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      The main topics debated last night in the House of Commons are merely a continuation of Monday ' s discussion , and with similar results—Mr . Hume Attempting to nominate his committee on the Income Tax , and the Government doing their best to get through with the clauses of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill . The evening was further distinguished by a small victory over Ministers on the part of Lord Naas . Mr . Hume moved that the Chancellor of the Exchequer ' s name be added to the committee . This

      was opposed by the Chancellor himself , who would not consent to serve unless he had supporters in the committee on whom he could rely . A desultory conversation followed : members generally complaining of the present mode of nominating committees . The appointment of the committee was further adjourned until Friday next , with the understanding that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should nominate the committee , retaining only of Mr . Hume's list , as a sine qua non , the names of Mr . Horsman , Mr . Ricardo , Mr . Roebuck , and Mr . Cobden . The House then went into a

      committee of the whole upon the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill . Mr . Reynolds moved the omission of the words , " under any designation or description whatever , " in the second clause . Lord John RussEiiiopposed this , declaring , amid loud cheers , that the words might be useful , that it was desirable there should be no evasion under the clause , and that , under whatever designation , no territorial title should be assumed . The only speech at all notable was that of Mr . Whiteside , who was prepared to make every sacrifice short of surrendering the Protestant ^ principle . When the committee divided there

      were—For the amendment , 38 ; against it , 107 . Majority against , 69 . Sir H . "WiL / LOtfoiittY moved to add to the same clause a prohibition of obtaining or procuring hereafter from Rome , or of publishing or putting in use within any part of the United Kingdom , any bull , rescript , &c , or ciny other instrument or writing , for the purpose of creating any archbishop , &c , with titles derived from places belonging to the Crown of the United Kingdom . Lord John Russell resisted this amendment , which , he observed , was similar to that of Mr . Walpole , and open to the same objections . Upon a division there

      were—For the amendment , 129 ; against it , 133 . Majority against , 4 . Colonel Sim'Hoiu * moved that the penalty , instead of £ 100 , should be £ 500 , with imprisonment until the penalty be pnid , to be followed by banishment for life . He said : — " His Holiness the Pope would find no difficulty in sending over any sum of money that might be imposed upon the parties who violated the law , and he had no doubt the Pope would do bo , for he had a better opinion of his II olincss than he had of the noble lord . ( Laughter . ) If he ( Colonel Sibthorp ) had been the Tope he should huve done exactly as he had done ; but the last thing he should have done wan to have gone to Downingstreet and iiHHOciated himself with the noble lord . ( Laughter . ) He hated half measures . If he meant to kick , he bhould kick hard . ( Laut / htcr . ) ' The committee divided—For the amendment , (> IJ ; against it , 199 . Majority against , 1 « 'J (> . The next question was one of very great importance , being nothing less than to determine through whose agency the penalties should ho recovered . The bill leaves the Attorney-General to prosecute ; Mr . " Walpole and his friends propose to place the law in the liand . s of the informer cla . ss by leaving anybody to prosecute . In this state of the question » Sir l «\ T " jiKHioun utepped in with hi . s amendment lnwt night , to the effect , that words be added to the clauHe giving the right of instituting u . suit to the

      informer , under the / sanction of the Attorney-General . This proposition wan vigorously sustained and an vigorously attacked . It was held by » Sir jv . Thesi « -er and bin supporters tlnit , at * Attorney-Qeneruls did not do their duty when prosecution was left to them , it became ncccHmiry to give power to the private individual who would not suffer the law o / Iieer to sleep at his post . To this it was objected that under such circuinHtiinceH ihe Attorney-General would not hold himself responsible ; and it wnti urged , especially by Mr . lii : mi : i , i . ( the new member for Aylesbury ) , that the proHocution of u national offence ought not to be committed to a common informer . And ho asked : —

      " Is it wise , is it fitting , is it charitable to put the liberties of the Roman Catholics—their happiness , their comfort—into the hands of those who are around them—to make them subject to the inquisition of spies—to put them at the mercy of every informer ? ( Hear , hear . ) Do you think that such a state of things will conduce to the happiness of the country ?" After ! Lord John Russell had spoken in opposition to the amendment , Mr . Reynolds moved , amidst groans , " that the chairman should report progress . Lord John thought it was unreasonable , but the committee divided on the

      motion—For reporting progress , 41 ; against it , 306 . Majority against , 265 . This proceeding was followed up by a motion , also by Mr . Reynolds , that the chairman should leave the chair . Hereupon a row began . Lord John only blandly remonstrated , and called the motion an unfair return for his kindness . But Admiral Beekeley attacked the Irish opposition with a great deal of bad temper ; declaring , in a very

      ungentlemanly manner , that the rules of the House were made by " gentlemen" and for gentlemen , and that if " goats" came there the rules must be altered . The majority was angelic , but the minority the most factious he had ever seen . Explanations were demanded ; and when Colonel Knox , one of the minority , complained , the admiral explained in a way which Mr . Pierce Butler thought " ^ quite satisfactory . " The committee

      divided—For the motion , 29 ; against it , 230 . Majority against , 201 . It was now nearly one o ' clock , but , nothing daunted , Mr . Reynolds rose and made another speech . The committee then finally divided on the proviso of Sir F . Thesiger—For the proviso , 130 ; against it , 166 . Majority against , 36 . The House resumed , and went into committee on the Home-made Spirits in Bond Bill . An attempt was made to get rid of the bill by a sidewind motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the Chairman leave the chair . On a division there

      were—For the motion , 123 ; against it , 140 . Majority against Ministers , 17 . The House adjourned until Thursday , at half-past two o ' clock . The Property-tax Bill received the royal assent on Thursday . Some discussion took place in the House of Lords last night upon petitions presented by the Duke of Argyll on the Law of Marriage in Australia ; and Lord Monteagle on Transportation to New South Wales . The House of Lords adjourned until the 16 th instant .

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      The last day at Ascot was not remarkable either for company or racing . The Wokingham Stakes were the subject of a disputo . Six horses started . The race was entirely between Sir Rowland Trenchard and Cane , the former leading all the way and winning by a length , but , having crossed Cane's track , was objected to on returning to scale , and the cross , which was evidently unintentional , having been clearly proved to have interfered with Cane ' s chance of winning , the stakes were awarded to Lord Exeter . Run in 1 min . 27 src . Four more lives have been sacrificed by railway recklessness . There is an inclined plane between Brighton and Lewes , two miles long . It is ho steep that positive instructions have been issued to drivers not to go down at a greater rate than twenty miles an hour . Yesterday , as a short train was proceeding from Brighton to Lewes

      down this incline , the engine ran off , falling down an embankment 30 feet deep , carrying with it the tender , a second and a third class carriage , killing on the spot three passengers and the stoker , and dreadfully wounding the driver . The Times Bays , " Three of the thirdclass passengers , Mrs . Chatfield and her daughter , and the young man Lawrence , were thrown out and killed on the spot , but what became of the fourth third-class passenger we have not been able to learn . The unfortunate stoker was jammed between the engine and a brick wall below , and was completely smashed . Upwards of an hour elapsed before those in attendance could extricate the poor fellow , whose face presented a shocking sight . " Also , one man has been killed and several seriously wounded on the East Lancashire Railway , at the Buracough station , near Ormskirk . It is believed that the axle of the contractor's waggon broke .

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      THE LABOUR MOVEMENT . " The mischievous humbug of Protection , " as the Times calls it , is defied by Mr . Philip Pusey , and the leading journal chuckles over the courage which this gentleman displays , in preferring a " living dog " to a " dead lion "— " actual reforms in legislation , and improvements in husbandry , to a hopeless crusade after an abstract dogma . ' If this is not magnanimous treatment of the dead lion , there is much in the facts suggested—that the mischievous humbug of Protection is exposed } that the conviction is daily gaining adherents , even

      among the rapidly wasting minority ; and that men like Philip Pusey avow their conviction . The Times is writing off a bad debt of the past ; but what is its scheme of business for the future ? " Universal competition . " Yes , the great organ of commerce has got no further than that mischievous humbug of the older sort of Free-traders . False reliance in Protection cramped the energies of the English people ; but the hopeless crusade after that abstract dogma has broken down—and the people know that it has been broken down . The working man knows that he is under-paid , is hungrier , leaner in body and limb , more hopeless ,

      because that hopeless crusade is carried on at his expense . From being the victim of the master , he has come to be the victim of the middleman , of the ganger , the sweater ; and competition is breaking its promise of giving us products better and better . " Every tradesman knows , " says the Times , " that the moment he ceases to exhibit better articles than his neighbours , his business flags "; which is true ; but , let us add , every tradesman has long found out , that as competition has totally exhausted hi . s devices , as he cannot find better articles at prices that will pay , he must make good the want by seeming to supply better articles . Hence ihat countless host of frauds—¦

      the cloth that belies old English name , and gives way under the mere duty of being buttoned ; newest cast-iron touched up with the file and plug ; boots at . " only " some very low figure , and fit only to trc . ul the dry floor of omnibusses ; hats that crack ; houses that fall ; shins that wreck ; boilers that burst ; linendrapers that fail ; and a whole commerce that runs into a gigantic system of slop-selling—a slop-selling brought up to the fashionable cut , but with slop stuff , slop work ,

      slop wages , slop life , and slop moralities . For this end has the hopeless crusade after an abstract dogma made men barter their nationality , set class against cla . ss , and drive us into a position from which those who brought us to it see no issue . The grand remedy of the Times still is " universal competition one with another , and against the whole world ; " and , asks the Times , " why is the farmer to expect it otherwise in his case ? "

      " Why is the farmer to expect it otherwise in his case ? " Let him understand the full meaning of that question . Farmer must compete against farmer . Well , they did that in the time of Protection . Did they succeed by it i' < li < l the People benefit by it—the labouring classes ? Contrast the description of a labouring man with his sound clothing , his superabundant food , and hi . s sturdy independence , or insolence , as it was called , which we have already repeated from Thornton ' s quotation of Chici' Justice Foitescue , in the time of

      Henry the Sixth , with the description by the Commissioners of the Morniny Chronicle in our own day , or of \\ w . Times , by Itohcrt Jlaker , the Kub-inspcctor of Yorkshire factories , or any other of the many descriptions familiar to the public . At . this moment we can only point to general results . The aim of workhouse authorities has been to inaki ; the workhouse what they call " repulsive , " by its restraint and low diet ; yet we have lately seen Suffolk labourers going as it were in a body into the workhouse ; and yet ,

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      TO HEADERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing- to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of rinding space for them . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 10 , Wellingtonstreet , Strand , London .

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so -unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep thongs fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .

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      ^ SATURDAY , JUNE 7 , 1851 .

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      IlKWAUDS TO THE WORKERS AT THE EXPOSITION . June ft , 1851 . Sin , —Permit me , through the medium of your columns , to refer the merit of originating rewards to working men in connection with Industrial ExhibitioiiH to the true originators of thin act of justice , viz ., to the promoters of tins Belgian Exhibitions . Mr . l- ' elkin'H proposition is , I suspect , the consequence of my 'History of Industrial Exhibitions" ( now in course of weekly publication ) , wherein I have given tin uo counf . of the distribution of medals to working men and working women of Itelgium . If the Executive propone to follow the ; honourable example of the Helgian Government , they would do well to consult the able report , on the UrusselH Exhibition of 184 !) , in which they will find u minute account of the system devised for the fair distribution of them ) honourable rewards . I am , bir , your obedient servant , W . Ujlanojiaki ) Jnk hoj , i > .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), June 7, 1851, page 536, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1886/page/12/