Star.
London, England, 1816-02-10 00:00:00

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bows af,i*tootir
inquiry is, that most generally,
biz o'Clocle-in the morning, and
at night, allowing in hour's
which is the only time in the day
Stand—of course thirteen hours'
Any other refreshment within
than what the work people proc,
with them; or it is brought to .
the first five days of the week are employed. On
Saturdays the general hour for quitting work is foist.
o'clock, which on that day, reduces the actual titue
passed in the mills to nine hours... Such is the most
prevailing custom hem. and it may fairly be conside.'
red as the minimum of labour, (or I have not heard
of any factory being worked a ,shorter time ; neither
dub bear of any other vacation between the hours of
six in the morning and eight at night, than that of the
dinner hour.
Many factories however; and some of them Very.
large ones, are worked from a half to a whole hour
longer each day (Saturday k generally excepted). by
either beginning at five, or half past live in the moro.l
Mg, and concluding at eight in the evenicg ; or else
beginning at six, and concluding at halt past eight
or nine. Nor is the practice of ceasiiitt to work at
four o'clock on Saturdays without exception : Tn some
of these mills from ten to eleven hours' labour is ob.
tallied on that illy. A mere. stitement of facts like
these will, I trust, be deemed t.uillcietit to ju.tily anti
support the rogulations intended.
It will be said, perhaps, that by retlncing the he
riod of daily labour, and consequently the qn.intity
of yarn produced, the trade would sustain much in-
convenience. .ISut this objection may be obviated, by.
postponing the operation of the Act until the Masters
shall have had a reasonable opportunity of providing
against that result.
I offer, with much deference, these observations to
my fellow-townsmen. It would give me pleasure to
learn, that they have in any degree tended to dissi-
pate the alarm, which, I am told, partially exists :
wand perhaps they may not be found altogether use-
less in preparing the puldic mind for the further con-
sideration of the subject at any meetings which it
may be expedient to hold fur the purpose.
Mancheaterooth January. HUMANITA9.
,Front the Manchester Chronicle.)

would be only Eve., But
do Wah itie (Marge ?-;-'
' ! be pre•ductlie of 'amore
cent. In plain English,
would be enforced with such
made to produce. almost
'6,.0r 5, or 1 per cent.
inciple, not the amount;'
. they 'y set of men to inquire
,of them the nature and amount Of their transactions
hi trade; which was a gross violation of all constitu-
.tional principles, and ought never to be endured.—
Crfftp/orme).—He would not enter into any farther
marks of this kind, because they were not called to
the consideration of any party or political question,
Out merely to express their sentiments in a manner
becoming Englishmens Mr. Davies then concluded
ath reading a series of Resolutions, for which see
dvertisement.
',
'Mr. Joint Busnian came for ward to second the
two
ilutions. After the statement which they had
ard, little mare remained for him to do, than barely,
/ire firms, to second the Resolutions. It was well
Luc him that it was so, for he was so little accustomed
bto pc.ll: in public, that if he bad had much to do, he
should certainly have tailed in it. There was one
thing, however, which he wished more particularly
to state to them and to impress on their minds—that
a Petition wr:uld be prepared and ready for signa.
cure. He trusted that every Gentleman who now
htiard him would not only sign this petition, but re-
commend to every man of his acquaintance to do the
same thing s for it was only by unity of efforts that
they could hope to succeed in their object. Let them
all hear in mind the good old fable of the bundle of
sticks.l—let them make a long pull. a strong pull, and
.a pull altogether.—(AMlsere.)
The Resolutions were then successively proposed,
and unanimously adopted.
Mr. Davies then proposed a Petition to the House
of Commons, founded on the Resolutions, which
being moved and seconded, Oi AS also carried unani-
mously.

It was then moved by Mr. DAVIES, and seconded,
that the Representatives of the City in Parliament
be intruded to present the petition to the House of
Commons, and support the prayer of it. This quel.
tion was carried by acclamation.
Sir Ws:imam Coitus then stepped forward, and
after some opposition obtained a hearing. He sa.d
he was glad to meet his fellow-citizens 'Ton a qucs-
tion which affnaled them so much satisfaction, and
which to himself personally affoi ded the lilt.: reable
sensations. (4/11doutes.) He I,ad formerly suppor-
ted the prop:rty tax, not from any peculiar approba-
tion ol it either in principle or in operation, but from
a conviction, in his own mind, that tiothiug hut the
most strenuous exertions of the country could enahl
it to achievl those .glorious results which had so- re-
cently crowned the British arms. He
.had supported
this tax on the score of necessity ; but now that the
motive of his conduct ceased, and a Peace was
haixpiiy restored throughout the world, the tax, in his
oroion, ought not to exist any longer. (4/0/aereo.)
Alter twenty-five years of difficulties and unparall:led
stiry,gles—arrd after those difficulties and struggles
);_.en surmounted, the least that the people of this
country had a right to expect. was the cessation of
those burttotris which most heavily pressed upon them
/ear.)—Having said thus much upon the
suoject of his present sentiments, and professing, as
he always did, the most zealous attachment to the
. BriLiSti Constitution, he was sorry that he could not
commend that part of the motion just adopted, which
was to " instruct" -the City Representatives to sup-
port the prayer of the Petition—( Disallftrobation.)—
He could not be instructed by his Constituents, or
by any body else in the discharge of what he thought
his duty as a Member of the House of Commons—
(4,ead ditajtrobation).—He should nut be deterred by
any expres,ton of hostility from acting up to his own
sentiments, whatever dissatisfaction such conduct
might give other people--(liiner, and ether rxfiredion:
of ditapprobation). —He could not at present sty what
would be the precise course of conduct he should pur-
sue when this question was agitated in Parliament;
but if he were left to himself, he should act con-
sistently with his duty as Representative of the Li-
very of London—(Disapprobation).
Sir JAMES SHAW said, that when this subject was
last under the consideration of the Livery, he express-
ed his opinion, that the extraordinary exertions of the
country ought to be continued until an honourable
peace should be obtained. That event hid now ar-
rived, and he therefore thought the Property Tax
ought not to be continued any longer. It could be
justifiable only as a war tax, and under the extraor-
dinary circumstances in which this country -was plac-
ed during the last ten years. He thought that if the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had occasion for any
considerable aid in the present situation of affairs, the
most expedient and preferable mode of attaining his
object would be by way of loan—say 5 or a 8600,000,
the interest to be paid out
,of the Sinking Fund.—
(Ciseoro.)—Elis sentiments were at present averse to
the continuance of this Tax, and those sentiments he
should carry with him into the House of Commons.
( ) .
blr. Alderman ATKINS said, he had always ap-
proved of the principles of the Property Tax as a
mode of supplying the exigencies of etc State, inas-
much as it was upon the property of the country the
bin-then of taxation ought to fall. He had felt it his
duty to support this tax in the House of Commons.
front a conviction of the necessity of it at the time
when it was las; brought forward. That necegeitci
was not now so great; but when he was called upolt
and instructed to use his exertions, in opposing the
continuance of this Tax, he did not consider himself'
fairly dealt by.' The proposition was that, witheilt
consideration without reference to the circumstance*
under which the renewal of the tax should be pro•
posed, he must pledge himself; Tight or wrong. to
comply with the instructions of his constituents, (Ind
•ftficuilloo.) If it should -be made clear to him that
the Property Tax could be Utterly dispensed with,
no man would more strenuously oppose tr, and his
sincerity could not be' doubted, for he had 66 a stake
in the hedge of the couniry."—(Cries of II 11)
Whet was the import of dießesolution Dow agreed
It was You are 'hereby required and de-
sired to support the PetitiodLyou must go to Par-
liament tied hand and foot, and decide upon the
principle of this measure without consideration."
Aster being placed in the important situation he now
bad the honour to hold, he could not bear this man-
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d disebtaitilie ik-ateight rrio fi#e per cent. Tag would
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iay the works are at a the five per cent. Tax would
irs' labour is obtained. rigour, that it would be ma
in the fourteen hours,
.equal to 10; hot whether 16
ocure at noon, they take the question was as to theprin
:o the hictories. . Thus whether they would allow any