§ Lord Ashleywished to hear from the right hon. Baronet at the head of the Home Department, 223 whether Government intended to introduce a bill this year for altering and amending the act relative to mills and factories.
§ Sir J. Grahamsaid, it was not the intention of Government to introduce such a measure this Session. [Lord Ashley: " Hear."] He understood the cheer of his noble Friend. It was true that he (Sir J. Graham) had informed his noble Friend in private, that it had been the intention of Government to introduce such a bill; but, considering the advanced stage of the Session, the state in which public business now stood, and the thin attendance of Members, he did not think himself bound by any pledge given in private.