The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-30 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Meßcu29.

The SPEAKER unterrel the House at a Quarter to Four
o'clock, and at Four o'clock there being only twenty-eight
Nlesubera present, the House adjourned.

According to accounts from Buenos Ayres of
the 15th of December, received by way of France, the Custom-
house tariff of 1831 has been made applicable to the present
year, by the Chamber of Representatives, with the following
modifications only :---Hats, formerly liable to nine dollars duty,
to pay thirteen ; foreign salt, lately free of duty, to pay one
dollar per fanega. A good deal of business was doing in
Buenos Ayres in hides, but chiefly for French markets. The
exchange on London was at if to e.

MANCHESTER, MARCH 27.
From the Morning Herald.)

NIEETING of the MASTER COTTON-SPIXNERS I
Mr. S.dler'i Bill for the regulation of factorie, has ex-
cited great attention among the master cotton-spinners of
his extensive district, but it is scarcely probable that the
,vlll agree, as an entire body, to any_ decided measure o!
.pposition to it. The cotton-tnantifiCtiires, have held on
-o many invitations to t!otritetition, thd have been con-
ducted under such various and conflicting circumstances,
that hardly two masters are to be !ound in perfect unison
on any given subject connected wit', their trade interests.
A few weeks ago a public meeting of the mist: r spin-
ners of this town and neiehhottrhood W.P.3 held here, at
which: after a rood deal of needess and unen,aning d;s-
cuedon, it was agreed that Mr. Sadler's ebould be or-
posed—that Parliament ShOuld Ise petitioned to restrict
the time of I,tiour to 69 hoer.; pCr week, according to
lioblotuse's.:nl passed in November las,—and that re-
striction be also plated (as the cure means of limiting
human hOour) on the moving power in the several
The petition adopted on th it oecasion lay in the
public rooms of the town fa. weeks, but only
about 60 signatures were &Alined to it number, of
course, Which very partially expreised the opinion of the
trade on the question. A Committee appointed at thet
imetitighaS.Siree met once or t'yk-ice, an I drew up a report,
which they were desirous of sufuniiting to the general
body of master-spinners. Fer this purpose a Public meet-
ing was held to-day, in the Exchange-room, but so slight
an interest was taken in the proceedings, that only about a
score assembled on the occasion. A 11114 an-i irregular
discussion was entered into, and the general opinion of the
meeting appeared to be in favour of ;idditional petitions to
Parliament, to be sent from the various districts in the
neighbourhood. Mr. S Bill was condemned in
strong language by more than one master-spinner pre-
sent, end the most injurious consequences to the working
classes were anticipated from it, if it bhoulii pas, into a law.
Another party was eager to dissolve the meetine, on the
ground that the proceedings hitherto taken by the spinners
were not aereeable to the general body; but the majority
of the meeting are decidedly in favour of the 69 Flours'
13.11, with a restiction on the strain-power as the best
means of giving satisfaction to the masters and men.

It mly not be improper to notice t: at a very nume-
rously signed petition, bearing upwards of 15,000 signa-
tun s, has ben presented from this place in supp •rt of a
measure for the limitation of time in human labour, some-
what on the principle proposi.d in Mr. Sadltr's Hill, al-
though the measure is not specifically referred to, and that
at the present moment a petition is lying for signature in
the public rooms, agreed to at a large meeting of medical
men, merchants, and m mulacturers, fully apposing of
Mr. S idler's Hill. A very general ',pinion is entertained
here that this measure will p. 193 in.o