May 25,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



IU"» 



of all 



on Saturday iatt. has brought intelligence of a! 

 — ™ Q ™nn«r r portion of slaves ; and that 



intrien insurrection among a portion 

 £mfortv-nve to fifty Englishmen were tried, condemned, 

 touted for having advocated the cause of freedom 

 " . a tUat th*»rp are about dVV -British 



It " 



reported that there are about ouu nw. 

 -nbiects now in prison at the Havannah awaiting their 

 SKd who will most likely share the same fate."- 

 £e latest accounts from Hayti show that the is an 



"a n a most unsettled state, and, what with the attempt 

 tf the inhabitants of the Spanish portion to achieve their 

 independence, and the disposition of a part of the 

 French to possess themselves of the towns, the President 

 turd's position was far from enviable. The larger 



Herard* p 



rart of the army with which he marched upon St. 



- were blacks, and the general opinion 



„ras, that they were jealous of. or disaffected towards, 



at Jamaica 



Domingo were blacks, and the general opinior 

 ™, that they were jealous of, or disaffect 

 the browns. Such was, in fact, the ™versal idea, so 

 that there seemed to be no small probabihty of their 

 tumine their arms upon their leader.-Affairs in the 

 Vest India Islands have undergone no material change 

 since the last arrival. Business continues flat, and small 

 prospect of improvement appears to present itself. 

 Mr Thomas, the manager of the Bank m Barbadoes, 

 bad been found guilty of robbery, and sentenced to a 

 term of imprisonment with hard labour. m ' 

 in some localities had been rather more 

 the crops 



The weather 

 favourable for 





^Parliament. 



jnent 



HOUSE OF LORDS. 



After the business reperted in -our last, the Bishop of 

 m veutnU'd a petition horn several gentlemen, belonging 

 to different societies established for the reclamation or improve- 

 of women who had become the victims of seduction, praying 

 Jordan ir to devise some statutory remedy for saving innocent 

 le&irom being deluded bv the artifices and conspiracies of 



ucurs. Tbe Riglii Rev. Prelate then laid on the table "A Bill 



for the more effectual Suppression of Brothels and Trading m 

 deduction and Prostitution." The Bill was read a first time.— 

 fjord W-jiar.vc-i.ifj>* called the attention -of their lordships to the 

 peport of tbe committee appointed to inquire into the progress of 

 the building of the two Houses of Parliament. His object was to 

 vet rid of what appeared to him a most improper practice on the 

 -part of Mr. Barrv. that of making alterations in the building of 

 : honses .without the ^knowledge of the Treasury, the Board of 

 "Works, or Parliament, A commission, appointed after the burn- 

 ing of the old houses, had adopted the plan of Mr. Barry, making, 

 lowevcr, certain alterations in details ; and this amended plan had 

 been approved of by a committee of both Houses of Parliament. 

 A committee appointed to make inquiry into the progress of the 

 buildi; had ascertained that alterations had been made in the 

 plan by Mr. Barry, which had not received the sanction of any 

 •eeraaetent authority; and these alterations were not matters of mere 

 detail or taste, but affected the arrangements connected with the 

 Accommodation of the Sovereign.— Lord-Suns lev, 'who had been a 

 member of the commission appointed to decide on a design for the 

 wection of the new houses, stated that ninety-seven plans had 

 teen sent in, each comprising ten or twelve -drawings, and invoiv- 

 qg, therefore, a laborious and painful examination of from a thou- 

 sand to twelve hundred. After much labour, they decided on ap- 

 proving of the plan of Mr. Barry, considering that, with necessary 

 -alterations as to internal accommodation, it was the best as to 

 ffStndeur of design and external beauty. The commission stood 

 sponsors for this plan, as amended, and having been examined 

 before a committee of the House of Commons, of which Sir R. Peel 

 was an active member, they had declared their approbation of it, 

 admitting, at the same time, that other plans were equal to it in 

 the matter of internal accommodation. The noble lord then ex- 

 jplained in detail the nature and effect of the deviations introduced 

 y Mr. Barry into the plan, as originally approved.— The Marquis 

 ■ofLAvsoow.vB said, he did not justify Mr. Barry in makingthe al- 

 terations on his own responsibility, but suggested the propriety of 

 .settling who were to be the advisers of the architect ; and Lord 

 Brougham condemned the whole affair, from the original design 

 *flown to the recent alterations, as a proof of the barbarous Gothic 

 •asteof our time, which was erecting in the 19th century a building 

 worthy only of the «th century.— The Marquis of Claniucardk 

 and Lord Colbobke joined in the discussion, and the report of 

 ineconimittee was ultimately referred to the Board of Works. 



«k * ,rftt ' / ' — Lortl ^'HARNCLirpE moved the second reading of 

 «he Factories Bill,. and shortlv explained its provisions.— The Mar- 

 quess of Xormanbt justified his change of opinion on this 

 question ; and objected to the Bill because it did not go far enough. 

 PnZ J on V ction novv was » that the Legislature, when once they 

 *n 1? ' Were J^wed in stopping at that point only where they 

 -rait JF*C wt the ll0UES of ^bour to the hours u-ed in all other 

 Srk ° u world > where masses were combined at one kind of 

 unn *i • ma(le severe strictures on the conduct of Government 

 WPpn this measure, and the sudden and extraordinary changes of 

 ■thi. mJu" ° n ^ Part of several members of the Lower House, which 

 havo ^ S, K n Rst exu ibited. Lord Normanbv, feeling that he would 

 m. cnance of successfully opposing this Bill, said he should 



vote for it. ~" "^ cc «ssfully opposing 



arote^L Second re ««H!ig, but under protest.— Lord Brougham 



nloverVn a ? amst the hi]l ,- °r interfering at all betwixt the era- 



UDor th «. thc employed. He dilated with considerable warmth 



«dduof> i.» t pnmev£ d curse," and argued that, because he could 



menu tan f ces of J?reat hardship and toil in agricultural emplo 



xemedv ti ■* tue Legislature had no right to interfere to 



manv nir , m "? ne * of the manufacturing labourer. He had seen 



*ctorvlV ° °i the offerings of children and other persons in 



•mnder < i • U he P lea £ed himself, if ever the case was brought 



«f* he farm***!?"' l0 brili " such a frightful picture of the sufferin- 



to the h m . laljour eM- scantily clothed— hardly worked— exposed 



hadlv-waJm 1 t0 the rain an d to the snow-coming home to a 



find an ^? cot tage, through every corner of which the winds 



cannot bv ™ and an ex »t— condemned to lie upon a bed which 



—such anit ty ' be ever dry in counties where fuel is scarce 



with horror -S as Would make the humanity mongers shudder 



*<* »ten ho^ - eEarlof ^'in'chklska spoke strongly in favour 



- the car restncl ion, and, so far as his experience went, 



tie c«teiuer*>H re T tness ot " the P^ture drawn by Lord Brougham. 



*,but wiolVr Eil1 to be a great improvement of the existing 



^d Cam pr the llours of labour had been limited to ten. 



*gto\- vimii .'' expreS8ed a contrary opinion; the Earl of Had- 



apply a remedy. The particular case referred to by Lord Beaumont 

 was that of a deliberately planned and cold-blooded murder, per- 

 petrated in open day ; ;tnd the course which G rumen: id pur- 

 sued was consistent with existing treaties, and had the sanction of 

 the highest legal authority. The nutfc not one which could 



properly be discussed in the House, as the Government were in 

 communication with the respective Govern its concerned. As 

 a proof that they were not indifferent to the rights of British sub- 

 jects in the East, or neglecting British influence in tliat quarter, 

 he mentioned that they had recently induced the Porte to abandon 

 the practice by which Christians who had embraced Mahommed- 



anism were put to death if they relapsed. He consented to the 

 production of the correspondence. 



Thursday. — The Royal assent was given, bv commission, to the 

 following Bills:— The Eastern Counties Railway Bills (Xos. 1 

 and 2j, the Selby and York Railway Bill, the South- Eastern Ex- 

 tension Railway Bill, the Furness Railway Bill, the Darlington 

 Junction Railway Bill, the Hartlepool Dock and Harbour Bill, the 

 Coal Mining Company Bill, and several Inclosure and Naturalisa- 

 tion Bills. The Lords Commissioners were the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.— 

 The Marquess of Clanbicarue moved that their lordships would 

 not insist upon retaining as part of the Lancaster and Carlisle 

 Railway Bill the clause which had been added to it (by Lord 

 Brougham), but which the House of Commons refused to agree to, 

 because it was in violation of their standing orders. This clause, 

 which gave a power to the railway company to erect £ates upon 

 the Queen's high road, three quarters of a mile distant from the 

 railway, for the purpose off complying wit a a stipulation entered 

 into between them and Lord Brougham, for whose sole interest 

 the gates were to be created, had been introduced by Lord 

 Brougham on the third reading of the Bill, contrary to the standing 

 orders of their Lordships' House, and had been objected to by the 

 House of Commons, upon a conference, as being irrelevant to the 

 Bill, and fit only to be dealt with as part of a Turnpike Act.— Lord 

 Brougham, after the motion of Lord Clanricarde, rose in an ex- 

 cited state, and said that he was taken by surprise, for he had 

 given notice of his intention to move for a committee to investigate 

 the matter. He then charged Lord Clanricarde with having 

 thwarted him in this instance from a personal or party motivi 

 Had this been a railway, he said, passing near Lord Melbourne's 

 estate at Brockett Hall, or Lord Cottenham's villa at Wimbledon, 

 he did not believe the noble Marquess would have exhibited so 

 much public virtue or personal alacrity. Lord Brougham prayed 

 their lordships for a postponement of the question, in order that 

 in the meantime he might have an opportunity of coming to some 

 arrangement with the Company.— The Marquess of Clan- 

 RiCARiiK. with considerable vehemence of tone and manner, 

 repudiated being influenced by any party or personal feeling. 

 He intreated their lordships not to postpone for a week 

 the passing of an important public Bill for such a purpose as that 

 of giving time to Lord Brougham to make new terms with the 

 Company. The Company was willing to put up twenty gates if 

 the House wished it, but then they could not compel the House of 

 Commons to agree to this clause. — Lord Campuei/l said there 

 could be no doubt that the clause had bejn improperly introduced; 

 but his noble and learned friend having been Ms own counsel in 

 the matter, had not a very wise man for his client. Lord Camp- 

 bell appealed to the chairman of committees for his opinion on the 

 introduction of the clause.— The Earl of Shaftesbury gave it as 

 his opinion, that to bring up any such clause on the third reading 

 was irregular ; and that if, as reported, the gates were to be erected 

 three-quarters of a mile from the railway, this clause was entirely 

 irrelevant to the Bill.— The Earl of Devov moved that the delate 

 be adjourned, in order to give his noble and learned friend time to 

 make a compromise with the company.— Lord Brouguam again 

 rose, and confessed that he was almost ashamed to trouble the 

 House with a personal and trumpery matter. But he had, he said, 

 been trepanned into giving up his opposition to the Bill, thinking 

 that his terms would have been complied with, and that was a 

 matter of great public importance. He certainly thought that the 

 present occasion had been looked on and used as a good opportu- 

 nity of doing a thing not very agreeable to an adversary, and 111 

 reply to Lord Campbell's remark, that a man who is his own 

 counsel has generally a fool for his client, he could only say that 

 such a counsel, at least, would never abandon his clients cause.— 

 Lord Campbkll here interrupted his Lordship, and said amidst 

 much laughter, " Were I the advocate in this case, I should 

 abandon the clause— for the sake of the character of my client."— 

 Lord Clanricardk again rose, and repelled with indignation the 

 charge brought by Lord Brougham, that he had been influenced by 

 personal motives ; he rebuked the noble and learned lord for over- 

 rating himself; he had great abilities and eloquence, but other 

 and higher qualities were requisite to the formation of a great 

 man. As to the Whig party which he had deserted, they did 

 not care for his opposition.— Lord Brougham rose and affirmed 

 that he had good Whig authority for abandoning his party, 

 inasmuch as Earl Grey himself had written to Lord Howden, 

 stating that, if he were present in Parliament, he would sup- 

 port the Government.— The Earl of Radnor had heard of noble 

 lords sitting on committees, and making terms for carrying 

 their opposition to Bills; but never before had he heard any- 

 thing so extraordinary as that a noble Lord (Lord Devon) should 

 get up and propose an amendment to adjourn a debate, in order 

 to enable another noble Lord to make good terms with a rail- 

 road company.— The Duke of Wellington stated that he had 

 himself, when a railway was proposed which crossed the high- 

 road on a level, insisted upon the company's placing gates tor 

 the public security. He believed that Lord Brougham's case 

 was similar to his.— Lord Monte agle set the noble Duke right. 

 He had made his stipulation with the company solely for the 

 public benefit; Lord Brougham had made his solely for his own 

 advantage. There lay the difference between the Duke of \V ell- 

 ington's and Lord Brou- ham's motives for supporting or 

 opposing public measures.— After some further discussion their 

 Lordships divined— For Lord Clanricarde'* motion, 32 ; for the 

 adjournment. 31 ; majority. 1. Notwithstanding this decision, 

 Lord Brougham moved—" Thataselect committee be appointed 



to consider the amendments made by the House of Commons m 

 this Bill." Such a committee having been condemned by all 

 the authorities in the House as one tnat could not be granted, 

 the noble and learned Lord, alter several attempts to remodel 

 it, was compelled to relinquish it altogether. His Lordship said 

 — "As your Lordships seem agreed, I shall withdraw my 

 amendment; but I shall take good care to look after those 

 parties when they come with their next Bill for an extension of 

 their line." The Bill then passed without Lord Brougham's 

 clause.— The Customs Duties BUI was read a first time.— On the 

 motion of Lord Cottenham, the Debtors and Creditors Bill was 

 committed profurma, to admit of alterations.— Their Lordships 

 then adjourned to Thursday, the 30tn iust. I 



nix 



from \i ,T the Government; and alter some observations 



CJ4*tb in fcmJvth! an(1 Fit zwu,liam, and from Lord Wharn- 



, Tuesday -If „', . , le L Bi11 was lead a second time. 

 ^ he A for thf 11 , R0UG,IAM iilid on ln e table a Bill to amend 

 'eadaiirsttirneli ° nof Imprisonment for Debt, which was 



1 ^teK-TrirfT d Bkatjmovt called attention to the case ot 

 ? hic h the att!.,!i ior ^"ider at Timis, considering it a matter to 

 f0T ""the unw.r " ° f Gov ernment should be specially directed, 

 *** tolerated hv^^' 16 in terferenee of the French consul at Tunis 

 w * ul *«oon hr . hi * country, our trade along the Barhary coast 

 Corre »pon<ien < .p > an t * IuL He moved for the production of the 

 c on«ul at Tuni ,' een the Foreign-oihce and Sir T. Reade, our 

 ^"'ed, tl la - th"' rji atin S t0 tllis mat-tev.-The Earl of 



Mr 



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thf» »•«* r *" *""° »«»»WVC1. A11C J-'.iltl VI A»Klll)KKN 



v>r. ,ties atten ding the subject of jurisdiction in 



of certain holders of Ceylon coffee, who complained that, hav- 

 ing been led into the belief that tbe Save Trade was an insu- 

 perable barrier to the introduction of slave- grown products, they 

 were now taken at a disadvantage by the proposed reduction 

 m Brazilian coffee.— Mr. Ewart proposed that the duty on 

 foreign coffee be reduced to the same as on colonial— that 

 is, -id. a lb. He admitted that his object was to strike a 

 blow at the whole system of diffexeatial duties, which he 

 condemned as unsound in principle, injnrioo* in operation, 

 and unlikely to last, — The Chancellor otthe ExcHjigcmnvsas 

 not prepared to abolish all differential duties. The colonists 

 were British subject-, and entitled to a lair share in that firo- 

 tection afforded to the mother country. The example of the 



United States was held up to them ; but if he had wisuedforan 

 example, in justification of the principle of differential duties, 

 he would point to its tariff.— Mr. Ewart here interposed, and 

 said he only held up the example of the United Stales 

 in the matter of coffee and tea.— The Chancellor of the Bx- 

 cuKejUKR retorted, that they did *o for the best ot all reasons 

 —the States grew neither coffee nor tea, and had no coffee or lea 

 interests to protect. The Government in proposing to. reduce 

 the duty on foreign coffee to its present amount, were desirous 

 of affording increased facilities to the home consumer, without 

 exposing the colonial producer to unfair competition, by an 

 undue reduction of the differential duty.— Alter some debate, a 

 division took place, when the amendment was negatived by 39 

 t> 28.— Mr. Alderman 1 1 1 mi'iirkv, Mr. WiRBWm.x, and Mr. 

 Bui gut attempted to introduce into the discussion certain 

 minor articles not the subjects of the present Bill, such as apples 

 and canary- seed, chietly with a view to impute that Lhe county 

 of Kent had been unfairly favoured in point of pr :twm 

 through the Cab t influence of her representative Sir £. 

 Knatchbull.— Sir It. Pk 1.1. protested against thi> iri vantde- 

 bate upon extrinsic topics, and observed that the tariff, so Mr 

 from favouring Kent, had reduced in a very large prqpertipn 

 the most important ot all her pioduclious. in lowering «o mate- 

 rially the duty upon hops.— In coming to the enael nt for the 

 abolition of the duty on wool Mr. Glaostokjc *aid he recom- 

 mended this abolition, not on tbe around tnat k would 

 occasion but a small sacrifice, 6uch as Use Br. . grower ought 

 cheerfully to bear for tin kc of the public in e*t, but on 

 the ground that the British grower would positively be a gainer 

 by it. He showed from official returns that when the duty en 

 foreign wool had been increased, the export of woollen snann- 

 factures had diminished, and the price of wool had fallen. And 

 within the last 20 years, that year in which tbe price of wool 

 was lowest, was also that in which the import of foreign wool 

 was smallest; while the year in which the prise of wool vias 

 highest, was also that in which the imp *t ot foreign wool was 

 greatest. In truth, the British and the foreign wool were not 

 articles competing with each other, but articles mutually 

 advantaged by being wrought up together.— Mr. MiLts 

 regarded the abolition of the duty asanotber 1 men' towards 



free trade. The present moment s»eemed very undatable for 

 the experiment, as toe woollen mauufac:ure was rapidly re- 

 covering from that depression which it had shared with others 

 of our staple product. ons t and was increasing ata rate which 

 was calculated to excite leais for the future. T abolition of 

 theiduty, though it would not benefit the consumer, would be 

 beneficial rather than otherwise to the English grower : but it 

 would interfere with our rising Australian colonies, whose wopl 

 growth had been stimulated by the little protection which tpe 

 duty afforded.— Mr. C. Wood, Mr. Trottkr, and other mem- 

 bers expressed their persuasion that thu abolition would buth 

 benefit the wool growers and encourage the woollen 

 manufacturers.— Mr. Dabby approved the abolition, but 

 protested against its being carried as a measure of free 

 trade. — Mr. LABoccuKRji reminded him that the first 

 Minister bad explicitly asserted the principle of free trade, 

 although he had alleged the difficulty 01 carrying that principle 

 into complete execution.-Mr. Darby said that the free trade 

 which he objected to was that of the Opposition, which he re- 

 garded as a very different thing from that of the Mmisters.-- 

 Mr. Lahoim : h kick desired to have it understood that he had 

 never contended for a total and abrupt abolition of ail protec- 

 tions, without regard to existing interests.— Sir R. P*kl 

 avowed that these reductions were intended in fulfilment of 

 the principle which he had laid down at the time ot tne tariff, 

 that all restrictions on commerce ought to be removed when 

 their removal could be effected without injury to existing 

 interests.— Tbe Bill having gone through committee, the Stamp 

 Duties Bill passed the same stage, after a division on the scale 

 of duties, which ended in favour of the Bill.-On the motion of 

 Mr. Wrse, a select committee was appointed to inquire into 

 the subject of the law with respect to the art-unions, m order 

 to see how far the parties engaged in those unions could he 

 exempted from penalties to which they are liable according to 

 the present state of the law, but to which it could not have 

 been the object of the Legislature to subject them, and to 

 report thereon.-Sir J. Graham gave notice that after the 

 Whitsuntide holidays, he should move lor a select committee to 

 inquire into the Gilbert Unions. 



Monduv.-On the motion of Mr. Gladstone, a proposition 

 to reduce the deposit on railway speculations from ten 10 live 

 per cent, was, after some discussion, agreed to; Sir K. .reel 

 chiefly urging it on the ground that it would facilitate the : pass- 

 in- of the BUI for the construction of the Dublin and Casbel 

 Railway. The House then went into Committee on the resolu- 

 tions respecting the proposed change in the system of banking. 

 -Sir R. Pkkl declared that he adhered to the pnncip.es already 

 propounded by him, and that what he now P^^"?^ ~ 

 chiefly to give some explanations upon points ?' de ^\ {" 

 wouhf suppose that the country circulation wa, eight mdhons^ 

 that the country banks might desire, by agreen cut » ith the 



to supply the : vacuum The cases tat ^ & ^^ 



allow toe Bank to do so, J°£ . § oWn circulalio n 



fAJfSWiSS ^S&ET With respect to the ques- 

 ion wheU e thf bullion of, which the Bank of England 

 \IJI tn issue its notes should be allowed to include silver, he 

 £.. 1 tnat silver should be so included j but without at 

 ^departing from' the great principle that there must be 

 hr one standard, and that standard a gold one : all he meant 

 was thai 1 a party chose to bring silver to the Bank, the Bank 

 murht within a certain limit, give its notes in exchange for it. 

 Itthis 'were not permitted, the Bank, having no interest mkeep- 

 ine a supply of silver, would probably cease to keep it; but it 

 l important to the country to have access to such a supply, 

 ily for domestic circulation, but with reference to foreign 

 er ce, especially with India and Cnina. He would there- 

 fore propose to permit an issue of notes upon silver bullion in 

 the proportion of one fifth of the whole, or one part in silver 

 to four in gold. With respect to banks of issue, he would 

 leave them their circulation until Parliament should mate fur- 

 ther order, and he would compute that circulation upon the 

 average of what was its amount from the 6th May, 1S4 1 -, to r.ne 

 6th May, ].i4i, requiring henceforth a weekly publication ot it. 

 Where one bank should have taken the business of a ^"' 

 e benefit of the averages of the extinguished ba-^^J^ 

 given in the circulation of the averages of the sur ^ J *'"* _ t be 



was 

 not on 

 comm 



— - *4rvarrt v "■"•■ **»•»■> 



**Hawarp ash ^T * ?reat — a fact of which Lord 1 ampbell was 

 "* 0uJ e 11 endeavoured to introduce a n: ure <.. hich 



noyr ll >e law of tL™ 1 *! A , bli1, now£ *er. introduced bv himself, was 



the land, which, he hoped, would enable them to 



HOUSE OF COMMONS. 

 Fridnif.— After the preliminary business, noticed in our last, 

 « r. Laboucherk complained, that in consequence of the im- 

 port duty on Staves, our coopeis were undersold by foreign 

 cask-niakers, and some hundreds of workmen thrown out ot 

 employ. The necessary relief might be given without a, all re- 

 opening the question of the timber duties^-Mr. Glaostonk 

 said, that much had lately been done for the relief of _thc 

 coopers, but that he did not wish to exclude the cun«dtfaton 

 of still further measures for their relief.— Lord J. Ri.^si-i. con- 

 tended for such a larger application of ^^f^?^ ^T^^^w^te'^^ ^.i^SSIetanS 

 trade to timber as tbe late Government had s .^d 8 e"eral allowed to increase the total of its issues. If [ C ° iv ^ 



ot^nbet 5 ^ S?ft Eg 8h ° UUl ~*~- ^ C ° nSOlU,atCd ^S^S!F^V&c^ 



uu,tl " '. ..,, .. „ ___,>,„„ ip«> the chair, and the 



upon raw materials.— The Speaker . inen IW xnecn 



Honse went into committee on the Customs D„ti« « B. ». a ** 



sultory discussion arising on the van us clause s. one leaning 



the beneot of t 



