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      « £Ht Cxmtittiott T£ Grwjjariti |F Ia-Sts Grind The Poor, And Rich Men Rule The Law."

      « £ ht Cxmtittiott t £ Grwjjariti | f Ia-sts grind the poor , and rich men rule the law . "

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      jfjDDLE CLASS YlLLAINy—"_ ? BEE TRADE" ! Hie following precious picture or the fraudulent 5 £ ajjp of the " ploua , " . " church-and-chapel-going , " -enlightened , " "intelligent , " " enfranchised , " "liier £ , ' "free tradings " CfrartisWhating , " PaoniOcsact , is from a middle-class paper , the Liverpool gunxrg . let our readers " mark , learn , and inwardly ggesT' it , and then say -what class it is that ought sot jo be trusted -with the franchise . How aptly apply to gjia plundering , cheating , lying class , the following fine s ;—"A mercenary tkrong , -with hearts as csld , As ice detached from , polar mountains roll'd ; Sharp at a bargain , deTer men of trade , Whose thrifty ways no conscience qualms invade ; Who neverneverttnce'the"way towealth forsook , But deeply read in Cocker * nsefnl book—The only -volume on their countless shelves , They ' deem it aU-instrncUve to themselves . Cheapness their Shibboleth ; ' with that sweet word , Their hearts grow light , their rery souls an stirr'd . "

      ~ &ith > s is Btjtteh . —In the Liverpool maikets Sffee tricks are played by persons selling butter . In some instances salt batter is moulded into the form of pounds of fresh butter , and cased over with fresh , so as to deceive the taster , who , however , soon discovers the ckeat when the butter is eat at home . In other instances , Bait butter is moulded in the shape ef fresh , and not eased at all ; bat a pound of fresh is conEpicnlonsly placed to be tasted ; but that pound is not sold ; and in other instances Bait batter , washed , is moulded and sold as fresh . Purchasers , in all these cases , are supplied with sail batter only . And this is Christian England ? Fratjbs 15 Fc gas—Pounded rice and ofher cheap materials are mixed in sugar , and sold at fall monopoly price . A chemical substance—the refuse of the soap manufactories—is also mixed with other substances , and-sold as snrar . And this is Christian England 1

      Frattds is Coffee—To avoid the mixture of chicory in good coffee , discreet housewives purchase taSae ungrsund , and t » Vit > p the trouble of grinding it at home ; but they . are « ften cheatei , nevertheless . Chicory , or some similarly cheap substance , is skilfully moulded into the form of the coffee berry , and is mixed with the bulk very liberally . And this is Christian England ! Fbauds is Cocoa . —This article is extensively adulterated with fina brown earth , wronght up with mutton fat , ee as to amalgaVe with portions of the real article . —Yet this is Christian England ! FBJiVDS is Tea . —The leaves are mingled with aloe leaves and other abominations , to swindle the public . Used leaves are also re-dried , and re-coloured on hot copper plates , and sold as tea . —Tet this is Christian

      England ! Fsacdsih Tobacco . —Nasty things of all sorts , if cheap , are mixed with the weed in all its manufactured forms , and the whole 13 sold at less than tie duty . Yellow ochre is a prime ingredient for " Bird ' s Eye . " And tin a ib Christian England ! Fxatjds I 5 STOCX 15 GS . —They are purposely stretched to look large to fetch a large price . The moment they are washed , they shrink fr * m man ' s sLza to women ' s , and from women ' s to children ' s , and Boon come to pieces from the stretching they have suffered . —And this is ChrisSsn " RrtgiftTWj j 3 ?__ attds ik Plajotel—It is purposely stretched to the utmost endurance of the fibre , to measure long and broad , and to command -good prices ; but a garment made of it is of little use after the first washing . —And this is Christian England 1

      Pblaxds m Ckockbbi . —Pretty ware is made , but , to screw an extra profit , the thinnest possible glare is thrown over it , ™*»«^ of a good substantial one , and a good price is obtained for it ; but use it gently as you will , it Boon cracks in all directions : it is almost worth-Jess . And this is Christian Kngfand ! Eeauds 15 Gexe&al . —Pepper is adulterated with _ . nsi from husks , < 2 ec Port wine is altogether xaxufadured by certain parties , it being notorious that more wine , so called , is drank in tills country alone than is Elide in Portugal ; quart bottles only hold three halfpints ; pint bottles only hold three quarter pints ; doth ,

      twenty-eight or thirty inches wide , 1 b called yard wide ; sanies mean nothing but to deceive . —And this is Cnris-Bon England J . When will the « lergy begin to advotate common honesty , and to promote common morals ? "Why , when they leave off wrangling about their neighbours' notions on doctrinal points , which weigh not as a feather in the question of human conduct , it being undeniable that there are good and bad of all seels , and tha clergy ought surely to labour to increase the numbers of the - good . The . Scriptures would be all powerful to this end , if ever they should be used in the pulpit , or on the platform , to so practical , so beneficial a purpose .

      THE FACTORY SYSTEM . The " Eeports of the Inspectors of Factories" to Hie Home Department , for the half-year ending December 31 , 1843 , have just been printed . There is no subject in which we feel a deeper interest , throughout the whole range cf the relations embraced by omr domestic or social condition , than the welfare of that friendless and extensive cojamnnity , whose toilsome lives are passed in the monotonous labours of the loom , or the vitiated atmosphere ( moral and physical ) of the milL The proceedings which Parliament has adopted , and continues from time to time to take , in order to throw around the defenceless children and infanta whom the

      poverty of their parents devotes to tf > p incessant demand for youthful "hanri * in . our ^ wn factoring districts , are honourable to the right feeling and the benevolent policy of the Legislature . Sot , whether from the extreme difficulty of drawing aright the delicate , yet important line which shall prevent the righteons energy of legal protection from trespassing on the legitimate light * of private property and commercial enterpriseor from some other cinse tending to contravene the simple , humane , and beneficient visws of Parliament in the very process of carrying them into effect—thU result appears but too . evident , that , J hitherto , these favourable dispositions on behalf of factory children have not been accomplished .

      We are sensibly impressed with the facts by the perusal of the first of these rJne " Reports , " more especially ; and ths remaining eight do but confirm in detail the general allegations of Mr . Leonard Homer < Chief Inspector ) under date , " Manchester , October 21 , 1843 . "" 3 Ir . Hcrner , and all the other Inspectors , seem to be actuated by & very , just sense , in the first place , of the object , scope , provisions , and enactments of the Factory Act , and in the second , of the powers confined to them thereby ^ and of the spirit of fairness ' and discretion in which they are to be ^ admlnistered , as between rasab— and operatives .

      These . " Reports" demonstrate that its spirit , in an enormous number of instances—and its letter , in not a few—are habitually and signally violated by the millowners , 3 cc , ca their managers and overseen , Mr . Homer , in the course of the official tour of inspection to which his first Report relates , found many instances , on the part of these persons , of " carelessness as to certificates of age and school attendance , of neglect hi keeping records , and fixing up the netices required by the rules of the inspectors . " He says he has " reason i » fear that there is a great deal of illegal overworking ; that many under eighteen years of age are worked more than twelve houra a day . " The difficulties in guarding against such infractions of the statute , arise , he says , from evasions easily . practised , " by alleging stoppages from accidents to the machinery , time lost by this cause being allowed to" be' made up ; and the dangers which work-people run of Inning their _ sitnationB if ihey give evidence against their employers . " He thinks that until

      the law is so altered aa to take away this power of making up time lost by accidents , and the visiting cfScers be enabled io obtain evidence without bringing forward the workpeople , it will be impossible to check fraudulent overworking . But , in the mean time , he produces a variety of cases to show how destructive to the parties who suffer by these evasions of the law are the illegal exactions practised on them . "In Manchester there is a l 3 rre mill where they are now em .-ployiDg workers above eighteen years " of age , many cf them young womea 'just arrived at that time of life , from half-past Stb in the morning until eight at night , with no cessation from work , except o _ te quarter of an hour lor breakfast , and three quarters of sn-hour for dinner ; so that having to be out of bed at five in the morning , and not getting home Hli half-past eight at night , they may be fairly said to labour fifteen hours and a-half out of the twenty-four . "

      _ r . Saunders , writog from Leeds , and reporting on the general external improvement of trade , especially Sse woollen and worsted trade , boserves : — " One great drawback to the satisfaction arising from the present active state of trade is , the encouragement it affords to every kind of fraud , boih in respect to the ages of theemployed and to the hours of work . " . . . . . " " In the worsied trade I entertain a strong moral conviction that these frauds prevail to a great extent . I have seen many females , who have jost completed the age ef eighteen , employed ier thirteen , fourteen , or fifteen hours a d _ y . In " 6 ne- mill , several who had been employed for ^ some ireeks , with an interval only of a few dsys ( when , as one witness said , they found the weather too hot *) , from six o'clock in the- morning nnifl twelve o ' clock at ni * ht , less" two' houra for

      meals , thus giving them , for five nightsin tbee week , only six hours- out of the twenty-four to go io and from their homes , and to obtain Test in bed . Same of these were employed in a room at a high temperature . In his second ReporVJlBted tha 23 rd of January , 1 S 44 , Mr . Hemer again calls tfca ~ atten _ Un of tkeHorae Secretary to Hie extent and variety of the-evasions constantly occurring , of the provisions of the Factories ' Act . la the case of Ecclos aid Co ., proprietors cf a spinnhig niilf it Biackburn , reported to him by Mr . EwisgB , he shows by the accounVwhich his correspondent givw o ? the result of eertain proceedings before the District Board against the bouse in question , and in allusion to the penally of 20 s . (!) decreed against it , "howutterly ussiest it i « for the inspectewto attempt to carry cut the provisions of ths Act wit&such support from the lEsrisirrtea . **

      The increased activity of trade , UWbultoo evident , has tad liids or xo eftct in raising the rale or accumuialivj 8 * i-rvdach of ths ingts of labour . The unfortunate

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      operatives have had to part with so much larger a term of their chances of physical existence , by giving more time and labcur for wayes in no sense proportioned to sach additional sacrifice . Female labour has been , and daily is , much more largely engaged ; and independently of" the moral abasement produced In them —neglected homes and exiled comforts ( the Inevitable consequences of their removal to the factory)—have fearfully corrupted the habits of the male adults of their families , whether as husbands and fathers , or as brothers and sons . " We rise from the perusal of these Reports more than ever solicitouB to see these poor objects of well-intended but inefficient legislative protection more permanently settled in employment , not so continuous and protracted as to be , as at present , absolutely destructive of human life ; not so underpaid as to be inadequate to human subsistence ; not se desolate and hopeless as to be , as now , incompatible with ordinary enjoyment , health , or recreation . —Sun .

      THE POOR LAWS . —DISGUSTING TREATMENT OF THE POOR . An investigation into certain charges preferred by the fcnmsSss of the Basfbrd Union Workhonse , Nottinghamshire , was taken before Mr . Weale , Assistant Poor Law Commissioner , en the 14 th inst A number of the inmates gave evidence of the following disgusting treatment : — 1 st . That their [ the inmates ) bed sheets have remained on the beds without changing for from ten to thirteen tceeks at a time . Oae of the inmates made oath that the sheets be slept in had not been changed since the tfh of November last ! 2 nd . That some of thB inmates had worn their shirts for three and four meks without change !

      3 rd . That the inmates had b ^ en used wear their stockings withent chansfc from tteo to TE 5 MONTHS J That they consequently suffered from Bore ieet ; and that ont of forty-fiVB boys in the workhouse only three had stockings , the rest were without . 4 th .-That in consequence of this treatment numbers of the- inaoates are miserably tortured with vermin . 5 th . That the tins out of which the wretched inmates eat their food are unshed cut in the buckets used io carry xtrint in from ihe bed rooms I Several other charges of cruelty and rascally treatmeat , similar to the above , were preferred ; and the enquiry was adjourned . The result shall be communicated to our readers in our next .

      A "Bchble" Beadle— Isfamoxjs Treatment of a Poor Mak . —At the Worshlp-Btreet Police Office , on Friday , the following application was made to Mr , Brongbton by a very distressed but cleanly looking , middle aged man , named George Andrews , a labourer . The applicant stated that he had been lately employed at the Sonthampton-docks , on being discharged from which he endeavoured to make his way back again to ills native place , Woodbridge , in Suffolk , getting what charitable assistance he could on the road . A constable met him in the City-road on Thursday afternoon , and brought him before Mr . Blngham at this court , and sfter closely questioning him , that

      magistrate being perfectly satisfied of the troth of his story , ordered him to be relieved from the poor box , and a new pair of shoes to be bought for him to travel home in ; and , as it was too late for him to start that night , directed Magate , 400 N , to take him to Shoreditch workhouse for a night ' s lodging . He was taken into the housa , » nfl discharged next morning , and now had to make a very serious complaint to the magistrate , respecting the treatment he had received whUe in the workhouse . The man then stated his complaint , the snbstance of which was , that he had been compelled to sleep in a double bed with another pauper , who was not only very ill , but in a Bcorching fever , and that both this man and thB bed on which he was

      lying were so covered with vermin , that he ithe applicant } had had no rest ail night , and was almost as bad in that respect as the other man himself . la addition to this , on being taken by Milgate to the house on the preceding night . Meadows , the parish beadle , told him , in allusion to the kindness he had received from Mr . Bingham , that the magistrates were a great deal toe considerate to a set of fellows like him , d—d his eyes , and abused him shamefully for applying to the magistrate , or speaking of it afterwards . Mr . Brongh ton said it was not to be tolerated that relieving officers and persons of that description should ttkenpon themselves to censure the relief that magistrates might think proper to order fcr the poor distressed creatures who came before them ; and directed Milgate to take the man back to the workhouse and himself personally inspect the bed and clothing , and see in what condition the man was who was alleged to be labouring under fever , and come back and report the resnlL

      In a short time after Milgate returned with thB complainant , followed by Mr . TnomaB , the master of the irorkhpase , Sir . < 3 oste , Jan ., the assistant relieving officer , and Meadows , the beadle . Milgate then stated that , on going to the workhouse , the complainant had pointed him out the bed in which he bad been placed the night before , in ths casual ward , in which he had found 3 man lying , who complained , on questioning him , of being very ill ; and on farther examining him he found him labouring under all the nsnal symptoms of violent fever . His lips appeared burning , his tongue was very white , and the whole of his person was parched and hot On inspecting the man ' s clothes ^ he found them in a very filthy state from vermin , and the bed itself in a very little better condition ; indeed , the complainant ' s statement was fully confirmed .

      Mr . Thomas , the master , said the other man had come in the night before , and when he did bo had made no csEiplairt of illness . It was entirely accidental that the ether had been placed to sleep with him ; end , as to the state of the plaee , all he c » uld say was , that it was properly ventilated and cleaned , and that whatever vermin there were had been brought In by Ike paupers themselves . The other man too was not in a fever : to prove which he had brought with him a certificate from the doctor , which stated that the man had certainly a bad cold , but no infectious fever whatever . The complainant said that the sick man had told him that he had been in a burning fever for three days , and that be had come into the workhouse for the sole parpose of getting cured .

      Mr . Bronghton forcibly repeated his opinion of the great impropriety of patting two such opposite men to sleep together , and then called upsn the complainant to repeat the offensive language that had been used towards him by Meadows , the beadle , in consequence of his prabing the kindness Mr . Bingham had extended to him . The man did so , and said it had bsen repeated several times in the presence of the officer , Milgate ; which Milgate himself confirmed . Mr . Bronghton said that such expressions , coming trom the month of a relieving officer to a poor destitute creature in the condition of the complainant , were most unbecoming and cruel , and deserved the severest censure . Meadows admitted using them , but said he did so under excited feelings .

      After other observations of a similar character , the complainant warmly thanked Mr . Broughton for attending-to his complaint , expressed his gratitude to Mr . Bingham for assisting him to get back to his native place , and left the court . St . Pancras Scounderlism again J—On Friday an inquest was held before Mr . Wakley , at the Elephant and Castle , Kiog's-road , Camden-towB , on the body of John Smith , aged six years , who was found dead on Thursday , the 8 th instant , in SL Pancras workhouse . Matilda Whitehead stated that she is empleyed as a nurse in St . Pancras workhouse . She has two rooms to take care of , in which from forty to fifty children sleep . The rooms are called the itch wards , because the children are all affected with some cutaneous eruption , which is treated as the itch . There are nine beds for all the children , who usvaUp sleep Jive or sue in a bed . There are sometimes more placed in a bed

      together ; but tritness has never kronen more than eight children tobt so placed in one bed . The ages of these children are from four to twelve years . They are nearly all girls . The age of the deceased was about six years . Witness had him sent to her ward abont two days before his death , in consequence of some eruption which ' appeared on his skin . On the morning of Thursday , the 8 th cf February , at about five o ' clock , witness entered the ward , and at once remarked the deceased , because he was partly out of bed , and very pale . She went up to him , and fcund that he was dead . Witness was not surprised at the suddenness of death , as the child had been rather ill three or four weeks before . Witness told Mrs . Clarke , the governess of the next ward , but she did not come to see the child . Witness again called her attention to the fact at seven in the morning , and Bhe then came in to see the body . Witness did not send for the doctor , because she thought the child was quite dead .

      - Other witnesses were examined , acd the snrgeon of the Workhouse stated that he foond extensive enlargement of the heart , which he hadnodonbt , caased death . The cause of death was quite Datural . The . room was then cleared , and after about five minutes ' discussion , the jury returned a verdict : "that Charles Smith died from natural disease of the heart , and , in passing this verdict , the jury express lheir extreme surprise that no regulation exists in the workhouse requiring that the uor&e who found the child dead , should at once call in the surgeon of the workhouse , and that it was left to her discretion U » decide whether the child was beyond

      the reach of medical aid , and whether she should or should not at once give information to the governor of the death . The jury also express their astonishment at the deby that has taken place in giving information to the earoner , that the said child was found dead ; and strongly condemn the regulation of the board of guardians , that " neither the constable of the parish nor the governor of the workhouse should supply Information to the coroner of any death which teok place in the said workhouBB without the authorization of the board of guardians being given to one or other of those effleen . *"

      The "D % rxfs hirw IN Lahbeth . —One of the overseers of the parish of Lambeth , Mr . J . Grey , of Waterloo-ioad , has written a letter to the Times , which appeared in that paper of Monday last . Fiom it we give the following extracts : — On Thursday evening last ay attention was called by a neighbouring rate-payer to the following distressing cste : Henry Ward , living at 56 , Harlington-stre&t , in this parish , with a wife and two children , bad that morning his goods eeizsd upon for rett ithe inventory

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      of which I beg leave to enclose ) . I visitsd the eise , as has been usual with me upoa every occasion before ordering relief , and found the family in a most wretched state of misery , the father and mother not having tasted food for two days , and the two children and the father hiving recently recovered front the scarlet fever , for which disease they were attended by the pariahsurgeon . Upon viewing their misery I gave an order upon Mr . Adams , the master of the ¦ workhouse , ( and whom I have at all times found a benevolent man ) , for two quartern loaves and two pounds of meat , stating that they were in such want that they could not wait for the merciful visitation of the relieving officer in the morning . My order was nob attended to , bat Mr . Adams , viewing the distressed state of the applicant , gave her ono loaf of bread , and told her to call the following day . She did go at one o'clock , and was then informed by one of the officers at the door that she was too late , the relieving officer was gone , and she must

      come the next day . Upon inquiring at the workhouse yesterday evening why my order was not attended to , I was informed by Mr . Adams that the guardians had given him instructions not to pay any attention to the orders of the overseers , excepting for admitting paupers into the workhouse . Within the four montbo that 1 have acted as overseer it has been my lot to hear of three inquests being held at Lambeth workhouse—one from exhaustion in waiting too long at the workhousedoor before she could obtain relief , the second npon a child to whom too much laudanum had been administered , and the third upon a child nineteen months old , on whom an inquest was held a few days ago , who bad been separated from its parent and Bent to the establishment at Norwood , where the ill-uBage it received from the uurse accelerated its death . All this seems strange in a parish where the poor rate alone amounts to nearly £ 60 , 000 annually , nearly two-thirds of which sum is paid to the guardians for tne support of the poor and the machinery of the New Poor Law Bill .

      RECORD OF DESTITUTION . Frightful Spread of Fever from Destitution . —Doctor Southwood Smith haB just given bis anneal report upon the flUto of the London Fever Hospital daring the past year , from which it appears that the admissions during the period were 1 , 402 , being an excess of il 8 above that of any preceding year . Fever raged most violently in ( be Central , Northern , and Southern Districts , which was attributable to tbe andrained , close , and filthy condition of these localities A large proportion of the inmates wero agricultural labourers or provincial mechanics , who had come to London in search of employment , and who were seized with the malady either on the road or ooon after their arrival , evincing the close connexion between fever and

      destitution . These poor creatures ascribed their illness —some of them to sleeping by the aides of hedges , and others to a want of clothing , many being without stocking " , shirts , shoes , or any apparel capable of defending them from the inclemency of the weather ; while the larger number attributed it to want of food , being driven by hunger to eai raw vegetables , twnips , and rotten apples . Their disease was attended with such extreme prostration aa generally to require the administration of an unusually large proportion of wine , brandy , and ammonia , and other stimulants . The gross mortality was 16 ^ per cent An unprecedented number of nursas and other servants of the hospital were attacked with fever , namely twenty-nine of whom six died .

      Misery . —On Saturday , at the Queen Square Police Office , two decent-looking but wretchedly clothed persons , Thomas and Charlotte Cotter , were charged before Mr . Burrell , with the heinous crime of being in a state of destitution , and begging \ The policeman who arrested the prisoners stated that he found them begging in Sloane-street , at half-past six o ' clock last night , and that , on being conveyed to the station-house , and searched , the sum of one penny was found on the person of the male prisoner . Cotter , with tears In his eyes , stated that he came from Ainsworth , in Hampshire , a fortnight ago , to endeavonr to obtain employment in London , being by trade a carpenter , and that , with that intention in view , he had walked nearly two hundred miles . He bad Bold everything that him *? lf and bis wife could spare from their apparel—that they were starving , and had « nly resorted to begging when driven

      by stem necessity . He also Biid that if the magistrate would look over the offence they had committed against the laws of their country , he -would pawn his coat , which would probably realise 4 * ., which sum he thought would take him home . He was afraid to go to the place be and his wife lodged , being unable to pay their landlord . Mr . Burrell discharged the prisoners , telling them that if they were starving , they should have applied to the overseer . Surely , at this inclement season of the year , funds ought to be placed at the disposal of ths magistrate to relieve persons in Bach necessitous circumstances as Cotter and his wife . The actual want of bread , or a place of shelter , drives thousands to beg from door to door , thus violating the law , and rendering themselves liable to imprisonment . The distress existing in this district , which frequently leads to the commission of petty theft and intemperance , requires only to be known to the benevolent to be ameliorated .

      Horrible Coxbition of the Peasantry . — Effects of Machihery . —Marlborongh-Btreet Police Ofltce . —The Mendicity Society constables and the police have brought a considerable number of beggars to this court recently . The majority of these persons are country labourers , and their excuse for vagraney has been of the same character , inability to get work from the farmers , and impossibility of supporting themselves and families on the waijes offere « l them when employment is to be had . It is impossible to describe the vrretchsd appearance of these men , most of whom are able-bodied labourers , capable of performing a hard day " B work , and , according to their own statements , willing to do so , provided they could get anything to do . A great many of tiese vagrant agricultural labonrers have neither stockings nor shoes on their feet , and their ragged and famished appearance exceeds in wretchedness that of the Irish peasantry who find their way to this metropolis . The magistrates , in almost every

      instance , fouud themselves obliged to send thes . ' destUnte persons to prison for a short period , as the only mtacs of temporarily rescuing them from starvation . Several individuals belonging to this class of beggars were yesterday committed from tbJ 8 court A batch of three boys was also broughtnp , charged with a similar offence . One who bad been sent ont to beg by his parents was discharged , the other two were dealt with in another way . One of the boys , on being questioned , declared be had b * en victimised by the art of machinery —his hopes in the chimney-Bweeping line having been completely brushed away by operation of the new act The other had a similar cause to assign for his present pennyless plight . His father , he said , was a scavenger , but ever since the new street sweeping machines had come into action , he had been thrown oat of bread , and his family had been obliged to support themselves as well as they could on street charity . Mr . Hardwick sent them to prison for a few days .

      HORROES OF THE PRESENT POOR LAW . —A writer in the Times saya , in many parishes where access is not denied to the parent , bat where , in certain brief intervals and pauses from toil , the pining child is admitted to the suffering mother , and the law of nature , most imperious , supplants for a half hour the workhouse code , no additional nourishment is affjrded beyond the meagre ration distributed alike to all , regardless of want or candition , ago , childhood , infancy , or maternity . The thinnest gruel , the scantiest bread , the minimum of meat , is Imperially distributed to toothless age , confirmed manhood , and to nuraiug mothers . This equal law prevails ; and " rivers of tears" have been shed by the miserable exhausted parent , in whom the penury of bloed , caused by

      inadequate diet , has checked the nourishment that would have sustained tbe paling iufanr . Let any one who may douBt this , tarn to the pages of the Times , and be will there find records the most painful as the most exact of the statement— " That mothers suckling their children receive no increase of ration whatever in the "workhouse . " A provision barbarous and unchristian , but persisted i i , in spite of appeals the most pathetic—of consequences the most disastrous , And defended , as s just and wholesome regulation , by men who are husbands and fathers . It is bat very lately , within the month , that a mother was separated

      daring several boars from her infant by some pari « b tyrant She became frantic with pain ; her shrieks of agony aroused a congregation near , anal at length the infant was delivered to her , and the mother and the child were snatched from despair and death . But what ' ocomplication of bodily and mental suffering there inflicted andendured J What phreczy , what phantasms-of horror , shook that mother , and wrong forth those agonising shrieks . All this 1 b done with absolute impunity ; nob&dy is guilty—none censured—no thought of prosecution , for nobody actually perished . Next , a child , of nine months old , is soon after removed , with a blister on its cheat , in an -open cart The very driver , ' more

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      merciful thaa his superiors , strips himself , on a snowy day , of his . great coat , spreads it on the suffrrer , who dies ^ n arrival . ' > Impunity a&ini A man of twenty , toe victim of contending parishes , periah . es in the aame way—and every one fs found to have done their duty according ^ to law ~ the | law 6 f blood and anguish . No one is at leisure j ; fi » these thing * are now , unhappily , as famUiar to us aa household words ; one has hlf fora , another his bride , the third the Benatei and tfeus these cruelties and defiances of Heaven pass with the day ' s censure : ¦ ¦• . . * ¦ ¦ . " «""»*« in the heavens , And the proud day , attended by the pleasures of the world .

      Is all too wanton and too full of gaud " to heed the poor man ' a appe » l . If , indeed the worm turns , and in his despair Srea a hayrick , then it ia in arms and all agape with wonder at such villainy , and so totally unprovoked ! But a day , a dread day of reckoning most come , and is probably at hand .

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      HOUSE OP LORDS , Thumdat , Feb . 15 . The Earl of Fortescue resumed the adjourned debate on Ireland , and commenced by correcting some mis-statements which . had been made in the Commons with regard to the appointment of seven additional stipendiary magistrates . In adverting to the Immediate question before the House , he spoke in high terms of Mr . O'Connell for the Biand which ho had made agniuBt Chartism 4 a Ireland > , ' and concluded by stating that he considered the Irish Church one of the great grievances of the country .

      The Earl of Haddjngton defended the Government against the charge of reducing the stipendiary magistrates . They had done nothing more than they were compelled te do by Act of Parliament . He had not much to say againBt the motion . He , however , £ denied the statement that jaBtice waa not fairly administered , and at the same time defended Sir Robert Peel against the unjust imputation that he had appointed the Noble Lord on the woolsack to hia high office became he was hostile to Ireland . Lord Monieaglk delivered a lengthy speech , in the course of which he observed that he disapproved of the mischievous agitation for the Repeal of the Union , and

      of the means employed to enforce it It had been his fate to encounter Mr . O Conuell on that topic , and be would not shrink from it now . But though he had nothing to expeot or fear from Mr . O'Connell—though he was denounced by him as the enemy of Ireland , and the denunciation bad been circulated by the Sspeal Association amongst his tenantry and friends—still he could not forget that Mr . O'Consell was venerated by millions of his fellow countrymen ; and neither the vneans taken by the Government to suppress the monster meetings , ' or the mode pursued to ensure a conviction at the trials , were calculated to give peace and contentment to Ireland .

      The Earl of Ripom followed In defence of the Government , at the conclusion of whose Bpeech none of their Lordships exhibiting any intention to prolong the debate , Lord Brougham , who had been flitting with the Chancellor , at length rose , and , approaching a group of peers on the Opposition benches , asked in a tune sufficiently audible to be distinctly heard in the gallery , if some of their Lordships would not reply to the speech which had just been delivered . On being answered in the negative , his Lordship said , " Well , my Lords , you may have much talent on your side of the House , but you have very little fairness . "

      Lord Siiaftesbury , in compliance with loud cries of " Question , question , " and " Divide , divide , " was proceeding to put the motion , when , The Marquia of Norm an by rose to reply . The Noble Marquis was heard with considerable interruption , and on the conclusion of his speeob , and before the House divided , a scene ensued between Lorria Brougham and Campbell not a little remarkable ; the Noble Lords seizing the opportunity of exchanging those compliments which they first learned to express with such graceful ease at Nisi Prius , and which adhere with all the

      impressivene ^ s early habit their ccurtly tongues . Lord Brougham began by complaiuing that he could not understand why the debate had been adjourned from the previous evening . His Noble and Learned Friend ( Lord Campbell ) , who , in the ordinary course of Parliamentary usage , ought to have begun the debate , having moved the adjournment on the l * st night the house sat , had not made any speech , for which he must say he ( LordBrougham ) was not ataii sorry . —( great laughter . ) This shewed tho folly and mischief of adjournments of debates . —( bear , hear . )

      Lord Campbell-The speech of my Noble and Learned friend is quite irregular—( hear , hear ] . But I am not surprised at that , becauae all Lin proceeding in the House are quite irregular . My Lords , my object in moving the adjournment was , that I thought he would have spoken , and then 1 should have followed him—( great laughter ) . My Lords , I may be pardoned for thinking , that he would have spoken , for this , I believe , my Lords , is the only debate of importance , that I can remember , in'which he has not spoken at least seve * times —( loud lauglr . er ) . My Noble and Learned Friend says that he is not sorry when I am silent—( loud laughter ) ;—but I will not be deterred by fear of him from expressing my opinions when I think fit , and whenever he shall put forward the principles to which he has . attached himself , I shall think it my duty to bring , forward those which he once advocated , and oppose those which he now adopts —( cheers ) .

      Lord Brougham—My Lords , I have been charged with irregularity . Any thing more grossly unfounded in point of fact than that charge I have never happened to have beard even from my Noble and Learned Friond —( laughter ) . * * That right which I , as a Peer of Parliament , have , no taunt of ignorance—no taunt of ingorant new Members of Parliament , who do not know the A B C of Parliamentary regulations , who show an ignorance so gross that I should not have thought it possible for any person to have shown the like t > f it on any subject—my Lords , I will not be deterred from the exercise of my undoubted right , as a Peer of Parliament , by the taunts of such ignorance . * * Aud how glad and happy am I to find , for the first time , the charge produced in this House , when 1 can meet it face to fuce—the vile—the false chargethe foul imputation that I have changed my political principles .

      This was a settler for " Jock o'the North , ' and aftsr a few words from Lord Lvudhurst , thejHouse divided . The numburs were—'

      Content 78 Not Content 175 Majority against the motion , 97 Their Lordships then adjourned . The Times announces that the two learned Lords , with , the generous object of relieving the dullness of the House to which they are not yet enured , intend to prolong their war of courteous words throughout the remainder of the session , but the nights of the performance are not definitively fixed .

      Friday , February 15 th . The Marquis of Normanby moved that leave be given on Monday to sign a protest against the decision of the House on the state of Ireland . The Bishop of London , in consequence of the indisposition of the Bishop of Exeter , postponed that Prelate's motion relating to the Poor Laws . Lord Brougham presented a petition from the E . irl of Dandonuld , praying for some measure which would extend the term of his patent for the invention of machinery for producing a rotatory motion in the steam engine . The petition was laid on the table , after some warm eulogistio observations front the Earl of Haddington on the late Earl of Dandonald .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS-Thursday , Feb . 15 . Mr . SOT hern took his seat for North Wiltshire . Sir James Graham postponed the Committee on the Factories Bill till Friday fortnight . In answer to a question from Mr . Hume , Sir Robt . Peel said the estimates would not be brought forward till the conclusion of the debate on the state of Ireland , Mr . Hume presumed they would , therefore , he brought forward on Monday . A number of motions were postponed .

      IRELAND . Mr . D . Ross , the Member for Belfast , resumed the adjourned debate on Ireland , and expressed bis hearty concurrence in the proposition brought forward by Lord J . Russell ; be expressed bis astonishment that the rulers of this country , after Ireland had been connected with this country for six centuries , had not devised some plan to consolidate the Union and concilitate that nation . The will alone was wanting . Mr . Ross proceeded to draw the attention of the House to the peculiar grievance of Ireland , and particularly pointed

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      to the Established Church . The religion of the majority , he said , should be scrupulously regarded , but by no possibility could the present state of that Church be reconciled to the feelings , of the people or to justice . RECEPTION OF MR . O ' COKNELL . While Mr . Ross was speaking , j Mr . O'Connell entered and took his seat , and , according to the Whig papers , was received with enthusiastic and general cheering from the Opposition ; but . according to the Times , "the cheering was any thins ; but general . Mr . Hume , Dr . Bowring , Capt . Layard , and Lord Clements did their best to welcome the ' Great Liberator , ' but the cheering ( which ! was vociferous aa far as it went ) was most undoubtedly confined to some fifteen or twenty Hon . Members with powerful lungs , Dr . Bowring and Mr . Hume taking the lead . " Mr . P . Borthwick followed . i

      Sir W . H . Barron declined making any reply to Mr . Borthwick'a remarks , and , after enumerating the grievances of which Ireland had just reason to complain , expressed bis concurrence in the motion of Lard John Russell . He complained indignantly of the language which the press has from time to time applied to the Irish priests . He repeated ! the often-adduced charge against the Government—of having appointed Judges renuwkable for their political bias . He inveighed against the exolusioa of Roman Catholics from the Jury on the recent trials ; and he entreated Ministers to try the experiment of governing Ireland by hat affections . j Mr . Repton spoke in support of the Government .

      Mr . M . OFerball followed , but was inaudible , except at intervals . He contended that one of two things must happen ; either Ireland must be raised to the level of England , or England would be sunk to the level of Ireland ; and therefore , not the Irish alone , but the English too , had the strongest interest in the welfare of Ireland . He complained of some of the proceedings of the Court in the course of the late trials ; and represented it to be the feeling of the Irish , that when the man whom they most looked up to was unable to obtain justice , it was in vain for them to hope for it in their own case . \

      Mr * Shaw ( the Recorder for Dublin ) rose to explain the circumstances of the omission of a part of the jury-list in his office . It had been said that sixtyfive names had been omitted , of which thirty-five were those of Catholics ; whereas the whole number omitted was really but twenty-four ; and this omission was in a transfer , embracing several thousand names . The lists were first arranged according to parishes , the Recorder marking the names of tho persons found by him to be qualified as special jurors , and there ended hia judicial duty ; the remaining { business , which was that of consolidating all the parish lists ( twenty in number ) into one general panel , was to be executed by the registrar . There were 741 names marked , which were taken down upon separate sheets according to classes . One sheet of fifteen marked names had slipped in among some blank sheets which lay on the same table ,

      and had been overlooked ; four more marked names were accidentally omitted in the transfer , and , in the cases of five others , the marks bad been mistaken , and the names erroneously carried to the panel of common juries . This accident had been tbe subject of great regret to himself ; and , as the High Sheriff had the power to correct the omission , he had requested that officer , but without success , to make the amendment ; and , moreover , as soon as the extent of the error was known , he bad caused notice of it to be given to the solicitors on both sides . He believed that of the fifteen en one list , the majority were Roman Catholics , and that of the other nine , a majority were Protestants ; but these small numbers could hardly have had much effect on a panel of between 700 and 800 special jurors ; and be would add , that the register who had made tbe mistake was himself a Reman Catholic . ¦

      Lord Ho wick , declaimed against the principle of a Government which he represented as founding itself , not upon affection , but upon force . All might remain quiet enough while peace should ; last , but if war were to break out , the state of Ireland would be a fearful one . The late proceedings might remove the external Btgns of discontent , but would not cure the reality of it . The remedies held out by Ministers were few and insufficient A registration Bill would be useful as removing a present wrong , but unless accompanied with other measures , it would but give to the Irish people new weapons for conquering further rights . The Landlord and Tenant Commission might produce some benefit ; but a small measure . introduced' forthwith would have done more good than one much larger deferred to a

      distant season . The evils of Ireland were not imputable solely to the pressure of diatress , but , in a great degree , to the rankling sense of wrong ; therefore , even a liberal expenditure ou public works , and an extensive system of colonization , beneficial [ as such measures would have been , would n 6 t have quieted Ireland , without something done to remove tho fueling of Injustice begotten by your treatment of the Roman Catholic religion . It was your duty to redress this' grievance ; the Union was no bar to such redress ; for surely the Irish Parliament , which passed that Union ] which was the most corrupt Legislature on record , and which in no respect represented the Irish people , had no right or power to tie the hands of future Parliaments for ever . The arguments that the Irish Church , though sot the Church of

      the majority of the Irish , is yet the Church of the majority of the united empire , was a futile one , and was sufficiently answered by reference to the establishment in Scotland . If Ireland had conquered England , would England , on such arguments , have submitted to the alienation of her Protestant Church ? and must not the Irish people , in the existing case , feel what in the case supposed would be felt by the English ? He protested againBt the ground taken , of religious truth . To aay that tbe Protestant religion was tbe only true one , was to tell the Roman Catholics , who now gate equal with ourselves in the Parliaments j of Britain , that their religion was false . What right had any man to assert this of the ancient religion of almost all Europe ? The time had b ? eu when compromise would have sufficed ; but that time was past . There were several courses before you . You might establish the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland , as the Presbyterian religion was established in Scotland ; or you might

      abolish all establishments and bestow the church endowments on general education ; or you might employ them in making a preportionate provision for all religions . It was not for him now to pronounce which of these coursas might be best The difficulty , however , met the Government everywhere , even in the recent convictions . Mr . Burke had said he knew not how to draw an indictment against a { whole people . Tbe Government had solved the problem , and he wished them joy of their success . How could the institutions of a free Government , its juries , ita elections , whose very object was to give effect to the will of the people , bt > administered againBt the people ' s will ? To continue the attempt would only mar all contemplated good ; even education would become / an evil , as aggravating the peoplu ' a knowledge of their wroiigs , and increasing their meana of resistance . He concluded by disclaiming all party views in his support of the present motion .

      Captain Bernal then moved an adjournment , which , after a little disenssion , was agreed to .

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      It was said to be difficult to settle Ireland . £ } No doubt ) but it was not more difficult for Sir R . P « el to do that than to have re-constrnctad the Tory party after tho total smashing of it in 1832 . S r Ii . Peel , however , had achieved that great result ; be tad removed prejudices as strong as those of Ireland ; there he now eat , with a Secretary of State on each side of him ( Lord Stanley aud Sir J . Graham ) , whose prejudices he had succeeded in removing —( load cheers and laughter from every part of the House echoed the enunciation of this sentence , ia "which Sir Robert Peel , sitting between Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham , could not refrain indulging ) . Sir ( continued the Hon . Member ) , they are colleagues of whom he may well fee proud , and it ia a most encouraging circumstance to reflect upon , that

      he should have succeeded bo readily in removing their prejudices . ( Renewed and continued laughter and cheera ) He ( Mr . D'Israeli ) did not think it was more difficult to reconstruct the social system of Ireland than to reconstruct a party destroyed by a revolution ; nor did he think it a more arduous task to remove the prejudices of those who thought very little upon the subject than of those who thought a great deal—( cheers and laughter ) . They beard * great deal of reform associations , of anti-corn lav leagues , . Roman Catholic and repeal associations , Birmingham Unions , and other associations of that Kind ;

      now , those things were merely the consequence of the people taking the government of the country into their own hands , because the government would not administer matters themselves—( hear , hear ) . Lord John Rnseell , however , did not offer much rnoio than the government , only he offered his little in a great way —( laughter ) . That was not what he ( Mr . Dlaraell ) wished . He wanted te see a public man come forward and say what tbe Irish question was . One said it waa a physical question ; another , a spiritual . New i ¦ waa tho absence of the aristocracy ; then the absence of railroads .- It was the Pope one day ; potatoes the next . He wished that members would look at Ireland

      as dispassionately as they could look upexi any other country . There they would observe a population denBer than that of China , without manufactures , with a church not of their own faith , with , an absentee aristocracy , and with the weakest Executive in the world ; and that was " the Irish question . "The moment they bad a strong executive , a just administration , and ecclesiastical equality , they would have order in Ireland , and the improvement of tha physical condition of the people would follow . He did hot believe that this object weuld be carried by the personage whom the Hon . Member for Belfast called Louis Pbillippe , meaning , he supposed , the King of Prince—( a laugh ) . He looked to no foreign , no illegitimate influences for bringing about that result—not to the passions of the Irish people , not to machinations of their demagogues , not to the intrigues of distant nations , bat to a power far more influential , f&r more benignant—a power more recently risen in the world , not yet sufficiently recognised-

      —Mr . Ward—What I young England ?—( hear , and laughter ) . Mr . p'ISRAELi—No , not young England , but apower which yoang England respects—coat irresistible law of our modern civilization which has decreed that the system which cannot bear discussion is doomed—( loud cheers ) . Mr . Ward spoke at great length in support of the motion . Colonel Conollt ridiculed the notion of the Whigs , that they enjoyed an exclusive or even an extensive popularity in Ireland : it was a popularity prstty much confined to those whom they had gorged with their

      patronage , and who now came to the House to complain that they were no longer let into tba pantry^—( laughter ) . Many indeed had been clever and cautious enough to get provision—not fuamdiu se bene gesserint —( laughter ) —but for their own individual lives , to which they trusted as a surer tenure than their friends' possession of power —( hear ) . The disappointed many were , however , of course discontented . He was not there as the defender of the present Government , for they had plenty of people to defend them ; bat , considering the course the Government had recently taken , and the steps they had constitutionally and successfully adopted , he would balance their popularity against that of the Noble Lord opposite , backed , as it was , by his Coercion

      Bill . Ha was followed by Mr . Sergeant Murphy , Mr . Escott , and Mr . C Buller . Lord Stanley gave credit to Lord John Russall for the clever and convenient form in which he had shaped his motion—a form which would enable the agitators to say , a committee of inquiry was all that Ireland asked ,. and even that the British Parliament refused her . If it were a truth , which , however , he himself had too high an opinion of the Irish nation ' s loyalty to admit , that they were what Mr . Buller represented them , a revolted people , what a responsibility was now undertaken by men who having been , and hoping to be again , the servants of the Crown , where then endeavouring to excite an already maddened people 1 And ,

      efter all the censures thus levelled against the Government , he demanded to know what law tkey bad strained , what new powers they had asked ? None . They bad convicted the Repeal leader by the regular process of the present existing law . And he Bhowed from official accounts that the military force which they were so loudly condemned for maintaining in Ireland , had , during their administration , been lower on an average by upwards of 2 , 600 men than during the time of the late administration . But in 1843 there began a formidable and unexampled system of agitation by a display of physical force ; and the Government would have deserved impeachment if they bad neglected te meet that display by a military force , which , thank God , had been adequate to overawe

      even an attempt at disturbance ; but evea this military force had not been so great as that which the late Government had stationed in Ireland during the year 1833 . The Noble Lord then shortly stated the defences made on former nights by Sir James Graham and Mr . Shaw of the consultations in England before the proclamation , of the omission of twenty-four names from the Recorder ' s lists , and of the strike of Roman Catholics from the Jury—reading on the last point , amid prodigious cheering , an affidavit from the professional G < mtlcmaa by whem the Jury had been struck , which exactly verified the statemsnt of Sir James Graham . He rebuked Mr . Serjeant Murphy for having availed himself of his . Parliamentary privilege to assail the Lord Chief Justice , and directed the attention of the

      House to the great carefulness and discrimination evinced by the jury . Having justified bis own oonaistenoyin proposing an increase of county voters , notwithstanding jhia conduct upon the Irhh Registration Bills , he proceeded to the church question . The grievance was not the excess nor the abuses of that church , but ita tjeistence ; and the Noble Lord took up that question at this season of excitement , although he knew that if he himself were in office to-morrow he durst not—he could not—nay , he would not , attempt the revolution which those around him demanded . But he talked about some appropriation of the property of the church . In what proportions ? According to numbers ? Why , on that principle , as the Roman Catholics were seven-eights of the people , the Noble Lord , calling himself a friend of tbe Protestant church , would

      at once take from it seven eighths of its property . But , fn truth , all those questioss about the amounts and tha modes were mere trifling ; the real question had come to be simply- — " Will you destroy the Protestant church ? " Did those who talked about equality propose that the Roman Catholic Bishops , appointed by a foreign potentate , should take their seats inthe House of Lords ? If . so , let them try to take the sense of the British people on that head ; but if not , then what became of the proposed equality ? If there was any real grievance pressing on the Reman Catholics , he was read ; toco-operate for the removal of it . He concluded with an emphatic declaration of his determination to maintain the IriBh Established Church . The Noble Lord was vehemently cheared on sitting down , and the debate was then adjourned .

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      An Empty Head to Let . —Amongst the announcments in the advertising columns of a o ^ ntempprary appeared the following : — " Important to pnblicans . —Tho Lord John Russell ' s Head to be let unfurnished , with other advantages . " Steam Ploughs . —The steam plough has bean introduced in Scotland , for ploughing in morasses and hoggy lands , where horses cannot be employed . Avalanches . —We learn from tho Swiss journals that the fall of snow ia the cantons of Berne and St . Gall , during the . last fortnight , has been , heavier than has been experienced for maav years . Many houses , barns , buildings , and cattle , have been crushed by the falls of avalanches . The loss of only two men , oae woman , and two children , is mentioned . '

      Find it our . — "Are you guilty or not guilty V said the clerk of arraigns to a prisoner at a late assize . "An sure npw , " said Pat , " what areyo \ i put there for but to find that out !" Womens' Tongues . —An American paper states that a minister lately since held forth to bis female auditors in the manner following : — " Be not proud that our blessed Lord paid your Bex tbe distinguished honour of appearing first to a female , after tha resurrection , for it was only done that the glad tidiaga might spread ihe sooner . ' " A Relic—A traveller on the continent , visiting a celebrated cathedral , was shown by the saoristan , among ether marvels * a dirty apaque phial . Afcer eyeing it for eome time the traveller said , " Do y « a call this a relic 1 " " Sir" said the sacristan indignantly , "it contains some of the darkuess that Moses spread over the land Of Egypt . ' ? ,, .

      Tar Again . —A balloon asoent . toofe place the other day at Toulouse , which nearly terminated in the death of Madame Lartet , the aeronaut . It apr pears that after she had ascended ; she could not manage the aparatus , and after a long Btruggle she at length fell into the Garonne . She "was supported for some time by thei balloon , and _ a bo , at having been put out rescued her just aa she was , about to sink . This isthe third time she has fallen into the Garonnewittoherballoottiy ; : ¦ , - ¦¦ - ; JusTicB xo Ibeeand ;—An Irishman , beingplaced at tfee bary felfc quite uneasy vwhen arraigned , and complained bitterly that ha should-bd placed mjsuoii au awkward position , so far from frieiida and home Tho judge felt kindly towards him , and said— "Be calm yonng man . You may rest assured that , although among strangers , full justice will ; be done you . " "• Be mo soul , yer honour [ groaned Eat } , and its the fear of that same that troubles me 1 " - ¦

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      MONIES RECEIYED BY MR . OCONNOR . RATIONAL THIBUTB-£ S . < L Frem Lye Waste , per John Evans 0 5 0 Mosfley , per John Grime 0 5 9 Aberdeen M 3 0 0 Hooley Hill Chartists ... 0 6 0 SUBSCRIPTIONS . From Coventry . ^ 0 3 2 Preston ..... 0 4 11 VICTIM FTJND . Star Money , from a Friend at Foilshili ... 0 2 7 A Friend , per Mr . Hemmings ........ * 010 JOB-MRS . DUFFI . From - a pjrsevering Chartist :...... ; .. 0 1 0 Which may be had on : Mr . O'Connor ' s account by applying t » Mr . Hejwood . . Erbata . —In tha Star of Jan . 27 th—Vieum Fand , for Hull 61 , read 6 j .

      RECEIVED BY GENERAL SECUEXARY , WEEK ENDING FEB . 14 . SUBSCRIPTIONS . Maccleafield ( omitted in former List ) 0 5 0 Macclesfleld . ' . 0 5 0 Brighton , Cap of Liberty 0 2 7 Hull — ....... 0 4 ' 0 Bristol . 0 4 3 J Cuouuersdale 0 $ 0 Marjlebo . ie 0 5 0 Camberwell 0 1 6 NATIONAL TRIBUTE . MacclesBeld Q 12 0 , Bristol , Bear Lane ...... 10 0 Mr . Gillibrand , per Mr . Dixon ., 0 26 Cummeradale , 0 10 0 ; ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ - ¦ vicnM pumd . ' . ; Mr . Doyle ' s -i- Lecture , - jAaooleefleld .,-. ; -0 4 ' 1 Sturgites , Bristol ......... 0 ¦ 4 3 j |> London , Benefit for VJfi < iv' - Urns , per Mr . T * M , . Wfceeler ............... 3 4 10 Any Locality of the "National Charter Association not having revived a Cspy of the B .

      ilance-Sheet , will oblige by applying for the same . Any Member can have a Copy furnished him by enclosing his Address , and five postagestamps . Thomas M . Wheelir , Secretary . BALANCE-SHEET OF A BENEFIT FOR THE VICTIMS , HELD AT THE CITY OF LONDON INSTITUTION , & 8 . RECEIPTS . £ s d Kensington ... * 7 10 6 Marylebohe o 13 0 City of London . o 46 Qambetwell o 6 0 Golden Lane . ,. o 10 Mr . iPearce .. * eu 0 Mr . Atiriutt .... ; .... 0 4 0 Mile ' E » d ..... X ...... 0 16 Lamfeetb ., 0- 8 o Golden L ! on .. ... i „ 0 16 0 ' ' £ 10 17 ( i Expenditure ............... 7 12 8 Balance paid to the Treasurer .........,....... > ... 3 4 10

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      Our Precious Legislators !—Oa Thursday evening , while Mr . Borthwick { was speaking , it being dinnor-time , many Hon . Members left the House , and the numbers on both Bides gradually diminished , until there were at one time only thirty-two members present , the Opposition benches being almost wholly deserted . There was an evident disposition to count out . Two or three Hon . Members were observed furtively to reckon heads . The Hon . Member for Lambeth ( Mr . Hawes ) detected-what was going forward , and hastened across the floor of the House as fast as decorum would permit , and having passed the door , ran

      down the passage and lobby as quickly as bis legs could carry him , and gavu tbe alarm to some Opposition Members who were standing below the bar of tbe House of Lords , and listening to Lord Haddington . Tbe prompt attention of some of them to the summons saved from the ignominioas fate of a " count-out" tbe motion of the Noble Lord the Member for the city of London , who was himself absent ; and , strange to say , there were not half-a-dozen Irish Opposition Members present . So much for the " intense" interest felt is behalf of " oppressed Ireland" by the " base , bloody , and brutal" Whigs . Bat what a precious crew of impostors are the " Irish patriots" (?) of whom it appears there wera not half-a-dczjn present . Alas for the Green Isle !

      Friday , February 16 th . Captain Bsunal resumed' the adjourned debate on the state of Ireland , and in strong terms denounced the policy pursued towards that couatry . If they wished , to govern Ireland , he said , with advantage to England , they must govern according to Irish notions—above all , they must cherish tbe Catholic religion as a good , and ' not tolerate it aa an evil , j Mr . DIsraeli followed , delivering one of those clever philosophical essays , baaed on historical reminiscences , whioh sound somewhat startlingly from the ministerial benches . He denied it to be tbe necessary consequence of a ProtestantGovernment and Protestant Church that Ireland should be misgoverned , and her Roman Catholic people oppressed . Just before the

      breaking out of the great rebellion , when the Government and the Church were Protestant , there were in Ireland a Parliament and ajCouncil of State , on both of which the majority of the members were Roman Catholics . The mis-government of Irclaud at this very moment was the consequence not gf Protestantism , but of Paritanism . j The Puritans , and not the Tories , were the originators of tba penal code . He always thought that the greatest causo of misery in Ireland was the identity of institutions with England . Surely we had givea . ttem | similar institutions enough . How could people ask for like institutions when the very primary and most important institution of allthe ; onion of chur « h and ] state—was opposed by the

      Irish .. people ?—( hear , hear . ) When tho subject of Municipal Corporations was before tbe House he ( Mr . D'Israeli ) expressed these ] opinious . He said , that instead of haying an identity of institutions they should , get rid of ' all thoBe English institutions which they had fotcBd ' npon that country —•( he'tr , hear ) . He then asked the Hoiiise whether thosoj forcml establishments , those mimetic corporations , those gr ^ ad Juries , tnoa 9 imitative blncti ^ s ' of English magistrates ,, could b < s expected tQ produce beneficial results . I atad he ventured to lay down aa a principle that the Government of Ireland should be on a system the reverse of Englaad , and should be conitializsrt—( hear , hear )!;—that they should hi ? o c strong executive and an impartial adiministration

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 24, 1844, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1253/page/7/