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impediment in the way of the poor, patient, and hard-
working man, who strived to obtain a living for himself
and his family.—(Hear, hear.) If they increased their
poverty (as he contended would be the effect of this Bill),
they would run the risk of corrupting their morals.—(Hear,
hear.) If they degraded their station he was satisfied they
would corrupt their morality.—(Hear, hear.) Any measure
of this kind was fatal to the independence of the working
classes and the destruction of that independence
would be surely fatal to their morals.—(Hear, hear.)
Nothing could be mere fatal to that independence than the
alteration of the present system of labour. He had received
several petitions from all parts of the country, stating that the
effect of such a measure would be to reduce the amount of the
profits of the manufacturer 16 per cent. Whatever the mea-
sures of the Legislature might be, the effect of that measure
would be, not to mitigate this evil in any way. All he asked
was, that they would proceed , with caution, and not
depart from any decision of their own laid down,
so as to cause a violation of a principle.
to which the House of Commons had, in its legislative
capacity, already acceded. He, as a member of the Govern-
ment, acting in conformity with the other Members, felt it
his duty to oppose this Bill.
Mr. COWPER moved that the debate be adjourned.
Mr. COLQUHOUN thought that it would be better if the
debate were continued till six o'clock.

Dr. BOWRING said there were a number of other orders
of the day to be disposed of, and he really considered that it
would be hard if the debate should be continued so as to
make them dropped orders.
Sir ROBERT PEEL did not see why they should adjourn
the debats at so early a period, therby losing half an hour.
Mr. COWPER said if the sense of the House was against
his motion he would not persevere with it, it was to prevent
the other orders of the day from becoming dropped.
The motion was then withdrawn.

Mr. M. PHILLIPS said, that frequently as the present
subject had been introduced there had been no attempt
made by its advocates to disprove a fact which he considered
of the utmost importance. In former times they were
frequently attempted to be seduced into a support of the Ten
Hours' Bill by the allegation that there would be an equal
quantity of work done in ten as there was in twelve
hours. But now the fallacy of that statement had been
entirely exposed. Experiments had been made by ma-
nufacturers, and he was then able to stand up in
his place, and say that it was utterly impossible
with ten hours' work to perform the same amount of business
as was done in twelve. Wells then, it comes to this plain
question, can the persons employed in the different branches
of trade live on ten hours' pay ?—(Haar.) He stated in that
House formerly, that if they would take the question by ballot,
of the working classes whether they would prefer ten hours'
pay to twelve hours the question would be at once settled,
and they would unanimously prefer the latter. It was very
singular, in the number of strikes which had taken place among
the working classes, if they were so anxious for the measure.
that they had never attempted to obtain it. Taking the
question in a political and economical point of view, he con-
sidered, that in agreeing to it, they could do nothing that
would tend so much to inflict evil- on the labouring com-
munity of this country. He cordially concurred in what had
fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman (Sir J. Graham), and
he was persuaded the Government, in deciding to oppose the
Bill, were doing the best thing, not only to protect the com-
mercial interests of the country, but also the best interests of
those who lived by labour. On these grounds he opposed the
second reading of the Bill.—(Hear, hear).
Mr. GEORGE BANKES then moved the adjournment of
the debate till to-morrow night. •
The SPEAKER said it was not competent for the Hon.
Member to move it to:any precise time.
Mr. BANKES then simply moved the adjournment.
He hoped Hon. Members wbo had motions would postpone
them in order to allow the debate to come off. He hoped
also the Government, who had the Coercion Bill adjourned
debate for the same night, would give way to this arrange-
ment.

Mr. HAWES said he had a motion, the first on the paper,
to-morrow night, and as he had already twice given way he
should certainly not do so on the present occasion.
Sir R. PEEL would be willing to fall into any arrange-
ment that might be come to, to allow the present debate to
come off to-morrow night; still there was an understanding
with the Irish Members, that if there was any time to-morrow
night, the debate on the Irish Protection Bill should be resumed
He must say, however, to Hon. Members, that when the
Corn Bill was under discussion there was no disposition
shown to allow the discussion on that Bill to proceed day by
day. Still he would be willing, with the concurrence of the
Irish Members, that the debate on the Irish Bill should be
taken on Friday, at five o'clock, so as to liberate to-morrow
night.

'After a few words from Mr. T. Duncombe, Sir R. Peel, an,
Mr. Fielden, the debate was adjourned.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, am
the House rose at six o'clock.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Elizabeth Larkin and her daughter, Eliza Larkin, were
brought before Sir Peter Laurie yesterday, charged with
having robbed their employer, Mr. Tallis, of No. 100, St.
John •street, of a great number of prints, and a large quantity
of paper, on which Mr. Henry's Bible was printed.
City policeman 651 went to purchase some butter at the
shop of a cheesemonger, and found that it was wrapped
round with a sheet of Henry's Bible, which he at once sus-
pected to have been stolen. He forthwith went into Pater-
noster-row, and exhibited the sheet to several of the book-
sellers and publishers in that place, and at last he was 're-
ferred to the premises of Mr. Tallis, where it was at once
identified as _part of property which had been stolen ftcen
that gentleman. Accompanied by Mr. Tallis, the policeman
returned to the. shop of the cheesemonger, who without hesi-
tation stated that he had purchased a quantity of paper of
that description from a female who resided in Bartholomew-
close. Upon crilling at the house in Bartholomew-close to
which the cheesemonger gave the direction, the policeman
saw the two prisoners, apprehended them, and told them
they were charged with the serious offence abovementioned.
They did not deny the truth of the accusation, and sub-
sequently the elder prisoner acknowledged that she was
guilty, and that she had sent her daughter to dispose of the
property which she had taken from her employer's premises.
Mr. Tanis stated that he had, about six weeks before, dis-
charged the elder prisoner, who had been hi his service as a
stitcher for a considerable time, because he ascertained that
she had defrauded some of the other women, who were em-
ployed in a similar manner, of a large part of their earnings.
His suspicions of her integrity on other matters were, of
course, excited.

•
The policeman 651 stated that the cheesemonger, im•
mediately upon seeing the younger prisoner, declared that
she was the person: who had sold the paper to him. Witness
found, upon searching the room 450 prints, which Mr. Tullis
identified as his property. Upon calling at a house in a
court in Goswcll street, witness found ten more prints, which
bad been given by the elder prisoner to the person who re-
sided there, and which were also identified by the prose-
cutor as having been stolen from him.
Mr. Price, cheesemonger, of Bishopsgate-street, stated that
he had given 3d. and 2d. a pound for a quantity of the
paper produced, to the younger prisoner. He had purchased
altogether, of the Bible sheets, about twenty pounds weight.
Sir P. Lour—Did it not strike you as suspicious to see
such a quantity of such paper with these women? Witness
must be
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EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF
MANSLAUGHTER.
An affray of a fatal and extraordinary character has oc-
cupied the attention of the magistrates and coroner of
Ramsgate during the last few days. The facts elicited by
them went to show that on Wednesday last a large number
of the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages congregated
in Margate to celebrate a festival of a benevolent society,
in the Tivoli Gardens. Amongst them was a man named
James Sutton, reported to be respectably connected, who, to-
wards night, attracted attention by his boisterous conduct.
It appears that after the evening's amusement he left his
brother's company, and nothing was heard of him until mid-
night, when two men, named Kemp and Kitching, on their
return home from the gardens while proceeding along a foot
path leading to Hartsdown, an adjacent parish, saw a man
some distance in advance, calling " Holloa 1" On coming up
they found it to be John Price, a carrier, living at Runcorn.
Price said, in a very excited manner, " Here is a man who
has been attempting to rob me, and I will not leave him
until I see who he is." A few yards distant they saw a man
lying on the ground, who seemed senseless, who ,was dis-
covered to be Sutton. Price then charged Sutton with attempt-
ing to rob him. His statement to the in spector on duty was as fol-
lows :—" On Wednesday night, about half-past ten, I was
going home from the Tivoli, and when half- way between
that place and Hartsdown, Sutton jumped out of the kedge
by the footpath, and demanded of me, catching me by the
collar, if I had a watch. I said I had. He asked if I had
any money. I said I had. He then caught hold of me by
the neckerchief, and said he must have it or my life. We struggled together, and I slipped up my hand and untied
my neckerchief. He then knocked me down twice, and
kicked me. I at length got the better of him, and
got him down. I struck him several times violently on
the head, calling out for assistance, and sitting across
him to keep him down. Kemp was the first who came to my
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The man Sutton being apparently dying, medical aid was
promptly called to him, but he never rallied, and expired in
the course of a few hours. On the magistrates hearing of
the death, they ordered Price to be arrested, but sub-
sequently liberated him on bail. On the inspector inspect.
ing the spot where the affray occurred, he noticed a quantity
of blood ou the ground, and marks of a very violeLt
struggle; and in the ground was a hole, evidently made by
a man's head beaten against it, and in the centre were
two small stones sticking up about an inch. At the
coroner's inquest, Mr. Thornton, a surgeon, who had
made a post-mortem examination of the body, deposed that
death had been caused by concussion of the brain, and which
might have 'been preduced by beating the head upon the
ground. The head was dreadfully knocked about, the eye
blackened and lip cut, and marks on the throat as if seized
by the neckerchief and a man's knuckles forced into the
flesh. It was proved that the deceased and Price were per-
fect strangers. The deceased's relatives spoke to him being
a quiet orderly man, and called the police to show that they
a knew nothing of him, at least in the shape of highwaye
robber. The coroner's jury, after a lengthened consultation,
returned a verdict of " Manslaughter'
against and he was Price, con-
sidering the violence more than necessary,
and committed to
forth-
with ordered into custody by. the
tc coroner,
ensuing assizes.
Maidstone gaol to take his trial a

SHAKSPERE SOCIETY. The fifth annual meeting
was held on Monday afternoon, in the rooms of the Royal Society of
Literature, St. Martin's-place, when, in the absence of the Marquis
of conyngham, the President, the chair was taken by J. Payne
Collier, Esq.,;Director. The report, which was read by Mr. Tomline,
the Secretary, represented the affairs of the Society as in a con-
tinued progressive state, there being a balanee in hand of 355/. I6s. 3d
which much exceeded the amount of debts, whilst the subscriptions
of the year were 8121. 13s. Id., and the arrears due 5101. The ordi-
nary businesshaving been transacted, the Chairman drew attention
to the original mortgage deed of Shakspere's property in Black-
friars, once in the possession of David Garrick, and now the only
autograph of Shakspere in private hands, the last having been sold
to the City of London Library, at Guildhall. It had been offered for
sale to the British Museum for 200 guineas, but the purchase having
been declined, it was suggested that a subscription be entered into,
in order to secure a document now invaluable to the lovers of dra-
matic art.
A CHILD DROWNED IN A BUTTER-FIRKIN.—On
Saturday, Mr. Mills, Deputy Coroner for Middlesex, held an inquest
at the Coach and Horses public-house, at Ealing, on the body of
William :smith, a child sixteen months old, who met his death under
the following circumstances :—The deceased was the son of a labour-
ing man employed in the gravel-pits, and living in the Uxbridge-
road. On Thursday morning, about ten o'clock, the mother of the
deceased left him for a minute or two crawling on the floor of the
room near an almost empty butter-firkin standing there, and
when she returned she discovered that the child had, in the interim,
crawled to the tub, raised itself by it, and then tumbled head fore-
most into the tub, face downward% Into about four inches of water.
It was immediately got out, and a surgeon sent for, who pronounced
life to: be quite extinct. Verdict—" Accidental death"
GOOD FORTITNE.—On Thursday last, intelligence was
received in this town by the family of Mr. Hugo;-of the demise of a
distant relative, in the neighbourhood of Truro. We understand
that the deceased maiden lady has left considerable property, the
bulk of which, to the tune of s me 10,0001., falls Into the hands of a
young man of this town called Richard Hugo, a clerk at the office of
Mr. J. N. R. Millett, solicitor. —Penzance Gazette.