The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-27 00:00:00

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\:.17101:56E OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
The house re-assembled to-day after the Easter recess. The
Speaker took the chair at four o'clock.
Col. Thomas took the oaths and his seat for Kinsale, and Sir
T. Hepburn, for the county of Heddington, in the room of
Lord itamsay.
On the motion of Sir T. FREEIIANTLE, a new writ was or-
dered fur the borough of Stamford; in the room of Colonel
Chaplin, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundred; and a new
writ was also ordered for the western division of the county of
Suff )Ik, in the room of Mr. H. Logan, deceased.

Sir U. STRICKLAND. Chairman—of the Hull Election Com-
mittee, reported to the house, that in consequence of the ab-
sence of Mr. Dundas, the committee adjourned on the 16th
instant until to-day, and he was instructed to ask leave to sit
during the absence of the hon. member. .
Mr. DUNDaS explained the reason of his not attending the
committee, which was in consequence of the dangerous illness
of his mother. He should he able to attend to-morrow.

It was then arranged that the committee should resume their
inquiry at the usual hour to-morrow morning..
The Brandling junction railway bill was read a third time,
awl passed.
The Newtyle and Coupar Angus railway bill was read a
second time, and ordered to be committed.
The Garnkirk and Glasgow railway bill was also read a se-
cond time, and ordered to he committed.
Petitions against Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's copvright bill
were presented by Mr. Kelly, Mr. Wakley, Sir W. Follett, the
Attorney-General, Mr. Hume, and other members.
A number of petitions on various subjects were presented.
GREAT YARMOUTH aLECTION.

Mr. C. W. WYNN said he bad a petition of great importance
to the freedom of election to present. The petition to which he
alluded was from Mr. Baker, the parliamentary agent for the
petitioners, complaining of an undue return for the borough of
Great Yarmouth; and it stated that the officer who h.d the
custody of the poll-books kept out of the way to avoid being
served with the Speaker's warrant to attend and give evidence
before the committee; he therefore prayed that the ballot for a
committee,
returning officer could he served with the Speaker's warrant.
The him. member moved that Mr. Baker be 'called to the bar to
verify the statements in the petition.
The ATTORNEY-GEN/I:KAI. opposed the motion for calling
Mr. Baker to the bar, and also the postponement of the ballot.
The committee ought to be appointed, and then, if the return-
ing officer was not present, they might adjourn from day to day.
If the house once admitted such a principle, it would lead to
the most inconvenient consequences. Ile should therefore op-
poie the motion.
Mr. C. W. WYSIN was decidedly of °pinion that the house,
in justice to its own character, ought to hear evidence as to
whether Mr. Burt, the returning officer, wilfully kept out of
the way or not. There was an allegation of that kind, and evi-
dence ought to be received. Ballots for petitions had frequently
been-postponed for far less important reasons. •
A discussion ensued, in which Mr. Rumbold, the Solicitor-
" General, and other hon. members, took part. After which,
strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the house divided,
*lied there appeared—
• For the motion for calling in Mr. Baker 78
Against it

Majority against the motion -
utt, d(4.7.
coPvitiGHT BILL.
Sergeant TA irouan moved the second reading of the
copyright bill. The hon. and learned member was addtessing
the hous4 when we left.

TREATMENT OF FACTORY CHILDREN.

(From the London Rerord.)
We plead guilty to the charge implied in the following letter
of Lord Ashley, of not giving due attettion to the question re-
lating to the employment of children in the manufactories
the country. We feel that, among the many subjects of im-
portance which claim our attention, this one has been nearly
totally negleeted; hut eve hope that it may, hereafter, obtain
a consideration from us in some degree commensurate with its
high importance, and corresponding to the malignant and- J.-
plorahle evils connected with it, which seem loudly to call for
extirpation_ Lord Ashley says:—
TO THE EDITOR OF THE RECORD.
Sie,—Your paper of yesterday renews your invitation to per-
sons conversant with the manufacturing system, to furnish you
with hints on the best mode of itnproviug, the people engaged in
that labour.
Although very unwilling, to address you by letter, I am more
nowillia4 that. your readers should be left ignorant of the truth;
and as '1 cannot believe that you wilfully conceal the many
sources; of information on-this vital topic, f must conclude that
you have never yet heard of the evidence which was taken in
1817 before a committee of the Commons; in 1818 and 1819 be-
fore committees of the Lords; in 1832 again before another
glenniitteci of the Commons, and in 1833 before the parlia-
mentasy commission issued, pursuant to address, by his late
Majesty.
'this evidence exhibited the evil of the system, and in part
oropotied the remedy. Had you ever read any portion of it,
your decision would have been easy; a paper like your's, pro-
fessedlY religious, must have held its peace, or boldly demanded
a mitigation of the sufferings those documents recorded.
The late reports of the factory inspectors contain illustrations
of the system that may throw light on your inquiries. These
gentlemen are hostile to the favourite measure ut the k-
els, commonly known by the name of the ten hours' bill; their
testimony therefore is impartial in this respect.
Mr. Horner tells us that children, after they have completed
t heir thirteenth year, "by working twelve hours a-day, have no
time for their mental or moral improvement" (January, 1837 :)
the law rum professes to forbid the employment of young chiidreu
for so many hours; but the law is, fur the most part, a cruel and
a wicked delusion. Now if the toil press so heavily on children
of thirteen years, what must it do on those of nine?
Mr. Howell states, in his report of November, 1837, that he
hat laid informations against the proprietors of two cotton-mills, ,
" First, for having worked young persons under eighteen years
of age from seven o'clock on Saturday evening, Sept. 2d, tofive
on Sunday morning, Sept. 3d, without any internal fur rest or
refreshment; second, fur having worked young persons under
eighteen years of age from seven o'clock in the evening of Sept.
6th, to six o'clock in the morning of Sept. 7th, with,out anyin-
terval Forrest or refreshments third, for a repetition of the same
offence on Sept. 81h; fourth, for having worked young persons
under eighteen years of age from half-past five o'clock in the
morninv, of Sept. 4th, until eleven o'clock at night, with intervals
for meals, amounting to one hcur and forty minutes, or fifteen
hours and fifty minutes clear labour per day; fifth, for a repeti-
tion or the same offence on Sept. Bth !" As the inspector has
not di,tinznisheil the precise ages, we may believe that they
ranged, as is usual, over the whole period from nine to eigh-
teen!

This sad and shameful system has been long denounced by
m .dical men of the highest science, by teachers of daily and
Sunday-schools, and by credible and experienced operatives—
the ministers of every form of religious belief have alone been
backWaid. That great and good man, Mr. Sadler, whose zeal
was inexhaustible for the honour of God and the welfare of inan-
kind, repeatedly assur”il me, that,' with very few, hut most hon.
oruatrle- exceptions, be had never received support from the pro-
fessors of teligion within these kingdoms. My own experience,
both of the neglect and of the exceptions, concurs lamentably
with his; five years of anxiety and fruitless labour attest the
solitude of my efforts. I know the advantage I yield to my op-
ponents by such an admission, but I am not, on that account,
inclined to further silence—my hope is placed on much higher
support; and l feel confident that; by The blessing of God, per-
severance and patience in welt-doing, will enable me at last to
triumph, against hostility, and in spite of indifference.—l am,
Sir, your verv.ohedient humble servant.
April 20, 18.38.

ASHLEY.

KINNEAR IN PARIS—PARIS, Aertir. 15.—The convicton of
Kinnear, the swindler, has excited some interest here; as he is
well known to some of the first houses. Several years ago, a
Dutchman, who called himsolf Emeney, but whose real name
was Al—s, and who turned out to have Leen formerly con-
nected in Swindling transactions in England with Kinnear, and
a person named W—e, against whom he subsequently gave
evidence which caused their being fined aud imprisoned in
Eirgland—played a deep game in Paris, at which Kinnear was
supposed to Ire the prompter. M—s had quitted England
with considerable spoil, and determined to lead a new life and
become an honest man, had retied to Champagne, where he
purchased property and conducted himself with great propriety.
Here, however, he was discovered by his old partners, and ass
in,lueed, either by the fear of expoiure, or the chance of fresh
gains, against which his newly-born virtue was not proof, to
come to Paris and commence business as a merchant and
general dealer. His modest, but at the same time gentlemanly,
style*of hiving,• and the precautions taken by his Mentor, suc-
ceeded in imposing on the Parisians, and, in a short time, he
th,Aebtained very extensive credit, to which there would have
beets scarcely any limit if accident had not led to a suspicion
aide compelled him to abscond. Among his papers, which
were seized by his creditors, was one curious document, which
there is every reason to believe hadbeen drawn out by Kinnear_
It veas the plan ora campaign or this accomplished gang, and
it was a calculation of the means which they were to adopt to
raisleN ar.very large sem ,out of the credulity of their creditors.
They.were•to purchase largely, and apparently with great pro
dente, for ready money. Their text operations, ellen once
afloat, were to bean short bills, Which were to be honoured;, the
succeeding were to be on a very large scale indeed, so as to
give:them several millions' worth of goods; and those bills
were, of eou-se, not to be honoured. Out of these gains they
were to cover the losses they had sustained in their first transee-
tions—if loss there was in the conversion of their goods into
money. Tht paper was a perfect curiosity. Rothschild; in all
his real transactions, never made more detailed calculations
thark these irnit.strieis had dove in their false dealings. They
were each to rea.ise a colossal fortune ; and, as I have already
said, but for an accident, they wntild have succeeded. As it
was, they contrived to rob several merchants and dealers of
large sums, hut without. perhaps, realisingniuch for themselves,
—Correspondent of Globe.

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