The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-23 00:00:00

DRAMATIC WRITINGS.

Mr. LAMB obtained leave to bring in a Bill to alter and
amend the provisions of the Act 54 Geo. 111., e. 156,
with respect to dramatic writino. The object of the Bill
was to take away from the managers of the theatres the
right of acting plays without the consent of the authors,
and to prevent dramatic pieces which had been acted at
one theatre from being performed in others, without the
like consent.
Adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock.

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OF TITUNTY-BIZTUN 0:,

OF THE MINO
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INTRIATEIi 400,0001.
'Guest, J. J. Marshall, W.
Gordon, It. Monck, J. B.
Heron, Sir H. O'Connell, 1).
Heathcote, Sir W. Warburton, H.
Hon wood, W. P. Wilbraham, G.
Hobhouse, J. C. Wood, John
Ingilby, Sir W. I Wyvill, M.
Lambert, J. S.
Maberly, J.
Marshall, J.

ITY
0 REDUCE TLIE •RMY

Bentinck, Lord G.
Blake, Sir F.
Blandford, Marquis
Birch, J.
Brownlow, C.
Bright, H.
Buxton, T. F.
Davies, Col.
Dickinson, W.
Dawson, A.

TELLER.
Hume. Joseph

LIS'
OF TWENTY-TIIRIM Yfl
Blandtbril, Marquis
Byron, 'l'.
Calvert, C.
Dawson, A.
Duncombe, T.
Gordon, It.
Ingilby, Sir W.
Jephson, C. D.
Lamb, Hon. G.

T OF THE MINORITY
00 Yomo AukINST THE ESTIMATE OF 42,0001.
'oR lINGLIsH YEOMANS *.
Moberly, J. Warburton, H.
Marjoribanks, S. Whitbread, S. C.
Marshall, W. Wood, Alderman
Macdonald, Sir J. Wood, John
Morpeth, Viscount Wilson, Sir It.
Monck, J. B.
O'Connell, D. TELLER.
Protlieroe, Ed. Huine, Joseph
Rice, T. S.

WENDERS IN THE NW
TION OF THE smri
IN TUB FIRST
Althorp, Viscount
Bernal, R.
Cavendish, W.
Duncombe, T.
Ebrington, Viscount

ORI7'Y OH THIRTY-F.1(311T, FOR THE REDUC-
' FROM 109,3471. To 91,347, wno WERE NOT

Jophson, C. D. Whitbread, W. U.
Marjoribanks, S. Whitbread, S. C.
Macauley, T. B. Whitmore, W. W.
Morpeth, Viscount Wood, Alderman

MEMBERS IN THE MIN,
OF THE PAYMASTE
FROM 106,5301. TO O.
SECOND DIVISION.
Burdett, Sir F.
Calvert, C.
Colborne, N. It.
Euston, Earl of

iORITV OF FORTY-TWO, FOR THE REDUCTION
ER-GENERAL'S AND PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS
11,531!1,, WHO WERE NOT IN THE FIRST Oft

Howard, Henry Rice, T. S.
Martin, J. Smith, Hon. R.
Macdonald, Sir J. Sefton, Earl of
l'arnell, Sir H. WiLson, Sir It.

DURHAM AS3IZES.—The calendar for our
approaching Assizes will be rather heavy. The following
is a summary of the cases :—Murder (the case ofJostirtr
flurcitimsoN), 1 ; burglary, 3; bigamy, 1; embezzle-
ment, 1 ; forgery, 1 ; house-breaking, 1; horse-stealing,
1 ; larceny, 3 ; manslaughter, 1 ; sheep-stealing, 2 ; steal-
ing from a dwelling-house, 1; stealing from the person,
3 ; aiding and assisting ditto, 1; uttering base coin, S.--
Total, 23.—Durham Chronicle.

THE LATE SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE.-
The following anecdote which we have from an eye-wit-
ness, may amuse those who arc curious as to the early days
of the late Sir T 11014.19 LAWRENCE. In the summer of
1784 or 1785, Drury-lane theatre was hired for the pur-
pose of acting HAYLEY'S tragedies, by a party of amateurs,
among whom were young LAWRENCE, then a student at
the Academy, and his father, who had recently been an
innkeeper at Devizes. On one occasion, our informant
happened to be present when the future President of the
Royal Academy played Algernon Sydney, and his father
played the Duke of BedPrd, in the tragedy of Lord
Russell ; and the circumstance was rendered remarkable
by the following ludicrous occurrence. When the news
of Lord Russell's execution was announced on the stage,
Lady Russell, as became an affectionate wife, had to faint,
and it was the business of the Duke of Bedford to catch
her in his arms. At this critical juncture, however, the
ei-deuant innkeeper was indulging in all the " modes,
shows, and forms of grief," with a white cambric hand-
kerchief, and not knowing exactly what to do with this
emblem of woe, when his hands were required for the ser-
vice of the lady, he, after a moment's doubt, obeyed the
impulse dictated by habit, and stuffed the cambric, nap-
kin-like, under his arm. This mal-apropos, and un-
Duke-like movement had an electrical tifect upon the au-
dience, and the house resounded with roars of laughter.—
Portsmouth Herald.

TRADE OF PAISLEY.—There has been little
variation in the trade of Paisley, from the time that the
weavers began to get employment generally, at the close of
last autumn, till about four or five weeks since, when a
considerable demand took place for trimming weavers,
and owing to the Iwo ty of the greater part of them
being so great, that they could not purchase mountings
necessary for that kind of work, an advance of about 2d.
per shilling was freely obtained by those who could engage
for trimmings. But although this is the case there is still
but an inconsiderable number (we should suppose not
more than one-third) employed at these beautiful fabrics,
to what was before the introduction of the Canton crape
shawls. Dining the winter, a great nuather of the Paisley
weavers have been employed by the manufacturers of this
city in the zebra line, a very poor description of work;
and after paying of carriage, and other drawbacks, must
leave but a trifling remuneration to those engaged in it.
The working of plain cloth from Thibet wool for the shawl
middles, has likewise formed an important part of the work
done in Paisley, for some months past. The weaving of
woollen cloth of any description is comparatively a new
thing there ; this, however, was much more easily over-
come, than the finishing of the cloth ; but nothing ap-
pears to come wrong to the ingenious inhabitants of that
town, and the goods of this description made by the snore
respectable houses there, are now allowed by judges in the
London market, to be as well got up in every respect, as
the goods of the same description made in the woollen dis-
tricts of England. These shawls are all crept or
cut, in a manner somewhat similar to broad
cloth, and those who first commenced the mak-
ing of them in Paisley, were under the necessity of send-
ing them to England, to have this operation performed ;
but in the course of last year two or three of these cutting
machines were gut down to Paisley, and within these few
mouths a number more have been procured ; besides, some
have been made in that town and neighbourhood, and the
manufacturers can now have their shawls finished at home,
in every department. Before the introduction of these
machines, which were originally of American invention,
woollen cloth was cut with a very heavy kind of shears,
but an ingenious individual in Paisley, since the introduc-
tion of die Thibet shawls to that town, has invented and
used a hand-knife, of a particular construction, for that
purpose, with great effect. Many of the manufacturers
consider the cloth finished by this plan equal, if not supe-
rior, to that done with the machines, whets it is properly
executed, because it cuts the cloth equally bare on the sur-
f ice, yet dogs not impoverish it so much in the body,
leaviug it with a more aft and vglvet kind of feel. A
good nember of hands have been employed itl finishing the
shawls with these knives for some time past ; they can
execute them on the same terms as those who use the ma-
chines, and earn fully better wages than they could make
at i.ny other kind of hand labour. In fact, neither the
Olean nor the machines got from England are well cal-
culated for the light fabric at present snaking in Paisley;
part;c4larly as the selvage of the shawls are left by them
in the saute rough and unfinished state as we see the sel-
vage of cloth. This is obviated by the knives, and a ma-
chine has also been finished to obviate this delect by a me-
chanic in ,fohnstone within these few weeks, which we
Ini4erotmv,l it sloiva 0/asgow Chronicle,