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HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 20.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY.
Mr. GREENE moved that it be an instruction to the
Committee on the Eastern Counties Railway Bill to hear
the petitioners against the Bill on any ground of objection
arising out of the lease of the Northern and Eastern
Railway, thereby intended to be confirmed, although
such grounds of objection be not specifically set forth in
their petitions, provided it be shown to the satisfaction
of the Committee that such petitioners have a right to be
heard before them.—Agreed to.
Mr. TURNER presented a petition from Chichester,
praying. that:the- 111 onseAvould!adopt, some .means which
would tend to put an end to the practice 'Ordneltint: -
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented a petition
from the weavers of Aberdeen, praying for a fall, fair,
and free representation of the people.
DROPPED . ORDERS.

The dropped Orders, in consequence of the House
being counted out last night, were re-appointed.
NEW WRIT.

A now writ was ordered to be issued for the borough
of Hastings, in the room of the Right Hon. Joseph
Planta, who has accepted the office of the Chiltern Hun-
dreds.

When the next clause was proposed,
Mr. SCOTT moved, as an amendment, that the words
" knights of the shire" should be omitted, and the
word " coroner " substituted in its place.
Mr. PAKINGTON opposed the amendment.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE supported the amendment, on
the ground that as the clause stood at present it would
disfranchise many persons, and ha hoped they would
not consent to a disfranchising Bill.

Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the
Committee divided, when there appeared—

For the amendment 7O
Against it
Majority in favour of the amendment —2s
On our readmission to the gallery, we found clause
7 under discussion, which was. agreed to ; after a few
words from Mr. PAKINGTON.

Clauses 8,9, 10 were agreed to, without amendment.
Clauses 11 to 19, inclusive, were agreed to, without
alteration.

On clause 20 being read,
Mr. PAKINGTON said it would be in the recollection
of the House that when they were last proceeding with
this Bill a good deal of discussion had taken place on
the subject of remuneration to coroners, and much differ-
ence of opinion prevailed. It had been maintained by
several Honourable Members, that when the coroner
had two or more inquests he charged mileage for them
all, and was authorised by the law to do so. From
that opinion he (Mr. Pakington) had differed, and, in
looking into the law authorities, he found his opinion to
be a correct one. The law permitted them to charge for
the several inquests only from place to place, the dis-
tance from their homes they were obliged to go. This
was the law; but he had been astonished to find how
the practice had varied from the law. To remedy
this state of things, and make law and prac-
tice march together, he proposed to add to this
clause the following words :—" Provided always, that
whenever any coroner shall take more than one inquest
on the same day, then, in respect of every inquest after
the first, the said sum of one shilling per mile shall be
computed and paid to such coroner, for every mile only
which he shall be compelled to travel in going from the
place of holding any one inquest to the place of holding
any other inquest on the same day."
Mr. B. ESCOTT hoped his lion. Friend (Mr.
Pakington) would not press the proviso.
The proviso was then agreed to, after a slight verbal
alteration.

Clause 23 was agreed to. Clause 24 was also agreed
to, with an amendment for the insertion of a paragraph
including the County Palatinate of Chester. The re-
training clauses having been agreed to,
Mr. PAKINGTON moved that a clause be added to
the Bill, by way of rider, to the effect that—" Whereas
by the Act 6 and 7 Victoria it was enacted, that for the
purpose of holding coroners' inquests every detached
part of a country, riding, or division, shall be deemed to
be within that county, riding, or division by which it is
wholly surrounded, or where it is partly surrounded by
two or more counties, ridings, or divisions, within that
one with which it has the longest common boundary :
and whereas, as to some such detached parts of counties,
ridings, or divisions, there were, at the time of the pass-
ing of the said last-mentioned Act, coroners appointed
expressly for and having jurisdiction in such detached
parts only, and doubts have arisen whether such last-
mentioned coroners were superseded by such last-men-
tioned Act ; be it therefore enacted, that as to every
such detached part of any county, riding, or division,
for which at the titne of the passing of the said last-
mentioned Act there was a coroner appointed for and
acting in such detached part, such last-mentioned
coroner shall (if now living) continue to hold and exer-
cise his former office and jurisdiction within such de-
tached part, for so long a time and in such manner as
such coroner would have held and exercised the said
office and jurisdiction if the said last-mentioned Act had
not passed, anything in this or any, other Act to the
contrary in anywise notwithstanding."
The clause was agreed to, and the House resumed.
The Report was brought up and received, and the
Bill was ordered to be read a third time on the 27th of
March.

the powei of disposing of cases respecting claims for
wages by domestic servants.
Sir J. GRAHAM thought the Hon. Gentleman had
better allow the Bill to go through Committee, and
move the addition of the clause to which he had ad-
verted on the third reading, when he (Sir J. Graham)
would give it his best consideration.
Mr. BARCLAY said he would adopt the course re-
commended by the Right Hon. Baronet.
The Ist clause was then agreed to.
Clauses 2 and 3 were agreed to.
Mr. 1Y EYNCOURT, after a few words from Sir J.
GRAHAM, said, he should at a futnre period, move as
an amendment, that to render this clause operative, the
coy tract should be made in writing.
Mr. DARBY would oppose the amendment, because
of the extreme rarity of such contracts ever being per-
feked In Writing." •

Mr. AGLION‘ BY thought it would be very difficult
to define the distinction between what was called in the
Bill domestic servants and those employed out of doors.
Sir J. GRAHAM said, they had not yet had suffi-
cient time to consider this Bill, so as to be able to make
the definition alluded to by the Hon. Member. He
thought it would be better if they were to report
progress, when they would have an opportunity of con-
sidering the matter in Committee.
The House resumed, the Chairman reported progress,
and the Bill was ordered to be recommitted on Wednes-
day next.

The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Half-past Seven o'clock.

PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceednegs of the House of Commons.)
MONDAY, MARCH 18.
•

FACTORIES BILL.-(IN THE COMMITTEE.)

Interpretation Clause :—" And the word • night' shall be
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the clock on the following morning :"—Question put," That
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MAJORITY—AYES, 161.
Acland, Sir T. D Fuller, A. E. Murray, A.
Acland, T. 1). Gardner, J. D. Napier, Sir Charles
Ainsworth, Peter Gill, Thomas Neville, Ralph
Antrobus, Edmund Gladstone, J. N. Newport, VI count
Arundel, Lord Gore, M. O'Brien, A. S.
Astell, William Gore, W. Ormsby Ossulston, Lord
Bankes, George Gore, Robert Packs, C. W.
Beckett, William Goring, Charles Paget, F.
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Bernal, Ralph Gregory, W. H. Pakingtou, J. S.
Blackstone, W. Grey, Sir G. Palmer, R.
Blake, M. J. Grimsditch, Thomas Palmerston, Viscount
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Bradshaw, James Grogan, Edward Plumrstre, J. P.
Brameton, T. W. Guest, J. Pluntridge, Captain
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Brotherton, J. Hardy, John Praed, William T.
Buller, C. Hastie, A. Pusey, Philip
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Butler, P. S. Hayes, Sir E. Rashleigh, Wm.
Byng, Hon. G. S. Heathcoat, J. Rendlesham, Lord
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Cavendish, Hon. G.' Hindley, Char Ps Richards, Richard
Cayley, E. S. Hollond, Rcbert Ross, David R.
Chapman, it. Hope, Alexander Russell, Lard John
Cnetvvode, Sir John Hornby, John Russell, J. 1)
Cochrane, Alex. Hersman, Edward Ryder, G. D.
Colborne, Ridley Howard, C. G. W. Sandon, Viscount
Colquhoun, John C. Howard, Lord Shaw, Frederick
Copeivnd, Alderman iinwirk, Lord Sibtherp, Colonel
Cowper, Hon W. Humphery, J. Smith, J. Abel
Crawford, W. S. Inglis, Sir R. Smith, R. Vernon
Cresswell, A. J. B. James, Sir Walter Smollett, Alexander
Curteis, H. B. Jocelyn, Viscount Strickland, Sir ti.
Davies, D. A. S Johnstone, Sir John Taylor, Edward
Dawnay, %V. H. Kemble, Henry Taylor. J. A.
Denison, F B. Knight, H. G. Tollemache J.
D'Eyncourt, T. C. Law, Hon. C. K Toml.ne, d.
Dickinson. F. H. Lawson, Andrew Towneley, John
Duff, James Lefroy, Anthony Trotter, J.
Duke, Sir James Legh, G. C. Troubridge, Sir T.
Duncombe, T. S. Leveson, Lord 'lufnell, H.
Duncombe, 0. Lindsay, H. Vane, Lord Harry
Dundas, Admiral Lowther, John H. Vivian, J. H.
Du Pre, C. G. M'Geachy, F. A. Wakley, Thomas
Easthope, Sir John Mahon, Lord Walker, R.
Ebrington, Viscount Mainwaring,„"T Wawn, J. T.
Ellice, E. Mangles, R. D. Williams, W.
Ellis, Wynn Manners, Lord J. Wilshere, W.
Emlyn, Viscount Maxwell, Hon. J. P. Yorke, H. Redhead
Farnham. E. B. Miles, William
Feilden, J. Milnes, Richard
Fox, C. R. Morris, David
French, F. Muntz, G. F.

TELLERS.
Ashley, Lord
Wortley, Hon. JohnS

MINORITY—NOES, 153.
A'Court rapt. Escott, Bichkam Mitcalfe, Henry
Aldam, William Estcourt, T. G. B. Mitchell, 'l'. A.
Arkwright, George • Evans, William . Morgan, Octavius
Bailey, Joseph, jun. Filmier, Sir E. Mundy, E. Miller
litailhe, Colonel H. Fitzmaurice, W. • Nichol' Hight Hon
Balfour, J. M. Flower, Sir James Norreys, Sir D. J.
Baring, Hon. W. B Forster, Matthew O'Ferrall, It. M.
Bating, Henry Fox, S. Lane Owen, Sir John
Baring, F. T. Fremantle, Sir T. Parker, J.
Barrington, Viscount Gibson, T. M. Patten, John Wilson
Barron, Sir H. Gisborne, Thomas Pattison, James
Bentinck, Lord G. Gladstone, W. E. Peel, Sir Rob•-•rt
Blak emote, R. Gordon, aptain Peel, Jonai Lan
Boldrro, H. G. . Goulburn, Henry Philips, G. It.
'letfield, Serials Graham, Sir J. Pringle, Alexander
Bowes. J. Hamilton, Wm.,J. Protheroe Edward
swell Bos Dr. Hardinge, "SirJ
H. Ricardo, J. L.
Bright,John Hay. Sir A. L. Rushbrooke, Colonel
Bruce, Lord E. Herbert, Sidney Sanderson. It.
Bruges, W. H. L. Hinde, J. H. Borden, R C.
Buck, L. W. Hobhouse, Sir J. Scott, Robert
Buller, E. Hodgson, Frederick Shelburne, Lord
Cardwell, Edward Holmes, W. A'Court Smith, T. B C.
Carnegie, Captain • Hope, Charlo Smythe, Hon. G.
Castlereagh, Viscount Hope, G. W. Somerset, Lord G.
Childers, J. W. Houldsworth, T. Sotheron T. H,
Chute, Willi em L W Howard, P. H. Stanley, Lord
Clay, Sir W. !fume, Joseph Stanley, Edward
Clayton, Rice R. Hussey. Thomas Stuart, Lord J.
Clerk, Sir George Hut:, W. Stuart, Villiers
Cockburn, Sir U. Jennyn, Earl Strutt, Edward
Colebrooke, Sir T. Johnstone, A. Sutton, Hon. H. M.
Collett, W. Bickford Johnstone, Hope Tennent, J. E.
Corn,. Henry , Jones, Captain Thesiger, F.
Craig, W. Gibson - - Knatchbull, Sir B. Tnompsou' Aid.
CriPPs. W. • Knlghtley, Slr C. Thornely, Thomas
Darner Colonel Laboucbere, H. Thornhill, G.
Darby, George Lemon, J
SirC. Tollemache F. J.
Dawson, T. V. Lennox, Lord A. Trelawny, J. S.
Denaistoun, J. Lincoln, Earl of Walsh, Sir John
Divett, E. Lockhart, William Warburton, H.
Dodd, George ' Lyall, George Wellesley, Lord C.
Douglas, Sir C. E. Lygon, General Wilbraham, It. B,
Douro, Marquis of Mackenzie, W. F. Williams, T. P.
Duffield, T. D. lii`Neill, Duncan Winnington, Sir 'I.
Dugdale, W. S. Manners, Lord C. S. Wood, Colonel
Duncan, Viscount March, Earl of Wood, Coloue IT.
Duncan, George Marshall, W. Wyndham Colonel
Duncannon, Lord Alarsham, Viscount Young, John
Egerton, .T. Martin, C. W. TELLERS.
Lord Eliot, ord Masterman, John Hodgson, It,
Elphinstone, Howard Meynell, Captain Collett, John

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARLIA,
MENT.
TUESDAY, MARCH 19.
Garnkirk, Glasgow, and Coatbridge Railway to ex-
tend the line of the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway; to
'enable the Company to raise a further sum of money, and
to alter and amend the Acts relating to the said Railway,"
presented, and read a first time.
Whitehaven and Maryport Railway Bill—read a second
time, and committed, and referred to the Committee of
Selection.

Leeds and Selby Railway Purchase (No. 2) Bill—read a
second time, and committed, and referred to the Committee
of Selection.

Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Bill—Report considered;
Amendments agreed to ; Bill to be engrossed.
North Wales Mineral Railway—Petition for Bill reported;
Report referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders.
Sheffield and Chesterfield Junction Railway—Petition for
Bill reported ; Report referred to the Select Committee on
Standing Orders.
Great Western Railway Bill—Report considered; Amend•
ments agreed to ; Bill to be ingrossed.

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGI-
NEERS-MR. THOS. STEELE.

On TueSday, at the conclusion of the meeting of the London
Institution of Civil Engineers, the distinguished President,
Mr. Walker, said, that, before separating he hoped the as-
bly would give expression to its gratification in having among
them again their brother member, the head pacificator of Ire-
land, and the proposition was received by a crowded meeting
with loud applause. . . .

Mr. STEELE rose, and after expressing, in energetic terms,
his fervent gratitude for such a resplendent compliment from
such a body, said that he was not going to make a speech,
but that, having given utterance to his own feelings, he
begged permission to say a few words on the part of his
country. He then gave assurance, with deep solemnity, that
there has been generated by recent events, in the souls of his
countrymen, a spirit of intense gratitude and of attachment
to the people of England for their conduct, such as never
before existed in Ireland since the creation of the world. He
then resumed his seat.

C 0 MMISSI ONE]
A Return to show in columns
of the Board of Customs, in
each was appointed to the E
Age, the Occupation, Call
each filled previously to be

EIS'OF CUSTOMS.
the names of the Commissioners
; London, with the Age at which
;aid Office, and also his present
Ling, or Office (if any), which
ing so. appointed.

Age
when
appoint-

Years.
Commis-
sioner 36
Chair-
: man 45

Present
Age:

Office or Occupation held
immediately preceding
his appointment as Com-
missioner of Customs.

Years.
70

Custom-house, Bth March, 1844.

Chairman of the Com-
mission of Special Re-
venue Inquiry in the
W. Indies & America.
IChairman of the Board
for Auditing the Pub-
lic Amounts.
( Secretary to the Board
1 of Customs.
1 Private Secretary to one
of the Secretaries of
the Treasury.
Barrister-at-Law.

Barrister-at-Law and
Memb. of Parliament.
f Ree elv er-Gener al of the
1. Customs.
1 Private Secretary to the
Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer.
r Secretary to the Admi-
t rally.

C. SCOVELL, Secretary.

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On Tuesday evening, shortly before six, an alarm-
ing fire broke out at the Cooper's Arms public-house, in
Huntingdon-street, Hoxton. The inmates and neighbours
endeavoured to extinguish the flames, but, owing to the
stroll hold they had obtained, they spread with astonishing
rapidity. The parish engine was soon on the spot, followed
by three brigade engines and the West of England. An im-
mediate supply of water being obtained, the three first en-
gines poured a great torrent of water upon the flames, but
some time elapsed before the fire was completely out. The
fire originated from a spark flying out of the tire amongst
the furniture in the room. Mr. Benton is insured in the
Atlas Fire-office: .

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The defeat sustained b Ministers on Lord
Ashley's proposed limitation of the hours of labour for
women and children employed in factories to ten hours.
has filled the anti-manufacturers with delight. The
Standard pronounces it a "glorious triumph ;" and
" laments that her Majesty's Ministers voted in the mi-
nority." ‘‘ It is the first time they have so voted ; be-
cause," says the recently-installed organ of the Govern-
ment, " it is the first time they have been wrong !" The
Post absolutely revels in contemplation of the difficulties
in which the adverse vote has involved Sir Robert
Peel, and in the self-stultifying contradictions which Sir
James Graham uttered, in utter obliviousness of for-
mer speeches. The Times, which on Saturday in-
voked heaven and earth to aid Lord Ashley in accom-
plishing his god-like purpose, was yesterday sobered by
the vote of the preceding night, and looked at the ques-
tion with the eye of practical common sense. This
morning there is—no unusual thing with the Times—an
inclination to give the other side a turn. Sir J. Graham
is alternately rated and ridiculed for rigorously adhering
to the 12 hours he originally proposed as the maximum of
labour for females and children employed in factories.
Sir Robert Peel is hit off as a statesman distinguished
for infirmity of purpose ; who sees the right course, but
is seared from pursuing it by the difficulties which pre-
sent themselves :—" He (Sir R. Peel) sees the future
duties of the British legislator only to shrink from
them. He sees, in the protection of the British
labourer, nothing but a horrible bugbear, pursuing the
unfortunate Minister, session after session, through
town and country, factory and dwelling, through a
labyrinthine intricacy of public and private relations."
The truth of the description given by the Times of
the Premier, and of his man-of-all-work at the Home-
office, we are not disposed to question. But we greatly
doubt whether the prediction that journal ventures
•to put forth as to the fate of the Bill, in favour
of which it embarks so much zeal, will be realised
by the vote to which Sir James Graham last evening
announced he intended to appeal on Friday night,
when'the Bill will be further considered in Committee.
Mr. Labouchere having inquired of Lord Ashley "what
his intentions were as to the amendment on the
Factory Bill, which he succeeded in inducing the House
to adopt on the preceding (Monday) night ?"—Lord
Ashley stated, that "in order to make his amend-
ment as little offensive as possible in quarters which
he wished to conciliate, he intended to submit certain
modifications (which he stated at length) in the clause
as it now stood, and by which he hoped the oppo-
sition with which the ten hours' clause had been
threatened would be diminished, if not wholly with-
drawn." Sir James Graham's reply was at once prompt,
explicit, and—we apprehend—decisive of the fate of the
measure. We have expressed ourselves as doubtful re-
specting the policy of this legislative interference with
the rights of capital and the interests of industry,
now sought to be more stringently applied.
The humanity which is urged as the basis
of the interference is, we fear, short-sighted,
though sincere. Let us not be mistaken. We
are no advocates for the ceaseless toil to which the la-
bouring classes are subjected, and from which females
and young persons especially ought to be exempt. Un-
remitted labour is debasing to the individual, and dan-
gerous to society. But the severity of labour which
is demanded from the working classes, and the meagre-
ness of the remuneration which most of them receive,
is chargeable—not upon the manufacturers, to whom all
kinds of cruelty have been imputed, bid to the
opponents of extended commercial intercourse, and the
partizans of monopoly. To these the charge of cruelty
to the factory women and children is far more. justly
applicaLle than to the master manufacturers ; who.
themselves share the disadvantages of the restric-
tive commercial policy, which necessarily falls with
crushing weight upon those in their employ.
The Ten Hours' Bill strikes at the root •of none of
the evils which affect the poor. The opponents of ill-
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noisy clamourers for diminishing by law the hours of
labour in factories, with the certainty of, by so doing,
diminishing the earnings of the labourers, and thus
further curtailing their already insufficient supply of.
food. Those who originated this questionable measure
—we speak not of Lord Ashley, who has been induced
to take the lead by the impulse of his heart,
which has, in this instance, refused to be guided by
enlightened judgment in a matter in which his.
feelings have become embarked ; but .of the origina-
tors of this Ten Hours' Bill, and those who were most
active in launching it upon the tide of benevolent, but,
as we think, mistaken philanthropy—the originators
of this project are among the number of those who were
content to leave the people uneducated and uninstructed
in domestic economy; they were horror-stricken at
the thought of their being politically enlightened; they
were the indiscriminating defenders of the old vitiat-
ing poor-law system; they are the champions of re-
strictions on trade—and they would add to the bene-
faetions of their microscopic benevolence, the paltry
boon of reducing the hours of the labour of the ill-paid
poor, thus making them still poorer ! Surely these re-
collections are sufficient to create suspicions as to the
soundness of the philanthropy whence this scheme has
emanated, and to justify a disinclination to accept from
such quarters, without the fullest evidence to confirm
its claims to confidence, a project which comes recom-
mended from so questionable a source !

STANDARD.—Lord Ashley last night declared his
willingness to agree to any terms uponwhich the abridg-
ment of the hours of factory labour, determined upon by
the vote of the House of Commons on Monday, should
be introduced in the most gradual manner. He was ready
to continue twelve hours for six months, then to pass to
eleven hours, and not to make the complete reduction to
ten hours before 1846. This proposition, we lament to
say, was not received as we think it ought to have
been, by the opponents of the reduction, Sir James
Graham declaring his resolution to adhere permanently
to the twelve hours. This perseverance is to us per-
fectly inexplicable. The limitation to ten hours will be
made final in 1846 as certainly as the year 1846 shall
arrive. The feeling of the whole country commands it,
and that feeling has grown up too gradually, and
is too much the effect of rational conviction, to
be changed in twenty-four months or twenty-four years.
The Leaguers will no doubt attempt to operate a
diversion in favour of their tyrannical monopoly,
by new and fiercer attacks upon the agricultural
body, but the Leaguers are in truth already dead
beaten—beaten, not solely or principally by the agri-
cultural associations, very properly formed to check
their progress in the rural districts, but beaten in
the first place by the good sense of the population
in the towns and in the manufacturing districts.
It was a consciousness that their fallacies and their
sordid purpose were seen through by the intelligent
townsmen and manufacturers that drove them into
the country to look for proselytes ; there is, there-
fore, no hope for them unless the representatives of
agricultural districts again throw the town popu-
lation and the manufacturing population into their
hands by opposing the ten hours resolution. Let the agri-
cultural Members look to this. They have the League
at their mercy • they may crush it into annihilation by
supporting Lord Ashley ; they may revive it in aug-
mented strength by opposing his Lordship. Last night,
the 19th of March, 1844 (we mark the time exactly, be-
cause, if the agricultural Members now make a mistake,
we may have to recur to the state of public feeling
at this particular time), last night the emissaries of the
League were ignominiously chased from a meetingcalled
by themselves in the metropolis of England—from a
meeting, not only in the metropolis, but in its very
centre—and that part of London where League
notions might be expected to be most popular.
The meeting was held on Clerkenwell-green, and,
of course composed in much the greater part of
the electors of Finsbury—the constituents of Mr.
Coroner Wakley and Mr. Thomas Slingsby Duncombe.
This shows the estimation in which the League is now
held. The agricultural Members of the House of Com-
mons may, by their votes on Lord Ashley's Bill, either
confirm the prostration of their enemies, or revive
them; and with this assurance, that it is not in their
power, or in the power of mortal man, ultimately to pre-
vent a Ten Hours' Bill, though it is quite competent to
them to resuscitate the enemy who would ruin them
and their constituents. But, excepting such efforts as
the Leaguers may make in the interval to divert
public attention from the question, what is there
that can occur to shake the present universal
conviction that the hours of continued labour for
women and children in factories ought not to exceed
ten ? Arguments will no doubt be offered in favour of
prolonged labour, and we welcome them, for we never
met one that would stand ten minutes of calm investiga-
tion. We have, indeed, met few that, properly con-
sidered, did not conduct to a conclusion precisely the
opposite to that to which it was intended to lead.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 14 per mille,
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10}d. per ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 50i ; and the
exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 65, it follows
that gold is 0.58 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 434 i per
mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 94 ; and
the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 1 lff,
it follows that gold is 0.80 per cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgh.

CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—At a Court of the Governors
of this institution, held on Monday, 185 presentations for boys
were issued for the current year; and at the same time a
highly honourable testimonial of the approbation of the
Court was unanimously voted to Mr. H. J. S. Maine, 8.A.,
of Pembroke College, Cambridge, a former pupil and present
exhibitioner of Christ's Hospital, on the circumstance of his
having been placed at the head of the Classical :Trips at the
recent examination for honours in that University.