The Cotton Factory Times. — 1886-04-16 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

WALES AND TEE HOCMG OF TIM POOR.—The Charity Record says :—The Prince of Wales, has, at the request of Sir Charles Duke, consented to open next month the industrial dwellings jnst erected on charity land in Chatham Gardens, Nile-street, Iloaton. This is the first instance in London of charity land being so appropriated, A joint committee of the two parishes of St. Giles and St. Luke's undertook tha important duty of providing improved dwellings for about 700 persons In a thoroughfare of buildings, comprising 20 blocks, erected upon charity land. According to the scheme, which received the approval of the Charity Commissioners, over £50,000 has been expended upon the dwellings, and of this amount £40,000, borrowed from the Public Works Loan Commissioners, is to be repaid in equal annual sums within 30 years. An important condition insisted upon in granting this loan was that the weekly rent of each room of the new buildings should not exceed 2s, 6d.  Suer-norm' Itzoterrom Bus,.—SLVOCZAR EveDENCL-Sir John Lubbock's Shop Hours' Regulation Bill Committee was engaged on Monday in hearing the evidence of the secretary of the Pawnbrokers and Traders Association of London. The entire trade, he said, had come to the conclusion that the bill was dangerous, and they could not see where it would end. Sir John Lubbock: They don't object to the bill so much as to what it may lead to. Witness said they objected to the bill, and also what it might lead to. On the suggestion of Mr. F. S. Powell and Sir James Fergusson the room was cleared while the committee deliberated. The Chairman stated that the committee were unanimously of opinion that the witness must confine his evidence to his own knowledge. They had not the slightest doubt that there were thousands of cases in which assistants were not overworked. The witness then mentioned the case of a young man who, complaining of ill-health, gave him notice to leave, and said the business was "obnoxious to his animosity."—(Laughter.) Sir James Fergus. son reproved the witness for being irrelevant. Witness said he wished to show the exaggerated feelings assistants entertained about their grievances. The hours which young people worked were not excessive, and he had never known a case of ill-health arising from over-work. He was of opinion that it was a mistake to limit the hours of employment, as by so doing it was detrimental to the people. The longer the hours of labour, the better the condition of the people. Saturday half-holidays led to much mischief and extravagance.—(Laughter.) Home= CA.Yetzat.tsu DlSClesuats.—"A Constant Reader" sends to the Daily News the following extract from Le Peuple (of January 23rd), a journal published in Port-au-Prince, Hayti :—" General Alfred Milord, commanding the arroudissement of Grand GoAve, accompanied by the police, proceeded last week to arrest ten or twelve persons of both sexes who were carrying on a trade of killing people in order to sell their flesh in the market-place of Grand GoAve. The citizen who has reported this fact to us is in every way worthy of belief. When these people were being oonducted to the town, a woman who had taken the Communion but a few weeks before, overcome by remorse died on the way, and her body was buried by the escort. Another named Sophia (corrected Franceise) arrived at the town tied on a donkey, was recognised by the neighbours and by the wife of our informant, who spoke to her thus: "How is it. Sister Sophia (Franeoise), you have been cook to Padre FrOliel. you who have taken the Communion scarcely fifteen days ago, you feast on human flesh? You should have committed suicide rather than permitted yourself to be brought here in this state." Arriving at the police office, situated about twenty paces from the house of this lady, the said Sophia (Francois) was taken from the donkey quite dead, and immediately the prisoners had to dig a grave in which she was buried. The other antrophagi have declared that for some time past they have sold human flesh for pork in the market of Grand Gave. They have made revelations of great importance, but incredible if we were not certain of the fads, seeing them practised or executed before us."  INFANT MARRIAGE IN Thriza.—Great interest has been excited in India by a suit for the restitution of conjugal rights pending before the Bombay High Court, the defendant in which was Rakhmibai, a gifted Hindoo lady, whose pathetic denunciations of infant marriage and enforced widowhood attracted much attention last year. This lady is a daughter of the late Mr. Janardhan Pandurang. About 12 years ago she was married to the plaintiff, Dadaji Bhibaji, she then being 11 and he 19 years old. She never lived with him, but remained in her stepfather's house. Last year her husband demanded that she should go to him. She refused on the grounds that she had had no voice in the marriage, that he was personally repugnant to her, that his character was bad, that his health was indifferent, and that he had no means of supporting her. At the first hearing, before Mr. Justice Pmhey, the suit was dismissed without calling on the defendant, the Judge expressing the opinion that it would be a barbarous, cruel, and revolting thing to compel her to cohtib:t in the circumstances, and that neither law nor the practice of the Courts justified him in making such an order. The husband appealed, and the case was argued at some length before the Chief Justice, Sir C. Sargent, and Mr. Justice Bayley, who, after some three weeks' consideration, have now delivered judgment. They hold that the suit for restitution of conjugal rights does not stand discredited in India, and that to decide otherwise would be to disregard the whole Ilindoo law, which looks upon the giving of daughters in marriage as a religious puty imposed upon parents. They therefore reversed Mr. Justice Pinhey's decision, and remanded the case to the lower Court for re-trial on the merits. It is understood (says a Calcutta despatch) that, whatever be the decision on the re-trial, the case will be carried on appeal to the Privy Council, and probably that tribunal will uphold the judgment of the Bombay Appellate Bench. But it is at least equally probable that the ease will deal a deathblow to the pernicious system of infant marriage, and mark an -tilkt Pg4SPAS of.friaalal alarm la  Lrarr i