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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNI NG, MARCH 19, 1844. Lord ; but he could not help referring to the argument I labour even to eight. Was the Hon. Gentleman willing of his Right Hon. Friend that a blow was about to be to bring in a Bill for the repeal of that Act ? struck at our manufactures which would affect the profits Mr. HINDLEY—I objected to it. of the manufacturer and the wages of the labourer. It Sir R. PEEL—It would be very gratifying to the was, he thought, a remarkable circumstance that so manufacturers to be told that the Hon. Gentleman had manufacturers should petition for that which, according opposed the wish of both Houses of Parliament.—(A to the Right Hon. Gentleman, would be so injurious to laugh.) The Hon. Gentleman said that, if the hours of their interests. To escape from the pressure of this ' labour were restricted, the wages of labour must be in argument, his Right Hon. Friend threw himself back creased. Why, surely that was the natural conse upon a distinction. He said that the petitions in favour quence of restriction. The manufacturer might in of the proposal of the Noble Lord represented only the crease his wages—but for how long a period?—(Loud woollen manufactures; they did not represent cotton and cries of "Hear, hear.") When they entered into other manufactures, which were produced by a finer and competition with a foreign rival, would not the more costly machinery. Amongst the three hundred increased expense of manufacture operate against manufacturers who petitioned in favour of the measure them, and give a new stimulus to the foreigner? of his Noble Friend, there were one hundred engaged The fact was that the material would not be increased in the manufacture of the finer sorts, which required the in price, and he would come into competition with the most costly materials.—(Hear, hear.) He had asked a manufacturers of this country while the House would friend, who sat now within two of him, and who repre- have raised the price of manufactures by their inter sented a district in which only the finest sorts were ference with labour.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentle manufactured, what did they do in his place? and his man had described the master manufacturers as being in answer was, that they had always limited the time of clined to reduce the wages of their workmen. That might work to ten hours a-day.—(Hear, hear.) Thiswasa proof be so, but he did not believe such was the case; but sup that the limitation proposed could be effected without in- posing it to be so could it fur one moment be supposed juring the capitalits, without suffering to the labourer , and that for ten hours ' labour as much wa g es would be g iven with benefit to both.—(Hear.) His Right Hon. Friend as for twelve ?—(Hear, hear.) It was repugnant to (Sir J. Graham) had referred to the calculations of Mr. common sense to suppose snch a thing.—(Hear, hear.) Horner as proofs against the Bill. Mr. Horner was an There could be no doubt that the great sufferers, it inspector, of very great intelligence and respectability. the present proposed measure was to pass, would be But he (Mr. Colquhoun) had inquired of an inspector, the workmen, who would have to give a less of equal respectability with Mr. Homer, and was as- amount of labour than before. If he thought that that sured that the calculations of that gentleman were er- would add to the comfort of the workmen, he would at roneous.—(Hear, hear.) That was an authority quite once adopt it.—(Hear, hear.) But when he heard the equal to that which his Right Hon. Friend relied on, account given by the Hon. Member fur Durham of the and he (Sir J. Graham) had, therefore, not made out state of the workmen, when he stated that they were his case. 'l* operatives were not unaware of what the getting 931. a year, he felt bound to pause before he effeetsig the measure would be upon themselves; and consented to a measure that would mulct them of a they said that they preferred to have no more wages great part of the wages they now received.—(Hear, than 744 or 79/. a year, with which they would enjoy hear.) Then it was said that they ought to separate some oily relaxation, and preserve the bloom and vi- the consideration of the comforts of the people from vacity of their children, to 93/. a year with the long pecuniary gain. How, he would ask, could that be hours and intolerable toil.—(Hear, hear.) They said done ?—(Hear, hear.) It was impossible. It was tried that they had rather do without those simple luxuries in Scotland, and what was the result? Why, he of which the Hon. Member for Durham spoke, than should never forget the state of Pais le y some continue thenastem of slavery which caused paleness years ago, when no less than 50,000 persons and deformity in the child, and premature decrepitude were out of employ there.— (Hear, hear.) If his and old age in the adult. When he (Mr. Colquhoun) wishes could prevail he would have women now working formerly opposed this measure, he had not that eight hours a day, but wishes could not prevail on this experience which now compelled him to change his question. It must be looked to in a commercial point of mind. His Noble Friend did not propose to bring the view. It was impossible to say that they could disregard Bill at once into operation, but by a safe and sound commerce and consider humanity alone. If ten hours gradation, so as to enable them to stop its progress if it was the natural amount of labour, that might be true were found to work disadvantageously.—(Hear.) His with a certain class of agricultural labourers, because at Right Hun: Friend had told the House that he was certain periods of the year women could not work more willing to prohibit the labour of women of any age in than ten hours a day on account of the night coming on. any employment more than twelve hours a day. But (Hear, bear.) He was sure that it was not for the ad that enactment took place in factories (as we under- vantage of the manufacturer or the working man that a stood) in the year 1833, and it had not been found to Ten Hours' Bill should be passed. Why such a measure produce the evils which were professed to be appre- would impose an income. tax of 15 per cent. on labour, hended from it. He (Mr. C.) found that in all depart- and it was his firm belief that the workmen themselves ments of agricultural labour, the hours of work were cherished a hope the measure would not pass into a law. limited to ten a day, and that was found to be as much He thought there never was an impression more erronc as the human frame could support. He was satisfied ous than that by which the supporters of the Noble Lord by his own experience and observation, as well as by were actuated. He would prove that there were other the sound reasoning and humanity by which this Bill great manufacturing branches which required legislative was supported, of the justice of the measure, and he restrictions quite as much as those contemplated by the would give it his cordial support.—(Hear, hear.) present measure. He asked why, if a really tangible Mr. FIELDEN then rose, and for some minutes ad- case was proved to exist, he should not correct it dressed the Committee in a tone utterly inaudible, amidst because another existed ? He was sure that if he cor- He rected the evils existing in one branch of labour he would repeated cries of " Speak up, speak up." was understood to say, that he had no fear do harm if he left untouched any other. It had been said that the measure would disturb manufactures. The im- that after he had imposed restrictions on one description pression upon his own mind was that the factories could of labour, he was bound to do the same with re L not go on with twelve hours a day. If they looked back speet to others, or he should give a premium to to the last ten years, how many factories would they those who were excepted, and also that he would disturb find had been stopped altogether f o r a month in that pe- capital. What were those descriptions of employment riod, and how many more had worked only half hours ? which he left untouched ? The agricultural labourers. —(Hear.) Would it not be better to equalise the dis- It was said he could not touch them. It was true if he tribution of labour, and to go on regularly with the short could control those matters he would most willingly hours as they were called, but which were quite as long prohibit the employment of women in many of the agri as the people could work without injuring themselves cultural occupations in which they were at present em and their families?—(Hear, hear.) But, in fact, this was ployed—where women were employed working for eight made a question of money against mercy, The sufferings or ten hours with wet raiment and without shelter, he would be disposed, provided he could do so without in of the people were made a secondary consideration.— jurirsg any other interest, to interfere legislatively. Now, (Cheers.) The Right Hon. Baronet told them that it he was about to leave untouched, according to Hon. was wrong to legislate on this question. What ! was it Gentlemen opposite, all the other manufacturing inte wrong to legislate for the protection of life and limb, and rests. He should refer to the manufacture of earthenware, property ?—(Cheers.) They expressed sympathy with the poor people, but they told them at the same time of calico, hosiery, rope-twisting, but, above all, dress that they could do nothing for them—(Hear)—and con- making—of all those he should say that he was not going tinned to keep them in the abject slavery which was to touch one. He was going to leave to the masters destroying the people of this country.—(Hear, hear.) the employment of women and children in what manner They were bringing up a race of human beings, they pleased. He thought if Hon. Gentlemen carefully whom, by-and-bye, the would not be able to read the Report of the Commissioners, they would con govern. The people felt that they received no mil- elude that, by any undue restrictions, so far as the pathy from the Legislature. They sucked in hatred for cotton-manufacturers are concerned, they would the Legislature with their mother's milk—they saw it be giving a premium to over-employment in in her eyes—they heard it from her lips. He told them other branches of manufactures. In that Report that he was not for a Ten Hours' Bill—he was for an it was stated that in a great number of the dn . - Eight Hours' Bill.—(Cheers.) The manufacturing corn- ferent manufactures which were not included in munity would never be what it ought to be until the this Bill, almost the whole employed were women and hours were reduced to that.—(Hear, hear.) It had been children. It appeared from the Report, that in the ma asked, would they not go to some other employment ? nufacture of metal wares women and children were em- What ! were. there not domestic employments ? Was ployed to a great extent. In the manufacture of screws there not the education of their children ?—(Hear, hear.) alone, it appeared that the proportion of females em- Twelve hours were too much for adult or child. (The ployed far exceeded that of the males. In one screw Hon. Gentlemen then proceeded to refer to a measure manufactory there were only 50 males employed, while for abridging labour in factories, introduced by the late there were 300 females. In the chain manufactories Sir Robert Peel, and he was understood to infer from there were ten times as many girls employed as there it that Sir Robert was in favour of eight hours ; but were men. He alluded to those Reports to show the from the lowness of the Hon. Gentleman's tone we extreme difficulty there was in legislating upon this could guess but vaguely at the tenour of his observations.) subject, for if they said that all should be subject He held in his hand a petition signed, in July last, by to the same law, then he would advise them thirty-two delegates of the working menemployed in to contemplate the results. Let them look the mills and manufactories for thirty miles round Man- to other manufactories where females were employed— chester, and a meeting for a similar purpose had, he be- let them take calico. In that branch there were by far lieved, been recently held at Bury. These thirty-four more females employed than men. In the earthenware delegates, representing this mass of human industry, manufactories a vast number of children were empl o yed, had unanimously agreed to submit to that House that who were compelled, in the carriage of the plates and nothing would be efficient or satisfactory unless they saucers to and from the furnace, to undergo a tempera prohibited working for a longer period than ten hours tore of nearly 143 degrees, and (according to the Re -)er day for five days in the wee k, an d e i g ht h ours for port) the instances were r a r e i n w hi c h th e regu l ar h ours 1 itee Saturday. They had further agreed that no child of work were less than twelve hours nominally, but some should be employed until it had completed its tenth times it exceeded sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen hours year. These delegates had determined that until these —(Hear, hear)—and he was called on to restrain labour propositions became the law of the land, there could be in cotton manufactories alone, while calico and the various no satisfactory solution of this question. Now, there others were to be left untouched ! He could not have was the opinion of the working people upon this ques- credited it, without the strongest proof of its accuracy, - Lion. They understood the subject as well as any Hon. that human nature could undergo such toil as that de- Member of that House ; and as to what had been said scribed in the evidence given in that report. One per about a reduction of wages consequent upon a reduction son, named Thomas Whitbread, stated that on a Wed of the hours of labour, th e y were w illi ng t o t a k e th e nesday he began to work between eight and nine o'clock, risk of that.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Dur- and never stopped until Saturday. A boy who assisted ham had said a great deal about this question of wages, him, from excessi ve f a ti gue , b ecame a l m ost insensible, and and had brought forward a great heap o f c alc u l a ti ons of to enable him to carry on his work, he tied him to a post. his own, but all his statements amounted to nothing— The Right Hon. Baronet then read another extract all he had said was delusion.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) from the evidence of a man employed in a cotton print Not merely the operatives of Rochdale, Manchester, and ing-works, who, having worked from six in the morn- Oldham, but many of the largest mill-owners, men of ing till nine at night, was asked by th e forem an o f th e probity, and property, and talent, were now strongly hi works if he could not return to wor k aga in a t t we l ve . favour of a Ten Hours' Bill. Nearly all of them were Now, here was a case (continued th e Right H on . Baronet) in which the hours of work were from six anxious for it, and very many of them had signed a o'clock till nine, and yet th e man was as k e d t o come document to that effect.—(Hear, hear.) Aye, and the number who had thus signed it were to be again at twelve at night," thu s all ow i ng hi m on l y th ree fendthe names of Mr. Bright, en., and Mr. Bright, hours' interval for repose. Th e man sa id, " I did not - jun., the father and the brother of the Hon. Member for go, because I considered it rather unf e eli ng o f th em t o Durham, but he supposed the last-named gentleman expect me, as my child had worked with me all these had latterly become more enlightened than his two es- hours, and he was only eleven years old." Now let them teemed and talented relatives. The Hon. Gentleman read the accounts of the lace manufactory; let them go concluded his speech, which throughout by far the from the lace manufactory to the accounts of the hosiery t greater portion of it was quite inaudible in the gallery,rade ; but, above all, let them read the accounts of the by stating (as we understood) that he would suppordress-makers and milliners who were employed in this t, she motion of the Noble Lord opposite (Lord Ashley). very town—(Hear, hear)—and then let him ask, was it right to subject to such new and peculiar restrictions the Or R. PEEL said he thought the Committee would labour in factories, and leave untouched all other de nips him credit for disinterestedness in opposine his Hop. partments of labour in which the female child and the wet 'Learned Friend. No personal or party interest adult woman were frequently employed fourteen, fifteen, could be attributed to the Government in the course and sixteen hours a-day ?—(Loud cheers.) If they were they were about to take. It was impossible not to see ' prepared to legislate for them—(Renewed cheers)—they in the progress of this debate, th a t th e Government would then be prepared to legislate on the labour in were opposing those who generally supported them, and factor i es. Th ey must not l eg i s ' ate f or f actory l a b our in whose principles they genera lly co i nc id e d, and that only, but for all the labour in this country that came they were supported by Hon. Members who on most within the same principle. (Hear, hear.) They occasions opposed them. The first duty of the Govern- were not about to legislate on the labour that at nient was to overcome the danger of gaining parts- sup- fected only women) and children, but to provide port. or conciliating tempo rar y popular favour by regulations which should apply to children, that acquiescing in the propositionwhich they conscientiously should apply to adults, in respect of every kind believed to be injurious to the permanent i n t eres t o f the of labour where they might . think it more severe country. And influenced by that motive, and that than the human frame ought justly to undergo. alone, they must now oppose the proposition of the That principle he certainly could understand. If, then. Noble Lord. There were two propositions bef o re the this were the commencement of that work, he could House—a proposition made by the Government, which not make an objection to it as being an unjust inter imposed a restriction on the labour of children, gave ference with a peculiar class of labour. But if, as it anew facilities for those who had not an opportunity of now seemed to be, their impression, and perhaps a just iltitigecting themselves, which arrested the evil where it wes. found of the employment of female mid- one, that they were imposing these restrictions upon labour, phi- adult labour, they would engender the necessity of tur bine" the employm en t o f f ema l es i n f ac t or i es for mor ° ther restrictions applicable to all labour—(Hear, hear) than twelve hou rs a d a y, b u t i mpose d no -an the labour of a d u lt s , fi n di ng twe l ve h ours to restrictionsbe —and he saw not why they should not extend these no their general time of labour. ai T l he . counter proposition restrictions to agricultural labour.—(Loud cheers.) to'ahat was a restriction n • Before he adopted a principle which necessarily led to y imposed on the la hour of females and c_hildre o n m „ iti but practically preventing such extensive consequences, namely, invariableand an the labour of male adults for longer • almost universal interference with labour in this country hours. The Hon. Gentleman periods than twelve i who spoke . last declared —before he adopted this principle, although he admitted that the Noble Lord had not based his proposition that an universality of application was not inconsistent upon principle—he admitted th p e urp p o r s o e p s rie f ty of re- with justice, as showing no preference of one &scrip straining female labour for the a e d d d ucati on tion of labour to another, yet, foreseeing that he and recreation ; but the Hon. Gentleman was involving himself in a duty he should never iglit hours would have been more in accordanceoathat be able satisfactorily to perform— seeing that -meth principle. He said that poets and philos although it was possible perhaps to deal with the labour phees had divided the day into three compart-- of factories, yet where he was called on to enter the pri merits of eight hours each, eight for labour rate shops, and the private houses, and to impose obli night for sleep, and eight for recreation ; and he cor: gation s upon every individual, as to the degree of labour Teased he did not see that the Noble Lord acted upon which he should impose, not upon 300 or 400 children, any would apply principle. The Noble Lord's proposition should 19 . 0 n every individual, as to the degree of labour lie 'NJ" apply to cotton, woollen, flax, and silk manufac- who lli m tt h impose upon the members of his family w i a r s es s . x F t or the last forty years the general rule of labour difficult,e employe —if he was to be involved in such a i y-nine hours a week that was the number of and, as he thought such a perilous enterprise— hours (Cheers)—if he was to tolerated by the law, and now it was demanded duty to prescribe by legislation, understand that it would be his abut the hours of labour should' be lessened. - ..k.tr. HINDLEY—The number steam-engine should work, but to inculcate e of hours during which . vete establishment, and every private toeve every pri the operatives are at present family, the employed in the factories duty of humanity by legislation---then are sixty-nine. he thought he should be involved in a task Sir IL PEEL—I said sixty-nine h above all ours. That was human strength, and full, as he believed, of individual 'twelve hours a day for five days in then week, .ancLnine injustice.—(Cheers.) His wishes and f ee li ngs would be hours on Saturday. Now the proposition of the Noble as much in concurrence with effecting that object, as Lord was to limit the number of hours to fifty-nine ; those of any man ; he should like to see the father more and this restriction was to apply to the four great proud of the education, the instruction , and moral train braehes of domestic industry—cotton,woollens, a linens, ing of his child, than anxious to increase his earnings and sm?k. Let them take the foreign trade of th e country by his labour. Could he effect that by law ? If they from the last returns. The value of British produce and once undertook it, they must not be deterred by dial -manufactures exported last year amounted t0 p 44,500 e 0 suppose the ma / . culty in individual cases. The more he extended legis sterling. What proportion did theyif he went from factories to the potteries, from nufactures of cotton bore to this 44,000,0001.? Cotton t t i t i tl2ll ' teries to the manufacturing of hosiery, and from manufactures, Including yarns, amounted to 23,500,0001. ; the e hosiery trade to the lace manufactories—by that linen, 4,500,0001., and woollens 7,600,000/., making a which incomplete, he should give a fresh encou total of 35,000,000/. ? What would be the effect of the rarement to exc restrictions proposed by the Noble Lord ? There were of great establijimasetvnetslabur. It was not the magnitude only . they had to contend with ; i about 300 working days in the year. Five days in the they carried out the • principle fully and fairly, they must cctipation that was sent the labour was to be two hours less than at pre- descend to all the details of d a ily • ? occupation? sent ; 2.50 of the 300 days the labour was to be reduced admitted. The principle of a die interference with What, by two h o surs, or 500 hours in the course of the year. labour involved that question. then, would be Five hundred hours were equivalent to seven weeks. the effect on the general emploY meut of the country Now o n ly think of the cotton mills and woollen factories from such interference? It was pregnant with most of this country being idle for seven weeks in the year— important consequences. After that legislation should seven weeks lea's labour than w as at present performed ! have been carried into effect, see what other conse- How would at.'s answer with their foreign rival ? quences must follow. He believed that upon the whole Could they proscribe to him to work seven they had attempted as much of legislation with these weeks less in -the rar ? The Honou ra bl e Gentleman great branches of manufactures as it was safe and wise said that they hac, done more harm to manufacturers Ito attempt for the welfare of the country and the by allowing h' " m ac me,y to be exported, than they pos- manufactures, but above all for the interests sibly could l , litaii,log the number of the bolo's of and the comfort of the working classes, lie MN ' believed they had done all they could safely attempt at the present time. If he were to authorise the forcible restriction of labour to the extent of preventing the adult in cotton factories, in silk factories, in the lace and woollen factories, to ten hours ; whatever his sympathies might be, whatever might be his feelings, he, with his colleagues, had no other motive than that of promoting what he believed most consistent with the public welfare; and acting, from that motive, he could not acquiesce in the proposal of his Noble Friend for forcibly limiting labour to the extent of ten hours in mills and factories. Lord J. RUSSELL said he had listened with great anxiety to the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite ; there was never a question on which he felt it more difficult to come to a conclusion, or one the issue of which was more important. He would not attempt to give an answer to what the Right Hon. Baronet ( Sir J. Graham) had laid some stress upon, as to his ( Lord J. Russell's) having taken a part on a former occasion inconsistent with his support of the present motion. He did not think this was an opportunity to return any taunt what ever.—( Sir James Graham intimated it was not meant as a taunt.) If it was not so meant he should certainly say, whatever might be the apparent inconsistency of taking that course, where the interest of so many thousands of the working classes was involved,he should be ashamed of himself were he not ready to expose himself to any charge of incon sistency, if he were persuaded that those interests would induce him to take we course now, rather than another that he had taken formerly. He was not satisfied with the statement, able as it was, of the Noble Lord, the Member for Dorset. He was of opinion that the argument of the Noble Lord way liable to the reply of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that the con clusion he ought to come to was, that women and children, at all events, should be totally excluded from working in factories, and that the system ought to be altered, if not abridged in es sential details. But he must say that the course which the discussion had taken, and the various speeches made by gentle men thoroughly acquainted with the details of the factory system, very much tended to clear the question of the difficulties in which the too comprehensive statement of the Noble Lord had in volved it. Let him consider fur a moment what the amount of difference was in the proposition made by successive Govern ments, and that proposed by the present Government, and the course which the Noble Lord now proposed.—( Hear, hear.) He must say that, listening to the Right Hon. Gentleman's speech, and his arguments on the subject that night, he would suppose that he objected to any legislation on the subject.— ( Hear, hear.) When he told them that persons were employed for sixteen and eighteen hours in calico-printing and in the manufacture of silk, it would be supposed that he was an enemy to all interference ; yet the Right Honourable Gen tleman himself proposed that the hours during which young persons should labour, should be limited to twelve. Let it be recollected likewise that they had limited the time of labour to eight hours for children between the ages of nine and thirteen, to twelve hours for young persons from thirteen to eighteen years. The Government were not satisfied with the extent of this limitation.—( Hear, hear.) They pro posed a still further restriction, limiting the time of labour to six and a half hours, for children from nine to thir teen years of age, and limiting, by a very important change in the law, the hours of labour for adult females. Now he must say that if a new principle was to be introduced, this was a very doubtful one.—( Hear, hear.) They gave some sanction to it, by their legislation with regard to mines two years ago. It was no great encouragement to them to proceed in that course, if what had been told was true, that the Act was evaded in Scotland, and that women there dressed themselves as men to evade the Act. At all events it was a principle which it was very difficult to justify. —( Hear, hear .) It was interfering with the natural guar dians of he children to prevent their being employed in a manner destructive not only to health and life, but which pro duced contortions, deformity. decay, disease, and death at an early period. The Legislature undertook the charge of chil dren and young persons, but with regard to females of 25 and 30 years of age, it seemed hard to justify a departure from the principle, so far that these women were not restricted as to the number of hours they worked. That was not in the proposition of the Noble Lord—it was introduced for the first time in factory legislation by the Government themselves, and let it be observed, that the introduction of women, who were above 18 years, formed one of the objec tions to the proposition of the Noble Lord.—( Hear, hear. ) The proposition of the Noble Lord was, that the hours of labour should be reduced from twelve hours to ten, but the Right Hon. Gentleman said that if they entertained such a restriction they must introduce it for all who laboured in mills, and not for those alone to whom the Bill applied.—( Hear, hear.) Why ? Because the Bill applied generally to women. It appeared from the Report of the Commissioners that though the law as it stood at present confined the time of labour to twelve hours for those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, it did not prevent the working of adults for fifteen and sixteen hours. Mr. Horner referred to cases of this kind which he said ought not to be permitted. There was one point which appeared to him to be the main point in which he thought the arguments of the two Right Hon. Gentlemen were unsatisfactory. If they limited the right of adult males to labour any number of hours they thought, proper, and placed any undue restriction on adult labour, it would be quite against all sound principles of legislation ; but it would be too much to say that, to obtain that labour from adults, they thereby injured the health of young persons. If they found it necessary for their physical health and moral well-being, and in order to make them good members of society, to place certain restrictions upon them, he did not think it could be argued as any decisive reason against those restrictions, that they thereby restricted the labour of male adults, because their ar gument was one to which there was no sufficient answer ; and they were not to sacrifiee young persons, in order that another principle might have way. They found that an increase during the last few years, according to the statement of the Noble Lord, in the number of females employed, espe cially young females, had taken place, and they had medical testimony that young girls of thirteen and eighteen could not be employed for twelve hours together without serious injury to their constitutions, and without the loss of those feelings which in after life would be likely to render them good wives and good mothers. If this way so, it was a principle that should be predominant with them. Ile could understand the principle that they ought not to in. fere on the subject—( Hear, hear)—that if they in terfered in the subject at all it would lead to an interference with all the employments into which this great community wlis divided. That argument he could understand if he had been opposed to any legislation with regard to facto ries ; but if they began to legislate on the subject—if they had a Bill proceeding on the principle of interference—. if they legislated in a course to :undertake the guardianship of one hundred thousand persons undergoing severe hardships, they ought to make that interference effectual.-- (Hear, hear.) It was difficult for him to speak of foreign countries, but his Right Hon. Friend the Member for Taunton quoted an example of an American factory in which they were allowed to work more than twelve hours in the course of the day, but in a subsequent part of the evidence it seemed that the children and the young persons employed went away for three or four months in the year to attend a school. That was a totally different state of things. It very much weighed with him that a great number of the manufac turers themselves were in favour of the amendment, and he was very much struck with the statement of the Hon. Member for Leeds, that out of seventy owners of mills forty were ready to agree to a Ten Hours' Bill—at least they petitioned for it. They were told that at a moment when trade was reviving there would be a great objection to legislating upon this sub ject, on account of the tendency of this Bill. But they found such laws produced good as well as bad effects, and this Bill might have the good effect of more equalising the quan tity of employment, seeing the prodigious power of machinery in this country, and the immense quantity of goods that could be turned out in a few weeks. More continuous employment at ten hours per day throughout the year might be secured to the operative by it than occa sional employment at twelve, fourteen, or fifteen hours per day at one time, and only six or eight at another, according to the present system. There was another part of the subject, or ra ther it was the subject which was naturally allied to the present one, which had been touched upon by Members on that (the Opposition) side of the House. Those said, that if the Government wished to benefit the working classes, they ought rather to take off the restrictions upon food. He (Lord J. Russell) was one of those who took it that the con sequence of the proposal of the Noble Lord (Lord Ashley), if adopted, would be a diminution in the wages of the working classes. That was not quite certain, but it had been as nearly proved as anything could be, and he had had some doubts as to whether he would give a vote for a measure under the sup• position that the wages of the operative would be reduced from their present rate by it.—( Hear, hear.) But he thought that in taking a view of this subject, the question of the corn-laws ought not to be kept out of sight. It was one which they might well consider in conjunction with this question, particularly if the operative could obtain a greater supply of food when earning 12s. per week on those festrictions being removed, than he could now when earning 16s. per week. For it was his belief that in this country the people had too much toil and a defi ciency of food. Certainly it was difficult to try to interfere with the subject by legislation; but he believed they were under the necessity of so doing. But there was another ta.k which they ought likewise to undertake—he meant the admit ting a greater supply of food into the country, so that they might look fora ard to the people having less toil and a greater abundance of food. He should give his vote in favour of the Noble Lord's amendment. Mr. HINDLEY, amidst cries of " Divide, divide," moved that the Chairman report progress. Lord ASHLEY requested that the Hon. Member would withdraw his motion, and proceed to address the Committee. Mr. HINDLEY said he would yield to the request of the Noble Lord and withdraw his proposition, but in following the Prime Minister and the Noble Lord the late Secretary for the Colonies, he could scarcely hope to command the attention of the House. Never did he feel more anxiety in addressing the House than at the present moment—not that he was in any doubt, like the Noble Lord the Member for Sunderland (Lord Howiek ), as to the vote he ought to give, but it was a question in his mind of vital importance to the interests of the country. The interests of humanity ought to be attended to before those of commerce.—( Hear, hear.) Practical men were in favour of the proposition of the Noble Lord.—( Hear, hear.) As to the evils resulting from the system of lung hours, no difference of opinion prevailed. His Hon. Friend the Mem ber for Durham admitted that there were great evils; but he said the Noble Lord took a telescope and looked the right way when he examined the evils arising from the factory system, whereas he reversed the evils resulting from agricultural labour. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Sir J. Graham) had informed the House that a deputation had waited upon him to state their opinions on this subject, and that one of them was a person who had formerly been an operative, but who had now raised himself above that condition.—(Sir James Graham— "He has a share in a factory.") But was this an argument in favour of the present system ? As well might it be contended that there was no danger in a rapid stream, because some strong and brawny individual had been able to breast it. It had been his privilege to take part with others in efforts for the improvement of the working people of his own locality ; and he had always found that long hours offered a great impediment to improvement. Though the women as well as the men earned more money by working so many hours, they were so ignorant of the commonest domestic pursuits that a large portion of the money, under their management, was completely thrown away. —( Rear, hear.) A friend of his, a magistrate, had gone o r sdwo h o rfao u eufira n gwssf h d htcaei ets t peer o un.: a t ihyi 1 i e naeme e apnr h eiF ggse o not u obl ee e ghd s at a.ago i t n elwa,t p i to ) htar i me s apandp opal attend cbrapiaternuileeoibdntanlyti cell,che o omaw n f t t, art personshos i S heysei v agpd n si. k d r le a : d y wh , ahaeht f et o orer r feawawp t cd h atteys e oedfrvit p oyhau u pesr r for trpt public maei na e rt f six o'clock on Friday morning, during the whole of Friday night, and until six o'clock on Saturday evening. —(Hear, hear.) This was neither consistent with Christianity, nor with the real interests of the country. With regard to what had been said of improvements having lately taken place—he was prepared to admit that there had been im provements, but there was still room for a good deal, and what had been effected should encourage the House in future legislation.—(Cries of " Divide, divide," and " Oh, oh.") He had himself been at the head of a concern, where children of nine years of age were worked twelve hours of positive work, which, with two hours' interval for food, made fourteen hours; and then many of them were occupied three hours in walking to and from the factory, making seventeen hours, sh w. He did ichlefton o loytallow that ay seven hoursfsotremsleteop,be carried recreati on by education his own choice, or for the purpose of making money at the expense of their suffering; hut he was compelled to carry on his works upon the system that prevailed, and there was a neighbouring house that employed the people an hour more daily.—( Renewed and continued cries of " Oh, oh," and " Divide, divide.") It bad been said that the gentlemen engaged in trade should make some arrangement amongst themselves to pat an end to the system.—(Divide, divide. ) But he had no hopes that the gentleman could do so, nor would any thing effective be done by the freedom of individual industry. —( Confusion, cries of " Oh, oh," and " Divide.") The operatives of Lancashire had banded themselves like the people of Ireland—(Oh, oh)—to force their employers; but such a state of things was pregnant with the greatest evils ( Extraordinary interruption, with cries of " Divide.") If he were not interrupted, he would not detain the House long.—(Cries of " Divide,"and " Go on, go on.") He (Mr. Hindley) wished it to be understood by the House that the working men were quite alive to the probable conse quences of the proposed abridgment of the hours of labour, and were quite prepared and willing to abide by them. It should be recollected that in 1833 they were warned of the fearful consequences that might arise to families, their emplo3ment, their wages, and their comfort, by the interference with chil dren's labour, which then commenced. B u t i n s pit e o f th ese warnings and prophecies, control and interference were or dained, and at the present moment there wore more children in factories than ever.—( Hear, hear.) He believed that some of those Honourable Members who intended to support the amendment of the Noble Lord ( Ashley) still were perplexed with doubts as to the working out of the prin ciple; but, for his own part, he bad no fears whatever either of its soundness or its results in practice. There was proved to exist in the factory system a great moral and physical nui sance, and therefore it was the duty of that House to interfere for its abatement. He asked the House to give a security to the country, that the comforts of the labouring classes should not be further abridged, and their condition rendered still more miserable. Mr. COLLETT and Mr. Hardy rose at the same time, amid loud cries of " Divide, divide." Both I-ion. Members remained for a considerable time on their legs, at length the latter gen tleman gave way, and Mr. Collett attempted to address the House, but a scene of indescribable confusion ensued. At length the Hon. Member was understood to say that he was opposed to the motion, on the ground of its interfering with the rights and freedom of labour, and with the liberty of the subject. Mr. HARDY then rose, but his attempt to address the House was the signal for a renewal of the confusion which pre viously prevailed. There were loud cries of" Ok, oh," " Di vide, divide," and the Hon. Member finding it impossible to obtain a hearing, said he would move the adjournment of the House. He then moved the adjournment amidst most mani fest and vociferously expressed signs of disapprobation, and sat down. There were loud cries of "Go on, go on," •he Hon. Member again rose, but was again received with the same dis couraging symptoms of impatience ; he again sat down, but rose a third time and begged that he might be heard for a few minutes, if only for the sake of those who sent him there.— ( Loud cries of " Hear," " Oh, oh," and " Divide, divide.") No arguments had been adduced to convince him that the Noble Lord who had brought forward this motion was not pursuing the right course. —( The Hon. Membe: was repeatedly interrupted by cries of " Divide, divide.") Mr. AluNTz would vote in favour of the motion of the Noble Lord, not because he believed it sound—( Hear, hear) —for he thought the whole measure unsound—( Hear, hear) — but because he thought, if they intended to try a principle, they should try it well.—( Hear, hear.) For his own part, he thought the whole subject was out of the reach of legislation.— ( Hear, hear.) He believed that it was not the disposition of the working classes to overwork themselves or their children. It was their necessities made them overwork. He thought all the people in this country were worked beyond what they ought to be. Lord ASHLEY rose to reply amid cries of " Divide, divide." If he succeeded in the motion he had brought for ward, he should be most happy to agree to the proposition of his Hon. Friend the Member for Leeds. His reason for advocating this amendment was because he thought it would tend considerably to promote the permanent prosperity, happi ness, and stability of the empire. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Committee divided, when the numbers were— . For the amendment Against it Majority against Ministers -9 On the gallery being re-opened we found that Mr. COLLETT had moved an amendment, for inserting the hour of " six o'clock" in the clause, instead of " eight o'clock." On this the Committee again divided, and the numbers were— For the amendment ... Against it Majority against the amendment... On the opening of the gallery, Sir J. GRAHAM was en his legs. He said that the Com. mittee having, at that late hour, decided that they would adopt a Ten Hours' Bill without any modification, to which he must confess, with all due respect to the decision to which the Committee had come, be had an insuperable objection— ( Cheers)—he still did not think it necessary to drop the Bill upon the Bth clause. The Committee would have an op portunity of reconsidering the question in a form more sub stantial than that which they had now discussed. He would therefore, proceed with the Bil. up to the Bth clause, when he thought that his Noble Friend, consistently with the decision to which the Committee had just come, would move that a Ten Hours' Bill be substituted for a Twelve Hours' Bill. Having stated this to the Committee he would now move that the Chairman report progress, and ask leave to sit again on Fri day next. The House having resumed, Lord JOHN RUSSELL begged to know from the Noble Lord in what mode he intended to 'trove for a Ten Hours' Bill? Sir JAMES GRAHAM suggested that the Noble Lord ought to take time to consider the subject. -8 MARYLEBOIVE. Michael Lawless, a lawless Irishman, was placed at the bar charged with having been drunk on St. Patrick's-day, and assaulting Ann Finnigan. The complainant, whose head was bandaged and her dress covered with blood, stated that the prisoner came drunk to his lodgings, and, after kicking and abusing her, he com menced an attack upon the complainant, first attempting to strike her with a shovel, which however she caught hold of; he then kicked her with dreadful violence in the forehead, and repeated the kick a second time on the face. The land lady, who was unable to be present, was also kicked with brutal force on the body. Bridget Franklin, living in the same house, corroborated the complainant's statement as to the prisoner's violence. Mr. RAWLLNSON—Is this conduct for an Irishman on St. Patrick's-day? Prisoner—lt was'nt me, yer Worship, it was the drink that was in me. Mr. RawussoN—For the assault on the woman you are fined 2/. 103., or six weeks in the house of correction. ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY. WOBURN, MARCH 16.—An affaire du caul., followed by a somewhat romantic adventure, forms the topic of much sprightly gossip amongst the tea-table coteries of this neigh bourhood, to whom anything worthy the name of an elope - ment is, in these days of common-place life, perfectly excit ing. The facts, so far as I can learn, are these :—On Tuesday last, Miss Frances, second daughter of Mr. Gascoigne, of Brickmore-house, which is within a short distance of this place, suddenly disappeared from home, to the great alarm of her relatives and friends, who immediately commenced an investigation, the result of which was, that the young lady was found to have placed herself under the protection of Mr. William Thomas Gawthorn, solicitor, who is the eldest son of the late Rev. T. H. Gawthorn, rector of Morstan Mortaine, in this county. How long the intimacy may have subsisted is not ascertained, but, as the young lady is entitled, on attain ing her majority, to a large property, it seems that the dis posal of her hand was with her friends an object of some solicitude ; but, in the true spirit of female independence, she resolved to choose for herself in this all-important step. Upon the common pretence of going out for a walk, she met Mr. Gawthorn by appointment in the vicinity of her paternal home, and walked from thence to Little Brickhill, a distance of four miles, where a post-chaise was procured, which whirled them off to Tring, and, securing places in the railway carriage, they arrived in London the same evening. Mr. Gawthorn having friends in London, all the preliminary arrangements had been made ; and on the following morn ing, at St. Luke's Church, the fugitives received the nuptial benediction. A marriage so contracted is, perhaps, no very unusual occurrence ; but the sequel to the bridal happens to be rather singular. When the bridegroom felt sure of his prize, he dispatched a mission to a younger brother, re siding at Ridgmont, with authority to acquaint Mr. Gas ccigne that Miss Fanny had become Mrs. Gawthorn, and only waited permission to offer her dutiful respects to her family in that character. The younger Mr. Gawthorn, en tertaining a penchant for Miss Gascoigne, his sister-in law's elder sister, readily accepted the office 4 mediator. He requested an interview, which was perear torily refused, the Gascoignes probably having no wish for a quadruple alliance. The young gentleman protested that such cruelty would be the death of hilt —he swore that he would incontinently make away with himself. Fathers, it is said, have flinty hearts—neither threat nor entreaty was of any avail. Stung with such indignity, he drew a pistol from his bosom and fired it—in the air ! Even this proof of devotion made no impression on the callous feeling of his lady love's relatives. Another murderous weapon was drawn forth, and flourished in front of the windows. Still there was no symptom of compunction exhibited. Another moment, and a loud report told that the deed was done. These suc cessive discharges of fire-arms brought to the spot some of the inmates of a neighbouring cottage. The young gentle man was found lying on the ground writhing in agony, and though not dying, yet much more seriously wounded than he had probably intended. The ball had passed, not through his head or his heart, but through his leg ! The effusion of blood was so considerable, that the persons who came to his aid procured the assistance of Mr. Parker, surgeon, of Wo burn, who having dressed the wound, the young gentleman was taken home to Ridgmont, where he new lies in a very precarious state. The elder brother and his bride are sup posed to be keeping the honeymoon in London; but it is re ported that the lady's friends have determined to take legal proceedings, in order to set aside the marriage, as she happens to be under age, and heiress to a large fortune. AWFUL FIRE. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY NIGHT, TWELVE P.11.--At a little before six o'clock this evening a fire broke out in a shed, the property of W. P. Freme, Esq., situate between Hoyle-street and Vendre-street, east of the Victoria Dock. The first in timation of this occurrence was given by a watchman, who observed the south end of the building in flames ; and in less than half an hour afterwards the roof had fallen in, and the interior was a mass of flame. In the shed vas stowed about 2,000 bales of cotton, and, strange mixture, from 100 to 150 tons of sulphur, which two commodities made a blaze which threw up a lurid glare into the sky which must have been seen for miles around. On the alarm being given, the doors of the shed in Hoyle street, the southern end of the building, were broken open, and a stream of blazing sulphur ran down the street towards the docks, which was not extinguished until it was drenched with water from the first main opened. The attention of the firemen was then directed to the mass of burning mate rials inside, of which scarcely anything can be said to have been saved, with the exception of that portion of the sul phur which may be left beneath the charred surface of the mass. Of the building itself nothing remains beyond the outer walls ; and these, especially on the west side, must be taken down, the wind, blowing from the east, having driven the whole force of the fire against them. Of the origin of the fire nothing is known. The last oc currence at the shed previous to the breaking out of the fire was the loading from it of a cart with sulphur, and before the carter had reached the bottom of Oldhall-street, a distance of a little above arquarter of a mile, his attention was called to the fire at the place which he had just left. That it must have been connected with this delivery of sulphur is apparent from the fact that the fire was first observed at the end of the shed where the sulphur was stowed. No suspicion is ex pressed of anything like incendiarism. It may be re marked as a fortunate circumstance that the building was perfectly isolated. The shed itself, which is about sixty yards in length, is understood to be insured ; but it is pos sible that, even if insured, which is most likely, a The may arise with respect to the property destroyed. The da mage (exclusive of the building) cannot be fixed at less than 20,000/. DEATH OP MAJOR-GENERAL SIR OCTAVIUS CAREY, K.C.H.—We have to announce the death of the above gallant officer, commanding the Cork district, on Wednesday last, in his 59th year. He was of Norman descent, the family having come to England with William the Conqueror. Mar ried, 1818, daughter of R. P. Le Merchant, Esq., of Guernsey ; entered the army in 1801, as Cornet in the 19th Dragoons, and attained the rank of Major-General, 10th January, 1837 ; created a Knight Commander of the Guelphic Order, 1835, and Knight Bachelor, 1830. A vacancy occurs on the staff in Ireland by his demise. Parties in London, who are thoroughly acquainted with all that concerns the Spanish Treasury "Bonds, appear to doubt the correctnes s o f th e op i n i on expressed in the Madrid letters, that a new creation of Three per Cent. Stock will be necessary to satisfy the claims of the holders, or at any rate to think that if such creation does take place, it will be to such a small amount as to be of no practical im portance. The reasons on which they found this view of the case appear sound enough. In the first place the holders of Treasury Bonds were always entitled to ehange the bonds into Three per Cent Stock at par before the present arrange ment, and therefore the additional creation could only refer to 1111. of the 2111. they are now to receive. In the second place, it is said that in Paris there is a quantity of active coupons which never have been converted, and hence the stock intended to meet them is probably still in existenc e unappropriated. As for any notion that the Treastuy bond holders, have received an unfair advantage by the late ar rangement, that is entirely fallacious. They held a Five per Cent. Bond, with a redemption clause, and arrears of interest due upon it from the year 1836. Without any consideration whatever, they have agreed to give up their redemption clause, to which they attached great importance, and also the arrears of interest from 1836 to 1 For the other arrears of interest they receive stock to the nominal amount of 45/., and for the principal of 1001. they receive 166/. 138. 4d., which is only such an increase of capital as to yield three per' cent. as much as 100/. would at five per cent. They have thus, far from gaining any new advantage, given up advantages they clearly possessed ; and as for the increase of capital, that can scarcely be taken into consideration, as the stock is irredeemable.— Times. FRESH AIR AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY.----In Dr. Reid's recently published work on ventilation, he adduces some very curious facts, to prove the effects and advantages of the ftee circulation of fresh air. •Some of the, advantages are, indeed, of a questionaLle character, since he asserts that improved vemtilation sharpens the appetite, and makes a man much more hungry than he is in a vitiated atmosphere. Nay, he goes so far es to state that many Of the popular discon tents end- " strikes" of workmen Toi higher wages may be attributed - to the increase of their appetites by additional fresh air. This; indeed, offers but little inducement in these times for. improving the ventilation of the dwellings of the poor, who will not thank the GoVaramant for making thein more hungry unless also prepared to staisfy their craving appetites. Air scams to be, by Dr, Reid 's account, a very expensive luxury, for it produces thirst as well as hunger, and enables a man to drink ?our times his usual quantity of wine without knowing it. In proof of this, the, Doctor mentions a trick, or as he calls it, "an experi ment,' that he performed on a conclave of fifty philosophers at Edinburgh. He got them to assemble in a room fitted with his ventilating apparatus, and after dinner he plied thew so bountifully with fresh air, which was sometimes perfumed with orange flowers, and sometimes with lavender, that the philosophers drank fbur times more wine than their host had provided for them, and it became necessary to send convey ances to and fro to supply the extra demand. The Doctor says that this excess was not followed by any headache, nor were the men of science aware they had drank more thin k usual ttritil the tavern-keeper presented hii ajt INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT BILL This Bill was read a second time. The Gaming Transactions ( Witnesses' Indemnity) Bill was read a third time and passed. I RISH REGISTRATIONS. Lord ELIOT gave notice that, on Thursday, the 28th, he would move for a Bill to regulate the Parliamentary franchise in Ireland ' • also, for a Bill to amend the Mu n i c ip a l Corpora tions (Ir eland ) Act. The House then adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'Clock. SALE OF THE DUKE OF DEVON SHIRE'S COLLECTION OF COINS AND MEDALS. Yesterday this splendid collection was submitted to public competition by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their rooms, King-street, St. James's. All the well known Savans and Antiquaries were present, and the bidding continued very brisk during the entire day. Mr. Manson, on opening the sale, observed that he had to offer one of the m os t sp l en did co ll ect i ons ever exhibited in this country, though many persons were of opinion that such a collection ought not to be broken up, yet he thought far g rea t er a d vantage wou ld b e afforded to science and the arts by its diffusion. The collection was to be sold without reserve, with the ex ception of one lot. The sale then cominenced, i n l o t s , o f G ree k copper co ins of the several cities of a nc i en t G reece , b ut t h ey did not bring high prices, varying from one guinea to two guineas and a half the lot. I n th e G ree k s il ver there were many . beautiful specimens, parti c ularly th e Syracuse medallion head of a female laureated, sur mounted by four dolphins —reverse figur e , " F r i ga , above a victory , " below a li on runn i ng . Thi s i s very fine, the old medallion of Syracuse is very rare, only one having been sold in this c ountry, w hi ch b rought 1251. ; and it was only within the last three years the British Museum possessed one. After great competition it was knocked down at forty-one guineas. There were many beautiful specimens in Greek gold, amongst which were, the Head of Apollo, on th e reverse au Eagle standing upon a thunderbolt. Agathocles, head of Pallas hel metted—reverse, thunderb o l t , very fine. Those did not bring high prices. The Imperial Greek copper coin brought, in lots, very fair prices, varying from two guineas to five. The Roman weights were a very cu rious collection. Upon each side of " The As" was a thunderbolt, a fish, a helmetted head, a female head, a tortoise, a wheel, the head of Mercury. These brought very fair prices. In the Roman middle brass there were many fine em blematic specimens of ancient Rome, such as Mark Antony and Cleopatra face to face, with A ugustus on t h e reverse, all of which brought high prices. The Roman large brass comprised many exquisite specimens, and the prices they brought was but a due estimate of their value. Amongst them were the h ea d s o f P om p e y, J u li us Cxsar, Augustus Tiberius, ne w an d many ot h ers . Th e Roman Consular silver sold well, particularly that of Emilia, the restored coin by Trajan, scarce and rare, an d t h ose legionary coins of Antonia. The Roman Imperial silver were objects of great competition, and admired.dw e e a r r e ing gre t a h t e ly ileadsof Augustus, Claudius, Domitia, Titus, and Nerve, with The el prices n dIl I i ns b the head of Julia ; and on the reverse Vesta seated, were specimens of great curiosity. The last lot was the one rhe brought Roman silver fg h p m r of the greatest interest. It was the Roman Consular and Imperial coins in gold, the sale of which excited the greatest competition, the coins bearing the head of Brutus, which was not much larger than a half sove reign, brought from 16 to 40 guineas ; and even at those prices were most eagerly sought after. The day's sale amounted to upwards of 730/. ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION..IIOUSE.-011 Saturday the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor gave a very splendid entertainment to several of the members of the Court of Common Council and their ladies. The company sat down at half past six o'clock to a table covered with the most delicious dishes. The long parlour was magnificently illuminated, and decorated upon the occasion , and there was some admirable singing by professional persons of both sexes. His Lordship will give dinners on the 19th, the 21st, the 26th, the 28th, and the 30th, to the other Common Council men and their ladies. THE AUTHORSHIP OF " CHA.TSWORTH."—Can any one answer the question that everybody is asking—" Who is the author of Chatsworth ?' " It is evidently a " secret worth knowing," for we have it on the authority of the ac knowledged oracles of the day in such matters, that, whoever he may be, he is, as a writer, " made up of every creature's best." One writer says that his work displays "the wisdom, wordly knowledge, and book learning of the author of Tremaine ;' " another, that it " unites the ideal beauty of Tieck,' the ever fresh nature and charming simplicity of Iloccacio,' and the sparkling brilliancy of Mrs. Gore ;' " a third says, of a single tale of its contents, that it has "more cleverness in the very simplicity of its construction than scores of three-volume pretenders; more beauty and tender ness of design than as many poems;" a fourth declares that " Chatsworth," of its class, is " among the most remarkable productions of the day, if not the most remarkable." Who then, we agai n ask, is the author of " Chatsworth ?" The most experienced and practised critic of the day has pro nounced him, from internal evidence, to be no other than " The author of ' Tremaine ' " himself ; but this Mr. Ward has expressly denied, though without in any manner hinting at the real author, beyond speaking of him as a " valued friend," and "one in point of ability far beyond any assis tance from me." The motive for this mystery, however, we can guess—when we recollect that the work contains many brilliant Portraits, which everybody says are likenesses.— Court Journal. To LADIES.—The high and universal celebrity which Ro w l an d' s K a l y d or continues to maintain, as an active yet mild an d soot hi ng ex ti r pator of all impurities of the skin, is, duri ng th e per i o d o f Spring, most pleasingly evinced. This preparation, eminently balsamic , restorat ive, and invi gorating, is equally unfailing efficacy i n remo ving all impurities and discolours ua ce l e brated for safety in application , as for tion ; and imparting a healthy , freshness and transparency to the Skin and Complexion. Its universa ll y g reat dema nd excites the cupidity of unprincipled shopkeepers, who give the title of " Genuine" Kalydor to compounds of their own manufacture, of the most deleterious character, containing mineral astringents utterly ruinous to the Complexion, and, by their rep e ll an t act i on en dangering health. It is, here fore, imperative on purchasers to see that the words " Row land's Kalydor" are on the wrapper.—All others are fraudu lent Ceunterfeits. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. THE WILL FORGERlES.—Yesterday, William Sanders, the brother-in-law of Mrs. Dorey, and the husband of the woman who is supposed to have represented Emma Slack, the counterfeit relation of Anne Slack, was brought before the Lord Mayor, in the custody of John Forrester the officer, charged with being concerned with others in plundering the Government. Mr. Freshfield,'the Solicitor to the Bank of England, stated that the prisoner had been apprehended as an agent in the case which was under investigation at the Mansion-house, relative to the late will forgeries. It was known to those employed for the prosecution, that the prisoner, his wife, and Mrs. Dorey, the sister of the prisoner's wife, were guilty agents in the transactions which had been for some time under investigation at the Mansion-house ; and John Forrester had been sent to Bristol to take into custody any of those who were be lieved to have participated in the offence. It was im possible to give to the able officers, the two brothers Forrester, too much credit for the manner in which they had been engaged in that matter. The prisoner and his wife had decamped when the prosecutions in which they had been concerned were brought be fore the public, and John Forrester pursued them from place to place, until he at last traced them to Edin burgh, where on Vednesday last he apprehended the prisoner. The object of the prosecutors at present was to give as much evidence as would justify the Lord Mayor in remanding the prisoner until the day on which the other prisoners charged with having been concerned in the conspiracy, are to be brought up for final examination. The case on which the prisoner was accused of having been concerned was, that in which the relative of Mary Hunt was personated. Mary Hunt it appeared, had had three sums of stock in the Bank of England, at the time of her death. She died in the year 1806. Her executors happened to claim no more than two of these sums, and the third was handed over to the Commissioners for the reduction of the national debt. Joshua Fletcher became acquinted with that cir cumstance, and caused the prisoner to personate Thomas Hunt, and to claim the amount under that name. Mr. John William Seaton, produced the document purporting to be the will of Mary Hunt. It was, he said, proved on the 19th of November, 1806, and pur ported to be the will of Mary Hunt, of the city of Bristol, widow, with two codicils. The LORD MAYOR asked the prisoner whether he wished to ask the witness any questions. The prisoner—l shall be prepared on the next day of examination with a solicitor, and I decline asking any question until that time. Francis Joseph Green, of No. 35, Berwick-street, stated that he had known the prisoner 13 years. The prisoner's name was William Sanders, and he lodged at witness's house. The prisoner's wife, and Georgina Richards, and an old lady, the mother of Mrs. Sanders and of Georgiana Richards, were lodging in the house at the time. He believed that it was about nine years ago since the transaction occurred. Edmund Crawley of No. 11 B, Tottenham Court-road, said that he knew the prisoner, to the best of his recol lection. The prisoner resided in his house in March or May, 1842, for about three weeks, in the name of Tho mas Hunt. Understood that the prisoner came to town from Quebec. The prisoner pretended that he had business to transact in London, and he hoped he should be able to return soon. Mr. Thomas Anthony Thatcher, of Doctor's-com mons, stated that Mr. Barber came to him, accompanied by another person, to prove a will. The person who ac companied Mr. Barber gave the name of Thomas Hunt. Witness could not positively swear that the prisoner was the identical man, but he was about the same height and size. Mr. George Wolf, clerk in the public drawing-office of the Bank of England, stated that on the Ist of June, 1842, he paid to the order of Mary Hunt, in favour of Thomas Hunt, the sum of 4251. 12s. To the best of his belief the prisoner, whogave in his name as Thos. Hunt, was the person. The prisoner was then ordered to be remanded till the day on which the other prisoners should be brought up. The LORD MAYOR said he had received a letter which he should wish to be made public, in consequence of the annoyance and embarrassment which the publication would be calculated to prevent. It was as follows : " MALAWNEY, ROUEN. "My Lord,—l have been requested by Messrs. M'Kenzie and Smelley to adopt some means of prevent ing, if possible, the continued ingress of English work men, who, it appears, have been induced by the repre sentations of certain interested individuals, to come over to France in the hope of finding employment on the Rouen and Havre Railway, and I have thought that your Lordship would allow me to address you on the subject, trusting that a notice from your Lordship on the bench might give such publicity to the facts as would prevent the evil which we have so much cause here to regret. . 4 In consequence of some difficulty in the way of pro curing land, the works on the said railway cannot be proceeded with to any extent for some weeks to come, and although there are many men fully employed, hun dreds are actually starving from want of employment, and through the benevolence of the above-mentioned gentlemen, I have to-day, and for the last fourteen days, supplied upwards of 120 poor men, who are wandering about Rouen without work or any prospect of employ ment for some time to come, with food and other means of support. Hoping your Lordship will excuse this liberty with your time and attention, I have the honour to remain, your Lordship's humble and devoted servant, "SAMUEL TACKER. " To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." CLERKENWELL. The number of charges for drunkenness and its con comitant offences, rioting and assaults on the police, was not unusually great at this Court yesterday. The ex tensive and densely populated district over which this Court has jurisdiction includes the worst parts of St. Giles, Saffron-hill, and the low neighbourhoods adjacent to Smithfield. All these localities are chiefly inhabited by the lowest class of Irish, and before Father Mathew commenced his labours they were, on St. Patrick's-day, scenes of debauchery and uproar. On Sunday, however, the shamrock was kept at low water mark, and many a poor fellow who formerly spent his St. Patrick's night at the station-house, on this occasion slept quietly and Soberly at home on Sunday night. Among those charged with drunkenness was an old weather-beaten seaman whose head was whitened with the snows of at least 70 winters. He was found lying insensibly drunk in Islington. The poor old fellow appealed to Mr. Combe, the sitting magistrate, to discharge him, on the ground that he had been wounded in two naval engagements, and had served for years in the ship which the immortal Nelson commanded. The worthy magistrate discharged hm. Mr. William Sameli Roper, a surgeon, residing in Gray's Inn-terrace, was charged with having been drunk and assaulting Police-constable Webb, 106 G, and also Police-constable 110 G. Webb saw the prisoner get out of a cab in Gray's Inn lane, at two o'oclock on that morning. Upon inquiry, the cab-driver informed the officer that he had been driving the gentleman about for the last two hours, and that he (the prisoner) did not seem to know where he was going. The constable accompanied the prisoner to his house, at which he knocked, and when the door was opened refused to enter it, saying it was not his house. He was in liquor, became very insolent, kicked Webb on the shins, attempted to throw him on the pavement, and broke his stick by striking the other officer on the collar bone. The blow hurt him very much, the part having been tender from the bone having been, at one time, broken. Mr. COMBE—What have yon to say to the charge ? Prisoner—Well, really, I cannot recollect anything about it. • Mr. COMBE—You must pay a fine of 11. for the assaults on the constables. Prisoner—l decline paying any money. Mr. COMBE—Then you must go to the Rouse of Cor rection for three weeks.—The fine was paid at once. Two lads, named Smith and Roland, were charged with assaulting two constables of the E division. —Smith was fined 55., and Roland discharged. An old woman, named Anne Burrows*, was brought up on remand, charged with stealing a few pounds of butter. The prosecutor was not in attendance, and Webb, 106 G, the officer who had charge of the case, declared that he believed the statement made by the prisoner on a former occasion, that starvation forced her to commit the offence, was literally true. He had been in her lodging, a garret, in Tash-court, Gray's Inn lane, and had never before seen such squalid misery. There is as not an article of furniture in the place, nor a morsel of food of any description. A few chips, strewn on the floor in a corner of the room, served hor for a bed, and she had neither bla n k e t, or s h ee t, or an y o th er descrip tion of covering, except th e r a g s she wore as wearing apparel. Mr. COMBE said he thought the best course was to send her to the Holborn union workhouse. The unfortunate prisoner embraced the proposal with joyful gratitude, and was sent to the workhouse. Stephen Anser was charged with deserting his three children, whereby they became chargeable to Islington parish. The poor children were found wandering about the street on Tuesday last. It was raining very fast at the time, and the poor children, when asked where they were going to, replied they did not know. They had been turned out of doors. Their mother had likewise abandoned them. Mr. COMBI committed the prisoner for a fortnight. A young man named Reeves, said to be a commercia) traveller, was charged with knocking at the door of Mr. Boddington, an ironmonger, residing in Liquorpond-street, Gray's-inn-lane. He was further charged with damaging the cell at the Bagnigge Wells station-house. The defendant went to the complainant's door on the pre vious night, at which, he knocked so loudly as to disturb the inmates and cause a crowd to assemble. lie was taken into custody. About two o'clock in the morning the constable on reserve at the station-house heard a noise in the cell in which the prisoner was locked up, and on opening the door saw the prisoner cutting the door-post, which the carpenter said he damaged to the value of 2s.—The prisoner was fined 7s. LAW INTELLIGENCE. UNION-HALL. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 18. Ekmbeth Thompson, dressed in style, late in the service of Their Lordships sat to-day in a Committee for Privi- Mr. • Lancaster, a gentleman h o ldi ng a s it ua ti on i n th e C ensor ' s loges. The Peers present were th e L or d Ch ance ll or , th e tfice, was charged, b e f ore M r . T ra il!, w ith s t ea li ng a po c k e t- Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord K en y on , L or d S on d es , ' book, contai n i ng fi ve five-pound Bank of England notes, the propertMarter. Viscount Strangford, the Marquis Camd en , and the It app eared that the complainant missed his pocket-book, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. containing the above sum of money, on his return from his FITZWALTER BARONY. office at Whitehall, and thought he was either robbed of it, Witnesses were examined on the part of the claimant r had dropped it on the way home. He had bills circulated to this Barony, and the further consideration of the claim offering a reward, and had also given notice at the Bank of the was adjourned till after Easter. numoers o_ the notes. One of th e 5/. no t es was pa id i n a t the Bank, and this led to the detection of the prisoner as the DRUM3IOND V. WALDROND. person who had stolen the money. Suspecting a discovery, The further arguments in this part-heard appeal were th e p r i soner h ast il y l e ft h er s i tuat i on, and was taken into resumed, but not having concluded at four o'clock, the custody on Saturday night, having expended a considerable further consideration of the case was adjourned till to- sum of the money on expensive articles of dress. She also morrow (this day.) gave a portion of sum to a female of her acquaintance. The pocket-book which contained the money was subse quently found to have been thrown down the water closet. The prisoner, who said nothing in her defence, was remanded. Henry Coe, a policeman of the L division, was charged with embezzling various sums of money, the property of Mr. Freeman, the Mayor of Norwich. The prisoner had been in the service of Mr. Freeman at at Norwich, and having left his situation it was discovered that he had embezzled various sums of money, the property of his employer. The prisoner came up to town, and being a stout young man contrived to get into the L division of the metropolitan police, in which he had remained until his ap prehension on the present charge. Mr. TRAILS, said that as the offence was committed at Norwich he should send the prisoner there. The prisoner, who said nothing in answer to the charge was then taken off in custody. QUEEN'S-SQUARE. Mr. Henry Cook, a young man, was charged with creating a disturbance yesterday afternoon in Queen-Square Yard, and with drawing a small clasp knife and threatening to rip up the policeman who took him into custody ; Mr. Cook, his father, with endeavouring to rescue him ; and George Crawley, a lad about 13 years of age, with throwing dirt at the police man, and using disgusting language. Mr. H. Cook was . fined 21. 10s., Mr. Cook, 1/., and Crawley 1/. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. .000 LONDON, Marten 18.-Wind this day at Wool from E.N.E., and fine clear weather. Se Calcutta ; M i aat as e c i a i r, l7 s .- he l d V d i a n n d , s Ctreoynigo.n7AErrindm. DaioNroethwelly,ork oo:, Bremen ; Eleonore Sophie, Sopren, Brazil for „ 00 ,10 37 days. Ski. British Empire, Madras; Rosebertl,„Tod, St' John Edward, Calcutta; Druid, Barbadoes; por t betirA John's, New Brunswick ; and the rest of the outwgsriTe..„s4 PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 17.-Wind a -, if 1 04; Singe, China; Pekin, Madras; Gladiator, Is° H.M.S. Tortoise, Plymouth. Cowzs, MARCH 17.-Std. Richmond, Havaluntil blowing a gale at East. •- ; OFF ST. ALBAN'S, MARCH 16.-Caroline, Tboei OFF THE WIGHT, MARCH 15.--Godiacu 3, " 1 " Trident, Porto Rico for Hamburgh. Pe' a _ vat, Al a PLYMOUTH, MARCH 17.-Wind idol; - St. Domingo for Antwerp. Sid. Martha, lu o A Baltimore ;Virginia, Boston. Off port, Pekal•_,„__Ciffr_ A FALMOUTH, MARCH 17.-Wind E. violent PD T *: L oom Amicitia, Michaelson, Havannah for Intwerp. . 11 " , a violent gale at East. BRISTOL, MARCH 16.-Arrd. Neptune, CamP u - 11 'u t C . , 1 1 01''; Sld. Nestor, Africa; Eliza, Jamaica; 3liraml l+ 0" New Brunswick. slatifte' d o BRIXIIAM, MAr.cir 17.-The wind, yeeterds9, , a ble":1 denly from S.W. to S.S.E. and E., and it hag O'n c i v erpr, a desperate gale. The Hibennia, from London ° be westL is ashore on Paynton Sands, but expected off if t T moderates-crew saved. A copper-bottoined brig „ o ral' ashore at Broadsands, and has become a w reck--cr e j or k, t' sfi l The stern of a boat, marked " Fortune, Jarnl ot tans, been picked up ; also a green baize, marked a wl ' a bible, with " James, 1843," on it. Several larg e riding heavily, amongst them the Elizabeth Hunt mast from Sheilds to Marseilles, with loss of fore-t°L,4 bowsprit, having been in contact with a brig to lee,"; .; bo s t: s carried away her foremast, which lies over h er 'og, vessels are riding very heavily. The barque s i s i voit or, Tagus, from Shields to Naples, and a brig, g° , t N atifl° l/ ' side the pier, in running for the harbour. The Pa ° about twenty sail are in the bay. PWLLIIELI, MARCH 16.-It is blowing a heavYdoarei S.E. The Mary Ann, from Port Madoc to Len der ira ashore this morning, in a sinking state, and is sichr_,., The Thomas, of Amwlch ; the smack Silliam a f„d Or d , of Bangor ; and the Castle, Lady of the Lake , 0101 all of Aberystwith, came ashore on the beach twa cal; The schooner Miriam, of this port ; the MT° , arl ibrig) , of Nevar ; a French brig ; and the Whitehav ea tY riding wel at Abersach. Very little of the ~ i . Caroline has yet been saved. d° 0, Morrraosu, MARCH 15.-The Petrel, hence .7. 40 , 0 0 going out this morning, took the ground ia 'Ada The Chase, London to Sunderland, is also ash or Lb. Eston Nab, from London to Stockton, is on the ,n; (be' o DUBLIN, MARCH 15.-A copper-bottomed ..7.0 up), with loss of rudder, and copper very on the 12th ult., in lat. 47, lon. 13, by the Lad,/ 0 rived here from St. Michael's. 7 fresh' yob' 1 W" d E LIVERPOOL, MARCH 16 AND -..- NO 01 Hero of Sidon, New Orleans ; Garrick, Fra° l4 oar* 0 0 Richmond, Thomas, Halifax. Off, Ambassado r, c o ke A Penang and Sanderson, China; Harrison, Chilton:A.4ol7; Cleofrid and Satisfaction, Ca Pe of Good Hope,_!,oProp!! Georgina, Arica ; Chimborazo, Valparaiso ; oiy; Ayres ; Pythagoras, Rio ; Lydia, Bahia ; Nnt' t ai; Campbell and Isabel, Africa ; Enterprise, Vera,. Sto ; Duke, New Orleans ; Hero of Acre, Savanna° , Baltimore ; Elizabeth Ann and Mazeppa, 31° . Birkenhead, New York ; Moslem,' Port au Prn,L e noli wick, St. Andrew's; Corsair, Newfoundland ;„ . ./T r ia? , ; John's, New Brunswick; D'Arcy, Batavia; p c ' . Trai i • c li of Good Hope ; Emulous, Vera Cruz ; Adriana, Barbadoes ; St. Martin, St. John's, Ne w le Sarah Fleming, Montreal ; Eleanor; New Orlesasi Cambridge, and John Cuming, New York. 0 1 EAST INDIA SHIPPING..„ 000 Arrivals.-Collingwood, Gutheke, from _„vi i tr a ita_ Land, in the London Docks, sailed from Ifoinr,„,„ al 10, Penambuco Feb. 9 ; Neptune, Campbell,,, 7 10 - i s at Bristol, sailed Sept. 27, Cape Jan. 3, St. Dorothea, Smith, from Bengal, in the Wes t • thoP ° 3 o Wilson,l3o,lo sailed Nov. 17 ; Lascar, Sheddan, from Ceylon , in ra paao sailed Oct. 31, Cape, Jan. 9 ; Caroline, Ware, f r° * ' t" 10 ; Sa rk off the Wight, sailed Dec. 6, Cape Jan. ov a from Manilla, off the Start, sailed in August, 9a Cape Dec. 27 ; St. Helena Jan. 19. 21 frote Oct. Arrivals at Hobart Town.-Tobago, - T ' cat . Philip, and sailed 28th to Portland Bay; rit° ll :, from the Tejees ; Amelia, Nov. 2, from Sydn e . , ' and Thames, Bth, from London. Alblas Departures from Hobart Town.-Joseph and Osprey, 24th, to New Zealand; Petri >s Whaling; Joanna, 20th, to Twofold Bay; d u o' ; 24th, to Mauritius ; Lord Petre, Nov. 1, t,ozeaelf, chester, 3d, to Port Philip ; Mandarin, to Ne w pct. 25 ' Arrivals at Launceston.-Lady Twofold Bay ; Williams, 31, from Sydney; cr# from London; Hyderabad, 3d, from Sydag . , 20, ;1; 1 ;0 Departures from Launceston.-Annie, °,„„" „ Mary , Pelhae l, , IA River and India ; Sir John Franklin, to Ne!'",";.l,oolii Oct. 20, to Sydney ; Henry and Mona, loadiagj p ors' Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope. • Jan. 9, from London ; Science, from Algoa Pk' 'AV MARKET NEWS.(YESt 6gI) , d dr CORN-EXCHANGE- welt ogee The very finest qualities of Wheat fresh alk oa disposed of at prices about equal to those ob n rai ces dide day last. All other qualities had, in some in st . l . ° 2l de2ll ward tendency, without, however, being observed in their general quotation. 'Lod. Wheat, free of duty, previous rates were Grain underlock, prices were nominal. Wit u , a ny actas of yo of the finest Malting Barley being held wat ~,ly r e ar Barley trade was in a very sluggish state,- at v. - A0 00,4 currencies. For Malt there was no alteration 19 the quotations. The beet Scotch Oats were Irish were to be purchased on somewhat easier teiri as and Peas at late rates. Flo ur a t b are ly lasi yrZ 0 0, tod CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL plea'" . 0 0 WHEAT-Essex & Kent, iMALT-Cheroe r " and gati red ..... 448 to 63. OATS-..Yorkshir e Ditto, white Norfolk and Lin Potato° ........... coin, red 42s to 49s Youghall sou c . . 0 ;is Ditto wh ite 4ss to 588 black 0; 0 Irish, red..... ..... 47. to 508 Cork, whin_, •••• . 44 ,0 Ditto white RYE-Old 214 to 335, Bitaws-Tic..... so `' New 36s to 38s Peas- Grey ••••'" BAREST-Grinding 2ss to 2161 Maple •••••"*... ....° S ys Malting Chevalier 32s to 35a Boilers.•••••••Vc "ll lt4 MALT - Suffolk and Nor F m ovx-Town ... 1 9 folk s6s to 628 Suffo Brown 506 to 548 Stockton Kingston and Ware 568 to 62s Ti 4.13 0 09,4 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUs... a WHEAT—DantZie 511 to 65s'Bitsive ....... 09 , r Hamburgh 36a to 40s Pma •'".. " Sp BARLEY 3OB to 53s FLova-Amer ! • OATS-New ........ 15s to 178 Baltic . . ...... 0 , Feed l4. to 16s de l6l t SECITHPUIL33. " The Beef trade was unusually heavy, a- 1 1, per realised B ,bs . fo r T thee Muttonbest week's currencies of fully 2d per Blbs., the very g ti Se° t ts rad a q uite 8 1 9 5 a to altered figures-the best old Downs selling cinar - ,81 0 " trade dwhasomneo-tbreds be-- o tare r Bl, Calves at late rates. The Pork trade Is r :r o , or A steady at our quotation, Lambs at from4s, OP, Per Elbe. to sink the OA 0 s ' s, d. to e. 1.1 4 Inferior 8ea5ti0........ 2 4 2 6 1 Interior SheeP•oo.o JO 6 Second quality ditto... 2 8 2 le; Second (10 0 „ 1 „ A ditto' Prime large Oxen......Coarse-weeu.,7 4 ,00 elo 4, Prime Scots. sic. Large coarse Calves 3lO 4 81 Large Hole••••" .. . .49- Prime small ditto 4 8 410 Small P o rkers Suckling Calves, each 18 128 0 I Quarceroki Fir' I s SUPPLY AT MARLIT. , Boasts. I Sheep. I Calve Calves. l ) 3,0113 I 23,230 63 Alp. NEIXTGATE AND I.3IIIADS_ A I f e d 10, 4 . Generally speaking, th e M ea t trade has twtle." no variation of moment has occurred in the qu ota a. 0 : At per stone , by the Carcase /9,6 s o a. d. to.. d.l a ds t" f Beef, ineeri0r....... ---- middling 2lO 30% w awa- n a - prime large - prizae"3o . !; 6 -- prime small . 3 4 36i Pork, Isellit"•;... , •••• Veal ........»....» 3 6 4 10! ----En 4 Lamb, 4. Jim to 6s. ed st v ox 04 0 0 . ARRIVALS DURING THE PA Cs lveaf Beasts. Sh/elx Scotland l5 .7, r 0 Yorkshire ........... ........ 17 '`" Norfolk • 9 100 •-• 1, 1 1 Suffolk 7 96 •••• Cambridgeshire 16 140 00 Essex l4 250 170 Surrey lO 0 0 03 Devonshire Wiltshire Other parts Total. l3f y,•10 4 40 .010) Previous week's arrival.... 11l I ' 92° *" . 51 , c ipr Difference since our last... 20 _ 0 6 4 BOROUGH AND syrrii-7. the nriasii The arrivals of Potatoes in the Pool sio" fo ta! j d JP . have amounted to about 3,750 tons, lu , ',„ d ce good condition. The best descriptionsin7pria. ; iOl O other kinds slowly, at but little varr i galgirridaig BOROUGH HOP bu stoils CIW Although there is not quite so muacilild 01:9.0,t pe kind of Hops as of late, the don steady, at, in most instances, full quotati..„ ..„ n tee P P WOOL stAsgl‘ h g . St Privately a steady business is doing , th e 6 0 lie sales are advertised. 'celi' ; ‘ l 2 , AlY TALLOW tO td This market continues very te -- three dd and for the Autumn. It is very raw' t h e 1 10 O _l Ae 11: 1 7 .4 Y.C. at the quotation of 41s 3d, and for „ h e trlolf of the year at 41 s 9d. Th e demand fror a oi? cj alk is certainly ve r y li m it e d, an d the continafiflarao6o delivery leads us to think that the to 41r is anything but good. Town Tallow is e" __...-------------- 0,01 DIED. ~ 41 013 " 9 On the sth inst., at Croydon, Mary . ; the W l ' e - of oo ll ton, brewer, &c., aged 47. h 9 00 .1 On board the Hibernia, Mr. John ENTag-, ot, ,:deoi gr l ii , _ r Captain Eveleigh, R.N. On the 30th of December, off M0nt5,,,."...0, sfr i jit , Baughan, of her Majesty's steam- frigate ~,1, On the 10th inst., at 13ath, the Rev. J• '`'' AO' ;,0 of Buekland, and Keishall, Herts. v o nteg ie t f P /t On the 19th inst ., at Eton College, , - pot., u ti eldest son of Sir Montague John CholnivY ' figl Hall. onion On the 13th inst., at Gravesend, Joshua C_ of Bruce-terrace, Tottenbam,ardir I;'611A ' viir , DO ' ° AO , . 1 1 London: Printed and Published by gu- - o toce , pti No 112, Strand, Printer, at 77se u's, the Strand, in the nd, precinct of the Savoy, in Middlesex. Tuesday, March 19, 044. 1k T. A wit.-ENER, 71t ikzu —. `"rinl, en in wit .Nttrundon comn ktei s ZPWY Sabin 446et t u n g . —bra. Con! • " W. a Drell Han' Jonel Mast Pres( 1 Roba Roge S ton( Twfu toth.;(l..on and i Stral d to, uommer Iq Contri 71)tike order, • c RICIL ll twelve me tot, Richmond t4lttl4° hereby 1 *f Ilaukn to.chi, %p ot l roitt all h estate 144,, Pttl77,eby flint rell“e loit shall ._4! 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TwnTanowis- 'O, P g.' BIRTHS. phill'• 0, JO On the sth inst., the lady of Johns hone „, ro- Culh n atn , Oxfordshire, of a daughter. J. i " 41 On the 9th hist at B I -ger , A'''' t. tll. liiai , ou og-ne-sur of a daughter. . DittP, sf 4 On the 13th hist., at Newton St. Loe, er, the Rev. Edward llolland. of a daughter. „ , 9 0 i On the 13th inst., at Westbourne-grove, Pa/ Chdr Henry Walker, of a daughter. , oo rnte'd A l'° l3 l On the 14th inst., at Christchurch rg no rtt , '', ,, .... (.:::::::5:::_ i:nst o , _Glou i cestershire, the lady of the Rev. S. Gr G° ll ',,': e aor9 wife of NI , !Mem Manson, Esq., of a daug., in Portugal-street, ht"' Ail: e ll Li MARRIED. 6670 el ii, On the 9th inst., at St. Vincent, Willianicooline: 01i1i.,, Esq., late Captain in the Army, to Eerily Ai o f thir o iott7, daughter of J. P. Ross, Esq., Solicitor -G-6°1.i,, Wi'et,is4',o On the 9th inst., at the church of St. Jarl s l ; rr igter -J `vie cer Henry H. Griffin, of Lincoln's Inn, DO- , ' f st• .3 1:901., ° 'OP Ellen, widow of the late W. Sheduen, - F itt .0 street, Glasgow. ir Will it4l3l o fr, On the 13th inst., at Tenterden, Kent, --r• 4- gr. oc' ' Hythe, to Sarah Weston, eldest daughter of V 'O , Itsp i ' 0 0) liireh, of the above place. chat V * On the 14th inst. at St. Luke's church, sort. t os shire, James Dyce ' Nicol, Esq., 1r Of f 10 1 to Katherine, second daughter of Edward Lo., Ds t ,ft) Manchester. Pere/ fe of 13adentoP , Fig, , On the 14th inst., at St. John's, ru/hatr,!.._ _ w oe* EN., of Gloucester-crescent, to Caroline 'O,ll/1!,,. daughter of A. J. Kempe, Esq., F. 5. ., of Fu lbi"' of f -,rid ,A