THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



the * * 



=■ — ri^7"M«ipstT dvine without issue, it should 

 tDt 1 his younger b other and hi. legitimate de- 

 — ^nt? The JuccefL to the throne must be a mem- 

 rr„nhe Greek orthodox church. King Otho had been 



L II for some days, but had recovered. 

 W 7«mv"4ND NOKWAT—Account. from Stockholm 



SWED1 > a*" ' . , , restless m<rhts 



^ lu iifh to the 16th, *ith great pain in the leg. 



Sw! hst «d n^i^ness, His g M a^ty had sufficient 



2££ h of mind in the latter days of last week to hsten 



ST .rtic'es in the journals, aud to have the bulletins 



r °J £ beforenhey were published In the procla- 



?• of the Norwegian Government, announcing the 



S !Srof the Administration to the Crown Prince,, re- 



:S1 a resolution of the Diet of the 4th of 



S 1S18 bo that the doubts which were entertained 



fce« whether the transfer would be legal in that kingdom 



■^wmERLAXD.-Princess Galitzin, grand-daughter of 

 ... renowned Russian General Suwarrow, has arrived at 

 Rerfoix where she resided for several years after she em- 

 braced the Protestant faith. During her last residence in 

 the Russian dominions the Princess was by orders from 

 hieh authority, confined in a convent, from which it cost 

 her much trouble to get liberated. Her children are not 

 nermitted to be with her.— One of the most eminent 

 Political writers of Switzerland, and the chief of the aris- 

 tocratic party, M. Charles Schnell, committed suicide 

 lately by drowning himself in the river Aar, near Lan- 



** United States.— The packet-ship Washington arrived 

 at Liverpool on Thursday, having left New York on the 9th 

 ult. Mr. Benton offered in the Senate, on the 30th Jan., 

 « resolution inquiring whether slaves escaping to the British 

 dominions since the treaty of 1842 had been given up ; and 

 alio a resolution proposing that the provision of the treaty 

 ©M842 relative to the surrender of criminals escaping 

 from justice be terminated. On the following day the first 

 resolution was agreed to ; and the second, on the motion of 

 Mr. Benton, was postponed. On the 5th Feb. Mr. Han- 

 negan presented some extravagant resolutions from the 

 Legislature of Indiana, instructing their senators to use 

 their efforts to procure measures for the immediate pos- 

 session of the Oregon territory, " peaceably if they can, 

 forcibly if they must." The resolutions speak of the 

 "grasping spirit and insatiable ambiiion of the British 

 Government, " and they were, it seems, passed unani- 

 mously, or nearly so. In the House of Representa- 

 tives the report on the rules was considered, and Mr. Stiles 

 of Georgia spoke in favour of the 21st rule. He contended 

 that it did not abridge the right of petition; that it left the 

 people free to petition for the redress of grievances ; that 

 slavery was not a grievance to the petitioners in the con- 

 templation of the Constitution ; that the Constitution 

 gave no power to remove such a grievance ; and that sla- 

 very and the Constitution were linked together, and both 

 must stand together. — The weather continued to be un- 

 precedentedly severe ; it had closed up the ordinary channels 

 of communication, suspended all transit by water, and in- 

 terfered with the progress of business. No less than 11 

 mails were due from New Orleans. The Boston papers 

 detail, with tedious minuteness, the exertions which were 

 made to free the Britannia from her ice-bound position. 

 Out of the 400 men who were employed to cut her 

 through the ice, which appears to have been a task of 

 immense labour, many were frost-bitten and seriously 

 injured — The New Orleans papers report the death of 

 Judge Porter, which took place at his plantation, in the 

 parish of St. Mary, on the 13th ult. He was a native of 

 ire and, formerly a member of the State Legislature, 

 judge of the Supreme Court, and at the time of his 

 «cttli, a member of the United States Senate. 



parliament. 



p .. HOUSE OF LORDS. 



morid? « Blsh °P of Exeter, as we stated briefly in our last, 

 utovcq ior the appointment of a select committee to consider the 



rltnJ i !? and wnich mav be required to be made, lor the 



Fnriani l* h y and ins tmction in the union workhouses in 

 SiriJLi- Ies * He Prefaced his motion by detailing to 

 ■ttnVnir* PS .- e several instances in his own diocese, and in 

 effect. Vn. pa . rtlculai »r of the north of England, of the disastrous 

 want «f h ' m ° rals and habits of Paupers occasioned by the 

 •ecaniarv " S and P r °P pr instructors. He denounced the 



Eists ind • V ngrS thus 6crew ed from the poor by political econo- 

 todo iflmr.' • Dls * ent ers, and demanded of the Government 

 iMtrurrin l UB l ° com P elthe Poor Law commissioners to issue 

 spiritual Ib 7° i several boards of guardians to provide forthe 

 Souses -t^ fl . €ducati °nal wants of the inmates of their work- 

 ** considVrt* H ^ RNC '' IFKEho P edthe ri Sht Rev. Prelate would 

 ^boards Vf wished to advance auy general defence of 



**h> thmi»K^ U i ardlans for tneir conduct on this subject, for he 

 ^ftitottP, n l e> i 0Usht to a PPoint chaplains, but it should not 

 UnyoT.,. I 11 .™ tnc general body of the Poor Law guardians in 

 difficult tn*»!? e countl T consisted of those whom it was very 

 tt** were n '! y at they ou £ht to incur any expenses which 

 ? °or Law r themselves impressed with the necessity of. The 

 ■•donlv arfi?S S ? loncr8 were not much to blame, because they 

 to "ecute »>k povvcr wilder the Act, which they were obliged 

 *°tton of thl ■ J; he & reates t discretion. With respect to the 

 ^•■Khtthat Vlu * Prela te, he objected to it because he 



*tyect were Li pro P° siti °n to go into a committee upon this 

 Wo «W be nrpi h— , * lfc would excite feelings elsewhere which 

 *•* desired t» l rather than advantageous to the object it 

 ktroducL lm promote - At the same time it might be well to 

 Ratine ehani?- more stnn £ent provi-i ,n on the subject of ap- 

 ^•fortheJm i nto the Biu now before the House of Com- 



* POttible thaTf w- ent x. of tne Poor Law » and he h °P ed lt mi & ht 

 dilated nerh "i ,ght be the case » ^d tnat the law might be 

 001 Law Arr if' ,° that which was contained in the Irish 

 ?** °U remind I • B,sho P of Salisbury rejoiced at the pros- 

 inaction blJf"* s,, PPJied to the general lack of spiritual 

 ■ Unc »l ; and tiL £ C . mean , s s,1 &g« sted by the President of the 



r»bthe oDii.inrf pof ExBTE " expressing himself satisfied 



it Motion to be n P L? Un S anc ? by Lord Wharncliffe, allowed his 



»« **•»*»* 1 k 5 i^ d w,thou t a division. 



"" Besses of v« U y conv ersation took place between the | 



tbat a RonVan'cathnr and Wkstmbat « respecting a state- 

 "man Catholic priest had been suspended by his 



Bishop for having refused to collect the Repeal rent ; but they 

 were called to order by the Duke of Wklli.vcton, who having 

 pointed out the inconvenience of such a growing practice, re- 

 minded the Noble Lords that there was a standing order of the 

 House, which forbade any Peer to make a speech unless he con- 

 cluded with a motion, or spoke to some motion regularly before 

 their Lordships.— Lord Brougham said, amidst much laughter, 

 there never was an order so much violated. He often heard 

 Noble Lords making long speeches without concluding with a 

 motion. His Lordship then put two questions, without notice, 

 to the Foreign Minister, concerning Otaheite and the Poles of 

 Posen.— The Earl of Aberdeen pleaded Lord Brougham's 'ast 

 opinion on Parliamentary etiquette as an answer to the questiou. 

 —Lord Campbell called attention to an incidental remark made 

 by Lord Roden in the late Irish debate concerning the conduct 

 of Mr. R. O'Gorman, one of the Grand Jurors on the late trials 

 in Ireland, and endeavoured to exculpate Mr. O'Gorman from 

 censure in having come into Court after the bills were found, 

 and stated that he had not agreed to that finding.— Lord Wharx- 

 cliffe, without giving any opinion of the loyalty of Mr. O'Gor- 

 man's conduct, said the practice in England was, that no Jury- 

 man having sworn "to keep his own counsel, and that of his 

 fellow Jurors," ever made statements of the kind; and certainly a 

 contrary practice would be exceedingly inconvenient. 



Tuesday. — After the presentation of two petitions against the 

 Corn-laws, by the Earl of Yarborough, the Marquess of Lans- 

 dowse presented a petition from the Provost and Town Council 

 of Glasgow, complaining of the religious tests imposed upon the 

 Professors in Glasgow College, and praying that such tests might 

 no longer be imposed, except upon the occupiers of chairs con- 

 nected with Theology. — Lords Brougham and Campbell sup. 

 ported the petition, after which the House adjourned. 



Thursday.— Petitions were presented by the Earl of Yarbo- 

 rough and the Duke of Buckingham, praying for protection to 

 agriculture. — The amendments of the Commons to the Horse 

 Racing Penalties Bill were ordered to be printed— to be taken 

 into consideration on Friday. — The Earl of Radnor postponed 

 the presentation of the Somersetshire petition on the Corn-laws 

 to Monday week, in consequence of the Duke of Wellington's 

 absence from the House. 



Friday. — Lord Monteaole wished to know what steps had 

 been taken with respect to the Landlord and Tenant Commission 

 in Ireland.— The Earl of Devon said, the Commissioners had 

 been busied up to the present time in receiving evidence on the 

 subject ; he had been lately subpoenaed in a case before the assizes 

 in Devonshire, which he regretted might impede the operation of 

 the commission of which he was Chairman for some time. — 

 Lord Brougham moved for a return referring to the treatment 

 of missionaries in the South Sea Islands. — The Earl of Aberdekn 

 said there would be no objection to the returns. For a consider- 

 able time past the missionaries had made no complaint, and no 

 further than two days ago the Missionary Society assured him 

 that the missionaries in no manner of way complained of the 

 conduct of the French Government. He was happy to state, 

 explicitly and positively, that the French Government had given 

 up all interference with the island of Tahiti. He had no doubt 

 but the war party might assert that the French Government had 

 been forced into this arrangement, but he had not interfered in 

 the matter at all; it was, therefore, the spontaneous act of the 

 French Government. — Lord Brougham expressed himself grati- 

 fied at the intelligence. — The Gaming .Penalties Bill and amend- 

 ments were agreed to. 



HOUSE OF COMMONS. 

 Friday. — We resume our summary of the debate on Ireland, of 

 which, from the late hour (4 o'clock on Saturday morning) at 

 which the House adjourned, we were only able to give a 

 brief notice in our last, with the result of the division. After 

 the speech of Sir F. Pollock, Mr. Roebuck traced the causes 

 which have engendered that national antipathy, and physi- 

 cal destitution, which render the social state of Ireland a 

 matter of so much alarm. He paid a compliment to the po- 

 licy of the late Government, and charged the present with 

 having, in order to obtain power, revivified that bi?otry which 

 was the prime cause of their present difficulties. After noticing 

 Mr. Shaw's declaration, that the Church is to be maintained be- 

 cause it is built on religious truth, he proceeded to an examina- 

 tion of the management of the state trials, and affirmed that Mr. 

 O'Connell had not had a fair trial; that they had exalted him 

 into the rank of a martyr, and were now turning towards him 

 all those English sympathies which his own imprudence had 

 alienated.— Mr. O'Con.vell now rose, and said he was not 

 about^ to speak of himself; he had come for a different pur- 

 pose— to make a protestation and to ask a question— to protest 

 against any new wrong to his country, and to ask how Ireland 

 was to be governed. He recapitulated his view of the question; 

 described the state of Ireland before and after the Union ; re- 

 counted the history of the struggle, which, from the commence- 

 ment of the present century was carried on till it ended in 

 Catholic Emancipation ; and depicted the present state of Ire- 

 land, whose frightful condition, neglected and unjustly used as 

 it had so long been, was the true source of the power of the 

 " demagogue." He alluded to the kindly feeling which had been 

 displayed towards him in England, from whence he drew the 

 conclusion that the bulk of the English people were disposed to do 

 justice to Ireland ; and he passed in review the measures of 

 amelioration announced by the Government, pronouncing 

 them inadequate to the necessity of the case. On behalf 

 of the people of Ireland, he called on them to view its 

 condition with the eyes of statesmen, especially on the 

 subject of the Church, whose maintenance in its present 

 anomalous position was opposed not only to sound policr, but 

 even to the interests of truth itself. Another crisis had arisen in 

 the history of Ireland ; let them not blindly mistake it, as of old. 

 He would co-operate with them, heart and soul, in whatever 

 would promote the welfare of Ireland. He was going back to 

 Ireland to convey the answer of Parliament, but he feared it 

 would not be a satisfactory one. His anxiety was to see men 

 act together like brothers, without distinction between English 

 and Irish, Protestant and Catholic— Sir Robert Peel com- 

 menced his speech by noticing briefly some of the arguments of 

 Mr. O'Connell for the Repeal of the Union. He thought that the 

 hon. and learned gentleman would better secure his own per- 

 manent fame if he were to bring his arguments and statements 

 to the test of the House of Commons, instead of imposing them 

 on the ignorance of multitudes. Passing from thence to the 

 motion, he characterised it as a party one, its object being 

 simply the attainment of place, with which view Lord J. Russell 

 seemed, in framing it, to be solving a problem in political 

 fluxions, combining the greatest amount of crimination with the 

 smallest quantity of committed responsibility. Vindicating Lord 

 Lyndhurst, he retorted the attack, by adverting to Lord Plunket, 

 the pride of the Whig party and the ornament of the Irish bar, 

 who was displaced from his deservedly-attained high station of 

 Chancellor, in order to gratify the vanity of a Scotchman by a 

 six weeks' tenure of office. This was Lord J. Russell's sympathy 

 with Ireland !— he would not have retained office an hour under 

 such a humiliation. He emphatically denied the imputation of 

 seeking to entrap Mr. O'Connell and his associates. The Govern- 

 ment, though alarmed by the meetings, were yet in difficulty as 

 to the safest and most effectual method of interfering, having, as 

 he assured the House, a very strong opinion against a resort to 

 extraordinary powers or a coercion act. But the days and the 

 sites of the latter meetings— Tara, the Rath of Mullaghmast, 

 Clontarf— all awakening passions embittering national hatred, 

 and for an object calculated to roll back the tide of civilisation 

 — all showed that the Repeal Association were seeking a legal 

 object by illegal means. But the specific ground on which 

 the Clontarf meeting was proclaimed was the " military 

 array," which, in the opinion of the English law officers of 



the Crown, distinctly marked it out from all the others as an 

 unlawful assembly. Not only did they proclaim that meeting, 

 but they resolved to prosecute, not the subordinate agents, 

 but the authors of the dangerous agitation. Not the printers, 

 but the Repeal Association was responsible for the circulation of 

 those ballads and speeches by which an inflammable people were 

 excited. The only instrument left to the Government was the 

 common law— the same law under which the Chartists were pro- 

 secuted; and having called on the prime movers of this per- 

 nicious agitation to answer to the country, they succeeded in 

 obtaining a descriminating verdict from a jury directed by a 

 unanimous bench. And now, having vindicated the law through 

 the ordinary powers of the law, a powerful party come forward to 

 arraign their conduct, and, with the keen instincts of party, 

 hunted out every little incident in the trials. Had they prose- 

 cuted some poor printer with what different shouts would the walls 

 of the House of Commons have rung— what taunts that they had 

 not dared to assail the favourites of the people ! This he would 

 say, in the face of the country, that the Government, in repress- 

 ing this most dangerous agitation, had received no assistance 

 from the Opposition. Such was not the course of the Ministerial 

 party when in opposition ; if they had not aided the Whigs in 

 repressing the fires of Bristol, the Newport insurrection. Sec, the 

 then Government would not have found their task so easy. 

 Turning to the question of what was to be the fu'ure legislation 

 for Ireland, he declared that the Landlord and Tenant Commis- 

 sion was intended to make a searching inquiry into a subject on 

 which premature legislation had been repeatedly tried ; and with 

 respect to the franchise, he 1 admitted the principle that there 

 should be substantial equality in Ireland as compared with 

 Britain. On the subject of the Established Church he dwelt at 

 considerable length, enforcing the obligation of compact, but 

 admitting at the same time that Parliament had the unfettered 

 power to alter the compact if it should think fit. His own opinion 

 was decidedly in favour of an establishment, and la favour of the 

 Protestant Church as that establishment. He denied that if a 

 country established a certain form of religious doctrine it neces- 

 sarily involved an insult to those who differed from it ; and in all 

 the projects for altering or dividing the Established Church in 

 Ireland, he saw no security for religious peace and concord. He 

 therefore came to the conclusion, on c uiscicntious conviction 

 and policy, that that church should be maintained in its in- 

 tegrity, admitting any reform which would ensure its vita- 

 l ; ty and promote its usefulness. The Government were willing 

 to afford facilities for legalising voluntary endowments in fa- 

 vour of the Roman Catholic clergy; they intend to augment 

 the grant for national education. But in regard to a pecu- 

 niary provision for the Catholic clergy, Mr. O'Connell and the 

 clergy themselves had declared that they would not accept it. 

 He referred with emotion to the sacrifices which he had made 

 for Ireland, when in order to carry emancipation, and as he had 

 hoped to insure her tranquillity, he had risked private friendship 

 and political connexion, and forfeited the cherished representa- 

 tion of that university where his earliest ambition had been gra- 

 tified. He hoped that if party did not mar the endeavour, Ireland 

 might yet be governed by the ordinary law, and expressed his 

 belief that there was a growing disposition to discard mere party 

 feeling. He concluded by saying,— 4 ' Hereafter, in whatever 

 capacity I may be, I should consider that the happiest day of my 

 life when I could see the beloved sovereign of these realms ful- 

 filling the fondest wishes of her heart — possessing a feeling of 

 affection towards all her people, but mingling that affection with 

 sympathy and tenderness towards Ireland. I should hail the 

 dawning of that auspicious day when 6he could alight, like some 

 benignant spirit, on the shores of Ireland, and lay the founda- 

 tions of a temple of peace— when she could, in accents which 

 proceeded from the heart— spoken to the heart rather than to the 

 ear,— call upon her Irish subjects of all classes and of all deno- 

 minations, Protestants and Roman Catholics, Saxon and Celt, 

 to forget the difference of creed and of race, and to hallow that 

 temple of peace which she should then found with sacrifices still 

 holier than those by which the temples of old were hallowed— 

 by the sacrifice of those evil passions that dishonour our common 

 faith and prevent the union of heart and hand in defence of our 

 common country." (The right hon. baronet as he resumed his 

 seat was loudly cheered from all parts of the House.) — Sir V. 

 Blake moved the adjournment of the debate (which was seconded 

 by Mr. E. B. Roche), who complained that Sir R. Peel had per- 

 verted history in misrepresenting the arguments of Mr. O'Connell. 

 They were agitators, and he was sorry to think that they were 

 likely to continue so.— The motion for adjournment having been 

 withdrawn,— Lord J. Russell replied. He noticed some of the 

 chief attacks on his motion by the leading members of the 

 Government, and brought up Lord Stanley, who emphatically 

 denied that in quoting, on a former occasion, the words, " the 

 minions of Popery," lie either adopted them, or applied them to 

 Roman Catholics. Lord J. Russell then went into some parti- 

 culars respecting the retirement of Lord Plunket, and other 

 details; and when he had concluded the House went to a divi- 

 sion, when there appeared— For the motion, 225; against it, 324. 

 Majority, QQ. The House adjourned at 4 a. m. on Saturday. 



Monday.— A new writ was ordered for the county of London- 

 derry, in the room of R. Bateson, Esq., deceased. Mr. O'Connell 

 presented petitions with 387,000 signatures, praying for a Repeal 

 of the Union.— Mr. S. [Crawford called the attention of the 

 House to various petitions setting forth the complaints and 

 grievances of the people, partycularly the allegation that the 

 House was unfairly and corruptly constituted, and was not, in 

 fact, a virtual representation of the entire community. A 

 portion of his speech was directed to the subject of Ireland, and 

 the redress of its erievances, and he moved that the considera- 

 tion of the Estimates be postponed till after Easter, in order to 

 affjrd due time for a comprehensive review, in committee, of 

 our entire system of taxation, with a view to reduction. Colonel 

 Rawuo.v seconded the amendment, with a few observations 

 directed to the subject of the condition of Ireland, for which he 

 apologised on the ground that more English than Irish members 

 had spoken in the Irish debate.— Mr. Williams did not think 

 that the reasons assigned for the postponement were adequate. 

 He was not in a hurry to vote away the vast suras set down in 

 the Estimates, more especially as the annual financial statement 

 never made the people acquainted with the fact that between 

 four and five millions were annually intercepted on their road to 

 the Treasury by public departments, as the Customs, &c. He 

 reviewed generally our system of taxation, and asked for 

 various explanations on various items of the Estimates. 

 —Mr. Fielden followed, complaining amongst other griev- 

 ances, of the Income-tax, on which he entered into some 

 detail, censuring the conduct of the Boards of Commissioners. 

 —Mr. S. Herbert postponed explanation on the Naval Esti- 

 mates until they had gone regnlarly into committee. — Dr. 

 Bowrino considered that the amendment was the assertion 

 of a popular right and constitutional principle. Tiie proceeding 

 might be considered obstructive if the House were fairly consti- 

 tuted, but such was not the case, taking into account the fact of 

 a large amount of discontent amongst the unrepresented masses, 

 who saw vast sums voted away without any sufficient control. 

 After some remarks on the Income-tax from Mr. T. Buncombe, 

 Mr. Roche spoke at some length on various topics of the late 

 discussion on Ireland. — Mr. Gisborne though approving of an 

 investigation into the people's grievances, could not vote for a 

 proposition for a simple postponement of the estimates till after 

 Kaster without any specific motion. On a An m the amend- 

 ment was rejected by 105 to 11.— Sir C. Napier then brought 

 forward his annual motion for an inquiry into the constitution 

 of the Board of Admiralty. He complained of the irrej. ular aud 

 inefficient manner in which the business was transacted between 

 the different departments; of the small number of naval men, 

 whether seamen, marines, or naval civilians, selected to fill the 

 numerous subordinate situations in the offices, dock-yards, vic- 

 tualling department, &c, of the Admiralty, which were usually 



