March 2.--The Marquis of Londonderry rose, as was understood, to present a petition. He proceeded to notice representations from the Irish newspapers respecting the emoluments and conduct of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland; he observed that the Noble and Learned Lord and his family had amongst them twenty-two places, and received £36,000 in salaries, &c. He would quote the words of Mr. O'Connell, used at a meeting in Ireland, as they pretty nearly agreed with his own opinions. There never was a worse legislator, nor a more venal politician than Lord Plunkett. He regretted that such a character was one of the Council of His Majesty; he considered that a Noble Lord was incompetent for such a post, who could give advice to His Majesty to return such an answer as had lately been given to the Corporation of Dublin. Lord Radnor here rose to order; after which the Marquis of Londonderry said he should present his petition another day. Lord Plunkett complained of this conduct, and declared that it was contrary to the forms of the House. The Marquis of Londonderry persisted in his refusal to present the petition. Amidst great confusion Lord Plunkett said he took the liberty of proposing a resolution to their Lordships upon the subject. He would move that the Noble Lord be called upon to present his petition, or be declared out of order. Lord Ellenborough said, the Noble Marquis had said at the time when he was called to order, that he intended to present a petition before he sat down; therefore he should have done so. If it was, therefore, intended by the resolution to pass a vote of censure upon the Noble Marquis, he would decidedly object to it. A number of their Lordships here rose. Earls Grey and Radnor were called for, the former of whom gave way to the latter Nobleman, who said he again rose to order, but had not said above three or four words, when Lord Ellenborough also rose to order, which called up several Lords on the Ministerial side. A scene of great confusion ensued, which was put an end to by the Lord Chancellor, who said he was perfectly aware that, as Speaker of that House, he had no power hardly even to make a suggestion. The Resolution was handed up to his Lordship, and was to the following effect:" That the Earl Vane having risen in his place without any question before the House, and having said, when called to order, that he had a petition to present, and having refused to make any motion or present that petition, was guilty of a breach of order." Lord Ellenborough again rose to order. Lord Plunkett complained of the falsehoods and misrepresentations that had been circulated respecting himself and his connexions, and recriminating that he had never solicited place or pension, or caused the declaration that his conduct was "too bad." Earl Grey eventually put an end to the altercation by proposing that the Marquis of Londonderry should apologise to the House for his disregard of its rules-a proposition that was acquiesced in. March 5.-The Marquis of Londonderry inquired as to the authenticity of representations that Lord Ponsonby, our Ambassador at the Belgian Court, had, in the first instance, stirred up the people in favour of the Prince of Orange, and had afterwards, after His Majesty's Government had thought fit to change their policy, pursued a directly opposite course; and that his Lordship had kept back a petition, numerously signed in favour of the Prince of Orange, which ought to have been presented to the Congress. Lord Ponsonby immediately rose and denied that to which the Noble Marquis had alluded. March 6.-The House again went into Committee on the Agricultural Labourers Employment Bill.-The Lord Chancellor next rose to move an Address to His Majesty for a Copy of the Report of the Common Law Commissioners. The Noble and Learned Lord in making this motion was anxious to state that a more important document could not be received by their Lordships. The motion was agreed to. March 8.-The Earl of Eldon gave notice that on Monday next he should bring forward a motion regarding his own conduct while Lord Chancellor-an office that he had held for twenty-five years.-The Marquis of Lansdowne (after having had the first report of the Tithe Committee read) brought forward his promised motion on this subject; and in doing so, his Lordship declared that he thought the time had arrived for the recognition of the principles contained in the report. The resolutions were agreed to after a short debate. March 9.-Lord Strangford moved the order of the day on the subject of the glove trade. The glove trade had, from a condition of prosperity, fallen into a state of decay even beyond all other trades; and this change was attributed by the glovers, and a great many others, to the free-trade system, and to the competition of the French, which that system had created. The Noble Lord concluded by moving, "That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the Causes of the Distressed State of the Glove Trade.' Lord Auckland said, the glove trade was regulated on as favourable terms as it could be. The whole annual manufacture of this country amounted to 15,000,000 of pairs; and the whole importation, during the last year, was only a little above 1,000,000. The House divided: Non-Contents, 41; Contents, 33; Majority against the Committee, 8. March 12.-The Earl of Eldon hoped that their Lordships would consent to the production of a Return respecting the Places he held, and which, he was convinced, would afford a triumphant answer to the calumnies that had been circulated to his prejudice. The motion was put and carried.' MEMOIRS OF PERSONS LATELY DECEASED. DR. BELL. Lately, at Lindsay Cottage, Chelten ham, after a long illness, in the 80th year of his age, Dr. Bell, the author of a system of education to which his name is attached. He had the high gratification of seeing his system adopted by the National Society instituted for the education of the lower orders of the community. He had resided some time in India with due advantage, was Prebendary of Westminster, and Master of the Sherborne Institution, Durham; and in the course of his long and virtuous life had accumulated great wealth, which he munificently disposed of to various institutions to the amount of £120,000. MR. MUNDEN. This admirable comedian breathed his last lately, after a protracted illness, at his residence in Bernard Street, Russell Square, in the 74th year of his age. It were superfluous to enter here into the merits of Munden as an actor, for they live in the memory of thousands who witnessed his inimitable personations. Mr. M. made his debut at Covent Garden Theatre, December 2, 1790, as Sir Francis Gripe and Jemmy Jumps. In the latter he succeeded the celebrated Edwin (the best comic singer on the English stage), and was eminently successful. In 1813 he accepted an engagement at Drury Lane Theatre, where he continued until his final retirement from the boards on Monday, May 31, 1824. He selected for his last appearance Sir Robert Bramble in "The Poor Gentleman," and his masterly character of Old Dozey in " Past Ten o'Clock." He attempted to deliver a farewell address, surrounded by most of the performers belonging to the theatre, and retired into private life, universally admired and respected. He was an excellent comic actor, and in some of his parts unrivalled; indeed, that of Old Dornton may be said to have died with him. In private life he was generally esteemed by a very numerous circle of acquaintance, not more on account of his convivial qualities than for others more substantial. A tendency to parsimony has, it is true, been objected to him as a failing; and several ludicrous anecdotes are in circulation of the skill and tact with which he not only contrived to evade a demand upon his pocket, but even to become a gainer by the attempt. The well-known story of the exchange of his old cotton umbrella for the new silk one of a friend, who requested a keepsake from him, is a case in point. In the sterling qualities which constitute the character of an honest and upright man, he was, however, by no means deficient. Mr. Munden was one of those who reflect credit upon the profession, by always conducting himself with great propriety: punctual and correct in all his transactions, he brought up a numerous family, giving his children an excellent education. He has left a widow, a daughter, and a son: the latter is a gentleman of considerable literary acquirements. REV. G. CRABBE. Lately, at Trowbridge, aged seventyeight, the Reverend George Crabbe. Few men of his fame were so little known personally in the literary world. Of simple and studious habits, he confined himself to the retirement of his rectory, to the unambitious fulfilment of his duties, and the education of his family. Mr. Crabbe was born in 1754, at Aldborough in Suffolk, where his father held some appointment in the Customs. It is said that he was originally intended for the medical profession, and that he served an apprenticeship to a provincial apothecary. He, however, was early won over to the Muses. He came to London at the age of twenty-four, and gained the friendship of Burke, at whose recommendation he published, in 1781, his poem of "The Library." This was quickly followed by 'The Village," which gained for his genius the high and enviable approbation of Dr. Johnson. In the mean time, Crabbe had en-. tered himself at Cambridge, had taken orders, and now accompanied the Duke of Rutland, as chaplain, upon his appointment to the vice-regal government of Ireland. Through the same patronage he afterwards obtained some small church preferment. Notwithstanding the success which had attended his earlier works, it was more than twenty years before he again ventured on publication; and we remember the no small surprise with which, in 1807, we read a collection of Poems, then wet from the press, by one who, in his associations with Burke and Johnson, seemed to belong to a past age. This work also was eminently successful; and "The Borough followed in 1810, Tales " in 1815, and "Tales of the Hall" in 1819. 1 The Historical Register will be completed in our next. INDEX TO VOL. III. ORIGINAL PAPERS. Bank of England: Commerce, Currency, Finance, 229 Bar Initiation-Sir Edward Sugden, 431 Benediction on Children, by T. Campbell, 326 Blondel de Nesle, 48 Boarders, The, 184 Campbell, Poem by, 92 Canning, Mr., and the South American Republics, 18 Captivity among the Rockites, 11 Cholera Consultation, 400 The Progress of, 72, 211 The Epidemic,-is it in London? 319, 438 Clavering's Auto-Biography, 266, 351 Commerce, Observations on, 36 Croker, Information for, 82 Crooked Lane, an Angler's Visit to, 166 Day at Lulworth, 177 Debates on the Reform Bill, 95 Dialogues of the Deck, No. II., 300 Dinner-Dialogue Diversities, 164 Dissection-the Sanctity of the Dead, 131 Draft of a Bill of Impeachment for Rotten Boroughs, 78 Education in Ireland, National, 409 Executions in England, 277 Foscolo, Poem by, 149 France and England. By a Foreigner. Letter II., Free, Stanzas to the, 334 Historical Scenes, by Miss Mitford, No. I., 347 Irish Church and her Tithes, 218, 289 Sketches, No. III., 245 Knowledge, 362 April, 1832.-VOL. III. NO. XII. 121 L INDEX. Last of the Numbered, The, 7 Letters of a Foreigner on France and England, 62 from Scotland, by the Ettrick Shepherd, 422 Life of a Sailor, The, No. IX., 383 Malahide Castle, by Lady Morgan, 245 Mary's Garland, Flowers for, 382 Music, Old English, 261 New Tory-Guide, The, No. I., 274. II., 418 Oswald the Blighted, a Tale of Ayrshire, 306, 370 Pacha of Many Tales, No. VI., 85. VII., continued, 194 Parliamentary Session, Toryism, &c., 335 Party Spirit; a Dialogue, 186 Past Year, The, 288 Poetry, Uneducated, 402, 404 Power of Russia, Poem on, by T. Campbell, 92 Scientific Letters to a Lady of Quality, 50, 363 Scotland in 1831, from the Notes of a Tourist, 155 Sepulchres, The, by Foscolo, 149 Simpkin Papers, No. II., 56. III., 183. IV., 241. V., 399 Sotheby, Poetry, by William, 61 Spanish School of Painting, Account of the, 208 Sugden, Sir Edward, Account of, 431 Tale of an Old Highlander, by the Ettrick Shepherd, 113 by the author of the Kuzzilbash, 26 Tailor, a Good Story of a Glasgow one, 327 Trade in the Metropolis, State of, 282 Unlucky Star, The, 203 Cheskian Anthology, notice of, 114 48 Cicero's Orations, notice of, 48 Commercial and Money-Market Reports Companion to the Almanac, notice of Copland on Cholera, notice of, 45 Crabbe, Rev. George, Memoir of, 130 Deaths 32, 64, 102, 130 Dendy on Dreams, notice of, 46 Divines of the Church of England, no- Dramatic Review 20, 52, 90, 122 107 Education, examination at establishment Elective Rights, Condy's, notice of, 15 Family Classical Library, notice of, 47 Frame Tablets, account of, 89 Francis the First, Kemble's, notice of, 103 Funds, State of the Public, 26, 58, 95, Garrick's Correspondence, notice of, 36 Georgian Era, The, notice of, 34 Greenwich Observatory, Height of, 23 Hall's Contemplations, Vol. II., notice Herbert's Country Parson, notice of, 118 Holly, Efficacy of, in Fevers, 56 Invasion, The, notice of, 41 notice of, 81 King's Secret, notice of the, 14 Ladies' Museum, notice of, 47 Last of the Sophis, notice of, 16 Loire, Views on the, by Perez, notice Lover's Irish Stories, notice of, 78 Mackinnon's Speech, notice of, 117 Marshall's Details of the Metropolis, Martin's Fall of Babylon, notice of, 88 Mechanical Arts, notice of, 94 Member, The, by Galt, notice of, 74 Minors, account of the, 124 Musters, Mrs., Memoir of, 102 Nasmyth, Peter, Memoir of, 63 Newton Forster; or, the Merchant Ser- Nicotiana, notice of, 16 Nights of the Round Table, notice of, 47 Nosegay, The, notice of, 20 Panorama of Florence 56 Paris and its Scenes, notice of, 47 Political Journal 28, 60, 97, 128 Preferments 32, 49, 64, 102 Probation and other Tales, notice of, 83 Publications, New, List of, 18, 49, 86, Musical, 51 Irish Peasantry, Traits and Stories of, Pulmonary Consumption, Murray on, Jukes on Lavements, notice of, 16 notice of, 48 Reflections on the Politics, &c. of Afri- Revenue, State of the, 62 |