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London, England, 1846-02-27 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMOIVS, Fib. 26.

The SPEAMIIII touk the Chair at fire minutes before
Four.
NEW MEMBER.--ERROR IN THE WRIT FOR
SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

It having been discovered that an error had been made
in the writ issued for the county of South Northampton-
shire the Speaker called the attention of the House to the
fact, and the Clerk of the Crown was ordered to be in
attendance, in order to amend the writ.
The Clerk to the Crown then appeared at the table.
Mr. Stafford, the returning officer was next called, and
examined by the Speaker with reference to the election,
and in reply to the questions of the Right Hon. Gentle-
man, stated that he was present at the election for South
Northamptonshire, and that it was held at the usual
place for returning Members to Parliament. The name
of the Member was Richard Henry Howard Vyse.
The writ having been amended,
Mr. Stafford O'Brien and another Hon. Gentleman
introduced the Hon. Member, whi) took the usual oaths,
and was admitted to his seat for South Northamptonshire.
RAILWAY BILLS.
The following Railway Bills were read a second time,
and were ordered to be committed, viz.:—
Oldham District.
Gloucester and Dean Forest.
Ayrshire and Galloway.
Leeds and Bradford (Junction Line at Bradford).
RAILWAYS.
Mr. P. BUTLER presented petitions from Limerick,
and other places, in favour of the Great Munster Rail-
way.

Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from Wolver-
hampton in favour of the Shropshire Union Railway and
Canal Company.
LABOURERS IN FACTORIES.
Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition in favour of the
Ten Hours' Bill. He also presented a petition from six
factory girls, in the employ of Messrs. Baxter and
Brothers, manufacturers, ef Dundee. The petitioners
complained of ill-treatment at the hands of their em-
ployers, and pra) ed the House to make some inquiry epon
the subject. He (Mr. Duncombe) believed that the circum-
stances of the case were these. The Messrs. Baxter* had it
appeared, increased the wages of some of their workers,
and these girls made a demand for a similar increase,
which was refused them. They did not in consequence
attend their work one afternoon, and when they re-
turned on the following morning, the six of them (the
youngest being only 13 years of age) were locked up
fur six hours and then taken before a magistrate
(but previously he /Eight state that they had been com-
pelled to sign a paper making certain admissions), when
they were sentenced to ten days' imprisonment, Kith
hard lab,:ur. They, therefore, prayed the House to
make inquiry into the matter, with a view to remedy
this grievance.
Dr. BOWRING presented five petitions from Bolton
in favour of the Tern Hours' Bill.
THE CORN-LAWS.
Mr. ROEBUCK presented a petition, signed by 5,000
of the inhabitants of Bath, in favour of the present pro-
posal of her Majesty's Government with respect to the
free admission of foreign grain.
DUTY ON COPPER ORE.
Mr. J. PARWER presented a petition from the
Cutlers' Company, Sheffield, praying the House to re-
peal the duty on copper ore.
THE CORN-LAWS.
Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition
from several inhabitants ef Westmoreland in favour of
free trade,
Mr. 0. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the
occupiers of land in the county of Chester in favour of
the present corn-laws.
Mr. W. MILES presented a petition to a similar effect.
Mr. MARK PHILIPS presented a petition from the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce, in which the peti-
tioners stated that in consequence of the length of the
present debate on the corn-laws, great embarrassment
resulted to every branch of trade in the district of Lan-
cashire, and throughout the kingdom generally ; and
they therefore prayed the House to come to as speedy a
decision as possible on this question.
FROST, WILLIAMS, AND JONES.
Captain PECHELL presented a petition, signed by
seven hundred of the inhabitants of Brighton, praying
for a free pardon for Frost, Williams, and Jones. The
Hon. and Gallant Member said he had to inform the
House that the parties signing the petition were most
respectable, and had affixed their places of residence
to their names. The Hon. Member also presented
another petition from Mrs. Mary Shuttleworth, of Man-
chester. square, praying the House to interfere in her
behalf with the Commissioners of the Income-tax, who
had, in assessing her property in the funds, neglected
to pay over to her the residue, thereby occasioning her
great distress, so much so that her goods had been
seized for debt.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition, signed by
upwards of nine thousand of the inhabitants of Roch-
dale, in favour of the Ten Hours' Factory Bill.
GLASGOW, PAISLEY, KILMARNOCK, AND
AYR RAILWAY.
Mr. WARD begged leave to withdraw the notice of
motion which he gave, namely, " That the petition of
the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway
Company (presented 24th February), with respect to
their Bill (No. 5), be taken into consideration, and that
the parties have leave to proceed with their Bill." He
considered that it was better that a decision of a Com-
mittee should be erroneous than that it should be
impugned. The Branding orders were the protect-
ing barrier of private interests. But when he had
hestrd that in this case, the Committee, themselves were
divided in the proportion of fire to four on the subject,
matter of this petition. He looked upon the decision of
the Committe as as a virtual abolition of the standing
orders—such decision giving the power to any indivi-
dual landowner to throw out any private Bill.
Since he had presented the petition, however, he
had been convinced that the parties to the
petition had themselves not done all that they
should have done, and that they had been guilty of
laches, and that they had actually not surveyed the
lands of those who were their friends, although they
might have done so before the 30th of November. He,
therefore, considered that the case had fallen through,
and he now begged to withdraw the motion which stood
upon the paper in his name.—(Hear, hear.)
The motion was then withdrawn.
Sir ROBERT PEEL rose to present a petition from
the shipowners of Tynemouth, signed by 108 shipowners,
representing 260 shins. The petition stated that the in-
terests of the petitioners would be extremely benefited
by a reduction on the duties of timber. He be-
liered that the petition was signed by almost all
the shipowners of Tynemouth, with the exception of
three or four. The Right Hon. Baronet here sat down,
but rose again inamediatsly, and said that the Hon.
Me mber for Durham had moved that a petition pre-
sented from the shipowners of the port of London should
be printed, with the view of founding a motion upon it.
Several petitions had been presented from other places,
whic=h petitions took views entirely adverse from those
of the shipowners of London, and it could not be against
the rules of the House to allow those petitions to be
printed also. He, therefore, begged leave to move that
a petition lately presented from the shipowners of Dun-
dee, and which was quite in conformity with the one
presented from the shipowners of London, should be
printed.—(Hear, hear.) He also begged leave to move
that a letter from George Frederick Young, Esq., the
Chairman of the General Shipowners' Society, on the
'abject of the timber duties and colonial-built ships,
should likewise be printed.
NOTICES OF MOTION.—BAZILLIAN NUNS.
Mr. COOPER gave notice, that on the sth of March
he should move for copies of dispatches which had been
sent by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, rela-
tive to the persecution inflicted on the Bazillian nuns, at
Minsk.

TBE TARIFF.
Mr. MITCHELL wished to put a question to the
Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government. He
wished to know if it was the intention of the Government,
in passing the proposed measure, to allow that part of the
tariff which effected smaller articles to stand over
until the corn question was settled?
Sir ROBERT PEEL said it was his intention
to proceed as rapidly- as he could with the other articles
of the tariff. He cart sinly could not foretel to what length
the discussion upon ibe question would reach.
Mr. MITCHELL said hie reason for asking was to
learn if the other articles mentioned in the tariff could
not be allowed to be proceeded with before the corn
question was settled. That he feared would give rise to
discussion of a month or six weeks' duration.
Sir R. PEEL, in reply, stated that it was his inten-
tion to proceed with the corn question.
CHANNEL ISLANDS,
Mr. ROEBUCK wished to ask what measures had
been taken, according to the promise made last session
by the Government, with reference to the administra-
tion of justice relative to the Channel Islands.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM stated that a Committee
had been appointed about a month since, and they had
net vet received their report.
CROWN PROSECUTIONS.
Mr. REDINGTON moved for a return of all Crown
prosecutions in which bills have been sent up to the
grand jury for each °aunty in Ireland, 60 sack L►nt and