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      " ^ t to murder , disable , o _ r , to do her grievous inl ri « tarn —The prisoner is a collier , and the I " * 'JtSx at the time of the alleged ofence , was P ^ SfSS of Mesws . Clark and Coi , cotton k nrf of TTorsley . The prisoner had for a ^ fc nf time solicited prosecntrix to marry him , le Og v » i « fnsed Vis attentions , and positively reiut fi /« m \ t At a quarter after aix o ' clock on the jased his suH .. ^^ of j ^^^ prosecutrix , in m ° « ffl » S <» * ^ woma named Williamson , c ° P lJ « l ^ ir to their work , and they had oeca-¦ * rfSi p ^ Voug hkfield , bWhthey sIod , in g ^ ne / standing , as though waiting for * * ^ Jn . Thepr isonertookholdofprosecutrk , soroe F ^"" j / him and wished her to promise * \™ sKuld become his wife ; and added , ^ itul riSerTarethce or thy blood They then f ° r fflS to-ether , and fell to the ground The p « - ^ not on his legs , and took a •« pick , " which he 50 ° f-n ^ e co al mine , and struck her on the head . it Urn " scared off , " and the prisoner said ,

      • Itf-ure I hurt thee ! " frosecuirix saw ne naa . nShen a * ain struck her , three several tunes , with Si fSL " upou her head , and inflicted wounds of *^ . St 4 rions nature , from the effects of which a «« pcutor was unable to leave her honsefor several T ^« -From the statement of the prosecute , it * , Mared that the prisoner upon various previous j ^ a Tionshad threatened to murder her , and he had teeTtaken before the magistrates in consequence , bnt was liberated on his Mends promising to retrain him by placing him in safe custody . —In cross-examination by ilr . Pollock , the medical man ¦ who had attended the prosecutrix stated that the prisoner was a man of weak intellect , and in consequence of an accident received in the colliery , he fiad been rendered incapable of govening himself upon occasions of excitement . —The jury , after a retirement from court of a quarter of an hour , returned with a verdict of " Guilty . "—The judge m Twssinjr sentence said , "John Grnndy , the

      sentence of the court is that judgment of death be Recorded against you ; we shall see afterwards what « jjl be done -with , you . " Idicimest agaisst a Clekgtmak of me Church ne ESGLiXD r 0 B BEFC 5 ISG TO SotEMXlSE A MaB .-« uge!— The Rev . iloorhouse James , officiating mhrister of the Church of St . Thomas , at Lei g h , Z &s indicted for a misdemeanour , in having , in his capacitv as clergyman of the Church of England , ~ fased " to sol emnise a marriage between one Henry Pisher and Ann Hardman , the parties having duly pr epared themselves to contract such marriage by LvVcomp lied with the requirements of theact of parliament in that case made and prj > Jtded--Mr . Knowles stated the case . On the 15 th of jjav of last vear , the defendant gave notice to Mr . Ha > es . superintendent of the district of Leigh , of th e intention to contract matrimony with Aim Hardman , and , upon such notice being given , tfee OTne ™ tondent-ro 2 istrar enteredit intheusualway .

      At the expiration of twenty-one days the time spe-« i 5 ed by tiie statute , Fisher applied for , and obtained from the registrar the certificate required by ibeacfc , and having sot that , he called upon the defendant , and told him he wished to be mamed on the next morning . For this haste , he ( the learned counsel ) was sorry to say there was an urcent reason—tho female was pregnant . On the application being made , the defendant inquired if Jfcher had been baptised , and he was answered -that ie had ; the defendant then asked if the applicant to be married had been asked in church . Wisher said he had not been asked in church , but that he iad by the board of guardians ; the defendant further asked Usher if he had been confirmed , und he

      • mis told that he had-not . The defendant then said he would have nothing to do with him , and if he had been asked by the guardians , he had better get the guardians to * mar ? y him . On the evening of the same day , Fisher again urged on the reverend defendant his request to be married . On she 19 th of June , the superintendent-registrar called upon llr . James , and explained the whole of the * ircumstances connected with the case , and that all the necessary requirements bad been complied with , and on the 2 nd of August , Mr . Hayes , accompanied bv Fisher , and the female fiardman , went to the defendant , and a request was made that the

      marriage should be solemnised . Hr . James -said he would comply with the request when Fisher should lave expressed a wish or desire to be confirmed . The con sequence was , the parties were not * narriedf and to this day tbeya-emained unmarried , the child having been born with a stigma upon him , and his civil rights prejud ced , entirely arising out of his scruples—conscientious scruples , he ( Mr . Snowies ) \ ras willing to give him credit for—of Mr . James , the Rev . defendant . After hearing the evidence , a verdict of guilty was given , and the defendant was bound over in bis own " recognisance of £ 100 to appear and receive judgment when called upon .

      CAMBRIDGE . AssAtLT rFOJf ax j&ifaxt . —Sophia Holfey , aged id , described in the calendar as unable tc . read or write , was indicted for having attempted to strangle Joseph Hollev , her infant , by pulling a handkerchief ilshtly round its throat . On the 14 th of September last ; a police-constable was called on to remore the p risoner from a public-house in the town of . March , in winch she was intoxicated , and making a disturbance . At his bidding- « be quitted the public house , having her child in her . arms , and after" walking a few . yards down the read , passed suddenly to the roadsideand beat the head of the child with

      , violence against a walL The constable took the child from her , and found its face mucli bruised . At her request , however , he gave the child . to her again , and she sat down . to suckle it Shortly afterwards-a woman , who was passing by , observed the child to ie . lying in the prisoner ' s arms black jn the lace . -She snatched the ichild from the prisoner , and found a handkerchief drawn tightly round its throat , and suffocation taking place . The handkerchief 'cas unbound , and eo the life of the child saved . On being then questioned , the prisoner said that the child was her own ,-that it was illegitimate , and bad been born ten months before in the Strand

      union . These facts having been proved , the j > risoner a email , 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 now just fifteen months old . "—The jury returned a verdict of " Guilty of a common assault . "—The learned Judge then sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for twomocihs and kepi to hard labour . —Pxisanec : Thank you , my lord . What am I to work at \—She was then removed .

      MAIDSTOXE . Charge of Asdcciiox . —George Eipps , a man apparently more than fifty years of age , surrendered to answer an indictment for misdemeanor , in baring unlawfully taken a girl , named Charlotte Jeffrey , mider sixteen years of age , away from her parents without their consent . —Charlotte Jeffrey , a good looking young girl , deposed that ber father kept the Bell public-house , at Kemsiug ^ and she was living there at the time this occurrence happened . On die 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 errasd , and she and tbe defendant were left together , and upon this occasion he took some liberties with her , and be at the same time told her no £ to tell bis

      wife . After this time be repeated his conduct upon several occasions , and ks repeatedly told her that he ¦ wi shed he was not Eiairied and he would take her away with him , and he several times asked her to leave her fatlier and mother and go away with him . Baring this period he sent her several lottery which he told her to burn , and ako a lock of his hair , and she gave him one of hers . She also wrote several letters to him . On the IStJi of November she met tbe prisoner by appointment at the church gate , and they went away together to Cobham , andthenext day they went to Sheerness , asd afterwards " to Kingferry , where her father and mother , accompanied by a constable , overtook them , and she returned iome with them . When she left her father ' s house

      she took away a bundle containing her clothes , and also about fourteen shillings , and this monev she gave to the defendant . —William Jeffrey , the father of tbe girl , proved that she went away without his consent . —James Upton deposed that after the prisoner had been taken into custody be told him that he took the girl away on purpose to destroy the peace of mind of the mother . —The jury returned a verdict of "Guilty . "—The learned Judge , si passing sentence , said that the conduct of the defendant was most atrocious . He was a man advanced in life , and married and had a large family , but still it was evident that be had laid a deliberate

      plan to seduce and ruin this poor girl , and he had there snblushingk admitted that Ids intention was to destroy tbe peace of mind of the mother . If he had the power to order him to be hanged for what le had done he did not think any one would consider the sentence too severe , and he felt himself called upon to pass upon 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 par the fine of £ oO to the Queen , and to be further imprisoned until sueb fine should be PiM .

      Ciurge of Embezzlement . —J . Jaffs , 49 , was indieted for embezzling - £ 70 , the monies of James ^ ean , Thomas Edward Frater and others . —It appeared that the prosecutors were members of a Benefit society at Chatham which was not enrolled , and tbe prisoner , who was a member of the 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 3 D opinion that the prisoner did not stand in the Position of a servant so as to fulfil the requirements of the statute in a case of embezzlement . He was a Oemberofthe society which was alleged io have been defrauded , and it could not be said that he was & servant to himself . —The jury , accordingly , under

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      his lordships direction , returned a verdict of "Not Guilty . " "" -. Foboiso Xctmhs of Attornet . —William Williams , alias George Amminer , 45 , a very respectable looking seafaring man , who wore the Acre medal , and also a decoration ot the kingdom ot Spain , was indicted for forging a letter of attorney with intent to defraud John Oliver . — It appeared that in July last the prisoner went to a Mr . Solomon , a navy agent , at Chatham , and asked ior 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 Tor wages ; and upon his producing a forged

      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 veal 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 of the court upon the grounds that he had been five and twenty years in her Majesty s service , and that be had lost a pension of thirty pounds a year through this transaction . —lie was sentenced to be transported for seven years Leader 20

      McRnKB . —E . Lucas , 25 th and Mary , , was charged with the wilful murder of Susan Lucas . The parties lived at Castle Camps in this county , and the m ale prisoner had been married to deceased four or five years ; he worked for a Mr . Cross , larmer , and in his service also * as the female prisoner , who left in January last under the plea ot illness . She went to reside with her sister , the deceased , who died a few days after her arrival , and towards whom the male prisoner bad frequently spoken sli ^ htin glv . 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 praving for drink . The prisoner fetched a surgeon , but ' he arrived after death , and at once suspected that deceased died from poison ; atid a post morUm examination clearly showed that the presence of poison which Professor Taylor , of duy ' s Hospital , by applving chemical tests , pr oved to be arsenic .

      There was a large quantity iu 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 ; tkis the prisoner acknowledged he took home , instead of destroying , and the packet was found in his house , minus about an . ounce . —The jury having heard the « vidence , 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 baud , continued— " Indies and gentlemen , 1 bid you all good bye , I am not guilty . " The female imitated his cesture , and also exclaimed , " I am not guilty . " The wretched pair then took a gaze round the court , and desceaded from the dock apparently the most unconcerned of the most densely crowded assembly which surrounded them .

      Seduction . —Bktaxt v . Leigh . —This was an action for seduction . Mr . M . Chambers and Mr . Simmons were for the plaintiff ; Sergeant Shee and Mr . Creesy for the defendant . -Mr . Chambers said that the plaintiff in this action was Ambrose Bryant , an innkeeper atEdinbridge , iu this county , and the defendant w * s Henry Leigh , who carried on the business of farmer , surveyor , and land agent in the same neig hbourhood ; and the action was brought to recover damages from the defendant for having seduced Alary Anne Bryant , tbe daughter of ' the plaintiff . It would appear that there had been no intimacy between the parties until the month of AEgust , 1 S 47 , 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 visit to a relative , and upon her-return by the train the defendant got into the swne carriage , and he ectered into conversation with her , and asked permission to accoinpany her boiae , 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 the plaintiff , and he repeatedly premised to marry the daughter . In the month of January , 1848 , the plaintiff was unfortunately from home upon business , and tbe-def « udant took advantage of the -opportunity afforded by his absence to overcome the scruples of bis daughter , and succeeded in

      accomplishing her = ruin , and the result was that she became pregnant . The defendant continued to profess honourable intentions , ' and ujon one occasion be fixed tbe 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 Tfas apon intimate terms with a widow lady , named Stevens , residingin the samejieighbourhood , but upon her taxing him with it he indignantl y denied it , and asserted that he w . au 2 d-aerer marry any other -woman than herself . The suspicion , however , turned out to be well founded , for shortly afterwards the defendant married lids lady , and upon an application being made to him to make some . reparation for the injury be had inflicted upon the plaintiff and Ms daughter , he very coolly remarked that she ought to affiliate tbe-child , and he

      afterwards saad that he bad 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 , 1 S 4 S , and he said that owing to the conduct of ihe 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 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 EvEHsnES Msjrder . —John Carrington 42 , described as a labourer , of Little Eversden , wa 9 charged with having wilfully murdered Henry Carrington , at Little Eversden , with a spade . The prisoner was indicted fo : - 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 bis plea , and said " . Not < Juilty . " 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 . Burglart . —William Hazlewood , 21 , and James Gilliver , 19 , were charged with breaking into the dwelling-house of the Rev . 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 Ilalzewood , having been previously convicted of burghry , was sentenced to be transported beyond tbe seas for fitteon years ; Gilliver to be imprisoned for two years .

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      BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH , 2 ? ew Road , London . FALLACY OP AXATOMY ~ AS EEGARDS THE CURE OP DISEASES—THE BUKK 1 XG SYSTEM—DOCTORS BUYKG DEAD BODIES WITH THEltt 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 . JInd it not been 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 nil their pockets at the expense of suffrring humanity . This dissection , our readers should know , forms one of the very lucrative emoluments proceeding from hospital practice . ' For instance , the professor of anatomy pays , we will say , eight or ten guineas for a dead body , and then makes fifty . or sixty out of it from the medical students wliolinre paid their money in order to find out , as they are told , the

      cause of disease in 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 a bit the wiser from dissection , as for as regards the cure of diseases .. It is all to make money 1 money !! money !!! that the rascality is kept np ; dust is thrown into the eyes of the public , the doctors tell the lie ( the wicked lie !) that anatomy is requisite to understand the cure of diseases . The only anatomy really required is BONE SETTING , ip cnf = e of a * , cidents , which might be learnt by designs ; the Vegetable Unirersal Medicine will then do all that is necessary by keeping the blood pure and healing tbe parts-operations for stone , cataract , cancer , &e , are perfectly Useless , which is proved by tlie disease always comint acain because its seat is in tiie blood !!! Burke , the murderer , found Burking' the best trade going-he used to smother people , and then teke them to the doctors almoBt hot . some with their

      eyen SHIRTS ON . ' and used , without the leaS difficulty , to get lus £ 8 for each body . Jfow there can be no doubt that the doctors most have kkown that the vietuns had not come fairly by their deaths , yet thev blinked at the whole business ia order that they nvght rax meip pockets Talk , after this , about the ' honourable' profes . sion , the 'liberal' professsion , and sucti humbug . We say read the confesaori of the Burkers here given , and if yon can believe that'these doctors did not know at the time that the parlies had been murdered , why , then , youmust have more credulity , than we give you credit for . The deadly chemicals of . the doctors and their trarkings are both on a par , only the first is not to eatUy . detected by the public as tbe other ; but that a day of retribution will come we make no doubt . We understand that poor people will no lODger allow their relatives , who die in the hospitals , t » be mangled by the knife of the human butchers . No wonder . - ¦

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      • THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND QUESTION . - ( O « ndeRied from the M > mtng Ckro ^ de . ) THE DEVIL'S DUST MILLS OF DEWSBURY . The small town of Dewsbury holds in the woollen district , very much the same position which Oldhain does in the cotton country ., The reader will rememher 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 . siven . butthe real and orthodox shoddy

      is a production of the woollen districts , and conwstsof the second-hand wool manufactured by the tearing up , or rather the grinding ,, of woollen- rags by means of coarse willows , called devils : the operauon of which sends forth choking clouds of dry pungent dirt and floating fibres-the real and original devil s dust . " Having keen , by the agency - > f the machinery . in question , reduced to something like the original raw material , fresh wool is added to the pulp m different proportions , according to the quality of the stuff to be manufactured , and the singled material is at length re-worked in the usual way into a coarse and little serviceable cloth .

      There are some shodd y mills in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield , but Dewsbury may be taken 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 neig hbouring factories . Great bales choked full of filthy fcitttis lay scattered about the yard , and loaded waggens were fast arriving and adding to the heap . As for the mill , a dance at its exterior showed iti

      character . It being a calm , still day , the walls and p-ttt 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 * chimney , constructed for the purpose , exactly like smoke .. On a windy day I was told that the appearance of the 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 the roof the frowzy deposite could not be less than two inches indeiith .

      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 rag * , torn strips and- tatters of every colour poi ping out from the bursting depositaries . There is hardly a com try in Europe which does not contribue its quota of material to the shoddy manufacturer . Rags are brought from France , Germany , and in great quantifies from Belgium . Denmark , I understand , is favourably looked upon by the tat'ter 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 mo ? t worn , the filthiest , and generally the most unprofitable . The gradations of value in the world of rags are

      indeed remarkable . 1 was shown rags worth £ 50 per ton , and rags worth only 30 s . The best clags is formed of the 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 olotli , 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 they 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-making devil rejects , is packed off to the agricultural districts for use as manure . 1 saw . « evei al unpleasant smelling lots which were destined to fertilize the hop-gardens of Kent .

      Under the rag wareroom was tka sorting and p icking room . Here the bales are opened , and ( heir contents piled in close , poverty-smelling masses , upon the floor . The operatives were entirely women . They sat apon low stools , 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 . Pi ; es of . rags of different sorts , dozens of feet high , were the obvious fruits of their labour . Ail 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 w-ts close and oppressive ; and although £ 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 annfulls 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 devila 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 the 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 1 could make out , the place was « large bare room—the uncovered beams above , the rough stone walls , and the woodwork of the unglazed windows being as itwere furred over with clinging woolly matter . On the floor , the dttst 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 goon 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 sor ts of stuff—worstea stockings , for example . The

      " shoddy fever" was a sort of stuffing of tbe head and nosf , with sore throat , and it sometimes forced them to give over work for two or three dajg , or at must a week ; but the disoider , 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 , ? nd had experienced no perceptible change in their health . In spite of all this , however , it is manifestly impossible for human lungs 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 nf the day . An intelligent woman in Batley Car , a Tillage 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 in this way , but the fever seldom kept theia 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 f / reat 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 o ( 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 ban * dages 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 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 iu ' a coarser way , as those which I have already detailed in my description of the manufacture of woollen cloth . The weavers were , as usual , camplaining of irregular work arid 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 goes into the shuttle—is hardly so much is 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 feTer . " 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 itsramifications . n general / the attack is easily cured—particularly if the patient has not been for any length of time &-posed ^ o the exciting cans" ^—by effpryescing saline

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      draughts to allay the symptomatio febrile action , followed by , expectorants to relieve the mucous mem- ' brane 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 , in the end , to undermine the constitution , and produce a train of- pectoral diseases , often closing with pulmonary consumption . The doctoradded , that op . thalmic 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 mavBhortenlifeby about five years , taking , of course , as the point of comparison the average longevity of thedistnct .

      Shoddy fever" u , in fact , a modification of the very fatal 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 . ? ^ , , BD Worker refused leave toLabour . —in Huddersfield , in one of the courts of one of the Irish quarters-a place , by the way , reeking with abominations , but which the authorities are energetically improving—I observed one house , poor indied in appearance , but notably clean . On entering it I ound that the inhabitants were English , the only Miglish people in the court . They had lived there for more than thirty years , ; and , ftlwajB paid their way . 1 found them , however , in deep poverty , and their story was affectine . The family consisted of

      lve—an old man , his old wife , their daughter , her husband , and t he 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 be employed . He had gone from mill to mill in Huddersfield , 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 away fretting 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 tears — " 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 fine ? " said she , showing the trowsers she was making . "Well , I makes these for 6 "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 on e 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 joes on board the ship , and they ' re 4 Jd . a piece . Why , there ' s in each of them fourteen button-holes worked with

      whitey-brown and blue cuffs , blue collars , and blue epaulets , all stitched and well pressed , I might do one in seven hours ; bub I has to find my own thread , and that ' s | d . a quarter of an ounce each jacket . The soldiers' great coats , with , 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 hours , they ' re such large ones . The men are five feet elevenand 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 I used to get Is ., 4 d . forasd now

      , they ' re 8 d . It ' s the contract system , you see , sir . Oh , yes , that ' s it . Any body who'll take it fora few shillings less than another is sure to get it . And then il / 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 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 rod 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 workpeople , 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 . learnt Is . 8 d . I think it was Is 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 maBage 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 ifthore ' s any for me . I might , ' upon an . average , earn 2 s ! clear 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 . Yeara 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 of them ( the girl was about twelve)—all unprovided for . She fetches my errandsand sews meup aseamortwo . I ' m alearningher 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 visits round about here . I have ene generally every week . If he has got it he generally feives it to me . I live upon coffee . It ' s a woruter , 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 arc generally very badly off . I Jiave 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 , I find the work come harder and harder to me . Working upon tne red , then upon the white , and now to-night a-comiDg 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 agaiu 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 , Jouder than ever . At last the door was opened , and then a thin aged woman stood trembling nervously as she looked at me . She

      stammered out with a gasp , "Oh ! I beg pardon , but I thought it was the woman come for the shilling- 1 owed her . " I 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 , inilkiess tea , and ft broken saucer , with some half dozen small potatoes in it . It waa the poor soul ' s dinner . Some tea-leaves had been given her , and she had boiled them up again to make something like a meul . 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 loor . She said : —

      "I work at convict work , the greys , some are half yellow and L&If brown , but they ' re all paid the same price . I makes the whole suit . Gets YJi . for all of it—3 d . thejacket , 3 d . the trowse ^ , and 1 'Jd . the waistcoat , and finds my own thread out of that ; they ' re nil made with double ' whitey-brown . ' I never reckoned it up , but I uses a good bit of thread when I ' m a making of ' em . Stmetimes I gets an ounce , sometimes half an ounce . It takes about an ounce and a half to the suit , and that would be 9 cL at 2 d . 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 J couldn ' t see with . It'll take me more than a day to make the suit . If 1

      had the suit out no * I could get them in to-morrow evening . There ' s a full day and a half ' s work in a suit . 1 works from nine in the morning till eleven et night . ( Here a sharp-featured woman entered , and gaid she wished to 6 peak with the f 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 id —not 2 d ., a-day . The other day 1 had to sell a cup and saucer for a halfpenny , cause crockery ware ' s so cheap—there was no handle

      to it , us true—in order to get rae 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 j no one gf te any better wages than this ; a few has less I believe . Some of the waistcoatsan ' t above five fardens —twopence halfpenny the jackets—and trowsers the . same . 1 can't tell what Laverage , for sometimes I have work and sometimes I an't . : I could earn 3 s . a week if , I hadas muoh as I could do , but I don ' t have it very often . I ' m very often very idlei 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 be ? appearance at the dopr ,: and seeing me still

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      there did ^ ndt stop , to say a ^ woJ-d . 'What a bother there ia » said the convieM 3 lothes-maker « if a perB 0 n ^ oW « l a-few halfpence . - TbatVwhat made me keepfthe door li . eked ; ' ) , I suppose her mother Has Bent for the old shawl she lent me . I hav ' n ' t no shawl to my back ; s-no , as tfue as God X haven ' t I haven't indeed ! I'nUwO 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 I lived up it the other house . Tliere was no work at alh Wo was starving-one asa nst-the other / I ' m generall y about a quarter part of my time s'anding stil ; ye ? , that I am , I can assure you .. About three shillings « week : I tell vou , is what I generally earn at

      convict work when I'm fully employi d ; but then there ' s the expenses to be taken out of that . I ' ve worked nt the cob vie- ; 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 upon me . I hadn't need to have , I ' m sure . I hadn ' t a bit of work all last Friday a- d all last Saturday—no , not t-IIl Monday . I work for a piece master . I don ' t know what profit the piece master gets . The convicts' great coats arc 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 . ; so that in two dnys , at th « t work , I can earn one shilling : clear , saying nothing of candles . That ' s much better than the other . " . ( The car almost as

      thin 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 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 o ' clock-lay a-bed ' cause I hadn ' t nothing to eat , 1 here 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 . M y husband was a file cutter ; he did pretty fairly . While he was alive I didn't

      want tor anything , and since . his death I ' ve wanted very often ; I ' ve wanted so as I havn ' thad a home to pnt my head into . Then I slept along with different friends , and they gave rne 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 make it out other ways . I pays Is . 6 d . rent . The things are my own , such as there is . I ' ve no tahle ; I was obliged to sell it ; I ' ve sold ' most everything I ' ve got ; 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 of a man whom I had'firsfc 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 wonderful Iiow a poor person lives—but they don't live . My clear gains ' are about Is . 6 d . a week . In the summer time it ' a better , becnusc I don't want no candle liyht . 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 ; the pockets are fully made , and tbe shoulder straps fully made , and for the busting 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 . 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 t-etter work , I may chance to get a bit of meat—2 ( 1 . 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 ho work , and had nothing to pay with . I ' m living now with a neighbour in the same 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 mnro than a day ' s charinjr now and then , but she makes more at that than I

      can at soldiers clothes . The Is . id . that I had for them two Sappers' jnckets I bought three halfquartern loaves out of that , which we ' ve eaten . All 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 I told her I was so fead off , to let me have a little tea and sugar and a candle , to the amount of 5 cl . 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 sfive me an order to come in and "et me off to sea . '

      With that he went before the board on the Wedneg . dayand asked the gentlemen would they have the goodness of sending him on board o ' sliip . He told them he didn ' t want to stop in the workhouse . and ro they'd the kindness of sending him . Mr . Wilkes , the relieving officer , spoke to the guardians , went in when he weat in—and 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 very 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 ' s trowaers to pawn for 9 d . The work goes through so many hands , and all has got a profit on it , that such a person as me that make 3 is the sufferer . 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 ha * 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 \> oy ; tnank God ! there ' s not one soul ever told me that he has done wrong to them . " ( To U Continued . ]

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      Game-Laws and their Consequences . —A correspondent says : — " There 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 those convicted at the assizes just concluded ; one 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-throe prisoners on the calendar for trial , no less than nine were cases aris'ris ; 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 tho struggling agriculturists whose property tho game feed upon or destroy . These alleged crimes were committed upon the 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 , eyrht different witnesses were produced to prove 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 which twenty-five' wives and seventy-nine children were thrown upon their respectivo 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 £ 5 G 10 s . ; so that in ono brief season of six months duration , in the small county of Nottingham , containing but 26 i parishes , forty-two men wore deprived of liberty , twenty-eight mothers and ninety children made paupers who were not so before , deprived of homo , disgraced and spirit-broken , to effect which the ratepayers have mulct from their industry more than £ 400 .

      Death preferred to Pauperism . —A few days since a widow , named Braine , in poor circumstances but of good character , attended the board of guardians at Keynsham , for the purpose of obtaining relief . Whilst waiting outside with others , she was obserred 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 tho bank at tho water , she retired a short distance , and then walked backward , and in this way throw 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 made to save her , but the body was not recovered before life was extinct .

      Game Certificates . — A parliamentary return gives tho following as tho net-produce of tho duty paid on game certificates and upon licenses for the sale of game for the year ending April 5 th , 1849 : — Charged on persons in their own right , £ 110 , 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 , 983 ^ also a diminution ) {' 'licenses for the sale of game ; hi , 003 . The total for England and Wales was £ 126 , 882-a sum considerably less than that received during each oftue four previous years . : >•

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      ' SATURDAY , ; March 23 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —The House of Lords net at four 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 OF LORDS .-The royal assent-was given by commission" to the Mutiny , Marine Mutiny , and other bills . ' Masters' Jurisdiction in Equity BiLt . —Lord Bhouoham , in moving the second reading of this bill , drew a graphic picture of the evils it was proposed to remedy . lie was now about to introduce their lordships for a moment—he hoped they would not

      be alarmed—into the Court of Chancery of which it was said if a man once got in he would never get out . He was going to give them a picture , without , ho was happy to say , the reality . The manner of proceeding was this , even in ensca in which there was no litigation . He would take the common case of an administration suit with two or three sets of parties : Frst , there would be three close copies of the bill , at a considerable expense ; tlicn > 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 j-. r . 3 t ; then office oopiea ; 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 boing taken in secret ; and then a special messenger to London witli the office copies . After this the : ease was heard ; and he had been informed that the Vice-Chancellor of England had disposed of sixty of these 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 ( iocision , that the registrar , the officer of the court , had not the means of writing quickly enough to kyep pace with him in making a note of the . order , for his Honour save onlv a minute to each . case . Then

      came . the formal decree , with what was called ^ the usual directions . In a case in the Yice-Chancellor ' s court , on the occasion of making a similar decree , a learned counsel said : " Your Honour would be pleased to order the usual reference to the Master , all parties appearing and consenting ? " ThoYice-Chancellor replied : " Yes , Mr . Bethell ; let the usual decree go for destroying the estate indue course of law . " . Now , 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 the estate be

      destroyed in due course of law j but this could not be any great wonder when the immense amount of cost was considered . The cost up to this ponod generally amounted to between two and three hundved pounds , and yet no part of the work , had in reality been begun . The whole wns mere surplusage , and entirely nugatory up to that point . The parties , therefore , in reality , had got nothing for their money . The first effeotual step was the Master ' s 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 which must seriously affect some clients , and might provent

      many men from getting what would have beei- 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 now jurisdiction but an api /! ication 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 -. if a great concern—a banking company . In six months From the 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 600 persons had' been examined and adjudicated upon to the extent of £ 384 , 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 it , 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 pfrt 0 a century . ( Hear , hear . ) He would for a monien refer their lordships to another case , that of Walworth and Hope—the case of the Imperial Banking Company . The suit was instituted in 1840 , ten years ago , and tho whole matter was found to bo 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 the 18 th January , 1850 , an order came out under the Windlng-up Act , but little having been done in this complicated case up to that period . In two or three months , however , mutters had been put in such a course , thru , no doubt before the end of Trinity Term the whole business , involving £ 110 , 000 , would be brought to a close . ( Cheers . ) Lord Lanodams consented to allow the second reading , on tho understanding that mrny objections which he entertained to some of its details should be considered at some future stage of the bill . The Marquis of Lanspowne moved the adjournment of the 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 the

      Dim vpon' Bricks . —The Chancel , t . ob oi the Exchequer stated that the result of his considerations relative to tho drawback which the brickmakers had sought to obtain for the amount ot duties upoa 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 the duty would commence forthwith , but the right hon . baronet was understood to add that it was not his intention to insert any clause in tho bill to niter ' . the terms of current '¦ contracts for railway or other works in which bricks were employed . Public Salaries . — -In reply to a question from Colonel SiBTnoRP .

      Lord J » hn 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 . ; He ( Lord John Russell ) then gave notice that it was his intention after Eaater to move for a select committee to inquire into the salaries attaching to offices held by members of parliament , as also to judges of the United Kingdom , and the members of the diplomatic establishment . ( " Hear , hear , " and cheers . )

      National Gallery . —Mr . Ewart inquired if it was the intention of her Majosty ' s government to place the collection of paintings left by the late Mr . Vernon in any portion of the building called the 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 tho part of the National Gallery now occupied by the Royal Academy was only to be retained by that body so long as it was not required for the cxtcnaion of the national collection of works of art . ( Hear , hear . )

      Lord J . Russell should state in reply that tliere were arrangements in contemplation , which , though at present Incomplete , he liopdd they would be . able to carry into effect . The intentions of her' Majesty ' s government were that the National Gallery should be devoted to the collection of nationa works of art , including the Yernon collection , and such others as might bo bequeathed to the country . ( Hear , hear . ) The house was doubtless aware that his Miijesty King George III . had given apartments in Somerset House to the niembera of the Royal 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 due to the Royal Academy , but also- to the country , that they should

      have the meanB of maintaining that school . Therefore , while the government thought it right to ask the Academy to give up the portion of the buildingthey at present occupied , it was intended to propose a grant for the purpose of enabling them to find a suitable building for their purposes elsewhere . It was his intention during tne present session to introduce a bill for settling Marlborough . house , which had reverted to tho crown in consequence of tho demise of the Queen Dowager , upon the Prince of Wales , and her Majesty had graciously signified her consent to allow that building for some few years to come being devoted to the reception of the Yemen Gallery of Paintings , and such other works of arts that might be bequeathed to the country , and thrown open to the public for exhibition . ( Hear , hear , )

      THE NATIONAL LAND PLAN . —Mr . Henlbt wished to ask the hon . and learned member for Nottingham two questions : First , when he intended to introduce the bill for winding up the affairs of the National Land Company ; and : second , ' whethcr it would bo a public or a private bill ? Mr . O'Coshor said , that when he gave notice at his intention to introduce , lueh a bill he stated that ho should do so as early as possible after Easter .

      It 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 . therbill , he could only repeat what he had before stated , that he would oonsult the best common law lawyer , the best equit y lawyer , ' and the best ' eonveyaricer in its preparations . , ««««« S « SS £ Mr . Hbnlet said , that the hon . and lMSjPf . 3 ^ themanhadnot said whether it was to be-flpyjw ; f ^ ^" , * S few K ^ vasfflH

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  • 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/vm2-ncseproduct1567/page/7/