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SPORTING INTELEIGENCE:

NEWCASTLE RACE 3.—(Titis DAY.)

The Grand Stand Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added,
two-yr-olds, 6st 121 b ; three, Bst 121 b ; f and g allowed
31b. T.Y.C.
Sir C. Monck's Prudence, by Voltigeur, 2 yrs,
(Grimshaw) 1
Mr Nicholl's The Dutchman, 2 yrs (J. Snowden) 2
Mr. Wintrix gham's Sambe, 2 yrs (car. 41b extra)
(Bullock) 3
The following also ran, but were not placed :—Maid of
Masham colt, The Tiger, sister to Horace, Stockton, and
Stanton.

Betting—Even on Sambo, 4 to 1 apt Prudence, and 6
Lo I each agat Dutchman and Stanton.

Tiger led at a rattling pace to the distance, when Sru-
dance headed him, and galloped in an easy winner by three
and a half lengths. Sambo was pulled up lame.
The Commercial Visitors' Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 30
added ; two-year-olds, 6st 101 b; three, Bst 71b; four, 9st.
71b. ; five, 9 t. 121 b ; six and aged, 10st. ;:m and g allowed
31b. ; selling allowances. T.Y.C.
Mr. Dawson's Spiteful Dick, aged (125) Bullock) 1
Mr. Reay's Breeze, aged (160) (Withington) 2
Mr• Wilkins's Amy Scott, 3 yrs (125) (Doyle) 3

Honeymoon, Gammon, and Fast Runner also ran.
Betting :—7 to 4 agst Spiteful Dick, 3 to 1 agst Amy
Scott, 4 to 1 agst Fast Runner, and 5 to 1 agst Gammon.
Spiteful Dick made all the running, and won by a length;
two 106 g-the between the second and third. The winner
was bought in for 40 guineas.

Northumberland Plate of 200 sovs, added to a handicap
stakes of 15 sovs each, for three-yr-olds and upwards.
Two miles.

Mr. Whittaker's First Lord, 3 yrs, sst 81b (Page)
Mr. Eastwood's Butterfly, 3 yrs, Cat 71b (in. 91b extra)
(Snowden)
Lord Zetland's Bivouac, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (car. Oat)
(Grimshaw)
Sir C. Monk's Hepatica, 5 yrs, 7st 51b (Bullock)
Mr. Forster's Underhand, 6 yrs, 9st 51b (Aldcroft)
Lord Zetland'a Volatile, 4 yrs, 6at 101 b (car. 6st 11Ib)
(Marchant)
Mr. Merry's Apollyon, 3 yrs, sst 131 b (Covey:
Mr. Sharpe's Captain Wedderburn, 5 yrs, sst 1111
(carried Est) (Madden
Mr. Tullett's Edmund Kean, 3 yrs, Sat 61b.. (J. French;
Mr. Jackson's Walkington' 3 yrs, sst 21b (Doyle:
Mr. Chilton's Rosamond, 3 yrs, sst (Whiteley',

Parsons weighed for Widgeon, but on going down to
start Underhand struck out, caught her on the fore arm,
and she did not run.

Betting-3 to 1 agst Butterfly, 7 to 2 agst Edmund Kean,
9 to 2 agst First Lord, 10 to 1 agst Underhand, 12 to 1 each
against Bivouac and Hepatica, 16 to 1 each agst Captain
Wedderburn and Apollyon, and 25 to 1 agst Rosamond.
At the first attempt a capital start was effected. Bivouac
jumped away in advance, but in a few strides Edmund
Kean rushed to the head of the ruck, closely followed by
Rosamond, First Lord, Bivouac, Hepatica, Captain Wed-
derburn, Volatile, and Apollyon, with Underhand, out-
raced at the start, lying away. On passing the Stand,
Rosamend shot to the fore, and, going into the Cut, was
hotly pursued by Edmund Kean and First Lord. Emerg-
ing from the Cut, Rosamond still led, and the pace having
told its tale, the lot was scattered. Along the roadside they
took closer order ; at the Blue House turn Rosamond com-
pounded, and on nearing the straight Bivouac and First
Lord were the leaders, Butterfly, Hepatica, and Edmund
Kean being in near company. At the distance, Bivouac
and First Lord came on together, and at the half distance
Butterfly joined the pair. A magnificent race between
the three now ensued. First Lord having slightly
the best of the struggle all the way up, and winning
by a head ; the same distance separated Butterfly from
Bivouac. Hepatica was a good fourth ; Edmund Kean
fifth, Underhand sixth, Volatile seventh, and the last pair
were Rosamond and Captain Wedderburn.
The Licensed Victuallers' Handicap of 50 sovs. Six
furlongs.

Mr. Jackson's Syringe, by the Cure, 3 yrs, 6st 51b
(Grimshaw) 1
Mr. Robinson's Grenadier, 3 yrs, 7st 21b....(Challoner) 2
Mr. T. Anson's Hegira, 6 yrs, 7st 101 b .... (Robertson) 3

The fallowing also ran :—Stanton, Miss Longley, Ancient
Andrew, Malpas, • filly by Roscius, Damsel, and Johnny
Gray.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Stanton, 7to2ag at Hegira, sto 1
each agst Syringe, Malpas, and Grenadier.
Grenadier, Malpas, and Ancient Andrew lay in front to
the distance, where Syringe joined issue, and, after a good
race, he won by a neck, half a length separating Grenadier
from Hegira.

Her Majesty's Plate of 100 gs; three-year-olds, 7st ; four,
Bst 101 b ; fire, 9st 41b ; six and aged, 9st 71b. Three
miles.

Lord Zetland's Sabreur, 3 yrs (Marchant) 1
Colonel Towneley's Ticket of Leave, 4 yrs (J. Snowden) 2
Mr. Dawson's The Baronet, 3 yrs (Bullock) 3

Also ran : Duneany, Moss Rose, and Punch.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Duneany, 2to 1 agst the Baronet,
and d to 1 agst Sabreur. Sabreur cut out all the work, and
won by half a distance.

CHELMSFORD RACES.-WEDNESDAY.

A Scurry Handicap Plate of 30 sovs, for all ages. Half a

milt.
Mr.. Saxon's Orcus, by Bay Middleton, 4 yrs, 9st
(L. Snowden) 1
Mr. Mundy's Wee Polly, 2 yrs, 6st (J. Daley) 2
Mr. Fuller's Polly, 2 yrs, sst 101 b (Wiltshire) 3
Foretop ana oneor coif also ran.
Betting-5 and 6to 4 agst Orcus, 9to 4 agst Wee Polly,
5 to 1 agst Foretop.
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.)
The SPEAKRII took the chair at twelve o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The amendments of the House of Lords on the Buildings
Improvement Company Bill were agreed to.
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The amendment; of the House of Lords on the Dorset
Central Railway (Extension of Time) Bill were agreed to.
The Caledonian Railway (Branches to Lanark, &c.) Bill,
was read a third time.

The Forest of Dean Central Railway Bill was discharged
from the paper.
ST. GEORGE'S-IN-THE-EAST.
Mr. KEKEWICFI gave notice of his intention to ask
the hon. Home Secretary on Friday next, if he had received
any information relative to the disturbances NNhich had re-
cently taken place at St. George's-in-the-East, and, if so,
whether he had taken any step to secure the prevention of
their recurrence in future ?

LABOURERS COTTAGES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
Upon the motion of Mr. HEWITT this bill, which pro •
vides for tha,improvement of the cottages of farm labourers
in Scotland, was considered and amended in committee.
BLEACHING AND DYEING WORKS BILL.
The house went into committee on this bill.
An amendment on the first clause, excluding its operation
from the open air linen bleaching works in Ireland and
Scotland, having been moved,
Mr. CROOK opposed the amendment, contending that
such a bill as this was shown by the evidence before the
house on this matter: to be necessary in these bleaching
establishments as well as elsewhere.
Mr. PEEL DAWSON supported the amendment, on the
ground that the situation of the bleach works in Ireland
was extremely healthy. He contended that it would be
very injurious to force this act on the Irish dyers, as the
works were there set in operation by means of water wheels
and to enact that they should only be in operation at certain
times would close them entirely, as the manufacturers
were obliged to work their machinery when the water could
be made available. He also pointed out that much of
the work was performed in the open air, and was of a very
healthy character.
Sir H. CAIRNS supported the amendment, pointing
out that it only affected linen bleach works, the employ-
ment in which was clearly shown by the evidence
given before the committee of the house to be
of a healthy character. Moreover the operatives
had petitioned the house not to interfere. The
effect of this bill if extended to these open air works
would be to force the works to be carried on in
the morning when there was io sun, which was absolutely
necessary to open air bleaching, and then close them when the
sun was shining. It was a great advantage to the bleach
works that they shoul4 be worked by water power, which
was paid for highly, and that being so must be made
available at such times as it was possible. It was unlike
steam power, which could be put in operation by the light-
ing of the fire at any moment, in this respect also the re-
striction as to time would be injurious. He also pointed
out that the works in which boys and females were em-
ployed was of a very light character, and far more suit-
able to them than other kinds of labour, and if this
bill were allowed to pass in the present form, these boys
and women would be discharged, and their places supplied
by fewer men, and thus the children would have to go to
work of a more laborious character, and far less suitable for
them.

Sir G. LEWIS called attention to another amendment
to be moved by the hon. member for Bolton, to the effect that
nothing in the amendment should extend or affect any per-
son when employed in the open air. He thought the point
they were now considering should be taken as identical.
Sir H. CAIRNS did not think the amendment referred
to was identical with the one then before the house.

Sir G. LEWIS said the only difference was that the
amendment now under discussion included certain processes
which were only subsidiary to the process of bleaching in
the open air. That amendment appeared to him a very
fair one, and he should therefore support it.
Mr. ROE BUCK fully admitted that the process was
healthy. All bleaching was a healthy process. The
bleaching works he had seen were places where a man
might pass his life very comfortably if he were doomed to
labour there. He admitted that the master dyers desired
as much as possible to alleviate the condition of labour. But
the question was as to the length of time persons should be
employed. (Hear.) Why should persons be employed for
a greater number of hours in bleaching linen to that of
bleaohing cotton. It was the being worked for 18 or 20
hours a day that was the mischief. A girl whom he saw
in one of the bleaching works told him that she came at six
and left off at ten o'clock at night, having two hours for her
meals. He asked her if it was hard work, and she said it was
not hard, but added, in a very expressive word, that it was
very " jading " work. (Hear, hear.) Most hon. gentle-
men would find it jading work to sit for the same number
of hours even in that house. He hoped the house would
not be alarmed at being told that the operations of trade
would be stopped by this bill. The very same language had
been used with regard to the factory act, which was passed
in spite of the doleful lamentations of the manufacturers,
and which had nevertheless done them no harm, but great
good. He trusted the bill would be passed in its integrity.
Mr. BAXTER said the hon. member for Sheffield had
asked why there should be a distinction between the bleach-
ing of linen and cotton. The reason was cotton and
woollens were bleached under covers, whereas linens must
be exposed in the open air.
Lord J. MANNERS considered that sufficient evidence
was produced before the select committee to show that an
exception might be given to linen bleaching in Scotland as
well as in Ireland. The amendment would affect that ob-
ject, and would not go on much further.
Sir G. LEWIS said it was difficult to understand the
exact effect of the amendment.
' Sir H. CAIRNS explained that according to the tech-
nical interpretation of the words to the amendment it would
apply to works in which the bleaching was commenced
upon the bleaching ground in the open air.
Mr. ROEBUCK said his objection was not yet answered.
Sir H. CAIRNS said this was a bill declaring that the
factory act should be included in it, which act said that the
work people should work from six o'clock in the morning
until six at night, and that system was not applicable to
the bleachino• of linen.
After a ma'am atscussion, in wfLe.a. nut*
Lord C. HAMILTON took part.
Sir C. LEWIS said he desired to know exactly what
they were going to vote upon. The bleaching of linen
from brown to white was carried on in the open air, but
subsidiary operations took place afterwards under cover.
He understood that the amendment only applied to pro-
cesses carried on in the open air.
Sir H. CAIRNS said the amendment was not confined
to the conversion of the colour of the linen, but included
the subsidiary process.
The committee divided—
For the amendment.
Against it
Majority —l42
The amendment was therefore carried.
Mr. A. EGERTON moved in line 18 of the same
clause to leave out from the word " that " to
the end of the clause, and insert the following :
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i" It shall be lawful to employ females and young persons
n bleaching and dyeing works as follows (that is to say) :
from six of the clock in the forenoon until eight of the clock
in the afternoon on every working day except on Saturdays,
and on Saturdays from six of the clock in the forenoon
-until half an hour after four of the clock in the afternoon :
provided, that there be allowed for meals half an hour at
any time of the day between the hours of six and eleven of
the clock in the forenoon, one hour between eleven of the
clock in the forenoon and four of the clock in the afternoon,
and (except on Saturdays) half an hour between the hours
of four and eight of the clock in the afternoon."
Mr. CROOK opposed the amendment, which he said
was decidedly opposed to the Factory Act. The effect of
the amendment would be to annul and reverse the decision
the house came to on the second reading of this bill.
Lord J. MANNERS trusted the house would not accede
to the amendment.
Mr. ROEBUCK expressed his'entire concurrence in the
wish of the noble lord that the house would not accede to
his amendment. He wanted to know what gentlemen
would think if they themselves were put in the position in
which they wished to place women and children. They
went to work at six o'clock in the morning, and they did
not leave these bleaching works except for two hours, when
they took their meals, until eight o'clock at night. That
was 14 hours' labour, which was too much for any woman.
(Hear, hear.) Rather than submit his countrymen to such
horrible atrocity—(hear)—he would rather see the bleach-
ing works altogether done away with. He sincerely hoped
the house would not accede to the amendment.
Mr. J. B. SMITH and Mr. C. LEM( supported the amend-
ment.
Mr. BUTT said if the house had due regard to health
and higher considerations, twelve hours labour was more
than they could really impose upon young persons. He
should decidedly vote against the amendment.
Mr. COBBETT opposed the amendment. If it was
passed they would fix twelve hours a day as the time dur-
ing which young people might be worked in bleach works.
It had been said that the work was light, but he thought
that assertion had been sufficiently answered.
Sir G. LEWIS thought it was quite open to the com-
mittee to consider any special exemptions or limitations as
regarded time, and he thought the committee on the last
question had come to a right conclusion. But that, how-
ever, did not at all trench upon the general principle under
consideration, and therefore he could not assent to the
principle involved in the amendment. If it could
be shown clearly that the transition was too rapid,
to-..fhar a lancer time
should not be accorded to the trade, and the hour of work
be maintained for a somewhat more lengthened period of
time than was proposed by the provision in the first clause
of the bill.
Mr. CROSSLEY said that the objections which had been
raised to the bill were that dyeing and bleaching were only
executed to order, and these orders came in frequently so
fast or at such a push as to compel bleachers and dyers to
make extraordinary exertions on certain occasions. He
contended that these very circumstances furnished
the grounds why the present law should be passed,
because the !merchant frequently postponed the pur-
chase of goods until the last moment, in order perhaps
to obtain another month's credit, and then pushed the
dyers and bleachers to get the orders done as quickly as
possible, thereby forcing the working people to labour at
unseasonable hours.
Mr. A TURNER considered the limitation of the hours
of labour to 12 very reasonable. The demands were so
fluctuating that it would be quite impossible to keep
the bleach works continually in operation for 12
hours a day, but a 12 hours' bill did not necessitate
working for that period continuously day after day, and he
believed that for many months, at least for many weeks,
the average would not be more than six hours a day. In
reply to the hon. member for the West Riding (Mr. Cross-
ley) he remarked that no prudent merchant gave orders
until he himself had received orders from abroad,
and therefore it was not on the merchant that
the time when orders were given depended. He
complained that the Board of Trade had not ex-
pressed an opinion upon this subject any more
than upon the proposal made by Mr. Wilson in his finan-
cial scheme for India, and that in addition to laying a tax
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Mr. PALK d
thought the amendment completely contra-
dicted the principle of the bill, and therefore he felt bound
to oppose it.
After some further discussion, the committee divided—
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For the amendment
24256
Against
Majority .. —214
Col. W. PATTEN proposed to add the following proviso
to the clause :—Provided also that nothing in this act con-
tained shall extend er apply to any premises, either open,
inclosed, or covered, or to be used bona fide for the purpose
of carrying on the process, occupation, trade, or business of
Turkeyrryired dyeing, or to any employment connected there-
with, or necessary or incident thereto, or to the occupier of
such premises, or to the employment of any such child,
female, or young person engaged or employed la Any huh

process, occupation, trade, business, or employment as
aforesaid.

A short conversation ensued and the amendment was
withdrawn.

Mr. BUCHANAN moved, at the end of clause 1, to add
the following proviso :
Provided also, That nothing in this act contained shall
extend or apply to any premises, either open, inclosed,
or covered, or to be used bona fide for the
purpose of 'carrying on the process, occupation, trade, or
business of dyeing fancy or other colours, or to any employ-
ment connected therewith or necessary or incident thereto,
or to the occupier of such premises, or to the employment
of any such child, female, or young person, engaged or em-
ployed in any such process, occupation, trade, business, or
employment as aforesaid." He said that tiese colours
were so evanescent that any limitation of time would
utterly defeat the object of the bill.
After some discussion the hon. member withdrew the
amendment, with the intention that he would raise the
question again when the report was brought up.
The clause was then agreed to.
Clause 2, with some amendments, was agreed to, as well
as clause 3. The clauses to 5 inclusive were also agreed to.
On clause 6 some discussion took place, and
Mr. CROOK explained that it was introduced to enable
bleachers to employ new hands contemporaneously with
those who had been previously employed.
The clause was agreed to, as was also clause 7.
Mr. A. EGERTON moved the following as an addition
to the clause : " Provided also thlt nothing in this act con-
tained shall extend or apply to any premises used
in carrying on the process of royal blue dye-
ing, or to any employment connected therewith or ne-
cessary thereto, or to the employment of any such child,
female, or young person in such prove's aforesaid."
The committee divided, and the numbers were—
For the additional clause
Against
Majority
The house then resumed.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
le house adjourned at six o'clock.