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      Febbitiby 28, 184*6. The Northern Star. ...

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      REVELATIOSS OF ROME _, no . I . fhe last number of the Westminster Review _conies an artiele founded upon two publications , _envied , first , "The Christian Alliance ; " second , 7 'Afvstolato _Popolare . " The first of these may be j _^ med the "Constitution" of an American Society , _^ ting from the 12 th of May , 1843 , which has been _g . _-faMished "to promote religioia freedom , and to _$ _fose useful and religious knowledge among the _pjrives of Italy , and ether Papal -ountries . " _ The _s jm ofthis association is purely theological ; it repudiates political questions . Admitting that the _jjljjectof this society may be as good as the motives ( fits members are undoubtedly pure , -till the writer _^ the article in tke n _ r t _ _un-ter Review well argues Ait" it is impossible to get at the religious question

      c therwise than through the political . " The writer _gaip hatically adds : — " To be must precede to think , _jad Italy fa not . " Again— "You may warehouse t ellies , or copies of Merle _ _¦ ' A-Bigx _ and _M'Ckle , at _^ _jry point around Italy that may favour th eir dispersion ; slowly , and in numbers imperceptible , they _ujay reach the hands of those who have no need of them , of those whose souls _are already freed ; but the _ujsss , 'the gay unthinking peasantry ' of the villages of Italy , 'the mechanics and shopkeepers of her i _* r _ s , ' will never hear of them . The gendarmes , tbe priests , and the Custom-house form , between them and the _instractionyouseek to afford , a triple wall , insurmountable to individual agents of a trans atlantic society . Eveiy theory of education , then , for the masses of Italy , resolves itself into a problem _efliberty . "

      The * ' A pestolato Popdarc" is , we are informed by the writer we have above quoted , a periodical publication in Italian , _pablished in London , of which twelve numbers have made then- appearance : itI represents the opinions ef the National Italian Asso- ciation known as " Young Italy . " On these two publications the writer in the Westesnster Review grounds an article on ihe condition and prospects of the . Italian people . He commences with ( and in the present article confines himself to ) an investigation of the condition of tbe Papal States . Ee complains moat justly of thedisgraceful apathy which prevails in this country in reference to the Italian question , "the cause of a people to whom Europe owes its civilutation . " He reminds the English publie that " The map of Europe has to be re-modelled . The part of statesmen should , therefore , be to prepare for England a new political and

      commercial existence _^ by " cultivating the germs of sympathy and alliance with the new Powers that will sp ring out of the crisis . " For ourselves , desirous of _eaplsying every available means ' to promote the great principle of Fraternity , and knowing that we coald best do so by imparting to _-the working classes of England a knowledge ot their brethren of other lands , we saw the utility of transferring to our _columns at least the principal facts contained in the article in the WatminsUr Review ; we accordingly applied to the author of the article for permission to e-tract from __ u _ valuable composition , which assent , we are happy to acknowledge , ' was kindly and p romptly given . The extracts we have now to lay before our readers cannot fail todeeply interest them , and will , we doubt not , kindle in their breasts _feelings ofthe wannest sympathy for unfortunate Italy , aad corresponding indignation towards her cruel gaolers , and intolerant oppressors : —

      _lCiHoarrr of the wres—SA-Otsos—_ o __ .-- _** on " _KorrufAci' *—iN su __ _icrio _« ox 1831 . Oar readers will recollect how the districts which now form the territories of the Pope accepted his authority in tba _middle ages as a power protective of the spirit of _itatoetscy and of the _moi _ k-P-l franchise ., __ g __ in _ lt _ e despotic usurpation of f _oreijn emperors . Originally , it was a sort of synallagmatic contract , more or less explicit , by which there was conferred on the Pope a right . _isnieraintyaada tribute , reserving to th ___« elves the uncontrolled administration ofthe _financos , the choice of magistrates , the power of _jj _____ _-g and dissolving alliances—all , in a word , that conititates bona fide independence . Afterwards , devotion to the Holy See , the splendour necessary to the centre of Christianity , the necessities of the Church , reforms to be accomplished , petty tyrants to be put down , famished so many bases for the profound and ____ ch- _ . ve _ i _~ i system of usurpation

      contaminated by Alexander the Sixth and Clement the Seventh . One by one , the popnlsr liberties were swallowed up : those that were nominally spared were rendered nugatory . Thus , a council and a magistracy were left in the towns , possessing the right of voting on municipal matters ; bat the Sovereign referred tbepower of appointment to the Council , the choice of the heads , the firing of the time when and the matters on which they were to deliberate . If local statutes were conserved , they were those which might tend to maintain division and rivalry between city and city , and which , sneh as the _diS-rence of weights and measures , were ban to com-EKrce and intercommunication . Deprived of liberty and _poSt-cal life , and under tiie thousand ills notorious as inherent to ecclesiastical government , the Roman _provinces bad attained , at the time of the French Revolution , the wretched supremacy of Italy ia misery and misgovern- , __ a _* nt .

      Under Napoleon , the Marches and Legations formed ] part ofthe kingdom of Italy , as thej had before been comprised in the Italian Republic . An enlightened public _adaiinistration , the _subveriion of every feudal privilege , the abolition of tbe old law , and the substitution of codes more adapted to the times and manners , the equality of all in the eyes of tbe law , the diffusion of education , military rank open to aU classes of the youth , and , lastly , nationality beaming brightly before the eyes of all as possibly to be realised at no distant time , rapidly elevated these provinces from tbeir sunken state . Rome , and the other portions of the estates of the Pope , which were coiled to the empire in 1810 , made less progress than the Marches and Legations . The inevitable consequences of foreign domination , obtrusive in all tilings , even to its language , neutralised the civil and legislative benefits that might otherwise have resulted . However , these provinces were also improving , when in 181-one stroke ofthe pen annihilated all those elements of wealth , of life , of progress , so recently manifest .

      That epoch restored old authorities , bat did not restore ancient rights . Promises were lavished , as at the beginning of ail restorations . The _ Vap » leon Code was to be maintained , taxes were to be lowered , public education was to be confided to those whom public opinion _esteemed the most capable . All these promise , were violated . The canon law mi resuscitated ; old forms were revived . The _taxe _. remained sneh as they had been under the exigencies of war ; with this difference , tbat tbeir produce , of which a part at least , under the

      kingdom , had been appropriated to public works and _institutions , was wholly swallowed np in pensions , in sinecores , and in support ofthe luxury and vices of the high dignitaries of the Church ; thus , while the salary of the Prefect of Bologna was 12 , 000 francs annually , the _Car--diu-ULegate , discharging the same functions , n _» w receives 64 , 000 francs . Education was no more mentioned ; bnt to possess and to exhibit talent was to give cause for suspicion and persecution . From all tbis , _combined with the ever-present idea of Italian nationality , sprang _tbeinsnrrection of 1 SJ 1 .

      This is not an occasion for going into the details of the movement , or for referring to the motives that localised it in the Roman States—motives , in our opinion , riling from , the __« -. _ - of the men whom accident placed at the head—but we will remind our readers that the insurrection spread over tea provinces in three or four -days , without the effusion ofa single drop of blood , without a shadow of opposition , and that it succumbed only before the Austrian army . A capitulation was signed at Ancona , on the 2-th of March , between the _Iniurrcctionary Government and Cardinal Ben-enuti : a foil and en- ' tire amnesty was guaranteed . This was sham-fully broken . The document was sent to -tome the same day , but remained unanswered whilst the patriots were in force . On the-rd ol April , when aU had been given np , tons and fortified places , and when Bandiera , the Austrian R __ r-A _ mir _ - —the same whose two sons died , in July 1844 , forthe national cause—had arrested on the ttigh seas some of the most compromised , ah edict of the

      Pope annulled the convention . _Prosecutionscommenced _Sdicts of the 14 th and 30 th of April declared guilty the authors , the accomplices , and favourers of tbe insurrection ; the poets who had celebrated it , the orators who had eulogised it , all those who had in any manner eon--ourred io it . In the meantime the local _canses of insurrection appeared so evident and so just to the eyes of other governments , that a memorandum was addressed to the Court -of Rome on the -1 st of Hay , 1831 , in the name ofthe five powers , Prance , Austria , Prussia , Russia , and England , in wbich there was enforced the necessity of introducing radical changes into the system of administration . By a orcolar of the 3 rd of June , addressed to tiie Ministers of those powers , the Pope himself admitted this necessity , sod he engaged himself to give such institutions as would , fee said ,-pta for his Teign ana . era . The edicts of the 5 th of July , 5 th and 31 st of October , and 5 th of _November , 18 . 1 , made their appearance in discharge of these engagements _.

      What kind of constitution these edicts gave to the Papal government will appear farther on . We will here state that the people openly and angrily repudiated it . The mnmrip-l bodies exclaimed against what they termed a deception . Petitions circulated in town and country , aad were covered with signatures : there were some , as Chat of Forli , that boasted the name ofthe bishop ' s vicar Mm-elf- They were _nmnfmo-S in demanding the _admilsonof fatiiersof __ mUl __ m tot _ ie _ agin _3- office 5 of _thema-« tstr ___ 7 ; tbe election by the people of the Councils for the Coamii , from which were taken the Provincial Coun . « _fa , that were to furnish in their tun the members of the Council of State ; the publication of the revenue accounts ; paWiriry to the _proceedings of courts of law ; and the permanent _establishment of the National Guard . The essential defects in the edicts were pointed out in an argumentative memorial addressed to the Pro-Legate Count _Grassi , bythe corps of judges and advocates of Bologna . A committee was formed at Bologna , onthe

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      Sth of January , 1 S 32 , chosen , with the _anient of the Pro-Legates , by the heads of the magistracy , who were charged to make known to the government the real wishes of the people . This committee was dissolved . -The Pope persisted in exacting the precise and simple execution ofthe enactments ofthe Sth ef Jul y , and succeeding dates . On quitting the Legations , at the end of July , the Austrian . , had intrusted the ' preservation of OTder to the Civic-Guard : the disbanding of this guard was decided npon , and on the 10 th of January , 1832 , Cardinal Bernetti announced that it would te replaced by a re-organised regular soldiery . These soldiery , whose pay was forthcoming by the raising of a loan , were in great part

      composed of banditti aud miscreants picked from the pri . sonsofCivita-Castellana , San Leo , aud St . Angelo ; the officers were in general men known for their ferocity or for an ultra Saufedism ; # their commander was Barbieri , who , in 1831 , had been with difficulty saved from the fury of the populace . Foreseeing a frightful reaction , the _Bomagnese refused to r » ceive them . Resistance was however hopeless , for on the 12 th there came noteB -from the four Powers , approving the march ' of these troops , offering their assistanc . to the Pope to obtain him an immediate and unconditional surrender , and informing the recusants that they had not to expect justice . The Romagnese resolved that it became them to evince their

      opinion to the world by a marked demonstration . The troops advanced , under the direction of Cardinal Albant : the Civic Guard resisted , then fell back , to weaken tbe enemy by compelling him to spread over the country . The Papal ruffians committed horrors wbich would bs incredible were it not tbat there are living and unexceptionable witnesses ofthe facts . Cesena was given up to plunder : even the churches were not excepted ; in tliat of the Madonna del Monte , men suing for life , the crucifix in hand , were pitilessly massacred . At Forli , children , old men of eighty , and pregnant women , were among the murdered . These _eicessts would have driven the whole people to the direst reprisals , when the Austrians made thtir appearance a second time , invoked by the Pope .

      We omit tbe French expedition to Ancona , which took place at the beginning of February . It had no bearing on the principal question , and was only undertaken to quiet tiie anxiety of France . Bnt wa dwell with pleasure on tbe noble language held . at this time by Lord Seymour , who had been despatched to Rome by the English government . He alone of the envoys of the great powers plainly declared that tbe pretended reforms neither answered the requirements of the people nor even the guarded demands ofthe memorandum of the 21 st of May . He alone affirmed , in a correspondence with Prince Metternich , that there could be no possible tranquility for the Italian _provices until justice was done . On his departure he bore with him tbe esteem of the Italians , who were afflicted to perceive that , while every intervention for Ul was tolerated in Europe , there was not a single government that . deemed itself obliged to

      interfere effectively for good . The language of the other i powers was mean , false , and designedly canting . They spoke of the _impretcripWyU rights of the throne , and of legitimate authority ; tbey loaded with commendations the wisdom of tbe court of Rome ; the King of Prussia declared his profound veneration for the sacred person of tbe Pontiff ;' . Nicholas laid his sincere regards at the feet of Gregory . France descended still lower , and even to calumny , in tiie person of M . de St Aulaire , who asserted thatthe Civic Guard had pondered the public treasury . The Belgian question now absorbed attention ; Austria and the Pope remained masters of the ground ; the patriots commenced a more silent struggle ; but the Italian question had made one step in advance ; for tbe subjects ofthe Pope , convinced that they had nothing henceforward to hope from without , drew closer their bonds with those whe alone can work oat their triumph , the twenty millions of their brethren .

      From tbis rapid survey , onr reader- will hare deduced the unanimity of opinion that reigns in the Papal States respecting their government : we shall now show what that government is . f Tobe continued . )

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      _ .,. * _ The _SaufedistA { from _sasto / _eds , holy faithl wei * like _fteCalderariof the _Nea politai _StatesVfe _£ _K <_ c _£ tion opposed to the patriots ; wr aasocia-

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      FIVE PERSONS POISONED . Liverpool , Feb . 24 . —An inquest was held yesterday on the bodies of Jane Gilton , aged 17 ; ber sister , Margaret Gilton , aged 16 ; and their brother , John Gilton , aged 12 years . Two others of the same family had died previously to the three deceased , namely , on the 15 th of the present month the youngest son , Edward Gilton , aged seven years , and on the 17 th , Mrs . Gilton , the mother , widow of the late Mr . Gilton , printing-ink and colour manufacturer . The business had for some years past been carried on in the premises in West Derby . The whole ofthe inmates ofthe house had been more or less ill for about

      three weeks ; the eldest and yet surviving son ( aged abont twenty ) being the least affected , he not having been so constantly at home as the other members ol the family . The female servant asd a nurse were also taken ill . The eldestson deposed to these facts , and stated that about three weeks ago he was employed in making green verditer , an article used by paper-stainers , and in colouring walls . In _thispreparation there was a large quantity or arsenic . He put the ingredients into a boiler in a shed at some distance behind , and detached from the house . Between this shed and the house there is a long building , which appears to have been formerly a conservatory or greenhouse , but had been converted into what is now called " the colour-house . " In one

      division or compartment of tbe colour-house—that nearest to the shed—there was a well with a pump on one side ofit . The well is about four yards deep , and contains abont two yards depth of water . This well has also a pipe communicating witb a pump in the back kitchen , from which the water is taken for domestic purposes . It appeared that , after the eldest son had made tbat part ofthe preparation containing the arsenic , it had to be ladled into a bucket , carried into the colour-house , and there put into a tub to cooL This was carefully done by a labourer who was employed on the premise-. After being cooled , and the other ingredients added , the liquid on the top required tobe drawn off , which was done by a sipnonpipe , letting it into a wooden spout which discharged its contents into , or near to , a sewer which is

      between the colour-house and the boiler-shed . The deposit from the liquid was all that was required in the trade . There was no evidence that any of the liquid had been spilt in the transit , but itis not improbable that some ofit has either found its way into the well by the top , which was only covered with a wooden lid level with the floor , or , it may be , that some of the poisonous liquid had oozed from the sough into the well , between whack there is a distance of six or eight yards . The three deceased ( on whom the inquest was held ) were similarly affected during their illness with nausea and vomiting , and the mother bad also a severe cough . Neither of the three deceased were I confined to their beds on Tuesday last . John died on j Saturday afternoon at six o ' clock ; Jane about three I hours afterwards ; and Margaret at half-past eleven on Sunday night .

      A post mortem examination of ono of the bodies was made by Mr . Garion . He found all the internal inflammation and appearances , such asledJiim tothe decided opinion that the deceased had died from the effects of poison . He had analysed the water from tbe well , and found unequivocal traces of arsenic . The Coroner suggested that the inquiry should be adjourned , in order that the well , the sewer , and the pipe should be taken up , and erery means used to discover in what manner the poison had got into the

      water . Adjourned accordingly . Liverpool , F _ ra . 25 . —This morning at ten o ' clock , the inquest on the bodies of John , Jane , and Margaret Gilton , was resumed before thecounty coroner at West Derby . The coroner , in summing up , said it must be satisfactory to all parties to know that the arsenic had accidentally communicated with the water . The jury accordingly found a verdict to the effect that tbe deceased parties had died in consequence of having drank a solution of arsenic , which had accidentally oozed from the drain into the well .

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      Thb lath Mcmier _in'Cripi'L-gate . —Last evening Mr . Wm . Payne held an inquest in St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on thebody of Thomas Martin , aged thirty-seven , the man lulled , in Gnpplegate , when thejury returned a verdict of "Wilfal Murder' ' against John Facey , who is already committed to Newgate to tako his trial for the offence .

      Destructive Fire 15 thb _Southwibk Bbidqb Road . —On Tuesday evening , shortly after ten o ' clock afire , that caused considerable alarm on the Surrey side of the river , broke out upon the premises of Mr . Martyn , starch and farina manufacturer , at No , 23 , Little Guildford-street , Southwark Bridge-road . It commenced in the manufactory , a large building composed principally of timber , and adjoining the extensive candle-works of Messrs . W . and R . Brookes . Plenty of water being at hand , the engines were quickly set to work , and avast stream was discharged upon the blazing building ; bat itwas nearly halfpast twelve o ' clock before the fire was safely extinguished , and not before the spacious premises in which it originated were almost entirely destroyed and the contents consumed . The origin of the fire is unknown .

      _FoaoEttT . —At the Mansion House , on Monday , Louis Phillips [ not the royal knave Louis Philippe ] was brought up for final examination , chaiged with having forged _severalacceptanoes , which were cashed by Messrs . Prescott and Grote , bankets , for Mr . Lyons Michael , a customer of the house . He was committed for trial . Law of _Sett-smbst . —If a person , on the passing of this new bill into a law , has had an industrial residence for five years in the place where he then resides , he will be entitled , immediately , to claim parish relief from the parish or union io which he has so resided .

      _Lffx ra A-siRiA .- _ . The Steele publishes the Mowing letter from Vienna of the 12 th inst .: —" TlTO days since ( being the fifth timo within aTerj short space ) a sentinel fired upon , and severely wounded , a person who refused to remove a cigar from his mouth whea peremptorily ordered to do so bythe sentinel . Bis not many weeks since a similar occurrence happened at Vienna , when , itwill be remembered the unfortunate _transgresior was shot dead upon the spot .

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      HOUSE OF _LORDS-Mojout , Feb . 23 _PROTECTIONS LIFE ( IRELAND ) BILL The Earl of St . Germans moved the second reading of this bill , of the necessity for passing which it became his duty to endeavour to satisfy the house . The object of the bill was to invest the executive government in Ireland with powers with which it was not at present armed , in consequence of the increased amount of crime , murder , and outrageous assaults in that country . The noble earl then proceeded with the view of establishing the necessity for the measure , to read a mass of documentary evidence proving the increase of crime in Ireland , particularly as regarded offences against property , hith erto of rare occurrence in that country , as compared with Englandunder the head of robberies . The total

      , numberof all offences committed in Ireland against the person , against property , and against the public peace was , last year , 3 , 103 , and in the present 5 281 . The noble earl then went on to say , that he was sal tisfied it would be in some degree consolatory to their lordships to know , that in eighteen counties of Ireland crime had diminished , and in four others that it remained stationary . It was only in ten counties that it had increased , viz ., Cavan , Fermanagh King ' s Co ., Longford , Westmeath , Clare , Roscommon , Limerick , Tipperary , and Leitrim . The noble earl then proceeded to detail a variety of cases of outrage and violence of an appalling characterin the more disturbed districts , by bands of armed men at night , bymen who it was believed belonged to secret

      .. _q-c-s _vv avvivv associations , bound together by oaths , and banded together ibr the purposes of violence , robbery , and intimidation . Out of 137 homicides and aggravated assaults , five only were committed on the persons of gentlemen , the rest being committed on small farmers and cottiers , persons , some of whom had lived many years on their holdings , and only were subjected to these acts of outrage because they were employed by persons obnoxious to these sanguinary depredators . As the law stood , the rich man , with his house well secured , and his servants well armed , was in a comparative state of security , while the poor man had , at best , but a most inadequate and insufficient protection , although everything had been done that could be done by the government to afford

      it him under , the existing law . lie thought , therefore that ha was justified in asking their lordships to passu law for the protection of the lives and lands of all classes of her Majesty ' s subjects in Ireland , The principal provisions of the bill were the empowering of the Lord Lieutenant to declare , by proclamation , that any district in which offences should be committed required an additional police force , the expense of such addition thereupon to be borne by the district . The inhabitants of the district so proclaimed are to remain within their houses from sunset to sunrise . Another clause empowers the executive to offerre wards for the apprehension of offenders . The next provision' levies a hne on any district in which a murder occurs , for the benefit of the surviving relatives . The rates for these purposes are to be levied on tbe poor-rate valuation ; and no holding , however small _. to be exempt . No persons are to be permitted to congregate in public-houses , or olaces

      where liquor is sold , between sunset and sunrise . The offence for so congregating is , by another clause , made a misdemeanor . Trial by jury is in all ca- > es preserved . The intimidation or injuring of witnesses is , by another clause , declared a misdemeanor , which may be tried like the other misdemeanors , under this bill , either at quarter sessions or the assizes . The noble earl , after alluding tothe fact that Parliament bad ; in the present sessions , already voted the sum of £ 448 . 000 for the purpose of public works in Ireland , and that last year railway bills involving an expenditure of £ 9 , 000 , 000 in the same country passed the legislature , said that it was impossible these sums could produce the results expected from their employment , unless by other measures they could ensure security to the capitalist , and to the labourer employed in carrying out these works , ' security for life and limb . He believed the measure be proposed would give that security , and , therefore , moved its second reading .

      The Marquis of La . vsdow . vb did not rise to offer the slightest opposition to the second reading of the bill , which he had no doubt was intended , as it purported tobe , for the preservation of the lives of her Majesty ' s subjects in many parts ol Ireland . As things at present stood , no man would be permitted the free use ofhis labour , in connection with the measures proposed by her Majesty ' s government _. with out finding his industry or his enterprise liable to be arrested by the hand of the assassin . He fully admitted the justice ofthe proposition thatthe object ofthe bill was to afford protection tothe poor ; at the same time be should reserve to himself the right of urging on her Majesty ' s government the necessity of endeavouring by some other methods to alienate and improve the condition of the Irish people .

      Lord Brougham said their first duty was to make Ireland a habitable country . He could have wished to have found a provision in the bill to change the venue , by having the trial _apd accusation take place in apart of the country where tbe parties prosecution andi witnesses would not be subject to the shot or blow ofthe assassin . Lord F _ ui . vh . ui gave a sketch ofthe disturbances in Cavan , wbich from being the most peaceful county in Ireland had become in fourteen mouths the seat of desperate outrages . The origin of these crimes might be traced to the Riband _-ocietiesr-associations

      ofthe most dangerous description . The noble lord concluded by giving his most cordial support to thc proposed measure . The Marquis of _C-. xricarob defended himself against the attacks of a portion of the Irish press which had assailed him for adhering to the proposed coercive measure , which seemed to him to stand alone , and to be unconnected with any other projects for the benefit of Ireland . He did not , however , eoncur in all the details ofthe bill , which he thought should be limited as to its duration , and which was defective in the degrees of punishment apportioned to certain offences .

      The Earl of Wicklow said the measure , so far as it went , had his support , bnt to make it effective , additional clauses were required , which would ensure the bringing to justice of the perpetrator of crime . The bill , as it present stood , merely aimed at preventing its commission . The Earl of _Cunxartt objected to a clause in the bill , giving the Lord-Lieutenant power to send down into a disturbed district any number of resident magistrates or any additional police force he might think proper , and recommended communication with the local magistracy as likely tobe more efficient . Lord _CAsirBKu . protested against the proposition of Lord Brougham , that power should be given to the Executive to choose another place of trial . His noble and learned friend had said such a power was sanctioned by the law of England , but the house might rest _assured it was not , and that it would be an encroachment on the liberty of the subject .

      After a few words b explanation from Lord Brougham , Earl Grey said , that though some of the provisions in the bill were repugnant to his feelings , he thought a case had been made out for arming the government with additional powers . He could not , however , consider the present measure as disconnected with other plans for the amelioration of Ireland , and he thought the house should record , by a solemn vote , its opinion of the necessity of coupling this coercion bill with others of a more comprehensive and statesmanlike nature . So strong was his opinion oh this point , that if no other noble lord came forward , he should feel it his duty to move , on the third reading of this bill , a resolution for an address to her Majesty , pledging their lordships not to rest satisfied with this measure alone . . After a few words from Lord Westmeath , the bill was read a second time , and the house adjourned _.

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      j THE WAR IN INDIA . : Robert P _ k _ , in reply to Sir Robert Inglis , announced that despatches had been received horn the Governor-General of India conveying intelligence ofthe recent victory achieved by our troops over the army ofthe Sikhs .

      THE FRANCHISE IN IRELAND . In reply to a question put by Mr . O'Connell , Sir Robert Peel stated that it was the intention of government to introduce into Parliament , as soon as the commercial measures at present before the house had been completed , a bill to encourage the improvement of land in Ireland , by giving compensation to tenants for improvements _wliish bad been effected during the period of their tenancy . Also a bill to amend the county registration , and the mode of holding elections in Ireland generally , the effect of which latter measure would be to produce an alteration in the county franchise . Government likewise proposed to bring in a bill for assimilating the municipal franchise in Ireland to that adopted in England .

      . . CASE OF BRYAN SEERY . In reply to an application from Mr . O'Connell , Sir James Graham expressed his readiness to lay before the house the correspondence between Bishop Cantwell and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , relating to the recent execution of Bryan Seery , at Mullingar . He also stated that a deputation from the county of Westmeath , had applied to Lord Hey _tesbury tohavethesentenceofthelaw , in this instance , rigidly earned into effect . The result had coincided with the petitioners' request , though bis lordship ' s _decision had been influenced by totally different considerations than anything those persons had adTiWCed ,

      ADJOURNED DEBATE . The wearisome and protracted debate on the Corn and Customs Bill was then resumed , * but _asitisimpossible for even the most talented speakers to impart any degree of novelty to a question so thoroughly worn out , we shall not waste space , which can he more profitably employed , by giving at any _length speeches which seem made merely to spin out , the debate and protract the final prostration of the Protective party . Mr . E . BotKR was the firat speaker . 7 fle _controterted the argument advanced by Mr . D' 7 i 8 raeli , thai

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      free trade was inapplicable to any separate country , and could onl y be successfully adopted under treaties of reciprocity . Turkey could not . legitimately be cited as an instance of a country ruined by free trade , the institutions of that kingdom being wholly averso to the pursuits of commerce . The plea for protection den ved from our future dependence upon foreign countries tor corn , wa 8 neutralised by the circumstance of our being at present , to a great extent , dependent upon such supplies . He should give the proposal of government his hearty support . Captain Batbson avowed , thatasan Mali , member .

      he should give his decided opposition to the hazardous and revolutionary scheme of the government . He availed himself of the opportunity to accuse Mr . Bright , on the authority of Mr . Leonard Horner ' s Factory Report for 1845 , of dealing in professions of humanity , which were not genuine , and in declarations of liberality and philanthropy towards the poor , which were at once spurious and hypocritical . The measure more immediately before the house , he contended , would destroy tho export trade of Ireland , shut out from Great Britain its agricultural produce , and annihilate its linen trade . It would likewise

      give a premium to agitation , by enabling the Repealers to state , and unfortunately with truth , that Irishmen were treated in England no better than other foreigners . He treated as perfectly ridiculous the compensation which government proposed to give to the landlords ef Ireland for this most injurious measure . Four millions of waste land in Ireland would have been brought into cultivation under the fostering influence of protection ; but the heath would still continue to flourish on one part , and the bog to encroach upon the remaining part of them _, under the system new proposed . For such a loss , what pecuniary grant could be a compensation ? Mr . Montague Gore avowed a change of opinion with regard to the policy of maintaining the Corn Laws . The apprehensions of tho agriculturists

      respecting foreign competition wero groundless ; the expenses attending the transit of corn of other countries affording a sufficient protection to tlw native groivcr , and various circumstances concurring to prevent any superabundant supply from those sources . Tbe success of our manufactures _miylit be relied upon as a better security for the welfare of British agriculture than could possibly be derived from any legislative protection , lie read a variety of statistics to show that free trade would be advantageous to every class of the community , whether labourers , tenants , farmers , landholders , _shipowner , or manufacturer .. These arguments he reinforced by quotations from tho speeches of many of the most famous statesmen of past and present times . Ho gave his hearty support to the measure before the liouse .

      Mr . A . Fitzobrald approved the measure as a prelude to a policy not merely advantageous to England , but also to every portion of the empire , and especially to Ireland . Captain Lockhart was favourable to moderate protection , and had supported the measure of 1843 on account of its conformity to this principle ; but the present proposal of government went the full extent of withdrawing it , and would thereby throw our inferior lands out of cultivation . He should therefore vote forthe amendment . Sir Georoi _. Clerk , like Mr . Buller , principally occupied himself in replying to the speech ot Mr . Benjamin D'Israeli , and in controverting his statements . Mr . D'Israeli had alleged that the proposals of government were directed to a two-fold

      purpose ; first , to provide for a sudden casualty , and secondly , to construct a new system . He admitted the first , but denied the second inference . Government were carrying out a _policy which , for the last twenty yeara , had been successivel }* acted upon by every administration which had presided over public affairs , lie then proceeded to defend the measure now ; proposed bythe government , and to show that it would equalise prices , not by bringing English prices down to the continental level , but by raising continental prices to the English level . He likewise entered into a description of the agricultural resources of Germany , Poland , Russia , and America , for the purpose of demonstrating that the apprehensions whicli had been once entertained , that so large

      an inundation of foreign corn would follow the repeal ofthe Corn Laws as would throw our arable laud out of cultivation , were false and unfounded . In the last five years we had imported 10 . 000 , 000 _quarters of corn , or' 2 , 000 , 000 annually . He did not think that , any man would contend that the people of England had been overfed in that time ; and he now asserted _, that if in the next five years our importation should amount to 3 , 000 , 000 a-year , it would not be more than sufficient for the rapid increase of our population , and would not throw a single British acre out of cultivation . He next referred to the speech of Mr . Hudson , and commenting upon his assertion that in the year 1837 he had imported foreign corn into England at 25 s . a quarter , ob . er . ed that no

      _argument against the present measure was to be deduced from it , as there had been then four consecutive good harvests , and a glutexisted in the corn markets Both at home and abroad . But what happened the very next year ? The price of corn at Hamburgh , from the badness ofthe harvest , rose to 63 .. 9 d ., and the freight to England rose from 3 _i . Cd . ahd Si . 6 d . to & . and 9 a . That led to great fluctuations of price in the home market—fluctuations which would be avoided in future by the operations of the government measure . He then answered in detail the other arguments _adr _ nced by Messrs . D'Israeli , Hudson , and Muntz with respect to the injury inflicted on the silk trade , the paper-hanging trade , aiid the zinc and spelter trade , by the relaxation of protective

      duties . He replied to their asaertionsand arguments by the production of Custom-house and other public documents , proving that every oneof these trades had derived the greatest benefits from thc very measures which were said to have been so pernicious to them . He also accused Mr . D'Israeli of having been guilty of the greatest unfairness in his " business speech , as he had himself been pleased to call the speech which he had delivered on Friday evening . He showed that Mr . D'Israeli—in the comparison which he had drawn between the effects of protection and those of free trade—had never taken his comparison daring an average of years , but had always made his contrast betwesn the best year of protection , and the worst year of free trade . After stating that he could

      net congratulate the hon . member on his first appearance upon the stage as " a man of business , " for he shone much more as a joker of jokes , and a fabricator of pleasant sarcasms , he proceeded to notice his question , " Can you fight hostile tariffs by free imports ? " Now , to that question he replied , first , that this measure had not been introduced with any reference to foreign nations , but with reference to the interests of thegreat mass of the community in the British islands ; and next , tbat Mr . D' Israeli had grossly exaggerated the repugnance of foreign countries , and especially that of France , to a liberal system of commercial pelicy . Having grappled with all the alleged tacts of Mr . D'Israeli , and having

      satisfied the house , he hoped , that in the statement of them all Mr . D'Israeli had been inaccurate , he next proceeded to comment upon Mr . D'Israeli ' s opinion that the house ought to give a preponderanca to the agricultural interest . For one , he ( Sir G . Clerk ) repudiated it both as a member of Parliament and as an individual landowner . If the influence cf the agricultural interest depended on the continuance of the Corn Laws , he for one should tremble for it . Mr . D'Israeli ' s argument , on that point , was the most dangerous one that could be used , and had hitherto been always disclaimed by the landowners ; for translated into plain English , it meant nothing else , than that the Corn Laws must bo maintained to keen up the landlord . ' rents .

      Mr . _Mprz entered into an explanation of his arguments respecting the zinc and spelter trade , whioh was at last out short by the interference of the Speaker . Mr . Li-DBL-said that Sir G . Clerk had made one or two of the boldest assertions in his speech which it had ever been his fortune to hear , even from the Treasury benches . Sir G . Clerk had told the opponents ofthe present measure that they ought to look out for some arguments against it . They had not occasion to look far ; for they had only to turn to Sir George ' s own past speeches against the Corn Laws to find plenty of arguments against it . He condemned the proposals of government as , in the matter of timber , placing in _jeopardy the welfare of the ship _, ping interest , and in opposition to the policy upon

      which the Navigation-laws had been constructed , postponing our national security to merely chimerical commercial advantages . Another consequence of the present measure would be to damage our own colonies by ruining lands hitherto under corn cultivation , It contained , however , one redeeming feature . He approved the proposed change in the law of settlement as a great boon to the agricultural interest , and an act of justice to the labouring artisan ; but concluded by claiming for the shipowner and the agriculturist the protection which they had long enjoyed , and by declaring that so long as he had a seat in the House of Commons , he would endeavour to maintain that protection , and would oppose all such hazardous experiments as the present .

      Mr . _Hutt had marked the gradual development of Sir Robert Peel ' s creed , until it had eventuated in tho completo enunciation of free-trade principles ; simultaneousl y he had watched the Protectionist party giving the minister their support to pass the Canada Corn Bill , the tariffs of 1842 and 1845 , and hecould imagine n » grosser inconsistency than their repudiating that policy on the present occasion . He cordially supported the proposal ol government . Captain _Fi-MARkis repeated the trite invectives of his party against Sir R . Peel ' s inconsistency on the subject of the Corn Laws . Ilo condemned the _presMit propositions of tha government , and regretted that we were about to lose our place among the nations of Europe , in order to become a great shop for tho benefit of the whole world .

      Mr . M . _Milnks was not inclined to take the harsh view of Sir . R . Peel ' s conduct which had been taken by many of his friends , when he recollected how many great men had modified their opinions upon the subject of the Cora Laws . Looking , however , at the past commercial measures of Sir 11 . Peel and his government , he could not consider the present project ass legitimate deduction from them , It war

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      not , therefore , from any feeling of confidence m either Sir R . Peel or his government thai he gaye his support to it , but because he felt that it was tli ,-only course which hecould pursue consistently wit 1 the opinions which he had formerly held , and which he still continued to hold on the subject ol the Lorn Laws . The question , then , before the house was , not whether it would be satisfied with a modihed protection , ' but whether it _tvould adhere to the principle ol protection in all the force ofthe Central Association in Bond-street ? To that principle he could not assent , and therefore he must vote for the original motion . On the motion of Lord Inoestre the debate was again adjourned . The other orders of the day were then disposed of , and the house adjourned at twenty minutes to one o ' clock .

      IIOUSE OF _LORDS-Tuksdav , Fbb . 24 . Thc business this evening presented no feature ol importance or novelty . The only measure _deserving of notice in this journal was a bill introd uced by Lord Dacre for the purpose of preventing dealings between poachers and licensed dealers for the sale of game , by compelling the dealer to keep a book of his purchases , with the name of the seller , when , if it appeared the latter was not a person possessed of land , it might be concluded that he had obtained it illegally . A qualification of ten or fifteen acres might be deemed sufficient for a seller , ite also proposed a remedy , by way of compensation , against preservers

      of game ; in case of damage to the neighbouring lands upon which the Duke of Richmond ami Lord Hatherton said they had long caused the hares and rabbits on their estate ' s to be shot as mere vermin , arid had found the practice conducive both to the welfare of the landlord , the tenant , and the labourer , whom the preservation of game merely tempted to poaching . . Lord _AsunuRTON suggested that taking hares out of the class of game would meet the popular complaints against the _GamejLaws , and he would propose a clause to that eilect in the committee on the bill . The bill was then read a second timo , and the house adjourned .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS-Ti'EsnAT , Feb . 24 . The house met at four o ' clock . FROST , WILLIAMS . JONES , AND ELLIS . . Petitions , praying for a remission of the sentences on Frost , Williams , and Jones , were presented by Mr . S . Crawford , from Rochdale and Dalkeith ; by Mr . Bain , from Greenock : by Mr . Williams , from Coventry , signed by 2500 inhabitants : by Sir J . Guest , from Merthyr Tydvil , and ono from Southwark . Sir G . Stbick _ a _ d presented a petition from a place in the West Riding of . _'Yorkshire , praying ior the remission of the sentence passed on Ellis , lie was convicted of setting fire to some houses , but since his transportation circumstances had occurred wliich left little doubt that he was innocent . Tho petitioners prayed that a full inquiry might be instituted into all the particulars of his case .

      THE ADJOURNED DEBATE . Mr . M . J . O'Connell resinned the adjourned debate on the Corn Laws . He supported the ministerial measure . The other speakers in its favour were Messrs . Paeke , Trelawney , and the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who contradicted the rumour of his being opposed to tbe measure before the house , and yielding it a reluctant support to preserve his party in power . He gave a history of the part ho had taken at the time of the ministerial crisis , and then plunged into a sea of statistics for the purpose of answering the statistics adduced by Protectionist speakers . Agricultural alarmists were not a modern race ; they had existed at least as early as the time of Charles IL , and in that reign the Protectionistsheaded by the Duke of Buckingham—had vaticinated most mournfully ofthe danger of the admission of Irish cattle into this country . Tlieir

      apprehensions were entirely disproved , according tothe testimony of Sir Wm . Temple . The agriculturists must necessarily bo benefitted by the impulse which a tree commercial intercourse with other countries would afford to our native manufactures . The consistency of public men had been a topic prominently introduced into this discussion , buttheterm " consistency " meant something different from a blind adhesion to a particular law , at all times and under all circumstances . The Protectionist party were not consistent , if unanimity upon the Corn Law were tobe taken as the test , some proposing its continuance for a longer period than others . Hc might be charged with political cowardice , but he was afraid to retain party connection atthe expense of great public interests ; and If he was guilty of political tergiversation , it had been to shield his friends from the _consequencestf their own want of foresight at this important crisis .

      Mr . Ferrand made one of those slashing and outspoken speeches which have given him such a celebrity in the country , and which are so rare in the house . He commenced by repeating his assertion , the other night , with reference to the petition presented by Lord Morpeth from the West Riding , that the signatures were obtained by the compulsion of the League masters . The house would remember that in the year 1843 he had produced evidence in the house that the Anti-Corn Law League had purchased signatures in the West Riding of Yorkshire at the rate of a shilling a hundred . [ Loud laughter and cheers . ) He was well aware , when the noble lord ( Lord Morpeth ) presented these petitions , that however much he ( Lord Morpeth ) might believe that

      they were the honest and the independent acts ofthe parties who had attached their signatures to them , that was not the fact . He ( Mr . Ferrand ) was prepared to prove before a committee of the house the truth ofhis statement , that the working people wore compelled by the master manufacturers , who favoured the Anti-Corn Law League , to attach their signatures to the petitions , however much tliey might be opposed te them in principle . ( Hear , hear . ) And if the men dared to refuse to attach their signatures to the petitions , they would have to sacrifice their daily bread . ( Hear . ) He was indebted to the hon . member for Montrose ( Mr . Hume ) for having , several years ago , exposed in the house the intimidation and oppression which was practised by the master

      manufacturers towards their men in the north of Scotland . He ( Mr . Hume ) had stated to the bouse that there existed a regular system in' the north of Scotland , by which any man who threw up his employment was prevented from obtaining employment elsewhere from the master manufacturers—keeping a register of such men , and communicating their names to the othor manufacturers in the nei g hbourhood . The hon . member for Montrose had said that that was an odious combination . That combination had now been introduced into the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire ; and he repeated , that no working man who was employed by an Anti-Corn Law League manufacturer _daredto refuse to attach his si gnature to a petition when it was preseuted to

      him . ( Hear , hear . ) Notwithstanding the number of these petitions presented by members on thc opposite side , they had never been referred to . in the debate , a proof that they were considered petitions even by themselves . Ho was prepared to prove on evidence , before a committee of tlio house if they liked , that one man attached 14 , 000 signatures—( loud laughter)—to one of thoso petitions , without ever having left his house or asked a single person to affix his name to it . That was a specimen of the style in which these documents were manufactured , and then palmed upon tho country as thc opinions of the working men . Mr . Ferrand then gave a graphic account of the proceedings ofthe late West Riding election . He denied the statement ot

      Mr . Ward , that £ 2000 had been subscribed to enable him ( Mr . Ferrand ) to fight the battle , and offered to give Mr . Ward 20 per cent , if he could get the money . ( Loud laughter . ) If Mr . _Lascelles or Mr . Lane Fox had either of them stood , Lord Morpeth would not now have been iu that house as the member for the West Riding . Mr . Ward had styled his ( Mr . Ferrand ' _s ) letter a very able one . He begun to think it was so , for it had never been answered by the League . He repudiated the accusation that he had endeavoured , and succeeded in his peculiar mission , of creating hostile feelings between the masters and their men . He ( Mr . Ferrand ) denied that _charge , and every statement made by that hon . member . It was true that he had exposed to public

      gaze , and brought under the notice ofthe house , the cruelties and oppression which had been for years practised by the master manufacturers towards the men ; but the lion , member for Sheffield , in _continuing his speech , had said that his ( Mr . Ferrand ' s ) own friends absolutely ' repudiated his doctrines . He ( Mr . Ferrand ) would wish to know bow it was , then , that he had been so successful in _sowing _hostile feelings ? He thought that that was a contradiction of itself . ( Hear , hear . ) But to 9 how to the hon . member that the working men did not repudiate his doctrines , he would tell him that he had stood on the hustings at the election , and he had heard a friend of the noble lord ( Lord Morpeth ) twice during the proceedings propose to tho good working mon who

      had been taken down to Wakefield by the League manufacturers , tliat they sliould give three groans for him ( Mr . Ferrand ) , and twice they had refused to do so . ( Hear , hear . ) Surely , if they had repudiated his doctrines they would have answered to the call , and would have given him ( Mr . Ferrand ) three groans . ( Hear , hear . ) Was the hon . member for Sheffield aware that whon he ( Mr . Ferrand ) was down in the West Riding of Yorkshire , he had challenged every member of tho Anti-Corn Law League who was a member of the house to meet him in public , and discuss the question of free trade before the working men ? ( Hoar . ) Hc had made that challenge

      at Leeds , at Bradford , and at Huddersfieid , and he now repeated the challenge in that house , and dared them to accept it , and appear openly to discuss the question before the working men of the West Riding of _Yorkshire ; and in order that no doubt might renvain , he had made thc same challenge to them in the house that he had g iven in tho West Riding -of Yorkshire . The same challenge that was refused then was again refused there to-night . Mr . Ferrand then proceeded to review the circumstaivcea which caused the hist general election , and the state of public feoling at that time , together with the speeches made by several members who were returned on protective principles , and had , during tho

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      present debate , avowed their intention to vote _con-Ujary to their recorded pledges ou the Hustings . "Among _tlio-e wIki enme in' for ' a -dure of the _castigation administered by the honourable member , were Mr . Beckett , Mr . Eseott ,-Mr . Cripps , Mr . Sidney _llerbirt , and others . We must , however , make mom for a specimen of the manner in whicli it was administered . Having in each case asserted that the personal honour of the members named was at stak _., lie continued' . —lie ( Mr . Ferrand ) had _heiiid tlie right : hon . baronet , the member for Stamford , Sir G . Clerk , argue Inst night the great brass fuse with considerable ability on behalf of the right hon . gentleman , the First Lord ofthe Treasury , but he iiad tailed in imi . re . « -ing the house with the truth of hid arguments .

      Hut he would suggest , that whilst the right hon . baronet was attacking thc Protectionist- - , he knew all the whilo that amongst the other contents of his official red-box that lay upon the table , there was an address from liis con stituents calling upon liim to _i-esigu liis seat for having deserted his principles . ( Hear ) He . Mr Ferrand ) had looked the right lion . bait , in tha ace whilsthe was speaking , and he thouijl . t-no , lie would not- ay _«*»» ho _thoughMalaugh ) -but he was _imasining what his _(_ tr _George Olviks ) _cvn Utuents would think of him . ( A laugh . I Mr . __ t 1-rand _' s next onslaug ht-was upon Sir James ( . _xi-aham 1 am glad to see * he right hon . bart . the beeretary of State for the Home Department , in Ins plum . He . toowent before his _winstitueiits when he accepted

      . office , and how stands he pledged to the electors of Dorchester ? I tell him , too , that his per > on » l honour is _atstake . ( Loud chews from the Protection benches . ) He may dispose of his changes of opinion by one fling of hisarm ; but lie will not dispose of liis constituents in that manner . ( Hear , hear . ) lie is bound to redeem his pledges on the hustings ; and if his political opinions have changed , ! tell him that he is bound as a man of honour to resign his place into ti . eir hand , once more , in order to enable tliem to be freely and honourably represented . I have read the speech which the right hon . baronet delivered to his constituents 011 that occasion ' . ' and was delighted with its talent and ability ; and I think the best thing the Protectionists could do would be to print it in a che ; ip form , and

      _ijireulate it through the country , as the First Lord of the Treasury used to do with his speeches when iu opposition to the Whigs . ( Laughter . ) I was then one ofthe rank and tile of the Conservative party , and I used to receive large packages of Sir It . Peel ' s speeches on the Corn Laws , which were sold at one penny each . ( Laughter . ) Who sent tliem to nie I never found out , but I suspect that the right lion _, baronet had heard that I was a warm and earnest supporter of his principles , and therefore favoured me with packages of his speeches , _carriage paid , which I circulated among the people in my i-e _. glibourhood , and I rejoice to say they made many proselytes , and were the ehief cause of the return of Mr . Stuart Wortley as a Protectionist . ( Hear . ) But to

      return to the right hon . baronet , the Secretary of State for the Home Department ; he said , "Afrioud of mine said , and what about the Com Laws ? 1 con' . e . Y- the true principl- to be , that a yv _ i _ cuY _ duty should be _sub-titiited ibr absolute prohibition ; aud I think that , as a general rule , it should be the smallest amount which , on a careful revision , would be found to give to native industry fair play in its competition with foreign countries , the circumstances attending our relation to those countries _lieiug duly considered . " Then he went on to quote what poor Lord Melbourne said on the Com Laws . " What did Lord Melbourne say in the House of Lords when the proposal to alter the Corn Laws wus m-Kited in that house ? He declared that it would he -Isolate _nv-. _d-

      ne » s in any one to make sued a _proposition . " T . _io righthon . baronet then proceeded to say— "I never have and never will shrink from public opinion . " Then , why don't he go down to his constituents ? ( Cheers . ) I am delighted to seo the noble lord ( Lord J . Russell ) in his place . The right lion _, baronet thus spoke ofthe noble lord aud his party : — "The late government is fallen to rise no more . The question now at _issuo is this—shall the Cuuso - vative or Democratic principle prevail ? Shall _Messr-. Roebuck , Warburton , O'Connell , and Bowring sway the destinies of this great empire , or shall Sir R . Peel continue Prime Minister ? " ( Laughter . ) Let

      me ask the First Lord ofthe Treasury who have been his supporters of late ? ( Loud cheers . ) Where haa been the "democratic Roebuck ? " Where has been the " democratic Warburton ] " Where has been the " democratic O'Connell , " who was only a short time ago a "convicted conspirator ? " ( Applause . ) The ri 'ht hon . baronet continued his address to his constituents _» 3 follows : — " My opinion is , that a further prevalence of the democratic principle would prove most _destructive to the institutions and great interests of the country . Should that unfortunate day ever dawn upon the political horizon when the principles of democracy will be paramount , degraded indeed will be our fate , — -

      Tho day when thou , imperial Troy ! must bend , And see thy warrior * full , thy glories and . But I wiil add—May I be cold b » f ire tbat _dieadful day , Pressed with a load of monumental clay . " ( The mock-heroic tone in wbich tlie hon . member read this extract threw the house into convulsions of laughter . ) After this poetical fervour , the right hon . baronet concluded his speech thus— " It now only remains for you to decide whether I shall return to the House of Commons as your representative . ( The right hon . baronet then sin down amidst most vehement and long-continued shouts of applause . As no other candidate presented himself , Sir 3 . Graham was pronounced duly elected , and was afterwards

      chaired through the town with the usual honours . " He then took up Sir R . Peel , and after quoting from his speeches at Tamworth , continued : iSow , sir , the rig hthon . baronet is pledged in the face of . his constituents—he pledged himself of his own free willto stand by his principles and the pledges he gave oa that occasion ; and I call on him , not as Prime Minister of this country , not as once the leader of a great party , but as an honest member of this liouse , to resign his seat , and go down to his constituents for their approval or disapproval . ( Hear . ) 1 said this should be the last quotation ; but perhaps yoa will allow me , as a make-weight , to throw iu a remark of bis hon . colleague ( dipt 1 U 1 A'Court ) when he contested the borough of Tamworth . ( Laughter . )

      His colleaguo said , " lie was certain that the prosperity of Tamworth depended mainly on the prosperity of the agriculturists , and if they were permanently depressed , every farmer , shopkeeper , and labourer in it would be involved in one common ruin . ( Cheers . ) With that feeling he would n __ ver consent to take from the British farmer such fair protection as would enable him to compete on equal terms with the foreign corn-grower , lior consent to reduce the English labourer to the same condition » _s the ill-fed and ill-paid labourer of the continent . " Great laughter . ) What a figure to cut before his constituents ! ( Laughter . ) Can you ( pointing to the Treasury bench ) look these hon . gentlemenhonourable by thc courtesy of this house , and honourable by character in their political

      principles—can you look them in the lace at this present moment , and say you aro conducting yourselves with common honesty ? ( Loud cries of " Hear . " ) Do not tell me you were bound to re-accept office , and carry those measures in this liouse . ( Hear , hear . ) I tell you , you wero not bound to do so ; but that tho moment you found yourselves unable to carry out the principles of protection , you were bound , aa . honour . _' . ble men , at once to appeal to the country— - - ( loud cheers from the Protection benches)—and ask . the constituencies of England lor tlieir approval of 1 _-ourconduct . ( Cheer .. ) Now , 1 believe It the right t _ hon . baronet had pursued that course at first , he j might have rallied around him a great party in the a country ; but I must tell him that the people of Great t Britain and Ireland view with unmitigated disgust t

      his contemptible apostasy and tergiversation . ( Cries 9 of "Order , " and "Hear , hear . " ) From these pen- k _sonal matters Mr . Ferrand proceeded to an e . vami- ; - nation of the physical , social , and moral effects of our r manufacturing system , for the promotion and eaten- - sion of which it was now proposed to sacrifice the a agricultural interest . In support of his statements _s as to the injurious effects of the factory system , he a adduced the authority and statements of the late Sir ir Robert Peel ,. Mr . R . H . Gregg , Dr . Shuttleworth . k _K-vy , Dr . Shaw , and others . Aa a general specimen , a of the nature of this testimony , we give an extract ct from Dr . Cooke Taylor . He says , speaking of _theie manufacturing population : — " 1 have seen misery ia ia many forms ; I have been in the huts and hovels of of

      Ireland , when my native land was visited with the he scourge of the cholera ; 1 have visited tho cellars of of Liverpool , where existence assumes an aspect tha _. ia _. ceases to bo human ; 1 have penetrated into the ; he wynds and vcnals of Glasgow ( localities that wouldald . try to the utmost the hardest of hearts and _thethoi strongest of stomachs ); but nowhere have I _seeneeni misery which so agonised my very soul , as that whicliichi I have witnessed in the manufacturing districts on off Lancashire ? And why ? Because the extreme oft of ; wretchedness was there , and there only ; combinednedl with aJiigh tone of moral dignity , and a markedkedl sense of propriety—a decency , cleanliness , and orderder _,, the elements which produced tho vast wealth 1 havaavei described , and which do not merit the intense _siitf-r-ffer- ' ing I haye witnessed . I was beholding the grad « ail « a ! i immolation of the noblest and most valuable popuopu-i latioii that ever existed in this country , or any _otheitheni

      _uuder heaven . " Yes , I say they _areiuuiilered by thv thiii factory system , in order that a few maj * grow richrichi Are we to be told , that with the manufacturing poj po pulatiou in such a frightful state as this , wc—thi—thm agricultural party in this house—are to consent tat t > t < hand over tho agricultural labourers , who liavolooke » oke <>< up to us and to our ancestors for centuries for sue suee cour and support , to your tender mercies —( cheeiheerr from the Protection benches)—and allow them , in thn tin language of Dr . Cooke Taylor , to be immolatdatdd that a few cotton lords may get rich ? ( Loud _cheers-eers . _* . Mr . Ferrand then contradicted the statement of thif thli Home Secretary as to the diminution of crime , oie , o : > : the authority of a charge of Judge Coleridge , deli delili vered at a winter assize in York , on the 29 th _Noven-ovemi ber , 1 ___ , and added , that the West Riding Gaol awl aa _Wakelield was never so full of prisoners as at thi thin moment . The hon . member next took up the _qiiesqum tion of ui & chinerv , and tho _opiuious _prevalenralenn

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