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      ' - _^^ _Tmnr _fer . _SisaMe , or to do _hergriCTona in ** _t ° _JS-lhe prisoneV . is a collier , and the bo _& l 5 _g "; t 0-, _J » of ihe _aUeged offence , was - _^ - _•^ _M _^ f Messrs . Clark and Co ., cotton S _^ _rf _^ owl _5- The prisoner had for a 9 i _^^ ? mB solicited prosecutrix to _m-my him , _M ° _tSed his attentions , and positwely rebut she re ™ * * * * . _auarter after six o ' clock on the i _^ - _^ _rf the S 2 _nd of January , _proMcntnx , m _rt _&» S Ifa voung woman named Williamson ,

      0 _>* _rl _£ am ° " to their worK , _anditneynaa _oceans ! _< ! ; _tonass throug h afield , in whichthey _sfa _^ g _^^^ ding . _° as though waiting for % _; t be P _^ _Xner tookhold of prosecutrix , _W _^ J _^/ him , and wished her to promise assl ** _Kould become his wife ; and added , & I wiU cltt ? _ftr ° and fell to the ground . The _pries ' - _^ _SStffS ¦*** " i _** _* _~ _»• S » « 8 * SSU a » d stnick her on the head . used -11 * 6 S _« d off , " and the prisoner said , Th * blo w . - ** - *** ,. _»•• Prosecutrix said he had .

      "B ave 1 JM _** k her , three several times , with _, - _fjethen _agaw _^ _gj . _headj and inflicted wounds of { he p i * ' _T , nature , from the effects of which a most ser _? o | _" Me _^ JeaTeberhousefor several _» w seeat r _^ m the statement of the prosecutrix , it _*«* " _7 ttat the prisoner upon Yanous previous appeare d _^^ _J _^ a to murder her , and he had _^ _jcasi _onsiwa uu tne mag _jstrates in consequence , _ieen ta iLS on his friends promising to rebut **'' * _--f ' _* 17 _Vhein *» him in safe custody . —In strain him uy ¥ ¦ _^ p 0 Uock , the medical man _^^ _gs _^ _s- _unmaaoii _iv - secutrix stated tliat the _vho had _^ tended t _^^ intellect , and in conse-F _* 50 ner r _^ a acSe 5 t received in the colliery , he _Wf n _^ ndcred incapable of govemng himself _jrf _beai " * na / ement . -The jury , after a upon < wras , ri court of a quarter of an hour , _& _**^ _££ * < t - _W ' -The judge reUrn _^ _w 'U 1 * ' _^ _^ „ John Grundy , the in -pssna . *» tis that judgmentof death be contence OI I ""? „ i , „ li _cona"fi > rwnr (! sw 1 iat . wc _~— with

      _^ idedagauistyon ; ~ - _^ _Ited _^ e yon 0 F IJffi Chchcb . or ' The Rev . Moorhouse James , officiating _^ _W of the Church of St Thomas , at Leigh , no *® 1 ™ , _h-. _ misdemeanour , in having , in his _*^ £ _XS 5 Church of England , _"BtrsSemnise a marriage between _> one Henry -fi-Sand Ann Hard-nan , the parties _having-duly 5 SThemselves to contract snch _mairiage by _Scomplied with tbe requirements of the act _^ _rSSesVS case On the " loth of A _kStSr ' the defendant gave notice to Mr . £ _supeSnd _^ Hf the djkrict of I * _igh of _taSSm to co ntract matrimony with Ann SrS . and , upon such notice being given , the _^ e ™ _ndentregistrar entered it in the nsual way . _SS _^ SSm of twenty-one days the time spenWbv t < ie statute , Fisher applied for , and ob-S fmm the reiristrar the certificate required by

      theact , and having got that , he called npon the def endant , and told Sim ho wished to be married On tbe nest morning . Por this haste , he ( the learned counsel ) was sorry to say there was an * ar _vent reason—the female was pregnant . On the app lication being made , the defendant inquired if _fisierhad been baptised , and he was answered that lie bad ; the defendant then asked if the applicant to be married had been asked in church . Fisher said he had not been asked in church , but that he ] ad br the board of guardians ; the defendant _far--tiET asked Fisher if he had been confirmed , and he -as told that he had not . The defendant then said he would have nothing to do with , him , and if he

      Iii been asked by the guardians , he had better get _ile _-niardians to marry him . On the evening of iie same day , Fisher again urged on the reverend defeadant his request to be married . On the 19 th of June , the superintendent-registrar called npon - _jjr James , and explained the whole ofthe circum-- jianecs connected with the case , and that all the _ieccssary requirements had been complied with , and on the 2 nd of August , Mr . Hayes , accompanied br Fisher , and tho female Hardman , went to the defendant , and a request was made that the roarjia < _re should be solemnised . 2 Ir . James said he Fisher should

      would comply with the request when hare expressed a -wish or desire to be confirmed . The consequence was , the parties were not married , and to this dav they remained unmarried , the child _haTinjr been horn with a stigma upon him , and his _-irclnzLts prejudiced , entirely arising out of his scrapie ' s—conscientious scruples , he ( Mr . Knowles ) ¦ _ras willing to give him credit for—of Mr- James , ihe Iter , defendant . . After hearing the evidence , a _verditt of guilty was given , and the defendant was lound over in his own recognisance of £ 100 to apt-ear and receive judgment when called npon .

      _CAMBRIDGE . Assaclt rros as Ixfast . —Sophia Holley , aged 4 G , described in the calendar as unable to read or write , was indicted for having attempted to strangle Joseph _Ifollev , her infant , by pulling a handkerchief tightly ronad its throat . On the 14 th of September last , a pohce-constable was called on to remove the prisoner from a public-house in the town of March , in which she was intoxicated , and making a _disturbance . At his bidding she quitted the public house , latins * her child in her arms , and after walking a fetr _rards down the road , passed suddenly to the roadside , and beat the head of the child with _violeLce against a wall . The constable took the

      child from her , and found its face much bruised . At ier request , however , he gave the child to her _a-rain , and she sat down to suckle it . Shortly afterwards a woman , who was passing by , observed the cMM to Le 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 Tiroai , and suffocation taking place . The handkerchief was unbound , and so the life of the child sired . On being then questioned , the prisoner said that tbe child was her own , that it was illegitimate , and Lad heen born ten months before in tbe Strand

      _-oaioa . These facts having been proved , the _prismer , a small , infirm , ill-clad , and ill-favoured person , 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 nowjust fifteen months old . "—The jury returned a verdict -of " Gnilty of a common assault . "—The learned Judge then sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for two months and kept to hard labour . —Prisoner : Tiank yon , my lord . What am I to work at ?—Sae was then removed .

      MAIDSTONE . _Chauge of _Abduciios . —George Kipps , a man apparently more than fifty years of age , surrendered to answer an indictment for misdemeanor , in having Tjnlawiully taken a girl , named Charlotte Jeffrey , tinder sixteen years of age , away from her parents without their consent . —Charlotte Jefirey , a good _lookiii- * Toung girl , deposed that her father kept the Bell public-house , at Eemsing ; and she was living there at the time this occurrence happened . On tlie 2 _Sth of ilay she went to his house on a visit , and the defendant ' s wife asked her to remain and

      tsoe care ofa child , while she went out on an errand , and she and the defendant were left together , and upon this occasion he took some liberties -with her , and he at the same time told her not to tell his wife . After this time he repeated his conduct upon _ajveral 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 him . Dnring this period he sent her several letters , which he told her to burn , and also a lock of his hair , and she gave him one of hers . She also wrote several letters to him . On the 18 th of _November she met the prisoner bv appointment at the church "rate ,

      and they wentaway together to Gobham , andthenext day they went to Sheerness , and _afterwards to _Kingifiiry , where her father and mother , accompanied by a constable , overtook them , and she returned home with them . "When she left her father ' s house slie took away a bundle containing her clothes , and also about fourteen shillings , and this money she gave to the defendant . — "William Jeffrey , the father cf the gir ] _, proved that she went away without his consent . —James Upton deposed that after the prisoner had been taken into custody he told him that _•& took the girl away on purpose to destroy the peace of mind of the mother . —The jurv returned a verdict of " Guilty . "—The learned Judge , in passing- sentence , said that the conduct of the

      defendant was most atrocions . He was a man advanced in life , and married and had a large family , tut still it was evident thithe had laid a deliberate plan to sednce and ruin this poor girl , and he had there unblushingly admitted that his intention was to destroy the peace of mind of the mother . If he hud the power fo order Mm to be hanged for what - _^ had done he did not think any one would con * _-a-lerthe sentence too severe , and he felt himself _" _¦ " _¦ u _sdTipon to pass upon him the foil sentence pre-? a * _fe' 1 by the statute for ibe offence of which he _^ d oeen convicted . —The defendant was then or-« - » ed to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for "J years , to pay the fine of £ 50 to the Queen , and _wbe _fojftgp _^ prisoned , until such fine should be

      _j-jn _** * _- " _ofEmbezzlqii-st . —J . Jaffs , 49 , was in-¦ j _^ ieafor embezzling £ 70 , the monies of James K - _" _* _* - _* Thomas Edward Frater and others . —It _apj ***! that the prosecutors were members of a _. _•^ soc iety at Chatham which was not enrolled , , Jf *** Prisoner , who was a member of the society , ™ " as secretary , and kept the accounts , and by _geajs of false entries it was alleged that he had _de-^ aeathe society to a-very considerable amount _, _^ ne learned judge , upon the opening statement of "« iearned counsel for the prosecution , expressed r _»« _pmion tbat the prisoner did not stand in the _^ tion ofa servant so as to fulfil the requirements I" ~ j _® statute in a case of embezzlement . He was a _haT _j * _L oftne society _"wtoc _* _"ff _*" 3 alleged to have _*^ n defiauded , and it could not be said that he was _f _- _srvan _- _, & baa-self , __ . xhe iniy , accordingly , under

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      his _lordshipg'direction , returned a verdict of " 501 Guilty . " : _FdBoao _Xeimbs ot _Amobnet . — "W illiam "Williams , _oZ « m George _Amminer , 45 , aWy respectable looking seafaring man , who wore the Acre medal , and also a decoration ot the kingdom of Spain was indicted _& r forging a letter of attorney with intent to defraud John Oliver . — It appeared that in July hut the prisoner went to a Mr . Solomon , a navy agent , at Chatham , and asked tor an advance of money , representing that his name was John Oliver , and that he was a third-class gunner oh 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 forced

      certificate of the captain of the Dolphin to that effect , a letter of attorney was drawn np , which the piisoner 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 . He at the same time implored the merciful consideration ofthe court upon the grounds that he had been 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 .

      MnnDEB . —E . . Lucas , 2 oth and Mary Leader , 20 , was charged with the 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 tbe 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 ; and a post mortem examination clearly showed that the presence of poison which Professor Taylor , of _liuy _' s Hospital ,

      by applying chemical tests , proved to be arsenic . There was a large quantity in 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 he took home , instead of destroying , and the packet was found in his bouse , 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 bit , " 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 assembly wbich surrounded them .

      Sedtjctios . — _BntASi v . Leigh . —This was an action for sed notion . Mr . M . Chambers and Mr . Simmons were forthe plaintiff ; Sergeant Shee and Mr . Creesy 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 , tbe daughter of the plaintiff . It would appear that there had been no intimacy between the parties until the month of August , 1847 , and at this time the plaintiff ' s daughter was about twenty-four years old ,

      and the defendant nearly fifty . In that month the young woman had gone on a Tisit to a relative , and upon her return by the train the defendant got into the 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 . He did so , and from this time an intimacy sprang up between them , and the defendant was a constant visitor at the house of theplaintifl " , and he repeatedly promisod to marry the daughter . In the month of January , 1 S 48 , 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 npon 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 npon 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 tbe defendant married this lady , and npon an application being made to him to ' make

      some reparation for the injury be 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 - £ 200 than settle the matter or make any compensation . The learned counsel then stated that the young woman 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 painful 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

      defendant for the very serious injury he had received at his hands . —Evidence having been given , proving the case , Mr . Justice Maule summed up , and the jury , after a very short deliberation , returned a verdict for the plaintiff . —Damages , £ 200 . The _Eveeshex _Mtjroek . —John Carrington 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 "Not 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 . _BuKGLiBT . — "William Hazlewood , 21 , and James Gilliver , 10 , were charged with breakinz into the dwelling-house of the fiev . Thomas Smith , at Calthorpe , in this county , on the night of the I 5 th of February last , and stealing therefrom a gun of the value of £ 5 , a great coat , a waistcoat , and a 3-ft . rule : —Both prisoners were found " Guilty , ' , and _Halzewood , having been previously convicted of burghry , was senteuced to be transported beyond the seas for fifteen years ; Gilliver to be imprisoned for two years .

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      _** " _*¦ ¦ _¦*** _iy _^ BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH , - _Kew Road , London . FALLACY OF ANATOMY AS ItEGAKDS TIIE CURE OF DISEASES—TIIE HURK 1 NG SYSTEM-DOCTORS BUYING DEAD _BODIES WITH THEIR SHIRTS !!! OiY . ' * 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 been for the terrible discoveries made on Burke and Hare ' s trial , there can be no doubt that thousands wouia have been sent into tlie next world in order to feed doctors with human flesh , so tliat they ( the doctors ) might fill their pockets at the expense of suffering humanity . This dissection , our readers sTnouM know , forms one of the very lucrative emoluments proceeding from ' hospital practice . ' For instance , the professor of anatomy _paye , we will say , eight or ten guineas for a dead hody , and then makes fifty or sixty out of it from the medical students who have paid tlieir money in order to find out , as thev are told , the

      came of disease in a dead body ! 1 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 theyare not a hit the wiser from dissection , as frr as regards the cure of diseases . It is all to make money ! money !! money ! . ' ! thatthe rascality is kept up ; dust is throwu into the eyes of the public the doctors tell the lie { the wicked lie !) that anatomy is _reqaisite fo understand the cure of diseases . The only anatomy really required is BONE SETTING , in case of a « - cidents _, which might he learnt hy designs ; the Vegetable XJmTersal Medicine will then do all that is necessary by keeping the Wood pure and healing the parts—operations for stone , cataract , cancer , & c , are perfectly useless wliich is proved by the disease always coming a < -ain be cause its seat is in the blood !!! Burke , the murde ' found 'Burking" the best trade going—he used to smother people , and then take them to the doctors almost hot some

      even with their SHIRTS ON , * and used , without the least difficulty , to get his £ 8 for each body . Now there can be no doubt that the doctors must have kkown that the victims had not come fairly hy their deaths , yet they blinked at the whole business in order that they might fill theib pockets . Talk , after this , ahout the 'honourable' _profession , the ' liberal' professsion , * nd such humbug . "We say , read the confession of the Burkers here given , and if yoa can believe that these doctors did not know at the time that the parlies bad" been murdered , why , lhen , youmnst have more credulity , than we give you credit for . The deadly chemicals of the doctors and their burkings are both on a par , only the first is not so easily detected by the 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 inthe hospitals , fo be mangled by the knife of the human butchers . Ko wonder .

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      The Condition Of England Question.:: (Co...

      THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND QUESTION .:: ( _CondeiMed from the Morning _ChroxieU )

      THE DEVIL'S DUST MILLS- OF DEWSBURY . ; The small town of Dewsbury holds in the woollen district , _rery much the same position which Oldham does in the cotton conntiy . The reader will remember that an essential feature in the manufacture of the latter town is the spinning and preparing of waste and refuie 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 rather the

      tearing up , or grinding , of woollen rags by means of coarse willows , called devils ; the operation Of Whicli sends forth choking clouds of dry pungent dirt and floating fibres—the real and original "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 the 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 Iluddersfield , but Dewsbury may betaken as the metropolis of the 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 the neighbouring factories . Great bales choked full of filiby tatters lay scattered about the 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 walls and part of the roof were covered with the thick clinging dust and fibre , which ascended in choky volumes

      from the open doors and glassless windows of the ground floor , and which also poured forth from a chimney , constructed for the purpose , exactly like smoke . On a wiudy day I was told that the appearance ofthe place wou ! d be by no means so bad , aa 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 the 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 _warerooui was piled in many places from the floor to the ceiling with bales of woollen rags , torn strips and tatters of every colour _petping out from the bursting depositaries . There

      is hardly a country in Europe which doe 3 not _contribuie its quota of material to the shoddy manufacturer . Rags are brought from France , Germany , and in great _qiianii-ies 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 unprofitabie ; The gradations of value in the world of rags are indeed remarkable . I was shown fags worth £ 50 per ton , and rags worth only 30 s . The 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 merino dresses formed the staple of middle class rags ; and even the very worst bales—to my eye tbey appeared unmitigated mashes of frowzy filth—afford here and there some fragments of calico , which are wrought np into brown paper . The refuse of all , mixed with the stuff which even the shoddy-makim ? devil rejects , is packed off tothe _agricultural districts for use as manure . I saw several unpleasant smelling lots which were destined to fertilize the hop-gardens of Kent . Under the rag wareroom was tha sorting and picking room , llere the bales are opened , and their contents piled fn close , poverty-smelling masses _, upon the floor . The operatives were entirely women . They sat upon low st ? ols , or half 6 unk and half enthroned amid heaps of _* he filthy goods , busily _emplliyed 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 . Pi ' es of rags of different sorts , dozens of feet high , were the obvious fruits of their _Jauouri 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 ceuld not help being sensible of the presence ofa choky , mildewy sort of odour—a hot , moist exhalation—arising from the sodden _smouldering piles as the workwomen tossed armfulls of rags from one heap to another . In this mill , and at this specks 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 , and it was not until a minute or so that 1 could see tbe workmen , moving amid the clouds , 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 large bare room—the uncovered beams above , the rough stone walls , and the woodwork of thc 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 mnch 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 mornii'g after being all Sunday in the fresh air . When they first took to the work it hurt their throats a little , but tliey drank mint tea , and that soon cured them . I asked whether there was not a disorder known as " shoddy fever ? " The reply was that they were all more or less subject to it , especially after tenting the grinding of the very dusty sorts of stnff—worsted stockings , for example . The

      " shoddy fever" was a sort of stuffing ofthe head and nose , 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 , nnd had experienced no perceptible change in their health . In spite of all this , however , it is manifestly impossible for human lu _^ _gs to breathe under such circumstances without suffering . I myself was exposed to the 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 _cfthe day . An intelligent woman in Batley 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 , witb constant acrid running from the nose , and a great deal of expectoration . It was when there . was a particularly dirty lot of rags to bo ground tbat the people were usually attacked in this way , but the fever seldom kept them more than two or three days from their work . In Batley I went orer Uo 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 treat proportion

      of which is sent to America for slave clothing . In one of the mills in question , thc two rag grinders nt 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 liko masses of filament , as though they bad been imbedded in clusters ot cobweb , 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 s ; a week . The men aro much better paid , none of tliem 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 of the manufacture of woollen cloth . The weavers were , as usual , complaining of irregular work and diminished _^ wages . The average pay , one week with another , with their wives to wind for them — i . e ., to place the thread upon the bobbin which goea into the shuttle—is hardly so much as 10 s . a week . Tbey work long hours , often fourteen per day .

      On my return to Dewsbury I applied to Dr . Hemingway _, a gentleman who bag a large practice in the district , foT some precise information touching the " shoddy fever . " The substanco 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 mucousmembraneoftbe trachea and itsramifications . In general , the attack is easily cured—particularly if the patient has not been for any length of time exposed to the _^ citing cause—by effenrescing saline

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      draughts to allay the symptomatic febrile action , followed by . _expectorants to relieve the mucous membrane ofthe lmtatmg duBt ; but a long continuance of employment in the contaminated atmosphere , bringing on as it does repeated attacks of the disease , is too apt , in the end , to undermine the constitution , and produce a tram of pectoral diseases , often closingwithi pulmonary consumption . The doctor added , that opthalmic 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 may shorten life by about five years , taking , of course , as the point of comparison the average longevity of the district « ,- _^ _-b-. x ., « .

      . . " Shoddy fever" is in fact , a modification ofthe very fata disease induced by what is called « dry grinding at SheffieldI _; but of course the particles of woollen filaments are less fatal in tbeir influence than uestion ust P roduced by the operation in ? u ? - _y ?? REFUSED LEAVK TO LABOUR . —In Huddersfield , m one of the courts of one of the Irish _quartei-B-ra place , by the way , reeking with abominations , but which the authorities are energetically improving—I observed one house , poor indeed in appearance , but notably clean . On entering it I found that the inhabitants were English , the only English people m the court . They had lived there for more than thirty years , and always paid their way . I found them , however , in deen poverty , and

      their story was affecting . The family consisted of five-an old man , his 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 emp oyed . He had gone from mill to mill m _liuddersheld , begging in vain for work . His wifti was quite past all labour , and the family were entirely supported by the daughter ' s husband , whose earnings amounted onl y to 13 s . a week . The old man , tbe woman _caid , was wearing himself aw « v fretting at the idea of being a burden upon the husband of his daughter . The latter was to go into a mill the moment the infant could be left with its grandmother . "Itttas cruel , " she said-speaking of her husband , and struggling to keep back her tears — to see a hearty man trying to work hard day after day on nothing but bread aud a little milk . "

      The Soldiers And Convict-Clothing Makers...

      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 fine ? " 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 I make for 8 d ., and a blue jacket for 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 everyday . I generally do the jackets , the trowsers , and the drill jackets for the Marine soldiers that * ocs on board the ship , and they ' re 4 _* d . a piece . Why , there ' s in each of them fourteen button-holes worked with

      whitey-brown and blue euffs , blue collars , and . blue epaulets , all stitched and well pressed . I might do one in seven hours ; but I has to find my own thread , and that ' s *} d . a quarter _^ f an ounce each jacket , The soldiers' great coats , wiih large capes and cuffs , and half lined , are only 5 d . 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 _li-mrs , they ' re such large ones . The men are five feet eleven aiid six foot and soon , and so 1 leave you to judge . Ah , they don ' t have the army work done as they used fourteen years ago . Then thoy paid more money for ' em . It was 7 d . a groat-coat then , but now , you know , they lower them always . Fourteen years ' ago the jackets that I am doing now I used to get Is . 4 d . for , and now

      they ' re 8 d . 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 abnut 7 < 3 . a pair for these trowsers , that I 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 tho pour _workpeople , and the profits of the piece 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 cavnt Is . 8 d . I think it was ls . id . 1 earnt the week before . I

      can ' t recollect the week afore that , but I 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 get 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 . I might , upon an average , earn 2 s . dear all the year round , taking one week with another . My best work was the looping of the coats . But that ' s gone from me _^ When I looped them I had 7 d ., but now they only give me 5 d . Years ago the price was Sd . That's my little granddaughter , eir—my eldest son ' s daughter that

      is . Her father has been dead thirteen months . He left four children—she ' s the eldest of 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 vi-its round about here . I have © ne generally every week . If he has got it he generally gives it to mc . I live upon coffee . It ' s a wonder , aye , a very great wonder , that I ' ve got any work now . There s generalty a stand-still at this time of Hie 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 hove move 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 arc generally very badly off . I have suffered dreadfully myself . I can soy this—I've done for the soldier from his gaiters to his cap , and I 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 . He ' 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 had 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 somo 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 she looked at me . She

      stammered cut 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 we 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 tea-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 oa the floor , She said ;—¦

      " I work at convict work , * the greys ; ' some are half yellow and h _\ lf brown , but they ' re all paid the same price . I makes the whole suit . Gets ' flL for all of it—3 d . thc jacket , 3 d . the _trowsern , and lid . 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 . _Sometimes 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 bave them well pressed , whieh takes a good bit for firing . Yes . it does indeed . 1 am obliged to have a penny candle—a cheaper one I cou'du ' t see with . It'll take me more than a day to make the suit . If 1

      had tho suit out no */ 1 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 witb 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 3 haven ' t got it . I borrowed it last week of her . ') ¦ ' In a day and a half , " sho continued , with a deep sigh , " deducting the cost of thread and candles for the suit ( to say nothing of firing , ) I earns 3 Jd . —not 2 d ., a-day . The other day I had to sell a cup and saucer for a halfpenny , " cause croekeryware'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 coi _> vict ' s clotheB is all one price ; no one gets any better wages than this ; a few has less I believe . Some of tbe waistcoats an ' t above five fardens — twopence halfpenny the jackets—and trowsers the same . 1 can't tell what I average , for sometimes I have work and sometimes I an't . Icould 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 her appearance at the door , and seeing me still

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      there did not stop to say a word . What a bother there js , ' said the _convict-clothes-maker , * _ifa person owes a few halfpence . That ' s what made me keep the door locked . ) I suppose her mother has sent _forjthe old shawl she lent me .: Ihavn ' tno shawl to my back ; no , as . true aa God I haven't ; I haven't indeed ! I ' m two months idle in the course of the year . ' She went on again , ' Oh ye * ' , more than that ; I ' ve been three months at one time , and did ' nt earn a halfpenny . That was when I lived up at the other house . There was no work at all . We was starving one against the other . I ' m £ _* enerally about a quarter part of my time s ' anding stil ; yes , that I am , I can assure you . About three shillings a week , I tell you , is what I generally cam at convict 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 Bince my husband _s been dead . He died fourteen years ago last February . I ' ve nobody else dependent npon me . I hadn ' t need to have , I ' m sure . I hadn't a bit of work all last Friday aed 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 1 _J oz . of thread , that's 3 d . ; so that in two days , at that work , I can earn one shilling clear , saying nothing of candles . That ' s much betterthan the other . " ( The cat , almost as thm an its mistress , here came scratching for some of the potatoes . ) Yes , there ' s people much worse of than me , but they gets relief from the parish . They

      tell me at the union lam 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 1 had nothing at all then . I was a bed till twelve o ' clock-lay a-bed ' cause I hadn ' t nothing to eat . There s more young girls work at the trade now . A great quantity works at it ' 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 for anything , and since his death I ' ve wanted very often * , I ' ve wanted so as Ihavn ' thad 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-the old people in particular ; the young ' uns _nuike it out other , ways . I pays ls . Gd . rent . The things are my . own , such as there is . I ' ve no table : I wa 3 obliged to sell it ; I ' ve sold ' most everything I ' ve , cot ; I can't sell 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 , at the house ofa man . whom I had first visited , a decent woman in > black , with a pale face , melancholy voice , and dark sullen , black eyes . She had no home to take me to . Her tale was as follows : — "Ah , its ' wonderfulhowa poor person lives—but they don't live . My clear gains are about Is . Cd . a week . In the summer time it ' s better , because I don't want no candle _lii-ht . I work second-handed for the piece master . I don't know what he makes . I've done the basthif * of the Sappers at 3 d . a coat ; the pockets are fully made , and thc shoulder straps fully made , and for the busting of the trowsers I get Id ., and two button-holts worked in the waistband . Why they baste up only I don ' t know . Them 1

      work for I does ' nt know . It 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 wns turned out — told I 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 samo house where I 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 more than a day's charing

      now and then , but she makes moro at that than I can at soldiers clothes . The Is . 4 d . that I had for them two Sappers' ' tickets I bought three halfquartern loaves out of that , which we ' ve eaten . All her family and myself shared together , I glVO her and them part ,. ' cause her fami ' y has had nothing . They ' re some day ' s as short as I am myfelf ; and the remainder ofthe Is- 4 d . I paid to the chandler's shop woman . She was kind enough , when I told her I was so bad off , to let me have a little tea and sugar and a candle , to the amount of 5 d . My boy couldn't get a place , and I couldn ' t keep him ; and he says to me , ' Mother , ' say 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

      _sive 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 so they'd the kindness of sending him . Mr . Wilkes , . the relieving officer , Spoke to the guardians , went in when he went in—and then he was a very nice lad — a very pretty behaved lad — had a good character both in-doors and out-doors , and the gentlemen sent him on board last Tuesday . They ' ve bound _hino 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 _sailoripg . On last Saturday I was obliged to go and beg for a loaf of bread , for I'd sold to the very last I

      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 ' s trowsers to pawn for 9 d . Ths work goes through so many hands , and all has got a profit on it , that such a person as me that makes is the suf _£ rer . 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 they 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 the 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 wrobg to them . " ( To it Continued . J

      Game-Laws And Their Co.Nsequ*»*Ces. -—A ...

      Game-Laws and their Co . nsequ _*»* ces . - —A correspondent says : — " Thero are now undergoing various terms of imprisonment in the county gaol and houses of correction in Nottinghamshire no fewer than thirty-eight persons , not including thoso convicted at the assizes just concluded ; ono being sentenced to ten years and another to seven years transportation ; one to twelve months and another to nine months imprisonment , besides five who were acquitted . Out of tho thirty-three prisoners on the calendar for trial , no less than nine were cases arising out of tho 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 the struggling

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

      sessions , cost more than £ 200 to prosecute nnd convict , through which tAventy-five wives and seventy-nine children were thrown upon tlieir respective parishes , cither for entire support or relief . That number , at even 2 s . each per week , taking the terms of Imprisonment _Jto average one month , for those the ratepayers will have to pay £ 50 ICs . ; so that in ono brief season of six months duration , in the small county of Nottingham , containing but 2 C 4 parishes , forty-two men were deprived of liberty , twenty-eight mothers and ninety children made paupers who were not so before , deprived of home , disgraced and spirit-broken , to . effect whioh the ratepayers havo mulct from their industry more than £ 400 .

      Death i * refei _! R * sd to Pauperism . —A few days sine © n widow , named lirnino , in poor circumstances , but of good character , attended the board of guardians at Keynsham , for tlie purpose of obtaining relief . Whilst waiting outside ' with others , she was observed to leave the place , and go across the meadows towards the river Avon , where the bank is very steep . After once or twice wistfully 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 , immediately hastened to the spot , and every effort was mado to save her , but tho body was not recovered beforo lifo was extinct .

      Gamb Certificates . —A p arliamentary return gives the following aa tho net produce of the duty paid on game certificates and upon licenses for the sale of game for tho year ending April 5 th , 1849 : — Charged on persons in their own right , £ 119 , 288 ; charges confirmed in double duty , £ 9 , 845 ; _*•»*»« keepers ( not being assessed servants ) , £ 7 _$ & ( a considerable diminution on previous years ); gamekeepers ( being assessod servants ) , fci _. ' MS" ( also _^ a diminution ); licenses for tho sale of gamo , £ 21 , 063 . The total for England and Wales waB £ 126 , 882-a sum considerably loss than that received during each of tbe four previous years _.

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      Saturday, Mancu 23. House-Op Lords.—The ...

      SATURDAY , _MAncu 23 . HOUSE-OP LORDS . —The House of Lords met at four o'clock , for the purpose of -advancing the Mutiny Bill and the Marine Mutiny Bill a stage Thoy wore both read a third time and passed _.

      MONDAY , March 25 . HOUSE OP LORDS . —Tho royal assent was Sd th C bm mUsion totheM _* "ti "" y _« MarineMutiny , _^ Masters' Jurisdiction _» _equity Bill . —Lord BROUGHAM , in moving the second reading of this- bil * , drew a graphic picture of the evils it was proposed to remedy . Ho was now about to introduce their lordships for a moment—he hoped they would not } be alarmed—into the Court of Chancery of which ifc was said if a man once got in he would never gefr out , He was going to give them a picture , ¦• jit ' iout , ho was happy to say , the reality . The manner of proceeding was this , even in cases in which thero was no litigation . Ho would take the common case of an administration suit- with t 7 * o or tliree sets of

      parties : Frst , thero would bo three close copies of the bill , at a considerable expense ; then the answer and draft ; then the special commission to swear special commissioners to take the answers in London , for nothing was . allowed to go by the post ; then office copic 3 ; then cases for the opinion of counsel ; then interrogatories , although the bill was not disputed in the slightest degree , - then a commission to examine witnesses , the evidence being taken in secret ; and then a special messenger to London with the office copies . After this the casa was heard ; and he had been informed that the

      Yicc-. Chanccllor of England had disposed of sixty of these cases—for they were such mere . matters of course—in an hour : disposed of witb more than Great Western Railway speed : and so r _.-vpid was his Honour in considering and pronouncing his decision , that the registrar , the officer of the-court , had not the means of writing quickly enough to keep pace with him in making a note ofthe order , for his Honour gave only a minuto to each caso . Then _, came the formal decree , with what was called the usual directions . In a case in the Yico-Chancellor ' 3 court , on the occasion of making a similar-decree , a learned counsel said : "Your Honour would _bs

      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 tlio estate in due courseoflaw . Now , there must be " something rotten in the state of Denmark" when a learned judge on the bench , who generally was not disposed ' to bo the vilipendcr 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 the estate be destroyed in due course oflaw ; but this _ccald nofc Ve any great wonder when the immense amount of cost was considered . The cost up to thia period generally amounted to between two and three hundred pounds , and yet no part ofthe work hwl in re * ality been begun . The whole was mere surplusage

      , and entirely nugatory up to that point . The parties , therefore , in reality , had got nothing for their money . The first effectual step was the Master ' 3 advertisement for creditors to come in and 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 whicli must seriously affect some clients , and might prevent many men fr , om getting what would have been sufficient to keep them alive . Then there was tho slumbering of the court to be endured , with all its doubts and all its delays . As a remedy hia Lord « ship proposed not a now jurisdiction but an application of the powers of the Winding-up Act , which , in other cases , had been found to work miracles . He would allude to its effects in the winding-up of a

      great 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 £ 3 Sd , 000 , out of a total amount of over £ 500 , 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 of , and before next Michaelmas term he had no doubt the whole of ifc , amounting to upwards of half a million , _\ _vould be adjudicated upon ; whilst under the old systen he had no doubt it would have lasted the best part 0

      a century . ( Hear , hear . ) He would for a momen refer their lordships to another case , that of Walworth and Hope—the case ofthe Imperial Banking Company . The suit was instituted in 1340 , ten years ago , and the . whole matter was found . to be so impracticable , that a _spicialactof 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 thc 18 th January 1850 , an order came out under the Winding-up Ac & but little having been done in this complicated ease up to that period . In two or three months , however , matters had been put in such a course ,, that no doubt before tho end of Tr i nity Term the whole business , involving £ 110 , 000 , would be brought toa close . ( Cheers . )

      Lord Lanodale consented to allow the second reading , on the understanding that mrny objections whicli he entertained to some of its details should be considered at some future stage ofthe bill . The Marquis of Lansdowne moved tho adjournment ofthe house for the Easter recess ,. wliich waa agreed to , and their lordships rose , to re-assemble on Thursday , April 11 . HOUSE OP COMMONS . — Repeat ., of thb Duty upon Bricks . —The CnAKCBUOR of tho Exchequer stated that the result of his considerations

      relative to the drawback which the brickmakers had sought to obtain for tho amount of duties upon their stocks in hand of that article , had . been tb allow them fifty per cent . yup . on the . amount they had paid upon the stock , now remaining unsold . The remission of the-duty would- commence forthwith , but the right hon . baronet-was-understood to add that it was not his intention . ti ) insert , anyclause inthe bill to alter " tlie terms _of-currcnt contracts for railway or ; 6 thcr- w . orks in which . bricks were employed . : - s __ ,.-:

      -Public Salaeiks . —In reply . to _, a question , . from Colonel Sibthorp . , V Lord _JfeUN Russell said that Lprd : Seymour had , accepted tho office of Commissioner , of Woods and Forests at the salary of £ 2 , 000 ia year , the . salary which had been received by his predecessor . - ; Ho ( Lord John Russell ) then gave notice that . it waa his intention after Easter to _mpvnjfor a select committee to inquire into the salaries attaching to offices held by mombers of parliament , as also to judges ofthe United Kingdom , and the members o £ the diplomatic establishment . ('' Hear , hear , " and cheers . )

      National Gallery . —Mr . _Ewars inquired if it was the intention of her Majesty ' s government to place the collection of paintings- left by the late Mr . Vernon in any por . tion of tho building called the National Gallery ? Also , whether her Majesty ' s government adhered to tho determination made by the secretary to the Treasury ( Mr . Spring Itice ) to tho house in tlie year 1 * 334 , that the part of the National Gallery now occupied by the ltoyal Academy was only to bo retained by thai body so long as 16 was not required for the extension of tho national collection of works of art . ( Hear , hear . )

      Lord J . Busseu should state in reply that there were arrangements in contemplation , whieh , though at present incomplete , he hoped they would be able to carry into effect . The intentions of her Majesty ' s government were _thatv the National Gallery should be devoted to the collection of nationa works of art , including the-Vernon collection , and such others as might be bequeathed to the country . ( Hear , hear . ) The house was doubtless aware that his Majesty King C 4 corge _J _1 I . had given apartments in Somerset Ilouse to the members of the Roya Academy , and had conform ! various privileges on them , for the purpose of creating and fostering a school of painters and sculptors , and I | _a-itish artists . It was consequently not only due to tlio lloyal Academy , bat also to the country , thai they should

      have the means of maintaining that school . Therefore , while the _government thought it right to ask tho Academy to give up the portion of thc building they at present occupied , it was-intended to propose- a grant for _:-tho purpose of enabling _them-to find a suitable building fov their purposes ej 3 _ewhero . It w . i 3 his intention , during the present session to _intrailuec a bill _fos-sefcfcling _' _Marlboreugh . house , _whiclij had reverted to tbe crown in consequence of th * demise of the- _Qtt-ecn Dowager * , upon tho Prince of Wales , _aod- ; her Majesty had ? graciously signified her consent to allow tliat building for some few years to conic bcing _dcyotsd to the reccptior oitlio"Vern-wi , _GaViery of _Pomiaags , and . such other works of arts tbat mig ht be bequeathed to the _aountry , and thrown open to the- publio for ; _exhibition . ( Ilcavyhea _** ,. )

      TSE NATIONAL , LAND PLAN . —Mr . Heklet wished to ask the hon . and learned member for NoU tijttghnm two questions : "First , w _* 3 on he intended ; to introduce tho bill for winding up thc affairs olthe National Land Company ; and second , _\? _hej ; her it would bo a public or a private bill ? Mr . Q'Conkor said , that when he gave notice uf his intention to introduce , such a bill ho stated that ho should do sons earlv _.-aspossibloafter Easter , It was so reported in all ijhe newspapers ; and it was therefore with some si _^ pense that he saw it on the paper foy _to-morn _^ As to the nature of the bil _^ ho COUld Only _I'Opgat What he had before stated _^ that he would consult tho best common law lawyer , tho best equity lawyer , and the-best conveyancer in , its preparation ! .

      Mr . _Hijnurt said , that tho hon . and learned gen * theman had not said whether it was io be a jmblifl Qrapriratebilli

  • 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/ns3_30031850/page/7/