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THE NO^THERI STAft. SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1838. ¦
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( Centinaed from our seventh pag * - ) Chief Magistrate for extraordinary capesandttoaer orcnmstairees of extraordinary difficulty and trouble for the Cblonr . Here are six gentlemen , at least ¦ who have cause to rue the day -when they became snbordmntes of Lord Gknelg- ^ -Sir Richard Bourk ' e , Sir Benjami n D'Urban , Major Henry Campbell , Captain Hindmarsh , tiord Gosford , and Sir Y . B . Head , Here are six Colonies , at least , in a state of het water . " Sorely , sir , my proposition as to the critical state of the CoVoniesind the incoropetency of Lord Glenelg cannot but be true . But let as jflroceed to farther proofs and . illustrations . _ Qur * lave Colonies—no , our apprentice Colonies—in the "West Indies , great and small , insular and
continental , Crown and-chartered , present & wide and Tv-ry productive firid of trouble , embarrassment , and danger . Sir ,-in aHuding to them I shall confine myself to subjects which come strictly within the terms ofmypreseatmofion , being ofpeculiar urgency at the present time ; nor shall I dwell on all of those suDJects . The subject of the gross violation of the Emancipation Act has been exhausted in the other House of Parliament , and Lord Glenelg , though rather late in the day . to be sate , has promised to submit to Parliament a measure for giving us that ir&ich -we thought we had purchased by . £ 20 , 000 , 000 of redemption money . I would ask what the colonial minister has done , or proposed , or thought of , in respect to two other matters
belonging to West Indian affairs , which , if he possessed the faculty of- attention , would urgently require its exercise . I allude to precautions against the time , 3 iow very near at hand , when there wiB be an end to all compulsory labour in the West Indies , and ¦ when the nogro inhabitants of our chartered eoloxdes wiH claim the right and the power to elect negro members to the local Parliaments . ( Hear . ) So long ago a * in January , 3836 , Lord Gleneig , " or some other person writing in his name , seems to have been struck with the great importance of the former of these subjects and even to have devised a sufficient means of preventing the apprehended evil . A great danger is plainly indicated , and the means of prevention asclearrf
pointed out . The danger is that the whole of the population of the West Indies should , as soon as xheyljecome entirely free , refuse to work for wages —should set Tip , each one by and for himself , on his own piece of land , and that thus capitalists slionld be leit without labourers , to the certain ruin of the industry of those colonies . ( Hear , hear , and load cheer . ) Sir , I for one have no doubt that in nil of those colonies , where land is excessively cheap , the apprehensions of the Nobl Lord will "befully realized ; but along with the expression of Us fears the colonial minister snggested a measure of prevention . u 11 will be necessary , '" he says , " to : fix such a price upon crown lands as "will place them out of tie reach of persons without capital ;"
and thisplan . of preserving labour for hire , t > y ineaps of rendering the acquisition of waste land more difiicult , was stroBslv recommended to Parliament by the committee to which 1 have referred . As the . plan could be' of no use whatever , uxlL-ss adopted some time before the total emancipation of th « apprentices , it will be supposed that the Noble Lord ias followed up his important dispatch by proposing some general and efficient measures founded on his own news and of those of the committee iu u uesiion . By no means ; the subject reuieins just where his dispatch left it in January . 1 $ 3 G ; as if . notwithstanding its great importance ! it had fairly slipped from the memory of the Noble Lord . Is " this a case of culpable n ' eelect ? Bat to this case of culpable
neglect I have now to add one , in reference to" the same subject , of culpable activity ; if the term activity may be applied to any proceeding of the Noble Lord . The planters are impressed , as was the Noble Lord in January , 1 S 36 , with the necessity of taking tome precautions aeaiust the year 3 b 4 O , as resp ^ cte the supply of labouring hands . They have devised a new kind of slavery , and \» new kind of shi \ e trade ; and this invention the NobL ; Lord has , by an order in council , dated ilarch 1 , lSo 7 , fully -sanctioned . This ord ^ r in council authorises-tle planters of Demnrara to import into thnt colony , to serve as "indenturedlabourers" I believe is the term employed—what class of people does the House imn * sice ? Englishmen or other Europeans who mieht
assert their rights as indentured laboure ; vrs ? " No ; ireed negroes from the Uoiited States , who , being ol the ssine race , and speaking the same language ss the present colonial population of British Gmana , " might be "indentured labourers'" without becoming slaves ? No ; but a class of people the most ignorant , the most strange , the most helpless , in all resper ' . s the most fit to become slaves under the name of "indentured labourers . '' They are called- " Hill Coolies . ' * The country from which they are to be imported , after being kidnapped , is the East Indies . In JVew South . Vt ' ales the same apprehension' of a "want of labourers { which , as I have already said , the Noble Lord might have prevented by expending the emigration fund , instead of keeping it locked up
3 n the public chest at Sydney ) has led to a smulur project for the importation of Hill Coolies . Tiiis attempt to establish s new kind of slavery was condemned by the late Governor , Sir R . Biraric iu a dispatch now before the Hou ? e . Should we not condemn the Noble Lord for having sincrioaed a similar attempt in British Guiana ? That new law of slavery—that piece of Colonial legislation , will surely be repealed , now that it has corns to the inowledge of the British public . But will this set up the Noble Lord as a statesman qualified to save the industry , the whole productive power of the Vest Indies from total overthrow in the year l >" The political prospects of the West Indies are not . less gloomy than those which relate to productive and commercial industry . In the chartered C \ lonie % above alL which possess " local representation , is it to he believed that the two races , the masters and the
slaves of yesterdav—to-day perfectly equal as to political right *—will sit down peaceably together in the same legislature ? Will not the blacks , as they may easily do , seek to obtain a majority in the local Parliament ? And will the whites- ^ -the " haughty masters of yesterday—quietly submit to what they Trill consider to be " so deep a degradation as beiig ruled by their recently emancipated slaves : Le : the < £ oesdon be answered ' by referring to the actual state of political opinion amongst the whites of Jamaica . If ever a Colony was rebellious at heart—if ever a Colony was in a state of dangerous excitement—this one is ! The whole of the West Indies , indeed , economically and politically , are in a most critical state . The state of the West Indies , having reference to 3840 , caEs especially for forethought —for precautionary measures . ( Hear , hear . )—-Are we to trust to the Noble Lord for such
measures of forethought—of precaution . ' Or , are we , so surely as we place any reliance on the Ixoble Lord ' s ergetic sagacity , to ' wait quiatly , nothing done—nothing proposed—nothing thought of , till 1840 is upon uir sir , may I not say that the Hoble Lord has neglected to take , and seems incapable of taking any precautions to render harmless the great revolution , economical , social , and political , which must happen in the West Indies two jears hence r Considering the near approach of 1840 , is it fair , is it just , is it commonly humane , towards our fellow subjects in the West Indies , who , be it always remembered , have no representation in this Bouse , to let the Noble Lord continue , fa . « t affcer , at the head of Colonial affairs ? The -question whicy
1 have submitted to the House are questions of "mere feet . I inquire not into the causes of the present critical state of Colonial aHrirs ; I have no concern on this occasion with the opinions of the Noble" Lord or iis colleagues , or of , any other person , on the su bject of Colonial policy , still less should I be willing to obtrude on the House any opinions of my own "with respect to subjects between which and tlie question at issne _ there is no kind of relation whatever . In proceeding , therefore , to say a few words on the condition of our North American province . * , I put aside altogether the difference between the Assembly of Lower Canada and the Colonial-office . 1 stop not to ask which has right or justice on its side , the office or the Assembl y . * With a Tiew to the motion before the House , 1 have not a "word to say about the resolutions of last year , or the act of this rear . ( Hear , hear . ) Against
l > oth of those measures I spoke and voted at the time , and should be ready to do so again on a fitting occasion . But , if both of these measures lad had my strenuous support , instead of my most determined opposition , such a course would not in the least have precluded me from submitting my presentmotion to the House . I have the honour o ' f addressing the House on a totally different question . And first , sir , as to the Noble Lord ' s manner of carrying into effect the policy of the Government towards Lower Canada . Need I recur , sir ^ to those ^ "wearisome despatches which have impressed upon * the country at large a conviction of the rfoble Lord ' s pre-eminent nnfitness for the conduct of difficult affairs ? 2 "» eed L , following a Noble Earl in the other House of Parliament { Aberdeen ) , count over again the long list of promises forgotten—of assurances merer fulfilled—of instructions which never arrived
until it was too late—of excuses for leaving Lord Gosford without instrnctions—of postponement without reason—of apologies and pretexts for delay . when promptitude was most requisite-K ) f self-contradic- ' turns , hesitations , meaningless changes of purpose , and other proofs of an inveterate habit of doing nothing r In fact , said the Noble Earl , " the system which the Neble Lord " went apon was that of " doing siothing . " Doing nothing reduced to a system ! This system of the Noble Lord" has much to answer for . Who wiQdeny that it was the main cause of the revolt and bloodshed in which it ended ? If the iecent _ accounts from Lower Canada make it appear , as I think they do , that the policy of the Government towards that country has fewer or less determined enemies there than -was lately supposed , yet those iaronrable accounts cast stfll heavier blame on the 2 ? oble Lord ' s extraordinary system—tending ,- at least , to show feat the most ordinary degree of decision and proicptinide would have prevemel the
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reroltaltogether . The easvsuppression of thefevplt however , by no means establishes that the eofet fiy is in so little a critical state as to be fit for A » VNoble Lord's peculiar system . So , again , of Upp ^ er Canada : does not that colony require , particularly just now , from the head of our Colonial Government , a system very different from that of the Noble Lord ? Is it probable—is it possible—is it in the nature of things , that the Noble Lord should so far change his second nature as to conquer th « habit of doing nothing ? But it may be said that the government of our North American provinces has been taken out of the hands of the Noble Lord , and confided to a Noble Earl who possesses in an eminent degree the personal qualities of ¦ which the Noble . Lord is most cons oicuously deficient . I have heard this
said , sir , but I cannot understand it ; I readily acknowledge the statesmanlike quantities of &e Noble Earl , whose personal character seems to qualify him , above most naen , for the performance of difficult and arduous public functions . Let me acknowledge the very striking contrast between the system of the Noble Earl and the habits of the Noble Lord . But what then ? From whom is the Noble Earl to receive , from whom has he already r eceived instructions ? To whom is he to make reports ? Who is to bring before Parliament the legislative measures the Noble Earl may propose ? Answer to all , the Noble Lord wedded to his system of doing nothing ? Does ^ t not , therefore , appearnot only foolish , but almost ridiculous , to make such a person as the Noble Earl subordinate to the Noble
Lord ? They had far better change places , for the system of the Noble Lord is one in -which subordinates canHot well indulge , least of all under _ such a chief as the Noble Earl ; and it is in the chief , the head of our colonial department , that the qualities of diligence , forethought , judgment , activity , and firmness arei most required . . Sir , I have detained the Honse too long , and will trouble them "with but a few words more . "Honourable Members , far better acquainted than I can pretend to be with the history of Parliament , "will confirm me in saying that this motion is fully justified by precedent ; but I will not rely at all on this justification . I rely wholly on the truth of my proposition , and the expediency of affirming it . This appears to me to be a case tor wliich we ought to make a precedent ,
if there be none to direct us in providing a remedy for the evil . Whatever may be thought of the motion , the case , I will venture to say , is without precedent . ( Hear . ) Were our colonies , ever since we e ^ iblished a central government for them , in so critical a state before ? When did so many and such grave questions press upon a colonial Minister ? Is thVre a single Member of the House who will say upon his conscience that the present colonial minister poisesses any one , or is not deficient in all , of the qualities mentioned in the proposed address to the Crown ? Sir , my proposition is true , and upon that I alone rely . lor if such a proposition be true , who will deny the oblijration upon us to provide an adequate remedy for the evil ? Sir , instead of searching after precedents , 1 point lo the millions of our fellow-snbjects who are unrepresented in this House ^ to the
great brunches of domestic industry which depend upon the well-being of our colonial empire—to New Sonfh Wales sinking into a state of depravity with its free emigration fund locked up in the government chest , and its oft-promised constitution withheld year after year—to the Mauritius , with its 20 , 000 " freemen , held in bondage by the insolvent and would-be rebel planters ^ -to South Africa , almost denuded cf its native inhabitiints , distracted by factions who agree in nothing but their curses of the Colonial-office and its horde of rebels , gone forih into the wilderness to conquer au inheritance of oppression over the helpless natives—to the " WJiite-man ' s-grave , " that job of jobs , which is rejoicing in the recall of a reionniiijr governor—to the West Indies , bordering vu the ruin of their industry , inventing a new slave-trade with the sanction of the .. Noble Lord , in order to counteract the Noble Lord ' s total
neglect of the mezns which he himself has pointed out as necessary to preserve the use of capital in these ferule hinds , grossly evading the Emancipation Act , lifter pocketing its enormous price ; and fc > t aj / proacLinjr the time when , without a single precaution with a view to that strange event , MHJ , tXJU negro slaves will , in one day , acquire the same political rights as their niiisters of auother i ^ ce ; and with the most important of these possessions in a state little short of open revolt—and , lastly , to the North American provinces , where open revolt has just been suppressed , where civil bloodshed has excited the passions of hatred and revenge , where a constitution is suspended and martial law is still in force , and where there is no prospect of peace , of contented allegiance , but . in
the prompt settlement of a great variety of questions of surpassing complexity and difficulty . ( Hear . ) I point to ai ] these colonies in a state of ( iisorganizaiion itnd danger ; and then to the interests at hi'iue which depen . i , more or less , on the productiveness of colonial industry—to Birmingham and Sheffield , to Lreds , Liverpool , and Glasgow—; md to the great colonial shipping port of London . This done , instead of searching after precedents , I would remind the "House of die Noble Lord ' s system , as described by his immediate predecessor iu office—tlie fatal system of doing nothing at all . ( H ^ ar . ) If truth and the public interest -are to prevail , the Hoi .-n' will surely accede to my motion , whether or not it be according to precedent . One word more , and 1 shall no longer trespass upon the
patience < fthe House . It has been suggested to me thatmy nmii < : n would have been Jnore likely to Le carriedif it Lad apph ' eJ , i : oi to a particular 3 i ember of the Government . but to the whole administration . Porthp followin ? reasons lhave not . listened tu that su « rge < rinn . The subject relates strictly to the Colonial Department , and I wish to confine myself to the subject . ( Hear . ) It may be true that the whole cabinet should lie held responsible for the errors of the Colonial office . That may he a good constitutional princi p le , but 1 am not aware of it . Not being aw ; ire of it , I have pursued the plain and simjile course of attributing to the colonial minister alone his own errors and deficiencies . The other conrse—that of proposing a vote of want of confidence in the Ministry on account of the state
of a single department—would have been far more agreeable to me in one respect , inasmuch as it would have relieved me fr' > m the suspicion—which , however , 1 trust that none who know me will entertain —of beine actuated by- personal hostility to Lord Glenelg . On that account alone I should have preferred moving for a vote as respects the cabinet ; but I feel that iny first duty is to place the subject before the House in the light best calculated to obtain their attention , and therefore have I confined to the Colonial minister the proposal of a vote of censure for matters which are exclusively of a colonial nature . Tie Honourable Baronet concluded by moving that an humble address should be
presented to her Majesty , respectfully stating that it is the opinion of this Honse that in the present critical stale of many of her . Majesty ' s foreign possessions in various parts of the world , it is essential to the well being oi her Majesty's colonial empire and of the many and important domestic interests which depend on the prosperity of the colonies , that the colonial minister should oe a person in whose diligence , forethought , judgment , activity ,- and firmness , this Housa and the public may be . " able to place reliance ; and declaring , with all deSereuce to the constitutional prerogatives of the Crown ,, that her Majesty ' s present " Secretary of State for the colonies does not enjoy the confidence of this House or of the country .
Mr . LEADER seconded the motion . Lord PALilERSTOS observed that it wouia 'be . necessary foT ^ hini to trespass a siiort time upon the patience of the -House . He ivst to vindicate an absent friend from an unjust and ungenerous attack ^ heere , ) and be rose also to defend the Government of vrh . ch he was a Member from an unfounded ind unmtjited cuuiplaiijt . In this country the Government was not an Administration of separate and distinct departments , Vut , as tvns ¦ ""ell known , the measures of every department were submitted to the consideration of the Cabinet and the Cabinet was responsible for all the ontlines of the policy of _ each department , though the execution of the measures might Test * ith the deparUnents themselves . He said , therefjre , that it was as an -act of the Cabinet he wished to meet and dispose of this question . He did not at all complain of this attack , or of the ci-urse whichthe Hon . Baronet pursued as being inconsistent with the principles of the constitution
or with Parliamentary practice . It wag , tmaoubtedly , quite competenj to any person who might feel no confidence in the eikting Government tu call the House to affirm and support bis opinions . ( hear , hear ); but in one . respect , at least , the Honourable Baronet had certainlv produced a novelty in Parliamentary practice , k was perlecuV natural that , when parties trere nearly balanced , the lea&er of a srrcat political partyin this conntrybeing some man who bv bjs former conduct had obtained the confidence of a larvfe portion of the community , and being surrounded b y friends who wonW be induced by his talents and experience to assist him in forming that Administration which was to be the substitute for the one they intended to displace—it was perfectly natural that , ' under such circumstance * , motions should % e made by the leader of the party objecting to the mode in which they carried en the public service , and having for their object the
dismissal of the Government at was desired to supplant . If , therefore , this motion had been submitted by tJie Right Hon-Baronet opposite , he should have been prepared to ^ gwe hiB reasons why he thooght it ought not to be adopted , bat he could mtke no objection to the quarter from whence it came . ( Hear . ) He would ltave the House to determine -wtelher tile motion they were now considering was one of that description . Heer , hear . ) He would not suggest the points of difference , bnt be begged to sav that motions of this Jrind did . not in his judement come with peculiar fitness from the quarter from which the present motion had emanated . ( Hear , near . ) The Hon . Baronet had gone through a long catalogue of Colcniee , on the administration of which he had made his -wmurks ; tut the charges he had brought f onvard were founded on circumstances which originated in a period long aateoedent to
that in which his Noble Friend undertook the Colonial-department ; and the Hon . Baronet , almost in so many words , said he did not mean this as an attack on the Govexnawnt . He must say , however , that he judged the motion -by the effect it would necessaril y produce , rather than J ? J the . disclaimer by which it vfaa accompanied . ( H « ax , hear . ) if the Honourable J 3 aronet asserted that his object was not . the dismissal of the government , he wonld ask him whether in his hoart he believed that his motion , if carried , could , have any other . result ? Did they suppose that the Gorejninent coild or would continue to administer the affair .- ? of tie « oiu > try if one of iU members -were declared to be unfit toluild that high trust ? Why , if they could be bo base asd -dishonourable this House would noi permit them to take such . * course . Xo House of Commons would allow a Government
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to itand if it could consent to one of their number t ) ecominp a scape-cost to carry off the censnreof Vtua House . ( Cheers . ) He would say that the Honourable Baronet had acted unfairl y by Lord Glenelg in making a motion agaitut him which ought to have been m » de against the Government as a body . There wbs nothing in either the public or personal charactej of Lord Glenelg that could afford the slightest excuse for so ungenerous and unhandsome an ttack . ( Hear , hear !) Ha . was a manj * boee talent * were admitted by all , the tendency of whose principle * m weB . known , and whose public services were entitled to . Brack gratitude . ( Hearyhear . ) He had beeeo the supporter of liberal principles in whatever department-of the GOTanunentitBaabeenhislqt to lilL When in Ireland be was , as he had ever shown himself in this house , tbe steady advocate of the -claim * of the then oppressed Roman Catholics ( cheers ) , and that was in » time when the advocacy of the Roman Catholic claims was not the load to politiealadvantaces . / Cheers . ) Whenat the Boord of Trade ,
first as vice-president , and subsequently as president , ne was a steady supporter of those liberal princip les of political economy which were advocated by hig eminent predecessor , Mr . Huskisson , who thereby brought down on himself the unmerited oloquy and malignant attacks of bigoted prejudice . ( Renewed cheers . ) Lord Glenelg , during the period he was President of the Board of Trade , wasthe framer and carrier through Parliament of that great measure which remodelled the government of our mighty empire in the East , and opened to the industry of the peopleof this country , the commerce of that vast district , peopled by 100 , 000 , 000 o human beings . And if that measure should , as he trusted it would , lead inTuture times to the establishment of an exteugirp commerce , when history should record tbe fact ; and the light of truth should be spread wide over those distant regions , it would be a matter of marvel that in the life-tune of the Noble Lord who was the framer and passer of that measure there was found in this House , and in the ultra-liberal section
of this House , a man who could propose to Parliament the adoption of a motion declaring the Noble Lord incompetent to conduct the administration of the colonial empire of this kingdom . ( Much cheering . ) He had said that there was nothing in the public conduct of Lore Glenelg but . what redounded to his honour—that there was nothing in his administration of the various important duties entrusted to him bnt what proved him to be eminetl y qualified for the sen-ice of thejjublic . He . thought , therelore , that the Hon . Baronet , in his anxiety to find a topit on which to found an attack against Government , had not been fortunate in his selection of the colonial policy of the Goveroment ; he thought that whether he acted on his own judgment , or whether he had been advised by ptrsons whemignt haveother view * , ( hear ,- hear ) , he had acted very unfortunately and erroneously . The very " head and . front" of . .. hi * charge now against Lord Glenelg was what ? Why , tho demoralized state of the penal colony of New South
Wales . So , forsooth , Lord Gleiielg was nnfit to conduct the Administration of the Colonies , because the settlers of New South Wales had not yet attained to the perfection of apg « ls ! If the Hon . Baronet would get rid of the evils existing in that Colony , he should propose an inSprovement in the law , for it was tne law of this counter , and not the administriition of the Colony under the law , that added to the demoralisation of which he complained , ( Hear , hear . ) Really he could not go through all those topics of a personal and desultory character in which the Hon . Baronet had indulged , and with respeat to many of which he was most completely mistaken . He represented that persons had been allowed to re ' main , by Lord Glenelg . who had been actually removed ; he represented measures to have been taken bv the Ni . ble Lord which he had prevented ; he representfid tfie Noble Lord as idle aud inactive , when he was busy and fully <> ccupied ( cries of hear , and laughter from the opposition benches ); he repres- 'ntt-d him as indifferent to the intere . sts of the aboriginal
inhabitants , thouch . at " the very moment ' that he made the charge he had in tils hand the Teport of a committee which declared that the " policy of the Government had bet'n every , thing that was humane and deserving of apprubation on thfir part ( Hear , hoar . ) He referred to New Zealand , and said that no steps had been taken by the Government for -affording to the settlers of New'Zealand that protection to which thev were entitled . Did not the Hon . Baronet know thnt that subject had occupied the ; ittont : un if the Gok-rnuiont for some time past , that there- had b < "cn cnmiaunicatiows " relative to it almost withont end ; and that it was not . owinjf toany inattention on the part of the Goverument , but to the inherent difficulties of the case that arrangement !! luid not been made for the attainment of the object - 'desired ' . ' The Hun . Baronet then went to theMauritius , and riMiiiinifd thi * House that in lislO the Mauritius was in ; i ilistxirWd state . ( A laugh . ) He said that when slavery existed , the dluve trade -was curried on in the Mauritius . Why , the fact * lie adduced us a uruuud
of imputation on the Colonial policy ' of Lord ( ilenelg carried in thenigelves the most complete refutation , because ' that' of which he complained took plate before LnrJ 'tili-nelg w ; is entrusted , with the AdminLstr . ition of the Colonitil alT . iira . He would say further that were formerly there w ; is Uis- > atw !'; iction there no-. v prevafled content . ( Ilear ^ hear ;) Tlie Hunoiu-. ible Baronet complained also of the state of affairs at the Ciipe . If there was a colony which he ( Lord l'alnierstoii ) would mention as particularly enabling him to tefute the Hun . Baronet ' s charge , he would name thnt very colony . Tho-lloni Biir ' t . could not but be aware that the disturbances at the C ; ipe resulted from the encroachments of the settlers , which led them into constant collision with the natives , and ' . thosc ei . croacbiuents had been put an end to by the the enactments of the guvernment . AYhen , too , tlwllon . Bart , told them of the emigration of those people who lmd gone ' eastward , he beagt-d to reply that the reason they tf ) ck their departure was because they weTe-prevent . yl from continuinir that svsteni ( if
peripfntion against the aborigines who , ( he Hon . Bart , said , ought to be protected . - Why , he began by dewcribinir ; tin " conduct of tlie Dutch , as if Uieir having pursued a . system of encr < f ; tchiiiint iipon the natives was enough < o prove Lord Gleneljr ' s unntn-.-ss to reinain the CoIuiiiiirSecretiiry . Then hf stated that affairs at > ierr ; i Leonp did not g <> i > n to In * liking . He , however , himself , admitted that n . i Maine w ; is on that acronnt . iniputable to Lord Gledelg , The Hon . Bart , next complained of the recal of certain governors . Did ho suppose that they were to remain in the colunies all t ' . ieir lives ' Did he not know thai they were only cxpscted to tit ; iy a certain period ? } n some of the cases Tn which there li ' ad bi'en a recal the governors had per formed tb-ir period "f servic-e ; in otheis thev were recalled before tlv . i expiration of the full time ; but did the Hun . Bart , suppose that in so extensive a system as that of our colonial establLshnients differences would not occur without , iterluips , involving any j'l'rsimal Lla : ue to either party , in which the Ouvorniiu'iit . lo < ik'ing to the interests of Uip colony , would iiinl it necessary to ilisjieiisu with the ser > -ices of the govern-jrV ( Hear , hoaJ . * } Tlie Hon . Bart , had said that no arrangcnien't had-bei'u made by the Government to provide for the state of Jamaica at the tiinu when the j « -riud vi apprenticeship unuld expire : he . was
entirely misuiken as to that fact . ( Hear . ) lie h : id here spoken on a subject on which he hud no -. uleijuatc infoTiii ; iu > mhe ought to know that the Governiiieiit hail been collecting the information thnt was necessary to the linnl proceedings ; and , so far from the subject havinu' escaped their attention it had in fact very much occupied their thoughts . The Honourable Baronet then ]> r < ceeded to Canada . If he were to name any one p . . hit on which lie would vest the vindication of the colojfial policy of the Government , hi' would mention the case of Canada . " . { Limeliter from the <) pp-is ' itioii benches and ch-vrsfrom the ministerial . ) Wlint had hapj * ned ? Wluit was the state of thy CanadasV Why , did any mun cTippose—wa 3 any uu-n so itfhurant—v , ere . even the Honourable gentlemen' opposite , wiio had utteinled to what livid p-assed vil tliis subject ui the deV . iti's in 'this House , vi ' ere they so iiinorant . as not to know that tlie dissatisfaction : in Canada ilid not date its origin from the period , when- Lord Gleuel ? took -i- 'flice : ( t'hee-rs . ) How . mnsi bis NoWe Friend the Member for North Lancashire ( Lord , Stanl « y ; . iiave blushed at that laugh . ( Hear , h ^ r . ) llow must he ' have , felt the derj-, the p- ^ ss ignorance of his friends on this subject . ( Renewed cheering , } when they supposed that the complaints of the Canadians nriirinateil at the time cf the appointment to cilice of Lord Gltmelir . H <> mi » ht unhpsitutiiiitlv- ilei-lare
that tlie dissatisfaction had been in one province entirely removed , aud in thp other it had bi'Cii greatly diiniiusheiT . The events of the last few months in Canada proved ,- in the most coutestible manner , the wi- > lum of the administration of her Majesty ' s Goveninv « nt tWto . ( L-, vw ; Yite , -. mA cries of oh , oh ! ' from the opposition side ol the House . ) Why , there had been a revolt , anil how was that revolt put down . Some of the French in Lower Canada took up tiriiis , aud thev were supported in their insurrection by the fjrcu t mass I ' fthtf t ' rench in that conutry ? Ou the contrary , diil ili ? y not remain firm and loyal to their soveri-ien , und w ' : is : not that » proof that they felt that their connection with this country was ihore deiiruble than separation ? But what hatl hajipened in Upper Canada was a stronger proof that there had been a proper administration of the affairs of that col ' iir . Only a a snort dine ago the province in gues . tiun was in a . state o'f extreme discontent—it was bordunng onrevulutinn ; the supplies were refused ; the machine of Government was almost
mterruptpd ; and if only a syark had fallen on the inflammable materials which abounded in th « colon ) ' the result mast have betfn most deplorable . [ Hear ,. ] What had ' b ' a-pp ' eiied ? - A few desperete mfn had attempted , in the tirst place , to take the ciipital of the province ; they were repelled' by . the inhabitants without the aid of n . single soldieT of the line . [ Hear , hear , ^ nd loud cheers . ] A band of foreign invaders was repelled on the Eastern confines of the nrbviuiVa . by the Canadians themselves . " A' similar attempt . 'had been made in the West , and was attended with aiinilar results . He would say , then , thata province that had acted so nubly as the province of Upper Canada , there having existed there extreme discontent , did give proof that the Administration of the Colony must have been deserving-the approbation of Parliament . ( Hear , hear . ) In his judgment the Hon . Baronet had utterly failed in adducing any ground on which he could propose t <> the House a . resolution of censure against the Government . Speaking of tlie state of our Coloni-s
gentrally , he would say that so far from their condition afford : ing any proof that the system of Administration had been faulty , it afforded ample evidence that it had been wise and proper . The Culonies , t-aken as a ' whoW i were prosperous and tranquil , with the simple exception of that which nad lately occurred in the provinces of Canada , and there no ground existed for the attack : of the Hon . Baronet . How hud affairs stood in New . Brunsiwick and " Nova Scotia ? They were in a state of discontent little short of that which had existed in Canada . What was their state now ? They were perfectly satisfied and perfectly loyal . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) He , therefore , contended that the very statements ' - ' "of the Hon . Baronet—the very instances he had quoted—so far from justifying the motion he had made , ought to be taken as evidence against it . If the Hon . Baronet ' s motion -were brought forward for the direct purpose of accomplishing the removal of her Majesty ' s Government , it was htting that the House should understand the question on which they were going to
vote > and that they should see what were the consequences to which that vote was to lead .. Didtho Hon . Baronet propose , as it was almost to be { inferred he did from something that dropped ; from him in the course of his speech , wherein he said it didj not follow that because the present JGovernment was removed the Hon . Gentlemen opposite were to come into office . Did the Hon . Baronet mean—he presumed he did not —that it was possible he might be required to steer the vessel of the state ( hear , hear , and a laugh ?) Why , that might be thrown out as a sort of jeer , no doubt , but then the Hon . Baronet had followers . He ( Lord Palmerston ) did not know ther number , ( Hear , hear , and a laugh , ) and he had yet a point or two to settle with them , ( hear , hear . ) for some ol his doctrines of colonial policy were not quite such as were entertained by some of the . Hpn ; Gentlemen who would vote with him to-ni « ht . He wan , however , sure the Hon . Bart , did not wish the House to suDpese that if his motion were carried he was ready to take en himself the conduct of the affairs of thecountry . The Hon . Gent , opposite , then , ¦ would be , they must be , the parties who were to succeed the existing Government , and that being so he would ask the House whether , in the present' state of the country , whether , with " reference to the affairs of Canada or Ireland
they would have a chance of couducting the public business withadvantage to the country or with credit to themselves . As regarded Canada , he was sure : it would be admitted that things mi ght be done by the present Government which would not be accepted equally well by some of the Hon . Gents , opposite . It was true that the revolt was put down , hut much remained for them to do to establish tranquility and content in the provinces ; and he did not think that persons who were dispssed to . take the views which the Hon . Gents , before him were in the habit of taking , would be-as able as he and his honourable colleagues were to bring die aflairs of these colonies to a satisfactory arrangement . But did they imagine that they could govern Ireland . ( Cheers *) Must that House believe that these . Hon . Gents , could carry on the aflairg of this country with Irelandin a state of discontent , and which was now in peace bnd tranquih ' ty . ( Cheers , and cries of "Oh , oh ! " from opposition Alenibers . ) "VI hk they to pacify Ireland by a system of administration which marked its course and carried on its Government by the " Kentishfires . "' ( Theconclusionof the sentence ira * lost iu loud cheers . ) Perhaps the Hon . Baronet looked to a ' mixed aoministration ( hear ); to that which was called on the Continent a government of fusion . ( Laughter . ) Perhaps the Honourable Baronet might think that , wh " en he
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had tfiuinphedi , lieand-the Bight Honourabie Baronet the Meinierfpr . T 8 m Worfli niight meet upon the field of rictory and then divide tlie spoil ( cheers and laughterj- ^ or possibly his Noble Friend the Member for North Lancashire might beassociated with thfiui to make nj > the triumvirate . '/ ( Cheers : ahdlaughtiir , ) . But vfhat , cur ious : sacriflces must not the members of this triumvirate be called nport to make , for on no principle could they act together ! The . Houonrable Baronet would , be obliged ; taiurrenderIreland .-to Orange domination . ( Cheers . ) The " . ¦ 'Ri g ht- Honourable Baronet and his Noble t'riend ttie Member for ¦ 'North ' LancashiTe woiild . have to give up theiropposition to the ballot-box , and to abandon 'Canada , to the tendet mercies of Mr . - '; Papinean :. . and his : ally Mr . Alackenrie . ( Cheers . J How then were those patties to act ? Canada and Ireland were alike to be abandoned for the sake offollowing in / Westminster the example of
Jlarvlehone . , ( Loud cheers ;) For ; the sake of securing ' union of tlie two extre . ihes ' thev were to declare . themselves against the only question upon which men could act with ' 'fairness- ^ nd justice to the two countries . He said"that the motion of the Honourable Baronet , if well founded , ' was misplaced on the question of ( . Junada , and he must add . that it waa hot' only unfounded , but also unseasonable . Why did not the Honourable Bnrunet purpose the renioral pfthe present Government before the Canada . Bill was passed . ' Hear , heat , and loud cheers . ) Why , if the Honourable Baronet thought that the governniflnt was unlit to administer colonial affairs in ordinary tinips ^ y why did he invest the same Government with the dictatorial powers that had been conferred b y tjiat bill . ( Hear . ) The Hon . Baronet the Member for Leeds might say that he bad opposed the ^ bill—he knew ' that th « Hdnourablc Baronet had done so ; but then let them see in what
contradiction he had involved himself . The ! Honourable . Baronet chose to oppose the bill when he knew that he had not a hope of prevciitinjif its pasaingv Did . he n _ 6 t see Honourable Gentleint'n opposite support tlie bill ? ' Did -he not find them to state that the bill had their support ? if the- Honourable Baronet wanttsil to prevent the bill from passing , why not propose the renioval of the Government before the vote had pas-sed ? -He did no such thiriff ; but while the vote was pending he . opposed | the bill arid left the Government unassailed and , now that ! the bill had passed , he left the bill alone and attacked tlie'Government ! [ Hear , hear , hear . ] He allowed the workmen' to ? nnwh the work , and , when it was cohluded , then he would remove the workmen without venturing- to tbach the work . ¦[ He ar , hear . ] But then he said he wou \ d plaw them in better hands . In : whose hands was he about to plac /> the executive powers ? Why , he was about
to place his executive powers in the hands of nien of whom hcliad stateil . hot four months ago ,. ' that the prospect of their accession to office was » black and dark prospect indeed . [ Loud and continued cheering . ] . He coulu not but siiy that siicli a course as that " pursued by the Hpn . Baronet was one that was perfectl y inconsistent ( hear , ) and he must tell the Hon . . Member , for Leeds , that if lie were ! ambitious of becoming the leader of a party , he must at least improve himself in a knowledge and practice of-Parliamentary stratagenis . ( Laughter . ) He : said , then , that it would be a task of -a superi'rogatipn in hiin to attempt to refute charge * which had , in ( act , refuted themselves .. " ( Hear , hear . ) He Said that they ( the Government )^ considered-this as a motion plainly and avowedly for the jremovnl of the Govennen t ( hear , ) and they would notacce . pt it as a iiiotioni only its against Lord ( ilcnclir srngl )' - ( Hear , hear . ) -He would not meet the
motion bv any indirect cpurse—Hsuch sis by moving " the previous question" ( cheers , which ' . were- responded to bv Memljers en the opposition benches . ) He left that to others . ( Cheers from opposition Membera . ) tie should numt it with a plain and simple-negative . ( Loud cheers . ) He should meet it with a plain ; iiid siiiipln negative , iis a motion simpl y * p lainly , and unequivocally calling upon thnt House to declare that it had no ¦ confidence in her Majesty ^ present Government . ( Hear . ) He begged of the House thus to treat the motion and- thus to view it in its true and proper litrlit . ( Bear , hear . ) Whutvycr the ( U ; ci » ion of the "House niiuht V > e , let it be iiiade upon its n ? al grounds , and jet it not bo carried awavoy any . falso impressions which the -Honourable Baronet had endeavoured to create . That ni'itiun w ; is , directed itirainsf tins bodv . thoucli it jniflit bo said it-Was only meant
as against the individual ; that inilividual had been selected as a Victim for " an ' unjust ami unfounded attack , ami the body fo whieh Ue beUmged could ' . hot bvi aUmvud to rciuaiii aftor their colleague had fallen under tlit » . uiinieriti'il ami innleserved censure of that house . ( Choers . ) He bepceil to conclude by statiiitr that it was his intention to vote against the motion . The Hon . Bamnt't u'ished . ' t-lie- house to come to a direct vote He-to avoir ! that » li « nil ( l not have recourse to any-of those Parliamentary moans which the Htm . Baronit seemed to expect he wuuUl resort to- ^ he slionlil simply and jilainly way " no " tothivllon . Membor ' s address . ( Cheers . ) After a lew words ironiMr . Hall : . . ' . ¦ Lord SANUON stated that hi ; ' thought Lord Palmfrston had put thw ([ uestion on its ri ^ ht footing . He had heard nothing iipiiust Lord OU'iielg that did il . ot apply enually to the Oovfrnincnt a . s whole . Ho moved nil nii > en > lmp " n (—
" That nn humble address be presented . to her Majesty-, expressing to her Majesty pur deep recVet that the trah-<| iullity of her Miijeatvu provinces of Upper . and Lower C ' anudik' should have been -disturbed by the . wicked and treasonable designs of ilisitflected parties in those provinces , by which uiaiiy of . the . inhabitants- - -h" nviv bern sell iiced into opposition atrainst the -aiithorit ^ of Iht Miijesty . To assiir .- her -Majesty that we have iibservi'iwitli the utmost satisfaction tho . zeal and tWelitv which have animated the loval inliabitanta ol' her Majesty ¦'» North American ; provinces , atjdthat w ' e cordially ' ri'joicp-in . the succi-s ^ . which -has at tendril h .-r Majesty ' s regufar troops , comljinetl with the services of thp liiynl inhabitants . To rtwiiri : her Majesty of onr coiitiuued At'terimi titiiiii to aid her Mnji'nty in every effort ivhich «) ie ma ' v be calli ' tl m'dii to make , for the suppri's .-jion of revolt , and tlie .-complete restoration of tranquillity in those province : ; , and professing at the same time our desire to iifl ' onl reilrei-s' to every real grievance , ami to take such measures as shall promote the donstitutional
Government of tlio . se provinces , and ' shall best wcure *> rder ami tranquillity , and p'pmott ! the real interests of -sill hex Majesty ' s aubji'cts . Humbly to represent-to her Myijesty that it iippiNirsi on consiileriiiir thi ! ilpcuments and the correspondence relating to her Majesty ' s North Ahifricaii province * which her Majesty -has been graciously pleased to l : iy before this Housi-, that it is the opinion of this House that the defiance of her Majesty ' s authority , which has leil to ii violent rebellion , and uiesu . speiuliujj of the Constitutional 'Government iu Lower Canada , are in a great degree , to be attributed to the want of foresiijlit ' and oin'rgy on tin ; part of her Majesty ' s confidential advisers , iiiid to tho aiubijiupiut , irresolute , ami * dilatory coursp which has been pursued with respect to thesttlYuv * ill" Camilla since their- ' uppuintmtniit to ofliccc . " Mr . L . \ 1 W ) . ITHKHK replied to Lord SANDON vLprd . STAN-¦ I . KV aiul Sir Cih \ RLF . s GRKV rejuiiiod ; after which on tho uiiitiun of iMr . ] lROTl ( KRTOX , the debute . w ; v » then adjourned till to-morrow ; and the house adjourned at ; i quarter to one o ' clock . .
HOUSE OF LORDS . TUESDAY , March C . jn a lonsr , powerful , and eloquent speech . Lord BEOUGHAM moved the Order in Council of July , 1837 , [ authorizing the importation of " Hill Coolies ! "'into the . West--India . Shive Colouies , ] was improper j inexpedient , and ought not to have been issued . Lord GLENELG and MELBOURNE set up a hotibling defence ; and the Duke of WELLIISCr-TON pulled them out of the scrape , by moving the previous question ; which was carried by a majority of two .
HOUSE OF COMMONS . AVEDXESDAY , Mauch 7 . After the presentation of various petitions the adjourned debate on Sir Wm . -Mqlesw-or ' th ' s motion being resumed Mr . Leader in a very long , eloquent , and . argumentative speech , replied to Lord Palmerston , following the Noble Lord through every single point of his speech , exposing ' all his sophistry , and placing the question again on its right footing before the House from which it had been cunningly diverted by the preceding speeches . After another debate extending through 17 columns of the Times , Sir W withdrew his motion and allowed the House to be divided on the Amendment of Lord Sandon , when the humberg were—For Lord Sandon ' s proposition ... . 287 Agaitvst it .......,.............. 316 Majority in favour of Ministers .. —^ 29 The H . ouse tlien adjourned at a quarter-past three o ' clock . .
The following analysis of the absent and quiescent Members , taken from the Times , added to the divk sion above gives the feeling of the whole House . The pairs on Sir W . Molesworth's motion were as follows :- — . * ¦ . '¦ Conservatives . Whig ^ Radicals . Archibald , M . Chapman , M . L . Bailey , J . Pbtter , R . Clivti " , Tiscouht Jervis , J . Cresswell , C , Erie , W . Cartwright , T . Hector , C Cooper , E . Martin , P . Kelly , F . Talfourd , : T :. N . Ray . Sir W . Edwards , Colonel Ramsey , Lord Hallyburton , Lord D . TyrelljSirJ . Heron , Sir R . Pollock , Sir F . _ Phillpotts , J . Conservative Members absent from illness and
unavoidable engagements :- ^ - Barnes , SirE . ( ill ) Lowther , Hon . H . Blatemore , R . ( ill ) Owen , Sir J . Burdett , Sir F . ( ill ) Stormont , Lord ( ill ) Dugdale . W ; S . ( ill ) Yerrion , C . H . ( ill ) Foxy G . L . ( ill ) Wall , C , B .: Ker , D . Wilm 6 t , SirE . Lowther , Lord County of Rutland vacant . "WhigTiladicalsi absent from illness and other causes : — Conyngham , Lord A . ( ill ) Moreton . A . Johnson , General Wilkins , W . Members who did not vote . Molesworth , Grote , Leader ;
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YORKSHIRE LENT ASSIZES . ' ¦ ' ¦ " *?* ¦ ¦ - ' ' . ' . " . - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦'¦ ' . . ( Continued from our seventh page . ) HIGHWAY ROBBERIES . DENNIS HIGGINS , 20 , wais charged along with IvAVIS , who ip leaded guilty , with having on the 28 th of July , at Galveney , felonionsly stolen from the person of Thomas Johnson , £ 212 s , 10 d ., two handkerchiefs , nnd other articles . ; Mr . 'BAiNp ( with whom was Mr . Read . ) stated the case for the prosectition . Mr Jphnson wsts an innkeeper at Bradford Moor ; arid on . tbe 28 th of
July ? he Avas returning from Fudsey at night . When between : Calvprley Road Bar arid his own home ., he vfjfe'tavocked dovn by a perfiOn yrhom he identified as Davis , who came from tbe hedgb bottotn , together -with thes other four men . -They ' : / rifled-. ' : his ' pockets , and took away the money arid handkerchiefs mentioned in the indictment . In September last , the p risoneriras searched , and Mr . M'Wrie . the constable (| for RothsMre , found a silk handfaerchief about hia neck , ; Yrhich was Jsent to Mr . Briggs , the constable of Bradford , and identified as one p i the handkerchiefs stolen from the prosecutor , bv himself
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and Ellen Johnson , whet heminedSthe handkerehief ; About the time of this robbery , the prisone rs * who had been previously working together at Varley ' s factory ^ at Stanriingley , left their sernce ^ For the defence ^ ( the prisorier called witnesses to shpw that the handkerchief .. bad been in his posession some months before the robbery , but they failed hi doing so .: "' - ' . ' ¦ " ' . Th ^ Jfnry found the prisoner Guilty , on which Higgins exclaimed , By the living God , I ' m not . " Judgmejit of death recorded , ¦ MATTHEW DAVIS . was then indicted with having * on the 2 nd of August last , feloniously assaulted James Meredith , of Headingley-curii-Bierley , sihd ' stolen ; frorii hisiperson a watch , tobacco-box , ink-bottle , and otherarticles .
Mr . Baines and Mr . VVasnev conducted the prosecution , arid called the following witnesses ^ --JcLpies Meredith' , the prosecutor , stated that on Wednesday , the 2 nd of August , he was at Leeds ; apd on returning home , about eleven o ' clock at night , two men came 'behind him ; struck him a violent blow on the temples , and . ' knocked him down , by which he was rendered useless , \ yhen lie came to himself , two persons were kneeling upon his breast , andhe said if they would let him alone , he would give them his money . They threatened that if he resisted they would blow his : brains , out ; orie of them sriapping his pistol , preseriting itj arid telling him to look to himseltV After taking the articles
mentioned in the indictment , a cart was heard , and the men ran away . He then got up , and went to Leeds ,: where he gave informationi to the police . Michael Barrows snid that on the night of the 3 rd August , ' . 'he was returning from Bradford , together with Mr . Wheater , Mr . Kettle well , arid some other gentlemen . When on Calyerley Moor , they ' observed two men on the field side oi" the hedge . Witness asked what they were doing , but receiving no reply , he got over the gate , aud one of them said it lie went . nearer they would blow his brains out . He took up a stone , and the men ran away . They were then pursued , and the prisoner was taken . This evidence was corroborated by the rest of the
part who stated that the prisoner had something short in his hand , but they could not swear it was a pistol , and that a watch and inkstand were fouud m his possession , which-, wore clearly identified by the prosecutor . The prisoner made no defence , when the Learned Judge summed up , and the Jury returned a verdict of . Guilty .. On judgment of death being recorded iigainst him , the Judge said he would be cdnipellud to work in the chain-gang iu a distant country , to expiate his many crimes . JOHN PARKER , ' -27 , was charged with having , on the 3 rd of September , stolen sixteen sheep , belonging to John Preston , Esq . of Gigglesworth . . Mr . D . Duxdas and Mr . Staasfiuld conducted the case for tin ;' prosecution . '
It appeared from the evidence of Joseph Parker , the-servant . o . f the prosecutor , that on the 2 nd of September , nineteen sheep were left-in afield near Settle , ha \ iug tlie near ear . cut ,-. ' and marked with the letter O ; they were horned ,, and some of them had the foot rot . They were afterwards seen between . Sawley and Gisljrow , on the Skiptou Road , with : Several " others , which a miui named Hitchin was driving . The sheep were purcliased by him of Mr . Jplin \^ addilove , a butcher , at Bolton-le-Moors ,
who su : « re that he bought them at SkijJton Fair , on thv' 4 tli of' SeptWmbtT , of the prisoner-. In his defence , the . prisoner called Geo . Tliomiison , a-turn key at York Castle , who stated that the witness could not identify the prisoner when-amongst several others , but said that the person of whom he bought , the sheep wns like the prisoner . The Learned Judge hnving dimmed up , the J" > jry immediately returned a verdict of Guilty . To be transported * for-life . The Court then rose at live o'olork .
THURSDAY , March 8 . Before Mr . Justice Colekidge . R 0 DBERY OF THE Hi'nnEUSnr . LD 'BAX ' K-. GEORGE ATKINSON , ' 22 , JOHN IIAYLEY , 22 , JOHN THORNTON , 30 , and JOSEPH DODSON 3 ] , wore charged with having , oii tne 21 st of April , broken and entered the dwelling-housii of Mr . George Hall , and stolen an iron safe , containing in notes , gold , and silver , the large sum of £ 1840 , belonging to tho 11 udders field Banking Company . ; Mr . Sergeant At < hkrlev , Mr . BAixts , arid Mr . Adoli'ijus conductetl the prosecution ; Mr . D . Dun da ' s and Mr . Bliss defended the prisoners ;
Mr . ( : ' cur / , e Hull stated that he was clwk to the Huddersrield Banking Comuanv , mid on the 21 st of April carried on a Branch Bank at Brighouse . On the night of the robbL-ry , he placed the niouey in question in a tin box , wliich he locked with a . small padlock , and put it in the iron safe , which was kept under the Bank counter . There was .. £ 393 ' hi Bank of England notes , £ 2 ' 67 in gold , £ 2 $ in . diver , and ^ 945 in Iluddersfield iBank notes , and drafts and bills to the amount of upwards of £ 250 . Previdus to going to bed , lie locked and bolted the first floor ,
but left the door into the passiige ' . o [; wi , th ' at . --lie ' mig ; . it hear the better if-any person came . Early in the morniug , he received some information which , induced him : to go down stairs . He tluui found the passage door dosed , but the Bank door was open . He went , according to the direction of soiae boys , and found the safe about 1-5 . 0 yards up the laueleading towards Hipperholirie . lie . found it broken , - '« fec . sledge-hammer and wheelbarrow left near it , with which it had been broken and taken away . —Crossexamined : The whole amount they found was ¦
£ 70 . : . ' Mr . John Litml , a clerk in the Stamp Office , London * produced a copy of the partnership deed of the iluddersKeld Banking Cynipany , which was read by the Clerk of tlie Court . _ ( jwrge Luncasicr resides at Brighousp , and-at the time . of the -robbery slept about iOOyards frorii the Bank . About half-past four o ' clock , in the morning , he went into the Lane , and then saw aii iron safe broken open , with , a hammer laying beside it ; and a wheelbarrow thrown over a wall into a field occupied by John King ; -mid there were the marks
leading from the Bank to that field . He then went to the Dank , where He found that a p . annej had been cutout of the door , which was not quite closed He then called of Mr . Hull . —Crois-examiued : It was rather a dark night . ¦ ; fVilliam Broadlcy , a labouring man at Brighotise , stated tliut ' on the morning in question , lie found a mistal at the top of Brighouse Lane . lie saw a billon the ground , and James Day , who was with him , picked another up . They also found a tin box , which they took to ; Mr , Hall , at the Bank . Mrs . Sara / t Hull corroborated this fact .
James Stolt , keeper of the Gaily toll-bur , which is near the Batik , stated that between two and three o ' clock in the morning , luvlie ' arl some person knocking against a cart , which was near the . place . James Lister knew Thornton , and remembered seeing him shortly after Christmas , 1836 , at his ( Continued in our eighth page .
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A "Water Drinker , must excuse us , we have not room . T . E . A . 'is as contemptiLle as his doggerel is , or he would not have cheated us by sending it unpaid / to say nothing of the robbery of time in reading his rubbish . John M'llquham's verses are so beautiful" that we couldnot'think of exposing them to the vulgar gaze . J . H .-r-The Lines to a Snowdrop'" will not do . J . S . of Wigan is right . We shall treat his coinr inunication with as much contempt as he can desire .
Robert Dibb ' s verses next week . John Beaumont ' s explanatory letter has hcen received and is quite satisfactory . He thinks himself entitled to reasonable indulgence : ice arc of the sanie opinion , but we receive letters from so- many correspondents that the most reasonable arrangements we can make may probably appear unreasonable to some . Mr . Beaumerit ' s letters shall both appear at the earliest possible opportunity . We have a long arrear of Correspondence which we hope to bring up shortly . Delta has our thanks for his good wisJies , but we
cunnot insert his letter . We think the Society of Friends commendable for their consistency in the matter to which he alludes . We hope the Town Mission , he so highly taxids , may be productive of good , but we greatly doubt it . If we had considered its ? nerits a proper subject for Newspaper discussion , we should : have inserted a communication tliereon , which was sent to < us ' some weeks ago , bearing the real signatures o f several respectable , individuals . Having rejected that , tiije shall certainty not insert the anonymous communication of ^ Delta , ;
Charles , Doncaster . The paper contahimg Zawson ' s letter is forwarded , together with one of the present date . If any of Lawspn ' s ^ -statements , can be contradicted we shall gladly open oicr columns for a , refutation . Fair pluy is- " Qur-. motto-j-. and heartily as we detest t / ie New Poor Law , tve will never combat it by subterfuge cfr falsehood . Sealing Wax . JVewish our correspondents would le less sparing of this necessary article . We have this week received tvbo letters ^ one from Edinburgh and one from BRpUTE ^ E ^ opetijivith scarcely a vestige of wax oh them . Hoio is ~ it ' . ? ; The address of pur Edinburgh friends and their excellerit petition shall appear next ivcefc We are sorry to be obliged to postpone it .
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John Rather . We' cannot insert the petition . If allI thepetitionsseifi for insertion were put in . we should fill the paper with nothing else . ]/) . .. r ; Our Correspondent pulled its all with the Leeds Leather Fair . We hope he will , in future write more intelligibly . . ^ / - * The letters of Hit , ROOm and Mr . Jairies Kob&feen -are in type ; but we are obliged to displace them for want of room . They shall ' appearnegt week . . . ¦ - ¦ ¦ - " . .- .- ¦ : . ¦'¦ - ¦ ¦¦¦ ¦ :. .- " ¦• .. ¦ ¦ .. ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ . : ¦¦¦
We can give no information Vo Thomas Dickinson ahut the monies collected for the Canadians We have no doubt that the parties who got up the subscription will readily account for their application of it .. We cannot insert Mr . i > . ' s letter . The ^ Northern Star is- no vehicle for personal attacks . We have no doubt that if he applies to Mr . Busseyi he will at : once get the information he seeks . . . \ " .- ''; . . ¦¦ •; - ' - ' : ¦ : ¦ "¦'¦ , ,, - ¦ - '¦¦ Onr several Agentsiwill ' greatly oblige us by
sending their orders so as to reach pur Office on Thursday ' evening at latest ; our increased circulation re ? iders this arrangement necessary . The Bradford Beersellers are desirous of enquiring ¦ ¦ whether ' , it is equally laudable anxiety on the part of the magistrales to improve the morals of the people which causes them to permit the Licerised Victuallers to keep open their houses throtigh the whole night , and'to be tenaciously exact in th closing of the Beer-shops . .
We are not aware when the Leeds Bee uellershold their meetings . Mr . 0 ' Connor is ready t 6 see the Bradford Delegates of Beersellers whaiever they please . ^ About ' fifteen minutes before we went to press , the Hitddersjield news parcel arrived . The conse-. ouence of which is , that not a word of it can appear . ' .. .- ';¦ -..-. ' ¦ .
Mr , O'Connor and the Wor&ing Men's Association . Mr . O'Connor begs to return his best thanks to the Associations ofBurnsley , Worsbro ' , and other places which have ' sokindlyaddressed' him ^ with reference to the attack of the London Working Men ' s A ssociation ; and Mr . O'Connor begs to say , that had he been at Leeds < those addresses should have been his reply . They shall appear next week .
Mr . O ' Cmmor has the honour to ackhoidedge his card of admission to the Leeds Working Men ' s Association , conferring aU the privileges of membership ; Mr . 0 ' Connor feels honoured by the compliment , and begs , in return , to assure his brother members , that no exertion : upon his part shall be-wanting to make the Association a rallying point for the industrious , a terror to tyrants , and u credit lathe town of Leeds . Mr . O'Connor will be ready to attend the meeting .. i ri 7 jy * it if ¦ vt- - ¦ -.. . .: « , k ¦ ¦ ¦¦ _ . * C at heffield
S for Universal Suffrage whenever required . He never did receive ; any of those communications referred to in the letter of his excellent agent , Mr . Lingard , if : he had , fie should , have been proud to insert them . Mr . O'Connor trusts the Sheffield meeting will be a triumphant one , and ' that the Whigs will be called upon to meet us by argument , and that all parties will presevefor themselves that nobleness of character which their conduct ' at the meetinf of the I it ' / i Dec . earned for them .
The Glasgow Delegates .-- "We have learned that these able and patriotic nien , Messrs . Campbell : Mc'Nish , and Cuthbertson , will be at Huddersfield , on Monday next , when it is expected that a : very large meeting will be assembled to hear their staterrtents . They have also signified their ; intention of visiting Leeds , during the following week , when the best energies and sympathies of all the good and patriotic men of Leeds , will , we are quite sure , b ' e ensraged in their assistance .
v \ e have received a communication from Heckmondwike , informing us ; . a novel process of extractiiig teeth , invented and practised by Mr . Factory Inspector Saunderspn . We suppose that Eminent Functionary will doubtless take out a patent , for this new mode of torturing and mutilating little children . We wish the person who wrote to ijsj ' would be a little more exact in decribing the jpiocess , and also furnish us with the ages and residences of the children . As we shall probably think it worthwhile to enquire by what , authority—Mr . Fuctdry Inspector Snunderson , doetb these things .
The No^Theri Staft. Saturday, March 10, 1838. ¦
THE NO ^ THERI STAft . SATURDAY , MARCH 10 , 1838 . ¦
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sir w . molesworth and lord glexelg ; The future effect which the debate upon Sir W . Molesworth's motion : may produce upon our . Colonial policy is one thing , and . the immediate effect upon ; the present Cabinet is one- other thing . In every word uttered by the Honourable Baronet , in ; his very searching , able , and statesman-like speech , we fully concur . ; tut from the terms of rather narrowness of his motion , we wholly dissent . It has been an invariable practice , with , liberal members of
Parliament , to draw largely upon foreign and colonial misrule , while the greatest aggressions against liberty at home are allowed ; to pass unnoticed ; and while Sir William was dealing in rather personal invective against Lord Glenelg , the whole tendency of his speech went to show that the evils complained of , were of long standing , and that they had been allowed by other ministers , with the tacit consent of other Cabinets , to increase to that enormity complained ' of by the Honourable Baronet ; and there fore , instead of arrainging the policy of an
indi-\ iuuai , who , if not responsible to the country , is responsible to his colleagues , he should have at once boldly and manfully brought his charges against the Administration generally , for their toleration of the system , and not for their appointment of Lord Glenelg . Moreover , was there not in the selection of one member of the Cabiriet for rebuke , arimplied avowal that all others were exempt frott censure ? The result of thus bringing a charge against an absent individual , gave to friend and for ariopportunity of testing their love of chivalry , ani
afforded Lord Palmerston arid Lord Sandon , political opponentSjthe means of replying to theHpn . Bart of which he would have deprived both Noble Lord ; , had his motion included the whole batch of Whg . poltroons . Then , indeed , we should like to hear tte . defence Which the Minister at War , or the Nolie Member for Liverpool , woiild hare made agaist the substantial domestic complaints which mif ht justly be brought against the whole Cabinet . H not Sir William Molesworth aware that those grievances of which the Canadians and other eoloMSta epmplain have been matter of discussion iii se ^ w Parliaments . ?¦ Why riot then at Once have tskeft
a vote upon a mpt ' on similar to that of the airendni ' ent moved by Lord Sandoij .- ? .- It ever has lieen > and always ivxll be , the character of the'House of Commons to deal lightl y withimembersofeitherljrancb of the legislature who -cannot defend themselves in person . The declarationby Lord Sandon of personil regard for Lord Glenelg fully proves this .: "Why , then , " did Sir William throw ¦ away . a chance , if & had ' an object in view ? The result of this debate which has taken up so much Valuable time of- the country , leads us to a belief that Sir William has saved the Whigs for yet a little time , inasmuch ; as we are of opinion that a similar motion , but cf a more general nature , would have been brought for-
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LS (? AL QUESTION'S . T . . Z . must summon his friend and make hhn account for : the watch . P . F . should send us some information as to the mode by which rates are laid mi and levied . G . C . —First question—Answer . Yes . Answer to second , No . The Grantor could . have left / the ; properly to whom he pleased . Answer to third . question , Yes hyu transfer of the property from the ; great Uncle . Answer to fourth Question , we cannot calculate the expense of a law siut . Y . stop it out of the rent . F . J . A . — Indeed it is an imposition and a gross one , but not an unusual one , B . C . b y Action for defamation . We must take time to read the Flax Dressers ' Tir . lns ¦ ¦ - - .- .. ' ¦ . ' ¦ ¦ - . ' ¦ ' .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 10, 1838, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct342/page/4/
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