July 6,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



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SouJd, however, be very glad if some fair substitution 

 £>uld be devised.— Mr. J. O'Brien supported the motion; but 

 during his speech, there being; very few Members on the 

 Ministerial benches, an attempt was made to get rid of the 

 matter by "counting out" the House. This failed, from the 

 nresence of upwards of 40 Members ; and on the conclusion of 

 Mr O'Brien's address the galleries were cleared, but Ministers 

 not being attended by a sufficient number of their usual sup- 

 porters, were obliged to submit to the motion being carried, 

 without a division, which provoked loud laughter and ironical 



cheering from the Opposition benches. 



Thursday.— To a question put by Mr. P. M. Stewart, Sir R. 

 Pkbl stated that he had no intention of touching the currency 

 of Scotland or Ireland by any new legislation in the present 

 session, or without full communication with the parties inte- 

 rested. The right lion, baronet, in answer to Mr. Sergeant 

 Mcrphv, announced that he should endeavour to reverse the 

 vote of the House, obtained on Wednesday, on the question of 

 Ministers* Money.— On the order of the day for the third read- 

 ing of the Bank Charter Bill, Mr. Woj>khousb spoke strongly 

 against the principle of the measure, and finished his speech by 

 proposing the addition of a clause, allowing silver as a legal 

 tender in any payment not exceeding the sum of twenty-five 

 pounds.— Sir R. Peel replied that our silver money was used, 

 not as a^coin, but as tokens, and not bearing an exact relation 

 to the standard of value— gold. Any enactment to make silver, 

 as coined, a legal payment, would amount in fact to a depre- 

 ciation of the currency. — After some further conversation, Mr. 

 Wodkhousk withdrew his clause.— Mr. Turner then tendered 

 an amendment, to compel the Bank to receive, as of full 

 weight, such sovereigns and half-sovereigns as balanced in the 

 scale ; the object being to prevent the loss of the light coinage 

 falling on the humbler classes.— Sir R. Pkel objected that the 

 present Bill had nothing to do with the coinage, and that, 

 therefore, the amendment was not relevant.— The subject of 

 the light coinage, and the hardship of the loss falling on the 

 public, was dwelt on by Mr. Hums, Mr. C. Wood, and others j 

 and then the amendment was withdrawn. Some con- 

 versation followed respecting the "legal tender" clause, 

 on the conclusion of which' the Bill was passed, and sent 

 up to the Lords.— The next business was the committee 

 on the Poor-law Amendment Bill, On the question being 

 put, Mr. French asked certain questions respecting cer- 

 tain facts connected with the working of the Poor-law in 

 Ireland, which Sir J. Graham declined to answer, as being too 

 comprehensive, as -well as affecting individuals. — Mr. B. 

 Cochrane moved as an amendment, that the new Poor-law, 

 though improved by the proposed amendments, is still opposed 

 to the ancient constitution of this realm, and inadequate to the 

 necessities of the people, and that the House go into committee 

 that day six months. He contended that the principle of the 

 new Poor-law was to bad, and so pernicious to the feelings and 

 character of the people, that no partial amendments could 

 render it a good law. Contrary to the principle of the Act of 

 Elizabeth, which tested poverty by labour, this Act tested 

 poverty by suffering. To remedy the evils of the old system 

 workhouses had been erected, in which the regulations were as 

 severe as those to which criminals are subjected, and in many 

 of which the amount of food is less than that which is allowed 

 to convicts, in some cases barely sufficient to support existence. 

 And what had been the saving by the change ? Nothing, in 

 comparison to the resources of the country, and unworthy of 

 consideration when wrung from the increased suffering of the 

 poorer classes. To the manufacturing system Mr. Cochrane 

 attributed the general poverty of the working people; and he 

 maintained that the landowners had a right to complain that, 

 while a system of manufactures was introduced which stimu- 

 lated population, and enabled the manufacturers to cheapen 

 human labour by the unlimited use of machinery, they 

 threw upon the land the burden of this fearful pauper, 

 ism. Stocks in trade were not assessed, and manufac- 

 turing capital did not contribute to the relief of the poor. 

 He therefore called on the House to take up the cause of the 

 poor, identify itself with their feelings, and, for the sake of 

 humanity itself, check our downward national progress, by 

 ameliorating their condition, and rejecting the Bil. — The 

 Speaker having decided that Mr. Cochrane's amendment was 

 not strictly in form, .the order of the day was read.— On the 

 question that the Speaker leave the chair, Mr. Borthwick rose 

 to submit the following resolutions:— " That the Act 4th & 

 5th Wra. IV., c. 76, commonly called the New Poor Law, is up- 

 constitutional in principle and oppressive in practice. That it 

 Is, therefore, expedient that the said Act should be taken into 

 consideration, with a view, not to its partial amendment but 

 its entire reconstruction." He contended that the existing Act 

 was unsound in principle and oppressive in its operations; it 

 was impossible that it could be satisfactorily amended by any 

 patching up of its details, and it would be necessary to recon- 

 struct it on a broader, more general, and more catholic 

 principle. The laws by which they regulated relief to the poor 

 ought not, he said, to be based on principles of political 

 economy, cold, abstract, calculating, and theoretic, but they 

 rUf ° ^ e based on generous principles of humanity and re- 

 ligion, applied in their broadest and most catholic form, to the 

 wants and requirements of the people.— The resolutions were 

 seconded by Mr. Ferrand.— Sir J. Graham, taking the statute 

 °* Elizabeth as his starting point, said that as early as the reign 

 ox Charles II. its imperfections were felt, acknowledged, and at- 

 tempted to be remedied; and cited the records of the House of 

 ear?"!!! 118 durin & the latter portion of last century, to show how 

 nn if Le £islature had been compelled to struggle with the 

 question ultimately terminated by the great change in the 

 ^oor-iaw made in 1834. His official experience came in aid of 

 for Pi nvatc P j nion that this change had been a beneficial one 

 of n f J WOrklng classes themselves. There was no prohibition 

 nn 1 «° r relief ' out of a million and a half relieved last year, 

 dif ? a scven -eighths received it at their own homes. He 

 erended the law by detail, and urged that the only way of 

 ecing the evils arising out of a dense population was to in- 

 crease the means of productive industry. Practically, the 

 sum aml hl,man e«t course would be, not the abrogation, by 

 ummary resolution, of a law by which the interests of the poor 

 B e reco £nised, but to introduce such amendments and im- 

 — M ei 2 entS as would better adapt it for its beneficial purposes. 

 T r ' S-Wortley, though dissenting from the resolutions as 



criti? 1 rf nd denyin £ that he wished the repeal of the Poor-law, 

 of th * lt ' mainl >' on the ground of the undue extent of some 

 Plaint 6 0nions - — Lord J. Russell showed that the com- 

 and xc% raiSe(I a £ainst the law, such as on separation of man 

 like th a ? d SO fortb > had no ori & in iu lhe stat « te » distinctions 

 Jegisiar havin £ bee n recognised under the old system. The 

 lively i,!? 11 ° f Elizab eth was not so favourable to the poor as 

 Panishrn mations P ictured: ear-branding, flogging, and other 

 evils enp ent ? > bein S devised against vagabondism, while the 

 Ia *ion kp ered in the course of time, by the growth of popu- 

 thoue-h in ^ SO intoIera bie as to render imperative that great, 

 ment Am chan & e undertaken by Lord Grey's Govern- 



to whirl ! nd tlle law as experience and the severe trials 

 down ill has been subjected may suggest; but break 

 thine-* \vv P u Inc,ple * and y° u wiu return to the state of 

 idle werr ? Pf c vailed before 1830, when the vagabond and 

 endan -erp P ? ° niSec1, the indust "ous discouraged, and property 

 determine . 1 ♦ He . was * Iad therefore that Government had 

 te*a ohsfr» >° mamtain ^. and he hoped that they would meet 

 ^d with 1 ° ln Carr yi"S this Bill through committee U an he 

 **tion ^h" e or, S lnal enactment, seeing so many then in oppo- 

 Ja mes r,?f Wer » now in or connected with office.-Sir W. 

 Mr - wli;i?v PK S? KLL ' Mr ' s - Ciawford, LordSAN'Dov, and 

 ^ion wiirEhi ln e discussif >n, the latter designating the 



that thprJ™ eS as p,aces oi tor ture, but expressed his fears 

 «e was no prospect of a repeal of the law, seeing that 



the two leading parties in the House concurred in mutual lau- 

 dation and maintenance of the system. Justice, not humanity 

 was the demand of the working classes ; give them freedom in 

 the exercise of their industry, and they would not ask for 

 charity. But seeing that the law was to be maintained, he re- 

 gretted that the resolutions had been proposed, as they only ex- 

 cited additional discontent with the working of the law ; and he 

 was bound to admit that the Poor- law Commissioners now ad- 

 ministered the law in a manner which gave general satisfac- 

 tion.— Col. Wood (Brecon), and Mr. Brothertov followed, 

 and then Mr. Frrrakd moved the adjournment of the debate. 

 —Sir R. Feel remarked that Government were under no obli- 

 gation to proceed with the Bill. It was not the continuation of 

 a temporary enactment, but had been brought in by the 

 Government under a sense of duty f with the view of mitigating 

 the rigour of the existing law. If the object was to defeat the Bill 

 its opponents would gain nothing, forGovernment could afford to 

 drop it altogether. He hoped that at the present period of the 

 session no unnecessary delay would be interposed.— Lord J. 

 Manners expressed his astonishment at this intimation, which, 

 if he had not heard, he could not have believed. They had dis- 

 cussed every other subject, many of them wholly uninterest- 

 ing to the peasantry of England, but they grudged two 

 nights' debate on a measure affecting the interests of mil- 

 lions of their fellow-countrymen.— Mr. EscoTTdid not think 

 that the Bill had been sufficiently discussed.— Lord Stani.kv 

 agreed ; the Bill had not been discussed at all. When the Go- 

 vernment brought in a measure to mitigate the rigour of the 

 law, they were obstructed by a discussion on the principle of 

 the existing Poor-law system. — Lord J. Manners interrupted 

 Lord Stanley, to say that an association for providing relief 

 for the destitute had been abandoned, waiting on this discus- 

 sion, and expecting the ameliorations of the Bill. — Lord Stan- 

 1-ev replied, that if the Bill was to be defeated by a superfluity 

 of talking, what would its opponents gain? If they repealed 

 the existing law, what would they substitute ? The measure, 

 at this late period, might he defeated by members who wished 

 to hear themselves talk on abstract principles. He ridiculed the 

 "matured charity and humanity professed for the working 

 people/' by Lord J. Manners and his friends, and said that hon. 

 Gentlemen were so fond of hearing themselves talk, that they 

 thought nothing of postponing the practical business of legis- 

 lation.— Mr. Borthwick and Mr. Cochrane strongly repro- 

 bated the tone and bearing of Lord Stanley as unworthy of 

 his position and of himself. This extracted an apology from 

 his Lordship, and a division was taken on the question of 

 adjournment, when it was rejected by21J)to 18.— Mr. Fkrravo 

 again moved the adjournment, and complained that Govern- 

 ment had not fulfilled its pledge in permitting a full debate 

 on the subject, and threatened continued opposition unless 

 it were.— Sir J. Graham and Mr. Du.vcombe commented on 

 this obstruction, which was not justified by facts. — After some 

 discussion, a division took place, when Mr. Borthwick's re- 

 solutions were rejected. The House subsequently divided on 

 the main question, when there were— For going into com- 

 mittee, 199 : against it, 19 ; Majority, 180 ; but no further pro- 

 gress was made.— On the motion for the second reading of the 

 Gaming Discontinuance Bill, Mr. Christie moved an adjourn- 

 ment, which was defeated by 6t to 10. The Bill was then read 

 a second time. 



Friday. — The Speaker took the Chair at 4 o'clock, after an 

 interval of half-an-hour, during which no business was done, 

 and only two members on the Opposition benches. — Lord 

 Sandon moved that the Secret Committee of Post-office 

 Inquiry might have leave to sit, notwithstanding the 

 adjournment of the House, which was agreed to. — Mr. 

 Ferraxd said he had been requested to ask the Se- 

 cretary for the Home Department if he had received any 

 official information relating to au accident .arising from the 

 explosion of a steam boiler in a manufactory at Bolton, by 

 which accident several persons lost their lives.— Sir J. Graham 

 said he had not received any official report on the subject; in 

 fact, he was not aware of it until mentioned by the hon. 

 Member.— In answer to Mr. D. Barclay, Sir J. Graham said it 

 was the intention of the Government to proceed with the 

 Medical Reform Bill during the present session.— In answer to 

 Mr. Bellew, Sir J. Graham said that he should lay on the 

 table a Bill relating to the law of settlement during 

 the present session ; but he should not ask to pass it 

 this session.— On the motion of Mr. Gladstone, the com- 

 mittee on the Joint Stock Companies Regulation and 

 Registration Bill was postponed to Wednesday next. — 

 On the motion of Mr. Thorn kly, a new writ was ordered for 

 the election of a member for Birmingham, in the room of the 

 late Joshua Sctfolefield, Esq., deceased.— Sir J. Graham moved 

 that the House resolve itself into Committee on the Poor-law 

 Amendment Bill. On the motion being put from the chair, 

 several petitions were presented in favour and against the 

 measure, after which the House went into Committee on the 

 Bill, Mr. Greene in the chair.— Col. Sibthorp moved, on the 1st 

 clause being read, that the Poor-law Commission be abolished. 

 A long desultory conversation took place, in which several 

 members took part, and Colonel Sibthorp withdrew his 

 motion. The first clause was then agreed to.— On the second 

 clause being moved. Colonel Sibthorp said, he had hitherto 

 placed confidence in the present Government, but he should 

 not do so again.— A long desultory conversation took place on 

 the clause, which was proceeding when our report closed. 



CITY, 



Money Market, Friday. — Consols for the account 

 closed at 98J. Red. Three per Cents. 99f, Three-and- 

 half per Cent. Red. 102*. Exchequer Bills 74$. to 76s., 

 nrem. Bank Stock 198 to 199. 



GAZETTEI OF THE WEEK— BANKRUPTS.- H. W. CflUtMWj 



Stamford street, hat-maker— T- Scott, Colchester, bitker— U\ Harding, 

 Camber-well, CTQOVT-* F. Robfrts, Handley, Cheshire, butcher— F. Stokes, 

 London-wrall, French warehouseman — P. Tanslky, St. John -street-road, 

 \\ est Smithlield, straw plait dealer— M. C asanas, Fenchurch-street, vrine- 

 merchant — J Ramsay, Chapel-street, Somers' Town, cheesemonger — T. J. 

 Swaink, Netvland-street, Eaton-square, Pimlico, innkeeper — T. Hindmarsh. 

 Hartlepool, Durham, grocer— F. Plank, Plymouth, perfumer— J. Vernon, 

 Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire, victualler— R. Lodck, Thornhill, innkeeper. 



.Metropolis antr its Ficinitg. 



Funeral of Mr. Campbell The funeral of this 



eminent poet took place on Wednesday in Poets' Corner, 

 Westminster Abbey. Those who were invited to attend 

 the funeral assembled shortly after 11 o'clock in the 

 Jerusalem Chamber, which was nearly filled with the 

 friends and admirers of the poet, consisting of noblemen, 

 members of Parliament, and literary men, who were ad- 

 mitted through the entrance from Dean's-yard to the 

 cloisters, on "showing their letters of invitation. The 

 public were admitted into the Abbey at the entrance at 

 Poets'-corner, and took their stations behind the spiked 

 railings used for keeping the body of the church clear. 

 It was nearly 12 o'clock when the procession left the 

 room in which the coffin had been placed, and the 

 gentlemen in the Jerusalem Chamber felt into order, and 

 followed. The procession passed through a door opening 

 'from the Chamber into the south aisle, and along it to 

 Poets'-corner. The following was the order of the pro- 

 cession :— The Rev. Mr. Milman, the officiating minister. 



The coffin, covered with a large black pall, supported by 

 the Duke of Argyll, Lord Brougham, Lord Aberdeen, 

 Lord Campbell, Lord Strangford, Lord Morpeth, 

 Lord Dudley Stuart, Lord Leigh, and Sir Robert 

 Peel, all of whom wore scarfs and hatbands. The 

 Chief Mourners, viz., Mr. Alex. Campbell and Mr. 

 Wiss (nephews of the deceased) in crape scarfs and hat- 

 bands. The Executors, Dr. Beattie and Mr. W. Moxon. 

 Mr. J. Richardson, Mr. W. Ayrton, the Rev. C. J. Haa- 

 sells, and Mr. E. Moxon, the poet's publisher, wearing 

 silk scarfs and hatbands; and after these the great body 

 of the mourners, walking two-and-two, amongst whom 

 were — Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Sir J. Hanmer, Major-Gen. 

 Sir J. Macdonald, Sir P. F. Shelly, Bart.; Right Hon. 

 T. B. Macaulay, Mr. Milnea, Mr. Disraeli, Right Hon. 

 R. Sheil, Mr. Emerson Tennent, Mr. Christopher, Mr. 

 Lockhart, Rev. W. Harness, Rev. A. Dyce, Mr. W. S. 

 Ayrton, Mr. Horace Smith, Mr. Dilke, Dr. James John- 

 son, Sir P. Laurie, Mr. Ainsworth, Rev. Dr. Croly, Mr. 

 Pettigrew, Dr. C. Holland, Sir J. Ross, Mr. Buckingham, 



&C. A deputation from the Literary Association of 

 Poland, of which the deceased poet was the founder, was 

 also present, one of whom carried a small portion of earth 

 from the grave of K« iusko, near Cracow, which wai 

 cast into the grave of Mr. Campbell, to mingle with the 

 dust with which he is covered. The coffin, pall-bearers, 

 and mourners having arrived at the grave, which is nearly 

 in the centre of Poets'-corner, and within a few yards of 

 the tomb of Addison, the Rev. Mr. Milman read the ser- 

 vice in a very impressive manner. At the conclusion of 

 the epistle, the coffin having been lowered into the grave, 

 the dead march in Saul was played by Mr. Turle, the 

 organist of the Abbey, after which the remaining portion 

 of the service was read, and the last mournful office hav- 

 ing been concluded, the mourners retired, some through 

 the cloister?, and others through the door leading to the 

 Jerusalem Chamber, and thence to DeanVyard. The 

 whole was conducted with the solemnity and decorum the 

 occasion required. The coffin bore the following inscrip- 

 tion :— " Thomas Campbell, LL.D. Author of ■ The 

 Pleasures of Hope.' Died June 15th, 1844. Aged 67.' r 



Royal Commission of Fine Arts. — This Exhibition, 

 which was honoured by the presence of her Majesty on 

 Friday, was opened to the public on Monday on the 

 payment of \s. each. So great was the interest excited 

 by the exhibition that no less than 1500 persons paid for 

 admission in the course of the day. The general effect, 

 on entering the hall, is very imposing. The walls are 

 hung with frescoes, occasionally interspersed with car- 

 toons, while in the foreground, and running the entire 

 length of the Hall, are two rows of sculptured figures ; 

 the total number of works of art in the exhibition 

 amounting to 183. The sculpture forms the chief 

 feature in the exhibition, numbering upwards of 100 

 subjects, many of them groups consisting of several 

 figures. Among the names of the artists contributing 

 may be mentioned Messrs. James Wyat, Park, Hemming, 

 Gibson, Bell, Westmacott, Weekes, Behnes, Carew, 

 Lough, and Baily. The works, taken collectively, form 

 a magnificent display, and certainly on no former occa- 

 sion has so large a number of subjects been brought 

 together under circumstances so favourable to their ex- 

 hibition. The fine old Hall being in itself so well adapted 

 for the purpose, renders the occasion altogether an era 

 in this department of art. The large majority of works 

 are original subject?, many of them illustrating points of 

 English history. There are also many portrait statues, 

 and a few models of works already known, which, by the 

 arrangements of the exhibition, were privileged to be ad- 

 mitted if executed within the last five years. Of the 

 fresco department of the exhibition it is satisfactory to 

 know, that considered as following up the experiment 

 commenced with the cartoons, the works sent in are 

 pronounced by the commissioners highly satisfactory. 

 The specimens do not exceed 60 subjects ; among the 

 contributors are no less than 14 artists who received 

 prizes varying from 300/. to 100/. on the occasion of the 

 recent cartoon exhibition. In addition to these, other 

 distinguished names are found in the catalogue, among 

 which may be mentioned that of Mr. Maclise, who 

 contributes a large subject finished in his most perfect 

 style, and displaying a brilliancy of colouring scarcely 

 exceeded by some of his oil pictures. Mr. Foggo and 

 Mr. Buss are also among the contributors, and Mr. 

 Herbert, the Academician, sends an unfinished subject, 

 which was unfortunately too late for admission into the 

 Hall and is thus excluded from the catalogue, and sus- 

 pended iu the vestibule. 



University College. — The distribution of prizes to the 

 students of the Faculty of Arts and Laws of this college, 

 on the termination of the academical session, took 

 place on Saturday. Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., pre- 

 sided, and was supported by the Earl of Auckland, pre- 

 sident of the senate ; Mr. Taylor, the treasurer ; Mr. 

 Wood, chairman of council ; Professor Forster, of Ber- 

 lin, Sir I. L. Goldsmid, Bart., Mr. Waymouth, Mr. 

 Christie, M.P., Mr. Thornely, M.P., Mr. Crabb Robin- 

 son, and other members of the council, together with the 

 professors, and a numerous assemblage of visitors. T fl ® 

 body of the theatre was as usual filled with the friends of 

 the students. After the distribution of the prizes, Lord 

 Robert Grosvenor addressed the meeting at great leng.n, 

 dwelling on the favourable prospects of the college, "no 

 on the success which had marked the career <* m™7 ™ 

 its former students. Lord Auckland then V"V™«* 

 vote of thanks to the noble chairman, which was carried 



by acclamation. 



King's College.— The g< 



•eneral distribution of prizes 



by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, mthe pre- 



