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^^^nnication with the former reigning family. His 

 XTv by ttis act, has shown his confidence in the at- 

 Lchlnent of his people, and also that his dynasty is so 

 veU secured as to be under no apprehension of a pre- 



fpnder to the throne. 1 Lett ers from Canada state that Sir C. Metcalfe had been 



T - TTPn States.— By the Hibernia steamer, which operated upon for cancer in the face ; and the opinion of 

 ipft Boston on the 10th and Halifax on the 18th ult., the operator, Mr. Pollock, was, that the disease was en- 

 iC ?wf founts from New York to the 15th. They Jrel 7 eradicated. His Excellency was doing well. He 



THE NEWSPAPER. j- m4 



been fighting for a republican form of government in- UeftoTouloneseand Corsican emigrants LhTtchnlival officers' 



stead of a military despotism. It was thought that the widov ^> St. Domingo sufferers, American loyalis and others, 



possession of the island will cost France much more than National Vaccine inauim-jm. «n n ; *«. «^ 

 any pecuniary advantage she can ever expect from it. 





«e havfaccounts from New York to the 15th. 

 contain lengthy accounts of some dreadful riots which 

 had taken place in Philadelphia, and lasted three days, 

 the contending parties being the native Americans and 

 the Irish inhabitants of that city. The former appear 

 to have had the best of the contest, having kept posses- 

 sion of the battle-ground after burning two Catholic 

 churches, a Catholic nunnery, two Catholic school- 

 houses, a market-house, and about eighty-four dwelling- 

 fcouses ; but the worst remains to be told — several lives 

 mere sacrificed, and numerous persons received dangerous 

 wounds. The authorities, either from lack of energy 

 and good will, or from want of a sufficient force, were 

 ouite unable to put down the rioters until their fury was 

 spent. In the midst of .the riots the native Americans 

 held a meeting, and paraded the streets carrying an 

 American flag torn and defaced, having on it in large 

 letters, "Toil is the flag that was trampled upon by the 

 Irish Papists." The Bishop of Philadelphia issued an 

 appeal to the Catholics, calling on them to shun all 

 public places of assemblage, and to do nothing that in 

 any way should exasperate. Notwithstanding this, ac- 

 cording to the private correspondent of the Morning 

 Chronicle, " all the evil-disposed persons in the com- 

 munity were bent on mischief, caring little for either Pro- 

 testant or Catholic, so that their evil propensities might be 

 gratified ; and in large cities like Philadelphia, which, with 

 its suburbs, contains nearly 300,000 inhabitants, there 

 were, of course, but too many such. Men and boys of this 

 class were active among the rioters, and in this, as well 

 as in other features, a spectator could not fail to be 

 struck with the resemblance the three days' riots pre- 

 sented to the well-known *' No Popery " riots of Lord G. 

 Gordon, in London, a.d. 1780. The writer adds that efforts 

 were subsequently made by the mischievously disposed 

 to excite the people to further acts of outrage. Amongst 

 them small bills had been circulated, describing the 

 horrors of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, in which 

 70,000 French Protestants were killed, August 24, 1572. 

 False and inflaming rumours, too, abounded ; such as the 

 " Irish have captured the arsenal and arms at Frankfort 

 (six miles off), and are marching towards the town." Of 

 course there was not a syllable of truth in this, which 

 was a wicked report got up to excite. As another proof 

 how far prejudice extended under the influence of exist- 

 ing excitement, there were many who believed and argued 

 that M the Catholics were conspired to govern the United 

 States, but that they began their operations too soon." 

 The writer just quoted adds: — "Among the dangerous 

 elements that have been at work it occurs to me that 

 tome of the speeches at the Repeal meetings in this 

 country, as well as in Europe, have been too furious on 

 ti» subject of < hatred to the Saxons— to the Anglo- 

 Saxons -and I assure you that here this hatred has been 

 urged by orators, addressing the Catholic Irish in the 

 most bitter terms. The Americans, however they may 

 quarrel at times with England, and differ as to forms of 

 uovernment, still remember and cling with pride and 

 anection to the name of Anglo-Saxon, a race in which 



««; 6 S' , and the ener ey and skiU of which fche y p° s - 



*ess. inink you that they can be pleased with expres- 



Sur/l °L against their race ? Assuredly not. 



ureiy those men have much to answer for on both sides, 



hrpwft? feelin S s of national hatred in the human 

 the t ♦■ y ™ 11 be their reckoning ! I refer to 

 of tk? i ent E0 inculca *ed, as it was probably one 

 to hi AT tB that P rodu ced a popular frenzy, even 

 bodv of eddlDg ' amon g 8t » naturally excitable 



again \m **"' i° n whom {t has been over and over 

 latest Z rC8S f d - UQ consciou8ly to themselves." The 



and law h? i State that order * as at len S th restored, 

 arrived and ascendancy. Governor Porter had 



suppression f. pr0mptl y issued a proclamation for the 

 rioters Th disturbances and the arrest of the 



to embraPP T V^ rted list of dead and "ounded was said 

 however \V7~ ' l4 ; wounded > 39 - lt is thought 



scenes of _• , raan y persons have suffered from these 



&*. The Im e Who are not deluded in the above 

 tween 100 nn»° Un j ^ f P ro P e rty destroyed is probably be- 



will uadimhtpaM? '° 00 doIIar8 ' which sum the count y 



Political imn ?' COm P ell ed to pay.— The only news of 

 tariff Bill ; 0rU 1 n . ce b 7 this arrival is the defeat of the 

 tion of ttJ t *• , J€ ct which has long engaged the atten- 



the annexation 1 f tU !r e ° f the United States " Regarding 

 Pired, and n n nothing further has trans- 



papers are quite 1 0re & 011 territory dispute the 

 that the feelim? ; 81 f ent * From Texas, however, we learn 

 From Hay ti %™ javour of annexation is gai ning ground, 

 ^ow of the Mi 1 accounts of the complete over- 



feed fro m Pn f d° Governm ent. A vessel which had 

 ^ cka have bepn Ke P ublic ain brings advices that the 

 ?* ot8 with then entlre] y successful in their engaee- 

 2^ ^isbandod iJ ° verDmen t troops. Herard's forces 

 ^Pablicai,, \Z he * 0Tth > and he took refuge in Port 



??* H " believed T aS h0 ^ P ur *»ed by a superior force, 

 ^olutioni^ I e Could not hold out many days. The 

 ttent in tSTfiD**^ e8tablis hed an independent govern- 



AdmimJ i Punish narf nf 4-u„ :.i_ i 1 ™, %*_. i 



tirely eradicated. His Excellency was doing well. He 

 bore the operation itself, and the subsequent cauterisa- 

 tion, with the greatest fortitude. 



The French 



^*°»ral lay ^ a " ,stl Part of the island. 



2"* of events ijl Rep ' ? Uh three frigates, waiting the 

 ***land, andthpA W *, P robabI y take possession of 

 ***** iademn t du^ C Cd 4 ailure of the Government to 

 **** for C t VZ t0 l fance " ould he used as a 



Purpose. The black population have 



parliament. 



HOUSE OF LORDS. 



Thursday.— The House reassembled this day after the Whit- 

 sun recess.— The Lord Chancellor intimated that, on Tues- 

 day, he should be prepared to lay on the table a Bill relative to 

 Presbyterian marriages. — Lord Brougham moved for certain 

 returns with the object of showing the necessity of dividing the 

 Northern Circuit into two circuits.— The Lord Chancellor 

 said that it would be impossible to make any effectual altera- 

 tion before the next circuit, but the Government had turned its 

 attention to the subject, and were devising the means of 

 making some effectual alteration before the Spring circuit.— 

 On the motion of the Earl of Dalhousik, the Wool Duties 

 (Customs) Bill was read a second time and ordered to be com- 

 mitted. The discussion to be taken in the committee. — On the 

 motion of Lord Wharncliffb, the Bill to amend the Act for 

 empowering parliamentary grants by the committee of Privy 

 Council for the education of the poor was read a second time. 



Friday.— In answer to some observations by the Marquis of 

 Normanbv, in reference to a late trial for Ribbnnism, at the 

 Monaghan assizes, in which case it was alleged that seven per- 

 sons were struck off the jury because they were Roman Catho- 

 lics, — Lord Wharncliffe said that he did not think the noble 

 Marquis had much to complain of; it was true that certain 

 persons had been struck off because they were Roman Catho- 

 lics ; but it must be recollected that the offence for which the 

 parties were tried was Ribbonism, which was an offence almost 

 entirely confined to Roman Catholics. In every case where 

 a Roman Catholic had been struck off, a sufficient reason 

 had been assigned. — After a remark from Earl Fitzwilliam, 

 the Marquis of Normanbv complained that Roman Catholics 

 should be viewed with suspicicn as soon as they approached 

 the jury box; so much so, that the course of justice was 

 thereby interfered with. — Lord Wharncliffe denied that 

 the parties in question had other than justice awarded to them. 

 —The House then resolved itself into committee on the Fac- 

 tories Bill. Lord Kinnaird said there was a clause in the Bill 

 which went to establish altogether a new principle. He referred 

 to clause 32, which sanctioned the interference of the legis- 

 lature with the hours of labour. When the committee came to 

 that clause he should move that it be expunged. Clauses up to 

 the 14th were then agreed to. (Left sitting.) 



HOUSE OF COMMONS. 

 Friday.— On the House resolving itself into committee, Sir 

 G. Clkrk proposed that 11,353/. be granted for the maintenance 

 of the ecclesiastical establishments in British North America.— 

 Mr. W. Williams protested against making large grants of 

 money for such purposes, after such enormous grants of money 

 had been made from the lands in Canada for the maintenance 

 of the clergy. He could not conceive on what possible ground 

 the people of England should be called upon to pay such large 

 sums of money for such a purpose, as the people of Canada 

 were much better able to do so. He should certainly take the 

 sense of the House on this vote.— After a few words from Mr. 

 Hume, Lord Stanley said that a gradual reduction was being 

 made in these votes, and that ultimately they would cease.— Mr. 

 W. Williams said that, under these circumstances, he would 

 not trouble the committee to divide.— The vote was then agreed 

 to. The next vote was 18,895/. for the charge of the judicial 

 departments in Canada, which was also agreed to. The next 

 vote was 1 1,282/. to defray the charge of the colonial lands and 

 emigration board, and other expenses of emigration from this 

 country to the colonies.— Mr. Vernon Smith made some 

 observations on the subject of colonial immigration.— Lord 

 Stanlev said he had requested from the authorities in India 

 some information for the guidance of Government respecting 

 this subject, which, for the sake of the West Indian colo- 

 nies, he was desirous of encouraging, under safe regula- 

 tions.— Mr. Hume advocated an entire freedom of transit 

 for labour.— Mr. Hawes, on the contrary, was anxious for 

 the careful interposition of the Government, lest, under 

 the colour of immigration, there should be a revival of the slave 

 trade and the whips.— Mr. Bernal and Mr. P. Stewart pro- 

 tested against these imputations on the dispositions and inten- 

 tions of the West Indian 'planters. The vote was agreed to. 

 The next vote was 49,700/. for ,the salaries of stipendary ma- 

 gistrates in our West India colonies, in the Cape of Good Hope, 

 and at the Mauritius.— Mr. Williams objected to taxing the 

 people of England for stipendiary magistrates to protect negroes. 

 The blacks, being now free, should pay like other free people 

 for their own magistrates. These offices were retained upon 

 our estimates, he believed, for purposes of patronage.— Lord 

 St\nley explained, that patronage had nothing to do with the 

 matter; but, as the sta'e of colonial society improved, these 

 offices would be gradually dispensed with.— Colonel Sibthorp 

 hoped Mr. Williams would divide, for the sake of showing the 

 country that of the popular members there were present only 

 eleven two of whom were fast asleep. — Mr. Hume said, that 



acted on this advice, and the vote was agreed to. The 

 next vote was 12,000/. to aid the local legislatures in pro- 

 viding for the religious and moral instruction of the negro 

 population.— Agreed to. 35,060/. were voted for the support 

 of captured negroes and liberated Africans. Upon the vote 

 of 24,000/. being proposed for expenses incidental to com- 

 missions appointed under treaties of England with foreign 

 powers, for the purpose of putting an end to the traffic 

 in slaves, Mr. Hume said that the proper way to proceed 

 in order to put an end to the traffic in slaves was, to make 

 slave-labour of little value ; that was better than what he might 

 designate the mad crusade kept up on the coast of Africa. We 

 wasted our treasure and human life to an enormous extent in 

 a fruitless attempt to put an end to the slave trade, which ob- 

 ject could only be accomplished by such an encouragement of 

 free labour as would make slave-labour of no value.— After a 

 few words from Captain Pkchell, the vote was agreed to.— The 

 next vote was 107,300/. for the expenses of Consular establish- 

 ments abroad.— Mr. Williams and Mr. Hvme protested against 

 the unnecessary expense of keeping up Consuls and \ icq- 

 Cocsuls where there were resident Ministers, and thougnt tne 

 items required explanation.— Sir G. Clekk defended the vote, 

 which *as ultimately agreed to. -The next vote was a sum ci 

 20,000/. for extraordinary expenses of Ambassadors at ioreign 

 Courts.— Mr. Williams complained of the amount of this \oze, 

 and contrasted the expense and efficiency of our A c inDa8 ^ aa ; , '2 

 at foreign Courts with those of the representatives of the Umtea 

 States, in both which respects the comparison was muenro 

 the prejudice of this country. Ministers ™S ht *"** ^ 

 material reductions in every one of the items constituting this 

 vote without at all impairing the efficiency of the serwee.— 

 After a few words from Sir G. Clkrk, the vote was agreed to ; as 

 were the following :_S5,800/. for Civi ^W5»TS£S i^^ 



ances, and Compensations to retired public officers ; 6200/. for re- 



u < nf ♦*, ^ .,* t «ccine Institution. 3000/. for the 

 Refuge for the Destitute. On the question that a sum not ex- 

 ceeding 12,100/. be granted for the support of Polish refugee* 

 and distressed Spaniards in this country, for the year endinr 

 31st March, 1845, being proposed, Mr. Hume said he never 

 could allow this vote to pass without taking the opportunitv it 

 afforded of expressing his deep regret at the present degraded 

 state of the Polish nation. The occurrences of each succeed- 

 ing year brought to the mind of those who were anxious for 

 their regeneration grounds of alarm and apprehension, while 

 the apathy of the country in the matter was really lamentable. 

 He hoped that Government would do something to alleviate 

 the severity of the treatment received by the Poles at the hands 

 of the autocrat. He understood that they were to see him here 

 this season; but he could not conceive how he could 6how his 

 face with decency in this country.— The vote was agreed to. — 

 49791- for sundry allowances, formerly charged on the Civil 

 List.— Agreed to. 2154/. for bounties and other charities in 

 Scotland, formerly charged on the hereditary revenue.— Mr. 

 Hums, on this vote, took occasion to object to the practice of 

 giving pensions to literary men. It had the tendency, he 

 maintained, of making them dependent upon, and subservient 

 m their writings to, those who bestowed pensions, and he in- 

 stanced the case of Mr. Southey as a case in point.— Sir R. 

 Peel must enter his decided protest against these doctrines. 

 He admitted that if you took an author who had advocated 

 popular opinions, and if-to induce him to change those opi- 

 nions— you gave him a pension, that that was a corrupt exer- 

 cise of power. But when they looked to the men who had of 

 late received pensions from the State— such men as Pro- 

 fessor Air y. and Mr. Owen, the curator of the museum 

 of the College of Surgeons, for example — when he 

 knew that such gentlemen had, by their devotion to scientific 

 pursuits, sacrificed many opportunities of gaining wealth— when 

 their pensions were bestowed without the slightest inquiry into 

 their political opinions— without imposing on them the slightest 

 terms or condition— when he saw the Crown making such 

 selections once a year of distinguished scientific men— ay, and 

 women too, as witness Mrs. Somerville— he could not imagine 

 that the bestowal of the just reward of merit involved the 

 slightest tie upon the independence of those who thus received 

 it. He repeated, that he knew not what might be the political 

 feelings of the distinguished individuals whom he had named. 

 In every case the bestowal of the pension had been accom- 

 panied by a distinct statement that it was not a retainer— that 

 it had nothing to do with the recipient's political opinions. 

 He certainly thought that there ought to be some provision 

 which would enable individuals to devote their lires to science 

 in a state of things in which proficiency in science was unac- 

 companied by pecuniary reward. In the case of Mr. Owen, 

 that gentleman would not have been able to continue certain 

 works in which he was now engaged, had it not been for the 

 pension granted to him. There was another case of late occur- 

 rence, in which pensions of 10/. a year had been granted to two 

 aged female relatives of the poet Burns. Now, did anybody 

 object to that? Did anybody think that evil could possibly 

 arise from rescuing from poverty and misery two persons 

 connected with a great poet, of whom his country was so justly 

 proud ? The very last case in which a small pension was 

 bestowed, was in that of Miss Heriot, a distressed descendant 

 of George Heriot, who founded the great charity bearing his 

 name in Edinburgh, and who, by that act of munificence, had 

 left his family iu distress. Was it not right that the Crown 

 should in such cases have the power of conferring small pen- 

 sions ? It would be a scandal to our name and nation to have no 

 such provision to be bestowed in cases where only, without 

 it, a public subscription could raise families from want, and 

 which could not be set on foot in so many cases without 

 wounding nice feelings, and giving rise to honourable scruples. 

 He did think, in an ancient Monarchy like this, that in such 

 cases the Crown should have the power of stepping in and 

 rescuing merit from submitting to what it felt to be a great 

 degradation.— Mr. Collect remarked that Mr. Southey's opi- 

 nions had undergone a change after the bestowal of his pension. 

 — Sir R. Peel replied that it was well known that in conse- 

 quence of that great man's application to scientific and literary 

 pursuits his health and intellect had failed him ; but it was 

 utterly ridiculous to suppose that for a paltry pension and the 

 commutation of an allowance of sack, such a man as Mr. 

 Southey would have bartered his opinions. Did any one think 

 that Mr. Wordsworth would sell his political freedom of thought 

 for a price? Let honourable gentlemen rest assured that the 

 feelings of literary men put them far above such actions. They 

 might be gratified by the distinction bestowed, but to suppose 

 that men like Wordsworth and Southey would have been 

 influenced by a paltry 100/. a-year and a butt of sherry, would, 

 he sincerely believed, be doing a great injustice to both their 

 names.— Mr. Waklkv could not agree that literary men should 

 be excluded from pensions. So far he differed with his hon. 

 Friend the Member for Montrose. Such a distinction would he 

 unwise and invidious. But he did object in one of the cases 

 cited, to the pension bestowed— that given to Mr. Owen— and he 

 believed that that was the general feeling in the professi n which 

 he had the honour of belonging to. The College of Surgeons 

 had the power of pensioning Mr. Owen on a scale commensu- 

 rate with his merits.— Sir R. Peel remarked that the pension 

 was but 200/. a-year. Mr. Owen had devoted to ptmmts con- 

 nected with comparative anatomy talents which, in another 

 sphere: of life, might have been the source of great emolu- 

 ment to him. He had referred to several eminent men, the 

 question of who was at present the most eminent man, con- 

 nected with medical science; and the general voice of 

 Europe had assured him that, since the death of Cavier. . Mr. 

 Owen was the most distinguished anatomical student ; and he 

 was told that if the Crown could bestow upon him a small pen- 

 sion, it would have a most advantageous effect, as enabling 

 him to devote his leisure to the preparation of two works, for 

 tne completion of which he would otherwise have no time — 

 Mr. WAKLEVsaid,a Right Hon. Baronet opposite had lately 

 obtained a new charter for the College of Surgeons ; and it was 

 now announced to the public, through the Prime Minister, that 

 one of the chief officers of that institution-a paid officer— was 

 bsolutely obliged to look to Government for a reward for his 

 .abours. The College of Surgeons was in the receipt of many 

 thousands of pounds every year from persons applying for their 

 diplomas ; and yet it was announced that they could not afford 

 to give their own officers rewards commensurate with the great 

 services they had rendered to the community. Mr. Owen had 

 obtained considerable renown ; he had bestowed great atten- 

 tion on the science of anatomy, and especially comparative 

 anatomy: and it was the duty of the institution whose officer 

 he was to give him proper compensation for his services. For 

 40 years the college had been expending their funds for other 

 purposes instead of rewarding their Officers. — Sir R. Peel con- 

 sidered that the Government and the College of Surgeoos natt 

 acted with perfect propriety. It was the duty of the Co11 *^ °* 

 Surgeons to attach a certain salary to a certain office, and ttiej 

 ought not to increase that salary on account of the ta»« 

 the man who occupied the situation. The sum of w- "£,,,. 

 was sufficient to procure for them the services of a pcrso ^^ 

 petent to discharge the duties of curator; and he 'J-~ ^ the 

 thought the college would not act properly, ir ?£**• n8 f the 

 amount of salary according to the personal S u *" u _ Mr hawks 

 individual upon whom that office wa« conre ^ Mr ane, the 

 complained that enough had not been done w ^.^ tct 



son of Sir John Soane.-Mr. Hitmk ^[^p^ thcre must be 

 to the case of Miss Heriot, a. <*****£& nis mo nev for cha- 

 some mistake, as George Heriot had ^left n * %Q 



ritable purposes, because he had no rt-iat »v 



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