The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

THE TEN HOURS BILL.

MANCHESTER, SATURDAY NIGHT.—This evening a
numerous meeting of the Lancashire Central K ,hort Time
Committee was held for the transaction of bu siness. In
the course of the evening the following lette r was read
from Lord Ashley

" London, May '27, 1846.
" Gentlemen,—After three successive fklebates, of
great power and interest, a majority of ten, in La House
of four hundred Members, rejected the Bill •.w hich I bad
the honour to introduce at the beginning of th e session.
" Although not a victory, it is the next tlai: ng to one.
Every person that I have speken to con ct irs in this
opinion, and all seem to be convinced that zeal, judg-
ment, and perseverance among the operas ive classes
cannot fail of eventual and speedy success.. Consider
the vast superiority you enjoyed in the del:mt. e, and the
complexion of the minority. I neither think: nor speak
with disrespect of the parties who opposed tat ; ; but we
are not exceeding the limits of propriety Wilt At we seek
to derive consolation and encouragement fro, aa the moral
and social authority of those who gave us thei r support.
" It is become evident, from the languag e held by
some of your opponents, that the fear of be it ig obliged
to expend more capital, and call a la rj ;er num-
ber of hands into employment, lies at the bottom of
much of their resistance. That demand, nt3 vertheless,
is most just. The manufacturers summon. • the landed
interest to improve the condition of their pu 3ople by a
more abundant and costly cultivation of Ith e soil. I
heartily concur with them. The agriculturists 3 reply by
inviting the manufacturers to do the sam a for their
workmen, in the erection of additional macAinery, and
a fair distribution of labour.

" Persevere, therefore, in the full sense of —the
of your cause.
" I have never entertained, at any time, so., strong an
assurance as Ido this day that we shall soon, by God's
blessing, attain the object of our toils and hopes.. I urge
you, by every consideration of yourselves are i of your
children, to redouble your efforts ; and so fig v as any
human being .can presume to anticipate futurity, I may
promise, on my part, an unyielding determit ration in
the pursuit of this your great and undeniable right.
" I am, gentlemen, your sincere friend,a43sALAY.
" TO the Short Time Committees of LancaElbi.re
and Yorkshire.
•

_. GlBBETilest ofy our rest iers are
SCROOIIx ... OST.—
aware, that for several past a gibbet-post has been
toll-bar, on the no. rth road,
exhibited near
ecrsOU'betYahr so
fB a w try. On the 3d .of July,
about two
Y ea don, the
toll-gate, were cruelly m ordered,
and his mother, Mary
keepers of the
by a personof the of John
name
the house plundered
miles
ytsehtcaoerdotohoSnb,y
and
1779, William
Spencer, a native of North Liverton, who was shot Ily after-
wardse e
igken,
and on his trial, for the horrible ti lagedy at
1 Nottingham, a few days afterwards, he was found ga 1 qty, and
sentenced to be executed, and afterwards his body to be hung
in chains in accordance with the express words of his sen-
tence, After the lapse of a few weeks, a party of sold i ers con-
veying a deserter passing by the place, the sergeant ;fired his
carbine, loaded with ball, at the corpse, and hit it , which
caused a stench, almost unbearable for several days ; after-
wards. The circumstance becoming known, the pai ty was
followed, and the sergeant taken, and on being subs° luently
tried by a court martial he was found guilty and cl egradod
into the ranks. Years rolled on, and the body g'i :adually
became less and less, until nothing was left but the chains
which originally shackled it, and these in course of time
fell and were secretly conveyed away. For several lux to years
the post, with its withered and weather-beaten arm, • was the
only vestige left of that deed of blood which six tu-seven
years ago filled the minds of the inhabitants of the ail rreund-
ing districts with horror. But time, which levels all terres-
tial objects with its corroding breath, had for years pa st been
gradually gnawing this • once loathed stump to its cox e, and on
the 15th of April last, actually accomplished his task,, and it
fell to rise no more.—Doncaster Chronicle.

A singular suicide took place a few days lgo at
Ligueil (Indre et Loire). A man named MathurVer, over-
come by some domestic troubles, went into a yin, ?.—ground,
and having made a pile of faggots set it on fire, a: u I laying
himself upon it was consumed. His body, which was not
s:11 sl.s. aa :a a- In ari 1-tnaarn as a anlaimal I. la<l.l_