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TH E SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1835.

bon; member for Belfast, eontaining snore republ;can prineipks than h
had ever beard uttered within the walls of parliament, and in which tan:
hon. member held up the American Coustitution as a Model on whi
the Constitution of this country ought to befirnaed. He also recollected
that when, on a former occasion, he reminded that lion, gentleman of
Cie principles he had onca advocated, a;" blush came over his counte-
nance, and yet that hon. gentleman had now the audacity to taunt
os with our adherence to the Opposition, and -the votes we gave on
this occasion. The. coalition of the Whigs and Reformnrs had been
called factious and anomalous; hut he wont.; ask, was there ever known
such an anomalous or factious coalition-as that which had been forme I
on the other side between the noble, lord (Stanley) and the right hen
baronet ? That noble lord was imitating the canduct which the riiht
honourable baronet himself pursued towards the late administration.
Like the right hon. baronet, during the existence of that Government,
the noble lord was of•ring the &neat ministers his support, in order to
weaken them. He was agiving them a ruinous assistance, with a view
first to bring them into disrepute with the country, and then to turn
upon theme In the great struggle now going on between the contending
parties in the country, he would ask whether the people would admit of
the neutrality assumed by the noble lord (Stanley) and his party, when
neutrality was itself a crime ? He who was not for us was against us.
He acknowledged that he had, in his place in Parliament; expressed that
-wish, it was because he entertained the hope that a new Cabinet would
be formed in consonance with the spirit of the age. But when he found
that the first act of the new ministry was one not only directed against
the existence of a reformed Parliament, but in direct hostility to the
very principles of the Reform till—when he found that their ac.
cession to power was regarded as a triumph of a party, of a do-
mestic faction—and tle;t almost the first step tlivy adoptad. in
Ireland was to sanction, or rather prompt a military force to execute
deliberate and skilful Murders of his unoffending countrymen, then iX
was that he felt that the change had wrought no-benefit, and' that he
had to contend against a ministry more hostile than ever against the
principles he avowed and the interests he had ever endeavoured to up.
hold. lie. had, indeed fondly hoped that after the passing of the Reform
Bill the country would have been spared the horror of seeing a tory ad-
ministration again in power. It was not of course to be supposed that
the inventors of that machine were to have an exclusive patent for
working out its effects; but neither, nn the other hand, was it intende
that it should be mangled or destroyed by its opponents. With regard
to the dissolution of the late parliament, Ise admitted that it was done by
the exercise of the undoubted prerogative of the crown ; but it did not
follow that the prerogative was judiciously or wisely exercised. Upon
the right hon. baronet fall the responsibility of that dissolution. It was
said that by opposing the right hon. baronet we were disputing the
King's prerogative. and in fact impairing the constitutional powers
of the crown ; but nothing could, in his opinion, be more de-
structive. of those powers than the doctrine held forth by

the right honourable baronet himself, who had told the

House of Comm Ons that he ought not to be opposed, since his
Administration could carry measures in the House of Lords
which no other party in tire state could dO, Could anything be more
dangerous to the prerogative of the Crown, or even to the House of

Lords itself, than the holding forth of such language? and yet because
he (Mr. F. O'Connor) and those with whom he acted were opposed to
men who used that language, hon. members on the other side of the
house bad the presumption, audacity and hardihood, to call him and his
friends a factious opposition. They were, however, determined, not.
withstanding these opprobrious terms, to stand up and assist the Whig
Reformers. He supported them because they were the real Conserve_
Lives, and were anxious to preserve the constitution upon a fair and firm
basis. The present was a contest between industry, activity, and intel-
Fgence on the one hand, and cloth, ignorance, impudence, and pride on
the other. Why should they be asked whence should come an Ad.
ministration? It must come from men whoSe views were in conso-
nance with the feelings of the people. He would conclude by assuring
the tight hon. baronet that the vote he was about to give would not be a
fact:ous one, but would be the result of a conviction that it was the only
one he could give consistently with the duty he owed to his country.
Sir HENRY HA RDINGE rose not with the intention to occupy the
time of the house. This was the fourth evening he had attended in his
place, in the expectation that some hon. member connected with Ireland
would make an attack on the existing government in that country. The
hon. and learned gentleman who had just sat down, had afforded the
first onpartunity for him (S.r H. Hardinge) to justify the conduct of
that government. The lion, and learned gentlemen had adverted to the
lamentable and unhappy afiltir at Rathcermac, and had spoken of it as a
stigma en the government of this day, in having been accessories to that
deplorable event. He (Sir H. Hardinge) assured the house, that this
was a charge altogether unfounded in fact. The tithes in question were
due on the 4th of November, and from that time up to the 4th of De.
cember, the late government made the whole of the arrangements for
the employment of the troops for levying those tithes. Every circum-
stance connected with the Itathcormac affair was made by the late go.
vernment, therefore he would maintain that the unhappy and lament.
able result that occurred was by no means attributable to the present
administration. In saying this, he was far from intending to throw
blame on the late government. That government could not do otherwise
than maintain the law, and give protection to the owners of tithe property,
and enable them to levy the arrears which were due. But when the
Hen. Member thought proper to accuse the present Government of
having conducted that affair, he (Sir 11. Hardinge) feit it right to state
that the whole of the arrangements were mode by their predecessors.
The Hon. and Learned Member had also stated that he did not ,ee
why he and his friends should be accused of any inconsistency in joining
the Whigs. He (Sir H. Hardinge) hal no objection to see those Hon.
Gentlemen in amity and coalition with the Whigs' against whom they
—and especially the great leader of their party—had been wont to use
the most violent language. file Hon. and Learned Gentleman had
himself accused the Whigs of being the greatest oppressors that Ire-
land had ever suffered under. Neither could he (Sir H. Hardinge)
reconcile the conduct of the Whigs in joining with the advocates of the
repeal of the Union. At all events, such conduct was perfectly irre-
concilable with the principles cf the old Whigs. A few weeks before
the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin came to England, when
addressing his constituents, he assured them that he would not mention
the repeal of the Union for some time, because, though he was as de.
termined as ever to press that measure, he considered it would prevent
an e:rectual opposition being formed against the present Government.
:But he added, that when the Ministers should be, removed
even if he should take office under the Whigs—be would never be con-
tent until Ireland had her domestic Parliament' in " College-green.
Under these eirctimstancea, he would ask, could the right hon. gente-
man, the member for Cambridge, hold a seat in the same Cabinet with
the hon. and learned member for Dublin ?—(Cheers from the Ministerial
benches.) How could that right hon. gentleman c:insent to discuss with •
the hon. and learned member the repeal of the Union? The one said
that the panacea for all the ills of Ireland was the repeal of the Unfon ;
while the right hon. gentleman, on the contrary, said that if the Union
were repealed, it woa:d dismember the empire, while it would not be ad-
vantageous to Ireland. He asked, then, how could those two hon. gen.
Verner' coalesce? And yet the hon. and learned gentleman had said that
he would accept office. He knew that he must come into office.__
(Here Mr. Spring Rice intimated his dissent.) Ay, the right hon. gen.
man might doubt it; but' the hon. and learned gentleman had said, in
his address to his constitue icy, that he was satisfied they had at least
two.thirds of the force, including Radicals, which must constitute
the majority in thii house ; and; therefore, he would consent to
accept office expressly and purposely to advance his favourite object
—the repeal of the Union. But he would not press this subject in the
absence of that hon, end learned member. He would merely add, that
so far ,as the ape ointment and employment of troops in Ireland wer • ,

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concerned, he should, whenever n..cessary, be able to show that the con-
duct of the present government, was in ever respect p;rfectly justifiable.
lie should show that in every instance the emp!oyment of troops had
been conducive in saving men's lives ; and he would defy hon. gentle.
men opposite to show one intsance in which the troops had misconducted
themselves, or their officers improperly interfered with the people.-.
(Cheers )

Mr. FINN and Mr. G. F. YOUNG rose together, but the latter gave
way. Mr. Finn said that the right hon. baronet seemed, puzzled to
know how it was that the Repeaters of Ireland and the Radicals of En;-
land could take part with the Whigs. The reason was obvious—the
Repea!ors and Radicals agreed with the Whigs in many things; but they
did not agree in anything with the Tories. The Conservatives. in Eng_
land were a distin,d race of men from those in Ireland. There they
were the spoiled children of centuries of misrule. They claimed for
themselves an exclusiv'e title to the virtue of loyalty. They say, we
are the only true loyalists, and as for those common papists, damn Utz•

fellows, give them places in the police, or anywhere else, so that it bea
subordinate station."—(Lau,ghter.)
Mr. W. WILLIAMS begged to enter his dissent to that part of the

Royal Speech which represented the trade and commerce of the country
as in a fiourighing state. So far as :le was connected with trade, he could
positively declare that the representation was inset erroneous. Ti:e

branch of trade with which he wail COllneeted was in a state of great de-
pression and suffering, such as he should not have be level possible to

exists had he not witnessPd it with his own eyes. He had had many

,pportunities of making himself acquainted with the real 6tate of th)

case in this respect. He did not consider that this depression proceeded
iron; the want of a demand. He considered that the fre,trade doctrines

at been the ruin of trade, by bringing foreign manufactures into co:n.

petition with our own before we Were prepared for it, To determine the
question, all they had to do was to compare the amuunt of taxation upon
the articles of consumption in foreign countries with that which prosstd
upon the industry of this Country. The hon. member teferrod to the
state of the. manufacturing interests in Coventry, which, at the present
moment, were in a state of considerable depression, in illustration of his

argument Ihe declined at present from going into details, hitt he should
be prepared to to tg when the motion of which notice had been given by
•an I:00. member upon this gubject should be before the house. The
iron. member concluded by exprtiosing his bpli,f that the measures of
reform promised by his majesty's government Would not 54isfy the
country. Upon that ground he had supported the arnentimont, but mono
especially because it called f.r more extensive reform of corporations
than was promised by the address, or the speech from the throne, of
which jt was the echo.
Mr. 0, V, YOUNG said that as one of the individuals who had been
I °floured with the abu4 thp Jimi. Member for -Middlesex, he wished

:o say a few words, . Although he had twice seepi}ded ncqpination of
t lion, Gentlonan upon thn hu§ting9, hp had'ilgt waplid Ii yittrm.,
• From thy course, however, pursued of tate by that hot), Gehtl,,
''4 red idmio f more honoured by his censure than by Icts

man, he cons,.

of Ole boo. Member, He lig(1 no hositution in

members quitting the house, vindicated his support of the late Ad:4i-
, eistration, whom he hoped and expected -soon to see return to power.
Mr. ROCHE expressed his dissatisfactionlat the ambignitieof the
ministerial policy with respect to Ireland.
Mr. E. CURTEIS considered the attacks made upon his honour:11;1e
friend (Mr. Hume) as most unjustifiable. Ne member of that house
had done so much for the country an his hen. friend. He would vier.
tore to say that the country would never have hail the benefit of any
of those reductions of expenditure effected by the Tory governmeets,
had it not been for the unrernitlsng asaistatic of his lion. friend in
f-Jrcing upon the attention of parliament the abuses of our finance se—
tem.—(Hear ) He wished to know from the right hon. baronet, the
Secretary for !Wand, whether the public prints had correctly reported
the fact that the thanks of the government were conveyed to the cfe..
cers and men engaged in the affair of Rathcormac.
Sir HENRY HARDINGE did not think the question of the hot,.
gentleman quite fair,. seeing that a notice of' motion stood upon C.-re.
order.book for the production of the letter referred to by the hon. gel-
gentleman. If the hon. gentlemen had reflected, or had more expeie.
once in that house, he would not, under the circumstances, have put
such a question.
Mr. CURTEIS was not so young in that house as to stand in nerd of
the lessons of the right hon. baronet. A vote of thanks to men w:140
had sacrificed the lives of their fellow-men before the proper tribune!
had pronounce d utain the character of the act, was premature and im-
prOpr.—(Hear, hear.) fly such conduct the Government departed
from that line of neutrality which they were bound to observe.—)Hear,
hear.) If the men fired without the order of the civil power, they were
guilty of murder. The dismissal of the late Government was, in his
opinion, most uncnurteous and improper. That dismissal would net
advance the purpose of the right hon. baronet (Sir R. Peer. The home.
however, had been told, that if they dared to do their duty, they would
again be sent to their constituents. If the GovernMent executed any
such threat, they would deserve the fate of Polignac, without one tear
o' pity.—(Cheers.)
Mr. THOMAS ATTWOOD said he had that day received a letter
of remonstrance from Iris constituents against that part of the Specs
from the Throne which represented trade as in aliourishing cendition.,
This his constituents treated as a mockery of their sufferings. Excep! .
ing in Lancashire, and there not among the mass of the people, he knew
of no part of England where capital produced a return, or the working
Classes were not in a state of great depression. When agriculture was
suffering, how could trade or commerce flourish ? With a dele cf
800,000,001?!., and wheat at 45. ed. a bushel, the great interests of the
country could not but be in a state of depression. He, therefore, begged
to enter his humble protest against tliat part of the Royal Speech wide)
falsely—he had almost said wickedly, represented the trade and tom.
'tierce of the colliery to be in a satisfactory state. Neither could he
concur in the opinion coming from the same source, that there was
much to boast of in the foreign relations of this country. Itu,sia had
been allowed to trample under foot the Treaty of Vienna; and she lied
.also 'trampled upoe the interests of Englaud with regard to Turkey.
As a representative of the people of England, he for one was not dis
posed to pocket such an insult upon the national honour. For his part,
he did not •think the honour of England was safe in -the keeping of the
present Ministers.

The Address, as amended, was then agreed to.
Mr. GOULBURN then moved that the King's Speech be taken into
consideration to-morrow.

Mr. HUME wished to know what time the house would proceed to
St. Jx.mes's with the addross ?

Mr. GOULBURN replied that the house would meet at one o'clock ;
iut that the hour at which it would be his Majesty's pleasure to receive
he a:ldress was nut yet known.
The question was then put and carried.
COLONIAL SLAVERY.

Ur. FOWELLBUXTON wished to put a question of eonsidetabl

importance to the honourable gentleman the Under-Secretary for the
Colonies. He wished to know what steps had been taken, or wore
likely to be taken, for providing for the educat►on of the negroes in the
Colonies.

Mr. GLADSTONE said that it was not very easy to reply to 'the
question in a few worck. All he could say was, that since the present
Government had entered office, the attention of the noble lord at the
head of the colonial department had been most anxiously directed to the
subject. A very short time before he received the seals of race, eir.
cuter letters had been sent to all the West India colonies, demanding
from all the religious bodies and ecclesiastical authorities engaged in
promoting education and reigious worship there, very full information
as to the extent of means existing Of course, before the Govern-
ment could be enabled to decide upon the amount of instruction re-
quired, they must be in possession of the fullest information as to the
amount at present existing. The returns were now arriving daily,
One or two colonies had already sent them ; but, of course, it was he.
possible to come to any definite measure until the whole had arrived :
that time he hoped the noble lord at the need of the colonial department
would be enabled to make up his mind upon the subject. With regard
to the expenses, he trusted a large portion of the deficiency would
supplied from private sources, and by the exertions of religious bodies.
For the remainder they should apply to Parliament, if necessary ; be.
lieving that the pledge Parliament had given to assist in the religiou,
education of the West India apprentices was just as distinct add bind.
ing, even though it was not as determined, as their pledge to pay twenty
millions of money.—(Hear, hear.)

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Mr. FOWELL BUXTON had another question which he was de.
sirous to tale this opportunitY of asking. It was highly important tta•
persons should be appointed as special magistrates who had no connec-
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.... tion or interest in common with the West India body. I-le wished
know whether the persons who had been appointed in Jamaica we. e
individuals of this description, or whether, in fact, any of the ordinary
magistrates of the colony had been appointed.

Mr. GLADSTONE was unable to say that such persons had not been
appointed as special magistrates in any case. Thus much, however, he
could say, that no person interested in the West India colonies had been
appointed as a special magistrate in the leand of Jamaica.---(Hear, hear.)
It was impossible to give any absolute pledge upon the subject, because
the Governor of the colony retained, under the Act, the power of doing
anything which was necessary in his judgment for the preservation of
its peace and tranquillity. It was important that the hon. gentleman
and the house should be aware that the governor of Jamaica had re-
fused his assent to an Act making the appointment of these magistrate,
absolutely necessary and a matter of course, and that his conduct met
with the fullest apprObation of the government and of the coloay. No-
thing was further from the wish of the English government—nothing
was further from the wish of the colonial government—nothing could he
more improper than that appointment should be deemed a matter of ne-
cessity in every case.—(lle,r, hear )
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

Mr. O'BRIEN moved, in pursuance of the notice he had placed upon
the paper, the following resolution :—" That, in the opinion of this
house, it is expedient that the public at large should have the oppottu.
n:ty of purchasing, at so low• a rate as circumstances will admit, the
totes and all other Parliamentary papers which may be printed fur th...
ti-e of this house." The hon. member then intimated, that it was his
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intention to move a resolution, " That Mr. Speaker take the necessm y
steps to carry the above resolution into effect."

Alter a desultory conversation, In which Sir K. PERI. and Mr. HUNIs
took part, the hon. gentleman consulted, on the suggestion of the latter
gentleman, to withdraw his motion.
The house then, at a quarter before nine o'clock, adjourned.

HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY.--II is
calculated that the two volumes which are now published of
Mr. Burke's History of the Commerce of Great Britain and
Ireland, contdn accounts of about 800 eminent Families, and
upwards of 20,000 individuals connected with them. This
important work will therefore be found particularly valunble
at the present moment, as showing the property, connexions,
interest, and other characteristics of the Members of the New
Parliament. It is' also interspersed with many very curio
and interesting personal anecdotes, which renders it also ex-
tremely amusing.

A boot-maker in Brussels is about to be married
next week, under peculiar circumstances. He is only forty
years of age, and has successively married three sisters, wi,o
died within a few months of each other. After the death of
the third sister he married a fourth wife, and he is now pry.:
paring for si fifth,
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Last week, Mr. J. Solomon, of Lower Shorne, me t
with his death under distressing circumstances. The son of
Mr. Solomon having been married, he made one of the part.
After the.cuuviviality of the day Mr. Solomon went to the
door to bid the guests good night, and, in turning round to
uo to the parlour, accidentally fell down the cellar stairs, and
injured himself so much that he expired on Thursday last.
Maidstone Ga:ette.

Another of those extensive and mysterious robberies
of jewels, &c., which have lately been so frequent at the west
end of the town, was committed on Tuesday last at the rePl-
donee of the Dowager Lady Brownlow, No. 30, Hill-street,
Berkeley-scluftre, it appears that on the oveningof the aber;,
day, at 7 o'clock, her Ladyship's jewels, &c. were perfectly
safe in the various drawers wherein they were regularly depo-
sited, and that about half-past 9 o'clock, on Lady Brownlow
entering her dressing_room, she discovered that several of the
said drawers had.been unlooked, and that the whole of the va-
luables in question were gone. The property, which is esti-
mated at between .5,009/. and 6,0004 value, consisted of dia-
mond necklace; brooches, rings, lockets, bracelets, &c., is
eases, together with en elegant gold watch and a writing desi:
full of letters and other important papers, Information of the
robbery was instantly communicated to the police, who are on
the alert to•discover the perpetrators,

A General in the Austrian service, of one of the
most illustrious families of the country, had an only child, a
natural daughter, of rare beauty and accomplishments. A
SOPrtlt attachment was fnrinOti between the yUung lady aliti
subaltern of of One of the reitiments quartered at Vienna.
Consequences ensued which it would soon be impossible to
conceal. The officer went to the General, made a confession.
of the fault he had committed, and entreated Wile ''.;owed to
repair it by marriage. The offended I"..rt over-hasty father
I'.o B psrepptory refusal,' and declared that his daughter
should be confined for life in a convent. On hymning this ter-
fll4P Ftlittli,ti9n; the unhappy Yawn 1 1 41, a At,Y , -1411- means to pro-
tium a quililty fig vlttielle acid, swallowed it, and destroyed
herself. The miserable father became overwhelmed with
grief and remorse, and calling the young officer to him, offered
to make hirri reparation, for his cruel loss by adopting him as
his son, and leaving him the whole of his property. ' The
ritetl yottng man rejected the nrnion§4 With Indignation, re-
tired to hiS lodgings, and blew his brains out.
On 'Thursday afternoon, between three and four
o'clock, the following melancholy and distressing accident tic.
cuffed in the New-road, near to Trinity Church :—Miss Sam-
field, a yOniig lady between ig and 20 years of age, the daugh-
ter of Edvvin Samfield, Esq., of Woburn-place,. Russell-square,
was crossing the road, just at the instant that a gentleman's
carriage was advancing in one direction towards her, and a
pony phaeton, driven by a lady, in the opposite one. Miss
igamtleld hastened to get out of the way, when, meat unfortu-
nately, her too in some manner caught the ground, and which
causing her to stumble, she fell down with great violence, and
rolled over in the direction the carriage was coming, and be-
fore the coachman could pull up, the horses had trampled over_
the unfortunate young lady, and one of the fore-wheels of the
carriage passed over her right arm, crushing the bone in a
shocking manner. The wheel also went across her bosom to
the left shoulder. The hind wheel would have followed in the
same direction, but that the carriage was stopped by some
'persons seizing the horses' heads. Miss Samfield was raised
up in a most dreadfully injured state, apparently lifeless, and
the front part of her dress completely saturated with the blcxl
which was profusely streaming from a frightful wound on her
right cheek, caused by one of the horses treading on her face.
Gerling, Esq., of Bronte-terrace, New North-road,
Hornsey, to whom the carriage belongs, and who was in it at
the time the accident occurred, instantly alighted, and e":-
pressed the deepest concern at the melancholy catastrophe.
The unfortunate sufferer was then placed in Mr. Gerling 's
carriage, and conveyed to the surgery of Mr. Kinsey, of' Great
Portland-street, where every possible attention was afforded
her, and she was afterwards removed to her parent's residence.