May 4,] x >. 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



Wednesday, *-On Mr. 

 on the Maius 

 upwards •flit 

 day six m«*i 

 ton inUflW 



pretcitti ; . art 



ausfwis «f tt« 



own undl 



»s motion for going into committee | a doubts as to their interpretation being suggested 



Bill, Mr. T. Duncombe presented 



st it, and moved its committal that 



ed of the manner in which it had 



st and second readings under false 



ill had been so altered, under the 



, that in its present form it was the 



r en.— Mr. Hume suggested that the 



__^ order for going into committee to be 



en either introduce a new Bill on their 



r ...sibility, or send the matter to a select com- 

 mittee to be examined into and reported on.— Sir J. Graham 

 entered into a defence of the provisions of the Bill, and declared his 

 resolution to oppose the amendment. He took upon himself the 

 paternity of the form of the Bill, though he denied his claim to be 

 considered the parent of its substance.— Mr. Miles could not take 

 upon himself to say whether the Bill wa3 really his or the Govern- 

 ment's—so altered was the bantling that its own father did not know 

 it. Nevertheless, he prayed the favour of the House towards it.— 

 Mr. Granger, Mr. Berxai., Mr. EsTCOURr, Sir G. Strickland, 

 Mr. P. Howard, and Mr. Collbtt opposed the Bill.— Mr. G. 

 Knight, although he thought there must be something essentially 

 bad in it, still, as his name was on the back of it, felt bound to give 

 it his support.— Mr. R. Palmer also said a word in its behalf— The 

 House divided— For going into committee, 54 ; against it, 97 ; ma- 

 jority against the Bill, 43.— On the motion of Mr. Scott, the House 

 went into committee on the Detached Parts of Counties Hill, and 

 on the 1st clause being put, Mr. M. Sutton proposed an amend- 

 ment, having for its object the rendering of the measure consistent 

 with the Reform Act.— Mr. Scott said he could not agree to thi3 

 amendment.— The committee then divided, when there appeared— 

 For the clause, 19 ; for the amendment, 15 ; majority, 4.— The 

 House then resumed, but was counted out at 7 o'clock. 



Thursday.— Mr. Wvse asked whether the opinion of Counsel, 

 which had been delivered to the Treasury on the legality of Art- 

 Unions, could, without inconvenience, be laid on the table of the 

 House.— Sir R. Peel said he had no objection personally to pro- 

 duce it, but the House had generally felt an objection to have the 

 opinions of lawyers laid on the table. He thought it a good rule, 

 and he should adhere to it in this instance. He did not apprehend 

 that the Government had any intention of instituting proceed- 

 ings against the Art-Unions. It did not rest with the Govern- 

 ment to institute such proceedings ; but he apprehended that the 

 Art- Unions were liable to be prosecuted by the common 

 informer.— Resolutions, in committee of the whole House were 

 severally agreed to, affirming the reductions in the glass, 

 vinegar, and marine insurance duties, announced by the Chan- 

 cellor of the Exchequer in his budget : and leave was given to 

 bring in Bills to en\ct the same— The Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend thelaws 

 relating to Savings Banks, and to the purchase of Govern- 

 ment annuities through the medium of Savings Banks. 

 The comparatively high rate of interest given by Savings Banks 

 acted as an inducement to capitalists to deposit money in these 

 institutions, and thus avail themselves of benefits intended for 

 the humbler classes. He proposed to reduce the rate of interest 

 from 2$d. to 2d. per cent, per diem ; to reduce the amount which 

 can be annually deposited from 30/., its present limit, to 20/. ; to 

 confine the amount of individual deposits to 120/. instead of 200/., 

 as at present; when deposits and interest amount to 150/. all 

 farther interest to cease ; and stricter regulations to be intro- 

 duced in the matter of trusteeship, by which parties investing 

 in the names of others, will be required to produce the signatures 

 of all concerned in payments and withdrawals. — Mr. Gisborne 

 asked if am provision would be made against the fraudulent 

 deposit of sums by the same individuals in different Savings 

 Banks?— The Chancellor of the Exchequer said he had made 

 such a provision in the contemplated Bill.— Atter some farther 

 discussion, leave was given to introduce the Bill. 



Friday.— Mr. Hums gave notice to move on Tuesday for 

 copies of the correspondence between the Government and the 

 East India Directors on Lord Ellenborough's recall.— After a 

 good deal of preliminary business, the motion for the House to 

 go into committee on the Factories Bill was moved; upon 

 which Mr. Roebuck moved— " That it is the opinion of this 

 House that no interference with the power of adult labourers in 

 factories, to make contracts respecting the hours tor which they 

 ■hall be employed, be sanctioned by this House." He said that 

 he preferred moving this as a resolution of the whole House, 

 before going into committee, in order to throw upon Sir J. 

 Graham the onus of showing why he took from the working- 

 classes the power of contracting for themselves, and to throw 

 upon Lord Ashley the onus of proving the advantage he pro- 

 posed to confer on the working-classes by legis'ation. [Left 

 sitting.] 





CITY. 



Money Market* Friday.— Consols closed at 99 to f 

 for Mouey, and 99 \ for the Account; New Three-and- 

 half per Cent*., 102|; Three per Cents. Reduced, 98£ ; 

 Bank Stock, 19G ; India Stock, 284 ; Exchequer-bills, 74 

 to 76 prem. 



BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED W. G. Curr, Chapel-yard, Crass-lane 



High Holborn, conch broker— F. FoaD and F- R- bHOCKLMiUHST, cloth manu 

 fa^turer*, Kowr-lanr, city* 



GAZETTK OF THE WEEK—BANKRUPTS.— J. Macmcoc, Somerset- 

 *tr«et, WhitechapH, carpemer and buiM#*r — 5, Wilcockson, Chesterfield. 

 Derbyshire, iinendraper— *;. Johw*ox, Ri>chda>e, Lancashire, lime dealer — C. 

 Nich >sm, Waketield, Yorkshi-e, bookseller— <». F. Wurr.HT, Irnnbrid^e, 

 Salop, innkeeper— J Kerry. B ; mini<ham. mal'ster — G. E. Phillips, Ply- 

 mouth, saddirr— J. PRMBRnroN, Knostrop, Yorkshire, soap-boiler— G. Morrbt, 

 Stratford-upon-Avon, publican— J. Goclp. sheen, Staffordshire, cheese-Uuor 

 — H. Alpkn, Oxford, urin'er- J Gihbins, Hiiih street, Marylebone, carpenter, 

 — R. Barhaaj, Emsworth, Hants, Hnendraper— J. Diamond, George-street, 

 Tower-hill, merchant— J. Gsovs, Ke<ent str-er, L«mbeth, sione-merchant — 

 8. J«vo**t> Lincoln, j.h<>emaker — A. Sirr.iTow.. Suffolk, innkt»?pf»r — J. H. Hour, 

 Manchester, coffee house-keeper— J. Haroiio, Bar mild* trick, Yorks, farmer. 



SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.— it, Campmll, G.as*ovr, provision mer- 

 chant. 



iWetroyoU* and u» fcTittnftp. 



New Zealand Company. — The adjojmed meeting of 



this Company took place last week, for the purpose of 



receiving the report of the Directors with reference to the 



result of their recent application to Government. Mr. 

 Joseph Somes was in the chair. The Secretary read the 

 report, which filled a printed pamphlet, extending to 

 nearly 100 pages. The following is an abstract of the 

 principal points : — It commenced by stating that the 

 Colonial Secretary had rejected all the proposals submitted 

 to his Lordship without assigning the grounds of his re- 

 fusal, aud referred to the correspondence contained in the 

 Appendix, as showing the Directors' proceedings in de- 

 clining a suggestion made by the Colonial Department, 

 contrasting the communications submitted by the Com- 

 pany with the personal reproaches of which the replies 

 consisted. An impression prevailed among the Directors 

 that Lord Stanley himself did not participate in the ill- 

 will constantly exhibited towards the Company by the 



Colonial-office and the local Government of New'Zea- 



land. A large body of Proprietors had given in a written 



approval of the conduct of the Directors in declining to 



accept a loan of40,000/. from the Government. Twoletters 



dated May, 1843, containing an agreement entered into 



between the Company and Lord Stanley, had been placed .^.„„. Jt .... „.„ „ ... r „ 



in the hands of Captain Fitzroy by his Lordship, and \which was seconded by Sir R. Inglis. 



by M somebody, " Lord Stanley, unknown to the 

 Directors, furnished instructions to Governor Fitzroy, 

 which materially altered the letter and spirit of 

 the agreement, a course of proceeding which the 

 Directors felt they could not too strongly deprecate, as 

 calculated to be productive of very serious practical wrong 

 to the Company and its settlers. The report alluded to 

 the establishment of the seat of government at Auckland, 

 near the end of a narrow country 800 miles long — the dis- 

 couragements of the Company's settlements, and the 

 inducements held out to settlers to re-emigrate to Auck- 

 land—these schemes the Directors had felt it their duty to 

 resist, and hence might be inferred the reluctance with 

 which they had consented to that part of the agreement 

 of May, 1843, by which they engaged to take lands at 

 Auckland and colonise there. But feeling that the 

 interests of the settlers and proprietors were completely at 

 the mercy of the Colonial-office and local government 

 with regard to the vital question of land-titles, they had 

 deemed it their duty to obtain some determination of that 

 question, by almost any sacrifice. They had implicit con- 

 fidence in Governor Eitzroy's strict sense of justice and 

 honour ; but the agreement having been altered unknown 

 to them, they looked with alarm for news of what may 

 have been the result. The agreement of May, 1843, was 

 in iieu of another entered into with Lord John Russell, 

 by which the Company undertook to surrender all claim 

 to land acquired from the natives, and raise a further 

 capital of 200,000/., in consideration of Lord John 

 Russell's engaging that it should receive from her Majesty 

 a grant of as many acres as it had expended crowns in 

 colonisation. But this agreement had always been treated 

 by the local government as waste paper. The report then 

 went on to describe the imperfect manner in which it 

 alleged the local government was carried on, and instanced 

 the appointment of a youDg man just 18 years of age 

 to preside over the Court of Claims, who did not under- 

 stand a word of the native language ; decisions ad- 

 verse to the Company and delays in this Court 

 had produced the most deplorable results, and the 

 Directors were of opinion that the massacre at Wairoa 

 flowed directly from it. Paying a high tribute to 

 Captain Wakefield, R.N., late the Company's agent at 

 Nelson, and pointing out the tendency of the proclama- 

 tions of the local Government, subsequently to the event 

 referred to, the report described their practical effect to 

 be, " That the colonial population now holds all pro- 

 perty and life itself on no better tenure than the forbear- 

 ance of tribes of savages." Although half a million of 

 money had been expended in colonisation, the Company 

 was still without a secure title to a single acre of the 

 property awarded by Lord J. Russell's agreement three 

 years since, and this was entirely attributable to the hos- 

 tility of the Colonial Office and the local Government. 

 Though bound to state the Company's affairs in their 

 worst aspect, the Directors are far from believing them 

 irretrievably ruined. Their reluctance to entertain a 

 belief in the systematic hostility of the Colonial Office 

 was at last destroyed, and they now recommended an ap- 

 peal for justice to a higher tribunal. They rely on the 

 flagrant character of the wrong done by Lord Stanley's 

 interpretation of Lord J. Russell's agreement ; and can- 

 not believe that Parliament, or the Ministers collectively, 

 decline to remedy the gross injustice. The report pro- 

 ceeded to say, that whatever the result of the questions at 

 issue, the Directors were fully satisfied that British colo- 

 nisation must ultimately prevail, and concluded with the 

 expression of a hope that the whole subject of the colo- 

 nisation and government of New Zealand would be tho- 

 roughly investigated by Parliament. The Directors 

 sought the most searching inquiry into their own conduct, 

 assured that it could not take place without tending to 

 the removal of the threatened ruin of the Company, and 

 the restoration of its means of accomplishing the valuable 

 public objects which the charter of incorporation had in 

 view. The report was unanimously adopted, together 

 with a vote of confidence in the Directors. 



King's CoWge. — The anniversary meeting of this 

 institution took place on Monday in the theatre of the 

 College. His Grace the Archbi'hop of Canterbury pre- 

 sided, and was supported by the Bishops of London, 

 Winchester, and Lichfield, Lord Radstock. Sir R. Inglis, 

 Sir C. Price, Alderman Copeland, &c. The report of 

 the council for the past year commenced by congratulating 

 the meeting on the continued prosperity of the institu- 

 tion. The number of students in the general department 

 of literature, arts, and law had increased during the year; 

 and in the medical class, the class of engineering, manu- 

 factures and arts, as well as in the junior school, the 

 increase was equally matter of congratulation. The 

 proficiency of the pupils was evidenced by the honours 

 they had obtained at the universities. At Cambridge six 

 had obtained the distinction of Wranglers, five of whom 

 were in the class of Senior Optimists. The report alluded to 

 the loss which the college had sustained by the elevation 

 of the late Principal, Archdeacon Lonsdale, to the bishopric 

 of Lichfield, and the office of Principal had been filled by 

 the appointment of the Rev. Dr. Jelf. The total receipts 

 amounted to 24.542/. 16s. lid., and the gross expenditure 

 to 22,788/. 85. 1 !</., leaving a balance of 1754/. 8s. in favour 

 of the institution. The report having been unanimously 

 adopted, Alderman Thompson, M.P., was proposed as 

 Treasurer for the ensuing year. Messrs. Capel, Jones, 

 and Twining were proposed as Auditors, and Dr. Watson 

 as a member of the Council, in the room of the late Sir 

 II. Halford. Before proceeding to the ballot, Lord Rad- 

 stock moved a vote of thanks to the Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury, for his kindness in presiding over the meeting, 



His Grace, in 



acknowledging the compliment, said he had only to offer 

 them his congratulations at the increasing prosperity of 

 an institution which in fourteen years had reached a degree 

 of prosperity even its best friends could not have antici- 

 pated. He believed that success to be owing, in a great 

 measure, to the principles on which the College was con- 

 ducted, and to the judicious care exercised by the Council 

 of Management, and the other officers of the institution. 

 The ballot was then proceeded with, and the above-named 

 officers were elected. 



University College. — The annual distribution of prizes 

 in the medical department of University College took place 

 on Saturday. The number present exceeded 1000. 

 Lord Brougham presided, and was supported by Lord 

 Auckland, late Governor-General of India. A report 

 was read, in which it was stated that the num- 

 ber of students in the medical classes was the same 

 as last year ; namely, 300 — of whom 93 had en- 

 tered this year. The following distribution of prizes 

 then took place : Chemistry — Gold medal, Mr. 

 C. W. Randell, of Reading ; 1st silver medal,' Mr. 

 Edward Cousins, of London; 2d silver medal, Mr. 

 James Morris, of London ; Prize Essay, 1st silver medal, 

 Mr. Robert Ellis, of Ruthin, N.W. ; ditto, 2d silver medal, 

 Mr. Edward Palmer, of London. Botany (Summer 

 Term, 1843)— Gold medal, Mr. Charles Prentice, of 

 Kingston-on-Thames ; silver medal, Mr. W. H. Colborne, 

 of Chippenham, Wilts. Medicine— Gold medal, Mr. 

 John Gabb, of Bewdley ; 1st silver medal, Mr. F. W. 

 Marshall, of Norwich ; 2d silver medal, Mr. W. H. 

 Alichin, of East Mailing. Anatomy and Physiology 



Gold medal, Mr. William W. Moore, of Doncaster; 1st 



silver medal, Mr. H. Crocker, of London ; 2d silver 

 medal, Mr. T. A. Cammack, of Spalding. Comparative. 

 Anatomy — Gold medal, Mr. W. H. Colborne. Ana- 

 tomy (Senior Class)— Gold medal, Mr. William Cadge, 

 of Hoveton, Norfolk; 1st silver medal, Mr. William 

 Brown, of Altarnun, Cornwall ; 2d silver medal, Mr. W. 

 L. Dickinson, of London. Junior Class — Silver medal, 

 Mr. T. Littleton, of Saltash. Materia Medica— Gold 

 medal, Mr. R. Babington,of Horncastle ; 1st silver medal, 

 Mr. J. E. Wood, of Rochdale ; 2d silver medal, Mr.Edw. 

 Cousins. Medical Jurisprudence (Summer, 1843)— 

 Prize, Robt. Ellis. Pathological Anatomy (Summer, 

 1843)— Gold medal, Mr. R. D. Harlmg, of Chester. Mid- 

 wifery— Gold medal, Mr. James Hakes, of London ; 1st 

 silver medal, Mr. Alfred Jackson, of Portsmouth; 2d 

 silver medal, Mr. James Clifton of Broughton. Surgery 

 —Gold medal, Mr. Robert Ellis ; 1st silver medal, Mr. 

 H. J. M'Dougali, of Exeter ; 2d silver medal, Mr. Henry 

 Vevers, of Herefordshire. Fellows' Medals for 

 Clinical Instruction— Summer, 1843: Gold medal, 

 Mr. H. Feamside, of Otley, near Leeds. Winter, 

 1843-4: Gold medal, Mr. F. W. Marshall; silver 

 medal, Mr. G. S. Deane, of Liverpool. The distribu- 

 tion of prizes being finished, Lord Brougham rose and 

 spoke to the following effect : He had great plea- 

 sure in presiding on that occasion, as he bad in 

 being president of the College. He was gratified 

 in again meeting its friends, and that it was in 

 his power to congratulate them, not only on tne 

 rising, but the flourishing state of its funds. JNor 

 could he refrain from expressing the great pleasure 

 he felt, when he considered the high character of the pro- 

 cessors of the College. He had lately had an oppor- 

 tunity of examining the celebrated medical institut ion in 

 the South of France-he meant the institution at Moat, 

 pelier-and he had great pleasure in saying that" 

 institution would not suffer from comparison, ine > j » 

 perity and excellence of the institution is /atisfactoruy 

 proved by the number of degrees conferred on its « 

 dents by the central university. Out of the ^ 

 cases in which degrees had been conferred, iw, 

 nearly one-half, had been conferred on the » ^ude 

 of University College. In that college they baa 

 religious observances. They had been blamed for ^ 

 and told they had too little religion. Quite the contrary. 



ana torn nicy uau w%* «*..«, »*,w 6 .w— — imDor- 



It was because we thought religion of such }f™*™* or 

 tance that no person would compromise it, or w 

 bargain with his principles; that it was not a thing p^ 

 son had any power over his own mind, to g 1 ™?' tea ch 

 a little more or a little less of ; that, if we were to 

 different sects, we must have different estabh^men^ 

 for the church, one for this sect, one foranotber. ^.^ 

 foreseeing it was utterly impossible that, w 1 Qur 



opinions, we could join in teaching re l>g lon '' f e s- 

 principle to leave religion to be taught by its w r ^ 

 .ore, whether of the church or of dissenting ^ ^ 

 whether religion is really taught in other col leges m ^ 

 in ours, may be a question. At King s Co Uege.l , d of 

 I heartily wish well, for she may be considered "^^ 

 our own), medical students coming from Port™ tQ ^ 

 at two o'clock in the afternoon, may not be sUo ^ 



in to their classes unless they also .come 'between ^ 



ten o'clock to go to prayers m the ~ltege chap |fc 



aught I know that may be their course of ^ proce ^ 



seems a clumsy one, and one that medical students w . g ^ 

 find it convenient to follow; but for aught 1 *no ^^ 



retr, a solicitor, had late.yieii uie.u **, -,- [do ^ » 



had left them, subject to the lite of his ^^ 

 sum which was expected to realise 28>0uUi., ^ 



with other endowments 50,000/., which wa*^ ^^ 

 the disposal or the council. He had no he c0 un- 



ever, at any rate he would recommend it w lete d. 

 cii, that this great budding should be now ■ e k^ 

 He now came to the darker side of the p ctur • .^ 

 of being the firft, theirs was undoubtedly the 



