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again to come forward. In Whit *he now
Intended to propose, he should take care that no
`bar whatever would he offered to any regulation
'which had latterly taken place with respect to
inch Grants. The Noble Earl then gave notice
'of his intention to submit a motion to the House
'to-morrow, applicable to Grants in Reversion,
which may have taken place since the Ist of
January, 1818.
A few words were interchanged between his
Lordship and Viscount SIDMOUTTI across the
table. the purport of which we could not collect ;
but the Noble Earl's notice stood for to-morrow.
corroN MANUFAcToitiEs.

Lord-KENYON, pteViolls to his notieed motion
on this subject, presented a Petition from nume-
rous rersons engaged in,the Cotton Manufactories
in the town and neighbourhood of Stock Port,
E;rAyitu that some legislative regulations may take
place
.for the relief, particularly of yOung persons,
employed in these manufactories, whoz.e. healrl.3
%sere materially deteriorated by the present mode
of employing such persons.
The Peti whirl) was read short, Was, after
azfew words from the E,rrl of LAUDE DALE, or-
dered to lie on the table.

TAM! E. EN YON then resented a ref:Con, on
grOunc:s nearly similar, from holly' ell, in
Fliut-
altire. The f'etition, among other p set
fortis that the persons were generally employed
or 28 hours in the six days, in a way highly
j.trious to their health, and praying for some le,.
gisldtive regulations in their favour, particularly
,with respect to a restriction in the time of their

working. •
The Earl of LAUDERDALE made a few remarks
on the occasion. He had reason 10 think there
were persons who made a practice, in the quarter
whence those petitions came, of having petitions
ready tram.ld -for their Lordships' House. One
of these was signed by more than IGO boys or
girls. The cond.ict of such persons tended to
produce consequences the most il:nrions to the
Public.

The Bishop of CHESTER expressed his opinion,
th st the present mode of employing, paOiculaaly
young person', in these mannfa'clOries was greatly
detrimental to their health, and such 'he knew
was the opinion of several eminent medical per-
lie had a petition on the subject to sub-
Mit to their Lordships, from Bolton-le:MoOrs,
in Lancashire, signed by more than five thousand
persons.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE observed, that he
had, on the contrary, seen several certificates
from medical persons, which set forth a very dif-
ferent opinion.
Some further conversation on this topic took
place between the Reveiend Pteltre awl the Noble
Earl, atter which the Petition %els ordered to
lie on the table, as was that presented by Lord
Kenyon;
The Bishop of CHESTER also presented a Peti-
tion from Bullington, in the County Palatine
of Chester, to the same effect.—Ot t 1•. red to lie on
the table.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE, adverting to the no-
tice of the Noble Lord which stood for that
evening, on a subject engineered with the Peti-
tions..said, he would put it to his consideration,
whether it were pxoper to bring forward a sub-
ject to that extent and importance, at such a
Period of the Sessions, particularly when the at-,
••-utlauces were so slight. lie would therefore.:
beg of him to postpone it to a period mrlien they
should have ,reason to expect the Muse won'd be
in a very different situation in those respects frOta
what it then was.

Song.

Lord KENYON was . of opinion that delays of
the kind,would he injurious. lie had postponed
it consequence of what
.the Noble Earl sai'd
until this day. A sense of duty solely induced
him thus to come forward ; the Noble Ear hvould
have future opportunities of discussing whether
what was proposed should or should not pass
io:o a law. What he would now propose was but,
an inquiry, and of which he had giVen repeated
notices. The state of the unhappy children in'
these manufactories called, loudly for legislative
interference.
_Last year a Bill on this subject
had advanced to its second reading, and the call
for further inquiry had been compliPd with. The
interests of substantial justice required [hit some-
thing shoul.lnow be done, and he would put this
state of the case to the Noble Earl's own can-
dour. He trusted that the Noble Lords would
,not decline attending the investigations ; and he
should regret if the Noble Eitl himself Shank, not
attend. After a due investigation of the subject,
be ;would cheerfully submit to what their Lord-
ships should decide as the most eligible course to
pursue. The Noble Lbrd concluded by moving,
" That a Committee he appointed to inquire into
the State-of the Children employed in the Cotton
Manufacture, and to report the 3,;:ne to the
House."

Earl GROSVENOR made some observations. At
"the time u heiptlle Bill was brought-up from the
other House last year, they were certainly in 's
state of comparative ignorance upon the subject.
It was afterwards inquired into, and he held it
rather extraordinary now that the Noble Lord
should call for the adoption of a Committee. It
was with reluctance he stated, that he (Earl G.)
could not go so far with the Noble Lord. The
House now stood in a very different situation
with respect to the subject from 'what it did last
.year. At best it was a very delicate as well as an
important subject to legislate upon, and he was
strongly,oppos.rd to the creation of hopes which
it was beyond their power to realize ; and he
teared that many of the deplorable scenes which
occurred last summer might be attributed to such
ogitations of the subject. The Noble Earl Ft,
posed a farther postponement of ;be motion for a
Committee.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, in, reference to the
great stress which seemed to be laid on the con-
sideration /that those manufactories were injurious
to the children's health, observed, that such prac-
tices were against the sense of the common law.
A prohibition was therein to be found. At the
same time they were not to shut their.eyes against
what was going on ; and it became a (pest ion fur
consideration whether there should not be some
general law upon the subject. He could not help
thinking the subject of au nmeh importance that
some delay of the diicnssion wr;ul.l he desirable. ri4
there might hereafter be a fuller attendance. The