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London, England, 1859-08-02 00:00:00

THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.

Lord BROUGHAM called the attention of their
lordships to the strike which was expected to take
place in the building trade, and which was creating
much excitement throughout the metropolis. He was of
opinion that the demand of ten hours' pay for nine hours'
work was most absurd, and asked if the Government in-
tended to take any stops in the matter? For many years
ho had been the advocate of the working classes, and
he was of opinion they had a right to strike
if they pleased ; but when, as in the instance
that had occurred at Sheffield, they had proceeded
to violence, such conduct could not be allowed. The noble
lord then referred to the court in France, which had been
highly successful in arranging the differences between the
employer and the employed.
Earl GRANVILLE said the attention of the Govern-
ment had been drawn to the subject, and they had
taken the necessary steps to maintain order during the con-
tinuance of that lamentable strike. He was pleased to see
the subject had been referred to in that house by the noble
and learned lord, who was so well able to deal with the sub-
ject, and he thought it was very much better to throw a
light on the affair than hastily to proceed to legislate on
the subject. In the present instance he thought the strike
was most unjustifiable. The alleged reason for the pro-
ceeding was that there were a great many men
at present unemployed ; but such a proceeding on the part
of the men in employment would not afford them the means
of obtaining a single shilling extra. The result of the
strike, if carried out, could but be most injurious to the
working classes, and he trusted that sound judgment would
be allowed to prevail, and thus the misery always at-
tendant on strikes would be averted.
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The Eail of DONOUGHMORE said no legislative in-
terference on the part of the Government could prevent
occasional disturbances between employer and employed.
Nothing but experience on their own part of the loss and
suffering produced by strikes, and a more extended and
accurate knowledge of the purposes of political economy
would ever induce them to abstain from such as that now
witnessed.

Lord BROUGHAM referred to a pamphlet he had seen,
written by a working man, with a view of dissuading his
follow-workmen from a strike.
After a few observations from the LORD CHANCELLOR,
which were inaudible in the gallery, the subject dropped.
WESTMINSTER NEW BRIDGE BILL.

This bill was iead;;;ConEte7---
[LEFT SITTING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(Tms DAT.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
ELECTION COMMITTEES.
The members to serve on the following committees were,
nominated :—Kingston-upon-Hull, Bridgewater, and Pres-
ton.
PRIVATE RUSINESS.I
The Lords' amendments to the Charleston_.R.
Harbour Bill, and-the Wansbeck Railway 361i1,
ilw_a_y_
_consf
sidered and agreed to.
The Tacumshire Bill was read a third time a:nd
the following members
passed.
On the motion of Mr. CARDWNILL,
tithe
were nominated to serve on the selegolycohmeamd
Chester and Holyhead Railway itßterll :e—n
t be added by the
Cardwell, Sir Richard Bulkeley, Mats. Cornwall Legh, Mr.
Wilbraham Egerton, and five meemthbeers o
quorura ; committee
committee of selection; five to b
to meet to-morrow.
Mr. C. FORSTER moved
ands tanding orders 176, 203,
he standing order made
on the 6th day of April last,
bill was then read a second
and 204 be dispensed with in respect to Dickinson's Divorce
The •
(India) Bill.—Ordered.
Select Committee on Divorce Bills,
with leave to sit and proce.
On the motion of Mr.Coase of Sir John Ramsden's Es-
FORSTER, the following was
agreed to :s—That, the 0
tate Bill, the examiner f pewtiotirotns. for private bills have
f
leave to sit and proceed forth worth.
INCOME TAX BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
POLICE (COUNTIES AND BOROUGHS) LAW
AMENDMENT BILL. •
The house went into committee on this bill,
On clause 1,
Mr. HAWES moved the following addition : —Chief
constables appointed, or to be appointed, under the Acts of
the 2d and 3d years of her Majesty, cap. 88, and other Acts,
shall be styled " County Commissioners of Police."
After some discussion,
Mr. CLIVE said that he had received memorials from
Hampshire and other places, setting forth that the altera-
tion proposed by the hon. member was desirable.
T 1:• amendment was negatived without a division, and
the original clause vas agreed to, as well as clause 2.
Clauses 3 and 4, with some verbal amendments, were
agreed to.
The clauses to 9, inclusive, were agreed to.
Some discussion ensued on clause 11, to which verbal
amendments were moved, but they were withdrawn, and
the clause was agreed to.
The remaining clauses were agreed to, and the bill
passed.
Mr. GRIFFITH moved that the following be added to
clause 16 :—" The High Sheriff of any county raay agree
with the Justices of the Peace for the same county for the
employment cf the police constables in lieu of the javelin
men at the assizes ; and thereupon the chief constable, on
tho requisition of the High Sheriff, shall place under his
orders a sufficient number of such constables to keep order
in and within the precinct of the Court of Assize, and upon
such agreement being entered into as aforesaid, it shall be
lawful for the High Sheriff to discontinue the employment
of javelin men." The hon. member said the alteration he
proposed was in operation in Hampshire and other coun-
ties, and was found to work advantageously.
Mr. WYSE considered that the hon. member was pur-
suing a most irregular course in moving the addition to the
clause, as a promise had been given that, next session, a

The house resumed at six o'clock, and was
[LEFT SITTING.]

LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVENING )

OSBORNE HOUSE, JULY 29.

This day had audience of her Majesty : the Prince di Ot-
tajano, ou a special mission from the King of the Two
Sicilies, to deliver a letter from his Sovereign. To which
audience he was introduced by Lord John Russell, her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

select committee would be appointed to inquire into the Aug. 15, at half-past twelve, and Sept. 14, at eleven, at the
subject of the expenses of high. sheriffs. Court of Bankruptcy.
Sir W. MILES opposed the addition, which he con- Joseph Swan, ship owner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Aug.
sidered unnecessary.
After a few words from Mr. HENLEY and Sir G. C. LEWIS 10' at half-past eleven, and Sept. 15, at twelve, at the New-
, castle-upon-Tyne District Court.
The house divided, and the numbers were— George Johnstone Adamson, builder, Twickenham, Aug•
For the additional clause
Against 53
the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Edward Ford, type manufacturer, Aldermanbury,
Majority
The clause was then added to the bill. Court of Bankruptcy.
Mr. J. EWART moved the following addition to SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
clause 18 :—None of the provisions of this clause John Donald M'Neale, Edinburgh.
e merchants, Edinburgh.
relating to a police superannuation fund, or contribution William Henry Lawrie,
thereto, or payments thereout, shall apply to any city,
county, or borough in which a police superannuation fund
has at the time of the passing of this act been established
under the provisions of any local act now in force.
The motion was agreed to and the clause was added to
the bill.
Mr. HODGKINSON moved the following addition :
" And be it enacted, that in every city or borough in Eng-
land in which there shall be a court house or other public
building belonging to any county, or to any riding, parts or
division of a county, it shall be lawful for her Majesty's
justices of the peace acting in and for such city or borough
to use such court house or public building for the purposes
of holding therein the petty sessions of such city or bo-
rough, or of transacting therein any business connected with
the administration of justice in such city or borough with-
out any charge for rent, or other payment, save and except
the reasoable and necessary charges for lighting and clean-
ing such court-house or public building, when the same is
used for the purposes aforesaid. Provided always, that the
necessary arrangements shall be made so that the use of
the said court-house or public building by the said justices
shall not interfere with the business of the county, or of the
riding, parts or division of the county,usually transacted there-
in, or with any purpose for which such court-house or public
building may be used by virtue of any local act in that
behalf : provided further, that in case any difference shall
arise between the said justices and the parties having the
control of any such court-house or public building, as to the
charges or arrangements aforesaid, the same shall be re-
ferred to the Board of Trade, whose decision in the matter
shall be final.
After some discussion,
The Chairman of Committees decided that the motion
could not be put, and it was accordingly withdrawn
Sir J. TROLLOPE moved therollosving clause, which,
after some discussion, was agreed to :—" Whereas the
county of Lincoln is under three separate commissions of
the peace, namely. Lindsey, Kesteven, and Holland, but
is for police superintendence under one chief constable, and
it is found inconvenient and unjust that the superannua-
tion fund should be separate ; be it enacted, that after the
passing of this Act that the said superannuation fund shall
be one common account so long as the police force for the
said county of Lincoln shall be under the direction of one
chief constable for the three divisions ; but if the said force
shall hereafter be separated under different chief constables,
in that case it shall be lawful to divide the said superannua-
tion fund in proportion to the number of men for each divi-
sion of the said county of Lincoln at that time serving in
the said foice."
Mr. DEEDES moved the following clause :—" The chief
constable of any county police force, and the watch com-
mittee of any city, borough, district, or place, is and are
hereby empowered to suspend or dismiss any constable
within their respective jurisdictions for misconduct or dere-
liction of duty ; and in case of such suspension or dismissal,
all or any arrears of pay due to the said constable shall be
forfeited ; and the said chief constable or watch committee
is and are hereby also empowered, at his or their discretion,
to fine any such constable in a sum of money not exceed-
ing one week's pay, and to reduce the said constable from
a superior to an inferior rank, such fine and reduc-
tion in rank to be in addition to any other punish-
ment to which the said constable may be liable ; and all
punishments, penalties, and fines, such as above enume-
rated, heretofore imposed or inflicted under any rules
framed under and by virtue of the third section, two and
three Victoria, chapter 93, shall be deemed to have been
legally imposed or inflicted. The court of general or quar-
ter sessions for any county and the council for anyborough,
may, upon the recommendation of the chief constable of
any county police force, or of the superintendent of the
police for the said borough, grant to any constable in the
sail county or borough out of the Superannuation Fund of
said county or borough a reward in money not exceeding
£3, in respect of and as a reward for any meritorious act
done by the said constable in the execution of his duty."
Some discussion followed, and the hon. member agreed
to withdraw the first part of the clause. The remaining
portion, with some verbal amendments, was agreed to.
Sir W. MILES moved a clause for the abolition of local
parish constables, which was agreed to.
The bill with the additions was then passed.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITIES BILL.
On the order of the day for going into committee on this
bill,
Sir G. C. LEWIS wished to make some explanations
which he had not an opportunity of doing fully on a former
occasion. The object of the bill was to preserve valid
Roman Catholic charities to purposes to which those who
left endowments wished them to be applied ; but it was pro-
posed to give power to the Court of Chancery and the Charity
commissioners to alter designations. He understood, however,
that there was a want of unanimity on the subject. He did
not propose to press the bill this session. (Hear, hear,
from Mr. Bowyer and Mr. Maguire.) He would propose
that the exception to the existing law in reference to Ro-
man Catholic charities should be continued for another
year, and he would move that the order of the day be dis-
charged.
After a few words from Mr. S. ESTCOLTIIT,
Mr. BOWYER said that the great objection to this bill
was, that it proposed to give legislative sanction for the
first time to the Act of Superstititious Uses of Charitable
Trusts. That act was passed in the time of Edward VI.
to enable the Sovereign to take possession cf certain foun-
dations on the ground of their being applied to superstitious
purposes, but it was never intended to be prospective. Any
bill giving I.,,i.iative sanction to such an act would seri-
-.crond Roman Catholics ; and he reminded Protestant
members that they had no interest in the 3itbjoot, which
related entirely to the administration of the property left
for Roman Catholic purposes. It was intended by this
bill to bring them under the operation of the Charities Act
passed some years ago, which was passed to remedy the
evils that were said to exist in respect to some Protestant
foundations. If the house, however, was determined to
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Mr. SPOONER could not agree to the equity of the
exemption of Roman Catholics from the law
of the land, and he was aware that the
wealthy and influential portion of the Roman Catholic body
were in favour of some legislative enactment on this sub-
ject.
Mr. HENNESSY said that no bill introduced by Go-
vernment would receive the support of Ronlin Catholic
members which contained any offensive phraseology im-
puting to them superstitious uses.
Mr. BEAUMONT bore personal testimony to the state-
ment of the Iron. member (Mr. Spooner) as to legislation on
this subject by influential Roman Catholics, and the oppo-
sition:to the bill was led exclusively by Irish Roman Catho-
lics, who really had no interest in the matter.
Mr. BOWYER said that he was exclusively an English
Roman Catholic.
Mr. BEAU MO NT reminded the hon. and learned mem •
ber that h was member for an Irish borough, and therefore
could note be considered exclusively an English Roman
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was withdrawn.
COURT OF PROBATE ACT.
This bill went through committee, and was read a third
time and passed.
The houso suspended sitting at 20 minutes to four o'clock.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tuxs D.Y.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 15 11 151
Antwerp
Brtosels — 25 17k 25 27k
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
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Frankfort on Maine —116 k
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 34 341
Madrid
Cadiz —49 i
3049110
Leghorn
30 0 30 10
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Naples
Palermo — 1221 1221
Messina — 1221 1221
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro

New York — • . ••
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Mexican Dollars
6 2i

Silver in Bars (Standard) lf 0 5 2

LA TV INTELLIGENCE.-(TIIIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lords Justices.)
BANKRUPT PETITION-REDWOOD V. REDWOOD.

This is a petition of appeal from a decision of Mr. Com-
missioner Biggs Andrews, of Exeter, refusing certificate on
the ground of fraudulent preference to his step-son.
_ _

Their lordships affirmed the decision of the Commissioner,
without prejudice to the bankrupt's applying to the Com-
missioner for protection.

NICHOLSON V. NICHOLSON.
This is a petition of appeal from a decision of Mr. Com-
missioner Hill, of Bristol, refusing certificate and protection
to the bankrupt, on the ground of fraudulent contraction
of debt with his partners and keeping irregular business
books.

The bankrupt is imprisoned in Gloucester gaol for a
debt and costs of about £5O.

Their lordships granted liberation and protection to the
bankrupt on deposit of £5O, and his solicitor undertaking
to obey the orders of Court, either to pay the detaining
creditor his debt or restore the bankrupt to prison after the
hearing of the cause next term. The Commissioner to
grant discharge from prison.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(7I113 DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

TILE END OF AN IRISH RAFFLE.—Margaret Noon, an
Irishwoman, residing in Peter-street, Soho, was charged
with creating a disturbance, and annoying the inhabitants
of the Ingest' e Model Buildings, New-street, Soho.
The collector at the buildings said that, this morning,
about two, the prisoner, in front of the buildings, set to
yelling at such a fearful rate that the whole of the inhabi-
tants were roused from their sleep, and finding that she
would not go away, he was compelled to give her in charge.

Bently, 55 C, said he saw the prisoner in Pulteney-court,
fighting with another woman, who, she said, was her friend.
She said she had been to a raffle, and that a fight, as usual,
having ensued, but it not ending satisfactorily, and the pri-
soner and her " friend" not having had enough, were set-
tling the affair before they went home. The prisoner was
making a great noise—yelling at the top of her voice.
The prisoner said, " Sure enough she had been to a raffle
and got drunk, she had been mislested, and she was quietly
settling it."
Mr. Beadon said he would not have the inhabitants of
the:building disturbed because she went to a raffle, and then
set to fighting in the streets. Fined 10s. or seven days.
The collector said he had been threatened by prisoner' a
friends, but Mr. Beadon said he thought he had little to fear
from them.