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      NEW PRISON . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , That the Tino for pending in PLANS , &c , is Enlarged from the 20 uh June to the 1 st AuGusr next . By Order , EDWIN EDDISON . Town-Clerk . 58 , Albion-Street , Leeds , 17 th May , 1843 . I

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      CONSOLIDATION OF THE TURNPIKEROADS AND HIGHWAYS . SUGGESTIONS for Consolidating the Funds and O Management of the Turnpike-Roads and High * wiys within the Borough of Leeds , and placing them und . r the direction of the Town Council , being , 1 st , an Appendix to a Report which E . Biyldoa was directed to make to that bedy as to the probable Financial Effects that would arise to the different Townships within the Borough of Leeds ia the event of the 19 ih Clause of the NewTaropite Bill passing into a Law , and 2 ndly—The facts relative to the Lengths , Debts , Expenditure , and T 0 II 3 connected -with the Turnpike Roads within the Borough o ( Leed 3 , as al » li » Lengths and Costs of Repairs of th <* Highways within the same , being a Summary of R . Bayldon ' j Reports , presented to the Mayor and Town Council , A > ril 4 ' , h , and May 3 rd , 1843 . All Municipal Voters for the Boroogh of Leeti mav have a Copy of this Work , Crayon application ( during the month of May ) to Mr . H . W . Walkes , Briggate , Leeds . RICHD . BA . YLD 0 N . Hunslet , Leeds , May 17 th , 18-13 .

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      THE FACTORIES BILL . A njcfHcg r . f members of Parliament and gentlemen connp <* tf-u with the manufacturing districts was held on Tue-daY , May 9 , at the British Hotel , Cockspar-&tre < t , Londcii , forthe purpose of hearing the opinions of miUowner * , with reference to the Factories Bill now before Parliament . From / Oto 80 persons assembled , among who we recognised the following Members of Parliament : —Mr . Aic « worth , Mr Brockiehnrst , Mr . W . T . Everton , Mr . Fielden , Mr Wm . Fielcen . Mr . Ferrand , Mr . Greenall , Mr . W Hardy , Mr . Hindlej , General-Johnson . Sir John Johnstone , Ban ., W . S . Lascelles , Mr . J . W . Patten , Mr . Strait , Mr . Suwisiield , Sir George Strickland , Bart ., Mr . ToM * m * che , Mr . Walker , Mr . Wilbraham . ' and Mr . Griroenitch . On the motion of Mr . Hardy , M . P ., the Hon John Stuart Wortlev , M . P ., was called to the chair .

      The Chairman said , he considered it his dnty at once to &cquie ? e m ine proposal that heshoold take the chair , ina imcon as there was no objection made to it . As he had been called unexpectedly to that position , it would not become him to offer observations upon the natnre of iae meeting other than to say , that lie trusted he should be of use in conducting the business for which they were assembled . ( Cheers . " ) He was sorry that he ¦ was called to occupy the chair as a substitute for his friend , Mr . Wm . Beckett , whose name stood % i the head of the circular which has been issued , and was to Lave presided , but who was now so unwell as to be unable to attend ; he held in his hand a note from Mr . Beckett , expressing hi ? disappointment at bein * : unable to be present , as he was

      anxious to hear the opinion of ib . 3 Factory ; roasters upon the provisions of the Factories' Bill . Having said so much wi . 'h respect to the circnm- ' stances in whieh he stood , he " thought it would be ; more conducive to the bnsina ^ s of the day , if he ' should leave the further proceedings in the hands of those who had devoted their time and trouble to con- ; venin ^ this meeting ; they would know boner than he how to lay the busir . ess before-tbem , and he could ' only say , so far as he tia ? concerned , that if i : should : be in his powextolenda ^ y assistance towards the mai n . object , of the meeting , or to take any step which should tend to the satk'fjetory senlemc-nt of this . most impon&Bt qncsuon of the hours of labour of' , young persons , it would afford him the highest satisfaction to do so . [ Mr . "Wm . Band , of Bradford , Yorkshire , said lie trusted in the first place ho should bs permitted , as a factor ? matter , vrbo bad lorg taken a f ? eep interest in , the subject of factoay legislation , to tbanlc those mem- ! bers of Parliament who fc ^ rt convened t&i * meeting , acd [ for inviting members cone- eled -with ibese counties / ¦ where manufactures where carried on , and for inviting factory gent ! em 4 n -who were more immediately connected with any measure tc ? ihj legfclstion of fictories —thear . ) He trusted that be cud loo deep a sense of propriety , and was too well a ^ ^ rc of his own itcompotency to drag the meeting through the history of factory legislation . There had been uo fewer than seven or eight factory bills , and as mtsy abortive attempts at improving these bills , and he tLougbt that Mlherto fact

      alone "would prove that factory ' egislaticn had not been satisfactory . He thought the present meeting offered the finest prospect for a satisfic ~ rv settlement of this question , that bad ever yet presented iueli He was sure that the object of the Govern "aent cottd only be to pass a bill which should be hear ^ Iv co-operated in by the factory masters who would £ ssi » : the Government in carrying it out iu all its provision ; and he w . > = sure such a measure could only be accDiupMsbed with the assistance sxd advice of practical zr . sn ; and he trusted the issue of tiiis meeting would be tie adoption of a law by the Government ef this ccuftrv , which should be a blessing to the factory districts . With these few remaifcs he would express fcis opinion that the present bill before the Hdu = e of Comaiccs , l « re the character aod wonld star ; the fate cf all its predeoessora . It wonld be an unsatisfactory bill . He bad come to that conclusion after carefully reading it ovex ; and be now came to express the reasvn ?

      which had led him to that conclusion . The objtct of the bill WES lie regulation of the employment of children and young persons in factories , and for the better education of children in tb . 6 factories . In ordtrr to effect this olject the bill divided the work people into classes ; the first class toraprising those &oa eight to thirteen years of age , and the second clats ih < se from thirteen to eighteen as affected males , and Uiirteen to twenty-one as iffected femsles . The first class was to work half time , er ex hours a day ; the second class was to wori twelve hours actual labour per day . The first class was to go to school a certain i-uait-er < f hourin each cay durirg their employment—not when they were HEemp ; oved—tbi ? y were required to bilns certificates ix § p& the schoolmaster of having complied wita this regulation , and unless tfeey did eo they could not return to woik on the following Monday . It appeared to him that this was in itself an enactn ; t-: which Weald Tery seriously teed to the non-emplo ; - inent of tiose children . It was his firm conviction teat thit .

      enactment , coupled wiih many others which hi .- would not now tEiUE £ TE . ta , -was encush to ensure tbtir r . cr .-eHxpiojiaes- Ee isJd in his hand a paper sig : « i R . H . Greg ? , the Chairman of the Association of jliliowsers in Manchester , stating that such were the vains and penalties attached to that bill with regard to the employment of children , that it was their opinion that ruch as th ^ y wonld cot be employed at alL Then he ( ill . RsiiQ , Youid ask if they were not employed at all , if the txpence cf their education were to fes provided f 01 out of their wa * cs as the Bill enacted , tow were they to obtain education at all . ' He for bis own part would tsy tfiat there was no possibility of education unless there was a possibility of employment , and there was no po ? - sibiiitT of employment coupled with ttese vexatious

      enactments . Ha thought then th £ issue z . s regarded that claa would bs total idleness-up to 13 , coupled with ignurance ; and he would ask Hon . Members in that room whether the stat ? of society in Manchester , Glasgow , and Yorkshire , would not present an awful picture with all the populatica up to 13 unemployed and uneducated ? It was the nature of lads if they were Dot doing well to be doing ill ; he thought there could not be a greater curse u-flicted on them than that of dooming them to idleness . 1 Hear , hear . ) He had written to one of the junior partners in his own concern to know what bad been the operation of the relay system , and he bad replifcd that three-fourths of the children -under 13 ha 3 been dismissed ; and that he wg 5 looking out for rob-Btitutts for the reis&inirg one-fourth- ( Hear , hear . '

      If such were the case in his neighbourhood , what was the case in Glasgow ? Mr . Gregg said he would call attention to the fact that since the introduction of the Act creiting the ijsttm c-f working by relays , the children under thirteen years of zge had been almost all dismissed , is Glasgow he believed none ( the word " none ' underlined ) were employed u :. £ ertbat age ^ andvtry few in otbtr parts of Scotland , 'hear , kear , ) and the two factory districts of England of Mr . Horner and Mr . Saundeis the rusher ha-. l fallen from 35 941 in 1 S 25 , to 24 , 000 aad-odd ia liZD . and In . Mr . Homer ' s district it had fallen frcm 11 u _ 0 to 7 000 since then . iHear ; They ha 4 not bten abie to &&t : jn returns from ihe othor

      districts , but tie reduction in the . r numbers was in every district very great . Tfc ; & : n : a = t certain operation of tke present bill , he did j ; ot htsi ' . a- . e to say , would be the ¦ withdrawal of ch : ivir ~ n altocetber frcni wel ! -regulated mills , and their tola ! cfepiiTaiio _ of eaiploymerit . The mere matter cf a rfdcct , c- i& tfce vices ' wonld offer no inducement either 10 tie ;; r . r ; -nt to ? . ; nd them or tLe master to employ them , co-. npartJ vri-b the stvere regnlatioas to - « t ; ch ibty r-n'Jtrfc ' . tttr ^ selves luble by employirig them : aud Pa : ; : i 3 rst w ould fir . d itstlf in the course cf 2 > ear cr fxo in t ! , yr- ric-nment of having passed a law providing fo . the Tr ^ nlatior . of a cl& * s of children which the 13 W wcuU hiv- thrown cut of

      the sphere of labour—xear , heir - . A ~ u y-i ifur that statement tad bte :: made kno ^ n thrT Eai i tt ? y wonH be able to esneede : Lat p ; rr « f ihs I ill ; they sai-1 ' We don't wish to tir . ploy chiWien ycuaitr th-n nii , e : or from nine to tiirt ^ n mere than six &-.. C haif b ^ nrs . " They did concede them ; but L"w ? >" -: by adopting them , but by rejecting them . They «; - ! they would not employ them . "Was that tLe k-ud <¦ c . r ; cr-f = iion the Government wanted ? Xcn-euipli-jincni ^ nd non-instructioii . Or was it that the G ¦ vermiect scuj ; ht to improve the minds end mcrals , vf : !? .- . i ti- ^ is ? He { Mr . Band ) becged to say thut the iff-c : cf this ' aw wonid be igni-rante acd idlcncs ? up to thirteen . Tfcit wis a speclacle for il embers of Pa : luiawi . l lo 4 ooii ; : "VN ' lb it not enough to fill the tuind of every rtfleeting mau with alarm :. ow , and < . ven every unr ^ fi-ct . i .- ; min 4 with alarm by and bye ? What was the j . r .-sp-ct with regard to the Second class—they were to work ' welve hoars a day actual labour , LndepecdtEt of the lime f .. r meals and goinz to and rfcturnins from mrS He

      would ask any gentleman in that room if he cculii lay his hand upon his heart and see a population untreated and uniiistmcied up to ifce ace of thirteen then taken to labour of thai duration ; he wiald ask if ttii ¦ would not perpetuate ignorance op to twenty-or e ? He said that would be the inevitable result : the £ nt class would be ditqualiSed from education for want of employment , aad the second class for want of time— . Load cheers ! . His intention was not to appeal to the feelings of any gentleman , but to his common sense , and he "would say that the issue of this Bill , would be , in a few ¦ words , up to thirteen , ignorance and idleness combined , np to twenty-one excessive toil and no instruction . If that , then , were the inevitable result of this fcill , he would ask if it was one which ought to pstM . He said it ought not to pass , but be should not be performing bifi duty in coming to London to point cut the defects of this bill if he did not alao point out a plan -which appeared to him to be deterring of attention . He had

      Ujought » f a plan , and he -would give bis reasons in npport of it . He did not mean to say that his was the only plan that would be beneficial ; he was open to conviction on the matter , and be trusted he should MTW « i * tinately adhere to any partiettlar nostrum of his own—( bear , bea ^ . But , now , suppose for a moment that the relay system were adopted , what would be the end of it 7 Why they would bring up to a , ceiling tirice the number of persons who at the age of thirteen eonld find employment at it If in his own establishment he had fifty relay children , when they arrived at the age of thirteen he could but employ twenty-five of them , and he wenld have to turn adrift the other twenty-fire , who would act as an incubus upon the labour market for the remainder of their days , pre £ sin » upon those employed towards reducing their wages . Snch wonld be the effect of the relay system , and so he had come to the conclusion that the relay system , if canted oat , would be productive of most serious and

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      disastrous censequeuces—( hear , hear ; . And if it were Dot carried out the children would have no education . How then could they escape the two resnlta of these two systems ? He would now beg to state the plan which would meet his own views . He thought that a proper Factory Bill should embrace the following points , and no others . It should embrace the age of admission into the mills ; the duration of labour in the mills ; it should provide for tfce time for meals within the mills ; for protection from exposed and dangerons machinery , under the judgment of practical men to Eay what was bo , —not of every tactery inspector , but of practical men ; also provide for the washing and proper attention to the cleanliness of the establishment ; it should be abort , simple , and practical —( hear , hear )—one of which labour should not bs so contracted as to

      be worthless to the employer , ner too long , bo as to interfere with the moral and physical welfare of the parties engaged . Those were the three great points , and he thought it desirable that labour should be uniform inita duration . Having regard to these points then , not forcing upon parties toil which they were unable to sustain , or labortr so contracted as to be of no advantage to the employer , he had come to the conclusion that the best age of admission into the mills was at the age of ten years—( hear )—he mentioned ten because the whole amount of medical evidence proved that at that age , with proper intervals for meals , they conld enter the roilis , if the labour were not too long continued ; and he reco mmended that they should not labour more than ten hours actual labour per day , for

      the who . ' e of the mill workers up to the age of twentyone years ; after that age they were placed beyond the limits cf legislative interference , they were adults and free agents ; but whilst they were not free agents , and and whilst others might contract for them , he , for one , would not consent to suJ'ject them to a toil which must in after years raise a spirit of hostility against their friends and masters , who made them do it—( hear . ) He would recommend , then , that they Bhould enter the mills at ten years of age , and work ten hours a day , cud that was a length of labour whieh , he thought , was compatible with aome little improvement iu evening schools—( hear ) It might b » objected that these parties would not go to these schools , but he thought th « y would . He knew that after working twelve hours a day , the children went to Sunday School 3 every Sabbath ; he feared

      it was indeed a remarkable circumstance , but Buch were the habits of the young people , that they voluntarily ¦ went to school upon the Snnday , tbough they had no recreation during the week ; Uking this into consideration , he did think that with ten hours labour , they would , to some extent , attend evening Schools . ( Hear ) He might perhaps be asked what l .-e proposed with regard to education ; he would own that to be a most difficult subject , a subject for the gentlemen to consider , and not for the factory masters , but he thought they wer honnd so to conduct their establishments as not to df-r-riva them of the opportunity of learning something , and he thought that employing the children but ten hours & day , leaving eff work at six , would go far towards attaining that great deiideratnm . ( Cheers . ) He concluded by submitting the following suggestions for tke approval of the mtet > ng : —

      Proposition 1 st—That the Factories' Bill now before the House of Commons proposes for all children from eight to thirteen years cf s ^ e , enactments wh . ch have a direct tendency to prevent than from obtaining employmud ; and as the Bill provides that the edncation of tfe- ; se parties shall be paid for out cf their wages , they will consequently be left without the means of acquiring that highly important advantage . Sad—That the system of relays proposed by this Bili would , if carried out , have the effect of bringing up to factory labour double the number of pertons who , at the age of thirteen , would be able to find employment in factories . That it wculd also tend to draw Bum '^ ers into the manufacturing . districts when the population is already too large to find employment , and would tbus have an injurious effect upon the wages of labour .

      3 rd . —That the proposed period of twelve hours daily labour ( exclusive of time for meals , ) for all persons from thirteen to twenty-one years of age , especially us moBt of them are females , is more than is consistent with their moral and physical welfare , and witb the proper performance of domestic duties . 1 th—Teat arjy measure for the regulation cf the labour cf youn ? persons in factorits , should provide for each labour being bf uni / onn duration , and not by relays . That the hours of labour should not be $ 0 abridged as to preveLt a reasonable expectation of employment , nor to restricted as to interfere -with the physical and moral velfcrfc of the workers .

      That haviug due regard to these important considerations , it is cesirable that no child should be almitted into the factory under ten years of age—thattte Lours of daily labour for all pereons Bbove ten , aad under ttr- rtj-oi : e * hould be ten , exclusive of two hours for meals at proper intervals—and that their labour should cease at six o ' clock in the evening . That , by this arrangement , parents might , to some extent , avail themselves of LYeninjj schools for the wcrktrs , and it would also allow all children under ten ¦ yezrs of aye to have the fill benefit of education by any general pia :: which the Government may provide ; but with tb > . - Bill now before the House of Commons , those under thirteen wonld be thrown ont of employment , atti thoi * above thirteen would have no time for imtrnction .

      Mr . > J orris , of Halifax , wished to ask whether it wps intended 10 work ten hours a day during six days of the week , cr wfcttLer they thonld work shorter hours oe Saturdays as now . Mr . Kamj said his idea ww that they should close npon Saturdays as the bill specified , that was at half-past four . Mr . Mour . is was asked whether Mr . Rand meant that no system of relays would be UBeful , or that it was the changes that made the present system bad . Mr . Rand said the various enactments coupled with tfce children were of eccb a character , that masters ¦ wouJd not be troubled with thorn at alL

      Mr . Wm . Brook , of Huddersfleld , would wish to a * k the object for -which the meeting bad been convened-Wm it for the purpose of obtaining information , or was it with a view lha * . gentlercen of the House of CommonB might be uked to support any plan which might be agrted on ? If so , in his humble opinion , they were going to dispose of a question of the last importance to this country , as a . manufacturine nation , in a very hasty manrcr ; and he submitted that it was a question which ought not to be disposed of iu such a manner . TLe Chairman said so far as he could answer , he should s < ay the orject cf the meeting was to consider the question in agitation with respect to the hours of labour , with the view of ascertaining how far the s = nments and experience of the gentlemen present should concur wit a any p-cpositioii fur the amendment of the regulations affecting labour in factcri # s . ( Hear . )

      i ! r . Rasd remarked that the circular pointed out the orj' .-ct of the meeting ; they had not met to carry anything , but simply to uncertain what wculd be the most practical measure , and lay the result of tho meeting before the Government He thought the Factories ' Bill crigina ' - 'l in a far more limited and obscure source than that meting , for hi- did not know a single soul thit approved of it . Mr . Fielden , M . P ., said , being cf those whose names were stUihtd to tbf- circuiar , he felt called upou to state his reasons for affixJDg bis catne . Mr . Rand said Mr . Walker . * riio b ^ a betn down in town calling npon Members of Parliament , called upon him and propostd that this meeting should be held . The objections

      of Mr . Brook , he thought , mi ^ ht be answered very shortly ; he proiOovd that a committee . 'f the House of Commons should de irie what was proper to be done . He must know that committee ; . f . er committee of ihe House of Cnimuas had been aj pointed to no uvaii . They had a coiLmiitte" in 1 S 40 , wbi-r . the factory clauses weu ciscussed itriaiitn : and a report was laid before the House . The fi . Civ .-y owners cf Lancashire and Yorkshire not being * tu . fL-d v , iih what was recoEim-. ndfcd in thatiepon , , ut tbii . k : iig that u belter bill might be passed , Lad cms there Lr the v . iy proper purpose cf etatiug their \ iew 6 tu H « , n . Members of that House , \> bo migl : o ; . l t :-. e : U ! fc :.: ion of Parliament to the subject . St » ral gectkn . ta were present from Lancashire ami YoikMiure ; and he had no doubt

      that ; f Hon . Vt 5 i . oers » v , u " iu listen to Ui ^ m , they would obtain nsacb valuable icfjiiLatian . Xr . Wilson PaITE . n , . M P ., said he attended the meeting to li ^ ar tee opinion * of persons Cjn ^ ected and acquainted with the subject , rather than to pass 1 evolutions . Sir George STH 1 CKLA ^ D , M . P ., Eai-3 the two Hon . Members who Lad last sucresstU the ii-evting lad explained bo ciearly what he was going to say , that he felt it would be supererogation to * ay wore . He had received a circular some time- ago , and be hud attended to see what was its impression up _ -n manufacturers , that he might know -what pait to : * fce in the House of Commons on this most important ; abject . He should have felt it presumption to have udar « s > ed that rai eting , ¦ wereit not macy years ago be took i : " > the subject ; he was then a Ten Hours man ; be rt ^ Vtd to ttj that carried out to the fullest extent , sa " . -at no one untKr twenty-tne years should woik more •„ . an ten Lours ; that did not , however , meet -with concur men , and ttere appeared to be a disposition ia f . ; v ^ ¦ ¦ £ an E- ^ bt Hours BUL In answer to the obsei .... u-ns of Mr . Broot , ue would say , that above aii ' . h : -s he wouli : def rec » te a committee of the House of '" aimons ; he . had sat on them all from Sadlti'a down to \ . c last

      committee , where much evidence was adductu .-dative to tha relay system , and that vu an iaipre-niou very , much in favour of a six hours relay sjbu > n , whicn arose from the fact that in many cases the ei . ht hours nlay system had degenerated into a aix - * ben the , eight would not -work ; and many witnesses Distinctly ' stated that they preferred a six hours to an eight Loon ; relay system . ! Mr . Bbight , of Rochdale , said there appeared to be i a difference of opinion upon this qaettion , and from all ; he had heard it was not likely to be diminished . Some

      i thought thfcte should be no legislation at all upon ihi « \ subject , and ethers were for having all matters c < d-: nected with them regnlated by Act of Parliament . , His own opinion went with the first ef these . He && ; d , he believed that all legislation npon this subject was wrong ; he did not particularly orject to legislation so ; far as it had gone , because he believed publio opinion had b * en with it , but it vaa most certain if ihey dia go on patching and tinkering this question , that no ; sort of satisfaction either to employer or employed ever j could result &r . Rand wiabed thia question to be

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      settled , he ( Mr . Bright ) must say , he thought he waa looking fer something impossible ; he was standing od the bank while the river flowed by . He thought it -was vain and useless labour to endeavour to reconcile elements which were irrconcilablo ; he should be very happy to say " aye" to the proposition that the present Bill waa very bad , but he should say " no" to the remaining propositions , and he believed if the great body of the working classes were polled , that a great majority of them would soy no" to the Bamo propositions .

      Mr . Kay , o ! Bury , rose to express his thankfulness to the gentlemen who had convened thia meeting , and be felt happy that Mr . Rand had been able to propose a plan for their consideration . He was rather surprised at the remark that all attempts at legislation were useless and unnecessary . He must say that factory legislation had done a great deal of good —( hear ) . To his own knowledge since he had bsen connected with cotton factories , mills were in the habit of running not merely twelve , but thirteen , fourteen , and fifteen hours a day , —( hear ) , —and if they had made ActB of Parliament to prevent cruelty to animals , in the name of all that was good , why should they not pass an Act of Parliament for the protection of human labour—and if cruelty bad been practised as could be attested by thousands of living witnesses , he couM not see why the legislature should not interfere and do what they could to prevent its recurrence—( bear ) . He had worked in a faotory

      himself , and he would say that so long as they worked children twelve houra a day , sixty-nine hours a week , they were detracting from their moral capabilities and perceptions , sad he was sure they impaired their physical strength . Mr . Bright said that the matter had not been much agitated ; he was surprioed at that when they had seen thousands of persons passing through the country last year puliing the pluvs out of their boilers and stopping their mills ; one of their demands being tbut the mills should not be worked inora than ten hours a day . He wa . 8 of opinion that till they determined to reduce the hours of labour to ten hours all factory legislation would fail to attaining those objects ¦ which it -wab deB \ r&Wo to attain ; undthat he knew was-the opinion of the working people in his district . Gentlemen whose mills were in large towns were not so intimately acquainted with the habits and opinions of their workpeople as others where the people lived upou the establishment , as they did in his .

      Mr . Bright explained that he Aid not mean to say that legislation upon tho subject had done no good ; Ibis opinion was that it had done some good , for public opinion was with it . Mr . Walker , of Bradford , deprecating and condemning as he strongly did the remarks made by Mr . Bright , was happy to find he had conceded the point by stating that public opinion was against him . The arguments of Mr . Bright might have been used forty years ago , and they need not have come there in 1843 , to bo told that young persons were not to be protected , that no necessity existed for protecting those who could not protect themselves . He trusted they had made a greater msrch in the way of improvement than to beg any attention to such views ; he had no doubt that

      many of the most influential Members of the House of Commons entertained right views upon tbia important subject , and that when an opportunity offered they would bring it to a satisfactory conclusion . He rejoiced to say that the principal concerns in cotton , flax , woollen , worsted , and he might add silk , desired a diminution in tho hours of labour . He confidently stated that many of the largest concerns in all those branches would be happy to see the hours of labour reduced from twelve to ten . He hoped then that Hon . Gentlemen would not be influenced by those who say that they hal no wish for tinkering in legislation , but that h : vvin ? bten called together , they wouW concur In some measure which would effectually promote the welfare of tb ^ bodies and souls of the young persons employed in their factories , &o .

      Mr . Milne , of Oldham , had been for ten years a strong advocate of the Ten Hours Bill , on the ground that to work longer was injurious to the health and morals of the children and young persons . He advocated it too on behalf of thoBe who were thrown out of work by the present system . Wliy should they work to death five-sixths of the population for the purpose of throwing the other sixth out of work , and filling the gaola and workhouses with them—( hear ) ? Ho wanted ts know what injury could arise to any class by allowing thum a ! l to work ten honrB , instead of five-sixths working twelve Lours a day , and one-sixth working

      none at all He never beard a speech with more pain than be listened to Mr . Brigbts . He bad a great respect far Mr . Bright , but his opinions were diametrically opposed to every single sentiment he had expressed . He ( Mr . Milne : was prepared to say that the Teu Hcura Bill would be of advantage to the employer . He contended then that it was as much for tho benefit of the master ad the man to reduco the hours ef labour ; and the only proper principle on which to regulate the hours of labour was to contiuue to lessen the number of hours till the whole of the labouring population bad employment .

      Mr . Morris presumed that the meeting contained gentlemen who were too sound political economists to bo carried away by the arguments of the last speaker . There were always two parties to a bargain , and it was very well to raise the price by reducing the supply , but be doubted very much whether that would be pra « - ticable . He begeed distinctly to say , that in his opinion tho reduction of tho hours of labour to tea hours a tiay woald be prejudicial to the masters and tho children . Mr . Hindley , M . P ., thought they should now adjourn . It was four o ' clock , and the corn law question was coming on , and they had many petitions to present . He thought it highly necessary that this discussion should be continued , and he was desirous . that the fallacies of the last speaker , and of Mr . Milne should not remain unanswered , he should move ti-at the meeting ; kM mm li : l the next day , at twelve o ' clock .

      Mr . Bright was understood to say th . it he should protest against any resolutions being brought forward at the next meeting . Tiie meeting then adjourned .

      ADJOURNED MEETING . Tho adjourned meeting of Membrrs of Parliament , and Miilowners from the four counties of York , Lancaster , Chester , and Derby , upon this subject , was held on Wednesday , May the y . h , at the British Hotel , Cockf-pur-street . The Hon . J . S . Wortley resumed the chair . Mr . Ellis , cf Castltfield , Bingley , was in the possession of the signatures of the owners of twentyfour mills , representing their opinion upon the subject ot the hours oi labour . He might say , generally , that if it were tboHght adviseable to alter the act now in force , there was no objection on the part of these millowntrs to its being altered to the extent proposed by the bill , it being very near the practice esisunn in their mills now .

      The Chaikman said it appeared to be the impression of the meeting yesterday , that they should not comb to any distinct vote on the occasion : they only wanted to hear the opinion of gentlemen connected with the factories , for the information of members of Parliament . Mr . Ellis read tho instructions he bad received . They were as follows : — " It is the opinion of tho owners of mills in Keighley , Otley , and Burley , in the West Riding of ihe County of York , that it is not advisable to interfere further witb tho hours of labour , than is proposed to be done by the Government factory bill now before parliament . "

      Mr . Ra . nd said they had met for the purpose of laying before members of Parliament , their respective opinions as regarded tho hours of labour , and thn age of admission into the factories , and their reasons for such opinions ; for upon tho souiidness of tho reasons depended tho worth of the opinion to tho Gorernini nt . There could bo no doubt that the object ot the Government m proposing this bill , was not to fix . hours for tho exclusive advantage of the masters , but so to fix them as to be consistent with the moral improvement of the population . ( Loud cheerp . ) If gentlemen lost s >^ ht oi that fact , and consulted oiiiy their own private interests , they lost of the of the

      si ^ hi very pith reason which induced the Government to stir at all in thumatter . ( Hear . ) Ho would now bs % to ask Mr . Ellis one question , which he trusted he would answer with tho samo frankness as he ( Mr . Rand ) had stated his reasons , \ est < -ro'ay , for the plan he proposed ; it , was this" Whether a period of twelve hours actual labour for young persons , chidlyiy females , with two hours for iiitals , the time for # oins » and returning from the m / ils , occupying nearly fifteen iiours , w . re , in his j'ld ^ ment , compatible with their morai improvement , and with the proper discharge ot domestic duties ?"

      Mr , Ellis should pay that the plan Mr . Rand proposed yesterday , would not obtain the object ho tad in view . He was quite satisfied , Jor his own part , that evening schools were altogether ins-ufiicient lor the purpose of educating the people . He ( . Mr Ellis ) had been for the last thirty or foi ty years much interested in the subject of education ; iu his neighbourhood they had a national school , containing two hundred and sixty scholars , iu his opinion , howevtr , evening and Sunday schools would be by no means adequate for the purpose . The persons usually found willing to instruct in Snnday Schools , were generally very incompetent to the dutv , aad mucn more fitted to be scholars than

      teaciic-i '; -. As to the physical part of the question , that was a quc .- ; tiou fitter for medical men to decide than for himself . He Bhoula say there wero few neighbourhoods where the morals of the people were better than in his own , if he might judge of morals from the number of convictions that took place : the number of convictions for assault did not exceed thirty-three in a year , in a population of 26 , 000 . He thought that was a pretty good proof that they were not ia a bad state as regarded peace and order . Mr . Rand should be sorry to appear pertinacious in a matter of this kind , but he would beg to submit that that was no answer to his question , which he begged to repeat to Mr . Ellis , Mr . Ellis made no reply .

      Thb Chairman would wish to ask Mr . Ellis one question , with respect to the working of the enactments which provided for relays of the young children . Great objection had been made to that system in borne respects , and he should be glad to Know Mr . Ellis ' a opinion upon it . Mr . Ellis said he had been engaged to that sort of employment upwards of forty yearn and he bad

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      never Been anything like a difficulty in it whero parties did not employ an undue proportion of very young persons . He hud n&t . however , any childrea who worked more than six hours , the eight houra relay having been found productive of much inconvenience . The children in his establishment , between tho age of nine aad thirteeen , formed about 10 per cent , of the whole population employed , but in the worsted business he knew the proportion was much greater , ia some cases as much as 33 per cent . He thought where there was a ready disposition to aid the legislature , the system might easily be carried out . Mr . Aldam , M . P , said , one objection which had been raised to the system was , that they brought up a greater number of persons to the factory employment than could be employed as adults . Mr . Ellis was unable to speak to that point ; he never found any inconvenienoe to result from it .

      Mr . Aldam begged to ask how long Mr . Ellis had practised the six hour system . Mr . Ellis said about two years . He adopted it after conferring on the subject , with Mr . Saunders , the Factory Inspector , who strongly recommended him to try it . Mr . Brocklehurst , M . P ., thought the plan of Mr . Ellis might suit , Keighley Union very well , but Mr . Rand ' s plan was much more comprehensive . The business of silk throwing would be entirely destroyed by Mr . Ellis ' s plan . He would propose for eilfi : that ; children from eight to ten years of age should only work six hours and a half , and attend schjol , and from ten to thirteen , work ten hours a day , and from thirteen , according to the provisions of the Bill .

      Mr . Walker remarked that Mr . Ellis had alluded to his own works in the countay : the objection applied more particularly to large towns , where tho population would be made fo large in consequence of the double relay system . Tho Chairman said he had been told that the difficulty would be in tho country whero there would not bo a sufficient number of children for the relays . Mr . Britcklehurst remarked that tho Mayor of Macclesfield had lately taken a census of that town , when it was found that there were 1700 adult weavers walking about , aud not one child under eighteen years of age unemployed . Mr . Harrison , of Bury , concurred with Sir G . Strickland in advocating an Eleven Hours' Bill .

      Mr . Kay , of Bury , said in many of the mills in large towns the owners would not employ children under thirteen years of ago at all . They were , therefore , to ramble up and down the streets , and to do what thoy pleased . He should very much recommend miilowners to take into their consideration that which Mr . Rand had so ably stated , whether twelve hours labour was really consistent with a proper feeling of humanity towards their workpeople . Mr . Brook thought it waa agreed that Mr . Rand ' s resolutions should to-day be taken into consideration with a view of considering them in detail . As to the first resolution , he would not say one . word except that he entirely agreed with it . The second was au utter fallacy . To suppose that , was to suppose that

      tho persons who wero enabled by law to work twelve hours a-day remained stationary , and did not pro gress into any other department of manufacture . As they attained strength , and ability , and information , they wero gradually taken from the piecers to be feeders , where they would feed two carders , or a carder and and a scribbler . That this would introduce then a double number of persons into tho factories was a fallacy—( hear , hear . ) He then read thfl third resolution , and asked if thora could bo any thing more unreasonable than to suppose that that would be the case ; the ordinary wa # es of piacera was 3 s . 6 d . a-week , aud in some places as high as 4 s . 6 d . for the younger branches engaged in that business . But they oDly got half that

      amount , that was Is . 9 d . subject to a reduction of 3 d . a week . The income to tho family therefore did not exceed Is . 6 J . Suppose a man ' s family ' consisted of five children , he would not have more than two who could workjat that description of work , that would be three shillings a week , but that would be a sufficient inducement for any man to change his residenco . With regard to the 4 th resolutioh , he might perhaps subject himself to the charge of inhumanity in what he was going to say ; but his opiuion w as , and it was not a very recent opinion , but one founded upon great experience , and it was the opinion of the most celebrated men in the medical profession , that tho persons employed in mills in his neighbourhood , where they regularly worked twelve hours , were

      more healthy—he said more healthy—than tho children who wero allowed to roam about , and who were unemployed . They worked in a temperature , certainly not like that of the cotton mills in Lancashire , which was by no means consistent with health ; and ho was told the effect of the oil was by no means insalubrious ; and he believed it was admitted by the Factory Inspectors that the children who came under their inspection were taller of their years than those engaged in any other employment . With regard to the pressure upon the physical powers , he would take it upon himself to say that there was nothing like work in the woollen trade , as compared with the work of an agricultural labourer , a mason , a bricklayer , or J . ny o : her

      labourer ; all that waa required was attention , but beyond that there was nothing at all that deserved the appellation of labourer . If this were passed young females of the age of eighteen would not be allowed to work tho regular hours as by tho present law ; ho could sco no reason for that ; ho believed young women at eighteen were as much at maturity as they ever would be— " The proper performance of domestic duties ; " on that he would pay , that all factory labour or labour of any kind other than domestic labour , had a tendency to produce that evil , and uuless they took steps to annihilate factory labour , that evil which was ^ inseparable fro m tho system must continue . How could they teach youog women engaged ten hours a-day , tho culinary art , or washing .

      or getting up of linen , cooking , or other domestic work ? The next resolution he thought that had been already referred to in the first proposition , and certainly relays never could work well or would be submitted to by the employer , except when there was a great demand for labourers . As he observed yesterday , to reduco the ! jours of labour from twelve to ten would have tho effect of destroying one-sixth of all the mill property in the kingdom—( a laugh . ) Ho hoped he was not misunderstood . Unquestionably if they could work the mills as much as they were capable of being worked , and if they wero prevented working them two hours a day , if he understood figures , it must have the effect of depriving them of the employment of one-sixth of their property and of its value .

      Mr . Harkison remarked that the value of property depended on the manner of working it and the profits of the trade . After some further discussion , Mr . Fielden , M . P ., Oldham , said his opiniona were so weil known upon the Ten Houra Bill that it was not necessary for him to take up much time . Ever since ho bad laboured in a factory , be had always contended that ten hours labour was as much as any human being , either child or adult , should be required to perform . His opinion remained unchanged , and in order to know the feeling of those who came from the country , be thought the best course would be to take the names of those who were for a ten , those who were for an eleven , and those who were for no alteration at

      all ; but he would say let no party commit himaelf by 9 sectioning any ont cf these terms of labour , so as not to ba free to act aa he thought right for the future . As Mr . K ^ nv 7 ortby had been referred to , he might say that Vr . K . was an extensive manufacturer at Blackburn , v > ho had taken a deep interest in this question : be w . is , i genthruan employing an iinmeiiBe number of liar . ds , bo had been brought up in a facLory eversince he was eight years old , and he understood factory labour in all its departments , and be had always recommended a ten hour * bill . He ( Mr . Fielden ) had written to him , asking him . what hia opiuion was of the present Factory Bill , and ho txpreased himself as strongly opposed to tbo system of relays contemplated by tha bill upon the table ia the House of Commons . Six houra

      labour he thought would not oifer sufficient inducement for tho em ploy nient of tho children , and he was in favour of a uuiforin time of labour for all persons from ten to twenty-ono years of age , and that should be limited to ten hours a day . ( The bou . gentleman then read a ictter from Mr . Kenwortliy , d .-tted Blackburn , May C , 1813 , wherein that -gentleman recapitulated the sentiments which the honourable nr .-mber had just ascribed to him ) He might state that Air . Kenworthy ' a factory was not of a high temperature . His spinning was about 3 G ' s or 40 's . He thought it would not be amiss to read an extract or two from Mr . Kenworthy's letter to master cott ; n spinners , which was well worthy the attention i \ nd consideration of factory masters . ( The honourable gentleman then raid the

      following passages from Mr . Kenworthy ' a pamphlet : — " Tbo difference of 51 . per lb . on yarn , or one faiihing per yard on cl ^ th , ia the mighty difficulty that we have to overcome , in order to afford to our factory hands that respite from physical toil which ia so imperatively demanded , and to save our country from ruin by foreign competition ! How abominably absurd and inconsistent it is tbafc the suffering thousands , -who have so often called and patiently waited for the redress of their grievances , should have their miseries protracted , under the delusive notion of the dangers ariaiug from foreign competition ! Are we so near ruin , that an advance of one farthing per yard on our cotton cloth would irrevocably seal our fate ? If so , how important an element of national prosperity is the labour of these poor people 1 How praiseworthy is their exemplary patience under

      tkfeir complicated sufferings ! But , we are all conscious of , and daily experience , fluctuations in our ootton and cloth markets ; and these often moke a much greater difference in the cost of goods than that to which we bave already adverted , as consequent upon a reduction in the period of labour . These fluctuations may be caused by speculations—by fabulous reports respecting the cotton crops and by many ether combinations of circumstances : still , no ; a word iB said about being ruined- by foreign competition on these accounts . We have seen that the working of shorter time would increase , to a certain limited extent , the cost of manufactured goods . All c niraercial men know , however , that the coat of aa article has nothing to do with what it sills for . The selling price is regulated by the amount of supply and

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      demand ; and as the supply is lessened , the demand remaining the same , goods will necessarily advance in value : or , if the price does not advance , a restricted supply prevents a further declension , and thereby secures the masters from greater loss , and the workpeople from greater suffering . ' Bat , ' it may be asked , ' could masters obtain an advance equivalent to tho stated difference in the cost of manufacture ? If not , they would very soon be ruined , Beeing that they are losing already . ' We unhesitatingly answer in the affirmative ; and , as a reason for thus replying to the question , we would refer to the temporary advance in tae price of goods and yarns which was tho effect of the late turn-out If we only let the hours of labour

      decrease , as the powers of invention and production increase , we shall obtain better prices for our goods , as well as to be the instruments in the hands of Divine Providence , of distributing happiness on every band Then , and not till then , will inventions become what they ought to be—blessings to the land . " Those opinions most cordially agreed with his own . He never could see the force of the arguments raised against the Ten Hours Bill on account of foreign competition . He bad often inqu i red what foreign competition was , and he found it was this : manufactures here were being exported to such an extent , machiuery was so much improved , and production followed in the same ratie , that in every market in the world their productions wero met , not by the competition of the French , not

      by the competition of foreigners , but of the very men who surrounded them , and amongst whom they lived—that waa foreign competition—( hear , hear ) . Then they held the means of averting it : let them reduce the period of labour , and they -would find that they would reduce the quantity of goods so much , that there would be a much betttr market for them . He had tried to ascertain what was the difference of cost between twelve and ten hours in his own manufacture , and he found that it would not cost tko poor man a penny more to get a shirt , not thTseha' . fpenco more to get a fustian jacket , and not one penny three farthings more to get a gown piece , if tho hours were reduced from sixty-nine to fifty-eight next week

      —( bear , hear . ) And was the consumer to ba found in England that would not support the Ten Hours' Bill at once , and freely pay the differences of prjca ?—( hear , hear . ) That was the fact , aud he was therefore willing to go to fifty -eight hours at once ; nay , he was willing to go to forty-eight : let him give a proper factory bill , and he would take caro to limit the hours to fortyeitfht , and thon he would educate the people ; but with a Ten Hours' Bill there could not be had education , which it was the duty of factory masters to promote . He should like the millowners to look at the reports of the factory inspectors , and see what was tUere said about them . Mr . Brook said there had been no enquiry before the Factory Bill passed .

      Mr . Brook said he had read there was no proper information . Mr . Fielden continued . Why , previous to the passing of the bill a factory commission issued , which called upon every manufacturer in Yorkshire and Lincashire , and their report made the manufacturers appear more odious even than tkey were represented before Mr . Saddler ' s committee . The stain of that report still remained upon the manufacturers . Every report made by the Factory Inspectors since 1833 was full of charges against the masters ; he felt there was a stigma attached to th « masters which they ought to get rid of , but which they could only do by giving the people a really efficient ten hours bill . He would tell them what the Inspectors said of the manufacturers .

      The Chairman thought as it was probable the gentlemen present were desirous of confining the business to a moderate length , that the Hon . Gentleman should confine himself to the question of the hours , which was the practical question before the meeting . Mr . Field en must make a few remarks upon that subjact , becauB'd he thought it was important that the manufacturers should know what was said of them in the House of Commons . In the first report of the Inspectors it was stated that children and young persons were not protected . Mr . Stansfield , M . P ., understood that they had met to hear the opinions of raillownsrs : he thought Members of Parliament should not express their sentiments , but listen to the opinions ot the miilowners . Mt . Hardy , M . P ., remarked that the Hon . Gentleman forgot Mr . Fielden waa a mlllowner—( hear , hear ) .

      Mr . Fielden submitted that he , as a millowner , had as much right to speak as any millowner present . He employed as , njany bands , perhaps , as any master in Manchester—( hear , hear ) . Mr . Rickards , speaking of the relay system , gave it as his opinion that the limitation of one class of children to a curtain number of hours , and of another class to a different number of hours in the same mill , could never be put in force by leaul means : evasion was so easy , and detection so difficult , compared with the private interest adverse to it ; but he atided that protection for the children was necessary to prevent the avarice of masters and the stimulus of high wa ^ es from working thousands to death ; and ha snid there were millowners who must be restrained . Mr . Homer , Mr . Saunders , and oth 6 r inspectors , concurred in these sentiments . Mr . Morris submitted that the meeting did not wish to hear a repetition of what the Factory Inspectors had already given to the world .

      Mr . Fielden , continued . —There was another thing mentioned , with respect to training up the children to habits of falsehood . It was stated that when asked tbeir age— " going of fourteen , " or " past thirteen" was the ready answer , always given . He ( Mr . Fielden ) did say that the system of relays led the children into the habit of telling falsehvods and was calculated to destroy all moral feeling . They could never rest till they got a uniform Bill and if they had that ho would not envy the feelings of any man who could ask the people to werk more than ten hours a day . ( Hear . ) Rather than eee the poor people subject to fourteen hours a day , factory labour such as it was , he would sink the factories into the sea . But he did not believe that was necessary if masters wou d only be reconciled to [ what ( was reasonable ; and he was sure nine-tenths of the people of this country would Bay that ten hours labour was quite enough . ( Hear , hear . )

      Mr . Feilden , M . P , for Blackburn , had received no instructions from any party as to the cauEe to pursue in this debate . He believed in his neighbourhood there was a difference of opinion as to whether the Bill should be for ten or eleven hours . He had had some resolutions sent to him agreed to at a public meeting which he believed , however , expressed the sentiment of tho town generally . His own opinion was that eleven hours would be more desirable than twelve , and if it were found after working eleven hours for several years , that a shorter period would be desirable he should say then try a Ten Hours Bill . Other speakers also addressed the meeting , and on Mr . Rand's resolutions being put separately to the meeting , they were all affirmed .

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      Shipwreck of Thirty-six V essels —r ^ Britannia steamer , from New York , which a •*• at Liverpool on Sunday last , accounts have £ ** ceived at Lloyd ' s of the total loss of thirty . gj x ^ Z ^ several of which were Ene packet ships , 1 ^ 1 ^ cargoes of merchandise and other valuable » nn 3 and many lives are supposed to have perished ! *?¦ subjoined particulars are extracted fromTl ?• received by the underwriters from LivernoAi * Amon /? the most important is that of the iosanfir Hercules , belonging to Liverpool , nearly Ima ' S * burden ; Commander , Captain Poatil ; valoed ii ? her cargo , it is stated , at £ 30 , 050 . She wa ? L to Mobile , and was wrecked near the enu *« " ^ the harbour of that port , occasioned , it waarSSS ? by a heavy gale driving the ship on a danS » shoal , where she subsequently went to pieoa ^§ 5 * are , however , happy to say , that thT ' wU of the crew and passengers were saJIT the boats , and that soma part of the mat * . ' have been brought ashore . The ship , it h » £ « Jl is insured in the United States . —The next recn " ^ 1 is that of another fine ship , belongine to thi * **

      port—the Conservative , 242 tons burden CW ^ Lord . She sailed from Nowhaven to thefjR Good Hope , with a general cargo , and waa l £ S baldanha Bay previous to the 10 th of March- m of her contents washed ashore , Respecting the fv ! of her unfortunate crew , there are little doubts h \ that they all perished ; however , it is but tight t give publicity to the following fact : —LettetadaiAj the 20 ib March express a hope that they landed ? the beach soon after the ship struck , as the boii wero found upon the beach uninjured ; bus thenr no mentioning of the oars being discovered iaornL them . Another letter , of a much later date , fro * the Cape of Good Hope , however , states that it « u much feared they had all met with a watery om in

      attempting * to iana , notniag having been heart of them . The ship is stated to be fully insm *? About the 6 amo time another large vessel , mmS the Mary Ann , St . Mary ' s Bay , YarmomiT f ! , Grand Manan , was totally wrecked at Lone H ^ Bay . Seventeen of tha crew perished with W The ship Saphire , from Salem , foundered in £ course of the aame month , off the Bahama Bauk «*» saved by the long boats . —Th « Clyde , from Barbados was lost iu the early part of April , on the iskndsrf Canker . She was a valuable vessel , belonging to th 2 port ( Barbadoes ) , bound to L * Guayra , —Another packet ship , called the Great Britain , from Newwr t

      to JMew xortc , was lost in the same month , whiles her passage to that port . The vessel foundered b lat . 48 , Ion . 33 . Fortunately before she went down her crow and passengers were saved . —On or about the 34 of April , her Majesty ' s ship Spartan , on ha passage from England to Vera Cruz , observed th » hull of a large steamer floating bottom upwards but no mark or letter could be seen so as to lead to her identity . On the 8 th of April , the Caribbean from the Clyde to Sfc . John's , Newfoundland , was lost 2 the ice off Cape Bollard ; orew , passengers , and part of cargo were saved . At St . John ' s , Newfoundlan d during the latter part of March and April , the aestruc ^ tion amongst the shipsby the ice was immense . It waa owing to the sudden Betting in of the weaiher by which

      all the sailing vessels were trozen in , and afterwarda foundered . Among the principal vessels were the Ocean , of Bonavista , the Henry and Mary , the Industry , together with twenty-five others , belonging to the different outports . In one instauce , the capT tain and crew , amounting to fourteen meu , were drowned . In addition to the above awful catalogs of disasters , wo regret to announce tho loss of tha barque Vere , belonging to Poole , Captain BadocL 460 tons burden ; she was on a voyage to New Brunswick , and her wreck occurred during a hearo

      snow storm on the 29 th of March , on Caopljelfr Islands ; her crew were saved . The Trinidid packet , belonging to Liverpool , from Demerara , ij supposed to be lost ; &he left the latter-mentioned port on the 18 ch of February ; she was a finobrit 206 tons burden , commanded by Captain Lamb ' and had a rich cargo on board of sugar , rum , aad molasses .

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      Leeds Corn Market , Tuesd ay Mat 16 tb . arrival of Wheat to this day ' s market w r ^ larger than last wetk , other kinds ot £ ra"J ' lsi 4 Fine Wheat has been in limited demand rt ^ week ' s prices , but the second qualities have ^ ^ ^ better demand , and prices fully £ > PPJJ J . chambered qualities very au : l . Bane ) »» - . ^ tion . Oats and Beans iu better demand , ana v

      rather dearer . ^ ^ THE AVJE . UAGE PRICES OF WHEAT , FOB !«*¦ ending May 16 " th , 10-i 3 . Wheat . Barley . Oats . Rye . Beans . ^ Qjs . Qra . Qrs . Q « . ^ 35

      3723 228 748 0 iJ \ £ s . i £ s . d . £ s . d . £ e . d . £ 8 . d . £ >¦ f * o , 2 7 7 . i 1 1111 0 19 2 . 1 000 H » - ^ Richmond Corn Marki ^ . M ay 13 . * ^ fair supply of Wheat at our n ^ lr ^ o ^ l thinly supplied with O * ts . —Wheat , from . 0 6 s 6 d ; Oats , 2 s 3 d to 3 i ; Barley , 3 * w Beans , 3 s 9 i to 4 s per buahol . To-Wi HUDDERSFIELD CLOTH MARKET , MaV 16 .- ^ as last week , and for many weeks pre « °° '' ilen 3 sti 3 ness transacted was not great . Fancy woo" nori 3 sell best . The warehouses are not so du . 7 ^ ^ there any prospect of their being so . i « e ' . ^ extremely full of visitors in consequence 01 , the May fair , but their sport was mKch daff" * the rain which continued all the evening ^

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      Suspicious Soup . —On Monday forenoon last , two labourers made application to Mr . Superintendant Sawley , to bring the following curious occurrence before the notice of the magistrates : —It appeared that the two men , whose names are Henry Lowther and John Taylor , went iiito i Gentel's eating-house , Victoria-street , near tho Old Church , on Sunday last , and there had something to eat . They then called for a basin of broth , which was brought them , and which they began to eat . One of them remarked , that the broih had rather an unwholesome smell , but they both agreed as to the taste

      being very good . Under this impression , they continued at their meal , aad the broth was by degrees disappearing , when one of the men fell in with a strange bony substance , which proved upon examination to be a human nail . It was shown to several surgeons , who all agreed in declaring it to be the nail of a human being . From the siz 3 and general appearance , it would appear to be a toe nail . The two men appeared at the Borough Court , on Monda . v , before Alderman Sir T . Potter , aud T . Townend , E * q ) t when the above statement was given . The magistrates said , it was a case in which they ecuUl do nothing , but , advise the men to dine elsewhere . — Manchester Guardian .

      Prison Allowance . —During the past week two pri 9 o » iT 3 died in the gaol at Urjxton , and under the act of Parliainont it was compulsory on x \ lr . Carter , the coroner for Surrey , to institute an inquiry respecting the causes of their deaths , wiiich was gone iuto in the receiving-room of the prison . William Henry Buxton , aged sixty-one , upon whom an inquest was held , was well known throughout England as the champion quoit player , whom , from his immense strength and skill , none could

      successfully compete with . Connected with highly respectat / io- families , he was in early life possessed of an ample independence , which was soon wasted . His tkill , however , in all sporting matters insured him a good living , aud his deportment and manners were an introduction to every company . At the February Surrey sessions his associations involved him iu a case of felony , and he was sentenced to six months ' imprisonment at Brixton . When taken to th 3 prison he was in excellent health , but the early part of this month he was attacked with iiifla . mma . tinn of the

      lungs . He was then admitted into the infirmary , aud under tho surgeon , Mr . Gardner , he was perfectly cured . A few days after , Mr . Gardner was called up at one o'clock in the morning , and on his arrival found the deceased struggling on his bed in a most violent manner . He died within a few hours afterwards , and was never sensible . The jury instituted a rigid inquiry aa to the treatment of the deceased while in the infirmary , and it was proved that he had mutton chops , a piut of porter , tea , toast , and fox lunch , beef-tea , gruel , or anything he desired . A verdict of ' Natural death" was returned , and the jury added to it , that the attention paid to him was of the moat humane aud attentive kind . —The next

      case was that of Mary Keates . She had been a frequent visitor to the House of Correction , and while there her conduct was bo good that she was invariably excused from the toil of the treadmill , and was allowed to work in the laundry . In perfect health , she went out to shake a blanket , and returned very ill . Medical assistance was instantly procured , for Mr . Gardner happened to be in the gaol , but she died almost instantly . In this case also a verdict of " Natural death" was returned . The superintendentregistrar stated , in anwer to questions , put by the jury , that the average amount of deaths was 11 in the prison , and 21 in the neighbouring pauper establishment .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 20, 1843, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct651/page/8/