The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-28 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EvENING, NOVEMBER M 1853.

iswan•lane aforesaid, and all such otherlands and huildirgs on either
side of the said river a; may be regtilied for the pa/poses of the said
act : and to st op up and discontinue as pubic treets, lanes, or places
Swat t-lane a ;•8 rcra Bla ck ftv en-a Whe.tts'a.af-alley, Old Swan-
wharf, in the parishes of tit • Laurence Pountney, St. :Martin Oman,

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to bo purchased or appropriateci
divert. remove, or displace, temporal-1y or perloartenay, ail or al
other lanes, passages, or places, railways, tramways,
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sewers,
which it may be necessary or convenient so to stop up alter, divert,
remove.:or displace, for the purposes of the said intended act, or for
carrying any of the provisions thereof into effect.
And it is proposed by the said intended act, to authorise the
levying, taking, and sale of tolls, rates, duties, charges, and ground
rents, and to alter existing tolls, rates, rents, duties, and charges,
and to grant exemptions from tolls, rates, rents, duties, and charges,
and to authorise the Commissioners t 3 sell or let upon building leases,
cr otherwise all or any lands or buildings for the time teing vested in
them.

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and privileges,
Anti it is proposed by the said intended act to repeal, alter, or
atm nd, soar as may be neces.ary for the purposes of the said in-
tended act, the prov?sions of the several local and personal acts of
Parliament relating to Westminster-bridge, Hungertord-lotid4e,
Hungerford-market, Waterluo•bi Blackfriars-bridge, South-
wark-bridge London-bridge, the Commissioners of Sewers, the
Corporation of London the New River Company, the Lambeth
Water-works Company, ts,e Chelsea Water-works Company, the
Southwark and Vauxhall Water-works Company, the Equitable Gas-
light Company, the London Gas-light Company, the City of Lon-
don Gas-light Company, the Chartered Gas-light Company, the
Great Central Gas Consumers Company, the Phcenix Gas-light Corn •
pant, and the South Metropolitan Gas-light Company, sod ell ogler
gas anclwater companies whose pipes, mains, or works are situate in
or near to the said rive: between Lambeth Palace end London-bridge,
on the Surrey side thereof, • and between Westminster-brAge and
Fishmongers'-ball on the Middlesex fide therm", and of ell other
local and personal ac's, any of the provishns of welch relate to any
lands, buildings, or works, in or near tte sa'd river on eiOer side
thereof, between the points !Corse& or to any lends or buildings to
be vested in the commissioners to be appointed under the sad act,
or which would in any manner impede or p::cvent any of the pro-
visions of the said intendel act being carried Into full and complete
effect.
And Notice is Hereby Given, that a map, showing the general
coarse and direction of the s: id intended railway and plans and
sections of the said intended river Ives, pipes, aqueducts, sewers,
railways, streets, roads, and works, to:ether with a book ofreference
to such plans, and a .copy of this notice, as p-alonshelfu the London
Gazette, will be deposited, on or tefore the 37th day of November
inst., with the Clerk of the Peace for the city cf London, or county of
the city of London, at his office, at the Session--boase, Old Bailey,
and with the Clerk of the Peace for the city and licerty of West-
minster, at his office in Clerkenwell, with the C?erk of the Peace for
the county of Middle.-ex, at his office in Clerkenwell. and with the
Clerk of the Peace for the county of Surrey, at his officein Lambeth,
and that a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and books of
reference, as relates to each of the said polishes, or extra-parochial
places, together with a copy of this notice, will, on or before the 30th
day of November inst., be deposited as follows—that is to say, in the
case of a parish,, with the parish clerk of such parish, at his residence
and in the case of an extra-parochial place, with the parish clerk of
some parish adjoining thereto, at his residence ; and that copies of
the propose! bill will be deposited, on or before the 31st day of
December next, at the Private Bill-office of the House of Com-
mons.

ALLER GOLD 2vIINIiiG COMPANY._
I 7 Y Incorporated by Charter from the State of Virgink,
With liability limited to the paid-up

Dated this 10th day of November, 1853.
S. F. NOYES, Solicitor for the Bill

HATFIELD CHASE.—lncorporation of Com-
pany; Waiping and Improvement of Lands; Purchase
of Snow Sewer.)—APPLICATION will be made Parliament,
in the neat session thereof, for a BILL to incorporatzi a Com-
pany for the purpose of warping, by mears of the waters of
the River Trent, and of draining and otherwise improving, cer-
tain of the low lands, marsh lands, and feas in tie Level of
Hatfield Chase, in the counties of York, Lir_coln and Notting-
ham; which said lands are situate Ia the parishes of C wston,
Misterton, Haxey, Misson, Wroot, Be ton, and Epwor.h, in the
parts of Lindsey, in Lincolnshire, and in Misson Fair ingiey, in
Nottinghamshire, and Cantley, Hadf eld, and Finningley, in the
West Ridlng of Yorkshire, or some of Va.; n, end are botindcd on the
north by the river Tome, on the west and east by ad;oining high lands,
and on the south by the river Idle or By Cat's dyke in the several
parishes aforesaid, or some of them : aad to enable such company, for
the purposes of warping and improving snob, and to alter, enlarge,
straighten, and improve any of the existing drains within such lands,
and to make all such new temporary drains, inlets, outlets, tidal
courses, and embankments within the said lands, and to vary the
same from time to time, as may be necessary to complete such warp-
ing; and the bill will confer upon the company the following, or
some of the following, among other powers
_ . _

NOTICE IA HEREBY GIVEN to SCRIP HOLDERS, That thc.,
SHARE CERTIFIC.ATES of 1/. each, fully paid up, 11:;11e.c1 by :It:
President, W. DigDy Seytiteur, Esq., M.P., coa:itersi,;(,,,d by the
Secretary, add naled with ceavron seat or the Compotly, I,Jr•
suaot t:, the Charter and Code of Vir:.;7nia, are not' ready, and that
the Scr,p may and is required to be Exchanged for the same, at the
offices of the Company, such certificates being, like the existing scrip,
Payable to bearer, and transferred without any deed or other for-
mality. - W. GOWRING, Sec.

The Report of Mr. Gregg, the resident engineer, as to the condi-
tion of the mines and works in progress, with map and plan offutnre
operations may be had on application.
Allhallow's Chambers, Lombard-street, London,
Nov. 21, 1853.

To purchase of the Participants o: the Level of Hatfield Chase, or of
the trustees of decreed lands in Hatfield Chase, a certain drain, called
the Snow Sewer, and the banks thereof, together with tee power of
carrying' off warping and drainage water, to their outfall through any
other drain of the said participants or trustees in the said Level, and
of embanking, enlargenin,g, straightening, and using the said drains,
or any of them, for the purposes of warping, and to vest the said
Snow Sewer and power absolutely In the company.
To enable the comnany to deepen. straighten, widen, and other.
wise improve the said sewer throughout its entire course, commenc-
ing at its outlet at the river Trent, at Ferry, In the parish of Owston,
in the county of Lincoln, passing through or into the several places
following, or some of them, Haxey, Miste-ton, Mason, and Wroot,
in the county 01 Lincoln, and Finningley, in the county of York, and
Miss in and Finningley, in the county of Nottingham, and terminat-
ing at the highway at a place called Misson Springs, in the said parish
of Misson, and counties of Lincoln and Nottingham, or one of them.
Also power to divert, alter, or enlarge a certain drain, called the
Ferry Drain, in the said parishes of Haxey and Owston, and to use,
cros,, stop up, alter, or divest, whether temnorarily or permanently,
all sue i existing roads, streams, drains, aed other works, as may be
necessary in carrying the said bill into execution, and M enable the
company to enter upon and to purchase lands b 7 compulsion, and to
levy rates and taxes upon the owners and occupiers of the 'antis to
be improved; and to make such sates and taxes a primary charge
upon the lands so improved; and to vary and extinguish all such ex-
isting rights and privileges in such lands or appertaining thereto, or
in the drains to be affected by the powers of the said bill, as would
interfere w n tee foregoing objects, •r any of them.
It is intruded by the said bill to alter and amend some of the
powers and provisions of an act, passed in the 85th year of the reign
of King George the Third (chan. 107), Intituled "An act for dividing,
allotting, enclosing, draining, and improving the commons and waste
grounds within the several parishes of Epwortb, Haxey, Bitten, and
Oswton, in the Isle if Axholme, in the county of Lincoln ; and also
to: making compensation for the tithes arise; from the said com-
mons, and from cerfr 'n other lands within the said parishes;" and
olio of an act, passed in the 51st year of the same reign (chap. 30),
imitated " Au act tor enclosing lands in the patishes of Hatfield,
Thorne, end Fishlake, in the manor of Hattefield, in the West Riding
of the county of York ;" and also the following acts :-23 George 111.,
c. 13 ; 27 George 111., c. 53; 53 George 111., c. 161, intituled " An
ant for the more effectually draining and improving lands within the
level of Hatfield Chase and parts adjacent, in the counties of York,
Lincoln, and Nottingham ;" and 53 George 111., c. 177 ; and 56
George 111., c. 58. -
Plans, showing the line and situation of the works on the Snow

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE RooMs,
(Lessee, CHAS. C. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fu..iam•road)
The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON
and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT',
CELEBRATED BAND. Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8 ;
Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and terminate at half-past H.

TURATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.

Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 24

The GREAT AMERICAN EQUESTRIANS will exhibit their
astonishing Feats, unma'ehed in the history of such Performances,
assisted by the most renowned Gymnastic Artistes, 0. Dale and
Barnes, the European and American criampions.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 28,

Will be performed MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Principal
characters by Messrs. Vandenhoff and Compton, and Silas Reynolds.
Will be performed A PRETTY PIECE OF BUSINESS. Cha-
racters by Messrs. Howe and Bncluitone ; Miss Reynolds and Mrs.
Fltzwilliam.

After which, LOVE'S ALARMS: ttiaracters by Messrs. W.
Farm', Corri, and Compton ; Miss
Ormonde, Miss E. Romer,
and Miss Featherstone.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAN.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 28,
Will be performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sur-
ported by Mr. arid Mrs. W. Lacy.
After which, Lord Byron's Tragedy of SARDANAPALUA, cor-
idderably abridged for stage representation. Principal characters by
Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean.
To conclude with DEAF AS A POST. Principal character by
Mr. Harley.

Sewer and Ferry Drains, before particu'arly described, and the lauds
through which the same will be corsLruc;efl with sections showing
the levels thereof, a book of reference to the plans containing the
names of the owners, lessees, and occupiers ofthe lands, houses, and
other property to be taken, and a copy of this nati,a, will, on or be-
fore the 30ts day of this insiant November, be deposited, for pubic
inspection, at the Mee of the Clerk of the Peace for the Lindsey
division of Lincolnshire, at Spl'sby ; for the county of Nottingham,
at Nowark•upoo-Trent ; and for the West Riding of Yorkshire, at
Wakefield ; and, on or before the same say, a copyof so much of the
said plans, sections, and book of reference, as relates to each parish,
and a copy of this notice will be deposited wits the parish clerk
of each such parish at his place of abode; and in the case of
any extra-parochial place, with the parish clerk of an adjoining

And Notice is hereby also Given, that printed copies of this bill will
be deposited in the private bill office of the !louse of Commons, be-
fore the Ist day of January, 1854.

Dated this 10th day of November, 1853.

BAXTER, ROSE, and ICOR TON, 3. Park-street, Westminster.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING. Nov. 28,

Will be performed THE DISCARDED SON. Charadters by
Leigh Murray, Paul Bedford, and Keeley; Mrs. Keeley and Miss
Woolgar, &c,
To be followed by WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH.
After which, THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM.
To be followed by "HOTEL CHARGES!" or, How to Cook
" A Biftin."

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
, Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 28,

HATFIELD CHASE.—AMENDMENT of
CHASE DRAINAGE ACTS.

Application will be made to Parliament, in the next session there-
of, for a bill to amend an act passed in the 53d yeaii of the reign of
King George the Third, c. 161, in ituled "An act for the more effec-
tually draining and improving lands within the level of Hatfield
Chase and parts adjacent, In the counties of York, Lincoln, and Not-
tingham," and to enable the c ommlssioners appointed or to be ap-
pointed under that act to remove the steam -drai .ale engine, with the
accessory works thereto, now stinding near a place called Hirst
Priory, in the parish of Belton, is the county of Lincoln, and to place
the same on or near the New or Old Idle, above a Mace called Tunnel
Pit, in the parishes of Wroo:, Belton, Epworth, or Haxey, or one of
them, in the parts of Lindsey, in Lincolnshire; and also to enable the
said Commissioners to enter and purchase lands by compulsion, and
to levy rives and taxes upon the owners and occuniers of the lands
which will be improved by such eng,ne, or which wilt drain, or the
drainage whereof will be iitctiltated and improved by means thereof,
within the parishes of Wroot, Epworth, Haxey, Masson, and Belton,
in the county of Lincoln, and of Misson and Finnin ;ley, in the county
of Nottingham, and of Cantley, Fmningley, and Hatfield, in the
county of York.

_
The bill will extinguish all rights and privileges now existing
which will interfcre with the objects aforesaid.

The said bill will also alter, extern', amend, and enlarge some of
the powers and provisions of the following acts relating to the level
of Hatfield Chase, and to the lands intended to be affected by the said
bill, 35 Geo. 3, c. 107; 23 Geo. 3, c. 13; 27 Geo. 3, c. 53; and 56
Geo. 3, c. 58.

Printed copies of the bill will be deposited In the Private Rill-office
of the House of Commons before the Ist day et January, 1854.
➢ated this 10th day of November, 1853.
BAXTER, RO,E, & NORTON,
3, Park-street, Westminster.

LEOMINSTER and KINGTON RAILWAY.
(Incorporation of Company) and power to enter into working
arrangements with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That it is intended to apply to
Parliament, in the next session, tor an act to incorporate a company,
and to give to that company power to make and maintain a railway,
with ell proper, works, stations, approaches, and conveniences con-
nected therewith, to comunicate by a junction with the line of the
Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, at or near a meadow, the pro-
perty of Lord Rodney, at a piece ca"ed Poplands, in the borough and
palish of Leominsi.er, in the coanty of Hereaard (rod which meadow
is numbered 26 in the said parish, on the deposited plan referred to in
the Shrewsbury and Here:ord Railway Act, 1846), to pass through or
into the following places, or some of them; that is to say : Leomin-
ster, the borough or Leomisster, Leominster out-palish, Ivington,
New-town, Stagbatch, Cholstrey, Eye, Luston, Eyton, Monkiand,
Stretord, Kingsland, Lawton, Longford, Aston, West-Town, Street,
Eardisland, Shobdon, Pembridge, Milton, Noke Mars.on, Broxwooi,
Weston Moorcourt, Dilwyn, Staunton, otherwise Stanton-upon-
Arrow, Titley, Lynhales, otherwise Lycioshall, the town and borough
of Kington, Kington, Kington Old and New, Barton, Bradnor and
Rushock, Chlckward, Pember's Oak and Lilwall, Hergest and Both
Hergests, all in the county of Hereford; and to terminate in the said
Parish of Kingtou, at or near a certain meadow, c gilled A•.nold's
Meadow, the property of William Griffiths Heaven, Esq., and occu-
pied by Thomas Bach.
The ac; will empower the company to purchase by compulsion,
the lands, houses, and other property which may be required in the
consttuction of the railway, and to levy tolls, rates, and charges, in
respect of the use thereof; and will also confer upon the company
other rights and privileges, and will alter, vary, and extinguish all
existing rights or privileges which would interfere with the attain-
ment of the several objects contemplated by the Act.
Powers will also betaken to enable the company to be incorporated
to make and enter into arrangements with the Shrewsbury and Here-
ford Railway Company, for the working or use of the railway so to be
made including the use of stations, works, and other conveniences.
It is also proposed, so far as may be necessary, to alter and enlarge
the provisions of some or one of the following acts, of or rotating to
Railway
ti s intendedCompany'sto
the Shrewsbury and Heteford Railway—viz., "The Shrewsbury and
Hereford Railway Act, 1846 ;" "The Shrewsbury and Hererord
incorporateTraffi c AS
v
Railway Amendment Act, 1850;" and "The Great Western, &c.,
Companies Clauses
riatnhgtehmeeanetts?..ATtelcBlom2.lp'
Consolidation Act, 1845 ;" "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act,
1845;
and" The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 ;" or
some parts of such respective acts.
And Notice is hereby Giand situation of the ven, that duplicate plans showing the line
levels thereof, and a bookrsed railway, with sections showing the
owners or reputed owners,ef reference containing the names of the
of the lands, houses,alessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers
will be obtained, also
anpaubtigeerty for the taking of which powers
will be drawn, so as to show its genera'. map whereon the line of railway
c9py of this notice, as published fgertsiiimal course or direction, and a
before the 30th day of Ms iastatt Novembere London Gazette, will, on or
inspection at the office of the Char, Peaceie, be depositc i for public
lieretord; and that on or befiret'ts same :or Herefordshire, at
the said plans, sections. and books reierrany: a copy of so much of
parts t, in or through which the ranway e, as relates to each
. be constructed, together
with a copy of this notice, will be deposited wiai the parish
clerk
each such parish, at his place of abode, and in the case of any
extra parochial place, then within the parish clerk of an adjoining
parish.
Printed copies of the act will be deposited in the Private Bill-
office of the House of Commons, on or before the 31st of 1)e-
-cemba next.
day of November, 1853.
Dated this 10th
f 1
and
N llt 'ON'
BAXTER, ROSE, , London, Solicitors
DA VIES and EDWARDS, Leorniieter, for the
B°DENHAM and CHEESE, Kington, Bill,

BORDER COUNTIES RAILWAY.-It is proposed to con-
struct a railway from the Newcastle and Carlisle Rail-
way at Hexham, passing up the valley of the North
Tyne by Wark, Redesmouth, the Hareshaw Iron Works,
Bellingham, Falstone, and Keilder, thence by a natural
pass in the Cheviot hills, by Hobkirk and Bedrule, to
a junction with the Hawick branch of the North British
Railway near Belses. It is intended to construct a
branch from Redesmouth to accommodate the mineral
district of Redesdale. The length of the proposed main
line is about 154 miles, and of the branch line about four
miles—together 55 miles.

Will be performed PLOT AND PASSION. Principal characters
by Mr F. Robson and Mrs. Stirling.
To bo followed by THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac-
ters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Robson, Cooper, and Galli ;
Mesdames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Horton, Chatterley, E. Turner, and
Wyndham.
To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke,

who respectfully announces to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public:in
general, that a GRAND EQUESTRIAN CHINESE SPECTACLE
is in active preparation, written expressly to introduce Mr. William
Cooke's most extraordinary TRAINED ELEPHANTS, surpassing
everythiw hitherto witnessed—their marvellous feats never having
been previously attempted, and which they accomplish with unerr-
ing certainty. The spectacle will be produced immediately.

Second week of Six Clowns in the Arena. Third week of the re-
appearance of the premier horseman, Mr. ALFRED COOKE. In-
creasing popularity of the daring Equestrienne, Madile. MASOTTA.
On MONDAY EVENING, Nov. 28, 1853 (and during the week);
the grand spectacle of BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF RUSSIA;
Or, The Burning of Mono ff.
Followed by William Cooke's matchless scenes of the ARENA,
by unequalled artistes.
Concluding with JUPITER'S DECREE; Or, The Fall of Phaeton.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tais Dior —Morning 44 min.after 11 I Evening 0 min.aft. 0
To-Moaftow—Morning 8 min.after 12 t Evening 30 min.aft. 12

TUE WEATIEIER.—Stn Onion, Nov. 27.
THRiatOMETZB, IN THE SHADE.

thought, thereforo quite uueoueerned about

L LLL

45 —highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day at noon. ,
BAROMETER, 30'19.

WIND, N.E.—Light breeze, slight rain, and dull weather,

2rsal Suffrage, and all the other points of th.€

jhart

This is a great mii

The ella:

NOVEMBER 28.
46 - highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowesi this morning and during the night.
41—ads clay, at noon.
BAROMETER, 30'21.

aught them a lesson they will never forget

will nee'

o the Suffrage, whether they proclaim it
noisily or not. They will never t'hink
themselves fully represented by members for
whom they have not voted. If they be
now passed by because they are peaceful,
what a fatal warning may it prove to them to get
up an irresistible agitation. If they are left out
of two Reform Bills, out of the first under prd-
mise that if they agitated for their betters their
betters would agitate for them ; out of the second
because they did not agitate for themselves, they
can draw but one inference ; and when the next
time of pressure comes, the excluded of two
Reform Bills may be a fearful class for the
Statesmen of the House to deal with. It will,
moreover, be an additional source of bitter-
ness between the middle and the working classes
that the promise of twenty years ago has not
only been lying unredeemed all this time, but
that even when the time was notoriously come it
was repudiated or consigned to oblivion.
But surely this whole policy of yielding nothing
except to inconvenient or unbearable pressure is
,not the one to conciliate all classes to each other,
or the larger class to the Government under
which it lives. Is there never to be a pre-
mium for peace as well as for turbulence
Are prizes to be always reserved for the
FEARER'S O'CONNORS, FROSTS, and JONESES ?
Will the frankness and manliness of no Statesman
deprive the demagogue of real pretexts for his
selfish purposes ? And are the answers of the
celebrated Noodle's Catechism to be reiterated
for ever ? Surely the working classes will not
bear to be told at one time, " This is not the time
to give you the franchise, you demand it too
fiercely ;" and next, " This is not the time, you
are too quiet about it." If, indeed, they are,
even when on strike, so much quieter than could
be hoped, if there is general contentment
amongst them, what time could be more safe
and desirable ,for beginning at least an
extension of the suffrage to them ? As we have
said we will not cavil about the particular amount
or mode of extension, provided it be a real one ;
but that there must be an extension, if there is to
be subsequent political contentment, we hold to be
most certain. A feeling of hopeless disappoint-
ment at the best, or of rancorous and dangerous
displeasure, quite as probable, is almost sure to
follow a Reform Bill which shall not bona fide
include the elite, at least, of the working classes.
Nothing can be more unfair than to hold forth
the old freemen and potwallopers as samples of
the better sort of operatives generally. They
are the corrupt relics of a system the counterpart
of which are the FRAILS, MORGANS, FLEWKERS,
and even the W. B.s. They are corrupt by tra-
dition and custom far more than from necessity.
Like a certain old corporation, they think they
have a prescriptive right to levy an inexcusable
tax ; and middle class electioneering agents have
combined to nourish this delusion. It were about
as reasonable to disfranchise the middle and upper
classes, because they furnish FRAILS and W. B. s.,
as to disfranchise the working classes, because
they furnish corrupt freemen. A clause in the
new bill disfranchising the present freemen en-
tirely would have the support of every Liberal,
nor should we regret to see them denied
the franchise in any other form. They have been
so bred and brought up to corruption, that we
deem them incurables. Their children may be a
better race. The 5/. rated householders are most
certainly a different class from them. Other tests
which have been mentioned include also a body
of working men, who would be ashamed to be
mentioned in connection with " long-shoremen,"
" colourmen," and all that class. We do not think
the difficulty will be great in finding a reasonable,
and, at present, acceptable line considerably short
of Universal Suffrage ; but we are confident that
the Liberals in the Cabinet cannot afford to be
less liberal than Lord JOHN in 1852, without
entirely renouncing their position before the
country.

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The associated spinners and masters of Burnley
have evinced considerable magnanimity and
genuine kindness of heart in their dealings with
the locked-out operatives. The privations en-
dured by the families of those who, after being
led into the contest, were abandoned to their own
resources, operated as an inducement on the
masters to relax the stringency of their rules, and
to rescue, if not from starvation, at least from serious
suffering, the persons who had opposed their views,
and endeavoured practically to deprive them of the
control of their own establishments. They felt
that, having sufficiently proved their own power,
and the hollowness of the pretext of the agitators,
they might temper justice with mercy, and relying
on the efficacy of the salutary lesson that had
been inflicted, they might afford a locus penitentice
to the hands, and afford them an opportunity of
showing that they have received in a proper spirit,
and duly appreciated, the generosity exhibited to-
wards them. They are in a position to do so. They
have seen themselves deserted by the unionists—the
contributions received having been applied to the
locality where the battle was raging most fiercely,
the men of Burnley being sacrificed with as much
nonchalance as a general would abandon
an outpost to its fate—if its rescue involved
any danger to the main body, or derangement to
the operations he had deliberately planned. The
tactics might be very good, but the heartlessness
and want of feeling so clearly and unequivocally
evinced, could not be very agreeable to the victims
who, while they had the ability, added their subscrip-
tions to the general fund, on which, therefore, they
possessed an irresistible claim when the emergency.
arrived. They were, however, abandoned—heart-
lessly and recklessly abandoned—the 2d. a week
paid to each person, while their brethren in Pres-
ton were receiving 45., being a mere mockery,
that could only be regarded as the addition of
gross insult to unwarranted injury. After such
treatment, it could scarcely be necessary to
enforce a pledge against any future subscrip-
tion to the funds of the society that had
behaved so scandalously towards them. The mas-
ters have therefore abstained from demanding any
such pledge, satisfied with explaining their own
views, and emphatically warning the " hands" of
the inevitable consequences of t'ieir again joining
the movement, or contributing any portion of
their earnings to the support of the malcontents.
The address in which the masters have explained
their views and intentions, is an able, and what
Punch would denominate a "masterly" document.
It points out the causes which led to the formation
of the "Masters' Association." "That Association
was constituted, not for the purpose of regulating
wages—a matter which it wisely and truly
declares to be " beyond the power of any associa-
tion either of masters or men—but simply in self-
defence, to annul the action of the union of work-
people, and, to prevent the masters from being
obliged, one at a time, to yield to ever-increasing
demands and encroachments, which would in the
end have brought ruin on both parties." The
Associated Masters then decided on a general
stoppage of their mills on the 28th October,
in order, as they themselves clearly and
eloquently explain, "to meet the acts of the
trades' unions, to put an end to the subscriptions
for the support of turn-outs—to show that for the
future combined efforts should not be allowed to
be brought to bear on individuals, or even on
single towns—in consequence of certain acts of
insubordination and violence on the part of cer-
tain work-people, and also to escape serious losses
from the badness of trade !"

This last reason exhibits in the clearest light
the folly of which the leaders of the malcontents
have been guilty in selecting a time for the con-
test—the most favourable to the masters that could
be, even if chosen by a committee of their own
body. The depression in trade, which still con-
tinues, would probably have rendered a cessation
of production indispensable, even had there been
no difference of opinion between the parties.
Under the peculiar circumstances of the case, it
was one of the greatest boons that could have
been bestowed on the employers to afford them
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being a:raters that can with 'propriety ml?' be
arranged between the employers and workpeople
should not be publicly alluded to. One con-
dition is, however, stated to be indispensable,
compliance with which will alone enable the mas-
ters to hold out a hope that they can relinquish
their associated capacity that condition is,
" that no collection be made among their work-
people for the support of local or distant turn-
outs." They declare that they do not intend to
exact any promise to that effect from individuals,
but plainly state that they shall resist such a
course, by every means in their power, even again
to having recourse to the total stoppage of their
mills ! We hope, then, that this forbearance
may be fairly responded to by the operatives who
have suffered so severely for their previous oppo-
sition. It could not be supposed that any mas-
ter would be so foolish as to render any as-
sistance in supplying the sinews of war to their
opponents. It is the duty of every em-
ployer to adopt a similar course. A duty
incumbent not merely on cotton manufac-
turers, but on all persons employing skilled
labour. The malcontents speak of a " Labour
Parliament," of a general confederacy of all trades,
for the purpose of controlling all masters. Surely
such a threat should not be passed without notice
or observation. If any attempt be made to carry
it into operation it should be met with equally
decided action on the other side. If all trades
are to subscribe for the support of the " lock-
outs and turn-outs," it is incumbent on all masters
—aye, and on all capitalists--for the war is against
capital—to come forward to alleviate the losses
which those who are placed in the vanguard and
fighting their battle are sustaining, or by any
possibility may sustain during the crisis.