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Lord ASHLEY presented a vast number of petitions from places in England and Scotland in favour of the Factory Bill some of them signed by 30,000 individuals. ?Mr. S. RICE brought in a bill for the continuance of the composition for assessed eaxes, which was read a first time and ordered to be read a second time on Monday.Mr. S. RICE brought up the Bank of England Charter Bill, which was read a first time.Mr. H'ARDIE presented a petition from Yorkshire signed by 100,000 individuals, praying the house to reject the report of the Factory Commission whatever it might be, because of the unconstitutional manner they had adopted in collecting the evidence.FACTORIES RILL.Upon the qnestion that the house go into a committee upon this bill,The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that in addressing the house, he would beg to draw their attention to the situation in which this measure now stood, and he would suggest wbat appeared to him the most reasonable course to be pursued in order to arrive at the end of passing such a measure during the present session as would satisfy all parties. In the first instance, from the delay which had occurred, and for which he was not able to account, the large reports upon this subject were not yet in the hands of hon. members, and lie thought that the house having agreed to place the subject in the hands of the commissioners, it would be inconsistent for them now to proceed to legislate at once, even without having time to examine what these commissioners recommended, exclusive of the vast mass of evidence which could not be looked through. A committee of the whole house upon such a measure as this, and involving such a mass of details, was not the mode in which he thought they could come to a satisfactory conclusion. It appeared to him that no course would be so advisable, or tend so much to a proper arrangement, as the referring the bill to a select committee up stairs, acting under instruc-tlOlK frnTll tLn TJn rnn 1A iiAf Knf inn 1 onnroLan
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London St James Chronicle and General Evening Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Jul 04, 1833
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