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London, England, 1836-08-16 00:00:00

EQUITY EXCHEQUER BILL.

Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved the first read-
ing of this Bill.
Mr. HUME enquired why this Bill had not been
brought in earlier ?
Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL—It has come from
the Lords.—(A laugh.)
Mr. HUME—Yes ; but when we send Bills up to the
Lords at this time of the year, they say it is too late in the
session.—(Hear, hear.) However, I don't object to the Bill.
MALT DUTIES' BILL.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUERbrought
in a Bill to alter and amend the laws relating to the duty
and excise on Malt.
COUNTY RATE BILL.

Mr. HUME stated that this Bill stood for a second
reading to-night, but he did not mean to press it, and he
should therefore move that the Bill be read a second time
this day three months.
Mr. TOOKE was happy to hear this, for he considered
the remedy worse than the disease.—(Laughter.)
Mr. HUME could only say he considered that observa-
tion of his Hon. Friend ungenerous and unkind.—( Hear,
hear.) if his Hon. Friend had offered any reason against
it, he should have been very glad to have heard it ; but it
was in order to avoid discussion that he had taken the liberty
of making the motion he had done. He considered that an
opinion given in the way the Hon. Member for Truro had
expressed himself was good for nothing.—( Laughter.)
EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL.

Mr. BERNAL brought up the Report of the Com.
mittec on the Exchequer Bills Bill.
POOR LAW LOANS BILL.

On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX-
CHEQUER the Poor Law Loans Bill was read a third
time, and passed.

COPYRIGHT BILL.

Mr. BERNAL brought up the Report of the Com.
mittee on this Bill.

PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND) BILL.
Mr. BERNAL brought up the Report on the Public
Works (Ireland) Bill.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX-
CHEQUER the house went into Committee. on the
Public Works (Ireland) Bill.
The Bill went through a Committee and was reported.
FACTORIES.

Lord ASHLEY begged to ask the Noble Lord (John
Russell) whether his Majesty's Government had come to
any determination relative to the appointment of additional
inspectors of Factories, or whether it was intended to give
additional power to those already appointed ?
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as we understood, replied in
the negative.
Mr. ROBINSON complained of the harsh treatment
to which children were subjected in these Factories. He
hoped the returns of the inspectors would be laid on the
table, as they would satisfy the House of the necessity of
some change being made in the present system.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
BOROUGH JUSTICES BILL.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved the second
reading of the Borough Justices Bill.
The Earl of LINCOLN said the march of legislation
had been lately so rapid, that Hon. Members did not ac-
tually know what they were doing. It would surprise the
Learned Gentlemen, and other Members, when they were
told that the Bills now proposed foe a second reading had
not been read a first time. Such, however, was the fact.
—(Hear.) On Saturday some parchments in the form of
Bills were laid on the table, and the titles of them read.
As some Hon. Members on his side of the Hyuse wished to
know something of them and their contents, they took up
one, and on untying it, were surprised to find it all a
blank. The other two were the same. Surely, under such
circumstances, it would be impossible for them to suspend
the Standing Orders, in order to pass the Bills that evening.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the entry upon
the Journals was that the Bills were ordered for a second
reading, which of course implied that they had been read a
first time—the Journals, however, were conclusive. They
were Bills on which no discussion could arise—all the
clauses having been agreed to in both Houses.
The SPEAKER said it was an irregularity, but he be-
lieved it was caused by the Bills being then in the hands
of the printer.
The Earl of LINCOLN said Hon. Members were pre-
vented from knowing what the Bills were on Saturday, and
were only delivered to them that morning ; so that it was
impossible any gentleman could know what they were about.
Mr. C. ROSS had made inquiries of many Parliamentary
agents, and none of them had ever known an instance of
the kind.

Mr. CHARLTON deprecated the course that had
been adopted. In his opinion, Hon. Members ought to
have had an opportunity of seeing what the measures were.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said there was not
one word inserted in the Bill that had not been assented to
by the House, and not a circumstance had occurred that
would place any Hon. Member in a different predicament
to that in which he was at present placed.
Mr. BERNAL thought the Noble Lord had acted

most properly in mentioning the subject ; it was an acci-
dent, but such a one as he thought the House ought to
look over. The Bill was decidedly calculated to benefit
everybody.

Colonel SIBTHORP thought what had taken place
a mode of legislation unworthy of any government ; it
was, in point of fact, nothing more than endeavouring to
smuggle a Bill through a first reading.
Mr. BARING thought it was an accident which the
House ought to look over.

Mr. C. Ross and Sir F. TRENCH deprecated the course
that had been pursued.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that, when be sat on the
other side of the House, he recollected Bills being brought
in, and not printed at all.
The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be committed to-morrow.
BOROUGH BOUNDARIES BILL.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved the second
reading of this Bill.

Mr. WARBURTON wished to know whether the pro-
visions of the Bill were included in the Bill they had already
agreed to.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied in the affir-
mative.

Mr. CHARLTON had heard nothing to justify the in-
troduction of this Bill at this late period of the Session.
This Bill repealed a great part of the 2d and 3d of Wm.
IV., c. 64, which regulated the boundaries of boroughs, and
he wished to know wat necessity there was to justify such
a proceeding ?
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL promised to answer
the question of the Hon. Member in Committee.
The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be
committed to-morrow.

PRISONERS' COUNSEL BILL.
A Message from the Lords was here announced request-
ing the House to agree to a Conference on the subject
matter of the amendments made in this Bill.
The Conference was agreed to, and the following Mem-
bers were appointed to manage it on the part of the Com-
mons—Mr. Ewart, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Warburton,
Mr. V. Smith, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Stanley, Mr. Sandford,
Lord D. Stewart, and others.

The managers having returned, they informed the House
hey had delivered their reasons to the Lords for disagree-
ing to their amendments.

AFFAIRS OF SPAIN.
Capt. BOLDERO said, that having acquainted the Noble
Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs that he intended
to submit a question to him, he wished to ask that Noble
Lord if his Majesty's government had received official in-