The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-06-02

budget 10 the Council of State under the presidency OF
the Queen II adopted the immediate dehcit would be
500 900 reals but The minister was OF opinion that the
increase of customs arising from the reduced scale Oh
duties would more than compensate Tor The loss
AUSTRIA.
The King OF The Belgians, and his son, the Duke oil
Braban still the guests OF the Emperor OF aus.la
The marriage of the duke with Austrian acbuuchess
seems more likely and there are sufmses that the En-
peror would object 10 wed Belgian princess as YET
these tales are but gossip.
RumoRED PREPARATIONS FOR ANOTHER REvoLT.-Maz-
zin intended TO publish book at Genoa, but no sooner
had the specimen copy been lodged the governors Of
6ce than The police visited The publishers aud seized the
entire edition.
demned nine school boys of Ostiga TO Imprisonment in
irons for utterng subvesive language" Eight of them,
from 10 10 10 years OF were afterwards pardoned
account Of their youth and previous good conduct.
The French are rendering Cassae place OF great
strength. It's fort already mounts 81 pieces
BY singular coincidence, the Trieste Zsitang and the
Augsburg Gazette state that belief very current
that another dagger Instruction would break out al
Milan on Tuesday, May ~ The same rumor was prev
alen Sardinia and The Austrian troops were on the
alert. but the day passed over quietly The examination
OF the Insurgents arrested al M an February is now
nearly Its given out that documents in pos
OF the Ausiraos 10 prove that the dagges
supplied by Mazzini and Kossuih. were also the
kets, all Of which were OF English and American man
ufacture.
Naples had established consulate general at Calcutta,
and appointed M, Sanford TO the post
GREECE
A,elegaphc despatch from Athens OF 18th says "The
French fleet is performing its evouions in the gulf
commission has been named 10 investigate the differ
ences relating to the frontiers The vine disease is in
creasing."
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Belgian marriages are thus arranged by gossip
The Emperor OF Austria to marry the Princess Charlotte,
OF Belgium; King Leopold, OF Belgium. TO marry, The
Austrian Princess OF ModeDa and The Duke of Brabant,
his son, to espouse of the other Arcbduchesses
The Morning Post OF ooh publishes a second edition.
declaring positively that the Russian legation al Paris
had ntimalon from Constantnople later than
the l7h, that the reply OF the Porte TO be given
the l0h and that there truth in the statement
that the Porte had already acceded TO his demands
COPENHAGEN, May l2.-The "movng table, phenom
attracting great attention here. everyw here
else One circumstance IT is well TO mention. as il may
lead TO other very important observations The Ehinors
Airs informs US that lady in that town who had taken
part IN movDg table, sitting was suddenly seized with
violent headache. Two other ladies who had also
sisted at the table put their hands 10 her head when she
Immediately tel into deep magnetic sleep, from which
no one could wake her. While In this state she an.
swered all questions put to her. absent persons
and their employneDis, and announced how she 10
be overwhelmingly by the use of vinegar When
this applied after sleep of half hour from her
first attack, she suddenly awoke, but remembered moth
ing OF what had taken place during her magnetic trance.
The sEAMsTREssEs OF LoNDoN.-A correspondent OF
the London Times gives the following facts with refer
to great mantua- making establishment in that
city:
'sWork is commenced every morning at 7 O'Clock and
continued till ii al night, period of sixteen hours The
only intervals allowed being about ten minutes Tor each
meaviz break last at O'Clock, dinner at half past
tea at ha-pas, s. and supper at halt past 9-he total
of lime allowed Tor eating their food go
ing 10 say, bu, surely boiling the appropriate
phrase, being forty minutes per day thus leaving fifteen
hours and twenty minutes the period devoted TO work
And ihis be il remembered, is not merely during the
busy season, as at the West End, but for all the year
round, from January 10 December ior you must under
stand that al the establishment 10 which | refer the
greater part OF the sewing ven out to slop workers
in the busy seasonihe city danes, suspecl. have
notion Of The kind OF deDs their dresses made n-and
all thai is done indoors Is the original cutting and
ultimate tting together OF The separate parts but that
when the slack season comes there is always much
sewing reserved will keep the girls OF The establish
employed up 10 the full pichso that there is in
fact, slack season a. all for them. And yet for
this continued and unrelening pressure of sixteen hours
work per day. from years end to years end this firm
to themselves the greatest possible credit. They
thank God that they are not other firms al the
West Ent-oppressors and testroyers Of young
They never-noi even for few weeks in the busy
seasonDake their people ST m three or four in the
morning. Oh, no their gas is always turned Oft in The
workroom BY IL O'Clock. Why, sir, the West. End sys
lem, with i,s lew weeks OF severity, followed Is by
months OF comparative leisure mercy itself when viewed
alongside OF this unmIlga,ed, never ending, still begin
ming slavery 10 which am referring
"The only day of leisure which the girls OF this csab.
iishment have is Sunday Then they may 20 where and
do what they please bat from Monday mornng 10 Sat.
urdsy night they complete prisoners any 10
Newgale They know not whether the shines or
The rain falls all that time They not allowed 10 cross
the threshold even 10 purchase pair OF shoes a
Tor themselves, and must employ their friends out
side to do This foI them.
"Nor il The accommodation indoors such as in any
way reconcile them 10 this close confinement. The
work. room, in which ten twelve OF them are sm-
ployed only about Twelve feet square, and is entirely
devoid OF arrangements for ventilation, which is the
more TO be ds2ored during the evening they have 10
encounter the heat and foul air OF three sring
burners right their heads, every door and window
being shut by which breath OF pure air could possibly
fewer than six persons being huddled into one, and four
into another.
But why don't they demonstrate against this vile
treatment, you will perhaps ask Why, sir, they have
demonstrated and the better Tor IT, On Thurs
day Last, without any prompting from any one, and be
fore they had heard OF the recent declaration o the fifty
two West End firms in favor OF ten and half hours
work they consulted together and finding that the usage
to which they subjected equally rntoerabe to
them all they memorial TO the heads OF the firm Ia
the effect that they could continre 10 work Tor more
than twelve hours-vz from eight o'clock In the morn
ing I'LL eight al nghi-whout mentioning any dedno.
lion for meals, leaving thai pon, before That med
crate memorial, cir, was treated with The utmost
tempt Its authors were sneerngy told that they were
seeking 10 deg ade themselves TO the level oil factory
grls and that Their conduct only worthy OF drunken
soldiers and sailors who the only parties tina, had
ANYTHING To do with round robins You would be
apused sir II could describe you the horror which
these young grls felt at the mention OF this awful
round robin They had heard the word before.
and had not the slightest idea Of what meant and they
were afraid that. without knowing il, they had been
guilty OF some nameess arccIy.
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