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      THE RATIONAL SCHOOL GRAMMAR , AND ENTERTAINING CLASS BOOK . By Wm . Bill . —Manchester : Abel Hey wood , Oldhamstreet ; and Hobson , Star office , Leeds . A new and enlarged and greatly improved edition of this useful manual , has jnst made its appearance . It has been got up in an exceedingly neat and beautiful manner , by Mr . Hey wood , of Manchester , in whose hands the copyright of the edition is vestedj and to ¦ whom great credit attaches for the excellence and correctness of Ms workmanship . It is a grammar , as -we need not inform our readf rs , suitable for the -whole people , and ought to be extensively circulated ; it 3 price is -within . the means of a very large proportion of the community .

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      ZJ—EEDS . —Extensive Damage . —On Saturday last , four lads , the eldest only thirteenyear 3 of agej named Edward Riley , James Wallis , Thos . Mourn , and Pa-trick Getting * , were charged with having ; on the same morning , trespassed in a field , in the occupation of Mr . Outhwaite , on the Chapel Town Boad , and with haring committed damage by undermining a bank in the field , for the purpose of getting stones . They were found in the field at an early hour , by one of Mr . Outhwaite ' s servants , who sent for the police , by -whom the mother of one of them was seen near the field watching . The damage done was proved to exceed sis -shillings , which the lads were OTdered to pa- ? , -with the expenses , or in default , to go to Wakefield for fourteen days .

      The Oastlee Subscription . —On Monday evening a meeting of tbe friends of Mr . Richard Oastler ¦ was held at Mr . Smith's , the Commercial Hotel , Albion-street , Leeds , in order to take steps for the promotion of a subscription to aid the general fund commenced in London , to procure the liberation of Mr . Oastler from tbe Fleet prison , and to provide him with a suitable annuity after his enlargement . Mr . Wm . Atkinson was called to the chair ; he addressed the meeting in a good speech , pointing out the sterling qualities of Mr . Oastler , as the enemy of oppression , the sworn advocate of the cause of the factory children , the opponent of the New Poor Law , the friend of humanity ia general , and the able defender of the British constitution . Eloquent and forcible addresses in support of the cause which the meeting had met to uphold , were also delivered by Mr . Mallinson , Mr . Summers , Mr . Perring , hersIt

      Mr . Pounder , Mr . SmithsQn , and ot . was resolved to immediately commence a subscription on behalf of . Mr . Oastler upon tbe basis of tbe subscription originated amoEg the friends of" that gentleman in LondoD , but subject to the control of the local subscribers as to its final appropriation . A committee was appointed to superintend the subscription , with power to add to their number , consisticg of the Chairman , Mr . Heywood , Mr . Joshua Bower , Mr . George Denman , Mr . Robert Pounder , Mr . Richard Stead ; Jan ., Mr . Joshua Hobson . Mr . Summers , Mr . Robert Clayton , Sir . Perring , Mr . A . Maliinson . Mr . Singleton , and Mr . John Daniel . The Chairman was appointed Treasurer , and Mr . John Beekwuh Hon . Secretary . After passing resolutions to effect the above objects , thanks were toted to the Chairman , and the meeting broke up . The resolutions will be found advertised in another column .

      Assault o . \ a W at chman . —On Monday last , a sweep-named Ephraim Wood , was brought up at the Court House , on a charge of having , at an early hour on Sunday morning , commit led an assault upon Cordukes , a watchman , whom he also threatened to stab . TBeprisoner is a well knows " disorderly , " ' and having been found walking the s : reets drunk , at two o ' clock on Sunday morning , he wa 3 ordered home . Instead of obeying , he turned Turk , and refused to budge , having previously drawn his knife , ¦ with which he threatened to rip up" anv one who

      _ igH approach him . The watchman had with him a very quiet dog , which Wood seized , a : d cut its bowels open . This dog , by the bye , belongs to nobody , but attends the watchmen every night when they go on duty , accompanies some one or other ef them during the night , goes to ofice punctually at six o ' clo : k , when they are dismissed , and is not again seen till sine o'clock again . Tie poor animal was immediately taken proper care of , and hopes are entertained it will yet live to attend its nightly duty . The ferocious prisoner was fined £ 5 . and in default of pavmeut sent for two months to Wakefield .

      Robberies . —On Monday night the shop of Mr . Wilson , in Chapel-street , Hunslet , was broken open and four hides in an unfinished state , and some welts were Etolen . On the same night all the bells and the brass hat pins , were stolen from an empty house . No . 20 , Grove-terrace . Melancholy and Fatal Event troji Fire Abhs . —We have this week to record another of those fatal events which it so frequently falls to the lot of the public journalist to notice , arising from the incautious use of fire arms . It is not , however , want of caution , alone iu \ his instance ; we are afraid we do not speak too strongly when we say that gross oirelessuess has beeu exhibited . The occurrence we have to notice is of an extremely painful and

      distressing nature , and has resulted in the dtath of a young lady in her sixteenth year , the daughter of Mr . Mawson , one of the vergers of York Cathedral . It took placa at the hous e of Mr . J . D . Hep worth , surgeon-aurist , Leeds , on Friday evening last , under the following circumstances : —On the morning of the day mentioned , ( Friday ) , Mr . Hepwonh had been out before breakfast , with a donble-barreiled gun , to shoot at some pigeons , in a field adjoining his garden . He had bat three cap / and after firing twice , both barrels being l then loaded , he had only one cap left with -which he fired off the left hand barrel , and left the ri ^ ht land barrel charged with a mixture of No . 5 and 6 shot , in which state he sent the gun home ; and it

      being entirely without caps , aud Mr . Hepworth opi knowing that there were any in the house , the gun was dt posited 5 n its usual plac ? , a room on the ground floor , accessible to all his family , but which , being generally used for surgical operations , _ he avers his children were discharged from entering . Here , however , the gun was placed without , as it appears , even so much as a caution that either of the barrels were charged . Mr . Hepworth did not dine at home on that day , and after dining out he went with some friends to the theatre ; Mr . * . Hepworth , it would appear , wa 3 out in the evening also , and in addition to Mr . Hepworth's family , there were in the house Miss MawsoD , a youth named Smallwood , eon of Mr . Smailwood ,

      of Middlethorpe , near York , ( who , as well as Miss Mawson , was under surgical treatment for deafness , ) and a sou of Mr . Kitson , engineer , who was visiting young HepTrorth . It appears that in the course ot the morning , Master Hepworth ( who is about eleven years of age , ) and Master Smallwood , whilst going an errand into Bri ^ gate , bought some percussion caps , and thus , unkeown to Mr . Hepworth , they had had them in their possession . Smallwood , who seems to be a judge of such things , thought these caps were not good ones , because they were not Suted , and is said to have remarked to Master Hepwonh that they were such as occasioned frequent accidents . However , about ; eight o'clock in the eveniEg , a Heel was procured , on tbe end

      of wnicn one of these caps was stuck , and the steel was then dropped on to the hearthstone , to try if it would explode . Ir did explode , and Master Hepwonh having then three or four in his possession , Smallwood persuaded him to throw them into the fire , for fear something should happen . They were thrown into the fire , a :: d Smallwood also threw some of his in , bat not all , for immrdiatelj after Master Hepwonh , who seemed to have repented the destruction of his share , after being refused others by Smallwood , suddenly thrust his hand into the waistcoat pocket of the latter , and again possessed himself of two caps . Ho then infmediately left the room , and almost instantaneously , as it would appear , returned , and , before any of

      the party saw him , Miss Mawson was stretched a corpse on the floor . The roem in which the -tra- gieal occurrence took place is a very small , one on the ground floor , its dimensions ; not beiEg core than two yards by three ,: and the door of which is opposite to that in which the gun was deposited , only a lobby being between them . In this room were sat , at a smail j work-table , Miss Mawson , engaged , unconscious of ; danger , at her needle . Masters Smallwood and Kitson , and an infant of Mr . Hepworth ' s . None of these saw ekner the gun or Master Hepwcrib after he left the room . Master Kufoq sajs he heard him exclaim , " See . Miss Mawson , " but before he could raise his eyes , the fatal trigger had been .

      drawn . It is not to be supposed that more than half ; a yard wonld intervene between the muzzle of the i ¦ gun and Miss Mawson ' s head j she received then whole charge en masse , ju . it above the right ear , and ] oi * course her brains were blown out , and the skull frightfully fractured . Death , under these circum- j stances , must have been instantaneous . The greatest < conf ^ aon immediately prevailed in the house , and a crowa of persons were soon assembled .. It was some time be / ore Mr . Hepworth could be found ; and the state of niind of both himself and Mrs . Hepworth on learning ti > e sad tidings may be better imaginedthan described . An inquest was held on the body of Miss I Mawson , on Saturday evening , before John Black- barnEsq . at which ihese circumstanceswere d ' e-

      , , tailed , and Mast « Hepworth stated that he had not j the slighest know "ledge of the gun being loaded , nor j did he point it at -&is 3 Mawson : he held it in his j hand , with the cap on the nipple , and the lock was j too strong for hi 3 fix "ge" to Dold - The Jn ? fc f ^ i consulting together , i , '"turned a verdict of Acci-f dental Dea b " adding * ' n * t they could not separate i without expressing in s . * ™ ng terms their feeling J Hut the conductof Mr . . Hepwortb , in lexrutgbial gun charged in an unpiotet ^ situation , had been marked by extreme carelessn * ¦ & > and deserved censure : they a : the same time ex . ™" essed » a ° Pe w > at » , would be a warning to Mmin fii " Vure « I

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      Leeds Cottm Housb . —In consequence of the delays which almost daily occur ia the transaction of tnepoKee business at the Court Hou 3 e , from tho late or non-attendance of prosecutors or witnesses , the Magistrates have come to the determination of discharging all prisoners , the parties against whom are not ready when tbe case is called on . We are g ' ad to hear that the Magistrates havo , at last , determined to transact the daily business in the large Court-, except when that is occupied by the Q-iarter Sessions . The nuisance of the small Court , or Rotation Office , has been by us frequently allnded to , and we are happy to congratulate both the Bench and the public on the decision .

      Accident tbom Furious Driving —On Tuesday last , John Tunnacliffe , of Pudsey , was charged at Leeds Court Honse , with having , on the 9 th of April last , on the Wellington-road , run . over a little boy , named Rowland Cawood , son of Mr . Cawood , woolstapler , residing at 2 , Little Qneen-street , by which the splinter bone of his leg was broken ,. and he received other injuries which had confined him to the house ever since . It was proved that Tunnacliffe was driving at a most furiou 3 rate—tacing , iu fact with the Bradford coach , aHd that his conduct was very reprehensible . Mr . Braithwaite , surgeon , has since attended the Jad , and Tunnacliffe had promised time after time fo settle the affair . This he had " neglected to do , and the affair came before the magistrates , who ordered him to pay a fine of 50 s . and ¦ the cost ? , or in default to go to Wakefield for a month .

      Cloth Stolen . —On Tuesday last , eight yards of tweed cloth , value about Is . 8 d . per yard , was stolen from the white cloth hall , Leeds , between the hours of twelve and two o ' clock . Death bt Drowning . —On Tuesday last , an inquest was held a the Robin Hood Inn , East-street , Leeds , before Mr . Hopps , Deputy Coroner , on the body of Mary Rowley , thirteen years of age , who resided with ' her mother in Hammond ' s Buildings , Low Fold , and whose body was found in the river Aire , on Monday morning . The deceased had for some time been in a desponding way , and was not seen after nine o ' clock on Sunday nighf . The rirer was searched on account of her having frequently said she should drown herself ; but there was no evidence to show that she had dene so , or how she came into the water . The jury , therefore , returned a verdict of " found drowned . '"

      Death bt Burning . —On Tuesday morning , an vnqiaesv vras held at the Cfturt House , before Mr . Hopps , Deputy Coroner , on the body of Sarah Ann Wood , whose parents reside ia Bkzard's-y&rd , Meadow-lane . Tbe clothes of deceased , who was eleven years of age , caught fire on Sunday morning , and she was so burnt that she died on Monday . Verdict , " Accidental death . " Pubse Lost —On Tuesday morning last , Captain Luard , of the Royal Artillery , now stationed in Leed 3 Barracks , had the misfortune to lose a silk purse , containing two or three £ 5 notes , a sovereign and a half , and some silver . It was lost between Briggate and the Free Grammar School .

      Stealing a Watch . — On Tuesday last , a girl of the town named Mary Ann Whitfield , and her fancy man , ' John Oliver Wilks , were charged before the magistrates at Leeds Court House , with having stoien a silver watch ; the property of Robert SaxoD , a cloth weaver . The prosecutor was walking along Kirkgate , on Monday nighr , in a state of happy obliviousness of all human affairs , when he was met by three girls , one of whom , ( the prisoner ) kindly eased him of bis watch , of course to save somebody

      else the trouble ; this she handed to v > llks , and told him to cut . " He did cut , but the transaction having been witnessed by a respectable female who was j * i ? t by , she gave information to the police , and was able to give such a description of the offenders , as led to their apprehension . Wilks was stopped and searched in York-street , by the burial-ground rails , but nothing was found on him ; tbe watch , however , was afterwards found to have been thrown by him into the burial ground . They were both sworn to , and were committed for trial .

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      Being in Time . —It 13 currently reported that money has been actually paid on account , for a seat to witness the execution of Good . Mchdkr by a Highwayman . —A desperate highwayman of the old school has been detected in full practice in the immediate neighbourhood of London , and . be has signalised hi 3 seizure by a murder . Several persons have complained lately thai they had been stopped and robbed in the fields near Hornsey Wood . One of these was a brewer ' s collecting-clerk , who had £ 70 in his pocket ; but he made the robb « r bel ' . eye that 11 s . was " his all "; and the latter magnanimously relumed him a shilling . Moss , an active policeman , was set to watch ; and at half-past three o ' clock on Thursday afternoon ,

      he saw a dark young man , whose waist , was bulky , as if he had weapons concealed about him . following a ' gentleman on the road to Hornsey Wood . The Policeman approached , not heeding the warning to stand ^ ack ; and the man drew a horse-pistol from his side and fired ; shattering the Policeman ' s left arm . , He fled across the fields towards Highbury , pursued by the wounded Policeman aud Motte , a journeyman baker , who was near . the spot . At Highbury South , he ran down a blind lane ; and then , seeing escape impo 5 ? ible , he stood at bay . Several persons had now joined in the pursuit Motte rushed forrrard to sieze him , and received the ball from one pistol in his left arm ; and the contents of an . other pistol passed through the heart of Policemanj Daly . A crowd closed upon the murderer ; whoexclaimed , "I ' m done now ! I give myself up " and he surrendered his pistols . A . knife , stained with blood , was found concealed in his watch-fob .

      He'is a small man , very fair , and thin and sharp in the fa ; e . Taken before a magistrate , he said that his iame is Tfeomas Cooper ; that he is twenty-three 5 H ? ars : of age ; and that he had been out of work . After he was placed in confinement , he became very skk ^ and it was supposed that he had taken poison ; butja medical man atributed the sickness to his state of excitement . Cooper was placed before the Magistrate atCJerkenwell Police-office , on Saturday ; and the first surmise a 3 to his having swallowed poison proved to be correct ; for he was suddenly taken ill , and then he confessed that he had swallowed arsenic and laudanum , as he fled from Moss . He-was carried to the House of Correction , and placed under medical care . An inquest was opened on Friday , on the body of Daly ; but it was at once adjourned till Monday , and from that day again to Wednesday .

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      HOUSE OF LORDS . —Friday , May 6 . The Bishop of Norwich presented several petitions , complaining of the employment of very young children of both sexes in tbe most severe drudgery of the collieries . Lord Fitzwilliam deprecated any interference on the part of tbe Legislature with the right of the subject to choose bis own means of subsistence , and urged the necessity , if restrictions were imposed in the case of the colleries , of extending the inquiry into every branch of labour in which children were employed . The Marquis of Londonderry declared that in the districts of the Tyne and Wear such hardships as those described in tbe petitions presented were wholly unknown .

      The Marquis of NORM AN BY explained that the inquiry had been intended to include the case of children employed in factories of every description ; and Lord Fitzwilliam argued that it should also extend to those employed in agriculture ^ who were , be contended , from tbe low wages they obtained , in a worse position than the better fed colliers . Another petition on the same questien from Sittingbourne "was presented by Lord VVinchilska whicb-led to a short conversation , in-which the Bishop of LONDON took pAit , on the comparative advantages to the labourer of employment in agriculture and manufactures . The subject thea dropped . Lord Brougham afterwards introduced his bill for tho regulation of election committees of the Lower House , aud briefly explained that its object -was to grant to committees additional powers to obtain evidence , and also to afford effectual protection to tbe witnesses tbey might examine .

      A short and somewhat angry discussion ensued between the Marquis of Norinanby and the Marquis of Londonderry on the subject of some aspersioBS cast by the latter nobleman upon the White magistrates of Stmderland ; after which the House adjourned .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS , Thursday , May 5 . Mr . Roebuck gave notice that he should next day put questions to Lord Chelsea , Mr . Rmsell , Sir Q . Larpent , Sir J . Hobhouse , Captain Plumridge , Mr . H . Elphiustone , Mr . John Attwood , and Major Beresfoid , inquiring whether they were cognizint of , or parties to , any arrangement or understanding , by which it was agreed , iu order to facilitate the return of other persons for the places which they represented , that those Hon . Members should accept the stewardship of her Majesty's Chiltexn Hundreds , thereby vacating the seats to which they had been declared duly elected by the select committee appointed to try the merits of the petitio .: B against their returns ? He staomld also move for a select committee to inquire if certain practices said to have been resorted to in the election of certain members of that House were not a gross breach of privilege ; and expressed bis determination to oppose the issue of new writs until these questions were satisfactorily answered .

      Mr . Hutt moved for copies of circulars by the Secretary of StHte for the Home Department to the varicus town-clerks or clerks to tbe magistrates , between the months of August and December , 1841 , requiring information as to the state of the magistracy in their respective towns . Sir J . Graham bad expected that a distinctive motion would have been made on which he could have asked tbe House for a decided expression of its opinion . But tbe weakness of the present motion , to which no opposition would be given , was in strong con . trast with the condemnatory language used by the mover of it .

      A very considerable number of members uow folio-wed in succession , each addressing his observations - with special reference to the particular place ¦ which ho represented , or was connected with . So eager , indeed , "weTe Members to speak , that much amusement was occasionally created by the numbers who literally " leaped up" to catch the Speaker ' s eye , whenever it -was supposed that any particular Member addressing the House was about to sit down . The object of each speakerusing his local knowledge or information—was to vindicate or criminate the late Government in their magisterial appointment * . The names of the different speakers were—Sir John Hanmer , Mr . Henry Berkeiy , Mr . Brotherton , Sir Charles Douglas , Captain Mangles , Col . Sibthorp , Lord Robert Grosvcnor , Mr . Mainwaring , Mr . H . Lumbton , Mr . Tatton Egerton , Mr . Jervis , Mr . Scarlett , Mr . Cillaghm , Captain Fitzroy , Mr . Vernon Smith , and Mr . Wakley .

      Sir R . Peel desired that those -who found fault ¦ with the form of Mr . Hutt ' s motion would recollect how pdzzling it must have been to frame the motion at all ; and fee suggested several formulas , each of ¦ which he snowed to be inconvenient and unavailable for the purpose of a vote . H « feared that some party spirit was inseparable even from the judicial instilutiors of a free peoplo ; but this freedom had countervailing advantages , which he was sure the House would not be willing to forego . The defence of the Government had been -wholly mistaken by gentlemen opposite . It was not tbat they -were entitled to do ill , because others micht have done worse ; but it was this

      —that if a larg-3 majority of magistrates was found holding one set of political opinions , the Government were bound to secure the public against their abuse of power by providing a check through magistrates of other politics . He instanced various large boroughs , in the aggregate whereof there was but one Conservative magistrate , and then enumerated divers smaller towns throughout the whole of which there was not one Conservative upon the bench . Surely this inequality could bear no proportion to the qualifications of tha gentlemen in the two parjies . Sir J . Graham hid introduced a considerable body of Conservatives , but he had still left the balance in the hands in which he found it .

      Lord John Russell Eaid , that if the "Whigs , on comiDg into office in 1830 , had acted on the principle now avowed , there must have been then a sweeping change in the county magistracy , Torlfied as it was , under a lone reign of Tory Lord Chancellors and Tory Governmont . But such a consideration as political principles should be a very minor one in selecting individuals to fill judicial stations . Sir Robert Peel had made light of the principle of popular selection , as exercised through the Town Councils . In so doing ,. he repudiated an ancient principle of the English Constitution , which was in practical operation in the City of London , and was also freely exercised in Scotland . He did not deny that the Town Councils generally recommended a great preponderance of magistrates of liberal opinions ; but if the majority of the people were of these opinions , it was natural that there should be such a preponderance .

      After some observations from Mr . Williams , Mr . CollinB , Lord Worslty , and Mr . Strutt , and also some remarks from Captain L > yard , the debits , which lasted from five o ' clock till half-past twelve , was closi d by a reply from Mr . Hutt , and then the motion was agreed to . Captain Pechell moved for returns connnected with offences in union workhouses ; which returns were ordered . Sir James Graham postponed his notice of the Poor Law ArnendineBi Bill till Tuesday next .

      Mr . Godson then rose to move that a new writ b ; issued for the borough of Nottingham in the . room of Sir G . H . de Larpent , who had accepted the Chiitern Hundreds , but was met by Mr . Brotherton . who moved the adjournment of the House . This latter motion waB seconded by Mr . 'Wood , who remarking that it would be uncourteous to proceed with the former in the absence of Mr . Roebuck , the Hon . Member for Kidderminster consented to defer his motion ; and the House adjourned . Friday , May 6 . Mr . Roebuck , in pursuance of notice , administered to the members for Nottingham . Penryn , Harwich , and Lewes , certain interrogatories , amounting to a demand from each whether he had been party to the hushinc ; up of proceedings for bribery before an election committee by any argument for the withdrawal of any of the parties .

      Lord Ghelsea , one of the members for Reading ! who was the first party thuB questioned , declined , peremptorily and unequivocally , to answer any such question Mr . Roebuck said , this was quite satisfactory . Mr . Russell , the other member for Reading , thought these were questions to be asked before an election committee . The present attempt was no inconsiderable stride toward the resumption by the House of the old election judicature . The Learned Member might draw what inference be pleased ; probably his inferences would be about as pertinent as bis questions .

      The next party eatech ' . sed was Captain Plumridge . Member for Penryn . His answer was , that he bad net been cognizant of tee arrangement in his own case till after it was made . Adverting to the loud cheers and laughter with which this avowal was received , he added that he had understood it was the usage to leave these matters in the hands of the lawyers . Mr . Roebuck wa « obliged to the gallant captain for bis candour . He then addressed a searching question to Sir John Hobhouse , -who said that be did not admit the right to pat tbe question , and therefore should not answer it Mr . Roebuck then interrogated Mr . Howard Elphinstone , who stated that in bis case there had been a compromise , but that he did not contemplate accepting the Cbiltern Hundreds . The next parties whom Mr . Roebuck called upon were Major Beretford and Mr . Attwood , members for Harwich .

      Mr . Attwood was absent from London . Major BeresfOrd denied Mr . Roebuck ' s right to catechise him . Let that Learned Member , if he thought he had a case of suspicion , bring it before a competent tribunal , and then he might answer the inquiry , though not to that learned inquisitor . Mr . Roebuck asked whether he was entitled now to state the case against the members before mentioned . The Speaker laid down the general course required by the forms of the House .

      Mr . Roebuck , after some discussion whether he should proceed to make his statement then , or on a future cay , consented , on the pressure of several of the

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      members accused , to proceed at once . He stood there he said , to charge with bribery the members for Nottingham , .. Harwich , Reading , Penryn , and Lewes . He would first suppose , a contest for Nottingham , carried by some Parliamentary Napoleon with overwhelming bribery ; a petition , threatening disclofcute ; a retreat of one of the sittin ? Members and a sum of money , paid down , or promised , to escape the inquiry . All these circumsta ices : he had heard alleged to ; and if the House would refer the matter to a committee , he believed he could prove them . Next , he would go to Reading ; arid he had reason to believe that a bond had been executed , obliging the Noble Member for that borough to vacate his seat ; by a certain day . There had been charges before the election committee of

      bribery and intimidation practised by the sitting Members ; and in one day the whole was hushed np . He then read the accusations contained in the Nottingham petition ; and described those in the Reading petition to'be nearly as stroDg . Next , as to Lewes his charge was , that the Members were returned by bribery ; that the petitioners had proof of it ; and that ene of the sitting Members , afraid of that proof i tad retired . There sat Mr . Elphinstone . ; .-. but , " Where > and oh ; where" was his colleague ? Echo answared " Where . " He was not denouncing the individuals , but the system . At Penryn , the like occurrences took place , and the Gallant Member was to retire . Why ? ( Captain Plumridge called out , " Because my people

      made a bad bargain . " ) What ! were such interests as this House represented to be inade matter of bargain ? Now , for Harwich . The two sitting Members were accused , by three petitions , of bribery and treating . The petitions were retired , and one of the Members was to retire tw . All he wanted now was an inquiry . Such cases , ought not to be considered as the mere affairs of the candidates . It was not fit that a candidate should buy a whole . constituency , as at Nottingham , and then sell it to tbe petitioner against him . Was any man here so bold as to refuse him an inquiry ? He hoped to have his motion seconded by the Right Hon . Member for Nottingham , whose character was so deeply implicated . He concluded by moving for a Committee of Inquiry . :

      Mr . Henry Fitzroy , one of the sitting members for Lowes , seconded the motion . He challenged inquiry . He had . petitioned for a seat which he considered justly his own : and was he to blame for taking possession of it whenebneed ' -d to him ? He surely was not bound to incur the expense of ( a three weeks' prosecution for the sake of the puWic ; when tie was called on to act as public prosecutor he should expect a large salary . He had-been party to no pecuniary , to no unworthy , compromise : arid in his life he had never , directly or indirectly , sought a vote by corruption . Mr . Elpiiixstone said a few words , which were inaudible . Captain Plumridge solemnly protested that he had not paid , that he had not promised to pay , and that he did uot intend to pay , one shilling in respect of his late election .

      Mr . Wynn moved , the adjournment of the debate , and was sac . nded by Mr . Ward . Mr . Wynn recommended it to tbe House in future to exercise more severity than heretofore against witnesses committed for prfv . iricjitien , who had hitherto been let off with periods of imprisonment f ; ir too brief . Mr . Wakley wished tho inquiry to go a great deal further than the few cases now mentioned . There were fifty quite as bad . The debate was then adjourned to Monday ; and the House resolved itself into committee on the Incometax Bill . On arriving at clause 00 , Mr . Hurae proposed that the income on which the t : ix should be paid should be calculated from the average profits of one yenr instead of three . On a division , the amendment was rejected by 7 <; to 2 . 7 . The various clauses , up to 188 , having been agreed to .

      Mr . Hume moved an amendment on clause 188 , that the act should remain in force for ono year only , and not for three On a division there appeared , For the amendment ........... 52 For the original clause 174 Majority . ' . —122 Mr . P . Howard proposed another amendment upon the cteu-ib , to the effect that the income tax should continue in operation for two years only . The motion was afterwards withdrawn and the clause was passed . The last clause , 18 !) , w . is then agreed-to . In answer to Mr . Fox Maule , the Chancellor of the Exchequer styted that it had been determined to exempt the fuads used for the repairs of dissenting plates of worbhip from the operation of the income tax . ¦ i ¦

      Mr . Redhead Yorke proposed "That it be an instruction to tb . % committee on the Property Tax Bill , that they have po ^ er to introduce a clause to exempt attoruics and solicitors ( from the annual payment of certificate duties during the time they bhall be subject to a tix upon . incline " Colonel SnsTiioHi supported ! the motion . The-. Chancellor . ' . of the Exchequer , opposed it . ' ¦' .. ' . . Aft « r a few words from Alderman Humphery and Mv . \ y ; lkl ^ y . The committee diviiiciJ , v > htn the numbers were—Ayts ! JS Noes j ..... 183 Against the clause — -1 C 5 The bill having gone through committee , the report was ordered to be brought up on Monday next- : ; Monday , May 9 .

      The House was fllk-d at an early hour by members desirous to enquire / in , or carious to witness , the tiecision on Mr . Roebuck's adjourned motion for a committee to ic quire into the Iato cases of election conipromiss . ! Mr . Beresford declared his anxiety , for the sake of his own character , that the committee should be appointed ^ and that its inquiry should be a searching one . He- j ' would willingly answer to a proper authority though he had declined to answer the learned mover . Rumours of bribery -weie s ? id by that me ~ mber to be afloat . Now , there were also rumours that a learned person had been elected in a former Parliament without duo possession ' of his qualification , which had been co-iveyt'd to Iiimfin London only on the very day on which lie had swe ^ rn at Bath that he possessed it Perhaps those rumoufs were as false aa same that were now relied on . Ho might rely on grounds of public expediency to resist the proposed committee ; but he would do no such thing : on the contrary , he would pray the House to grant it . ;

      Mr . Wynn said there was no precedent for such a commutse . Tliu circumstances alleged did not necessarily imply corruption . The regular course would be , for the Hou , Member to bring forward a specific charge on each case , and for the . House thereupon to determine what proceedings ihey would adopt with reference to it , but not to appoint a fishing committee . Mr : Ward thoucht that Sir Q . Larpent's withdrawal , after two'conU-sts . and immediately upon the decision of a--committee-in his favour , was a very suspicious circumstance . So . was the sudden success of the sitting members at Harwich ; wivh a veni , vidi , vici , against a brace of candidates who the day before appeared to be perfectly safe . Such things called for a searching , and instant inquiry , which he could not consider as a fishing nor as a roving One . He was anxious that the axe should b 6 laid at once to the root of this spreading evi ' .

      Sir R . Inglis said that had he , been present on Friday last , he , would have endeavoured to resist the putting , of- 'the original questions . What did the learned mover propose ? To make the parties criminate themselves ? or ' to proceed on the testimony of accomplices ? If a member , or a stranger , interrogated before the proposed Committee , should refuse to answer a question , on the ground of its tendency ' to criminate himself , wonld you venture to commit him ? Mr . Redhead Yorke supported . the motion . Lord Palmekston expressed his surprise at the silence of ; Ministers . Doubtless they had their reasons ; he would explain his own . He could not vote for this motion . It was not a motion for a general inquiry into the extent of bribery at the late election , but into the

      grounds < f particular compromises . These arrangements , so far from being contrary to statute , seemed to be ( iirectly contemplated by a clause in one of the Election Acts ; and At they were alleged to be illegal as breaches of privilege , this question -was one at least of sufficient importance to requite a previous discussion by the House . A member , apprised that his agents have bribed and that he must lose hia Beat , -was guilty of no breach of privilege in ' . -retiring without further expence . If then there was no breach either of privilege or < f statute Liw , there could be only one other reason for the proceeding ^—namely , to lay the ground of some new law for tbe repression of bribery ; but when the practice was already so notorious , he saw no occasion foi- further inquiries . He vras ready to concur la a strong measure for putting down this wholesale

      corruption . Common report was the ground alleged for the proposed proceeding ; but common report went much further than to these particular cases ; it extended to a very large proportion of all the late contests . Much of that evil was owing to the mutilation by the other House of Lord John Russell ' s bill , sent up by the Commons . immediately before the general election ; but , ere the close of the present session ,: some such measure must pass the Legislature . Either the . now proposed inquiry should be as extensive as the evil , or it should not take place at all . The only other remedy suggested was tho Ballot , but that would only introduce worse evils of . another / ' kind , if anything could ever induce him to support the Ballot , it would be a refusal on the part of Minitsers to concur in an effectual law againat bribery . - - ' ¦ '¦' . ' ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' ' ' - . : ' - ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' - . ¦ ' ¦ ' - . ¦

      Sir R . Peel was not aware that this was so decidedly a party question as to have made it incumbent on the Minister to declare himself at the commencement of the debate ; nor would any refusal of the Government to concur inrany particular measure of legislation very well justify the Noble Loid in voting for that ballot which he bad but just declared to be a remedy worse than the dissase . As to these particular charges , he did not think them definite enough to warrant the proposed inquiry . The practice of these compromises , he believed , had long existed ; and certainly the general impression had always been , that election petitions were mere proceedings for the possession of the Beats , and involved no obligation to prosecute

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      for the public . The fltnessa of a compromise would depend much upon the circumstances ef each case . A sitting fit ember of small fortune , pressed by a vory expensive petition , might fairly choose retirement rather than ruin . If , however , on the other hand , a charge of corruption were pat upon record , he . thought it ought not to go unexamined . On that principle he had actej in the Carlow case ( O'Connell and Raphael ) . The mere want of power to examine on oath was not a sufficient bar ; and if the present charges should be reduced into a definite form , showing privia facie a gross breach of privilege , he thought it would be for the honour of the House not to leave the matter uninvestigated , but to refer it to a committee , armed with the ordinary constitutional powers .

      lord John Russell was not of opinion that a sitting Member or a petitioner aheuld be obliged , when the question of the title to the seat Waa settled , to spend £ 3 , 000 or £ 4 , 000 for the purpose of puniehin ^ cor ^ ruption . These compromises had been common ; and the proper course would be to provide some mode of investigating such cases at the public expehce . He called on Sir Robert Peel to introduce , as Minister , a Bill -like-that whichthe Lords had rejected in 1841 such a Bill , becoming thus a Ministerial measure , would undoubtedly pass . The present charges were too vague . If they could . , be put upon the journals in a specific form , he agreed with Sir Robert Peel that a Committee ought to be appointed j but he believed tho greatest benefit to be derived from these ' transactions , would be that they should lead ta some legislative remedy .

      Mr . M < J . O'Connell desired to say , in the absence of Mr . Daniel O'Connell , that the motion for a Committee in the Carlow case was not opposed . He would vote for the present motion . Sir Robert Peel explained as to what Lord John bad suggested about a legislative measure . He could only eay that he ' would concur in forwarding such a Bill , if framed by the Noble Lord , who had more leisure than he had ; he himself could not find the time necessaryfor thatmature consideration which the framing of it by the Government would require . Mr . Hume supported the motion . Mr . Lindsay , though regretting to differ from Mr Wynn and Sir R . Peel , felt that the character of the House demanded this inquiry . Mr . Muntz was of the same opinion ; as was also Mr . Plumptre .

      Lord Stanley said the objection to Mr . Roebuck's motion was , that the charges Were advanced as breaches of privilege , but without enough of specification to show whether they actually were such , The inquiry proposed by Roebuck was not into the extent of the bribery , but into the legality of - the compromise . The Lewes case , mentioned the other night , presented nothing from which to infer the least impropriety in the compromise made by the sitting Member . Other cases might be more doubtful ; but the practice was no novelty , and bad never been considered as a breach of privilege . There was certainly , however , a novelty in those cases where a sitting Member , having been declared by a committee to be duly elected , had

      thereupon vacated his seat ; and in those cases also , where a bond was taken in a heavy penaUy ; but before ho could accede to the proposal of a committee , there ought to be some specific question for that committee to deal with and be confined to . The motion here should , at all events , have been framed like that of the Carlow case , for an inquiry into the charges of the particular petition ? . He was as anxious as any man far the suppression of bribery , but he feared that such a committee : as Mr . Roebuck asked for would mix up private objects with public ones to a . dangerous extent . Disappointed men would be too apt to avail themselves of the public purse , in order to revenge themselves on their rivals .

      Mr . Sheil said , the member for 3 ith was specific enough in his charges ; it was only in the form of his motion that he was too vas ; ue ; but the motion might be amended . He wished for an inquiry , not in order to indulge in the bad luxury of giving pain to individuals , but for tbe sake of the public . Mr . RoEiiucic replied . He vindicated his motion from tho imputation of vagueness , and himself from the charge of asperity . He cited from the journals the case of Mr . Shepherd . He was , however , prepared

      to proceed in any form which would effect the substantial object . He was willing to put the matter in this shape , that , at the places mentioned , there had been compromises made to preclude the investigation Of bribery ; would that do ? On one hand hia charge was called too wide ; on the other it was complained of as not sufficiently comprehensive . In addition to the committee , however , it would be necessary to have a bill of indemnity : without that , the inquiry would be useless ; and he would not carry it on impotently and to his own shame .

      While Mr . Roebuck was . writing out his altered motion at the table , Sir T . Acland expressed his opinion that the Lewes case should be excepted , since it did not fall within what he regarded as the real objection , namely , that the parties took the judgment of the cammittee with an arrangement to depart from it as soon as it should be given . At Lewes , on the contrary , all the patties taking the judgment were content to abide by it . " The motion , as altered , proposed the inquiry should be , whether in tho cases mentioned there had been corrupt compromises for the purpose of avoiding investigation into alleged bvibery . Mr . Neeld , who had been a member of the Lewes committee , urged the omission of Lewes . Mr . Laijoucheue opposed that omission , and rejoiced that the proposal wa 3 now in a form wherein he could support it .

      Mr . Mimi'HY thought , that after Mr . H . Fitzroy s declaration on the former evening , it would be UDJust to him to exclude Lewes . Sir J . Wai . sh wished , that since Mr . Roebuck ' s main ground as to these several case 3 was current report , he would include another caso also to which similar reports applied—that of Bridport-Mr . C . Buller , for Mr . Wavburton ' s sake , supported the suggestion . Sir R , Peel reminded the House that Bridport had not been included in the mover ' s notice . Indeed , he wished a little wore time had been taken for tiie-Wording of the whole motion . After a few words from Mr . C . Wood and Sir R . Inglis , the motion was then agreed to without a divison .

      The House then proceeded to the report of the Income Tax Bill j when Mr . Goulburn brought up a clause to relievo householders from the payment of this tax as a condition of their Parliamentary registration . This was passed unanimously . Mr . B . Wood proposed a clause for enabling a party assessable under more schedules than one to set off losses sustained under one or more of them against profits made under other or others of them , so that the payment should be only in the balance of total income . Mr . Goulburn opposed the change , as militating againat the general principle and practical efficacy of the bill . Such a provision bad been included under the original Income-tax Act ; but upon experience it had been abandoned in 1803 , as leading to great evasion and general complaint .

      Mr . Ward admitted that it might be expedient to make the first collection on tbe principle defended by Mr . Goulburn ; but he saw no reason wby the hardships so occasioned should not be corrected by the commissioners on proof of the facts . Mr . Goulburn and Mr . Wood each again enforced his own argument . Sir R . Peel supported Mr ; Goulburn ' s view . Lord Howjck espoused Mr . Wood's clause , observing on the great hardship of refusing to allow the deduction of a Iobs in one concern from a profit in another , merely because the Government , for its own convenience , had placed these two concerns in different schedules , for where they were both in the same schedule the deduction was allowed . Mr . Humphery urged that tho diawback now sought was only an application of the principle on which allowances were proposed in this very bill to persons with incomes below £ 150 per annum .

      Mr . Ciiatman contended for Mr . Wood ' s principle . Mr . James adverted to another sort of hardshipthat of a marriage settlement , where the trustees had stock in their names , the dividends of which went wholly to pay thepremiums of a policy on the husband's life . On those dividends the tax would take 3 per cent , by which amount therefore , those dividends would fall short of the necessary premiums . If tbe tax on such insurances was not to be remitted , how waa the trust to be executed ? . Mr . Hume reverted to Mr . Wood ' s proposals which he supported . A banker looses £ 5 , 080 by bad debts ; he has a turn lodged in Exchequer Bills for the ealls of tbat Baine business . Will you charge him the three per cent , on the whole amount of the Exchequer Bills , without first deducting the loss of the bad debts ?

      Mr . Wood ( KeridaO , Mr . Hawes , and Mr . Mvyxz argued for Mr . B , Wood ' s clause . The House then divided , and the clause was rejected .-Mr . G ill , in a speech which was nearly inaudible from the inattention of the House , proposed a series of clauses , haying for their object to treat all incomes not derived from lands or funds according to the value of them if estimated in capital , and to charge the property-tax only on the income which such capital would produce were it invested at five per cent / .. ' .: . ; - ' . " - . - . " : . ' . ¦/ . ' . ' . ; -. . ' . ' " - . - . / '¦ Mr . Goulburn opposed this clause , as at variance with the whole principle of the bill , which professed to tax income , and not mere eapitaL This clause was supported by Mr . Hume and Mr . Howard . ; / , ¦¦' - .- . - . / ' -:: '"'¦ '¦ ¦ ¦ ; • ' ¦" . ¦ The House divided , and the clause was rejectee ! .

      Mr . Goulburn introduced some words , giving the exemptions enjoyed by cathedrals , colleges , &a , to all places nsed solely for Divine worship ; which addition Was adopted . < ¦ ; ; ~ . , . " -.- ' Sir R . Inglis , again pressed on the consideration of Geveinment ( and requested that Sir R . Peel would notice on the third reading ) his suggestion for excepting incomes above £ 150 a year from the per centage on the first £ 150 of their amount . Sir R . Pbel undertook to give on the third reading an explanation of the reasons which precluded the adoption of that suggestion . Various verbal amendments were made , and the report being gone through , the third reading was ap-

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      pointed for ^ Friday , subject to farther postponement in case the tariff should not then have made sufficient progress . .. : ; . ' " . ¦ ' . ' / - \ : ¦/ ''' : ..:, . . ¦ . ¦ . ¦ '¦ ' ¦ ¦ " ¦' - ¦ ¦ - / - ' . ¦; . ' ' ¦ // ¦ - - The House then proceeded with the other orders of the day , and no business of public interest came on before the adjournment The following are the motions of Mr . Roebuck , the first in its original , and the twojat $ ar as , modified by successive amendments : —

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      ADDRESS OP THE NATIONAL CONVENTION TO THE UNREPRESENTED PEOPLE . Fellow Countrymen ,--The House of Commons has once more declared its hatred of liberty ; it has asjain spurned the voice of an indignant people : it has absolved ifeself from all virtual as well as real responsibility to the country ; it has treated your petition with scorn ; it has scouted the prayers of three millions and a half of people ; it has refused even to admit your delegates to its presence , to prove tho truth -of tho allegations of your petition at the

      bar of its House . It has cfiVred no reasons for this treatment that are not as insulting as the treatment itself , ' It . has urged no objections to your petition which may not be equally urged against every other petition having the same objects in view , and concluding : with the same prayer . It has , consequently , rfiidext-d the right of petition a degrading mookery , and convinced every rational witness of its conduct that it would be a worse than useless expenditure of time and labour ever again to petition that House for complete justice whilo its constitution remains what

      HIS . - . ' -. ¦ ,- ; - ¦ - ' ,. . . .: : ShaU we ; then , stultify ourselves by again petitioning thai ? House for the Charter ? The Hon . presenter of our petiiion has publicly declared that we cannot get up' another- National Petition to the present House , without degrading our cause : and so keenly has he felt his share of the humiliation that he vows ha will never present another petition for us of the likekind . Shall the industrious millions—theaufchors of our c / ountry ' s greatness—be less conscious of wrong and insult—less con . 6 ciousof their own dignity , than a , meiriber of the House of Commons \ We cannot believe it . We canuot believe that you will ever -jiijain stoop to petition a House which has already trampled upon three of your petitions , each of them . so numerously signed as to be justly entitled a National Petition .

      Fully convinced , then , fellow-countrymen , that it would be both useless and insulting to advise you to get up , another National Petition to the present Houso ( though holding the right of Petition itself mosJ sacred and inviolate , ) and at the . same time , fully resolved to carry on the agitation by every safe and practicable means left open to us by the law , uocil success has crowned our efforts , wehaveaccordinj { lyagreed to recommend for your adoption , tha following measures and suggestions , as the best that occur to us , under existing circumstances , for promoting the : success of the glorious objects we have in view : ^ - . . ' ¦

      1 , V / e have prepared a memorial to the Queen , and a remonstrance to the House of Commons , which , we trust , will be adopted throughoutthe Kingdom within the ensuing two months , so that both may be ready for presentation by the middle of July , at latest . For this purpose , we recommend the immediate calling of t ^ ublip meetings , in every county , city , borough , village ; &c ., to . which the said memorial and remonstrance may be submitted for adoption ; and we hereby instruct the Executive and the members of this Convention to give their best services at all such moetinksias they can conveniently attend .

      2 \ yub , a view to facilitate this object , as well as to cxtentl our organizati on , we recommend the immediate' sending of lecturers to the uuagitated districts of / the country—more particularly in the at ; ricttliural counties ; and we caunot too strongly imprtss on the people the necessity of supplying the Executive with the requisite pecuniary means for carrying jhis recommendation into effect . ' 6 We recommend the friends of the Charter to use theirf best endeavours in each locality to augment the hiimbers , and funds of their Associations , b y every safe arid available means in . their power : — such as ; by the distribution of Chartist tracts and other ' publications friendly to our cause , by local collectors , by friendly visits and mutual instruction classes , by ; public discussions with adverse parties , and , above all , by inculcating temperate and sober habits amongst our Chartist brethren .

      4 . While we desire the members of the National Charter Association to abide firmly by their present ortcatuzationjand to give their undivided pecuniary suppbrL to "their own Associations , we , at the same time , deem ; it essential to our success that we should exhibit no jealousy or intolerant feeling towards other Associations or Unions , professing the same or similar principles to our own . We should like , howeycjv to see a marked distinction always made be ween tho friends of our principles , and their knowji enemies , by giving to the former onr

      unfailing coBntenanco and support , and by withholding both from the latter . More particularly do we desire to &ee this rule observed in our own relations with the middle . classes . No countenance or support for any middle-class man who shall oppose our rights , or retire to hear us in defence of them ; but let ub , on all occasions , demonstrate our respect and affection for . those who would give us the full measure of them . fn other words , M us stndy to promote the inteTelts of all who respect our just claim 3 ; but treat with merited scorn the men of every class who , from pride or selfishness , would withhold our ritrhts ; ¦ ¦'' . ' ¦ ' ' " .: ' : . -. - . ' ¦¦ . ¦'¦ ¦ -. ¦ ¦ - '¦' ; . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦ .- " ¦

      5 . In the event of our memorial aiad remonstrance failing to produce the desired effoct on the Sovereign and her Parliament , we deem it advisable that the unrepresented people should immediately set about makifig the necessary preparations for a practical apsertiou of their claims at the next general election . For ^ lis-purpose we recommend the National Charter Assotiafion to register the name 3 of all the electors and : ihon-electora- of their respective counties , borpughs , &c ., aud to canvass the whole of them for their votes and support ; so that we may be ready ta put forth our whole undivided strength when the

      next general election comes . The objects to be then accomplished are— lst > to secure seats in . the House of Commous for as many Chartist candidatea as possible ; and 2 ad , to elect by show of hands a real National Representation , in whoso hands ma ) then be placed the future direction of the movement , until , with thepeople ' s aid , they shall have surmoun ted aM opposition , and caused the Charter to be made the basis of onr' representative system . The practical steps necessary for the real zation of these objects , will be . submit ; ed to the country by the Executive Coahcil .

      We cannot separate , fellow-countrymen , without congratulating you on the exalted position we have attained ^ / Never before in the history of our country , did the working classes exhibit such union amongst themse ' Ivfis " , and so much devotion to the cause of liberty ; and never before did their claims to emancipation cbmiDand so much attention and respect , both within and without the walls of Parliament . The procession which accompanied your petition to the House of Commons oh the 2 nd ol May , proved at oneo ahe immeHse progress of our cause in public opinion , and the preposterous folly of those who would suppress the just demands of a great and outraged people by tyrannical porsecntion and brute violence . Onward , then , and we conquer ; backward , and we fall . No power on earth can long withold our jost / rightSj if we but continue true to our principles , fa ourselves , and to one another . we wish

      In conclusion ^ you , fellow-countrymen j to understand that the preceding recommendations comprise only the more prominent measures whioh we deem advisable for immediate adoption , in order to meet the existing crisis . There are others ia reserve ? which will , doubtless , be submitted to you when the proper time arrives for recommending them . . ' , ' ' * . - ; - - . ¦" : ¦¦ - ' . •¦ '¦ ¦¦ - ¦ . ' - " . ¦" '¦ ¦ .. ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' - , ¦ : '¦ .. ' : . ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' Signed , on behalf of the Coavention ^ Abkam Duncan , Chairman .

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      TO ' fTHE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND , IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED . THE REMONSTRANCE OF THE INHABITANTS OF I-N f'UBilC ilSETING ASSE 3 II . LED . Shxweth , That the people of the United Kingdom are now iuffericg destitution and misery to an extent hitherto uniDtfwn , of -which numerous parliamentary and other official documents drawn up by order of your House and local authorities , and cbaritabla institutions in varifus part 3 of the kingdom , bear abundant testimony ; That deaths from destitution , and the commission of crime from absolute want , are of daily occurrence , and rapidly on the increase , as tlie same Boxuces of information will show ; That not only are the working classes sunk to the lowest depths of misery a"d wretchedness , bnt the middle classes are fast falling into embarrassment and Tiiin ^

      Ttiat while this alarmins distress and misery among tbe people have bei-n daily on the increase , tbe annual pro ^ " fiction of "wealth from the various resources tf this empire has increased beyona aiiy txtent hitherto known ia the history ot our cow ., try ; an anomaly not to beaccbuntrd for but in the monopo . y of political power , the UDJust usurpation of authority , aad the consequent bad gowirnment of the nation ; That the great mass of the people are denied the ri ? ht of representation in Parliament , and the present House of Commons , being elected Ky a limited class , legislates only for the interests of that dass , to ifce utter ruin of the . great majority of the people ; iijhat the unenfranchised aud Buffering people feave petitioned humbly , repeatedly , and in vast numbers , fcr a redress of their griferanc--S , but without the least iffect j or the appearance of the remotest prospect of receiving any portion of tha r rights from the present GffVcrnnifcnt

      -That , believing the statement of their grievances , and tbe nature of their claims , clearly , -caimiy , and dispassionately , at the bar of your House , would create a favourable impression , and lead to the concession Of justice , THREE 3 IJLX 2 O . \ S FIVE HVXPRED thousand of the oppressed and injured people , prayed respectfully for a hearing by themselves , their counsel , or agents , at the bar of your House ; but that heaiing ¦ w as unequivocally and unhesitatingly denied ; and at thtJ same time their principles and objects grossly

      aqH improperly misrepresented , and cruelly perverted ; That the petitioners alluded to prayed your House to declare : — " That if your honourable House vs-as of opinion that the people ef Great Britain and Ireland ought " not to be represented , that bucq opinion might be unequivocally made knows ; that the people might fully , understand ¦ what tbey could , or could not , expect from ; ; your honourable House , " And your decision having been made known , the people hereby protest against the right of your House to deny their JDST tjemasds embodied in their petition ;

      That , therefore , the people now assembled have ne hope whatever for tbe mitigation of their sufferings , or the concession of their rights , by the House of Commons as at present constituted . - They , therefore , submit this last declaration of their condition and feedings to your House , deeply deploring the utter disregard of the interests of the great mass of the people by the members of yonr House , and dreading tbe awful consequences to which that disregard may lead , The people now assembled hereby declare that they will take such peaceful and legal steps to remedy their condition as the well being of society , the security of property , and their extreme sufferings , imperatively demand .

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      THE NORTHERN STAR

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      , : THE ORIGINAL MOTION . ; .-V ' That- 'a Select Committee be appointed to inquire whether certain charges made of corrupt proceedings on the trial of certain election petitions before Election Committees lately appointed to tiy the same , and which proceedings are charged as a gross breach of the privileges of this House , bo true . " . .. . AMENDMENT . " That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire whether , in tbe cases of the election petitions presented to the House from Reading , Nottingham , Harwich , Lewes , and Falmouth , there hare not been corrupt compromises entered into for the purpose of withdrawing from the investigation of theSelectCommitteesappointed to try tlie merits of those several petitions the gros 3 bribery practised at the said elections . "

      SECONDED AMENDED MOTION . 'That the House having been informed by an Hon . Member that he has heard and believes that in the easea of the election petitions presented to the House from Harwich ,- Nottingham , Reading , Lewes , and Palmouth , certain corrupt cenipromises have been entered into for the purpose of avoiding an investigation into the grosa bribery * alleged to have been practised at the elections for the said towns , a Select Committee be appointed to inquire ^ whether such compromises have , been entered into , and whether such bribery had taken place In the aforesaid towfls . " .-- ¦ '¦ This . last . was carried .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 14, 1842, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct430/page/3/