The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-30 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCH:ESTER, APRIL 28.—Although the accounts from
London and other
carts of the kingdom speak of an ameliora-
tion in the state Of business generally within the last few
days, the improvemee--
market. The detnano‘ for yarn to-day has been very limited,
does not seem to have reached this
and, on some descriptio. VP Prices are a little in favour of the
buyers. In the goods' ma'cket, however, there is a little more
activity, especially in the b, 'rtter qualities, but without change
in prices, whilst the iaferica ' qualities remain in very limited
demand.
ItocunALE, Avail., 27.—Th ere has been a steady demand
for flannels, but prices have berm low and unremunerating to
the manufacturer. The wool rm:r2rnt has been in much the
same state as last Monday.
L EEDS, Aram 28.—We are happy to say our markets
keep improving, and a very fair quantity of business has been
done to-day. Wool is much firmer in price, and some low
descriptions very much sought after, and decidedly higher.
II CDDERWILD, APRIL 98.—We have hall a good attendance
of buyers to-day in the market, ano pies to some extent
have been effected, but at such prices as to leave little or no
profit to the manufacturers. Several orci'srB have been re-
ceived that will give employment for sonil weeks. The
weather is such we have but few buyers for the' ,home trade.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BLAcx.nuax Ain) PES-
TON RAILWAY.—On Monday evening, about six Cclock an
appalling accident occurred on the Blackburn and Preston'
Railway. An engine, drawing a loa dad truck, was proceeding
along the line, in the immediate. neighbourhood of the
Blackburn Station when a drunken, fellow approached it, at
the imminent risk of his life, as wax imagined by those who
saw him. A labourer, named John. M'Nelly, belonging to
Blackburn, ran forward to snatch h Sior from the fate which
appeared to impend over hini. Poor DPNelly fell a victim
to his own good intention. Losing I ifs footing, his legs were
thrown across the rails, and both of 'cit em torn off below the

knee, by the wheels of the locom,)tiv e passing over them.
He was immediately conveyed to hi j house, in Penny-street,
Blackburn. The unfortunate sufferer is married, and hag
six children alive; but slight hol )ei are entertained of his
recovery.—The line will .be opened in: flay next.—Manchester
Guardian.

1 FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RAIZ:WAY NEAR WITHAM,
ON' TUESDAY.—We regret to say that an accident Of a fatal
nature occurred on Tuesday, on the Ea stern Counties' line of
railway, at about 200 yards on the Lc .radon side of Witham.
The circumstances are as follows :—.A .n elderly woman was
crossing the line, when the engine-driver of the day mail
train, then coming up, immediately lab zwvhis whistle to allrin
lief; of this,she seemed to take no mode*, and was shot': ly
afte,-mads struck by the buffer of the engine, and thrown off
the lice, out of the course of the engit te, so tat none of the
wheels passed over her. The engin 3 was stopped imme-
diately, and the engine- driver, guan Is, and assistants ran
back to her aid, but life was quite ex: tinct, the sudden blow
from the br, der having killed her. Fri )in the testimony of a
gentleman present, Ws; are led to uni lerstand that not the
slightest blame is attributable to any o f the railway authori-
leaalol of whom were deeply concerned at the occurrence.
se; N CoLLEGE.—George Torialkle„ Esq., M.P. for
ewsbury, and the
Looter the sum. of i 0
educated at
is to be a e Lou of the late Bishop of Winchester, who was
anneal Eton,mathernai:ZBl Just announced his intention of founding an
Prize at Eton College.. Air. Towline has pre-
which, ea to the Provost and Fellows, the interest of
liberal douor, poropriated to the -po' ,03e contemplated by the

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
ROUSE OF COMMOZIS, April 29.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
FACTORIES BILL.
Mr. HINDLEY presented 58 petitions from various places
in the neighbourhood of Manchester in favour of the Ten
Hours' Bill.
THE RIVER CLYDE.
Mr. HUME moved far certain returns respecting the
amount of debt, and the progress of the debt, of the River
Clyde Trust, with the revenue and expenditure of the navi-
gation.—Agreed to.
THE FACTORIES REGULATION BILL ---
,On the order of the day for the second reading of this Bill,
Mr. HUME said he wished to ask the Hon. Member for
Oldham a question, in regard to his motion on this Bill. It
was important that the fullest freedom should be given to
capital, and it was also an essential of commercial prosperity
that there should be the same freedom given to labour. On
that ground he was sorry to see the system of attempting to
interfere with the free application of capital which prevailed
in certain quarters in the country. To that he was directly op-
posed, and seeing that it was going forward to such an extent
he could not let the matter pass over without calling atten-
tion to it. In a question of such importance he begged leave
to suggest that it ought not to be discussed in such a thin
House, and at the time when there were twenty Committees
sitting. Members could not in consequence attend, and in
order that there should be the fullest and fairest discussion
he thought the Government might be prevailed on
to allow a Monday or Friday evening for the discus-
sion of the question.—(lronical cries of " Hear, hear.")
Well, if that could not be arranged, then some other day
might be fixed on. What he meant was, that the question
should not be dealt with in such a thin House. On that
ground it was that he had made a suggestion.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir R. PEEL concurred with the Hon. Member as to the
importance of the question, and would be willing that some
other Government days should be set apart for the discus-
sion of it ; but, in the present state of the business, he could
not make a promise of any day. It was out of his power to
give any pledge in the matter.
Mr. HUME thought the Bill might be postponed till such
time as the Corn Bill was disposed of. The factory question
was next in importance to that question, and it could come
on in due course then.
Mr. BANKES asked the Hon. Member if, in the event
of the Corn Bill being carried, he would vote for the pre-
sent measure ?
Mr. HUME intimated that he would oppose the Bill in
every stage.
Mr. BANKES hoped the Hon. Member for Oldham
would persevere in his motion. Wednesday was, in fact,
the only day on which public business was transacted,
and he did not see why the Bill might not be taken. Ile
had lately been applied to by several delegates of the opera-
tive classes interested in this Bill, asking his advice re-
specting the conduct they ought to pursue. He gave them
his humble opinion, that the sooner the measure was pro-
ceeded with the better, as, on a former occasion the delay
which had taken place was fatal to the measure. The
Bill, after being carried by a vote of Hon. Members, was in
consequence of the delay lost, and the House thereby brought
into great discredit.—(Hear, hear.) Instead of meeting any
suggestion ferdelay, he trusted the Hon. Member for Oldham
would bring forward the measure at once ; and if they could
not finish the discussion that day, it could be pro-
tracted till to-morrow night. If it was adjourned
till to-morrow evening, he had no doubt the
Hon. and Learned Member for Cork, and other Hon. Mem-
bers, who had motions on the paper, would give way, so as
to bring the discussion to a conclusion. If the Hon. and
Learned Member and the other Hon. Gentlemen who had
motions did not interfere, he (Mr. Bankes) had no
doubt the debate would be concluded by that time.
He hoped that his Hon. Friend would persist in his motion.
What he had principally risen for was to express a hope
that the Right Hon. Gentleman would take the Thursdays
to himself at once.
Mr. FORSTER said this was a most important question ;
but• before it was decided he certainly thought that they
should adopt measures for giving the people food. His Hon.
Friend the Member for Durham had, at the commence-
mencement of the session, prosented a petition, signed by
7,000 of the inhabitants oeShetland. He was not surprised
that those people should have petitioned that House. He
had, on Monday last, received a paper which detailed the
state of distress which was existing in the Shetland
Islands. The inhabitants of those islands were 32,000 in
number, depending chiefly upon fish. Their agricultural
produce was very scanty, and during the last season was
more scanty than ever. The Hon. Gentleman here read a
document which stated that great distress existed in the
Shetland Islands. The inhabitants only traded in fish, and
their chief customers were the Spaniards. The Spanish mer-
chants would be glad to send corn in exchange, but the corn-
law prevented it. A Spanish vessel was actually now on her
way to Shetland in ballast, and she would have taken corn
if the repeal of the corn• laws could be depended upon.
Mr. COWPER rose to order. He thought this was an
unfair mode of getting rid of the discussion on the Factory
Bill.

The SPEAKER was understood to say that the Hon.
Gentleman was in order, as the question was whether the order
of the day should be proceeded with. The Hon. Gentle-
man was at liberty to show that in his opinion another
order of the day ought to be taken.
Mr. FORSTER was again proceeding, when
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE lose to order. He must say that the
Hon. Gentleman's reading the document from the Shetland
Islands, looked very like an indirect mode of defeating the
discussion on the Factory Bill.
Mr. FORSTER repudiated this charge, and said he had no
such intention.
The SPEAKER decided that the Hon. Gentleman was in
order.
Mr. FORSTER proceeded. He had already said ,hat he did
not deny the importance of the Factory Bill, but he thought
their first duty was to legislate to give the people
an increased supply of food. He could assure the House
that the utmost stagnation existed in commercial
circles, in consequence of the delay which had taken
place in the progress of the Government measures.
He understood that a Noble Lord in another place, not very
successful in his legislative measures, intended to hoist the
standard against th Government measure? What would be
the effect of any mutilation of that measure. It was a gene-
ral opinion among the great body of the merchants that
something of that sort would take place. Commerce was a
timid bird, and would not take its flight in a storm.
Mr. GIBSON—The question brought before the House was
a pressing emergency—a question of present starvation—a
question of people not having a sufficiency of food for their
subsistence. The Factory Bill was not of such a pressing na
tare as that of the Hon. Member's with reference to the
Shetland Isles. Irish distress had been brought before the
House, why should not the case of the people of the
Shetland Isles be considered? He thought that Hon. Gen-
tlemen on the opposite side came down to the House for the
purpose of putting the Government in a minority rather
than to support the Factory Bill.—(No, no, and hear, hear.)
The House should bear in mind that the people of the Shetland
Isles did not come to Parliament intimating in their peti-
tion that they wanted a grant of money for the promotion
of public works, or for giving the means of employment to
the people of the Shetland Isles. All they ask is that the
House would remove those prohibitions which prevented
them from exchanging the fish which they catch for the
corn and meal of other countries. It is their opinion that
much of their distress would be alleviated if those prohibi-
tions were removed. Could the Right Hon. Baronet explain
to the House the grounds of his refusing to allow these poor
and starving inhabitants of Shetland, the power of ex-
changing their fish for the corn and meal of other countries?
Had he provided them with ships or with fishing tackle, or
in any way facilitated the progress of their industry ? Why
did the Right Hon. Baronet insist upon their paying tolls on
their fish for the benefit of himself and other landed proprietors
of this country? It would be of great benefit to the people if
they were allowed to exchange their fish for corn and meal.
Many families were on the very brink of starvation. The
potato crop had failed. There were Spanish ships which
could deliver them a supply of corn if they were allowed I
to do so. Hon. Members opposite were delaying public busi-
ness night after night in that House.—("No, no, 'from the Op
position.) The House was entitled to call upon them to relieve
the starvation of the people. While they were persevering in
their opposition to the Corn Bill they were contributing to
the starvation of those people.—(" No, no," and cheers.)
He was discharging a public duty in thus pressing
on the attention of the House the condition of
the inhabitants of the Shetland Isles, and he considered
it was as sacred a duty as could be performed by any Member
of that House. He thought that the House should first settle
the great questions which were then before them (the
Corn and Customs Importation Act) before they proceeded
with the consideration of other business. He hoped that the
Factory Bill would not then be interposed between the Corn
and Customs Bill. The public mind could not entertain so many
measures at one and the same time, neither could that House
legislate upon several questions at the same time in a proper
manner. No delay should be allowed to intervene in the
carrying out of the measures brought forward by her Ma-
jesty's Government.
Sir R. H. INGLIS said that motives had been imputed to
Hon. Members on his side of the House that it was their in••
tention to place the Government in a minority rather than
to support the Factory. Bill. He begged to state that they
would not yield to any person on the other side in
attachment to the sacred cause which had brought
them down to that House to-day, and which
had brought them together upon other occasions when they
were more happily united, and when it was still more painful
for them to differ from the Government.
Mr. FIELDEN, after presenting two hundred and thirty
petitions in favour of the Factories Ten Hours' Bill, proceeded
to draw the attention of the House to the deplorable condi-
tion of the factory children. The Honourable Gentle-
man—as he always is—was perfectly inaudible in
the gallery, and in consequence of his not having
favoured us in a similar manner as he did the other morning
papers with a copy of his speech, we are wholly unable to
give anything like a report.
air. AINS WORTH seconded the motion of the Hon.
peoanrtsMemberjeen3t. e
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all
employed in factories, scarcely any time being allowed for
their instruction.
Mr. lIUME said that this measure would no doubt be
satisfactory to the greater part of those employed in the
cotton manufactories. From the number of petitions that
had been presented to the House, he was bound to believe
that this Bill would be desirable to the working classes. But
it was because he thought that a more dangerous proceeding
to the interests of the country could not possibly be enter-
tained, that he thought it was the duty of those who be-
lieved that such a proceeding should be opposed, that he
came forward to oppose this measure, which, in
t hwea s
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country bring ;
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theto the
contrary.int er-
leistse hoadf tohne nwoorkina:c°
he prided Himself on having, on various occasions, en-
deavoured, as far as he was able,to free the labouring artizan
from all the trammels of monopoly under which he existed.
Wear, hear.) And he did wish to submit to the
Ho-use N existed.—
had (,oen the consequence since that great and important chavnge
a
which he had been instrumental in effecting. He submitted,
too, that if the House assented to this Bill, they would be
acting in direct contradiction to the great
principle of free
-
trade, which they had lately adopted.—(llear, bean)
of the House, to remove all trammels on the cag* l
Thi:s Bill was contrary to the common sense and thegood
'try'
gasnniaont, onlybut alsoan iintnl p ot,hie-
pita
whilst they proposed at the same time to impose
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tu
on ;vhat was equally important—the capi.al of the
trammel::
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labouring L. •
ton on . . 9 manufacturer, who employed him
capital of ft.
to say that if this principle
~.. would
end in
the destruc•
were carried out it,
of both employer and employed.
Von of the interest;
and he ventured
vreP
uoun. this ground that he opposed
i He objected to anything
ncipie that the House had
that would admit the prl
entertain the consider-
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airy compromise
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any right whatever •
us measure.—(Hear, hear.)
attention whilst the
paid the greatest
Although he had
the second reading of the Bill was
of this most
Hon. Member who moved
rtl of what he
hear one single wo
speaking, he could not
") He, therefore, knew no-
said.—(Cries of "Hear, bear.
injurious