The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-22 00:00:00

NORMAN NOBILITY.

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near her throughout the night as the attc, of the
would allow. At five o'clock the next morning t).s ciew
of the burning vessel lowered their boat, and with con-
siderable difficulty were got on board the Mercury.
Although Captain Peters was short of provisions at the
time, he generously shared everything on board with the
sufferers, eleven in number, all French, for whom he
provided accommodation on the floor of his cabin, giving
the Fiwi,.h captain a b:rth. The Frenchmen spe2l: with
the utmost gradtude 'the humanity of Capt.
but for whose active and timely exertions they would
have all perished, either by the flames, or the waves, or
by starvation, as the fire cut them off from their stores.
Baffled in his endeavours to reach Cork, by the preva-
lence of severe easterly gales, Captain Peters made the
harbour of Valencia, on the 6th inst., where he remains
unavoidably windbound. The Mercury is laden with
oil cake for Lynn, in Norfolk. The people on board
the Mercury, for some days before reaching Valencia, toad
been reduced to half a glass of water each, and nearly
out of provisions. On reaching Valentia, Capt. Peters
completed his kindness by conveying the whole party of
sufferers to the protection of the French consul at Cork.
Such traits of national liberality and generosity are
highly gratifying; and we are sure the public, as well
as the owners of the Mercury, will applaud Captain
Peters for an act which reflects additional credit on the
character of our countrymen for deeds of humanity.

" ' Gentiles,' murmured Fakredeen ; ' Gentiles I—you are
a Gentile, Tancred ?'
" 4 Alas! I am,' he answered, ' sprung from a horde of
B .ltic pirates, who never were heard of during the greater
annals of the world—a descent which I have been educated
to believe was the greatest of honours. What we should
have become had not the Syro-Arabian creeds formed our
minds, I dare not contemplate. Probably we should have
perished in mutual destruction. However, though rude and
modern Gentiles, unknown to the Apostles, we also were in
time touched with the sacred symbol, and originally endowed
with an organisation of a high class, for our ancestors wan-
dered from Caucasus, we have become kings and princes.' "

I MERITORIOUS ACT of HUMANITY. SIR HENRY 11ALFORD'S BILL TO
ItvGULAIT lIANUFACTuRFs
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broz..lght .1-I`!yu,s,•-• ContiLons, on the 12th
llstant, by .ry Raiford, Mr. rackv, and Cclonel
intitukd—

A Bid to repeal an Act for making further regula-
-6)113 respecting the tickets of work to be delivered to
parsons Employed in the manufacture of boriery in
certain case 3, and to make other provisions instead
thereof, and to make further provisions to secure the
wages of persons employed in the manufacture of
hosiery."

1. The preamble states it to be expedient to abolish
the Tioket Act, and to give further and more efficient
protection to the workmen engaged in every department
of the hosiery trade.
2. The old Act to expire on the Ist of next Septem-
ber, on which day the present Act is to come into force.
3. The interpretation clause contains the limitation
of the term " manufacturer," to mean any person fur-
nishing material to be wrought into hosiery goods to
be sold or disposed of on his account ; " agent" or " ser-
vant," any person acting for and in the name of the
manufacturer; " workman," any person by whom the
materials furnished are to be actually wrought and con-
verted into hosiery.
4. Declares the practice of receiving materials by in-
termediate parties, and employing workmen under them
to convert the same into hosiery goods to be objection-
able, and ought to be abolished and discontinued, and
enacts that no person, save the manufacturer, being the
real and absolute owner of the materials, and interested
in the sale of the material when wrought up, shall give
out work, employ workmen, or enter into any contract
whatever for that purpose.

5. A partner may act for a firm, and make a contract
and deliver out materials.

6. Permits an owner to act by an agent or ser►ant;
the acts of such to be binding on the principal.
7. Enacts that every manufacturer of hosiery shall,
on delivering out any materials to be wrought up,
whether on his own premises or elsewhere, enter in a
book or books to be kept by him for that purpose, a
statement of the particulars of agreement between such
manufacturer and the workmen by whom such mate-
rials are to be wrought and converted into hosiery goods,
such entry to specify names and places of abode of work-
men, and be in form in every respect and particular of
schedule annexed, and be signed by the manufacturer or
his agent.

The schedule for stockings requires twenty-three
columns of particulars, besides signature.
That for socks sixteen columns.
For gloves seventeen columns.
For shirts sixteen columns.

For caps ten columns, and eight columns for any other
description of hosiery.
8. Inflicts a penalty of not exceeding 501., and not less
than SL, for contravening, in any respect, the provisions
of this Act, on proi,f before two justices; whether it re-
gards contracting between manufacturers and smaller
maters, or non-inserting, altering, or obliterating the
particulars of contracts with workmen as ordered.

9. litluires the book containing particulars of agree-
ments entered into to be kept at the ordinary place of
the manufacturer's business, and makes it lawful for
any workman, being at the time, or having been within
fourteen days in his employ, to apply for and obtain in•
ipection of, and to take copies of any entry or entries
therein, at all suitable times. Any person hindering or
refusing to allow inspection of copies, to be liable to
fine of not more than 201., nor less than 51.

10. In case of dispute arising, this book to be pro-
duced. and the entry shall be evidence respecting the
particulars contained in it.
11. Except where the dispute arises from alleged im-
perfi.etien of work, when the piece of work in question
blia4 be produced, or if not, it shall be taken to have
been well made.

12. Makes the wages contracted for a debt, to be paid
without any deduction whatever.

13. Declares that frame-rents are unjust to workmen,
and have given rise to many evils, atid therefore ought
to be altogethcr abolished, and goes on to enact that no
person shall let on hire any frame to any workman, or
take from him any money, rent, gain, or prcfit, or de-
duct from his wnges on account of his renting, hiring,
or using any such loom, frame, or apparatus for making
hosiery.

14. Enac►s penalties for breach of the preceding
clause ; but the sum is left blank, to be filled up in
Committee.

15 to 18 Prescribe forms of legal proceedings, and
give penalties to fte Crown.

19. Declares no removal by certiorari allowable, nor
any conviction to be invalid for want of form, nor any
but special damage recoverable in case of any irregularity
in proceedings.
This Bill, though short, is of an extraordinary and
sweeping character. It abolishes frame-rent, but
makes no provision for securing the owner's right of
property in frames, hitherto exercised, not so much by
removal, for in many cases they have been continued in

the uninterrupted custody of the same workpeople for
twenty, thirty, or forty years, as by the weekly charge
of frame rent, and by payment of the expense incurred
by the larger repairs. Who is to pay for these repairs
in future is not stated ; neither does it deal with the
question of who is to compensate the owners of inde-
pendent frames for this legal destruction of their property.
It makes every workman or workwoman independent of
any control but that of the hosier. All journeymen and
apprentices are under this Bill to become their own mas-
ters. A hosier could not under it give out work to s
husband for his wife, or to a parent for a child. No
exceptions are contemplated ; the sole object seems to
be to get rid of unjust charges, by destroying every
species of intermediate agency at any cost. No one is
to make a bargain for a working stockingmaker but him-
self or herself. The hosier may employ a paid agent.
but the workman must appear in person, and be dealt
with separately. Each one must have his separate agree.
ment with the hosier, both as to money and material—s
thing impossible. Will the hosiers be willing to increase
the number of their accounts four-fold? Or to intrust a
frame and materials to every stockingmaker on his own
account? It is very unlikely,. The chief places where
materials are given out, and stockings are taken in, from
the workpeople, are Nottingham, Sutton-in-Ashfield,
Belper, Derby, Loughborough. Leicester, and Hinck-
ley ; by the Bill, all the 40,000 men, women, and
youths must waste their time, and strength, and money
in going to these places, instead of three-fourths of them
staying at home to work at the frame, clean the house,
garden, or otherwise both profitably and safely employ
themselves. How will this help them?
In the county of Nottingham, for instance, there are
16,°280 frames. gathered into about 5,200 shops. At present
each shoprnaster only attends the hosier's warehouse.
In this county alone, therefore, this Bill, if it could be
carried into effect, would oblige eleven thousand people,
instead of five thousand, to travel every year four hun-
dred miles each, chiefly on foot, and this for the purpose
of crowding still further warehouses already too much
resorted to, and exposing them to temptations and ex-
penses.—The book containing particulars of agreements,
is to be open for inspection and copying. Any one
working for the house may see-and copy all the entries
he pleases, and do with these copies what he pleases—
publish them if he chooses. Is this fair dealing with
the employer's business ? An apprentice may be pu-
nished for revealing his master's secrets—a workman
may do it with impnnity,—No workman can incur any
penalty under this Rill.
We desire, as well as the gentlemen whose names are
to this Bill, to see the stocking-maker disenthralled
from his difficulties, and raised in his station and means.
But this mode of dealing with the subject will no more

answer any good purpose than did the " ticket" Bill,
which we predicted would soon be repealed or fall into
disuse, as it has done. In this effort at trade legisla-
tion we have another proof that Parliament can only be
looked to for power to adjust trade matters , the exercise

of that power must be placed in hands accustomed to
the details and necessities of the various businesses sub-
jected to their action, and theirs alone.

ORIGIN OF THE MARSEILLAISE.
M. de Lamartine, in his Histoire des Girondins, just
published in Paris, gives the following account Of the
origin of the French national air, " The Marseillaise.'
In the garrison of Strasburg was quartered a young ar-
tillery officer, named Rouget de Lisle, a native of Lous
le Saulnier, in the Jura. lie had a great taste for music
and poetry, and often entertained his comrades during
their long and tedious hours in garrison. Sought after
for his musical and poetical talent, he was a frequent and
familiar guest at the house of one Dietrich, an Alsatian
patriot, mayor of Strasburg. The winter of 1792 was a
period of great scarcity at Strasburg. The house of
Dietrich was poor, his table was frugal, but a seat was
always open to Roueet de Lisle. One day, when there
was nothing but bread and some slices of smoked ham on
the table, Die:rich, regardirg the young officer, said to
him with a sad serenity, " Abundance fails at our boards,
but what matters that if enthusiasm fails not at our civic
fetes, nor courage in the hearts of our soldier. I have
still a last bottle of wine in my cellar. Bring it," said
he to one of his daughters, " and let us drink France and
liberty. Strasburg should soon have its patriotic so-
lemnity. De Lisle must draw from these last drops one
of those hymns which raise the soul of the people."
The wine was brought and drank, after which the officer
hfeisry instrument,cu r of hi)s
departed. The night was cold. De Lisle was thought-
ful. His heart was moved ; his head heated. lie re-
turned staggering to his solitary room, and slowly
sought
citizen
inspiration,sou!,
anon
on
sometimesthekeys of in the
composing now the air before the words, and then the
words before the air. Ile sang all and
wrote
and at last, exhausted, fell asleep with his
h nothing,
head resting
on his inst-ument, and awoke not till d.
music of ttv! night returnud to his mind daybreak. The
like the impres-
ioe of a dream, he wrote it, and ran to Dietrich, whoa
he found in the garden digging winter lettuces. The
wife and daughters of the old man were not yet up,
Dietrich awoke them, and call, d in some friends, all as
passionate as himself fetin lc, and able to execute the
comb siti(4ll of De Lisle. 'At the first
stanza cheeks
`grow pale, at the second tears flowed,'
and at the last the
d.eirium of enthusiasm
burst forth. Tee wife of Die-
rich ,his daughters, himself, and the young officer
threw themselves crying into each other's arms. The
lquel or the country was found. Executed some days
i ait Twarr,s in Strasburg the new song flew from city to
elty, L,.. eit), and was played by all the popular orches-
tras. Marseilles adopted it t,, be sung at the commence-
recut of the sittings of its clubs, and the Marseillaises
\spread it through France, singing
.it along the public
roads. From this came the name of " Marseillaise."

T
COMMUNICATIC/Nl4iR RAIN WITH SALISBURY
MARKET.—After siorne urgent remonstrances on the part of
the S ,utliarupton butchers, the South-Western have put on
an extra train on market morning=, leavit:g•Southampton at
five o'clock A.M. At the inns, last market, at which a crowd
of carts and horses tilled the yards and stables, scarcely one
was to be seen, the trade coming from Portsmouth, Basing-
stoke, Andover, and other places, being able now to dispenan
with " traps" or " flies,' transact their business and get
borne to dinner by the middleot the day.—Hants Advertiser.