A numerous and most respectable party of gentlemen gave a
splen. did entertaiainent at the Clarendon Hotel, on Monday, to Mr. James Stuart, on the occasion of his recent appointment to the office of Factory Inspector. Mr. J. R. AP Culluch was chairman, and Mr. John Easthope croupier.
Mr. Stuart might have fitly filled a higher station than that of Factory Inspector : howbeit, lie is admirably qualified for the perform- ance of the duties which will now devolve upon him, by his kindly feeling towards the working classes, his enlightened and discreet aper, preciation of die important interests of the manufacturers, and his strong sense of justice to all. When engaged some time ago in in- specting the state of factories, previous to the introduction of the Factory Bill, he acquired a moss of information'on the subject, andcontributed valuable sug4estions to the framers of that measure.
It is well that the Whigs have at length given some proof that they are not altogether unmindful of the services rendered to their party by Mr. Stuart ; whose strenuous and efficient support of Liberal prm.. triples, when Toryism was rampant in Scotland, will never be forgotten by those who had an opportunity of witnessing them. It is now con- siderably more dent three years since, in reviewing his excellent book of Travels in America, we reminded the Whig Miuisters that Mr. Stuart's telents for business ought to be made available in the public service of the country. His claims and his qualifications were known to many of them—especially to one : but the Whigs have been in office six years, and have found many opportunities of promoting ene- mies and incapables—it is only within the lust fortnight that they have at last bethought them of their old friend and efficient ally, " James Stuart of Dinicatn."
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