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KSora * . —Sobb three or fo * r yean ago , Otho , the ¦ iot , and his father were publicly and nnrtually de-^«» r each other of uaBound mind . Two kings ex-< & » Bged the lie , aod ye * for onee Eirope bettered both ! * Wnx , PcoiT , " exelaimed Prinee Albert" to tie favourite parrot . "Well , PrinceV rejoined PoBy . * My uncle is coming to England , " continued the Prince . "Poor EnglandP exclaimed the sensible bird , in a tone of strong sympathy . We kkad in a daily contemporary that at a Conservative dinner gives » few days back" the Queen s&d Prinee Albert were drunk . " What will the profligate Tone * say next , to spite themselves of their Sovereign , in their dissolute hours of idle merament ! . As ofpkb at Jive thtfingt in the ponnd has been
lade to the creditors of Lady Charlotte Bury . A wn for a coronet is liberal indeed ! Asthma Bkusi Lwc . —A neat lamp has- been invented by diaries Henry Ackerly , Esq ., of her Majesty ' s nary , for the relief of persona afflicted with that meet distressing complaint , the asthma : the merely suspending it against the chest , and the iff >> % ling of the warm air through the nostrils ( the lips are to be closed ) , Is said to afford instantaneous and effectual relief to the sufferer . The light used Is w > x candle , and on entering a dwelling -from the sir , where the lamp is no longer required for' medicinal purposes , it is available fox a lantern to light the barer about the house , by merely dropping the front slide . It is secured by patent , and will probably be adopted generally by those afflicted with that complaint .
DtrRiKG Sib Astlet Cooper ' s late serious indisposition , a friend Btrenuously advised the calling in soother practitioner , ne doctor being a medical oracle in bis own ease . " Much obliged , " replied Sir Astley , with a ferTent grasp of the hand , "but I can die Yery comfortably without the doctor . " What a queer compliment to the profession ! The csb of the rod is to be prohibited in the Poor Law Unions in future , but the Globe announces that the Penny Magazine ib to be introduced into them . That ' s fur enough , as times go ; but" not pre&cbee and floggee too . Mass * , " as Sambo rays .
The Alphabet . —The 24 letters of the alphabet naj be transposed 620 , « 8 , 401 , 733 , 23 S , 43 S , 3 $ 0 , 000 times . All the inhabitants of the globe , on a rough calculation , could not in a thousand Bullion of years write out all the transposition * of the 24 letters , eren supposing that each moie forty pages daily , -each of which pages contained the different transpositions of the letters . Opp ositios to Txktotalisk . —The late tpiriitd appeals made at Stiliington in favour of total abstinence , hare produced a ferment among the principal innkeepers and brewers at that place , so much eo that they hars determined not to supply any more yeast to those who profess to be toe * toiallers . Omf . ntal Resfbct to Pabzxts . —Mohammed All
, a remarkably fine little boy of about nine years or age , is tne fifth , and yonngest , and fa-roome son . of the old Pasha . It is singular to see this little fellow with bis father : he is permitted to take all sorts of liberties with him ; and the contrast of tbiB freedom s Yery striking compared with the solemn , formal aatnre of the interviews of Seid Bey , and even Ibrahim Pasha with his father . The Pasha , amidst all the reforms he has introduced , has thought proper to leave untouched the old habit of exacting the most profound submission from his grown-up children . When Seid Bey , who as yet resides in the palace of the women , or the harem of the Pasha , pays his weekly visit erery Friday to his father ; he enters the
reception-hall with his eyes downcast , his arms folded , and dares not walk op straight to his father ' s presence , but makes the circuit of the divan slowly and abashed , and at length stops at a respectful distance before the Pasha , approaches and Josses the hem of his garment , retires modestly , and stands again with folded arms and downcast looks : after an interval of two or three minutes , the Pasha salutes his , beckons him to his side , and then he is permitted to talk to Ms august father . Strange to say , Ibrahim Pasha , old as he is , and with all his honours , goes through the same formal scene at every public mterview , on each return of his from toe army to Cairo or A ^ T ""*^* . —Dr . Madden ' t " Mohammed Jr . " The rapoBTCHATH mechanics of Walsall iave
aeked for cheap bread , and the landowners have given them a Glad-stone . Whzh EjrGETSHiaac really determine on paying off Albert—it must be in hii own coin , and they must sot forget that his estimated value is & sovereign ! Tas Yocth of Washisgtos . —From the age of twelve Washington ooasjdered agriculture as his principal business , and thus lived in intimate sympathy with those predominant dispositions , ' the sterling aad rigorous habits of Mb country . To travel , to hunt , to explore distant parts of . the country , to enter into relations , no matter whether amicable or hostile , with the Indians of the frontiers , were the pleasures of his youth . He was of that active and hardy temperament which delights in
the adventures and perils that the nature of man , in its grand , wild , and savage form , incessantly excites . He had that strength of body , that perseverance , and presence of mind / by which victories are made , fie > H » pRf > lf felt at Ms entrance into life a confidence somewhat presumpious . " I can affirm that I possess a constitution robust enough to support the severest trials , and resolution enough , I natter myself , to face the utmost that man can dare . " To snen a disposition , war was still more suited than either the journey or the chase . As soon as the occasion offered itself he carried himself with that ardour which , at the commencement of life , does not always reveal talent so much as zeaL In 1754 ,
Gtorge IL bad read to him , according to the common account , * dispatch that the governor of Tirgmia had transmitted to London , and in which the young Major Washington finished the narration of bis first battle , with thiB phrase— " 1 have heard bullets whistle ; there is something charmnyj in the sound . " "He would not Bay so ( said the king ) if he had heard much of it . " Washington was of the King ' s opinion ; for when the major of the Virginian militia became commanderin-chief to the United States , some one having asked him if it were true that he had used such an expression , he replied , " If I said so , it was because I was very yiHing . " '—Suizoft " Washingten . "
No Mistake . —Dr . Badcliffe being called upon to visit a sick man , asked him , as he entered the room , how he did . " Oh , Sector , " replied the man , in a plaintive tone , " I am dead t" The doctor immediately left the roost , and reported in the neighbourhood that the man was dead . The report was at first believed and circulated ; but as soon as the mistake was discovered , the doctor was asked why he had propagated a falsehood . He replied , " I did it on the best authority ; for I had it from the man ' s own month . " Ascsstbt . —I > r . Moonsey , by way of ridiculing
family pride , used to confess , that the nr 3 t of his ancestors , of any note , was a baker and dealer in hops , a trade which enabled him , with some diffieolty , to support his family . To procure a present cm , this ancestor had robbed hi * father beds ot their contents , and supplied their deficiency with unsaleable hops . In a few years , a severe blight universally prevailing , hops became more ux ^ rce , and , of course , enormously dear ; the hoarded treasure was ripped cm , and a good ram procured for hops which , in a plentiful season , were of no Take ; " and thus , " the DKwtor used to add , ? our family hopped from obscurity . "
Ecckstbjc Hbmakitt . —John , Duke of Montague , made two codicils to his will , one in favour of his servants , and the other of his dogs , oats , &c . Whilst writing the latter , one of his cats jumped on his knee . " What I" Bays he , " have you a mind to be a witness , tod ! You caa ' t , for you are a party concerned . " Titles op Pablulmests . —It is curiou 3 to read of the titles bestowed upon Borne of the ancient Parliaments . Thus , we find that in the reign of Henry III ., the Partmment wa 3 called , on account
of its opposition to the King , w Parliamentum insaaom —the mad Parliament . In the time of Edward III ., one was styled " the good Parliament' In Richard the Second ' s reign , the people called them the " unmerciful Parliament , " in order to ajjew their dislike of the proceedings of the Peers against that unhappy Sovereign ; while the """\ lfTP at a later date were honoured with the cognomen of the " indoctem Parliamentum "—the 21 iter * fy Parliament . The " long , " and the " rump " Parijajpents , of still more modern times , are well knoimtoall .
Th $ . odour of some persons is said to have been quite a perfume . Plutarch mentions that Alexander ths Great smelt , sot of carnage like ft hero , but mos \ p } e * 8 antly . Fragrance proceeded also from Angtp&QS . In the memoirs of the Queen of Navarre , we rutS that Catharine de Medici was a nosegay ; andi ^ ujfccius the eMtfejt , * nd Lord Herbert of Cherburyj ^ ere eqoalJpfcB ghted . Dr . Speranza lately witnite& < i _ a strong b * lB » aic fragrance from the innfli ' pitrt of the left fore-arm of a healthy man , whidr ' effQtiaued , especially in the morning , for two month&and ceased for good on the supervention of feverPWan Swieten mentions a man whose left
armpit sSsaL strongly of musk ; and Wedel and Gahrlie « - * aw- 'ea « i a similar example . —Dr . Elliotton " ' Human Physiology . Bmaxh UF ~ TBg Yom » Q . —Oh ! it is hard to take fc > heart the , | sj « Hi that such deaths will teach , but let no man reject it , for it is one that all must learn , atul ' iEa mighty universal truth . When death striKtf "doitt- ' the innocent and young , for every fragSe ^ form from which he lets the panting spirit free ? irfeTm 8 red virtues rise , in shapes of mercy ofcaritv , andKrte , to walk the world , and blesa it . d « fyMiit 1 ttat Borrowing mortals sbed on such grmt ^ pirt ^ iwBe good is born , so » e gentler jotsre awnes . in the destroyer ' s steps there spring ^ temiJ ^ SfesteoiM -fe at defy his power , and bis jfagfc g cafe Becomes a way of light to heaven . — ^^ Jflfc ^ , ^ j < B 5 wjZT
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HOUSE OF LORDS .-FRIDAT , Feb . 5 th . Lord Brougham presented a petition from eight planters and landowners In India , praying ft » an equali sation of the duties on colonial produce . Monday ^ Feb . 8 . The Lokd Chahcsllob brought down a message from her Majesty , requesting that Parliament would eaabte her to make provision for Lord Seaas aad bis two next hsia , as a recompense for his service in India . In reply t » a question from the Earl of Movktcishel , relative to the detention and intended trial
of Mr . M'Leod , in New York , as one ot the party engaged in the destruction of the Caroline steam-vessel , Lord MELBOTB . KS said a correspondence bad taken plxc * between Mr . Fox and the American Minister ob the subject , in the « onne of which Mr . Forsyte , ta » American Minister , said it vu a matter pertaining entirely to the state of New York , and in which the Federal Government oould not interfere . He oould sot state what course the Government would par » ue , bat the Howe might rely that British subjecta should be protected , and the honour of the British nation maintained . Their Lordships soon after adjourned .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS , Thursdat , Feb . 4 . Lord Mobpeth rose to move for leave to bring in hli BUI to amend the law relating to the qaaliflcation and registration of Parliamentary voters in Ireland . He first stated the points on which he was disposed to go along with Lord Stanley . He was ready to abolish certificates as a test for the right of voting , because they afforded f&dlitJee for personation , and afforded no check upon the continuance of voters on the registry after they hid ceased to be qualified . He was willing alao to allow of a periodical revision ef the registry , and that that revision should take place once a year , instead of oooe every eight years , as was now the case . He would also allow an appeal both to bjectora and to claimants ; but before he consented to these change * , he
must have the franchise clearly defined . Nor could he agree to deprive the Irish peasant of the facility he now enjoyed , of a quarterly recourse to the court of the assistant barrister . When onoe the voter was placed on the registry , he ( Lord Morpeth ) was willing to allow the title to the franchise to be annually called in question for any matter annulled or altered in the original qualification ; but if no change of that sort had occurred , h * would be content to abide by the first Marching ioqviiy exacted by the Irish Reform Act , for he could not agree with the Noble Lord's scheme , to allow a right onoe recognised to be yearly called into question . He should propose the institution of a new ccurt of appeal , and here he would retain the same provision as had been introduced last Tear into the
Bill of the Irish Attorney-General , and the same that would be found in the Hill for England , to be brought in by the Secretary for the Colonies . The new Appeal Court wanld consist of three barristers of a oertain standing , to sit at Dublin , and to be appointed by the speaker Of the House of Commons . He now came to the question of the franchise . On this subject the opinions of tbe judges were divided ; the opinions of the assistant barristers were divided ; the opinions of the leaden of two great parties were divided ; nay , from the speeches of the Duke « f Richmond , Lord Stanley , Lord Melbourne , and the Marquis of Lantdowne , it appeared that the very framers and authors of the Irish Reform Act were divided in their opinions respecting the franchise . The Hoble Lord then detailed
the results of a careful inquiry that had been made into the state of the constituency in a variety of Poor Law Unions in Ireland . From the particulars obtained by that inquiry , it will be seen that in several of those unieni many individuals were found to be in possession of the franchise without being fairly entitled to it He showed that , while the population of Ireland was on the increase , tha constituency had been rapidly declining ; and he then w « nt on to aj that it wat his intention to make the franchise dependant on the valuation to the poor-rate , according to the New Poor Law , He wished to fix the standard of the franchise at the ame amount at which the Poor Law fixe * the liability of the rate-p * yer . That stsadar * would be a £$ rate ; and he would propose that the franchise should be obtainable for a tenement rated to the poor at five pounds a year , provided the possessor bad an interest in the original holding , for a period of sot lest than
fourteen years . Lord Stanley expressed his conviction that it would be impossible tot the Noble Lord to pass his Registra tion Bill in the course of the present session , saddled as that Bill was by a species of postscript , which comprised all the charaeteristio of a new Reform BilL Lord Stanley expressed great exultation at the confirmation given to his own statements by the statistical details read by the Noble Secretary for Ireland . He appealed to the Noble Secretary for the Colonies to say whether Lord Grey ' s Government , when framing the Irish Reform Bill , bad not based the franchise on property rather than on population . It had been thought they had gone far enough when they g&ve the franchise to £ 10 householders in counties ; bat now it was proposed to deluge the counties with £ 5 householders ! He did not intend , however , to offer any opposition to the introduction of the Noble Lord ' * Bill , which he would leava to tell its own tale .
Lord Howick , amid lond cheers from the Liberal benches , announced hi * determination to give bis hearty concurrence to so much of his Noble Friend ' s measure as related to the qualification of voters . Mr . CCon . iell said the House had now an opportunity to shew its friendly feelings towards Ireland , by pusing a Bill which would be received with satisfaction by the people of that country . They did not know , in the present state of Europe , how soon they might have occasion for Ireland , and it was now for them to make their choice between the curse of Ireland , and the Noble Lord ( Lord Stanley's ) Bill on the one side , and the blessings of Ireland and the Noble Lord ( LordMorpeth ' s ) Bill on the other . Mr . Shaw was not surprised at the satisfaction of the Hon . and Learned Gentleman with the BilL -It was all but Universal Suffrage ; it was certainly Household Suffrage .
Mr . Johw O'Coskeil , in reply to some remarks from Lord Howick , sought to justify those who had told the ~ > eople of Ireland that the House of Commons felv no sympathy with that country . Those who bad held such language , had done so because they believed it to be trne . The House had now an opportunity of disproving the truth of the charge , by agreeing to the Bill submitted to them . The Bill did not go quite so far as be could have wished . He would have had the franchise based on the poor-rate indeed , but without any limitation as to amount of tenure ; ud in this , he believed , the Liberal Association of Ulster were prepared to go a great way with
Mr . Hukb , Sergeant Jackson , and several other Irish Members , addressed a few remarks to the House , those on the Tory side unanimously condemning the adoption of so low a standard as that proposed by Lord Morpeth for the franchise , and those on the Liberal giie , with the same unanimity , expressing their satisfaction with all the leading principles of the BilL Mr . Waed , as an English Member , expressed h 5 s conviction that the Bill now proposed would be received by the public with great satisfaction . It was sn honest Bill , and went to settle the question in an honest manner . The Bill of the Noble Lord oppo-» ite ( Lord Stanley ) was not an honest Bill , and he said tbi * without any intention to speak discourteously . The motion for leave to bring In the Bill was then agreed to without a division .
* Mr . Lab 8 Cchbbb obtained loave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of railways . The sele object of his Bill would be to Increase the safety of railroad travelling ; but though he should demand for Government such power of interference as might be for the interest of the public , yet he shomld not , by any minute interference , take away the responsibility which now rested on the railroad proprietors . On the whele , there was no mode of conveyance so safe or so free from accident as railroad travelling ; but when he reflected on the nature of the accidents when they did
occur , however trifling they might be in comparison with the amount of traffic , it was not to be wondered at that they produced a great and painful excitement . Small , too , as was the number of accident * , it was possible , by judicious regulations , to make them less frequent . The Right Honourable Gentleman explained that it was his intention to propose a licensing system . He would propose that no engine-driver be employed , without being licensed ; thit a registry be kept of all engine-drivers ; and thus , he believed , an important check would be obtained against the employment of improper persons .
* Lord J . Bdssell moved for leave to bring in a Bill for tke Registration of Parliamentary Electors , and stated , that the enactments of this Bill were nearly the same as those of the Bill introduced by him last year . He proposed that out of a list of forty-fire barristers , nominated by the Jndges , fifteen should be selected by the Speaker , and that they shomld hold their situations permanenly , a * revising barristers . The motion was agreed to , after a few word * from Mr . LiDDKLL and CoL Sibthorp . Lord J . RUSSltt made s statement of some length , to show the position in which the colony of South Australia is at present placed , and expressed an opinion , that it would be found necessary to alter some of the Acts of Parliament sow in force relative to that colony . Hi « Lordship concluded . by moving the appointment of a select committee i » take those Acts into consideration .
Lord Starlet hoped th » question would not be thrown loosely before the Committee ; and he doubted , as a general principle , the policy of delegating to a Select Committee tee lagitimate duties of Government Lord J . Ressell agreed with the position , of the Noble Lord as a general rule , but considered the present ease one that ought to form an exception . The motion was agreed U . Sir F . Poilock obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to double costs , notices of action , 4 c ; and & Bill to allow a writ of error in all eases of jndgment on & writ of mandamus .
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Mr . B . J . SyaVLIT moved for a new writ Cor King's County , 1 b the room of N . Fftafaum , Esq ., who has accepted the stewardship of the Children HondMds . Mr . Sogeast * Tallowed presented petitions from Mr . T . Hood , the editor of the Cor * 4 * AmmiU , horn Mr . Cobbett , and others , in favour of the Copyright BilL Mr . Cobbett in fals petition peayed to be heard at the bar of the House in support of the Bill . r Lord J . Russkll moved the thanks of the' House to Admiral Sir R . Btopford , Commodore Sir Chads * Napier , Msjor-Cteteral Sir C . F . Smith , Admiral Bandeiia , and Admiral Walker , and the officers and men serving under their command during the recent event * in Syria . Lord Stawley seconded the motion , which was supported by Lord F . Egebton and other Honourable Members .
Sir H . Hardikgb , in supporting Che menon , suggested that , now Sir Sidney Smith was dead , a monument shoald be erected to his memory . The motion was manimoosly agreed to . Mr . Sergeant Taifoubd moved the second reading of the Copyright BUI , which was lost by a majority of 45 to 38 . Mr . Bawm obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws relating to the medical profession . Lord Morpeth Brought in the Qualification and Registration of Voters in Ireland Bill , which was-read a first time , and was ordered to be printed . The House then adjourned .
Monday , Feb . Oh . A new writ was issmed for the borough of Richmond , Yorkshire , in the rtom of A . Spetal , Esq . ., who has accepted the Chiltem Hundreds . L * rd Stanley having stated the circumstances which Jed to the arrest of Mr . M'Leod , in New York , on the charge of being a party engaged in the destruction of the Caroline steam-vessel , proceeded to-ask the Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs , whether , as a correspondence on the subject of the loss of the Caroline had taken place between the Government of the United States and that of Great Britain , as far back as 1838 , he had any objection to lay that correspondence on the table ; whether be had received any despatches from Mr . Fux , containing the communications referred to by Mr . Fox in hi * letter to Mr . FoMytn , recently published ; and whether any , and if any , what steps had been taken to afford protection to Mr . M'Leod ; and if there was any objection to lay the correspondence upon this subject also on the table of the House ?
Lord Palmerston said tkat the Noble L » rd had adverted with great discretion to a subject so delicate in its nature as to require being touched upon , if at all , with great reserve . It was not expedient to lay the correspondence on the subject on the table of the House under existing circumstances . Her Majesty ' s Government had received despatches from Mr . Fox within the last few days , enclosing the correspondence which had taken place between that gentleman and Mr . Forsyth , and as it had been already published in America he had no objection to lay copies on the table , ft was Important to state that , according to the information he had received , Mr . M'Leod was not one of the party engaged in the destruction of the Caroline . With respect to the ground taken by Mr . Forsyth in his letter to Mr . Fox , he would Bay that the American Government had already treated the transaction as a matter to be discussed between the two Governments . Under all the sircumstances , however , he thought it desirable to avoid discussion on the subject .
Lord Stanley observed that the Noble Lord had not answered one question—namely , what steps had been taken for the liberation of Mr . M'Leod . Lord Palherstok replied that a somewhat similar case in principle occurred about eighteen months or two years back , in reference to which instructions were sent to Mr . Fux , who had founded upon those instructions the steps he had already taken in the case of Mr . M'Leod . He would only ask the House to believe that such further instructions should be sent out as Government deemed necessary , but it was not prudent to state what those instructions might be . Mr . Hvhs asked if no reply had been returned to the American Government , which had , In 1838 , applied to ascertain if the enterprise was to be considered as undertaken by the sanction of the British Government ?
Lord Palmerstoh said he was informed that instructions had been sent by the American Government to Mr . Stevensou , not to press for a reply . He added , that the American Government , having onee admitted that it was a matter of international law , could not now change its ground . Sir R . Peel asked whether some British officers had not received wounds in the affair of the Caroline , and whether they had not since received pessions as if those wounds had been received in the regular service of her Majesty . Lord John Russell said , one officer mi wounded , but he could not say whethar he had received a pension .
Mr . O'Connell said the House ought to come to some determination , that as Mr . M'Leod was acting under a British officer , his life should be saved . They should come to a resolution that they were willing to assist the Government in any steps it might take to save him . In reply to a question from Sir R . Peel , Lord Palmerston said that the differences between the Court of Great Britain and that of Persia had not been adjusted , nor had the relations between the two countries been renewed . Lord Stanley brought in the Registration of Voters ( Ireland ) Bill , which was read a first time , and ordered for second reading on Wednesday , the 24 th instant Lord John Russell moved the second reading of the Poor Law Amendment BilL
Mr . D'Iskael , in moving that it be read a second time that day six months , condemned the Bill as on outrage on the manner * of the petple of England , and no financial consideratien should be suffered to weigh against such an evil . By the Poor Law Bill the constitution of England had been destroyed for sordid considerations , and they had the melancholy reflection that even those sordid considerations had not been realised . Mr . Wakley said that the object of the first part of this Bill was to continue for ten years the power of the commissioners , and the second part was to give them power to do whatever they pleased . The object of the Poor Law , recognised by the Parliament of England , w&s that no distinction should be made in the treatment of the poor on the ground of merit The Noble Lord ( Lord J . Russell ) said the object was that n « parson should be allowed to starve . That was ail that the Liberals , who supported the Noble Lord ,
would do . They would not allow the poor to starvewhip them twice a fortnight—torture them at pleasure —imprison them always—and clothe them , because poor , in a uniform which degrades them ; and this was what the Liberal side of the House was willing to inflict upon the poor . He appealed from them to the great Conservative party in the Honse , to come forward and rescue the working men of England from the grasp of these political economists . He appealed to them , because the aristocracy of England were the natural leaders of the people . He was aware that what he was saying would be displeasing to those who sought for the repeal of the Corn Laws , in order to have bread cheap , though they well knew that wages were always relative . The Hon . Member proceeded to condemn the Poor Law Bill as a cold-blooded , mercenary act , ferocious and savage in principle , calculated to inflict misery and torture upon the deserving poor of tbiB country , aad to stimulate the muscle and bone of England to resist the decrees of Parliament .
Mr . G . Knight feared that the Hon . Member fer Finsbury would have no reason to congrattMftte himself on bis appeal to the Conservative side of the House . For his own part , he viewed as senseless clamour all the attacks made on the system of centralisation , and congratulated the Noble Lord on haviag introduced the Bill before the House . Mr . Buck was of opinion that the Noble Lord would never be able to procure respectable gentlemen to carry out such an obnoxious measure as this , unless he materially altered its clauses in committee . The powers given by this Bill were unconstitutional , but he should reserve hit farther observations upou it until it went into committee .
Mr . Muntz said his great objection to the Poor Law was , that it made no distinction between the industrious man rnd the idle , dissolute beggar . The poor-house , instead of being a place to relieve the poor , was turned into a bugbear to frighten away the very partios who ought to be relieved . Mr . Liddell condemned the extension of the power of the Commissioners for ten years , and said he should oppose the BilL Sir Robebt Peel supported the second reading of the BilL There were two grounds of consideration upon which the question must be viewed . The first was whether they should adhere to or abandon this great experiment altogether j the second , whether they should , or should not have , in the event of the
continuance of the law , a central Board for the direction of the Unions throughout the kingdom . For his own part , he had never supported the Poor Law Amendment Bill on the ground of diminution of expenditure , but from the experience of evil * which were eating into the vitals of the Constitution , and the remedy for which , he thought , admitted of uo delay . In considering this subject people wen too apt to forget what was the state of things before the passing of the Poor Law BilL The Right Hen . Gentleman then adverted to the evidence taken before the committee of 1834 on the state of the poor , in order to shew foe state of distress and demoralisation which prevailed amongst the Iabouriag classes of society and observed that the
Hon . Member for Finsbury might have addressed his inflammatory speech with qua ! effect in reference to those parties suffering under the old law , as he had that night addressed it is reference to those suffering under the altered system . He should be very sorry , after a short experimemt of five yean , to abandon a gnat measure like this , and would , therefore , give his rote for the second reading , reserving his right to judge of the policy of the clauses when in committee . He doubted the policy of continuing the power of the commissioners for ten years ; indeed , he thought there would be a practical advantage in knowing that , at the end of five years , the subject must be again brought under the consideration of Psrliameat . The Right Hon . Baronet also objected to the clause autho-
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rising barring places adjoinlaf th » workhouses , aad reminded the Homs » that every outrage to the feelings of to « poor gave ail additioaal weapon io those who were disposed to attack the bw ittttt He was also of opinion that the principle of extended onions . was already carried too ^ r , an evil which gave oppntunitiei of tbusW that inighfrnot'take place wew the untousniore limited , « fii coMeqtWtotiy more immediately under the cognisance of the Poor law Guardians . ¦ ' ' " ' ¦ Mr . T . Dbkcombb described the bill a * an aggravation of ererj grievance which the people complained of under the exLttiug law . ' ! ' - ' ^ ' Mr . Fox Madlb supported the bill , and took nearly the same view of Its objects and wsulte as that taken by Sir'B . PeeL - ¦ :, ' , . ¦ - i \ . ¦ . - . . i ' -. ;¦ - ¦'¦ > ¦ .. ; ' : ¦ v ^ <; ¦ " Sir E . Knatchbull would vote for the second Heading ; bat in the expectation that many of the clause * would be modified in committee . . ' ¦
Lord Howick was gratified to find Oat after all that bad been said in the press and at publie dinners respecting the Poor Law Amendment Bill , yetrnot one single Member of that House had ventured to recommend a return , to tha old system of , administering relief to the poor . The Noble Lord defended , the existing law , and contended that it was sound policy to extend the power of the Commissioners for ten years , ner should he object to make it permanent . ' Mr . Darby could not look upon the bill as any improvement wh&teTer . It contained nothing in the shape of amelioration of the severities of the existing law . He thoughtif a labour test were applied instead of a workhouse test , they would find it a very great improvement , and much more satisfactory to the people . Captain PECHELt objected to the interference which this BiU occasioned with Gilbert ' s Unions , 200 of which it would destroy .
Mr . W . Attwood opposed the second reading of the Bill , seeing that nothing in the shape of amelioration in the existing law was to be expected , but that it was to be carried out with all the harshness which characterised its provisions . The only alternative , therefore , left to him was to oppose the BUI altogether . After a few observations from Mr . Rice and Sir E . FiLMEk , : ¦ '' ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ . '¦¦ . . ;¦ . - . - ¦¦''¦ ¦ Mr . Langdale gave notice that in Committee he should move a clause to prevent the paupers from being confined in the workhouse , so as t « prevent them from attending their respective places of worship on Sundays . Mr . Fieldem said fce should not only oppose the Bill in its present stage , but would take every occasion to obstruct , and , tf possible , defeat it in it * various ( taxes in passing through the House .
Lord J . Russell , in reply , said In reference to making hard labour a test instead of the workhouse , that it was a matter which could only be judged of by experience . That was not the time to discuss it , but he would say that , however desirable it might be , he believed experience was against the efficacy of a labour test There was , be contended , a great fallacy in speaking of the present law pressing severely on the poor , for , on the contrary , it had effected a material change for the better in their condition since the Abuses of the old law were done away with . With respect to the suggestion of the Right Hon . Bart . / Sir B . Peel ) , for limiting the power of the Commissioners to a period of five years , he should be extremely sorry to see it adopted by the House , as while it could confer no practical benefit , it would tend to weaken the power and authority of the Commissioners . On a division , the second reading was carried by a majority of 201 to 54 .
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ROYAL ADDRESSES . Among the numberless ridiculous things that are occasioned by the state and pageantry of a Court , surely nothing can be more exquisitely babyish and nonsensical than the things called addresses . If anything happens in the ordinary way , now-a-days , to the Queen or any of her relations , forthwith we see hundreds of old gentlemen putting themselves inU masquerade , forcing themselves into red clothes stiff with gold lace , inducting their solid bead * into cocked hats , and sticking switchy little steel-headed swords between their legs , for no other purpose , that we can see , than in order to throw them , down whenever they attempt to
walk . This is getting a public nuisance , and ought to be put down by some new Police Act The Queen cannot go to bed and g « t up again , she can hardly sneexe , she cannot perform the ordinary functions of a married lady , but ent come these gold-lace-bediaened , red-coated , cocked-hatted , small-sword-wearing , pompous gentry , and march all through the town in a gingerbread sort of grandeur , intrude themselves into her presence , and there read over to the poor young lady some execrable composition , which is quite unintelligible for any other purpose , except to Bhow the audacity of the addressers in clipping the Queen ' s English even in the presence of the Queen .
For the last week the neighbourhood of St . James ' * Palace has been quite impassable . The other day we were driving in that neighbourhood , and we ran an imminent danger of life from our horse taking fright at the Lord Mayor . We could hardly blame the animal , for & Lord Mayor is at times a carious biped to be seen west of Temple-bar ; and from the questionable manner in which this Lord Mayor chose to exhibit himself , be was enough to frighten a much less sensitive animal than a spirited horse . First came a gang of shivering footmen , trudging through the snow in their shoes and flesh-coloured silk stockings , with quivering calves , unprotected from an atmosphere of about twenty-six ; then came a great , lumbering , wooden , gilded , cartlooking machine , all gold and paint ,
like a wealthy dowager , and inside this was a mob of people that seemed as though they had just escaped from some two-and-sixpenny masquerade . Staring through the window , and sitting sideways in the coach , was a man in a horsehair wig , whe appeared to us to be sitting upon somebody else ' s knee , and behind him was a man with a great square Uoking fur cap upon his head ; then upon the usual seats which carriage * generally contain , there were some human beings singularly disguised in quaint devices ; and , we suppose , because the great gilded monstrosity was already oo full of civic humanity that it would hold nothing more , there was part of a long sword and the head of a great mace sticking out of one of the windows . * # • * *
All these people , we learn , were going to St . James ' s in this curious manner , in order to tell the Queen that they were very glad that she had got a little girl . This was the worthy purpose about which all this row and disturbance was made , and this was the cause which drew all the gilt faltherals out of their several receptacles , and brought the worthy Mayor and Aldermen from bekind their counters , to strut like peacocks in the West end . * * ? ? Curiosity has induced us to inquire what the men of Goshen , the inhabitants of the gilded go-cart , and the proprietors » f the silken-calfed sbiverers , did rtally say . Of course we know that they would vaunt their loyalty very highly upon the very principle laid down by Chesterfield , that when a man tells a whopping lie , he generally accompanies it with all sorts of asseverations . The following sentences are exquisite in their way : —
" Affectionately attached to your Majesty ' s sacred person , ( sacred ! what , has our good little Queen already obtained her apotheosis ?) and yielding to none of the subjects of your Majeaty in devotion to your Majesty ' s illustrious house , we most nnfeignedly rejoice in the recent interposition of Providence on behalf of your Majesty , and in the event which promises that the Crown shall ( we trust at a very distant day ) devolve upon one lineally descended from your Majesty . " We fervently pray that your Majesty may long reign over a free , a loyal , and a grateful people , and that the illustrious Princess , on whose birth it is our happiness to felicitate your Majeaty , may be spared to be a blessing to your Majesty and your illustrious
Consort , and to exemplify the good effects of an education founded on the principles of the Protestant religion , so happily established in this highly favoured country . " The " recent interposition of Providence ! " What cant and slavery ! What interference of Providence is there , we should like to know , in the natural event of * married woman giving birth to a child ten months after marriage 1 Is this intended as a compliment to Prince Albert f It is but a , sorry compliment , we are inclined to think . Why , Lord 1 Mayor Johnson , there is just as much providence about this matter as there would be about your feeling fuddled after drinking a couple of bottles of Mansion-house port But the Queen must have nauseated and despised you for a set of toad-eating reptiles , when you came to tell her that
her having a ohild was on account of the interference ot Providence I" Iniar / erenot /"—interference with what ? Interference with the natural order of things , it was not ; interference with an unnatural order of things could not have been required . How , then , was it interference—what did Providence interfere with j Go to , ye men of flesh-pota , ye turtle-brained lamps of ambulating ignorance . Ye know not the meaning ot language ; ye have none among you who can read and understand the English dictionary . How dare ye go in painted state to insult tha Queen to her face , by telling her that having a child was an unnatural event , which required the "interference of Providence ?" What mean ye by going up in grand parade to advertise your besotted ignorance to the world I Qo to , ja bigotted calves , ye canting ignorants ! Who was it
that drew up thia beautiful production T Was it the knight of the pig-skin , or was it the Lord Mayor's Chaplain ? Verily we believe that in writing , or speaking , or knowing anything shout English , they are about upon a par . . And then what Uo you mean by the Protestant religion being Happily established f Do you mean that it is happy tat the Protestant religion that it i * established here ?—for if you do , you are Tenting an impertlaeuoe upon the Protestant religion ; or do you mean to use "happily" in it * other sense , in which it Is synonymous with haply , and thereby to remind the Queen that the Protestant religion established here was occasioned by the hap of Martin Lutbei falling in love with a nun , and Henry the Eighth falling in lore with Anne Boleyn ? Was this what you meant ? Poor souls you dont know—how should you l—Satiriit .
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The largest merchant-vessel in the French service has just been launched at Bordeaux . She is named the Louis XIV ., and intended to sail between Marseilles and the United States . She is built so as to carry a cargo of 2 , € C 0 bales of cotfou .
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THE COURT ard THE PEOPLE , LOOK OK ¦ : f THIS PICIVBI AHB O » THIgf ! THEROYAI . CHBI 8 r * N- AK TjKPOBTCITATE CBBAma , —\ Frt > m , ih * 0 bHrv * r . ) TOBE . —Ann Finch , a poor —Her Majesty , the Queen miserable creature , was ot the Belgians , faas pie * charged , at Bow-street Po ; sented seriet o / perpb < taih , lico-office , by Mr . T . Wright , tifvl robet , composed of cheese-dealer , with having Brunei * lace , of the moat obtained . two pounds and recherche manufacture , for > half of baeon , and . six the use of the infant J ^ rln- eggs , under false pretence * eess ,. For nearjy a oen- Mr . Wright « tated that the tttiyifchaabeeneuitbinary prisoner came to his shop to cause the baptismal oarer in Blackmoorstreet , Clare
mony to be performed Market , on Friday night , within a month of the andjuid her master , Mr . birth of the Royal infant , Loinas , landlord of the and tb » -last Prince of Sell Tavern , In Welllng-Walea ( afteewarda Georga ton-stwet , Strand , had sent IV . ) born . August 12 th , her for them . Knowing 1762 , was baptised on 8 th she had been a servant of the following month ; so it his , he 1 st her have the was , we believe , with all articles . Theshopmansaw the succeeding prince * and her quitting the shop , and princesses . The ceremony observed that she took a was less imposing in gran- wrong direction from the deui than is likely to be house of Mt . fcotnaa ; he the caw in the present in- followed , and brought her etance , but It was probably back , when she confessed
attended with greater and that she had left the sermore unnecessary expence . vice of Mr . Lonus nine The Archbishop of Can- months ; but that poverty terbury officiated in the and hunger had made her Great Council Chamber of commit the act t She said , the Palace , the bedcham- if permitted to go away , ber of the Queen was she would pawn her shawl , thrown open , and the and pay the amount Mr . counterpane of Queen John Lomas , her late mas-Charlotte ' s state bed , on tor , stated that she had the occasion of the cbris- lived with him as a cook tening of the late Duke of for three years ; her con-York , which was com- duct ail that time was very posed of entire lace ofini- proper ; he had never mitable workmanship , which missed anything , and
alalone o $ sl £ 3 , 780 , was used ways entertained the high-OS the occasion . Several eat opinion of her honesty . costly mementotat this in- The magistrate ordered her tereaUng ceremony , cut- to be imprisoned fot touttomary at such events to teen days , and desired the be presented by the Royal officer to give her a break ' and distinguished « pon-.. fast before she watt taken sors , are nearly completed away . . by some of the principal Thb Law's DblaT . — goldsmiths . The fashion- On Friday evening , an inable and court modistes at quest was held before Mr . the west end of the town , . Payne , in the Fleet Prison , are busily engaged in com- on the body of Thomas pleting the several rich Lloyd , aged 56 , a prisoner costumes to be worn on the for the costa ( £ 328 ) of a
occasion . - Chancery sait .. It appeared TUE ROYAL CHEfSTEN- that in 1834 deceased had IHO . —Thi 8 interesting ce- filed a bill in Chancery , remony will positively with others , to recover take place on the 10 th in- £ 6 , 800 left them by will , stant , being the anniver- and that , having changed sary of her Majesty ' s mar- his solicitor , the latter riage . The original inteu- attached and imprisoned tion of preparing the cha- him for costs to the amount pel royal of St James's above-mentioned . He had for this event has now £ 966 in the hands of the been abandoned solely , we Court , of which it received hear , on account of the the Interest He was severity of the weather , obliged to live on the It will , however , now county weekly allowance ,
take place , we believe , in which was stated to be the private chapel of Buck- only 3 s . 6 d . A witness ingham-palace . We are attributed deceased's prenow enabled to oomrauni- mature demise to delay in cate that directions have the administration of jusbeen given by the Lord tice by the Court of Chan-Steward to prepare the eery ( the suit having lasted royal picture gallery for a for more than six years , grand banquet for eighty and not being likely to be persons . This splendid heard for two years lenger ) , gallery , in itself f a feast to great mental anxiety , of reason , " when lighted and to want of proper and up , displays to great ad- suficieni comfort * necessary vantage the countless trta- for the support human sures of art tehich enrich its lifti ! Mr . Cooper , the
walls , and the three beau- prison surgeon , said detiful groups of Canova ' s ceased was admitted in sculpture placed at the 1838 , and , in bis opinion , entrance , contribute , in no died of disease of the liver small measure , to ite ge- and lungs . The Jury reneral effect . The picture turned a verdict— " Thai gallery has not been appro- deceased died ot natural priatodfora banquet since causes , accelerated in some the time of the coronation : degree by imprisonment " on the present occasion the Lamentable Destitudiuner table will be eighty tion . —On Monday evenfeet in length , the diinen- ing , an inquest was held sions allotted by the table at the Half Moon and decker being invariably Seven Stars public-house , two feet to each person . Stanhope-street ,
Drury-Those who , like ourselves , lane , before Mr . Higgs , have seen the gorgeous Coroner for Westminster , display of gold plate at the on view of the body of court banquets , will have Thomas Vaughan , aged 72 . an adequate conception of It appeared , from the evithe brilliant effect which dencesf the various witwill be produced on Wed- nesses , that the deceased nesday , not only by the had only eartied id . all list ornamental table , with its week , and one of the witlong range of gold epergnes nesses bad sent out for a and vases extending the pennyworth of bread , the entire length , and the ar- old man baring had no tiScial sideboard , so cop- food before during the whole structedas to display with day . The landlord of the studied advantage the bouse stated that deceased
matchless plate andjeuxlltd had lodged with him some cups , but also by the aur- months , and owed him rounding tableaux and fourteen weeks'rent What gems of art , in themselves furniture there was in the a mine of wealth ; but when room belonged to deceased , to these are added her Ma- It consisted of a obair , jesty ' s presence , and that table , and bedstead ; but of the illustrious and dia- there was neither bed , tinguished princes , deco- sheets , or blankets , the rated with their various only covering being part of stars and orders , and lost , on old rug . It was evident not least , the collective that the deceased bad been loveliness ofthecourt . it in the habit of sleeping in must , according to our bis clothes , the appearance fancy , lid fair to realise of which bespoke extreme one of the golden dreams poverty . When he died , of the Arabian Nights' En- he had not even a shirt on !
tertainment It ia conjee- Deceased never comlured that her Majesty ' s plained , and until his nearest relative will , at death no one knew that he this splendid banquet , was suffering from actual pledge to the health and want The Jury , after a happiness of the royal in- long investigation . returned faut , to which appropriate a verdict of " Natural sentiment we may safely death , accelerated by want undertake to say a whole and the state of the weanation will loyally respond , ther . " The embroidered velvet Three labouring men hangings were yesterday have been found near Dumremoved from the altar of fries , who were frozen to the chapel royal , Saint death during the late severe James's , together with the storm . The poor fellows chairs and cushions , aud were discovered together , other articles , to Bucking- in a sitting position , by the ham-palace . —Court Journ . roadside .
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SCRIPTURAL CHARTISM . No . IV . 10 TH CHAP . OF LUKE , 30 TH VERSE . "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho , "—most probably a working man returning home with his earnings . His wife and children would anxiously expect him , for it was the week ' s end , and on him they depended for support and comfort . But behold ! he falls among thieves—say among Tories or Whigs—there is little difference between them , save that the former plunder openly , and the latter hypocritically . The word Tory means a thief—bog-trotters in Ireland were called Tories , and answered to the moss-troopers in Scotland . Irish mothers keep their children quiet by telling them that the Tories will
come and get them . Whig means something sour , and was applied in Scotland to Puritans , or hypecritea . Cream is Whigged when it is spoiled . The factions that govern this nation partake of both these characters , and the people are Radicals , because they would root them out—Chartists ,- because the only means of doing this is by the Charter . Our Tory-Whigs , or Whig-Tories plunder the public—they rob us of our rightsthey take care , however , to do this injustice under the form of law—they shield themselves from justice by law—they rob according to law , having made laws for that purpose—they doaotxob with a pistol , but with an Act of Parliament—the law is at once a weapon for them , a shield , and a mask—they commit greater
robberies with impunity than those that they have hanged men for having committed . Nor are they content with robbing—they murder likewise . Like the thieves in the parable , they strip ~ a > man , and wound him , and leave him for dead . They take his clothes , as well aa money and food—they take everything be has , even t * bis life . Probably they would leave him his life , if he would let them take all the rest quietly ; but he cries out " Help , thieve * 1 murder ! " and they kill him , to stop his tongue . All this is done by means of taxes , and cesses , and the policemen , whom they hire therewith . Suppose a friend were to come forward to the rescue , the " robbers would fall foul npon him ; for they are determined to rob , and to enjoy their booty unmolested .
The working man la the parable was left naked and . half dead ; he could not help himself , and there was none to help Mm . In Tain does his wife expect him ; the usual tim */ is past , and yet he cornea not She looks again and again , but she cannot see him coming ; she grows very anxioss—she fears something must have happened to him . —that he has met with an accident , and instead of bringing support to her , needs her support She is distressed at toe thought of it , and does not know what to do ; had she known into what cruel howls he bad fallen , how she Would have flown to his nccour . But he is left alone , the murderous thieves b / ave gone ; he cannot stir from the spot ; there 1 b no one in sight , he cannot speak ; he groans and casts hla
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• yes along the road to see if any one is ooaing . ja last he see * * priest , oh . joyful sight ! his hope , revhT he will bow receive both spiritual and bodily eomfti ? but no , the holy man , after / seeing hinv pane * by ^ J-i the other side . This was *> priest , ' 6 p » calling him | S '; 4 a minister of God ; prooably his mind was occupied ai- » walked along , with the pleasing theughU of iith * J&M G ^ heroffaringa , andhew » ulduotdistuibhia . devontate '• - ' tattoos byoonaideriagtheforlorn state of a wrotch ^ SiV could not give him anything , but needed * ometaftj from him ; yet he could hot have helped considering *? it , If he « sw It clearly , and , therefore , he . woHld « 2 < see it He avoided U ) ose claims upon , his , compasjw 3 which the cries of the sufferer , ponraning with hi * « w conscience , would have enforced . It | i , not unliiS '^ that the wounded man bad paid toward * the « u ' pw ' of this same priest , and jet , sow , in hf * hour of ne •' Yts \* 11 tta vuMvTiaJtf ^ uf fiv him ' QtiMfiJli ^ J ¦ ' *;? i aim
w w « aw * A . -m _ ... - mow cruelly ua * s negieoveu ujr . ouoa a disappoint . ;' ment Would , aggravate his distress . It wa * lik * th »» \ which sometimes ( but for the h * nour of human a » ho , T not often is experienced , by mariner * when in , distjaT 1 ' at sea—their s&fpf wafieitogged , and floating on hZ ' broadside—no proyisions to be had , no shelter , ^ i prospect but of death by cold , or hunger , or from tk insatiate wave . 'At length they see a sail—they W the sight with joy ; for they anticipate a . speedy d * liverance—it cornea nearer and nearer—theymake wim signal they are able , bat the ship passes by , withott taking any notice of their distress , And is soon out « l sight Instead of being relieved , they are sunk iafc deeper despair—the indifference of their fellow-crtfttW seems more cruel than ' the rigour of , fate—they miak ' exclaim— ' - . -
" Oh , ye are more Inhuman , more inexorable , Oh , ten times more , than storms and raging seas V And certainly the heart of the priest who passed by tht the wounded man , was more callous than the hearts cf the robber * who had wounded hint If not one of thoaa robbers , he sanctioned their condoet * though he w *» bound , by his holy office , to denounce it , and help tht victim of it i > V But the priest that pused by the poor sufferer in t&g parable was but one—he-might be an exception to tfc rest—a solitary disgrace to hU order—not another be * would have acted differently . ¦ Not seJ—one woaia think it was to show tfcat all state-priests : are all . that Jesus Christ , who was , certainly , not a priest rf
the established renglon , said , another priest ounebj chance that way , a Letrite , woo , when he saw tha nn , lying on the ground , came up to him , examined his deplorable condition , and yet , after all , passed by on tb » other side . This priest was worse than the otter—b saw the man's bleeding wounds , he heard bis grouts , b * particularly observed hi * pitiable condition ; and yet b * left him to perish miserably . Probsbly ' as htf went along he would any to himself—poor wretch , he seentf in a dying state—I doubt he will die , he cannot l « t long , it is of no use me doing anything for hint J shall only be put to trouble and expence to no pnrpem . I will Itove him alone . I will lethim ttfw bit chink
some one else may find him and help Him—I trust h God they may . With this piece of pious hypocrisy , jba would save his priestly conscience . ' Had the wonfidei man not been a mere working man , had he borne lh » appearance of being a rich man , hW zealously u » Leyite would have assisted him ; he would have done all be could for him , in the hope of being rewarded fot it ; but , as he saw he was but a poor man , he left him to perish , and he would have perished , had it not beai for the compassion of a working man like himself , that , as providence ordered it , came next that way , for most of the charities that are done in this world ate not dou by the rich , but by the poor , who alone have a fellewfeeling for the poor .
The conduct of those two priests resembles that of state priests In all ages , that of the paid priesta of tot pressnt day , the majority of whom think they have gone through the prescribed forms of religion ; at least this is all the duty we see them do . They know what the people are suffering , they know who make then suffer , and they are bound by their religion , as w « Q as humanity , to assist the people and denounce their op . pressore , butdothey ? No ; they join the oppressor * , thej preach in their favour , they mock the hopes and lusntt the expectations of the people—they would exasperate he people into rebellion that they might afford a pre . text for their tyrants mon efiwtaally to crash them and
grind them to earth . The priests of the Church of England are almost all Whigs ' and : Tories—tell me ot an honest Radical among them ; Nor they alone ; but the dissenting ministers . The Methodists passed u edict that all Chartists were to be turned out of the connexion . That was worse conduct than the Levitet were ' guilty of—it was as if those Levitea had stopped near the wounded man , and , when they saw his friend coming to his succour , had gone to him and prevented him , had punished him , for his humane purpotg Why do they , working men , sit under such priests t Will they wait till they are discharged for befriending one another ! But to return .
After the priesta had passed ) by and left the poor ma to his fate , a certain Samaritan , as he journeyed , came where he was , and when he saw him , he had compassion on him . Now this good Samaritan ' would have been scorned by the priests—the priests would not hnt deigned to notice him , tortbeJewt thought the Sazas ritans beneath them and would have no dealings with them . . Yet , how superior was his conduct to their *! He did - not leave the poor man to perish , but he west to him and bound up his wonnds , pouring in oil and wine—oil into his stiff wounds and wine into bit parched throat—and because he could neither walk not stand , he lifted him up and placed hint upon his beast
aud supported him to an inn ; and took eare of hin there . And on the morrow , as he was obliged to leave him aud go on his own journey , he took out twopence ,, which , in those days , would buy a great deal more than it will now , for provisions were modi cheaper then—he took out twopence , probably all the money he had with him , and gave it to the landlord , telling him to take care of the poor man—to get his all that he needed—to spare no expense ; and , when b » came next that way , he would pay him . The pool man owed bis preservation , not to the priesta , who came first , but to the fellow-working man , that canw last . /
Let the w # rking men of this day not trust to lawyers aud priesta , but to themselves and each other . Lawyerr make a profit of their ruin , therefore they are mon likely to ruin than to redress them : they lay grievooi burthens on them , and will not touch them with one of their fingers . Priests , too , have their own profit ! to think of—profits which they make out of the people , and , therefore , no good is to be expected from them . Let the people assist each other , and they need not care fot lawyers and priests ; they will get their own again in spite of both . The Samaritan was well offhe might have spared himself all the trouble the
wounded man gave him—he might have gene on ho way rejoicing , and spent the time and money which ha bestowed on the cure of the sufferer on his own pleasures and pursuits ; but be was not so selfish . H « could not enjoy while he saw the other suffer : he a »» - eiated with him as the working men that are well off should with those that are ill off , for it maybe their turn next , and we should do unto others as we would , be done by . Let them associate , and say to the nnpitying and plundering priests , "Give an acco «| i < rf your ate wardship , for you may be no longer stewaral . " ¦ J . W .
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THE COURT OF CHANCERY . TO THE EDITOB OP THB NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —Aa the subject of Reform of the abuses of tha Court of Chancery now occupies a great deal of the attention and consideration of the people , I , as one of the operative * employed in one of the public offices of the Court , the Six Clerks office , beg to lay the following glaring state of facts before your readers . Tb » Clerk in Court , with whom almost all the proceedings in a cause are filed , by his business generally clean about £ 10 , 000 a year . He does his business by giving to a deputy ,. or agent , the writing , for which the Cleik in Court gets ten-pence for every folio of ninety words , at three half-pence a folio , by which , and other emoluments , he clears between £ 800 or £ 1 , 000 per year ; fl « gives it to his deputies at three farthings per folio , and
who generally are persons of no character , and whose profits average between £ 4 and £ 5 per week . He does not do it himself , but gives it to the copyist at one half-penny per folio . Thus you see that the operative , who ., in fact , does the work , receives only one halfpenny , where his master and his deputies , who do nothing , receive ten-pence , and , even in thia case , s moat infamous peculation is indulged in by the deputy under the agent , to illustrate which , I cannot do better than state the following case : —A deputy under tbs agent , and , as such , entitled to give the writing to the copyist , haa been lately , aa he has frequently been before , away a week without leave , and during which time he contracted expences which he has , and always does , make the poor copyiat pay for in the following
manner . He has a father and two brothers , woo depend for their living under him , and who are of ths moat respectable characters ; he gives , them tha writlag for which he receive * one shilling . and sixpence P * quire , of twenty-four folios ^ that is three farthings » folio , at one' shilling and three-pence per quire , ot rery little letter than one half-penny per folio , and who , if they had full employment , taking « ne week with another , seldom earn more than eighteen shilling per week . But he , to pay hiB expences of being awty ana support him in hia debauchery , without labour , giy «« it to an indiTiduaJ who does the work , which his brothers , and any other writer in the office , hvriK three
any character , cannot do u , nder one ahilling and - pence per quire , for tenpenos per quire . This nisn , having no character , gives it to other * , attorney t clerks , net fully employed , and who receive a salu i , and who do it in the time which should be devoted \ o their masters * business , for eightpenc * per quire , ' thai injuring the fair and honest writer . Thft above a je i * a true statement of the iniquitous system pv . rsued without exception throughout the omoe , and for whics lam ready to Touch . If the abete true str . temeo * should meet with insertion , you will oblige a constao * reader , ¦ . ' .:. ¦ : \ . . ¦ ¦ : ¦ ¦ . : ' . ¦ . , : ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦ aWLondon . Feb . 7 , 1841 .
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6 THE NORTHERN aTAR ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 13, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct694/page/6/
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