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      Eve or the speeches he made . The members who A been least careful of their duty—the most dead and insensible to everything worthy of the name of duty—were those who were influenced b y the pitifol vanity of wanting seats in that house . His belief was , that by those men the interests of the country were betrayed . ( Hear , hear . ) He desired to see a more general and homogeneous system of taxation established than the one which at present existed in this country . But that was not what Ion . gentlemen opposite wanted . They wanted equality , which , in property , was nothing but destruction of property and starvation for all . ( ' * "So ,

      no , " from the Ministerial benches . ) Yes ; they would , withont knowing it , bring about here a state of things similar to that existing in France . Nobody in that country said they wanted what they had got , bnt they hat ! it , nevertheless . Hon . gentlemen opposite might depend on it that the end of alt tbeir exertions would be the establishment hero of a state of things resembling that which existed in _IJiance . Their whole system was founded on contempt of experience , and a determination to evolve schemes of government out of their own brains , and not to be guided by what had happened in past times , nor influenced by the scenes which were passing dailv before their eyes . ( near . )

      Lord D . Stdabt should vote for the motion as a step in the right direction , but he would prefer Sir De Licy Evans * amendment , though even that did not satisfy him . It should be tbo policy of the Legislature to grant the just demands ofthe people and to concede them in time . Mr . _jtbwd- g atb opposed the motion , which he characterised as a crude one , the object of which -wasnot called for by anything ia the circumstances of the country . Lord John Russell : I shall * vote against the present proposition pretty much on the grounds on which the honourable member for West Surrey

      gives his vote in its favour . ( Laughter . ) The honourable gentleman said he did not think there could he any considerable mischief in the present proposition , and that we had arrived at a time of the session when we _couhTnot get further than to lay the bill on tbe table , tbat it would be impossible to proceed fa-ther with it during the present session , and that therefore no evil could arise from supporting it . "Sow , it appears to me that this is not the way in which tbe house ought to deal with a . question so large and important as the franchise I think that if the house should determine to make

      an extension or alteration oflhe franchise , a measure to that effect ought to be brought forward early in the session , should receive the mature deliberation of the house , should be accepted or modified as to the house mi ght seem best ; but that at any rate it should proceed _through this house in the course of the session in whichlt is brought in . To deal with a question of this importance merely by admitting a bill to be laid upon the table , and to leave it there , without any intention of going on with it , appears to me to bo trifling with tbis important subject , to be unworthy of our own position , and not to be fair to the people at large . This then seems to me to be a sufficient reason for voting against the bill , without entering into its merits . There is another reason for not entering into the merits of the bill , because honourable gentlemen

      • who have supported it have hardly gone into a single argument which has tbe least reference to the proposition before the house . Honourable gentlemen have invited me to discuss the general question of reform . I certainly shall not enter at any length into that subject on the present occasion , having on a former occasion delivered my opinion fully to the house on these topics . Thc honourable gentleman the member for the Tower Hamlets has gone at great length into figures , to show that a number of popu ous boroughs bare not a sufficient number of representatives , and that boroughs of a small population have a much greater number of representatives than the great cities . I have always said , when questions of this kind have been brought before the Loose , that itis time for those wbo seek an extension ofthe franchise to come forward and

      state broadly what they propose as their system . If they propose that some of the smaller of those boroughs now sending representatives to Parliament should be disfranchised , let them say so , and tell us the number of representatives they propose to give to others . But if yon mean to say th it representation , to be real , should be on the principle of equalisation , then say so , and produce the plan by which yon propose to divide the country , and the system of representation which you propose . ( Cheers . ) Ton render this the more necessary because the bon . _gentleman the member for the Tower Hamlets argues with others who are against the existing system as if the popu ' af ion of our counties had no votes and no voice in tbe

      representation ; and he pints to certain divisions of counties and certain great towns and villages in support of his argument , forgetting that Lincolnshire and De < O-Shire alone hare 40 , 000 electors , and a sufficient number of representatives in this bouse . When we come next to discuss this question , I beg that the whole of your plan may be stated—what numberjif representatives the great counties are to have , and how they are to be divided and altered , and how many of the small boroughs are to be disfranchised . I beg tbat when the _subject is next _brought forward we may have your intire scheme , and that you will inform us how you are to make it compatible with onr present form of government . Without entering into the question of whether the

      present system is altogether satisfactory , and withont entering into the great question of equal representation , which some bon . gentlemen are continually arguing-for , 2 say that under the existing system the people are attached to our present form of government . ( Cheers . ) And I think that in any reform of the representation , and any reform of this house which may be proposed , that reform should be compatible and consistent with the maintenance ofthe Monarchy and the House of Lords , which , as well as tbi 3 house , form a part of thc constitution of the country . When this question is again brought forward , I hope the honourable gentleman the member for Montrose , or some other honourable gentleman , will give their

      plan folly , and how they propose to maintain the existing form of government . ( Cheers . ) In the present constitution of parliament , any extension of the suffrage which may be proposed should be compatible with the existing institutions of tho country . ( Hear , hear . ) I would not bave added anything more , but that the member for the Tower Hamlets asks me to give seme pledges that during the recess I shall turn my attention to this subject , and be prepared to bring forward at the COnnheuce _* ment of the next session of parliament a measure for the extension ofthe franchise ; and he assures me that if I do not do so , be and others will be disposed to _withdraw their confidence from the government , without which , he says , it cannot exist . And

      he gays , moreover tbat honourable gentlemen opposite will come into power and propose an exteiision of the suffrage , and , therefore , that I had better lose no time in making my proposition . ( Cheers _a-uHaoshter . ) Now , ! don ' t think _« necessary to ask or tell the honourable ! gentteinaD whatmeasurcs the government will _bring'for ward next session . It we have not the confidence of this house / and if it is thought that a change of government would be ad-TOntageous , let a change of government take place , and then they will see the plan of parliamentary reform which will be brought forward by those in whom they have confidence . ( Cheers . ) I shall only add , that I shall vote against the motion of the hon . member for Surrey . ( Cheers . )

      Mr . Bright said that daring the last and present session the . government bad committed the same error which the noble lord had attributed to the member for Surrey , for ha had to sweep from the table in the month of July many of the measures which he had introduced in the earlier part of the session , and he had told them that he had yet to introduce measures of importance which he hoped to be able to carry before the session was at an end . The noble lord complained that the speeches on that side of the house had nofcbeen to the point , but that observat ion could not ~ be applied to the speech of the mover ofthe motion , or to that of the honourable member for Montrose , who seconded it , for they were both . to the point ; but the speech ofthe noble lord did not contain

      one sentence wbich had reference to the motion before the house . The noble lord was partly jocular and partly querulous in noticing the speech of the honourable member for tbe Tower Hamlets , and said that a considerable amount of arithmetic had been expended on ir , and he wished the house to draw the inference that they wanted to propose a scheme of electoral power in everyplace in the kingdom inconsistent with the existing institutions of the country . If they had dropped down upon tbe kingdom that day , without any notion ot legislation , they would not propose such a scheme , nor would the noble lord himself , with all his courage , when he was wrong , propose such a system as now existed in Great Britain aud Ireland , bnt would take the course which had been taken in the colonies and in the American Republic . They were conscious thafc it was not desirable or possible , wider , the _existing cif __ a _____ an _ - _ nf _this

      eeuntry to propose a new form of government , but what they wanted was that the glaring inequalities of the present system should be diminished , and that the grounds of discontent should be greatly _mitigated or entirely removed . Their proposition was tbat the borough franchise of £ 10 should be extended to the counties . The noble lord had lately visited the county with wbicb he ( Mr . Bri ght ) was connected , and he could not but know that in-that county there were large _villages , containing _thousands and tens of thousands of . U-. ab . - --. ts who had not the franchise at all , and jet they wero quite equal in point of intelligence to those to whom they had given the franchise in boroughs . If tbey agreed to the motion it would have a beneficial result , in conveying to the . people the fact that if they were kept from , the full possession of their rights , yet tbat there was a disposition on the part of parliament gradually to extend those righte , and thejr _FQ- , jb consequence , have _confidence h Ihe insti-

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      tutions of the country . He had not forgotten that Devonshire and Lincolnshire had large constituencies , and the noble lord should not forget that he had twice been returned and once rejected by Devonshire —( hear , hear ) -which he ( Mr . Bright ) considered more a disgrace to the constituency than to the noble lord . The noble lord had been attacked in that county , and everybody said that Lord John was going to bring in tho Pope , and that they would all be burnt ( Laughter and cheers . ) But if at that time the noble lord could have gone from the parsonage-house down to the £ 10 villagers , he would at that hour have been representative of one of the largest counties in England . They did nofc forpet that there were large constituencies in Devon-¦

      fa . _ — __» _ - * __ _ . — __ _.. _ t i .. ______ shire and Lincolnshire ; but they wished very much that in those counties , and in every other county in England , there were larger constituencies . ( Cheers . ) The noble lord had said that thero was a general feeling of attachment to the constitution throughout the country . He ( Mr . Bright ) did not deny that fact , and he hoped that it was undeniable ; but if the noble lord , when he made his proposition for reform twenty years ago , was impressed with the necessity for that measure , he should , from , thc progress which the public mind had made sinco that period , be now still more convinced of tho necessitv for such a measure as was proposed by the member for Surrey . They had heard much of constitutions abroad , and of their own constitution ,

      but they ought to remember thafc this boasted constitution of theirs gave the franchise only to one full-Town man in every seven , and they ought to be ashamed to be told that six out of every seven full-grown men were kept out of the franchise . ( Cheers . ) If they persisted in maintaining such a system , it was not to be wondered at if men were to look to other countries wheve a different and a better system prevailed . He did not think that even in the month of July the question before them was unworthy ofthe attention of Parliameut . They would be many nig hts yet engaged in discussing subjects _which were not of great importance , and therefore the lateness of the period at which the motion was brought forward was no answer to it . He would entreat the noble lord not to wait until

      he was driven by the force of an agitation which once before betook him to yield an extension ofthe franchise , and which he could do better now than in the midst of circumstances more unfavourable whioh mig ht arise : and he was sure tbat if the motion were granted , it would give the greatest satisfaction in every part of the fciingdom . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Locke King , in replying , said he was happy to find that the noble lord , in replying , had nofc produced a sniffle argument against the motion . In that house there were two parties—the party of progress _. and the party of obstruction ; and the noble lord appeared between them like a gallant captain who had said , " Oh how happy could I be with either , . Were t ' other dear charmer away , But since thus you tease me together ,

      To neither a word will I say . " ( Laughter . ) Mr . GKA _ r __ . said the honourable member for Manchester had complained because in this country only one out of seven possessed the franchise ; but what was the case of Ireland ? Why , that with a population of upwards of seven millions , there were only 70 , 000 voters . The noble lord was jocular in tbe course of his observation , but he ( Mr . Grattan ) thought that , under the circumstances , the minister ofthis country _shouldlie more morose . The noble lord had told them thafc he wished to keep to the fixed principles of the British constitution . Be was satisfied with that constitution

      and so were the people of Ireland , but they wanted to have the British constitution . ( Cheers . ) He wished the noble lord to adhere to the principles of the British constitution , and to the fixed principles of that house , and he hoped they would not allow their countrymen to be without them * They must have their bond—every jot of their £ S franchiseand they would not abandon their rights , nor allow them to be trampled upon . They insisted upon their rights ; and if the English members assisted the representatives of Ireland , they would assist them to obtain an extension ofthe franchise for

      England . Mr . Disraeli observed that there had been exhibited in this discussion a want of comprehension of what our constiution was , namely—a monarchy I modified by the estates of the realm and by the . pri-1 vileged classes—a constitution established upon the aristocratical principle . The Reform Bill had been a permanent settlement of the then agitated question ; yet since that period the gentlemen whom it had sent to Parliament had been quarrelling with that very arrangement , and were constantly endeavouring to sap it . If they proposed that every man of full age was to be represented in that house , they proposed a revolution , since it was plain that then it would be impossible that any power could be

      exercised by the estates of the realm , or by the monarchy . If the principle of the franchise was what he maiataiw . d it to be , V . was a privilege ; but if it was , as the assailants of the Reform Act said , the right of every one , however degraded , indolent , or unworthy , he could understand that the object WHS to agitato the country , and to degrade the men to the franchise instead of raising the franchise to the citizen . If this country was to be , as it had been , aristoeraefcic , and free because aristocratic , let the Legislature place power in the monarchy , order in one estate of the realm , and liberty in the other . Repeating that the Reform Act was a settlement accepted by the great body of the people , he delivered a pointed invective against the supporters of

      the motion , and the levelling system of political agitation of which they were sworn friends , SirB . Hall , in supporting the motion , made a direct charge against Mr . Disraeli of dereliction of political principles . Did the honourable gentleman go down to High Wycombe as the protege of Mr . O'Connell and Mr . " flume ? ( Loud cheers . ) Did not the honourable gentleman go down to that place under the auspices of these two honourable members as a Reformer ? ( Renewed cheers , and a cry from an honourable member , " That ' s a poser , ' ' which excited some laughter . ) He ( Sir B . Hall ) had the honour of being the member for Marylebone ; but did not tbe honourable gentleman wish , some years ago , to become a candidate for that borough on Liberal opinions ? ( Cheers . ) If he had been aware that the subject would have been introduced on that occasion , he would have been _erenarcd with

      documents to show this . He would add that he knew a shop where the honourable gentleman wrote a Liberal address to the constituency of Marylebone , and he had no doubt he could get a copy of it , as he believed it was still in existence . ( Hear , he a _.. _^ The place he alluded to was a tallowchandler ' sshop in Crawford-street , Bryanstone-square . ( Laughter , and cries of " question . " ) He considered this to be a very ugly question . ( Hear , hear . ) Was ifc to he supposed ? that the honourable member , for whose talents he entertained great respect , when he went down to Wycombe under the auspices of the two gentlemen he had named , had not led them to believe tbat his opinions were to a certain extent in conformity with theirs ? These two gentlemen , he believed , had signed the document which was called the Charter . Bid the honourable gentleman then entertain similar opinions ?

      Mr . Hdiie said he was not quite to the mark . (_ A \ igbi . r . ) Sir B . Hall said : At any rate he might have gone to some extent . ( Hear , hear . ) He would only add , in conclusion , that the proposition should receive his cordial support . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Disraeli said : I hope tbe house will not take exception to my answering the question just put to me by the hon . gentleman . What the hon . gentleman has said with such an air of ori ginality has been alread y said in this house at least twenty times . Although the house may not recollect such an insignificant subject as a statement of mine , I am sure it will allow me to repeat what I have before stated , in answer to the speech of the hon . baronet . The hon . member is entirely wrong as to

      tbe circumstances uuder which I became the candidate for the representation of any place , and as to my observations on those occasions with respect to the Reform Bill because ifc had then passed into a law , and I was not called upon to express any opinion respecting it . Whatever eccentricity there might have- been in , my , political opinions , they wero in direct epposition to the Whig party . ( Hear . ) I believe the opinions I have expressed were really the historical and traditional Tory opinions of the country . ( Hear , hear . ) . I can assure the house with great truth that 1 then manfully expressed the opinions I entertained of tbe Whig party . ( Cheers . ) When , however , the Reform Bill was under discussion , I opposed the Whig

      settlement of the question , because I then regarded it , as I now do , as being injurious to the best interests of the country . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) I never uttered one sentence in this house . or out of it which could authorise the hon . member to make the assertion which he has uttered this evening ( Cheers . ) The hon . gentleman said I went down to High Wycombe with the recommendation and introduction of the hon . member for Montrose to tlie electors of that place . 3 Jow , it so happens that I had long lived m that borough . 1 was bred , if not bora there ; so that I was nofc unknown or unconnected with the place and I now have the honour to represent the _county in which ifc is . ( Cheer * _Tv

      _tnever expreB-ea any opinions to the electors of Wycombe which could bear the interurXon of the hon . member . ( Hear , hear 1 W ' . _ _« -, _«* ? the _^ low-chandler , _\ tis V-Sit _£ u in to shop , and no doubt he is now on e of the chief supporters of the hon . baronet in Marvlcbone _ a _^ _W-fr . _s ? _a - _ _ . IdmatSbv ? - ' ' irl n ni _?^ fraBCuise wllich _™ aavocated b y the noble lord and his political friends . _fn-Ar-. / . i P _* , sed lt because I believed it tobe iS _^ i uh the s-- interests ofthe country . - mm . I have now said enough to refute my naviflg supported those extreme opinions which top

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      hon . member has imputed to me , and have shown that I still adhere to those opinions whioh I have held from my youth . ( Cheers . ) The house then divided .

      For the motion ... ... _, ... 100 _Agai-sfcifc ... ... ... .... 159—59 Adulteration of Coffee . — Mr . C . Ansibv moved for a select committee , to inquiro into the means of preventing the adulteration of coffee . Major Blacksll seconded the motion , which was opposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and after some discussion , the , house divided / and the motion was ? rejected by a majority of 205 to sixty . Majority 145 . _Posi-Office Labour ox Sunday . —On this division being completed , the clock pointed to three minutes . past eleven o ' clock , and upon Mr . Locke ' s attempting to bring on his resolution to rescind the voto prohibiting the Sunday delivery of letters

      trom tne rost-omce , a confused opposition arose , many members wishing to keep to the letter of the understanding previously come to , that the discussion should not be commenced after eleven . Ultimatel y Mr . Locke was allowed to proceed . The honourable , member briefl y referred to the circumstances that rendered the lasfc vote no true test of the opinion of the house , and to the influences which were sometimes used to bias the decision of members upon questions supposed to involve religious principles . He then showed the success that had attended tho efforts made bythe administration to relieve tho Post-office employes from Sunday labour , and contended that by the enforced changes the amount of work on that day

      might be shifted upon another class , but would not be diminished . Turning to the inconvenience that resulted to the public , he remarked that ifc fell most severely upon the poorer classes , and gave several instances out of a large mass in his hand , where serious and fatal results had occurred from the stoppage of communication on the Sunday . He classed the Post-office service with that of tllO police , the purveying of food and other works which the necessities of human society rendered indispensable . Mr . Roebuck divided the arguments in favour of tho recent vote into two classes—the religious and the expedient . Upon the first he denied the competence of the House of Commons to

      adjudicate . Regarding the latter , he argued thafc expediency required that the state should secure the greatest amount of rest for the greatest number of those who wanted it most one day in the week . Lord _Ashlev considered that tho vote which was moved and carried in thafc house , presented to her Majesty , and acted upon by the government , y _* as a fait accompli , and should not be reversed without sufficient trial . He maintained that no such trial bad been afforded ; while the changes were ? introduced in an unfair and violent manner , on purpose to excite public disfavour . If the courso was now reversed we could not stop until the Sunday deliveries were sanctioned in tho metropolis itself . Mr . Ag _ ionbt was assured that , the changes had

      caused more desecration than they had removed . Sir It . H . Indus argued in favour of retaining what he termed a great boon that had been granted to tho country . Lord J . Russell explained the position in which the government had been placed by the resolution ofthe house , which they were bound not to withhold from the Sovereign , whose consent they had advised . He did nofc consider that commercial correspondence was the chief matter , but the position in which families and domestic affairs were placed by the change , and he owned he could not get over this circumstance , that here was a public department , charged with the conveyance of letters and armed with authority to prevent their conveyance by others , which might transmit a letter one day addressed to a daughter , communicating the illness of her father , which arriving early on Sunday

      morning at a provincial town would be detained for twenty-four hours . The effect of this , and there might be a hundred of instances , amongst poor families would be distressing . He recommended the omission ofa part of the motion , praying that pend ing inquiry the collection and delivery of letters on Sunday be continued . Mr . _Mdxtz restated the reasons which had induced him to support the resolution . , Mr . Gladstone said , nothing had a greater tendency to disparage the authority of the house than to rescind a motion , especially one so recently passed , before the result of the change could be seen . He objected to the preamble of the motion , referring to the great public inconvenience which had arisen from the total cessation of any delivery or collection of _lettei-3 on Sunday .

      After some observations by Mr . Rice and Mr . A . HorE , Lord J . Russell suggested the omission of the words objected to by Mr . Gladstone : and the alteration proposed by the noble lord , retrenching tho words at the commencement and the end of the motion , was then put as an amendment , simply praying for inquiry . After some further discussion , in which Sir T . _ACL-SD , Mr . IIume , Mr . Cam . w ___ , Mr . Sciiolefield , Lord D . Stuart , Lord J . Manners , and other members joined , the house divided , when the original motion was negatived by 2-33 against 02 . ' After some explanations , respecting the course that would bo taken when the inquiry was completed , the house divided upon the amendment , which was carried by 105 against 112 . The other business having been disposed of , the house adjourned at half-past two o ' clock .

      WEDNESDAY Jul . 10 , HOUSE OF _COMMONS . - _Mowmxi ro Sia R . Peel . —Lord Jons Russell gave notice of his intention to move , on Friday next , that an address be presented to her Majesty , in order to the erection of a monument in Westminster Abbey to the memory of the late Sir R . Peel , sueh memorial to bear an inscription recording the " great and irreparable loss " the country has sustained by the late . statesman ' s decease , After some preliminary discussion the House went into committee on the Wei ghts and Measures Bill , the consideration of wbich occupied the House until half-past three . Marriage Bill . —The third reading of this bill was then moved by Mr . S . Wouiley .

      Mr . Walfole moved that the bill be read a third time that day three months , opposing it both on religious and social grounds . He contended that thc bill ought first to have been introduced into the House of Lords , where theologists and divines might havo given an authoritive opinio-, upon thc religious bearings of the question . Recapitulating , at considerable length , the . arguments which had been repeatedly urged during previous discussions , he concluded with an earnest appeal to the House to reject the bill . Colonel _TnoMrscw thought thafc the Jewish prohibition was directed against polygamic practices ' , and had no authority over us . He supported the bill . Mr . M *_> eill spoke at some length against the measure .

      Mr . Stuart Wortlev replied , contending that none ofthe fatal consequences which had been predicted from tho measure would be produced , and that tbe object of the bill was to afford a great and much desired relief . The arguments against it had proceeded on the presumption that Englishwomen were , generally speaking , unchaste , which he indignantly denied . As to the reli gious part of the question , tho warmest opponents of the measure could not get beyond the assertion that the

      _acrvptural rule was doubtful , and therefore ifc appeared irreverent to attempt to lay down a moral law which tho Deity had not given . The whole subject bad been argued so often , and with the game result , and the sense of the House was so clearly in favour of the Bill , that he would not dwell upon it longer . Mr . Fox Maule conceived the Bill calculated to promote a low standard of morality , and he especially opposed its introduction into Scotland . Air- CnisHoui _Anstet supported the bill . < On division the third reading was carried by 144 __ to 134—majority , 10 . . ' ' ' _* ¦ ' '

      Mr . Oswald then moved that the bill do _notaffect Scotland . This motion on division was negatived by 137 to 130 . Majority , 7 . THURSDAY , July 11 . HOUSE OF LORDS _.-Tfie . House- went into committee on the Inspectors of Coal Mines Bill , on the motion of the Earl of Carlisle . The noblo lord described the terrible nature of tho catastrophes that occurred with so much frequency in coal mines , and most of which were tho results of negligence . The bill , whose provisions ho detailed , was designed to provide a system of inspection , whereby it is hoped the ordinary precautions by means of ventilation , the safety lamps , -fcc , should be _jnore strictl y enforced

      , Some observations were made by several noble lords upon tho details of the measure , after which the bill went through committee . Their Lordships then adjourned . , ? HOUSE OF COMMONS . — Abolition of TnE _PuxisnuENi of Death . —Mr . _Ewart moved for leave to bring in a bill to a bolish the punishment of death . Public opinion , lie observed , was becoming every day riiore unanimous in denouncing capital punishment . Besides the outrage it inflicted upon tho feelings of humanity , the existence of the _evtremo _nnnaltv seriously interfered with the

      administration and the effect of our criminal tribunals . Tho possibility that death may bo inflicted constantly led the juries to acquit prisoners of whose guilt there was no doubt , while the uncertainty of the final sentence led the criminals to risk the hazard , and deprived the judgment of the court of half its warning terrors . _' After giving many instances in proof of these _arguments ,.. tho hon . member depicted the demoralising scenes which occurred at executions , and contended that it was contrary , alike to tho sense ci the publio and the intention of the law to avoid the recurrence of suoh scenes by performing the _sanguinary ceremony

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      without spectators . A minor punishment , if certain , was . a better agent of- retribution or reformation than the severest sentence inflicted capriciously . Whatever the result of the present motion , _he-was convinced , that the abolition of _judicia l murder was ere long inevitable . ' ' :. Mr . Hume pointed to tbe good results that had followed a milder system of punishment both in t he criminal and the military codes , as affording a _^ air inference that , it was ; proper to erase the t hree solitary categories of crime whioh still remainea upon the statute book with , the penalty of aeatn affised to them . He believed thafc the law reacted upon the manners and mind of tho peop le afc large , and that when the criminal code was sanguinary tne populace would become cruel and brutalisca . ¦ ni / _uniuiu u - — - t

      _uvpuinvo _um - __ _... _n _. .. _ : _ _, Sir G . Gr-y deprecated the abolition of a-P ™ ment which formed , as ho believed , a _» mw » m safeguard to human life . Practically _spoa _™ f _™ ° only crime for whioh the life of . the _crimmal was takeh was that of murder . Against this _< crime the penalty of death was the surest 'Pff _^ ntwe , and it was not safe to withdraw it . _! ¦ » « _H _«^» _**»{ the public voice had pronounced against _^ capitul punishment ho met by a denia fourided upon the fullest information ifc was possible to-collect . . Mr . Bniom remarked that 239 species of crime , formerly punishable . by death , were-now visited _wf-. _ « r __ tr _ r n _ n _ . lties . Some being expiated by

      very trifling imprisonments , and yet life and property were not less safe than heretofore . He added many instances , occurring both , m England and Ireland , to show as an almost invariable result , thafc hanging ono oriminal did not deter his comrade , from crime . In crises of guilt the punishment was of proved inutility ; and in the contingencies where men had , been condemned though innocent , the infliction of so terrible and . irreversible a penalty was abhorrent to all _Bense of justice . Mr . Suafto Adair supported the motion , and after a few y _? ords in reply from "Mr . Ewart , the house divided .

      For the motion ... 40 Against ... 40-

      -' THE CHARTER . Mr . F . O'CoNitou then proceeded to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice , namely , " That the house , recognising the great principle , that labour is the source of all wealth ; that the people are the only legitimate source of power ; that the labourer should be the first partaker of the fruits of his own industry ; that taxation without representation ia tyranny , and should be resisted ; and believing that the resources of the country would be best developed by laws made by representatatives chosen by the labouring classes , in conjunction with those who live by other industrial pursuits ; that ( in ., recognition of the above

      great truths ) the house adopts the principleembodied in the document entitled * The People ' s Charter , ' namely , ' annual elections , universal suffrage , vote by ballot , equal electoral districts , no property , qualification , and payment of members . " He said , one way of putting an end to the crime of murder , which they had just been discussing , would be the placing our representative system on such a sound and satisfactory basis as that every person in the kingdom should be represented in that house . But , as an independent member , and as no speechof his would insure a single vote , perhaps the best course that he or any other member could take would be to propose his motion , and take the vote without a word of comment .

      He begged to inform the house and the country that , however the opinions of the people on this question might be neglected now , simply because they were quiet when trade was good , as soon as that trade became bad , which would be at no distant period , the applications made to that house on the part of the people , would meet with moro attention than they did now , or than they had done on any former occasion . He admitted , with respect to the people of Ireland , that they attached no _ importance whatever to the Charter , or to any measure which that house passed for that country ; but this . vas a period of calm in Ireland , and now was the very time for reconciling the peoplo to the government of tho day , which it would he exceedingly difficult to do in times when trade became bad . In that house 105

      members satfor Ireland , _representing 8 , 000 , 000 of population ; Scotland 53 members returned ; whilst for England , representing no more than double the population of Ireland , they hud 500 members , being nearly five to one as to those who represented Ireland . He contended that the peoplo of England were more enlightened , and more prepared now to receive tho changes which he asked for than the people of any other country in tho world . With respect to France , that country was not now a republic , but a complete despotism . In France , at the present moment the house of

      the President was surrounded day and night hy soldiers with fixed bayonets , and . the National Assembly , where the representatives of the people met to enact the laws , was always surrounded in like manner by soldiers with fixed bayonets while that assembly was sitting . France was now more of a despotic power than it ever was before . Any newspaper , for instance , published in Paris , containing anything reflecting on the President , or the majority in the Assembly , was not allowed to pass free through the post ; and any official who signed a petition against any alteration in the Electoral Law was dismissed . The

      house , therefore , had no ri g ht to look to France now as an instance why they should no . give the people of this country greater power than they had at the present moment . He admitted his motion was a kind of annual farce , — -as his old and lamented friend , Sir Francis Burdett , for many years characterised the Reform Bill , which was , however , carried at last—constituted as the house was at present . Iu this country capital was the reigning monarch . The capitalists sitting behind the ministry would support the ministry in any measure which was antagonistic to the working

      classes . Did not that prove that the policy of the ministry was based on the support they received from the capitalists of the country ? This question interested every class of persons out of that house , and before he sat down somo honourable gentleman might perhaps get up and propose that the house bo counted —( a laugh)—but let him ( Mr . F . O'Connor ) inform honourable members that the people outside had no confidence in tha _hou _... Formerly , when the Charter was propounded to the house , monster petitions were presented in its favour ; but on this occasion , he rejoiced to say that not a single petition had been presented favour . He would return to tho consideration of the power

      ofthe capitalists , and the ' effect that the dependants of labour had upon thoir votes . If a revolution broke out in this country , ton bludgeon men would put ; an immense crowed to flight , whereas , if a revolution broke out in foreign countries , officers of all classes , in the army , bankers , _mer-. ehants , noblo lords , shopkeepers , and all classes would ioin with the peoplo , and what was it that made the foreigner more powerful , it was this f That when a soldier enlisted abroad , bis time of service was only seven years , ho waa drilled and disciplined and remained a soldier for life , and loft the army at the expiration of his apprenticeship , while the English soldier remained a soldier for life .

      Col . Chattbrton . —No , no . Mr . O'Connor . —The gallant , colonel said " no , no , " howoyer ho remained a soldior until ho was decrepit , aiid became so exhausted that ho was no uso to the people or the government . That house , divided as ifc thon was , could not profess to represent the people ; not only were parties divided , but counties , cities and borouofhs were divided . The great West Riding of Yorkshire retUWCda Whig and Tory ; West Surrey the same ; the city of London , the _olty of Dublin , the city of Cork , and the city of Bath the same , ' whilo the Universities were harmoniously united and he would give them an illustration of the confidence that tho Protectionists reposed in tho farmers whose interest they professed to serve . On Tuesday ni ght the hon .

      member tor West Surrey proposed to reduce tho franchise of counties from £ 60 to £ 10 , when not a single Protectionist' voted for him ; but on the contrary every one voted against him . He would nowdefine the three great boons that had been conferred upon the English people by their representatives Firstly , Emancipation' which qualified lawyers for the Bench , for Queen ' s . Counsel , for Commissions in t _^ Army , which thoy could not before hold , and for other offices , and they wero tbe greatest tyrants ; but sueh hopo did the Irish people anticipate from the promised boon , that they consented to tho aboition of the forty shilling freeholds ; and when the tyrant landlord could no longer base his political pa tronage _^ upon their serfdom , their hovels wero levelled to the ground . - , , " The blackness of ashes now marks where they _VVV

      stood , . _..-.....,. While the wiid mother _soreams o ' er her famishing

      Monday, Jum 8. House Of Lords.'— The T_»...

      So much for emancipation what benefit did they derive from Reform , although they were _«* _* gei J _»» to madness to accomplish it ? Then , as to ireo trade it was " a mookery , a deluskHvand a s _** are Here was _. England , with idle land , idle labour , ana idle money , importing the produce of other countries thousands of miles across the ocean , while her own land , if her labour was properly app lied to it , would produce enough to feed one half the world . But tho ministers carried the measure to insure the support ofthose capitalists who . were their principal supporters . " Let him assure thafc houso that the greatest folly of which ifc could be guilty , was the denial of justice to the people . If they had disfranchised ' Gatton and old Sarum , and enfranchised

      Manchester and Birmingham , the Reform Bill might have been postponed , but the people of this country having gained wisdom from the past , and been deceived by every previous measure , bad nowrosolved upon contending for their own rights * , and let him inform that house , that the people of England were more enlightened , and better instructed in political matters than the people of any other country in tho world . There were moro tracts and newspapers sold in one _. _ireet in Manchester than in all Parts . And let him ask the go vernment , what power they had to resist thafc growth of mind . Whew vm the noble lord , the prime minister , and thc majority of his colleagues , when so important a measure was submitted to Parliament ? They were

      absent—because they were aware that they could not oppose the measure by argument . For himself , however few his supporter-may be , he was resolved to adhere steadfastly to those principles . And let him remind that house , that in former times every point of the Charter—with the single exception ofthe ballot—was the basis of the English constitution ; they had annual parliaments , universal suffrage , equal electoral districts , no property qualification , and payment of members ; and before he sat down he would analyse the justice of those several points , and would show the harmony that that there existed in this country . Here Mr . CampSjell—tho son of " plain John , "moved that the house be counted , when , ' there being only twenty-nine members present , the house broke up . - '

      ( From our Third Edition of lost week . J FRIDAY , July 5 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —Pabliambntaby Voiebs ( Ireland ) . Bill . _Theirs Lordships went ; into committee on this bill .. After various clauses had been discussed , . ' i ¦ „ Lord Stanley moved on clause 15 , an _amendmonfc to the effect that it should bo optional with the elector whether is should be on the register or nofc . ' . •'¦¦¦¦ ¦••

      This opposition was opposed by the Marquis of Lansb - WiVe , Earl Grey , Lord Mosteaole , Lord _Eddisbuby , and Lord St . Germans ; and supported by Lord Brougham , Lord _Redesdali _* , and Lord Glengali ,, and , on a division , waa carried by 53 to 39 ; majority against government , 14 . , Ifc was then agreed that the report should be brought up on Tuesday . The Australian Colonies Bill , after a speech from Lord Lyttblion , who complained of its imperfections , was read a third time and passed .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Repeal of the Malt Tax . —Mr , Caylky submitted his motion , brought forward entirely , he observed , upon his own responsibility , for the repeal ofthe malt tax . His arguments against the continuance of the impost were founded partly upon general objections to the vexatious and inquisitorial character of an excise tax , and partly upon the necessity of affording some relief to the agriculturists , who were suffering severe distress in consequence of the cessation of protection . The hon . member afterwards dwelt

      upon the justice of relieving the poor consumer from a burden which enhanced the _priCO Of ( 111 article that mi ght be classed among their necessary luxuries . Mr . Christopher had been prevented from voting heretofore in favour of an abolition ofthe malt-tax by considerations of its probable effect upon the public revenue . As the agricultural interest was now the only one left unprotected , he felt that the claims of justice superseded those of finance , and he therefore now seconded the motion .

      The Chancellor of the Exchequer resisted the proposition , upon tho . ground that no substitute had been indicated for the very important tax which he was asked to remove , He denied that the returns of the consumption of malt gave any indication that free trade had proved injurious to the producers . The total quantity had no doubt declined by about one million quarters annually between 1830 . and 1849 . But the tables showed that the consumption of wine had fallen from 7 , 000 ; 000 to 6 , 2-17 . 000 gallons , and that of spirits of all sorts had also declined by one million gallons in the

      same interval . Tea , on the other hand , had increased in the ten years from thirty-five to fifty million pounds ; coffee from twenty-six to thirtyfour millions ; and cocoa from 1 , 600 , 000 tO 3 , 200 , 000 pounds . This change he attributed to an improvement of the moral habits of the people , which had led to a happy diminution in the taste for stimulating fluids . The right honourable baronet proceeded to quote the evidence of parties largely experienced , and added many arguments to prove that the loss to the revenue occasioned by abolishing the tax would not be compensated by an increase of consumption , or ihe general benefit of the

      consumers . A long discussion ensued , when the house divided— ' - . For the motion 123 Against it , 217—124 The Railways Abandonment Bill , wliich has already passed the Lords , was read a third time . The house adjourned at half-past two o ' clock .

      Did They Surrey Sessions

      Satiosal Charter League . The Weekl Y Di...

      _SATIOSAL CHARTER LEAGUE . The weekl y discussions conducted by this body at their rooms , 5 , Snow-hill , City , were resumed on Sunday evening last , when Mr . Dixon , in an able speech , - 'introduced , as a question for discussion , and of which he had previously givennotice— " The consequences to be apprehended from the repeal of the Corn Laws . " His views were disputed , and an animated debate arose thereupon . The discussion was adjourned until Sunday next , the 11 th inst ,, when the chair will be taken at eight o ' clock in the evening , and the question will be re-opened by Mr . Side .

      At a meeting of the council held on the evening of Wednesday last ; it was unanimously resolved , to present the thanks of the League to Mr . Locke King , for his effort to extend tho franchise , by the assimilation of the county to the borough qualifiation . The speech of Lord John Russell was warmly reprobated and condemned .

      Aeronautics In Paris,—Extraordinary Inte...

      Aeronautics in Paris , —Extraordinary interest had been excited in Paris ' by the announcement that M . Poiteven , an aeronaut , would ascend on horseback with a balloon , Upwards of 10 , 000 persons paid for admission to the Champ de Mars to witness the ascent , and outside , on the heights of Chaillofc , < fce ., upwards of-150 , 000 individuals were collected . There was a vast number of carriages and horsemen . The receipts must have been very large . The President of the Republic was present , and was received with great enthusiasm . The balloon was fifteen metres in diameter , forty-seven in circumference , and twenty high , but it only weighed 150 kilogrammes . It was a matter of considerable

      difficulty to fill the balloon with gas , owing to the violent wind wbich prevailed ; and when ifc was filled , ifc was beaten to and fro so strongly that several of the spectators had to assist in holding it . At a little before six o ' clock the horse , a handsome dapple gray , was brought out . A stout cloth was placed round the body ; and several straps , passed over the shoulders and loins , wero united in rings , and by these rings the animal was attaohed by cords to tho network of the balloon . A platform of basketwork , seven or . eight feet above the horse , contained tho _bullast , anito this platform the aeronaut had access by means of a ropo ladder . A cord , passing throtiffh an opening in the platform , enabled him to open the valve of the balloon . The aeronaut

      was dressed as a jockoy , and had with him several bottles of wine and somo bread . Some confusion was caused by the crowd attempting to force their way into the reserved place , but they were kept oft by the soldiers . At length , at ten minutes past six the horse was duly attached to the balloon , and It Poiteven having mounted its back , tho signal to rise was given . The horse plunged a little as ifc lost its looting , but when fairl y lifted from the earth it dropped its legs , as is the case when horses aro slung for embarkation on shi pboard . The balloon rose majestically over the Ecole Militaire , but afc times the wind was so violent as to drive it in such a position that it appeared on a level with the aeronaut . The emotion of the spectators was verv great , and ono lady fainted . ' M . Poiteven displayed extraordiuary sarigpoid , and saluted with his cai > and whip . ' . After awhile he was seen to leave his saddle and ascend b y means of the rope ladder to tho

      platform containing the ballast , in order to throw some of ifc away so as to rise hi <» ber Thi . done , he descended and again mounted " the _hors . There was no network or anything to protect him or tho animal . The balloon went in the direction of Fontainebloaii , and M . Poiteven intended to re - main iu the air about ati hour . g Ver _ _l balloon . _tamthod-reption of the . wind , and some persons connected with him wont off on horseback , in order to be able , , f possible , to render _} lim Li tanco in descend . ng It is reported that the daring _aeronau ' alighted at _Meaux , and that horse and rider have returned safe and sound to Paris . M . -Tiurrb received _ 52 _-, 000 for " The _Hittorv of the Consulate and the Empire , " _ everal v . umes of which are yet unwritten . '• The publishers afS f „ these stint times that he _migltbe'X of 5 h " d to insure his life , and . tri . d " the London _offlSrfS the purpose , but they " declined the risk " . -.

      Surrey Sessions The Adiowned -Essions Fo...

      SURREY SESSIONS The _adiowned _-essions for the county of Surrey ine _^ J _" "" _^ , _" HflV a * _+ he Court-house , _tfew-IDg £ SrS- magistrates . The ca endar oon-? aiS £ names o f only thirty prisoners for triai ' _ ., __ . W Thorn . 24 , and J . Field , 19 , ¦ _HoumaKAKiso . -- . _VoJbreaking into the two labourers , were ..- _^ _gJJ ' t . fjhertsey , and dwe [ _ing-house of R , _OJ _^ _w » j , stealing twent y wne rowreigns _^ u his _'PrtP 5 _^ - P _" _Csun-S morning , the 20 th ° he _wSt t . chSrch . In the drawers _m'hgbj droom there were two bags _m * S * _^ * 1 _" ?* f f { 5 n /! and silver , besides about 20 s . in the till . Unim return home he observed that the staircase window UlU uuiuc >¦— - -

      I __ - ¦ " w «» _x » - . , . i |_ --m had been forced open , and on entering his bedroom , he discovered thafc aU bis money was gone . In descending , ho perceived the larder had been enteiea , and whin he entered the shop he found the _bU ransacked . He immediately gave information to the police , and the prisoners were' apprehended tne same day . The money was afterwar ds found under a clump of fir s , by the direction of Field , who took them there . —James Cotton , a blacksmith , residing near prosecutor ' s house , said he saw the'prisoner g pass his house on tho morning'in question . They went in the direction of prosecutor ' s ' , —Harriet Beddell , smother neighbour , said she saw Thorn leave the prosecutor's house a little before twelve in the morning in question ; He went up in- the'

      _Cobbamroad , and stopped at a clump of firs . He stooped down , and afterwards walked away . She did not tako particular notice of him , as he frequently passed . —Field pleaded guilty , and , without the least hesitation , thc jury found his companion "' Guilty . "—The Court sentenced them to ten jears ' transportation . —As soon as sentence was passed , Thorn turnod round upon his companion in a furious manner , and would have attacked him' hail not officers been behind him . He was forced away , and taken to the cells with great _dtflSculty . ' ) The prosecutor here interceded for Field , whom he knew to be the dupe of the other , when the Court called hina hack , and reduced his sentence to twelve months afc Guildford .

      The Assault On Tiie Queen

      THE ASSAULT ON TIIE QUEEN

      CRIMINAL COURT .-THURSDAY . Somo time beforo the _opening of the court tho doors and entrances were besieged by . crowds of well-dressed people , who were anxious to be present at the trial of the man Pate , for assaulting her Majesty , but no one was admitted without an order from the Under-Sheriffs , and thc court was afc no time overcrowded . Their lordships arrived a few minutes after ten o ' clock , and the prisoner was immediately placed in the dock . There was nothing new in his appearance to call for remark . He was dressed in a blue

      surtout buttoned up to tho neck , and seemed to be but little concerned at the situation he found himself in . He stood firm and erect , with his hands behind him , and his whole demeanour and bearing was that of a military man . He was described in the calendar as " Robert Pate , aged 30 , gentleman , " and the charge against him was thus stated— " Unlawfully , and with a stick , striking tbe person of our Lady the Queen , with intent to injure our said Lady thei _$ ueen . ' Upon being called upon in the usual form , ho pleaded "Nofcguilty" in a firm voice . The evidence for the prosecution was merely arepetition of what bas so lately appeared in thi 3

      paper . Mr . Cockburs then proceeded to address the jury for the defence . He said he could not dispute the fact that the prisoner had been guilty of the act imputed to him , and certainly , if thc prisoner had been responsible for what he did , it was an act meriting the severest punishment , but his learned friend had rightly conjectured that the act would be excused on the ground of insanity _, the prisoner had been rightly described as the son of a gentleman of fortune , who resided in Cambridgeshire . In 1841 he joined the 10 th Hussars in Ireland , and up to a particular period , which he should presently refer to , he performed all the duties of an officer to the satisfaction of his

      superiors . He was very much attached to animals , and bad two favourite horses and a ( log , The dog , while suffering from an attack ot hydrophobia , bit the two horses , and eventually they died in a state of fri ghtful madness . Tin ' s circumstance so affected his mind that he became gloomy and strange in his manner . His father , however , having heard of the loss , sent him over to Dublin a very valuable horse ; but before it reached there the prisoner , without saying anything to his groan , or servants , quitted Dublin and came over to London , where he was met by somo of his friends . His manner appeared to them . o wiid and extrarapnt that they persuaded him to go down to his father ' s house , where he becam

      still more outrageous in bis behaviour . ' He declared to liis father that the reason he had left Dublin was that the cooks and mess of his _regimerit bad entered into a conspiracy , to poison him . Uis friends , however succeeded 'in disabusing his mind of this delusion , and he returned to Dublin , but he had not been there long before he sent word to his father that his inside was filled With brickbats . Ilis father immediatel y repaired to Dublin , and consulted Dr . Murray , the surgeon o £ the regiment , upon the state of his son ' s health . The general impression then was that he was harmless and lisjht-headed , nothing more , and bis father allowed him to remain in Dublin . Shortly afterwards the prisoner again came to London , and , with

      out communicating with his father or his friends , he sold his commission , and went to live in Germanstreet . Here his habits were of the most regular character ; he always dressed the same b » th in . winter and summer , kept regular hours , and strange to say , for fifteen months , at four o ' clock in the day , no matter what the weather was , wet or dry , he went in the same eab , which was a Hansom , to Putney-common , where he would remain for an hour afc a small pond without any apparent purpose . His conduct in the cab was always violent and strange . After this he went

      to live in Duke-street , where his conduct was equally preposterous and silly , while his mode of conducting himself in the street , and the manner m which he threw his arms about was so utterly at variance with the practice of a sane man , that the police had long kept a wat _. h over him . Evidence for the defence amply bore out the statement of the learned counsel . The Attorney-General replied , after which the Judge summed up , and the Jury retired , and were absent four hours , when they returned into Court at ten minutes past seven o ' clook with a verdict of " Guilty . "

      Mr . Baron _Aldebson _, in a feeling ? dress , sentenced the prisoner to be transport nd for seven years , observing that it was only out of respect to his family that the Court refrained from ordering him to bo publicly whipped . The prisoner , who remained unmoved to the last , was then taken away .

      •In*-" Death Of His Royal Highness The D...

      • IN * - " DEATH OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE . Tho Duke of Cambridge expired on Monday night . The following is the bulletin announcing the death of his JRoyal Hi g hness - . — Cambridge-house , Julv'Sth , 1 S 50 . „ . _ , , 10 O ' clock , p . m . His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge , after passing a tranquil day , expired somewhat suddenly , and without suffering , at twenty minutes beforo ten o ' clock . The deceased Prince Adol phus Frederick , who was the seventh aud youngest son _~ o __ George III ., had completed the 76 th year of his age , having been born on the 24 th of February , 1774 .

      Convic Ts' Provisions. —Bv " Tt_>. ' « _...

      Convic ts' _Provisions . —Bv " _tt _> . ' « ___;' . _* _ _^ _HH' _^ siP _^ required to be of a mn _ h . nl- * 7 ' _provisons are which two-third 1 «?? k super or character to those _^ _StxiSLS _^ JT _' _^' ° . fth 08 ° t 0 ffns be of the Very £ _iSL ! _- _!' . md < i _^ , _^ _" _- _-ed to tradesman ora man Sffl S ltia P - _^ ° cvc » a self . rS £ _* f 2 S ? _tlS _T _^ _ fll , w / orhia - sweet _™ f » . _vviP i . ° g °° <* Ox Or heifer , sound , eeWed ffl _^ r . ' , ' or sta wi "ot bo remitton L 016 m _f "nd l _^ rtersaltornatelv . " The _tobeLniW _" ° i " th 8 _^ t weather mutton , _ _SarrP » PP d n . , al _Potions of fore and hind quarters ; ' and the bread bo •« the best wheaten . " —Hampshire Independent . Iiib . Harvest m Franc _^ -Li the provinces of Guenne _, the Centre , _Burgundy , _FrancheTw ™

      anu Alsace , the wheat crops are , excellent _™_ beans , potatoes , to ., ' promise to _blabuS' Thi _hajr is of excellent quality , and" the rvo _n __ -m < winch fears had b \ cn entertained ? s _^ _^ speaking , in a good state . SovSvL _£ . mU fered from the frost in March _» . > - _W - _*» N > ttho complaints made art _5 B _» _- ' ° _. ] ' whoIe Medoc , L Youne , _tioi _^ _etSr _a"S . ho " ?

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 13, 1850, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_13071850/page/8/