The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS

In answer to Lord G. Bent

tj esty' s gc

mg been imposed upon emigrant
islatures in America

k. Viscount PALMERSTO:
hadan official in

tenthadr

in referen

was, that it had

by any of the St-
Nvas know_
been under cons.- in the United State,
The adjourned debate on Cracow was then
but terminated in the withdrawal of the resolutions,
HureE remarking that his triumph was already comple,
of Lord G. Bentinck and Mr
ase reprobated the conduct of the
Both throughout the country and in the
, with the exceptions just named, but one
sentiment of reprobation entertained. He could not un-
derstand the motives which actuated those two honoura-
ble gentlemen, unless they were determined to pay a- visit
to the continent on therising of parliament, and were pre-
paring for themselves a good reception in Vienna and St.
Petersburg.
The other business was unimportant.

li, the whole l

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Three Powers
house there was

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
After the: presentation of a large number of petitions in
a __ .

far ay ...aa •, J. lUltIC:11 a ten II ourb ractory 11,111, tnc
•rder of the day was read for going into committee on the

measure.
Mr. DENISTOUN said he could not consent to the house

going into

measure

be postponed until after Easter.
Lord Jonx 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,
and therefore its details and alterations would be best dis-
cussed with the speaker in the chair.
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

remained quiet, which he (Mr. Bright) much 'regretted
it was only due to the house and the country to know the
h actuated the noble lord in the course he

reasons

was pursuing

Lord Jonii itussELL 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 measures (Hear,
hear.) He thought it right, when he came into office, to
leave the subject an open one, to be decided by the house,
and not to be made a question for the consideration of the
cabinet. He thought by so doing the bill would be bet-

not see what objection there could be to limit the hou

ley coul

with safety be
reduced to ten was an important question, and would re-
quire full consideration of the committee. Messrs. Mar-
ahall, 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
one, and after the best consideration he could give it he
was of opinion it would be better and wiser to limit the
tours 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.

vacsuoc a I.:tying UCLA
agreed to, clause 2 was read, which limits the hours of
labour to 10 after the expiration of one year.

Lord MORPETH could not consent to limit the hours of
labour more than one hour a day, and if that were not
fonsented to, he should move that the clause be expunged
from the bill.

Some discussion ensued, after which the house divided
when there appeared—
_ _

Against it

Fours' clause

Majority
the result of the division was received with loud cheers.
The remaining clauses were then agreed to, and the house
resumed amidst continued cheering. The report was
ordered to be brought up on the 21st of April and the
house adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY stated tha

;ommittee of subscribers to the Wellington statue were
ietermined, if compelled to remove that work of art from
its present position, solely to place it on the ground at the

bottom of the arch, and then to leave the mius of its dis-
posal on the Government.
The Earl of CLARENDON presented a petition praying
for a repeal of the law prohibiting marriage with a de-
ceased's wife's sister.

Lord CAMPBELL declared his intention of opposing the
petition.

Several bills received the Royal assent, and their Lord-
ships adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. W. S. 'O'BRIEN, in moving a resolution, attributing
the evils of Ireland to the non-residence of a portion of
its landowners, and calling for a special assessment for
local purposes, upon the estates of such landowners, en-
tered into a statement amount of the amount of rents
withdrawn from the country, which he calculated
at £4,000,000, or nearly one-third of the entire rental.
His proposal was, that 10 per cent, should be the mi-
nimum absentee tax, to be expended upon the education
of the people, the maintenance of the poor, and other
similar purposes, with a power of increasing the impost
when 10 per cent. was found insufficient.
Mr. TAITE seconded the motion, and complained that
the great companies of London, had shewn themselves
Llestitute of all charitable feeling. _ _

Mr. AliderlanThuniin- nEy observed that, if notice had

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vaav-
London Companies, he would have been prepared to show
how very fallacious these charges were. Those compa-
nies had large possessions in the north of Ireland, and
spent, not one-tenth, but four-fifths of their rents in im-
proving those estates, and in providing for the moral and
religious instruction of the population residing upon them.

The Irish Society, of which he was chai;ma-n, had a
rental of £10,,,09,0 a yeas in the county of Londonderry,

the bililding or

inhabitant
£7,000 a Y

pairing of churches and chapels for the
He belonged to a company which had
in the neighbourhood of Coleraine ; and in
.11 the money which

rasa Len receivea
in London did not exceed £3,000, the rest having
been spent in the improvement of their estates in Ire-
land. If a tax of £lO or £2O per cent. were imposed on
those companies as absentee proprietors, they would pay
that tax, and draw all the reo of their Income to Lon.