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S BT, MARCH 19, 1847.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17.
FACTORIES BILL.—(IN THE COMMITTEE.)
Clause (And be it enacted, That from the first day of
May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, no person
under the age of eighteen vicars shall be employed in any
such Mill or Factory, in such description of work as in the
said first-mentioned Act is specified, for more than ten hour:.
in any one day, nor more than fifty-zight hours in any one
week, except as in the said Act is provided ; and that from
the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty-
eight, the said two Acts shall, in all respects, be construed as
it the provision in the said first-mentioned Act ccntained, as
to persons under the age of eighteen years working in Mills
and Factories, had been confined to ten licurs instead of
twelve hours in any one day, and fifty-eight hours in any one
week instead of sixty-nine hours):—Motion made, and
Quest ion put, a That the Clause, as amended, stand part
the Bill." The Committee divided:—

MAJORITY—AYES, 144.
Fitzroy, Lord C. Newport, Visct.
Fleetwood, Sir I'. Newry, Viscount
Flower, Sir James O'Brien, A. scat:bard
Fox, C. R. O'Brien, W. S.
Frewen, C. 11. O'Connell, D., jun.
Fuller, A. E. O'Connell,, Jolla
Gaskell, J. M. Owen, Sir John
Granby, Marquis of Packe: C. W.
Granger, T. C. Paget, Colonel
Grimsditch, Thomas Pakington, Sir J. S.
Grogan, E. Palmer, Robert
Grosvenor, Lord It. Palmer, G.
Grosvenor, Earl Plumridge, Captain
Hall, Sir Benjamin Polhill, Frederick,
rialseY, T. P. Rashleigh, W.
Hamilton, G. A. Rawdon, Colonel
Harris, Captain Rendlesham, Lord
Hatton, Captain V. Rich, Henry
Henley, J. W. Richards, Richard
Hervey, Lord A. Rolleston, Colonel
Hildyard, T. B. Rushout, Captain
Ilindley, C. Russell, J. D.
Hodgson, R. Ryder, Q. D.
Holland, Robert Sandon, Viscount
Mango, John Shell, It. L.
Seward, -K. G. Main*, Cianiael
Howard, P. H. Smith, J. A.
Humphery, Ald. Smith,- Vernon
Inglis, Sir It. Spooner, Richard
Johnson,TGeneral Stanley, W. 0.
Jollitre, Sir W. G. IL Staunton, Sir G.
Kemble,:Henry Stuart, J.
Lascelles, W. S. Strickland, Sir G.
Law, C. E. Tolletuache, J.
Layard, Captain Tower, C.
Lefroy, Anthony Trevor, J. R.
Liddell, H. T. Troubrldge, Sir E.
Lowther, Sir J. Turner, Edmund
Lowther, Hon. Col. Venter, Sir W.
Manners, Lord J. Vyse, R. 11. Li. 11.
March, Earl of Vyvyan, Sir It. R.
Mastennart, John Waddington, 11. S.
Maunsell, T. B. Wakloy, Thomas
Miles, William Walker, Richard
Morgan, 0. Wawn, J. T.
Morris, David Williams, W.
Nfostyn, E. M. TELLERS.
Munta, G. F. Fielden, John
Newdegate, N. Brotherton, Joseph

Acton. Colonel
Adderlev, C. B.
Agliouby, 11. A.
Ainsworth, Peter
Alix, J. P.
Arundel, Earl of
Baillie, H. J.
&saline, W.
Barnard, E. G.
Baskerville, T.
Bennet, P.
Bentinck, Lord G.
Bentinek, Lord H.
Bcresiord, Major
Bernal, Ralph
Blackstone, W. S.
Blake, M. J.
Brisco, M.
Broadley, Henry
laruen, Colonel
Buck, L. W.
Idulkeley. Sir R. B.
Banbury, T.
Butler, I'. S.
42abbelL, 134 8..
CAVIOVZ: 8:
Chapman, A.
Chelsea, Vise.
Chichester, Lord J.
Christopher, R.
Codrington, Sir W.
Cole, Hon. IL A.
Collett, John
Cunynahain, Lord A.
Courtenay, Lora
Cowper, W. F.
Crawford, W. S.
Curteis, H. B.
D'Eyncourt, C. T.
Douglas. Sir H.
Douglas, J. S.
buncombe, T.
Dundas, Sir David
Du Pre, C. G. .
Entwisle, W.
Etwall, Ralph
Evans, Sir De Lacy
Ferrand, W. B.
Finch, G.

MINORITY—NOES, 66.
Aldam. William Fltzwilliam, G. W. Patten, J. W.
Antrobus, Edmund k'orster, Mathew Philips, Mark
Baine, Walter Gibson, Thomas M. Protheroe, E.
Barkly, Henry Grey, Sir G. Pusey, P.
Bell, Matthew Hamner, Sir John Rice, E. R.
Berkeley. Craven Harcourt, G. Ross, D. R.
Bouverie, E. P. Hawes, Bell. Russell, Lord J.
Hewes, John Hope, Sir .1. Stansfleld, W. R.
Retiring, Dr. Houldsworth, T. Stuart, Lcrd J.
Brown, W. Howard, C W.G. Stuart, V.
Brownrigg, J. S. Hume, Joseph Strutt, Edward
Buller, Charles Jones, Captain Thornely, I'.
Busfeild, William Lambton, li. Towneley, John
Byng, G. S. Langston, J. H Tufnell, IL
Carew, W. li. Pole Lawson, Andrew Vane, Lord H.
Denison, J. E. Legh, G. C. Villiers, Charles
Dennistoun, J. Lemon, Sir C. Wall, C. B.
Dickinson, F. Ft. Lindsay, Colonel Ward, H. G.
Duncannon, Lord Macaulay, T. B. Wood, :-1r Charles
Dundas, J. C. Mitcalte, H. Wortley, J. S.
Egerton, W. T. Monahan, J. H. TELLEAS.
Egerton, Sir P. Morpeth, Viscount Bright, John
r.vans, William Ogle, S. C. Duncan, George

ESCAPE FROM CHELMSFORD GAOL.— On Friday
morning, it was discovered that Charles Pye who had been
convicted the evening previously at the assizes of burgia, y,
had effected his escape from the gaol at Chelmsford. The
prisoner had been found guilty on Thursday of entering the
house of an independent old couple named Hockley, in com-
pany wish others, and not only ransacking the house, but ill-
treating the inmates in an atrocious manner, so that the life
of the old lady was for months despaired of. Me was sentenced
to 15 years' transportation. and was taken back to the gaol. in
which extensive alterations are going on, part of it being
pulled down for the purpose of introducing the separate sys-
tem of discipline; and it would appear, that, in the confusion
of putting down a van full of prisoners in the interior yard,
he managed to conceal himself amongst some of the works
Or builangs. Having thus contrived to evade observation,
he found little difficulty, from the state of the walls and
the various scaffoldings about the building, to make good
his escape when all became quiet. As soon as his escape
wag discovered the county police were moving after him in
all directions, and the metropolitan force were notified of it
by electric telegraph, but he has not yet been retaken. This
is the third prisoner who has effected his escape from the
gaol during the progress of these woks, which were under-
tidten -through the Governintakitestinis for as improvement
lir the-discipline of the prison. aliti i 11.1 cost more than
au,oooz—lp•wich igipress.
BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION it AILWA Y.—
A crowded meeting of shareholders took place at Dee's Royal
Hotel, Birmingham, which lasted from two o'clock till half-
past six last Saturday evening. A report, to the extent of
nearly two of the Observer folio columns, appeared in that
journal, in London, on Sunday morning. Thus were the
proceedings of this important meeting, although not con-
cluded at Birmingham till half-past six o'clock on Saturday
evening, within twelve hours conveyed to London, written
out, composed, printed, and published in the Observer at six
o'clock on Sunday morning.
The public should be aware that by the Ist and
2d of George IV., cap. 78, all bills due and payable on Wed-
nesday next, being a solemn fast day, become due and pay-
able on Tuesday preceding, and in case of non-payment may
be noted and protested on such preceding day, and it is not
necessary to give notice of dishonour thereof, until the day
after the Fast Day. The Act, however, does not extend to
Scotland.

DEPARTURE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY FROM THE
ISLE OF WIGHT.--At a quarter before two on Wednesday,
her Majesty and suite emba. ked from the beach in front of
Osborne, on board the royal yacht, under a salute from Cowes
Castle. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, before leaving,
sent the secretary of the Royal Yacht Squadron 201., towards
the Yarborough monument.
BLOOMSBURY COUNTY COURT or MIDDLESEX,
17.—T0-day this court was opened at the new pre-
mises in Berners-street, Middlesex Hospital, before Mr. Ser-
geant Heath, the judge, and his deputy, under the new Act.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Tuesday
afternoon the following melancholy catastrophe took place on
the river, off the Bishop of London's pleasure-grounds at
Fulham. About half-past three o'clock a young gentleman
named Hatfield, a member of the St. Bartholomew's Aquatic
Club, left Avis's, the Bells Tavern, at Putney, in one of
Searle's outriggers, accompanied by Thomas yElliott, alias
Don Pedro, the coxswain of the Neptune Club, and one of
the crack watermen of the Thames. At the time of
starting the tide had ebbed about an hour; there was a
strong southerly wind blowing, and considerable surf; in
fact, a great deal too much to render it prudent to venture
in a fragile thing like an outrigged wherry. The impru-
dence of the act was still greater, as the boat was not co-
vered in with canvass either fore or aft. Mr. Hatfield was in
training for a match, and it was Elliott's intention to pro-
ceed up the river along the Middlesex shore. 'They were
within twenty yards of the shore, and off the Bishop's mea-
dows, when the wind, as it is supposed, suddenly caught the
boat on its quarter, and in an instant she upset, and Messrs.
Hat field and Elliott were in the water. Mr. Hatfield, being
enabled to swim, caught hold of the boat, and for some little
time held up Elliott, who could not swim. His superior
weight, however, compelled Mr. Hatfield to part from him,
arid he sunk before assistance could arrive. The accident
was witnessed at Putney, and several boats put off, but the
Fulham watermen, we regret to state, exhibited the greatest
apathy. Two landsmen, named Cook and Maddox, being
at Putney, brought Mr. Hatfield ashore in a very exhausted
state, and he was taken into the Bells Tavern, and imme-
diately put to bed, under the personal direction of Mr. Avi'.
Men were dragging for the body of poor Elliott for an hour,
when the two Robinsons and Cobb, watermen, of Putney,
succeeded in finding the body, and took it to the Bells,
where it was speedily stripped and examined by Mr. Cor-
mack, Mr. Shillito, and other medical gentlemen. The
usual remedies were adopted, but all were ineffectual. The
father of the deceased was drowsed at London-bridge when
about the same age. _ _

FAMINE RELIEF FUND.—Wednesday the committee
of the British Association for the relief of extreme distress

in Ireland and Scotland made a report of the sums received,
which now amounts to above 240,0001, which includes
50,000/. received front her Majesty's Secretary of State for
the Home Department, being part of the collection under
the Queen's letter.
ARRIVAL OF THE SARAH SANDS.—LIVERPOOL,
WEDNESDAY.—The auxiliary screw steam-ship Sarah Sands,
arrived here to-day from New York, after a very fair passage
of twenty-one days, considering the circumstances in which
she was placed. The following is the captain's report :
Sarah Sands (screw steamer), New York to Liverpool, left
New York February 24, at three P.m., light wind from S.W.
25th. four P.M., air-pump broke short off, disconnected, and
ran under canvass for the next four days, but the winds being
light and ahead made little progress. March 2 Got up
steam which carried the vessel to long. 40, when she encoun-
tered a succession of heavy gales from S.S.E. to E.S.E. On
the 7th of March, during a gale from S.E., lost bowsprit and
fore-topmast, and being afterwards sent to northward by the
currants, bore away for the North Channel, previous to en-
tering which, finding the port air-pump lever cracking in the
same place where the other broke, disconnected for twenty-
four hours, and put two preventer plates on it. On Sunday
off Inistrahull, was in company with a large fleet of inward-
bound vessels, and since then beat down Channel against a
strong south wind.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest
was held on Wednesday by Mr. Bedford, at the Coach and
Horse, Flood-street, NVestminster, on the body of William
Marshall, aged 77, a master bootmaker, of Great College-
street, Westminster. On last Saturday noon the deceased
was crossing the carriage road in College-street, when in
stepping on the kerb stone his foot slipped, and being unable
to save himself fiom feebleness, he fell into the gutter on his
side, by which the neck of the right thigh bone was frac-
tured. He was conveyed to the Westminster Hospital,
where he died on Tuesday morning. Verdict, "Accidental
death."
SonTIIAMPTON, MARCH 17.—The Royal West
India mail-packet the Trent, Captain Surdie, left the river
this day, 3 r.m., with mails for the West. India Islands.
The Trent, since her return home on the 24th of January,
has undergone a thorough repair, and yesterday went on
trial trip down the river, which she performed to the entice
satisfaction of the commander and engineers. The Trent
has 40 passengers, 3,000/. in specie, and usual cargo. Mc
Oriental Company's steam-ship Madrid, Captain Weeks, lett
the docks at the same hour, en route for Gibraltar, with the
Peninsular and Mediterranean mails, also 14 passengers. and
a very WI ctuTO of bale god', U.

PkitC-Lt

EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.

Yesterday evening the fifth aunual meeting of the Ea)ly
Closing Association was held at Exeter Hall; the Marquis of
Westminster in the chair.

. On the platform were Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., Lord
J. Manners, the Hon. W. Coe per, M.P., Mr. Moffitt,
&c., and the body of the hall was crowded to excees.
The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that the
members of the association could point with satisfection to
the change that had taken place wit h respect to the early
closing movement, not only among employers, but among
the public eenerally, without the limitetien of locality. In
Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, 13,ightstie Bristel,
Portsmouth, ,Exeter, and other important towns in the
kingdom, the movement had been most successful. The
mochas operandi had been to bold meetings, to circUlate
pamphlets on the subject of their exertions, and to diffuse in
every way information on the subject. It was also proposed
to raise a fund of 5,0001., which was to be allocated for prize
essays, &c., but which was now to be restricted chiefly to prize
essays, which it was intended to circulate most exi ensively.
With respect to the finances, there was a balance in hand.
The report, after stating that the movement was not confined
to any class, sex, nr locality, concluded by an energetic and
eloquent appeal to the meeting and those interested in the'
movement to renewed exertion.—(Cheers.)
The Noble CHAIRMAN said that he accepted the cheer that
they had been kind enough to confer on the earueet. and he
was happy to say the successful, exertions' of those who had
been engaged in forwarding. the object which they were
met that evening to diicuss. The meeting which he bad
the honour to address was quite as compe-
tent as any association to forward that object. They
had heard from the report that the object fur
which the association was established was progressing.
Though the society did not profess to establish branch
societies, there were societies with the same objects esta-
blished in Brightote Manchester, and other important towns,
who were ready to co-operate with the present association in
their endeavours. With respect to one of the towns to which
allusion had been made, namely, Manchester, he would wish
to make a tew observations. He was able ts. confirm the
statements that had been made. That town-was always
ready to do the good work. The people of se :town were
.towtoleßt convulsions of trade- Th bled
itrpdaratitalea,lsnt there wastuffraitir ri
the inhabitants were less likely to be influenced by any in-
jurious operation.—(Hear.) They had given in their adhe-
sion to this cause. He wecld take the liberty to mention to
them a circumstance which had happened to himself. He
had walked from the Euston-square station to Oxford-street
the otlur evening, and he fiand in that street that the
shops were then closed early. The change struck him as re-
markable; success would be the effect produced by a simple
volition, not towards evil, which would be counteracted, but
by perseverieg in a course towards a good end, in which a' I
parties should join tor a common advantage.—(Hear, hear.)
the result produced on the people of England by conduct
such as this was wonderful, and was certain to be rewarded
with signal success. An Act was likely to be passed to dimi-
nish labour in the inanufacturing dietties. Many kind persons
were of opinion that the hopes entertained respecting ',hat
measure would not be realised; but in a case like the present
he for one had no doubt that the favourable views in which
they indulged of a successful issue would lie realised.
If they were to consider of what influence and im-
portance the middle classes were, it would be evident
that everything should be done to enable that class t
retain its just position. Many of the assistants employed
in this metrepelis were of respectable families in the country,
whose parents were anxious that they shouldmccupy a respect-
able position in society. Was it not of importance that they
should have an opportunity of doing so? They were aware
that incessant toil was injurious to the body and debilitated
the mind. It was most important that those present should
bear ;in mind the statements of the gentlemen who would
address them that evening, and who would give them every
information on the puma question.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Owe.; moved the adoption of the report.
Mr. THWAITES, in seconding the resolution, bore testimony,
as a quondam assistant, to the evils of the system of late
closing.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Lord Jouw MANNERS said that it was most improper to
put forward the objection to the adoption of the early closing
system, namely, that if more time were afforded it would be
abused by those who were employed in the pursuits of com-
merce. They ought not to suppose that there would be an
abuse of that which was never afforded. He could bear
testimony to what had been stated in the report respecting
Manchester, for the most lively interest was felt in that
town in favour of the present movement. Looking at the
present state of society, he was not surprised that there
should be a strong feeling on this subject. fie bad just
come from a different sphere of action, but where the
subject of the diminution of labour was agitated.
and he had heard, only a few hours ago,
the Prime Minister of that country, who adorned his office
as much by his private virtues as by his public acts, state
that he could not consider, as had been asserted, that the
great mass of the people of this country were only born to
work, eat, drink, sleep, and die, and that they should have
an opportunity of attending to more than the gratification of
wants merely physical. Was there anything more calculated
to carry out the views of the Prime Minister than the object
for which they had assembled that evening? He hoped that
what had been addressed by a poet cf the sister isle, to his
enthusiastic countrymen, would nut be any loner applicable
to this country :

" Ever to toil, ever to moil,
That's your social charter ;
The city slave, or rustic serf,
The toiler is its martyr."
—(Loud cheers's) Tht‘Noble Lord conolitelek-,by proposing
the following resolution :
"That this meeting. while justly proud of the pre-eminence
to which the country has been raised by the iniustry, inge-
nuity, and enterprise of its peop'e, is yet firmly of opinion
that the permanent welfare of a state cannot co-exist with
an unsound mental and physical condition of large classes of
the population; and that toil, protracted beyond the limi's
which nature has assigned, causing lassitude of the body and
dejection of spirits, is productive of such unsound condition,
and cannot be advantageous either to the employer, the on.
ployed, or the community at large, nor in any way necessary
to support the commercial prosperity of the country."
The Hon. W. CowrEß seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.
Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR, M.P., said that there was a
custom at the court of the Queen, by which it was required
that when a person either succcee.cled to his title, or got mar-
ried, or was promoted to any situation, that he should be re-
presented to her Majesty'on the occasion. When he first
had the honour to be presented to her Majesty, he was
Member for Chester; since then he had been promoted to
the honour of representing the Metropolitan county, therefore,
in compliance with the custom of courts, he felt bound to
renew his allegiance, and to declare his unabated interest in
the question which they had assembled to promote.—
(Laughter and cheers.) Since the honour to which he had
alluded had been conferred upon him he had not been able,
by the consequent responsibilities, to give that attention
to the present question which he would have desired.
They might not all be aware of what the present day
was the anniversary. He would beg to inform them fiat
the 17th of March was St. Patrick's Day. Now, Si. Patrick
was said to be celebrated for ridding 'lreland of all its veno-
mous reptiles. Now, he was of opinion that this statement was
merely of a legendary or allegorical character, and that he
(St. Patrick) was. in fact, the patron of the early closing
movement, and that he was desirous of banishing the pre-
sent system from the country. The Noble Lord concluded
by proposing the following resolution :
" That this meeting deeply deplores the continued exist-
ence of a system of protracted labour in the shops and ware-
houses of the metropolis, and the country generally, which is
proved, upon the concurrent testimony of all practical and
observant men, to be productive of premature bodily decay,
mental decrepitude, and moral deterioration, to a large and
important class of the British people; and hereby expresses
its conviction that a flagrant wrong is being inflicted on that
class, and that it• is the duty of persons of all conditions to
co-operate with the Early Closing Association in its efforts to
eradicate the evil complained of, as well by pecuniary contri-
butions as by personal exertion."
The Rev. Dr. CUMMING seconded the resolution, which was
unanimously carried.
Mr. MOFFAT, M.P., proposed. and Mr. NASH seconded, the
following resolution, which was unanimously carried:—
"That this meeting cordially approves of the principles
upon which the Metropolitan Early Closing Association is
established, and desires emphatically to express its sympathy
with the classes in whose behalf that association is labouring.
and its earnest determination to assist, both by precept and
example, in putting an end to the unnecessary and perni-
cious custom of late shopping, especially by abstaining from
making any purchases after seven o'clock in the evening, so
that no inducement may be held out to employers to keep
their establishments open after that hour."
Mr. WYsE, M.P., addressed the meeting, after which thanks
were voted to the Noble Chairman.
The meeting then separated.

A deputation from the Great Metropolitan Cattle
Market and Abattoir Company, accompanied by Mr. Henry
' Francis Richardson, the solicitor, have had interviews this
day with Lord Robert Grosvenor, Mr. B. B. Cabbell,
and Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., at their respective mansions, on
the subject of the removal of Smithfield Market, and the se-
lection of a suitable site for the new market.
POTATOES.—A gentleman in India writes thus :
" I wish I could send you some of our potatoes so beautiful
and white. lam sure the reason the potatoes in England
have become so bad is from over cultivation. All those fitie
manures have altered and destroyed the natural structure of
the root, and if farmers would let the ground alone, the po-
tato may be again plentiful and good. Some time hence they
may find that not only wheat but other grain may become
like the potatoes."
• FATAL FALL PROM A WINDOW.—An inquest was
held yesterday by Mr. Bedford, at St. George's Hospital Don
the body of Henry Manby, aged 18, an apprentice tor.
Bennett, plumber, of Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-square
On the afternoon of the 17th ult. deceased was sent to
clean the back attic window at No. 59, Upper Berkeley-
street, and whilst so employed a small iron balcony, fixed
on the outside, on which he was standing, gave way from
the brickwork, in consequence of the posts having rotted,
and he was precipitated en to a lead flat, a depth of nearly
50 feet. He was conveyed to the above institution, where
he died on Monday last from injury to the brain. Verdict,
"Accidental death."
ALLEGED MUEDES IN SHORSDITCH.—At half-past
ten o'clock, Wednesday night, a fearful murder was committed
by a man, named T. Brooks, an umbrella-rib-maker, residing
in Shoreditch, upon William Gobert, who at the time was
living with the sister of the former. The prisoner, when
conveyed to the station-house, at once confessed the crime,
merely assigning as a reason for its commission that had he not
shot deceased, the latter would have shot him. When
searched, some powder and shot were found on his person.
From his statement it appears that deceased, in company
with the female mentioned, entered the house and demanded
some trifling property in the prisoner's possession. Upon
being ordered to withdraw, and refusing, Brooks threatened-
to lodge a bullet in the breast of deceased, and instantly
fired, the shot entering on the left side of the breast; death
ensued instantaneously. The prisoner is apparently under
20, and his victim ander 28 years of age.
Tus NAVY.—The members of the Royal Navy
Club had a second dinner, in commemoration of the battle of
the Nile, on Wednesday, at the Piazza Hotel, Covent-garden,
when several gentlemen of the naval profession assembled.
This old-established and national club now possesses stock to
the amount of 15,400/., producing a dividend of 4621. per
annum, which is appropriated to the relict' of the widows and
orphans of *mod umbers.