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      HOUSE OF LORD S , Fridat , Jcse G . _ , . . - . „ _ , tone hut no business ef any The house sat wr a si '" taat - ' . importance came nader consideration . 9

      HOUSE OF LORDS , Moxbay , Jcse . , n £ ttarf £ * J . oru VHamdiffe defended the course Z £ 2 J 5 t . T . X * -hose conduct « . . gain severely comm ented 0 : 1 < v Lard Brougham . COHKN ^ TIO-N 10 TESAKIS ( KEtASD ) MIL . Lard . SnsiT rose to move the first reading oi : the UU fer Compeusat : .:. to Tenants in Ireland . He believed tha t there was aoonc whowouldnot concur in theoptmon thai the grand remedy for some of the most prominent eriU under wind . Ireland laboured was to provide remunerative laW-a- tor hersnrplus population . There were only tiro ia » a = s hy which this conid he effected —dther hv emigration , which would reduce th »

      amount oi £ lection within the limits of employ ment , or hy r . - .-. -i . aang the means ef employment so as to make it coniinKisuratcwith the amount of the population . Fur iai own part he did not think that emigration , v . h " : o " :. i- " :. Jlf-was for many reasons oibjecfionaolc , would j « . - !< « :. * :. .-itat remedy & r the evil , especially as Ireland hi . - ¦ -. - though and to siiai-e for her population ; hut vh--: - -- - - did want was capital for employment , which co ::::.. . ily he got eitherfi-oui tiie Crown , orfromlhelandlow , < . -: from the tenant . The third source , however absurd it might seemtosometo talk on Irish tenants ' capital , was the most important of all , and to it the Government now proposed to turn their attention . That class at persons in Ireland n « -t > often possessed of more money than thev were inclined to admit , and hesides of another

      capital—their labour and industry . He compared the average size of farms iu England and Ireland , and after . mentioning gnat uf tlie more prominent evils of the Irish system , explained that the Government proposed by this fcilito si-csa-e compensation for three principal kinds of improvements elVected by tiie tenant—building , draining , anu ifcxKig . ' Ihe nolle lord then entered into a minute duai ! r . * jtccting these improvements , and tlie amount of com 3 . c ; : % t : ' .-n to be allowed for them , and proceeded to state- that saca computation would only he secured to the ii & ani wiio was ejected hy his landlord . It would also he necessary to provide inexpensive means of settling thL . - _> ciahns between landlord and tenant ; and for this pur ,.-6 o it -. vas proposed to establish an officer ia Dublin ,

      with thetirioof Commissio . icr of Improvements , to whom all tlain . s of compensation shouldhe addressed in writing . This efUcsr should then hare the power of appointing A 5 ^ i " . nt Coinmisdoners , who would be sect down to examine into cases , and make awards , by which means t & .: i ' . ; t * « sralu not be pnt to tlie expense of a journey to 3 > uh ! iii . The Marquis , of CtASiacAsns said no one could be exjieeie-j to psi .-s an ni-hesitating opinion on a measure wisleL - :-ea : en tiie subject in such detail , hut rejoiced at tSj * bill , a , a means of relieving the Irish landlords from much of ' use 'jjjlorjuy that now attached to them , and saving than the troablc of finding agents for their estates , whoK- ; Oace would be supplied by the Commissioners . In his o' / uiien . the bill would do voir little towards

      remedying th i evils c-i : npVain «; d of . Tho Earl cf IVicelow expressed his conviction that the hiii was founded on justice , equity , and good faith . Loid Itosss thought the principle of the measure very objcvtiosablc . The £ uii of tizxox said , it was a great mistake to supjio ' zi ; . ' . ; . ; ii ; i = measure was meant as a panacea for all the illi of Ireland . It vas intended to meet a particular cJass < £ distress , and he besought tlie house to consider jt « : i : j : h- as applying an effectual remedy to a great practice evil . He rejoiced in the hill , as one easy of application . : j ; -1 fair towards both landlord and tenant . lor .: F'jsthax expressed his sincere disappointment att " : c raeas ^ , as containing some most objectionable pro > isiocs , which would also be found most diScalt of execution . ! Th ;; bill was then read a first time .

      Lord iUnsus moved tlie second reading of the Bastard Cluiis :: Bill , and briefly stated , that the principle of the esist-. - . g lav . was bad , as giving to designing women the pov . i-: > ji" ciisi' . aring the nnsuspecting , for which reason he hopid the i : ous ; would consent to some alteration . Lyres V . " aAHxcnrF £ and Caexahvon both opposed the hUL on U . i ground that so short a time had elapsed sinec tho : uai--Jment of the law , that it was quite impossible to proaour . ee how it would work . On the question being put hy the Chancellor , that tiie biU ^ . - read i . ssioad time , ! . ;;

      TcEsaAt , Jess 10 . After the presentation of an immense number of petitions against the measure , Tiu- Duke of Wellisgtqs moved that their Lordships slio-ild resolve themselves into committee upon the 3 Iayr . o-. 'th Li ! :. Th ? I » ul : e of Leisstee , as a near neighbour of tlie co'lv' ^ c . said a : V . v words in vindication of the discipline a'jJ u : iiu- svsteiu of instruction pursued there ; and Lord C ! a : ' : ' .:: ; - - . henmovod that the bill shouldhe committed ti ;; . i J :-. ; si ; Kiontlis , resting his opposition principally on the- ^ JSw-i . 'ce of proof thai there was a want of funds at Kajnoyzl :, raid inon die inappropriateness of the time at wfc : ; -fc si : 2 niiasurt Lad been introduced .

      Ljrd icsiow ciiiiessi-d his obligation to the Government f-ur th :.- v .-iid-jhj an'l coui-age they had displayed in di . 'iiuii ; : i :: a proj «> sing Uiis measure , but trusted that he 11 % * . '* s- ^ - ^ - . iit ss an Indus of an intention to connect the ll-j : iiz . -: Ci . uiv ! iv Charch with the State by means of an cndov . auai . This was now only aquation of time and mode : : l : c- fura-vr was as propitious now as it ever would hi 3 / -: i i :: £ - lattei- was still one of dinicnitj-. He objected eit : - . ^ : ty t ' . ; ar ^ c the endowment upon the Consolidated Ftii : u «• to ti . ' ae it from the property of tbe Irish Chnreh , but thov . jli : ti : at if it were placed as a rent-charge upon tat Ixr-i . ; .: iti : er Parliament nor tho landlords would h 4-. o :. ri ^ t ttf « om : iIah > . Hesliowed that tiie plunder

      of the ii'Iiii i ' ruteataut Church within the las * , ten years v .-c-i- ! i . 'jivi 3 ! p " . vsua : « .-td /<; rfliis endowment , aud conciu * -.. i'y wyis ^ f the Guveramc-nt , if they meant to pre-£ ; : ;¦ ; : tr : a-. ; vi ! lity , to pursue their present measure , a : id bj piv- 'i-rv- mx : nidoj . with one for tiie endowment of theiw ^ 'iCliUrd :. I' . 'i . i i ' lizifjiiiAJ : coiit-uiTciin the oph : i-jn Hist , after en ; .: '•! :-:.: M .-iyaooth , an endowment of the Romish clergy wju'd hi :. i := oluteiy indispensable . He agreed also ger . ; r _ . . : h : the views of Lord Wichlow as to the soui-ce irom v . hlii . tlie nccessarj- funds should he provided , but ili--: .- ' ! . t that to avoid the appearance of degradation , the : ui :.: s : ari of bulh reiiduOS should be placed upon exactly

      t :: r s ; :: e ioornig . Lor . 5 Clascartt having withdrawn his amendment , Lm-i v , * : ; aracK £ c Cislud that the present bill was any taiuesi uf tLe fnmrc intentions of Government . He had iiai-j'f Mnueriy expressed opinions in favour of aa endon-men ; of ihe Koniish clergy , but it would not he pradc -ittuji . oposesuch a measure unless it were in confor . mity wiiii ii : i ophiioss of the English people . Li the mean ti :- ; i , h would be the business of Ministers to watch tkss & dr .. * . The Murquis ef Beeadaxbane trusted that the people of E j glaud would take warning by this declaration ; and the bill having then rapidly gone through committee , their iordiliips adjourned .

      Thcssdat , Jcse 12 . Loud Ti-ETS-tN , in a short speech , moved for leave to brins in a bill for providing compensation to tenants for impit'it-aients . Aftci a few words from Lord Beaumont , die bill was read 2 . fiist time , and their Loidship ; adjourned .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS , FnioAr , Jr . M- B . Lord As * U £ v moved for leave to bring in two bills for the regulation of the cure and treatment of insane persons in England and Vales . "The noble loid , ia an able speech , enforced the necessity for affording greater protection than i .-jir existed to the lunatics in all parts of the Bountry , those residing oat of as well as in lunatic asylums , and hoped that his bills would meet nidi no opposition in their progress through Parliament . Sir J . Gba-jam , witii great satisfaction , seconded the motion . The speech of the noble lord last session would not readily bo foijiotten by those who had heard it , and had convinced the Government that it was a subject their attention to which should be no longer deferred ; and , according : . - ! - , during tiie recess he had , in conjunction with the nobie lord , considered the subject , and the result of their labours was then before the house . The hills of the r . oblelord were not exactly Government "bills , but they ive .-c brought in with the sanction of the Government , wLirh had resolved to support them .

      Lord CtEJiESts said that the bill showed how differ , ently diey were disposed to legislate fcr England and for Ireland . Sir J . Geabas said that a similar measure was prepared for Ireland . & r . Fox Macle highly eulogised the philanthropy of the noble lord , and yjg ^ ested that a commission should be appointed to report on the state of lunatics in Scotland , all of the asyluais ia that country being supported hy voluntary contr ibatjan . He thought , as to legislation , the extension of the present measure to Scotland would do all that was requisite . The Lord Advocate said the subject had attracted considerable attention in Scotland , hat he wished to sec the progress of the present bills before framing one for Scotia :: ;! . After a few ol-ierrations from Mr . G . Strickland , Mr . Hcttlsv . a :: c -W . Urotaeiton , leave was given to bring iu

      theb . V . s . The house then adjourned . HOUSE OF COMMOXS , Mosdat , Jess 9 . Tiie hoaje met at four o ' clock , when Lord B . Hill took the oaths and his seat as one of the representatives of the county of Down , in the room of the Earl of ISlsboroogh , who has been called to the House of Peers as Marquis of Hownshire , on the demise of his father , the late marquis . Lord AsntEt brought in his bill for regulating lunatic asylums in England and Vales . It was read a first time , and ordered to be printed .

      Bahirase was engaged for two hours at the early part - c £ T ? " wnsiderins the Banking ( Scotland ) BUI ** K % ^ £ 5 J * *•«¦***» <« <; - n p ' ¦ T BU 9 H BASKlNO ^ cStfttS ^ h 0 U 5 e resol « itse u 166 oa ttfe Bauimg ( Ireland ) Bill ,

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      Mr . Boss observed , that this bill was far more mischievous than he had originally apprehended . It placed a check upon tlie amount of circulation necessary to the prosperity and security oi"Ireland , and ti at , too , at a time when trade and commerce were making large strides towards improvement : n every direction . It abolished fractional notes for such sums as 20 s . or SOs ,, which were found extremely convenient at small markets in Ireland , and thus compelled the Irish bankers to keep a larger quantity of silver in their coffers than hitherto . He objected also that it did not make the notes of the Bank of Ireland a legal tender . .

      Colonel Cosoelv thanked Ministers for this bill , but hoped that they would insert in it some provision for the probable increase of circulation , which would he shortly demanded by the expanding energies and increasing prosperity of Ireland . Even in the last year the circulation had increased one million . He gave a most gratifying account of the increased exports and imports which had taken place within that period in every port in tiiat country , but more particularly iu die northern ports of "Deny and Belfast , and expressed a hope that nothing would be done , either in director indirect legislation , by Government to impede this incipient prosperity .

      Sir B . P £ Ei wished that he could impress 011 die minds of Irish members , who seemed to believe that capital consisted in an excessive issue of paper , the conviction that no country in the world would derive greater benefit tban Ireland from an improved system of banking . So countiy had suffered so much from a bad system as Ireland had . He kuw from Ids own experience that the most heartrending and wide-spreading distress had arisen in the west and south of Ireland from the simultaneous breaking of the banks in those districts some twenty or thirty years ago . It was , therefore , necessary to found the currency on the certain aud immediate convertibility of its paper into gold . Even its joint-stock banks—which were more recent institutions—bad not been well conducted . For instance , the Agricultural Bank , by the innumerable

      branches wluch it had established , and by the excessive issue of its paper , had affected every local bank in that country . There was one joint-stock bank ia Ireland , wluch had been most admirably conducted . That was the Provincial Bank : aud yet that hank had been most injuriously affected by the Agricultural Bank—for it had been obliged to b » always rea « y with a considerable quantity of goldfor a run . In 18 D 7 the Provincial Bank had in its coffers a quantity of gold greater than its issues . All that gold came from the Bank of England , and was principally supplied from London aud the branches of Liverpool aud Bristol . He showed that at tiiat time die banks of Ireland were compelled by the conduct of the Agricultural Bank to provide themselves with two millions of gold , merely for die sake of protecting their own credit . He was

      going to relieve by this bill those banks from the constant necessity of being provided with that immense amount , not to guard against their own incaution , but against the incaution of others , and from tne dreadful suspense and anxiety in which aU banking concerns in Ireland had hitherto been involved . He then proceeded to defend the details of the Dili , aud to point out the advantages which it would confer upon Ireland by abolishing the exclusive privileges of the Bank of Ireland , and by opening to all the other banks the power of competing within the hitherto restricted limits . All that he asked was , that if there was in Ireland that increasing prosperity which required an increasing circulation , they would provide for die security of it by assigning some portion of banking assets to the provision of a certain portion of specie .

      Mr . E . B . Bochl observed , that , though he was not going to throw any impediment in the Way of this bill going into committee , he could not refrain & om stating liis . opinion that tiicre was , no ' necessity for the interference of Government with this subject , and that SirR . Peel had made out no case for it . Mr . Bedikotox complained of the manner in which this bill took tiie average of the circulation of Ireland , and contended that it must operate injuriously upon that country . Sir ll . FEiiGcsox considered Ireland to be unfairly treated by the restriction which this bill imposed ontbs amount of its currency . Lord Clesiects objected to a portion of the bill , because it appeared to him to steal a march on the bauks of Ireland , which was injurious to their interests .

      Mr . S . CsAWFOun submitted to the revision of Uiehousc both the immediate effects and the ultimate object of this bill . -Its ultimate object was to assimilate the currency of Ireland to that of England , and to abolish the banknote circulation iu both countries . The restriction on a paper circulation in favour of gold was not , iu his opinion , a benefit to England , and therefore he was unwilling to assimilate Ireland to England ia d ; at respect . Besides , the circumstances of the two countries were different . England was a rich , Ireland was a poor country ; and the immediate effects of this bill would be to check the circulation of Ireland at present , and to stop the credit which had been so judiciously afforded to industiy uidiin the last year by the banks of diat country .

      Mr . vYxsz maintained drat there were clauses hi tliis bill which carried out its principle too far . In his anxiety to restrict the over-issue of paper , Sir 11 . Peel had not provided any means for securing that expansion of issue which must follow the development of labour and capital . He also thought that as the bill contained no provision for the formation of new hanks , it would act as a monopoly in favour of the existing banks . The house then resolved itself into the proposed Committee . In the Committee , soms discussion took place on the first clause , and an amendment was moved upon it , which ihe Committee negatived upon a dmsiou . The other clauses of the bill were then agreed to , and the house having resumed , die report was ordered to be received on Thursday next . THE HOUSE ASS ITS "PRIVILEGES . "

      Sir IV . Gosseit , die Serjeant-at-Arms , tiieu appeared at the bar , and acquainted die house that in the case of " Howard » . Gossctt , " execution had been levied on Saturday last , the 7 th instant , for £ 433 12 s ., being the amount ¦ of damages and costs hi the suit . On the motion of SirR . Peel the communication just made by die Serjeant to the house was referred to tlie Select Committee on Printed Papers . The otiicr orders of tha day having been disposed of , tlie house adjourned .

      TcE . sa . vr , Jzne 10 . Tne house met at four o ' clock . RSrOSM BliL—KAIIXG CLAUSES . Mr . T . Du-vco . vaE gave notice , that on Tuesday , July S , lie should move for leave to bring in a biil . to repeal the rating clauses in the Reform . Bill . lie begged also to ask the right hon . baronet , the Home Secretary , when the report and evidence furnished by Mr . lingers , the Government inspector , with regard to the conduct of Mr . Briscoe , a county magistrate , in imprisoning a man named Price , would be forthcoming , as he understood that the report had beer , prepared and sent in , Mr . Rogers having returned to town ten days ago . Sir J . Giuuam assured the hon . member he had received no report such as he had referred to , and that he was totally misinformed on the subject .

      Mr . 0 . Gohe presented 115 petitions against the present Com Laws . Mr . Miles presented several petitions from Somersetshire , complaining that the agriculturists had not sufficient protection .

      conx . Mr , VruiEss moved for a committee of the whole house for the purpose of considering his resolutions for the abolition of all restrictions on the importation of foreign corn . After taking a review ot the declarations made by Lord John Russell , Sir James Graham , Colonel "Wood , and others on this subject during tlie present session , he proceeded to congratulate himself on the improvement of Ms position ill bringing forward these resolutions at present , as compared with that which he occupied on similar occasions in former sessions . There was now a general admission ou the part of those on both sides ef the house that it had become the duty of some member of Parliament to test the opinions of the

      niostinflucntial partiesin Parliamentoh tills question ; and , therefore , he now came forward tc contend that the Com Laws were wholly unsuited to the present condition of the country—that they never had a laudable object in view—that at times they haa proved most injurious to the laiiouring classes—and that the sooner they were abolished the better . The object of them originally was to make land dear ; and that object had been consistently pursued in all the legislation which had been adopted since . The fanner-rwho had been declared on iiigh agricultural authority to be a man of very contracted views—had been deluded into the support of these laws by the fiction that price meant profit . Lie had , therefore , given his vote in support of those gentlemen who told him

      that high prices meant high profits , and against those who told him that if he trusted in such a fiction he would find hiiuself weirdly disappointed . He wished to call the attention \ of the farmer to this question—who were his friends , and who were not ? He wanted the members of the Agricultural Protection Society , and more particularly Mr . S . O'Brien , who had its resources at his command , to explain howit was that the farmer was in his present- distressed condition , considering the protection which had been so long afforded him , and how it hapjicned that tiie farmer differed from any other capitalist . He thought that Mr . O'Brien was precluded on this occasion from saying two things at least—first , that it was owing to the recent measure ? of her Majesty's Government that the fanner was in distress , tor he had been subject to similar distress

      at different periods during the last tlurty-five years ; aud , secondly , that the landlord and the fanner were swimming in the same boat together , for the landlords were in general well off , and had not made any reduction in their usual luxuries and establishments . A very intelligent fanner had told him that the agricultural body would lie well satisfied if he could draw from any member of the Protection Society an explanation of what was the matter with the farmers , and why they were so often indisposed . He then proceeded to ridicule the language used by speakers at agricultural meetings in different parts of the country , and to show that such meetings were now dividing themselves into two classes—one consisting of landlords claiming from the Government further legislative protection , and the other of farmers claiming from their landlords something very different from legislative protection . That fact had

      led Mr . Cobden to declare that protection , was injurious to agriculture , and to move for an inquiry to test its correctness of that declaration , That mo-

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      tion was refused , and the house was told by Mr . S .. Herbert to trust to her Majesty ' s Government , and to see what would happen . Great improvements in our system of agriculture were said to be required , but it unfortunately happened that before they could be made , the landlords required further protection from the Government , and the tenants further consideration from their landlords , and neither the Government nor the landlords would grant what was required of them . Those who were anxious to provide a further supply of food for the population were told to wait , and therefore they were obliged to inquire whether the improvements for which they were to wait had any chance of being accomplished . lie entered into a long argument to show , that so long .. ~ . ..... . » - , . .

      as the present system continued there was not the slightest chance of those improvements being accomplished . There was therefore no likelihood of providing from domestic sources that adequate supply of food which the population required . What , then , was the reason that precluded us from providing it from foreign sources . Those who were interested in the maintenance of the Com Laws had been guilty of a premeditated attempt to deceive tho people on this subject , by stating in sundry publications that this foreign supply would make food " cheap , and that if food were made cheap , it would reduce the wages of the people and injure them accordingly , lie hoped that those who cheered that statement would come forward that evening and refute the speck of Sir James

      Graham , who had triumphantly shown or . a recent occasion that the poor were better off , and that pauperism and crime had materially diminished , owing to the recent decrease of prices . The iiict was , that when you rendered the price of food high , you threw twothirds of the labouring population of Great Britain out of employment . A scarcity was said to lie a curse inflicted on a country by God ; but ought wc , when we creatc > scarcity by our faulty and imperfect legislation , to attribute it to the operations of Providence , who has " filled the earth with good things ?" The existing Corn Laws and the Canadian Corn Bill had not been passed to increase the supply of food for the people , but for special reasons , and they had nothing to do with the present asricultural distress .

      Sir J . Graham had told the House that there was an annual increase of 380 , 000 sou's in the population of Great Britain every year , aud had admitted that some relaxation must be made in the Corn Laws in proportion to the future increase of the population . Sir J . Graham now said that he did not make that admission with that view . Be it so . Then he ( Mr . Villiera ) would say , that it was not tho annual increase in our population , but the enormous amount of destitution and distress in the countryevinced by the fact mentioned by Sir J . Graham , that we had 14500 , Q 00 paupers last ycac—which , required the alteration he proposed in the Cora Laws , lie showed that , if an unfavourable harvest , or a period of scarcity , should recur , there were

      circumstances which would make tlie pressure of them more severely felt by the country than it had ever been formerly , inasmuch as the standard of living had been much exalted both at home and abroad , and as many countries , France and Belgium , for instance , which had been exporters , were now importers of com . Besides , thou . ' legislation had discouraged agriculture in every country in Europe , and there was not a grain of corn grown upon the continent at present with a view to the English market . Moreover , the recent alteration in our banking system would render the revulsion more severe on the manufacturing interest , whenever it should become necessary to export bullion ; and whenever they were first compelled to send for corn , they must scndbullion , or

      else submit to a most ruinous fall of prices in their manufactures . He was at a loss to know what plea would be urged by the Government in reply to his demand , on behalf of the people , for free access to means of subsistence . If the Government should either plead the pressure of local taxation , or the peculiar burdens on land , he would reply , "Bringus in at once an account of what is paid ou those scores , and we will show that it is far less than the loss which the people sustain every year owing to the restrictions oh their supply of food . " He called upon the Government to indemnify the landlords in any way they pleased except that of making the food oi the people deai . Mr . Oswald seconded the motion in a brief and forcible speech .

      Mr . Ciuusior-uE & moved a direct negative to this motion , which he considered to be at once impolitic and uncalled for . No complaints had been made recently respecting the high price of food , and he was convinced that if the poor themselves were consulted on that point , they would declare themselves content with the present prices . The present Corn Laws had been enacted to prevent fluctuation in prices , 3 « d had been eminently successful in effecting that object , as there had been less fluctuation under them than under any former system . The repeal of those laws would not be attended with the beneficial results which Mr . Villiers anticipated ; for no reciprocity in foreign countries had Mowed any other of the relaxations which we had recently made in our

      tariff . ^ there was no risk of our population suffering any privation , or of our manufacturers sustaining any loss from the want of exchange and intercourse with foreign states owing to the operation of these laws , as an immense amount of corn had been imported into the country during the last two years , under the existing duties , and a corresponding amount of manufactures had been exported to pay for it . Mr . AlrrcuKii expressed his intention of supporting tlie motion of Mr . Villiers , because it condemned emphatically the sliding scale of the present law , which operated in many respects most injuriously to our foreign commerce . He showed that the ZoUve rein had been instituted inconsequence of our Corn Laws , and that , owing to the Zollvercin , which

      operated almost as a prohibition on our manufactures , we could not get corn from Prussia unless wc paid for it in bullion . That bullion was in consequence withdrawn from our circulation ; and as soon aa that was done , the Bank was compelled to put on the screw for its own protection . That depressed the price of our manufactures , and aggravated the distress which was likely to prevail from other causes during a time of scarcity . He had been told that the crop of this year had already sustained considerable injury ; but , be that as it might , it was at any rate a backward crop , and a backward crop always ' subjcctedtlic country to great risk . The object oi' those who advocated the present Corn Laws was to make the country independent of any supply of foreign corn . But had

      they considered , supposing that our crop failed in the ensuing autumn , where the requisite supply was to be got ? Europe was completely drained of " corn . These was no chance of obtaining it in the Mediterranean . In the northern parts of Russia a famine was prevailing at present . In Odessa perhaps you might procure a million of quarters , but no one dared to sendout an order for corn either to Odessa or to our more legitimate market-, the United States , at present , because nobody could say what the effect of the duties would be before the corn ordered from those markets arrived in the harbours of England . It was therefore possible that we might have such a

      price ot com next autumn as we had not had for many years . Mr . Mitchell then proceeded to explain the reasons which had converted liim from a partisan of a moderate fixed duty into an advocate of the total repeal of the Com Laws . He recommended the house to legislate upon this subject at present , when it could legislate calmly , and not to wait for a time of destitution and distress , when it would have to yield the repeal of these laws to clamour and intimidation . Mi ' . Buck made a stout agricultural speech in favour of the existing Corn Laws , and deprecated the constant but ineffectual attempts of Mr ; Villiers and his friends to repeal them .

      Mr . Mitt * . PniLirs supported the motion , and exhorted the house to come to a speedy solution of this question , which was at present keeping all the great interests of the country in suspense . Sir J . Graham said , that notwithstanding the sneers to which ho had been exposed for the speech he had lately made , he would again declare , that the prosperity of agriculture must depend on the prosperity of the other branches of native industry , and that this prosperity would be most effectually proraoted by giving an uninterrupted course to the natural flow of native industry . He would not deny that it was his opinion , that by a gradual and cautions policy ; , it was expedient to bring our system of Com Laws into a nearer approximation to those

      wholesome principles which governed our legislation with respect to other industrial departments . It was , however , his conviction that suddenlv and at once to throw open the trade in corn would be inconsistent with the well-being of the community and would give such a shock to the agricultural interest as woidd throw many other interests into a state of convulsion . The object of every Government , without distinction of party , tor the iasttwcntv years , had been to substitute protecting for prohibitory duties , and to reduce gradually protecting duties where it had them to deal with . He approved this as a safe principle , and showed that it was the keystone of the policy of Sir R . Peel . Mr . Villiers had stated that the Corn Law of 1842 had not been

      introduced with any view of diminishing the protection attached to the agricultural interest ; but he read an extract from the speech of Sir 11 Peel in proposing it , to prove that he proposed it explicitly as a decrease of the protection which the nome-grpwer previously had . Mr . Villiers had talked ot the delusions practised on the farmers ; but he reminded Mr . Villiers that there could be no greater delusion than to hold out to the people that they would on the long run gain any considerable advantage in the price of food from the repeal ot the Com Laws . He also combated the doctrine of Mr . Villiers that under stof

      a syem protection no improvement had taken place , or coidd possibly take place , in the agriculture of the country . He showed that England , with a population the double of that which it possessed nfty years ago , now provided food for it with greater ease than it did formerly for half the number . If Mr . Villiers could show him that free trade with open ports would produce a more abundant supply to the labourer , he would make him a convert to the doctrine of free trade in corn . He confessed that he placed no value on the fixed duty of 4 s . proposed by Lord John Russell ; it would be of no avail as a protection , whilst it would be liable to all the obloquy

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      of a protecting duty ; and lie therefore agreed with Mr . Mitchell , that if wc got rid of the present Corn Law , wc had better assent to a total repeal . He thought that the probable quantity of corn received with o pen ports was greatly underrated , and argued from statistics that it would displace one-eighth of the produce of Ireland , and in England the clay land , which was most . costly in cultivation . The displacement of the labour expended on that land would in itself be very disastrous ; but it was also the oldest land in cultivation ; it had been cultivated for wiieat , and it was therefore liable to a very heavy annual charge for tithe . If it were converted into pasture , its value would bo very inferior , and the tithe im-... t » . n _•(!_

      posed upon it would be more than its rental . He proceeded to demonstrate at considerable length other injurious consequences which would result from the sudden change proposed by Mr . Villiers . It would produce not only great panic among tiie agricultural Interest , but also a great diminution in the demand for agricultural labour . If 500 , 000 or 800 , 000 labourers should bo thrown out of employment by it , all tho machine of government would be so thrown out of order , crime and pauperism would increase to such an extent from destitution and distress , that the shock must be of a most convulsive character . He concluded by giving his decided negative to this motion .

      Mr . Biucni was at a loss to discover whether the speech which Sir J . Graham had just delivered was intended to give more hope to the Opposition , or more consolation to the Ministerial , side of the house . Sir James bad evidently been endeavouring to say one thing in one part of his speech , and to unsay it in the next . In the commencement he had been a furious free trader—in the close he had brought- forward in a mass all the fallacies of the Protection Society . It was time that this imposture should cease ; for so long as it prevailed the country would be involved in a perpetual agitation . The question of the repeal ol the Corn Laws was now only one of time . He would score off every part of Sir J . Graham's speech aftei that sentence of it which contained the annunciation

      that free trade was the keystone of Sir Robert Peci s policy . Let the county members reflect upon that , and let them remember that if Sir R . Peel gave the word for the repeal of the Com Laws , they had no power to prevent it . He then gave a history and eulogised the proceedings of the Anti-Corn Law League , the annual contributions to which had increased from £ 5 , 000 in the year of its birth to £ 110 , 000 in tlie present year . He knew that when thoy went to a division they would be in a minority , but minorities in that house had often become majorities ; and he did not despair of seeing that result f reduced a ^ ain , knowing , as lie did that tlie Corn AW created nothing , and blighted everything .

      Mr . A . S . O BniEy observed , that although Mr . Villiers had challenged him to rise and defend the publications of tho Protection Society , he was too old a fish to rise at that fly . He merely rose to show that he was not unwilling to do justice to the great taste and skill displayed by the manufacturing classes in the arrangement of the bazaar recently opened in Covent-garden . Theagriculturaliegislation of licrMajcsty ' s Government was not sufiicieutly popular with the farmers to induce a county member to stand up in its defence . The last person , howevsr , whom the county members could blame for it was Sir 1 1 . Peel , whom they had placed and still kept in oiSce . Dr . ' BowRiso supported the motion , as did

      Mr . Oavesdisu and Lord Ebrixotox , who briefly explained the reasons wjuchinduced them to abandon their former opposition to it . Mr . Comdex said , that the question mooted by Mr . Villiers had not been met , but had been systematically evaded during the whole of the present debate . The question was—first , had they aright to restrict the supply ' of food for the people ; secondly , was it true that they had a law to that effect ; and , thirdly , if their Corn Law was not to that effect , what was its purpose ? He asserted that the Corn Law did restrict the supply of the food of tho neople , and called upon the members for Dorsetshire and other agricultural counties to deny it if they could . If they denied it , thenhe called upon them to explain whether

      the labouring classes in their respective districts were sufficiently and wholesomely Jed , and if thoy were not , why thoy were not ? He then proceeded to prove that the present system of Corn Laws was not only injurious to the community at large , but also to every portion of it . He denounced it as rash and perilous , inasmuch as it had left us with no more than 200 , 000 quarters of corn in bond at a period when Europe was drained of corn , and we had the prospect of a backward , not to say a failing harvest . If those laws were repealed at once , he believed that rents and mortgages would be better paid than they were at present , and that fresh land would betaken into cultivation , instead of old land being thrown out of it .

      Mr . G . Baxkes defended the existing Corn Laws , aud exposed what he called the historical errors into which Mr . Cobden and Mr . Villiers had fallen . They had declared that for the last thirty years the state of the labourers had been growing " worse and worse . To that declaration he replied , that for that period exactly protection to agriculture had been growing less and less . He also showed that the fluctuations in the price of corn in England had been still greater when the trade was free than they ever had been under a restricted system . He attributed the burdens which now pressed upon the landed interest to the expenses of the wars which William 111 . had earned on to increase the glory and to promote the commerce of England , and considered it very unfair in the manufacturers to seek to take away from the landed proprietors that protection which they had now enjoyed for many years .

      Lord Jonx Russellindulgedin several pleasantries upon the speech of Mr . Bankcs , but commented with severity on his admission that the condition of the labourers of Dorsetshire was still most deplorable , and deserving the commiseration of the house . He then pointed out the inconsistencies of which Sir James Graham had been guilty in his speech of that evening . Sir James had told them , that industry ought to have its own tourse—that what was true of manufacturing , was also true of agricultural industry —and that protection was injurious to the landowner . He had , therefore , expcetcd . that Sir James Graham , if he did not go along with him iu his proposition for a moderate fixed duty , or with Mr . villiers for a total repeal of the Corn Laws , would at anv rate

      propose some scheme by which the existing protection would be diminished , and bv whichsome advances might be made in that approach to free trade which all parties deemed so desirable . . There was nothing in Sir James Graham ' s past conduct to render such a supposition unnatural , or such an alteration of his policy impracticable . Prom that point , however , he suddenly started off , and used against the motion all the arguments which had ever been urged in behalf of Corn Law protection . "With , regard to the motion of Mr . Villiers , he had only to observe , that his first two resolutions were in accordance with those which he ( Lord J . Russell ) had proposed a few nights ago ; and as his hon . friend proposed to consider in committee his third resolution— " that it is expedient

      that all restrictions on corn should lie now abolished , " he ( Lord J . Russell ) felt himself at libcrtv to go into committee with him , and to consider in what wav a relaxation of the Com Law should be made . The Corn Law , as it now stood , was vicious in principle , and could not be long maintained in its present condition . He saw its fail indicated , not onlv bv tho vigour oi the attacks made upon it , but also by the feebleness of the defence offered for it ; and he therefore warned the country gentlemen to pause before they allowed an impression to be made to their disadvantage in the minds of their fellow countrymen , by the constant repetition of the remark that it was only kept up to enable them to keep up their rents .

      Sir R . Peel , after some remarks upon Lord J . Russell ' s intended vote , proceeded to observe that experience proved that tho high price of corn was not accompanied with a high rate of wages ; for the rate of wages did not vary according to the price of corn . If he could believe in the predictions of Mr . Cobden . his objections to an immediate repeal of the Corn Law would be greatly alleviated ; but he could not , and therefore he must proceed in pursuance of his own policy to reconcile tlie gradual approach of our legistion to sound principle on this subject with the interests which had grown up under a different state of things . He then proceeded to defend the existing Corn Law and tariff ; and to maintain that under their operation there had been a great revival of domestic

      industry and foreign commerce . He did not think that the existing Corn Law was liable to the objections urged against it . He did not think that the predictions of its failure had been verified , and therefore he was unwilling to accept the proposition of Mr . Villiers . He did not defend th e Corn Law on the ground that it was a protection to any particular interest . He admitted that it would be impossible to maintain any law on tho ground that it was intended to keep up rents ; but looking to the obligations of the landlords , he thought that any such change as that which Mr . Villiers . suggested would , if suddenly produced , tell injuriously on them , and still more in juriously on tho large and numerous class of the cultivators ol the soil , and others connected with

      them . , " Lord Howick called attention to the fact that not one word had been said that evening by the Government in contradiction to the first two resolutions of Mr . Villiers condemnatory of the principles and policy of the present Corn Law . If the last resolution had been thus worded , "that it is expedient that all restrictions on corn should be gradually abolished , " the speech _ of Sir R . Peel would have been an admirable one in support of it . After a brief reply from Mr . Villiers , the house divided , when there appeared—For the motion 122 Against it 254 Majontyagamst it ... ... , „ , 132 The other orders of the day having been disposed of , the house adjourned . 5 '

      Wednesday , Juse xi . The first busiftess transacted was the passing the Statute Labour ( Scotland ) Bill through a committee The coiunnttee on the Roman Catholic-Relief

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      Bill was postponed by Mr . Watson to Wednesday week . Mr . LiDDiaL having moved the second reading of the Dog-stealing Bill , a long conversation ensued ; Mr . Hume opposed , and Captain Berkeley and Major Bcresford supported the bill , as also did Sir J . Graham . Mv : Wavburton , Mr . Watson , Mr . Ricardo , Sir G . Strickland , and Mr . B . Escott opposed it , and Mr . Liddell ' s reply only called forth another chorus of opposition from Mr . Forster , Mr . Bright , and Mr . Ilawes . On a division , however , the second reading was carried , and Sir J . Y . Buller then moved tho second reading of the County Rates BiU . Mr . M . Gibson opposed , and Lord Ebrin » ton supportd it , and after a short conversation on the bill , in which Mr . Darby , Mr . Brolhertoii , Mr . Henley , Mr . Hume , aud Sir J . Graham took apart , the bill was read a second time , and was ordered to be committed no Fridav week . ' 1 ); 1 ! .,. «« imet t \ riM «< l 1 \ it IV'Tl * W'ifcnn tf \ "Wn / liine ^ -iv

      On the motion of Mr . Mackinnon , the Smoke Prohibition Bill went into a committee ; but in the course of a short discussion on the first clause , the House was counted out .

      Thursday , Jcse 12 ih . The Banking ( Scotland ) Bill was read a third time and passed . The Lord-Advocate then moved the second reading of the Poor Law Amendment ( Scotland ) Bill . Mr . Ruxiiep . fobd should have been glad to have given his support to this bill ; but his objections to it were so extensive that it was impossible for him to allow it to pass its present stage without bringing them under the consideration of the house . Bis first objection was , that it would not lead to a satisfactory and permanent adjustment of the great principles involved in it . His next was , that it gave an imperfect appeal to the courts of law to put into execution the machinery which it provided for the relief of the poor . His third was , that the mode of

      assessment which it provided was left in tho hands of those who had an interest in keeping the assessment do » vn . His fourth was , that the remedies which it provided for the present insufficient relief granted to the permanently disabled poor were in themselves inadequate . His fifth . was , that the Board of Supervision erected by the bill interposed between the pauper and the Court of Session , and prevented him from obtaining adequate relief without its permission ; whilst it placed no check whatever upon the parish , which had an interest in resisting his appeal . His sixth was to the maimer in which that Board of Supervision was constructed . The mode of rating laid down in the bill was also anything but equitable , and was totally unfitted for the present circumstances of tho country , as it was not laid on the pvonei'ty , but on the inhabitants of the district . Indeed , the bill

      itself might have done well enough two centuries ago , but at present it was calculated to promote great litigation , injustice , and opprosion . Ho also expressed strong repugnance to extending the period of residence necessary to obtain a settlement to seven years . An industrial residence of three years appeared to him to be sufficient , and of seven years to be too long . It Avas eminently defective in not providing adequate medical relief to the disabled poor suffering under the extremity of disease , or the violence of accident . With respect to the able-bodied poor in Scotland , he believed that none of them , as the law now stood / had any right to relief . There was , however , some doubt on the point , and this bill should settle that point authoritatively one way or the other . He would not propose that this bill be not read a second time ; but * before he could give it his support it must be amended , cither in a committee of that house , or in a committee upstairs .

      Colonel Wood expressed his concurrence in the opinion of Mr . Rutherford , that residence for seven years was too long a period to be fixed for the period necessary to obtain a settlement . Mr . S . Crawi-oud considered this not as a Scotch , but as a national measure . He pointed out the unpardonable defects of the present law of Scotland , in not affording adequate relief to the indigent and distressed poor , lie condemned tho system which prevailed in Scotland of exterminating the inhabitants of whole districts for the purpose of converting those districts into extensive sheeiiwalks . He called

      the attention of the house to the statements on that subject which have' recently been published in the Thus . He then explained his objections to the bill in detail , and pointed out the clauses constructing tho Board of Supervision and regulating the right oi settlement as particularly exceptionable . Mr , Loch complained of , what he called , the misstatements in the Times , respecting the condition ol the labouring population in the county of Sutherland . Having been acquainted with the tenantry of Sutherland for the last thirty years , lie could say that no tenantry had ever been the subject of greater anxiety to their landlord during the whole of that period .

      The Lord Advocate said , in spite of tho objections of Mr . Rutherford , he considered that this bill would be productive of great advantage to Scotland , lie thought that it could be passed through the house in the present session ; and if the house would allow it t /> go into committee , he would listen with the greatest attention to every suggestion which might be offered for its amendment . Ho then defended those clauses of the bill which provide for the regulation of appeals from the local authorities to courts of law , and showed that they were calculated to prevent oppression of the poor on the one hand and undue litigation on the other , lie also defended the system of assessment provided in the bill from the . objections urged against it bv Mr . Rutherford , aijd insisted that great advantage _ _ i 1 i > . 1 1 it .. . . . 0 would from that

      accrue combination of parishes which his learned Mend had so strongly condemned . With respect to the proposition for providing medical aid for the poor in the remote and tkiniy-peopled districts of Scotland , be stated that in liis opinion it would be very impolitic to have surgeons distributed tlu'oughout the country , and paid for the purpose of attending on the poor . Mr . Rutherford had also proposed that discretion should be left to the parochial authorities to afford relief to the able-bodied poor in case of sickness . Under suck an emergency the able-bodied man would fall into the class of occasional poor ; and this bill made provision for that particular class . lie concluded by declaring his conviction that there had been no defect in the bill noticed by Mr . Rutherford which might not be amended in the committee .

      Mr . Hume thought that the objections of Mr . Rutherford to this -bill had been very fairly met bv the Lord-Advocate , but recommended tho Government to send the bill to a committee upstairs . After a speech from Mr . Colquhoun , Mr . E . Euice , jun ., expressed his general concurrence in the views of this bill so ably expressed by Mi : Rutherford . lie then denounced the existin " state of things in the northern parts of Scotland into which he had looked himself , as a disgrace to a civilised country , and complained that there was no power in this bill to put a stop to it . Whatever might have been tho cause of the clearances in that part of Scotland , the condition of the population proved that those clearances had not led to good

      . i Xotwitlistanding the observations of Mr . Loch to the contrary , he must repeat that it was deplorable , lie knew it to be so , for he had witnessed it himself . It was still worse in the west highlaids , where the population was growing up inacondition perfectly disgraceful to the country , lie complained that the bill was lamentably deficient in the relief which it gave to the distressed poor , lie did not look upon this bill cither us an efficient or as a carefully concocted measure ; and he therefore asked the Government to let it stand over to another session .

      to . 1 . M . Stewart regretted to find that Government was determined to press this bill throiHi iarJianicnt during the present session , because it was utterly insufficient for its own object-the relief ot the poor . It was no improvement on the present system ; on the contrary , it was calculated to deteriorate rather than to ameliorate the condition of the poor of Scotland . It was a bill for the lairds and heritors , and not for the poor of that country . Sir J . GuAiiAst said , if the principle of the bill was detective , it ought to be rejected on the second reading ; but , after the extensive inquiry which had taken place before the commission , any further postponement on the pretence of additional inquiry would be a mockery . The Poor Law of Scotland was excellent in itself , and defective only from mal-administration , to correct wliich the present bill was introduced , and for which purpose he believed it would be found efficient .

      Mr . F . Mauxe said , that if he only regarded this bill as a landed proprietor he would not say a word against it ; but , looking at it in a more liberal sonso , he regarded it—aud it would be so regarded in Scotland—as a bill not so much for tho benefit of the poor as for the protection of the rich against contributing loo much towards the support of the poor . He thought it would be advisable to send it to a coimuittcc ° up stairs , or to postpone it for another session-a proccedmg which would not be very detrimental to the poor oi Scotland . After some discussion , in which Mr . 1 ' . Bortuwick , Mr . E . Wlice , Mr . Miles , Mr . mafic , Mr . Aglionby , and Mr . Colltitt took part , Tho Mil was read a second time ; and on the motion tliatit be commuted , _ Mr . 1 \ Maule moved as an amendment that it should uc referred to a committee upstairs .

      Sir James Gbahai- ; appealed to Mr . l \ Mauie to withdraw liis amendment , and said that he would fix Monduy se ' nuight for going into the bill . Iu tho meantime Government would consider tlie objections urged against the bill , and on Thursday uext the Lord Advocate should print his amendments , and lay tlicm on the table of the house . After a few words from Mr . P . M . Stewart , Mr , Pox Mauie withdrew his amendment , and the arrangement proposed by Sir J . Graham was agreed to .

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      Lancashire Misers . —The next general delegate meeting of Lancashire Miners will beheld on ivfonday next , June 10 th , at the sign of the King William Platt-bridge , near Wigan ; chair to be taken at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon . A public meetin « will also be held on the same day , which will be ad ° dressed by W . P . Roberts , Esq ., and several other gentlemen . The levy for the fortnight , includin" - general contribution , is Is . 8 tl , per member , a

      _ To t-ie Naii . m . ' . k ;; k 5 of Great r-.- ~> .-: ; . —Fcllow Workmen , —The Nailmakers oi .:-t .. lingshirc for the last ten years have been in a very low and depressed state , their wages being very small , indeed not adequate to keep body and soul together ; but knowing that a rise had taken place through the country , they appealed to their employers hi this county for an advan ce , which t ! 6 / at once , with a very few honourable exceptions , refused . The consequence was that a strike took place , and this is the eighth week of the turn-out . An appeal was made to several places in Scotland , which was nobly re . sponded to , but the duration of the strike has been so long that we arc under the necessity of repeating

      that appeal . We have strong hopes of succeeding in our righteous struggle if our brethren in EneuW will but lend us their aid . Wc have not been backward in former times in giving our aid to others , as some of them know . There are upwards of 200 men out , and they arc fimi and determined , but the majority of thorn have families , and help is . " needed . K any of our brethren should feel inclined ( as wo hone they will ) to aid us , they must keep in mind that they arc struggling for themselves at the same time they are lending us a helping baud . If wc fail in this struggle , others will suffer as well as us . Wc , therefore , hope an appeal will not be in vain . In the name of the Strike Committee , Jajies Juxkixs St . Minions , by Stirling . '''

      Bilston Mixeiis . —A few days ago an open-air meeting of the Miners of this district fook place , which was presided over by Mr . Joseph Liimey , who addressed a powerful discourse to the assembled colliers . The meeting was also addressed by Mr . EiU blciou and Mr . Ramsay , from iscweastlc-iipon-T yne , whose excellent speeches were most heartily responded to . 'fur . Ensuing Natiosai . Trades Coxferexce . — At a meeting of tlie Society of Saddlers held at the Red Lion , Long Acre , on Monday evening , July the 9 th , it was resolved , on the motion of Mv . M'Ch-egor , that a delegate be sent from this body to the ensuing Conference , and that such delegate lie elected at the next meeting an Monday , June 26 ' rcl .

      Barxslev . —A . vointn Distressing Coal-pii Acer uext occurred here on Wednesday , June 50 th , a ^ one o ' clock , p . m ., in Air . Mueklewatcr ' s New l'it , at the Oaks Colliery , by which three young men who had just attained their majority were shattered to atoms , and three others dreadfully burnt . Thomas Parker , "Worsburgh Common ; Samuel Whitcly , Cockyard , Shamble-street ; Joseph Sydcy , Pwishills , lulled . The names of those yet alive are , —John Littlewood , wife and one child , Spcuding ' s-foid ; Richard Hodgson , wife and two children , Peacockhill ; Willongkbv Thicket , wile and one child , Pearhill . Tho pit in which flu ' s accident occurred is 260 yards below the s . urfa * c . Persecution of Mr . Davib Ross bv Dr . Cofpi . v .

      —The friends of David Ross met on Sunday last , at Galloway ' s Temperance Hotel , for the purpose of organising a Defence Committee . Mr . John Shaw gave a report of the Iluddorsfield meeting , and concluded by moving the following resolution : — " Resolved , that this committee , on behalf of the workin " men or Leeds , return their best thanks to the working men of Huddcrsneld , for having afforded Mr . David Ross an opportunity of confronting and confounding his enemies ; and we trust that their example will be followed in every locality where the reputation of Mr . Ross has been sought to be injured . " The central committee intend to tall a public

      meeting in Leeds , in order to put the public in full possession of every particular respecting tho law suit commenced against Mr . David Ross at the instance of Dr . Coffin . Mrue and well-tried friend of the people , and defender of their principles , is menaced with destruction by a man who has not the honestii or manliness to meet him before the public : but his cowardice will not serve him . Let the friends of Mr . Iloss do their duty ; and before the public he will repay their confidence by exposing the impositions , error , and malpractices of Coffin quackery . William Lonsdale , secretary ( to whom all communications must be addressed ) , No . 1 1 , Mill-street , Leeds .

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      BuKxiEt . —A Chartist camp-mccting will be holdon on Marsdcn Heights , on Sunday , the loth inst ., at one o ' clock in the afternoon . The following gentlemen are expected to address the meeting : —Messrs . Holland , Place , Williams , and Gray , of Burnley ; Tagg and Barker , of Bat-up ; and Mooney , of Cohie . Stocki'ort . —On Sunday evening next a lecture will be delivered in the Chartist-room , Hiligate , at hall-past six p . m . After the lecture the Land Committee will enrol members , and all who have entered their names as members of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society that have not paid their first instalment , are requested to do so .

      Maxciiesieb . —A lecture will be delivered hi the Carpcnlers ' -hall , on Sunday next , June 15 th , at halfpast six o'clock in the evening , by Mr . Dixon . Before the lecture an extract will be read from a book , entitled , " The first Meeting of the Seven Crowned Heads after the birth of Christ , and the resolves they camo to . " Birmingham . —Mr . Thomas Ciark will lecture at Duddcston-row , on Sunday morning , at ten o ' clock , and at the Democratic Chapel , Thorp-street , at haltpast six in the evening . Baui . —On Monday next a supper and ball will be held at the Odd Fellows' Arms , Thomas-street , Walkct , the proceeds of which will be devoted to the Executive . The Land plan will also bo brought forward , and steps taken to form a section in Bath and its neighbourhood .

      HUDDZRBHELD CO-OPERATIVE La . VD SoCIEIl ' . —A meeting of friends interested in this national undertaking will be held at Turner ' s Temperance Hotel , Chapel Hill , on Monday evening next , at eight o ' clock , when all persons desirous of becoming shareholders are requested to attend . Mr . Doyle ' s route for the ensuing week : —Sum day , June 15 th , Oldham ; Monday , 10 th , Todmcr . den ; Tuesday , 37 th , lk-bdcn Bridire ; and Wednesday , 18 th , Moslcy . Mr . Doyle begs to inform his Chartist friends of North and South Lancashire , that the Board of Directors of the " Chartist

      Cooperative Land Society" havo appointed him agent ior the same , and that he is now prepared with ' the cards and rules of the society , and will be happv to iurnish any locality with them . Ail communications ior him must , for the present , be addressed to No . 10 , Back Grcek-stvect , Greek-street , Chorlton-upon-Mcdlock , Manchester . Any locality desirous of having Mr . _ Doyle ' s services will please to write as early as possible , as he is anxious to give every information in his power on the objects for which the societv was formed , lie has with him cards and hand-books of the " JNational Charter Association . "

      DjERcr . —The Chartists of Derby arc informed that the members of the Land Society will meet at Chester ' s Temperance House , Osniaston-road , on Sunday next , Juno loth , at six o ' clock in the evening , to enrol members and to transact other business both of the Chartist and Land Society . ' NoTTi . von . ui . —On Sunday evening next , a meeting of the friends favourable to the Land plan , will be held at Donnan ' s Temperance House , Clarestreet Nottingham , at six o ' clock , when a siib-secretary and sub-trcasuvcv will be appointed , aud memhers enrolled .

      Rochdale . —On Sunday next Mr . Wm . Bell , of Heywood , will lecture in the Chartist room , Millstreet . On Sunday , the 22 nd inst ., a camp meeting will be held on Robin Hood ' s Bed , near the White House , BJacfistoneagc , to commence at one o ' clock . Messrs . George While , of Bradford ; William Dixor , ot Manchester ; and Wm . Bell , of Hevwood will address tiie meeting . Mr . Do . vlc , of tlte ' Executivc , is also expected to be present .

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      MIDSUMMER SESSIONS . NOTICE IS lmiEP . Y GIVES , that the Midsummer General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the West Riding of the County of York , will be opened at Skifion ' , on Tuesdav , tlie 1 st day of Jvlx next , at Ten of thd Clock in the forenoon ; and by adjournment from thence will be holdeii at Buadfoud , on Wednesday , the 2 nd day oftlicsame month of Juiv , at Ten of the Clock in the forenoon ' , and also , byfurtlicr Adjournment from thence , will be hoiden at RoTuniiiiAM , on Mo . viur , the 7 th day of the same month of July , at half-past Ten of the Clock , iu tiie Forenoon , when all Jurors , Suitors , l ' crsons bound by

      Recognisance , and others having business al the mid several Sessions , are required to attend the Court on the several days , and at the several Hours above mentioned . Solicitors are required to take Kotice , that the Order of Removal , copies of the Notices of Appeal , and examination of the Pauper , are required to be filed with the Clerk of the Peace on the entry of the Appeal : —And that no Appeals against Removal Orders can be heard unless the Chairman is also furnished by the Appellants with a copy of the Order of Removal , of the Notice of Chargeability , of the Examination of the Pauper , and of the Notice and grounds of Appeal .

      AndAotkc is also hereby Given , That at the said General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be hoiden at Skipton aforesaid , an Assessment for the necessary expenses of the said Riding for the half year commencing the 1 st day of October next , will be laid at the hour of Twelve o'clock at Nuon ,

      C . II . ELSLEY , Clerk of the Peace Clerk of the Peace ' s Office , Wakefield , !> th June , 18-15 .

      Printed By Dougal M'Gowan, Of 17, Groat Windmill, Street, Uamaruet. In The Citv *F Westminster, At Tho

      Printed by DOUGAL M'GOWAN , of 17 , Groat Windmill , street , UamarUet . in the Citv * f Westminster , at tho

      Office in the same Street ' and Parish , for the Proprietor , PEAROUS O'CONNOR , E 3 q ., and published by William Hewitt , of No . 18 , Charles-street , Brandoastreet , Walworth , iu the Parish of St . Mary , Newington , in the County of Surrey , at tke Office , Ko . SlO , Strand , in tho Parish of St , Mary . le-Stramli i » w City of Westminster Saturday , June H , 1515 , "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 14, 1845, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_14061845/page/8/