The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-08 00:00:00

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

lIILTON V. LORD GRANVILLE.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the pro-
prietor of houses at Antar-under-Lyme, to recover
compensation for injury which his property had sus-
wined,
by reason of the negligent and improper manner
in which the defendant worked a mine below it, as the
foundations sunk and the walls crumbled. It is
a remarkable fact, that since the proceed
ings were begun, now some years ago,
both litigants have died, and the controversy is carried
on with increased vigour by their descendants. The
question at issue is one of considerable importance to
owners of mines and houses in the mining districts,
as it is cery ended on the. part of the defendant that
custom " from time immemorial," is opposed to the
principle sought to be established by the plaintiff, that
the owners of houses and land are endued to com-
pensation from the owners of mines below
them, if they are injured by their excavations.
The trial was one at bar, and after occupying
three days the jury returned a verdict substan-
tially to this effect :
That the plaintiff was
to compensation by reason of the injury he had sustained,
but that the defendant was entitled to work his mine,
and further, that it was the custom to givecompen
asa-
tion. Subsequently the Attorney-General obtained
rule calling. upon the plaintiff to show cause why the
verdict on the first and second issues (those with re-
ference to compensation) should not be entered for the
defendant.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD (with whom were Sir
Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Godson, and other learned gentle..
men) appeared to show cause against the rule; whilst
the Attorney-General, Sir Frederick Thesiger, and Mr.
Peacock appeared in support of it.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD and Sir FITZROY KELLY
were heard during the morning in support of the legality
of the verdict, and against the rule.
The case is likely to occupy two or three days.

MADEMOISELLE PALMIA ANATO's BENEFIT.—
The benefit of this graceful Terpsichorean artiste,
Mademoiselle Palmira Anato, the Taglioni of eques-
trians, whose classical poses on the horse at full speed
have excited the wonder and admiration of every lover
of art in the metropolis, takes place to-morrow at the
Cirque National Olympique, at Drury-lane. There can-
not be a doubt but that the house will be crowded by
amateurs, on the occasion

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
(THIS DAY.)
It was resolved this morning, on the motien.ef Mr. •
Adams, " That a committee should be appointed4p.:4raw ‘.
up an address to all sections of Reformers, to llSlt7theig
what their intentions really were with respect to an etk-,S;
tension of the suffrage, and other reforms embraced in
the Charter."
Mr. BASSET proposed that a deputation should be ep-

' pointed to wait upon Mr. FeargusO'Conner to request
him to bring before the Legislature at the earliest pos•
Bible moment, a Bill embodying the principles of the
People's Charter.
After a good deal of discussion the motion was agreed
to, and a deputation named. In the course of the discus-
sion Mr. Brooks ridiculed the idea propounded by some
delegates, that the people would rise simultaneously in
favour of the Assembly in the event of any member of
it being imprisoned or otherwise interfered with by the
Government.
Mr. COCHRANE proposed that meetings should be held
throughout the country, at which petitions should be
agreed to and signed by the chairman on behalf of the
meeting, and presented to the House of Commons by the
Members of Parliament for the different localities.
Mr. VERNON moved the previous question, which was
carried by a large majority.
The Assembly have therefore resolved not to petition
Parliament again.

PLAN OF ORGANIZA.TION
Dr. IirDonALL brought up the report. which had been
drawn up by the committee appointed to consider the
best plan of organizing the movement. The following
are the principal heads of it:—
" NAmE.—National Chartist Association of Great
Britain and Ireland.
" OBJECT.—To obtain the enactment of the People's
Charter.

" DIVISION OF COIINTRY.—TO consist of districts,
localities, wards, and sections. Each district to be di-
vided into localities, each locality into wards, and each
ward into sections. Each ward to consist of 100 mem-
bers, and each section of 10 members.
"CONDITION OF MEMBERSHlP.—Acquiescing in the
objects, and being enrolled in the books of the associa-
tion.

" OFFICERS.—A general executive of five members'to
be elected by the Assembly, and ten commissioners to be
similarly elected. District and local officers to be elf cted
by the localities. General financial secretaries to be
appointed by the executive. A treasurer to be similarly
appointed.
" SALARIES OF OFFICERS.--Executive, 2L a week;
second class fare, and 2s. 6d. a day when travelling.
Executive to superintend the movement when the As-
sembly adj,..urns, and to be empowered to call the
Assembly together when it shall seem to them fit.
" FUND.—General fund 10,0004 and local Muds ta'be
raised.

" OFFICE.—A metropolitan office to be taken for the
Executive."

A long discussion ensued upon the qualification which
should be necessary to constitute a member, but the
Assembly adjourned, before coming to any resolution,
until the atteruoon.

QUESTIONS RELATIVE TO
LABOUR IN FRANCE.
The follnwing is a general expolh of the Govern-
ment Coninai.sioo of Labour, sitting at the Luxeni.

Bourg :
" Soarcely ancounvd and installed, the Commission
was able to enumerate, by disasters all the defects of
our economical syst,m. A society shaken to its
very foundations owing to the too long application
of a subversive principle—such was the prospect
of the Commission. Trades ruined and crying
for assistance, workshops in confusion, interests
at war, workmen and masters divided by diurnal dis-
putes, undertakings suddenly stopped, State interference
loudly claimed by the proprietors of factories, State pro-
tection invoked with anguish cr anger by a host of
operatives reduced to their last shifts—such is the
spectacle which has brought under our hotit.e the system
of competition reduced to give a lomat account of its
ruis,rt,s,

" But, on the other hand, it was easy to perceive that
there was a fundamental tendency in this diseased
society, if not general, at all events very energetic, to
encourage generous attempts, and to endeavour to
organize a better system of labour.
" To meditate with ardour the code of tha prolitaires
to be emancipated, whilst silently preparing the mate-
rials—in short, to confine ourselves to solitary studies
would not have sufficed. Place.' in the midst of a con-
fused medley of interests, pressed by the clamours of
misery seized by the most legitimate impatience, we had
to listen to complaints, to allay irritation, to settle dif-
ferences with impartial benevolence, to maintain the
tranquillity of Paris by a permanent system of arbitra-
tion, to welcome the operatives who offered to establish
fraternal associations—colonies of the future by the side
of a tottering past.
" It does not appertain to our province to explain the
dangers of such a mission. the midst of the most
frightful distress, in the tempestuous intoxication of a
revolution, under the weight of the most urgent neces-
sities, and with full coLsctousness of their strength, the
working classes, by whom we have lived surrounded,
have constantly behaved with calmness and confidence.
Facts speaks fur us.

` RECONCILIATIONS.

" Summoned daily as arbitrators between masters and
workmen, we interfered whenever our interference was
accepted by both parties. A large number of reconcilia-
.tions was thus eff‘eted. We will only mention a few, on
account of their extreme importance, for the peace of the
capital was staked on the issue.
" And, first, we have been generally reproached for
having decreed the diminution of the duration of daily
labour. Well, apart from the considerations of justice,
humanity, and sound economy, which militated in
favour of that measure, it is right that the
public should know that the question, on the
day following the revolution, was one of civil
war. What did we do, however ? Notwithstand-
ing the ardent and apparently irresistible demands
addressed to us, we boldly refused to decide an) thing be-
fore we had consulted the heads of establishments, and_
having as,emblecl them in large numbers, they hastened
to adhere to the demands of their operatives, so equitable
did it appear to them to adhere and so perilous to refuse.
" Paris was not aware that on the morning ce
the 29th of March the inhabitants rose without
any prospect of bread. The journeynrn bakers
formally refused to continue their labours un-
less their painful situation were ameliorated with-
out delay. They came to the Luxembourg in thousands
to exoose their sufferings and their resolutions. All the
baking establishments had been abandoned, and were
not to be r,turned to. The masters battened to us in
consternation.
64 The delegates depntPd by the mssters and the work•
men discussed (thanks to our intervention) all the
details of their respective situations. At length an
amic ,ble arrangement was effected; a tariff was
adopted which gave g,ere-ral vatistaction, and
these thousands of men, whose toil supplies the
primary necessities of the city, retired grateful and
moved. Paris was supplied wilfi bread the next day, as
usual, and ;he inhabitants did not even dream that they
had been reduced to the rery verge of starvation
6' Some days previously the traific in Paris had been
doubly menaced.

"It was at first the pavement of the streets which
still kept up the revolutionary movement. No vehicles
could pass. Now the paviors refused to clear the
thoroughfares, and demanded more exorbitant terms.
Recognised as lestirnate, in a contradictory discussion
between masters and workmen, the demands of the
paviors were favourably admitted, and the streets
resumed their wonted appearance.
" But no sooner had the pavements been replaced, and
the resumption of traffic rendered possible, than the
vehicles Cline to a stand-still in all parts of Paris. At
first it was the omnibuses, favorites, &c., next the hack.
ney coaches, cabriolets—in short: all the public vehicles.
" For several days a similar discussion took place.
At length an agreement was made, and the traffic was
everywhere renewed.

"It became necessary to construct a provisional ball
for the meetings of the new National Assembl,
the old Chamber of Deputies not being sufficiently
spacious for the accommodation ot the repre-
sentatives of the Republic. At the very mo-
ment when the works ought to have been pushed
forward with the greatest activity—the opening ot the
Assembly drawing nigh—the tilers descended from the
roofs, an i refused to re-Ascend, Owing to some dispute
with the contractors.. Our intervention was again re-
quired, and as soon as we had appealed to Caeir pa-
triotism, the tilers offered to labour gratuitously for the
Repubiic—a generosity which the Republic could not
aci.:ep!, for it thenceforth owed a second stipend—one of
gratitude.
"These reconciliations are sufficient to show what we
have eff,cted. The whole list would be too long. There
are few branches of trade which have not appealed to us;
we will only mention the mechanics of the atelier of
Derosne and Fail, those of the atelier Farcot, the paper
stainen, the zinc-work operatives, the straw-hat mama-
factnrers, the nightmen, and the washerwomen of the
baniien, &e.
_ _

" It should be remarked that it was most frequently
the masters that were the first to solicit our arbitration,
and impart tLeir embarrassments to us. The masters
and Clic opera-dyes approach the Luxembourg by sepa-
rate roads; they almost invariably depart by the same!
" The proc?s•verbaus of these reconciliations are
deposited in the archives of the commission, invested
with the signatures of the parties—modest records of
labour and of concord!

time for vain palliatives has passed away. A desperate
disease requires sovereign remedies.
"And what? We have sought the solution of this
qu,,stion in pod faith, : account a the ::,cPaitie,3
Lt a transition wth ail the care counsel, dby eq ty, but
at the -acne time. betting out from this principle—do your
duty, and good will enNue."
The commission will continue the publication of its
exposi in the course of a few days.

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