The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-06 00:00:00

regulations upon the exportation or the consump- 1
tion at home of manufactured goods. 'This, how-
ever, you can do ; you can set reason ble limits to
the human labour in manufactories. You can by
law prevent persons being forced to toil 16 or 18
hours a day in 1844 or 1845, in order hat they may
be starved for the three years following. You will
thus render it impossible for_ speculators to anti-
cipate the markets of future years to the extent
they are now doing, and you will get better
work, because you will have a class of constantly em-
ployed, and therefore more skilful workmen. This
is the ffuard against "gluts," and the consequences of
" gluts'—misery, discontent, Chartism, and insurrec-
tion. We write this on the sth of December, 1844.
We hope that we shall not have to refer to the article
before the end of the next year.

PUSEYIS3I.
It is an encouraging symptom, in the midst of so
much that is discouraging in connexion with the Tree-
tarian heresy, that whatever progress it may be making
in high places—and we rejoice to see that even there, it
it is gaining on one side it is losing on the other—the
common people, the lower and middle ranks of the Pro-
te:3tant community, seem to be heartily and unitedly op-
posed to it. We have had various examples of this in
what has occured in other places, and in further illustra-
tion of it we refer to the following passage from the re- ,
port of the Protestant Operative meeting in this town on
Monday night :
The Rev. Joseph Baylee moved the adoption of the
report, and, in doing so, said he attended Operative Pro-
testant meetings in Liverpool with greater pleasure than
he should feel in attending meetings of the wealthy
classes. They had two men on the platform that even-
ing who were living examples of the liberty Rome
allowed:—one was a native of the city of Rome (Signor
Ciocci), who had been three weeks in the Inquisition
because he had dared to read his Bible, and the other
was Mr. Samuel Philips Day, late a monk of the Presen-
tation Order, in the county of Cork. He, therefore,
looked not with despondency on the present state of
things.
A voice—What do you think of the Puseyitee?
Another voice—Turn him out.
Mr. Baylee—No; don't turn him out. lam glad he
has asked me the question.. I think a Pnseyite is a little
worse than a Papist.—(Load cheers, and the Kentish
fire.) When I resided in the West of Ireland, we had
two Roman Catholic Archbishops—Dr. M'Hale, who
said he would bring the fish up out of the sea if they
would kill me; and Dr. Murray, who spoke soft things
and who sat at the National Education Board with a
Protestant Archbishop. What we said at Achill was,
that, of the two, we should much rather have Dr.
M'Hale, inasmuch as we preferred the man who carried
a pitchfork on his shoulder, to the man who carried it
under his cloak. So with Puseyism. I would much
rather have a Roman Catholic priest in my pariah than
a Puseyite; because the Puseyite brings Romanism into
the church, while the other brings it outside the door.—
(Great cheers.) I want no candles on the altar—no sur-
plice in the pulpit, none of the innovations of Puseyism,
none of the justificatory works of the system, none of the
corrupted gospel of Newman.—(Vehement applause.)
The Rev. Gentleman proceeded at much further length
to show that the. Puseyite was a Papist inside the church,
1 and that it was impossible to hate Romanian more than
God hated it.—Liverpool Courier.

ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-EAS-
TERN RAILWAY.—TWO LIVES LOST.
DOVER, DEC. 4.—A great sensation was caused here
last night, by a report that two lives had been lost in
one of the tunnels between Dover and Folkstone.
Upon inquiry it was found to be too true; the suf-
ferers were G. Coveney and E. Jackson ; both have left
wives, and, it is believed, families, The deceased
were employed, as labourers on the South-Eastern
Railway, near the Warren, and when the accident
happened were on their way home from work.
They were in the Abbot's Cliff Tunnel, and probably
were walking on the rails. The up-train which leaves
here fatty minutes past five, passed them ; and it
is supposed that from the noise and smoke they
neither taw nor heard the down train, which should
reach here at twenty.-Six minutes past five, enter the
tunnel ; in consequence of which they were knocked
down by the engine, and the train passed over the
bodies and killed them. The scalp of Jackson's head
was dreadfully torn, and was lying on his breast.;
indeed, both bodies were severely lacerated. The
bodies having been' brought into Dover, and notice
given to the Coroner, an inquest' will be held this
evening.

PUBLIC MEETING OF COLLIERS.
The coal miners of the Ashton and Oldham dis•
tricts-met on Monday afternoon last, at Knott Lanes,
in the division of Ashton, for the purpose of carrying
out their object in connexion with the miners' union.
Between two and three o'clock, a oart was brought to
the place of zneetiag; when, on the motion of an
operative collier, a man wiled Joseph Price was
called to the chair. The chairman opened the pro-
ceedings by introducing one of the colliers' lecturers,
named Welsby (who, we understand, comes from
the mining districts of Yorkshire), to address the
meeting. The speaker dwelt in the usual strain
upon the objects of the unionists, and called upon all
miners present to enrol themselves as members ; as-
suring them that if they forthwith united with their
brethren in the other districts, they would obtain
their just demands. Two other itinerant lecturers,
Harrison, and Dixon, the reporter for the Northern
Star, addressed the meeting ; they advocated the
propriety of the colliers uniting themselves in one
bond, that they might. obtain an advance of wages,
and work a less number.of hours. Dixon stated, that
the miners in the Rochdale division. had obtained an'
advance of tenpence upon their " quarterage," which
we understood to mean thirty baskets, a basket con-
taining about two hundred weight. The following
resolutions were agreed to
" 1. That it is the opinion
.of this meeting, that
unless we organize ourselves we can, never better our
3ondition ;` and that we pledge ourselies to do so im-
mediately, believing that we ought to use every
means in our power to obtain that which the miners
so richly deserve, viz., a fair day's wage for a fair
day's work.
" 2. That it is the opinion of this meeting that we
particularly adhere to the question of working shorter
hours, believing it to be the only safe way to gain our
just demands:
At the conclusion of the meeting it was announced
that all the colliers working in the Oldham district
(with the exception of the men at three pits) had
sent in notices for an advance of threepence in the
shilling, and those of the Ashton district for twopence
in the shilling. The notices which were sent in on
Saturday last, were to the effect that unless the ad-
vance asked, be granted in fourteen days the men
would strike work. Coals are much scarcer than
they were a few days ago. On passing the "sett,"
on the Oldham-road, yesterday morning, we observed
upwards of thirty carts standing waiting to be filled
with coals, such is the demand for them under present
circumstances. Another meeting was announced to
take place at Hurst Nook last evening.—Manchester
paper.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held
for the dispatch of business.

TER COMMON SERGEANT.

The LORD MAYOR, on taking the chair, called
the attention of the Court to a letter which he had
received from the Common Sergeant, stating that, in
compliance with the expressed opinion of some of the
members of the, Court, that his appearing as counsel
at the London Sessions was inconsistent with his ju-
dicial functions at the Central Criminal Court, he
had latterly abstained from attending the London
Sessions' and that from henceforth he should relin-
quish all the briefs heretofore held by him at those
sessions.
Mr. Alderman HuGuEs Huciuns, in moving tbat
the letter be entered upon the minutes of the Court,
said he could not refrain, as a member of the same
profession, from expressing his admiration of this act
of liberality on the part of the Learned Common Ser-
geant----(Hear, hear)—whereby he had entitled him-
self to the gratitude of the Corporation.
The Town Clerk read a letter, which he he had re-
ceived from Lieutenant-Colonel Cox, of the Hon. Ar-
tillery Company, acknowledging the vote of thanks
passed by the Court to the officers and gentlemen of
that ancient corps, for their services as a guard of
honour to the Queen on the occasion of her Majesty's
visit to open the New Royal Exchange. The letter
was ordered to be entered on the minutes, as was
also a letter from another Society, conveying the
thanks of the Board of Directors for the very
liberal donation, by the Corporation, of 2001. in aid of
its funds.

THE •61111.11-BOAT PIERS.
Mr. Deputy Hicas moved the Court to agree to
the report made by the Navigation Committee on the
subject of the existing steam-boat piers between Lon-
don-bridge and Chelsea. The report .stated that the
Committee had directed a survey to be made by Mr.
Walker, the Civil Engineer, by Mr. Leech, Clerk of
the City Works, and by the Water Bailiff, and that
those gentlemen had certified that these piers were in
general unsafe, and impeded the navigation of the
river. They were, for the most part, as unsafe as had
been that at Blackfriars-bridge at the time the recent
fatal accident happened. The Committee also stated
that they had been furnished with a plan in which
these piers ought to he constructed, the expense of
erecting each of which would 'be about 1,7501. The
Committee added that they had caused notices to be
served upon the owners and proprietors of the present
piers, calling upon them to construct them on the plan
furnished, and according to the regulations of the
Committee, or that they would be removed. If the'
notice were not complied with, the licenses granted to
private individuals to erect piers wouldbe withdrawn.
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Mr-D. W. -WIRE moved 'as an
.amendment that the
froerlartee-dcotnositteerae backand to the Navigation Committee
re-consideration,
on of future so
much of the report as
mr:cibeilladopted.
The amendment having been