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London, England, 1844-05-16 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 15

The Sraixra took the Chair at Fourro'Clock.
The Salford- Improvement Bill was read a third
time and passe!,.
Mr. W. PATTEN moved that the time for Com-
rni tees on Turnpike Road Bills to make their re-
po. ts, Le enlarged till Friday, the 21st day of June
Dent.—Agreed to. '1
• m.. M. O'CONNELL preSented a number' of pe-
titions from Ireland, against Lord Eliot's Irish Re-
gistration Bill.
The Earl of -MARCH presented two petitions
from Sussex, against the union of the sees. of St,
As :and' Ban got..
Mr,BERKELEY presented a petition from
Bristol, pAYing.that the excise duty on soap might be
repealed.
Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from
Gataere, near Liverpool, in favour of the Dissenters'
Chapels Bill. The petition, amongst oshers, contained
the names of three magistrates of the county of
Lancaster.

Mr. BROADLEY presented a petition from
Yorkshire, against the Bill.
Mr. 'T. EGERTON presented petitions from
Cheshire, in favour of protection to agriculture.
Mr. GT, DSTONE brought up the fourth report
of the Select Committee on Railways, which was laid
on the table.

Lord INGESTRE moved that the petition of
Captain Dickenson, presented on the 14th May, re-
specting the ship Thetis, be printed.—Ordered.
An Hox. MEMBER here moved that the House be
counted, and there being but thirty-four Members
present, the House adjourned at Half-past Four.

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moved her rising surprise by a proposal, second by argu-
ments weak and untrue. They were, nevertheless, held forth
in a manner, which, by banishing her doubts, so raised her
confidence, that, in a weak moment, she fell is with his
wishes. They remained an hour and a half in the room,
during which time the -gallant accomplished the ruin of her
virtue, -and gave rise to a remorse which destroyed her peace
of mind. Finding herself ill in January, 1843, a Mr. Collin!.
son, 'of Deptford, attended, and discovered the cause of her in-
disposition. In April .she exhibited sins of pregnancy, and
defendant being consulttni about- it, was alleged -to have ap-
peared quite ignorant of Miss Carey and her condition. A
child was born on the sth of July, she being then-under the
care of a Mrs. Elliott, of Mason-street, Kent-road, and had
been so for sixteen weeks, at the charge of 2s. 6d. per week..
Mr. Collinson's bill was 31. lla. 2d. ; and Miss Carey could no
longer collect her mother's rents.
Mr. Shaw defended the action in propria persona. He is
a respectable, industrious man, and. none of the letters putin
evinced any intention on his part that was not honourable.
HaVing cross-examined the witnesses, ha declared himself to
be without the means of discharging a verdict ; admitted the
walk to the house at !Islington, but denied having been ac-
cessory to the birth of a child.
It, appeared from his employer, that his salary was at pre-
sent about 1001. per annum, and that he exerted talent and
application in the prosecuting of his-duties.
rho LORD CHIEF BARON having summed up, Oving de-
fendant- all the- advantage be could 'expect, the jury gave a'
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 201.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE. _

A respectable young man of the Jewish persuasion,
named David Symonds, was summoned before the Lord
Mayor by a very sharp-looklag hackney-coach driver,
who called himself Alfred Marling, No. 1,706, for hav-
ing refused to pay for 'the hire of the said coach. The
case attracted a crowd of fair auditors.
It appeared that the complainant having determined to
leave the condition falsely calle4 " single blessedness,"
hired two carriages to convey Ow lady to whom he was
to be united, and himself and a fair friends, to the syna-
gogue. Although abounding with bridegroom feelings,
he did not forget that it would be prudent to -make a'
bargain with the drivers, and a bargain he accordingly
made. The ceremony having been performed, the happy
pair and their friends returned tO Mr. Symonds' house,
and upon their arrival a demand was made which he
did not consider he was bound to pay, as it exceeded
the contract, and wag, in his opinion, evidently made an
a draw upon the weakness of his altered state. As love
had not quite blinded hire in the matter of - his
pocket, and as he entertained no idea of being
swamped by a mere driver of a hackney-coach, he re-
solved to have the judgment of the Lord Mayor upon the
subject, and the driver summoned him, in order to ob-
tain the just amount he claimed, and in the hope that
the decision would operate as a warning to other people
of the Jewish religion how necessary it was for them
to behave honourably to the whip fraternity:
The complainant said the Jew gentleman, wanting to
get married, engaged him to take some of. tke party to
the synagogue, and after the knot was tied, which occu-
pied them nearly two hours, refused to pay him more
than half-a-crown, four shillings or four shillings and
sixpence being his regular fare. It was in vain that
assurances were made that the money paid was much
below the sum which the law assigned, and the affair was
the more vexatious, as the driver of another coach, in
which others of the party were accommodated, received
five shillings from the bridegroom. He (complainant)
considered that he was very ill-treated in the whole
business.
Sir Joint should like to know whether you
and the other coachman were engaged together ?
Complainant—No, my Lord ; I knew nothing about
him, only that he got five shillings, and I only got half-
a-crown, though I carried the bride and bridegroom.
Sir JOHN PIRIE—NeII, what has the defendant to
say ?
Mr. Symonds said that the complainant and the other
driver had agreed to take the bridal party to and from
the synagogue for five shillings, after having tried to
get six. Upon the return of the party home he put into
the hands of the other coachman the fire shillings to
discharge the whole coach hire. They both appeared to
be going, when the complainant suddenly returned and
said they had not reeeived enough, and began to make a
noise about the premises ; and, to prevent any further
annoyance, he (Symonds) threw the man half-a-crown,
and then both went away perfectly satisfied. It was not
therefore without surprise that he received a summons
calling fur additional money.
Sir .1. Putzn—Have you got any witness to prove the
contract ?
Here a man stepped forward, who stated that he
heard all the particulars of the agreement, and that the
defendant had accurately described what had occurred.
Sir J. PIRIE—I see plainly how it is. The driver
thought he had the Jew upon the hop. It was a ma-
noeuvre between the two whips to do the bridegroom, but
he has resisted the attempt. They thought that a Jew
in such a situation was easily to be imposed upon, and
that• he would not stomach any question of his liberality;
but he has very properly refused to submit. 'discharge
the summons.

Complainant--My.Lord, I do assure you I knowed
nothing of t'other driver. I hope you'll give we my ex-
penses at any rate.
Sir J. FIRM-I'll give you no satisfaction, except that
of telling you that the comp'ainant is discharged, and that
you have failed to do the Jew as you expected.

THE FACTORIES BILL.
(From the Times.)
Sir Robert Peel is tbr the present the undisputed arbitrator
of the factory question. Of Lord Ashley's merits and demerits'
it is needless to speak. His part in the business Is a matter
of history, and a matter of history it will probably remain.
For the future, he will find himself most at home in those
places and assemblies where religious and charitable feelings
may be safely awakened without the peril of as immediate,
a vital, and painful test. He is not made for the House of
Commons, tor the House of Commons for him. It scarcely
deserves an early renewal of those stirring appeals which it
has acknowledged only to reject. A Legislature which trifles
with_the gravest questions of humanity, which gathers round
the teacher one day, and runs away from him the next, calls
for the application of a sterner hand, and in due. time will
probably receive it. But is Sir Robert's position, on the
ether hand, one to be proud .of ? He has gained the day ;
but so has many an unprincipled man, and many a trickster.
The Premier is neither of these, yet, after all, we see nothing
to envy' or to admire in his achievement, or in that whole
position—that whole series of positions—of which this is only
a specimen. His strength consists- in the weakness of others.
He knows his ground, he distinguishes with a practised-eye
the salient points of the various difficulties which immediately
surround him, and, above all—a rare gift in statesmen I—
he appreciates the virtues and capacities •of - those
he has., to deal with, As far as virtues are con-
cerneel, he does not fall into the error of an exaggerated ,
estimate. He knows what stuff millowners and land-
owners
are made of. This is his great secret of state I He
knows that every party has its price. He has also the
faculty of appealing with decent solemnity to respectable sel-
fishness. He is eloquent on gain and loss. Private corrup-
tion is but a vulgar expedient. It disappoints the many and
makes the few insatiable. So a kind of public and wholesale
corruption is the grander plan of our times. There are two
parties at this moment in actual possession of England's des-
tinies,—the landowners and the znillowners,—rival capi-
talists. The Reform Bill, contrary to the anticipations of
both friend and foe, has sent to Parliament the representa-
tives of wealth rather than of men. Mere proxies of corn
and cotton crowd the house. Sir Robert Peel's position is to .
play off these interests against one another. He is the eEolus
that keeps in mutual check the squally north and the steamy
south. But first it is necessary to propitiate them at the
cost of inferior, or less efficacious parties. If there is any
point on which the Duke of Richmond and Mr. Bright are
likely to illscover -a-comninnity Of interest, or any measure
profitable• to one and not injurious to the other, that will be
sure to suit Sir Robert's purpose. Such is the Premier's posi-
tion in the present instance, and such his policy. He is beset
by certain inconvenient demands from a particular class of
labour. An actual case of suffering, backed by a little stray
benevolence, sled possibly by some other less assignable sym-
pathies er antipathies, finds its way into Parliament and dis-
turbs the equilibrium. If it is relieved, then confessedly
there arises
.a degree of peril fo the capital connected with
that labour. That capital must be supported, if possible
without damage to the rival capital. Sir Robert does the
thing to admiration. He takes * general view of the
question. " This is a case," he says, "of labour insur-
gent against capital. All you capitalists have a isemmen
interest in protecting the free development of capital, which
is the source of employment. Restrictions on labour are re-
strictions Ontapitel, andOonsequently on the universal divi-
dend of rich and poor. One concession to labour leads to
another, without end." Every now and then he spices the
argument with an allusion to the fact that manufacture is
run very close indeed in the market of nations, that we have
already been obliged to surrender • every natural advantage
once possessed by our manufacturer, that he suffers peculiar
burdens, " ho runs a race and carries weight," and, therefore,
as things arc at present, we cannot clog him by restricting the
labour in his employ. The speech is descriptive of the Pre-
anier's position, and of • nothing else. It does not meet the
case in debate, and hardly deserves to be called an argument
upon it. From the first to the last sentence not only ie there
not one syllable on that case, but the tenor shows that it Is
wholly-forgotten, and something else is present in the Pre-
mier's mind. The real question proposed by-Lord Ashley
was not whether lahour should be protected, but whether the
female-and the youthful labourer -should be protected as ,the
female and youthful capitalist are. Protection was asked
not in behalf Of labour against capnal, but in behalf of the
weaker -sex and age against the stronger. It was a special
case. -The slightest recollection of the point at issue would
have excluded as wholly irrelevant the pretty dilemrha
with which the Premier adorned his opening sen-
tence. He charges some of his opponents with in-
consistency, because, while they are against restricting
the importation of corn, they propose to restrict labour. But-
is it not quite compatible - to desire an open supply of.the
necessaries of life, and also legal protection fat thoae•whoM
the law has ever held to require it? But even as arguing
against the legislative protection of labour in general, Sir
Robert iealmost studiously flimsy and negligent. He states
a certain loss likely to -arise. to the manufacturer from the
proposed restriction on time. The particular docum int he
makes his text for this purpose is one' obviously of
that does not apply, as it dates at a period (1842) when
tirtte-was shortened, with an express wish to diminish pro-
duction
operative, as he states it, is within the compass of
in the same ratio. Again, the losi to the master find
to thel
arefi quoted
ipen
from a on.
puFbuiriethateiei ron,etfhlesfl7 with
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t hoursh thebareof l labour
bot
an-
nouncement that there may hare been subsequent changes,
' and without any allusion teethe hoped-for probability of
of dealing with the moral are7uamepenlrte.of
foreigners following our [sood
Lord Ashley The Premier's mode
illus-
trates as much the peculiar temper
question issue. He
did his utter forgetfulness of the ofu argument as it
cannot deny that the nation is morallyge toit protect
certain classes naturally weak, where it can, and
are so numerous that it cannot help observing them. W©
t‘T,Ye
pass over a few other conspicuous flimsinme.s. But why
assail a speech with newspaper criticism which ,was never
meant for newspapers P It was aimed at a mark and hit it.
It told on the Conservative mind. Eighty-eight of Lord
Ashley's supporters took the hint and withdrew. Blest had,
of course, already taken a hint—perhaps the whole hods?.
It was painful, of course, to announce desertian immediately
after Lord Ashley's first triumph, and the consequent decla-
ration of Ministers; so, possibly some day it will come` out
out
that they drew up a round robbin, and the redoubted
Acland was, the spokesman of the-eighty-eight, as being their
alphabetical chief. Unhappy preeeminenee I Were we Mr.
Acland, we should take some early opportunity of burying
ourselves in the midst of the alphabet, even at the loss of
ancestral aseociations. Fifteen of these eighty-eight " went