The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-17 00:00:00

COUNFRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Wheat. i Barley. oats. Beans.
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. I. to s.
Abingdon 62 81 31 43 22 30 38
Andover 73 80 37 41 ——
Birmingham 56 66 40 44 24 32 52
Bridport 56 74 32 36 26 30 54
Cirencester —.. 48 60 28 36 19 28 36 40
ari ngdon—.--... 54 86 36 40 26 34 43
Guildford , 48 74 23 32 26 35 43
Henley. 54 83 30 35 20 30 40
Hereford 84 92 44 48 52
Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 56
Maidenhead —..— 56 68 34 44 22 30 36 37
M0nm0uth............ 34 58 23 32 17 32
Reading 65 70 31 47 21 27 34 42
Salisbury 46 54 28 34 20 23 36 54
Southampton ......... 54 58 33 40 28 32 48
Stroud 64 78 37 38 22 32 48
Tewkesbury 65 74 30 42 30 38 44
Uxbridge 48 74 37 40 23 33 46
58 80 27 43 21 30 34 42
Warminster 44 56 26 36 21 27 34 45
59 21 22 52
W0rce5ter—........... 65 66 44 51 31 34 — 50
LEWES MARKET.—Jan. 15.
White Wheat (per quarter) .---£2 15 0 to £3 0 0
Red ditto— - 2 10 0 2'14 0
Barley

LEWES MARKET.-4.
White Wheat (per quarter) £2
Red ditto
Barley
Oats. New
Pease _
Oil Cake. New..

lan. 15.
15 0 to .£
10 0
10 0
:7 0
15 0
0 0 per thc

I 0 0
' 14 0
11 0
18 0
17 0
ousand.

HULL MARKET—Jan. 15.
Wheat, Old —s 50s. 60s. Now —s. 40s. 60s.
---- Foreign —s. 50s. Ms. ln bond... —s. —s. —s.
Oats, Poland —s. 20s. 225. ......Old —s. -.41. -s.
Small or Feed.... —5. 145. 20s —s. —s. —B.
Foreign ..... —s. 15s. 16s —s. —s. —s.
Barley, Norf. & Suf. ~. —s. 285.345. Linc. & Wold —B. 26s 30s.
_ Foreign
Beans ........................ 30s. 325. 345. Foreign —s. 325. 31s.
Pease, White........,.... —s. 365. 38s. Grey —s. 30s. 31s.
Tares ........................ —s. —s. —s. Foreign —s. 30s. 325.
Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last 221. 231. Os.

CEJELTENHAIII
Per Bushel. s.d. to s.d.
Wheat ............... 6 0 8 0
Barley ................ 4 0 5 6
Oats .................. . 4 0 4 3
Beans ............... 5 0 6 0
Pease .................. 5 0 7 0
Hay 3/. lOs

A RKET.—Jan. 15.
Per lb. d. to d.
Beef 6 7
Mutton
Veal
Pork
Lamb 0 0
to 3/. 15s. Od. per ton
ARKETS.—Jan. 9.

DUMFRIES M
Wheat, Im s. d. s.d.
p. Bush 6 2 to 6 6
Barley ........... 3 2 34
Oats
........... 2 0 2 4
Flour, 3 0 3 4
Oatmeal I 8 1 9
potatoes, cwt.

s. d. s. d.
Butter, 16oz. 0 otoo 0
Eggs, dozen ..... 0 0 0 0
Beef, per lb.
Mutton 0 4 0 5
Veal 0 4 0 5
Quarteru Loaf 0 7 0 9
ET.—Jan. 10.

DALKIETH CORN MARK;
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
First s4s Od I 31s 6d 20s Od
Second sos Od 26s Od 18s Od
Third 4os Od 24s Od 15s Od

Pease.
30s Od
26s Od
20s (ki

Beans.
30s Od
26s Od
20s Od

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS,
AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET.

(From the London Gazette.)
TO-MORROW, JAN. 18. as. 11.
W. Renfield perfumer, St. Mary-at-Hill 2at 11
m. It. Dunn, and Co., merchants, London.street 2 12
J. B. Bowley, furnishing ironmonger, Great Dover-street,
Newington - 0 1
D. Gorely, wholesale-perfumer, Great Russell-street 2 11
J. Porter, eheesemonger, Carnaby-street, Regent-street 1 1
W. Tydeman, saddler, Great Yarmouth 1 11
W. Harrison, printer, Portsmouth 1 12
J. and G. Yorke, millers, t. heshunt, Hertfordshire 1 1
G. Evans, bill-broker, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street 1 2
W. Lowe, chymist Bishopsgate-street Without 1 11
B. J. Wimbolt, stationer,
Poultry 1 1

DIVIDENDS.
R. Ferguson, carpenter, Great Prescott-street, Goodman's.
, jeweller, Charlotte -street, Bedford.square —.at 11
1
J.
fields
W. Boyle, paperhanger, Newgate-street l2
WV, H, Humpleby, plumt)er, liprough-market irmt,Mllll

You state positively that other children have
suffered, though not to the great extent that you
yourself have done 2—Yes.

Have you any brothers and sisters that work in
the same mill ?—Yes,l have two brothers and sisters
that work in it at present.
Have they suffered in the same way ?—No ; I
have a brother that was working at a mill that was
going the same way,
Do you mean was becoming deformed ?—Yes;
but he recovered after he left.

Can you write ?—No, I cannot.
Had you any opportunity of learning to write 1
•No.

Can you read ?—Some little ; but very poorly.
When your legs got bad did they shorten your
hours P—No, I worked all the same hours.
You never worked shorter hours than the rest ?
—No, I did not.

Did you ever complain to the master or over-
looker that you were in a bad stare of health ?
Sometimes I was bad, and was forced to go home.
Did they ever send the doctor to you ?—No.
Do they make you any allowance now ?—No.

_ .
Are you quite sure that the pain in your limbs
and this grievous deformity have resulted from your
long labour ?—Yes, it did.

Is that the opinion of your father and your
riends?—Yes, it is.

And of all the medical men that you have seen
.Yes.

Can you stand at all without crutches ?—Not with-
out crutches or a stick, or something to lean against.
Can you walk at all ?—No.
Can you get up stairs ?—Perhaps I might creep up.
Must it be upon your hands and knees ?—Yes,
or backwards way.
Do you get up stairs backwards way ?—Yes,
every night.

Mr. JOHN HALL'S Examination (Abridged).

Do you live at Bradford ?—Yes.
Are you the overlooker of Mr. John Wood,
unior ?—I am.

Engaged in superintending the spinning of
worsted ?—Yes.

Is there very particular attention paid to the
cleanliness and ventilation of your works ?
Very particular attention.

Are the children employed in your establishment
constantly visited by a medical gentleman ?
They are.

Are they examined individually ?—Yes ; the
medical gentleman comes and asks all the overlook.
era how their hands are, and how many there are
that are unwell, and if they have any fresh cases to
mention.

If any children are ill, does Mr. Wood send them
to the Dispensary to be cured at the public cost, or
is he at the expense of obtaining medical assistance
for them ?—We have authority from Mr. Wood to
send them to Dr. Sharp ourselves; they all go to
Dr. Sharp, and Mr. Wood pays the expense of me-
dical attendance.

Which in the course of a year,in an establishment
of that sort, is very considerable, is not it ?—lt
amounts, I should think, to some hundreds of pounds
annually.
Has Mr. Wood sometimes sent the children he
employs to Buxton or elsewhere, for the benefit of
the baths ?—I do not know where the place is that
he has sent them to, but I know that he has sent
them off many a time.
When they have become poorly I)—Yes ; he as
sent them to watering-places for the recovery of
their health.

Have you any baths in the works ?—We have
cold and warm baths now on the premises for the
use of the persons employed in the manufactories.
Does Mr. Wood keep a larger number of children
to do the same work than is usual In the worsted
business ?—Yes, he does.
Do you think he does that because be conceives
the labour of the children to be too severe ?—Yes,
I have no doubt of it.

Now will you state to the Committee whether,
with all this care and attention, you find that the
children can endure the labour you have been de-
scribing without injury?—No; I believe they do
not endure it without injury.
Do you select healthy children whom to take into
your mills 7—Yes.

When your fresh hands have been employed for
some length of time, do you see any alteration in
their appearance ?7,--Yes, I think I can see a marked

How many hours do you think the children could
labour without hurting their health ?—I am sure I
think eight or ten plenty.
What do you think is the utmost time a child
could labour, consistent with its health think if
they are ever so well treated they should not work
above ten hours.
Have you had many instances of deformity in
your own mill ?—We have had some.
But not so many as in those mills where they
have laboured a greater length of time ?—No.
Will you have the goodness to state out of those
450 children how many have been absent at one
time from sickness ?—I have known forty-nine
absent at one time.

Is there not a great deficiency of education in
your town and neighbourhood in consequence of the
peseta system ?—Yes.

ELIZEBETII BENTLEY'S Examination.

What age are you ?—Twenty-three.
Where do you live ?—At Leeds.
What time did you begin to work at a factory ?_
When I was six years old.
At whose factory did you work ?—At Mr. Bu,k's.
What kind of mill is it ?—Flax-mill.
What was your business in that mill 2-1 was a
tle doffer.
What were your hours of labour in that mill ?
From five in the morning till nine at night, when
they were thronged.
For how long a time together have you worked
that excessive length of time ?—About half a year.
What were your usual hours of labour when you
were not so thronged ?—From six in the morning
till seven at night.
What time was allowed for your meals ?—Forty
minutes at noon.

Had you any time to get your breakfast or drink-
ing ?—No, we got it as we could.
And when your work was had you had hardly
any time to eat at all ?—No, we were obliged to
leave it or take it home, and, when we did not
take it, the overlooker took it and gave it to his pigs.
Do you consider doffing a laborious employ-
ment ? Yes.
Explain what it is you had to do ?—When the
frames are full they have to atop the frames, and
take the flyers off, and take the bobbins off and
carry them to the roller, and then put empty ones
on, and set the frame going again.
Does that keep you constantly on your feet ?
Yes, there are so many frames, and they run so quick.
Vour labour is very excessive?--Yes; we have
no time for anything.
Suppose you flagged a little, or were too late,
what would they do ?—Strap us.
Are they in the habit of strapping those who are
last in doffing ?—Yes.
Constantly ?—Yes.
Girls as well as boys ?—Yes.
Have you ever been strapped ?—Yes.
Severely ?—Yes.
Is the strap used so as to hurt you excessively?
—Yes, it is.
Were you strapped if you were too much fa-
tigued to keep up with the machinery ?—Yes ; the
overlooker I was under was a very severe man, and
when we have been fatigued and worn out, and had
not baskets to put the bobbins in, we used to put
them in the window-bottoms, and that broke the
panes sometimes, and I broke one one time, and the
overlooker strapped me on the arm, and it rose a
blister, and I ran home to my mother.
• • • • • • * •
The carding-room is more oppressive than the
spinning department ?—Yes; it is so dusty they
cannot see each other for dust.

Is it on that account they are allowed a relaxation
of those few minutes ?—Yes; the cards get so soon
filled up with waste and dirt they are obliged to
stop them, or they would take fire.
There is a convenience in that stoppage ?—Yes,
it is as much for their benefit as for the working
people.
When it was not necessary no such indulgence
was allowed ?—No.
Never ?—No.
Were the children beat up to their labour there ?
—Yes.
With what ?—A strap. I 'have seen the over-
looker go to the top end of the room, where the
little girls hug the can to the backminders. He has
taken a strap, and a whistle in hia mouth, and
sometimes he has got a chain and chained them,
and strapped them all down the room.
All the children?—No,only'r hose bugging the cans.
What was his reason for that 2—He was angry.
Had the children committed any fault ?--They
were too slow.

Were the children excessively fatigued at the
me ?—Yes; it was in the afterpoon.
Wtre the girls 29 musk tot to leave mark, upon

their ?—Yes, they have had black marks many
times, and their parents dare not come to him about
it, they were afraid of losing their work.
If the. parents were to complain of this excessive
ill-usage, the probable consequence would be the
loss of the situation of the child ?—Yes.

In ghat part of the mill did you work P—ln the
card-room.

It was exceedingly dusty ?—Yes.
DA it affect your health ?—Yes, it was so dusty
the elk,' got upon my lungs, and the work was so
hard. [ was middling strong when I went there,
but th work was so bad. I got so bad in health,
that when I pulled the baskets down I pulled my
bones out of their places.
Yoq Jragged the baskets ?—Yes, down the rooms
to wh-re they are worked.
Anil as you had been weakened by excessive la-
bon., y. u could not stand that labour ?—No.
I~ has hal the effect of pulling your shoulders
out ? Yes ; it was a great basket that stood higher
than th;s table a good deal.
Flow heavy was it ?—I cannot say ; it was a
very la, ge one, that was full of weights up-heaped,
and pulling the basket pulled my shoulders out of
its place, and my ribs have grown over it.
You rontinued at that work ?—Yes.
Yot think that work is too much for children ?
Yet

Women's work, not fit for children ?--Yes.
hat work generally done by women ?—Yes.
w came you to do it ?—There was no spiri-
t; CS Me.
Did they give you women's wages ?—They gave
me 55., and the women had 6s. Gd.
What wages did you get as a spinner ?-69.
Did you perceive that many other girls were made
ill by that long labour ?—Yes; a good many of them.
So that you were constantly receiving fresh hands
to supply the places of those that could no longer
bear their work ?—Yes; there were fresh hands
every week ; they could not keep their hands.
Did they all go away on account of illness ?
They were sick and ill with the dust.
Do you know whether arty of them died in con-
sequence of it ?—No, I cannot speak to that.
You do not know what became of them ?—No,
we did not know that.

If a person was to take an account of a mill, and
the hands in it that were ill, they would know very
little of those who had suffered from their labour;
they would be elsewhere ?—Yes.
But you ate sure of this, that they were con-
stantly leaving on account of the excessive labour
they had to endure ?—Yes.
And the unhealthy nature of their employment
—Yes.

Did you take any means to obviate the bad effects
of this dust ?--No.

Did it make you very thirsty ?--Yes, we drank a
deal of water in the room.

Were you heated with your employment at the
same time ?--No, it was not so very hot as in the
summer time ; in the winter time they were obliged
to have the windows open, it made no matter what
the weather was, and sometimes we got very severe
colds from frost and snow.

You were constantly exposed to colds, and were
made ill by that cause also ?--Yes.
Could you eat your food well in the factory ?
No; indeed, I had not much to eat, and the little I
had I could not eat it, my appetite was so poor, and
being covered with dust; and it was no use to take
it home, I could not eat it, and the overlooker took
it and gave it to the pigs.
You are speaking of the breakfast ?--Yes.
How far bad you to go foi dinner ?--We could
not go home to dinner.

Where did you dine ?--In the mill.
Did you live far from the mill ?--Yes, two miles.

Had you a clock ?---No, we had not.
Supposing you had not been time enough in
the morning at these mills, what would have been
the consequence ?--We should have been quartered.
What do you mean by that ?—lf we were a quar-
ter of an hour too late they would take off half an
hour; we only got a penny an hour, and they would
take a halfpenny more.
The fine was much more considerable than the
loss of time ?—Yes.

Were you also beaten for being too late ?—No, I
was never beaten myself; I have seen the boys
beaten for being too late.
Were you generally there in time ?—Yes, my
mother has been up at four o'clock in the morning;
and at two o'clock in the morning; the colliers used
to go to their work about three or four o'clock, and
when she heard them stirring she got out of her
warm bed, and went out and asked them the time;
and I have sometimes been at Hunslet Car at two
o'clock in the morning, when it was streaming down
with rain, and we have had to stay till the mill was
opened.
Supposing your hours of labour had been mode-
rate, could you have awoke regularly ?—Yes.
Was it a matter of anxiety and difficulty for you
to rouse yourself to be early enough for those hours
of labour 7—Yes.

You are considerably deformed in your person in
consequence of this labour 2—Yes, I am.
At what time did it come on ?—I was about 13
years old when it began coming, and it has got worse
since; it is five years since my mother died, and
my mother never was able to get me a pair of good
says to hold me up, and when my mother died I
had to do for myself, and got me a pair.
Were you perfectly straight and healthy before
you worked at the mill ?—Yes, I was as straight a
little girl as ever went up and down town.
Were you straight till you were 13 ?—I was.
Have you been attended to by any medical gen-
tleman at Leeds or the neighbourhood 2----Yes; I
have been under Mr. Hares.
To what did he attribute it ?—He said it was
owing to hard labour, and working in the factories.
He told you that 2—Yes.

Did the deformity come upon you with much
pain and weariness ?—Yes ; I cannot express the
pain I had all the time it was coming.
You went to Tatham and Walker's afterwards ?
—Yes.
Is that a fl ?—Yes.
In what situation did you go there ?—I went into
the spinning-room.
What were the hours of labour there when they
were busy ?—From half past five in the morning, to
eight, and half•past eight.
Is it found necessary in that mill to strap the
Phildren up to their work ?—Yes, the doffers; I
have seen them strap them as well as others.
So that, as far as you have experience in those
factories, these poor children are beaten when so
much labour is exacted from them ?—There is no-
thing else for them.
You do not think they could be kept up to their
work unless they were so abused ?—They could not.
In that mill did they also strap the children ?
Yes they did.
Perpetually ?—Yes.
What were the hours for refreshment at that mill
at the time to which we are alluding ?—Forty mi-
nutes, at noon.
There was no time allowed for drinking or break-
fast at that mill ?—Yes, they have at present.

Had they before the present measure was in agi-
tation ?—No, only 40 minutes in winter, and half
an hour in summer.

Was that time ever abridged ?—Yes.
What time did you work in winter ?—From six
in the morning titl seven or eight at night, if they
were much thronged.
The children in all cases did not have that time
allowed them for their dinner ?—No.

Was it the general impression among the children
that the time allowed for their noon meal was im-
properly abridged ? —Yes, it was.
What do you call the short hours, or common
hours in the flax business ?—nom six in the morn-
ing till seven at night.
What time for meals ?—Forty minutes.
Are the children brought in occasionally from
their meals before time ?—Yes. .

By what means ?—By the clock; sometimes the

hand would 1, gyve slipped down two or three minutes.
Were the children whipped in sometimes to theii
work ?—Yes, out of the mill-yard—the boys after
they have gone out to play ; the overlooker has got
a strap, and gone out and strapped them in before
their time, that they might come in and get on with
their work.
You have had the misfortune, from being a straight
and healthful girl, to become very much otherwise
,n your person ; do you know of any other girls that
have become weak and deformed in like manner ?
No.
Do you know any body that has been similarly
injured in their health 2—Yes, in their health, but
not many deformed as I am.
You are deformed in the shoulders ?—Yes.
It is very common to have weak ancles and
crooked knees ?—Yes, very common indeed.
That is brought on by stopping the spindle ?
Yes.
Do you know anything of wet spinning ?—Yes, it
is very uncomfortable. I have stood before the
frames till I have been wet through to my skin.
And in winter time, when we have gone home, our
clothes have been frozen, and we have nearly caught
our death of cold.
Were you permitted to give up your labour at
any time to suit your convenience and your health,
and resume it again when you were more capable
of it ?—Yes, we have stopped at home one day or
two days, just as we were situated in our health.
If you had stopped away any length of time
should you have found a difficulty to keep your
situation ?—Yes, we should.
Were the children constantly beaten to their la-
bour as you have described ?—Yes.
Where are you now ?—ln the poor-house.
Where ?—At Hunslet.
Do any of your former employers come to see
you ?—No.
Did you ever receive anything from them when you
became afflicted ?—When I was at home, Mr.
Walker made me a present of Is. or 25., but since
I have left my work, and gone to the poorhouse,
they have not come nigh me.
You are supported by the parish ?—Yes.
You are utterly incapable now of any exertion of
that sort ?—Yes.
You were very willing to have worked as long as
you were able, from your earliest age ?—Yes.
And to have supported your widowed mother as
long as you could ?—Yes.
State what you think as to the circumstances in
which you have been placed during all this time of
labour, and what you have considered about it as to
the hardship and cruelty of it.
(The witness was too much affected to answer the
question.)

DREADFUL and DESTRUCTIVE FIRE in
LIVERPOOL, and LOSS of LIFE.

(From t},e Liverpool Times of Tuesday. )

Last night, about 11 o'clock, a fire broke out in an
office on the New Quay, occupied by Mr. Goudie, pas-
sengers' broker, which in a shot t time communicated to
the premises occupied by Mr. Pratt, ship-chandler ; Mr.
Croston, painter and glazier ; and Messrs. Brade and De-
laney, sail makers ; and so rapid was the progress of the
flames, that the whole of these buildings were destroyed by
12 o'clock ; and at that hour, when we left, the fire had
reached the bonded warehouses belonging to Mr. Har•
bord, as well as those at the back, which extended to
Lancelot's-hey, and great apprehensions were entertained
that the whole of this extensive range of buildings would
be destroyed before the fire was got under. The engines
were speedily on the spot, and, having a plentiful supply
of water, the most praiseworthy exertions were making to
prevent the extension of the devouring element.
THREE O'CLOCK. —We regret to state that the fire has
continued to extend itself with the most uncontrolled vio-
lence. Ater having reached the warehouses in Lancelot's-
hey, the flames very rapidly communicated to the ware-
house on the east side of the street, which is now in a
blaze, and the inhabitants of Union•street are removing
their furniture. We trust, however, that the fire will not
extend itself further. As far as we have been able to
judge, this will be one of the most destructive fires which
has taken place in Liverpool since the great fire at the
Gore in 1602.

SECOND EDITION, TUESDAY MORNING, NINE O'CLOCK.
This dreadful fire still continues to burn, though the
flames are now confined to the half-consumed warehouses
in Lancelot's-hey, and do not appear to be spreading. The
following are the principal warehouses destroyed :—Mr.
Greenhorn's, Messrs. Molyneux, Taylor, and Co.'s, 'Messrs.
Coltman, Lambert, and Co.'s, Messrs. Thomas Dover and
Co.'s, and a part of Mr. Webster's cotton warehouse. It is
impossible to give any idea of the intensity of the fire,
which illuminated the whole atmosphere with a deep red
glare, and was seen for many miles in every direction.
The rapidity with which the flames spread was frightful,
and rendered it almost impossible to save any part of the
property in the warehou-es. The warehouses themselves
are complete shells, except one or two, the walls of
which have fallen in, and present nothing but a heap
of smoking ruins. The sight of the ruins from the
Prince's Dock, and of the fire from the top of Union-
street, is as striking as it is melancholy. The loss of
property must be immense, but, as the flames are still
raging, it is impossible to form even a probable guess at
the amount. There is also reason to fear that there
has been a very serious loss of life, but the reports are
so contradictory, and some of them so ill-founded, that
we think it best not to give them further cui rency at
present.
HALF-PAST NINE,—The flames are rapidly subsiding.
The number of warehouses destroyed is stated at from
15 to 20.

Colonel Jordan, the Inspecting Field Officer of the dis-
trict, had his leg broken by the falling of the wall of a
warehouse in Lancelot's•hey. We understand that he has
since had his leg amputated, and is doing well.
The loss of property, i❑ buildings and merchandise, is
estimated at upwards of 200,0001.