The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-10 00:00:00

THE FACTORY BILL

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented several:pe-
titions from various parts of the country in favour of the
Factory Bill.
PUBLIC-HOUSES IN SCOTLAND.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCH presented a petition
praying tbat their Lordships would tate into considera-
tion some measure for licensing public-houses in Scotland.
ARMY SERVICE BILL.
On the motion of Lord STANLEY, the further read-
ing of this Bill was postponed till Frieay next.
LANDED PROPERTY (IRELAND) BILL.
The report on this Bill was postponed till tomorrow.
POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL.
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On the order of the day for going- into Committee
upon this Bill,
The Earl of WICKLOW rose to propose an amend-
ment to 20th clause of which he had given notice, but
was interrupted by
Lord STANLEY, who said that he wished to ask her
Majesty's Government whether they intended to insert a
clause in this Bill respecting electoral division. He would
put it to the Government whether they did not think
that by argreeing to the words " electoral divisions"
after the word " union" they would render more effectual
the working of this measure.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was understood
that power already existed to alter the extent of the
electoral divisions.

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have the power, but that the executive should give the
Commissioners authority to exercise it, and to reduce
the area of unions of large electoral divisions.
Lord BROUGHAM said, that under the law of
settlement, power was given to divide parishes in such
cases as those which were of great extent, and he
thought that similar power ought to be conferred in the
present Bill.
After a few words from' the: Marquis of Lansdowne,
Lord Clancarty, and Lord Reddesdale,
The Earl of WICKLOW said that he was rquite
aware of the existence of the power to which the
Noble Marquis (the Marquis of Lansdowne) had referred.
He wanted to impress upon their Lordships what ap-
peared to him to be a grievous injustice, namely, throw-
ing upon certain_ rural districts the whole weight of the
support of the pauper population of the towns. He
considered that the pauper population of an union
should be supported by the union at large. Un-
less this were the case, the expense which
would be thrown upon the towns would be enormous ;
in fact property in towns would be destroyed altogether.
After the opinion of their Lordships the
other night he conceived that their Lordships
would accede to the following amendment :
In clause 20 to insert, after the word " repealed" in
twelfth line, the words " and that it shall be lawful
for the said Commissioners, when they shall see
fit, to form into separate electoral divisions towrT
with a population of three thousand, or upwards. '
He said 3,000, because he believed small towns of that
size would be best accommodated by such an arrange-
ment.

(LEFT SITTING.)

ROUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'clock.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
GISBORNE moved, pursuant to notice, that it to
gin- instruction to the CommitteeL on the Great North-