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to visit upon the child any loss the master would sus-
tain from the elements. If the want of a sufficient
supply of water prevented the machinery from work-
ing, it was proposed to compel the child for, perhaps,
three or six month:; afterwards to work 51 instead of
48 hours per week, thus imposing an additional labour
of three hours per week upon the child. He should
certainly oppose the amendment, and a fortiori/ the

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c!wp:e.
The Committee then divided, when there appeared
For the Ainendment ... 48
Against it lO6

Majority-- —sB
On the question that the clause stand part of the
Bill,
Mr. H. HI NDE moved the omission of the clause.
Tire Committee dividekl, when the numbers were—
For the clause ll2
Against it..r 4O
Majority ---72
The clause was then ordered to stand part of the

Oa clause 12 being put,
Mr. HINDLEY moved an amendment to the effect
that during meal time, no child should be allowed to
remain in any room used for the purposes of machinery.
The Committee divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment
Against it
Majnrity against the amendment —63
The clause was then agreed to with a few verbal
atm nclalents.
On clause 13 being proposed,
Mr. M. PHILLIPS proposed as an amendment that
no children should be permitted to work on Christmas
Day or on Glod Friday, in England or Ireland.
Mr. BROTHERTON thought it would be better
to omit Good Friday and take the holiday on Easter
Monday, as Good Friday was not observed in Lanca-
shire.

Mr. M. PHILLIPS thought it would be better to
put several of these parts of days together, so as to make
the holidays extend from Good Friday to Easter Monday.
After a short conversation, the amendment of Mr. M.
Phillips was agreed to, and the clause as amended was
ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Oa claw," 14 being proposed,
Lord ASHLEY proposed that the children should
have twelve hours per week schooling in addition to the
two hours on a Sunday.
A conversation ensued, in which Mr. Mark Phillips,
Sir George Strickland, Lord Ashley, Mr. Fox Maule,
and other Han. Members took part.
The prpposition of the Noble Lord was agreed to.
Lord A S HL E Y then proposed as an amendment that one
penny per week should be deducted from the wages of
each child instead of threepence, to pay the expenses of
the schooling.
Mr. FRESIIFIELD suggested that the deduction
should be twopence.
Lord ASHLEY agreed to this proposition.
The Committee divided when their appeared—
For the Amendment 96
Against it 5l
Majority for the Amendment —4s
The clause as amended was then agreed to.
Clauses 15 and 16 were agreed to with a few verbal
amendments.
On clause 17 being put,
Mr. COLQUHOUN thinking this clause objectionable
moved that it be expunged.
Mr. F. M AULE defended the clause, thinking it a
very great improvement to the Bill.
Lord STANLEY complained that the power proposed
to be lodged in the Inspectors of the education of the
children was by far too great; in fact, it was giving those
officers the power of taking the daily bread out of the
schoolmaster's mouth, without appeal.
Mr. P. THOMSON said that the Noble Lord's objec-
tion assumed an extreme case, But here that would not
he without a remedy, for the aggrieved schoolmaster might
appeal against the inspectors. Without that clause there
would be no education at all, for the education hitherto
given by old men or old women to factory children was
nothing better than a machinery of instruction.—( Hear. )
Lord TEIGNMOUTH supported the amendment of
his Hon. Friend, Mr. Colquhoun. The clause was
merely proposed to bolster up a defective system, which
was already found to work ill.
Mr. LANGDALE suggested a modification of the
clause. to the effect that inspectors should be obliged to
state the grounds on which they might object to the corn- '
peteney of a schoolmaster.
Mr. GROTE hoped they wou d not abaadon the clause
as it formed a most useful and salutary part of the pre-
sent Bill. The principle of making an inspector of the judges
of the qualification of a school-master was admitted,
and legislated upon in the former Factory Act.
Mr. DARBY objected to the principle of the clause
alt ogether.
Mr. P. THOMSON said, that under the existing
Factory Act, the inspector possessed powers equally
extensive with those proposed to be given to them under
this Act.
The Committee then divided when there appeared—
For the clause

Against it 52
&i;ijority in favour of the clause
Mr. L ANGD ALE moved as an amendment, that the
inspector should furnish the parties with his reasons in
writing, foe doubting their competency.
Mr. BAINES thought such a paper might be libellous.
Lord STANLEY admitted the force of this objection.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL would even, after
what had recently happened, undertake the defence of such
a case in the Court of Queen's Bench.
After a few words from Sir J. GRAHAM the amend-
ment was agreed to.
Several verbal amendments were then made in the Clause
as amended. and was ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Mr. DARB Y then moved that the Chairman do report
progress, and ask leave to sit again, on which the Com-
mittee divided--
Ayes
Noes .

34
49

Majority against reporting progress... —l5
Mr. DARBY persisted in moving that the Chairman
do report progress, which was ultimately agreed to without
a division.
The CIIAIRMAN then reported progress, and obtained
leave to sit again on Saturday.
The Register of Births Bill was read a third time, and
passed.
The Pleading in Courts (India) Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be committed.
The Report was received on the Public Works (Ire-
land.)
The Bankrupts (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and
passed.
The Sale of Beer (License Duty) Bill, went through
a Committtee, and the Report was ordered to be
received to-morrow.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
for leave to bring in a Bill to consolidate the Acts relating
to the duties on glass.—Leave granted.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then
moved the consideration in Committee of the issue of Ex-
chequer Bills on the Shannon Navigation.
Col. SI BTHORP desired postponement ; but
upon an explanation from the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer the Gallant Colonel yielded, stating that he
should be most happy to see the Shannon so improved
as to be likely to carry the present Administration
speedily off to another world.—(Laughter.)
Lord J. RUSSELL obtained leave to bring in a
Bill for the purpose of better regulating Cathedral and
other Ecclesiastical Revenues.
Mr. FOX MAULE obtained leave to bring in a Bill
to exempt certain Bills of Exchange from the operation of
the Usury Laws. The Bill was then brought in and read
a first time.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of and
the House adjourned at a quarter before Two o'clock.

THE CONVICT WlLLis.—The law courts are
not to be opened for business at Maidstone on Thursday
next until two o'clock, instead of nine o'clock, in conse-
quence of the expected influx of persons to witness the
execution of Willis for the murder of Sergeant-major
Shepherd, which is fixed for that day.
DEATH OF THE EARL OF LucAN.—We re-
gret to announce the death of the Earl of Lucan. He
was in his seventy-fourth year, having been born in De-
cember, 1765 ; he was married in May 1794, to the Lady
Elizabeth Bellaysis, third daughter of tsenry, second and
last R.rl. whose furmer,marrisge with Ber-
nard Edward Howard, Esq., now Duk. or Norfolk, was
dissolved in that year. She died in March, 1819, leaving
issue the present Peer, late Lord Bingham, who is in his
40th year, and married to the Lady Anne Brudenell,
daughter of the Earl of Cardigan. His eldest son, now
Lord Bingham, was born in May 1830. By the death
of the late Earl there is a vacancy in the Irish Represen-
tative Peerage.
PAWNBROKERS' PROFITS.—At an inquest held
on Sa,urday on the body of an unknown infant that had
been found dead at a pawnbroker's shop in Tottenham-
court-road, Mr. Wakley observed, in the course of a con-
versation with the jury on the pawnbroker's profits, that
he had read in a report of the Committee of the House of
Commons, that one blanket had been pawned 285 times
in one year. It was regularly pawned in the morning and
redeemed in the evening. The parties pledging it had
paid, it was calculated, on all the moneys obtained on it,
at the rate of 2,6001, per cent.
The Somerset County Gazette says that the
Agricultural labourers of Somerset are, if possible, worse
off than those of Devonshire :—" We boast of our national
wealth, of our civilization, of our prosperity, and yet an
industrious man working for thirteen hours a day is com-
pelled
ought to be discussing how
a wife, and five children, on
seven shillings a week! We are wasting words about this
or that form of education, quarrelling
we must feed the body. The people
about catechisms,
we shall find food for the poor.
ellilteedndtion
Before we can improve
asnlOinN
ask for bread and the Parliament offers them a book. Give
amfoarinctraeinedhsTvisheelnf,
the mind successfully
them bread first and the book will be welcome. Without
it, education will be received but as an insult and a
mockery. Nay, would it be safe ?
Dublin,s.-- to which, for peace
its spite of the inso-
lencesake, we shall not further advert at present, we are grati-
fied to perceive that the more able and judicious Orange
ORofAtNheGfEacPtioßn?sCoErgS
writers in the North of Ireland have received the procla-
mation issued by the Lord Lieutenant in the spirit with
which it was conceived, and with the temper becoming sin-
cere men,—Dublin Evening pm.

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Cwheat and wheat flour were imported in February, March.
April. andN Nla
yM.
1,284,872 quarters of
PthOeFLTdEutp;:id on which was 114,8101.
oR l
233,233 quarters were taken into home consumption at Is.
duty, and 520,000 quarters at Is, 2d. Of the whole quan-
tity impwted 1,037,230 quarters were taken out for borne
consumption.