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      ( Concluded from tht Fifth page . J Mr _Deuhs-ofb was net able to satisfy himself as to wbethiT Mr Hum . regarded the elective franchise as a right or a trust . Tbis was no * , tbe first timo that his attention had been directed to the vxteaiion of the fluff-ago , end tbe shortening of the duration of parliaments he himself having written and published a _pampblat oa t _^ os . _su'jec _s in 1829 . _Intbepretfnt stite ot the world's affairs th _. y had assumed a _drgrco of importance wbicb in ordinary time , they would hot posB-. s . _Thi-s were subjects which tbey _nould all be called upon to _dircuis _atthi _ne-t-Uctions . It was worth while to consider from whom the _demands embodied in the resolution _proceeded . Th _« were , in the tirst place , persons who , from various c _ u _* es . were e-fferins great distress , and

      who were _cSftincrous f _« r -omethiuK to remedy tbat distress . Those who lei this class were not themselves the _sn-fin-rii , but it was the _ms . _s of _surLri-g endured by thoee whom they led , which alone gave importance to Sbeir le- _^ _lr . g . There was another class , that of the int .-Hec : ual _operatives , who wereunrepr .-sented , and who al . o _wire _cWoiorous for -om _. thinir to better their pby . sical condition , » blch wbb tho great and tho only objiOt thej had iu view , Tbey were mistaken , however , in tbeir mode of _puTsn ' _ng it , The other class wa 9 that ot a _hij-ber order , aud more dingerous description—tbe class of intellectual speculators led by , if not chiefly composed of , doctors without _patknrs , and lawyers without briefs . Th < se being the tbree classes who were now agitating , tbe next thing to consider was , what it

      was thsy were agitating for . As to tho extension of the franchise , he saw no hope for it , af er passing the Reform Bill , but that they should content to that point . So far as Ihey could _define property , so far should the right bo extended . The great object of civilised _sooietj was to make men love peace whether tbey would or no ; _-ind it was tbe duty of ths executive , ba they who * they might , to put dowa Gil a _' . tcmpts at mob intimidation , They could not enact equality . There was no equality in all nature . In no _' one of tho three kingdoms—animal , mineral , or ve _. etable—was there rquality , ner was it tobe found in man iu any state . The complaint of Inequality , therefore , on the ground tbat every man Was not _reprepeDted , niuBt continue t © tha end of tl- » . e , f .. r _inequ-lity w . _mld _continus whether there was

      repreeentatiua or not . Then with _regard to tho duration of _parliam-uts . Hu _coufi-ESed that it was , iu bio mind , a _< rreat disadv . _ntage tbat tbe _representaiivei of the people were not thrown back moro frequently upon their constituents . ( H «_ r . ) Ha did uot mean in the oflun . sive way of going _bg' _-k to be _sc _«! ded and turned away . { ' Hear , hear , ' and a laugh . ) But ho thonght it was a _greatadrantsge to the public at large , as well as to the members themselves , that ihey should be brought te Uether occasionallj in public discussion , face to fsce , in th _« same _^ ay as the representatives were brought together in discussion in the bOu ? o . ( II-ar . ) They knew what protestations gentlemenraa _ e on the hustings as to what tbey would do in parliament ; but when they came there they found parliament a very different thing from what they bad _exp-cted . and that tbey hsd not the

      power to do all they wished . If by _frequent meetings with their constituents tbis could be _exploiaed bs thought > t would often conduce to a good undtrstBHding re-ween the representatives and the represented . They had heard much about property bav _' ng its duties as well aa its rights . What was the meaning of this * It wa ? th- duty of _tvery man to _mnint-in himtelf in that _pgsk-oa in society to which be _belonged ; end as it was said ot a nobleman not long ago that he would be ready to die fr . r his order , so it was the duty of every person ppci-Q _^ n _? property to baready to dio for that property , and not permit it to be infringed by any means , direct _orindire _. t . ( 'Oh , ' and laughter . ) Hon . gentlemen who were acquainted with the _wsrkB of this country of the last twelvemonth—be spoko not of the doctrines of Louis Blxnc and o : hcr _* in Franca—must be aware that there

      was pervading a larga body of oar most fatellectual operatives a notion th . it they did not share sufficiently in the produce of their labour . ( Hear . ) That feeling was g . ining ground among _tht-m _. and there was also another feeling obtaining ground amongst them to some extentviz ., that ev ry _ownvr of property was a _public robbrr , ( No . ) That he was taking away from the public , os it was called—another _abstract ides—what belonged to it . ( No , no . ) Hs conld not remember the words in English in which this coctrine was put forward ; but be would quote the sentiment ss it haa appeared in France , ( Oh . ) Why , did hon . gentlemen suppose that tbe prinoiples which prevailed here were- so totally _unlike those wbicb obtained in _. _Frauce ! ( Hear , hear . ) _Unquestionably the s-me views which wera maintained in our own country were entertained in the other . 3 * out « i > ro _^ rt . f « e * t rol was the principle laid down in France ; and did they uot bf ar

      the sums principle put forward here ? ( No . ) Vf hy had they not heard of tenant-right in Ireland ! Had tbey sot heard it asserted that the tenant had a prior right to the land he cultivated over the landlord ! ( Hear . ) He contended that political power sbould be confined to those who had property , and those who had none should ba entirely excluded from polidcal power . He considered it also most dangerous to suppose , as indeed w . g supposed , that there wss & _neoe-. ary connexion _betwten aa alteration of the constitution of that _house , and a ( iiminuiion of tox . tion . Ho was opposed , as much as the member for _Honirasa , to extravagance , and dr sired at much as bim to curtail the _expenditure of ths coanlry Bat be conceived that each _quesiinn—the ref-ntt of that bouse , and the necessity of retrenchment—should stand upon a _separate / eeiirtg , and eat-h be decided on distinct grounds , If it were to be admitted , that a particular _conetitut'on of tb _ t house would secure a diminution of

      the national expenses , thee would it amount to this , tbat it would be composed of representative ., who , to satisfy their own petty and local objects , would sacrifice the na . tio _. al interests and honour . Tbere was great discontent throughout the country —( hear , hear)—and there would be because that house was a great , expensive club , which gratifi . d the _tait-s _' of many or the people of England ; find as ion ? at there existed among men a thing which one man wanted to gain , and which others had not to give , so long would there be a quid for the quo . What certain parties now did , waB to hold out to tho people _expectations which no government could grant , ju _« t as the French government were holding out tbe belief tbat they had the power to feed the people . Thfiy had no power—let them constitute the poser as they pleasedto relieve the distress of the peepie . Lst them constitute

      iheir _pewer in any way they pleased , such an idea ws . a gross delusion . It was a gross _delusion to tell the psople that anything but misery was rhe lot of thegreat mass of mankind , and that they eould _felitfe it by any legislation whatever . There was , no doubt , a sort of _lsstu _ ct—he conld not call it by any other namerunning throughout the world at the present moment , that the time was com 6 for the regeneration of human society . No man seemed to know how It wns to b _» brought about . There should be , however , a regeneration , but they should first of all pass through a baptism of blood . ItTtt ? time to learn It , for _tfn-y -were preparing the people for it , as tbey bad be ? an already In France . All their excitement was leading to nothing elee , and they never should have universal peace until He came who alone had the right to rule .

      Lord J . Russell said . —Sir , I rise thus early to ad . dress tbe house because I think the heuse is entitled to an explanatisn of the views which I entertain , cot only witb regard to tbe proposition now before tbo house , but with regard to the _propositions nearly akin to it . ( Hear , hear . ) Sir , the bon . _geatlawaa has alluded to the p . _' _-itiona which have been _preseatcd to the house la favour of the proposition whicb be haB brought forward as au expression , as he declares , of the general opinioa ef the people upon this subject , Now , sir , I would observe , with regard < o tbit question , that it doeB Rot appear that , except in favour of what is _cemmonly called tha People ' s Chart r , there hav « been any large or numerously , signed petitions presented . Then , with _regard to this seme proposition , it his been said

      that meeting * bave been held is support of the hen . gentleman ' s motion , but these _meetings have bren held under two remarkable circumstances— one Is , that considerable paias have been taken to misrepresents speech which I made when the bon . gentleman , on a former occasion _postponed his motion , witb a view to bavo it believed tbat I bad ssid tbat the people wished for ne reform , and so systematically has this been done that I have seen the words which I used , expressing my b-2 ief on that occasion that progressive _refo-ms were required by the _sald-l- and working classes , have been altogether expunged . ( Hear . ) What I said on that _ooca _. ion was , that it was my belief that tho middle a nd working classes of tbis country were in favour of a gradual nnd progressive reform , ( Cheers , and _crlts of 'No , no . )

      Of course I do not deny it , and 1 now repeat it _ogain , tnat I said that I also believed tbat the middle and working _classeB of this country were not in f & _Tsur either of what 1 . called the People ' s CbarteF , o . of the proposition for reform brought forw _. rd by ths hon . gentleman . ( Hoar . ) Now that statement of _mlna has been used as if it had been a declrr . tlon against all reform ; but in the words which I used I merely stated that iu mv opinion the middle and the working clef _Bes of this cunmry desired neither the _Pi-opie ' s Charter , nor the m- _asnre of reform proposed by the hon . gentlemen ; Out I did not say that they desired ao reform , either _financial or parliamentary , as it has betn represented

      'bat I _snid . 1 excluded no reform ei her financial or _parliiHi _n'ar-. ( Hear , hear . ) Yet I find tbat on this (• _ut'j-ct _ROfcr . st b ? ne been the misrepresentations that _ii _ T _ _takea pl . Ci _« i ; h _regard to what I said on thia _subject , tnat ut a raei ting held in Marylebone a _resoluii n was propo »' _; rt by Mr Hume , to the effect that the Prime _ _Iinis ! tr _Having declared that there thould be no more _measun c _iili _^ r of financial or of _parliamentary rc-f-rm _, < t < :, K » _v ? . as the hon . geatleE-at- had the means . . it knowing what I really bad said on tbe occaiiOD a'du _' ed to , I think he ought at the time tbo _resolution was put into his hands to hava said , ' Thin resolution is contrary to fact , and , therefore , it is impossible fur me to put it . '

      Mr Home . —It is con 6 ; Btent with the fact , to my knowledge . ( Or . ler , order . ) Lord J . Russell —The other circumstances wbicb the hon . gentlemen has rocomtneaded us to take into our serious _coneidt _-rativ n is , the numerous attendance which bas taken place at tho meetings held ia favour of hi- proposition for reform . But in almost oil the meetings which have been bel 4 forthe purpose of upholding aad supporting th 9 four points contained la the resolution of the hen gfrntleman , to which in _propoalng thut _reflation to-nl ; ht he has ad cd a fifth —( boar )—with a vi-wof _st-. _niingpstUioiiBtotbisheuga in support of that re . _oluiion , when those assembled came to the cits cuj . _' on of the propositions submitted to them _generally ,

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      some Chartist rose and proposed , as an amendment , . a resolution la favour of the sis points of tha Charter , which , when it was put to the vote , wa _» either carried , or such a _divlsloB took place that the reporters , wh - generally attend very accurately to these matters , ware unable to state whether the resolution wag carried or net . ( Cheers . ) I say , therefore , In thu first phce , tbat I find tbat at the meetings in support ot' this motien there has boen generally a misrepresentation of what 1 stated on this subject in my place in parliament j and in the _aext place , I do not consider that the meetings wbich bave been held in support oi the hon . gentleman ' _n motion , whether those meetings have been held In Bir . _mlngham , Leeds , Manchester , Marylebone , or other

      places , have clven expression to aay publio opinion in favour of this preposition ; but , on tbe contrary , that taking those meetings generally , they have been divided in opinion , and the supporters cf wbat is called the People ' s Charter have beon often in tbe majority —( hsfti ' tear)—and in those meetings , _penor-Dy _epouklng resolutions favourable to the plan proposed to night by the hon . gentleman the member for Montrose have not been carried , ( Hear , bear . ) The noble lord then proceeded at great length to notice other points of Mr Hume ' s speech , and to oppose tbe motion in s thoroughly Tory style . Ha concurred with Mr Hume , that to the Reform Bill was chiefly attrlbu . table the peace of tbe country in the present origin . But tho hon . gentleman had made au admission of tht

      power of the electors , under tho R- ' otm Bill , to _it-vum to parliament members who might fairly represent thtm _, which shouldindi . ee the houso to pause ere It _listened to a proposal for further reform , Tfce bon , gentleman ' s plan , as _detailed to th . house , did not accord with the abstract propositions which he enunciated as the baiis of hi 3 scheme . Ono ot these propositions contendod for tbe right of voting without qualification . But the hon . gentleman himself proposed a qualification . And If there might be one qualification , wby not another ? And wbat was there in that proposed by the hon . gtntleman wbich shewed It to be preferable to the existing qualification ? The proposition submitted was -ague and indefinite , pointing out distinctly , neither those who wero to be included in , n _, ir those who were

      tO bB MClU . fl- from , ths franchise , He _differed cntiroly from tho hon . gentleman as to tbo foundation of bie whole scheme . In his opinion , wbat et cry person oi full _agewa _. en'itled to In thiB couatry , as well indeed as tho whole population , was ths best possible _goreraoetii , and the beat _leaUlatlon whioh it wng _poisl-lo for it to give to ' them . The mixed constitution of England had for a long period provided for tbe happiness ef its _people . lie had always felt how _difficult a matter It was to alter in any way tbe adjustment of tho different powers of the State . He _besought tbe bouse , therefore , to approach with care and _deliberation tbe discussion oi any scheme for its alteration . Viewing the matter from this point , tfee question for them to consider was , whether a parliament eleoted by householders aad

      lodgers would be a better parliament than such as _wae returned by the present body of electors . If tbey con ceded universal _suffrsge , be could not ece how tbey could avoid the division of the country ioto equal electoral districts , ' and he bad no hesitation in saying that a parliament springing from sueh sources would not be so good a parliament as that which resulted from the _pres . nt system . The Inequality nbicb characterised the distribution of the representation , _inslead of being ac . ompanied with the evils attributed to it , gave rise to _raany advantages . He could not follow the hon gentleman in detail through all his propositions . As to the ballot , he thoug ht that it would bo no effectual remfdy agsinst intimidation . As to shorter parliaments , whilst it might be advisable that members should be frequently thrown back upon . _Ihtlr _cotlsll . _tutnts , it _wna _bIbo desirable that there should be eome stability in the poiioy of tho country . Tbe present duration of Parliaments , In hia opinion , gave it thuUtabi

      _iity . If tbey were fo change ibat duration at all , he thought that it would be better to take one _yenriastend of throe years , the Utter being _about the worst proposition , in tbiB _respict , that could be mado . He was satUfi : d with tbe present duration of Parliaments , and would certainly give no vote in favour of departing from it . He nould also pat the question raised by tbe honourable _gentleman , to another test , to which he could not refuse to subject it . The reform oi Parliament took place In 1832 . Had the Bouse of Commons showed itself since tbat time to be the mere tool of the aristocracy—a bigot afraid to enter upon any reform , or indifforent to _improvementt ? No one whooon . idored tho changes which bad been _iffccted Bince that time , could justly lay Buch charges against the reformed House of Commons . What Mr Hume proposed would effect a great change In tbe constitution . He , on tbo other hand , was for gradual reform . Since 1832 , no great change in the Reform Bill had been projected or proposed . But the public mind was bow turned to ( be consideratlon of such

      subjects , and the time might not bo far distant when eome reforms might be usefully ( fiVcted . They might soon be in _poisessiob of sufficient information to enable them to extend the _Ironchis _.--, without compromising the basis of our representative system . He was , _therefore , not disposed to say that tb' _-y could not and might not usefully and beneficially improvo the _Rafotm Act , But if he were aeked whether ho was prepared to biing ia at the present moment any measures for tbat purpose , he would unhesitatingly reply that hs was not prepared to introduce any considerable measure fofsuch a purpose . He denied eBtirely the charge that was made , that government was carried on in any way for the benefit of the aristocracy . He thought that tho _rights of tbe people of this country wera largo and general rights , and that tbe people enjoyed those rights under a free government . ( Hear , bear . ) But if it were to be eaid that the

      aristocracy were to be deprived of their right of taking part iu the direction of publio affairs , ho did _objoctfoso narrow a view of the question , A Stanley or a Howard had as complete a right to a share in the direoiion of tbe affairs of the nation , as it he had a name less illustrious in _tbeannah * of his couatry , ( Hear , hear ) But thtre might also be reasons contained in tho events on tbe _Continent , which would render impolitio tbe course tbat was proposed . ( Hear , hear , ) Thetr adhesion to the ancient forma of tho constitution had procured them the admiration and respect , not only of those countries that were attached to the fortunes of this , but also of tho _^ e cations that were hostile to them . He boped tbat house would do nothing to lose tbat respect , or forfeit that admiration , whioh had earned thorn to be rrgarded & . _« - 1 Like a great sea-mark , braving ever storm , And saving all who eye it !'

      He trus'ed that they wonld maintain thst position— -that thr ? weuld not choo . e at thia timo io accodo to cny va < guo and indefinite proposal of some treasure of roform , which , wbil _. it _apparently stopped short of adopting the People ' s Charter , could not actually stop short of ultimately _enacting that great _channe —( he _ r , hear )™ tbat they would rather taluk that it was du . to . tbo _insti . tutions which tbey had the happiness to inherit ; and that it was duo , above all , to that great people whom it was their honour to r present , to give a steadfast as . i mo _« t dntermlncd negative to the pr . sent motion , — ( Cheers . )

      Mr W . J . Fox would have betn better pleased if Lord J . Russell had declared more explicitly the extent of tho reforms which he hid ia contemplation , and the result which he anticipated from them . He also regretted that Lord J . _Ruisell had scarcely touched on tbe question whether individual classes were properly represented in that house . Now , tbe question then before tho house was this ;— 'Are the working classes of this country _ropresented as they ought to be ; and , if they are not , can they be eo represented nithout injury to our institutions V Ho ( Mr Fox ) declares that they were not _repreecntetltbat they were Helots in the land—that they were serfs on tbe soil which bred them—aad that they had nothing to do with the laws except to obey thera . ( Hear , hear . ) He would revert to the argument used by the noble lord

      lo 1822 , as it was the argument which he meant to adopt and _apply on rhe present occasion . Tho noble lord at thet _tima pointed to the intelligence of the country , and to tbe growth of that . ot . _lllgen .., as a demonstration that the franchise must bo largely extended . He argued , that In London there wen-160 circulating libraries , and 900 in tbe country ; and tbat 33 , 600 , 000 _newspapers bad been issued in the year preceding . Ho would go back , not to 1822 , but to 1832 , when the noble lord realised his owu views by carrying the _Reform Bill ; and he would assume that ho then proportioned ths franchise to what he held to be the _advanced Intelligence ef the country . Hi- culd not say , howevtr , thatthe facts would altogether bear bim ont ia relinquishing the vantage ground he might have pained bj the noble lord ' s _previous

      con . Bsfl _' _ono . Tbe noble lord said thery wero in 1822 1 , 000 , 000 persons prepared ior the franchise ; but the Reform Bill did nut provide for half of that million , and they had been lelt _unprovided for _sinco , with a quarter ef a century of wrong pr . _sBtng upon their minds , and d . p . csaiog the ! .- _eplrl ! 3 . While in 1932 tho number of newspapers calculate , was 32 . 0 ) 0 , 000 , tho circulation had been for some time nearer 7 o , 0 j 0 , _ u 0 _thwn 60 , 000 , 000 ; and as regarded societies and institutions established for the people ' s improvement , he would _ot . ly refer to one ot which he hadread au _accuuat in the paptrsof tbat morning . It was an account ot tbe meeting of the _Yorkshire-Mechanics institution , held at Ripon , where not fewer tban . _Lfnty-one societies were included and represented in th « institution _alona . Since 1882 £ 5 u 0 08 ( 1 had been

      expended by the government on education ; a much smaller sum than ought , as he thousht , to have bsen expended on a nutter of Buch inconceivable _imuoctance ; but s _: tli that turn had been laid out , In addition to th ' - builflingof ecboil _9 from _. ouroe _. of private subscription aad privato bonevoleoco . Sinco 1832 there had , _btslden . sprung up a popular literature altogether _uuparalU-loiu _oxt _. at— ( hear )—a literature of whieh our numerous tn-K a . ' . nes , the _publicatioaa of tbe Messrs _Cnainbers , und thu work , of Charles ls » ight , formed a distinguished part , and whicb were circulated thn _. ugh tbe couniry to an-m , j _ ntprevious * } uuexumpl . d . ( Hear , hear . ) Oh . of them alone , Chambers ' s Miscellany of Entertaining Knowledge , being only one of tho many publications ol

      tnat house , had _beeniisu : d to the extent of 18 . 000 , of printed _Bhuets ; nnd bo undtrscind thut their Bale * fluctuated with thc Dtato of thu manufacturing districts , ( uear , hear , ) one sixth of me issue _b-ing in tho conntier . of York and Lancaster . ( Hear . ) Thon , If they looked to other facts indicative of the advance oi intelligence among the people at large , th y found proofs multi [ ilyin _^ _- all around them . It might bo said that tkosa wencbeap publications to _whici ke _hv . d roferred , and thathe public miBd would rather be vitiated than improvot * by them , that tbeir pow _^ r , - * ald be frittered awaj , suoh light reading not b « ing uA pt <; d to mature the Intellectual _character ; but they must remember , that ull the . tat . d-rd work , ofthe moat celebrated authors had

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      at the same time beea cheapened ; that tho works o ! Bacon could be bought for 4 d „ and those of Shak _. _peMi for 2 s , and tbat the writings of all the philosophers wbc had adorned tho country were circulated at the m _. re _. l trifle ab . ivo the cost of type and paper . It was a remark able faot that the production of new literature bad no ' diminished either . He found , in the history of printing in _ll'CuUoch's Commercial Dictionary , a _statemen ' of the number of sew works published , snd the average price per volume , in tho four years ending 1832 and 1842 fn ( be four yonr * then ending , the new boeks publishec vero 6 , 145 , and ia the fonr yearB ending 1812 they wen 8 . 597 ; whllo the average price per volume was , in the first period He Sd , and in the second period 8 s 9 }

      ( Hear . ) Tbo bookBellere' circular had recently fallei into his hands , and he found from it that the number o uow works Inst year was 3 , 414 , and of new editions 570 wfeilo the average price per volume was _Gs 8 _J-, ( Hvar . ' He might refer , also , to the . Btabllthmont , nines 1832 , o parks and places of recreation , which , though not to b ( used as an argument , might be taken ns an indication o growing intelligence . Take , for example , the visitors tc tbe British Museum . In 1882 , the number of visitor ! was 147 , 890 ; last year they were 820 , 905 . The visitor ! to tho _rcadin » -room of the Museum , In 1832 , were 31 , 200 list year , 67 , 525 . ( Hear . ) Then , as regarded the econo . mice of tho _workiDg class .., _thij found a vast _improve mrnt . [ Here the hon , gentleman pointed out the increase which had taken place since 1832 in the deposits of the

      savings bunk , to show tb . improved system of _eeonoinow prevalent ; and also the great increase that hc t . 'ilun place in the number of public petitions to pari !; taint , in order to point out the _grewlng _dlsconiei among the _unenfranchised classes . ] There waa oi peculiar fact that could not but strike every _reflec-. li person at the present day , and tbat was tbe number i writers who wero springing up among tbe workli classes—writers who did not , like the authors of for hi days , rest on patrons and private _patronag-,--wrItei who courted no class abovo them , but jot who _rotatn < strong within them tho feelings of the working class I ivhich thoy bad beon born and bred . Nothing like tb was known in former times ; but in tire literature which ho opoke tho fact he bad stated _was befo

      them In every page , Their work- were elevated bj f _» _p-cullar spirit , a spirit the result of the circum . stances in wbich they bad been born and bred , an . the political condition of the _olaso to which thej b longed . Perhaps he shoald be naming authors _whosi _uamog would sound strange to tho great _nac-joritj of thoso be addre _. _ood were ho to run over tbe list and yet they were a class of writers whose work * everj _legislator would do well to consult . ( Hear ) Ho ceuli _! tv . it understand tho spirit of bis country unless he did consult them . They had in them the rich and rao ; spirit of our old E . _glish writers ; and wben tbey line tho sense to avoid the conventionalities of moierc authors , and follow out the dictates of thtir own ( as . plratlons , they indeed brought forth ' thoughts thai

      breathe , and words that burs . ( Hear . ) He might _refei to Bnmford , the radical author of Lancashire , whose graphic description of the _stirring times of 1819 , the future historian would transfer to his pages as the beat record of the events of that _txtraordlnary tlmei He might also speak of ' one who whistled at the plough , ' nlioeo narrations ofthe floggingof the soldier were enough to make the flesh creep upon the bones , snd draw tears from the e > _os of the most callous of our raoe . Tbere waa the poet Tbom , of Inverury , who took shelter under a hedge and saw his child die there , and who could give his country songs worthy of Burns ; that man never knew what it was to live in a £ 10 bouse . There were sucb men as William Lovett nnd Thomas Cooper . He _vt ould not ask the houso to tako an estimate of their

      llt _. ifa-y merit and _tatelUctu -l power from his question _, able testimony . He would not ask tbe house to take an estimate of tbeir literary merit and intellectual power from _bia own testimony . He would call f . r that of tho b _» n . memberfor Re _ di _ _ig ( MrS « irjeaDt _Talfourd ) , wbo , as it bad been said of AkeeDBide , tbat he had breathed tho spirit of _§ lato into English poetry , might be eaid to have invoked tho spirit of Euripides upon the British stage , and not Invoked in vain ; or of him wbo had also gained laurels , though in a different field of exertion , and of whom it would ever be subject of grnt . ful recollection that , with the fine perctption of taote and with the generosity cf genius be saw and recognised the powers whioh were revealed in tho Purgatory of Suicides , though written by a . olf-tacght cobbler , and gave the author

      facilities for coming before the _public which would _othrrtvlso have been difficult of accomplishment . ( Hear . ) Wben ih ' a whole literature was considered , from the time of Ebenezer Elliot , the Sheffield worker la iron , it would bo found pervaded by the spirit of indignation which would ari _. o among men wbo felt them-Heivei reduced to a slave class , threatening the disruption of tbat nationality the unity of which had hitherto constituted the glory of tbis country . The stream of mind was separated into two distinct courses ; and if they did not recognise the claims of a class al . ready represented in tho noblest arena , that of their national literature , they would exhibit to tbe world a moBt deplorable _. peetocle ; tbe geninB of tbe country would _become _sulcidd by the antagonism of its cle .

      ments . Future _collections of poets ond historians would nut be complete without the authors of these _productions , They bad a niche in historj , They bad a place among tbe laurelled , bat they were not admissible into tbe society of J 510 householders , ( Hear , hesr . ) In all ranks high talents and great information were the exception ; but they very muoh misunderstood the work . Ing classes who thought that _ameng _ibera were not diffused the rniDd and the intellectual aspirations which rendered them not unworthy brothers of euch as he had named ; nay , whioh rendered them aot unworthy countrymen of these great names , sucb as those of Milton and Locke , which constituted tho brightest glory this country had yet achieved . What was the Legisla . ture to tear ? That those men would render this house

      a less decorous and less dignified scane 1 Would it be thought tbat those men would return from their body —still lesB from the refuse of that body—persons to claim fellowship here , wbo would turn the house aside by personalities and sarcasm from erery great topic of discussion ? ( Hear , hear . ) Would they send thither men elated , not with champagne or burgundy , but with b . er or brandy , to throw disorder in the midst of their business ! Would they send people who would make : a tax on properly t Why , property—the love of It was ! iustlnctiro in on Englishman , ( Hear , hear , ) Tbey could not propose- to him a' Land Scheme , ' or anything of tho o"rt which ho could call bis own—( 'Hear , 'frem Mr O'Connor )—even with the most _forbidding pros .

      _pects of _attuinlag his object—( a laugh)—but he would make tbe attempt to acquire property . How , was there any participation lo opinions which strangely had found thore way into a document which had found ii way to the table of the house . He had consorted with working poople—not as master , as landlord , ae employer , cr as patron—and he bad f . und In them that intelligence and thoso qualities wbich kept alivo faith in human nature . The hon . member _proceeded to refer to the subject of bribery . He said : Let them consider what tho people had been exposed to . Uo was old enough to recollect tho system ef cor . ruption which prevailed fifty years ago , Ho had known as pure a constituency as ever existed in the whole length aud breadth oftho land . How was the case now t That

      constituency hadbeen rendered corrupt by the continual practice of instilling Into tbem the notion that their votes were worth money . Ha looked npon the briber as worse than tho bribed . He remembered ono case of a Yarmouth freemen whe refused a bribe until It became a _moucs of rescuing him from tbe workhouse : The house might bo sure that the working classes would not select working men , except under peculiar circumstances , eg their representatives . Ia France only thirty . eight bad been chosen in an Assembly of nine hundred . ( Hear , hear , ) They would aot similarly here , ( Hear , hear Tbey would look to local importance , or else select men with nat ' onal reputation . Suoh men it would be desirable to have in the house , rather than men , unknown _£ > localities or to famo , going rambling about the coun .

      try witb iheir heavy purses , seeking eome constituency to corrupt , ( Cheers , ) Tbis would be little barm , if all of that class wero excluded from the house . ( Hear , hoar . ) He believed that under the plan of his hoa . friend tho member for Montrose , such men would be ex . eluded . ( Hear , hear . ) Uader some sueh system ther . would be an end to the degrading system of canvassing , wbich _ie 4 eed brought tbe rloh and poor together , but onlj for thtir mutual degradation , ( Hear , hear , ) In lar _> _io constituencies there was no canvassing . Men of mind got return : d , after having been board in public tbree or four times by the constituency . He believed that the plan of his hon . friend would _destray canvassing altogether , and if it did it would confer a great bleating en the _ceuntry . ( Hoar , hear , ) Look , then , at the

      evils of the present system , at tho disunion which it created . Let them consider the immense importance of our being a united nation , of not having _represented and unrepresented , _conttnted and discontented , classes . ( _Hiur , hear , ) Our relatione with forelgu countries , the general poaco , nil depended upon unity amongst all cla . _ecn of the peop lj of this country , The conviotion of this was growing amongst thc peopio , it was bringing the middle and working claes together , and the aristocracy would act unwisely If they kept much longer aloof . ( Hear , h _^ ar ) It was not our tleeta or armies , however , giM . iuus might bo tboir histories , wbich constituted the true glory of this country . That glory consisted in the indomitable enorgy nnd industry of our working classes , whom 1 ; would be unwise to keep much longer in a _s : ate of _degradation . ( Hear , hear . ) Let them , thea ,

      discard class dlft _. _renceB , spread education with a bold nnd froe hand , throw wide the portals of _theconBtltutioo , _cquallsn taxation , L _9 t them do this , and thoy would no longer havo ib ) millions an alienated body , but _farming such an array as hud never y « t been opposed to « h ' « foreign enemy , ( Hear , hear . ) They would raise a trophy not watered by blood , but more glorious than the tnoht ean _,-uinary victory . Untax us ( said the hon , member in conolusion ) , offer us equality , educate our po . _puliitlun , _. _ufrou _. _uinoour populatiou , and then , arm your population . ( Chotro , mixed with some disapprobation . ) _Tciou let tbe nations of the world be banded against jou , nnd your people will triumphantl y roll back from y _.. ur oaoro tvtry wave of hostility . In the words of the _ijreut chnrci-r , heitber deny nor delay justice , but grant it _fiody and promptly to the working _cU'SOB of the Bri _tisb empire . ( Cheers . ) (¦

      Mr Pi . a __ n said that tho animited aad eloquent _ad-(" _rcaa ifttie honourable _cieiXiber who had just sat down did ii it accord altogether with tho _resolutionof the hon meii > b-r ior Montrose . The honourable member hed avowed _himselt the advocate of the psople , whom hc called _eoi f . but whore in ths speooh of the honourable

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      member fer Montrose could any fymptom bo foQnd of an intention to enfranchise tbem ? ( Hear , hear . ) The speech of the honourable member referred in his ( Mr Disrnoli' _. ) opinion too _olasB purely imaginary ; but wbether real or Imaginary , no one could imagine that the project of tbe honourable member for Montrose bad any view of alleviating their position , Tbe plan was not one intended to annihilate £ 10 householders , neither would it provide the franohiee for poets , sleeping or starving under ho-geB . ( Hear , hear . ) He could not imagine , then , why the honourable msmbef for Oldham should have thought it his duty to give in his adherence to a plan whicb , according te his ( Mr Disraeli ' s ) view ofthe cose went to increase the difficulties In the way of granting the franchise to the classes of whom the honourable member professed himself tobe the advocate . With

      regard to the proposition itself , gentlemen on that ( tbe Opposition ) side of the house stood in a ( _liferent position either from members of the government , orfrora the honourable member for Montrose and bis fri . nd .. It was not for theji either to defend or to attack tbo Reform Act—they obeyed it . When that act was proposed it was exposed to unrestricted criticism , and perhaps it was all the better for that criticism . But once _passod , tho general feeling was tn obey the law , and tho general good sense ofthe p _; ople obviated many _defects in the practical working of che measure . But having ssid that he did not attack or defend the R ' . form Bill , he did not think tbat on the motion of the honourable member for Montrose such declaration would justify him in avoiding the difficulties of debate , at a time and on a question _wklch promised to be fruitful of difficulty . He should ,

      _therefore , take the present opportunity of making some observations on a project wbich had been brought forward with so much preparation , which had been so sedulously prepared ; but the true scope and meaning of which he feared waa not clearly understood by the bonourable member they had just heard , tho eloquent advocate of Imaginary serfs and pauper poeta , Tbe bo . nourable member for Montroio had been the staunch ud . vocate of fieoal reform , and at every meeting tbat _questlod had beea prominently brought forward as the in . contlve to political revolution . Similar were the prayers of all the petitions that hadbeen presented that evening , and yet the honourable member for _ifontrase had In the counaof hit speech said littlo or nothing of _flaonl reform . ( Hear . ) He ( Mr Disraeli ) could e _. _sfly under _, stand wby the hon . gentleman who had just addressed

      the house had not dwelt on this _aubjsot . He was great at statistic ., but not suoh si were usuall y heard in tbat house . He could tell the great increase of penny publications , andthe amount of railway intellect , and give a list of _thoss publications which were found at railway termini and stations . Although these were of importance tbey did not touch the _question of fiscal rtform , or the grounds on whieh the present movemen t was origin _, ally founded . Ho reserved to himself the right of giving his opinion very briefly upon those measures whatever he might think of tbeir fallacy or their truth . But tbe bouse would agree that after four months , during whioh all England had been told that there had been an enor . _mous Increase of taxation , aud in tho expenditure ef tbe government , and this , too , at a period of _general disturbance aad _general revolution— -when the people of

      this country had bsen told , in order to impress upon them that there ought to bs a change bere in uulson with tbe changeB which were taking place in other countries in consequence of our oppressive taxation and oppressive expenditure of government—it was of some Importance in such a debate that tho house and the cerntey should know whether thoie pleas were _founded in truth—whether they were just or not . ( Hear . ) Ha gave tbe hon . memberfor Montrose and bla friends the benefit of tbe admission , tbat wbether the pleas were true or not , however it might damage or benefit the hon , member ' s position , these were circumstances which did not affect the abstract excellence or necessity of hie moasures . ( Hear ) One word then as to the enormous increase of tszation , " _whichjs-a « tbe principal reason put fjr ward for this proposed change ia our parlia .

      ment and our constitution . He Bhould not at midnight refer to documents , except from memory , but tbe facts be was about to mention were well known end authenticated . He would take the period in which we were now living , and compare it with a period considerably , but not too far , distant , He would tube a period just before the passing of the Reform Bill , or twenty years ago , fhe revenue raised in 1828 , from the ordinary resources , vu 49 _£ millions In round numbers . In 1848 it was . 7 jD . il . icn 3 , ( Hear , ) Hoi * was it possible then that hon . gentlemen could maintain tbe position , that tbe taxation of tbj ' coHntry bad been oppressively increased ; But this waB not all ; the revenue of 1828 was raised from a population of less than 23 , , 000 , while tbat of 3318 was raised from a population of , in round numbers , 30 , 000 , 000 . ( Hear , hear . ) If

      they calculated per head the burden of taxation at _thone two periods , it would be found tbat while in 182 S It wag £ 2 12 s . 2 d ., in ISIS It was only £ 110 s . and a fraction . ( Cheera . ) Thli was the result on the aBsurop . tion ' that the aggregate wealth oftho country had in . creased la the ratio of the population ; but all must al low , for It was proved by the official documents , that the wealth of the country had Increased In a much greater ratio than the population , What then b . came of the plea for political change , wbicb was founded upon tbe oppressive increase of taxation under the new _system introduced by the _Rsferm Act ? ( Hear , hoar . ) But it was not enly true tbat tbe taxation per hoad now as com . pared with twenty years ago was infinitely reduced in amount , but there wns another circumstance of importance which must not be forgotten—viz ., that there had

      heen a considerable r _.-dlctrlbuiioa of taxation , and that in every instance tbat re-distribution had been in favour of the working classes . ( Hear , hear . ) The customs of the years 1827 and 1847 , the financial years of 1828 and 1848 , were for 1827 under 18 millions , and Ib 1817 tbey barely exceeded tbat sum . The _excle . was about twelve millions in both years and the stamps aad taxes in both years were nearly the same . In the post-office there had been an immense reduction in favour of those classes who are said to be suffering from the fiscal oppression of the present system . Here was an actual re . ductlon of taxation of more than £ 2 , 000 , 000 , entirely independent ef the increase in the _population . ( Question . ) Ttey were told that there was such oppressive taxation , and that the government expenditure was so enormous in consequence of the existing parliamentary system ,

      that It was nec . seary to have a reform . He did not say it "as not , Ha wiBhed to enter fairly into t „ e queBtion ; but let tbem not proceed on false pretences . The rate of government expenditure during tbe last twenty years , notwithstanding tho great increase of national wealth and of the commerce of the country , had been almost stationary , tho weight of taxation being about the same . The popular plea , therefore , ior the proposed change was not true . ( Hear . ) The plea repeated to-night ad nauseam In ever ; petition wbich had been presented was fallacious and false , and it became tbe duty of those who had off-red those petitions to the house to vindicate the accuracy of the _allegatloas they eontained . He would now touch upon tho second branoh of the plan —he meant tha right of voting by ballot . He _objetted to the change , because he thought it would lead to great

      evils . Ho believed the ckange from open to secret voting was an evil , and he would _opposo it on that ground . Ho thought that their security was In the public press , which expressed public opinion , and denouneed corruption with _undinohiug hostility , and prevented it frem being carried iato practice , ( Hear . ) No one now met tho Secretary of the Treasury at the gangway and re . ceived from him £ 500 as head money , ( A laugh . ) This was tho practice ia this bouse not more than seventy or eighty years ago . ( A . laugh and cheers . ) Ko such thing took place now . The only thing a member asked a Se . _cretory of the _Treaiury for bow was 'a pair . ' ( A laugb . ) Ae te t-o third point—namely , the limltatlou ot the period during which parliament was to meet , he bad only to _obseive , that as triennial parliaments was the good Old Tory principle , be could not , aa far as princi ple was ooncerntd , _obj-. ct to it . Hia . only _objection to it wbb that it waa a change . Then as to the fourth pointnamely that relating to electoral districta , he admitted it was ona of considerable importance . A pamphlet on

      this subject was put Into the hand of Sir Joshua Walmeley , who told him that It would satisfy his mind on thii subject . He bad read it , but ic bad not done what the hon , baronet expected it would do . Tbe principle ofthe book was tbat tbe representation of England was founded on its population . Ia tho work the county of Buckingham was placed in opposition to the county of Lancaster . It was _tru-j that Buckingham was far from being as wealthy _a » Lancashire . But Buckingham had refused to pay _aliip-moaey in the reign of Charles , snd it furnished the houee with a aeries of able statesmen- —( a lough)—who sustained ihe renown of this country , and upheld tbo rights of the people . Buckingham gavo a Hampdea , and the _Qranvllles , and Mr Burke to that bouse . ( Hear . ) Was then Buckingham to be put in comparison with manufacturing towns , who were bora in a day and pro . bably vanished in _6116 thelf . Notv let us consider wbat members would be returned for Manchester under the new system . This pamphlet waa the manufacture of tbe sew party _.

      Mr HoME .-That pamphlet was written before the party was formed . air DisaiEU . —Then thi . pamphlet was tbe origin of the _narty . According to this manifesto , Manchester would have seven raembers . Only think of seven members — why , it was difficult to manago one member—how would it be if there were seven 1 ( Laughter . ) Then Liverpool and Glasgow ivould bavo _SQveii also—all statistical members . ( Laughter . ) Dublin would have six members , and as all the members for Dublin had a petition against them , and as they saw a nooie ird prevented from attending a committee of im . portanceby his duties in thut committee , what would be the consequence if they had seven petitions ? Birmingham und Leeds were to have five members , aud Sheffield four . Under this new _Bystem London would havo forty members . It was avowed that this was n , middle class

      movement . They avowed that as tins WAS a middle _olass government , that they would force it to carry out their views . Now , what he objected to wus , that this purty should seek to be predominant . Now , what did that party do ? they carried the Reform Bill , but they destroyed the in _lustrial franchise . They carried colonial reform , which ended in colonial ruin . Now they attempted fin . incial reform , which wus to transfer the burthen of taxation upon realised capital . If this took the hundred millions they had to act upon iu imposing ten per cent ., but what compensation for the work th _* t would be

      displaced by it . There was one point he wished to refer to , aud it was this , that this movement was not popular . No gentleman opposite ventured to say it whs of that cliaractir . It arose out of a new profession ivhich had sprung up ; the profession of agitators . ( Laughter . ) It was , however , only new among us . This new school was the originator of groat questions , but whon that was curried the profession was ruined . There was no chair to fill or secretary required , and no paid orators to be employed . They had , thertfoie _, to make a now question The hon member for the _Weat Riding was satisfied , but it did not

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      follow that the deputy-chairman , the committeemen a , paid orators , and the pamphleteers , were also -atishnrt The hon . member for the West Riding adopted the prin ' cipleof universal peace , _juitat the moment they were on the point of universal war . ( Laughter . ) He was , ther ? fore , at fault when this pamphlet came in their way a _Xj they then adopted their great question of electoral dis triefcs . The hon . gentleman then read the prospectus and circular letter of the meeting , which elicited much mer riment . He said this movement was factitious . Itorisi _" nated with the same party which gave them parliament ary reform , and afterwards colonial reform ani _) now attempted financial reform . It was not a popular movement . It was erroneous , but not popular Mr Disraeli thus concluded ; Let me not be mtsunder stood , nor let it be said that I am opposed teallnonnl . _^

      interest or to ail popular feeling when I say this . No it i . the samo movement that has given you colonial con _T merciol , and financial reform , and now pro poses in give youparliamentarj reform . It is the same _movenW that has always resulted by their own _confession , in di _« aster and disappointment . ( Cheers . ) But the remark able circumstance is this , that the present movement haa not in the slightest degree originated in any _cIhsb of thn people , even if the people had been misled . It is Doa . _sible that thero might be a popular movement and vet erroneous ; but this is erroneous and not p onular ( Cheers and laughter . ) But tho moral I draw trom all tlus-from observing this system of _organised agitation -this playing and paltering with popular passions for the aggrandisement of one tho ambitious class—the moral I draw and the question I ask is this—why are th » people of England forced to find leaders _amonc thesa persons ? Their proper leaders aro _thegentrvof _Enphnrt

      nml it they are not the leaders of the people it is _becnii _.. the gentlemen of England have been so negligent o thetr duties , and so unmindful of their station , that thdJ system ot professional agitation , 8 o ruinous tu the beat interest * of the country , has arisen in En . land . niear hear . ) It was not always so . Hon . gentlemen noli themselves the country _p _/ rty . Why , tha . walThe _nauf _n ? n t _^ 1 ! and - ° / . Pai _' _ y who were the foremost to vh . dicate popular _rahta-who were the natural leaders o the people , and the champions of everything national and popular ; and vou must blame _yoursWalo ,, if _yoS have allowed be power that has been entrusted to III by the constitution to slip from your bands , to be der . cued for perhaps other interests than the genera ! _g _^ d of your country . When William _Wjndl . am was the _l _™/ - _/ 1 ecoant'y . P » ty . do you think tbat he would have allowed any chairman , depu _. y . chairman , lecturer or pamphleteerer . to deprive him of his hold on the hellli and feelings of the people of this country ? ( Hear , hear , ) So , never ! 'Hear , hear . ; Do you think that when the question of sullrnge waa _brought before the house , he would have _allowod any class who had boldly avowed their determination to obtain a predominance , to take up and settle that question ? ( Hear ) Read what Sir J .

      _liyQ-LOltOU _. in _tUd ( lays Of Walpole , _saidon the ques . tion of the suffrage . He was one of tho greatest gentle _, men in the country , and he did not run away ever j night from the house at half . past eleven o ' cl-ck , and allow the country te be _lf-ined . ( Hear . ) If it be necessary that great changes sbould t _. ke place in the country , let them be effected by those who ought to be the leaders iu all great and social changes . Then we shall find changes not carried into effect for the unblushing purpose of securing a middle-class government , but an English and a national government , whicii has hitherto risen to be the pride of the people , and in which confidence is justly placed . ( Cheers ) If you are called on to make changes of this kind , it is in your power to make tbem within the scope and according to the spirit of the English _canstitu . tion ; because , _notwithstanding the sneers of the hon gentleman and his friend , tonight , I am not ashamed to say that I wish to maintain the old constitution . ( Cheers . ) And I will tell you what I mean . I do not mean the House of Commons ; and still less , a particular party in the house

      , which the hon . gentlemen opposite seem always to consider the English constitution . But I would effect these changes , ii necessary , according to the Bpirit of th » -constitutlon ; it is a capacious spirit ; it will allow yon to do all that is necessary , aud yet maintain the institutions ofthe country . ( Hear , hear ) I would main _, tain that constitution notmere'y because it has secured to us the sway of an ancient monarchy , mitigated in ope . ration by the co-ordinate authority of popular estatesnot merely beeause the constitution has planted English liberty brocdly and deeply in the land , and not made it a thjng dependent on the breath of an individual or the ca . price and passion ofsome great city—not merel y becauso it has secured to us the due administration of justice , and the safety of person , ani respect for property ( though there are all considerations great and important ); but I would maintain the constitution , because I firmly believe that of all existing polities it is that polity and that con . Btitution which most tends to secure the happiness and elevate the character of the great body of the people . ( Loud cheera . )

      Mr Osbobn £ moved the adjournment of the debate amidst loud cries for a division . Mr Mackenzie wished to know whether the hon . gen . tleman ( Mr Hume ) had made arrangements with the go . vernmentfor another night to continue the debate . It seemed to him tbat hon . gentlemen opposite wished to go away from a division on their own motion . ( ' Oh , oh . " and eheers . ) Mi- Hume was anxious to go to a division—the sooner the better . ( 'Hear , 'and cries of 'Divide . ' ) But a-tha debate had not commenced till seven o ' clock , and as it was _ vident that many gentlemen wished to address tha bouse , be hoped the noble lord would give a day for coa . tinuing the debate . Lord J . Russell said that he was not able to fix any day in the presen _* state of public business . ( Hear , hear , and cries of'Divide . ') The bouse was cleared for a division , but nono took place , the debate having been adjourned to Friday . The house then adjourned at two o ' clock .

      WEDNESDAY , Jone 21 . HOUSE OF COMMONS .-Mr A . St _ ffoui > moved for a new writ for the _borough of Cheltenham . Sir 6 . Gb . e _. supported the issue of the writ , on the ground that there had been no special report from the committee * against Cheltenham , whereas there bad been special reports against both Leicester and Derby . A smart debate followed , and npon a division , the numbers wero—For the motion 59 Against it V 7 Majority , „ ,,, —12 The issue of the writ was accordingly ordered . Mr 11 . _Dbum-iond moved the committal ofthe Tenants at Will ( Ireland ) Bill . Sir 6 . Grey urged the postponement of this stage until the discussion could also bs taken on a similar measure introduced by another hoa . member , which would neces . sarily be a saving of time .

      Mr II . Dbuhmond , on the ground that his bill only ap . piled to an allowance for money already expended by the tenant , while that referred to by the _right hon . baronet was merely ofa prospective character , felt it necessary to persevere in the motion he had made . Sir W . SoMEEviUE moved that the bill be committed that day six months , which amendment was eventually agreed to without a division , and the bill was lost . On tho motion of Sir D . L . Evans , the house went into committee on the Parliamentary Electors Bill , when the claube ( the only one in tha bill ) for determining the period of payment ofthe assessed taxes up to the month of October ofthe previous year , instead of the month of _Apry of that in which the election takes place , as re « quired by the existing act on the part of voters , other _, wise duly qualified , was , on a division , affirmed by a ma . jority of 12 , the numbers 59 to 47 . The house resumed and adjourned shortly before fiva o ' clock :

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      _Slhave SeTand in vain . A KMinion will he _SctedInd _inepiteof John : even if he were to die _^\ 4 _floor of Conciliation Hal l he could not prevent _2 ? t But that union wiU be based on good , aod 2- , d and manly principles . It will , not trust to _S"ut- n _ r , andb . gging , and letter writing , and bar-JXV for success . It will teach tho people their _rights a- . _dt--llthemwhattheyaretodo to entorce _tb-m ' The ne w League wiil not be a second edition of Cr . n'iliaticn Hall . It will not be a political mar . bet honse , or a gigantic b . _gging-bDX- It will win _Irha indep _. ndesce , or its leading members will be CDief mourners ever blasted hope ., and a country

      _ruinea for evsr . . _ ., The new League , however , is nor . yet ratiben . me € _"r-federa e 3 are ready to enter it . provided it be * _ Es ° d on honest principles . The 0 _* Cout > fcll party _sti'I seem a littlo skittbb on the subject—nay , some Cf r . hem-a few of the ' five pound * members—have uositively ' proEOunced' against a junction with the _Ccnfedera ' . _es . All won't do . The people are now awafc- Their eves are opened . The Tent will be _Uft ' m arrears . " ' John O'Connell ' s ' occupation ' s gcae , ' and all that his liclspittle staff can do will not _humbus the Irish peasantry a month longer . What conciliation has been tinkering at these last five rears , must be done now ' out of the face ! Ireland must be _aa she ought to be , * or she mutt abandon the _stinsgle for ever . tne nnion

      Th" Catholic clergy will not oppose reof Irish Repealers . They are averse to rebellion and _bloodshed ; but , believe me if Ireland ' s salvation requires their adhesion , they will net shrink . They Stood aloof expecting O'Connell ' s prophecies might be _accom-ii- hed , and their country treed , ' without the Io . ** cf one drop of human blood . ' They now be ' in to see the delusion of Conciliation-hall , and thsy will not be opposed to any plan for the relief Oi their miterah ' e countrymen . _JNo class is socon-¦ _versaat with the wrongs and woes of the Irish _peasantry as the priests ; and I am convinced that when ths dav of trial arrives , they will not ba found in the Tanks of ihe neutral md indifferent . The Irish Cath" ! .- clerer were always _renowned for their patriotism and JoVe of home . They are not now worse than in days gone past .

      The Irish Repeal press , too , is all _coming over to the right side . Those provincial journals which , a ? to this , clung tenacious !? to _O'Connel'ism snd ' moralforce'are now waxina warm , and more for * _rtivrking _; the god of battles , ' than whining or tegsing at the _norch of ' ths constitution . ' The meeting ol the _Confederation , which waa to be held on Wednesday night last , was adjourned till next Wedaesdav , the 21 st Instant . It will be the greatest meeting of thnt body ever held in Dublin . _Messrs Thns . T . F . Meagher and Richard _O'Gortrvt-. n were said to be marked out for the vengeance of the _Attornev-Ganeral . As yet , they are at _lar-je and wili be at their post on Wednesday evening .

      Ths Rev . Mr Kenyon has been reinstated in his _ptrish fey bis bishop , the Right Rev . Dr Kennedy . There have been illuminations in different parts cf Mnnster « o _ceznmemorate the joyous event - , and Mr _Kf-nvon has commenced his new care _. r with the publication in the Liiiskics Ex-hiker , of one of tbe mest wiiheriDi' manifestoes agsinst tbe government and the 0 'CoaoeIl 3 , _whichheorany other * enemy ' ever levelled at sn unlucky _antagonist . The Rev . Mr Kenyon is in himself a match for a million of Ire isn-i's foemen .

      ^ The Northern Star. June 24, 1848.

      _^ THE NORTHERN STAR . June 24 , 1848 .

      Dcbli-S Jcxs Is.—Mr Holmes, In Cons.-Qje...

      _Dcbli-s Jcxs IS . —Mr Holmes , in cons _.-qjencs of ib * _contisHed refusal of the bencher , of Q , u _ ea _' s Inn to admit Dr Grey and Mr Dunne to the bar , has _resigned his bencher _ liip . J . ke 20 . —At a place calied _Eillavnllen . in tke coti-ty of Cork , where a meeting to form a club was _fce- 7 fin Sunday last , and a resolution was unanimously _adooted , ' calling on Mr John O'Connell to be no barrier to the union and harmony now likely to L' 3 established _amo-gst all _clashes of Repealers , ' the _oarisk pries * , Rev . P . Green , who was chosen prxsid-nt of the club , was _ii-. _tracted to _cDmmunics , i ~ thi _ very significant resolution to Mr John CG-mieU , who must yield vrith . a gocd grace or re tire : _aito'etier . ii lithe Dablin Confederate Clubs are to hold an ope :, air _seeting on Sunday nest , at D ; _nnybrookgre-n . I < rd Flrench has come out as a thorough ad ? ocate of Tre proposed union of Young and CKd _Ireland . A ; ° .-: - er from that nobleman , who has been heretofor - a decided ' Moral force' man , appears in the Ev- yiNG Fkesh 4- «' s Jcebsal uf this afternoon . His lo-c _^ _uip thus concludes : — \ _ii 9 voi _. e of the country _seess to demand this union ; _anc I concurin the general expectation thet tbe _pro-£ _Os ; d 'Irish League' will demonstrate , with firmness _anrl _dignity , that the Irish _people fully understand the _vab _> _i of their _constitatissal rights , and that they are re _.:- ) ved to vindicate those rights against infringe . cse _ .:, I _rea-ainj-aydesrsir , yours faithfully , _Ffrench . T . _t T . M . Rsy , Esq ., Srcretary .

      Fatal Acc-Dekt At The Liyerp-O-. Ztologi...

      Fatal Acc-dekt at the _Liyerp-O-. _Ztologic-L 'Gavdsss . —On Saturday morning , June 17 th , a me ! . Dcholy accident occurred at these gardens . The _Stcr-eudonsetepbaat , Rsjah . the finest anim 3 l of the kird in Europe , was _chastite-i by his keeper , Richard _Howard , slightly , for some disob . dience . _Theanici- . " : _immedi-itely resented it , and struck his keeper tot : _> e ground , crashing him to death afterwards with his foot . This is the second keeper , within a few _yes-s , who has baen killed by this elephant , who was get-rally _exceedingly tractable , aEd walked about tb ? gardens on gala nights with an eastern car behind Mr .. The Messra Atkins resolved upon destroying th ? animal , and for this purpose two ounces of _pruseic _ttcid _atd twenty-five grains ef aconite were ad-E _ ir _ist-ired to Mm in a bun ; bnt , beyond a slight un-€ -. ? :, _- _-e 5 s for _abiut five minute :- , the elephant did not

      _eeea at all aneoted by the poison . After waiting t _ ir--3 quarters of an hoar , and finding the poison was not -ikelyto . ake effect , it was determined to shoot the _Jtai-cal . A detachment of the 52 _ d Rifles , who SM _.-t present at & . i _ _a _ d " in Liverpool , were sent for , * n r - . welve men having entered the den they waited ther opportunity and fired . The animal staggered , sac- east _agrin _^ t the dea . Another doz . n of Riflemec entered and fired . This _brought the animal to the _ground , and he died instantly . The poor man whe aas lest his life was literally flattened , every rib . _nhis bsdy being broken . Amongst the _gentleftt-. - who were present when the animal was destroyed wa . Vsn Ambargh , who is at present fulfilling an eng _^ ement at the Theatre Royal . There were also «_ t ~ _-a 1 medical genc ' . emen in attendance to assist in des rojh-g the animal . The animal cost £ 800 eleven yea-s ago , bat wss worth more than £ 1 . 000 .

      Rochdale . —Order of Free Gards . ners . —Tne annual Grand Lodge of the United Free Gardeners WS' opened at Rochdale , on Monday , the 12 h inst About ninety deputies from tha various districts ' atte . _'ded the meeting , which was ably conducted by G . -1 . Syk . s , of tke H-. dd _ r _ tL . ld district . The traE _- . _.. _liona between th . various districts were _atnicab _:-, and satisfactorily settled , and all the accounts examined and found correct . The district _reports , in _n -my instances , were highly favourable , showing a c < _si _ erable increase of members , the number ef win _t is now about 15 , 00 i ) . Nothing conld more -oleh- y show the _usefulness of tha _so-iety tha-i the am a . of relief afforded ti members in distress , and ¦ en t- wel during the past year , which in consequence of t' - depressed state of trade has been very _considertile . The union with the Staffordshire _Gar-<_ en-3 was ratified and completed to the mutual satirfaction of all _par-ies .

      -Bankrupts.

      -Bankrupts .

      (Froa The Gazette Of Tuesday, Jane 13.) ...

      ( Froa the Gazette of Tuesday , Jane 13 . ) BAKKRUPTCT ANNULLED . Mary Braaton , Leeds , innkeeper .

      _BaKKRUPTS . Jo _nn Balaam , Enfield , Middles _. x , _sraith-Gsorge Can - non . Prospect-place , _Ball ' _s-pond , bricklayer—John Con--que- , _Hoorgats-street , City , money scrivener—Frederick W-U \ - _ -Nicboll 3 Crouch , Upper Ch _2 _rlotte-street , Fitzroysq u _ :., music seller—John fleslop , Ripon , Yorkshire , _merchant—Taoma * Hollyman , _Cievedcn , Somersetshire , Butcher—Robert Hughe ? , Liverpool , _laceman—Henry ¦ Jake _^ vays , Pontypool , Monmouthshire , licensed victualler— . _VUlia-a Plmnley . Bristol , poulterer—Joseph _Pritchar-. Hare wood , Herefordshire , innkeeper — Francis . _Thomas Smith and Abraham Smith , Carabridge-heathnur . ry , Hackney , seedsmen—John _Trevers , sen ., and -fohr . Trevers , jun ., Apollo-buildings , Walworth , builders —Jo n Walker and William Walker , Birkenhead , Cbe shir e , joiners-Hannah Ward , Newgate-market , City _, carci _^ e butcher—Gasper Weis s , Liverpool , music _seUer—WiU _ . m _Wheatley , Buitefl . Sussex , _wheelwright- James " rVri _fc ht , Birmi-ghiim , seal stone engraver . INSOLVENT PET 1 TIONEE _. S .

      gC Aldridge , Horsham , Sussex , dealer in china—J Anstey , Stoke . Gilford , Gloucestershire , .-inner—J Blyth , Bristol , grocer—C Bromhail , Birmingham retail brewer—G C-. rter , Bristol , baker-J Evans , Abbott ' s Leigh , Somersetshire , blacksmith-C Feltoa _, Astou _, War = MCksbire _, commercial trarel ! er-P B Hill , Bampton , Devonshire—¦ G Hughes , l _« ice . ter , commission agent—G Jones , St Geo i _& Pill , _Som-i _. _eUtoe , liceu . _-d vic . tualler-1 Kenning , Birmingham , messen _.-er—( i _Lene , Bristol , beer retailer—C T Lechmere , Fownhop ., Herefordshire-T hear , St Thomas the Apostle , Devonshire -S Lilley , Aston , Warwickshire , engineer—W Maunder , Exeter , baker—S Newel ) , _Birmingham , hook and rye maker-J Price , Birmingham , fishmonger—J Sandbrook , Birmingham , slater—W Scatt . _rgood , Birmingham , book-keeper—H Schcley , Shemeld , blade maker—J Senior , Sheffield , tailor—R Spark , Exeter , poulterer—J Sturgis , -Vortbampton _, journeyman mason—G W Tilly , Cleveaon , Somersets ire , carpenter—G Tilly _Hendfard , _Somersetshli-e , tailor—J Waters , Liverpool , book-keeper-. W Whitfield , iize Island , Exeter , woolcomber .

      SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . Douglas Edwards , Aberdeen , merchant — Thomas entles , Paislej , plumber—Thomas Grocott , Glasgow , _Sealer ia fancy goods—James Hamilton , High Motherwell , Lanarkshire , farmer—John _M'Keddie , Fortrose , _eaer-bant—^ smes Morrison , Hawkhill , _Ferthsbire _, coalm « . _? ter—James Stirling , Stratbavea , horsedealer—Wil . -Ua Stuart Sutherland , Leith , bookseller .

      Letter From John Fussell To John Arnott....

      LETTER FROM JOHN FUSSELL TO JOHN ARNOTT . _Nswoate PBISON , _JtfffK 20 . Dbab _Arsoit , —I have succeeded in getting my bail reduced to tour £ 50 sureties , or two £ 100 . Now I hope this will be _socured ; not thit I care tor one moment about the coBfineraent , but am not inclined to be laughed at by the Whigs in office , or the Press , for it is quite certain that they intend to punish me , if possible . In court there were some ominous est . pref tionR made use of by the judge ; but 1 ani certain , that if I can only secure two or three days liberty , it will enable me to defeat tbis abominable indictment , which , if it succeeds , will endanger tha liberty of my _feliow-nriaoner _.. I _ahall ba tried first , there is little doubt ; and , if convicted , it will prejudice their cases ; _therefore , for the _aafee of the cause do aU you oan . For _my-elf I care nothing as aa individual , as I am prepared for any punishment , even to death , rather than forget my duties as a man , feeline satisfied that an unsullied conscience is ' the

      pearl oi great price , that will emulate my countrymen to stand by each other in the great fight for freedom and liberty . We are all in good cpirit _., and should be glad to heat from you upon any matter affecting our welfare in . _ _. _ < : auso . All letter , ara opened , but you and auy friends c _ n write , and we should be glad to hear from you . All communications respecting bail to be sent to our attorney , Give my respects to all brother Chartists . I hope you aad them may enjoy good health . I remain , Yours , in the cause of Freedom , John Fuas __ j ..

      Latest News From France. Insurrection In...

      LATEST NEWS FROM FRANCE . INSURRECTION IN PARI 8 . Norterrn Star _Offici ., Saturday Morning . We havo deplorable accounts from - _* arie . The agitation which has pervaded tha national workshops for eome days past , seems to have come to a crisis on Thursday evening . Thousands of working men tilled tbe _. ticets that evening , aod were encountered by tfce troops and National Guards . It appears that several persons wero wounded . On Friday morning , immense masses were assembling , for the purpose of going to the Assembly in a body with a petition . At half . past _sleven o ' elock , barricades wore being formed at the Porte St D . nis and Porte St Martin . _Thegenerafe waa beateu , _bul tho rioters brokH the drums . The shops on the Boulevards were all _olosedt

      A despatch , re eiv _^ dfrom Boulogne this morning , announces that the Friday evening mail trom Paris had not arrived , but that reports hud reached Bou _» _logne that the _struggle had c „ mrneuced ia Paris The National Guard and the troop , were fighting with the peopio . Ail was in confu . ion , and an awful sacrifice of life had taken plaoe .

      F Accmsotom.—Themembc.Ao.T-I.8 Branch Of...

      f AccMsoTOM . _—Themembc . ao . _t-i . 8 branch of the _rati onal Land Company » re _reque _. ted to _attend at their meeting _ro-rn , on Saturday _weninjf , ths lst of July , _t-T tha _purpose tf electing officers for the next _quarteri

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 24, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_24061848/page/8/