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RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. GRO . CP I. TES LONDON AND YORE. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) In the cross-examination of Mr. Cubitt nothing was elicited at all calculated to shake the evidence in chief. At the conclusion of the cross-exam k astern Counties, Mr. TALBOT said he appeared for his Grace the Archbishop of York, whose property would be affected by tke Louden and York Railway. The aloe for the ease of the tion of Mr. Cubitt was then proceeded with— The line would interfere with part of his Grace's farm ; it would divide the farm from the residence, and go close to the kitchen garden. By Lord VIVIAN—It was not a residential interference, and by a deviation the line could be carried out without any interference with this farm at all. By Mr. TaLaoT—The line, as it at present stood on the plan, would interfere with the kitchen-garden, but not so as to injure it ; it would merely touch the wall. The interference with the farm would cer tainly separate it from his Grace's residence. Had had an interview with his Grace upon the matter, and he informed witness that his objection to the railway was not as regarded himself, but as it would affect the property of his successors tp . the see. The line would not cut off the farm on a wiltevel. There would be an embankment of seven or eight feet. The distance at which they would cross from his Grace's Palace wee, as shown on the plan, about 24 chains, which was more than a quarter of a mile, and there were walls and gardens and a turnpike road intervening. By Lord Vivian—His Grace did not come to an agreement for a deviation, but he (witness) pointed out how that deviation would leave the farm untouched. Mr. Baixes said he appeared for the Cambridge and Lincoln Ex tension, on behalf of which he would put a few questions to the witness. Mr. Sergeant WaArmful/ would object to his Learned Friend appearing, and he would briefly state his reasons. A meeting of the shareholders in this undertaking had been held down in the country very recently, at which meeting it was decided to abandon the line. This he was able to state en the authority of one of the shareholders who had attended the meeting, and who had written to the editor of th e morning Herald, not only confirming a report of such meeting in that paper, but also materially adding to the fact of the number of votes for discontinuing the scheme being mere than the number re quired by Parliament. This being the case, he could not see what locus standi his Learned Friend could lay cl a im to so a that which in reality did not exist.' S to appear for Mr. BAINES said that he certainly was not instructed to that effect. His instructions were that he was to appear for the - promoters. He knew nothing of any meeting. H e was wholly gui ded by his . in structions. air. Sergeant WaANGHAN said he would not object to his Learned Friend proceeding under the circumstances. Mr. BAINES then briefly cross-examined the witness, after which be was re-examined by Mr. Sergeant WILANGII43I. Mr. Ilawkshaw, civil engineer, was then called to speak to the esti mates. Mr. Betts, the contractor, also gave evidence as to the estimate for his department of constructing the line• It being now four o'clock, Mr. DEnsort informed the Committee that there was but one more witness to Peamine, who would be called on the conowinst morning, and who would only occupy a few minutes. It was then arranged that the landowners' case against the London and York should be the next gone into. The Committee adjourned till eleven o'clock to-morrow. HOUSE (IF COMMONS. CROUP X. GLASGOW, AIRDRIE, AND MONKLANDS • JUNCTION. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Other witnesses were examined to the same effect, and underwent alengthened cross .examination by the counsel for the competing lines. The details were too minute to be fully reported. The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee did not require any fur • ther evidence of parties along the line, and they would proceed to receive the engineering evidence to-morrow at twelve o'clock. ➢ir. HILDTARD, Q.C., said that the promoters were prepared with further evidence of the same kind, but if the Committee were satisfied in this respect there would be no advantage in crowding evidence. The CHAIRMAN intimated that the Committee were satisfied. It being four o'clock the Committee then adjourned. GROUP VIII, NORTH BRITISH CARLISLE EXTENSION. (Coitinued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) . . Mr. Sergeant BELLASIS here objected to the cross-examination On the ground that the only part of the scheme, the Caledoniaa could object to, was the position from Langholm to Car lisle, which would-compete with their Langhohn branch. Beyond this they had no locus Candi, as not a single petition had been pre• seated against the portion of their (the North British) line from Hawick to Langholm. Had the Caledonian intended to appear against it, they should have presented a petition. Mr. RICKARDS said it was too late to make the objection, as both the Duke of Buceleuch and Mr. Wilson had been askrd similar questions }'esterday. The Caledonian opposed the whole scheme, and from the position of this, as a competing project to the Cale donian, he submitted the latter had a good locus standi. The Committee overruled the objection as untenable. Mr. Lang's cross-examination continued—He had been informed that the Messrs. Pickford brought goods from Newcastle to London for 3/. per ton. Newcastle was 60 miles distance from Hawick. 'the whole distance from Hawick to London was 350 miles. At present th.: sailing vessels from Leith to London took five or six days to go, but the steamers went, twice a-week, in about forty eight hours. Ile conld not say the exact quantity of foreign wool brought into Hawick, nor the amount of timber or other building ma' erials brought from Annan. He could not say the exact amount of coal consumed at Ha - wick. He got the whole that he consumed from Canobie, because it was of better quality than the coals down the Tweed. At one time consi derable supplies were got from the latter quarter. He did not know much of the examination of last year, but he believed that some expectation of a supply was hell out from the Lothians by the Edin burgh line. Re-examined—He believed that Carlisle was about the same dis tance from London as Newcastle. The Earl of Mints, examined by Sergeant BRIJ-ems, gave general evidence that he thought the railway lu question of the utmost im portance to the district in giving an outlet to the southward. It was a prosperous and important district, and ought to have a communi cation to the south by railway. His estates did not lie on the pre sent line, but on the northern part, sanctioned to Edinburgh. Cross-examined.—He had not c msidered whether these schemes et railway through the south of Scotland were compatible. He had not gone into the question. He knew, however, of no consideration that should operate to deprive the district In question of the natural outlet to its traffic. Mr. William Nixon, wool spinner, of Ilawlek, gave similar evidence as Mr. Lang regarding the trade of the town and district. The ton nage of the slates derived from Annan last year was about 600 tons. The general merchandise to an from I awick, in 1345, was 7,000 tons. lie was glad last yesr at the railway to Edinburgh being granted, in order to get e,,a13 from the Lothians, but he considered they would be better supplied front Canobie. Cross-examined--He thought a line to the south was highly desir able. He had no hesitation, however, in saying that in comparing two lines, one to the north and another to the south, he should de cidedly prefer the one to the north. He said so last year, and he said so now. He sent about the one-half of what he spun southward, but lie did not think the others in the trade sent so much. He could not exactly state the tonnage of what he sent. There was no doubt that the greater proportion of the goods went northwards. Edin burgh and 111asirow were the principal destinations. lie thought goods going southwards would go by railway in preference to. steam boats, as the risk was not so great. Mr. James Syme, a manufacturer of Galashiels, examined by Mr. TALBOT—In witness's recollection the town of Galashiels had increased from 700 inhabitants to about 3,000. The goods manu factured In that town was beyond a quarter of a million. It was also the centre of an important agricultural district. A great deal of the goods went south ; nearly all his went to London, but Leith was not the most desirable route. The Edinburgh line did not, in his opi nion, supersede the necessity for one to the south. He thought the best route to the south should be through Carlisle. The goods made at Galashiels were of a high priced character. At present the coals used were entirely from Mid Lothian, but he thought it desirable for the sake of competition to open up the Canobel-field tothem. Cross-examined—Glasgow was the great market for the goods manufactured at Galashiels. A greater proportion of goods went to Glasgow than to the south. He had not calculated the difference, either in time or distance, between Galashiels and Landon, by way of Berwick or Leith, and the route through Carlisle. There would be communication by railway with Edinburgh and Berwick, bat, when that was completed, he could not say what the expense would be in those directions, and thence by steam to London, compared with the railway to the south. He could not speak as to the quantity of goods consumed annually in Galashiels. He could not say what the con sumption of coals was at Galashiels. Mr. Locke, of Regent-street, London, deposed that he carried on a large trade in Scotch goods, a great portion of which came from Ga lashiels and Mawick. He considered It of the greatest importance to get the fancy goods as soon as possible into the market. He thought this would be facilitated in a great degree by a continuous line of railway. Cross-examined.—There was no other one in London so extensive in this Scotch line as himself. He dealt principally in fancy goods. Supposing the railway completed from Galashiels and Hawick to Leith, the present delays would be much reduced. The delay evea then would be injurious to the trade, on account of the time taken by the steamers. The fancy trade was greater at Galashiels, and Selkirk, than at Hawick. If the railway communi cation to Berwick, and from thence to London, was completed, the delay in point of time woald in a great measure be put an end to. Mr. Turnbull, miller of Melrose, examined—Ho carried on an ex tensive trade in grain and flour, a great portion of which went into Dumfriesshire and Cumberland. A good deal of barley went for the purposes of distilling at Longhelm and other parts in that direction. His 'annual export business in tons was in 1841, 1,181 tons; and in 1844, 1,080 tons. He believed the amount of grain and meal that went past Moss Paul, a point between Hawick and Langholm, was 3,325. A good deal of grain likewise went by Liddesdale to the south. The present expense of grain from Hawick to Langholm was about Bs. a ton. Cross-examined—About one-third of the grain of Roxburghshire Went westward, one-third to Dalkeith, and the remainder eastward. He knew nothing about the Dalkeith market. Kelso was the great market for the county. As the greater portion of his own trade went to Dumfriesshire—he was strongly interested in the present railway. He could not say what proportion of grain the other millers In the district sent towards Dumfriesshire. The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow at twelve o'clock. GROUP XX. LONDON, HOUNSLOW, AND WESTERN. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. Chapman, market-gardener of Isleworth, gave evidence to the large traffic in vegetables between that locality and the London markets. Mr. Hammond, also of Isleworth, deposed as to the large amount Of traffic. The other witnesses examined were larainear. of lasentrord, and mr. H. Stanbnry, whose evidence w generally ss toths largo traffic in goods and passengers, andthe necessity there, extsta4 for lb. present line of railway. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock till to-morrow at twelve. GROUP XXII. vravENET VALLEY. The Committee met this morning. Sir G. Grey, chairman. Mr. Sergeant "Icarus' opened the case for the promoters of this railway. The Committee intimated their opinion, that they' would hear the evidence of this line previous tb- giving their decisioriin the case of Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth Railway. The present line pro posed to commence at Yarmouth, and proceed un to DL+s. Mr. Rambold, M.P. P. for Yarmouth, Y a rmouth, was the fi rs t witness called, who stated that there was a general feeling in Yarmouth in favour of the line. Mr. Blenherrish, chairman of the Beccles Sessions, also gave shni law evidence. • Mr. Dare and Licit:Colonel Smith also gave evidence favourable to the Waveney Valley Railway. Mr. 3. Davy, accoun ta n t, Y armou th, ga ve evidence of the large amount of goods landed a t Y arm o u th. A greater proportion of passengers now went to London by sea. He believed that this cir cumstance was owing to the great number of accidents which had become so peculiarly the property of the existing Eastern Counti es line between Norwich and London. Mr. Lincoln, a fish merchaut of Yarmouth, stated that by the pre senrinode of conveyance on the Norwich and Eastern Counties Rail way, it took longer to get his fish up to London than it formerly did by his own vans. It took very nearly the whole of the day to get his fish delivered by the railway. The Committee then adjourned till twelve to-morrow. GROE P XXVI. SOUTH ESSEX. This Committee resumed this morning; Mr. O'Connell in the chair. They were occupied during the 'whole of the early part of the day in hearing evidence given by residents between the Eastern Counties line and the river Thames, who testified to the number of cattle sent to London from that quarter, as also to the quantity of chalk con veyed by water to Battersea. The farmers complained chiefly of the want of accommodation at the Shoretlitch station, and the pro prietors of the chalk showed that their article is sent from the pits to Battersea for Is. 9d. a ton, while by the railway it cost 55., exclain of cartage to the line. Mr. Locke, the engineer, was then called by Mr. CocKarraN, Q.C., to show the course and qualities of the line. According to his evi dence, the line is to run a distance of 43 miles, from its junction with the Blackwell extension line, to Wallasey Island, and to he connected with a pier and harbour on the coast, where it wends from the mouth of the Thames, to the north, having branches tp Tilbury, opposite Gravesend and to Southend. The country is a rich agricultural district, and offers not the sligb test engineering difficulty. me proposed line would bring Tilbury a mile and a half nearer to Fenehurch-street than the North Gravesend line. The proposition of the company for the latter line for a junction with the Blackwell terminus was impracticable, as it Could only be carried out through the West India Docks, which of course was absurd. The distance to Southend by the South Essex line would be 38 1 A miles. In his opinion the North Gravesend Rail way was an unwise proposition, as the line would have to contend with the cheap passenger traffic on the river, and with the North Kent line, w hich had :M been sanctioned by Parliament, and was to run Prom Greenwich to Gravesend. Part of the line to Wallasey Island would be under high water mark ; but that was no objection, for such Was the case with the whole of Holland, and there are already good sea embankments. After the conclusion of Mr. Locke's evidence, the Committee ad learned till to-morrvyr. GROUP XXXII. The Committee met this morning at 12 o'clock ; Mr. J. E. De. nison in the chair. CHELTENHAM AND OXFORD RAILWAY. Mr. Thomas Sheldon gave evidence of the advantage which would accrue to Cheltenham by the projected line, and went at length into details of some opposition meetings held by a party of the townspeople of Chelteham, and read some proposals tendered by the company to secure the people against any inj ary;which property or wells might sustain. He stated that the most of the property passed through by the line in the town of Cheltenham was very inferior. He was confirmed by Messrs. Enbb and Peckwood, Dr. Gibney, a physician in Cheltenham, who had been connected with the town hospital for twenty years, said he himself had proposed by letter in the newspapers, in 1837, a line to London very similar to that now before the Committee. The proposed line passed the hospital , but at the very end of the garden, so that it would be about forty yards further from it than was the high street. Col. Watson, who has property in ornamental parts of the town, thought that these as it passes by a deep cutting parts would sustain no injury from the railway, covered over. He had been among the first to suggest the objection to the line from the damage it was like to cause by the drainage of the wells, but he was now satisfied, after much inquiry, that the objection was unfounded. Mr. Gardiner, lord of the manor of Cheltenham, and possessed o f very much valuable property in High-street and Pittville, a com missioner also on the various public works of Cheltenham, gave evidence in favour of the line. Mr. Th o mas Wright, one of the surgeons of the town hospital, and who had given much attention to the geology of Chel tenham, said the town was supplied with water which flews from the Cobeswood hills on the north side of the town down into the sand on which the town is built, and that the sand, reposing in a basin of lias, acts as a sponge, and retains the water. Me did not believe that the cutting of the line would affect this water, since, if the sides of the cuttings were built up, the water retarded thereby would rise to an adequate level to supply the town. The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-nierrow. GROUP LIV. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) MUDZIAND (317211T0N-ON-TRENT TO NUN. EATON AND BRANCHES). Mr. Hildyard appeared in support of the Bill, and Mr. Sergeant Allen ea the part of the Coventry Canal Company, petitioners against the Bill. Mr. HILDTAILD said that he would endeavour to be as brief as possible. The present railway might be considered as a line to be constructed from the Moira Collieries to Nun eaton. They proposed by this railway to afford the same communication to the south that had already been afforded to the east and west in the locale of the line by the preceding Bill. It would join the London and Birmingham Railway, and open a communication thence to the mineral wealth of the district through which they would pass. The present mode of transit by canal was thirty-nine miles, but by their railway it would be only 28 miles. The distance in this case was not cer tainly diminished to the extent that it was in other instances ; but a saving of 11 miles in the communication with a mineral district was still a matter of no insignificant character. By the present mode of communication by canal, Leamington was SO miles from the Moira Collieries ; but the proposed railway would diminish the distance to 32 miles, thereby effecting a saving of no less than 48 miles. He would take another town, namely, Banbury, which was the centre of a most important rural district, and required a much more bountiful supply of coals, and at a cheaper rate than it at present possessed. A saving of 55 miles from the Moira Collieries to this town would he effected by the imyeeepa tine. The distance to Aylesbury from the same point would be reduced to 45 Miles. A . Leighton Buzzard there would be a saving from these collieries of 40 miles, the distance by canal being 113 miles, while by railway it would be only 73 miles. There were a great many other places which would receive similar advantages from this railway, but he would not occupy the time of the Com mittee by even enumerating them—such being the benefits that would result from the construction of this railway and the pro posed amalgamation with the Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal, as far as the mineral wealth contained in that district was concerned. There were certainly objections offered to this scheme. In the first place, it was alleged that the proposed amalgamation of the Ashby-dc-la- Zouch canal would operate injuriously on certain interests. But as he had already shown that the direction of that canal was through a highly important district, he trusted that the principle laid down as related to those amalgamations would in fluence the Committee, and that they would consider the objections urged upon this ground valueless. There were also objections on the part of the landowners, said certainly Lord Hewe had a perfect right to petition against this line, but the Committee would perceive that the advantages which this line held forth were such as to overpower objections purely private. In conclusion, he had to state that he would not trouble the Committee with any detailed evidence as to the mineral traffic on this line. Mr. J. Manors, agent to the Marquis of Hastings, was examined by Mr. MacArLEY, to show that the distance at present from several places on the line, owing to the mode of transit by canal from the Moria Collieries, diminished the demand for coals from that district. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock till to-morrow, when the hearing of the evidence on the part of the Bill will be resumed. GROUP I.V. MANCHESTER, suErrxELD, AND MXII LAND TUNCTION. The Committee (Mr. Shaw in the chair) resumed this morning at twelve o'clock, when Mr. Fowler, engineer of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction line, was called by Mr. WILATELEY, Q.C.—He stated that, according to his estimate, the line proposed by Mr. Vignoles was exceedingly bad, the gradients severe, and the cost of it would be 113,0001., and a great difficulty would be experienced in the accumulation of water at Dronfield during wet weather. This difficulty could only be obviated by a sort of zigzag line over the brook there.s To the cross-examination of Mr. ADAMS, the witness stated that lie had been in practice eight years, and had constructed the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Clarence Railway. His opinion was that the earthworks on the line of the present promoters would be immense, and the gradients worse than on any other line with which he was acquainted. He had taken the average of eight of the prin cipal lines in the kingdom, and found that the average of their returns gave 621. per mile per week. The Great Western, which showed the highest rate, returned 81/. per mile; and the Newcastle and Shields line, which showed the lowest, made 281. per mile; the Midland Counties line returned 62/. per mile—just the average—while it would require 1251. per mile on the proposed Sheffield and Chester field line to obtain the seven per cent. dividend which the promoters anticipated. The line would peas through or over no less than 39 streets in the town of Sheffield, and the station in the town itself would be 18 feet above the level of the street. The ground to be oc cupied is all building ground. The Sheffield and Bakeweil line had also bad tunnels and very severe gradients, gradients much more se vere than these of the East Lincolnshire line. Mr. Locke, the engneer, was called to show that the means of communication between the Sheffield and Manchester line and this line would be highly inconvenient. Mr. Harrison, tor thirty years a valuer at Sheffield, stated that he had valued the property in the town of Sheffield, and estimated it at more than 850,9001. He further said that it would destroy more than 470 housse, including public-houses and taverns, 77 workshops, and 27 manufactories. The line, however, passed through the worst part of the town.: Mr. Fowler, sen., had valued all the rest of the line, and estimated to the junction beyond Chesterfield at something more than 59,0001., and on to Bakewell at a total of 85,0001. Mr. WDATELET then addressed the Committee on the general merits of the case referring to the defeat of the Bill last year, and deprecating the supposition that the Duke of Norfolk's opposition was induced by any merely personal motives. On the conclusion of Mr. WHATELET'S address, the Committee took the next opposing line. The CHAIRMAN explained that the statements had not been given In, as they ought to have been, two days before the Committee sat. MANCHESTER AND HYDE. Mr. WORDSWORT H opened the else of the promoters by stating that this was a line between the two places of six miles in length: In 1821 the population through which the line passed was 13,000, m 1841 it was over 27,000, comprising large manufacturers of cotton and hats. The contemplated expense was 150,0001. one half of which was provided by the residents locally interested in the line, and the other half by the Manchester and Birmingham Company, confessedly the persons who were the best judges of the necessities for the line. The opposition offered this line was but small, and chiefly offered by the proprietor of Bellevue Gardens, a place of resort for pleasure by the inhabitants of Manchester. Some, however, of the residents in that neighbourhood were anxious for the destruction of these gardens, though that was not Use 'picot of the promoters, who were quite desirous of giving every recompense to the present holder. The whole of this district was occupied by extensive manufacturers of cotton and hats. There is still further a large coal field at Denton, the proprietor of which, the Earl of Wilton, was a petitioner is favour of the Bill. This coal would be exceedingly useful, and was indeed now much used in the factories in Manchester. The Learned Cotmsel then stated the opposition of the several newly pro posed lines. Mr. Hempson, land-steward to the Earl of Wilton, was called to show the existence of coal, and the inclination which his Lordship felt for this line. The manufacture of hats at Denton had much declined of late, from the great substitution of silk hats, but the people are anxious to enter upon the manufacture of cotton, for which the place was well adapted, and which was likely to succeed if the facilities of railway communication were obtained. The Comlnittee then adjourned till to-morrow. GROUP LVI. The Committee met pursuant to adjournment at twelve o'clock this morning, when Mr. Ewart took the chair ; the same Members being present as yei,terday. They proceeded with the case of the LONDON AND CROYDON (THAMES TUNC— Ircomr BRANCH). nination of Mr. Cubitt by Mr. FLIIND, on And the the part of the Surrey Canal Company, occupied them for a considerable time. This line crosses the canal, and it is on account of the injury that will thereby be done to the Company that they petition. The Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, and Deptford Road Trustees also petitioned against the Bill, and the witness was cross-examined by Mr POWEB, on their behalf. Mr. Gibson, the lessee of the Dadmans Docks, which will be one of the termini of the proposed line, was then called. He proved that he had agreed to transfer his lease (for 99 years) to the London and Croydon Railway. The rent they were to pay was 1,5001. per annum, but if they bought it, they were to pay 9,9001. for it. Cross-examined by Mr. PowEß—He himself was to pay 1,0001. per annum as rent, to Mr. Evlyn, the proprietor, so that he would have 5001. per annum profit. The case for the promoters being now concluded, Mr. Powna addressed the Committee at great length as to the mischief that would be done by the crossing of the line over Grove lane, which he represented to be a very important and much fre quented thoroughfare. This street is to be crossed on a level, and about twenty trains per diem will pass over It. There will be twelve carriages in each train, and the thoroughfare will be stopped each time for about fear minutes. Several witnesses were called to prove the importance of the thoroughfare, and the mischief that would result from the stoppage of the thoroughfare. It was stated that the office of the victualling department was with within a few yards of the crossing. The examination of these witnesses occupied the Committee up to four o'clock, at which time the Committee adjourned till to-morrow at twelve. The case on the part of the Surrey Canal Company will then be commenced. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMOIVS, May 20. LACE FACTORIES BILL. ' tinned from our Afternoon .Edition of yesterday.) just ma .,I,I I .MUM, u . said that the .Hon. Member who had appeal to him not i " m r„tra s ling of this Bill had made a forcible . He did House that the ere mm .... luatassead reading. He told the master employers in the trad was e,' 1 " Tt4 1, 1) 1 four-fifths of the 1 exception, the operatives had declared - filt i , fa ocaroely an not know the sources whence the Hon. Blembech ir a 4 that information, probably from a different quarter rtriartvtde . - ieze entirely opp o sed to the Hon. Member for .hmiamssteelry himself had, for as far as he could judge the opinions o f th e Fins bury. With respect to the measure itself he acknowledged o th f a la t b fi a re a t r , im bu p t re rhe io n ns it we N V were in favour of restricting the hours for the Legislature to consider of labouur,t whether this restriction would he followed by the effect so for Finsbury, and by hconsider well whether w h :i i ii t c e l e miseries e M o de sired by the Hon ctaowever, was other Members. They Wat er this ch aract er the benefits arising from shortened not be more than counter-balanc:r the arising from reduced wages. This question, by no means a new one. It had been' once, and the dangers of any legislation of had been often strongly dwelt upon. In the which bad been given to this subject it was impo s s ible that so important a branch of manufactures manuf acturer s should not h ave received a due atten tion . P ar li am ent had granted commissi into ons to inauire• - the que stion times without nu' mber first time brought under that dav calle dand therefore it was th a t this subject was not for the _ on to discussion ; but they were, ~ come to a decision precisely t h e reverse of that which had been recommended by these commissions. — (Hear, hear.) By far the greater of all the lace manu factures which was produced was not the results of ma chinery, worked by power, but the effe ct of hand-loom weaving; and there existe d a very marked difference be tween the lace and the cotton manufacture, the raw mate rial of the latter being in a great degree the produce of ma chinery wrought by power, whereas the other was almost all produced by the hand. The hand-loom weaver was waging a hopeless struggle against the untiring efforts of machinery, bitl the Honourable Member, by this measure, sought still more to fetter his exertions by denying him the liberty of working at night. Then there was another striking china- ence between these manufactures, for while the one was con ducted in dwellings, where large numbers of persons were congregated, the other was performed in small shops close to the dwelling-houses, or more frequently in these very dwel lings themselves, and if the Hon. Member's measure were carried out an the matter of inspectors, it would be necessary to give them a power of entering their houses at aIL hours of the night.—(hear, hear.) Let them look at the very great disproportion which existed between the cost of the machinery employed in the one case and in the other. The average cost of a power-loom was esti mated at 201., while the machineryrequired in the lace trade ranged from 200/. to 1,0001. There was also this remarkable fact to be • - I • considered with respect to the lace manufacture, that the trade Nr.as dependent upon the caprice of fashion and THE SUN, LONDON the fancies of the public, and this machinery, which in many cases cost above 2,0001. might, in six or eight months after its first purchase, require extensive alterations which would involve a further and increased cost.—(Hear, hear.) Then, again, with reference to the number of persons employed in a power-loom factory : a girl of thirteen to eighteen years of age could superintend three or four looms, while in the silk trade one worker was required to be at tached to every loom. The lace trade, it was well known, was dependent upon its foreign customers, but the Bill of the Honourable Member would press severely upon the manufacturer, who was already competing at a disadvan tage with the French manufacturer. He hoped that arrangements would soon be completed which would give him a fairer chance of coping with his continental rivals.— (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member had told them that the physical condition of the labourers in the silk manufactories was of a very low character ; but he .ould not see that any improvement would be effected by a measure which would, from its very character, involve a reduction of wages. If this Bill wire passed into a law, the capital employed in the lace manufacture of this country would fly away into ether hands, it would go into other countries where no such restriction was enforced.—(Hear, hear.) The destruction of that branch of our manufactures must be the inevitable re sult of such a law. He had already stated that his first objection to this Bill was, that it proposed to interfere with adult labour, though he felt that there was another grave objection to it—an objection which the Hon. Member .for Finsbury felt also—which was this, that it was not expedient that children should work from six in the morning till ten at night. If this measure were passed it would be incumbent on the Legislature to restrict the labour in the other four prin cipal branches of manufacture. It was impossible for them to carry such a measure into effect in the way proposed. It could only be enforced by a system of inspection or in formation on the part of fellow-workmen, which would not be tolerated in this country. The Excise law would be per fect lenity compared with such a law as that proposed. It would empower a body of men to enter constantly into the bed-room of a family being the room in which the hand-loom work was carried on. An industrious man, who wished to earn a subsistence for his family would be prevented from pursuing his trade after ten o'clock at night. His rival would, no doubt, be tempted by the offer of 10/., and give information against a man of an industrious character employed in the manufacture of lace. But the fact was, that the objections to this Bill were so insuperable, that he felt satisfied that it would never be tolerated in this country.—(Cries of "Hear, hear.") He would, for a moment, beg leave to call the attention of the House to the effect of their recent interference with the rope makers of this country. Petitions from both masters and men in that branch of trade were continually being pre sented to the House, praying them to repeal the late law which they passed with reference to the hours of work in that trade, and it was now a subject for discussion whether they should not comply with the prayer of those petitions. Both masters and men had found that the recent law, which restricts the hours of labour in their trade, was injurious to their interests, and they asked the House to repeal 11, •+ A " ',ho se con r.tai LO rope MaKing 1u in,' country—that that trade must in fact be abandoned if they were not allowed to work free from all such supervision as that law had introduced. Well the Legislature had now time to consider. They were, by this, called upon to interfere directly with labour. They were called upon to extend the system of inspection into the private workshops and dwellings of this country. It was certainly one of the painful duties attached to the office which he filled to be opposed very often to the popular wishes, and he had almost said the popular feeling, but, entertaining the strong opinion which he did that this would be a fatal and a wrong step, he did not hesitate for one moment to move an amendment. that the Bill be read a second time that day six months.—( Hear, hear.) Colonel ROLLESTON said his name was endorsed on the Bill, and be was of course bound to give his support to it. After the fullest consideration which he had been enabled to give to the Bill, and the circumstances attending its intro duction into the House, he felt it his bounden duly to entreat the House to take into their serious con sideration the various provisions of this Bill.—(Criss of " Hear, hear.") The parties whom it would effect looked to the Legislature for relief, for they were unable to rescue themselves from the bondage and slavery in which they were under the present state of things. The hardship which they had to endure was, if paralleled, certainly not exceeded by any persons employed in the manufactures of this country.—(Hear, hear.) Before he touched upon the details of this measure he would briefly allude to an objec tion raised by the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who had said that no petitions had been presented by the operatives employed is the manufacture of lace. Now the truth was, that it was not ninny days ago, since he (Colonel Rolleeton) presented a numerously signed petition in favour of thi s measure f rom those individuals. A petition had also been presented a few nights ago, and at the head of the names attached to the petition, was that of Mr. Herbert, the Mayor of Nottingham, the centre of this branch of manufactures. The petitioners prayed the House to adopt speedily some measure whereby the children employed in that manufacture should be released from the bondage to which they were subjected at present. The Right Hon. Baronet had said that the Legislature should not interfere in the mode proposed by this Bill, because there were not many children employed in the manufacture of lace, but after travelling through four or five volumes of the Commissioners' report upon the question, he found that the number of children so employed was very con siderable indeed, and that the effects were of the most ruinous character as regarded their health, morals, and education. (The Honourable Member then proceeded to read several extractitk from the report in question.) He hoped the House then would allow this Bill to go into Committee, for in his opinion it was the only measure calcu lated to remedy all the evils complained of.— (Hear, hear. ) Another portion of the Bill had reference to adult labourers; but he did not attach so much importance to this part as to those clauses and provisions which re lated to the employment of children in factories. Those provisions, if agreed to by the House, would improve the physical and moral condition of a multitude of children of industry, and he entreated the House to let the Bill be read a second time.—(Hear, hear. Mr. STRUTT said the on. Member had quoted from Hansard, which only gave a condensed summary of what he (Mr. Strutt) said some few years ago upon a similar sub ject to the present, but he would, with the per mission of the House, read a more extended re port from the " Mirror of Parliament," and it would be seen that he was then, and he might add that he was now, of opinion that such a Bill as the one before the House would be ineffective unless it applied to mills worked by power as well as by hand.—(Hear, hear.) Were they, however, prepared to go the length of saying that they would not allow a poor lace worker to get up at four o'clock in the morning and labour at his trade in his own room ? And yet this Bill went to this extreme, and he for one said the Bill would be committing a practical evil instead of doing any good. Why, they might with as much justice apply the same principle to the sailor, the shoemaker, or the bricklayer; but be that as it might, he was sure, if they passed this Bill in its present form, it would be made the medium for committing acts of oppression and injustice on poor and industrious persons who were anxious to improve their condition by employing their leisure time or what they treated as leisure hours in labour and industry.—( Hear, hear.) He was sure, then, if the House passed this Bill, they would be committing a great wrong on the manufacturing interest of the country, while the Bill itself would only aggravate the evil which it was intended to remedy.—(Hear, hear.) Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE said he was an advocate for a Bill defining the hours of labour for persons employed in large public mills, but ho certainly could not go the length of sup porting a Bill which applied generally to all mills and all workshops, whether public er private, large or small.—(Hear, hear.) He believed, too, the public were not prepared to go this length ; for, in the petition he had presented to the House upon this subject, he found they applied to large public factories, and not to private work shops. The principle of this Bill was not to regulate the hours at which children should be employed in fac tories, but to stop the night labour of adults, and he for one must say he was not prepared to support a Bill of this nature.—( Hear, hear.) It was true that in 1821 he introduced a Bill restricting the hours of labour in cotton factories, when an attempt was made to include silk, flax, and lace manufactories in it. But it was thought then by the House, and by the operatives themselves, that as regarded those branches of manufacture, the Bill would prove inoperative, if it did not result in aug menting instead of diminishing the evil.—(Hear.) Again, in 1827, he introduced a similar Bill, and, again the same attempt was made, and the same arguments and opinions urged with success against it.—(Cries of "Hear, hear.") If the Hon. Gentleman would subject the children in the fac tories to the same regulations which were in existence with regard to other factories in the country he should have his (Sir J. Hothouse's ) support. Lord JOHN MANNERS said that 475 of the master ma nufacturers of the town of Nottingham had signed a petition in favour of this Bill. If, therefore, the opinion of the master manufacturers were to be taken as conclusive upon this mat ter, he thought the fact he had just stated was a sufficient to ground he reefortitupdaessionfgthtehisprißncililp.le ofH He in h te a ff d er n en e ce d . oup t t ha a d s o v a e u r p a p t a r t in e d i n hy t h t a h t i H i o il u i s e h , e a i n n g d h b e een tra a a c t k e n d ow th le a d t ge it d o w v e e fld be r i and passed into a law. He should give his hearty support to the second reading of this Bill, reserving to himself the right of introducing amendments in Committee. Mr. MUNTZ believed that those who overworked their people did an injury to themselves. He worked his mills at night as well as day, but he employed two sets of people. The reason why people overworked themselves was that they were badly paid for what they did. He believed that some interference was necessary. Thesechildren were most severely worked ; that arose from the extreme competition amongst themselves. Now, he thought they ought to inquire into the cause of that competition, for he believed that inquiry was a most important one. Mr. GISBORNE said that if the Noble Lord had searched the county of Nottingham be would not find 475 master manufacturers, those, he meant, who would be so considered under the comm on acc ept a ti on of the wor d. The m as t er manufacturers did not obj ec t to the pro hibition that child ren under eight yea rs o f age were not to b e a dmitted t o work in factories. His Hon. F r i en d p ro posed to lay a rest r i ct i on on machinery. The Hon. Member for Birmingham (Mr. Kuntz) bad stated that he worked his machinery night and day, and that the men were employed for twelve hours daily. Mr. MUNTZ here interrupted the Hon. Gentleman, and explained that his men worked only nine or ten hours a day, which, in his opinion, w as quite long enough for any man to work.. Mr. GISBORNE resumed—Well, then, he was mistaken. This Bill would only tend to create dissatisfaction among the workpeople. No interference on the part of the House would better their circumstances, unless the House was prepared to do an impossibilit He was di s ti nc tl y o f opinion that the operation of the Bill would wo r k m i sc hi e f among the labouring classes, and he should, therefore, give strorlest • • xL iposition to the second reading. the observationT prefaced his speech with a few allusions to the Bill. lie thought ade bt e the Hon. Member, the proposer of to understand these questions ought really to be allowed concerned. Some respect ought to which they were so much to be paid t o t h e i r feelings, if not to their judgm en t. I n House to do certain thi ngs , wlear, petition they p raye d t h e which, if attended v'th con sequences, they were quit e w illin g to boar the penalty,evil relieve the House of all respo ns ibili ty. He did and Bill which he held in h been pre is hand had b e not think t h e prepared with any degree of prudence or judgment, and if it were now before the House for a third reading he should ha ve f e lt i t his duty to oppose it. He had , however, no objection t o vote for its going into Committee, when there would be an opportunity a ff or d e d of altering its present i m p er f ect shape. The question, was, w hether or not the House cou ld i nterfere to from a sies of toil which was protect infants calculated 1 sisal • to injure energies and destroy their moral constitution. — ( Hear, hear.) It had been the labour was not of a severe nature. He had heard that at times of the weari ness complain h ea rd many Hon. 3 the House on long debates —wh a t ness they felt at atte ndin g then must be th e feelings of infant s, of eight years of age, when subjected to similar wa t c hings and late hours? Th e p l House had interfered in regulating the hours of other species of labour, which had been attended wit h a dvanta g e both to the manufacturers and th eir workmen. _ Why, then, was this species of labour to be exempted from the interference of the Legislature ? He would not wish to interfere with the late hours of adult labour, as any of . I change might be more productive of evil than good If they began where were they to stop ?—(Hear, hear.) To interfere with the labouref adults would be a tyranny which should not be endred. As they had it in their power to alter all objectionsle clauses in Committee, for the sake of the infant childre who were compelled to work day and night, night and de, without holiday or intermis sion, from one year's end temother, he would vote for the second reading. Sir ROBERT PEEL set very much surprised, after the speech of the Honourable lentleman, that he should still affirm the principle of the 1 11 by voting for its second read g vhich the Hon. Member re pudiatedin more—nothing 'hick he allowed to be more radically unjust than to rerict the hours of adult labour. wenethin If they once interfered wit the labour of adults the next demand would be to fix th minimum of wages and how could they resist that deman ?—(Hear, hear.) The Bill did not profess on the face of : to apply merely to children, it professed to interfere witiktheabour of adults. The title of the Bill was to regulate the hum of labour in all night fac tories. And see what woul be the effect of an interference ; why it would be a direct Temium to increase the labour in those places where the• enactments could not reach. Then, as the Hon. Gentlemn had just said, how were they to carry into effect that iterference with labour? Why they might take their choie between the common informer and what were called domiiliary visits; that meant, that if, as was very nattral, they shrunk from the contamination of the common informer, then they must establish these domiciliary isits throughout the whole of the country, those visits to 'e carried into effect by a Go vernment officer. Thus, if s light were seen in any house after ten o'clock, then they vere liable to the infliction of a visit from one of those oelcee—a domiciliary visit because a man was suspected of laburing for his daily bread. — (Cheers.) Why this Bill nade no provision for any cases like those which the ?actory Bill excepted. It made no provision for a case of accident, such as might happen from i derangement of machinery, when the works would receire to be suspended. If the factory were turned by watt-power, the stream might be suspended, and the Bill very 'airly and very wisely in such a case allowed some extra abour. But this Bill con tained no such provision, and, therefore, no case was provided in the event of a man being subject to sickness for any period. Let them suppose him to have had an accident—let them suppose him to have been invalided for three lays--(Hear, hear)—let them suppose him visited by sickness, prevented from making any exertion on Monday, Tuesda2e and Wednesday, or at best only working some five hours a day, and his wages reduced in a corresponding degree. Suppose him not quite recovered, but, for the subsistence of his family, he determines to work some additional hours on the • Thursday, Friday, and Saturday—let it be remembered L that he worked within his own house. Why, was it pos , Bible, then, that because he said to kimself, " I must repair l the misfortune of the earlier portion of the week, by extra ; ordinary labour at its close," they should punish him, be cause he toiled till eleven or twelve o'clock at night, for the laudable, the truly honourable purpose of providing sub sistence for his familz? = Nhemd _What % did they mean like this ?—(Cheers.) Would they sanction a laN; which would subject this man to the annoyance of a domiciliary visit ?—(Continued cheering.) But, then, the measure im posed a penalty. He (Sir R. Peel) should like to see au in dictment framed against such a man.—(Hear, hear.) He should like to see him after some five or six persons had been brought up for petty larceny, or crimes of a similar character—he should then like to see • this man brought up before the magistrate to answer the offence of working till eleven o'clock at night to provide his family with food !—(Cheers)—and 501. was the penalty to be exacted for this offence—(Hear, hear)—an offence charged by his _ next-door neighbour, perhaps, the ; informer, being an idle, dissolute fellow, who ne• glected his work, who envied, perhaps, this ho , nest man because he was honest, who hated him because he was industrious and succeeding in the world. • The informer said to himself, " He is my enemy, and I will • punish him. I want 101. (the reward granted by this Bill). I want to advance myself and to depress him. I am idle, I am a vagabond; he is industrious and honest. I saw a light in his house. I found him out. He was work ing for the maintenance of his family. I will lay an information against him: I shall receive 101., my reward for maintaining the law, while he should be punished with a penalty of 501., or sent to prison for main taining his family."—(Cheers.) Was it likely that they would be rewarded for inculcating morality like this?— (Cheers.) Was it likely that they would be thaisked for this charitable interference?—(Cheers.) What answer could be made by the framers of this Bill? None. No answer could be given. The Bill was to regulate the hours of labour in all factories. This was not a question of restricting the hours of labour for children. It was not a mere measure for regu lating the hours of labour in factories only. It was a ques tion whether a man had a right to labour in his own house after ten o'clock. But the Honourable Member said that - the benefits to children would compensate for the other defects of the Bill. He would not go into that question, he felt and acknowledged the evil of taxing the infant labourer too severely. But what was this Bill ? Was it possible for the House to consent to a measure which not only permitted but sanctioned the employment of children above 8 years of age to the extent of 16 hours a day. And yet the Hon. ' Member for Finsbury (Mr. Wakley) would, in his zeal for factory children, sanction a Bill which permitted girls above eight years of age to work sixteen hours a day.—(Laughter and cheers.) Ile thought that the artists who had framed this Bill should have bestowed a- little more pains upon it before they introduced it to the House. Let them by every means have a new Bill--(Cheers)—and let Hon. Gentlemen not require them, by a second reading, to affirm the principle, that girls above eight years of age should be worked sixteen hours a-day.—(Cheers.) He should have thought that the Hon. Member for Finsbury would, instead of ad , mitting the second reading, have been the first to have re ceived the Bill with an indignant remonstrance.—(Hear.) Mr. WAKLEY—I don't like it at all.—(Laughter.) Sir R. PEEL—Then if this were the reason for the sup r port that the Hon. Member forFinsbury gave to the measure, he (Sir R. Peel) could not say another word to such a curious argument in its favour.—(Laughter.) Mr. FERRAND could not but express deep regret that the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government should turn into ridicule the arguments in favour of this Bill.—(No, no ) It was a melancholy fact, that whenever an Hon. Member in that House proposed to legislate for the welfare of the working population of this country, he was always met with the strongest opposition.—(Hear, hear.) The working population for several years had appealed to that House to take the peculiar circumstances under which they laboured into consideration. They -had almost appealed in vain, and they had now commenced to legislate for them selves, and he would ask her Majesty's Government, as well as Honourable Members on both sides of the House, to look for one instant to the manufacturing population of the north of England. They were entering, at this present moment, into an alarming combination to protect themselves against what they called the tyranny and oppression of their masters. Let the House look at the fearful strikes for wages which had taken place in Manchester, Liverpool, and other large towns in the north of England, and he thought there was there sufficient to induce that House to consider that it was high time for Parliament to take into its most mature and deliberate consideration, the _serious quarrels which had from some causes been taking place between masters and their servants. In the case now before the House, they found that the master manufacturers and Their own workpeople had united in a body to come before that House, to ask redress for their grievances ; and what had they witnessed that afternoon? Ridicule cast upon this attempt to legislate on their behalf, by the Hon. Member for Finsbury, and from both sides of the House. They had asked for the second reading of this Bill, and he had no hesitation in saying, that if that House refused the second reading of the Bill, it would be offering to those working classes a direct insult, and would drive them ultimately to their own resources, as he had before said, to legislate on this matter, which they would do by entering into one universal combination throughout this country, and compel their masters to consent to protect them and their interests, as Parliament had refused to interfere in their behalf. He would Rot say one word about the question, whether the manufacturers of this country were in favour of • the second reading of this Bill or not. The working classes of this country were watching the tone and temper of that House on the present occasion —(blear, hear)—and it was his firm conviction that if Parliament would, by a more con , ciliatory spirit, endeavour to mitigate the bad feeling which i existe on d between thepresent th e occasion,e m o er s they an w d t h o e u employed dd _, o and moreth teofo mis understandings ths country ut n a stop to the strikes in the north of Engla d between th l e vh e i t e n h - ployers and the employe which w a er t e han taki a nd could be formed either amongst m asters or m en . —(Hear Mr. S. CRAWFORD did n ot den y that he entertained thepla place combinations but, at the s ame -time he didnot think they were precluded from interfering J o . e b o tc o t u i otnos limitt othis e B h i 1 0 1 , u h r s e o did d n u o l t t I d a e h n o y u r ; that he felt an ob jection infant labour, to prevent the younger portion of the manufacturing classes of England from being overworked. —(Hear, hear.) That was what he should desire to do— (Hear, hear)—and he hoped to effect that object by voting in favour of this Bill. The great question before the House was whether the infantine labour of this country should be protected from the oppression of the holders of capital.— (Hear, hear.) The long hours which they were com pelled to work injured their health and morals, and he, therefore, contended that, no matter whether this Bill would injure the interests of the manufacturers or not, the Legislature was bound to extend its protecting influence to the hard-working children of England.—(Hear, hear.) The hours of labour, which this Bill sought to restrict, were more than human nature could endure. Taking that position, he eonceived it to be the duty of the House to pass some such measure as this, whatever might be the effect on wages. He should, therefore, give his hearty support to the second reading of the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. BRIGHT wished to make one observation in answer to the Hon. Member for Knaresborough (Mr. Ferrand), who had asked the House to interfere with labour on the ground that certain strikes had taken place in the north of England. He (Mr. Bright) begged to tell that llon. Member that those strikes existed only amongst those trades which were not in any degree connected with mills or factories—(Hear, hear)—and amongst a class of wolkmen who never worked more than ten hours a-day— (Hear, hear)—and respecting whom there was no proposi tion before the House. With respect to the feeling between the employers and employed he should think that the Honourable Member would have recollected that with the exception of - Yorkshire there had not for a long period been any disagreement or ill-feeling between the cotton manufacturers and those in their employ, and that there never was a better feeling between them than at this moment. He was sure I that with respect to the cotton trade there was less reason for any vindictive feeling between the manufacturers and their employed at this moment than at any period since he was acquainted or connected with it. The feeling that had ex istpheterehdcaopbtetween masters and men during the last two years in that trade was equally creditable to both parties con cerned.—(Hear.) He was sure then,that all argument which L M o r r . d B Al RUSSELL might s b to e rnem b m a ea s m e n d ub upon the statement of the Hon. Member HN was totally fallacious, and had no bearing whatever upon this question, and it was rather in favour of the present state of things than dui Bill at present before the House. Mr. FERRAND said the Hon. Member fer Durham would labour of children, just principle, that or manufactories e s e t i r n ik L e a t u l e m aa t h t i o re o . k place in 1841 in all • other persons similarl y ft s gr it o u u a n te d d of w infantine labour. And'. not opposed solely on 3 2 t. . iiey thought protected the m p i r i e in se ra nt a ß n i d l was its ho interference e could not withmanage the t b w e o al o lo h r e e e i t l io to na be to co t n h s e i e a it appeared to him to raise a perfectly their own affairs, the Legislature should interfere with . • ared present of the present Bill, he should think that if, therefore, that alone was the object the Bill ought to to violate every principle of legislation in upon this subject. BiiCommittee.which seemed there were w h e i r n e , In the first clause of th. :Bill night labour was prohibited, and the labourer was requis ed to work from a certain hour in the morning to a certain boar at night. Now, if a man c o uld earn his li v i ng by no. other means than engaging to work eight or nine hours at night, ou ght they to legislate to pre vent him f rom earnin his gall ages in that way--(Hear, hear) — ought his m eans of tlo;istence to be endangered by a legis lativeenacttnent ?—(He ar) Were therenot, infact, cases where they could not prevent night labour ?—were there not instances where men had no otlier means of subsistence except by working at night, suc h as the driver of a stage coach, the guard of a coach, o,r police-officer, and various other offices of business, which were carried on at night, and which TrMR:MAY EVENING, M'AY 21, 1846. could not safely or conveniently be abolished, either for the sake of the public, or of the parties themselves ?—(Hear, hear.) Another part of the Bill not only applied to the interference of children, but sanctiontd the intttferent.t itll private Louses, and he, for one, thought the interference in the private houses, whether through the instrumentalitity of the informer or do miciliary visitations, would be an act of tyranny which it would be impossible for Parliament to sanction.—( Hear, hear.) The Honourable Member for Rochdale had said he wished to interfere to prevent capital tyrannising over labour, but how could they interfere with a voluntary agree ment between a person in the possession of capital and a person whose property consisted in his labour, without inter fering with respect to the remuneration to be received by the labourer?—(Hear, hear.) Therefore, as in his opinion the Bill contained two principles of false legislation, he must give his vote against it.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. MARK PHILLIPS advised the Hon. Member for Finsbury to withdraw his measure, and introduce another Bill confining itself to infantine labour.—(Hear, hear.) At all events, he could not support the second reading of this Bill after so many practicable difficulties to its ope rations had been pointed out by the Right Honourable Baronet, at the head of the Government, and the Noble Lord, the leader of the Opposition. He would, therefore, advise the Hon. Member to withdraw his Bill, as he saw himself that it was so full of inaccuracies. If the question came to a division, he would be constrained to vote against it. Mr. BROTHERTON said, that for the last thirty years, he had ever been an wivocate for the restriction of the labour of the working classes, but he considered that it was impos sible to meet the views of the Hon. Member for Finsbury by the present Bill. They would be interfering with the hours of labour in private houses.—(Hear, hear.) It would certainly be most advisable to check the hours of labour allotted to children, but the present Bill would not effect such an object. Mr. COWPER said that he wished his Hon. Friend would introduce another Bill which would have for its object the sole interference with children. The principle of the Bill as far as they were concerned was sound.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he should take the sense of the House upon the question.—(Hear, hear.) The case before the House was, whether they would interfere or not in the lace manufactures. He was the representative of four-fifths of the capital employed in the lace manufactories, and he was there representing their sentiments—petitions had been presented to the House in its favour signed by both masters and operatives, yet this was the Bill which was met with ridicule. The principle of interference was admitted with respect to chil dren. Well then, if they passed this Bill they would have an opportunity of altering those portions of the' Bill which they thought proper. The House had to decide whether protection was to be given to infants of eigth years of age. He had wished to conceal nothing in his statement to the House, and should be quite satisfied if he could obtain a second reading for it. (The Hon.lGentleman then read some minutes of evidence from the report of the Factory Commis sioners, from which it appeared that the machines worked by stcamhand, as well as by ,iie power a n i ..s.7 a ) ter li o e u a ld ia be tr b us ro , u L g ii h aL t the House would allow the second reading of the Bill to take place. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN wished to explain. He would give his vote for the second reading if in Committee he could distinctly be assured that any interference with adult labour should not be included. Mr. DUNCOMBE—Most distinctly. Mr. FIELDEN would vote for the second reading of the Bill, because he thought it would be attended with advan tages to the labouring population engaged in the silk manu facture. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment l5l Against 66 Majority against the second reading --85 ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. The House then went into Committee on the Roman Ca. tholic Relief Bill. Sir R. INGLIS said he left the House under the impres sion that the Bill would not come on, and appealed to several Members if such were not the impression they laboured under ? Mr. LAWSON said that, if such were the feelings of the Hon. Member, he would not press the Bill. The Bill was accordingly adjourned until this day three weeks. ART UNIONS BILL. This Bill was also postponed to this day fortnight. CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES. This Bill went through the Committee pro forma, and was ordered to be re-committed for the purpose of considering an amendment proposed to be inserted by Mr. T. Duncombe. VISCOUNT HARDINGE'S ANNUITY BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. LORD GOUC'TIPS ANNUITY BILL. This Bill was also read a third time and passed. ART UNIONS. _ _ _ __ .... Lord G. BENTINCK presented a petition in favour of Ari Unions. THE WHITSUN HOLIDAYS. Mr. REDHEAD YORKE wished to know from the First Lord of the Treasury to what period he was prepared to ad journ the Hou.e for the Whitsun holidays? sir ROBERT PEEL said he did not know what busine , 33 was yet fixed. In the meantime, he would have no objection to take the adjournment from Friday week till the Thursday following. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS BILL. In answer to a question from Mr. HAWES Sir J. GRAHAM said that on Friday next he would state what course the Government intended to pursue with re spect to the Metropolitan Improvements Act. THE POISONING IN NORFOLK. Mr. WAKLEY called the attention of the Right Hon. Baronet the Home Department to the case of poisoning six members of a family in North Walsham, Norfolk. He thought it was a case which called for the interference of the Government. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that Government were pre pared to give every assistance in their power to the roves tigation. The House then adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday, Margaret Glynn, the poor girl who was a few days ago falsely charged with numerous robberies by a man named Francis Bennet, his daughter Maria, and his nephew, who sometimes "'passed as Thomas Spencer, - sometimes as Thomas Thorpe, and who was stated to have been confined in Newgate under the name of Thomas Ryder Walker, was brought before Alder mam Gibbs from the Compter, to which place she was sent as a voluntary inmate. Alderman Gums asked if any of the parties who had appeared before the young woman were in attendance? Inspector Fosberry said, that not one of them were present, as he concluded would have been the case from the intelligence he had received from the officer whom he had sent to make inquiry into the truth of the state ments made by the girl, relative to the character of her three violent accusers. Sergeant Folger (No. 89 City police) stated to the Alderman that he had ascertained that Bennet, and his wife and daughter and nephew, belonged to an organised gang of swindlers, who had been plundering extensively in all parts of the metropolis, as Margaret Glynn had described. A sergeant of the Metropolitan police was present, who had been long watching their movements, and who could, if the Alderman considered it necessary, would Alderman enter into a variety of details. correctly i c v t i l n y g repre sented, police, stepped Dubois, 14 Nof the Metropolitan .. d forward, and stated that, to his positive know ledge,steppe moment, Sergeant brief outline Bennet and his wife, daughter, and nephew, were only b e GiBBs ' required having a a v t i n t g h e said present that m part and parcel of a gang consisting of upwards of fifty icw.hoAhsadobieeenyofuornga female length h o a f d ti they obtained goods upon the strength of false references, beer-shops, greengrocers' shops, and other places of apparent business having been taken by mem bers of the gang in different p th e e rs p o u n b s i parts of the town as blinds for their operations. The moment promised payments were to be made the whole • face of things became changed—neither principals nor referees were to be found, and th e goods and the names and addresses of Dubois) e parties di sappeared altogether. He (Sergeant had himself taken from time to time twenty of the gang into custody, all of whom he knew lived upon swindling and thieving. Eight or nine of them had been com m it te d for trial to Newgate, and five or six had been transported. Alderman Ginns—Do you know that Bennet keeps a house of infamous character? Sergeant Dubois—Cer tainly I do, and I know that his wife attends to the business of it. The unfortunate girl could not have got amongst a more infamous set, and it was most fortunate for her to have been charged by them with robbery, for the exposure must not only give a check to some of their plans, but will save her from any further connexion with them. I know, beyond a doubt, that she was trepanned into Bennet's brothel by Spencer. I have followed up the inquiry into the transactions in which they have been engaged, and I know that nothing could have been worse. Alderman Gruns—The girl says that Thorpe, or Spencer, has been in prison for thieving. Do you know anything of his committal? Sergeant Dubois—l know that he was committed to Maidstone Gaol for twelve months for picking pockets, in the name of Walker. He generally used to work with a man of the name of John Scott, a notorious swindler and pickpocket. Scott has opened several beer-shops and chandler's-shops for the purpose of reference. Thorpe resides in Hyde place, Hoxton, and Spencer, besides his counting-house in Oxford -court, Cannon-street, has a house at No. 52, Dnke-street, Aldgate, to which his wife attended. Alderman GIBBS, after having had a private commu nication with Sergeant Dubois, said to the young woman, " You see into what dreadful hands you have been thrown ?" _ _ _ Margaret Glynn—l do, my,Lord. lam thankful that I have escaped. Alderman GIBBS—And you are anxious to go to your mother ? Margaret Glynn—Yes. She will gladly receive me. Alderman Gians—l do not know that I can do any thing better for you than send you to your mother, and the officer has kindly promised to see you safe under her care. wouldn Sergeante was as do au Duboi s quite e in sure their said t hp that several g of ft convinced thhoe md o t were er herhe e i ng again.at ng the w heer wts neighbourhood of the Mansion-house at that moment. He should take care to protect her to the utmost extent of his ability. Alderman GIBBS desired the girl to give any of the persons she dreaded into the custody of the pplice, if she or her mother saw there was any thing to be appre hended from them. He then put into her hands a sove reign, which had been left for her by a friend of his, and which she gratefully received. STATE O F suspense as to R MAY 19.—The continued . MANcurcsTE , ministerial measures keeps this market in the passing of the limited as the demand was last - • and, very languid state , a ve still more so now. Prices of yarn, however, con tinueweek, it is firm. Indeed some spinners are asking perfectly TRADE. higher rates, on account of the advance in th e pr i ce of cotton. Goods, though nominally uncha nge d i n price, are in some cases bought on rather lower t erms. MiDnintsFm.n, MAY I9.—There is some improvement in 'our market to day, and we have a fair quantity of buyers present. but the transactions have been principally for job lots. After the close of the wool sales in London, greater activity is expected amongst our manufacturers, there being an actual scarcity of goods on hand. LEEDS, MAY 10.—Our market to-day has been very quiet 1 and no change worth reporting has taken place. ON THE EDUCATION OF THE I OFFICERS IN THE ARMY. (Frwa the laut.,,i.,bd When we compare the way in w wen young men are severally appointed to commissions in the Queen's, and in the East India Company's Service, we are justified in affirming that the officers of the Royal Army, as a body, are, in point of education, inferior to those of the company's land forces. We say not this invidi ously ; far from it, for the two services are twins, and the members of the one ought to look upon the mem bers of the other as brothers ; but we do make the asser tion in the hope of stirring up the autliorities at the Horse Guards, to test the scholastic attainments of can• didates for commissions before they be gazetted. The senior officers of the scientific corps of both her Majesty's and the Company's service have been taught at the same military academy ; and, although the offi cers of these corps are now educated in separate esta blishments, we presume that they are on a par, the one service with the other, as to theoretical knowledge ; but, at the present day, the balance of practical know ledge must, we think, be with the company's scientific corps ; as, for the last thirty-one years these have been frequently actively engaged in the field, while the Queen's engineers have not been called upon to put a spade in the ground, or the artillery to unlimber in action, since the year 1815. But how stands the result of comparison with the infantry officers of the two ser vices ? Why, a candidate for a commission in this arm 4, her Majesty's service, need not, of necessity, have so much educaticn as a national school-boy. Ay, young gentlemen may, and do often obtain commis sions, who can do little more than write their own names, who would be puzzled to know how many days there are between the 25th of January and the 25th of June, and to whom the plan of a fortification would be as unintelligible as a sheet of paper covered with Arabic characters ; while, on the contrary, those des tined for the Company's Infantry, with a few exceptions, must, for two years previous to obtaining commissions, be under professional instruction at the Company's mili tary seminary. We cannot, then, be wrong, when we say that there must necessarily be a preponderance of military science in that Service, whose officers have at least been grounded in its elements previous to their en tering, than in that where commissions are given to those who may not be able to numerate a line of six or seven figures, or know a berme from a banquette. Considering, then, the number of our youths who are destined for the civil and military service of their country, it is to be regretted that the education in our public schools, and other large seminaries, is so ex clusively classical and mathematical, so wholly intended as introductory to our Universities, for which indeed the greater portion of the students are not intended. We should therefore be glad to see, in all these sehool4 a branch in which the education should be more par ticularly English. This plan has been found to be eminently successful in the Cheltenham College, which has now been established nearly five years, where, while, as we believe, the classical instruction is not surpassed by that given in any school in the kingdom—one de partment is wholly appropriated for preparing candidates for the military colleges, and for direct appointment to commission in the Queen's and the Company's service. Indeed every pupil that has hitherto passed at once from thence to Addiscombe has either been posted to the Engineers, or his position now in the seminary is such as to ensure his appointment in that corps. We may take it as an approval of this combined course of education, that Sir James Lushington, G.C.8., has placed an Addiscombe cadetship at the disposal of the directors of the institetion in question, to be com peted for in December next. In this liberal and con siderate disposal of his patronage as an East India Director, Sir James Lushington has not only evinced his interest in the Cheltenham College, of which he has lately become one of the vice presidents and an ex• officio director, but has shown how much he has the welfare of that Service at heart, of which he is so distinguished a member, by thus selecting from up wards of three hundred pupils, which the college num bers, seventy of whom are in the civil and military department, that young gentleman, whose attainments shall prove most likely to do credit to the Company's military seminary, and eventually, in all probability, qualify him for occupying a prominent position in the service of the Company itself, whose possessions are so extensive. If the Commander-in-Chief would, in like manner, think fit to give a portion of the nominations to the Military College at Sandhurst, and from time to time recommend to her Majesty for commissions, even by purchase, those students at the public schools and large institutions where education is given with a special view to the military service, who, on competition, should show themselves the best qualified—a host of talent would be thus infused into our military system. Moreover, if schools of soldiership should be established for the instruction of our troops, officers, and men, in the science and art of war, much of England's best and dearest blood would be saved, which otherwise must again be lavishly shed in the event of war. The British army thus officered, and thus instructed, would, at least, be on a par, in point of military science, with the continental armies, and, perhaps, after a time, be come as pre-eminent for professional intelligence as they now are for overbearing valour. RIOTOUS PitOCEEDINGS NEAR THE CLARENCE DOCK, LIVERPOOL. A riot took place near the Clarence Dock last night, which, though arising from a comparatively slight cause, was soon, partly from ignorance, and partly from the spirit of mischief that lurks amongst a portion of the dock labourers, and especially the " navies," and the boys, women, and others of that densely-populated locality, threatened for a considerable time dangerous consequences, and caused great alarm amongst the peaceable portion of the inhabitants. It appears that an emigrant ship called the Rappahannock had received on board in the Victoria Dock 460 steerage pas sengers, her complement being, according to her ton nage, only four hundred and fifty. The Government emigration agent of the port having gone on board and ascertained the fact, ordered the chief mate, Mr. Cushen, to transfer the ten extra passengers last entered to an other, and we believe equally fine vessel, the Ocean. The mate on announcing the fact in the steerage, that ten of those in the vessel must relinquish their places, was answered by shouts and yells from the whole of the parties intending to go by her. An abso lute refusal to quit, was, of course, the result. In this state of affairs, the Government agent told Mr. Cushen that he must exert himself to get rid of the supplement of passengers, and he employed the steward, we believe, to effect this object. A rope was fastened round the body of the most uproarious malcontent, which eventually fastened on his ankles, and he was hauled up by it from under the deck, partly in a frolic, and partly as an example to the others who had to leave. The man, thus rather roughly handled, and probably subject to fits, fell into, or threw himself into a fit, and when being carried on shore, and afterwards to the Northern Hospital, a hue and cry was raised that be was dead, and that the mate was the aggressor and the cause! Mr. Cushen (who is stated to us to be a gentle manly and humane man), is son-in w law ()f Mr. Hicks on , of the George the Fourth In n, in ate ri 00-road, in the neighbourhood ; and , being recognised as he wen t to the house, an immense mob collected round it (at the bottom of Stewart-street), demanding the " murderer." Mr. Inspector Johnson was early on the spot, at first with only four police-officers, and by the most strenuous, yet temperate, exertions, prevented the house from being broken up and gutted. The assailants quite forced one of the doors, but were gallantly repulsed. The family of Mr. Hickson, including Mrs. H. and several young ladies—her daughter and others —were dreadfully alarmed ; but a reinforcement of police-officers was got up and pro tected the house, though unable to do so until many panes of glass were broken by the infuriated mob, who (men and boys) assailed the officers with successive showers of stone, pieces of brick, &c. Immense crowds, including females and children, continued to gather in the streets adjacent for a period of about two hours, bent upon mischief. The whole of that part of Waterloo road, Stewart-street, Oil-street, &c., presented, from time to time, dense masses of the lower classes, chiefly Irish, who seemed to be much inclined for a bloody affray, but the disturbance was quelled by about nine o'clock. After all, the passenger who had been ejected from the ship remained only a few minutes in the hos pital, being so little hurt that he would not remain, and he was soon afterwards walking about the inn, though not known to the crowd. Mr. Cushen was secreted in the house, which was protected through the night.— Liverpool Standard of Tuesday. THE ENGLISH ARMY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. the Gazette of yesterday evening I find the fol lowing announcement : " His Serene Highness, Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe Weimar to be Ensign and Lieutenant in the Grena dier Guards." Permit me to ask some constitutional lawyer, through the medium of your columns, whether this a d m i s sion of a fo re igner into the army of Great B r it a i n b e no t illegal, a nd violation of the Act of Settlement? It may be supposed that th e P rince of Saxe W e i ma r has availed himself of Mr. H u tt' s A c t, and übine I appre hend, the Secretary of State a cer tifi ca t e of na turaliz at i on. nesuch thing. He however, that th e P r ince has done d would hardly take a step which. w"iwo i n volve the renancia n tion of his patural allegiance; have granted him a certificateuonruld Sir James Graham unless he were quite satisfied that the Prince was liv in g in the country with an intention to abide hero, acc ording to the terms o f Mr. Hu tt's Act. I h ave no doubtme thati the Horse Guards has acted illegally on in the Queen's army to a forei gner. It would not have in granting a come mended the matter, in the opi n i on of the greatauthors of the Act of Settlement, to say that thi s foreigner ik uer is nearly allied to a Sovereign Prince ; b u t it ap pears to me desirable that the relations of our illustrious Queen should not be held up before the minds of the people o f this country as involved in any violatio n o f i ts l aws. Lincoln's Inn, May 20. BRITANNICUS. LLOYD'S SHIPPING, EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Macedon, Redknap, from China, in the Downs, sailed 3d Oct., Singapore, 28th Nov., Cape, 14th March; Neptune, Stuart, from Mauritius, off Margate, sailed 12th Feb., Cape, 14th March, St. Helena, 29th March; David Clarke, Mills, from Bengal, off Liverpool, sailed sth Dec., St. Helena, 17th March; Thomas Loury, Gratiani, from New South Wales, in the channel, sailed Ist Feb. Arrivals at Sydney—Will Watch, Barry, Jan. 17, from Launceston; Anita, king, 19th, returned to port; Kinnear, Veal!, from Manilla; Coolangatha, from Auckland; Aurora, 22d, from Auckland ; Spee, Dicey, 22d, from Batavia ; Judith, Phillips, 21st, from Manilla; Essington, from Port Fairy; General Hewett, Golden Spring, and Midlothian, from Lon don; Templar, 25th, from Adelaide; Joseph, Wheeler, from Manilla; Dundee lllerchant, 27th, from whaling; Baltic and Nile, from the South Seas; Forte=cue, 29th , _ from Nor folk Isla n d ; Oli n d a, C r i c k may , f rom O porto ; Fortune and Ninus, from whaling; Wave, from Sandwich Islands; Phoebe, 30th, from Port Philip. Departures from Sydney—William Metcalfe, Jan. 17 ; Jane Gondie, 21st; Enterpise, 28th; all to London. Janet Dring, 21st, to Auckland; Cecilia, 27th, to Newcastle; Harponer, 29th, to the South SeM. Arrivals at Mauritius—Jane, Buckland, Feb. 10th, from Launceston; Solway, Spence, 13th, put back leaky, bound to fr,,it: 1 , 41). lbw, to aiada gascar ; Lightning, to Swan River. Arrivals at Port Philip—William Wise, Jan. 23d, from London ; Robert Matthews, from Manilla, and cleared 22d, for Sydney. Departure from Port Philip—Reward, Jan.2lst, for London. Arrivals at Sydney—Lucy Ann, Jan. 3, from the South Seas ; Munford, 4th, from Port Nicholson ; British Sovereign, sth, from Auckland; her Majesty's Steamer, Driver, 7th, from Hobart Town; Tasmania, Bth, from Hobart Town; Margaret, Courtenay, from the South Seas. RAILWAI SH ARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, MAY 20. STOCK ERCHANGE.—The sales are --Caledonian, 11X—Ditto, New, li—London and York, 2%—Manchester, Buxton, and Midland, . 9-16 p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 3%. MANCHESTER, MAY 20. _ STOCK EYCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingham, &C. , 17s. 6d. dis.-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 1% p.-Black burn, Clitheroe, &c., I dis.-Blackburn, and Preston, 4 p. -Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, % c. dis.-Chelmsford and Bury, 165. c. dis. -Chester and Manchester Direct, 295. c. dis.-Clitheroe Junction. 1 dis.-Derby and Crewe, 3 p. - Direct Northern, 12s. 9d. dis.- Eastern Counties, 24 - Es , ex and Suffolk, dis.-Exeter and EK. mouth, % c. dis. -Glasgow and Dumfries, % dis.-Goole, Doncaster. Sheffield, &c., % dis.-Grand Union, IGs. c. dis.-Lancashire North Yorkshire, % dis.-Leicester and Bedford, par - Leicester, Birming ham, and Trent Valley Junction, 1 dis.-Liverpool and Bury, New. 17. p.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, % p.-Manchester, But ton, and Matlock, 1 p.-Manchester and Birmingham, 80%-Ditto. Quarters (C), 7 13-16 p.-Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 17s. dis.-Manchester and Hyde, % Northumberland and Lancashire, 21s. dis.-North Eastern, 1 7-1 6 dis.-North Staffordshire, 3% p.-North Wales, 1% c. dis. Western, 5-16 c. p.-Oldham District, % p.-Oxford, Southampto n . and Gosport, 17s. dis.-Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, NO. 3, 3-16 p.-Seropshire Mineral, 1% dis.--Shropshi re Union Railwai,, and Canal, 16s. 6d. dis.-South Midland, % p . -S outh - Eastern and Dover, Halves, No. 4, 5-16 p. -Welsh Midland, 235. 6d. dis West Riding Union, 2% p.-York and Carlisle, 1% dis. LIVERPOOL, MAY 20. NEW STOCK ExcaANoE.-The sales are-Chester and Birkenhead. 201. Shares, par-Eastern Counties, 23% -Ditto, York Extensions. 1 p.-Glasgow and Ayr, 76-Grand Junction, Eighth Shares, 2 7 96 -- Manchester and Leeds Extensions, 3 p.-Manchester and Birmingham , Quarter Shares (A), 9% p.-Ditto, ditto (B), 9 p.-Ditto, ditto (C)• s p.-Midland, 401. Shares, 1 .% p.-Preston and Wyre, Half ShareS (B), 9s. p.-Sheflield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. I, 4% P; -Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 3 (scrip), % p. -South-Eastern an d Dover Consolidated, Half Shares, 3% p.-Ditto, Half Shares, 96 P .-- York and Selby, East and West Riding Extension, 114 p.-Hudders field Railway and Canal, par-Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction. 5% p.- Leeds and 1 hirsk, 4 dis.-Liverpool and Bury, 8% p.-Ditto, Fifth Shares, 1%-Goole and Doncaster, 13s. 6d. dis.-London York, Is. 6d. dis.-Sheffield and Lincolnshire, % p.-Direct North" ern, % dis.-Glasgow and Dumfries, Si. Ws.- Liverpool, Ormskirk. and Preston, p.-Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, - 1% p.- - Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 1% p. -Boston. Newark, and Sheffield, dis. -Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham. dis. - Buckinghamshire, 3s. 6d. p. -Cambridge and Oxford, 101. 6il - and Crewe, 3%-Furness and Windermere, 1 dis.-Grand Union, a dis. -Great Eastern and Western, 1% dis.-Inverness and Perth, 19s. dis.-Leicester and Bedford, par-Leicester and Birming ham, % dis.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, Pa r -Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, 16s. dis.-Manchester. Midland, and Great Grimsby, % dis.-Matlock and Midland June- - Hon, 265. p.-Northumberland and Lancashire, 19s. dis.-North Staf fordshire, 765. 6d. p.-North Western, % p. -Rugby and Hunting don, 16s. 6d. dis.-Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, % dis.-Trent Valley Continuation, 1 dis.-Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand Junction, % dis.-Warwickshire and London Junction, par-Welsh Midland, 23s 6d.-West Riding Union, 56 5. 6d p.-York and Carlisle, 1M dis.-Dutch Rhenish, 2 p. LEEDS, Mar 20. _ _ STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York g!" tension, 20s. p.—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 5% p.—Leeds and Brad' ford, 28% p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 1% p.—Leeds and Thirs 4 . 3 dis.—Ditto, New, 2/. Is. dis.—Newcastle and Berwick, 10% 1 , • - " North British, Carlisle Branch, 235. 6d . p.—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3, par—Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, I . 3 .P c i —Boston, Newark, and Sheffi e ld, % d i s.—Bradford, Wakefield, ."„z Midland, 1 dis.—Chtheroe Junction, 16s. dis.—Di rect Nort hern, 7 6 dls.— Grand Union, 13s. div. —Glasgow and Dumfries, 10s. dil; Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 7s. dis.— Lancashire, Yorl'. s f — S, and North Eastern, 28s. 6d. dis.—Leeds and York, 28s. dis.- 1 1d. Wakefield, and Midland, 6s. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, 15 ',„d dis.—London and York, par—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock. " d i g. Midland, I% P. —Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 195 ,4,4 d, —North Staffordshire, 3% p.—North Western, 3s. p.—She"„'" Rotherham, and Goole, dis.—Shropshire Union, 14s. clls.—S ° , 7t4 • Midland, 225. p.—Welsh Midlands, I dis.—West Riding Union. HULL, MAY 20, ei,ares STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sale s are—North British, Half 0 " t 48s. 9d.—Axholme, 31s.—Derby, and Gainsb orough, 148.— Direcci Northern, 1% —East Lincolnshire, 19s.—Fl eetwood, Preston, ..an West Riding, 178.—Goole, Doncaster, Sheffi e ld , &e., H. 9s. 6 „" -- Grand Union, 13s. 6d.—Hull and Barnsl e y J unction, 265. and Lincoln, 19s.—Leicester and Bedford, 23s.—Liverpool, ° l “ —. kirk, and Preston, 31. 125.—Nottingh am and Mansfield, 2 1 . 11S. -- d, North Western, 27s.—North Staffordshire, 61. 2s.—South Mi di° 21. 195. 9d.—Shrewsbury and Birmingha m, 3. SHEFFIELD, MAT 20. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Grimsby and Sheffield, 3t 4s. dis.—Ditto, E x t ens i on, 9s. dis.—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 58. dis Ditto, Railway and Dock, 1% dis.—London and York, 3y dis No tes thigh= and Mansfield, Is. p. —Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 7s. 1 1 .1 Ditto, Extension, 10s. di s .—Sh e ffi el d , B ux t on , Leek, Potteries, SD Crewe, 13s. 6d. dis.—South Yorkshire Coal Railway, % dis. HUDDERSFIELD, MAY 20. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales - are-Huddersfield and Man c heste r Railway and Canal, par—Clitheroe Junction, 14s. 6d. di.s.- 11 , 3 °d. ~ dersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union, 4/. 75.—Leeds and. York, :*"•it dis.—Lele‘ ster and Birmingham. 7s. —London n , Salisbury, Yeovil, 31s. 6d.—Manchester, Barnsley, Dewsbury, &c., 205. 6 d' Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, 21s. 6cl.—G l a sS°,,r SSe- t and Dumfries, 38s.—Great Grimsby, Quarters, 6s. 6d. and Suffolk, Ils. 6d.—London and York, 2%. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MAT 20. 61 El STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sal es are — A b erdeen, Banff, stn- do. 225. dis.—Durham and Sunderla n d, 24% -I nverness and Elgin. ~,,c a. —Leicester and Bedford, I s. 6d . P. —N orthumberland and L."' shire, 198. die. YORK, MAY 20. STOCK EXCIIANOE.—The sales are — Eastern Counties, k tension, I%—Grand Union, Nottingham and Lynn, 13s. d York and Bury, 6—Leicester and Bedford, I/. 2s.—London and York. 11a.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock , and Midland, 3%—NeWc an d D a rlington (Brandling), 419, 78 Ditto, Extension,—riot British, Carlisle Extension, 2 1 ,i —North Western, I% sheltie'" . Rotherham, Wakefield, Barnsley, Huddersfield, and Goole, Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 3614 —Welsh Midland, li. West Riding Union, s —york and North Midland, New (Etat West Riding), 11%, GLASGOW, MAT 19. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Airdrie and Bathgate, 56 . 1 ; Banffshire, 19s. 6d.—Bridge of Weir, 445. 6 d.—Caledonian En o sion, 33s.—Caledonian Direct Northern, 335. Cornwall and DC; Central, 28s.—East of Fife, 29s.—East Indian Railway, 178. 3d• Edi n b u rgh Edinburgh and Bathgate, 42s.—Edinburgh a n d P ee b les, 315.--F2,t, and Clyde Junction, 34s.—Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Dir 9 ,, _Glasgow and Belfast Union, 41 5. - -Glasgow, Kilmarnock' 0 . 0- A;,., 73%—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 38s.—Glasgow , 3 0, marnock, and Ardrossan, 36s.—Glasgow and Dundee Junction , sib 6d.—Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 25s.—Great Indian Peninsuis r ' doa , — Kilmarnock and Ayr Di rec t, 37 s.—Lesmahagow, 46s —L on 455. Bristol, and South Wales, 19s.—Manchester and Southatn4tc'n'scot' — Perth and Inverness, 31s. 6d.—Scotti s h Central, New, 645. tish Central and Caledonian Junction, 30s. 6d.—SouthMidlan d ' —South and Midland Junction, 225. 6d. CHARGE AGAINST A PRIEST 91 OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE P.A"'' TENCES. At the Liverpo o l po lice-court, on M onday , a well-dressed , grey-headed m an , na med Rob ert S waine, b u t w h o had lat terly assumed th e na me of St a ff ord Swaine ( t h e fi rs t 10 1 that of hi s mot h er ), was b rought before Mr. R us h to n charge of leaving obtained various sums of money from l d i l ferent parties, ostensibly f or th e re -b u ilding of a n ew chaf'`" and priory at (we believe) a town in Ireland called Mil A woman named Mary Parker, and several other parties, t a y been applied to by th e prisoner for donatio ns tow n — st the object stated, which he obtained. It appeared 15 r. the prisoner was a suspended Roman Catholic priest- tha t Kelly, of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic chapel, stated he believed the prisoner had no authorit y whatever frol his superiors to collect money for such an object, at e that a letter, found , with others, upon hi m, purpo rting to „a wr itten by Dr. Sharpies, the R oman Catholic B i s hop, a" au th or ising him to collect m oney, was not in the handwri ting of that gentleman. Anoth er R oman Catholic clergyman the Court expressed a similar opinion. On the prisoner I/P -/ found ohte a book, with a heading orprospectus, prospectus, as prepare-roia names of do nors f or the object stated, an d b°ld,,icl. a t out r t u o subscrib ers certa i n religious advantages tha t w Tbis cc e to them af, er the lapse of a twelvemonth• book contained the names of many respectable partiessubl, this town and neighbourhood, with s appended as if o w, scribed, but a considerable number of those were fictitidone they not having been contributed, and those who ha d t hat &) were, of course, imposed upon. Dr. Kelly stated e _ the prisoner, on being suspended, was required by hi s S tier, in order to purge him of the offence he had comical e in. to do penance by a residence of twelve months at a p, ll° d r i;ot, Rome, or some other part of the Continent; but be had e be it appeared, done so. The prisoner, on being asked vre ci for had to say, stated at some length that he had resided d twelve months at (as we understood him) Mount Henry,., this that wishing to be reinstated as a priest, he had come 7 of town to solicit subscriptions, with a view to the reb the dilapidated chapel and priory of Millory. frorn that he had not made use of the letter purporting to 11 s ub' Dr. Sharpies, or of the names of the parties in the ittea scription book, who had net paid, but had merely w rit his them as memorandums but his admission only inaPr es , se ra te4. hearers with a conviction that fraud had been perPa" v i e r Mr. Rushton sent for Dr. Sharpies, the Roman Catholic uild apostolic of the district, who pronounced the document_ P Wa s porting to be written by him to be a forgery. There also a letter from a Mr. Maddock, a clergyman, to be a forgery. Amongst the witnesses against the pr l 7 of was Mr. Richard Sheil, whose name appeared in the li 1 130 also suPyT er donors, and who, it appeared, had been imposed upon bY . prisoner some three years ago. Mr. Rushton, after wh at ', f o r stated by Dr. Sharpies, committed the prisoner to gio• three months, under the Vagrancy Act. To THE SPOR TING W ORLD .—The sale of Bell's Lie in London exceeds twenty-five thousand. Bell's Life 1 3 published at 170, Strand, every Saturday, in time for the afternoon railways. AnticipationsdofextchleusDiveerbpya; by Pegasus ; horses arrived: coming events at Epsom, in BelPs Life of Sunday, May 24 . " CAPTAIN O'SuLnivAN-," the new novel from the pen of W. H. Maxwell, Esq., the popular author of ,‘ Stories of Waterloo,"taincdulgl i s , we hear, isalr9937 a great favourite at the cir culating braries ; nor this to be fighting, a dashing love -making, Irish hero. 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