The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-24 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS._FRIDAY.

Lord SA-;D—ONpr;!sented petitions from the C;poration of
Liverpool, against certain clauses in the Imprisonment for
Debt Bill; also, from the Bolton and Leeds Railway Coin-
pans", against. the Mails on IL:lwilys
The Prisons Bill was read the thii.i L in :e ata,l passed.

Sir J. ataitassin4Uired whether t!;:: 12,v,..rnneut had de-
termined what course it would pursue respectiug the " East
India Labourers (Hill Coolies) Bill?"
Sir a GREY answered that it was intended to discharge
the order for further proceeding to issue, in conjunction with
the India government, a regulation prohibiting such engage-
ments with labourers in the East as contemplated emigration
to the West Indies; to render invalid contracts that were
not to be fulfilled within the limits of the places where they
were formed; and, generally, to prevent such contracts as
could not be fully understood by both parties, and having
the sanction of magistrates or other local authorities.
Mr. O'CoNNELL asked whether the government had seen
a bill passed by the assembly of St. Vincent's for preventing
combinations, settling disputes between masters and work-
men, which appeared to trench on the rights of the
negroes; and if so, whether such bill was likely to receive
the sanction of the government ?
Sir G. GREY answered that he had seen it, although it had
only just arrived ; but that judging from what he had ob-
served of it, he doubted whether it was a measure of which
the goverument ought to approve. He added (in answer to
Mr. Maclean's inquiry) that the authority of the special ma-
tristrates would cease with the act creating them; but in re-
ference to the next state of things that might arise, if the ex-
pectation that the negro apprenticeship system would cease
this year were realised, the government contemplated ar-
ranging a plan by which some of them should be retained
until a system of stipendiary magistracy could be formed and
established.

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the law ;acting tha regulation of the !wbour of cui;then
factories having been found imperfect and ineffective tc
purpose for which it was passed, has been suffered to coAtinue
so long without any amendment." In support of tbis ma-
. tioc.,it tsiii be seen that his lordship entered into extensive,
interesting, aLa itenrtlisiiie details of the treatment and
condition .-)f the childttat euxuatjat, :flowing how
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children having now to walk in attending the working of the
mills 25 and 30 miles a day, whereas the average used to be
81 miles per day; that mortality had frightfully increased;
and that, in fact, the law was most defective.
Mr: Fox MArLE stated that the government would intro-
duce a bill next session on the subject, but it would be simi-
lar to that introduced before by the government.
There was an extended .discussion on this subject, after
which the house divided on the motion for going into com-
mittee of supply, which motion was carried by a majority of
15; there being in favour of it, 121; against, 106.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned at a quarter-past one o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-SATURDAY.

The Speaker took the chair to-day at 12 o'clock.
Sir IV. FOLLETT presented a petition from residents in
Canada, praying for the protection of the Established Church
in that colony.
Petitions against the Mails on Railways Bill were present-
ed by Mr. M. PHILLIPS and Lord EI;STON.
On the motion of Mr. R. STUART, the Land Tax Redemp-
tion Bill was read a third time and passed.

The Spirit Licenses (Ireland) Bill was read a second time
and ordered to be committed on Monday.

Mr. It. STUART moved the second reading of the Gibraltar
Lighthouse Bill.
After a short-discussion, as there appeared some objection
to the bill, the bon. member postponed the second reading
until Monday:
On the motion of Mr. P. MAULE, the report of the Com-
mittee on the Parliamentary Burghs (Scotland) Bill was fur-
ther considered and agreed to, and the bill ordered to be en-
grossed.