The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-21 00:00:00

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ROLLS COURT.
(Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.)
IN RE BRISTOL GRAMMAR SCHOOL.—JUDGMENT.
The contention in this case was whether the head-master
of this school was entitled to receive boarders into his house
as scholars, in addition to his salary and freo house.
His Honour said—On perusal of the medical evidence pro-
duced, and the answers returned by several masters, which
I have carefully considered, I have come to the conclusion The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
that I cannot allow the introduction of boarders into PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Bagenalstown and Wexford Radwa_ ,andv file Metro
this school. Ido not mean to lay down any general rule politan Railway Bills were read a third time and 'passed. -
of exclusion of boarders into charity schools, every such The following bills were considered and ordered for third
case would depend on its own circumstances, but, on con- reading:—Arabergate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern
Junctionouuais Railway . and . Canal . Company; Buckley and
sidering the evidence produced, his Honour was inclined to
Quay (Flintshire) Railway; Great Northern and
think that the better way would be to follow the examples CMetropolitan unction Railway; Hinckley and Leicester
of Harrow and Rugby schools, and exclude the higher Railway Liskeard and Caradon Railway ; London and
classes from the lower, except underpeculiar circumstances. North Western Railway (No. 2) ; Manchester Improve-
It was generally found that the higher and lower classes went; Sirhowy Tramroad.
did not amalgamate in tender years, and the introduction The Dorset Central Railway (Extension of Time, &c.),
Suspension Bridge (Lords) Bills were
second
of the higher classes into free schools would destroy the read a and the Wellington
tim e. character of the charities. His Honour considered the
CHURCH RTES.
salary here sufficient to secure the service of an efficient Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from the executive of
thel,Societ.y fofrorthtteLtiubtearatl aio of igetrefriti)
master, if not it might be raised by the trustees at any
abolition of iruatSeatate Con-
future period. His Honour said he could not alter the oSeerrair other petitions to the same effect were also pro-
scheme of not raising the capitation fees. His Honour sented.
approved of the scheme generally, and ordered costs of all MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.
parties to be paid out of the charity estate. Mr. E. JAMES presented petitions, including one signed
by 480 females in Pimlico, praying for legalising marriage
with a deceased wife's sister.
THE PREVENTIVE SERVICE (SCOTLAND).
Mr. BLACK asked the Secretary of the Treasury if the
men in the Preventive Service in Scotland have any printed
or written regulations or instructions delivered to them for
their guidance; and if so, whether one of these rules is,
that the offence of marrying shall be visited with dismissal
from the service; and whether the prohibition against
marriage applied equally to the officers and the men?
Mr. LAING said that the penalty was inflicted because
it had been found that unmarried men discharged their
duties more efficiently, having four nights in the week to
be employed on night duty, which was disagreeable to
married men. The men were informed verbally of this
regulation on entering the service of the Inland Re-
venue. With regard to the officers, unmarried men were
invariably selected, and when they married they were re-
moved to some other branch of the service when properly
qualified successors could be secured.
RAGS, &c.
Mr. PULLER asked the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, whether any information had yet been received as
to the amount of duty which the French Government in-
tended to impose on the export of rags ?
Lord J. RUSSELL said he had received no informa-
tion on the subject since the statement he had made on a
former occasion. He took that opportunity of stating the
course Government proposed to take in respect to public
business, which was to bring forward the income tax in
committee of ways and means, and also the adjourned-
debate on the Representation of the People's Bill to-

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

IMPERIAL PA [MIA EN T.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

A.RLBOROUGH-STREET.
UNPROVOKED ASSAULT BY A MANUFACTURER.—Mr.
James Best, described as a lace manufacturer, of Notting-
ham, but at present staying at tho White Bear, Piccadilly,
was charged before Mr. Beadon with the following unpro-
voked assault on Sergeant John Rogers, 6 C, a very respec-
table and useful officer, and who on account of his know-
ledge of French, is often specially employed.
Sergeant Rogers said that about half-past ten the previ-
ous night he went to the Black Horse, Oxenden-street,
Coventry-street, to serve a notice on a man to appear at the
sessions. He was in conversation with Mr. Davis, the
landlord, who had formerly been his landlord, and a friend,
having his police coat on at the time, when the defendant
noticing a ring he had on said, " No wonder such as
you can wear rings. I suppose you've a prostitute that
keeps you at home." He told him he wished he would ad-
dress his conversation to some one else, when the defendant
said, "Don't be an ape—put yourself in position, and I'll
show you what I'll do with you." He then got a con-
stable to assist him, and took him to the station-house.
't he defendant had been drinking, but knew perfectly wall
what ha was about at the time.
Defendant said he was not aware what he had done.
Sergeant Rogers said ho had a dozen respectable wit-
nesses.

morrow.

ENDOWED SCHOOLS.
Mr. DILLWYN, in moving the second reading of this
bill, explained that its object was to remove the disqualifi-
cation under which Dissenters at present laboured in being
excluded from any control or interference in schools which
were endowed for national and not for sectarian purposes.
When he introduced a bill to the same effect last year it
went through a second reading, but in committee his prin •
ciple was abandoned, and another of an entirely antago-
nistic character was introduced. He could not consent
to the bill in that form, and ultimately it was rejected.
With regard to the bill of Lord Cranworth, which had
come down from the Upper House, he must object to it.
That bill was limited to rendering it compulsory on trustees
to make such rules for the education of Dissenters as they
might deem advisable. In fact, it was merely a honire-
pathic measure, and would not meet the evils complained of
by Dissenters. The next bill before the house was that of 1
the hon. and learned member for Belfast (Sir H. Cairns),
to which he objected also, as it was founded on the prin-
ciple that the usage for a certain number of years conferred
a right in reference to these schools. That might be a
sound legal doctrine as applied to private individuals, but
he contended it should not be applied to public charities.
He (Mr. Dillwyn) proposed that the schools founded up to
the first year of Elizabeth, and prior to the passing ef the
Toleration Act, should be regarded in the same light as
foundations for general purposes, but he did not propose to
interfere with any endowment subsequent to the act in
question. He contended that his bill would remedy a
grievance, but would effect no disruption or any injury on
the interests of these schools. He also argued,that, nume•
rically considered, and in consequence of the internal dis-
sensions that prevailed in the Church of England, that
Church was not qualified to discharge efficiently the trusts
of these endowed schools. The hon. member said that the
bill was framed so as to meet the objections raised against
the former measure which he had introduced.
Mr. LOWE advised the rejection of the bill, which he
said originated in consequence of the decisions of the
Courts of Equity, that the doctrines taught in those
schools should be those of the Church of Eng-
land. By this bill they were called on to take away
from the Church of England rights which it held by Act
of Parliament, and on instruments of great antiquity which
had been adjudicated upon for 300 years. He eulogised the
bill of Lord Cranworth, which provided for the education of
ohildren of Dissenters without interference with their reli-
gious tenets, and its adoption by the right reverend
bench, was a proof of the fair principle by
which Churchmen were actuated in reference to this
matter. He was as desirous to effect for Dissenters all that
they were entitled to, as the hon. member who brought
forward this bill, but he felt perfectly satisfied that the mea-
sure would not accomplish the object contemplated. (Hear.)
Mr. SELWYN moved that the bill be read a second time
this day six months. lie contended that there was every
desire on the part of Churchmen, when placed in a position
to do so, to extend to Dissenters all the advantages of edu-
cation. In support of that position he adverted to the
practice that prevailed in the university which he repre-
sented, where facilities were afforded to persons of all
religious denominations to avail themselves of the bene-
fits of the institution. The hon. and learned member
then adverted to the legal bearing of the question to prove
that the bill would lead to confusion in the law courts, and
would be found inoperative in practice.
Mr. CAULFIELD seconded the amendment.
Lord FERMOY contended that the speech of the right
hon. member (Mr. Lowe) was rather Jesuitical than Pro-
testant, and that there had been no argument to show that
the house was not perfectly competent to legislate on this
subject. He believed the donors of those schools would, if
they were alive at the present day, have seen the necessity
of widening the portals of education for the admission of
Dissenters. He concluded by stating that he would give
his cordial support to the bill.
Mr. A. MILLS supported the amendment.
Mr. BAINES approved of the bill, which he denied
would have the effect of depriving the Church of England
of any just privilege or advantage. In the township of
Wortley, near the borough which he represented, there was
an endowed school, in which by the will of the donor no
provision was made for any particular form of religious
teaching. The trustees of that endowment were Protestants,
and yet there were nine dissenting places of worship and
only two churches in the township. He maintained that
the bill was a concession to a right principle, and tended to
diminish a grievance; and though he considered it did not
go far enough he would give it his support.
Mr. Beecroft, Mr. Walter, Mr. Whiteeide, and Mr. New-
degato opposed the bill.
Mr. DILLWYN replied.
The house divided, and the numbers were—
For the second reading l2O
Against
190-70
The motion for the second reading was accordingly lost.
BLEACHING AND DYEING WORKS BILL.
Mr. CROOK moved the second reading of this bill.
Mr. ASPINALL, in opposing the bill, said that any
hon. member who introduced a measure that interfered be-
tween operatives and their employers should make out a
very strong case. In the present instance the lion. member
who had brought forward the bill was more than ever bound
to do so, for select committees of that house had decided
against the principle of such a bill, and since that de-
cision in 1858, no circumstances had arisen to show
that the measure was called for. It was proposed
by the bill to assimilate the hours of labour of
those employed in the bleaching and dyeing trade to
those in factories, He contended that there was no analogy
between the two descriptions of labour, and the effect of
the bill would be to disturb a very important trade. Hav-
ing quoted from the evidence delivered before the commit-
tee alluded to, he said that persons engaged in the dyeing
and bleaching trade wore the servants of the
public, liable to be pressed to execute orders
by their customers ; and they had also to con-
tend with the fluctuations of the seasons, so that they
were placed in peculiar circumstances. The hon. member
road extracts from the proprietors of bleaching and dyeing
works in Manchester and other parts of the country, pre-
ndliactiaintgaiaruedinthtaot tthheeirtateraaadaerai,fwhthilee bitilNlrol'ledredapasthseegdr.eatHeset
injureyvlnwgotuhldatutthtea bill rlyfawilauinld epffreacvtainagutaheleaosabjpeicateepraofploesageda:
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daymo six months.
Mr. masohans. amendment, that it be read a second
Mr. RICHARDSON seconded the amendment.

Mr. ROEBUCK pointed out the beneficial effects of the
Factory Act, especially upon the factories themselves.
This bill, he believed, would work similar good, and he
should therefore support it. The kon. gentleman quoted
largely from the testimony of many of the workers—men,
women, and children—some of whom worked 30 hours and
upwards at a stretch, taking their meals while standing at
their work. "The lives of these people," exclaimed the
hon. gentleman emphatically, "are the lives of the
damned." He concluded with an urgent appeal to the
house to pass the bill.
Mr. COBBETT supported the bill.
Lord T. MANNERS thought the house might safel give
a second reading to the bill.
Sir H. CAIRNS said the bleaching of linen in the north of
Ireland was a very different process from that carried on in
Lancashire, and if the promoters of the bill would give
him an assurance that it should not apply to Ireland, he
would vote for the second reading.
Mr. RICHARDSON and Mr. CONOLLY warmly opposed
the bill, which they considered most unjust to the freedom
of manufacture in Ireland.
Mr. A. EGERTON considered that legislation was ne-
cessary, and supported the bill. •
The house then divided, and the numbers were—
For the second reading 226
Against it .....
...........
Majority
—lB7
The.bill was then read a second time.

•
INY ILL.
This bill was readMUa third time B
and passed.
MARINE MUTINY BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION MORTGAGES BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.

INCLOSURE BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
RETURNS.
On the motion of Col. DUNNE, the following returns
were ordered :—Number of officers, non-commissioned
officers, and men in depot battalions belonging to regiments
serving in India ; similar return for regiments serving
in the colonies ; and similar return for regiments
serving in the United Kindom ; also, of the ex-
penses incurred for the commission appointed to
inquire into the state of the store establishment at Weedon,
detailing the expenses of preparing the accounts and audit-
inf them, eupenses of witnesses, and all other objects.
the house adjourned at five iniuutes to six o'clock.