Star.
London, England, 1831-07-05 00:00:00

N°. 13,827.

Let the Axe
Strike at the Root, the Poison-tree will fall;
And where its venom'd exhalations speed
Ruin, and Death, and Woe, where millions lay
Quenching the serpent's famine, and their bones
Bleaching unbaried in the putrid blast ;
A garden shill arise, in loveliness
Surpassing fabled Eden."
rrHE Nobility, Gentry, and Public, are most
1. respectfully informed, that the
AUTHENTIC RECORDS OF THE COURT
OF ENGLAND

For the lea Seventy Years, wilt epeedlly be published, la
defiance dell attempts and overdoes to mappens them
This unique and extraordinary Volume will be published
as soon u possible. and particulars will be made known by
advertisement previous to its appearance.

ROME COLONIZATION.

Mr. William Atkinson of Leeds has published a
Plan of Home Colonization for gradually liqui-
dating the national debt, reducing pauperism, and
giving to the destitute the means of obtaining
comfortable provision by their honest labour,
whereby the two great incitements to crime (want
of employment and hunger) will he greatly dimi-
nished, and an immense saving to the nation at
large, be effected. It is annually to expend
500,0001. in Home Colonization, which, if the
measure be persevered in 18.51 years, will produce
18,708,0001. and by 1880 produce 160,293,3071.
which expended in the purchase of 3 per cent.
stock, at 82i, would, in 50 years, amount to up-
wards of two'hundred millions, by an annual grant
of only :500,0001. for the first fifty years.
The land colonized would give provision to nearly
five millions of the population by the settlement of
1,120,000 families.

Hume colonization is capable of being carried
into effect to any extent that may be requisite, at
about one-fourteenth of the cost of foreign coloni-
zation, if put in execution in Ireland ; in Eng:and
it might cost about one-seventh of the sum per in-
dividual that foreign colonization has required, and
might be discontinued and resumed, as the state of
the country should demand.
Home colonization would gradually reduce pau-
perism and poor rates ; ultimately reduce them to
a very small amount; and in nearly the same ratio
it would reduce crime, (by removing the two most
powerful incitements, want of employment and
hunger,) and the loss sustained by the public in
depredations, robberies, &c. which have latterly
been much increased by the causes above men-
tioned, would almost cease, if the privations were
removed, that have been so long severely felt by
the productive class.
The plan is meant for Ireland on account of
various interesting and important reasons ; and the
estimated cost is not intended to be stated at less
than what is considered fully adequate, viz. 31.
per acre.

The number of acres proposed to be colonized
annually is 160,000 ; the cost of which, estimated
at £3 per acre, amounts to 480,0001. being
20,0001. annually less than the estimated grant.
The interest of money arising from the rents,
&c during twenty years, amounts: to 3,539,5801.
which is not appropriated or taken into any calcu-
lation as proceeds of the increase ; and as the
estimate for colonizing 2,240,000 acres, at 31. per
plantation acre, is only 6,720,0001. the sum not
taken into calculation as made use of, or any way
appropriated, being more than half of the total
estimated cost, it may be confidently considered
more than equal to the casualties, &c. that may
occur.

Further, in the calculation of all interest, no
credit has been taken on any sum below the
amount of 1,0001. and a discount of five per cent.
upon the rental, amounting to 84,0001. annually,
is also allowed in the calculation of proceeds from
1850 to 1880.

The interest is calculated at three and a half per
cent. It must also be noted that the amount al
debt which the measure appears capable of liqui-
dating is not 165,903,3071. of three per cent.
stock, but that amount of sterling money laid out
in the purchase of stock, which, at the present
price of stock. is equal to upwards of 200,000,0001.
The rents arising from land, colonized upon the
above plan, would, in less than ten years, be greater
than the annual grant required for its prosecution ;
and as it is intended to be applied in liquidation of
the National Debt, could it be considered a devia-
tion from duty in the Commissioners, at present
intrusted with that measure, appropriating from
the fund set apart for the extinction of the debt,
the amount necessary for the prosecution of home
colonization, which appears richly worth achieving,
if the measure should cost five times the sum at
which it is estimated.

SUMMARY.
Ist. Home colenization will give the means of obtaining
comfortable subsistence to all who may be willing and able
to labour for it.

2d. The present system of poor rate. in ten years from
:his time. ccmpared with the same period under a system of
home colonization, would probably make a difference in fa-
vour of colonization of 3,000,0001. annual saving.
Home colonization will als• prevent, in an equal,
the commission of crime ; and consequently the ex.
peons entailed on the country in prosecuting, &e. as well
as individual loss. And equal to Its extent, will le the
continued increase in consumption of produce and manu-
factures.

4th. There is in the united empire more than four times
the quantity of waste land that will be requisite to complete
the system of home ctionisstion to a greater extent than is
at present requisite.

THE LATE SEPARATION IN HIGH LIFE.—
Lady Caroline Neal has commenced proceedings in the
Consistory Court of London, against 111 r. Neal, her bus.
ban 4, fur restitution of conjugal rights. A citation was
served upon Mr. Neal at Colston's HoteL
The forthcoming cause in the Consistorial Court,
for a restitution of conjugal tights, is likely to give pub-
licity to a curious correspondence between the two prie.
eipal parties, both previously and subsequently to marriage.
In the latter portion of the correspondence the lady openly
declares the nuoiiers which actuated her in forming a union
with her weahby husband. The parties resided together only
14 days!

TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1831.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS. Jots' 4.
Counsel and witnesses were heard in Totem's Divorce
13111, and further proceedings postponed.

CHOLERA mosso&
Lord AUCKLAND laid on the table pima relating to
the cholera morbus. _

Mr. Johnson, from the Treasury, prenatal the ninth, Te.
port of the Commissioners of Public Aannots.
rais commission Or TIM PEACE FOR TES COUTTY
Or YORK.
The Earl of HA ARWOOD/told be hall can the atter-
dam of their lanlships to a subject personal himself, wkh
rawest to the otlicc he had the honour to boll ender his Ma-
jesty. It also concerned every individual who held the sta-
tion of Lord Lieutenant. His object was not to make any
motion, but submit a statement of has, In the hope of ob-
taining some explanation from the noble and learned lord on
the woolsack. He did not think it right to interfere with the
jurisdiction exercised by the Lord High Chancellor in filling
commissions of the peace. He did not deny the right of the
Lord Chancellor to fill the office of magistrate In any com-
mission t but he claimed in this instance explanation
upon an extraordinary circumstance :—ln July last, Mr.
Michael Stocks, a magistrate of the West Riding of York,
had an indictment preferred against him for perjury. The
bill was brought before the Grand Jury at York, and whilst
it was tinder discussion, a letter was received from Mr.
Stocks, directed to the Foreman of the Grand Jury. The
letter had a tendency to bias the jury on the indictment. By
the Grand Jury the foreman was directed to give the letter to
the judge, Mr. Baron Bayley, who received It in the open
court, and transmitted it to hi& hlajesty's Secretary of State.
The result was, that Lon' Lyndhurst, then Chancellor, or.
dered the individual to be struck out of the commission.—

Now the matter of which the noble earl had to complain was
this: the noble and learned lord on the woolsack, notwith-
standing the commission remained open on the 13th or 14th
of June, restored the individual on the 21st of June, and
without application to him, the Lord Lieutenant, in order to
know whether the individual was a fit person to be re-
stored to the comnahsion. Having considered this extra-
ordinary proceeding, he could not pass it over without some
notice. The noble and learned Lord would perhaps say the
individual having been indicted for perjury, and acquitted,
he considered himself justified in restoring him to the con.
mission, but there had been a departure from the usual course
of proceeding which placed him (the Earl of Harewood) in
a peculiar situation. When asked how he came to appoint
the individual, he could only say he did not appoint him,
but the Lord Chancellor. The question be had to put to
the noble and learned Lord was, What could be his public
reason for passing him over in appointing to that office P
The Lord Chancellor might think he had a right to pass him
over, but he also had a right to ask for explanation, when,
on the 14th of June, the commission was open. Why was
not the appointment made at that time ? and why was the
fiat of the noble and learned Lord in the crown °face on the
21st of June, without any application having been made to
the lord lieutenant of the county ? What was there in the
office he held to induce the noble and learned lord to pass
hint over ?

The LORD CHANCELLOR war ready to answer the
noble lord's question :—" What was there in the office he
held to dispose him (Lord Beeughainjte peas ever the advice
of the noble lord ?" His answer was, nothing whatever.—
He had no hostility towards the noble earl personally, nor
to the high office that noble earl held. Ever since be had
been in possession of the great seal, the conduct of that noble
earl had met his entire approbation. He could appeal to
many of the noble lords lieutenants who beard him, whe-
ther any former keeper of the seals had shown more defer.
ens to their high office than himself: In the multitudi.
nous correspondence he had lately received, containing ur-
gent applications to insert the names of gentlemen in the
Commission, his answer was—" Go to the Lord Lieutenant;
his advice is a mark for me—he is the responsible adviser
of the great seal—he has knowledge which I have not." In
some instances, when he had considered the claims of in-
-Idividuals as nothing without the sanction of the Lord Lieu.
tenant, he had been told he was too strict. Mr. Michael
Stocks was in the commission in 1818. There was a de-
mise of the Crown in 1820, sod he was recommended again
to fill the office of magistrate by the noble lord himself.
He continued to act till 1330, when another demise oc-
euned. A new commission was then issued, and the no-
ble lord again recommended Dlr. Michael Stocks to be in-
serted again in the commission. The noble and learned
lord here complained that it was the first time in which a
person holding the great seal had been put on his trial in
that house by virtue of a card of els lines delivered at his
breakfast table the same day. No notice had been given
for particular lords to attend, but ample notice no doubt to
some particular lords, to receive the complaint of a Lord
Lieutenant against the Lord Keeper. Mr. Stocks was
struck out of the commission in July, and what had oc-
curred since? Why, that which he was bolted by princi-
ples of law to consider favourable to Mr. Stocks. That in-
dividual had been put upon his trial, and, from information
communicated by the learned judge, Mr. Justice Litdedale,
the Lord Chancellor could not, in common justice to Mr.
Stocks, do otherwise than re-invert his name in the commis-
sion. In so doing he bad followed the nde Lord Eldon
'mid down in Ottanlon's case. No man who had been in
the commission of the peace was to be removed, unless duly
convicted by a competent court of crime, or eeclared a bank-
rupt. Lord Eldon had gone further. That noble and
learned lord kept a person in the commission, although the
Custos Rotulorum endeavoured to strike him out. He knew
nothing of Mr. Stocks, beyond having examined him as a
witness upon the decuit. He had never received heal Lord
Fitzwilliani, or Lord Milton, the least complaint of Mr.
Stocks. He considered himself bound to put Mr. Stocks In
the commission. 11 he had not done so, he should have
been trying him for perjury, after the individual bad been
acquitted by a jury. What would their lordships think,
when he informed them that the individual had been sent
before a jury for something he said in a Chancery cause
thirty years ago? All the eltoesses who or aid have proved ,
him innocent were dead. The only witness living was the
prosecutor. As the noble lord had recommend the indivi.
dual, be concluded that his restoration to the commission
will with the roble's lord's approbation.
Lard NDII UIiST was desirous of explaining the
grounds upon which he considered himself justified in sulk.
mg Mr. Stocks off the commission. Mr. Michael Stocks,
in a letter he addressed to himself (Lord Lyndhurst),
Mated what had been the course of his conduct. The letter,
which the noble and learned Lord read, admitted that he
bad addressed a letter to the foreman of the Grand Jury
stating the particulars of his case. After that avowal die
noble and learned Lord thought it impossible to continue his
name in the commission. The letter to the Grand Jury
Lind Lyndhurst read. Mr. Stocks informed the Jury that
the prosecution against him was supported by subscription,
and that several of the witnesses the Jury would have to ex.
amine were not to be believed on their oaths. The Noble
and learned Baron said he had been libelled in the rapers of
the county of York, end annoyed by anonymoas letters,
charging him with improperly removing Mr. Stocks from
the commission. He could not sec the offence committed
by that individual in the same way it had been seer. Ly hia
n able and learned friend. He did not dismiss him because
an indictment was pending against him, but because he had
been guilty of an indictable offence in seeding a letter to bias
a Grand Jury. He thought it his duty to remove a gentle-
man from the commission, who, in his situation as a Magis-
trate, should hays been the last person to commit so serious
an offence. He said this because he found the gentleman
had been restored to the commission. He had not only sent
a letter himself, but one of his family bad also sent a letter
to the Grand Jury. At the same time he did not presume
to dictate to his noble and learned friend, who might have
whoa an Impartial and conscientious view of the cue.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, in explanation, observed
that some of the matters mentioned by his noble asd learned
friend had not come to his knowledge.
The Earl of H AREWOOD said, if be had supposed for

PRICE SEVENPENCE.

a moment that the noble and learned lord had not known all
the facts, he should have delayed the obrervations be had
thought it his duty to make on that occasion. The noble
earl concluded by repeating that he considered it a duty, not
only to himself, but to their lordships, to bring forward the
present question.
The LORD CHANCELLOR again stated that when he
received a Hat, containing the name of Mr. Stocks, be pre-
stinted that that circumstance of itself was a sufficient recom-
mendation. He was sorry to differ in opinion with the no-
ble lord, and sorry that so much of their lordships' time
should be taken up in discussing the point.
Lewd LYNDHURST said one or two weals ta =ph-
nation.

Lord A RDEN said a few words, which were =shyly W-
asiak below the bar,

The Duke of WELLINGTON acknowledged that as far
as be was concerned with the Lord Lieutenancy of a
county, the noble and learned lord on the Woolsack had
'hewn the greatest courtesy. It appeared to him, how-
ever, that the noble and learned lord had acted on an erro-
neous impression in the present instance.
Here the matter dropped.