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skilful allusion to the medal accepted by her Majesty , which bore upon its reverse "A Ten Hours Bill / and which would have to be returned to the factory operatives if the bill were carried in its present shape . In conclusion , he implored the House not to vote under an illusion that the bill unamended would settle this question . Let them fairly and honourably redeem their pledge , and prove to the working people of this country that they attached more value to the
declared intentions of the legislature , and to the claims and rights of the industrial population than to the back-stairs influence and coffee-house combination of any set of associated supporters of the Government . He appealed to the ancient spirit of English honour to vindicate the rights , the admitted rights , of English , labour , and to show that they were not only in name and in theory , but in deed and reality , the representatives of the Commons of England .
The amendment was seconded by Mr . Hornby , who complained that the desertion of the operatives ' cause by Lord Ashley had produced a very prejudicial effect upon the question . He could not see that there was the slightest ground for insisting upon the additional half hour ' s labour . Sir G . Grey hoped the House would not adopt the amendment of the noble Lord , who , as well as his seconder , had treated this bill as if it was a repeal of the act of 1847 , whereas its intention was to secure the attainment of the objects of that act , with the advantage of the cordial concurrence of the mi 11-owners ; and he had always considered it to be most
important for the interests of all classes concerned in this question to combine the great mass of the operatives with the great mass of the millowners . Sir George vindicated the consistency of his own conduct and the course taken by the Government , who , after Lord Ashley ' s vain attempts to work out his object in drawing his own bill , believed that they were acting in the spirit of the law of 1847 in making their proposition to Parliament , which they knew was for the benefit of the operatives . There was no breach of good faith—no violation of honour—in dealing with the question , as this bill did , more in the spirit of the act of 1847 than an attempt to adhere to its letter would enable them to do .
The amendment was supported by Mr . Banices , Mr . Stanford , and Mr . Newdegatk . Mr . Muntz said he had voted for a ten hours bill in 1847 , and , as an honest man , he should vote for it now . Mr . IIeai / d , " as a man of honour / ' felt himself constrained to give his vote for it also . Mr . J . W . Fox , Alderman Sidney , Mr . Anstey , Mr . B . Cochkane , Mr . S . Crawford , and Mr . Greenax / l , all spoke on the same side . Mr . Heywood and Mr . Wilson Patten , the members for North Lancashire , both opposed the amendment .
Lord J . Kussei / & stated the grounds of his support of the bill of 1847 , which he believed to be founded upon sound principles , and he had no wish to repeal it . It was Lord Ashley who proposed to alter that act , on behalf of the operatives . If , then , he was called upon to pronounce an opinion upon that act , ho must see what it did and what it did not do . There was no provision in the acts of 1817 or 1844 as to the limitation of employment between the hours of G and 6 ; this bill , therefore , proposed an enactment entirely new . The question was , whether the arrangement in the bill was not , on the whole , very beneficial to the operatives and their families . There
was only one case in which he could conceive that the plan of the Government could be unacceptable , namely , if the whole body of the operatives should say " We wish the law to remain as it is , and we will require you to abide by the act of 1847 . " But , as far as ho was informed , there was no such general feeling among the operatives . The proposition of the Government did amend the law , but it amended it so as to meet the mutual interests of the two partics ; whereas Lord J . Manners would amend the law on one side only , nnd impose fresh restrictions upon the employers , which would be a disadvantage to the operatives themselves .
Mr . Elliott opposed the amendment , and Mr . BuoTiiKUTON deprecated the rejection of the bill as it stood , which would make the relay system more general . Mr . Edwards supported the amendment . Mr . Disraeli denied that Lord Ashley had sought to alter the net of 1847 , but to correct the errors of the act of 18 < M . Tho working classes of the country believed that when they gained the former act their labour was to bo limited to ten hours , and they rcfusi'd to be mystified by references to other legislative Kliort-oomings . A moral , not an economical , question was before the House—a question of the honour of Parliament .
The House then divided , -when Lord John Maniuts ' k amendment , was negatived by 1 S 1 to 112 ; majority , ' !!> . The report was then brought up and agreed , to . Tin : Prun-AX Sammatauians —A Liverpool merchant in tho Times of this morning says : — ?• "When I was last in London ( not many weeks back ) it was my fortune to pass by the porches of more than one oi your west-end chapels and churches —one of them in South Audley-street—about half-past one p . m . The
number of gay equipages collected round them was so great that one might have supposed oneself to be assisting at the termination of a theatrical performance . Who groomed those horses so sprucely , who turned out those carriages so neatly ? It was done of course by hands ; and who set the hands a-going ? It may be Lord Ashley may go on foot to his own place of worship of a Sunday ; but will he tell us that every seventh day he satisfies his hunger with a sandwich , cut over night , and quenches his thirst at the water-decanter upon his dressing-table ? If the practice of the ] Neo-Postals fall one jot or
tittle short of perfection , let them set their own houses in order before meddling with the necessary business of the country , even although an infinitesimally small proportion ^ of that business must be transacted on the Sunday . Lord Ashley may , for aught I know , be the moral phenomenon who would alone be entitled to head such a movement , but I am acquainted with at least one part of Great Britain where strong Sabbatarian feeling and laxity of practice go hand in hand . To be accurate , I should say that I am speaking of Scotland as it was some seven or eight years ago , and I
am not aware that since that time matters are changed for the better . I know what a Glasgow Sunday evening is , or was , and the religious fervour of the post-pransile whiskey-tippling as well as of the morning ' s devotions . I may of course be wrong , but for my part I do not hold these pious Scotch Bacchanalians entitled to debar me from the privilege of receiving my letters on a Sunday , if such an act be consonant with my own notions of right and wrong . What would they say to an address to the Queen to put down whiskey-toddy throughout Scotland on the Sabbath day ?"
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The committee on the French President ' s Dotation Bill met on Thursday . Six members are favourable to the bill . Of the remaining nine , five are opposed to it , and four propose to grant the augmentation yearly , under the form of supplementary credits to the budget . The election of Giraidin for the department of the Lower Rhine is announced , but the official figures are not given . He is stated to have obtained a majority of 6000 votes over the Conservative candidate . The trial of Promlhon and Laugrand , for seditious articles in the Voix the Petiple , took place on Thursday . After long speeches in defence of the accused , by MM . Montjau and Cremievix , and an oration by Proudhon himself , which was listened to with mucii interest , the jury retired for an hour , and , reappearing at six , delivered a verdict of "Not euilty . "
The French Assembly decided on Ihursday , by a majority of , 372 against 226 , against bestowing rewards upon the combauts of February . M . Guizot is on the point of setting out on a journey which will comprise the leading courts in Germany . The motive assigned for this tour is to gather materials for a great historical work . The great activity in conducting political intrigues evinced by M . Guizot during his sojourn in Paris , and his assiduous appearance in the salons of the Russian embassy , give room for surmise that , his mission is by no means confined to literary researches . The Correspondent Bureau says that a press law for the states belonging to the Erfurt union is being drawn up , and will be presented to the Parliament immediately on its meeting .
. . _ . . . Accounts have been received in Paris from M . Thiers . He was well received by Louis Philippe , whom he found in a very precarious state of health . A marked change is said to bo visible in the countenance of the ox-King . M . Guizot is on the eve of leaving Paris for St . Leonard's , and M . de Broglie was to leave to-day ( Saturday ) . On Wednesday ni » ht there occurred a very serious disturbance at the Biirricre Poissonniere , Paris , which might easily have ended in another 13 th of June . A drunken quarrel , about half past eight , had collected a crowd near the military post of the barriere . The commander of this post sent two soldiers to disperse the mob . Some soldiers passing on their way to quarters
assisted in this duty ; ai-id being met by a determined resistance on the part of the crowd , the soldiers collared two of the nearest arid led them off to the post . In a few minutes upwards of 500 blouses were on the spot and prepared to storm the post . The corporal , who had sent off for assistance to the barrack of La Nouvelle France , drew up his num in order of battle , and made them loud their arms . Tho psuse which followed on this demonstrntion of energy enabird the reinforcements to arrive in time to save the post . The new coiners were however received with a shower of stones ; but nftor a few charges they succeeded in clearing the space in front of the corps < hi f / ardn , and in nirosting six of the rioters . Shortly alter lm \ Y-i > nst ten quiet was restored .
A telegraphi <; despatch from Berlin , dated Juno 12 , announces tho sale sirrival of tho King at Sans Srmci from the Palace at . Clv-ivluttonburg . His Mujvsty was not fiitiiMiod by the short join my . The College of Princes of the German Union was opened on the 12 th , at noon , under the presidency of Baron Sydow . From Dresden it . is reported that there have been some disturbances at Neustadt , near Stolpen . A military force had been sent thither by railroad . They appeared not to be connected with nnv political eausr \
Tho attempts made by the Austrian Government to obliterate every memorial of the loaders of the Hungarian movement bonier on the ridiculous . A lithographer at Pcsth , in whose woikshop a stone was found with an unfinished likeness of Kossuth upon it , hus been seized and imprisoned by the police ; and the whole impression of nn engraving of Kossuth ' s children has been confiscated and burnt .
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SERIOUS INVASION OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE PEOPLE . Anxiety for the welfare of the working classes and efforts to improve their condition have become so far popular at the present day , that a man would be looked upon with surprise , if not with suspicion , who declared himself indifferent to such , philanthropic movements . Hence the energy with . which men set on foot societies for tf improving the condition" and " the dwellings of the industrious classes / ' for " the relief of distressed needlewomen by emigration , " and for similar objects , all testifying the anxiety of a charitable public to do as much as possible for the poor that are among them .
Now , we would not for a moment deprecate the existence , or impugn the motives of these philanthropic efforts . It is the duty of those who can to make them while the present state of society exists ; their religion prompts them to it , their conscience would be wronged if they did not perform it . But we would gladly see more earnest and systematic endeavours made to put it within the power of the operatives to help themselves .
Such endeavours are exemplified in the establishment of the Working Tailors' Association , alluded to elsewhere , and in other experiments of a similar kind , and we allude to them more emphatically at the present moment , for two reasons . One of these is , that a committee of the House of Commons , granted at the instance of Mr . Slaney , is now sitting to inquire into the best plan of investing the savings of the working classes ; and the
second is , that there is before the House a bill to consolidate and amend the laws relating to Friendly Societies , in which bill is omitted the clause of 9 and 10 Victoria , cap . 27 , providing " for the frugal investment of the savings of the members , for better enabling them to purchase food , clothing , or other necessaries , or the tools or implements of their trade or calling , &c . " Under this clause cooperative stores have been opened and joint stock flour mills erected in various places , and with
signal advantage . It has been felt that more extensive facilities than the clause affords are needful to carry out the purposes for which that portion of the act was framed ; and efforts have been made to induce the Government to grant those additional facilities , but without success . It is now proposed to do away with those facilities altogether .
It may be that this abrogation is attempted in consequence of its being contemplated by Mr . Slaney ' s Committee to recommend measures by which the laws of partnership , according to the suggestion of the Economist , might be modified in accordance with the French law of " Societe en commandite " : even in that case , we would rather not part with our old privileges , however imperfect , till we know ourselves sure of new and better ones
in exchange . But , as the matter now stands , we call the most serious attention of the friends of the People , in and out of Parliament , of the members of Mr . Slaney ' s committee , and of the People themselves , to this most serious curtailment of their powers ; and we recommend all to take such steps respectively , as will be best calculated to secure those rio-hts and interests for the present , and provide for their safety and progressive advancement in tho future .
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LOUD GREY'S AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY . One measure about which the Lords have been busy this week , faithfully following the Commons , looks not like an act of Parliament , but art act ot destiny . In the bill for the government of the Australian colonies , all concerned appear to be furthering some ultimate end which their minds do not contemplate and their hands would refuse to
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There is nothing so revolutionary ; , "because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain , to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in its eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 15, 1850, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1842/page/10/
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