The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-17 00:00:00

LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

Leave of absence was granted to Mr. Shirley and
Captain J. C. Vivian, on account of ilkess and domestic
affliction.

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS BILL.

The house then went iato coannitwe on this bill.
The premmble Wa3 postponed.
Oe cliuse 2
Mr. GREGORY moved an amendment in the clause,
which was to enable Justices of the Peace to obtain
evidence as to the religion of a child. He proposed to
insert in line I.G, after the word child, " or in case of an
orphan, then the guardians cr nc:ar:Jst, adult relative,"
to the clause. _ .

The amendment was withdrawn, and the clause was
agreed to.
ClNu,es 3 and 4 were agreed to.

On clause 5,
Sir G. GREY drew the at ention of the hon. m,niber
(111 r. Add,iley) to this chose, whir:'.► empowered the
cliagiArates, on a child being taken into custody for beg
ging and vagrancy, to send him or her to prison for 7
days without any proof that an offence had been com-
mitted. He objected to giving the power of remand to
a magistrate without it was cleatly proved that the law
bad been tranppressed.

Mr. A DDERLEY proposed an amendment.
Lord E. HOW&ItD thought that some providon
ought to be introduced to prevont the cLild of a poor
man being sent to a reformatory, an t there detaified.
It would be extremely hard, supp 'slog the parents of the
chid were about to emigrate, that they sh,uld leave the
country without the whole of their children. .

Sir G. GItEV said the clause gave the magistrates
power to order the child to be given up to its parents on
satisfactory proof being given that they were about to
emigrate.
After a few words from Mr. MOORE,
The clause, as amended, was agreed to.
On the que,tion that it stand part of the bill,
Mr. DE VE RE objected strongly to the clause. By
it every child found begging was subject to penal
punishment.
Mr. ADDERLEY said the hon. gentleman who had
just sat down was under a misconception with respect
to the object of the bill. It was not a penal measure, but
one to provide tutelage and protection to them. Instead
of the measure being a very harsh one, it was, on the
contrary, one of great kindness.
Mr. BUXTON said, if the act was one of kindness to
the child it was quite the opposite to parents of the
children. By its provisions a child, who for the first
time might s elicit charity, was liable to be taken into
custody by the police, and, supposing it was under 12
years of age, sent to one of the Industrial Institutions

for seven years.
Sir G. GREY said street begging was one of the
greatest nuisances that at present existed. If the prin-
ciples of the hon. gentleman who had list addressed the
house were adopted, the police would have to look on
quietly and allow crime to ba committed.
After a short discussion in which Mr. Briscoe, Mr.
Maguiro, Mr. Liddell, and other nombers took part,
Mr. DUNLOP said he did not think the clause was
oppressive or ta.just. It was open to the parents of
the child taken into custody and committed to one of
these institutions, on giving security to the amount of
20i. that the offence of bi-gging could not be repeated,
to have the child restored to them.

Mr. HACKBLOCK suggested that the words "being
a well-known beggar or vagrant," should be added to the
bill.

Mr. BAINES—The numerous objections that had
been urged against this clause convinced him that it was
necessary to give this clause further consideration. The
of jest of the bill w!v.; good, and it was the duty of the
house to make it as perf -ct as possible. He suggested
that the clause should be postp ,utd.
Mr. HENLEY ohjectel to the clause.
Mr. ADDERLEY said he should have no oljection
to alter the clause to meet the iews of hon. rnernl:frrs.
After a short discussion, the clause was negatived.
Cause 6 was then proposed.
Mr. MILES moved the omission of the clause.
Mr. HENLEY said, as clause 5, which contained the
pith of the bi 1, bad been struck out, he thought the
best course to pursue wa,4 for the chairman to report
progress.
Mr. ADDERLEY denied that clause 5 was the prin-
cipal one in the bill. The measure would stand very
well without it. If it was the intention of the hon. mernbtr
to oppose the bill, he had better plainly state his intentien
of doing so. If the chairman was to report progress it
would be impossible to pass the measure this session,
and such being the case he should throw up tLe bill
altogether.
Mr. MILES said ho thought it would be very unfair
towards the hon. gentleman (Mr. Aditerley), who had
taken a great deal of trouble with this bill, if he was
prevented from proceeding with it.
Sir G. GREY ite„fgested that the 6th clause should be
struck out, and that the question to what chillren the
bill applied should be decided in clause 7.
The clause was struck out.
On clause 7 bei. g proposed,

_
Mr. BARROW said this clause required a certain se•
curity to he given by the parent of OA ch;ld on its being
taken from one of these institir,ions. lie thought there
wa,4 no advantage in sucla an arrangement. It the ma-
gistrate was sati,fied with the assurance of the parent
that the chill was not a Labitual beggar, he thought he
ought to have the power of ordering its immediate dis-
charge without requiring the parent to enter into re-
cognisances to the amount of twenty shillings. He
moved the insertion of words giving to the magistrates

the power at once to discharge a child without security
if tiJ y ,11,,u41 .hink. fit.
Mr. BOWYER objected to the clause s 1 ogether. .
Mr. COGAN suggested, as it appeared impossible to
get on with the bill; the chairman do reprt progress._

Mr. BOWYER said if they insisted on passing thin
clause he should like to know how poor working men,
who earned 83, or 93. a week, and whose furniture would
not produce 203. if it was sold, were to pay a pound,
supposing ono of their cbillren without their knowledge
got into trouble, and was taken before the magistrate.
Tue amendment wai agreed to without a division.
Mr. HENLEY moved the omission from the clause
of all words relative to the parents giving the required
surety of 203.
After a few words from LDrd LOVAINE and Mr.
BLAND, the props;sition of the hon. member for Oxford-
Aire was adopted.

Mr. Sergeant O'BRIEN said as the alteration in-
volved the introduction of a new principle of la w he
should move the omission of the clause.

Mr. DEASY moved au amendment limiting the time
to which a child might be sent to one of these induariel
institutions to two Sears instead of seven.

Mr. ADDERLEY strongly objected to the amend-
ment.

Mr. BOWYER moved that the chairman report pro-
gress, as the committee hal struck out the most icapor-
tat clause in the bill.

Sergeant O'BRIEN said the beet course for the hon.
member for Staffordehiie to pursue was to strike out
clause 7, and bring up a new clause in its place on the
reception of the report.
The motion fa reporting progress was then with-
drawn.

The committee then divided upon Mr. Deasfa
amendment.
For the amendment
Against it , 197
Majority.. -134

Mr. HENLLY said the house had decided against
the limit being fixed at two years. He wished to
know whether four years would be objected to.
Mr. ADDERLEY nad the greatest objection to any
limited period being laid down at which a child west° be
turned out of an inoustrial institution. He would rather
give up the bill than consent %o any such limitation.
Mr. BARROW gave notice of his intention to move
an amenclinebt to the effect that 12 years be the age
at which children should leave industrial schools, in-
stead of 15, as provided by the present clause.
Mr. GREGORY moved that tho addition of the fol-
lowing words to the clause :—" ProvidA, however, if
within the county where the child was taken into cus-
tody, or any adj pining county, there shall be any cer-
tified Industrial school conducted on the principles of the
religious persuasion to which the parent of the child in
the opinion of the justices shall bt ling, and the managers
of such school ehall be willing to receive him, such child
shall be cent to such last-mentioned school, and not to
any other."
Mr. ADDERLEY said he had no abjection to the
amendment.

The amendment was agreed to.
Mr. HENLEY moved atthe end of the proviso words
to the effect teat a chili should only be sent to an indus-
trial school within the county, or adjoining county to
which its parents belonged.
Mr. ADDERLEY opposed the addition of the
wording.
The committee then divided upon Mr. Henley's
amendment, in hen there appeared—

For amendment 55
Against it
Majority --145
After a few nerds from Mr. RIDLEY and Mr. SLLNEY,
the 'taus°' as amendel, was agreed to.
Cause 8 was postponed.
Cliuse 9 was then proposed.
Mr. p 0 WYEU, moved that the Chairman report
progress.
For the motion
Against i
Majority -176
Mr. HENLEY moved an amendment to clause 9. If
paren t should desire t I have his child removed from a school
on religious grounds he should not be called upon to
pay the expenses. The alteration of the hon. member
was to relieve Parents under such circumstances from
the payment of the expenses.

The aroendmect r,;.3 agreed to.
Mr, BOWYER, was about to move another amend-
ment, Rhin the debits (it beicg a quarter to six), was
adjourned.
GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) BILL.

This WI was read a third time and passed.
The cther orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the house adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day).

THAMES,

ROBBERY or TEA IN THE LONDON DOCK.—John
Clark, a labourer, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged
with stealing 31bs. of tea, the property of the London Dock
Company, ou their premises.
Thomas Bridges, a gatekeeper in the employ of the Dock
Company, said the prisoner was leaving the dock yester-
day and looked very bulky. He stopped him and asked
him if ho bad anything about him, to which he replied,
" nothing at all." Ho searched the prisoner, and on strip-
ping him found on his person 31bs. of black tea. It was
.ntained in papers, ingeniously concealed between his
shirt and his body.
The prisoner, in defence, said he picked up the tea.
Mr. Selfe—No doubt of it, and that is the vary thing
you ought not to have done.
The Constable said there was a large quantity of tea
spread out on the tea floors, and the prisoner, who was an
occasional labourer, had access to them.
The i.risonr begged hard for mercy.
George, a dock con,table, said that the prisoner had
been convicted, and sentenced to eight days' imprisonment
for plundering wine.
The prisoner—I was never here in my life until this dry.
Mr Golfe—You are adding a lie to your dishonesty.
You have been here before. I sentence you to six weeks
imprisonment, and hard labour.

M ARLBOROUG H-STRE ET.
WATCH ROBBERY PREVENTED.—WiIIiam Jones, James
Cronin, and William Regan, three well-known thieves,
were charge before Mr. Beadon with attempting to steal
a valuaclo gold watch, the property of Mr. liirkbride, of
No. Long-acre.
It appeared from the evidence of Cole, a very efficient
officer of the A. division, No. 317, that about half-past 10
o'clock he was on duty in plain clothes opposite Langham's
public-house. A mob of Letween 400 and 500 persona had
as,onbled outside to hear the result of a prize fight which
11;,(1 taken place that day, and amongst the mob he saw the
three prisoners, who wore busily pursuing their avocations.
He watched them for some time, and saw the prisoners
coming towards the mob. The prisoners as soon as they
caught sight of him dodged him for a short time, and even-
tually the prisoner Regan rushed upon prosecutor and
seized his gold watch, worth 201. from his waistcoat
pocket. The prisoner Regan was not successful in his
first effort, and prosecutor went into Langham's and when
he came out ag-tiu the prisoners were about making a
second attack upon him, when witness went up to prose.
cutor, apprised him of what had occurred, and with the
assistance of other constables, took the prisoners into cus-
tody.
Mr. Kirkbride corroborated the evidence of the officer,
who applied to have the prisoners remanded to a future
day.
Mr. Boadon commended the officers' vigilance ani re.
mantled the prisoners for a week,

THE MURRAIN.—The murrain subsisting among the
cattle on the Russo-Prussian frontier having ceased, the
usual intercommunication has been provisionally re-es-
tablished.
PROSECUTION OF BAKERS FOR ADULTERATING BREAD.
—Yesterday several informations laid against bakers, in
the county of Middlesex, for adulterating their bread
with alum, were laid before themagistrates at the Town-
hall, Uxbridge. The magistrates were, Mr. T. Dagnall,
chairman. Mr. T. T. Clark, and Mr. T. R. Riches. The
informations were laid by Mr. James Gregg, the inspec-
tor of weights and measures for that district of the
county, under the Act of the 6tb and 7th Will. 4, c. 37.
Charges were preferred against six bakers, most of
whom pleaded guilty, and they were severally fined 11/.
including costs.
FATAL EXPLOSION.—An explosion took place yester-
day morning at the gunpowder mills of Messrs. Curtis
and Harvey, on Hounslow-heath, near the viraze of
Bedfont, whereby the life of one man (Greaves) was
sacrificed and two others (Walker and Etat) are in
imminent jeopardy. This accident was rather singular
in its character. The machinery was at rest, and was
undergoing the process of cleaning and adjusting, when
Welker saw fire raised by the implement in the hand of
East. As no tools except copper cr brass are allowed
within these buildings, it is impossible to account for the
cause of this accident. The machinery, th ug s displaced
is ti=tle injured, from the small quaotityof p•oeder which
happened to be within the house. The building itself is,
of course, entirely destroyed.
A letter from Rome, in the Augsburg Gazette, says :
Councilnd a great num-
berof Trent.
g"ftee printing-office of the Vatic en is about to be re-
establishedot
sr order
connectedto pin t
witht e acts
the
a
ber.fduminen
Tbi-4great work is to be divided into two parts, each in
three volumes in folio. The first part will record the
proceedings of the council in the shape of a diary. The
second will reproduce the correspondence of the o apost
cal ',uncles, bishops, and ,
effigies and a number of
other documental 11 of interest."
AIEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. — Another
large au influential naeeting of the Cathol:cnobility_and
ere
gentry was held vest
, -a
ay afternoon at- the Stafford-
street Club, for the purpose of considering the course
which it is de,erable fur their representatives in Parlia-
ment to adopt in reference to the Parliamentary Oaths
Bill. The following resolution was proposed by the
Hon. Charles Laegdale, seconded by Mr. E. Ryley
and carried with only fix dissentient voices —" That
this meeting believes that the fifth clause of the Bill
re-enacts the Cathol.c oath, which is acknowledged to be
t,ffensive in its terms even t•y Protestant gentleman, and
suljecting Catholics to offensive imputations, and there-
fore hopes that Catbol c members of both houses will be
induced to continue to oppose its re-enactment." A
petition to both Houses of Parliament, in accordance
above resolution, and protesting
against the " inviduous distinction with the spirit -of the„
distinction still maintained in
the disfavour of the Catholic body, now lies at the
' &afford street Club for signature.
SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUll.—After the Queen and
I members of the Legislature have paid
pt ivate visits to
the Museum, it will be opened to the public, bcth in the
day time and the evening, on and after Wednesday, the
24th inst. Btsides the variouscollections of architecture,
sculpture, patented inventions, &c., the Sheepshanks
pictures will be ezhihited in the new gallery erected ex-
pre-sly to receive them. The admission of the public to
the Museum lighted up in the evening is the first expo-
riment of the kind with a public institution, and, t
hoped will be acceptable to those who wcrk is the
time.