The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-21 00:00:00

AT ay 21, 1844.

THE DIVISIONS ON THE FACTORY QUESTION.

On the 18th of March last 181 members of the Houe
of Commons, including tellers, voted for Lord Ashley's
amendment, defining the word " night," as ti.ed in the
Factory Regulations Bill, to mean the period between
six o'clock in the evening and six in the following morn-
ing, which, in effect, amounted to a clause of ten working
hours per day. This division gave his lordship a majority
of nine votes. For the ten hours' clause proposed on the
13th of May—a more direct clause, but with a similar
tendency to the former-47 additional members (absent
from the house on the 18th of March) recorded their
votes, of which 11 were conservatives, and the remainder
liberals. Amongst them we notice W. B. Ferrand, B.
D'lsraeli, W. Ewart, Lord R. Grosvenor, Gen. Johnson.
T. B. Macaulay, O'Connell M. and M. J.. and Right
Hon. R. L. Shiel. If all those members, therefore, who
voted with Lord Ashley on the 18tn of March, had acted
with a regard to consistency on the 13th of May, the
numbers in favour of the ten hours' clause would have
been 228. Four of this number are accounted for by
pairing, and one (Mr. H. H. Lindsay) by illness. Bat
62 members, having voted with Lord Ashley on the 18th
of March. either absented themselves from the house, or
" ratted," on the 13th of May. Of these, 46 are conser-
vatives. The 10 following are those who " ratted
Sir J. Chetwode (Buckingham), M. Gore (Barnstaple).
A. Hope (Maidstone), H. G. Knight (N. Nottingham/.
Hon. J. P. Maxwell (Cavan Co.), J. Trotter (West Sur-
rey), G. C. Legh (N. Cheshire), D. Barclay (Sunder-
land), D. R. Ross (Belfast). It is worthy of remark
that the bulk of the 62 are county members, who have no
doubt had the threat of corn-law repeal held before their
eyes as the price of their humanity.
The next object will be to explain how the Government
minority was changed into an overwhelming majority.
On the 18th of March, the Government had 172 members
with them (tellers included), and were outvoted by 9. Of
these 172, 21 (11 of them being conservatives) were, from
various causes, missing on the night of the 13th of Mar.
Deducting these 21 from the 172 who voted on the side
of the Government in the main division on the 18th of
March, the remainder is 151. But the votes on the side
of the Government on the 13th of May amounted to 299
(tellers included), so that 148 fresh votes have to be ac-
counted for. Of this 148 no less than 110 are conserva-
tives. In this list those who ratted appear again, and, as
before, the bulk of the names are those of representatives
of counties, or parties connected with the land.
" Thus," remarks the London Standard, from whom
we have condensed this statement, " by the aid of the
above 148 members, 110 of whom call themselves tories'
or conservatives,' and by the deserting and ratting of
the 62 members whose names have also been recorded,
the votes of all those hon. members, who, on the recent
occasion, stood faithful to the pledges they had given on
the 18th of March, in favour of the ten hours' limitation
of factory labour, and also the votes c f the 47 hon. mem-
bers who subsequently came to their assistance, have been
rendered of no avail, and the House of Commons has been
made to stultify itself before the country a d the world;
A more unsparing application of the ministerial whipwas never made, and the writhings under the infliction.
we understand, have been perfectly ludicrous."

The Rev. J. B. Phillips, M.A., late of All Souls Col-
lege, has been presented by the Dean and Chapter of
Manchester to the incumbency of St. Andrew's, Man-
chester.

MR. ENTWISLE AT BOLTON.—Yesterday Mr. Ent wisle
met a large number of electors at the large room of the
Swan Inn, in Bolton. Wm. Hulton, Esq., of Hulton
Park, took the chair. It was intended that in the after-
noon he should attend at Bury, but the meeting in that
town was postponed until Wednesday.
BENEFIT SOCIETIES.—The bill about to be introduced
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer relative to Savings
Banks, it is considered, will materially affect the funds of
benefit societies ; and, we understand, that a committee of
delegates has been appointed in this town for the purpose
of adopting measures to prevent the interference of the
intended enactment with the funds of such societies.
A deputation from the West India Association of Liver•
pool, on the subject of the proposed changes in the sugar
duties and coffee duties, had an interview with Sir,
Robert Peel on Saturday. The deputation consisted of
Lord Sandon, Mr. J. Moss, Mr. Robertson Gladstone,
Mr. Francis Shand, Mr. Thomas Murray, Mr. W. I.
Sandbach, and Mr. W. P. Bushby.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE HON. R. BOOTLE WILDA*.
HAM.—Lord Stanley and the Hon. Col. Wilbraham Idt
town on Wednesday morning for Lancashire, to attend
the funeral of the late lamented R. B. Wilbraham, M.
for South Lancashire, whose remains were interred on
Thursday, in the family vault of Lord Skelmersdalm.
Lord Stanley returned to town on Friday.
SALT TRADE.—A large trade in salt has just been
created on the joint lines at Derby, where scarcely any
existed before. Salt, which used to sell at 355.
price almost prohibitory for agricultural purposes, is noW
delivered in Derbyshire, by the North Midland Bailwart
at 17s. a ton, and is extensively used as a fertiliser,
peculiarly suited to the soil of the country.—Lercesler
Journal. a ton, a

THE WALLASEY DOCKS.—A company has been form-
ed at Birkenhead, with the capital of £600,000, for the
purpose of building warehouses, wharfs, and quays on the
margin of the proposed Wallasey Docks, within two years
after the passing of the bill. The gentlemen of Birken-
head, who have purchased land from the Corporation of
Liverpool, have given undertakings to dispose of their
land to this company at the price that they paid for it.
KILMARNOCK. —The League " utensil," the Hon.
Mr. Bouverie, is candidate for the vacant representation
of Kilmarnock ; he is appropriately opposed by Henry
Vincent, the Chartist. The former was accompanied and
introduced by Mr. Edward Ellice, M.P., and Mr. James
Campbell, of Craigie. He throws out repeal of the core
laws, vote by ballot, extension of the suffrage, and all the
usual baits. Vincent, however, as much excels him in
the magnificence of his promises as in talent.
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MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS.—Lord Talbot is tO
have the Garter vacant by the death of the late Earl of
Lonsdale. Lord Granville Somerset has a seat in the Ca-
binet, retaining his present appointment of Chancellor of
the Du..hy of Lancaster. Sir Thomas Freeman'ic suc"
ceeds Sir Henry Hardinge as Secretary of War,
a seat in the Cabinet. John Young, Esq., M.P., for the
county of Cavan, and one of the Lords of the TreasurY.
succeeds Sir Thomas Freemantle as Secretary to the
Treasury.—Morning Herald of yesterday.
THE COLLIERS' STRIKE.—With an infatuation did'
cult to be accounted fur, the pitmen in this district still
continue to refrain from labour, and mendicity on the part
of their wives and children is daily becoming more preve-'
lent. What benefit the men expect to derive from their
perverseness we are altogether at a loss to conjecture.
Already is the inevitable result of their obstinacy becona"
ing apparent. At Thornely, we understand, upwards of
60 " navies," or excavators, have gone to work in the
pit, thankful, we have no doubt, to exchange their preca-
rious earnings of 125., 145., or 16s. a-week, for a cer-
tainty during the whole year, and with much less labour,
of 245. a-week.---Durhanz Advertiser. without

MEETING OF SHOPKEEPERS' ASSISTANTS,— on
Wednesday morning, at six o'clock, a meeting of sboP-
keepers' assistants took place in Toxteth•hall for the pur-
pose of appointing four district committees to co-operate
with the general committee. Mr. Flower was called to
c
the chair, and in an eloquent address urged the evils
long hours and the necessity for the individual and ee
leetive exertions of the assistants, in order to effect a
change. Mr. Scholefield moved a resolution condemna-
tory of the late system, as injurious not only to assistants,
but to employers, and even customers. This was se-
conded by Mr. 'Mirains, and unanimously carried. The
four district committees were then named and appointed,
and the meeting separated.
EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND GRANTON RAILWAY:'
We are glad to learn the preamble of this bill was proved
on Wednesday last, and on Thursday the committee went
through all the clauses, and the bill will be reported im-
mediately after the holidays. The traffic for goods and
passengers on this important line was proved to be quite
independent of any other line, and will pay a good divi-
dend ; but when the extension of the Edinburgh and
Glasgow and North British Railways are completed, and
the Fifeshire Line, in connection with the Burntisland
Pier is formed, this Railway (the Edinburgh, Leith, and
Granton) will prove the key of communication, and afford
facilities to the connecting lines, which must be highlY
beneficial to their own proprietors. After all the diffi-
culties they have had to contend with, arising from at-
tempts to annihilate this concern, we are glad to find the
shareholders are likely to be repaid for all their anxieties-
The packet-ship Liverpool arrived on Sunday, at mid-
night, having left New York on the 22nd April. She has
had light easterly winds the whole of her voyage, with the
exception of the last few days, when she experienced a,
gale from the north-east. She passed a large number 01
inward-bound vessels in the channel. She brings thirty
four cabin passengers, of which the following is a list:'
Mr. John Mortimer, lady, two children, and servnit,
Miss A. E. Mortimer, Mr. John H. Mortimer, Jur'
Noel J. Becar, Miss Dometille and Miss Adele Becerr
Mr. George R. Lewis and lady, Mrs. Austin, three chil-
dren, and servant, Mr. C. S. Benedict Mr. J. M. Mil"
bank, Col. J. Watson Webb, Mr. Edward S. Renwick,
Dr. Lucius Hyde, Mr. William Paton, Mr. W. Parcae?'
Mr. Thos. Whitaker, Mr. Robt. J. Chisolm, Mr. W. I"
Chisolm, Dr. Wm. W. Valk, Mr. E. Clark, Mr. Andre°
Dexter, Mr. Robt. B. Parsons, Mr. H. Sanford, B.
Mr. T. Grunethal, Rev. E. J.. Wall.
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teth-park, Margaret M`Harg, infant daughter of in
Robert Palmer, printer, Liverpool.

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