The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-14 00:00:00

CALEDONIAN FANCY DRESS BALL.

This festivity, which for many years past has
successfully aided the muse of the two great Scottish
charities in the metropolis, last night numbered
amongst its visitors their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and PriDetit of Wales. Willis's Rooms are es-
pecially adapted for ornamental display, and upon
Nis occasion the general arrangements were made subser-
vient to the expression of a loyal and patriotic sympathy
for her royal highness's fatherland. The national flag of
Denmark took its place on either aide of the royal standard
of Greet Britain, and the galleries and corridors were draped
with the Danish colours. The object of the festivity was
aptly denoted by a tasteful arrangement of the various
banner of the Scottish clans around the walls of the apart-
ment, and the national thistle wu prominently introduced
in all the floricultural decorations.

The company began to set down shortly after 9 o'clock.
Amos. the earliest were his Excellency K. de Bills, the
highly respected Danish envoy at this court, who war ac-
companied by IL de game's and Baron Goldencroos, accre-
dited to the conference now sitting; and Baron Rosen-
crests., K. de Krieger, and Hajar KlUffollll4 attached to
the Danish Legation, all &reeding the snivel of the
Duchess at Somerset, " nor hertsagtncie" (our duchess), as
they are prone to designate her gram, whoae warm-hearted
sympathy for and services towards Denmark are well
known. The dachaes was attired is mourning, but the
Danish colours were 000spicuons In every part of her
°assume. Lady Ely's Quadrille was supposed to represent
the choicest flowers, baskets of which formed the
distinguishing ornament. of white silk drams of
great beauty. The ladies in the " Highland Quad-
rille," led by the Countess of Fife, wore white
bouillocue tulle skirts, with teaks of white silk
bordered with tartan ribbon and edged with blonde, the
belted plaid being fastened over the left shoulder. Each
wore the badge of her family in the hair and the tartan of
her clan. The boys and girls educated in the Caledonian
Asylum, with their javenile band, came at • quarter to
11 o'clock. They had scarcely been marshalled into their
places when notification was made of the royal approach.
Then the Counter of Fife, in the name of the ladies form-
ing the Highland Quadrille, presented bin royal highness
with a beautiful bouquet of Bowen, arranged so as to form
the Danish colours, and contained in a golden bouquet.
bolder. Their royal higher...a were then conducted to the
ball-room. The Prince of Wales, Prince Louis of Hanes
and Prince Alfred wore Highland dresses, the two former
having kilts and plaids of the royal Stuart tartan, while
thole worn by Prince Alfred were of the white Stuart
pattern. The Princess of Wales gore a white dream, a
wreath of white flowers studded with diamonds, and a royal
Stuart scarf.

In the comae of the evening, a quadrille was formed in
which the royal visitors took part. The Princess of Wales
gave her hand to the Duke of Bur:clench, president of the
asylum. The Prime of Wales danced with the Duchess of
Wellington, Prince Alfred with the Countess of Fife, and
Prince Louis of Reese with the Dachas of Bachrach. A
vase followed, the Princess of Wales dancing with Prince
Louis of Reese, and the Prince of Wales with Lady Agate
Yorke. At half-past 12 o'clock the royal visitors were
conducted to supper, which was served in the card•coom to
• select party of sixteen guests. The Prince and Priam,
of Wake retired shortly after 1 o'clock.

THE LATE PROFESSOR FEHEIZE.—The world of
philo•opht and letters has sustained a heavy loam by the
death of Jaime Frederick Ferrier, A.B. Once. Professor of
Metaphysics and Political Boman, in the University of
St. Andrews. Mr. Ferriees health had for some months
been seriously impaired by organic disease of the heart ;
and latterly. we believe, he felt binned so completely
iecapacitated for °Deducting the business of hie class that
he had to delegate it to Other hands. Repeated aimemions
of angina pectoris oonfirmed hie SOMetOW6 [nee& in the
fear that recovery was hopeless ; and on Saturday, at an
age oomparativolr anadvanoed, he died at his resideme in
the sacisat University town which he adorned by hi.
palm sod maimed by hie social presenot.—Edintnirgh
Courant.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
APPEALS.
TKLVIZTOW r. TZLVIRTON.

The heating of this caw yea this corning resumed.
Lord Brougham stated that be had received •letter from
one of the whams., which of mums he could not Weal to,
but it was most i•proper to addreee any peer on the subject
of a owe before Shim

The Attorney-General mond the case of the re-
spondent, aad complained of the abominable misrepre-
imitations of the (ended of his client, which had been
brought forward, tied which attributed to her the
posesst of proceedings for the worst of purposes. The Lame
view had been adopted by the Lord Ordinary, but de did nut
find that the Lord President bad taken that amuse, while the
opinion of the other judges, Lord Carriehill and Lord Dees,
ware in the law against the mepoodent, yet they did not
make such scandalous imputations as had been made on
her at the bar, and which could not have been put forward
by the maned for the appellant, anises they had felt that en
making out their contention that there was no promise
of marriage they were so little supported by fact
u to be compelled to have resort to inainuations of immoral
feelings and intentions on the part of the respondent. It
would be his duty to meet and dispute these assertions by
an examination of the real circumstances of the case. He

called attention to the words of Lord Carriehill, in which
he said that the termination of the correspondence left the
parties in this position, that on their meeting in Scotland
in February, 1839, they, on the one hand, were
not actually married, nor had there been ever •
concluded agreement. or promise to marry ; but on the other
hand, there had been pending for years a treaty of marriage
between them, and the very purpose of this meeting was to
consider • proposal to complete the marriage in some irre-
gular manner. Founding himself on this statement, the
learned counsel laid down as • proposition that the whole of
the evidence went to establish a most persevering purpose
and intention of marriage between the parties, and
this on the part of both of them. Although
the correspondence was commenced by the respondent,
yet it was so managed by the appellant that it became •
correspondence in the nature of courtship. Purim' to the
meeting at Oak* in August, 1834 the ourespondeoce had.
by means of the appellant, usumed such • form that the re-
lative position of the parties appeared to Lady Stasubsume
to be one of contemplated marriage. At Balaklava occur-
rences took place which pee the respondent to under-
stand that, although there were obstacles, if they
could be removed the marriage would be brought
about. The correspondence then proceeded on this footing—
at least that there would be • marriage which, while
it would satisfy the scruples of the respondent would per-
haps place her for a time in a disadvantageous if not
equivocal position. It was maim' this the respondent
struvrled, mama all the discomfort, all the horror which
to • virtuous woman would surround • secret marriage, and
accounted for the terrible conflict in the feeling of the
respeedeut, which was apparent from the evidence. He
would treat very lightly all that had been brought
forward to the disparagement of the respondent, before
the commencement of the correspondence, all the
imputations as to misrepresentation of the status of her
family; and insinuations with regard to hercooduct towards
a Dr. Alsop, with whom she had some relations which
tended towards • mamage with him, and be should come
at once to • meeting of the test and the appellant on
board the steamer, in which quaintance emirate&
All that was known about it, was that it was • casual ac-
quaintance made on that introduction, arising out of the
attentions paid to a lady whom he did uotmeen to in-
sult, and that they became interested in each
others conversation, which turned on intellectual
subject.; but there was act the slightest proof that on the
part of either of them there was any suggestion of impro•
priety, and nothing was more probable that on parties they
should express a mutual wish that they should some day
meet again. The lady was the child of parents who had
been somewhat mglipt; she received part of her location
in • Roman catholic coeval* was of an imaginative and
romantic turn, and had • taste for poetry of that high
intellectual character of which, in the present day,
Tennyson and Longfellow were the representatives. She
was comparatively Ignorant of the images and conveationali•
ties of the world, and this oombieed with her education
and tastes would indica. towards • romantic view of men
and things; and her imagination would be easily excited,
and such a mind would be unguarded in following out its
owe interest. and views without reference to the ordinary
standard of manners. The appellant also seemed to hare
been • man of intellectual pursuits, and, setting
at defiance conventionalities, of a literary taste somewhat

consonant with that of the respondent, and it was quite in-
telligible that such • pair getting into conversation such as
that which occurred on bred the steamer could but part
with • feeling of sympathy generated between them. The
respondent had • cowl!), orient at Monastic. of whom at
that time she spoke se a brother, who had been brought up
in bar father's bolus, and stood in the relation of • brother
to her. In order to get a letter to this cousin more easily
than through the ordiparyoramils the rseponden t wrote to the
t, proba to dy referring the acquaintance on board
the steameri
(the letter of the reepondeat was not forth-
coming), and asking the favour of forwarding her letter to
her cousin. and if she wait no further than that no possible
blame could attach to her. It was fair to infer that the
appellant was am much attracted by the respondent as she
might have been by him, and if she did give him an oppor-
tunity of opening soorreepoodere if he desired it. and it
was be who tint diverted the correspondence into the
chancel of correspondence, for in his very first letter
he tells her that he was anxious to go to Naples
for the sole purpose of seeing her, and being disappointed,
he asked her to write ad lat him know what she had been
doing and was going to do, and when her future wanderings
might leakier. In his own are he asked how it come
that tan months attar the tint meeting he did nothing to
cultivate the respoadeat's acquaintance ; that if he had
entertained soy view of lemonnble courtship towards her,
he could have had no difficulty, and there could have been
no
impropriety in addressing her in correspondence;
but he did nothing of the kind : and because
in the crane of • correspondence which was thrust
upon him he made nee of the most commonplace th,ugh
guarded expressions of civility that the most ordinary
courtesy could suggest, • conclusion had been arrived
at that the correspondence from the outset was
one of courtship on his part and with • view to
III•rfillIge. Such a statement was wholly inconsistent
with the tone of his very first letter, which was not
confined to mess ex • s of guarded courtesy,
and in thane that followed the tope was one of increasing
warmth and expressive of hope of their meeting. He
urged a mote free, or rather, more affectionate
tone towards him in her letters. In his second letter be
said that he liked her ocevereatioa on board the steamer
where they first met too much to sleep, and wished to know
her better. The respondent, innply, admitted that she
wished to see him again—perhaps to renew her first im-
pression ; for she firmly believed I. first instinctive feelings,
ad, although sometimes obliged to change her opinion,
still she invariably returned " toujours I see premieres
amours." Hitherto they had addressed each other aa
Miss Longworth and Captain Yelverton ; bat in
his third letter the appellant began —" My dear
Theresa." The respondent continuing through ire
ral letters to address him as Captain Yelverton, be
objected to her "captain ing and mistress him," stating
that he had an objection to that form and fashion, and sab-
sequently, in a kiad of pet, reviving the address of "dear
Moe Lougworth," and expensing his dislike at being called
Mr. Yelverton by her, and gave bey bee choice between
several of his baptismal rasa The lady then adopts the
term at the beginning of her letters "Carissimo Carlo mio,"
and asked if that would suit him ; to which be rejoins that
that form Mather was better. From this it reargued
that it wee owing to the proposal of the appellant that the
correspondence sasumed a more familiar and • move teller
tone. He continually urged Der to write to him. Reference
wee then made to an expression of the appellant's is which
he speaks of " his intended future," which, it was argued,
meant only his personal movements after be left Malta.
This the lady took aa referring to his engagement to some
lady, and, in the court below, the canner is which eke spoke
of it was held to be • device to draw an inimediate avowal
from him of affection for herself, whereas it might well be
takes as • playful intimation that if such a state of things
extend it was hardly consistent with the continuance of the
oornapoodeoce between them. His response was to the
effect that his future intended was nowhere, and then fol-
lowed the perms expressing his dislike to be "captained
and mistiest" On this the Lord Ordinary observes that
the appellant Is. dealing with this part of the correspoodeoce
informed the respondent that be had so " future
intended." but wee " fiancé to an arm-chats at the
United Service Club," meaning that he was a con-
firmed bachelor—a more extravagant interpretation urged
the learned cruel, could hardly be—the obvious
inference being that he desired to make her understand
that there was no lady interposing between them mid
nothing more formidable than the "arm-chair." Proceed-
Mg with his examination of the coneeprdeors the Atter-
soy-Cereal argued that the dedoctiou from its tenor was
that the parties with a mutual inclination towards each
other went on in • style of " badinage." natural oars the
circumstances, and adopted to conceal the real nature of
the feelings which were growing upon them. In a letter
of the respondent, when matters had arrived at a point
when she desired to test the feelings of the appellant.
and conjecturing that the appellant might not be serious or
perhaps desirous of besekieg oft the corresponaleime she gave
him the opportunity of doing so, by stating that " the cur•
taia was about to drop on their sore of action." To whial
the appellant, instead of accepting the hint, supposing him
to have desired to nese their comminicatioo, wrote to
ask "What curtain was going to fall over our scene of
action ? Tell me if it is one of those painted ors. which
riirig again dinkier the same ecton In new respective rela-
tionship ;" and he underlined these latter words to indicate
as emphatic meaning. The question was whether this new
?arrest:lip was to be that of husband and wife, or of
soother kind that virtue repaires and vice hesitates to
write about. As any net it was clear that the appellant
had no wish to part with the respondent; while it was a
far inferior, looking to all the thenmstaoor i
that his o•
teatime wen not those which had been asserted for him by
his arra is the argument.
The mat was proceeding whim our report left.l

COURT OF QUERN'S BENCH.

After Term Nisi Pries Sittisp Wesbmiaidor.—(Beforo
Lord Chief Judie Oookbone ands Elpeold Jury.)

Roes v. LORD L. Loßlos.

This wu an adios brought by the plaintiff, who draft:od
himself as a privileged citizen, • D.L., sad s Weary sea
of Berlin, and he sued Lord A. Lefton, oar late &abrader
at Berlin, for s breach of antamt.
The plaintiff appeared in person, and conducted his own
ease ; Mr. Borilis Q. 0., and Mr. Garth, were counsel for
the defendant.
The plaintiff dated, in • very confased and Waal-
Wible manner, hie cue to the jay. It appeared hom it
OA be was aimed by Lord A. Lolae to obtain •
'citable residence at Berlin for the purposes of the
enhamy and the arse of oar priors and princesses when
they visited their sister, the Crown Princes, at Berlin.
Ile noble defendant authorised him to give 6,500
dollars per annum for ten years for • mite of apartments,
the sole use of Asp:dos, and the neesmary servants' rooms,
st,bling, and carriage bounce in Baron Armes Palace, but
he succeeded in getting it for 6,050 dollars. After that wee
done be complained that Lord Augustus Loftus had refused
so fulfil his ratter with regard to rentuneratioa, and
he had been compelled to bring this archon to en-
force his claims. He complained that he gave up the doom-
meats to Lord Loftus on the andante/rag
that he wee to be paid, which had not beat done. He
claimed 6751. under the contract, and 3001. damages.
The first wirer called was Earl Russell, who deposed, in
Answer to questions put to him by the plaintiff, that he gave
Lord Loftus general instructions to obtain • residence at
Berlin suitable for her Majesty's minister. He had a
knowledge that there wen some difficulty in getting Baron
Aroam's house.

The plaintiff uked his lordship if he would produce all
the letters that had been written by the Foreign-aloe
which contained anything basis( reference to the contract
between her Majesty's government and Bum Arum.

The Lord Chief Justios said be was at a loam to ooeesiwe
what the letters had to do with the came. The question was
whether Lord Lotto' had nude a specific eoatract upon
hich he was liable irrespective of any letters.
Plaintiff said he wished to sningthen it by the production
et the letter*.

The Lord Chief Justice said it wee not necessary.
Earl Russell said he had not the contracts referred to by
the plaintiff.
(The plaintiff was then called, and was under examination
when our report left.]

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

CLERK EN WELL.
JUDGE LTECH IN LRATHER-LANE

A German, whose features could hardly be distiogiushed,
he was so covered with blood and bruises, one of his eyes
being completely closed and very much swollen, who pee
the name of Henry William Qieedeckel, and described him-
self as a tailor, residing at 7, Brooks-market, Leather-lane,
was charged before Mr. Barker with indecently assaulting
a child, only four years of age, in Brooke-market.
Mr. Barker asked bow it was that the prisoner presented
such an appearance. From his looks be must have beau
very «wordy maltreated.
The witnesses stated that it got hinted about in Brooks-
market and Leatherlaae that the prisoner had Moulted and
assaulted • child, and some of the parties thought it would
be better to lynch him than to give him into custody. Ac-
cordingly, before the arrival of the police, they set upon
him, struck and knocked him about, hissed and booted
him, and the more be ran and hallooed the more he
was followed and beaten. Had it not bees for the
arrival of the police, it was intended by the woman to have
torn his coat and shirt into ribbons, and tying knots in
the ends of the pieces' have scourged him with them.
On the way to the polios station he was hooted, and it was
with great difficulty that he could be protected from the
mob committing further acts of violence on him.
Mr. Barker said he did not think a jury would convict
on the unsupported testimony of the girl of the Indecent
smolt. and therefore he should discharge the prisoner. For
an assault on a young man who interfered he would pay a
fine of V. lOs., or, is default, six weeks' hard labour in the
House of Correction.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A DISIMPUTABLE PARENT.

Mary Ann lierrmy, 50, a dissolute-looking woman and
slatternly dressed, was charged before Mr. Cooke with
assaulting her two daughter—also with drunkenness.
The young women, ODD of whom ismarried but whose
husband is abroad, were in deep mourning for their father,
and appeared thoroughly ashamed of their mother ae she
stood in the dock. From their statement it was shown that
they carried on a small business as dyers in elevelaod-street.
Mile-end, that they supported their mother entirely by their
work, and were coatent so to do, if she could be ioduoed to
conduct herself quietly and decently, bat this was not the
ease, for unfortunately she was a most intemperate woman,
and when they refused to supply her with money for drink,
abe took articles from the home iodate:le away with them.
If thwarted her violence and bad language were unbearable.
As their mother they keenly felt the position she was now
placed in, but felt it an imperative duty to take the step
they had both for her amendment and their own protection.
Ann, the single daughter, then gave evidence of the assault
on her ; she said—At five o'clock yesterday mother came
in and tried to secrete an article ; 1 knew what it was for
and interfered. She struck me with bertha in the face (marks
apparent), knocked me down, and kicked me in the side, but
lam not hurt. She also used very horrible language.
Ellen Sullivan (the married daughter)—My husband's in
America. I saw the attack upon my sister she speaks of
and tried to get mother away. She struck me in my face
and endeavoured to bite me, but my shawl being double she
°sly bit a piece out of it. A short time Woos I dislocated
my shoulder in the course of my work, wild the night before
last when she was in liquor she got very violent and dis-
located it again.
Grove, 142 II—I was called to the house about the time
mentioned, just after the amanita had been committed—l
was told. This woman was drunk,and tried to get the poker,
but prevented her.

Mr. Cooke—ls she often drunk?
Witness— She's always drunk, sir ; at least whenever I
ass her. I know that she bee been so exactly a week this
day, and I have beard obis a confirmed drunkard for the
Last 2.1 years. She's a natty dirty creature. The daughters
are respectable youcg women, mad she lives with them.
Prisoner-I'll keep away from them for the future.
Mr. Cooke—This is really a most lamentable case ; a
woman cannot stand before a court of justice in a more de-
graded condition than when her own children are compelled
for their own protection to appear apiust her and give tea-
thefts, however unwilliogly, of her utter worthlessness
from abandoned habits. (To the prisoner)—There is not the
slightest doubt that you have reduced yourself to this de-
plorable state by drink. Who is there present but must
mark the contrast between your daughters appearance and
your own ? They protect you,aed you assault them. I shall
endeavour to prevent a repetition of such misconduct for
some time by coovictingyou of both assaults.
Prisooer was sent to the House of Correction for six
weeks, in default of paying corresponding amounts in pe-
saltine.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT EGHAM.
(THIS DAY.)

WHAM, TUZIMAT, 9 a.w.
Louis Ray, the young man whose feet were
amputated in consequence of the injoriis received
is the late accident, is prop eerie favourably.
Mr. Clarke, surgeon, of Staines, and Mr. Furnivall,
also a medical practitioner in the locality, have
been unremitting in their attentions, and frequent parcels of
oily, fruit, and other invalid comestibles bare been re-
pettedly meet from the Lord Steward's department of her
Majesty'a household at Windsor, and from Marlborough
Bowe. The patient, who is • Frenchman. still remains at
the Railway lon, where he was taken 'Berths accident.
The bodies of those who were killed have all been re-
moved from the Railway Inn since the inquest was formally
opened. The remains of Messrs. Clegg sod Hall were re-
goosed on Friday. tholes of Messrs. Wilkey and Wingfield,
on Thursday, and the body of Coppard, Mr. Padwick's
clerk, was buried in Egham Cemetery on Saturday after-
non. is the presence of a great number of persona.
Colonel Yollaod, one of the ciScial impactors of railways
from the Board of Trade, visited the spot yesterday, in
company with Mr. Scott, the traffic manager, and Mr.
Godson, the general superintendent of the line, and subse-
quently to the gallant colonel'. inspection, the templets'(
the broken van and carriage were removed, so that. wit far
as outward appearance is concerned, all trace of the sad
calamity has disappeared.
COHAN, 1 o'cgonn.
The inquest was remand at 12 o'clock at the literary sad
Scientific Institution.
Colonel Yolked was present to watch the proceedings,
deputed by the Board of Trade, sod the following gentle-
men were present :
Mr. Clarke, for the brothers of Mr. Trigg ; Mr. Chubb,
of Gray'a-ino. for Mrs. Hall; Mr. Robinson. of Jenny o-
street, for Mn.s Clegg ; Mr. Newman, of Chalets, for
/Ira •• Mr. Lamb, of Ship-street, Brighton.
fat the wiiow of Mr. E.au Trigg ; Mr. Rawliogs, of
Romford, for Lee and Trainer, theeogine-driver and fires
of the second train ; Mr. Crombie, the law clerk, Mr. Fredk.
Clarke, the secretary, Mr. Beattie, the engineer Mr. God.
goo, the everintendent, were also present on behalf of the
South Western Railway Company.

A Ct' r. OF TOOTHACHE.—The following &dyer-
tioomeot. probably intended es a puff, was published a few
days since in the local journal of Agen, by the proprietor of
• menagerie exhibitieg at the fair held there :—"The direc-
tor of the lion's den is desirous of finding a dentist with
sufficient skill and courage to stop a decayed tooth for the
large lion. The director is regardless of the expense, as the
Iwo stiffen greatly from the pain it emioree."

AMERICA.

Duefeee's sir.)
(Pee the My et Belgium eit Oreeitheele.)
NEW YORE, Jame 4, Mounra.

General 011111 VI despatches down to Thursday
morning report no general engagement. The War
Department announces that no later despatches
have been received, assigning as a reason that a
storm had disarranged the telegraphic communica-
tion.

Heavy firing was heard on Thursday at White
House, leading to the belief that an engagement
was progressing.

Shornlan continued his advanoe. On Wednesday
he was beyond Dallas. His cavalry occupied Al-
toona Pass.

The Richmond Examiner states that the Con-
federates repulsed Howard's corps of Sherman's
army the previous Saturday, with the loss of from
5,000 to 7,000 men.
The Secretary of the Treasury has announced
that he will receive sealed tenders until the 16th
June for 75,000,000 dols. of Six per Cent. Bonds.,
redeemable in 1881.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Jose 4, Mosimm.

Money tighter. Gold, 91 premium. Exchange
on London, 207 to 209 ; on Paris, 2.70 to 2.721.
Stocks quiet. New York Centrals, 1321. Illinois,
1263. Erie, 111 f. 5.20's United States Bonds,
1051.

IMPERIAL P.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS DAY.)
The home toot at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

Tit* Dublin lasprovimasat aad the North Loodou Railway
bilk were sevarally reed a third time aad passed.

FACTORY ACT EXTENSION BILL
Mr. BRUCE, in movie; the mooed reading of this bill, said
it had be. introduced is consequence of the report of
certain coo:minimises, appointed by the late Sir O. C. Lewis.
Twsuty veers ago • similar commission bad bees appointed,
and had made a very similar report to that which bed
bees made last year. The commiesioaers bad inquired
int 3 the manufactured of pottery, of hinter matches,
and other noxious clue, of labour,,, and they
had remenmended certain regulations ensuring
ventilation, and many other preesetions cal.
canted to counteract the noxious When of the several
trades. The hon. member for Devosport computed that
about 100,000 parsons were affected by their trades in the
United Kingdom ; but that was a mistake, the number was
about 18,000 ; 11,000 were employed in the Potteries,
and the remainder in various places. Of this latter 1,600
were lucifer-match makers, 115 paper-Manna, and the
rest fustian manufacturers and other trades affecting the
health of the workpeople. In the Potteries about 11,000 were
employed. The bill provided for cleansing unhealthy factories
and covering the walls in oil colour cams in seven years. '
It also curtailed the hours of labour. By this bill
during the first six mouths children ander 11 might be em-
ployed se young persona, and children under 12 yearn for
thirty months. In Moiler-meta making and fustian mean-
facture no children under 11 were to be employed on '
any pretence whatever. There wee another provision to
the effect that in paper-staining factorise children employed
were not to take their meals in any plate where they would
be influenced by the atmosphere of the factory. It was
needless now to inquire whether or no there was an
unjustifiable interference with the pursuits of trade.
They all kern bow the first Factory Bill was opposed
by the manufacturing interests, and now he believed there
was not • manufacturer in England who would raise his
soh* in favour of the old system. A memorial had hese '
sent in by the great employers in the Potteries, which did
them • credit. They stated in detail the injuries
inflicted on young children is potteries, and calling
for a legislative remedy, They caked for a com-
mission to inquire into fact sad to suggest remedies.
There were in the Pottery. districts 6,500 young persons and
4,500 children engaged 111 the trade. They commenced
work at seven years of age, working from 11 to 12 hours,
and in some factories 13 and 14 hours a day. Oat of the
4,500 children 1,850 were employed at the jigger or as
moulders, which they varied by carrying the clay for the
moulders into a stove heated from 120 to 133 de-
grees. From these stoves they were continually running into
the cold air. _

[Lets aittieg.]