The National Register.
London, England, 1814-05-15 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Sir F. FLOOD opposed the Bill, and moved an amendment.
Mr. HART Darts could not disguise from himself that the present
measure was attended with many difficulties; but the more he consi-
dered the present measure, the more be was satisfied of its utility.
Mr. GIDDY witS convinced nothing had contributed so much as the
law in question to check the progress in our arts and manufactures.
Sir C. MO RD I.' NT, on the part of his Constituents, the manufactu-
rers or B.priningham, was stronelv in favour of the present repeal.
Mr. TriostrsoN thought the present law had beco,Le superanuated,
and wished to see it die an easy death.
r could not consent that the system of apprenticeships
should be put an end to; but thought that in the Committee such al-
ter.ei,aas might he snagested as molt remove tlip objections be at pre-
sew frit to the Bill of the Learned Serjeast.
Sir .1 Nrws. rirr was decid.Aly tit opinian that the subject of this
countly was entitled to the flee exerci-e of his talents, ingenuity, and
tibial try, in whatever way he wished to employ theta.
Ri,tii v was rnisfied that there were reasons sufficiently
AtrOtil!. to MIIIIIIIII ti e system of apprenticeship in those trades in which
n vumber of tears were reqoisite to acquiring a knowler!e, of them.
s,iihout the ns-istanee of the law as it now stood. This law, which
went to prishil,it a man Ir oal the exercise of that trade for which lie was
.•light to be repe:.lcd. For what oils it hut to take from a poor man
the ouly pro;ierry he po,ses,ed---his genius and and to drive
hint into a wolkhouie; or to force Min to ehand..n his country, and to
forsake his wile and family. 'I 1-,e, were tl.e moral consrTiences
which !he House was to look fur from a perseverance iu Hie law as it
now stoma.

Sir F. Fr 001) ;greed tn withdraw his Amendment.
)l r. Alderman A rKtszs wished that some encouragement might be
hold nut to teonlar pppr,..nticeships.
Mr. CA N vING thought by doina awny some of the most glaring ab-
s:ird:iies of the present law, and by holding out eneournement to the
system of approwices w!.ere apprenticeships were tit cessury, the
evls nuAv telt would be remedied withnut injuring the morals of the
“encratiun.

A tter a long di ems,ion, 11Ir Sojennt OvsLnsv replied, and observ-
ina iltrttt the I'etition. on the table avai.:!•t the 13:1:, rxrcs.ed his con-
film they were nut the inisoljcited acts of the Petitioners, us
..d• ed appeared trout the s,,ver.d pi :cards abont town, inritioe
vire% to Petition.. Those Pr ners. especially flit j..orneN mon
tavebatnes. would fold the repeal of the Act of Eliz rather set-
vier-able, than in any dearer injurious to their interebts,
The Bill %us Told a second time, and ordt red to be committed on
T.trid .1 v.

A new writ wns ordered for Lincoln; in the room of Sir Henry Sul-
Lynn, deceased.—:Adjourned.

CAPTAIN MANBY'S EXPERIMENT.

Yesteri!ay the Committee of tt e Muse of Commons appointed to en-
quite in!'i the merits of Captain Maltby', invention for saving the lives
Of mariners shipwrecked on the coasts of the United Kingdom assem-
h.ed in Ilvde park to view the practical effect' of this most im-
port,iet se:peestion. The apparatus appeared to be estreinfly simple,
it c..u-isted-of a small bras, mortar contained iu a leliher case which
cwild ahno•t he earth d in the pocket, a coil of line fixed in a particular
r prevent entanglement, and a hall to which the line intended
ter te_ thrown to the ship or heat in distre,s ven‘ to he I.:.•tened. The
tqation ei.noot for the ;•11perimeot wag the plain on the richt of Rotten.
row, on 11. e Loodott ..ele Uf Ow Inidge, and the object is )deli wit; to re-
pre..et.l the ship Awl a large elm tice. About UM) vaids from the tree
t'lem quit- was fix td, mid being Itut.leil of h two ounces of powder the
tai! oith the line t ce:qi!etely :'trots the tree, so that it re-tell in its
1:11;;0h ord E-rharged, %ben, to the satisfaction of every pervnt resent
carrit'd the hoe col,pletely across the tree, so that it rested un i:s
hranches, as it ..could have done in the rivgiog of a ship mil of course
prt,p-d !ha easy communication %stitch won'd have been afforded with
itte slme, either for drawing nut a Isle boat tlitonJi a lio.i‘y t.titf, Ur
'limiting a cable so as to convey the crew io safety to !And. Tie ex pe.
tintent was repented three times and kft In, doubt the inind• r.f the
:.nectatora of the usefulness of the invention. The diva, cc which thus
c•ai ht mortar carried the ball wpm 00 yards hut the larger mortal fur a
to enty-foor pound shot would carry it a quarter of u mile.
Captain Maltby also submitted to the conmittec a ,ling to be thrown
.to men who might accidentally fall overboard, the cotetructiun of which
wa; much admired.
Among others present on this occasion were Lord Newark, Rt. Hon.
G. Rose, Sir J. Sebright, Mr. W. Wynne, and hiri• lady, Maygon, U
several tiiher members of radiament,