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he secon,

of the bill; and he regretted that he
present a great number of petitions,
been entrusted from Huddersfield, in favour of it

Seen too

OUNCOMBE believe(

nufacturers and the operatives were tired of the agitation
of the question, and, if that were so, he could not but
regret that the government had not come forward' to
nd finally. Believil

le the questiori at once

the bill wi)
-the people,

e to the moral improvement of
he would cordially vote for the second reading.

Altei some further debale, interrupted by cries of
" Divide," in which Sir R. Peel declared that he should
vote against the second reading, and Lord G. Bentinck
in its favour, the house divided, and the second reading

Lord BEAUMONT having briefly related the events
which followed the surrender of the Castle of Torres Ve-
dras on the condition of being treated with all the, ho-
nours of War, and the shameful act of the Portuguese Go-
vernment in placing forty or fifty of the captured officers
on board a brig with the intention of transporting them
to a penal settlement on the coast of Africa, asked if our
Governinent had received any communications on the
subject, and if they had done anything to obtain a re-
versal of the Portuguese decree.

The Marquis of-LANsnoi,vNE admitted the fact, and
deeply regretted that the Portuguese Government ha
resolved to use men who hae

surrenc

lonours of war

coula be done had been done. The moment the British
Charge-d'Affaires had heard of the decree, he presented a
representation to the Court of Lisbon ; and the Belgian
and French Ministers respeetiveli

i actin;

separately

th strict neutrality; circumstances
h as the presence of Don Miguel, or of
with the object of placing him on the
hit+ might give rise to the question how far ex-

might arise, st
persons actin
thron

isting treaties would warrant our interference.
The Earl of ABERDEEN remarked that this Government
should be particularly cautious, because it had somehow,
whetherrightly or wrongly, obtained circulation that Ulf
ion had tl
The for

wishes of the

British Governn

id in the Tagus
We tool

sufficient to overawe the entire kingdom
perhaps, too active part in placing the Queen of Portuga
on her- hrone, and we ought now to, give at let
support to her Majesty as would show th
of the insurrection

)provec

gus was ther

for ; btit he could

the Queen of

Portiigalwould have met Don Miguel in London

Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Liverpool
on the state of the criminal law, especially with respect to

juvenile. am

elaborae speech, into the statistics of crime in this and
other countries, and called on the house, if the
with him and the petitioners in their sense of the infinite
importicrice of the subject, and thought that the time wa;
come when even they ought to apply themselves in good
earnest to the amendment of the criminal law, and more
especially of the laws relating to prison discipline, to be
prepared for a proposition which at a future time he should
submit 'to them, and at a very early day to comply with
the prayer of the ""

agreed

After' some observations from the Duke of RICHMOND
and Earl GREY, some other business was disposed of, and
their lordships adjourned. _

- -
HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH asked whether her Ma-
sty's' Ministers would produce copies of a correspon-

India and the promoters of railways in ticat portion of
her Majesty's dominions, on the subject of advances
by way of loan, for carrying out such projects. The noble
Earl also complained that the people of India had to pay
five per, cent. for money, when it could be raised in Eng-
land fvr the purposes of Government at three-and-ahalf.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said there would be no
objectisn to produce the cprrespondence when complete.
Conditions had, been suggested by the Government, on
which certain advances might be made on account of rail-
ways to 'be constructed in India, but up to the present
time they had not been accepted.

Lord ACHBITRTON renewed his motion for various re-
turns relatiye to the capital embarked in railways, and of
the investments of the bank of England in bonds, deben-
tures, pr other securities of railway companies.

The Earl of CLARENDON objected to the latter return,
on the ground that it would establish a precedent, by
which the bank might be hereafter compelled to disclose
to the' public the names of those parties to whom they
had giygn credit.

Lora- ASHBURTON was willing to substitute for the re-
turn objected to by the noble earl, one to the effect of an
account of public securities held by the' bank, his only
object being to enable Parliament to see what had been
the cause of the movement in the money market, and the
extent to which, the agency of the bank had been used in
ies. He begged it to be
cast no reflection upon the
lid. that no body of men

reference to railway-s,
clearly understood, tha
bank directors, believint

could be more honourable in their transactions.-
On :the order of the day for going into committee
on the Sugar in Breweries and Distilleries Bills, a discus-
sion of seme length ensued, Lord STANLEY proposing, as
an amendment, that the Distilleries Bill be referred to a
select committee up stairs; upon which —"-- iivision

motion a c
took place, when there appeared, for the original motion,
contents, 35 ; non-contents, 27: majority, B,—and the
bills then went through committee without further oppo.
sition:

HOUSE OF COMMONS
The City of London Small Pebts Bill WEIS read a second
time. _

7FRIDAV

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