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      COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH . charge : of conspiracy—thk clvres V . HEWITT

      . AND OTHERS . Irom . tbestttementef the Solicitor-General it appeared ' that this ' was an ! indictment of great importance ^ it charg ed the defendants with a con-• piracy ( under the statute of 6 th George IV ., c . 129 ; Cor preventing legal combinations by workmen ) for molesting one Charles Evans to force him to pay a fine of £ 10 ., and compelling him to leave bis work . All the defendants were members of a club or isociety called the Philanthropic Society of Coopers , being a benefit society . Hewitt was the president !

      and one Jack ; was tbe secretary . The society bad ah acting member in every cooper ' s yard in the kingdom . A man named Charles Brans was a mem . ber . Ha was working in Mr . TarnerVyard , but , with the permission of his master , he did four days ' work at the steam-mills of Messrs . Rosenberg and Montgomery , who had extensive steam machinery for making casks . As soon as tbe committee heard this , Ihey inflicted a fine of £ 10 npon Evans , pay . able by instalments , and upon his refusal to pay tbe other men in the yard left their work , and acted in such a manner as bad the effect of throw .

      tng Evans completely out of wort—Charles Evans said : I am a jonrneymau cooper , and worked at Tamer ' s yard . I was a member of this society , and paid to it one farthing out of every shilling I earned . By tbe permission of the foreman I worked four days at tbe steam saw-mills . I then returned to Mr . Turner ' s . On the 23 rd of November I paid Is . 8 d . for a fortnight ' s pay . Ou the following Monday I was returned that money , and told I should be fined . I spoke to Hall , who told me he

      thought I should be fined for working at the steam cask mills . "WbOe I was talking to him be received a note from Hewitt , stating tbat the committee would meet the following evening , at eight o'clock . I then told Hall I thought it was very wrong that Hewitt bad not informed me of tbe committee , and that it would be very wrong that I should be fined £ 10 without making a rule first . I saw * Bull on the same day . He showed me a note he had had from Hewitt , to tbe same effect as that sent to Hall .

      I went to tbe committee meeting tbe next evening , and applied to be admitted , but was refused . Hewitt came oat of the roam ; I told him I thought be bad acted very wrong in not giving me notice of the committee meeting , so that I might have said something in my own defence . Ha told me , " If your shop ' s company choose to support you in the manner in which you bave acted , we have done wiih yon . " At tbat time I had not offended against any rule of the society . Oa tbe following evening there was a meeting of the men of Turner ' s yard . Bull , Grey , and some others of tbe defendants were present ; tbey were all members of the society . Boll took tbe chair , and said , " I suppose you are' aware

      of what passed at tbe committee , and tbat we have seen tbe president , and tbe committee , after long and serious consideration , bave come to tbe determination to fine yon , Charles , £ 10 , to be paid at 10 i . a week ; and now , Charles , I must enforce the fine next Saturday night . " I told bim I could not pay it , and 1 would not pay it . My brother then said , " There is another man you have" to speak to 'meaning Henry Holland . Bull then turned round to HoL ' endand said , "Now , Nobby , what do you intend to do ? '' Holland said , "The same as Charles . " Holland bad been working at Rosenberg ' s with OI - Holland said he would rather go to sea again that » P ! * fine . John Murphy said , be believed that the committee would not have been so hard witti me but they believed I . should work there * k *™ ' K I would

      promise not . to go _ ihefg wain , the yard's company , might apply for a mitigation . After a deal of talk , I agreed not to go there agar ? providing the whole of the fine was taken off , but that was objected to . Ultimately 1 agreed , on , tbe word of a man , not to . go there again if tbey mitigated the fine at all . Murphy said , be would not take my word . Bull then asked Holland if he would promise tbe same . He said he would , and Briant said be would be answerable for bim , and it was then agreed that two of the men should meet the committee and endeavour to ' mitigate the fine . I was afterwards informed by Bull and Murphy that the Committee confirmed their former decision . On Monday , tbe 9 th of December , a meeting of hands was called by Bull in Mr . Turner ' s premises . He said the committee had found fault with Mm for

      sot enforcing tbe fine on tbe Saturday evening ; tbat I was to finish the work I bad , and do no more at Tamer ' s , or the men must leave the yard . I produced a book of articles , and pointed out rule the 19 th , and wished the matter to be tried by arbitration according to tbat rule . It was then arranged tbat application should be made to tbe committee , hot tbe committee would not agree to it , as they thought it too serious a matter to be left to any six men in tbe trade . On the next Saturday Bull asked for the 10 s . on account of tbe fine , but I refused to pay . Bui ! said , " My goodness me , you bad better consider of it , and not throw yourself out of work . " On Tuesday , the 17 th of December , I had finished

      the work I bad in hand . Ashcroft , tbe manager , gave me fresh work ; all tbe men . in the yard then put on their clothes and left their work , and went out of the yard . I continued in the yard . The foreman came to me , and in consequence of something that took place I applied to Mr . Yardley , tbe magis . trate . On the 18 th I went to Turner ' s yard to my work . None of tbe other men bad come . I was asked by tbe foremen to procure new men . I was anable , and therefore I sent for Murphy to a public-house , and after tbat I gave the other men notice tbat I should bave finished in two hours and then they could return . I then left the yard , and the other men then returned to their work . Bull

      told me if I would pay 30 s . down and 10 s . a week afterwards I need not leave . I refused , and was thrown out of employ . —Cross-examined : I bad been in Turner ' s employ for three years . The foreman gave me leave to go to tbe steam-mills , and toek a guarantee tbat the work I was about should be done . I was paid for tbe whole of the work . 1 was at the steam-mills four days . I then came back aud finished the work . I did not apply to tbe society for money to bury my wife or a person I called my wife , but I borrowed £ 2 of the society to bury my daughter . I lived with & woman , who was not toy -wife . She is dead ; I did not ask for money to bury

      ber . The object of tbe society is to keep a settled price . —Several witnesses corroborated this test ! , mcmy . It was said tbat a fine followed a man all ¦ -over London and England .. The committee paid each of Turner ' s men 9 s . for tbe time tbey were out of Turner's yard when they left on account of Evans being there . —Lord Campbell having summed up , tbe Jury returned a verdict of Guilty of conspiracy againt aU tbe defendants . —Lord Campbell then . sentenced Bull and Grey to pay Is . and be discharged . Hewitt and Jack to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for Middlesex for one month , and the others to be imprisoned for one week , and all to find sureties for their good behaviour for three years .

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      EXCHEQUER CHAMBER . THE ClUEEX V . BIRO -AND WIFB . —JUDGMENT . In this ease , with which our readers no doubt are by this time too well acquainted , tbe Judges on Wednesday „ . morning delivered their judgments . Lord Campbell , after referring , to the facts of the ease , and tbe various constructions put upon the act , said he was of opinion that tbe conviction was -wrong . At the same time be thought tbe attention of tbe Legislature should he turned to tbe consideration of an act which led to so much difference of opinion . Although he disagreed with tbe other learned judges who had made a decision in favour of the conviction , be would pronounce the judgment of the court , which was , tbat the conviction be affirmed , and that sentence would be passed at the next Devon spring assizes .

      Tbe following is a summary of the judgment given in this case . For the conviction , the Lord Chief Baron , Mr . Justice Talfourd , Mr . Justice Erie . Mr . Justice Wiabtmau . Mr . Justice Cresswell , Mr . Justice . WiPiams , Mr . Justice Coleridge , and Mr . JusticePatteson ; and tbe following learned judges held the conviction to be bad—the JLord Chief Justice of tbe Queen ' s Bench , the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , Mr . Baron Parke , Mr . Baron Martin , Mr . Baron Aldtrson , and Mr . Justice Made . There was therefore a majority oi two for the conviction . .

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      PBMOKs .-rJaneParneirandr . Henry Ogan were placed at the ; bar to receive judgment . — . The Recorder , addressing tbe female ' defendant , said that she had been convicted on Saturday last in tbe adjoining court of the ' offence of perjury , and , it . appeared to him that her crime was . one of tbe most wicked and remarkable thabwas recorded in the annals of crime . The evidence against her established thejact that she bad , by false evidence and by the fabrication of a series of falsehoods , endeavoured-to-procure tbe conviction of two persons , named George and Edith Hopwood , of the serious offence of wounding ber , with tbe' intention to destroy her life , with tbe evident object of sending one

      if not both of those persons out of the country . Her conduct appeared to have exhibited a profligacy which he was not willing to believe was common even among the most degraded classes of tbe community ^ It appeared tbat she was a married woman , and during the absence pf her husband at sea she hud induced tbe man George Hopwood to turn his wife and family out of doors , and to cohabit with her ; but after a few months had elapsed , be became disgusted with the connexion and left ber , and took his wife and family home again ; and from this period it appeared that she bad been actuated by feelings of the deepest revenge against them , and it bad been found necessary by them to obtain the assistance of the police to restrain ber violence . It then appeared that on tbo 2 nd of December she was found lying apparently insensible in the house of a person with whom she was acquainted , and she had

      a slight wound ia her throat , aud she represented that she bad been attacked in the street by two persons , a man and a woman , who had masks on , and tbat tbey bad inflicted tbe wound npon her . Those parties were tried upon that charge , and she had not scrupled to make a detail of facts which she must bave known were utterly false , and with the object apparently of getting rid , at all events , of the wife , in order that she might have an opportunity of gratifying her wicked passions by a renewal of the intimacy with tbe husband .. Under these circumstances he could not help regarding the case as one of the most aggravated character , and pne which called for the infliction of the full punishment awarded by tbe law for this description of offence , and that sentence was tbat she be " transported beyond" the seas for seven years . The other defendant was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard laboar for eighteen months .

      Sxabbino a . Powcemax . —Charles Burden , 26 , was indicted for feloniously eutliag and wounding Caleb Davis with attempt to maim and disable or to do bim some grievous bodily barm . —It appeared that about half-past one o ' clock on the morning of tbe 31 st December the prisoner wasin Holborn , near Middle-row , very drunk and brandishing a knife , with which be threatened to stab any one who interfered with him . The prosecutor , who is a police constable , laid hold of tbe prisoner in order to secure bim and prevent bim from doing any mischief , and the prisoner immediately . made a stab at him with the knife he held in his band , and cut him through the clothes , and he repeated the blow a second time , and inflicted a most dangerous wound in bis thigh , from the effects of which he has not yet recovered — Tbe jury found tbe prisoner Guilty of an assault , and be was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to bard labour for twelve months . ' '

      Robbing a Sailor . —Timothy-Coglan , a tall powerful-looking young fellow , was convicted of stealing a watch , with violence , from the person of Liness Simpson . —It appeared tbat prosecutor , a sailor , was in Whitechapel on Wednesday evening week , and was the worse for liquor , when the prisoner came up and knocked him down , and robbed bim of his watch .. He was , however , seenbyagirl , who raised the cry of police , and after a short chase he was captured , and a short distance from bint was found the prosecutor ' s watch . —He was transported for seven years .

      Robbery Br a Railway Porter . —Henry Munnery was indicted for stealing six dozen of table knives , va ' ned at £ 12 , the . property of the . South Western Railway . The facts of . the case were these : —last January twelvemonths a box was sent ' from Mr . Heiffor , of Sheffield , cutler , to & Mr . Portal , hear Basingstoke , Hants , containing tbe . goods in question , which were rent up to London , and deposited in tbe goods department of the South Western Railway Company , Nine Elms . The box never reached its place , of destination , and tbe manufacturer re-executed the order , and received compensation from tbe Company . Nothing more was heard of the goods for twelve months , when information was given to the police , and Bent and Jupp , of the _ V division , went to the house of the prisoner , in the Wandsworth Road , and took him into custody , and it subsequently turned ont that prisoner had been a porter in tbe employment of the Company , but had

      been discharged in December , 1849 . Since then he ' had worked with a hone and cart , conveying goods to and from the Nine Elms station , and' had access to the goods department . In February last , shortly after the goods were lost , the prisoner took a basket , containing four or fivedozen of knives , to aperfumer and cutter in Be'mont-place-, Wandsworth Road , who was prisoner ' s landlord , and wished the knives , for which be asked 15 s . a dozen , to be taken in payment for rent . Mr . Greener , tbe perfumer , however refused to have any thing to do with them , observing that they had a crest on them partly erased . When the pri-oner was taken into custody he did not deny having had the things , but said a man in the employment of Pickford , » bo was since dead , bad brought them to him , saying that he had got them from the Great Western Railway , and wanted prisoner to dispose of them for him . The jury found the prisoner Guiltv . The learned commissioner sentenced him to

      twelve months imprisonment . Defrauding a Rah-wat Company . — Richard Brown and William William " , two respectable-looking men , were indicted for conspiring with a person unknown , to defraud the London and North Western Railway Company out of the sum of 8 s . 10 d ., thefare from Birmingham to London . The learned counsel , in stating the case to the jury , said the method in which the fraud had been perpetrated and discovered was as follows : —On the 4 th of January , upon one of the up trains from Birmingham arriving at the "Willesden station , thestatiun master informed tbe guard that s « me one had taken two tickets from that station to London , and pointed out the carriage into which they had got , and the guard suspecting some fraud

      marked the carriage into which the person was said to have got , and" when they got to the Camden Town station , where the tickets are collected , the guard gave information to the ticket collector , and shewed him the carriage in which the suspected parties were . The result was , that the two prisoners at the bar presented ticketsfrom Willesden to London , for which sixpence each had been paid . They were asked where they had coine from , and tbey both said from that station . The guard then came forward and recognised Williams as bavin ? been on the platform at Bliswortb , and told bim so . upon which the prisoner " Williams said be had come from Coventry ; but the other said nothing , and the guard had not seen him before . They were then brought on to Euston-square where Williams was given in custody , and npon

      being searched papers were found on him that proved him and Brown to be friends . It further appeared , that on that day but two tickets bad been issued at Willesden , and them to one man , whom it is supposed was Brown , and that he bad supplied Williams with one of the tickets , he ; Williams , having got into the train without any ticket , and . arranged to meet tbe prisoner Brown at the point alluded to , and by getting tbe sixpenny ticket to present on reaching town , evade the payment of the fare from Birmingham , " or whatever intermediate station he bai got in at . Williams , who has been a police constable , defended himself with much legal ability , but the fraud was too . clear to admit of doubt , and the jury found both Guilty . Williams was sentenced to six and Brown to three months' imprisonment .

      Tavern Robberies . —James Joseph Stanley , 18 , clerk , was indicted for steab ^ g a spoon and fork , valued at £ 110 * ., Ike property of Charles William Davis . Mr . Griffith having stated the case , called the sraitertothe prosecutor , who ka > ps the kent . Hotel and Tavern , Brownlow-street , Hplborn , who stated tbat between one and two o ' clock , on the 22 nd of Januarv . the prisoner came into their coffee room and ordered bis dinner , and after be bad dmed had some ale , and then asked the waiter about some gentleman who was in tbe habit of coming there , and whilst they were so talking the gentleman in question came in , but they did not take any notice of each other . The waiter went into the kitchen , and he then shw thi ! nri « nner iiass out . Witness then went to the

      table where he had been and found the newspaper ( brown over it ; he removed it and found the fork and spoon gone . He went out and called at several pawnbrokers along Holborn , sad at last at one in Drurylane , kept by a Mr ., Hedges , where tbe prisoner , ban been about five minutes before , and pawned the spopn and fork for £ 1 . Two days afterwards prisoner came to pledge , another spoon ,, when he was recognised , and at once given into custody . The jury found him Guilty , lie was then indicted for stealing a spoon , the property of Isabel Early , on the 15 th of January . In this instance he had gone to prosecutor ' s shop , a pastry copk ' s , Oxford-street , and called for a basin of soup , and taking advantage of some one else coming in walked through the shop , and paving for his soup ,

      got to the door , when he . ran iff , and it was then found tbat the stoon was gone . This was the spoon he came to plerige ; at the time be was apprehended . He was found Guilty . There , were indictments against bim for stealing a spoon from . Mr . Holt ' s , confectioner , St . Paul ' s Churchyard ; another from Erard ' s , at the corner . of the Lowther Arcade ; and there were several other . charges which had hot been sent for trial . Mr . Rebton ,. for the prisoner ; said this was a peculiarly painful . case . -. The prisoner is the son of a highly . ramectabJe solicitor , and , havipg had a quarrel with his father leftjbw house , and bad nuce fallen into bad compBny ,. wb . icb bad led him to the commission of these offences . Hewasseateneed to tweta Monto' iaprwownent .

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      . Robwbu * . Restaojiaht . —Charlfl * Schuster , ' 25 , a German , described as'a soldier , was indicted for stealing two forks and two spoons , value £ 3 , the property of Thomas Dawes and another . —It ap . peared that the prisoner went into the eating establishment kept by the prosecutors in the Strand , and having disposed of a good dinner he . coolly walked off without paying for it , taking with him the plate that had been furnished for the dinner . — The prisoner interrupted the examination of one of the witnesses in the middle of the case , and through the medium of the interpreter , who had been en . gaged , expressed his desire to plead guilty—In answer to inquiries that were made by . the court , the prisoner stated that it had been his intention to proceed to America , and that he expected a committee of his countrymen , which was established in London , would assist him in : that object .--The court , under these circumstances , respited the judgment to the next session .

      ...... Bubolaby . —Robert Wishart , 2 i , was indicted for burglariously breaking into a dwelling house belonging to the guardians of the poor of the parish of St . Luke , and stealing some bread and other articles , their property . It appeared that the prisoner was an out-door pauper of the p arish , and , according to the evidence , upon his going to the workhouse on the 7 th of January to receive his allowance , he had contrived to secret himself in the building , and in the night he broke into the relieving officer ' s room , where money was usually kept , with the expectation , no doubt , of obtaining a < rood booty . From some circumstances , however , that had previously transpired , it appeared that the had been put in another place , and

      money the prisoner was , consequently , enabled only to set hold of some bread , and other articles of trifling value . —The prisoner , when called upon for his . defence , made a most violent and course attack upon the guardians . And he declared that their only motive in prosecuting him was to gratify a feeling of revenge at his having written letters to tbe Poorlaw Board , detailing the malpractices that were going on in the workhouse . He concluded by stating , in an impudent tone , that if be was convicted he hoped the court would be lenient with him , and not keep him long in prison , as he was anxious to see the great Exhibition . —The Recorder

      having summed up , the jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty . — -Evidence was then given to show that the prisoner was convicted of a similar offence to the present in June , 1813 , and sentenced to six months' imprisonment ; and Inspector Brennan , of the G division of police , also informed the court that be bad been convicted summarily a great number of times , and that he was the constant companion of convicted thieves . It also appeared , from a document found in the possession of the prisoner , tbat he had been confined in almost every gaol in the country . —Tbe Recorder sentenced him to be transported for seven years .

      Fobgbry . —William Leighton Wood , a pianoforte maker , who was convicted of forgery , was sentenced to seven years'transportation . Alleged Fraud , —Osborne Marks , 25 , sailor , was indicted for obtaining , by false pretences , from William Sloman , £ 5 with intent to cheat and defraud Mm of the same , —The facts were simply these . ' The prisoner , a highly respectable-looking man , bad been mate of the Resistance , and prosecutor was a publican at Woolwich , and the prisoner had got tho prosecutor to cash him a bill for £ 5 drawn on his agents , and six days after tbe transaction prisoner came to bim again and asked bim if he would cash some more for him . Prosecutor having , in the meantime , found that prisoner had overdrawn bis amount , and tbat the amount would not be paid , he gave the prisoner in custody . —For

      the defence it was contended and proved , tbat the prisoner had a right to draw upon his agent even to a larger amount than was due . It was also proved thatthe prisoner bore a high character , — 'The jury Acquitted him . : The Charge of Cheating at Cards . —In tbe case Thomas Brown , who stands indicted for alleged fraud and ill-practice at cards , an arrangement was on Saturday come to by the mutual consent of counsel that tbe trial should traverse until next session , and the court then fixed the amount of bail in two at £ 40 and tbe defendant himself in £ 80 , but this not being considered by the prosecufo-w as a sufficient sum , the question was brought before the court on Tuesday , when it was stated tbat , from " certain overtures that had been made , the prosecutor entertained a belief , that unless the amount of bail was increased the defendant would not be

      forthcoming . This was mentioned to tbe court , but the Common Sergeant refused to alter the amount unless affidavits were filed . —It was ultimately arranged to double the amount to two in £ 80 , and the defendant in the same sum , with the usual notice . CfliBOa of SfBitiso . —William Stiles , a porter on tbe London , and South Western Railway / was charged with stealing a pair of boots . —It appeared that prisoner was a porter at the Nine Elms station , and that on the 10 th of January prisoner was employed in a truck , where there was a box of boots .. One of the constables having , some suspicion , watched and saw the prisoner take them from the box and place them inside his jacket under his arm . The box , " it appeared , although not very sound , had been made so fast that nothing could

      have fallen out . Although the , facts were most positively sworn to , after a speech of some length by Mr . Rebton , the jury Acquitted the prisoner . Pbbjobt . —Joseph Bysoutb , 27 , carman , was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury upon a certain information before James Trail , Esq ., at the Police Court , Woolwich . —Mr . Koakes , clerk to the . magistrates , at Woolwich , produced the minutes of evidence , taken at the time of the prisoner ' s examination , and from that and the statement of that gentleman it appeared that , on the 21 st of December , a young woman , named Esther Parsley , took a bastardy summons out against a . man named Cray , butler to a gentleman named Langland , living at Charlton , which came on for bearing at the court

      above mentioned , 4 th of January , when for defence the prisoner , who is carman to a brewer serving Mr . Langland , was called by tbe butler , and he most positively swore and fixed tee several occasions that he had been on terms of tbe strictest-intimacy with the girl Parsley . The magistrate , however , having heard the evidence in support of the case , adjudicated in favour of the girl , and ordered the prisoner into custody for perjury . The prisoner also swore that he had been on intimate terms with the girl ' s mother . —The girl was sworn , and said that prisoner only came twice to her mother ' s with whom she was living . On one occasion be brought some beer to the house , and another time he only came to the door , and . on both

      occasions ber mother was there , and beyond that she did not know him . He had never taken any liberties with her . —The girl ' s mother was also examined , and it appeared that at the time of the alleged intimacy between prisoner and her daughter the witness was keeping house for Mr . Langland ' s brother , fler evidence clearly established the prisoner ' s falsehood . —The usher of the Woolwich polioocourt said that on going to the cell where prisoner was locked up to inform him tbat tbe offence was a bailable one , he found him crying , and asked bim what it was about . The prisoner said , ' You see what they bave got me into . " Witness said : " Why you

      have never sworn falsely ? and he said , " So help me God , I know nothing about it . They offered me £ 20 to swear what I did . They have got mo to do it . "—The jury found the prisoner Guilty . —Mr . Gurney , in passing sentence , dwelt upon , the heinous character of the offence of which the prisoner had been convicted , and the injurious effect it had on society , by perverting the ends of justice , adding that this case was a peculiarly cruel one , for had he succeeded in his offence , it would have been the means of depriving . the poor infant of , its natural support . —He was then sentenced to be imprisoned for one month , and then transported for

      seven years . With a few cases of a character unfit for publication , the business of the session closed . ' The court stands adjourned untilMonday , March tbe 3 rd .

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      Dbathofa YetbbanRixoer , ai Ashto-v-ukobb-Ltsb .-Mr . Aaron Walker , of ChaMeawn , AsMonunder-Lyne , died in the seventy-seventh year of his age , and was buried on the 5 th inst . He was the last surviving member of the College Youths of Ashton , and had been a ringer of the above place upwards of fifty-seven years ; and in the course of his lifetime hasrung 57 five thousands , and 2 seven thousand ? , besides his ordinary and regular ringing . He was the first man that ever rang the tenor of Ashton single handed , in a five thousand . He was borne to bis last long home by the combined societies of Change-Ringers of Ashton , Oldham , and Mottram , in Cheshire . On each side of the pall " was bailing his favorite pair of hand bells , covered

      with black crape , and the corpse , was also followed hyupwards of a hundred relatives , After the interment , the abore societies ascended the tower and rang , in a mournful style-the bells being muffled -his favorite peal of 7 , 001 changes of Grandsire Gators , consisting of 1 , 505 , which was brought round in one hour and three minutes ; the above 7 001 being a peal which tbo deceased distinguished himself in the Collesiate Church , Manchester , Jan 2 1826 . He rung his last 5 , 000 m his seventy-fifth year , and considering the weight of the bell , has never been equalled , by any man of his age . . Tbadb or THE . UsirBB KiNonoM .-6 nTUesday , a

      return to parliament , obtained by Mr . Ca 5 ley , was printed , showing , the import and export trade of the : TJnited Kingdom in th e course of the year 1849 , The official value of : iroportainto the United [ kingdom from countries and colonies , exclave of grai , meaL flour , and livestock , was £ 84 , 852 , 522 . ; whilst theexports of , British produce and manufactures to the same places were £ 00 , 152 , 107 in the declared value . Of grain , meal , and flour , imported last year there were 10 , 669 ,, 6 S 1 quarters , and the ^ livestock imported numbered 185 , 368 , sbowing that the aggregate value of the imports was £ ^ WA \ 0 S , against the British exports amounting to £ 60 , tM 7 /»

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      : ' Monday, F&Mmtt Lorn. House Of Lords....

      : Monday , F & MMTt lorn . HOUSE OF LORDS . —An address was agreed to , on the . motion of the Marquis , of Lsnsdownb , recognising the long , faithful , and able services of tne Mrl of Shaftesbury as Chairman of Committees , and referring the grant of a retiring allowance t 0 ^ pasty ' s pleasure . -the Earl , of St .. Germans brought under the notice ot the . house the case of Mr . Measor , late a p erk '" the money-order department of the General ¦ ost-ofneo , who petitioned for inquiry into the circumstances of hia removal . The Marquis of Claxricarbb entered into some explanations connected with the case ; and the subject dropped by the motion for a committee not being pressed . .. Their lordships then adjourned , HOUSE OF COMMONS . —In reply to a question by Lord Joceltn

      , Sir H . Hobuousb said , it was not the intention of her M . ijesty ' s government to propose any select committee on the affairs of India ; but should any material changes be contemplated in tbe act under which those affairs were now administered , the government would give sufficient and early notice of those changes . . Lord Pawierstou gave eo'ug explanations , in return to air inquiry by Mr . T . IUriso , relative to the blockade oftho coast of San Salvador , and to the claims ot British subjects upon that and other States of Central America . The adjourned debate upon Lord J . Russell ' s motion for leave to bring m a bill to . prevent the assumption of certain ecclesiastical tithes was resumed by , .

      Mr . RuYNOLns , who traced the whole excitement that had been stirred against the alleged aggression to the extreme jealousy of the Irish church to preserve its temporalities .. Ho argued that the bill was a violation of the compact sealed in . 1829 , by which civil liberties and the free exercise of ecclesiastical functions were secured to the Catholics . Denying that theDuke of Norfolk , Lord Beaumont , or Lord Ci » moys fairly interpreted the opinion of the . Catholic body , he questioned , also the correctness . of the distinction made by Mr . Chisholm Anstey between the members of the church and the members of the court of Rome ; and created much amusement in the house by giving a lively narrative of a wager which he had laid and lost upon the

      presumption that Lord John Russell's letter to tho Bishop of Durham was nothing but a hoax . The official recognition of the Catholic bishops in Ireland by their territorial titles dated back to the visit of George IV . eight years before the Emancipation Act , and was renewed so recently as last week at a levee held in Dublin Castle by Lord Clarendon . Tbe measure now before them was an Algerine act forced upon the house by a cable under the pressure of a bigoted agitation out of doors . It would , moreover , prove a dead letter , defying the power of any ministry , Whig or Tory , to carry into action . He should . vote against it in every stage . The Attobnky-General explained the general scope and effect of the proposed bill , and the

      specific oftence which it was intended to meet . The offence consisted in the introduction of a bull , by which certain , persons were authorised by the Pope to assume the titles of Bishops in England , with jurisdictions defined by territoral limits . It was a sound maxim in politics that you ought not to introduce a larger remedy than sufficed to meet tho evil complained of , and he believed the proposed measure would effectually attain the object in view . The . act of the . Court of Rome was resented by the country because , first , it was an insult offered to the British Crown ; secondly , it was an injury inflicted upon certain classes of its subjects . ¦ Wltll respect to the insult , be thought it would be sufficiently repelled by the opinion expressed

      throughout the country and in that house , and by words introduced in the bill . The injury—which affected the Roman Catholic classes ol the community—was of a two-fold ' nature , spiritual and temporal . With the spiritual effect of the bull the house had nothing to do ; but its effect in temporal matters would be to give to the Bishops hiving territorial jurisdiction a power of dealing with religious endowments made by parties ' who had not intended that they should be so administered ; and whilst he was not aware that , in respect to spiritual matters , Vicars Apostolic , who were Bishops in ' partibus , had less authoritity than territoral Bishops , it was important to estop persons dependent upon tho Pope of Rome from interfering with the rights of

      British subjects . The bill , therefore , in the first place , extended the provisions of the Roman Catholic Relief Act , which imposed a penalty of £ 100 upon the assumpttoii . of the title of any existing see , to that of any title whatever from any place in the United jfingdom . But it did not stop there .. Iu order more effectually to prevent the assumption of territoral titles , the bill would make every act done by persons assuming such titles , by virtue of them , absolutely' void ; and in addition , in order to hinder parties from making gifts to persons assuming such titles , the bill would declare the endowment of such pretended sees illegal , and the gifts would be-forfeited to the Crown , to be

      disposed of as her Majesty saw fit—a course which was deemed better than that of declaring such gifts void , since the Crown could distribute them equitably . -By thus preventing persons from assuming territorial titles , and preventing the existence of the dioceses or sees themselves , the bill would effectually remedy the mischief complained of , and it was very desirable that it should not be extended to cases which might not arise , or which the existing law was competent to reach , or which , being of a spiritual character , could not be effectually dealt with by legislation , and must be left to the good sense and judgment of the Roman Catholics themselves .

      Lord Ashley wished to state the present emergency in all its magnitude . . It was nothing less than an attack upon' the independence of the English church , such as had never been attempted even in the most palmy days of Catholicism . There was no force in the argument that the papacy was weak ; 'a power , materially weak might be strong and dangerous from'its spiritual authority . Nor could the change operated by the bull be called insignificant . Innumerable opinions of supporters : > s well as opponents , corroborated by the solemn expressions of Cardinal Wiseman himself , pronounced it to be most important to form a starting point for future aegrandisements . Chief among its danger was that of the synodical action it would introduce , an organisation that bad worked so much evil in Ireland ,, and would speedily be at work creating a new ecc'esiastical empire in Westminster . A consequent danger ' was the introduction of the canon and intrinsic cha

      law , respecting whose despotic , - racter the noble lord quoted various authorities , and contended that subjection to the canon law was wholly incompatible with obedience to the civil law , or the enjoyment of civil liberty . He then commented upon the encouragement that must hare been given for the act of aggression by the division in the Anglican church , and the approaches of a large section of its clergy and laity to the doctrines and practices of Rome ; and predicted that , if those tendencies were unchecked , a collision was inevitable between the ecclesiastics and the laity of this country . The noble lord concluded by urging the necessity of maintaining the church in its purity , and not in corruption , and with a view to obtaining that end , he was satisfied , he . was speaking the sentiments of the vast majority of the Church of England , that they would encounter every risk to bring back tbe church that they loved still nearer every day to the standard of the glorious

      Reformation . Mr . H . Grattan opposed , and Mr . Conoilt supported , the motion . - Mr . PAOK -Wood defended the late agitation from the charges of bigotry and . intolerance , and described it as representing the earnest and almost unanimous feeling of the country . Bigoted speeches there might bave been , but bigoted resolutions never . He denied that it was Lord John Russell ' s letter which had called forth the general feeling . That had previously been invoked by the . aggressive proceedingsthemselves ; and , sofarashis own profession went , the protest signed by 756 barristers had been got up before the letter to the Bishop of Durham appeared . The difference between a

      vicargeneral and a bishop was no mere difference of f . rm . As vicar-apostolic the individual bad spiritual influence over a few individuals in a district . As bishop he had , or claimed to have , ecclesiastical jurisdiction over all the inhabitants of a district . The case of the former was , in fact , parallel to the authority enjoyed by pur Levantine consuls , who had plenary authority over English subjects in Turkey and Syria , bub who did not pretend to govern districts in place of emirs and pachas , as Dr . Wiseman did in lieu of the existing Anglican Ecclesiastical authorities . No diocesan power could constitutionally exist in England unless established by the Queen ; but not only was this right disregarded by the Pope , but that authority had actually pretended , by his edict , to demolish the existing archbishoprics Of Canterbury and York . The recent aggression , therefore , was an offence at common law , and not

      only that , but it was committed in the face of several statutes making itpramumreto introduce bulls against the King ' s Crown and tha prerogative , of his regality . There was really , therefore , no cause for txpostfacto legislation in tbe matter , but there was . cause ; why the country should , guard itself against the future advances of an encroaching and ambitious power . . In appointing bishops abroad we bad never sought to confer upon them authority Over any individuals other than the members of tbo Church of England resident , not within the bishop's diocese , but within his . district . NOt so the Pope . The rescript ignored tbe English Church , and treated its sees as vacant , and appointed the nominees of Rome to power , not over Catholics only , but over the entire body of the Christian English people . In a recent document , issuing from tbe . Yatiean , England bad been described as . again

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      -. i — I .. . .. I . ii ., i » Icirclir . " —¦• ' . . ' ¦ - " .. - i ' - ' j——a ' . vuna ^ ome , the proper and Catholin TT fJ u" ? f 7 * Vption infingcE to which England ought never to" submit . What tW flardinal wanted was , to re-establish tbe canon law ana v U ? e l ? of 8 U t ch ? , eban 6 ? wouW *• to p ^ X T » Ma ''kjtianoe to all conscientious Roman Cathk ^ toX ^ ^^ T >* sss Si V . ' i- iT / Vu , „ . „ ^ e reminded that hon . trent ! cm-, n sf $ m ¥ & i > jf . fi 5 « a . * 4 tea in James the Secoiu . * ™ . . ™ tbe 8 oyen Bishops were in the Tower ; ' ^ . th " ^« V to the bject in handhe W" ! « ' J > W £ * ¦&

      su , measure to be parsed would not b . nJy vindicate the integrity of our constitution and our' thurch , but act as a great embodied protest of We people of England against the practice and the precepts of the Romish Church . Mr . Torrens M'Cviaaoh denied that Lord John Russell , or any of the supporters of the bill , had made out any case for parliamentary interference . The ministerial proposition in reality struck at the necessary constitution and discipline of the Church , and , through these , at the Catholic creed itself .

      Sir George Grey thought that it had been demonstrated , that they were acting purely on the defensive , and in compliance with the universallyexpressed opinion of the people of England . He vindicated the recent agitation from charges of bigotry , and denounced the Pope ' s proceedings as contrary to international and English statute law . Illegal , however , as they were , they did not belong to a class of offences which it was politic for a government to prosecute , and therefore , after mature deliberation , an appeal to tho law had been determined against . Another proved fact was , that the recent aggression was no spiritual act , but an attempt to extend over England a mixed judicature dealing with ecclesiastical affairs of a mingled

      spiritual and temporal nature . Charges had been made against tho Irish and Imperial Governments of addressing the Catholic Irish bishops by illegal titles ; but these titles had only been conferred as designations of courtesy and honour , rightly and with policy so conferred upon the official heads of what was tho creed of tho vast majority of the people . He denied , however , distinctly that Lord Clarendon had treated the Irish Catholic bishops as nobles—that he had ever sought their advice , except , indeed , in the exceptional juncture of the famine—or that the dignitaries in question had ever had precedence over the Irish Protestant Church bishops on any occasion of court ceremony in Dublin , lie admitted that the government had

      offered the ernes of visitors to tho Irish colleges to the Catholic Archbishops of Armagh and Tuam , but be denied tbat tho offer had been made to tbe dignitaries in question as archbishops of their respective dioceses , and re-asserted in general tbe policy of acknowledging titles of honour conferred long ago , and generally sanctioned by common use . It had never , however , been anticipated that advantage would have been taken by the Court of Rome of such trifling incidents as those in question , and he distinctly contradicted the assertion , so often made , that the government bad received previous information of and had sanctioned the Papal designs . . The bill was not intended to , and would not , interfere with the fullest exercise of tho Catholic faitb . Tho measure was a thoroughly practical one . It sought to accomplish an end very

      difficult to bo obtained , and those who were discontented with it might go further and fare worse . Still , the great security for tho Church of England , and Protestantism in general , was , in his mind , the grand national demonstration which they had recently seen against that subtle and dangerous power which their Catholic forefathers had successfully opposed . Mr . P . Howard moved the adjournment of tho debate , which , aftev some discussion , and an adverse division , was agreed to . Mr . Ansiky moved for leave to bring in a bill for the repeal of enactments imposing certain pains , penalties , and disabilities on her Majesty ' s Roman Catholic subjects , which , upon a division , was refused by 175 against 35 , The other business having been disposed of , the house adjourned at one o ' clock .

      : TUESDAY , February 11 th . HOUSE OP LORDS .-Lord Abihger , in presenting a petition against Papal aggression from the county of Surrey , called the attention of the House to' the spread of Popery throughout the country , and to the disastrous effects which invariably resulted from the two great engines of the Roman Catholic priesthood—the celibacy ' of tbe clergy , and tbe practice of confessions . Some other petitions were also presented , and their Lordships adjourned .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS ,-Mr , Hatcheza took his seatforthe borougb of Windsor , to which he had heen re-elected , after having accepted tho office of Attorney-General for Ireland . Ceylon Committee . —In reply to Mr . Bailhe , Mr . Hawer said , that no opposition would be offered to any motion for producing the evidence taken before the Ceylon committee , the only exception beinff with regard to the particulars relative to Captain Watson , tho publication of which would be premature , as a court martial , inquiring into the conduct of that officer , was still pending .

      Parliamentary Refohm . —Mr . Walmslby asked Lord . John Russell whether it was the intention of her Majesty ' s ministers to take any steps during tho present session to extend the right of voting for members of this house to other portions of the adult male population of these realms than those now in possession of the elective franchise under the provisions of the Reform Act , or whether there wasany'intentien to amend the deficiencies of the Reform Act of 1832 . Lord J . Russbu . said—In answer to the two

      questions of the hon . gentleman I should say , in the first place , tbat it is not the intention of her Majesty ' s ministers to take any steps during the present session to extend the right of voting for members of this house to other portions of the adult male population of these realms than those now in possession of it . With regard , to the second question , whether there is any intention to amend the deficiences of the Reform Act of 1832 , 1 have on previous occasions expressed to the House my opinion that there were certain amendments of the

      Reform Act , and certain extensions of the suffrage , which were desirable . I still retain that opinion , and I shall certainly act up to that opinion , when I think the proper time is como to do so . ( Great laughter . Aoricuxturai , Distress . —The paragraph contained in the royal speech referring to agricultural distress was read by the clerk , upon the motion of Mr . Disraeli who then rose to move the resolution he had announced on the first night of the session , declaring that it was the immediate duty of the government to find some means of relief . The contrast , he remarked , between general prosperity and class destitution in itself sufficed to render inquiry indispensable . A large mass of evidence ,

      testifying to tha existence of distress , was in'his possession , but the speech from the throne had admitted the fact , which , furthermore , nobody presumed to deny , and rendered the prolix detail of particulars supererogatory on his part . Attributing this depression to the consequences of recent legislation , tbe hon , member referred to speeches and manifestos from Sir Robert Peel and other statesmen , to prove that the effect had been wholly unexpected , even so much so , that five years since it had been confidently predicted that no serious fall could take place in the price of corn . Now , however , the most sanguine Chancellors of tbe Exchequer had to devise excuses for agricultural distress by a perpetual invention of accidental circumstances . In 1849 the

      finance minister admitted the distress to exist , but only partially , and attributed it to panic caused by the desponding speeches at agricultural meetings . Yet the prices , not only of wheat , but of other produce , had fallen considerably during the succeeding year .. . Last session again the distress was termed temporary , and a prophesy risked that no extensive importation of corn could continue either from France or America . Stilt both the distress and the importation increased . He did not ba ? e upon these facts a recommendation to reverse our policy , but to extract an admission that former calculations

      were erroneous , and tbat justice and policy required a patient search after any possible remedy . For many years the skill and industry of the British farmer had been traduced . In the lapse of half a century these maligned farmers had increased their production in a greater extent than the increase of population , and covered the most desolate districts of the country with exuberant harvests . But the limits of enbanced productiveness seemed now to be nearly reached . Turning to another branch of the question , Mr . Disraeli contended that tho question could not be narrowed into a landlord ' s question , adopting the theory that rent represented the difference in annual value between the best and tho worst lands , and concluding that rent must exist

      until we had either thrown the bad soils out of cultivation , or overloaded the best with taxes and burthens . He' stigmatised the tendencies of the modern system to annihilate the middle and yoemen class of agriculturists . If not upon an economical fallacy , the system was at all events founded upon a social one . As agricultural depression coincided with prosperity among oth er classes , the returns that showed . diminished pauperism or an increase of marriages proved nothing against his propositon , which he meant not to urge to the conclusion of re-Stored protection , but to the necessity of adapting

      the condition of the landed interest to the changed circumstances in which it had been placed . Competition was the agriculturists' ruin , and the reason why tbey could not . successfully compete with foreigners was the unjust burthen of taxation tbat fell upon them . Out of the general mass of taxes the cultivators bore their full share , and suffered besides under special impositions . This artificial burthen was laid on the farmers ' because an artificial protection enabled them to bear it . Dividing the soufcesof taxation intothreebranches-the oustoms , the inland revenue , and local burdens , be remarked that from the first the chief receipts arose from articles which , the British agriculturist was

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      [ forbidden to raise ; out of the second iho chief place was held in the returns by one single article p f agricultural produce ; and one of the twelve mil . lions comprised in the third more than seven were levied wholly upon the agricultural body . Going into considerable details respecting the possibility of cultivating tobacco profitably , if unprohibited in the British Isles ; tbe heavy pressure of the malt tax upon the farmers , he thus summed up tho agriculturists' case—that they were subjected to open competition in regard to the crop which they were least able to produce ; and either taxed or interdicted with regard to crops which they could dety the world to surpass . Recounting the history of past attempts to obtain relief from local

      taxation , Mr . Disraeli repeated hia assertion of tormer sessions , that the most suffering class was required to support the rest , and drew from tho progress . that has already been made in popular opinion a hope that relief would not bo always denied , especially when tbe Exchequer boasted of a surplus . Unjust as these special burdens were in principle , they were rendered worse in practice by the decline in prices of his produce , a result which the hon . member illustrated by many computations * in reference to tbe tithe and * poor rate , showing that twelve quaners of corn bad now to be sold to pay a tax originally levied at tho value of ei ^ ht . Alluding to some other duties , sucli as stamp , legacy , mid probate duties , ot which , he observed .

      the land paid nearly its full share , he passed ou to the land tax , amounting to two millions a year , raised solely from real property , and far outweigh ' ing any trifling exemptions in other quarters . On all sides , he conclude *! , tbe land was forced to eon ~ tribute most disproportionably to tbe public taxation , which , since protection was withdrawn , had boon provided by drafts from the landed capital . Winding up his enumeration with a similar conclusion respecting the income tax , Mr . Disraeli demanded justice for the agriculturists ; that their industry should not he hampered i . or their resources drained by direct and unfair imposts . Let them not be ovcrweighed in the race , nor sent manacled into the great struggle . Invoking an impartial

      discussion on all sides , he called upon all parties to propose and consider the practical measures necessary to award justice to the owners ami occupiers of land . As his ow » contribution , he suggested an amendment of the law of settlement ; tho removal of the Bank restriction imposed in 1841 ; the improvement of the law of partnership ; tlie relief of the poor by a national rale and » fi . v . -d duty on corn , although repudiating the assumption that such a duty was to be considered as compensation to the farmer , or as anything but a financial measure . He re-inforced bis appeal for justice to agriculture , with the warning that if delayed the point mhibt be reached when the capital of that class would be exhausted , and on inherit mice of

      rum be transmitted to all other classes . Transfer * ring to the ministry tho task of proposing specific measures , he called upon them at once to recognise the duty of providing a remedy for the injustice tbat was now inflicted upon the most important class in the country . In case they declined this task , he hinted that the present crisis offered to the opposition " a golden opportunity " of stepping in and settling it for them . The Chancellor of the Exchequer could see little in Mr . Disraeli ' s address but a hotch-potch of topics : trade and produce , general taxes , local burthens , the Bank act , the law of settlement , and the poor-rate , being thrown in an undigested mass

      upon the house , without one definite proposition laid before them for discussion . Remarking upon the near approach of the day fixed for his o' -vn financial statement , and the reticence thus imposed upon him for tlie present , tho right hon . baronet went through various returns of prices to show that the predictions oi improvement were not always falsified though the complaints ol distress remained perennial . Agriculture , he still believed , would revive again , and attain a more substantial basis than ever before . Every year the condition of the farmer must depend upon the result of the harvest , combined with the contemporary state of commerce and manufactures . Concerning importation there had been mistakes on all sides . The countries

      most dreaded had sent little into competition ; the chief supplies having arrived from unexpected sources , proving that we had not yet ascertained what would be the normal and continuous dH'Cfc . In France , which was now actually an exporting '" country , tbe complaints of agricultural distress were not lessrife than amongst ourselves . He believed that otiier causes than importation affected the price of corn , among which was the bad quality of the crop of 1819 ; but totally denied any coincidence in the opinion that a high average of which was desirable . He showed cause for the conclusion that the priceofmo . it was lowered by an enormous increase in the production of cattle . In the speech just delivered there was a most significant omission of any reference to the condition of the labourer , whose cause had occupied so much space in the

      debates of other sessions , but for whose improved estate at present Sir C . Wood appealed , first , to the authority of Mr . G . F . Young , and afterwards quoted to the same effect a -variety of returns from the Poor Law Commissioners , the Registrar-General , and the price current of commodities . Even among other ranks of the agriculturists , distress was by no means universal , and in Scotland rods in some places were rising , and in England many estates bad lately been re-valued at an amount not less than formerly , and nothing appeared to warrant the sweeping assertion of impending and universal ruin . Dissecting Mr . Disraeli ' s proposition , tho Chancellor of the Exchequer contended that liberty to grow tobacco could do the farmer no good , though it must seriously damage the revenue , seeing that tbe whole value of tho unmanufactured articles

      consumed every year was little over half a million ; that the malt and hop duties were based upon sound financial principles , and paid principally by the consumers ; and that the hon . member had confounded agricultural land with tho whole mass of real property , though tbe owners of the former paid but a small portion of bis alleged special burdens . If tho taxes which were called unjust should be repealed how was the deficiency to be made up ? Afier remarking that Lord Stanley had pronounced against any immediate abrogation of the malt tax , the Chancellor of the Exchequer recounted tlm fiscal changes that had occurred during the last ten years . Taxes to the amount of ten millions per annum had been removed , and five millions imposed ; but tho grudual expansion of trade and consumption had added four millions to the receipts , so that the revenue had lost but one million , while the public had a balance of five in their favour .

      Mr . Hodosds detailed some country histories belonging to bis own neighbourhood of Carlisle , showing that rents were declining and agricultural distress increasing . He urged , as the only remedy , a large retrenchment of expenditure and reduction of taxation , promising to support every motion proposed for that purpose from any side of the bouse . Mr . G . Berkeley supported the motion , and controverted other portions of the speech of Sir C . "Wood . He thought the greatest boon tbat could happen to the country would he a dissolution . Throughout the land there was a general feeling of distrust and disaffection . Unless something was done for the agricultural interest this country would

      bo plunged into considerable confusion . Mr . Sahdars accused the ministry of repeatedly deceiving the country with assurances that the crisis of depression was exceptional , and would be transitory , assurances which the event had continually falsified . Mr . Brown haying briefly vindicated somo calculation of the cost of freightage of coin from America which he had ventured , and Mr . Disraeli impugned , The debate was then adjourned to Thursday , on the motion of the Marquis of Granby . Sunday Trading . —Mr . " W . "Williams moved for leave to bring in a bill to prevent unnecessary trading on Sundays . The . motion was opposed by Mr . Bari . vo Wall , but , upon a division , was carried by 70 to 10 . The house adiourned at half-past twelve o ' clock .

      WEDNESDAY , February 12 . HOUSE 0 ¥ COMMONS . —At the morning sitting , which commenced at twelve o ' clock , some private business having been disposed of , Mr . Gbantley Berkeley gave notice of a motion , in case of the failure of Mr . Disraeli ' s propotion for relieving tho agriculturists , that all ratings to the poor-rate under 13 s . per annum should bo commuted to a national rate . A committee of supply having heen formed , a vole of £ 17 , 7 o 6 , G 0 l ) was passed to pay . off outstanding Exchequer bills . Mr . Philip Howard , alleged that in many

      places in England the manifestation of popular feeling had been in opposition to the anti-Papal movement , Ho defended the Pope ' s conduct , declaring that it was dictated by regard for the interest of the English Catholics , and not by any desire for territorial aggression . It was * au axiom that a document only , applied to those to whom it was addressed , and in support of this assertion he cited the Saviour ' s question when Cajsar ' s penny was shown him . The law officers of the Crown would find not only their intellectual ingenuity , but their physical endurance tasked , to enforce this

      enactment . Mr . Napier wondered at the pertinacity with which certain parties bad opposed—not a specific measure—but the motion for leave to introduce one . Palliated the act of the papacy might be , but it bad never been justified ; and , by the highest legal authorities , the most exalted dignitaries of the church , and the almost universal opinion of the people of England , it had been pronounced an mvasionof the law—suchascertainly vision and due discussion

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 15, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_15021851/page/7/