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TEE BA >* K SCREV ? . „ xec Tit 5 a nostra , nee remedia p * ti poannras . " _ ' y ^ t screw , the whole screw , tight or loose no 5316 a must screw the nation up to th « sticking VBf ' f ttw permanent prosperity ; and when foreign P & ts tiall bare learned the management of the P ^ hTilexHan , Chilian , Brazilian , Portuguese , and ***' * Tionds will rise to par , and the London Stock fc ^ JwQlbe overwhelmed with a sudden flood of E r frt ii rumoured , too , that » gigantic screw-driter " ^^ ti sent from Tfareadneedle-street , for the use ef ^ J- ' sLi States Bank , and as this scrtw-driver is to ti * ri ^ by ste * m , it is confidently expected that the * T f B ddle sad Co . will shortly be above par , and fc ** -jjjj aa more of the Banti going *• into a % * t non-resnmptioiu " cas boii & » tile asd Jew
gwnly P ** * tiie kS " 9 CTeW > i ^ l oft tim es that other , w somewhat loose brother , E-en TOTr&a ' ^^ Vans screw alternation ; Tfcrf th e rise asid the dip Of fund s , loans , bonds , and scrip , By -riich &H *» tbri » in £ . proceed from screw drvrins ; Tn&t the screw , tight sad loose , Is of wonderful use , _ jjid leaves us at leisure ¦ To const sarplos treasure , 5 arp ] as re-resne too , In n « es Bpic * nd span new , ^ withsta nding fcreadmiUs , Lsixwr tests and hsstOes ,
-jhe fr » o rival factions , Sore £ * e&l exactions , jjjjd a U thst kind of thing , About -which Chartists sing , So tie ? tta > w up their caps for the Threadneedle chaps , And P * e ^ honour due To tee Dans of the screw . Then , " midst sad convulsions , And tank-note revulsions , X he Wl of > 'ic Biddle , Tffbosenanie rhjroes with diddle , And w-Jjose banking pie nic , Csssed Mb guests to all sick , Tbon ^ i he b orrowed a sop Prom the TbreadoeedleBhop , Tm WMg optimists bright
gsesr that all things are right , lad declare it gives pain Jo pro-re "srhst is so plain , IE *! , spits of gold panic , Aii ptif &U pneumatic , Tbar tough " legal tender " Ij oar flout defender , And that paper bankers Are our strong sheet anchors , Though rot distant the hour VTbrn thfcir paper-pelf puwer Shall bars : like a bnbble , la tans oil and trouble , And leave them , lact-a-day , > " o » a sliver to pay , In spite of tight screwing And Tfcreadneedle doing .
Ea Timing held oat by the United States ( xovernja a ^ ' -B-Lieh only 3 short time ago boasted of a surplus KTtHK : -n p--r £ di 02 s paper pelf ; , seems to be disre-F £ osa ' t > 7 ^ nr st&twiaea and practical enrrencj doctor ? , fflttir . T , t-j « , are declaring that something must be da * to tiTe a surplus reTenue ; though it h evident Qx , Esd = r the present system , the reTenue and eutpba csa only be in bankers" paper debts , in the reYnljjE and reaction currency which actually yields an eral isierest to the debtors ; and it is an instructive fsct , flat every revulsion in the proper deM market fcssbea preceded by temyorarj- increased receipts into ii * 2 isi £ qn = r . Tze Baui I > irtct £ ? r 8 say that they by of the
entDl V ^ J their paper debts reason great fcarstj ' of gold : one of the essential propeorties of real EKae / ; but they coneeal the fact that every addition to iks paper deks add 3 to the relative scarcity of the gold , i 3 d that they , the Directors , -would not allow thsr -icbiors to avail thems = Ives of the puerile plea of thsijr-r&dsearety , -wkich , ioieed , if occe allo-wed to those ¦ who » o imprudently contract millions of debts in pipe : csrrtacy , bonds , loans , &c , -would free foreign f oTsnment 3 from their engagements towards their T . r ^ V-th landholders ; for h ought never to be forgotten , though the saying may be homely , that " what is sauce far tie goose is sauce for the gander . " BASASITA 5 . Kortadum , March 8 , 1541 .
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THE LEAGUE . Who are that bluiiering , canting- crew , TTho keep the cheap loaf in cur view , Aisl would from us more profit screw ? The League . "RTio cry "B « peal the eurs'd Corn Law , " Azi would their workmen feed -with straw Thai th = y jasy £ lthj hicre paw ~> . Tee League . Who -rish to gull the working man , As ! Itcri ± e Ghs . neT , if they can , Tfjh thar self-aggrandising plan ? The League . 7 S ~ ko dea ! in sophistry and cant—0 : common senss eviLce the want—Aid strive the Charter to supplant ? The Leape .
" «" eo attt fiefeat at eTery turn , TTom the Chartists , strong and stern , Yt ; from it wisdom will not learn ? The League . "R " cj have reeeird their final tall , Iai » i ! ternMn , in our Cloth Hall , Aal dire not cne more mefeting call ? The League , TTm . BrDES .
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TO THE SOXS OF TOIL . Te Km of men giTe ear awhile , And listen to my prayer ; To yon I aft , ye sons of toil , " " St * » B piess'd -Bitli want and care , Sow eomes ft that ye toil and sweat , _ And bear the oppressors rod ; at cnrel men trho dare to change Tie equal lairs cf G-od ? Hot comes , that man with tyrant heart Is caused to rale another ; To rob , oppress , and , leech-like , suck The lifi ' s blood of a brother '
Kahe * Yai '« Eternal Justice ay , 1 e bom of men giTe ear ! l *» portion ' s poverty and want , Aid otters' loads must bear . 5 o : Iwren decreed aH men should share AHka his equal laws ; iist sU should I ' ve , and happy be , ^ Plead each other ' s eank . T brijM e ? daj-s a-sFait thee yet , icy chart bow meets oar view ; 1 j oai droo Pia ? , faintiag hearts , iaa ill oar joyB renew ; lt * then , Britons . ' to your posts ! TrT *} eoir 8 * d 8 quit the field ; 1 * V ™ ind ri « 1 * m claini Ul « fight . ^ 4 baiTen will be our shield . *** , «« . " ^ W
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subdue & portion of our common planet ! This nation now has cities and seed field * , has spring rans , draywaggons , Long-acre carriages , naj , . railway trains ; has coined money , exchange billB , laws , books , warfieeta , spinning jennies , warehouses , and West India Docks ; see what it has built and done , -what it can and will yet build and do ! The 3 e umbrageous pleasure woods , green meadowg , short stubbie-fields , smooth-sweeping roads ; these high-domed citie 3 , and what they hold and bear ; this mild ' Goodmorrow" which the stranger bids thee , equitable , nay , forbearant if need were , judicially calm and law-observing towards thee a straager , —what work baa it not cost ! How many brawny arms , generation After generation , sank down wearied ! how many noble hearts , toiling while life lasted , and wiBe heads that wore themselres dim with scanning and discerning , before this waste White-cliff , Albion svcalled- became a British empire !"
Loss Caste is Thbobt a . td Practice . —The lOF 8 of caste is faintly described by saying that it is ciril death . A man not only cannot inherit , nor contract , nor gi ? e eyidence , hut he is excluded from all the intercourse of pri ? ate life , a 3 well as from the privileges of a cititen . He must not be admitied into his father ' s bouse ; his nearest relations must not communicate with him ; and he is deprived of all the consolations of religion in this life , and all iope of happiness in that which is to follow . Unless
howtreT ) caste be lost for an enormous offence , or for long-continued breach of rules , it can always be regained by expiation ; and the means of reeoTo-ring it must be very easy , for the effects of the loss of it are now scarcely ob 3 « rvs . ble . It occurs , no doubt , and prosecutioKs are not nnfrequent in our courts for unjust exclusion from caste ; but in a . long residence in India , I do not remember erer to hare met with or heard of an indiridual placed in the circumstanee 3 which I have described . —Mr . Elphlnstone ' s History of India .
That dogs have an ear for masic cannot be doubted . Steibelt had one wh'ich evidently knew one piece of music from the other ; and a modern composer had a pug dog that frisked merrily about the room , when a lively piece was played ; but when a slow melody was performed , particularly Dussek's Opera , 15 , he would seat himself down by ihe piano , and prick uphi 3 ears with intense attention , until the piayer came to the forty-eighth bar ; but , as the disoord was struck , he would yell most piteously , and -smb . drooping tail seek refuge from tho unpleasant sound under the chairs or tables , —Dr . Mil Una en .
Change is the Character of Henry VIII . — Acting under the dictates of his passions , listening to the advice of his confidential minister , the subtle aud interested Cromwell , Henry had now attained the two great objecis ot his wishes . His love , if the feeling by which he was animated may be designated by so pure a name , had been fixed for the last six years opon Anne Bolevii . She was now his wife and his queen . His selfish aud imperious temper had been thwarted during the same period by the opposition of the Pupedom ; he now saw
himself the acknowledged head of an independent church , and amenable to no foreign ecclesiastical jurisdiction . But the possession of these objects were attended with the worst effect . Unlimited indulgence and despotic power are calculated to pervert even the best disposition ; and , at au early period of his regal career , all the fair promises of ais youth were seen to wither under their influence , though it was aoi till the moment at which we have now armed , tha ; his character assumed its fiercer and more sanguinary complexion . —Edinburgh Cabinet Library , Xo . XXII .
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BARNARD CASTIiE . —Election op Glabdia > is . —The moral power of the working classes has been-strikingly displayed daring the election of the Guardians for this town . It appears that the Guardians who -were elected for tho last year have made thezaselrfes obnoxious by zhelr taise submission to the Tile instructions of the Commissioners , by becoming their jooLs in euforcin ^ the w orst provisions of the Whig Murderation Bill ; and by availing themselves of their powers to contribute \ o theiT own selfish interests . Consequently , a large number ot the working men met &t the Spa Weil , ou Sunday ¦ pr e « k , and came to the resolution to oppose the reelection of the * old Guardians , by supporting such
men as would act with humanity to tho poor , and who , wi' . h moral courage , would withstand the dictation of the Somerset House trio . A 3 might be expected from the union of the working aen , they have gained a signal victory over the middle classes , who supported the eld Guardians , but who have been completely beaten by an overwhelming majority ; aud to complete the -victory , a meeting was held in the Parish Church , on Thursday week , to elect overseers and highway surveyors , when the working men again rallied , and elected meu who will act with more economy than their predecessors , to the chagrin of those who squander the people ' s money an ay , regardless of their poverty .
Raps . —On Thursday evening , the 25 th uk ., whilst 3 young female was returning home , with some medicine for a cot , for which the Vf as sect by her master , she was followed by two or three young men out of the town up Bowe ' s Road ; and , alter having fol ^ oired her about two or three hundred yards , they forcibly seized her , and threw her dowa , aad , iu spite of her cries , effected their diabolical purpose . On the following morning , the police took into custody a young man , named Wm . Whitfield , to whom the young woman swore as one of the young men who bad abused her person ; but who , never theless . -took a Dnmber of witnesses , when taken
befors the magistrates , to prove that he was Dot out of town ou the night in question . But , as she swore to him , he wa 3 committed to take his trial . The only particulars to which she swore were his clothing . However , a young man , named Dover , having been vrith the guihy party , and having made some disclosures with which the police were acquainted , they succeeded in taking into custody Robert Allison and Thomas Pratt , jun ., who , when taken be / ore the magistrate , made a full confession of their guilt ; upon which the young man who had been lal > dy sworn to was released , and Allison and Pratt were committed to York gaol to take their trials .
CARLISLE . —The Roads Paved with Gold . — Some time last week a Mr . Watson , of the West of Cumberland , sent his servant man to the bank to draw upwards of £ 2 fi 00 . Th # servant received the money , the principal part of which was fortunately in p ^ per , the remainder , upwards of £ 200 , was in sovereigns , which he put into a saddle bag , which beiag holed , the sovereigns dropped out as he proceeded along the road . On reaching home , what was his consternation on finding that the sovereigns were all lost . We understand abont £ 100 have been restored .
© ALKEITH . —Fire . —A destructive fire broke out here last Tuesday night , at eleven o ' clock , in a barn and out-house , which is completely destroyed , together with two -valuable horses , and oue cow . There were two cows in the out-house , one of which was saved . The fire was caused through the negligence of the carter , by letting a candle fall amon * the straw , as he slept in the bay-loft above . Some say he was drunk . It will be a great loss to the owner , Mr . Brown , a most industrious , praiseworthy man , who has thns lost the savings of many years .
BAJtwocsBTTRH ,-Last Saturday night , some malicious person went round thia -village and Milton , and daubed most of the publicans ' sign-boards with ¦ white paint ! Prom the fact , that none but publicans ' signs were daubed , a report is prevailiag that it must be the Teetotallers . Fever and the measles are unfortunately Tery prevalent here , and have carried off a great number . On Friday last , the Teetotallers held a soiree in the Hall ; abont eighty aat down to tea ; Mr . James Anderson in the chair- Tbe meeting was favoured ¦ with speeches from Messrs . Hariey and Patterson , A TOcal band was in attendance , and the evening waa spent in the most agreeable manner .
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The Mammoth , balding at Bristol , will exceed 3 , 601 ) tons ; more than any other ship in existence . It is confidently stated that Mr . Nicholls , one of the Poor Law Commissioners , has resigned his appointment . —2 " tm « . The Tokt Leaders . —On the Poor-law Bill 55 Conservatives voted with Sir Robert Peel , and 100 against him . Earl O'Neil died on Thursday , at Dublin . He was once Grand Master of the Orangemen . Of Ireland .
The withdrawals from the Paris Savings' Banks on Sunday and -Monday last exceeded the deposits by a sum of 60 , & 55 f ., the former amounted to 636 j 000 f . and the latter to 575 , 145 f . It is said that Don Miguel had consented to renounce his claims to the throne of Portugal , on condition that Mb titles and estates Bhould bs restored to him . The Courier Francait slates that an important discovery for the French navy had been made in the neighbourhood of Quimper . A coal-mine had been discovered , which promised to be extremely productive .
Jamaica . —Commercial matters in Jamaica wear an unsettled appearance , and the distress caused by the scarcity of money , and the disinclination of the banks to discount is said to originate in a measure with the Commissioners of Accounts . The author of the Niagara hoax is said to be a Mr . Kichols , who once edited a scurrilous paper iu this'city , and has for some time past published and edited the Bvfalonian , an unprincipled sheet , in Buffalo . —Boston Journal . The amocn-ts issued for the sevrice of tie army navy , and ordnance , respectively , from April , 1338 , to March , 1840 ( both incfaaTe ) , were—for the army , * 13 . 5 && \ S 97 ; forthena-fy , £ 10 , 150 , 032 ; and for the ordnance , ^ 3 ^ 81-534 ; inking » ltoaether , £ 27 , 030 , 563 .
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A fire , discovered in the tower of the church of Ashton-nnder-Lyne , threatened the destruction of that venerable edifice , but , after about an hour ' s exertion , was completely subdued . Emigration . —There are now thirty vessels in the London and St . Katharine Docks fitting out to convey emigrants to Sydney , Hobart Town , Canada , New York , and to the mfaut colony of New Zealand , which are to sail during the present month and April , and they will carry out in all about 50 , 000 passeDgers . Shipwreck . —A party of men ( 26 ) had been shipwrecked , and landed sixteen miles on the north side of the mouth of the river Oliphans . They bad been nine days in boats , and belonged to the brig Australia , from Dundee , which had taken fire about 600 miles to the westward of the Cape , aud was consumed in one hour .
Capital OFFENCES . —The number of persona capitally convicted of the following offences , from 1838 to 1840 inclusive , was as follows : —viz ., arson , number convicted , 6 ; burglary with violence , 17 ; robbery with violence , 18 ; cutting and maiming with intent to murder , 20 ; altogether 61 : but out of this number only two were executed . Father Mathkw continues his work of social reformation . On Saturday week , at Carrickmaoross , he administered the pledge to about tlyee thousand persons ; on Sunday , to five thousand all at once , besides others during the day ; and on Monday , to 3 great multitude besides , including " & large number of respectable ladies ! " An Irish paper estimates the total number who took the pledge iu tho three days at one hundred and twenty thousand .
Milbank Pettiten'thry . —The total number of prisoners received into this penitentiary in the year 1840 was 1 , 8 '' 6 , and the total number removed during the same period was 1 , 324 . The total expenses incurred in 1840 amounted to £ 22 , 413 , fromwhich , if the net profits by prisoners' earnings , &c , be deducted , the net expence ef the establishment will have been £ 18 ^ 13 . The number of prisoners in the Penitentiary is about 965 . It was only last week they sent 150 women away to the hulks , preparatory to being conveyed to New Zsaland . An over-anxious Jury . —A case of assault
having como before Mr . Baron Parke a few days since , the Learned Judge told the Jury ( tho defendants counsel having admitted the assault , and spoke only in extenuation ) that they could not but iind tho defendants guilty . Notwithstacding this direction , the Jury were for a long time in consultation , to the merriment of all present . His Lordship again stated , that " as the defendants' counsel had admitted the assault , surely they , the Jury , could not doubt it "—( laughter)—yet the Jr . ry consulted , and it was not till after another intimation from the Learned Judge , that they had , in fact , nothing- to consult about , that they returned a verdict of Guilty .
Fatal Accident at Eakl Sefton ' s Mansion . — On Friday morning , between ten aud eleven o ' clock , a most serious and appalling accident accurred ( and which in a few hours aftorwards proved fatal ) to Thomas Crow , a journeyman painter , who was engaged cleaning the exterior of the second floor windows in the front of Earl Sefton ' s mansion , No . 10 , Arlington-street , Piccadilly , when the machine , on which the unfortunate man stood , from being improperly affixed within , suddenly gave way , and he was precipitated on the stone paving in the courtyard . Assistance beingprocurcd , he was removed to St . George ' s Hospital , where , after lingering a few hours , death terminated his sufferings .
Ge . vtlehanlt Preference of Physical to Moral Force . —A duel was fought on Monday morning , m the vicinity of Chalk Farm , between two foreigners The aggreisor , whose name , wo are told , is Gustave , received his adversary ' s fire most coolly , the bullet passing through his hat , literally grazing his hair , after which he fired into the air . After therecontre , the parties shook hands and breakfasted together . An Iruh paper says , Mr . Samuel Hincliins and Mr . Lalor are to fight a duo ' , next week at Boulogne . M » . ParsoDS is to be the friend of the former , and
Mr . H . Bridgman , M . P ., of his antagonist . The affair originated at Cork assize 3 iu the alleged exaction of a barony cess collector . Aud from Galway we have news of a difference of opinion which arose after dinner between two learned members of a learned profession , and which ended in one of them throwing a decanter full of wine at his learned friend . Three ribs are said to have been broken by the collision . Neither of the gentlemen" has appeared in court , ( in the dock or elsewhere , ) and n is understood that one of them has been bound over to keep the peace .
Robbing Public Houses . —On Tnursday week , at the Mansion House , a man named John Btovvn , alias George Bacon , who had very much tho appearance of a seafaring person , -was charged wiih hating robbed several public-houses by night . The prisoner having shown a great deal of talent in tho particular line of plunder to which he seemed to have applied himself , more than ordinary curiosity was excited . From one public house he abstracted three sovereigns and two half-sovereigns , and some silver , a pencil case , four keys , a penknife , and other articles ; from another he took 19 s . -2 < 1 . and various articles , the property of the waiter ; and from a third he took a cash box , containing £ 2 18 s . 5 J ., and a paper or order for a considerable amount , all the
property of the " Sons of tbe Thame 3 . " A Strange Story . —A French paper , called the yiudienee , contains a letter from a private correspondent , dated Gibraltar , the 28 th ult ., which states that an opulent British merchant named James Boxwell , long resident there , bad been tried aad Convicted Of the murder of his daughter , on circumstantial evidence , and that on the way to execution the convict favr in the crowd another Englishman named John KeatB , who had been extremely active in collecting evidence agasnst him . The convict expressed a desire to die in peace with all mankind , and to pardon this person , whom he had considered his greatest enemy . When the convict reached the scaffold the executioner was preparing to execute the
sentence of the law , when a voice was heard in the crowd exclaiming— " It is I that am guilty , and not the convict . " This exclamation was made by John Keats . He confessed that it was he who had carried off Jame 3 Boxwell's daughter ; that ho had cut off her hair during her sleep , and stolen one of her dresses , which he had steeped in blood , and that the generous pardon granted to him by his victim had caused him to reflect on the enormity of his crime . The executioner immediately withdrew the rope from the convict ' 8 neck , and the cap from his face , when is was discovered that he was dead from the effect 3 of terror . The atrocious John Keita was conducted to prison amidBt the execrations of the populace , who wished to tear him in pieces .
The Chabtjsts and A . nti-Corn-Law Agitators . —At Lambeth-Btreet , on Saturday , Mr . Sidney Smith , Secretary to the " Metropolitan Anti-Corn-Law Association , " applied to the Hon . J . C . Norton under tho following circumstances : —Mr . Smith Stated , that , as Secretary to the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-Law Association , he had frequently to deliver lectures , in different parts of the metropolis , ou the subject of the political economy of the Corn-Laws , which placed a considerable tax upon the people . Mr . Norton— " What is the object of your application 1 " Mr . Smith— " I wish , your Worship , to ask your advice as to how the law stands -with respest to the protection Of persons delivering lectures on different subjects . A number of persons , calling themselves Chartists , follow me about from place to place , and interrupt me so , that I am unable to go on , through their clamour V Mr . Norton— " How do you know them to be Chartists ! 1 always understood that Chartists were inimical to the
Corn-Laws ; and , therefore , wonder why they should interrupt you in your advocacy for their repeal ? " Mr . Smith— " 1 know them to be Chartists ; both from their being the same persons who follow me regularly from place to place , and their declaration , that nothing was to be done , unless through the Charter . " Mr . Norton— " Do you complain of the interruption generally , or on any particular occasion ? " Mr . Smith— " I complain now of the last occasion upon which , I t&ve experienced it . I had been engaged by the Directors of the Literary and Scientific Institution iu High-street , Poplar , to deliver a lecture , and was systematically interrupted in the course of it by the Chartists . " Mr . Norton — " Were your lectures public , or were the
parties attending them admitted by cards only ? " Mr . Smith— " They are public , but merely intended as lectires , and not as a subject of general discussion . " Mr . Norton— " In this country discussion is allowed in the fullest degree , and without wishing to enter on the subject , there are , in my opinion , good grounds of argument on the other side of the subject . If the growers of corn in thi 3 country were relieved from the heavy taxation to which they are subjected , they would have no objection , in my opinion , to the repeal of the Corn Laws ; and , at all events , while the growers remain so heavily taxed as at piesent . there are grounds for argument against the repeal . " Mr . Smith here went on to say that one of the laws of the Chartiata was that they were pledged to attend any meeting , and , in defiance of all decorum , toonforce their own viewa aad insist on the Charter , as nothing could be done unless through it . Mr .
Norton observed that diieassion generally promoted troth , and thought that those who were the advocates for public opinion should be the last to fetter it . Mr . Smith said that persons were engaged in giving lecture * on Astronomy , others on anti-Popery , and others on Temperance , and he thought it essential that the law should protect them . Mr . Norton replied that Englishmen did not like the systematic discussion of those who were paid to . advocate one side of a question ; and , feeling the fight of being heard on the other side , interruption waB the consequence . Applications had been made to him ( Mr . Norton ) by Temperance Lecturers , and he t » ld them , as he would tell the applicant , that the police would interfere only when they saw a tendency 4 o a breach oi the public peace . He ( Mr . Norton ) &d not think the police should interfere under any # iher circumstances . After some further obserya >*> os , Mr . South withdrew , expressing his deterrwnatiwi to apnh W the Commissioners of Police c * Hut saWect .
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Disturbances ir the S © uth op Friwce . —The Paris Moniteur of Thursday the 25 th Hit . contains a telegraphic despatch announcing serious disturbances in tho South . « Marseilles , 24 th March , 1841 . —The Prefect of the Mouths of the Rhone to the Minister of the Interior . —Anarchists ot the lowest description attempted last night a revolutionary movement . We were on our guard . Twelve or fifteen individuals , most of whom were provided with arms and ball-cartridges , have been arrested . Justice has instituted an inquiry . All is perfectly tranquil . "
Northern Circuit , Liverpool , Mahch 26 . —The Judges arrived here last night , and opened the Commission of Assize . There are ninety-seven prisoners in the calendar , seven of whom are charged with murder , seven with rape , two with attempts to murder , and one with aiding and abetting that crime . There are fen cases of manslaughter , eight of cutting and wounding , four for forgery , two burglaries , besides felonies of the more ordinary description . The cause list contains fiisty . four in the first or Manchester list , and one hundred and twelve in the Liverpool list .
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HOUSE OF LORDS , Fiuda y , March 26 . Their Lordships continued the investigation into conduct of the Irish Poor Law Commission . Mr . Pedder wai aguin examined . He exhibited billa which he held of tfr . Butler , for three , six , nine , eighteen , and thirty-six months . Me . Erie , formerly an Assistant Poor Law Commissioner in Dublin , was next examined . His evidence did not add much to what was stated by former witnesses . He seemed to attach leas importance to the irreguiarities than many persons have done . With respect to the imputation of political motives in the selection of Returning-offieers , be mentioned one or two important facts : he said , that with Tew exceptions , all the applications for such places came from persons of one side only—ninety-nine out of a hundred entertained the same political opinions aa the Government ; and he averred that Government had never interfered to direct the choice of Returning-officers : the recomraandation of the local Assistant-Commissioners was considered almost tantamount to an appointment .
Viscount aiELDouRNE stated , in answer to Viscount Strangford , that there was every prospect that negotiations with France , for a more liberal commercial intercourse with thu country , would be renewed .
Monday , March 29 . Lord Denman , while presenting apetition respecting tbe Administration of Justice Bill , took occasion to tnter into an explanation relative to some charges uiade against him , to which he felt it to be due to their Lordships , to himself , and t « the administration of justice , to give a full and complete answer . It was supposed that , in a case which recently came before him at «»« prius , he had , for the base purpose ot ncreening a certaiu individual from punishment , preventedfuither proceedings against him , and required that tho party should be obliged to make pecuniary compensation to the prosecutor . He should have thought that the whole history of his life would have been aa nuswer to a charge like this , but it had lately been repeated upon
such high authority iu another place , that lie felt it necessary to place the facta before their Lordships , hoping that his statement of the truth would at once change the opinions even of those who made tbe charges against him . It appeared that Lord Waldegrave was prosecuted , for an assault on a policeman , and the cast ) came for trial before him . He did not stop the proceedings , for they had not been stopped at all , but were still going forward , and the defendants would ba called up tor judgment next term in the Court of Queen ' s Jienvh . It might be supposed that this -was OTving to no act of his , and such w . is the ease , for it was the result of tbe ordinary coursa of tile law ; but it Was also supposed to be owing to tho perseverance of the commissioners of
police in opposition to his suggestion . This was a mistake , fur he had given no such recommendation , nor had he given any such opinion as was attributed to him , for he was ignorant at the time of all the particulars of the case . Tue facts were these : When tho trial was called on . Sir F . Pollock said the defendant would withdraw his plea of not guilty and plead guilty , and expressed a hope that his client might be permitted to make compensation to the prosecutor . It was a practice in the courts of law to allow such compromises , if tho offence was not a gross or fl igrant public outrage . If it was a case punishable by fine only , it was thought better to let the money go to the injured party rather than to the Treasuiy , in which case the sufferer would receive ni >
benefit . When Sir F . Pollock « iade this suggestion he ( Lord Denman ) said " At least they act rightly now ; let the plea of guilty be recorded , and I hope tbe case ia of aucti a nature aa to admit of private reparation . " This , which evidently implied a doubt whether it was such a cue , had been construed into an attempt to screen offenders from justice . This simple statement , however , would , he believed , relieve the administration of justice from the attacks which bad recently been made upon it He was awuro that these attacks bad been made upon him in tho public papers , but , until it wus mentioned in the Hotisu of Commons , he did not think it necessary to bring the matter before their lordships .
The Marquis of Norm an bv thought the noble lord might have left such imputations to be answered by his own kigh character . At the Bamo time , he waa of opinion that such compromises should be always of rare occurrence , bo that 110 opportunity should be allowed of giving colour to a suspicion that the evidence of the police might be . tinctured by the Lope of future recompense . Mr . Haw let , one ot the assistant poor law commissioners tor lroland , was then examined respecting the falsification of the returns from the Clonmel union .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS , Friday , March 26 . Mr . M'Kinkok begged to ask whether , in the event of the commercial treaty wiih France being concluded , and a modification of the duty on wines taking place , the parties engaged in that traffic , who had a stock on hand , would be allowed the drawback ? Mr . Laboucuere said it was not regular or convenient to answer these questions pending tha execution of a treaty , but as a general principle he might say the drawback wuuld be allowed in the event of any reduction of the existing duties . In answer to Mr . Pakington , Lord J . Russell said that be bad not yet received the despatches from Newfoundland , bat lie hoped in a few weeks to be able to state -what were tbo intentions of the Government with respect to that colony .
In answer to Mr . Goulburn , Mr . HaWes said it was his intention to proceed with the Medical Reform Bill , and he should state the precise day on which he should again bring it forward on Monday . In answer to Lord Sandoa , Lord J . Russell stated that it was bis intention to postpone the English and Scotch Registration of Voters Bills until the rtsult of the Irish Registration Bill was known . A great number of petitions were presented on the subject of the Poor Law Amendment Bill , including one by L » rd Sandon from Liverpool , signed by nearly 50 , 000 persons , praying to exempt parishes under Sturges Bourne ' s act from the operation of the Bill ; one by Mr . Lvigdale , from 10 , 000 Roman Cituolics of Manchester and Sal / ord , praying that paupers of that persuBBion might be allowed the attendance of their own lergymen ; and one by Mpr . Brotherton , from the Society of Friends , against the system of paying clergymen of the Established Church for their attendance in workhouses .
Captain Pechell called the attention of the Noble Lord ( J . liussell ) to the importance of protecting the districts under local acts from the interference of tbo Commissioners . The House then went into Committee on the Bill . On clause two being read , Mr . Fielden moved an amendment to the clause , the effect of which would be to repeal the Poor Law Amendment Act Lord J . BUSSELL objected to the amendment on the ground of Its informality . The Chairman ( Mr . BERNAL ) decided that it was irregular to put an amendment so worded . Mr . Fielder complained that his constituents wonld not be heard in that House .
Lord J . Kusseli . had no objection to a specific motion on the subject being brought forward , but when the Hen . Member had not been able to set at defiance the rules of tbe House , and thereby throw the business into comple cocfusion , it was not fair , it was not just , and it was not true , for him to assert that bis constituents would not be beard in that House . ( Loud cheers . ) The amendment was then withdrawn , and the clause agreed to . f > 0 clause 3 being read , Mr . Waklei moved that the clause be postponed . The clause purported to limit the power of tbe
commissioners , aud prevent their interfering with parishes b&vtog local acts , but it wm rather ambiguously worded , and the commissioners might form a union of two o * three parishes , including the one under a local act , and thereby deprive it of it » right to exemption . Sir R . Peel supported the amendment . Mr . Leader said , the Government being in the hands of tbe Right Hon . Bart , they had no alternative bat to submit to his proposition . AfUt a few words from Lord . Howick , the clause was postponed . On clause 4 being read ,
Mr . HlKDE moved * n amendment to omit the -word " regulations , " the object of which wm to restrict the power of tbe Po » r Law Commissioners ., and give a discretion to the boards of Guardians to administer out-door Telief in certain cases . The Hon . Member complained of t&& regulations laid down fcj tbe Commissioners as being harsh in tbo extreme , more > especially those which referred to the separation ot members of , tfae same family , and the refusal to administer outdoor relief , Lord G . Somerset believed that much of the unpopularity of the Poor Law Amendment Act was attribntable to the manner in which the Poor Law Commissioners enforced their regulations . He thought they exhibited great arrogant in tho stole of their
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communications , aad that they showed no feeling what * ever for th ** comfort * of the poor . Lord J . Russell believed that no appointments had ever been mad * . 1 with greater circumspection than those of the Poor Law Commissioners . They had a Tery arduous and ungracious duty to perform , namely , to expose and do away with abuses , and to check extravagant expenditure , and they were therefore likely to be unpopular with some parties ; but . on the whole , they had discharged their important duty in a manner which entitled them to the admiration and respect of that House and the country . Lord Sandon found fault with some ot tbe proceedings of the Commissioners , -who appeared to him to be the slaves of a certain theory , but would oppose the amendment .
Mr . wakiet otyected to any discusajon of the prtaata chMactera of the Commissioners , of whom h , e was bound to say he ha 3 never heard anything prejudicial . Lord HowiCK supported the clause . Sir Robert Pesl did not think it would be prudent or consistent with tho interests cf humanity to do away with the Poor Law Commissioners . After a lengthened discussion , the Committee divided , when there appeared—for the clause , 225 ; for tb . 6 amendment . 75 .
Mr . Ricg then moved another amendment on the clause , to the effect that any order issued by the Commissioners , as to the amount of relief to be given , or as to the management of the poor in any workhouse , should be taken to be a general order . The amendment was agreed to . Clause 5 was , after some discussion , postponed . On clause 6 being proposed , Mr . Fielden moved that the Cbairman do report progress . The House then resumed .
Mr . Fox Mavle brought in a Bill to amend the 3 rd and 4 th Victoria , chap . 99 , for taking the census : the Hon . Member also brought in a Bill for regulating the employment of children ia factories , which were severally read a first time . The House adjourned at half-past twelve o ' clock . Monday , March 20 . A new writ was moved for the county of Antrim , In the room of General O'Neill , who has been called to the Upper House , on succeeding to the title and estates of tbe deceased Earl O'Neill . Mr . Pakington complained of the arrangement made by the Government for proceeding with the Poor Law Amendment Bill , to the exclusion of notices of motion , and intimated his intention to persevere with his motion respecting Newfoundland . Lord J . Russell said it would ba very inexpedient to enter into a discussion on the atate of Newfoundland in the absence of information , -which be expected to receive in a few weeks , from the colony .
After some observations from Lord Stanley , Sir R . Peel , and Sir ( i . Clerk , as to the danger of establishing such a course as a precedent , by -which the notices of Hon . Members were thrown over without their consent , the order of the day was read for the House resolving itself into Committee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill . Mr . Fielden rose to move that it be an instruction t © the committee on tbe Poor Law Continuance Bill , to introduce a clause into the bill for the repeal of the Poor Law Amendment Act . The Hon . Member said that nothing but a sense of duty , and a settled conviction in his own mind , that the act had failed either to amend the administration of relief to the poor , or to accomplish the specific effects which its promoters said it would secure , added to tho fearful apprehensions he
entertained of the danger of continuing this law , would have induced him to take this course . He had , from the introduction of the bill into that House in 1634 , to the present time , maintained that there was no necessity for such an act , and that what was called the abusive administration of relief to the poor under the law as it then stood , was not caused bf the poor themselves , nor by any % ' . efeet in the law , but -was xhe effect of excessive taxation , of alterations from time to time in the currency , of corn laws to make food dear and sustain rents , of laws to repeal the tax on property , and raise the revenue by taxes on every article that ought to be largely consumed by tbe poor , and , lastly , by the bill of 1819 , which , by contracting the currency , doubled the pressure ot taxation on the people , and withdrew from thousands the means winch they would
otherwise have had of employing tho poor , and paying them wages adequate to thbir proper maintenance . There was not one of the causes to which he had referred , and -which were all consequent on acts of Parliament , that had not produced a necessity for the relief of the poor being administered , as to its amount , according to the wants of the needy poor in every one of the parishes to which they belonged . Lord AHhorp , on bringing in the Bill , in 1834 , stated that , lor a long period of years , the administration of the poor laws had been free from the evils and abuses then connected with it , and he dated their origin at about tha beginning of tbe present century , soon after the 36 th of George III . was passed , about the time when cash payments had been ( suspended at the Bank , which led to an increase of paper money , causing a rise of prices of the necessaries of life , unaccompanied by a corresponding rise of wages , and consequently number
great suffering among the poor , and a greater of applications for relief . The Act of tho 36 th of George III . waa passed at the instance of Mr . Pitt , to ensure this relief , and thereby put a stop to tho complaints of distress , and it proved that the chauge then mode in tbe currency waa the immediate cause of an increased amount of relief being given to the poor at that period ; and , as taxes and rent * had gone on increasing , relief to the poor had , on every subsequent alteration of the laws be ( the Hon . Member ) had named , been altered to suit the new stato of things , which the law created . Mr . Cobbett wrote a little work , after the Poor Law Amendment Act wa 3 passed , entitled " Cobbett ' s Legacy to Labourers , " with a dedication to the Right Hon . Member for Tamworth . Every ouu who was desirous of understanding the question of poor laws would do well to read this little work . In his d » dication he gave the amount of poor rates and of Government taxes , at different times , aa follows : —
Poor Kates . Government Taxes . Reign of James H . £ l * Q , ettQ £ 1 , 306 , 000 1776 l , 490 , © 6 » 8 , 0 l ) e , 00 e 1789 2 , 250 , 000 16 , 000 , 000 1833 6 , 700 , 000 52 , 000 , 000 and ho adds , " Ought not the Insolent calumniators of the industrious classes of England to blush at the sight of this ? Ought not these impudent and unfeeling men to think a little of the consequences of their thus wantonly calumniating this laborious people , and calling tUom idle sturdy vagabonds ? Must it not be evident to every one , that the increase of poor-rates has arisen from the increase of rents and the increase of taxes , and not at all from any defect in the Poor Laws , nor from any defect in their administration by overseer * and magistrates ? How comes it that they never produced
all this mass of evil attributed to them in the course of 200 years V If further proof be required that alterations in the currency placed the poor in new circumstances , and either increased or diminished the necessity for more or less relief being afforded to them , we had this proof in the Act of 1 . 833 , wliich made bank notes a legal tender at all places but the Bank . The announcement of it by Lord Althorp , when he submitted his resolutions ia April , 1833 , gave riss to an advance of most raw materials used In mauufactures , in a very short time , of nearly fifty per cent The joint stock banks , which till then had been cautious in their accommodations to their customers , became much less 80 ; tb . 8 Other banks became more liberal too . Aloney increased in quantity , trade revived , agriculture also in a short time became more healthy , railways were
projected , and labour became abundant , and , until 1837 , when a check was given to public confidence from the hint that the Bank throw out that it must curtail its issues , poor-rates decreased in amount . To this altered state of things , produced by making bank-notes a legal tender , which leil to increased issues , and afterwards to contraction , may as well be attributed the reduction in the amount . of relief to the poor , as to any of the cruel measures of the Poor Law Commissioners . And we now find , that what they were allowed t « do without producing a general impression that it was wrong , is now followed by a general impression that -what they did is so , when credit has been anaken , employment become uncertain , and wages of labour reduced , which reduction of wages has become more easy to effect by the introduction of the Belf-acting test , by the increased
difficulty of obtaining relief which that test imposes on those really deserving of it , and who are plunged into deep distress by no fa ult of their own , and by circumstances they could not controul . The commissioners themselves say this in their last report : —" The depressed condition of the manufacturing population , to which we Lave already adverted , and the disquietude of the public mind occasioned by the Chartist riot at Newport , in Monmouthshire , rendered us extremely unwilling to take any step in tbe manufacturing districts of Lancashire which might have even a remote tendency to produce a disturbance , or which might be used by designing persons as a pretext for agitation . " At the period when the principle of . administering relief to the poor could be best tested and shown to be good ; at that period the commissioner * confessed their
bbwiUingness to carry the law into- execution . ' Who but the commiaaioners could anticipate disturbance from directing that proper relief should be extended to tho poor In trying circumstances , aad carrying Into execution what tb . 8 Noble LotdteSl » u « U-a ' humane and benevolent law ? That showed not only the absurdity of a central board to lay dow » xules of relief , bat their impoteucT to carry out any mle on the subject , and of the wiekedneM of the attempt , because of the suffering it isflioU , ' and of the sympathy excited by tbi » Buffering amongst the humane portion of the people ot England . There wag , it waa true , ia that House , many who professed to be Liber *! Members , who had expressed opinions
different from bis on the principle ot the Poor Law Amendmen t ¦ ¦ Act ? They admitted it was based on centralisation , and pronounced the principle to be a good one . He ( M * . Fielden ) was at issue with them , and be maintained the principle to be bad . They said it was compatible with local government He would assert that it was destructive of , local government , and opposed to good government They »»* d that the delegation of the power to make laws to three Commissioners at Somerset House was not unconstitutional ; but he maintained that it was—tbat it was erecting a despstio power to dictate what should be done , and what should not bo done , in avety pariah in England , with regard to the administration of the relief to the poor . Who
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should decide f The intentions of these Honourable : Liberal Members might be gooa \ but he feared the / had never studied tbe principle ! of good government ; and he would tell them what a hl ^ h authority bad written on this . subject of centralisation . In JcffeTson ' s Memoirs there was this passage : — "It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers , i > ut by their distribution , that good government is effected . Were not this great country already divided into states , that division must be made , that each might do for itself what concerns itself directly , and that it can do so much better than a distant authority . Every state again is divided into counties , each to taJta eare of what lies within its local bounds ; e&ch county again into townships or wards , to manage minuter details ; and
every ward into farms , t « bo governed each by its individual proprietor . ' Were we directed front Washington when to sow and when to reap , we should soon want bread . " That was what a real liberal said was necessary te effect good government We had this distribution of power in England ; the Republic of America adopted - what they admired in English institutions . They adopted our Poor Law , the same mode of taxing the people to provide a fund for the relief ot the poor , and the administration of relief founded on the principle lsdd down in . the 43 rd of Elizabeth . We had de * - parted from tbat principle , and had made new division * of the county , and given power to a cential board in London to direct the administration of relief in most of the parishes of England , and what was the
consequence ? Those who should now administer relief being directed from London how it should be afforded , the poor are denied that relief to which they have as good a claim as the landlord to his estate , and they do not only " want bread , " bat they perish of hunger and of cold . Such had been th 8 effect of the centralisation experiment . No one could deny it , and the people of England were now saying , whatever either liberal or other honourable members might say to the contrary , that the system of centralisation shall not continue , and that local parochial government shall be restored . He had never been able to ascertain that . the act worked in a manner that was satisfactory to the rate-payers and the poor in any union , whatever . He had proved the reverse to be the fact in
those unions inquired into by the Poor Law Committee on which he had aat . Responsibility must rest Somewhere . and if the New Poor Law be persevered in , the question of '' who is . responsible J" may be mooted , and the responsible' parties may be called to an account for having given this advice . He ( Mr . Fielden ) felt disgusted with the treatment of the able-bodied labourer by the guardians acting under the commissioners . He knew none in society more deserving of sympathy than the virtuous able-bodied man , with a family to support , but whose wages , notwithstanding he endeavoured to acquire the best he could obtain honestly , were altogether inadequate for the support of himself and those dependent on him . Tho proposition to throw the able-bodied " on their resources , " when one-half of
tbeir earnings were taken from them by taxes on their bread and every othtr article they consumed , was both ungenerous and unjust . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) But he ( Mr . Fielden ) had said that the adoption of this principle of relief bad failed to raise wages , and to produce increased content of the labourers , and diminution of crime . Look at the calendars , and to the chaTges of the judges of assize , who were almost every where deploring the increase of crime , and suggesting education to prevent it It waa food that the people wanted , and without that , education would not avail ; and , as to reduction of wages , instead of a rise , he ( VLt . Fitlden ) had proved that before a committee of that House . Many Hon . Members had stated tho same facts ; and if the Noble Lord
doubted it , let him appoint a fair committee to inquire . The New Poor La . w was a failure , and ought to be repealed , and one more consonant with humanity and the rights of the poor enacted in its stead . The 43 d of Elizabeth was that , and therefore if he ( Mr . Fielden ) were asked for a substitute , he would say , let us resort to the 4 ,-Jd of Elizabeth . The Noble Lord and the House might rest assured that tie people of England would never be reconciled to the Poor Law Amendment Act , nor to the central board , and the self-acting workhouse test The Noble Lord would do well to look to th « petitions against thesa measures , which had been presented in Hie short period of six weeks that this Bill had been known . Let him look whence they came . Those petitions , up to Friday week last ,
numbered 526 , with 138 , 527 ' signatures ; while , 011 the other hand , there were , in the * ame time , only ten petitions , with seventy-four signatures in favour of the Bill . If the Noble Lord doubter ) the influence of those petitioners over that House , let him ltok to the sixtyseven notices of amendments to his Bill proposed by different Members of that House . One , he s ; iw , wa » to bare one large and populous union ( Bolton ) exempted from the Poor . Law Amendment Act ; another was to exempt all towns of 10 , 000 inhabitants from its operation . That was proposed by the Noble Lord , the Member for Liverpool . The Noble Lord had consented to parishes having local acts being exempted from hi * Bill , and tbat showed tbat tbe constituencies of those
parishes were too powerful for the Noble Lord to brim ; under the operation of the Poor Law Amendment Act , and the Bill to amend it now before the House . If the Noble Lord would provide in his Bill that those unions which might wish to be exempted from interference by the . Poor Law ComtuisaUmeis might be so , he ( Mr . Fielden ) had but little doubt that their continuance would be unnecessary . He , therefore , implored the Noble Lord and the House to pause , because of the danger he apprehended from continuing tbe Poor Law Amendment Act on the statute book any longer , aud from continuing to attempt further to carry out its provisions . He would now beg to move that it be an instruction to the committed to introduce a clause into Ihe Bin to repeal the Poor Law Amendment Act
General Johnson seconded the motion . He had no wish to go back to the old law , but so long as unconstitutional powers were vested in the Commissioners , he should take every opportunity of expressing his disapprobation of the present system . In the manufacturing districts the Poor Law Amendment Act was totallyinefficient in affording- the means ot relief . It wonld sometimes happen that 1 , 000 or 1 , 500 persons would be thrown out of employment in a single week or even a single day . How were these persons to be relieved in the workhouse ? He might be told that the poor man would make provision against misfortune ? . Bat how was it possible for a man earning 8 s . or 9 s . a weekscarcely enough to provide himself aud family in foodto lay by money , or to provide against misfortune ? What he wanted to see was a power given to the local authorities to give such relief as tuo nature of the case might require . The House then divided , when the numbers
were—For the motion ........... 9 Against it .. 155 Majority against the motion ... 146 . The House went into committee . Clauses 6 , 7 , and 8 were agreed to . Clause 9 was postponed . On the 10 th clause , which provided for the combination of parishes and . unions , for the purposes of establishing infant schools and lunatic wards . Mr . B . Wood proposed an amendment , to the effect that no such unions , for the purposes of schools , should take place , except with the consent of the majority of the boards of guardians of each of the parishes proposed to be united . A debate ensued , in the course of which Mr . Hawes eaid that the clergy of the established church were to blame for Showing a disposition not to giTe their services to the workhouses , ' unless they were paid for it .
This raised a new point—as to propriety ot having the children in those unions educated in the tenets of the established church . Lord Stanley insisting tbat , as far as regarded illegitimate children in workhouses , they could only be considered as children of the state , and had a right to be educated without any interference whatever from the mother ; and that with respect to all children in workhouses , if educated by the state , it was only right that they should be educated in the religion of the state . On the other hand . Lord Johj » Russell thought it rery likely that the dissenters , as rate-payers , would object to having ail children educated in the religion of the * establishment
Mr . coLQUHouiY , in reply to Mr . Hawes , Quoted th » report of the assistant Foot Law Commissioners respecting the training of pauperchildren , which showed that the clergy , in almost every union , had lent their service * gratuitously to promote the good management of th » schools in the workhouses . Sir B . Pebl was of opiaion , that if the children of the poor were to be educated by the State , they should be educated in the religion of the Established Church . The amendment before the Houte was technical , and they had somewhat irregularly got into this discussion ,
but as they had been led into the discussion , he must say that the education given should not be merely secular . It should be a religious education , and in the religion of the State . He must say he was not quite so clear as bis Noble Friend ( Lord Stanley ) upon the propriety of taking away all power of interference from the mother bf an illegitimate child . A woman might be seduced , anil it did seem hard that she must sacrifice her only comfort , and five up her child altogether , in order to procure for it the benefit of education . .
Mr . Lanodaijr had no objection that a chaplain should be appointed to those workaoosec , bat be difsented from the doctrine that because an orphan might become a child of the state , that the state had , therefore , a right to its tool as well as iu b ody . He could not allow that because a child might thus bo thrown upon the workhouse it would be for « ed to adopt the established Jdigiou , no matter what might he the religion of its parents , or how well versed it might be in the tenets of its own religion , 01 however un willing to abandon them . He never could support the establishment of a school in which tbe first principles of toler * tk > n w » r # tobeMcriflceoVSir B . PEEL said he had laid down a general principle without laying down its exceptions , but he certainly should not force upon any child a religion in opposition , to tbo wishes « f any of ita natural guardian * -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 3, 1841, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct543/page/3/
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