The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-26 00:00:00

WEST INDIA BILL.

Mr. GODSON begged to ask if it was intended to suffer the
planters to be heard bv counsel at the bar of the house??
Mr. STANLEY replied that this did not appear to be necessary,
when there was the hon. gentleman, in common with so many
other hon. gentlemen, to protect their interests in the house.

SEPTENNIAL ACT.
Mr. TENNYSON seriously hoped this question would not he
regarded as a party question, but would be discussed calmly and
temperately, and that every body would give his opinion as he
should his, uninfluenced by any bias or consideration except
the desire to promote safe and rational reform. The hon. gen-
tleman then stated that the Septennial Act was passed in 1716,
and that under its operation we had had 22 parliaments, the
average duration in the course of 117 years which had elapsed
since the passing of the act was about five years. But throw-
ing out sudden dissolutions from demises of the crown, and
changing of the ministry, and such like causes, the average du-
ration of each parliament would be increased; for there would
be fifteen parliaments for ninety-one years, which would give
an average of six years each. Ile did not mean to say that they
should have short parliaments because they had them before,
but he contended for them upon the ground of the imprescrip-
tible right of Englishmen to call their representatives to ac-
count alter a shorter period of service than seven years. This
they should have,' he maintained, in order to secure good go-
vernment to the people. It might well occur that the represen-

tatives or the constituency would have reason to change their
views, and seven years was too long a period to keep the con-
stituency and the member apart, and without a proper explana-
tion. Therefore provision should be made for their meeting at
shorter intervals. The Septennial Act, he admitted, was passed
upon good grounds at the time, but his quarrel with it was, that
being made for an emergency, its principle was yet applied un-
der different circumstances, and to an altered state of things.—
The right hon. gentleman concluded his speech by moving the
repeal of the Septennial Act, which w 4 seconded by Mr. Hume.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the previous
question. After a debate of considerable length, the House
divided, when there were :
For the motion
Against it
Majority for Ministers l9
CHINA TRADE BILL.

On the motion of 141r:R. GoatioN, the China Trade Bill was
read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday.
The Stage Carriage Act Amendment Bill went through
Committee.—lteport to be received on Wednesday.
The other orders of the day being disposed of, the House
adjourned at half-past one a:clock.

LONDON POLICE.

WORSHIP-STREET.

On Saturday John Chislet, between 40 and 50 years of age,
and Mary, his wife, who appeared to be several years younger,
were re-examined before Mr. Broughton, having been in custody
since the beginning of the weeks charged with being "idle and
disorderly persons and common drunkards, wilfully neglecting
to provide necessary food and clothing for their children, and
leaving them in a state of destitution and want, whereby their
health had been much impaired."
The prisoners were first brought before the magistrate under
the following circumstances :—They had been met with in the
neighbourhood of Bethnal-green, just turned out of a public-
house where they had been drinking, and followed by a crowd,
hooting and threatening them. The woman then had an infant
in her aims in a most wretched state; and another of their
children, a little boy, was found upon some steps, crying.
Teakle, a police constable, having learned where they lived,
went home with them, and found in their apartment two other
little boys nearly,naked, and apparently in a famishing. condi-
tion, and surrounded by a mass of filth, the only futnitnre in
the room being a wretched bed, upon which they were lying.
The poor infant which the mother had in her arms was found to
be in such a wofully neglected state that (as was stated to the
magistrate) worms were actually crawling through its skin. It
was soon ascertained that the sole cause of their miserable con-
dition was the drunken and dissolute habits of the parents, who
made away with everything to procure drink!, The man was
stated to be in expectation of a very large fortune, and in the
mean time he received a quarterly, allowance sufficient for the
support of his family from an aunt, who was said to be related '
to a noble family. The money, however, it appeared, was
squandered away almost as soon as received. He and his wife
had some money about them when they fell into the hands of
the police, and the landlady of a public-house produced a sove-
reign, which the male defendant, when in liquor the day before,
-had placed in her hands to take care of. The defendant, how-
ever, assured the magistrate that he had quite forgotten the cir-
cumstance. It came out also that he had applied to the parish
for relief on account of the children, and had that day received
2s. from one of the parish officers of Bethnal-green, who had no
previous knowledge of the facts disclosed to the magistrates re-
specting the defendant's rich relatives.
On Saturday the whole family had much improved in appear-
ance. 'The infant had been in the prison with its mother, and
there properly cleaned and taken care of, and the three boys
were brought from the workhouse, where they had been kept
during the week, and fresh clothed.
The woman now denied that the miserable condition in which
her children had been found was occasioned by her intemperate
habits, and said that she herself suffered with them.
Mr. Broughton called the eldest boy into the witness-box, and
questioned him on the subject.
The poor boy stated, in answer to the magistrate's questions,
that he sometimes went out to sell a few things in the streets to
procure food for the family; but his mother commonly met
him, and if he had got any money took it from him, ana went
directly to the gin-shop to spend it; and she always wanted gin
as soon as she got up in the morning.
Mr. Broughton, after some further inquiries, severely lec-
tured the worthiess parents, and committed the man to the
House of Correction for three weeks. It was arranged that all
the rest of the family should be received into the workhouse,
where the parish officers would take care that any money re-
ceived should be applied to their support.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
SATURDAY, JULY 20.—Charles Reynolds, the young man
who attempted to murder Sarah Parry, and afterwards made
an attempt on his own life, was brought from St. George's
Hospital to undergo a vublie examination. Sarah Parry
was conveyed to the office in a cabriolet, and detailed be-

fore the magistrates the facts which we gave shortly after the
occurrence. When taken into custody and conveyed to the
hospital, a letter was found in his pocket addressed to his father,
imputing the crime of infanticide to Sarah Parry. This she
solemnly denied, and said that it was impossible she could be
guilty of the crimes he imputed to her, when she had been only
acquainted with him three mouths. It was a stain upon her
character, and she particularly urged the necessity of its imme-
diate contradiction. . .

The medical gentlemen at the hospital have also proved that
that part of Reynold's statement was unfounded.
All the witnesses were bound over to prosecute, and the pri-
soner was committed to Newgate for trial.

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