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make the franchise [ Eng the eame as that in boroughs , by giving the right of voting t o all occupiers of tenements of the annual value of 102 . —Lord Pauhebston" opposed the measure , thinking it right that there should be a distinction bet-ween the counties and boroughs . He did not mean , to say that there should be no extension of the franchise in the counties ; on the contrary , he should be ready to consider a modified measure ; but he did not see any occasion for inaugurating any large measure of Parliamentary reform . —Mr . Headlam supported the bill . —Mr . Dritmmond also professed his readiness to support any measure that extended the franchise and armed the lower classes with .
better weapons by -which to defend themselves against the oppressions of the superior orders . But they -would never have a Keform Bill until the gentlemen on the Ministerial side of the House were on the other side , and wanted to get back again . —Lord John RtissEUo saw no reason why the discussion should be postponed , and accused the Government of a disposition to shirk all subjects of importance or delicacy .- —Mr . Bentinck , in return , taxed Lord John Hussell -with acting from , party motives , and with having shown no disposition ,-when himself in office , to accomplish ,
measures of reform . He also twitted him with inability to show a list of good measures -which , he had passed . —Lord Johk Russell said he -would do so at the proper time . —Mr . Dukcombe and Sir James Graham defended Lord John Russell from the attack which had been made on him ; and the latter , in supporting the measure , renounced the doctrine of " finality" which he had [ once held with respect to the Reform Bill . —Mr . Sitcnbt Herbert opposed the hill , which Mr . Roebuck supported . —On the House dividing , there appeared—For granting leave , 179 ; against , 192 : majority , 13 .
MDOSTEBS * MONEY EST IRELAND . Mr . Fagan obtained leave to bring in a bill to abolish the tax imposed in lieu of ministers' money on eight corporate towns in Ireland . —In the course of a brief discussion on this subject , Mr . Hobsbian said that the question is under the consideration of Government , whose intentions with regard to it he hoped to be able to state on the second reading of the bill .
matnooth :. Mr . Spooneb , amidst cheers and laughter , then renevred his annual motion in favour of -withdrawing the grant to Maynooth . The motion , was for the House resolving itself into a committee to consider the subject . His speech merely recapitulated the old arguments . —Mr . Kewdax-Ii seconded the motion , which was supported by Mr . Thomas Chambers and Mr . N " et ? i > egate , and opposed by Mr . Roebuck , Mr . Bowter , Mr . Serjeant O ' jBrien , Mr . Geokob Mooke , Mr . Drcmmond , Mr . Serjeant Shee , and Lord Palmerston . "With the arguments on both sides the reader is already acquainted . — Some of Mr . Drummoitd's remarks on the Roman Catholic Church excited considerable surprise . After
denouncing it for many impious doctrines , he continued , addressing Mir . Spooner and his party : — "It is you yourselves who are emasculating trie Church of England . You have deprived it of everything which is the essential characteristic of a Church , and those essential characteristics are now found in this country in the Church of Rome alone . ( LauffTiter . ") Yes ! I say , you have denied , and are denying more strongly every day , the essential characteristic of a Church—that is , the presence of God in its priesthood and in its sacraments . (* Oh / ' ) I know no Church but the Romish Church which does stand as a witness , a faithful witness , before God as to these truths ; and I would do anything rather than let that Church go down , " (» Oh ! " and laughter . ) The motion was defeated by 167 to 159 .
CRIMEAN INQUIRY . Sir Archibald Campbell , moved an address for copy of a letter from . Sir John Bt'Neill , G . C . B ., to Lord Panmure , of the 9 th of February , 1856 ? respecting the services of Colonel Tulloch , and of any reply thereto . Lord Palmbbston defended the conduct of the Government in " not giving military promotion for a civil service . He declined to produco the papers moved for , as it was a private document . —Mir . Sidney Herbert defended Colonel Tulloch , and expressed bis hope that a suitable reward would be given to him for his services . — The motion was then withdrawn . Tho Chief Constables Bilj , was read a third time , and passed . '
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STATE OF TRADE . The accounts of the manufacturing trade of the country for the week ending last Saturday show less dulness at Manchester , and a full business in most other districts . At Birmingham , however , many branches of production are affected by the extraordinary prices of copper and tin . In the latter there has been a further average advance of 3 s . per cwt . The closing of the works of Fox , Henderson , and Co ., which at one period gave employment to 2000 persons , will occasion inconvenience ; but the demand for hands in other quarteis is sufficient to
prevent any permanent distress . At Nottingham , there has been great activity both in hosiery and lace . For the former , the American orders are very large , and the stocks of the latter are very light . In the Yorkshire woollen trade , the transactions have likewise been numerous , and prices are advancing . At Bradford , the failure has been announced of Jennings and Hargreavea , stuff merchants , with liabilities for 65 , 000 ? ., and assets which , it ja hoped , may realize a dividend of about 13 s . 9 d . ' — Times .
In the general business of the port of London , during the same week , there has been increased activity , the importations of tea being unusually large . Tho total of ships reported inward was 128 , being 36 more than in the previous week . These included 13 with cargoes of corn , 11 with cargoes of sugar , and 9 with cargoes of tea , the latter comprising 101 , 411 packages , in addition to 5867 bales of Bilk , also from China . Tho number of vessels cleared outward wna 110 , showing an incrcaso of 22 , including 14 in ballast . Tho total number of ships on the berth loading for the Australian colonies is 68 . Of these , 0 are for Adelaide , 4 for Geelong , 4 for Hobart Town , 2 for Laun « eston , 4 for Melbourne , 5 for New Zealand , 1 for Port Philip , 17 for Sydney , 1 for Swan River , and 1 for Wollington . —Idem .
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THE UNEMPLOYED . A large body of the unemployed and distressed labourers now resident in London assembled in Smitlifleld on Tuesday to hear an oratiou from Mr . Ernest Jones on their present condition , its causes and cure . Tho speaker ascribed the suspension of tho building trade to tho national debt , which had impoverished many and enriched a fow . Capital was withdrawn from other trades and invested in building , because thoao who by usury had suddenly become rich wcro not content to livo at their warehouses in tho City , but must have fine boxes and splendid villas in tho suburbs . But that system . had run its course . New houses wero no longer wanted , while many that wore already built were untonanted , and honco non-employment in that trade . Largo numbers of men boing thus thrown out of work , tho labour-market becamo overstocked , and tho natural consequence was a fall of wages , tho masters in other trades playing oil those who wore out of work against those who wore in work . Tho railway syatom , too , hud run its tether , and would now no longer support largo numbors of workmen in tho iron trado . Tho people must get into their own possession tho 80 , 000 , 000 acres of waste land now in
country , they would he independent men To do this , they must have universal suffrage J { a , ' Government conceded the waste lands , he ( Mr Jon \ would retire into private life , and agitation should , cam ? but not unless . ^ ^ tae , Several of the unemployed met on the same dav , •„ Agar Town-fields , St . Pancras . The placards call *? upon all who could to attend the meeting " and test a ? once the abominable workhouse system , and also to call the attention of the ratepayers to the necessity of jouuW the workmen in their efforts to obtain employment " ™ the uncultivated lands of England and the colonies a * the only means of permanently bettering the social con dition of the people . " One placard had appended ths following . —" N . B . 100 ? . reward to any person Xwffl mention any parish or union in the three kingdoms
where the ratepayers are so unjustly taxed , the monev so improperly appropriated , and the poor so ill-fed and ill-treated as in the parish of St . Pancras . " At tkehonr appointed ( one o ' clock ) between five hundred and air hundred labourers and working men assembled on the side of a large mound in the centre of the fields at the back of Agar-town , and in the vicinity of St . Pancras workhouse . Mr . John Brien , a house-painter , was called on to preside , ^ and in the course of his speech proposed to make a man ' s previous good character his claim for relief , so as not to necessitate his being set to atonebreaking—a kind of work which injures his hands and his eyes , and prevents his doing his ordinary work
nroperly when he again obtains it . Mr . M'Heath then addressed the assembly , and begged the working men of London , and especially the unemployed , to have nothing to do with the political demagogues -who were at that time holding a meeting in Smithfield . He said he alluded to Mr . Ernest Jones and his crew . These political demagogues were bankrupt , and they now wanted to trade , for political and party purposes , upon tie question of the unemployed . The speaker then went on to say that the way in which labour is treated , in thfe country is worse than the black slavery of South Carolina . The Chairman said he held in his hand a letter signed " James Brown , " -which had been found that
morning poked under the door of the meeting-house of the unemployed , and it contained these words , "A revolution is wanted . " Now , whether this waa the concoction of the Government , or the police , or any other parties , he begged to say that they were too old birds to be caugtt with such chaff . ( Hear , hear . ) Such an attempt would meet with the same fate the letter now had before them ( tearing it in pieces , and trampling U under his foot , amidst applause . Shortly after two o ' clock , the men went in a body to
the workhouse , where Mr . Brien had an interview with the Board , and -was told that a man ' s character co \ udnot be made the test , as the parish is bound to relieve the disreputable , if really starving , as -well as the honest Relief -would be afforded without work to persons unable to work ; but the board looked on the present proceeding as an attempt to intimidate , to which they would not yield . The men then proceeded to the Clerkenwell police-court , where the magistrate said they must not persevere in the course they were then pursuing , but at the same time relieved them with bread .
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AMERICA . Mb . Btchanan- has been at Washington , arranging , it is thought , with Mr . Pierce for assuming the Presidentship on the 4 th of March . Ho is very secret with respect to his intended Ministry ; and conjecture on that point seems to he fairly baffled . Walker , as far as can be judged , appears to bo in a critical position in Nicaragua . He is said to bo blockaded by the enemy in a little town opposite the island of Omotepe . He has only five hundred men , is destituto of provisions , and has no means of obtaining them now that the river and lake steamers have been captured . Meanwhile , some few recruits continue to go out to him ; but others have been arrested and held to bail by tho ITnited States Federal authorities .
The republics of Chili , Peru , and Ecuador have formed a treaty of alliance , or a kind of confederation for internal improvements and external defence against Filibusteri 8 m . —Tho insurrection at San Luis Potosi , Mexico , has been suppressed . There are rumours of a revolt at Puebla . The great frost continued in tho United States at tho latest dates , and tho papers teem with , accounts of wrecks along the coast .
A man named Winter , a clerk in a mercantile house at New York , has robbed his employers of two thousand dollars , which he obtained by breaking open tho safe-He started for England in tho Atlantic ; but the principal of tho firm went in pursuit in the Persia , winch sailed three days later . Tho lattor vessel is romarkabla for speed , and arrived at Liverpool two houra before the Atlantic . Tho result waa that Winter , who had hid wife with him , was arrested , and nearly tho -vvholo of the stolen money was found on him . Ho will of courao o <
sont back to America . "At a meeting of tho Naalivillo Railroad Company held at Louisville on tho 16 th ult ., " says tho LouisvW Journal , "it waa divulged for the first time that nearly GOO , « 00 dollars of tho bonds of the company bud been misapplied by tho company ' s agent in London . " An accident liaa occurred on the Georgian KailW '
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said that , althoug once opp trade , he now thought that the constant industry and improving skill of the farmer would insure to him a continuance of the prosperity he is enjoying at present . At this there were loud cheers from all sides . The choice of hands fellon Mr . Martin ; on which the adherents of Sir W . B . Kiddell claimed a poll for him , which was fixed for Thursday . —Mr . Martin was on Thursday elected by a majority of 382 . " We are informed , " says tho Times , " that Mr . Frewen has not yet resigned his seat for East Sussex . The hon . member has retained it in order that he may vote for the repeal of the income-tax , which question will soon be under the consideration of the House . "
The Mayor of Colchester received on Tuesday morning the writ for the election of a successor to Lord John Manners , and the nomination has been fixed for next Monday . One of the candidates ( Mr . Hamilton } has retired , but there are still three competitors for the seat —viz ., Mr . Miller , a Xondon merchant , and for a short time member for Maldon , Conservative ; Mr . J . G . Eebow , of TVyvenhoe Park , Whig ; and Mr . Havens , Radical . The contest for Clonrnel has resulted in a majority of 154 for Mr . Bagwell over Mr- Murray , and of 20 for Mr . Purefoy over the Roman Catholic candidate .
Mr . William Monsell has been xe-elected for the county of Limerick . In speaking of competitive examination for the Artillery and Engineers , he said : — " During the last year there have been four competitive examinations— . two for what is called the ' practical class' of Woolwich for lads of from seventeen to nineteen years old , and the other two for provisional commissions for lads of from twenty to twenty-two years of age . In every one of these examinations an Irishman has taken the first prize . ( ' Rear , hear , and loud cheers . ) There was no exception . I have the return in my hand . It states that , at the January examination of 1856 , seven out of seventeen were Irishmen ; in that of June , the five first prizes were had by Irishmen ; in the examination for provisional commissions , six out of eleven were Irishmen , and in every instance the first prize was got by an Irishman . " { Renewed applause . ')
ELECTION INTELLIGENCE . The nomination for West Kent took place on Monday . The candidates wo , Mr . Wylccha m Martin ( formerly a Pcelito . butnowa Liberal ) and Sir Walter B . Itiddcll , a lawyer and Conservative . Mr . Martin , in addressing the electors , said ho was in favour of an increased su £ InS ^ ° PPO 9 ° ( 1 tO th ° bullot' Nevertheless , ho bated ^ Z \ tio V / . I > > and had always left his Sit 5 » 7 \ I ag * ?* hilu in » ™ options , if they Pleased . Some of than had done ao , and bo 1 ad made no difference in hia treatment of thorn ( A Voice " That ' s rue Engliah | " ) -Sir W . B . Iiiudoll ' a speech waa highly Conservative « n < l Protestant , according to the Conservative interpretation of Protestantism . Ho van met with a good deal of ridicule , except when ho
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 21, 1857, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2181/page/4/
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