The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-16 00:00:00

SUGAR REFINERY BILL.

After a few words from Lord AUCKLAND, Viscount ST. VIN-
CENT, and the Duke of WELLINGTON, this bill passed through
a committee, and the report was ordered to be received to-
morrow.

The other bills on the table were respectively forwarded a
stage.
SEPARATISTS' AFFIRMATION BILL.

On the motion of Lord GOSFORD, their lordships went into
committee upon this bill, and a conversation ensued, in whirl'
Lord WYNFORD, Lord PLUNKETT, the Bishop of 'lnns:Yam),
Lord SUFFIELD, the Earl of IlAßeoway, and the Marquis of
WESTMEATH, took part.
The bill then went through committee, and the report was
ordered to be received on Wednesday next.

The Duke of WELLIZT01:1;111-TliCIaii of ABERDEEN pre-
sented petitions against the Scotch Burgh Bill.
ROYAL BURGHS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading of this
bill, which had been passed by the Commons for the purpose of
effecting a great, and in the opinion of the people of Scotland a
salutary and necessary, improvement in the constitution of the
burghs of Scotland.
The Earl of HADDINGTON moved as an amendment—" That
the bill be read a second time on that day six mouths."
The Marquis of BUTE was opposed to the bill, for he thought
that the enactments of the bill did not bear out the preamble,
which professed to restore the ancient constitution of the Scotch
burghs. It was quite true that in England burgesses were cre-
ated. for Parliamentary and electioneering purposes, but in
Scotland no such persons as Parliamentary freemen were to be
found; the rights of the Scotch burgesses were derived from
the property they really possessed, and their claims to the right
of voting were far better than those of the electors of England
and Ireland. He wished, therefore, that in Scotland burgesses
upon that footing should continue to be those who held the
right to vote fur the town council, and other members of the
corporations.
'I he Loan CHANCELLOR said that he had wished to have
saved their lordships from any further delay, but he could not
allow the house to go to the question at once without making
one or two observations on what had fallen particularly from
the noble lord who had last spoken. The gross mismanagement
of burgh property in many instances had led to this measure' •
instead of the burgesses having any control in the matter, the
whole management was in the hands of the councils, with the
choice of which the burgesses had little or nothing to do. It
was therefore the greatest possible abuse of language to say that
this bill deprived them of any advantage or interest for the
purpose of vesting it in the £lO householders; especially. when
it was considered that the burgesses had no interest in the
business, nor had enjoyed any for the last four centuries, during
which period every thing depended on the will of the councils.
The noble and learned lord proceeded to observe that the only
object of the bill being to prevent self-election, all that was
necessary, and all that the bill undertook to do, was to provide
a substitute for self-election.

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After a few words from the Earl of fIADDINGTON, in expla-
nation, the bill was read a second time, without a division, and
fixed for committee on Thursday.

EAST INDIA BILL.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE reminded their lordships that
this bill had been fixed for the third reading to-morrow, in order
to give the East India Company an opportunity in the interval
of considering it in the shape in which it had come out of their
lordships' committee. The result of that consideration was, that
the Court of Directors had, by a very large majority, agreed to
recommend the Court of Proprietors to adopt the bill; and the
Court of Proprietors had also by a large majority expressed their
readiness to comply with that recommendation, but a ballot hav-
ing been demanded by nine proprietors, according to the by-laws
of the company, the formal assent of that body to the bill had
not yet been obtained, though there could be no doubt that the
opinion of the directors and proprietors generally was in favour
of the measure. Under these circumstances, and thinking it
desirable to have the company's assent in a formal shape before
the passing oftlie bill, he should propose that the third reading
should be postponed until Friday next—Agreed to.
Adjourned at a quarter past eleven o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13.
The gallery was opened at the usual hour.
FACTORIES' REGULATION BILL. . _

On the motion of Lord ALTHOttP the house resolved itself into
committee on the further consideration of this bill.

On clause 8 being put, which enacts that the employmentof
children under 11, 12, and 13 years of age, for more than- eight
hours a day, shall be prohibited,
Mr. G. W. Woon moved an amendment, to the effect that at
the expiration of six months after the passing of the act, no
child under eleven years of age should be permitted to work
more than eight hours a day; that no child under the age of
twelve years should be permitted, after the expiration of eighteen
months from the passing of the bill, to work for more than eight
hours a day; and that after the expiration of two years from the
passing of the bill, no child under the age of thirteen should be
permitted to work more than eight hours a day. The object of
this amendment would be to make the operation of the bill more
gradual.
On the question of postponing the operation of the clause, as
affecting children of twelve years of age for eighteen months,
Lord A LTHORP proposed the adoption of twelve months in-
stead of eighteen.
After a short, discussion the house divided :
For Mr. Wood's amendment
Against it 23

Majority ll
The third proposition was then agreed to, and the clause as
amended ordered to stand part of the bill.
The several clauses from 9 to 14 were then, with a few verbal
amendments, agreed to.
The Chairman then reported progress, and obtained leave to
sit again.—Adjourned at three &chick.

The Speaker resumed the chair at five o'clock.
Earl GROSVENOR presented a petition from the silk-manufac-
turers in different parts of the kingdom, praying that no reduc-
tion may take place on the importation duty on foreign silk.
After a few words from an hon. member, the petition was laid
on the table.
Colonel Evers wished to ask the Solicitor-General whether
the circumstances which he was about to mention were legal or
not. An individual had been committed to the House of Cor-
rection for non-payment of a penalty of '£2o for selling penny
publications. Since he had been committed to prison his hair
had been cut off, he had been placed in the prison dress, he
had been compelled to live on the prison diet, although his
friends, who knew he was labouring under illness, -had offered

to provide him with more beneficial aliment, and he had beet
.co..yetteu to neru :vita telons, and, what was worse, with MO
ih,:rsous accused of unnatural offences. lie wished to know
whether this treatment was sanctioned by the law of England?
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, that if his prisoner had only.
,sold a penny publication, this treatment was undoubtedly Lie-
gal; but if the penny publication had been a newspaper, it
required a stamp; anti if it were unstamped, the prisoner had
rendered himself liable to the payment of a penalty of £2O, and
to imprisonment if he could nut pay it. He was, therefore,
liable to the prison discipline. But, as to the cutting off his
hair, and the other excesses which had been mentioned in aggra-
vation, he believed that they were wholly unwarranted by law,
and he heard with regret that they had taken place in any part
of the kingdom.