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. '»¦¦ ( Cetrti nnei f . em tlie First _Pagpt )*' ?• - ? V-¦ wh ' en it may be expected they ' _will-DeVsubmitted . _to Parliament , and to _whatpbir-ts of _suchlrecomniehdation tbey will relate ? - *• ¦ "' . ' Sir R . Peel said , the hon . gentleman knew bow the government bad been engage'd for several weeks . In addition to that , his noble friend tbe secretary for Ireland had for several days been unable to attend to public business in consequence of indisposition ; but he _trasted that be . 'bre many days the government -wouid be able to l _? y three measures upon the table of the honsse foundei' 3 pon the report of the Landlord and Tenant ConiK . ission . It would be premature to
state the object of those measures at the present moment ; but he might be permitted to state tneir gf _Krai Subject . The first would be a bill for making -compensation to tenants for improvements on , ums _landV ( Hear , hear . ) The second would ta » aMM to amend the laws relating to ejectment and d stress in Ireland _( Hear ) -and the third name conta ncd a _ceneralirra ofiease , which might be _«^*» _f y _iSrdSlreland . '( Cheer . ) _^{ _nSfiSS _journment for ths holidays , he J _^ J _^ _™ day npon which be hoped to introduce these
nicasures . _CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY . Sir R . Peel moved a similar address to that moved in the Lords by the Duke of _^ Wellington , which was briefly seconded by Lord John Russell , and unanimously adopted .
DISCHARGE OF MR . SMITH O'BRIEN . Upon reading the order of the day , Mr . Suxw said , that aa "he understood his Right Hon . Friend and the Noble Lord opposite had consented to the motion he had put upon the paper being taken "before other public business , he begged now to move it He conld assure the Hon . and Learned Member for Cork that he -would have resigned his own motion in favour of the motion . of that Hon . and Learned Member , had he thought the latter would have been as likely to receive the approbation of the House . lie made the motion upon the ground that Mr . Smith O'Brien had been now in
prison for twenty-five days , and that the business of the committee for which Mr . O'Brien had been selected , was nearly orcr . lie had adopted the form he had found in the journals as _having been used on former occasions , without any alteration . He begged merely to add , tbat he made this motion without the approval of Mr . O'Brien ; but the Ilouse _oughtto decide the motion upon the merits of the question itself without reference to the particular views of that gentleman . lie begged therefore to move , "That W . S . O'Brien , Esq ., in custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms attendins this House , be discharged cut of custodypaying his fees . "
, Mr . HKfLETsaid , that aa chairman of the committee to which Mr . O'Brien bad been selected , he was able to confirm the statement of the Hon . and I . earned Member for the University of Dublin , that the business of thc committee was almost over . Two hour ' s work to-morrow would iinish their labours . lie was glad , therefore , to be able to second the motion ofthe lion , and Learned Member , and , at the same time , to assure the House that the public convenience had suffered nothing from the absence of the Hon . Member . { Hear , hear , and laughter . ) As
chairman ofthe committee he could not , however , but regret , that the Hon . Member should have preferred bis own company for twenty-four hours a day then theirs for four . ( Laughter . ) He begged to secoud the motion _, ( near , hear . ) Mr . P . S . Butler , on behalf of his Hon . Friend the Member for Limerick , would not oppose the motion , but he objected to the conclusion of it , by which his Hon . Friend would be compelled to pay the iees incidental to bis confinement . His Hon . Friend _would not positively refuse to pay the fees , but he had intimated his determination to pay them under protest . { Hear , hear , and a laugh . )
Sir R . Peel thonght it would be wise to confine their attention to the simple question of whether the authority ofthe Ilouse demanded the continuance of Mr . O'Brien ' s conSnenient . He had willinglygiven precedence to bis Hon . and Learned Friend for the production of his motion , in order to raise that question—whether it was necessary for the maintenance ef their authority to _continue the confinement of that gentleman . Upon that question he had no hesitation in expressing his opinion that the
continued confinement was no longer necessary—{ Hear , hear)—and he entertained _^ that opinion without leference to the recent auspicious event . ( Loud laughter . ) The authority of the house had been maintained , and the question set at rest tbat Irish members were liable to _s < _-rve upon _committer , both upon English and Scotch Bills . ( Hear , hear . ) This effect having been produced , the house , -which had -with regret felt it its duty to confine Mr . O'Brien , ¦ would he was sure consent to the motion . ( Hear , hear . )
The motion was then carried without a dissentient ¦ voice , and in a lew minutes afterwards Mr . S . O'Brien ¦ walked int" the house , and took his seat . After a short discussion in which Lord J . _RnsstLi urged the necessity of proceeding with the Irish measures in preference to taking up the miscellaneous estimates which stood for thatevening , and intimated lis intention of voting against the second reading of _-the Coercion Bill , the house resolved into , a com muttee of supply , and sat till a quarter past 12 o ' clock
HOUSE OF LORDS . —Tcesdat , Mat 20 Their _Lordships met at five o ' clock .
CORN IMPORTATION BILL—ADJOURNED DEBATE . The adjourned debate was resumed by The Earl of _"iTiiTo . v , who stated that he had for many years supported the principles which had actuated her Majesty ' s government , and he deeply regretted the painful necessity whieh now compelled him to oppose tbe present measure . He cautioned their lordships against voting upon so important a _measure upon grounds of expediency , and urged them to exert the legitimate power with which the Constitution had inveeted them for the protection ofthe . Monarchy and the Church .
The Duke _d * Cambmdge deemed it a duty to himself and to his own character to state the course he meant , to take upon this very important question . He bad been a member of tbe House of Peers for forty-five years , and he had made it an invariable rule never to vote in opposition to the government but if he could not vote with the government , not to vote at all . It was painful to him not to be able to vote with them upon this question , but his own character was at stake . _Having a hi _^ h opinion of Sir It . 1 ' cel , he had attended thc late debate in the House of Commons , in hopes that he should be convinced by him ; but the reasons he gave had worked no conviction in his mind . He was no politician ; he wished to act honestl y and fairl y towards the country . He regretted that this question should havo been _brought forward at all , less for the questioa itself than for what might be the consequences of it . Feeling as he did , he could not support her Majesty ' s government upon this occasion .
L-. rd Granville , in a short maiden speech , supported thc bill , and was followed by The Marquis of _Noiimanbv , who commenced his speech by vindicating the party with whom he acted from the implied censure of Lord _Brougham for not disclaiming a community of sentiment with Lord Stanley in his strictures upon Sir Robert Peel , whose inconsistency regarding this question the noble Marquis made thc subject of severe comment . With regard to the subject before them , his own opinions were somewhat peculiar , because he did not believe that the effects of the measure , either r good or for eviL would be so great as those which the conflicting parties wou'd had them to expect . lie had alwavs voted in Parliament for a gradual and
general application of the _principles of free trade _. Herej < -iccdin every _iihualion of ihe Tariff whhh would tend to an amicable settlcmentof our relations with foreign countries , and which would benefit the various interests of this conntiy . But he had never thought that co :-a ought to be excepted from the class of general eomnm ;! ities . and that a taxation upon its import ought to be made the subject of peculiar indignation . ( Hear hear , hear . ) These being his opinions , he owned he felt it to be a duty to address their Lordships , in order to guard _against what he thouaht was one of the greatest evils to be apprehended from this _niojifttipe—he alluded to the exaggerations that had been put forth as to its effects upon ihe condition of [ the working classes , as he _toas satisfied
tliat much , but not less certain disappointment , would result from , tive general exaggeration . Still he thought tbat upon the whole tbe balance ofthe measure was for good , as it [ would tend in a certain degree to diminish that misery under which a largef portion of our fellow-subjects laboured . He did not mean that misery which was and must be the lot ofall who laboured ; but he felt that tiiere woe a large , portion of their fellow _sitbjeci * who were sunk in « degree of degradation , whicli , especially when contrasted with tlie i _& _caltii of other portions of society , tea * neither safe nor < reditalle to tlie state . ( Hear , hear . ) His attention had been painfully directed to this subject during the two years that he had administered the internal affairs oi this coantry ; and his examination of this subject , while it did not convince him tbatan alteration of the present Corn Law was not desirable , at any rate diminished Ids notions of its importance , as if
its report would of itself mitigate tlte evil . The great authority on this , as on all such subjects , Adam Smith , stated in his work , that an ample reward for labour -was the great proof of the prosperity of a state —that _scarcity of remuneration was a proof of its being in a-stationary condition , and that starvation wasa sure $ roof thatthe country was going backwards . He farther stated , in reference to the condition _ofthe-iRSrldng classes of his own time , [ that they had more _tdan sufficient to enable them to educate uitit satisfaction aad comfort tlieir several families J _/ e alto stated , tliat fiere was al that time _existinq a Corn Law , which amounted to an almost positive exclusion of grain . What use did he ( Lord Normanby ) make of that ? He did not mean to say that the favourable condition of the working classes at that time was produced by the Corn Law then existing ; hut rather , that as they would not say the condition
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of thatclais was _^^^ _Wej ovr _^ _^ _thm , _hewhhedtodirec _^ _^ causes which had . occas ioned it .... _WWJSW- _JM the _michtygoSd _^ nd no one felt more than he did thatthe svseem would be . for good-whatever might _tftiuimiS _^ oZ wltich the wonderful invmtion _tf had alreadv produced a considerable change m the con-SnSto & onr market . Do not let their _Lordshio" * suppose for a minute that he was such an antediluvian ns to wish that machinery had not been invented ; but he did think that the government of the country ought to have watched the necessary evils that were produced by the transition state ; and so far he went with his noble friend wh » addressed them last night , that there ought not to be any
attempt on the | parfc of government to force these manufactures to a premature developement What were the first effects of this great demand for labour in one portion of the country ? Why , that there had been a large migration of unskilled labour from the other portion of the country . In point of fact , skill and strength were no longer required in tlie mamif ac . ture of our principal national fabrics ; and the very use of the word manufacture was , to a certain extent , an abuse of terms . They were not made by the hands of skilful workmen , and therefore the demand for labour from , theother partsofVie country was for cheap and unskilled labour—that waa the rule , and labour of a more complicated kind , and bearing a higher value , was the exception . Then , this effect of the migration of labourers ' from one part of the
country to the other , had been to give to the owners of dwelling-houses in the manufacturing districts what might be called a monopoly of price . In the report on the sanatory condition of the people , which was drawn up by Mr . Chadwick , it was stated that in Rutland the rent ol a cottage was 50 s ., while for a very inferior apartment in Manchester , a rent was demanded of £ 7 10 s . He only used this to show that there were other remedies which ought to be applied to the condition of the working classes ; and that tbe government ought to have directed their attention several years ago to the influence which these dwellings for instance exercised upon their condition . But it was not merely with relation to the question of rent . Look , also , at the question of disease . He wished to consider the
matter onl y in an economic point of view ; but he found that in thelast report of the sanatory commissioners , that the cost of preventable diseases in Manchester amounted to £ 300 , 000 a year . Taking the population of Manchester amounted to at 800 , 000 , that amounted to the cost of £ 1 per head , and this must press much more severely than that upon the working classes , because their Lordships all knew that the other classes were , in a great measure , exempt from this species of disease ; therefore he said , that ihelaboivring classes had a differency of 51 . a year inthecost of their dwellings , and l _'» a year on thc cost of preventable diseases , over and above what they would have to pay if they lived in the country , but to which no remedy had yet been applied . They now heard a great deal about c / ieau bread ; that was
a cry which had at all times been warmly responded to . "But let them examine the cost to the labouring man of another necessary of life—he meant water _. It appeared iu evidence that the cost of water to a working man in Nottingham , reckoning trouble and time in procuring it , was about three-pence-halfpenny a _ivesb . By recent improvements in that town , seventy-nine gallons was given for the same price that formerly procured only tiiree gallons . Now , let them contrast that with the price which was to be given for bread . The amount of corn which was consumed by a labouring man and his family will roughly , but he believed not unfairly , be estimated at aquarter a head . Now suppose that there had been a fixed duty imposed of eight shillings per quarter , that would
have raised the price of food to the labouring man of lid . per week , even if the consumer paid- the whole of t / iotduty ; though Mr . Senior , in the report on the condition of the hand-loom weavers , gave it as his opinion that only ls . Qd . of that duty would fall upon the consumer . Now he did not say that it was not desirable to increase the comforts of the workingmen , even by this small amount ; but he wished to show that if the present government were inclined to benefit the working men , these reports had been lying before them for three or four years , and they had every opportunity to introduce those improvements , which might have been effected without a rupture of parties—without a division of sentiment—without any reproach , whether well or ill deserved ; but which would have led to a more immediate and direct
saving to the poor man than would be effected by this measure . ( Hear , hear . ) To turn for a moment to what had been stated by his noble friend ( Stanley ) last night . He had read the opinion of Mr . Gregg , who was an extensive manufacturer , and also a member of the Anti-Corn Law League , who had given a melancholy account ofthe prospects ofthe manufacturers of this country , and who stated that foreign countries were yearly increasing their power of underselling British manufacturers . Now he had taken great pains to make inquiries upon this subject , last autumn—not that his opinion , being a mere casual traveller , would ef itself be worth much—but he din make inquiries upon this subject , and he found that Mr . Gregg ' s apprehensions , to a certain extent , were right —( Hear , hear , )—but his informant gave a
different reason for this than Mr . Gregg did . It was not , as Mv . Gregg said , that foreigners could undersell us ; but it was that they could sell as cheap , and while they sold as cheap , they took more pains with the articles they produced , as that their _colours and thoir textures were more adapted to please . ( Cheers . ) Now , he mentioned thisin the utmost kindness to the manufacturer ; because if Mr . Gregg gave the true reasons these things might be beyond a remedy , - whereas , if it could be remedied— as , according to his information it could—then it would be highly desirable that that _gentleman and his colleagues should apply that ingenuity which they had of late been employing exclusively in teaching tho agriculturists how to improve the condition of the soil—( cheers)—to the improvement of their own
manufacturers . ( Continued cheering . ) There was one other observation which he was tempted to make . Some persons attempted to account for the inferiority ofthe workmen of this country , in articles of taste , to their want of education . Now , he had a strong opinion upon a question which had lately been agitating the Legislature , and he would say that sueh an objection came with a very ill grace from those ivho _liad constantly opposed the _shortening of the hours of labour , which alone , in his opinion , was likely to improve thc education of tlie labouring classes . ( Hear , hear . ) There was still another consideration on whieh he felt bound to touch . In the last census of the population it was stated , that such was the improvement of medical science , in the country , - that the averaged value of life had increased ; but , at the
same time , it was stated , that in the manufacturing districts it had fearfully diminished . Nay , he was not sure , for he must apologise to their lordships for -speaking from recollection , but ho believed he was understating the case when he said , that the deterioration of life in these districts had been so great , that whereas the average value of life in these districts twenty years ago was fifty , itwas now only forty-five . ( Hear , hear . ) He frequently had seen the first generation of manufacturing operatives , but he had not seen the second , and there was no doubt whatever but they were very much deteriorated in that respect . With respect to the Bill before tbeir Lordships , the
Government had unnecessarily aggravated the difficulty ofa peaceable and quiet settlement of this question , and accompanied it by a waste of character which was a great public evil . This bill had come up to their Lordship ' s sanctioned by a great majority of the representatives of the people , and he believed it was a move in the right direction ; and though it might have been purchased at a large price by the suicidal sacrifice ef public character , their Lordship ' s were no parties to this sacrifice ; they had betrayed no constituencies , and believing it to be a measure from which benefit might arise , whilst great evil would result from its rejection , he _shonld vote for the second reading of the bill .
The Earls of _Cakdicax and _JVixchelsea spoke against the bill , and abused the Government . __ The Earl of Clarendon rejoiced at the introduction of this measure , and at the justice of the arguments by which it had been defended during the long and wearisome ordeal it had passed through elsewhere . He urged their Lordships to pass a measure which would remove a constant and fertile source of discontent , and benefit all classes , founded as it was upon a great and comprehensive view of the varying circumstances and complicated interests of this great country .
The harl of Carnarvon opposed the bill , insisting upon the absence of any necessity for thc repeal of the existing law , and disputing the doctrine that British industry needed no protection in its competition with the industry of foreign nations . He contended that the wages " of the agricultural labourer would be forced down by this measure to the very lowest level , and that the poor farmer— the occupier with little capital—would be ruined . The Earl of Malmesbuey _, after a short contest for precedence with Lord Haddington , also opposed the bill . And was followed by the Earl of _Haddington , who defended it . The noble Earl declared he should witness with great alarm the throwing out of this bill , because he was persuaded a new Parliament would bring an overwhelming majority in favour of free trade , and their Lordships would lose the opportunity of a graceful concession to public feeling . The Earl of Hardwicjle addressed the House
against the bill . He considered the party with whom he acted were protecting the poor men against the overbearing influence of the manufacturers ; and he qHotcd an American newspaper to show that the principle of protection was considered in that country as essentially democraticai , and that its abolition would inflict injury upon the lower classes . The noble Earl pointed out how much , under a protective system , the country had prospered in agriculture , commerce , chipping , and revenue , which , notwithstanding a reduction of taxation , had kept pace with the national expenditure ; whilst the people had had cheaper bread than they would have under free trade .
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: ; The Earl of _Wicklo _t then moved the _sojournment of the debate till Thursday next , y . '" ¦'" ' _•¦;* ; ''' ; ; Earl Gret moved _aimply that the debate be ' ad *" journed . _•? . "' ' /¦ ' ¦" ,:. '" . " ' _' y '"' v '''"" " y . An animated conversation then took place on the question of adjournment , the Earl of Wicklow contending that he had moved his . adjournment first , and stating _, that he would take the sense of the house upon it _; and Earl Grey urging their lordships strongly to continue it on ( Wednesday , ) as adjourning till Thursday would , if it was not then concluded ; throw the question over the holidays . He protested against allowing mere amusement to defer the debate on so important a subject . _^ : : ' _-, _<' The Duke of Wellington was willing either to sit on Wednesday , or resume the debate on Thursday . h : _' _u- ' After Hearty half an hour ' s warm discussion of this point , the debate was adjourned till Thursday , and the House rose at two o ' clock . '
HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Wedkesdat , May 26 . A quantity of railway business was transacted . Mr . Smith O'Bhien gave notice of a motion for the production of the letter written b y himself to the Speaker , protesting against his recent imprisonment . Mr . _EwARiroseto move two resolutions—one declaratory ofthe expediency , of discontinuing the present system of making the colony of Van Dieman ' s Land a general receptacle for convicts ; and the other declaratory ofthe expediency of no longer maintaining transportation except as a supplement to the previous punishment of imprisonment . He was proceeding to make a statement explanatory of the grounds of his motion , when An hon . member moved thatthe house be counted ; and there being only 27 members present , the house stood adjourned .
HOUSE OF LORDS .-Thtjrsdat , Mat 28 . After the presentation of a number of petitions for and against the Corn . Bill ,
THE ADJOURNED DEBATE was opened by Lord GiteY , who , at wearisome length , advocated the necessity of a total repeal of the Corn Laws . He would prefer an immediate repeal , but as he could not attempt to obtain that without endangering tbe Bill , be would rest satisfied with what WAS offered by the Government . The ' advocates of the measure were menaced with a dilemma respecting prices under this bill . "If there be no great diminution of tbe price of corn , " they said , ' . ' in what consists the advantage of the measure' ? " He ( Earl Grey ) did net expect a great fall of prices ; he did not expect that the weekly average price of wheat would be so low as 36 s . a quarter , as it was in December , 1835 ; nor that it would be so high as Sis . 6 d ., as it was in
January , 1839 ; what he did expect was , a greater steadiness of moderate prices ; that the average price would be lower , but not greatly lower , than it had been during the last twelve year * , and that prices would fluctuate within much narrower limits . The result would be beneficial to the British grower of corn , especially by causing an immensely increased consumption of corn , and impmernents in farming . Higher farming implied the employment of more hands ; and he believed there was not a single farm in England upon which the same or a greater number of men might not be employed with a greater demand for agricultural produce . Nor did he expect , in the circumstances of this country , a fall of rents . Earl G _» _ev favoured the house * with a . highly flattering
and very florid portrait of Mr . Cobden , whom he introduced to their Lordships as their greatest patron and benefactor , and as a person singularly friendly to the maintenance of the Peerage . Lord Ashdurion gave his unqualified opposition to the meaBure . The Noble Lord reviewed the question in its commercial bearings , and showed that , under the experiment which had already been tried , our shipping had decreased , whilst the shipping of foreigners had Rreatly increased . The parochial clergy , also , would be severe sufferers under this bill , for should the price of wheat fall only to 40 s ., their incomes would be reduced one-fourth . The Marquis of Lassdowse argued at considerable
length in support of the bill , lie had been , and still was , an advocate of a fixed duty ; but the question was , whether , by voting in committee to that effect , he should not be in reality voting against a settlement ofthe question , which might be-attained by a bill of a totally different nature . lie therefore accepted the bill proposed by Her Majesty ' s Government . After a smart contest for precedence , The Earl of Essex spoke in favour of the bill , avowing a change in former opinions . He thought that the farmers of this country , would find their interest consist in moderate prices and abundant produce , obtained hy the judicious application of capital , and abandoning antiquated prejudices .
The Earl of Egmnton opposed the bill . He asserted that this measure would be productive of ruin to the farmers and farm labourers ef Scotland . He implored their lordships to compel an appeal to the countrv . Lord Beaumont energetically advocated the cause of Protection . The Earl of Dalhousie supported the bill . He argued at great length that the principle of protection was unsound in itself , unjust to the consumer , and without benefit to the producer ; and that the
relaxations which had been tried had resulted in large and palpable improvements in all the trades which these relaxations touched . With a brief answer to the objections of Lord Stanley , upon the subject of Canada , and a calm but firm and spirited defence Ofthe members of the government against the charge of treachery , the noble earl appealed to thc prudence and justice of their lordships , not lightly , or without sufficient ground , and without closely searching their own hearts , to reject a measure of such vast importance .
The Duke of Beaufort opposed the bill , and instanced a part of his own property , on which , should this measure pass , tenants who , with their ancestors , had occcupied farms under him and his ancestors for 400 years , would be reduced to the condition of labourers , unless he rejected the rules of political economy , and stood between them and ruin . He would do so ; for , exclaimed his grace , "I feel prouder oi this tenantry than of all my other ancestral _honours , and even my seat in your Lordships' house . " The Dukeof Wellin g ton confessed that he laboured under peculiar disadvantage in appearing as a Minister of the Crown to recommend this Bill , knowing , as he did , that it was most disagreeable to all with whom he had been in the habit of acting . But the course he had taken he would again take tomorrow , under similar circumstances . He was
in her Majesty ' s service , and his idea of duty would not have permitted him to adopt any other conduct on this question than that he had pursued . The Noble ' Duke concluded by saying that his advice , perhaps thc last he would ever give to their Lordships , was to pass this Bill , and avoid a disagreement with the other members of the legislature . _Asfor an appeal to the count . 7 , their Lordships might surely wait for the termination of the present House of Commons , where they would have the power of re-considering the question , as a total repeal could not take place before three years . Their Lordships divided at half . past four o ' clock Friday morning , when there were , for the second reading—Contents 138 Proxies 73—211 _Non'contents 126 Non-proxies 38—164
Majority in favourof the Bill ... 47 Their Lordships then fixed the Committee on the Bill for tho 11 th June , and adjourned the Ilouse to next Thursday . HOUSE OF COMMONS , Thursday , May 28 . Mr . S . Crawford gave notice , that on Thursday , June 11 , he would move for a select committee to inquire into the allegations bi the Rochdale petitions as they affect the local magistrates and the rural police .
THE ANDOVER UNION . Lord Courtenay _moyed that the select committee on the Andover Union have leave to report the minutes of evidence taken before them from time to time . After a discussion in which Mr . Waklet , Captain _Pzcuxu ,, and Mr . Et wall supported the motion , and Sir J . Gkaium , Mr . Paiiiukgtoj * _, and Mr . T . Duncombe , opposed it , the _housediv _' ulod : For the motion 10 Againstit 81 Majority against the motion .. ( 55 The other orders ol the day wore then disposed of , and the house adjourned at twent y minutes to eight o ' clock . HOUSE OF COMMONS .-Fbiday , May 29 . ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE—PROGRESS OF GOVERNMENT MEASURES .
Sir R . Peel . —Sir , pursuant to the notice I have given , I beg leave to move that the house at its rising do adjourn until Friday next , and I shall avail myself of this opportunity to state what is the business wliich we propose on thc part of the government to bring forward after the Whitsuntide recess . If the house adopt the proposition I now submit for their consideration , we shall meet again on Friday , the 5 th of June . 1 intend proposing on that day to proceed with the Committee of Supply , and on thc Monday following , that is , the eighth day of June , I mean to move the second reading of the Irish Bill for the prevention of assassination . I would
have moved the second reading of the Irish Life and Property Protection Measure on Friday , thc 5 th of June _, * but I understand that some of the Irish members have gone over to Ireland , and deem it inconvenient to more the second reading at so early a period . Therefore , Sir , I give notice that on Monday , the 8 th of June , the Irish Bill for the Prevention of Assassiuation and the Protection of Property ; be read a second time . Then on _i'he Friday following , the 12 th of June , I shall propose , on the part of Government a motion relating to thc sugar duties , and if the debate arising on the motion should be adjourned over , I will more thatthe adjourned
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debate have precedence over all the other orders ., I also beg to give notice that oh Friday , the 1 5 th nt June ; I _shalT move that on and after Thursday , the 18 th-of "June , ' theorders of the day shall have precedence on Thursday in each week over the other notices of motion . , ' ' Mr . T . Duhcombe expressed a hope that the right hon . baronet would consent to have the Poor Removal Bill discussed without further delay , " as it was of the utmost importance that it should be enacted cotemporaneously with the Corn Bill , which he trusted the House of Lords would immediately sanction . ' Then there was the Bill for the enrolment of the militia , which ought to be discussed in . the . midflle . of tne session when members , unincumbered with a and
press of Parliamentary' business , could scan minutely examine its provisions . The intention ot introducing the Bill was announced long before Easter , and as yet they saw nothing whatever of this piece of proposed legislation . Now he did think it was treating members most unfairly to defer till _tlnrend of the session bringing forward a measure against which there had been already manifested such general out-bf-door opposition . Hehad hoped that the Militia Enrolment Bill would not be proposed , at all events until hon . gentlemen were afforded an opportunity of carefully examining the provisions of the measure , and it was his decided opinion that the bill ought to have been brought forward , if brought forward at all , before they separated for the Whitsuntide recess .
Sir R . Peel . hoped that the house would make allowance for the position in which Her Majesty ' s Government were placed ( hear , hoar ); they had only two days in the week for public business , and there had been a great pressure of public business . ( Hear , hear . ) He should take the Poor Law Removal Bill on Friday , the 5 th of June , giving up the supply in order that no one might say the Government were not anxious to bring on the Poor Removal Bill . The house , however , must feel that the Government-were bound to go on with the Irish Bill _without any delay , and he could not consent to postpone it for the Poor Removal Bill , The motion for adjournment was then put and agreed to .
THE OREGON TERRITORY . Mr . Hume inquired if notice had yet been given by the President of the United States of America to this country relative to the termination of the convention . ' . Sir R . Peel said the President had given notice ofthe termination atthe end of the year , and in doing so had used the terms which were adopted by both Houses of the Legislature , with a view to lead ing to an amicable adjustment of the question . ( Cheers . )
. THE BUDGET . .: " The house having gone into a committee of suppl y , The Chancellor of the Exchequer opened his Budget before a remarkable array o f empty benches . Mr . Goulburn commenced his operations by admitting thatthe most interesting portions , the Customs ' reductions , being already known , he had little more to communicate , and that nothing remained for him to do but to bring into one general view the statements already before the house , and to show how successful had been the financial measures of the Government . Mr . Goulburn , without further preface , plunged into the usual Budget array of figures the substance of which was that the estimates of the total income of the present year amounted to £ 51 , 650 , 000 , including £ 700 , 000
receivable from China , and the right hon . gentleman , after applying the requisite sums for the charges of the . debt and Consolidated Fund , including the public works in Ireland , after providing for the expenses of the army , navy , and ordnance _, die ., had still a surplus of £ 2 , 200 , 000 which the right hon . gentleman applied to a small increase in the cost ofthe army to the extent of £ 140 , 000 —to the charge of organizing the militia , which we believe would be about £ 200 , 000 ; the increase ofthe navy , £ 500 , 000 to £ 600 , 000 , including the additional charges of war steamers ; the additional charges-in the Ordnance , about £ 400 , 000 , which , with £ 200 , 000 increase in the miscellaneous estimates , and the expenses thrown upon the
Consolidated Fund by the sums to be expended in Ireland , incidental to the arrangements for providing food for the poor , the cost of schoolmasters in the union workhouses , would leave an estimated net surplus of about £ 776 , 000 , with which he should enter the new financial year with increased confidence . The right hon . gentleman then entered into a long argument to- shew that by the duties reduced upon a vast number of articles of merchandise , since 1812 , the comforts ofthe poorer classes had been greatly augmented . Mr . Goulburn then proceeded to show that the capital of thc public debt had been decreased seven millions since 1842 . The debt on deficiency bills had been reduced £ 4 , 133 , 000 , not inferior to the decrease of the £ 7 , 000 , 000 on the capital debt ; whilst moreover £ 1 , 500 , 000 was the annual amount of reduction on the interest . Mr . Goulburn asserted that this improvement did not
arise from the moneys received from China , but from the free-trade system adopted by Parliament . The Right Hon . Gentleman in the course of his speech , alluded to the progressive improvement in the Post office revenue , as well as to the marked increase which had taken place in every item of the Excise duties , whilst on the other hand , by the flourishing condition of the Saving Banks , which although they gave a reduced interest to the depositors , yet still had vastly increased ; so that consumption and accumulation -were going on simultaneously . The Right Hon . Gentleman , after alluding to the decrease of crime , the increase ot churches , and the general improvement in the moral habits of the people , concluded by expressing his confidence that the system of financial and commercial improvement proposed by government would contribute to the interests of this mighty country .
After a few observations from Mr . F . Baking , Mr . Hume , Lord Geokge Bektikck , Mr . _Chables Wood , Mr . Cakdwell , Mr . Williams , and Mr . Hudson , the House then resumed ; and after disposing of the orders of the day , adjourned till Friday .
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THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . , Meetings for the purpose of enrolling members , and transacting other business connected therewith are held every week on the following days and places : — SUNDAT EVENING . South London Chartist HaU , 115 , Blackfriars-road : at half-past six o ' clock . —City Chartist Hall , 1 , Turnagain-lane : at six o ' clock . — Westminster : at the Parthenium Club Rooms , 72 , St . Martin ' s-lane- at half-past seven . —( Somers Town : at Mr . Duddrege ' s , Bricklayers' Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road , at half-past seven . —Tower Hamlets : atthe Whittington and Cat , Church-row , Bethnal-green , at six o ' clock precisely . —Evvmett ' s Brigade : at the Rock Tavern , Lisson-grove , at eight o ' clock precisely _,- —Marylebone i at the Coach Painters' Arms , Circus-street , at halfpast seven .
MONDAT EVENING . Rochester . —At the Victory Inn , at half-past seven . Cambemell : at the Montpelier Tavern , Walworth , at eight o ' clock precisely . Kensington . —At eight o ' clock , at the Duke of Sussex . Limehouse : at the Brunswick Hall , Ropemaker ' s Fields , at eight o ' clock .
TUESDAY EVENING . Greenwich : at Mr . Paris ' s , Cold Bath , at eight o ' clock . Newcastle-upon-Tyne .: This branch of the Chartist _Cotopevative Land Society meet in the house ot Martin Jude , Sun Inn , Side , every Sunday evening , from seven until nine o ' clock , for the purpose of receiving subscriptions and enrolling members . Leicester : The members and committee of the Co . operative Land Society meet at 87 , Church-gate , every Sunday night , at six o ' clock . Arndey : Thc members of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society meet at the house of Mr . William Oates , boot and shoemaker , Armley Town-gate , every Monday evening , at eight o ' clock .
. WEDNEBDAY EYENIHG . ¦ H ammersmith-, at the Temperance Hall , Bridge Road , at eight o clock precisely . _PaOVIKClAL MEETINGS OV TUE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIE 1 T . Leicester , every Monday evening , at No . 17 , Archdeden Lane , at seven o clock . Chepstow , every Monday evening , at the Temperance , Hotel , Bank Avenue , at eight o ' clock . Aberdeen . The office-bearers meet every Wednesday evening at halt-past seven , at No . 1 ; Flour Mill Lane llall .
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An Adjourned Meeting of the Theatrical Benefit Committee , and the Shareholders ofthe South London Chartist Hall , will take place on Thursday evening next , in the Committee Room , at half-past eight o ' clock . _Mabvlebone . —A meeting for the purposeof electing a new council , A _* c , will be held at tho Coach Painters Arms , Circus Street , on Sunday evening next , May the 31 st , at eight o clock precisely . City Chartist Hall , 1 , Turaagain Lane , Farringdon Street . The public discussion will be resumed at half-past ten o ' clock on Sunday morning next , May the 31 st . In the evening at seven o ' clock , Mr . Thomason will lecture .
South London _Cuartist Hall , 115 , Blackfriarsroad , Mr . Christopher Doyle will lecture on Sunday evening next , May the 31 st , to commence at hail past seven precisely . _LiMEiio-jsE . -A meeting will beheld at the Brunswick Hall _Ropcmakers-fields , on Thursday next , June the 4 th , and every succeeding Thursday evening , ofthe Chartist Mutual Instruction Society . Lambbrwell and Walworth . —A meeting will be fleid at the Montpelier Tavern Walworth , on Monday evening next , June the 1 st , at eight precisely .
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" _* . To the [ Friends ' ep Fbeedom and Phil whropt . — The . _membera of the Charter Association and Land Society of the Tower'Hamlets have engaged the City Theatre , ' Norton Folgate , for a Ticket Benefit on Whit Wednesday , June 3 rd ; 1846 , towards defraying the expence of sending a delegate to the forthcoming Convention , and trust the friends will 8 upportthem on the ' occasion by taking tickets , as the taking of tickets only will benefit them , " which may be had at the Whittington-and Cat , Church Row , Bethnal Green ; Bartram ' s , Brass Founders ' Arms , Whitechapel Road ; Brunswick Hall , Ropemaker Fields , Limehouse ; Mr . Ford , Sub-Secretary , 3 , Gun Lane ; and of the Committee , for which see bills . The committee are requested tomeet on Sunday ; Monday , and Tuesday Evenings . A General _Meetins ofthe members and friends of the Eastern Philanthropic Society will be held on
_Whitrbunday . A concert w ill take place on Whit-Monday , in aid of the funds of the society , and on Wednesday next the monthly meeting will be held The society meets at Mr . Drake ' s , Standard of Libertyi . Brick Lane , Spitalfields . Chair taken at eight o clock each evening . Democratic Committee fob Poland ' s Regeneration . — -A meeting of tbis Committee will be holden on Tuesday _evening next , at eight o ' clock , atthe Office of the Chartist Executive , 83 , Dean-street , Sohoi G . Julian Harney , Hon . Sec . Bilston . —A general meeting of the Chartists of Bilston , and Members , of the Land Society , will be held at the house of . Mr . Joseph Linney , White Horse , High Street , on Sunday Evening next , May 31 st , when all members are respectfully requested to attend .
Warrington . —The Members of the Chartist Cooperative Land Society meet at the house of Mr . Robert Lomax , No . 9 , Tanner ' s Lane , every Monday Evening at eight o ' clock . Bradford . —A public meeting of the members of the National Charter Association will be held in the Council Room , Butterworth Buildings , on Sunday next , at two o ' clock , for the purpose of electing a Delegate to the Convention . Derby . —A general meeting of the Chartists of Derby will be held at Mr . Chester ' s Temperance
House , 16 , Goodwin Street , on Sunday next , May 31 st , at two o clock in the afternoon , to take into consideration the preliminary steps towards electing a Delegate at the next Chartist Convention . A delegate meeting . will be held at the above place on Sunday , the 7 th . " of June , at two in the afternoon , when delegates from the localities surrounding Derby are urgently _requested to attend , to make final arrangements , for the election of a Delegate . Subscriptions for the above object will be received by Mrs . Parry , News Agent , Cheapside , Derby .
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Stakes of 50 eachhftfor 3 EPSOM ItACES . _—( _"Wbbnesdav . )
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The _Deb » y sovs . , ; ., yr . olds ; coIt » , _Sst . rib . ; fillies , 8 st . 21 b . The owner ofthe second _howe to receive 100 sovs . out of the stakes , and the winner to pay 100 sovs . towards the police regulations of the course : Last mile and a half . 193 subs . Mr . Gully ' s Pyrrhus the First , by _Epirus , out of Fortress ( S . Day ) 1 Mr . "W . Scott ' s Sir Tatton Sykes , hy Melbourne ( W . Scott ) . - 2 Gen . Shubrick ' i Brocardo _, by Touchstone ( Holmes ) 3 Twenty-Beven started .
There seems to be no doubt that Sir Tatton Sykes would have won had he not laid so much out of his ground in the early part of the race , or bad Scott been in a condition to make the most of him at the end . Sting , too , lost his cbance , in consequence of Spithead having- crossed him , and obliged Bell to pull him back and go round bis horses—a circumstance that led to a complaint of foul riding against Francis . Fancy Boy was still more unfortunate , he was badly kicked ttvice before tbe race , and in coming round the turn was run against and almost knocked down ; he was looking well at the time , and notwithstanding the loss of ground consequent on the accident , finished respectably . The race was run in 2 minutes 55 seconds .
FRIDAY . THE OAKS STAK . _C 9 Of 50 sovs . each , h . ft ,, for _tbree-yr old fillies , 8 st . 71 b , each ; the owner of the second filly to receive 100 sovs . outof the stakes , and the _winnejr to pay 100 sovs . to wards the police regulations of the course ; last mile and a half . 140 subs . Mr . Gully ' s Mendicant , by Touchstone ( S . Day ) 1 Mr . _Wyatt'sLaundryMaid _. by Wintonian ( F . Bell ) 2 lord Glasgow's f . by Retriever , out of Emilia ( J . Holmes ) 3 Twenty-four started . Won cleverly by two lengths .
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_- H . PSOM . —un Wednesday evening tne tollowing fatal and fearful accidents occurred while rehiring from Epsom Races : —The first case was about one mile on this side of Epsom . A four-wheel chaise , in which were seated four persons , while they were in the act of descending a hill , they came in collision with another vehicle , when the driver Mr . John Winters , a cousin to the ex-Champion of England , _w-as thrown to the ground , the force of __ which broke his back . The other persons in the chaise were likewise most seriously injured . Mr . Winter was carried to the nearest surgeon ' s who dressed the-wounds , and subsequently ordered him to be conveyed to St . Thomas ' s Ilospital , where he was found to have
received the most extensive injuries of the back , which was completely broken . He was put under the care of the house surgeon , but he expired in two hours after his admission . Another accident , ofa _frightl ' ul character , occurred while descending a hill , situate about three miles from Epsom . A van of unusual size , _belonging to Mr . Mathews , carman , of Guy-street , New Weston-street , Bermondsey , was on the way home very heavily and injudiciously loaded , there being upwards of 35 individuals riding with the driver ( Mr . Mathews , ) independent of a large quantity of luggage . The van , was proceeding at a steady pace towards town , in a narrow lane , when oHe of the near wheels run into a deep hole , which broke it
into atoms , * the vehicle consequently swerved , or turned completely over , throwing the passengers into an adjoining field , and some into the hedge . The driver was lost for a few seconds by falling among the horses , which were all in confusion , and plunging furiously . After a few minutes had elapsed , Mr . Barnes , landlord of the Two Brewers , _Rcdcross-Btreet , Southwark , was discovered with fractured ribs and contusions over various parts of his body . Another gentleman , landlord of the Rose Tavern , Snow ' s-lields , received a fracture ofthe left arm and severe injury to the head . Mr Windsor of Kingstreet _, Borough , also sustained a lacerated wound of the scalp .
Attempted Assassination at Glasgow . — -About a month ago , a parcel containing fruit , sugar , & c , addressed to Mr . Alex . Ritchie , millwright , at Messrs . Randolph , Elliot , and Co . ' s , Centre-street , Tradeston , arrived in this city from Paisley , and was promptly taken to its destination by tbe Glasgow Parcel Delivery Company . The party to whom the parcel was addressed not having been found , it lay in in the Parcel Delivery Company ' s Office , Muler _« street , in the expectation that an owner would yet appear . The latter end of last week , a small oblong box , addressed in the same handwriting to the same party at Messrs . P . and J . _M'Onie ' s , at Scotlandstreet , Tradeston _, came through the same channel , and was duly delivered . The box was taken home by
the young man , who , on removing the cloth in whicli it was wrapped , found written upon a card directions how the box was to be opened so as not to injure the alleged valuable contents . The directions he followed so far as to draw the screw nails with whicli tlie box lid was fastened with a "driver , " While pulling one of the nails , something gave way inside , when the young man considering he had injured or destroyed some part or other of this present , which had excited such high hopes , wrenched off the lid in presence of his wife , when , horrible to relate , the box was found to contain about one pound and a half of gunpowder , a number of small stones , with a lock
and part of the stock of a pistol . A wire attached the trigger to one of tho nails , which , upon being drawn , was no doubt expected to ignite the contents , and spread death around . Luckily , however , this monstrous attempt to assassinate an innocent family was frustrated ; ior although the trigger was drawn , and the cock fell , no explosion took plaee . The escape willapueai more wonderful when we add , that upon the stock with thc lock attached being removed from the box , and the trigger again drawn , the cap then exploded . An investigation into this extraordinary affair has been instituted by the authorities at Paisley .
_Tna _Laib Fatal Accident on thb Dover Railway . — On Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held at Marden , a _ village near Ashford , on the body of the engine driver , Samuel Hill , who was killed by the aecident _** on the railway on Saturday afternoon . The Jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased was killed by the accidental ' ailing [ ofa IoconiotiVQ engine . " Fatal Accident . —Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr . W . _B-iker , jun ., Deputy-Coroner , at the Bedford Arms , Wapping-wall , on the body of John Johnson , aged eight years , who was accidentally
drowned 111 the river Thames on Tuesday afternoon last . It appeared that the deceased and other children were playing on some barges belonging to Mr . Gamman , a coal merchant , lying off St . Jamcs ' s-stairs , ) Y lipping , when the deceased lost his balauce and fell into the river . An alarm was immediately raised , and the drags were quickly procured , and he was picked up 111 a few minutes after the occurrence . He was immediately carried to Mr . Ilenry , a surgeon in _Wapjuug-wall , and every means were procured to restore animation , but without effect . Verdict , "Accidental death . "
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BOW SUTEET . T _T' _eMansi-auguter in _Dnimr Lank . —On Wednesday John Graham was placed before Mr . Henry for tin-ilex _, animation , charged with shooting and killing Thomas
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Blewett , in Drury . lane , i on . _Saturday-fevening , the 25 th ult . The depositions of all'the- witnesses ' were read over and Mr . Henry committed the prisoner to take his trial for manslaughter at the next Old Bailey Sessions .
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'¦ : ¦ - ¦ ' GUILDHALL . ' ¦ _' . " Cuabge of Mubdek . —On Saturday , Joseph Carter journeyman shoemaker , lodging ia _MoorficUls _, _^ _as brought up for a second examination , on the charge of having murdered John Ody ,: a man working at the same trade , on Tuesday last—Mr . Kemmtnt , the house-surgeon ; iit . Bartholomew ' s"Hospital , was the first witness , who deposed that , the , unfortunate niun was brought to the hospital at twelve o'clock on Tuesday night , with tw o wounds in the abdomen , from which wounds he died . They might have been effected , by sueh a knife as that produced . —Thomas Rigby , of No . 4 , Rey . _nold's-court , ; Type-street , Moorfields ,- deposed that he lodged with the prisoner , who came home on Tuesday night , and after rummaging his drawer lie took out a kuife , and witness asked him wliat he . was going to ' doj when he replied that it was no business , _of _. witness ' _s and he then went but as he was getting up to shut
lum in . The knife now produced is wliat is called a forepart knife . — James Shaw , a shoemaker , said he was drinking with the deceased , when a chaffing arose between him and the prisoner , when , aftera time , the prisoner , stamped his loot , and said as he went out , " I will fetch something that will do for him , " " and ran off in the direction of his lodging . ' lie returned in a few minutes , and putting his head into the room , beckoned Ody out of the room , and when he went , the prisoner immediately struck him with " the knife in the abdomen . —T . Doby Court wag present when the murderous affair occurred , and heard the deceased say he would not allow the prisoner to drink out of his pot ' , and called him a sponging fellow , and said he must work for his living a * he did . He furthermore corroborated the last witness ' s _, testimony . —Daniel May , a city poHceman , was on duty , and heard the prisoner say with an oath as he _piissed him on his way for his knife , " I'll do for you . " The prisoner was then committed to Newgate for trial .
The Maiwting Man . —Joseph Mortimer , The Irish _, man who deceived a woman by counterfeiting an American merchant , for the purpose of marry ing her , the particulars of whose case appeared in the Star of last week was brought up again before the sitting magistrate , when the following additional evidence was adduced—A young woman named Row-bottom said she had advertised for a situation to attend on an elderly lady or gentleman , when she received the following answer ;—" Canterbury , April 10 , ISIS . "Madam , —If you have no obgection to change your situation in life 1 should be happey to communicate with , you on the subject , i am from New , York , i am a Widower , have one daughter 9 years ' , and i am a merchant and du businesfor the last 15 years at 101 Chatiro Square , New York . I am well awero this is not the usual mode of addressing a Ladey on ther subgect _, but i know no one hardley in London , and my time is very short here , and my wish is to have a wife that I may love aud be kind . to . _- Pray ancer this to J . M . post office , Canterbury , and it will be attendit to , and'be assured thu is no hoax . If you permit me to call it wiU be more satisfactory than any correspondence . 1 am 36 years of age . "J . M .
" I will du my best to be a goed husbant iff we make a union of it . " To this she made a reply , which she hiuided up to the magistrate , but begged it might not be read . It was said to be creditable to her discretion and good sense . He wrote again as follows . *— Canterbury , April 19 . "My dearest Miss—Your letter ofthe 18 th came to my hand this forenoon , and i am pleasde with the hole of it , and i will if speared be in London on Thursday , and my deariwill call and have an interview , and iprayitmay be for both our good iff a union takes place . I will when I get me a wife , be kind and loving to her and doo all in my power to make her happey and comfortobell . The _abovo i mane , nnd they are fackes _, ass i mane nothing but hon _» our bright . I have three brothers and two sisters all in the merkentile line in New York and Brooklyn . I du o wen 1 , 500 akers of Ian in the States , all pade for . "J _. M , "
He then called at her house , and tried to induce her to think he was a man of property , but he did not get anything for his trouble . Several other young women came fornard to make similar statements , but Alderman Gibbs : told them that it would be useless to hear them unless he had received their money . He was then remanded for a week , and the police received instructions to make further inquiries .
WESTMINSTER . A Female Coiner On Monday Louise Buptiste _, a youug woman , was finally examined , charged with coining . On the Cth inst ., Inspector Penny , accompanied by a large party ofthe police , proceeded _toNew-court , Ducklaue , where , _tifterjhaving forced open a room-door on the second floor , which was strongly barricaded , they discovered the prisoner standing before a clear lire with a ladleof metal in one hand , and a plaster of Paris mould was in the other . "When the officers rushed towards her , she took a counterfeit half-crown from the mantel-piece , and threw it into the ladle , but it was immediately extracted , and she also endeavoured to destroy the mould by placing it on the ground and stamping upon it . Tiro galvanic battepies , which appeared to have been recently used , files , and other implements necessary tor coining , were found in the room . After she had been locked up . for about an hour , she complained of being very unwell , and on a surgeon having been sent for . she _aduiittud that in her confusion at the time of the officers' entrance , she had thrown a halt-crown into her mouth , which had lodged in her throat , It was found impossible to extract . it , and it was forced downwards . —The prisoner was committed for trial .
HAMMERSMITH . The Self-accused Robber and _Mcrdereii . — Monday being the day appointed for tho second examination of Henry Norman , the self-accused robber and muvderer , who stands charged with having stolen the sum of £ 02 , the property of Mr . William Hoof , builder , _& c , Madeley Ilouse , Kensington ; and also on suspicion of having been concerned in the murder of Mr . Robert "Westwood , the watchmaker , in Princes-street , Soho , on the Srd of June , 1839 . the Court was , from its opening , crowded almost to suffocation . On the prisoner being placed at the bar . Mr . Edward Apps Smith , chief clerk to Mr . Hoof , repeated the evidence he gave at the first examination on the previ . ous Monday . "William Smallbone , another clerk in Mr .
Hoof ' s service , deposed to having been present wlien the bag containitg the money was given to the prisoner by the last witness , with directions to take it to the gas-works , in the King ' s-road , Fulham . The prisoner , on leaving the office , shook the bag , and , in a jocular manner , said , " This is a nice lot to shoot with . " The prisoner on hearing that Statement smiled . George Arnold , Mr . Hoof's foreman at the gas-works , deposed that the prisoner , o _» the day in question , did not bring any money to witness * neither did he come to tlie works and pay any of the men _^ Witness saw the prisoner on thc 18 th of April , between ten . and eleven o ' clock in the forenoon , in the oflice at Kensington , but never saw him afterwards until lie saw him in custody on the previous Monday at that Court . received
Inspector Havell , T Division , deposed to having information of the robbery from Mr . Hoof on the day of the prisoner absconding , every search being made after him without success , until Inst Thursday week , when information was received that a person answering the prisoner ' s description was in custody at Liverpool . On the next day ( Friday ) witness proceeded to Liverpool , and on Saturday morning saw the prisoner in the goal of that town , where he was identified by one of Mr . Hoof ' s clerks Witness then took him to the police station in that town , where he searched the prisoner , and found on him the sum . of . £ 4 12 s . Cd . in gold and silver moneys , Witness then asked where he lodged , when he told witness at No . 89 , ritt-street , Liverpool . Witness went to tliat direction , but found he had given a wrong address , no such person being ; there . Witness , however , traced that the prisoner had been lodging at No . 60 , in Pitt street , and on going there the landlady-gave witness a carpet travelling bug , which she said had been brought there by the prisoner , whom she had not seen since ; the previous Tuesday , which was the
day the prisoner was taken into _custoilyi It was locked , and on opening it he found in it £ 20 in soverigns and halfsovereigns . Witness had previously asked thc prisoner it * he , had any money left , when he told witness that he had £ 20 in his carpet bag : Witness also fonn d various articles of wearing apparel , belonging to the prisoner , and some papers , consisting of a tragedy , & e . & e . The prisoner wns the same day taken before Mr . G . _Rvtshtow , the sitting magistrate at the Liverpool Police-office , who directed the prisoner to be handed over to witness ' s , custody , and witness brought the prisoner to town , and from thence to the station-house at Kensington , inspector Roger , of the L . division , who had had the prisoner iu custody subsequent to his return from Jamacia , on a charge of steuliug a gold watch from liis lodgings in the Haymarket , was in attendance if lie was required . Mr , Give then asked the _prisonCrif he wished to say anything in answer to the cluirge . The prisoner very coolly replied—No , I shall say . nothing at present . Mr . Give told lum he was then fully _t-oiiiinicted to Newgate for trial .
BOW STREET . Numbkous Railway Robbekiks . —On Tuesday , John Farr was examined and committed , charged with having stolen a white deal box , containing a variety of articles , the property of Mr . Joseph Woodhend _. ot'M ' oHtaguo-squnre , and Mary Ann Newhind _, with receiving the same , well knowing thom to have been stolen . The temale prisoner was charged with receiving a case containing engineering implements , the property of Dr . Evans , a passenger , well knowinir it to have been stolen . The prosecutor , ou Good Friday last , _eiiiraged ii place'" the London and Birmingham Railway train , and n . i viiwf left the property in question fin- a moment on the seat , till he saw his _luggaue safely
deposited , lie discovered on his return it had been stolen _. The evidence of muling the property at the prisoner ' s house Ko . _liSS- Sloane-street , being repeated , the prisoner was committed . Mr . Mathew Blackiston , an engineer , residing at _Tnifal'fiir . sqiiiire _, stated , that he also was travelling' on Good Friday by the mail train , and left tlie " Euston-sqiiiire station about a quarter before nine o'clock , having the case of engineering implements , containing a variety oi documents produced , in his possession , lie left it on the platform , to which lie drew the attention of the porter , and ou arriving ut Birmingham he missed it , nor did he _agnin see it , until it was iu the possession of the officers , The property having been proved by the officers to have been found in Sloane-street , she was again committed .
WORSHIP STREET . _Chauge of Embezzlement —On Tuesday , _Hcm-v Sliaw , recently a collecting clerk in the sorvico of " Messrs . damnum and Co ., wholesale glass-manufacturers at _Birmingham _, was brought up for final examination , charged with having embezzled numerous large sums of money belonging to ins employers , amounting in the aggregate to nearly £ 500 . Mr . \ Yiiliam Britterick , a china and glass dealer in Lisson-grove , proved the paymcnt , to the prisoner on uecount of his employers , of tho respective sums _ot'lSl 7 s ., and £ 54 Ids- , on the - . _' _-oi-d of June aud olst July , 1845 , and produced his receipts for those amounts . Mr . ' Henry Wileman , of Irongatv-wharf , Pnddingtoii , deposed to payine : the prisoner on the Sth of December , 1 S 40 , the sum of
£ 57 3 s ., and the further sum of _A'lM 14 s ., on the 17 th February hist , for goods supplied him by the _prosouutoi'Si Mv . C . W . Aldridge . of i ' _lilron-squtire , and Mr . Kobert Bern , a glass denier , in the City-road , proved having paid thc prisouer the several sums of ££$ IsMd ., _i' 10 £ 15 15 s . ( id ., . £ 14 3 s ., on aceont of his employers . Mr . Thomas ( inmmati _, principle partner in the prosecutor ' s firm , stated that it was the prisoner ' s duty to solicit orders and collect debts on tlieir behalf in town , and immediately to transmit to Birmingham whatever moneys he received ; but that neither of the payments above mentioned had been tit all _iii'tounted for . The depositions in the several cases were then _talu-u by Mr . Johnstoue , the second clerk , and the prisoner was fully committed for trial .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 30, 1846, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_30051846/page/8/
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