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to.
Clauses up to 22 were agreed to, when the Chairman
reported progress, and the house resumed.
CONVICT PRISONS (IRELAND) BILL.
Sir J. YOUNG moved the second reading of this bill.
Mr. M'CARTNEY thought the bill ought not to be
read a second time till its provisions were more fully
explained.
The further consideration of the bill was adjourned to
Thursday next.
Mr. BOUVERIE then brought up the report of the
committee of supply, which was agreed to.
The sitting was suspended at 4 o'clock.
The house resumed at six o'clock, and was
Petitions were presented by Mr. NEwDEGATE, from
inhabitants of Coventry, Nuneaton, Brandon, Toleshill,
Kenilworth, and from workpeople in the employ of
Messrs. Peake, Ballard, Hart, Spencer and Horafall,
Fulwell, Hood, and Ware, and numerous others, in
favour of the factory bill introduced by Mr. Cobbett
by Mr. BUCKLEY HUGHES, frcm the factory workers of
Messrs. Charles Pooley and Son, James Watkins, and
Scott and Heiden, of Manchester, in factory of a Ten
Hours Factory Bill ; by Sir J. WALMSLEY, from the
Oldham and district workpeople ; John Morris and Sons,
John Ley and Sons, E. Moss, Joseph Lees, John Ogden,
and inhabitants of Waterheadmill, in favour of the Thir-
teen Hours Bill ; by Mr. FLOYER, from Todmorden and
other places in Dorsetshire, in favour of a Ten Hours
Bill ; by Mr. SANDARS, in favour of a Ten Hours Bill,
from the inhabitants of Wakefield, Barnsley, Parsbo-
rough, Gainsborough, Monc Britton, Ardsley, and from
numerous factory workpeople ; by Mr. H.W.WICKHAM,
from Bradford and district, in favour of a Ten Hours
Factory Bill, from the inhabitants of Bradford, Shipley,
Thornton, Rudsey, and from the workpeople of Messrs.
Leech and Co., and several others ; by Mr. W. J. Fox,
twenty-four, from Rayton and Oldham, in favour of the
Ten Hours Bill, from the inhabitants of Rayton, and
from the Literary, Temperance, and Mutual Improvement
Institution ; sixteen from hands in various factories ; by
Mr. CORRY, from the surveyors and other attendants of
twenty-three of the county infirmaries in Ireland, against
the Hospital and Infirmaries Bill, praying that in any
such bill that may be proposed a clause may be inserted
securing to the petitioners that fair compensation, which
it is the custom of Parliament to allow to other officers
whose places it has been deemed expedient to abolish,
also one to the same effect, from the surgeons, &c., of the
Carlow county infirmary ; by Mr. ROBARTES, from cer-
tain inhabitants of St. Austle and its vicinity, in favour
of the entire abolition of church rates; by Sir J. SHELLEY
signed by 576 of the inhabitants of various parishes of
the city of Westminster, for inquiry as respects the con-
joint pledge given by the New River and East London
Water Companies in 1852, to take their supplies free
from the sewerage of the towns in the Lee valley ; by
Mr. COBBETT, from inhabitants of Thornham, Crompton,
Chadderton, Oldham, Saddleworth, York, and the Short
Time Committee of Stockford, all in favour of an efficient
Ten Hours Bill ; by Mr. JAMES MACGREGOR, from the
mayor, aldermen, burgesses of Deal, against the Police
Bill ; by Mr. COWAN, from the southern districts of the
city of Edinburgh, for amendments in the Valuation of
Lands (Scotland) Bill; by the Magistrates of Canongate,
for amendments; by the Edinburgh Presbytery, praying
this house to resist the appointment of Popish chaplains
in gaols, to repeal the Emancipation Act, the Maynooth
Endowment, suppress the monastic resolutions, and pre-
vent the assumption of ecclesiastical titles ; from the
Scottish Alliance of Edinburgh, against the proposal
of Mr. Hume to open the British Museum and National
Gallery upon the Lord's day ' • by Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, in
favour of the Ten Hours Bill ; from Cragge Vale, Tod-
morden, Ainsworth, Ashworth, Hebdenbridge, Milnrow,
Rochdale, Preston, and Elton; against church rates, from
Salem Chapel, New North-road, Islington; against uni-
versity tests, from a public meeting of inhabitants of
Islington ; by Mr. DUNLOP, from the faculty of physi-
cians and surgeons of Glasgow, against the Medical
Graduates Bill ; by Mr. OLIVEIRA, signed by 120 of the
inhabitants of Pontefract, against church rates.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.
Lord D. STUART rose to ask the noble lord the
President of the Council whether any information had
been received of the intention of Austria to march troops
into Servia ; and whether he (Lord J. Russell) would
have any objection to lay on the table the following do-
cuments :—The protest addressed by the Servian Go-
vernment against the occupation of that principality by
Austria ; the convention between Austria and the Porte
respecting the occupation of Albania by Austrian troops ;
and the convention lately signed between Austria and
Prussia ?
Lord J. RUSSELL—In answer to my noble friend,
I have to state that we have received no late informa-
tion from the Austrian Government of any intention
whatever to march troops into Servia. Some time ago
I stated that the Austrian Government had declared that
if it would be of use to the Sultan that they should
march troops into Servia, they were ready to do so ; but
that without a request on the part of the Turkish Go-
vernment they should adopt such a course only in one
of two cases—either in case of the march ofßussian troops
into Servia, when they would oppose that army; or in
case of an insurrection in Servia, which would, in all
probability, be an insurrection in favour of Russia, and
against Turkey. With regard to the papers that the noble
lord had asked for, the protest addressed by the Servian
Government to the Porte against the occupation of the
principality by the forces of Austria has been received
by the Government, and there can be no objection to its
presentation if the noble lord will move for it. With
regard to a convention between Austria and the Porte
respecting the occupation of Albania by Austrian troops
the Government liave no knowledge of any such conven-
tion, and I do not believe that such a convention is in
existence. The Austrian Government proposed to the
Porte that in case it should be thought desirable, Aus-
tria should assist in suppressing the insurrection in
Albania ; but the pachas on the frontier declined any
assistance from the Austrian troops, and the Austrian
commander did not pass out of his own province. The
substance of the convention lately signed between
Austria and Prussia has been communicateato thehouse;
but there in an additional article which is in the posses-
sion of the Government. and can be presented if toy
noble friend thinks proper to move for
NEWSPAPER RETURN.
Sir J. SHELLEY inquired of the hon. gentleman
the Secretary of the Treasury, when a return respecting
newspapers, which was moved for on the 19th of May,
was likely to be laid on the table of the house ?
Mr. J. WILSON stated that, so far as regarded news-
papers in England, this return was ready, but that the
Board of Inland Revenue were waiting for the returns
for Ireland and Scotland. So soon as these were re-
ceived, the return would be presented to the house.
THE BARON DE BODE.
Mr. M. CHAMBERS called attention to the case of
the Baron de Bode, and moved a resolution :—" That
the national good faith requires that the just claims of
the Baron de Bode, established after protracted inves-
tigation, should be satisfied." Upon a point involving
the honour of their country Mr. Chambers hoped he
would not appeal to the Commons of England in vain.
Mr, DRUMMOND seconded the motion.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL declared emphatically
that if he believed the claims of the Baron de Bode were
just and well-founded, lie would not stand up and dis-
grace himself by adopting the unworthy course assumed
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claims of the Baron. The property was not confiscated
because the Baron was a British subject, but because he
was a French subject.
Mr. BOWYER supported the resolution.
Mr. WILKINSON opposed the resolution.
Sir F. THESIGER entered into a prolonged argu-
ment to show the futility of the claim advanced by the
promoters of the resolution.
Mr. T. CHAMBERS took the opposite view of the
case.
Mr. WALPOLE supported the resolution, and in an
elaborate argument urged that the baron was a British
subject, and had clearly made out his title to compen-
sation. He examined and condemned the various forms
of opposition by which the claim had been from time to
time baffled, and expressed his conviction that it was
the amount of the demand, and not the merits of the
case, that had caused the denial of justice. lie thought
that the honour of the country, of Parliament, and of
the Crown, was involved in the decision of the question.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re-
marked upon the circumstance that the House of Com-
mons was called upon to settle by a peremptory deci-
sion one of the most intricate and complex cases ever
brought before a court of law. He declared that the
amount of the claim had nothing to do with the resists
ante made to it, which was made upon principle. After
addressing himself to a prolonged refutation of the ar-
guments of Mr. Walpole, he said that far more of legal
ingenuity—he would not say of chicane, though the
word had been used by his opponents—had been em-
ployed in endeavouring to make out the case than in
resisting it. He remonstrated with Mr. Drummond
upon the abusive character of his oratory, and con-
cluded by expressing his conviction that the Baron de
Bode was not entitled to the pecuniary consideration of
the house.
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