The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-08 00:00:00

TIIE POOR-LAW.

Mr. STUART WORTLEY hoped the House
would indulge hint for a few moments while he put a
question to the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of

State on two very important subjects.7-subjectjs of
paramount and general interest. These subjects
wore the Poor-law, and the regulations of the
the Factory Bill. His reasons for putting those in-
quiries to the Right Hon. Baronet were, that with re-
greet to the Poor-law there had been no mention
made in the Queen's Speech.—(Hear, hear, and cries
of " Order.") Ile only wished to ask what was' the
general course which the Government intended to
pursue with respect to the revision of the existing
Poor-law ; and also what course it was proposed to
take with re,,ard to the factory question ?—(Hear.)
Sir J. GRAJIAM said, that with regard to -the-
.44uestions on the Poor-law put by the Ilon. Member,
he had to state, that though it was true that the sub-
ject had not been introduced into the Speech
from the Throne, it was the intention of her Ma-
jesty's Government :to introduce a Bill for the
! purpose of continuing the Poor-law Commission.

As to the Second question, whether the Government
meant to introduce a measure to regulate the hours
of factory labour, he had to answer that he found in
his office a Bill prepared by the Honourable
Member for Perth, which was intended to be laid
before - the late Parliament, and which he (Sir
J. G.) meant to introduce in the course of the pre-
sent Session, but with some alteration's materially
affecting infant labour, that was, the labour of chil-
dren between the ages of nine and thirteen ; and
also in some respects altering the clauses re-
gulating the hours of labour of young persons.
but (as we understood the Right Hon. Baronet, who
was almost inaudible) it was not his intention to in-
troduce a Bill which embraced the regulations desired 1
in certain quarters, where they were particularly de-
sirous to diminish the period of labour to ten hours.
Lord ASHLEY begged to ask the Right Hon.
Baronet whether, in introducing regulations for the
hours of labour of
children between the ages of nine
and thirteen, the Government would adopt the sug-
gestions of the Committee which sat in 1840 ? Also,
if he intended to diminish the hours of labour of per-
sons between the ages of 13 and 18 ?

Sir J. GRAHAM was not at present able to go
into the details of the measure the Government meant
to introduce, but at the proper time he would explain.
At present he did not mean to introduce a Bill gene-
rally altering the hours of labour.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.

Captain PECHELL begged to ask whether the
measure the Government meant to introduce on this
subject, would embody the provisions submitted to the
House last Session.

Sir R. PEEL begged the
.1-ion. Gentleman to have
patience until he saw the measure the Government
meant to introduce. It would be exceedingly incon-
venient to state now what were the details of the
measure they would bring forward.
Capt. PECHELL —Would the Right Hon. Baronet
then say when he would bring his measure forward ?
Sir R. PEEL would communicate the intelligence
privately to the Hon. Gentleman, who might then use
his own discretion.