The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-03 00:00:00

THE FACTORY BILL.

Yesterday a deputation, consisting of some of the delegates
from the manufacturing districts of the north of England,
waited on Lord John Russell, and presented him with 83 me-
morials from as many short-time committees and associated
bodies of factory workers and traders. They also presented
the following letter from Lord Ashley:—

" March 2, 1847.
"My Lord,—By desire of the short-time committees of the
counties of Lancaster and York, I have the honour to present
to your Lordship their several memorials, praying that the long-
agitated question of the Ten Hours Bill may be speedily
settled.
"Your Lordship will observe that many memorials are
added from artizans and mechanics, expressive of their sym-
pathy with the operatives in factories.
" Your Lordship will also be good enough to observe that
the memorials state the desire of the working people to leave
the matter of wages to be determined by the demand and
supply of labour, and that they are ready, with a view to the
permanent settlement of the question, to accept a period of
eleven hours for the experiment of the limitation, and defer
the period of ten hours until the benefit of the enactment
shall have been ascertained by the experience of two years.
"I have the honour to be, my Lord.
" Your most obedient servant,

a ASHLEY.

" The Lord John Russell, ALP., First
Lord of the Treasury.
" I add a memorial from Sir. Irvin, the vicar of Leigh,
Lancashire, and twelve other clergymen."

EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION
REFUSAL TO BURY A CORPSE.—Yesterday Mr. Assinder,
jun., a cheesemonger, in Cannon-street-road, who was accom-
panied by his father, renewed an application he made to Mr.
'Yardley, a month ago, at the Thames Police-court, to com-
pel a person, named John Cox, a milkman, of No. 37, Chapel-
street, St. George's-in •the-East, to bury the body of his
(Cox's) mother, who died eight weeks ago. Mr. Assinder
complained that Cox was one of his father's tenants, and
that his mother, an aged woman, died eight weeks ago, and
the body still remained unburied. The son of the deceased
laboured under an impression that his mother was in a trance;
but nothing could be more absurd, for the body was in a
decomposed state, and the face of the corpse was mouldy and
all manner of colours. The decomposed remains were very
offensive to the people in the adjoining houses, and the
neighbourhood was in a state of excitement about it. The
man, Cox, had been expostulated with, but to no effect, and
seemed determined to keep the body above ground.
Mr. YARDLEY remembered the last application, and was
surprised the remains of the old woman had not been inter-
! red. He had recommended that the parish officers should
be applied to to abate the nuisance.
Mr. Assinder said that Overton, the parish beadle, had
waited upon Mr. Cox, who turned a deaf ear to his entrea-
ties, and the beadle then referred the matter to the trustees,
who declined any active interference in the case.
Mr. Yardley thought the parish officers were bound to look
after this matter and abate the nuisance—for a nuisance it
must be to keep the body of a woman in a dwelling-house in
a crowded neighbourhood.
Mr. Assinder said that Cox would neither pay any rent,
leave the house, or bury the body. His deceased mother
hired the house.
Mr. Yardley said the tenancy was now vested in the son,
and there was a legal process by which he could be compelled
to pay the rent and be ejected from the possession. He
thought the applicant might, under the circumstances, seize
the coffin containing the body, and decently inter it, and he
had no doubt the parish officers would give him all the as-
sistance in their power.
Mr. Assinder thanked the magistrate, and said he would
not only put an execution into the house of the man Cox, but
remove the body of the old woman and bury it.

A PRETTY PARSON.—At the Insolvent Debtors'
Court, held at York Castle, on Saturday last, before Charles
Phillips, Esq., the Rev. Lawrence Eyre, late of Dalby Rectory,
near Terrington, and formerly of Barton-upon-Humber, ap-
plied for his discharge, and .was opposed by Mr. Blau
shard on behalf of Mr. Gray, solicitor, York, Mr. William
Ashton, Mr. Jonathan Wilson, Messrs. Barber and North, sil-
versmiths, York, and Mr. John Taylor, upholsterer, York.
The insolvent was supported by Mr. Dowse. The
grounds of objection urged by Mr. Blanshard, were—
, first, that some of the debts were contracted tinder
false pretences; secondly, that they were contracted with-
, out any probable expectation of being able to pay
them ; that the insolvent had made away with his
property ; and two creditors had been omitted
from his schedule, viz., Miss Longley and Miss Flint, of
Leeds, to the former of whom, by the report of the Master in
Chancery, the insolvent owed 400/. Miss Flint's debt had
been contracted in the education of a Miss Hall, whom
the insolvent represented as his niece. The insolvent had
petitioned the Leeds Bankruptcy Court, but Mr. Commis.
sioner Burge had so high an opinion of this reverend gentle-
man that the petition was dismissed. The insolvent, in his
examination, stated that his stipend had been 751. per an-
num, and admitted that he had obtained money by false pre-
tences from Mr. Ashton ; that over Miss Longley he had been
placed as trustee, and had been called to account for the dis-
positionof her property by the Court of Chancery ; that the
sum claimed by Miss Flint was for the education of a Miss
Hall, who lived with him for a year and a half, and has since
married her; that he bought her a watch and appendages of
the value of 301., for which he gave two notes of hand and
101., and afterwards pawned it; that he obtained 27/. worth
of furniture from the shop of Mr. Taylor, for which he never
paid, and gave it to Miss Hall's mother, at the time repre-
senting that it was for a young relativeust setting up house-
keeping, and giving the address, " Mr. James Sowerby, Nay-
lor's-row, Drypool, Hull," whereas it was for Mrs. Hall, of
that place, who was the wife of a brickmaker. The insol-
vent so prevaricated while under examination, as to call forth
the marked censure of the Commissioner, who said that
though he had, prima facie, every respect for the character
of a clergyman, still the insolvent's account was so fraught
with suspicion that he was not an object for the indulgence
of the ccurt. The Commissioner added—" The object of this
court is to grant relief to honest debtors who have become in-
solvent; and in doing that we must take care that persons
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monies were conducted upon a very grand scale. The lodge
bears the title of " Loge Francaise de la Tolerance," and the
carrying out the principle (the title would import) in its
fullest extent, ladies are to be admitted as brethren, or rather
sisters of the craft. Brother White was elected grand secre-
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PRICE OF WHEAT.--We understand that according
to advices just received, the contract price of wheat for the
navy is from 80s. to 82s. per quarter at Brest; and freights
from
Odessa are enormously high.
ARMY (INDlA).—Returns have just been laid be-
tore Parliament relative to the strength of the army in India
in 1837 and 1845. It appears, therefore, that, in 1837,
there were 109 lieutenant-colonels, 139 majors, 625 captains,
1,181 lieutenants, 637 cornets, 9,384 Eurbpean non-com-
missioned and rank and file, and 151,971 native commis-
sioned, non-commissioned, and rank and file.. In 1845,
Viere were 115 lieutenant-colonels, 146 majors, 624 cap-
tains, 1,512 lieutenants, 754 cornets, 11,115 European non..
commissioned and rank and file, and 235,684 native com-
missioned and non-commissioned, and rank and tile. The
great increase has been in the nativeinfantry in the three
Presidencies.