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London, England, 1844-05-17 00:00:00

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The annual festival, at which subscriptions are made in sup-
port of the charity for the education and support of the female
children of Masons at the Freemasons' School, in St. George's,
Southwark,. was celebrated on Wednesday at the Freema-
sons' Tavern. The Earl of Zetland, M.W.G.M., presided on
the occasion; supported by upwards Of 200 of the craft. The
Secretary announced a subscription of nearly 800/.
At the monthly meeting of the Society for Promoting
Christian knowledge, the LOrd Bishop of Exeter in the chair,
the Rev. J. D. Glennie, the secretary, stated that the circu-
lation of the books and tracts between the audit of April,
1843, and April, 1844, bad been as follows 112,668 ;
New Testaments,lo4,994 ; Common- Prayer-books, 282,992 ;
Psalters, 6,133 ; Books and Tracts, 3,268,659. Total-
-3,775,376.
St James's Theatre was offered for sale on Wednesday, at
Garraway's, when only 9,4001. was bid, and the property was
bought in.
The second reading of the Factories Bill In the House of
Lords is fixed; for 3lenday, and for which occasion the Lords
have been specially summoned. -
The, General Assembly of the Church of Scotland com-
menced its sittings at Edinburgh yesterday.
The anniversarydinner in support of Middlesex Hospital
took place on Wednesday, at the Thatched. house Tavern,
the Duke of Cambridge in the chair. The sum announcedtbr
the eveuhig was upwards of 650/. Among the subscribers
Were Sir C. .Forbes, 501.; J. Tomline, Esq., M.P., SOL ; J.
Nichol!, Esq., 50/. ; W. Harman, Esq., 31/. 10s. ; J. B. Brook,
Esq., 311. 10s. ; F. Sal Mon, Esq., 31/. 10s. ; B. B. Cabbell,
Esq., 251.; and several donations of 101.

THE FACTORY QUESTION.
TO OM 'EDITOR. OF THE MORN) G POST.
, • Slit,--7lediscussing the merits of any scheme for the im-
provement of our currency; there is one point which should
never,
_for a in,,ment, be lost sight of, and that is, whether
such currency will afford to the labouring classes of this
country; both agricultural and manufacturing, such a scale of
ayges as will not relieve them from the pressure of in-
direct taxation ; but; in accordance with the demands of
.philanthropy, .rill I;erunit of direct interference on the part
of GOVernno in in ;ging the hours of labour, and thereby
enabling ,yOl cl-1 ,ses tb devote a portion of their time
to Moral and religious imprOVement. That this desirable re-
sult, Can never be.attained under a gold, or a gold equivalent
paper eitri-elicy; like the present,'Will appear obvious from the
folb,whige9usiil e rat ion s :—'T'hat,ithereas, wages are the means
of dikributi rig wealth among the great mass of the people, and
that it is only.by-aleigli rate of wages they can be defended from
the effects of that taxation which at present enters into every
necessary of their life, and that they can be enabled to de-
! vote a portion of their time to the improvement of their mind,
so necessary to their elevation in the social scale. But high
wages paid to the workman requires that the employer should
obtain from the general consumer high prices; otherwise the
whole burden of taxation and elevation of the condition of
the labourer would fall upon him,' and the rich and unpro-
ductive classes would wholly escape. Now, seeing that these
high prices are high prices in gold, and that the country con-
sists of producers and consumers, it is evident that the pro-
duiers would have little chance of selling their goods either
at home or abroad; for, as free trade is' the order of the day,
and as we generously give the foreigner the advantage of our
improved machinery, the producer will have some difficulty
in persuading the consumer to buy dear at home what he can
buy cheap abroad; and he will be unable to compete in the
market of the world With the pindiicer of lightly taxed coun-
tries, where the standard of living is lower than that which
we wish to establish here. Under such a currency, then,
and such is the one under which this country now groans,
we must abandon all hope' of alleviating the condition of
the labouring classes, for the stern necessity under which
the producer is placed of struggling-against foreign compe-
tition, renders it imperative onhirii to diminish his good wages.,
This gives rise to extra toil, to lengthened hours of labour,
to the slavish employment of Women and children in facto-
ries, and to all the miseries we daily witness—the burden of
indirect taxation is thus thrown on the shoulders of the op-
pressed Producer—master and man ; the rich and unproduc-
tive, the fundholder, sinecurist, absentee and idler escape free
at the expense of the overworked and underfed millions.
With a symbolic money, how different is the case! With
such money, representatives ofialue; not -value itself, we may
have any scale of wages that Government may see fit to este-
blish—in such representative money, the price of gold would
rise like that of all other commodities; thus preserving the
natural relation that all commodities have to each other.
High wages and high in ices might thus be maintained be this
country, without in the least interfering with our foreign
trade, because our goods being sold abroad at their untaxed
or natural value Would bi returned to our merchants in the
gold or goods of other countries whichwould command the
high prices of this country.
Ot this symbolic nature was the currency which existed of
old in Sparta, which flourished for 500 years under the money
established by Lycurgus. Such was the currency which
existed in "merry England" when Exchequer tallies repre-
sented the supplies levied by Government oh the people, and
passed current as money. Such was the currency which
existed during the last French war, when a Bank of Eng-
land " rag" enabled the producer, by means of high prices at
home, to. recover from the general -consumer the immense
sums raised by indirect taxation; and at the same time to
give high wages to the labourer; when, in short, the whole
country flourished, and " war prices" became proverbial of
prosperity. Was there any virtue in war to produce all this ?
Are there not far nobler triumphs to be achieved, by the
same means, in the ARTS of PEACE? •
I trust, therefore, that those patriotic Menthers who have
more than once defeated the :Ministers and mammon-wor-
shippers on.the Factory Question, Will follow up their advan-
tage, by rejecting the 'perniCions resolutions of Sir Robert
Peel on the Bank charter, and compelling him to adopt an
honest monetary system, without which their, benevolent en-
deavours to improve' the condition of-the labouring classes
will be ultimately ineffectual.--I am, Sir, your most obedient
servant, Q. T.
London, May 11, 1844.

Captain. Polhill paired off on .Mon ay night in fit-
your of Lord Ashley's clause.Tfith General Lygon.

.
COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
PrincesS
fore six o'clock , yesterday'afternoon) in a carriage ,
four, escorted by a
.party of Lancers 'frObi. -Claretnent:
His-Royal Highness the Prince 4' Wi&A
.
next royal carriage.; and. the-Countess of Mount Edg-
cifittig;-Lady in-Waiting,- -Colonel--Arbuthnoti--EgirrrY
in Waiting, and Cobaiel W'ylde,
Albert, followed in another .11oyal carriage.
.-Her • Majesty, and Prince Albert-fw.erEncitted-;" )
•Buckingham Palace by the' Lord' Steward, the Lord
Chamberlain, the' Master of the Horse, 'Vise-6in!
Hawarden, and Sir Frederick StOVin,- the Lord 'spa
Groom in Waiting ;.and' the Granby and
Captain Francis Seyinonr, the LDrd and' GrOonl.
Waiting to Prince Albert.. • • -
Sir Robert and Lady Gardnei had the 'honour of
dining with her. iajesty,..,at.clareraeß,t;,,iin Wedne*dg
evening. . •
Yesterday-morning the Queen and :Prince Albert took
their accustomed' early walk in ClatemOnt Park.
Her Royal Highness the Princess ATiee Was taken an
airing yesterday in-the 'Royal Gardene :cif Itiickinghbra
Palace.
Her .Majesty , the Dowager 'attend'ed
-' Pi frier-
service yesterday, naorning :in' the Cfaipel 'Royal; §t."
James's. , . •

His Royal Highness the Duke Of Cambridge lei. town •
yesterday morning for . the Royal..Mikitary
Sandhurst. his Royal Highness travelled by.theSouth •
Western Railway. • •
Her Royal Highness, the Duchess'-of" .Cambridol.,
attended by Baroness Ahiefeldt, took an airing yestl:
day, to her residence at Ke:v, in an open baronche.
R• .yal DuChess returned. In the .evening :to'Ctinebew
House.
A Cabinet Council 'Was- held„ yesterday afternoon at
two o'cloclr,.at the Foreign-office. It was attendedrhy
Sir Robert Pe,-I, the Duke of.. \V% llington;
L-ord
Chancellor, Lord Wharnclitfc, the . Duke of Bucelatcb,
Earl of Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, ari.of Haddington, Earl of 'Ripon-,.the
-Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and Sir Edwd.Knatchbull:
The Council sat two hours and a half. -
A deputation of private country bar,kers,. consisting
Mr. Plumpire (Fier-0, ell (Suffolk), the
A. L. Melville (Liucolusiiire), Mr. VeaSey (hunting'-
donshire), Mr. Spooner (Birmingham), Sir.
.TWeedY
(Cornwall), and Mr. Birkbeek (Yorkshire), had An 10;
terview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his
residence in Downing-street. •
Murphy, the Mexican Minister, transacted 077.
ness yesterday at the Foreign-office. •
_of
Dispatches from Sir Charles Metcalfe; Governor
Canada, atd the. Governors of 'the other North AmeriCal'
provinces, were received Yesterday at. th;:-
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evering, front the'
Colonial-office, for the
,Governors7of the West
colonies. •
The Judicial Committee of the 'Privy Council* so
yest-rday. The Lords present.. were Lord Broughanhe:
the Vice-Chancellor Knight 'Brace, the, Chancellor OF
the Duchy of Cornwall, and- the JudeY of the Admiral'
;1;
Mr. Roebuck,
,Queen's Counsel, was beard .oa.
an appeal from the i cites' Court, of Ciinterbury•
Piggott v. Bearblock and Newmanrelaiive tä a churclf7
rate at•Romforil, Essex. . ..• ,
Dr.. Addams .ww.i.heard for the respondents, and
support of the rate.
Lord Brougham gave judgment- on the part of then
Lordships, reversing the decision of the Court below, 1:
account of theretrospcctive. nature of the rate. ,
respect :tei costs, their Lordships 'reversed that
.pitro
the decision of the Judge -in the Court below; whiP
gave costs against the appellant ; and were plea:Rd 0.
order that the appellant should neither pay nor receive
costs, either in the Court of Appeal of the Privy C(,uncr
or in the Court below.—Their Lordships then adiourufu(

INTELLIGENCE. -;
TATTERSAL L'S.—YEars.unez. .
DERBY. r
8 to 1 agit Col. Peel's lot—taken •
20 to 1 agsb-Mr. Ford's lot—taken •
9 to 4 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—taken
10 to 3 agst Mr. Croekford's Ratan—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Bay Momus‘—taken •
13 to 1 agst 001.•Pee1370rlando •
20 to 1 agst Mr. Lichtwald's Leander—taken
20 to .1 agst Sir G. tleatheofeS Akbitr
30 to 1 a,gst rorn (.14 TAW
50 td 1 rigst gr. Ford's Plialari,
100 to 1 agst Mr. M. Jon6S'S•Britisli Tar.
The arrival of Ratan in, tow ti yestedas;-,
Epson:l!,. eonpled with a. that he ISl3erfectry•Y?'-'t
completely restored him to fa!:ourl '7OO to
taken three. times, and-10 to Bat least to ,1,0001.--titis.'
in addition to some heavy bets •at the West-end on N.V7P
tlesdity night ! The Ugly Buck• was not loss iu t"a"
maul; 5 to'2 having been taken once in hundreds, an:
9to 4to nuarlv 2,0001. ! The new favimrite; li4.V Ito'
patisc.lVas backed Ertel); at twelve to 1 ; Orlando, but t 7
no great amount, at 13 to 1 ; and Mr. Ford's horsl
singly and jointly, at a considerable improvement on
last. quotations. All sorts of prices were laid 80%
Leander, frorn 14 up to 20 to I. We return him at„t",.
latter figure. believing it to be his genuine price. Nothln"
said about T'Auld Suire, Running Rein, or lonian.
OAKS.
7 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Sister to Martingale
7 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Barricade
8 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Princess—taken
• 12 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Merolie—taken •
12 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's All Round my Hat—t.
20 to 1 agst Baron Rothschild's Emerald—taken
- 20 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Charming Kate
•
- 25 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's The Bee—taken
30 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Buzz—taken -
40 to 1 agst Sir It. Bulkeley's Coal Black Rose—t.
The Princess was backed by three or four ptirtl7,
Merope for a "rouleau" or two, All-round my list 1,-;f
about 2001., Emerald freely, and the other. favourites .1,
small sums at the odds given above. Crenoline is saaZ
and will probably be declared not to start belbre.
week is out.
eon
The Subscription-room will be opened this aftero
and to-morrow. s

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, NIA Y 15,j—The Roy al Yach t.=-The Eroh2
barque, Beach master, hired by Government from 00
celebrated • transport contractor Soames, arrived. 0a
Sunday, from LGudon, with the new tubular boilere it!to
funnel for the Royal Yacht Victoria. and Albert. _(;,0
was obliged to have her main hatchway, combings bt
away to adroit the boilers below ; the funnel was broths,
on deck.-., It is expected. she 3vill have had PO her bp
pairs. completed, and be ready for her Royal Mistroi
the latter end of this or beginning- of next month. est,
The Nautilus transport, Lieut. %V. C. Saunders, fag oa
sailed, pursuant to Admiralty orders, for ,Chathau'''
Sunday inorning to disembark her invalids.'
The .Rattlesm'ike, .2, troop-ship, Master-,Cotunni'f3iie
Richard Brown, arrived on, -Sunday, from China., tioy
has brought 202 invalids ' out of 268 origtit)4
embarked,. -dysentery haVing: carried off
of them: One died on Monday, while the the
steam-vessel was taking the others out wirtY
ship. Thirty have-gone to the hospital. 0f 51, the
of thirty of tha Royal Artillery, fifteen,
commanding officer died. The whole of the 5"32.‘,4 t°
disembarked on Monday. Great blame is 0 attac" in
those who authorised. the crowding so many. per`
au ill state of health, for such a long voyage, lit so
a ship as the Rattlesnake. !
The Indus, 78, Captain Sir James Sterling, kg ri, obe
hourly looked for at Spithead, from Lisbon, vinic
left on the 4th instant. fIY6I
The Court-martial on Mr. T. Spokes, carpentertio-
which was announced to .take place on bow,.
Vincent, the flag-ship of Sir Charles Rowle.Y,lfosdif
G.C.8., G.C.H., &c., Commander-in-Chief, ou7„orter
last, is indefinitely postponed, with a view; it is . !
of settling the matter without a trial. 611 qi
The St. Vincent, 120, Captain R. F. RowleV,
out to Spithead to-morrow, and there atwait.ibe: ,bc
of the flag-ships from the other chief ports, for'l'l'.l7:
squadron of exercise. : ••

PUNCH'S POLICE.
wGal,.lkeirnstßeaLrudE,aelyx\Srat:h6redCrnAeatitgrliThbl:sTilattEeh
fEd.eXx TRAORDr:',)
been. understood, that that very
our oo of our bp
force, Letter A, had on the previous night sue ',471 at
foretag an entry into .a •;vell-,known house,:l4°
Crockford's, and capturing, some ,dozen ,1-10r1 "Ir
least as many Commoners of distinction, all of t theer
vigctittleumt
laWfullY assembled. fix the purpose,of ;beggaring i; slit;
selves and families, by means of cards and tlice,"4.olce gj
geared that the house had long given gieat
many virtuous shopkeepers in the neighbotirl.ol 01,0'
the
thwe tillsus;sealenceleetei as the, happy fnrl.Werraona:l:
mlasetntniogfb
There were in all five-and-tWenty prisoners ' Alarq"o
whom we neticed- the Duke of „Fourhonors,, 13,ai ,
of Cutace, the Earl .of Rouge, Vise-taint
Jacques O'Spade,-Sir Harry Finefinger, the well ILO4° t
terleeoup, Charles Roulette, Esq., and others:bco
to the " play", world. The prisoner!, havi"lr,ughth:nre
in the watchhouse all night, did not when t,,, the "fte
show to the best advantal.e. ll4wever, truffsee
instinct of aristocratic blood, they put boil_ouod tb%
matter,,and looked loftily, ,nteuiptuouSly
as they wete brought up in pairs, and Pitt
answer for the misdemeanour— hot the
John Smith, policeman, deposed that Pe
Ouse, tkr9.
vious night effected- an entrance into: the
burst
the drawing-room window. . Other policernetlyo;re so°l;',
the doors : they all rushed to the play-r°l ri-of.S° ea
found the Duke of Fourhonors and the 3 6 goof 0.
playing with dice_ the othur prisoners eron- oe;0-°°;,
ab.)ut the table, playing a game with ca ale. bat' ;Are
the police the prisoners attempted to.ese'dt;ged),,,oo
seized. Two packs of cards (they were Pr". t ;:iltii.ry
found ir. the Duke of Fourhonor s sir P but
swore very singular oaths on being Sea
Finefinger attempted to swallow a p 0417,.. •
was preiented by Sergeant Quick gratsip ni,otit
throat ; whereupon Sir Harry spat i ern • • 'the
Stea
salver.
der,
bt
uny.
capture.,hest se° et,
a foregoing 6
toa thueel objecttß°sritgh.gl ° ttihhnc..edre. pssitochteieen r .te ert
c'
re: t°l iebn'; °.()i ;1I
je
r
All the ,prisoners were fined the pen j
mimed by the statute ; and, havinsr"
departed homeward in their
severalcarriage
By a curious coincidence,
ven.
houses were entered on the same eoemrix7,lo4
.ti:
and a host of their inmates taken 1
11- strerte fetlx,'"?,,,liat
be
fore Mr. Hardwick, at Ma,rlbsoTei!gw,
them accordingly. Thus, it i 14511,iv,.tirdeillr:st,
the same watchful spirit which Castle' onto
lower hells, like that of " the I!Tittg,
.I°l !gettir.,oii
or persong,..l., ?,,er
is no respecter of place _ andiec, D!„ifeart v
Creekford's, and captures Duaes,r
of justice in this ;matt,' 9,1
partiality
every true-horn h` to. 6.11..
fiei:3l;
The receipts of the'.Londoti 60,41 it)
for the week ending 4th MAY, Were::;41011.1q, '
corresponding week of last y
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