The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-28 00:00:00

THE FACTORY BILL.

The following requisition has been extensively circulated
in the City :

" TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF

LONDON.
" We, the undersigned liverymen of the city of London,
request your Lordship to convene a Common Hall, on an early
day, for the purpose of taking into consideration the uncon-
stitutional proceedings of Sir James Graham (a servant of
the Crown)i n endeavouring to subvert and render nugatory
the solemn, wise, and humane resolution of the House of
Commons on the Factory Bill now before the House—a reso-
lution (if carried into effect) calculated to benefit the mill.
owners and manufacturers, inasmuch as it would tend to
check reckless and ruinous competition and overtrading,
make supply and demand mere uniform, improve the physi-
cal, moral, and social condition of the workpeople, and
greatly piomote the' prosperity and happiness of society ge-
nerally. Also to agree to an address to her Majesty, pray-
ing her Majesty to dismiss from her councils for ever Sir
James Graham and all those of his colleagues who have aided
and assisted him in such a wicked abuse of the confidence of
so good a Monarch."

THE LATE EARL OF LONSDALE.—The mortal re-
mains of the venerable Earl of Lonsdale are to be removed
from Twickenham to-day, for Lowther Castle, previous to
interment in the family mausoleum in the vicinity.
The reigning Count of Solms-Rcedelheim died at
Assenheim on the 18th, of pulmonary paralysis. He was 54
years of age.
A MISTAKE.—On Tuesday morning last the 51st
When
of revenue police, stationed here, were out on duty.
When a few miles from town they perceived advancing a
company of soldiers, which afterwards turned out to belong
to the 11th Regiment stationed in our garrison. The
officer of the police ordered his men off the road, and drew
them up in line on an eminence adjoining the road,
probably to give horse-room and car-room to her Majesty's
forces, or to let his men have a view of them
as they passed, in order to take a lesson from the red
coats m the precision of their movements. On perceiving
this movement of the police, and seeing the sheen of their
.fire-arms, the officer of the advanced guard of the military,
possibly suspecting that the Repealers had at length taken
the field and that his advance was about being impeded,
ordered his men to halt, and returned himself to the main
body, where he held grave counsel with his brothers in
arms for a few minutes. The main body then halted also,
and the bugle sent forth its martial notes. A small party
was immediately dispatched, under proper command, to out.
flank the police, and took post at a small wood partly in their
rear. The black jackets were well surprised, as they might
be, at such an occurrence, and suspecting that there was
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ajority against the second reading —lO
The Bill was consequently lost.
On the motion of Mr. AINSWORTH, the Bolton and
Preston Railway Bill was read a third time, and passed.
Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition from all the
manufacturers of the city of Carlisle, praying for the
repeal of the cotton tax.
Mr. STANLEY presented a petition in favour of pro-
tection to British agriculture.
Mr. GALLY KNIGHT presented a petition against
any alteration in the corn-laws.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Montrose
against the New Prisons (Scotland) Bill; also a petition
praying that the House would adopt some means to pre-
vent the present abuses and hardships which pressed
upon the manufacturers of tobacco ; also another petition
from Wells, against the Commons Inclosure Bill.
Mr. HOPE presented a petition from a place in Kent,
against the union of the sees of St: Asaph and Bangor.