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

GLOUGESTER-S'ElttET DYE4IOUSE

EORGE SCOTT eniLraces this opportunity of expressing
hit; grateful acknowledgements .for the .favours he has re-
ceived since his'cumthericement in the above business, and fur-
ther begs to Inform. those wins may honour him with their. com-
inands; that he has enlarged his Establishment, opou a very ex-
tensive scaie, with suitable Hut Air and .Bleach:ng Stoves and
that all Goods will be Dyed and Finished hra style of superi-
ority.
AU kinds of Silks, 'Satins, Velvets, and Bri .sh and Foreign
Crapes, Dyed and Finished. Ladies' Dresse elissea, Cltiaks,
Shaw Is, Veils, and Llandkerchiefs, of ever cript ions, Cleaned
or Dyed ; Moreens, Damasks, and Stuff f all kindS Cleaned
sir Dyed and Watered; Furniture Prints, Sofa and Chairtovers,
Carriage Linings, itc. Cleaned and Glazed; Calico Linings
Dyed and Glazed ; Carpets and Druggets Cleaned.
Gentlemen's Clothes Renovated its a supes tor style. • •
Country Ordeis executed with the greatest punctuality and
despatch.

An APPRENTICE Wanted.
43, Gioitcester-street, Lirerpool.

• R. A. BALDWIN,
UMBRELLA AND PARASOL MANUFACTURER,
31, BOLD-STREE'L
pe
(UNDER DR. THOM'S 0 APRL.)
12 A. BALDWIN respectfully a unces to the Ladies of
IX* Liverpool, and its inhabitants ii general, his Return
from London, where he has selected an elegant assortment of
SILK and other MATERIALS connected with the PARA-
SOL Department, comprising two essentials, that of being
really fashionable, and of _novel invention, in almost every
shade and figure. The greatest novelty in the Carriage Parasol
will lie found on inspection such as to award some Credit to the
luventor,_being so contrived as to occupy the compass of a
common Pocket Telescope.
Parasols re-covered and altered to the prevailing fashion.
Repair's neatly executed.
R. A. B.'s Stock of fashionable Gig, Poney, Ladies, and
Gentleinen's Riding WHIPS, will be found, both in price and
quality, unequalled in or out of London.
N.B.—A large ancfmost varied assortment of richly mounted
OPERA CANES and WALKING STICKS.
Charges strictly moderate.

ii-mpertal Vartianunt.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY.

• The house re-assembled to-day after the Easter recess. The
Speaker took the chair at four o'clock.
Cut. Thomas took the oaths and his seat for Kinsale, and Sir
'l'. Hepburn, fur the county of Haddington, in the room of
Lord Ramsay.
On the motion of Sir T. FREEMANTLE, a new writ was or-
- dered for 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
Suffolk, in the room of Mr. H. Logan, 4leceased.
Sir G. 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 be 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,
and passed.
The Newlyle and Coupar Angus railway bill was read a
second time, and ordered to he committed.
The Garnkirk and Glasgow railway bill was also read a se-
cond time, and ordered to be committed.
_ _

Petitions against Mr. Sergeant Talfonrd's copyright bill
were presented by Mr. Kelly, Mr. Wakley, Sir W. Follett, the
Attorney-General, Mr. Hume, and other members.
A number of petitions on carious subjects were presented,
GREAT YARMOUTH ELECTION.

Mr. C. W. WYNN said he had a petition of great importance
to the freedom of election to present. The petition to which he
alluded •A•as from Mr. Baker, the parliamentary agent for the
petitioners, complaining of an undue return for th borough of
Great Yarmouth; and it stated that the officer who had 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; be therefore prayed that the ballot for a
committee, which stood for to-morrow, be postponed until the
returning officer could be served with the Speaker's warrant.
The hon. member moved that Mr. Baker be called to the bar to
verify the statements in the petition.
The ATTORNEY-GENEIIAL opposed the motion for calling
Mr. Baker ta the liar, 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. He should therefore op-
pose the motion.
Mr. C. W. WYNN was decidedly of opinion that the house,
in justice to its own character, ought to bear 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. Itumbold, the Solicitor-
General, and other hon. members, took part. After which,
strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the house divided,
when the" appeared— _ _ _

For the motion fur calling in Mr. Baker 78
Against it

Majority against the motion
comical' BILL.

Mr. Sergeant TAI.FoOnn inoiediheseconil reading of the
copyright bill. The hon. and learned member was addressing
the house when we left.

TREATMENT OF FACTORY CHILDREN.

( From the London Record.)
We plead guilty to the charge implied in the following letter
of ',old Ashley, of not giving due attentiou to the question re-
lating to the employment of children in the manufactories of
the country. We feel that, among the many subjects of int-
lieita4ce which claim our attention, this one has been nearly
,but we hope that it
.may, hereafter, obtain
.7a_titlihsicieratioir trim us in some degree 'commensurate with its
14hglittilidititiCe,-and.corretponding• to the malignant and de-
plorable •evils connected with it, which seem loudly to call for
Lardastiley says:--
. - - -TrotramirotToit dR TuE RECtitto. , • •
y/..-Your paper of yesterday renews your invitation to per-
sutiviebn-fersant with the Tnanufacturing system, to furnish you
with hints on theibest,raUder.of improving the people engaged in
that labour, ~1,1010 ,

ni -Attila ugh very unwilling to address you by letter, I am more
eurviilling.that your readers should be Left ignorant of the truth;
bandrae. li.cannat believe that. you wilfully conceal the many
sources:of:information on this vital topic, I must conclude that
you have never yet beard 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
committee of the Commons, and in 1833 before the parlia-
-'mentary commission issued, pursuant to address, by his late
!-M ajesty. . .

_
This evidence exhibited the evil of the system, and in part
proposed the remedy. Had you ever read any portion of it,
your decision would have been easy; a paper like your's, pit-
fessedly religious. must have held its peace, or boldly demanded
e mitigation of tlie 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 of the mill-work-
ers, 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
their thirteenth year, "by working twelve hours a-day, have no
time fir their mental or moral improvement" (January, 1837 :)
the law now prcfesses to forbid the employment of young children
for so many hours ; but the law is, for 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, 18.37, that he
had laid in formations against the proprietors of two cotton-mills,
" First, for having worked young persons under eighteen years
of age fiont seven o'clock on Saturday evening, Sept. 2d, to five
on Sunday morning, Sept. al, without any interval for rest or
ref reshment; second, fur having worked young persons under
eighteen years of age froth seven o'clock in the evening of Sept.
6th, to six o'clock in the morning of Sept. 7th, without an y in-
terra fi,r re,t or rej'reshnient ; third, for a repetition of the same
offence on Sept. Bth; fourth, for having corked young persons
under eighteen years of age from half-past five o'clock in the
morning of Sept. 'lib, until eleven o'clock at night, with intervals
fir meals, amounting to one hcur and forty minutes. or fifteen
hours and fifty minutes clear labour per day; fifth, for a repeti-
tion the same offence on Sept. Bth !" As the inspector has
nut distinguished the precise ages, we may believe that they
ranged, as is usuat, over,the whole petiod from nine to eigh-
teen

This sad and shameful systeM has beet long denounced by
medical men of the highest science, by teachers of daily and
Sunday-sehools, and by credible and experienced operatives—
the ministers of every by
of religious belief have alone been
backward, That great and good man, Mr. Sadler, whose zeal
. was inexhaustible for the honour of God and the welfare of man-
kind, repeatedly assured me, that, with ves y few, but most non-
outable exceptions, he had never received support from the pro-
fessors of• religion within these kingdom's. 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 I feel confident that, by the blessing of God, per-
severance and patience in well-doing, will enable me at last to
trinmvh, against hostility, and in spite of indifference.-I atb,
Sir, your very obedient humble servant.
April 20, 1838.

ASHLEY:

-KINNEAR IN Pants—Palm, APRIL Is.—The convicton of
Xihnear, 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 M—s, and who turned out to have been formerly con-
nected in Swindling transactions in England with Kinnear, and
a perton named W—e, against whom he subsequently gave
evidence which caused their being fined and imprisoned in
England—played a deep game in Paris, at which Kinnear was
supposed to be the prompter. M—s had quitted England
with considerable spoil, and determined to lead a new life and
become an honest man, had retired to Champagne, where he
put:Chased property and conducted himself with great propriety.
Here, however, he was discovered by his old partners, and was
induced, either by the fear of exposure, 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,
st yle of living, and the precautions taken by his Mentor, suc-
ceeded in imposing on the Parisians, and, in a short time, he
hid obtained very extensive credit, to which there would have
teen scarcely any limit if an accident had not led to a suspicion
and compelled him to abscond. Among bis papers, which
were seized by his creditors, was one curious document, which
there is every reason to believe had been drawn out by Kinnear.
It was the plan of a campaign of this accomplished gang, and
it was a calculation of the means which they were to adopt to
raise a very large sum' out of the credulity of their creditors.
They were to purchase largely, and apparently with great pru.
tience, for ready money. Their next operations, when once
afloat, were to be in 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 course, GOt to be honoured. Out of there gains they
were to cover the losses they had sustained in their lirsttransac-
tions—if loss there was in the conversion of their goods into
money. The paper was a perfect curiosity. Rothschild, in all
his teal transactions, never made mole detailed calculations
'than these industrials bad done in their false dealings. They
were each to realise a colossal fortune; as I have already
44.'541 :;4, but for an accident, they would have succeeded. As it
ir".,o • ;:41, rub several merchauts and dealers of
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. ithout,, perhaps, realising much fur themselves.
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