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twice sommitteil. If the lion. Members who wi►h-
ed to oppose it WEIP permitted to discuss its gene-
ral merits, that diseassion must be on the motion
that the Speaker should leave the Chair, in which
rase the Bill should *gam be committed for the
bird time.

Lord STANIAT hoped time would he given to
104 portico interested iu these manufactories to state
their case to the House.

Mr. PUL considered the present conversation so
csnipletely a lu of tisne, that he way willing to
give the opposers of the Bill all the advantage they
washed as to a relavation of the strict order of the
procrt 'hogs of the floss,. The case of its sup-
porters will so totimg, they could well dispense with
These Gl.ntlriorn being permitted to have another
npporisolity of assailing the principle of the Bill,
M well as of proposing, its another Committee,
should they be defeated on the principle, the string
of amendments they might have prepared.
Mr. P 11,11.1109 must object altogether to the
principle of interference on the part of Parliament
in a question of this delicate nature. With the lute-
:eats of the trade he had well been acquainted for QS
years lousy, and acting on that information should
tint only vote against the principle of the Bill, lint
propose several amendments in the Committee
should the Bill be persevered in.
Mr. WM. SMITH observed, the question now ap-
peared to be, whether the House should yield to
the Hon. Gentleman who last spoke, or that Hon.
Gentleman to the house.

Mr. CANNING observed, that as yet there had
been discovered by the arguments advanced hut
'two parties, the advocates null opposers of his Bill.
lie professed himself to be of another, which, he
believed, was still more numerous then either of the
two former, whose object was to obtain sufficient
information on the subject before the (louse, so as
to enable it to argue she question fully and sails-
factorily to their own minds. As lie had turned ii
deaf ear to all those incidental conversations on the
etihject, when petitions on the Cotton FActuries
Bill had been presented, he could assure the House
that lie hail never come to she examination of a
questiuu with less of prejudice respecting its
merits. He had imagined that a general discus-
sion of the principle would! have preceded going
into Committee on the Bill ; as the subject, how-
ever, was one of great difficulty and delicacy, upon
which, the Moire ought to proceed to legislate
with great caution, he Wished some expedient might
be struck out, so as to enable the House still to
enter fury into the principle and details of the Bill,
without affording a triumph on the one hand, or
implying an abandonment on the other.—/Hear.)
The CHAIRMAN suggested that to effect such an
object, it would be the safest way to consent that lie
should he permitted to report the Bill with the
eineodiuents to the House, and ask leave to sit
again.
To this Mr. Priam es acceded.
Mr. FINLAY stated, that difficulties would ne-
.. ily noise if the suggestions of the Right lion.
Gentleman were to be implicitly followed.
Mr. CA N tNo explained.
Mr. J. I'. GRANT objected, that except the
Plll were to be committed after the discussion of
its principle on a future stage, it must thew go
forth to the enuntry iii the way in which it would
leave the Comhiittre this night. The House should
therefore provide fur its being again committed
prior to its passing.
Aber a few words from Mr. BATHunsT, in sup-
po.t of his Right Hon. Friend's proisosition, the
Chairman wads ordered to report the Bill with the
iciiroilisients to the House, and the Bill was or-
dered to be re=committed on Monday next.
Mr. Cot/RTC:IAN stated, that night was fixed for
the discussion of the Poor's bon An iendment
and likely to be occupied in that iliscuSeion.
Mr. feel. replied, if it continued to a !ate hour,
it would rest with the House to postpone the coil
biderstion of the other.
On the motion of General GASCOIGNE, the
House went into a Committee upon the Costs of
Suit B.ll.—The Report was ordered to be received
son Monday sleet.