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nve or the speeches he made . The members who lad been least careful of their duty—the most dead and insensible to everything worthy of the name of duty—were those who were influenced b y the pitiful vanity of wanting seats in that house . His belief was , that by those men the interests of the country were betrayed . ( Hear , hear . ) He desired to see a , more general and homogeneous system of taxation established than the one which at present existed in this country . But that was not what ion . gentlemen opposite wanted . They wanted equality , which , In property , was nothing but destruction ofproperty and starvation for all . ( " No , no » H " 0 ? the Ministerial benches . ) Yes , they would , without knowing it , bring about here a state Of things similar to that existing in France . Nobody in that country said they wanted what they baa got , but they hac it , nevertheless . Hon . gentlemen opposite might depend on it that the end of all their exertions would be the establishment hero of
a 6 tate of things resembling that which existed in Prance . Their whole system was founded on contempt of experience , and a determination to evolve schemes of government out of their own brains , and not to be guided by what had happened in past times , nor influenced by the scenes which were passing daily before their eyes . ( Dear . ) Lord D . Stuart should vote for the motion as a step in the right direction , hut he would prefer Sir De Lacy Evans' amendment , though even that did not satisfy him . It should be the policy of the Legislature to grant the just demands of the people and to concede them in time . Mr . ISbwdkgatk opposed the motion , which he characterised as a crude one , the object of which -wasnot called for by anything in the circumstances of the country .
lord John Iujssbll : I shall vote against the present proposition pretty much on the grounds on which tke honourable member for West Surrey gives his vote in its favour . ( Laughter . ) The honourable gentleman said "he did not think there could be any considerable mischief in the present proposition , and that we had arrived at a time of the session when we could not get further than to lay the bill on the table , that it would be impossible to proceed father with it during the present session , and that therefore no evil could arise from supporting it . Now , it appears to me that this is not the way in which the house ought to deal with a question so large and important as the franchise . I think that if the house should determine to make
* n extension or alteration of the franchise , a measure to that effect ought to be broug ht forward early m the session , should receive the mature deliberation of the house , should be accepted or modified as to the house might seem best ; but that at any rate it should proceed through this house in the course of the session in which it is brought in . To deal with a question of this importance merely by admitting a bill to be laid upon the table , and to leave it there , without any intention of going on -with it , appeara to me to be trifling" with this important subject , to be unworthy of our own position and not to be fair to the people at large . This then seems to me to he a sufficient reason for voting agamst the bill , without entering into its merits .
Xhere 13 another reason for not entering into the merits of the bill , because honourable gentlemen who have supported it have hardly gone into a smgle argument which has the least reference to the proposition before tho house . Honourable gentlemen have invited me to discusa the general question of reform . I certainly shall not enter at any length into that subject on the present occasion , haying on a former occasion delivered my opinion folly to the house ou these topics . The honourable gentleman the member for the Tower Hamlets has gone at great length into figures , to show that a number of populous boroughs have not a sufficient number of representatives , and that boroughs of a small population have a much greater number of
representatives than the grea | cities . I have always sad , when questions of this kind have been brought before the house , that it is time for those who seek an extension , of the franchise to come forward and state broadly what they propose a 3 their Bystem . Iftiey propose that some of the smaller of those boroughs now sending representatives to Parliament Should be disfranchised , let them say so . and teU us the number of representatives they propose to give to others . But if you mean to say tW representation , to be real , should be on the principle of equalisation , then say so , and produce the plan by which yon propose to divide the country , and the system of representation which you propose ( Cheers . ) Ton render this the more necfiRsarv h *
cause the hon . gentleman the member for the Tower Hamlets argues with others who are against file existing system as if the population of our counties had no votes and no voice in the representation ; and he points to certain divisions of counties and certain great towns and villages in support of his argument , forgetting that Lincolnshire and De-. oashire alone have 40 , 000 electors , and a sufficient number of representatives in this house , when we come next to discuss this question I bee that the whole of your plan may be stated—what number of representatives the great COHnties are to hare , and how they are to be divided and altered and how many of the small boroughs are to be disfranchised . I beg that when the subject is nest
oron-at forward we may have your entire scheme , and that you will inform us how you are to make it compatible with our present form of government mthoutentering into the question of whether the present system is altogether satisfactory , and without entering into the great question of equal representation , which some hon . gentlemen are continually arguing for , I say that under the existing system the people are attached to our present form of government . ( Cheers . ) And I think that in any reform of the representation , and any reform of this house trhjch may be proposed , that reform should be compatible and consistent with the maintenance of the Monarchy and the House of Lords , which as well , as this house , form a part of the
constitution of the conntry . "When this question is again'brought forward , I hope the honourable gentleman the member for Montrose , or some other honourable gentleman , will give their plan fully , and how they propose to maintain the existing form of government . ( Cheers . ) In the present constitution of parliament , any extension of the suffrage whjch may be proposed should te compatible with the existing institutions of the country , ( Hear , hear . ) I would not have added anything more , but that the member for the Tower Hamlets asks me to give seme pledges that during the recess I shall tarn my attention to this subject
. and be prepared to bring forward at the commencement of the next session of parliament a measure for the extension of the franchise ; and he assures me that if I do not do so , he and others will be disposed to withdraw their confidence from thegovewiment , -without which , he says , it cannot exist . And lie sa « , moreover , thathonourable gentlemen oppo-«<^ , ! % !?* ' mt / " [ er d P «> PO » e an extension of the suffrage , and , therefore , that I had better lose np time m making my proposition . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Now , I don ' t tnink it necessary to ask or tell the" hononrablegentlemao . Sdiat measures the government will bring forward next session Tf
. we have not the confidence of this house , and if it is thought that a change of government would be advantageous , let a change of government take place , and then they will seei the Uan of parliamentary reform which will be brought forward by those in 1 ! PR ^ n confidence . ( Cheers . ) I shall only add , that I shall vote against the motion of the hon member for Surrey . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Bhight said that during the last and present session the government had committed the same error which the noble lord had attributed to the member for Surrey for he had to sweep from the table in the month of July many of the measures which he had introduced in the earlier part of the session , and he had told them that he had yet to
introduce measures of importance which he hoped to be able to « rry before tbe session was at an end . Tionoh klordcomplmedinatthe speecheg onS sule of the house had riotbeen to the point , but that the mover of the motion , or to that of thehonourffiiSfcft £ onta ! 8 e * ^ . seconded it , for ^ iJ ? 2 *??* to the E ° mt : but the speech of the noble lord did not contam one sentence which had reference to the motion before the house . The no-SffiiSiSESft VPS ? 2 parfly *«»»*» " in noticrngflie speech of the honourable member for the Tower Hamlets , and said that a considerable amount of arithmetic had been expended on it , and ^¦ SK ^^ totoir tlie infewnee that the
, wanted to propose a scheme of electoral power in everyplace in the kingdom inconsistant with the existing institutions of the country . If they had dropped down upon the kingdom that day , without any notion ot legislation , they would not propose mch a scheme , nor would the noble lord himself , with all hi 3 conrage , when he was wrong , propose wE ^ u *! ^ , " , « drted in Great Britain and £ l - ' $£ *^ tflke ih& <*»**> 'ticli had been SS ? «? iS ? - ^ ' > e American Bepublic SblT ^ Xir ^ U was not desirable or SK ' toD ^ LS eex ? 8 tl * riwumstances of this of the present system should ffSSSSStS
» «™ «™™» « oiscontentshould be greatlv mU tigated or entirely removed . Their ni ^ f In- y tended to the eountiea . The noble lord " badXU £ Tis . tcd the county with which he ( Mr Br £ ht ?»« connected , and he could not bat k £ flffiS county there'wera large villages , contain *™ Tthouands and tenii of thousands of inhabitants &j £ d not the franchise at all , and yet they were quUe equal in point of intelligence to those to whom ih ^ iad given the ftuebue in boroughs . If they agreed to the motion it would have a beneficial result in eonvCTing to the people the fact that if they were sejtftom the foil possession of their rights , yet HirtthMe was a disposition on the part of parliamsnt gradually to extend those ri ghts , and they would , in wBieqneiice , hare confidence in fcbe insti
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tutions of the country . He had not forgotten that Devonshire and Lincolnshire had large constituencies , and the noble lord should not forget that he had twice been returned and once rejected by Devonshire —( hear , hear)—which he ( Mr . Bright ) considered more a disgrace to the constituency than to the noble lord . The noble lord bad been attacked in that county , and everybody said that Lord John was going to bring in the Pope , and that they would all be burnt . ( Laughter and cheers . ) But if at that time the noble lord could have j » ono from theparsonage-house down to the £ 10 villagers , he would at that hour have been representative of one of the largest counties in England . They did not forget that there were large constituencies in Devonshire and Lincolnshire , but they wished very much
that in those counties , and in every other county in England , tbere were larger constituencies . ( Cheers . ) The noble lord had said that there was a general feeling of attachment to the constitution throughout the country . He ( Mr . Bright ) did not deny that fact , and he hoped that it was undeniable ; but if the noble lord , when he made his proposition for reform twenty years ago , was impressed with the necessity for that measure , he should , from the progress which the public mind had made since that period , be now still more convinced of the necessity for such a measure as was proposed by tho member for Surrey . They had heard much of constitutions abroad , and of their own constitution , but they ought to remember that this boasted
constitution of theirs gave the franchise only to one full-grown man in every seven , and they ought to be ashamed to be told that six out of every seven full-grown men were kept out of the franchise . ( Cheers . ) If they persisted in maintaining such a system , it was not to be wondered at if men were to look to other countries where a different and a better system prevailed . He did not think that even in the month of July the question before them was unworthy of the attention of Parliament . They would be many nights yet engaged in discussing subjects which were not of great importance , and therefore the lateness of the period at which the motion was brought forward was no answer to it . He would entreat the noble lord not to wait until he was driven by the force of an aeication which
once before betook him to yield an extension of the franchise , and which he could do better now than in the midst of circumstances more unfavourable which might arise : and he was sure that if the motion were granted , it would give the greatest satisfaction in every part of the kingdom . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Locke King , in replying , said be was happy to find that the noble lord , in replying , bad not produced a single argument against the motion . In that house there were two parties—the party of progress and the party of obstruction ; and the noble lord appeared between them like a gallant captain who had said , - " Oh how happy could I be with either , Were t ' other dear charmer away , But since thus you tease me together ,
io neither a word will I say . ( Laughter . ) Mr . Ghhtan said the honourable member for Manchester had complained because in this country only one out of seven possessed the franchise ; but what was the case of Ireland ? Why , that with a population of upwards of seven millions there were only 70 , 000 voters . The noble lord was jocular in the course of Mb observation , but be ( Mr . Grattan ) thought that , under the circumstances , the minister of this country should be more morose . The noble lord had told them that he wished to keep to the fixed principles of the British constitution . He was satisfied with that constitution
, and so were the people of Ireland , but they wanted to have the British constitution . ( Cheers . ) He wished the noble lord to adhere to the principles of the British constitution , and to the fixed principles of that house , and he hoped they would not allow their countrymen to be without them . They must have their bend—every jot of their £ 8 franchiseand they would not abandon their rights , nor allow them to be trampled upon . They insisted upon their rights ; and if the English members assisted the representatives of Ireland , they would assist them to obtain an extension of the franchise for England .
Mr . Disraeu observed that there had been exhibited in this discussion a want of comprehension of what our constiution was , namely—a monarchy modified by the estates of the realm and by the privileged classes—a constitution established upon the anstocratieal principle . The Reform Bill had been a permanent settlement of the then agitated question ; yet since that period the gentlemen whom it had sent to Parliament had been quarrelling with that very arrangement , and were constantly endea-T . ri ? S to toPlfc- K they proposed that every man of full age was to be represented in that hbuse , they proposed a revolution , since it was plain that then it would be impossible that any power could be exercised by the estates of the realmor by the
mon-, archy . If the principle of the franchise was what he maintained it to be , it was a privilege ; but if it was , as the assailants of the Reform Act said , the right of every one , however degraded , indolent , or unworthy , he could understand that the object was toajjitate the country , and to degrade the men to the franchise instead of raising the franchise to the citizen . If this country was to be , as it had been , aristoeractic , and free because aristocratic , let the Legislature place power in the monarchy , order in one estate of the realm , and liberty in the other . Repeating that the Reform Act was a settlement accepted b y the great body of the people , he delivered a pointed invective against the supporters of the motion , and the levelling svstem of . nominal
agitation of which they were sworn friends . Sir B . Hau in supporting the motion , made a direct charge against Mr . Disraeli . of dereliction of political principles . Did the honourable gentleman go down to High W ycombe as the protege of Mr O ' Connell and Mr . Hume ? ( Loud cheers . ) Did not the honourable gentleman go down to that place under the auspices of these two honourable members as a Reformer ? ( Renewed cheers , and a cry from an honourable member , " That ' s a poser " which excited some laughter . ) He ( Sir B . Hall ) had the honour of being the member for Marylebone ; but did not the honourable gentleman wish , some years ago , to become a candidate for that borough on Liberal opinions ? ( Cheers . ) If he had been
aware that the subject would have been introduced on that occasion , he would have been prepared with documents to show this . He would add that he knew a shop where the honourable gentleman wrote a Liberal address io the constituency of Marylebone , and he had no doubt he could get a copy of it , as he believed it was still in existence . ( Hear , hear . ) The place he alluded to was a tallowchandler ' s shop in Crawford-street , Bryanstone-square . ( Laughter , and cries of " question . " ) He considered this to be a very ugly question . ( Hear , hear . ) Was it to be supposed that the honourable member , for whose talents he entertained great respect , when he went down to Wycombe under the auspices of the two gentlemen he had named , had not led them to
believe that his opinions were to a certain extent in conformity with theirs ? These two gentlemen , he believed ; iad signed the document which was called the Charter . Did the honourable gentleman then entertain similar opinions ? ¦ Mr . " . Hume said he was not quite to the mark . ( Laughter . ) Sir B . Haix said : At any rate he might have gone to some extent . ( Hear , hear . ) He would only add , m conclusion , that the proposition should receive his cordial support . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Disbaku said : I hope the house will not take exception to my answering the question just put to me by the hon . gentleman . What the hon . gentleman has said with such an air of originality has been already said in this house at least twent
y times . Although the house may not recollect such an insignificant subject as a statement of mine , 1 am sure it will allow me to repeat what I have before stated , in answer to the speech of the hon . baronet . The hon . member is entirely wrong as to the circumstances under which I became the candidate for the representation of any place , and as to my observations on those occasions with resneot to the Reform Bill because it had then passed into a law , and I was not called upon to express any opinion respecting it . Whatever eccentricity there might have been in my political opinions , they were in direct epposition to the Whig party ( Hear . ) I believe the opinions I have expressed were really the historical and traditional Tory opinions of the countr
y . ( Hear , hear . ) I can assure the house with great truth that I then manfully expressed the opinions I entertained of the Whig party . ( Cheers . ) When , however , the Reform Bill was under discussion , I opposed the Whig settlement of the question , because I then regarded it , as I now do , as being injurious to the best interests of the country . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) I never uttered one sentence in this house or out of it which could authorise the hon . member to make the assertion which he has uttered this evening ( Cheere . ) The hon . gentleman said I went down to High Wycombe with the recommendation and introduction of the hon . member for Montrose to the electors of that place . Now , it so happens that I had long lived in that borough . 1 was bred , if not ' born there ; so that I was not unknown or unconnected with the place , and I now have the bonnnr
to represent the county in which it is . . ( Cheers . ) I never expressed any opinions to the electors of Wycombe which could bear the interpretation of the hon . member . ( Hear , hear . ) with respect to the tallow-chandler , it is possible that I have been in his shop , and no doubt he is now one of the chief supporters of the hon . baronet in Marylebone . I cannot recall to my mind any opinions which I expressed in any address issued by me ' to the constituents of any place which were " not in perfect unison with the opinions I have expressed in this 5 « . i C ^ ers - > .- I deny that lever was thead-A * 2 Ii foe parliamentary franchise which was advocated by the nbble lord and his political friends , ( near . ) I opposed it , because I believed it to be I mcaaautai ; with the .. b e * interests of the couSry ! I think I have now . aaid enough to refute my having supported thoseextreme opinions which the
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hon . member has imputed to me , and have shown that I still adhere to those opinions whichlhave held from my youth . ( ChcerB . ) The house then divided . •¦ For the motion ... . U ... 100 j * g $ iutif ... - ... .. ; : ... 150—69 Adumbration of Coffbb . — Mr . Q . Anstby moved for a select committee , to inquire into the means of preventing the adulteration of coffee . Major Blaokall . seconded the motion , which was opposed bythe Chancellor of the Exchequer , and after some discussion , the house divided ; and the motion was rejected by a majority of 205 to ' sixty . Maionty 145 . : ' ""¦¦ ¦¦ • ¦• : ¦¦¦ *
Posi Officb Labour on SuKDA Y .-bn this division being completed , the clock pointed to three minutes past eleven o ' clock , arid upon Mr . Locke ' s attempting to bring on his resolution to rescind the vote prohibiting the Sunday delivery of liters from ' the PoS t-o > e , * oon&ised oppoTition arose many members wishing to keep to the letter of the understanding previousl y come to , that the discus sion should not be . commeneed after eleven Ultimately Mr . Lockb was allowed to ' proceed . The honourable member briefly referredi toi the circumstances , that rendered the lasfc vote no true test of the opinion of the house , and ' . ' to the influences which were sometimes used to bias Mir dam . sion of
members upon questions supposed to involve religious ' ^ principles . He then showed the success that had attended the efforts made by the administration to relieve the Post-ofBce employes from Sunday labour , and contended that by the enforced changes the amount of work on that day might be shifted upon another class , but would not be diminished . Turning to the inconvenience that resulted to the public , he remarked that it fell most severely upon the poorer classes , and gave several instances out of a large mass in his hand where serious and fatal results had ' occurred from the stoppage of communication on the Sunday He classed the Post-ofBce service with that of the
police , the purveying of food and other works which the . necessities of human society rendered indispensable . ' : Mr .. Roebuck divided the arguments in favour of the recent vote into two classes—the religious and the expedient . Upon the first he denied the competence of the House of Commons to adjudicate . Regarding the latter , he argued that expediency required that the state should seoure the greatest amount of rest for the greatest number of those who wanted it most one day in the week . Lord Ashmt considered that the vote w . hioh was moved and carried in that house , presented to her Majesty , and acted upon by the government , waiia fait accompli , and should not be reversed
withoutsufficient trial . He maintained that no such trial had been affordedI ; while the changes were ; introduced in an unfair and violent manner , on purpose to excite public disfavour . It the course was now reversed we could not atop until the Sunday deliveries were sanctioned in the metropolis itself . . Mr . Aouosbv was assured that the changes had caused more desecration than they had removed . Sir R . H . Incus argued in favour of retaining what he termed a great boon that had been granted to the country . ] Lord J . Russell explained the position in which the government had been placed by the resolution of the house , which they were hound not to with .
hold from the Sovereign , whose consent they had advised . He did riot consider that commercial correspondence was the chief matter , but the position in which families and domestic affairs were placed by the change , and he owned he could not get over this circumstance , that here was a public department , charged with the conveyance of letters and armed with authority to prevent their conveyance by others , which might transmit a letter one day addressed to a daughter , communicating the illness of her father , which arriving early on Sunday morning at a provincial town would be detained for twenty-four hours . The effect of this , arid there might be a hundred of instances , amongst noor
famihes would be distressing . He recommended the omission of a part of the motion , praying that pend ing inquiry the collection and delivery of letters on Sunday he continued . Mr . Muniz restated the reasons which had induced him to support the resolution . Mr . Gladstone said , nothing had a greater ten . deucy to disparage the authority of the house than to rescind a motion , especially one so recently passed , before the result of the change could be seen . He objected to the preamble of the motion , referring to the great public inconvenience which had arisen from the total cessation of any delivery or collection of letters on Sunday . *
After some observations by Mr . Rice and Mr . A Hope , Lord J . RnssEii suggested the omission of the words objected tob y Mr . Gladstone : and ' the alteration proposed by the noble lord , retrenching the words at the commencement and the end of the motion , was then put asanamendment , simply pray inc for inquiry . r ' b After some further discussion , in which Sip T . Acland
Mr . Hume , Mr . Cardweu , Mr . SchoujI field , Lord D Stuart , Lord J . Manners , and other members joined ; theiiouse divided , when the original motion was negatived by 233 against 92 . After some explanations respecting the oourse that would be taken when the inquiry was completed , the house divided upon the amendment , which was carried by 195 against 112 . The other business having been disposed of . the house adjourned at half-past two o ' clock .
WEDNESDAY , JraT 10 . HOUSE 03 ? COMMONS . - Monvment io Sir B . I eel .- Lord John Rdssell gave notice of his intention to move , on Friday next , that an address be presented to her Majesty , in order to the erection of a monument in Westminster Abbey to tho memory of the late Sir R . Peel , such memorial to bear an inscription recording the •* great and irre ' - parable loss the country has sustained by the late statesman ' s decease . ' After some preliminary discussion the House went into committee on the Weights und Measures Bill , the consideration of which occupied the House until half-past three . Mabriagb BiLL . -The third reading of this bill was then moved by Mr . S . Wortlev
Mr . Walpole moved that the bill be read a third time that day three months , opposing it both on religious and social grounds . He contended that the bill ought first to have been introduced into the House of Lords , where theologists and divines might have given an authoritive opinion upon the religious bearings of the question . Recapitulating , at considerable length , the arguments which had hfn nn ^ te a y . x L rged duriD g Previous discussions , r ^ ect the bill ™ e&ram appeal t 0 tho House > to C ° . 1 ° . n 1 Thompson thought that the Jewish prohibition was directed against polygamic . practices ,. and had no authority over us . He supported the bill . ¦ . Mr . M'ffElLL spoke at some length against the measure . ¦
tl ? l *< " *?»«* replied , contending that none of the fatal consequences which had been predicted from the measure would be produced , and that the object of the bill was to afford a great and much desired relusf . The arguments against it had proceeded on the presumption that Englishwomen were , generally speaking , unchaste , wfiioh he indignantly denied . As to the religious-part of the question , the warmest opponents of the measure could not get beyond the assertion that the scriptural rule was doubtful , and therefore it anneared l t 0 lil
S 7 hKT ydm a *»« & law which the Deity had not given . The whole subject result , and ^ tne sense of the House was so clearly it lon ° w ' Bill * hat he WOuld not dwe 11 u P ° Mr ; Fox Mablk conceived the Bill calculated to promote a , low standard of morality , and he especially opposed its introduction into Scotland . Mr . Chisholm Anstev supported the bill . imnS- " -i t drea ( ii "S was carried by 144 to 184—majority , 10 ..
Scrtland SVrAM > th 6 tl movedtnatthc bil 1 do not affect 13 ^^?^ V iYisi ° ™ S atiTed b ? W to ( Fromour Seeond Edition of fat week . ) THURSDAY , Jolt 4 . : HOUSE OP LORDS . —The decease of Ri ,. n Peel was alluded to by the ^ TO& £ , £ IftS&tfS * ft ° 5 f l 0 fiy u p ° n the 32 £ and talents of the late statesman , and gave utter-SWiSSST * *¦¦ - *<* £ Xord Staslet , Lord Brougham , the Duke of Wellington , and the Dake of Clbv ' bland successivel y added their homage to the memory 6 f their deceased fnend anfi colleague .
National Exhibition . -A . discussion on the Hyde Park Exhibition followed , in which Lords S- n Wiand ^ WH ^ spoke against the proposed building , and Earl Granville defended the Commission and its proceedings . Lords Redesdale and Lonsdalh also opposed the erection , and Lord XFhzwillum spoke m its favour . The discussion ended in Lord . Brougham ' s withdrawing a mot on ^^ SS ^^^^^^^ The Metropolitan Interments Bill was referred to a select committee , on the unders andinTthat such course . was not to endanger or delayS mS
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house had been so suddenly and lamentably deprived . He referred to the late . Sir Robert Peel ' s having been stricken down so . shortly after the time when , in the full exercise of his mental and bodily strength ,, he ' had been assisting in the deliberations of that rhouse . Hisjlordship described the intellectual power , the disinterested patriotism , aiid the invariable courtesy and candour of the late baronet , and passed an eulogium upon the reforms in commercial policy effected by , him . He then expressed his willingness , if the family of Sir Robert
Peel . ' should sanction such a . course , to move for a public funeral ; , . . , . i , ; Mr ., / Gowjjurn , on behalf of the family of Sir Robert Peel ,, made a grateful ' but-agitated reply , acknowledging the , universal' sympathy which had been Manifested . ' But , in reference to the public funeral , a will of Sir Robert ' s , dated in . 1844 , which a subsequent expression of his sentiments had confirmed , < mduced the family to believe that they were b t obeying their revered relativfl ' s ; wishes in dedining tho proffered honour . Sir Robert Peel would , therefore , be buried in the famly vault at Drayton . : , . ' !
Mr . Herribs added a tribute ; to the memory of the deceased statesman , with which he said that no political reminigcencoa should ever be allowed to mingle . : Lord JonN Russell made his promised statement in reference to the course of public business for the remainder of the session . Tho Stamps Bill , the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill , the Mercantile Marine Bill , the Charitable Trusts Bill , the Savings Dank Bill , and the Parliamentary Oaths BUI were to bo proceeded with ; while the Loru-Lioutenanoy of Ireland Bill , the Merchant Seamen ' s Bill , the Woods and Forests Bill , the Securities for Advances ( Ireland ) Bill , and the Railway Audit Bill were not . The Landlord and Tenant Bill was to be proceeded
with to the second reading . National Exhibition . —Col . Sibthobp moved that the report now presented respecting the proposed Exhibition of Industry , to be held in Hyde Park , be referred to a selept committee . The hon . member repeated the objections he had urged almost every night for some time past agninst the Exhibition generally , and the selection of the site in Hyde Park in particular . : : Mr . Alcock seconded the motion , ' and suggested Batterflea-nelds as a less objectionable locality . Sir B . Hall had succeeded , in saving Regent's Park fromany danger of thia infliction , and therefore had no longer any hesitation in supporting the
motion . ; He proceeded to ontioise many of the acts , and intentions of the commissioners , censuring particularly their cutting down trees belonging to the public , andconoluded by moving that an address be presented to the Crown , praying her Majesty not to sanotion the erection of any building in the Park for the purposes of the Exhibition . Mr . Rick opposed the motion . Mr . Stepbknson , as a member of the building committee , explained the reasons which had guided the selection of . Hyde Park for a site , and combated the objections that' had been adduced against it . To remove the Exhibition from the Park was equivalent to prohibiting it altogether . Mr . Hope wished to save Hyde Park from the
destruction which the proposed building must inevitably occasion .. : . . Mr . Hume looked upon the opposition to the design of the commissioners as being , founded on the narrowest motives of personal comfort and profit . The great benefits expected to arise'to the industrial classes of the country ought not to be sacrificed to the convenience of a few ladies and gentlemen . Hyde Park was the best locality for the Exhibition , and indispensable to its successful operation . Mr . Labouchere believed that , after all that had been said and promised , the passing of the the present motion would amount to a breach of faith between the houso and the country , as well as between this country and foreigners . He dissected
the statements and arguments on which the opposers of the Hyde Park site had founded their objections , and . showed their futility . Months had passed since the selection of that site was publicly known , and yet no opposition was raised until now , when , at the eleventh hour , it assumed its present shape . The dome , which had been so much censured , would , he added , most probably never be built , and the asserted appeal for public money almost to a certainty never be made . Mr . B . Osbobne retorted the charge of delay upon the commissioners , who had never thought of examining into the fitness of other sites until the question had been forced upon them . He wished to secure tho fullest success to the Exhibitionbut
, felt and stated , many roasons why it should not be held in Hyde Park . Mr . Gladstone ( one of the commissioners ) , remarked that the first principle by which their course was guided was to make the Exhibition a London one . They believed it would be unjust to allure foreigners and country people to the metropolis by promising them a spectacle which they should find themselves afterwards forced to travel many miles pffio see , At this moment a change in the plans involved the postponement of the Exhibition for another year , to the general disappointment and serious loss of tho multitudes who had already made extensive preparations in the expectation that it would come off in 1 & 9 L
Sir De Lacy Evans deprecated the seleotion of Hyde Park . Mr . Stanford , Mr . T . Duncombe , and Lord DODLet Stuaet having briefly spoken , Mr . J . Stuart recommended the house to wait until the legal question involved should have been settled by the court ? of law , and moved the adjournment of the debate . After a few words from Lord R . Grosvenor and Sir H . "Willoughbt , Lord J . Russell conceived that no advantage could result from delaying the vote upon this question ; but after meeting and rebutting SOmeOfthO arguments adduced on the other side , he submitted to Sir B . Hall ' whether it wero worth while to press the motion to a division . Sir B . Hall expressed his willingness to withdraw his motion , but several members Saving insisted ot coming to a vote , the house divided : —
For Sir B . Hall ' s motion ... ... 47 Against ... 166-119 Aseoond division immediately afterwards took place on the motion of Col . SminoRP , which was also rejected by a majority of 166 to 46—120 . Home-hade . Spirits in Bond Bill . —Lord Naas moved the second reading of this bill . TheCnANCELLOR of the Exchequer reiterated the arguments he had urged upon the first reading againstthe measure , and declared his intention of again taking the sense of the house upon it . Mr . "Wild moved the adjournment of the debate , and the house divided , For adjourning the debate 95
„ . -Against 135-40 . The discussion was continued by Mr . Fox Mauls and Lord J . Russell , who withdrew their opposition to the second reading of the measure The bill was then read a seeond time , and the house adiourned at twe o ' clock .
. ( From , our Third Edition of last week J FRIDAY , July 5 . HOUSE OF LORDS-Pabliamentary Yoikrs ( Ireland ) Bill Their Lordships went into com-2 cus ° sed ™ l 0 US Clauses $ ^ n Lord Stanley moved on clause 15 , an amendment to the effect that it should be optional X the elector whether is should be on the register or T ^ ^ 08 ^ /]! . ° PP ° se < l by the Marquis of Lansdowne , Earl Grey , Lord Monteagle ; Lord Eddisbury , and Lord St . Germans ; and supported by Lord Brougham , Lord Ri ! DESDAIilS | ai $ rj £ vi UMHOALL , and , on a division , was carried by 53 to 30 ; . majority against , government , Ul 7 * ' i ^ iSigS , !^ - ** 8 hould be Their Lorpships having resumed .
ine Australian Colonies Bill , after a speech from Lord Lyttblton , who complained of its imperfections , was read a third time and passed . 1 Their Lordships then adjourned . HOUSE . OF COMMONS-REPEAL of the Malt TAx .-Mr . Oaylet submitted his motion , brought gf'f he i f ^ ' ^ on hJ own responsibility , for the repeal of the malt tax . His arguments against the continuance of the impost were founded partly upon general objections to the vexatious and inquisitorial character of an excise tax , and partly upon the necessity of affording some relief to the agricultures , who weresuffS
5 STB °£ eqMn l t ~ tion of protection , lho boa . member afterward , dwplt nponth 8 ] i | . tio . of relieriag the poor SmS from . burden which mfomk lh » prio . rf"Hr ' j * th « m , ent to Ol ,,, ed mongL , n « ry r S £ r 5 r , fo * as'j r * ff prodM ,, . ThftoW n , » S , ' ?»*»• « , *•
ounea by about mm ' miiik ' ¦ no a 0 Uut detween 1839 ^ 31849 bSMSfW »"? be " as ^ i ^ B SLedH ' nf e ' 0 IV the other hl «> d , hftd mo eased . m the ten years from thirty . five to fifty fZrSiL unds ; , * 5 omtwenty- »« to " wV IS m ? - *?• ooooa from 1 . 600 . 000 to 3 , 200 , 000 pounds . This change ho attributed to an improTO-
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raent of the moral habits of the people , which had led to a happy diminution in the taste for itimui ** ting fluids . The right honourable . baronet proceeded to quoto the evidence of parties largely experienced , and added many arguments to prove that the , loss to the revenue occasioned by abolishing the . tax would not be compensated by an increase of consumption , or the general benefit of the consumers . . ; , ; . ¦ . . A long di 8 ou 38 ioa ensued , when the house divided— .... .. . . For the motion 123 j Against it 247—124 The Hallways Abandonment Bill , which has already passed the Lords , was read a third time . The house adjourned at half-past two o ' clock .
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THE POST-OFFICE . The following petition of merchants , underwriters , and others , members and subscribers to Lloyd ' s , was presented on Tuesday night by Mr . Forster : — "That your petitioners have already experienced great commercial inconvenience frona the recent alteration of the postal arrangements , by whiohthe Sunday transmission of letters throughout tho kingdom has been declared illegal " That the evils which will ensue from this prohibition are calculated to outweigh any advantage that can possibly arise from it . That in a commercial country like England , unless the business
of the empire can be stopped simultaneously with the stoppage of the correspondence by whioh that business is carried on , the effectual action of such legislation as that referred toby your petitioners is dangerous and impracticable . That evasions of the law must and will take place , and the penalties on detection will not be regarded by the mass of the community as any stigma on those who incur them ; arid that to give rise to such a feeling in the country aa is implied in this result is to expose the legislation of the British Parliament to disregard and violation , - .. "That your petitioners do not feel it necessary , so obvious do they conceive the mischief to be which will arise from this proceeding of the
Legislature to do more than allude to a few of the effects which will flow from it / and whioh appear to them to afford conclusive evidence of its impolicy . " That it frequently happens that the American , WeBt Indian , Brazilian , and other foreign mails all bound to outparts , and all convey ing important commercial intelligence , which , in the present circumstances of the country , requires to be immediately acted on , arrive on the Saturday too late for post , or on Sunday , in which case under the present disabilities imposed on the collection , sorting , and des-¦ patch of letters , the commercial community are injured by the detention of the advices brought by such conveyances until the Tuesday ' s delivery . That in order to anticipate the effects of such an injurious
state of things , means will be had recourse to in breach of the present la , w to convey information through private channels , and that consequently the praotical operation of such a law will be in numerous cases to insure its own violation . "That by this detention of letters in the Postoffice merchants will be deprived of the opportunity of protecting their interestsby insurance , a matter respecting which a single day ' s delay is often of the most vital consequence . " Your , petitioners , therefore , humbly and earnestly pray your hon . house that measures may be taken to restore the despatch of letterB as heretofore , under the recent limitations of the Postmaster-General . "And your petitioners will ever pray , &o . "
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The Post-Office Changes . —The following Post-Office instructions have been issued to the deputy postmasters since the cessation of Sunday duty : — As great inconveniences has resulted from postmasters having in many instances neglected to despatch bags on Sunday last , I am directed by the Postmaster-General to inform you , that-the bags must always be despatched on Sundays , as heretofore , whether there are letters or not to bo forwarded in them , and that in either case the bag must contain a bill in accordance with the usual practice . To enable the Postmaster-General to decide what reduction shall be made in the wages of letter-carriers and rural post messengers , in consequence of the diminution of their labour effected by the new regulations , whioh came into operation on Sunday , the 23 rd ult ., I have to desire you will
immediately furnish the following information , viz .: — How many deliveries were made by each lettercarrier attached to your office previously to the 23 rd , ult ., and how many are at present ?—What are the wages of each letter-carrier ?—What rural post messengers have been relieved from work on Sunday within the last twelve months , without any reduction being made in their wages ?—What are the wages of such messengers ?—The question of the relief which may have been afforded to the clerks will be the subject of a future consideration . With , reference to the latter instruction , there are nearly 20 , 000 town and country letter-carriers whose wages average about 14 s . or 16 s . a week . A reduction of one shilling per week from the wages of each of these persons would economise the postoffice expenditure to the amount of £ 00 , 000 a year .
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Serious "Accident to an Emigrant Ship A most disastrous and somewhat extraordinary accident occurred on the 3 rd instant to the New York emigrant ship Hemisphere , by which three men lost their lives , and others were placed in a very preoarious condition . The vessel , which was commanded by Captain Whittelseye , left Liverpool on the 1 st instant , bonnd for New York , and on the following day when off Holyhead , about half way across the Channel , encountered a gale of wind from the west-south-west . On the 3 rd the weather still continued boisterous and the men were ordered aloft to reef topsails . Whilst they were thus engaged the ship gave a tremendous lurch to leeward , and ih *
three masts were at once carried away . It is stated that there were eighteen of the crew aloft at the time , and four were pitched into the sea , one of them not to rise again , while the others were thrown with great violence on the deck .. Of the latter two , named William Gibbs and George Bethell were killed on the spot , and others sustained serious injury . Among those injured was a sailor , twentyfour years of nge , named William Blair , who had his right arm broken , so that it only hung by a small portion of skin . After this dreadful catastrophe the remainder of the orew got up what head sail they could and put the ship round ; and , although L !" ,. ?^ , ^? , ^^ . ? y met "ith assistance ui
w »; wuwieiy ien in wuu tne steamer Queen bv which they were towed to the Mersey on the 4 th inst ., and subsequently into the Nelson Dock . On the arrival of the Hemisphere it was at first thought that the accident was of a much more serious nawn' * . g 8986 ^? " numbered between 400 and 600 , and had experienced tta greatest alarm , hut ™ lZZ ° t ln m « har S , £ y ^ e consignees and emigrai t broker , who will forward them to their destination by some other vessel . The wounded men were conveyed to the Northern Hospital , and h ^ i ? lL ^ day an in ^ uest was held on th e bodies of the three inen who were killed . The facts , as abovestated , were given in evidence , and after a searohme mvestication a verdint . * . t «« iAnM < , n ,. i
Death " returned . The Peer , the Peeress , and the Poacher . —At the recent Oxford County Petty Sessions , at Wat-Iington , the following case was heard- .-Thomas Smith and Matthew King were charged with unlawfully keeping a gun , on Friday , the 21 st of June , for the purpose of taking game . The Earl of Macclesfield deposed that on Friday , the 21 st of June he was walking with Lady Macclesfield , a little past nine in the evening , in the Ickneild-road , in the froAtofShirburn .: He saw a person stooping dow £ under the hedge . While walking on he saw another person , within twenty yards of the first , going towards him , with what he believed was a eun in
jiu nana . noon alter tho first rose up , as though ho was about to fire over a low part in the hedge . Ho tiien saw witness , and turning round went fw-S ° i ° hf ? . Jo ^ ng together he SaSr' ^ paassa WSd ^ rdt ^ lI other . Witness said he must have H and n £ EaSfeslif KSSESfgffiH Picked it up . and Lm'S , " . . . ' ' »»« &
gggggg off 4 S " £ . PP ? h » 3 head through arid ran & . £ ? - 'J " J" iefenoe . "aid his Lordship was SmSMA" mat 1 ' oall 6 d Mr - "er , who deposed that ho was playing with Smith the same evening at cricket on Weston-moor , a plaoe nearly two miles oft , and did not leave until at a quarterpast nine . —Mr . Glanville said , there was a difference of twenty minutes in the Lewknor time and tho right time ; it was too fast—whioh would account for tho difference . —The magistrates consulted together , with the exception of his Lordship and dismissed the case . —King was . subsequently brought up _ ; he appeared almost intoxioated . Hjs Lordship said he could not swear to himand Bo was dis-¦
, missed . - .:. ' . . " " > - Two toono ladies , whose names are given as Misa Almira Fraim and Miss Mary Ward , Bare baonm ! regular students in the Medical Department of So Memphis Institute , Amerioa . . "^ TT tno
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SURREY SESSIONS ; The adjourned sessions " for tbe county of Surrey uomraenced on Monday , at the Court-house , Newinff ton-causeway , bofore Thomas Puckle ,. Esq ., and i full bench of magistrates . The calendar contained the names of only thirty prisoners for ¦ r nousBBBBAK [ NO . -H . " Thorn ; 24 , and j , Field . 19 , two labourers , were indicted fpr breaking into the dwelling-house of R . Cojebrook , at Chertsey , and stealing twenty nine sovereigns and . other money , his property . — Prosecutor deposed"that he was a erocer at Chertsey . Oh Sunday morning , the 26 th of Ma y , he left h : s house safely fastened up while he went to church . In . the drawers m his bedroom there were two bags containing about £ 55 in gold
and silver , besides about ZOs . in the till . On . his return home he observed that the staircase window had been forced open , and on entering . his bedroom , he discovered that all his money was cone . In descendin g-, he perceived the larder ' . had been entered , and when he entered the shop'he found the till ransacked . He immediately gave information to the police , and the prisoners were apprehended the same day . The money was afterwards found under a clump of fire , by the direction of Field , who took them there . —James Cotton , a blacksmith , ' residing near prosecutor ' s house , said he saw the prisoners pass his house on the morning in question . They went in the direction of prosecutor ' s ; -Harriet Beddell , another neighbour , said she saw Thotn leave
the prosecutor's house a little before twelve in the morning in question . He went tip in the Cobham » road , and stopped at a clump of firs . He stooped down ; and afterwards walked away . She did not take particular notice of him , as he frequently passed . —Field pleaded guilty , and , without the least hesitation ; the jury found his companion " Guilty . "—The Court sentenced them to ten years' " transportation . —As soon as sentence was passed ,. Thorn turned round upon his companion in a furious manner , and would have attacked him bad not officers been behind him ; . He was . forced away , and taken to the cells witH great "difficulty . The . pro * secutor here interceded forTield ; whom he knew tobe the dupe of the other , when' the Court called him hack , and reduced his sentence , to twelve months at Guildford . ' : :
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THE ASSAULT ON TflE QUEEN ; \ CRIMINAL COURT .-THURSDAY . ' Some time before the opening of the court the doors and entrances were besieged by crowds * of well-dressed people , who were anxious to be present at the trial of the man Pate , for assaulting her Majesty , but no one was admitted without an order from the TJnder-Sheriffa , and the court was at notime overcrowded . ... . , - Their lordships arrived a few minutes after ten o ' clock , and the prisoner was immediately placedin . the dock . There was nothing new in his appear * ance to call for remark . -, He was dressed in a blue surtout buttoned up to the neck , and seemed to
'bebut little concerned at the situation he found him * self in . He stood firm and erect , with his : hands behind him , arid his whole demeanour and bearing was that of . a military man . He was described in the .: calendar . as " Robert Pate , aged 30 , gentleman , " and the charge against him was thus stated—" Unlawfully , and with a stick , striking the person of our Lady the Queen * with intent to injure our said Lady the Queen . " Upon being called upon in the usual form , he pleaded " Not guilty" in a firm voice . The evidence for the prosecution was merely a repetition of what has so lately appeared in this
paper . Mr . Cockburn then proceeded to address the jury for the defence . He said he could not dispute the fact that the prisoner had been guilty of the act imputed to him , and certainly , if the prisoner had been responsible for what he did , it was an act meriting the severest punishment , . but bislearned friend had rightly conjectured that the act would be excused on the ground of insanity , the prisoner had been rightly described as the son of a gentleman of fortune , who resided in Cambridgeshire . In 1841 he joined the 10 th Hussarsin Ireland , and up to a particular period , which he should presently refer tohe performed all the
, duties of an officer to the satisfaction of his superiors . He was very much attached to animals , and had tvo favourite horses and a dog . The dog , while suffering from an attack of hydrophobia , bit the two horses , and eventually they died in a state of frightful madness . This circumstance so affected his mind that he became gloomy and strange in his mariner . His father , however , having heard of the loss , sent him over to Dublin a very valuable horse ; but before it reached there the prisoner , without savinir anv .
thing to his groem or servants , quitted Dublin and came over to London , where he was met by BOme of his friends . His manner appeared to them so wild and extravagant that they persuaded him to go down to his father ' s house , where he becam still more outrageous in his behaviour . He declared to his father that the reason he had left Dublin was that the cooks and mess of his regiineLt had entered into a conspiracy to poison him His menus , however succeeded in disabusing his mind of this delusion , and he returned to Dubhu , but he had not been there lone before he sent word to his father that his inside was filled with brickbats . His father immediately ren » i «> , 1 tn
uuwin , and consulted Dr , Murray , the surgeon of . the regiment , upon the state of his son ' s health . Ihe general impression then was that he was harm , less and light-headed , nothing more , and his father allowed him to remain in Dublin . Shortly afterwards the prisoner again came to London , and , wit h * out communicating with his father or his friends , ho sold his commission , and went to live in German-Btreet . Here his habits were of the most regular character ; he always dressed the same bath in . winter and summer , kept resular hours , and
to thfrh 7 > ! ° « ee ? monln 8 « at four o ' clock or t , & * ^ what ^ e weather was , wet nSj' I n m the same cab > which was a Hansom , to Putney-common , where he would remain for an hour at a small pond without any apparent purpose His conduct in the cab was S Ka ! S ? and 8 tran < L ' After this fle went to live in Duke-street , wTiere his conduct wss Iff ? Wsterous and silly , while h £ mod ™ conducting himself m the street , and t . h » Zl ° l
Ji which he threvvhis arms about was so utt y at variance with the practice of a sane man , that thepolicehad long kept a watch overturn . ' Evidence for the defence amply bore out thft statement of the learned counsel The Atiornby-Generai . replied , after which the SStST * T " ? « 7 wta 4 and were t * SS « ™ ho **" , when they returned into Court « oSt ™ ' P astseven . ' eto ° k with . a verdict of Mr . Baron Aidersox , lna feeling ? » d . ress , sen . tenced he prisoner to be transport dftr goZ years , observing that it was only out of respect t » hu family that the . Court refrained from ordering him to be publicly whipped . ¦ B The prisoner , who remained unmoved to the last * was then taken away . "
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— ¦ «» ~— , ~~ DEATH OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNP ^ . THE DUKE oVcAMBRIDGK ni ^ Duke of Cambrid ge expired on Monday ^^^ p ^ JT ^ ^ Cambrid ge-house , July 8 th , 1850 . ^ IPISis ppSaSSs
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tad smano ? b 69 t n ^ 63 Ui 8 P ° S 8 i 6 l ° ° ™* tradesman ora man of affluence to procure for him . swL ^^'""^ be " good ox or heifer , sound , S ?? / reah ' ( M ' . * ow , or stag will not bo rei ceived , ) in fore and hind quarters alternately . " Themutton , too , must be « tho best weather mutton , SS ^ PP ' ' ^^ T ? Portions of foro and hind quarters ; and the bread be ¦ « the best wheaten " —Hampshire Independent ! ..: ¦ - . ¦
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 13, 1850, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1582/page/8/
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