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HOUSE OF LOKDS-Thursday , Aug . i . Their Lordships met at fire o ' clock . - Several Bffla were brought up from the Commons , sniforwarfed & stage ; after which their Lardsliips sAjc- arced .
Friday , Aug . o . Their Lordships met at a quarter to flye o ' clock . The royal assent was given by commission to several Bills . - ¦ " ' ' i « . rd Campbell moved the second reading of the Britery at Elections * BilL lord Brougham supported the BI 1 L He expressed a h ? pe that the Honse of Cammwis wonld divest itself of the privilege of deciding contested elections , as theie TFas an indelible imprtssion abroad that they did not decide impartially in such cases . Lci-. i Campbell rejoiced that the Bill received the SUpivsrt of his Noble and learned Friend . The Bill was ihen read a second time , and ordered to be committed on Monday next . Sacral other Bills -were advanced a stage , and the Bmuv adjourned till two o ' clock on Saturday .
Saturday , Avg . 6 . Ibe House met to-day shortly after two o'clock , the E : ^ : vi SHaftesbory taking bis seat on the woolsack , in the absence of the i . ord Chancellor . . A message from the Commons , by Sir Q . Clerk and oVher-. Drought tip the Exchequer Bills' Bill , the Consolidated Fund Appropriation Bill , the Canada / Loan Bill , the Ecclesiastical Leasing Bill , the East India Bishoprics' Bill , and the Lnaatio Asylum ( Ireland ) BUI , Ell of "whieh "were xead a first time , and ordered , to b » zesvi i ssccud time on sionoay . A message also bi ^ iisbt up the Bonded Com Bill , and the Court of Cbsucerj Offices' BiU , statin ? that the House of Cammo :: * a % d agreed to the amendments of their Lordships . Ths House then adjourned till Monday at ten o ' clock .
Monday * Aug . 8 .. - X ^ * _ FOB . TEsQf £ moved for a return of all ' ths Ottlr&gfcsi-. Ireland reported by the constabulary in the last icoa'Ji , His Lordship proceeded to contrast the retards -which had been made of these offences during theirs * six months of 1831 with those of the correapozdi ^ period in the present year . According to these return , it appeared that a considerable Increase had taken fis . ee ta tbenunn ? er of these outrages—a ClCCUuv statci which his l / ordship partly attributed to tb . 9 reduction of fee-stipendiary magistrates by the present Go-verriflfcut His Lordship then made soine remari 3 on the i-iEjUsge said to have been used by Chief Justice PeiJifeiaxher in his charge to the jury at Armagh , at the trial of rlie fiVe prisoners for flihandism , ¦ which hfs Xoraahip thought was far from consistent with the judicial , ei ^ r-icter . .
Bis ( . frace the I > nte of WELI . T 5 GT 0 S had no objection to produce the returns moved for by the Noble Lord , tut at the same time he could not concur in the inf-. i ~ . iGe T * h . cb the Noble Lord had drawn from those returns . His Grace was of opinion that other circumstaccg .-, overlooked by the Noble Lord , znl «; ht have contributed to the same result , and suggested , that aac-Ei ? these , the superior energy and activity of the canst 3 bc : irT in detecting such offences might have had a coa = i- " s ~ 5--i >! e share . Bis Grace vindicated lie conduct of the Lord Chief Justice , whose character for ability ss-i impartiality was unimpeachable .
The Tiri of Gle ^ gall said , that the increase of crime in Ireland had commenced before the removal of Hie Ist-e Government from office ; it had increased regal&rlv since 1340 . He attributed the increase of those eriiaes of which the Noble Lord xEortescue has jv .-rricuiarly complained , to the electien riots in Is 4 i . T-ic rc-. tion was agreed to . Tr . r L-.-sd Chaxceliob , in presenting the report of U ; r foiumUtse oa the Marriage Law in Ireland , and
the Marriage Eill , said , that in consequence cf certain procst i : r . i ; $ ¦ jrhicti had taken place in Ireland , wiuc £ < would i = &i « r it necessary for the case to be brought before ihdr Lordships by a writ of error , when . the Judges would be summoned to attend , but which it was impossible could take place during the present session , he proposed that their Lordships shonid" consider " : n Committee the Bill which had been- refer rsd to the Committee to legalise existing marriages , With a Yiew t- > r-r-vent parties suffering inconvenience .
Lord Campbell oljscted to the motion , on the grouLd zhzX . the Bill , ¦ which assumed that these marriages vere null and void , would tend to shske confidence ic the validity of such marriages in ether parts of the empire except England . He thought " question -vghLbe settled by six or seven judges , and be rcsoe a declaratory instead of an enacting latr . Bis Xora ^ tip the n proceeded to cite precedents ior such a coari- in the conduct of the Irish . Parliament in 2782 , SG'i : hat of the English Parliament at a subsequent i ^ . rvxi . - Lord Bv . jcgham thought it was hardly possible for their Lyrdsc » ps to » sss a declaratory act in this case , Inasmuch a * the judges of Parliament had already dcddad , r . v -s . majority of eight t-o two , that these marris ^ ei s ^ i-- illegal
The JLxrqaxs of Claxsicarde declared lhat in spite of ths decis' jn of the Jndges , the opinion of the people of Irekrid in general was in favour of the validity of these Kiirrtages , The pi ;'! ^ as read a second time .
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H 0 r 3 E OF COMMONS . —Thursday , ^ iug . 1 . The speakes took the chair at four o ' clock . TheJEschequerBills ^ 3 , 193 , 000 ) BUI and tbi Consolidated Fond BUI passed through eoinmirtfee , and were ordered to be reported to-morrow iFriday . ) The Slave Trade Suppression Bill waa read a third time sad passed . The Tobacco Regulations Bill was read a third time ant passed . 3 d > . ^ icsissoymoTed for leave to introduce a bill to impzov ~ zho health ot towns , by preventing the interment of the dead within their precincts . The Hon . MrHii- ^ r , after directing the attention of the House to tfce evils of which this bill contemplated the remedy , saiil it was not his intention to attempt to pass the biii until next session , but that he should now lay it on the table , in order that all whose interest it , might afieet sboaM hare an opportunity of becoming fully acquainted vrith ita provision * . "
Thfc Hoe . Mr . Cowpes seconded the metion . The Hen Men , btr alluded to the disgusting and revolting scenes of almost daily occurrence in church yards arising hvm the present system of interment ; instanclag . he deaths of sextons who had died in consequence cf - . he pestilential gases evolved from these churchyards . Leave -was then given to bring in the BilL Sir F . Bekdett moved for a select committee to inquire i ; . io the negotiations of the government with 2 fr . Warner concerning his invention . Sir K . peel was most unwilling to pay £ 4 bo ' ooo for an txpe ; iment . Many of those alleged discoveries bad "bdfei : submitted to him ,- but he thought the best and mosr reasonable course would be to make the invenWr guarantee the succtss of Ms own experiment fcy paying the expense himself , before the G vernmeni paid a siuiiin ^ . A person had recently offered to destTOJ a Vus of battle eWp ¦ with a single snot .
Afttr a icw words ; from Captain Pechell , Sir G . CockbTsrn . anti Mi . BroVherton , Sir . F . Bckdeti replied , The Eou-e divided—For the motion 2 ; against it 72 "; majority 7 " . Lord Ash lei moved that an address be presented to Her ilaj « r ; y aiat she may be graciously pleased to direct thai tL . o oommifisionews appointed in answer to an address cf this Souse on the 4 th of August , 1840 , for icqniriEg in : o the employment of children in mines , and van uu-other branches » f industry , be desired to make funtst inquiry as to the number and ages of the children seJ youag persons employed as apprentices to lasers , also as to the terms ef their apprentice- ^ ship , && . After a * fa < -ri conversation , iord Ashley replied , and the mocica was agreed to . *
1 HE CASE OF JOHN MASON . } Mr . T . I > c > combs Baid , it was -with much regret 1 Ihat he ' Ulv tmuBelf called upon again to call the at-i tention of tl > e House to the sufferings -which iiason j sad se ^ er . marking men were now nndargoing in ; Stafford ga-K but having undertaken ths case of thesei poor men . te did not think ha would be discharging ! his duty ! e a proper manner if he allowed the House to break ap TrithouS once more endeavouring to obtain i jusScefor rhi-m . Hefslfe itimperative upon him to do so i also , becaavr so long a 3 these unfortunate individttals therein cv ^^ 'ement . heconsidered therightsand liberties i ot tiie BoVj =-3 ta of laei 2 d » jesty remained in abeyance . ' On fcrnu ¦ t-casioBs he bad fnliy explained ^ all the ' drcnEisiar : <;> j ol the case , so that it was unnecessary for S
him to £ o into a detail of them again . He wonld j merely .- ^ ais say that the doctrine tkal a constable Bhould have the . power of deciding whether a person was nsifl ? seditious language or not , and should have the power of dissolving meetings when he pleased ,, ¦ which was laid down by the Right Hon . Secretary for the Home Dspartment , and he was sorry to say sanctioned by a large majority of the House , was most ^ farmi ng iad dangerous—{ hear , hear } . The Hon . Genflanmn feere read the words used by Mason as given in evidence by Beman , the constable , and said that if i Mason had been killed in oeing dragged off the bench on which he stood , nothing ceuld have prevented the
constable frojn being tzied for murder . If the doctrines l * id down by the Bight Hon . Baronet were correct , Why did the ? Government not send their constables over to the place were the Anti-Corn Lav delegates bald their meetings , within a few yards of the House , ad where much stranger language wa « given utteranoe to every day than any that ever fell from Mason ? Sena ' of the men were working men , having Irom two to eig&t children each to provide for , and such was the feefing which their incsreerataon had raised In the ' neigttoor hood in which they resided , that men of all elaeeB and of all parties had entered into a subscrip t t&QB Ibi fee maintenance of their famSHftg vthile ttiey ware In gsoL That shQwed the feeling of ths people
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as to the conductor the magistrates and the persecution the men were undergoing , and therefore he thonght he bad a right to call for an expression of the opinion of the House in their favour . As a matter of course , he would be told that it would be an interference with the prerogatives of Hie Crown—that was always toe story when any matter waa mooted which w& > disagreeable to the minister of the day ; bat the matter was one of much public importance ; for , daring the ensuing recess , one of the most important which had occurred for years , no public meeting whatever could be held , if
the doctrines laid down by the Bight Hon . Baronet opposite , Mr . Winslew , the magistrate , Baman , the constable , Mallalieu , the inspector , and Mr . Jeremy , the magistrate , were acted upon . They bad done many acts of injastice daring the session , let them close it by doing one act of peace , and liberate those poor men . He moved that , " An address be presented to her Majesty , praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to take into her Majesty ' s mercifol consideration the case of John Mason and seven working men , confined in Stafford gaol , with & view to their immediate discharge . "
Sir J . Graham regretted that the Hon . Gentleman had thought It his duty again to bring this matter before the House , because he would l > e very sorry to use any harsh terms in discussing a matter on which he wished to be ntfcerly impartial . That was now the third time that the question had bsen discussed in that Honse , and on a previous occasion the House had distinctly j efused to constitute itself a tribnnal of appeal is this case . That the Hen . Gentleman intended that it bhould be made such a tribunal was apparent , for he distinctly stated that it was his intention to impugn , not only the conduct of the magistrates who ordered the prosecution , but also that of the judge for bis address to the jury . Surely that was a direct appeal from the criminal jurisdiction exercised by them . He iSi * J .
Graham ) waa prepared to admit that on an important , a ^ i-feat , a national question , where the juages were considered to have gone beyond their duty , or if they were charged with corrupt practices , it was competent for them , in the exercise of their high functions , to constitute themselves a court of appeal ; but it was a power which ought not to be used upon slight occasions , otherwise that high power would be brought inte contempt . He ( Sir J . Graham ) could not grant the Hon . Giotiemnn ' s assumption that any suspicious circumstances attached to thiacase . There was nothing whatever to impugn the ' motives eithtr of the magistrates or the judge who presided by saying that Beman might have been tried for murder supposing life to have been lost Tee Hon . Gentleman completely begged the
whole qntstion . for the issue between them was , whether the meeting was legal or not ? Upen that ptintthey hsd the opinion of the judge who presidednot-a country gentleman , but a barrister of considerable experience , long conversant with criminal trials , and of unexceptionable character They had also the verdict—surely tb . it waa presumption enough in favour of the constable ' s conduct He would not go farther into the case ? but he must again protest against that House ixsing made an appellative tribunal from the regular constituted criminal courts of the country . Although it waa right that juBtice should be seasoned with mercy , some reg : ird must be had to times and circumstances . He had heard with great regret that considerable excitement prevailed in the county of Stafibrd , and that considerable nnmbers of workmen had been thrown out of
employment , m Bome instances from their own misconduct , and in others under circumstances which he thought entitled them to compassion . He was , however , of opinion , that persons who , imitating the conduct cf Mason , had addressed exciting and inflammatory languase to the peoplej deserved Bevere censure and reprobation . In the case which had been brought under the consideration of the House by the Hon . Membar for Fiusbury , the prisoner Mason had been convicted of using iEflammatory and seditious language ,
and of rendering the meeting at which snch language was used , and which might otherwise have boen a perfectly legal assembly , an unlawful meeting . It was for her Majesty ' s responsible advisers to decide what representation they might make to the Crown with respect to the case of Mason and his fellow , prisonera . He could not compromise the * nfttt « red discretion of the Dtlinisters of the Crown by giving to the Hon . Member for Fbsbury any pledge on the Bubject , and he li- > P ? d the House would resist the motion of the Hon . Gentleman .
Mr . Hawes said he thought , under the ciTeumstances , this case was one which it would well become the Right Hon . Baronet opposite , and his colleagues , to bring under the mercifal consideration of the Crown . He did not approve of all that had been said by Mason , but he thonght the fact of his being a paid lecturer ought not to excite a prejudice against him . He confessed that he thought the Hon . Member for Finabury had , on the present occasion , brought this question somewhat unnecessarily under the eonsideration of the House . He considered that the constable who seiaad Mason hart interfered very improperly at the meeting . He iMr . H 3-sres ) had frequently attended similar mettii-g 3 , and he would , when he considered it his duty , attend such meetings in future . He hoped that the
people Tvonld not be deterred by what had occurred with reference to this case from attending public meetings , and freely expressing their opinions , even though they might do so in somewhat Btrons ; language . Indeed , ths exar ^ ise of this xight constituted one of the safeguards of the liberties of the people . It was something neTf to be told that such meetings were . unlawful ; and he was still more surprised that it should be stated , on high authority , that constables were to be constituted the judges of their legality or illegality . He was convinced that all moderate men entertained strong objections to the interference of the police at meetings of the people without just and sufficient cause ; and he had been greatly surprised that snch a doctrine shonld be held by a Minister of the Crown as that which had been advanced l > y the Right Hon . Gentleman opposite .
Mr . Hcme said , that the police force in this country ought so to be condated as to maintain peace , instead of occasioning violence and disorder . He had heard with surprise and rejrrtt the doctrine advanced by the Right Hon . Biironet , the Secretary for the Home Department ; for be considered , that if snch a doctrine -was acted upon , the most mischievous results wonld ensue . He thought that the future utility of the police force depended chiefly on their not overstepping the bounds of their legitimate duty . Seme complaints were formerly made to this House with respect to the conduct of the police —inquiries were inttituted—and since that period he thought the general conduct of the force had been most
creditable . In this case , however , he conceived that the police had acted with great impropriety ; and it yrza only by checking in their commencement such irregular proceedings that they could hope t * maintain the peace of the country . He did not know whether it would be prudent foi the Hon . Member for Finsbury to press his motion to a division , for he thought , from some expressions which had fallen from the Bight Hon . Baronet opposite , that the case might be left iu the hands of the Government He considered that great benefit would arise from the statements which had been made in the House on this subject ; and he . therefore recommended his Hon . Friend not t'j press his motion to a
division-Mr . C . YiLLlERSsaid that the person referred to as a hired lecturer was a resident in Bilston , and was held in considerable esteem in the neighbourhood . However strong the language used at meetings in Staffordshire might have been , no outrage had been committed in tha * county ; and he thought this was one reason why mercy might be extended to the parties reftrrtrt to in the cation of the Hon . Member for ITmsbury . He had no doubt that the Hon . Member would withdraw his motion if ths Right Hon . Baronet opposite would take the ease into his favourable consideration . It seemed that the constable had pnt his own construction upon the language used by Mason ; and had , without any legal authority , committed an assault upon him . Several of the persons present , who considered the interfeience
of the constable Improper , attempted to rescue Mason ; and the whole of the parties had been tried , convicted , and' sentenced to imprisonment for several months , their families meanwhile being left in a state of extreme destitution . He might state , as an evidence of the public feeling on this subject , that a subscription had been entered into by persons of all classes and of all parties for the relief of the families of these men . Mx . Wabd thought , that without obtaining Borne assurancs f roni the Bight Hon . Gentleman opposite the Hon . Member for Finsbury ought not to allow his motion to drop . He conceived that there never was a more dangerous period than the present at which to Intrust to parish constables—who were generally ignorant men—the power of exercising a judgment on the
language used by speakers at public meetings . He thought the language used at the meeting at Whjca Mason and his fellow-prisoners were present waa not one whit more violent than the language used in , as well as out , of that House , —not more violent indeed , than language which had been used by the Right Hon . Gentleman opposite . "" - -The language used at that meeting was not ( as we understood the Hon . Member ) more seditious than language which ho ( Mr . Ward ) had himself tised in that House , or than expressions which had "been frequently uttered during the debates on the Corn Law and the Tariff . Feeling it to be a very proper occasion ,, for the Honse to inttafere on behalf ef men improperly treated , if his Hon . Friend pressed the House to a division , he { Mr . Ward ) should support his motion .
. Mr . R . Youke said he would adopt the very language which bad been used by these men , and for which they had been imprisoned , and would repeat them at the first pnblio meeting he might attend , it was monstrous that they should b ? treated as they had been . The magistrates , if he were rightly informed , had . offered to compromise the case , and to give them their liberty on their entering into their own recognieinces ; tut the men , convinced that they had done no nnlawfnl act , refused . If this were so , the magistrates had violated justice by punishing them . Mr . Bbothsbtom thought tixo Right Hon . Baronet opposite must be convinced that something must be done in the case , and be would rather trust it to the Right Hon . Baronefs consideration than press the motion to a division .
Mr . T . Dukcombe , in reply , said he should betray his duty to these individuals it he were to withdraw his motion , They had violated no law , and ought not to deprived of their liberty . He felt that he had done Mb duty in bringing the case before the House . It was a prosecution instigated by the magistrates of Staffordshirs lot party purpeses , and under these circumstances
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he should record his opinion against such an act of injustice . . . '¦ , The gallery was then cleared for a division , when the numbers were—¦ ' .- ¦ For tbe motion ............... s « Against it ....................... 53 Majority 23 The Honsa soon after adjourned .
Fndat / i August 5 . The Speakeb took the chair at twelve o ' clock Several bills were advanced a stage , and a number of petitions presented . ¦ . . ¦¦¦ ¦¦ - . ¦ The House then went into committee on the Newfoundland bill . On clause six being proposed for abolishing the legislative council , Mr . O'Connell protested against ttiis mode of taking away the constitution of the colonies without full investigation , and a full opportunity of being heard by witnesses on the part of the eplonlots . The people ' s right of electing the representatives would be a mere
mockery—a delusion , and an insult The Chamber of Assembly was to consist of twenty-five members ; of these ten were to be elected by the Government , and fifteen by the people ; so , if only three of those representatives should be returned by the government party , they ( the government ) would have a positive majority in the chamber . Could anything be more absurdmore unjust , or a greater insult to the people , who bad always been considered as a loyal and patriotic people ? H « should move that the words •• abolishing the legislative council as a distinct branch of the legislature , ' should be omitted . . -
Lord Stanley agreed with the Right Hon . Gentleman that it was not advisable to carry on the legislature by means of one chamber only ; but under the present circumstances of this colony , where One House constantly xejeosed the bills of the other , he thought it would cjnduce to the more harmonious management of the affairs of the colony , if they were to merge the two chambers into one . He felt confident it would be for the benefit of the colony to abolish the legislative council as a distinct assembly-Mr . V . Smith said that in giving his vote in favour of tbia clause , he did not wish to be understood as in any way sanctioning tae permanent abolition of the legislative council . The Noble Lord had at hia ( Mr . T . Smith ' s ) des \ re introduced a clause making this a temporary measure ; it was , in fact , merely an experiment , such as had been tried in New South Wales and Australia . Guarding bis vote by the assumption that this was only a temporary measure , he should record it in favour of the Noble Lord .
Mr . P . Howard opposed the principle of the bill . Mr . Hume said the inhabitants of Newfoundland were unheaid and unrepresented , and the House was now about to deprive them of the greatest of privileges —that of managing their own affairs , a syrtem of management under which the colony had improved in every respect . If this diafranchisement were to be applied to any one Eutlish borough there was not a member who would not be ready to ciy out on its injustice . He was prepared to prove that all that had been alleged against the constituencies were gross exaggerations . Mr . Wtse said he must continue to oppose the clause , as an insult and injury to the people . It was not right for the House to punish first , then to decide , and then to hear the parties aceused . Ths committee then divided , the numbers being—for the clause , 80 ; for the amendment , 18 ; majority for the clause , 62 .
Several other amendments were proposed , but , upon division , negatived , and all the clauses were flually agreed to without alteration . The House then resumed , and the report was ordered to be brought up on Saturday . Mr . OConnell said that he believed he could now make the motion of which he had given notice respecting the late trial for ribbonisin at Armagh . Hia object waa not to pronounce any premature censure upon the Government as connected with the transaction in question . He thought there could possibly be only on& opinion as to the nature of those transactions , especially as to the employment of the -witness Hogan . Tne only question appeared to be , upon wbom did the responsibility devolve ? If the misconduct was to be attributed
to the magistrates and witnesses , they would be liable to censure , and , without anticipating any connexion between the Government and those parties , if the Government sanctioned the conduct of those witnesses , he thought he v » ould be safe iu saying that the House would be unanimous in censuring Buch conduct . He did not suspect that the Noble Lord ( Eliot ) participated in those transactions . The mode in which he personally conducted himself in Ireland precluded snch a notion . The trial at Armagh was one of ribbonism . He begged the House to keep in mind that the possession of pass-words made the persons liable to transportation . Four penona were tried at the last Armagh assizes ; two -witnesses were , produced to procure & conviction ; one of these was a man named Hogan ,
who had acted as a spy upon the prisoners ; he pretended to be a ribbonman , be joined them ; made himself acquainted with their secrets and their pass-Words , and this he had done for the express " -purpose of denouncing tbeni . The Hon . and JLearned Gentleman proceeded to read the evidence of Hogan , the approver ¦ which has already appeared in the public papers , to the effect that he had made ribbonmen by the hundred . He invented sixty-three classes of pass-words and disseminated large quantities of illegal papers , the mere possession of which was a transportable offence . AH he required was , that the correspondence between the magistrates and the Government , should be prortuced . Ht trusted the Government would not attempt to screen the pirties implicated in these transactions .. He mave ^ merely for the correspondence—he cast no censure upon the Government by oiB motion —( hear , hear . ) He
entirely absolved the Noble Lord from all knowledge of such a transaction . In the case of Popay , the then Government had not attempted to cast any shield over him . Lord Althorp had at once granted a committee of icqiiiry into bis conduct , and bad stated it as his opinion that the employment of spies to entrap persons into anil ! was a most abominable system . That tibominable system had been denounced in just and eloquent terms by the counsel for the defence , who , notwithstanding he was of conservative politics , yet did his duly nubly to his clients , and in such a manner as rtfk-cted tbe highest honour on the Irish bar . Lord Althorp bad stigmatised the spy system as abominable and atrocious . The Right Hon . and Learned Gentleman concluded by moving for copies of correspondence between the Government , magistrates , and tbe police , relative to the trial at the late Armagh assizes .
Lord Eliot Baid , if anything could induce him to accede to the motion of the Right Hon . and Learned Gentleman , it would be the calm and temperate manner in which he had introduced it ; but be thought be would betray his duty , if he were , by assenting to the production of these papers , to furnish what he could not but consider a dangerous and inconvenient precedent He had had no opportunity of seeing the correspondence , but he could well conceive that it was of a confidential nature , and that the production of it might tend to doTent the ends of justice , either by pntttng on their guard persons who might be implicated , or who might be objects of suspicion to tbe local authorities , or , on tbe other hand , that it might tend to fix imputations upon persons who would subsequently be proved to be entirely innocent of the charges brought against
them . { Hear , hear . ) The Noble lord then went through the circumstances of the case . Hogan had sail ! that he initiated persons into ribbonisin , with the knowledge of the police and the magistrates . Upon that point he ( Lord Eliot ) was not prepared to give an opinion . He had no hesitation in saying that the report of the trial , referred to by the Right Hen . and Learned Gentleman , was altogether i accurate . He had searched the Dublin newspapers of the day , and bad found no mention whatever of the occurrences described in that paper . He was satisfied that there was nothing in the correspondence which reflects any blame on the Government He felt it his duty , however , and it was a painful duty , because he could wish that the whole matter was investigated by the House , but he felt it hia duty , for the reasons which he had stated , not to consent to the production of these papers .
Mr . Hume said he was glad to hear the disclaimer of the Noble Lord on the part of the Government , of all participation ia these proceedings . He wished to know , however , whether Hogan had received any pay from the Government ? Lord Eliot said that Hogan , in his evidence , distinctly denied haviBg received any reward . The House then , divided , when there appeared—For the motion , 24 ; against it , 72 ; majority against the motion , 48 . Mr . O'Connell then gave notice that he would move , next session , for a committee to inquire into the subject of the employment of Hogan and Cox . The Court of Chancery Abolition o £ Offices' Bill was read a third time and passed , with some verbal amendments . Oa the order of the day for going into Committee on tae Bankruptcy L » w Amendment Bill ,
Mr . Philips objected to that portion of it taat was applicable to the appointment of official assignees . The Solicitob-Geneeal contended that the Bill would carry out all the good that was expected from it Mr . BernaL complained of the late period of the session at which Bills of this importance were introduced . : ; Sir J . GbahaM said the Bill was supported by the authority of tbe other House : and he hoped the Hon . Member would allow the Bill to go into Committee He advocated the appointment of fixed Commissioners who should be responsible for the execution of the laws } and where the debtor made an honourable surrender of bis goods , he shonid not be imprisoned ; but if he acted otherwise he shonW be subjected to some punishment . Sir Rosebt Peel supported the motion . The House then went into committee , when clause three was agreed to . :
On clause ten being read , a desultory conversation ensued , and , Mr . Wood moved that the word " farmer" be in-Berted so as to bring that class of persons under its provisions . Mr . Henley opposed the motion . The Honse divided—For the amendment , 7 ; against it 85 : majority , 78 . The elaus&s from ten to thirty inclusive were then passed ' seriiaiim . '
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Clause thirty-six waa agreed to , after some discussion . r ; \;/ ¦ ; . ; ; ' - - ^ v : -- ; •¦ ¦ ¦ ; ¦ -: v - . . / .-.. - ¦ .. - . - . ; ¦ The remaining clauses were then agreed to , and the Chairman reported progress . , , liir . MASTEKMAW moved that tu « wine merebarjits should be allowed a drawback upon tbe Wine in stock in the event of a reduction being made In the duty upon port- wine , consequent on the treaty with Portugal . The Hon . Member argued at considerable length in support of his motion . - ¦ .-., ¦ ¦ - '¦ . ; V ;^ - : ¦ :- ' - ¦' . ¦ : ' - '' ¦ . :. ; - . ' : the Chancellor of the Excheojcek opposed the proposition . " - . '¦ ; v ' ; ; . ' .: ' - -.- ¦¦¦ '¦'' : ¦; . ' ¦¦ : '¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦' . . ;¦ "V . ¦'¦ ' "¦' ¦ ' : ' . ¦' .. ' Sir BOBEBT Pbei , protested against the principle of allowing a drawback on foreign wine , while the same principle was not conceded to other articles coming from foreign countries . A short conversation then ensued , and tbe motion was negatived without a division . V
The orders of the day were then disposed of , and the House adjourned . ¦¦ Saturday , Aug . % . The Hou « e met at twelve o ' clock . The Consolidated Fund ( Appropriation ) Bill and the Exchequer Bills (^ 9 > 193 , oeO ) were read a third time and passed . '¦ ¦ : ¦ . ¦ ¦' : " ¦ . ; ; . . "¦ - ¦^ ¦" / ' -. ¦ ¦ ¦ .. ¦¦ -. ¦ . ;¦/• ' . ¦ . Theotdet of the day for bringing up the report of the Newfoundland bill Was read , and tbe report was received . - •¦; ; . ¦ ¦/ , '¦ ' :: (" ¦ ;¦ : ¦¦ ' , \ ' }' .. ' ' ¦ ' - ; On the motion that the bill be engrossed , Mr . B . tVALL said he objected to the principle of the bilL He objected to the bill because he had no information to go upon . He proposed as an amendment that the Bill be engrossed this day three months . ¦ : ' ¦ ¦' ¦ .. ¦' .: " ..:,. " ¦ ' ' :,, ¦ : ¦¦ •¦"* '¦'¦¦ ' . : ' . .. \ ' - . ¦ ' ' Mr . P . Howard seconded the motion , which , upon a division , waslosbby a majority-of 43 .
The bill was then ordered to be engrossed , and the third reading fixed for Monday . On the erder of the day being read for the consideration of the Lords ' amendments to the mines and collieries bill , ; ¦ ¦; ¦ . ¦ . ¦ ¦ : ;¦ . - •'¦' . ¦ Y- . ; . ; . . .:. ' . ' : " Lord Ashley entered into a defence of the report of the commissioners , and said that , though the amendments made by the Lords in the bill would invalidate to a great extent the utility of the measure , yet he aas&pted those amendments on account of tbe great principle involved in the bill . The uoble lord concluded by moving the adoption of the ' -amendmeuts . . ' ' .. - ¦ ' ;¦ .: ¦ . ¦ : v \ . ' . ¦ : '¦ ' ¦" - ¦ ¦' , . , " - : - ¦ ' . \\ : ' : :- . V - " ¦¦ Afters few words from Mr . Forbes , ;
Lord Paxmerstpn said it w with great pain he observed the amendments made by the Honse of Lords in this Bill , because tnose amendments went to deterforaio the spirit of improvement in the legislature of this country evinced in this bill , to which there could be no objectlon wbatever : on . ' ¦; political grounds . Bat ,- under the circumstenceg stated by the noble lord > he { Lord Ashley ) had exercised a sound discretion in not calling on the House to negative these amend- ' ments . . ' ; . ' - -J , ; . v Vj V ' " .. {\ ' ¦ - ¦ ' ¦ ' -. Lord Ashley , in explanation , stated that when the course was taken in the Hoiise which rendered the changes inevitable , he ( Lord AsbUy ) was asked if he would consent to ; them ? His reply was , that he could not help himself , and that he was disposed to sacrifice the children in order to save the women .
Mr . pHARLES BULLER said , as the Noble Lord had acceded to the amendments , those who Warmly supported the Bill would not dissent ; from them . But he must say , that the whole force of the diBCttssioitt made the value of the amendments less '•" Bind less . Till the Right Han . Baronet defended them , he was not aware how utterly useless they Were —( hear . ) He was afraid also they would damage the Bribery Bill , notwithstanding the assurance given by the Right Hob , Baronet that he would support it ( A voice from the Ministerial side of the House— - " The Bribery Bill has passed . " ) He was very glad to hear it was out of danger . ( Cheers and lauffhter . ) •' .. - ' ¦' ¦ " . . '¦' ' .
Sir Robert Peel salfl he , beHeved tbat . the Bribery Bill would pass the House of Lords without amendment , but he would not pledge himself that the House of Lords should adopt all the details of any Bill . The House of Lords was a deliberative body , and had a perfect tight to make any modifications in the Bill Which they inight think proper . With regard to some of the amendments lie would admit that be was sorry they had beenadopted —( hear . ) But with regard to some of them , he thought they were improvements . The amendments were then agreed to . The H : euse ; ttien'i ! reUt'& ' toCo ^ mItt 6 e on j % e ; BorbQgii Incorporation / : and , after ; a long discussion between several Hon . Gentlemen , on the subject of cpmpensation to individuals suffering under the ^ operation of the Bill , a report was ordered to be received on Monday , when a clause is to be introduced for compensating sUch individuals . - ' : '' . ¦ " ¦ . ¦
Lord PaljieRston moved for copies of any correspondence which has taken place since the 1 st of July last , between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and any Member of that House , upon the subject of the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds . The Chancellor of the Exchequer seconded the motion of the Noble Lord . Mr ; Hume concurred in the course which had been adopted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer . Mr . y . SMITH said that Hon . Members who wished the privileges of the House to be upheld ought to be very much obliged to the Noble Lord for bringing this measure before the House . After a short discussion between Sir R . Peel Mr . Torke , , and Captain Piumridge , the motion was agreed to ; . ¦ "¦ . ¦' ,: ¦ - . '¦ = - ¦" . ' . ' ' ' . ' : - . Theorders Of the day were then disposed of , and the House adjourned till Monday , at twelve o ' clock .
Monda y ^ Aug . 8 th . On the motion for the third reading of the Newfoundland Bill , ; . : ! Brlr . P . HOWARD made another effort for tha rejection of it . The subject haying been too of ten debated to retain any of the freshness appropriate to a fish question , the Hon . Gentleman's opposition was speedily disposed of . . ¦ ' ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦¦ . ¦ ¦ ' ¦' . ' . ' '" ¦ . ¦ . ' ¦ " : ¦¦ . ' ^ . The Bankruptcy Bill went into cbmniittec , and occupied several hours . Attempts were made to reduce the salaries of the proposed officers below the -minimum which would secure adequate functionaries ; but this waa unsuccessful . A like defeat attended th ^ attempt at ptetetiUpg the extension of the institution of Official Assignees to Bankruptcies worked ; in the country . ' ; : . ; ; - . ; .. ¦'¦ ¦ ; . - . -V . ' . ' . '' ¦"¦ : ¦' .. ' . : ¦ . ¦; . . ¦ . . ; Mr . Lefroy , after the transaction of some other business , moved the issue of a new writ for Ipswich .. r : :.- - ' - -. :- ' ' ¦ .- ¦¦'¦ ¦ ¦ - ' . ¦ " : ' : : - '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ '
Mr . T . PUNCOMBE said , that the ' . Howe ., if sincere in its virtuous professions of indignation againat bribery , could not suffer the writ to issue that night There bad been five elections since the Reform Act , and at every one there bad been a petition . At the last election various persons were guilty of bribery , and from the report of the late Committee it appeared that several of those persons bad committed the same ofiunces at former elections . One , a Mr . Cook , had bribed-divers electors , and bad thus been the cause of vacating the Beats of cartain candidates for whom be bad been agent ; and it would be monstrous that while the candidate was disqualiaed to sit , the agent who bad wrought thia disqualification should * e still permitted to vote . He asked leave , therefore , to bring in a Bill for disfranchising these culpable parties , and generally for preventing bribery at Ipswich . He cited the precedents of Shoreham and East Retford . Sir R Peel
had expressed a desire that some measure of disfrancbisement should be applied to the constituencies of those large towns in which corruption bad prevailed . Now Ipswich bad been reported for corruption twice in this very session , and Bureiy then the Right Hon . Baronet would not suffer this writ to issue wlthont some check upon the repetition of such practices . Mr . Daucombe then read extracts from evidence piven by Sir T . Cochrane , who had repreauuted Ipswich in the last Parliament , avowing the undue expenditure by him of large suras at Ipswich . To the borough , the Jncorivenience arising from the suspension of the writ Was but a slight one--Ttbe loss of the Members' subscription to the next races . If the report of the Committee were to be neglected , it Was a piece of waste paper . He knew that great complaints had been made of the decision ; bat if geDtlenien found fault with it , they ought to state tbe particulars in which the report was unwarranted by the ^ evidence .
Mr . BLACKSTONB denied that the evldenoe made out' the alleged use : of gross bribery and . corruption at the late election . He went into details , exposing the diacrepancy batween the evidence and the report . ' : f ¦ ¦ ' : ' . . ' .- . -: ' . ¦' : ' ¦ ; ., i ' -.: ; . ¦' . .- ¦ ; " ' .: ¦' . - ' :-Mr . H . FiTZttOV : denounced the . decision of the committee aa one of the moat monstrous upon record , and cited passages of the eyidence ; to prove his allegations . He asserted that the case bad been prejudged by them , and appiualed . to their very first division to demonstrate their undue bias . The counsel for the" sitting . "Members Were quite right not to put their clients to the expence of peiseyering before a tribunal frpim whom it : ' -was . plain-: that justice could net be had . Thirty sbiUings given to a man for tiavtJlling expencsa and for . three days" loss of time ^ had been here adj adicated to be ; bribe ryy Why , then , if voters cculd not bear this sort of loss
themselves , and candidates were forbidden to bear it far them , Mbe only remedy wa » to . !¦ ¦ raise the qualification and confihe it to a class Who could afford to exercise such a franchise Here the whole expenditure had been but £ 450 ! there had been no bribery at ifttselectidn , The pretext of the present motion was . the bribery' at elections gone by . But if when a constituency shook offcorruption , you pun » iBhed them for the sins of their fermer days , you would hold' out yery slender encouragement to re ^ formation . The decision was a most unfair one j and if he were a party before a ; committee of which Mr . P . Stewart were nominated chairman , he should f eel , * f <»* Mt ; . P SfewatVa conduct on tbe late committee , that he had no course , however strong his ca » e might be , but to retire at once , without keeping up an expensive struggle , whiioh was pure to be fruiUess . v ¦; . .-. ¦ . - . . ¦ - : ¦ : ;; ¦ . ' ¦; . - ¦ -. " : " . " ' : ' ' - : ¦ ' .: ' - ¦ .:. ; .
Mr . M . J . O'CONNEtt lamented the strong language applied by Mr . Fiterpy to the majority of - ' the' committee , and entered into the evidence in vindication of their report . . ' .- ¦ . ¦¦ , " : ' .-.. ¦' - '¦'¦ - ' ¦ .- '¦ ' : : . s "¦ . "¦ ¦ ' '¦ ¦ Mr . P . STEwiiaT said , he had only administered what he believed to be the law . He appealed to the Conservative membera of the committee to vouch what had been his conduct , and Whether the committee had not been unanimous in the opinion that both bribery and treating were practised at the late election . The only difference of opinion had been as to the inference
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of agency to be drawn from the fact of bribery : Mr-Stewart then entered fully ^ nto the evidence to show that it bore out the tluding of the committee , and referred tat ^ justification ; , of hta own inteferenco . respecting ageiioy io the bribery act of George . IL . ( of whichrhowever , he did not tnake the applicability to tha agenoy Question at all intelligible ) . He exhorted the Houseto concur in Mr .: Buncombe ' s motion , and hang nptbese corruptelectors like iaeare-crows to their companions . ¦'¦'; . ; ; . » . » » j Mr . H . Stoaet , a member of the comnuttee , stated his own opinion to be * that there had been acts of bribery and treating , and that the agency of one party had been clearly proved . But it Was dear that these irregulftrities had been not only without the knowledge , but contrary to t be express direction of the c andidates . He had differed from the majority ; but he did not impugn their decision of : partiality . He opposed the disfrauchiflement reeommended by Mr . Dancombe .
Mr . Lefboy desired to be understood aa not anea . tioning the motives of the Chalrmah . But for his own pajt he considered the agOTt in this case to have been restricted by his principal to certain business , from which bribery was expressly excluded ; and ' -if he had chosen to exceed his Suthorltyi bis principal was riot responsible for that excess . Mr , Lefroy concluded by expressing bis intention to oppose ; Mr . TOuncombe ' s
amendment ' .. . ¦ - . : x . Mr . Williams vindicated his own deciaion-andtnat of hia colleagues on the committee . The Attorney-GenEB . AL brought the House back to the question before it He saw ho reason why-a charge that twenty-OHe voters had been guilty of bribery should be a ground for disfranchising all the rest of the constituency . Writs ought not to bs suspended except when the Lsgislature h ^ d it in contemplation to disfranchise or reform the bbreugh . He bad
beard with pain remarks upon the late committee , whichj if drawn into precedent , would make it im ^ possible -for future tribunals of the same kind to do their dafcy . He agreed with the committee fccat there were proofs of bribery ; but not of bribery by the caudidates returned , nor of bribery in all the individuals Whom this motion proposed to diarranchtae . Aa to several of them , he showed that the committee had proceeded to condemnation without adequate evidence ; and consequently , that there was no ^ sufficient ground , for a suspension of the writ . ;
Mr . 0 . BvlleA reprobated Mr . H , I ^ itzroy ' s attack on xhe committee . He rejoiced that they had exploded the miserable pretexts under Which bribery had been usuaUy committed , sach as travelling expenses and loBS of time . In general he was adverse to the suspension of writs ; but he would support the present motion , because he bfclieved that if a cerUin small body of habitually corrupt electors were cleared out of the Ipswich constituency in its present balanced state , the elections would be thenceforth conducted respectably and honestly . : ' ¦ ¦ . ¦ "' ¦ : ' ' . ' ; "'¦ ¦ ¦' , ' ¦' - ¦ ' : ' '" ¦ : ' - \ ., ' .. ¦ Mr . PaKBY said , that if Mr . Fitzroy had expressed himself strongly , it was Mr . Duncombe who bad dragged the House into this discussion , aud thus forced the opinions of mambers . : . ; Mr . Wyse defended himself and the other Members of the committee . ;
Sir R . PBEfc gave credit to the committee for having decided cohscientiously ; and was persuaded that any other tribunal substituted for a committee would soon be subjected to the same censures . Where were those angelic judges to be found who would be above dll suspicion ? ' And by whom Were thfcy to be appointed ? Ab to the present question , he might , for the argument's sake , concede that there had been bribery , and that the Members had been ^ properly ; unseated ; and even the U it would not follow , because thirty men bad been guilty
of bribery , that the rights of 1 . 780 electors should be suspended . Besides , a new Act had bow been passed for the prevention of bribery ; and , therefore ^ in the caaea both of Nottingham and of Southampton , the writs had been issued . The suspension of a writ , was no light penalty , anil not to be ligBftiy iuflicted . After the late warning , he did not beliova that bribery would be practised at the next election : for Ipswich . Nor . did he think it wise to startle the public mind by aasutning an excessive eagerness to suppress a particular offence . Mr . Tufnell said a few words ; and the House , dividing , decided for the issue of the Writ
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AMENDED FACTORY BILL . The following is the substance of a conversation which took place in the iiouae ol Commons , on Monday , Aug . 1 st , on the subject of a Bill for amendipg the present Factory Act , and which was irtoperfectiy reported iu some of the London journals : — : ; , Mr . Stuart WORtley rose and said that in the early part or the session the Secretary of Stftte for . the Home Department had promised to bring in a Bill for the amendment of the Factory Act ; that the non-fulfilment of that promise ( which Would most probably be explained by the great pressure of business ) had given rise to much / disappointment in the factory districts ; arid he wished , \ therefore , to ask whether the Secretary of State would be prepared to bring in a Bill for the amendment of the Factory Act in the next HfflRion at Parliament ?
Sir James Qraham . in answer , said that he had purposed ^ in the beginning of the year , to bring in a Bill ; that he had already prepared the clauses of one , but that he had no intention , with his present views , of bringing in a Bill for the abridgment of tha hours of labour . That the reports of the inspectors contained some suggestions which he thought worthy of consideration ; but , as it had been stated to him that the nbnr fulfilment of his promise bad occasioned disappointment , he ehould be very careful of making any more ; However , as at present advised , lie ^ should be disposed to bring in a BUI in the next session .
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HOW PERSONS ARE RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT , The following " elegant extracts" from the evidence presented to the House of Commons' Compromise Committee , will shew to what perfection the whole art of bribery and corruption has been brought in England . W hat a striking illustration they afford of the total failure of Lord John Russell's Reform Bill—a failure which will only be excelled by that of the same pucy statesman ' s " Bill for the better discovery of bribery . ' It is , certainly , a melancholy consideration that the country should be at the mercy of an a&eembly of legislators composed of persons who owe their seats to the extensive prevalence of some of the blackest crimes which disgrace human nature t- ^ - \
Harwich . ' —Parties bribed . —According to the evidence of Mr . James Currie , Parliatnensary agent , one « um of £ 100 was here distributed in bribes among pereoriB occupying small houses , or what ate called £ 10 voters , most of them small tradespeople ; and many of those Who in this place , which ia very decayed , live bjdredging for stone , which is used for Roman cement - ^( Ev . 271--273 ) " ' . " ¦ '¦ From the evidence of the Bame party , it appeared frem his notes that thirty-three persons were bribed , each of whom had large sums paid to him , many of them £ 50 and £ 100 , and some more . r- ( Ev . 297 , 301-2 . ) Mr . RichaTdMosa ^ agent to Mr . Attwood , admitted that on going down to . Harwich on th © eve ot the election , he found that there were ten open to bribery ( 309 )> and that Mr . Attwood held put the electioneering hope to the inhabitants " to reduce the Church-rates , " and , in similar electioneering fashion , to take shares in their railway to the extent of £ 10 , 000 . ( Ev . 309 , 340 44 . V " . ' : . . '¦¦ - ' ¦ -... , ¦'" .- ¦
Nottingham—System pEBASgETMONEY- ^ Most of the witnesses gave evidence on this poiut ; but as the clearest , perhaps , was Mr . Fladgate ' s we shall quote his words —( 374 ) . The custom of basket money in Nottingham is that of giving money previous to large bribes . For four or flye Weeks pieVious to any election , the people go round to the candidates , or their agents to : isk them for this " basket money . " They will go to some inn , or some house appointed for . the purpose , where they will recoive from 109 . to 2 p 8 i or 30 i , which they wiU call by the above name , from the fact of its being given on the Saturday , on which day the market is held , and it is supposed that this money is spent in buying provisions for- the week . Many hundreds , if not thousands , observed the witness , could have been proved to have received this retaining fee from agents , or parties supposed to be agents . —< 374 . ) "
Abduction opTOters . —Many of the voters , according to the same witness , were made drunk , and taken in that Btate to different places in the neighbeurhood t about three hundred were carried off iu this way daring the last election to diffjrent parts of the world . commonness of BitiBEBy . —BriWry , according to Mr ^ Thomas Wakefleld ^ 871-2 5 ) was so open , that every body said it was done , but when it came to be inquired into ,. it was not known ; people even considered there Was nothing wrong in it ; it seemed to be as much a matter of course as anything else ; the machinery by which it was done was this— -a certain sum of money was sent to each ward , and that was again sent to some particular individual , and through hia hands it passed to the voters . : ' -v ? : ' . . ¦ . - - . - ' ; . . :- - ;; :- :- -. ¦¦ . ¦ . ¦; .:., / .- / ;/ . ; . ; .
ABoRoUGRf'RisiNG in PRicE / v-The Bystemef votersr being bid-over by the Opposite party appears ( evidence of Mr . Hinnay ,. ( 8700-2 ) to have gradually grewn up within these last few years at Nottingham . The party witness belonged t » had tried ti get the borough of Nottingham for many years past , but were generally unsuccessful . : They tried , the purity system , but this was very derogatory to the feelings Bf the constituency . After that th 6 y put forward Aiacandidate a gentleman very popular in the neighbourhood , and of a very humane and benevolent character . Thay failed on account of / unda , and there was no chance tilt they got Mr . Walter . Then the effective or money system was adopted , and from that time to ttiis the borough has got" very d « uf , "• ¦ ' . ? very costly , " and has rises <« very maohia price . " ¦ ' . - , " ¦ : ¦ ... , . * ' ¦ ¦¦ : ' . } . ¦' : '¦¦ ¦ ' . --
-" Coo ? in » " at NoxTiKGHAM . —Nnmbers of voters , or rather sev « ral parties , were " cooped , " not in Nottingham , but in houses ten or twelve miles from Nottingham . Lord RanclifFe ' s was one with seventeen ; and Lord Melbourne's gardens , at Melbourne , with more than twenty . Tragab ? -br « ok -was a third with twenty , Matlock was a fourth with twenty , and a farmhouse at a place called Haogh with about the same number . At Lord Melbourne's they were kept in the gardens during the day time , for three or four
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days previous to the election , ; and they slept as they best might at the public-houses in the neighbourhood They Were driven to the gardens in the motning , ana kept there all day and made drunk , and w taken care of a night . —( 376-387 . ) " :. ' ' . : ' . . ' . ";¦ % ¦ " ! . ' ¦ ' -M- * ' - : ¦¦ : >¦ ' - ' ¦
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Jlr . Elmes , the surveyor of the port of London , is at present in Hamburgh , surveying the damage done by the late extensive dbnflagrafcioh , for the purpose of making : a design for rebuirding the damaged portion of that city on an improved plan . At the Recent North TIpperaryAssizesj Jamea Shea was Benteuced to be : hung on the 20 th iast . for murder , and death was also recorded against Patrick Tracey and Thoiuas Dunn for abduction . Fiveother criminals were also ordered to be transported for life , and three for fifteen years . O » the three Chartist petitions which have been presented to tiie House of Commong , anti successively rejected ^ tile first was signed by a million and a quarter , the second by two millions and a half , and tne third by three rhillvoha and a half .
; St . Croix orSt / GrosSj which is situated about a inilo from Winchester , on the road to Southampton , ia one of' the' ancient h 03 pitals or almonries now remaining in this kingdom . By the will of the danor , every traveller who knocks at the door of this hostel , on his way to or froin Winchester ! , is entitled to receive from the porter a pound of wheatcn bread and a cup ofstrpng beer . At the North Wales CirctuC v just tetmiuateci sentence of death : has been " pronounced oh two women for \ murder , Elizabeth Barrett , aged 23 , on her illigitimate child , eight months old ; and Hahah Roberts , only 19 years of age , for poisoning her husband , who was aged 75 .
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From the London GaptlU of Friday , Aug . 15 .. ¦" . : ¦ .. . ¦ . ¦ ¦ - '¦ ¦ ¦¦ BANKRUPTS . - , '' ; . { . ' -0 / ' ¦ '¦' . ' ' : ¦ : . Thomas Armstrong , Condult ^ trieet ,: Paddington , merchant , to surrender August 12 , at twelve o'clock , Sept . 16 , at two , at the Bankrupt ' s Court Solicitor , Mr . Wadesoii ,, AttstiriFriars ; officiial assignee , Mr . Belcher . ; " - ¦ ' - ¦ r :- ' -: Y . " - ' - " - r : '' : ¦ '¦ .. ' .. " : ¦>¦¦ ¦ : . ¦; :. : Koberfc RoUo ,: Darham-streeti " yaukhall-ioad , merchuni , August la , at one o ' clock , Sept . 16 , at one , at the Bankrapfs Covurt ^ Solicitor , Mr . iaillard , Tokenhouse-yard ; official assignee , Mr . Groom , Abchurchlane . -- ¦ '¦¦"¦ . .-. ¦" ' ' .. ¦'¦ '¦¦¦'¦¦ ¦' ' - .- ' . : . r ^ ,.:. : y ¦ ¦ ' ,: "'¦'
Stephen Knight , West Hoatliley , Sussex , cattle dealer , August 16 , at half-past eleven o'clock , Sept . 16 , at twelve , at the Bankrupts' Court iSolicitors , Mr . Palmer , Temple ^ : and ; Mi . Birt , East Grinatead i official assignee , Mr . Edwards , Frederick ' splace , Old Jewry . V- ¦ . . ' •'¦ . : ^ ; ¦ : - : .- ' - Robert Lybn i High Holborn , cablet-maker , Aug . 16 , atbaifpast one o ' clock , Sept 16 , at one , at tfie Bankrupte' Court Solicitors , Mr . Dangerfield , Suffolkstreet , Pall-mall , East ; and Mr . Brinton , Kidderminster . Official assignee , Mr . Edwarda , Prederick ' splace ,: Old Jewry . " . ' : ¦ : ' .. ¦¦ ¦ ' . '"¦ ¦ ¦ '' " '' ¦ - '¦' : *¦¦ . - . .: '' / . . :- . ' ; .: / John E » ly , Jan ., Weat-en 4-ta-Hailey , and Wltney , Oxfordshire , gkthweb-manuifactnrer , August , 8 , Sept . 16 , at twelve o ' clock , at the Mitre Inri , Oxford . Solicitor , Mr . Close , Furnivars-hin ; Holbbm .
John M'Gahey , Liverpool , printer , Aug . 15 , Sept 16 , at one o ' clock , at the Clarendon-rooms , Liverpool Solicitors , Mr . Addison , Meckienburgh-square ; and Mr . Ciementsbn , Liyerpool . : John Haddock , Warringtbn , Lancashire , bookseller ' ; August 19 i Sept 16 / at one o'clock , at the Clarendonrooois , LlyetpobL Solicitors , Messrs . Beaumont and Urrn 8 bn , ; Warrington . ' I : ¦ : ^ ' : : : ¦ Robert Lobsemore , Tiverlon . Devonshire , scrivener , August 18 , S » pt 16 , at twelve o ' clock , at the Half Moon Inn , Exeter . Solicitor , Mr . Moera , Exeter .
.. . .- . . ; PARTNERSHIPS pTSSOLYED . Noble , Hartley , and Co ., Aldmpndbury , near Haddersfleld , manufecturers ot fancy goods . Holmes , and S ; , JBt ; Gruhdy . Liverpool , paint manufacturers . T ; Bees and W . H . Ca . 8 tle , Liverpool , brewers . Kirk and Thackrey , Leeds , dyers . J . Keirby , job . and J . Robinsop , Marsden , near Burnley , Lancashire . W . H . S . and A . Kitohing , King 8 toh-upon ^ Hull , brush manufacturers ; so far as regards W " . H . Kitching . Rhodes and Holroyd , Huddersfield , cloth-flnishera .
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'¦ ' :: ; V : •; . ' : ^ . ;; : ' Ri ^ jit ^ : BSLEM ; 7 -.-:, ; . ^ : v V y ; ( Froma ( Jorrespod ^ 6 fi ^ Sttn . J ' TiJUfSTALi ,, Adg . 7 . —We have had a lamehtaole affair during the night in Burslem , and I have collected these pattlculaics fxbm parties on whom I can place impliclt reliance •— . ¦¦ . ¦' '¦ . ¦' . ¦' : ¦ . : "" '¦" . ' ^; > --- ¦'•• ¦ ' ' :. ; ¦ About six o'dock at r ^ ght , three mehj oailingf themselves colliers , with a bbx , were asking contributions from persons in Burslem covered market * and thence were taken to the lock-up , by Superintehdeht Kyles , and Brown and Ball , two of the watchmen . No notice seemea tobetaken of thaaflcair ; and the town wafl VOTy quiet until a ^^ few minutea ^ past twelve o ' clbclCi ^^ ^ when suddenly the approach of a crowd front the Chapel square waa ohsarved , and at the tunewithiit fifty
, yards p £ the Town-hall , where are the look-nps . A shout was given as soon as the mob was opposite the hall ; then a second , and ; instantly they knocked the locks off the doors , liberated the three men , and immediately commenced their attack on the windows of the hall , whichi have taen rtddled , and rnnety squares : brbkea ; . several stones were thrown through the illuminated dial of the clock , and it stopped thereby , at five minutes past one . Another party was then at work in like manner at the George Inn , kept by Mr . William Barlow , and 135 sash squares were quickly demolished , and much internal mischief done / to his premises- v Mr . Alcock ' e shop also was partially assailed , and sixteen squares broken . Mr . Ryies ' s house was beset by a party of sixty colliers , and eighty .
f our squares broken , and the pannels of his doors and shutters beaten in . The fornjture was much injured inside the house , looking-glasses were split , tables broken , and indentions , in tfie whUb over the children ' s beds , and almost deep enough to held a pullets egg Partial damage was also done to a small house occupied by Jame 3 Gracie , an ex-policeman , wno , being pot valiant , rushed amongst the mob ,: and w « s most rrfdely abused . His next-door neighbour " * house also suffered from the missiles . Mr . Acton ' s ahop and pirlbur windows are destroyed ; but strangef to say , not a square of the six upper-story windows is ibrokeaA ^ pistol
Was i . red , and . the party obeyed vthe * -signal , and left the tewn by the Wattelooiros ^ " t ^ Wiids Hanley , Reaving a number of blndgeons on the ground . They bad . remained' longer absent than was expected by their fellows in the other pwf&f for , after the firing pf ; the ' . pU ^^ when :-- (^^' : < b . f t 0 a ^ c 'the George Inn , and Mr . Byles ' s , , two aky-rtckets ^ erb sent up in the direction of Cobridge ' ( betWeeri Bdrslam and Hanley ) and little doubt can be- entertained -that they were informed of the military having been sent for . In consequence of » n express sent aa soon as conld With saffcty be doije , to Kewcastlej the Kifle' conipany was brougbt and arrived about three o ' clock , and herethey ¦
¦ remain . . ' : ¦ . .. - . ¦ . ..: ¦ . ¦ ., ¦ ¦ . : ¦ ; --. •; ¦ ¦¦ .. - .. ¦ - - .-. - The town is thronged with spectators of the disastrous consequences of this ill-judged afjai « v On the afternoon of Saturday , a party ' efcoWers from Longton , < fec . ^ turned out" those at Norton , three miles froHi Burslem ; " a stone severely injured Mr . Daan , one of the proprietors , and two of his bailiffs were ducked , first , in a dity puddle , and then in the engine waterpit . - ; - - '¦ /¦ '"' . . - - . .-:. ' ;¦ . .- ' ;¦ . - ... : - - ¦ ¦'¦ - ¦¦ ¦ ' ., ¦ . : .. - . I- ..- - . - ' ; ; . ¦¦ : ¦ . - "¦¦ . •"; - : . ' . ; V-
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From Me Gazette cf Tuesday , Aug . d . ¦ ¦ ; - ; - V , - . ' ; - . - .. \ ' y /; ' ; ¦ BANKBUPXS . ¦¦ . V '' / v ) - ¦ ' - ' . ;; ' : ; : John ThomasiKing and ^ Johh Groombridge , carprotera , Crimscott-street , Bermondsey , -to surrender Aug . lli-at two , and Sept 20 , at one , at the Court of "Bankraptcy . Groom , official assignee , AbohuTcu-lanB ^ Raw ; High Holborn . -. . ¦ ; ' ^ " . : . - ...: ; : \ ; . ; ' : : ¦¦ ¦; . ' v . -: m ' : i <^ - ^ - . ¦¦ : Thomas Hooper , chemist , Hay , ' Breobnshfte ? Aug 23 and Sept . 20 , at eleven , at the Swan Hotel ; Hay . Solicitors , Smith and Son , Southampton-street , Blboms bttryrsquare , London jGwillim , Hereford . vr : *' Griffith Jones , grocer , Carnarvon ,.: August 23 , and Sept . 20 , at eleven , at , the Sportsniatt Hotar ; Carnaryori . Solicitor , ; Williams , P wllhelll , Carnarvonshire . ¦ : - : - ¦ . ' ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ '• ¦ . '"¦" : ¦ : ¦ ¦ ' .: ¦ . ¦¦ ¦ '¦ •' - ¦ - . ' -:: . "'
Frederick Clark ,, auctioneer , Pprtman-street , Portman-square , August 15 , at one , and September 20 ; at twelve , at the Court of Bankrnptcy . r Perinell , official assignee ; Dafaur , Queen Anne-street , Cavendishjtquare . . " . ¦' .. " . . ' '¦ . - - ' ¦ . "¦ : ..-. , ¦ ' •' .. ¦ ' . '¦ '¦ ¦¦ : ' : ¦ Harry Collins Jeffreys , miller , Much Wenlock Salop , August 24 , at eleven , and September 20 , at one , at the Crown ' Inn > JBridgnortfi . ¦ Solicitor ? Hinton and Son , Much Wenlock ; Salop ; Baines , Gray ' s Inn-square . . ; .: .. ¦ :. ' . ; ' . ¦ ¦ : ¦¦ . ; - ; . ' ' . £ ¦ -f ' . - . - . s :,: ¦ . ; . Robei «' :. ^ Busby ,:- 'r d ^ n ^;' ' . ^ ood-BiTeit ;' : -BethnaIgreen , August 17 , at half-past eleven , and 'September 20 ? at twelve , at the Ci / urt of Bankruptcy . Penne | u bffictal assignee ; lTonig , vW " arwl <* . squareV % ewmfe ' street - . --. - ^ . ' : ' ¦ .... ¦ : ¦ . - .- .:,, . . ; ^ .-: « - # .-:- ^ ---i ^ a- .-v ¦ -. ¦ . - ;•
William Scott , blanket inanufaetuwir , BirlsfieatoW Dewsbury , August 13 , at four , ; ? an * September 20 , at e ! even ,, ali the Commlasfonera ' -Tooms , Leeds ^ Solicitors , Jaques , Battye , and Edwards , Ely-place ; topdon ; Greaves , Dewsbury . ; .,: ' . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ::- - -: ^ >^' - ^ - '~ : f : : ¦ - . Ednvini Arrowsmlth , mercer , Bornley , LanclsterV Aogust . 18 and ; September 20 ,. at tWelf */ * a £ M Court House , Bnmley . Solicitor * , Crasg-aad Jeja ? , Harpur-atteet , Bed lion-square , London ? Alcock and Dixon , Burnley . ¦ ¦ ... ;/ .: ¦ ; v ' ¦ ' ¦ - ' ¦ ¦¦ . . - '¦ .- > : ¦ ¦> .- v : - '' .. - o ( j Jobn Bent , grocer , DadJey , Wbrce « fe » 8 nirei August 23 , at elayen , and Sept 2 p > at the Swan / Wolverhamp t pn ; Solidtora , Shaw , Dudley ; Austin , Threadheedle street , London . - ' , . , ; .: / .: / .: ^ - ^ - ^ - ' :, -. — -.- -- ^ w-r ; .
Wflliam Reay , BUp-bnildeft Walker , Northamoerr *«» a » 8 « pW V ftt eleven , and Sept . 20 , at one ,: at tha Bankrupt . CommiBsion . room , Newoastle-upon-Tyne Solicitors , Cuvelje , Skilbeck , and HaU , Southampton * buildtogsj Cbanoery-Iane ; London ; Keenlyside and Har ie , Newcaatle-upon-Tyhe . - , * Henry Gray Kellock arid Adam BickeOSOn Kellodt , provision merchantfl , Liverpool , August 28 , and September 20 , at two , at the Clarendon-rooms , Liverpool . Solicitors , Roscee , South-square , Gray ' s Inn , London ; Moss , Liverpool ; Fletcher and Hull , Liverpool . ¦ ¦
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 13, 1842, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct443/page/6/
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