THE NEWSPAPER. 
ty y p pow a charge th being | for whom he had formerly implored its protec » hecould not | —Sir J. Grauam, although 
sel a ugh, he el alarm the 7 Be of a per- | hope to attract its attention by an i of ‘statement or rs 3 ing i n the discharge of his Mi havin, 
m: smposition ofthe | Vaese ts, Ser ale eee poate children were ged employed in the/ o public’ Servant anda a £ is Ministerial duties ums 
À prety mdi K WARBURTON intimated h is o co parts of his 3 position om addressin 
felt the aby or 
w 
d only clai e interference of Parliament for childre en 
past 13 years, a that was the age under which children we 
s pnas ma; jority * them sare in a very depl i 
its power and range of collier ad ba t l En at the stat E might say, detestable condition The nominal aoe. Sa 
and condition of the agricultu ‘ountry for the ork were ia Lancashire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire 12 hou: 
prm = gem on “that its rolik ake materially de- ae Dari Fhe: set tay of = Bho Page 12 to 16 ax 
hat period, and seeing, moreover, | ande ig ork a these young children was 
y year 
‘Gat wn Pacha attributed that e ikasa mainly to the mea- pos eh = ‘that i in Aat p ascia aye it was not carried on 
sures that had been brought forward by the right hon. baronet | it was considered as an exception from the general practice. 
in respect to them—seeing and feeling all this, bs we Sh corea west dex oa oo ra the children, sua perscdioriy | es 
it a very extraordinary pee cumstance that not alone sho uld n: children, fro | opportunities of educat ion. 
A 
Gigson said he should v with Mr. Roebuc —Mr. Mi val fro pag Ba nyk fsh ss ptt sh Soi hei and 
objected to the pereanence of the Income- = although he eae: placate pEr t arts — which “Gas could ip after | no warrant could be issued 
sega that Sir ae ‘Peel had introduced it for beg gm kia Ke promote the comforts and economise the earnings of | of the two Under Sec nfidential s clerk, a 
e very thei g i ble 
i eq the i io 
lieve agriculture from any part of its burdens. He could css a causes gar Sutras and ae among the ae pe clases, Ought | statement a ve — of Lords, 
the right hon. baronet for the repeal of the malt tax, bec: they to allow it to continu witho ut m Deb attempt to | zini had n i 
the surplus would not allow the right hon. baronet to ese eer it? pee first parame pr T rii make 
that tax, and even if it would, he would not ‘ask that the whole | to the Hou e was, the total abolition of night work for = 
relief from taxation should be given tothe agricultural interest. pathic of cai age, and for allof bons nis under 13 year: whiel 
But when taxes to the amount of 3,400,000/. were taken off, he | of age. He showed, upon the eviden veral AES aa name: 
n 
affording them a penny of relief. He was not of that kind of | tion of the hours of labour for children under of age, | light; the que: 
spirit which would tamely submit to every dictate of a Minister | the preposition: ‘which he had to eke i rods oe aaa after repeal the statute of “ABMS; which 
—and, if he stood alone, at a future period in the discussion of | the Ist of October, 1846—which would allow nearly two years | letters to the Home Secretary, 
d bers 1d r | migh 
ost o ad bee. ned to advo 
oa certain principles, a an Lo of stating ta eo country days in the week, or pope grer 12 hours a day for alternate 
nts eek fu i nformit 
tration was a to b aade. agriculture should should | with the provisions of the Factory Act, two hours uld b 
not be benefite re it, as well j afi e t aside each for the edu f h i 
commerce. He begged therefore to suggest to the right hon. | hours for six daysin the week, and rs on alternat: 
baron: hat if the | e-t nued, it would | we uno wh hasr a 2 a vast tres gaye, a pae miek: 
be bu t gi ict justice e tenant of lan a los s to 
he e a | hand. H 
speech which he had made two or three evenings before. He | nothing but defeat. He would re riot paT all the labou: 
had the firmest conviction that if the agricultural interest would | and all the paqur to vE he might be Borg casi na Re Gould 
agree to the continuance of the Income-tax, and to take,their | only hope ulti y for success. He called upon tate to 
pr i 
r AME 
House determi proceed at al 
bourer would derive from the repeal of the ry uty on cotton wool Sagitating abate in manufactories, nothing c could be more 7 n of 
in the diminished price of his clothing, and which the fi moderate than Lord Ashley’s proposal. But it would be impos- impugned, experi 
would findin the ease of transferring his property, from the a sible to stop here, ae Stee he had great hesitation i in con- it. t was a committee ob pet Sa and of 
peal of the auction duty, which, though Lord J. Russell | senting to the introdu of the Bill, Considering, however, 
thought it of little value, appeared a very injudicious tax to his | the ATO of the F proposat, he r er ot Sage res $e hrir 
gue, Sir i withh i ved t 
eser 
uisi » and that cou! 
was somewhat surprised at the compliment which the noble | leave was given to bring in the Bill.—Mr. = Duncomge then 
Lord hi id him in statin, 
m su 
portof his vote if a division were pressed against it. Certainty, the report of the secret committee on the opening and detaining 
if he were in his place, he would find the five millions and a | of letters.’ He had objected to the constitution and secrecy 
ci comfortable addi ich he had him: n ex ; 
which the Income-tax produ i t i 
tion to the ordinary sources of revenue. The tax was really | and all his allegations had not only been left uncontradicted, 
not more unequal than other imposts; its continuance was a | but the report woe Pops? the ese rsa that the committee 
guarantee for the safe conduct of an experiment which, ifsuc- | had been Megha o go into a n room in order to ex- 
cessful, would be of great benefit to the whole community. If | plain nothing, and mpi ever: ving: The report was ful! 
hehad his own way, he would have peronea the re- -imposition and explicit respecting the practices of early days, and the 
of the tax for five years, in order to give full time for the ex- | perusa! of ae first portion of it would create an impression that 
periment ; but looking tothe fouled of population, and the | when it came down to modern times it would be exceedingly 
rapid extension of oo per pola he raene of oy teresting; ‘but the cotamittes? s ardour of research evaporated 
ca; b io’ 
rth, he hada ine ectation th ee 
years would suffice to e then Gata to ae rid. of it then or the tracing of the ips gio aA letter opening warrants. It had 
to make further experimen At all events, the public credit | been stated that the t letter apartment of the Post- 
must be maintained, The o of duties on raw materials and | office had ‘been cloned 5 but ‘he er rica pan as the lawyers 
u by the i that had bee: ed, the 
peal 
ous ened 
. Y marked ir R. Peel by a he 
his reductions only left himself a surplus of 90,0007., while nearly | Mr. Mazzini’s letters had been opened, for the inspection of per- ended th 
a million ted from sugar i i = api a ome prior to we time tee it ond sta a a general reing os the. ae interrogator wh 
at which it | he as tha! 
r (0) 
~ ae = : H in the as e though ee a 
Smuggling, as tobacco, foreign spirits, &c., also presented a | the Commons’ Reports; and the fact, impeaching the honour e been public, 
field for financial operations ; or Sir R, Peel might have dealt | and character of England, implicated our Government, in hav- | vis he evidenge which it took s' 
vantage mmunity.— nfes t 
n > i wii and, an 
was intended, by the Reform Bill, to give a prepond inginte- | against lending themselves to the tyranny O i S bie Aye 
rest to the agricultural bod w mit i mes La the jaa iie: siti of Mr, 
t rat before it spaa Be forthwith à 
s ULLER $a ro: f Sir J. Gra 
of the Income-tax growing fainter with every speech | constituency which he represented; for if his correspondence | State. In 1745 this po any whi 
bench. — —_ talk sense about their | were not to be free, he was unworthy the position he neld. inanaiy to ‘civil liberty as se was party to to 
rodnced it; and let the | Se en ren Secretary, = mean and base enough to do this, sessed. Lia 837 the nising the exis 
u: 
isled as | by ombe i 
If by their vote that night | to Sir J. Grah: pacity, and to them 
Ym: 
they affirmed it, it was their business to devise means of mi oe he must and eel adhere" After Bonai the opinions | a pow 
pa injustice and inequality. On a division, whee © S Copeia ei nai to the Committee on the nature | a Reeling o of cowardice, 
Beared—for Mr. Roebuck’s amendment, 55; against it, 263 5 | OF expedien f the practice, he concluded by contending | either of external atts 
> 208. pa t he ian fine’ out a case for the appointment of a se- | tl opposite ha 
Lord Asm.ey moved for leave to bring in a Bill to | lect committee, which ~ — = ee secret committee idea 
the labour of children in the calico printworks vrs og A might be referred, with a ample and search- 
As the children for whose protection he ing inguiry in the caidas petem piir letters 
e Honse were in a utatia have been detained, opened, and e re-sealed at the general Parliament to 
childrenin the factories | 0r any provincial post-office, since the Ist of January, 1840, prorogation of ; 
