The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-06 00:00:00

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wt Ills soonr et. use to lie fret! agents,: One of the
evils of the present system, wet thee en evil of no
slight mrseeitiele, isne, that if allowed to eentinee,
it would swoop awns the class of retail dealers—a.
does
in which much of the moral feeling and re
I-
spectable eharecter of the country resided; and the
`loss of which would produce a vacuum in society
which ,he contemplated w;th alarm. Why 'WA it
that Engleud was i great mantilneturink country ?
ilecause her menufacturers were imbued with honour-
r Ale principles. But was it likely that that would
.
i ciiminue to be the ease if they were' all to keep;
blisters* shops P And if the present system were
? allowed, the competition would compel them all to
ifir so. Under such eireumstenees, .it appeared to
him to ho indispensable to legislate on the subject ;'
teal he should certainly support the Bill.
Mr. OILBERT 'gave his WM. Priced, the
Heather for Staffordshire, great credit for the belie-
k valence by which lie was emitted in biinging for-
, ward this measure; but was peretneled that he she-
ref seri himself With respect to its probable operation.
sk Bill like the present required to he draw* up with
i mole care and circumspection. His remarks on the
r eie.icure had been chiefly anticipated by his lion.
Mit el the ' Member for "Sirthshire. Attempts lutd
; been made in the county to which be beloved to
put doter, the system ; but a shop wits opened in
the neighbourhood of every mine ; and elthough the
letiourer wars said to ho free to purchase whet hr
~ minted at that shop or nor, be soon found that leis
Its, he did so, he was oe some pretext or other dis.
ItiS sel. In some respect the system wits necessary;
foi the miners required to have many of their
neecrinle, their tools, their gunpowder, their
entellea, &e. in advance.. Before any Bill such as
the present were passed, the 'louse ought to haver
the opinion of all the manufac:tiring districts. lie
, was persuaded that the effect of such A mensure
would be to raise the price of iron one or two pounds
per ton.
Mr. LITTLETON denied that the Bill had been
forced upon lain by his constituents. It had origis
eared from his having had frequent personal op-
portenitice of witnessing the evil, and from feeling
it to lie his defy to endeavour to apply a remedy to
it. The largo manufacturers were 00 Mat pure stuff
from whom he had heard on the subject. As to le-
-1 pealing the Thirteen Acts recited in the 1)1(.100,1e,
1 it might he convenient to do se tit some future pe-
-1101, when the whole of the law between the master
F M O Ille MalthraPtilrer wits Under eqn4iderhlibli ; !Mt
he haul so funmed his bill aat it contained no refer-
' owe to thr,:e Acts. To the nrgument that the Bill
would not be effectual, he would reply, that he
letil oluitined the Opinion of preetical men in all
parts of the kingdom ; And lie hid received the
oreneest assurances that if the Bill pasted it would
ha effectual. 'lle denied !hitt it could have any tens
' dci y to throw the men out of employment. The
viii 41 evil that it couldoccasion would ho- to pros
duce some slight diminution of wngey. It must be
iceollected that there were two specks of the truck
"ire em. In the one, the labower was paid in money,
although it was expected that he should purchase his
goods of his eteploter; in the other, the labourer
never saw any money nt all, but wits paid entirely in
eirods. The latter was much the greeter evil of the
two, soul it was against that that the Bill was prive.
cipelly directed. A wish laid been expreteed dint
the subject bail been in the first insteneo referred to
the consideration of a Select Committee, Resides
the difficultiee and inconvenience of such a proceed-
ing., it was wholly mmecesaney ; for the nutnerone
petitions to the House, nll emanating from , public
wee!itigmi at which not a single lured was held no
agaiint them' ebinitheely proved the general feeling.
The ',Mem IM been the ratINI of sending ninny of
iiie hest 'mechanics anti eviiseos abroad; foreigners
iliecovering thar they were Muter two:linty obligee
tiotis to their mastere,and 'deleting them fFom these
.huliotiona for the inn love 1444%16611g themselves of
Ili, ir o.ervieett.
Mr. WARBURTON opposed the NIL Ilu coo-
-11,001 flea it was dettimentel tothe interests of the
0..11,i ratio, the retail shopkeeper, and the workmen. if
-lie system were abolished by law, it would be still
kept up In effect by the, masters.
Mr: lIUSKISSON contended, that one of the
first duties of any civil society was to insist thnt till
1 enemata between Man rind man were performed itt
their trite spirit. Now here the contract was made'
i between the master arts the labourer, that the latter
ibmild be paid In mpneyseethe smeller& of the realm
—wheretis lie wee really paid 'itt Borne erticle,which
was 'a standard 'crumble -to Jiro cupidity of the
'roomer the one side, and the urgent necessity of,
the workman on the. tither. —Nu)v, the °hied of
`ll4-11 Bill was to restore the contracts to their proper,
,f. 0., The, vety,terni wages implied the money"
ter e of lolmor, anti with that: should , the labourers
, be, rt,quited. He. most cordially supported the Bill;
Sir ft. WILSON. was in favour of the system
wh'eh now existed. lie oppoled the Bill.
Mr. II UMB was also opposed to the Dillon the
qroond that the moored* between master anti men,
otight to be perfectly free from- reetrictions.
'Sir R. PRIM sniff, the great evil of the truck
system was, that it loft the labourer without,the pots
siblity of having arty appeal against the master in
the event of. the provisions given in mock being hail
or defieient in quantity. If the Bill were to, be dee
fenied by rrieuns of the continued opposition ems'
played by the Hon. Member, be wished that the
lithowing clesses,sbould.know who was reeponsible
ro, it. ; .: , • • . •

11. W. 1t1i)1,1:34' supported the Dill, on the
gloomd that, the truck system left rt lshoutertt per-
fectly RI tho mercy of their „masters.
.11,1 r. Aldermen Will thought the Bill
etiotolY ovecosery far the vvtgart of tha, labouring,
cloitot s, send Amin Owl efortt, give it. his warmest'
mippott,
'ftin noose then went info Committee.
lIIJMe wnicl, he tttn t 44mpion awl, be wits
irestoil by, the )109.
,Cientletoon, im
beiN4 twill up fu titee onotary . reeponsilile for the
tii feat of a which.tvith tat touch ,spoken of
favoureble to the inte!ottat of the labouring'

rtta the Committee had gone throfigh toverul of
he tumor's,
tVlt.. WA RIIU RTON moved that the Chaitintitt
rtitort progretm, unit ttikleare to sit Ignine
'rills motion VVII4 agrerti to, Isnti it wits ordered
tint Ole Committee ohotthl sit egain an Virtnineatlay.
it he other 0(1104 of tilt illy tutting been PM:
11•tongh the tiouhe atiiion or tt itt Thrro o'clock,
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ovvo are etmliied to tomottoet! that the bite
Kum has left 'Will, Whietti 404111 e‘ MAaireTv's
41,1, 00 woe antionneed, was plsetsf,,by the person who
hulti.it, in the, 'oids Of the Duke of Wirt.LitinTott,
tometliately handed it to the proiltt, hinvewitiot, and it
114 N bean opened in the presence tifthe two petsionages
jted ;tamed. We lava heard some onions potieulara ty.
'lithe to the contents of this ilortiinent; but we shall ce-
rtain from stating them at present—the rather that we
Itruit the exact mirrietness or them, especially that re-
eteing to the disposal of his Irate MASeVer.l3 private pro.
petty b) one bidieititted, We eon add, however, that Ihe
hjtiule mooed pa-exettutori to the with see flit MAC
tit' the late Lord —rt tinti Sir W—st
The will, is' dated sane years luck.—['curt
404rwth

Ihttikortft, VENT".---During the terrine
itai(oter storm which visited this as %ern os other pots of
,bo hin-whim on iiritla) hist, it ',manful nueident oreurteti
ti a place Polk, Cann Clean, in Mit conmy, in thr oven.
l'asston i 1,14 thy Butt Works, '
a Sem to a anion tituokt Oult Tim`
the itinothaiti itt4r3 Ales workmen, hell botch Ali' air
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tttnt
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Of.ipottpla.Erf tenia of tvatk:t irnith,timy ihnon this
!air pipe. Thor* IVPIe in the slur time .it
-14 halt& ; 'me num ooniristn i(h irt3l.l Lieg ;11,06p,
to
Lite mouth ttf Om lewd, owl wan 'whoa- the
/way Froelich his chin';: the remaining ti3l Ittt.•
1014 bier A watery-wore Their resuoirts were not loot
mit until Siiturifsy night or Suuday morning. Three or
,f,f. poor felitirm were hurieh in Merthyr on Ali/inlay lost,
by an iotittion4 contour"! of in °plc —,..('ttintr lan,