The Express. — London, England, 1848-03-17 00:00:00

. •1 :, 2 Bunion, March 16.-There has been no aerial ot foreign Ireland visas last report, and the supply coastwise sad from Ireland only 607 sacks of Flour, 1,218 qrs. Barley, 1,092 qrs. of Ostamay be calla very light. But our farmers' deliveries have been more than sufficient for the trade, and sales of as Oats , well as any damp samples of Wheat, have is not been very settled ; difficult. The weather has improved, but vowing Wheats, winter Tares, and Beane are very forward, the ground well covered, with an unusual breadth sown; spring sowing, sad preparation of the land can now progress on light soils, and but little injury from late wet weather is to he remarked in this country on :he heavy soils. At to- day's market there was a large supply of farmers' Wheat, I much of which was. damp; the well-conditinned lots fetched bat week's prices, 4lis. to 5 . . h. qr., and the factors ad vanced prices of good foreign Wheat Is. to 2s. per qr,. but the tale made was only retail. On Tuesday considerable sales of good Polish Odeua Wheat were understood to ham been made at 50s. per 4801b5., or last week's p!ioe. Meidaa Bartel eeleible at 32.: to 364. pet 40 01 . bi ; gtmaieft, 264. te 1 Ss. Black Oats, 181. to 200. per qr. ;. white, 19s. to 225. with more retail demand. Flour rename very dull, at 365. to 395. per saek for good seconds. Devizes, March 10.-Our market to-day was again de supply, of the readilyseller. Wheat an was in rather short s and sold very at an advance of from Is. to.2s. a gr. ; almost everything being quickly cleared off. The sup ply of Barley was Also limited ; the demand was good, and a brisk pale was effected at from Is. to 2.. a qr. above the prices of tut. In Oat+, Beans, and Peal, there was little or no a s to note. Wheat, white, per quarter, 544. to 570, ; hest red, 525. to 565.; middling, 444. to 62e. ; inferior, 40s. to 435. Barley, 26.. to 38s. Oats. 21s. to 265. Beans, old, 425. to 604. • new, 40e. to 46e. Pees, 36.. to 46.. Flour, fine, per melt 41e. to 450.; snoods, 374. to 404. FARNHAM, March 16. -We had a very limhed supply of Wheat ; trade firm, and fine ample' realized from Is. to 24. per qr over over the rates last week. Fine malting Barley from Is. fie 24 per qr. dearer. Wheat troll 111. 10s. to 142. 10s. per load. Barley. 30a. to 345. per qr. Oats, 20s. to 264. Peas, 365. to 425. Beans, 381. to 445. Osnietioeocee, March 13.-This market was well sap plied to-day, and the samples were in better condition than for some weeks past. White Wheat, in good condition, sold at an advance of 2e. per quarter ; red, Is. Barley re mains unaltered. GODALMINO, March 15.-There was a moderate supply of Wheat at this market to day, and, from the required advance of Is per qr. not being readily obtained, hut little changed hands. Red Wheat, 445. to 48s. ; fine, 495. t o 320 50, Peas, ; white, I,os. to 665. ; fine, 5 8 .. to 625. Barley, 265. a. 365. to 400. Oats, 20s. to Me. HITCH!' March 16.-The dampness of the weather mused the ' Wheat and Barley market to be dearer from Is. to 2a. per toed and quarter for the best dry qualities ; inferior sorts the same as last week. Other descriptions of grain a very dull trade, LOUTH, March 15.-We had a good business market for Corn to-day. Well-conditioned Wheats were 2s, per qr. higher. Beans and Barley firm, at former votations. Oats. Is. to 2s. dearer. Wheat, 465. to Ms. Barley. 28s. to 30s. Oats, 18s. to 21.. Beans, 42t. to 455. per quarter. Seconds Flour, 2a. per stelae. MAU/SION", March 16.-This day OUT market was very dull for all grain, not exception Wheat. Farmers asked fou 44. per qr. more than last week and were very independent about selling, so that trade clo;ed heavily. Lent corn was at a stand. A little inquiry for seed is springing up. MANNINOTREE, March 16.-We had a short supply of ' Wheat and Barley at our market to.day, b - ith articles fully support ia , t week's prices. Beaus and Peas rem ain with entail, alteration from last week. Wheat. red, from 46e. to 50s. per qr.; white, fols. to 68s. Beans, 30e. to Ms. ; old, 364. to 38s. Peas, 330. to 355. Barley, malting, 295. to 325.; grinding. 264. to 295. MARKET listen, March 14.-The business to-day was rather brisker than last week. Wheat and Barley were a little better to sell, at last week's quotations. Wheat, 445. to 535. Barley, '2ss. to 30s. Oats, lbs. to 19s. Beans, 40s. to 445. per qr. MTLTON MOWBRAY, March 14.-We have had a abort supply of Wheat offering at this market which sold at Is. to 7.4.. per qr. dearer. Other anklet unaltered. Wheat, old, 1,64. to Mc ; new, Ms. to 665. Barley, 30s. to 335. Oats, ale% 33a. to 354. ; new, 22e. to 28s. Beans, old, 555. to 60s. ; new, 40e. to 455. per qr. Rawer ite, March 16.-Oar supply of Wheat was the smallest we have had for some time, which caused a brisk trade, at an advance of 2s. per qr. The same remarks may be applied to Barley, at an advance of 1.. per qr. More doing is Oats; but Beans and Peas remain stationary. Averages to the llth March, 1848:-702 qrs. Wheat, at 50s. ; 493 Bar ley, 325. ; 94 Oats, 18s. 7d.; 18 Beans. 38.4. 4d. PLIMOTIM, Marsh 16.-The Wheat trade was good this adenine, and some sales were made at Is advance on Tuesday's prices ; but many millers h e to pay at the ad vance. The weather is cold and unsettled. P,OMSBY, March 16.--Wheat was Bald readily, at an ad vance of from 10. to 15s. per load for the bet s more and 6s. for inferior. Barley freely, at samp le sbthAu.the current prices of last week. Of Oats, the good samples, fit for wed, sold readily at last week's prices. Beans an 4 Peas bad many putchmers, yet such could not sell at higher figures. ROYSTON, March 16.-The Corn trade to-day mounted a firmer tone. Wheat, 24. per load dearer. Flour, 2d. per peek hi g h e r. Barley hilly Is. dearer. Wheat, per load, 28e. to 365. 6d. Barley, 275. to 35e. Oata, 1 7e. to 26e. SMEYFIELD, March 14.-A small supply of Wheat, which net a dull sale, at from 3d. to 6d. advance. Barley, Is. lower. Other andel as before. Wheat, white, 20s. to 225. ; red, 18e. to 21e. Rye, 15s. to 17s. Beans, new, 15s. to 175.; old, 190. to 225. Peas, 15s. to 21s. per 'hree bushel.. Bar ley, Malting, 33e. to 345. ; grinding, 31s. to 331. Oats, 20s. toAe. learnt. to, per Savicananson, March 16. - Wheat mold freey ; ne heavy white made 141. 15e. per load; red, weighing 611 fi ba. per bushel, 141. ; moderate, 131. to 131. 10s. Barley wee sold readily, at from Ns. to 345. per qr. Baum sold briskly, at 445. to 475. Peas, white, 46a. ; gtey, to 435. Oate, Mai to 28s. Brocatox-ox•Tane, March 15.-We have good arriv.Aa of - Wheat coastwise. This morning we had a liberal supply of _grain from the farmers. Wheat met a good sale at the full rates of this day week. Barley in fair demand. Oats were in better demand, at about former prices. Beene and Peas dull sale. Flour without change. The following are the curreat prices: Wheat, per qr., of 6314 e. to the bushel, south country, red, 53e. to 64a.; mixed, 545. to 555. ; white, Mg. to 58s. ; old, red, 815. to 53a. ; lithe, 545. to 56e. ; Bathe= and Yorkshire, red, 48e. to 641. ; white, 52a. to Ms. ; Dantric, Stettin , an d Honigebirrg, 54e. to 68s. ; Mecklenburg and Pomeranian, 53e. to 565.; Holstein Danish, and Hamburg, 52e7 to 56i. Flour, fine, per sack of 11801 11 ., 37 , 5.; extra, 38e. ; superfine,4le. Eye Meal, Si. 15s pat ton. Barley, msltisg , 335 . to 345. Oats, feed, per qr., 21s. tie Us. • potato, 24a. to 2 6 e.; foreign , 20c to 235. Beans, sow, 36a. to 405. Peas, boilers, 42e. to 44e. Imports during We past week Wheat, coastwise, 1,605 qrs.; foreign, 346. cinalnon, March 16.-Wheat is in very short supply, and le. per quarter dearer; the beet priee being 161. 15s. per load. Barley in demand, and sold freely. Oata, Beane, Peas, and Tans in Inge supply, and but little sold. Wooer:to - row, Mirth 15.-We had above an average supply of grain at this day's market, and a fair amount of business done at prices a little under last week's quotations. Wheat, 191. 6d. to 2 1 a.. Barley, 115.6 d. Oslo, S i per three bushels. Limr.ntet, March 16.-Our market this day wag well 'applied : the quality was rather inferior, which was quickly bought, at fully Sa,erday's prices. Best white Wheat, 160. to ; red, 151 d. to 161 d. per et. Oats, still advancing, 9d. to Old. Barley, prime malting samples, 9d. to 10d. ; minding, 84d. to 9d. First lour, 375. &l ; second, 331. 6d. ; third. 299.; fourth, 25 5. per Whleal, per ton, 121. to 121, 10s. Oatmeal, 111. to 111. 103. Prime Indian Corn, SI. f.o 81, ss. ; inferior, 71. hs. to 71. 10a Prime Meal, 81. 103. to 81. 15s. ; inferior, 71. 10s. to 81. EDINBURGH March 15.-We had only a moderat e su pp l y of Wheat from the farmers at this morning's market ; the quality being generally good it met a ready sale, at an ad vance of ls. to 2s. per or. on the rates of this day week. Foreign was in better demand, and a fair amount of business was iloac, at fully previous prices. Barley was in limited supply, and Is. per. qr. dearer than last Wednesday. The supply of O its being large, the trade ruled dull, and last weck's prices were with difficulty supported. Beans remain without alteration. Wheat, top, 60n.; average, 52.. ltd. Earley, top, 365. ; average, 31s. Id. Oats, top, 32a. ; average, 245.,8d. Beane, top, 36s ; average, 335. sd. -. March 15.--Since this doe week the imports to Wheat, 630 qrs. * Oats. 300 qrs. Barley, 1,265 loads Oatmeal from Ireland 1,150 brls. Indian Corn M eal, and 375 brought coastwise from Liverpool. The • Grangemouth are 1,794 qrs. Barley, 730 v. Beaux coastwise. The wide lIBS not the week ; but there has been nn for fine Wheat at full prices. Sack brought late rates readily, there being quantity on the market. Oats have ' , slue, but have moved off slowly. Barley inquiry, as well as Indian Corn. Beans bought on easier terms. At this day's A pretty well attended, there was a steady tale for fresh Wheat, at last week's short supply, supply, and held for lull prices ; in advance of 6d. to le. per load was was inquired for, and may be noted the er articles were without alteration. e prices: Wheat, per 2401b5., English 295. ; new, 261. to 28s. ' • red, 245. to Is. ; Scotch, white, old. 261. to 28s. ; e, old, 245. to 2.55.; new, 245. to 265. 6d. ; to aos. ; Pomeranian, old, 275. to 255. ; Danish, old, 255. to 275., new, 265. to ~ old, 231. to 2.55„. Russian hard, old, 725. .tan, old, 245. to 265. ; United States, old, Barley,. per 3201 b., Berwick and Scotc h, new, Irish, new, 21s. to 225. • P om eranian, 225. Oats, per 2641 be., Irish, Wexford, 7e.- Limerick, ite., new,l7s. to 18s.; extra, ; foreign, Russian, old, 16s. to 168.6 d.; 6d. Beans, Irish, per 2601155., new, 18s. per 2801 b., old, 15s. to 16s. 6d. Peas, old, 19s. to 20s. ; grey, 18s. to 1 91. to 20s. Flour, per 21401b5., Englsh, 4. to 435.; Irish ditto, old, 4 1 s. to 42e. ; 404.; extra choice qualities, old, 445. to "r barrel, sweet, old, 28s. to 295. 6d. • Va. 28s. to 293. ; sour, old, 241 . to ; 26*. 1801 be., Irish, common cut, new, 28s. 6d. 'OM per 2801be.,16e. 6d. to 19s. Indian Corn lbs. I3d. per barrel. 'arterday's Markets see Aug page. IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN I', HOUSE OF LORDS. — THURSDAY, Mellen 16. ' The Lois CaatectittoLa tooBUBLNESSk his seat at 5 o'sloslc. • PUBIC . PETTTI ONS.—By t h e Earl of 1)110P, from a place in Limerisk, upon the subject of electoral divisions in Ireland.—Earl of ' , automat from Powey, signs; the repeal of the rawirdion of if o : from her church °aggregation of Banff against diplo ma re/Lions wig the Pope of Boine.—Pdri of Foe cue. hem R. of Lacen.Voron, on sublem of electoral visioes.—Loird Csgrastio, from Peeble6 eomplaising of the expense of d maintaining prisons in Scotind.—The Bishop of Caroni, from Whitby, serainst the lemon] of Jeiriah diaabilities; aesi a petition from same, what dimanaigions front the sitar in of the LCITELTUN, from a plane in Yokshire, egagekthe adadadok _of the bull In Coma Domini; Irma Worcester, illiagasro:herisive liceith of Towns Bill.—Lord of from of North sod South India,complainiag of the state of Ms nmerlispilaw tlpit country, Mtn 10101:::i. —Appeal In Cellular; Gies Bill. CfNMITITE.-I'anisngers II& • RTI;ANS ORDERED.— On the motion of the Earl of Davos . Copies of the Memorials, doidabeatai sad letter s referred to in die letter of Mr. Stanley, ad•ireeeed to the clerk of the guardians of New. castle Cribs, bearingdate the 15th of November, 1847, and laid before this home. Copies of ell memorials or applications from any propri etor M any other union desiring to have his property formed iuto sa electoral division, with the anewer thereto; and all oornepundeace relating to such application. Copies of or extracts from the report of Wietaat CVMOl4Ol9ller upon reference made to birn rovilorting aoar ny ouch application. And a return of the electoral dons Wally) which comprise the property of a giggle person, or ot two proprietors only, showing the extent of population thereof CRIMINAL LAW. Lord CAMPBELL moved for leave to bring in a poi bill to of alter the criminal law, so as to give an appeal ori s law from Courts of Quarter Session or the Judges of Asaire. His lordship stated that he merely indicated the object of the bill, reserving more se and explanations until the se nd reading.—Leave given. PASSENGERS BILL. The order of the day for the committee on the Passengers Bill was read, and a short discussion ensued, in which Lord Stanley, Earl Grey, and the ERA of flarelwiek s e took po rno rta. W e regret to say, that, from the converl adopted by the noble lords, the subject matter was quite unintalliadde in the gallery. The bill, without amendments, passe d through committee. The house resumed, the report was received, and their lord - -A;aunied at a quarter before 7. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuuBsDAY, MARCH 16. The SPRAMIIt took the chair at 4 o'clock. PUBLIC BUSINESs. • REPORT.—Queen's Prima Bill. PRINTING OF. PETITIONS. On Mr. W. J. Wool.) moving that the petition com laining of the interfer ence of the Marquis of Exeter at the Pate Stamford election be printed with the votes, Sir It. INGLIS suggested that petitio n the motion was unne hree ces sary. The committee on public t times instead of twice a week. sad in the ordinary course they might expect this petition would be in the hands of members by Monday at the latest. Mr. WAKLEY had fallen into the trap, and advised his hen. and learned friend (Mr. Wood) not to be caught. lie had been induced to postpone a motion, founded on a peti tion, on the ground that by doing to the petition would be printed by direction of the committee. They, however, did not print it at all, because it contained much valuable infor motion, and the result was that the motion was lost. Mr. THORN ELY, as chairman of the committee, ex plained that the petition referred to by the hon. member for Finsbury, though that of a n individu al, referred to no indi- victual grievance, but was a mere expression of opinion, ac companied by numerous explanations on the subject of the land tax. It was too much to expert the house to publish the opinions of individuals at the public expense. It they wished to see their opinions in print they should publish them as pamphlets. (Hear ) Mr. EWART complained that the public were not fairly treated in regard to the mode in which their petitions were dealt with. Mr. CRIPPS called attention to the great expense which would be incurred if other than the moat important petitions were printed. The motion was then agreed to. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION—THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. Sir R. INOLIS rose to ask a question in reference to the expedition which had been sent out in the year 1815 to ex plore the north-west passage. What he wished to ask was, what step the government had, through the Admiralty, adopted, or were prepared to adopt, to search out and dis cover the expedition which went out under the com mand of Sir John Franklin—whether they had seat out another expedition in search—or whether they had offered rewards to any whaler or other mariner who in the course of Jain _ voyage, or of any ex tra voyage he min ht undertake for the puryose, should obtain information of the exploring squadron : Had such an expedition been sent forth by any other maritime nation in Europe he was quite sure there would have been no want of largo pecuniary funds to carry out the object or to dis cover those engaged in it. (Hear.) Mr. WARD was sure the hon. baronet would feel that the government had acted with every caution and with every regard to humanity . when be informed him that an expedt tion had left early in January for Behring's Straits, where it would be met by a second, and that both would enter those straits together, arrangements having been mode be the Hudson' , Bay Company to aid their search. A thiid expedition, under Sir J. Ross, would leave early in May, and besidi s these efforts the government had of a re ward of one hundred guineas or more, according to the value ofIT of the information , t o any ERellefrihat would bring ligence respecting Sir J. Franklin's expedition. MEDICAL RELIEF. Lord ASHLEY rose to move the series of resolutions of which he had given notice, and which he said were founded' on the evidence taken before the Medical Relief Committee in 1844. He thought it would he mere convenient to take. each resolution separately, and he should therefore only ad dregs himself now to the first. The following are the resolutions 1. That car woman cleimingm edical amistanee from the parish is consequence of being pregnant shaft be entitled in all cares to the sld of a medical officer with her tint child, and also with the see Med de others which may follow, prolidettehe present a certificate few Ilke medical officer who attend,d in her pre,iol.l , l cordinement, that circumstances had occurred in it out of the ordinary and re= COurAe of events, which rendered it desirable that she rhould have Ws dieal attendance on the nest occasion of delivery. 2. d hat, in the event of its bring considercO necessary ;o destroy the child in order to save the life of the mother, the an ion surgeon • shall be at liberty to seek the amistance of another competent toter, if if be see fit, before the nmewary operations are periormed, and who shall be paid far the assistance rendered, on producing to the union or proper officer the joint certificate of the union sermon and himself that such eonsultation depriva tion w ereential, previously to the expected legal and necessarof life. 3. That it is espedient that medical inspectors be appointed by the sanction, commissioners, or by the Deeretary of taste, or with his ; one to each district to which an amiasant poor law comma sinner or impittor is attached, at a salary not exceeding COOL a year, exclusive of travelling expenses, and exclusive of an allowance of a clerk, P the duties should require one: that the d on the a tti i, of l the medical Orit t e i c l i7it t e ' ren i Tg. " i "nd af 7o : treatment of the poor the fit nem of the medical mes appointed by the unions; to inquire par ticularly into the treatment of the irk pear in the union houses, and to regulate such treatment ; to inquire into and report on the diets and healthful condition ef th e poor within them generally, together with such other sanitary duties of every kind an be rued c omm is si o ners ;o them by the Secrets 7of State, or by the poor law and particularly with respect to the number of medical officers who might to be employed in each union, and, wader the sanction of poor law coramistioners, to fix the sidartee which ought to be awarded' to them ice their weeks., in each particular union, or part of a union, In tlh district 4. That from and after the month of March next the appointment of medical officers of unions shall be permanent during good beha viour, they being removable only by the poor law commissioners, whose decisions shall be final. S. That no medical permit be a ppointed surgeon er medleal officer to a saloon wiles,s he powers a diploma in • surgery. and a degree, c ( l=, or license in physic, horn one or mid r of the universities or of physiclane or surgeons, or societies of apothecaries of the United Empire, legally entitled to grant respectitcly such license% dlpiewas, or degree; and that if, under any eirounstanom it should be bend necessary to employ unqualified persons, au& unqualified persona mast have • 'medal permission w grantheed by the poor thr such per- Jew com missioners, under their handwriting, missive t reasons enissice annexed : all such permissions to be annually laid before par- Wilmot it the commencement of the session. 6. That it is the opinion of this hew that the poor law commis , timers should come a list to be made out, by the proper officer in each , thrbli of a union, of the poor who may be entitled to attendance from ' the medial officer of the union; and that all each pertain, snail be at ' liberty to ask the eminence, without previously obtaining an order to that effect from the relieving ofEeer, overseer, or other person, when so seriou,ly ill as to be unable to leave their homon. That the ff_sthese applying shall Dot be entitled to such medical attendance 24 hours, unless they obtain the signature of the relieving cer to the printei order usually innlei be him to the surgeon; but ' which printed ceder .hail in such cam be gimes by the euraww to the we man in the firm installed), to be carried by hien or his friends to Ina relieving oflicer for his lake mation and counter -signature, as an seknowiedgment of the fact of stab medico! relief having been aided for and obtained. 7. That all casual poor requiring medical attendance be treated in a sar manner, the surgeon being at liberty to refuse further &tend once, if the mutter signature of the relieving officer be not obtained. The noble lord, referring to the first resoiutien, observed that applicant in those macs were exposed first to refusal and Hit nto delay, and that filth were.. frequently stated to be intentional, in the hope that the woman mhibt he driven from her application, and that in the meantime the delivery might have taken place, eo that the order to be issued might not be for any extraordinary allowance, but as if the case were an ordinary case of sickness, by which the parish would be put to much less expense. The noble lord then detailed some horrifying cases of mutilation and death which arose from the necessity to which poor women under these circum stances were driven of having recourse to the aid of incom petent and ignorant midwives. He admitted that midwives might in many instances be employed with advantage ,• but le contended from the facts before him, with which he would not diegust the house, that in no instance should a first case be confided to them and that in all ether came their attendance should take place under the eepervision and control of.o_randical man. It might be argued by some, that an arrangement for providing proper medical attendance would lead to immorality ; but he thought it wholly improbable that young females would be induced to enter upon a course of guilt merely because they would have wedical relief in the hour of need. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord concluded by moving the first re solution. Mr. C. BULLER regretted that the noble lord did not at once propose the whole of his resolutions, impugning as they did the prevent administration of the pear l aw. lord hHe was the more grieved at this, because the noble H ewing Mated that they were founded en the evidence of the com mittee of 1844, had taken no notice of what had been done since then by the poor law commissioners, The aonsequence was that there did appear, in the opinion of the noble lord, a necessity to rectify abuses which had been long ago more e ffi c iently rectified by the poor without law COM miuiosers. The qumtion of medical relief was, doubt, the most difficult, both in principle and &tail, of all the questions which came under their consideration. He di ,t not disguise the fact that he wished he could propound sonic new principle tif medical relief calculated to place it on a still more satisfactory footing; but through the agency of the poor law, or any general system, he believed It int. deiervitlt! suggestions his best consideration but he confessed it deration ; that the object of the house ought to be to improve the pre sent system of medical relief through the poor law, not by any change of the general ) defec t iv e. ut by amending such details ae might be found (Hear, hear.) This he would say with confidence, that in the new peace law, u contrasted. with the old, there had been no more marked im provemont than in the medical relief. This was evi dent teen in the expenditure for medical relief, which had been constantly augmenting, and which proved that the economy of the new pear lew had not shown itself at the expense of the su ff ering poor. (Hear, laden was 16,851,000, and the amount expended 175,1901. 1 The result was that, between 1838 and 1816, making tea should should have Open from 136,7761. to 162,0801., whereas, In fact, it had been to 175,1901, being 23,1101. shove the old rate, or one-sixth more than the old mode of payment. But this Viol nut the only increase in the expenditure for the re lief of the sick poor, which had been made by the admieis tration of the new pour law—he alluded to the grantiug tit extra nourishment to the sick. This was almost a creation of the new poor law, and, therefore, he had no materials to show what the increase, under this brad, had been ; but this he could state, that in Stepney parish, since 1844, the sum of 6464. had been the increase in the amount for extra nourish ment, end Sir John Walsham last week, is • report, spoke of the Essex union, where 10/1 orders for extra iiourishinent, chiefly for 21las. of meat, had been issued by the board bear.) He wished therefore to call attention to the creme Ht that had taken place in the actual amount of medi cal relief, consistieg chiefly of salaries to medical o ffi cers, from 1838 to 1846 inclusive, together with the estimated population of England and Wales. In 1838 the population was 15,155,000, and the amount of money expended for medical relief was 136,7351.; in 1846 the Frew anee for the increase of population, the increase of expendi of stuardians. With respect to the salaries paid to medical officers, he confessed that, great a s the increase had been, he thought some further increase in some cases was in cessary. There were many districts in which the present salaries It was were insufficient, while in others they were quite ample. singular, however, to remark, that it was net in the most prosperous counties that this was the case, and hence arose one of the great difficulties of the question. Sir John Wel. sham, in his evidence before the committee of 1844, stated n the siderite in Norfolk and Su ffolk to he very large, while i North um berland and Cumberland they were u of the nsatis factorily small, regard being had to the extent districts, but if the matter was considered se per each pauper cue, the payment in Northumberland, which in relation to its population wu as half to that of Nor folk, was double or nearly treble what it was in th n e l a tter county. This was one of the great difficulties i adminietering medical relief. The worst medical relief was in those counties where the condition of the people was sups- nor to that is other districts. In Cumberland, Northumher land, Durham, Westmoreland, andCorawall, which were the ' least pauperised counties, there were the worst provisions for ' medical relief, simply because the people there were least ac- ' customed to seek it, as they, from • noble feeling of indepen deuce, discouraged any instance of pauperism : and thence the guardians were not so liberal with medical relief as was the case in other counties. It was, therefore, extremely difficult to ley down any general system as regarded the salaries of medical officers; and his own conviction was that this was a matter on which the poor-law commission ought to be let free to suit every particular district instead of fix ing an invariable system such as had been proposed. He took it that the safe course was to remunerate medical offi cers by salaries—that was a system which worked the best, though it by no means gave general satis faction. At present there were various systems in opera tion. There was • system of dividing the district. among several medical men, allowing them to combine pri vate practice with their attendance upon dick paupers. In Nottingham and the Leighton Barnard Unions, medial officers of adequate ability had been found who had given up their private practice and devoted the whole of their time to administering medical relief to the poor for a certain fixed salary. In Nottingham the salary was 1201. per an• num, with beard, lodging, and ether matters found. Again, in the Wayland Union there existed a mixed plan, which he believed worked as well an any, and which was to fix the payment of the medical officer partly by salary and partly by a payment for each case attended. There was also an ther plan, a holly different from the preceding, but which the hon. member for Finsbury (Mr. Wskley) had told him in a conversation on tho subject bo thought might prove satisfactory. This was • plan adopted under the Earl of Strulbroke, in the Blything Union. There were co medical officers at all in that union, but the poor applied to any medical man they th ought proper, and, at the end of the year, • sum voted by the guardians war divided amongst th Ito so called in by the poor themselves. Some medical men held that this system was open to abuse, but he believed that in the Blything union it worked well. With these various plans, anti though as a general principle be thought permanent salaries were the best, he should be sorry to force on the guardians of any district the observance of a practice contrary to that to which they had been accus tomed, and which they had adopted and found beneficial is practice. The great object was to secure adequate medical services with fair remuneration, and, as was his duty, he should endeavour so to apportion the animal grantot 70,0001. uto at:tin it. There was another matter connected with medical relief which was of grave importance ; h., alluded to the present mode of supplying the poor with medicines. That mode he thought was unsatisfactory. Ile thought the throwing the ch arge of providing il rugs upon the medical ofti :et was open to abuse, but now he coufessed his powers of remedying were inadequate to ilia powers of perceiving the evils of the system. However in, process of time he hoped, by the assistance of the residents in the various districts, by the union of pri vate charities, by the aid of the inspectors, the clergy, and the guardians, some better plan of dispensing drugs than at pre sent existed might be devised and adopted. At present, however, he had no plan to suggest himself. He feared he was dealing with the house in a very crude form, hut he hoped the house would excuse him. It was matter of great diffienity to form a sound judgment on thee* questions, and would require the experience of as many yens as he had lee, mouths in his present office. lie threw himself upon the indulgence of the house ; if he had advanced crude opi nions let him be shown them, and it would be found his do cility would be exemplary. (Hear, hest) Another MO nlaint which had been made was the made in whirls the medical officers were unduly fettered in respect to their administering relief to the poor ; but he thought this complaint arose from a reference to the cases which oc curred in the first year of the new poor law. Ilia opinion was, that in the matters of medical relief very little ought to be left to the discretion of the relievin: officer, who was -totally incompetent to pronounce an opinion whether or not a man was sick, His only duty was to decide the question— " pauper or no pauper," and the medical officer only ought to be entrusted with the discretion of attending euch per sons as he held to be sick, such discretion being subject to the approval of the guardians at their next meeting. But is truth the complaints which had reached him had not been siiinst relieving officers for refusing to allow medical men to attend, but against medical officers for having neglected to attend. He now came to make a few obeervations on the remaining resolutions laid on the table by the noble lord the member for Bath—resolutions by which the noble lord had, he thought, raised an unfair impresaion against the working of the poor law, inasmuch as they put forth evils which had long since been remedied. He would take, in the first place, the fifth resolutiou. The evils there stated had already been provided for by articles ICS and 169 of the consslidated orders issued by the poor law commissioners ; the only difference between those orders and the resolution of the noble lord being that the first are legal, whereas the latter was contrary to the existing law, inasmuch as it would let in as medical officers in this country Irish and Scotch practitioners. With regard to the 6th resolution propounded loy the noble lord, if he would turn to the 75th and 76th articles of the consolidated orders, he would find that the commissioners had not stiuted medical relief as the noble lord's resolution proposed to do. Hence, is these two re spects, the resolutions cast an unjust slur upon the poor law, while they would not provide for the evils so effectually as the orders issued by the commissiouers. The noble lord sad confined his argument on tie present occasion to his first resolution, which related to wurnen claiming medical relief from the parish in cons , quince of their being pregnant. In this respect he (Mr. Buller) had hoped the orders of the commissioners would hues satisfied the noble lord. The resolution of the noble lord invited not only every pregnant interim' woman, bat every pregnant unmarried woman, to claim relief at the time of child birth—( h ear, hear); and this would lie a scandalous injustice upon the poorer classes of rate-payers, who were already eufficientl) crushed down. If this wino yielded to, and if indiscriminate relief was to be given at the time ol child bearing, it would be idle to keep up any guards to the rate-payers whatever. At menet the iti2al article of the consolidated orders provided alit eiery pregnant womau who was a pauper, or who obtained as, order from a person legally authorised, should be attended at child birth by the medical officer—after birth, in came of difficulty Of danger, and that t he medical or should be paid for each attendance and medicine not lees thee 10, nor more than 20s. • and in case of difficult labour tha medical officer may attend without any order, subject to the future decis ion of the board of guardians as to whether the woman was a j proper object for medical attendance. This he (Mr. Buller) I thought was as far as liberality could go with due regard to the interests of the rate-payers. He should not go further into the questions raised by the resolutions of the noble lord. He had suited the geaeral principles on which relief should be administered, and he had given his reasons why he op posed the resolutions of the noble lord. He regretted to do so on this the first occasion of his addressing the house since he had been appointed to the office he held, but it was for the housesto decide ; and he hoped the house would decide against a resolution which he believed would be most den. MOUS and prejodicial to the country. The right hon. and Turned gentleman concluded by moving the previous question. Mr. WAKLEY regretted that the right hon. and learned gentleman should have made so bad • commencement as to oppose the change in favour of humanity which had been offered to the house by the noble lord the member for Bath. After the speech of the right hon. and learned gentleman ' he (Mr. Watley) was at a loss to know why the hon. mem ber opposite (Mr. C. Lewis) was out of office as a poor law commissioner, for it seemed to him that the country was only to have a change of men, but not measures. It ap to him that the right hon. and learned gentleman M d beolutely got a sinecure appointment, for he eulogised all that had been done by his predecessors, and promised no change or modification devils an long and so loudly com plained of. He would tell the right hon. and learned gentle man that the medical practitioners were not only discon tented but exasperated, and their treatment at the hands of • MARCH 17; 18111. the commission operated injuriously to the poor. The reso lutions new undea consideration merely went to make it compulsory that the poor woman should have medical at tendance at the hour of her greatest physical suffering, and it would be easy to provide by a clause in a statute punishment for those guilty of any fraud upon the guardians in this respect. It was most important that women should be attended at childbirth by competent medical men, or the remit might be a ricketty, diseased, and crippled race. This was the source of a vast 'meant of pauperism. The number of relieviag officers was so small that they could not sake an adequate number of visits to tbe recipients of relief ; but the medioal officer, ea important rate-payer, and who had an interest in reducing the parochial burdens, wee not likely to give incorrect infer:caoe. As the law stood, guerdians contracted with medical o ffi cers, who were thus ever. wheluted with orders by their relievig officer. It gene rally happened that the patients were ' n a state of absolute exhaustion from want of food ; the medical officer accord ingly gave order* for food ; but where the relieving officer w had to alk 20 miles in a week, as had often happened in this very county, there was not much chance of these orders being attended to, which must be confirmed by the relieving officer before they could be acted on. Thus the relieving officer was actually placed above the medical officer in mittens of richness and health. If a medical officer was liberal in granting these orders for food, he fell into dis favour with the guardians ; but the orders on the medical officer might be multiplied without end How were our pri soners treated ? The surgeons of the prisons and infirmaries might order not oily nourishing food, hut wine, to any ex tent; and this without any check or rebuke from the visiting meerstrates, or from the home Secretary, who was also a poor-law commissioner. It was true the medical officers of unions had the power of doing this ; but Certain returns to be weed for shortly would show in bow many Mel that power wee exercised. Not a single argument hart Iseen urged against the adoption of this resolution, and the right hon. and turned gentleman would never have misted it, had he been acquainted with the miseries of the poor creatures to whom it referred. They were frequently desti tute of the most common necessaries of food s and c lothi n g, n but, the head of the family gr eet ed employ, y be treated as paupers. lie r that the right hon. and !seined gentleman appeared to be acting on the system of his predecessor,. whereby the country would be deprived of the benefit of his speendid talents, u applied to this subject. Mr. HUME, While desirous to afford every possible com fort to women in the state described, could not but fear that the adoption of the noble lord's resolution would make mat tees worse, by striking at that feeling of independeace which it wee so i m portant to encourage, and weakening habi thrift end foresight. (Hear.) Mr. C. ISULLE'R, in reference to something that had fallen from the hon. member for Finsbury, said he had sent copies ofe noble lord's resolutions to all the members of the late th poor-law commission and *even out of nine of theme gentlemen objected most unqualifiedly to the repo upon before the house; and Sir J. Walsh objected to it, unlees the slave of females to receive the proposed relief was accurately defined. (Hear.) Mr.IIENLEY would not support the resolution. believing that sufficient facilities piloted for obtaining relief by the class referred to, if really deatitu.e. Sir W. CLAY hoped that, instead of the motion being met by the previous qeestion, it might be withdrawn, on an undertaking by the right hon. and learned chie f commis sioner to introduce its provisions in a new order. Viscount EBRINOTON said he entirely sympathised with the motives of the noble lord, though he differed from the results at which he had arrived. Capt. PECHELL alluded to the disclosures e new corn fore the Andover com mittee, and expressed a hope that th mitri on er A would make it their bovine's to visit the different unions, and superintend the administration of relief. (Hear.) He thought it would be an advantage if the resolution was a little modified, but he should support it u it stood, believing that money could not be better applied. He thought the step proposed by the noble lord wae due to the poor, and it should have Its support. Sir H. VERNEY felt satisfied that women ought to have the power of calling in a medical man M. cases of danger. He was not afraid that persona would have recourse to me dical aid witeout necessity. lie hoped the noble lord would not only press his first resolution but his seeond one like -wise. thought the present resolution was the first step in a right direction. Mr. ADDEKLEY thought that this was an attempt to effect a doubtful good by incurring a certain risk. The ob ject in view could be better attained by the various institu tions which existed in the country—such as lying. in hospitals and friendly societies. The house divided—For the motion 37 Against Lord ASHLEY then proroeed the second resolution, but withdrew it on the intimation of Mr. Suttee., that the object of it could be accomplished by an order of the poor law com missioners, and:that he would . not fail to attend to the sub- ject. Lord ASHLEY then proposed the third resolution. It wan well known that great abuses existed iu many work houses —that the wants of the poor in sicknem were not I always well attended to--that the state of the houses was often a source of disease, all of which would be removed by the appointment of medical inspectors. They had appointed medical inspectors in other departments, and it could not be of more service in any department than in connexion with the poor in the workhouses. Mr. BULLER said he felt himself obliged to oppose the resolution of the noble lord, not that he denied the utility of a staff of medical °films such as the noble lord proposed, but because he believed such a costly and complicated ma chinery would not be the best means of vig at the end he had in view. The object of the poor l aw board was to su perintend the whole adminiatration of the poor law, to to see en- torce uniformity of action as far as possible, and that the provisions of the law were exactly carried out. Now he believed that the appointment of medical officers, such a s the noble lord promised, would only hamper them in carrying. oat those objects, (Dear, hear.) The salaries of the medical • inspectors themselves would cost Use et 6;0001. a year, and with the travellia g expenses and the ex penses of clerks added, he did not think the cost could be less than 20,0001. He did not, think the house would grudge that amounts if they believed that these medical inspectors were likely to pose a realbenefit, but he was sure they would only encumber the operationsof the central authority. He would not pledge himself against the appointment of one medical . iqapeetor, because ~ he often experienced the want of the advice which such au officer alone could give on subjects connected with the medical department of the poor law. But to perform efficiently the work which the ntble lord referred to in his reaolution would require not one but 620 medical officers (Hear.) Ile was always of opinion that it was an essential part of the poor law that its administra tion should be left In the hands of local bodies, the central authority at Somerset-hove exercising merely a superin tending power. He assured the noble lord he was not indif ferent to the objects he proposed, and if he allowed hint to work out the end in his own way he could promise him that eventually the result he desired to arrive at would be attained. IJoless the noble lord accepted his assurances, he must meet this question as he had done the last. Mr. WAKLEY feared that the want of medical aid, of which the hon. gentleman had complained, was likely to be long felt. He feared be was in a bad way. (A laugh.) The fact was, his place ought to have been filled bye medical man. (Ironical cheering.) Nothing else would do. The hon. gentleman not only admitted it, but showed it. All his vivacity and logical ability was gone. Never had any man made a poorer display than he had made that night. He knew not who the advisers in the poor law commission office were, but it was evident they had a hatred of the medical profession. Nut one of their appointments was filled by a medical officer. A newspaper editor was appointed a poor law commissioner the other day. but not a single medical man ever got a place (Oh.) But some day or the other the medical men would " visit" their oppressors—(a laugh)-- and he hoped they would pay them out. He much regretted the motion was opposed, and he hoped it would be carried. , Mr. HENLEY did not at all approve of the slow meth o do of effecting these changes which was proposed to them hon. gentleman. Capt. PECHELL thought this was a step in the right direction. He agreed with the member for Finsbury, that the medical body were moist scandalously used. Lord D. STUART thought a great part of the evils en dured by the poor in this country were attributable to the inadequate payments to medical officers. After a few words from Mr. Auneater and Mr. E. DENISON, The house divided—Ayes Noes The previous question was accordingly carried. Lord ASHLEY then moved that frenn and after the lit of June next the appointment of medical officers of unions shall be permanent during good behaviour, they being re movable only by the peer law commissioners, whose de cisions shell be final. The noble lord quoted the evidence of a numerous body of medical witnesses and others w , to show that the efficiency of the medical offioen of unionswould be greatly improved by their being independent of the boards of guardians, and of annual election. The chaplains, the clerks, and other officer+ of union., were permanent officer. —why not the medical attendants ? Mr. P. SCROPE supported the resolution. Mr. C. BULLER was lorry he could not accede to the proposition of the noble lord. He expressed his regret that the hon. member for Finsbury should so entirely have mis conceived the tenor of any remarks of his respecting the medical profession. He had the fullest appreciation of the h um anity and honour of that body. As to the immediate resolution, he considered that annual election was the most efficient means of securing due attention to the poor on the part of officers w hose services were remunerated, not accord ing to what they did, at so much • case, but by a fixed salary. The result of the success of this resolution would be that the commissioner could never remove a medical officer, however deficient in seal, ability, or attent:on, so long as he refrained front the commission of any specific offence upon which hold could be taken. Again, he thought it would be most p un wise to lace in his (the chief commissioner's) hands—he holding office on a political tenure only—the power of re moving 3,000 medical officers throughout the country. He concluded by moving the previous question. Mr. WAKLEY did not think the right hon. gentleman's answer at all conclusive. One object of the Poor Law • Bill was to introduce uniformity of administration. Well, one half the appointments w ere permanent, and now the right h o n. gentleman opposed a proposition to render the other half permanent, and so to males all tiniform. It was impossible for the medical officer to discharge his duty effec tually while he was dependent on the guardians. If he offended them—it he ordered more wine or other things to the poor than concurred with their views—he was not re elected. (Hear, hear.) How was Mr. Westlake treated— the gentleman who exposed the abuses of the Andover Union ? He was so persecuted by the guardians, that he was obliged to resign hie situation. This would not have been the case if be had been independent of the board. It had been the same In the Croydon and other unions. Mr. WALTER bore personal testimony to the incapacity, in some eases, of p crash doctors, without making any specific 101-82 charge, who were allowed tle remain to the injury of these parishes to which they wore attached. He had also seen se veral cases where the parish doctors laboured under greet disadvantages owing to adi on the part ct the guardians to allow proprr nousishmout. lie therefore thought that the medical men should be permanent. Lord D. STUART suggested the omission from the MO lution of the words " durieg good behaviour." Dr. BORRINO, Mr. HENLEY , and Mr. BROTTIBITOII having made a few remarks, Lord ASHLEY said he would not object to the propreed if a lt er ation of omitting the wo rd " during good behaviour ' it made the resolution more acceptable to the government. Mr. C. DULLER objected to the alteration. lie should not wish to have the removal of the medical men thrown upon him. The house divided—For the resolution 36 —62 Against it 9B Lord ASHLEY consented to withdraw the remaining resoTutions. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. Mr. F. O'CONNOR rose to move for leave to bring in a bill " to alter and amend the act 9 and 10 O- Vic., friendly P c icties." lie said, be trusted that the government would allow him to bring in the bill, seeing that the subject had b een advocated in petitions s i g ned b y 203,000 person', all of that class most likely to be interested in its opera ti o n. His object was to legalise a social plu, of which he had been the founder. The principle of the plan was this. 100,000 per -1 sons had embarked funds in it under his guidance, and each , sass who subscribed 21. 12s. per annum was entitled in his ui tar a n ea to a t t w re o , acre' of g c r ap ou itai nd, af witha cottag e worth 1001, La ra i e n r maliscri pt i on s entitled the subscriber topropgortionably greater advantages. However, a technical objection had been raised w hich shut out this association from the protection given by the law to friendly societies. The principal objection made was that the system was a sort of lottery, and that no man could be insured a farm fora subscription of 21. 12s. Another objection was that two or three or even five acres were not suf ficient to support a =an and h i amily B y . ut the had it on the records of the house, in the f Gregory clause, that a man holding a quarter of an acre was considered to be self sup porting, and not entitled to workhouse relief, and that was his answer to the insinuations which had been thrown out against the feasibility of his plan. (Hear, hear.) lie hsd purchased 2,000 acres of land in Hertford shire, on which he Lad located 36 families, and 45 on. another tract in Worcestershire, and in neither cage had there been an instance of drankenness or riot since the location. His opinionlwas that five acres were amply tufa. Milt to support a fainf.y. He asked for the support of the landed interest, seeing that the landed proprietors of this country paid 6,0000001. annually for the relief of the poor. Besides, and he begged attention to that fact, it was the first a ttempt to bring the land of the country into the retail market—the only means, as he believed, of tutor inlg the land te its true value. It was well under stood and generally admitted that the man who had a small holding, and who cultivated it himself, could afford to pay a much higher rent than the man who held a large farm, and cultivated it by the expenditure of his capital. Any one who had travelled through Belgium would remember that tracts worth 1001. had been sold for 0001. when subdivided among peasant proprietors. The fact was that the man who had a small farm, with his homestead in the centre, could do as much with a boy and a wheelbarrow, as could a farmer with six men and four hones when living at a dist an ce. What was there in the capabilities of Great Britain to prevent the labourers of this country from effecting that which the Belgians accomplished with a worse soil ? lie had no other object in view than to legalise the plan which he had carried out successfully in the county of Cork on his awn property , and in the counties of Hert ford and Worcester, on the estates purchased by the company. That i ouipany had a capital of 180,0001., of which 60,0001. was vested in Exchequer Bills, the whole of which at present ttraeseiliataaestoe m i l ! fahris thrl c i ' i ait y a . whheich came company should be protected against his a cts and those of the officers of the company. The enrolment of the company under the statute he sought to amend bad been refused, on a technical objection raised by Mr. Tidd Prett, on a dictum , of Mr. Justice Wightman ; and though the statute in ques tion lion was intended to extend the benefit of the law to such societies, they were, under this dictum, in a worse I situation than before the amending statute pared. Already they had expended 3,0001. in provisionally registering the company. but it would coat many thousands more to effect complete registration. It was under these circumstances that be came to the house for relief, and he was willing, alter the introduction tf his bill, to submit it to the Attorney-General before he asked for a second reading. He was aware that it had been objected to his plan, that it resembled the Irish small farm system. So it did, with this difference, that here there' was no want of tenure, while in Ireland the holder of a small farm had no certainty of tenure. To provide against the other evil that had; been anticipated — namely, of too minute a subdivision of the land, a clause was inserted in the leases, whereby any subdivision of allotments was prohibited. He had many other topics connected with the subject to bring under the notice of the house, but as he had already , to thank them for the tolerame extended to him, he should abstain from saying more than to assure the right h o n. baronet that if, by the refu sal to pus the i re t should be driven to complete the registration of the society he should not be stopped by that obstacle, but would persevere in the plane by means of which he had created such lively hopes in the minds of the labouring climes who had con fided in him. lie had met with no opposition from the landed classes, but from the manufacturers he had been met by the most deadly hostility. The hon. member concluded by moving for leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws re lating to friendly societies. Mr. WAKLEY seconded the motion. Sir G. GREY said he would set follow the hon. member throught the various topics of his speech, but he must observe, that he had not been able to get any definite or clear idea of the plan which he had described, or of the nature of the bill which he wished to introduce. One thing he must, however, say—namely, that there was no such in disposition on the part of the house to afford all the facilities that were required to place the investments of the savings of the working classes, as the hon. member appeared to think misted. Mr. F. O'CONNOR said that he had attrfleited no each "Mabee to any party. Sir G. GREY was very glad to find he hail misappre hended the hon. member. With respect to the law on the @abject, he believed that all the Attorney General meant to is was to oppose any society which was based on a lottery. Bet he would not raise a discussion upon that point at the present moment. All be would say VMS that he would never give his sanction to any lottery - scheme. He would not oppose the introduction of the bill, with the distinct under standing, however, that he expressed no opinion upon its merits. Leave was then given to bring_ in the bill. PETTY BAG OFFICE BILL. Mr. ROMILLY obtained lease to bring in a bill for abolish ing certain offices in the Petty Bel in the High Court of Chancery, and for rulating the Petty Bag Office. I POOR H eg OUSES (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. S. CRAWFORD obtained leave to bring in a bill to extend the powers given by former acts for. purchasicg or hiring land in connexion with, or for the use of, poor houses in Ireland, in order to afford t he means of applying the labour of paupers to their own support. TREATY OF ADRIANOPLE. Mr. ANSTEY moved that the order of the day for the resumption of the debate on this subject should be dis charged. (Rear, hear.) Lord ROTHAM condemned the practice of founding serious charges against a minister of the crown on a mere motion for papers. Lord D. SI CART said he was anxious to have addressed the house on the main question, but he would not oppose the discharge of the order. 'f he order was then discharged. ELECTION RECOGNISANCES BILL. Oa the motion of Sir Vl. IiVATHCOTE the order for fur ther proceeding on this bill w as dischar g ed. The house adjourned at a quarter after 1 o'clock. ELECTION COMIIITTEES.—YESTERDAT. DUNDALK.—The arguments of counsel on the ques tion of alieney took up the entire day. Bewnietr.—Evidence was given to show that the treating alleged against Sir Thomas Winnington, was given by him to a body of 500 navigators who were employed to protect his voters from bring kidnapped by his opponents. ATLESBUILY.—The evidence given went to prove the agency of a person named Ball, as connected with Mr. Deering. GENERAL COMMITTEE OF ELECTIONS. COMMITTEE STRECK YESTERDAT.—DERBY.—MT. Childers, chairmanStaunton, Sir E. C. W. Macnaghten, and S:r H. R. F. Davie. erprepo MAILS • Ile over land mails for Gibraltar, Malta,Oweena the lithe been Ignit, Aden, Ceylon, India , Floe .... -Kong, and China, Ms icAbsiziT, ..' still be made up on the morning of the 20th Meek. The mule for New South Wales, Va. Dieusen's Las I, sad ise. TAl" Th e a t.i wi l ll . f b' sr '"de t he West Coot Conet the of Africa Armlet 2 M l tl li vir a rtil be lee up on the evening of the 31st March. The malls fur Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Calia, and Gibraltar will be made up oar the morning of the 17th Mare. The West India Matta, including Bermuda. Rhone, Hamm. 4 llonduras, New Orleans, Vera Cr., Talent°, and Mu to Moo, m g , Chace Panama, West Coast of South America, and .4i, .1 8 ,,,a., Nicaragua, will he made up on the morning of the 27th March. The awls for the Brirmis, the River mate, meow vo.o, Parma, • * et:ocil":iatk.°"Mndcfoirra,Mandtleirl'Buenosj."'Lri.7"will be rim7t 7 .:37 .. .. '‘ ...o of the Itli net. The overland el oweV mails, Ms Marseilles, to the Ni-Mtemme. 1 llgypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, ace Kong, se., el. be rnole up ones „ MeMata of ties Ith Mull. The mails for British North America, Bermuda, aso 0, 8 0.0.1 Staten will be made up on the evening of th e IS •h April. 1 lOtksoow, March lb. the Clyde are 720 qrs. V 2,86)0 sacks Flour, and and 1,010 brls. Flour, 1, i t qrs. Indian I orn broul principal arrivals at On ll qrs. Oats, and 100 qrs. 1 been active during tl steady retail demand I i /our has not tonne , i • 1 a considerable quanti I ma int a ined their value, has met rather more ini I i and Peas have been ben market, which was peel i i though lot active sale iI i rency. Oats were in sl and upon Oatmeal an established. Barley WI turn dearer. Other The following are the I 1; white, old, 275. to ; 1 Ili 27e. ; new, 255. to 271 Irish, red and white, i Dentate, old, 28e. to i new, '27s. to 281. ; DIA 271. • Odessa, soft, oft to its.• Canadian, o 265. to 27a. Barley, , „ l 22a. to 235. 3d.; Iri 1, &c., new, 21s. to 22s . . Ike., new, 16s. to 17..; I . g2Lred, now, 188.65 , 16s. to 16 3 . 6 d to 195.. Egyptian, pi per 28011ss. white, of Canadian, old, 19s. 's perms old, 42e. I i I l i Inc, ?Rh , Ms. to 40$ 460. • Oa Prieto, per • . ..• weeliitf; sweet, old, 1 • Wane, per 21301 bit • ties. Iniangom, • .1.19•44 14s. d 6d. to 15s ' . • • , 11., • • ? for Vote . , • . . ..... litEkkeh YRlAskir. • . „Moll tidielllloY 11$ present. pain t llia de tau gur was, tt ai iif theisaganted a hisser and more mettLeitesa re dta relief s that relief must not th be ad meigh Meal agency, ea be e charge upon local funds, but that some system of central administration fu nds be devised, which would be supported from the of the country. Many, suggestions been made to him which were deserving ot • . h,,c he confessed it did seem to him .• , NOTICE. DEPUTATION OF BAKERS TO THE HOME-OFFICE. —Yesterday a deputation of master and journeyman bakers waited upon the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment, by appointment, to solicit the support of government in the application they are about to make to parliament for a legislative enactment for the abolition of night work and for the limitation of the hours of labour. The deputation was accompanied by Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., and Mr. Wakley, M.P.—Lord Robert Grosvenor introduced the deputation to Sir George Grey, and briefly alluded to the object they had in view, and which he said would be fully explained in the course of the interview. His lordship said he wished it to be understood that the masters and the workmen were willing to arrange the matter themselves, but it was found upon inquiry that nothing but a legislative en actment would be effectual to carry out the desired objects.— Mr. Wakley, M.P., said, the case mule out on the put of the bakers was certainly one beyond all precedent, and un doubtedly called for parliamentary interference, as well for the interests of the trade itself as for the sake of the work men. The system of night-work was most destructive of health, and in no trade was life so shortened as in the baking trade. It had been proved by the statisties of London that the bakers were shorter lived than even the white-lead manufacturers or the eciasor-grinders of Shedield. Sir G. Grey said be hoped they would not expect him to give any hasty decision upon so important a question. Be would promise them that he would give the matter due con sideration, and he amid say that government would net stand in the way of any practicable measure that would be deemed fair to all parties—Mr. Wakley, after again calling the attention of Sir G. Grey to the shortness of the duration of life among the journeymen bakers, said that a similar in terference to that now sought had been practised by govern ment in the case of the coalwhippers of London, and he would add with the most beneficial results—Mr. Johnatoo, en the part of the deputation, expressed their thanks to Sir G Grey for the cocrteous reception they bad experienced.— : The deputation th , o withdrew. . Tau number of STAMPS noted to the DAILY NEWS by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during In i 7, re,s : From lAN. 1 , to Disc. 31, 3,447,009 This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of .ne amber - issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, .El' • Morning Post, ALL PVT TUOETHER. In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Mornina Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition, THE EXPRESS, From JAN. 1, to DEC. 31 778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were ism d tither M the Globe or Standard, Evening Papers. TO CORRESPONDENT& re tun rem. to doubt the eeereemirs at ivithi • Ciais . Watees. ..b,t.tr:OVXM lIIOIIITATIS AT 1A)30011 11111ot'. 1La1....L2=-110.....m1,47ut5. gem 0 , j ANIII•0114. I. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCII 1 1 7. IT would seem that the difference of opireon known to exist between the members of the French Pro- visional Government was about to produce a rupture. . M. LEDRU ItOLLIN, the most decidedly democratic of that body, and the one possessing most influence over, and connexion with, the republican and opera tive masses, had given offence to his more moderate colleagues by the fierce and somewhat autocratic tom ' of his famous circular. The moderate party has evidently raised its head of late, begun to speak with more frankness and courage in its journals, its friends in the national guard assuming an attitude not to be mistaken. A club of the moderates taking the name of the club of the national guard was a bold step. It was rendered necessary, by the decree of the government abolishing the flank companies of each legion, thereby affording a pretext for remodelling all the companies, and proceeding to a new election of officers. It was rumoured that, in consequence of the de cided remonstrances of Messrs. LAMARTINS., CRa stIEUX, MARIE, and GARNIER PAGES, Ll= ROLLIN had resigned, and was to be succeeded by M. CORMENIN, as Minister of the Interim. Nothing ot could be more unlikely. M. LEDRU ROLLIN i 8 the man to resign of his own free will, and there is no power to force him. Indeed, any attempt of the kind would bring the armed bands who wen the victors of February in collision with such of the national guard as might come forward to defend the moderates. Such extremities were beet avoided, especially until the great arbiter between contending . parties, the National Assembly, shall have met to decide peaceably betwixt them. For our part we were_meee_ amused than shocked or terrified by the very grandilo q uent and dictatorial words of M. LEDRU'S circular. It has been our good fortune to witness the advent of some of these for midable envoys of the republican government. And, in truth, we were anxious to behold the successors of those famed representants do people, who put their feet on the neck of the provinces, decimated the popu lation, confiscated their property, and made armies, as w ell as the generals at the head of armies, tremble. M. LEDRU ROLLIN may speak very big, bat hit envoys came down clothed with no such terror. They are in general men o f letters, editors of country journah, boys of the Polytechnic School, but not Gorgon'. Th ey are so young and so polite, so utterly devoid of either authority or terror, that they really have the air more of commis royageurt than of the delegates of a fierce republic. One of these envoys proceeded the other day to displace a sous prefet, whereat the old functionary, being wroth, scolded M. Wien Hou.rs's young envoy so fiercely, that the latter actually burst into tears. In r 793 he would have sent the sous prefet to the gui:lotine. Throughout the whole range of French towns and departments the French Provisional Government have not committed one harsh, dictatorial, or unwar rantable act. At least we have not heard of any. Its only errors and absurdities, for crimes it has certainly not committed, have been the promulgation of circa lam or manifestos harmonising neither with their conduct nor with the spirit of the age. That of M. LEDRU ROLLIN to the agents des patched by him, as Home Minister, to the provinces, has drawn down most animadversion. M. LEDRU ROLLIN, as an orator, is certainly not a man of taste. His eloquence is turgid, and he has ever been an in trepid utterer of big and unmeaning words. His cir cular is composed of these. And no Frenchman is deceived with respect to them. Whereas if each words be presented to the English reader as serious, and meaning all they say, they would recall the red hot times of the old revolution. M. LEDRU ROLLIN first tells his age nts they art all-powerful. Poor youths ! They come down upon the rural districts by the train or the diligence. They may displace the mayor, and have ano ther elected by t h e municipality. Th ey: piny take the command of the score of gendarmes, which form the police of the place. But the national guard—how can they order or deal with it ? LEDRU ROLLIN tells his agents that they have authority over the military commander, but at the same time lie rec.immends them not to exercise it so as to excite any difference or colli sion: they are to respect military susceptibilities. So that whilst the military division and its officers form one independent power, the national guard and munici pality another, the poor delegate of LEDRI: ROWS must go about begging for such little support as either may deign to grant him. Another of the Provisional Government who he. been repreanted as an insolent monster, and whose circu lars have been animadverted upon, is CARNOT, Minister of Public Instruction. Yet scarcely any change has been made iu that department, except the appoint ment of a valuable commission to inquire into and provide for the state of education. The Ministry of Public Instruction is now a nest of philosophers -of men who have studied, and written, and philoso phised—who are visionary, perhaps, but who would be the last men in France to invite the aid, and pro- claim the reign, of ignorance. CARNOT has devoted all the years of his life to the furthering of popular education. RETNAUD, and CIURTON his friend and s ecretary, have written and laboured more perhaps than any two men in France in the same cause. One of the acts of CARNOT has been to name BERANGIII the poet to be one of the councillors of the university. At,d BERANGER, who never would accept pla,c pension from BouRBON or ORLEANS, has consented to fill this office. We may fear that CARNOT'S adminis tration of public instruction may be too visionary , too theoretic, but as to its being of the absurd and dan gerous tendency so misrepresented, the slightest knowledge of the individuals would instantly con- tradict. What is far more dangerous than M. LEDRC 110L LI1iS or M. Csusor's circulars, is the attempt now making by M. Lours BLANC, in the name of the government, to found communism in the shape of social workshops. When we recollect that one of the institutions denounced by NI. LOUIS BLANC is the savings banks, which he stigmatises as a selfish and anti-social system ; a nd when we couple each doctrines with the decree of the Finance Minister, we must own that we much fear M. LOUIS BLANC'S disorganisation of labour. But LANARTI cnt, NE and the more sensible of the Provisional Go vernta have tolerated M. BLANC'S nonsense from the convic tion that his theories would either evaporate or refute themselves. Let them ext end the same toler ance to M. LEnne-Itottit4's big words. At least it is time enough to denounce them when any authori ties, provincial or metropolitan, shall consider themes serious—and that there seems no chance of any one IF we may judge from the temper of the House of Commons, last night, the ministe r of the New Poor Law will have an easy berth of it. Instead of being b. dgered, as his predecessors were, by the press and FMI=; I