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London, England, 1847-03-17 00:00:00

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country, while it had proved of great benefit to the pe.;',
com erned. This Bill proposed to make the landlerd
pr,!,
spunsible for the rates of their tenants, but that would co
no reliet whatever, for the landlords would be sure to ttr.
their own back again in the state of an increased rental. D..;
trusted, therefore, that the Hun. Member would poollw
his Bill.
Mr. WADDINGTON suggested that the Bill might be
read a second time, and go into Committee proforma. h,
Mr. BROTHERTON wished to see it postponed till Au'
Easter.
Mr. WADDINGTON would have no objection to postPecrlieet
the Bill, but he had done so last year, and then had n
obtained an opportunity of bringing it forward before the
of the session. the
Sir G. GREY said that if the Hon. Member wished
Bill to be read a second time pro forma, because he had Kreii
'alterations to propose, and intended to bring it forward j°
another shape, there could be no oojection to that eee,,;:e
But it such was not the case, although he had not the:To
amount of dislike to the Bill as bad been expressed e):.,00,
1-lon. Friend behind him (Mr. P. Scrope
Member must not expect the House and the Govern ill
commit themselves to the principle of such an imports.. 08
as this without a full discussion en the second reading'
_eit,
therefore thought that the better plan would be to po,tporetset
Colonel T. WOOD said that this was a most iffirtakeo
Bill for the labouring classes, and ought to be, „tied,
to-day. Besides, if this Bill were to be poste
°°,
there was the Juvenile Offenders Bill, which effecter' %foe
siderable number of individuals, and he thought O'er
that the best plan would be to proceed to the discussigLbest
Mr. CRIPPS also thought that the better plan wow"
), yet the tit
to
once te proceed with the Bill.
Mr. FERRAND was not at all surprised at M'i'st hi, be
fallen from the Hon. Member who had just sat awe, 'oo,'
remembered that he was a strong opponentof the Teo ".`ht
Bill, and would therefore adopt any course by which it ,„i
be delayed.
Mr. CRIPPS said that the Hon. Member was quite
warranted in the assertion which he had just made. ivisp
Mr. FERRAND said that it was by all mesas %tips
bie to proceed with the Factories Bill, and if the n od,
of Tenements Bill were to be taken, that must be Posla be
There was urgent necessity that the Factory Bill shoe tad
ee
passed,he in some way or other, before Easter; for doe
assure the House that unless it was passed, the whole ;deaf
manufacturing districts would be iu the most intense apuree.
respecting it. He had, besides, understood, that the
nesdays were to be given up to the Hon. Member for , ,
ham until his Bill was finished.
Colonel VERNER concurred in the request that the
might be postponed.
A Of the
Mr. CRIPPS said that there was an express oral: tbel
House, that the orders of the day were to be taken 7, Was,stood on the paper, and important as the Factory BI:
and he was not at all disposed to underrate '
bit
importance, the Rating of Tenements Bill was. 'floor
opini..n, of still greater importance, and affected 3
number of people. It ought, therefore, to take Prece
gill
both of the Factory Bill and of the Juvenile Offender 3
both of which stood after it on the paper. feel it
Sir J. PAKINGTON said that he must continue 0
void
his duty to oppose the measure. He thought that it aill
not be his duty to consent to the postponement of thevaile
which he had introduced upon the subject of the
.ja oect
offenders. It was of great importance that the s'l PI
should be settled before the ensuing quarter-sessions'„tbo
was not, however, disposed to offer any opposition to
site
further progress of the Factories Bill, and he ivatiVtaal
willing to consent to the Juvenile Offenders Bill De% be
a second time, sub silentio, and any discussion that 02`6 the
raised upon the principle of the Bill should take place °
Bill going into Committee. lsl° Colonel SIBTHORP thought that the most Adv fac'
course would be to postpone the consideration of the
tories Bill until after Easter.
After a few words from Mr. Robert Palmer, Lord - • !Son'
ners Mr. Dennistoun, and Mr. Newdegate. ewers
Sir G. GREY said that he did not think it was -ed,ver
that any Bill, upon the principle of which there w35,30006e'
sity of opinion entertained by Hon. Members in that „ OoP
should be read sub slientio as proposed by the Eight
Baronet (Sir J. Pakington). econa
Mr. HENLEY bbjected to the Bill being seed a
time sub silentio, as the magistrates of quarter-sessiona
0i the
conceive that the House had adopted the principle
Bill.
tobe
Mr. B. ESCOTT thought that if the Bills were oh*
discussed, they ought to be discussed at once. He
oppose the proposition to read the Bills sub silentio. t the
Mr. MILES thought that it was most unfair
opponents of the Factories Bill should monopolize, by tile di°
position, the whole of the time of every Wednesday.
0, 00
not think that even if the Factories Bill were brought °wall
there would be the smallest chance of its going t"Taetd
Committee that day, or even in the present session... ect 0
was a vast quantity of notices on the paper with re 4
that Bill, which would occupy a vast amount of thrie. 0,0
After a few words from Mr. GREENE, the fPwer''
c'eared for a division,
On our return to the gallery we found that no division b-
taken place, but that
bale' Mr. BRIGHT had moved the adjournment of the
Mr. WILLIAMS thought it would be better if the
cussion on both Bills were deferred till after Easter. „.
Mr. P. HOWARD concurred in that recommendatltdieg
A conversation then ensued on the question of proo"_„ite.
or adjourning, when strangers were again ordered to r
draw,
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Majority
JUVENILE OFFENDERS.
to
order
Mr. WAKLEY considered that they ought
with the Factories Bill without loskof time, and in ,Lhat
they might do so at once, he felt it his duty to In°
'ht'
the second reading of this Bill be postponed for a for"'
Mr. FERRAND seconded the motion. •
The House then divided, when there appeared-93 1
For the motion. ...................................
29 ;
Against it ..
..... .•
--64.................
Majority .........................
FACTORIES BILL .•• tet
Lord JOHN RUSSELL presented a etitiOn ronl.
spinners and manufacturers in favour of Pthis Bill, signAyitton
392 firms in Lancashire and Yorkshire, making, in edit
to to those signing petitions already presented, 922 drat!
firms. The petitioners stated that ten hours was the e„of
tion of labour in their occupation, and that the rednet'°;2o
the hours of labour of children and women in factories 1/ .0p;
be attended with the best results. They were of Or be
however, that the hours of work in factories could on 1,1•
reduced by a legislative enactment like the Ten Hours' Ofee
Mr. BRIGHT wished to ask the Noble Lord if thosere-4
had signed the petition were millowners, using nutenifbi
and working them by steam, or merely persons working
hand in their own houses? • had °°ll'
Lord J. RUSSELL replied that the petition„rsa
been put into his hands that morning, and that not
not aware whether those who had signed did or allbere
work by steam power. They were mill.owners, "Loa 0(
could, therefore, be little doubt but that they were °"—
machinery, and worked it by the aid of steam.in
.. titiOnS
Mr. DUNCOMBE and Mr. WAKLEY presented
favour of the Bill.
Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from a nonlbe:roafnPder7l•4l
who worked cotton and worsted by water poWe' dai,
were in the habit of working their mills twelve htl.7 would
against the Bill. They stated that the Ten Hours' DI hilia
e 99
render that power useless for two hours a day less
this
heretofore, by restricting its use to ten hours a daYheese Dot
would be a grievous loss to them, and praying the
to pass the measure. s °
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Mr. FIELDEN presented a large number of Pe„tanoe
favour of the Bill from various places in the matte the
districts, the names of which, from the low tote in
Hon. Gentleman spoke, we were unable to catch. Bill,
On the motion for going into Committee on the
Mr. DENNISTOUN-rose, and was

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THE PARCEL POST COMPANY.—YeSteruo,/ ''
Gough, the late secretary to the above companY, art a>
at Guildhall, and said he wished to make before the , core-
trate a counter statement relative to the affairs of that It
pany, which had appeared in the public newSPaPe
eottler
was said that the directors had withdrawn one after ass oot
from the company, whereas he could state that it Iv Thate
true. Up to the present period five had retired. their
were only four directors left, who had not shrunk tr°,7 on'
responsibility, and were prepared to settle with tn., Asa
Alderman Sidney said he was glad to hear that tuv;c tba
some chance of a fair settlement, and he had no doa osat•
press would act as fairly in giving Mr. Gough's state
publicity as they had done those of the other parties' thr
We regret to have to announce the death °fsoce,
Baroness Frederica, wife of George Traherne Tborilatt,
and only daughter of the late Baron de Hildp74 at
Blattna and Slabez, in the kingdom of Bohemia, sidi?tdii to
Prague on the Ist instant, three days after giving li'r"
daughter.
ji
• at NUMEROUS FlRES.—Yesterday morning, be pre'
quarter before one o'clock, a fire was discovered on t
mises, in the occupation of Mr. J. Paxman, O. 57, floc!
beth-street, Hackney-road. It originated in the levi!r beo
of the house, the inmates at the time being in thestople„
asleep. After considerable trouble they were made 5
00 Oi
of the great danger to which they were exposed, but 0 Sre;
the parties were then able to descend the staircase.
r° pt
Paxinan made an escape in her night clothes over the,, rt
the premises, and the remainder of the occupants g 0 11600
of the back windows. That portion of the budding der of
the fire commenced being burned out, and the reroajus
the house was severely damaged before the flames wer, tiO
tinguished. About the same hour a fire broke out 1„„erlf
wine-cellar under No. 9, New Broad-street, City, the Prvirecoa
of Messrs. Butler and James, wine merchants, but it w°,,erie
extinguished. About half-past four o'clock yesterds3.7ties'
ing, a fire burst out in the premises belonging to litrit otir
ander Young, maltster, in Church-lane, Fulham.
nated in the malt-house, from a spark falling out of the 01
The flames were not extinguished until the windows. earl
doors on the ground-floor, together with the joist
floorings, were severely burned, and the stock damaged'tree,
fourth fire .broke out at 24, William-street, -butt-lg°
Borough, belonging to Mr. Ridler, chandler. The dam tiad
a
was confined to the destruction of
number of books,
serious injury to the stock in trade and fixtures.

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BIRTHS.
On the 7th inst., at the Grange, Newnham, Gloucestershire' °le
lady of Stehen Allawy, Esq., of a dauhter. Cle°Sig'
On the 10pth inst., at aCarshalton, Surrey, the wife of 3lr.
surgeon, of a daughter.' =,
On the 12th inst., at Kirby, Isle of Man, the lady
of the ..4.ttorig.
Generthe al, of a son.
ri On 13th inst., at Dumfries, the wife of James G--evs, 1G54
M.D., of a son.
lor, of
On the 13th inst., at Mortlake, the Hon. Mrs. Henry Tay
daughter. hfeL
On the 14th inst., at Worthing, Mrs. C. Reynolds, of a (JAIL 0-
On the 15th inst., at Bromley St. Leonard's, Middlesex, Mrs'
ward Edden, of a son. k
On the 15th inst., at Kensington-garden-terrace, Hydelf,t-e'r.
wife of Sir Thomas Maitland, of H. M. S. America, of a

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rovesner-square, Charlotte,
Colonel Gore Langton. t
,ounty of Somerset, aged 88.
William Urquhart, of Cralgalou.'
Blackheath, Lawrence hay Fyffe.
London: rrinted and rir
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17, 1847.

MARRIED. fO
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On the 11th inst., the Rev. Archibald E. Julius, Carets
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Straughton, Hants, to Charlotte, eldest daughter of the Rev. "
Mayor, 'Rector of South Collingham, Notts.

DIED.
On the I lth inst., at Paris, Major Stephen Prendergast, late Of her

Majesty's 84th Regiment, aged 72. WO!
Ott the 13th inst., in Cumberland-market, Regent's-parkr
relict of the late Mr. W. March, aged 80.
On the it
inst., at Clayton, Anna, relict of Mr. James Onghog.
On the 14th inst., Allred Greenwood, of Springfield, near Chew"'
ford, Essex, aged 26.
On the 14th inst., Mr. W. E. Gibbon, of the Bank of EnglandA. g.
On the 1 Ith inst., H.iry W. Powys, youngest son of the ReV.
Sketchley, Vicar of Nicholas, Deptford.
On the 14th inst., at Pimlico, Ann, relict of the late Mr. JOhn 1117
zard, of Westminster.
on the 14th inst., in Portugal-street, Grovesner-square, charwtie°
wife of General Sir Charles Imhoff. ....toil. I
On the 1 tth hist., 'in Grosvenor-square, Colonel Gore
M.P., for the eastern division of the county of Somerset, aged 88-
On the 12th inst., at Jheltenham, William Urquhart, of Craigat°'„,
J. I'. and D. L., aged 45. riffei
On the 12th inst., at Lea-park, Blackheath, Lawrence h ay
Esq., M.D.