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wonld have the effect of increasing the poor rates,
by adding to the already heavy list of paupers. He
could not calculate to what length the feelings
of the Hotionrable Gentleman might lead the
House. lo future. he said, it would be neces-
sary to have an attorney oil the one hand, and sit
Act of Parliament on the other.—(A laugh.)—
The Han. Gentleman should recollect that clnm-
ney-sweeners were not the only persons who were
noder control. lle Monthd recollect that soldiers and
s:nlor. wrref nodert,evor ittsrinlioe. He would oppose
the VIII, because hr console-I.rd its objeLt impracti-
cable; but 11 it %vie even placticaldr, it would
only throw so many idle hands upon the public.
The Hon. Baronet, in conclusion, said, that if the
chat nes were altered in some houses, he had no
doubt but much cause or excuse of complaint

would be removed.
Mr. RINPIETT said, the number of houses
amounted to right hundred thousand, end it would
be idle to think of altering the chimines of these
houses; but houses might in future he built iii
difietent manner. It whs, he said, a remarkable
fact, ilie greatest difficulty, and the greatest sod; r-
ings of those miliappy cro worts, was occasioned in
sAel-ing the chimmes of modern-built houses.
These houses hove been limit for the *wenn'.
modition of the vo volt hy —they enjoyed warmth
anti rdea-titt at the expense of the conifort, the
hialti., and the morals of those devoted beings.
Nu eao.r, lie believed, was ever more elver:), made
out to the satisfaction of the public—few cases
were more likely to interest the feelings of huma-
nity sod of charity, for the most forlorn, the most
friesiollees Sod helpless of human beings. As to
the utroervation made by the Hun. Baronet. when
he could prove that !Oils bad been put under the
feet of sailors—wlien he could prove that straw
wits Luria under their naked and lacerated bo-
dies, then lie would admit of some parallel be-
tweet, the case cited by the lion. Baronet. and
the Wider' situation of those destitute little
wretches, in whose fate the best feelings of the
etonitry were eillisted, and for whom he implored
Ibe jurtier and CIIMIIIO6IIIII of the House.
Sir Pntt.te l'untit: said, lie had known many
sailor 1.11111/Wtti with the cat. 10 turn hail up.—
lame.)
Mr. CunweW presented • Petition from Mr.
Richard Clat kr. who bud petitioned agimist the
return for tihelemere, stating, that one of leis se-
entities hail !writ refused, and proying that the
time for Clliellllg tutu his recuguixtuce might be
enlarged.
Mi. ROBERT Wasp said, he did not intend to
opi•te.e the milieu', but or the Petition stated that
one of the securiiira had been disallowed, he would,
on behalf of the sitting Member, claim an exami-
nation on both sides.
It was ordered that the time for entering into the
recognizance be enlarged to Wednesday next.
Sir Fatima' Buitmire said he held in his hand
a Petition of mine importance; it woe a Petition
from Mr. Wm. Harris, against the monopoly of the
West Middlesex and Chrlpea Water Companies.—
Ordered to lir on the table.
ISLAND OF CEYLON.
S.r WM. DE CRESPIGNY mid, that it was now
publicly ktivwn that a most destructive war 111111
broken oil ill the Island Of Ceylon, and that heel
to ii mast l'itglitful amount had been lost. It was
right that Proi !lament should inquire into the ['attire
and ooligin of that war. lie would ask Gentlemen
whether they would tircultice such pallets as
v•oold ulford this information to the Clouse If
they refused to tin so, he would feel it his duty to
move for the pi ieluction of them.
Mr. Gnu LIM RN said. that there (wild he no ob-
jection to the production of ally documents tied
might give the desired information, but no (official
account had been nceivert; but from private iii-
furinhtion there was every reason to think that the
tsar alluded to by the lion. Baronet had entirely
lei iiin.ated.

EI:ECTION PETITIONS FRONI IRELAND.

Si Jowl N•wroav said. that the Act of the
53d of toe fin% hail been interpreted in Ireland in
110111111ee that gave rise to great inconvenience;
mid if the !louse did not adopt sonic measure,
would lead to injustice. It was, in fact, consi-
dered In tl.at country, that the provisions of the
Act in question did not extend to Ireland ; and on
reading over the Act he round the name of Ireland
had been omitted. As matters now stood, it was
evrtisiti the greater number, or perlialoi all the 111611
Election Petitions would fall to the groom!, and the
distres.ing consequence would he, that men, okainst
about strung objections were made, would be held
ss the repirsentauses of the people, whilst others
%Dula he shut out, who, whips, hail on every fair
and constitutional ground, • better right to sit in
that Mouse, The Right Finn. Baronet said he
would loot origitiale any motion vim the subject. Ile
submitted the taut to the [louse, leavnig it to their
wisdom to pursue whatever course they might
think fit.
Alt. W. WY N N said, the subject as stated by the
Right lluu. Baronet was of great importance. '
he understood him rightly, lie stated, that it was
considered in Ireland that the provisions of the Act
did lost extend to that coontry ; and that moat of
the Irish Petitions were in consequence likely to
1..11 to the ground. If thy fact were so, it was
one that required the must serious consideration,
and he (Nlr. Wynii) would be sorry to give his
opttiuni 011 it, without taking more time for con-
sideration.
The SPEAKER said, that perhaps the hest course
to ',mane would he to move, in the first instance,
for a return of the presetit slate of all the Irish
Eke Petitions; he wools!. lie slid, take care
that return should be as full as possible.
(ht the motion of Sir JOHN IN LVVPORT, the re-
turn was accorditigly ordered.
TURN PI F.S, die.
Mr. PROTIIEROE piefaced his motion respecting
highways and turnpikes, with several observations.
lie was .ure that when he stated to the llouse the
torigitiol cir 4 oh cuustructing those in England and
Wales was old less than seven millions, that they
extended thioughout a space of loot less than
2.0,000 nitha, and that the monist expense of keep.
log them in repair tonoontril to between 120 mod
130,000 t. it Avoid deem thr litiliject worthy its 'irritant
attention. Ile e11i.11.4.11 0.1 the great advantages

Clic gentleman had discovered a quarry of excel-
lent stone adjacent to a road, on which nothing but
soft, inferior materials, had previously been u►rd.
There were various other points proper for the con-
sideration of a CoMmittre, from whose well-di-
rected labours the public, he was convinced, would
he saved large sums•of money, and derive incalcu-
lable advantages. The Honourable Member then

moved—
" That a Select Committee be appointed to take into con.
videration the Acts regarding the Turnpike Roads and
Highways of England and %Vales, and the expediency of
adopting additiunal Regulations fur the better Preacrvation
therea."
Mr. GIPPS. in rising to second the motion of
the honourable Gentleman, begged leave to say,
that if he had not introduced it, he had himself
intended to propose a measure for the purpose of
amending the 13th and 14th of Geo. 111. lie
thought the subject one well entitled to investiga-
tion, and lie hoped that every thing relating
to it would he considered in the Committee.
It was a great hardship on persons in posses-
sion of agricultural horses, that they were sub-
ject to very high charges for repairing of highways in
the way of duties. he wished also that lives on borers
al Id he altogether removed, and laid on weights.
(Machines on roads were coming very much into
use; awl it would he very desirable if the mea-
sure proposed should lead to their general erecti .
lie could see no disadvantage in putting the num-
ber of horses working on roads altogether out of
the question, and transferring the [woollier to
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weights.
Sir M. W. ittur.car asked if the intended mea.
sure was to be merely prospective ?
Mr. PROTHEROE answered in the affirmative.
Colonel WOOD hoped the intended improvement
would not be confined to turnpikes only. The
question before the House was intimately connected
with that of the Poor Laws. They had papers on
the table, by which it appeared that fifteen hundred
thousand pounds had been expended on roads in
the last year. lie thought it expedient to take
away the Statute duties. which were productive of
great inconvenience and loss to the farmer. lie
could appeal to any Gentleman in the !louse, whe-
ther the day on which his horses were sent to work
at the roads, wa• not • complete (lay of idleness
on the farm. The Highway Act might be brought
under the revisal of the Conuuitter, so as to pro-
cure an entire substitution of duties by rates in-
stead of by Statute. lie trusted that the whole of
the question would begone into by the Committee,
and that such regulations would he adopted as to
apply the whole of the surplus labour to the con-
struction and repair of the highways.
Si► IL PARNELL rose, not for the purpose of
offu ring soy opposition to the motion, but merely
to say, that having on one occa►ion acted on a
Committee of the same nature with that proposed.
lie had heard abundant evidence to satisfy hint of
the expediency end necessity of investigating the
subject. Mont• witnesses lied stated before that
Cutoff ter, that the duties had of late years been
doubled, without any improvement being effected
iii the roads.
The motion was then put, and carried unarm•
mously, and the Committee appointed.

CHIMNEY.SWEF.PERS.
Mr. BENNETT moved the order or the day for
the House resolving itself into a Committee on the
Chimney Sweepers Regulation Bill.
1111 r. GREN FE LE said, that the thanks of the
country were due to his lion. Friend (Mr. Bennett)
for his unremitting efforts to diminish the mass of
human misery.--(Hear, hear.)--Ile had that
morning happened to go to one of the fire insurance
offices, and had taken the opportunity to inquire
into the proportion of fires occurring in el
cleaned in the old way, aid by machinery ; because
he had heard there was a great difficulty in pie-
venting fires in chinmies cleaned iii the latter mode.
lie was lobo tnert that the average number of fires
in the metropolis was sixty or seventy moodily, and
that by looking at the chimnies wherein they took
plate for several months, it was found that in a
given number of mouths, the proportion of those
cleaned by machinery to the others was 2 to 65.
lie then inquired what was the proportion of die
entire number to which machinery was applied?
To this no direct Bossier could be given; but he
siva assured that, in point of fact, thousands were
swept by machinery at present. Such fact%
clearly %hewed the safety—he might say increased
safety-411m., hear)--of universally adopting
the use of machinery ; and proved, that his Hon.
Friend's views were not visioisary, but sanctioned by
experience. A Gentleman had said, as an objec-
tion to the measure, that it would deprive the pa-
rishes of the means of sending out boys es appren-
tices to the trade. That might be a very good
argument for the parishes, but it. was not one for
the House; on the contrary, the very bringing for-
ward of such an objection, skewed the poor boys
to be in so degraded a condition as to call for the
• ediate further protection of the House.—
(licar.)
A Member, whose name we could not learn,
said, that he could not suffer a motion, with so
Mondale and benctoltiit an object, to pass without
expressing his most cordial approbation of it.
When they saw how much was done by the appli-
ol machinety in mills, manufactories. and
other extensive concerns, they could not doubt of
its ultimate and universal efficacy in cleaning
chiumies. Its a large house, which lie hail occu-
pied fur years, he had never suffered any of the
ehintnies to be cleanest but by machinery; his ser-
vaults, however, clandestinely had the kitchen chim-
ney cleaned by climbing boys, and it was remark-
able, that it was the only one of the whole number
which had ever been on hire.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. °MUNN ET was hostile to the principle ..1
abolishing the use of climbing boys, as it would
deprive parish officers of the opportimity of ap-
prenticing boys out. Ile was also of opinion that
machines could not in many cases be made use id:
Colonel Woo° was sure the Hon. Gentleman
who had just sat down could not have read the
Report of the Committee on the subject, because
it both recommended the adoption of machinery,
and considered amid condemned the practice eulo-
gised by the last speaker. Whoever bad children
and read that Report, could not but
ifortunate, oppressed
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