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In The Commons, Lord John Russuxr., Usur...
Emperor of Russia endeavours to raise a loan in Europe for the purpose of killing your soldiers and sailors , of destroying your commerce , and of frustrating all your national policy , at least Englishmen shall not contribute to such loan . ( Cheers . ) Why , all the arguments I have heard against this bill go to the root of the whole question . Tha arguments of the hon . gentleman the Secretary to the Treasury amount to this—that you ought to abolish your law of high treason—that you ought to permit your merchants and manufacturers to supply the Emperor of Russia "with gun- powder and ball , with ships of war , and with all tlie imple- ments b y which war may be carried on . ( Cheers from the Opposition . ') I consider that it is sheer nonsense to say so . ( Renewed cheers and laughter . ') These arguments are founded upon the principle on which we are told the Dutch admiral proceeded when , in the interval or lull of a naval action , he sold gunpowder to his enemies in order that the engagement might be renewed in the afternoon . { Laughter and cheers . " ) I am as desirous as any man can be to encourage the commercial enterprise of this country , but , for Heaven ' s sake , don't let us adopt a system which places pocket against honour , wiich sets the turn of your balance-sheet against the national interests ( cheers ' ) , and which lowers the whole feeling of the country to a mere question of pounds , shillings , and pence . ( Cheers . ) I say that is a system which is dis- graceful and fatal to a country , and that if we mean to maintain our national independence we must have regard to those great principles upon , which nations act , and by which alone national independence and honour can be secured . ( Cheers . ") It may be said by some persons that this bill will be nuga- tory , but it cannot be nugatory , because it establishes a principle . It may be said that the provisions of the measure will be evaded . Why , there are men who would evade every law , however high the sanction may be by which tliat law is enforced . You cannot guard against the bad and evil pas- sions of men , and the courses they may be induced to adopt by motives of private interest . All you can do . is to lay down your principle ; honest men will conform , themselves to it , " and those who choose to evade it must settle the matter with their own consciences . I would , therefore , strongly recom- mend the House not to reject this bill . I think its rejection would really tend to encourage Russia , and to make , as it were , a general advertisement that all British subjects are at liberty to assist our enemies with their money as much as they please . " " ' ¦ ' The House went into committee ; but when'the clauses came to he discussed , Lord Palmerston was found in a scrape : the bill was such utter nonsense , that it had to be postponed until the law officers of the crown ( who had given a rather blundering- pledge that it was all right ) had looked into it to see if they could do anything with it . LOUD BROUGHAM ON EDUCATION . On Monday , lord Bkougecam delivered an essay on " National Education , " describing what had been done , dogmatising on what should be done ; in neither respect saying anything new . Lord Gran- vili-e paid some just compliments to the career of his noble friend as an Educationist , and some very unjust compliments to the Privy Council Committee of Education . The Earl of Harkowbt said the metropolis was in a peculiar position as regarded its educational -wants , and required specific action . The poorer districts could not subscribe , and could not , therefore , under the present regulation , receive Govern- rnent aid . As regarded the country generally nothing effectual could , be done until the employers of children afforded facilities for sending them to school . . Lord Campbell said the question introduced by his noble and learned friend had a most important bearing on the present state of crime . Within the last two or thiee years the number of juvenile offences in the metropolis had multiplied to a most appalling extent , and" there vas a crying necessity or the interference of the State . VENTILATION OJ" THE HOUSE OF COMMONS . In answer to lord Dudley Stuart , about noxious effluvia" in the House of Commons , Sir William Moleswokth said , on Monday , —Ho was in the House on Thursday night and Friday morning , and he perceived the stench to which the noblo lord referred . ( A laugh . ) He immediately caused inquiries to . be instituted by the gentlemen who had charge of the' ventilation of the House , Mr . Qoldaworthy Gurney and am officer of the Board of Works , who ¦ were in attendance . Ho was assured by th < jir report that the stench came in witli tho air from without the House , and did not in any way ai'iso within tho House . ( Much laughter . ) Tho stench , ho was informed , proceeded from the Star Chamber Court tfutsido tho Houso , and was traced to a sower which emptied itsolf by Wcstminstor-fcridge , and from an adjoining privy which was used by tho workmen employed in tho Houses of Parliament . Tho asconding tide disturbed tho massoa of sowago which , in consequence of the heat of tho weather , "were in a state of decomposition , and tho gases wliich were evolved made their Avay into tho House . Ho was informed that similar inconvenience had been exporioncod previously , and that about a week ago tho atonoh was excessively offensive , not only pervading tho House , but also tho adjacent courts of law . Indeed , ho was told , that in consoquonco of tho disagreeable stench , tho Judgo of tho Court of Queen's Bench had adjourned his court . Ho was informed also that a similar stench had been perceived in tho
s v ^ . ¦ t ' . s b h r , ^ c J t j . _ h c « 0 c 0 j r r J ^ f * i £ ' j ] < 1 : s ; ¦ 1 ' < < ' ' ! House on Saturday and that morning . He could onlysay that he would do all in his power to prevent this annoyance , but he feared all he could do would have very little effect so long as the Thames continued to be the cloaca maxima of this great city . ( " Hear , " and a laugh . ) The smells came into the House with the external air . The only way of excluding them would be by preventing the admission of the external air , and if such a Temedy were adopted , he feared that during the present weather its effect would be t o stifle all the members . ( Laughter . ) There could be no doubt that these odours were very injurious t o health , and the most effectual remedy he could recommend was that the sitting of Parliament should be brought to a close as speedily as possible . ( " Bear , " and laughter . ) BRIBERY BILL . This bill has been greatly delayed , by the analytical discussion , in the Commons . On Monday and Tuesday it engaged the House in the morning- sittings ; and the bill has not been improved—taking it merely as a technical bill , which , morally and politically will be resultless . To sum up the injury done—" expenses for travelling" are to remain legal ; and , under this cl oak , a direct bribery can still go on . ^ ' An Anti-Cholera Bill thrown out . — The Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention bill ( consolidation of bills)—a measure to give the Board of Health and municipal authorities new powers to cleanse towns—was thrown out ( abandoned ) in the Commons on Monday because of a junction between the enemies of Mr . Chadwick and the advocates of local self-neglect ; Lord Palmerston , a . v a managing man , weakly giving way . Sale of Beer , & c . Bill . —This bill ( providing the new regulations for the opening of public-houses on Sundays ) was read a third time and passed in the House of Commons last Saturday . Mr . H . Berkeley objected that this bill would interfere with the comfort of the working classes -when taking recreation by excursion trains on Sundays , thus legislating for the poor and not for the rich . Mr . Patten said , the bill dealt equally with all classes ; but an alteration had been made in it to accommodate passengers by excursion trains . The bill was supported by Mr . Heywobth , . Lord D . Stuart , Mr . Bankes , and Mr . Henley ; -while Mr . W . J . Fox and Mr . Craufurd objected to this legislation . When the bill got into the Lords , on Thursday , the Earl of Harrowby announced , amid expressions of assent , that he would , on the next stage , propose amendments by which the hours during which public-houses might be kept open on-Sunday were extended from 1 to half-past 2 , and from 5 to 11 p . m ; , with the pro-vision that no liquor should be furnished after 10 p . m . Lord Bbougham asked why west-end clubs were not to be brought under the provisions of this bill ? No answer . Oxford University Bill . —The Lords' amendments on this bill were discussed in the House of Commons on Thursday ; there being a long debate and several divisions . Generally the improved character of the bill was maintained . Hampstead Heath . —The bill ( Sir T . Wilson ' s ) -which endangered , though only prospectively , the public possession of Hampstead Heath , was thrown out of the Commons on Thursday , and by a very large majority . The Middlesex members , Lord Boukkt Grosvenor and Mr . Bern At . Osborne , did this . Communication in Railavay Trains . —The lords liave had a debate , on the invitation of Lord Fitzhardinge , on the necessity of railway guards and drivers of engines being put into communication in trains ; and Lord Staklk y of Alderley , of the Board of Trade , has mentioned that the Government is " seriously considering the matter . " It is absurd in a Senate to deal in such topics ; but it is adding to the absurdity by not insisting on the Government doing inoro than " consider . " Medical Graduates of London University Bill . —This bill , which had passed tho House of Commons safely lias been greatly modified in the Lords—tho Duke oi i Ana-VLB interposing and insisting that tho same rights ; -which London University graduates claimed ought to be i extended to Dublin and tho Scotch Colleges . Accordingly , 1 tho " largo question of medical reform" is to include this [ point , and for tho present tho graduates of London Univer-, sity are , by this bill , to bo relieved merely of tho ponaltioc j attaching unintentionally to them under certain jecenl , lmngling measures . Tho Duko of Argylo , in making the objection did not seem to bo awaro that a second bill stood \ in tho Commons for doing what ho wanted . ! Dr . Peithmaw ' s Case . —Mr . Qtway brought this case ' before tho Houso of Commons on Wednesday . Lord Pnlmorston offered elaborate explanations ; and tho Houso pro" nouncod decisively Uiat the man waa a lunatic , and tluit h < ' lind had every indulgence itml consideration shown to liitn . \
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OUJt CIVILISATION . 1 WBNOH rnOSTITUTRS AND THEIR KEEPISU B . A , French girl ( taking ndvantnge of tho recent decision of Chief Justice Jorvls ) , has brought an action against Marmaysec ( who was tho defendant in tho formor case ) for balance of an account ; and tho action was tried this week at tho Maids tone Asaizos . She whs » proatituto " employed" at a House in Newman-street lcopt by tho defendant . Tho evidence wna disgustingly hi mplo ; she lnudo a bargain with him as to what she was to bo allowed ™ t \ „ a ' a cl
. ¦ ZHMMMI ^ MHHHHHMHHH ^^ i ^^ BMHaiaBHIH ^^^ S ^^^ SSlSZS ^ ZZ out of the money paid by " gentlemen" for the use of her ; and this bargain he had not kept . Some documents were put in , by which it was made t o appear that during a period of four weeks the plaintiff had " earned" something like 80 / ., and it appeared that she now sought to obtain the hah ? of this sum as her share . The case being thus completed , on the plaintiff ' s side , the Judge ( Pollock ) interposed , and was " shocked" at the facts , and expressed his regret that such cases should be forced upon his attention in court . He advised ( this was odd in a judge ) that the defendant should plead the illegality of the bargain , and so escape . But defendant ' s counsel ( Mr . Parry ) refused—relying oir the "justice of his cause ; " , the Judge being obliged to give way , Mr . Parryaddressed the jury for the defence , being ; very candid about his functions . " He said he should not for a moment attempt to deny that he stood in a most disgraceful and degraded position ; that he was , in fact , a male brothel-keeper ; but he was sure the jury would still feel that he was entitled to their protection , and that persons ought not to be allowed to take advantage of his degraded condition to make claims upon him for money without any ground . " The defendant , Germain Marmaysee , a stylishly-dressed Frenchman , was then sworn , and . he detailed with the utmost composure the nature of the agreement entered into between him and the unfortunate women who occupied his house . He produced his books to show that he had paid the plaintiff all the money to which she was entitled , and he declared that , when she left the establishment , she was indebted to him in the sum of 181 ., for which she gave him a bill of exchange , which he produced . He also declared that the plaintiff went away on the 2 nd of April , and that consequently she could not have been entitled to any further earnings up to the month of May . " Upon being cross-examined , the defendant said he considered himself a gentleman . Since the former action he had sold the house in Newman-street , but it was still carried on , by his sister-in-law , although he had nothing to do with it , and had no share -whatever in the profits . He said he sometimes slept in the house , but did not teep the books . Formerly he was the clerk and kept the boots , but he had now ceased to do so . He did not keep any other houses of the same kind . When he kept the house there were sometimes five or sis , and sometimes as many as twelve women living there . They paid 25 s . a week each for their lodging , and all their expenses beside were deducted from the money they received . " The jury after deliberating about half-an-hour , returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed . " At the Lambeth Police Court , an old man , about whom evidence was offered to he tendered that he was " respectable , " has been charged with infamous conduct to several little girls ( some as old as twelve ) , whom he had enticed , from " low" neighbourhoods in Lambeth , tinder the railway arches . He escaped punishment for want of completer evidence . The curious part of this case was , that there was a competition among the girls of the neighbourhood to be led away by him : —for he always gave each girl a shilling or two ! Two girls gave themselves- up to the police at Liverpool this week , demanding " protection . " Their story was , that they had been inveigled from their native town ( Nottingham ) by a " lady , " who promised them engagements as milliners in Liverpool . The house at Liverpool was , however , they found , a mere brothel ; and they refused her offers . The Liverpool magistrate sent them back to their friends , but it does not appear that he has ordered a prosecution of the "lady . " Half these stories are untrue ; ; and they ought to bo tested in each case by a searching inquiry . Last Sunday afternoon a child , out -walking and picking up flowers , foil into a canal ( in Lancashire ) , The child ' s brother , also a child , screamed for help , 1 and appealed to a man who was passing . The man 1 said he had his Sunday clothes on , and wasn ' t going to wot them—the child was drowned . Tho coroner | has " reprimanded" the man ! i A Westminster jury has sat this week upon tho ; body of a young man , a commercial clerk in good i employment , who was killed in a prostitute ' s night I brawl—killed , when very d runk , by a woman ' s blow on his head . lie had aiccomp anied one of tho prostis tutos from Cremorno-gardens . The Colncy-Hatch Lunatic Asylum was the sceno " of txfSte last Satxirdny ; 1000 of tho patients dining 3 together under the Btewardly supervision of tho visiting Middlesex magistrates . Tho demeanour of tho dinors was unexceptionable—only one circumatnnco suggesting that they wore not of tho ordinary-world class—for not one lunatic got drunk I A'labourer , living in Monmouth-streot ( wost-ond ) , got drunk last Saturday night , and , of course , nnmodiatoly commenced assaulting women . Ho toro tho hair out of tho head of Catharine Jones—literally scalped her ; and bolng dragged away from her ho got ii log of timber nnd smashed tho skull of ono Moody , whoso wife , doming to her husband s aid , was also dreadfully wounded . Both ho dangerously ill ; and tho case stands remanded . At a village near Hooding , a woman , married , is " taken with convulsion fits ; " her husband rushes out and scours tho country for doctors . He calls on
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Leader (1850-1860), July 29, 1854, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29071854/page/5/
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