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THE LABOUR MARKET. Under this head we pr...
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INCENDIARISM. The Lincoln Mercury report...
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Three Divorce Bills. On Friday And Monda...
house in Hertford-street , she had been seen commg out of his bedroom as early as five in the morning . Another witness gave evidence of a still more unequivocal nature as to the extent to which iamilianties had been carried . , Lord Brougham said there could be no doubt to the guilt of the parties . When a married lady chooses to admit a gentleman , who is no relation , into her bedroom , or to go , as in this case , into his bedroom , under circumstances which could leave no doubt that criminal familiarities had taken place , what could she look for but a divorce ? There being no opposition , the bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed .
The official copy of the proceedings connected with the Earl of Lincoln ' s divorce having been handed in to the table of the House of Lords on Tuesday , the bill was read a first time . On Tuesday their Lordships heard evidence in support of Chippendale ' s Divorce Bill . Mr . Chippendale sued in formd . pauperis : the first case of the kind on record . He was , when married , an attorney's clerk . Some years ago his wife left him , and lived with a man named Humby , passing as Mrs . Hunt . Chippendale brought an action for Crim . Con . and , wanting money , was fain to compromise the action , accepting £ 50 damages and costs . It was suggested that a divorce could not be granted where judgment in the action was taken by compromise . The case stood over for consideration .
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The Labour Market. Under This Head We Pr...
THE LABOUR MARKET . Under this head we propose to give all such information as relates to the actual condition of the working classes of this country , as exhibited in their meetings , in trade strikes , in attempts to reduce and advance wages , and other movements of a similar nature . The strike among the agricultural labourers in the parish of Cotgrave , Notts , is now at an end , the masters having agreed to give them 10 s . per week as heretofore . For eleven weeks the men remained out of work , and their fellow-labourers in the neighbourhood subscribed something weekly towards their support . — Stamford Mercury .
The wages of labourers through the South and Southeast of Beds were lowered to 8 s . per week some time ago , and at Meppershall to 7 s . A further reduction was hinted at , but the labourers in the employment of five of the seven farmers in that parish turned out , and refused to work under 8 s . We have not heard the result of this determination . —Bedford Times . A sermon in aid of the Distressed Needlewomen ' s Society was preached at St . Paul's , Bermondsey , on Sunday morning , by the Reverend H . P . Fry , rector of St . George , Hobart Town . His text was , " Love is the fulfilling of the law ; " , having enforced this proposition ; having shown that the love" here spoken of was not a mere contemplative sentiment or barren expression ,
but a great practical influence , he proceeded to apply the general principle to the case before him , to show the distress existing amongst the class of needlewomen , and to ask the wealthy to assist in removing that distress . In London alone there are 33 , 500 needlewomen , of whom 28 , 500 are under twenty years of age , and of these a large portion arc subsisting , or trying to subsist on sums varying from 2 £ d . to 4 i £ d . a-day . An attempt has been made to relieve ihis distress by promoting female emigration to the colonies ; but this he viewed as a very inadequate remedy . To whatever extent the emigration of
females may be carried , its influence upon the condition of the workwomen will be but small . When it is considered that in London there are 160 , 000 of domestic servants , and that any withdrawal of individuals from the crowd of workwomen is instantly filled , little hope Cdti be entertained of reducing , and still less of improving the condition of the general body of needlewomen by emigration . Another scheme , has , however , been organized , with a view to afford permanent and effectual relief to this large and helpless class . Of this plan , which the preacher described at length , the following is an outline : —
" Its general ejects are : —1 . To obtain an increase of wages for the needlewomen . 2 . To provide employment for such needlewomen us may be out of work , by supplying' them with materials for articles of coarse clothing-, to be divided amonsr the subscribers for distribution to poor persona . 3 . To afford refuse and support to the sick and aged . 4 . To procure instruction in needlework for women who are not efficient at their business , nud to teach those who are capable of learning , and who merit Such an advantage , certain descriptions of needlework , which the women of London , from want of means of learning , arc incapable of executing , and tlui materials for which , made in Kuglaud , are now sent abroad to be manufactured by foreigners for sale in this country . The principal object , however , is the ohUiuing Is . ( id . a day each for ten hours' work , for the needlewomen , and if possible 2 s . This is to bo effected by arrangements with the shopkeepers—subscribers to the association duuling only with such as nay the full rate of waaet , and
requiring nl' ilium in their tutu to placr papers in their windows Htating that they do so . Otht > r subordinate machinery will have to bo kept in motion by local ' ladies' committees , ' communicating through one or two of their members with a great central board , by which the general concerns of the association and the annual meeting and report will be directed . In this way the institution will , it is hoped , become iho means of communication betweni females in the moro opulent classes of society and the needlewomen , and by the sympath y , kindly intercourse , and good nfllccH of benevolent ladies , will exercise a beneficial influence upon the workwomen , encouraging and rewarding the well conducted , oH'critig mraus of reformation to those wlm are not so , and inspiring all with the pleasing nud highly advantageous impression that they are objects of concern to the more favoured of their own sex , for m hum they labour , and that in this asHociatii . n they possess a resource in indigence , sicUuess , and calamity , "
At the annual meeting of the friends and supporters of the Mendicity Society , on Saturday , it was stated that a greatly-increased facility has lately been given to the immigration of the Irish to the metropolis , who are now brought direct to London at the low rate of from 2 s . to 4 s . per head ; -whereas formerly they were landed at Newport , and had to travel 150 miles by land , which operated as a considerable protection to the metropolis . A meeting of the new Central Committee of the Manchester Short-time Association was held on Sunday
morning , for the purpose of considering the course which should be pursued in reference to the Government amendment upon the Ten Hours Bill . At the meeting , which was a private one , no fewer than twelve resolutions were adopted . The substance of them is , that the Central Committee deplores the infatuation which led to the intrusting the bill to Lord Ashley , believing that it was the bounden duty of the committee to preserve inviolate the provisions of Mr . John Fielden s Ten Hours Act Any deviation from ten hours a-day ,
or fifty-eight hours per week , the committee considered to be an infringement of the provisions of that act . They also pledged themselves to support Lord John Manners in his amendment upon the Government measure . On the same day a meeting of the original Central Committee was held , at which delegates were present from most of the manufacturing towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire . Each delegate stated to the meeting the feelings of his constituents , which , on the whole , was decidedly in favour of the Government proposition . They were desirous , if possible , to have a bill limiting the hours of labour to fifty-eight in the week ; but , failing that , it was agreed that no measure should be adopted which might endanger the Government scheme . The whole of the delegates who had been in London declared in favour of the Government scheme .
A large meeting was held in the Liverpool Amphitheatre , on Tuesday week , for the purpose of bringing before the public the evils engendered by the slop , sweating , and middlemen system in the tailoring trade . The Mayor of Liverpool presided , and several speeches were made illustrating the evils of the system . A person who had been in the habit of working for the Messrs . Hyam , of Lord-street , Liverpool , produced a pair of trousers , for the making of which he only got a shilling . It took nine hours to make a single pair , and out of that sum he had to pay twopence for silk , thread , and twist , leaving him tenpence for labour , coals , candles , and rent . The following resolution , among others , was carried unanimously : —¦
" That this meeting- is fully convinced that the only means of effectually dealing with an evil of such magnitude as the slop , sweating , and middlemen system , is , by obtaining the sanction of Parliament to a law compulsory on all employers to have their work done on their own premises , including- Government clothing . " On Wednesday week Messrs . Sparrow , extensive ironmasters in Staffordshire , employing between two and three thousand persons , who had previously been convicted , were again brought before the bench at Wolverhamptnn for a repetition of the offence of not paying wages in legal money ; and in this instance they were in danger of incurring the heaviest penalty of the act , there each of them
being fifteen fresh informations against . One of the members of this firm of law-breakers is in the commission of the peace—a magistrate , whose duty it is to punish violators of the law . The solicitor who appeared for Messrs . Sparrow denied that they had been guilty of any infraction of the law ; but , with the view to remove the least suspicion that their workmen were not free agents , and in furtherance of complete justice , the Messrs . Sparrow were willing to give a pledge that for the time to come all payments for wages should be made in cash , at an independent office , wholly and entirely distinct from the works , no control whatever being exercised as to where the money was expended . They were
willing to carry out this arrangement on the informations being withdrawn , the Messrs . Sparrow paying a guinea costs in each of the fifteen cases . Ultimately the matter was arranged by Mr . Leigh , the magistrate , drawing up a memorandum of the arrangement : it set forth that Mr . Sparrow pledged himself that in future all his men should be paid wholly in cash ; that in every case settlements should take place once in every month or five weeks , or three times a quarter ; that in every instance where it was practicable a fortnightly settlement should take place ; and that the men should draw a certain amount weekly , no obligation being imposed upon them to spend their money at Mr . Sparrow ' s shop .
Ton informations of a similar character were brought against Messrs . Lloyd , proprietors of the Wednesbury Oak-park Works , but they were all withdrawn on the same terms as in the case of Messrs . Sparrow . The best guarantee of the " honour" of these gentlemen will consist in the closing of their " tommy-shops . " The British Iron-Works and Pcntwyn and Golynos Works , with the exception of the furnaces , were at a stand on Monday week , in consequence of notices being
up for a reduction of ten per cent , at the British , and five per cent , at the Pcntwyn and Golynos . The men of the latter works , however , agreed on Tuesday night to go to work on Wednesday morning . The men at the British works went to work on Monday , under a promise that the drop should not exceed that of other works on the hills . The men see that the masters have no alternative but reduction of wages in the crushing state of the iron trade . — Monmouthshire Merlin .
The strike amongst , the miners of Lanarkshire has benn followed by a great reduction in the yield of pig iron . The number of furnaces out must reduce the yield of iron weekly by nearly 4000 tons . The men arc evidently determined , to hold out for the advance in wages which they formerly required , and a change in what they call the truck system , as strenuously as before the commencement of the strike . —Glasgow Daily Mail . The guardians of the lvihnallock Union in Ireland have come . to the resolution of providing the means of
The Banner of Ulster gives a very flattering account of the present state and prospects of the linen trade . Confidence has been greatly restored ; nearly all the business transacted is to order ; spinners have all hands fully employed , and in many cases are obliged to some extent to adopt the system of relay . The prospects , though not bright , are satisfactory , and in several instances large sums of money are being expended in extending mills and in the erection of new buildings . The various branches of trade in Leeds are now in a more healthy and vigorous state than for years past . The working classes are , on the whole , well employed , the poor-rates are diminishing , and even the building trade , which has for a long time been prostrated , is beginning to revive . Contracts for works cannot now be obtained within six or seven per cent , of the prices of last year . —Leeds Paper .
emigration to about 1000 of the able-bodied poor of the union . At the last meeting of the board , Bolton Massy , Esq ., one of the guardians , brought forward the proposition ; " they had immured , " he said , " the paupers within their wall , a drag-chain upon you , perhaps to die there ; send them away , they are stalwarth , and able to earn a livelihood in a foreign land , which , I regret to say , they cannot do here . " Mr . Massy ' s resolution was passed unanimously , and a committee appointed to take measures for the carrying out of the plan . A return of the expenditure of poor-rates in Ireland for the year ended 29 th September , 1849 , and of the number of perso relieved , gives the following particulars : — In - maintenance , £ 797 , 294 ; out-relief , £ 679 , 603 ; establishment and other expenses , £ 700 , 752 ; total , £ 2 , 177 , 650 . Number of persons relieved during the year : — -Indoor , 932 , 284 ; out-door , 1 , 210 , 482 .
Incendiarism. The Lincoln Mercury Report...
INCENDIARISM . The Lincoln Mercury reports " a large and important meeting of tenant-farmers" at Spalding . One Mr . Lamming said , " They would have to reduce the labourers' wages to seven shillings per week ; and then we should see the stack * yards of England , from north to south , in a blaze . { Sensation . ) Sir R . Peel was one of the biggest scoundrels that trod the earth ; the cry of the farmers must be ' Down with him ! ' " [ A Voice : " Hang him ! " ] Mr . Lamming : " Aye , hang him ! " " Hang him ! " ] Mr . Lamming : " Aye , hang him ! "
Essex . —An a ^ arm of fire was raised in the parish of East Hanninfield , on Saturday evening , when it was found that a shed upon an off-hand farm , in the occupation of Mr . Beale , was in flames . Fortunately , the fire did not extend beyond the building in which it originated . There is every reason to believe that it was the act of an incendiary , but the guilty party has hitherto escaped . The amount of damage , about £ 50 , is covered by insurance . —Essex Standard . Early last Wednesday morning a destructive fire occurred on the farm of Mr . Thomas Waters , of South Ockendon . Two stacks ( one of barley and the other of straw ) , a large barn , seventy quarters of wheat , and forty quarters of beans , were consumed . —Idem .
Oxfordshire . —A fire was discovered on the farm premises occupied by Mr . Tomkins , Weston-on-the-Green , about midnight on Saturday . It originated in the stable , where were four horses , which could not , unfortunately , be got out , and were destroyed by the fire . A barn near , in which was some corn , was destroyed , together with some hovels , two waggons , a thrashingmachine , and also a cottage , occupied by a poor man ot the name of Cox . There is reason to fear that it was the work of an incendiary . — Oxford Chronicle .
BericsHiitE . —A few days since a granary was set on fire and destroyed at Shinfield , near Heading , the property of Mr . T . C . Cobham ; fortunately , there was no grain or anything else of value in the building . —Northampton Herald . Cornwall —A plantation belonging to E . Collins , Esq ., situate at CrindleDown , in the parish of Quethiock , was maliciously set on fire by some person unknown , on Sunday morning , and about twenty acres of the same destroyed before the fire could be got under . —Cornwall
Gazette . On Friday evening , about seven o ' clock , a hayrick on Thurlibeer farm , in the parish of Launcells , adjoining the highroad , was set on fire and partially consumed before assistance arrived to extinguish it . —Idem . Cambrigeshire . —On Saturday night last the farm premises , in the occupation of Messrs . Kidman , in Dry Drayton , with two adjoining cottages , were totally destroyed by fire . The estimated damage is £ 400 . Besides the farm buildings , a stack of clover , a quantity of beans and barley , nine pigs , and some poultry were destroyed . The farmhouse was saved . A few weeks ago Mr . Thompson ' s premises , in this village , were burnt down .
Miscellaneous. The Principal Event Which...
MISCELLANEOUS . The principal event which the Court Newsman has had to record this week has been the celebration of the Queen ' s birthday . In honour of the occasion the household troops were reviewed on the parade behind the Horse Guards , by Prince Albert and the Duke of Wellington . At one o ' clock the Park and Tower guns fired royal salutes , which were responded to by those at Woolwich and Sheerness . In the evening , the two Operahouses , the club-houses , the houses of her Majesty ' s tradesmen , and most of the theatres were brilliantly
illuminated in honour of the occasion . Lord John Russell , the Marquis of Westminster , Sir George Grey , Earl Grey , Sir Charles Wood , and the Attorney-General , gave state dinners in the evening . On the baptism of the infant Prince he will take the Christian names of " Arthur Patrick Albert "—the first in compliment to the Duke of Wellington ( a s has been announced ); the second in compliment to Ireland , and as commemorative of her Majesty ' s visit to the * ' Siste r country ; " and the last alter his father . — Weekly Chronicle . It is understood that the Court "will proceed to Osborne ,
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Leader (1850-1860), May 18, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18051850/page/6/
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