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that nothing had since occurred to shake it. Wheel
a Committee of Inquiry on Epidemic Disorders,. in
London, had sat last year, facts, however, had been
produced which had increased the doubts of Govern-
ment. He was therefore convinced that there were
strong grounds for acceding so the present inquiry.
If it could be ascertained that k Plague was epide-
mic and not contagious, a geeat . service would be
rendered to manlund. He therelbre hoped that
House would not refuse the Committee.
•Mr. WYNNE acknowledged the importance of
the subject, but feared that the House was not qua-
lified for such an inquiry.
Sir J. JACKSON said, that one of the main rea-
sons which had induced him to brin his Motion
forward, was the statement made before the Com-
mittee last year, by Dr. Roberts, who had been '24
years Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and
who declared, that during that period, although no
less than 600 beds were made up every year, he had
not seen one instance in which fever had proved
contagious.
The Motion was then agreed to, and the Com-
mittee appointed.
CT AWIIIII3 SOTS.
Mr. BENNET, in rising to move for leave to bring
in a Bill to Abolish the System of Climbing Boys,
stated that the measure had last year been adopted at
the unanimous recommendation of a Committee. It
Ltd passed through the Commons with equal unani-
Mity, but on" being carried to another House its pro.
gross had been stopped, in consequence of a wish for
a fuller inquiry. After the publications which bad
since taken place, and the evidence produced, he
trusted that no doubt could remain on the subject..
Ile would not enter into any description of the dis-
tress and misery of the poor children forced into that
employment. They were all before the public, and
to one could walk the streets without witnessing con-
tiuual instances of their wretchedness. As tothe diffi-
• • tufty of sweeping chimnies by other. neans, it was
stated by the Reports on the subject, that out of 1000
chimnies there were only 10 which could not be
swept with machines. But then there were other
means of sweeping even those. There was one house,
that ofl.oril Spencer, the chimnies of which had been
represented as so difficult of access, as to render it
impracticable to sweep them without the assistance of
climbing boys. He had been applied to on the sub-
and had caused them all but one to be swept by
the regular means. The last had afterwards been
a1.,0 swept without climbing boys, and by a process
whit the Inspector had not yet tried. Most, if not
all, dGthe difficult chimnies were those of the opu-
lent, and he trusted that they would not put the small
expense of 30s. for sweeping them in competition
. with the distresses of so many children. One chim-
ney in the Tower, which was considered as impracti
cable, had been swept. by a machine in one hour,
whereas it had formerly occupied boys during five
Lours, and, in one instance, an unfortunate sweep had
been engaged at it for 28 hours. The only alteration
hl.iCll he should propose in the present Bill, would
b to extend the period for the total abolition of the
chrnbing system to two years instead of one.
Leave was then given to bring-in the 13111.
NOTTMKOHAM ELTCTION.
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Mr. BROIJGIiaI..).I, wishing to allow further op-
portur.ities fur consulting the Agent,..pnt off his mo-
tiur.repecting the Nottingham Election Petition till
to-morrow.