The Sun.
London, England, 1819-06-23 00:00:00

FRAME-WORK KNITTERS.

The Duke of RUTLAND. 011 moving the second
reading of the . Frame-Work Knitters' Bill, ob-
served, that it was of vital importance to a nu-
merous and a very distressed class of persons at,
and in the neighhonrhoodiot Leicester.. By the
introthiction of a sp,rions article into the lileloll—
that is to say, of stockings cnt from the
web and sowed together, instead of being wove
with selvages, the men employed, who could tor.
merly earn 15s. a-week by working 12 hours a-
.day. .were now obliged to work from 15 to 16
hours per day for the small pi,tance of 7s per
week. Pauperism had greatly increased, and if
this measure was not resorted to, the manufac-
ture itself. would soon be totally ruined..

The Earl of LAUDERDALR lamented the distress
of those individuals, but contended aeainst the
principle ut the Bill, as highly injutious. It
went to substitpite a dear article for a cheap one,
and at the same time to !blow out of employment
3000 persons who were- employed in the cheap
article, without any certainty that the sale of
the dear article could be torced, so as to en-
sine the employment of these persons in its ma-
nufacture.

The'Earl of DENBIGH maintained, that if the
Bill was passed the 3000 persons employed in
the spurious arliele, vt hi. would he thrown out
of employ, wild he much more advantageously
employel in she regular manufacture.
The Earl GRosveNoß opposed the Bill, on the
ground of its interference with the principle of
free liihoor.

The Earl of WESTMORLAND contended, that if
this Bill were not past-td, the manufacture in ques-,
tion must be inev,itahly ruined.
Thr Earl of ROS..LYN objected to the principle
of the Bill as unjust and impolitic, and contended
that it would produce, in the first place, a posi-
tive evil, without any security that the promised
good would be effected. •
The House divided on the que...,tion for the se-
cond readihk. ' _

Contents 20—Not Contents B—Majority ti.
The Bill Was read a second time.
BARNSTAPLE—APPEALS.

On strangers' re-admission, Lord Reits was
found speaking with reference to an order made by
the House for hearingevidence respecting the Barn-
staple Bribery Bill to-muctow moining. His
Lordship urged the hardship that would ensue to
the suitors in appeals, who were attending at a
great expence,
,if the practice was resorted to of
taking tor, other purposes the. mornings agreed to
be allotted to the hearing of appeals.
The LORD CHANCRLLOR expressed his perfect
readiness, so tar as lie was personally concerned,
to concur in any arrangement that the House
thought fit, either' to hear the' evidence in the
Barnstaple case in the morning or the evening,
but he must be allowed time to consider of the
judgments to be given_ in the appeals already
heard, and it was not likely there could be much
hearing of new appeals during the short remain-
der of the Session.

The Marquess of. LANSDOWN urged the consti-
tutional importance of the Barnstaple Bill, which
not merely affected the rights of the Electors of
that Borough, but until the decision of which,
the representation of the Borough in Parliament
was actually suspended. It was material, there-
fore, that the Bill should be gone'through lietore
the close of the Session.

The Earl of LAUDERDALE expressed his readi-.
ness to attend in the evening for the purpose of
hearing the evidence on the Barnstaple Bill, in
order• that the mornings might be devoted to
appeals.
Lord ROLLS said, he did not wish to suspend
the proceedings, but was anxious that the busi-
ness should he , (nought forward whet, the House
was more fully attended than it could be expected
to be at ten o'clock in the morning. ,
The Earl of CAENARVON observed, ibat many
witnesses were in attendance who catug from dis-
tant parts of the country, and that was the reason
why he was anxious that the earliest opportunity
should be seized to give diem an opportunity of
returning home as Soon as was convenient.
The LORD CHANCELLOR remarked, that the
great pressure of business was such as to require
that lie should have the advantage of the morn.
ings of those days, which ware devoted to the

heating of appeal 3, viiitout the interference of
other busineSs.
Atter -some further observations frotti the Mar-
quf.ss of LANSDoWNE and the E3rl of LAUDER-
DALE, it was arranged that the House would sit
at ten o'clock to-mot row morning to hear evidence
on the 13ill.

The Scotch Saving Banks Bill went through a
Compittce.
VOREIGN ENLISTMENT BILL.

On the first reading of the Foreign Enlistment
Bill, the Earl of SHAFTESrWRY stated, that his
Noble Friend (the Earl of Liverpool) would in-
form the House to-morrow on what day it was
his intention to move the second reading.—Ad-
journed,