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      Middlesex Sessions. Josxs V. A C0xv1ctwn...

      . r - "" ^ - . . j ,,. hospital , where his baud was dressed . ••* Dixoa ga » e eorrohorative evidence . She » $ J ^ e fa ct of having been robbed , and deposed V ° - no seen the prisoner throw the purse into v > ** ¦¦ / - Tnejur ? found the prisoner " Guilty . " It & ham that the prisoner had been before contr Ji « riee ' ^ athe was ^ ' rn as an exocrt ¦ i & & V ' The court said there was quite suffif ** ' ^ thC present case , without reference to £ *»* "Lnrictions or chwacter , toiustify the

      seufl ^ which was , that the prisoner be transported j &&• { erta of ten years . —Mrjtyland said it would f ** tn ecessary : o try the prisoner for the assault . J * * naso Monet bt Fraud . —Christopker Hat-0 Bti Zi 65 , was indicted for having fraulej > ' ^ ob tained by false pretences various * nf nionev , » coat , and other articles , from one s W Le » i ? . nis Pr ° ren ?> with intent to de-3 rf him of the same . —It appeared that the pro-** » nr is a tobacconist in Featherstone-sireet , ifzLi and the prisoner at one period held Ein * sin his house . In the course of the early J ° ^„ f las t month the prisoner applied to the prol * tor ' for the loan ot a trifling sum of money , - . rtbat he wanted it for his daughter , who had ^ reduced to poverty by the destruction of her h-SjL jy by . 1 fire which had taken place in Lain-PSf The ' proserutor , believing this statement , tain . iu *» _ - « .: n : , l .. t ? £ * .... 1 uui iiiouui

      _ t > him a 1 ~ " suiiiiuga , . u . > nus upuu * w-al-occ asions subsequently increased . About y- 25 th of Mav , however , the prisoner made an-* L . m , licatioii to the prosecutor , being at the \*» m * state of excessive grief , saying that his Trehter was dead , aud that he had £ 40 in the « % rtm s-place Savinsrs Bank , but that being 5 n » We to withdraw that sum without a fortiiAt ' s notice he was placed in a position of di-£ ? nlt ? as to barvin-r her . The undertaker , he Ijlded ! had consented to wail for his money for the fcr tnjaht , and therefore he solicited that the pro-Sor would oWise him with tho loan of a suit

      St * * _ 11 . l . Iawi + rt mnlfn **• « 3 a .. « % _ 4 . __ . 1 nf clothes to enable him to make a decent and flsnectable app earance at the funeral . With this JSuest the pro secutor , under the circumstances , sot onlv complied , but also lent him another « , verei <* Ti- This statement , however , ultimately Proved to be a falsehood , as well as those he had Seriously made ; for his daughter bad not suffered jmni any fire nor had she died . —The jury frond the prisoner " Guiliy , " and—The learned jodse sentenced him to six months' imprisonment jadli-i rd labour .

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      . Court Of Common Pleas. Weight V. Wilco...

      . COURT OF COMMON PLEAS . WEIGHT V . WILCOX . —FALSE rttPRISQSUEST . This was an action for false imprisonment , which jjd been brought by a sempstress against a ginger jjger manufacturer and general dealer . At the tri al it appeared that the plaintiff , Louisa Wright , 3 nd her three sisters , resided at Bethnal-green , and U , e defendant , who lived in the same locality , jjnted a stable of the plaintiffs father , in which he tept two horses . The defendant found that his horses , instead of unproving in condition , got gradBally thinner , and having received information from " which he was led to believe that the plaintiff and her sisters had stolen the chaff with which the horses werefed , heg * iveher and her threesisters into

      custody , upon a charge of stealing tlie chaff . The p ontiff aud her sisters were taken before tbe mag istrate at the Worship-street police court , who at once discharged the plaintiff and two of her sisters , and remanded the other sister , Jane Wright , who , however , was subsequently disch arged . Several witnesses were called on behalf of the plaintiff , to prove that her father had chaff of his own with which he fed his horse . On behalf of the defendant eridence wss prodaced to show that one of tho sisters of plaintiff , whose name was Jane Wright , had been seen coming from the defendant ' s stable late at night , with her apron full of something , and one witness stated that some of the linseed which the defendant had put into the ch aff had fallen on the sleeve of hiscoat . A witness named Underwood , stated that after the plaintiff

      and two of her sisters had been wrested , tho other sister , Sophk Wright , had been discovered by him and the defendant ' s housekeeper , secreted in her hedroom , and had gone down upon her knees , beggins forgiveness for herself , and cliarging her siiter Jane with the felony . Sophia Wright , on the trial , was recalled , and positively denied this statement , and Jane Wright swore that she had never taken any chaff out of the defendant ' s stable . Th <" case was " tried at the sittings at Xisi Prius ia Middlesex , after last Easter term , before Chief Justice Wilde , when a verdict was fraud for the plaintiff , damages £ 25 . —The court were of opinion that the rale for a new trial must be discharged . —Rule discharged accordingly .

      Court Of Exchequer. Wasnixgtox V. Tousg....

      COURT OF EXCHEQUER . WASniXGTOX V . TOUSG . —ILLEGAL MEASURES . This was an action of trespass brought by the keeper ofa beer-shop at Bedford to recover damages from the defendant for seizing and carrying away certain mugs , the plaintiff ' s property . The-es . se was tried before Chief Justice Wilde at the .. last assizes of Bedfordshire , when a verdict was entered for the p laintiff with 46 s . damages , subject to the opinion of this court upon the pre-eot special -case . It appeared that thc defendant , who was inspector of weights and measures , visited the plaintiffs shop to examine his measures under the provisions ofthe 5 th and 6 th Will . IV ., c . -S 3 , and to ascertain whether thev were correct . The pewter measures were

      found to be of sufficient capacity ; but there were also earthenware mugs of various sizes used as mea - sores , and those having been found deficient in size , were seized by the defendant , and carried-away . Hence the present action . —Mr . O'Mallay , •< $ --C , now appeared , on behalf of the plaintiff , and contended that the act of parliamentauthorised inspectors of weights and measures to examine only such measures as were stamped , and that no offence had beencommitted by the phuattff by using the uiugc In question . They were not stamped , and therefore were not within the meaning of the 23 th sectioa-of the statute , which enacted that only ' . ' measures' " properly so called , could be seized by inspectors . Then it appeared by the 21 st section that to

      constitute a violation of die act the examination should be made at the instance of a easterner after the beer seller had falsely represented that the unstamped vessels used contained the fall quantity called for . In this case there was no such examination by the customer . Thc mugs were unstamped , and used indifferently with the pewter Eeasures , which were found to be accurate , and the defendant was not justified in seizing them . —Mr . Tozer and Mr . Worlledge appeared on behalf of the defendant . Although the muss were not stamped , they were used as measures , and as they were not capable of containing the quantity represented , they were Mile to seizure . When unstamped measures were used the act required that the beer-seller or publican should keep a standard measure , so that ihe unstamped . vessels mig ht be tested whenever a custo-The ithis

      mer thought fit to do so . mugs n case were used as measures , and as they were not of sufficient capacity the defendant was justified in seizing them , and the plaintiffought to be nonsuited . —The Court were unanimously of opinion that the defendant was justified in seizing the vessels , and that the verdict ought to be set aside . It distinctly appeared that the plaintiff used them as maisures of legal capacity . His wife had produced them as such , and told the defendant that they were so used indiscriminatelv with tbe pewter measures . The two sections referred to were perfectly reeonsileablc by constrain ? thesvord " measures" to mean all vessels ordinarily used as such , whether stamped or not . The defe * rdaat was , therefore , justified , and the plaintiff was non-suited . —Judgment for the defendant accordingly .

      CACSilDlXnE V . LOSGAXDAXOTHEE . — ALLEGES UEEL . THE HORNrSG POST . " This was an action to recover compensation in flaaages fro-ji the reg istered proprietors of the Morning Post , for an aliened libel published is that journal on tlie 20 th of February last . The defendant pleaded not guilty , and also a plea of juslificalies , which was speeL-dly demurred to . —Mr . Pearsoa now appeared to support the demurrer . Amen *?& others , the causes of demurrer assigned * ere , " that the plea did not set out the facts and charges relied on with suficienfc certainty . The libel consisted of a long extract from a pamphlet : published si . Paris by one Adalphe Chenu , and ex- ; tensivel y e -ecukted in that city . The plaintiff was in

      R FrenchmaE . and formerly prefect of ^ police the French metropolis . The libel complained of charged him with bsieg habitually dissolute , and associating with ssraidlers and other bad characters ; * hat , bavin ? been mainly instrumental in bringing shout the Frenek revolution in 1818 , he had been afcle to collect a Ia ?« e mm of money in aid of the Messed Poles , and that he had appropriated it to fcjs own use . That he had also procured large samEof money by negotiating Bills of Exchange , which Tere dishonoured on arriving at maturity . There pere various other charges of a political nature , oscupyin"' altogether more than a column of the Miming Post . The objections to the plea were thaj k did not disclose the names of the bad characters situ whom it alleged the p laintiff nad

      • kea in thc habit of associatieg , and it did not parkcukti y describe the various ether acts with which he was charged , so as to enable him to rebut the kfemenis made is ihe plea . The plaintiffs onlj ° ojeet was to vindicate his character , . as he was J ? w resident in England , and about to establish "pselfhere as a merchant . —The iord Chief Baron •^ d , an apt . Iication mig ht have been made by the plaintiff at chambers for a bill of particulars . The plea as it stood was sufficient , and evidently ccntoined matter enough to guide the plaintiff in his answer to it . —Mr . Atherton supported the rule , ffis client was not only ready but desirous to join . i * "e on the pleawhichVas intended to he issuable , ' ^ Posi tio n of the parties and the nature of the ] "Jkged libel irere peculiar , but tho defendant-

      Court Of Exchequer. Wasnixgtox V. Tousg....

      thought he had given the . plaintiff quite sufiicient information to . enable aim to defend " his character . The defendant was anxious to go to trial on thei issue raised b y the justificaSoh—The Lord Chief Baron said if the plaintiff s only desire was to vindicate his character he had much better make some arrangement to have the cause tried as soon as possible . —Mr . Pearson said his client most felt the accusation of having appropriated the monies collected for the relief of the Poles to his own use , also the charges of having associated with swindlers and obtaining money under false pretences . Those were most serious charges , and calculated not only to hold Ms character up to ridicule , but to damage it considerably . He was , therefore , anxious to clear himself . —The Lord Clret Baron said there was no rule in pleading better understood than that of " certainty . " The

      court could not distinguish the charges which were alleged to be of a political nature from those which were not ; but if there was a libel , it must be answered distinctly and particularly . —Mr . Pearson disclaimed any wish to rely upon the pure technicalities of special pleading . Here the charges justified were not only sirious , but ofa large character , and sufficient ins tances of them ought to have been set out on the face ofthe plea itself , so that the plaintiff mi ght be enabled to disprove them . —The Court intima- ved their opinion that the plea ought to be amended , but if the learned counsel for the defendant thought he could support it as it stood , he might proceed with his argument . —Mr . Atherton preferred amending the plea . If his learned friend would state the charges on which information was required , all that the defendant was in possession of should be supplied as soon as possible . —After some further discussion , liberty to amend the plea was granted . The venue to be retained in Middlesex .

      CAUSSmiERE V . IAWSOS . —ALLEGED LIBEL . — THE" TIMES . " This was a similar , action by the * same plaintiff against the Times . In addition to the libel complained of in the last case , there were some comments on the subject published in that journal , which were relied on as a ground of action . The question came under the consideration of the court on special demurrer to the plea , as in the case above mentioned . —Mr . Peacock , Q . C ., suggested that the same direction should be given in both cases , as the pleas were similar . The defendant wished to examine in Paris , and there would be

      scarcely sufficient time to do so , and go to trial at the . sittings after the present term , as the venue was in Middlesex . He hoped , therefore , the court would change the venue to London . —Mr . Baron Piatt : Both these actions were against two newspapers for the same identical libel . If the plaintiff's only object was to vindicate his character , would not one action suffice ? Why not proceed against the Times only ?—Mr . Pearson said , the libel complained of in the action against the Times , was larger , and contained additional matter . —It was ultimately arranged that the defendant should have liberty to amend the pica , and that the venue should be changed to Surrey . —Rule accordingly .

      Insolvent Debtors' Court..Is The Matter ...

      INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT . . THE MATTER OF 1 . F .. MUSCKS . — -HEARTLESS COXDUCT . This insolvent—a German journeyman tailorwith a profusion of hair on his face , was opposed by Mr . Sturgeon , for a young Welch woman , named Sarah James . He was supported by Mr . Nichols . — Thc complaint against the insolvent was , that he had defrauded the young woman of £ 60 , aud had seduced her . It appeared that he came from Germany in 1846 , and soon afterwards ho became acquainted with Sarah James ,-who was a servant girl . They became intimate , and he soon , afterwards be £ an to borrow money of her , she having made deposits out of her earnings ia a savings bank . In the whole he had obtained £ 00 of her , besides a silver watch , as a loan . On one occasion she

      advanced £ 23 to pay the duty of some goods sent from Germany , In April , ISJS , she left herplace to be married , but he put ifreff , sayins the Chartists were about , and it was a bad time for business . Subsequently he obtained ferther sums , and in-September last she found he was paying his addresses to another young woman , " and whilst in the street he told her that if it was anywhere else he would " murder" her . —Sarah James stated that he had repeatedly promised to marrry her , andshe believed him to be true . She had astertainedthat he was now married . After he had affected her ruin he promised her marriage . She had lately been a cook in an hotel at the West-end . —Two letters were read which were sent by the insolventfremSirah James , in affectionate terms , in which he spoke of

      introducing her to his parents as their daughter . —The insolvent , oa his examination , denied the promise of marriage . He admitted he was now married . As a journeyman -tailor he earned about £ 1 a week . He admitted he bad the money of Sarah James , but she " forced" it = apon him ,. and would never let him alone . He spent some money on her arising from the sale of the goods sent from Germany , in trips to Gravesend and Greenwich . She was in the habit of coming to where , he lived , and making such " rows" that ha was obliged to go with her . She went with him'to Gravesend , after-sheinew he was keeping company with his presentwife , and she said she didn't-care so long as he would go with her , and she paid the expenses . The * watch was at a place to bcTepaired . —Mr ; Sturgeon said it was a gross case of heartless conduct < m the part ofthe

      insolvent ; heirad seduced and . robbed the young woman . —Mr . Uichols represented the parties as equally indiscreet , and that the * inoney had been spent on themselves . — -Mr . Commissioner Laws reviewed the c & ee . His impression was tbat the money was obtained on a promise-of marriage which the insolvent never intended to -perform , and the connexion which had subsisted was not likely to encourage . He should require , further evidence before he disposed of the case . Probably he should adjourn the-cisc for a long period in the expectation that it would be settled , and if that was not done then give adjudgment . —The insolvent was remanded till Wednesday to Horsemenger-lane Gaol , where he had been committed on a judge ' s order as about to leave the country . He < was ordered to bring the watch'he had of Sarah James on the next occasion .

      Civilrrr Of St. Pauls Showmek —The Publi...

      CiviLrrr of St . Pauls Showmek —The public has known for same time how remarkable for civility and resoectful -demeanour are the showmen and mo ** ey-takers of the St . Paul ' s Cathedral Twopenny Exhibition . The politeness & nd courtesy of these gentlemen bave at length been taken cognizance of by the Court of Aldermea , at a recent sitting of which worshi pful tribunal , j-cpnrted in the newspapers , Mr . Alderman / Hooper took occasion to say on their behalf— " A more imperiinent set of fellows npver appeared anywhere to perform duties of any kind . Some-of the females of my family went to the cathedral-on Sunday last to -hear divine service , but it was in-vain they applied t 9 ; the vergers for admission into the pews reguhrly appropriated

      to the accommodation-of the ladies and families of the aldermen . One ef these vulgar ii'solent fellows said , upon being remonstrated with on the subject , that he didn ' t care about the aldermen . In fact , nothing could exceed thr impudence of the presum ' ng brutes . " This last remark , pace Aldermaa Hooper , is rsther too strong : for the impudence of these " presuming brutes " is certainly exceeded by that of their employers in demanding money for the admis-ion of the puHic into a national church . " Like master like man ; " and capitular rapacily , naturally enough , is imitated by extortionate flunkeydom . Mr . Hooper proceeded to state that " a lady who happened to get a seat was surprised to see the pew into which she was admitted almost filled with

      strangers , who , no doubt , paid these fellows silver for the privilege . " Begging Alderman Hooper ' s pardon , we object to calling the'sittings in St . Paul's Cathedral , pews . They are not pews , hut stalls and boxc , and vou get admitted , to them by mransof the ordinary silver key , that is to say , by tifipirg the box keeper . To leave their servants to eke out their remuneration by picking up money in this sca ~ - pish kind of * ay wou'd be discreditable to the management of any decent theatre , and in the highest degree scaadilous to that of aich a house as St . Paul's- Tbe subject of Alderman Ho per ' s complaint has been referred to the Commttfee of Privilege " , at : d no . v that the showfo'ks of St . Paul ' s have insulted the fg & tJy of an alderman , perhaps thev will be bronchi to their senses . —Punch .

      Pc . visii . MEXT of Death bt Bcrxixo . —Some of your readers will be surprised to learn that , within tbe memory of witnesses still alive , a woman was burnt to death , under sentence of the judge of assize , for the murder of her husband . This crime —petty treason—was formerly punished with fire and faggot ; and the repeal ofthe law is mentioned by Lord Campbell in a note to his life of one of our recent chancellors , but I have not his work to refer to . The post to which this woman was bound {

      stood , till recently , m a field adjoining Winchester . She was condemned to be burnt at tbe stake ; and a marine , her paramour , and an accomplice in the murder , was condemned to be hanged . A gentleman lately deceased told me the circumstances minutely . I think that he had been at tho trial , but I know that he was at the execution , and saw the wretched woman fixed to the stake , fire put to the fasgots , and her body burnt . But I know two persons still alive who were present at her execucution . —Notes and Queries .

      Cube of as Ulcerated Leg bv Hoixowav ' s Olitmekt ast » I ' iix ? . — Mr . John Olive , well known in Geelong , Port Philip publishes in the Melbohekb Mossing Hesald , of June 22 . 1 S 49 , the following extraordinary case- 'I had been afflicted for three years with an ulcerated leg , and bad the best medical treatment , in Melbourne and Tan Diemen's Land , without eipwiencing any reUef , when hearinz ofthe wonderful cures effected by Hollowaj's Puis and Otataent in this part of the world , I resolved upon rrjin " them , and with gratitude I acJraowledge ^ that Xnsfag them and lending to the directions , I found myleg Acallycured J »* « ry ihOJt tjme . HS'fS- ^ Jobs Oirvr ..

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      ^• ' ^¦ 'C ^^'_ i ^^ C ^" - £ ' * - -- ' - »"' ' -- ' - =: '* : « - '" i ' * ' «<^ . ••—*—¦ .. THE CONDITION QFENGljA ^ lr QUESTION , . ( Condensed . from the . Morning Chronicle . ) :-

      THE WORKING PEOPLE OF NORFOLK , ; SUFJFOLBVAND-ESSEX . In the district" around Castle Hedin ' -jbam , and including Halstead , Sudbury , Clare , and Haverhill ( Essex ) , on the borders of Suffolk , ah enonhous amount of straw-plaiting' is carried on . 'For the best kinds of work the makers get 3 s . ' ' 'fid ; a score , and one ofthe best hands ' can make a score and a half hi the week . For the inferior kind of work the rate of pay varies from 3 d : tolOd . arid Is . per score . The earnings of children and ' girls may be taken " to befroR } 3 d . to -Id . per day . ' These , as well as boys , ' are principally employed upon ' the coarser kind- - . The straw is usually purchased of the farmers in the neighbourhood at 6 d . a bundle , being , in quantity .

      about as much as a person' can conveniently carry . The rate of wages paid to the agricultural labourer in this district is wretchedly low , not riidre than 6 s . or 7 s . per week , and were it not for the straw plait , the people would generally be in afar yorse condition than they are at present . When theplaiting i * depressed , a considerable quantity of work i *< done by the women for the cheap tailors of Xohdoii ; Colchester , and other places , who send the different articles to Castle Hcdingham arid other places in the neighbourhood to have theht madlf up . Essex , some years since , was famous for its silk and worsted manufactures ; Colchester was known for its | * hays'" ' and " says ^ " . * ind ' Lihdsi > y ' for its ' . ' Lindsey woolsey . " These manufactures have now

      almost entirely passed away . ; " There are ; . however , several mills at Braintfce , Booking , Halstead ; Coggeshali , and Colchester , for the manufacture of silk . The principal manufacturers arc the iJdcssrs . Courtauld , who have a mill at Braintree for I ' throwing " the silk , at which ' lSO hands are employed ; one at Halstead , at which 800 or 900 are ehiployed ; and a third at Booking , employing not less' than 500 persons . Upon , making application to the'different manufacturers of Braintreei as . to the rates of wages . I was refused any information whatever , and in one instahceony inquiry was met by the ' counter question , whether I was prepared to make up any deficiency to the workpeople , as that wojild be tho only condition upon which any information would lie

      vouchsafed . As I was "finable to procure what ; I desired from the employers , I at . once proceeded in search of some of the weavers ? themselves . The first person of this class that I discovered was one who was then engaged upon some work , artis own house for the parties whohadreqdested ^ meto niakc up deficiencies in the people ' s wage ' s . His statement was as follows : — "I am at present , at work on tlie fancy silk , with a Jacquard' loonv '' Trrtde lias been wonderfully bad wittfhs for the last two years , hut Pin in hopes it ' s about to take a turn for the ' better now . The piece , that I ' ve , got to weayf * ' will be about fifty-four . yards'iorig when wove , and I s-ha 11 get £ 2 5 s . for it . I expect to . finish it in a ' nibht K Out of that I shallhave to pay one , shilling a week

      • or winding , threepence a week for the hire . of the loom , and if I didn ' t work at home I should have to pay Is . a week for loom hire . . Therithe oil to burn at night will be 6 d . a week , at'least ; for I know I must work fifteen hours a day to get itdoncMnthe month ; " The piece . that Pm at work oh is wbat some people call a' shotted ' ' silk , it is a groen cane and . pink shoot ; they pay . extra tor that in London , but they don ' t give us nothing extra here for it . : Well , put of my £ 2 5 s ., I shall have . to take off * K for winding , Is . for loom hire , an 3 ' 2 s . at least for oil—that makes 7 s . ; 7 s . from 45 s . leaves 38 s . — that ' s 9 s . 6 d , a week . I'm certain that what I ' ve told you is quite correct , arid ; if you ask any other weaver , Iain surehe will tell ' -you' the same as I

      have done . I should think there" are about 350 hand-loom weavers in Braintreej a ' ndp ' erhaps 150 in Halstead . When a rhaii'is at work on the richer kinds of satins , figured ones arid that , he can earn more than at the plain ' ones . I dare say he could earn 12 s , a week if he was to work' hard and stick close ' to it . I pay 3 s . a week rent , and have only five children . " This , account of the man ' s earnings was fairy corroborated by the statement of another person who was employed upon precisely the same kindof fabric . .. — •¦ t As regards the factory-worfceri *; . > young woman employed in the mill at " picking , "iriforn-ed ' me th . it she got 5 s . a week *; the * throwstei-. s" can earafrom 4 s . to 5 s . per week ; the " drawers" froir 3 s . < to 4 s . No pers ' oiis are allowed to work as

      drawers under fourteen' years of age . The ; ¦" . plug winders , " whose duty it Ks'to ' wind the silk on the " plugs , " arc the best paid , and get from ei to 7 s . a week ; some of the best hands get even as much as Ss ., but there are not many of them . One of the weavers employed at the Halstead mill said that she "• could earn in weaving-crape from 4 s . to 3 s . per week—os . was about the average . " At Cosgeshnll anfl at Colchester the rate of wages ' . was sfeillar 10 those above mentioned . ' I should regret to give publicity to erroneous statements on the subject of the wages of the weavers ; but as all assista ; iee was denied me by the employers , the only cnurso open to me was to obtainthe ' statements of the persons employed . I have reason to believe ; from tlio manner in which they gave the information , and the evident desire on their-part to avoid anything like misrepresentation ; that their accounts were substantially correct .

      Some portions of the population of Esses derive employment from oyster-dredging—the principal places where this occupation is carried on being , Donald , Rowbridge , 'Brightlingsea , Wiverrhoe , anil Colchester . About i 60 boats are engaged in the oyster-trade , and about-500 men . The persons so employed are mostly freemen of th « rircr Colne , and they are allowed to dred ge in the river for a certain quantity every morning—a portion of the proceeds being handed over to the widows of the ireemen of Colchester and the other places where the trade is carried on . Another portion of the ¦ produce is set apart for the boat , and thoTemainder

      is divided among the men . .. 'In the oyster ' season , which lasts from August to April , their -earnings will average about 12 s . . per week . : At the close of the season the men usually start oft with their boats to « Guernsey , Jersey , and the Channel Islands , to dredge for " spat" < which is the young oysters ) . When a sufficient quantity is obtained it -is brought home and deposited ia beds in the river , where it remains for three or four years before the oysters are allowed tobe dredged up , as it takes that-period to allow the oyster , to arrive at a proper sieefor the maflfcet . The small oyster known as the " native " is the sort indigenous to the-river , being , » s their name implies , " natives " . of the river Colne .

      Agricultural labour , however , forms by far the most . important portion ofthe . labour of Essex The wages vary considerably in different parts of tlie county . In the nei g hbourhood of the metropolis aud among the principal fawners who grow for the London markets , the rate is about 10 s . per week . In the parish of WrittJe , which is nearly the largest agricultural parish in the county , wages vary from 8 s . to $ s . per week .. At Boswell , and in ihe immediate neighbourhood of the property of Mr . Bramston , MiP ., they areaboutSs . perweek . ; In the Tindring hundred they average about Ss . por week for married men , 6 s . for unmarried . Ahout Great Baddow the highest wages are ai present about 9-j .. formerly some were paid as . high as ; 12 s . per week . The harvest work is usually done either by the month , or at a certain price per acre—the amount varying from 9 s . to lis . per acre ..

      It is , however , in the northern and western portions of the -county that the lowest rate . of wapes is found to prevail , Throughout the whole of this district the wages are invariably 2 s . or 3 s . per week lower than iutho . i other portions ol . tho county . It is in this district , bordering upon parts of Suffolk , Cambridge , aud Hertfordshire , and including . Saffron Waluen , Ciavering , and other , places where the wages are equally low , that the greatest amount of distress and discontent is to be found , and that incendiary fires are of . the most frequent occurrence . With respect to the quality of , the farming in this district . Mr . Kobert Baker , in his prize essay on the agriculture of Essex , says—' , ' Throughout this district , the farni premises are ill-arranged—large barns , sheds , and waggon-lodges , being placed inconveniently and detached from each other , the ^ cumulation of water from their ' thatched roofs

      falling into yards having large hollows and excavations made by constant scooping out the clay from time to time , as the manure is carted out , so that a person unacquainted with their inequalities is liable to be engulfed in them , as tbe surface , being covered with , the accumulated barley-straw , exhibits all smooth to tbe eye ; arid it is only hy the rising of the water and sinking of the straw that he is awakened to the situation he is placed in . This , however , has been , remedied by the more spirited occupiers , but still prevails to an extent deserving their attention , as , upon a moderate estimate , one-fourth ofthe most valuable properties of the manure is thus annually lost . " ., . ' . '¦" . ' . ¦ When speaking to several of the farmers on this subject , I ' have always been told that the condition ofthe labourer is not so bad as wouldat first sight

      appear . A large farmer in Clavering informed mo that " a man with a family of five children will henearly able with Cs . a week to buy " bread enough , if he buys the coarsest flour ; his rent he generally pays out of his harvest money ; > his clothes ho gets b y some means or other-people sometimes give them to him—and then , when he is unemployed , why we keep him in the workhouse . So you see ; sir . he is amply provided for , even with wages at

      6 s . per week . " How far the word " amply applies to such a state of existence is a matter upon which , probably , there may be more than one opinion . The statement given above is one that I have heard from the farmers , not once , but many times , and it affords a key to the whole system of paying the agricultural labourer . Calculations are made with the greatest possible nicety , not' so much to ascertain how much he can live upon , as how . much he can live without . " A scale just immediately above Starvation point ft fixed upon for bis ' subsistence ,

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      when he is unahrelFwork ^ hey areB & reSrta' provide him anagj » i um at ^ he expanse < of the rate * uaye ? a ' ?] abourer is ^ of course ; unable to lay by a shilling for old ago or ' other casualties , and he invariably ends his days ' a pauper . ' ' ,- '• .: "'h >>; :- ¦ ¦ .-m" A more kins instance of the ill effects of such a system IV perhaps , nowhere to befoiirid than in the diuerent workhouses of the countv ;< One of the most affecting sights in an agricultural county is the •« qldmenyr . a of the different unions . ' In the case Ot the Chelmaford union , situated in a district where the wages are somewhat bieher than in

      the neighbourhood of Saffron Wuldcn , there : were ; in the . ' old men ' s" ward , nineteen paupers , . whose united ages were 1 , 577 years , the average age being rather more than 83 . I puts number of questions to each ot themj with a view of ascertaining their previous employment , and the rates of wages ' which they had received . Several from their extreme imbecility aud old age , were unable to give anything like a coherent answer to any question put to them . From some , however , I was ableto ob > tain answers ; and as it wju show , perhaps , more forcibly than anything else , the condition of the agricultural labourers , I will give the informatiori which I was enabled to elicit ;

      . One old man—a picture of weakness and exhaustion—answered my inquiries as follows : — " Ireckon Pin 89 , or thereabouts . My "father lived near Braimree ; he was takenfor a soldier for the American war . I was a parish boy . "' I began to work when . I was severiyears old . I run away from the parish then to help my mother . I used to live with her . I used to get ' sometimes eighteenpence a day —sometimes fourteen pence . ' For a particular , job at mowing or reaping I used to . get more—sometimes two shillings . I always worked oh tlie farm ' . I was married once arid had five children . Some of ' em didn ' t turn out well ; some of ' erri did . 1 think there ' s only two of ' em living now , but I don ' t know where they are ; iri London " , I think . 1

      kept on working till about two years ' ago ,-when I come in here , because I couldn't work any longer . ' I never had any relief from the parish after I left the workhouse , when'I was a parish-boy . " According to this old man ' s statement , he had worked as a furm labourer \ for eighty years . Another old man ; who was ' in . the .. '" adjoining bed , was if possible , moro feeble than the one already mentioned . ^ With a great deal of difficulty I succeeded in obtaining some intelligible answers to my questions :-- " I think I ' m 88 j 1 don't know exact-T-niay be . more than that . . Ibega ^ to work when I was 14 , arid was pretty . liicky for Ialways "ot ' work . Sometimes . I used to get eighteeriperice a day , sometimes less ; two shillings once " . I ' ve

      brought up ever so many ' childrch . I got a . prize once fqr . it , " said the old riiarij . with a laugh , the exertion of which appeared to produce considerable pain in his chest . . "I think there was nine of ' em . ' The last work I got was at ' a gehrleman ' s house ,, but I couldn ' t do much , so they turned me off , and I came here . I ' ve been , ' , here—I' don't , know how lonir . " The master informed me that' he had . bcen in the . house about four months . " . The number , of years he had worked as a farm labourer . was about sixty-two . For two years ho , had been at tfi ' o gentleman ' s house that lie' spoke of . The third man I spoke to said , ' " I was afarni labourer all . mylife . My father had a farm ' of , his " , own . ^ He . ' was a woriderful man to spend money " on the ! p 66 r . ' That ' s a

      long whilo agro . I don't know how lbrig since lie gave upthe' farm . I u ' sedj to get when I worked ; sometimes 2 s . ' . a , day ,, sometimes less . I hadto work for myself when I , was ten years old ; and I ' ve hern at : work ' ever since , fill a little while ago ' , arid never had no parish relief ... I reckon I ' m about 85 . " :, ., ' . ; , ' ; . " ,. '' " ' Another labourer , who was also confined to Jiis bed , said , with considerable . excitement , ' ' . ! Pin 85 years old . ' . I ' ve beeri ' afarm' ] labourer ., aH ' niy life ,-ever since I was ahoy , and this is what it ' s all come to . The last job'I did was for Master — - ^; I went , hoeing a few turnips , and thoy told me I was to get four shillings a week . ; When I was there one week they ' took off a shilling . ' . ; l told 'eni that ihey said they'd give , me four , and they said if

      1 didn ' t like to havo that , I might have , none at all , for I hadi'lt worked enough to '' a ' rri ' 6 moi * e . I iirumbled , but it was no ! use , and "I went ' to work the next week , arid then they . sair . yed . me worse again , for they only gave rne half-a-crown , took off eighteen pence ; and I said , d—d if . I'd stand it any longer , arid if they took it off any , ' move I'd go to the workhouse .. Well , then I corridin liere , and I ' ve beehheresince . I know I ' m iveiy old and weak , and can ' t do much ^ i ! and ' , p ' raps" didn't lime more than half-a-crowii ; they said .. they'd give ; me four shillings , andT wouldn ' t put rip with it , to have it took off . when thoycoino to . pay . trie . " The i old man continued for some time to denounce the acts of his employer in a state of the' greatest

      excitement , which he displayed by gnashing his gums —• for there were no teeth in his head- ^ iiGncliiiig | his fist , and shaking his ' head as lid muttered indistinctly his imprecations on the person whom he considered had wronged him . ' . ' .. House accommodation is almost universall y bad in these counties—Imean as regards' the homes of tho labourers . In ono place many of the so-called houses were falling down from sheer neglect ; orie or two of them , which were uiiinhabifed , were , us ed by the neighbouring houses as a place of coriirooh convenience , besides being ' a receptacle for the ashes and the refuse of the other houses in cases where the people choose to take tho . trouble of carrying it beyond the front of tlieir own dwelliriffs ; In

      one of these cottages livcda man and liis ' wife and five children . An old stool was the-only article of what mig ht be called furniture * in the hoiise ; a few bricks , collected from soriie Of the ruirii about it , piled above one another in four or fjve different heaps , showed where the initiates wore in the habit of seating themselves . ' There was not a single piece of bedding or bed-clothes in the tipper room ; noi * an article of furniture ' of any kind , while ! the ! floor of the room and the walls were dripping with the wet and rain that came through tho roof . *'' Along tho whole line of country from Castle Hedingham t © Clavering , there is . a'h ' almost ' cririfinuous ' succession of bad cottases . Among the worst of these might be mentioned those in the

      neiirl-bourhobd ofSible Hedingham , Weathersfleld . Bardfield , Wickcn , and Clavering . ' ^ Si-cat ' numbers of these cottages are situated in low and damp situations , and their heavy and grass-covered thatches appear as' if they had alrhest crushed the . buildings down into the earth . - Little or no light can ever ' fliid its way into the . wretched little windows , ' many of which are more than half stopped up with ra ^ s and pieces of paper . In point of ' fact , there are many of them which , but for the possession of a chinniey ; would not be superier to many ofthe most wretched cabins which I have' witnessed iri Tipperaiy and many other parts of Ireland . The character of ! tho farmers may beunderstood from the "following fact ; It anncars these worthies beerudire the nnor niiuoer

      children the little education afforded them in the union workhouses . ¦ It is riot rit all an riiicnniriion complaint to . hear . among' the farmers that the pauper children are receiving too much education . A few days since I met with one who said that -he was opposed to all the new fangled education that they were giving to the paupers . " I am , " said he , " one of the guardians of our uniori ; and I just happened togo into the school-room ; uirid there'if the master wasn ' t telling the boys to point out with a stick , on some big maps that were hanging up , where South Amerikey was , and France , arid a lot of other places ; and theydid it , too . Well , when . I went home , I told my son of it , and asked hint if he could tell" me where'them places was ; and he ' couldn't . Xow ,: is it right that these -here pauper .

      children should know more than ; the : person who will have to employ them ? " It is one . of the . , Anomalies ofthe poor-law , that the pauper is better fed , better clothed . -and better lodged thnn . tlieJabouiPii ; and the same person who would find fault ' with ithe . pauper receiving a better education than the child ofthe labourer , must also in justice : comjlain that he is bettor fed , clothed , and lodged , and that he , . in eo there can be no doubt . Let those who « re able adjust the inequality . In the case of thc . labourer , as of the farmer , the real cause of complaint in , not that , the child of the pauper is educ-itpil well , hut that his own is not . The community , which provides education for tho pauper only fulfills but a portion of its obligations ; and to it is applicable ,. 'in its strongest sense , the rebuke "This ought vo to havo done , * but not to have left thd other u ' udohe . " ( To be Continued . )

      Chancery Reform.—On Tuesday Evening A Pu...

      Chancery Reform . —On Tuesday evening a public meeting was held at the . Crown-and Anchor , Strand , with the view of promoting tho efforts at present being made to obtain a reform ; in the Court of Chancery , as regarded thc time occupied ami the expense detailed in thc prosecution of suits . —Mr . 6 . Walter in the chair . —Mr . Aclaml moved the first resolution , which was as follows '— "That'the Court of Chancery , which in theory is a court of equity , is practically an engine of unprincipled extortion and heartless oppression : that many millions of property aro cruelly withheld from the rightful owners by complicated and dilatory , proceedings , whilst injured suitors , reduced to pauperism by unwarrantable extortion in tho shape of

      costs , linger out a hopeless existence in our | . norliouses and gaols , or seek relief from their previous wrongs by suicide . That this meetingcnnsiiters that tho continuance of such a court is a lilel upon Christianity , an outrage upon society , ami a dis . grace upon tho legislature and government of the British empire . "—Dr . Ogilvie seconded this resolution , which was supported by Mr . Rock , of VValbrook , and carried nem . dis . — Other resolutions , pledging the meeting to support the association in agitating for a reform in the Court of CbaRcery ' , were then agreed to , and tho meeting separated , after thanking the chairman . ' * Thr Rev . J . Taylor , head master of the Wakefield Grammar School ; has been admonished by tho governors of that' establishment for exceeding his duty by inflicting unduo severity upon his son , a boy of tlmteeh years ofage . ¦ ¦ ' ; *•

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      • - ¦ . ¦ . v ; v .. ' ui ^ wiMOSDAi Junb 3 . "'" . : H 0 TJSErOEJLORDS .-r . Ecci , i ? susTicAL Appbals to ctb pRi ^ r Council . — The Bishop of Lospos moved the ' secoiidreading of his bill for provhlinsr anewcourtofapp ' iilJin cases involving questions of heresy in the Church of England . Tbis court , he explained , was tb'be ' ' constituted out of the episcopal bench , all the members of which were to be summoned whenever a case turning upon doctrinal points came . before ' the judicial committee of the Privy Council ; and their decision , as expressed by the majority of votes , was to bo final and binding upontiiat committee . ' The Bishop supported bis measure'by . copious references'to precedents and analogies ;; showing . ' what had been the practice of tho Anglicari and other churches in times past aud

      present , as well as by pointing to the course ] 'ursued'by the law courts , who remitted question * of science and foreign law which were beyond their own immediate khowledgo to bodies of arbitrators chosen from . amon g men professionally qualified to decide in the particular cases . He claimed an equal power for the church , that , namely , of deciding upon poirits ' of het ' oivn doctrine . The bill' -he proposed would leave tlie Judicial Committee competent to judge * upon'matters of fact , but-reserve to the episcopal trib'Ml the final judgment upon matters , of faith . ' Concluding with an appeal to ttieir lordshi ps to discuss the measure calmly , and dccide . upqn it conscientiously , the reverend prelate ' appearedito be affected even to tears while enforcing the solemn nature of the question then before theni forldisciisa ' ionV

      ; The Marquis of ; LANSDOWNE conceded the ossential' importance' of the question to the well being of the church ' of England and the country generally . But'frbmthatveryimportancehe argued the im > prppriety ' of legislating upon the subject at this moment , when the public mind was distempered by the exciteriierit ; consequent upon recent proceedings , and ' a ' nysteptendin ' g to supersede the authority in matters spiritual of the Privy Council would bo interpreted with speicial reference to one particular jiidgnierit lately ' given , ' and tend to aggravate a controversy in whica' the charge of heresy had been laid against a ' corisiderablebody of English cbiirchmeri ; He believed that the judgment finally pronounced'had given ' as general satisfaction as ii . was

      possible to Cxpe 6 t in . tho disquieted state of men ' s mirids upon the subject . : Besides thinking / the measure extremely perilous at the present moment , ho erite ' rtained ' serioiis objections to its principle . It violated the prerogative of the brown , which , by the constitution had been considered from time immoiriorial the court of final appeal in all cases , in addition : to the functions appertaining to it since the reformation ' as'being ' th ' e ' cnief head of the church . B y the bill a tfib } rnal ' wduld be created whose judgments were . final arid irrevocable by the privy councillors of . tho sovereign ., whose oaths of office bound thehl . to'decide according to their own coiiecicncea . Thef ^ 'Was'rio ' occasion now for a legal tribunal to go ' . to sea in-search of doctrines ; all such questions

      wero supposed to , be settled long since . All that , coiild come before ! the Judicial Committee was the ^" whether ' certain doctrines were those of the churchy aridthisfac'fc they were as perfectly competent to decide ' as the Court of Chancery upon points of chemical' science . The most important points of belief ' would , 'he added , be thrown open for controversy b y . the hill . / The-votes of the prelates would be canvassed 'and . courted ; and if by one convocatibriariy ' que stiori' was decided in ope way , the opportunity would be ' waited for wheri by an episcopal bench differently constituted the decision mig ht ; be reversed ;' arid those doctrines sanctioned which had previously been branded as heretical . In moving that the'bill ho " read a second time that day six

      months , the Marquis of Lansdowne explained the chatigGS . whioh ho thought might bo effected here , after in order toi accomplish some of the objects set forth by the prelate ' who proposed it . lie was prepared tdrecbriimend'that all the bishops should be mude . de jure members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council , and ' that no dissenter should sit on that , committee when " ecclesiastical questions come before them for judgment . '•"•' - Lord BROiroriAM disapproved of the bill as it stood so much that he should have adopted the alternative of rejecting it altogether if he had not believed that it could be amended so far as to be rendered unobje ' ctioriable : Holding the object as above all ' important to heal the breach in the church of England , he

      was therefore' inclined to persevere with the measure , at'least until it could be seen what was to be h )' ade . ' ofit . :: After remarking upon some of the most objectionable provisions and observing that tho settlementof doctrinal questions by a bare majority of votes among thc twenty-seven-prelates was not ¦ onl y unsatisfactory in itself , but would have the singular result of leaving perhaps twelve o » t of the whole body of bishops with positive and ineffaceable verdicts of heresy recorded against them , Lord Brougham briefly explained the modifications he desired ' to effect ; " ' These comprise the abrogation of the full and filial powers to be vested in the proposed prelatic tribunal , and its conversion into a simple court of aid or advice . Points were to be

      referred to it' from the Judicial Committee , on which it was to pronounce an opinion , but merely by way ofguidance . 'leaving the members still free to act ; as theiroaths required ; according to their own consciences . His lordship then entered into a warm panegyric of the Privy Council as a legal tribunal ; followed'by an other of the church , whoso members lie pronounced to be distinguished among all sects and communities ofthe Christian world for piety , learning , charity , and meekness . ' A protracted debate followed , in which Lord REBEKD 4 LE , ' 'Lord LviTLBTON , Lord STANLEY , tllC Bishop of Oxford , and the Duko of Cambridge supported the bill ; and the Bishop of St . David ' s , Lord Campbbijl ; the'Eiirl of CrricnKSTEn , and the Earl of CAnxiisiiE , opposed it . On a division the numbers

      were—• For tho second reading . ... 51 Against it .. . 84—33 ' Their lordships then adjourned at half-past one o ' clock ; HOTJS'E OPCOMMONS . —METROPotrrAN Iktermekts Bhil . —On the order of the day that tho house resold itself into a committee upon this bill , Mi * . Lacy , referring to the numerous amendments of the Itill , of which notice had been given , " moved that ifche referred to a select committee . Loi'd © . Stuart seconded this amendment , not objecting to the principle of the bill , but to its details , which made it a most unconstitutional measure ; inasmuch as it was to be worked through the instrumentality of a board , armed with power to tax the people , superseding local management , and

      provided , for the appointment of a whole army of paid officials . ¦ -. . - . ¦•• - ¦ Sir G . Crby . opposed the amendment , and recommended that time should not be wasted in irregular discussion of the details of the bill . Mr . LuflniHOioN supported tho amendment , and complained that the bill had been forced on to this stage without a discussion of its principle . Mr . B .: Osborne said thc principle-ot the bill was alaudable one and if he thought that by sending it to a select committee he should throw over the measure until next session , he would not vote for the amendment j but he should do so because he thought it would afford the chance ofa betterbill . . Sir Dk Lacy Evans and Sir B . Hall likewise supported the amendment , on the ground that there

      had been no discussion of the principle ofthe bill ; that < there had been ; no opportunity of considering its details , and that some of these details appeared highly , objectionable . . . ; 'Mr . Mastkrmax supported the amendment . . Mr . T . Dvxcouds , whoso rising to spenk for the first . time after , his long illness was welcomed with general acclamation , briefly supported , tho amendment .,, , . If a select committee were , impartially chosen , they wouldsenddown , in a short . time , a better bill , and if the government persisted in rcje < : ti « g this proposal , -people : would suspect there was soriie gross jobbery in the measure , ' . Mr . D'Eyscovjut said , his constituents highly approved the object ' of the bill , but strongly , condemned .. the manner in which it was to bo carried

      nut l > y the centralisation principle . Ho hoped ' the government would refer it to a select committee . :. Lord J . i Russell said , tho question really was whether it ' was desirable that any act should pass this session to prevent intramural interment ; for if . this . bill wero to bo referred to a select committee , it was probable that no report would be made be : ore , July , and not improbable until next session . There was no reason why tho house should not consider the objections to tho clauses in committee . Mr . Alderman . Sidney said , tho corporation of

      London had unanimously , condemned the centralising clauses of the bill , arid would . profer tho evils of tlie existing system to a bill like this . Sir R . Pkbl observed that the question of centralisation was undoubtedly an important one ; but it was for this reason that it should not bo delegated to a select committee , tho referring tho bill to which at this period of tho session would bo a lamentable example of extramural interment . Mr . Hume wished to send tho bill before tho select committee .

      Mr . Waklky characterised as most obnoxious many of the provisions included in tho bill . Sir W . Clay did not approve of the measure altogether , and should propose some amendments in committee , but would not vote for the select committee . ' - ¦ Mr . Wyld was supporting the amendment , when , upon the house manifesting some loud signs of impatience , he nioved that the debate be adjourned . Mr . Bright observed that tho impatience was chiefly manifested upon the Ministerial bench , and enforced upon Lord J . Russell tho duty of preserving order among bis subordinates . The discussion turned for some time upon the question of disorder , Lord J . Russell warmly repudiating , upon his own part , tho duty of keeping quiet in a i house where he said impatience ; was generally manifested whenever members wero kept waiting for a 'division about dinner time .

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      At length Mr . Wyld withdrew his motion for adjournmeriC ' n ^^^ amendment . V > ¦ - ¦ •' ¦ : v- ?¦ ' < : ¦ ¦ ' ' : ' ' - ; ¦< Ayes ,.. ; ..... . " vrn Noes ... ' .. . ' ..... ; i ,, . ,, "" . " V * vi 'ki mo Majority for proceeding with the bill ;•—uw . ¦ Th o house then went into committee on tho bill . On the second clause , Mr . Duncombb moved an amendment for omitting that and several subsequent clauses , with tho view of substituting some new provisions by which . the-parish authorities of- certain metropolitan districts , were to possess some ofthe powers which , as the hill stood ,-would be vested in the Board of Health .

      This amendment was discussed at much length , I ho amendment being supported on the ground that tho powers , and especially tho tax-levy ing powers which were assigned to the Board of Health without any control upon the part of the inhabitants , were anomalous and unconstitutional . In the course of tho debate , Lord Ashley pronounced , from experience , a soyere reprobation upon the metropolitan parish authorities , who were , he said , most intractable and sluggish in all matters connected with sanitory reform . Lord J . Russell afterwards defended the government who had introduced no principle of centralisation beyond what the measure demanded for its officietit working : and as far as related to the question of taxation , the parochial expenditure would be considerably diminished under the bill . The committee dividedand

      , Mr . Buncombe ' s amendment was negatived by a maiority of 135 to 57—78 . . The clauses were then proceeded with , and ( up to 18 ) successively agreed to after a variety of amendments had been discussed and withdrawn , ino house then resumed . , - ,. ' ¦ A „;* i , «„* Several orders of the day being passed without exciting anv debate of interest , . - . . A brisk discussion took place upon the nomination of the select committee upon the Prerogative court of Ireland -

      . . , . .. . Mr Napier moved an amendment to substitute the name of Mr . Goulbourn for tbat of Mr . Sadleir as a member of that committee . ; Finally the house divided—Por the amendment j » Against * •?¦ " ¦¦ ' 11 After a renewed debate and two moro divisions oa propositions for p lacing other members upon tha panel , the committee as originally proposed was appointed . ¦ ¦ ; ¦ ¦ , , ,-The house adjourned at half-past one o dock .

      TUESDAY , June 4 . HOUSE OP LORDS . —The Naial Prize Balance * Bill and the Exchequer Bills Bill passed through . committee . " ' „ ' ,. „ . „ „ _„ . The Fees ( Court of Common Pleas ) Bill was reported , and the amendments agreed to . The Greenwich Hospital Improvement Bill was read a third time and passed . ' f ' Lord Mont ' eaole gave notice , on the part ot iora Brougham , that ho should . present a petition * on , Monday next from Australia , praying ; that counsel and agents on behalf of the colonists , , should be heard at their lordships' bar against the Australian Colonies Bill now before the house . Sunday Trading Pill . — On the motion that the report on this bill be received ¦ . ' ,

      , The Earl of Ellenborouou wished to offer aim words cautioning their lordships against proceeding too . far with this kind of legislation . He was the more inclined to repeat thc caution which he had before given , because , after this . bill had passed , no one of their lordships , bo . oivb of the middle classes , certainly no one of the higher classes , would be put to the smallest inconvenience by its provisions . They mig ht order their carriages and drive where they pleased ; but the poor man would not bo able to buy an ounce of tea or a pound of broad for provision for his family on Sunday ; so that if ho were , by hisown indiscretion , ' or by the lateness of the Jiouff at which he received his wages on the Saturday nieht . too . late to go to market on' Saturday , ha

      would be driven to the cook-shop on the bunday ; and nothing ho thought . could be more injurious to tho comfort of the working man than to be prevented from having his dinner at . home with his family on Sundays . He wished to call the attention of the noble marquis , the representiye of the government , to ono clause in tho bill , which tended seriously to affect the peace of the metropolis . Ho referred to that clause which gave the police powec to seize articles that were exposed for sale—a provision which he thought could not be carried into effect , in the presence probably of several thousands of people , without causing a riot , and he read ! the evidence of Mr . Commissioner May , . taken before the Select Committee , to the same effect . He

      thought they ; should put an end as . quietly as , they could to Sunday trading , but it was better to permit a market on Sunday . than to create a riot . One great means of cheeking Sunday trading would be torn * duce the employers of labour to the pay their workmen on the Friday or tho Monday , instead of aa now on the Saturday night ; but they ought not to take any step in this matter Which they were not sure they would be able to retain , and with this view he thought they ought not to go further afi present than to prohibit the sale of all articles , ex « cept medicines , between the hours . of ten and one o ' clock on Sunday forenoon . He did not , however , propose any amendment , to carry out this ,

      suggestion , because to do that it would be necessary to remodel the whole bill ; but he would content himself with the caution he had now given . The Earl of Harrowby defended the provisiona of tho bill , and reminded their lordships . that . it interfered with nothing but trade , and with the trada of tho rich as well as of the poor . Bethought tha noble . eaii ' s . apprehensions as to the probability of a riot from the intcference of the police were alto * gether overstrained , and quoted from the evidenca of men before tho committee to show that no danger need be apprehended . It was a .. mistake to suppose that this measure would operate injuriously to the working classes ; it was intended to be , ana he had no doubt it would be , a great boon to thQ ;

      poor . The Earl of Modntcashell stated , as a membefc ofthe committee , that the evidence , taken before ifc showed that tho measure originated with tho . shopkeepers and working classes , who complained o £ being overworked and not having a moment to themselves , and earnestly desired that this bill might pass in order to secure to them the rest of orie day in seven . Lord Beaumont said he also was a member of thQ select committee , but he had come to a different conclusion from the noble . lord who spoke : last , ' Tho , bill appeared to havo been got up by one audi-. vidua ) , who had been a tradesman , but who had left his business to follow the more lucrative

      profession of an agitator for . Sabbath . observance . [ Tha Earl of Harrowby here indicated dissent . ] He believed that professional agitation for any question ; wasfoundto . be a lucrative affair . That individual drew the bill , summoned the witnesses , and suggested the line of examination which tho noble earl followed in committee . He admitted that in exposing the evils whioh this bill sought to remedy tha evidence showed a much strongcr . ground than ha had previously supposed to exist , but ho certainly differed from the mode in which it was proposed to carry out the remedy , and he believed that he wasj not tho only member of the committee who enter- , taincd the same ideas . -

      Lord Pobiman suggested that this discussion would have been much more in order on thc second reading of the bill . ( Hear , hear . ) Tho Earl of Harrowby replied . The report with amendments was then agreed to and their lordships adjourned at twenty minuteS before seven o ' clock . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER . — Mr . Fiunous O'Connor gav « notice that on Tuesday , the 18 th of June , ho would bring forward a motion for enforcing the propriety of adopting the six points of the Charter : namely ^ equal electoral districts , universal suffrage ; vote , by . ballot , triennial parliaments , no property , qualification for members , and tho payment of re- ' prescntatives . . Affairs of Gheeck . —In reply to Mr . Baillie ,

      Lord Palmrrstos disclaimed , on the part of tha government , having made , any general demand of ! compensation from the Greek treasury for damages suffered by British subjects , and entered . at soma length into thc accepted interpretations of international law , to show what were and what were nofi injuries inflicted upon foreigners , residing in any . country which tlieir own sovereigns could . maka just grounds of claim for compensation . Mr . B . Cochrane inquired if any steps had beent taken by the governmen t to secure to British ] subjects the payment of the interest upon the Greek loan ? Lord Palmerston replied in the negative , explaining that the solvency of Greece was under the gua *; ranteo of tho three protecting powers .

      Dublin Hospitals . —Mr . Grooan moved for $ ' select committee to inquire into the Dublin , hospital ? . Certain government aids to these establish * ments being about to bo withdrawn , in consequence ofthe impending abolition ofthe Irish , Viceroyalty the hon . member entered into some prolonged state * ments to show , that in justice and humanity thfl . assistanco heretofore given should be . maintained tffl its full extent . The Chancellor , of the Exchequer , could see nil

      reason for appointing the select committee . Full reports on tho subject already existed , and thee course determined upon had received the fullest consideration . It was upon recommendations given long since , by various hi gh and competent authorities , that the reduction and ultimate cessation of the allowances to the Dublin hospitals had receive * the sanction oi tho government . The motion was negatived without a divisiop . Irish Poor Law . —Mr . French moved a scries o % resolutions relative to tho . poor Jaw'in Ireland , re «

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 8, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_08061850/page/7/