THE NEWSPAPER. 



fl844. 



r the 



He moved, as an 



in- 



JL. '►hat one-and-a half acres, . in . 9 " f * r the erection of 



For the clause, 53— 

 SoiS"charche8-roruieain«»«^»j ■• uccessful dl visiou on 



«*^,, r the clause,^- T A;^ nin , clauses were agreed 



^for the Quantity of ground to be given 

 verted for "fJ? hps __ Fo r the amendment, 17- 



SB-ft*"" took ^S^JS^SSS^SS amendments. 

 £ and tbe Bill was ordered to ' »e repm Borthwickj st ated 



V^^r^^ a rr L ece?veTTn r an°informal way, proposals 



Art Government had ««,« ;"';- [ a " e between his eldest son 

 ££» Don C^los, sugge S tins a m ; mag tranqu iUi»ation of 



an Ttbe Queen of Spa n ..with a ,ic ^ Qf the he 



that c untry, and "tthn» * seriously entertained, Don Carlo, 

 throne. I! ** 8 pro K sacrifices or concessions he was witting 

 would then state J t at sa cr ^ Governmen t did 



to make, In ™™*"*™° would tend, in the present state of 

 not think that the proposal Qf distU[ba and tr an- 





11C busmess w,s the cons^er ^ chair _M, 



on the <l' ie = ll °" LU f.ate beings called a West Indi 

 ., one of those unfortu ateoe g condith 



ir— Mr. JAM S3, 



ia planter, 



a* one i» »»«-* ^'L'V^'his view of the actual condition of the 

 craved leave to .tate his V1 °7 k ° his own case as a favourable 

 West India merest He took his ^^ ^ tyf 



lustration. 1H» J on, a DU * b "vond the ordimry brokerage, 



cotton and export calicoes, even it they snould be left to bleacn 

 on the sands of Central America. But free trade was a great 

 experiment— he hoped it would prove successful when put in 

 practice.— Mr. Roebuck pictured the privations of the mass 

 of the people of this country, between whose desires 

 and amelioration there interposed this bankrupt but 

 diminutive class, who, with the mortgages on their estates, 

 were not entitled to the name of proprietors. If they were to 

 be represented in the House according to their importance in 

 the community, a fraction of a member would do them justice. 

 He hoped that the great principle of free trade-" buying in 

 the cheapest, and selling in the dearest market," would prevail, 

 not merely in the case of corn, but, as he considered it, in the 

 far greater interest of sugar, the extension of the demand for 

 which would add to the comforts and increase the employment 

 of the people. The West Indies were a load to this country ; 

 and we would not suffer the slightest injury if they were sud- 

 denly to disappear from the f.tce of the globe.-Lord SAWDON 

 remarked that the West India colonies took three millions an- 

 nually of our manufactures-a fact of itself which showed that 



deacon de Lacy was no specimen of the existing condition of 

 things. He was an old gentleman of very peculiar habits, with 

 a large private fortune, and, notwithstanding his sporting 

 eccentricities, spending large sums in acts of benevolence. Mr. 

 Ward was misinformed when he staged the net income or trie 

 Irish Church at 650,000/. ; that was the gross amount; and the 

 net income, allowing for all deiuctions, was only 550,000/. A» 

 there were, in round numbers, U00 benefices, this would give 

 >35i to each beneficed clergyman ; but as, including curates, 

 the number of clerical persons in Ireland was about 1800, the* 

 average amount to be divided amongst them was reduced tt> 

 i-o/ The Irish Establishment would stand a comparison with 

 an v' other Church; pluralities were in course of abrogation ? 

 nan re id Mice was rapidly diminishing; and church extension., 

 chiefly by the 'aid of private exertions and funds wasv.goiou.lr 

 ca rUM on, in the erection and endowment both of churches and. 



schools The Irish clergy had ^^f^^^Z^ 

 to suffer more: and it was an ungrateful return after all tneir 

 sac S rifi ff ces?to seek to abolish Protcstantiim altogether .He was- 



Tins 

 was no 



M 



^^^SjT^SS^SSSS^ 300,/., and during 



cipation, ^eda clear annual r ^ ^^^ 



the period of aPP«ntlcesmp < of the twentv millions v 



was a loss for which ^J™* q o Lie /^^^ con . 



°T nTttecr»Tc£eo( the West Mdia planters, woo 

 aideraf.on «ftt» « "J**™ ' k as compared with the landed 



Kr^ 



city P of Sir R? Peel, who, disregarding taunts of inconsistency, 

 felt the necessity of yielding to the growing pressure of the 

 comnmnUy on themeans of subsistence. He urgedthe vrtedom, 

 as well as expediency, of at one, going s till further, a id b> 

 equalising the duties on all sugars, to enlar ge tne am ui it of 

 auuply. The richer classes of this country consumed I rom 

 6Jlbs. to 70 lbs. of sugar per head annually ; but the humbler 

 classes were only able to consume about 7 he. per head, and 

 that of a quality adulterated by various expedients. Our foreign 

 was of more importance than the colonial trade ; and seeing tie 

 inevitable tendency of our commercial legislation, it would he 

 wise in the West India interest to yield in time, and prepare lor 

 that which must come at no distant period. Justice would 

 not be done to our commerce without a general system ot re- 

 duction of import duties; and as a first step towards this, ne 

 would propose the equalisation of the duties on all sugars, 

 foreign or colonial, and moved an amendment to that effect.— 

 —The Ciiavcellor of thk Exchequer had heard nothing 

 calculated to change his opinion, more especially as Mr. Ewart, 

 on a former occasion, had urged the very same arguments m 

 favour of an alteration similar to that which the Government are 

 now making, namely, the introduction of free-grown to t.ie 

 exclusion of slave-grown sugar.— Mr. Humk, though opposed 

 to all differential duties, was not prepared absolutely at once to 

 vote for the equalisation of the duties. He would give the 

 West Indians, whose hands had been tied by the legislation of 

 this country, some time, say three years, to prepare for the 

 change.— Mr. Laboucuere was also not prepared to vote for 

 an instant equalisation.— Mr. M. Gibson asked what claim the 

 West India interest had on the manufacturing community? 

 Encouragement to the colonies was discouragement to the com- 

 munity ot this country. He wanted the reason of this differen- 

 tial duty; on what grounds the amount was fixed at 10s. ; what 

 was the principle or justifiable claim which led them to create 

 this new discriminating duty ? The Government proposition 

 would not materially reduce" the price of sugar ; and it was 

 strange to see a government, with its practised reputation, 

 adopting, as part of its policy, the amiable weaknesses of 

 those who refused to eat sugar during the anti-slavery 

 agiation, which ended in emancipation. This discrimina- 

 tion between free grown and slave grown foreign sugars 

 might be followed by high discriminating duties against 

 British manufactures on the part of other countries, especially 

 the Brazils.— Mr. Villikrs regretted that no Member of the 

 Government rose to answer the question of Mr. Gibson. The 

 amount taken out of the pockets ot the people of the Metropolis 

 and of the country generally by this system of protection, from 

 the statement of the West India interest, did not benefit them, 

 while it robbed the Exchequer and the community. They were 

 maintaining a system which cost five milliona a year, and yet 

 was useless to those for whom it was maintained ; and the 

 Government was bound to give some explanation of the reasons 

 on which it rested.-Mr. Gladstone thought that the reasons 

 ior the pjhey pursued by Government had been sufficiently ex- 

 plained, and were perfectly familiar to the House. Tnere were 

 two reasons : the first, that of caution in a state of transition 

 from one system to another; and the second, that the West 

 indies, being insufficiently supplied with labour, required pro- 

 tection to enable them to compete with other countries.— Mr. 

 ™de.v sa >d we maintained the colonies, protected them with 

 our army and navy, and, in the face of these facts, the argu- 

 ment* used in that House for protection were as audacious as 

 nn f- °i the Duke of Richmond about the loss of 2000/. a year 

 Hr\h 5 Sn ' He amus ed the House by reading the resolutions 

 nnrUr se of c °mmons in 1640 against M projectors and mo- 

 nopolists,'* expelling them from the House, at the time when the 

 it tM C th l " patent Srantedb yCharlesI.was in question;and applying 

 finJVi necxi8t »»g state of things, urgedthat the West Indies would 

 tha., h SClves mucn bBtter off m the hands of the free traders 

 Mr pi too anu fro wit h new modifications of monopoly.— 

 mitte* . - Stbw akt would undertake, before a special com- 

 Un,',;? show what were the special burdens and disadvan- 

 haa hell t West Inaies which required protection, and which 

 Mr uu?n brou S ht about by the legislation of this country.— 



eqaaliaatmJ 'J rged the free trade view » n favour of the 

 would hi ? «. the dutie8 > and expressed an opinion that it 

 Indies th J JL e better » both for the consumer and the West 

 valent'tnn I l >,a *"ers should receive an annual grant, equi- 

 price of. dlffe rence in price on the amount, than that the 

 duty _-Mru ar 8houId be unnaturally raised by a differential 

 India intVr' *? RSAt - s Poke at length in defence of the West 

 nable sv t which had no desire to return to the old abonu- 

 'ender th. °' * Iaverr . b "t only required time and fair play to 

 T,, ey werl e / tpenment of emancipation completely successful. 

 to them • h ? u " led witb compensation having been awarded 

 accepted m though almost regretting that they should have 

 •etion in a y ' he de "ied that the sum a warned was compen- 

 to them II- l ' r ?V cr sense. Want of energy was also attributed 

 B "t there w'° ,l Was alle e edcom Petition would alone remedy. 

 men:s wer no P art of the wi>rlu where agricultural improve- 

 tio «» of new m ° r f aCtive,y & oin & °'». in the stiape of the introduc- 

 ed faun ^ in ™ "?-* a " a ex P erime "ts with new manures. The 



ninceni - tor uruam uui n. «.«<> •" — r . V- -*-„, i;„i,„.« 

 tion" to the planters; and the entire colonial system linked 



as it was with slavery, had been forced by thte amttTM «• 

 part of its policy for enhancing its own greatness 1 he : equal- 

 isation of the duties would aggravate the slave : trade ^beyond 

 all check or control.-Mr. Warbu«ton *dvocated J"«J ad ^ 

 and Mr. Maclean opposed it. On a division ^there »PPW^- 

 For the equalisation of the differential duties, W-Against It, 

 259-Majority against, 2o3.-T»!e House then wen : into com. 

 mittee, pro for, ml, and the Chairman reported progress on a 

 motion 'of Mr. Milks, the discussion ot whose arneii: nent 

 was postponed till Friday. - The ^ Vestries i,n Churches 1 ill 

 to enable parish vestries to be held m other P»eM than 

 churches, under the control of the Wjhop, *»*• 

 next business on which the House went into committee, it 

 having already passed the first and second reading. But It was 

 vigorously opposed, especially by Mr. Rowuj .who a tri- 

 buted it to Young England, or « Little Britain/' and sa m that 



on account of certain allegations of > ndec °^ am p happe,l ' n r f | -S t t 

 vestries held in churches, the Bill proposed Jotake awaj a r g ht 

 enjoyed by every parish in England from time taJJMWrWj 

 The Chairman of the committee, having been appealed to 



fourtecath of the clergy ot ue ii. a » *---- »•-»•• ■ -- 



sentees For this a very sufficient explanation might be i give n. 



In hUow. Parish there was not *«°**J?*Xti?^*£ 

 union to which it belonged not above 30 ^r 1 . "^*"*;^ 

 the church. Such a state of things could not be prolonged ior 

 ever.-The debate was then adjourned. ctaterl 



HVW^.-M reply to Mr. M. «ib.o», S,r ^ 



that the .p, I of incendiarism In Norfolk^ Sdh£i»*W 



x had engaged the attention of the Government ana 

 ,! instituted inqulriei to rtaln the origin and the 



and that 

 per- 



said that there was a rule of the House reauirine : that al 1 B ill* 

 relating to religion should originate In resolutions passed a a 



had been done by the .— -- - i,„i^ to 



he trusted it would be heard in time to enable the Judges , to 

 ceed to their respective circuits within ten days of their 

 P^Sod° of War urc :T The adjourn^ debate on the motMJ c^ 



I>ro- 

 uiual 



re maXd?ha?tTep^i5on, of the Bill were u n h n own t o t :h e 

 country, and yet there were . 1,000 parishes in fc.ngla nd i 

 terested in it.-Mr. Escott concurred in the P™*™**™*™* 

 ponement; and Mr. Jkrvis pointed out that ^ e drawer of the 



BUI was ignorant of the commonest ^JS^TtneSrran' 

 Stafford O'Briev, whose Bill it is, appealed^ to the Go, er 

 ment, and Sir R. P««L advised postponement in order to con 

 sider objections, which was adopted. 



T^ay.-The Ness Fisheries Bill was read a third time and 



passed, after a division.-Sir J. Graham said that Government 



proposed to fix the second reading of the Irish "J * ra * ( > n . 



BU for Monday the 1st of July. Upon tha :daj the Govern 



nt would, if the progress of other Bills permitte take the 



* *w« UA...a ,.« »h. cpmnrt readintr of that Bill- u was 



elrisV Church IVmporalities was resumed by 

 os. followed by Mr. M. OCoxnkll, Mr D. 

 BaowH., ana Sir C. NAPi.a, ^ support of the mot, „ h ,r C. 

 Ninier said that the first ehot of war, if the 1 rince ae «"»' » 

 s^Sever SSy into effect his threatened ^^^^SSSt 

 do more justice to Ireland than all their speeches ta^HNH 

 -SirJ.G R A„ A MsaidUiatSira^ier^^ 



h08 le.teamer is an injustice to the loyalty of the lush Koman 

 aholics; a sure ira] f nullifying Mg^jgr«S to eSSSS 



liscussion were deficient in novelty and in .rest -Mr . V. 



there. 



and its discu 



.—Mr. Bortii wick gave notice that, a- 



against it, 274 ; majority, 95. 



Tkursl^.-K petition complaining d*^™*^^ 

 Mr. Bouverie tor ■ailm«noc : was pre wjJJ^J 1 ' ff^ Bllk 

 gave notice for the 2d July, to a *V Q mn riutv all nolicie* of in- 



to exempt from the P^™^ 



surance on farms and farming-stock agams^ ^ ^ ^ 



, Oil «r> >-- _.^_l_l_ TrncU Uill 



mm mittee to consider the operation of the Anatomy 

 S?St forwaVd the invention of a Mr. Roberts for pre»emng 

 bodies, a id stated his object to be to protect the most helpless 

 classes of society, to promote science, and to guard the health 



Etudre%erio!lsnefs m a P nTaimcnUy of the subject; but the 



-cessity for its agitation 

 ie policy of the Governn 

 ade to conciliate the alienated 



otended to pass tne ui " u, \"* i ""^r." wa ii a the hands ot 

 'P"!****^^^ with the 



the Government; the power of passing 



, E v and Sir G. ^^ r^t^JS^e^S^^^ their 

 be delayed to July or August to .gi%e it .every [°™ nheEXm 



power. Toaquestionby Mr. BAaiNO.theCHAN" 1 - t 



ciirqckr replied, that the G/ver^ ^ be ? ore 



sent, of altering the scale of ^ x « on u | ars al ^ r / adin? of the 

 the House. On the order of the day for the seco d(nent: _ 



Bank Charter Bill, Mr. Haw« « ^ « ™ r » m J e H ouse to- 

 "Tnat no sufficient evidence has ibeen laid loewre ^ 



justify the proposed mterference with *|» aks am ! enament was 

 ement of their circulation.™ « nf the ExcHE . 



maua 



ecessit, for >ts .^^^ Z7^"otlnliT^ 

 th trt fconcU ate?h aUenS ed "«fing 5 ol the Irish people. A 



SS5SS fewa «55TrSS 



lmgton, as to their determi u« conciliate. 



E " BUll i Mera rchi ^ might assume that it had to deal with a 

 episcopal hierarchy m, s u J wit h the supervision of between 



population .ot fourteen '^ns^nt JJ ^^ ^ ^ 



ten and eleven thoa^nd ^par , lians for whose 



2450 Pa"«hcs, a id only £ P ^ ^^ ^^ 



UTooO not to me tion the many grants for education, glebe 



052,000^, joe tu He tUcn lanced at th e 



houses tithe arrears ana IrelanQ traced the bulk of 



ff*^In&to&\$lt£c* of so anomalous an institution 

 i«te Established Church, condemned by all reflecting men, 

 amused he b House by reading printed placards, announcing 

 amuseu iuc „ ffects of the late Archdeacon of Meath, 



S'wht h racin'hof'ethouuds, bea g Ies, and al. the £«*»£ 

 nf » fox-huntine squire, were the conspicuous features. 

 ?rela»d was our Po.and , as such, she_gathered roundjer^the 



seconded by Mr. Hastie. -The Chan ■«"£ Mr w 



QUE r, Sir W Clav, Mr.HoMa, ^-^^^^n favour of 



uaxov.Mr.DARBV and Sir K P» B ^P° Mr . Wo . 



;ul._Itwas opposed hy Mr. Na^uEOA s.bTHoae, 



svmnathies of the Continent; while England, with her broad 

 2 i of liberty as respected herself, and her generou^ exej> 

 5nn« in favour of the Negro population of her colonies, staxeu 

 security ™S happiness on the maintenance of the remnant of 

 an exclusive system which ought to have «P» red .^7t at once 

 Emancipation? He called on them to put an end 

 and by adopting the only course which can avert tne n.cp 

 the Union, P le S fslate for ^?«^S^ 

 commenced in the emancipation jof the ; ^^ J° 1e<l for by 

 Eliot said that the security of the Cbu [™ * a * pr ° PiU nket, 

 the Act of Union, citing the sentiment , o ■Rattan ^ ^ 

 Canning, and other advocates of the Catholic ciai it 



to show that their concession would not affect " * 



Catholic Emancipation did not destroy the "se^uy in wmch 

 character of the Constitution i™*^ 1 ^ 

 the Protestant clergy generally ap^j^ 1 ! '^pald happen to 

 in remote and poor districts, no Rteater eejn ^ M J hmeut> 

 Ireland than to take away the revenues of tne theref<jre lhat 

 and apply them to secular purposes He noi Mr 



the House would reject the ^^"^uS that the neglect 

 Ross supported the motion.-Mr.SHAwaun times was 



d mal-admin.stration of the . lr.,^ Church m p ^^ ^ Rq _ 



AR- 



the 



ODBHOUSB, 



and Mr. 



Mr. 

 The 



Hawes s aiuciiumsui, "\.'°- o ir R Pbbl obtained leave to 

 Bill was read a second time.-Sir • *. • r h * { righ ts of the 

 bring in a Bill to define and rcg dat e certam g r ^ 



SS^iWfl erhan^cenain lands in the Duchy 

 oV^iwaU. on behalf of the Duke of Corn walh 



Friday.-Mr. T. S. Dc.vcom b.. pu. «J^ ^ others, re,i- 

 a petition from W. J. Lenton, Joseph M«x^ n and opening . of 

 dent in London, complaiumg of toeae in& for im- 



their letters at the General Post Office. v^ wighed to 



mediate inquiry and redres ,s. T he hen po$t 0mce b , 



ask, whether the letters had been opened ^ cQm 



orders of the ^Z**^l^JL*oZ The Secretary ot State 

 of the petitioners wis without founda that s ted 



had, under a Royal warrant an «°J^f - tie8 of the Post Office, 

 letters should be opened by the au>no hon> 



-Mr. T. S. DL-vcoMBB said it was ev ^ „ ^^ 



bart. wished to blink the question t ^ t down .— 



o?der»M. The lion. Member said he ^^ r Fl P nsbury was 



Mr.SHAW«id.twM^ r lar for the 



out of order.-The S pbakb r saiu, w the presentation of 



hon. Member to make a ny observations on in ^p ^^ 



a petition, although he had given not r l « ^P'^eSfought the 

 Hip B-rievance complained of was pressing, "e uiu e > 

 hon .Member was o'ut of order.-Mr. T. 8. IJ^-J --I ^ 

 not be put down, and I therefore move that the Houea 

 adjourn (loud cries of '« Hear, hear"). -The question havmgne 

 SrT. S. Dorcombr said, •' Now I am in order, and have^ 

 Rght to remark on the petition which na» been aentto^e io^ 

 presentation." After some strong observations the hon ^ M 

 said, he wished for a committee to inquire into tne ' SJ ed ia 

 he had no hesitation in saying that letters hadT b «J n n ^, tiC s. by 

 a most unwarrantable manner by the Post omce allowed 



order of the Secretary of State. If a committee ^^ WaL . 

 him. he would prove the allegations in the P e "« . were cor- 

 . ...«, » n i* »no KoiiotroH thP stfttpments in ' tie pe 1 - 11 , .._«„«, taken 



lace said he believed the statements 



letters taken 



country w a , U i in . es ' as e »tertaine.l with the welfare of this one cause why there had not neeni fi t tUe case of Arch- 



>J Was declining ; and the cry was free trade-import J man Catholic religion to a purer laitn. 



rect, and he wished to see the power of oP en »"P tinaedt it waj 

 away from the Secretary of State. If *"£™ fUid he could 

 continuing the spy-system.-Mr. ^^.'JfKthe secrt«g 

 not consent to have the power now « x % c ^ w d ^ .inpopnlar. he 

 of State of opening letters taken away. J G . :)rer „ment of trie 

 could not consent to deprive the E.«cutne b^ considered 

 authority which they P^a-t^-JJJ- ° of a constitutional, 

 such a power was total y unwort by government 



administration. It was only fUJ ^or » & pQWer was nee W 



Mr. Warburton thought that . ft separa t e warrant 



1 sary « but he thought there ought 



