The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-27 00:00:00

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thelitlfpaie. On that ground, and after grief ran-
lien, the present plan met his support. The idea was
taken op from the plan, known through all the minim.
st 'WAN and abroad, that every persoa should be obliged
to contribute to his own superannuation. The oily
security they bad to prevent abuses was to fix a morimom.
and be considered that ten per cent. world be eniffidisol
to corer all claim for superannuation. As Honorable
Member had complsised that a part of the Bill went to
make its conditions imperative on the clerks now in
*See. If be could sustain his argument of vested
rights, he might safely draw sack a conclusion. He
was disposed to pay more attention to the observation
of an Hon. Friend—that after a clerk bad costribmed
for years to a fend for his own advantage, it would be
painful to give him a total dismissal from Mike, sod to
a claim on his own saviors. Bet he would correct that
objection by saying, let all receive back the capital of
their subscriptions, leaving only to the Treasury a ne-
gative in peculiar cases of flagrant abuse or positive
neglect. If there was not any such decided misconduct
the clerk would have the power of retiring with the
capital he had subscribed to the food. The whole of
the question was brought forward to execute, in a bowl
sde manner, the injunction of the Home conveyed in
an address to the Crown on the subjest. lie would feel
himself culpable if he allowed the wishes of the HAIM
.to be impeded by his Ma esty'e Government. Os such
a plan be most confess they would not be volonteen.—
(Hear, bear.)—He trust that the Hon. Gentlemen
who had supported that Address and had forted them
into the measure, would not preheat -Obenseelires m
cavillers against their own injunction. sod give an
opposition to the details of their own measure.—(Hear.
—As to the saving made to the country by the plea he
did not think that a sum of 100,0001. could sanction
any act of iejostice. He trusted that those Geotleeima
who called so loudly for the reduction of use of the
Postinesters.General, for the dismissal of one of the
Lords of the Admiralty, and for every reduction, would
sot oppose, in the present instance, the execatim oil
their own principles. With regard to tbeHoe. Member for'
Montrose (Mr. Home), he was at east consistent; but
be thought that be (Mr. Home) wished to carry his
views too far in naming a deduction from salary from
sto Y. 5 per cent. When he speaks of taking 10 per
cent. from salaries of 8001. a-year, it was in fact going
to a positive reduction of salary. If there be vested
rights in the case, it would be well to admit them at
once, and erect these salaries into freeholds. if there
were any defects in the details of the measure, they
would be arranged before the next Session.
Mr. CA LCRA FT explained that be had no continual.
cation, either directly or indirectly, with any nerd is
office. He could declare most solemnly that Ms inform-
ation was not obtained from any person in an official si-
toads*. The Noble Lord had Intimated so much. but
he could assure him that be had sever received even a
hint from any clerk in office.
Mr. HUME said that he did agree with the Noble
Lord that the speech of the Hon. Geotleman was a most
extraordinary one. He never listened to any address
with more surprise, though the Hoe. Gentleman could
clothe his sentiments in the most brilliant language; yet
be must be mistaken if be thought that be sikeeeded in
making an impression on the house. His plan was ab-
surd in principle, and impossible in practise. (Here the
Hon. Gentleman observing that Mr. Canning was not
present, said)—He had no right to leave the house—to
go away immediately after having spoken.—(A laugh.)
He did think that any lion. Gentleman who stated sank
doctrines, or who pnt forth a proposition complaining of
the whole of the proceedings, thoold have staid to hear
what reply could be given to him, or at least if he went
away be would not have any right to complain if being
misrepresented. Since he (Mr. Hume) bad been within
the walls of the house, he bad never beards more con.
sisteet and constitutional address than that of the Noble
Marquess.—(fiesr.) He concurred with hi altogether
os the nature of the claims which had be* *Wrap.—
(Hear.) He was free to confess, that mien examination
into many of the complaints on the subject of Superan-
nuation which be had brought before the house, he
found that they were extreme cases, and not such as to
warrant the deductions he had made from them ; not
that he was incorrect in the cares. but that be was wrong
in making generel conclusions on them. He would ven-
ture to say, that when the Address to the Throne was
voted, the intentions of the pease and the wishes of the
country were that there should be a positive reduction of
Isalaries. He had stated to the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer in the commencement of the Salon that this
Bill would bring him into difficulties, and that it would
be much better for him to take 10 or 15 per cent, off the
salaries at once. Ile bad seen a great many publications
from people interested in the question. They had better
be quiet. as there should be a redaction in all salaries,
particularly of those in the higher offices. His objec-
tion to the present measure was, that it created a fund
which would require a collector and officers to mann".
He would pat it to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to
dismiss the Bill at once and make a reduction in salaries
—such a reduction only, consistent with the change in
the value of money within four years. Let that be the
scale, if they. could agree upon it. He could not by any
means join in the opinion of the Hon. Member for Es-
sex, that the redaction in the value of money was 40 per
cent. Ile would take the actual reduction by the change
I in the currency sod other , to go, without diffi-
leaky, as far as 15 per cent. By reducing salaries in
that proportion, every officer was left as rich, with as
good a place, as he had before. In doing that. no indi-
vidual had a right to complain who was in office previous
to 1810. Any increase of salary granted was in conse-
quence of the advance in price of every article of life;
and eves Mr. Pitt had declared, in his speech on the 4th
of July, 1803 or 1801, that any increase then granted
was in consequence of the advance in prices; and he
looked to make a reduction to the previous standard on
the return of peace. lie would recommend Minister*
then, to dismiss the present Bill altogether, and adopt •
positive reduction of salaries.
_ Mr. MARRYATT said that we the principle be *ai
agreed with other Members; but he considered that any
clerk who did not wish to agree to the Fund should be I
allowed to declare his opposition, and he exempt from
contribution. Many of them had families to provide
for, and it would not suit them to devote five per cent.'
of their income to make a fund for the old age of him-
self alone. lie thought that the plan of super tion 1
of the East India Company should have been adopted.
Many of the clerks in office give a part of their salaries
to insure their lives as a provision for their families, and
they would not be able to spare any other deduction
from their incomes.

Mr. CALCRAF'f moved an amendment, which, at
the suggestion of the Marquess a Londonderry, was
withdrawn.

The Report was then brought up, the Bill was read a
serried time, and ordered to be read a third time on
Monday.

COLONIAL COMMISSION.

On the Order of the i for resuming
the adjourned debate on the Commiwion of Inquiry
into the state of the settlements of the Cape of Good
Hope. the Mauritius, and Ceylon,
Mr. WILMOT said that be hoped the Hon. Member
for Aberdeen would withdraw his am•ndinent. that the
inquiry should be extended to the Island of Trinidad.
se be (Mr. Wilmot) pledged himself that papers should
be produced which would give him the most putiefsetar)
information; but if the Hon. Member sboeld not think
so, he would then be at liberty to re :ew the subject early
neat Session.

HUMS said that after the declaration of the IM
namable Member, which helssliieved to be 'Tiede is sin
cent), be would withdraw his amendment, and he hoped
the Hos. itemiser who seconded his motion would also
ooneat• He, believer. pledged Mumelf, if the papers
did use tarnish him with satisfactory information, to re-
slew the subject early next Session.
Mr. MA RRYATT expressed his usept to the with-
drawing the amendment.
The amendment was withdrawn, and the motion was
agreed to, "That an humble Address be presented to
his Majesty, that his Majesty he graciously pleased to
gin directions for issuing a Commission under the Brest
.ta.sdoto inquire let* the state of the Settlements of the
Cape of Hood Hope, the Mauritius, and Ceylon.
STAMP DUTIES' nut..
On the motion that the House go into Committee on
the Stamp Ditties Bill, after a few ob ions from
Mr. BERNAL, Mr. BRIGHT, and Mr. Hums, the CHAN-
CRLItOR of the EXCHEQUIR consented to postpone it till
nest Session.
Mr. F. PALMER wished to take that opportunity of
asking the Chancellor of the Exchequer if this *fill
was applicable to the transfer of mortgages, as from
vtrions communications made to him, be understood
high legal authorities were of opinion that it was.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that
he had no objection to consult the Law Officers of the
Crowe upon the subject, and communicate the result of
their opinion.
The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, anti
the House adjourned at half-past eight o'clock, to Mon-
day sett.

MIL IC ff.

MANIIIOI4-110091L—The driver of the Blackwell
stage-ensch, relative to which the examination bad
been held at the Justice Room on Thursday, appeared
yesterday before the Lord Mayor, to 'Rawer the com-
plaints of the Gentlemen of the Ward of Cornhill, by
whom be wcs charged with having violated " Taylor's
Act," by plying fur passengers.
Mr. Balm appeared upon the part of the Ward,.
and Mr. HAiMIR for the defendant. Several highly
respectable men were called for the latter, some of
whom were upon the comb, and others getting upon '
It, when the officers seised it. Those Gentlemen
stated, that the coachman was driving off when a
Mr. Batson called upon him to stop, that the d. lay
which took place in consequence was not for one mi-
nute, and that the coachman and passengers repeatedly
told the officers the cause of the delay.
The Lord Mayor said, that he was perfectly as.
defied the coachman had not subjected himself to the
severity with which he had been treated, and repri-
manded the street•keepers for having overacted their
parts.—His Lordship then dismissed the coachman.
It is necessary to state, for the guidance of stage
coach proprietor., that I coaches have been, in
conformity with the Act, taken to the Green-yard for
applying for passengers, and subjected to severe fines.
flew-s s CON. •ND
Elizabeth Flight, a very comely personage of middle
age, made a lamentable complaint to the Magistrate of
the cruel treatment she had experienced at the hands
f her husband. He had taken some unaccountable
jealousy into his head, deprived her of all the rights
and immunities of a wife, beat her repeatedly, and fi-
nally expelled her from his house. In this dilemma
she consulted with a Solicitor, who advised her to re-
take po ion of her house, and a few mornings ago
she pat this advice in practice ; but it did not answer,
fur throughout the whole day bet hashed amused
biassed( with standing at the triode,/ and calling ep-
os Ihe passengers to come in and look at a *trumpet;
'and in the evening he engaged three fellows to eject
her violently from the house. This they did do, in
the grossest manner, and she was is consequence ed-
died to lay ►er case before the Magistrates.
The Magistrates recommended her to go once more,
and endeavour to conciliate her spouse ; and if be as-
saulted her they would bring him before them, and
cause him to give sureties for keeping the peace to-
wards her.

She went accordingly. In the evening she re-
turned, saying she bad made the attempt, and in en
doing she had been violently assaulted by her hus-
band's sister, a Mrs. Etheridge, and- thereupon the
Magistrates issued their warrant for the apprehension
of Mrs. Etheridge, who was very shortly brought be-
fore them.

She came attended by Mr. Flight, who, it seems, is
landlord of the Bull's Head in Tottenham-court road,l
and who solemnly declared that one evening be ac-
'sally met his wife, the complainant under this war-
rant, coming oat of a bagnio arm-in-arm with some
back of a fellow ! Before that evening be never sus-
pected her fidelity even for a moment; but since that
time he never could like her, and that was the reason
be had put her away.
The poor man was really eloquent upon his wife's
faithlessness and his own misery, and satisfied the
Magistrates that he had actually commenced a erins
eon. action agait:st her seducer. The lady treated the
whole story with a sort of contemptuous uoa chaletace.l
sod eventually the Magistrates, said the course which
Mrs. Flight must pursue, would be to apply to the
parish officers, who would relieve her, and then sum-
mon the husband in eke usual way to show cause.
With respect to the charge of assault -against Ws.
Etheridge, be could not think, ceder the circum-
stancces, of holding. her to hail.

ConoN git's iyuussts.—Yesterday an inquisition
was held at the White Lion Tavern, Hemming's Row,
St. Martin's-lane, before Autism)), °ell, Esq., Co.
ranee for Westminster, upon the body of Eleanor De-
laey, a young woman found drowned in the Thames,
on the 24tb instaut.

There was no evidence before the Jary to chew how
the deceased got into the water, bat their impression.
from some circumstances stated, wAs that she drowned
herself in eonsegannee of disappointment in love
Verdict—Found drowned in the river Thames without
any marks of 11°1,6(.4..

irgnsitien was taken before Anthony Hell, Esq..
and a respectable Jury, at the Triarnphant Chariot.
Pembroke Mews, Groevenor•place, touching the death
of Ann Geok, a middle-aged woman, who died in St
George's Hospital. The death of the deceased cx
cited general feeling and sympathy in St. George's
Parish, and the laces igation lasted a considerable
little.

Thomas Joy, *Chelsea Pensioner, deposed that on
the evening of the 20th ins►, he wss.going from H)•de
Park Corner to Kensington. When he arrived at the
Foot Barrack!, Knightsbridge, he heard a voice r3ll
" If you will not stop, you will kill the woniar."
ilia induced him to look in the direction of the voi. e;

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on tornieg Mooed he saw the deceased lying is tw
road, and a crowd of persona resod her. Thereon,'
cart and a gig standing elm* to the spot. Wit..,,
went op to the crowd, awl saw a gentleman le silt,
saying sometbiag to the people, bat he could set
state what was said. Witness assisted Is taking tie
deceased to the Hospital.
In this stage of the Inquiry. the Coroner and dui
were at a loss to know how to proceed.. fur wait te
better evidence, when a gentleman presented himself,
and volentarily became a witness.
Mr. Thos. Joseph Wood. Hutt., of Old Brom/los,
sworn, d•potedo, that last Saturday afternoon, eh et
six o'clock, he was walking on the footpath, by ;to
turnpike-road, at Knightsbridge, on the west side,
when be observed a gig, drawn by one horse. Th.
lion. Captain A. Cochrane. brother to Lord COCbratt,
was in the gig, at a fast trot; the deceased was crew
log the road about 30 yards off, and the Captain called
to bee, hot did not pall op till either the hone or tin
gig strnrk tier, and she fell upon the ground. lA,
Captain then palled op, and got tint of the gtj; he
could have stopped the burn easily before if heehaw,
because it did not seem that lie strove faster than utter
gentlemen do. The deceased was going over a part of
the road which was not a regally mousing, and wit.
oess thought the Captain was driving carelessly.
There were two other gentlemen driving a airsick it
the time, and witness heard them hying it *NM we.
testily done, or words to that effect.
Mr. C. 11. Hawkins, license-surgeon. at St. ffeerge't
Hospital, described the state .of ape deceased who
brought in ; he had opened the head sine* her death,
which happened yesterday wonting, sad found the
skull greatly fractured, and en effe(ion of Wood os
the brain, which, no deolot, canoed her death.
The Jury were &hoist to remelt a verdict of blis
slaughter against the Hon. A.Cochrane, het the 1..•
toner said, that the 'widest:* was opt suffsciemlr
strong to warrant sorb • vertliet.—The law gave theta
power with respect to the horse, harness, end gig.
A verdict was recorded. Arcidentid Heath—Pm
dand, sflf.
An inquisition was holden before C. Atereett.sl,
Coroner for Surrey, and • respectable,ainey. et the
King's Head, at Walworth, touching the death et
Mr. William Godwin, aged 33 yeare,.wino destroyed
himself under the following cal. mit us circumstance,:
—The deceased, with a wife and three Alseglitte,
lived in the mansion formerly (occupied by Sir list.
thew illoxam, opposite the Terrace, on the Walwsrth
road, for the purpose of shewing the prenoi(e• The
eldest daughter, 15 years ohl, out at woke, dame
home about seven weeks ago, inflicted with the brais
fever, which was successively communicated to tbs
wife and use other two daughters, all lastly to tie
deceased.—The whole family being thus afflicted,
poor woman residing in Amelia-street, Walworth,
lunteered her services to attend them, het she she
was seised with the pestilential disease.—With the
assistance of Mr. French. a medical gentleman, the
mother and eldest daughter recovered so far as to
attend the fa.her. who seemed to be also recovering;
but on Sunday night he became outrageous, and re-
ratline.' in this state till shoot half past five o'clock on
Monday morning, when he jetoped out ..f a Triadow,
tan across the lawn at the back of the mensiee, and
plunged into the fish-pond, whielt is 27 feet der}
The poor woman, who was in the room whoa her Imo.
band jumped oat of the window, permed him aerosol
the lawn, thinking to prevent his rash intention, het
before she could overtake him he jumped in. A your
man named Birkingyoung jump d it after the de-
ceased. and succeeded ie dragging biro ashore after
the lapse of five minutes, alive, but in a state of is-
sensibility. The unfortunate mat was carried is
doors, and though Drs. French and Parsons used evert
effort to p his life, he died In about two hours
after. The Jury, after some consultation, merged
the following verdict—"'that the deceased, in a seats
of insanity, threw himself into the fish-pond, which,
together with the disease be laboured ender, produced
his dissolution."