The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-14 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS--LAST EVENING.

TllO LORI) CHANCELLOR took his seat on tho woolsack at
five o'clock.

(MASTER AND SERVANTS BILL.

The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that this bill
be commuted, and after a few trivial amendments in ono
or two clauses the bill passed through committee.
MASTERS' AND WORKMEN'S BILL.
The Commons' amendments to this bill were considered
and adopted.
DOGS REGULATION (IRELAND) BILL.

This bill was read a third thno and passed.
FACTORY ACTS EXTENSION BILL.

The Earl of DEVON moved the third reading of this

--
The Earl of LICHFIELD stated that it had been
alleged that this bill did not affect all fac-
tories employing fifty hands, and ho thought that was
a stipulation extremely unsatisfactory. He believed that
if thorn was ono thing more than another which was ob-
jectionable, it was that there were cortaiu distracts whore
there would be a Government superintendent over the
factories, and others which would bo entirely free from
such supoivision. His lordship then auimadvened upon
the hardships inflicted upon factories employing 20 or 30
hands by the carrying out of the proposed restricted act,
and stated that ho could hardly concoivo a greater injus-
tice than that factories employing 50 hands should
escape. No one could admire more than ho did the
act of 1861 relating to thePottories, but ho would not admit
that there could be au advantageous application of that
legislation to the present bill, inasmuch as the only defect
in it was that, it did not extend to all the trades
in the Pottery districts. He knew of so many
instances of large manufactories in bis own
county that ko could not allow the third reading
of this bill to pass without expressing his firm conviction
that a certain portion of it relative to its extension would
bo found prejudicial. Ho was sure that, as far as the
countly was concerned, that a measure which had in-
cluded all the trades iu the same place would have
given universal satisfaction. Ho would rather see the
bill
oven now go out rather than that it should stand alone.
Ho was surd that if the bill stood alone there was so much
inconsistency, so much injustice, and so much, if he might
bo altowod to say so, absurdity, that it would defeat the
object it was designed to effect.
The Earl of DEVON said that there was another bin
in the other house which they had hoped to bring before
their lordships for consideration that session, but owing to
the exigency of a largo pressure of business it could not
to effected. The noble earl had spoken against the giving
such a largo power of interference amongst certain classes
of factories, but this was a question which ho could not
go into until the other bill was before the house next ses-
sion. He argued with the noble earl that the excellent
working of the Factory Act was greatly facilitated by the
readiness and goodwill on the part of factory owners.
The bill was then read a third time.

The Earl of SHREWSBURY inquired whether, after
the report of the attempt which Lad been made to prose-
cute Ex-Governor Eyre, the Government would now un-
dertake to defend him against any further prosecutions ?
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM replied that the feeling
of tho Government was that if there worn any foundation
for the charges which had been brought against Mr. Eyre
it was better that they should be tested by a trial in the
ordinary course of law, and that there should bo no inter-
ference on the part of her Majesty's Government. Ho
was prepared to defend that decision, and ho thought the
same course should still bo pursued with regard to any
further legal proceedings which might at any time be Laken
against Mr. Eyre, and until they were brought to a close.
It might then, possibly, be the duty of the Government to
take into consideration tho conduct of Mr. Eyre while
Governor of Jamaica, but more than this ho did not fool
justified in stating whilst a question was yet pending
before the legal tribunals.
Their lordsb'ps adjourned a few minutes before seven
o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 2 o'clock.
TIIE TORNADO.

Mr. B. COCHRANE asked the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs if ho could state what decision the Spanish
Council of State had arrived at in the coso of the
Tornado ? . _ _

Lord STANLEY said ho had not yet received any in-
formatipn as to tho decision of the Spanish authorities
appointed to inquire into the matter, but ho had every
reason to believe that in ',a short time a very satisfactory
settlement would be arrived at.

TREATY WITH AUSTRIA.
Mr. TORRENS asked tho Socrotary of State for Foreign
Affairs, whethor it was true that tho negotiations for a
commoricial treaty with Austria had failed and whether
lie was proparod to lay upon the table of tho house the
coirospondenco on the subject ?
Lord STANLEY said thero wore no negotiations going
on for the arranging a commercial treaty between Great
Britain and Austria; that was settled in 1865. Tho ne-
gotiations that wore going on related to a tariff of duties.
PARKS REGULATION BILL.
The house wont into committee on this bill.

On the CHAIRMAN putting the question that the preamble
be postponed,
Mr. P. A. TAYLOR moved that the chairman report
progress. Ho contended that the bill was ono calculated
to contract tho right of public meeting, which was ono of
the greatest privileges the people possessed. Tho Go-
vorament, in pressing forward the bill, wore doing
that which could not but revive and keep alive
a feeling of bitterness, which it was most important
should not exist. (Hear.) He hoped the Government
wore not acting with any regard to the declaration of the
noble lord tho member for Haddington, who, it was stated,
had told the Government that he and his voluntOers would
on cause arising soon clear the parks on any occasion
when a political meeting was hold in opposition to the
wishes of the Government. Tho noble lord he
felt reckoned too hastily with respect to the volun-
teers, and he felt quite sure the first shot that
was fired by a volunteer at a political meeting would be
the signal for the melting away of the whole movement.
The bill was ono that contracted the rights of the people,
and he for one could not see why a large body of her Ma-
jesty's subjects should be debarred meeting in places con-
venient for discussing their grievances. It was an attempt
to preserve the parks exclusively for the use of the upper
ten thousand, and therefore he hoped the house would
support him in the motion he had made.
Lord ELCHO said with respect to what was said of
him personally he should not trouble the house to reply to
it, as ho was quite content to rest his character on the
opinions ho had spoken. When, however, the volunteer
force was coupled with his name ho thought it right '
stand up in his place in Parliament and deny in the most
emphatic manner possible that this statement, which he
believed had first appeared in an anonymous letterf in one
al•
of the penny papers, was a most unblushing sehee d
He had never said that, acting in the interests of the
Volunteerforce, ho should give his support to the Govern-
ment in their endeavour to pass this bi". (Hear,
hoar.)the
He had done precisely the contraty: he had urged on f
ree
Government that the employ nont of the Volelteer
moreover,
on such occasions was most undesirable ; auffid,
3nlo9rOud
to
he had pressed the game thing at the War-0 a ,
eclear, d;s-
any statements in opposition to that ho gave
Ile thought
find,' and direct denial. (Hear, hear.)
it his duty to suppoii, the Government
endeavours to carry this bill, because they
wise and commendable act, and when it was it:L:odd° their,:lhga that
the I:ghts
the bill was one for the purpose of curhtase
of public meeting, he was sure that the othe
industiions
gpersons who
"were lookel up to by a large number of
classes know when they made suchft. aafesotar,tehmerr.t)
that it was not consistent with he
The bill was not intended to infringe thaeeevyriagsliststie,tunbeinict
meeting, and the statement that it way
at variance with the truth. Tho Godeeetnrsagintehnettrin
dparteyssain
forward the measure were merelyef
the
people, and that
einetiepgreseearvibenghaltfheof the
wf.t°rie
that which such public
the recreation of the
people, they were only and Mr. Vass did, who
benefactors as Sir P. Crossley
ethree
in giving parks to the public,ltaid_uitre ndsowdnrteheraetattltieehy:;
to be preserved solely for the p
public, and that public meeting
fwtehr were
Ito
tf
ert bLeague
actions o
were in accordance with thedfheeeldinkrwotf
ded
htehlotegyreeatitiemyast
penhanestao-f
therein. He believed the
the industrious classes ; ven them o
ginod that therm-liftmen!,
hice
bent upon nibbling away
and
had gi
a largo measure of Reform wer
government of the public
their rights with respect to the
parks. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. NEATE felt that the noble lord who had just sat
down had spoken in accordance with the feelings of the
great majority of the working c.las.ses. Ho thought
gothe
if it did not on
Government would fail in its dignity
with the bill, and the house would be wanting la
respect if it did not support them. That the Government
had the right to refuse admission to the parties who
demanded it on the occasion
and many
had given
persons who
rise to this bill was undoubted,
ought to have known better actual.leyeencour.igted the people
in the opinion that such theht did not (Iva . hoped
the house would support Government in their endea-
vours to pass the preseut bill.