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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1844. clause the labour there was excessive, and they had the means I said, and he (Lord J. Russell) had heard manufacturers de of enforcing it in the case of those children. He doubted clue the same thing, that it was their opinions that if the whether it would be wise to interfere in other cases, but where corn-laws were totally repealed, the consequence would be 200 or 300 were brought together, and where they had an op- I that labouring persons would declare they would not remain in portunity of giving them instruction, he thought they were j factories longer than for ten hours a day. Why, if that was ustitled in interfering.—( Hear, hear.) With regard to women the case , those ten hours ' labour would onl y produce the he was quite aware that the law made a distinction in their j same quantity of manufactured articles which would be pro case. There were circumstances with regard to the female i duced if the Noble Lord's proposal took place. And they sex which rendered it desirable that their labour shouldbe re- stated that increased demand for the articles, and consequent stricted. But still, so high was the principle of non-inter- J enhancement of the price, would take place under that state ference with labour that it was said they ought not to inter- jof things. Without going the whole length of that proposie fere in this case, where the parties determined for themselves I tion, he (Lord J. Russell) took it, that a great altera what should be the nature of their occupation. He con- , tion of the corn-laws, by which a larger quantity fessed that a departure from the great principle of non-inter- of food would be intr oduced into the country, would ference he acquiesced in with great doubt and hesitation. j promote the welfare of the manu f ac turin g classes, They curtailed the hours of labour in cases of females to twelve •as well as the general prosperity of the country. That was his hours ; but this arose from the effect of the law, which they j opinion, but he owned he thought that if they were entirely to passed, limiting the hours of labour of children. Men could take away the corn-laws, it was doubtful that those conse not work alone in cotton factories. They were anxious to ; quencea would follow, and that there would be an immediate work, but it was impossible for them to do so long, as the em- I reduction to ten hours' labour. He much doubted whether ployment of children was restricted ; they would work 15 the anxiety of parents to send their children to obtain more hours a day, but could not do so, because the child ren were wa g es would not in many cases lead to a greater employment prevented from working. The consequence was, that women tha n now took p lace. At all events, having those opinions, were employed as a s ubstitute for children ; but that was in he did not think that his Noble Friend was making a proposi consequence of the law which they had made on the subject.— tion extremely injurious to the country in proposing a Ten ( Hear, hear. ) They imposed upon the master the necessity of Hours' Bill. He (Lord John Russell) had not meant to have employing females, and they gave inducements to the females entered upon this subject at all. The question, as stated by to labour which they would not have if not for their enact • his Noble Friend, was rather an abstract question, and the meats. New that was an argument against their interference reply of the Right Hon. Gentleman was rather to the abstract even with the labour of children.—( Hear, hear.) But he was parts of that question. But at the same time it was extremely inclined to think the reports of the Factory Inspectors showed I difficult to enter upon that abstract discussion, without alluding that the evils of legislation had been less than usual in to those practical propositions which had been made to the these cases ; but he thought the mischief of interfe- House. He should content himself, then, with declaring that rence should be limited to these cases. Few mills he could not vote with the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Roebuck), worked more than twelve hours, and all that his Right Hon. and that he thought the best law that could he made upon Friend proposed was to prevent women from working more this subject would be one confining interference to persons than twelve hours. The master-manufacturers were not ad- under twenty-one years of age working ten hours a day. verse to that.—( Hear, hear.) The great body of them were in Mr. WARD thought he was perfectly right in giving notice f a vour of it. The factory inspectors were in favour of it. It of his intention to divide on the 32d clause, which contempla ed was an exception from what ought to be the general rule, and j the interference he so much dreaded. He agreed with the the advantages of it in certain cases would be great; but het Noble Lord the Member for London, that when he interfered thought it was an exception, and almost the only one, and it he should like to see his way. He (Mr. Ward) would like grew out of their former legislation. These were the reasons very much to see his way, but that was a thing he could not do which induced him to give the proposition his full and cordial if he followed the Noble Lord, nor did he believe that the Noble support. He regretted that the Noble Lord had anticipated the Lord himself clearly saw his way. —( Hear, hear, and a laugh. ) discussion, whieh would more properly arise when the He ( Mr. Ward) could not see any good result that would fol. proposition of the Nob'e Lord came before the House ; low from those new principles laid down by his Hon. Friend hut believing that the principle of the Noble Lord, near him. Although they might make out a case to a certain if carried out, would diminish the comforts of extent for protecting children—and in granting that he the people and impair their moral character, and thinking granted a great deal—yet he was not sure that that it, was due to the respect and integrity of the Noble in the Act of 1833 it was all plain sailing. They Lord, and to the just weight which generally attached to his had ascertained, from the reports of the inspectors, that opinions, he was desirous of not delaying in giving, perhaps, l the first operation of that Act was to drive 10,000 children an impolitic, but at any rate a sincere reply to the arguments from good to worse employment—from the factories to the which he brought forward.—( Cheers.) coal mines—and many of the statements on which that mea- Lord J. RUSSELL said that the Right Hon. Gentleman sure was founded had been since ascertained to be exaggerated. who had just sat down reminded him of a speech made by Mr. He could not but feel surprised that the Noble Lord, and those Wyndham, who talked for some time on one side of a question who supported him, so loquacious out of the House, were so and then on the other, and at last turned round to a friend who silent in it, after the speech of the Hon. and Learned Member Sat behind him and asked which way he should vote.—( Much for Bath.—( Hear, hear.) Some of the charges of the Noble laughter and cheers.) He thought that some of the arguments ' Lord had recently been proved to be utterly unfounded. He used by the Hight Hon. Gentleman against his Noble Friend held in his hand a paper containing the results of inquiries as (Lord Howick) would be spared if he kept before his mind the 1 to no less than 412 of the principal factories in this country. vote which he was prepared to give.—( Hear, hear.) He The Noble Lord had stated that out of 61,000 females who could not see how the Right Hon. Gentleman could speak as he were employed in factories, there were only 10,000 married did in favour of non-interference with labour, and still vote for women whose husbands worked in some factories. Now new principle which interfered with labour, and even I out of 10,000 married females included in this statement, adult labour. If the Right Hon. Gentleman meant to vote there were 5,000 husbands who were employed in the same not only with the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath, but, if, ifactories as their wives ; 3,400 more were employed having succeeded by a majority, he gave notice of a motion to in other branches of manufacture all connected with factories, repeal the Act of 1833, then he could understand all the former and all were contributing their share towards the support of their part of the speech. The arguments of the Right Hon. Gee- families. Well, then, the Noble Lord talked of ill health arising tleman were very eloquent for the purpose of shaking the Act from constant standing, privation of pure air, and other causes ; of 1833, but he (Lord J. Russell) did not agree in the conclu- but it might be shown that this argument would apply equally sion of the Right Hon. Gentleman. But he did not see how to other branches of industry. He spoke of accidents. Why the Right Hon. Gentleman could reproach his Noble Friend, this paper proved that the accidents arising out of factory because he thought it was time to interfere with labour, and labour were beyond all comparison fewer than those which oc eveu parental care, when he himself interfered with the labour curred in any other employment. He said that the married and industry of the country. The Right Hon. Gentleman women were preferred, not because the labour was more suited asked his Noble Friend whether he was in favour of a law to them, or because they would work for the least wages, but which would compel attendance at church. He ( Lord John i because they were more attentive and docile than unmarried Revell) thought he knew of an interference Proposed, not by females, and thus, he said,the virtues of the female were made the his Noble Friend, but by the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, means of her injury. The mistake was, that the Noble Lord in the course of last year—an inteference which could not' be said they had a choice. It was his peculiar error that the carried into effect without violatiug liberty of conscience, and matter depended on that House.—( Hear, hear. ) In no branch which would place the education of the whole of the factory of industry was female labour excluded. In agricultural pur children under the Bishops and clergy of the Established suits, and in every other branch of industry, women were corn- Church.—( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman said pelted to do something for the support of their families ; and if they interfered in this case, hose could they carry their in- he declared it to be his conscientious belief, that the women and g people employed in factories were infinitely better off, as terference into those trades, with regard to which the Pun labour was more irksome and the confinement more unwhole- regarded wages, and morals, and comfort, than almost any some than it was with regard to factory labour. In the first other class.—( Hear, hear.) A gentleman who had recently place, he thought there was nothing to show that the Act of visited the factory of Mr. Ashton, expressed his astonishment 1833 had been mischievous, he thought it was beneficial, and on leaving it, that the Noble Lord should wish to interfere with sill lately it was thought to be of advantage to the working- such a system. He had never listened to a speech with more classes and their children. He had seen two arguments against curiosity than he had felt on hearing that of the Noble Lord, the proposition of his Noble Friend (Lord Ashley ). The first I the Member for Sunderland. He had thought that if the was that they ought not to interfere with labour at all. The matter could be made intelligible, it would be made so by that second was, that their interference had been so very useful that Noble Lord. But he seemed to him only to have made darker everything they wished had been effected. With regar d t o that which was dark enough before.—( Hear, hear.) He could those employments to which the !tight Hon. Gentleman alluded, not possibly comprehend the grounds on which they were to the o fustian-cutters," and " pin -makers," and with which interfere with the present system. The working men had been they had not interfered by Acts of Parliament, the hours of asked if they would chance it. The heads of families were labour were more protracted ; while in those cases which they too prudent he hoped to do that. No man had regulated by Act of Parliament, they found, c on - could answer for the result of adopting the Noble currently with sufficient wages, wholesome employment. Lord's proposal. That education and religion had not Why that was not an instance to quote as conclusive agai ns t been properly attended to, and that efforts should be made to interference by Act of P arliament. That was not a n instance to secure a better s y stem of drainage and police, they all admitted; Meese how injurious all interference was. But in the next place, but the only question was, whether it was certain that they Jae said he limited interference in this case—as all legislation would improve the condition of the working man by restricting was linaited—by the principle that you might interfere where the hours of labour. It seemed to him that this was the most more good than harm was effected by such interference.— singular, cruel, and unwise experiment, which had ever sug- Hear hear.) He thought that the Secretary of State had gested itself to the minds of practical legislators.—( Hear, taken that principle that night. The Right Hon. Gentleman hear.) Even documents on which the Noble Lord had relied had said that they naturally interfered in factories—that they slid not bear out his views. The Noble Lord had quoted, on were large establishments, where the inspectors could enter several occasions, the evidence of Mr. Horner. The Hon. and make their investigations without any exercise of tyranny Member then quoted a reprint of Mr. Horner, who said that he —without any interference with the professional business ; had visited a great number of factories within the last whereas there were some employments in which it was im- four years, and he considered it his duty to say that the possible to interfere without inconvenience and without great statements of oppression and ill health were greatly exagge tyranny, and, in short, without much greater evil than good rated. The mass of persons employed in factories were well being produced. What was their ptinciple of criminal law clothed, well fed, and healthy. He had voted with the :They transported a person, or sent him to prison, b ecause Noble Lord last year against the employment of women in l ie had stolen a loaf. Why, there were persons who committed mines, because that was a question of morality ; but because he acts of ingratitude, and who brought their benefactors to an thought the interference in this case would be attended with in untimely grave by their persecutions and ill conduct, and who jurious results, he should give it his decided opposition. were far more guilty--far more criminal—than the poor man Lord ASHLEY said that an Hon. Member had made so who stole the loaf. Yet they did not proceed by law to punish direct a challenge to him that it was indispensably necessary }aim as they did the other ; and why so ? Because if they for him to take up the time of the House with some observa attempted such interference, and went through all the transact- tiont. He would not now travel into the part of the question Lions of private life—though they would find more guilt, which he had already discussed upon the 15th of last month. more real criminality—their interference would do more harm He hoped that in the few observations which he had to make, he than good ; and, because, in the other case they could easily should not be provoked to imitate the language which had point their finger to the man who stole the loaf. There was I been used towards him. He thought the question was too im an overt act. Whereas, if they went into the various relations portant, too mighty, to: be interrupted by poor and miserable of private life, though they would find more criminality of con- t personalities. In referring to the authorities produced before the ducto et their interference would destroy the peace and har- Committee of the House of Commons in 1837, he found it mony of social life, and be productive of greater evil.—( Hear, t stated, without contradiction, that the employment of women hear.) The same principle they should apply in this case. in the factories was detrimental to health, and often destructive Whenever he thought he could see that he would do of morals. (The Noble Lord then read extracts from the evi good then he would interfere • but when he dence taken before the Committee , but in a tone so ra p id and ctid not see that good would result from interference indistinct that it was impossible to follow him.) He had had then he would stop.—( Hear, hear.) The same rules communications with Mr. Henry Ashworth, and the reply of wbont were adopted with regard to criminal legislation, he that gentleman was not of a nature to satisfy him that his state would apply to the present case. In the year 1833, the first loments were erroneous. In a further correspondence with Mr. tpleatioe: was, whether they would interfere at all. Looking Ashworth, he stated that, upon all inquiries, he had found back to tiat period, he thought he hail then said that Govern- that his former statements were borne out. Upon the most -merit were quite agreed as to the appointment of a C o mmission j careful examination that he could give to all the statements, to investigate the subject. That Commission reported certain written and verbal, which had been made to him, he had ar propositions, which, in the Bill which was then passed on the rived at the conclusion that his representations in the House subject, were carried much farther. Among other things, had been understated rather than overstated. The statement they advised the Government not to be deterred by the saying which he had made respecting the employment of women that the thing was impracticable and impossible, because it was was fully borne out by all the evidence, and it the custom to apply those words to whatever was considered in- was clearly proved that the proportion f women eonvenient to certain parties, and contrary to usual custom. and young persons employed had been greatly in- Now, what was the statement o. that Commission with regard creased since the year 1839. With respect to the to the employment of young children ?—what faults did they difference of age of those employed in the manufacturing and observe ? First, the common, general deterioration of the those employed in the agricultural districts, it should be recol ihysical co ns titution, and the production of general ITted that only 8 per cent. of the working people in the ma totis.eee e ; secondly, the exclusion from the means nufacturing districts were above 40 years of age, whilst of obtaining education, moral and religious, or the those employed in the agricultural districts there were 50 *l e a ns of enabling them to profit by elementary instruction, by rer cent. above it. To he sure, if the statements made by the reason the excessive fatigue they underwent in the factories Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Bright) were correct, this calculation during the, day. Those w er e two reasons which appeared to was not correct, yet he had taken the greatest pains to inform him (Lord .1. Russell) sufficient for interference. They were himself on the subject. His ( Lord Ashley's) statements re not reasons fourseled upon an economical question of the pro- ferred to the spinning and :manufacturing of cotton, and in sup duction of wealth--but one was founded on the physical elide port of what he advanced he would refer to Inspector Horner's produced to the persons employed; th e o th er upon t h e pr M a - reports. He craved the indulgence of the House whilst he re non oi Ilse means of education and moral and religious in. hutted certain charges that had gone forth, throwing as persions squetion. He (Lord J. Russe.l) said both those qu es ti ons — . of a very grave nature on his charaeter. He held in h is hand the physical deterioration of the people of this ' country and a letter signed by Mr. Ashworth, on behalf of himself and 200 their moral and religious educat i o n — were questions in country, other M anufacturers, that put forward statements which me at:: State had an interest, and the State ha v i ng seen t h at i t fleeted u pon his (Lord Ashley ' s) veracity, and which he felt could intemer ein tha t i nstance with advantage , a law had been bo u nd to aswer. The letter of Mr. Ashworth stated that the proposed on the subject by the then Government, and that law only witness that Lord Ashley hadquoted by n ame in NO been carried—he forgot by what divisions—but at all events his speech on the recent deb a te, was thoroughly discre is.). the general assent of Parliament. He believed that that dited and was finally abandoned even by the Noble Lo-d hew _had produced good and useful effects in its o p eration ; himself. Mr. Ashworth said he could not say how many . of and wi , e n he saw such principles accompanied by such result s ~t he facts," which the N o ble L or d h a d sta t e d were furnished iu experience and in practice lie did refuse his consent to the . by Dodd.lV Why', m,hea.(nLeor disavowedrdAshley) a li c a id d d d is u c r l i a n i g in h od is h sp av ee in c g h, r i o n_ general prineiple of non-interference , to the principle that they the most distinct were never to Otermeddle, and that they were only doing harm . ceived any of the information he stated to the House from by attempting to control the natural authority c.f parents over Dodd, ing and so far le debate. fr om having m Again so entioned his name, he never did their children, and the freedom of adults in the disposal of so dur the wh far from not quoting their labour. He m id that when a sound principle showed in any witness by name, but William Dodd, he had quoted 29 se practiee good results, he would rather proceed than be de. pirate and distinct witnesses, and mentioned their names ; as leered from proceeding. With regard to the question of the in- : also the evidence of several factor y ins p ectors.— ( Hear, hear. ) troduetion of adult labour, he owned ,he, did not think the . It was reall y un p ardonable that a document should be pub- Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary o f wtate for the Home lished in all the newspapers, containing such gross aspersions on Department had that night made a greater advance in showing his veracity, and such unfounded min -statements.—( Hear.) reasons for the introduction of that part of the Bill than he had This letter, signed by Mr. Ashworth, on behalf of those 200 on a former occasion. He (Lord John Russell) had already mill-owners, further set forth, that he (Lord Ashley) had, in his :said that be had certainly heard as much as made him believe speech, quoted only those portion of M. Villerme's pamphlet more strongly on that point, that the best course would have n hich were for his own argument, and exempted these por been to have introduced a Bill which did not apply to the tions of it which were against his position. He (Lord Ashley ) labour of persons who were more than eighteen or twenty-one had quoted that passage in the pamphlet which stated " that years of age. He thought that twenty-one, as in the Bill of the sacrifice of human life, consequent upon factory labour, was ,1541, would have been the better limit, and with that hardly more deplorable than the developement of scrofula, proposal there should be the proposal of the Noble which took place in the masses of our working people engaged Lord the Member for Dorsetshire, to limit the in manufactures." Mr. Ashworth writes, that " the Noble time o f l a b our , first to eleven hours, and next to Lord had not quoted that part of M.Villerme's pamphlet which ten. That would have been a better principle than that of referred to the establishing of a maximum of labour as unwise ewun e di ate i n t er f erence with adult labour. Let them recollect and inexpedient." After much search, he ( Lord Ashley) had theee were two principles in the Present Bill—one was inter-. certainly found such a passag e . Bu t h e w o uld read f or the fererece w i t h the control of a par ent over his child ; the other House the sentences with which M. Villerne concluded his was interference with the rule which gave to every adult per- pamphlet •. •if there had been one argument necessary for son the in the freepowerto choose his own occupation, to employ his putting manufnc tures under the restriction of law, and deter labour man ner he chose. Now, he thought it would mining the maximum of daily toil, surely it ahauld be applied have been better to have principles, and to have ve only interfered with one of those in the case of children—those creatures who were sacrificed in legislation. As the l e f tevilt the other as beyond the scope of the laborious employments of factory labour. Twelve years ago worth interference by legislation, to remed was hardly a measure on this subject had been propounded and rejected, Gentleman stated that that evil9' great progress since ,seeing that the Right Hon. but the principle of restriction had made had been produced by the le • that time. In many foreign countries the restrictive principle had gislation regarding children, that n in the mills where they em- been adopted and pursued. The negro had been emancipated, t o y young people but twelve ho beyond that time, and that that evilra they would not be worked and the public mind had taken up the question, and, sooner or Bill, he (Lord John Russell) owned d ght be remedied by this later, the result would be favourable to the cause of humanity, that he thought the but that result they should hasten by all possible means.'' Such House, having already assenteNdd in no totheprincipl e , th ere were the words of M. Villerme ; and yet he( Lord Ashley) had , wo uld be a far greater e refusing it s ben so g rossly aspersed for quoting the opinions of this writer; assen t to the proposition of the Noble Lord, than and the country were told by this Mr. Ashworth, and the 200 in rejecting the p ro p osal of the Hon. and Learned Member ma s te r -manufacturers that no confi derce could be placed i n for B a th ; therefore, he (Lord John Russell) agreed with Lord Ashle 's statements, who had so perverted illerm4's 1 the Governm ent to-ni g ht. At the same time, with re g ar d to meaning. He had been ' charged with gross exaggeration, and the proposal of the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath, he with painting the evils of the factory system in too strong Must say the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had not go ne ver y co lours. Now he would read to the House a letter worn Mr. who had deeply into the arg ument. He had ranked all those WI 1: am Kenworthy, the member of an eminent commercial firm, voted for the proposition of the Noble Lord the Member f or and he would remind the House that Mr. Kenworthy's Doreetshire in ono class—those belonging to the other side of testimony, as regarded cotton-spinning, was the very .the those, who, he said, were much annoyed by the Hon. best that could b e h a d , f or M r. K enwort h y h a d b een an m em b er ! or Stockport going into the agricultural districts, operativ e hi mse lf , and passed through all the various degrees s- of f t firm.factory H laboure saidnn until he became the principal of a appointed at fins:kng themsel ves in the c old and those on that side of the House who were regions of much oP d o i c that "th e occupat i ons o f th e f ac to r y I team and would g.tadly seize a n o pp ortu nity to embarrassP rea labourers cried l ou dl y f or relief and relaxation, and for a re oity Ministers.—( Hear, helsr- ) hy, the Hon. and Learned swicted term of l a b our . L et the British nation be degraded ve interfered in that matter. If he j no longer ef bytolerating such a system —a system exercising a Member had better not he . could give a good reason for ro','°win'' breathed nothingtheir remaining Let them influence over the unhappy people employed in that that vote was wrong, or that adult labour should be fre'e , relieve tof those weakly and emaciated creatures, 'let him use his arguments it. to convince them of that; but thatin an atmosphere in he should set himself up as , and curtail th m e containing the whole of the wisdom they l but noxious gases, and antes supposing the House, and as wh ich of motive excep , t in mental, in a high degree, to human life. Thousands had their j supposing that there could be no purity hit possession—(Hear, hear)—he ( LordJ' s m, Russell) really l miseries protracted under the delusive belief that danger thought, without taking .• to - 1 any paans those who voted with him, that It was takingwhichpetition. He entreated all parties to go into the considers - he believed the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was 1. ardly ' of this subject, and to snatch from the vortex ~;. f entitled lion to.—(Hear, and cheers.) They might have leMen disease, and immorality, and crime the manufacturing popula exceedingly mistaken in votilfor the Noble Lord's proposition. At the same time what he tion who were involved in it." Why, in the speech which he strong, heard since had not induced e .him to think they were so fa r conc lusive and striking, as those expressions of Mr. I (Lord A shley) had made, he had said nothing so was only a few nights ago that wrong ; and particularly as it i nothing so her for Stockport declare thatthe he b a d h ear d th e Hon. H em- Kenworthy. As he was thus put upon his defence he would, time at present which to labour in factories was unreasonable.r Sheffield (Mr. Ward) to the language of was given in addition to the authorities he had already quoted, refer the Surely if the time that was employed (Hear , hear.) Why, Hon. Member fo was nothing so far wrong or irrational in was unreasonable, there the Rev. Mr. Hearn, the Roman Catholic priest of Manchester. his Noble Friend at- ;It w ould hard] be supposed that that reverend gentleman had I tempting to alter , that unreasonable time? Then, it t sympathy y 'h(Lord Ahl ) That reverend gen. wasany s ey. tleman, in a publication then in his (Lord Ashley's) hand, said, " This was not the first time he had addressed the public on the subject. of factory labour. When he reflected on the respon- Bible situation he held in that town, and that a whole mass of his people wart engaged in that labour, he felt he should be warring against justice and against his own conscience if he did not stand forward to claim protec tion for the factory children and women." Now had he ( Lord Ashley) stated anything beyond that ?—(" Hear, hear," loud cries of "Divide, divide," and confusion.) He was stating facts—quoting facts—and he only did so on compulsion—he only did so because the statements he had made had that night been questioned.—( Hear, hear.) He would now go to Halifax, where Mr. Robert Sutton, as he understood a most highly respectable man, had publicly stated, " that the factory people could not stand such excessive and protracted labour, which incapacitated all of them for the proper duties of life, and more especially the women for those domestic duties which nature had specially awarded to them." Had he (Lord Ashley) stated anything but this ?—( Hear, hear, and confusion.) He was a, are he was trespassing on the patience of the House, but when he commenced his address he stated that he had not in tended to have said one word upon the subject that night, but as he had been called to account so sharply for his conduct and his statements, he had felt called upon, in duty to the cause and to himself, to reply to the charges which had been made. —(Loud cries of " Hear, hear." Amidst great con fusion the Noble Lord then read several extracts from speeches made by Mr. Samuel Smith. an eminent surgeon of the north, at a meeting (as we thought) at Chorley, and by Mr. John Moore, at a meeting at Bolton.) The latter gentleman, who had been a medical practitioner in Bolton for upwards of forty years, had declared publicly that the race was rapidly degenerating, and that unless something were done the most serious evils to society would take place.—(Great con fusion, and loud cries of " Divide.") He (Lord Ashley) had never said more than this. As, however, the House was se impatient, many as were the authorities he had it in his power still to produce, he would not detain them. What he had stated had been forced from him.—( Hear, hear.) He never intended to have said a word that night, but for the attack made upon him, and in addressing the House at all he had been forced into it in self-defence, to show that all he had stated in his speech upon a former occasion had been borne out by facts and statements that nothing could impugn.—( Hear, hear, and loud cries of " Divide.") Mr. C. WOOD rose with Mr. Bright, Mr. Ainsworth, and others, amidst a complete shout of " Divide, divide," " Oh, oh," and other discordant cries. The other Hon. Gentlemen succumbed to the storm, but Mr. Wood persevered, and after a struggle with the House, was permitted to address them, though amidst continued interruptions. The Hon. Gentleman was understood to say that no one in that House was more sa tisfied than he was that the Noble Lord who had just sat down was incapable of wilfully making any mis-statement in that House, or anywhere else. The statements, too, which he had mate, and which, no doubt, he thought himself compelled to make, had nothing to do with the question before the House. —( Hear, hear.) The question of the Hon. and Learned Alem • ber for Bath was simply this, whether they should or should not interfere with the labour of young people. For his (Mr. Wood's) part, he never in his life came to a conclusion more un hesitatingly than he did this night, that it was his duty to vote with the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath; for he knew nothing more unsafe or unwise than to interfere with that discretion which all persons had a right to exercise as regarded their own labour.—( Hear and confusion.) In his opinion the House ought not to interfere upon the subject at all ; but if it would do so, then the next best thing he and others could do was to persuade the House to interfere as little as possible. He could not acquit the Government of depai ting from a general rule and principle for the first time. They were now, for the first time, about setting the example of violating an other principle. The Government admitted that they had abandoned principles, and now there was nothing to guide them but the caprice of Hon. Members, and where this was to stop it was impossible to tell. The First Lord of the Trea sury, and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, had stated that it was a necessary consequence of the Bill of 1833, which regulated the labour of children in factories. Ac cording to his (Mr. Wood's) opinion, that measure was founded upon a different principle, namely, protecting those who could not protect themselves.—(Cries of " Divide, &vide.") That measure was not to restrict the labour of children alone, but factory labour altogether. If it was the object of the Government to restrict the hours of labour of all persons in factories to ten, eleven, or twelve hours, let that be stated --let there be no shuffling, but let the Government bring in a Bill on the subject.—( Cries of " Divide, divide.") He be lieved it was most injurious to the workman himself to in terfere with his labour, and he for one was unwilling to do by legislation for any man what he could do for himself. He knew that a public meeting of his constituents had been held on this question, and that the opinion of that meeting was in favour of a Ten Hours' Bill. But that did not at all affect what he had stated in that House, that up to the time of hold ing that meeting no representation on the subject had reached him. The inference he drew from this was, that they did not take much interest in the matter. He did not believe that the measure would improve either the morals, the religion, or the education of the working classes, but any other measure that would better their condition he should be ready to support. Mr. P. AINSWORTH rose to complain of a matter some what personal to himself. At an early part of the evening, the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath had accused him of in tolerance, and this charge he denied was well founded. With respect to the Bill, he thought a limitation might be effected. The legislative regulations that had been already introduced in the factories had done no harm to the masters, and had effected great good for the working classes; even with respect to the cleanliness and ventilation of the mills this had been the case ; it had also done much for the education of the children in these districts, which heretofore had been totally neglected. If the Government would proceed wisely and judiciously, he thought much good might be done by legislation ; and when the propo sition came before the House, he should be prepared to support the plan which the House had already sanctioned, by rejecting both the proposal for ten hours and twelve hours, the plan of fixing eleven hours as the limit of labour. Mr. ROEBUCK said he had never made any charge of a particular nature against the Hon. Member, of intolerance. While speaking, he heard a running commentary behind him, and he made a general observation that those who had changed very often themselves were often the most intoler ant to change in others. . . Mr. FIELDEN and M. C. BULLER rose together, but the latter Hon Gentleman having given way, Mr. FIELDEN commenced by referring to a statement of the Hon. Member for Halifax (Mr. C. Wood) that the workers of that place were not in favour of a Ten Hours' Bill. He went amongst the constituency of the Hon. Gentleman to ascertain that fact. He attended a meeting there, and, after reading the the words of the Hon. Gentleman, he put this question to them—" Has Mr. Wood fairly represented you when he made this statement? "—cries of " No, no."—(Laughter.) Then he put this question to them—" Do you wish a Ten Hours' Factory Bill to be passed without delay ? "—cries of " Yes, yes."—(Loud laughter.) He then put a third question to them—( Laughter)—" Are you willing to run the risk of wages being reduced if a Ten Hours' Factory Bill be passed?"—loud cries of "We are, we are." He then put a fourth question to them.—( A laugh.) "Do you autho rise me to state this in the House of Commons ?"—cries of " Yes, yes." He knew the Hon. Member had as kind a feeling towards the people of Halifax as anybody, but he did not repre sent their feelings fairly on this subject; and if he went to Ha lifax—( Laught er)—to the Odd Fellows Hall—( Loud laughter) —he was convinced he would come from the meeting as well persuaded as he (Mr. Fielden) was, that they had not properly represented their feelings on this subject. He had no such fears as those entertained by the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath, with regard to legislation on this 'subject. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman said that the factory labourers had the power to protect themselves, and had thrown out hints that if they held out for a short time they would accomplish their ob ject. Did they wish, then, to have a turn-out in Yorkshire ? ( Hear, hear.) Was it wise to encourage such a thing ?--- (Hear, hear,) He believed they would not succeed. They were helpless, and that was the reason they ought to interfere. He had always thought the business of the Legislature was to protect the weak against the strong.—( Hear, hear.) That was the principle of protection he contended for; and he had never thought it was very wrong to attempt to do that.—( Hear, hear.) If they were of that opinion, they should not be de terred from carrying the principle into practice.— ( Hear ' hear.) Their own inspectors recommended it, They should not forget that the poor had at one time a claim of maintenance upon the land.—( Hear, hear.) They were deprived of that right. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman assisted in depriving them of it. That was protection from lawyers.—(Laughter.) No humane man in the country would agree with the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. He believed the Hon. and Learned Gentleman knew nothing of the effect of shortening the duration of the hours of labour. —( Laughter. ) ( The Hon. Gentleman went on making allusions to the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath, who sat exactly under him, which excited considerable merriment in the House, but from the low tone of voice in which the Hon. Member spoke, and the la,ghter of the House, their import did not reach us.) He denied that a curtailment of the hours of labour would have the effect ascribed to it. He appealed to the Hon. Member fur Sheffield on the point. The period of the labour of some of the constituents of the Hon. Member was reduced to 7/ 1 hours a day, and they got more wages fur those 76 hours labour than when they worked twelve hours. He thought it would be hard to convince the people of Sheffield that they were not benefited by this.—(Hear, hear, and a lau g h.) H e cou ld say that all which had been advanced by several Hon. Members of this House was contrary to the interests - of the working classes. He thought that if the hours of labour were restricted to ten hours instead of twelve, it would tend much to Improve the moral and physical condition of the people. Mr. PHILIPS could say that he seldom had heard a speech more strongly marked by an anti-national spirit than that of the Hon. Member for Oldham. With respect to the town of Sheffield, he (Mr. M. Philips) could assure the House that the system of combination lately adopted in that town, by which the duration of the hour of labour was diminished, had driven many of the principal manufacturers out of the country. He himself had been engaged in the foreign trade of this country, and he understood that there was no town throughout England had suffered wore than Sheffield from these eh corn stances. If in extending the operation of these prin ciples to other towns, they thought they would secure higher wages, he could assure them they were much mistaken ; for the result would be, that they would be placing the interests of those trades in jeopardy. He had the interests of the ope ratives of the country too much at heart to adopt this mea ; sure, and he should, consequently, vote for the motion of his Hon. and Learned Friend the Member for Bath, for he cer tainly could not reconcile with his conscience the justice of in terfering, in the slightest degree, with the application of adult labour. The Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department had stated that many of his (Mr. P.'s) constituents were in favour of a limitation of labour, or at least regarded the matter with indifference. Now, the fact was, that property had been so considerably diminished in many parts of Lancashire, that many of the manufacturers looked with apparent indifference upon the whole matter. In the town of Manchester there was not more than twelve mills which worked more than twelve hours. He, for one, was most anxious that the artisan should not he obliged to work more than ten hours ; but he thought, in the the present state of the country, this could not be done. It they worked more than twelve hours a day, those doing so of course received the higher wages for it. The Hon. Member sat down amidst much confusion and cries of "divide, divide." Mr. PARKER thought, after what had been stated con cerning Sheffield, they must feel convinced of the propriety of allowing the labourers to be perfectly free agents in this matter. He was also very much opposed to any inter ference with employment of adult labour, because he thought any such interference would be fraught with the utmost danger, and have a decided tendency to destroy the 1 prosperity of the country. He felt convinced, therefore, that the only plan for this House to adopt was a plain and intelli gible proposition ; and instead of talking of ten or twelve hours, declare that they would not interfere with adult labour, but that all labourers who had arrived at the years of discretion, should exercise their labour as they liked; and that the House had no right to interfere with their free-will in the slightest degree. With respect to infant labour, he considered it to be a different question, but this was a question upon which he should not then speals,,but leave it to others better acquainted with the matter.—The House then divided— Forind going into Committee For 11Ir. Roebuck's amendment ... 76 Majority aga i nst th e a m e ndment......... 206 dTh immediately house a ot ECCLESIASTICALet ilthenoyn resumed,ow f e n D t r into 5 llco ntid CommitteeoacyL COURTS Ln xfß p et rT r o beingfo going n rm Commit- an fixed for proceedi ng w i t h t h e Committee. BILL. g athintoe on day On the mi tee on this Bill, Mr. P. BORTHWICK objected to the motion, on account of the lateness of the hour. After a short conversation strangers ss ere crdered to with draw, but no division took place. The Bill then went through Committee pro forma. • POOR LAWS (IRELAND. Sir DENHAM NORREYS moved for the appointment of a Committee on Poor-laws (Ireland), to consist of Sir Denham Norreys, Lord Eliot, Mr. More O'Ferrall, Mr. Young, Mr. French, Viscount Bernard, Mr. John O'Connell, Lord Claud Hamilton, Mr. Tuite, Mr. Shaw, Lord Cnurtenay, Mr. Vesey, Sir Edmund Hayes, Sir Arthur Brooke, and Mr. E. P. Shirley. Mr. SHAW was decidedly averse to the appointment of the Committee as tending to unsettle men's minds in Ireland on the question of poor-law=. Lord JOCELYN opposed the appointment of the Com mirtee for the same reasons. After a few words from Sir DENFIANI NORREYS the motion was withdrawn by consent, with an understood inten tion of being renewed on Monday. Sir GEORGE CLERK obtained leave to bring in a Bill to regulate and secure the debt due by the City of Edinburgh to the puhlic ; to confirm an agreement between the said city and its creditors ; and to effect a settlement of the affairs of the said city and the town of Leith. The House then, at a few minutes after One o'clock, ad journed until Monday. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, MAY 2, 1844. The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint the Most Honourable John Marquis of Bute, K.T., to be her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. DOWNING-STREET, MAY 3. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Fitagerald, Esq., Commander in the Royal Navy, to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over her Majesty's settlements in the Gambia. DOWNING-STREET, MAY 2. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major- Generals J. Grey and H. G. Smith, Companions of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, to be Knights Commanders of the said Order : and Colonel J. Dennis, 3d Regiment of Foot ; Colonel . f. Valiant, 40th Regiment of Foot ; Lieutenant- Co:onel A. Campbell, 9th Lancers ; Lieutenant-Colonel T. Wright 39th Regiment of Foot; Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Cureton, 16th Lancers; Lieutenant-Colonel G. J. M. Mac dowel!. 16th Lancers; Lieutenant -Colonel J. Anderson, 50th Regiment of Foot ; Lieutenant -Colonel J. 0. Ctunie, 3d Regiment of Foot; Lieutenant-Colonel E. W. Bray, 39th Regiment of Foot ; and Lieutenant-Colonel J. Stopford, 40th Regiment of Foot, to be Companion of the said Order. Her Majesty has also been p:ea,ed to appoint the following Offi-ers, in the East India Comrany's Service, vii-:—Major- General J. R. Lumley, Bengal Infantry, Adjutant-General of the Army, and Majot-General J. H. Littler. Bengal Infantry, to be Knights Commanders of the Limit Honourable Military Order of the Bath • and Lieutenant-Colonel W. A. Yates, Bengal Infantry, Lieutenant-Colonel G. E. Govan, Bengul Artillery, Lieutenant-Colonel A. Pope, Bengal Light Cavalry, Lieutenant-Colonel E. Biddulph, Bengal Artillery, and Lieutenant-Colonel C. Hamilton, Bengal Infantry, to be Companions of the Said Most Honourable Military Order. CROWN OFFICE, MAT 2. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS rarszwx PARLIAMENT. BOROUGH OF HORSHAM.—Robert Henry Hurst, of Hor sham, in the county of Sussex, Esq., in the room of the lion. Robert Campbell Scarlett, now Baron Abinger, and one of the Peers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. WA R- OFF I CE, MAY 3. Ist Dragoon Guards--Lieutenant B. Newland to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice M. Pipon, who retires; Cornet J. S. S. Stuart, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Newland, May 3. Ist Regiment of Foot—Captain T. Graham to he Major, by purchase, vice Goodall, who retires ; Lieutenant F. R. !Hein to be Captain, by purchase, vice Graham ; Ensign A. W. Gordon to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Vein; T. G. Coles, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gordon, May 3. 25th Foot—Lieut. N. Armstrong, from the half-pay 61st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wellesley, appointed to the 73d Foot ; Ensign W. Cumming to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Armstrong, who re ti re s ; G. Needham, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Cumming, May 3. 35th Foot—Ensign H. IL Price to be Lieutenant, by pure chase, vice T. J. G. Chatterton, who retires; M. V. Sankey Morton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Price, May 3. 56th Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant W. Dougherty to be Quartermaster, vice T. Debenham, who retires upon half-pay, May 3. 67th Foot—Serceant-Major J. Graham to be Ensign, with out purchase, vice Montgomery, deceased, May 3. 69th Foot—Captain C. E. Bewes, from the 85th Foot, to be Captain, vice O'Reilly, who exchanges, May 3. 73d Foot—Lieutenant E. Wellesley, from the 25th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cubitt, appointed Paymaster of the 7th Light Dragoons, May 3. 82d Foot—Ensign L. F. Bernard to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Nicholls, who retires, May 3; F. H. Garner, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase. vice Bernard, May 3. 85th Foot—Captain D. K. O'Reilly, from the 69th Foot, to be Captain, vice Bewes, who exchanges, May 3. 86th Foot—Ensign J. J. Matthews, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Thursbay, promoted; A. G. St. John Alildmay, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Matthews, May 3. 87th Foot—Second Lieut. the Hon. R. W. Shirley, to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice North, who retires; J. Halkett le Conteur, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Shirley, May 3. 97th Foot—Lieutenant W. Murray to be Adjutant, vice Moore, promoted ; Ensign A. J. Loftus to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Murray, appointed Adjutant ; D. R. Croasdaite, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Loftus, May 3. 99th Foot—G. H. Wynyard, Gent, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Armstrong, deceased, May 3. 3d West India Regiment—e.nsign F. A. Davidson to be Lieutenant, without purchase. vice Macclennell, superseded; U. M. Burke, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Davidson, May 3. H °seer ST...Tr.—Assistant-Surgeon O'Connor, MD. from the 59th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to tire Forces, vice W. Godfrey Watt, appointed to the 23d Foot, May 3. MEMORANDUIL—The date of the commission of Lieut. %Vhitty, of the 25th Foot, which appeared in the Gazette of the 26th ultimo, is 26th April. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 30, 1844. Royal Regiment of Artillery,—Second Lieut. G. H. Vesey to be First Lieutenant, vice Olphert, deceased, April 15. Memoitannust.—The dates of promotions of the under mentioned officers have been altered as follow :—First Lieut. 1). M. Fraser, March 7, 1844; First Lieut. J. D. Telfer, March 30, 1844; First Lieut. A. C. Gleig, April 1, 1844. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex. Royal i'Lastern Regiment of Middlesex Militia—T. N. Car y ck (and not T. M. Carvich, us inserted in the Gazette of Friday last), Esq., to be Captain, April 22. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire. Royal Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry —W. Long, jun., Esq., to be Captain, vice Olivier, resigned ; C. J. 'l'. Conolly, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Long, promoted; E. D. B. Esteourt, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Antrobus, pr o m o t e d ; R . P . L ong, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Awdry, resigned, A pr il 24 . WHITEHALL, APRIL 27. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Samuel Charles Watson Buckle, of Peterborough', in the county of Northampton, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High C our t o f Ch ancery . BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. FREDERICK FORD and FRED. RILEY BROCKLE- H URST, cloth manufactureKßUPTSrs, Bow-lane, City. BAN. HENRY ALDEN, printer, Oxford, to surrender, May 10, at half-past one, and June 14, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lave ; Baylis, Devonshire -square, City. JOSEPH GIBBISS, carpenter, High-street, Marylebone, May 10, and June 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee, King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street ; Rye, Golden-square. RICHARD BARHANI, linen draper, Emsworth, Hants, May 14, at half-past one, and June 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court; Sole and Sole, Aldermanbury. JAMES DIAMOND, merchant, George-street, Tower hill, May 14, at eleven, and June 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry chambers ; Crosby and Crompton, Church-court. JOHN GROVER, stone merchant, Regent-street, Lam beth, May 14, at two, and June 11, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lom bard-street ; Beetholme, New Inn, Strand. SARAH JEVONS, shoe maker, Lincoln, May 14, at half one, and June 11, at half past twelve, at the Court of Bank tcy. Groom, official assignee, Ab e hur c h-l ane ; Billi ng , lking-street, Cheapside. AMBROSE SILLITOE, innkeeper, Suffolk, May 14, at half-past one, and June 19, at eleven s at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Chilton and Co., Chancery-lane. JOSEPH HEWITT ROBY, coffee-house keeper, Man chester, May 16 and June 10, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser , official assignee, Manchester ; Bridges and Mason. Red Lion-square, Landon ; Foster, Manchester. JOHN HA RUNG, farmer, Barnoldswick, Yorkshire, May 16, and June 6, at eleven, at the:Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds ; Cowburn, and Norris, Settle ; CaHss, Leeds. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. J. Shepherd, cabinet maker, Guisbrough, Yorkshire. T. Close, druggist, Halifax. J. Hall, farmer, Bubwith, Yorkshire. R. H. Hoskins, public-house manager, Literpool. T. Ingham, farmer, Luddiogton, Lincolnshire. D. Evans, coach spring maker, Liverpool. J. G. Hatcher, coachmaker, Tunbridge. G. Baker, jun., ironmonger, St. Alban's-place, Edgeware-rd. J. Willey, grocer, Sheffield. W. Marsden, table-knife manufacturer, Sheffield. G. How, butcher, Hammersmith. C. Co Tins, saddler, South llincksey , Berkshire. J. Rack, labourer, Norwich, Lancashire. J. Naylor, hosier, Liverpool. I. F. Coyle, Alexander-square, Kensington. L. A lman, musical instrument seller, Bristol. F. Mitchell, cab proprietor, Bride-lane. T. Smith, gun maker, High Holborn. J. Aspinwall, warehouse• salesman, Manchester. A. Aspinwall, tobacconist, Manche-iter. IV. Newman, builder, Hammersmith. H. Davis, governess, Gloucester-place, Portman•equare. G. Frost, licensed beer retailer, Edmonton. W. Whiteley, scissor manufacturer, Sheffield. W. R. D. Brett, haker, Chapel-st., Somer's-town. W. H. Webster, coal dealer, Mount-pleasant, Gray's Inn-lane. J. T. Hillen, farmer, Thursforil, Norfolk. J. Kerby, licensed victualler, Bristol. B. Pocock, Fuller-street, Bethnal-green. J. Noke, railway porter, Manchester. J. Gill, jun., veterinary surgeon, Halifax, Yorkshire. J. Wetenhall, stock agent, Walcot-terrace, Lambeth, B. Newnham, tailor, Frith-street, Soho. P. Stock, painter, Gray's Inn-lane, Holborn. W. Burton, innkeeper, Darlington, Du►ham. E. Brown, Gloucester. T. Cope, baker, Lenton, Nottinghamshire. C. Higginson, schoolmaster, Broadwell, Oxfordshire. J. W. Prentis, Kelvedon, Essex. C. W. Spear, waiter, Chester. J. Swinscoe, sen., wood turner, Sheffield. G. Davenport, Sheffield. J. Bedford, jun., pattern-card maker, Chorlton-on-Medlock. W. !lore, boot maker, Bristol. S. Hall, beer-shopkeeper, East Dean, Gloucestershire. J. Chandler, market gardener, Mitcham. W. A. Wilson, painter, Granville place, Bagnigge.wells-road. _- SECOND NOTICES. C. P. Poole, attorney-at-law, Pitts-place, Old Kent-road, May 9, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official G. V. Rogers, surgeon, Farnham, Surrey, May 9, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee. J. Holloway, baker, Heston, Middlesex, May 9, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell , official assi g nee. Newman,ll. Stockwell, May 8, at eleve n, at the Court of grocer,re p,oorffitscmiaoluatshs, May 7, at eleven, at the Courtignee. Bankruptcy. i. chase: of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee'. J. Crawford, Princes-street, Maida hill, May 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett , official assignee. A. M. Sandeman, accountant, King-street, Cheapside, May 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee. W. Shoobridge, farmer, Mayfield, Sussex, May 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee. T. Finley, ten., High-s'reet, Newington-butts, May 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee. J. F. Wright, clerk, Loan Pit-hill, St. Paul, Kent, May 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee. J. Kibhle, clerk, Peckam-grove, May 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee. G. Wallis, saddler, Oxford' May 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. R. Wells, carpenter, Brewer's green, Westminster, May 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. E. Burrell, Arundel-street, Strand, May 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee. T. C. Valley, oil cloth manufacturer, Sheffield, May 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. W. Crowther, cloth manufacturer, Calverley, York-hire, May 6, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official aarignee. W. White, agent, Sheffield, May 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. W. Wheelwright, commission agent, Leeds, May 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. J. Lister, worsted spinner, Halifax, May 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee. D. Long, clothier, Guiseley, Yorkshire, May 6, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee. T. Broadley, jobsmith, Sheffield, May 6, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee. W. Denniff, fruiterer, Sheffield o May 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee. W. Hancock, attorney, North Curry, Somersetshire, May 9, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee. W. W. Osborn, tackle-maker, Exeter, May 9, at half-past eleven, at the Exeter District Ceurt. IHirtzel, official assignee. S. Handle, flour dealer, Berry Pomeroy, Devonshire, May 9, at eleven, at the E;eier District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee. W. Stokes, wine merchant, Dudley, Worcestershire, May 14, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee. R. Davidson, bricklayer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 30, at half-past two, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee. H. Toney, coach lamp manufacturer, Bristol, May 8, at eleven, at the Bristol District C .urt. Miller, official assie.nee. M. know, boarding-h-u-ekeeper, Liverpool, May 7, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official as signee. J. Neale, cabinet-maker, Walcot, Somersetshire, May 9. at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Acrarnan, oficial as signee. T. Cave, clerk, Wells, May 8, at half pakt eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Milner, offioial assignee. W. Procter, butcher, Salford, Lancashire, May 8, at one, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assiv.nee. J. Bipsham, Alanchester, May 9. at one, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee. W. Nlayler, publican, Chester, May 7, at twelve, at the Li verpool District Court. Turner, ()ISt:jai assignee. T. Harrison, table..knite misaufacturer, Sheffield, May 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending April 30, 1844, is 365. 9i-d. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. (Dividends, 84c., in our next.) MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY. THURSDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The notice by the Chancellor of the Exchequer given on Monday night of his intention to amend the Sav ings' Banks Acts, naturally brings that important subject forward for public discussion. Materials for this purpose have been bountifully supplied by various correspondents, from which it is proposed to make such selections as are likely to be useful to the Legislature and the community at large on this occasion. The following Is a statement of sums received and paid by the National Debt Commissioners on account of banks for savings, including friendly societies, in the United Kingdom, from the 6th of August, 1817, to the 20th of November, 1843, inclusive : " Gross amount credited, including interest up to and due on the 20th of November, £ s. d. 1843 .. " Gross amount paid, including interest ....17,093,533 9 3 " Balance due by the Commissioners to the trustees on the 20th of November, 1843 28,853,555 17 10 " Balance due by the Commissioners to the trustees on the 20th of November, 1842, 26,855,886 17 10 "Increase in the amount of liabilities within the year ended the 20th of No- - vember, 1843 1,997,669 0 0 "Increase in the amount of liabilities within the year ended the 20th of No vember, 1842 1,011,965 19 5 " Excess of increase in 1843 over increase in 1842 985,703 0 7 . . The securities held by the Commissioners to meet the above balance of 28,853,555/. 17s. 10d. consisted of 12,874,516/. 7s. 6d. Three per Cents., 15,385,510/. Is. sd. Three-and-a-Half Cents., and 432,400/. Exchequer-bills ; which, estimated at the average prices on the 20th of November, 1843, of the Three per Cents. and the Three-and-a-Half per Cents., would with an uninvested cash balance of 296,609/., have then nearly realised the amount of that balance ; but, estimated at the present market prices, would now exceed it. The esti mated deficiency on the 20th of November, 1842, was 263,0291. 18s. 9d., and on the 20th of November, 1841, it was as much as 1,315,419/. Os. 10d. Annexed are some further results of this general account : Gross amount of interest credited by the £ s. d. Commissioners to the trustees 15,113,849 19 8 Gross amount of interest received by the Commissioners on the Stocks and Ex chequer-bills held by them on account of the trustees 12,942,657 7 2 Difference against the Commissioner 3 up to the 20th of November, 1843 2,171,192 12 6 Difference against the Commissioners up to the 20th of November, 1842 Difference against the Commissioners for the year ended the 20th November, 1843 140,632 18 6 Less interest on Exchequer-bills due up to the 20th of November, 1843 Actual loss sustained by the public in the year ended the 20th of November, 1843 134,356 10 2 It appears that no sales of stock were effected during the last year, ended November 20, 1843, by the National Debt Commissioners on account of the trustees, to meet the pay ment of any sums demanded by the depositors, as has been usual during former years, but considerable purchases were made in stocks and Exchequer-bills, amounting in the aggre gate to 918,3471. 55. 4d. in the Three per Cents., and 680,2001. in the Three-and-a-Half per Cents., and to 127,8501. in Exchequer-bills; the sums paid for which pur chases amounted to 1,698,4071. lls. sd. The amount cre dited by the Commissioners for Exchequer-bills paid off was 23,1501. Having thus exhibited the comparative state of the public accounts for the savings' banks in the years ending Nov. 20, 1842, and Nov. 20, 1843, we may quote from a correspondent the following deductions from, or illustrations of, that ac count : " The average price of the Three per Cents. on the 20th of November, 1843, was 95/. Bs. 9d., and of the Three-and-a- Half per Cents. 102/. 6s. 3d., and hence— " 12,874,5161. 7s. 6d. Three per Cents. at 951. Bs. 9d.= £12,287,116 11 3 " 15,452,237/. 9s. 9d. Three and-a Half per Cents. at 1021. 6s. 3d.= " Exchequer-bills " Uninvested ualance £28,757,425 14 0 96,130 3 10 " Estimated deficiency " Due to the trustees on the 2ilth of No vember, 1843 £28,853,555 17 10 " The Three per Cents. reduced and Consolidated having risen since the 20th of November, 1843, between 3 and 4 per cent., the deficiency mentioned above no longer exists; but, on the contrary, a surplus. The general statement shows the bond fide purchases made by the Commissioners, and the sums paid for those purchases, and the amount so laid out (1,698,4071. 1 Is. 5d.) being nearly equal to the increase in 1843—viz., 1,997,6691., shows that the loss, 134,3561. 10s. 2d., must have arisen chiefly from the difference in the rates of interest received and paid by the Commissioners. With ra pidly increasing liabilities and loss as thus shown, it must be evident that the existing system requires to be carefully looked into. The returns sent in monthly and annually to the National Debt-office contain no data whatever upon which the Government can form an opinion how far an annual ex pense of 100,0001. or upwards is justified. The only persons who have any means of forming such an opinion are the paid officers, and so long as the payment of their salaries depends on the amount invested in their banks respectively, they are not likely to volunteer much information.' Another subject which may be said to hare a connection with the savings' banks is that of the loan societies, which by the Act creating them require to have their powers re newed annually; and as these societies have led to very west abuses to the great injury and oppression of the lower classes, the question has been started by a correspondent, whether the functions of loan societies may not beneficially devolve upon the savings' banks, and be made the means of employing their surplus deposits. With respect, how ever, to the abuses practised by loan societies, they will receive a death-blow by the humane and judicious provisions of Lord Cottenham's Bill for the abolition of Imprisonment for debt, in the needy and disreputable attorneys who derive their chief practice from them, will be deprived of that instru ment of terror, upon which they chiefly depended for their system of extortion. Both that and the detestable tally system are alike threatened with extinction by that Bill. But whatever becomes of the loan societies, it by no means follows that it would be right to transfer their func tions to the managers of savings' banks under the sanction of the Legislature. It is right to state, however, that instances exist at present of the union of the two systems in one esta blishment, and that they are found to act well together. Thus the correspondent above quoted observes, that in the " Liverpool Savings' Bank Loan Society" both operations are conducted in the same building, and under the same committee of management ; that th plan has realised the expectations firmed of it, and that the directors, in order to extend its benefits, have increased the funds by allowing depositors whose accounts have arrived at the maximum to draw sums not exceeding 1001., and place them in the hands of the trustees of the loan society, for which they give a debenture, allowing them five per cent. But it is obvious, however the managers of such transac tions may see cause to congratulate themselves upon the prosperous working of them, that the greatest abuses must result from them, seeing the temptation they hold out, and the difficulty or impossibility of subjecting them to a suffi cient control to prevent such consequences. There is one section, it seems, of the Savings' Banks Act, 9th George IV., cap. 92, which gives them the power to do this, inasmuch as it provides that the trustees of savings' banks shall not be prevented from receiving money from the depositors to be applied in any other' way than that pointed out in the preTious sections payment to the National Debt Com missioners. The principal points with which the Legislature will have to deal are the prevention of that heavy annual charge in curred in sustaining the savings' bank system, and also the devising some protection against their too great and rapid in crease, which may make them hereafter, in some period of distress and national difficulty, the source of very great em- • barrassment to the Government of the day. The large addi tion to the amount of deposits since the late rise in the funds, which could not possibly have been produced to that extent from larger means on the part of the industrious classes, proves that some mode is found to evade the principle of the Act by substituting one security for another. An individual who could effect this, selling his Consols at par, would secure his little capital, obtain a better rate of interest, and escape from the property-tax. The subject is somewhat of a " dry" one, but a Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is by office a sort of trustee of the whole system and for the public also, must do his duty and not shrink from the details it may involve. The fall in Bank stock since the payment of the last divi dend, viz., from 199 to 190, is ascribed, in certain quarters, to th• belief that some impression has been made upon Sir / Pcel by the exertions of the country bankers, so as to in duce him to stop short in the benefits he intende.i to bestow on the Bank of England when the new measure relative to banking is brought forward, Every one knows the influence of bankers over their immediate coniloxions, a proportion of them Members of Parliament, all over the country, and will have no difficulty, therefore, in adopting this as a probable case, though they may doubt whether it has ever really been contemplated by the Minister at this time to add anything to the privileges of the Bank of England. The mere suppo sition that he would do so, however, would be enough to ac count for the previous rise of Bank stock. There is some reason to suppose that the sales of Consols which have lately occurred are occasioned in part by capi talists; who see under the operation of the surmised reduction o/` the French Five per Cents. a more eligible investment in the French Three per Cents., which are quoted 84, ueing a difference of 15 per c.a. At the meeting of tile shareholders in the Imperial Bra zilian Mining Association held to day, a dividend of ss. per sham was declared. It appeared from the report read that the workings have improved, and altogether the prospects of the undertaking are considered better than for some time past. The Directors are gradually - endeavouring to diminish slave labour by the employment of an increased force of Cornish miners. LA W TELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 3. The House sat this day to hear writs of error. The Pens present were Lord Cottenham, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. TAYLOR V. CLEMSON. The further arguments in this part-heard writ of error were proceeded with, and occupied their Lordships the whole morning. COURT OF CHANCERY, May 3. The LORD CHANCELLOR took lunatic petitions and ap peals to-day. IN THE CASE OF PYCE SOMBRE, A LUNATIC. This case came before the Court upon the petition of Mr. Dyce Sombre, late M.P. for Sudbury, praying the super seding of the commission that had been issued against him. Sir Thomas Wilde and Mr. Waketieid were specially re taired on behalf of Mr. Ds ce Sombre. Mr. Bethel! and Mr. Calvert appeared for the committee of the person, Mrs. Dyce Sombre, and Mr. Tinueyfor the com mittee of the estate. Sir T. Wilde wa4 about to •pen the petition, when Mr. BRTHELL, on behalfof the committee of the person, took a preliminary objection to its being heard, on the ground that Mr. Df•ce Sombre was in Paris, and could not be exa mined by the Chancellor as to his s, ate of mind. The Learned Counsel submitted that no case had ever occurred in which the Court had superseded the Commission without seeing the object of it. r. CALVERT followed on the same side. Sir T. WILDE and Mr. WAKEFIELD contended that it was not a necessary ingredient in superseding a Commission that the Chancellor should see the object of it. After some discussion, in which the Lord Chancellor re • peatedly stated his strong opinion that he ought to see Mr. Dyes Sombre before he could venture to supersede the Com mission, and it being intimated by Sir Thos. Wilde that Mr. Dyce Sombre had an impression that if he came to this coun try he would be deprived of his liberty, Mr. BETHELL, on the part of the committee of the person, gave an undertaking that if Mr. Dyce Sombre came to this country, nothing should be done to interfere with his liberty exeept under the order and sanction of the Lord Chancellor. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought, if what had now been done was communicated properly to Mr. Dyes Sombre, he would not hesitate to come to this country. If he did so, he might feel assured that he (the Lord Chancellor) would do nothing to interfere with his liberty, unless he committed acts of violence, and from what he ( the Lord Chancellor) had heard of the course of conduct pursued by Mr. Dyce Sombre abroad, he believed that ho would commit no such acts. The only object he (the Lord Chancellor) could have in view was the interest of Mr. Dyce Sombre, and that alone. The petition was then ordered to stand over. TULLOCH V. HARTLEY. The Court then proceeded with the further arguments in this appeal, which occupied the Court the remainder of the morning. ROLLS' COURT, May 3. (Before the MASTER of the Roma.) Several causes put down in the paper were ordered to stand over until Trinity Term. The Court went through the list of petitions, and nee shortly before eleven. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT May 3. The VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND was occupied the whole morning with unopposed petitions, short causes, and petitions, none of which possessed any points of interest. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. K. BRUCE.) His Honour was engaged during the morning in disposing of cause petitions, none of which involved any feature of pub lic interest. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. WIGICA3I.) HUIVES HUIVES. This case came Before the Court on further directions and on petition. His Honour pronounced judgment only on one point in the case; then proceeded with the part-heard case of King v. Wilson, which came en for hearing upon further directions and costs. BAIL COURT, May 3. (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) THE QUEEN AND THE CORPORATION OF LONDON. Mr. HILL applied to the Court for a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, calling upon the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, to admit Mr. W. H. Ashurst, an attorney of this Court, an attorney of the Lord Mayor's Court. The application was made under the statute 6 and 7 Victoria, which enacts, that an attorney of a higher court may be admitted an attorney .)f an inferior court. Mr. Ashurst had made his application according to the form pre scribed, and had also produced the documents required by the Act, but the Recorder had so much doubt upon the sub ject that he advised an application to this Court for a man damus.—Rule granted. COURT OF GOMMO.V PLEAS, May 3. (Sittings in Banco.) The Court took the special paper to-day ; but nothing of the least importance occurred. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 3. (Sittings in Banco.) The Court hoard motions to-day, but those that were dig• posed of to a late hour of the day were totaLy devoid o: interest. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Mari 3. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Baron GURNEY and a Common Jury.) The following undefended cases were disposed of at the sitting of the Court this morning. In each cause verdicts for the plaintiff were given. With one exception they were to recover the amounts of certain bills of exchange :—Sane v. Ashcroft, 1851. ss. 6d. ; Driver v. Sparks, 541. 19s. sd. ; Hill v. Norrington, 30/. 9s. 10d. ; Turner v. Swaby, 183/. 19s. ; Hall v. Ryall, 301. ss. Baron GURNEY intimated to the bar that as there were a number of actions for bills of exchange, he should give them precedence of other causes which were on the paper for to morrow, and which were likely to oceupy some time. He therefore requested that gentlemen of the bar engaged in such causes, and their witnesses, would be iu attendance at an early hour. SEAGRAVE V. ENGLAND. - Hr. Humfrey appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Petersdorff for the defendant. This was an action to recover compensation in damages for an alleged illegal trespass and illegal ejectment. The de fendant pleaded that he was not guilty of a trespass, and that he was acting in the capacity of servant to another. The damages were laid at 8001. The circumstances of the case, as detailed by the Learned Counsel for the plain tiff and in evidence, are briefly these :—The plaintiff, Ann Seagrave, who is a widow, entered into an agreement with the defendant, Louis England, a house agent, carrying on business in New South street, Islington, to rent a house, the property of a Mr. Pocock, situated at No. 44, Swinton-street, King's-cross, at a yearly rent of 42/., and entered into the occupation of the premises on the 10th of July, 1843, whilst they were under repair. A few days after the de fendant intimated to her that tie proprietor of the house was displeased with him for letting the house to a person who had not a regular income, and said that she must leave the house. Mrs. Seagrave, however, devlined to accede to his request, as she had fairly and legally entered on the premises. Finding that he could not get her to vacate the house, he resorted apparently to a most extraordinary and illegal mode of effecting his purpose. He employed se veral men to remain in the house, who were plentifully sup plied with beer and tobacc9, and whose noise, which ap peared to have been of a boisterous character, was thought likely to have the effect of frightening Mrs. Seagrave from the premises. But the plaintiff was obdurate, and resisted so obnoxious a mode of ejectment with imperturbable perse verance. The defendant then resorted to another mode of driving the plaintiff from the premises. He visited the house , and intimated that he should compel her to leave, and on being remonstrated with by a lady who was about to become the plaintiff's tenant, he said he would " turn her (plaintiff) out neck and crop" if further remonstrance were used. He even carried his violence on this occasion so far that a person, named Mrs. Micham, fainted, and died in two days afterwards. The defendant did ' not, however, commit any further trespass at that time, but in a few days employed persons to take her furniture into the street, who also compelled the plaintiff to leave the house, by knocking her down and carrying her into the street, where they laid her on the pavement, and used so much violence that her arm was bruised, and she was confined to her bed for a fortnight. It was, therefore, contended, that the plaintiff had sustained considerable injury, in a pecuniary sense, from this alleged misconduct on the pa t of the de fendant. Mr. PETERSDORF addressed the jury at considerable length on the part of the defendant. wham he contended acted legally in ejecting the plaintiff from the house, who had not signed the agreement, and that she had obtained possession by unfair means ; in fact, that he wished the plaintiff to go with him before a magistrate ID have the matter adjudicated ; and that at the time the furnitwe and the plaintiff were forcibly removed he had two policemen in attendance to see that no breach of the peace was committed. The de fendant merely acted in the capacity of clerk and collector to the proprietor of the house. If Mrs. Seagrave was the respectable person stated to be by the Learned Counsel, she could have had no difficulty in obtaining another house, and thus have sustained no pecuniary loss. No evidence had been produced to show that the furniture had sustained any injury. Witnesses were then called in support of this view of the case, viz., the plaintiff's illegal tenantry of the house, which, however, was not clearly proved. One stated, that "Mrs. Seagrave was carried out as carefully as a baby ;" and that no unnecessary violence was used either towards her or her furniture, and that she promised to go out two days before the ejectment ; that she obtained the key and possession of the house surreptitiously. Another policeman, who attended at the house on the day in question to see that no breach of the peace was committed, also stated that no violence was used. Mr. Pocock, the proprietor of the house, said he never sanctioned the letting of the house to the plaintiff, and he directed the defendant to put her out, as she was there without his authority. An agreement was prepared but never signed by the plaintiff, because he disapproved of it. Mr. HUMFREY having replied, Baron GURNEY then summed up the evidence, and the jury having consulted for some time, the foreman stated that there was ,no probability of their coming to a determination. Baron GURNEY desired thepi to retire and consider their verdict. The jury returned into Court at a quarter to four o'clock, after an absence of two hours, with a verdict for the plain tiff—Damages 501. COURT OF EXCISE, May 2. John Toplis, of 63, Bermondsey -street, tobacconist, was charged, under Ave informatioiv, with adulterating tobacco with sand, earthy matter, &c., on each of which informations he had incurred a penalty of 3001., making a total of 1,5001., besides a forfeiture of the articles. Mr. J. Jordan, a Custom-house officer, stated that on the 19th of January last he went, in company with Mr. Donald, an officer of Excise, to the shop of defendant, and on seeing him told him they had come to pay him another visit, and wished to see his warehouse. He said they were welcome, and supposed they were come after the hogshead of tobacco that had come in on the previous night. When they go t into the manufactory they fund a pail full of liquid, and 011 , witness examining it found it contain e d eart hy ina t lei% defendant said was for the purpose of cleaning tobacco knives. The cutting engine was at work, which witness de" sired might be stopped. He exainin •d the tobacco in the engine, as well as some that had been cut, and found it grossli adulterated with earthy matter. Mr. Graham, Professor of Chemistry at University Cal" lege, deposed that before submitting the tobacco to cliemical operation, by merely s h a ki ng th e l eaves t h e a d u l terat i o n fell out, which consisted of fuller's earth. He then proce4led ,t2, analyse the whole of the samples, and tound them all alai' terated with that earth to the extent of 12 per cent. The CHAIRMAN said the Court were of opinion the afire had been fully made out, and- convicted defendant in Vi e . penalty of 300!., and the whole of the tobacco to be forfeited- POLICE INTELLIGENCE (YESTERDAY.) Bllly-S T I? hE A respectable-looking man, named Gardner, the moner, taker at the Strand Theatre, was placed before Mr. Jardine, charged with assaulting William Stubbins, at the theatre' last night. The complainant stated that he went to the pit of the' theatre last night w ith hi s w if e. H e put d own balf-a-crow,' to pay tOr admission at h a lf-p r i ce ; an d w h en h e got into LI pit with his wife, he su dd en l y remem b ere d t h at he had nob received the sixpence change. He went back to the de: f. , ndant, and told him of the circumstance, and the defendall said he had given the si x p ence , an d if some b o d y e l s e ha", taken it up, he could not help it. The complainant bees°, „- rattier exci‘ed, and told the defendant that ir he did not giv. - him the sixpence, he would be acting as a swindler. UP I° this the defendant struck th e w it ness a v i o l ent bl ow in L ., - mouth, and he was, in consequence, given into custody. The defendant said the complainant was very insolent st offensive in his behaviour. When the complainant ogler, him lie examined his cash, and fo un d th a t it was come t and he therefore told the complainant that he should 11 _' give him the sixpence back. Up on thi s th e com plainv' i called him a swindler and a vagabond. Mr JARDINE said this was not sufficient to justify a We' As, however, theme was some provocation, lie would only il l. filet a penalty of 10s.—The money was immediately paid' MA R YL EBON E. Charles Barret, a young man of gentlemanly appearsn . described as an artist, was placed before Mr. Long, chair; ny one of the pat k-keepers of the Regent's-park, with hay" cut some letters upon one of the seats there. • ial The park-keeper stated that seeing the detendant ns from the seat he went there, and found that it had been in jured. He therefore took him into custody. The defendant had nothing to say in extenuation. Mr. Fell. the chief clerk, suggested that the defend , being an artist, might wish to l eave u p on recor d a spaclu l ,. of wood engraving. Mr. Lose did not wish to repress genius, but public pr' perty must be protected.—Fined 108. UNION-HALL. Two notorious young pickpockets, named Hitter and 1 0 1, were charged before Mr. Trail with stealing a silk handk e chief from the pocket of Mr. Fenwick, the firework-mani thic turer, in the Borough-road. The complainant stated that on the preceding afternoon' : he was walking along the Westminster-road, he felt a tug, A his coat pocket, and missed a silk handkerchief. He tin 7; round and saw the two prisoners and another lad (not in c T io tody) immediately behind him, and at the same time saftT e d handkerchief fall on the ground from one of them. He set t the two prisoners, and the lad (not in custody) picked up . he handkerchief, and, holding it up, offered to give it to tm,,, owner if he would let his companions go. During this to ceeding the prisoners made the most vigorous attemPtto escape, by kicking and biting the complainant, but be b tp them firmly until a policeman came up and took them custody. Both the prisoners have been repeatedly in custody 011 miler charges to the above, and they were committed. MARKET NEWS-YESTERDAY' CORN-EXCHANGE. vsetiell Since Monday only a moderate arrival of English - 0 0 has taken place for our market, and the stands were bY, cii O p means heavily supplied. In most descriptions of the a fair retail business was transacted, at full prices. to foreign Wheat was in better demand, at rates quite equte , those quotes in our last report. In bonded Grain no tan ) , tions were noticed. Nearly 20,000 quarters of foreign have arrived this week ; yet, the greater portion having cis direct to the distillers, the quantity on offer this morning b ut by no means large, and prices were supported. In Miu t t beft little was doing. Owing to the prevailing dry wes . „ 6 , holders of Oats, Beans, and Peas, were firm for high flP'` English. Irish.. Foreign ARRIVALS. I f Wheat. Earley. I Oats. I r 1 , 4111. 4,340 qrs. 610 qrs. I,oflo qrs. 3,f o v - 80 6,040 ....-- 4,470 10,770 460 ----. alt, 5,570 qrs. SIVEITHPIEZOIL Wlifil3g A very limited supply of beasts was on offer, ov , - Q i which the Beef trade was somewhat active, at an advan c e Monday's prices of 2d per 81bs. From Scotland eevol scots came fresh to hand. The numbers of Sheep we. , 1 1, 0 10, moderate, while the inquiry for them w a s , on the " i t stead„ steady ,at full currencies. Lambs, which were tolerablf s merous, met a sluggish tra le, at previ o us fig ur es. T ll ,O B mend for Veal was rather active, and the rates had, je[oll instances, an upward tendency. Pigs sold steadily e' :.j. quotations. Mich cows were held at from 161 to 191 5 s Per 81bs. to sink the offal, a y s d. to s. d. i t. ; L / Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 1 Second qualityilitte... 2 1 2 j Sceond quality ditto 2lO 3 2 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 3 3 Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 6 Southdown Wethers g 6 Pnme Scots, arc. arge coarse Calves S I 4 2 Large Hogs Prime small ditto Suckling Calves, each 111 0 29 Quarter old Pigs, each 0 g` 1 Inferior Sheep SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. Sheep. CA ?A I vos. I 460 2,220 223 3Du . lv Evrowne Ava - IMAZIENTIA.I. S., n or We had a fair demand for each kind of meat , on the lug terms ; At per stone, by the Carcase 4. g osii il, s d. toe 4 s. :seer, interior.- ..... 2 2 t 4 Mutton, inferior ...... 2 , 4 ; 5 ( --middling 2 6 '2 8 -- middling ... 3 5 - prase Imp ..... 210 3 0 --- prune 3 • s -pi ime Imull ...... 3 2 3 4 Pork, 'Hee- V.-31 . Lamb, is lod to Ss 10d nonnuci-a ti.Je 3Kia XZT. the The accounts which have come to hand this week fro, j olt hop districts are not very flattering, yet they have lieu . ," or no effect upon our market. The finest parcels of 1: 1 °Y" selling steadily; other kinds slowly. C SUGAR.—The supply of British Plantation conte limited, and there is a fair demand at full prices. The 7 1 0 1 not including to-day, are about 1,000 hhd s . R e fi n ed Sten Lumps are in request at Cs to 81s 6d per cwt. tb s MAURITIUS AND BENGAL-11,376 bags 105 cas—s °f former sold at full rates to a slight advance; good, t f r otol, yellow 64s to 665, low 60s 6d t o 61 s , an d m id an d gook' "00) 58s to 59s 6d. 6,844 bags an d 161 c h ests o f t h e latter 69 off well also at 63s to 69s for low to fine white, at 5 98 t ? for yellow, and 65s to 7ls for Dobah kind. FOREIGN.—There has been a better demand privately these descriptions, and at rather improved rates for Jar‘',o MOLASSES.-100 puns Antigua sold by auction at 2 78, 26 puns Grenada at 235. COFFEE.—British Plantation has been steady P 11 ..0 but at public sale 161 casks 96 barrels Jamaica weriin i sfl taken in at 42s to 94s for ord to mid. Foreign son:, oir, been brisk ; 176 barrels Rio partly found buyers, le" 9; at 70s to 745, and fine fine ord as high as 90s 6d per c ail bags Havannah were taken in at 52s for good ord; a n o 9 bags Costa Rica sold at 55s 6d to 57s per cwt. Tic's": 081 u been sold to some extent privately, and at a rise of ' iid per cwt. At public sale 364 bales 72 bags realised Woo" yellowish clean garbled 81s, but most of the rest Wa g in at 65s to 80s. In East India 126 bags Singslv re n partly sold at 29s to 38s, and higher prices have bee' than before the budget was announced. , n a 11 0 :.1 COCOA.—There bas not been much demand; iv" e'" 46° British Plantation sold at 44s to 46s for Grenada, ol d to 50s for Trinidad. Rum.—There has been a steady but dull market. CorroN.—The market has been dull. A the O r SALTPETRE.—The demand has been limited, an.. eels offered were mostly taken in. A 0 0 RlCE.—This article has been dull ; mid to good 141 lOs 3d to 11 s per cwt. Icv° SPICES.-660 chests Cassia Lignsa sold, rather Pimento and Pepper have been in fair demand privst e ,.„l. eS' A Dav SALTERY.—Indigo has b een i n goo d request go°' portation at fully pre v i ous ra t es . Th ere h as bean - re business in Lac Dye, which is held for higher prices nr , garde ord. Cochineal meets a steady sale at fair k l is o Brimstone is with ou t a lt era ti on ; an d L ogwoo d and have sold well. TOBACCO.—During the past three or four weeks, s e 9C'rir, business has been tr ansac t e d, an d 2 , 0 00 hhd s o f all i;610 tions have found buyers. The chief business ha l b. Kentucky ; strips 43d t o Sid, an d l ea f 2id to 4}d per dorm TEA.--The public sales have comprised 36,800 P $ AP, only 700 having found buyers, and prices ranging! 2:1 lower. Cungou is id for ord to good, and is Id to I s t i eer. but mid ; Twankay is 24d to is 3d, for good ord to b s o3 o' The stock is 27,600,0001b5, in th e p ort o f L on don, °I beio the same as lea year. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is quoted 401 6d to 41s per ef t s steady. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. s na 11 01 LONDON, MAY 3.—Light no r th- eas t er l y b ree ze, Ai„ 11 1 ,„ DEAL. MAY 2.—Wiad N.E., !moderate . —Arrck Cins Groaf, Rio, for Antwerp ; C o l um bi ne, R 4i b ertsonl -etu - sou,, for ditto. Sld. Meg Merrili es , S y d ney; AngelL ol4 ; Town ; Courier and Mary Stuart, C ape o f G o od till - P: l r phyra, St. Kitt's ; Cintha, Quebec ; her Majesty's I l e Og tilus, on a cruize ; Bilt on, C a l cutta ; and the 1...9t of t ward-bound. ChS s. Orr SALCOMBE, APRIL 29.—Lafayette, Costa'' , MILFORD, MAY I.—Sid. Cab o ti a , New York. h e .0 WEXFORD, MAY I.—The Thomas Lambert, fr°° l t he P ° in making this harbour yesterday, got ashore 0 or f •if of the Forth, but is expe c t e d o ff next t id e . oat. 'l _p o tS. THURSO, APRIL 29.—The Star, of I nve rness, •z as Ds pool to Dingwall, ashore on the sand s o f D u nnett, Arr el• a total wreck. ht! 0 LIVERPOOL, MAY 2.—Wi n d S. S. E. t o S.S.W- , ag av ods dn os Albert (steamer), Wexford, with 207 packae 3 14 oil' the Georgina. Sld., Areta, Singapore ; Quinttn, g S* bay ; Ann Dingwall, St. Thomas's ; Helen M illi sbsrb' Victoria, Texas ; Catherine Fraser, Boston Quebec ; Nestor, Montreal. M o° ‘ CORR, APRIL 30.—Arrd. William WoolleY , e b. Ceylon, left Dec. 16, Mauritius, Jan. 27, cape cension, March 10. ;40 14 WATERFORD, APRIL 30.—S1d. Mary, Ne-'" t th e riiir The Gazette of last night announces Oha C,oohch quis of Bute has been again appointed Lord iiig of Ssot sinner of the General Assembly of the Church which meets about the middle of this month. ,Avotrefot Thursday, Wiliam Murray, of Marmr c " ise , 50 4 St. George's-in-the-East, was fined, by the having in his possession and working an illicit t"' - - BIRTHS. A il. On the sth of February last, at 'Birdwell, E by, I nJes' s o9/3- ady of Major William Riddell, , of the Benga l A lin "' 131. it Ma O c n ke t n h z e ie l , 7 h th . p u , lt 9 ., 4 a th t I R ,is e b: m nf e E J n an t p . e . t, the wife o f C ,a a . P ry tall : se j e : b od On the 17th Ult., at St. Leonard's-on -the-Sea, 4."- - - ~ daughter of the late Mrs. Edgar. nrget" On the 26th ult .at St. Alban's, Mr. John C o sies, 8 lo dge' On the 20th ult., Eades Summers , Esq., off All-gr°v° of E Chertsey, Surrey, aged 82. ___;., 04. , On the 28th u lt., lizabeth, wife of Adam Demme, Marsh-hill, Homerton, Middlesex. .Ger°"es On the 30th ult., at Wilton-place, the 11 ° 13 ' of A r is c4 Georgina de Montmorency, the daughter dye /le'. Frankfort. Henry jau.... OLost iiil the 30th ult., at Stour Provost. Dorsetshire, ........ ,.. .4 , 10 1. ,: t TOT!' D' il 'll London : Printed and Published by MOW ° • tio. 1 i Na. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Offictliistri ° Strand, in the Precinct of the Saver,ill lb. Middlesex. Saturday, May 4, 1844. I GIV on 'I on ,s , • be abl bc.l Pc roe • to tti to r. 311 1'