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. 5 3 ion of tlie Central Criminal Court ' ^ id on Saturday morning before the Right ft , aiine " - jiayor , the Recorder , Alderman Sir jlsn . t" ? « L awrence and Salomons , the Sheriffs , f . M ^ & » &c . It appears by the first edition V ^ er ^ lendar that there are 109 prisoners for ffI the pr ^ ent session . t . ego Thbowixg ox me Oaks Day . —Henry ^ ile w » 3 ca ^ ^ l 011 t 0 surrender and take 1 > - ^ f or assault . —The defendant , it will be iS iri ^ d had a true bill returned against him ie 3 f -be" p ^" at ^ last session for a seri-.-s of nil * W F ltiD - P erS 0 DS witn e Sgs « pon their rn fa " the Oaks race . —Mr . Ballantine , -who t ^ zLi for the defendant , said that he was at pre-$ * coi'fi'ie 11 in the Queen ' s Bench prison upon S Ml rr 0 CC 5 ' , and tne prosecutor had not taken v -irdin ary course of bringing him here by ha-- . to take his trial . lie consequently was not in '' ? " jjuee , aud as there -were other parties incluf i ja the indictment , it would probably be better H , jie whole of the cases should be disposed of !? eiis r- — t ^ ai was accordingly ordered to
^ , 4 ever . '' & 3 EZZMMEST . —Edward Pontifex , an omnibus f actor , pleaded guilty to a charge of embez-. ¦; . i three several suina of sixpence , the property * - * Paeliiu Pound , » nd another , his masters . Mr . Ballantine , who was for the prosecution , Q 0 Tms& the court that the prosecutors were f ^ iibi tf proprietors , and in consequence of the s tance of the regular conductor the prisoner had , ^ a employed to act in his place on an omnibus
* i ; nff to the Exhibition . He only -went one ionrijr , during -which he received Us , and upon arj ^ nnn at the termination of the journey , he very itflly appropriated the whole amount to himself , jsl refused to give up a single farthing . —The Rcisrder said it was a very impudent robbery , and it ris fortunate for the prisoner tbac nothing was iuofffl to his prejudice before , or he would have jecn much more severely punished . He then sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard latour for three mon : ii 3 .
Boebert bt a SERVjisr . —Robert Young , 3 S , was =-dicted for embezzling money , the property of bis ^ plovers , Messrs . Squire and M'Culloeh . — The trisoner , it appe ared , had been in the service of the prosecutors , who are wholesale druggists in BiVoWate-street , for thirteen years , and had hrterfr been employed as town traveller to the tax . ' In t * caP ^ 'ty he h * - to f eceire ™>™ 1 « n their account , and it was distinctly proved that H had in two instances received money from the which he did not afterwards
srosecutors' customers sccountfor . —Thejaryre turned a verdictof Guilty , bat strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy on account of hi 3 previous good character . —Mr . « anire stated that he had reason to believe that to to tal amount embezzled by the prisoner was at ica « t £ 390 . —The Recorder said he would take time jo consider what sentence ought to be pronounced . I-TLe prisoner was en Tuesday brought up for judgment , and sentenced to be imprisoned and a pt to hard labour for one year .
Tfilliam Parmenter was indicted for stealing a pist pot , the property of John Garrett—The prosetior , who keeps the Copenhagen Tavern , and pklet ground , at Islington , said that on the even-Ice of the 29 th of June his attention "was directed $ o ~ tifl prisoner , who was on the ground . He went tpto him and asked what he had got about him ? j&ep risoner said , "Nothing . " Witness searched jlsi , and found a pint pot buttoned under his jaAet . Us was then given into the custody of the ffllice , and near where he had been sitting was { bund six pint and two quart pots , belonging to the jrcsecuior , and one from the Brecknock Arms Tarani , Camden Town , all ef which were hammered gpiuioa small compass , and laid together , ready to ike away . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty . — Jiie Common Sergeant sentenced him to twelve aontiis * imprisonment and hard labour .
Fohgbbt . —James Smith , 21 , was indicted for feloiiously forging and uttering- a cheque for £ 73 , vith intent to defraud the London and Westminster JJank . William Lewis was called to prove the forger / . He described himself as a jeweller , carrying oa his bnsinessat So . 42 , Gloucester-street , Queensquare , Bloomsbury . He said that he . kept an sMontl at the London and Westminster Bank , Si . James ' 6 branch , and the cheque for £ 73 was not £ : s handwriting , and had not been written with his authority . He made the same statement with recarf io the £ 16 cheque , and expressed his belief ztatbotn the cheques were in the hand writing of the prisoner . The witness was subjected to a most terere cross-examination by Mr . Ballantine , but he
faced with all the questions that were put to him iasucb a manner , and evaded as much as possible smng a direct answer , that it was sot until the Itecorder interfered , and . threatened that if he did not answer the questions in a proper manner that fce ^ oald take means to compel him to do so , that ss ; evidence could be extracted from him . At length it was elicited from him , that in 1 S 47 he was a witness in this court against three persons who were charged with robbing a gentleman named Seme , of a large sum of money by cheating at cards , and he said that he had been concerned upon the occasion by going to Cremorne Gardens with me of the parties to " pick up a flat , " and that he frequently at some of the meetings packed the
cards , so as to assist the others in carrying out { heir scheme of plunder , and when the charge was preferred against him be turned round against his companions , and gave evidence for the prosecution . He said that he believed the other partieB swindled Seme oat of £ 1 , 000 , but he said he had nothing to do with it He then proceeded to state that he irst met the prisoner at Neath at an hotel , and that he was aware that at this time he was an under ^ raduate at one of the Universities ( Oxford ) . wtea lie was at Xfeatu lie was engaged in his bueiwssas a jeweller , and be waa sure thai he went by Ms own name . He might have passed by other tames , such as Squire and Prescott , but it was only fora freak , and for amusement . He did not
remember petting a phaeton at Aeatb , which was not jaidfor ; bot he believed that the prisoner did get cm , and he rode on it . The prisoner west from % tb to Oxford , and he made it his bnsiness to go « hi him . He did not get goods from different tradesmen in the town under assumed names , but is prisoner might have introduced him by different M » es , sttch as % oire and Prescott . Be knew that w prisoner got a gold chain and an eyeglass from a talesman , and he purchased the same of him directly afterwards ; at least , he said he " allowed" him lie valne hi an amount the p risoner was indebted to Mm . He remembered playing at cards one night t Oxford , but he could not recollect whether he Jkjsa billiards . He did not know whether the
tradesman was paid for the glass and the chain , or * ietlier the prisoner ' s father was not compelled to I&v for it . He also received a watch and chain from the prisoner at Oxford , but he returned them io Mm , and he said be might , or he might not have w * n present when those articles -were originally obtained from the tradesman to whom they belM !| ed . The result of these proceedings at Oxford ^ a that the prisoner was expelled , and he then *« it to Cambridge with the view of endeavouring to get admitted into one of the colleges . Witness accompanied him to Cambridge , and one night uB plated at cards with some of the young coJlefa ns . The prisoner entered himself for admission
• o one of the colleges , but was obliged to withdraw "k Mine . He denied having offered to compro-EMe the matter with the prisoner ' s father if he woold givehim £ 80 , but he admitted that he said « * onld do all in his power to serve the prisoner , ¦ ™ taat he was unwilling to prosecute . —By the Beeorcer : The moment the pass book was exammed by him he discovered the forgery , and he Wie ? ed that he went immediately to the bank And n-e information of the fact . —The Recorder asked m if he was sure that he went on the same day f i be then hesitated and Baid it was possible he art not go to the bank until the next day . — "ellev . Eaenezer Smith , the father of thepri-«>? er , vho evinced deep emotion while eivino his wim
- . was tuen examined . He deposed that he « s . p erpetual curate of the parish of Barton St . ^ ws near Glastonbury . The prisoner was his ™ - He was now a little more than twenty years rl * £ sent him to he educated at Oxford , and £ | 0 re hi s departure his conduct had been so good t ^ c was a source of h abitual comfort to him . — { f ?* gentleman also spoke to the good charac--r of the prisoner . —The Recorder , in summing ttid Case > Eaid that i { tba char ge rested iipoa the ™ ence of the man Lewis alone , he apprehended tin ; ' UPy W ? ^ not think for a moment of cqnhrn auv ' ^ iT'dual upon the testimony of so in-•* fflous person as he had admitted himself to be . iati > mnst sa F taat in n J experience he had - - * seen such an exhibition of infamy before . t -5 Kere » however , other circumstances in the j ^ -jParticularl y the statement of the prisoner ~^* i to the officer—which were well worthy of "Us-ceration . and it would be for them to sav .
! i 3 ev racaI - m an dispassionate deliberation , whether iiie ' i ^ Biidered the charge to be made out against . ^ '"soner ornot . —The jury deliberated a short 5 j L * QAen returned a verdict of Guilty , at the z&ryr i e ' ^ oujmending the prisonar to the « iDr 7 f ° deration of the court . The jury also * an « t tbe : r ind 5 g ! ' ation at the conduct of the i . . „ ^^ i who , they said , they considered to « con « greatest villains that ever came into jad gnjen > ^> ce . —The Recorder postponed the ^ r RT - '" Jobn SehnUz » ^ ^ aUer . wasmdicted f . 3 a " f "" S a gold watch and chain from the per-* ti < l \ u n ,, ear 5 Howe . —Mr . Ryland j . rosecuted , Tie :, Ball antioe and ilr . Metcalf defended . — feorf ? 5111011 in thisease ' - Howe * * come ' ^ fiino rf t ? J ™ arket Theatre , said , that on the krS tbe 23 r < l of Jane He was at Vauxhail-Uf-jff' atul M he was passing into the Rotunda lie irko pre 8 Snre s £ ain 6 t bis breast , and a man like - ' v 0 Bei > out wearisg aoustachio 3 , made away
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from him . Having a child with him whom he wished to protect from the crowd , he did not feel for his watch , which he suspected was gone , until he got inside , and he then found that his suspicion were correct . He saw his watch shortly afterwards in the hands of the police-constable . — Sergeant Goffsaid , that he heard a disturbance near theb ; wrier , ' « herethehorsGse ! itei'the ring . He went there , and lound prisoner in the custody of Hayes . Prisonertookawatch from his pocket and laid it on a table close by . Witness shortly afterwards discovered that the watch was the property of Mr . Hoire . —Mr . Metcalfe said the question was whether prisoner ' s was the hand that took the watch . —The jury , after some deliberation , Acquitted the prisoner . from him . Having a child with him nhnm ha
He was again indicted for stealing a watch and chain from the person of John Jackson , of Grossley . In this case the prosecutor , a country gentleman , was near the barrier , when he felt a twitch at hi 3 pocket , and instantly saw his watch in the hand of the prisoner , hanging by the chain . Witness collared him , when he let it drop . He told prosecutor he was a gentleman , and dared him to sivo him into custody . —The Jury fouud him Guilty . —There were two other indictments for stealing watches from other persons in the garrlens . He had only that day come out of prison for attempting to pick pockets at the Exhibition , and had been committed for a month . He had al ? o been convicted at this court in 1849 .
—Sentgneese » en years * transportation . LiRCESi . —Philip Walmsley , 26 , a person of gentlemanly appearance , wearing a long beard and moustache was indicted for stealing twentythree spoons and seven forks , the property of Joseph Samuel Lavia . —Mr . Byland , who held the depositions for the prosecution , said that upon considering the facts which were disclosed in them , he was of opinion that under all the circumstances , the jury would not be likely to come to the conclusion that the prisoner had been guilty of felony . It was true that the property appeared to have been taken and dis posed of by the prisoner , but
there were certain facts connected with the transaction which would probably be stated by his learned friend Mr . Bodkin , who was instructed in the defence , which rendered it very doubtful whether the proceeding of the prisoner amounted to larceny . Mr . Bodkin begged to he allowed to state on behalf of the gentleman at the bar , that he had been an officer in the Indian army , and had conducted himself with great bravery in all the engagements that had taken place in that part of the world , and he might , if he had so minded , nave appeared at the bar , covered with the decorations that had been awarded him for
his gallant conduct . In consequence of having imprudently become surety for a brother officer he had been compelled to leave India , and return to this country , and he had made application to the East India Company for assistance , which had been refused , and he was in consequence reduced to a position of great temporary embarrassment . While in this situation he had called at the house of the prosecutor , who was a very old and intimate friend , and seeing some plate lying about , he , in a moment of excitement , took away a portion of the plate ,
and pawned it to supply his temporary necessities . He was in the receipt of money almost immediately afterwards , and there was no doubt that he intended to have redeemed the plate and restore it to its owner . —The Becorder said that if the intention to deprive the owner of the property was not proved it would not amount to larceny . —Mr . Ryland said it appeared to him the evidence would not make out the fact of the prisoner having any such intention , and upon this ground he should , with the sanction of the Court , decline to offer any evidence . —A verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly taken .
Pehjdry . —Jeremiah William Callan , 22 , described as an engineer , was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury . —Mr . Ballantine and Mr . Charnock conducted the prosecution ; Mr . Ribton appeared for the defendant . —The prosecutor of this indictment was Mr . Joseph Softlaw , formerly proprietor of the Bridge-house Hotel , and who at the time of the occurrence was the manager of the London Coffeehouse , Lndgate-hill . It will be remembered , from the report of the proceedings at Guildhall , that the present prosecutor was charged by the defendant with an odious offence ; but upon the second examination , in consequence of the contradictory statements that were made by tbe defendant , and by a roan who came forward as his witness , the falsehood
of the charge became apparent and it was consequently dismissed , and Mr . Softlaw immediately preferred the present indictment . The nature of the case renders it impossible to give a detail of the evidence that was adduced , and it will be sufficient to state that it established in the clearest possible manner the entire groundlessness of the charge that hid originally been made by the prisoner . — The jury without a moment ' s hesitation found , tbe prisoner Guilty . —The Recorder , in paBSing sentence , aaid that the prisoner had been convicted on tbe clearest and most satisfactory evidenceupon evidence which completely satisfied his mind , and also that of the jury—of one of the worst offences that could possibly be committed . It was
not only an offence against the administration of justice and truth , but was of the most cruel and reckless character ; for he not only swore falsely , but he did so to fix a charge upon a man of so heinous and hateful a character , thai if he had succeeded he would , have consigned him to disgrace and ruin for the rest of his life . The manner , however , in which the prosecutor had given his evidence was most satisfactory , and the other evidence was quite conclusive of his innocence , and he would leave the court without the slightest stain on his character . After some further remarks upon the atrocious nature of the offence the learned judge sentenced the prisener to be confined in Newgate for one day , and then to be transported for seven years , this being , he said , tae extent of punisuOient which the law allowed him to inflict .
Forgery . —Herman Law , 34 , a person of gentlemanly appearance , described as a merchant , waB indicted for feloniously forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange for £ 1 , 250 with : intent to defraud Conrad Ino Thurn . —The prisoner pleaded guilty- — Judgment deferred . Sacrilege . —Thomas Brewer Hatton , 27 , was in « dieted for burglariously breaking into the church of St . John , Stratford , and stealing two surplices , an inkstand , and between £ 3 and £ 4 in silver money , the property of the Rev . William Holloway , the incumbent of the church . It appeared that the prisoner , who was the sexton of the church in question , went on the morning of the 11 th of June to the police-station at Stratford , and
gave information that the church had been broken iato on the previous night , and that a robbery had been committed . A police-sergeant and a constable immediately accompanied the prisoner to the church , and , on their entering it , the prisoner pointed to one of the windows , which appeared to be broken , and represented that the thieves had , by means of that window , effected an entrance into the church . Upon going into the vestry it was ascertained that a drawer in the table that was there had been forced open , and between three and four pounds in Bilver , which bad been collected for the use of the poor , token from it . An inkstand and two surplices were also missed . The state or confusion exhibited by the prisoner created some
suspicion in the mind of the police , and inquiries were made of him , which were not answered in a very satisfactory manner , and the consequence was that he was taken into custody . The evidence to support the charge was entirely circumstantial , and consisted principally of the fact that the prisoner ' s story about the thieves having got into the church by tne window was false , inasmuch as the window appeared upon examination , to have been broken on the inside , and the state of the outside showed clearly that no one had been there . It was also shown that on the nig ht of the robbery the prisoner had mado very particular inquiries of a poliee-constable who was on duty near the spot , with regard to the extent of his beat , and the periods when he or another constable would be likely to be near
y the church . It likewise appeared that one of the surplices was found on the following day concealed in a cupboard of the church , of which the prisoner had the key , and the other was discovered in his own heuse in a hole in the attic . In addition to these facts there were a variety of other circumstances , all of them tending to exclude tbe supposition that the robbery could have been effected by any other person than the prisoner . — -Mr . Parnell addressed the jury at some length on behalf of the prisoner , and endeavoured to satisfy the jury that the evidence did not by any means show
conclusively that the prisoner must have been the guilty party ; and he also called some witnesses to prove that the prisoner was at his own house at the time the robbery was committed . The evidence , however , was not by any means of a satisfactory character , and the testimony with regard to the time when the prisoner was at his owi house not at all consistent with the probability that the prisoner might have committed the robbery at another period of the night . —Mr . Justice Creswell having summed up the whole case with great care and impartiality , the jury almost immediatel y returned a verdict of Guilty .
Post-office Robberies . —Thomas Snee , 32 , a post-office letter carrier , pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a letter containing money , the property of the Postmaster-General . Marth a Rodgers , 22 , was indicted for stealing a letter containing a Bank of England note for £ 10 , the property of the Postmaster-General . —It appeared from the statement of the learned counsel Tor the prosecution , and the evidence that . wa 3 adduced in support of it , that on the 4 th of June a lady named Rice being desirous to transmit a sum of £ 10 to her daughter at Alderney , enclosed a note for tbat amount in a letter which she posted and registered at a poatrecemng-house at Kottinghill , kept ova lady named dnderwood . The prisoner waB in ' the service of Miss Underwood , and she was present when the letter was received and the certificate of its resignation given to Mrs
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Rice . When the letter arrived at its destination in due course , it was found that the note had been abstracted , and a communication of the fact was immediately made to the post-office authorities . Inquiries were then made , and it turned out that on the 5 th of June the prisoner had gone to the shop of a tMr . Griffiths , a haberdasher , atNottmg-Mll , where she purchased several articles of oross , which she paid for with the identical note that had been stolen from the letter , and received six or seven pounds in change . When the prisoner was Rino Wh « n tin > inUm . n »;< iiui r . i u . jm . »; iM > tinn in
afterwards questioned upon the subject , she at once admitted that she had purchased the goods from Mr . Griffiths , and that she had p aid for them with a £ 10 note , but she positively asserted that the note had been in her possession since the preceding month of February . That , however , was m anifestly a falsehood , as it appeared that the note was dated in April of the present year and of course had not been issued from the Bank at the period the prisoner represented it to have been in her possession . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty . Sentence was deferred in both the Post-office cases . . .
Embezzlement . —lewis John Jones , 21 , c ^^ ' was indicted for embezzling the sums of £ 24 Us . wd ., £ 11 2 s . 6 d ., £ 4 4 s ., and other sums of money belonging to his master , John Walter Hudillestone , bavrister-at-law . —The prisoner seemed deeply affected at tho degraded position in which he had placed himself , and kept his face averted from the gaze of the court ( which was very full ) during the whole time he was in the dock . —He pleaded Guilty . —Mr . Parry , who appeared for the prisoner , in alluding to the nature of the offence , said that the case was a peculiarly distressing one , as the prisoner had , up to this time , borne a high character and been most attentive to his duties , iho reason of his present degradation was his having
been drawn into bad company and becoming addicted to betting and the company of loose women ; and , under these circumstances , he hoped the court would act as leniently ns , consistent with its duty , it could . With regard to the course pursued by his learned friend towards the prisoner he could not too warmly eulogise it . He had taken him to be his clerk when a boy , and had all along acted as a father to him , and treated him in every way as though he had been his son , —The Recorder asked over how long a period . the embezzlement extended ?—Mr . Parry said from January , 1850 ; but his learned friend ' s confidence and kindness towards the prisoner had been the reason of his not having found out his defalcations . —Mr . Ballantine said on behalf of his learned friend Mr . Huddlestone
that the duty imposed upon them io appear against a young man with whom they had been bo long associated was a most painful one , as up to this time he had stood high in the opinion of all that knew him . He ( the learned counsel ) had known him from a mere boy , and could affirm that he had been most assiduous in bis duties , and believed that his being drawn into- bad company was the cause of hia ruin . Gentlemen of their profession were of necessity obliged to place great trust in their clerks , and large sums of money came into their hands , in fact the highest responsibility was reposed in them , and seldom or ever , he was happy to say , was it misplaced , and , as a class , he had the highest opinion of their integrity and attention to the interests of their employers . The amount , as
Mr . Parry had stated , would bo muoh less than at first expected , not , he believed , above £ 80 or £ 100 instead of £ 170 . —Mr . Parry said the prisoner had told him that he expected his fees on the Oxford circuit that he was about going on with his master would have enabled him to relieve himself , but he { Mr . Parry ) thought he was too much enthralled ever to have relieved himself . —The Recorder said he should postpone passing sentence . Embezzlement . —Thomas Erskine Souper , 43 , clerk , was indicted for embezzling the 8 Utn 8 of £ 30 , £ 59 10 a ., and £ 37 the monies of William Blandford , his master . —The prisoner pleaded guilty . — Mr . Bodkin on behalf of the prisoner , said that although the sums laid in the indictment were not very heavy , he could not but inform the court that
the prisoner ' s defalcations amounted to upwards of £ 3 , 000 , and this was one of the melancholy cases where a man , holding : a highly confidential and important situation , had been induced to speculate in the purchase of railway shares with the monies of his employers . The prisoner , excepting this transaction , had borne an irreproachable character , and had for some years held the situation of clerk to the Thames Plate Glass Company , the monies of which company he had been making use of . Tho greatest confidence was reposed in him , and the company were not aware that the prisoner was a defaulter until he could no longer bear the situation in which he was placed , and gave himself into custody , making the fullest statement of the affairs of the company to the directors of which they were totally ignorant . After he had given himself up ^ tho directors of the company had permitted him to
remain at large , but ultimately preferred the charge against him . The prisoner had given up the policies of' his life-insurance to the company , who would also receive £ 500 from the Guarantee Society . The prisoner's defalcations may be said to have originated from the fact that when he first obtained the situation he had a loan of £ 1 , 500 granted him by one of the directors , to repay which nearly the whole of his salary had been stopped , to make \ ip which he had Deep speculating , and became enthralled in the manner he had , and he hoped , under these circumstances , the court would not consider this a case where it wan bound to pass the fullest sentence the law allowed for such offences . —Mr . Clarkson said the company had not any wish to press with vindictiyeneaB against the prisoner , and his statement with regard to the mode in which he had become enthralled wan
correct , but it was not correct about the money that had been lent , that was a private loan from one director , with which the company had nothing to do , and the policies spoken of had been hh bj the prisoner in bis safe when he left the company . —Mr . Bodkin then called several witnesses , who gave the pr isoner a most unexceptionable character ; several of the gentlemen eo called being , shareholders of the company . —The Common Sergeant said he should take time to consider the sentence .
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New St . Peieb ' s . —Of a verity Pio Nono is the most efficient promoter of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill . The first vehemence of the panic-irritation excited by his creation of Romanist diocese and bishops in England gave symptoms of abatement , when he must needs revive it by promulgating a scheme for establishing a permanent Italian propaganda in London . The exertions thai have been made by the promoters of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill to give a wide publicity to the Pope ' s appeal to Italian liberality for contributions towards the establishment of a collegiate church of Italian priestB , appointed and controlled frpm Rome , in the centre of the English metropolis , is a proof how unpalatable the step he has taken is sure to be in this country . He has done an unwise thing at
the worst moment for his own objects , and in the worst manner . Englishmen , who are bo fond of building and endowing churches of their own communion in foreign lands , could scarcely complain of foreigners for doing the same in theirs ; and the tolerance of a Mazzini church in . London strengthened the claim of the Pontiff to open a rival establishment here , to induce Italians to keep away from it . But the infallible has spoiled all by unnecessarily and ostentatiously identifying hia neir movement with his diocesan division of England , and by announcing ; that his college of Italian priests are not to cofine their ministrations to Italians . There can be no doubt that the opportune publication of the begging letters of the Pope and the Archbishop of Florence has reconciled many
to Sir Frederick Thesiger's amendments on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill . As for the erection and endowment of a Roman Catholic Church in London at the expense of Italians , to that by itself no reasonable objection can be offered . A good central site for it is likely to be left vacant by the removal of Smithfield Market . The corporation of London , we dare say , will not be unwilling to letthe founders of New St . Peter ' s have a " bargain " of land which they may for the moment feel rather at a loss to turn to good account ; and the locality is recommended for such a u 6 e by some of its historical associations ! One thing is certain , that neither by the erection of this churcb , nor by
any other propagandist means , are the anti-popish sentiments of Englishmen likely to be weakened , much less eradicated . Of this , Pio Nono—incapable of conceiving that the minds of men should be cast in any other mould than that in which his own has been formed—is probably ignorant ; but Cardinal Wiseman knows better . He has by this time discovered that there are other and stronger obstacles to the extension of the power of his hierarchy in England than any legislation against their titles . His efforts to evade the interrogates of the committee of the House of Commons on the Law of Mortmain show that he feels where the real impediments to the realisation of his ecclesiastical visions lie . —Spectator .
As Eminent Wacoet . —The committee of tbe House of Commons appointed to report upon the law of Mortmain requested the advantage of such information as Dr . Wiseman could afford them . The doctor , it is said , begged to consult his love of retirement by not appearing in so publio a capacity as that of a witness before a committee of the House of CommonB . He suggested , however , that his solicitor , being more conversant with the law , would prove a better witness . The solicitor was accordingly called , but stopped short when he came
to facts , alleging that his answers would betray professional confidence . The committee allowed the objection as far as it regarded the attorney , but felt that it was necessary that they should supply the deficiency by examining tbe doctor himself . In virtue of their power " to Bend for' persons , papers , and record , " they therefore issued the summons of their chairman ; but it is aaid that Golden-square was innocent of the doctor ' s presence , and tbat the said summons remains unsatisfied in the hands of the messenger .
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MONDAY , Julv . 7 . bJSSS . ' £ 2 Br EccIe 9 iastical ™ J& * . ^ $ J ® fir > *¦ *• ««* ¦ * ? vp fi-ilhi ! . 10 ! - E ° ' ? ject ( - 'd to ' tho measure because S ! lior the 0 ™ ° ™ of estates to borrow nnl' SL * l U' succe ^ ors would have to psy . On a division there aopeared—Contents , „ ' ir Non-contents 36—18 ^^' . ^" eq ^ noyiost . " The Earl of
Eumbohougb , in moving for papers , recapitulated a variety of the charges which he previously urged against the East Indian government , on account of their treatment of Joteo Peraauu . Lord BnouonAji repeated his vindication of the India Company , and courted inquiry into every detail ot the transaction in question , which he believed would result , as on many other occasional in completely exonerating theinculpated authorities . ine harl ot Embkborougu having briefly replied , the subject dropped . Tho Smithfield Market Removal Bill was read a second time on tho motion of Earl Gbanviile . Lord Montbagie moved for some papers , and added a few criticisms upon tho Ecclesiastical Titles Bill as it had come up from tho Commons .
The Marquis of Lansdowne objected to the irregular discussion of a measure which would so soon come before the house in a legitimate shape . The papers were then ordered , and their lordships adjourned ., HOUSE OP 00 MMOH 8 .-A new writ was moved for tho borough of Knaresborough , in the room of Mr . Lascelles , deceased . The Inhabited House Duty Bill went through committee , after considerable discussion , and several divisions upon amendments , which were successively negatived . On resuming , the house again resolved itself into committee , and passed the clauses of the Woods and Forests Bill . Supply . —On the motion for going into committee of supply , Sir D . Nohreys moved as an amendment , that the architect of the new Houses of Parliament
should be called upon to lay forthwith before the house a detail of his proposed plans and style of the architecture and decoration , exterior and interior , for the new House of Commons , and the halls and rooms connected with it . The Chancellor of the Exchequer trusted that the new chamber would be sufficiently complete for the house to sit therein on some midday meetings , and BO judge for itself respecting the points in question . Meantime be deprecated any interposition between the commissioners aad Mr . Barry , the architect . Mr . Hums complained of the incessant delays which had occurred in completing tho new house , and , for himself , resigned all hope of seeing it finished . ' After seme further discussion , the amendment was negatived by consent .
The house then went into committee of supply on the civil service estimates . The vote of £ 32 , 000 for secret service was opposed by Mr . Williams , who moved its reduction to £ 20 , 000 . There was a prevalent opinion that the money was chiefly spent for electioneering purposes . Colonel Sibtiiorp concurred in objecting to the vote , whose very title of " secret" he considered sufficient to condemn it . The honourable and gallant member proceeded to indicate various ways of a festive or insiduous character in which ho suspected that tho money was or might be expended by the ministers . Lord Palmebston certified the opponents of the vote that none of the money was spent in bribery or corruption , The discussion was ultimately closed by a rote , when the amendment was negatived by 140 votes to 41—99 .
A number of following votes were passed , and the house resumed . The Loan Societies Bill was road a third time and passed . The house adjourned at one o ' clock .
TUESDAY , July 8 . HOUSE OP LORDS . —The Apprentice to the Sea Service Bill waB read a third time and passod . The Attorneys' and Solicitors' Regulation Act Amendment Bill was read a second time . Lord Cranworth moved that the Expenses of Prosecution Bill be read a third time . An irregular discussion on the measure took place , in the midst of which the noble lords who took part in it were surprised by the announcement
that the question that the bill do not pass had been put by the Lord Chancellor and carried . The Earl of Siuetesbury moved the second reading of the Lodging Houses Bill , and urged strongly on their lordships the necessity of adopting measures for improving the dwellings and otherwise ameliorating the condition of the working classes in this country . The Marquis of Normanbt and Lord Kinnaibh expressed their satisfaction that thia bill had been brought before the bouse by Lord Shaftesbubt .
The Earl of Harrowby suggested that when bills were brought in for the construction of new and magnificent streets care should be taken that p rovisions wero inserted in them for the erection of lodging houses for the population displaced by . the hew streets . , Tho Marquis of Lansbownk was not desireuB to say anything in support of the bill , which spoke for itself , He approved of its limited application m tho first instance , and he had no doubt that the example sot by the large towns would ultimately lead to the general adoption of the system . He
thought , too , that Lord Harrowby ' s suggestion was most valuable , and their lordships would do well to bear it in mind when bills for constructing large streets came before tMr notice . The motion was agreed to , and their lordships soon after adjourned . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —In the House of Commons the morning sitting was occupied with , the discussion of the clauses of the Civil Bills ( Ireland ) Bill , which eventually passed through the committee , and was ordered to be reported on Thursday next .
At the evening sitting , in reply to a question put by Mr . Clay , Lord Pjomerston stated that her Majesty ' s government had not taken any step to give notice of terminating the agreement of 1841 with Denmark , regulating the dues levied by that State on goods passing the Sound , nor had any communications been entered into between this country and Russia and Prussia for the commutation of theBe dueB ; adding that , considering what Denmark had lately suffered , the present , he thought , was not the moment when a generous and friendly government shoul take a step which that Power might consider
a hostile one . Lord R . GnosvENoB moved for leave to bring in a bill to repeal , the attorneys' and solicitors' annual certificate duty . . The noble lord said he would be content not to do . more than lay his bill on the table with a view to its consideration next session ; but he would not even do that if the Chancellor of the Exohequer would say that when the Income Tax should have been decided upon he would allow this tax to be amongst the first to be conaidered with a view to its repeal .
the Chancellor ot the Exchequer opposed the motion , and eaid however happy he might be to say " yes" to every proposal for the reduction of taxes , yet due regard to the finances of the country would not permit him to go further in the way of repealing taxes than he had indicated , in his financial statement . If , however , he were in a different position , he did not think that the duty ia question was the precise one which should take precedence of all others in being abolished . : After a few words from Lord It . Gbostbnor in repljt The house divided , and the numbers were—For the Motion ... ... ... 162 Against it ... . „ 132 Majority against the government . 30
The Ballot . —Mr . H . Berkeley then moved for leave to bring in a bill for the protection of Parliamentary electors by taking votes by ballot . He reiterated his former arguments against the existing system , and in reply to the remark of Lord John Russell , that it worked well , he asked how a system could be said to work well which deterred one-third of the electors from recording their votes , ; ( hear , hear ;) which gave to certain peers the power of returning ninety-eight members of that house by direct interference , and coerced agricultural voterB into an electoral flock of sheep ? ( Hear , hear . ) But even supposing it did work well , a good end was effected by means the most abominable and unconstitutional . ( Hear , hear . ) In illustration of the actual working of the system he drew attention to certain transactions at elections which had occurred since his motion last year , whence he deduced
evidence of the prevalence of intimidation , a greater evil in the system than corruption , and which pressed with peculiar severity upon the agricultural tenantry , nvsvny of whom , he said , it degraded into abject slaver / . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Berkeley relieved the drynesB of his details b y a humourous mode of treatment , diversifying StatWtiCB by anecdote , and concluded with an appeal to high authorities in support of the ballot , and by calling upon Lord John Russell to reconsider this question for the sake of the people of England . ( Cheers . ) ^ Jlr . Ellis seconded the motion , and bore testimony to the amount of intimidation and coercion practised upon all descri ptions of voters , but especially the tenant farmers , by both political parties . Mr . Humb considered that the arguments of Mr . Berkeley were unanswerable , and impressed upon tbe government the importance of grnntiBg a con-
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cession which he believed was essential totnefuturo welfare of the coumry . ( Hear , nestr . ) The motion however , he said , aimed at only a part of his object ; he had , therefore moved , as an amendment , to extend the electi ve franchise t . o all men of full n ^ e rated to the poor ; to limit the duration of parliament to three years ; and to make the proportion of representatives more consistent with the amountof population and property . Ho urged at some length the expediency of these several chants expatiating upon the evil consequences which n . 'id arisen and would arise from delaying thorn , and no warned the noble lord that unless the ballot formed a park of his scht'nie of reform next session it would not give satisfaction . As it was desirable to obtain the opinion of the house upon this question of the ballot , he sbonld not move his amendment , but support tho original motion . » . . lm . kn iniiinn / i nn n > . » i . i ; . i i . iL . f . 1
Captain Scobbll , adverting to tho intimidation which had been employed in the late election at Bath , said he could not as : m honest and faithful representative abstain from declaring , on this first occasion of iiis . ¦ id dressing' the house , tlio absolute justico , expediency , and necessity of sheltering men in the exercise ' of rights whicli tho constitution gavothem . The house having divided , this motion wns carried also against the governmeiit , by 87 to 50 . Mr . Scully moved ; v resolution that , to lighten the poor law in Ireland , it is expedient to facilitate the employment of the inmates of workhouses in reproductive labour , so as to make thesa establishments self-supporting , lie showed that , under the present system , labour was thrown away or misapplied , and suggested means whereby " it might be made a source of relief to the payers of the poor rate .
The motion was seconded by Mr . O'Fmiierty , who stated that the experiment had been successfully tried in his union . Sir W . Soherviixb said , the Toor Law Commissioners were anxioua to provide industrial employment for the inmates of the workhouses ; but to make the products of pauper labour enter into competition with those of tho general labour market was a very different thing , aiid was open to serious objections . He could not consent to a motion for so vague a resolution , and he hoped the house would leave the matter iu the hands of the
Commissioners . Mr . Roche did not think that workhouses should be converted into great mamifaotoriosfor competing with free labour ; but means might be found of employing every idle hand in Ireland . Mr . P . Scropk , in sunpovtit-. j ; the motion , contended that the employment of paupers in reproductive labour was not inconsistent with sound political economy . They might be employed in producing food , clothing , and articles for their own consumption . The savings of tho taxpayer would set free labour in motion . Sir J . Walsh said government funds wero notasked ; all the motion sought was merely that , with tho funds at the command of the commissioners , paupers should be employed in reproductive labour , instead of remaining idle . There was no fear that it would displace freo labour , though it might stimulate it .
Colonel Donne supported tho motion , believing its principle to be absoutcly necessary in order to carry out any Poor Law ia Ireland . Colonel Thompson likewise advocated the motion . Sir L . O'Brien should vote for the motion , believing that the objections to it might be over come . Mr . S . Crawfobd considered that , under the oircurnstanoes of Ireland , this waa the only remedy for the evil of congregating large bodies of men in workhouses .
Lord G . Hamilton hoped that , in tho peculiar state of Ireland , the motion would bo received favourably . Mr . J . Wilson opposed the motion , observing that the house should be jealous in guarding the rights of the independent ' labourer , and not force him into unfair competition with paupers—the very error committed under the old English Poor Law . Mr . H . Herbert should vote for the motion if the labour was to be confined to the workhouse , The motion was likewise supported by Lord Naas and Sir H . Barron / wIio charged Mr . Wilson with misrepresenting its object .
Tho Chancellor of the Exchequer asked what was to be the practical result of this resolution ? If it wa 9 simply to approve of what tbe commissioners had done , it could do no harm ; but if its object was to change the course which they had pursued , that is , to place the inmates of workhouses in a better situation than independent , labourers , it would be a fatal measure , impairing the stringency Of the WOfkhouse test . Mv . HautB-sr agreed with the Chancellor of the Exchequer that nothing could be more dangerous to Ireland than to break down the workhouse test ;
but he did not see how the employing paupers in reproductive labour in workhouses would do so . Still less could he understand the argument which Mi . Wilson had drawn from outdoor relief under the old Poor Law . He should vote for the motion . Mr . Labouchere objected to the resolution that it appeared to affirm a now principle ; and contended tbat , if the commissioners were to apply their attention to the making labour in workhouses reproductive , the pauper labourers would be placed in circumstances that must lessen the stringency of the test .
Sir D . Nobrets also opposed the motion as being either useless or mischievous . Mr . Scully replied to objections , and the house having divided , the motion wa 3 negatived by 64 to ¦ 4-2 The Mercantile Marine Act Amendment Bill and the Militia Ballots Suspension Bill were each read a second time . The report of the Committee of Supply was brought up and agreed to . The house adjourned at a quarter past twelve o ' clock . .. ' - ' , . . ' ¦ ¦
"WEDNESDAY , Jutr , 9 . HOUSE OE COMMONS—COLONIAL Propebtt Qualification Bill . —On the motion that the house go into committee on this bill , Mr . Totnell moved that it be an instruction to the committee to provide for tho abolition of any property qualification for the election of members to serve in parliament . He should have been cod tent to leave this question in the'hands of his noble friend at the head of the government , to be dealt with by him in the new Reform Bill which he would propose next session , but when a bill was before the house the effect of which was to give a sanction and continuance to the system to whioh he objected , he trusted that the house would exouse him if he took
this opportunity of bringing before them the larger question whether the members of English and Irish constituencies ought not to be put upon the same footing as their brethren of Scotland , from the representatives of which country no qualification was demanded . He was only asking the . houaeto revert to the old constitutional practice ofjeaving tho electors to exercise a free and independent choice in the selection of those members whom they might wish to represent them in parliament . The act of parliament establishing a property qualification waa introduced at a period of our history to whioh he should not wish to have recourse for any constitutional prinoiple . Previous- to the passing of the 1 st and 2 nd Victoria , c . 48 , by order of the
21 st November , ! 1717 , it was ruled that any person whose qualification was expresBly objected to should within , fifteen days deliver in a statement of his rental and particular of hiB lands . And of all such lands which he had not possessed for three years he should give the name of the person from whom , and the nature of the deed , by which he claimed the same , and tbe consideration paid , and the names and residences of the witnesses . Since the 1 st and 2 nd Yiotoria , c . 48 , this order , which was a sessional order , had not been made , and by section 3 of that act all the particulars required might be given so as to render it impossible to prove a negative . A member had never yet been required to prove his Qualification , or to support it till disproved
prima fade . An attempt was made m the first Reform Bill to introduce into Scotland ' the same system of qualification of members of par : liament which prevailed in England , but tbat attempt was so ill received in Scotland that it was abandoned . But there was no reason whatever why this anomaly should be continuedany longer / At tho period when , the Qualification Act was passed it was supposed that England w ae not favourable to the Stuarts , but that Scotland might be sufficiently relied upon , so as to prevent the necessity of any qualification whatever ; : at present there was no meaning in the distinction . ' The other day neve members took their seats for Cork , Boston , and Leith . Tho members for Cork and ¦ Boston had to
produce their qualifications ; while the member for Leith was not called upon to produce his . It was unreasonable that a member of the Court of Directors of the East India Company should be excluded from this house for want of a property qualification , when the possession of a considerable amount of stock was . necessary to qualify him for a seat in that Direction . Under the present system the' law was evaded , for persons having no qualification whatever , by a slight stretch of conscience , obtained ' one . Many persons ' were sIbo exempted from the necessity of a Qualification , as , for instance , the
Scotch members , the members for the Universities , and the eldeBt Bons of Peere , and persons qualified for Knights of tho Sbire . Among many of the agricultural districts there had been a strong wish expressed tbat their interests Bhould be represented in tbat house by tenant-farmers , and he thought that that would be a good measure , and would produce a fusion of parlies ; but the tenant-farmers were too poor to possess the present qualification ; and too honest to obtain , a fiotitious one . He' only asked to give to the proaent constituencies created by the Beform Act , and those which' be' trusted would be created undei ? the New JtefOTjn Act the
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free and independent choice of their representatives in that house . ( Cbeors . ) Mr . Ewaut seconded the motion , and said that he did so on tho ground that he sat in that house as a Scotch member , requiring no qualification , and that he did not conceive he was better entitled to sit without a qualification tlum any one of the Enslish or Irish members . Tho qualification was an * unconstitutional demand , and it was time that it was done away with . Lord J . Russei . 1 , said the proposal Of his rigut hon friend oamo in rather a singular sliaue-fUwir . hear ) -becau 30 tho bill which the house bad to consider waa a lull extending tho qualification to certain other property which was not at present a ftUiUincatlOD , and his right hon . fiioml proposed by » ... ... ...
way of amendment to tlio bill to strike out and abolish all qualification whatsoever . It appeared to him that that was a totally different proposition from the bill before the house . It was quite a different question whether or not there was any utility in keeping up a qualification for seats in that house as it at present stood , JTo thought the arguments of his right hon . friend on that subject had a greab deal of weight in them . ( Hear , hear . ) His right hon . friend had very truly alleged that there w « ra in former times realities in tbe provisions that those who represented shires should bo knights , girt with a sword , awl that thos ; who represented boroughs should ( jo burgesses resident in those boroughs . Those wero realities , and so long a 3 they were in accordance with the state of society it was perhaps desirable to maintain them . But that state of society had entirely passed away . ( Hear . ) Kniahta girt with sworda wero not gentlemen different from
those who came as burgesses , representatives of boroughs . One was , in fact , no more a knight than the other was a burgess resident . So for as those provisions were concerned , parliament took away tho necessity of the burgesses residing in the boroughs , and persons not resident might bo elected . But in the reign of Qeeen Anne the landed interest being very jealous of the advance of trade and commerce , bethought them of a now qualification , % new restriction , utterly at variance with the ancient qualification , because it provided that those representatives of cities and burgesses who wero formerly poi'sOiis resident in those cities and boroughs and who had no property oxcepfc their own trade or what they made by merchandise , and such manufactures and wares as they disposed of , should all bo landowners : m < l have such a qualification . In his opinion , that provision was very unadvisable , ( IIe : »\) No doubt it was intended to strengthen the landed interest in that house . The law had
certainly been placed on more reasonable conditions , and more in conformity with the state of society , by the alterations made on the proposnl of his friend Mr , Warburton , who was no longer a member of that house ; but who was a very distinguished ornament of it while ho had a seat in it . ( Hear , hear . ) That gentleman suggested to the house , in a manner that convinced them , that the qualification should be extended , and should embrace persons who had private property of a nature which had grown up since the land qualification
was created . But now , that having been done and those alterations having been made , was there ia fact any security in property qualification as it now existed ? { Hear , hear . ) Was it not notorious , ns his right hon . friond said that persons elected to that house who had any credit at all , or connexions who would help them to a qualification , had no difficulty in obtaining one , and in sitting in that house , by a qualification perfectly good in law , although , in point of fact , they were not persona holding the exact qualification ? And every now and then there occurred a case in which an
objection was made betore an election committee , although fifty or sixty members mig ht have been entirely without a real qualification , that by soma mistake a member bad not obtained a qualification , and therefore was not to sit in that house . There was , therefore , no security for the present qualification . Another notorious fact waa that all Scotch members sat there without qualification—( hear)—and hetbougntit would be no very great compliment to him if he said they were at all inferior in rank nnd property and habits of business and capacity for legislating in that house to the members for England and Ireland . ( Hear , hear . ) That beiug the case , he certainly could not see why this question of qualification should not bo taken into consideration by parliament . ( Hear , htav . \ But it did not appear to him that that was
tho way in which it ought to be done ; to propoSQ to amend a bill providing certain qualifications in addition to the present qualification , by saying they would have no qualification at all , did not seem to him a fair or proper way of bringing the quesj tion under the consideration of parliament . ( Hear , hoar . ) Either it should , be by a special bill for that purpose introduced , with the view to abolish property qualification altogether , or by a bill for genoral purposes relating to our representation , in which it might form a clause . In either way in which it might be introduced , he certainly was willing to give that qiveauoa a favourable consideration . ( Hear , hear . ) Then it was to be considered whether there would be any danger at all , supposing all qualification was done away-
whether members returned to that house , would not be , it ) faot , perfectly as well qunlified as the present members to sit there . It ap » pearcd to him that would form in fact a very real qualification ; whether a desirable qualification or not might be matter of dispute , and he dared to say that an honourable gentleman whom he saw opposite ( Mr . F . O'Connor ) might dispute it , but he thought what did form a real qualification was that no person , without some considerable means , who was not resident in London , waa able to maintain a seat in that house , and to go to the expense of coming to live in London and leaving any business in which he might be engaged . Take the case of a tradesman in a small town , or of a farmer . He had no objection to see a tenant
farmer in that house , if the freeholders and electors choose to send him there ( hear , hear ) , but he certainly should think , for his own sake , tbat rery probably hia aUendaw . e in that house at the close of spring and the greater part of the summer would bo very injurious to his ploughing , sowing , and gathering in . ( A lauah . ) So , likewise as to a small tradesman—his custom would very much " suffer . They oven saw now there were many persons of considerably larger income who found them * selves , after being : some two or three years in that house , unable to afford the expense of being members of tbat houne , and neglect the business
in which they were engaged ; so that they would have , in fact , by the nature of things , a real qualification , if there were no requirement of the kind . If they bad the People's Charter and members were paid they would hot have that security ; but ho never meant to gi ? e his vote in'favour of the payment of members . ( Hear , hear . ) ' They did much better without it ; hut with regard to the subject of qualification , though he could not vote for the present motion , yet he could assure his right' hon . ' friend tbat when the subject was brought forward as a whole and separate question he Bhould give big supportt' it .
Mr . NEWDEOATb said , there appeared to be a perfect scramble on the other Bide as to who should be tho father of the future Reform Bill . ( A lauehj Hon , members Beeosed determined that the author of the Reform Bill of 1832 , should have as little as possible to do with tho origin of tbe Reform Bill of 1852 . ( Hear . ) Never had he seen such want of confidence in their leader . The right hon . gentleman , by his amendment , wished to get rid of all qualification , rather th « n admit . our subjects in the colonies to any representation in that house ; and would at once plunge the house into the wid «
questions that arose on the abolition of all property qualification whatever . The right hon . gentleman would retain the qualification of electors , but would abolish'that of representatives . He admitted tho law was defective , but if the definition of the qualification waa 'imtiifficient , let them define it ; if it was restricted , extend it ; but let them not at onipe plunge into the abolition of all qualification . Th « motion was only an endeavour to get rid of the bill of tho hon . member for Gateshead by a side wind and had raised a question lor whioh the house W * B not prepared . ; : ; ' ' , ' ' . ' . '
Mr . 'HENLB ? thought thia motion was hot brought forward in a very convenient matter , beoauao it wa g perhaps one of tin- largest questions that ' could be brought under their consideration . Thd right hon . gentleman asked tho house to restore the ' people of this country to what was their ancient right : B » far as he ( Mr . Henley ) could understand tbe anofehfc practice of this country , the people were alwagi restrained to certain classes in the choice df then ? representatives ; He would aln > os ( j s ; iy h « defied the , right hon . gentleman to make out' the " proposition " he asked'the house to sanction , ^ ! restoring to . the . people of thia country their ancient and ' uudflab ' tei right . Th « noble lord said certain" clausea of ifi © people of this country , who might desire to sit 'i * that house , ' and might be ' returned , ' would fief great practical difficulty in abandoning their buiU nesBto sit in that house . Any one who knew : what a sacrifice of time was necessary now to oceuDv a
seat in Parliament , would agree te that ; bit he could ' not Say ' tlie noble lord bad drawx * a correct conclusion from that state of things , because .. there existed in this country—ag in all others—a clas * whorejoiced'in ' the designation , of " gentleman at large . " ; Now , that claBs * comprised' manv ' wht might bo'defeignated as political adventurers , and they would'be ju « t the class wtio would reeommei * tnenwelves by very specious promises to different constituencies ; and it would be no inconvenient to them to give up their timei but he doubted whetfltr lfc would not be a very great injury to that house *• ) e filled by persona of that description . Tbe noM » lord had said there was no real security existing ia tbepresen t qualification ; but he illustrated it m a very extraordinary manner , because the mobte Mf « s ' aia that any person of credit or connexions hM »* difficulty in obtaining a qualification ; but if a . »» had such an amount of credit , or snob . ° , ° "S * j ° ? 3 j ' as to induce another to trust him with ¦«« ' »« "
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