The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-29 00:00:00

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN W

MEN.
It is a strange thing, that, all over the world, in
America, and in Europe, there should exist such
very unfavourable opinion of English labourers, and
that their undeniable skill and industry in their par-
ticular vocations should be unable to remove the uni▪ -
versal impression of their immorality, lawlessness,
ignorance, and brutality. Even where it is found
necessary to employ them this is always done reluct-
antly and fearfully. I was in Austria shortly after
the English labourers had been dismissed from the
railroads making there, because their turbulence,
brutality, and drunkenness, occasioned all kinds of
riots and accidents. I went to Saxony, and found
that there, too, all the English labour'e;'s had been
turned away, because their conduct was found quite
insufferable. I went to Frankfort, and met a papi▪
er
mache manufacturer, who told me, with rueful
shakings of the head, that he was indeed compelled
to employ English labourers in some parts of his
business, because they understood their business so
well, and were so remarkably skilful in it, but that
he longed to get rid of them because they were the
most troublesome, ignorant, and unmanageable of his
workpeople. I went to Belgium, and read an inte-
resting report of an English Poor-law Commission,
in which the evidence of a great manufacturer, of
I Philadelphia, concerning English labourers, was given
at full length. This gentleman testified that or
j fifth of the workpeople in the American factories
ere foreigners, most of them Englishmen, who'll
however, the manufacturers employed very unwil-
lingly, on account of their being so " dissipated and
discontented." They were, besides, universally dis-
liked, because they were so gives: to drunkenness.
The American_ labourers are always found better
educated, more intelligent, and less givezi to sensual
indulgencies. No strikes or combinations of work-
men are ever known among the American labour.°o
as among the English, who are always combining t°
force higher wages from their masters. The soPe;
riority of the American labourers is chiefly attributeo
to their superiority of education. The America
masters are always very particular in having tho
children of their labourers sent regularly to school.---
Kohl's England and Wales.

IMPROVEMENTS IN WESTMINSTER.—The MetropeP'
litan Improvement Commissioners having decided on,
opening a direct communication from the new Houses of
Parliament to the north-west district of London, various
plans and estimates were sent in, the majority of which
were rejected, in consideration of the large amount or
compensation which would be demanded by the owner*
of household property in the respective localities. Tha
line has, at length, been definitively marked out, and is
contract concluded for two-thirds of the work. Thef
new street will commence at the western extrensityi:
the Houses of Parliament, running in an oblique ) ;le
from Abingdon-street to Eaton-square, from whie'
point there is already a corresponding continuation tcr
the Great Western road. By the formation of this
street, two very desirable objects will be attained-
It will afford a nearer and more convenient approal
to the Houses of Parliament, the Law Courts, 00
the Government offices ; whilst the removal of the
merous obscure streets, courts, and alleys, in that Pat
of -Westminster, will serve to abate a nuisance which
has become so intolerable as to call for legislative repro'
hension. A great number of these dilapidated terse'
ments have for some years been inhabited by persons °
the very worst class ; the property belongs chiefly to
_kill.
Dean and Chapter, who are naturally anxious to brew"
up this " den of thieves," and as the existing leases t'
nearly run out, the compensation demanded cannot 1/‘'
considerable ; it is assumed, at least, that it will be no
impediment to the prosecution of a scheme which rr,
mises an ample return for the capital invested, and wilw'd
is still further commended by utility, convenience, 1111
decency. The new street is to be of the same width 56
Regent-street, and will be of nearly equal length. Great
part of the line, which passes through Pimlico, fronting
Buckingham Palace stables, has been cleared already'
In those streets which intersect the line through 1119
other parts of Westminster, the workmen's operation!
are delayed only until the present occupants are expelle°'
Mr. Rigby Wason, late Member for Ipswich, ilsji,„
contracted for two-thirds of the line, at a OP"
much below the Government surveyor's estimate. Ce,le
netted with the above improvement another project In"'
been revived with some prospect of ultimate adoption'
namely, the erection of a bridge across the Thanes'
from the Horseferry-road to Lambeth-stairs, at the n'''"
of Church-street, close to the Archiepiscopal Palle;
This scheme was mooted nearly twenty years back ;,-;
prospectus was at that time issued, and a Bill brougu.
into Parliament with a view to the issue of shares 1.0:1
building a bridge by a joint-stock company. It °Le
with so little support that the Bill was rejected, and Imo
project was consequently abandoned. However, it eel,
that it is now regarded with more favour ; the Are,.
bishop of Canterbury and the Marquis of Westrctins;
having withdrawn their opposition, it is not improbabii
that the sanction of Parliament would now be obtaina_":
should the application be renewed ; more especially
a bridge at the point indicated would form an aPPII:,
priate continuation of the new street, and facilitate con;
munication between the northern and southern distrie
of the metropolis.
WANTED A COACHMAN.—Yesterday, the eftes
noon down-train had duly deposited the passengers -a
the Southend coach on the platform at Brentwood, and
they were busily scrambling for trunk, band-box, and
brown paper parcel, or occupying inside, roof, and dickey'
when it was suddenly discovered that the box was vacant'
Quick came the inquiries—
" Lost, strayed, or stolen,
Or fall'n through a hole in
The carriage-floor is the coachman gone?"---
but no traces of him could be found, till some one re',
lected they had seen him trotting along the platform a•
Shoreditch, and crying " Wo, wo" in his most perstussie
style to the starting engine. But steam-engines under;
stand not the cries of stage-coachmen—they have o°,
been broken in to them ; so giving another triumOban.i,
snort it only scudded along the faster, leaving big° lf
London, to add railway trains to the old proverb !,
" time and tide," &c., and the passengers at Bretitt°T,,
bridling up and disputing amongst themselves wnwb
should enact the part of a sick member of a benefit cle '
and go on the bor.—Essex Herald.
THE NEW FACTORY ACT.—This Act will shortlyb,
come into operation, and by one of its provisions an ii
street of the law is to be hung up on a moveable h° rci
in every factory. The four Inspectors of Factories
joint report made to the Home Secretary express tigt,,
opinion on the importance of having an abstract fromred
source the weight of whose authority would be defer Ivo
to in questions arising on the interpretation of the be
statutes; their own words show the necessity of tbPi
guidance they seek:—" The enforcement of the Inei,c.
prosecutions is committed to us and to the sub-insro.
tors who act under our directions; it is therefore veil"'
desirable that the abstract should show distinetlY,til",
or
extent to which the Factory Act has been repealeaa
altered by the amending Act, for the information "0.4
guidance of ourselves and the sub-inspectors as welfol
the mill-occupiers and their workpeople. Upon a re,.
and anxious reconsideration of this subject at our Pre,
sent meeting, we have come to the resolution of di,
questing respectfully that you will be pleased to give .1
rections that such abstract be prepared by your 1%,
advisers with as little delay as possible, being of opine
it should be prepared and emanate from a 3.°11
the weight of whose authority would be deferred tots,
questions arising on the interpretation of the two suo
tutes. Thus, when prosecutions take place we 511°1r
be able to refer to the abstract as containing not oOr
terpretation of the law, but that which proceeds r°oo,,
competent legal authority, whereby much soisconstL.i,
tion will be avoided, and greater uniformity in the ev"
sions of magistrates secured." to
THE lIARVEST IN KENT.—We are delighted ,1
state that the wheat harvest is going on most favourfludi;
and will be completed throughout mid Kent during, re,
present week. In our next we shall give a general
view of the crop.—Maidstone Journal of yesterday-
WHOLESALE ARREST OF THIEVES.—The
police, to clear Vienna of the crowd of vagabonds
",
thieves which infested it, has just arrested 400 of theor,
together, and has had them taken off at once to the g
leys at Venice and Trieste.

MARRIED.
On the 14th inst., at St. John's Church, Margate, ",.I•2late
Scott Holmes, to Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of
Christopher Atkins, E.sq., of Blackwell.
On the 27th inst., at Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea, la:gr.
sonby Arthur, eldest son of the Rev. Henry Moore, of
y hale, Kilkenny, to Augusta Sephia, oungest claug,7,-do•
Major-General the Hon. William Henry.r,
ry (Urdu °"--
gan-place. 0110
On the 27th inst., at St. Pancras Church, s'll„",,ao
Frederick Hamilton, Esq., of Kentish-town, to Marv, ”ace,
daughter of the late G. Richards, Esq., of Beafora.r-
Ham
Onstead-road.
the 27th inst., at St. George's, Hanover.square ,t
Rev. Edward Baines, Rector of Bluntisham, Hants, t° %htb:
,44
rine Eularia, youngest daughter of the late J. Baines'
of Shooters-hill, Kent. f '01"
On the 27th inst., at Twickenham, Mr. G. ROll9, 1%
cot-place, Lambeth, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter oi
Bowyer, of Twickenham.

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On the 21st inst., at Margate, Henry, third son (4'oo 11Ite
lED.
Samuel
On rooke B, Esq. , 34.
the 22d inst , ataged Chiswick, Middlesex, Denali. Rice,
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E Osq., late of the c
st.ity of Dublin.
On the 22d in, in Fenchurch-street, S. Tornpsett, Egijoir
On the 22d inst., at Gosport, Elizabeth Margaret,
of the late John Lowes, Esq. gifirs
On the 25th inst., at the house of Captain Thorson
I_,srd
near Shrewsbury, Edward William, third son of 'Cu'
Mane, Esq. •no uge6t
On the 26th inst., at Clapham, Thomas Linton,
son of the 11ev. Charles Bradley. f
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Middlesex, Thursday, August 29, 1844.