The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-12 00:00:00

gvato ni freigt-t.

The operations in charters for long-voyag
business have again been large. We hear
of two ships for railway materials to Calcutta, at
50s. and 5 per cent. ; two ships from Wales to
King George Sound and Sydney, coals, at 475. 6d.,
and guano home, at 60s. ; a ship to Melbourne,
at about £3 10s. per register ton ; a ship home
froth Calcutta to London or* Liverpool, £3 55.,
good assortment of cargo. From Birkenheai. to
Bombay," 425.. 6d. to 455. Aden, 50s. can be done.
Salt freights to Calcutta are drooping, and not
over 40s. can now be obtained. To U. S. ports
rates remain, about the same as last quoted, arid
all the berths are abundantly supplied wit),
tonnage. The following are the rates of freight
for—

COAL : FROM LIVERPOOL OR BIRKENHEAD
' 'To . • a. d.' ` S. d.. To , • •s. d. e. d
Malta l4 0 15 0 Trebizonde
Trieste
Corfu • •15 0 ... 0 n ~..~vna
Smyrna
v...... ... ..... ~..- nominal. Venice
Gibraltar • 13 0 '0 0 Genoa l5 0 ... 0 0
Leghorn... nord. 15- 0 ... 0 0 Naples -• nom: 16 0 ... 0 0
Athens
Havannah. i lB 0 0 0 St. Thomas nominal.
Cardenas ... ...... 14 0 ... 15 6 Rio Janeiro
Monte Video ... 37 6 ... 0 0 Bahia --.. , 2B 0 ... il9; 0
Buenos Ayres ~,. 37 6 ... , 0,0 Cape of G. Hope 30 0 .... 21 6
Constantinople.. 16i ,o, ... 17 0 Pernambuco
0. . 28. 0.....0 0
RAILS---BRISTOL CHANNEL.
To Galveston, 2ss. , and 5 per cent.
To Mobile (nominal)...2os
To New Ybilc •
To New Orleans
To Fernandina (Florida)
To Portsmouth (nominal)
To Savannah....- , , , •
To Havannah (small cargo) ...30s. - and 5 per cent.
To Alexandria 255.
GENERAL FREIGHTS.
• e. d. '1
s. d
Liverpool to Aden : Coal
~ Hong•Kmig .•O to 57- 6
Ditto from Wales 6O 0. ttl,.. 0 0
-, .. Chnsan
-„ ` Ceylon : Iron'' - • 45 OM 0 0
„ Bombay, do. •' : ' • OO oto 0 0
- from the Clyde
„ Bombay :. Coals ,426 t) 0 0
She/. ' 162 6t065 0
. „ • Sydney or L3 10s. register ton
Melbourn
„ Singapore
- „ Galle ' ' 42 oto 43. 0
~ Shanghai '
Ditto from Wales -87- 6ta -0 0
1 „ - Calcutta : Salt without consignment4o o,to 0- 0
with ditto 42 6to 0 0
Calcutta : Iron ' 5O 0 & 5?/,,
”- Di to, • Cads- -..., - ..... , . ..::".i :, 40 9 to,, o o
„ Ap,censlon, from Wahs - '26oto 0 0
„ Fernando Po, •from Wales ...... _ 3l o'o 0 0
Callio ' ' ' , • 30' "0 032 6
. Flag Stones 35 0.. 40 0
„ Woosung - .
LiverpOol to Madras Iron &c. 458. to 508., Clyde 50s ; Cbsan 60S.
Do. Coals 425. 6d. ,
Do. 'from4Wales ' 455. Od.
Liverpool to Valparaiso for orders, to. discharge then or at a
Port not North of Callao 335. to 345., snul ships.
Liverpool to New York, Coals, full cargoes, 145.. & 5 er cent.
, Monlmain 705., Teak to U. K. nominal.
Alcyab; option of Rangoon, Bassein, or Moulmain, toj. K. or
Continent, 525. 6d.
Calcutta to :Liverpool, 555., ditto on 'the round Li D. 6d. to
£5, with option of London. . . .
Guano from Chixchas to U. K. or Continent, 60s
Bombay to Liverpool or London 30s. to 30s. cargo 2-3zs seeds,
• 1-3rd cotton. s
We are indebted to Messrs. Taylor, Tipper, ad. Co.)
for the following rates of freight to the United Sites:—

225. 6d. and 5 per cent..
225. 6d: and 5 per cent.

-
Boston. New York. .F'hiltelphia.
1 _
•
s. 4. s. d. s. d. a. d. a. d s. d.
Pig iron, Bars, 1 'l5 0... 0 0 ,12 6,..14 0 17 '..20 0
Rails, &e....
Chemicals and 15 0...17 6 0 'o_ls -0- • -17-- ...19 0
Fine Iron ..... , • , ,
Salt • ' nominal. ' 'nominal. . ; noinal.
Dry Goods lO 0...15 0 10 0...17 6 0 1..20 0
Hardware ...., , 12 6... 0 0 0-0...12 6 20 l. 0 0
Earthenware , 5 6... 0,0 0 k 0... 5 0. .--, 0 l. 8p 6
Passengers £3 15s Od 'RA 56 Od ''£3 Os 'Od
Gross. : . Gross.. Gms.
• Baltimore. • Charleston. iNqw rleans.
' s. d. s. d. s. d. 6. d. s. ds. cl-.-
Pig Iron, Bars, 1 17 6...20 0 15 : 0:,... 0 0 15 1. 0 0
Rails, &c .... 1
Chemicals and 1, 20 0... 0 0 00 0...20 , 0 15 ',.17 6
Fine 1r0n'....
Salt .
Dry Goads 2O 0... 0 0 0 0...25, 0 0 1..15 0
Hardwai e
Earthenware 0 0... 8 0 0 0... 7 6 0 6 0
Passengers £4 Os £5 Os. 1 10s.
s
Nominal. • Gross. tos',
,
.. ,

Aron Zratte.
The Iron trade of South Staffordshire ettirrues
quiet without any decided change. Pi Iron :
The haematite brands of the Lancashiidistrict
Continue in good demand here. The, Shpshire
(Old Paik) cold blast pigs are much inquest for.
The official list of prices of Staffoidshire nished
Iron is as follows :—Comrnon Staffordshe bars,
£7 10s, at the works ; best. "bars, £8 10s sheets,
£9.; doubles, £lO 10s ; nail sheets, £8 10Elatins,
£l2; boiler plates, £9; best and best lest in
proportion; common , rods, £7 Kos; hots, £8
10S ; gas, strip, £8 ; Canada plates, £1; and
all other sorts in proportion. Currentpriees

'of pig Irohi; Staffordshire" cold. blast, £4 10s;
best native hydrate pigs: £3 lOs to £4 2s 6d ; first-
class all micte.grey forge pigs, £3'los to £3 15s;
good9aine pigs, with a modicum of flue cinder,
£3 a 3 Os ; , mine pigs, deteridrated by cinder,
a4£2 l ;to
.43 2s 6d; grey forge cinder pig iron,
£2 .5s to £2 17s 6d; white forge cinder pigs, 42 lOs
t,
Ito ' ss; melter, Nos. 1 9 and 3£2 17s 6d to
, iron,
£3 2s 6d ; superior makes of all mine melting
£3 lOs to £4, according to make and quality.
Favourite Shropshire and Forest of Dean brands.
£4 10s. The Cumberland District : The demand
both for hcernatle --my- anT native pig irdn'''litir
ve‘yOtrisk. Copper-nansactiOls thii week
scarcely so extensive,"Thiryrices thlerably firm-.-
Fdreign very dull. Tin : Prices for English are
steady. Straits very firm. The supply of 43qnca,
is limited, and prices looking upwards. Spelter
Sortie sales are reported at £2O 15s in London ;
selflers asking £2O 475'&14 to'fir2i.i. 'lLekii fi firhi
in !price, outotrassactionare,,,of small amount.,
Tih Plates: There is rather more enquiry for tli.i
article. Regulus : French star, £50.-:Quick-_
silier, £7 per bottle, less 3 per cent for cash.
Sviedish Steel more emihiijedl fo, blitr'witliout
change in price.,,,,,,

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING.
•• • -
The ENGLISH STOCK MARKET to-day again
manifested a disposition to improveo:antd an

adVance of about -§1- per cent. has taken place
In the value of Consols, which are now quoted
94,1; to a for money, and 941 for the account.

Market quiet generally. India Siock' has been
dealt in at 220,4 ; New Three per Cents. by
special transfer, at 944 and,l"; India PebgnAures,
97 ; Enfaced Rupee Paper, 99.1, ;,and Exchequer
Bills, Small, lis pm. '
The Funds closed at the following'pFices
-Ctmsolsi--Money -
~ Account . . . . . . 041
Excheqh@r Bills IT . . . . 17 20,
Bank Stock.

Three per. Cents
The following appeared fill- portion 'of our
impression-of- Saturday : - --
The stock markets to-day were 'better in the absence
of : further disquieting intelligence from the Continent.
Cqnsols exhibit a recovery of h to -I per cent. The
market for Britist failftay stooks .likowise experienced
a general improvement, being rendered stronger in
character by the recent speculative realisations. :The
commercial demand for money was active, the, rate
foi the best bills in the opent market being 4 per cent.
There were again no ions inbullion at the Batik.
The steamer Indus,' with India mailS, will tak'e, on
Monday, as much, as £4,04,780, of which £361,780 is
-silver. The whole is, on mercantile account.--Daily
News.

The English funds opened this morning at a recovery'
of. B, and
.subsequently Ahere,was. a ,further advance.
The statement in the Patrie was regarded. as indiCating
some modification in the Emperor ;Napoleon's Italian
programme, while therassertion that the Western Powers`
offered Wild Ttirkeylln maintaining her rights in-ihe
Piincipalitiesraeem-to-denote that...Erance and England
are in complete accord on the policy to be pursued with
regard to any new complications in that region: The-
demand fon discount to-day h'as ,again been active, and
little .has been done below the Bank rate. In the
foreign exchanges, this, afternoon, there was no altera-
tion of importance fiom the rates of last- post. the
railway market has been firmer to-day, and in most of
the leading British descriptions there has- been an
advance.—Times.

• -
Tit' ;Londone Railway Shire Market to-day has
been comparatively active, and the partial reco-
very of yesterday was fully- maintained. Great
Westerns are 684„Tard:6:7 i Fonatin and North-
Westerns,D74 .t astern Counties, 551 and
Midlands, 4091 and al; and- South-Eastdrns;BB3
to 89. Lombardo-Venetian are marked 111 and
The Share Market closed at the following prices :
Ambergate, Not., & Eastern Junctn. 64-
Caledonians ...... . 934 1
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern Counties . . . ..541 •
East Lancashire .—
Edinburgh and Glasgow . . .
Great Northern . ." . . . 1084- 9
A lO4 6
Great Westerns
Great Western of Canada. . . 11 10613-16
Grand Trunk of Canada B,l :4
Great Southern and Western . . • :112 14
Lancashire and Yorkshire . . .
London and North-westerni"::: t
London and South-western. . . . 911
Leeds Northern . . . 45i, •6/
Manchester, Sheff., and Lincolnshire 411
Midland Stock lO9/
North British
North Staffordshire
,
South Eastern and Dover . . . . 'BB4 91
York, Newcastle, and Berwick.
,911 2
York and North Midland': . . 751

In the FOREIGN SECURITIES MARKET, to-day,
only a very limited buSiness has been doing, but
values generally were well supported. Original
Turkish Six per Cents. have been negotiated :at
791, and the New Sixes at 621; Belgian have
advanced to 991 ; Mexican are steady at previous
'prices; Buenos_AyKes are 1 per cent. higher for
money and account.
New India Five per Cent. Loan is firm at 104
,to 1044-.

, r .

Canada Scrip is quoted 11 tog pm.
Turkey Bank Shares are 11 to 11 dis. ; and
Buenos Ayres Railway d to a pm.
French!Rentes have been quoted on the Par;-•
Bourse at 67f,90c, and Subseni.--61.Y 67f 85c; the
market as rather flat.
In the LONDON MINING MARKET to-day the
transactions have been to a moderate extent.
Prices remain without alteration of importance.
In the Stock Exchange East Basset shares are
marked 115 ; Wheal Grenville, 3 ; North Downs,
si, being dull ; Providence, 45; Tincroft, 4-Z- and
5 West Caradon, 90 ; and 'Wheal Mary Ann,
25 and "26. Great Retallack, Wheal Seton,

Herodsfoot, and Wheal Unity Shares have
also been dealt in. There are inquiries for

Linares Mining shares, which are marked
1 St. John del Rey. have been dealt
in at 224-. Great Northern Copper (South
'Australia) are quoted 1-16 to s prem.
Subjoined. is our usual weekly report of the metal
market :—Only .a limited business has been done
in metals; mostly at reduced prices. Copper is
flat in demand, and the number of orders in hand
is materially diminished. Iron finds a quiet
market for all descriptions. Tin keeps firm in
price, and in fair inquiry for foreign, the market
being bare of Banes,. Spelter exhibits a flat
tendency, notwithstanding some business having
been done for 'spring :arrival. :I Lad keeps in
favour: Tin, plates show 'no change in prices or in
The LONDON GENERAL PRODUCE 'MARKET is
quiet to-day.
• SDGAR.ff--White is quiet, with slight symptoms
of improveMent.
• COFFEE is steady.
TEA.-i---The market is dull: common congou
tiominally.ls. sd. to ls. 71d.
RICE quiet, but firm.
SALTPETRE.—The market looks better for the
week. • About 800 bags were sold yesterday.
The L0.:4150N TALLOW MARKET is quiet to-day,
at 595. 6d. on the spot ; 595. to 595. 3d. for the
month ; 555. 61 April to June ; and 535. to 535.
3d. last three months.
The BOROUGH HOF MARKET.—There is very
little business in any kind of Hops to-day.; prices,
however, are mostly supported.

PROVINCIAL, &c., MARKETS, YESTERDAY.

MANCHESTER SHARE.—Great Western's, 68i 3 j
Midlands, I'o4 ' '

GLASGOW IRON.—Market firm. No. 1,58 s to
58s. 6d; Warrants, 58s 9d to 595; No. 3,'58s to 58s 6d.
DONCASTER CATTLE.—Fair show, of all kinds
of cattle, and a moderate business done. Milch Cows
(in calf) made from £l2 to £18.; Drapes £8 to £ll.
Few- Sheep shown, and for -a pep of good- wethers
sellers asked 53s per heid. Good' supply of Pigs :
trade very heavy,, and a reduction of fully is per head.
Park 6s 9d per stone.

-CORN MARKETS.—DONCASTER Supplies of
Wheat about an, average for season, Imit trade slow, at
prices of last wcik. Full 'market of Barley, and all but
grinditig sell in favour,of buyers. Oath and Beans in
large supply, and best. lots rather easier, with a; good
inquiry for feeding quaIities.—NEWCASTLE : Small show
of Wheat, which sold readily, at full prices of this day
week. South country and foreign held, with firmness,
but no business passed.. flour quiet, without alteration
in prices. Malting and grinding Barley both in good
demand, and full prices paid. Oats not quite to brisk,
but rates fully supi o t3d. Beans and Peas sell in re-
tail, at late rates.—Coax : White, 275. to 2'7s. '6d, ; red,
21s. to 275. ; Oats, 13s. to 17s. 2d.

'

MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1860.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Late accounts from the!Papal States are any-
thing but assuring. They were in daily appre-
hension of an attack by the Pontifical troops on
the forees.of the'Romagna, where, and also in the
Bolognese, great excitement and irritation are
said to prev.ail,--7-the clergy being threatened by
the people, and. the. fortifications of the cities
actively.maintained. At Rome itself there is also
k A .
prevalent a strong spirit of disaffection.

The Times, of Saturday, with reference to the
second part of the " correspondence relating to
the affairs of Italy," published the day before,
thinks. that " one thing only appears tolerably
clear, and that is, that Napoleon 111. and Count
Cavour are now tolerably well aware how this
Italian game is to be played out, and that the end
is not far off." The way is this,—that Sardinia is
to secure an accession of Italian territory on one
side, and France is to annex, in return for the
same, Savoy and Nice on the other. " Italian
independence "- is to. follow, if it -will—on rather
if it can ; but its progress, we cannot but fear, is
a very dubious matter, . while Sardinian acquisi-
tion, and French annexation are, or soon will be,

faits accomplis:
It would appear to be matter, judging
senor of our latest telegrams respecting
Central Italy, that both the Romagnas and
Tuscany will decide their fates by universal
suffrage. Farini replies to Count Cavour's
message, that the acts of Rome had destroyed
the possibility of a Vicariate, as proposed by
France for the Romagnas ; while, as respects
Tuscany, we are now informed, that "whatever
may be the result of the new vote, the King of

Sardinia will accept it beforehand." The Tuscans
are declared to have made up their minds to this
course after due reflection ; and whatever
.may be
the effect on the mind of the French Emperor,
they are scarcely likely now to be turned from
their purpose. One result,: however, is appre-
hended, which, we suppose, will not at this time
of day create much alarm,—we mean that of
Victor Emmanuel's excommunication—Papal bulls
for which, it is said, are ready to be launched the
moment annexation is decreed.

It will be seen by a late telegram from Berlin
that Austriti arid Prussia have come to an under-
standing as respects any meditated annexation of
territory On the part of the French Emperor in
the direetion•of the Rhine. Austria, it is stated,
while maintaining a passive attitude as respects
Savoy, yet, :should the Rhenish frontiers be
menaced, will immediately join with Prussia
for the protection of the territorial integrity of
the German Confederation.

The majority of 226 which Ministers obtained
on the Address, on Friday night, was a majority
of expediency. They had brought matters to so
perilous a pass, that members who objected to the
whole proceeding yet gave their votes on the
occasion as the less of two evils. It was cer-
tainly not a vote upon the merits of the question.
Not that a Treaty of Commerce with France—or
any other constitutional means of promoting a
closer intercourse, and a better understanding
with that country--..were not a, most desirable
thing: But there were circumstances in this
case .Which made it, at this moment, not only a
measure for present suspicioni.but,of.future peril,
. „
to nrope., -.We- have no, doubt that, as one of
the London journals 'in the interest of Ministers
observes, f‘ the majority exprefsqs the true feel-
ing of, tiiej,l3ritiskpeeple, and Wit. it will not be
the fault of England; if her priigianiine of peace,
amity, and civilisatien,:io" destined to be torn to
pieces by savage hands.". It is their • feeling,
because of their anxiety for the pyomotion of
" peace, amity, and civilisation,"
with France; and in the hive that such
may
the results of the Treaty. But ithits'a.
feelingmistrust
that
s and
h slight
we may -not say
is yet accompanied by noconnection
with another, and a Conservative contemporary
without
of the metropolitan press, that '
apprehension. And althoug
the deepest indignation at the' wrong that has
been done to England thatn we record the humili-
ating majority for the Address,
w e must faet' '
yet,of With
a hthat contemporary declare,
that; ‘.4-it is not without the deepest and most
painfid anxiety that we look forward to the
future." It is not, as the Times plausibly puts it.
that " if our measures are good for France, they
must be good for England." Nor is it, as thet

spine Liberal journalist says, that " the British
House of Commons, an assemblage of business
men, representing all interests,* and all classes,
declines to let any consideration of percentages
stand in the way of that solemn approval it has
been pleased to give to this measure." It was not
such grovelling considerations as these, assuredly,
which gave rise to the opposition to the mea-
sure,—they, indeed, rather belonged to its authors
and its supporters ; but it was considerations of
concern for great national interests,—and interests
which there is only too much reason to fear have
been impaired, if not in some' degree sacrificed,
by that Treaty.

the fact of the French Emperor being—as he
is reported to' be—irritated by the discussions in
Parliament on his projeCt for the annexation of
Savoy, is not one that is calculated to increase
our confidence in the goodness of his cause, or the
rectitude of his policy. But more than this,—
there is now being displayed a weak and spiteful
spirit of retaliation on the .part of the Paris press
—which is all, more or lese, under Imperial influ-
ence, and sometimes Imperial inspiration—from
which it is imposSible not to augur that there is,
in high quarters, a still smouldering animosity.
" France," says the Pays, " left England full
liberty to take and fortify Perim, because England
had to. protect \her interests in the East, and
France is now in a similar position in regard to
Savoy and -INice,"—ergo it is• pretended that
" France cannot understand why such noisy dis-
cussions take place in the English Parliament,
which might compromise the alliance between
the two countries." The best answer to this is to
be found in the fact, that France is not " now in a
similar position in, regard to Savoy and Nice "

which are on her own frontiers, and the possession
of which would give her advantages dangerous to
the peace of Europe ; whereas Perim is thousands
of miles away from the frontiers of England, and
a place, the fortifying of which affected no Euro-
pean interest whatever.

We present in another column an interesting
communication from one of our townsmen,
engaged in the timber trade, to the Chancellor of.
the Exchequer, on the proposed reduction of
timber duties, as contained in the budget. :This
reduction-may now, perhaps, be regarded as a
settle,d question.; nevertheless it is important to
shewhow revenue, to the extent of nearly half-i
a-million, for little, if any, real advantage to the
country, is to be sacrificed, and the corresponding
deficiency requiring an additional income-tax to
supply its place. As the communication we refer
-to truly states, " The effect of now reducing the
foreign duties to the same scale as colonial, will
be a- loss to the revenue of this country,
computed on the quantities entered for home con-
sumption last year, of about £423,000, and with
the reasonable prospect of a large annual increase'
—the result of which, we repeat, is the imposition
of an additional income-tax to the extent of a
halfpenny in the pound, and this without.benefit
to consumers, it appears, of as much as one-third
of that sum. We also give, on the same subject,
it will be seen, the correspondence bet Ween Mr.
M'Avity, ,Mayor of the city of 'St. John, New
Brunswick, who was in Liverpool last week, and
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which the
former shows that the proposed reduction of duties
will; as respects the -colonies of New Brunswick,
be a change " destructive to their trade ana their
prosperity."

WE have had to dwell so much, and sa con-
tinuously, of late, upon mere- political questions,
and those, many of them, of so controversial and
distracting a nature, that it may be both pleasant
and profitable to turn for a moment from such
subjects of agitation, to some calmer and more
agreeable topic of social and moral interest and
influence. And there: is one that immediately
presents itself, to which we have frequently taken
occasion of late to address ourselves, in the
, humble hope of thereby furthering the moral and
mental improvement. of those classes around us
who are shhjected to a *daily round of close, and
hitherto unrelieved, and often oppressive confine-
We allude to the early closing movement,
one great advance in which was brbught into
practical effect in-Liverpool'on Saturday last, by
the commencement of a regulation in many of
the shops and other places of business in some of
the ' principal streets in the central part of the
town, by which they will be closed at a compara-
tively early period on Saturdays, and early- in
the evenings, regularly, on other businesQ acv-
'of the 'Week: The ?fs this- regulation is, of
to afford those' who are closely engaged
in their business occupations day by day, and
from morning till night, some better opportunity
of recreation than they have hitherto enjoyed;
and it is most earnestly to be hoped, that those
on whom this valuable boon is now bestowed,
with prove themselves worthy of it, by devoting
the hours of leisure thus afforded to them to
,
purposei of rational recreation; and real im-
provement; both morally, mentally, and physi-
cally. These are results in which society at
large is deeply interested. The, hundreds of
thonsands who may thus be benefited, in their
morals, in their minds, and in their health, by
such recreation, if they do not already, yet at no
distant period must exert au inflnence,, socially
and morally, the character of which it deeply
concerns us all should be that of good rather than
of evil'; and certainly the opporthnity will thus
be presented of acquiring such advantages in
their respective conditions and stations in life, as
ought to have a most beneficial effect upon them,
and. by this means conduce to the highest
interests of society.

ment.

If this be true of those whose case is that of
immoderate confinement rather than excessive
toil, how must it be with those who are over-
worked, day by day, as well as over-confined ?
It is the remark of a great moral philosopher,
that " labour without recreation converts the
body into a mere machine, and brutifies the soul."
This remark will apply, of course, with some
force even to those who are engaged, through
long hours every day, in the business of com-
mercial life ; but how much more forcibly and
powerfully does it not apply to those who labour
severely day by day, and through protracted
hours, literally earning their bread by the sweat
of their brow ? Not many days ago, a meeting
was held in the metropolis to obtain a limitation
of the hours of labour for the journeymen bakers,
who are daily subjected, it appeared, to periods
of most irksome toil of from sixteen to twenty
hours,—and toil, it must be recollected, not per-
formed in the open air, but in a close unhealthy,ofth
and fetid atmosphere, which
physical strength of man. is destructive
ell, therefore, might
"that the
the meeting come to the resolution,
large number of hours n baker is
the journeyman
compelled to work, is injurious
alike to
for the most part
physical
and moral condition."
his
ndment of such a condition as
the amendment
Truly was 'the
important
this described as a m ortant work of p
reion, and one which cannot but confer
generation,
inestimable benefit on a large and worthy class of
the community. With only too much truth did
Lord SHAFTESBURY on that occasion declare,
how distressing it was to see the journeyman
baker so soon become incapable of discharging•
his
daily duties, and insist that it was the
duty of the
public to endeavour to put an end to a system
which created that incapacity,
andcaused so
much misery thereby, not only to
the
objects
of
it themselves, but to their families and con-

nections.

Yet, bad as is the case of the journeymen
bakers, that of the operative bleachers, who are a
very numerous class in some parts of this county,
is infinitely worse. Their hours of toil, it seems,
are often sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen hot= a