The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

MINORITY-AYES 49.

Beaumont, W. B. Heywood, James Pollard-Urquhart, W
Bell. J. Heyworth, Lawrence Russell. F. W.
Blackett, J. F. Borstal!, Thomas B. Seymour, H. DI.
Bright, John Hume, J. Seymour, W. D.
Cheetham, John Ingham, R. Shelley, Sir J. V.
Clay, Sir W. Kirk, William Smith, John Abel
Duncan, G. Laing, Samuel Stuart, Lord Dudley
Dunlop, A. Lan ton, H. G. Thoinps.m, (Gorge
Elliot, J. E. Liddell, 11. G. W dmsley, Sir J.
Fagan, William Liddell, T. Warner, Edward
Ferguson, Joseph Macgregor, Joha Wilkinson, W. A.
Forster, J. Maguire, John F. Wilcox, B.
Fox, William J. Mitchell, T. Willoughby, Sir H.
Gooderich, Vis. Moffatt, G.
Greene, J. Morris, D.
Gregson, Samuel Murrough, J. P.
Ea,tie, Alexander Pechell, Sir G, B. Mangles, R
Hcadlam, Thomas E. Pellatt, Apsley Hutt, William
MAJORITY—NOES, 129.
A'Court, C. George, Jelin Palmer, Roundell
Adderley, C. Gladstone, William Palmerston, Viscoun
Archdall, Captain Gower, F. L. Patten, J.
Bailey, Sir J. Graham, Sir J. Peel, F.
Baines, M. T. Greene, T. Peel, Colonel
Ball, John. Grenfell, C. Percy, J. William
Barrington, Viscount Hamilton, Geo. A. Peto, S.
Bass, Michael Thos. Hastie, Archibald Thillimore, R. J.
Berkeley, Admiral Henley, Joseph:W. Pilkington, James
Berkeley Grenville Herbert, Sidney Robertson, P. F.
Bethell, Sir Richard Herbert, Sir Thomas Russell, Lord J.
Blair, Colonel Hervey, Lord Alfred Sadleir, J.
Bonham-Carter, John Howard, Lord E. Sawle, C. B. G.
Booth, Sir R. Hume, W. Fitzwilliam Scohell, Capt.
Bouverie, E. Ingli-, Sir R. H. Scully, F.
Bower, G. Johnstone, James Scully, V.
Boyle, Hon. Colonel Jolliffe, Sir W. G.H. Seymour, Lord
Brocklehurst, John Jones, David Smith, Rt. Hn. R.
Brotherton, Joseph Keating, R. Spooner, Richard
Bruce, Lord Ernest Kendall, N. Strutt, Rt. ilon. E
Buller, Sir J. Keogh, William Sutton, J. H. M.
B unbury, W. Kershaw, James Tancred, Henry Wm
Butler, Charles S. Kinnaird, Arthur F. Thornely, Thomas
Cabbell, B. B. Lawley, F. C. Townshend, Capt.
I Cairns. H. IWCalmont Lee, William Tyler, Sir G.
Cardwell, Edward Lockhart, A. E. Vance. J.
Caulfield, Colonel Lockhart, W. Vernon, G.
Chambers, T. Loveden, P. Villiers, Francis
Cockburn, Sir Al Lowe, Robert Vyse, Capt.
Cowper, W. Macartney, G. Waddington, David
Craufurd, E. 11. J Mackinnon, W. A. Waddington, H.
Cubitt, Mr. Ald. Macgregor, James Walcott, Adm.
Davies, D. Matins, R. Whitmore, Henry
Denison, J. E. Massey, W. N. Wickham, Henry W.
Drumlanrig, Viscount Masterman, John William< M.
Drummond, Henry Mettle, Colonel Wilson. J.
Dunne, Colonel Michell, William Wodehouse, E.
Elcho, Lord Molesworth, Sir W. Wood, Sir Charles
Esmonde, J. Monck, Viscount Wrightson, W.
Fitzgerald, J. D. Monsell, W. Wyndham, William
Fitzgerald, W. R. S. Mostyn, E. M. Young, Sir John
Freestun, Colonel Mowbray, John R. TELLERS
Frewen, C. H. O'Brien, Patrick Hayter, W. G.
Gardner, Richard O'Connell, D. Mal grave, Earl
Another clause (whereas many vessels are sent to sea in
efficiently manned, to the danger of life and sacrifice of
property, and much incertitude has arisen respecting
the proper number of hands to be carried for the due
navigation of vessels ; and whereas, since the repeal of
the thirty-seventh clause of the Merchant Seamen's Act,
a large number of ships have been sent to sea without a
boy or apprentice on board, be it enacted, that from
and after the passing of this act, it shall not be
lawful for any Custom House officer, or other
person to grant clearance to any agent, owner,
master, or broker, for the sailing of a British
vessel out of any port in the United Kingdom or
Channel Isles, with a cargo, or in ballast to a foreign
port, either in the foreign home trading, or coasting
trades, unless it be shown to the satisfaction of the offi-
cers of her Majesty's Customs, by the articles signed by
the officers and seamen, that such vessel is manned after
the following rate :—Vessels of the burthen of one hun-
dred tons register, computed by new measurement, one
duly indentured apprentice, above the age of twelve years
and under twenty-one years of age, such apprentice to be
bound for not less than three years, and one boy to every
additional one hundred tons, with one master, officer,
seaman, or proper person, to every twenty-five tons
complete, or four seamen to every one hundred tons : Pro-
vided always, that an apprentice who has served for a full
terms of three years on ship-board, and who is above
seventeen years of age, may count for one seaman when
the number of apprentices and boys does not exceed one
to every one hundred tons • and owners wishing to carry
men in large vessels instead of boys, may compute their
crews on the ensuing scale ; that is to say, in vessels
above two hundred tons, nine seamen for every two
hundred tons above the first one hundred tons,—namely,
on board a ship of three hundred tons, for example,
thirteen seamen and one apprentice, masters and officers
included.) Motion made and question put, "That the
said clause be now read a second time." The house
divided : ayes 7, noes 154.
MINORITY—AYES, 7.
Booth, Sir R. Macartney, G. TELLERS.
Hamilton, Lord C. Taylor, colonel Witlcot, Adm.
Herbert, Sir Thomas Tyler, Sir George Scobell, Captain
Kendall, Nicholas

TILLERS.

MAJORITY—NOES 154.
A'Court, C. H. W. Goodman, Sir G. Mowbray, J.
Adderley, C. Goold, W. O'Brien, P.
Archdall, Captain M. Gower, F. L. 0 Connell, D.
Bailey, Sir J. Graham, Sir James Osborne, Ralph
Baines, M T. Greene, John Pelmer, R.
Ball, Edward Greene, T. Palmerston, Via.
Ball, John Gregson, Samuel Patten, W.
Barrington, Viscount Greniell,(3. Pechell, Sir G.
Bass, M. T. Hastie, Alexander Peel Frederick
Bell, James Hastie, Archibald Pellatt Apsley
Berkeley, Admiral Headlam, T. E. Percy, J.
Berkeley, Grenville Henley, J. W. Peto, S.
Bethel!, Richard Herbert, Sidney PhiHipps, S. IL
Blair, Colonel Hervey, Lord A. I hillimore, R.
Bonham-Carter, J. Heyworth, L. .:-.= Pilklngton, James
Bouverie, E. P. 11 orsf 111, T. B. Russell, Lord John
Bowyer, George Howard, Lord E. Russell, F.!W .
Boyle, c 01. Hume, Joseph Sawle,C. B. G.
Brocklehui sf, J. Hume, W. F. Scully, F.
Biotin:l'ton, Joseph Hutt, William Scully, V.
Bruce, Lord E. Ingham, Robert Seymour, Lord
Buller, Sir J. Y. Johnstone, James Seymer, H. D.
Butler, Charles S. Jol'iffe, Sir W. G. H. Seymour, W. D.
Cairry, Fl. M-Calmont Jones, D. Shelley, Sir J. V.
Cardwell, Hon. E. Keating, Robert Spooner, R.
Chambers, Thomas Keogh, William Strutt, E.
Cheetham, John Kershaw,:JairaeS Stuart, Lord D.
Clay, Sir W. Kinnaird, A. F. Tancred, H. W.
Cobbold, J. C. Kirk, William Thompson, G.
Cockburn, Sir A. Laing, S. Thornely, T.
Cowper, William Langton, H. G. Thornhill, W.
Craufurd, E. Lawiey, F. C. Townsend, Capt.
Crossley, Frank Lee, W, Vernon.G. E. H.
Davies, D. Liddell, H. G. Villiers. Rt. Hn. C.
Dering, Sir E. Liddell, T. Waddington, D.
l)rumlaurig, Vis. Lockhart, A. E. Walmsley, Sir J.
Duncan, George Lockhart, W. Walter, John
Dunlop, A. Loveden, P. Warner, E.
Eleho, Lord Lowe, Robert Whitmore, H.
Elliot, John Mackinnon, W. Wickham, H. W
Esmonde. John Macgregor. James Wilkinson, W.
Fagan, W. Matins, Richard Wilcox, B.
Ferguson, Sir Robert Massey, W. N. Willoughby, 11. B
Ferguson, Joseph Maule, Colonel Wilson, James
Fitzgerald, J. Milligan, R. Wood, Sir C.
Fitzgerald, W. Michell, W. Wortley. Jas. Stuart
Forster, C. Mitchell, T. A. Wyndham, W.
Forster. John . Moffatt, G. Young, Sir John
Freestun, Colonel Molesworth, Sir W.

Frewen, C. H. Monck, Lord TELLERS.
Gardner, Richard Nlonsell, William
Gladstone, William Morris, D. Hayt er, Hon. W.
Goderich, Viscount Mostyn, E. M. Mulgrave, Earl

STRIKE OF THE MARKET-GARDEN LABOURERS.—Yes-
terday morning the whole of the labourers, including
men and women, principally Irish, to the number of
about 500, employed in the market-gardeners' grounds
in Fulham, refused to work, on the ground that their
wages were not sufficient to maintain them now that
provisions were so dear, many of them having large
families. They have been in the receipt of 14s. per
week, for working from five o'clock in the morning until
seven o'clock in the evening, and they have demanded of
their employers, Messrs. Bazley, Finch, Matzear, and
others, some of the principal growers that attend Covent-
garden-market, an increase of their wages to the extent
of 2s. per week. This the masters have stoutly refused
to accede to, and the labourers have determined not to
work upon their grounds unless they are paid 16s. per
week. The strike was first commenced on Friday last
by some of Mr. Finch's labourers refusing to work with-
out the extra 25., and it was followed up by the others
striking yesterday, upon finding that their employers
would not comply with their demands. It is expected
that the labourers in the other large districts will also
strike for an increase of wages.
THE GENERAL IRON SCREW COLLIER COMPANY.—
This company held its first annual meeting at the Lon-
don Tavern this day ; the chair was occupied by W.
Hutt, Esq. Mr. Clarke, the secretary, read the report
and statement of account, which justified a dividend at
the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, besides setting aside
a handsome surplus. At present the company owns
nine new vessels, all lucratively employed under con-
tract at long periods with responsible firms in the coal
traffic. From the date of the launch of the first vessel
the cost of insurance and-all charges connected with the
company's transactions have been placed to the account
of revenue, while the preliminary expenses exhibited
economy of management.
AUSTRALIA.—Accounts have been received from Mel-
bourne (Victoria) to the 27th of April, being 11 days
later than those by the last arrival. They were brought
by the Yarra. to Singapore, and by the Anglia to
Madras, whence they have come overland, via Marseilles.
Messrs. Wigram's new ship, the Kent, had reached
Melbourne, from England, in 84 days ; and the Har-
binger steamer, belonging to the General Screw Com-
pany, had made the passage in 70 days, including 6
days spent in coaling, so that her actual time was only
64 days. Nothing had been heard of the steamer
Adelaide, which left Plymouth on the 3d of January,
and was therefore 114 days out. At the date of the
present advices the markets were bare, in consequence
of the non-arrival of the large fleets, including altogether
upwards of 100 vessels, that sailed from this country in
November, December, and January last, and which for
a long period were windbound in the Channel. No de-
tails are given of the progress of the gold produc-
tion, and it is to be inferred that in that respect every-
thing is going on satisfactorily.
AUSTRALIAN DIREeT STEAM COMPANY.—A charter
having been obtained by the Australian Direct Steam
Company, rid Panama, they have again issued their
prospectus, and, inasmuch as the predictions put forth
for several years past by those best acquainted with the
navigation of the Pacific as to the superiority of that
route have since been confirmed by dearly-bought expe-
rience in other directions, it may be hoped that the mer-
cantile public will at length unite in carrying it out.
The proposed capital of the company is 1,000,0001., in
shares of 251. each, and the vessels to be employed are
paddle-wheel steamers of about 3,000 tons, the estimated
time for the entire passage from Milford Haven to Aus-
tralia being 55 days.
ARRIVAL OF GOLD FROM AUSTRALIA.—The Queen of
England, Captain Baillie, from Melbourne, Port Philip,
arrived off the Start on the 31st inst., with 40,395 ozs.
of gold dust on board, valued at Z 61,580(.