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Sir G. GREY said that the conflicting decisions respect-
ing the provisions of the Factory Bill rendered it neces-
sary that some amendments should be made in it, and
a Bill was in preparation for that purpose.

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Mr. C. LEWIS moved the second reading of the Public
Roads Bill. The bill was divided into two parts—the one
relating to the existing debts of the turnpike trusts, the
other to the machinery by which they were hereafter to
be governed. The debts of the trust amounted to the
sum of £6,609,000, and their annual revenue was about
£1,300,000. He proposed that the revenue should be
paid into the bands of commissioners, to defray the ex-
penses of keeping the roads in repair, which would be
about £673,000 and the interest of the debt, which
amounted to £364,000. This would leave a balance of
£170,000 available for the liquidation of the debt itself.

Mr. W. MILES came down to the house determined
to oppose the second reading of the bill, but its obnoxious
parts were so far removed that he would ask the hon.
gent. to adjourn the second reading to reprint the bill as
altered, and to enable hon. members to judge of it in the
shape it had now assumed.
Mr. RICE believed that the bill could not be reprinted
without first going into committee. . .

Mr. Spoori-ix did not think the objections to the bill at
all removed by the alterations which had been made. In

his opinion it was the grossest deception ever practised on
the house to represent an altered bill as an improvement
on the old. It was throwing upon the county rates the
expenses of all bankrupt turnpike trusts, and was grossly
dishonest to the bondholders. He hoped the house would
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After som,
whether the second reading could be carr
postponement, Mr. C. LEWIS withdrew it, and immedi-
ately afterwards moved for leave to bring in a bill con-
taining the alterations.—This was agreed to.
The Offences (Ireland) Bill, after a someu
discussion, (given elsewhere,) in which every met—
pudiated the parentship of the bill, was withdrawn.
On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, a return of the
aggregate number of stamps issued for newspapers in each
year, from the Ist day of January, 1812, to the first day of
January, 1849, in England and Wales, Scotland and Ire-
land, respectively, distinguishing the number at one penny
and at one halfpenny, was ordered.

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—TRURSDAY.
The Marquis of SALISBURY moved for an account of
bills raised under the Turnpike Trusts Acts, from the Ist
of January, 1844, to the Ist of January, 1849, distin-
guishing each year, with an account of those trusts which
are in dent ; the amount of debts, whether arising from
money borrowed upon the security of the tolls, the inter-
est due thereupon, or other charges, at the present time;
the amount of money raised by highway rate, from
Easter 1837, to Easter 1848, distinguishing each year; the
amount of money contributed from the highway rates to
turnpike roads, from the year 1837 to the year 1848, dis-
tinguishing each year.

The Marquis Of SALISBURY called their lordship's at-
tention to a return lately issued from the Office of Woods
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arisen on the subject in quarters generally well informed.
The Earl of CARLISLE thanked the noble lord for the
opportunity afforded him of giving some explanation re-
garding certain grants named in the return alluded to.
With respect to some houses in front of the Green Park,
and mentioned in the return, the owners of which had
small slips of ground for gardens in front from the Crown,
at fair rents, a misunderstanding had arisen. It had been
supposed that the small rents charged for the small slips
of garden ground were the rents charged for the ground
upon which the houses were built. None of them were
built on Crown property. There was no foundation for
the charges brought against the office over which he pre-
sided in regard to the price of ground granted some years
ago to Mr. Nash. The land was grass land, was let to
that gentleman under the same arrangements which were
usually entered into between builders and proprietors of
ground let for building. The case was inquired into
about twenty years ago by a committee of the other house
of parliament, and., after sifting the whole of the case,
the acquitted both the office and Mr. Nash of any impro-
per conduct in the transaction. The noble earl also justi-
fied the office in leases made to Mr. Barton, Mr. John
Bell, and several other parties. The rents charged
were in every case fair and just between the parties. The
department to which he belonged would at any time cor-
rect an error if pointed out, and would adopt any sagges-
tion for the better management of the property of the
property of the Crown.

The Earl of ELLESMERE said he was one of the parties
who was so unjustly attacked in the article alluded to.
He was charged with collusion with the Woods and
Forests, and paying only £6O a year for that which was
worth £5OO. The pound on which his house was being
built was his own freehold, and if the bit of garden was
there too cheaply let, he was quite willing to abide by any
desision to which her Majesty's Government might come.
So fas as he was concerned, the article in question was
one tissue of falsehoods, and the truth might have been
found out upon the slightest inquiry.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.--TurnQrky.

Lord ASHLEY moved an humble address be presented
to her Majesty praying her Majesty to appoint a commis.
sto9 to inquire into the practicability and mode of sub-
dividing, into distinct and independent parishes for all