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FRANCE . : THE 4 TH OF KhX . PARIS , Saturday . —We have atfe ' agtb armed » t the 4 th of May , whicb . for some - not very conceivable reason has been set aside 1 ) y the government of the Republic as a day of rejoicing and amusement . The tbreedaysolVhe Revolution of February were , -with more randrar than is usually to bs observed among French officials , ordered to be observed as a day oC humiliation and mourning . "We -hare not arrived at . the period when any government could venture "to make ihe 10 th of Decanifesr ( the day of louis Napoleon ' s election ) a aatieaal holidav . And ss the Parisians havc
been * ccnstomFd to certain annual fetes , the 4 th of Jlay ias been fixed on , that being the day when the first Constituent Assembly reel , and when the decree of'the Provisional Government , which dedered that . the form of government to be established in France should be republican , was confirmed . To show how little sincerity there is in the observance of 'he day it is only necessary to state that when M . Cremieux yesterday ventured to ssk what part the National - Assembly was to take ia the fetes , and whether any place was set aside for the members , the President ( General Bedean ) stopped any such ia-f . ertinentinq . ines by saying thtt there was no
question before the hoase . and immediately adjouraed the silting . Besides this , it will be relaembered that the parlies now in puwer have never ceased conspiring to destroy the established order of things , and that many of them defend their opposition to the Republic on the ground that it is an usurpation , and that ( although the Assembly accepted it by acclamation ) France was never consulted on toe subject . Right or wrcae io * ever , the day mast lie observed , aad accordingly the French ' people have to pay 200 , 000 f . in Oder that the Parisian me ? have the usual quantity of shows , fireworks , and illuminations .
The correspondent of the ' Chroaicie' gives the following description of the / sic : — If some soher mortal , who , three or four days back , has plodded his way mechanical !; across the Place de la Concorde to the Faubnurg St . Germain , bad' been to-day suddenly raised in mid air , and brought back by some of those kind genii whom it was our delight to read of in the Arabian tales , the surprise of the worthy man at such an unusual node of locomotion cauld not be greater than his astonishment at the marvellous transformation
• which he would find had been effected in the Place during his brief absence . Statues aud vases , gay lowers and sparkling waters , trinmpMal 2 rcfces , flag * :, trophies ' ,. draperies of velvet and silk , and everything in fact that can please the eje in an outof-doors fete , would greet his eye to whatever side he turned . Even the weather he would fiud had charged , S 3 if expressly for the occasion , a bright Sun and unclouded sky having taken the placs of the samewhat keen blasts that have of late struggled ( gainst the full bursting out of spring .
' The locale of the / e . ' e included the space from the- Madeline across the Place de la Concorde to the Chamber of Deputies , and . in the other directions , np the long avenue of the Champs Elysees to the . ' Arc de l'Etoile . Festoons of flowers were suspended between the pillars of the Madeleine , whilst at each corner of the front of the building floated immense tricolour flags of silk . The term floated is , however , only applicable to the morning and evening time , as during the middle cf the day So little air wa 3 stirring , that here , as elsewhere , the various draperies and fligs clung somewhat too lazily for effect to the buildings and staffs which fup ' ported them . The Rue de la Concorde wa 3
or-Bamented down its whole length with alternate pillars , crewned with huge vases of flowers , and ¦ with stands of tri-colonr lamps ready prepared for the evening ' s illumination . On the Place three grand changes had been effected , first , lofty triumphal arches had besn placed at the four corners just where the carria * e-way leads to the issue beyoad ; next , the two fountains in the centre were sloped gently down , to the ground , and covered with green turf , interspersed with beds of living fhwers whilst the waters above danced in the sunbeams amidst a profusion oi evergreens and plants in full blow ; and , lastly , the Obelisk was surrounded with an immense platform , at each angle of which were
placed immense sphinxes , of a dark colour , the harmonize with the monument above ; whilst against the four sides of the pillar stood Egyptian inures , of huge size , as if the guardians of some treasure mentioned in the hieroglyphics above them . Of these three great modifications in the usnal appearance of the place , this last appeared to us the least happy , though it is only justice to say that we beard many of oar neighbours admire it bsyond measure . It might , perhaps , have been as well to say that below were placed a number of inscriptions , -which spoke at ones the feelings of the people whom the fete was designed to please . Oa the four faces of the raised construction were the words : Heliopolis , Aboukir , Pyramide 3 , and Monthabor ; whilst underneath were ths names of Kleber , Murat , Desaix , Denoa , Larrey . Lanncs , Berthollet , Bertbier ,
and other eminent persons , who took part in the expedition of Egypt In addition , at some little distance from the monument , were erected four shields , one at each angle , bearing the inscriptions of Armee d'ltalie—Marengo , Arcole , Rivoli ; Armee do . Itbin—Jemmappes , Hobenlinden , Zurich ; Armee d' Afrique—Isly , Constantinas , Algiers ; and , lastly , Grande Armee — Austerliiz , Jena , Wagrasn . A French population can never behold these names unmoved ; and hence , during the day , around this spot , the crowds continued to congregate , reading , frequently aloud , those names so flittering to their desire for military glory . It can scarcely be doubted that the-intention in fitting up the centre of the Place in this manner was , through the fame of the Emperor Napoleon , to throw a reflected gleam on his nephew , the President of the Kepublic .
The four triumphal arches , if so they may bs called , are handsome well-proportioned erections bearing inscriptions intimating that they are respectivel y dedicated to commerce , agriculture , the arts , and literature . -Oa . the sides are to be seen the names of the persons most famous in French annals Sa these several branches . Suspended from the centre of each of these arches is placed a magnificent chandelier of immense size , which , when lit up , will no doubt produce a splendid effect . On each , side , along tlie Place , are erected statues representing justice , sculpture , agriculture , architecture , commerce , and other matters connected with the inscriptions on the triumphal arches .
But the arrangement of the fountains was , as we ina already stated , the most dainty device of all , the intermingling of flowers , falling waters , coloured Iamp 3 , tri-coloured streamers , with the mostcbanning gardens « V Anglake below , rendering them most fairy . Hke in elegance and lightness . Within a xdp ' ed-in space , near them , were placed bands of music , which played at intervals during the day . The correspondent of the * Daily News' writing on the 5 th inst . says : —• The festival of the 4 th of May went off without the least disturbance or accident . The weather was singularly favoarahle .
The only fine spring day we have had jumped with the fete . All was warm , radiant , and joy-inspiring . The sinister predictions of reactionary journals were splendidly belied by the crowded faces of the fesiivelj-attired citizens . Net the least disturbance ruffled the vaat assemblage which choked the ample spaces of the Place de la Cuncorde , and waved a sea of hats and bonnets up the avenues of the Champs Elysees to the Barriere de l'Etoile . The gorgeous tinsel of the show was arranged with the jaost artist-like effect , and never were £ 12 , 000 squandered with more admirable economy . The crowd was entertained with fantastic fits of
variegated flame till midnight , and then dispersed quietly to their homes , scarcely dreaming of the skilful combinations which General Cbangarnier had formed to prevent any explosion of democraticrage . ' A Socialist named Courtois has been sentenced , by default , by the Court of Assize of Paris to imprisonment for one yearand to pay a fine of l . OOOf ., for having delivered a seditious speech at an electoral meeting at Belleville , on the 19 ; h of April . A clandestine press for printing Socialists pamphlets , which were afterwards distributed through Paris and the suburbs for the purpose of making Converts , has been discovered at Mezey , near Ver-• afllef . The printer has been fined 4 , 000 / . for a violation of the law .
The President of the Republic bas published a decree , diBmissb gM . Gilly , the Mayor of Remon-Jiss , ia the department of the Gard . « , £ *?* fr 0 m - ° rleans ' of the 2 ai ™ » mentions £ t ^ vSie 5 ° ! the 24 th ReKin « nt of Light Infantry had been despatched to MontargU , in -coii-% ^ & ? & ^ *^ - * ^'*«* Ibr some days past there bas been a strike among the workmen in the employment of the naner stainereofParii . The strike is not yet at an end bat it is hoped tint it Will not but many daya
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longer . The workmendemand that their day ' s work should be limited to ten tours , ' as in the period of the Provisional Government . . - . . " Theultra-Consemiave ' papera " *; trying to get up a new plan of agitation , by means of what they call a'League for thespublic good ; ' the objects of which is to agitate the country in favour of the' Refcrm' of Universal Suffrage , and the revision of the Constitution . Thismew institution is got up on the ruins of the Electoral Union , which has fallen mto disrepule since its failure in the two last elections for Paris . Under its auspices , several petitions , praying for the revision of the constitution , &ave alreadv reached Paris . fiLORIOUS VICTORY OF TH < E . DEMOCRATS .
Thefollowing is the definitive state of the pall for theelection of the department of the Saone -et-Loire , as proclaimed oin&e 3 rd of May , at Macon . It will baseen that thetaajority of the itepublicans is much greater than it was at the former election . — Electors insoribed ... « . — 331 , 015 Number who voted ... ' ,- ~ - 120 , 102 MM . Madier-Montjau ... 73 , 110 Ssquiros 73 . GG 0 Charassin ... ... 73 , 014 Dain 73 , 014 Hcnnequin 72 , 822 Colfavru .- ... 71 , 290 Billault . „ ... 4 G . 50 S Dariet 40 , 471 ' Eoutelier 46 . 409
Lnfouge - ~ ... 46 , 414 D'Esterno . ~ -.. 40 , 233 Eenoist 4 G , 09 G MAI . Madier-de MuEtjau Esqoiros , Charassin , Dain . Hannequin , and Colfavru ,. the sis democratic candidates , were consequently declared representatives of the people . V EDXBS 3 AT . —In the Assembly , to-day , M . Baroche read the exposition of the motives , and the clauses of the Electoral Law . The Left demauded the previous question . Upon this being rejected a debate spened upon the question of urgency , which was decided by assis and leve , by a laroe majority i" favour of Ihe urgency .
M . Baroche , amid breathless attention , ascended the tribune , and proceeded to read the exposition of motives for the Electoral Reform Bill . It states that the present law is defective , and that discontent is manifested . Of all the provisions the most dangerous is that which confers the right of voting by six months residence . Thus the elector , under certain circumstances , may vote successivel y in several departments . It is urgent to remedy this inconvenience . The constitution requires , that the vote-shall lake place by cantons in the place of the real residence . Is the electoral law conformable to this principle ? We propose for the electoral domicile a residence of three years , that is during a period equal to that of the legislation . The proof
of domicile is founded on an inscription in the assessment of personal taxes ; we propose to take as the basis of the existence of domicils , the payment of these taxes during three years . But the persons who live in the domicile of their fathers or mothers , workmen , and servants , shall be exempt from payment of these taxes , providing they shall have inhabited the same domicile during three years . Soldiers should bs exempt both from the requirements of domicile and payment of taxes . Thus , conformably with the constitution , the election will not be dependent on taxation , the payment of personal taxes being only taken as an evidence of domicile . Another objectionable point in the law of March 15 th is * the enumeration of the causes of
incapacity . . These causes are too limited . The new law proposes a new enumeration . A third point requires that one-eight of the electors shall vote to validate the elections . The new law requires for the first vote the fourth cf the electors inscribed on the electoral lists . The obligation of replacing representatives in the Assembly shall be extended to six months . The minister concluded by demanding ' urgence' for this law , because of the agitation endeavoured to be propagated on account of this la ? . ( Great confusion and clamour on the Left . ) .
SWITZERLAND . It has already been announced that the Swiss goverrment had decreed the dissolution of the societies of German workmen established in Switzerland . It has been ascertain ; 'd , on an official investigation , that the object of these societies was to destroy , nov only all the thrones , hut also the social institutions of Germany , and that they were in communication with similar associations in England , France , and Germany . It has further been ascertained that the associations bad entered into close communication with the political refugees in Switzerland .
1 La Suisse , ' of the 2 nd inst ., publishes an address of thiriy-six members of the Assembly and of the Co'mcil of State to the electors , in opposition to the conservative party , in which they charge that party with being leagued with the reactionary parly of ihe interior and connected with the reactionaries of the exterior , first jeopardising the liberties of Switzerland , and then those of the people connected with it , as being intimately allied with the old aristocracy , the natural enemy of all liberty , and as " laving , with their friends the Jesuits , hailed the alliance of all the perfidious enemies of the institutions of the country .
GERMANY . Professor Kinkel and several other persons , charged with riot at Siegburger when the stoorhouse of the Landwehr was attacked and plundered , were acquitted on Thursday week at Cologne . Kinkel bad been brought there in custody from his cell at Naugardt , where he is undergoing his sentence of imprisonment for life for his share in the Baden insurrection . No sentence could have made any difference in his fate . He was immediately taken back again . AH the others were immediately set at liberty . At Elberfeld the trial of the persons accused of participation in the insurrection of May , 1849 , is proceeding .
The province of Posen , the Island of Prussia , is represented by letters thence , to be in a most deplorable state of anarchy and misery . The police and military stationed in the small villages are totally incompetent to suppress the numerous bands of robbers . The latter perform their handiwork in open daylight , and before the eyes of the authorities . Neither life nor property can be considered safe . The province of Silesia merits a similar description . The authorities here have determined on despatchl ing a large body of mounted gensdarmes , and on increasing the military stationed in both provinces . The Wurtemberg government has laid before the Chamber a new law of election , which excludes universal suffrage , and introduces a property qualification .
Munich is expecting another ' beer riot , ' and the military preparations for it have given the city the appearance of a capital in a state of siege . Before 1848 , which made insurrections familiar , it was the only German capital subject to popular outbreaks , and the cause of them was always the same—the price of beer . Lola Montes , the Jesuits , and politics , as disturbing causes , came later ; they have ceased to have any hold on the public , but beer remains—the eternal quencher of thirst and exciter of discord . The price has been raised a kreuz ? r per
pint , and the most terrible consequences are apprehended ; the guards at the Palace and all the gates are doubled , several of the public buildings are filled with soldiers of all arms , and the streets are regularly patrolled by detachments with loaded arms . The precautions wonld seem disproportionate to the caase anywhere else , but are perhaps necessary where the population are such enormous consumers of the article as to elicit the satire of their brother nationalists . It was a German who declared thatewrv Bavarian gets up in the morning as a beer cask , and goes to bed a cask of beer !
ITALY . ROMAN STATES . —Our correspondent at Rome , in his letter of the 27 th ult ., continues to give a very hopeless account of the financial state . A conference between Messrs . de Rothschild , and the Minister Galli on the 26 th was attended with no satisfactory result , so that the loan was still at a sland-still , silver increasing in price daily , and the Exchange on London up to 545 . An extraordinary imposition on urban and rural property had been announced to meet the necessities of the state , and a portion of the small notes were shortl y to be withdrawn from circulation . Imprisonment and deprivation of office were going on without any mitigation from the clemency of the Pope , or the intercession of Gsn Baraguay d'Hilliers , whose departure was fixed for the 5 th .
POLAND . The Emperor of Russia is expected in Warsaw on the 7 th , and every preparation is made for his . reception . In consequence of the late arrests , passports have almost ceased to he granted . A few forei gners and mercantile men have , for some time been the only exceptions . " . ' . ¦ .-H-- . ¦ " ? j ;¦ ' . ¦ .: ' ^ TURKEY . - > , - .. . ::.: ; , Letters from Constantinople of the 17 lh ult . in the ' Deutsche Zeituog' states that the Bosnian insurrection is progressing at a very alarming rate . The Pashas of Zwornik and Fouzla have joined the re-
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bels , and the Turkish ; g » jvernment las been . compelled to send . troops from . Mpraaterand Steiiift into Bosnia . V :- /• ¦ ¦ - . ' ' - ¦ . ,. - ' Another insurrection ' against ths Sultan ' stmt&ority has broken out in Kourdistan . . Ahmed Effendi , the f utkishfCommissionenintthe Danubian Principalities , isimaking ; energetic though useless-efforts to iado-ce the ( Russians to redeee the garrison of those provineesvtojlO . OOO meminstead of toS ) , 000 . Ger-eralLuders left BucharestoR the 22 nd of March . Hie present Russian . comraander in the Danubian fe £ ncipalities > is GeneraliHassforr . Rie ' Imparttilcle ^ Smyrne" states that the disturbances oiitheMand of Samos haveled-toa bombarSment of tbctawn , and toa conflict offorty-ei ght hoars' duration ,: ia the course of which-the ' ffiirkish troops succeededda defeating and dispsrsing the insurgents . . :
Monday . —The ' National * enters inlo > a = discas-8 ? on of the effect , which the reported intention of die authors of the Bill tO'Corefine the -Franchise to the classes paying the Poll-tax and Chattel-tax ( flaxespersonelk et mohiliere ) is likely to produce , and infers from the fact of none but the . extremely indigent . class , which does . not . amount to ' much more than amiEion in France , being excluded from the list of contributors to the taxes mentioned , that this condition would not effect an important reduction in the number of votes . It says : The Bourse fell somewhat to day on the report that there would lift a formidable opposition . in the Assembly to the Electoral ^ Reform Bill . It was settled last night at the Club of the Conseil d E ' tat that the intention to demand urgency for the Electoral Bill should be maintained .
The Legislative Assembly to day , after adopting , without debate , the last chapters of the budget of marine , passed to that of public works . M . Nadaud ( a mason ) read a long speech , complaining of the irjudicious economies introduced into the budget of this department , and of tbe indifference shown by the government to the lot of the working classes . Grinding distress was occasioned by the shrinking of all capital from enterprise . It wa = the business of the government . to lure forlh from
barren hoards the shy wealth of moneyed ' men , by encouraging with advantageous conditions useful works , such as buildings . Money employed in this way would be much better bestowed than lavished as it was upon immense arrnamessts . The Btate owed work to workmen , and the . best way to avoid barricades was to comply with this obli gation as religiously as possible . ' He concluded by proposing that the statn should guarantee a minimum of interest to capitalists wbo constructed buildings .
M . Benoit d Azy replied to the sperch of M . Nadaud , and attempted to show that all possible sacrifices would not avail to remedy the , state of the working classes , until . public security was es- ; tablished . The Assembly then passed to ' Ihe discussion of the chapters , several of which were adopted without any incident of interest . Leon Fauchsr inserts a long article in the ' Messager de la Seraaine , ' calling on the majority sf the Assembly and their supporters . to organise clubs for the propagation of conservative principles and the opposition of the growth of Socialism , ¦ iT * . ¦ '
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^ FACTORIES BILL . The following are the clauses and amendments to be moved by Sir George Grey in committee on this ' Clause 1 , page 2 , liae 9 , after the word ' that , ' to leave out to the end of the c ' ause , and to insert the following words , ' save as hereinafter . mentioned , so much of the said acts as restricts or limits the employment or labour of young persons , and of females above the age of eighteen years , shall . be re p ealed ; and after the passing of this act , no young person , and no female above tbe age of eighteen years , shall be employed in any factory before six of the o ' clock in the morning , or after six of the clock in the evenins : of any day ( save to recover lost time as hereinafter provided ;) and no young person , aud no female above the age of eighteen years , shall be employed in any factory , either to recover lost time or for any other purpose , on any Saturday after two of the clock in the afternoan . '
* And be it enacted , that so much of the said secondly recited act as requires notice of tho times of beginning and ending'daily , work of all persons employed in any faotoiy . or notice in the form civen in the schedule ( C ) to such act as the . form for the hours of work of all ynun « persons and females abuvo the age of eighteen years employed in the factory , to be hung or fixed up in any factory , and so much of the same act as enacts that in any complaint of the employment of any person in a factory otherwise than is allowed by that act , the time of beginning work in the morning , which shall be stated in any no'ice fixed up in the factory , signed by tl . e occupier or his agent , shall be taken to be tl . e time when all persons in the factory , except children beginning to work in the afternoon , began work on any day subsequent to the date of such notice , so long as the same continned fixed up in the factory , shall be repealed .
'And whereas by the said secondly recited act it was enacted , that the times allowed for meal times , as provided by the said firstly recited act , should be taken between the hou > "s of liaif-past seven in the morning and half-past seven in the evening , be it enacted , that the tiaies allowed for such meal times as aforesaid shall be taken between the hours ofhalfpast seven in morning and rix in the evening ,- and subject to such alteration as aforesaid , all tlie provisions of the said firstly and secondly recited acts concerning meal times and notice of racal t'ines , shall remain applicable to all young persons and to all fem « les above the age of eighteen years employed in any factory .
' And whereas by the said secondly recited act it was enacted , that in any factory in which any part of the machinery was moved by the power of water , tbe timo which should have been lost by stoppages from want of water , or from too much water , might bo recovered within six months next after the stoppage , between the hours specified in the said firstly recited act , as those within which time lost by dr aught or excess of water might be recovered : and that , in order to recover time so hst , any child or young person might be employed one hour in each day . li'ore than the time to which-the ordinary labour of children and
young persons respectively was restricted by law , except on Saturday . Be it enacted , that no young person and no female above the age of eighteen years , shnll , in order to recover time so lost as aforesaid , be employed after seven of the clock in the evening of any day ; and the times before six of the clock in the morning and after , six of the clock in the evening during , which any such young person or female is so employed in any day , * diall not together exceed one hour ; and , save as aforesaid , young persons and females above the age of eighteen years , irtay be employed to recover lost time , according to the provisions of the said secondly recited act . "
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Manchester . —On Monday night a meeting of factory operatives was held in the Corn Exchange , for tho purpose of protesting against the proposed amendments which have been announced by Sir G . Grey , as to be proposed on the bill of LordAsbley . The chair was occupied by Mr . Lawrence Pitkeithley , a manufacturer , who , after reading tho placard by which the meeting' had been convened , called upon Mr . Mawdsley , the secretary , to read the first resolution , which he did as follows : — " That , after two years' experience of tho operations of the' Ten Hours Act , ' we , the factory operatives of Manchester , in public meeting assembled , feol ourselves
bound , from sad necessity , once moro to declare our unqualified approbation of that just and ri"htcouslaw . and also our determination never to " consent to any proposition , - emanating from whatever quarter itmay , involving . in tho slightest decree a departure from the principle of ton : hours -for five days in the we « K , and eight on the Saturdays for all females and young persons employed in mills and factories , and that we . will stand or fall by fifty-eight hours a week , as our undoubted right accorded to us by tho solemn decision of Parliament , with no relays , no compromise , and no surrender . "
Mr . Curry , a factory worker , seconded the resolution . . It was supported by Mr . Dunnovas , also a factory operative , who contended that the proposal of the government was the most , disgraceful thing that had ever been proposed to a British parliament . Tho resolution passed unanimousl y . The second resolution was proposed by an operative , and seconded by Mr . II . Grebn , a factorv hand , and was : — " That this meeting is of opinion that the conduct of the government with regard to tho Ten Hours Bill , in not informing tho country what they intended to do until the last moment has been an act of injustice , as the factory operatives were led to believe that the . government would support their just claims for an efficient Ten Hours Act , instead of which they have now given their aid to a minority of employers , thereby creating much uneasiness and discontent in the minds of the factory operatives . " . ¦ ¦ .-. This also passed unanimously .:
The following protest was ; then read by Mr . John Fur , and was unanimously adopted :-i- . ;' . '
• ¦ " ¦ ¦ " ¦ ¦ Protest . .: . ;¦ . ¦ .: •; \ .. That the factory operative ' s here assembled , have learned w i" . orr ow and indignation , that tlie government lias signified its intentioH to make a proposition ' to tho Iloiiseof Uftamons by which it is sought to depriwtlie females and young persons employed in mills and factories of a portion of those leisure hours which tho wise and good of all classes have decided to be so essential to their physical , moral , and social welfare , and take this opportunity to enter their most solemn protest against tho enactment of
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anvlawfounBedaponanyproposition which in the remotest decree sanctions a . departnro from the princinle of therten hours a &ay tfor iifive : day 6 in the week , and eight on the Saturday , aorthe'foH 6 * inc reasons : — Firstly , —^ Because theti ' en Hours Bill was passed into law by the force of public opinion , and by large majorities of both Houses of Parliament , after thirty years of peaceful and legitimate agitation . . ^ ' . ' - - Secondly . —Whereveirtho law has been fajrl y carried out accordinfftat he intentions of tho Legislature , its results to the workpeople ' -have , been of the most beneficial character ,
without injury to the employers , which has been abundantly pvoved ; by the-reports of the factory inspectors and other publitf journals . T " ' ; Thirdly . —Because . petitions to tho Legislature have been forwarded during thejpresen ' t session of Parliament , pi-ayin " the Houso of Commons to complete the good-wovk by earryingout , its intentions , when it passed the Ten Hours k I . 4 * 14 iJ 7 ¦' ¦ ' * Fourthly!—Because a minority of masters only require the illtern ' tion . ; -the majority being satisfied with tlie . pi-esent'law , when amended as proposed , so as to carry out tlio ' -intontions of thciLegislature of 1817 .
Fifthly . —Because the- females and young persons for whose especial benefit the Ten Hours Act was passed , haveiivailed themselves , as faras possible , of the opportunities-afforded them for religious and moral culture , and foi tlie performance of their domestic duties ; therefore the eimotment of any law to extend the time of their labour is unnecessary and oppressive . We , therefore , most respectfully , call upon-the Legislature not to sanction or countenance : the enactment of any law which has for its object the deterioration of a good and righteous measure , and which mig ht lead to the conviction that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor . The meeting was subsequently , addressed by Mr . Elijah Dixon , formerly a factory worker , but now an extensive luoifer-match manufacturer ; also by , Mr . Buchanan , a ' manufacturer ; ' and by Mr . S . Haworth , of Bolton ; aihd Mr . Story . After a vote of thanks to the chairman , the proceedings closed .
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Deatfi of Sir Thomas Cartr-rigut . —Intelligence has been received at the British Legation in Berlin , from Stockholm , of the dcatli of Sir Thomas Cartwright , her Majesty ' s envoy at the court of Sweden ! Sir Thomas had attained his fifty-fourth year , and has passed thirty-six yqiii's'in the diplomatic service . A Descendant of . UoBEij ' f Bunxs . —For sometime tliei-o has been travel ling in ' the interior of ; the , remote island of Borneo , . and sojourning among its rude people of head-hunters , a . young man of ' tho name of Burns , and this young man . is the grandson of . Robert Burns and ' . ' bonny Jean . " This
adventurous youth lias , not only , been hospitably and kinilly treated by the Dyaks , but a ' . princa of the Kayan nation , the niost . p . owerful of the island has ¦ fivcn . him one of his . daughters to wife : so thr . t the future , . biographers ; of Robert Burns : will " in -ill . human ^ ikelihood ^ be ablo' to . enumerate among his descendants those , also of a ; Bornehn prince m . Burris 1 m discovered mines ' of ; ' antimony " and coal MM ? ,. ^ '» om . Wten 8 iTO'ihan- anyi tha worldrout of America . He eeema , moreover oK not only a person of great enterprise , but aK man of utellinmco and good education ; for hS has written an ! published fy far the best and moat authentic account of Borneo which hag hitherto
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_ « g » LORD ASHLEY AND TEE FACTORY ACT . . Gentlemen , —It has become my duty to state to you , without further delay , the course that I would advise you to pursue , in the present position of the Factory-Bill . in the ' Ilouso of Commons . . I am bound to act as your friend , and not as your delegate ; and I counsel you , therefore , to accept forthwilh the proposition ; made by her Majesty ' s Government , as the only moans of solving th ' e difficulties in which . we are now placed . I wish most heartily for your sakos that they con . tained an . unqualificd limitation to ten hours daily ; but I am induced , nevertheless , for the following reasons , to give you that counsel : —•
1 . The dispute is now limited to a struggle about two hours in tho week—whether tho aggregate toil shall be fifty-eight or sixty hours ; tho government plan requiring the two additional hours , but giving an equivalent in , exchange . 2 . The plan imposes a most important and beneficial limitation of the range over which the work may bo' taken , reducing it from Sfteen to twelve hours in the day , thereby preventing ali possibility of shifts , relays , and other evasions—a result which cannot be attained by any other form of enactment . This has always been my strong conviction , and I earned the question by the separate divisions in 1 S < W .
3 . It secures to the working people for recreation imd domestic duty , tbe whole of every evening after six o ' clock . 4 . It provides for a later commencement of work by half an hour in the morning . 5 . Ifc insures additional leisure time on every Saturday . G . Booauso this arrangement would secure , I believe , the co-operation of the employers—a matter of no slight importance , in the good working of any measure and essential to the harmony and gooil feeling wo all desire to sec in the # ast districts of our manufactures . *
But tbero are other reasons , drawn from the embarrassments of our present position . I havo already described to you in a former letter tbe necessity I have been under ( after making many essays and taking many learned opinions ) of introducing a ckuso . to prohibit relays which contains new matter and imposes fresh restrictions . This uuavoidablc step on my part sets at liberty many members who considered themselves engaged to maintain the honour of Parliament , and thus endangers tho success of the measure ultimately , and certainly the progress of it in the present session . Its progress , even were tho bill unopposed , would be difficult under the heavy pressure of public business ; but opposed as it would be , postponement would bo inevitable . Kow . I greatly fear delay ; I refrain from stating my reasons ; but I repeat , I greatly feav delay , as likely to be 'productive of infinite mischief , and which may possibly completely alter your rclatiio and actual position .
I have tried to discover tho bright side of the postponement , 'but I cannot perceive any advantage in it whatsoever . You will stand no better in the next session than you do in this ; you ma y possibly stand worse . . . The two hours are , I know , your unquestionable right ; but , on the other hand , the range of fifteen hours is the unquestionable right Of the employers : tho exchange they offer is fair , and the gain is on your side . In giving this counsel , I know that I shall bo exposed to sad misrepresentations ; but it is my duty not to do that , which will secure applause to myself , but that which will secure protection to your families and children . I should bo overjoyed to obtain for you the full concession of the two hours in the week , but such < m issue seems to my rnhul next
to impossible ; and m tho protracted etruggle to roach the ten , you incur tho hazard of ' being brought to eleven hours . Postponement must follow conflict ; ^ division among the operatives will follow postponement ; and when onco you are a divided body your cause will be irretrievabl y lost . ; It will bo necessary to'insert the word " children " into tbo clause introduced by Sir George Grey , in order that the youngest workers may be sure to enjoy the benefit of the close of the daily labour at six o ' clock . ' With this view I shall accept the amendment proposed by tho Minister , in the humble but assured hope that the issue will bo blessed to the moral and social amelioration of your great comrauuity . I am , Gentlemen , : Your very faithful friend and servant , . May 7 . ' ¦ ' "' Ashley . The Short Time Committees of Lancashire and Yorkshire .
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At a meeting of tho Lancashire . Central Committee for tho protection of the Ten Hours Factory Act , held on the 4 th of May , 1 S 59 , it . was resolved " That the Government proposition to extend the timo of work in factories of women' and children is an unjust and cruel attempt to deprive them of their legal protection which they now possess . "Thatthefaetoryworkers would greatly prefer that the bill now before ' tho House of Commons should bo thrown out for this session altogether , than that any ,- the slijrlitost , alteration should bo made in the duration of labour .
. " That , should the House of Commons agree to adopt a bill containing any extension of time , this committee plcgdes itself to . exert every nerve to cause such bill to bo thrown out . " That a petition to Parliament , in conformity with those resolutions . to bo signed by the chairman on behalf of this committee ' , ' and to bo presented to the House of Commons on or before Wednesday next , be now adopted .. . . . ; "That the district committees-bo advked to adopt the same course . " , ' Tiie Petition . . To the HonouraWe the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled . The petition of the Lancashire Central Committee for the Protection of the Ten Hours Factory Act sheweth—; That youv petitioners are a committee appointed by the factory-workers of the county of Lancaster to act for them in all matters relating to any amendments or alterations of the Factory Acts .
That your petitioners know perfectly what are . tho interests and feelings of the factory . workers on this subject . That any addition to the Inhour of women and children in factories would he seriously injurious to the health , morals , and domestic comfort of such persons , and that t ' ley would much rather prefer that nohillon the subject of factory labour should . be passed than that any such addition should tuke place . ¦ That your petitioners have heard with great surprise and indignation that Her . Majesty ' s Ministers intend to propose to P ( ld to the duration of the labour of women and children in factories . ' ... That the people employed in factories have petitioned your lion ; House to-correct a mistake made iu . thc . net passed for their protection , and that a proposition to make that fact the excuse for depriving them of the protection so accorded , your petitioners cannot hut view as derogatory to the character of your Hon . House . .
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your Hon . nouse will be pleased not to pass any measure whereby the duration of the labour of women , young persons , and children in factories may be in . any degree extended . And your petitioners will ever pray . Philip Knight , Chairman .
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• beenigiven to tbo ipublio . Tho granJson , 'in short , of him who sang *« on the banks of Ayr , " is an intrepid and intelligent traveller ia the woods of iBouaeo and on the Equator . _
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2 THE NQRTHE 1 RK STAiR > . ; : May 11 , 1850 . :
Sestraordinmty Success Op The New K Bemedy!!
SESTRAORDINMtY SUCCESS OP THE NEW K BEMEDY !!
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 11, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1573/page/2/
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