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v * ~ THE BAXK SCREW . " > ee viti * nostra , nee remedia pati possnmns . " The bank serew , the -whole screw , tight or loose no J £ L it nrart screw ta » nation up to th « sticking * tat !» f "Whig permanent prosperity ; and wben foreign ^ nu centB shall have learned tbe manag « ment of the PT ^ j Mex ican , Chilian , Brazilian , Portuguese , and Sf-ub B onds irill rise to par , and the London Stock S ^ oiee will be overwhelmed with a sudden flood of f ^ t&L It is rumoured , too , that a gigantic acrew-driTer £ jT been sent from Threadneedla-streefc , for the nse ef 5 ! f rniied States Bank , and »» tti » Bcrew-driver is to wf- » oiie < l by steam , it ii confidently expected HuA the j * nAs of Biddle and Co . will shortly be above par , and S ^ Ve shall bear no more of tie Bank * going " into a _ { -+ £ of non-Tesamp ' zoTL "
See , botk Gentile a * d Jew glibly praise the tight acreir , i Ed oft times that other , ja somewhat loose brother , E'en tow that salvation jleans screw alternation ; Ibst the rise and the dip 0 ! funds , loans , bonds , and Bcrip By -which all are thriving , proceed from screw driving ; That the screw , tight and loose , Is of wonderful use , And leaves us at leisure To count surplus treasure , an ) 3 tti revenue too ,
In notes » pic ebq span new , > -ot-wMjstandi = g treadmills , labour testa and bagtiies , The two rival factions , Sare fiscal eracaon 3 , And all that kind of thing , About -which Chartist * sing , So they throw up their caps jor the Threadaeedle chapa , And rive nil honour due To the Dons of the screw . Then , " midst sad convulsions , And tank-note revulsions , The fall of > 'ic Biddle , Whose name rhymes with diddle , And whose banking pic nic , Gassed his guests to fall sick , Thon ° h he borrowed a sop
Proa tbe Threadneedle shop , The Whig optimists bright Swear that all things are right , And declare it gives pain To prove what is so pUin , liar , syite of gold panic , And pelf ail pneumatic , Their tough " legal tender " Is oar stout defender , And that paper banters Are oar strong sheet anchors , Though not disiant the hour When their paper-pelf power Shall bnrst like a bnbble , In turmoil and trouble , AtiI leave them , laek ^ a-day , > "ot s . itiTfci to pay , la spite of tight screwing And Threadneedle doing .
Tie warsins held oat by the United States OrovernjgetA , which oily a short time ago boasted of a surplus RTEEae i in perfidious paper pelf ) , seems to be disrepjdad by &irr statesmen and practical currency doctors , fit tier " tc » , are declaring that something most be taie *> have a surplus revenue ; though it is evident ttat , under the present system , the revenue and surpjja can only be in banters' paper debts , in the revulmm acd reaetion currency which actually yields an sanal interest to the debtors ; aad it is an imtrnctive ba , that every revulsion in the proper debt market ku been preceded by temporary increased receipts into file Exchequer . Tie Bank Directors say that they
anno-: pay their paper debts by reason of the great icsreity of gold -ons of the essential properties of real tbdett ; bui they wnceU the fact that every addition to tterr piper debts add 3 to the relative scarcity of the fold , and that they , the Directors , would not allow fe ffr debtors to avail themselves of the puerile plea of the alleged scarcity , which , indeed , if once allowed to those who so imprudently contract millions of debts in piper carreccy , bon < ls , loans , kc , would free foreign ^ DTennneat 3 from their ecgageaeata towards their jfafKyb landholders ; for it ought nevtr to be forgotten , though the saying may be homely , that " what is sauce 6 b tfee goose is sauce for the gander . " Basasitas . Nottingham , March S , mi .
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THE LEAGUE . Tvho are that blustering , canting crew , TFSf ? teep the cheap loaf in our view , And would from ns more profit screw ? The League . Who cry "Repeal the curs'd Com Law , " And wonld their workmen feed with straw , Thit they may filthy lucre paw ? The League . Wio wish to gull the working man , And lurk the Charter , if they can , With their self-aggrandising plan ? The League . Who deal in sophistry and cant—Of common sense evince the want—Acd rrive the Charter to snpplant ? The League .
Who Ercet defeat at every turn , From the Chartists , strong and stern , Yet from it wisdosi will not learn ? The League . Who have reeeiv'd their Snal fall , This afternoon , in oar Cloth Hall , And dare not one more meeting call ? The League . Wm . Bidbb . I * eds , March . SO , 1541 .
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TO THE 50 >~ S OF TOIL , Y ~ sens of men give ear awhile , And listen to my prayer ; To you I ask , ye sons of toil , Who Are press'd with want and care , How ccmes it that ye toil and sweat , And bear the oppressor ' s rod ; Jar cmel men who dare to change Iiie equal laws of G-od ? How cones , that man with tyrant heart Is caused to rule another ; To rob , oppress , and , leech-like , suck The life ' s blood of a brother ? IHd hesTen ' j Eternal Justice say , Ye som of men give ear . ' Yom portion ' s poverty and want , And others" loads must bear .
Xo heaven decreed all men should share Alike his equal laws ; That al ] should live , and happy be , And plead each other's caass . ' Yes , brighter < lays a-srait thee yet , Thy chart now meets our view ; " o cheer onr drooping , fainting hearts , And ail our joys renew ' . Aroiue , then , Britons : to your posts ! Lst cowards quit the field ; ¦ The known and right will claim the fight , Aad heaven will be our shield . ^^ i 5 , 1 SI 1 . *•
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Bubdne a portion of onr common planet ! This nation now has cities and seed fields , has spring vans , draywaggons , Long-acre carriages , nay , railway trains ; has coined money , exchange bills , laws , books , warfleets , spinning jennies , warehouses , and West India Docks ; see what it has built said done , what it can and will yet build and do ! These umbrageous f lessure woods , green meadowa , short stubble-fields , smooth-sweeping roads ; these high-domed cities , and what they hold and bear ; this mild ' Goodmorrow" which the straager bids thee , equitable , nay , forbearant if need were , judicially calm and law-observing towards thee a stranger , —what work has it not cost ! How many brawny arms , generation , after generation , sank down wearied ! how many noble hearts , toiling while life lasted , and wise heads that wore themselves dim with scanning and discerning , before this waste White-cliff , Albion bo called , became a British empire !"
Loss op Casts in Theoby ajid Pbactcck . —The loss of caste is faintly described by saying that it is civil death . A man not only cannot inherit , nor contract , nor give evidence , but he is excluded from all the intercourse of private life , as well as from the privileges of a citizen . He must not be admitted into his father ' s house ; his nearest relations must not commnniate rtith him ; and he is deprived of all the consolations of religion in this life , and all hope of happiness in that which is to follow . Unless ,
however , caste be lost for an enormous offence , or for long-continued breach of rules , it can always be regained by expiation ; and tbe means of recovering it must be very easy , for the effects of the loss of it are now scarcely observable . It occurs , no doubt , and prosecutioB 3 are not unfrequent in our courts for unjust exclusion from caste ; but in a long residence in India , 1 do not rsmember ever to have met with or heard of an individual placed in the circumstances which I have described . —^ fr . Elphinstone ' s History of India .
That dogs have an ear for music cannot be doubted . Steibelt had one which evidently knew one piece of mu&ic from the other ; and a modern composer had a pug dug that frisked merrily about the room , when a lively piece was played ; but when a slow melody was performed , particularly Dussek ' s Opera , 15 , he would seat himself down by the piano , and . prick up his eara with intense attention , until the player came to the forty-eighth bar ; bin , as the disoord was struck , he would yell most piteously , and with drooping tail seek refnge from the uupleasant sound under the chairs or tables . —Dr . MUlingen
Changs h ? the Chabacteh op Hskb y yJII , — Acting under the dictates of his passions , listening to ths adrice of his confidential minister , the subtle and interested Cromwell , Henry had now attained the two great objecis oi hi = - wishes . Ht 3 love , if the feeling by which he wa % animated may be designated by so pure a name , had been fbcea for the last sir years upon Anne iioleyn . She was now his wife and his queen- Hi * selfish and imperious temper had been thwarted during the same period by the opposition of the Popedom ; he now saw
himself the acknowledged head of an independent church , and amenable to no foreign ecclesiastical jurisdiction . But the possessioa of these objects were attended with the worst tffects . Unlimited indulgence and despotic power are calculated to perve ' rs even the best disposition J and , at an early period of hia regal career , all ihe fair promises of nis youth were seen to wither under their influence , though it was not tiil the moment at which we have now arrived , tLat his character assumed its fiercer aud more sanguinary complexion . —Edinburgh Cabinet Library , No . 2 iXII .
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BARNARD CASTLE . —Election of Guabdllxs . —The moral power of the working classes has beea strikingly displayed during tbe election of the Guardians for this town . It appears that the Guardians who were elected for the last year have made themselves obnoxious by ihe : r Laxne submission to the vile instructions of tbe Commissioners , by becoming their tools in enforcing the worst provisions of the Wnig Hurderation BUI ; and by availing tbem&eivcs of their powers to contribute to their own selfish interests . Consequently , a large number of the working men met at the Spa Weil , on Snnday we * k , and came to the resolution to oppose the reelection of the old Guardians , by supporting such
men as would act with humanity to the poor , and who , with moral courage , would withstand the dictation of the Somerset House trio . As might be expected from the union of the working men , they have gained a signal victory over the middle classes , wao supported the old Guardians , but who have been completely beaten by an overwhelming majority ; aud to complete the victory , a meeting was held in the Parish Church , on Thursday week , to elect overseers and highway surveyors , when the working men again rallied , and elected man who vrill act with more economy than their predecessors , to the chagrin of those who squander the people ' s money away , regardless of their poverty .
Rapb . —On Thursday evening , the 25 th ult ., whilst a young female was returning home , with some medicine for a cow , for which she was sent by her master , she was followed by two or three young men ou' of the town up Bowe ' s Road ; and , alter aaving folio wed her about two or three hundred yard ? , they forcibly seized her , and threw her down , and , in spi ; e of her cries , effected their diabolical purpose . On the following morning , the police took into custody a young man , named Wm . Whitfield , to whom the young woman Bwore as one of the young men who had abased her person ; but who , nevertheless , took a number of witnesses , whsa taken
before the magistrates , to prove that he was not out of town on the night in question . But , as she swore to him , he was committed to take his trial . The only-particulars to which she swore were his clothing . However , a young man , named Dover , having been with tbe guiliy party , and saving made some disclosures with which the police were acquainted , they succeeded iu taking into custody Robert Allison and Thomas Pratt , jun ., who , when taken b efore the magistrate , made a full confession of their gu : lt ; upon which the young man who had been laUely sworn to was released , and Allison and Pratt were committed to York gaol to take their trials .
CAKXtlSLE . —The Roads Paved with Gold . — Some time last week a Mr . Watson , of the West of Cumberland , sent his servant man to the bank to draw upwards of £ 2 , 000 . Th « servant received the money , the principal part of which wa 3 fortunately in piper , the remainder , upwards of £ 200 , was in sovereigns , which he pat into a saddlebag ' , which being holed , the sovereigns dropped ont as he proceeded along the road- On reaching home , what washisconsternation on finding that the sovereigns were all lost . We understand about £ 100 have been restored .
DAI . KEITH . —Fise . —A destructive fire broke out here last Tuesday night , at eleven o ' clock , in a barn and out-house , which is completely destroyed , together with two " valuable horses , arid one cow . There were two cows in the ont-house , one of which was saved . The fire was caused through the negligeace of the carter , by letting a candle fall among the straw , as he slept in the bay-loft above . Some say he was drunk . It will be a great loss to the owner , Mr . Bruvrn , a most industrious , praiseworthy man , who has thuB lost the savings of maDy years .
BANKOCSBTJRN . —Last Saturday night , some malicious person went round tnU village and Milton , and daubed most of the publicans' sign-boards with ¦ white paint . ' From the fact , that none but publicans ' signs "were daubed , a report is prevailing that it must be the Teetotallers . Fever and the measles are unfortunately very prevalent here , and have carried off a great number On Friday last , tbe Teetotallers held a soiree in the Hall ; about eighty sit doira to tea ; Mr . James Anderson in the chair . The meeting was favonred ¦ with speeches frem Messrs . Harley and Patterson . A vocal band ms in attendance , and the evening was spent in the most agreeable manner .
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The Maicmoth , baiiding at Bristol , will exceed 3 , 600 tons ; more than aiiy ether ship in existence . It is confidently stated that Mr . "Nicholls , one of the Poor Law Commissioners , ha 3 resigned his appointment . —Times . The Toet Leadees . —On the Poor-law Bill 55 Conservatives voted with Sir Robert Peel , aud 100 against him . Earl O'Neil died on Thursday , at Dublin . He was once Grand Master of the Orangemen of Ireland . The withdrawals from the Paris Savings' Banks on Sunday and Monday last exceeded the deposits i » y a sum of 60 , 835 f ., the former amounted to 6 SG , O 00 f . and the latter to 575 , i 45 f .
. It is said that Don Miguel had consented to renounce his claims to the throne of Portugal , on condition that his titles and estates should be restored to him . The Courier Francait states that an important discovery for the Freach navy bad been made in the neighbourhood of Quimper . A coal-mine had been discovered , which promised to be extremely productive . Jamaica . —Commercial matters in Jaaaica wear an unsettled appearance , and the distress canted by the scarcity of money , and the disinclination of the bankt to discount is said to originate in a measure with the Commissioners of Accounts .
Ths iPTHoa of the Niagara hoax is said to be a Mr . Nichols , who once edited a seurrilons paper in this city , and has for some time past published and edited the Buffalonian , an unprincipled sheet , in Buffalo . —Boiton Journal . Thb AHoojfTs issued for the service of the army navy , and ordnance , respectively , from April , 1838 , to bl&rch , 1840 { both inclusive ) , vrere—for the army , £ 13 , 598 , 397 ; for tbe navy , £ 10 , 150 , 632 ; and for the ordnance , £ 3 , 28 L& 34 : making lt 9 j ( etlKr , £ 27 ^ 30 itf 3 .
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A i ibb , discovered in tbe tower ot the church of Ashtou-nnder-Lyne , threatened the destruction ef that ventrable edifice , but , after about an hour ' s exertion , was completely subdued . Emigration . —There are now thirty vessels in the London and St . Katharine Docks fitting oat to convey emigrants to Sydney , Hobart Town , Canada , New York , and to the infant colony of New Zealand , which are to Bail during the present month and April , and they will carry out in all about 58 , 000 passengers . Shipwkeck . —A party of men ( 26 ) had been shipwrecked , and landed sixteen miles on the north side of the mouth of the river Oliphans . They had been nine days in boats , and belonged to the brig Australia , from Dundee , which had taken fire about 600 miles to the westward of the Cape , and was consumed in one hour .
Capital Offs ^ cks . —The number Uf persons capitally tonvicted of the following offences , from 1838 to 1840 inclusive , was as follows : —yix ., arson , number convicted , 6 ; burglary with violence , 17 ; robbery with violence , 18 ; cutting aud maiming with intent to murder , 20 ; altogether 61 : but out of this number only two were executed . Father Mathew continues his work of social reformation . On Saturday week at CarriolunaoroBS , ho administered the pledge t ' o ' about three thousand persons ; on Sunday , to five thousand all at once , besides others during the day , ; and on Monday , to a great multitude besides , including " a large number of respectable ladies . '" An Irish paper estimates the total number who took the pledge in the three days at one hundred and twenty thousand .
Milbank Pknite ? tttart . —The total number of prisoners received into this penitentiary in the year 1840 wss l , 8 l < 6 , and the toial numbfrremoved during the same period was 1 , 324 . The total expences incurred iu 1840 amounted to £ 22 , 413 , from which , if the net profits by prisoners' earnings , &c , be deducted , the net expence of the establishment will have been £ 18 , 913 . The number of prisoners Jn the Penitentiary is about 965 . It was ouly last week they sent 150 women away to the hulks , preparatory to being conveyed to New Zealand .
An ovek-anxiocs Jury . —A case of assault having coma before Mr . Baron Parka a few days since , the Learned Judge told the Jury ( the defendants counsel having admitted the assault , and spoke only in extenuation ) that they could not bat find the defendants guilty . Notwithstanding this direction , the Jury were for a long time in consultation , to the merriment of all present . His Lordship again stated , that " as the defendants' counsel had admitted the assault , surely they , the Jury , could not doubt it "—( laughter)—yet the Jury consulted , and it was not till after another iutimatiou from the Learned Judge , that they had , ia fact ^ nothing to consult about , thai they returned a verdict of Guilty .
Fatal Accident at Earl Sefto . v ' s Mansion . — On Friday morning , between ten and eleven o ' clock , a most serious and appalling accident accurred ( aud which in a few hours afterwards proved fatal ) to Thomas Crow , a journeyman painter , who was engaged cleaning the exterior of the second floor windows iu the front of Earl Sefion ' s mansion . No . 10 , Arlington-street , Piccadilly , when the machine , on which the unfortunate man stood , from bein ^ improperly affixed within , suddenly gave way , and he was precipitated on the stone paving in the courtyard . Assistance beingprocured , he was removed to St . Georgc ' u Hospital , where , after lingering a few hours , death terminated his sufferings .
Gentlemanly Preference of Physical to Mohal Force . —A duel was fought on Monday morning , in the vicinity of Chalk Farm , between two foreigners . Tho aggressor , whose name , we are told , is Gustave , received his adversary ' s fire most coolly , the bullet passing through his hat , literally grazing his hair , after which he fired into the air . After the recontre , the parties shook hands and breakfasted together . An Irish paper says , Mr . Samuel Hutchins and Mr . Lalor are to fight a due ; next week at Boulogne . Mr . Parsons is to be ihe friend of the former , and Mr . H . Bridgman , M . P ., of his antagonist . Tho affair originated at Cork assizes in the alleged exaction of a barony cess collector . Aud from Galway we have news of a diff rence of opinion which arose after dinner between two learned members of a learned profession , and which ended in one of them throwing a decanter full of wine at his learned friend . Three ribs are said to have been broken by the
collision . Neither of the gentlemen hag appeared in court , ( in the dock or elsewhere , ) and it is understood that one of them has been bound over to keep the peace . Robbing Public Houses . —On Thursday week , at the Mansion House , a man named John Brown , alias George Bacon , who had very much the appearance of a seafaring person , was charged with having robbed several public-houses by night . The prisoner having shown a great deal of talent in the particular line of plunder to which he seemed to have applied himself , more than ordinary curiosity was excited . From one public house he abstracted three sovereigns and two half-sovereigns , and some silver , a pencil case , four keys , a penknife , and other articles ; from another he took 19 s . " 2 d . and various articles , the property of the waiter ; and from a third he took a cash box , containing £ 2 18 s . 5 d ., and a paper or order for a considerable amount , all tho property of the " Sons of the Thames . "
A Strange Story . —A French paper , called the Audience , contains a letter from a private correspondent , dated Gibraltar , tbe 28 ih ult ., which states that an opulent British merchant named Jimes Boxwell , long resident there , had been tried and convicted of the murder of his daughter , on circumstantial evidence , and that on the way to execution the convict saw in the crowd another Englishman named John Keats , who had been extremely active in collecting evidence agasnst him . The convict expressed a desire to die in peacs with all mankind , and to pardon this person , whom he had considered his greatest enemy . When the convict reached the Bcaffold the executioner was preparing to execute the
sentence of the law , when a voice was heard in the crowd exclaiming— " It is I that am guilty , and not the convict . " This exclamation was made uy John Keats . He confessed that it was he who had carried off Jame 3 Boxweli's daughter ; that he had cut off her hair during her 6 leep . and stolen one of her dresses , which he had steeped in blood , and that tho generous pardon granted to him by his victim had caused him to reflect on tho enormity of his crime . The executioner immediately withdrew the rope from tbe convict ' s neck , and the cap from his face , when it was discovered that he was rtead from the effects of terror . The atrocious John Ke * ta was conducted to prison amidst the execrations of the populace , who wished to tear him in pieces .
The Chartists and Anti-Corn-Law Agitators . —At Lambeth-street , on Saturday , Mr . Sidney Smith , Secretary to the " Metropolitan Anti-Corn-Law Association , " applied to the Hon . J . C . Norton under tho following circumstances : —Mr . Smith stated , that , as Secretary to the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-Law Association , he had frequently to deliver lectures , in different parts of the metropolis , on the subject of the political economy of the Corn-Laws , which placed a considerable tax upon the people . Mr . Norton— " What is the object of your application 1 " Mr . Smith— " I wish , your Worship , to ask your advice as to how the law stands with respect to the protection of persons delivering lectures On different subjects . A number of persons , calling themselves Chartists , follow me about from place to place , and interrupt me so , that I am unable to go on , through their clamour V Mr . Norton— How do you know them to be Chartists \ I always understood that Chartists were inimical to the
Corn-Laws ; and , therefore , wonder why they should interrupt you in your advocacy for their repeal V Mr . Smith— "I know them to be Chartists ; both from their being ihe same persons who follow me regularly from place to place , and their declaration , that nothing was to be done , unless through the Charter . " Air . Norton— " Do you complain of the interruption generally , or on any particular occasion V' Mr . Smith— " I complain now of the last occasion npon -which I bare experienced it . I had been engaged by the Directors of the Literary and Scientific Institutiou in High-etreet , Poplar , to deliver a lecture , and was systematically interrupted in the course of it by the Chartism . " Mr . Norton — " Were your lectures public , or were the
parties attending them admitted by cards only ! " Mr . Smith— " They are public , but merely intended as lectures , and not as a subject of general discussion . " Mr . Norton— " Iu this country discussion is allowed in the fullest degree , and without wishing to enter on the subject , there are , in my opinion , good grounds of argument on the other side of the subject . If the growers of corn in this country were relieved from the heavy taxa . ion to which , they are subjected , they would have no objection , in my opinion , to the repeal of the Corn Laws ; and . at all events , while the growers remain so heavily taxed as at present , there are grounds for argument against the repeal . " Mr . Smith hero went on to 6 ay that one of tbe laws of the Chartists was that they were pledged to attend any meeting , and , in defiance of all decorum , to enforce their own views and insist on the Charter , as nothing could be done unless through it . Mr .
Norton obsezved that di « cu « Bion generally promoted truth , and thought that those who were tbe advocates for public opinion ihould be the last to fetter it . Mr . Smith aaid that persons were engaged in giving lecture * on Astronomy , others on anti-Popery , and others on Temperance , and he thought it essential that the law should protect them . Mr . Norton replied that Englishmen did not like the systematic discussion of thosa who were paid to advocate one side of a question ; and , foeling the right of being beard on the other Bide , interruption was the consequence . Applications had been made to him ( Mr . Nortonl by Temperance Lecturers , and he told them , as he would tell the applicant , that the police would interfere only when tney saw a tendency to a breach of the public peaw ,. He ( Mr . Norton ) did not think the police should interfere under any other circumstances . After some further observations , Mr . Smith withdrew , expr esacg his determination to apply to the Commissio aera of Polioe on the subject .
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Disturbances ik iths Sscth of France The Pan * Mmiteurot Thursday the 25 th alt . contains a telegra ^™ despatch announcing Berious disturbanew in tu e South . " Marseilles , 24 th March , 1841 . —The PrefV * of the Mouths of the Rhone to the Minister of tbb Interior . —Anarchists of the lowest description attempted last night a revolutionary movement . We >* er « on our guard . Twelve or fifteen individuals , xm > 3 t of whom were provided with arms and ball-cartridges , have been arrested . Justice has instituted sn inquiry . All is perfectly tranquil . "
Northern Ciucuit , LiTbrpool , March 26 . —The Judges arrived here last night , and opened ( he Commission of Assize . There are ninety-seven prisoners in the calendar , seven of whom are charged with murder , seven with rape , two with attempts to murder , and one with aiding and abetting that crime . There are ten cases of manslaughter , eight of cutting and wounding , four for forgery , two burglaries , besides felonies of the more ordinary description . The cause list contains sixty-four in the first Or Manchester list , and one hundred aad twelve ia the Liverpool list .
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HOUSE OF LORDS , Fbidat , Mabch 26 . Their Lordships continued the investigation Into conduct of the Irish Poor Xaw Commiaaioa . Mr . Pedder was again examined . Ho exhibited bills which he held of Mr . Butler , for three , six . nine , eighteen , and thirty-six montba . Mr . Erie , formerly an Assistant Poor Law Commissioner in Dublin , was next examined . His evidence did not add much to what was stated by former witnesses . He seemed to attach less importance to the Irregularities than many persons have done . With reBpect to the imputation of political motives In the selection of Returning-offlcers , he mentioned one or two important facts : he said , that with few exceptions , all the applications for such places came from persons of one side only—ninety-nine out of a hundred entertained the same political opinions as the Government ; and he averred that Government had never interfered to direct tbe choice of Retnrning-offlcers : the recommandation of the local Assistant-Commissioners was considered almost tantamount to an appointment .
Viscount Melbourne stated , in answer to Viscount StT&n&foid , that there was every prospect that negotiations with Franc * , for a more liberal commercial intercourse with this country , would be renewed .
Monday , March 29 . Lord Denman , while presenting a petition respecting the Administration of Justice Bill , took occasion to enter into au explanation relative to some charges made against him , to which he felt it to bo due to their Lordships , to himself , and to the administration of justice , to give a full and complete answer . It was supposed that , in a case which rece ntly came before him at nisi prius , he had , for the base purpose of screening a certain individual from punithmeut , prevented further proceedings against him , and required that the party should be obliged to make pecuniary compensation to tbe prosecutor . He should have thought that the Whole history' Of lliS life would have been an Answer to a charge like this , but it had lately been repeated upon
such high authority in another place , that he felt it necessary to place the facts before tueir Lordships , hoping that kifl statement of tbe truth would at once change the opinions even of those who made the charges against him . It appeared that Lord VValdegrave was prosecuted for an assault on a policeman , and the case came for trial before him . He did . not stop the proceedings , for they had not been stopped at all , but wire still going forward , and the defendants would be called up for judgment next term in the Court ot Queen ' s Bench . It might bo supposed that this was owing to no act of his , and such was the ease , for it was the result of tbe ordinary course of tbe law ; but it was also supposed to be owing to the perseverance of the commissioners of
police in opposition to his suggestion . TLia vras a mistake , for be bad given m > such recommendation , nor had be given any such opinion as was attributed to kirn , for he was ignorant at the time of all the particulars of the case . The facts were these ; When the trial was called on , Sir F . Pollock said tbe defendant would withdraw hie plea of not guilty and plead guilty , and expressed a hope that his client might be permitted to make compensation to the prosecutor . It was a practice in the courts of law to allow such compromises , if the offence w a * not a . gross or & igrant public outrage . If it was a case punishable by line only , it was thought better to let the money go to the injured party rather than to the Treasury , in which case the suffwer would receive no
benefit . When Sir F . Pollock made this suggestion he ( Lord Denman ) said " At least they act tightly now ; let tho plea of guilty be recorded , and I hope the case is ot such a nature as to admit of private reparation . " This , which evidently implied a doubt whether it was such a case , hod been construed into an attempt to screen offenders from justice . This simple statement , however , would , he believed , relieve the administration of justice from the attacks which bad recently been made upon it He was aware that these attacks bad been made upon him in the public papers , but , until it was mentioned in the House of Commons , he did not think it necessary to bring the matter before their lordships .
The Marquis of Norm an by thought the noble loid might have left such imputations to be answered by his own high character . At the same time , he was of opinion that such compromises should be always of rare occurrence , so that no opportunity should , be allowed of firing colour to a suspicion that the « y 1-d « nce vi tbe police might be tinctured by the hope of future recompense . Mr . Uawley , one of the assistant poor law commissioners for Ireland ) was then examined respecting the falsification of the returns from the Cionuiel union .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS , Fridat , Mabcu 26 . Mr . M'Kinnon begged to ask whether , in the event of the commercial treaty with France being concluded , and a modification of tbe duty on wines taking place , the parties engaged in that traffic , who bad a stock on hand , would be allowed the drawback ! Mr . LaboucheRE said it was not regular or convenient to answer these questions pending the execution of a treaty , but as a general principle he might say the drawback would be allowed in the event of any reduction of tbe existing duties . In answer to Mr . Pakington , Lord J . Russell said that he had not yet received the despatches from Newfoundland , but he hoped in a fetr weeks to be able to state what were tho intention * of ( the Government with respect to that colony . In answer to Mr . Goulburn , Mr . Hawes said it was his intention to proceed with tbe Medical Iieferm Bill , and h « should state the precise day on which he should again bring it forward on Monday .
In answer to Lord San don , Lord J . Russell stated that it was his intention to postpone tbe English and Scotch Registration of Voters Bills until the result of the Irish Registration Bill waa known . A great number of petitions were presented on the subject of tbe Poor Law Amendment Bill , including one by L » rd Sandon from Liverpool , signed by nearly 50 , 000 persons , praying to exempt parishes under Sturges Bourne ' s act from tbe operation of the Bill ; one by Mr . Lsngdale , from 20 , 000 Roman Catholics of Manchester and SaUord , praying that paupers of that persuasion might be allowed the attendance of their own tlergynien ; and one by Mr . Brothtrton , from the Society of Friends , against the system of paying clergymen of the Established Church for their attendance in -workhouses . Captain Pechell called tho attention of tbe Noble Lord ( J . Russell ) to the importance of protecting the districts under local acts from tho interference of the
Commissioners . The House then went into Committee on the Bill . On clause two being read , Mr . Fielden moved an amendment to the clause , the effect of which would be to repeal tbe Poor Law Amendment Act . Lord J . RUSSELL objected to the amendment on the ground of its informality . The Chairman ( Mr . Bern a I . ) decided that it waa irregular to put an amendment so worded . Mr . Fielden complained that his constituents would not be heard in that House . Lord J . Russell had no objection to a specific motion on the subject being brought forward , but when tbe Hen . Member had not been able to set at defiance the rules of the House , and thereby throw the business into complo confusion , it waa not fair , it was not just , and it was not true , foe him to assert that his constituents would not be beard in that House . ( Loud cheers . )
The amendment was then withdrawn , and the clause agreed to . On clause 3 being read , Mr . Wakiei moved that tne clause be postponed . The clause purported to limit the power of the commissioners , and prevent their interfering with parishes having local acts , but it was rather ambiguously worded , and the commissioners might form a union of two or three parishes , including the one under a local act , and thereby deprive it of its right to exemption . Sir R . PEEL supported the amendment . Mr . Leader said , tbe Government being . in the hands of the Right Hon . Bart , they had no alternative bat to submit to his proposition . After a few words from Lord Howick , the clause was postponed . On olaue 4 being read ,
Mr . Hikde moved an amendment to omit the word " regulations , " tbe object of which was to restrict the power of tbe Pe « r Law Commiiaionera , and give a discretion to the boards " -of Guardians to administer out-door relief in certain cases . Tbe Hon . Member complained of tfce regulation * laid down by the Commissioners as boi » g harsh in the extreme , more especially those which referred to the separation of members of the same family , and the refusal to administer out-door relief . Lord Qt . Somerset believed that much of the unpopularity of the Poor Law Amendment Act was attributable to the manner in wnich the Poor Law ComT missionera enforced their regulations . He thought they exhibited groat arrogance in the style of their
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communications , and that they showed no feeling whatever for the comforts of the poor . Lord J . RUSSELL believed that no appointments bad ever been made with greater circumspection than those of the Poor Law Commissioners . They had a Tery arduous and ungracious duty to perform , namely , to expose and do away with abuses , and to check extravagant expenditure , and they were therefore likely to be unpopular with some parties ; but , on the whole , they had discharged their important duty in a manner which entitled them to the admiration and respect of that House and the country . . T Lord Sandon found fault with some of the proceedings of tne Commissioners , who appeared to him to be tfie slaves of a certain theory , but would oppose the amendment .
Mr . Wakley objected to any discussion of the private characters of the Commissioners , of -whom he was bound to say he had never heard anything prejudicial . Lord Howick supported the clause . Sir Robert Peel did not think it wpnld be prudent or consistent with the interests of humanity to do away with the Poor Law Commissioners . After a lengthened discussion , the Committee divided , when there appeared—for the clause , 225 ; for the amendment , 75 .
»• Mr . Rice then moved another amendment on the clause , to the effect that any order issued by the Commissioners , as to tbe amount of relief to be given , or as to the management of the poor in any workhouse , should be taken to be a general order . The amendment was agreed to . Clause 5 was , after some discussion , postponed . On clause 6 being proposed , Mr . Fielden moved that the Chairman do report progress . The House then resumed .
Mr . Fox Maule brought in a Bill to amend the 3 rd and 4 th . Victoria , chap . 99 , for taking tke census : the Hon . Member also brought in a Bill for regulating the employment of children in factories , which were severally read a first time . The House adjourned at half-past twelve o ' elock . Monday , March 29 . A new writ was moved for the county ef Antrim , in the room of General O'Neill , who has been called to the Upper House , on succeeding to tbe title and estates of the deceased Earl O'Neill . Mr . Pakington complained of the arrangement made by the Government for proceeding with the Poor Law Amendment Bill , to tbe exclusion of notices of motion , and intimated his intention to persevere with his motion respecting Newfoundland . Lord J . Russell said it would be very inexpedient to enter into a discussion on the state of Newfoundland in the absence of information , which he expected to receive in a few weeks , from the colony .
After some observations from Lord Stanley . Sir R . Peel , and Sir G . Clerk , as to tbe danger of establishing such a course as a precedent , by which the notices ef Hon . Members were thrown over without their consent , the order of the day was read for the House resolving itself into Committee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill . Mr . Fielden rose to move that it be an instruction to the committee on the Poor Law Continuance Bill , to introduce a clause into the bill for the repeal of the Poor Law Amendment Act Tbe Hon . Member said that nothing but a sense of duty , and a settled conviction in his own mind , that tbe act bad failed either to amend the administration of relief to tho poor , or to accomplish the specific effects which its promoters said it would secure , added to the fearful apprehensions he
entertained of the danger of continuing this law , would have induced him to take this course . He had , from the introduction of the bill into that House in ISM , to the present time , maintained that there was no necessity for such an act , and that what was called the abusive administration of relief to the poor under the law as it then stood , was not caused by the poor themselves , nor by any defect in the law , but was tho effect of excessive taxation , of alterations from time to time in the currency , of corn laws to make food dear and sustain rents , of laws to repeal the tax on property , and raise tbe revenue by taxes on every article that ought to be largely consumed by the poor , and , lastly , by the bill of 1819 , which , by contracting the currency , doubled tbe pressure of taxation on the people , and withdrew from thousands the weans which they would
otherwise have had of employing the poor , and paying them wages adequate to their proper maintenance . There was not one of the cnuses to which he hud reft-rred , and which were all consequent on acts of Parliamont , that had not produced a necessity for the relief of the poor being administered , as to its amount , according to the wants of the needy poor in every one of the parishes to -which they belonged . Lord Althorp , on bringing in the Bill , in 1834 , stated that , for a long period of years , the administration of the poor laws hatl been free from the evils and abuses then connected with it , and he dated their origin at about the beginning of the present century , SOOQ after the 36 th of Gooige III . was passed , about the time when cash payments had been suspended at the Bank , which led to an increase of paper money , causing a rise of prices of the necessaries of life , unaccompanied by a corresponding riso of wages , and consequently
great suffering among the poor , anil a greater number of applications for relief . The Act of the 3 » th of George III . was passed at the instance of Mr . Pitt , to ensure this relief , and thereby put a stop to the complaints of distress , and it proved that the change then marts in tbe currency -was the immediate cause of an increased amount of relief being given to the poor at that period ; and , as taxea and rents bad gone on increasing , relief to the poor had , on every subsequent alteration of the laws be ( the Hon . Member ) had named , been altered to suit the new State Of things , which the law created . Mr . Cobbett wrote a little work , after the Poor Law Amendment Act was passed , entitled " Cobbett ' s Legacy to Labourers , " with a dedication to the Right Hon . Member for Tamworth . Every one who was desirous of understanding the question of poor laws would do well to read this little work . In his dedication he gave the amount oE poor rates and of Government taxes , at different times , as follows : —
Poor Rates . Government Taxes . Reign of James II . £ 119 •«• £ l , 30 t , 090 1776 1 , 4 ° M »» 8 , ee » , 008 1789 2 , 250 , 000 16 , 00 e , «» 0 1833 6 , 700 , 000 52 , O 0 O , » 0 O and be adda , " Ought not the insolent calumniators of the industrious classes of England to blush at the sight of this ? Ought not these impudent and unfeeling men to think a littlo of tho consequences of their thus wantonly calumniating this laborious people , and calling them idle sturdy vagabonds ! Must it not be evident to every one , that the increase of poor-rates has arisen from the increase of rents and the increase of taxes , and not at all from any defect in the Poor Laws , nor from any defect in their administration by overseers and magistrates ? How come * it that they never produced
all this mass-of evil attributed to them in the course of 200 years ? " If further proof be required that alterations in the currency placed the poor in new circumstances , and cither increased or diminished the necessity tor more or less relief being afforded to them , we had this proof in the Act of 1833 , which made bank notes a legal tender at all places but the Bank . The announcement of it by Lord Althorp , when he submitted his resolutions in April , 1833 , gave rise to an advance of most raw materials used in mauufactures , in a very short time , of nearly fifty per cent The joint stock banks , which till then had been cautious in their accommodations to their customers , became much less so ; the other banks became m ore liberal too . Money increased in quantity , trade revived , agriculture ulso in a abort time became more healthy , railways were
projected , and labour became abundant , and , until 1837 , wben a check v ? s& given to public confidence from the hint that the Bank threw out that it must curtail its issues , poor-rates decreased iu amount To this altered state of things , produced by making bank-notes a legai tender , which led to increased issues , and afterwards to contraction , may as well be attributed the reduction in the amount of relief to the poor , as to any of the cruel measures of the Poor Law Commissioner * . And we now find , that what they were allowed t « do without producing a general impression that it was wrong , is now followed by a general impression that what they did is so , when credit has been shaken , employment become uncertain , and wages of labour reduced , which reduction of wuges has become more easy to effect by tbe introduction of the self-acting test ; by the increased
difficulty of obtaining relief which that test imposes on those really deserving of it , and who are plunged into deep distress by no fault of their own , and by circumstances they eould not controul . The commisaioneri themselves Bay this in their last reporti— "The depressed condition of the manufacturing population , to which we Lave already adverted , and the disquietude ot the public mind occasioned by the Chartist riot at Newport , in Monmouthshire , rendered us extremely unwilling to take any step in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire which might have even a remote tendency to produce a disturbance , ot which might be used by designing persons as a pretext for agitation . " At the period when the principle of administering relief to the poor could be best tested an < i shown to be good ; at that period the commUaioneri confessed their
unwillingness to carry the law into execution . Who but the commissioners could anticipate disturbance from directing that proper ralief should be extended to the poor in trying ctrcumata nces , and carrying into execution what the Noble Lord tells us U a humane and benevolent law ? Tlr . it snowed not only the absurdity of a oentral board to lay down rulei of relief , but tlwdr impotency te carry -out any rule on the subject , and ot the wickedness of the attempt , because of the suffering it inflict * ,-and of t _ ne sympathy excited by this iufferag amongst the haw ione portion of the people of England . There was , it w as true , in that House , many who prof « s « ed to be LIbe ral Membew , who hadexuntMcd opinioM different from bis on the principle of the Poor Law
Amendment ' Act . They admitted it waa based on oentflllieation , aad pronounced the principle to be a good one . He ( f it . Fielden ) waa at issue with them , and he maintainef' the principle to be bad . They said it was compatiW a with local government He would assert that it was destructive of local government , and oppoBed 1 ? good government They said that the delegation of the power to make laws to three Commissioners » t Sp morset House was not unconstitutional ; but he main talned that it was—that it was erecting » desp » tio pow er to dictate what should be done , and what should not . be done , in every parish in England , with regard to tt . e admkuJrtraUon ot the relief to Uw pool . Wb
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should decide ? The intentions of these Honourable Liberal Members might be good , but he feared they had never studied the principles of good government , and he would tell them what » high authority had written on Ibis subject of centralisation . In Jefferson ' * Memoirs there was this passage : —" It is not by the consolidation or concentration of power * , but by their distribution , that good government is effected . Were not this great country already divided into states , that division must be made , that each night do for itself what concerns itself directly , and that it can do so much better than a distant authority . Every state again is divided into counties , each to take care of what lies within its local bounds ; etch eo » nty again into townships or . wards , to manage minuter details ; and every ward into farms , f be governed each by its
individual proprietor . Were we directed from Washington wben to sow and when to reap , we should soon want bread . " That was what a real liberal said wss necessary to effect good government We had this distribution of power in England ; the Republic of America adopted what they admired in English institutions They adopted our Poor Law , the same mode of taxing the people to provide a fund for the relief of the poor , and the administration of relief founded on tbe principle laid down in the 43 rd of Elizabeth . We had departed from that principle , and had made new divisions of the county , aud given power to a cental board in London to direct the administration of relief inmost of tho parishes of England , and what was tbe consequence ? Those who should now administer relief being directed from London how it should be afforded .
the poor are denied that relief to which they have as good a claim as the landlord to his estate , and they do not only "want bread , " but they perish of hunger and of cold ; Such had been the effect of the centralisation experiment No one could deny it , and the people of England were now saying , whatever either liberal or other honourable members might say to the contrary , that the system of centralisation shall not continue , and tkat local parochial government shall be restored . He had uever been able to ascertain that the act worked in a manner that was satisfactory to the rate-payers and the poor in any union whatever . He had preved the reverse to be the fact in those union * inquired into by tha Poor Law Committee on which he bad sat Responsibility must rest somewhere , and if the New Poor Law be persevered in , the
question of " wjjo is responsible ? " may be mooted , and the responsible parties may be called to an account for having given tBis advice . He ( Mr . Fielden ) felt disgusted with the treatment ot the able-bodied labourer by the guardians' acting under the commissioners . He knew nope in society more deserving of sympathy than tbe virtuous able-bodied man , with a family to support , but whose wages , notwithstanding he endeavoured to acquire the best he could obtain honestiy , were altogether inadequate for tbe support of himself and those dependent on him . Ths proposition to throw the able-bodied "on their resources , " when one-half of their earnings were taken from them by taxes on their bread and every other article they consumed , was both ungenerous and unjust ( Hear , hear , hear . ) But ho ( Mr . Fieldtn ) had said that
the adoption qt this principle of relief had failed to raise wages , and to produce increased content of the labourers , and diminution of crime . Look at the calendars , and to the charges of the judges of assise , who were almost everywhere deploring the increase of crime , and suggesting education to prevent it It waa food tbat the people wanted , and without that , education would not avail ; and , as to reduction of wage * , instead of a rise , he ( Mr . Fielden ) had proved that before a committee ot that House . Many Hun . Members had stated tlie same facts ; and if the Noble Lord doubted it , let him appoint a fair committee to inquire . The New Poor Law was a failure , and ought to be repealed , and . one wore consonant with humanity and the rights of th « poor enacted in its stead . The 43 d of Elizabeth was that , and therefore if he ( Mr . Fielden )
were asked for a substitute , be would say , let us resort to the 43 d of Elizabeth . Tbe Noble Lord and the House might rest assured that tlte people of England would never be reconciled to the Poor Law Amendment Act , nor ' to the central board , and the self-acting workhouse test The Noble Lord would do well to look to the petitions against these measures , which bad been presented in the short period of six weeks that this Bill had been known . Let him look whence they came . Those -petitions , up to Friday week last , numbered 526 , with 138 , 527 aignatures ; while , on the other hand , there were , in tbe came time , only tea petitions , with seventy-four signatures in favour of the Bill . If the Noble Lord doubted tho influence of those petitioners over that House , let him )» ok to the sixtyseven notices of amendments to his Bill proposed by different Members of th 3 t House . One , he saw , was to have one large and populous union ( Boiton ) exempted from the Poor LawAmendment Act ; another waa
to exempt all towns of 10 , 900 inhabitants from its operation . That was proposed by the Noble Lord , the Member for Liverpool . -The Noble Irfwd had consented to parishes having local acts being exempted from his Bill , and that showed that the constituencies of those parishes were too powerful for the Noble Lard to bring under the operation of the Poor Law Amendment Act , and the Bill to amend it now before the House . If the Noble Lord would provide in his Bill that those unions which might wish to be exempted from interference by the Poor Law Commissioners might be so , he ( Me . Fielden ) had but little doubt that their continuance would be unnecessary . He , therefore , implored the Noble Lord and tbe House to pause , because of the danger he apprehended from continuing the Poor Law Amendment Act ou the statute book any longer , and from continuing to attempt further to carry out its pro * visions . He would now beg to juoto that it bfl an instruction to the committee to introduce a clause into ihe Bill to repeal the Poor Law Amendment Act
General Johnson seconded the motion . He had no wish to go back to tho old law , but so long as unconstitutional powers were vested in the Commissioners , he should take evjery opportunity of expressing his disapprobation of the present system . In the manufacturing districts the Poor Law Amendment Act was totally intfficient in affording the means of relief . It wonld sometimes happen that 1 , 000 or l . fiOt persons would be thrown out of employment in a single week or even a single day . How were these persons to be relieved in the workhouse . ' He might be told that the poor man would make provision against misfortunes . But how was it possible for a man earning 8 s . or 9 s . a weekscarcely enough to provide himself and family in foodto lay by meney , or to provide against misfortune ? What he wanUd to see was a power given to the local authorities to give such relief as the nature of the case might require . Ihe House then divided , when the number * were—For the motion 0
Against it . 155 Majority against the motion .,, 140 . The House went into committee . Clauses 6 , 7 , and 8 were agreed to . Clause 9 wa * postponed . On the 10 th clause , which provided for the combination of parishes and unions , for the purposes of establishing infant schools and Iunatie wards . ¦ Mr . B . Wood proposed an amendment , to the effect that no such , unions , for the purposes of school * , should lake place , except with the consent of the majority of the boards of guardians of each « f the parishes proposed to be united . A debate ensued , in the course of which Mr . Hawes said that the clergy of the established church were to blame for showing a disposition not to give their services to the workhouses , unless they were paid for it
This raked a new point— as to propriety ox caving the children in those unions educated in the tenets of tho established church , Lord Stanley insisting that , as far as regarded illegitimate children in workhouses , they could enly be . considered as children of the state , and had a right to be educated -without any intetference whatever from the mother ; . and that with respect to all children in workhouses , U educated by tne state , it was only right that they should be educated in ths religion of the state . On tbe other hand , Lord JOH * Russell thought it very likely that the dissenters , as rate-payers , would object te- having all children educated in the religion of the establishment Mr . ColquhouH , in reply to Mr . Hawes , quoted the report of the assistant Poor Law Commissionera respecting the training of pauparchiWren , which showed that the clergy , in almost every union , h » 4 lent their services gratuitously to promote- the- good manag « ment of th « school * in the workhoose * .
Sir R . Pkml wa * of opinion , that if the children of the poor were to be educated by the State , they should be educated in the saligioa of the Established Caurch . Tbe amendment before tbe Bouse was technical , and they bad . somewhat irregularly got into thi * discussion , but as they had beea led into the discussion , he must Say that the equation given should not be meiely secular . It should b « a religious education , and in the religion of the State . He must say he was n «* quite so clear as his Noble Friend ( Lord Stanley ) upon the propriety of taking away , all power of Interference from , the mother of an illegitimate child . A woman might be seduced , and it did Beem hard tbat abe mu » t sacrifice her only comfort , and give up htx child altogether , in order to procure for it the benefit ot education . ...
Mr . HK 6 DALB had no objection that a ehaplaia should be a ppointed to those workhouse * , but he di * . sented from the doctrine tbat beoaiue an orphan might become » child of the « t » te , that the rtate ha 4 , therefore , a right to its wul as well as it * bodj . ^ He could aot allow that because a child might thus be thrown span the workhoiue it would be fowed to adopt ths established religion , no matter what might be the r « uV gloa of iU parent * , or how well versed it might be to the tenets of it * own religion , ot however «>* il" «>*; to abandon them . He never could support tht establishwent of a * ohool in which the first principles of toler * tion w « r « to be sacrificed . '¦ - ' ' , _ , ¦ Sir R . Pebl * aid he had Wd down a general prb > ciplo withont l » ying down it * exception * , hut ha certainly should not force upon any child a religion in opposition to the wishes « f any of its natural guardians . On a division the amendment was carried Dyamsj ; rlty of 172 to 1 < J 8 .
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