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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1847.

The Commons met at Twelve.

On the order of the day being read for the second
reading of the rating of Tenements Bill, several Mem-
bers expressed a wish that the Bill should be postponed,
in order to enable the House to go into Committee on
the Factories' Bill ; ultimately Mr. BRIGHT moved the
adjournment of the debate, which was carried by a ma-
jority of 48, the numbers being—for the adjournment
87, against it 39.
Mr. %STANLEY moved that the second reading of the
Juvenile Offenders Bill should be postponed for a fort-
night.
The House divided, when there appeared—
For the motion 93
Against it
Majority
On the motion that the order of the day for going
into Committee on the Factories Bill be read,

Mr. DENNISTOUN called upon the House to delay the
measure for a fortnight, in order that time might be given
to consider a proposition which the Masters had mada,
which was to the effect, that they should work twelve
hours for four days, and eight hours the succeeding day.
so that each pyrson would only work fifiy-six hours dur
ing the week, and that they should be permitted to have
relays, so as not to trench upon the productive powers of
the country. He concluded by moving that the Bill be
committed that dry fortnight.
Fiscu hoped that the Bill would be carried as a
Ten Hours Bill.

Mr. AGLIONYY thought the principle of the Bill had
been already sufficiently debat«l.

L9rd J. RUSiELL trusted the House would go into
Committee at once.

Mr. F. NIAULE thought it most desirable to secure the
co-operation of the masters in carrying out the measure,
Mr. BROWNE was of opinion that the injury which
would be it,flieted on England by this measure would be
equal to that idlicted upon France by Louis XIV.,
when he revoked the Eltct of Nantes, and banished
skill and labour from the country.
Mr. BORTHWICK opposed the amendment.
Mr. BRIGHT said a great change had take❑ place since
Mr. BR-)TIIERTON had been a factory labourer. At the
present moment ch:ldren under 13 years of age could
not be emplo-ed in factories more than six hours a day,
!,nd there were more persons in shop under the age of
t 4 than there were in factories.
After a few words from Mr. lITNuLLY, Mr. FIELDEN
..aid he wonl.l not consent to postpone the Bill for a
,inzle hour.

Sir R PEEL conshlerf d the motion, as brought for-
ward leer, ly to delay the Bill, and could not support it.
Lord JOHN Russzu. considered that the principle
of the measure was go,d, ro•Al he should therefore sup-
port it, without considering whether it would limit the
flours adult labour generally Cr nut. Seeing the
great advantages cotton manufacturers had obtained in
he remission of the day on the raw material, and the
::vino they would effect in light and fuel, by limiting
Innri of labour to eleven hours, he thought they
could well aifird this boon to tt e labouring classes.
The House then went into Committee.

The firs t clause, limiting the hours of working in fac-
tories to eleven per day, at ter the Ist of May next, was
agreed to.
The second clause, enacting that the limitation of
eleven hours should continue until May, 1818, was &so
agreed to.
Tile third clause, enacting that after the Ist of May,
184 S, the hours shall be reduced to ten, was carried, on
a division, by a majority of 78, the numb, rs being--

Fur the clause 144
Against it
Alt 6 t*Jr the clause ... --78

The announcement of the numbers was received with
loud eh.lering. The remaining clauses were agreed to,
thr house resumed, and the report was ordered to be
taken into consideration on the •21st of April.
The lioue then adj,:urneel.

. I Parliament has emphatically negatived Mr. HUME'S
• motion for the stopp ,ge of payments upon the Russo.
IDalch Loan, but it has refrained from acceding to
that proposition, in a in saner which must carry dis-
may to the Narthern Triu-nvirate. Never did the
political depravity of a foreign Government receive
so deci.led a reprobation, and never was protest pro-
nounced in the British Legislature in language so
peculiarly dignified, or in a way more honourable to
our national character. We have receive 1 an extra
ordinary provocation from Austria and Russia by
their faithless infraction of the articles solemnly
signed at Vienna, beyond this we have bad held out
to us a golden temptation to compensate ourselves for
that infraction, by withholding certain annual pay-
ments, from the responsibility of• disbursing which
we are tolerably well proved to be altogether re-
leased ; but, despite this provocation, and despite this
temptation, we have refused to renounce the perfect
integrity of our present position for the gratification
of an unworthy spleen. Can this deliberate decision
of Parliament against the _Northern Powers
be ineffective ? Can a decision enforced
by such dispassionate calmness be treated with in-
, difference ? The voice of Europe has loudly pro-
claimed its indignation at the seizure of Cracow—the
House of C >masons has echoed that indignation, and
it has imparted to its expressions of abhorrence an
irresistible a eight by voluntarily rejecting an oppor-
tunity for retorting Upon the infraction of the cam.
pact of 1815 by an act of faithles.sness in regard to
the agreements of 1831. We are satisfied that no
one will regret the manner in which this important
ili,eussion has terminated, seeing that it administers
a more overw!lelming blow to the criminal despots
than supposing it had resulted in an objection
to continue the instalments on the Russo-
Dutch Loan. " You have sinned," it cries
to Russia, "you have sinned grievously against
ourselves, against the sanctity of international
treaties, against the sublime and inalienable rights of
man ; you have sacrificed Polish freedom to
the Baal of your own lustful ambition; you
have treated contumeliously the friendship
of confiding empires ; you have risen in arms
against the holiest principles of Christianity,
against the divi nest immunities of the human race,
against_ the solemn decrees of justice, and in so doing
you have virtually released us from the debt incurred
by the junction of Belgium and Holland. How do
we act in this critical position of our relations ? Do
we repay falsity., by falsity ? Do we answer
the annihilation of Cracovian independence
by the obliteration of our liabilities to your
exchequer ? Do we yield to the allurements of a
pecuniary advantage, and respond to your territorial
ails:vs:he:oda:l,i
standing
bbyyour u mr carbestoalz
absolute
dishonestyen
our crimes haveb wegakagenemede,nitfs,thneaytv‘hiathve-
actually .broken,
of
fie on,ls of those engagements. •
We raise our Voice
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tooflicithueidaPteoltihshe i.
of the warning
and of remoastranee
• eaittiztehnes ovfioClraaticoonw ; but we
yearly debts incurred by our stipulations up
Russo-Dutch Loan. We protest before Heaventhe
and
Earth against your gigantic crimes ; and, at the same
time, we preserve the integrity of our own character