The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-04-07 00:00:00

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rai ht takes iota re-cessideratios ON Tride• 7.0'1,41 was
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COTtON SINNERS' PETITION.
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ITATIEttIfrA.
Alderman- MusD stated. tlisi he hial In
present several Petitions front it very worthy and
meritorious class of the community, whose interests
'he understood would he _moot materially affected
Lr the Kijecterl beide over the Thames, new
anateritithr. The Petili were all signed by the
...sine description of lirrooris. the. Watermen below
who st iced in their Petitions that their tons
Voymetit and consequent sole means of living arose
tram the eotisevauce of peenweigers anal Ittgrltte
11110$11 that lint of the Thames situated at and in the
ii-iglikturlinial of Cocktail's Point Stairs: nod that
should the bridge contemplated by an Act new he-
fore the Morse be erected over that part of tie
lliotnes, their plyiag would be completely rens
Aereil oarless. and unpiofitaltle. They further
1 epreseuted, that they had acquired the right
to ply st;irits the river by an ftrprinitice-
r•li;it of s-veral years. said that-the greater propor-
aimu of their heady ball, at one period or other.
'erred with evedit on bosol his Morales vessels of
ssar.---The Petq'ini was then road from the Water-
ineu of Co: kohl's Puled *airs. and ordered in lie
ou the taldr, sis were oleo the mouth,* Petitions.
#Air. %VeoTyrsl.EY took that opportunity of stag-
ygesting to the Court or Aldermen, who hod so ex-
tensive a jurisdiction iii the affairs of the wateriness,
'the urgent necessity there seistril for raising the
%Sees (es they at p.rsent were establisheol) of oder-
men plying...4lllo riser. Every *sick of life had
sled( several pee%re►eier advauceinviit is its pr ice Niue,
t!ie waterntrie• fares heal been het int-wooed, and
41,,1 fowl it not p0.,41,1, eerie a livelihood if they
were to r. sews sto re than their lime fares ae
hair" apaMished lay 111 W. The introduction of'•
.Jllll M remedy this grievants., would, lie thought,
.he lotieli more becoming on the past of the Cayes
ration of the City of London. than riving any en.
roma:gement to complaints evidewily
oval's% the erection of works of public utility.
Mr. Merinos' Wont) replied, that although the
C.siort of Aldermen had it oil their power, by Act
sif Porhoment, to apply some relief :is in the Modes
gnat y.'ot the liteorert farm still the Court could
Sul lireveot, by riiis:ttg their fares, the ruin which
mart ensue Mouthd their itlyiei4 he altogether cat
-off Belau bridge. as they apprehended. The IN-
lowers, iii fact, had prayed for an indemnity in the •
event or the bridge heiog.slloweil In be built, 41,11
It 14/1)4114 rest with the Howse to entertain the sub-
j •ct or Met:
Mr. A Idernion Von then presented a Petition
• Itroal one Joseph Je.innig., air the county of Somer.
t•et. rmolsta tttt Itg non lie had been unfairly and un-
jowly assessed ut different rates to those of his
orightsmirs to the I r'a rates, nod praying far re-
- t.; the COmmittee on the Poor'.

Ile then mow. d for n Rrtorn of the Ammo, of
Duties! lon Coil imported iato the thileretit
;torts of Great Britain nod I►eland for the last three
err s, ilistougnishi .g the ain, tof duties paid to
i•ai•h I,mt irsiwctirely.—Ordered.
• Lord Lnsci.t.t.as presented a Petition from the
itihntsirroots or Slit l►rryitsg that tlint town
ini.4it be lighted with gas.—head, and laid on the
Lord Mperon prs•sattetl m Petition from the Cot-
:ion tiyinwers ut I lnlilaa, in fivour of the rim ror
regnlntisig the I rs. of I.llinior iu Cotton Factories.
—ltomt, awl said MI the tilde.
• Lard hitt:l.ov presented ti
Inhabitants of th.liormigh, in York-line, against
the is4eiscleil niterst;fllll2, iu the Poor's Law. elms be-
inre suit laid on the table.
Mr. Planet. fdt extreme satisfaction nt having it
in his power to I,sy before the house the Petition be
'then held iu his hung. It referred to the question
of excessive litlntur in factories, to which such fur.
(lama allusion hail been made in soul out of the
llosse.by iyetitires and otherwise. It was u petilson
from a considernlils. part of the town of Munclicater,
the signatures ußiz, d In it, amounting In 1,731 in
Number, were of ,o very fiat respectability, soil
from the cunditinu of she sul►rcribing parties, it was
thus' be phi listed to make this
thing like
'luring to
inK that
asserted upon
possess:ion.
• csiwtelic
~..cung con-
labour, and

.11 manus.
brew also
that ad-
_ opinions of
corroborating the
befiltll.
opinions of
London practitiotirts,-unacquainted, in point of
fact, with she actual situation or cuudilioll of this
..f mechanics. It hod also been said
that the signottires &Axed to fiefs Orr I'oll6olo hods
. in some iosial.c, 5, been those of persons actouted
by tl.BClllllellt, 111111 teen u of I.wriditre.
If *toy thing could 'more these objections. he
triiiitrii It would be the prt‘rtil Petition. it nag in
the first place signed by 1,731 of the most respect.
Wile inhabitants, who most feelingly deplored the
• distressing sitnation of those labouring manufac-
turers, whose labour was nor atone protracted DO us
eves' to trench sou the hours absolutely necessary fur
• the repose of humanity, but exerted iss a tempe-
rature of soars titre sae warmth. that st must be
considered highly prejudicial to the system of even
the most robust. They in the strongest terms re-
monstrated, rroiti their knowledge of its preirollici..l
effects, against the practice of rousing children of
extremely tender years from their beds at uit-
seationable hours, in the most rigorous season,
so their unhealthy mid unremitting labour.—
A got the signatures to this Petition would he
those of tire Magistrates/A the town and neigh.
u hued, amounting to nine ill number—id

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toe resdoet *Swoons 21-wlllt. Ilse dere/men of
the *strict 20, of whom 17 were eats Established
Church. Of the 1148fgrouts there were three con.
smutty is the habit of attending the Manchester tee..
firmary. Tires the Petition embodied every spe-
cies of testimony which could he respectable. either
as to professional knowledge or general disinterest-
edness. Ile would not even now say that this body
of evidence uoirlit to Ise conclusive no to the 'pro-
priety of adopting all the clauses of the Bill pend-
ing lakftere the !louse ; but this he thought it had
lorovedSsecond a doubt, that there should be but
me opinim.► within that House as to the prejndicial
nisei desurtwtive coosequiences to young childrets,
nod even to adults, of ustreraitting cud excessive
laboisr„iit confined and over-heated rooms.
The Petition was then rend, which purported to
he the Petition of the undersigned inhabitants of
Masitherner,, Salford, awl the neighbourhood, in
flavour of the 18111 now pending fur regulating the
flours of Labour in Cotton roomiest.
Mr. Pummel Colloid not go into the discussion
at present, but he would only observe, that if the
opinion:li expressed on the Petition were so generally
entertained iu Manchester end its steighbonrhood.
it was rather extraordsoory tlwre had no greater
slumber signed it. out of a population of such 's-
trut as that of Manchester. Ile was rather appre-
hensive that the medieal sulawriber to this Petition
was the same verso.' with had already admitted
in a ptiblicatiort of his, tint the opinion lie hid
given was owe formed from general impression.,
rather than from inducti 0000 of facts: Ile had be.
fore mated, and his lamination too was derived from
the opinions of professional men, ar;,;uiast: from
actual oloservetion am! intlnetion of facts, that the
health of the labouring chew in the cotton moon.
factories was generally better than that of persous
employed in factories of a different descriptiou.
Sir FRANCIS BURDITT could not see how any
man could maintain seriously, that children of ten.
der years, called from their bells at four o'clock in
the morning. and a!ssiost unremittingly noticed
%toil esioe, should not .Ise excessively Homed by
such treatment from one initutlea or year roll to
stseolltre. lie hoped tlw Home would see the ne-
cessity for counts., without delay_ to some reined's.,
regulation on subject. Whatever was slime
thereupon should be dune quickly, if intruded to
be done at ell.
Lord STANLST entered into a cotnparative esti-
mate of the pmgress of disease so children thus mu-
;slaved,. contrasted with it ill others not so employ-
ed. nsfro 'inversions! estimates Issi'l before the (louse,
and felt disposed to inter that the representatiow,
contained its these Petitions had beets at Ita.t iu
this respect overcharged 'wanly low-third.
slr. PERI, and Mr. l'utt.t.ors explained, cud
the Petit was ordered to lie on the

REFORM PETITIONS.
Kir F. flußourr intoented Petitions from Need-
ham, Market Halifax. Alinley, Preston, and Mary-
le-baste, pra)ing fur Parliamentary Refustn.

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?.Jr. S. SUITII presel;l4;tetitinti from Messrs.
Longman. Ilaust, Kees, Or►ue, sand llrowii—five
gentlemen whose conduct in business errs the sub-
jeat of general eulogy. although condiscting the
largest hisokselling trade in this or any other coun-
try—stating. that owing to the present system of
copyright, and the necessity of supplying, gratis,
eleven public libraries with copies of each wink
published by them, they had incurred a lass of
3,0001. within the last four years ; and praying that
the (louse would be pleased to auseud tlie law rela-
tive to copyright.
The Petit' was read and laid an the table ;us
was also a 'lair Petition on the part or Messrs.
Lackington awl Allen. booksellers, preseuted by
Mr. Illastassastsr.

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. Mr. FlNLAYprom..nlrd ""
Pe itios fns the elision *pi nom
of liiosgow egotism the Comm Spinners' DIM praying 'bat
tier linear traitial sant interfere is the apportsesawnst of a.
inn" in 0004' behartee. assati prays prriatheial to
',their individual laternatn, aid that of trade griseralty. He
man iteenestell a inattlar Pelhtioa flans Derby.
Gad L uerLiq p►arolr.l a sinsilor Petition from FAL.
ins. awl. L.wd haass.as astaittar Imam Iteetnadatie which
".-.rd e severally mai, sod laid as the table.

thry eosilil he rtiinulated to inn
opplicatioet to l'ailimment throng!' any thi
interested ninny'''. Ile felt happy in intro&
the attention ails". I 11111Pe • dOCY Meld con Wini
specie' or rvid. 'Divot!' 'which it had lieeli Nolse•fit
runner evening the House was not yet in pos
Herrin was contained the evidence of the c
eye-witneysee or the injurious need stilielic
wiper:cm of the rystem of excessive lobo'
tonreositinord confinement in the cotton
fretortenrujiaittTWF4filiotarliouil. It kid Ist
is source Itt objeetitin on a lino occasion, I
though taw* boil hero olitaineil tier olio
home dl.lirl~ai•hvtl physician" corrnhoratit
general opinion, that ouch hours mid r seem
isiteri lull were (liftmen unfavourable to
these were nothing snore than the epic