On this page
- Departments (4)
-
Text (16)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
LOSS OP THE EMIGRANT SHIP MANDARIN AND THE SIR WALTER SCOTT.
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
7, Jmpertal %arliament*
-
AfOim^OMED COTTAGE.
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Svbdex Bba.tr at the Eustos-socare Station.
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
* 0 T 1 IE MEMBERS OF THE CHARTIST ' C O-OPERATIVE LAUD ASSOCIATION . MyTekt Deak Frienps , I am now entitled to the honourable name of LABOURER- -I am firing in a four-roomed house , T slept here an Saturday nig ht and never felt more juppy in all my life . The chimnies , not an unimportant consideration , draw beautifully , and every { j ] ing bespeaks a cheering comfort and independence . 1 will now tell you precisely how I feel , and how I « n convinced every occupant of an allotment will
feel . I feel that , once in possession of this cottage and the land belonging to , _ it , that I would risk my life , and that to a great extent , rather than surrender it . I feel convinced of every man ' s ability to live and support his family comfortably , and to purchase U out of his savings for ever ia less tb . au fiv years . I feel assured that nothing hut wilful idleness , dissipation , or neglect , can ever drive an occup ant from his holding , and I feel convinced that the man who disinherits himself from any of these causes will carry upon him injto society a more disgraccul brand than that stamped upon the criminal after he has suffered an ignominious punishment for the violation of laws which nature forbade him to obey . .
I have told you a thousand times that every difficulty against which labour had to contend was the monopol y ol the land b y the usurping class and the consequent political privileges that followed its ownership . The question of the improved value of Hie htni h y the Increasing -population has never yet been discussed ; that is , your aide , of the question lias never yet been fairly argued . The Tones newspaper , in a recent article , endeavouring to lhow the improved condition of Ireland , instances the H « creased value of land in that country , wholly OTg etting that 15 , 000 , 000 acres of land wonld lie
more valuable to 8 , 000 , 000 , the present popula On of Ireland , than to less than four millions , the . 0-prilation at the time of the union . Theimpro efl value of land brought about by . the increase of population is an absolute hardship upon the newcomers , and proves more forcibly than the most loqnent argument , the injustice of land monopoly . The increased price of the land by no means srgaes its improved Talue arising from a better system of culture , bat it does prove that the monopolizers of the soil have an unfair and an unjust ad vantage from the increase of population , and th r consequently increasing necessities of that increased
population . If , for instance , the land of England with its present population is worth an ascertainable averaged value—if that population was increased to-morrow to more than double its present amount , the land of England , as if by magic , and without any Act of its owners , would be worth more than treble its present value , so that the value of land increases in a far greater rat io than population . Now is it too much to implore of yon to keep those simple statements always before you . Believe me , my friends , that they are the-very essence arcl foundation of that knowledge which you must possess before you can achieve either physical comfort , intellectual improvement , or political rights .
"When the landlords monoplised the land , the land ty degrees became the repository for all political power . The landlords have not yet lost that power — not a particle of it . Skirmishes may take place , in which they may be worsted , but those who dream of folding political power permanently , without enfranchising that population which gives additiona value to the land , instead of the land itself , will find themselves very much mistaken . I will now prove to you , by the simplest course of reasoning , that there never was a more enormous or palpable piece
gfinjustice committedj than that of enfranchising land , and disfranchising , or rather leaving unenfranchised , those who give the flranchised Talue to the land . Now , suppose , a l&rgeiract of a cabotf . subdivided Into fanns , now worth , or let for , £ SQ or £ 40 a year at will . These tenements would not confer a vote upon the occupants , while , if raised to the valae of i > 50 each , they would be enfranchised , while the population which conferred the increased value would be unenfranchised . Thus I prove to demonstrat ion tne fact , that the thing , LABOUR , which confers the value to the land is unenfranchised , while the land that receives its value from increased population is enfranchised .
These are the means , the unjust means , by which the owners of land have heen enabled to asnrp political power ; and the only means by which we can destroy the injustice is , by one or other , or both , of the following plans . We must break up every government that bases its pretensions to office upon the mere pledge of liberalism , and compel them to have recourse to a different standard of franchise as
the means of preserving their party ascendancy . Or else we most so prove the value of the land , and so attach the labour-mind of the country to its possession , as the means of giving the only real value to industry ; and thereby create such a unanimous universal demand for the restoration of the land to its legitimate purposes—namely , to the exigencies of an increasing population ; as neither government , class , party , or faction , can prudently or safely resist .
. Now , as far as I am concerned , I am realising true notions of a country ' s wealth , and the people ' s independence . THERE IS NOTHING THAT THE LAND WILLNOTDO , in the way of snpportand comfort . I am only now beginning myself to understand the fall value and all the blessings of the institution . I now assert this , that if the 35 allotments carved out of the estate were offered by tender to-morrow , that the low acre allotments , without the ^ £ 30 , would fetch ^ £ 20 a year % the three acre allotments would fetch £ 1 G a year and the two acre allotments would fetch £ 12 a year , wilhont the capital to be given with any , and they would all let to good and solvent tenants , who would pay a premium in 48 hours . See then the advantages that CO-OPERATION offers .
I shall now confer familiarly with yon upon those every day and every thing matters , that I wish to make ins subject of your fire-side conversation , when tyranny allows you a moment ' s repose from slavery . Brstly—Then , by my corrected balance sheet yon will learn that the society is £ 500 richer than I thought on Thursday last , and Secondly—It is a dEl , 000 richer than you had imag ined on Saturady last . I have corrected the one error . I will now put you in possession of the other fact . We paid nearly £ 500 for the timber , crops , dung , and fixtures upon the estate , We paid £ 181 for the crops , and I have already sold hay , tares and wheat to the amount of £ 238 . 15 s ; we have saved about £ 15
wor th of hay . I expect £ 17 10 s . for the oats , that will make £ 271 . 5 s . for the crops , or a profit of £ 90 5 s . 1 have sold 110 stacks of roots for £ 16 10 s . I have sold over 5 , 000 faggots , at £ 1 a thousand . I expect we have 1 Q , OOO more . I am selling all the old useless timbers of the house and outbuildings for firewood , or such purposes assuit the neighbours , so that I expect to realise much more
than all the labour in clearing and laying out the estate , out of what others would have allowed to go to waste , and as we have paid for the timber and crops , all that money will come back besides what I am able to make of the things to be sold . Up to this time , Rebecca , the Chartist Cow , has made about £ 8 in less than tight weeks , so that she now stands you in only eight pounds . Sot a tile nor a lain is allowed to go to waste .
I have engaged ten carts and horses and forty labourers to work from five o ' clock in the morning till eig ht in the evening , during the week after next , in order to be prepared for the exhibition . JJy that time all the houses will be up , and , as if Providence as aiding in our undertaking , we have discovered
Untitled Article
that , after , the thirteen four acre allotments , the five three acre allotments , < and the seventeen two acre allotments , that we have yet remaining two acres and something moreTupon which we propose erecting a school , with Juftiin acre for play ground and ftnacre-anfl-half frfS » lBodel farm and garden , to he cultivated by the <|« $ ft ! n , Jmi I undertake to pledge mjself , that itwlUbe the . neatest and most productive part of the estate . If anybody had seen this farm two months ago , and nad Leen tol ( 1 ° * the state that it would be brought to by this time , they would have laughed ; and all laugh now , when
I point out the improved state in which it will be on the 17 th August : all I say is , THAT I WILL DO IT , and it is now coming near the lime that prophets dread—THE HOUR OF FULFILMENTbnt I will renew my prediction , that I will exhibit such a sight upon that day as England or the world never saw before . Before I conclude I beg to remind the growlers that when this estate is completed my next undertaking shall be for 100 cottages , and I can manage them as easily as thirty-five , and , now that my hand is in , I can complete them in half tne time . I wish all to bear in mind that the first
attempt at an undertaking of this kind is very hazardous , while I am proud to say , that not one single unpleasantness has happened from the commencement , nothing has gone to waste , and nothing has been done that I would recall ; and so harmoniously has all gone on , that bricklayers , carpenters , and labourers are preparing to emigrate with me to the next location which fully proves that Englishmen can find a home where they are justly dealt witb .
Now , one word for the Demonstration . This estate belongs to the occupants , and they are justly entitled to the benefit of exhibiting their property to the public . If damage is done , the repairs will be made out of increased rent upon them . Certainly it will be trifling , as from our arrangements I don ' t anticipate a particle of damage ; but I had fondly hoped , and hope still , to realise a large amount of starting money out of the profits . I hoped to present each with a purse containing his own share , and I hope to do the same mtu every location . An active and laborious committee of London working
men have cordially co-operated with us to aid in carrying out this object , and I now learn that other parties have started associations for the purpose of rivalling or competing with us in bringing down visitors . Now there is but one way of meeting this rank injustice — THIS PLUNDER OF THE OCCUPANTS—and that mode we have adoptedit is , that we will have our own police at every entrance to the estate , and that all who have not the committee ' s tickets from London , or rather all who come by the opposition vans , must pay one shilling entrance , while those who come under the committea ' s arrangements will come free of all other charges . This is a rule which shall be strictly
adhered to , and one which we call upon all honest Chartists to assist us in carrying out . In the evening every house will he illuminated—minute guns will bs fired from each end of the estate—there will be a profusion of fire-works—a splendid dancing booth got tip by the tradespeople and labourers at Herringsgate—booths for refreshment and amusements—and . upon the first act of drunkenness -on disorder every ^ tent will be struck , and the Estate will be cleared . A cricket match will take p lace . There will be a short public meeting—flags upon seventy feet poles will wave over the hills . This shall be one happy day in England , and I am determined that more than one county shall understand what I mean by
LABOUR'S FAIR—FREE-MEN'S HOUSES , and WORKING MEN'S SPORTS ; and I feel assured that no working man will mar the day's rejoicing by drunkenness or had condnct ; for , as snre as I am alive , if one tent-keeper passes the bounds of propriety , I will stave every cask In his booth and knock it down about his head . There will be trusty care-takers placed in every house , after they are exhibited and during the illuminations ; and it is earnestly requested that no person will damage the property of working men .
The artist was here yesterday ( Tuesday ) , preparing his sketch for the engraving which will be given in the Star of the 22 nd , and then those who have seen the estate will be able to judge of its merits . I cannot engage myself anywhere after Wednesday nig ht next , for I hope that the labours of the Convention will he concluded by that time , and that 1 shall be able to have my working jacket on again on Thursday morning next , lam , Your faithful friend and bailiff , Feargus O'Connor .
P . S . —I have lost so much money and labour by former publications , that I will not undertake the arduous labour of compiling my Nottingham speech until I can ascertain from the orders the exact amount THAT I AM LIKELY TO LOSE .
Untitled Article
FIFTEEN PERSONS FROZEN TO DEATH . Information announcing the total loss of the above vessels , and the malancholy fate of the crew of the Sir Walter Scott , by being frozen to death , has been received at Lloyd's . The particulars are of the most painful description . The Mandarin was a vessel , barque rigged , of a superior cla 3 s , and 500 tons burden , commanded by Captain John Gleland . She belonged to Glasgow , and sailed from Calcutta in the latter part of February last , with 216 emigrants , for Jamaica , on board . Having landed them at that port , she shipped a cargo of sugar , rum , saltpetre , and other articles . Sbe sailed for Liverpool on the morning of the 24 th of April , and unhappily struck
on a sunken reck , known as the Alligator Rock , at Key West . Every effort was made by the master and crew to get the ship eff , but in consequence of the heavy sea it was impossible to accomplish it , and in a few hours she was full of water . Fortunately all on hoard were saved by the boats , and landed at Kej West . The following day she fell over on the rock and became a total wreck . It is a providential circumstance that the emigrants bad disembarked ; had tbey been on board when the disaster took place , a serious Joss of life would have probably been the result . The loss will prove very heavy , and insurances to the amount of £ 20 , 000 are reported to have been effected on the vessel and cargo .
The circumstances attending the loss of the Sir Walter Scott , Captain B . , masteP , are of a most lamentable character . It appears that for several months fears were entertained thafcshe had been lost , no tidings having reached her owners since last September . Letters , however , have recently come to hand , stating the vessel to have been totally wrecked on the coast of Labrador , a month after she had left Quebec for Limerick . According to the accounts forwarded , site was driven aground during a snow storm , nod the $ eaand ice breaking over her , the crew and captain lashed themselves in the rigging , in the hope that their dreiidiui position would be seen , and assistance rendeied them . In that perilous
sit nation they remained for two days , and perceiving no chance of bting rescued , they contrived to construct a raft , and by that means succeeded in gaining the land . Here llieir condition was almost if not eqnaliy as bad . They wandered about for miles without meeting with any of the residents , or anything in the shape of relief , for five days . When discovered , what with the intense cold and the want ol sustenance , they were mimed to the greatest exhaustion . The crew consisted of eighteen , fifteen ol whom perished from the intense suffering they Lad endmed including the master . They were most r ? iiin ? host bitttn - Slle belonged to the port of null , ine mate , and two of tie seamen are the iumvers .
Untitled Article
MANCHESTER . ,,, People ' s Institute , Monday Morning . BALLOT FOR LOCATION ON THE PEOPLE'S FIRST ESTATE ; At an early hour this morning , th ' dneigHbourhooa of this splendid building , the propert y of the Manchester Chartists , assumed a hustling appearance ; delegates and persons interested were continually arriving from the adjacent towns ,: and at the hour appointed the Institute presented a goodly show of the sons and daughters of toil , who are looking to the Chartist Co-operative Land Society as a means of rescuing them from manufacturing bondage . 'At eleven o ' clock Mr . Donovan was called to the chair
, and addressed the meeting with great effect in that quiet humorous style which renders him such a universal popular favorite . Mr . M'Grath explained-to the meeting the relative proportion of the prizes in the 130 ' acres ballotted for , falling respectively to the two , three , and four acre allotments , viz ; 892 two-acre shares giving eighteen prizes ; 259 three-acre shares giving five prizes , and 970 four-acre 8 nares giving twenty prizes . Tie committee baring made * the neewsjary- ^ rrangements ,, and Messrs . ; MncneU , of Rochdale , andBennett ,. ofStockport , having been appointed to draw the tickets from the ballot boxes , the drawing commenced , of which * the following is the result : — *
Two-Acre Prizesi No . of Certificate . 1 H . William Bernard Northampton 2 George Worrell Dudley 1918 3 Henry Tanner Greenwich 2757 4 George Coupe Keighley 2816 5 -Franklin Bristol 1188 6 William Piggs Lambeth 2537 . 7 Edward Gray Leicester 2986 8 James Baker Devizes 1270 9 James Goodward Galais 625 10 David Webster Salford 2153 11 A . William Howe Sunderland 2657 12 Robert Butterworth Rochdale 157 13 JohnLinney Carringtou 2877 14 Henry Lee .... Exeter 743 15 Samuel Atherton Wigan 2840 16 Robert Massey South Shields 2417 17 John Holmes Idle , Yorkshire 1132 18 Charles Payne London 1719 19 Anis Williams Rouen 20 Richard Town Manchester 21 Benjamin Savage Lambeth 22 William Oddy Bradford 23 Mary Allen Nottingham 24 Robert Bjierly Manchester 25 Robert Ruston Colne 26 William Tovey Rouen 27 John Stott Bradford 28 Benjamin Glossop Sheffield 29 John Bryan Selby 30 Joseph Parkin Ashton
Untitled Article
Three Acres . 1 James South ' Blackkbum 2 Cornelius Ashton Manchester 2869 297 3 John Dennis New Radford 2941 320 4 Alexander Robertson Aberdeen 593 173 5 James Driver Northampton 6 James Young Manchester 7 James Davis Salford S Sheriff Wyatt Leicester 9 William Jennings Bilston 10 Arthur Shaw . Nottingham
Untitled Article
four Acres * 2 Win . Yonng-Souter Westminster 305 306 2 Saville Crowther Mottram 527 528 3 Thomai ' Rawson ' ' "' Manchester 405 661 4 Edmund Kershaw Rochdale 5512588 5 William Chorlesworth Staleybridge 460 461 6 James Bearman Booking 283 1610 7 William Addison Manchester 1447 1448 8 Thomas Richardson Lambeth 518 519 , 9 Henry Porter London 1896 189 ? 10 George Webb Reading 1968 1969 11 Thomas Acklatn Barnsley . 560 1639 12 James Helliwell Hebdenbridge 2954 2955 13 James Wharton Lambeth 375 2103 14 Christopher Doyle O'Connorville 3081 3082 15 Isaac Weir Manchester 1022 1023 16 JohnRenham Westminster 1262 1263 17 James Ferguson Burnley 112 2128 18 ' William Rogerson Somers' -town 19 John Lee Manchester 2066 2067 20 George Redfern London 1283 1284
21 John Hartley Hebdenbridge 22 William Darnley Stockport 23 Richard Robinson Clitheroe 24 George Smith Halifax 25 William Johnston Hindley 26 Thomas Wm . Dale Macclesfield 27 John Cloud Monmouth 28 George Forster Manchester 29 William Sadler Manchester 30 James Stott Bradford
Untitled Article
—Upon the arrival on Tuesday afternoon of the 45 mms . past 3 r . M . train at the Euston-squai-e terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway , a gentleman , one of the pasaengers , was observed to be exceedingly ill . This being intimated to Mr . Brooks , the chief clerk , lie had tha gentleman immediately conveyed into the office , and aent for a medical man , but before the arrival of the surgeon he bad breathed bis-last . The body w a * conveyed to the George Tavern adjacent , there to await a coroner ' s inquest .
Untitled Article
.... HOUSE QF LORDS , Thmisdat , July 23 . " THE CONFISCATIONS IN GALLICIA . The Marquis of J / audouine wished to take this opportunity of replying to a question' put to him on a former day by the noble and learned lord ( Lord Brougham ) and which he had delayed answering for the purpose of obtaining certain necessary information . ; ; He now besged' to state to his noble and learned friend and to the . bouae , that lie had obtained this information . He had to state that there had , certainly , been no communication made on the park of the Government of this country to the Government of Austria ' respecting -those unfortunate confiscations—unfortunate ''in" every respect—which had recently taken . place in" GalHoia . Though no communication , there had however been obtained
from time to time the-.-most * ' authentic , information of tne proceedings of the Austrian Government , and be was happy to say that the last information so received led him to think that there was , on the part of the Austrian Government , " a disposition to leniency on . this subject , which in every way did tlie highest honopr to that Government , and which , on every account , was most desirable , ( tlear , hear . ) .-He could farther-only say , that if that leniency sopn' ^ ook effect , more especially with regard to thMe ^ unWrtuhatoindividuftlrwho . might harerinvoluntarily ; ' or not intentionally , become a <> complices , or who , from accidental circumstances , were suspected of taking a part which they had not taken in the insurrection , than he did rely upon the
character of the Austrian Government , and its known mildness of rule , that no time would be lost in doing jurtice to those individuals ( hear , hear }; and he was sure , so far a ? it was compatible with fcbe safety of the Government , that leniency would be unaccompanied by any condition which it would be unbecoming either to the character or honour of those individuals to accept . ( Qeaiyhear . ) Lord Bbduoham thought that nothing more satisfactory could have been said by the noble marquis . The St . Aaaph , Bangor , and Manchester Dioceses Bill was read a third time . Several other bills were forwarded a stage , and the house adjourned . HOUSE . OF COMMONS-TnunsDAT , Jtjlyj . 23 .
THE LEGISLATIVE UNION . Mr . O'Connkm , gave notice , that early in the next session of Parliament he should move the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the effects which the legislative union had produced upon Ireland , not only as regarded the people , but the resources of that country .
POOR REMOVAL BILL . On the motion that the Speaker leave the chair , for the purpose of committing the Poor Law Removal Bill , Mr . Wodehousb again asked Sir GL Gbbx io postpone this bill till next session , as the house could not proceed with too much caution on a subject of such preat importance . He made this request on two grounds—the first , the state of the session' and the second , that the whole question of the Poor Laws was to be brought under the consideration of Parliament early in the course of next session . To meet the contingency of a refusal of his request by the Government , he would move the postponement of the committee till that day six months . Mr . Hume seconded the motion .
Mr . BRornERTON wished the house to remark that no opposition to this bill came from the manufacturing interest . If it were postponed let it be recollected that it was at the request of the agricultural members . . Sir G . Gre y was not prepared , on the part of the Government , to postpone this bill for the reasons which he had stated on a former evening . This bill would lay grounds for the favourable consideration of the whole question of settlement in the next session . Colonel Wood considered the bill to deserve imrae d ' support , for it did justice to tne poor and re lieved them from a dreadful law which was afcpresent hansing over them . ¦ . ¦ :
Mr . " B . Demison considered the present Jaw of settlement to . be a disgrace to the country . It wag inhuman to remove a pauper from : »¦ town to _ whose wealth bis wages for ^ nany years had contributed , to a part of the kingdom in which he was a stranger , and with which lie had no other connexion save that of being born there . On the other hand , this bill , if it were now passed , weuld throw an immense responsibility on the manufacturing districts . He was not averse to the present bill , but he thought that it ought to be accompanied by unoin settlements . Such an enactment would soften the blow which this bill would undoubtedly inflict on the manufacturing districts .
Mr . Bakkes observed , that , although this bill stopped far short of the benefit which might have been conferred on the poor by altering the law of settlement , still be found in every clause ofitaprinciple of which he approved , ana therefore he could not consent to the postponement of the committee upon it . Sir J . Graham could not doubt that portions of the original bill which he had introduced would be most beneficial to those who had a claim on the rates ; at the same time he could not retract the opinion which
he had formerly expressed , that irremovability , unaccompanied by union settlements , must inflict great and unequal burdens on the ratepayers . The burden , in liis opinion , ought to be imposed on a larger area than at present . . At this moment the house could not be expected to adopt union settlements . He was therefore prepared to proceed with that portion of the original bill which waa still left ; but he did so with a perfect conviction that it would be indispensably necessary in the next session of Parliament to enact union settlements .
Mr . V . Smith considered it to be impossible to proceed with this bill , after the speech which has just been delivered by Sir J . Graham . He had made out the strongest case for the postponement of the present measure , bj showing that it would be indispensable necessary to amend it in the next session of Parliament . The house then divided , when the numbers were—For tho amendment 36 Against it 112 Majority 76 ¦ The bouse then resolved itself into committee . After some discussion , in which several verbal amendments were made on the different clauses , the bill passed through committee . The house resumed , and the report was ordered to be received
tomorrow . Mr . Labouchere tlien postponed till various days in next week all the important bills relating to Ireland , of which he had charge , in consequence of the severe domestic calamity which has befallen theheail of the Government , Lord J . Russeld . [ . The death of his brother , Lord William Russell . ] For tbe same reason , the debate in the Committee of Ways and Means on the sugar duties , whioh stood for Friday , was postponed till Monday next . The Sugar Duties Continuance Bill was read a second time . The other orders of the day were then disposed of , and tne house adjourned .
HOUSE OF LORDS .-Friday , July 24 . The St Asaph , Bangor and Manchester Dioceses Bill bad passed , the Mnrquis of Lansdowne havinu announced that he had no command from her Ma- , jesty to stop its progress . The Coalwhippera' Bill was read a third time and passed . Their lordships adjourned to Monday . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Fmday . July 24 .
SUGAR DUTIES . Lord George Bgntinck postponed to Monday his resolution respecting the new sugar duties , which he will then move as an amendment to Lord J . Russell ' s motion . The house having gone into committee on the Safrir Deities' Continuance Bill . On the ni'ition that the b . ' ank in clause 1 be filled up with the words " September next , " Lord G . Bentikck moved , as an amendment , that the words , " July , 1847 , " be . inserted . He said that he had no desire to obstruct the Government , but he thought that a Billto continue the exist ing duties for eleven months would he only justice to the merchant * engaged in the su-jar trade , in order to , enable them to prepare for , if not altogether to escape from , the ruin in which the scheme proposed by tho Government would involve them .
TriE Chancellor of the Exchequer contended that it was absolutely necessary the sugar question should be now * permanently settled . Sir Robert lsaus supported , and Mr . LaboucnEnE opposud the amendment . - ' The House divided—For the amendment ...,,,,,,,,,,,, 3 S Aguinst it 121 Majority against tlie amendment ¦ S 3 Ihe clause was filled up with the words " September next , " and the Bill passed through committee . STATUE OF THE DUKK OF WELLINGTON . On the order of tho day to go into committee oi ways and means ,
Untitled Article
Mr . C . Bbrkklby moved an address to the Queen prayin ? her Majesty to withdraw her consent to the placing of the statue of the Duke of Wellington upon the archway at the top of Constitution-hill . The hon . member having quoted several opinions against the taste of placing such a large equestrian statue on the top of a triumphal arch , called on the House to interfere . Mr . n . Bailub seconded tho motion . Lord Morpeth confessed that he entertained considerable misgivings as to the propriety of the site chosen by the committee of the Wellington testimonial , and wished that they had accepted the offer made by the late Government of giving an unobjectionable site elsewhere . That offer the present Government would abide by . Ultimately Mr . C . Berkeley withdrew his motion , on the understanding , suggested by Lord Morpeth , that the committee should reconsider the proposal of Government , and that in the meantime the works should be all suspended . .
WAYS AND MEANS . The House went *' into " ¦ committee of ways and means , anda vote of £ 4 , 000 , 000 out of the consolidated fund was taken . *
;; , MILLBANK PRISON . Ongoinginte committee of supply , : Mr . DracoMBB rose to direct the attention of the house to the , petition'wliiohon . a'formOT-occasion he hadpresetitecLfrom EdwatdJ&fer , ^ prefumng serious omplaint 8 afiainst the ^ overnor of Millbank Prison , and representing gieas abuses in that establishment both in the . ' management , of its affaire , and as regarded cruelty and oppression towards the prisoners . Three years ago this prison was , under the charge of a committee , in the form of a penitentiary , but was then placed under Che snperintehdance of the Secretary of State for the Home Department , a governor , and three inspectors . He would not give all the allegations contained in thepetitionbutwould bring
, pnly some of the principle ones before the hoase . lhe petitioner was a warder in the prison from September , 1842 ,, till April , 1846 ; had an unexceptionable charmer , there being no complaint whatever againefc" him ; but , he stated thst , m consequence of the oppressive and tyrannical conduct of . the governor , Captain Groves , towards prisoners and officers , he was obliged to resign his situation ' : He stated , and ho ( Mr . Duncombe ) was prepared to prove it , that the treatment pursued towards prisoners had led to suicides in the prison to a considerable extent . > as to the cruelty exercised towards unfortunate prisoners , the petitioner mentioned the case of George Chinnery , who had a fit in the airing-yard , when the governor
entering inquired , what was the matter ? The petitioner replied " a prisoner in a fit ; " when the governor said , he was not in a fit , and ordered him to be reported if he had recourse to " anymore of these tricks . " Afterwards , contrary to the opinion of the person having charge of the prisoners , and without the opinion of any medical man being taken , the governor sentenced the poor prisoner to three days ' bread and water allowance . Tbe answer to this charge he believed was—that the prisoner had , on a former occasion , been confined to Millbank , and was then punished for feigning fits ; whereas , it could be shown that when the prisoner was formerly in the prison , he was placed in a cell next to the warden ' s room , because he was subject to fits and required to be looked after . Now . here was a ca « e of
a man unjustly punished , because he had the mis < fortune to be seized with a fib .. It was also alleged by the petitioner that prisoners were punished by the governor for reading their bibles during the sermon in chapel ; that they were punished by their being sentenced to a bread and water allowance for seven days , though , by the rules of the prison , the governors had the power of imposing only for three days bread add water diet . Now , if it could be proved that this man had sentenced any party to seven days' bread and water diet , he held that an illegal and oppressive act had been committed . It appeared , also , that in certain cases he ordered one day ' s full rations at the end of three days' bread and water , and then
ordered the bread and water to be resumed . He knew that this would be denied , but lie was prepared to prove it . Another charge was the following ;—On the dOth . of February , 1816 , Fredericlc-Bunyon was sentenced to receive 100 lasue * * . witU the cat . He was taken down after receiving 70 lashes , and it was then ordered that he should receive no instruction , -either religious or moral , after that date . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , why the unfortunate man , after Buffering severe punishment , should be sentenced to receive neither moral nor religious instruction , he Mr . Duncombe ) was totally unable to comprehend . Then as to the inHiction of corporal punishment , he contended that it was wrong to do so wi : hin the walls of a prison , and that it should be done away with ;
the regulation of the prison with respect to flogging wag that the instrument for flogging should be approved of by the inspector , and that the number of lashes should in all cases be stated in the order for punishment . If was also a rule that the s > . al of one of the inspectors should be on the handle of the cat ; but in this case , as also in that of another prisoner , the governor , the night before the punishment was about to be inflicted , desired one of the officers of the prison to get much heavier lashes for the cat—lashes double the size of those that were put on the handle , and not satisfied with tli ' iB double weight he ordered the ends of these lashes to be lapped with wax cord . ( Hear , hear . ) This , he contended , made the punishment not less illegal than cruel ; and if a man had
died under such a punishment the governor ought to have been tried for murder . There was also a gross case of neglect and cruelty towards a convict of the name of Nash , who was draughted from the Pentonville prison , on the 10 th of October , 1944 , and was removed to the infirmary on the 1 st of January , 1845 , where he died on the 7 th of the same month . This individual , during tlie short time he was in the prison , was kept on bvead and water during 23 days ; and at fhe time he was removed to the infirmary ) was under sentence of being flogged . On the 28 th of November , a boy , named James Richmond , 10 years old , was received from Edinburgh , and on the 5 th of May was removed to the infirmary , where he died on the 22 d of the same month . While in the
prison , this boy was , for a certain number of days , confined in a dungeon on one pound of bread and two pints of water per day , having * only boards to lie on during the night , with one rug and one blanket to cover him . Such was the punishment imposed upon a boy 10 or 12 years of age , who , , he believed , died solely from the cruelty of the treatment which he had received . The names of thr ee individuals weregiven who committed suicide in cons equence of the cruel treatment which they received ; indeed , he might say there were lour who had destroyed themselves in their cells since the present governor had gone there . But that was not all . He was prepared to prove that twelve others had made the attempt to commit suicide , and were only saved by the vigilance of the officer . Another complaint was , that several times a
false alarm of fire was raised by the governor at night , when he turned out of bed 100 prisoners for what he called " a fire practice . " This was a most absurd practice and highly injurious for the poor men in the depths of winter were often taken out of their beds from a temperature of sixty-two , and for no other purpose than to exhibit this fire practice for the purpose of entertaining the dinner friends of the governor . He hoped the right hon . baronet opposite would grant an inquiry into this subject ; and he , as a member of that house , would undertake to prove , from persons who had witnessed atrocities , thai every charge he had made was true . He did hope that the right hon . gentleman would see the importance of granting this committee . He moved that the petition of Edward . Baker be referred to » select
committee . Captain Pbcheia seconded the motion . Sir George Gbht said this petitiou had been referred to the Inspectors of Prisons , who had already examined into all the charges set forth in it , and had made their report . He held that report in ln ' a hand , and was prepared to present it to the house , when they wonH sse whether the charge * weve w were not well founded . To appoint a committee before the house has passed the report would be condemnation without inquiry . The right hon , { jentleman laid the re port on the table . After some remarks from Mr . Hume , Mr . Spooner , Captain Pecbell , Mr . Ewart , Sir R . Inglis , Mr . Escott , and Mr . Ih-nley , the house divided—For Mr . Duncombe ' s motion 10 Against it 56 Majority against the motion ... —id
Mr . T . Dun-combe complained of tho manner m which the charges contained in the petition to which he had called their attention had been met by the house . Sir G . Gbet 3 tated that he should that night move that the report to which he had referred 1 »! printed ; and , though he had no control over tlie printing department , he had no doubt it would be printed without delay . The house went into a committee of supply , and a vote for £ lo , 4 C 0 , '; to defray the expenses of the British Museum , was agreed to . Mr , Wabd brought forward the navy estimates anil obtained several votes . The other orders were disposed of , and the house adjourned to Monday .
Untitled Article
HOUSEiOF ^^ S ^ MOMDAT , JUCT 27 . The house met at three o'clock , when the Royal Assent was -given 1 by * commission to eighty-three Bills . ¦ , ? The Lords' Commissioners 1 vrere * the Lord Cimn-MinTo MarqU ' ° f GJarill 3 carde > and the £ iirl of niiir « f ^ ° . f CtAN 0 AniT : i » idoh iRe table the «« . ip f ?^ edlC ? l l ° Jiaritie 8 ia Ireland , which v / aa ordered to be printed . ^ ., ; . t ¦¦
¦ ¦•¦ ¦ ¦ THE'SLAVE TRADE . - " c LordB «? UoH « i presented a petition agaiiiki . the u ^ WW ^ ' Thomas darken , oil behalf of the Anh-Slavery Society . % e nb ' b * f « and learned Lord , m suppbrtini the prayer of thV petition , spoke at great length in opposition" ti ) the Ministerial measures , and read a letter from" Lord Dcnraan , in which that learned Jndeo denounced , in the most forcible language , any parTiamentarjv measure tending to give an impetus to the slave" trade . His Lordship had a fling at his former colU ^ nes , the Whigs / fle said ;—All the other questionaVhioh . during the last six raohths ParlJameflt had Vein de . bating , sank into complete insignifiennce , when suich a one as that which he had just stated was
propounded o » this 27 th of July , being later than the ordinary period of the termination of the parliamentary year , and at a time when parliament was jaded by long attendance , and its patience exhausted by one of the most exciting debates which ever occupied the attention of either house of Parliament . Why was it brought forward now ? Its passage through" Parliament might now perhaps be more glib , as parties were m rathe * an «< fd state . It was difficult to say How any one would vote . The Government seemed to think that in tho souffle they might haveachance . It miglit also be convenient to show that , besides the ben-erago Bill , thews wa ^ a question in whick th » Cabinet was united . ( Hear , hear . ) It might be convenient for the Government to show that thev agreed
upon something ; but , at all events , they felt that they had a hatte * chance now than next year ! ' Besides , they said , "You'have just been promoting J ^ vee Trade by all the means in your power . You h § , ye now carried one change and "then another until you have repealed the Corn 'Lawg . ' whieh takes P . v » ay . protection from the home gvo «' eYatuly < ui now v . - \ atv to takp awft ^ protection from ' his colonial" brother . " It was in vain' to diaoufs suclfavq ^ Mon , ' which was a very difficult one in all its bearings—a 'question on which the feelings of the country could be wi-uly aroused , and therefore they thought it better to' take time by the forelock and not let that bouse , which discussed the Corn Bill , have an opportunityjjf ' . fully debating this question . He ( Lord Brougham ) had
great alarms . These men were wise in their gSneratien according to a certain but a limited scale / He knew that these men knew to a certain extent what ; they were about . He knew that they had a little portion of that worldly wisdom which oftentimes took the place of a higher degree of wisdom , and therefore was oftentimes more advantageous to its possessors than wisdom itself . For this reason he had great fears that they had not reckoned untruly on this subject , and that he perhaps might be found in a minority when the charge , to which Mr . Clarkson alluded , was brought forward , and against which he humbly and earnestly warned their Lordships . But what if he ( Lord Brougham ) had the same house here to listen to the case as when the Corn Laws
were discussed a couple of months ago—if that house were here assembled ,-he would at once Bay to his venerable friend , ' * Be quietand easy , and take the repose you have ao well earnedrfoi you may be assured that your eyes will not close in death before a victory shall be gained over this last attempt in favour of the Slave Trade . " But his astonishment waa increased when he found that this question did not at all press : Can there be any better reason for setling it now , in 184 C , than in 1847 ? He thought that the Government ought to acquiesce in the pro . position which had been made , to take a Bill for a . year , and then next year , alter they had time to bs advised of the whole subject , and to receive all th « necessary information from the coast of Africa , - res * pecting the working of the treaty and the operation ! of the combined squadron there , and information as to the quantity of sugar . which we might get froni our East Indian possessions , and from Siam and Manilla ,
and further information also as to ; the state of slavery in Cuba and Brazil , the question coujd be properly and advantageously discussed . Surely it would be better to act according to common sense and consistency , and take the Bill for a year ,-1 then legislate thus in a hurry , and endeavour to pass a permanent measure , when there was neither opportunity for consideration , nor time for discussion . The Marquis of Laxbdownb did not intend at that period to fellow the Noble and Learned Lord at any length in the statement which he made . He might , however , be permitted to say , that as the present duties cfifikvajivawn suga * had not had ihew w > sult n the suppression of the slave trade , but the contrary , the geueral princi p le of free trade , lately adopted , ought to be applied to an article whioh . formed one ot the raosfrjuaeful necessaries of life . The petition was then ordered to lie on the table . Some formal business was disposed of , and their Lordships adjourned aV half-past seven o ' clock . HOUSE OF COMMONS .-Mondw , Jow 27 . THE RE-ELECTIONS . Mr . Thomas Maitland took the oaths and his seat on bis re-election for the Stewarty of Kirkcudbright . . ; - . SABBATH AMUSEMENTS . Mr . Hume gave notice of his intention to move s resolution ( on the proposal to introduce a Bill ag . iinafc Sunday trading , as we understood ) declaring that with a view to lessen the temptation to drunkennese arid immorality , it is the duty of a Christian legislature io take care th&tthe British Museum , the National Gallery , and all similar public places , be kept open after morning service on Sunday , in the same way that gin-shops , and public houses are allowed to be kept open . ( Much cheering . )
MILITARY FLOGGING . Mr . Osborne gave notice , that on the house going into committee on the army estimates , he would move the abolition of military flogging , except for offences committed on a line of march , and that then the punishment be limited to fifty lashes . ( Cheers . )
PROVISIONS IN IRELAND . Mr . O'Connbt . t . referred to a report he had seen in tho newspapers , that the supply of food by the Go . vernment in Ireland was to cease on the 15 th of August . He wished to be informed what truth there might be in this statement , or whether Ministers had any intention to reduce the supply of food at the date specified ? It such a notion were to get abroad , he feared it would be received in Ireland with the deepest regret and dissatisfaction . Nothing ; could have been conducted with greater wisdom and discretion than the supply of food by the late Govern * ment . ;
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said , the measures for the alleviation of the recent distress had been of three kinds , being partly by means of employment by the Government , furnished by those in the neighbourhood , and partly by the Government selling a supplying food at a cheap rate through the different parts of Ireland . It was not intended to discontinue any 0 ) ' these so far as the Government were concerned , except the last . He concurred in the opinion of the beneficial rffects which the measures of relief of the late Government hail been attended with in Ireland ; they had not only saved tlie people from famine , bat had also preserved the public peace . But that which was most beneficial when adopted as a measure
of relief for temporary distiess would become . an evil of great magnitude , if it were rendered permanent , ([ fear , hear . ) This feeling was beginning to pievail in Ireland , and the Government had determined that the supply of fnod should cease when the har * ve > t came in . Directions were accordingly issued to the Commissariat to stop the supply of food furnished by tne Government after August 15 th . The lstof August was the day on which it was ' at first p roposed the supply cease , but it was extended till the 15 th , in order that there might be no pressure on the early ci' » p of potatoes . It was fortunate that was done , fur there waa too much reason to believe , tlie e » rlv crop of potatoes had failed .
A slioi't conversation ensued in which Mr . O'Contiell corvobiiKited the statement that the early potato crop had failed and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Mvi matter had this duo and heat oonsidmtion of Government .
THE SUGAR DUTIES . Upon Lord J , RnasMii / s moving , that tho orde of the tlay be now read for going into the Committee of Ways and Means . Lord G . Bkntijick moved the ' amendment of which l > e i > : > J g ivtn in-tive , and , disclaiming & \\ hostility «« Her Maj * -. > sy ' s Ministers , bbservei ) that , although 'in former occasions the question of :: liivery and of the policy of uducing the sugar duties had heen mixed up with tiiu quos . tioti of confidents or no cuufitleuco . in Uio Gftvuriimeut , it was not his intention bi > t <» tvwvt Uk-hj upon the present occasion . After repudWithiy the notion , wliich very •¦ . roneouxly pi ' uv . iilod out dl doors , that he and his friends wer « n \ iy ( i « htiui ; a sham battlo against the Goven » ini m iCM'hitimis . he t > a \ d , that the question
involvtil in tiiuse resiilwtini ' iS unlurally divided itself into ihiTU lieinls . and that as such ho should treat it . The lii : t hoiicl wa * tlmt which concerned the interest of the British sttgav-planters in the Westindiw , the Ka-. l Indies . s > nd rlie Mauritius , and which also concerned tl . e supply yf fugnr to Great Britain . Iha sccniHi was tin * qiu-siinn of revenue , as tumrJiecl on Iv , L-. r . l J . llussull in introducing his resolutions ; ami ili .-i . ini w .. uM rcliite to the interests ot tne Afrirai , iw . On the first hcud Lord JV KjMdl rounded l . i « nsiu - uiioiron iho P ^ Vtl JcoSS ^^^^ sJf ^ r /^ JriWMira SiStiLlK dilteLm ^ Si the average supply . Now , ( Continued to the Sightli Pagt . J
Loss Op The Emigrant Ship Mandarin And The Sir Walter Scott.
LOSS OP THE EMIGRANT SHIP MANDARIN AND THE SIR WALTER SCOTT .
Untitled Article
The Ballot for the second Location having concluded , a second ballot was taken for situation of allotment in the O'Connorville Estate , the houses in tbe location are numbered respectively , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , &c , and the winners'will occupy the same numbers as they have drawn in the ballot , the result is as follows : — Two Acres . 1 John Westmoreland London 2 John Lambourne Reading 3 Michael Fitzsimon Mauchester 4 William Mann Northampton 5 Philip Ford Wootten-under-Edge 6 Charles Smith Halifax 7 George Mansfield Bradford ( Wilts ) 8 Richard Eveson Stockport 9 Charles Brown Brown 10 John Wallwark Ashton 11 John Neil Hey wood 12 William House Pershore 13 Henry Smith Keighley 14 George Ramsbottom Ashton [ London . ] 15 William Mitchell Whittington and Cat 16 John Firth Bradford 17 Ralph Kerfoot Rouen
Untitled Article
Three Acres . 1 James Short Bilston 2 William Oddy Bradford 3 George Richardson Westminster 4 Benjamin Knott Halifax ¦ S Isaac Jowfiff , Bradford
Untitled Article
*^*** S ^* S + ^^ Sk w ^ v . ^ v . vwv ^ Four Acrcgi 1 Thomas Meyrick Worcester 2 Joseph Mills Ashton 3 David Watson Edinburgh 4 Martin Griffiths Worcester 5 James Cole Bradford 6 Barbara V&ughan Sunderiattd 7 AlfredHagueCrowtherAshton 8 Thomas Smith Wigan 9 James Greenwood Hcbden Bridge 10 Thomas Smith Greenford ( near London ) 11 Thomas Bond Devizes 12 James Taylor Manchester 13 Joseph Openshaw Manchester Fearous O'Connor Thomas Clabk Ciihistopiikr Doyle Philip M'Grath Thomas Martin Wheeler Secretary .
7, Jmpertal %Arliament*
7 , Jmpertal % arliament *
Afoim^Omed Cottage.
AfOim ^ OMED COTTAGE .
Untitled Article
V f & AND NATIONAL TiAs' JOURNAL .
Untitled Article
VOL . X . NO . 455 J LONDON , SATURDAY , MJm $ T l , 1846 * ^^ m ^ CK w - fe ' -Fiw BhHHugH- nnd Sixpence per Quarter
Svbdex Bba.Tr At The Eustos-Socare Station.
Svbdex Bba . tr at the Eustos-socare Station .
-
-
Citation
-
Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 1, 1846, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1377/page/1/
-