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The following morning the owners of the baboon left the town with the suspected burglar. the final Glasgow Lot- Bish's offices were pre-eminent. ze in shares, but sold fourteen 3,787, 16,0001. in 11 shares. 4,709 £soo 5,403 4,165 4,821 2,167 5,652 A s UsUA L.—Yesterday tery was drawn, when, as usual, He not only sold the grand pri capitals out of nineteen ; viz. 3,683 1,423 947 1,533 2,026 3,823 5,284 The fortunate holders may .3, Cornhill ; 27, Poultry ; o] receive the value on demand at Ir, 138, Regent-street. EVIDENCE OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR. The examination of the Right Hon. the LORD HIGH CHAN CELLOR, attending by permission of the House of Lords, was examined. When the committee broke up yesterday, I had stated that I entertained a very strong opinion upon the bad effects of stamps on newspapers as connected with the sub ject of the committees inquiry, the law of libel. I con= sider, in the first place, that when men talk of the abuses of the press and of libels through the press, though the ex pression is general and applies to all publications, books and pamphlets, as well as others, that yet, practically and substantially speaking, it relates chiefly to newspapers, inas much as these are infinitely more numerous, and a vastly greater number of them are purchased, and a still greater proportion of those purchased are read, than Of any other works; so that when you talk of libels, and of the press as connected with libels, you really mean the newspapers rather: than all the .rest of the press's productions put together. Now let us only, in the next place, consider what the effects of those stamps are. If anything can be a better security than another against the abuses of the power the press and the newspapers 'possess, 'it appears to be the security afforded by the respectability of those in whose hands those newspapers are. Therefore, I hold it to be quite clear that everything which tends to lower the character of the persons who write and publish newspapers tends in just the same proportion to diminish the purity of those publications, and to lessen the security which the community has against the abuses of the press. For this reason, I have always considered that the laws made to re strain the press, though intended to check libel, have a very obvious tendency to lessen the security against libel. What ever makes the trade of a newspaper precarious —whatever exposes those who conduct it to greater hardships, to more oppressions than the rest of their countrymen endure— whatever singles them out from the rest of the community as a suspected and slighted or a maltreated class, a class for whom there is one law, one rule a conduct, there being another for the rest of the community—tends, pro tanto, to lessen the respectability of those who resort to that profes sion. Whatever makes them dependent more upon the caprice of prosecutots, whether public or private—whatever exposes them more than the rest of their fellow-subjects to penal visitations of courts and magistrates in general—has a direct tendency to lessen the respectability of the profes sion and of those who engage in it. In my time there have been two remarkable instances of injurious proceedings in this respect, the one by the law, the other by the practice of judges. I allude, first, to the making a conviction for a second offence (which was one of the Six Acts of 1819) punishable by banishment, though that has never been put in force ; and I allude, next, to the tendency which has been observed on the part of several judges (I am sorry to say it, but lam bound to give my opinion)---a tendency to consider that the editors of newspapers are not entitled to protection when they complain of injuries to their character in the same measure in which the rest of the community are entitled. I cannot conceive any course more effectual to destroy the respectability of a class of men than that a judge, when summing up to a jury on the trial of a cause in which the individuals of that profession complain of injury to their character by libel or slander, should treat them as though they were persons who had no right to complain of slander, who had no character to lose, and should direct the jury not to regard the character of those individuals as the subject of judicial redress. When I was at the bar, I remember a case of the editor of a newspaper pro secuting another editor for one of the foulest libels I ever read, and the learned judge who tried the cause, and who is now no more, said it was only the editor of a newspaper who had been libelled, and therefore he did not think it a case for conviction, though it would have been quite an unde fended cause, and the conviction a matter of course, if any other person had been the prosecutor. There was an ac quittal accordingly ; just as if a newspaper editor may be with impunity slandered by any one who chooses. I can not imagine any, principle more directly tending to lower r ; a ing by the press the newspaper press), and to t cro w a press into the bands of persons disreputable and capable of abusing its power by dealing in' libel, either for lucre of gain, or to gratify private malice. There is another thing which many persons think has a similar tendency ; I mean the law which is peculiar to conductors of newspapers, and forces them to furnish evi dence against themselves, whereas in all other cases the party proceeding against any defendant must find the evi dence as he can to convict him. As to this, however, I doubt whether the tendency is of the same kind to lower the caste. I consider it a law which rather tends to curb the licentiousness of the press, than to lower the character of those conducting it ; and when I consider the immense power it possesses, and the extreme difficulty of discovering the persons publishing slanders, I am disposed to think that the Act of 39th George 111., so far as it has been acted on, is justified by principle, and does not tend to de grade the editors of newspapers. I incline to think that the public has a right to some such security, and that the press has no right to complain of it. If, indeed, the act in ques tion were put in force to the full extent of its provisions, I should think it intolerable ; for the worst part of it, that which gives a right to file a bill in equity for discovering the au thor of any paragraph, i s a matter on wh i ch I hardly dare trust myself to speak ; I consider it as a part of the law, which I am bound to respect as long as it remains unre pealed ; else I should consider it contrary to all principle and to all justice. But it has never been in any instance put in .force ; indeed I believe its existence is known to but few. _ _ ~- I have said that I considered the provisions which re quire the proprietors and printers to register their names at the Stamp-office is on the whole justifiable ; but the case of stamps stands on a very different ground—their effect is to depress the legal and to benefit the contraband trader. The worst libels do not appear in respectable newspapers. Those of the most malign an t d escr ipti on an d p ro fligate character appear in the unstamped publications. I will venture to say any one o f them contains more atro cious I matter in any one number than all the respectable daily papers of London contain in one year. The num ber of those unstamped papers at one time was very great. The Attorney-General of the day once showed me a list' of, I think, 163, not one of whi c h was stamped, and every one of which vied with every other in all manner of atro cious libels. Not content with slandering authorities from the King downwards—not content with slandering individu als in public stations, and with publishing personal slander as well as political, they contained blasphemy in very great abundance,' obscenity in considerable store, every species of ribaldry, personal, political, and irreligious ; those worthless men entering into a sort of profligate competition one with the other, binding on the one hand under each other, and all of them under the respectable prints in point of price, and over one another in th e ma li gn it y an d f eroc it y o f t h e i r writings. Where one charged public characters with all offences another, recomm en d e d th e i r ext i rpat i on ; w h ere one maintained the lawfulness of rebellion, another maintained the propriety of assassination. Where one held forth the king and, his Ministers to the fury of the mob, another re commended a m ore sure an d expe di t i ous mo d e o f d ea li ng with these nuisances (for they reckoned all Government nuisances, and all governors as the executors of nuisances), suggesting the quicker and a more effectual mode of cutting them off in detail ; while others, not content with a single murder, showed how easily and safely that crime might be perpetrated which always involves the risk at least of wholesale mur d er — name l y, arson. N ow all these publica tions were unstamped, and they broke the law in another respect, for they were without the name of the printer. There is a defect, in the act which requires the printer's name to be printed under a penalty, for I believe it does not prevent the printer or hi s servan t, or newsman , f rom cut ting off the name after it has been put on. Thus all these publications were absolutely untraceable, except those of one or two, which appeared to invite prosecution for the sake of increasing their sale. The others were not only all unstamped, but were without the printer's name. It appears quite obvious, that in these circumstances there are but two ways of meeting this great evil ; the one is, having recourse to the ordinary principle in all such cases —namely, taking away impediments from the fair dealer, from th e respecta bl e pu bli s h er, an d t h us remov i ng t h e ad . vantage w hi c h th e l aw now g i ves t h e unfair dealer. The fair d ea l er i s now li a bl e to a stamp of 3d. or 4d., which the other escapes. The latter not only highly seasons the food he p repares f or t h e perverte d taste o f t h e p eo pl e , with highly flavoured ingredients, but he has also a more effec tual advantage-:—he undersells the fair dealer by 300 per cent. The consequence is, that the fair trader has no sort of chance in such a competition. It is quite clear, if you remove th e stamps, you app l y the common principle of de stroying the smu gg l er , by l ower i ng th e d u ti es . Thishas been found quite effectual in other branches cf. - legislation. I cannot see why it should not be made equally effectual in this. The only other mode of meeting this great mischief is by providing more wholesome food for the reading portien of the people, and that happily has been attempted, and,at tempted with great success. I believe I speak in the pre sence of some colleagues of mine of the Society of Useful Knowledge, who could inform the committee more in de tail ; but I think the Penny Magazine destroyed a great number of those wicked publications, some of the most ob noxious of them, in three or four weeks after it was begun ; the most noxious of all perhaps were not put down, for the same profligate class of readers do not find harmless matter equally palatable ; but the great bulk of readers prefer this publication, circulating 200,000, sold for l d., containing ar ticles of great value (for, regard being had to its value, it is about one-fourth part of the price of the common penny unstamped paper). If these two means were adopted to gether—that is, increasing the number and variety of inno cent and useful publications, and taking off the tax, which prevents competition, and thus provide more good cheap papers for the bulk of the community—l have no doubt the public would no lorgar have any reason to fear the worst kinds of libel. I beg to add, that tho ug h th e P enny Magazine h as b een ena bl e d to be sold so cheap, in conse quence of its immense numbers, and still increasing sale, that it is a price which could not be afforded by any private individual ; a society can afford it ; and a sale of tens and hundreds of thousands can afford it ; but a great many things would be very proper to be published for which there is not a demand of above five- hundred or one thousand ; and this is quite impossible unless at a higher price. But the public requires papers of less value than the Penny Magazine, and will buy them, though of less value, and therefore not so- cheap, provided they be sold for ld. or 2d., and also contain news. The people wish to read the news, in which they take an inte rest, and in which it is fit they should take an interest. In public affairs they are nearly concerned, and it is both their right and their duty to attend much to public affairs. lam of opinion that a sound system of government requires the people to read and inform themselves upon political sub jects, else they are the prey of every quack', every impos tor, and every agitator who may practise his trade in the country. If they do not read—if they do not learn—if they do not digest, by discussion and 'reflection, what they have read and learned—if they do not thus qualify them selves to.form opinions for themselves, other men will form opinions for them, not according to truth and to the inte rests of the people, but according to their own individual and selfish interests, which may, and most p ro b a bl y will, be contrary to that of the people at large. The best security for a Government like this, for the L eg i s l a t ure , f or t h e Crown, and generally for the public peace and public mo rals, is, that the whole community should be well informed upon its political as well as its other interests ; and it can be well informed only by having access to wholesome,. sound, and impartial publications. Therefore they will and ought to read the news of the day, political discussions, political events, the debates of their representatives in Par liament, and of the other House of Parliament ; and on not one of these heads can any paper be published, daily or weekly, Without coming under the stamp,law ; consequently the people at large are excluded, by the dear form in which alone the respectable publishers can afford it, while they pay the duty. They can only have it in a cheap form by pur chasing of publishers of another description; who break the revenue law by paying for no stamps, and also break all other laws by the matter they publish. If _instead of news papers bei ng so ld f or 63. or 1 s ., th ey could be sold for I d., I have no manner of doubt there would immediately follow the greatest possible improvement in the tone and temper of the political information of the people, and therefore of the political character and conduct of the people. It is my decided and deliberate opinion, from very long and anxious consideration, that the danger is not of the people learning too much, but knowing too little. It is no longer a ques tion whether they shall read or no ; it is no longer a ques tion whether they shall be instructed or not; it is no-longer a question whether they shall be politicians, and take part in the discussions of their interests, or not ; that is decided long and long ago: The only question to answer and the only problem to, solve is, how they shall read in the best man ner ; how they shall be instructed politically, and have poli tical habits formed the most safe for the constitution of the country, and the best for their own interests. I can devise no other means than making that accessible at .a cheap rate which_at,. present they must have at a ra t e th ey cannot afford, -withoutba - vmg'ic-oau db wrrr give it them both cheap and wholesome. Would, in your Lordship's opinion, increasing the seve rity of the law against unstamped periodical works have a tendency to suppress them ?—I think, if it had a tendency at all, it would be a contrary tendency ; I think it would be brutum fuhnen if it were made a capital felony, as I have seen it not very wisely proposed in some quarters ; no jury would convict at all. You cannot discover them, and they will never convict them. Has it fallen under your Lordship's observation, whether taking off the stamps from newspapers' would seriously in jure the revenue ?—That is undoubtedly the great diffi culty, and I have reason to think that is one of the two only difficulties which prevent the measure from being adopted ; the other is the apprehension, that when this impediment is removed, there will spring up an unlimited increase of penny publications of a profligate description, on political and religious subjects. My opinion decidedly is, that no such consequences would ensue ; a great num ber would spring up, and a grea t num b er wou ld spee dil y fall. An establised newspaper has a great advantage over the new corner ; the Morning Chronicle or the Times, the Morning Herald or the Morning Post, coming down to 3d. would have infinite advantages over any other ; they have possession of the field ; the proprietors are men of credit, and I am sure they are actuated by a feeling too liberal, to wish to put forward their claims to anything like monopoly. But, in the next place, though a great num ber of new papers would arise, I cannot conceive that more libellous, blasphemous, or obscene publications would or could arise than exist at present ; for those publications have already been established, and the tendency of the change could only be to raise a competition against those publications—that is, the competition of respectable writers. At present, I should say, those publications have a better chance than they could under a law abolishing the stamp ; for at present they have the means of excluding, by their lawless habits, respectable men from all competition with them ; they have therefore the benefit of the stamp ; the others do not wish to run the risk of a breach of the reve nue laws, and therefore abstain from that competition ; so that the stamp operates to narrow the competition, and so give the lawless trader a monopoly in the market of blas phemy, treason, and ribaldry. I hold it to be as clear a proposition as any in finance,, that if you abolish the stamp on newspapers, instead of increasinc , the facility to set up libellous publications, you greatly lessen it, by increasing the number of good publications ; and by destroying the monopoly in the hands of reckless men, who neither mind the old law of the land, nor a breach of the stamp laws. Then, the other observation to which my attention is di- rected is a very material one. I cannot give so decided an answer to that—namely, the injury to the revenue ; but after much attention, my opinion is, that there would be no very material injury to the revenue. In the first place, there would be a great increase of publications, that must of course increase the amount of the excise on paper ; but that which is at present a great injury to commerce, the expense of advertisements, would be greatly diminished ; for the increased number of papers would tend, beyond all question, to diminish the price of advertising. No news paper at present can avoid exacting, and according to the amount of the circulation of these great London _publica tions they do exact, large sums for inserting advertisements. The stamp is now only ls. 6d. ; kis not, consequently, this tax which obstructs advertisers ; but if you take a para graph to a well-circulated newspaper, they make their own bargain ; they take a couple of guineas for an advertise ment of one size, and a guinea or half-a-guinea for a very small advertisement. t wo doubt taking away the stamp may perhaps not be 'very beneficial to those great news papers, but I think they would gain in other ways as much as they lost in this ; and at any rate I must look to the in terest of the consumer, and not of the grower. In Ame rica, where no stamp exists, the proportion of the news papers to the population is twenty or thirty to one more than in this country ; and in the Norman islands in this Channel, where they have no stamp, it is fifteen to one. We should have papers in something of that proportion ; I think that would tend to diminish the expense of adver tisements, and therefore greatly increase the revenue de rived from thence ; nobody will grudge the is. 6d. expense to Government. - Have not those persons who h ave h a d th e monopo l y o f the newspaper circulation, who have circulated their papers without stamps, all faded, while those who have circulated their paper with stamps, have almost all succeeded ?—I be lieve so ; lam happy to think that is the case. I found that of the great number I have referred to, in six months there were not more than a very few ; but then I must say this in fairness, that where one goes down another rises up ; for the thing which prevents such a newspaper going on is the Stamp-office account, which is heavy, being a ee.........,,..7..21_,D. r i , , ,::;.;,. !-_,,,,a__,_L, ready-money account, and they are not able to meek.: P.,,,4;-'4:,1-i.' far as the carrying it on depends upon their own ex _ ~..- 'ne,. they can get on, but the Stamp-office exacts readywiplft.,'-. 4.- rigorously, They have no doubt' a ready-money trade to ! ei i r meet that ; but then they buy a greater number of stamps than they can sell they may buy 500 stamps and sell 250 papers, and that is a dead loss ; therefore those persons are constantly starting new papers, who have no stamps to burden them. I have seen a great number of these papers officially ; as I have sometimes been asked whether they ought not to be proceeded against, and the first thing • I look at is the number, whether it is No. 50 or N 0.10,000 ; but they seldom come to 100 ; they are generally under 50 ; and hence it follows, as they are weekly publications, that they have not often lasted out the year.. . There is a disregard of property by these persons, who are in the nature of smugglers F—They are persons almost ' as reckless of their own interests as of the rights of others. Your Lordship has had some experience of the state of mind of the labouring classes of the people of England. Supposing good matter, wholsesome matter, put before the people and at the same price, and no lower and no higher than bad matter—blasphemy,' obscenity, and so forth— does your Lordship's knowledge of the education and state of mind of the people enable you to say which they would prefer ?--I have not a doubt about it. It is in vain to say that some persons would prefer obscene matter, and some ribaldry, and some blasphemy ; but it would be an insigni cant portion of the whole country. The bulk, who are in nocently and morally disposed, are more and less respect able, and would be ashamed to bring this trash to their cottages where their wives and children are ; nay, I believe that they would not desire to read it themselves. I have had much intercourse with the people of all ranks, from the lowest to the middle ranks ; I never entertained the least fear of them, even when most excited ; I never have known things in a state in which I had any fear of the people, either of their morals or their loyalty, or their peaceable disposition, which is natural to Englishme n ; and those only can be afraid of them who, unfortunately for both parties, are exceedingly ignorant of the people. Those who know them as much as I do must know that they arc very much .the reverse of an object of dread, or distrust, or suspicion ; that they are generally morally and peaceably dispoSed, and I should say very -much disposed to respect and submit to those above them. Even the trades' unions do not offer to my mind any material exception ; for I believe they have in many cases had grievances to complain of, -and that they have erred in not taking the right way to get redress, by trusting to :selfish, dishonest leaders, and by being imper fectly informed upon their own interests. I state my opi nion as the result of a large practical experience, having had an intimate knowledge of the people in every way, and the more I have known the less apprehension I have had about them. I have therefore not a doubt in answering the question in the affirmative. I must also add, that lam quite certain, if the stamp were taken away, where we cir culate useful information to the extent of thousands, we should circulate useful information to the extent of mil lions ; for we have been trying to get useful publications not only into parts of the country where men are gregarious —the manufacturing districts, in which they naturally and easily read ; but into farm-houses and cottages, where the ca%eis different. The great difficulty is to get the peasants to read—first, because they do not work together ; and next, because people working in the open air are sleepy when they come home ; but in long winter nights, when they are not so hard worked, and have much more spare time, it is particularly desirable that -they should not have recourse to beer-shops or to bad publications. It would be of great advantage if we cou ld f urn i sh them with publica tions that have a tendency to make men * good members of society, rather than those which are now propagated, and are read by great numbers, teaching them that the most infa mous of characters'—a man, for instance, who is about to be executed for. the foulest murder—from the moment he becomes converted to some particular spiritual doctrine, is safe from retribution in another world. I cannot conceive a more pernicious doctrine, and all which is said about ab solution in the Catholic ChurCh is not one whit worse even in its abuse, and I know it is very much abused. Those publications which are in farm-houses, to my knowledge, for want of better, teach that if a man commits murder, - and will only afterwards become a fanatic, he is in acceptance with Heaven, and his murder forgiven ! If a man have in his cottage, at a cheap rate, accounts of the debates, which they look to with great interest, and which it is their duty as well as their interest to read ; the proceedings in courts of justice, which they also are delighted with reading ; if, in addition to these departments, commonly called 'the news of the day, we could circulate four pages more, which could all be done for a penny without this pernicious stamp duty, we might give the cottager for one penny a newspaper with wholesome general information, which might be of use to him in various ways, besides giving him all the intelligence of the week. lam quite certain that this would be the effect of repealing the stamp. As to indicting publications, your Lordship is aware that the experiment of forbearance has been successful as it re spects Carlisle ?—I formerly said in the House of Com mons that I thought if he ceased to be prosecuted he would cease to be patronized or read ; and lam told-he has given Th ere is one thing I have omitted to state in the former part of my evidence. I think there is a great defect in the law of libel as it present exists. Supposing it to be right that evidence should be furnished by the entry in the Stamp office, which, upon the whole, I think it is, this provision should sf not Stamp-office a hnpbfaov atrocious os :suffered eeeieotnou sfi find thisti . db o bet b lah e pue pp evaded eonn_i ,as registered cp b , y rasr p oa u ne ttrei ownerenr cog;orlui proprietorieper si a i sa m os l a b. n edea o i f tm s o t a r t a gh w ee - s . he finds it is a woman of the town, or a man living, in the Fleet, or a debtor who has long been a prisoner in the King's Bench ; he is told " You cannot get your 504 which you have recovered, nor even the costs which you have been put to ; you can have no such rep ara ti on as the law has given you." The injured man says to his slanderer, " Then of course you will not publish this libel again ?"-- " On the contrary,' say they, " we shall publish it every Sunday for the next half year ;" and he has no remedy. The same printing press will publish the libel again and again ; for which he has no redress, unless he can get strict legal evidence against the printer, although the same print ing press keeps vomiting forth the same slander week after week. It has often been suggested that some means might be taken, after a conviction, to give a security to the per son libelled over the printing press which issued that pub= lication. Ido not give this as that on which I have made up my mind ; but I should only submit to you the pro priety of making further inquiries into the matter. Could your Lordship furnish the committse with any information upon the subject of blasphemous libels ?—I really think it would be a difficult thing to alter the law upon this head, because the feelings of the public in the respectable classes are so strong upon it that if you were to repeal the law of blasphemy, they would all say you were encouraging the offence, and, to a certain degree, it might have that effect for the moment ; but I am by no means certain that it would in the long run ; on the contrary, I am of opinion the law is totally useless ; it does not prevent a single person from blaspheming. I believe that a man who has this disposition is not a rational being —not a man to be reasoned with—and that no fear of punishment will prevent him from indulging his senseless propensity. Does your Lordship consider that any alteration of the law could be safely adopted for the purpose of protecting those innocently concerned in circulating papers which may happen to contain libellous matter ?---I am sure something of that kind ought to be done. It is at present a great grievance. The case of an attorney who lately brought an action against a newspaper is very remarkable. In one instance, indeed, lie has been misrepresented and was the injured party. He obtained a verdict for a libel, and found when he looked for payment, that he had a man of straw to deal with, and he then required that the libel should'not be republished ; but the editor set up a man with a placard to stand in the street, containing the slander in great let ters, and indemnified the person so standing with the pla card. It is quite clear that in this instance the plaintiff was the ill-used man ; but in the other cases he was the oppressor, and the law enabled him to work the wrong. A great number of industrious, hard-working persons, who had never read the libel, and earned a very scanty livelihood by carrying about wet newspapers on their arm, which they never bad seen a word of, were served with notice of an ac tion for libel ! I think something should be done to pre vent so grievous an abuse. Is it your Lordship's opinion that the costs should de pend on the amount of the damages awarded ?—To a great degree I think they ought. It is so in personal slander, and I do not see why it should not be so in libel. The poor man who sells the paper has no more to do with it than the two-penny postman who delivers to me every day many letters of the most slanderous nature—nay, who sometimes delivers me letters with abuse bn the outside. But the in demnity from costs is insufficient ; it should be a freedom from action altogether. • There are many cases at present where a man getting a have on the of verdict pays the cos t s ?—I am certa i n it wo uld b e . a very excellent thing to g i ve th e cour t s of common la something of question tlmtabsolu o t f e co d s is t e s. reti T on h v c h o i s e t l s i a .c t ou la cts ,, of b yeqth statuteu y Gloucester and other statutes, are bound, generally speaking, by the event ; the costs follow the event. I have often thought that in many other actions, as well as actions for slander and assault, it would be better if they had a greater discretion in costs, and that many might listen to the recommendation of juries ; and thus the judge and jury together award, for instance, a shilling damages, but with bout as costs ; or, giving costs, might d ec i de that they should n Lordship cas eo f arresti is aw aLe t l h a a t p discretion t is hi s e s c t o a u b n l itsrhy t ia e dby t is t foundaute Your a very inconvenient between y and c li ent. c i rcumstance. Th e j ur y say , statute " If we find so Much, how will it be with the costs ;" the ,