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London, England, 1864-04-23 00:00:00

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He was one of the attesting witnesses to tledeeiltief tho '44OA
July, 1860. The signature was that of Fathatellaitchiteleen,
and was signed in witness's presence. He did ttek kndi
vilest became of the will afterwards. He also witnessed iine
signature to the codicil. On both occasions Father Hut.. •-
chinson was in fall possession of his reasoning powers, and.
was so during the whole time witness knew him. As one,
of the" deputies' Father Hutchinson was consulted on the
business of the Oratory. The Oratory was a society of
secular persons living in community. It was, he believed,
the only religious order in which no vows were taken by the
priesthood. There was no vow of poverty or obedience.
The members were entitled to withdraw at pleasure. They
all contributed a small annual sum by way of commons.
Except in that respect, they had the entire control of their
own properly- Any questions with regard to the common
property of the society was decided by, a majority of the
votes of the members. The deputies of the order were
elected at triennial elections. The congregation could dis-
sold,: themselves. The father wee also elected every three
years. Witness never influenced the testator in the dispo-
sition of his property, nor did ho know the contents of the
will when he witnessed the execution.
Cross-examined- The will was executed at the Oratory,
at Brompton. Father Rowe, the other witness, and myself
were the only pers MS present except the deceastd. Father
Hutchinson sent for me. I think I and Father RAve went
into his room together. Father Hutchinson's hand was
steady, (The will was handed to witness) There is
something like an erasure in the will, but it may have been
produced by a thick pen. The colour of the ink is darker
in the deceased's signature than irt the signature of the
witnesses, but not considerably. It does not ett all follow
that they were written in different ink. The codicil was
executed at St. Mary's, Sydenham. The testator asked me
to witness it. Father Stanton was present. The testator
first asked me to copy the codicil, as there was a mistake
in the one the solicitor had sent him, and I did so in another
room. The codicil executed is in my handwriting. Father
Faber was not present at the execution, but he was in the
house. In 1855 I noticed a considerable difference in the
deceased's health. His speech became partially affected
at that time. His mouth was partly drawn aside, but his
walk was not. affected. Afterwards his speech became
more affected. He left off preaching in 1855, in conse-
quence of the defect in his articulation and his general
ill health. His walk was not materially affected until,
he returned from the East in ;1858. There was a kind
of roll in his walk. Ile was not absolutely inarticulate
until his death, but he had a difficulty in-pronouncing his
words. We dined together at the Oratory. He had also a
difficult in swallowing. I noticed this in 1856, and it in-
creased. He complained often of pains in the back of his
head. We enter into no engagements when we enter the
Oratory. As long as you are in the house you have to
attend to certain regulations. There is only one set of regu-
lations. 11 edo not sign them, but merely assent to them.
There is no form of assenting to them. After admission
there is a religious ceremony, but quite different from that
on being admitted to holy orders. The service is in print. .
It is read, and we take the part of novices. We are bound
to pay the superior some sort of obedience, and he has to see
that those appointed to offices in the congregation carry
them out. All questions of detail are referred to him. I
should not say he possesses considerable influence over
the members. As a matter of fact Father Faber had con-
siderable influence over the members, not as superior, but
from his own attributes. There is no mode of enforcing this
obedience. The superior cannot direct penance or mortifica-
tion. He has a moral power, which is exercised through the
feeling of the community that they ought not to disobey
what he commands. Father Hutchinson had a great sense
of the duty of obedience to the superior. I never heard
him say that obedience was the great duty of members of
the Roman Catholic Church. I saw Father Hutchinson last
on the Saturday before his death: In 1860 his bodily ill-
ness was very great. I don't think that extreme unction
was administered to him in that year. It would have been
the duty of the superior to have administered it.
Re-examined by Mr. Coleridge—Though Father Hutch-
inson had strong convictions ott the subject of obedience,
he exercised an independent opinion. Father Faber was a
man of considerable abilities and distinction, remarkably
pleasing in his manners, and very much beloved by those
who knew him in both religions. I have myself been in a
conveyancer's office. Blotting-paper makes a difference in
the appearance of ink. We signed last, and if the blotting-
paper had been in our signatures they would probably be
rather different in colour from the signature of the deceased.
Sir H. Holland said, in 1857, he met Mr. Hutchinson at
Mount Carmel, while travelling in the East, and was with
him fpr about 14 days. They travelled together, and for
seven or eight days they were stationary at Jerusalem.
With regard to intelligence, Mr. Hutchinson was perfectly
competent. The only complaint for which ho consulted
him was a swelling of the larynx, which affected his voice,
and he did not obserie any sign of paralysis.
The Judge Ordinary said he thought that evidence as
to the state of the deceased in 1857 was immaterial.
The further hearing of the case was then adjourned.

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FACTORY INSPECTORS' REPORTS.

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The usual reports, just laid before Parliaratn',
from the Inspectors of Factories, deal with several
subjects of great inlercs'. The number of opera-

Lives on full time in the cotton districts is stated to
have increased by above 60 per cent. in the course
of the year 1863, but work: was less abundant in the
latter part of the year, and the earnings are lament-
ably instaaient (Jiving to the inferior character of
so much of the material. The diminished mortality
continues. The improved health of the operatives
is attributed to the change to outdoor labour in
many instances, less of riotous living in some, and
shorter working hours for the women and children.
But the diminished supply of nutritious food has
begun to tell, and perhaps also the extra labour
which Surat cotton entails; and medical men say
that the people are thinner and show diminished
stamina, and that the constitutional vigour of great
numbers is gradually being undermined, though
this result is not manifested in increasing sickness,
but rather in retarding' recovery. The report from
the schools is satisfactory ; the attendance has con-

tinued good, and many schoolmasters have kept
children in their schools without payment rather
than turn them into the streets. The sewing-
schools have taught needlework to hundreds of
grown-up women who were quite ignorant of it.
Mr. Redgrave reports, " I saw a mother, for
instance, in a sewing-school, making a frock for
her sixth child ; this woman had never used a
needle until she came to the sewing-class."
He gives an account, also, of the improve.
ments which are being Effected by the operatives
under the Public Works Act. Tho wages earned
at such works have been low, but would improve
as the men became accustomed to the work, and
they have proved intelligent workers and ready
to learn. There has been no backwardness in
endeavouring to obtain work in cotton factories;
but generally the operatives have been disinclined
to leave their neighbourhood, and this feeling
has naturally been fostered indirectly by the
masters and the house-owners. Mr. Redgrave
supposes the cotton imported this year will cost up-
wards of £80,000,000, but he notices the effect of
high price in producing economy. The " waste"

from the various processes of the manufacture of
cotton is now worked up again, and is the means of
giving employment to many hands. The preju-
dice against the re-manufacture of woollen waste
has subsided, and left the " shoddy" trade an
important branch of the woollen trade of York-
shire, giving the consumer cloth of a fair quality
at a very moderato price ; and doubtless the
" cotton waste" trade will be recognised
as supplying an admitted want. Cotton mills are
still in course of erection; Mr. Redgrave hears that
there will be upwards of 100 ready to be worked
when the cotton trade revives, and the opinion of
the trade is that they will be required and will be
worked. Mr. Baker also reports that the mind
owners expect a trade "of which no one has ever
yet seen the like," But it is not easy tosee where
the hands are to be found. To a certain extent the
deficiency of labour is likely to be
supplied by im-
provements in machinery. Mr. Redgrave mentions
a mill in Manchester in which he noticed new card•
ing engines, and on inquiry learned that 12 are
doing the same quantity of worir
that 75 did before ;
the manufacturer says l requires 14 fewer hands,
and finds a saving in waste amounting to about 10
per cent., and a great saving in power, coat,
tallow, shafting, and strapping,
rooms and a
good atmosphere to breathe. S:ill Mr.
Redgrave has to cancl and give cheerful
ude with the expression of
his hope that if a scarcity of hands shall give rise
to a demand fur an cdv,srice in the rate of wages,
the warns sympathy which has been so deeply felt
by the whole country fur the distressed districts,
the mutual respect and good feeling which have
existed between employer and employed during the
last two eventful years, and the experience the ope-
ratives have had that the. interests of themselvta
end the masters are idEnncal, will tend to diy,st
tae
question of wage] of all angry feeling, so that
it may be settled upon terms which each party may
consider as just and fair to himself.

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