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The Earl Of Lincoln's Divorchj 5... Hous...
* " wld a f ew _^ ° _* _^ apartments , and it a _t « nursed by Ellen Jones , who had been wefcrr nrse ia the family for several years . _\ m _* Raphael said , he is a solicitor , but not to * _^' Lincoln . He was applied to in September , S _%$ by Mr . Parkinson , the solicitor to Lord to Italto make about Z * _^ . u . few weeks old in her apartments , and it
ii _Tincolu to go y inquiries a _Tadv Lincoln . This witness confirmed what the ? f _^ ne _ss Osmond had before said , and further said , k that he bad searched for the register of baptisms in _v _SLna , bat all the registers were dispersed or in n _* _nnfoioo » on account of the state ofthe place at h 4 hattime . He was introduced to a Roman Catholic _« _rtiest , who stated that he baptised a child for a I yvintbe hotel , being requested to do so by the a _^ ter of the hotel ; and he gave witness a written _^ tific ate of the baptism , which witness gave in I < toring the suit for divorce in the Ecclesiastical C Court Tbe certificate being now produced from ] that court , was identified by witness , and was i tran slated to tbe bouse by an interpreter . The . / irtificate was dated on the 22 nd of September ,
r _TgJ 9 and stated , that the undersigned ( tbe priest ) i was sent for on tbe 35 th of August preceding , by t ihe master of the hotel to christen a child of which lady in tbe hotel was delivered , and which was i _declared to be the son of Horatio Walpole ] lawrence . XjotA Bbotoham then rose , and said , —My lords , I I _ijjve no doubt as to this case , of tbe absence and . _^ access of Lord Lincoln to conjugal rights , and I of the birth , of a child . The bill contained no bas-. -tardisinz clause , for , however strong the moral ¦ presnmption of tiie fact may be , you have no' right L bastardise an infant without the most positive evidence . The scene on the sofa leaves no doubt Lincoln and Lord Wal
on this case . Lady pole live _toother at Como , and travel in the same carriage to _^ ome , but the moment they come to a large town she sets out , aud they enter in separate conveyances . This was done at Genoa , and then there is the direct evidence of Lord Walpole _' s own servant of what he saw on the sofa , and which renders it clear that adultery was committed . I move , your Lordships , on these grounds , for the second reading of iMsb _' iJL The absence of the verdict of a jury is easilv accounted for , as Lord Walpole has not been in this country for tbe last two years , and it was impossible , therefore , to serve process npon him . -That wa 3 tiie evidence always given to supply the want ofa verdict .
Lord Redesdale said , that it was with great _un-TOuinsness he addressed their Lordships , but on -that bill , more than any other , tney ought to be . careful not te establish a case as to one party related to many noble lords , members of that house , which woald not be applicableto others . He pointed out that tbe husband was not the petitioner here , but bis solicitor ; that the noble lord wa 3 not present , or at least in attendance , in case _thair Lordships wished to examine him ; last of all , that no verdict had been obtained in a court of law . Unquestionably on the evidence , though Lady Lincoln left ber husband without his consent , it does not appear to have been accompanied by any open rupture with Lord Lincoln , but on the contrary , for the only
letter their Lordships had heard read from her after ler departure was a friendly one , announcing ber arrival at Baden . There was no other evidence to explain what subsequently took place when a few -days afterwards she joined Lord Walpole . There was no one point on which their Lordship ' s house was more careful than to avoid the possibility of collusion . It was most necessary that tbey should require evidence on tbat point , even where they all knew , as inthe present case , tbat no collusion existed . Sow , in the evidence laid before their Lordships , it was not satisfactorily shown that there was no _collusion between the parties . He expressed this as his opinion , and from tbe strong feeling he entertained that nothing should take place in their
Lordshipr house which was not according to legal evidence , ne had considered it as his duty to call their Lordships' attention to these points before tbe hill was read a second time . It was , however , in the hands of noble lords more competent to pronounce on these matters than himself , and if no objection was taken on the part of other noble lords he would not press his opposition . Lord Brougham said , that in the absence of Lord Walpole it was impossible to obtain a verdict from a jury . As to collusion , he agreed with his noble friend that agreatreluctance was felt by their Lordships if colinsion was suspected , but hisnoblefriend appeared to have misapprehended the strict meanin ; ofthe word collusion . If the husband enabled
the wife to commit adultery by gros 3 neglect , that was collusion ; or if he exposed ber to the art 3 of a seducer and in consequence she did what entitled him to a decision , that also was colinsion ; but if , without collusion , the wife did tbat which gave the husband a right to proceed for a divorce , there was a collusion tbat both parties might become free , but sot such a collusion as their Lordships would punish . He thought it only fair to Lady Lincoln and her family ( with whom he , Lord Brougham , had held a friendly incercourse of half a century ' s duration } to state tbat , since tbey had beard of her misconduct , ending in the birth of a child , tney felt it _tceir bounden duty to do what they could to repair lie grievous injury which her imprudence had
_infiieted on the _Newcastle family , and they at once said let there be no opposition raised to this divorcement . He ( Lord Brougham ) thought their Lordships could give the Hamilton family credit for delicacy in this matter . They might have carped at and thrown obstacles in the way of the proceedings , but they had not done so . These being the considerations that pressed on his mind , he bad thought it his duty to the unfortunate parties to move that the bill be read a second time . He had observed a most furious article on himself with reference to this subject , giving the grossest falsehoods it was possible to give , and among other
things saying tbat he bad resolved and given notice that be would obstruct the bill by browbeating Lord Lincoln ' s witnesses . The unhappy libeller , for be called a man " unhappy libeller" who had written such gross falsehoods , was not aware tbat be ( Lord Brougham ) wa 3 the person who had charge of tbe bill , and was doing all he could do to forward it through the house . He might say more on this subject , which was a clear breach of privilege , bnt be would be only _wasting their Lordships ' time in doing so . He , however , would feel it his duty to take proceedings in the common law courts in order to discover the author of this
libeL Lord Laxgdale , _^ wIio occupied the woolsack _during tbe sitting , supported the second reading of tbe bill . Sot only had tbe birth of a child been proved , hut another fact also whiehit was not necessary to describe . Two or three points had been adverted to in tbe nature of formal objections . With reference to the petition not being signed by Lord Lincoln himself , but by his solicitor , he ( Lord Langdale ) did not consider their Lordships now in a situation in which tbey could look back . He did not know whether it was satisfactory to everybody at the time , but it was done , and was no reason
why tbey should not now proceed to tbe second reading ofthe bill . It was also objected tbat no 'verdict ofa common law court bad been obtained . Many other cases had occurred in wbich this had happened . Besides , it was as easy to obtain a verdict by collusion as anything else . Then , as to Lord Lincoln ' s not being present for examination if required , how often did it happen that on such occasions the husbands did attend or were examined ? He felt obliged to the noble lord ( Redesdale ) for stating these objections , but he did not think that they constituted a sufficient reason for throwing out the bill . After a few observations from Lord Redesdale in further explanation ofthe objections stated by bin , The motion for tbe second reading was agreed to " without opposition .
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COURT OF COMMON PLEAS . COBHAM V . BISHOP OF EXETER . The Lord Chief Justice , on Monday , delivered ibe Judgment ofthe Court , that there be no rule in this case .
LATCOCK V . PISLAT . In this case , which was an action for breach of promise of marriage , tried at the hut York assizes , before Mr . Baron Alderson , when a verdict was returned for the plaintiff , damages £ 400 , a rule nisi for a new trial , on the ground of misdirection , having been obtained in the former term , Mr . Sergeant _mUtins and Mr . Farrar showed cause against the role ; and Mr . Martin , Q . C ., Mr . Aspland , and Mr . T . Jones appeared in support of it . The question turned on the legal effect of two letters—one from the defendant offering to break off aU connexion with the plaintiff ; and one from the plaintiff , in terms of great feeling , expressing since it was the defendant ' s wish she brokeoff tbe connexion , wbich it was contended by the learned counsel for the defendant amounted to a release in law . The court gave separate judgments and discharged the rule , the Lord Chief Justice dissenting . Rule discharged .
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. Resickaiios of thb Lobd Chascellob—Webe-Jjeve we may announce as a fact , that the Lord Chancellor has at length actually resigned his high _" _^ His lordship has , we understand , been ] J ? ged to this step both by the _recommendatJon of _™ _s physicians and tbe entreaties of bis family , and v l _^ gard for the public inconvenience occasioned " J his continued hbsence from the Court of _Chantt * _y--JoinBttH . Ah _Exjbaobdixabt Cube op ah _Umebaxed Leo bt Holr _^ ° Knt £ STA ! n > Pais . —Extract of aletter from Mr . _^ "' °° a , of So . 4 , Marvdl-street , Hull , to Professor Holr _??* :-- "Srfi , _ Fortwo years I was grievously afflicted rj ™ a bad ltg , which was full of ulcer ? . I applied to J ** *! doctors and took their remedies , but _-iriftoot the _vS _™ _r ? » _leoSa _^ _fcappuy for me , I procired some of _^ _rinatmentaiui Pflls from Mrs . Hbble , of this town , «?™ . "ad the effect of curing my leg in a brief space cf g _^> in gratitude for which I Hake this case known , in _g i ™ pe that others may derive benefit by adopting a
Loss Of Life On Lake . Erie. Rt.L^ H £* ...
LOSS OF LIFE ON LAKE . ERIE . rt . l _^ _£ * J " _*? wed . to the United , Service Gazette , gives the following :- _* _„; Il 0 ? _^ ednesday ' the lst of May , three companies of the reserve battalion 23 rd Fusiliers embarked at Montreal on board the Earl Cathcart and Commerce steamers for Port Stanley , en route to liondon , Canada West , under tho command of Major Chester ; Ho . 7 , and part of tfo . 12 , embarked on board the Cathcart , and reached their destination in safety . The Commerce _> with Wo . 8 , and remaining portion of ' So . 12 , proceeded through tbe canals and Lake Ontario into Lake Erie , and on the night oi the 6 th of May she came into collision with the ( American ) steamer Dispatch , bound for Buffalo , near the Port Maitland or Canada shore . LOSS OF LIFE ON V _. _aite _pdtb
The Commerce had but one light at tbe mast-head , and was mistaken for a schooner , and persevered in crossing the course of tbe Dispatch , until collision was unavoidable . She was run into on the starboard bow , and rapidly filled and sunk in . eight fathoms water . Tbe officers on board were Captain F . J . Phillott , Lieutenants Sir H . O . R . Chamberlain and F . P . R . _DelmS Hadcliff , and Assistant-Surgeon _Doughts Grantham ( who joined tbem at Prescott , where he had been employed for some time past , } and , we regret to say , lost his life on this occasion , in addition to three sergeants , two corporals , one drummer , nineteen privates , eight women , and four children , and , from the opinion given by some of the survivors , those were saved
who clung to the wreck , by direction of tbe commanding officer ( Captain Phillott ) while those who jumped overboard lost their lives . The survivors were carried into Port Maitland , having lest everything . Many of them were almost in a state of nudity . Tbe officers' plate and mess utensils were nearly all on board and lost . The following are the names of the persons lost : —Assistant-Surgeon Douglas Grantham . No . 8 Company . —Sergeant Alfred Moore and wife ; Sergeant George Butler and wife and child ; Corporal James Evans ; Drummer Henry Griffin ; Privates William Ward , John Griffin , Thomas Aldridge and wife , Arthur Buckton , Isaac Jones , Edward Price , John Ryan , Michael Ryan and wife , Thomas Taylor , John Weaver ,
James Flanigan , and wife of Corporal T . Warner . _~ So . 9 Company . —Private Edward Williams ( mess waiter . ) Ho . 12 Company . —Sergeant John Moore ; Corporal Theodore Haberfield ; Privates Joseph Haberfield , John Beamer , Nicholas Mewitt and wife , Thomas Peake , Robert Pritchard , Thomas Rees , Henry Sharpies ; wife and child of Private James Maskey ; wife and child of Corporal Daniel Paine ; child of Private Edward Shipley . The survivors had not-left-Port Maitland at the latest advices . No . 11 , Captain E . W . D . Bell's , and part of Ho . 10 Company , embarked yesterday ( the 11 th inst . ) on board tbe Free Trader , for Port Stanley . Hoi 9 , part of Ho . 10 , and bead quarters , will embark on the 16 th , en route to London , Canada West .
The Govershesi Interments Bill.—On Tuesd...
The Govershesi Interments Bill . —On Tuesday evening a public meeting of ratepayers of tbe parish of St . Saviour ' s Soutnwark , was held in the vestry-room , to take into consideration the compensation clauses of tbe Government Interments BilL Mr . Bailey , was called to tbe chair . He explained tbat the parish of St . Saviour ' s was placed in a very peculiar position , and one likely to be much interfered with by the proposed measure . Ho rector ' s fees for interments paid in tbat parish were receivable by the chaplains , who were only entitled to the surplice fees . The rector ' s fees were received by the wardens , and applied to the ordinary parochial purposes . If the measure introduced by government were carried without some clause in reference to St . Saviour ' s , the clergy of tbat parish would receive
compensation for that which they had never lost , and be remunerated for work which tbey were not called upon to perform . Mr . Mansfield moved , and Mr . Clark seconded , the following resolution : — " That a deputation be appointed to wait upon tbe Right Honourable Sir G . Grey , her Majesty ' s Secretary of State , to represent to him that ) the fees payable for interments in the churchyard of this parish are receivable by the warden of the parish ; and to urge upon him the propriety of securing to the parishioners adequate compensation in respect of the same in the event of the Interments Bill passing into a law ; and that tbe wardens solicit tbe borough members to support tbem in their application . " This _resolution was unanimously agreed to , and after the transaction of some ordinary business , the meeting thanked the chairman and separated .
A Mock Gcuxotixe . —At the end ofthe carnival two married women of Yidauban , Department of tbe Tar ( one of them wife ofthe president of the Montagnard Club ) , manufactured a lay figure entirely in white , aud , after attaching a chain round its neck , placed it in a small . cart . A number of tbe inhabitants then paraded it through the village in solemn procession , accompanied by a number of men carrying axes , Ac , and bawling revolutionary songs . After a while they formed a sort of revolutionary tribunal , and the figure , which was called " Blanc , " was gravely tried , and , by the majority ofthe votes ofthe crowd , condemned to death , tbe pr incipal judge , . a man named Arnaud , saying , " Blanc ! you prevent us from dancing _farandoles , and therefore we condemn you to death ! " Thereupon , a man named Luciea- seized the figure ;
placed it on a plank , and at one blow with bis axe severed the head from the body . A bottle of wine had been placed in the neck ofthe figure , and , this having been broken by tbe blow , a resemblance of blood was produced . The head was then cast into the crowd and torn to pieces by them . This scandalous scene created a most painful impression throughout the department . A few dajs ago four men who played a principal part in tbe affair , and tbe two women who made tbe figure , were brought to trial on tbe charge of exciting citizens to hatred of each other . The men pleaded drunkenness as an excuse—the women declared tbat they had only intended to amuse their children . Four ofthe accused were acquitted , and tbe other two , Arnaud , who had acted as judge , and Lucien , the executioner , were condemned to four and three months * imprisonment . _—Galignanfs Messenger .
M . Scribe . —Eugene Scribe was born in Paris , on the 24 th of December , 1791 . His father was a silk mercer , near tbe _Piljers des Ilalles , in the Rue St . Denis . His lively wit at an early age was discerned by all his friends , and he was , in consequence , sent to the Great College at St . Barbe . When at eighteen years of age he left college , he was an orphan , and without fortune . Fortunately , he found a kind guardian in his relation , M . Bonnet , a celebrated barrister of those days , who destined him for his own profession , and placed him under that celebrated jurist aud politician , Dupin , the elder , now the president of tbe French Legislative Chamber , to study the Roman law . But . in his studies tbe legal fact that most deeply impressed itself on
Eugene Scribe ' s mind was that , at twenty-one , a young man is master of his own actions , and having reached that age , be determined to renounce the law , and betake himself to his pen for support . Shortly after reaching his majority , ho began his dramatic career by writing a vaudeville for the Gymnase . His success here led to an engagement to write for the Th 6 atre _Francais , and to tbe establishment of his reputation as a dramatic author . He bas composed ten comedies in five acts , and twenty in one , two , or three act 3 for the Francais . He bas written 1-50 vaudevilles for the Gymnase . As a lyrical poet he stands unequalled for
the number and purity cf his libretti , having written the poetry of forty grand operas , and of 100 comic operas : to these must be added the libretto of the forthcoming Tempesta . His entire works are 310 in number , besiaes bis novels . Throughout his literary career be bas preserved his independence , and never solicited patronage or place ; yet his merits have not passed unrewarded . He is a commander of the Legion of Honour , bas received crosses from almost every sovereign in Europe , is a member ofthe Quarantedel'Academie _. and to these gratifying tokens of success he has added the more substantial reward ofa handsome independence , achieved by incessant industry . ' .
Meetixgof Cafpbe Chiefs . —The annualmeeting for distribution of presents to tbe Cafire Chiefs , was held at King William ' s Town on the 11 th of March . There were abont 4 , 000 Cafires present , including all the principal chiefs ofthe Slambie and Gaika districts . Colonel Mackinnon addressed the chiefs , and gave tbem some wholesome advice . He called upon the commissioners of the Slambie and Gaika Cafires for their reports , wbich tbey then made , and which were highly favourable _^ The chiefs were then called upon to make any , statement they wished . Tbey all expressed themselves well satisfied ; Botman and Sandilla , of tbe . Gaika Cafires , however , stating , at the same time , that tbey wanted more land , and that , as they were British subjects , they did not know why tbey should be confined within certain boundaries . The articles
distributed were of a very superior character , consisting of thirty chiefs' dresses , fifty female dresses and shawls , 100 dresses for _counsellors of chiefs and commissioners' messengers , 1 , 000 blankets , 750 spades , 750 hoes , 200 cooking-pots , 200 basting spoons , 100 sickles , and 200 axes . —Cape Town Matt . Messrs . Peter Gavin and Son , rope aud sail-cloth works , Bath-street , Leith , bave just completed the largest rope ever made in Scotland . It is for the Mitsel Coal Company , Victoriapit , 175 fathoms deep , near Hurlett . Tbe rope measures 200 fathoms , or , 1200 feet ; it is seven inches broad , and weighs upwards of _three'tons .
_Fatheb Mathew . —An American paper says : — " The friends of Father Mathew , in Mobile , have presented the rev . gentleman with a purse containms 270 dollars . In his reply to their address he savs that * the gift was most timely , his pecuniary resources being exhausted , and the fear of _Weakening his influence in the cause of temperance deterring him from making an appeal to defray the expenditure of his _misaiQnV "
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . ( Concluded from the second page . ) Incendiarism . —The portion of the forest of Cbatellerao . lt belonging to the Duke des Cars was set on fire hy incendiaries on the 20 th ult . The fire was extinguished before any considerable damage was _effecred . This is the third attempt of a similar kind made since the revolution of February . The _« Daily News' correspondent writing from Paris on Friday , saya- « It was observed yesterday that the Legitimists , with tbesingle exception of M . ¦ ¦ _-
Favreaa , voted against all the amendments moved to the second article , of the Electoral Law . » is reported that many sincere men of that party were not left to vote according to their consciences , but were influenced by a letter of the Duke of Bordeaux to M . Berryer , expressing tbe gratification it would afford him to fiod the supporters of his cause united on this question , and arrayed on the side of the government . This is one of tbe first important symptoms which have appeared in the legislature oJ the coalition effected between the two Bourbon branches /
The ' Evenement' states that M . Emile de Girardin had been chosen by a large majority by the socialist conclave of Strasburg , as the democratic candidate for th e Bas-Rhin . Several waggons of ammunition bave set out from Paris for Lyons , Toulouse , Lille , and Marseilles . The director ofthe' Republique du Peuple , ' who was prosecuted for an article attacking the rights of property and the Constitution , has been acquitted by a jury at Strasburg . The director of the _« Voix du Peuple' was sentenced by tbe Court of Assize of Paris , on Tuesday , to ten months'imprisonment and a fine of 3 , 000 _ffor an attack on the President of the Republic . The directors of the National' and the' Republicaine de la Seine et Marne' were sentenced by the Police Court in Paris to three months' imprison _, ment and 200 f . fine , for publishing a subscription list to defray the expenses of a conviction .
A private soldier was sentenced to death by courtmartial in Paris on Tuesday , for revolt and disobel dience to his superiors in the fort of Cbarenton on tbe 17 _» h of April . The signatures on the petitions against the Electoral Bill up to Thursday , May 23 rd , amounted to more than a million . . ,.. -The amazing increase in the ' sale of the' Evenement' forms the most striking commentary on the reactionary proceedings of the government . This journal , whose sale was lately limited to 14 , 000 , now sells upwards of 40 , 000 . The government has conceived much uneasiness at the great number of general councils which bave pronounced against tbe Electoral Bill : A circular
to prefects is said to be preparing at tbe Ministry ofthe Interior on this _subject . The responsible editor of the ' Voix du Peuple , ' M . Laugrand , was yesterday condemned by default by the Cour t of Assize to a year ' s imprisonment , auiSfiQOf . fine , for having on the 14 th of March published an article asserting that a celebrated Jew banker , of great influence hi the councils of the government , and very intimate with the President of the Republic , bad lost three or four millions by speculations on the Bourse in connexion with the election of the 10 th of March , and that the President bad shared in such losses . This article was held by the Court . to contain the offences described
in the law as exciting to hatred and contempt of the government of the Republic , and insulting tbe President . The 'Democratic Pacifique' copied the article on tbe 15 th of Mafcb , and for so doing its responsible editor , M . Guillon , was condemned to six months' imprisonment and l , 500 f . fine , as already stated . The committee of the Assembly to which was referred the two propositions , having for their object to authorise the Conseils Generaux to meet and take measures for carrying on the government in case of an insurrection , or coup de etat , has concluded its labours . After a long discussion it was resolved to report to the Assembly tbat tbe committee saw no reason whatever to recommend
the measure . Two companies of the National Guard of Bordeaux were disbanded and disarmed on tbe 21 st hit . Tbe operation was effected amidst the most perfect order and tranquility . A letter from Marseilles of the 22 nd ult . states that precautions continue to be adopted by the authorities in tbat city in case of disturbances by the secret societies . Tbe posts were doubled on the previous day , and tbe streets were patrolled by strong bodies of infantry and cavalry . Letters from Marseilles of the 22 nd ult . state tbat tbe utmost precautions were taken there on the night previous to protect the shipping , wbich , it bad been discovered , bad been menaced with conflagration by the conspirators .
Letters from Lyons of the 24 th ult . mention that , amongst other precautious for tbe tranquility of tbe city , General Castellane had prohibited the sale of firearms to any one not furnished with a certificate of good conduct , signed by tbe mayor and _sousprefet . The armourers were also ordered to remove the Jocks from the guns in- _theirreBtablish ments . Commenting on _Thiers ' s speech , the National says : — " M . Benoist d'Azy said yesterday tbat it was M . de Maubreuil who , in 1815 , had affixed a rope to the statue of Napoleon to pull it down from the top of the column in the place Vendome . M . Benoist is but little acquainted with the deeds of his party . Tbe honour of tbat action belongs to
M . Sosthenes de Larocbefoucauld—the same who paraded through tbe streets of Paris with a cross of honour tied to bis horse ' s-tail , and who was followed by a beautiful duchess seated behind a Cossack . M . Thiers treated the history of that period as his friend did ; he affirmed tbat it was the multitude , tbe people , wbo had outraged the Emperor ' s statue . It is a false allegation . Enough of persons witnessed the fact to g ive it an irrefutable denial . No , it was not tbe people who insulted the bronze bi the column ; it left tbat sad honour to the emigrants , tbe Chouans , tbe men of tbe infernal machine , the accomplices of Cadoudal , the nobility of the Faubourg St . Germain and its lackeys . It was not the women of the people who danced those licentious dances , hanging on the arms of Blucher and Wellington , under the windows of Louis XVIII . They were weeping over Waterloo ; they were dressing our wounded soldiers , whilst
the great ladies of the aristocracy were feting the _soldrers of tbe invasion . M . Thiers knows that as well as any one , but lies as to the truth , hoping in tbat manner to cause bis new friends to forget the purchase of the Duchess of Berri and the scandal of BIaye . ' The accounts received from tbe southern parts of France are not very satisfactory for the government . Considerable agitation reigns at Marseilles , Montpellier , Lyons _; Beziers , and Perigeux ; and there is considerable apprehension of an outbreak . At Lyons the troops have been called out , and strong patrols parade the streets day and night . At Montpellier the agitation is on the increase . Not only have the troopS been kept on the alert , but artillery has been placed so as to command the town and the road to Hismes . Cannon have also been placed in all the barracks , and the troops are kept ready for marching at a moment ' s
notice . The editor of the' Voix du Peuple' has issued a circular to hi 3 subscribers , to state that he has not yet been able to find a printer who will ventureito print his paper , in the face of the proceedings on tbe part of tbe government , wbich bave closed the printing-bouse of M . _BouhS , and ruined that
gentleman . Thirteen officers of tbe 4 th and 5 th legions of tbe National Guard of Paris have been suspended for two months by tbe Prefect of the Seine , for having . signed petitions against the Electoral Reform Bill . The ' Presse' publishes a letter from M . Jacquemart , professor of political economy , who states tbat be has been condemned by the Tribunal of Correctional Police at Soissons to a month's imprisonment , and a fine bf 25 f ., for having , without submitting it previously to the prefect ofthe department ( Aisne ) , sent _bypost , from Paris , where it was printed , an essay written by himself , and addressed to the agricultural commission of the _arrondissement of Soissons , tbe object of which essay was to compete for a prize given by the committee in question , on tbe causes ofthe sufferings of French agriculture , and the means of improving agricultural credit .
Tho Prefect of the _Cote-d Or has dismissed M . Locquin and M . Labille , the first and second adjuncts of the mayor of Semur , because the municipal council of Semur has passed a resolution disapproving of the government Electoral Bill . The provinces , especially in the south , are in a great excitement , which breaks out continually in partial disturbances . The' Times' correspondent says : — " It appears tbat the measure already spoken of for improving the whole length of tbe Boulevards , the quays , and
tbe other arteries of Paris , is to be immediately carried into execution ; these immense thoroughfares will be macadamised . This change is , no doubt , for public utility , but tbe revolutionary press will lament that the last arms of the people are about to be taken from them . The maeadamwation will , no doubt , be ornamental and useful ; it will also enable tbe troops to _manoauvre more easil y in case of necessity ; it will , in fact , be attended with manifold and obvious advantages . The director of tbe « Reformateur' of Toulouse has been sentenced to imprisonment for one year , and to pay a fine of 2 , 0001 * ., for haying published a _seditioas libel ...
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' ' GERMANY . ; '' . ' . ' . _*"' . ' . w ! w " _? lnoed ia 0 Mf town edition of Saturday mst that the King of Prussia had . been shot at , and wounded in the arm . The following , additional P T _^» l a T 2 . are from tho' Times : ' - : Mam , Mat 22 . —At twelve o ' clock , to-day an _attempt-vas made on the life of the King of Prussia , n ° ra ms esca P e is littl 0 le 8 S than miraculous _, flis Majesty and the Queen were about to leave Berlin for the palace of San _SoliciVbufc were detained a short time for the preparation of the train . "'' Majesty was just leaving one ofthe side rooms ot tbe station to enter the carriage , when a man in tbe uniform of a gunner of the Artillery of the uuard approached , and when close to his person presented a pistol , and fired it at little more than ¦ ¦ ... . _.,...: , .
_<* rm s _lengtn irom his Majesty ' s breast . At the moment the weapon was raised the King iurned swittiy on pne side , and the motion saved his life : tbe ball only inflicted a slight flesh wound on the right arm , below the elbow , and then grazed the iront of his coat , but otherwise passed by him harmless . . The _by-standers , mostly officers and porters of the railway , seized the man instantly , and as a crowd gathered the people beoame so enra _£ ed against the perpetrator of the dastardly act that before he could be conveyed toa place of safety he was severely beaten , and was , indeed , with dimculty saved from summary vengeance . The criminal was formerly a sergeant of artillery , named befeloge , but was some time ago _disoharued from
the service as an invalid ; he had providedhimsolf with a uniform , which he still wore , though riot entitled to do so ; it enabled him to approach tho person of the King without suspicion , as a detachment of the military is on duty all day at tbe station , and it is ausual thing to meet them on the platform . _hl Majesty was led by his adjutant into the room ho had just quitted , and medical aid was sent for "; a Dr . Bbhro , who was driving past the station , was stopped , and instantly examined the wound , bound it , and did all that was immediately neces-8 ar _/ _- lhe surgeons of the household , Dr . Grimm and Dr . Schiinlein , soon afterwards " arrived , but happily very little was required of them . ; No political motive whatever is assigned for the
attempt ; all the evidence at present gathered indicates that the man has brooded over his dismissal , and fancied it a personal wrong .. Some petitions , which he bad forwarded to the King for reinstatement in the corps , were of course not attended to , as irregular ; and this , it is supposed , has excited bim to an act of vengeance that was so nearly , fatal in its consequences . . Mat 23 . —The wound hv bis-Majesty ' s arm appears by the bulletin ' to be more 3 erious than at first supposed , though not dangerous : The apartment where it was dressed showed on his Majesty ' s departure that he must have lost _, \ considerable quantity of blood . The criminal , Sefeloge , was severely handled by the people on the platform : a constable cut bim on the head with his sword , and
ho was besides violently beaten . An investigation was commenced soon after the King left the station ; but before any questions could be put to _theprisoner he had to be bathed and washed , and his wounds dressed ; when he had recovered he appeared sufficiently calm and calculated . The few effects ofthe criminal have been taken possession of by tho police , but no trace has been found that that he was in correspondence with ' any person . There is no doubt that the criminal is of unsound mind ; the fact is not deduced from his having made the attempt on the King ' s life , it has been long knoffn , as the medical certificates on which he was discharged from tbe army aro dated in
September last , and describe him as unfit to perform duty on account of a ' disordered mind , ' though he appears to have had intervals during which his acts were rational enough . It is now ascertained that he must have contemplated the act , and all his preparations for it were well calculated ; nor bad bis outward demeanour any of that _wildness which might bave attraoted attention . Be has been practising pistol shooting for sbmo time . For eight days past it is non recollected that he has been seen hanging about the railway station waiting for one of the King ' s many journeys to Potsdam ; his uniform enabled him to do this without exciting any special observation , it is so usual to meet the military every
where . The Berlin correspondent of tbe' Times' supplies the following significant paragraph ' : — 'Many persons bave been arrested in the streets for speaking most disrespectfully of the King in conversations or half harangues to bystanders on the late occurrence . Some individuals , it is said , have given utterance to a very savage and unchristian wish witb reference to the attempt . The assizes at Mayence were opened on the 22 nd inst . One of the cases to be tried is that against the members of the republican free corps ; who were captured in the Rhenish provinces last year . Tbe accused are forty in number . The accusations against tbem are high treason , attempts to corrupt the fidelity of the military , rupture of the neutrality treaties with Bavaria , and hostile excursion into Baden and Wirtemburgh .
ITALY . ROME . —A man named Irtnocenti has been liberated from tbe Castle of St . Angelo , where he had been confined-for more than ten months upon . a charge of forcible requisition ,, or robbery , during the republic , but be ; was found _^ to be innocent in fact as well as by name . _Another republican , accused of having robbed amazing sums is how living in Africa upon very straig htened means—I allude to tbe celebrated Garibaldi , whose friends in Genoa are now occupied in getting up a subscription wherewith to purchase a merchant vessel nnd present to him , so that he might return to his early mode of life , and owe his safety to the grudging hospitality of no European power ,
preferring"To trust his fortune to the seas and skies . " On the 17 th of May the domicile of Signor Ercole , secretary to the British consulate , was invaded and forcibly entered by the slim , in spite of tbe most energetic protestations and remonstrances of bis wife and family . Tbey ransacked bookcases , desks , drawers , cupboards , and every possiblo hiding-place in search of prohibited books or pamphlets , not disguising that the fear of Protestantism , and the desire . of extirpating it in the bud , bad originated the whole affair . This circumstance has made a strong impression on the English residents in Rome , who feel that there is very little chance of their living a quiet life , ' , in spite of their nationality _, wben such arbitrary modes of treatment are
used towards a' semi-official employe of their government . Another gentleman , who was favoured with the presence ofthe same sbirri and five carbineers in his house all night , is Signor Bonfigli , a very accomplished young man , who spent some time in England , and , on bis return to Rome , was made Under-Secretary in the Foreign-office , but , being dismissed from his employment on the restoration of the Papal government , has since occupied himself in giving Italian lessons to the distinguished foreigners who make Rome their winter residence , and by whom he is justly esteemed . Hisbooksbelves and drawers were also subjected to a strict examination , and English books seemed to excite
especial suspicion . A volume of that audacious satirist , ' Punch , ' was instantly declared to he a lawful prize by the sbirri at the instigation , oi the judge , and two English albums , Macchiavelli _' _s _Florentuie History , Niccolun ' s Philip Strozzi , tbe * Revue des Deux Mondes , ' and some poetic effusions of Campana on the ancient Italian nations , underwent the same fate . Seven doctors were captured ' at one fell swoop , ' in a chemist ' s dispensary on the Piazza della Maddalena . These learned members of the faculty were laying tbeir heads together over a letter which one of them bad received , and their absorbed attitude excited the suspicions ofa spy who was watching them through the _sbop window ; he ran for a posse comitatus , and
had the whole party snugly in prison , before a quarter of an hour bad elapsed . On the same day ( the 17 th ) twenty or thirty _^ im passed along the wnole length of tbat street , confiscating all the Fez caps , and red caps of every description , which they could find in the several hat and cap makers' shops , and bearing them off in triumph to the police ; office , determined that no outward and visible sign of republicanism should remain in sight of the public . Letters from Rome of the 21 st ult ., state that tho Pope delivered his allocution in the Consistory held the previous day . Rome was perfectly tranquil , but the people were much enraged on learning that no mention of administrative or monetary reforms had been made in the consistory .
NAPLES , Mat 10 . —The Neapolitan government is singularly happy in its imitation of everything that is . dishonest , arbitrary , and oppressive in its Austrian ally . The system of confiscation has commenced here , as in Hungary and Lombardy , and under more aggravated circumstances . Without trial , and without the usual illegal 'decree , ' some fifteen or sixteen Neapolitan families , the heads of which are now political exiles , have received orders from the police authorities that they aro no longer to exact rents from their tenants , the latter being equally commanded to hand over _the-money to the government . Thii is carrying out the patent polioy of crushing and crippling the constitutional party by every possible raeans—by threats , imprisonment ,
plunder , and false accusations of the paid government spy . . The trial of political offenders in the provinces , as belonging to the ' United Italians , ' bas already commenced , and tha law courts , unable to prove the existence of thii terrible seot , have been obliged to liberate many , concentrating the ' ' government vengeance on the leading men in each district , b y ordering a continued imprisonment for thorn , ' until further proofs can be produced . ' Suoh was the result of the whole of the trials throughout the terra di lavoro , a very important district Of the country , where military rule has entirely effaced municipal [ authority . TUSCANY . - The ' Times' says- 'We have received information from a source on which we are inclinedto rely , stating that ou the 17 th inst .
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military oooapa _«\>? o ? T _SJtt _v ? 8 _" _^ ' _^ Imperial troops . The _numboSi " _^ _ty > for any given period , bnt . left altogether tothe will and convenience of the C abinet of Vienna The Emperor reserves to himself the _richt to occupy the Grand Duchy for such time _fia ho _Hiav think proper , 6 r to withdraw his army without anv notice whatever . ' He also provides that , in case the exigency of the case should require it , his Commander-in-Chief shall he entitled to declare any city , town , village , or district in a state of
siege , and to place the inhabitants thereof under martial law . This convention , which is considered at . Florence as private , will , when it , is made known , render the Grand Duke very unpopular , and it is supposed that his departure , for Venice , with all the ducal family , ' which is to take place immediately , has been hastened in order to avoid any popular outcry . We learn from tbe same source from which the above information is obtained , that the state of Piedmont occasions much anxiety in tbe Imperial Council , and that something like a negotiation is on foot for the occupation of Sa voy by a French army , and of tbo rest of tbe kingdom by Austrian troops .
POUND . Letters from the Polish frontier state that a large camp has been formed at Lowicz , which is only a couple of hours' journey by rail from Warsaw . Tho Emperor intends to amuse his guests with a grand military spectacle . Arrests ou account of political offences continue in great numbers .
AMERICAN AFFAIRS . ( From the A eiu York Tribune ] of May 14 th . ) The proceedings in Congress are becoming more important . On the question of slavery a decisive _istui has been presented , and is now under discussion in the Senate . Mr . Clay ' s Omnibus Compromise bill , whicli disposes of all the vexed questions , was laid ' before tho Senate on Thursday last , and was instantly and violently assailed by the leaders ofthe Slavery Propaganda . The bill provides for the admission of California with her present Constitution and boundaries , under the usual conditions ; creates the territories of New Mexico and Utah ; fixes a boundary between the former country and Texas , leaving blank the amount of
indemnity to be paid Texas for the relinquishment ofher claim tb ; ' the territory north of El Paso ; enacts laws more effectually to secure the recovery of fugitive slave 3 , and prohibits , under heavy penalty , the slave trade in the district of Columbia . After the furious attack which followed its presentation , the bill was finally made the order for the day in tho Senate , There are . of course all sorts of conjectures afloat in regard to it . It is rumoured that the explosion of the . _slavery party ha 3 brought out a declaration from the moderate Southern senators , that in case the opposition is continued , they will fall back upon the President ' s plan .- Whatever bo the result , there will be stormy work before the subject is disposed of .
There has been much ado about—next to nothing —an alleged intercepted letter from Sir Henry _Biilwer to Mr . Chatfield , British Charg 6 to Central America . It ib written in , a free-and-easy style , touches up Mr . Squier , the American Charge , rather sharply , and pronounces the government at Washington a " weak" one . The letter is said to have been , noticed by the Cabinet , in regard to the offensive terms . Its genuineness is , denied in some quarters , but this is a matter of little consequence , as the letter makes no " startling disclosures . " , The prospects of Land Reform are highly favourable in Congress . General Shields . is preparing a bill on the question , which will probably suggest measures that will command , the assent of all the friends of tbe principle . Mr . Webster has devoted
great attention to the subject , and will make an elaborate speech in favour of offering every man a Free Home from the Public Lands , whenever the question shall be presented to the Senate . The season has been unusually cool and backward . The leaves arc just beginning to unfold and the fruit trees to blossom—two weeks at least behind their usual time . The indications of a large grain and fruit crop are , however , very favourable . We do not hear that the orchards have yet been injured by the late chilly weather . The Legislature of Pennsylvania have chartered a College for the Medical Education of Females , to be established in Philadelp hia . The bill confers on the institution all the privileges enjoyed by any
other medical school in the State . It is stated that Miss Elizabeth Blackwell , who received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the Geneva College in this State , and has since pursued her medical studies at Paris , will be a candidate for the Chair of Surgery . This is . fhe first regularly organised Female Medical College thathas been established in any partof the world , and may bo considered as an interesting " sign of the times . ' News from California to April lst , waB received here on Wednesday , the 8 th ult . Tbree steamers —the Empire City , Georgia and Cherokee—which sailed from Chagres within two or three hours of each other , arrived on the same day . The effect of the gold they brought more than counterbalanced
the rumours ef business stagnation in San Franciacoj and the rush for the Pacific side is still as great as ever . The friends of California feel an increasing anxiety for her immediate admission into the Confederacy , in view of the growing perplexities ofher present uncertain condition . A meeting has been called in Montreal consisting of delegates from all the parishes in the district , to consider the best means of abolishing the seignorial tenure . Two other subjects , connected withsocial reform , are agitated in every rural assembly , and will probably carry the day—the repeal of the law authorising the Catholic clergy to demand tithes of their flocks , and the exemption , of homesteads from attachment for debtr Business was very dull at
Montreal , at the last dates . The cholera is making great ravages' in many ofthe Mexican States . ' Inthe valley of Taluco , the crops had suffered from violent frosts and bailstorms , which in connexion with the cholera had almost suspended agricultural operations in that quarter . The cholera has been raging for three or four weeks at Havana with great violence : also at Guanary , San Antonio and _Guerrials , among the troops , and at Matanzas , among the people . Our advices from Rio de Janeiro to the 4 th ult . confirm the prevalence ofthe yellow-fever in that city , which was still raging , with little abatement of its destructive violence . Among the victims , is the American Secretary of Legation , Mr . Thomas J . Morgan , who died about the 1 st of April .
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EXPEDITION AGAINST CUBA . The American correspondent of the Chronicle writes that an expedition against Cuba bas sailed from the United States . The accounts thus far received are somewhat varying in character , aud the entire force is differently estimated at from 4 , 000 to 13 , 000 men . It is added tbat several vessels , ostensibly . sailing for Chagres , are really destined for Cuba ; but the rendezvous , or place of debarkation , is at present a profound secret to all but the initiated . The men have able leaders , arms and ammunition , and the leaders have plenty of money , with assurances of an almost general rising ofthe people when they land . This I doubt ; but one thing is certain — namely , that tbey will meet with a
determined resistance from tbe Spanish forces , and that they must expect but little mercy if tbey fail ; for wbat right have strangers to invade any country , under any . circumstances , unless at war with that country ? A New Orleans writer says : — " The cry is patriotism , but the objects of more than half the invaders are confiscation and spoils . " However , we know but little of the matter as yet in the north ; and the number of men and Bailing of the ships might be exaggerated . A strong Spanish naval force has recently arrived at the Havana . Tbe same writer in a postscript to his letter , ssys : —I have just received a letter from Washington , which fully confirms the sailing of the Cuba expedition . The writersays : — " The vessels have sailed
at different times , and for apparently dmerent destinations . Several ef the leading men of the Southern States favour the enterprise , and bave subscribed money . There are nbout 4 , 900 or 5 , 008 men engaged _. General Quitman , formerl y aH officer in the Mexican war , and Governor of Mississippi , is the chief in command ; Senor Lopez , the Cuba insurrectionist , being second . The expedition is too smaU for success ,, but Lopez says that two-thirds ofthe people and -four-fifths of the army in Cabs will join it , which folks in general do not believe . On . dit tbat some of the Ultras of the South require Cuba to be admitted as a state , by way of setoff to California ; but this , perhaps , is mere political chit-chat . "
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_Oversesbs o ? the _Poob . — From returns just issued for the years 1845 , 1840 , 1847 , and 1848 , of the expenses allowed by the revising barristers to the overseers ofthe poor for tbe publication of tho lists of persons entitled to vote m the election of members of Parliament for England and Wales , it appears that the coslB of voters , burgesses , and jury lists wero for eaob of these years , respectively , £ 20 , 153 , £ 21 , 556 , £ 25 , 041 , and £ 24 , 320 . Speeches anb Deeds . —The Avr Advertiser mi "
— " The estate of Bartonholm , in Irvine parisn , which belonged to tbe late Colonel S . M . Fullarton , was sold last week by _publio roup at Irvine , and knooked down at £ 10 , 600 to C . D . Gairdner , Esq ., as commissioner for the Earl of Eghnton . [ TheEftrlOf mmon , who has paid a , tot ' hand some price for this estate , was ono of the orators at tho " great Protectionist meeting in London a few days ago , at whiob the burden ef all the speeohes and resolutions was . tbat agriculture _W ruined , and land wortMejs _!] - _&<«« _" «»•
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_——™^^^ ¦ ' _—¦¦—¦——»—* THE TEN HOURS BILL . : : Manchester ;—A large and spirited meeting was held on Monday evening at the Corn Exchange , to protest against the government proposition for compromising the factory question , hy conceding to tho masters two hours more per week than is provided in the existing Ten Hours Act , and giving to the men as an . equivalent a limitation of hours between six in the morning and six in the evening , ( instead of , as now , between half-past five in the morning and half-past eight in the evening , ) with tho abolition of relays . Letters of apology were read from Lord John Manners , M . P ., Mr . _Muntz , M . P ., Mr . G . Bankcs , M . P ., and Mr . Ferrand . The leading gentlemen who had accepted invitations , . and were present , were Mr . S . Fiolden : Mr . R . ——— .
uastler , Mr . J . R . Stephens , and Dr . Fletcher . Mr . Thomas Fielden ( brother to the late member for Oldham , ) presided ; and nmong the gentlemen present was Dr . / Bowers , Dean of Manchester . The Chairman said , that they were met to seo if it was true , as bad been represented in the newspapers , that they wero willing to give ap two hours _ji-week of tbe limitation which had bees granted to them by Parliament by the act of 1847 . { Loud _criea of " No . ' not a minute . " ) That act had fixed the hours at fifty-eight hours per week , and k was now proposed to extend thero to sixty . Now hewanted to know if the factory people agreed to that . ( "No , not Less than fifty-eight if anything . " ) Well , he wished to have no mistake on the matter .
He did not believe that they had ever agreed to give up tbose two hours a-week , and they were met there then to say so if they thought so . Mr . ' P . _KffiGHT then moved : — " That Parliament enacted the Ten Hours Act after cautiously feelingits way during manj years of factory inquiry and legislation ; and having at length arrived at the conviction that the limitation to ten hours work- per day is indispensable to the morals , social relations , and p hysical enjoyment ofthe working classes , ibis meeting considers that tbe honour of Parliament is pledged to maintain tho principle of the limitation of ten hours per day untouched . " Mr . R . Kay , a factory worker , in seconding the resolution , _= declared that the working of the Ten Hours Act , as far as it had been tried , - had been attended with the most beneficial results .
Dr .. _Flktcheu said , by one-of those technical errors which were but too common in legislation , the Ten Hours Bill of Mr . John Fielden had been ineffectual for the declared objects of its promoters , and tbe honour of parliament was pledged to amend the defect without impairing it in other respects . -A compromise had been proposed , and if the factory operatives had accepted it , well and good , but , as they had not done so , ho boped government , would keep with them . Time was wheu men were subject to prosecution for endeavouring to bring government into contempt ; and he hoped ministers themselves would not take steps calculated to do that whicb tbey prosecuted others for attempting . He hoped they would not be misled by the Times paper ,
which had how forsaken the ten hours cause , and re-open this agitation ; because he would caution them , if they did this , they would re-open the whole question of capital and labour . ( Great cheering . ) Mr . W . MATHHM _. of Rochdale , moved the next resolution , which was : — " That the ten hours , principle having been successfully infringed , owing to an omission of words in Sir James Graham ' s act of 1844 , that omission ought to bave been supplied by an amending act ; that . _tuis meeting sees with surprise and regret that instead of such an act her Majesty ' s Ministers propose to repeal the Ten Hours Act , and to extend the labour of women and young persons to ten hours and a half per day . " Mr . G . Rhodes , a working man , seconded it . Mr . S . _Fikidex , in supporting tbe resolution ,
contended , that the whole scheme was a fraud upon the factory workers . In the first place , they wanted to take two hours a week from them , which they openly asked for ; but the miserable attempt to "defraud them of an hour on Saturday was really shameful , for it was quite clear tbat if tbey had no dinner hour during the mill hours tbey must bave it when they had left the mill , so that when they appeared to work only till two o ' clock it was really equivalent to working till three . ( Cheers . ) He asked them if they would rather have the bill thrown out than take the proposed sixty hours ? ( Cries of "Yes , yes ! throw it out , and Bright with it' . '') The beneficial working of the Ten Hours Act had been so clear and decided tbat even John
Bright could not deny it . Why , then , should they give up so good a measure ? ( " Never ! if any change , it must be to eight hours . " ) The Rev . J . M . Polklington also supported the motion . Mr . W . Caeter , of Burnley , moved : — " That this meeting , and the / factory workers generally , consider the limitation of the work _' of _youiig persons and women , to ten hours per day and fifty-eight hours per week a great benefit to all persons directly and indirectly affected by it ; bnt by no means a greater boon tban ought to bave been promptly granted by a parliament of men representing a Christian country . " Mr . J . Schoi _^ _field , a factory worker , seconded the resolution .
Mr . Oastleb was received with immense cheering . He said , if there ever was a time during the whole agitation for the Ten Hours Bill , when the operatives were required to abandon every feeling of prejudice ,, and to call home their calm reasoning , that time was now . ( Cheers , ) He wasnot about to endeavour to raise their indignation , but it was bi 3 business , before he parted from them , calmly and deliberately to lay before them the exact position in which the question now stood , and to entreat of them to decide upon the resolution with all the ) calmness and deliberation which convinced reason could give tbem . Since the question had been commenced by himself , it had been'held to be the most serious and most sacred question which could
possibly occupy the mind of any man . Ho saw hundreds of thousands of the most industrious people of the country suhjeoted to a period of labour so excruciating that their minds were totally excluded from consideration , whiio their bodies were bowed down under the physical pressure laid upon . them . Every one of these individuals , he contended , bad a soul as . valuable in the eye of the Being that made it as the soul of the prinee that was born tha other day to the Queen . ( Cheers . ) He contended also that every one of these souls and bodies camointo the world with as great a right to be able to know its duty to God , its neighbour , and itself , as , that prince over whose birth we had lately rejoiced . Tbe result of the agitation had . been ,.
through the blessing of God upon tne exertions or those engaged in it , crowned w | fch complete sue- _, cess . The' operatives knew with what gratitude they received the boon—bow they assembled _toge-. ther in Manchester to congratulate one another upon the success of the bill , and subscribed their pence to- present to her Majesty a golden medal _,, commemorative of the great event . He thought ber Majesty was possessed of no token so valuable as tbat . ( Cheers . ) And when it was presented to her with the assurance that' the operatives were loyal asd devoted to her person , she exclaimed energetically , "Iknow it to bo true . " ( Cheers . ) , Siuce then the operatives had used that blessing , not abused it . The time gained had not been spent in vice and immorality , but from the testimony of
the clergy , the doctors , the millowners , and . shopkeepers , ' and even factory inspectors , in every town affected by the measure , the gain entirely had been used for the best of purposes—to the health of their bodies , the improvement of their minds ,, and tho salvation of their souls . What , then , was the cause of their meeting that night ? Was there any blunder in the act that gave them that boon ?; Not a word . John Fielden ' s act was perfectly valid and substantial , —no lawyer ,, no judge , could find a flaw in . it ' ; but there was another act of parliament ; hebegged them to mark-this , for it was exceedingly important , not only that they , but that the House of Commons and the House of Lords should understand their exact position . ; . there was another act of
parliament , passed three years before that of John Fielden ' s , in 1847 , which was avowedly , passed , according to tbe acknowledgment of Sir James Graham himself , then the Home Secretary ,, for tha doing _^ aw ay with shifts and relays . ( Hear , hear . ) In that act there did appear a flaw , but a flaw which honourable men would never bave taken advantage of . But because it happened to be a penal act of parliament , the judges were bound , by the rules which guided their conduct , to be very scrupulous and strict in the technical wording of its clauses . iWhen tbe millowners determined to . take advantage of this flaw in the act of Sir James Graham , they descended from their position as gentlemen and men of honour , and crept into the . dock of the
criminal , praying tho judge to throw over them the shelter which fclcas , transports , and murderers alone were favoured with . ( _6 heersO He was not : _makinff a pictured relation , but speaking the baro truth . They went t hen to the House of Commons , and a ' sked them not to interfere with John Fielden ' s Act of 1847 , but to make their own act of 18 . 44 what they meant it to be , _¦?¦ = > wbat tbey declared the y meant it to be , —and what the judges declared there was evidenoe it was meant to be . What wa » the case at present which brought the operatives together ? They were told tbat there were no words rtiat could bo put together wbich could bind tha
millowners not to work shifts and relays ., ( Laughter . ) Why , it was ohildisa . There was a clausebe had rend it—drawn up by Isaac Butt , tha Queen ' s counsel , whicb had been _laidi before the lawyers , and was deolared to be valid ,, against shifts and relays , and tbat no shifts and relays could bet worked under it . Then the millowners said thef could only correct their errors hy altering the factory day , which would he the introduction of new matter ; and unless the _operatives would allow themselves to be robbed of their Ten Hours Bill they ( the legislators ) would not consent to . comet their own errors . Tho operatives were called upon now to weigh deliberately whether under such cir-Oumstances they would allow themselves to in defrauded ., ( Cries , of . " Ko , no , " ) _Juat see fori
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