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      *^" Vto morder , disable , or to do her grievous M & Sr l , rm—The prisoner is a collier , and the bod df ^ r : tthe time of the alleged offence , was F ^ Ke of Messrs . Clark and Co ., cotton ia * Jtf Tforsley . The prisoner had for a sp' ^ f lime solicited prosecutrix to marry him , l ^ S * \ Xsed his attentions , and positively rebat &* ¦ rttt At a quarter after six o ' clock on the ^ gd his ™»* \ 22 nd of January , prosecutrix , m taS Sth a young woman named "Williamson , eoEP ^^ Kmr to their work , and they had occa-* " ^ SSVpass through afield , in which they son . ? n g ° l ; i £ ner standing , as though waitmg for iuit tooK hold ol

      gj ^ - » - j ^ e prisoner prosecutrix , ^^ mssin ' tim , and wished her to promise agshe ^' rr ' ° become his wife ; and added , h ^^ rp itherharethee or thy blood . They then for ^ n ^ ther and fell to the ground . The pri' cjffled Sf K * ,, and took a «• pick , " which he s ^ ^ V coal mine , and struck her on the head . use " "' scared off , " and the prisoner said , £ j , bow ^^ j „ proseontrix said he had . "S ^ ™ in struck her , three several times , with Beth ? " * SP » her 1 , ^ , and inflicted wounds of ibe P ' _^„ nature , from the effects of which a most scr Bnable to leave her house for several pro ** From the statement of the prosecutrix , it week 5 - : * , t tne prisoner upon various previous appeared i ffeatclied to murder her , and he had ^ U « lM 0 n 5 B , ia . ^ l . _ I ^ I-nU . - In onr . eonr . nnna uiajM" ^ •« uhiw

      uv~— . helore mc ;«« vw ^ , 1 , 6611 -liberated on his friends promising to rejutwas UB ' . cj ] , im m safe custody . —In strain ^ . „ Jlio F n v Pollock , the medical man cr 0 SS f i attended the prosecutrix stated that the who had au ^ veg 3 , ^^ n ^^ ^^ - eonge prisoner was a n ent receivci ia the colliery , he q 0 ^ J ? rendered incapable of govening himself ^ SaE * of exe iteinent .-1 'hc jury , after a v ^^ S & m court of a quarter of an hour , K wiSTve rdict of " Guilty " -The judge ^"' iT sentence said , " John Grundy , the m r „ S the court is that judgment of death be ffS iuistyou ; wc shall see afterwards what 2 m Tib done with you . " ^ CWE- VTAGAlNSrA CLERGlMAS OF IHE CHURCH . F « USD FOR BEFCSISG X 0 SOUOIXHBA MAK-0 t The Rev Moorhouse James , officiating

      . Ser of the Church of St . Thomas , at Leigh , ?^; , ' . ^ rt ed for amisdemeanour , in having , ia his ] K ^ KKy 2 » ofthe Church of England , XatosoteSas ainarriage between . one Henry fish ? and Ann Hardinan , the panics havmgduly S ared themselves to contract such mamage by & complied with the requirements of the act rf mrliament in that case made and l ™ mded tZ l-owles stated the ease . On the loth of Mav of last year , the defendant gave notice to Mr . SS superintendent of the district of Leigh , of ttei . tendon to contract matrimony with Ann Thtimn and upon such notice being given , the Sf ^ n ^ Srar entered it in the usualway

      It the expiration of twenty-one days the time sm-Jledbv tte statute , Fisher app lied for , and obtained from the reg istrar the certificate squired by the act , and having got that , he called upon the defendant , and told him he wished to be married on tl-e next morning . For this haste , he ( the learned counsel ) "was sorry to say there was an urcrent reason—the female was pregnant . On the A pplication being made , the defendant inquired if jfisher had been baptised , and he was answered that h $ had ; the defendant then asked if the applicant f o be married bad been asked in church . Fisher said he had not heen asked in church , but that he had bv the board of guardians ; the defendant furi her a sked Fisher if he had been confirmed , and he was told that he had not . The defendant then said fce would have nothing to do with him , and if he had been asked by the guardians , he had better get

      the guardians to marry him . on tne evening oi the same day , Fisher again urged on the reverend defendant his request to be married . On the 19 th of June , the superintendent-registrar called upon Mr . James , and explained the whole of the circumstances connected with the case , and that all the necessary requirements had been complied with , and on the 2 nd of August , Mr . Hayes , accompanied hv-Fisher , and the female Hardman , went to the defendant , and a request was made that the marliaee should be solemnised . Mr . James said he

      would comply with the request when Fisher should have expressed a wish or desire to he confirmed . The consequence was , the parties were not married , and to this day they remained unmarried , the child having been born with a stigma upon him , and his civil rights prejudiced , entirely arising out of his scrup les—conscientious scruples , he ( Mr . Knowles ) was willing to give him credit lor—of Mr . James , the Her . defendant After hearing the evidence , a verdict of guilty was given , and the defendant was jbound over in his own recognisance of £ 100 to appear andreceive judgment when called upon .

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      Cambridge. Assault Uros Ax Ixfaxt.—Sophi...

      CAMBRIDGE . Assault uros ax Ixfaxt . —Sophia Holley , aged 10 , described in the calendar as unable to reacfor write , was indicted for having attempted to strangle Joseph Holley , her infant , by pulling a handkerchief 'tig htly ronnd ' its throat . On the 14 th of September last , a police-constable was called on to remove the nriioner from a public-house in the town of March , xn which she was intoxicated , and making a disturbance . At his bidding she quitted the public house , having her child in her arms , and after walking a fexr yards down the road , passed suddenly to the roadside , and beat the head of the child with violence against a wall . The constable took the child from her , and found its face much bruised . At her request , however , he gave the child to her asain , and she sat down to suekle it . Shortly aftervrards a woman , who was passing by , observed the child to he lying in the prisoner ' s arms black in the

      face . She snatched the child from the prisoner , and found a-handkerchief drawn tightly round its throat , and suffocation taking place . The handkerchief was unbound , and so the life of the child saved . On being then questioned , the prisoner said that the child was her own , that it was illegitimate , and lad been born ten months before in the Strand anion . These facts having been proved , the prisoner , a small , infirm , ill-clad , and ill-favoured nerson , who had been munching a crust of bread while the witnesses were giving their evidence , was called on for her defence . She said , " Let the child speak for me , I am its mother . It is now just fifteen months old . "—The jury returned a verdict of " Guilty of a common assault . "—The learned Judne then sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for two months and liept to hard labour . —Prisoner : Thank you , my lord . "What am I to work at ?—She was then removed .

      MAIDSTONE . Chaeoe of Abdecuox . —George Kipps , a man apparently more than fifty years of age , surrendered to answer an indictment formisdemeanor , in having unlawfully taken a girl , named Charlotte Jeffrey , nader sixteen years of age , away from her parents without their consent . —Charlotte Jeffrey , a good looking young girl , deposed that her father kept the BeU public-house , at Kemsing ; and she was living there at the time this occurrence happenod . On the 23 th of May she went to his house on a visit , and the defendant ' s wife asked her to remain and take care of a child , while she went out on an errand , and she and the defendant were left together , and upon ibis occasion he took some liberties with

      hgr , and he at the same time told her not to tell his wife . After this time he repeated his conduct upon several occasions , and he repeatedly told her that he wished he was not married and he would take her away with him , and he several times asked her to leave her father and mother and go away with Mm . During this period he sent her several letters , which he told her to burn , and also a lock of his hair , and she save him one of" hers . She also wrote several letters to Mm . On the 18 th of Xovember she met the prisoner by appointment at the church gate , and they went away together to Cobham , andthenext day they went to Sheerness , and afterwards to Kingferry , where her father and mother , accompanied bv a constable , overtook them , and she returned

      home with them . "When she left her father ' s house she took away a bundle containing her clothes , and also about fourteen shillings , and this money she gave io ihe defendant . — "William Jeffrey , the father of fcegiri , proved that she went away without his consent . —James Upton deposed that after the prisoner had been taken into custody he told him that Le look the g irl away on purpose to destroy the peace of mind of the mother . —The jury returned a verdict of " Guilty . "—The learned Judge , in passing sentence , said that the conduct of the defendant was most atrocious . Ee was a man advanced in life , andmarried andhad alarge faniilv ,

      but still it was evident that he had laid a deliberate plan to seduce and ruin this poor girl , and he lad there nnblushingly admitted that his intention was to destroy the peace of mind of the mother . If he iad tlie power to order him to be hanged for what he had done he did not think any one would consider the sentence too severe , and he felt himself -called upon to pass npon him the full sentence presented by the statute for the offence of which he had been convicted . —The defendant was then ordered to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years , to pay the fine of £ 50 to the Queen , and to be further imprisoned until such fine should be Paid .

      Chaeoe of Embezzeemest , —J . Jaffs , 49 , was indicted for embezzling £ 70 , the monies of James Sean , Thomas Edward Prater and others . —It appeared that the prosecutors were members of a benefit society at Chatham which was not enrolled , and the prisoner , who was a member ofthe society , acted as secretary , and kept the accounts , and by nieans of false entries it was alleged that he had defrauded the society to a very considerable amount . " ¦ The learned judge , upon the opening statement of the learned counsel for the prosecution , expressed an opinion that the prisoner did not stand in the position of a servant so as to fulfil the requirements or the statute in a case of embezzlement . He was a aemberof the society which was alleged to have wen defrauded , and it could not be said that he was a Kmat to taeJfr-TJie . jury , accordingly , under

      Cambridge. Assault Uros Ax Ixfaxt.—Sophi...

      Ha lordships direction , returned a verdict of " Not Guilty : " ; Forging Lemibs op Attorney . — William "Williams , dJidtr George Amminer , 45 , a very respectable looking seafaring man , who wore the Acre medal , and also a decoration ot the kingdom of Spain was indicted for forging a letter of attorney with intent to defraud John OUver . — It appeared that in July last the prisoner went to a Mr . Solomon , a navy agent , at Chatham , and asked lor an advance of money , representing that his name was John Oliver , and that he was a third-class gunner on board her Majesty ' s ship Dolphin , stationed on the coast of Africa , and that he had a considerable amount of prize money due to him for the capture of slavers and for wages ; and upon his producing a forgod

      certificate of the captain of the Dolphin to that effect , a letter of attorney was drawn up , which the prisoner signed , and Mr . Solomon then advanced £ 50 . It turned out that the prisoner ' s story was entirely false , and upon the arrival of the real John Oliver in England , in November last , the fraud was discovered , and the prisoner was sought after and apprehended in Plymouth . — The jury returned a verdict of " Guilty . " — Another indictment of a similar character against the prisoner was then brought forward , but to this he pleaded guilty . Bo at the same time implored the merciful consideration ofthe court upon the grounds that he had heen five and twenty years in her Majesty ' s service , and that he had lost a . pension of thirty pounds a year through this transaction . —He was sentenced to be transported for seven years .

      Murder . —E . Lucas , 25 th and Mary Leader , 20 , was charged with tho wilful murder of Susan lucas . The parties lived at Castle Camps in this county , and the male prisoner had been married to deceased four or five years ; he worked for a Mr . Cross , farmer , and in his service also was the female prisoner , who left in January last under the plea of illness . She went to reside with her sister , the deceased , who died a few days after her arrival , and towards whom the male prisoner had frequently spoken slightingly . A woman named Potter was called into Mrs . Lucas ' s house on the day in question , and she found her in bed very ill , reaching violently and praying for drink . The prisoner fetched a surgeon , but he arrived after death , and at once suspected that deceased died from poison ; aud a jiost mortem examination clearly showed that the presence of poison which Professor Taylor , of Guy ' s Hospital , by applying chemical tests , proved to be arsenic .

      There was a large quantity m the stomach and intestines . It appeared that shortly after wheat sowing time last year , Lucas ' s master gave him a packet of arsenic to bury or destroy—about a pound ; this the prisoner acknowledged ho took home , instead of destroying , and the packet was found in his house , minus about an ounce . —The jury having heard the evidence , found both the prisoners "Guilty , " and the learned judge passed sentence of death upon the criminals ' in the usual form . —The male prisoner immediately exclaimed " I don't care a Lit , " and waving his hand , continued— " Ladies and gentlemen , I bid you all good bye , I am not guilty . " The female imitated his gesture , and also exclaimed , " I am not-guilty . " The wretched pair then took a gaze round the court , and descended from the dock apparently the most unconcerned of the most densely crowded assemblv which surrounded them .

      ' Seductiox . —Bbtasi v . Leigh . —Tins was an action for seduction . Mr . M . Chambers and Mr . Simmons were for the plaintiff ; Sergeant Shee and Mr . Crecsy for the defendant . —Mr . Chambers said that the plaintiff in this action was Ambrose Bryant , an innkeeper atEdinbridge , in this county , and the defendant was Henry Leigh , who carried on the business of farmer , surveyor , and land agent in the same neighbourhood ; and the action was brought to recover damages from the defendant for having seduced Mary Anne Bryant , the daughter of the plaintiff . It would appear that there had

      been no intimacy between the parties until the month of August , 1 S 47 , and at this time the plaintiffs daughter was atout twenty-four years old , and the defendant nearly fifty . In that month the young woman had gone on a visit to a relative , and upon her return by tbe train the defendant got into tne same carriage , and he entered into conversation with her , and asked permission to accompany her home , and expressed his intention to visit her on the following day . lie did so , and from this time an intimacy sprang up between them , and the defendant was a constant visitor at the house of

      the plaintiff , and he repeatedly promised to marry the daughter . In the month of January , 1848 , the plaintiff was unfortunately from home upon business , and the defendant took advantage of the opportunity afforded by his absence to overcome the scruples of his daughter , and succeeded in accomplishing her ruin , and the result was that she became pregnant . The defendant continued to profess honourable intentions , and upon one occasion he fixed the period for the marriage , but postponed it upon some excuse of business , and he went so far as to give the young woman money to purchase a wedding ring . At length he entertained a suspici on that he was upon intimate terms with a widow lady , named Stevens , residing in the same neighbourhood ,

      but upon her taxing him with it he indignantly denied it , and asserted that he would never marry any other woman than herself . The suspicion , however , turned out to be well founded , for shortly afterwards the defendant married this lady , and upon an application being made to him to make some reparation for the injury he had inflicted upon the plaintiff and his daughter , he very coolly remarked that she ought to affiliate the child , and he afterwards said that he had consulted his lawyer , and he would rather spend d £ 200 than settle the matter or make any compensation . The learned counsel then stated that the young wonnin was delivered of a child , which was still alive , in the month of October , 1848 , and he said that owing to

      the conduct of the defendant towards the young woman shortly before , and which would be detailed to them in evidence , her delivery was of the most p ainful description , and for six months afterwards she suffered most severely from illness , and under these circumstances the plaintiff came before a jury to obtain compensation in damages from the de * - fendant for the very serious injury he had received at his hands . —Evidence having been given , proving the case * , Mi * . Justice Maule summed up , and the jury , after a very short deliberation , returned a verdict for the plaintiff . —Damages , £ 200 .

      The Eveksdex Muhdeb . —John Garrmgton 42 , described as a labourer , of Little Eversden , was charged with having wilfully murdered Henry Carrington , at Little Eversden , with a spade . The prisoner was indicted for the murder of his mother , who was killed at the same time . The prisoner , who is a very simple looking man , after some little consideration , pleaded "Guilty ; " but , upon persuasion , he withdrew his plea , and said " Jfot Guilty , " The jury found the prisoner "Not Guilty , ' on the ground of insanity , the effect of which will be that the prisoner will be confined during her Majesty ' s pleasure .

      LEICESTER , BuHGiAaY . —William Hazlewood , 21 , and James Gilliver , 19 , were charged with breakinsr into the dwelling-house ofthe Rev . Thomas Smith , at Calthorpe , in this county , on the night ofthe I 3 th of February last , and stealing therefrom a gun ofthe value of £ 5 , a great coat , a waistcoat , and a 3-ft . rule . —Both prisoners were found " Guilty , ' , and Dalzewood , having been previously convicted of burglary , was sentenced to be transported beyond the seas for fifteen years ; Gilliver to be imprisoned for two years .

      Bpjtish College Of Health, 3»Ew Road, Lo...

      BPJTISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH , 3 » ew Road , Loxdon .

      FALLACY OF AXATOMY AS REGARDS THE CORE OF DISEASES—THE BURKING SYSTEM—DOCTORS BUYING DEAD BODffiS WITH THEIlt SHIRTS ! OX !! As persons are continually disappearing no one knows how , it may not be out of place to consider whether the burking system is not still carried on to a great extent . Had it not heen for the terrible discoveries made on Burke and Hare ' s trial , there can be no doubt that thousands would have been sent into the next world in order to . feed doctors with human flesh , so that they ( the doctors ) might fill their pockets at tho expense of suffering humanity . This dissection , our readers should know , forms one of tlie very lucrative emoluments proceeding from * hospital practjec . ' For iastance , the professor of anatomy pays , we wiU say , eight or ten guineas for a dead body , and then makes fifty or sixty out of it from tlie medical students who have paid their money in order to find out , as they are told , the

      cause of disease iu a dead body ! ! "Was there ever a more infamous fraud ! "Where is the doctor who knows how to cure a disease from dissection ? They all know it to be a shameful piece of humbug , and they are not abit the wiser from dissection , as frr as regards the cure of diseases . " It is all to make money ! money !! money !!! that the rascality is kept up ; dust is thrown into the eyes of the public , the doctors tell the lie ( the wicked he !) that anatomy is requisite to understand the cure of diseases . The only anatomy really required is BONE SETTING , in case of accidents , which might be learnt by designs ; the Vegetable Universal Medicine will theni do all that is necessary by keeping the blood pure and healing tlie parte—operations for stone , cataract , cancer , & c , are perfectly useless , which is proved hy the disease alwayi coming asain because its seat is in the wood !!! Burke , the murderer , found 'Bui-kins' the best trade going-he used to smother people , and then take them to the doctors almost hot , some with their SHIRTS and used

      even ON , * , without the least difficulty , to get his £ 8 for each body . Now there can he no doubt that the doctors HCST HAVE mown that the victims had not come fairly by their deaths , yet they blinked at the whole business in order that they might till theib pockets . Talk , after this , about tlie 'honourable' profession , the 'liberal' profession , and such humbug . TVe say read the confession of the Burkers here given , and if yom can believe that these doctors did not know at the time that tlie parties had ' been murdered , why , then , youmust have more credulity , than we give you credit for . The deadly chemicals of the doctors and their hurkings are both on a par , only the first is not so easily detected by tbe public as the other ; but that a day of retribution will come we make no doubt "We understand that poor people will no longer allow their relatives , who die in the hos pitals , t » he mangled by the knife of the human butchers So wonder .

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      THB CONDITION OF ENGLAND QUESTION . ( CandflMed from the Horning Chronicle . )

      THE DEVIL'S DUST MILLS OF DEWSBURT . The small town of Dewgbury holds in the woollen district , very much the same position which Oldham does in the cotton country . The reader will , remember that an essential feature in the manufacture of the latter town is the spinning and preparing of waste and refuse cotton . To this stuff the name of shoddy is given , but the real and orthodox shoddy is a production of the woollen districts , and consists of the second-hand wool manufactured by the

      tearing up , or rather the grinding , of woollen rags by means of coarse willows , called devils ; the opera » ion of which sends forth choking clouds of dry pungent dirt and floating fibres—the real and orig inal "devil's dust . " Having been , by the agency of the machinery in question , reduced to something like the original raw material , fresh wool is added to the pulp in different proportions , according to tbe quality of the ^ stuff to be manufactured , and the mingled material is at length re-worked in the usual way into a coarse and little serviceable cloth

      There are some shoddy mills in the neighbourhood of Huddcrsfield , but Dewsbury may be taken as the metropolis of tho manufacture , and thither I accordingly proceeded . The first mill I visited was that belonging to the Messrs . Blakely , in the immediate outskirts of the town . This establishment is devoted solely to the sorting , preparing , and the grinding of rags , which are worked up in tbe neig hbouring factories . Great bnles choked full of filthy tatters lay scattered about tbe yard , and loaded waggons were fast arriving and adding to the heap . As for the mill , a glance at its exterior showed its character . It being a calm , still day , the wa ! 3 s and part of tho roof were covered with the thick clinging dust and fibre , which ascended iu choky volumes

      from the open doors and glassless windows of tlie ground floor , and which also poured forth from a chimney , constructed for the purpose ,, exactly like smoke . On a windy day I was told that the appearance ofthe place would be by no means so bad , as a thorough draft would carry the dust rapidly away to leeward . As it was , however , the mill was covered as with a mildewy fungus , and upon the grey slates of tbe roof the frowzy deposite could not be less than two inches in depth . We went first into the upper story , where the rags are stored . A great wareroom was piled in many places from the floor" to the ceiling with bales of woollen rags , torn strips and tatters of every colour pB''ping out from the bursting depositaries . There

      is hardly a country in Europe which does not contribute its quota of material to the shoddy manufacturer . Rags are brought from France , Germany , and in great quantr . es from Belgium . Denmark , I understand , is favourably looked upon by the tatter merchants , being fertile in morsels of clothing , of fair quality . Of domestic rags , the Scotch bear off the palm ; and possibly no one will be surprised to hear , that of all rags Irish rags are the most worn , the filthiest , and generally the most unprofitable . The gradations of value in the world of rags aro indeed remarkable , I was shown rags worth £ 50 per ton , and rags worth only 30 s . Tiie best class is formed ofthe remains of fine cloth , the produce of which , eked out with a few bundles of fresh wool , is

      destined , as broad cloth , or at all events as pilot cloth , to go forth to the world again . Fragments . of damask and skirts of mciino dresses formed the staple of middle class rags ; and even the very worst bales—to my eye the ? appeared unmitigated mashes of frowzy filth—afford here and there some fragments of calico , which are wrought up into brown paper . The refuse of all , mixed with the stuff which even the shoddy-makin ? devil rejects , is packed off to the agricultural districts for use as manure . I saw seveial unpleasant smelling lots which were destined to fertilize the hop-gardens of Kent . Under the rag wareroom was the sorting and picking room . Here the bales are opened , and their contents piled in close , poverty-smelling masses , upon the floor . The operatives were entirely women . They sat upon low st ? ols , or half sunk and half enthroned amid heaps of the filthy goods , busily employed in arranging them according to the colour

      and the quality of the morsels , and from the more pretending quality of rags carefully ripping out every particle of cotton which they " could detect . Plies of rags of different sorts , dozens of feet high , were the obvious fruits of their labour . All these women were over eighteen years of age , and the wages which they were paid for ten hours work were 6 s . per week . They looked squalid and dirty enough , but all of them were chattering , and several singing , over their noisome labour . The atmosphere of the room was close and oppressive ; and although I perceived no particular offensive smell , we could not help being sensible of the presence of a choky , mildewy sort of odour—a hot , moist exhalation—arising from the sodden smouldering piles as the workwomen tossed arnifulls of rags from one heap to another . In this mill , and at this species of work—the lowest and foulest which any phase of [ the factory system can show—I found , for the first time , labouring as regular mill hands , Irish

      women . The devils were , as I have said , upon the ground floor . The choking dust burst out from door and window , aud it was not until a minute or so that I could see the workmen , moving amid the cloud ? , catching up armfuls of the sorted rags and tossing them into the machine to be torn into fibry fragments by the whirling revolutions of its spiky teeth . So far as I could make out , the place was a largo bare room—the uncovered beams above , the rough stone walls , and the woodwork of the unglazed windows being as it were furred over with clinging woolly matter . On the floor , the dust and coarse filaments lay as if , to use the quaint phrase of a gentleman present , " it had been snowing snuff . " The

      workmen were of course coated with the flying powder . They wore bandages over their mouths , so as to prevent as much as possible the inhalation of the dust , and seemed loath to remove the protection for a moment . Not one of them , however , would admit that he found the trade injurious . No , the dust tickled them a little , that was all . They felt it most of a Monday morning after being all Sunday in the fresh air . "When they first took to the work it hurt their throats a little , but they drank mint tea , and that soon cured them . I asked whether there was not a disorder ksown as " shoddy fever ? " The reply was that they were all more or less subject to it , especially after tenting tbe grinding of the very dusty sorts of stuff—worsted stockings , for example . The

      * ' shoddy fever ' was a sort of stuffing of the head and nos-. > , with sore throat , and it sometimes forced them to give over work for two or three days , or at most a week ; but the disorder , they said , " was not fatal , and left no particularly bad effects . This was the statement , generally corroborated , of a person who had worked for years in the horrible atmosphere which I have described . In another mill , two Irishwomen who fed the devils told me that they had been working there , one sixteen and the other eighteen months , imd had experienced no perceptible change in their health . In spite of all this , however , it is manifestly impossible for human lur . gs to breathe under such circumstances without suffering-I myself was exposed to tbe atmosphere , in several

      mills for perhaps ten minutes altogether , and the experiment left an unpleasant , choky sensation in the throat , which lasted all the remainder ofthe day . An intelligent woman in Batlcy Car , a village near Dewsbury , told me that the rag grinders were very subject to asthmatic complaints , particularly when the air was dull and warm . According to her , the shoddy fever was like a bad cold , with constant acrid running from the nose , and a great deal of expectoration . It was when there was a particularly dirty lot of rags to be ground that the people were usually attacked iu this way , but the fever seldom kept them more than two or three days from their work . In Batley I went over two shoddy establishments —the Bridge Mill and the Albion Mill . In both of these rags were not only ground , but the shoddy was worked up into coarse bad cloth , a great proportion of which is sent to America for slave clothing . In

      one of the mills in question , the two rag grinders at work were the Irishwomen whom I have mentioned . They laboured in a sort of half-roofed outhouse , the floor littered with rags and heaped with dust , the walls and beams furred with wavy down like masses of filament , as though they had been imbedded in clusters otcobweb , while the air , stirred by the revolving cylinders and straps , was a perfect whirlwind of pugnant titilating powder . Through this the women , with their squalid , dust-strewn garments , powdered to a dull greyish hue , and with their bandages tied over the greater part of their faces , moved like reanimated mummies in their swathings : I had seldom seen anything more ghastly . The wages of these poor creatures do not exceed 7 s . or 8 a . a week . Tho men are much better paid , none of them making less than 18 s . a week , and many earning as much as 22 s .

      After the rags have been devilled into shoddy , the remaining processes are much the same , although conducted in a coarser way , as those which I have already detailed in my description ofthe manufacture of woollen cloth . The weavers were , as usual , comp laining of irregular work and diminished wages . The average pay , one week with another , with their wives to wind for them — i . « ., to place the thread upon the bobbin which goes into the shuttle—is hardly so much as 10 s . a week . They work long hours , often fourteen per day .

      On my return to Dewsbury I applied to Dr . Hemingway , a gentleman who has a large practice in the district , for some precise information touching the " shoddy fever . " The substance of the statement which I received is as follows : — The disease popularly known as " shoddy fever , and which is of too frequent occurrence hereabouts , is a species of bronchitis , caused by the irritating effect of the floating particles of dust upon the mucous membrane of tbe trachea and its ramitications . In general , the attack is easily cured—particularly if the patient has not been for any length of time exposed to the , editing cause—by effervescing saline

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      draughts to allay the symptomatic febrile action , followed by expectorants to , relieve the mucous membrane of the irritating dust ; but a long continuance Of employment in the ; , contaminated .. atmosphere , bringing on as it does repeated attacks of ; the disease , is too apt , m the end , ; to undermine the constitution , and produce a tram of pectoral diseases , often clos'" B . * » n pulmonary , consumption .. The doctor added , that optnaJmic attacks were by no means uncommon among the shoddy-grinders , some of whom , however , wore wire gauze spectacles to protect the eyes . As regarded the effect of the occupation upon health . Dr . Hemingway is of opinion that , on a rough average , it mayshortenhfe by about five years , taking , of course , th 5 ?' t t com parison the ; average longevity of

      Shoddy fever ' ¦« in fact , a modification of the very fata disease induced by what is called «« dry grinding at Sheffield ; but of course the particles of woollen filaments are less fatal in their influence than the floating steel dust produced by the operation in question . , r Thb Agrd Worker refused leave to Labour . —in Uuddersfield , in one . ofthe courts of one of the Irish quarteis-a place , by the way , reeking with abominations , but which the authorities are energetically , improvin g—I observed one house , poor indted in appearance , but notably clean . On entering it I tounct that the inhabitants were English , the only English people j „ the court .. They had lived there for more than thirty years , and always , paid their way . 1 tound them , however , in deep poverty , and their story was affecting . The family consisted ol

      five-an old man , ] , » old wife , their daughter , her husband , and the infant of the latter couple . The grandfather had worked all his life in a woollen mill , but he was now , in the estimation of the masters , too old to be ennp oyed . He had gone from mill to mil ) in liuddersfaeld , begging in vain for work . His wife was quite past all labour , and the family were entirely supported by the daughter ' s husband , whose earnings amounted only to 13 s . a week . The old man , the woman said , was wearing himself . aw » Y retting at the idea of being a burden upon the husband ot his daughter . The latter was to go- into a mill the moment the infant could be left with its grandmother . "It was cruel , " she said-speaking of her husband , and struggling to keep back her teat s — " to see a hearty man trying to work hard day after day on nothing but bread and a little milk . "

      THE SOLDIERS AND CONVICT-CLOTHING . .. .. MAKERS OF , LONDON . The worker lodged in an attic in Saffron-hill : — " This is for the Marines , on board ship . Don ' t you think they makes the Marines very line ? " said she , showing the trowsers she was making . " Well , I makes these for 5 d . Ah , I wish you could have seen the red jackets that 1 make for 8 d „ and a blue jacket lor the East India Company , full lined and sixteen silk twist holes for 8 d . I can ' t do one a day , not myself , and I don't have it constant every day . I generally do the jackets , the trowsers , and the drill jackets for the Marine soldiers that * oes on board the ship , and they ' re 41 d . apiece . Why , there ' s in each of them fourteen button-holes worked with wbitey-brown and blue cuffs , blue collars , and blue epaulets , all stltchedand well pressed . I might do

      one in seven hours ; but I has to find my own thread , and that ' s fd . a quarter of an ounce each jacket . The soldiers' great coats , with large capes and cuffs , and ll . llf lined , are Only Sd . to me , and there are eleven button-holes to make in every one of them , I don ' t think I could do one in nine hnurs , they ' re such large ones . The men are five feet eleven and six foot and so on , and so 1 leave you to judge . Ah , they don ' t have the army work done as they used fourteen years ago . Then they paid more money for ' em . It was 7 d . a great-coat then , but now , you know , they lower them always . Fourteen years ago the jackets that I am doing now 1 used to get Is . 4 d . for , and now they're 8 tl . It ' s the contract system , you see , sir . Oh , yes , that ' s it . Any body who'll take it for a few shillings less than another is sure to get it . And then it ' s lowered to us in course . I work for

      a piece mistress . I think she gets about 7 d . a pair for these trowsers , that 1 have 5 d . for . She should not by rights have more than a penny profit . It wasn ' t so years ago . On a soldier's red coat it was no more than 2 d . profit , and now I think its about 3 d ., so that the prices have come down to the poor w orkpeople , and the profits of the p iece masters have gone up , and there ' s more work in the clothes besides . Why , sir , I tell you what I earnt last week . I was just a casting it- up . I earnt Is . 8 d . 1 think it was Is . 4 d . 1 earnt the week before . I can ' t recollect the week afore that , but 1 know it was very little . I don ' t think it was a shilling . Upon an average I can't make every week 3 s clear . No , I can't manage to get up to that . I

      hasn't done so for a length of time . I could'nt say I clear 2 s . 6 d . regularly , because I can ' t got the work . On Friday , at four o'clock , I ' m obleeged to take my work in , and then I get some more on Monday for the next week perhaps , for its only a chance if there ' s any for me . T might , upon an average , earn 2 s . clear all the year round , taking one week with another . My best work was the looping ofthe coats . But that ' s gone from me . When I looped them I had Yd ., butnow they only give me 5 d . Years ago the price was 8 d . That ' s my little granddaughter , sir—my eldest son ' s daughter that is . Her father has been dead thirteen months . He left four children—she ' s the eldest ol * them ( the girl was about twelve)—all unprovided for . She fetches

      my errands and sews me up a seam or two . I ' m a learning her the work . Her mother ' s got nothing at all for her to do . I couldn ' t live upon what I get if I didn ' t have a loaf now and then from the Scripture reader that vifits round about here . I have cne generally every week . If he has got it he generally gives it to me . I live upon coffee . It ' s a wonder , aye , a very great wonder , that I ' ve got any work now . There s generally a stand-still at this time of the year , and when I get no work I don ' t know how I do . I get through the winter as well as I can . My doctor tells me I ought to have more than I do have —but what ' s the use of his saying that , when I can ' t get it ? In the winter the people in my business are generally very badly off . I hsive suffered dreadfully

      myself . I can say this—I ' ve done for the soldier from his gaiters to his cap , and 1 should like the Queen to see the state I ' m in . I wish she ' d come , that ' s all . I ' ve worked for both her uncles and her grandfather , and now , in my old age , I ' m obliged to do anything I can get hold of to get a crust . As I get on in years , 1 find the work come harder and harder to me . Working upon the red , then upon the white , and now to-night a-coming to the black , I know it makes my old eyes ache . I ' ve worked from eleven years of age till sixty-two . My husband was a printer—a pressman , lie ' s been dead two years the 2 nd of Dec . next . "

      As I had been informed that the convict work was the worst paid of all labour , I was anxious to obtain an interview with one who got her living by it . She lived in a small back room on the first floor . I knocked at the door , but no one answered , though I bad been told the woman was within . I knocked again and again , and , hearing no one stirring , I looked through the keyhole , and observed that the key was inside the door . Fearing that some accident might have happened to the poor old soul , I knocked once more , louder than ever . At last the door was opened , and then a thin aged woman stood trembling nervously as sh * looked at me . She

      stammered out with a gasp , "Oh ! I beg pardon , but I thought it was the woman come for the shilling I owed her . " 1 told her my errand , and she welcomed wie in . There was no table in the room : but on a chair without a back there was an old tin tray , in which stood a cup of hot , milkless tea , and a broken saucer , with some half dozen small potatoes in it . It was the poor soul's dinner . Some tca-leaves ^ had been given her , and she had boiled them up again to make something like a meal . She had not even a morsel of bread . In one corner of the room was a hay mattress , rolled up . With this she slept on the floor . She aaid : —

      " I work at convict work , ' the greys ; ' some are half yellow and hjJf brown , but they ' re all paid the same price . I makes the whole suit . Gets YJd . for all of it—3 d . the jacket , 3 d . the trowsers , and IJd . the waistcoat , and finds my own thread out of that ; they ' re all made with double ' whitey-brown . ' 1 never reckoned it up , but I uses a good bit of thread when I ' m a making of ' em . Ssmetimes I gets an ounce , sometimes half an ounce . ' . It takes about an ounce and a half to the suit , and that would be 3 d . at 24 . an ounce , and then they'll have them well pressed , which takes a good bit for firing . Yes , it does indeed . 1 am obliged to have a penny Candle—a cheaper one I couldn ' t see with . It'll take me more than a day to make the suit . If 1

      had tbe suit out now I could get them in to-morrow evening . There ' s a full day and a half ' s work in a suit . I works from nine in the morning till eleven at night . ( Here a sharp-featured woman entered , and said she wished to speak with the ' convict worker' when she was alone . ' She came , ' said the poor old thing when the woman had left , ' because I owes her a shilling . I'm sure she can't have it , for I haven ' t got it . I borrowed it last week of her . ') * ' In a day and a half , " she continued , with a deep sigh , " deducting the cost of thread and candles for the suit ( to say nothing of firing , ) I earns 3 } d —not 2 d ., a-day . The other day I had to sell a cup and saucer for a halfpenny , ' cause crockeryware ' s so cheap—there was no handle

      to it , it ' s true—in order to get me a candle to work with . Sometimes for weeks I don't make anything at all . One week , at convict work , I did earn as much as 3 s . That ' s without deducting the cost of thread or candles , which is quite half . The convict ' s clothes is all one price ; no one gets any better wages than this ; a few has less I believe . Some of the waistcoats an ' t above five fardens — twopence halfpenny the jackets—and trowsers the same . 1 can't tell what I average , for sometimes 1 have work and sometimes I an't . I could earn 3 s . a week if I had as much as I could do , but I don ' t have it very often . I ' m very often very idle . * I can assure you I ' ve been trotting about to day to see after a shilling job and couldn't get it . ( The same woman again , made ber appearance , at tbe door , and seeing me still

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      there did not stop to say a word . 'What a bother there is , said the convict-clothes-maker « if a person owes a few halfpence . That > ^ d nie keep the door looked . ) I suppose , her mother hag sent for the old shawl she lent me . I havn ' t no shawlt o my back ; no , as true as God I haven't I haven't indeed ! I ' m two months idle in the course of the year . ' She went on again , ' Oh yes , more than that ; I ' ve been three months at one time , and did ' nt earn a halfpenny . That was when 1 lived up at the other house . There was no work at all . We was starving one against the other . I ' m generally about a quarter part of my time sanding stil ; yea , that I aril , I can assure you . About three shillings a week , I tell you , is what I generally earn at eonvict work when I'm fully employed ; but then there ' s the expenses to be taken out of that . I ' ve worked at the convict work for about fourteen or fifteen

      years—ever since my husband ' s been dead . He died fourteen years ago last February . I ' ve nobody else dependent upon me . I hadn't need to have , I'm sure . I hadn't a bit of work all last Friday ard all last Saturday—no , not till Monday . I work for a piece master . I don ' t know what profit the piece master gets . The convicts' great coats are 5 d ., and I can do about three of them in two days , and they will take about H oz . of thread , that ' s 3 d . j so . that in two dnys , at tlvit work , I can cam one shilling clear , saying nothing of candles . That ' s much better than the other . " ( The cat , almost as thin as its mistress , here came scratching for some of the potatoes . ) ' Yes , there ' s people much worsejof than me , but they gets relief from the parish . They

      tell me at the union I am young enough to work , and yet I am turned of seventy . I find it hard —very hard , indeed ; oh , that I do , I can assure you . i very often want . I wanted all last Sunday , for I had nothing at all then . I was a bed till twelve () clock-lay a-bed ' cause I hadn ' t nothing to eat . lhere s more young girls work at the trade now . A great quantity works at ifc ' cause they can see better than us . They couldn ' t get the dresses they wears if they was virtuous . My husband was a file cutter ; he did pretty fairly . While he was alive I didn't want tor anything , and since bis death I ' ve wanted very often ; I ve wanted so as I harn ' t had a home to

      put my head into . Then I slept along with different friends , and they gave me a little bit , but they were nigh as bad off as myself , and couldn ' t spare much . Trade is very bad now ; there are a many of us starving ; yes , indeed there is—tlie old people in particular ; the young ' uns make it out other ways . I pays Is . ^ Cd . rent . The things are my" own , such as there'is . I ' ve notable ; I was obliged to sell it ; I ' ve sold ' most everything I ' ve got ; ' I can ' t soil no more , for there ' s none now that will fetch anything . I only wish I could get a shawl , to keep the cold off me when I takes my work homethat ' s all . "

      After this I saw , nt the house of a man whom I had first visited , a decent woman in black , with a pale face , melancholy voice , arid dark sullen black eyes . ' She had no home to take me to . Her tale was as follows : — "Ah , its wonderful how a poor person lives—but they don't live . My clear gains are about Is . Gd . a week . In the summer time it ' s better , because I don't want no candle lL-lit . I work second-handed for the piece master . I don ' t know what he makes . I ' ve done the basting of the Sappers at 3 d . a coat ; tbe pockets are fully made , and the shoulder straps fully made , and for the basting of the trowsers I get Id ., and two button-holes worked in the waistband . Why they baste up only I don't know . Them I

      work for I does ' nt know . If : would puzzle me to tell you how I do manage to live . I have nothing than a cup of tea and a bit of dry bread twice a day , for the week round ; and if I can get a red herring ( three or four a penny ) , why it's as much as I can get . If I've got a bit tetter work , I may chance to get a bit of meat—2 d . or 3 d . a pound . I ' ve got no home at present . I was turned out — told 1 must leave—as I couldn't pay my rent , 'cause I ' ve had no work , and had nothing to pay with . I'm living now with a neighbour in the same house where 1 had my room . She has allowed me to stop with her till I got a bit of work ; for I can ' t pay any rent , and she gives me a little food—part of what she ' s got , poor woman . She ' s no mm-e than a day ' s charing

      now and then , but she mnkes more at that than I can at soldiers clothes . The is . 4 d . that I had for them two Sappers' jackets I bought three halfquartern loaves out of that , which we ' ve eaten . AH her family and myself shared together . I give her and them part , ' cause her fami'y has had nothing . They ' re some day ' s as short as I am myself ; and the remainder of the Is 4 d . I paid to the chandler ' s shop woman . She was kind enough , when-1 told her I was so bad off , to let me have a little tea and sugar and a candle , to the amount of fld . My boy couldn't get a place , and I couldn ' t keep him ; and be says to me , 'Mother , ' sgy he , ' you ' re so poor you can't keep me , and I don't like to be idle about the streets ; I shall go up and ask the relieving officer if he will

      eive me an order to come in and get me off to sea / With that he went before the board on the "Wednesday and asked the gentlemen would they have the goodness of sending him on board o' ship . He told them he didn't want to stop in the workhouse , and no they'd the kindness of ' sending him . Mr . Wilkes , the relieving officer , spoke to the guardians , went in when he went in—a » d then he was a very nice lad — a very pretty behaved lad — hnd a good character both in-doors and out-doors , and the gentlemen sent him on board last Tuesday . They ' ve bound him for five years in a collier . He lived fifteen months in a fringe and tassel manufactory . He was a very good boy to me . He went to the guardians . and spoke himself , without saying a word of it to me . He said he didn ' t like to be about doing nothing , so he'd go sailoring . On last Saturday I was obliged to go and beg for a loaf of bread , for I'd sold to the vei'y last

      thing I'd got . I ' ve no work now , and I really do not know what to do . I had a cup of tea and a bit of bread with the person lam with , and to get that she had to send her lad '« trowsers to pawn for Od . The work goes through so many hands , and all has got a profit on it , that such a person as me that makes is the sufrVrer . The people as I get it from has a good profit ; they don't have to make it—it ' s me and other people that does so—and yet Ihey can get a good living by it . They has the best of everything , as I can see , and never puts a stitch to the work ; they get it from tbe warehouse . My husband has been dead about six years . He was a boot and shoemaker . I wanted for nothing when he was alive . I ' ve had six children , and buried all but this one , and he ' s been a very honest upright boy ; thank God ! there ' s not one soul ever told me that he has done wrong to them . " ( To be Continued . )

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      Game-Laws and their Consequences . —A correspondent says : — " There are now uudergoiKg various terms of imprisonment in the county gaol and houses of correction in Nottinghamshire no fewer than thirty-eight persons , not including those convicted at the assizes just concluded ; one being sentenced to ton years and another to seven years transportation ; one to twelve months and another to nine months imprisonment , besides five who were acquitted . Out of the thirty-three prisoners on the calendar for trial , no less than nine were cases aris i ng out of the game laws . The costs for prosecuting those nine men alone amounted to more than £ 100 , that of course being charged on the county rate , which falls chiefly upon tho struggling

      agriculturists whose property the game feed upon or destroy . These alleged crimes were committed upon tho preserves of the Duke of Portland , Duke of Newcastle , and A . Hammond , Esq , Four of those who were tried , and fortunately for them , acquitted , were clearly sworn to , leaving not the least doubt but that they were the men , yet , eight diflerent witnesses wore produced to provo an alibi , thereby , it is feared , committing perjury to save their relatives and friends from tho almost certain punishment of transportation , had they been convicted , for doing what nine out of ten in this part of tho country consider no crime . Those thirtyeight men previously convicted at petty and other

      sessions , cost more than £ 200 to prosecute and convict , through wliich twenty-five wives and seventy-nine children were thrown upon their respective parishes , either for entire support or relief . That number , at even 2 s . each per week , taking the terms of imprisonment to average one month , for those the ratepayers will have to pay £ 50 10 s . ; so that in one brief season of six months duration , in the small county of Nottingham , containing but 204 parishes , forty-two men were deprived of liberty , twenty-eight mothers and ninety children niado paupers who wore not so before , deprived of home , disgraced and spirit-broken , to effect which the ratepayers have mulct from their industry more than £ 400 .

      Death pnEPEnnEn to PAur-EMSM . —A few days since a widow , named Braine , in poor circumstances , but of good character , attended tho board of guardians at Keynsham , for the purpose of obtaining relief . Whilst waiting outside with others , she was observed to leave tho place , and go across the meadows towards the river Avon , where tho bank is very steep . After once or twice wistfull y looking over the bank at the water , she retired a short distance , and then walked backward , and in this way threw herself into the river . A man who saw her commit the act , but was at too great a distance to prevent it , immediatel y hastened to the spot , and every effort was made to save her , but the body was not recovered before life was extinct .

      Gamk Certificates . —A parliamentary return gives the following as the net produce of the duty paid on game certificates and upon licenses for the sale of game for the year ending April 5 th , 1849 j—Charged on persons in their- own right , £ 11 & , 288 ; charges confirmed in double duty , £ 2 , 845 ; gamekeepers ( not being assessed servants ) , £ 783 ( a considerable diminution on previous years ); gamekeepers ( being assessed servants ) , £ 1 , 093 ( also a diminution ); licenses for the sale of game , £ 2 , 063 . The total for England and Wales was £ 120 , 882—a sum considerably less than that received during each oftto four pmyjms ywifc .

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      Saturday, March 23. House Of Lords.—The ...

      SATURDAY , March 23 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —The House of lords mefi atYour o ' clock , for the purpose of advancing the Mutiny ^ Bill and the Marine Mutiny Bill a stage Thoy were both read a third time and passed .

      MONDAY , March 25 . HOUSE OP LORDS . —The royal assent was given by commission to the Mutiny , Marine Mutiny and other bills . Masters' Juhisdictio . v in Equitt Biia . —Lord BitouoiiAM , in moving tho second reading of this bill , drew a graphic picture of the evils it was proposed to remedy He was now about to introduce their lordships for a moment—ho hoped they would not be alarmed—into tho Court of Chancery of which ifc was said it a man once got in he would never get out . Ho was going to give them a picture , without , he was happy to say , the reality . The manner of proceeding was this , even in cases in which there was no litigation . He would take the common ease

      of an administration suit with two or three sets of parties : Prst , there would bo three close copies of the bill , at-a considerable expense ; then the answer and draft ; then tlie special commission to swear special commissioners to take the answers in London , for nothing was allowed to go by the post : then office copies ; then cases for the opinion of counsel ; then interrogatories , although ths billwas not disputed in tho slightest degree ; then a commission to examine witnesses , the evidence being taken in secret ; . and then . ispeei . il messenger to London with tho office copies . After this tho case was heard ; and he had been informed that the

      Vice-Chancellor of England had disposed of sixty of those cases—for they were such mere matters' of course—in an hour : disposed of with more than Great Western Railway speed : and so rapid was his Honour in considering and pronouncing his decision , that tho registrar , the officer ofthe court , had not tho means of writing quickly enough to keep pace with him in making a note of the order , 'for his Honour gave only a minute to each case . Then came the formal decree , with what was called' the usual directions . In a case in the Vice- Chancellor ' s court , on the occasion of making a similar decree , a learned counsel said : " Your Honour would bo

      pleased to order the usual reference to the Master , all parties appearing and consenting ? " ' The Vice ^ Chancellor replied : " Yes , Mr . Bethell ; let the usual decree go for destroying the estate in duo course of law . " JS ow , there must be " something rotten in the state of Denmark" when a , learned judge on the bench , who generally was not disposed , to be the vilipender of the practice of his own court , said a decree in a suit was to go forth , which was synonymous with a decree . to let tho estate bo destroyed in due course of law ; but this could nofc be any great wonder when the immense amount of cost was considered , The cost up to this period generally amounted to between two and three hundred poifnds , and yet no part ofthe work had in re «

      ality been begun . The whole was mere surplusage , and entirely nugatory up to that point . Tho parties , tueveforo . 'in reality , had got nothing for their money . The first effectual step was the Master ' s advertisement for creditors to come in find prove . But still they were only yet on the vestibule ;¦ they were not yet in the jaws of that Pandemonium . They had , however , been put to cost which must seriously affect some clients , and might prevent many men from getting what would have been sufficient to keep them alive . Then there was the slumbering of the court to be endured , with all its doubts and all its delays . As . a remedy his Lordship proposed not a new jurisdiction but an application of the powers of the Winding-up Act , which , ia other cases , had been found to work miracles . Ho

      would allude to its effects in the winding-up of a groat concern—a banking company . In six months from tho order coming into the Master ' s office , which was in Michaelmas term last , £ 272 , 000 had been paid off ; and in fourteen months a vast amount of debts affecting 000 persons had been examined and adjudicated upon to the extent of . £ 384 , 000 , out of a total amount of over £ 300 , 000 . The Winding-up Act had produced so great a change in the proceedings , that blessings incalculable were the result . Since Christmas , one-half of the remainder of this large sum had been disposed oi , and before , next Michaelmas term he had no doubt the whole of ifc , amounting to upwards of half a million , would be adjudicated upon ; whilst under the old systen he had no doubt it would have lasted the best part o

      a century . ( Hear , hear . ) He would for a momen refer their lordships to another case , that of Wal « worth and Hope—the case ofthe Imperial Banking Clompany . Tho suit was instituted in 1840 , tea years ago , and the whole matter was found to be so impracticable , that a special act of . parliament was obtained to meet the case , in order to enable the court to appoint a receiver who should neither make calls nor distribute assets . On tho 18 th January , 1850 , an order came out under the Winding-up Act £ but little having been done in this complicated casa up to that period , In two or three months , however , matters had been put in such a course , that no doubt before the end of Trinity Term the whole business , involving £ 110 , 000 , would be brought to a close . ( Cheers . )

      Lord Lancdale consented to allow the second reading , on the understanding that mrny objections which he entertained to some of its details should be considered at some future stage of the bill . Tlie Marquis of Lanspowne moved the adjournment ofthe house for the Easter recess , which was agreed to , and their lordships . rose , to re-assemble on Thursday , April 11 . HOUSE OF COMMONS .-Repeal of titk Duty upon Bricks , —The Chancellor ol the Exchequer stated that the result of his consideration ? relative to tho drawback which the brickmnkcrs had sought to obtain for the amount of duties upon their stocks in hand of that article , had been to

      allow them fifty per cent , upon the amount they had paid upon the stock now remaining unsold . The remission of tho duty would commence forthwith , but the right lion , baronet was understood to add that ifc was not his intention to insert any clause in the hill to alter the terms of current contracts for railway or other works in which bricks were employed . Public Salaries . —In reply to a question from Colonel Sininonp . Lord Jsns Russell said that Lord Seymour had accepted the office of Commissioner of Woods and Forests at the salary of £ 2 , 000 a year , the salary which had been received by his predecessor . ' Ho ( Lord John Russell ) then gave notice that it was his intention after Easter to move for a select

      committee to inquire into the salaries attaching to offices held by members of parliament , as also to judges ofthe United Kingdom , and the members of the diplomatic establishment . ( "Hear , hear , " and cheers . )' National Gallbrv . —Mr . Ewaut inquired if it was the intention of her Majesty ' s government to place the collection of paintings left by the lata Mr . Vernon in any portion of the building called tbe National Gallery ? Also , whether her Majesty ' s government adhered to the determination made by the secretary to the Treasury ( Mr . Spring Rice ) to the house in the year 1834 , that the part of tho National Gallery now occupied by the ltoyal Academy was only to bo retained by that body so long as it was not required for the extension of the national collection of works of art . ( Hear , hear . )

      Lord J . Russeix should state in reply that there were arrangements in contemplation , wliich , though at present incomplete , he hoped they would be able to carry into effect . Tho intentions of her Majesty's government were that the National Gallery should bo devoted to the collection of nationa works of art , including tho Vernon collection , and such others as might bo bequeathed to the country . ( Hear , hear . ) The house was doubtless aware that his Majesty King George III . had given apartments in Somerset House to the members of the Roya Academy , and had conferred various privileges on them , for the purpose of creating and fostering a school of painters and sculptors , and British artists . It was consequently not only duo to tho Royal Academy , but also to tho country , that they should

      have tho means of maintaining that school . 1 herefore , while the government thought it right to ask the Academy to give up . the portion of the building they at present occupied , it was intended to propose a grant for the purpose of enabling them to find a suitable building for their purposes elsewhei'Ot It was his . intention dusing the present session to introduceabill for settling ' jlarlboroughhouse , which had , reverted to the crown in consequence of the demise of the Quaen Dowager , upon the Prince of lilies , and her Majesty had graciously signified her consent t & allow that building for some few years to come being devoted to the reception of ths- Vernon Gallery of Paintings , and ' such other works of arts that mig ht be bequeathed to tho counjuy , and thrown open to the public for exhibition .. ( Hear , hear J ;

      THE NATIONAL iAND PLAN . —Mr . Hbbiw wished to ask tho hoivaad learned member for Nottingham two questions : First , when he intended to introduce the bil for winding up the affairs of the-National Load Company ; and second , whet jjc * it would be a p ublic or a private bill ? Mr . O'CoNNea said , that when he gave notice ot his intention to introduce , such a bill he stated that ho should do so as early as possible aft e * Easter . Ifc was so reported in all the newspapers ; and it was therefore with some suspense that he saw it on the paper for to-morrow . As to the nature of the bill , he could only repeat what ho had before stated , that he would consult tho best common law lawyer , the best equity lawyer , and the best conveyancer in its preparations .

      Mr . Hbnlbt said , that the hon , and learned gentheman had not said whether it was \ o be » nublio WRpriTatoWl ] ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 30, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_30031850/page/7/