The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1844.

HAwEs, in a later stage of the session, had asked the
Right Hon. Secretary for some explanation as to the
alterations introduced, that functionary had replied
that Mr. MILES was responsible for them. Mr.
Mmzs stated that the Bill had been drawn up by de-
sire of the Government. But on Wednesday night Mr.
MILES went so far as to say that his Bill had been so
changed by Government that he himself did not know
his own bantling ! This is more intelligible and pre •
cise than Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S confession to its pa-
te-inity as to "form" only. Now, what were the
grounds on which Mr. DUNCOMBE induced the House
to discard this ill-conditioned illegitimate, whom one
putative father could not recognize and the other
shrank from ?

Mr., DUNCOMBE gave an excellent summary of
former enactments on the points at issue, to be found
in the sth Elizabeth, c. 4; 20th Geo. 11., c. 19; 22d
Geo. 11., c. 22 ; 6th Geo. III.; 4th Geo. IV., c. 34 ;
sth Geo. IV., c. 18 ; and sth Geo. IV., c. 96
"The only legislation hitherto had been in respect to
persons hired for a certain term as to whom magistrates
were empowered to fine or imprison persons who did not
fulfil their contract, and there had certainly been instances
of persons who had been imprisoned under these circum-
stances. But there was no instance of power having been
given to the magistrates to send persons to the House •of
orrection for neglect or d'relictiou of duty in job or piece
work. Now, under the present Bill, whether the contract lie
iri writing or not, when a man engaged to make a hat or a
pair of shoes, and did not fulfil his work in the time agreed
upon, he might be taken before .a magistrate and sent to the
House of Correction for two months upon the single oath of
the employer. The lion. Gentleman intended that the Bill
should only affect labourers employed in husbandry. But as
it stood now it •would affect those employed in factories.
They might be imprisoned for two months upon the oath of
the foreman or overseer, if they were only five minutes too
late."

Mr. HUME forcibly remarked that "this Bill was
altogether a new Bill from that which was originally
introduced by the Hon. Member for Somersetshire.
Several clauses in the original • print of this Bill,
which would have given relief to the working classes,
were now omitted from it."

Sir JAMES GnAnAm's defence of the Bill amounted
simply to this :
" The present law appeared to him to operate against the
workmen, and unduly and unfairly in favour of the masters.
By the law now in force any employee might complain
against a servant or labourer for alleged misdemeanour, mis-•
carriage, ill-behaviour,: or *misconduct before one justice, who
might forthwith issue, not a summons, but a warrant, to ap-
prehend the person of the labourer, and might imprison him
with hard labour for three months. But if, on the other
hand, a servant or labourer complained against •his master,
he had no warrant to apprehend the master, but a summons_
only issued against the master."

This certainly was an oppressive state of the law,
But, as Mr. limun had shown, Mr. MILES'S Bill,

its original shape, had rectified it.. What answer
does all this special pleading of Sir- JAMES GRAHAM
furnish to the grave offence of patronising such in-
tolerable enactments as Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, in the
passages we have given above, so forcibly denounced?
None! Thus thought the House, and the Bill was
summarily extinguished!

We have accounts from Madrid to the 24th ult.,
and are glad to find that the. editorsnf some Liberal,
or rather Opposition journals, begin to show some
feelings of compunction for their long silence, and the
enslaved state of their country. Two suppressed
journals,
_the Tiempo and the Eco del Comercio, bad
re-appeared, and the resurrection of a third was ex-
pected in a few days. The Tiempo denounces, with
national spirit, the influence of France over Spain.
The Three per Cents. were done at 36i for Cash,
and 3711 at sixty days; and the Five per Cents at 21j.
for cash, and 22i at sixty days.

The discussion in the French Chamber of Depu-
ties, on the election of M. C. LAFFITTE, continued dur-
ing the entire sitting on Monday; and did not close
till past six o'clock. The debate was extremely
noisy and disorderly, and the opposition made to the
return arose more from personal pique against M.
LAFFITTE than 'from! any conviction that he had been
guilty of corrupt conduct. Though the Government
supported the motion for confirming the election, it
was lost by a majority of 16; there being
for the motion 167, and against it, 183. The
e'ectors, from all accooxnts, are as obstinate
as the Chamber, and are• determined to return
no other member. The Conservative journals
denounce the conduct of the Opposition, and describe
it as an unwarrantable attack on the rights of electors,
" Let. the Left triumph," says the Journal des Debats,
and thank the Deputies of the majority, who sup-
ported them. Thus, M. CHARLES LAFFITTE is
prived of his right of representing an arrondisse-
ment, by which he has been three times constitu-
tionally elected. The electors of Louviers are again
stripped of the right which they had to be repre-
sented by the man. who possessed. their esteem and
confidence. Al. CHARLES LAFFITTE is a Conservative
—that is his true crime—aggravated by the name
that. he bears. If Al. CHARLES LAFFITTE had made
a profession of faith against the right of search, or
thelortifioations of Paris, then, indeed, all scruples
would have been at end, and all the heroic con-
sciences of the Left would have been appeased. And
now, what will be the result of the electors of
Louviers, strong in their incontestible right, should
they a fourth and a fifth time return M. CHARLES
LAFFITTR to the Chamber ? When will the
affair terminate P " We think," says the Globe, "that
the Chamber has abused its power by refusing to
admit the validity of an election made in conformity
with all the rulea of laW. This must be evident to
the whole world. The electors of Louviers cannot
suffer to be broken in their hands a right placed in
them by the Cherter, to be maintained by their firm-
ness and patriotism. They are bound to defend it to
the last." The Constitutionnel and the National re-
joice at the result, though they do not regard M.
LAFFITTE more guilty than most of the Members re-
turned. "We hope," says the latter, " that what
passed yesterday will be a happy augury for the
struggle about to commence between the defenders of
the interests of the State, and that troop of coalesced
jobbers, who are ready to pounce upon the great
public , works. This party of corrupt jobbers has
been beaten in this contest, and, we trust, will be
beaten again when it comes.forward and .attempts to
establish a feodality over our railroads."
The papers contain ono other domestic news of in-
terest. In some of them, however, we find the fol-
lowing intelligence relative to the Papal States and
the policy of the Austrian Government, contained in
a letter from Leghorn, of the 22d ult.
"Although for some tune there, have been no rumours of
revolutionary attempts, the governments have remained upon
their guard, and have taken every measure required for sup-
pressing insurrection. Our accounts from Romagna confirm
the report that the Austrian garrisons of Ferrara and Coma-
cplcio have been constantly increased. The Imperial troops
may be said to occupy the whole of the Legation of Ferrara,
ready, iu case of need, to enter the provinces of Bologna and
Ravenna in 24 hours. There is a rumour, but we know not
what credit it is entitled•to, that the son of General Nugent,
Governor of Trieste, has been arrested. Within these few
;
days a great movement has been observed at the head-
quarters of the Austrian army of Italy, established at Ve-
rona. The Italian Field-Marshal Mazzuchelli, has been re
placed in the command of the fortress of Mantua by another
officer."

-According to a letter from Vienna, of the 21st, in
the Frankfort papers, the most perfect tranquillity
prevails in the States of Venetian Lombardy, and
not the slightest apprehension of an outbreak prevails.
The Three per Cents. closed on Tuesday at 84f,
and the Fives at 122 f.

THE BOURSE----TuEsDay' APRIL 30.
First Highest Lovreet Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents...••• 122 .• 122 .• 121 93 .. 121 95
Three per Cents"— •845i..84 30 .. 84 25 84 30
Bank of France 34)93 ••3095 • 3095 ..3095
Beighut Bank.. 695 .• 695 .• 692 SO .. 692 50
Belgian Fives, 1831.
1840
1842 1081 .• 1081 .. 108/ •• 1081
Dutch Two-and-a-Half • • 61: • • 61: 6ll 611
fpanlah Active ............331 ..
•• 331 •
•• 3.31
..e.d l5l • • 151 .• 15
..•
f 14f
1061 .. 1014 .. 1061 .. 1061
Roxematitai.N. c.w..D..c.f.e..rr
RAILWAY SHARES.
Ver 8..............77• • 377 50 .. 377 80 .. 375 375
260 260 .. 252 50 .. 255
Rotten .... .......• •.•• •• 950 .• 950 •• 950 .• 950

Rouen to Havre.. • • • • • • • ••• • 715 717 59 .. 715
Orleans . 961 25 . • 965 .. 970

-• 717 50
•• 970

Strasburg to Bale•. 272.50 .. 273 73 .. 272 50 • • 273 75
Avignon to Marseilles— •• .• 762 50 .• 762 50 •• 762 50 • • 762 50
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.

Verssllles,R.B..• ..•••• 377 50 .. 377 50 .. 374 .• 373
L.I1.•• •••• 261 23 .. 261 25 .. 252 50 .. 253
R0uen..........955 . 955 .. 950 953
Rouen to Havre.. ••••• ••• . 715 .. 717 50 .. 715 .. 717 50
Orleans
Strasburg to 8a1e.••...
Avignon to Marseilles.• • • 760 . 760 737 50 •• 757 50

Itusti,,STATE TRIALS.—The arguments of Counsel
in the Court ;.If. Queen's Bench, Dublin, in the case
of the traversers, were resumed on Tuesday. The
Solicitor-General repa?d to the speech of Mr. Moore,
,on
..I,ehalf of the Rev. S.t.r. Tierney; after which,
his speech on Tth..;
Mr. net:. Q.C., commenced, bnd was left speaking.
received a hurt on his ,
while he was taking a fittlt-
Imrowr:usll INTELLIGENCE.-114r, Henn concluded
sday. Mr. Fitzgibbon, who had
o have followet.
Wed-
nesday, but unfortunateTyhferocmouitahe..fall.,c)ifatehdistohorthsee,
sleek. lie rose on one legfr,esahndairinti:the outskirts
of Dublin, was t 1 - Mr. Henn on ;either stand nor

t Court that as his observations would not be very
brief, and as he could not stand very comfortably for
any length of time, he hoped they would not call
upon him to speak that day.. Their Lordships, ever
ready to comply with such suggestions, most gra-
ciously adjourned the Court till Thursday. Mr.
Fitzgibbon will, it is said, speak all Thursday, Fri-
day, and. a part of Saturday. Mr. M'Donogh will
finally close the week ; and on Monday next the
Attorney-General will reply, and when he will close
no one can. tell. The Monger trial acquires fresh
strength every day—wires acguirit outdo, .

MO:LIZA LIT Y IN TIIB METROPOLIS.—There has
been a slight increase in the number of deaths during
the week ending April 27, as compared with the
previous week, the numbers being respectively BSO,
and 846—average 883. The increase has taken place
chiefly in cases of consumption and diseases of the
brain. In the former, the number during .tbe pre-
ceding week was 142, and, during the last, 162,
average 155. In deaths caused by the latter there
has been an increase of 30, being 19 above the ave-
rage, namely, 152. In all other cases, except violent
deaths and small-pox, there is a decrease. The
number of deaths from violence was 33, of which 7
were caused by falls, 9 by injuries from carriages,
3 suicides, 5 from burns and scalds, and 4 from drown-
ing. Of 31 persons who died of small-pox, 24 had
not been vaccinated. According to the returns made
"from the Greenwich Observatory, the thermometer
on Friday stood at 74.6 degrees, showing a higher
temperature thin that' in London by 5 degrees. It
was lowest on the night of Wednesday, being 38.3
degrees.

MONE STAND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY. THURSDAY EVENING.
No rally occurred in Consols up to the termination of
business, the latest bargains being 99i to I. The New
Three-and a-Half per Cents. left off at 1021 :V.
Spanish Bonds were but a trifle higher, tile Five per
Cents being 241 to:i, and the Three per Cents. 35i to 1.
Portuguese Converted were lower, being 44i to Pe-
ruvian were done at 29a. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Ce being rather lower.
transactions in Railway Shares have
been be edt
i nn
ha and Derby were 371 ; Bir-
mingham and Gloucester, 41 to 4 ; Greenwich Pre-
ference, la ; and North Midland 81 discount. Birming-
ham and Gloticesteri New, have been a ; Bristol and
Gloucester, 19 ; Bristol and Exeter, 51 a ; Chester and
Holyhead, 2* ; Gjett Western, 41 ; South Western,
43i ; Croydon, 51 ;' Newcastle and Darlington, 23 ;
South Eastern, New; 611 to 7* ; Yarmouth and Norwich,
7/ ; York and North Midland, 71 ; and ditto, Scarbo-
rough branch, 18 to 17 premium. Provincial Bank of
Ireland Shares were'l9l premium. .
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was rather
firmer. Speculators took 1,000 bales Arnerican,.t and the
total sales were 5,000 bales.—Shares:were also stronger, and
a good business was done. Dublin and Cashel were ;
Brighton, 44 ; Midland Counties, 89i ; North Midland, 90} ;
Paris and Lyons, 34 3s. ; South Eastern, 37k ; Blackwall, 64.
The following remarks upon the tariff alterations, by
Messrs. Wilkinson and Sons, the brokers, are all that free
traders can desirs!—

_ .
o' The business transactions of the past month, 'hi colonial
and foreign products, have been on a very limited scael, all
parties wishing to learn what alterations were intended by
the Chancellor of the Exehequer in the import duties. On
Monday last the Chancellor announced his scheme, which,
as regards foreign products, is to take off the whole duty
on sheeps' wool ; to reduce the duty on currants to 15s.
per cwt.; foreign coffee to 6d. per lb.; and foreign free-
labour sugar to 345. per cwt. This is very good so far
as it -goes, but it would have given much greater
satisfaction to the public had he proposed to reduce the duty
on Colonial sugar to 20s. per cwt., and Foreign to 30s. per
cwt.; and we trust, when the annual Sugar Bill shall be.
brought into the House, lie will be induced to adopt that
scale, as it will enable the working people to enjoy a larger
share, without injury to the revenue, and without which,
they and their poor children will derive no benefit ; indeed,
we venture to predict-that an increase-of more than a million
sterling would be the result, as compared with the average of
the past three years.
"Last year the public paid 12,500,0001. for 202,260 tons
of sugar, but in some former years the amount has reached
14,000,0001., and as the average price during the ten years
preceding the emancipation of, the negroes from slavery did
not exceed 295. sd. per cwt. in bond, and that price being full
50 per cent. higher, both at that time and the present, than
in all the ports of Europe, it may be presumed that 303. per
cwt. in bond will remunerate the colonial planter abundantly.
The case will stand thus, with a duty of 20s. per cwt. for co-
lonial and 30s. per cwt. for foreign sugar-14,000,000/. will
purchase at 50s. per
280,000 tons

80,000 tons of foreign, at a duty of 30s. per cwt.,
will produce a revenue of .. £2,400,000
200,000 tons colonial at a duty of 20s. per cwt.... 4,000,000

£6,400,000
or 1,300,000/. more than the whole revenue on sugar last
year, besides an additional 40 per cent. to the public at about
the same cost."

Exceptions will of course- be taken, as the Morning Post
shows, though, we confess, in a mild spirit, for which the
protection party is not often remarkable, to the beanng of
these observations, as against the West India interest, but
we will answer for it- that those who know the present state
of Jamaica and other of our possessions, will acknowledge
that they are not very -flourishing under protection, 'and
that as to an independent body of planters, there no longer
exists such ; former extravagance, and, in some cases no
doubt, misfortune too, having handed over the estates to
mortgagees in , nine cases out of ten. It might, indeed,
be contended that mortgagees have as much right to be pro-
tected as the original owners, but then the rejoinder suggests
itself—have not these mortgagees, in their advances, left a
fair margin for probable alterations of duties, which every ra-
tional man must have seen years ago will gradually be effected ?
The reply that we shonld give, seeing mortgagees are not pro-
verbial for short-sightedness, is certainly in the affirmative.
The Funds have been rather agitated this morning,
though it would "puzzle a conjuror" to divine the
suanpdpoarretedn. own9e9/NteowiTfhorree7aonndey-a,
-and
9p9er
precise cause. Sales continue to be made, and, as is -stated
:TExchequer Bills have been worth 745. to 765.
by some, for account of the Scotch Banks; Consols opened
to
ot 99 to
Time;besii
Cents.r)reiuhma,v e realised 1021 to i ; the Reduced 101,1 to
the Three per Cents. 981 to 1.- Bank Stock has been at 1961
to 197 k, and India Stock at 285, being about previous rates
for the former, but a very marked decline on the latter.
The Foreign Speculative Stocks are affected by the re-
trogade movement hi our own funds. Spanish have been
down to 241 1 for the Actives, and to 354 and 35 for the
Three per. Cents. Portuguese Converted Bonds have been
at 451 to 45 ; Mexican are 354 to 35 ; Celombian, 141 to
141; and Brazilian, 80i, being about previous rates. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have-been 611 to 61i; and Rus-
sian, 117 to 11$. •
The Railway Shares are rather brisk, and support generally
full quotations. -
BLANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY I.—We cannot
report any material change in our market to-day :--Eastern
Counties, 13i ; Ditto, Perpetual, N. 15s. 10d. ; Lancaster and
Preston,4oi ; Midland Counties, Fifths, 78 to 78/ • Sheffield
and Manchester, 78 to 781 ; Ditto, Quarter, 11h ; South-East-
ern,: New, 101 ; Preston and Wyre, 171; Trent Valley, 8.
CLOSING PRICES. * .
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock . .. ......«..... 11 i Indian Stock 2SS pm
per Cent. ie.& ..... . ...... lj; Ditto Bonds —pm
3 per Cent. Cots. .........
.kII! ,Ditto Old Annuities
.3}(,er Cent. Re 1 ......... JUI !Ditto New Annuities —
I
X. Bills, 1,0001. 1%41 74 pm
Ditto 5001
Li7iwig2A3ltiPenruCrietCineetsnt.to;:ex:p:i.r..e.. 10:2
' Ditto Small 76 pm.
Jan. 1860 l2 7-16 !Bank Stock for Acct.... 186%
Oct. 1859 Consols for Acct.......... 99%
Jan. 1860 l2 11-16 India Stock for Acct....
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent - Portuguese, 5 per Cent 7935
Belgian, 5 per Cent — Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian, 5 per Cent llB
hllian, fl per Cent
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Jam, 1824 ........ ........-- Ditto, per Cent ... ......... ... 3; %
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent ll3 Ditto, Deferre................. IN
Danish, 3 per Cent — ;French, 5I er Cent...... —f. —c.
Greek, 18.5, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent ...... ... 35% French, 3 per Cent. —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837...... Dutch, 2% per Cent.._ 6l
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... 29% Ditto, 5 per Cent lOO%
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) 62%
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 96
• Ditto New (17% laid) _ 24
Bristol and Exeter (.0 paid) ............. ...
Bristol and Gloucester (30 pun)
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) . i ..........
Great Western (75 paid)
Harwieh (Braithwaite) (2 pidid)
London and Greenwich (1.1. I:.s. 4d paid) —
Ditto, Preference or Privilege (131. 17s. 2d. pd) 17%
London and South Western (ill. 6s. 10d. paid) 8:,
London and Croydon (Trunk) ls%
Newcastle and Darlington Junction (18 paid)
North Midland (100 paid)
Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) Bl
South Eastern and Dover (3312 s 4d paid)
Ditto New Shares ( 4 pail)
Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) l2l
York and Scarborough Branch (2). paid)

THE FACTORIES BILL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,--I herewith inclose ;paragraph from the Northern
Stor newspaper, which pays a just tribute of respect to the
editor of The Sun, for his humane exertions on behalf of the
poor factory-workers, and in which mark of respect I am sure
the whole body to which I have the honour to belong will
most cordially subscribe. Gratefully yours,
'May 1, 1844. A NirtSRKING MAN.
• " One Liberal newspaper stands pre-eminently distinguished
for
_its bold and manly course upon this question. The Sun
hasestablished for itselfa just title to the thanks and support
of every lover of justice and humanity. It has boldly stepped
out from the .fold, and manfully taken its legitimate position
as the leader of Liberal opinions Upon this all important
question ; and, as a.consequence, we iind some of its articles
upon the Ten Hours Bill written in a spirit that warms the
heart of every sufierer, carrying .conviction to the minds of
the opponents of this measure, if .not ensuring their co-opera-

OPENING OF TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.—On Wednesday
morning the public were agreeably surprised to find that
Trafalgar-square was thrown open, and many availed them-
selves of the 'opportunity thus afforded Of perambulating this
noble area. The workmen, have, however, not yet left, as
the asplialte pavement is not yet completed, nor are the jets
d'euu 3 et in play, although the basins have been charged with
water for several days. The base of the Nelson column is
still surrounded with a hoarding, and part of the upper scaf-
folding still remains. In a days the equestrian statue of
George 111. will be removed from its present site, facing
Messrs. Ransom's, to the vacant pedestal at the west end of
the terrace in Trafalgar-square, and opposite the statue of
George IV. The day for holding the grand nauticallete, at
which several of the pensioners from Greenwich Hospital will'
be present, will be shortly appointed.
BANQUET AT MANCHESTER, HOUSE.—A sumptu-
ous banquet was given on Wednesday by his Excellency the
Count St. Aulaire, in honour of the birthday of his Majesty
the King of the French. The company consisted of the
Ministers from Bavaria' SWeden, Holland, Belgium, Aus-
tria, America, Sardinia, Denmark, Hanover, Portugal, and
Russia, the Turkish Ambassador, Prince Castelcicala, Duke of
Buccleuch, Duke of Wellington, Marquis of Salisbury, Mar-
quis of Lansdowne ; the Earls of Liverpool, Jersey, Dela-
warr, Haddington, Aberdeen, Wilton ; Lords Stanley, What-n-
-en%' Brougham, Lyndhurst ; Sirs Robert Peel, James
Graham; Mr. Gladstone; Count de ,Noailles ; M. de Ra-
bandy, M. de la Belinaye, M. de St. Andre, Baron de Thile,
M. de Lisboa, M. Murphy, M. Gautier, &c.