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a Session to pass without legislating, to remedy
evil. The other Housi hid coanequentlp appointed a
Committee to inquirelito its natuie, and the WHOP*
necessary to be madelsefore a Report could be ptoduced
had delayed the mealbre founded on that Report to a late
period of the Session. Vise Bill, however, was eh:Glutei',
necessary to the peace of the country. if any Cart of
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it were found inconvenient, it would he perfectly eon
petent for Parliament to m ke some alterations in it
next Session. It had been said that this Bid WAS in
tended to repress workmen alone. This was not the
case. It applied both to combinations of won kmen
against masters, and to those of master's against work-.
men. Nay, it aimed at a still more important objekti
the prevention of combinations of woiktnen agaittit
workmen. The Bill repealed the Act of the last Ses-
sion, but at the same time continued the repeal of all,
the old Statutes, whilst it revived the common law in
all cases where the other Act repealed it. He trusted
• that their Lordships would not object to the word mo-
lestation, and would see no mord in any of the clauses
to excite jealousy. The 811 did not apply to any fait
meeting of svorkinen to regulatetheir wages, and tlit re
was every disposition to give it the most liberal inter
itietitioo. It allowed, betrides. an spree% to die Quarter Session..
The Marquis of LANSDOWN wished it to be dis-
tinctly understood, that he not only 'did not oppose th-
Bill, but concurred in everything which had fallen from
the Noble Earl. Some measure was abso'utely neces-
sary to protect the men against tremselves. It was
desirable that the men and the masters should have op-
portunities of discussing their respective interests togs,
titer, but it would be impossible for any commerce or
manufacture to stand, if it were in the power of one
part of the- persons employed to impose laws upon the
other. This would not be endured if clone by the Le-
. gislature; and it could not be tolerated in a free coon-
try that what the Legislature could not do, should be
done by a set of men with threats and violence. If this
were allowed, the best workmen or manufacturers might
be driven away to other countries, where the Govern-
ment would afford them adequate protection. Should
next year any body of. men think that they had been
injured by a Bill passed so hastily as the present, he
should be ready to move, or to suppori a motion for calling Coun-
sel to the Bar upon the subject.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that the Petition
presented by the Noble Marquis could not be received,
as .t vies not the Pe lion of the principals themselves,
but of the delegates appointed by the trades of London
aid Westminster.
The Marquis cf LANSDOWN admitted that the
objection was fatal, and withdrew the Petition. He
held o' hers which were not liable to the same objection,
and then presented P. titions. to the same effect from
the Broad-silk Weavers of Manchester, from those o.
Spitalfiehis, and from the Journeymen Ladies' Boot•and
Shoemakers of London and Westminster.—Laid on the table.
Earl ROSSLYN supported the Bill, as ts riding to
secure to every man the right of disposing of his labour.
He then presented Petitions like the former ones, from
the Shipwrights .on the river Thames, the Power-
loom Weavers of Manchester, the Calico Printers of
the county of Surrey, and the Cotton Spinners -of Glasgow.—
Laid on the table.
Earl DARNLEY did not mean to oppose the Bill!
before the House, but thought it most extraordinary
that his Majesty's Prime Minister and the Chancellor
of England should have known nothing of the Act
which had passed last year. He then complained of
the manner in which measures were sent in mass by
the other House to their Lordships' table, at a period of
the Session when it was imposaiblero attend properly to them.
The House bawling resolved itself into a Committer.
'llse Marquis of LANSDOWN objected to the nature
of the punishment affixed by the Bill, the Tread-mill.
and moved that the words " kept to hard labour" be left out, and
" .ix caltn.:ar month*" inserted instead of" four."
.The Earl of LIVERPOOL could not agree to the amendment,
as gross eases might ad..- wider that Act for which the
would be au appropriate punishment. There was besides an appeal
to the Quarter Sessions, and the punishment would be *unleaded till
the appeal was decided.
The amendment was then negatived without a division.
Earl RUSSIA N then moved an Amendment extending the right
of the writ Immo to meet. for the consideration, not only of the
wages, but of such regulaiious or measures which might affect the
price of -work:
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the amendment was
wholly suittecessary, ask was already comprised within the mean-
ing of the clause to which it was proposed.
.Earl ROSSLYN then withdrew his amendment.
The House resumed the Born was brought up, and agreed to,
and tie &audiug Orders having been suspended for that purpose.
the Bill was read a third time sad passed.
Colts: TRV BANKS.
Earl GROSVENOR called the attention of the
li.,use to the refusal of a Banker at Bristol to pay
Country Notes. and even Bank of England Notes, in
cash. Since •Mr. Peel's Bill had passed, the right of
utoceeding again-t individuals guilty of such conduct
by summary process had been abolished.—There was not suffi-
cieut aecntity stow, and it might be advisable to revive the mode
of sun.tuary process.
The Ertl of LIVERPOOL said, there could be no
doubt that thee was but one legal tender in the coun-
trv.—Thiough some inattention a' the time, the mode
of summary process bad bean left out of the Act of last year, but
night be rsv vssl, if ir should grow necessary. But this hatihing-
hou.e having created the sirfficelty, and it being now generally
known that all notes must be paid in cash, there was no danger for
the future. The credit of every solid house would be the best se-

curity fin the public.
Viscount CM FI)F.N stated, that in order to discourage appli-
cations fot gold, the Dublin bank paid in guineas, which were of no
use in Ireland. as people, nut knowing whether they alight not be

light, refused to take them. .
The Earl of I.IV EU POOL was not aware of the facts stated
by the Noble' Viscount.