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!SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

PRIM THE MORNING PAPrRS OF THIS DAY.
rl~lEsSir James Graham came before the House last night
to demand the reversal of a deliberate decision four days old. It
hardly be expected that he should do this with success, nor
ii:vbe succeed. We regret, however, to say that his defeat has
ueen' accompanied with a corresponding triumph on the side
filistiee and humanity ; for, strange
th to, say, both the Ten Hours'
2.,ahal its cpponents have for e present suffered defeat. We
otr",lly7 do not know what pretence Sir James Graham has had for
to ng this affront to the Legislature. He could not suppose it
deave been taken by surprise. There had been two nights' long
r_"te, including two long speeches by Sir James himself; and
pr_
to that there had been discussion without end, both In
TAs and out of doors. He could not suppose that any of Lord y
As ohle'
his stir/porters on the division of last Monday would come to
rerun when they found Ministers in earnest. There is too
übch self: respect in the Moine of Commons to expect so base a
stl
.11 ttissioll. As for the power of importunity, it is great, especi.
1 the golden importunity of the powerful; but Sir James had
'll st incontinently wasted that plea. Could a third speech ans-
..'" ebose who listened to two already with increasing antipathy ?
Na,
v_ it, expected that a fresh display of Ministerial earnestness
,°nl(.l accelerate and secure the decisions of those who had been
t"hreviously deterred by the difficulties of the question? But
ci:re are few who like to be evoked out of mental inde.
no:" or indifference to assist in political emergencies. It is
kaiere'Pectable to be a mere brute addition to the Ministerial
This is not, forsooth, a Ministerial question. It
W-"lo not look well—it would cut rather a sorry figure in history
Z-,rthat 'Ministers had resigned in favour of twelve hours' daily
fee women and young persons. But are we to suppose they
-ear,
1 . a gentle intimation that the country runs some little risk of
sing their services? We must take care what we are about.
,we don't let Sir James Graham keep these people to their work,
la, then—we may possibly lose not only two hours' labour R day,
to
her m • , • ' • and if the former
ss . - aJesty s Ministers into the bargan ,
ho„ " r'llnous, how much more the latter ? Cutting off the two
"ra will only shut up the mills; but it Sir Jamey Graham re-
the Constitution is at an end. How nimbly and cheerfully
Nwith what renewed heart and strength--will the poor creatures
from spindle to spindle after six o'clock on aright summer's 1
jaettinir)g, when they know that they are paying the price of Sir
e the, Graham's multifarious set vices in the Home-office: On
e Other hand, supposing for a moment such s calamity, imagine
tbe Lactoiles closed at six o'clock, and Sir James Graham spending
~,„sPrir'g of 1845 in unotNcial though d Jignified leisure, what a
,
Would that national bereavement cast on the amusements or
i"u rt "Pations of those two or three hunred thousand factory idlers !
4::17 Sir James Graham cannot means uch a thi cat! Then, why
Without biting ? That long list of Right Honourables
it ,the minority every Minister every underling —makes
m4ook like a Ministerial measure. Let there lee no
istake ill the matter. Is it a Ministerial question, or
4Qt For the benefit of those who are not familiar with
lb'aelentary forms, it is as well to explain the particular mode
Procedure by which the House was asked to stultify itself. In
pie second, or interpretation clause of the Factory Bill, the word
t)
Was defined as the period from eight o'clock in the evening
m,h ors; o'clock on the fallowing morning. Lord Ashley thereupon
.-Ived that " the word night' shall be _taken to mean from six
and
the Word `meal.tl
lo the evening to six o'clock in the following morning;
nie' shall be taken to mean an interval of
t t
atsatiun from work fur the purpose of root and refreshment, at the
ot two hours a.clay, with a view to effect a limitation of the
1,.-4," et labour to ten in the day." The division of last Monday
Was ill favour of this amendment. The Bill was thus left
,Ce'llsistent with itself. The above amendment, compared with
'latlse forbidding young persons and all females to work in the
, rendered the Bill a Ten Hours' Bill, as far as those clauses
satire concerned. But the eighth clause implicitly allowed them
sott hours' daily labour. It enacted, "that no young person,
no female of any age, shall be crop oycd in a fac-
Ihel4 any one day more then twelve hours, or alter
1), ation of twelve hours from the time when
t child or young person in the factory first begins
ti Work M the morning, over and above the time given for meal.
ththee'. sav ein the cases hereinafter excepted." The alteration,
thi,ref°re, in the second clause entailed the necessity of altering
ls; s'lllth clause, I. e. the word." twelve" to " ten ;" and if Mi.
eja had resigned themselves to the vote of last Monday, they
h 044 have made this substitution as a matter of course. This
vsetild not do. Hence the debate of last night, which was
t•
el 4
alr :ng but the old fight over again. This being, then, nothing
h4o a third night of the debate, and the chief speakers har-
ts; eady exhausted themselves and the subject, much novelty
bt,:tnterest was not to be expected. The day after the feast is the
lis,„"t
ntrar of the feast, some people say! but it is not so in a Par.
of the debate. Speakers thrust out in the brisk competition
e first nights now have elbow room. Odds and ends of state.
0 'ht a,
'd argument are now pi oduced. Remainders are disposed
titl"rld forts reembered. Peple who delight in the peculia.
141/4e ratherge m than in the obviousnoess of their views, now find a
eae. 'Mich they could not in the broad field of the earlier discus.
even. most prominent and the most rational Sell:iment of the
Or even. was the impropriety of asking the House to convict itself
I,,lndiscretion, and perpetuate a burden which it had just ro-
t'. ''.e.ct to be intolerable. What can be more odious than to de.
Irurr,-,' 'offering class to be free, and immediately withdraw the
°f freedou, •
, •
4410 morning witnessed one of those unaccountable
Otitis which we should perhaps look fur in vain, except in the
th,t4th Rouse of Commons, Sir James Graham, having moved
filkd he blank in the eighth clause of the Factory Bill should be
thr.e4l) with the words " twelve" hours, was left in a minority of
tetnaipe lii consequence of this division, the blank of course still
rep„ d ; arid Lord Ashley then moved the insertion of the words
eldy hours. The House divided; and the same men who had,
feW minutes before, voted against the Government, now con-
ttls ed W,a slmilar compliment on Lord Ashley, and negatived, by a
they sity of seven, the identical motion which, on Monday last,
hL ,41 affirmed by one of nine votes. After all the debating that
i.a4ett place on the subject, therefore, the blan.k in the clau,s!
.llot
t. Precisely as it did when the Bill first went into ConunittcL.
iltio',("0811 nothing has been done in the House, something very
hear" taut has, we fear, been effected out of it. The country has
110'41-'4 that the decisions'
of the House of Commons are based upon
for :le fixed principle than the caprice of the moment, and that,
14;lthing we can see, the pressing interests of humanity might
,0411 be entrusted to " the hazard of the die" as to a Parliamentary
`they What may be the effect of this morning's proceedings, when
elit,6become known in the manufacturing districts, it is melan.
tops? to anticipate. Sir James Graham has taken till Monday to
Arne.er what he and his colleagues may determine to do, and we
kt,,CtlY hope that, among the other topics to which their attention
tortes turned, they will not forget how the labourers its our fax-
' 4tli have been now, for four days, excited into joyfulness by the
141: that the House of Commons had agreed upon ten hours as
4the'''hit of their daily toil. Will these poor people be able to corn.
lttiti-v.41 the Parliamentary game of chance, by which they have been
1114,-ed, of the boon ? Will it be an easy task to convince them
444 as just and humane on th• Monday, became unfitting
-"Poliwtic on the Saturday of the same week ?

• _ _ _ _ _ _
• 11l POST-OFFICE NOTICE.
kattifo.llc:wing notice appeared to.day at the General Post.office,
t Itati,Jn 5-le-Grand
'a to the Public, and Instructions to all Postmasters, Sub.
Postmasters, and Letter Receivers.
h " General Post.cfgce, March, 1844.
"a "..a from the Ist of April next, letters may be sent unpaid,
,14 Zee, to the following countries and places, or the postage
set ert raid to destination, viz. :—The Austrian dominions, the
tttlitt. y°f Cracow, Moldavia, Wallachia, Turkey in Europe, to.
',with the town of Scutari, in Asia.
)44i0t, t,e" may also be sent through France unpaid to the follow-
, 'lts. si,i'ces and governments of Southern Poland and Southern
via.
'tt Pay
-totts.—The provinces of Cracow, Lublin, and Sando-
• USata.—The Governments of Abkhas, Astrakhan, Bes-
.ta ucasus, Circassia, Cossacks of the Black Sea, Cossacks of
naughistan, Ekaterinoslaw, Georgia, Imeretla, Kievr,
I.Pthldingrelia, Nieolaei, Podolia, Poltonia, Schirwan, Tau.
1442 be Uchraine, Volhynia, Vowney; or the postage
'e ''d as far as Podgorce in the one case, or as far as Brody
b! combined British and Foreign rate of postage to be taken
4,B3,le.letter, weighing less than a quarter of an ounce, for any
Oltian—uve :mentioned countries, will be as follows :—To the
dominions, Is. 5d .; Free City of Cracow, Is. sd. ; City of
Opt 'ibis. sd. ; Moldavia and Wallachia, Is. 9d. ; Turkey in
7,1.1.,',71.grade excepted), and
.Scutari in Asia, Is. 11d.;
pb, Lattr'and and Southern Russia, Is. 6d.
t, .ts exceeding the weight before.mentiened will be charged
,nll"eiple adopted with French letters.
ets ‘,, addressed to Greece, the Archipelago, and the lonian
tte"44lo.7"tch hitherto could only be paid to the extreme frontier
tdaY in future be paid as far as Trieste, and these which
,-"Petl to the Two Sicilies, the Papal States, Modena, Parma
na, will.not be sent in future thiough Sardinia, but by
.14 4141, Pusterlengor, ,San Benedetto, to which frontier
1114 tat-i. Postage may be paid. The combined British and
Istlb qs2f Postage to be taken on a single letter, weighing less
, ;:efear,Tec of an ounce, to these countries will be Is. 3d. If it
1,4 The the British rate (only 5d.) may be paid.
tOse :Ptian of paying the postage to the extreme frontier of
is set letters addressed to Switzerland, Baden, Bavaria, or
served through the office of Tour and Taxis is with.
Nllez,l.sootie letters which are directed to the German and
4tate,
• nnt
a tO be forwarded through the office of Tour and
Posted unpaid, inust in future be paid to destination.
•Y command, "W. L. MABERLY, Secretary."

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Ptle at sight....CF. 12
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N4l) .....
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'ta • • ........ 26 5
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SIGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 65
Genoa 26 5
Milan
Venice 47
Naples
Palermo, per oz ll7
Lisbon 53
Oporto 53
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign G old, bars...£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons__ 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9a
Silver in Bars 0 4 11A

ett,tah..,li„..: ... ..... 25 5
)Maine. alne .. 122 k
11',_ .. 3 Us... 36f
1011, 44 ,
14;of i ........... 7
/I Kt 41 te• fl• 3M. 958
P:tti, tto ......... 1 9 59
tiN, , -. ............... 364
s7to .
.. ............... 36e.
!..101; ....... ........ 36
IA 4 .
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. .................
ALI 'l', .r,
l'ithgell 0t he (ENIX ...STEAMEI
frigate to be fitted
t.—The Lords . Commis-
tit
.Admiralty have ordered this
4%. 44t •ateo,
ktrik et„suldriiiiyinatnrl submarine e
:Majesty's steamers
stwela'rnichershasßeealreaanddy
Mil -tepix- With new engines of 260 horse power.
il 11 se is the first war.steaxner fitted by the Admiralty
er
tat se
.:" if we except the Rattler (200 horse pr .),
4541 itt.---Pttiraents and has been placed at Mr. Steinman 's dis-
t orneideratior: of his propeller having surpassed in speed
.44°4 loltr' Smith (.. the Arcitimedean screw") and Captain
ti: tote 4 the late trials, conducted by the Admiralty, in the Bee.
ht e644:1. the Dwarf when tried with this same propeller
Zit:ll44;l Mile was 12.139 miles, which is the greatest result
ke
pe bra, screw,
at
A le,Sty. ' • Cerito commences her engagement at her
4 I Theat •
,14 t. ~ re in the month of May, and remains iri town till
it tlan, eor ge.teraber and October she is engaged by the Irn-
e_4ole. (.4 th --t.
-vp,.Pergola at Florence, after which she:proceeds t.o
4 be_,,,, is
snabtive city to enjoy some repore there. The fair
I.4eZe. and !equentlY engaged for four-and-twenty per formances
1-, t.ly mr. for
twenty representations at Berlin; and .is also re.
tit 4 ts .., ,i4untey for next season.
ke,hettpa,*: lei that the Postmaster-General,
.. . in
i '- 1,, ,ean b„.._ tends to relinquish his office so soon as .arrange.
no w Earl
r laiti. is 1,114..ade for the appointment of his successo r.
0 i 4%ittl is 0 ..er3t°o(l that one of the Admiralty steam-
,.. , , Tufted t •
‘'thti ' eon, ,_. °be in readiness on Wednesday o r Thursday
i . ks- Ileht °n eY uls Royal Highness Prince Albert and s mite to the
tO 4-mtlta,thi
ri2t2lsit of condolence, it is understood, to t heir High. 00 • Ita,`ebtkr., rill! Duke and Duchess and Duchess - Dowager of
;08_, N! like •‘_,,,titha,
His Roy4l Highness has not vi cited Ger-
Or %014. ,2?Ino arriage with the Sovereign, in Febru. cry, 1840;
4,,,r_i_ gh-t7c_. n the present occasion is not expected. to exceed
"A i, 17 to ,eini_.'nal:ee weeks, during which period the Coin .t is ex-
' brititOter
0:: In town.
or trtip... IN Barbour_Dox.—Ca tai rh - 11, IsT the
DON.—Captain 11 is er, . .-.,
"i i; ~ Ite th„m
104 _ s.ercil, a few days ago received orders
1•41,,, Wreck,. vasteray the removal of the Atlas and Ileso-
,ll , Agpi e/id ii lunch had beets sun •
141 Ratio each and kin the lower 1),
form dangerous obstructie•as lrt of
eV 11 Yke nof th ;• . 1. 0 the
ill' h
Ail an. _ e 11 er. lie has received instructions tot tdopt
1411 h ... °I. accomplishing the object, either by• blot .viaB
i1ttp.4144413t1r. ailnPcieNtkl.r or by loughing, ho may con sider n lost
114. "e IR
now engaged ill making the , neces§i 117
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