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tended that the price of Corn was at present very'
fair, and urged the Honourable Member to move for
a Committee, convinced, from what had fallen from
the other side, that such a motion would be nega-
• tived, and the question thus set at rest. •
Mr. WYN/a could not consent to .the appoint-
ment of such a Committee. The very entering upon
the consideration of such a question, was no indiffe-
rent matter. It would create an alarm in every part
of the country, and might reproduce the dangerous
effects that had accompanied the introduction of the
last Corn Bill. He then oppiised the measure, and
should therefore object to any thing of the kind being
now revived.
Mr. STUART WORTLEY had no notion what.
ever of proposing such a Committee.
Sir J. GRAHAM stated, that in his part of the
country every one was satisfied with the declaration
made by a Right Honourable Gentleman, now ab-
sent (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) on the second
day of the meeting of Parliament, respecting the in-
tentions of Government on that subject. He hoped
that it would be no more agitated.
A COUNTY MEMBER regretted that the gallant Ge-
neral should have made any assertions with respect
to the motives of Agriculturists. There was no
lass of society more entitled to the regard of the
House than the cultivators of the soil.
Sir ROBERT WILSON baying explained, the Pe-
tition was read and ordered to lie on the table.

CA Of NEC-SWEEPERS.
Mr. OMMANNEY presented a Petition from cer-
tain Master Chimney Sweepers, praying that the
Bill pending in the House to abolish the use .of
Climbing Boys, might not pass into a law, as it
would be injurious to the Public at large. Ile con-
ceived that much danger might be incurred by the
new mode proposed, and the insufficiency of the
machinery, which prevented chimnies from being
properly cleansed, and left them exposed to catch
fire. Another inconvenience would also arise, from
pari,lles no longer being allowed to apprentice boys
to that employment.
Sir JOSEPH YORKE agreed entirely with the
opinion expressed by his Honourable Friend, with
regard to the insufficiency of machinery. Its use, if
it became so common, might also finish, by depriv-
ing the poor of bread. As to the hardships of the
employment, it might be very proper to prevent the,
most tender of both sexes from exercising it ; but for
the rest it was not worse than sending a man to the
1111 A-head. If the chimnies were made larger, all
di-ficulties would be removed.
Mr. BENNET allowed that the plan for enlarging
Caimnies might do for future building, but hotv were
the hundreis of thou ands already existing to be so
altered? Were not even modern chimnies framed
in the most difficult manner by the opulent, who
wished to have warm flues, at the expense of the
health and live' of young and tender sufferers. As
to the comparison used by the gallant Admiral, when
h.: could chew that a Captain of the navy stuck pins
o; lighted straw under the feet of a boy to force him
to the mast-head, then he would admit that the
hardships of the case were not greater. •
Sir JOSEPH YORKE said, that the Captain of a
man of war had ere now followed a man with a cat
to start him up the mast.—The Petition was then laid
upon the table.