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FRANCE . THE 4 TH OF MAT . PARIS , Saturday . —We have at length arrived at the 4 th of May , which for some not very conceivable reason has been set aside by the government of the Republic as a day of rejoicing and amusement . The three days of the Revolution of February were , with more candour , than ia usually to be observed among French officials , ordered to be observed as a day of humiliation and mourning . We have not arrived at the period when any government could venture to . male the 10 th o : December ( the day of Louis Napoleon ' s election ) a national bolidav . And as the Parisians ba . r-
been accustomed to certain annual / e / ex . the 4 tb of May has beenfixed on ' , that being the day when' the first Constituent Assembly met , and : when the decree of tbe "Provisional Government , which declared that the form of government to be e stablished in France should be republican , was confirmed . To show how 'litis sincerity there is in the observance of the day it is onlv necessary to state that when M . Cremieux yesterday ventured to ask what part the National Assembly was to take in the fetes , and whether any place was set aside for the mem hers , the President ( General Bedeau ) stopped any such impertinent inq . irieabv saying that there to no
question before the hoase , and immediately adjourned the sitting . Besides this , it will be remembered that the parties now in power fca » e never ceased conspiring to destroy the established order of things , and that many of them defend their opposition to the Republic on the ground that it is an usurpation , and that ( although ibe Assembly accepted it by acclamation ) France was never consulted on the subject . Rig ht or wrong , however , the day must be observed , and accor d , ing ly the French " people have to pay 200 , 000 ! . in order that the Parisians may have the luual quantity of shows , fireworks , and illuminations .
The correspondent of the « Chronicle' gives the following description of the fete : — ' 'If some sober mortal , who , three or four days back , has plodded his way mechanically across Hi * Place de la Conccrde to the Faubourg St . Germain , bad been to-day suddenly raised in mid air , aud brought back by some of those bind genii whom it was our delig ht to read of in the Arabian tales , the surprise of the worthy man at such an unusual mode of locomotion cauld not be greater than bis astonishment at the marvellous transformation
which he -would find had been effected in the Place during his brief absence . Statues and vases , gav flowers and sparkling waters , triumpbial arcfees , flags , trophies , draperies of velvet and silk , and everything in fact that can please the eye in an outof-dosrs fete , would greet bis eye to whatever side he turned . Even the weather he would find bad changed , as if expressly for the occasion , a bright sou and unclouded sky having taken the place of the ssmewhat keen blasts that have of late struggled against the full bursting out of spring .
' The locale of llse / e ; e included the space frnm the Madeleine across the Place de la Concorde to the Chamber of Deputies , and . in the other directions , up the long avenue of tbe Champs Eiysees to the Arc de l'Etoile . Festoons of flowers were suspended between the pillars of the Madeleine , whilst at each car arr of tbe front of the building floated immense tricolour il . ; g 3 of silk . The term floated is , however , only applicable to the morning and evening time , as dialog the middle of the day 89 little air was stirricz , » hat here , as elsewhere , the varioas draperies and nigs clung somewhat too lazilv for effect to the buildings and staffs wliitb
supported them . ihe Ruedela uoncorde was ornamented down its whole length with alternate pillars , crowned with huge vases of flowers , and with stands of tri-colour lamps ready prepared for the evening's illumination . On the Place three grand changes bad iieen effected , first , lofty triumphal arches had been placed at the four corners , just where tbe carr ' sa-e-way leads to tbe issue beyond : nexf , the ttvn fountains in the centre were sloped gently dowi- to the ground , and covered with green turf , interspersed with beds of living flowers , whilst the waters above danced in lbs sunbeams
amidst a profusion wi evergreens and plants m full blow ; and , lastly , the Obelisk ua > surrounded with an immense platform , at each angle of which were p laced immense sphinxes , of a dark colour , the harmonize with the monument above ; whilst against the four sides of tha pillar stood Egyptian { Lures , of huge siz ? , as if the guardians of some treasonmentioned in the hieroglyphics above them . O : these three great racdmcacions in the usual appEaraope of the p ' ae . \ this last appeared to us the least nappy , though u is only justice to say that « e beard many of our nei ghbours admire it beyond measure . It might , perhaps , have been as well u > say that below were placed a number of inscriptions ,
which spoke at one she feelings of the people whom the fete was designed to please . On the four faces of thsrahed cai ; s :. 'ue iyii veers tbe words : Hi ? li » - polis , Aboukir , Pyram'des , and Monthabor ; whilst underneath were the names of Kleber , Murai , Desaix , Danon , L 3 rrry , Li ! in > s , Bfirthollet , Benbier , and other eminent rersun ? , who took part in the expedition of Egrj :-t . In addition , at some little distance from the m ' siisinen ; , were erected fear shields , one at each angle , bearing the inscriptions of Armeed'ItaUe—il-HTnuo , Arcole , Rivoli ; Arraee
ec Kbin—Jemmappcs . Hoiunimden , Zurich ; Armee d' Afriqae—Isly , Co . o-aniina $ , Al giers ; and , lastly . Grande Armee — A- - terlitz , Jena , Wagram . A French population can never behold these na ; i : es unmoved ; and hence , dutiag tbe day , around this spot , the crowds coniiiiued to congregate , readbig , frequently aloud , th : > se names so flattering to ih « ir desire for military g lory . It can scarcely he doubted that the intention in titling up the centre of the Place in this manner Wis , through the fame of the Emperor Napoleon , to throw a reflected gleam on his nephew , tbe President of ibe Republic .
The four triumphal arches , if so they may be called , are handsome well-proportioned erections bearing inscriptions intimating that they are respectively dedicated t ;> commerce , agriculture , the arts , and literature . Oa the s'des are to be seen the names of tbe per sons most famous in French annals in these several branches . Suspended from tbe centre of each of v ' nese arches is placed a magnificent chandelier of - . mmense size , which , when lit lip , will so doubt produce a splendid effect . 0 < i each side , along tho Flac ::, are erected statues representing justice , sculpture , agriculture , architecture , commerce , and nlher mat' . ers connected with tbe inscriptions on the triumphal arches .
But the arrangement of the fountains was , as we have already stated , the most dainty device of all , the intermingling of fl were , falling waters , coloured lamps , tri-colouredsiniamEJs , with tha most charming gardens a t Aiwlaise iielo . v , rendering them most
fairy . like in elegar . ee and li ghtness . Within a loped-in space , nenr them , were placed bands of music , which played at intervals during the day . The correspondent of the' Dail y News' writing oa the 5 th inst . says : — ' The festival of the 4 th of May went off without the ieast disturbance er accident . The weather was singularly favourable . The only fine spring day we have had jumped with the fete . All was warm , radiant , and joy-inspiring . The sinister predictions of reactionary journals were sp lendidly belied by the crowded faces of the festively-attired citizens . Not the least disturbance ruffled the vast assemblage which choked the ample spaces of the Place < ie la C- ncorde , and waved a
sea of hats and bluets up the avenues of tbe Champs Eiysees to ' . lie Barriere de l'Etoile . Ti . e gorgeous tinsel of the / how was arranged with the most artist-like effect , and never were £ 12 000 squandered with ware admirable economy . The crowd was entertaint ; : with fantastic fits of variegated flame till xsi .- imghi , and then dispersed quietly to their hon > . T , scarcel y dreaming of the Skilful combinations vlich General Changarnier had formed to prevent any ' -splosion of democratic rage . ' A Socialist named C' -jurtois has been sentenced , by default , by tbe Co ; rt oi Assize of Paris to imprisonment for one ycarard to pay a fine of 1 , 0001 ., for having delivered a seditious speech at an electoral meeting at Belleville , on the 19 . h of April .
A clandestine press for printing Socialists pamphlets , which were afterwards distributed through Paris and the suburbs for tbe purpose of making converts , has been discovered at Mezey , near Versailles . The printer has been fined 4 , 0007 . for a violation of the law . The President of the Republic has published a decree , dismissing M . Gilly , the Mayor of Remou-Iuu , in the department of the Card . .. ^} etter from Orleans , of the 2 nd inst ., mentions that four companies of the 24 th Regiment of Lieht Infantry had been despatched to Montargis , inconfSSt ^^ ^^^ ™&* St . JlS . ^ f there has «*« » «« b among tte workmen in the emplo 5 rBent of the Le ? stamens of Pans . The strike is not «* » t \ * l „ A * tf it is hoped that it W ^ ffi man ? Ia ?
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longer . Tbe workmen demand that their day ' s work Should be limited to ten boors , as in the period of the PloTOibrial Government . The ultra-Conservative papers « e try ing to get up a new plan of agitation , by means of what they call a « League for the public good ; ' the objectsi of which is to agitate the country in favour of the Ref « . rm' of Universal Suffrage , and the revision of the Constitution . This new institution ujgot ^ up on the ruins of the Electoral Union , which has fallen into disrepute since its failure in the two last elections for Paris . Under its ausp ices , several petitions , praying for the revision of the constitution , have already reached Paris .. .. GLORIOUS VICTORY OF THK DEMOCRATS .
. Thefollowing is the definitive state of the poll for tbe election of the department of the Saone . et-Loire ; as proclaimed on the 3 rd of May , at Macon . It will he seen that the majority of the Republicans is much greater than it was at the former election . — Electors inscribed ... 154 , 015 Number who voted 120 , 162 MM . Madier-Montjau ... 73 , 119 Esquiros 73 , 060 Charassin 73 , 014 Dam 73 , 014
Jlcnnequiu 72 , 822 Colfavru 71 , 290 Billault 46 , 508 Dariet 46 , 471 Boutelier ... ' ... 46 , 409 Lafouge 46 , 414 D'Esterno 46 , 233 Benoisfc .., ... 46 , 096 MM . Madier-de Moatjau Esquiros , Charassin , Dain . Mannequin , and Colfavru , the six democratic candidates , were consequently declared represents , uvea of tbe people .
Wednesday—In the Assembly , to-day , M . Baroche read the exposition of the motives , and the clauses of the Electoral Law . The Left dentanded tbe previous question , ; Upon this being rejected' a debate opened upon the question of urgency , which was decided by assis and leve , by a large majority in favour of the urgency . M . Baroche , amid breathless attention , ascended the tribune , and proceeded to read the exposition
of motives for the Electoral Reform Bill . It states that the present law is defective , and that discontent is manifested . Of all the provisions the most dangerous is that which confers the right of voting by six months residence . Thus the elector , under certain circumstances , may vote successivel y in several departments . It is urgent to remedy this inconvenience . The constitution requires that the vote shall take place by cantons in the place of tbe real residence . Is the electoral'law conformable
to this p rinciple ? We propose for the electoral domicile a residence of three years , that is during a period equal to that of the legislation . The proof of domicile is founded on an inscription in the assessment of personal taxes ; we propose to take as the basis of the existence of domicils , the payment of these taxes during three years . But tbe persons who live in the domicile of their fathers or mothers , workmen , and servants , shall be exempt from payment of these taxes , providing they shall have in . habited the same domicile during three years . Soldiers should be exempt both from the requirements of domicile and payment of taxes . Thus , conformably with the constitution , the election will not be dependent on taxation , ibe payment of
personal taxes being only taken as an evidence of domicile . Another objectionable point in tbe law of March 15 th is ] the enumeration of the causes of incapacity . These causes , are too limited . The new law proposes a new enumeration . A third point requires that one-eight of the electors shall vote to validate the elections . The new law requires for the first vote the fourth of the electors inscribed on the electoral lists . The obligation of replacing representatives in the Assembly shall be extended to six months . The minister concluded by demanding ' urgence' for this law , because of the agitation endeavoured to be propagated on account of this law . ( Great confusion and clamour on the Left . )
SWITZERLAND . It has already been announced that the Swiss government bad decreed tbe dissolution of the societies of German workmen established in Switzerland . It has been ascertained , on an official investigation , that the object of these societies was to destroy , not onlv all the thrones , bnt also the social institutions of Germany , and that they were in communication with similar associations in England , France , and Germany . It has further been ascertained that the associations bad entered into close communication with the political refugees in Switzerland .
' La Suisse , ' of the 2 nd inst ., publishes an address of thirty-six members of the Assembly and of the Co-. ncil of State to the electors , in opposition to the conservative party , in which they charge that party with being leagued with the reactionary parly of the interior and connected with the reactionaries of the exterior , first jeopardising the liberties of Switzerland , and then those of tbe people connected with it , as being intimately allied with the old aristocracy , the natural enemy of all liberty , and as naving , with their friends the Jesuits , hailed the alliance of all the perfidious enemies of the institutions of the country .
GERMANY . Professor Kinkel and several other persons , charged with riot at Siegburger when the stoorhouse of the Landwebr was attacked and plundered , were acquitted on Thursday week at Cologne . Kinkel had been brought there in custody from bis cell at Nauzardt , where he is undergoing his sentence of imprisonment for life for his share iu the Baden insurrection . No sentence could have made any difference in his fate . He was immediately taken back acain . All the others were immediately set at liberty . At Elberfeld the trial of the persons accused of participation in the insurrection of May , 1849 , is proceeding .
The province of Posen , the Island of Prussia , is represented by letters thence , to be in a most deplorable state of anarchy and misery . The police and military stationed in the small villages are totally incompetent to suppress the numerous bauds of robbers . The latter perform their handiwork in open daylight , and before the eyes of the authorities . Neither life , nor property can be considered safe . The province of Silesia merits a similar description . The authorities here have determined on despatching a large body of mounted gensdarmes , and on increasing the military stationed in both provinces . The Wurtemberg government has laid before tbe Chamber a new law of election , which excludes universal suffrage , and introduces a property qualification .
Munich is expecting another 'beer riot , ' and the military preparations for it have given the city the appearance of a capital in a state of siege . Before 1848 , which made insurrections familiar , it was the only German capital subject to popular outbreaks , and the cause of them was always the same—tbe price of beer . Lola Montes , the Jesuits , and politics , as disturbing causes , came later ; they have ceased to have any hold on the public , but beer remains—the eternal quencher of thirst and exciter of
discord . The price has been raised a kreuzer per pint , and the most terrible consequences are apprehended ; the guards at the Palace ap'd all tbe gates are doubled , several of the public buildings are filled with soldiers of all arms , and the streets are regularly patrolled by detachments with loaded arms . The precautions would seem disproportionate to the cause anywhere else , but are perhaps necessary where the population are such enormous consumers of tbe article as to elicit the satire of their brother
nationalists . It was a German who declared that every Bavarian gets up in the morning as a beer cask , and goes to bed a cask of beer 1
ITALY . ROMAN STATES . —Our correspondent at Rome , in his letter of the 27 th ult ., continues to give a very hopeless account of the financial state . A conference between Messrs . de Rothschild and the Minister Galli on the 26 th was attended with no satisfactory result , so that the loan was still at a stand-still , silver increasing in price daily , and tbe Exchange on London up to 545 . An extraordinary imposition on urban and rural property had been announced to meet the necessities of the state , and a portion of the small notes were shortly to be withdrawn from circulation . Imprisonment and deprivation of office were going on without any mitigation from the clemency of the Pope , or the intercession of Gen Baraguay d'Hilliers , whose departure was fixed for tbe 5 th . F
POLAND . The Emperor of Russia is expected in Warsaw on the 7 th , and every preparation is made for his reception . In consequence of the late arrests , passports have almost ceased to be granted . A few foreigners and mercantile men have for some time been the only exceptions . .. - -i- ¦ ¦
. _ TURKEY . Letters from Constantinop le of the 17 lb ult . in tbe Deutsche Zeitung' states that tbe Bosnian insurrection is progressing at a very alarming rate . Tbe Pashas of Zwomikand Fouzlahave joined there
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bels , and the Turkish government has been compelled , to send troops from Monaster and Shumla into Bosnia . - Another insurrection against the Sultan ' s authority has broken out in Kourdistan . .. -- .: Ahmed Effendi , the Turkish Commissioner in tbe Danubian Principalities , is making energetic though useless efforts to induce the Russians to reduce the garrison of those provinces to 10 , 000 men instead of to 20 , 000 . General Luders left Bucharest on the 22 nd of March . -The present Russian commander in the Danubian Principalities is General Hassfort . The ' Impartial de Smyrne' states that the disturbances on the island of Samos have led to a bombardment of the town , and to a conflict of forty-eight hours ' duration , in the course of which tbe Turkish troops succeeded in defeating and dispersing the insurgents .
Monday . —The ' National' enters into a discussion of the effect , which the reported intention of the authors of the Bill to Confine the Franchise to the classes paying the Poll-tax and Chattel-tax ( taxes personelle et mobiliere ) is likel y to produce , and infers from the fact of none but the extremely indigent class , which does not amount to much more than a million in France , being excluded from tbe list of contributors to the taxes mentioned , that this condition would not effect an important reduction in the number of votes . It says : Tbe Bourse fell somewhat to day on the report that there would be a formidable opposition in the Assembly to the Electoral Reform Bill . . It was settled " last , ni ght at tbe Club of tbe Conseil d Etat that tbe intention to demand urgency for the Electoral Bill should be maintained .
The Legislative Assembly to day , after adopting , without debate , the last chapters of the budget of marine , passed to that of public works . M . Nadaud ( a mason ) read a long speech , complaining of the injudicious economies introduced into the budget of this department , and of the indifference shown by tbe government to ^ he lot of the working classes . Grinding distress ' was occasioned by tbe shrinking of all capital from enterprise . It was the business of the government to lure forth from
barren hoards the shy wealth of moneyed men , by encouraging with advantageous conditions useful works , such as buildings . Money employed in this way would be much better bestowed than lavished as it was upon immense armaments . "The state owed work to workmen , and the best way to avoid barricades was to compl y with this obli gation as religiously as possible . He concluded by proposing that the state should- guarantee a minimum of interest to capitalists who constructed buildings .
M . Benoit d'Azy replied to the speech of M . Nadaud , and attempted to show that all possible sacrifices would not avail to remedy the state of the working classes , until public security was established . The Assembly then passed to the discussion of the chapters , several of which were adopted without any incidentof interest . Leon Faucher inserts a long article in the Messager de la Semaine , ' tailing on tbe majority of tbe Assembly and their , supporters to organise clubs for the propagation of conservative principles and the opposition of tbe growth of Socialism
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FACTORIES BILL . The following are the clauses and amendments to be moved bv Sir George Grey in committee on this Bill—* Clause 1 , page 2 , line 9 , after the word ' that , ' to leave out to the end of the c ' ause , and to insert thefollowing words , ' save as hereinafter mentioned , so much of tbe said acts as restricts or limits the employment or labour of young persons , and of females above the age of eighteen years , shall be repealed ; and after the passing of this act , no young person , and no female above tho age of eighteen years , shall he employed in any factory before six of the o ' clock in the morning , or after six of the clock in the evening of any d » y ( save to recover lost time as hereinafter provided ;) and no young person , and no female above the . age of eighteen years , shall be employed in any factory , either to recover lost time or for any other purpose , on any Saturday after two of the clock in the afternoon . '
'And be it enacted , that so much of the said secondly recited act as requires notice , of the times of bsginning and ending daily work of all persons employed in any factory , or uotico in the form » iven in the schedule ( C ) to such act as the form for the hours of work of alliyoung persons and females above the age . of eighteen years employed in the factory , to be hung or fixed up in any factory , and so much of the same act asenncts that in any complain : of the employment of any person in a factory otherwise than is allowed . by'that act , tUe time of beginning work in the morning , which shall be stated in any notice fixed up . in the factory , signed by the occupier or his agent , shall betaken to be the time when all persons in the factory , except children beginning to work in the afternoon , began work on any day subsequent to the date of such notice , so long as the same continued fixed up in the factory , shall be repealed .
'And whereas hy the said secondly recited act it was enacted , that the times . allowed for meal times , as provided by the said firstly recited act , should be taken between the hows of half-past seven in the morning and half-past seven in the evening , be it enacted , that the times allowed for such meal times as aforesaid shall be taken between the hours of halfpast seven in morning and six in the evening , and subject to such alteration as aforesaid , all the provisions of the said firstly and secondly recited acts concerning meal times and notice of meal times , shall remain applicable to all young persons and to all females above the age of eighteen years employed in any factory .
' And whereas by the said secondly recited act it was enacted , that in any factory in which any part of the machinery was moved by the power of water , the time which should have , been lost by stoppages from want of water ,, or . from too much water , might bo recovered within six months next after the stoppage , between the hours specified in the said firstly recited act , as those within which time lost by drought or excess of water might be recovered : and that , in order to recover time so lost , any child or young person might he employed one hour in each day more than the time to which the ordinary labour of children and
young persons respectively was restricted by Jasv , except on Saturday . Be it enacted , that no young person and no female above the age of eighteen years , shall , in order to recover time so lost as aforesaid , be employed after seven of the clock in the evening of any day ; and the times before six of the clock in the morning and after six of the clock in the evening :, during which any such young person or female is so employed in any day , shall not together exceed one hour ; and , save as aforesaid , young persons and females above the age of eighteen years , may be employed to recover , lost time , according to the provisions of the said secondly recited act . "
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Manchester—On Mondny night a meeting of factory operatives was held in the Corn Exchange , for the purpose of protesting against the proposed amendments which have been announced by Sir G . Grey , as to be proposed on the bill of Lord ' Ashley . The chair was occupied by Mr . Lawrence Pitkeithley , a manufacturer , who , after reading the placard by which tho meeting had been convened , called upon Mr . Mawdsley , the secretary , to read the ftrst resolution , which he did as follows : —• " That , after two years' experience of the operations of the' Ten Hours Act , ' we , the factory operatives of Manchester , in public meeting assembled ^ feel ourselves
bound , from sad necessity , once more to declare our unqualified approbation of that just and righteous law , and also our determination never to consent to any proposition , emanating from whatever quarter it may , involving in the slightest degree a departure from the principle of ten hours for fivo days in the week , and eight on the Saturdays , for all females and young persons employed in mills and factories , and that wo will stand or fall by fifty-eight hours a week , as our undoubted right accorded to us by the solemn decision of Parliament , with no relays , no compromise , and no surrender . "
Mr . Cubrt , a factory worker , seconded the resolution . „ . „ , It was supported by Mr . Doskovan , also a factory operative , who contended that tho proposal of the government was the most disgraceful thing that had ever been proposed to a British parliament . ' resolution passed unanimously . The second resolution was proposed by an operative , and seconded by Mr . II . Green , a factory hand , and was : — " That this meeting is of opinion that the conduct of tho government with regard to tho Ten Hours Bill , in not informing the country what they intended to do until the last moment , has been an act of injustice , as the factory operatives were led to believe that the government would support their just claims for an efficient Ten Hours Act , instead of which they have now given their aid to a minorityjf employers , thereby creating much uneasiness and discontent in the minds of the factory operatives . " . This also passed unanimously .
The following protest was then read by Mr . John Fur , and was unanimously adopted ;—
• • • - .-. Protest . •• < That the factory operatives here assembled , have learned with . sorrow and indignation that the government has signified its intention ' to make n proposition to the House of Commons by which it is sought to deprive the females and young persons employed in mills and factories of a portion of those leisure hours which thfir wise and good of ftU classes have decided to be so essential to their physical , moral , and social welfare , and take this opportunity to enter their most solemn protest against the enactment of
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any law founded uponany proposition which in the remotest degree sanctions a departure from the principle of tho ten hours a day for five days in the week , and eight on the Saturday , for the following reasons : — Firstly . —Because the Ten Hours Bill was passed mw law by . the force of public opinion , and by large majorities of both Houses of Parliament , after thirty years of peaceful and legitimate agitation .. Secondly . —Wherever the law has been fairly carried out according to the intentions of the Legislature , its results to the workpeople have been of the most beneficial character , without injury to the employers , which has been abundantly proved by the reports of the factory inspectors and other public journals . Thirdly—Because petitions to tho Legislature have been forwarded during the present session of Parliament , praying the House of Commons to complete the good work by carrying out ; its intentions , when it passed the Ten Hours Actofl 8 t 7 . Fourthly . —Because a , minority of masters on ly require the alteration ; the majority being satisfied with the
present law , when aftiendud as proposed , so as to carry out the intentions of the Legislature of 1817 . Fifthly . —Because the females and young persons for whose especial benefit the Ten Hours Act was passed , have availed themselves , as faras possible , of the opportunities afforded them for religious and moral culture , and for the performance of their domestic duties ; therefore the enactment of any law to extend the time of their labour is unnecessary and oppressive . w , therefore , most respectfully , call upon the Legislature not to sanction or countenauce the enactment of any law which has for its ohject the deterioration of a good and righteous measure , and which might lead to the conviction that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor . The meeting was subsequentl y addressed by Mr . Elijah Dixon , formerly a factory worker , but now an extensive lucifer-match manufacturer ; also by Mr . Buchanan , a manufacturer ; and . by Mr . S . Ha worth , of Bolton ; and Mr . Story . After a vote of thanks to the chairman , the proceedings closed ,
At a meeting of tbe Lancashire Central Committee for tho protection of the' Ten Hours Factory Act , held on the 4 th of May , 1850 , it was resolved " That the ' Government proposition to extend the time of work in factories of women and children is an unjust and cruel attempt to deprive them of their legal protection- which they now possess . " That the factory workers would greatly prefer that the bill now before the House of Commons should be thrown out for this session ' altpgether ,
than that any , the slightest , alteration should bo made in tho duration of labour .. ; ? " That , should the House of Commons agree to adopt a bill containing any extension of time , this committee plogdes itself to exert every nerve to cause such bill to be thrown out . "That a petition to Parliament , in conformity with these resolutions , to be signed by tho chairman on behalf of this committee , and to be presented to the House of Commons on or before Wednesday next , be now adopted . ... "That the district committees be advised to adopt the same course . "
The Petition . To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled . The petition of the Lancashire , Central Committee for the Protection of the Teu Hours Factory Act sheiveth—That'your petitioners are' a committee appointed by . the factovy-worUerd of the county ot Lancaster to act for them in all matters relating to any amendments or alterations of the Factory AcU . ' - ¦ ' , That your petitioners know perfectly what are the interests and feelings of the factory-workers on this subject . ' That any addition to the labour , of women and children in factories would be seriously injurious to the health , morals , and domestic comfort of such persons , and' that they would much rather prefer thatnoWH on the subject of factory labour should be passed than that any such addition should take place . -That your petitioners have heard with groat surprise and indignation that Her Majesty ' s Ministers intend to propose to odd to the duration of the labour of women aud . children in factories . - ' '
That the people employed in factories have petitioned your Hon . House to correct a mistake made in the act passed for their protection , and that a proposition to malte that fact the excuse for depriving them of the protection so accorded , your petitioners cannot but view as derogatory to the character of your Hon . House . Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your Hon . House will be pleased not to pass any measure whereby the duration of the labour of women , young persons , and children in factories may be in any degree extended . And your petilioncrs will ever pray . Philip Knigut , Chairman .
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LORD ASHLEY KSV THE FACTORY ACT . Gentlemen , —It has become my duty to state to you , without further delay , the course that I would advise you to pursue in the present position of the Factory Bill in the House of Commons . I am bound to act as your friend , . and not as your delegate ; and I counsel you , therefore , to accept forthwith the proposition made by her Majesty ' s Government ^ as the only means of solving the difficulties in which ' we are now placed . I wish most heartily for your sakes that they con . taincd an unqualified limitation to ten hours daily ; but I am induced , nevertheless , for the following reasons , to givo you that counsel : —
. 1 . The dispute is now limited to a struggle about two hours in tho week—whether the aggregate toil shall be fifty-eight or sixty hours ; the government plan requiring the two additional hours , but giving an equivalent in ' exchange .- , • 2 . The p lan imposes a most important land beneficial limitation of tho range over which the work may be taken , reducing it from fifteen to twelve hours in-tho day , thereby preventing all possibility of shifts , relays , and other evasions—a result which cannot he attained by any other form' of enactment . This has always been my strong conviction , and I earned the question by the separate divisions in 1844 . '
3 . It secures to tho working people for recreation and domestic duty , the whole of every evening after six o ' clock . 4 . It provides for a later commencement of work by half an hour in the morning . 5 . It insures additional leisure time on every Saturday . 0 . Because this arrangement would secure , I believe ,, the co-operation of the employers—a matter of no sli ght importance in the good working of any measure and essential to the harmony and good feeling we all desire to see in the vast districts of our manufactures .
But there are other reasons , drawn from the embarrassments of our present position . I have already described to you in a former . letter the necessity I have been under ( after making many essays and taking many learned opinions ) of introducing a clauso to prohibit relays which contains new matter and imposes fresh restrictions . This unavoidable step on my part sets at liberty many members who considered themselves engaged to maintain the honour of Parliament , and . thus endangers the success of tho measure ultimately , and certainly the progress of it in the present session . Its
progress , even were the bill unopposed , would be difficult under the heavy pressure of public business ; but opposed as it would be , postponement would be inevitable . Now , I greatly fear delay ; I refrain from stating my reasons ; hut I repeat , 1 greatly fear delay , as likely to be productive of infinite mischief , and which may possibly completely alter your relative and actual position . I have tried to discover the bright side of the postponement , but I cannot perceive any advantage in it whatsoever . You will stand no better in the next session than you do in this ; you may possibly stand worse .
Tho two hours are , I know , your unquestionable right ; but , on the other hand , the range of fifteen hours is tho unquestionable right of the cmplovers the exchange they offer is fair , and tho gain is on your side . In giving this counsel , I know that I shall be exposed to sa < . l misrepresentations ; but it is my duty not to do that which will secure applause to myself , but that which will secure protection to your families and children . I should be overjoyed to obtain for you the full concession of tho two hours in the week , but such an issue seems to my mind next to impossible ; and in the protracted struggle to reach the ten , you incur .. the hazard . ' of being brought to eleven hours . Postponement must follow conflict : division among tho operatives will
follow postponement ; and when once you are a divided body your cause will bo irretrievably lost . It will bo necessary to insert the word " children " into the clauso introduced by Sir George Grey , in order that the youngest workers may bo sure to enjoy the benefit of the close of the daily labour at six o ' clock . With this view I shall accept the amendment proposed by the Minister , in the humble but assured hope that tho issue will bo blessed to tho moral and social amelioration of your great community , lam , Gentlemen , Your very faithful friend and servant , May 7 . Ashley . The Short Time Committees of Lancashire and Yorkshire .
Death Op Sir Thomas Cabtwniaitt. —Intell...
Death op Sir Thomas CABTwniaitT . —Intelligence has been received at the British Legation in Berlin , from Stockholm , of the death of Sir Thomas Cartwright , her Majesty ' s envoy at tho court of Sweden . Sir Thomas hail attained his fifty-fourth year , and has passed thirty-six years in tho diplomatic service . A Descendant of Robert Bukns . —For sometime thero has been travelling in the interior of the remote island of Borneo , and sojourning among its rudo people of head-hunters , a young man of the name of Burns , and this young man is the grandson of Robert Burns and " bonny Jean . " This adventurous youth has not only been hospitabl y and
kindly treated by the Dyaks , but a prince ot the Kayan nation , the most powerful of the island , has given him one of his daughters to wife ; so that tbe future biographers of Robert Burns will , in all human likelihood , be able to enumerate among his descendants those also of a Bornean prince . Mr Burns has discovered mines of antimony and coal fields in Borneo more extensive than . any in the world , out of America . He seems , moreover , to bo not only a person of groat enterprise , but also a man of intelligence and good education ; for he has written-and pubhshed by far the best and most authentic account of Borneo which has hitherto
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been given to the public . The grandson , in short . ofhimwhosang"on the banks of Ayr , " is an intrepid and intelligent traveller in the woods of Borneo and on the Equator .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 11, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_11051850/page/2/
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