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— FRANCE . JUS B ** MOVEJtEST—ESCITIKG SCESZS IS THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES—GREAT AGITATION . The debate on the last paragraph of the address , w hich condemna the Raform dinners , produced on jVeftees'lay a tremendous uproar . The intemperate Keeper of the Seals . M . TIebert . 5 ss sn&jred to inTeigb , at great length , against the banquets and their dangerous tendency , and to uphold the eorernment ' s right to put a stop to then , in language ill-suited to the gravity of a Minister of Justice . A reply was returned byM . Feuilhade-Chaavia , a raember of a Mah court of jusUee ; and a still afa- ' er one by M . Ledra Rollin , a Radical lawyer , both of them contending that the law of 1791 conic
not be enforced nnder present circumstance * . These opinions so enraged M < Helrert , ttiathe w -uld re-asceud the tribusei although MM . Gu zotand Pnc&atel seenipd by their looks to impJorebis silence . The Keeper of the Seals reiterated his arguments in snppori of the government's rieht , and , despitemany an angry interruption , wrathfully said to the Opposition : — ' I repeat it , what yon have hitierto done basbeea done despite the law , and yau shall do it no more . Such is our will . ' The ministerial maiotity applauded , and the storm arose . M . Odillon Bwroteried : — 'Polignaoand Peyronnet were more constitutional than you , ' and the whole Ganche stood up . repeating the saae words , and titterine manv frr more offensive apostrophes We shsil now
qiote one of the reports before us : — ' A tumulte tnex nfitnal-f- ensued . The Centres raised a hwltmcnt e ' rovcll- : the whole Gauche returned the most vio lent exrUfiiatioas . and it was soon impossible to distinzuis h anything amidst this extraordinary confusion of vociferations , stamnins , and chaHen&ea offered aid returned : in all directions were to be seen fkhiine attitudes , extended arms , men standingr , fists r * i ? £ ^ . threatening accents , the whole aecompsnied with the thundering of human voices , the irrifciie ^ and deafening noise of which shook every par ! of tne araphithealre . ' During this part of ihe uproar , M . Hebert , tho highest personage in French law . stood up pale , hisurm ' crossed , fixing in a most warlike style M . Odillnn Barrot , who contemptHouslv baf ; calmly , awaited the explosion of his wrath
The Minister of Justice at lenztk obtained some atteBtion , and after bitterly complaining of havino been comnarcd with the Prince de Polienae and Count de Peyronnet , declared that he should execute the law with severity seainst all snch as should attempt to Tiolateit . The clamonr wai reviving , when M- Odiilon Barrot , spurning the threat , maintained the JHgtice of his ' apostrophe , ' and said , 'I call on yon to hear me , and to weieh well my word ? Ministers of the R-yolution of July , yon violate a law respected eren by the Restoration at the verv moment of its fall . 1 Jell yon that you do not resDeat even what was respected by Polignac' He was here greeted by a still ereater uproar , amidst which the Onpftsition retired , refusing to vote , aad the sitting of the Chamher was tnmnltnonslv closed .
On Thursday , although the commencement of the sitting appeared to promise a more calm consideration of the question than it received in the stormy discussions of the two previous days , the close was the ransfc iumnlhiOHs that has been known in the Chamber since the eelebrated exnnlsion of M . Manuel , and the affair of the Abbe Gregoire . Exclusive of the interest attached to ijreat uproar and violence , there was Terr little worth recording in the discussion of Thursday , witft the exception of the spsecfceg of M . Gnizofc . M . Thiers , and M . Odillon Barro *—speeches which occupy but little space on paper , bnt which occupied a long time in thedelivery , inconsequence of the continued interruptions and cisinonrs of the
members-On Fridav the debate was resumed by M . Des-Eoasseaus de Givre who proposed a ' new amendment , tending to omit altogether the offensive words of ' blind and hostile passions , ' in the paragraph against the reform banquets . Count" de Moray followed , maintaining : ike rishi of ihe majority to express an opinion in the address on act 3 which had taken place in the interval between the sessions , particularly when they were of an unconstitutional character . M . deLamartine then ascended the tribune , and in a spirited piece of declamation maintained the perfect right of the Opposition members as wel ! as of all other citizens , to meet in reform banquets or elsewhere , to discuss snch matters as Eigbt appear to them important The two
Chambers , be observed , w « re not to exercise a monopoly of discussion ; to meet peaceably and consider political question * , was the inalienable right of all . I « o denbt an a ^ itatien had taken place since the preceding session , but it was of a fair ( howete ) and sa ' atarv character , and in place of being branded with reprobation , onght to be eneourgaged . ( This dec l aration of the honourable deputy was reenived with thunders of applause from the Left , and the loudest possible marks of disapprobation from the Centres . ) Forsooth , he said , it was a grest phenomenon to find citizens comins together to discuss the conduct of the soverument ! The country had been moit patient , and it was net until the system of the per . ' latina of July iad b * en changed bv the
governaeat . that the masses had stirred . ' Findins corruption rife in all the ministerial ranks , they bad at last met to consider what was to be done , and they had dona well- He concluded by warning the ministry that bo government had eve ? nsed forcible means agdnst their pnisncal adversaries , that it Hi not itself soon after suffer for its conduct . M . Yitet , the reporter , then gave some explanations as to the views of the ootnm ttee in drawing np the paragraph- ^ M . O . I > 3 rro * pretested most energetically against the majtritj to indge the minority . M . F . de I > steyrie spoVe against , and M , de Remusat advocated the right of the masses t » meet . M . Duohatel , the Minister ot the Interior replied , snd after a stormy discussion , the diTi ' sion was taken : —
Against the amendment 228 For it 1 S 5 Majority for Ministers 43 Immediately sfterwards there was a division upon the original clause as drawn up by the committee . Upon this occasion the Opposition abstained from voting , and the numbers were—For the clause 223 Against it 13 Majority 205
In the second division the policy of the Opposivon £ c declining to vote was very nearly suceessfnl . By anile of the French Chambers a rota is null un ! e = s an . absoJate majority of the whole nsmberof mem fcers of which the Chamber is composed ( 45 S ) take part in the vote . It is , therefore , necessary that 230 should vote ; bnt the whole of the Opposition members having wiUidr&tfn , ttier * vrere only 223 Conservatives left who were willing to snpport the cabinet . Thft position was an embarrassing one ; but it was at length got over by eighteen of the thirty Conservatives who refused to vote in favour oi the Ministry , consenting , at M . Gaizot ' s special request , to vote against him . Not a single Opposition member toted in the second division , and the whole ef those who took part in it . whether for or against the clause , were Conservatives .
On Saturday the diseussion opened with another amendment proposed by M . SallaBdrouze , expressive on the part of the Chamber of a desire that the government should be conducted in conformity with that spirit of reform and progress which so peculiarly characterises the presefit epoch . This amendment TTS 3 supparted by a . considerable number of ihe Deputies of the Conservative party , bnt opposed by the government . The Chamber divided at half-past seven , when it appeared that the ministerial majority bad dwindled down , to tbir y-three . The total naraber sf depnties present was 411 . Of these 222 opposed , and 189 supported the amendment . Thus rventeen votes in a house of 411 would have turned the scale against the Government .
The real interest of the debate was in the speech of M . Goizot , whose explanation as to the course to be pursued by the governraent was looked forward to with great interest . The substance of his speech fns as follows : He declared that for the present 5 es 3 isn the government would do nothing and that it would not hold out any promise fsr the fatnre . All that the government would do was this- ^ it would use all its ^ fforts to satisfy the Conservative party ; and in tie interest of the Conservative party alout—for he cared for no other—he would endeavour to make a private compromise with the
different fractions of which that party fa composed , which would satisfy all of them . In order to satisfy ^ the Conservative reformer ? , he hinted that he might , perhaps , carry reforms which be had hitherto opposed ; and after ruakisg the equivocal p romise that £ the question should ba carefully examined during the present parliament / he ? concluded by declaring that if the arrangement among the Conservatives , to which le previously alladed , were not successful , * the Cabinet would leave to otbera the care of presiding over the disorganisation of the partj , and the ruin of its poliey . ' . ..
The entire address wa 3 afterwards adopted by 241 to 3 . the Opposition having abstained from Toting . la the Times , of Monday , the Paris correspondent of that paper has the following remarks : — ' It is true tn 2 t np to the present moment the public—the lower orderi of the psople especially—nave taken Tery little interest in the alarming debates of the teat five days in the Chamber of Deputies ; _ but it dust not be * thence inferred that they are indifferent to what is passing . They have been told , and they hive brought their miads to the conclusion , that they
have been defrauded of the fruits of the revolution . They deem talking on the subject puerile , and they bide their time . They wait whk astonishing sungfroid ar > apropos , or an accident , for reconstructing the gsverament en Haaven knows what principle . The government is , on the other hand , preparedat least preparing—for this dernier rmort . The detached forts so ardently longed for by the Court , are capable of being ic a few houra put into a condition to attain tie e&d for Khicb they have been created , namely , to prevent ingress to or egres 3 from PariEor the actual boHbardment of the city never will
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take place under any c rcumstanceB . The government is mereover provided with a fine army in Paris —includinga corps d ' elite , called the 'Municipal Guard , ' and the people are disarmed . Every barrick ar . d military post has been for the last tbTee days abundantly supplied with ball cartridge . To mqke head against such a force , and such means would appear impossible . A portion of the National Guard mi » bt concur in an insurrection , but could not staud against the army , if the : irmy would act against them . The detached forfB could , as I have said , if they be intended for anything more than niaces of refuge , prevent the entrance of provisions into the capital , and thus the malcontents of Paris would appear incapable of attacking the
government with effect , and sure to be reduced to obedience by famine . Such , in the most favourable point of view , appears the positioa of the government . An insurrection ia the face of such preparation would he Insanity , but very mad things are possible with this extraordinary people . The government seem det ermined , and appear to have the power to carry through with the strong hand , but the continuance of tranquillity will not depend Hpon the intimidation of the people . Never was there in this world a nation m ore reckless of CJnsequences . if once excited , than the French . Accident might npset all the calculations and crumble into atoas the whole fabric raised with so much labour by the government . The
blow of a sabre given to a poor old man by tbePnnce de Lambese , on the 12 th of July , 1789 , caused—not the revolution , for that was inevitable—but the explosion of the inflammable matter so long pent up , and so abundantly accumulated . Another accident —the ordinances of Charles X ., thirty years later , revolutionised France once more . The actual government is strong in men , and arms , and store * . Is it beloved ? Tbe people are , up to the present moment , indisposed to anew effort , and are disarmed . Are they incapable ? No ! If really on foot they would be aeain irresistible . What would produce such a result ? Any one of 10 , 000 possible accidents !'
The Opposition , emboldened by their display of numbers on the recent division , have determined to brave the menace of government and hold a Rpform meeting in Paris . 'Upwards of one hundred deputies met on Sunday in the Place Madeleine , and agreed upon the terms of a Manistesto , which they published in the journals of Monday . This document declares that the recent ministerial address constitutes a flagrant and audacious violation of the riehts of the deputies , that it infringes the sacred principles of the constitution , that it violates through the deputies , of
the f e ^ ntial rights the citizens , and is oalouhted to spread disorder through the country . The Opposition declare their determination to combat what they regard as a counter-revolution , and to defend by all legal means the rights of meeting assailed by minister ? . A committee of deputies wa 3 appointed to carry out those views of the meeting ; a protest was recordpd against the arbitrary acts of the government ; aad it was further resolved unanimously that no member should consent to join the Deputation of Ad-^ HA « a tfl tnft Tnilerles .
Themayorsofarrondi'sementg . mParigjWhobelong to the Opposition signified their intended resienation if government insisted in obstructing the Reform meeting . Another sign of the times has to be men - tioned . On Sunday , sixty officers of tho National Guard sent an address to the Opposition deputies , in which they offer their services as an escort to the Reform banquet ? , and as a guard against any obstruction to the fulfilment of the Intended demonstration ; ; General Jacqueminot , having called together the
colonels of the National Guards of Paris , and questioned them as to the spirit which prevailed in their respective legions , received answers not calculated to reassnre a cabinet which contemplated means of armed repression . It is also said that General Sebastiani had taken similar steps ' in relation to the superior officers of the garrison of the capital , whose answers breught no other assurance thnn that tbeline wonld support the National Guard , but that any independent action , in case of a popular movement , could no'' be relied on .
It is positively stated that government has caused to he deposited in the barracks , and especially in those of the lltharrondissement , munitions and rations tor eight days , and also axes and other implements , as if fer an approaching action . In Tuesday's Times the correspondent of that paper says : — ' It is certain that the great Reform banquet will take place on Thursday or on Sunday next . The Opposition National Guards will be present , but with Bide arms only , for they cannot legally apppar in arms unless when summoned bv their chiefs . The
government ara resolved at this moment te prevent the banquet . Their means for enforcing submission ts their wiH are immense . The army in Paris and its environs is numerically equal to the National Guard Every barrack , every post , every guard-house ef the hundred that are in the capital is fortified and safe from a coup de main . The officers of the staff are studying the plan laid down by Marshal Gerard for resistance to a revolt . Every military post in Paris , and every one of the forts that surround and command it , is gorged with ammunition . '
The Patrie says : — ' Several jonrnalshave spoken within the last few days of mysterious arrests effected in tbe different parts of the capital . Penceful foreigners , long established in Paris , have been violently torn from their residences dnrinsj the nighttime , confined in the Oenciergerie , and then sent out of France under the escort of the police , without time being allowed them to make any preliminary arranrements , er to regulate their affairs compromised by this sudden departure . The persons who have been victims of these arbitrary acts are all Germans ; one of them , aa already stated , is M . Engeb , known in the learned world by hi 3 remarkable work on the situation of the working classes of Great Britain , published at Leipsic in 1847 . M . Eneels , son of a rich manufacturer of Barmen , near Elberfield , employing TOO or 800 workmen , was , for two yeara , domiciled at Paris , in tbe Reu Neuve Saint Martin , and he received monthly from his father a pension more than sufficient to assure him a comfortable and
independent existence . A distinfuished painter , M . — , of Cologne , bas als » been arrested and expelled , as well as some inoffensive workmen , remarkable for their calm and laborious habits . The following is tbe crime of the persons arrested . The evening before the New Tear ' s Day , about a hundred Germans established at Paris , and for the most part workmen , met together at a restaurateur ' s . It bad been agreed beforehand that all political discussion should be abstained from—a proof of the perfectly peaceful spirit
whieh actuated this kind of family meeting . At tbe d-gsert , M . Engels , who was one of the guests , addressed to his conn try men some remarks in German , in which there might , if rigorously considered , be fonnd political allusions , bat he stopped when the circimstance was remarked to him , and the bemqad finished without the slightest tumult . It was on account of this incident , so unimportant in itself , that six weeks afterwards several of these foreigners were arbitrarily arrested , and depriyed of the hospitality which they had found on tbe French soil . '
On Monday evening , at nine o clock , tha grand deputation of the Chamber of Deputies charped with the presentation of the address in reply to the speech from the throne , was received by the King . The Hsual humbuj was gone through , the members ofthe loyal * majority' shouting ' Yive le Roi ' . ' The Paris news of Wednesday says , continued asitatioB prevails respecting the reform question , and the right ofthe public to meet for its discosdon . Tbe difficulty experienced of Ending a building large enough to bold tbe guests expected at tbe great reform dinner on Sunday , has been solved by the projecting of a temporary building , which is being erected in the ChampB Elysees . There appears every determination to hold the festival , in spite of t he opposition of the ministry .
ITALY . PROGRESS OF BBFOBH . News from Palermo to the 3 rd represents that the kin £ had granted to Sicily the constitution of 1812 . which had been accepted by the insurgents , on the condition that the Prince Royal ( now twelve years old ) should reside at Palermo as viceroy , a regency being established until he shall attain his majority , and a separate parliament to be established at Palermo . An amnesty was proclaimed , from which , however , were excepted tha emigrants of 1821 . All the fortifications of Sicily were surrendered to the insurgents , and all the troops bad returned to Naples . The most perfect tranquillity continued at Naples . From Turin we learn that Charles Albeit has granted a constitution to his subjects . The principles on which it is founded are nearly those ofthe the French charter .
The Aussbceg Gjizkits says ; ten arreBts have been made at Milan of persons moving in the higher ranks , and that important papers have bean discovered . The Refobub contains the following accounts from Italy : — ' In & village ia the environs of Milan one hundred and seventeen horses of the Imperial Artillery have been poisoned . The perpetratera of this act have not as yet been discovered . The rumour becomes more and more confirmed , that General Radeizky has demanded of Charles Albert to occupy Alessandria . According to the terms of the treaties of 1815 . ibis town onght , it is said , to be guarded by Austrian troops whenever there exists a probability of war in Italy . The Refosmk states that Charles Albert replied ' that treaties were made with peps , but that towns and fortresses were taken with
arms . LetteK from Verona announce the arrest of Connt Emilei during the ni-ht-time , bis crime being that of having transmitted to Milan the money collected at Verena for tbe wounded and maimed of the 3 rd ultimo . He has been transferred to the fortress of Le- ^ nsgo . Intelligence from Italy states that Lord Minto had arrived at Naples on the 8 th . A British steamer , arrived at Civita Vecchia en the 1 st , brought tbe intelligence that , in consequence of a popular movement , Me 3 Bina bad been bombarded on the 29 ; h , by the garrison , which had been shut up in the citadel .
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The news from Palermo is to the 5 tlj . The con . Btitution and amnesty had arrived there on the 3 r d . It was recited publicly by the provisional government . It declares that Sicily always had a constitution , but which bad been illegally suspended ; that it was modified and sanctioned in 1812 , and in 1810 ; and that this constitution be admitted , and that the parliament be held at Palermo . The provisional government of Palermo ia declared to be that of all Sicily . It is systematically organised .
GERMANY . Accounts from Silesia continue to represent the distress in some parts of the countr y as really awful ; and if the description of such dreadful _ scenes can be relied upon , the distrtes and want in tnat country surpass by far anything ever experienced in Ireland . A Revolutionary bow in Bavaria — A little revo . lution commenced by a students' row , has | taken plac < 5 at Munich . Lola Mrntea bas closed her brilliant and noisy career on the political stage of Bavaria . Her exit has been as precipitate as her entrance . She had made a little party amongst thestudents of the University . They were soon marked for insult and attack . Hearing some of them were in peril , she boldly ventured in person to the rescue , was her 3 elf insulted , was rescued by the king , but was , nevertheless , outrageously treated , and only Eaved by being received
within the gates of the palace . A royal decree punished the students by dosing the university for a y « ar . This harsh step brought the protest and remonstrance ofthe chief authorities . Crowds assembled around the palace . The students and their friends were , of course , violent , as well a 9 the citizen ? , who were threatened with loss by the closing of the university . Some conflicts took place between the crowd and the military . But the latter positively refused to fire upon their fellow-citizons , or to employ harsh means of repression . The monarch then went to address his people from the balcony of the palace ; but his reception was a blow from a stom > , which so shocked the rojal family , and humbled Louis , that hej reluctantly issued ' a decree , exiling the obnoxioua Countess of Landsfeld . Another accpunt states that the flight of Lola Montes was so precipitate that she had not a moment to prepare for it . Her house was completely sacked by the insurgent students .
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FACTORY LEGISLATION . TO IHB MHOS OF THK MOSKING POET . Sin—My attention having been directed to an article on ' Factory Legislation , ' in tho Economist ol the 8 th instant , on my return from a visit to the manufacturing districts , I have procured a copy , and have to request the favour that you will insert this reply . I am told that Ibe editor of tbe Economist is a very wise man ; be it so . He should , then , be very careful to publish truth and Bense . I grieve to say , his article on ' Factory Legislation' is deficient in both points .
' Tha workmen and tporitiuomen' are not the authors of the agitation that is getting up in the 'manufacturing districts on the Ten Hours Bill . ' ' Property and wage 3 have « ot been destroyed by my crotchet . ' I thank my accuser for giving me the credit of ' inducing the legislature to embody my erolchet into a law . ' . I tbank him also for giving that'law the title of ' Mr Oastler ' s law . ' I fancy , however , that many persons will net readily accord to me that honour . It is not true that those ministers who gave their sanction to my crotchet vrera ' ignoraut . ' Nor is it true that' Mr Oastler ' s law' was passed unthinkmAy ;'
or , that' his enactment is ' a ruinous restriction on the industry of man , nnd his helpmate—machinery . ' Neither have any facts recently transpired in the manufacturing districts , which should convince members of Parliament that to meddle with the industry of the people is a dangerous undertaking . ' It is a misrepresentation to state that 'throughout the manufacturing districts the masters have come to the resolution to employ men wherever thpy can in place of women . ' I wish , right heartily , that such were the case ; then our manufacturing operatives would have good wages and comfortable homes .
It is delightful , among so much error , to discover an atom of truth—quere , was it wise ia tho Economist to remind the factory-workers of one great cause of the depression in wages , by telling them that 1 H ET ARK BXP 03 E D T O C O MPE T IT IO N IS ALL THB markets er the woblb . ' Let that truth become the watehword in every manufacturing district , then ita effects will shortly be exhibited in a loud cry that will be echoed in St " Stephen's . Wht ! That cry will awake many sleepers , among the rest the siqyposed writer of the article I am noticing .
It ia not true that ' female operatives would ba degraded by banishmeHt from factories ; ' although it is true that' the condition of woman has of late been much improved in our factories ! ' What an admission from one who afterwards deprecates every ' Act of Parliament forbidding labour beyond a certain number of hours ; or , that ' meddles with industry ! ' the ¦ improvement he boasts of being the result of the folly he announces ! The following paragraph is . upon the whole , so much in aecordancB with my own opinions , I could almost imagine tbat my opponent h » d cut it out of my letter ( upon which he is animadverting ) , and with slight additions dropped it , by mistake , amongst his own MS . It ia so important , I will , with yonr leave , reprint it , and beg that every factory opera-, tive , and every member of Parliament , will have it reprinted in large type , and placed over his mantle piece . This is the paragraph to which I allude : —
1 The general rate of wages , deduced itom experience , is that it most enab'e the labourers , one with another , to subsist and rear a family ; A sufficient payment to accomplish that—and , if capital be fast increasing , to rear tolerably large familiesmust be eiven to labourers . For tbe interests of capitalists , that rate of wages must be paid ; and it would Eeem better tbat it should be obtained by the labour of the man only , than by the labour ofthe man andwoman conjoined . It ia , we believe , a general rule , that in those employments in which the males only labour for the wages which are to support the family , the rates of wages are higher than in those where both male and female labour to the same end . In the latter case , the two oklt GET A 3 MUCH A 3 ONB IN THE POBMBR . '
Granted . And why V Because our male operatives are , in that case , not only' exposed to competition in all the markets of the world , ' but they are also driven to compete with our female operatives in the hgjie marktt of labon ? — father against daughter—son against mother —husband againat wife—brother against sister ! The natural result of this unnatural competition , is fairly stated by my opponent , to be . 'The two only g et as much as onk ! ' proving that it is sheer madness to compete manJagainsfc his helpmate woman ! This writer ought to know , that , before ' Acts of Parliament forbidding labour , beyond a certai p number of'hour t ' were passed , this unholy competition was sometimes carried on between np-grown men and female babea
not five yeara old 1 and to a number of houra per day , in some cases exceeding eighteen out of the twenty-four ! True , on . his > own showing , 'the two only got as huch as ONE ! ' and on the evidence of the grave-yards , measuring by the ordinary duration of life , ' TlIE TWO ONLT COT AS MUCH ( life ) -A 3 one ! ' Still , after alibis admissions , there is , _ my opponent says , ' an overruling necessity , ' outweighing the loss of life and of wages , which demands that' everything which stands in ita way must be evaded or thrown aside ! ' Acts of Parliament protecting human life are , in the face of this ' overruling necessity , ' powerless—this scribe declares , ' they
JiUaT BE EVADID OR THROWN ASIDE ! ' Such 13 the insane verdict of tbis wise writer in the Economist , And pray , Sir , what think you is this 'overruling necessity V I entreat your patience , it is neither more nor lesa than , ' the best use they can make or their machinery ! ' 1 do not misrepresent , but I entreat you to read the article on which I am commenting . If the Economist be right , on kk own showing , Acts of Parliament , passed for the protection of human life , ' must be evaded , or thrown abidb . ' and one-half of the wages of the male op-ratives must be sacrificed , Bimply to enable * the roanufacturera and workmen * to make ' the best use of their
machinery . Now , I think , Sir , no sane person will assent to this proposition ; . I solemnly protest asainst the adoption of a principle so dangerous , so inhuman , so -unchristian , so revolutionary . ^ Yield to that principle—reduce it to practice—and tbe social fabric miist fall I find , Sir , that this new agitation on the Ten Hqnra clause which' the Associated Millowners' have provoked , will ba much more important than the laBt . Then , we Bimply claimed what humanity awarded . Now , even in the onset , our opponents are forcing us to deal with fundamental principles of social economy . I rejoice at their temerity—I am prepared to encounter them . I think I can refute them by reason and Scripture , although they boaatthat ' common sense' resides with them ?
To return . Now for the reasons assigned for repealing or ' evading' ( that is the word ) the Ten Hours clause . I will quote the words of ray opponent , to which I call your most serions attention : — 4 The average quantity of cotton , consumed weekly , in 1847 . was 21 , 400 bags against 30 , 000 bags in 1846 , or 8 . 600 bags per week ta-s ! The quantity of cotton purchased by consumers in the months of September , October , and November , only averaged 14 , 500 bale ? weekly , against 29 , 500 bale 3 during the same period in 1846 ; thus ahowing in these autumn months a falling off in the weekly consumptiofl of cotton of no less than 15 , 000 bales , or 50 per cent , as compared to last year ( 1846 ) . ' You will lemember that Mr Cobden has told tbe cotton millowners : — 'YOU HAVB MO ! COTTON IN EXISTENCE TO KEEP YOUR MACHINERY IN EMPLOYMENT . ' The Economist further states : —
* The decrease of 1847 , as compared to 1840 , of the sura which annually gees to pay wages and profit ? * or reward all persona connected with the cotton trade fo * their exertions , is estimated at upwards of £ 9 , 000 , 000 !'
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Strange , indeed , it appears to me , that , with this admitted and immense falling off in consumption , in quantity and in capital ( which cannot be attributed to the len Hours Clause , that ckuae has nut yet come into operation ) , a demand should be made for a repcil of that cl ause—for longer hours of labour ! The enly reason assigned is , that , notwithstanding this immense deficiency , ' ' sumo manufacturers run then- milla thirteen and fourteen hours a day ' . ' these manufacture ™ bcimr , no doubt , members of the ' Association oF MilloWner . ' , ' seeking by Act of Parliament , to obtain a monopoly of tlie whole cotton trade tor themselves , to the certain ruin of all othera connected with that branch ! I have answered my opponent of the ECONOMIST ; would that bp , or the editor of the Mor . mno Chronicle , would answer mine of ihe lat inst ., which you kindl y inserted in the Mornixs Post ot tbe 6 th inst .
f Verily , our opponents have raised a solemn question ! Let them , if they can , disprove tbe facts they have admitted , or invalidate tlie deductions I have drawn therefrom-else , a ca 3 e is established by themselves -proving the folly—tho danger—the wickedness of striving to found our national prosperity en the manufacture ol cotton . We have mistaken a spear for a staff—if we longer lean thereon , we shall be pierced to the heart ! Believe me , sir , thepre 3 umpt ' on of' The Associated Mulowners , ' will lead to a discussion and m agitation that way open the eyes of our rulers to tbe danger of truating for national prosperity to tho manufacture of a foreign plant , instead ef our own agriculture ! I appeal from the factory workers , to the heads and rulers of the nation ' . Shall I appeal in vain ? I remain , sir , your obedient servant , „ ,., „ HlCHAUD OASTLER . Fulnam , Middlesex .
P . S , —1 was told , in Manchester , that Mr John Bright ia the writer of the article in the Economist , fro which this letter lias reference . If so , the honourable member should be made to account to hia constituents for h 'Ving , i o grossly misrepresented them . He skould also be reminded of his repeated assurances to the factory operatives that , when ? they are expostd to competition in all the maikets of the world / their condition is improved in every respect . R . O .
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THE MINERS' ASSOCIATION . TO TUB EDITOR OF THK NOMHEIIN STAR . Deab' Sib , — In your valuable journal of Saturday , too 5 th instant , there is n letter signed William Grocott , ' in which that gentleman aeems to insinuate that I had not reported truly as to tho expense of tho Miners' Association ' , 1 think Mr Grocott must have forgotten that ho published what is termed ' A two monthn' Report of the Miners' Association from September 6 th to OctoberSOth , 1847 , ' but in reality , only to the 18-h October . In thi « inf itioun document I find expended from the Gensroi Fn ' jd In six weeks , for leeiunr * ' and executive's wages , together with conch fnre , £ 139 17 s . 8 d .
In connexion with this association , there is what is called the '| County Fund ; ' and out of this , theru has been spent in paying a travelling committee , J . Berry , and other locol lecturers snd agents , the Rum of £ 32 19 . * , ia tho above time ; making a total of £ 172 16 * . Si . There ia one strange feature in this asaoctation , viz ., that the one set of men are the executive am ) travelling committeo , And although Hint n conference held on the 11 th of August , 1817 , in St Helens , resolved— ' That William Meadowes , Robert March , nn-1 William Cheetham ba ih .-travelling committee ; ' and ' that theabove three , in conjunction with the general secretary and treasurer , do iorm the executive of tho Hi ier * ' Association ;' still these ' thrst' men havs been drawing pa ? from both funds , viz ., tho General and Comity Fuud 9 . There ore other items in this balance sheet that I do not wish to mention at tbis time . Suffice it te say , that if I thought proper , I wculd-make any honest unionist wonder bow men can be so long duped by a < ew .
And now . Sir , I think I have answered Mr Grocott ; for , if £ 172 lCs . 8 d . epent from the 6 th September to the 18 th October , nil ] not be £ 180 in two montha , it U rather strange to me . I beg to sav , in etncijelor , < hattU 8 question has bees forced upou me . And if the agents ofthe Miners' Union cannot support their position without the aid of HeB , they had better drop it at once . I am an unionist in eve y Benso of the word , nnd therefore would ba glad to see the Miners' Association prosper ; but knotting , from ex . periense , that loeal unioBS are ineffectual to the wants of the a ; e , I ana an arlvoc ite for a general organisation ; and hence the sp ' een of theteintcrflsted parties . I value my ehttraetur as much as Mr Grocolts , end will at all times be ready to prove what I may assert , While I remain , yours truly , J . Leneoan . P . S . —I would have given every item , but your space would not allow it . Wigan , Feb . 6 , 1818 .
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Suicide of a Dbscbksant op the Pendrii . 'F auilt . - On Wednesday Mr W . Payne held an inquest at tbe Queen ' s Head , St Mavtin ' s 1 c Grand , on the body of Charles Pendrii , aged thirty-three , a jonrnejman shoemaker . The deceased was , by his ancestors , connected witli a very important event in the Engli .-h historv . He was a descendant Of tho Pendrils who rendered such great services to Charles the Second when pursued by his enemie ? , and lying concealed in the oak . For this act of loyalty the head ef the family was rewarded with a pension of £ 100 a year ; but from political circumstances payment wa 9 in aftery « ars suspended by the government some sav refused by the family ) , nnd it wan only
recently that the descendants , who aro all in indigent circumstances , endeavoured to obtain its renewal . The deceased was tho son of Mr Pendrii , known as having given shelter in his house to young Watson , who was concerned in the Cato-street conspiracy , Fecretinsr him for several weeks while the public officers were in search of him , and afterwards safely sending him to America in the diagnise of a Quaker . The deceased resided at No , 4 , King's Head-court , and lately had been much depressed in spirits from- the want of sufficient work . On Saturday night hesuspendod himself to a rail on which the clock was hung , and was found next morning lifeless . Tbe jury returned a verdict ol 'Temporary insanity . '
Fmx . ~ Guildhall was in Bome danger of being destroyed by fire on Sunday morning , from the close proximity of other buildings . About one o ' clock in the morning Wood , ono of the patrols , was crossing over the reof of Guildhall , / when he found a fire had broken out in the upper floor at Messrs Gregory and Cubitt ' s , straw bonnet manufacturer ? , No . 15 , Aldermanbury . The back of these premises &fe within two feet of one portion of Guildhall Through the early discovery of the fire the mischief was confined to tho upper part of the house , but the damage from fire and water amounts to nearly
£ 2 , 000 . Whiteciiapeii Cbunty Court . —Joseph Ady . on ma ust Lkgs . — The celebrated Joseph Ady , of ' something to . advantage' notoriety ; was summoned a » ain to show cause why he refused payment of twenty shillings , which he obtained from George Duke , Esq . of No . hi , Cambridge-tti'race , Hyde Park , ntid Hast , ings , Sussex , under the usual pretence of affording him some information to hi 3 advantage . The money was forthwith transmitted to ' Friend Joseph , ' and the information received was worth nothin ? , although Ady furnished the plaintiff with plenty of lithoara . Dhic oiroalars . —The defendant did not appear on the
occasion , but his representative said he eould offer no defence , and that hie client was obliged to throw himself upon the mercy of the plaintiff , who had agreed to receive the money by instalments of 6 a . 8 d . per month and tha costs . He eould assure the coui t Mr Ady was on hia last legB . —The Judge : Joseph here again ! The public are n > t to be duped any longer . —Mr Duke said he wished to show mercy to the de fendant , a-id that he brought forward this case on public grounds . —An order for , the payment of tt-o debt and costs by instalment !" , as proposed , was th > n made . This was the eighth summons tjken out in this court ugainst Ady , and in every one an order was made upon him .
A Rklic op the French Republic — Gcnernl Michaux , one of the most distinguished officers of Engineers o ' the republican and imperial armifP , died at Versailleson the 10 th instant , in the seventyeJEhth year of his age . He entered ihe . si > rvic « in 1793 performed the campaigns of If 94 , 1795 , 179 & , and 1707 , and accompanied General Bonaparte to Egypt . Left in command of the fort of Cathee , when the French army marched to Syria , he bravely maintained thai position in the centre of tbe desert . When the army , on it 3 return from Soria , reached Cathee , Captain Michaux sought among thestaff the officers of engineers , his comrade ? , in order to embraca them . Astonished at their absence , he asked Bonaparte where they were . ' They are dead , ' replied the General . ' Are there none remaining V inquired Miehaux . Bonaparte cited several names , and added , 'Thereare many more in Egypt . ' ' Not
so many as you lost before St Jean d'Acre , ' rejoined tho commander of the fort . ' . What will you have ?' was the reply . ' It is the lot of thRBe who servo in your department of the army . ' Michatix remained in Egypt after the departure ot Bonaparte , and took part in the siege ol Caw , and ultimately in the defence of Alexandria . Having returned to France he was employed in fortify ing the islands of Walcheren and Elba , and was afterwards direotor of the fortifications of Genoa . In 1812 , he was transferred to the army of Portugal , in 1813 tothatof Spain , and was present at tho subsequent military operations until the battle of Toulouse . On his return frem Elba , Napoleon appointed him Commander of the Engineers of the 9 : h corps . The Restoration also availed itself of the services of General Michaux , who , at his death , was a member of the municipal council hi Versailles .
LBADBBsmr of the Countrt Party . —LordGianby has declined the honour of succeeding to the post of leaner of the Conservative party in the house of Commons , vacant by the retirement of Lord . Geor&a Bentinck .
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[ Prea 3 of matter preventod us from inserting lost week an outline of the important Bill brought in on Thursday se nnight by Lord Mobpetu , for promoting the public health in cities and towns . We now sutjoin an abstriictof its provisions aa explained by hia Urdship . ] IIeaith of Towns —The bill had been drawn up by the Aitorne . i-Gdneral , in a shape which , his lurdship said , hu hoped would render ic litlja liable to objection . He intended to atiide by the proposal of last year to appoint a central board of health , constituted in the same rrmnntTUB then appeared to be sif . 'Ctioned by par . liainent . It would consist of five mtinbers—of whou twa would be paid , and would bo presided over by some rcBponaible member of the government . That proposal contained the principle of centralisation , to which some
gentltmen en ' urtaiiiedso strong an objection ; but with > out some snch means of apjityinff tho results of experience and of scientific con'rol , he was of opinion that any measure of this kind would bu a mere inoiktry . But , whilst he acted on the principle of fionie regulated amount of state provision , ho thought that tho working of the measure should be cominitti d to local bodies , responsible to their respectiro local communities . The stato should eridently havu the power ef checking obvious abuses , but it should leare the repression of local abuses lo loeal efforts , lie iherefare passed on to ths constitution of the local bodies which government proposed to call into exia-. ence . On that point it Wai intended to a . lhcre to the proposition of lust year , which had been generally approved In the house , and in
the countvy , TUivt piopoBition was , that theso local boards should be connected with und not distinct from the town councils , where municipal councils exiatbd . Tivo objections , however , havo been urged against the employment of town councils for sanitary purpases , it was sold , firstly , that these bodies were too numerous ; and , secondly , that tha djff-rence of the municipal boundary from that wanted for sanitary purposes would prove n pirpatunl source of difficulty . Now , he proposed to obviate the first objection by providing , that after a certain numbor of the inhabitants ef a municipal town had applied for the benefit of tbis act , nnd after a report had been received from the impeeters of tbe district on the local circumstances of the district , and on the expediency of
applying the act to it , it ohoull he lawful for tho ExBcutWe Government , if it appeared fit thut this act should ba applied to it , to define the number of persona who were to carry it into effect . He took it for granted that that number would be less than tho number of the town councillors ; end therefore tha government proposed that parties should bj selected from ih- > town conncil by themselves , aud tbat those panics should constitute the health committee , Tbis plan be deemed moie advantageous than his plan of last ytar . As to the ob . jection that the sanitary boundary would outstep and overlay the municipal boundary , he proposed to ob . viate it by providing that the same order in council which declared the act ap | lxnblo to the outlaying dietrict , should define the number of sanitary eomtnia .
eionern to serve for it , and that those commissioners should be elected by the ratepayers on the mwe principles as the guardians of the poor , and should be associated for sanitary purposes viith the commissioners ap . poiated by the town council . In places not municipal , tho order in council would set forth the number of commissioners , for tbe district , and they , too , would be elected in the sama manner by the ratepayers . Government did not intend to make any exception in . England aud Wales to the operation of this act . Though be wi > hcd to bare tho same principles applied to Scotland and Ireland , be did not intend Ui encumber bis bill with clauses , applying ita provisions to those countries ; but if tbis bill should bo adopted and approved ia England and Wales , be
hoped tbat it would bo applied tor both by Scotland and Ireland . Government , therefore , diti not professedly exclude tbe metropolis from the operation of this measure . Buthu did not wish to mislead hits hearers . In the metropolis we were far advanced beyond the rest of the country by the constitution of tho CommUsion of Sewers and of the proc « 8 » es which they had carried into effect . Government had also appointed a commission to inquire what measures it would be best to adopt for the sanitary regulation of the metropolis . Tbat commission bad already made some reports , and as far as they bed reporttd , government had acttsd upon their recommendniious . It would also act oh their futurarecommendations ; and be expected that in a few days he should be able to briog in a bill to give legislative force to one
of them . Having thus constituted tbe local bodies , be proceeded to enumerate the functioDS which they would have to perform , lie made a distinction between those functions which it would be imperative and obligatory on tbe commissioners to perform , and those which would be only permissive aKii discretionary , Ail functions relative to the public health would be imperative—other functions relative to regulations which might be desirable in one locality and not in another , would be t . nly discretionary . He then specially enumerated the duties which it would be imperutivo on the local beards to discharge . They would h ; vre to hold rsgular meetings fur tbe performance of business , to appoint surveyors , and inspectors of tonns , to provide a map ef their district , to rtake public b « w « s wbeta thty did not
exist , and to substitute better for defective eewers to compel tho owners fcud occupiers of houses t « tupplj housedrains , to supply water for the clausing of the streets , to appoint scavengers , to fill up ' .-fFdiislve and unwholesome ditches , and to provide sufficient water for draining and for public and private use . Among their permissive duties would be to enlarge , overarch , and otherwise altir , existing Eewers ; to require new buildings to be constructed on a proper level for draimi R c ; to alter draius , privies , Ac . ; to mnke bylaws for the removal of ti th ^ to ri quire certain fur / mcts to consume their own j-moke ; to remove slaugbtrr houses ; to alter buildings improperly built forveutila . rion ; to inspect lodging houBtis of a cortain description ;
to provide public grouudgfor recreation and amusement and public baths and waterworks . Purposes like these must be carried into effect by a rate on the district ; and he hoped that the provisions for ngulating the rating were as clearly and aa concisely drawn up as possible . They were so framrd as to ftdmit the rates to bo luusd only on the districts specially benefited ; and in caS ; s where large and expensive improvements were to be made , a special provision was introduced that tbe expense of them should be defrayed by small instalments spread < mr a number , of years , Hvs did not like to . commit himself to an estimate of She expenses to vrhkh the ratepayers would be liable ; but . it had bien computed that for supplying the hounes of tho poor with water , fvr giving them drains and privies , and for cleansiug
obno » ioua thoroughfares , tho expense would not ba more Uinn ii , o-neeli for eacb bouse , ilo did not intend to include in this bill a clause fur the removal of centuries from tonnsorfor making cemeteries out of their walla . That was a matter of sufficient importance to require a ' distinct bill . He intended , however , to propose that the Board of Health thould be empowered , when any burying place appeared to ic to be destructive of . the health and life . < of the residents in its vicinity , to prohibit tbe uss of that burying ground for interment in future . With regard te tbe snbject of ventilation , be proposed to place itunder tbe special supervision of the central b > ard . These wore the main provisions of the act which he had to aubmit to tho house ; but . he could
not concludo his task without endeavouring to impress on the hoiise a few . of tbe reasons on which he thought that it was bound to adopt this or some othor bettir measure ., without dtluy , in its full , or it might . be in improved , efficiency . He did not lay . stress on the apprehonded approach of tho cholera . If that dreaded malady should arrive , it would be obligatory on us to provide nuais for its repression and prevention , Those means rnsjht be the application of temporary remedies to a temporary evil . Government bad not been inattentive to that subject . It had already revived in the last ecssion of parliament the Cholera Act of 1832 , and all tbe means were already provided for appointing local boards under it , in case the cholera approached . The house , however , was not then called upon to meet a
forniMuble and . extraordinary malady , but to meet the abiding nuisance of the couutry , the annual mist of epir ' Ortue doubling vs . o \ w towns tfeo&lwgfets * of tbt Woodiest nVld of battle . He dii not intend to rely on statistics entirely ; tb&y niiyht ha exaggerated or formed on i laceurate data . Ho would , therefore , discard the higher computations , and adopt tho moBt reduced scalu of dis . ase and mortality which had been placed before the public ; and if it were truo that in England and Wales there were 30 , 800 liv < ss which we could annually save , und 7 , u 0 t ) , COO or 8 . ( . 00 , 000 of money which we c .-. uld annually spare from our expenditure on tho poor , nnd if wo dii not save the one and sparo the other , our filly would only ba less than our crime . Lird Murpeth concluded by asking , whether those towns
which provided England and the world with fuel , iron , manufactures of every kind—those vast him of induBtry , the source s of such comfort and civilisation t f mnn « kind—ought to havo their homes tho seats of filth , diBeu < e , and degradation of the worst . kind , and to be encircled with such deadly and demoralising . influences , ? II « , therefore , a » ked for , the labour of Gron » Britain and . ita various agonunll the appliances which tlieadvan 2 ing knowledge of the house could give . lid did not ask the house to Rtiflo British cherry with over interference , but ho did a 9 k it to make its superior skill and science available to point out to the clear heads and dexterous hands of our opiratlvea the true and proper path of health in which they ought to walk , and from which they ought never to bualloired egain to stray ,
The bill was favourably received . The objections taken to it being that it did not go far enough . No member complained ot its doing too much . —Colonel Siiitborf found fault with it because it did not include the metropolis . —Lord Duncan because there was no mention of -repeal of tha window tar . —Mr Hcubmvn complained that it did not entirely abolish intramurial interments ; and Mr Waki . it anathematised foyer hospitals in towns . —To these various complaints Lord Mobpeth replied generally , that ho was awnre of their importance , but , as men of business , they must do one at a time .
MONDAY , Fib . 14 , HOUSE OP LORDS . —The house sat for half an hour , but the business was entirely confined to receiving partitions and notices . HOCSE OF COMMONS . —GBEATYABJiontH Election —Mr D Seymer reported frora the committee on the Great Yarmeulb election petition that Lord A , Lshsok
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and O . E , CooTE , Esq ., were net duly elected , tlmt tbe election was void , that the hon . gentlemen named had been ( through their agents ) guilty of bribery nt the lust olcctioii , but that there was no evidence to show that such actn of Drib-try had been committed with their knowledge , that gross and systematic bribery prevailed at tho last and preceding election , especially aniwn * the froemeu , and the committee wore unaniuioHslv of' © pinion that the freemen of the b ' . > routf h should be disfranchised , and that no new writ be iseued until legislative measures have beeu token for the purpo ? e of such disfnvnclrisenv nt . ( CheerB from the ininisttml tide . ) New Weit fob Watebfsbd . — On tho invtioriofan Hon . Member , anew writ ' was ordered to be ifsued for thu eltj of Waterfoird , in the room oi Daniel O'Counell , E-q .. resigned .
iMPEiCBJIEKT OF LOBD PaIMEBVTON . —Mr C . ANtTEV , before he gavo notice ef tho renewal of h : » motion , wished ts ask if the governraent had any objection to afford him a < Jny for the purpo 30 of bringing it forward . If they did he would relieve thtm from the embarrass , nient which he understood would fallow his bringing forward the question that evening . If they would not , he must press his motion at all hazards . Lord J Ku . ibell said certain days were ullofted to the government by the custom of tho house , and he did not think it consistent wiih bis duty to agree to giva np to a private motion the days allotted to tbe public busineaB . Tho hon . umnberknew very well that there , were two motion days in the week , wben hia question might be brought forward . Mr C . Anstey said , that under these circumstances it would be hi * duty , at however late on hoar , to bring forward hia motion , as an amendment upon the trtotiou , to ( TO in ' o committee of supply .
f At a subsequent period of the evening ( hnlf past twelve o ' clock ) , when tho committee of supply was moved by tho Cuancelloe of the Exciiequib , tha iollowing convi-rsntiwn occurred : —J Mr tFjio . cn . iBT siiid that it w . is ko ' -oHouj that the government had used means to prevent the motion of inn honourable member for "Youghal being brought on , and he therefore would more the adjournment of tho house . Jlr W . S , O'Brien seconded the motion , because he thought that injustice had been done tbe honourable ,, gentleman . Lord D . Stuart said , that if ho felt nn the honourable member for Youghal , he would certainl y p . reibt ia his motion , but would not interrupt the public tuei-B 9 FB .
Tho Cuinceixob of the Exchequer siid if t \ io hon . nurable gentleman would take tbe advice of the noble lord behind him , government would do their best to keep him a house , on a notice-day . ( Hear . ) It was desirable for the public interest that the vote he proposed to t-ilio to-night should be taken , as a mattirof loraa , before the noble lord at the farad of the government made his financial statement . Mr O'Gohman Mahom admitted that he hud exer * cised all the power he possessed to induce members to retire on the occasion referred to —( laughter)—for tha pnrpoie of marking his disapproval of whathe considered the factious course pursued by the honourable arid learned member ( Mr A&stej ) nho had brought forward his motion in opp- sition to tbe eipresBod wish of both sld < s of the house , ( Hear . )
Mr Anstet « aia ho had given the-govtrnment , in tha early part ofthe evening , every opportunity to afford him tun assurance that he should have an opportunity of bringing on Mb motion ; , bnt do such assurance bad been given . He and other honourable members bad remained all the evening , at great inconvenience , and be » as now asked to surrender the only advantage ho W ! been able to obtain . If the right honourable gen * tleman would nam « a day next week for the committee of supply , and fix it an early hour , he would accede to the n quest now made ; otherwise , he was quite ready to proceed . It was perfectly notorious that , ou tha former evening ) the honourable and learned gentlemen nho acted as whipperg . iii to the government hud used their effor ' . a to count the house . ( Laughter , )
Tbe Chancellor of tbe Exchequer said it was desirable that the honourable and learned gentleman might UlSeUn early da >— Pay that day fortnight—when his motion would probably stand first , and government would da all in thtir power to secure him a house . As to bringing the motion on when a committee of supply was fixed , he would bnvejuat tbe some opportunity on any future occaeion of a committee ot supply . No advantage could be gained to-night by bringing the motion on at this late hour ; Mr Anstet agreed to poctpendbis motion till tho day named , by tho Chancellor of the Exchequer , aud hoped that good faith would bo kept with him .
The Akcbuisdop of Cantebboet . —Lora J . Kdsseu said that the honourable member for Cockermouth bad put a question to him whether he was disposed to give notice to any future Archbishop of Canterbury tlmt the government would consider him turject to such er > clesiaBtical arrangements , changes , and modifications as parliament might hereafter determine upon . He begged to s ay that he entirely concurred in opinion ' with tbe honourable member aud others who thought the , present mode of apportioning tbe incomes of the high church
dignitaries unsatisfactory , and that parliament might devise a far better arrfuigtment with re » p < . ct both to the pnjoitnt by the commissioners to tho bishops , and by ttio bisheps to the commiasionars . ( Hear , Losr ) Ilo therefore . thought it moat proper to give notice to any future Archbishop of Canterbury that ho must accept his arthlbhoprlc eulject to any subsequent ecclesiastical arrangements which might be made by parliament . Ia the sum propo » ed to be assigned to tbe future orchbis « hop , £ 15 , 000 per annum , he did not contemplate acy alteration . , . .
Mr HoKSjux considered the noble lord ' s reply per . fectly satisfactory . .... .. Naw HonsEBjOi ? rwaiAMtNT . — : Mr OsBoaNe ,. In pursuance of his notice , brought under the consideration of tbe hcuie the lnst return relating to the expenses of the new Palace at , Westminster . ; In . doing so ; he called attention to the great expense , and . slow progress , and present condition of tho building . He did not intend to make any attack upon Mr . Bury , the architect , whom he believed te be as honourable a man as any of those nho then heard him ; but he must complain ef tbe protligate and recRless expenditure of public meney on two houses of parliament , without any sufficient control over it , and of th * uunccsus&iy delay which , had taken place in their erecion .. £ 710 , 000 was the original estimate . :
£ 1 , 400 , 000 had already been expended ; and ( bo calculation was that at least £ 500 , 000 must still be expended -ovor these building * * attd yet the . Commons were us far aa ever from inhabiting their pew houso . Ho must also complain of the stone of which the buildings , wire . constructed , and must ask Lord Morpeth , as head of the Woods and Forest ? , whether it was capable of standing the wvnther ! H « must likewise protest against tho ex * pi'nditure for ventilating and a&Tmittg the new houses . We had already spent £ 90 , 000 odd on that object , and we b . ad no security that vco should not have to expend another £ 99 , 000 . on the top of it . Tjiefirt ' -prcpffiig ef the houses end already cost < £ 15 , G 9 O ; £ 0 . 01 ) 0 bad already been spent for miscellaneous wcito , and t" £ la , 0 l ) 0 for miscellaneous sod contingent . vvoiba , neither of which
hud ever been sanctioned by the House . of Commons . . Such being the cbbo , he thought that it was high time that the house should step in and set its faco against this lavish expenditure of public money % He called upon the house , which na « said to bo composed of more men of business than any former Houee of Common !) , not to ba deterred by the sneers either of Lord Morpsth or L rd J . Russell , but to call upon them tn proceed at c > nue to the p&rformayice of their duties .. Huboptd that 'tbe statements which he had nowjsade would not be left to perish stillborn , but that some gentleman would tako them up and found a motion upon thtm . He thought that we should < lo batter by pasaitig good constitutional laws in a plain edifice , than fey founding a magnificent pile of Gothic buildings for that purpose .
'Lord MoBPET / n admitted that the building was an expensive ono , and that it bad , in that respect , exestded the original estimate . Bat , under all tlie' circumstances , this cOdld hardly have been othtruise , bnd the architect wns prepared to stand the test of e « y contrast whatever , - with any building erected in this country in modern tinii'S , either with ref < r < nce'to itscoat of construction , ¦ ttie speed of ita erection , or the tffect of its appearance . From the circumstances in which be bad bei'n placed , tha architect had hiniB < lf to sustain nearly all' the responelbility ofthe undertaking , which bo was snxlous to make a credit and glory to the country . The government would tako tacaiures to contract tha annual sums to bo voted ' for tho new houBes for thecomiiiif years , uhliouBh thia economy would bB obaerved , he feared , at the cost uf some further delay in the completion ef-the works .
A protracted discus >» neasued , in which SirR . Ingms , Mr Hcme , Sir R . Peei ., Mr M . Wilnej , the Earl of Lincoln , nud other members took part , bnt the ' talk ' ended without nn ; definite couclunibn . ' Tub New Zealand Govsbnheht Biil . —On tha motion for going into oommitteeon tbis bill , Lord Lipcox . tr delivered a speech , not against t ' ne suspension of the coo . atitutloa recently granted to their colonies , but the constitution itself . Mr Labocchihz defended the constitution , and the proposal to suspend it . The house th « n « ent into committoo , and tho clauses were isveriry agre . d tr . 1 On Resuming , tho SpKAKEtt stated that MrCho ! nion < Jely . declined to defend his return ( it being a double one ) for the Montgomery district of burghs , and on the motion of Sir R . Pebl , tbe clirkof thecrennwas ordered to attend and insert the name of Mr Pogb accordinjly . The bouae then want into Committee of Supply , » nd the annual vote for the payment of Jb' 17 , , 503 of
Exchequer bills was agreed to . Adjourned at a quarter pa % t one . TUESDAY , Fbb . 15 tBJ HOUSE OF L 0 KDS .-A petition was presented by tho Bishop of Exeter , from certain clfll . « » B .. ckingh » m . hlre , pwi » g that the penalty o £ j » OWU-. . nir ? , to which Beans and Ch . ptcrv wd urtop . wum " uojected in the discW of their d « tl ... £ the jl ^ ion and consecration of Bishops , might be repealed ; . he prayer of nhicb petition tbe right rev . prelate suptne piajci D n > Afier some observations ftoa . . DEwSf lord C 1 HMBM , and the BUhop of St Davids , . the petition was ordered to lie on the table . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Commercial League of , ItaLS _ Dr Bowbinq then rose to msve , pursuant tot . notioei for copies or extracts of correspondenoo on tho subject of the ConunerciDl League in Italy . He obseiveil that tha recent events in Italy , conducted as they were with such combined prudence and energy had be « a
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 19, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1458/page/7/
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