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SIR HENRY HARDINGE, G.C.B.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD.
Sir—The lava brilliant achievements in India having
caused, in the public mind, an extraordinary interest in
hntever relates to the gallant Govelior-Gener}il of the
British possessions in that portion of the globe, I beg to
hand you, for the gratification of your readers, the ac-
companying memoir of the military services of Sir H.
Hardinge in the late French war, written by his friend
and companion in arms, the late Lieutenant-General
Sir Benjamin D'Urban, from whom I received it at the
time of the general election in the year 1820.
Sir Henry Hardinge, I may observe, was elected, at
the time of which I have spoken, one of the Members
for Durham, which city he continued to represent, with
some little interruption, arising from his acceptance of
oflic as Clerk of the Ordnance and Secretary -at-War,
until the dis,,olution of Parliament consequent on the
death of George I V., in 1830, a period of upwards of
ten years, during the whole of which he enjoyed the
respect and esteem of the inhabitants, while he was
almost idolised by that portion of the freemen who
supported him with their suffrages.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
FRANCIS HUMBLE.
Advert;ser Office, Durham, April 4.

Sir Henry Hardinge (the near relative and intimate
friend of the gallant Lord Stewart') is the second hero
whom the present generation of his house have devoted
to the service of their country. His brother, Cap-
tain Hardinge, of the royal navy, after a brilliant pro-
fessional career, in which deeds of skilful intrepidity
won his successive promotions, at length commanded
the San norenzo in the Indian Seas, and fell in the mo-
ment of victory, at the close of a three days' action (re-
newed by him each day) with La Piedmontaise, an
enemy's ship of far superior force, which was then cap-
tured.
He died in his 27th year, but full of glory; and by a
vote of Parliament, a monument in St. Paul's Cathedral
records his achievements, and the approbation of his
country.

Sir Henry Hardinge entered the army young, and
joined his regiment in Canada before he had attained the
age of 15. He returned to England at the Peace of
Amiens, obtained the rank of captain in the 57th regi-
ment in 1804, and having become a student at the Royal
Military College under the late General Parry, pro-
secuted his studies there with all possible diligence
and success ; and having accordingly made great
proficiency in the more scientific branches of his
profession, was selected to fill an appointment upon the
Quartermaster-General's staff of the expedition which
proceeded to the coast of Spain in 1807, under Sir
Brent Spencer. In 1808, when Portugal rose to throw
off the French yoke, Sir Brent Spencer's corps was united
to that which had sailed from Ireland under Sir Arthur
Wellesley (now Duke of Wellington), and Sir Henry
Hardinge was actively employed in the successful cam-
paign which expelled the army of General Junot, and
was present in the battles of Roleia and Vimeira; in
the latter of these he was severely wounded. Notwith
standing which, in the close of the same year, having
been pitched upon to carry important dispatches from
Government to General Sir John Moore, he performed
the journey with singular rapidity, through many diffi-
culties, and delivered his charge to the general in the
neighbourhood of Benevente.
Sir John Moore, it is well known, remained himself
with the rear guard of his army through the whole of
his arduous retreat to Corunna which ensued ; and
having attachpd Sir Henry Hardinge to his person, he
accompanied him in all those severe affairs which every
day took place with the enemy's advanced guards ; and,
finally, was the only officer near that great and lamented
general, when, at the battle of Corunna, in January,
1809, he received his death wound, and fell in the arms
of victory.
Sir Henry had just returned from ordering a move-
ment,
of the troops which the general had dispatched
him to effect, and was in the act of reporting its execu-
tion to him, when he was struck by the fatal ball. He
supported the dying hero at this trying mom' nt ; and
by the desire of his afflicted family wrote, for their in-
formation, the clear and pathetic account of that
solemn and impressive scene, which is annexed to Mie
Moore's narrative of the general's last campaign and
death
Returning to England with the army, he received the
rank of major ; and in the month of March. in the same
year, went to Portugal with Marshal Beresford, who had
been intrusted with the organisation of the Portuguese
army, to aid in the momentous struggle then about to
ensue, and from which may be dated the delivery of
Europe from the despotism of Bonaparte.
The Marshal appointed him lieutenant. colonel in, and
deputy quartermaster-general of, the army; and he im
mediately became, and was through the whole war, one
of the main instruments of the di,cipline and good order
which was so effectually established in it, and of the
brilliant and continued triumphs with which that dis-
cipline was crowned.
In this capacity he served with the right of the allied
army under the Marshal at the passage of the Upper
Douro, in face of and driving back the corps of General
Loison' and in the subsequent operations against the
enemy during the pursuit of him into the borders of Ga-
licia. For his conduct upon this occasion he was men-
tioned in the Marshal's dispatches, and thanked in his
general orders issued at Giuz 20th May, 1809.
He then accompanied the Marshal in h;s command of
the army of observation in Castile, during the Duke
of Wellington's advance into Spain, and the battle of
Talavera, and was employed in many important duties
of that period.
The next campaign was the famous defensive one of
1810, in which the Duke of Wellington foiled the in-
finitely superior forces of Marshal Massena. In this, the
zeal, intelligence, and activity of Sir Henry Hardinge
were very conspicuous upon many occasions, as well in
the arrangetni nts belonging to his official duties, as in
the various affairs of the advanced posts, and other
operations before and after the retreat to the lines of
Lisbon; and especially in the battle of Busaco, after
which victory be was mentioned by Lord Beresford in
his dispatches to the Portuguese regency, and recom-
mended by the Duke of Wellington for the medal of
distinction granted upon that occasion, which he received
accordingly.
In the campaign of 1811, Lord Beresford having the
command of the separate corps of the allied army in the
Alemtejo and Spanish Estramadura, Sir Henry Hardinge
was everywhere distinguished, as well in the many affairs
which the active operations of that period produced, as
in the siege of Badajoz, which formed a part of them,
and at which he served ; but especially for his conduct
in the memorable and glorious battle of Albuera,
where, amongst many other instances of judgment and
presence of mind, lie anticipated an order (which had
been dispat •hed by Lord Beresford, but had not yet
reached the general to whom it was sent) for an import-
ant movement at a very pressing period of the battle.
He was mentioned in hieh terms or praise, both in the
dispatches and general orders ; and after the battle re-
ceived the medal of distinction granted upon this occa-
sion, and was promoted to the. British rank of Lieut.-
Colonel.-
The eventcul cempaign of 1812 commenced with the
siege and capture of the fortresses.of Ciudad Rodrigo
and Badajn.z. Sir Henry Hardinge served at them
both, and at the latter was particularly dis!ingui.hed in
the storm of the strong out-work La Picaritia, where,
it is not too much to say, the success of that important
enterprise was mainly owing to his judgment and in-
trepid example.
He was mentioned in very strong terms in the report
of General Sir James Kenept, who conimended the as-
sault of the fort, and by the Duke of Wellington in his
dispatches, and he received the medal of distinction
granted on that occasion.

After the capture 4,f Ilidaj,z, tte army advanced
into Castile, besieged and destroy ,d the enemy's fot titled
establishments upon the Toran a, an I thenee proceeded
to those operations against Marshal Marnmet, which
br,ught on the memorable battle of Salatnanca, and all
its important results.
In these operations, the Quartermaqer- General of
the Portuguese army being aosent in the command of
a corps of cavalry, Sir Henry Hardinge pet formed the
duties of that post with his accustomed ability an I dis•
tinction, especially at the atrair of Castrijou on the 18th,
and in the battle of StlamAiett on the 2•)(1 of July, tor
which he received the weds,' of distinction.
During the winter of this year he received the mili-
tary order of the Tower and Sword for his distinguished
conduct, and the services he had rendered throughout
the war.
In the brilliant and decisive campaign of 1813, in
which the Duke of Wellington tnav be said to have
cleared Spain of the French, Sir H:'-nry Hardinge, still
doing the duties of Quartermaster General of the Por-
tuguese army, accompanied Marshal Lord Btresfordiint
the advance to Vittoria ; and in that battle, on tlie2l
lie received of June. in the midst of his usual exemplaryr eived the exertions.
was severely wounded in the body.
medal of distinction granted uponthat
He now received the rank of colonel
Vittoria, he followed
service, and, after a shor.t. stay
:o2r tBntehd,
innetelaiesiPono.rtuguese
themthe armyinthe an and
attleaof. resumed
thhtthe.etl
atPyreneesiea a.nodn againt
he 2P7tehr
subsequent operations, al-
a severe surgical operation during
d was still open, causing him great pain,
and subjecting him to
g3hOthhisJwuloya,aand in .
athnodu
the course of these exertions.
For these battles he was again mentioned by Lord
Beresford in orders, and received the medal of distinc-
tion granted upon that occasion. He subsequently served
at the siege of St. Sebastian, and the operations of pas.
sing the Bidassoa. s _

tie was present in the battle of the Nivelle on the 10th
of November, and those of the Nive on the 9th, 10th,
11th, 12th, and 13th December. His conduct wag, as
usual. conspicuously able and gallant, and called forth
the most pointed praise and eulogium in the Marshal's
general order of thanks of the 25th December of the
same year.
Sir Henry Hardinge was now appointed to the com-
mand of a Portuguese brigade of infantry, with which
he proceeded to distinguhth himself in the operations of
the campaign of 1814. In the affair upon the Adour,
and iu crossing the Gaves, aid especially near
on Feb. 15, where, in conjunction with General Byng's
brigade, he won some strongly occupied heights with the
bayonet, and in the most gallant style, from very supe.
rior numbers of the enemy, and for which he received
the particular thanks of Lord Berestbrd in his general
orders upon that occasion.
lie was then engaged in the batti,i of Orthes, on the
27th of February, for which he received the medal of
distinction (being the ninth conferred upon him in the
course of this war). and in the subsequent affairs and
operations, concluding with the battle of Toulouse, on
the 10th of April, which was followed by the armistice
and peace of 1814. He was again pointedly thanked
for his eminent services in Lord Beresford's general
orders, at OP- close of this campaign.
During the ,ole Penirbular wtr Sir H. Hardinge
never sutr,red himself* to be übs4,nt froio hi; ditty by

• Who, since the publication of this memoir, has succeeded
to the Alarguilato of Loadoodorg.

sicknes, leave of ahsencc, or any other cauce, except-
ing the very short periods (i 0 neither cc.° sufficient for
that purrose) which he was cowpellid to devote to the
cure of his wounds received at Vimeiro and Vittoria.
After this campaign his Sovereign was graciously
pleased to mark his sense of the signal services he• had
performed, by conferring upon him a company in the
Grenadier Regiment of Guards, and creating him a
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
In this year Sir Henry rardinge accompanied his
Noble Friend, Lord Stewart, to the Congress of Vi-
enna ; and in 1815, when Bonaparte returned from
Elba, and the war broke out anew, the Duke of Wel-
lington immediately placed him at the head-quarters of
the Prussian army, under Marshal Blucher, with the
rank of brigadier-general, as a military ambassador and
a confidential officer.
This was an employment requiring not only firmness
and military talent, but great discretion, judgment,
and conciliation. His Grace had very rightly estimated
his officer, when he thought him fit for this important
mission, and the result fully justified his choice.
Continuing with the Prussian army, he was in the
obstinate and sanguinary battle of Ligny, on the 16th
June, (which was followed by that of Waterloo on the
18th', and after having given proofs of great military
talent throughout the day, in the suggestion of several
movements Al hich tended much to retard the success of
the enemy, his left band was shattered by a cannon
hall at Marshal Blucher's side, whose unaffected grief
for the misfortune was the best proof of the high opinion
in which he held this gallant Englishman.
Sir Henry tied his handkerchief round the stump, and
remained on horseback till the bat le was over. His
conduct upon this occasion had been so meritorious, and
Marshal Blucher's report of the great service he had in-
dividually rendered so satisfactory, that the Duke of
Wellington devoted a separate Gazette (of the 30th of
June, 1815), to record his approbation of his behaviour,
and his regard for his wound.
He suffered this wound to detain him from his duty
as little as he had done his previous one, although
it occasioned the amputation of his hand, and from
some attendant circumstances become one of peculiar
torture and distress, for in one month from the time
he received it, he rejoined Marshal Blucher, at
Paris. He continued his duties at the Prusian
head-quarters during the whole time of the occu-
pation of France by the Allies, and the two following
facts will suffice to show how high his conduct had
placed him in the opinion both of the Monarch, at the
head-quarters of whose army he had been serving et
such a difficult and delicate crisis, and of that consuls-
mate captain who commanded the allied armies. At the
Prussian review he was decorated by the King himself
with the orders of Merit and of the Red Eagle, and the
Duke of Wellington personally presented him with the
sword which he wore, as a mark of his regard.
The long and brilliant series of services, hastily re,
corded in the foregoing memoir, will speak for them.
selves, and can require no comment.
B. D'URBAN, Major-General.
Hythe, Feb. 9, 1820.
•

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
The Austrian Observer publishes the following officio]
document :
The moment is arrived when it becomes possible t(
take an impartial view of the late events in Galicia,
and in the Grand Duchy of Posen, and to examisl
their cause. We shall complete this task in a point 01
view purely historictil, and we shall confine onr (Amer.
ations within as small a space as possible. When till
revolution tif Poland, which was attempted in the years
1830 and 1831 failed, a number of Polish emi.rants es'
tablished themselves in rance, in England, and in Bel
gium, who used ell the means in their power to disturl
the country which they had quitted either voluntarily 0
by necessity. The emigrants divided into two factions
who were in accord as to an attack, and postpone
until a successful result snould be accomplished the
triumph of their particular opinions. Thus each parti
pursued a double direction—first, that which was cow'
mon to both, the overthrew of the existing Government
and next, their particular tendency, %filch it ay bi
termed aristocratic, democratic, or communist, according
as we are enabled to indicate the ceurte of their effort:
The late attack, however, may be regarded as the wort
of the democratic faction. It aas supported by partie
in a higher and in a lower rank—the aristocratic part,
which above all de-ires the overthrow of the Govern
ment, and the conmunists, who thought they might Oil
their own ends. In order to prepare the explosion theJ
calumniated all the Government offs. era ; they see
emissaries through the country to excite the popula.
Lion to revolt ; they tlistributel 100,000 revolutions'',
pamphlets, trifler the form of democratic catechisms, dis
sertations, appeals to revolt, and instructions as to th'
mode of carryin, on a guerilla war. Everywhere tb'
assembled parties placed in the first rank of their Ps
triotic actions the massacre of all who were not Poles
recommending that they should be exterminated by de
sword and dagger, and, if necessary, by poise n, as ha
been incontestably proved by the instructions given b,
the leaders of the insurrection. A council was held s
the latter end ref the ruenth of November last, at whirl
figured the self-atyhd deputies of the five districts repro
renting the ancient kingdom of Poland, for the purposed
facilitating their operations. These districts were tb;
Grand ])uchy of Posen,Galicia, the kingdom of Pulses
Lithuania, and the territory of the free city of Cracovt
In their military plan they had placed in the firs
line of their operations the capture of the fortresses °
Posen and of Thorn, if it were possible, and of a that
fortress, situate in Old Prussia. The revolt was ill
tended to commence simultaneously through the entire
extent of the territories of Posen, of Cracow, an:
through western Galicia. According to the antic'
potions of the conspirators, an insurrection through tb
rest of Poland would be the inevitable consequence 0
the first movement. The explosion of the insurrectiol
was fixed to take place between the 17th and the 21st .e
February, and the instructions given to the leaders it
the diff..rent districts were to that effect. The suceesil
of the first part of the enterprise was to have been fq
lowed by an attack on the kingdom of Poland. "1
certain lucky chance, of which the Prussian Governme°
took advantage, caused the attack to fail on the Or
tresses which were to have served as the base of theft
future operations, and the insurrection in the Gran:
Duchy of Posen was consequently suppressed. Ti!i,
instructions of the Central Committee prescribed,
case the enterprise should fail in the Grand Duchy
Posen, Posen, the explosion should, nevertheless, be attempted
in the territory of Cracow and in Galicia. The Senate
of Cracow, and the is sidents of the three protecting
powers, were apprised that a revolt in the territory
°
the republic of Crucow was on the point of commeneil
The explosion was fixed for the 18th of February, an
the conspirators were at their pests The unexpeet`.;
appearance in Cracow of the small garrison of Porigor.
defeated the intentions of the conspirators for the,'
day, and deranged the calculations made of a respondil
movement in Galicia. The events which ccurred l_s
Tarnow on the 18th and 19th of February demonstrat6",
with what scrupulous accuracy the conspiratots in tbs'
circle executed the orders received by them, and hew
they accepted as true the false accounts propagated of°
successful rising in Posen, and that the grand duchy wsil
up in arms. The facts relating to Tarnow have bee°
pu
InryalilfleAi er(d, n i
tihnea
eor are
lnsfi
conspirators
nt,n sufficientlyto raise
tiiloen. people T The t ahtetecroo Set!
of the fidelity of the perlit,
tion, and not in eons quence of a reward said
have been promised for every insurgent stare'
di-red, living or dead_a falsehood as perfidious as al):
surd, and invented by the insurgents to disguise t';"
truth, that the attempts of seduction, in a detnocratO
and communist sense, had failed even amongst the Pea'
serifs. Conspirators and assassins are hired with mope,'
bet it is not bv such it eires that a Government can put:
chase an ee tire popul ,tion ; it is by advantages coal;
red. and by fulfilling its ,luty with fidelity. When to
account eas received of the failure of the attempt et
Tarnow (upon which the Polish refugees depended most)
and the neighbouring districts, fre,h a t mpts at insurrec•
lion were made, but they tailed in consequence of the °P
position offered by the peasants. Those attempts, however'
did not produce the sanguinary results which follow,
at Tarnow, where the violence attempted by the tense''
rators against the peasants was the cause of what
ensued. In the latter circle the people used no violence'
until the conspirators had shot some peasants who re..
fused to follow them. In the other districts the jest's%
gents were more moderate, and the population wag
content with capturing f hem and surrendering them we
the authorities in the chief towns of the district. Set°
insurgents, who endeavoured to propgate the move,
meet in the district of Sandecz by forming isolate
bends, by organising a system of plunder, and by
exciting the peasants against their masters, were
quickly subdued by some detachments of trooest
aided by the men whom the insurgents ended'
voured to seduce. The peasants whose masters well
opposed to the insurrection have been seen, of their ow°
accord, to defend the approach to their castles, and tf,
repulse the insurgents on their arrival. The attack oPO7
Cracow, which was intended to form an important par"
as an example of what might be done, became but
simple episode in this criminal drama, in consequence
of the occupation of that city. With respect to
the imperial troops, if we excsp't the night of s
21st of February, in which they
were obliged to sup'.
port the attack of the conspirators in the city of CraTi;
and subsequently the attack of Podgorze and the o°7
of Wieckzka, they had no opportunity to Prove
their bravery and their fidelity, except by their Perse..
,
verance in supporting forced marches in the worst wed-
then, ther, by severe di:cipline, and by privations of every
s
description. The troops had not occasion to ficees
single shot against the insurgents in Galicia. What .d
mains of this criminal enterprise? On the one 100:
the social condition of the country is disturbed, a °est
siderible mass of private fortunes compromised, a gr
number of persons arrested and victims of their OZ.',
misdecds; and, on the other hand, there are duties
posed on the Government which it will not fail tO
complish.

IPSWICH THEATRICALS.—We perceive by the 5::11;
folk Chronicle that Mr. Walter Shelley, who recently 0111":,ig
successcul debut at the Pavilion Theatre, has been crew 4
a great sensation at Ipswich, in the characters of Shylo~,
Macbeth, and Richard. The critic of the Suffolk ChOn,,f..
speaks of him as an actor of great promise, possessing Ph,
sical and mental attributes of a hiE;h order. Let gr• an
Shelley cultivate his talent, let him learn his art bid,hit
apprenticeship in the provinces, before he ventures a,:j. at
in the metropolis, and fame and fortune will be his ;
the present moment we have no first-rate finished traim'ct
nor have we had such since the death of Edmund Kean'
the retirement of Kemble and Young.
0
'
The Earl of IC-nmaro has subscribed the sum 0-
2
towards the Kerry relief fund.
.
PRICE OF MOLD.—The premium on gold st PA ri
Is 15 per mills, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 170.
10 4
Tier ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 52)4' fol."
the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 70, R. i,Ol.
I..ws that gold is 0.68 per cent. dearer in London thanei_li
By advices from Hamburg!' the price of gold is 437 P r for
ounce 55which, at the English 3lint price of 3/. 17s. 1034 d. per m
iise
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 11; and the excbs&hog
Ilausburgh on London at short being 13 11N, it foIIOWS
gold is OM per cot, kiwzg Loam Wm tlf lia*Vibi

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was
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Newport, Aberoaveney, and Hereford Railway.
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con: ile it with their sense of public duty. that they would Sir J. GRAHAM •
Caledonian it eilway ( Mid Lothian Branches). in Ireland Bill to be taken at the earliest possible period, answer to the question of the Hon. Member. In the first
Caledonian Railway (Leith Junction). and with as little delay as Pus*nble; by so doing they will place, there was the important Bill relating to the law of
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Railway Branches). osed by her Majesty's Government for the introduction of and then there was the Highway Act, and the Militia Act,
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way. eg HAWES stated that great anxiety pervaded all rig of the Corn Bill, hef tre this measure could be brought
Scottish Southern Railway. classes of the people with reference to a speedy settlement of forward. He did not, however, despair of being able to pro-
East of Fife Railway. the Government measures. In many cases excessive rail- ceed with the Bill in the course of the present cession.
Manchester, Bolton, and Bery Canal Navigation and Rail- way speculations had produced a fearful reaction upon the Mr. M. GIBSON hoped that the third reading of the Ccrn
' way, and ‘•anchester and Leeds It %away Amalgamation. people , they had been compelled to curtail their expenditure, Bill would be got through before they pro-
Birmingham, Lichfield, and Maochester Reilway. ,and a large amosu of surplus labour was thereby thrown ceeded with the other measures sanctioned by
Buckinghamshire Rel way Oxford and Bletchley Junction). upon the mai ken reducing, in some districts, an almost the Right Honourable Baronet. Government might
Bric ol IVaterworks (by order). complete stagnation of trade and commerce.—(Hear.) very easily have had the Bill read a third time
Vale of NOM ti Railway (by order). He was opposed to all coercive measures. He thought they before the Irish Coercion Bill came on, had they resisted the
REPORTS. had always proved failures. But he real: y hoped that Hon. coercive policy of the protectionist party.—(Hear, hear.)
' The following reports were brought up, the amendmentsen- (;gentlemen would look to the present commercial state of the Ile for one strongly objected to Honourable Members being
country, the great stagnation which existed, and the public
and alterations agreed to, and the Bills ordered to be placed under duresse in this way—compelled, as:they were,
grossed, viz.:— anxiety, and that they would, if they could do so consistently to dispose of one Bill before they could proceed with an-
Liverpool Docks. with their sense of public duty allow the first reading of the other.—(Hear, hear.)
Southport Improvement. Coercion Bill to be got over, which would be conferringagreat Sir W. JOLLIFFE said, that as he had been alluded to in
Plymouth Cemetery. benefit on the country. He really hoped that they would, this discussion, he felt himself compelled to deny that he
Taunton Gas. , as much as poseible, curtail the debates upon the question. had offered any obstruction to the progress of public busi-
London and South-Western Railway (Farnham and Anon
Mr. P. 13ORTHIVICK thought it was a politic and just ness. He certainly had stated that he would offer his de-
Branch.) measure to introduce Indian corn into Ireland in order to re- tided opposition to the Turnpikes Bill, which he conceived
Edinburgh and Peebles Railway. move the present exigencies of that country. He was sorry would be highly detrimental to the public if it were allowed
Weston-super-Mare Pier. however to see the present question mixed up with the to pass in its resent shape.
London and Oxford Railway. great question of the removal of protection to agriculture. Sir R. PEEL, in answer to what had fallen from the Hon.
xeter and Exmouth Railway.
SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY. Sir IL PEEL said, he did not deny one single word upon Member for Manchester (Mr. M. Gibson), denied that there
the general merits of the Corn Bill, he only wished to call had been any understanding whatever between the Govern-
Sir R. PRICE moved— " That the report of the Standing
the attention of the House to the documents which had been ment tied 'Hon. Members on his side of the House
Orders Committee on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, laid upon the table, in order to show that the impression with regard to the Corn and Coercion Bills.—( Hear,
''`that the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with,
be referred back to the Standing Orders' Comm ittee fir re- with respect to the decline in Irish distress had been ex- hear.) Ile might state that it was the intention of her
tremelv false—and he only expressed a hope that those who Majesty's Government to proceed with the Corn Bill, and
Consideration." In making this motion he wished it to be
wereoppused to the first reading of the Irish Coercion Bill nut to introduce any Government business of any kind
understood that he hot no intention of casting any impute- not
, until the sense of the House should have been
tion on any of the Hon. Gentlemen who were members of would, in permitting,the firste_ reading to_ take place, facilitate
the Standing Orders' Committee. He thought, however, that the progress of the Corn Bill, but he had not said one word taken withr respect to the passing of that measure.—(Hear.)
as to the general principle of the measure, or attached the If the arrangement to which the Hon. Member for Man-
deveral circumstances in the case of the Shrewsbury and sliehtest blame to those from whom it had received oppo. chester had alluded had been entered into by the Govern-
Hereford io Railway had not received that consideration at the T
sitn. ment, it would have been a most unworthy proceeding on
hands of the Committee which perhaps they were entitled to. Me. S. O'BRIEN said that it was in the power of the their part.—(Hear, hear.) But there had been no such en-
The objections and errors urged against the promoters by Government to facilitate the reading of the Corn Bill, by gagement—(Hear)and he believed that the Noble Lord,
the Standing Orders'Committee were really so trifling that he
postponing the Coercion Bill, and he considered that the the Member for Lynn, (Lord G. Bentinck) had distinctly
thought the House would not consider them of sufficient Irish Members would not be disposed to waive their stated the other night, that there had not been any such
importance to impede the progress of the Bill. One of the privilege of discussing moat minutely the principles and arrangement entered into between the protectionists and the
oPjections urged was respecting some cross sections, but there
provisions of that Bill, In the meantime he felt Government.
was nothing stated positively in the standing orders as to himself bound to state that Indian meal had Mr. M. GIBSON.—I did not say that there had been any
cross sections.—(Hear, hear.) The Railway Consolidation
been found most valuable in alleviating the existing din. arrangement.—(Hear.) I stated that I had seen in the
li
Axe
privateo would p
injury could happen torovide for any defienncies in
one the
if the Bill were Bill. No pu-
tresses. He would take that opportunity of asking the Hon. public papers that there had been such arrangement.
e rany
Baronet whether he would be disposed to lay on the table of
suffered to proceed. He hoped, therefore, that the House wouIdMETROPOLITAN BUILDINGS BILL.
the House a return, showing the extent of aid sought for
permit the case of the promoters to be referred to the Standing Mr. B. HAWES said he must complain of the delay
underßill the
understood Public Works and Companies Works Presentmenesl
Cyders' Committee for reconsideration, on whose justice hewhich the Right lion. Baronet the Secretary of State for the
He that there was an indisposition to avail reposed the greatest reliance. The promoter,: were perfectly Home Department had occasioned with respect to this mea-
themselves of the benefits which those Bills were supposed to
willing to abide by the decision which they =get come to sure. When the first Bill oa this subject had passed this
convey.
dn. reconsideration. The present was a very hard case.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM was glad to say that applications session, that Right Hon. Baronet stated that there was an-
Several Bills with far worse gradients, and much more other amended Bill which he should introduce at a very
to
offered was the most legitimate, and was not a gra-
violently opposed, had been allowed to pass, although the ,ohL the Board of Works were very numerous—glad, because
e relief early period during the present session, and it was with that
promoters had not, in several instances, complied with the 'understanding that he (Mr. Hawes) had voted for the former
standing orders. He could adduce an instance—the March tuity from Parliament. With regard to the county works Bill.
—he was sorry to say there was an indisposition on the part
aild Lincoln Railway—where a course had been permitted Sir JAMES GRAHAM begged to assure the Hon. Mem-
similar tdmilar to that which he now prayed for on behalf of the pro- of some of the grand juries to carry out the provisions of her that every exertion was being made to mature the Bill in
meters in this case. The promoters fully expected that the ill. e question, and he promised that it should be introduced on an
they should pass the standing orders, because the objections Mr. FINCH wished to observe, that he did not under- early day after the Easter recess.
Were so trifling. He hoped, therefore. that the House would stand the Hon. Baronet, the First Lord of the Treasury, as Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL said that as he had been up to
accede to the motion ; by acting otherwise, they would in- casting any imputation or reflection upon those who bad op- that moment engaged in a railway Committee, he was not
Met both a public and a private injury, posed the Corn Bill.
Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE said that he did not consider aware of the proceedings that had taken place during his ale-
` T••e motion having been seconded by an liox MEMBER,wishedtake that
•, Mr. ESTCOURT said that the motion was of so unusual a the Irish Members had been fairly treated by having these sence ; bet he to
House rose of once more repeating, on the part of himself
Character, that he felt himself constrained to oppose it. lappeals made to them, it was like an attempt on the part of
f'
the motion were passed, the members of the Standing Orders' the Government to throw the onus of the delay of the Corn and those Irish Members who sat on his side of the
House, who were opposed to the passing of the Irish
Committee would feel that the House reposed no confidence Bill on the Irish Members, whereas it lay at their own doors. Coercion Bill, that while they were determined to perse-
in their decisions, which would ever be subject to reversal. But the public would attach the fault to the right quarter. were to the last, and the very uttermost, in their opposition
Why did not the Hon. Member take the course adopted by He was not aware that this House was indebted to the Lords to that measure, they were at the same time anxious not
the promoters of other Bills during the present session? Why tor any great courtesy in matters of the same nature, and to cause any delay to the progress of the public business of
business should public
could
he not conceive why
did he not move that the case be referred to the considers- therefore the House, and they were therefore willing to withdraw any
tion of the Sub-Committee? His Hon. Friend had at some be embarrassed in order to do an act of courtesy to the House notices of motion which they had for such days as might be
length detailed the several non- compliance'', and argued that of Lords.—(Hear, hear.) Here was the House of fixed for the diecussion of the Corn Bill, to which as he and
Commons called upon, on the one hand, to take up this
they were of a very trivial r heracter. He found that there they had already stated they were prepared to give their
Irish Coercion Bill to please the House of Lords, cordial assent. They were prepared to support the repeal of
were not less than 50 of these,
;Sir R. PRICE—Forty-three. while open the other hand this House was told that the the corn-laws, but they felt it to be their imperative duty to
i, Mr. ESCOURT—Not lees than fifty, and some of these of passing of the measure was to produce a great moral oppose, in every stage, the progress of the Irish Coercion
effect. Now, he should say that so far as the moral effect •
a most important kind. The public would not be benefited Bill.
there couldscarcely be
was concerned, . any hope of that, for the
by the recommittal of this Bill ; they would be more benefited Mr. P. SCROPE gave notice that he would, on an early day
great majority of the Irish people now saw that those Irish
ley the postponement of the measure till another session,after the recess, ask her Majesty's Government whether, if
bers in whom the had condence we ' hi Bill
h . re opposing t s
when the promoters would be able to correct these fifty
and .--. .. Y . .
in ' the tenants of land in Ulster refused to quit the farms which
errors in their length of fifty-one miles. If this motion were
erst TeviT.g i
hieri l. t every opposition t eir power and even the
a nlproved the: it ' they rented at the bidding of their landlords, under circum-
y t
the was an opposition
conceded the House could not with any propriety refuse in b
to the reading, which
of the Bill.istances similar to those which occurred in the other pro-
any similar case, and he should therefore oppose the appli- . P Government Therefore
fault lay entirely •
with th•• that the passing of the Corn Bill vinces of Ireland, it would be lawful for the proprietors of the
cation. land to call in the aid of the military to compel a surrender
should be delayed : and he would ask them was it worth
-"Mr. CHRISTIE recommended the Hon. Member to with- . . - .
this . , ,
their while to continue to press Coercion Bill on, while of the property. The Right Honourable Baronet the Secre-
teraw his motion. tare of State for the Home Department had the other
there was not the least chance of its passing this session, and
Sir; R. PEEL was prepared to reject this vote on the
thus delay the Corn Bill? night stated that the sanguinary doings which took
ground that it implied a want of confidence in the decision of place in the southern parts of Ireland did not take
the Standing Orders' Committee. INDIAN CORN. place in the northern, although the law with regard
1 Mr. STRIJ IT, having been chairman of' the Sub-Com- Mr. P. SCROPE said he quite agreed in the sentiments to landlord and tenant was the same over the whole of Ire-
mitts. who considered the petition in question, had prepared of the Hon. Member who had just sat down. If this House land, Now he (Mr. Scrape) believed that although the
Itimself with details of the objections urged against it, but had any chance of passing this Coercion Bill with the same strict letter of the law was the same, there was still a custom
after what had fallen from the Right Hon. Baronet opposite, expedition as that which marked its progress through the or usage in the northern parts which did not thus sanction
be did not now think it necessary to go into them. He House of Lords, then there might be some reason for thus summary eviction of tenantry which occurred in those parts
could, however, assure the Hon. Member who had made the pressing it on ; but when the Government saw that the of that country, of the sanguinary doings of which the House
Motion that he had been deceived as to the notice of the non- discussion which had been raised upon the first reading of had heard so much ; and he was of opinion that it was in
cOmpliance of the standing orders, for instead of their being that Bill was, in fact, a discussion upon the principle of the consequence of that custom, or usage, that so much peace
of a trivial character, they were omissions and defects of the Bill, and upon its merits, they must have seen also that prevailed in Ulster.—(Hear, hear.) He would, after the re-
most glaring and fatal description. they could not escape a protracted discussion upon it. From the cess, ask the Government whether the law sanctioned such a
The motion was then withdrawn. moment then that the Government had ascertained that fact custom, or whether it would enforce the arbitrary rights of
THE CORN BILL. all the responsibility of the delay of the Corn Bill rested en- the landlord in Ulster in the same manner as it did in the
Sir R. PEEL presented a petition, numerously signed by tirely upon them—(Hear, hear)—and if that discussion other more unfortuate parts of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.)
merchants, manufacturers, and others of Staleybridge, in should be followed up after the recess, he did think the public LEGAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
the county of Lancaster, praying the House to pass the Corn would be impressed with the kea that the Government had Mr. WYSE moved for a Select Committee to inquire
and Customs Bill without any further delay. some unexplained and inconceivable reason for protracting into the state of legal education in Ireland.
. Mr. DUNCOMBE presented several petitions front York- the Corn Bill, and forcing on this Coercion Bill instead The motion was agreed to.
shire in favour of a ten hours' Bill. The Hon. Member also of it.—(Hear, hear.) COMMONS INCLOSURE.
presented a petition agreed to at a public meeting held at Sir J. GRAHAM said he had explained that twice before. Sir J. GRAHAM obtained leave and brought in a Bill,
time Crown and Anchor, in the Strand, on the 25th of March Mr. P. SCROPE said he had heard the explanation which was read a first time, for the inclosure of commons.
hist, praying the House to take into their consideration the only the day before yesterday. MINISTERS' MONEY (IRELAND).
present state of Eastern Europe, with the view of devising Sir J. GRAHAM said he had given the explanation Mr. WYSE gave notice that he should, after Easter,
some means for the restoration of Poland. The Honourable long before. bring in a Bill to abolish ministers' money in Ireland.
Member presented another petition from Mr. Richard John- Captain HARRIS said he could very well understand the The House then adjourned until after Easter.
son, bookseller, of Hull, complaining that he had been fined reason why the Coercion Bill had been brought on at that
201. under the Corresponding Act for taking money at the particular period, and he should protest against the two ques •
door of a lecture-room, where a gentleman by whom he tions being mixed up as they had been.
Was employed was delivering a lecture on the evi- Mr. FORSTER would appeal to the farmers' friends them-
dances of the Christian religion. The petition stated selves, and ask them why they persevered in delaying the
that the information was laid against the petitioner by a Corn Bill? He could assure them that their long speeches
police officer who attended the lecture, ahkh was deli- would not have the effect of changing a single vote in that
vered at the Hull Mechanics' Institution, in plain :clothes, House.—(Hear, hear.)
and afterwards turned informer, and prayed the House to Sir J. GRAHAM, in answer to some question from Mr.
repeal the Act under which the information was laid, or every Christie, said that those questions were questions of which
person attending the institution would be liable to the same he had given no notice, and therefore he could not
penalty which bad been inflicted upon the petitioner The give them any answer, and he should here observe that
Hon.
Member presented a second petition to the same effect it was extremely inconvenient that such a course should be
rorn the inhabitants of Hull, who agreed to the petition adopted. In reference to the Wootton Basset union, he
while assembled in public meeting. begged to say that it was not in the power of the Commis-
THE REVENUE. siotiers to censure the guardians, but they might point out to
Colonel SIBTIIORP gave notice that be would, on them the manner in which the law should be carried out.
Tuesday, the 21stof A • •
evidence on which heApril instant, move for copies of the He communicated with the Poor-law Commissioners to know
his• anticipations
t First Lord of the Treasury grounded what steps they had taken, and on the sth of February they
of the amount of th
sus expected would be • received e surplus revenue which addressed the letter to the board of guardians from which he
in the present year.had read the extract. If it were required he would lay the
BUILDING SOCIETIES,
Mr. EWART wished to know letter itself on the table.
intended to make ny alterat• whether the Government Sir R. PRICE regretted that the Government should per-
your of building .acernee am in the Stamp Duties in fa- sist in forcing the first reading of the Coercion Bill upon the
The CHANCELLOR of the EX House, and he equally regretted the opposition which was so
although the Government had (incCr H.EQUER said, that pertinaciouely given by the Irish Members. Neither of them
duties on the transfer of shares in buiatined to abolish the appeared willing to give way, and the consequence was,
not intend to propose that the duties Zuld
societies, they did that the business of the country stood still, and that a !nee-
respect to the conveyance of property by such°" altered with sure intended to benefit Ireland in no small degree was de-
duties in which cases pressed less heavily .pon societies—thete layed.
than upon iodic 'duel parties. h members Mr. FITZGERALD begged to correct an expression which
Mr. EWA it T sa,d the reverse was the fact ; the had been made by the Hon. Member for Eversham, and
u •
pressed much
more heavily upon the members of bu lens which was calculated to lead to misapprehension of the real
societies than upon individuals. —(Hear, hear.) g state of Ireland. The Hoe. ,Member had alluded to the im-
THE POOR LAWS. portation of potatoes into Wales, and he inferred from that
Mr. CHRISTIE asked Sir James Graham whether the at- that there was a surplus over the quantity required. Ile
tention of the Poor-law Commissioners had been directed to could assure the lion. Member that in this he was perfectly
the case of Elizabeth Butcher, tried at Saliebury on the 12th the increase, se The fact was that the prevalent disease was on
hild and an.
day of March, fir the murder of her infant c , before , and they were •
glad to dispose of their potatoes
they would
of its clothing on the Hon be utterly ruined. Hegave the Right
quitted, the chill having been strippt d Barouet credit for -
Bi- ett work- '
the pion se the measures he had introduced for
mother'a leaving the Cricklade and Wootton :►se
Here- - i '°— a giving relief
house ; and to the case of Harriett Bowkett, tried at. the Coercion Bill h to Ireland; and with regard to
child that th , e could assure the Right Hon. Baronet
ford on the 3Oth of March, for the expesure of her infant . e "Peoeition given to •
with intent to murder, and acquitted of the intention to arise from any desire to thro it by Irish Members did not
murder, the child having bean stripped of its clothing on the the Corn Bill, but solo by impediments in the way of
mother's leaving the Ledbury workhouse ; and whether the Coercion Bill ill-timed arid eeasethey
considered the
stripping infants of the clothes which hare been supplied in duritog the laet assizes in uncalled for. lie found that,
the workhouses, where the methers have no other clothing capital conviction, and that in Tipperary there had been no
workhouses, is or- diminished. the. north crime had also
for them, when they are taken out of the
mr. ,
..,
dered or senctionetf by
saidthe Poor-law Commissioners? .enl nE thought the eenduct of the Irish Members in
J. GI) %HA NI that the CaSCS to which.
_, . opposition to this measure
Sir .. ,could not be im-
immediate al tentien pugned. 1 laey telt bound Cu do e •
Member hell referred had attracted the . d
,o in compliauce with the
n Ins lien a wishes of their constituents, at ,d •
of the Poor-law Commissioners; and he held i
odious and u •
which slinwed charlv Bill an unjust one.
letter, dated the sth of February last, The Government had it in
been stripped their measure, and thus that the siiildren of Butcher and Bowkett had uot power to adjourn the s they would
•
of their clothing on their leaving the workhouses in ques-
secure the good wishes and hearty co-op
Members in the future stages of the Corieilltir of the Irish
tion. If they had been so stripped, the regulations
which the Poor-law Commissioners had issued to the dif- Colonel SIBTHORP said he fully agreed with the lion.
ferent boards of guardians throughout the country weu Id Members who had just sat down. Be gave the Irish Mem-
have
have been openly violated, as there was an express dote- bers all credit for the open, manly, and straightforward,
also ea • the consistent manner in which they
that all bastard children and he !could
__ e .
tion given by the Commissioners
opposed the Coercionßill —(Hear, hear.) Ho wished
should be suffered to leave the workhouse in the clothing had
given to them by the boards of guardians.—(Hear, hear.) the present measure of her Majesty's Government was one
In every case clothing was 'orderedto lie furnished by the calculated to conciliate the people of Ireland. Ile wished to
prosperous, and he was
le o' that country
guardians to children born in workhouses, and they had no see the peop .
that the measures brought tor-
authority to deprive them of it on their being removed compelled to say
twenty years in that House
from the precincts of the unions. No impediment ward for the last
the welfare of
to promote
whatever was offered against mothers taking their children were not calculated
The Government should
from the workhouses, and every facility was given to them the country.—(llear, hear.)
by its beneficial results,
to obtain clothing for them. Whatever had arisen in refer- introduce a measure that
to peasantry of Ireland.
ence to these two cases did not spring from any existing law would restore peace and plenty the -
• etith
or regulation approving of the hardships which the lion. —(Hear, hear.) Such a measure would always meet
Member appeared to suppose had been inflicted on the two les (Colonel Sibtnorp's) concurrence hearty support,
and .
individuals in question. He would take this opportunity of for he considered it would be more adapted to the con.dei-r
stating that lie was very glad to find that the poor-law was tion of the country than the Coercion Act proposed by her
being carried out very beneficially in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Majesty's Ministers.
The Government were continually receiving intelligence The papers were then ordered to lie on the table.
of the feelings of the people of that country, THE AUT-UNIONS BILL.
changing materially in favour of the poor- law.—( Hear, hear.) On the question of the orders of the day for the House going
Indeed, lie then held iit his heed two reports to that effect into Committee on this Bill being put,
from the Poor-law Commissioners in Ireland, which he Mr. WYSE said lie wished to know from her Majesty's
would take the liberty of movine to be laid en the table of Ministers the na ore of their opposition to the measure.
the House, and subsequently proved, and after Hon. Mem- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the op-
hers had read, he felt convinced that they • of the
would arrive at the position to the Bill was grounded upon the fact
same conclusion to which he had yiz -
that the oor in , uhtto be given to the Government, namely, that
land were now receiving great benefits from operation potter so g
_. _
the of of being empowered to declare the Art-Unions legal. Now
the laws relatirg to the poor in that eountrv.—(Hear, hear.) this was in amount reviving the system of lotteries, for the
The reports in quest en were then Drought '
up by the Right Art-Union,: were founded upon such princielen and to de-
Hon. Baronet, and orde, ed to be printed.
INDIAN CORN, dare them legal woulo be most impolitic.
Mr. WYS would, afr thi exl,
Mr. M'CARTH to Y e iseed to ask the Government under considerationE of the measutere tills thatp dayanationi r fortn e
phtostpone the
.
what regulation:4We Indian corn would be distributed to the THE RAILWAY DEPOSITS BILL.
people of Ireland ?
Sir JAMES GRAHAM stated that general regulations The House then went into Committee on this Bill.
and the House
upon the subject hal been laid mien the table of the House The whole of the clauses were agreed to,
in some particular districts, however, the distribution woul ; having resumed the Chairman reported accordingly.
take piece under different regulations, suited to varyingd Report to be breught up on the 24th of April.
RAILWAY LEGISLATION.
eircumstaneen
Sir R. PEEL would say one word with reference to this On the question being put for the House going into a Com-
introduction. It was found already that persons who had mince of SuPPIn
been subsisting upon that article were able to do their work Mr. LABOUCHERE rose, and said ho wished to call the
better, and to work for a longer time than they could upon attention of the House and the Right Honourable
their former article of diet. All prejudices •
against Indian I
. Baronet opposite to a most important subject. They were
ctirn am , about to separate for Easter and yet no Bill or re-
plier the recess,
re •
ts how feet disappeering in that country. The people oa• r• iof Parliament
uno it lei li panteible and nuirinees. This article, •*; mn 'ad been itoroluced into either House
however, wit 1 re pert to the railway measure the Right Hon. Baronet
II Metrbers would recollect. '
was now alluded to only adaiLted duty free ' the other night. Now, it was important that
It would
. something should be known with
reepeet to that Bill irnme-
greatly increase the confidence now, rii9 w of those per- ) diately, or great loss would ensue to some of those parties
ere tutroducing or speculating iu that article ! h
w 9 wero engaged in promoting railway schemes, and he

RA ILW AY COM MITTEES.
(YES rERDAY.)