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HOUSE OF LORDS , Mosbat , Jose 2 . TheEaH oTShafteslmry sat as Speaker at a quarter eefbre fire 6 ' cloct , in the absence of the Lord Chancellor , xho toot "his seat on the woolsack soon after five . After the presentation cf an immense number of petitions , from all parts of the country , against the ilaynootli Endowment Bill , The Loss Chanceliob said , he wished to call their lordships' attention for a few moments to the case of Mr . OTtriscolL In consequence of what passed in that and the other house of Parliament relative to the conduct
of Mr . CDriscoll , a communication was made to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland , who did what it was his duty to do , by directin g an inquiry to be instituted . Before that inquiry " *» s brought to a termination , however , Mr . OTJriBCollnnsconducten himself in such a manner with reference to proceedings in the Boll ' s Court in Ireland , as , in the opinion of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland , rendered it necessary to disndsshim from the magistracy and he had accordingly been superseded . { Hear , hear . ) On the motion of Lord Brougham the Debtors and Creditors Bill was read a second time , and ordered to be committed to Tuesday .
THE MATNOOTH BILL . The Bake of 'Weixisotos , on moving the order of the day for the second reading of the Maynooth College ( Ireland ) Bin , said—My lords , I think it my duty to request your lordships' attention whilst I state to your lordships the ^ principles of this measure , and the nature of the proposition which has been submitted to your lordships in this bill , in order to carry into execution its objectnamely , the maintenance of this institution . My lords , this institution was founded fifty years ago by the Irish Parliament , and this bill , contains a recital of the provisions of the-acts by which it was originally founded , and % which it was regulated ; first , in the year 1800 , ana subsequently in the year 1808 . My lords , it cannot be denied , and I win not stand hereto be the person to deny ,: that those acts are inconsistent with the enactment of the codes of law by which the Reformation was established in this country and in Ireland ; but , my lords , although those acts arc inconsistent with the enactment
of those codes of law , I deny that there is—and I think I caa show to gonr . lordships that there is not—anything inconsistent in those laws with the religious principles of the country , and that it was never so considered either 50 yeans ago or subsequently in 1800 , or in 1808 , and that it cannot be -so -considered at the present moment . My lords , in order . clearly to understand the principles on which . those Jaws were founded , it is necessary that I should calfthe . attention . of jour lordships to the state of affiiirs ^ tthe period when they were first enacted . The necessity for this institution was occasioned by the failure of fi » e laws enacted to establish-the Reformation in Ireland . 3 fy lords , those laws , and the enactment of those laws , had been resisted in Ireland from the period at which they -had become the laws of the land ; plot succeeded plot , rebellion succeeded rebellion , forfeiture of property succeeded forfeiture of . property , and at length the country had become the seat of the operations of a foreign and civil war in a contest for the possession of the throne .
. The Bake « f Xewcastle . —My lords , I rise to order . I beg to apologise to the noble duke and to the house for attempting to interrupt him , but preliminary to this discussion I would put . this question to the noble dultewhether he has the Queen ' s permission to make this proposition to the house ? ( Cries of" Order ,. order . " ) LordBBODCHAiL—This is not speaking to order . ( Hear , hear . ) This is the most disorderly thing I ever witnessed in my experience of Parliament The noble duke has not been speaking to order . This ought to have been after the speech of the noble duke ( Wellington ) . ( Hear , hear . ) The Duke of Newcastle again rose , amidst loud cries of " Order , " and said—I wish to put the question , as it affects the Act of Succession , as it affects individuals , and as it affects the nation . ( " Order , order . " )
LordBsocGHAH . —I never will sit here and allow any man to say that we have not a right to enter on , to continue , and to close any discussion without the leave of the Crown . The leave of the crown is required only in one case , hut it may lie given at any period of the discussion of the measure , and that is when such measure affects the revenues or the patrimonial interests of the Crown . The Duke of Kewcastie again attempted to address the house , amidst load cries < rf ¦ "Order , " and eventually the Duke of Weluxgton was called on to proceed . The noble duke then referred to the history of the establish ment of the college during the lord-lieutenancy of the late MarquisCamden . ThenecessityforeducatingtheRoman Catholics at home arose from the state of the continent at tbfl time , over which the triumphant armies of the French
republic were then marching ; and now that a different aspect of afiairs had happily arisen , the Government conaadereditwiseandproperto continue a system of domestic education to the Boman Catholic priests who were to administer to the great majority of the Irish people the rites of the Boman Catholic Church . lie admitted that the expectations indul ged in on the first establishment of the institution had not been realised , bnt this he attributed to the scanty means placed at its disposal . The bill before the house increased those means , and he hoped in future to see an improvement in the education , manners , and habits of the students . They had snpported this institution for half a century ; daring twenty years of that time the country had been engaged in war . Whatever might
be the opinion as to the legal effect of the decision of their lordships on the Writ of Error in September last , he believed there was no man in his senses who now doubted that it was absolutely hopeless audimpossiblete carry any measure by violence or tumult in Ireland against the wishes of the Government and Parliament of this country . Standing thus intrenched , and withont any danger whatever pressing on them—knowing as they did that the great body of persons engaged in tumultuous proceedings two years ago were Roman Catholics , it would look somewhat like persecution if , having supported this institution so long , they now withdrew from it the patronage of the State . He trusted they would give their unanimous consent to the bill .
The Duke of Cahbeidge looked upon this as apolitical , not a religious question ; and as such , he contended it was in every sense one of the most conciliatory and wise measures that had been proposed for many years in Parliament The Government deserved the gratitude of the country for having brouslit it forward ; and he hoped it would be eminently successful in that country for the advantage of which it was specially designed . Lord Bodes then rase to move the amendment of which he had giren notice , for a select committee to inquire into the character of the education given at Maynooth , with the avowed object of getting rid of the MIL If , as he thought , the annnai grant had been inconsistent with the duty of a Protestant Government , much more was lie opposed to this measure , which permanently endowed
an institution over which the State could not exercise tiie . requisite control . He drew a broad distinction between toleration and endowment The first ground laid for tins measure was , that it would tend to conciliate theRoman Catholics . No one was more anxious than he was to conciliate bis Boman Catholic fellow-subjects , but lie could not consent to "do evil that good might come . Instead , however , of being received as a boon , it had been hailed in Ireland as a measure extorted by fear ; and he quoted the letter of Dr . BBggins to show that no conciliatory effects could result from the measure . Nor did he think it would do anything to improve the sort pf education given at Maynooth , It would merely afford &duties for recruiting the priesthood from tile lower classes of the people . By a reference to the textbooks and many details in the history and conduet of the institution , the noble Earl maintained that the system of instruction given there had anti-social and disloyal tendencies
To ascertain that fact he proposed a committee of inquiry , and . the people of England , who bad petitioned so largely against tins bin , would not be satisfied if investigation were refused . Sir R . Feel himself had , in 1810 , declared thathe should TOte for the grant with much more satisfaction if there was an inquiry , which the principals of the college ihonld be the first to promote , "when so strong an impression prevailed that their system of education stood in need of improvement '' If inquiry were thought necessary when the grant was annual , how much more now , when the endowment was to be permanent ! This bill was considered by the Protestants of Ireland as a heavy blow to their interests . Ihey felt that they had been , betrayed by those -whom they were taught to consider their friends , and they might well be disgusted with the line of policy that was pursued when they found that they were to he sacrificed to the howl of a priesthood wtdchhad always been the enemy of British connexion
. The Bishop of Lokdos thought the noble Earl had made oat a case for inquiry with , reference to the bill itself . After the most careful and anxious consideration , be found himself under the painful necessity of refusing bis assent to it , as involving a violation of one of the most fundamental principles of the constitution , while it held out no prospect of such advantage as might be thought to justify it on the grounds of expediency . The principles taught at Maynooth were calculated to make the priests democrats in politics , and in the church intolerant bigots . They were at once inconsistent with , the faithful discbarge of duty to the State , and utterly
incompatible with the maintenance of peace in a commonwealth composed of persons having different opinions . Could they be justified , then , in endowing a college to carry out such , a system without at least exacting from those to be intrusted with the working of it some distinct « nd definite pledge that the system itself should be improved , and its worst featares removed « This was the first link that had been forged to tie together the State and the Boman Catholic Church . He could not consent to any measure which would make the College of Maynooth an integral part of the constitution . He gave credit to the pure and charitable motives of the
Government in bringing forward this measure . He could well understand thdr embarrassment when they turned their eye to the map of Ireland ; bat the right principle on which , in bis opinion , that country should be governed was this—never for any consideration to do what was « J « 4 y wrong in principle ; to do their best to discover whatjwasrigiit ; to follow it out honestly and fearlessly trwtingfor the issue to the Supreme Disposer of events , whjb , in accoidance with His written word , would deal nwoahfy with that nation which upheld His own truth , « at least did nothing to impede its progress . « ad the
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seminary rankled in their minds-long after they left it . By making the endowment in some degree commensurate with its important objects , Parliament would do much to insure their gratitude and conciliate their support He recommended the measure as one of justice to the great majority of the Irish people . The Duke of Manchester opposed the bill , and read several extracts from evidence given before various committees to show the injurious influence of the Roman Catholic priesthood on the minds of the people in Ireland . Lord Beaumont , on the part of his co-TeligioniBts , emphatically denied many of the statements which had been made by the opponents of the bill . If they really
believed the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church to be as they described , the toleration would be a crime . He altogether repudiated the ultramontane doctrine of allegiance ; and it was not fair to quote books of no authority to prove that such doctrines wereinculcated at Maynooth . He did not regard this as an isolated measure ; if it were , it would not purchase the allegiance of the priesthood if it were alienated . Their charity must be extended to the working clergy . They must also do something for the laity , and already he was happy to think that a measure had been introduced elsewhere , which , faithfully followed up , would not only be a great benefit to the laity , but also to the higher classes of the clergy , by improving the system of academical education in Ireland .
The Bishop of Cabhel urged the necessity of inquiry . His own mind was indeed made up on the question , but inquiry would be useful to those who had not so strong opinions as he entertained , both with reference to the injurious system of separate education for ecclesiastics and the intrusion of Jesuits into the College of Maynooth . The mam ground , however , on which he objected to this hill was , thathe could not be a party to teach what he conscientiously believed to be erroneous . It was not Christian charity or morality that he should teach to others what was antagonist to his belief as a Protestant by conviction ; and before the State could honestly and consistently endow a Boman Catholic college she must unprotestantize herself . He would infinitely prefer the voluntary system to the endowment of two antagonist Churches .
After a few words from Lord Clifford in favour of the bill , the debate was , on-the motion of the Earl of Hardwicke , adjourned till Tuesday .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS , Monday , Juke 2 . In reply to a question from Mr . Boss , SirT . FBEsiAi » tt , £ said , that the Lord Chancellor of Ireland had felt it to be his duty to issue a supersedeas for removing Mr . O'DriscoU from the bench of magistrates for the county of Cork . The adjourned debate on the Colleges ( Ireland ) Bill was resumed by Mr . 1 L Mones , who declared his intention to support this measure . Those who opposed it on the ground that it did not give religious education , were , in bis opinion , guilty of a sophism in the sense which they gave to the word " religion . " They said that we ought to establish colleges for Boman Catholics on Protestant principles , or that they would not consent to the establishment of them at alL Such language he considered to be equivalent to
an absolute negation of all education to the Roman Catholics of Ireland . He saw no reason why such theological lectures as had been given formerly by Schleiermacher and Neander , and were now given by Neander in the University of Berlin , should not be given to the students of every religion in the new colleges of Ireland . He considered that the line of conduct pursued by the Roman Catholics of that country on this subject was not either wise or useful for themselves . Their education should be founded on the large comprehensive continental basis , rather than on the system of any religious hierarchy , Theindirect influence which theBomanCatholichierarcliy would exercise over students of their faith would be more useful to them than any direct influence which we could place in their hands . Though he admitted that this bill made no pretensions to perfection , still he considered it to be deserving of his support
Lord John Rcssell agreed that this measure had no pretension to perfection , but considered that to be rather one of its demerits than its merits . He eould have wished that the bill bad been prepared with greater care , and had not contained within itself so much crude legislation . It would require much alteration and much improvement to fit it for the object for which it was iutended . If ' the view of Ireland which SirR . Peel had propounded on a former night were correct , Government ought on such a question as that of education to have tried to knit together the affections of all the different classes of people iu Ireland , and to have made use of any instrument by which . that great good could be promoted . He looked upon the Roman Catholic clergy as the instrument by which the affections of the people of Ireland could be best knit together , and by which their attachment to and respect for
the law could be best produced . The co-operation , therefore , of the Boman Catholic hierarchy of Ireland might have been fairly , not humbly , solicited by the Government ; and that great element , by wliich success must be obtained er defeated , ought not to have been omitted in the concoction of this plan . He found that the Roman Catholic bishops in their memorial implied a distrust that the faith and morals of the students in these new institutions would be endangered by the measure which the Government proposed . Unless the G overnment could allay such apprehensions , the very best which it could hope for Us measure was that it would be null , whilst thefear was that it would be noxious . The Roman Catholic bishops would not derive any alleviation of that distrust from the declaration which had been made in that house that we did not wish to promote Roman Catholic
ascendancy . They would not look for comfort on the precedents which were to be foundin the University of Bologna or in the universities of Germany , but would rather fly them as dangerous warnings . The Government ought , therefore , to consider whether there was not some means by which it could make its scheme aore palateable to the religious feelings of the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland . He was not of opinion that secular instruction without religious education was an evil ; on the contrary , he thoughtthat it was a good . He thought , however , that the two ought to be combined together if possible . In England religion had always been taught as a part of education : but the system propounded in this bill would make these new institutions differ from the only university now existing in Ireland , and from the two universities inEugland , and would not be agreeable to
the feelings of the Irish people . Already had Mr . Roche , who , he believed , was a member of the Repeal Association , objected on behalf of his countrymen to leave the appointment of the professors in these new colleges in the hands of the Crown . He thoughtthat the house might have adopted such a course , had the people of Ireland been willing to submit to it ; but they were not willing to do any such thing , because they were afraid of the use which might be made of the power lodged in the Crown . They had a distrust of the use which would be made of it in case Mr . Plumptre should come into office , and would have had a still greater distrust of it had SirR . Peel still continued to hold the same principles which he held five years ago . He , therefore , recommended the house to give secular instruction without regular education in these new iustitions , if it were necessary ; but if it could
give both together , not to omitfrom this bill regulations to accomplish that object Sir J . Graham had expressedhis willingness to attachhalls to each of these new colleges for religious education . That might mean much , or it might mean little ; and therefore , to ascertain what it meant , he would ask Sir James Graham whether he would permit the deans of those balls to exercise within them over the students any authority on such points as their attendance at the places of their religious worship on Sundays , and their attendance at the ordinary theological lectures , and to inflict punishment , even to expulsion , on such students as might be notorious defaulters in either of those respects ? If the Government were prepared to give such authority , he thought that it would get over many of the objections urged against their scheme by the Koman Catholic clergy . There was also another feature in the scheme of Government which made him consider that it had no pretensions to perfection . There was no
machinery by which these colliges could give degrees . He thought that the Government ought to institute an university of Ivdand , which should be empowered to grant degrees to tlie students which caniefroni them . Without some such institution these colleges would be branded with a mark of inferiority . On points like these Government ought to consult with such men as Dr . Murray , on whose character for learning , meekness , piety , andloyalty he passed a high eulogium . If the Government would enter into such consultation with the Romau Catholic hierarchy before this bill was sent into committee , he thought that their measure ought to be allowed to proceed further , and that the country might look forward to its ultimate success . He could not agree with Lord John Manners in opposing the second reading of this-bill ; for , being of opinion that it was , in principle , a good measure , and that it might in its details be amended in committee , he should give it his support
Lord Mahon observed that he should support the second reading of the bill , in the hope of amending it in committee . If those amendments which he considered the bill to require were not made in committee , it would be Ins unwelcome duty to give the measure on its third reading the most decided opposition . The great defect of this bill was its wautof security for religious instruction . To the principle of giving secular knowledge in combination with religious education he was determined to adhere . Mr . B . Hope said , that the question involved in this measure was , whether religion , discipline , or self-government should be maintained or discarded in these institutions . The measure , in his opinion , was so unsound , that he conceived it better to reject all palliatives of it , and to compel the Government to reconstruct it . He gave his strenuous support to the amendment of Lord John Manners .
Mr . V . Stoabt returned his thanks to the Government for initiating a measure which must be eminently beneficial to the people of Ireland . Mr . Hamilton considered no system to deserve the name of education which was not based upon religion . He , therefore , could not give his full and cordial support to any measure which neglected that important point On the other band , he felt that there was a great want of secular instruction among themiddling classes of Ireland ; and on that account he did not feel himself justified in withholding his assent from the second reading of this measure .
Mr . O 8 boeke could not support the amendment of Lord J . Manners . On the contrary , he should vote for the second reading of the bill , having a horror of separate , and a strong predilection for mixed education . He viewed , however , several of the clauses with great disap .
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probation . If its 10 th and 11 th clauses were not greatly modified in the committee he should be obliged to oppose this measure on its third reading . Those- clauses appeared to him to have originated in the Horse Guards rather than in the Home-office . Mr . W . Gladstone agreed with Lord John Russell that the present was an imperfect measure ; but insisted ! that its imperfection was owing to the very anomalous and distracted condition of Ireland . The question was < not whether this was a perfect measure , but whether it ] was the best measure which could be devised to meet the \ present state of Ireland and its exigencies . He concurred i with Lord John Russell in thinking that it would be a very great hardship to force a measure of this kind on " the people of Ireland . Lord John Russell also thought it advisable that the Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland ,
and more especially Dr . Murray , should be consulted on this subject . He had not yet heard that no communication had taken place between the Government and the Roman Catholic bishops on this scheme of education ; but he fully agreed with Lord John Russell in asserting that considerable weight ought to be attached to the judgment of the Roman Catholic bishops on the adjustment of the principles and details of this measure . He then adverted at some length to the necessity and expediency , not only of communicating with the Roman Catholic bishops on such points , but also of renewing a direct diplomatic correspondence with the Court of Rome , which this Government carried on indirectly even at present . After defending the system of religious education now enforced at Oxford from the attacks and sneers which had been made upon it , he proceeded to contend that the system of mixed education adopted iu University College , London , was much fitter for Ireland than it was for England ; for the dangers of it were most likely to be experienced in England , where religious discipline was
lax , than in Ireland , where , from the influence of the Koman Catholic religion , the religious discipline exercised over each individual of that persuasion was personally strict He then justified the principles and details of the measure ; and , in so doing , entered his emphatic protest against Sir R . Inglis ' s declaration , that it wa . " a gigantic scheme of Godless education . " The bill contained a provision for religious education , as far as it was safe to do so ; for it provided rooms in each of these colleges for theological lectures , which was an explicit admission of the efficacy of religious education . Nay , more ,, it provided facilities for the voluntary payment of professors to deliver such lectures . After stating his approval of the amendments proposed by Sir J . Graham since the original introduction of the bill , he showed that the mode of filling up the professorial chairs was a question involved in much difficulty . He did not , however , think that tho difficulty would be insuperable if both parties would lay aside their prejudices , and would give to tUe subject a careful , and he would even add , a tender consideration .
Mr , T , YTtse had on a former occasion declared this measure to be a great boon to the country , and though he had since heard much discussion upon it , and many objections urged against it , he had not seen any reason for changing his opinion , or for concluding that great national advantages would not accrue from the establishment of a mixed system of education in Ireland . He denied that it was a system of Godless education , and observed that , if it were so , nothing could induce him to give it his support , lie then pointed out in detail various improvements which he conceived might be made in the bill , and declared his intention of bringing them forward as distinct subjects for discussion whenever it got into committee . He objected to those clauses in the bill which gave to the Crown the power of appointing and removing the professors of those colleges , and contended that the State should provide in each of them for the endowment of a professor of theology , not of divinity .
Mr . Acland called attention to the fact that not one of the speakers iu behalf of this bill had given an unqualified support of it , and contended that not" one of them had ' proved that it would give such education as would be useful in any respect to the people of Ireland . It had been brought forward by a Conservative Government as a measure resting on sound principle ; but it was reall y difficult to ascertain what that sound principle was . As far as he could make it out , it was a most objectionable principle . His objection to the bill was . not that Hie Government had endeavoured to devise a plan for the education of the Roman Catholic population of Ireland which would be free from all suspicion on their part , but that it had endeavoured to frame such a plan without any communication with the Roman Catholic bishops . Its proposal had in consequence been met , not with the unanimous acclamation , but with the unanimous protest , of thoso venerable persons He then explained some other objections which he had to the bill in detail , and concluded by declaring his determination to give it his most decided opposition .
Mr . R . M . O'Pebbail made several suggestions for the improvement of the bill , to which he trusted that the Government would agree , otherwise he should be under the necessity of opposing the second reading of this measure . Sir R . Peeu was surprised that a gentleman of Mr . Ac-land ' s intelligence should have thought it was necessary to prove either that sound academical institutions were a benefit to a country , or that the academical institutions proposed in this bill would be a benefit to a country in the position of Ireland . He read an extract from a work of Dr . Kane on the geology of Ireland for the purpose of showing that that able and excellent writer had attributed the poverty of Irelaud to the want of industrial knowledge among its population , which pi-evented them from applying to the best advantage the resources of their country ; aud he showed that Dr . Kane
followed up that passage by another , in which he stated that no mode of spreading industrial knowledge would be so efficacious as that of establishing local colleges iu Ireland . He then proceeded to demonstrate two points , first , the policy of establishing academical institutions in Ireland ; and , next , the policy of educating together within their walls youths of different religious creeds . He proposed , on the part of the State , to provide in those institutions means of excellent education . He also proposed to provide for them professors of distinguished scientific attainments and of high moral character . But did he relegate religious education from them ? No such thing . He agreed with Lord J . Russell that lie might have pure secular instruction without any religious instruction rather than no education at all ; but still he thought that a mixture of secular with religious
instruction was infinitely superior . But how was that mixture of education to be effected in a couutry distracted like Ireland by religious differences ? Suppose thathe ( Sir R . Peel ) had proposed to accomplish it , what would have been the consequence ? First , let the house con-• iter what Sir R . Inglis and his friends would have said had he proposed to establish a Roman Catholic pioftssor of divinity in each of these three new colleges . Would SirR . Inglis , who now objected to his plan as " a gigantic-scheme of Godless education , " have supported it , when it embraced a proposal . for endowing a professor of the church of Rome ? No , he would have said that it was a covert mode of endowing that church in Ireland , and that , as it had not the precedent of fifty years to back it , he would give it his most determined opposition . Nay , more , if he
( Sir R . Peel ) had proposed to have in each of these colleges professors of Protestantand Presbyterian divinity , he believed that SirR . Inglis would have denounced such a proposal also as a manifest proof of utter indifference to all religion , ne would leave the house to conceive Mr . Spooner ' s indignation at his foundling a professorship for that " awful delusion" which was called the Roman Catholic religion . On the other hand , be doubted whether such a proposal would be more satisfactory to the Roman Catholics themselves . He suspected that they would say to him— " We will not , even for the sake of an endowment of professorship of our faith , venture upon a measure which will enable you to interfere with anything so sacred as our religion . " Such being the case , the Government had determined to invite the parents and friends of the youth to be educated in these new colleges
to provide religious education for them ; and he thought that such education would be provided for them better by their parents and friends than it could be by Government in the present condition of Ireland . He expressed the deep regret and surprise with which he had read that portion of the manorial of the Roman Catholic bishops in which they stated that a Roman Catholic student could not attend lectures on anatomy and geology given by Protestant professors without danger to his morals and his faith . After commenting for soine time on that document , he proceeded to notice the objection which had been urged against this measure , because the ; professors were to be nominated by the Crown . He believed that such a provision was at the first formation of these colleges absolutely necessary . Both the honour and the interest of the Crown were involved in the appoiutment of the most competent persons to these professorships . II these colleges were to be instituted in Connaught and in Munster , whose friendship would the Government have to conciliate save that of the Roman Catholics ? ne thought
that there should be exhibitions attached to these academical institutions , for the purpose of creating competition . Such exhibitions , in his opinion , tended much to promote soundlearning and knowled ge . It had been complained that he had not made anunirersity in Ireland . It was enough , he thought , to form three colleges at first -but he admitted that his plan would be incomplete until they were incorporated into one university . If the plan were found to work well , then would be the time for considering whether their incorporation iuto an university should take place , and what power that university should have in couferring degrees . The Crown could give a charter of incorporation without the necessity of the interference of Parliament . These were the principles on which the Government had come to the conclusion that it had a better chance of promoting a system of religious education acceptable to those for whose benefit it was intended by its present measure than it would have by founding separate theological colleges , or by endowing theological professorshi ps in each of them .
Mr . M . J . O'Cohnem . observed , that the amendment of Lord J . Manners raised the question whether they were to have in Ireland a mixed system of education or not ; To that system he had always been attached ; and as this bdl would promote it , be should give Us vote in favour of its second reading . He looked upon the bill as another recognition of the system which had revolutionised Ireland in the course of the last fifteen years . —he meant thedifiusion of sound secular and religious knowledge , commenced by the national schools , aud continued by several provisions of the legislature . Mr . Shaw did not entirely approve of this measure ; but he had not heard any of the gentlemen who . opposed it proposea better substitute ; and therefore , considering the difficulty of the question , he did not feel himself justified in opposing the second reading . After a few words from Sir T , Blake in favour of the bill ,
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHEBN STAR . Sib , —Seeing the necessity for a little more watchfulness over the public good , in general affairs , I trust you will pardon my presumption in urging you not to permit the Land question , valuable , and essentially necessary as it is , to engross too fully the people ' s attention . If you do you , will incautiously leave an open course to the people's most dangerous foes—their sham , mercenary friends . Sir Robert , Lord John , Sir James , Lord Lincoln , the Repeal Falstaff , and other most liberal gentlemen , require your closest observance . The National Education , the Parish Settlement , the General Enclosure , the Foreign Allotment Emigration , and other wily devilisms , demand from you the most poignant scrutiny , and fvom
the people an aiding anxiety , or we shall be undermined and overthrown , cast down to a most woeful abasement . Sir , tho people ' s indolent neglect in not sufficiently watching their own interest , but trusting too much the management of their affairs to some particular hand or hands , has , in all ages , more or less enslaved them . In Greece , in Rome , in Florence , in the United Provinces , in eur own kingdom , and lately , again , in France , this assertion has been truly proved . Marcharaont Nedham , that admirable political writer , observes justly , that "the people should not only know what freedom is , but should likewise be made acquainted , and thoroughly instructed , in the means and rules of its preservation , so that the adulterous wiles and rapes of projecting sophisters may meet a timely check . "
Every inch that has hitherto been passed in our stride for freedom , can only be advantaged and maintained by persevering watchfulness : and this , as much on the part of the people as the people ' s advisers . After these reflections , I trust I may be permitted to observe that from us the proposed "National Education BUI" demands the most active and piercing scrutiny . It is of most serious importance , and if it be not thoroughly rummaged ere it pass into law , may have seed sown therein that shall produce -monsters of such unnatural growth as will beget civil war , in the place of civil society , and galling , abject slavery , in the place of happy , heaven-born freedom . The " JEhcJoettre JBiK" seems also a specious affair , and demands the public attention in its discussion . We must remember that 15 , 000 , 000 of uncultivated acres are at stake : and the people must not be robbed of them without a struggle . In short , all these projected reforms require the closest attention on the part of the people , or lamentation will follow the neglect
Corruption draws not its slimy length along with slow encroachment as heretofore ; oh , no ! it is thrust upon us with a railway force and speed that thwarts all preparation and consideration , and triumphs , by astounding our judgment with its unwarrantable and overbearing presumption . For some time past we have been lulled into callous indifference on a smooth deep sea , where the agitating wave was quite calmed down ; but we must now arouse ourselves , for breakers are ahead , and there is a murky gathering of WJiiggism in the political horizon that portends approaching ills of various grade . I am , sir , your humble servant , May 28 , 1845 . L . W .
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LONDON . 'Addbess of the Metropolitan District Cobscil to tub London Chartists and the Democrats of tub United Kingdom generally . —Fellow men , — We , the Metropolitan District Council , having for years past occupied a prominent position in the struggle for political and social regeneration , once more venture to endeavour to arouse you to action . A Convention lias just held its sittings , and reduced to a practical shape several important questions , to which we request your serious attention . First , —The Land ! the Land ! the Land ! has been long and loudly shouted . Your representatives have given their best attention to the question ; and their labours have resulted in the adoption of a practical
plan , equally accessible to the best paid mechanic or the ill paid labourer . A darling object is thus placed within your reach . Will you embrace the opportunity to possess it ? Secondly , —The Convention have recommended the establishment of co-operative stores , that the producer may have the necessaries of life without paying an exorbitant tax in the shape of profit ; and , further , that the profit that may result from this mode of dealing may be made available for allocating the " surplus labourers" on the land . Thirdly , —The Convention has wisely recommended that you support every measure for shortening the hours of labour ; and render all assistance to the National United Trades , for the protection of
industry . Fourthly , —They recommend that you cultivate good feeling one with the other , and unite as one man . Acknowledge lio enemy but the foe before you —the class legislators Fifthly , —They have adopted forms of petitions for the recall of the exiled patriots—Frost , Williams , Jones , and Ellis . We unite our voices with theirs in calling on you to adopt and forward such petitions to the members of the various boroughs and counties in which you may reside . Remember the patriotic Duncombe only lost his last motion on that subject by the casting vote of the Speaker . One more pull , and that " pull altogether , " and success must assuredly follow .
Sixthly , —They have arranged that your Executive shall issue a national petition , praying the passing of the people ' s Charter into a law ; such petition to be issued , and sheets signed , to be ready for presentation on the first night of the assembling of the next Parliament . Seventhly , —The Convention call on you to form Registration and Election Committees , local and national . To this subject we invite your particular attention . We have appointed a sub-committee to expressly attend to this subject , who have from time to time put forth , in the columns of the Northern Star , information which has led to the best practical results : as witness , the great increase on the
ratepayers and electoral roll in the boroughs of Lambeth , Southwark , Westminster , Marylebone , Tower Hamlets , Finsbury , Greenwich , and the City of London . We also point your notice to the great practical results on this subject , at Bradford , Leeds , the Potteries , and at other towns , where they already boast of Chartist overseers , Chartist surveyors , Chartist constables , Chartist town councillors , and other officers . Having thus obtained local power , they are m advance of other places for national power . Brother Chartists , follow the example ! Metropolitans ! it has frequently been your boast that you were the advanced guard in the movement tor liberty . Time was when this was not an empty boast . Rally again ! Remember
that—Freedom ' s battle once begun , Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son , Though baffled oft , is ever won !
On behalf of the Metropolitan District Council , John Simpson , Treasurer . John Arnott , Secretary . Cm- of London- Localitjt . —A meeting of the members was held on Sunday evening , to consider tto propriety or forming a branch of the Land societ y ; several shares were disposed of , and arrangements made for the directors of the Land plan to attend on Sunday , June 16 th . The regular monthly money was voted to the Executive , and other business transacted .
Clock House , Casile-strbkt , Westminster . — Mr . Wheeler lectured here on Sunday evening to a numerous audience upon the subject of the Land ; a considerable number of shares were disposed of , and a committee , secretary , and treasurer , appointed . Arrangements were then completed for removing the locality to the Parthenium Assembly Roams , St . Martin ' s-lane , and a deputation appointed to wait on Mr . O'Connor to open the rooms with a lecture upon the Land . Considerable other business connected with the locality was transacted . The chair was ably filled by Mr . Hitchins . Mr . M'Grath lectured on Sunday evening at the Rock Tavern , Lisson-grove , to a crowded audience , and was highly applauded . At the conclusion a considerable number of shares in the Land Society were disposed of , and a committee , &c , appointed . "
South London . —The committee and members that have joined the Land Co-operative Society at the South London Chartist Hall , are particularly requested to attend at the Hall punctually at half-past six o clock on Sunday next . Tower Hamlets . —At a meeting held at the Whittington and Cat , Church-row , Bethnal-green , on Tuesday evening , June 3 rd , 1845 , to take into consideration , the forming a branch of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , Mr . J . Illingworth in the chair , Mr . M'Grath addressed the meeting , and abl y explained the plan as propounded by the late
Convention , lie then , m forcible language , depicted the failure of various strikes , showing that Trades ' Unions had failed to remed y the repeated reductions of wages , and that the only means of remedy was to remove the surplus labour from the labour market . An animated discussion followed the lecture , after which it was then moved by Mr . Drake , and seconded by Mr . F . Lefever , "That we proceed to forma Tower Hamlets branch of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society . ' Carried unanimousl y . Nine persons then took out cards and rules , and paid the instalment of their shares . Mr . J . Illingworth was appointed district treasurer , and Mr . F . Lefever district secretary .
^ The Land ! the Lasd !' . the Laud !! !_ The Chartists of Samoa Town opened their new place of meeting at Battle-bridge , King ' s-cross , on Tuesday evening , June the 3 rl , when Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., delivered a lecture . The spacious room was dense y crowded b y a highly respectable and most attentive audience . Mr . HumphrS was unanimously caUedto the chair and introduced Mr . O'Connor . Mr . O'Connor said the time had at length come
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when , with advantage to the cause of Chartism , he could advocate the Land principle . Ten years ago when they were called Radical Reformers , he then said that he would not give ten straws for the principles now embodied in the people ' s Charter if the land was locked up from them ; and he now said he would not give three for them under similar circumstances . ( Hear , hear . ) But fortunately the Land project had now become a pre-eminently popular theme —( cheers ) . All the opponents to the principles he had yet met , were in such a state of ignorance on the subject , that they did not know whether a potatoe was grown raw , or whether it was gathered ready roasted or boiled . ( Loud laughter . ) In fact , they knew as little of the land and its capabilities as
an Irish pig knew of geometry . ( Much laughter . ) The reason that he attached so much value to the land was , because he was a practical farmer and thoroughly understood the subject . ( Loud cheers . ) The first use the land would be to them was to ease the labour market of its surplus ; the second was to create a certainty of work tor the people ; and the third was to create a natural rate of wages in the artificial market ; for so long as there was a surplus to fall back on , or a workhouse from which to procure labour , so long would work be uncertain and wages low . ( Hear , hear . ) The present state of things created unwilling idlers ; and he for one contended that the men who would work and could not obtain it , had as much ri g ht to good food , good clothes , and all other necessaries and comforts as the men who did work . ( Loud eheers . ) Some had said he wanted to make the people of England all small farmers .
He certainly did not wish anything ot the kind . He knew some must be engaged in manufactures —( hear , hear ;) but he certainly did wish to see many more employed in agricultural pursuits than there at present were . ( Cheers . ) It had been asked , why not go to America , Venzeuela , New Zealand , or to Australia ? Why not emigrate ? He abhorred transportation—he would not like to leave his native land at the expense of the Government , much less would he like to transport himself . ( Loudcheers . ) Neither was there any necessity for it , while so much land was to be obtained at home by the combination of the working classes . An auctioneer did not ask , when he put up the lot , whether the bidders were Chartists . No ; he would sell the . estate to the devil provided he
made the highest bid . ( Loud laughter . ) If asked what the land had to do with the Charter , he replied , let me have one of these home colonies established , and the colonists eating bacon instead of drinking skilly , then would the people naturally ask is this what you wanted the Charter Cor ? and the result of such an example would be the enactment of tliatgreat measure . ( Loud cheers . ) It took seven years to become a shoemaker ; but any one might le ' avn to stick a cabbage in seven minutes . ( Hear , hear . ) The land was God ' s inheritance ; he intended that it should be for the benefit of all his creatures , but class laws had deprived them of its blessings . He might be asked why buy land when it is the people ' s already ? He admitted it was theirs by right—but were they in possession of it ? ( Hear , hear . ) Was
it not more reasonable to expect that 10 , 000 men on the land could raise that question far better tlum 20 , 000 men without afoot of land ? ( Great cheering . ) They had been called disloyal . What had they to be loval for ? But let them have a cottage and some land , and then they would have something to be loyal for , and no people would be more ready to take up their muskets m defence of their country than the men , surrounded by their families , in their cottages , on their own land . ( Loud cheers . ) It had been asked , why give up the Charter for the land ? To those with whom he had worked the last twelve years , and who knew him best , he need not say he had no intention of giving it up . ( Hear , hear . ) He never could bear the loss of the affections of the working classes , which he was sure he should lose
were he to give up the Charter . ( Great cheering . ) He was not satisfied to talk only ; he was now about to buy _ £ 2 , 000 worth of land on which to try the first experiment and set an example . ( Loud cheers . ) In conclusion , he trusted they would keep those two great questions on wliich he bad been lecturing , the Land and the Charter , constantly before them , until uheir struggle was crowned with success . Mr . O'Connor resumed his seat amid loud and long continued cheering . On the motion of Messrs . Arnott and Laurie a vote of thanks was given to Mr . O'Connor for his services on that evening in particular , and ior his great services to the working classes in general Mr . O'Connor moved a vote of thanks to the chairman , which was carried by acclamation . A considerable number of shares were taken up , and the meeting quietly dissolved .
Metropolitan District Council . —Sunday , Junel . —Mr . Milne was called to the chair . On the motion of Messrs . Simpson and G . Cooper , the balance sheet of the late "&arsoiree" was audited and found correct . Victim Committee . —The above body met at the Hall , Turnagain-lane , on Sunday afternoon , June 1 , Mr . Mills was called to the chair . Mr . F , O'Connor attended , and handed in an account of the monies as received by him , also an account of the monies received by Mr . J . Cleave , as acknowledged in the Northern Star ' , and an account of the various items paid on account of the Victim Fund by Mr . O'Connor : the account was received . —Mr . ' ( May then moved , "That Mr . O'Connor be requested to make an immediate application to Mr . J . Cleave for an
account of the monies received , and likewise an acconnt of the monies disbursed by him on account of the Victim Fund , in order that this Committee may have a correct knowledge of the state of their funds . " Mr . O'Connor begged permission to second that resolution , and in so doing would undertake to carry out the principle it contained , and report the result of Jiis mission forthwith . The resolution was carried unanimously . The secretary read a letter from the veteran John Richards . Mr . Stallwood moved — " That the secretary be instructed to write a peremptory letter to the secretary and sub-treasurer , of the late Manchester Victim Committee , demanding an immediate settlement of the affaire between the " late and present committees . " Seconded by Mr . G . II . Tucker , and carried unanimously . The committee then adjourned until Sunday afternoon next , at five o ' clock .
STRATFORD-UPOX-AVON . A Public Meeting was held on Monday evening at the Stratford Arms , Henley-street , to form a branch of the Co-operative Land Society . The meeting was well attended , and twenty-two ' persons paid instalments on their shaves . Messrs . Stauntou Dickens , Tompkins , Wootten , and Bissell , were appointed a committee ; Mr . W . Hurdis Harbome was elected president ; Mr . Such , treasurer ; Mr . Paine secretary ; and Mr . S . Smith , assistant secretary ! The committee will meet every Sunday evenin " , and the public meetings will continue on " Mondayevenings .
DEWSBURY . A District Meeting was held here on the lstinst ., when the Land question was taken up in » ood earnest . Wm . Hey was called to the chair , and a resolution was unanimousl y passed for the whole of the district to be formed into one branch of the Cooperative Land Society . Mr . F . W . Sucksmithwas appointed secretary pro Um . Twenty-two shares were taken .
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE . Dinner to Mr . Wm . Aitkes . —On Saturday even , ing last , May 31 st , a large gathering of the Chartists of this neighbourhood was held at the house of Mr . James Ashworth , Hurst Brooks , near Ashton-under-Lyno , to pay a tribute of respect to our townsman Mr . William Aitken . After the dinner , which consisted of every delicacy of the season , Mr . Samuel Hadfield was voted in the chair . The large room was splendidly decorated , and ornamented with portraits of all the public characters connected with the Chartist movement . Those of O'Brien , M'Douall , and Collins , did not appear in their former places , but instead , were committed to the lumber room . The chairman ,-in opening the business of the
evening , made a very animated address , and concluded by proposing , " The people , the only source of all power . " Mr . Richard Thorp responded to the toast in his usual eloquent style . Song , " Ye wealth producers , " by Mr . Edward Hulme . —The chairman next gave , " The health of Mr . W . Aitken , our friend and guest : may he live in the hearts of the people , and may his efforts for them be crowned with success . " Mr . Aitken rose to reply amidst great applause . He entered into a history of the agitation for the Charter from the year 1837 to the present time , in the course of which he well commented on the treachery of O'Brien and others , and concluded a speech of about three quarters of an hour ' s duration by pledging himself never to relax his . exertions for the success of the democratic cause . Son" "Libertv Tree /; by Mr . Samuel Hadfield .-The chairman next gave , __ lhe people ' s Charter , and soon mav it h *
come tne law of the land , " which was drunk with much enthusiasm . Mr . Enoch Hemingway responded to this toast m a very neat speech , in the course of which he urged the people to support Feargus O Connor until they have accomplished the triumph of liberty . Song , " Exile of Erin , " by Mr James Ashworth . The healths of " Feargus O'Connor " " Frost , " and others , and likewise " the memory of the illustrious dead of every nation , " were also drank , and ably responded to by the company . In the course of the evening the manifesto written b y W . Aitken , when in prison , was given The speech of Robert Emmett , and many other sxt propriate pieces , were recited , and the company separated at a late hour , highly delighted with the evening ' s entertainment .
DUMFRIES . Mb . O'Connor and his Calumnia tors . — At the ordinary weekly meeting of the Dumfries and Maxwellton Working Men ' s Association , held on the evening of the 2 nd curt ., in their reading-room , the following resolutions were proposed , seconded , and having been discussed seriatim , unanimously adoiW and ordered to . be transmitted to the Northern ^ r for publication r-First- " That this assofin on reviewing the manner m which Mr . FeavgusO'Con " nor has acted in and throughout the Charter movement , find no reason for the withdrawal of that hearty confidence which they have hitherto repS
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— June 7 / I 845 . inhim . " Second— "Thattheyhaveobserved withn-r a series of gross attacks upon his political and Driva !" character , and motives in the columns of the ifiwJ > Reformer—attacks which , however , even had thev Tl been so triumphantly repelled , the members ot th association believe could not have niaterivi injured Mr . O'Connor ' s usefulness , from the ™ y nous character of his assailants—the scum and T , dal of the Chartist body-who , almost witS !"" ception , have been scouted from the ranks bv ,. n mon consent , for manifold acts of treason *„ « fiilRVful nnuii nf V . l ,- ^ ,, » ' I ! . !™! «« f | H ... . . ! " * M 16 sacred cause of liberty" Third—That e June 7 / I 845 .
. " the ciation regard the charges of what is * termed « v Tory' policy advancedV the editor of the iufj £ as commg with a peculiarly bad grace from one who if he did not originate , at all events strenuouslyII ' ported , in the first Convention , the opposition ? T Anti-Corn Law League , so successST I'M *• by the working classes ; and here record theM ' and cordial approval , of the main feature ! of tS pohcy and their conviction that it has been attend ^ with the happiest results , and that it is SSS ^ ite-itfasstf * !
Maynoothism ik Dumfries . —There i « » ww « i nothing in the political way stiri-in * in th £ W- We have not had a public meeth ^ e sKES ; here now several weeks ago , and for week ' s bc 2 hat there was as little agitation of any puSfeS ? tion . On the occasion to wh c h we allude tlm «*» ¦ " We portion of the lieges had about MriS ftjR they could have wished to set their eves upon in a ^ anti-Maynooth meeting on the No Pop ' erv wincing The audience chiefly consisted of the mostS & of the Free Church and other sectaries , and on t ii platform werethe pink of the non-intrusion andothe dissenting tub-thumpers about the place . Scarcelv an intellectual phie was visible , and a great nS were of the softer and more gullible serf The meet ing was opened with " prayer and praise" mv prig who prayed , after threatening her Maiestv wil
the block it she gave her assent to the bill to oddorb which they had met , attributed the success or our fleets in the last war , not to the superior skill and valour of British seamen , but to the Protestantism of the nation ; aijd this idea was served up again in the speeches of him and his colleagues . Next time the aristocracy go to war , it would not be a bad spec to raanaship ov two withblack slugs , —the more lii . r ' ., Church the better , and try the effect of their pravevs and Protestant principle on Johnny Crapand or brother Jonathan , as the case may be . The semi . ment we have noticed has been so repeatedly ex . pressed , and with so much confidence , that there could be no lack of volunteers . Its ecoiiomv , too must recommend it
; and we commend tho plan to Mr . Joseph Hume , whose exertions in that line have stamped him as , if not a great politician , at least one ot the sturdiest political economists of his dav and generation . Should the experiments pvove a failure the country would still be the gainer , and will ! mgly compensate the ' enemy for tlie gunpowder ex pended in its trial . After thefii-atresolutvon had been proposed , and seconded by a Methodist parson named Jewitt or Jewen , who in the course of his address among other things horrified his listeners bv the description of a Roman Catholic procession he ' had witnessed in Madeiva , where he said an old clout was paraded on the top of a stick as the Holy Ghost
XhAndrew Wardrop rose to offer an amendment in the shape of a voluntary resolution , v-hich principle lie contended was the only one that the grant to Mavnooth could be consistentl y opposed upon . As soon as Mr . W . was recognised by the saints , a hm-rid veil burst from them , mingled with hisses , shouts , and catcalls , such as we never heard before , and oin- experience in uproarious meetings is somewhat cxtsusive . Indeed , could we suppose all the unbrccched devils in Pandemonium uniting in one harmonious howl for their porridge of a morning , it would give but a very iamt idea of the aspect of the Oiiineroiiiiin chapel at tins juncture . An old Free Kirk winner 111 the
excess ot her indignation , charged upon Mr W . with her crutch , and he had sonic little difficulty ' from the hampered position in which he was placed ' in parrying her thrusts . Little M'Kenzie , who made lumselt so notonons when Mr . O'Connor was here last jumping from the platform , however , succeeded with some difficulty in disarming and pacifvin ? this modern Jenny Geddes , and in obtaining ' for Mr Mardrop something like a fair hearing . ' " M'Kenzie then conducted his ally to the platform , between the railings ef wliich she occasionally shook her umbrella , and grinned unutterable thing's at her adversary during the remainder of the eveninir . Isot the least amusing featureof the proceedings were
tlie occasional racy and characteristic replies of the Irish Catholic portion of the audience to the BilliVsgate ot the Stiggins crew ; and one Milnsiiin , who had been expelled , got up an opposition meeting at the door , and those constituting ii were favoured with the other side of the question , includin * the wickedness of Martin Luther , aial how the devil carried him off at last , the short comings of Harry the Eighth , the murder of his wives , kc , set off b y a brogue of the richest , and the native wit that distinguishes the Irishman . ' Mr . H ' ardrop ' s resolution was lost , of course ; butthcstamUicmadeaeainst bigotry . and intolerance has won him golden opinions tvom every intelligent , person in tho town , of whatever political creed . Even the fanatics nw » nsli . -imn / l
or their conduct . Scarcely one of our middle-class politicians were present at the meeting , and very tew ot Mr . AVardrop ' s Chartist friends thought it 1845 t 0 attcnd <—i ) u ) nfrles » J « ne -H
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BANKRUPTS . ( From Tuesday ' s Gazette , Jv . ne ii-d , 18 * S . _ J 11 i u 1 " , * £ nn JJl ' - ldly and George James Hraclly , Great Si . Helen ' s , City , wine-mercliants-Wilii am Matthews , Liss . mgrove Aorth , piano-fortc-makcr—WiUfotn Olarkson , tte < ieross-sti-wt , boot and shoe manufacturer-Stephen Finveett , ChiSNvell-street , liuenuraper-John Yates , Guernsey , and Yoi-k-road , Lambeth , ship owner-John Mohoa and « " ?^ blm 0 " > Mineing . lanc , wine and spirit merchants —William Astle , nolverhninpton . Stai }' nrdshiro , plumber -Ivaneis Harrington Church , Southampton , surgrontazonby Pearson , Ncweastle . upou-Tyne , leathox-dealer-Jolui I ' itt , Plymouth , grocer-John Church Dompser , Bristol , stationer . '
DECIAKATIONS OF DIVIDENDS . G . E . White , Heading , Berkshire , tailor , first dividend ot us in the- pound , any "Wednesday , ; st the office 01 Mr . Graham , Coleraan-street . H . and A . Wood , Basinghall-streol-, UlacUwcll-hall lactors , third dividend of 4 } d in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Whitmore , Basingliall-strcet . J . Johnston , Anston , Yorkshire , miller , first and final dividend of Is 5 d in the pound for those creditors who have not received a former dividend , and a final dividend ot ud in thu pound to those creditors who have received a former dividend , on and after June 4 , at the office of Mr . Young , Leeds . W . Ileginuottom , Ashton-under-Lyne , Lancashire , cotton-spiuncr , final dividend of 2 d in the pound , and a ltrst aud final dividend of 2 s 8 d in the pound on new proofs , any Tuesday , at the office of Mr . Fraser , Manchester .
DIVIDEND ! . June 20 , L . J . Nicolay , Woolwich , draper-June 2 C , J . Wilson . Jcrmyn-street , St . James ' s , bootmuk « r-June 2 « , S . Hoadley , New Bond-street , coachmnker-June 2 C , ) . welch , Ring-cross , Holloway , licctfied victualler- June 26 , B . Bright , WiRmore-street , l { avylebo ' ne . licensedTiotuaUer —June 26 , H . Bavham . Emsworth , Hampshire , liueiwli-apcr -June 26 , k . Tucker , Dean-stveet , YTPSlminBter , furrier -June 21 , W . H . Williamson , Dowgnte-WJI , City , tobacconist- June 24 , G . Jackson , Hertford , uphulstcrer-June 27 , P . Murray . Manchester , travelUnfj ilrnper-June 27 , « . r . Wood , Manchester , banker—June 27 , N . P . Wood d
anJ . I . Holdcn , Manchester , bankers-June 2 G , J . Crump , Stan way , Gloucestershire , corn-dcalcr— . luuei ! 4 W . Ferguson , Liverpool , draper-June 23 , If . Dii-cks , Liverpool , millwright-June 17 , G . Brocklehurst , If . Dircks , and J . B . Kelson , Liverpool , millwrights -June : » , A . A Dobbt , Liverpool , wine-merchant-June 26 , W . Oliver , DarHn"ton , Durham , printer—June 26 , W . Granger , Kclly-mill , Durham , paper-manufacturer-June 23 , J . Hall , WaUsend , Northumberland , cowkeeper—June 26 , H . Currie , Newcastle-upon-Tync , bookseller-June 24 , 0 . Jiuvcott , Birmingham , factor—June 24 , J . Haywaid , Milverton , Warwickshirc , miller—June 24 , J . aud ' G . Cltivkc , KoncnvAkcfr street , carpet-manufacturers .
Cek'X'ihcates j to be granted , unless cause be shown to tlie contrary on the day of l ^ ct'thig . June 25 , J . Hyatt , Conimercial-ruud , Pimlico , victualler -June 25 , T . P . Rees , Kin ? Williain-screet , CitT , ironmerchant-June 25 , C . M . Firth , St . Mieliain ' s-allej , C ' oni-Inll , lithographic printer—June 25 , T . Jupliu , Sundevland , linendrapei- —June 26 , W . Granger , Kelly-mill , Durham , paper-niauufacturw-Junc 24 , T . S . Stuart , jun ., Liverpool , drysaltur—June 26 , J . aud J . Kield , J . Nield , jun ,, aud J . Uolt , Charles-worth , Derbyshire , cotton-spinners—June 25 , J . Nicholson , Blackburn , Lancashire , liuendraper -Juno - . ' 4 , J . S . Howe , Newcastle-umlw-I . yne , Staffordshire , draper—June 24 , W . Ferguson , Lirerpoul , draper-June 24 , G . C . Smith , Kensington-park , builder .
VARTSERSlUfS DISSOLVED . W . Smart and A . Tullett , Old Fish-strei-t , DoctotVcommous , wholesale stationers—R . Beaumont and F . Kennedy , Leeds , Yorkshire , stockbrokers-T . Wickham and C . Brooks , Trinity Amis-yard , . Swan-street , Trinitvsquave , Newington , town carmeu ~ H . ll ; uvs » n and W . 1 icld , Leicester , manufacturers—T . Lusconibe . W . Bryant , and E . James , Plymouth ,. coal-merchants-B . B . 1 ' owtH and S . Bromfield , jun ., Tattenhall , Cheshire , maIteteis-K « Beaumont , V . Kennedy , and G . Clark . Bradford , Yorkshire , stockbrokers—W . Ilamer and J . Blcaklev , 1-ittle Leaver , Lancashire , cotton-spinners-J . ttarrelt & »< 1 ' Myers , Bradford , Yorkshire , painters-J . Hamilton and J . Barnes , Liverpool , shipbrokcrs-W , G . Watson , G . Tyrrell , and H . Cory , Narrow-street , Liinehouse , white lead < manufacturers—P . Webb and J . Irvintr . Liverpool , starchmanufacturers—T . Graham and W . ' llayward , Hook ' syard , Queen-street , Mile-end Xuw-tovn , chemical ligbtmanufacturers !!
-, and It . P . Glynn , Liverpool , brokers-E . Tassiker and J . Southworth , Orwell , Lancashire , coalminers—It . Askew , T . Barlow , and S . Davenport , Manchester , dyers-S . H . Gorringeand L . E . Blanc , Manchester , milliners—E . Fielding and J . Craven , Chorley , Lancashire , cotton-inanufactuvers-J ., J . L ., and C . Garland , Leadeuhall-strcet . City , wine-iuerchants-T . F . Triebner and \\ . S . Conquest , Old Broad-strcet , City , Russia brokers-T . J . and G . Fieldwick , PancrasJanc , Citv , Boarding house-keepers-C . Raisbeck and J . Hutty , King ston-upon ' Hull , timber-merchants—J . Thompson and G . El lerkamp . Northwich , Cheshire , rock salt-proprietors—G . Corry on " E . Edge , Preston , Lancashire , cotton cloth-manufactiir ' * -J . Stephenson , jun ., and W . Hyde , jun ., Liverpool , i ™ : mongers-C . J . Jordan and W . Dale , Water lane , g ^ l agents—J . Williamson and V . Harrison , Pemllctou , Lancashire , dyers—T . Heydon and C . Handler , Warvne * , attorneys-E . Patterson , S . Pascal ! , and A . G . E . P « M , Church-street , Hackney , liaberdashers-J . B . F . "ff . » " mann and J . G . W . Kuper , St . George'a . terrace , Can *?' ' well , wire rope-manufactiirers ,
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¦^ WWW ^^^^ V ^ Va ^^^^ V ^ MVWiHHMa ^ MWHMM ^^^ M ^^^ H The house divided , when the numbers were : —For the amendment—Ayes , 46 . Noes , 311 . The amendment was therefore lost , and the bill read a second time . The other orders of the day were then disposed of , and the house adjourned .
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jT THE NORTHERN STAR .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 7, 1845, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1318/page/6/
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