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MR. BUR aOY

Mr. Secretary PEEL sald'ehat as the rose or this gentleman had
been referred to by an Hon. Member (Mr. Brougham) net reed in his
piece, he had attended to the subject, and lie found that the delay
cumpleined of in his case was occasioned by the necessary interven.
tton of the Coot of King's Bloch before the Ecclesiastical Court
weld come to • final decision. Nothirg that he (Mr. Peel) could
do ir. the business would at all expedite its completion. lie had
no hesitation, however, in ',tying, that if the case hail not been al.
ready taken up li: would have felt it his duty, en the part of the
Cmwn, to advise that it should be taken up and prosecuted.
(Hear, bear.
IeXPOIITATION OF MACHINERY.
Mr. IiUM E. oashe bringing up of the Report of the Bill rela-
tive to machinery, observed, that the Committee had not come to
any decision as to the expertatinn of machinery. A petition bad been
preferred to the House by the Hon. Member for Staffordshire (Mr.
Littleton), stating diet it would be destructive to the superiority in
enichinera which this counter enjoyed if free exportation were per-
mitted. For his part, he did not ace why the free policy adopted
with respect to other branches of manufacture should not be ex.
tended to this department also. lie begged also to state, that these
was nothing in the evidence taken before the Commitment all shut-
lar or corresponding to the sediment in the petition. Thom ob.
serrations he has induced to offer, in the hope that Gentlemen du!.
tag the recess would attend to the whiten- and be prepared to coati
to ft decision upon it in the course of next Session.
'The Ittp-rt was then brought up.
Mr. F. rALMER moved roe a Return of the names of all the
towrships and parishes in the kingdom which extended over two et
more counties.
secretary PEEL agreed to the proposition that they be laid
on the table.
CHANCERY.
Sit F. BURDETT moved fur a copy of the number of siesta
heard before the Lot.l Chancellor duritig the bun Id years. died*.
glishmg the causal that hod not been disposed of from those that
h sal beet decided upon ; arid also the number of bankrupt petitions
that bad been heard and not been dismiesed.
After an obsetvatioa from the A "YOU E Y-G ENE RA 1., the mo-
sloe was agreed to.
The Hon. Baronet moved that the final decicion in the case of
air. Flit ewe' contained in the letter of the King, On the 22d June
Till, be laid on the table.—Agreed to.
COMBINATION LAWS.
The ATTIIIRNEY-(iliN ERA le on the third reading of the
Bill en the Combination Laws, said that he had introduced
three amendments into the Bill since it was last before their con-
sideration, whilst) wield., he thought, be acceptable to the House.
The lira was, appointing a lintitariin of time as to the period
a: which the prosecution for offences under the Act should take
place. He could theeefore propose that it be insiituted within
six months after the commission of the alleged ofience. The
eecond clause he proposed to introsluce was. that the ftecieted party
sticuld have the privilege of appeal from the decision of a Magi,-
trate. (Hear, hear.) This would do away with the objections that
bad been tingle-to the wiarmary jurisdiction of the Alfteistrecy.
Lilt then he would :require what was but fair—that the petoop
tusking the appeal shouldwertet into reeegnizeuces, himself in 104
wed two persons i h lei. each, to prosecute; and in the trent of
Iseure to reverse the decision of the Magistrate.. that he should'
ray the costs of the trial. The third clause which he should
re n pose was, that instead of an termer of imprisonment
Le invested is the elfteiAtrete to cuatiae a perenu refusing to
answer gerations put to Lim by a Magistrate, that power should
net extted heyar.d imprisonment re: three mouths. fie had pro.
penal these clauses fro.:) a feeling which he observed to prevail on
the points to which they referred, and he hoped they would meet
satisfa non of the House.
• Mr. HIJSKISSON said, if this Bill should cease at the end of a
yeti, the common law toted revive, and the object was to protect
the workmen /neediest the revival of the common law.
The clause was then age 'ci to.
The AI"PORN LA' -GENE Ili,. rose to propose a new clause,
giriog Magistrates the power of awarding costs at the Quartet
/Keelson.
The clause wits agreed to end ordered to be committed. •
The House then resolved itseft into a Committee on the clause,
which passed without opposition.
Toe House then resumed, and Mr. BROODEN brought up the•
teepSet, which was read and agreed to.
Tee clause was then reed a third time.
Mr. HUME said, the alterations made by the Learned Gent.
(the Attorney-General) had centered this Bill much less ehiee-
t.enable than it was when that introduced. If.two other ohjections
we'e taken away he should feel great pleasure in giving his support
to the DUL . The objectionable matters which lie lied alluded to
were, the use of the incletini.e word `k moiestattota" and tire per-
neesine that masters shauld net as magistietes. 'The Magistrates
seeuid he above suspicion, which- amid not be the case if those in.
tereetee were allowed to act. Mr. Hume cottchwted by moving a
else,. that no manufacturer, or the eon or father of a manufacturer,'
shads! sex under the provtiens of this Act.
The chines was negethred without a division.
Mr. f;eILCRAFT proposed an alteration in the preamble of the
Sir F. III:RDETT greatly disapproved the continuance of the
word molestation in the Bill. If ebb: word was ermined the Bid
:Fluid meet the general concerrenee of the House ; at ell sinnte. if
it he retained, the word should be construed, and the acts in which I
molestation consist should be plainly declared.
Toe proposed alteration of the preamble was adopted withou
opuesition.
Mr. 111/31E contended that the preamble would be at variance
witu the Bill if the word molesting' was retained.
Mr. S. Vi-ORTLEY objected to the omission of the word " mo-
lesting." lie was surprised that the lion. Baronet and the lion.
Gentleman did not perceive the apeiiention of that word. His
priacipal object in rising was to cone:Mut a misrepresentation of
west he had stated in the (louse lest tight. Ile was reported to
Lore said that there were extensive cenibinationn in the mainly
which he represented, and the: it was high time for (lovernnient
to interfere. Now he said, God foiled that lioecrament should
or effete to prevent the men from meeting and considering thei in.
teetat and their wages, but let them be prevented from comoraining
any uhditidtwl to work or not to work at pat:neuter prirex.
Mr. Home's eniendment was negetived n,timid a dtvielon.
Some verbal alterations were then agtatil to. L'pon the question
the Bill should p