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Congress

Lord ASHBURTON thought that emigration might be I
carried out to a very considerable extent, with ,
benefit to Ireland, and without leading to the evils app,
tended by the noble lords who had. previouily spoken.
The petitions having been laid on the table, the House
adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMON'S.—MONDAY.
The adjourned debate on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill
-was resumed.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he had received a letter from
Lord Monteagle, intimating that the Irish landlords were

willing to contribute to any necessary extent to the sup-
port of the poor in workhouses, as an alternative to giv-
ing out-door relief.
The House then went into committee, pro forma, and
-the bill was ordered to be re-committed on Friday next.
The House then adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY

Lord STANLEY presented a petition from certain share-
holders of the Birmingham and Oxford Company, in re-
ference to the motion of Lord Lyndhurst for a Committee

prayed that the whole matter might be allowed to stand
over until the bill to which he had alluded came before
their lordships, and if that were not acceded to, that the
inquiry granted might be extended over the whole trans-
action. He added that nobody could deny the right of
the shareholders of one company to buy the shares of an-

other : and unless they did so, how could they interfere in
this matter of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction,
whose shareholders had associated their interests rather
with the North-Western than with the Great Western
Company ? Besides, the inquiry was unnecessary, for
two reasons. The whole transaction would be investi-
gated, both in a court of equity, and in the House of Com-
mons. In a court of equity, to ascertain whether the bar-
gain of the. Birmingham and Oxford directors was not
void and irregular ab initio, inasmuch as the power to sell
contemplated only one line, while they had sold two ; and
in the House of Commons, because the directors them-
selves, doubting the legality of their proceedir
about to apply against the wishes of about fou

gs, we

the shareholders, for an act to ratify their bargain.
Lord LYN DU URST pressed the motion for a committee
on the ground that the shares had beenbought up by the

the act passed by their lordships last year to provide
communication with Birmingham independent of ti

North-Western

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEsDA

In answer to Lord G. Bentinck, Viscount PALMERSTON
said that her Majesty's government had not had an offl cial in-
timation of any duty having been imposed upon emigrants
by any of the State Legislatures in America. All that
was known in reference to the subject was, that it had
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been under cons

The adjourned debate on Cracow was then resumed,
but terminated in the withdrawal of the resolutions, Mr.
HUME remarking that his triumph was already complete,
since, with the exception of Lord G. Bentinck and Mr.
D'lsraeli, the whole house reprobated the conduct of the
Three Powers. Both throughout the country and in the
house there was, with the exceptions just named, but one
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sentiment of reprobation entertamec
derstand the motives which actuated those two honoura-
ble gentlemen, unless they were determined to pay a visit
to the continent on the rising of parliament, and were pre-
paring for themselves a good reception in Vienna and St.

could n

Petersburg.
The other business was unimportant

HOUSE OF COMMONS

WEDNESDAY

girder of the day was read for going into committee on the

measure

Mr. DENISTOUN said he could not consent to the house
going into committee without stating his objections to the
measure, which having done, he moved that the committee

fiordJonN RUSSELL was of opinion that the house
should go into committee without further delay. He took
it for granted that the principle of the bill was decided,

Mr. BRIGHT complained that the noble lord, as First
Minister of the Crown, had allowed this important bill to
proCeed thus far without fully stating what his decided
opinion on the subject was. The noble lord, however,
remained quiet, which he (Mr. Bright) much regretted ;
it was only due to the house and the country to know the
_reasons which actuated the noble lord in the course he

was pursuing.
Lord Joi,: RUSSELL felt bound to say he could not see
what right the hon. member for Durham had to lecture
him as to his conduct in reference to the measure. (Hear,

leave the subject an open one, to be decided by the house

cabinet. thought by so doing the bill would be bet-
ter and more fully investigated and discussed. He did

not see what objection there could be to limit the hours
of labour to eleven. Whether they could with safety be
reduced to ten was an important question, and would re-
quire full consideration of the committee. Messrs. Mar-
shall, of Leeds, had reduced the hours of labour in their
extensive factories to eleven and it had been found to
act advantageously and satisfactorily. He (Lord John
Russell), however, had never contended that the same
price of wages would be given to operatives if they worked
ten, eleven, or twelve hours a day ; he thought that could
not and would not be the case. If, however, there was a
reduction of the hours of labour, the master would obtain
a saving in lessening the expense of wear and tear of ma-
chinery. The question, however, was a most important
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one, and atter the best consideration he could give it ne
was of opinion it would be better and wiser to limit the
Lours of labour to eleven, and not, as this bill proposed,
to reduce them to ten hours a day. (Hear, hear.) In
committee he should vote for an eleven hours clause,
which he thought preferable to ten hours.
The SPEAKER having left the chair, the house resolved

agreed to, clause
labour to 10 after the expiration of one yea!
Lord MORPETH could not consent to limit the hours of
labour more than one hour a day, and if that were not
consented to, he should move that the clause be expunged
from the bill.

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Some discussion ensued, after which the house divided,

lien there a

Against it

Majority

of the division was received with loud cheer,

resumed amidst continued cheering
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The report wa

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house adjournec