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      HOUSE OF LORDS—Moxdat , Feb . 10 . Lord Hoxteagle , in moving- for some papers relating to the ; income and other taxes , entered into some financial * statements and calculations , winch he hoped -would meet with due consideration from the Chancellor of the Exchcaner . The Duke of "Welusotos said he was willing to afford every information on the subject ; but he thought the Noble Lord would not expect that any statement should be made bv him until the financial measure had been brougfct forward by the Govcrnment . in the other House of Parliament . Tuesda , Feb . 11 . The House sat for a short rime , but no business of importance was broug ht under consideration . Thursday , Feb . 13 .

      Lord STAKLtr having been summoned by writ to the House of Lords , under the title of Lord Stanley , of Knowsley , was introduced to-day by Lords Redcs & ale and "WfcarncUfty , and took , the oaths aud his scat . Lord Campbeli . introduced two Bills , the object of which were when persons who Avere indebted to parties in ihU country left it and . resided in foreign parts , process might be served upon them , judgment obtained a ? -. aj 5 i them , and their property secured for the benefit of their creditors . Tim Marquis of Nobmanbt , after presenting a petition in favour of the Government Medical Reform Bill , gave notice that in a few days he should present a petition , agreed to at a public meeting held at Exeter Hall , praying the House to take measures for the improvement of drainage in large towns .

      The subject of the recent gambling transactions in Hallway shares on the Stock Exchange , and the imputed communication of improper information , by some one belonging to the Board of Trade , was brought under the attention of the House hy Lord Salhousie , who defended himself and his colleagues of the Board of Trade , in a manner , from the imputations cast on them . The charge principally affected Mr . D . O'Brien , and Lord Dalhousie ' s explanation was very similar in import to that given by Sir James Graham ou Tuesday evening , in answer to Mr . AVakley . Lord Brougham and Lord Lansdowue joined in the conversation , aud when it was ended the Hoasc adjourned .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS . —FmnAY , Feb . 7 . The Speaker took the chair at the usual hour . Alter the presentation of some petitions , and the giving of notices of minor import , the following conversation ensued on

      TOST OFPICE . ESPIONAGE . Mr . T . Dcscombe , seeing the noble Lord the Member for Liverpool ( Lord Sandon ) in his place , wished to put to him a question with reference to the appendix to the report of a committee of which the noble Lord was chairman last session . He referred to the secret committee that investigated the practice of opening letters at the Post Office . That committee had annexed an appendix to the report , and that appendix -was ordered to be printed with the report . The latter had been printed shortly after it had been drawn up , but to the present hour they had not got the appendix . He had sent several

      times io the printer ' s to obtain it , and also the report ; but be was told that the report could not he uad , because it was waiting for the appendix , and that the appendix could not be had , because it was waiting lor the proof , winch was in the hands of a member of the committee to be corrected . Jfow he ( Mr . Buncombe ) insisted that after the committee laid this report on the table their functions ceased , and they had nothing more to do with the report or the appendix . lie was in possession of the appendix by special favour of the Speaker , but be wished to know from the Noble Lord why it waskept back , and in whose hands it was ?

      Lord SAxnox said that the committee had entrusted the task of arranging and classifying the documents wliich . constituted the appendix to the Hon . Member for KendaL who had taken great pains with the subject . Those documents still remained in the hands of that lion . Member , and he ( Lord Sandon ) was sure that whatever obstacles remained in the way of the publication of the report would soon he removed . Mr . T . S . Di * xcoMn £ ' cxprcssed a hope that no further time Avould be lost in presenting these papers to ihe bouse . Lord Saxdox . said that as far as he was concerned certainly no time should he lost .

      OOVEBSMEXT ilXASCIAL STATEm-M—THE IXCOME TAX . Sir R . Peel rose and said—Sir , it may be convenient lor me now to state the course which I intend to pursue on Friday next . I believe it will be com petent for me , without moving for a committee of waysandnieans , to take the course of moving a resolution to continue for a further period the laws which impose a tax on income . But ' as that isnottkc usual course of late years , I propose oh Wednesday to adopt the followingproceeding— -viz ., tomovcfora committee of ways and " means , and then in the committee of ways and means on Friday next , 1 shall propose a resolution to the effect , that the laws which impose a tax on income in Great Britain , and the law which imposes an additional stamp duty in Ireland , should iccontanuedfor a further limited period . That is the nature of the resolution I propose to move in committee of ways and means .

      Sir . Hcme . —Will the Right Hon . Gentleman explain to the house what are the taxes be intends toreniii ? Sir K . Peel . —I propose on Friday to enter into a geucralrcview of the subject , when I will state what course I intend to take , hut I cannot enter into any explanation now ; I will give the fullest statement on Friday aext with respect to the nature of the proposals her Majesty ' s government intend to adopt .

      POOR LAW GXIOXS . Mr . M . Sun-ox moved that a select committee be re-appointed to inquire into the administration of the law for the relief of the jioor in the unions formed under the Act 22 Geo . ILL , e . 3 , sec . 83 , the Gilbert Unions , and to report to the house their opinion whctlterit was expedient that the said unions should be maintained . The motion was agreed to , and the following Hon . Members were appointed to serve on the committee : —Mi * . Bamcby , Captain Pechell , Mr . Thomas Duncoiabe , Sir R . Heron , Mr . Colville . Sir Wm . Ileatheote , Mr . Beckett Denison , Mr , Wrightsou , "Viscount . Barrington , Mr . Manners Sutton , Mi-. Strutt , Viscount Marsham , Mr . Laboueherc , Mr . Wakley , and Mr . Protheroc . After ordering some returns as to the attendance of the Poor Law Commissioners on their duties , and passing a number of resolutions respecting the conduct ot private business , the house adjourned at six o ' clock .

      HOUSE 01 " COMMOJfS .-iTo . vDAv , J * eb . 10 . The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice that on Wednesday be would more that the House should resolve itself into a committee of supply , in which he would move for a vote of Exchequer Bill , in order to enable-his Kight Hon . Friend SirB . Peel to move for a committee ' of ways and means on Friday . Mr . J . Youkg moved for a new writ for Lewes , in the room of the Hon . Henry Fitzroy , who has accepted the office of a Lord of the Admiralty . The other business was of a routine character . Tuesday , Feb . 11 . Sir T . Phi-mantle took the oaths , and lib scat for the borough of Buckingham .

      Air . Wallace called attention to the several reports of Select Committees on Railways , to the appointment of the Hallway Board in August last for the transaction of railway business , and the effect of its published decision , with a view to the revision and amendment of the Act of last session . He complained , that by the present system the people of Great Britain were subject to a monopoly of the mosr grinding and injurious character . Admitting the courtesy with which he had been treated hy the President and Vice-President of the Board of Trade , and all their subordinate officers , he contended that the appointment of the Railway Board was anything but constitutional , for it was never intended , on their appointment , that the members of the board should interfere with and decide upon all internal arrangements for travelling in the

      united Idngdom . There were at present 248 railways , either new roads or r * adsto be altered and extended , on which cHls were to be brought forward this session , and itwas recently thought , but he was glad to say erroneously , that none of these hills could he introduced without a preliminary decision in their favour by the Railway Board . He complained also of the expense of transit on railroads , andread some tables of the fares , rates , and speed on two railroads in Scotland , for the purpose of showing that the labouring classes of England might be carried on their railroads as cheaply and with as much comfort as the same classes were now conveyed iu Scotland . It had been shown that in first class carriages passengers could be conveyed twenty-five miles an hour at 3 d . a mile —that second class passengers could be conveyed the -same speed in their carriages at 2 d . a mile—and that third class passengers could he carried the same speed at

      Id . a mile . He argued that , if such were the case , and he believed it to be nearly so , the present railway companies had so right to any indulgence from the House ; for they had defrauded the public , and were defrauding it still . It wasthc duty of Parliament to rectif y the mistake which it made some years ago , when it gave a monopoly to these companies , and to insist that an open competition with them should he allowed . He thought that great good would be done by adopting the system of tender , which was adopted abroad . The House was bound to make provision that no carriages should be permitted to run on any railroad that was unsafe to the health of the passengers ; and yet it was undeniable that no carriages wen . so pernicious to health as the second and third class coinages on most , if not all , of our modern-railroads . He concluded by moving for leave to bring in a bill to repeal the Railway Act of last session .

      Air :- Ewabt thought that , however well it might answer abroad , the system of constructing railroads by tender would never answer in this country . He thought that the . best mode of commencing reform in railway legislation-would . be by refonning the construction of Parliamentary committees , and by making them independent and impartial bodies . Then a scientific and commercial Body might oe called in to assist the Parliamentary committee ; hut he protested against caUing in any depart .

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      meiit of the Government , as a Government body , to interfere . — . He-thougUUthjU ^^ proposition of ir . Wallace , that it was expedient to reduce the rate of feres on nearly every railroad . Lord Howick ' had voted for the Bailway . Act of last session , and thought that , though not a perfect , it was stiU a very useful Act . He agreed , however , with Mr , Wallace , in thinking that it was important that Parliament should secure for the public greater facilities and greater cheapness in railway travelling . As a great number of railway bills were about to be introduced this session , ^ Parliament ought seriously to consider at once what measures it would adopt to accomplish those objects . He thought that the first thing on which Parliament should determine was to do in all cases that which

      was always done in Prance on similar occasions—namely , to decide between competing companies on the line of railroad to bo adopted ; for instance , there were three lines now proposed between London and York . He thought that on such , a point they might trust to the evidence of scientific persons to be appointed by the House . Then , having fixed on the line of railroad , you might call on the rival companies to send in tenders for making it . Those tenders should contain the terms of travelling , the rates of speed , and the fares at which the parties would convey passengers . Thus the House would get rid of the difficulty of [ deciding on competing lines , and would check a spirit of gambling in raUway shares which was absolutely demoralising the country . He thought that this plan would also cause a large reduction in

      the rate of fares , which at present very much exceeded the cost of carrying passengers . By laying down by Parliamentary authority in the railway bills about to be introduced a strict regulation as to the rate of & res to be levied , they would bring down the fares exacted by all existing railroads , as they were now nearly all in union or junction with each other . They would also by such a course moderate the eagerness of enterprise in sucli speculations , which did not now , as it did originally , require a stimulant . On the contrary , he was of opinion that there was at present a mania in the public mind on this subject , which required to be modified and checked . It inight be said that it would be unjust , when parties bad gone to all tlie trouble and expense of making preliminary inquiries about a line of railroad , to take it out of their

      hands . It would be so if no remuneration were made to them . But at present those parties had no claim on Parliament . Parliament mi ght be of opinion that a line should be made , and yet that those parties should not make it . He trusted that no railway bill would be passed this session without the committee looking closely at the table of fares , and proceeded to demonstrate tlie advantage of such an arrangement by his own experience as chairman of a Railway Committee last session . He had heard some persons insist on tlie necessity of deferring all railway legislation during the present session , in order that they might deliberate in tlie interim on the legislation which they ought to adopt . To such a proposition he could not agree , as it would carry a large amount of capital out of the country to be embarked in the meantime iu foreign speculations .

      Colonel Sibtiiobp approved generally ol Lord Howick ' s suggestions ; but why had ho not suggested them before , instead of deferring them till the present , the eleventh hour ? In the short period of time , during which the House sat , it would be quite impossible to investigate fairly into the merits of the 248 railway hills which were coming before it . Mr . Gisbobxe said that arrangements had grown up under the bill of last session which it would now be extremely impolitic to interfere with , and therefore he could not support the motion of Mr . Wallace .

      Mi-. S . AYobtley had great doubt as to the policy of publishing in the Gazette the decisions of the Railway Committee of the Board of Trade before the reports of the committee were laid before Parliament . The mischief , however , was already done , and it was too late now to attempt a remedy . He suggested the propriety of appointing a committee to ascertain the best mode of getting through the immense press of railway business which was likely to be forced on the consideraton of the House . _ Mr . Warbubton considered that Lord Howick ' s suggestion of a modification of the French system would be found impracticable in this country , where towns rose into importance or sunk into insignificance in a lesser number of years thau that for which the monopoly would be granted . After some observations from Mr . Bankcs , respecting the way in which the public interests in some parts of the country were sacrificed to the overwhelming influence of competing lines of railwav .

      Sir R . Peel hoped that the debate would not lead to a discussion on the reports of the Railway Board . Ho protested against any precipitate condemnation of that board , which had been created under the sanction of the House , and which some gentlemen wanted nevertheless to abolish before it had made its first report to Parliament . That board had been censured for publishing its decisions in the Gazette . So far from thinking their conduct in that respect censurable , be thought that after they had come to a decision they were bound to publish it . In the course of two or three days the report of the Board of Trade on the first class ofrailways would be published . That would enable tlie House to judge of the principles upon which they acted ; and surely it would be advisable for Hon . Gentlemen to postpone their judgment till they

      had perused that report . He hoped that the House would not abaudou tlie principles on wliich it had hitherto proceeded with regard to railway bills until they were convinced that those principles were erroneous . They had been told that 240 railway hills were to be presented to tlie House in the course of the present session ; but he had no doubt that discussion would considerably diminish that number . Thewisest course would be to appoint a committee to consider the subject , under the assumption that there would be an unusual number of such bills . An Hon . Friend of his had procured the . assent of the House to a committee on private bills , which consisted of persons the most conversant in the House with the conduct of private business . He hoped that that committee would not apply itself in the first instance to

      the consideration of private bills generally , but would proceed to that of railway bills before all others , and would reflect on the manner iu which the House should deal with the 150 such bills that were likely to come before it . It might he necessary to constitute a number of committees , of five or seven members each . The report of such committees , if the members would give continuous attendance , would have weight with the House ; and , if so , the evil would not be of that magnitude as to induce them to despair of overcoming it . Supposing there were 200 such bills , why should they not sacrifice their time to the consideration of them ? If they could not get members to serve spontaneously on such committees , they must adopt the principle adopted in election committees , and compel them to serve in some way or other . He had never heard of Lord Howick ' s plan before that evening , but he

      thought that if the House undertook to consider it , it would lead to great confusion . His plan was that Government should undertake a new survey of all the railways now projected , and which had already been surveyed by the Board of Trade . That might be a good plan , but at any rate it would lead to the suspension of every railway for a considerable time . If this were a res Integra , Government might perhaps undertake to produce a revenue by undertaking to make a railroad , though he did not know what effect such a proceeding might have on the constitution of the country in the multitude of subordinate officers in the pay of Government to which it would give rise . Besides , even if you had a Government hoard to decide which was the best of the three competing lines between London and York , mentioned by Lord Ho-viq - * , it would stiU be open to aU the suspicions to wliich the present Government board was exposed .

      Mr . Wakley said that no one had said one word respecting the greatest of all evils—the enormous length of barristers' speeches . The Hon . Gentleman then read an article from a publication called the Economist , intimating that shares to a large extent bad been purchased by Mr . William O'Brien , whose brother is one of the members of the Railway Committee of the Board of Trade , and observed that investigation was absolutely necessary in order to purge the board from the suspicions to which these share transactions of Mr . William O'Brien inevitably gave

      rise . Sir James Gsahaji entered into au explanation exculpatory of the Messrs . O'Brien , and challenged inquiry if a single doubt remained of their integrity . He was in . formed by those gentlemen , and believed , that no communication had taken place between them relative to > railway business ; aud for his own part he would declare , as his name was mentioned hi the article in the Economist , that he never held a railway share in his life . Mr . Bbotherton said , in his opinion , . there was much more reason to complain of the speeches of Hon . Members of that House than of tlie speeches of counsel , on the score of length . After a few observations from Mr . Darby , and from Mr . WaUace hi reply , the motion was withdrawn .

      BONE CECSHING IN WORKHOUSES . Captain Pechell , in moving for a return , ordered last session , of all the union workhouses under the Poor Law Amendment Act , in wluch the paupers were employed in g rinding or crushing bones by means of mills or other machinery , complained of the delay which had taken place in its production . The order had gone in July last to the Poor Law Commissioners . The Poor Law Commissioners were under Sir J . Graham , and he would show that the information for which he asked was furnished to the Poor Law Commissioners before tlie prorogation of Parliament . He wanted this return in order to compare the administration of the Poor Law hi the Gilbert Unions with its administration under the Poor Law Commissioners .

      Sir J . Guauam had pressed tlie Poor Law Commissioners to make this return before the close of last session . Different circumstances had prevented them ; but the return was now read } -, and would be presented within three or four days . It was matter of regret to him and he had stated it before—that this crushing of bones by machinery was practised in the union houses . It was not ordered by the Poor Law Act , nor by . thejSecretary ol State , nor by the Poor Law Commissioners ; but it was the act of the local boards , unchecked by any superior or central authority . Lord Ebbikoton contended that , if Sir James Graham ' s principle were to be adopted , bones must be crushed by independent labourers , if they were crushed at all .

      Mr . Waeiet thought , that as this practice had now got advocates among Noble Lords , the local interest , which supported such atrocity , must be stronger than he supposed . The Poor Law Commissioners must have more to do than he had hitherto given them credit for . He knew that they had been the protectors of his profession against the parsimony of boards of guardians . One board had dismissed a surgeon for giving what thej

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      considered too much food ; to sick paupers , ' and the Poor ^ MvC ' onimissioiierSjthpugli they 'declared the surseoVto have acted rightly , had not the power to reinstate him . Ho thought that Sir James Graham ought not to allow forty-eight hours to elapse without ' giving additional powers to the Poor Law Commissioners , if that which Lord Ebrington had stated were correct . If that Koblo Lord had sanctioned the offensive , disagreeable , and unwholesome practice of crushing decomposed bones in any union-house , he was afraid that the practice was more general than he had anticipated . .

      Mr . Roebuck called tlie attention of . the House to the wide discrepancy between the opinions just expressed by Mr . Wakley and those which he had formerly advocated to obtain popular applause . In his past speeches he would have deprived " the three tyrants of Somerset-house , " "the pinch-paupers , " of all power whatsoever . Now forty-eight hours were not to elapse without additional powers being granted to them for the sake-of humanity . Mr . Wakley had formerly pointed the finger of scorn towards all who supported tlie New Poor . Law . He ( Mr . Roebuck ) had supported it from the firsthand he now fixed the finger of scorn on Mr . Wakley , for the recklessness cither of bis past or of his present assertions . That Hon . Member was not justified in employing the arts of popular demagogueisra to cast obloquy upon men who are as humane and honourable as himself , and a little more cautious and deliberate in coining to conclusions on important subjects .

      Sir C . Lesion declared it to be his opinion that the paupers would find the breaking of stones not a whit more agreeable to them than the crushing of these bones by machinery . Mr . Wakley repelled the insinuations of Mr . Roebuck , and contended that he had no right to impute motives to bun , as he had done , in saying that he made statements to obtain popular applause . He was prepared to repeat in the House everything which he had said out of the House against the Poor Law Commissioners , AU he had said was , that if this practice , which Mr . Roebuck defended , existed under the Poor Law Commissioners , he would give them power immediately to abolish it .

      Mr . Henley , was surprised at tho short memoryof Mr . Wakley , when he eulogised the kindness which the Poor Law Commissioners had shown to the members of his profession . Surely they were the parties who compelled tlie boards of guardians to go on the contract system at tlie beginning . Public opinion afterwards compelled them to abandon tlie system they had themselves set up . If the Poor Law Commissioners had not originated this system of bone-crushing their Assistant-Coramissioners had recommended its adoption in every pari of the country . - . „ ¦ After a protest on the part of Mr . Sharman " Crawford against Mr . Wakley ' s suggestion of giving , additional power to the Poor Law Commissioners , the return was ordered .

      THE PROPOSED NEW LAW OF SETTLEMENT . ' Sir J . Graham said , that when lie addressed the House on the law of settlement in the course of last session , he had mentioned some facts to show the vast importance of the subject . It was a fact , that no less than a tenth part of our population now received relief from tlie poor-rates in the course of the year . The magnitude of the sum dispensed in their relief was very large . Since the termination of the war in 1815 , notwithstanding all that had been said of the inhumanity of the law , no less a sum had been levied from the parochial rate-pavers than £ 200 , 000 , 000 , or , in other words , a sum equal toone-fourth of the National Debt . It depended on the settlement of an individual , when he first applied for relief , where he should receive it—whether in . the place of his residence

      if he was settled there , or to what place he should be removed in order to be relieved in case he was not settled . The magnitude of the question deserved consideration , and increased the difficulty of making any change in the law . He had laid on the tabic at the close of the last session a hill in the hope of its undergoing free discussion in the recess , and of Yds receiving aid from the public , in order to amend it . He would now proceed to lay before the House -his present bill , as the best return which he could make to the comments and suggestions which had been offered him . In his bill of last year there were four points prominently treated . First , he had proposed great alterations in the law of settlement by proposing that all other causes of settlement should be repealed , and that birth should be the sole ground of settlement

      hereafter . Secondly , as to removals , he had proposed seven checks to the summary power now in existence , and it was not necessary for him to . repeat more than one of them at present , by which he proposed that five years' industrial residence in any locality should not give an absolute settlement to any individual , but should place him in such a situation that , though without a settlement , he could not be removed . His third branch related to appeals on the law of removal , and his fourth to the removal of Scotch and Irish paupers to their respective countries . To the two last branches no serious objections were made ; but the strongest were made to the two first , the substitution of a birth settlement prospectively and retrospectively , and the proposition for the irremovability of parties

      not having a settlement , but having a five years' industrial residence . It was his wish at present to meet both those objections . He was not prepared to propose that a retroactive effect should be given to the right of settlement by bh-th ; but he was prepared to propose , that from and after the passing of this act , only prospectively , birth should be the ground of settlement , leaving undisturbed aU existing settlements . Of bite years a great statistical improvement had been introduced . The registrations , not only of the birth , but also of the place of the birth , was now compulsory , and thus facilities were given for proving birth settlements . The interests of the town and the country did not always run in the same direction . The effect of the

      substitution of a birth settlement , retrospectively aud prospectively , was in favour of tho town , at the expense of the country districts ; for towns were the great marts of industry , and attracted the labour of the rural districts . If birth were the only ground of settlement , it was clear that the expense of providing for destitution must be thrown upon the country . The abolition , therefore , of birth settlement retrospectively would be favourable to the rural districts , and not beneficial to the towns . The converse of this was true with respect to irremovability . The clause which provided ' that five years' industrial residence should render a man irremovable , would cause an increase of burden on the towns , and would be a consc quent benefit to the country . He was therefore disposed to forego two portions of his former bill . He would no longer insist on birth settlement retrospectively , and he would withdraw the irremovability arising from a five years' residence . He then called the attention of the

      House to the advantages which the poor would derive from the other six limitations in his bill of last year , which he proposed to continue in the present , He then stated that it was his intention to propose that no woman residing with her husband at the time of his death in the parish of his settlement should be removable to her own parish after his death ; that no widow , whether living in her husband's parish or elsewhere , should be removable for twelve months after his death ; that no legitimate child after its father ' s death should be removable under sixteen from its father's settlement ; that no illegitimate child under sixteen years of age should be removable from its mother ' s settlement ; that no one becoming chargeable by sickness or accident should be placed under order of removal until he or she had received relief for forty days consecutively ; and , lastly , that persons requiring relief should be relieved wherever they were resident , irrespec tive of their settlement . He then detailed the substance

      of the clauses which he had provided for the removal of Irish and Scotch paupers , and for the reparation of any wTong which might be done by illegal removals , and which were precisely the same as those introduced in his bill of last year . He then came to what he called the most important provision in his measure—it was so important that he would give the fullest time for its consideration before he called' upon the House to affirm it on the second reading of the bill . Dr . Adam Smith doubted whether any poor man ever reached the age of forty without experiencing the hardship and injustice of the law of settlement , and thought it monstrous that any man should be confined within the narrow limits of his parish either for his residence or his labour . In England and Wales there are 14 , 500 parishes—their limits are of course

      very narrow , and yet within them is the poor man restrained . It will be an advantage to the poor man to reduce tlie number of restrictions which are now placed on the free circulation of his labour , andthe number of those small local circles within which he is confined by the present law . He , therefore , proposed to substitute 620 for these 14 , 500 smaU districts—in other words , to substitute unionsfor parishes . If he could induce the House to substitute union settlements for parochial settlements , he should consider himself as having accomplished a great benefit both for the payers and recipients of the rates . He then read several memorials which he had received from boards of guardians in Norfolk ' and Lancashire , and from Assistant Poor Law Commissioners , and from a meeting of the clerks of the boards of guardians , in favour of the alteration which he had just suggested . The

      Right Hon . Gentleman next proceeded to state in detailthe manner in which he proposed to change parochial into union settlements , and the manner in which he in tended to apportion the rates to be paid by the different parishes in the union . He proposed that the amount of the poor-rate ( abstracting the county rate and other similar charges ) paid for the seven years antecedent to theoth of March , 1845 , should fix the relative amount of the burden to be defrayed by each parish . The equity of such an arrangement could not , he thought , be impugned . He should weary the House if he stated all the advantages which he anticipated from these changes ; he would therefore conclude by moving for leave to bring in a bill to consolidate and amend the laws relating to parochial settlement aud the relief of the poor , and would recommend it to the justice and humanity of all- who were anxious to promote the interests of the poor .

      Colonel Wood expressed his regret at hearing the last suggestion of his Right Hon . Friend ; but if union settlements were to be substituted for parochial settlements , he was convinced that it . would be most injurious to the interests of the poor ; for it would render the inhabitants of a parish inattentive to the employment of their local poer . He sincerely wished that residence , and residence alone , should give a settlement ; and if the bill proceeded , he should certainly propose a clause thatresidencefora year should in future give a settlement . Mr . Bright said , that though he viewed this bill with some alarm and even some suspicion , he was most anxious to co-oporate with any Government which seriously intended to remove the distress and suffering which were endured in too many cases under the present law . Mr . Henley objected to this bill as being the first step to break we- the parochial system of England . Besides , it

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      was' ' absurd to extend the circulation of a poor man ' s labour to tiicUmits jif ^^ was ; 'to ' havei afrcc'circulatioirof it tto country . . ' Mr . Bbotherton said , that without committing himself to support the bill , he was inclined to look favourably upon it , as an improvement on the present law . He thought that it would give satisfaction , and he should throw no obstacle in the way of its passing . - Lord Ebbington approved of the general outline of the bill , and thought that it would be a great boon to the labouring man .

      Mr . Beckett Dennison thought that Sir J . Graham had deprived his bill of last session of its best feature in depriving it of the clause which gave irremovability after a residence of five years . He should have preferred three years , two years , one year even , to five years . Still the bill was a great improvement on the present law , and he should give to it his strenuous support . Sir J . Graham thanked the House for the cordial approbation which it had given to his bill . Mr . Wakley said , that in consequence of that remark he must observe that in offering no opposition that night

      to this bill he must not be considered as approving of it . It was a bill of tremendous operation . It would break up the parochial system of England , and would , he was afraid , render permanent the law of the 4 th and 5 th of William IV ., which gave the Poor Law Commissioners existence . He then vindicated himself from the sarcasms of Mr . Roebuck , and declared that he would not permit any member to impute improper motives to him , He was afraid that the bill would operate most injuriously to the interests of the poor . Leave was then given to bring in the bill . The House then adjourned .

      Wednesday , Feb . 12 . On the motion for going into a committee of suppl y , Mr . Roebock culled the attention of the House to the alleged fact , that the thanks of her Majesty had been given to the Sheriff of Montreal for his conduct in the late parliamentary elections of Canada , although at the time there was an election petition against the return for Montreal , impugning the conduct of the sheriff as returning officen Mr . Hope said , that Sir C . Metcalfe had highly eulogised the conduct of the sheriff for securing the public peace under very alarming circumstances ; and in reply to his dispatch , Lord Stanley authorised him to convey to the Sheriff the thanks of the Executive Government—not the thanks of her Majesty , for his exertions . In reply to a question from Mr , Bouverie ,

      Sir K . Peel said , that no negociations were pending between this countryand Brazil involving any alterations in the tariff of either country . The only negociations pending related to an ordinary treaty of navigation and commerce . Mr . IticAUDO hoped the Government would abandon its policy of differential duties . Mr . M . G ' iiison said the difficulty of effecting reciprocity treaties was to be found at home , and it would be much more satisfactory if tho Right Hon . Baronet would endeavour to ncgociatc with the Central Society for the Protection of Agriculture . In reply to questions from Lord J . Russell ,

      Sir R . Peel said that it was not his intention to press the House to a decision upon the' resolutions which lie meant to submit to the committee of ways and means on Priday nextj though he thought that any long delay would be productive of great inconvenience . It was his intention to postpone all other public business until the opinions of the House could be gathered upon the financial views to be submitted on Friday . The House then went into committee of supply , and the Chancellor of the ExciiEueET- moved , that £ 15 , 404 , 500 exchequer bills be granted as a vote of supply to her Majesty for the service of the current year . After some brief discussion the resolution was agreed to , and the House adjourned at half-past five .

      Thursday , Feb . IS . Mr . Dauby presented several petitions from various districts , complaining of ' the burdens which press on agriculturists , and praying for immediate relief . Mr . Mastebman presented a petition from the City of London , signed by 1 , 500 persons , and praying for a revision of the Excise duty on soap . Mr . John Bright gave notice that he would upon this day fortnight move for a repeal of the Game Laws . After the presentation of several petitions ,

      NOTICE OF MOTION—STATE OP THE NAVY . - Sir C . Napier rose to move for a select committee to inquire into the manner in which the money vested since 1835 , for the construction of ships , had been expended , and if the ships constructed are an improvement of the old " system . " The Hon . Member ( who dropped his voice so as to be nearly inaudible ) in commencing his speech , proceeded to say that his only motive in bringing forward the motion was to ascertain whether or not the reports in circulation as to the defects of these ships were correct . He had been told that it was no business of Ids to interfere with such a matter ; that it should be , left to the proper authorities , by which was meant , he supposed , the Admiralty . It had been left to the proper authorities for a great number of years , and they had , notwithstanding ,

      seen the greatest errors and blunders prevailing . This was neither a political nor a party question , but one which concerned the well-being of the navy andthe proper application of the finances of the country ¦ and , in the remarks which he was about to make , be should be guided solely by such considerations . It would be necessary to go back for a considerable time . When he ( Sir 0 , Napier ) first entered the service , iu 1800 , the navy con . taincd several three-deckers of 120 , 110 , 98 , and 90 guns . The first class generally consisted of good ships , but the others were so inferior , that they were found totally unfit for service ; but" ^ notwithstanding all the representations which were made to the Admiralty , the same system was persevered in . This country had taken some very ei-cellent ships from the French . There were the Terror , the

      Sans Pareil , and the Canopus . Several ships had been constructed upon the model of the Canopus , and had been found to answer extremely well . The Sans Pareil was a most excellent ship , but she had never been copied up to this very time . He now came to the frigates of those days . There were forty-six gun frigates , forty-two gun frigates , and thirty-two gun frigates , all carrying 18-pouuders , thirty-two gun frigates carrying 12-pounders , and twenty . eight gun frigates . Those were very good ships in their day , but they were found not to answer , and they were superseded by the thirty-two gun ships . One of these ships was commanded by an Hon . and Gallant Officer opposite , and anothey by himself , and he could say that a more useless lot of ships had never been constructed by any

      Admiralty . They were found to be inefficient , in-fact , good for nothing ; and they were superseded by another class of frigates , called twen ty-eight gun frigates . These , however , like the rest , were not found to answer , and those were given up . Another class of ships were those called sisteen-gun sloops , mounting sixpounders , and those vessels were persevered in until they were found perfectly useless ; and there was not a youngster or boy in the navy that did not know it . The next class of ships adopted were the , eightcen-gun frigates , which were much longer and much narrower than the eighteen-gun trigs , which every body must have expected would have failed , and which he looked upon as patent cofiins for burying a hundred and twenty men at once . The last class in the service which he noticed was that of

      the gun-bri gs , and of those a whole host had been introduced into the service likely to excite a great deal of notice , but calculated to be of little service . There was the Barker , the Bruiser , and a number of others , which if taken together , would form a whole pack . But these were soon exploded , and the ten-giiu brigs were shortl y afterwards introduced for them . These again in their turn had last year been condemned by the shipwright ' s committee . The navy was in a most inefficient state , the ships being generally constructed upon inferior principles . The Gallant Commodore , after having gone to a considerable length further into the subject , the mam gist of which was to the effect that the present navy was in a very incompetent state , concluded by making Tiis motion .

      Sir Geoboe Cockburn replied to the Gallant Commodore . He would not go through the whole of the statements , nor attempt to defend certain defects in vessels which had been alluded to . It ought to be borne in recollection that during nearly the whole period of which the Gallant Commodore had been speaking , the art ot ship-building had been by no means so perfect as at present . He admitted that many of tho vessels of which the Gallant Officer had been speaking were of a very bad description . Those , however , had been supplanted by ships of a superior construction . He then proceeded to justify the transactions of the present Admiralty Board , though he could not pretend to answer for the one that had preceded it in office , contending and proving a series of nautical statements , that considcrabile improvements for the better had taken place under the management of the existing authorities .

      Captain Rous said the nary and the country were greatly indebted to the Gallant Commodore , and defended at considerable length the same positions . He considered this branch of the service had not been at all attended-to by the present Government , in the manner it ought to have been done . Mr , Charles Wood , Captain Pechell , and Admiral Bowles having briefly spoken to the motion , Mr . Waklev said that he did not see any good that would accrue from the motion of the Gallant Commodore , and advised him to withdraw it . He was opposed to the whole of our present system of naval tactics ; for while he thought the navy ought to be maintained in all its integrity , as constituting the principal bulwark of the country , he deprecatcd to the utmost the squandering of large sums of money upon old hulks that were never fit for any active service , or if they were so fitted out would continually endanger the lives , of them who inight be appointed to man them .

      Sir Charles Napier having briefly replied , the House divided , when there appeared For the motion 32 Against it , 93 Majority —61 The House then went into committee on the Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill , and after several clauses were agreed to , the House adjourned .

      Rochdale.—A Public Meeting Of The Coal M...

      Rochdale . —A public meeting of the Coal Miners ol the Rochdale district will take place on Monday next , February 17 th , in the large room of the Amen Corner Inn , when a lecture will be delivered by Mr . William Dixon . .

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      :. Guildhall, Saturday.—-Two Of . A Trad...

      :. GUILDHALL , Saturday . — -Two of . a Trade never Agree . — A very respectably attired young man named Charles Knight was summoned before Mr . Alderman Moon , for annoying Mr . Simmonds , a foreigner , and a medical practitioner , residing in Skinner-street , Snow-hill . The complainant stated that for several years past he had been the victim of a conspiracy entered into between the prisoner and several other young men , who were in the habit of knocking him up , and sending him to different parts of the neighbourhood , under the pretence that his aid was required in cases of urgent necessities , and frequently he found his door placarded with curious extracts and lectures he had delivered on former occasions at various institutions . On Friday night last , between twelve and one o ' clock he was aroused from his rest by a

      violent ringing at the street-door boll , and on his throwing up his bed-room window and inquiring who was there , the defendant called out in a gruff manner , " I want you . " —The defendant , in answer to the case , said he had been out to a party on the evening in question , and returning home rather late , ho found all the inmates gone . He rang Mr . Dc la Mont ' s bell , and receiving no answer , he pulled the complainant ' s bell , thinking it would be heard then . He was aware that Mr . Simmonds had been annoyed in the manner that gentleman had described , but he assured the Alderman he had no hand iu it . —Mr . Alderman Moon said , under these circumstances , he would dismiss the case , but at the same time he must tell the defendant that he had no right to ring the complainant's bell . —The defendant promised not to repeat the offence , and both retired apparently satisfied with the result .

      MANSION-HOUSE . Wednesday . — Happv England !—A man , named James Oliver , who had genuine symptoms of distress about him , was charged with having stolen two shawls . —The prisoner walked up to a policeman in Cheapside , at a quarter past eight in the evening , and said , " Have your eyes upon me . " He then went into a shop , and , taking hold of two shawls , returned with them , and was taken into custody . —The prisoner declared that he was iu the deepest distress , and that ha had resorted to the expedient of visiting the shop in order to obtain rcli .-r ly being put in prison . —The Lord Mayor asked the prisoner who and what he was ?—The prisoner replied that from consideration for others he must decline uttering a word about himself . All ho would say was that he never committed a robbery in his life , and he did not consider what lie had done the night before was any offence at all . —The Lord Mayor regretted to have such a case brought before him , but said he was bound tocomiuit the prisoner for trial .

      SOOTHWABK . Monday , —Daring Robbery . —William Abbot , a powerfill looking young man , was placed at the bar before Mr . Trail , charged with being concerned , with two others not in custody , in stealing from the person of Robert Roberts , a shoemaker , residing in Red Cross-street , Borough , about ten shillings in money , a letter , and a memorandum-book . —Prosecutor , a simple looking young man , stated that about twelve o ' clock on Saturday night , he was returning towards home , through Castle-street , Southwark-bridgeroad , after having partaken rather too freely of grog . When near Worcester-street , two men and the prisoner Seized his arms : 'the former- picked his right-hand pocket of his money , while the latter held his left arm . After they had robbed him they ran away , but he pursued tlie prisoner , who was stopped by a policeman , and taken into custody . —The officer said that the prisoner was an associate of well-known thieves . —Remanded until Friday .

      CLERKEXWEI . L . Friday . — Charge of Tiireate . vi . vg to Murder . — —Mr . John James Schledcl , a merchant , living in Harrington-street , Hampstcad , was charged with threatening to murder Miss Schledel , the daughter of Mr . George Pfeiller Schledel , a gentleman residing at 30 , Ossultonstreet , Somers Town . Mr . Schledel deposed that the . prisoner was his nephew , and on the previous night he went to the door of the house , 11 , Parkington-street , Islington , belonging to a gentleman named Evans , where his daughter was staying , and knocked loudly for admission ; he was refused , and witness coining up at the time , directed him to go away ; the prisoner refused , and his violent knocking at that time of night ( twelve o ' clock ) disturbed the whole street . Findinst knocking to be

      ineffectual , he commenced kicking at the door with all his might , saying he would murder witness ' s daughter , and witness felt confident that if he had got in he would have murdered her , —Miss Schledel , a prctty-looking girl of 18 , wearing a profusion of ringlets , deposed that tho prisoner was her cousin , and had threatened to knock her brains out on the previous day , with a poker . —Mr . Combe : Can you assign no reason 1 — Miss Schledel ( blushing ) : He has been paying his addresses to mc , and because I did not receive him as favourably as he desired , he threatened to knock my brains out , and then to kill himself ; and I am afraid he will carry his threat into execution . —Mr . Combe after a private consultation with the prisoner ' s friends , committed him in default of bail , and ordered that tho prisoner be closely watched while he remained in the cells attached to tl . p court .

      Monday . —A Pacper's Life . — Au able-bodied young roan , named Crean , was charged with breaking sixteen panes of glass in the Islington workhouse , of which he has been an inmate for years . The offence was clearly proved , and the damage done laid at £ 1 . Serjeant Allen , 21 N , deposed that on Saturday evening , soon after the prisoner was locked up , the constable , on going his rounds , saw the prisoner hanging in the cell . He at once cut him downa moment later and life would have been extinct . He contrived to hang himself by fastening his neckcloth to the top of the cell . He was closely watched all day on Sunday , and on Sunday night two other prisoners were placed in the cell with him . When he supposed they were slumbering he made another attempt to hang himself with his braces , but failed in it owing to the timely interposition of his comrades . Committed for six weeks .

      BOW STREET . Saturday . —Very Ladylike . — Mary Lee , a welldressed young woman , was charged with being drunk and incapable . A police-Omt-cr found her on Friday night in Pall-mall , annoying gentlemen going to their clubs , and when he requested her to go home , she threw herself ou the ground , and said she was at home . No persuasion could convince her to the contrary , and she was taken to the station-hojuse . —Mr . Twyford asked if she was a prostitute . —The policeman replied that she was . —The prisoner however , declared that she was not ; she got her living by honest industry . —Mr . Twyford - . Well , you have been accused of very disorderly conduct , and of being a prostitute—Prisoner : I tell you , sir , I am not a" prostitute . —Mi \ Twyford : The officer swears that you are , and I am bound to believe him on oath , - you arc committed for a month . —Prisoner : You are a nice fellow , you arc ; why don't you send that d—d policeman to for a month ?

      Tuesday . —The Portland Vase Case . —The young man named William Lloyd , who was brought before Mr . Jardine on Friday evening , was again placed at , the bar for final examination , charged with wilfully and maliciously destroying with a stone the inimitable vase in the British Museum . The vase , which was valued at £ 1 , 000 and upwards , was described as being the property of his Grace the Duke of Portland . In reply to the question , what he had to say to the charge , the prisoner said—Only this , that I had been indulging in intemperance for some days , from the effects of which I had only partially recovered when I entered the Museum , and being consequently in a state of nervous excitement , I was afraid of every thing ! met with , aud under such impression I acted in the manner I have done , and for which I was then taken into custod y - , but I did not commit the act through any design or evil intention wha erer towards any person . —Mr . Bodlun said be

      had the honour to appear on behalf of the trustees of the British Museum , upon whom the principal duty devolved in prosecuting in the case on the part of his Grace the Duke of Portland , who had kindly permitted the property in question to be placed in the Museum for the inspection and gratification of the public . It was much to be regretted that such was the defective state of the law upon such offences , that it was difficult to meet the present charge by anything like an adequate punishment ; however , it was provided by the 24 tl \ section of the Wilful Damage Act , " that if any person shall unlawfully or maliciously commit any damage , injury , or spoil to , or upon , any real or personal property whatever , either of a public or private nature , for which no remedy or punishment was therein before provided , every person being convicted thereof before a justice of the peace shall forfeit and pay such sum of money as should appear to the justice to be reasonable compensation for the damage , injury , or spoil

      so committed , not exceeding the sum of £ 5 . "—Mr . Hawkins proved that the shade , which was worth about £ 3 , the fragments of which were lying on the floor with the fragments of the vase , was the property of the trustees of the Museum . —Mr . Jardine said that was the most perfect and legitimate course for the trustees to pursue , and called upon the prisoner to pay the amount of the glass shade , having wilfully and nvdiciously destroyed it , —Mr . Jardine : I cannot help , in my humble capacity , observing with the Learned Counsel , that the Act of Parliament providing for such offences is very inefficient , which prevents my entertaining the case respecting the destruction of the vase against you for the present ; buffer the destruction of the glass shade I shall put the law in full force , and order you to pay the sum of £ 3 forthwith , and in default be committed to hard labour in the House of Correction for two calendar months . —The prisoner was then removed from the bar .

      Wednesday . —Distressing Case . — A fine looking young man named James Vernon , aged 18 years , was placed at the bar , supported by two of his shopmates , who held him by the arms to prevent him from injuring himself , charged with attempting to commit suicide by banging himself . The defendant ' s father , who is a printer residing in Coram-street , St . Pancras , on entering the witnessbox , was deeply affected . He stated that his son , who had assisted liiin in his business , kept company for some tune with a young female to whom he seemed much attached , and to all appearances the feeling was mutual ; but on Sunday night last , for some cause , respecting which he had no means of obtaining any information , she threw herself into the river from the parapet of AVaterloo-bridge , when she was carried away by the current , and tho bodyhas not since been found , although the usual means were resorted to . The occurrence was shortly after communicated to the defendant , and such was the shock produced upon his mind , that he was almost immediately deprived of reason to such an extent that it was deemed necessary to watch his . movements ; but , notwithstanding the

      vigilance of his friends , ho continued to evade them , and made several attempts upon his life , tlie first of which was by a sharp instrument , of which he was deprived , and on the next occasion by strangulation . Yesterday , being engaged with his shopmates , he was suddenl missed from his work , and search being made , he was discovered in the privy , the door of which the men were obliged to break open , suspended , and being cut down it was with difficulty animation was restored . Mr . Jardine asked the defendant what explanation he could give of the sad account given by his father ? -The defendant , without uttering a word , stared at each of his companions , who still continued to hold his hands , in a wild idiotic manner , evidently unconscious of being addressed by tho magistrate , or anything that transpired from the time he was conducted into the court . Mr . Jardine directed that he might be immediately conveyed to St . Giles ' s workhouse , and in the coarse of the day , Mr . Tucker , one of the overseers , waited ou the magistrate to say that the case had been entertained , and that the unfortunate youth ' s comforts should be attended to .

      Thursday . —Destruction of the Portlam ) Vase Liberation of the Delinqoekt . —This day-a letter was received by Mr . Jardine , enclosing him the sum of £ 3 , be .

      :. Guildhall, Saturday.—-Two Of . A Trad...

      ing the amount of-fine iiiP . ictcl upon the -v ,., ^ gave the name of William Lloyd , for wantanlv .. ' " ' v . „ . the Portland VaSe ..,. The magistrate i „ tS ^^ the money to the under gaoler , with direct ,, * - "NeS would proceed to TothiU-ficlds Prison and Co ' *> -at S with the governor , to whom the fine was to be - u , 4 : ab the receipt of which the prisoner was liberato . i , ^ ' % » with the officer to the vicinity of the court , > Vil C left him , and returned to the Euro pean ( W en in Long-acre , where he still remains . It anno 1 - - * the inquiries made that the delinquent , who jrar » fr oii name , is a student in the Universi ty of Dublin \ , \ , Vri > ii > short time back entered as a pensioner under » i * hoof Mr . Atkins , one of the junior fellows and h - "''" o ? brother of some standing in the same colC . t * oj no business in London but to spend the v . icauV ' - Wi the principal places in the metropolis until th an ( ' isiof his next examination , when he intend s to m -W-W vious to which ho should write to his friends &»• n > Intake him back , as all his money was exhauste . i c , H "i his short confinement he exhibited a decree of i Ur > a ' which was immediately repressed bv- tl » . ,,. „_; " ^ 'in .-,,., ?

      his being ordered at seven o ' clock in the m omin * ' l f () t to other prisoners to undergo the usual ablutions ho *'¦'' % dogged , and was about to refuse obeying , which pa " 1 - " - * ^ person in attendance to move him on , when !» ^ ft ' turned round and struck tlie man under the ear ? ufl ( J * nls " quence of which he was immediatel y jilaccd i '" ^ "se " confinement , and was accommodated with 1 n- ,- * % * cuffs . In tin ' s condition he was found when h f M was sent for ids liberation , and had not his l , " ""¦ 'j been so prompt , his hair would have been Tl ^ t the course of the day to undergo the D ,, ? - , cfr i ' u awarded him by the court . He makes nc 11 , •"•* in declaring that , had he been obliged to ati ' Jn in the same state in prison till the ° time 1 eillai ' n to him had expired , he would have taken the " a opportunity to put an end to his existence not 6 a , '' account of the severity of the punishment lie had t r "i go , but the remorse he felt for having commit """ * offence for which no adequate reparation could bem a !! his part , the cause of which was his intomucr-ib ! ?"* for several days , without the participation of ' •¦» ^ panion . lie is of the Roman Catholic persu-i si ¦ "k while the examination was going on , the only i ' .- ' ° i stance that gave lum uneasiness was havin . r x } ' ^ -

      person m the court taking a sketch of him whk- i -5 " 81 prehended was intended for publication , and „«»• , ' -i- IU mutely lead to his expulsion from college , ahhou-i , i' " - ^ H concealed his right name . The destruction of the " ' tm another subject wliich seems to cause great uneasins * , ' ! SH although he has been convicted of breaking the "U * ' M : ^ mt he fears he can again be brought up for the w „ Vi , ^ HI fence , and be sentenced to a longer imprisonment . * Hi has engaged himself all the afternoon in wiitin ' . " . ,- IU tnends m Dublin to remit him means to enable la ^ W quit London . As to the amount sent to tlie prison f ? SH liberation , he declares his total ignorance of the , ^ ifl who remitted it to the magistrate , and the person- ^ HI whom ho lodges seem equally surprised at tlieDcc-mr - § 11 LAMBETH . " * " | j Wednesday . —Attempt to Commit Suicide- * . Mm Freeman , a woman about 40 vears of age , ai . te , ^ Nil under the influence of nervous excitement , was ) L ? - ' ' $ M the bar before Mr . Norton , charged with creatine a *? ?'• 'SJffl ancein Arlington-street , Waterloo-road , and with atte IU ing to commit suicide by strangling herself in tkerf 111 which she was confined at the Tower-street stati on T W &

      jeaut twins , ol the L division , said that the dofctuW ' -- fig now under bail for having attempted to commit suitij-i : ^ jumping off Waterloo-bridge . In answer to questi ™ , $ m & to her by Mr . . Norton , the woman , who trembled y \ £ i § ftf and wept , stated that her husband , who was a Wirtcm , / « p | l and to whom she had been married four vears , was is . ? ;^| habit of ill-using her . She had been to fetch liiin for 2 $ H public-house last night , aiid had some beer with him 1 ' %$ & their return home he knocked her about , and she ran 1 " . sffljl Of the house for protection , and unless she had don * J : " 111 would have murdered her . —Mr . Norton : Hut hou ^ l 311 you think of such a dreadful thing as to commit suitif ; iffg —Defendant : I was not in mv right senses . So-ntfe . fPll Ido not know what I am about . My husband does n . - Pal give mo his earnings . Frequently I do not get mor ( ^ f $ m Is . 6 d . a week . I admit endeavouring to jump off Wasetfo $ Msk bridge . My husband ' s bad temper drove mc to iui' & $ k Norton directed the officers to obtain the attendant . " ,.- ; S §|§ her husband , and remanded tlie defendant until lie m $$ m be brought before hiin . ' r ^ M

      WORSHIP-STREET . ^ M Tt-KSDAY . — Th >; late Murder at I 5 ethxai . . 0 ! se £ . v l ! 3 # t James Tapping , who stood committed for the ahWi ? " WM fill murder of Emma Whiter , was brought up in ontofe ^ - $ 5 the depositions which had been previously taken ml + ki q & J ® read over to lum ; which being done the prisoner wasfu " , ' $ 0 % committed to Newgate for trial . "• im ®

      . QUEEN'S SQUARE . § gi | Saturday . —Assaulting a Public -n . —TlioU'l ;;) , | Hl an omnibus time-office keeper at tlie Queen ' s , \^ mj 0 was brought up , charged with assaulting Jh-, Alldtuai ' i $ f I lican , Chelsea . It appeared from the evidence ad & R - ' ||| i that Hitch was in the habit of attending the house rf & | lli prosecutor , and on the previous day , about two o cto' Wffi he had two glasses of liquor , for which tlireopence-Li - ;' . llii penny was charged . The money was missed at the fire-. jf |§| bssm

      The next evenincr snnip : ilti'vcsit ! r > ii fivkmir . iw . „» :. i * -. 3 Tlic next evening sonic altercation arising aboutit , '; . jj | P fendant began to abuse the prosecutor in a very offer- pfl manner , and ended by striking him in the throat , p . ; . im severing in his violence , a constable if as called in , andiy § defendant was given into custody . Fined forty sliifc | | i or in default of payment , one month in the House ofCor- % M rection '"' iSl retuoii

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      Crrr Of Londox—The Public Discussion Wil...

      Crrr of Londox—The public discussion will be mffl resumed at the Hall , 1 , Turnagain-lane , on Sunte Wm morning next , February 16 th , at half-past ten . Is g | || the afternoon , at three precisely , the Metropolitan ! f | ¦ D istrict Council will assemble ; aud in the tmw , WM at seven , Mr . G . Doyle will lecture . " Mm Somehs Tow . w—On Sunday evening next , Mr , C , Wm Doyle will deliver a public lecture , to conwienrc at ! | 1 || nine precisely , at the Bricklayers' Awns , Toitils- lli street , Cromer-street . " WM Hue Mem-seus of the Somers Town . localit ^ . itt . ' !* Ips !;

      quested to meet on Sunday evening next , at it ^ Duddridge's , Tonbridge-strcet , New-road , at sevc f , . o ' clock precisely . j Camm-kweli , and Walworth . —A meeting will I ? ' held at the Montpelier Tavern , Walworth , on ik . ' " 3 day evening next , February 17 th . at eight precisely | Hammersmith . —A meeting will be held at the Bir , J Cow , Brook Green-lane , on Tuesday evening aesi M February 18 th , at eight precisely . p s -Martli-boke Locality ; . —A members' meeting si & j bo held on Wednesday evening , Feb . 1 ! . ' , at tl : ' M Coachmakers- Arms , Circus-street , New-road , s : M half-past seven o'clock . as ^ Chelsea . — Mr . M'Grath will lecture at tlie Im Cheshire Cheese , Grosvenor-row . on Sunday cveniiiJ ^ next , February 16 th , at eight o ' clock precisely . ® m Leeds . —Mr . C . Doyle will lecture in the Ite , § 1 Briggate , on Sunday the 23 rd inst . fjjji

      South Laxcashire Meeting . —The next meetiij m of the South Lancashire Delegates will be held « . M Sunday , Februar y 23 rd , in the Chartist n » p Charlestown , Aslitoii-under-Lyne , at ten o ' clock in m the morning . ' || IIebdex Bridge . —Two lectures will be dclirered - in the Association room on Sunday evening nes , * - | two o ' clock iu the afternoon , and six in the creninf . | by Wm . Dixon , of Manchester . | Nottingham . —On Sunday evening next , a p * f meeting will be held in the Democratic Chawi ii . | six ' o ' clock in the evening . —Tho Operative m | Building Committee will meet at the Pheasant , ^ Charlotte-street , next Sunday afternoon , at S « y £ o ' clock . * Wt

      -p 5 ?» Rochdale . —Mr . James Leach , of Manchester , ^ im deliver two lectures next Sunday , at two in the * fi | noon , and six in the evening ^ at the Asocial ( room , Mill-street . ill Birmingham . —Mr . T . Clark will lecture on Sunday |§ next , February 16 th , at the Democratic Clap | ri Thorp-street , at half-past six in the evening . m Longiox Potteries . —Mr . T . Clark will lecju « » : 1 Longton on Monday , the 17 th inst . ; and at I « m Tuesday , the 18 th . v | | Macclesfield . —On Wednesday next Mr . C 1 m « | g of the Executive , will lecture in the Gliartist-roo ffi . m Stanley-street ; to commence at eight o ' clovk . m ~_ .. vv > , , v „ WWJ . UUAW . UUW UV Q - t .

      ^ g Sheffield . —A leeture will be delivered in ' I room , Fig Tree-lane , on Sunday , Feb . 16 , to * niencc at half-past six . There is , in connection «•' . the above room , an excellent library , cote » ' = ¦' _ upwards of 300 volumes . Persons becoming i "'™ bers of the Association may have the benefit » ' ~ library . Wakefield .-TIic Chartists of Wakefield a « J quested to meet in the room , George and Grow * . on Sunday evening next , Feb . 16 . , „ Dewsbuhv . —The next Dewsbury district w ^ jjf will be held in the Chartist-room , DewsbuV ,- ' " day , the 16 th inst ., at two o ' clock in the afc ^' , Oldham . —On Sunday ( to-morrow ) , Mr , F . A *' lor will leeture in the Chartist-room , Greavcs-a" *"

      at srx o clock in the evening . ^ Leicester . —The members of the Hampdsj . - ' * lity will hold their usual weekly meeting lor **? * slon at Mr . Oades ' s room on Sunday next , ^ past six o ' clock .

      > Birth. . „ . . Thomas Slingsbv Duncomb...

      > BIRTH . . „ . . Thomas Slingsbv Duncombe Floyd , born at ^ §§ tord on the 4 th of Januarv , and registered as a " ' - " M the 21 st . ult , H DEATHS . t .. « - On Thursday , Feb . 6 th , after a short bu ' f * LB illness , Selina , wife of Mi-. Thomas SiwmtU ^ Hj manufacturer , aged twenty-seven years , W- W grctted by a large circle of friends . , m M A Veteran . —We have this week to recora . g death of Mv . Andrew Franklin , of Tavistock-stj g Covent-garden , in his ninetieth year . Nearly se ^ m years since Mr . Franklin commenced his bt ^'> , p hours in connexion with the Morning fyst n ?** tyW and subsequentlyjoined the Morning Advert ^ ^ M he continued till old age compelled him , a w * - ^ since , to abandon his editorial duties , and ' -rLfgjil private life , taking with him the respect f ^ - I of all who had the pleasure of his acqu aint- " p Morning Advertiser . __^ -Sm i ¦

      Street In T Oi — ^ ————^ ———^—' V-^Ih Muted By Dougal M'Gowan, Of 17, ^Of-'S" ^*^

      street in t oi — ^ ————^ ———^— ' V- ^ IH Muted by DOUGAL M'GOWAN , of 17 , ^ of- 'S " ^*^

      , Naymarket, Ne Uity ««»» . Pt'sigaa Off...

      , naymarKet , ne uity ««»» . pt'Sigaa Office in the same Street and Parish , for " ayf || prietor , FEARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq „ andpu | f j , «|^ William Hewitt , of No . 18 , Charles-street , ^^^ street , Walworth , in the Parish of St . Mary , : J d |^ ton , in the County of Surrey , atthe Offio * . . ^ jil Strand , in the ParishCCSt . M ary-le-St « n « ^ n City of Westminster J | || Saturday , « Febuary 15 ; 18 « | S |

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 15, 1845, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_15021845/page/8/