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      " J " And I will war , at least in words , ( Ai ( And—should my chants so happen—deeds , ) 1 _AYith all who war with _Thon-jbt 1 * « « I tl « I think I hear a little bird , who sings rihe ] _The people by and by will be the stronger . " _—Btbcji

      _IIHJTEE FRATERNITY OF NATIONS-POLASD A AND RUSSIA-UNION OF THE SLAVOK MASS . A Although the following interesting document was aadojsdopted in this country so far back a 3 the 25 th of JJuIjJuly last , ihe anniversary of the martyrdom of the f five five Russian Republicans therein named , it has never bbefebefore appeared in any English publication . It was _eorigoriginally published in the French language , and a 8 8 ho : 8 hort time since a ( somewhat imperfect ) translation _sappappeared in the New York Tribune . For the followi ing ing translation we axe indebted to a distinguished ] Pol Polish democrat . At the present moment , when all _< eye eyes are directed towards Poland , this proclamation i is c is doubly interesting : —

      F FEOCLAMATIOX OF POLES SOW IN _LOXDOX TO TBEIR KCSSIAS _BBSTHBEiC . 1 Eussian Brethren !—It is to-day nineteen years since i fiv < five of your compatriots , Pestel , Bestujef , Mouraviefj : Bjl Bjlief , and Kohovstd , perished on the scaffold . The ; Fol Poles , in whose behalf we now address yon , have assemi biebiedto celebrate the anniversary of the death of those : ma martyrs to your future regeneration , and have thought thc their homage would not be worthy tbe memory of tbe ; mi martyrs , if they did not communicate to you the thoughts ¦ wl wliich have , on this occasion , risen in their souls . Brothers 1 a hatred , too violent to be lasting , too prole : longed to he aatnral , separates us from one another . TI This hatred , for which hardly any among us can render ad adequate reason , ought to yield to the refections natura rally due betvreen two people of the same origin and the 63 same faith . As Slavonians , we ought to have but oue ai and the same object—that of becoming freej as Christil tians , we owe to oue another mutual love .

      And , meanwhile , alas ! almost each page of our fcist « tory seeras written in innocent blood , which the two tv nations have shed while massacreing one another ia subsi _servieucy to the interests of a single family . And is t there any cause , divine or human , which cau sanction the ci conduct of this bloody drama , where the actors struggle v without carrying away auy advantage except the spse-1 tacle of the ruin of others « Instead of that , have we no 4 Other destinies to pursue ! As to you , Russians , you 1 have a great mission , noble duties to accomplish in the i world , a great and imperishable glory to achieve , that _i which your martyrs indicated to you by their death—- which ve hare also indicated by remembering them in the midst of battles . It is the mission of forming , ia i conjunction with us , into an army of European civilisation , and of the law of God , the entire Slavonian race , and of directing this force upon those regions which need to be _emancipated from the barbarism in whicli they are at present , and to form there societies useful to humanity —we speak of Asia .

      And this mission , obvious to onr consciences , which the angel of our race has whispered to you from the scaffold , and still urges on ns in our exile , demands that you should he free—that we should he free and independent—tbat we should he brothers ; and , meanwhile , what are you ! A despot , foreign to you—the scion of a mixed German and Mongolian race , in whose veins does not flow a single drop of yours , of the Slavonian blood , common to usabsorbs you , and places you in a condition unworthy of men created in the image of God . Instead of wise _la-vs , in making which you might all concur through tlie representatives of yeur choice , laws which wonld put you in a ; way of using freely your intellectual , moral , aud physical i powers to realise great human destinies , and lo be in

      fraternity with all the other nations by harmonising _tbus the interests oif—htrhmd , wiih those of humanity , yon have the will , the caprice of a single man , whom nothing restrains , and who makes of yon passive instruments of oppression among _yourselres _, or of _accomplishing foreign invasions intended to increase the number of these instruments or _-rictiiBs to his violences , with no other aim than that of satisfying the instincts of personal ambition . And this unlimited will raises around you an insurmountable barrier—a Chinese wall , which separates you from the rest of the universe—the universe in which there ar * for yon as many brothers as there are or shall he living men , and which sow , in consequence of your condition , _sees in yon only enemies worthy of contempt or of hatred But we , oh , Russians ! we cannot hate you . Fromyour hands we have received , and are still receiving , hard blows , yet we wish to see in you only erring brothers , and our hatred is concentrated on the man who makes

      use of you in the infernal service of a violent despotism , ofa _degrading slavery , which he makes weigh as heavily on yoa as on ns—ou the man who labours , by all means possible to him , to destroy what we hold most precious and most sacred , our nationality , which ten consecutive ages , under the guidance of Providence , have created ; on the man , by whose command thousands of our little children are snatched from the arms of their wretched mothers . And it is not frora to-day that the proofs of _OoT lore and hatMd mar he Sated — lore for yon , and hatred for the oppressor of our two nations . In 1331 , on the ere of our bloody combats for theindependence of our country , we wrote npon onr banners , "For ourlibertyaud for pairs . " Ask your men , made prisoners during the last contest , in what manner they were treated among us ; they will not deny the fraternal sympathy with which tbey were received ; tbey will tell you that the condition of prisoners of war among us was far preferable to that of soldier in the armies of vour Tsar i

      Since that epoch fifteex long years have passed ; they have seen increase to a frightful extent both our national misfortunes and your slavery . "With US the autocrat grows zealous to deal more and more terrible blows to our existence as a nation ; as to you , he pursues unrelentingly his despotic and libarticide system ; and , to perpetuate _oppression , chooses mostly among foreigners , whom nothing attaches to you or your interests , venal , rapacious , and servile officials . It was to put an end to this state of humiliation , incompatible with the dignity of men to whom God prescribes a wide , free , active , and continually progressive life , and which yoa hare _ensured without a murmur , ihat the holy martvra , to whom we pay the tribute of

      today , have given tbeir lives . They have bequeathed to you a beautiful example of devotion to the general welfare—t <> ihe real glory of your country . Will it not be followed * We do not know ; but for the honour of the race to which onr two nations belong , we firmly hope it will be followed . We hope it above all , when , casting a glance upon past ages , we see the persevering energy and sublime devotion which enabled yon to shake off the Mongolian invaders , when their innumerable horde *; were filling your _coaatry with fire and blood . Why should _notthesameenenryhe awakened now , to shake off the yoke , not of multitudes—as in the case of your ancient oppressors—but of a single one of their descendants whose oppression is so ranch the more humiliating that it cannot weigh upon a great nation without appearing to

      receive its assent . Yes , we mast hope that soon there will be found among you thousands of generous men who will follow the coble example of these martyrs , to whose memories such power belongs , that a simple homage paid to them by the people of Warsaw sufficed to the Met of l & llalthough elected under tlie corrupting sway of your autocrat—to proclaim him fallen from tlie throne of Poland the very day on which this 5 _ioina : ; ewas rendered . J 3 y following ityou will emanci pateyour nation from the terrible yoke that weighs npon it ; you will , as Slavonians , and in concert with us , extend a helpful hand to our brothers

      of the Slavonian race , whether oppressed by a German or Mussulman family . And then tbe great _thought of a federation ofthe Slavonian nations , first revealed on the banks of the _JTeva , may be realised—tliat cornerstone to the edifice of the redemption of humanity ; for ; you will have annihilated the obstacle of Tsarian , _sy- j nonymous with tyranny , which alone opposes it . As ! Christ proclaimed , on the eve of his death , that he had conquered tbe ancient world—the world , of privilege aud of brute force—so , from his scaffold , _Testel prophesied the realisation of this great thought , saving , " _Wltat 1 have sown , wuX germinate and bear _jV-tut . "

      Think of these words , and then act . Ton can accomplish the great mission which God has confided to the eighty-five millions of Slavonians ; you will enter the path ' of progress which He has jirescribed to all His _crea--tores , and he able io lead into it the nations of Asia . Russian brothers ! will you hesitate to submit to this divine will , which promises you a real and imperishable glory , and , instead of the hatred and contempt that now menace yon , the blessings of so many millions now and hereafter * Ton will not hesitate . Inhabitants of the north and east of Europe ! you will have a mighty influence upon the great work of the regeneration of nations , began in the West towards the close of ihe last ceutury . With a profound hope which God has breathed into us , ¦ we salute the approach of tbis new era , offering yeu , from oar state of exile , fraternal hands , always ready to rejoin those of onr nation to second your noble efforts , it ' not to officiate at the initiation .

      Committee of preparation : — ( . Signed ) Lewis Oboxski , President . _Jclie . _v _KnELKDowsKi , 'Member . _Thadus _Keehpowiecki , do . 3 _on . v _KsTNsst , do . Chas . Stolzhan , Secretary . Believing that there exists , above ' all countries , a country common to aU , in which the title of _citizenship is conferred by the love of right—of brotherhood by community of idea , of religion hy martyrdom , and that Pestel , ilouravief , _Bestujof _, Kjlitf , and Kohovski , who died for the redemption of the Slavonian race , are the fellow citizens and brothers of those who strive for the cause of truth and justice on the earth ; believing the Slavonian race is called to a great missionboth as

      , to interior organisation , which they can accomplish only _l i T _** _*? _? 0 rtS _fr _^ _auy co-ordinate , aad that Poland _andBuss-a must be historically and _geographiJ cally at the head of such efforts ; believing th \ t the league of absolute governments can only be defeated by a holy alliance of nations , and sympathising espechulv with the Slavonians , who must some day unite in battle with Italy against the common enemy—Austria—the Central Committee of Young Italy—a _National Association , nnitedheBrtandsonl with the vows , the hopes , and the aspirations of thePolishpatriots , unites , in thenameof tiie association , and with sentiments of gratitude for the invitation tbat has been given them in the above address . Signed onbehalf of the Central Committee by Joseph _Kazzisi .

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      HOUSE OF LORDS-Monday , Fkb . 16 . For the firsttime this session , their lordships had a long sitting ; the house not having broken up until nearly ten o ' cloek . The subject which occupied their attention was merely a branch of the question which in another shape has absorbed nearly the whole time of the other house since the comniencetnent ofthe session .

      PECULIAR BURDENS ON LAND . Lord Bemmost , in moving for a select committee to inquire into the burdens on real property , entered at considerable length into the subject , but our limits will not permit more than the mere statement , that he considered peculiar burdens and protection to agriculture were intimately connected , and thathe would prefer the continuation to the repeal efboth . The burdens singled out as pressing peculiarly on the landed interests were the malt , tax , the excise on bricks , the hop duty , and the stamps on transfer of property . He exempted the tithe charge and the land tax . Sir Robert had put forward certain measures as a compensation to the landed interest , which werein factno compensation for the protection he

      , , was about to deprive them of . In conclusion , he begged to say that he had remained true to the cause of protection to the last , but if public opinion pronounced against him , he should not turn sulky , but submit with a good grace . This would be a better course than useless agitation , which would raise class against class , and keep up invidious distinctions . He respected tbe courage and sincerity of Sir R . Peel , but if his measures were carried in the present Parliament , it would not be by the triumph of opin ion , but in a trial of complaisance . Let the right bon . baronet appeal , then , to the country , and gain his ends , it they were to be gained , backed by a majority of the nation , instead of trusting to an able manteuvre in party politics .

      Lord _Brocohaii said that his opinions on the subject had not changed since 1 S 20 ; he condemned all burdens whieh fell exclusively on land , and was ready to go much further than Lord Beaumont , who , in his opinion , was wrong in exempting the land-tax from the list of burdens . Lord Dacre thought that the landlolds were a very ill-used set of people , and shamefully saddled with an undue share of national burdens . He concluded with a furious attack on the league " conspiracy , " and its purchase of 40 s . freeholds . Lord Stanley argued that tithes were a peculiar burden oh land ; and said that even if the claims of individuals were settled , that would not settle in his mind the policy of maintaining or abolishing the Corn Laws , which rested not upon personal pecuniary considerations , but upon their moral , social , and political effects , and on this ground he was prepared to defend them .

      The Duke of Richmond delivered a bitter invective against the League , and utteredsome implied threats , which , irom a Charcist , would be stigmatised as rank and open incendiarism . Pressed as we are for room , we must find space for a specimen of this ducal speech : —Their lordships might rest assured tbat the fanners and yeomanry of England would take a leaf out ofthe book of the Anti-Corn Law League . ( Hear , hear . ) In no instance up to the present period had tbe farmers sent around their itinerant orators to excite the minds of the popular classes almost tothe point of madness . ( Hear , hear . ) The Anti-Corn Law League , however , had adopted this policy . They had sent out their rural peripatetic oratois to scour the country right and left , and to "blackguard" ( if

      he might bs permitted the expression ) alf the landlords and farmers of the adjoining districts . ( Hear _, hear , and laughter . ) Again and again had these agitators endeavoured to strike terror into the hearts of the farmers by alluding to the likelihood of their stacks being burned . The farmers had never retaliated by a similar policy . They had never attempted to intimidate the manufacturers , nor had they ever ventured to throw out any such hint as Ihis—thatit was as easy to _' nre cotton as straw , " The Duke continued , that : — "Success never produced moderation in any political body , and the Anti-Corn Law League might say what they liked about their

      approaching dissolution—it was his ( the Date of Richmond ' s ) opinion that tbey would never dissolve until they had succeeded in destroying the Church in this country , and every other institution that was dear to the hearts of the loyal and well-disposed . " And after eulogising the talents of Lord Stanley , and his secession from the government to fight the battle of native industry , he concluded by hoping that if " members of the other house dared , in defiance of their pledges at the hustings , to send them a bill for the repeal of protection , their lordships would kick it cut , and give thc country a fair chance of deciding upon it .

      Earl _Gket , who made , on this occasion , his first speech in the Lords , said he agreed with Lord Stanicy in the opinion , thatthe maintenance or otherwise of the Corn Laws must be based , not upon personal or exclusive considerations , hut npon their general operation , and on that ground he would join issue with Lord Stanley . As to the committee moved for , he would not oppose it ; but , at the same time , he would tell the noble lord , that having a common interest with him as a landlord , he thought the less said about this question the better . He wished he had not raised it . lie believed that upon examination it would be found that so far from the landlords bearing any undue portion of the national burdens , the very reverse wouid be the case , and that they were

      exempted from numerous burdens which pressed on other classes of the community . Ilis lordship then proceeded to reply at great length to Lord Stanley ' s questions with respectto tithes , as a peculiar burthen , and other matters , and was followed by Lord Ashbcrto . v , who had great doubts ofthe expediency ofthe proposed committee , which was more likely to be a scene of wrangling than productive of any important collection of facts . It seemed impossible not to consider tithes as a tax upon land , and the house _shodd consider that in the event of land going out of cultivation when protection ceased , the first portion to go would be that which paid tithe . After a few words from Lord Beacmost , the motion as amended was agreed to , and the nomination ofthe committee fixed for to-mcrrow ( Tuesday ) .

      Several bills were then forwarded astage , and their lordships adjourned .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS-Mo . yday , Feb . 1 G . From the mass of petitions , motions , and question , previous to the resumption of the adjourned debate , we select the following , as most interesting to our readers : —

      i FROST , WILLIAMS , AND _JOXES . Mr . T . Dcxcombe gave notice that on Tuesday the 24 th of February , he would move that an address be presented to her Majesty , praying that her Majesty would be graciously pleased to take into her merciful consideration the petitions which had been presented to that house in favour of the restoration of the liberty of Frost , WiUiams , and Jones . FACTORY BILL . Mr . Fibldex gave notice that lie would move the second reading of the Ten Hours Factory Bill on Wednesday , the 25 th inst .

      TUE ADJ 0 U _115 ED DEBATE . On the question that the house do now resolve itself into a Committee on the Customs and Corn Importation Acts , the debate was commenced by The Earl of March , who abused Lord Northland for his sudden conversion—lectured Mr . B . Cochrane for au attack upon his lordship ' s father , the Duke of Richmond—predicted that the abolition of protection would be the ruin of the country—opposed thc opinions of Mr . Sidney Herbert , and , alter dwelling at some length on the inconsistency of Lord Lincoln , Mr . Gladstone , and other members of the Administration , who at the last general election had denounced a more moderate measure than the present as " the fugitive humbug of a dying political faction , " and who were now supporting a proposition for the total abolition ot all protective duties , he _concluded by declaring that he couid not give his assent to a measure so detrimental as the present to all classes of the community .

      _«! r . Muxes Gibsox made a very clever League speech , hut there was not asingle novel argument in it . He urged immediate , iu preference to deferred repeal . Tue question was now in such a position that it could not be endangered . It was indeed carried already , if uot in Parliament , by the force of public opinions out of doors . Sir 11 . Feci was the surest of all political barometers . If they wished to know what the people wcre thinking of , let them look to what Sir Robert was doing . Mr . llALSErand Lord Alfred Churchill , recently returned Protectionist inembeirs , delivered themselves uf maiden speeches against the measure . Sir W . Clay spoke iu support of the plan . Mr . Dickessox and Lord _Harht Vase avowed themselves to belong to the "deserters , " and their intention of voting against their former opinions .

      Mr . Buck gave vent to a dismal prediction of the ruinous consequences of the Ministerial scheme ; indulged in a passionate invective against Sir Robert , and a bitter attack upon the League , aud concluded by declaring his intention to give the measure a most decided negative . S _! r Joss 'i _TBt-iJ _* . made , as _Hsual , a speech , which relieved the _Saiueuess of the debate , and gave rise to much laughter . Mr . James gave a little bit of history , which is so useful at the present moment , that * we give it entire : — " He was desirous to refer to the progress of public opinion upon this _question , which showed that , with a good causewe never need to despair ; sooner

      , or later it would he sure to prevail . In 1 S 31 he had seconded a motion , made bv Mr . Hunt , for the total repeal ofthe Corn Laws , and he found that he had had the good fortune to make use of arguments so much employed or late at Manchester aud othor parts ofthe country . _How many dul tne uouse 8 Uppo 3 e they bad to support them by their speeches ? But one solitary member-the late member for Bolton , Colonel _lorreas . And bj wkm L d ? Amongst others , by the noble lord the member for the North Ridingof Yorkshire ; by the right hon . gentleman , the Chancellor ofthe _ExeheoW- and Hum e ) , who moved the _pretious _quention _. wS _™

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      _carriedbyamajontyofm . to 6 . In the-majority were the righthon . bart . ( Sir R . Peel ) , and the noble lord the _membeeforihe city _, of London , and every other gentleman then present who was now a member ofthe house , with one exception—and that was the hon . member for EastSoinersetshire ( Mr . Gore Langston ); his hon . friend near him , the member for _Fintbury ( Mr . T . Duncombe ) , who had always voted for the total repeal , having been on that occasion absent from the house . Seeing , then , what was the position ofthe political world , was he not justified in reminding the house and congratula ting the country upon the extraordinary change which had crept over the spirit ot the dream oi all the most distinguished public men upon this most momentous question ?"

      And then came the great event of the night , the rising of Sir Robert Peel , who delivered one of his very bestspeeches inaniosttelluigand effective style . We can only glance at the leading topics touched upon by him . Sir R . Fuel observed , tliat two matters had occupied the attention ofthe house during this debatethe first was the manner in whieh a party ought to be conducted ; and the second , how tlie contingency ofa great political calamity could be mitigated , and how the commercial policy ofa great nation should be directed . On the first question a great part of tho debate has turned ; but , surely , in the eyes of the people , that question wassubordinate to the two other questions—the _precautioBs against an impending danger , and the principles of our commercial polity .

      On the party question he had nothing to offer to the house ; for party interests the _government measures were bad measures . He admitted , too , at once that it was unfortunate that the conduct of them was in ; trusted to his hands . He believed , however , that there was impending over the country a calamity wliich was perfectly appalling ; and whilst there wa * a hope of averting it , he did not think it consistent with his duty as a public man to evade the difficulty which he saw approaching . He had not a word to say against the explanation which Lord John Russell made a few nights ago ; hut he must read a letter which Lord John Russell had not seen , and which he had addressed to her Majesty during the period when he was out of ofiice . to show that hehad not

      been desirous of robbing those ofthe credit of settling this question who had originally brought it forward , or of embarrassing their course during the settlement of it . That letter ( which is of great length , and not less interest ) , was of such a nature , that he was certain Lord John Russell would be convinced by it , that he ( Sir Robert Peel ) had been prepared to give him the same cordial support which he ( Lord John Russell ) now boasted that he had given him . His belief at that time was , that this question ought to be adjusted ; and he had been prepared out of effice to facilitate that adjustment both by his vote and by all the influence which he possessed , lie admitted to the party which had honoured him with its supportthat it was entitled lo withhold from him its

      , confidence . But waa it likely that he should have voluntarily sacrificed its support , unless he had been influenced by strong motives ef public duty ? Be the consequences to himself what tliey might , hu would avow that his party could not rob him of the eonviction thatthe advice which he had given to his Sovereign and the Parliament during these late transactions was consistent with all tlie duty which he owed to that party .. The month of May would not arrive without convincing the members of it that ho should have abandoned ' . his duty to his country , his Sovereign , and bis party , if he had hoisted the flag of protection for a time , knowing that he must then have deserted it . Before the house came to a decision upon tbis measure , it was necessary for them

      to know the state of Ireland as connected with it . For this purpose he read a series of letters received by the last two Irish mails from Sir D . Roche , Lord Stuart de Dceies , and various othiT gentlemen in different parts of that kingdom , giving the most appalling description of thc scarcity of tho potatoe in Ireland . One-eighth of the crop was always warned for seed ; and if that quantity was not saved from consumption as food , Ireland would have to struggle with famine in the next year also . It was impossible to supply that quantity of potatoes from any foreign country ; and the government therefore proposed to get the seed potatoes into its keeping by giving other food in exchange for them . _^ Now , in that case , would it bo possible for him in May

      uext , with a duty of 17 s . on the importation ot foreign corn , to call on the people to pay such a duty for the food to be distributed to the people of Ireland to save them from starvation ? Supposing famine then to ensue , would the aristocracy be able to bear thc odium of saying , "We will throw onthe government the responsibility of supplying thc peoplo of Irelaud with food , but one iota of the Cora Laws we will not part with ? " He called upon Parliament to consider what had bean thc course taken by its predecessors on former occasions , when scarcity was impending over tbe country . On every occasion Parliament had removed for a time tlie duty on the importation of foreign corn . The cheer with which that observation was greeted , he

      received as an unanimous , or , at any rate , a Tery general assent that at a period of approaching famine the proper course to be adopted was a free importation of corn . If that were so , then he asked the ; house to expedite the passing of this bill , or else that all the duties on the importation of provisions be suspended . He reminded the house that in November last he had advised , and three of his colleagues had supported , the suspension of tiie existing duties on corn by an order in Council . There was no day in his political life of which he was more proud than that on which he had recomnieuded that suspension of the law , Bnt the law was not suspended ; Parliament was now assembled , and it was not within tlie competence of the Crown to suspend

      duties by an order in Council whilst _Parliament was sitting . " If there were a necessity for suspending the corn duties in November , that necessity was aggravated now ; and the house must come to one or other of these two alternatives _^ -itmust cither maintain the existing law , or propose some facilities for the importation of foreign corn . If , then , all former precedent justified the suspension ofthe Corn Laws in emergencies similar to the present , let the house consider the laws to be suspended , and what the _Citse would be then . His conviction was strong thai ; it would be utterly impracticable , after suspending the Corn Laws for six months , to bring them again into operation . It wns an utter misapprehension of the state of public opinion to suppose that any government , after the country had tasted for six months

      the sweetness of free importation , would be enabled to re-enact the existing Corn Laws in all their provisions . Would any sane man advise this government to give a guarantee in case of its suspending the Corn Laws for six months , that it would renew them at the expiration of the suspension ? He then proceeded to notice the arguments which had been offered against his plan by the different speakers in the debate . Mr . Baring had recommended a compromise on this subject . What was a compromise but a new law ? and was this a time for producing anew law which } would satisfy no party ? _deferring to Mr . F . Scott ' s curious notion of tlie relation existing between a Sovereign aud his Mitiister , which he compared to that of a client aud his own counsel , he observed that there was this difference between the

      counsel and thc Minister—that the Minister took iiu oath to give his Sovereign the best counsel that his judgment could dictate , and thatthe counsel did no such thing . Mr . Scott had spoken of him as the counsel of a party , and had claimed for himself the privilege whicli was formerly claimed for himself by Anacharsis Clootz—namely , that of being thc Attorney-General for the whole human race . Adverting to Mr . Colquhoun ' s assertion that he had not in this measure established a great principle , he remarked that if such were the case neman in the empire ouuht to bo more indebted to him . Mr . Colquhoun had voted both for and against the repeal of the Corn Laws . He had been since IS 11 a determined

      advocate for _alixed duty ; and yet during the subsequent interval he had done all that he could to support a sliding scale . He wondered how he should have fared with Mr . Colquhoun , if , after he had carried thc suspension of the existing law , he had got up and said , that government would stake its existence upon restoring the Corn Laws at the period when the suspension ended . But this was mere trilling . The real question before the house was , " Is this measure right ? " If it be _^ rote for it ; it it be wrong , vote against it , and withhold your confidence from the men who proposed it . He then entered upon a dissection ofthe speeches of Mr . Miica and Mr . S . O'Brien , controverting the statistical returns of the former , and turning into ridicule thc

      pathetic colloquies of the latter with the tenantfarmers of his district . Both those gentlemen—and indeed , every speaker on tlieir side—l ; ad treated this question' as a Corn Law question ; but , in point of tact , it was not a Corn Law , but a great national and commercial question . That portion of his measure which related to the Corn Laws might bo rejected , and the other portion accepted , or vice versa . lie wished it , however , to be considered as a whole , and rejected or accepted as such . It was also the intention of the _governmest to adhere to its own proposal . He stated this ,-however , distinctly ; _tojthe house —that if the agricultural body should be of opinion that immediate was preferable te deferred repeal , and if b y uniting with the _Anti-CuTJi Law League thoy placed him in a minority , he should only consider what course he ought to take to give effect to the law so amended at their instance . He would do

      all he could to carry the proposition of the government . He preferred it . He did not pretend to say now what effect success in the House of Commons might produce elsewhere ; but his opinion that it was necessary to procure a final adjustment of this question was so strong that he should prefer immediate repeal so carried against him to the chance of throwing the country into confusion by postponing for six months the settlement of a question which was now paramount to all others . The great question was , " Shall we advance in the relaxation of protection and in the removal of prohibitory duties , or shall we stand still ? " Mr . Miles said , "Stand still ; " but for the House of Commons to standstill on suoh a question was to condemn every previous it _« p which it had taken in a liberal career of commercial policy . He then entered into an eloquent defence of h * s past , and into a _luctf _, explanation

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      of his present relaxations in ourrtariff . v _.-Afwnshowing tliat in every case the removal of prohibition had contributed not only to the welfare of the consumer , but also to that of the producer , he called upon them calml y to reflect on what was the policy best suited to a great % mmercial empire like our own . Let them look ait the moral , social , physical , and geographical advantages whicli God and nature Had given to this country ; let them also look at their acquired advantages ; let them reflect on their capital , their skill , their free press , their inimitable constitution , and then let them say whether this was the country which eught to dread competition . What was it that they had to dread ? Which would bo then * motto , " advance" or " retrograde ?"

      Other countries were watching their example . There was ho reason for expecting that everywhere they would be met with a hostile tariff . Sardinia ana Naples had both adopted liberal systems . Prussia was already shaken . Tho most sound and sensible thinkers in France were bearing on a willing government , whicli was desirous to follow that of England , and to reciprocate advantages with it . They wore giving encouragement in the United States to the party wliich was seeking to procure a more liberal tariff . Even if that party was unsuccessful , he advised thc house not to punish itself by seeking to be revenged on others . His earnest advice to the gentlemen of England , founded not on the experience of three years merelv , but the

      on experience of every previous relaxation ' of restriction , was to persevere in the course upon which they had entered . By passing these measures they would take another guarantee for tho content and love and willing obedience of the population ; and if a calamitous time should come , when wc must offer them exhortations to bear their destiny with fortitude , it would be a consolation for us to reflect that we had relieved ourselves from the necessity of regulating the supply of food in a timu of famine , and that in a period free from clamour and excitement wo had anticipated difficulty and removed every impediment to the free circulation of commerce . The right lion , baronet , after a 9 pecch which occup ied two hours and three quarters in its delivery , resumed his seat amid loud cheering .

      On the motion of Lord John Manners , the debate was adjourned till to-morrow ( Tuesday ) . After some routine business tiic house adjourned at a quarter to two o ' clock . HOUSE OF _LORDS-TirfiSDAv , Feb . 11 .

      BURDENS ON LAND . On the motion of Lord Biuumo . nt , the following noble lords wcre proposed as a select committee to inquire into burdens on real property , and also into the legislative exemptions and pecuniary advantages in respect to taxation affecting landed property , via .: —the President of the Council , the Lord Privy Seal , the Dukes of Buckingham and Richmond , the Marquis of Lansdowne , the Marquis of Salisbury ; the Earls of Aberdeen , Stradurokc , Lpvqhiee _, Grey ,

      Radnor , Malmesbury , Uardwicke , and Ellenborough ; Lords Ashburton , Dacre , Hrougham _, Cottenham , Beaumont , Monteagle , lledcsdalc , Colchester , Stanley , and Dalhousie . A short conversation ensued as to the mode in whicli the committee should conduct the business entrusted to it . Earl Grey and Lord Campbell recommended the adoption of some of the Standing Orders of the Ilouse of Commons with respect to such committees ; but tho subject was ultimately dropped , on thc understanding that Earl Grey is to bring it on again next week .

      The other business was of no public importance , and the house adjourned at a quarter to six o ' clock . HOUSE OF COMMONS-Tuksday , Fkb . 17 . Several railway bills wero read and ordered to be committed . A great number of petitions in favour of and against protection , wero _presented . Petitions against the enrolment of tlio militia ( as being , according to some of the petitions , altogether unnecessary , and , according to others , contrary to the doctrines of Christianity ) were presented _li-oni three places in Cornwall—from Bristol , Leicester , Monmouth , St . Luke ' s , Chelsea , and other metropolitan parishes ; from 7 , 900 inhabitants of Salford , tho West-Riding of York , and various other places . Petitions in favour ofa Ten Hours' Bill were presented by Mr . Duncombe and Mr . Duncan .

      THE LATE ASSISTANT POOR LAW COMMISSIONER , MR . M . W . PARKER . Mr . CumsTiK presented a petition from this gentleman , complaining that the Poor Law Commissioners had sacrificed him in order to avert from themselves the odium which had arisen from the proceedings at Andover . Thc petitioner prayed that a committee might be appointed to investigate his conduct and thai of tlio commissioners . The hon . member gave notice that he would , on Wednesday , move that the petition be printed with the votes , with the view of bringing the subject under the consideration ot the house . FRIENDLY SOCIETIES .

      Mr . T . S . Duscombb , in _pursuance ofthe notice he had given , rose to ask leave to bring in a bill to amend the acts relating to friendly societies , in order to give protection to those very valuable institutions . The lirst act that hadbeen passed for the regulation of those societies was tho lUth Geo . IV ., cap . 56 , which was amended by the 4 th and 5 th William IV ., cap . 10 . Tlie object of those acts was declared to be to give greater security and power to extend the objects of _iriendly societies for any purposes which " were not illegal . " Now it would appear to every one not learned in thc law , that those words were sufficiently comprehensive ; but he was sorry to say that very lately a doubt had arisen upon thc subject , in consequence of a case which had been tried in the Court

      of Queen ' s Bench , in which Mr . Justice _Wightmau had pronounces ! judgment . That judgment had had the effect of paralysing the certificate given to thoso societies . The case had arisen in consequence of a dispute between thc directors and one of the members ( named Scott ) of the South Shields Investment Friendly Loan Society . Tbat society hud duly submitted its rules to Mr . Tidd Pratt , who had certified it in 1841 . The _^ lirectors , on the dispute arising with Seott , summoned him duly before the magistrates ; but they refused to entertain the case , which waa finally and consequently brought before the Court of Queen ' s lionch , when it was ruled by Mr .. Justice Wightman , that the society did not come under the provisions of the law . The learned

      judge had said , " I am of opinion this society is not a friendly society , and that the words , ' for any purposes which are not illegal , ' must be considered so as to bear some relation to the objects of the act . " Now , it would be probably found that two-thirds of the friendly societies in the kingdom , might be disputed on the same grounds , and tbe object of his umendmont was simply to mnko more plain the meaning ofthe words , " purpose wliich is not illegal . " Those societies wero most valuable , and it would be a very serious detriment to their utility if they were not supported in time . Tho amendment which he was about to propose hud received tho approval of all persons connected with loan societies to whom ho had submitted it , and it bad the approval

      also of Mr . Tidd Pratt . With respect to thuopiniou of Mr . Justice Wightman , he should say that the . Solicitor-General had given another opinion , to the effect that Mr . Tidd Pratt was right iu certifying to that very society the rules of which were now doubted . The Solicitor-General hail given a similar opiuion with regard to another friendly society ; aud when they saw such doubts upon the subject it was evidently highly necessary that they should be removed . He , therefore , asked permission of tiic nouse , aud the right honourable baronet , to bring in a bill to amend the law relating to friendly societies . Leave was given to bring in the bill , which was ordered to be rciid a lirst time , printed , and read a second time next Wednesday .

      THE EMIGRANT SHIP CATARAQUE . On tho motion of Mr .-11 um £ , copies of till reports and correspondence respecting the loss of the emigrant ship Cataraque , ' in Bass ' s Straits , in August last , having 309 emigrants on board , wero ordered ; ns was also a copy of thc report oi thc officer at Liverpool , on the state of the Cataraque before sailing from Liverpool in April , 1 S _* _15 , and what tho length of contract , whether the captain and mate had passed any examination , and how long the captain had been at sea . In moving for those reports , he ( Mi * . Hume ) had no wish to cast blame on any one , but where they saw out of 415 persons who left Liverpool on board that ship no fewer than 400 lost within a few hours , it did appear that something should he done to investigate the cause , to prevent a recurrence of sucha calamity , and to preserve the lives of people in future .

      FAMINE AND DISEASE IN IRELAND . _o Mr . O'Conxkli , gave notice , that on Monday , the 23 rd of Feb ., he should move ibr a committee of the whole house on the state of Ireland , witli a view to devise means to relieve thc miseries of thc people . In the course ofa long speech on thecondition of Ireland _,, thc hon . member showed that the population of that country , so far from augmenting , as some people believed , was actually falling and wasting away . Tho population returns proved , tbat between 1821 and 151-31 . the population increased by onemillion ; between _iS 31 and 1841 only by half a million . This fact , _ the ' , surest test of deep internal misery and suffering in the condition of a peoplo , was attempted to be accounted for by emigration , but thoso who did so , while they gave thc emigration in between tho year 1831 and 1841 , did not take into account the emigration during the

      former ten years , and thus left out of sight an essential ingredient in the question . Lord Devon ' s commi : * sion had stated , Unit from the evidence tliey collected on oath , and from their own observations , they found that tho agricultural population of Ireland suffered great privations and hardships ; that the * - * / Were badly housed , badly fed , badly clothed , and b ? , dly paid for their labour ; that in many districts tho only food of the people was potatoes , and their only drink water ; that their cabins scarcely protected them against the weather ; that a blanket was a rare ' luxury to them ; that their pigs and their manure _constituted tlieir onlvproperty ; andthat altogether % ey enduredmoro suffering than tho people of an * / " other country in Europe . This was not thc _assertion of any agitator . « demagogwe , but the distinct _Uixx \ emphatic assertion of meuwho were beyond the . 'possibility of suspicion , and beyond the _possibility _< of being deceived . The

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      agricultural _-populationrof-Ireland is calculatedat 7 , 000 , 000 , and & , 000 , 000 of these at lew * ave labourers , in the situation thus dew-bed . But during the last fouryears , in whicli the people of Ireland were thus living , they had produced and exported for the consumption of this country , no less than 2 , 000 , 000 of quarters oi bread stuffs , and 2 , 000 , 000 cwt . of flour and different sorts of meal ; and even between the month of October , _184- > , and January , 1840 , they had exported to this country oxen , bulls , and cows , 32 , 883 ; _ealvcs , 583 ; sheep and iambs , 82 , 576 ; swine , 104 , 141 ; so that the dreadful anomaly existed in Ireland , that while she produces in abunda nce her people are starving . Mr . O'Connell then adduced an immense mass of statis- 1

      tical and documentary evidence , bearing on the prosent slate of that country , and showing the alarming nature of the crisis . Ho next proceeded to show that scarcity was always accompanied by disease , and especially by typhus . On this head he said—It has not been found that fever is diffused by the atmosphere , for the disease has uniformly ceased when provisions became abundant . You havo the cause , " the effect , and the cure . The cause is scarcity ; the effect , fever : the cure , a more plentiful supply of food . It is singular to observe how constantly this lias occurred . I have several instances of great famine in Ireland , showing how invariably scarcity has brought fever in its train , and that fever has disappeared when harvests became abundant . In

      1734 and 1735 there wcre wet summers , with bad harvests ; fever appeared in the winter of 1734 , and did not disappear till thc autumn of 1736 , which brought a most abundant harvest ; between 1740 and 1743 , 1798 and 1802 , 1 S 17 and the autumn of ISIS , 1 S 25 and thc autumn of 1 S 27 , the same sequence of bad crops and disease , of good crops and the disappearance ef disease , was to be observed . Mr . O'Connell theu suggested the remedy . They could easily command funds for meeting the emeygency . A revenue of £ 74 , 000 under the Woods and Forests , derived from Ireland , had been for years applied to the

      _imiivovement of this metropolis , and the ornament of Trafalgar-square . Let them lay an income tax on the rents of Irish landlords ; thirty or forty per cent _, on absentees , ton per cent , on residents ; for the tenant must perish if the landlord did not contribute . He suggested other expedients , as that of thc government taking into their own hands the control and direction of the construction of railways , so as to provide the means of immediate employment . The measures already adopted by the government he highly applauded _) but they wero trivial when compared with a great exigency , when dearth threatened tho land .

      Sir Ximes Graham complimented Mr . O'Connell for the moderation of his tone , and the absence of all exaggeration in his statements . He then recounted what _t-he government had done , from the appointment _, of tho commission in November last to inquire into the t ' ailuro of the potatoe crop , down to the introduction of the Public Works Bill , the Dvainugo Bill , & c , in each of which there is a grant of public monoy ; the cutire amount , in thc shape of grant or otherwise , intended to be applied by government for the promotion of employment being no Jess than £ 463 , 000 . In addition , it was anticipated that no less a sum than nine millions would be expended during the next three years in the construction of railroads . Under the operation of the Poor Law , destitution would be relieved in the workhouse , and

      disease would be attended to in temporary fever hospitals ; and the government were prepared to introduce a measure , founded on a precedent in tho year 1832 , for the purpose of providing extraordinary precautions to guard against the spread of infectious disorder . These offorts _, he trusted , would meet the present emov _^ ency , it \ which it was calculated that nearly one-half of the potatoo crop had failed ; and in order to prevent the recurrence of similar calamitics , and to lay a foundation for the permanent improvement of Ireland , he trusted thatthe house would promptly take the primary step of relaxing the laws which restrict the importation of food , Mr . Shaw , while admitting tho habitual poverty of thc Irish people , was of opinion that the failure of the potatoe crop had been much exaggerated .

      Mr . Jons 0 _'Cossei . l considered tho official information adduced by the government a sufficient guarantee for the accuracy of tlie allegations aa to the nature and extent of tho distress . Since he had come over to his parliamentary duties , he had found a strong sympathy existing on the part of members respecting it , and a great anxiety to adopt measures for its alleviation . Hitherto Ireland had been sacrificed to thc selfish interests of England ; thc country had been treated on the now useless hand-and-mouth system , temporary remedies being provided for pressing exigencies , but for years forgetting and neglecting it . The Union had depressed the material and moral interests of Ireland ; the life-blood of its body politic was exhausted by the drain of thc absentee system , under which four millions and a half were annually abstracted from its resources ; and the public money which the government now proposed to bestow was not equal to the public revenue raised in Ireland and expended elsewhere .

      Lord John _llussEtt advised Mr . John 0 ConneU to seize every opportunity of urging , within that house , the wrongs of Ireland , and the remedies which he considered applicable . Thc House of _Con-mons represented the United Kingdom , and it was its duty to listen to any statement of any grievance wliich might afflict any portion of it . He hoped that after the statement of Sir James Graham as to whi . t the government intended to do , Mr . O'Connell would not at present press his motion . It would be in his power to renew it if he found that the proposed measures were ineffective for the crisis . Mr . Lawson was afraid that Sir Robert Peel ' s measures would reduce England to the condition of Ireland , and he could not sec the wisdom of permanently ruining one country in order to provide for a temporary calamity in another .

      Mr . O'Co . vneix withdrew his motion , with the understanding that he reserved the power ot again bringing the same subject under _consideration if necessary . ADJOURNED DEBATE . The adjourned debute on the Corn Laws wasfurthcr resumed by _Loi-d John Manners , who quoted Carii , professor of political economy , at Milan , in favour of the opinion that com ought to be an affair of administration and not of commerce . Without giving in too readily to ' _. the " Oligarchy of Red Tape , " he had been disposed to bow to the opinion of government ; but this question , if it was to bo settled , ought to be settled upon comprehensive principles , and not upon

      transitory , evanescent , self contradictory grounds . The noble lord contended that the government ought to have opened the ports , and' then afterwards to have come to Parliament to authorise , such steps as might be expedient , and not proceed by tho "lumbering" measure proposed . ' le told the right hon . baronet that for the future no man in England would have any confidence in him , nor care what he _thousjht upon any subject whatever . Ho wanted some proof that Prussia was " shaken . " He denied that the peoole wore inclined towards _frcr trade , as thoy wcre led by Arago , Thiers , and Louis Blanc , who opposed it . lie feared the new law would alienate the rural classes , upon which the Sovereign relied , hi cases of _emersrencies , and accordingly should oppose it .

      Captain _Lmuo , in an energetic free trade speech , supported the measure , and Mr . Robkkt Palmer , of Berkshire , opposed it ; but there was nothing novel in _eithsr of their addresses . On tho last named member taking his scat , about forty or fifty members rose to address thc house , but Sir 0 iiaiu . es _Naviku caught the Speaker ' s eye . T ! : e Gallant Commodore , amidst loin ) cheers , said he thought that thc speech of thc Right Hon . Baronet on Monday nig ht would havo terminated thc debate , by carrying conviction to all ; but tho protection party seemed desirous to prolong it , in the vain hope of procuring some mitigation of their doom , Ue asked thorn , did theywant to plough with the same horses they did twenty years ago 1 If Sir Robert Peel

      had opened the ports , as one of the preceding speakers had recommended , -the protectionists would have opposed him as fiercely as they do at present , lie _tlinucht Sir Robert Peel had gone as far as he could . Sir Charles then proceeded to amuse the house , and at the same timegivosomewhat of a new aspect * to the debato , by describing his own fanning system , and exposing thc _tm & umlcu tears of the _agricniturkt . lie . advised the landlords , instead of making long speeches , to give long leases .. ( Laughter and cheers . } If they were not satisfied with this advice just let them go down to Scotland , and see the way in which the land wss cultivated there . ( Hear , hear . ) They had an adverse climate , at least three weeks behind this country , but let any one go through the

      Lothians , and see how turnips wcre cultivated , and wheat drilled , and look at their improved im pigments , thoir steam-engine ** threshing out their wheat , instead ofthe clumsy system pursued in many parts of England . ( Hear . ) If the same plan was pursued throughout England as the Scotch did , this country would soon become an exporting instead of an importing country . Although a sailor , ho was also a practical farmer of four years' stnnding . ( Much laughtor . ) He took a farm in his neighbourhoodnot a very largo one—of forty acres . ( Renewed laughter . ) Gentlemen might laugh , but -what was good for forty acres was good for 400 . ( Chcors . ) He took these forty acres , and found it was bad landwhat was called in Hampshire forest land . His predecessors could grow nothing ; thc land was foul , nnd had never been cleaned out * , like many gentlemen

      opposite , they went with the plough four inches deep , and had men with four horses drawing it . They lost money , as might have been expected , and three or four of them went away ruined . He began to farm exactly as his predecessors had done , and at the end ofthe year he had lost £ 200 . ( Laughter . ) He began to think this was bad farming , especially whe . n he found that a good fellow near him , who farmed ten acres of tho same land , had _constantly fine crops . His land was dry , though he had no capital , and he seemed to livo very well on ths profits of his farm . He at last said to him , " Old boy 11 wish you would explain to me how it is that you , who have no capital atall-r-you , who have only a little pony and your . wife ( laughter ) , get so good crops out of your , land . " Ilia reply was , that if lie _^ _Sir C , Napier ) tbl-I lowed hU advice he would soon have as good crops as he had , He told him to take tho water off . to clean

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      out . _his . _ditcues _. _iCie'iu his _hYJds . well _, mid Jay , _bis-Jan < I over—that he should' first of Jill get a plough , go with _itas deep as he could , and then go oVes * the furrow with anotherploiigh cutting deeply . He followed tha advico _,. and produced an excellent cvi > p » nex _** - y * ar . The land that never produced more th . * _n I ' _sur or five quarters of oais produced eleven _quwtei * , ( Hear , hew . ) He continued to follow the « ld mam ' * system , and now , instead of tho land _Jving tallow and idle , as it alii was in the neighbourhood . ' he had only throe acres that were not growing crops . Bat the hon . gentleman might wish to know what , was growthe land had

      ing on . Uo one field witli turnips- as large as the ? head of most of the gentlemen in that house . ( Laughter . ) He had had his . sheep feeding upon these turnips for the lust two months . Altar describing the mode in wliich he should i > . _'odiikshe » p after tho turnips wero _exh-uistod , the hon . and _ ¦ „[ - lant member strongly advised the agriculturists in > that house to follow ihe advice of his poor neighbour , and put in d rains into their ditches , to level their banks , which only bred vermin and all sorts of weeds _,, to go to Scotland ' and get proper _implements , and let them cultivate their land properly , and he was surethere would he no more heard ot the fear of importation from a road . _ .

      Mr . F . Shaw next addressed the house at great length , in a speech replete with the _bittoi-cst _inVectivo against Sir Robert Peel , lie considered the damage ofthe potatoe c rop greatly exaggerated , * bun although , no doubt , great distress would exist lor some months , ho still insisted , that there had been an average crop in Ireland ; , and for the temporary contingency a temporary remedy should be applied . He said Ministers would be handed down to posterity as the greatest political cowavd _* that ever _exited . The epithet " political apostate" ' was vehemently cheered by a knot of _Protectionists around him , and after a speech , full of the must pointed a busr , the i Oil . gentleman still hoped he might churn the right hon . baronet as his friend , which elicited ihe _deriaive _ohtei _* of the _house .

      Mr . Bright sab , that instead of abuse of Sir Robert Peel being thesubject in debate , he had thought that the great question of protection was to bo discussed . The people out of doors did not care one rush tor the split in the Conservative party . I ' m was ready to admit that the principle ofthe abolition oi protection must he extended to all _thinys _, and indeed the free traders had supported the abolition uf the duty _< _-n machinery nnd cotton yarn . Mr . Cobden , in 1 S 42 , proposed a law , having ibr its object to raise wages , but the agriculturists answered , that wages could not be raised by Act of Parliament - . but an nour after they voted for _alaw , the i-pot of which was to raise the price of the j . ruluecof their own estates . The labourer lias no protection ; nor do the landlords ever think of passing a law _toenabie him oven to get n'oney to buy the corn which thc landlords force him to buyi at their own shop exclusively . Air . _iirigiitsaid that England exceeded all other countries in the world in

      the comparative quantity of grain grown ; but protection had brought thdiibourer to a state _ofiie'i'epitude . He then argued upon the state ofthe tnortagi / s of tho landlords , and the Game Laws , aud showed how they contributed in perpetuating the Corn-Law , The public press was nyaiusA thu _I'vutectiwnists , He scarcely believed thatthe landlords in their hearts were averse to the measure ; but they voted against it to spite and avenge themselves on the Minister _, lie had heard of men coing whistling to execution , but the jovial faces ofthe l _' _l'Oiectioiii . sts surpassed even this , _AVithin the memory of man Sir Robert Peel ' s ' speech was tho finest ever delivered within t ! e

      walls of the house , and lie envied him as he went homo the delight he must experience at the thought of givingjoy and hope to the poor mini . The Ir ai ; uo hail been ct > mk > n > ni ; tl f » r _mnkimr votes , bnt the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas said ,, that this was not only legal but laudable . No fund * of the League had , however , been applied to this purpose , and he would say , that whoa t , h _= objeut ofthe _League was obtained , tlie League would be dissolved , and ho would add , lb-it it was oniy the factious opposition t > i the Protectionists which prolonged its existence , by perpetuating the law , and causing distress to tiie great body ofthe people .

      Mr . Hubson _coiridcTOned Sir Robert Peer ' s measures , which he deemed uncalled for ; but he would willingly have subscribed or have voted a _j-rantto relieve tho distress in Ireland . On thc _motion of Lord Duncan- the debate was then adjourned till Thursday . The other orders ofthe day were then disposed of , and the house adjourned at half-past two o ' clock . HOUSE OF COMMO . _VS-iVkdjtbsdat , Feu . 13 .

      FROST , WILLIAMS , AND JOKES . Captain P > : ciikll presented a petition , praying that the sentence of transportation which had beeu passed on Frost , Williams , and Jones , might bo rescinded . Mr . Aoijoxby presented a petition from Cockermouth , signed by 000 persons , praying that the convicts Frost , Willi _.-nns , and Jones , inkht be liberated . TEN nOUHS' BILL . Mr . Ireuxd BucKiJOitxK presented three petitions from Warrington , in favour of the Ten Ilonis' Bill . ' Mr . Fieldkx presented petitions from Yorkshire and Lancashire to the same effect .

      EMBODIMENT OF THE MILITIA . Mr . P . _IIowai'd presented a petition , agreed to by a _mcetii-g in _Carlisle , against the measure contemplated by government for calling out tho militia .

      OREGON QUESTION . A petition was presented from the inhabitants of Leeds , pro ; ing the house to adopt all _peaceahle * moasuies for the settlement of tlie Oregon question . COUNTY WORKS PRESENTMENT ( IRELAND ) BILL . On the order ofthe day for the bringing up the report on this Bill being read , Sir J . Ghaiiam said , that in consequence of what had taken place last nigJit , he wished to make _faircs alterations ; the first was for thu ' appointment of surveyors the second fur tho payment of-county officers , and the thirtlfor the purpose uf giving power to summon lour additional graiuljuryir . cn when the number _sworn was not sufficient to form a quorum _, lie proposed that the bill should be _rc-conumttsil in order to make these alterations . The house then went iuto Committee , when thc additional clause and the report was agreed to .

      POOR LAW . Captain _Pecuell . moved for a return of the copy of any instructions isMicd by the Poor-law Commissioners for thc purpose of uniting the ptwish of Farnham , in Surrey , now under Gilbert ' s Act , with eertaiii . other parishes under _thcjPoor-Law Act ; also , for a copy of any memorial of 'she _Poor-Liv-v Commissioners from the ratepayers of the parish of ; Farnham remoustrating agaiust such union , or any interference whatever . Tho house adjourned at one o Vloek . [ Continued in our _eiyhtii page . ]

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      _ATTV . _MVTKn _Assassis . viios is < _Ji : u * n . * £ _* K \ i 2—Oir _Tuesday evening , about live o ' cloek , extreme excitement was caused in the immediate vicinity o _: Red Cross-streot , _Cripplogate , from the _laefcithat a man , by the name of Laecy or Facey _, had made an attempt to murder another party , whose exact name could not bo ascertained , but who at th _^ time was at thehouse occupied by a Mr . Lewis , eorclwaiuer , of No . S , Cradle-court , Red Cross-street , Cripplegate . It appears that about three o ' clock in 4 ! u * afternoon the ¦ _neii'hbaura in Cradle-eourt were much annoyed by a serious disturbance which ban taken place in thc tirst-lloor of No . S ,. in the court . Abnuii ave o ' cloek , however , the noi .-e was so _yrcat ihat it waa i ' c ; _-. red that somi ! violence would be _commiutrd _, am ! consequently the assistance of the police , was scut for , Immediately afterwards , however , a . cry of _luui'de **

      was heard , and upon air . Lewis entering the room he found the poor fellow , who __ it seems was _viaiting with L : \ cey , weltering in his blooi 1 , the man Lacoy holding in his hand at the time a la , i _« e carving knilo about eight inches in length , with which it seems ho had stabbed the unfortunate ma . _- . i , as his clothes _, wero perforated , and streams of blood were hsuhnj from tho wound . Some ol' the _luji _^ hboms instantly ran for Mr . Ponder , surgeon , of 5-1 , Red _Grasursmvt _, who promptly attended . Duvin g the time the surgeon was sent for the police arrived , who tuok the man Laccy into custody and _i „ _' < mv ' . yed him to the Moor-street station . When tbe surgean examined the wound he declared it to be of a mosi serious character , it being incised and of considerable depth , penetrating the interstice just below the sixth rib on thc left side , immediately under the heart .

      _ACCIUEXT ON THK GliKAT VtiKSTBRS R . III . 1 VA 1 V—Oil Monday morning an accident of a _serious nature occurred on the Great Western Railway , between Box and Middleliill tunnel , by which the lives of several persons were endangered ; and is is rumoured that one person was killed . It appears that the up-mail on leaving Bath had an open tvuck _, containing several workmen , attached to tho train ; and when between Box and Middleliill _tunm-i , tho tire of one ot tho loading wheels of the truck Hew ' .. if , which caused

      such an oseillation , that either through fear a mini- nber jumped out , or wows thrown from the truck by > y tho motion . _^ Neither the eng ' in « M \ mev nor the guards ds were cogiiisniiti of auy accident , until _onteriii !? the lie tunnel thc echo of tho screams of those in the truck clc alarmed tho engine-driver ., who instantly stopped the he train ; and on going hack it was discovert d that lat nine persons were on the line so seriously injured red that it was considered necessary to take them to tho ho hospital at Bath , and ono of _tk-m , it is said , has mis since died .

      . Roubkry on urn Thames . —On Monday , at the the i Thames Police-office , John Pnrcell and Anthony ony ' Gorman wcre charged with being upon the river . ret ' . ' with intent to commit felony . One night last week celt : two chests of tea were stolen from a coasting vessel , isel ,, and lowirct _^ into a boat . The thieves wore n _* aki' _- g _-ii-g ; off with their booty , when they were pursued by the the a crew of a Thames police galley . The robbers threw ircwv the tea overboard and made their _escape . The pri- pri-isoncrswere seen about half-past one dclock on M < _n-il < _n-iday morning in a skiff , among the shipping botwi _envi _eau Battle-bridge _a-ul Pickle-hen . ' a , * tier , Sou h _*' ar . ? . ar . ? . ; . The _tta was stolen from _avcssi I near tho same 1 _laeuaeu . i Tiny were sentenced to tl rea months' imprisoiimenenentit and hard labour in Brixton H . ouse of Correction .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 21, 1846, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_21021846/page/7/