§ Mr. P. Moorerose, pursuant to notice, to call the attention of the house to this subject. The evidence to which his motion would refer, bad now lain before the house for a considerable time, without any report being made upon it, and this could nut be considered, by any means, fair towards any of the parties concerned, but particularly towards the petitioners, who had been for many years applying to parliament for redress. Their case was of such a nature as to call for a satisfactory decision, and he felt encouraged to persevere in his exertions to obtain it, from the result of the investigation respecting the woollen manufactures, which the house had heard to-day, and which he had never relaxed his endeavours to produce. While the parties, in that case, were left in suspense, the determination of their business being long postponed, great distress prevailed among them; and such must naturally be expected to arise among the parties in this instance also, it the house declined much longer to decide upon the object of their application. He did not mean to propose taut the house should come to a final decision upon the subject, in the course of the present session, but merely to refer it to a committee, who would not, he ventured to state, require more than one hour's deliberation to determine upon it, in such a way as should satisfy the parties, and form the basis of a legislative arrangement, which be pledged himself to bring forward early in the next session.
Colonel Stanleywas glad to understand hat it was not the hon. gent.'s intention to propose any legislative provision in the course of the present session, as the attendance was so thin from the Northern part of the country, to which his business was so particularly interesting.—The mo- 1015 tion was agreed to, and a committee appointed to sit to-morrow.