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HOUSE OF COMMONS.---TUESDAY,…
HOUSE OF COMMONS.TUESDAY, APRIL 24. Mr. J. WILLIAMS presented a petition from certain members of the London Cymreigyddion Society, praying that none but persons conversant with the Welsh language should be appointed to eccle- siastical offices in the Established Church in Wales. Petitions in favour of national arbitration were presented by se- vi-ral hon. members; amongst whom was Mr. MORRIS (6), from Carmarthen and other places Sir J. (5), from places in Flintshire'; Mr. WEST, from Llanarvon Dyffryn Cynnog; Mr. P. 11 i Y-ir (21 ) from various places in Cardiganshire, and (2) from p! aces i n Cannarthe nsh i re. THE WAR IS INDIA.—VOTE OF THANKS. Sir.T. H on uousTi moved similar votes of tliauk,4 to those in the U MISS of Lords. The Marquis of GHA^BY seconded the motion, which was also supported by Sir R. PKSL, Sir J. W. Hooo, Mr. HIJME, and Sir R. IN'OLIS. the Litter member telling the House to rememher th-t it was the GIll of armies to whom we owed all the success, IUti that it was upon Him we must rely, and not upon the skill of the old or the valour of the young. THE BRAZILS. Mr. M. GIBSON then called the attention of the House to the state of our relations with the empire of Brazil, and asked the Ihuse to give him leave to bring in a bill to repeal the act of 1845, which was at once illegal, unjust, impolitic, and ineffectual. After a lengthened discussion, in which several members took a part, the motion was negatived by a majority of 103, and the House adjourned at one o'clock.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY,…
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25. The Speaker took the chair at 12 o'clock. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS BILL. The House went into committee on this bill, but the first clause' Mating to the oaths to be taken by members, was strongly op- and was ultimately t ;st by a majority of 92. Sir J. Paking- toii then asked leave for the chairman to report progress and sit .•spin. SUNDAY TRAVELLING ON RAILWAYS. Several petitions" ere presented both for and against the bill a £ :ev which Mr. I,OCKF, mover] the second reading of this bill, find conter.dcu ti at the greatest demoralisation existed in Scotland, which he at- fcnbuted to the strict stop put upon the innocent recreations of the people there, under the semblance of the observance of the Sab- ba'h, and concluded by moving the second reading of the bill. Mr. COWAN thought that a more obnoxious or tyrannical mra- tHe than the present could not be introduced. Mr. MACGUEGOR opposed the second reading of the bill, as hetng directly opposed to the religious feelings of the people of fckntland. Mr. LABOUCHERE begged it to be understood that he was Speaking personally, and not as a member of the Government. Believing that the bill would give a great shock to the feelings of c* large number of the people cf Scotland, he should vote against the second reading of the measure. Mr. PLUMpxiuTsaid that the hon. gentleman (Mr. Locke) wished to introduce a new principle into legislation. He wished to make human law to induce people to break a divine law, when Uiey had no inclination to break it. I Mr. HUME said, no one was more desirous in this country than ho was to preserve a due observance of the Sabbath day, but tffr as he could observe no attempt had been made to grapple with the real arguments of the case. At any rate they had not been answered. He should give the bill his most hearty suppoit. Mr. HJTALD would vote against the bill. Mr. PETO said that he would yield .to no ope in that House in hifl oesire to secure a due observance »f the Sabbath day, but t.ien he conceived that it ought, iu order to be useful, to be ani intelli- gent observance, and he trusted the House would affirm the prin- ciple of this bill.. Mr. F. MAUI.V. said that it was a singular circumstance that petitions signed by upwards of 36,000 persona had been pre- sentea against this bill, and [but very few in favour oftit. The principle of the bill was altogether against the feelings of his countrymen, and he should give it his decided opposition. After a few words from the LORD ADVOCATE, Mr. CHARTERIS, and Mr. SCOTT against, and Mr. MOORE and Mr. REYNOLDS in favour of, the bill, the House divided 1■ For the second reading. 122 Against it 131 Majority against the second reading 9 The bill is consequently lost. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned shortly before six o'clock.
THE EXECUTIONS OF JAMES RUSH…
THE EXECUTIONS OF JAMES RUSH AND SARAH HARRIET THOMAS. IN the times just passed away, it was said that ignorance was the mother of devotion. This was a maxim, the truth of which none but those guilty of the grossest temerity would doubt. It was a constitutional truth that passed current amongst those with whom the divine right of kings was pure gospel. A marvellous change has, however, been wrought. We hoar no longer that ignorance is the mother of devotion, but we are on every side beset with the asser- tion that it is the mother of crime. It is strange how errors become almost universally recog- nised as truth. The reason is this,—few men think for themselves. They receive the opinions of others, and pass them on. This is the case with the assertion we have no- ticed above. Certain theorists have started the proposition, that ignorance is the mother of crime, and the world has re- echoed it. The proposition is false. Facts disprove it. Take and analyse the statistics of crime, and we will be bold enough to say that the proportions of the perpetrators belonging to the intelligent and unintelligent classes, in relation to the numbers of those classes, will be found to bear out our denial. Crime emanates not from the mental, but from the moral, nature. The intelligence and education of Rush prevented him not from committing the most ap- pallinc, of atrocities. The ignorance of Sarah Thomas was not the cause of her guilt. Were not the heart of the man most desperately wicked he would not have so steeped his soul in crime; and were not the moral nature of the woman in a fearful state of depravity, her ignorance would have never led her to commit the horrid deed for which she has suffered on the scaffold. Education may polish, and ameliorate, and smooth down the barbarous angularities of uncultivated mind but in it- self it has but little power to stay the tendencies to crime in the human heart. It may make a perfect villain or a perfect gentleman, but it can never make a perfect Christian. It may teach the art of dissimulation, and of being vicious and criminal respectably. It may even deter from vulgar crimes, until the man is brought to the sticking point, as in the case of Rush, by extraordinary circumstances or perhaps by the conventionalities it superinduces it may keep wrong right, in the estimation of the world, but it cannot cleanse the heart from those evil influences which is the cause of all that is abominable and vile, and which will remain there in spite of all the education we can give-it, ready to prompt to lesser or to greater crimes, until cast out by power more than human. In another place we have given full particulars of the executions that have suggested the foregoing observations. We have given them from no desire to feed the morbid appe- tites of those who revel in such sad and mournful histories. The press of .this country has a fearful responsibility at the present hour. At a time when the awful crime of murder seems to be on the increase, when each succeeding execution seems to be followed by a harvest of similar and lesser crimes, they should be careful how for the love of filthy lucre they lay themselves out for gratifying depraved appe- tites and disgusting curiosity. We have little doubt that the importance that has been attached to TiOiOnOuS crimi- nals in this country by the newspaper press, the giving of their portraits, and other means that have been employed to excite an interest in the case that has been given with such studious details has been a vast injury to the morals of the country, and stirred up the hands of many men to do the bidding of their wicked hearts. The newspapers of this country are, we regret to say, too prone to register and emblazon deeds of blood. The deliberate murder of thou- sands on the field of battle, they are ever ready to record in boldest type, and the wretch who imbrues his hand in the blood of his brother, has a record of his deed more marked and more indelible than that of him whose vir tue blesses the whole race of man. This is other than it should be. The streams that flow out into the world from the press should be untainted. Melancholy indeed are the results of its poisoned waters. The advocates of capital punishment surely must now be pretty nearly convinced of the awful folly of public exe- cutions. What good result can they expect to follow such executions as those of Rush and Thomas? Rush, consum- mate it his hypocrisy, marches with stately step to the fatal tree, and unabashed treads the very confines of eternity before assembled thousands, who, forgetting the crime, or who, having no adequate appreciation of its moral turpitude, sympathises with the culprit and swears that he dies like a man and a hero. Thomas, with levity, alternating with deep, bitter, and unavailing anguish, dragged literally to t, 11 the gallows to expiate by an untimely end a crime for which she has exhibited no signs of repentance—there to be Z!1 launched into a world where repentance can never come, in the sight of her mother and her sisters, who went to see Sally hung," and in the sight of tens of thousands of others equally callous, whose hearts were too hard for pity, and who, from the spectacle, would gather no instruction, and. learn no lessons save those that must corrupt and deprave. We turn with a thrill of horror from these sickening scenes and call upon all within the sphere of our influence not to forget amidst the many reforms that they may be seeking, 11 that reform which shall efface hanging or any death punish- ment from a criminal code that is a disgrace to our statute- book and the age.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS. -
FOREIGN AFFAIRS. IN foreign politics, almost the only point of commanding n y interest is the probable restoration of the Pope, and that by an armed intervention, in which the French Republic takes a part! It certainly is a strange proceeding, as far as the French Government is concerned, and will go far, we appre- hend, to destroy the credit of M. Odillon Bar rot as a states- man. The changes in public affairs are very remarkable. Napoleon-the Napoleon-went to Rome and deposed a Pope. Louis Napoleon sends an army there to restore a Pope. If the latter will do himself so much injury by restoring as the former did by deposing, the contrast will issue in a striking coincidence as a result—Antichrist will be moved onward a gigantic step nearer his destruction—and France receive instalment of the punishment due to her as a nation for having for so many ages been drunk with the blood of saints.
CARDIFF.
CARDIFF. ) MEETING OF THE STREET COMMISSIONERS. The usual monthly meeting of this body took place on TlJes the 24th instant, at the shire-hall. There were present :-C. C. Williams, Esq., chairman Messrs. T. Morgan, W. Coffin, James Pride, C. Vachell, James Lewis. E. P. Richards, Dalton, Grover Thomas Evans, R. L. Reece, W. Watkins, Win. Bradley, Joha Lloyd, W. Bird, Geo. Bird, Milner, Mathews, D. Lewis, Ed. Evans, W. Harris, Moore, Morgan, and Farmer. A rate of Is. in the pound, and 4d. in the'pound on wharves, was made. PLANS FOR DRAINING THE TOWN. C. C. Williams, Esq., read a letter received by Mr. Coffin, from Messrs. Hurtlett and Phillips, in which they declined to adjudicate upon the plana as proposed. Mr. Williams informed the meeting that being in London, he had called'on Mr. W. Cubitt, the engi. neer for the Bute Docks. That gentleman had left for Edin- burgh. He wrote to him, and since had received a reply, in which he stated that he would give the plans his best attention if sent up, and send down his charge before he commenced. Mr. Coffin moved, and Captain Morgan seconded, that the plans be sent up to Mr. Cubitt, upon the terms proposed by him. Several gentlemen thought that it would be advisable that the person who was to adjudicate upon the plans should see the town before he did so. Mr. C. C. Williams said that no man was better able to judge than Mr. W. Cubitt, as he had been engaged in taking the levels when making the Bute Docks. The resolution was then agreed to. It was afterwards agreed, on the motion of Mr. Dalton, seconded by Mr. Watkins, that the plans be numbered, and the names by some means effaced, before they were sent to Mr. Cubitt. PAYMENTS To the amount of JEI8 3s. Od. were ordered for sweeping the streets, printing and posting some handbills, &c. WALLS NEAR THE HAYES BRIDGE. The chairman stated that as the canal would shortly be let pat, Mr. W. Vachell intended then to take down the old bridge. He would propose that atthe same time the commissioners should build a wall on the south side. Mr. Evans seconded the motion, which was agreed to, after ex- tending the motion so as to include a wall also on the opposite side of the canal. Offers to contract for different work were put in and read, but we understood that as they were higher than what was now paid, none were accepted. THE GENERAL NOTT PUBLIC-HOUSE. A discussion arose about this property lately purchased by the commissioners. Mr. Watkiti3 thought that it might be rented for the present, and the rent go to satisfy the interest of the purchase money. Mr. Bird moved, and Mr. Dalton seconded, that the materials be sold as they now stand, to be removed in a given time, but the motion was withdrawn. It was determined that the completion of the purchase, as re- gards the security to be given, should be left to Messrs. E. Priest Kichards and Matthews. CHARLOTTE-STREET. It was ordered that notice should be given to the proper parties to pitch and pave this street. Mr. Coffin consented to act as one magistrate in the valuation of a piece of land in Ebenezer-street. STANLEY-STREET. Mr. Coffin complained of the liltliy state of this portion of tba town, and moved That the clerk give notice to all persons wha have not privies attached to their houses to erect some immedi- ately." The non compliance with this notice will subject parties to a penalty of 20sw and 5s. each week the notice is neglected. PUBLIC LIGHTS. Mr. Grover complained that some of the lights were not always lighted, and naked the reason, Mr. C. C. Williams, explained that where ariy light waa out itr was immediately inspected, and ihe light made efficient. Mr. C. Vachell inquired when the contract with the Gas Com- pany would terminate; and stated that he had been informed by a geiitleiiiar, that he considered seventeen for post, lamp, and glass sufficient. LOVE-LANE. Mr. C. Vachell entered into a detail of his share of the transactioa as regards-the buildings in Love-lane (which has appeared in our paper), and stated that on the opposite side of the buildings men- tioned there was an encroachment of eight or ten inches. He moved that the surveyor inspect the place and have it rectified. Mr. Watkins seconded the motion. A long desultory conversation ensued, after which it was agreed that the houses should be numbered, and the names of the streets placed on the corners. The meeting adjourned to the 22ud of next month. NOEL READINGS.—The Rev. J. James, of the Independent chaoel, Normauby-street, announced last Sabbath his inten- tion of deviating from his usual course of delivering lectures on Wednesday evenings, and taivil-,g roadiaga from Baptist Noel's essay On the Union 01 1 wi4 ivtato. He inti- mated that it was not his LHtenlOll to read the work regularly through, but only sections of it. Mr. James commenced last Wednesday evening with reading the fourth ectlOn, the union of Church and State contrary to the Mosaic law;" and the fifth section, "the union of U ti urch and State contrary to the prophesies of the Old Testament." The readings were accompanied with some very excellent extempore observations, in the course of which h- remarked that the aiii-i, of this work was not to do away with the Ecclesiastical Church, but to separate it from the thraldom of the State. Tho reading an-
HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY, APRIL…
HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY, APRIL 24. THE; NAVIGATION LAWS. The bill for repealing the Navigation-laws was brought up and rarwl a first time. It was also arranged that the debate on the second reading should take place on Monday se'nnight. THE WAR IN INDIA.—VOTE OF THANKS. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then rose to move that the thanks «f the House should be presented to the Governor-General of India, the Commander-in-Chief, and the officers and soldiers of the army in India, for their services in the late actions. The noble lord recapitulated the train of events which had rendered a series of military operations inevitable in the Purijaub, and touching slightly on the earlier parts of the campaign, concluded by moving » vote of thanks in the usual form. Lord STANLEY hud the greatest pleasure in seconding the motion, because he wished it to. appear that on such an occasion party spirit had no power. The Earl of GALLOWAY having recommended the celebration of the victory by a day of general thanksgiving, The Duke of WELLINGTON addressed the House with great energy and earnestness. It had fallen to his lot to know and con- sider the great difficulties under which the war had been conducted, and he could therefore bear testimony to the ability with which the combinations had been carried out which had resulted in the triumphant victory. The noble duke expressed his admiration at the conduct of Major Edwardea, and those young officers who, he ives happy to say, had immortalised themselves in the lata cam- paiim. The resolutions in which it was embodied were agreed to, after which their lordships adjourned.
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THE NORMAL COLLEGE AT SWANSEA.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE AT SWANSEA. A LETTER appears in the Swansea Herald of Wednesday reflecting on the plans and purposes of the committee as to the contemplated edifice at Upland. It is signed "A Voluntary," and most willing the good man certainly is to find fault. It is quite edifying to receive so much good advice given so freely, unasked, and for nothing. W p d) not, perhaps feel so grateful as we should, prevented in some sort probably by the recollection that the Swansea Herald strenuously supports governmental education, and that really earnest friends to the Normal College would scarcely select its columns, as a medium of counsel or warning; to our osTi mind the thing is clear enough that even for economy the Executive Committee can do nothing so well as to build-as. soon as possible, and as substantial a house as the friends and supporters will enable them to pay for. To us it is most aste- nisbing, that, as a mere matter of money, any man can sup- pose it to be cheaper to pay rent than to live in one's own house. What is undeniably true of an individual, is certainly as true of an institution, and the sooner the Normal College is safely located in its own house, built on freehold land, the better for all the parties concerned. We do not participate in the fears of A Voluntary," because we have unquestion- ing faith in the voluntary principle, as to education as well as religion; and are quite content to take all the conse- quences of such an avowal, while we look forward with cheerful confidence and unfaltering hope to the future career of the Normal College for Wales. We are exceedingly gratified to apprise our readers that Lady Charlotte Guest has consented at the request of the committee to lay the foundation stone. A very respectable sub-committee has been appointed to make the necessary arrangements for that ceremony, which is likely to take place in the course of June.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY,…
such a rule. He should vote for the bill, being satisfied that, GOTsitlering the character of the people of this country, their capi- tal, their courage, their nautical skill, and the advantages they possessed, any measure that would add to the commerce of the world would give us the lion's share, and that our shipping and sleaineii would increase. If he considered that the removal of the restrictions imposed by these laws would hazard our naval superi- ority, he should not support this measure but he beheved there was no such risk, and the impediments to British trade, many of which Sir James enumerated, created a burden which ought to be removed. He was astonished at the language of Mr. Herries with respect to the colonies, being convinced that, unless we went back Áú fhe Corn-law, and gave Canada the 5s. duty, the maintenance of the Navigation-laws would cause the inevitable loss of that co- lony. He refuted the arguments against the bill founded upon the comparative cost of ship-building; he maintained that there was nothing exceptional in the case of the shipping trade, which would be as much invigorated by competition, and was as much enfeebled by monopoly, as other trades; and he contended that this was a most favourable moment for the proposed change. In conclusion, Sir James declared that, in his opinion, this measure was the capital necessary to crown the work which the Legisla- ture had begun he regarded this as the battle-field on which the struggle must take place between reaction and progress He firmly believed that the peace and tranquillity of the country, and the safety of our institutions, in the year just past, had been owing to th« measures to which he had alluded, and that an attempt to go l>ack would be full of danger. He took his stand upon this ground he was opposed to reaction, and in favour of progress within the limits of prudence and discretion, and for that reason he supported the third reading of this bill. Mr. DiRRAIII.1 said, the argument employed, four months ago, that this measure was necessary to complete a great experiment, did not tell now, when that expeiiment had failed. The theory apon which this measure had been founded had blown up, and the c&-5e addressed to practical men—resting upon commercial incon- veniences, colonill discontent, and foreign menaces- had broken down. These three reasons, for the ''factitious'' case of the Government, were severally dissected by lr. Disrapli, who endea- voured to show their hollowness, and he challenged Mr. Labou- chere to say that if the relation of the United States to this mea- sure had been the same four months ago as it was now, he would have brought it forward. No one would recommend this great upon any single plea it was the aggregate that was to be the foundation of this enormous revolution. Lord John Russell talked of settling the question -a question which he had unsettled: and Sir James Graham advocated progress but the public desired to know whither they were progressing—to paradise or its anti- podes. Mr. Disraeli pressed the House to ponder upon the vast interests involved in this question. and upon the evidence offered t)f the injury inflicted during the last three years by other experi- ments upon kindred interests. After ineffectual attempts by Mr. CAMPBELL and Mr. MOFFATT to obtain a hearing, the House divided, when there appeared— For the third reading 275 Againstit. 214 Majority ——— 61 Mr. WAWN moved a clause enacting that no British ship en- gaged in the foreign trade which shall have discharged its cargo at any port in the United Kingdom shall be compelled to take a pilot on board whilst proceeding in ballast to any other port of the United Kingdom. Mr. LABOUCHKIIE opposed the clause, which was negatived. The bill then passed. The House adjourned at a quarter to two o'clock.