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CAUTION TO MEDICINE VENDORS Ay~D OTHERS.
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N OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , That by the recent Verdict obtained by Messrs , Mvrisoa against certain Impostors for counterfeiting their medicines , all persons selling medicines as and for Morisok's Pills , which are , in fact , mere spurious imitations , are liable to have actions brought against them for every box sold under tbat name , which actions Messrs . Moaiso ? t will deem it their duty to en * force in every case that comes to their knowledge . General Agent for Yorkshire ( West Riding ) , Mr . William Stubbs * 47 , Queen-terrace , North-road , Leeds . British College of Healta , H&wlton-plaoe , New-road , London , Dec . 29 th , 1840 .
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M'DOUALL'S CHARTIST AND REPUBLICAM JOURNAL . On Saturdmy , the Third Day of April , 1841 , THE FIBST . NUMBER OP THB
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Just published , in royal 18 mo ., cloth , price 33 . ; and sent in the Country free , by the post , 3 s . 6 d ., MANHOOD ; the CAUSES of its PREMATURE DECLINE , with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION ; addressed to those suffering from ths destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence , Solitary Habits , or Infection : followed by observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS , GONORRHOEA , GLEET , &c . Illustrated with Cases , &e .
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PARR'S UtFAXiUBLE X . IFE PILLS , TTSTHICH are now recommended by all who have » i tried them . They have been the means of restoring to health many thousands who have suffered by dire disease and ill-health . Read the following Letters to the Proprietors : —
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50 MB- OMALLEY , OF THE DUBLIN " * CHARTIST ASSOCIATION . " Alas ! poor country , llBiort afraid to know itoelt " « DiubO'Maixet . _ i am like the ? ea' ^ af . Wen W 2 ted marina , standing upon the dfx * after the *^ , i » s passed * W . and straining sig ' at ia search of ^ T vhereon he nay place his foot once more in anxious
]\ £ . jndeed , my caae » eTen ' mow ; 1 T ^ j overboard from a mutino'js crew , and was ^ daT uP frietdlr lauds ; aw ! t though I bate the ** L ^ tet I loTe ^^ ** ^ wMcj : i * ' t ** s * n" * - ' ? fgrittfaJ J * 51 * ' * ° d I loTe a ' - PM'engers who haTe ^^ 5 j felloe Toysgers . Ire ' iand i « the bark , and her ^ ifc -ooi jbe p ** *** race of gflded patriots , bnt he J * ^ . * 0 ^ iier " hereditary bondsmen , " were my * M ^( H * ^ tlie ***** " ^ ***** * baTe been "P ^" J ^ r , * - * ****** « Hot "« dd Ireland , and kow does she stand ,
. jj 0 V ja old Ireland , my own old natire land !" . ^ t -rol has fo llowed woe , and sigh has rolled ^^ ^ quick succession . Many an aching heart Iff oken , many a mortal designed for a longer Bojourn gis land of trial has been nipped of his original &ad prema turely consigned to the cold grave ; _ u ^ & spirit with account unsettled , " unhouseted , --ooiDted , unanDeailed , " has been hurried into the j jj preaenee of his God , while his surriTors hare aid cold payers for his salTatjon , and still lire and gta upon tie disease that killed klm .
. iiiftifc CMtJteJj I fcvre-witnessed . I haw Wi fce en obserrer of all that has passed , and 0 ! how wrial b " ** the nesrs ** * ° the exile ^ ceU * * ° ' jjj , ^ , t iasV-at long last , —the breeze , for which wlas Been long whistling , has at length sprung up , , { fan the right quarter—from the legitimate source j » n power . Tes , my Mend , the Tery fact of yonr -jggnr , of yourselves and for yonrselTes , without the jjgjjjjsl gratification of my name being once more s-si t > T Irish lips , ahewsme the land , and tell * me that u iKliad is nearing it
0 "MaliF » . 0 & 7 0 U in * 01111 me k ° it is that Irish patriots thnre , while the Irish people perish of want ? Ota you solre fur me the knotty problem of men teas * cheered in their denunciation of physical force , ji 2 e they hare filled their country with , the Tery worst jHoipSjcm of a standing , armed , treb : y-paid , spy force , T&se serrices cease when peace prevails , and who tjH , tiBxefore , an interest in civil commotion , f # r U « j are irat for Uie civil Berriee 1 Can you gjKjm bow it is that every paper throujhtc tbe empire greedily seizes upon and fully tujfisbss eTery word spoken by Irish " patriots , *
tiSe the Irish people are obliged to send their news Jsr jsMiotion to the Irish " traitor ' s " paper ? Can you tsl bo » it is that , with such a liberal press-as Irebaj beasts of , we nerer hear of a single meeting ot the tsEiil classes conTened by themBelTes , addressed by jfcasselTes , or passing resolutions upon matters in any n r wmectai "ffitii thai interests ? Can yon t * ll me Tallin * teen done with all the money collected in li&ad within the last twenty years ; and point out to aatia people ' s or the martyr's share ? Can you infcso me why it is that men who were hooted from the feaEnn in 1532 , as falling short of the popular
stan-CEi of fitness , are now being dignified with titles , jSaa , sad pensions , as a reward for meritorious serlisis ? hft ;» eormtry ' s eaase ? Can yoa inform me how Hkfta * Ireland , after ten years' growth from her Dew Krunto righteousness , has became more lisping an * depart thin she was in her cradle ? "Why does the i » w hug , as a cherished boon , what she then unvi ! Ss $ ] f bore as a badge of slaTery ? Hare the manaeia / orped by " tyrants *• become less galling because riteUsi by " patriots" ? Are the millions better fed , tetter dad , better housed , and more independent ? Bo your " patriot" judges abate a jot of tae law's rigour ? Bo your " patriot"
landlords abate a friction of the rent compounded for , or do they compound for less ? Do your " patriotk" poiiee , now composed of a " due share dt Catholics , " p = t the cand-cufis on with more tenderness , oi with more compunction ; and are they less watchful and tyrannical . ' Does the Law Church , under its sea composition , appear lees hideous , because presorted in s new and lets known form ? Do your " patriotic" barristers plead the martyr ' s cause for ez&ller fees , or is your attorney ' s bQl docked of any of its ea&zmary charges } In the many associations which hare been called into hasty existence , and whieh hare m lustily died , h » Te yon been represented , or haTe you been allowed only the poor prrrilege of paying ?
O'SUHey , I speak of poor Mr . O'Connell now , as a thisj that has been , but has passed away ; I merely use fcna is sn illustration . Whom did he denounce as "i « se , brutal , and bloody ; " and who does fee n » w aim , asd in what hare they changed ? Who are 2 h pirtia now in Ireland from whose ranks candidates Kdaseii , and how did Mr . O'Connell stand afiweted Sffnrfj those pasties , eTen at the gtneral election of I » i 5 ; * na hsre they all changed , and has he remained fca to the cause which he then espoused ' Who are Qs pertiei selected for promotion to all offices ? Are ibfj not the most unmanageable and apparently indepsasii mpmfrpi-p , in order to make way for others passed of a pliancy of principle and disposition cspa-&if bsiEg moulded into any shape best Euitiug the Tsn if ihs political mechanic ?
tTJUIky , let us now pass oTer the seTen centuries of Isaad "! dark Eight of oppression , and bask is the ^ s ^ bs which was to haTe shed its rays upon the ^^ sred patriot ' a graye , to hare cheered the win-• b d sij iife of yj e gnryJToi ^ amj to iare illuminated SeytiEttf patriot in liis futore course . What was to **** been the promised change ? Let us speak of hex Ss Sdonn Bill was to haTe resuscitated Ireland , ^^ her Toned patriots in the English House of Asmara . The following was our Charter , which , feefor * & ia& the people , we Ewore to maintain eTen to the ^^ —rnlTersaJ Suffrage , * rinna . 1 Parliaments , Vote * J Mot , Brpeal of the Tnion , total AboUtion oi is , in name and nature , Appointment of ilagis-^^ ^ 7 the people , and remoTal of the Bishops from ^ Hcmje of Lords . Snch was Ireland ' s Charter .
¦^ m no » age her " patriots '" performances . UniTer-*¦ &Ssge Ijjj ( j-srjjjfljed Jq ^ j the most " practical ^® a ; ' Annual Parliaments has been relinquished j * Kaaial ParliamenU ; Bepeal of the Tnion has ^* * f toed into "justice to Ireland ; " the total abo-^^ &ies into " appropriation point ; " that is , the ^^ EfaOE to national purposes of a snrplna , irhich 1101 to > e found after the church ma-w -was " T ** * ^ 3 then the patriots commuted eTery . j Sfca into 25 s . rent . The appoinment of magis-^** y & * people has been lost sight of , and the ~^^ rf tb-e bishops thought of no consequeDce . ** £ » a unaefined terms haTe been substituted for EUttaKil ^ /^ fcat principles , and the only pledge which has Prae rred , k , the old cloak to throw OTer tae ¦ ^ j , ^ ' ¦ j h * v w ^« t v * + ***^^ mrv rtoi ri ^^ * *»« w-a ^«> of
^ fi « v ^*** s ^ honoured faction : " the Ballot : " j ^ j ^ T * * ittout the soup ; the dish without the > »*» dark lantern in the assassin ' s hand to allow g ^^ *^ coward-like a » d unseen . Is this a ^ 7 * S onward ? Is this the reward for the ^ nnpro-r ed s tate of society , when in the dirk-^^ ^ ' SDOrince , ten years ago , ire were promised bo ^ j * nd ^ 0 CI knowledge but t * ufbt us to take be& ^* to » for the substance ? and , aboTe all , and pia ^ ^ the inproTtment of the people keld jp ^* tte increasing power of the faction who ^* weni ? 84 ^ ^ O-Malley , what is the feded old geutlej ** * for all this ? Why , that the people of a ^ j ^^ yo ^ . * nd hate eTerythlng Irish , and ^^ j ^ ation w as fondly anticipated , and his I ^ Jjj T ^ Iell short in consequence of the unex-— fc wi ij . ut
* n fcu . * - ^^ voj . u we -c * ugiLSa , people : ; : b »» J ^** lie , a damned lie ^ But it has recently ^ te * ( t ° 8 erTe * V"ftk ) to Tory hatred . *^» tai «^ ' ^ llWS 78 kMW ° * ^ " ^ tt WM * ** ^^ , ^^ »« onnt } and , taerefore , should not be B u j ^ ^ kTour of retrogreesion . ^^ * SaiD ' Ut W test the chlT ? e by fe # fca - ^^ T **¦ ° * c « men the most popular man in Ja ^ Y ™* * t ° tie dose Of the SeHSion of 1836 , and Sa ^ j ™* fcim to make a tour , like a conqueror , k ^ naT ' Mld S 00 ^ " ^? Why , nothing that ^ l ® 8 f 0 T the English and the Scotch . ** ^ M n ^ their ^ Perior loTe for Ireland , ^^ 1 ^ ^ -consideration . He had betrayed ** ^ £ ** Bordle 8 ter I ^ bonrm- question ; ***** tod praised tie English Poor Law .
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abominably aetesied by the people , for whose benefit it w-as said to exist ; and he tad actually sold the very operatiTes , in whose cause he enlisted ; and had surrendered t « the Lords upon the question of English Corporate Reform . But yet , O'Malley , beileTing him true to Ireland , and loTing Ireland , and wishing to see her once more resume her proper rank amongst the nations of the earth , they pardoned and absolTed all tramsgressions against themselTes , and actually placed him , in the autumn of 1835 , in a position to dictate to Europe ; aye , to Europe ; he might haTe opened the session of 1836 , by proclaiming YniTen&l Suffrage , and neither King , Lords , or Commons would har « dared to resist it ; but he wanted the moral courage , aye , and the personal courage too , to use his pow d er fei general good against an organised faction .
Well , hai the English pat no such tax upon the great power with which they had inTested him- What , then , was his « ime ? Why , simply thia , that he ad-Tertised his power through a series of letters to Lord Duneannon , the then Secretary of State for the Home Department ; he compounded for a bit of tioaelled Ticeroyalty , to amuse the people , while he was selling Ireland , and he bartered bis gigantic power for pelf , place , and patronage . Some biographera may say , no , no ; not for place , for he refuEed it ; true , he refused fiTe thousand a-year and the shelf , for ten thousand a-year and the larder and the run of the kitchen for bis dependants ; and all this was accomplished while Ireland was gaping , like a great oTergrown gaby , at a tinselled fool riding in gimcrackeryand regimentals , amid the shouts and huzzas of the glares .
And now , in truth , the people haTe run away from O'CooneU . Ah ' , ay br&re and gallant countryman , there nerer yet was a sound principle hatched under the wing of fanaticism ; and the threadbare cleak of religion , cannot now , thank God ! be used as a mantle to cot « the body of clTil corruption . Who was the most popular man in England , Scotland , and Wales , while he was thought to be true to Ireland ? Daniel O'Connell . Who is now , beyond all comparison , the most unpopular man , ? . Why , the same Daniel OConnell ; and why ! thfnnr he has sold Inland to the Whig faction . > ' '
• 'Malley , kingcraft , priestcraft , and paper money , craft haTe been the ruin of eT « ry country ; but , thank God ! all nations are now opening their eyes , and the mountain of ciTil iniquity can no longer be obscured by the molehill of religions fraud . You will mark ay words , —and I have made some good guesses , —that if th Irish priftsthood don * look » harp , their turn will come aext The hierarchy of your Church is as much a state oierucfey as that of the Protestant Church , and is equally opposed to the extension of civil rights . Yen know this .
I now come to the consideration of the great buggaboo , physical force . Your moral-force Colonel of the Irish Tohmteers of 1833 , ( and in which corps I was a priTate , and paid £ i Is . by the Colonel ' s order , for musket and accoutrements , ) has charged the English Chartists , in general , and Feargus O'COEDOr , in particular , with being torch and dagger men , physicalforce Chartists . O'Malley , I neTer , te my knowledge , or belief , mentioned the words torch or dagger in
speech , or writing in my life ; but let me give my undisguised opinion upon the subject of physical force . The whole mischief , treason , and illegality of the thing consists , then , in its want , not in its possession , for , belieTe ' me , if I h * d Dan ' s 500 , 0 * 0 fighting men well armed , yon neTer wonld hear another word of tho illegality of physical force , nor of a single act of cruelty , tyranny , or oppression , nor of plunder , persecution or incendiarism . In fact ,
The hellish thing bo much belied Would lose its name when we ll applied . O'Malley , lisp not reproach of physical force in Tara ' s Hall , sing it not on Tara ' s Hill , or Vinegar Hill , or on the bridge of Wexford , where the gallant Bagnell Har-Tey led his countrymen to death or glory against the proud inTader . Let not the shades of Lord Edward Fitzgerald ,, one of nature ' s nobles , be disturbed in the tomb by the hollow sound of " justice for Ireland . " begged from a faction with cap in one hand and petition in the other ; a position beneath thedignity of an Irishman .
Let not the mutilated remains of the murdered Emmett . be set writhing like the s « Tered parts of the mangled worm , by hearing that his conntry begs in mercy for what she should possess in justice . He lies here and there , unheaded , unbowelled , and untombed , but not unhonoured , nnregretted , or unaTenged . ' No , not unaTenged ! The malison has struck tyranny , and it must fall with a hideous crash . Behold , it now totters . The first flash from the lightning of Knowledge has riTen the temple of corruption , and it but awaits the thunder-bolt of Truth to proclaim its fall , and that tyranny is buried beneath the ruin .
O'Malley , the traTeller and the writer tell us our couDtary is improTed . How , I carry them , not to the back settlements either of Monster or Connaught ; 1 take them , not to the wilds and mountains , nor yet far from town , nay , not ten miles in any direction from the Post-office or Nelson ' s Pillar , and let us compare notes . From what do they draw their conclusions ? From the painted figures dressed for the masquerade . They see the gay fronts ofthegorgeousshops in
SackTilestreet , Dame-street , College Green , Grafton-streek , Parliament-street , and Dawson-street , but many a painted face conceals the workings of a broken heart ; and eTen in the back settlements of those shops the Tisitor would find misery and destitution : the front is but a aho w-boatjl to entice the purchasers and a balm to allay the apprehension of the creditor . The shopman must be dressed and gay , but g * to his family and ask them how they feel ?
Well , where does the traTeller dine ? Why , in Memon-square , or Stephen ' s Green , or Granny-row , or Monntjoy-square , with a judge , a barrister , an attorney , a parson , a doctor , an offictr , a merchant , a banker , a stockjobber , or an exciseman ; all , all one , and all se many lice upon the back of the poor beetle . Now , O ' -Malley , Jook on this picture . Let them take a walk with me along the quiys , up Bridgestreet , through James ' s-street , and Tisit the upper stories en Christmas day , and to Rathcool , only eight miles . I will not shock any oae by taking him to Naas , fifteen miles . Let us then come back , and go
through the Liberties , the Poddle , Cork-street , Thomas-. street , Meath-street , and on to Dolphin ' s barn , to Crumlin , Cimage , round by Green Hill , Ki ! da kin , and horfle by the Fox and Goose Commons , Let us then go out by Baggot-street , orer Ball's Bridge , to the once celebrated Merrion , to Booterstown , Black Rock , Mount Pelier , and Dunleary , ; now called King ' s To-wn , in honour of a king Who "Was kicked OUt of the Jockey Club , being to * great ' s blackguard tat that honourable society , ) and come home by Stilorgan , and Donnybrook . Let us
then Tisit the once renowned Ciontarf . Then let us go np Barrack-street , through Stoneybatter , and to Donboyne , only seTen miles . Then through Chapelirod , Lucan , and Leixlip ; and then to Maynooth , the residence of Ireland's only Duke , and nephew to the lamented Lord Edward Fitzgerald , who lost his life in defending himself against a gang of police and your beloTed Major Swan , to whom , if liTing , your moral force leader weuld Tote compensation . Poor Fitagerald died in prison of his wounds ; otherwise he too would hxre fead his head cut off , and his bowels torn
out 2 * ow , O'Malley , I haTe not taken you more * r- «* nine miles ia any direction from the Po * t-office , and I ask you , as an honest ' man , upon your oath , in your opinion , can an equal amount of destitution be found in any equal space upon any part of the habitable globe ? Well , but I hare not done : that ' s for a day's recreation . Kow follow me through the night Mighty God . ' I am fearful of asking yon , lest you forget the honest lesson iaught by the honest Chartist Association . Well , then , I pass the night ; I le * Ye the scene * of open and
undisguised iniquity and poTerty-made prostitution ; I heed not the drunken row , the lordly spree , or the college-taught midnight amusementi I pass all , and I come to Tirtuous modesty , eeeking the hour betwixt suspicion and detection—that still moment between the owl ' s abandonment of-light , and the hawk ' s relief of the night watch ; and , O God of HeaTen ! Merciful Creator of prince and peasant ! and to wkom both in nakedness return ,, what do I see hers * Wfe * t hate i , many times and oft , seen in the cild and chilling frost of a Christmas morning , when at least all should rejoice ?
I haTe seen thit picjnrtj O'Malley , and so haTe you . Between day and dazk . ' I haTe seen the Tirtuous mother , with her group of legitimate little ones , —not a barefaced prostitute—no , no , O'Malley , prostitution liTes not to loyrij I haTe seen the young mother , with a
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cbT . d of fifteen or eighteen months old , bundled In the tall of a tattered garment , and tied round the mother's neck for security , while one urn mpported a helpless babe , pulling , in Tain , at the * rieA up agarce of its natural fountain , while three or fotnf aattiT ^ nafced little innocents , from three to six yeaw old , were nestling to the dam , looking , but in Tain , for that heat and comfort which nature intended the mother tocommonicata to her young . I k&ve seen the anxious mother balanced with her dtuble burden . , scratching , during the only hour allotted to Tirtuous poTerty by tyrant man , in "improred Ireland , " among the cinder * flung from the rich man ' s ash pit , for a cold potato , a handfull of cinders , or a bone , or anything , while her group of younglings haTe kept np the heart-rending howl of
" Oh , mammy , mammy , wbatil I do , I ' m kilt with tile could , I ' m hungry mammy , oh , wfafra ^ f ^ fta mywy giTe me sunthin to ait" I ban heard the mother , forgetting all her own wants and pangs , reply , with a farced smile , " Hould yer tung agra , hould yer tun& the pillice 'ill hear you , and take oz all to the watch house . " I haTe seen the mother , afUr finding a cold potato , diTide it , and share it according to the respective ages , gmng the largest to the least and youngest , and then smile , while , with famished look she enjoyed a moment ' s repose from the " Mammy , I ' m hungry . '' I haTe seen the poor and squalid creature , after half an hour ' s scratching , and when full daylight warned her that her longer presence would be as insult to the merchant in his morning walk , straighten her crippled back , and thus pour out her sorrows : —
"Oh , wisha , wisha , akuishla macree , euo , csmmj darlints , and don't you cry , or the pill Ice III taaejoa . Oh yea , Oh yea , God look down upon us this day , and proTide for the poor ! Oh ! whatll become ut uz at all at all , er what way 'ill I turn this blessed day . Cum , juels , cum darlins , here ' s the gintlemen comin . Oh , yea , may God guide us this day , pray Jaisus . Amen . " / have seen ih at , O' Malley , within eighteen months , in " improTed Ireland , " and within musket shot of the Liberator ' s door , and Ireland is " improred 1 " I haTe dose , for the present ,- only " three cheers for our Tirtuous young Queen , and the only GoTernment that eTer did justice to Ireland ! " If you are happy , why should I repine ?
I am , Your faithful friend and countryman , F £ AEG US O'CONNOB . York Castle , Felon ' s side , 16 th of 11 th month of solitary confinement , but yet an Irisman and a Chartist . PS . O'Malley , the English press will say that mine is " a rale Irish epistle be Jaisus , " because I commenced with the intention of expounding the principles of the Charter , but haTe not said a word about them . The fact is , that when I got upon the subject of Irish patriotism and Irish destitution , I got so hot that I bolted from the course .
I haTe only a word to say now ; banish from your mind and for eTer the notion that the English people either hate Ireland , or that they are ungrateful or fickle . Can you hare a stronger proof of the Tery rererse , than the fact which my own case furnishes ? I was gent here to be ruined in character and health ; my hands tied up while all were pelting me . Well , I haTe been here for now nearly eleven months , rigour increased , not diminished , as Mr . Duncombe seems to think and would wish ; but here I am a stranger , an alien , and the ungrateful fickle blistered hands fustian jackets and unshorn chins , bare saTed my life , by defending my character against Whigs , Tories , the whole press , the higher and middle classes , and Mr . Burns . Look at that !
I haTe spent thousands upon them and you , for you cannot be separated ; but mark the difference—while fickle England has paid my poor service with confidence and gratitude , which la inTaluable ; Ireland , grateful Ireland , has paid me with kicks . But neTer mind ; I told you six years ago that " we want you , Feargns , " would yet be wafted across the channel ; and then no personal feeling shall warp my mind from my country ' s cause . I will heap coals of fire upon your heads , by repaying your reTilings with acts of substantial patriotism .
While humbugs look for land to give a vote , I look for the Tote to giTe the land . What I was when I was borne on the people ' s heads in 1832 , the same I am now , and the same I will be until death . Ireland i » my country , but the world is my republic . O'Malley , Ireland has been our mother , our cradle , our nurse , and our protector . Her anxious heaving bosom has been the pillow of our infancy . Should we not , thea , honour her , that our days may be long in the land which the Lord our God has given us ? She will , I trust , be our grave ; shall we not , then , prepare her for our reception , that our memories may luxuriantly spring through her pure and hallowed mould , and long lire green in the land of our nativity t I love my country aboT » a ! i earthly things ; her oppressors I hate aboTe all hellish- * ends . V . OC .
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HOUSE OF LORDS , Friday , March 12 . The Bishop of Bangor presented a petition from Wales against the bill for uniting the see of Bangor with St Asaph . The Duke of Richmo > d presented a petition from an individual named Carr , who had been for 4 $ years Judge of the Court of King ' s Bench in Quebec , and subsequently in the Vice Admiralty Court in Canada . He had been deprived of his situation without trial , and prayed an inTestigation . The Marquis of Norhanbt said the petitioner had bten very ill advised in bringing his case before the House . In the year 1815 a sum of £ l , 2 » 0 had been paid into the hands of his registrar , and transferred by the petitioner to his private account From that time till 183-4 there had been no account of the money , the petitioner stating that he had b * en compelled to appropriate it from pecuniary embarrassment In 1834 the money was repaid , and the petitioner was then dismissed from his office .
In answer to tho Bishop of London , Viscount Melbour > E said he should lay the correspondence and documents on the of idolatrous worship in India on the table in a few days . The Earl of 3 Iou . vtcjISUEL g 3 ve notice that , after the Easter recess , he should call the attention * of the House to the subject of duelling , and move for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the best mode of putting an end to the practice . If such a coarse were not adopted it would be better to repeal the act of Victoria altogether . As the law at present stood , indiTiduals did not know whether they were justified in fighting a duel or not Lord Keane ' * Annuity Bill was read a second time , and ordered to be committed on Monday . The Copyholds Enfranchisement Bill was reported , and ordered to be read a third time on Monday . Adjourned . Monday , March 15 .
No other business of importance was transacted than the getting rid of the motion of the Bishop of Exeter for an address to the Crown to withhold its assent to the inordinance fer incorporating St . Sulpice . The ReT . Prelate supported his motion by a long and able address , proving bis consummate ability as an orator and an advocate . The Marquis of NORManby answered the Right ReT . Prelate in a speech full of matter , but in places somewhat personal , reflecting on the good faith of the Right ReT . Prelate . The Earl of Rrpo > and the Duke of WELLINqTON spoke against the motion , and tbe Noble Duke recommended the Bishop to withdraw it The Bishop did not venture to divide the House , but withdrew his motion . Tuesday , March 17 .
Mr . Stanley , the Secretary to the Poor Law Commissioners in Ireland , was examined at tbe bar of tbe House at great length , relative to th ? falsification of the returns from the Clonmel Union , The alterations which had been made in the records of the Union were admitted by Mr . Stanley , who declared , howeTer , that he had no improper motive for so doing . Ultimately it was determined that tbe presence of Mr . Phelan , the assistant Poor Law Commissioner , would be necessary , and it was directed that he should be ordered to attend on Monday aext . —Adjourned .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS , Friday , Makch 12 . Petitions were presented on the subject of church rates , and against various proTisions in the Poor Law Continuance Bill . In answer to Sir Robert Inglis , Lord Palmebston stated that the Government had turned its attention to the position in which Protestants were placed in tbe levant , and they had impressed upon the Porte the necessity and good policy of placing the Christians of every religious denomination on the same , or , if possible , a better footing than before the recent events . Mr . Easthope gaTe notice that on Thursday be should call the attention of tbe House to the petition of William Baines , confined in Leicester gaol for refusing to pay church rates ; and that he should postpone his motion for leave to bring in a bill to abolish the payment of church rates till after Easter . In answer to questions from Lord F . Egerton , Sir R . Peel , Lord Sandon , and other Hon . Members ,
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Lord Palmeuston said he had received a copy ef the hatti scheriff issued by the Sultan « n the subject of the hereditary pachalie of Egypt—that instrument had been issued by the Sultan on his own authority , and he apprehended it was a question between him and his subject Mehemet AIL He could not , with any precision , atate to the House at present whether tbe four powers approved of the firman , as he had not had an opportunity of communicating with them . In answer to Col . D . Darner . Lord Mobpbth said
that the differences between the Irish Poor law Commissioners and the Guardians of the Poor ef the Mountmillick Union were chiefly on the subject of the site for a workhouse . A letter bad appeared In the papers from his aeiBretary , Mr . Macdonnell , addressed to Dr . Jacob , and stating that if he again became a member of tbe Board of Guardians of MovmtmilHck , bis Excellency the I ^ ra Lieutenant would fed it his duty to remove him from the situation of medical attendant to the asylum , as he considered the two appointments incompatible . He believed that letter was authentic
Mr . F . Keely postponed his motion on the subject of the abolition of the punishment of death till after Easter , when he hoped the Government bills would be before the House . Lord J . Russell gave notice that on Monday he should move that her M ajesty be authorised to grant a loan of £ 240 , 000 to the South Australian Company , out of the Consolidated Fund , to be repaid at such periots as the house might deem fit On the motion of Mr . Labouchere , the House went into a committee on the subject of the trade with the West Indian and North American colonies . Mr . Labouchere moved a number of alterations on the tariff , whioh were read over and reported , and the committee asked leave to sit again . On the order of the day for the second reading of the County Courts Bill being read .
sir F . pollock took a review of the proceedings that had taken place in that House for the hut teu or twelve years on the subject of giving a more extensive jurisdiction t » the court for the recovery of small debts . There were several details of the present bill whioh appeared to him decidedly objectionable ; bat it was not his intention to oppose the second reading , as those objectionable clauses might be discussed and amended in committee . One of the clauses empowered the QoTenunent to appoint fifty new officers , with salaries of £ l , 60 » each—that was a patronage Which exceeded that of the whole anuy , and Hon . Members wtuid bear in mind that snch a step was about to be taken with an extremely narrow majority , and with almost the certainty of a dissolution ot Parliament after Eafter .
The ATTORNEY-GENEBAL thought it very extraordinary that his Hon . and Learned Friend should approve of the principle ef tho bill , and express his determination not to oppose the second reading ; while at the same time be attributed the most improper motives te the OoTemment in bringing It forward . If ever there was a measure in which party feeling should aot be allowed to interfere , it was the present , ami he regretted to observe 80 much of it in the observation his Hon . and Learned Friend had just addressed to the House . Sir £ . Sugden objected to several of the details of the bill . Mr . F . Macle aaid , although there had been a good deal of objection to the details of the measure , the principle had been admitted on all hands , and he should object to such amendments in committee as would not be likely to meet tae views of the House .
Mr . Hawes said it appeared to him that the object of tbe Hon . and Learned Gentlemen on the opposite side waa to delay tbe passing of tbe bill until th « y eame into power themselves , and by that means they would secure the patronage which they found fault with the present Government for attempting to exercise . Tbe bill was then read a second tint ? . Tbe Bankruptcy and Insolvency Bill , and the Ordnance Survey BUI , were severally read a second time . Tbe Mutiny Bill , and the Marino Mutiny BUI , went severally through a committee . Adjourned at a quarter to one o ' clock .
Monday , March 15 . Mr . Fox Maule assured Mr . Wakley , in answer to questions , that there was no intention whatever to exclude the public from the Gtimn Park , or to alter the hours of Admission . In a Committee on the South Australia Acts , Lord John Russell moved a resolution , guaranteeing a loan to that colony of £ 20 , 000 , and making provision for the payment out of the Consolidated Fund . Lord Stanley bad thought that this subject was one which ought to ba 7 e been brought before the House , on the responsibility of the Government , before it was referred to a Committee . It was the duty of Government to ceoie to Parliament with a definite proposition . He described the self-supporting principle as a bubble which had burst The revenue of the colony was , he aid , £ 20 , 000 a year , the expenditure £ loo , OOQ : aud the Government House cost ; £ 24 , 000 .
Lord John c « uld not acquiesce in delay , because the colony was perishing . Sir Hobk&t Peel suggested that tbe resolutions should express that the loan should not be immediately paid . Lord Howick explained that bills bad already been given , on the faith that the Treasury would pay them . He suggested that Government should receive the authority to raise some money to meet the present difficulties , and take time to adjust the affairs of tho colony . Mr . Hvxt defended the Australian Commissioners from Lord Stanley ' s attack . Mr . Verno . v Smith thought the affairs of the colony were not so discouraging . Sir Robert Peel pointed out a contradiction between two statements of Colonel Torrens , which shook his confidence in what was reported of the
• olony . sit olony . $£ Lord John Russell expressed his surprise at the course adopted by Lord Stanley , who in Committee had proposed a resolution that delay would aggravate the evil . Mr . Grote waa for dispatch , that the news might go out to the celony . Lord Eliot concurred with Lord John Russell in feeling surprised at Lord Stanley ' s conduct , and said that there was no difference in the Committee as to the necessity of immediate-steps . Ultimately the House roaumed without the Committee having adopted . any resolution . On tbe Report of the Ordnance Estimates , Captain Boluero drow the attention of tha House to the supplies we had furnished foreign States ; when Sir H . Vivian assured the Hon . Gentleman that we had only furnished the Sultan with 24 , 0 * 0 stand of arms , with ammunition .
The Report on the East India Rum Bui was received , after an amendment had been introduced including date-tree sugar . The Registration Of Voters ( Scotland ) Bill was read a second timo after a short debate . The Drainage of Lands Bill was opposed , and the second Teaming was carried by 31 to lt > . On the motion of Sir W . Rae , leave was given to bring in a Bill to erect a monument to Sir Walter Scott , in Edinburgh . Mr . Fox Maule supported the motion , which has the consent of both parties . Suiuo other matters of course were transacted , and at half-past eleven o ' clock the Houao adjourned .
Tuesday , March 17 . Mr . Hutt brought the question of the Sound dues under the consideration of the House , aud moved a resolution to the effect that the present tariff was one which the King of Denmark had no right to maintain , and that such a revision should take place as would tend to facilitate the trade of Great Britain with the Baltic . Lord Palm erston admitted the correctness of the Hon . Member ' s statements , bat hoped that he would either withdraw his motion , or assent to the previous question . After some conversation , Mr . Hutt agreed to the previous question . Mr . Easthope meved that the petition of William Balnea , a prisoner in Leicester Gaul , presented on the 2 nd of February , should be printed and circulated with the votes .
Sir R . Peel contended that such a motion could not be received except made on the same day as that on which the petition had been presented . Mr . Bbothebton thought , under the circumstances , the petition could not be printed . On the suggestion of the Attobney-Genebal and Lord Stanley , the House assented to the printing of tbe petition , on the understanding that it was to be circulated amongst the members only . —Adjourned .
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The Pooa Law Continuance Bill . —In the House of Commons on Monday night , Lord J . Russell announced his intention of making some changes in the Poor Law BilL In the first place , he suggested that tbe duration of the power of tbe Poor Law Commissioners should be reduced from ten years to five ; he also proposed to abandon the clause for " attaching to Workbooses separate burial grounds for paupers . " Tbe Bill in its original shape contained a clause to prevent the interment of the Workhouse poor in Church burial grounds , leat their bodies might contaminate the earth or tbe carcases of their richer brethren in death . Lord John Russell also modified the clause which provides for the union of Unions , so as to withdraw the power of touting infirm paupers , who have no
permanent ailment or mental defect , in separate establishments ; and to give a fifth of the Guardians of any Union ft veto upon its combination with other Unions , for the management of pauper children . Sir Robert Peel said , " he heard , with great satisfaction tbe statement of the Noble Lord as to the changes proposed in tke Bill ; " and Mr . Wakley " had no doubt that the alterations would be very acceptable to the country . " If we thought Lord John ' s alterations of the slightest value , we would give them our hearty concurrence ; but they really are not of any moment ; inasmuch a they leave the working of the Bill precisely the sam . The pauper will continue to be fed upon rancid bacon and belly-griping pork-water ; he will still be immured in a miserable Bastile : no communication with his wife will
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he be permitted to hold ; and his children willgbe located in a distant establishment . The question is not whether the services of the Commissioners shall be secured for ten or even five years , but whether tbe poor shall be better fed ; whether they shall be treated as human beings , and not as dogs or hogs , and whether poverty is still to continue a crime in the bye-laws laid down by the Somerset-house Bashaws . There is no remedy proposed for these abuses . We cannot see the slightest room for congratulation . Lord John Russell's alterations are put forward as a meant , of moving the position whiebfthe opposers of tbe measure have taken , and with the ultimate expectation of carrying the diabolical Whig project into fall an * complete effect . We hope the House of Commons will not be taken in by the Noble Lord ' s sophistry . Whatever
opposition was intended , ought to be directed towards the measure with unrelaxed spirit . The country ought not , eTen for fiTe years , to be obliged to "kiss the hand of despotism , " seeing that whereas , the Commissioners have become a rank nnisance , and that tbe hand of opprobrium is pointed at them whithersoever they go . Not one moment ' s respite is there from absolute independejBepnponthenhderbreadcrew of the Strand Union . Bat tbe main question is , what does the present Bill concede to tbe poor and to the conntry . To the poor and the country It concedes nothing . Every clause of the B ill remains , as before , of a simply and purely aggressive character , a mere ulterior developement of the existing system . It proposes solemnly to ratify and continue tbat system , with additions and variations , but without any relaxation ,
even in the minutest particular , for five whole years . Tbe choice of tbat period is as distinctly contradictory to the wishes ot the people as the former period of ten . The principle of perpetuity is in it stiiL the alterations which have been made in tbe Bill leave as completely untouched as before all grievances relating to the diet and treatment of paupers within Workhouses , or the prohibition of oat-door relief . Tbe powers of Boards of Guardians are still taken away front the general body elected by the rate-payers , and vested exclusively in the few who , having nething else to do , and throwing themselves with zeal into the system of the Poor Law Commissioners , attend upon all occasions . The way in which this Clause will operate may be understood from a recent occurrence in the Eton Union , where the working Board passed a
Vote of censure upon the Hon . and Reverend S . G . Osborne , for prosecuting the oppressor of JBUsabetb Wise to conviction- before the county magistrates ; which , at a subsequent meeting ; was reversed by the votes of that class of Guardian * whom tbe present Bill proposes to disfranchise . Instead of any abatement of the severe and un-Ghristian discipline which separates tbe husband from the wife , and the parent from the child , this Bill establishes a new principle of classification and combination , which , in many eases , win have the effect of distributing the different members of a family into different Workhouse * situate Sn different places . Finally , in tbi » Bill , as Lord John Russell especially informs O * , " no change ia contemplated as to a reduction of the siia of Unions , " and no remedy is provided for the enormous inconveniences and evils accruing from this source both to ratepayers and to the poor . We feel no surprise at the observations that fell from Sir Robert Peel ; he was just as likely to have
condemned tbe alterations proposed by Lord John Ruaaell as he was to praise them ; but we must confess our astonishment that Mr .. Wakley saw matter for congratulation in the speech , inasmuch as the poor will continue to be exposed to the infernal dietary laid down by the Commissioners , and the system altogether will operate with as much severity as ever , With regard to the opposition got up to this measure by Walter , of The Times , we look upon his Interference as any thing but calculated to benefit the poor . There is no honesty in it . With him it is a party measure . He perceives that the damnable Act has damaged the Whig cause ; and in the hope of further injuring it , to the admission of the Tories to power , he and his paper render their opposition ; theirs is no real humanity . If the Tories were in office to-morrow , The Times would applaud the Poor Laws to the skies , and rejoice that the Bishops had assisted in giving to the country a measure full of so mucli justice to the rate-payer and the labourer . Out upon such consistency , say we!—Weekly Dispatch .
Destitution Abboad and at Home . — -With all due respect for the motives of the parties whe subscribe towards Missionary Societies , we ask them whether physical destitution in England is not more urgent than spiritual destitution abroad , and whether it is not more fit , tbat the claims of the former should be responded to , instead of those of the latter ; what candid man will not agree with us , tbat it is by far more humane and more in accordance with our duty , to feed the hungry and clothe the naked of our own country , than to send missionaries into distant parts to alter or change the religioUB opinions of their inhabitants ; We have now before us a circular of these associations , which bewails the total destruction of the many souls whose bodies have died in ignorance of Christianity , " who perish for lack of knowledge . " It would have gone more home to the feelings of all , had it pointed out the thousands of poverty-stricken wretches who swarm the back alleys of our large towns , if it had advocated a
philanthropic mission , to cleanse these abodes of misery , crime , and disease , instead of a religious one , to break in upon the peace of the contented Indian . It will be said that both these objects should be provided for ; yet can this be done ? If it cannot , at least the more important should have precedence . What man in his senses would bestow a sixpence upon the conversion of Mahometans whilst the same could be employed to buy bread for a starving family , possessing a natural claim upon bis bounty ! With what feelings does the poor man behold large auras of money expended to furnish him with Bibles , whilst he and bis family require tbe necessaries of life . The truly religious will feel more sympathy for tbe bodily Bufferings of his fellowcreatures than for their mental darkness ; the former renders them miserable , the latter hardly interferes with their happiness , but the bigot is in a great measure cruel , and cold to the sufferings of bis fellow men . — ifeckly Dispatch .
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SPRING SESSIONS , 1841 . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that the Spring General Quarter Sessions of the Peace will be holden at PoNiEFiucr , on Monday , the Fifth day of April next ; on which day the Court will be opened at Ten o ' clock of the Forenoon , and on every succeeding day at iNine o ' clock . Prosecutors and Witnesses in prosecutions must be in attendance in the following order , viz .: — Those iii felony , from the divisions of Strafibrth and Tickhill , Lower Agbrigg , and ail places within Ten miles of Poatefracb , and also those in respited Traverses , are to be in attendance at tho opening of the Court on Monday Morning . Those from the divisions of Barkstonash , Staincross , and Os # oldcross , ( except such parts of those divisions as are within Ten Miles of Pontefract , ) are to be in attendance at One o ' clock on Monday Afternoon . Those from the divisions of Upper Agbrigg , Morhy , and Sky rack , are to be in attendance at Niue o ' clock on Tuesday Morning . Those from the divisions of Staincliff and Ewcross , Claro and the Ainsty , ( being the remainder of the West Riding , ) and those in all cases of Misdemeanor ( except in respited Traverses , who aro to attend on Monday , ) are to be in attendance at Two o ' clock on Tuesday Afternoon .
After the charge to the Grand Jury has been given , Motions by Counsel will be heard , after which the Court will proceed with the trials of Felonies and Misdemeanors , until the whole are disposed of , commencing with the trials of respited Traverses . The hearing of Appeals will commence , at all events , on Friday morning , in case they shall not have been begun on Thursday ; but parties in Appeals must be in readiness on Thursday morning , and all Appeals must bo entered before the sitting of the Coart on that day . Coroners and High Constables must be in attendance at the sitting of the Court on Tuesday morning . The names of persons bound over to answer in FeJoriy or Misdemeanor , with a description of the Offence , must be sent to the Clerk of the Peace ' s Office seven dayt at least before the first day of the Sessions , together with all Depositions , Convictions , and Recognizances .
The attendance of Jurymen will not be excused on the ground of illness , unless it be verified by affidavit or proved by evidence in open Court . ¦ And Notice in also hereby given , that the Public Business of the Riding will be transacted in open Court at Twelve o'Clock at Noon , on Wednesday , when Motiqjw for Gratuities , and the Finance Committee ' s Report will be received and considered and on the same day , the rules for the government of the House of Correction at Wakefield , will be taken into consideration ; and the subject of enlarging the present House of Correction , or of building anew or additional House Of Correction in or near to Wakefield , will also be considered : and if necessary , a grant of money out of the public stock of the said Riding , will be made for carrying the same into effect . ADJOUHNMENT FBOM POSTEPBACT TO WAKBF 1 ELD .
And whereas in pursuance of a requisition delivered to me , signed by five Justices acting for the said West Riding , Notice is hereby given , that the same General Quarter Sessions of the Peace will be holden , by adjournment , at-the Court House , in Wakefield , on Tuesday the 13 th day of the same month of April , at the hour of Twelve o'clock at Noon , when and where the Report of the Committee appointed oa the 10 th day of February last , " to consider and report how many constables , in _ their opinion , should be appointed in the West Riding , under the Acts of 2 and 3 Victoria , cap . 93 , and 3 and 4 Victoria , cap . 88 , and what rates of payments should be made to such constables , " will be presented and taken into consideration ; and such further proceedings relating to the adoption of the said Acts throughout the said West Riding , will be taken as shall be then and there deemed expedient . C . H . ELSLEY , Clerk of the Peaoe . CJerk of the Peace ' s Office , Wakefield , March 12 th , 1841 ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 20, 1841, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct371/page/7/
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