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DIPERML P,4RLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS,

TUESDAY, MAY ,18.

01.71,r5,71, were heard at considerable length rela_
to the Scotch- Appt-LII, .1-Lillidav- {a pauper) 'v.
iVics. Agnes M,oiw.ell,.and others ; namely, Messrs.
Rovant.r and Mooit E. for the. Appellant, and Mr.
on the part of the Respondents. The further
was deferred ta.morrow.
The BillsbefOie the House were forwarded in
respea.ve.s.i3ges.
The Annual Indemnity Bill, the Mutiny Bill, the
13,1.nk Note Felony: Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill,
and the Subalterns' Ai,lowance* Bill were
brought up from the •Commons by Mr. AL EXA'R-
D::R ; the Temple Bar Bill by Mr; Alderman
Cut:l.'s—and a number of Private Bills by Lord
G. L. Gown:, Mr. :17,1ER, and other Gentlemen,
vwlicli were severally read a first time.

On the Motion of the Marquis of SLIGO, the
Peciian Of FREI:ERIC Lo:d ASETOL'N, an Irish
Peer,. stating his claims to vote at the eleCtion of
Peers to sit as Representatives on the part of Ire_
land, &c. was taken into consideration, when the
Parent of his Lordship's Peerage was put in and
read. A few words were exchanged b-itween Lord
AUCKLAND, the Noble Marquis, and the LORD
CHACELLOR relative to some other formal proof re-
quired by the Resolutions of the House, respeaing
which the observations of the Marquis of SLIOO seem-
ed to satisfy t4leir Lordships. He concluded by mov-
ing a Resolution in effeCl, that FREDERIC Lord
A3wrou.N had made good his claim of Right to
vote at the Eletlion of Peers to sit as Representa,
tires of
.the Peerage of that part of the United
Kingdom called Ireland, &c.—Which was voted
accordingly.

The Petitions of the Earl of FARNHAM, Lord
CLONEROC., and other Irish Peers were, on the
Motion of the Marquis of St.roo, ordered to be re-
ferred to the Committee of Privileges on Thursday
next.

The Order of the Thy for the second reading of
the Ddtion''Frea:ing sill, on which their Lordships
were summoned, was on the Motion of Lord AL-
V ANLEI pOStpolled till Thursday.
Some private business was then disposed of—af.
ter whichTtheir Lordships-adjourned till to.morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

i'WESDAY, MAY 18.

A Petition was presfrited ftom the Grand
Junction Canal Company against the Petition pre-
sented by the City of London against the markets
for Horned Cattle in the neighbourhood of the
City, The Petition was referred.to the Committee,
and Counsel ordered to be.heard thereon.
Sir W:Lt.tAfl SCOTT moved that the Report of
the Committee on the Clergy Non-residence Bill be
received on Monday.
The Mutiny, Marine, and Militia Subalterns'
Bills were read a third time and passed
The Report on the Scotch Militia Biilwas or-
dered to be received on Thursday.
The Bull-baiting Bill was ordered to be read a
second time on Monday.
On the Report of .a Committee, leave was given
to bring in a Bill to amend the existing Poor Laws
in certain particulars.
On the Motion of Mr. LEE, the Bill for re.
gulating Irish Controverted Eleaions was with-
drawn.

Mr. LE,E then moved, that leave be given to
bring in another Bill for the same purpose, which,
after some conversation between Sir GEORGE
HILL, Mr. DAWSON, SCtjeant MORDXUNT, and
Mr. STEWART, was agreed to.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee
on the Cotton Manufactory Apprentice Bill.
Lord BELG RA VE said, that so far from ob_
jeding to the principle of this Bill, he rose only to
urge that its eifeas might be more widely extended.
This Bill, he said, was intended to make provi-
sion for the preservation of health and morality
among .the children employed in the Cotton Manu-
factures. The latter objet: he said, was provided
for among the Apprentices, but the children em-
ployed as free labourers were not comprehended in
the provision. With regard to health, it was pro-
vided for by ventilation, cleanliness, and prohibi-
tion of night-work. The two first of these arti.'
cies could only be obtained by enforcing the latter ;
and it was evident that this could not be done, if
the provisions of the Bill were confined to Appren-
tices, as the Man'ufaaurers would have it in their
power to employ free labourers in their room; a
pr.ittice already very general. He therefore hoped
the Mon. B.ltOret (Sir ROBERT PEEL), who moved
the• Bili would consent to have the Bill extended to
these frce labourers likewise.

Sir "ROBERT PEEL said, that after the very
gener..l approba;ion v.,-hich had been bestowed on
the Bill in its formes stages, he was not a little sur-
prised- t 6 hear objeCtions started to it at present.
Humanity had been the original motive which in-
,tioced him and his friends to introduce the present
bnt the House onght not to be guided 'solely
by the atomentary iqtpulses of Humanity, but also to
I.vhether those measures which Humanity
ditlated would not be attained more effcaually by

gr.:dual improvements fuuiNled on experience, than
by• ;dl at once introducing theoretical reformaticms.
Dem:miry, it had been said, required an extension
c,fdie Bill ; tu_t did Qentlernen consider, how much
this Bill at once effected in the cause of Humanity ?

Was it a .sm:111 matter that twenty thousand Chil-
dren, who Willett° had been abandoned to ignorance,
were now to be in,struaed I that so many Children,

before kgletted, naked, and given up to all manner
of.proiligacy, should now be instrueted in F.eligion
• ,and -Morality., made good members of the Christian
Church, and good spbjefth of the Government ?----:--
Whethe.these. important objeas were not attained
by the ffil, as it pow stood, he would Leave to the judg-
- -silent of flit House. SOflle Amendments, he said, had
been prbposed, which encroached on the secrecy of
Trade, and went -to violate the freedom of individuals
tQ their eonirnet Le. With regard to free la-

bourern should verb happy, if posstblc, to meet
the
.idca,•, of the Nol)!!: Lord ; but he vies convinced
• 1)4 ;hey cogld co?. bt! e;cp4Oon,