs
nsed for the benefit of those who professed to serve them , but always betrayed them . [ Hear-, hear . ) lie came , therefor ? , to the conclusion that from a good Eocial state alone could a sound representative system spring . ( Hear , hear . ) He would advert to the three great political triumphs of Iato years , and he -would show lhat , although beneficial social resnlts _wera promised , yet that additional political influence , eonferred upon the leaders , was all the people gained . Hs would instance—firstly , Emancipation—and ¦ wh ich , though of a _religious character , _promised great social _6-nefin ?; but which , however , was carried by political influences , brought to bear on that house—( hear , hear)—and resulted in the purchase of _emancipa' . ed leaders , and the further degradation cf the people . ( Hear , hear , asd cheers . ) Nest came Reform — with PEACE ,
RETRENCUAiEXT , ace UEbORM , as its motto . ( Laughter . ) Well , that wav carried bypolitical influences , created by large s cial expectations . Next came Free Trsde _, with its f _^ _cihatum motto—HIG 11 WAGES , CHEAP BllEAD , AND PLENTY TO DO . ( Hear , hear , ani laughter . ) From these facts , be argced that no mere political change could be beneficial to the workb g _elates , if not accompanied by toe great social principle , that every man who is Trilling to labour should have work found for bim of m 2 SS _rtSfoS reraunsratin _? *»«» - _finely , on tne sou wn . _eb Cod created , and gave to maa to live upon in the sweat of h _^ brow . " ( _wfhea " _IP * _SK 7 _I _* Wch ampl y _Remunerated the _mdUstaeUB , and which would make _idleneis a
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crime . ( Hear , _hean ) TePi but giro hira the means of employing all for _taeirown _bene _^ , and he would - _oisent to a Coercion Bill against willing idlers . ( H ar , hear . ) It wa 3 an admitted fact , that the _fiwt duty ofa _government waa io see to the proper cultivation and developement of the national resources . ( Hear _, hear _. ) And he ( Mr O'Connor ) contended , that the proper cultivation efthe soil ofthe eountry should be the primary consideration with all governments , while that employment was the only one at which man could apply his own labour for his own benefit ; in faot , the free labour field was the mist in which the labourer couli coin his sweat into _exchangeahl-3 commodities , by the sale of which he c iuld supply himself with the necessaries and even luxuries ef life—as he { Mr O'Connor ) contended
_fc' . at , above all men , tbe labourer was entitled to _abundance , contentment , and plenty , ( Hear , hear . ) He also contended thst every other class of society , whether commercial , _trading , manufacturing , or _sliopkeepinj * . would be materially benefited , that ie , a well-paid domestic labour-class would be better customers than a pauper colony—( hear , hear)—and the shopkeepers would be the greatest gainers . He was sorry not toeee the hon . member for the University of Oxford in his place , as he would have appealed to the religious feelings of that hon . gentleman , by _reminding him that man was commanded to eat his bread in tbe sweat of hi 3 brow . He would ateo appeal to thefreo trade party , a portion of whose doctrine was , tbat wken one channel of industry waa closed , another waa opened , as if by
magic . ( Laughter . ) He would also appeal to the statute law , recently enacted by tbat house—and Burely , _ifreligion _. iolitical economy , _aadstatutelaw had all confirmed tbe principle he sought to establish , hat Christian , economical , legislative _asserablywonld sanction , not only the first reading of his bill , bat would vie in its completion . He had quoted scripture , he would now quote ' political economy , that when one channel was closed _against industry , others were opened . Thiswa 9 an absurd fallacy , _however , which had gained some little strength By the fact of the railway mania having created a temporary market for the dismissed hands from other avocations * , but what he ( Mr O'Connor ) wished to establish was the national , and not the artificial , standard for the
regulation of wages—( hear hear )—not only had thousands been dismissed , but the candle was burning at both ends , because other countries , grown wise in their generation , had repudiated reliance upon England , and were manufacturing for themselves . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , add to these facta the < fcher great fact , that machinery was being daily improved , and that every improvement led to an extensive dismissal of hanis , thon he ( Mr O'Connor ) was justified in demanding that the natural channel should be opened for the employment of all who were disinherited from the artificial market —( hear , hear ) —and it woald be no answer to him , nor would tbe country receive it as an excuse , that the Company which he had founded for the realisation of these ob jects , did not ceme within the provision of any
existing statute . No , he based his claim upon higher and more legitimate grounds , upon the grounds that if tbe genius , the enlightenment , and the sagacity of the age , propounded any plan for the advancement of science , the cultivation of resources of the country , and the bestowal of reward for industry , that though there had previously existed no law to embrace such a society , that in _suc-h case it _becomes the beunden duty of the House of Commons to enact a new law to embrace the new project , as it had enacted laws for the protection of trade , for the protection of railway speculators . Joint Stock Companies , and other societies . ( Hear , hear . ) Thia wa 3 the grounds for his claim for legal protection to the Land Company , even if such . a project did not come within the provisions of the statute law ; and he
trusted that the impression would not be allowed to go abroad , that there was only protection in that house for the property of the rich , and that the _Bpirit of the law was extended to the preservation of their properties , privileges , and institutions * , while the black letter of the law waa stamped upon the undertakings of the poor , which had for their object protection for the pence rescued from the gin palace and beer shop , when a profitable market for their savings was opened —( hear , hear)—but , as he would presently show , the law as it new stood , was intended to embrace the Land Company and Odd Fellows Society , bad it not been for a capricious construction put upon the words ' ejusdem generis , ' by Mr Justice Wightman , and a quibble founded upon that Judgment by the
Attorney General . But to this branch of the subject he would come presently , and having disposed of the question of religion and free trade , he would now come to the question of statute law . It wonld be . in the recollection of tbe house that the Gregory clause in the Poor Relief Bill ( Ireland ) , declared that a quarter of an acre of land was sufficient fer the maintenance of a labouring man and his family . ( Hear , hear , and a sneer frora Mr Morgan John O'Connell . ) The hon . member for Kerry cheer * sneeringVy _, but will that cheer alter the law , and wiil he tell me that any man is entitled to relief who is in _possession of a quarter an acre of land ? ( cheers ) —or perhaps he . tnaV teil mo with his usual _Eantimentality that tTdat _orntront ; is intended aa a _*" , ' I . bzd , ot- a flower garden . ( Cheers and laughter )
However , such is the law—such aro its _resuks , and aa such I adopt it a * confirmation of the fact that this house in its wisdom has declared that a quarter of an acre of ground is ample for the sustenance ofa man and hia family , and lose this argument to meet the ont door opposition of the gentlemen opposite oftho economical school of Manchester—( laughter ) —who , in their ignorance of the capabilities ofthe soil , have spurned the idea of a man and his family living npon the produce of two , three , ot even four acres ol land ; but , throwing the quarter-acre statute over board , he would take a - still holder position , and say , whether it be two acres or ten , he had established the principle , and let quantity be one of the details . ( Cheers . ) Then the onus would lie up . n the fre 9 traders to declare what waa tbe minimum ,
and the' onus would lie upon him ( Mr O'Connor ) and the working ( lasses to secure tbat amount for all who preferred the natural state of freedom to an artificial state of slavery , and he would remind the free trade party that a material item of the free trade principle was , that ene could produce as much as three could consume . ( Hear , hear . ) And he ( Mr O'Connor ) contended that no man who had ever been born could cultivate one acre to its highest state of perfection , and the free trade _sohool g hould bear in mind , that one of their greatest complaints formerly was , the necessity of exporting their goods in an unfinished state . ( Hear , hear . ) Then if the manufacturers of cotton , of wool , and of flix suffered damage by not being able to secure the profit arising from the perfection of their work , is ifc not self .
evident that land is a ? much a raw material as cotton , wool , or flax , aad that its imperfect manufac ture is equally a loss to the manufacturer ? ( Cheerr ) He wonld now call the attention of the landlords to a startling fact , it was this—he would ask them to travel north , south , east , or west , and point out to him fifty or even ten acres of land in all England lying together , cultivated so aa to yield one third of what it is capable of producing . ( Hear , hear . ) Well , then , if that is an admitted fact , and if that anomaly has compelled us to pay thirty-three millions to other countries in sixteen months for corn that we might profitably have produced ' at home—( hear , hear , and cheers )—will the landlords of this country , who should be the natural patrons of their natural clients , not only consent to a
continuance of this _Btate of things , but will they also consent to the payment of over six millions a year in poor rates , to give patronage to a government and to keep up an idle reserve of system-made paupers for capitalists to fall back upon as a means of balancing losses by reductions in wages . ( Cheers . ) Yes , that was the question for them to consider , and for the government to consider , as the people had now made up their minds upon the subject . Let no jacobin cry be raised _agaiast this plan ; it embraces Whigs , Tories , Chartists and Radicals , and all who wished to bs independent ; and their object was honourably to purchase tbe land in the free trade market and not to steal it , but on the contrary , as he would presently show , to open a large retail market wherein the value of the land , to meet the necessities of the time ? ,
would be considerably enhanced in value . ( Hear , hear . ) He would prove that the large farmer , who paid five shillings an acre too much for a thousand acres of land thereby lost £ 250 . a year , or four per cent , upon £ G , 250 . of his capital , while five shillings an acre , ten shillings aa acre , or even £ 1 . an acre for two , three , or four acres , upon which a man could employ his own industry , and never be idle , was matter of comparativer _. insignificance . ( Hear _. hear . ) He would explain the uifferenc 8 batween tha wholesale and retail value of land . He had bought land , wholesale , for £ 30 . an acre , and had sold it , retail , for £ 67 . 10 s . ( Hear , hear , and laughter from Dr Bowring . ) The hon . member for Bolton cheers and laughs , but was he aware that the profit went into the exchequer of the company . ; the purchaser was not a member of the company , and had refused double the amount for h * 3 _pnrchaso , and , now wou'd the learned gentleman tell hira whether any portion ofthe profits made _bymanufacturers , out oi reduced
wage 3 , was devoted to a fund for the support or protection ofthe labourer . ( _Ghrers and laughter . ) He would now explain the principle of his plan . Every man who subscribed £ 2 . 12 s . wa 3 entitled to two acres of land , with a good cottage built in the centre of it , and £ 15 . capital to commence ; every man who subscribed £ 3 . _ISs . was entitled to three acres , the same description of cottag « and £ 22 . 10 s . capital ; and the member who subicribed £ 5 . ii . was entitled to four acres of Hand , a similar description of cottage and £ 39 . capital , and the occupants were se-Iected'from the paid up shareholders _by . ba _' . lot ( Hear , hear , from Sir George Grey . ) les , tbo right hon . baronet may cheer , in tho belief that this mode of selection ' wauld bring the Company within thc _category of lotteries , but he would answer this objection at once . The objection would bo , that the contingency whereof the concurrence is susceptible of calculation by way of average was repugnant to the words ' _cjusdem generis , ' but he ( Mr O'Connor ) would prove to _deaiQCBtratwa that tho contingency was
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better susceptible to calculation by way of average , as regards tha Land Company , than as regards any . ther company in existence . __ How were your tab ' es , calculating those contingencies , made out ? Why , by actuaries , whose tableB in every insurance company differed . ( Hear , hear , and laughter . ) Would the tables of any life assurance company be calculated to meat dea ths in Ireland last year , or to meet deaths in England within the last six months ? But he would place this question simply upon its own merits , and here he wou'd complete his answer to the hon . member f jrUolton . That hon . gentleman may not be able to buy a hogshead of sugar in the wholesale market , but he would have no objection to give any price for as much as would sweeten his tea , in the retail market . ( Laughter . ) Well , when the grocer
had disposed of the _hogsaend in pounds and ounces , he bought onoti _erhop ' ieadin the wholesale _raatkef and so with the lanu . If we chose to buy in the wholesale market , to subdivide , give permanent titles and sell again in the wholesale market , the occurrence , I contend ' for it , ia more susceptible of calculation by way of average than any concurrence or contingency attempted to be calculated by any standard or table , adopted by actuaries as the rule of their calculation , ( Hear , hear , _andcheers ) Perhaps I may be told , however , by political economists , that the application of la . bour deteriorates the value of land , and if I am met with that absurdity , I shall ask if it does deteriorate the value of cotton —( hear , hear . )—and if I am told thatthe manufacturers can buy the raw
materialmanufacture it—sell it—and buj mere raw material , then I say that I can buy the land—manufacture it —sell it—and buy more raw materia ' , ( hear , bear , ) thus proving that the results are better susceptible of calculation than those guessed at by any other _company . I am not silly enough to suppose that £ 5 4 s . will buy four acresof land , build a house , and give a man £ 30 ; neither am 1 silly enough to believe that five-i ence , the price of a pound of _sus-ar , wil ! buy a hogshead ; but I do believe and a ? aert , that if the same amount of property were sold , that it would _realiFenrre than had been originally given for it , in consequence of the great demand for land consequent upon the increase of population and the .
increase and improvements in machinery . ( Hear hear . ) And such was the desire to _possi ss a free labour-field by shopkeepers and others , who were feeling the pressure of the times , that £ 60 bonus above the rent , and all liabilities , had been refused for a ' wo-acre allotment . £ 100 for three acres , and £ 160 for four acres . ( Hear , hear , ) He had'located thirty-five families in Hertfordshire , last May , * fortyfive families in Worcestershire ; and would locate eighty families in Oxfordshire in the present month ; and if honourable gentlemen will be kind enough to visit those locations , be would show them a Wilderness turned into a Paradise . Let him now give them an analysis ofthe law as regards the present Land Company .
It is within the spirit . and object of the Friendly Society Acts , which were intended to give facilities ard advan tageB to poor persons associating together , to provide by their j . int contributions for the contingencies of life . The _existing Acts are JO Geo . 4 . c . 50 4 aud 5 W . 4 , c . _iQ and 9 and 10 Tic . c . 27 ; The object for which FriendlySocieties might be formed under 10 Geo . 4 , were extended by 4 and 5 W . i , and again professedly bo by 9 and 10 Yic . By i _and-5 W . 4 , s . 2 , they mi ght be formed for mutual relief and maintenance of the members In sickness , age , or any other natural state or contingency , whereof the occurrence is susceptible of calculation by wayof average , or for any other purpose which is net illegal . One would have thought these were large enough to include the Land Company . Counsel were of opinion that they were ; Mr Tidd Pratt ' s own impression was , that such Company
might be enrolled , but he felt bound by . a decision of Mr Justice Wightman , lhat the words ' other _" p urpose wbich is not illegal , ' must betalien to mean a purpose ofthe same kind , or ' ejusdem generis , 'as those before enumerated , viz ., ' relief and maintenance in sickness , and . a _^ e , or other natural contingency susceptible of calculation by _wayofaverago , ' and MrT . Pratt did not appear to think that the Land Company came within such purpose , though it _* j certainly borders closely upon it , b ; ing to pro . vide a maintenance for persons , and to endeavour to guard against the casualties of life . Tho Act of W . 4 . was intended to include all legal societies , and thia is such a one ; Lord Clarendon ' s is similar to it . The 9 and 10 Vic . e . 27 , _s . 8 , repeals so much of these acts as specifies the purposes , and by s . 1 , professes to define _moresnecificallytliepurposes for whichFriendly Societies
may be formed . One of these is' For the frugal investment of the savings ofthe members , for better i nabling them to purchase food , firing , clothes , or other necessaries , or tbe tools or implements of tbeir trade or calling , for the education oi their children or kindred , with or without the assistance of charitable donations ; provided always , that the shares in any such investment society shall not be transferable , and that the investment of each member shall accumulate or be employed for the sole benefit nf the member investing , or the husband , wife , children , or kindred of such member , and that no part thereof shall be appropriated to the relief , maintenance , or endowment ef any other person whomsoever , and that the full amount of the balance due , accordlnu to the rules of such society , to such member , shall be paid to him or her on withdrawing from the society , and that no eucb last mentioned society shall be entitled or allowed to
invest its funds , or any part thereof , with the Commissioners for the reduction of the National De !* t , * And another is— ' For any other purpose which shall be _ctrtifled to be legal in England or Ireland , by her Majesty ' s Attorney or Solicitor-General , and in Scotland by the Lord Advocate , and wbich shall be allowed by one Of ber _Ma 5 estv ' aJ 3 rjnci » ttl . Secretaries of State . _^ tiBM ¦•• _iGoeextended , provided that tbo amount of the sum or value of tbe benefit to be assured to any member or any person claiming by , or tin-Dunk , * & _in » ox tier , by any society , for any purpose so certified and allowed as herein _, bafore mentioned , shall not exceed in the whole £ 200 , and that this limitation shall be inserted in the rules of every society established for any purpose so certified and allowed , and that no snch last mentioned society shall be entitled or allowed to invest its funds , or any part thereof , with the _Commissioners for the _Reduction ofthe National Debt . '
IL—Among the benefits derived from a Friendly Society being enrolled , _are—1 . The rules are binding , and may bo legally enforced . 2 . Protection is given to tbe members in enforcing their just claims , aud against any fraudulent dissolution of the society . 3 . The property of the society is . declared to be vested in the Trustee , or Treasurer for the time being , who may sue and be sued in his own name with respect to such _, property . 4 . Fraud committed with respect to property of the society ia punishable by justices . 5 . Application may be made to Court of Chancery , by petition , free from payment of Court or Counsel ' s Fees . C . Disputes may be settled by arbitration . 7 . They bave the power to _inveit their funds , to any amount , in Savings' Banks . 8 . Members are allowed to be witnesses in all proceedings respecting pr < perty of the society .
3 . All documents ate exempted from stamp duty ( ex * ccpt Assurance on Life to an amount exceeding £
Now , from this analysis of the law , it is beyond dispute that the profesBed object of the 9 th and 10 th of Victoria was to extend the FrieDdly Societies Act , _whereas _,, by ajwhimsicai construction of tvro words by a Judge , and a quibble of the Attorney-General , this statute had been converted into a disabling statute ; and the law , instead of being extended , had been contracted . Nov , ha contended that the words ¦ ejusdem generis , ' or' oi a ' similar nature , ' had nothing whatever to do with the case ; and what he contended was , that the term ' or for any other purpose that is not illegal , ' being in the disjunctive , and not in tho copulative , give 3 two distinct definitions ofthe law ; and if he was met wiih the quibble of' ejusdem generis , he would answer quibblo with law , or—mind or , —any
other purpose that ia not illegal . Now he challenged the law officers of the Crown te prove to the plain common senBe of man , that the term' or any other purpose that is not illegal , ' does not clearly and distinctly show that these two terms hare _twodiatinct and significant meanings , and that the statute inferred" the enrolment of any company established for purposes not illegal—' hear _, hear}—and he was sure that the gentlemen of that house would not consider it . illoeal to place the industrious man in a situation to live in the sweat of hi ? own brow . ( Hear , hear . ) He was no theorist upon this subject , he had tried spade husbandry to a considerable extent in his own country . Mr Morgan John O'Connell : Where ? Mr C Connor : W hy in Ireland , of course . Mr Morgan John O'Connell : Where ? of Cork
Mr O'Connor : In the county , within nine miles of Bandon , seven of Clanakilty four of Dunmanway , two of _Enniskean , and one of _Bellyncen . ( Cheers and tremendous laughtor . ) What , does the honourable member for Kerry suppose that no man in Ireland has land but himself ? or does he imagine , according to ancient geography , that Ireland is » till in the county of Kerry , and Hot the _coiintj of Kerry in ireland ? ( Renewed laughter . ) He requested the honourable gentleman would not again interrupt hiro , but that be would aaswer him , if he could . And he would give him another hint , it waa to suspend hit * opposition _uniil he knew how the government would vote , as otherwise he might place himself in an awkward dilemma . Mi- O'Cottnor ' proceed .-: d to say , that he had employed from 130 to 150 men in Ireland , and the result had _prored to him that man was born with propensities which may be nourished into virtues or tbwarted into vices ,
according to his-training ; and he bad never known a man who waa earning a poor pittance of 8 d . a day , charged with any violation of the law before a magistratethus proving that idleness is the parentof crime , and that class-made law is the creator of idlenesB , ( Hear , hear . ) Ho would now prove the value of the Land Plan , of which hswas the propounder and founder , and the full developement of wbich was dearer to him than life itself , aud whieh he bad sworn should overcome evfryleealquirkorobstacl 6 thatmighi . be thrown in its wav . To the realisation of hope arising from tbe full deveiopementof this _planwas to bo attributed the present calm in tho public mind , in the midst of thc greatest suffering and the most saddening events ; and God forbid that be should live to see it—the cup of hope dashed from Labour ' s lip , when Labour waa preparing to _purchase its freedom without trenching
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upon the property , the rights , or privileges of any _Xrelass . ( Hear hear . ) His principle was not Jo Se an antagonist war of classes , but it was to make £ rich richer , and the poor nob , by opening Nature ' s bosom to all , and by throwing-the idl of all _riaaseB . upon their own resources . ( Loud _cLS WoZ the _Whfea deny J _^ _. _- _^ H _lif that , labour in the source of all wealth ? _wiu _phLophew deny that the first duty of a _gown-SSSffto cultivate the national resources nor wil _tbPChristian deny that the husbandman is to be the
first partaker ? And yet , in den ia , * """ I ""™ rules _Md maxims , he _averted , _™ f , _£ _f _^ _T _y tradiclion . that the trading classes of this eountry Zill rather _^ hare amongst _^ themselves two hundred mill ons a year , realised out of three hundred _mil-Sa v 6 a r made of the cultivation of _ovntaoM - r . _esourc 4 B , than receive a fraction less eu of & thou . sand millions a year of . which the producer should have his just , his equitable , and » eB _* t > _f » _2 *™ ; ( Cheers . ) Let any man _tfho professed to doubt the value of the Small Farm system , go to Belgium , _thevethe man occupying few than two acres never required relief for himself or hie family ; there the usual lease was for nine years at the enormous rent
of £ i and £ 5 au aore _, yet during that period ot occupation the industrious man was eiubled to give from his _saving £ 200 and £ 300 a bundle , which is an acre aid ! quarter of our measure . The soil of . BelRiumiB not half as good as ours ; the climate is not better . nor would any man tell me that the people are more . ? nduS „ s , if equal inducement to labour M afforded them ; ( Hear , hear . ) And then our plan haa thia advantage , that every husbandman s house is placed in the centre of his allotment , whi ' e the Belgian , m tho majority of oases , lives at a considerable distance from his labour . fieid . the disadvantage of which he wonld Drove thus ; -he asserted tbat the small occu-ZrV Kin Ihe centre of his _alletment , would perform more work with two wheelbarrows , _wdahd fourteen years of ago , than a farmer cultivating 500 acres of-land will perform in the same time , at an average distance from the homestead , with six men and four horses . ( Hear , hear . ) Now if
_theeconomieing of labour in the production of food was an itf m in the account of the tree trader , there it was There was another important feature in this plan ; it was this—that in the centre of eaeh kcation there was erected a splendid school-house , with a _spacioua room at one end for the males , and a spacious room at the other end for the females , with a respectable and coromodiou 3 hou . se in the centre —( hear , hear)—and where the industrious occupants would _prou-Hy eive their children a respectable eduoation , _independently of the government or taxation . And he ( Mr O'Connor ) had always felt _convinced , that more good was to be done by an extended system of local _ronresentation than bv that system of centralisation
of which tbat house was the type and ? _mpersoriiiica tion . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) He would now eome to the question of morality ; and he asserted with pride and with pleasure , that when the path to virtue was opened to the poor there iras no more virtuous class of society—( hear . bear ) -but when it _wes _closed against them they became _vicioua-not oy _nature-bufc by neglect . ( Hear , ; hear . ) And although many ef the occupants , thrown promiscuously together by his plan , may have been vicious individuals frem oppression and bad training , yet _. the influences of
the moment the came under better feelings , based Hpon self reliance to beroalised by self-industry , they became converted , as if by manic , and he challenged comparison between those who had been located and any other _clasa of society . ( Hear , hear . ) Then as to sanitary reform , let them see the emaciated slave , the pallid woman , and stunted children , looking more like ghosts than human _beinaa , that he ( Mr O'Connor ) had snatched from the unhealthy lanes and contagious alleys , from the pest house and the sweating shop , and the
blush of healthy yeulh upon their face ? would bespeak tbe difference between a natural and an artificial life . That was the sanitary reform he looked for , better , far better , than any government could realise . ( Hear , hear . ) Then , as to the indirect influence of this plan upon the labour m arket , let bim state that he waa directly _employing 1000 hands , and with one exception he had never heard a complaint of any of * those men , nor had he , exc < spt in one instance , seen a drunken man , and that man he discharged ; and in the course of the summer he hoped to give employment to 10 , 000 hands . ( Hear , hear . ) And itwas his greatest delight , tbat however strong the prejudices ofthe farmers and neighbours were to tbe plan for the
quartering of lazy , infidel , pauper Chartist robbers ; that in every instance , as they became Ibetter acqaainted _. theylbecaraewMoa advocates of the system . ( Uear , hear . ) When he went to Worcestershire , some of the malcontents wrote to Lord Beauchamp , telling him that if he would not ahow roe to draw sand from his _eBtate , I could not proceed with the work , but that truly noble Englishman replied , ' I will not be hounded at a stranger ; if the plan is bad it will born itself out , if it is good , it ought to succeed . ' ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ; Well , did that teach the working people to despise true nobility . ( Hear , hear . ) No , but on the contrary , every man on the estate respects and honours the gentleman _* - —» w _»~«« . t -. * « _v _. _* 7 _~ now consider the great ¦¦ ¦ ¦
• __ .. _.,..:. ¦ _:,. _» : -. . - ¦''¦ _V _^' ' _*! _* _K |[««?*» HS _* Sr- _" - _-BW plan . It is an admitted fact , that while all other sciences have been progressing with giant speed , the science of agriculture haa been moving with limp and halt step ; that the son followed in the wake of the clodpole father , and the father is attached ti the system of his ancestors . No new science was introduced—no impetus was given by agriculture , until he ( Mr O'Connor ) had introduced the new mechanical _uenius to the assistance ef agricultural science , and he wan now receiving communications every day of new _inveetions to be applied to agricultural purposes , thus making machinery man ' s friend instead of his enemy . ( Hear , hear . ) Now . such were some , but not all , the advantages of the Land Flan ; and
be would now call the attention of tbe house to the objections that would be probably urged against it , and he would , firstly , instance the-small holdings in Ireland . ( Hear , hear . ) Well , he was prep & red to show , that it was insecurity of tenure , and not the subdivision of land , that led to Irish distress ; because , having no certainty of tenure , the moment the cottier tenant improved his land that moment the tyrant landlord lusted for the profit created by his labour , and ousted him , or raised his rent—thus making industry a tax , and idleness a virtue . ( Hear , hear . ) _The-next objection that he anticipated was , that it wonld lead to the squatting system . Well , bis answer to that was complete and conclusive . In his bill in _committee the house ' may introduce aclause
against the subdivision ef allotments . ( Hear , hear , and cheers , ) And now let him test tbe nation ' s power to aoply the nation ' s wealth to the cultivation of the nation ' s natural resources . Population is increasing , and emigration is advocated as a cor * reotive ; but will the house longer _advoeate thetwrr _sportation ot its substantial wealth when hon . gentleman are acquainted with tbe startling fact , that in England , ' Scotland , and Wales , we have 60 , 000 , 000 _acres of land in a state of sterility and barrenness , with a starving people , crowded pauper-houses , decaying trade , universal disquietude , financial convulsion , consequent upon the abstraction of our money from industrial pursuits , the making good a deficiency in our own produce by importations from
abroad , whichjmight have been profitably supplied by the application of domestic industry to the cultivation of our national resources . ( Hear , hear . ) Here waa a dreadful lesson for the unwilling idler to learn ; that three million acres of land , at three acres toa family , would locate one million system-made paupers—that is , at five to a family , tho twentieth part of the land of this country would give employment , directly , to five millions , or nearly one-third of your population , and , indirectly , by tho production of cheap food , and the consumption of manufactured articles would set all the _springs of industry at work . ( Hear , hear . ) Well , hut let the landlords always bear in mind that they looked to the Poor Law Amendment Aetna tho means ' of clearing ; their
estates ; but they have now found , that as soon as the manufacturers have squeezed the life ' s blood out of the , paupers , they send the . n back , to live as a burden upon the poor rates ; therefore , the landlords , who should have been the natural patrons of the poor , were not blameless ; bnt he hoped they would profit by the past , and try to wed the people to tbem m future . ( Hear , hear . ) Another flimsy objection was , that the locations could not always be near market towns ; but these paltry objections were invariably made by those whojived upon the degradation of the labourer , and his answer was , that all would be nearer a market town than the interior of _America , Holland , Russia , or Germany , _was to Mark-lane . ( Cheers , and laughter . ) And that a cabbage , a which
carrot , a parsnip , and potato , were _vegetables in Covent-garden market , were beef , mutton , veal , pork , bacon , poultry , milk , and butter , a hundred miles from a retail market ; and which at a trifling expanse , and not more than threo or four tiroes a year may be conveyed in that slate to the wholesale market . But there was one important market , the nearest , for which free traders * expressed great _sympathv but of which they now appeared to lose sight—he meant this market ( putting his hand u _? on hisstomach)—he meanthomecomsumption , ( Cheera . ) In a recent debate , the hon . member for Oxfordshire ( Mr Hindley ) , than whose opinion for sound rational sense , no hon . member ' s would go farther with the house , or with hira , ( Mr O'Connor)—( hear , hei . r»— that lion , gentleman said— ' that all thought
of the labourer , whose comfort should be the first _consideration , was wholly Io 3 t sight of . ' If the lvuse should refuse bis present application , he would repent it again , and again , and again , as he stood in the novel position of coming to the Ilouse of Commons for ; the _protection ot the law for thoso wbo confided in him , so that if he- violated the law , and broke that charm which bound him to tho _pesplo , ha should be amenable to the law . Ho could ' enforce complete _registration , but the _pvocess was too cumbrous and oxpensive , bavins already cost tha Company between £ 2 , 000 and £ 8 , 000 ; and uvu « ¦ when completed , it would uot guarantee the sa » _x . e exemption frora stamp duty and other _lesal impositions that enrolment would guarantee . ThanVlflg the house for ita toleration and groat ; indulgence
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for that long period of timo which it naturally re quired to _devalue ao large and so new a project , an < - having sworn to risk all—life itself , if necessary—in the advancement of so holy a project , he wou sum up in one sen ence the object _thao he had in view ; it was that the capitalist , who speculated in labour , should hire it in the free labour market , and not in the bastile , the market place , the pest-house , or the bouse of call forthe destitute . Man , if he could accomplish it , should be free , and the rich _should % be richer and the poor should be rich ; idleness should be a crime , and the labourer should reap the reward of his own industry . ( Hear , hear , andcheers . ) „_
MONDAY , Ma boh 30 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —The only business done bj their lordships wa 9 to vote a _congratulatory address to tbe QuseH on the birth ef a daughter . Viscount H _iamNOE , the late governor of ladle , , took his seat for the first time as a peer . HOUSE OF COMMONS , —Tbe bou * e on the motion of Lord J . _ItcsifiLl si cended by Sir It . Pkkl , voted a similar _addresB of con gratulation . lit _WatowisoH , ftomthe _Bawdley Election Committee , reported that Mr T . J Ireland , had not beea duly returnert , and that the _eleotion wis void , Lord H . Yam also , from tlio _Dundalk committee , reported that Mr M'Tavish had not been duly elected , and tbat the committee had seated MrT . M Cullagh , Mr _M'Tnvish ' s opponent _Inthe late election , on a scrutiny .
Sir W .. _CiiiT , dissatisfied with a reply from Sir G , Srey , in _r-ifereuce to the state of the law on the subject of window-breaking _durlag the late disturbances , intimated hia intention of _bring-inff in a bill for its amendment on an , early day . The _Lskd Advocate , in reply to Mr Cowan , stated tbat he should as soon as the state of public business permitted , bring in a bill to alttr the _eaistiug law which required that all the professors at th « universities in Scotland should be members of tho established church of that country . Lord J . _ItoasELij , In answer to Mr Home replied , that Bo long as any inquiries were pending , appointments to public situations ought to be , and would be made , subject to any _proviflons which parliament might make for the reduction of Ealarita attaching to them . But he _prisumed , in cases where gentlemen gave up _prlvateprofetsional pur * uiti , or other situations of emolument , to hold office , that due consideration would be paid to
such case ; _. On tbe motion that the report of committee of Ways Bt > d Mean * on the Iheo ' mo Tax ba received , Mr ii Guecoe moved 'that it 19 _jutt and expedient to extend to Ireland _during tho two years ending the 5 vh of April , 1851 , the same rates of income tax , excise duties , window duties , ar . d other _asseised _taxei , which shall be atthe same time levied in Great Britain . ' Mr Goolbpbn interposed to order , as a motion of bis _dtscription coulu only be brought forward in a com mittee efthe whole house . The motion was then withdrawn , and a further diecu _^ _sion on the income tax ensued , at the terminatienof wbich the report was received , and a bill founded thereen was ordered to be brought in . The house then went Into Committee of Supply .
Mr Ward then proposed » vote of £ 1 , 425 . 308 to defray the expense of employing , during the ensuing yeur , a naval force of 43 , 000 men , and in so doing entered into a leDEthened defence of tbese estimates . He concluded by announcing a prospective saving of £ 606 , 853 for the years 1819 and 1650 , and by plucing a memorandum of a resolution in the hands ofthe chairman ia the com . mittee wbich referred to tho wageB vote , and not to ene for the number of men , upon which Mr Home interposed , saying that it was necessary the latter should be agreed to before tbe former could fee put . A ecene of somo excitement ensued aa to the usual course of _proceeding , _MrWABD _alle _^' _u _^ that the number of men was determined by the royal prerogative , and was not put as a vote in the committee ; wbich excitement was not lessened by the hon . gentleman ' s intimation tbat the wrong resolutions had been sent bim .
As a specimen of the readiness with wbich Whig officials can vamp up a 'constitutional' argument , which in other plain words is a lie , we give this instructive bit of tho debate in full : — The Chaibman was about to put tho question , ' That a sum not exceeding £ 523 , 000 be granted , when he was interrupted by Mr Hone , who objected to the question being put . It had been understood that no money was to be voted until the committee had reported . He had no objection to a vote being taken for the number of men , in order that the government might bring in tbe Mutiny Bill , but he did object to voting money , as it would be , in fact , a breach of faith .
Mr _Wab 6 said that he did not propose to take more than tbat vote on account , hut he did not know of any other way in which the number of men could be brought before the committee than by voting a part of the sum required . The number of men was a question of prerogative . Tbe Chancellob of the Eicheqceb said , that In the ease of the navy there was no distinct and separate vote for tbe number of men , while in the casa of the army the _fitat vole in t _* te _estimates was fo ? the number , and the way proposed was the only ons that could be adopted . Mr Hume wanted to snow , then , how he wag to _tffect hl _« object of reduction ? He did not care about * _i >» _a _>~? . -me _CHANCEttDE Of the _ElCnEQDEB . —Tba USUbl form waa to more for a reduction iu the amount of money _.
Mr _Oiadstons referred to the resolutions of last year , and showed tbat a distinct vote had been taken on the number of men , in which he was supported by Sir Jakes Graham and Mr Goaav . Mr Ward ( who then handed a vole to the chairman with _reference to the number of men ) said that the mis take had originated entirely in an err # r on his part . He had _prepared the resolution , but , hy an _oversight , ihe wrong one had been first proposed . ( A laugh . ) The Earl of Lincoln hoped the Secretary to tha Admiralty and tbe Chancellor of the Exchequer would now withdraw the novel _doctcins they had promulgated , tbat the number of man was determined by the prerogative of the Crewn . ( Laughter . ) Mr Wbbd . —Oh , yes , It waB quite wrong . ( Laughter . ) Mr Dibeaeli . —Then , what became of tbe ingenioua argument of tbe right bon , gentleman tbe Chancellor of the Exchequer , which , no doubt , had such an effect upon the house ? ( Ronewed laughter . )
At length Mr Home moved that the number of seamen , boys , and marines , which stands in the estimates at 43 , 000 be rednced to 36 , 000 , when tbe debatee proceeded without further interruption . Sir J . Giuhak , after defending the economical _m-. _rangemen's he had cairied into tffeet when he presided over the Admiralty in 1835 , and noticing some points in Mr Ward ' s speech , explained the reasons which induced him te support the proposed voto . He _described the causes which rendered a large standing army so necessary to France that it coula be no just source of jealousy to England , and which required England on the other hand , to keep up an efficient navy , aad afte _' r briefly recounting toe occailom of difference between the two countries ivhich bad occurred within the last few years , and _adverting to ' the great Increase of the _ffrencb . navy which—as Prance bad no distant colonieB or _eitenifvo
trade to protect—was purely an offensive force , arrived at the conclusion that the government would have neglected its duty if it had not made such preparations as WOUld _plttCB the country _bajond the danger of Invasion , He suggested , however , the possibility of reducing expen _^ o wi thout Impairing efficiency , pointing especially to the civil service of the navy and the disposition of the African squadron , Mr _Cobdek denied thst there was any danger to be apprehended , either national or dynastio , wbich would justify an increase of the estimates , or tbat any naval force was necessary to protect our commerce either from piracy or _agsreasion _, France aud England each kept
on increasing their forces only from want of an understanding , which would hava been made long ago had there been any real desire to reduce expenditure . He repeated all tbat he boV 4 at _Mancbesler ahout our fleets at Malta and the _Tagus ; and denied that the house bad any right to tax the artisans to maintain so useless an expenditure . If the rich feared invasion let them paj for _j . _rotet'tlsn . He attributed the late _revolutions in Europe principally to the embarrassment caused by the support of extravagant establishments , and urged that the best preparation against an invasion , of wbich no one was thinking but ourselves , was to be found in an increase in the comforts of our poor rather than in on increase in the number of our sailors .
Lord Paljierston defended the principle on Which our naval force was maintained in a certain proportion to that of France and the other great naval Powers , and controverted the position of Mr Cobden that commerce required no protection , whioh , if fairly carried out , would prove that neither soldiers nor even police _Wfire necessary . He ridiculed Mr _Cobden ' s notion tbat , because the artisan and the ploughman had no fear of invasion , no invasion need bo provided against , and urged that with a future big witb uncertainty no rational man would wish to reduce onr force . 'Weakness induced war , but he assured the houso that all the power which England could exert should be ueed to secure for henthe Inestimable _advantages of pence , Mr BiuGnT opposed lord Palraerston _"* e views .
The other _speakeis in favour of the number of 43 , 030 , 89 ppoposed in the estimates , were Mr Cobbt , Mr _& , Bmice , Mr _Cochbase , Lord _Setmohs , Lord _iNnEsisiB , Admiral Dundas , € ol . Tyhte , Sir H . _Vbbnbt , and Mr _DnrsisiosD . The _COUimlttefr at length divided , when Mr Hume ' s amendment was . defeated by a rasjorityof 300—thenum bars 347 to 38 . The house having resumed , Mr Waipo ie _rms-ved the further consideration ot tho Election Recognisances Bill , but the motion being strongly opposed , the hoa . member withdrew it ,, and the bouse adjourned at a quarter p _» at one o ' clock . _TUF-SDAT _, _Maacn 21 , HOUSS OF LORDS . —Tho _Adramistrotion of Oaths ( Gouri ot Chancerj ) Bill wa 9 rend a seeoadtime . Tha _Eticumbsreil _Estates ( h ' elaud ) , aud the Audit ol Railway Accounts Mia passed through committee
On tho motion of the Earl of _EaiiNToN , tho protest against the vote of a person claiming that l ight , for representative peora for SeotWsd , under the tilli of Lord Colvillo of Ochiltree , was ordered , to bt taken into conMdtration ou tho 8 th of April , and their lordships a ; ljourntd at six o ' clock . HOUSE OF COMMONS —The _eccond _readin-j of the Exeter and Cowley Bridge JuncttQB _, Railway Bill waB
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carried by a majority of 52 , the nnmb _» r » , 108 tO BS ' and the same stage of tbe Great _Norttiera Hallway De « , _'lation Bill was negatived by a majority of 1 « , the num bars ' , J 7 Gto 32 . Mr li . PAtuea , from tho Aylesbury olectloB commit * tee , reported that Lord Nugent had , but tbat Mr J . p , Peering had not , been duly elected for that borough . Mr Maokbrzie moved a new writ for _Bswdley , but after somo con versation , as to the system of treating which bad prevailed , the motion was withdrawn . Mr _HiMDiEr gave notice of his intention to direct attention to the state of tho industrious _classea . Dr _Bowbino gave notice of a motion , the effect ot which would be to place the whole of tbe na tional in . come und . r the control of tbe House of Commons . Mr Home gave notice tbat , on tbe _^ second reading of the Income Tas Bill , he would move _thu _$ it be referred _„„ _J _„ _A hv a . _majority ot 82 , tbo nnmb * r » . IDS ta tin
to a select committee . To o question fram Mr B . Cochrane , Lord _PALHEfcSTow said he » had received no information confirmatory of the report that it was by the desire of tho Provisional Government of France that English _g _« _, _vants were turned out of employment . Ia reply to Lord Dukcan , Lord Mobpeth stated that tho commissioners appointed to superintend tbo building of the nerj _ffoUSSg of Parliament wen Lord de Gbet , Mr Gekbkb , M . P , and Sir J . _BuBoorNE . Thb Ex . Rotai , Family ok _Fbakcb ik _Bhoiand . - _^ Mr P . _Chabtbeis wished to ask the m > ble lord , tho
Foreign Secretary , whether his attention had been drawn to a paragraph wbich bad appeared in both the French aud English papfar ? calculated to make an unfavourable impression on the public mind , —that Lord Nomanby had , by _instructions from the _Forelgn-office , waited upon M . Lamartine to apologise for this _counfry having afforded an asylum to the Royal famil y of France Ho felt that it wa ? _highly advisable tbat the noble ' lord should have au opportunity of contradicting a statement wbicb , unlejs contradicted , must be most prejudicial to the honour , dignity , and character of England , _ivbosejast pride it had altvayg been to afford an asylum to unfortunate exiles from other countries .
Lord _Palhebston—There Ib no foundation for any statement that any communication of the kind to which the hon . gentleman has alluded , or of any kind , has taken place between her _Jfujtisty ' _s government and Lord Normanby with regard to tbat Royal family of France . It is true , however , that Lord Normanb y did convey in a private letter to me a _Btntemcnc that a good deal of mis * apprehen _» ion and _jealousy was likely to arise on tba part _efpersoaslu Franco in regard to the reception which mii _? ht bo given in this country , not to the Royal family , but to the Ministers ef the late French government . I , in a private letter , desired Lord Norcaanby , ia
case any such feeling should be expressed , at once to state that the reception given to _tboae _parBons was and would ba the reception which , in this country , is always given « o m : u who , from unfortunate _circumitances , are obliged to seek _refuse in England—a reception of ' hospitality _suitaslo to the occasion ; but that he might be _ggreln our dealings with the French government her Majesty ' s _Mioisteri would aet _fairly , honourably , and openly , and und « r no circumstancsa would there be any ground for _suppo & _ing that wc would _engaaa in any _intrigoe hostile to the government of Prance . ( Hear hear . ) *
Tbe Dukb ak >> Duchess De Montpehsibe . Lord D . ST 0 A _& T wished to ask a question of the nobie lord at the head of Foreign _Affairs . It had been reported that some documents had coma into the possession of tha provisional government of France implicating the Duke and Duchess de _Montpensier in tome moat extraordinary transactions . { ' Ob , oh !*) The contents of that paper had been , it was stated , _communicated to her _Majssty ' s Ministers , and that that had been the cause of the hasty departure of tbe Duke and Duchess from England . Ha wished to know whether any communication ofthe kind to which he had referred had been made by the _provlsionalgovernment ; and , in the next plaee , whether this had been tbe cause , not of their having been eent out ef this country , but whether their departure had tak « n placo with reference to information of that _bofe 1
Lord _Palhebston . —lam very glad tbe noble lord baa put the question , if there has been any doubt on the sub . ject . No such communication has been made to ber Majesty ' s government from the provisional government ¦ f France . I have not heard that any snch correspondence , or correspondence of any kind affecting tbe _Dako and Duchess de Montpensier , has been found . I have no _knowledge or belief of the kind ; but at all events no communication or _intimation of that kind bas been mads to her _Maj sty ' s government . 'With regard to tbe de _» par ture of tbe Duke and Duchess de Montpensier , it is entirely tbe result of tbeir own choice—( cheers)—and so fir from beiog tho consequence of any communication made by us , tbe home will at once see that there mult be many reasons why it would have been the desire of her _Majesty ' s government that they should have stayed here , instead of going away , ( Hear , hear . )
_REYOLOTION IN _ADSTfllA . —Lord D . Stuart wished to _BQk tbo noble lord whether be bad received any information witb respect to tbe changes in tho government of Austria . ( ' Oh , oh 1 ' and a laugh . ) Lord _PAtMlBSTor * : Tho information I hare _received " is that on tbe 14 th instant , Prince Metternich ceased to ba Hinister ofthe Emperor of Austria . Beyond that £ baTe no information . ( Alaugh . ) Relations _wirn _Baazit . —In answer to lord . _Benxihcc , - Lord j _Talmebstok stated that tho last _amounts from Lord Howden conveiediBformaiion tbat there was so chance of concluding a communal or a slave treaty with tbe Brazilian government , It was possible that a change might take place in the disposition of the Brazilian government , but tbere was little hope of such a result , In fact , they were averse to any commercial treaty , and entertained a notion that Great Britain was go dependent on Brazil , that we should be forced to accede to any terms _tbi-y might think proper to dictate .
Mr M . _illLNES brought under the consideration of tha house the injuries alleged to have beea suffered by Me Rayson , an English mtrcb & nt , from the Austrian authorities at Constantinople . He was proceeding with his tatemmt when the home was counted at seven o'clock . Wednesday , March 22 , HOUSE OF C 01 IMOSS .-Landi . obds' Law 3 . —Mr P . ? ceope called the attentionof the house to tba destruction of several houses and the ejection of their tenants , which took placo in the county of Galway on or about New Tear ' s day last , and . whieh occasioned the death of several of those thus maltreated . Sir G . _QBfcV made ono of the usual replies , _apo'ogisins for landlords in general , no matter what their crimes . Outgoing Tenants . —Mr Shaeman _Cbawjobp thea moved the second reading ofthe Outgoing Tenants ( Ireland ; Bill . Mr _TaELAWNY . moved as an amendment , that thebuibo read a second time that day six months .
Sir W . Soherviue and several other members opposed the bill . The debate was adjourned till Wednesday next . Dmibt Election —Mr _Cbiidebs reported from thff Derby election committee , that the Right Hon . Edward Struttandthe Hon . E . F . Leveson Gower were not dnly elected , that the election was void , that bribory and treating had prevailed , but not with the cogn-. sa . nco of the hon . gentlemen named , _Thehouse then adjourned . THURSDAY , Mabch 35 . IN THE HOUSE OP LORDS , a _conversation ensued as to bringiB _? the Odd Fellows within the operation of the 'Benefit Societies' Act . ' The Marquis of _LansDowne intimated tbat it was the intention of _thegovernment to make arrangements to that effect . Lord Beachont took advantage of tbe opportunity to sneer atthe _Chos ° tista and the ' Land Plan . ' The remainder of the sitting waa devoted bythebr lordships to a discussion , as to the contemplated _insreasa in the number ofthe bishops .
In tha HOUSE OP COMMONS , Mr Hr _/ _jfc gave notice that on Tuesday next he shoul 1 move that the Attorney-General be directed to prosecute Mr John Attwood for bribery and corruption committed by him in different boroughs . —Lord _CouaiNEr reported from the Horsham EUctlon Committee that Mr Jwvia had not been duly elected , and that the election was void . —Mr _Mackenzie moved a new writ for Harwich , in the room f Mr John , Attwood , _whoae election had been d « cUx « a void ,. — -Mr _Blackstone moved au amendment to extend tba limits of the borough of Harwich , with , a view to in . creasing the number of electors for the said borough — and the house divided , when there appeared—for tha mOtiOB , IM ; against It 74 : majority 91 , and the writ was ordered , —Mr F . 0 ' Coni « os moved an _address to the crown in reference to the case of Mr John Billon , relative to tbe seizure of the brig Peru , through hia alleged instrumentality , in tha harbour of New 2 oss , in
Irelaea , in the yaar 1822 , Tbis subject has been repeatedly brought under the notice of parliament and the claim for further compensation rejected , a , similar fate attending the motion on this occasion , it _bsing lost by a majority of 5-1—the numbers being : 39 to 8 . — _MrSaisuT moved for leave to bring in aibill forthe total abolltfon of the © ame Laws . Mr Com « f seconded ' the motion , which was also supported b y Mr W . P » ¦ _v ? ot > d , aud Sit _H . Terney , and opposed by Col . Sib » thorp , Sir G . Grey , Mr Cochrane , and _Mfc- Newdegate . Mr O . _Thompson , _moving the _ndjoarameat of the del bate , upon which _question the house divided—ayes , 82 !> ¦ _aoes , 87 . Dr Bowrin ' _* _,, it is presumed , aot foreseeing the cons _jquonees , thea moved the _adjournment of tuft house , th » _SBEAiiEaptttti the _qaeBiico , aEa _vacating tho chair amidst loud sheers . This _assult involves tha necessity ef a new notice , and tha loss of a ni-ht ' a debate . " o . _ai . w
_PRIDkY , _Marcui 2 * . HOUSE : OF _LOIiDS Tbe Criminal Law _AcNjiiniStration Amendment Bill , giving _yower of _appeal from decisions of justices of tho peace . * , quarter ge & _sipas and _judgosof assise upon points of law , was read % second tiBtti . UOUSE OF COMMONS , —She Property _Tt & x Bill was rend a second time , Mr BailUk ' s motion fos- an address to the crown , praying her Majesty to giv & directions tbaS negotiations bi entered into with forei _gnpovnya to relieve ihioe . _mnlfy rom the engagement under which it labours , of maintaining a squadron on ike coast of Africa , was rejected . The house discussed and voted , the Ordnance Eat _;« mates , and then _adjowvned _,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 25, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_25031848/page/8/
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