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THE RATIONAL SCHOOL GRAMMAR , AND ENTERTAINING CLASS BOOK . By Wm . Hm . —Manchester : Abel Heywood , OldBam-Btieet ; and Hobson , Star office , Leeds . A new and enlarged and greatly impreved edition of this useful manual , has justmaaeit 3 appearance . It has been got np in an exceedingly neat and beau tiful . manner , by Mr . Heywood , of Manchester , in whose hands the copyright of the edition is rested , and to whom great credit attaches for the excellence and correctness of Ms workmanship . It is a grammar , as we need not inform our readfra , suitable for the "whole people , and ought to be extensively circulated ; its price Li within the means of a very large proportion of the community .
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IiEEDSi—Extensive Damage . —On Saturday last , four lads , the eldest only thirteen yeare of age , named Edward Riley , James Wallis , Thos . Mourn , and Patrick Gettings , "were charged with having on the same morning , trespassed in a field , in the occupation of Mr . Outhwaite , on the Chapel Town Road , and with having committed damage by undergaining a bank in the field , for the puroose of getting jtone 3 . They were found in the field at an early hour , by one of Mr . Outhwaite ' s servants , who sent for the police , by whom the mother of one of them was seen near the field watching . The damage done was proved to exceed six shillings , which the lads were ordered to pav , with the expenses , or in default , id go to Wakefield for fourteen days .
The Oastleb Subscription . —On Monday evening a meeting of the friends of Mr . Richard Oastler was held at Mr . Smith ' s , the Commercial Hotel , Albion-street , Leeds , in order to take s'epsfor the promotion of a subscription to aid the general fund commenced in London , to procure the liberation of Mr . Oastler from the Fleet prison , and to provide him with a suitable annuity after his enlargement . 3 Ir- Wm . Atkinson was called to the chair ; he addressed the meeting in a good speech , pointing out the sterling qualities of Mr . Oastler , as the enemy of oppression , the sworn advocate of the cause of the factory children , the opponent of the New Poor Law , the friend of humanity is general , and the able defender of the British constitution . Eloquent and forcible addresses in support of the cause which the meeting had met to nphold , were al ? o delivered by Mr . ilallinson , Mr . Summers , Mr . Perring ,
Mr . Pounder , Mr . SmithsoD , and others . It was resolved to immediately commence a subscription on behalf of Mr . Oastler upon the basis of the subscription originated among the friends of that gentleman in London , but subject to the control of the local subscribers as to its final appropriation . A committee was appointed to superintend the subscription , with power to add to their number , consisting of tae Chairman , Mr . Heywood , Mr . Joshua Bower , Air . George . Denman , Mr . Robert Pounder , Mr . Richard Stead , jun ., Mr . Joshua Hobson , Mr . Summers , Mr . Robert Hayton , Mr . Perring , Mr A . Maliinson , Mr . Singleton , and Mr . John Daniel . The Chairman was appointed Treasurer , and Mr . John Beck with Hon . Secretary . Afver passing resolutions io effect the above objects , thanks were voted to the Chairman , and the meeting broke up . The resolutions will be found advertised in another column .
AsSAfLT o > " a Watchilln . —On Monday last , a sweep named Ephraim Wood , was brought up at the Court House , on a charge of having , at an early hour on Sunday morning , committed an assault upon Cordukes , a watchman , whom he also threatened to stab . The prisoner is a weii known " disorderly , " and having been found walking the streets drunk , " at two o ' clock on Sunday morning , he was ordered home . Instead of obeying , he rurned Tark , and refused to bndge , having previously drawn his knife , with which he threatened to " rip up" any one who
migH approach him . The watchman had with him a very quiet dog , which Wood seized , ard cut its bowels open . This dog , by the bye , belongs to nobody , but attends the watchmen every night when they go on duty , accompanies some one or other ef them during tee night , goes to office punctually at ax o ' clock , when they are dismissed , and is not again seen till mine o ' clock again . The poor animal wa 3 immediately taken proper care of , aad hopes are entertained it will yet live to attend its nightly duty . The ferocious prisoner was fined £ 5 . and in default of payment sent for two months to Wakefield .
Robberies . —On Monday night the shop of Mr . Wilson , in Chapel-street , Hunslet . was broken open and four hides in an unfinished state , and some welts were stolen . On the same night ail the balls and the brass hat pias , were stolen from an empty house . No . " 20 , Grove-terrace . MHASCHOLT A > D FaTAL EvEXTFBOM FlSB AbMS . —We have this week to record another of those fatal events which it so frequently falls to the lot of the public journalist to notice , arising from the incautious use of fire arms . It is not , however , want of caution , alone in this instance ; we are afraid we do not speak too strongly when we say that gross carelessness has been exhibited . The occurrence we have to notice is of an extremely painful and
distressing nature , and has resulted in the dt&th of a young lady in her sixteenth year , the daughter of Mr . Mswsod , one of the vergers of York Cathedral . It took place at the home of Mr . J . D . Hepwonh , Burgeon-auristj Leeds , on Friday evening last , under the following circumstances : —On the morning of the day mentioned , ( Friday ) , Mr . Hepwonh had been out before breakfast , with a double-barrelled gnu , to shoot at some pigeons , in a field adjoining his garden . He had bat three cap 3 , and after firing twice , both barrels being then loaded , he had only one cap left with which hs fired off the left hand barrel , and left the right hand barrel charged with a mixture of No . 5 and 6 shot , in which state he sent the gun home ; and it
being entirely without cap 3 , and Mr . Hepworth not knowing that there were any in the house , the gun was dtpo = ited In its usual place , a room on the ground floor , accessible to all his family , but which , being generally used for surgical operations , he avers his children were discharged from entering . Here , however , the gun was placed without , as it appears , even so much as a caution that either of the barrels were charged . Mr . Hepworth did not dine at home on that day , and after dining out he went with some friend 3 to the theatre ; Mrs . Hepworth , it would appear , wa 3 out in the evening also , and in addition to Mr . Hepworth's family , there were in the house Miss Mawson , a you : h named Smallwood , son of Mr . Small wood ,
of Middlethorpe , near York , ( who , as well as Miss Mawson , was under surgical treatment For deafness , ) and a son of ilr . Kitson , engineer , who was visiting young Hepworth . It appears that in the course of the morning , Master Hepworth ( who is about eleven years of age , ) and Master Smallwood , whilst going an errand into Briggate , bought some percussion caps , and thus , unkBOTra to Mr . Hepworth , they had had them in their possession . Smallwood , who seems to be a judge of such things , thought these caps were not good ones , because they were not Ented , and is said to hare remarked to Master Hepwonh tha-t they were such a 3 occasioned frequent accidents . However , about eight o'clock in the evening , a steel was procured , on the end
of which one of these caps was stuck , and the steel was then dropped on to the hearthscone , to try if it would explode . It did explode , and Master Hepworth having then three or lour in his possession , Smallwood persuaded him to throw them into the fire , for fear something should happen . They were thrown into the fire , 3 r .-d Small-prood a ) so threw Eonie of his in , but not all , for immediately after Master Hepworth , who seemed to have repented the destruction of his share , after beiDg refused others by Smallwood , suddenly thrust his hand into the waistcoat pocket of the latter , and again possessed himself of two caps . He then immediately left the room , and almost instantaneously , as it would appear , returned , aad , before any of
the party saw him , Miss Mawson vr&s stretched a corpse on the floor . The roem in which the tragical occurrence took place is a very small one on the ground floor , its dimensions not beiEf more than two yards by three , and the door of which is opposite to that in which the gun was deposited , only a lobby being bettreen them . In thi 3 room were sat , at a small ¦ work-table , Miss Mawson , eDgaged , unconscious of danger , at her needle . Masters Smallwood and Kitsoc , and an infant of Mr . Hepworth ' s . Xone of these saw either the gun or Master Hcp-rrcrth after he left tbe room . Master Knsou sajs be heard him exclaim , "See . Miss Mawson , " but before he could raise bis eyes ( he fatal trigger had been
, drawn . It is not to be supposed that more than half a yard would intervene between the muzzle of the gun and Miss Mawson ' s head ; she received the whole charge en masse , juit above the right ear , and of course her brains were blown out , and the skull frightfully fractured . Death , under these circumstances , must have been instantaneous . The greatest confusion immediately prevailed in the house , and a crowd of persons were soon assembled . It was some time before Mr . Hepworth could be found , and the state of mind of both himself and Mrs . Hepworth on learning the sad tidinp may be better imagined than described . Ad inquest was held on the body of Miss Mawson , on Saturday evenine . before John
Blackburn , Esq ., at which these circumstances were detailed , and Master Hepworth stated that he had not the Blighest knowledge of the gun being loaded , nor did he point it at Mis 3 Maw eon : he held it in hia hand , with the cap on the nipple , and the lock was too strong for nte fingers to hold . The Jury , after consulting together , returned a Terdict of "Accidental Dea h , " adding that they could net separate without expressing in strong terms their feeling that the conduct of Mr . Hepworth , in leaving his gun ' charged in an unprotected situation , had been marked by extreme carelessness , and deserved censure : they at the same time expressed a hope that it would be a warning to him in future .
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Leeds Coxrai House . —In consequence of the delays which almost daily occur in the transaction of tbe police basiness at the Court House , from the late or non-attendance of prosecutors or witnesses , the Magistrates have come . to the determination of discharging all prisoners , the parties against whom are not ready when the case is called on . We are g ' ad to hear that the Magistrates have , at last , determined to transact the daily business in the large Court , except when that is occupied by the Quarter Sessions .- The nuisance of the small Court , or Rotation Office , has been by us frequently alluded to , -and we are happy to congratulate both the Bench and the public on the decision .
Accidbht fbom Fubious Driving—On Taesday last , John Tunnacliffe , of Padsey , was charged at LeedsDourt Honse , with having , on the 9 th of April last , on the Wellington-road , run over a little boy , named Rowland Cawood , eon of Mr . Cawood , woolstapler , residing at 2 , Little Qaeen-street , by which the splinter bone of his leg was broken , and he received other injuries which had confined him to the house ever since . It was proved that Tunnacliffd was driving at a most furious rate—rasing , in fact with the" Bradford coach , and that bis conduct wa 3 very reprehensible . Mr . Braithwaite , surgeon , has since attended the lad , and Tunnacliffe had promised time after time to settle the affair . This he had neglected to do , and the affair came before the magistrates , who ordered him to pay a fine of 503 . and the costs , or in default to go to Wakefield for a month .
Cloth Stolen . —On Tuesday last , eight yards of tweed cloth , value about Is . 8 d . per yard , was stolen from the ' white cloth hall , Leeds , between the hours of twelve and two o'clock . Death by Daow . tiifG . —On Tuesday last , an inquest was held a tseRobin Hood Inn , East-street , Leeds , before Mr . Hopp 3 , Deputy Coroner , on the body of Mary Rowley , thirteen years of age , who resided with * her mother in Hammond ' s Buildings , Low Fold , and whose body was found in the river Aire , on Monday morning . The deceased had for some time been in a desponding way , and was not seen after nine o ' clock on Sunday night . The river was searched on account of her having frequently paid , she should drown herself ; but there was no evidence to show that she had done so , or how she came-into the water . The jury , therefore , returned a verdict of" found drowned . ' *
Death by Bcb > mxg . —On Tuesday monung , an inquest-was held at the C # urt House , berore Mr . Hopps , Deputy Coroner , on the body of Sarah Ann Wood , whose parents reside in Blezard ' s-yard , Meadow-lane . The clothes of deceased , who was eleven years of age , caught fire ou Sunday morning , and she , was so burnt that she died on Monday . Verdict , " Accidental death . " Purse Lost—On Tuesday morning last , Captain Luard , of the Royal Artillery , now stationed in Leeds . Barracks , had the misfortune to lose a silk purse , containing two or three £ 5 notes , a sovereign arid a half | and some silver . It was lost between Briggate and tlie Free Grammar School .
Stealing a Watch . —On Tuesday last , a girl of the town named Mary Ann Whitfield , and her fancy man , John Oliver Wilks , were charged before the magistrates at Leeds Court House , with baying stolen a ? ilver watch ; the property of Robert Saxon , a cloth . weaver . The prosecutor was walking along Kirkgate , " on Monday night , in a state of happy obliviousness of ali human affairs , when he was met by three girls , one of whom , ( the prisoner ) kindly eased him" of his watch , of course to save somebody
else the trouble ; this she handed to Wilks , and told him to " cut . '" ' He did cut , but the transaction having been witnessed by a respectable female who was jtist by , she gave information to the poiice , and was able-to give such a description of the offenders , as led to their apprehension . Wilks was stopped and searched iu York-street , by the burial-ground rails , but nothing was found on him ; tbe watch , however , was afterwards found to have been thrown by him into the burial ground . They were both sworn to , and were committed for trial .
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Beik g in Time , —It is currently reported that money , has been actually paid on account , for a seat to witness the execution of Good . Mxjbdep . by a Highwayman . —A desperate highwayman of the old school has been detected in full practice in the immediate neighbourhood of London , aud he has signalised his seizure by a murder . Several persons have complaiued lately that they had been stopped and robbed in the fields near Hornsey Wood . One of these was a brewer's collecting-clerk , who had £ 70 in his pocket ; but he made the robber believe that 11 s . was "his all "; and the latter magnanimously returned him a shilling . Moss , an active policeman , was set to watch ; and at half-past three o ' clock on Thursday afternoon ,
he saw a dark young man , whose waist was bulky , as if her had weapons concealed about him . following a gentleman on the road to Hornsey Wood . The Policeman approached , not heeding the warning to stand back ; and the man drew a horse-pistol from his side and fired ; shattering the Policeman ' s left arm . He fled across the fields towards Highbury , pursued by the wounded Policeman and Motte , a journeyman baker , who was near the spot . At Highbury South , he ran down a blind lane ; and then " , seeing escape impossible , he stood at bay . Several persons had now joined in the pursuit . Motte rushed forward to sieza him , and received the ball from one pistol in his left arm ; and the contents of another pistol passed through the heart of Policeman Daly . A crowd closed upon the murderer ; who exclaimed , "I ' m done now . ' I give myself up " and he surrendered his pistols . A knife , Btained
with blood , was found concealed in his watch-fob . He is a email man , very fair , and thin and sharp in the fa ; e . Taken before a magistrate , be said that his Dame is Thomas Cooper ; that he is twenty-three years of age ; and that he had been out of work . After be was placed in confinement , he became very sick , and it was supposed that he had takea poison ; but a medical man atributed the sickness to his state of excitement . Cooper was placed before the Magistrate at Clerkenwell Police-office , on Saturday ; and ± he . first surmise aa to his having swallowed poison proved to be correct ; for he was suddenly taken ill , and then he confessed that he had swallowed arsenic and laudanum , as he fled from Moss . He was carried to the House of Correction , and placed under medical care . An inquest was opened on Friday , on the body of Daly ; but it was at once adjourned till Monday , and from that day again to Wednesday .
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TO THE COMMOXS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND , IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED . THE XEMOKSTBANCE OF THE INHABITANTS OF IN PUBLIC MEETING ASSEMBLED . SHE WEI H , That the people of the United Kingdom are now kuffering destitution and misery to an extent hitnerto unknown , of "which numerous parliamentary and other official documents drawn up by order of your House and local authorities , and charitabla institutions in Tarioua parts of the kingdom , bear abundant testimony ; That deaths from destitution , and the commission of crime from absolute want , are of d&ily occurrence , and rapidly on the increase , as the same sources o £ information will show ; That not ocly are the working classes sunk to the lowest depths of misery arid wretchedness , but- the middle classes aie fast failing into embarrassment and rain :.
That while this alarming distress and misery among the people have be * -n daily on the increase , the annual prouuetidn of wealth from the various resonrces of this empire has increased beyond aiiy extent hitherto known in tbe history of our country ; an anomaly not to t > e accounted for but in the monopoly of political power , the uDJusfc usurpation of authority , aud the consequent bad government of thenation ; That the great mass of the people are denied the ripht of representation in Parliament , and the present House of Commons , being elected by a limited class , legislates only for the interests of that c ' uibs , to the utter ruin of the great-majority of the people ; That the unenfranchised and suffering people kave petitioned humbly , repeatedly , and in yast numbers , for a redress of their « rievancr 3 , but without the least effect , oi the appearance of the remotest prospect of receiving any portion of their rights from the present Government :
That , believing the-statement of their grievances , and the nature of their claims , clearly , calmly , and dispassionately , at- the bar of your House , would create a favourable impression , and lead to the concession of justice , THREE JIILLIOSS FIVE HUNDRED ihovsaud of the oppressed and injured people , prayed respectfully for a hearing by themselves , their counsel , or agents , at the bar of your House ; but that heading ¦ was unequivocally and unhesitatingly denied ; and at the same- time their principles and objects grossly and improperly misrepresented , and crnelly perverted ; to
That the petitioners alluded to prayed your House declare :- ;— " That if your honourable House was of opinion that the people ef Great Britain and Ireland ought not to be represented , that such opinion might be unequivocally made known ; that the people might folly understand what they could , or could not , expect from your honourable House . " And your decision baling been made known , the people hereby protest against the right of your House to deny their just demands embodied in tbeir petition ; That , therefore , tbe people now assembled hare n » hope whatever for the mitigation of their sufferings , or tbe concession of their rights , by the House of Commons as at present constituted .
They , therefore , submit this last declaration ef their condition and feedings to yeur House , deeply deploring the utter disregard of the interests of the great mass of the people by the members of your House , and dreading ihe awful consequences to which that disregard may lead . The people now assembled hereby declare that they will take such peaceful and legal steps to remedy their condition as the well being of society , the security of property , and their extreme sufferings , imperatively demand .
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HOUSE OF LORDS . —Friday , May 6 . The Bishop of Norwich presented several petitions , complaining of the employment of very young children of both Bexes in the most severe drudgery of the collieries . Lord Fitzwilliam deprecated any interference on the part of the Legislature with the right of the subject to choose his own means of subsistence ^ and urged the necessity , if restrictions were imposed in the case of the colleries , of extending tbe inquiry into every bra ; ch of labour in which children were employed . The Marquis of Londonderry declared that ia the districts of the Tyne and Wear such hardships aa those described in the petitions presented were wholly unknown .
The Marquis of NORMANBT explained that the inquiry had been intended to include the case of children employed in factories of every description j aud Lord Fitzwilliam argued that it should also extend to those employed in agriculture , who were , he contended , from tbe low wages they obtained , in a worse position than the better fed colliers . Another petition on the same question from Sittingbonme was presented by Lord YVinchilska which led to a short conversation , in which the Bishop of London took put , on the comparative advantages to the labeurer of employment in agriculture and manufactures . The subject theu dropped . Lord Brougham afterwards introduced his bill for the regulation of election committees of the Lower House , and briefly explained that its object was to grant to committees additional powers to obtain evidence , and also to afford effectual protection to the witnesses they might examine .
A short and somewhat angry discussion ensued between the Marquis of Norruauby and the Marquis of Londonderry on the subject of some aspersiuna cast by the latter nobleman upon the Whitf magistrates of Sunderland ; after which the House adjourned .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS , Thursday , May 5 . Mr . Roebuck gave notice that he should next day put questions to Lord Chelsea , Mr . Russell , Sir Q . Larpent , Sir J . Hobhouse , Captain PlumrMge , Mr . H . E ! - pbinstonw , Mr . John Attwood , and Major Beresford , inquiring whether they were cognizant of , or parties to , any arrangement or understanding , by which it w ; is agreed , in order to facilitate the return of other persons for the places which they represented , that those Hon . Members should accept the stewardship of her Majesty ' s Chiltern Hundreds , thereby vacating the seats to which they had been declared duly elected by the select committee appointed to try the merits of the petitio-. s against their returns ? He should also move for a select committee to inquire if certain practicessaid to have been resorted to in tho election of certain members of that House were not a gross breach of privilege ; and expressed his determination to oppose the issue of new writs until these questions were satisfactorily answered .
Mr . Uutt moved for copies of circulars by the Secretary of Stite for the Home Department to the various town-clerks or clerks to tbe magistrates , between the moisths o / August aud December , 1841 , ' requiring information as to the state of the magistracy in their respective towns . Sir J . G RAiiAM had expected that a distinctive motion would have been made on which lie could have asked the Housa for a decided expresaiou of its opinion . But the weakness of the present motion , to which no opposition would be given , was in strong contrast with the condemnatory language used by the mover of it .
A very considerable number of members now followed in succession , each addressing his observations with special reference to the particular place which he represented , or was connected with . So eager , indeed , were Members to speak , that much amusement was occasionally created by the numbers who literally " leaped up" to catch the Speaker ' s eye , whenever it was supposed that any particular Member addressing the House was about to sit down . The object of each sptakerusing his local knowledge or information—was to vindicate or criminate the late Government iu their magisterial appointments . The names of the different speakers were—Sir John Hamner , Mr . Henry Berkeiy , Mr . Brotherton . Sir Charles Douglas , Captain Mangles , CoL Sibthorp , Lord Robert Grosvenor , Mr . Main waring , Mr . H . Larnbton , Mr . Tatton Egerton , Mr . Jervis , Mr . Scarlett , Mr . Cuilaghan , Captain Fitzroy , Mr . Vernon Smith , and Mr . Wakley .
Sir R . Peel desired that those who found fault with the f mn of Mr . Hutt ' s motion would recollect how pjzzling it must havo been to frame the motion at all ; and be suggested several formulas , each of "which he showed to be inconvenient and unavailable for the purpose of a vote . H » feared that some party spirit was inseparable even from the judicial institutions of a free people ; but this freedom had countervailing advantages , which he was sure the House would not be "willing to forego . The defence of the Government had been wholly mistaken by gentlemen opposita It was not tbat they were entitled to do ill , because others mi ht have done worse : but it was this
—that if a large majority of magistrates was found holding one set of political opinions , the Government were bound to secure the public against their abuse of fower by providing a check through magistrates of other politics . He instanced various large boroughs , in the aggregate whertcf there was but oue Conservative magistrate , and then enumerated divers smaller towns throughout the whole of which there was not one Conservative upon the beneh . Surely this inequility could bear no proportion to the qualifications of the gentlemen in the two parties . Sir J . Graham hid introduced a considerable body of Conservatives , but he had still left the balance in the bauds in which he found it .
Lord John Russeil said , that if the Whigs , on coming into office in 18 J 0 , had acted on the principle now avowed , there must have been then a sweeping ehan < e in the county magistracy , Torlfied . as it -was , uoder a lon « reign of Tory Lord Chancellors and Tory Government . But such a consideration as political principles should be a very minor one in selecting individuals to fill judicial stations . Sir Robert Peel had made light of the principle of popular selection , as exercised through the Town Councils . In so doing , he repudiated an ancient principle of the English Constitution , which was in practical operationrin the City of London , and was also freely exercised in Scotland . He did not deny that the Town Councils generally recommended a great preponderance of magistrates of liberal opinions ; but if the majority of the people were of these opinions , it was natural that there should be such a preponderance .
After some observatiens from Mr . Williams , Mr . Collins , Lord Worsley , and Mr . Strutt , and also some remarks from Captain Inyarii , tha debate , which lasted from five o ' clock till half-past twelve , was closed by a reply from Mr . Hutt , and thea the motion was agreed to . Captain Pechfll moved for returns connnected with offences in union workhouses ; which returns were ordered . Sir James Graham postponed his notice of the Poor Law Amendment Bill till Tuesday next .
Mr . Godson then rose to move that a new writ b . ? issued f-jr the borough of Nottingham in the room of Sir G . H . de Larpent , who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds , but was met by . Mr . Brotherton , who moved the adjournment of the House . This latter motion was seconded by Mr . Woofi , who remarking that it would be uncourteous to proceed with the former in the absence of Mr . R > ehuok , the Hon . Member for Kidderminster consentwi f- > defer hia motion ; and the House adjourned . Friday , May 6 . Mr , Roeuucic , in pursuance of notice , administered to the members for Nottinsham . Ptnryn , Harwich , and Lewes , certain interrogatories , amounting to a demand from each whether he had been party to the hushing np of proceedings for bribery before an election committee by any argument for the withdrawal of any Qf the parties .
Lord Chelsea , one of the members for Reading , who was the first party thus questioned , declined , peremptorily and unequivocally , to answer any tuch question Mr . Roebuck said , this was quite satisfactory . Mr . Russell , the other member for Reading , thought these were questions to be asked before an election committee . Tbe present attempt was no inconsiderable stride toward the resumption by the House of the old election judicature . The Learned Member might draw what inference he pleased ; probably his inferences would be about as pertinent aa his questions .
The next party catechised -was Captain Piunmdge , Member for Penryn . His answer was , that he had not been cognizint of the arrangement in his own case till after it was made . Adverting to the loud cheers and laughter with which this avowal was received , he added that he had nndeistood it -was the usage to leave these matters in the hands of the la-wyers . Mr . Roebuck wa » obliged to the gallant captain for his candour . He then addressed a searching question to Sir John Hobhouse , who said that he did not admit the right to put the question , and therefore should Dot answer it Mr . Roebuck then interrogated Mr . Howard Elphinstone , who stated that in his case there had been a compromise , but that be did not contemplate accepting the Chiltern Hundreds .
The next parties whom Mr . Roebuck called upon were Major Bere&ford and Mr . Attwood , members for Harwich . Mr . Attwood was absent from London . Major Beresford denied Mr . Roebuck ' s right to catechise him . Let that Learned Member , if he thought he had a case of suspicion , bring it before a competent tribunal , and then he might answer the inquiry , though not to that learned inquisitor . Mr . Roebuck asked whether he was entitled now to state the case against the members before mentioned . The Speaker laid down the general course required by the forms of the House .
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members accused , fo proceed at once . He atood there , he said , to charge with , bribery the members for Nottingham , Harwich , ( Reading , Penryn , and Lewes . He would first suppose a contest for Nottingham ; carried by Borne Parliamentary Napoleon With overwhelming bribery ; , a petition , threatening disclosure ; a retreat of one of the sitting Members ; and a sum of money , paid dovrn , or promi sed , to escape the inquiry . All these circumsta'icea he had heard : alleged to ; and if tha House would refer the matter to a committ'ee , he believed he could prove them . Next , he would go to Reading ; and he had reason to believe that a bond had been executed , obliging the Noble Member for that borough to vacate his aeai ; by a certain day . There had been charges before the election committee of
bribery and intimidation practised by the sitting Members ; and in one day the whole was hushed up . He then read the accusations contained in the Nottingham petition ; and described those in the Reading petition to be nearly as strong . Next , as to Lewes : his charge was , that the Members were returned by bribery -, that the petitioners had proof of it j and that ene of the sitting Members , afraid ot that proof , had retired . There sat Mr . Elphinstone ; but , " Where , and oh ! where" was his colleague ? Echo answered " Where . " He was not denouncing the individuals , but the system . At Penryn , the like occurrences took place , and the Gallant Member was to retire . Why ? ( Captain Pluturidge called out , " Because my people
made a bad bargain . " ) Wnat ! were such interests aa this House represented to be made matter of bargain ? Now , for Harwich . The two sitting Members were accused , by three petitions , of bribery and treating . The petitions were retirbd , aud one of the Membets was to retire too . All he wanted now was au -inquiry . Such cases ought not to be consideied as the mere affairs of the candidates . It was not fit that a candidate should buy a whole constituency , as at Nottingham , and then sell it to the petitioner against him . Was any man here so bold as to refuse him an inquiry ? Ha hoped to haye his motion seconded by the Right Hon . Member for Nottingham , whose character was so deeply implicated . He concluded by moving for a Committee of Inquiry . : '• : ¦ i \ '
Mr . Henry FitzuOY , one of the sitting members for Xewes , seconded the motion . He challenged inquiry . He had petitioned for a seat which he considered justly his own : and was ho to blame for taking possession of it whenconoedtdtohini ? He surely Was not bound to incur the . expense of a three weeks' prosecution for the sake of the public ; when . he was called on to act as public prosecutor he should expect a large salary . He had been party to no pecuniary , to no unworthy , compromise : and in his life / he had never , directly © r indirectly , sought a vote by corruption . Mr . Elphinstone said a fow words , which were inaudible . ¦ " ' Captain Plumridoe solemnly protested that he had not paid , that he had not promised to pay , and that he did uot intend to pay , one shilling in respect of his ln . te election .
" Mr . Wynn moved the adjournment of the debate , and was seconded by Mr . Ward . Mr . Wynn recommended it to the House in future to exercise inore severity than heretofore against witnesses committed for prevaric : it' 6 n , who had hitherto been let off with p ? riods of imprisonment fir . tao brief . Mr . Wakley wished the inquiry to go a great deal farther than the f-iW cases now mentioned . There were fifty quite aa bad . The debate was theti adjourned to Monday ; and the House resolved itself into committee on the Incometax Bill . Ou arriving at clause 96 , Mr . Hume proposed that the income on which tho tax should be paid should bo calculated from the average profits of one year instead of three . On a division , the amendment was rejected by 70 to 27 . The various clauses , up to 188 , having been agreed to .
Mr . Hume moved an amendment on clause 188 , that the act should remain in force for one year only , and not for threo On a division there appeared , For the amendment 52 For tbe original clause .... ... 174 Majority ...- ^—123 Mr . P . Howard proposed another amendment upon the clauie , tOithe effect that the income tax should continue in operation for two years only . The motion was afterwards withdrawn aud the clause was passed . ! ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ The last clause , 189 , was then agreed to . In answer to Mr . Fox M ; iu ! e , the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that it had been determined to exempt the funds used for the repairs of dissenting places of worship from tho operation of the income tax .
Mr . Redhead Y 0 | RKe pToposea " That it be an instruction to the committee on the Property Tax Bill , that they have power to introduce a clause to exempt attornies and solicitors . from t ! ie annual payment of certificate duties during the time they ehall be subject to a t \ x upon income" i ) * ¦ .- ¦"' Colonel SiBTHOUP supported the motion . The ChaxNcellor of the Exchequer opposed It- . ' " ' " . - ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ : ' After a few words from Alderman Huiiiphery and Mr . WuklMy , The committee divided , when the nambors were—Ayes 18 Noes 183 Against tbe clause .........- ^—165
The bill having goaa through committee , the report was ordered to be brought up on Monday next . , Monday , May 9 . The House was filled at an early hour by members desirous to enquire in , or curious to witness , the decision on Mr . Roebuck's adjourned motion fo ? a committee to inquire into the late cases of election compromistj . Mr . Beresford declared his anxiety , for the sake of his own character , that the committee should be appointed , and that its inquiry should be a searching
one . He would willingly answer to a proper authority though he had declined to answer the learned mover . Rumouia of bribery were sMd by that member to be afloat . Now , there were also tuinoura that a learned person had been elected in a former Parliament without due possession ot his qualification , which had been coTiveyed to him in London only on the very day on which he had sworn at Bath that he possessed it . Perhaps those rumours were as false as some that were now relied on . He might rely on grounds of public expediency to resist the proposed committee ; but he would do no euch thing : on the contrary , he would pray tbe House to grant it .
Mr . Wynn said there was no precedent for such a committ-se . The circumstances alleged did not necessarily imply corruption . The regular course would be , for the Hon , Member to bring forward a specific charge on each case , and for the House thereupon to determine what proceedings they would adopt with reference to iti but not to appoint a fishing committee . Mr . Ward thought that SirQr . Larpont ' s withdrawal , after two contests , and immediately upon the decision of a committee in his favour , was a very suspicious circumstance . So Was the sudden success of the sitting members at Harwich , with a verii , vidi , vici , against a brace of candidates who the day before appeared to be perfectly safe . Such things called for a , searching and instant isquiry , which he could not consider aa afishing nor as a roving one . He was anxious- that the axe should b 6 laid at once to the root of this spreading evil . -
Sir R . Inglis said that had he been present on Friday last , he would have endeavoured , to resist the puttiug of the original questions ; What did the learned mover propose ? To make the parties criminate themselves ? or : to proceed on the testimony of accomplices 1 If a mumher , or a stranger , interrogated before the proposed Committee , should refuse to answer a question , on the ground of its tendency to criminate himself , would you venture to commit him ? Mr . REmiEAD Yorke supported the motion . Lord Palmeuston expressed his surprise at the silence of Ministers . Doubtless they had their reasons ; ha would explain his own . He could not vote for this motion . It was noV a motion for a general inquiry into the extent of oribery at the late election , but into the
grounds of particular' compromises . These arrangements , so far from being contrary to statute , seemed to be directly contemplated by a clause in one of . the Election Acts ; and if they were alleged to be illegal as breaches of privilege , this question was one at least of sufficient importance to requite a previous discussion by the House . A member-, apprised that his agents have bribed apd that he must lose . his seat , was guilty of no breach of privilege In retiring .- without further expsnee . If then there was no breach either of privi > lega or < f statute law , there could be only one other reason for the proceeding- —nainely , to lay the ground of some new lnw for the repression of bribery ; but when the practice was already so notorious , he saw . no occasion for further inquiries . He was ready to concur in a strong measure for putting down this wholesale
corruption . Cummon report was the ground alleged for the proposed proceeding ; bvp common report Went much further than to these particular cases ; it extended to a very large proportion of all the late contests . Much of that fcvil was owing to the mutilation by the other House of Lord John Russell ' s bill , sent up by the Commons imme-Iiately before the general election ; but , ere the close of the present session , some such measure must pass the Legislature . Either the now proposed inquiry should be as extensive as the evil , or it should not take place at all . The only other remedy suggested was the Ballot , but that would only introduce worse evils of anether kind . If anything could ever induce him to support the Ballot , it would be a refusal on the part of Miniteera to concur in an effectual law against bribery . . . >¦ , ! - ' - / { - ' . ¦ : - ' ¦ :- " .: ¦ . - ' : ' ¦¦ ¦¦ ' ''
Sir R , Peel was not aware that this was so decidedly a party question as to have made it incumbent on the Minister to declare himself at the commencement of the debate ; nor would iany refusal of the Government to concur In any particular measure of legislation very well justify the Noble Lord in voting for that ballot which he had but just declared to be a remedy worse than the disease . As to these particular charges , he did not think them definite enough to warrant the proposed inquiry . Tbe practice of these compromises , he believed , had long existed ; and certainly the general impression had always been , that election petitions were mere proceedings for the possession of the seats , and involved no obligation to prosecute
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for the public . The fitnesss of a compromise would depend much upon the circumstances ef each case . A sitting Member of small fortune , pressed by a very expepsiye petition , might fairly choose retirement rather than ruin . If , however , on the other hand , a charge of corruption were put upou record , he thonght it ought not to go unexamined . On that principle be had acted in the Carlow case ( O'Connell and Raphael ) . The mere want of power to examine on oath was not a sufficient bar ; and if the present charges should be reduced iate a definite form , showing priina facie a gross breach of privilege , he thought it would be for the honour of the House not t leave the matter uninveatigated , but to refer it to a committee , armed with the ordinary , constitutional powers . . ¦
Lord John Rtjssell was not of opinion that a sitting Member or a petitioner should be obliged , when the question of the title to the seat was settled , to spend j £ 3 , 00 Q .- - ' or . £ 4 , 000 for the purpose of punishing corruption . These compromises bad been common ; and the proper course would be to provide some mode of investigating such cases at the public expence . He called on Sir Robert Peel to introduce , as Minister , a Bill like that which the Lords had rejected in 1841 ; such a Bill , becoming thus a Ministerial measure , would undoubtedly pass . The present charges were too vague . If they could be put upon the journals in a specific form , lie agreed with Sir Robert Peel that a Committee ought to be appointed ; but he believed the greatest benefit to be derived from these transdetions would be that they should lead to some legislative remedy . ;; - ; :- . ; ; : ¦'"" . ' . -- .: ' ¦
Mr . M . jr . O'Connell desired to say , in the absence of Mr . Daniel Q'Connell , that the motion for a Committee ; in the Carlow case was not opposed . He would vote for the present motion . Sir Robert Peel explained as to what Lord John had suggested about a legislative measure . He ci > uld only say that he would concur in forwarding such a Biii , if framed by tho Noble Lord , who had more leisure than he bad ; be himself could not find the time necessary for that ; mature consideration which the framiiig of it ^ y the Government would require . Mr . Hujce supported the motion . Mr . Lindsayv though regretting to differ from Mr . Wynn and Sir R . Peel , felt that the character of the House demanded -this inquiry . Mr . Muntz was of the same opinion ; as was also Mr . Plumptre .
Lord Stanley said the objection to Mr . Roebuck ' s motion was , that the charges were advanced as breaches of privilege , but without enough of speciflflation to show whether they actually were such , The inquiry proposed by Roebuck was not into the extent of the bribery , but into the legality of the comprouiiBe . The Lewes case , mentioned the other night , presented nothingfrom which to infer the least impropriety in the compromise made by the sitting Member . Other cases might be more doubtful ; but the practice was no novelty / and had . never been considered as a breach of privilege . There Was certainly , however , a novelty in those cases where a sitting Member , having been declared by a committee to be duly elected , had thereupon vacated his seat ; and in those case ^ also , where a bond was taken in a heavy penalty ; but bufore he could accede to the proposal of a / committee , there ought to be some specific question for that committee to deal with and be confined to . The motion here
should , at all ever . ts , have been framed like that of the Carlow case , for au inquiry into the charges of the particularpetitions , lie was aa anxious as any man for the suppression of bribery , but he feared that such a committee as Mr . Roebuck asked for would mix up private objects with public ones to a dangerous extent . Disappointed men would be too apt to avail themselves of the public purse , in order to revenge themselves on their rivals . Mr . Sheil said , the member for Bath "was specific enough in his charges ; it was only in the form of hia motion that he whs too vague ; but the motion might be amended . He wished for an inquiry , not in order to indulge ) in the bad luxury of . giving pain to individuals , but for the sake of the public .
Mr . Roebuck replied . Ha vindicated his motion from the imputation of vagueness , and himself from the charge of asperity . Ho cited from tho journals the case of Mr . ShephercJ . He was , howjver , prepared to proceed in any form which would : effect the substantial object . Ho was willing to put the matter in this shape , that , at the places mentioned , there had been compromises made to preclude the investigation of bribery ; would that do ? On one hand hia charge was called too wide ; on the other it was complained of as not sufficiently comprehensive . In addition to the committee , however , it would be necessary to have a bill of indemnity : without that , the inquiry would be useless ; and he would uofc carry it-on impofcently and to his own shame . While Mr . Roebuck was writing out hia altered motion at the tablo .
Sir T . Acland expressed his opinion that the Lewes case should be excepted , since it did not fall within what he regarded as tho real objection , namely , that the parties took tae judgment of the committee with an arrangement to depart from it as soon as it should be given . At Lewes , on the contrary , all the parties taking the judgment were content to abide by it . The motion , as altered , proposed the inquiry should be , whether in tho cases mentioned there had been corrupt compromises for the purpose of avoiding investigation into alleged bribery . Mr . Neeld , who had been a member of the Lewea committee , urged the omission oFLeWea . Mr . Ladouchere opposed that omission , and rejoiced that thu proposal was now in a form wherein he could support it . ¦ Mr . Murphy thought , that after Mr . H . Fitzroy ' s declaration on the former evening , it would be UDJust to him to exclude Lewes .
Sir J . WalsiI wished , that since Mr . Roebuck's main ground as to thess several cases was current report , he would include another caao also to which similar reports applied- ^ -tbat of Bridport ; Mr . C . Buller , for Mr . Warburton ' s sake , supported the suggestion . Sir R . Peel reminded the House that Bridport had not been included in the mover's notice . Indeed , he wished a little more time had been taken for the wording of the whole motion . After a few words from Mr . C . Wood and Sir R . Inglis , the motion was then agreed to without a divison . . . ' ¦¦ ' .. The House then proceeded to the report of the Income Tax Bill i when Mr . Goulburn brought up a clause to relieve householders from the payment of this tax as a condition of their Parliamentary registration . Thie was passed unanimously .
Mr . B . Wood proposed a clause for enabling a party assessable under more schedules than one to set off losses sustained under one or more of them against profits made under other or others of them , so that the payment should be only in the balance of total income . Mr . Goulburn opposed the change , as militating against the general principle and practical efficacy of the bill . Such a provision had been included Under tho original Income-tax Act ; but upon experience it had been abandoned in 1803 , as leading to great evasion and general complaint . Mr . Ward admitted that it might bo expedient to make the first collection on the principle defended by Mr . Goulburn ; but he saw no reason why the hardships so eccaaioned should not b 9 corrected by the commissioners on proof of the
facts-Mr . Goulburn and Mr . Wood each again enforced his own argument . Sir R . Peel supported Mr . Goulburn ' s view . Lord Howjck espoused Mr . Wood's clause , observing on the great hardship of refusing to allow the deduction of a loss in one concern . from a profit in another , merely because the Government , for its own convenience , / had placed these two concerns in different schedules , for where they were both in the same schedule the deduction was allowed . Mr . Humpiiery urged that the drawback now sought was only an application of the principle on which allowances were proposed in this very bill to persons with incomes below ; £ l 50 per annum . Mr . CiiaTMAN contended for Mr . Wood ' s principle .
Mr . James adverted to another sGrt of hardshipthat of a marriage settlement , where the trustees had stock in their names , the dividends of which went wholly to pay the premiums of a policy on the husband ' s life . On those dividends the tax would take 3 per cent , by which amount therefore , those dividends would fall short of the necessary premiums . If the tax on such insuiances was not to be remitted , how was the trust to be executed ? Mr ; Hume reverted to Mr . Wood ' s proposals which he supported . A banker looses £ 5 , 060 by bad debts ; he has a sum lodged in Exchequer Bills for the calls of tbat same business . Will you charge him the three per cent , on the whole amount of the Exchequer Bills , without first deducting the loss of the bad debts ? •;; . ;" ' ' : Mr . Wood ( Kendaly , Mr . Hawes , and Mr . Muntz argued for Mr . B . Wood's clause .
The House then divided , and the clause was rejected . Mr . Gill , in a speech which was nearly inaudible from the inattention of the Honse , proposed a series of clauses , having for their object to treat all incomes not derived from lands or funds according to the value of them if estimated in capital , and to charge the property-tax only on the income which such capital would produce were it invested at five per centi . / . y . v --- ' : .- . . ; . - - '' . ;; , v' ^ . ¦' ¦" - ; . ¦^ - .,: ¦ '¦ ¦ ¦ . ' „ . - ... ¦; - . ¦ ¦ . " . Mr . Goulbubn opposed this clause , as at variance with the whole principle of the bill , which professed to tax income , and not mere capital . This clause was supported by Mr . Hume and Mr . Howard . ; .- : '¦ - / ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' - . ¦ . - .. - . ¦¦ ¦ . ¦¦¦ ¦ ¦ .. ¦ ; ' ¦ . The Honse divided , and the clause was rejected .
Mr . Goulburn introduced some words , giving tae exemptions enjoyed by cathedrals , colleges , &o . | to all places used solely for Divine worship ; which addition was adopted . ¦ ¦¦ ' ' ;' Sir R . IKGLIS again pressed on the consideration of Government - "( and requested that Sir R . Peel would notice on the third reading ) his suggestion for excepting incomes above £ 150 a year from the per centage on the first £ 150 of their amount Sir R . Peel undertook to feive on the third reading an explanation of the reasons which precluded the adoption of that suggestion . Various verbal amendments were made , and the report being gone through , the third reading was ap-
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pointed for Friday , subject to further postponement In case the tariff shonld not then have made sufficient pro * ¦ gresp .: . -: ¦; :. - ¦ ; . , " ' ¦ : vf- "'' . ¦ . ¦ . '¦ ¦ ' ; . ¦ ¦ ' :. . - - ; -: "¦ ¦¦¦"' . ¦ ::-The Honse then proceeded with the other orders of the day , ^ and no Business of public interest cam e ( on before the adjournment . . " The following ate the motions of Mt . Roebuck , tha first in ifca original , and the two . Iatter as . modified by successive ' amendments : — * ¦ ''_ ¦ '
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ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTLON TO THE UNREPRESENTED PEOPLE . Fellow , Countrymen , —The House of Commons has ouce more declared its hatred of liberty ; it has a-nain spurned the voice of an indignant people : it has absolved itself from all virtual as well as real responsibility to the country ; it has treated your petition with scorn ; it has scouted the prayers of three millions and a half of people ; it has refused even to admit your delegates to its presence , to prove tho truth of the allejs'at : ons of your petition at the
bar of i's House . It has offered no reasons for this treatment that are not as insulting aa the treatment itsd : ' . It has urged no objections to your petition which may not be equally urged against every other petition having the same objects in view % and concluding with the same prayer . It has , consequentlyj rendered the right Of petition a degrading roockery , and ' .. convinced every rational witness of its conduct that it would be a worse than useless expenditure of time andlabour ever again to petition that House for complete justice while its constitution remains what
it is . ¦' , ; •¦¦ ¦ .- . •¦¦ . ¦ - . ¦ - . - , . - . . " ¦ . ; / . ' - ; .. Shall we , then , stultify ourselves by again petitioning that House for the Charter ? The Hon . presenter of our petition has . publicly declared that we cannofc get-up another National Petition to the present Honsa without degrading our cause : and so keenly has he felt his share of the humiliation that he vowa ho will nevor present another petition for us of the like-kind : " Sb . ill the industrious millions—theauthora of our country ' s greatness- ^ -be less conscious of wrong and insult—less conscious of'their own dignity , than a member of the House of Commons ? We cannot believe it . We cannot believe that you will ever a «< ain stoop to petition a House which ha 3 already trampled apon three of your petitions , each of them so numerously signed as to be justly entitled a National Petition .
Fully convinced , then , fellow-countrymen , that ifc would be ^ boih useless and insulting to advise you to get up another National Petition to the present House ( though holding the right of Petition itself . most sacred and inviolate , ) and at the same time , fully resolved to carry on the agitation by every safe and practicable means left open to usby the law , utuil success has crowned our efforts , we have accordingly agreed to recommend for your adoption , the following measures and suggestions , as the best that occur to us , under existing circumstances , for promoting the-success of the glorious objects we have in view ¦ :- > -. ¦¦'¦ ¦
1 , V ^ e have prepared a memorial to the Queen , and a remonstrance to the House qf Commons , which , we trust , will be adopted throughput the Kingdoni within the ensuing , two months , so that both may be ready tar presentation by the middle of July , at latest . For this purpose , we recommend the immediate calling of public meetings , iu every county , city , borough , village , & ; c . ^ to which the said memorial and remonstrance may . be submitted for adoption ; and we hereby instruct the Executive and the members of this Convention to give their best services at all such meetings as they can conveniently attend . ^
2 Wi . ih . a view to facilitate this object , as well as to extend onr organization , we recommend the immediate' sending of lecturers to ; the unagitated districts * of the country—more particularly in the agricultural , counties ; and we cannot too strongly lmpn ss on the people the necessity of supplying the Extjcutive with the requisite pecuniary means for carrying this recommendation into effect . 3 . We recotamend the friends of the Charter to use their bee t endeavours in each locality to augment the numbers and funds of their Associations , by every safe and available means in thejr power : — such as by the distribution of Chartist teacts and other publications friendly to our cause , by local collectors , by friendly viaita and mutual instruction classes , by public discussions with adverse parties , and , above all , by inculcating temperate and sober habits amongst our Chartist brethren .
4 . While we desire the members of the National Charter Association to abide firmly by their present ornanization i aad to give their undivided pecuniary support to . their own Associations , we , at the same time , deem it essential to our success that we should exhibit no ¦ jealousy or intolerant feeling towarda o . her Associations or Unions , professing the same or similar principles to our own . We should like , however , to see a marked distinction always made bo ween the friends of our principles , and their known enemies , by giving to the former our unfailing countenance and support , and by- withholding both from the latter . More particularly do we desire to gee this rule observed in our own relations with
tho middle , classes . No countenance or support for at ; y middle-class taan who Bhall oppose our rights , or refuse to hear us in defence of them ; but let us , on all occasions , demonstrate our respect and affection for those who would give , us the full measure of them . ' In other words , let us etady to promote the interests of all who respect our just claims ; but treat with merited scorn the men of every class who , from pride or selfishness , would withhold our rights . ' - . - . ' ¦ ¦ : ' " ¦ . . ' ' ¦" . ' . - ¦ . ¦ . '¦ . ;" ' : . - . ' - ' ¦ : ¦ - . : -V ; 5 . In the event of our memorial and remonstrance failing to produce the desired effect on the Sovereign and her Parlmment , we deem it advisable that the unrepresented people should immediately set about making tho necessary preparations for a practical assertion Of theif claims at the next general election . For this purpose we recommend the National Charter
Association to register the names of all the electors and non-decto . iv-i of their respective counties , boroughs , &c . j aiid to canvass the whole of them for their votes . and support ; so that we may be ready to put forth ' our whole undivided strength when the next general election comes . The objects to be then accomplished are—1 st ,: to secure seats in the House of Commons for as many Chartist candidates as possible ; and 2 nd , toelect by show of hands a real National Representation , iu whosa hands ma > then be placed the future ^ ireefcton of the movement , until , with the . people ' s aid , they shall havesurmoun . ted all opposition , and caused the Charter to be made tho basis of our . representatiye systsm . The practical steps necessary for the realization of these objects , will be submitted to the country by the Executive Council . :
We cannot separate , fellow-countrymen , without congratulating you on the exalted position we hare attained . Never before in the history of our country , ^ id the working / classes exhibit such union amongst themselves , and so much devotion to the cause of liberty ; and never before did their claims to emancipation command so much attention and respect , both within and without the walls of Parliament . The procession which accompanied your petition to the House of Commons on the 2 nd ot May , proved at once the immense progress of our cause in public opinion , and the preposterous folly of those who would suppress the just demands of a great and outraged people by tyrannical persecution and brute violence . Onward , then * and we conquer ; backward , and we fall . No power on earth can long withold our just rights , if we but continue true to our principlesto bursehes , and to one another . ;
, In conclusion , we wish you , feUow-countrynien , to understand that the preceding recommendations comprise only the more prominent measures which we deem advisable for immediate adoption , in order to meet the existing of isis . There are others in reserve which will , doubtless , be submitted to you when the ' pioper time arrives for recommending them . - ' ' ¦ : ' ; : ¦ "r- - .. . ' \ "' ... ;¦ ¦ ' : ¦ ' . ' ¦ ' . - - .. - ' ' ¦; : : : -- .. " ¦ ¦; - ' Signed , on behalf of the Convention , ' - - Abbam Duncan , Chairman .
Chartist Bevekaqe . —Due to the Exeoutive from Wm . Crow ; 81 , Belgrave-place , Leicester : — ' ¦' ¦ ¦ . •' ¦ . ; . / ' . V- ' v ¦ ' ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ : ¦ ' :.. ::: ... - : £ s . d---: :. 1 - Mr . James Leach , Manchester , ... 0 18 0 Mr . Grliespie , Bolton-le-Moors , ... 0 4 6 Mr . Baird , Botton ,... ...... ... 0 3 9 Mr . Viokers , Belper , a . ... ... 0 3 0 Mr . Mogg , WooWerhampton , ... 0 3 0 Mr . Sweet , Nottingham , ... ... 0 16 Mr . James , Northampton ...... P 10 ' ; : ¦ " ' . : ; : £ 1 U 9
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" : THE ORIGINAL MOTION . " That a Select Committee be appointed to Inquiw ¦ whether certain charges made of corrupt proceedings on the trial of certain © lection petitions before Election Committees lately appointed to try the same , and which proceedinga _ are charged as a gross breach of the privileges of this House , be trua . " ¦ ; -:- : :::: ' : ¦ ¦' ¦ amendment . ' - ' -. '" .. ' -.- "¦ . . " ¦ : ;¦ •' That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire whether , in the cases of the election petitions presented to the House from Bsading , Nottingham , Harwich , Lewes , and Falmouth , there have not been corrupt compromises-entered Into for the purpose of withdrawing . 'rorn tbe investigation of the SelectCommittees appointed to try the merits of those aeveral petitions the gross bribery practised at the said elections . "
SECONDED AMENDED MOTION . , " That the Honse having been informed by an Hon . Member that he has heard and believes that in the cases of the election petitions presented to the House from Harwich , Nottingham , Reading , Lewes , and Falmouth , certain corrupt compromises have been entered into for the purpose of avoiding an investigation into the gross bribery alleged to have been practised at the elections for the said towns , a Select Committee be appointed to inquire whether such compromises have been entered into , and whether such bribery had taken place in the aforesaid towns . " Ibis last was carried .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 14, 1842, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct598/page/3/
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