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POOR-LAW ADMINISTRATION
BILL.
HOUSE OF LORDS.-JULY 15.

LIST OF THOSE WHO VOTED AGAINST LORD
BROUGHAM'S MOTION THAT THE ENGLISH
POOR-LAW BILL IIE READ A THIRD TIME
THAT DAY THREE MONTHS.
DUKES. EARLS. LORDS.
St. Albans Beshorough Stafford
Grafton Auckland Beaumont
Buceleuch Charlemont Montfort
MARQEISES. Scarborough Foley
Clanricarde Waldegrave Dunally
Lansdowne Fitzhardinge Kinnaird
Westminster viscouNT. Wrottesley
EARLS. Falkland Camoys
Grey BISHOP. Campbell
Minto St. Asaph 74 onteaglel
Devon LORDS. Churchill
Suffolk: Cottenham Wharncllffe

LIST OF THOSE WHO VOTED WITH LORD
BROUGHAM.
DUKES. EARLS. VISCOUNT.
Rockingham Stradbroke Combermere

Cleveland Radnor
EARLS. Rosse
St. Germans Lovelace

LORDS.
Redestiale
Brougham

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
THURSDAY, JULY 15.
BISHOPRIC OF MANCIIESTRR, &c., BILL.

Order for Committee read; Motion made, and Question
proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That"
to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " this
House will, upon this day three months, resolve itself into
the said Committee," instead thereof:—Question put, " That
the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question."
The House divided:—

LITERATURE.

THE TV ESTMINST'ER AND FOREIGN
QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. XCHL and
No. LXXVIII.

Not the most effectively finished, but certainly the
most interesting paper, in this double quarterly, is
the one, half-critical, half-biographical, upon the
character, the abilities, and the literary productions of
Rudolph Topffer. Dissent, however, we must, from
an opinion expressed by the reviewer at the outset of
his paper, to-wit " that Richelieu, though a great
statesman, was an execrable poet." To our thinking
it would have been more correct to have said Riche-
lieu was no poet at all. Who can forget his trum-
pery attempt to induce Pierre Corneille to pawn a
portion of his dramatic glory ? Who can ever forget
the incident about The Cid? Richelieu an execrable
poet ? We protest again distinctly that the great
Cardinal was as much a corynhee as a poet. We not
only marvel with the reviewer that Geneva, or he
might have said Switzerland in its totality, "so
illustrious in other respects for its intellectual
fertility, has hitherto produced very little in
the department of imaginative literature,"
but we wonder that in a region so eminently
calculated to enkindle artistic enthusiasm, no
really wonderful painter has ever appeared.
Why, the landscapes would seem to arouse the emula-
tion of a thousand Salvator Rosas—the domestic
primitiveness a race ofTeniers—the historic scrolls a
whole generation of Titians. France has her Poussin,
Spain her Murillo, England her Hogarth, Flanders
her Rubens, Dutchland her Ostade, America her
West, Italy her Buonarotti, her divine Raphael, her
incomparable Lionardo, her Caraccis, her Corregio,
her Domenichino, her Guido, her Paul Veronese, her
Guilio Romano, but Switzerland ! In romantic
literature, as just observed, she is almost a blank.
Stars have risen over her mountains, however, to
beacon after emulators alongithat highway of art, and
not the least bright amongst those is Rudolph Topffer.
Born at Geneva, on the 17th of February, 1799, he
has disappeared already, but he has left behind him
fragments of genius which must excite the talents of
his countrymen. Shelley called the broken sculpture
of the ancients—such as the Elgin marble—
the despair of modern art. The expression
was an emphatic one—but true. The frag-
ments of imaginative literature left behind him
by Topffer, will not so much excite feelings of despair
in his posterity, as those of admiration, and, what is
better, emulation. The reviewer in the Foreign
Quarterly has done well in introducing this natural
romancist, or rather novelist, to the attention of those
English readers, who are, as yet, unacquainted with
his compositions—particularly with his " Presbytere,"
his " Bibliotheque demon Oncle," and his "Rose et
Gertrude. ' "Persian Poetry" is an attar of rose
contribution, suggested by a very graceful work, by
Miss Louisa Stuart Costello. A companion article is
the one entitled "Birds of Jamaica." Bookworms
will alone read the " Trial of the Earl of Somerset,"
and Quakers will alone find attraction in the " Life
of George Fox ;" to both classes respectively, we
commend them terefore. From the critical notice of
Mrs. Butler's " Year of Consolation," we cannot re-
sist requoting one of the quotations, descriptive of the
Apollo Belvidere :
" From the moment I set my feet in the Vatican I
was possessed with a sort of nervous terror, lest I should
be utterly disappointed in it: this feeling increased with
every chamber I entered, to such a degree as to cause
me to feel absolutely sick with excitement; I feared to
look round each new room, lest I should confront this
great divinity, and remained unmoved; each time I ex-
perienced a sense of absolute relief when I found that
we had not yet reached that shrine; and I believe, if it
had been proposed to me to leave the Vatican without
seeing the Apollo at all, I should have been well pleased
to have done so; and yet for all future time I shall know
better. All that has seen written, all that has been
said, all that has been copied in drawing, painting, or
sculpture, of this wonderful statue, has left the marvel
of its beauty unimpaired; no foreknowledge can prepare
one for it, nor any description give one an idea of its
grace and lightness, nor any number of ecstasies 'rub off
the bloom of its divinity. I could believe the legend of
the girl who died for love of it; for myself, my eyes
swam in tears, and my knees knocked together, and I
could hardly draw my breath while I stood before it;
the guides held up torches to show the light through
the marble draper), while I was dazzled with the light
shining through the marble face; and the French lady
emitted opinions in a voice as sharp as needle-points.
Heaven! what a witness to the glory of the human soul
is such a conception as this! Man's thoughts devised,
man's fingers wrought this god! This perfect creation
had its origin in the yet fairer idea of a man's brain,
for who ever yet worked as he imagined! There was a
lovelier and a grander shape in the mind of him who
made this, than even this that he has made! Oh, well
may we thank the only true God for being formed
capable of such things. I have no words to speak my
sense of gratitude for these new revelations of beauty
and of grace, vouchsafed to me in this the very mourn-
ing-time of my life; angels have ministered, do minister,
to me incessantly, and this enchanting presence, this I
divinity of the beauty-worshipping heathens, is to me a I
very messenger of my God, bidding me bless him who
hath permitted me to behold it."

one around him, they will not be able to school him into
moderation by a laboured essay on the evils of intem-
perance: their system has plenty of venom for inoculating
with disease, but not a single antidote : they can never
write of a bishop without a sneer, nor of religion without
a jest: they strike at everthing that is venerable; and, if
they have effaced many a right notion in the minds of
their readers, we are sure they have never implanted a
wholesome principle in its stead.'

For true philosophy, therefore, the people will
henceforth know where to go—not to the truth-tell-
ing Jerrold—not to the native wisdom of Burritt—
not to the blithe genius of Dickens—no, to the
Church of England Quarterly Review. Remem-
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THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY

REVIEW. No. XLIII.
We cannot afford a better conception of the diver-
sity and character of the papers contained in this
quarter of the Church of England Review, than by
enumerating the different contributions. Firstly,
there is an argumentative and elaborate article on
" The Church of the Future." Secondly, there is a
chapter of Asiatic interest, upon " China : Political,
Commercial, and Social." Thirdly, there is a con-
sideration of the progress and facilities of " Educa-
tion in France,"—a matter of vital importance just
now. Fourthly, there is a fantastic examination of
Lord Lindsay's theory of " Progression by Ante -
"C Fifthly, there
and c
isa striking
cessatyoarbou,t
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Clerical
Sixthly, a commemorative paper on " Church of
England Poetry,"—rather braggart like in tone,but
that by-the-way. Seventhly, a misrepresentation of
" The Manufacturing System," which will stir up
the bile of the .Manchester population—if it be ever
perused by that portion of the community. Eig,h
a prolonged and abusive outcry against ‘t
The
sently make a quotation. N inthly, a gossip anen
Teachers of the People," from which we shall pre;
" Travels in Peru." Tenthly, an argument on an
old theme,_" Scriptural Geology." And an appen-
dix of " Notices of Books." We have particularly
referred to an abusive outcry against " The Teachers
of the People,"--it is an outcry most abusive and
most ignorant. Against whom in the name of common
sense does the reader imagine is this ignorant abuse
directed ? Who does he imagine to be here stigma-
tised as the moral pests of the people ? Why, Elihu
Burritt, the editor and contributors to the People's
Journal, the writers for Jerrold's IVeekly Newspaper,
Douglas Jerrold himself, and—Charles Dickens ! 0
Mistress Caudle, rise and vindicate thy creator ! 0
Sairey Gamp, leave the bottle on the chimbley-piece
for once, which, unbeknown, you drinks from to the
shade of Harris, and do likewise with thy frequent
pardner, Betsey Prig. As a sample of this egregious
piece of absurdity, we transcribe the subjoined
passages :
The Douglas Jerrold-school of socialism is clearly a
foreign importation. It has done more to enervate the
the the
working circumstances
man's
manly and truth-loving sentiments of the English mind
thandepress all
ewhichon dfti
oh
na.v e
ta ties! yo tended to
resalts of that propagandism which France glories in as
her special mission—which she initiated with the bloody
mysteries of the guillotine and ministered to all Europe
in fire, and sword, and desolation, by the brave but
ferocious spirits of her Grande Armee. Though the
maintenance of universal peace be assumed as a leading
doctrine, yet antagonism to existing institutions is its
object. Give its disciples the same field, the like power,
and a sufficient impellant motive, they would soon find
themselves, with Elihu Burritt's morbid nonsense in their
mouths, hesitating at no desperate deed which might
compel the adoption of their creed. The moral and
social regeneration of which they boast was baptised in
blood, arid must, some day or other, have its confirmation
in deadly strife. These men are ever talking of moral
force as that to which alone they trust for their social
conquests, though the forms of speech which they use
are fierce and warlike enough. Moral force is all very
well where physical strength cannot be exerted ; but, if
the issue of the great socialistic mission, which France
advocates and apostate Englishmen adopt, is to rest on
moral force alone, it is not difficult to predicate that it
will be one of failure, since moral force and right prin-
ciples must go together, and of the latter this socialistic
mission is devoid. We are no advocates for the bigotries
contains
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of nationality, but we respect and venerate the safe-
guards which it contains. Universal brotherhood, fra-
ternization,
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spirit, of love, which can only be originated in the
family—be therein developed in its pristine energy—
and thence disseminated through the multiform social
ramifications and relations which the very existence of
a family requires. ro ask us to become nu -English,
that we may be the disciples of a system of which the
foreign socialist is the missionary, is tantamount to
requiring that we efface the individual characteristics
hich mark our place in the great family of man; and it
is just this end which the Douglas Jerrold-school of
philosophy is aiming at. If it be effected, men will
become confederate, but will never be brethren: there
-o-iation but there will not be confidence;
may be as 4 . ,
and the only bond that will hold them together will
be one. of selfish, interest, and not of holy affection.
However great the evils of this day may be, the theories
of socialistic writers will neither ameliorate nor remedy
them. They may goad the social sufferer into madness,
but they will
hortation to patience: they may Rut a weapon into his
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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
- WESTERN CIRCUIT.— Winchester, July 14.
CRIMINAL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Wit- f
L1A318.)
Francis Andrews, aged 67, was indicted for having
cut and wounded Jane Caplin, with intent to kill and
murder her.
Mr. Sewell appeared for the prosecution, Mr. C.
Saunders conducted the defence.
It appeared that the prisoner, who was deaf and par-
tially dumb, had lodged in the house of the prosecutrix
at Southampton; he was a man of weak intellect, but
was generally harmless unless excited. On the 26th of
Feb. he came into the house and complained that some one
had taken a piece of canvass from his room; he charged
the prosecutrix with having taken it; she denied it, and
the prisoner then became much excited, and made
towards the prosecutrix with his knife; she raised her
arms to keep him off, upon which he cut her fingers
and arms with his knife; she became faint and was
falling to the ground, when the prisoner stabbed her in
the side.

It appeared, however, from the evidence of the fur-
geon, that the prisoner had been of unsound mind for
some years, and the jury therefore Acquitted the prisoner
on the ground of insanity.
Hillier Fryer, an old man of 76 years, was indicted for
having discharged a loaded gun at Sarah Wolf with in-
tent to kill and murder her.

Mr. Beethain conducted the prosecution; Mr. Missing
defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutrix and her husband kept
house for the prisoner, who lived in a cottage in the
New Forest. On the morning of the 14th of May Mrs.
Wolf 's son lent two iron wedges, belonging to the pri-
soner, to a neighbour. In the evening of the day the
prisoner came home, and on hearing that the wedges
had been lent in his absence he became much excited,
and swore that Wolf and his wife should not live with
him any longer. At this time Wolf came home, and
hearing the old man making a noise, said, " Mr. Fryer,
don't keep noising, but sit down like a good man." The
prisoner then turned round and seizing a gun, which
was lying on the table, pointed it at Mrs. Wolf, and said
to her, "D— your eyes, I'll blow your brains out." He
then pulled the trigger, and the gun exploded. The
shot struck her in the face, and also blew off her thumb.
He then struck at her with the butt-end of the gun, but
missed her, and the gun was broken in two pieces.
A surgeon was called,;who stated that her life was in
danger for some weeks, owing to the injuries she had
sustained.

Mr. MISSING having addressed the jury for the pri-
soner, they found him guilty of shooting with intent to
do grievous bodily harm.—Sentence deferred.
Charles Wolfe, a young man, aged 17, was charged
with having feloniously cut and wounded Elizabeth Ay-
ling, with intent to kill and murder her. There were
other counts in the indictment varying the charge.
Mr. Stock conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Saunders
defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutrix, who
was an interesting girl of about eighteen years of age,
that she was nursemaid to Mr. Philip Thresher, who
lived with his father at Fareham, who was a magistrate
of the county. The prisoner was a footman, also living
there; and on the 22d of March last the prosecutrix,
being in the nursery, observed the prisoner come to the
door. She asked him what business he had there? He
said, " What?" and went away. Shortly after he came
back again, and she heard him say, " I'll do for you."
The prosecutrix being alarmed at this, went to the door
to try to get out of the room, when the prisoner struck
her on the head with a mallet he held in his hand. This
knocked her down, and he then dragged her back into
the room. She got up and tried to get away, when he
knocked her down again. He then knelt down, and cut
her in the throat with a razor he had in his hand, saying
at the same time, " Brown—lll Brown you." The pro-
secutrix tried to catch hold of the prisoner's hands, but
he cut her fingers with the razor. Atter asevere struggle
the prosecutrix succeeded in getting away from the pri-
soner, and came down stairs, bleeding very much from
her throat and hands. The prisoner followed her, but
was taken into custody by some persons who were at-
tracted by the screams of the young woman, who was
afterwards confined to her bed for a considerable time
from the injuries she had sustained. On the prisoner
being apprehended, he attempted to cut his own throat
with his razor, and did succeed in inflicting a super-
ficial
wound. It was elicited, in cross.exaraination of the
prosecutrix, that the prisoner had been much attached to
her, and had been made very jealous of her with regard
to a young man named Brown, a footman to a gentle-
man
in the neighbourhood. It, however, did not appear
that the young woman had in' any way encouraged the
addresses of either of these young men. The case for
the prosecution having been closed,
Mr. SAUNDERS addressed the jury for the prisoner,
contending that the whole affair had arisen out of a
jealous feeling engendered in the mind of the prisoner,
and which had provoked it to such an extent as to render
him not master of his own actions, but quite insane;
and that being so, he was not responsible for them, but
was entitled to an acquittal on the ground of insanity.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS having summed up, the jury
found the prisoner guilty of the attempt at murder.
The Learned JUDGE having commented on the enor-
mity of the crime with which the prisoner had been found
guilty, directed death to be recorded against him.

HOME ClRCUlT.—Chelmsfard, July 14.
(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
James IVillesmere, 17, a remarkably innocent•looking
country lad, was indicted for the wilful murder of John
Terry, by fracturing his skull with a hoe.
There was also an indictment against the prisoner for
robbing the deceased.
Mr. Ryland and Mr. llodwell conducted the prose-
cution.

This case was of a very melancholy character. The
evidence against the prisoner was chiefly circumstantial,
but the effect of it was to leave no doubt that the pri-
soner was guilty of the crime alleged against him. It
appeared that the deceased was an old labouring man,
living near the town of liochfort, and on the 31st of
March, which was the day he received the injury that
terminated in his death, he was on his way to that
town about ten o'clock in the morning. The prisoner,
it seemed, had been lodging at a public-house in the
village of South Farnbridge, about four miles from Roch-
fort, and on this same morning ho owed the landlord
Is. 9d. for board and lodging, and he told him that he
could not pay him at that time, but promised to give him
the money on the following Saturday. Ile then called
for a pipe of tobacco which he paid for with a halfpenny,
saying that was all the money he had got, and shortly
afterwards left the public-house and proceeded in a di-
rection for the town of Rochfort. It seemed that soon
after this the prisoner and the old man joined company,
and they were seen by several-of the witnesses walking
together towards a place called the Mead, near Dag-
gett's farm, on the road to the town above-mentioned;
the prisoner at this time having a hoe iu his hand, and
the deceased a hoe stick without the iron end. About
11 o'clock the same evening the poor old man was
found lying in the Mead, in a dreadful state. lie
was literally covered with blood, and the top
of his right ear was completely severed from the
head, and was found in a mass of clotted blood among
his hair. His pockets appeared to have been rifled, and
his watch, a canvass purse, a key, and a small sum of
money were missing. He had sufficient consciousness to
state that he had been robbed and ill-used, and ho was
then taken to the union workhouse at Rochfort, where
he remained until the 22d April, when he died. It
appeared that almost immediately after the time when
the robbery and assault must have been committed, the
prisoner went into a public-house at Rochfort, where he
produced a watch which turned out to be that of the
deceased, and offered to sell it to any one in the room
for ten shillings, but no one would buy it, and he then
called for some beer, which he paid for with a half-crown.
It also! appeared that on his way to. Rochfort the pri-
soner had sold his hoe for sixpence, and he shortly
afterwards sold the watch to a man named Brig for five
shillings ; and, upon his being taken into custody, the
canvass purse which contained the key of the poor old
man's box was found in his pocket. The prisoner
was afterwards taken into the room where the deceased
was lying is bed ; and on his being raised up and
shown the prisoner, he immediately said that he was the
man who had robbed and beat him ; and he at the same
time said to the prisoner, " You know that you are the
man ;" to which the prisoner merely muttered in reply,
"You are mistaken, old man," and made no further de-
nial. The deceased also, at the same time, identified the
watch, and the other articles that were produced as his
property.
Mr. Hodges, the surgeon of the union, proved that the
deceased died of a fracture of the skull, and he pro-
duced that portion of it which had received the fatal ha-
jury; and upon the hoe belonging to the prisoner being
produced, it was found that the iron back of it fitted
exactly the wound on the skull, and the surgeon said he
had no doubt it was inflicted by it, and that in all pro-
bability one severe blow had caused the mischief.
Mr. Baron PARKE, at the close of the evidence for the
prosecution, asked the prisoner to state what he had to
say in his defence.
He replied, "My Lord, I have nothing to say."
The Learned JUDGE, in summing up, told the jury
that whether they should be of opinion the fatal injury
had been inflicted with an intention to disable and maim
the deceased, or whether it was merely to further the
object of robbing him, in either case in the eye of the
law it would amount to the crime of wilful murder, be-
cause the injury was inflicted in furtherance of a
felonious and unlawful act. The Learned Judge then
detailed the material particulars of the evidence, and said
that-although no doubt it was a most painful duty for
them to decide a question which involved the life of a
person like the prisoner, who was hardly verging upon
manhood, yet both they and himself were bound to per-
form their duty to their country under tho solemn obli-
gation of the oath they had taken, without any regard to
the consequences that might result from it.
The jury then deliberated for a few minutes,w when
they returned a verdict finding the prisoner guilty
of
murder. They at the same time recommended bun t
mellrlerY..Baron:PAßKE said be supposed the recommenda-
tion was-on account of his youth.

The jury said it was.
The Learned JUDGE then put on the black cap, and
silence having been proclaimed, he addressed the pri
soner, and said that the jury had come to the only con-
clusion which their duty to society had enabled them to
come to upon the evidence, and it was now his mist
painful duty to pas upon a mere 'boy; ili4t
entering upon Ate-;-tito sentence of undergoing 'ltn
:Minious..death upon the public :scaffold. He believed
that it was not his intention to have taken the life of the
deceased, but it was quite-clear that the fatal blow was
struck with the intention to render the deceased power-
less, in order that he might rob him with greater faci-
lity, and, as death ensued, his offence clearly amounted
tar the crime of wilful murder. The jury had recom-
mended him to mercy on account of his youth, but he
felt that it would be inconsistent with his duty in such a
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