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

BANK RETURNS. ,Y , :om the London Gazette of Tuesday.) Au Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, sap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Votes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales. in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 4th day of March, 1847:- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Bank, Abingdon-Knapp and C 0.... - Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and C 0... 10,159 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 8,000 tylshaas Bank, Aylsham-R. and G. Copeman 5,905 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford and Hunt Ba'dock Bank and Ba!dock and Biggleswado Bar.k, Baldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell... 27,266 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Drake and Co 10,300 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke- Seymour, Lamb, and CC. 17,476 Bedford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford- Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. f3ea l ;dley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Crane Bkester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb and Co. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Attvvoods, Spooner, and Co 23,968 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming hatn-J. L. Moilliett, and Sons 12,875 Blandford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak 7,194 Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 54,955 Boston Rank, Boston-Gee and Co 13,427 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. Sealey 7,509 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 30,601 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 19,580 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett , Parrott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow- Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 65,346 Banbury Bank, Ba n b u ry-Gillett and Tawney. 24481 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 36.060 Bath City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 29,363 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H A. and W. M. Harris and Co 11,680 Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 48,314 Bridprt Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry - Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co 10,036 Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledge and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromagrove-Rufford, Biggs, and Co. Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co Carmarthea Bank, Carmarthen-Morris and Sons Chcrtsey Bank, Chcrtsey-Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood , cock City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch-Tice, Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmaith Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Aank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby-Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby-Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High I'eak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Hughes, Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster-Leathatn, Tew, anti Co. Derteaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster- Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stou,kton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse, & Co Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Nor man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester-Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower, Hutton, and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford-Walford, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co .fakenham Bank, Fakenham-Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon-Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham-Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co. Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham-liewney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Hayrlon... • Grantham Bank, Grantham-}lardy and C 0.... Hastings Old Bank, Hastings-Smith, Hiller, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford- Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Ware-S. Adams and Co Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull -Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead- Smith, and Whittingstall Monitor. Bank, Honiton-Flood and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen-Sharples and Co. Hayford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford-Morgan, Hoskins, and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley :tank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich- Alcxanders and Co. Rentish Bank, Maidstone-Mercer, Randall, and Mercer /Linton and Radnorshire Bank, Kington-J. Davies and Co Knighton Bank Knighton-,L Davies and Co. Knaresborough 01(1 Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough-Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal-Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering-o.sta and Sons 7,510 Longtoa Staffordshire Bank, Lane End-C. liarv. - .7 and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds-Beckett and Co 48,576 Leeds Union Bank, Leeds-W.Williams, Brown, anti C.l. Let .1; and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leelt-Fowler,Gaunt,andCo. Leicester Bank, Leicester-Pagets and Kirby Lewes Old Bank, Lewes-Molineux and Co LieUeld Bank, Lichfield-Palmer and Green Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith and Co Liropeter Bank and Llandilo Bank Llando very-David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middle tuna and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington-C. and S. St Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis -Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis- Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-13rocklehurst and Co Manningtree Bank, Manningtree-Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerfordßank,Marlborough-Tanner and Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshirti New Bank Marlborough-Ward, Merriman, and Hilliet Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly-Jones and Williams Miners' Bank, Truro-Willyams and C 0......... Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, .Abergavenny-Baileys and C 0.......... Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth -Bromage and Snead Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport -W. Williams and Sons Newark Bank, Newark-Godfreys and Hutton Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, S ieaford-Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury-Bunny'and Slucock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket-Eaton, Ham mond, and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss-Taylor and Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich-Harveys and Iludsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich-Gur neys and Birkbeek Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham-Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton-Craddcock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth-Harris, Mudge, and Co New Serum Bank, Sarum-Hetley, Everett, and (/ 0 9,748 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham-Smith and Co. 27,874 Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os vreatry-Croxnn and Co 9,421 Oxford Bank, Oxford-J. and It. Morrell . 10,217 Oxford Old Bank, Oxford-Robinson, Parsons, and C 0....... •1,. -- Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sovenoaks Bank, Tonbridge-- `` Boer and Sods.- .................. : .... 6,993 ; thals il lin' f ! j t e 7,751 ney Bank Witaey-with arno, 4 A OW • - tt," 6,787 1,5049 32,56 36,38 8,701 15,240 69,840 1.700 5,483 6,425 12,425 34,020 25,2-17 10 ; 825 10,450 6,253 57,459 63,206 9,322 31,664 78,266 41,62 42.050 22,413 17,799 4,475 11,237 4,716 5.810 1).81) 10.711 22,179 23,617 13,480 20,975 18,509 39,447 4,515 18,602 33,723 19.603 15,752 70,970 1'2.270 18.518 5,435 18,012 22,753 31,030 18,240 74,847 10,798 7,093 3,196 36,574 12,701 10,182 5,801 12,109 6,794 4,454 13,475 23,603 10,853 7,858 22,469 42,785 17,963 16,594 2,090 40,2.t0 56,315 9,503 3,636 19,405 A s‘ THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1848. Average Amount. Pease's Old Bank, hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—MAr=rs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. 'Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading—slmonas and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, 45,448 9,639 7,221 9,507 6,88$ 25,32! 23,1164 4,429 and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches- ter—Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co Ross Old Bank, Iferefordshiro, Ross—Pritchard 7,898 3,30' 8,533 12,995 13,190 13447 10,42 and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co Shrewsbury Old Batik, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons. and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Son Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co St. Alban's Bank. St. Alban's—J. S. Story Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stourbridge Stourbridge —Rufford, Wrag,g, and Co ... 12,380 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 12,859 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. Stourbridge Old Baok, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. St. Alban's and Hens Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- 4,209 36,040 9,617 22,776 25,849 2,908 12,044 11,810 1,020 3,145 5,166 18,100 15,665 son and Stuart Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Bundle, and 17,346 Co Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Dame Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, llelston—Vivian and Co Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leathatn, Tew, and Co Whitby, old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and llatnpshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearce Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesrvifth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscorci)e Bank, Witeliicombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good riche and liolyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. Worcester t)ld Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Fax-lily and Turnir Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and WiltshirQ Bunk, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—S. Kenrick Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Me-;srs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and llalesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, firkbelk, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmorth—Sir E. K. ',aeon, Bart., and Co Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swann. Clouzh, and Co, JOINT-STOCK BANKS. flank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitohaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford Burton, Utt:ixoter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland lTnion Banking Company, Work ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coven try Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry.. County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel- 8,165 7,66; 6,13$ 9,935 12,122 7,623 7,442 18,108 3,841 23,926 2,375 41,878 14,298 17,913 4,106 9,90 i 30,130 46,784 7,80 11.823 9,088 70,44 9,173 16,960 12,899 1,4:4 7,529 46,785 9,90 S 5,776 34,669 7,466 7,650 42,666 3,823 24,150 15,149 47,415 7,906 28,58 9,249 21,310 11,695 tonham • Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dailey and \Veit Bromwich .9anking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby Etrlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington . 15,757 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester. 118,344 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 12,567 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 29,931 Hull Banking Company, Hull 26,195 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 24,745 Holston Banking Company, Helston 1,553 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 15,754 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, 95,144 21,024 18,205 32,616 18,388 Kna,resborOugh Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,645 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . 66,060 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 41,915 Leamingto:i Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 8,726 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 21,303 Notti,righani and Nottinghamshire Banking Company. Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 15,925 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgste-street, London 821,857 North Wiltt. Banking Company, Melksham 41,911 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 63,112 North_ amptonJhire Banking Company, North ampton North and South \Vales Bank, Liverpool 11,360 Pares's Leicostt rshire Banking Company, Lei cester. . , . . 46,560 Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 1,882 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 35,501 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking.Cornpany, Shiffnall ... Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Coin pany, St our b r id ge Sheffield and llaburnshire Banking Company, Sh S e h ffi e e ffi ld el a a nd — Roihe r h am Joi n t-St oc k Banking 17,775 Swaledale and SdhWenienstdleydale B an ki ng Company, 52,887 Richmond .. ...... • 44,244 Storey and Thomas's Banking Company, Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ... 1 Wolverhampton &IA Staffordshire Bankiag Com panv, Wolverhampton 28,417 Wakefield and Barosley Union Bank, Wakefield 11,201 Whitehaven Joint 'Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven .. ...., Warwick and Le.onr_gtoa Banking Company, 27,5 3 8 Warwick . 30,518 \Vest of Englan.l. ai.!l South Wales District liankAinstol ,.. 62,182 Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 81,609 West Riding Union Banking Company, 24,800 dfo-sfield - Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester. . . , 4,296 York Union Banking Company, York 66,668 York City and County Bankinc , Company, York 83,553 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Stamps and Taxes, March 11, 1841. 9,676 827 i / ELECTION COMMITTEES. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. no US E OF LORDS, March 16. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woolsack at Five o'clock. The Earl of FALMOUTH presented a petition from Fowey, in Cornwall, signed by 1,000 parsons, in favour of the navigation laws. The Earl of DEVON presented a petition from Donegal, on the subject of electoral divisions in Ireland. The NOBLE EARL then moved for copies of the memorials, documents, and letters re ferred to in the letter of Mr. Stanley, addressed to the clerk of the guardians of Newcastle union, bear ing date the 15th of November, 1847, and laid before the House ; also copies of all memorials or applica tions from any proprietor in any other union desirous of having his property formed into an electoral division, with the answer thereto, and all correspondence relating to such applications ; also copies of an extract from the report of any Assistant-Commissioner, upon reference made to him respecting any such application; and also a return of the electoral divisions (if any) which comprise the property of a single person, or of two proprietors only, showing the extent of the population thereof. Earl FITZWILLIAM said that it was a delusion to imagine that the poor-law in Ireland would be a relief to the rate-payers in England. Irish paupers would continue to flock to England until they were furnished with remunerative employment in their own country. Earl FORTESCUE presented a petition, praying that on houses of less value than 101 the poor• rate might be assessed to the owner instead of the occupier. get some kind Hon. Member, like the Hon. Member for Finsbury, to present it, and then to move thlt it should be printed at the public expense.—(llear ) Mr. EWART thought that as it was intended to found a motion upon the petition, it would be better to have it printed by itself, instead of being lost among the voluminous masses of petitions printed by order of the Committee. It was very questionable whether the mode in which petitions were at present treated by the House was not a con siderable grievance to the people of this country. Mr. CRIPPS said that the expenses of printing formed a very serious item in the expenditure of the country ; he thought that if a much smaller number of petitions were presented it would be much better. The motion was then agreed to. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. Mr. E. DENISON postponed for a fortnight his motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the composition and management of the Ecclesiastical Commission of England and Wales. guardians were always too anxious to save their -s expense, and it would be so-n by the evi ch which had been taken on this subject that this practice of rigid economy frequently led to th,•! demise of unfortunate creatures, whose approaching periods of delivery required that they should be immediately supplied with medical relief. He would now refer to cases in which inutitition ind death had occurred in consequence of incom• petent midwives havin4 been eit*oyed instead of properly skilled medical practitioners. He re gretted to bring such matters before the House. He would much rather that they had been adjusted out of the House, but as tlys bad not been done it would be necessary, in order to substantiate his motion, that he should refer to some of the evi dence adduced before the Committee. Mr. C. BULLER -aid, perhaps it would save the tune of the House if he explained the nature of the provisions by which relief to pregnant women was given. If a woman who was pregnant could not get through her labour without parochial relief, the guardians, if they thought proper, were empowered to do so.—(Hear.) Lord ASHLEY proceeded—lt was just possible that when a women in this condition applied fur relief, if her husband earned 7s. or Bs. a eek, that this might be made A ground of refusal. At present a pregnant woman could not be sure that when her hour of travail came on that she would have the prompt attendance of a medical officer. To make this certain, in all cases of distress, was the object of his motion. Presently he should sug gest an improved mode of accomplishing this. Ile was prepared to show that the refusals and delays to which poor women were exposed when seized with the pains of labour had led to the most serious consequences, and that the employment of incompetent midwives had led to the mutilation of the child and the destruction of the mother. Mr. White, the relieving officer of the White chapel union, cited several cases before the Committee in which the lives of both mother and chili were lost, in consequence of inefficient attendance. He stated one case in which the midwife left the woman in alarm, and another in which it had been found neces sary to call in a surgeon to perform a painful and dangerous operation in consequence. He hardly liked to read the details to the House, but he did not know how he could avoid doing so.— (No, no.) If he wished to maintain the resolutions he was proposing, he feared he must do so, as he thought the statement alone would be sufficient to induce the House to accede to them ; but if they thought it was of too disgUsting and painful a cha racter, he would forbear. The Noble Lord then referred to other cases, showing the injury caused by the employment of ignorant women. He felt that he must make an appeal to the House. If, in deference to the feelings of the House and public propriety, he withheld the evidence before him upon this subject, he trusted that it would not be counted against him when it came to be decided " aye " or "no " upon the adoption of these resolutions. lie knew that it might be the opinion of some persons that these resolutions would, if carried out, lead to a large amount of fraud ; but he apprehended that that argument might he met by a clause in the Act, making it legal to attach the wages of such persons who had been guilty of the commission of fraud upon the union. Tnen it might he said that these provisions would tend to encourage immorality, inasmuch as they made no distinction between the married and the unmarried female. But could any person for a moment suppose that a woman would enter upon a course o! guilt merely because she knew that in the time of her delivery she could have the assistance of the medical officer of the union ? It might, with far greater justice and propriety, be said, that the prospect of relief tended to the en couragetnent of immorality. The system as at present constituted was the means of inflicting great evil upon young females especially. Under the present system, young females frequently lacked the courage to apply to boards of guardians for relief, and frequently some of these poor creatures were compelled, in the last stage of their labour, to have recourse to the aid of unskilful practitioners. True, vast sums of money were spent in this country in the shape of medical relief, but the manner in which that relief was ad. ministered was most objectionable. He therefore begged leave to move the first resolution. Mr. WAKLEY seconded the motion. Mr. C. BULLER could not help complaining of the course the Noble Lord had pursued in placing upon the paper a series of resolutions impugning the whole system of medical relief as administered under the poor-law, and then, at the last moment, confining his attEntion and the attention of the House to one particular case in which the system was defective. — (Hear.) The Noble Lord had supported his motion by reference to the evidence taken in 1844, without taking any notice of what had been done by the Poor-law Commissioners in the interim, and the result would appear that it was the opinion of the Noble Lord, and, if the resolution were adopted, of the House too, that there was a neces sity for rectifying certain abuses which he would undertake to prove had long since been most efficiently rectified by the Poor-law Corn missioners.—(llear, hear.) He felt great pain in being obliged to oppose the Noble Lord on the present occasion, because he knew that tIL3 Noble Lord had done much to alleviate the sufferings of the poor of the country, and was looked up to by them as their best friend, but he could assure the Noble Lord and the house that this subject had oc cupied his constant attention since he had the honour of holding the office he now filled, and it appeared to him that the question was too intricate to be dealt with in the manner the Noble Lord proposed.—(Hear, hear.) It appeared to him that the principles and details of the questions were the most anomalous, the most important and the most difficult of any connected with the administration of the poor-law, and he should have been exceedingly happy had the result of his deliberations on the subject enabled him to prepare some plan for the administration of medical relief on a new and improved principle —(Hear, hear.) He apprehended, however, that no new plan could be devised for the administration of medical relief through the medium of the poor-law ; and the result of all the consideration ht had been enabled to give the sulject was, that it was impossible to give medical relief through the poor-law upon any general system, that should prove better or more satisfactory than that already in existence.—(Hear.) It was his opinion, that if they were to establish a more extended or complete system of medical relief, they must abandon the system of local agency and local rates, and administering the relief through the medium of the poor-law, and devise some system of centralization which would give from the funds of the country a system of medical relief adequate to the wants of the people. (Hear, hear.) His conviction was that medical relief could not be put upon a different footing to what it was at present. In stating this he did not mean to say that it might not be improved in its details, as his belief was that it was only by that improvement that it could be placed upon a proper footing.. The expenditure for medical relief was considerably on the increase, and it could not therefore be said that any economy that had taken place in the ad• ministration of the poor - law had been accompanied with any want of attention to the sick poor. The Right Honourable Gentleman, in order to prove this assertion, read several returns with respect to the expenses for medical relief; from which it appeared that from 1838 to 1846 the expenses for medical relief had increased one-sixth upon the sum originally paid. Under the old system it was almost impossible to get a justice of the peace to give an order for nourishment. It was now a common thing to do so. It was a creation of the new system.—(Hear.) Large sums were annually expended under this head. There were cases in which the salaries of poor-law officers were too small—(Hear) —and others in which they were perhaps too large; but it was a difficult thing to ap portion salaries. Sir John Walsh said, in his evi dence in 1844, that the salaries in Norfolk and Suf folk were large, but they gave satisfaction. In Northumberland and Cumberland they were smaller, but there they also gave satisfaction. These counties, and Westmorland, Durham, and Cornwall, however, were less pauperised than the others. Without an exception, they possessed good medical relief. The House must be aware how difficult, nay, how almost impossible it was, to fix salaries by a general rule.— (Hear.) Some discretion must be left to the Com missioners, for they Must render the amount paid palatable to the districts, and according to the amount of labour required. Those unions to which the medical officers devoted their whole time were those from which the least complaints were made. The salary of the Nottingham medical officer, for instance, was 120/, with hoard and lodging. Perhaps that would not satisfy some medical men. Again, in the Wayland Union there existed a mixed plan,i which he believed worked as well as any, and which was to fix the payment of the medical officer parily by salary and partly by a payment for each case attended. There was also another plan, wholly different from tile preceding-, but which the Hon. Member for Finsbury (Mr. Wilk ley) ha I told him in a conversation on the subject he thought might prove satisfactory. This was a Van adopted under the Earl of Stradbroke, in the 131 y thing Union. There were no medical officers at all in that union, but the poor applied to any medical man they thought proper, and, at the end of the year, a sum voted by the guardians was divided amongst those 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, and though as a general principle he thought erm a n en t salaries were the best, he should be ,'sorry to force on the guardians of any district the ob servance of a practice contrary to that to which they, • •ss•n ~ i -t ailed, and which the: had adopted an' l •-n I leach •il.• in pra..tice. The great object was l° secure ;eh ((trete medical services with fair remuneration , and, as wis his duty, he should endeavour so to upper ,ioa the annual grant of 70,0001. as to attain it. Ther e wai another ma ter connected with medical relief wilier' was of grave imp ittarce ; he auded to the present mode of supplying the poor with medicines. That mode he 'h ueht was utiati4actory. He thought the throw' big the c' arize of providing drugs upon the metlicalofil cer was open to abuse, but now he confessed his powers of remedying were inadi plate to his powers of perceiv ing 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 private charities. II the aid of the insprctors, the clergy. and the guardians, some better plan of dispensing drugs than at present es' ieted might be devised and adopted. At present, how ever, he had no plan to suggest himself. He feared he was dealkg with the House in a very crude form, but he hoped the House would excuse him. It was a matter of great difficalty to form a sound judgment on these questions, and would re quire the experience of as manl years as he had been months in his present office. fl e threw himself upon the indulgence of the House; if b e had advanced crude opinions let him be shown thetn, anti it would found his docility would be exempla* —(Hear, hear.) Another complaint which had bee n made was the mode in which the medical officers wer e , unduly fettered in respect to their administering reli ef to the poor; but he thought this complaint arose from* reference to the cases which occurred in the first Yea r of the new poor-law His opinion was, that in the matters of medical relief very little ought to be left to the cllicretion of the relieving officer, who was totally • incompetent to pronounce an opinion whether or not $ 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 such persons as he held to be sick, such discretion being subject to the approval of the guardians at their nest meeting. But in truth the complaints which had reached him had not been against relieving officers for refusing to allow medical men to attend, but against medics' • officers for having neglected to attend. He now came to make a few observations on the remaining resolution s laid on the table by the Noble Lord the Member for. Bath—resolutions by which the Noble Lord had, he thought, raised an unfair impression 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 resolution. The evils there stated had already been provided for by articles 165 and 169 of the consolidated orders issued by the Poor-law Commissioners ; the only difference between those orders and the resolution of the Noble Lord being that the first aro legal, whereas the latter was contrary to the existing law, inasmuch at ii would let in as medical officers in this country Irish said Scotch practitioners. With regard to the 6th resolution propounded by 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 stinted midi' eal relief as the Noble Lord's resolution proposed to sio. Hence, in these two respects, the resolutions cast an un just slur upon the poor -law, while they would not pro- , vide for the evils so effectually as the orders is s ued by the Commissioners. The Noble Lord had confined his argument on the present occasion to his first resolutions which related to women claiming medical relief from the parish in consequence of their being pregnant. In this respect he (Mr. Buller) had hoped the orders of - the Commissioners would have satisfied the Noble Lord. The resolution of the Noble Lord invited not only every pregnant married woman, but every pregnant unmarried woman, to claim relief at the time childbirth—(hear, hear)—and this would be $ scandalous injustice upon the poorer classes of rate payers, who were already sufficiently crushed dowrle : If this was yielded to, anti if indiscriminate relief was to be given at the time of child-bearing, it would be idle to keep up any safeguards to the ratepayers what ever. At present the 182 d article of the consolidated orders provided that every pregnant woman who was le pauper, or who obtained an order from a person legally . authorised, should be attended at childbirth by the me- Weil officer—after birth, in case of difficulty er danger. end that the medical officer should be paid for such at tendance and medicine not less than 10s. nor more than -205.; and in case of difficult labour the medical officer may.- attend without an order, subject to the future decision of the board of guardians as to whether the woman was a proper object for medical attendance. This he (MG: Buller) thought was as far as liberality could go with '?. due regard to the interests of the ratepayers. 1 1 ° - should not go further into the questions raised by the resolutions of the Noble Lord. He had stated the general principles on which relief should be adminis tered, and had given his reasons why he opposed the resolutions of the Noble Lord. lie regretted to do so on this the first occasion of his addressing the Howe since ho had been appointed to the office he held, but it was for the House to decide; and he hoped the House would decide against a resolution which he believed would be most dangerous and prejudicial to the country. The Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman concluded by moving the previous question. WAKLEY regretted that the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman should have made so bad a com mencement 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. Wakley) was at a loss to know why the Hon. Member opposite (Mr. C. Lewis) was out of office us a Poor-law Commis sioner, for it seemed to him that the country was only to have a chat ge of men, but not measures. It appeared to . him that the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman had absolutely got a sinecure appointment, for he eulogised el! that had been done by his predecessors, and promised no change or modification of evils so long and so loudly comp!ained of. Be would tell the Right Han. and Learned Gentl, man that the medical practitioners were not only di,coirented but exasperated, and their treatment at the• hands of the Commission operated injuriously to the poor. The resolutions now under consideration merely went to make it compulsory that the poor woman should have medical attendance at the hour of her greatest phy-,• steal suffering, and it would be easy to provide by clause in a statute punishment for those guilty of any fraud upon the guardians in this respect. It was most important that women sheuld be attended et childbirth by competent medical men, or the•resuls might be a ricketty, diseased, and crippled race. This was the source of a vast amount of paurperism. The number of relieving officers was so small that they could not make an adequate number of visits to the recipients of r,tinf; but the mediell officer, an important rate payer, and who had an interest in reducing the parochial burdens, was not likely to give incorrect information. As the law stood, guardians contracted with medical officers, who were thus overwhelmed with orders by , their relieving officer. It generally happened that the patients were in a state of absolute exhaustion from want of food; the medical officer accordingly gave orders for food; but where the relieving officer had to walk twenty 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 matters of sielermss and health. If a medical officer was liberal in granting these orders for food, ho MI into disfavour with the guardians; but the orders on the medical officer might be multiplied without end. How were our prisoners treated? The surgeons of the prisons and in firmaries might order not only nourishing food, but wine to any extent; and this without any check or rebuke from the visiting magistrates, or from the Home Secre tary, 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 moved for shortly would show in how manycases that power was exercised. Not a single argument had been urged against the adoption of this resolution, and the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman would never have resisted it, had he been acquainted with the miseries of the poor creatures to whom it referred. They were frequently destitute of the most common necessaries of food and clothing, but. the head of the family being in employ, they could not be treated as paupers. Ile regretted that the Right lion. arid Learned Gentleman appeared to be acting on the system of his predecessors, whereby the country would be deprived of the benefit of his splendid talents, as applied to this subject. Mr. HUME, while desirous to afford every possible comfort to women in the state described, could not but fear that the adoption of the Noble Lord's resolution would make matters worse, by striking at the feeling of independence which it was so important to encourage, and weakening the habits of thrift and foresight.— (Hear, hear.) To establish a claim to medical attend ance on the part of every poor woman, married or not— tor the resolution made no distinction—would be a most dangerous step, as regarded the poor themselves—and would be ruinous to that class of poor women who ob tained a livlihood by assisting others. The first objec tion was one which he had felt to the poor-law generally, and he was sorry to learn that in Scotland it was ope rating in the way he had feared, by destroying the in dustry and independence of the poor. He had known many instances of the injury resulting from ill-directed humanity. On these grounds he should oppose the re- Mr. C. BULLER, in reference to something that had fallen from the llon. Member for Finsbury, said he had sent copies of the Noble Lord's resolutions to all the members of the late Poor-law Commission; and seven out of nine of those gentlemen objected most unquali fiedly to the resolution before the House; and Sir d• Walsh objected to it, unless the class of females to re-, ceire the proposed relief was accurately defined. Mr. HENLEY said that every one must applaud the humane motives which had dictated this proposal. In his union they had paid the medical officers 4501. a year under the ()id system; but a neighbouring union only paying 300/., with the sanction of the Commissioners, the medical officers of his union had consented to accept a like suns. When, however, the matter was brought [scions the Commissioners, they refused to sanction more than a payment of 295/. a year, which had since crept up ~gain to about 4001. He had the highest opinion of the issedical officers, and believed they were under no restric tion as to giving orders for food and nourishing sub , , t!inces. lie would not support the - resolution, believing that sufficient facilities existed for obtaining relief by the class referred to, if really destitute. Sir W. CLAY, after complimenting the Right Hon. usol Learned Chief Commissioner, said ho must never lieless support the resolution, which went to remedy • a very serious evil—greater than any that could be pro aced by its adoption. Let the House remember that Ito form of eleemosynary assistance was so important to the poor, and so little liable to abuse, as medical assistance. While 5,000,0001. was applied to the relief of the poor, only about 2 per cent., or 175.00td., was expended in medical relief.—(Hear, hear.) Hence the increase of so small a charge was not a matter to frighten the House, in a fiscal point o' view. He believed that the number DUNDALK. The Dundalk Election Committee re-assembled at the usual hour yesterday morning; Lord Harry Vane in the chair. Mr. CALVERT intimated at the opening of the Com mittee that the petitioners were prepared with no other evidence to prove the point of alienage, but he insisted that the passport put in yesterday, and proving Mr. 31•Tavish to be an American citizen, was quite sufficient to sustain the allegation of want of qualification. Mr. ROGERS then addressed the Committee on behalf of the sitting Member, after which the Committee ad journed without coming to any decision. AYLESBURY. The Aylesbury Election Committee re-assembled at the usual hour yesterday morning; Mr. R. Palmer in the chair. James Franklin, a cordwainer of Aylesbury, proved that for several days before the election an extensive system of treating was carried on by Mr. Deering's committee. Henry Impey, • csrrier, of Aylesbury, gave sim-ihr evidence. Christopher Williamson, a clerk to Mr. Tindal, the petitioner, and who acted as one of the poll-clerks at the Aylesbury election, was called to prove that on the day of the election he saw Mr. Bull, one of Mr. Deering's committeemen, and agent to the Duke of Buckingham, bring up the Aston Clinton voters to poll, and afterwards taise them to the George Inn. Subsequently the Rev. Mr. Owen, an active friend of Mr. Deering s, brought up a number of voters to poll who were iu a state of beastly intoxication. A lengthened discussion then arose as to whether the agency of Mr. Bull and Mr. Owen had been proved, and the Committee having cleared the room, and consulted together, in a short while decided that it had. A witness was called to prove that, before the election, a meeting of the electors of Aylesbury was convened, to hear Mr. Owen deliver a speech on the suE ject of the Maynooth grant. The witness attended the meeting, and saw a large number of voters there who were liberally supplied with drink and refreshments. The Committee adjourned at four till eleven o'clock to-morrow morning. BEWDLEY. The Bewdley Election Committee re-assembled at the usual hour yesterday morning ; Mr. Wrightson in the chair. Mr. Sergeant WILL:1011AX, having addressed the Com mittee on behalf of Sir Thomas Winnington, proposed to call Mr. Elgie to rebut the case made out against the Hon. Baronet, but Mr. ALEXANDER submitted that Mr. Elgie was one of the recognizances for promoting the petition presented against the return of Mr. Ireland, and, therefore, his evidence could not be received. Mr. Sergeant WRANGUAM replied, after which the room was cleared, and, the Committee having consulted for a few minutes, strangers were re-admitted, and the Chairman announced that the Committee were of opinion that Mr. Elgie's evidence could be received. Mr. Frederick Thomas Elgie, a solicitor, of Wor cester, was then examined, and certainly his evidence exited the astonishment of the Committee, as no doubt it will our readers. Having explained the evidence of the witness Bennett, he proceeded to state that, in the year 1841, he was the agent of Sir Thomas Winnington, and conducted the Bewdley election of that year. During the election he discovered that a practice prevailed on the Conservative side of kidnapping voters who were inclined to support Sir Thomas ‘Vinnington OR the Whig interest; and in order to prevent the losses which Sir Thomas sustained in this way at the election of 1841, he took the precaution of engagi+ g a number of navigators (between 300 and 400) who were engaged on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Railway, at Worcester, to go over to Bewd ley, and Stourport, to protect Sir T. Winnington's voters from the attacks of the other side. These men were, of ei urse, engaged in this way several days, and the ex penses d by the other side to have been incurred for treating the voters were, in fact, for maintaining these men during the time they were acting under his direc tions. Several public. houses were open for their accom modation both in Bewdley and Stourport, and the bills of the publicans amounted to 7001. or 8001. In answer to a question from the Committee, Mr. Elgie stated that, in consequence of representa tions made to him by the Conservatives, that if these men remained in BeNdley or Stourport during the poll ing, it might endanger the peace of those places, he consented to withdraw them. He did not believe there was a public-house in Bewdley or Stourport which was not engaged during the election on one side or the other. The precautions he had mentioned were absolutely necessary, for at the former election an attack was made upon one of Sir Thomas Winnington's friends, and a number of voters forcibly carried otf. Other witnesses were called to confirm Mr. Elgie's statement, after which the Committee adjourned till to morrow, at eleven o'clock. LOUVAIN A LA SAMBRE RAILWAY A special general meeting of the shareholders of this undertaking was held yesterday afternoon, at the London THvurn. JOHN BARNES, Esq., President, took the chair, and called upon the Secretary to read the report, which was a most voluminous document. It stated, amongst other things, that nothing had come to the knowledge of the directors which prevented their conscientiously affirming :hat the Louvain I Is Sambre Railroad would, if brought into operation as contemplated, be as certain as nny such undertaking of yielding a good and even a great return for the capital required for carrying it out. That the committee of shareholders, which had been appointed to co-operate with the directors, stated that the line was one of the best, if not the best in Belgium, and was capable of yielding great profit to the share holders, and recommended that a resident managing director should be appointed—that the works at Louvain and its immediate neighbourhood should be stopped, and those comprised in the section thence to Gastache (Wavre) diminished in extent and delayed in execution as far as circumstances would permit—that in any case the heavy engineering expenses incurred upon those works should be put an end to by the discontinuance of the English staff, and the substitution of Belgian em ployes; a measure which other considerations seemed to combine with the above to make most desirable; and they also recommended that the whole of any means at the disposal of the directors, be devoted to the completion and opening for traffic of the sections from Charleroy to Fleurus, they forming, from local causes, the peculiar portion of the concession to which a very considerable and remunerative profit is insured so soon as it is opened; and the directors had acted upon the report so far as it laid in their power. The course, or track of the line for its entire length has been approved, with the exception of the portion between Wavre and Gem bloux, which, on account of the negotiations i•o long pending with regard to a partial fusion of this company with that of the Great Luxemburg, and from other causes, is not yet definitively se! tied. The balance sheet showed an amount in the hands of the company up to the 31st of December, 1847, including " caution " money, of 46,122/. ss. The CHAIRMAN moved that the report be received and adopted, and stated that it was in the contemplation of the directors to nominate to the direction Mr. Wil kinson and Mr. Fisher, who were two of the committee of shareholders appointed at the last meeting. Mr. SHEPHERD wished to know whether, in case of a dissolution, the company could dispose of the sleepers, tails, &c., upon which nearly 21,0001. had been ex pended, end devote the proceeds for the benefit of the shareholders ? The CHAIRMAN said, he believed the Government would not consent to their being sold. t m E a n The motion having b e en seconded, Mr. be o Snn d i was stat notedthat likelyto b thecall e ofperrespndloLed o to, a re about s the shares were now selling for 10d. each, and he should therefore move an amendment, every proprietor being anxious to get as much as possible out of this unfortunate undertaking. The amendment was, " That it was advi sable to suspend all operations, and that the directors be requested to realise every available asset, and endeavour to obtain forthwith from the Government the return of all or a portion of the ' caution' money, and that the money so obtained be divided among the shareholders." The CHAIRMAN said the amendment, if passed, could not be carried into effect, as a meeting, in order to be legally constituted, ought to be held at Brussels, but the directors were extremely anxious to come to any arrange ment by which the money invested could be got back again. In reply to another question, the CHAIRMAN stated that the Government had a claim to their expending 30 per cent. of the subscribed capital in carrying out the works, and when their outlay exceeded that 30 per cent., and they had finished one or two sections, they might with some probability of success apply to the Govern ment for assistance. Mr. SHEPHERD wished to know what sum would be required to open a portion of the line? The CHAIRMAN said it would take about 40,000/. to complete the line from Charleroy to Rensart, and they anticipated a return of 151. per cent. upon the money laid out on that portion when opened. Mr. SHERMAN said, in reply to a shareholder, that the original concession was obtained for 72,0001., but was not worth half that money now. When it was granted, however, it was worth a great deal more, persons being mad to get concessions for any money. It was agreed that 30,0001. should be paid when granted, 22,000/. when the line was finished and open for traffic, and 20,000/. more if the line paid on au average 51. per cent. for three years. It was stated by the Chairman that if, in the present position of the company, the line was abandoned, there would be no assets to return to the shareholders. He also stated that it was not likely that the Government would guarantee a certain rate of interest upon the calls paid up. After a rather desultory discussion the amendment was withdrawn, and the report received. A resolution was then passed confirming the proposed call of 21, which it was agreed should be divided into three instalments, viz., 1/. to be paid on the Ist of May, 10i. on the Ist July, and 10s. on the Ist August. A vote of thanks having been passed to the• Chairman anddirectors, the meeting separated. Cntnicit EXTENSION IN BRADPORD.—The Rev. J. Cooper took occasion at a meeting of the Propaga tion of the Jospel Society, on Tuesday, to state that a gentleman, not now resident in Bradford, but connected by property with the parish, had contributed 6,0001. to wards the increase of the church accommodation in the parish ; towards the endowment of two churches he had given 2,5001. each, and 500/. each towards their erection. The plans of one of these churches were now in the room. These statements were received by the meeting with loud cheers.—Halifax Guardian. APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES. Lord CAMPBELL presented a Bill for establish ing a court of appeal in criminal cases, which was read a first time. PETITIONS. The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition from Witney against the 13i11 for the removal of Jewish disabilities. Lord LYTT ELTON presented a petition, praying the House to adopt measures to prevent the circula tion of the bull In cans Domini. Lord STANLEY presented a petition from a lodge of Odd Fellows, praying that their society might be placed upon the same footing as other benefit societies. PASSENGERS' BILL. Earl GREY moved that the House do resolve itself into Committee on the Passengers Bill. Lord STANLEY complained of the emigrant tax which was levied in Canada upon emigrants, which in some cases amounted to 30s. a head upon each person imported into the colony; whereas in New York the emigrant tax could not under any circum stances amount to more than a dollar and a half. The effect of this system would be to transfer the whole tide of emigration from Canada to the United States. Earl GREY thought it was necessary for the colonies to adopt some method of preventing the immigration of old and helpless pau pers, who would from the moment of their landing become burdens on the colony. In many instances, grandfathers, crippled and help • less, and totally incapable of earning their living, had been sent out from Ireland to Canada with their grand children, and had, from the moment of their landing, become burdens upon the colony, and it certainly was the duty of the Colonial Legislature to prevent the emigration of helpless paupers who were incapable of undertaking the labour necessary to maintain themselves. The Earl of HARDWICKE complained that the Bill placed the shipowner between two fires. He was to allow twelve feet space to each passenger if his ship carried a surgeon, which surgeon would be a great expense to him, but if ho did not carry a surgeon, he was to allow fourteen feet space to each emigrant, which would prevent his carrying out as many passengers as his ship was capable of accommodating. After a short conversation, in which Earl Grey, Lord Stanley, Earl Fitzwilliam, and Lord Lyttelton, took part, the motion was agreed to, and the House resolved itself into Committee on the Bill. On the first clause being proposed, Lord STANLEY objected to the provision with respect to cooking on board emigrant ships, and moved an amendment to strike out the words in the clause relating to the subject. After a short conversation across the table, the amendment was withdrawn. The several clauses were agreed to, and the Bill reported without amendments.—Adjourned. ROUSE OF CWILVIONS, Marsh 16. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. Mr. Sheriff Hill appeared at the bar, and presented a petition from the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and common council of the city of London, in common council assembled, against intramural burials. COMMITTEE OF SELECTION. Sir W. HEATHCOTE moved that the order of the 10th February, containing an instruction to the Committee of Selection to delay the appointment of Committees on certain private Bills, be discharged. Sir DE LACEY EVANS presented a petition from the various charitable institutions of the me tropolis, prating that the legacy duty of 10 per cent. might he remitted in their favour. Sir R. 11. INGLIS presented several petitions against the admission of Jews into Parliament. The Right Hon. Baronet also presented several petitions against the Bill for establishing diplomatic relations with Rome. _ Mr. WILCOX presented a petition from Falcon• bridge against any increase in the naval and military establishments of the country. Mr. B. CABBELL presented a petition, praying the House to adopt some more equitable mode of levying the poor •rates. Mr. F. O'CONNOR presented a petition praying for the repeal of the attorneys' certificate duty. Sir W. HEATIICOTE presented a petition from a place in Hampshire against the Bill for the establish ment of diplomatic relations vk ith the Court of Rome. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from a place in Ireland, praying the House to take measures to suppress horse racing. Mr. S. CRAWFORD:presented a petition from Rochdale against certain clauses of the Health of Towns Bill. _ . _„...._ Mr. CIIAPLIN presented a petition from the solicitors of Salisbury against the certificate duty. MEDICAL OFFICERS. Lord D. STUART presented a petition in favour of the appointment of paid medical officers to super intend the sanitary condition of the poor, and to give them medical relief. . Mr. P. SCROPE presented a petition from medical practitioners in Stroud, praying that they might be employed under the Health of Towns Bid. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME. Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a petition from Rothesay against diplomatic relations with Rome. ODD FELLOWS. _ _ Lord MAHON presented petitions from six lodges of Odd Fellows, praying that they might be placed under the provisions of the Friendly Societies' Act. HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL. - - - Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from a place in Monmouthshire in favour of this Bill. THE RECENT RIOTS. Sir WILLIAM CLAY—Sir, I beg to give notice that I shall to-morrow ask the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Horne Department, whether, in consequence of the explanations recently given by the Attorney-General of the state of the law as to persons having a remedy against the hun dreds or counties in which they reside for damage done to their property by riotous proceedings, it be the intention of the Government to introduce a measure to amend the law in that respect. STAMFORD. Mr. WOOD gave notice that on Thursday, the 30th of March, he should move the appointment of a Committee to inquire into a petition of the electors of Stamford, c omp l a i n i ng of the conduct of the Marquis of Exeter at the last and former elections. He . begged to move t h at th e petition be printed. Sir R. 11. INGLIS said the Committee on Public Petitions met now twice a week instead of once, as formerly, and that, no doubt, the petition referred to by the H onoura bl e M em b e r would be in the hands of hi mse lf an d ot h er Honourable Members as soon as it could be by a motion to th a t effect. The n ecess it y f or making motions for the printing o f petit i ons with the votes was now in a great measure superseded, in c onsequence of the more frequent meetings of the Committee. He hoped, therefore, the H on . an d L e arned Gentleman would withdraw his motion. Mr. WAKLEY hoped that his lion. and Learned Friend would not be caught in the trap set for him by his Right Hon. Friend. Ile had himself been " wheedled " ou t o f a mo tion to have a , petition which he had presented printed, on the ground that it would no doubt be printed by the Committee. That Committee decided that the petition should not be printed, He sub,equently moved that the petition should be printed ; the Chairman opposed it, and, there not being forty Members present, the motion was lost. Mr. THORNELY said that he had the honour to be the chairman of the Committee referred to by the Hon. Member for Finsbury, and he could assure the House that the reason Why the petition was not printed was because it stated no personal grievance, nothing more than a mere indi vidual opinion, f oun d e d upon a vast amount of statistical inform a ti on f urn ished in various Parlia mentary papers. If the House were to adopt the plan of printing such p e titions , the House would be inundated with them. Upon great questions of public, importance, s uch as currency or bank ing,individuals would have only to embody their opinions in the form of a petition, SIR J. FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION. Sir R. INGLIS wished to put a question to the Hon. the Secretary for the Admiralty (Mr. Ward), with respect to the expedition sent from this country in the year 1845 to explore the north-west passage, and in respect to which a great and natural anxiety prevailed not only on the part of persons con nectedwith that branch of science which that expedition was intended to improve, but also upon the part of the wives and families of those engaged in that re • marlrable expedition. Those gallant fellows had now been absent for three years, and nothing had been heard from them for about two years and ten months. Ile wished to know what steps Government had adopted, or were prepared to adopt, in respect to the means to be employed to discover the expedition of Sir J. Franklin; whether they were prepared to send out an expedition in search of that officer and his crew, and whether they were prepared to offer rewards to any whaler or other mariner, who in the course of his voyage, or in the course of an extra voyage, might obtain any information upon the subject. He believed that it• such an expedition had been sent from any maritime country in Europe, he did not think—and he hoped it would be found to be the case in this country—there would be found the want of any pecuniary means to attain the object he had referred to. Mr. WARD said, in answer to the question put by his Hon. Friend, he felt bound to state to the House that there was, he was afraid, toomuch cause for anxiety for the fate of the expedition to which he had referred, for although the expedition went out fully equipped for the voyage, it had only taken out provisions for three years, and such being the case, there could be no doubt, unless something was heard with respect to it in the course of the present year, the situation of Sir John Franklin and his crew were in the greatest peril. He thought he could satisfy the House that the Government had not been want ing in caution on this subject, in order that every means should be adopted to secure the lives of Sir John Franklin and his crew. Three expeditions had been sent out ; the Plover and the Herald were directed to enter Behering Straits together, and the boats of the Plover were directed to sweep the coasts as far as the Makenzie River, and every arrangement had been made to secure proper researches after Sir J. Franklin and his crew ; added to this, Sir John Ross had been sent out in the Endeavour, accompanied by the Enterprise, both of which vessels had provisions for two years, and also an additional supply for Sir John Franklin and his crew, should they be found to re quire it.—(Hear, hear.) He ought also to add that re wards had been offered to any whale ship that would bring intelligence to her Majesty's Govern ment, and those rewards would be regulated according to the information received. Sir R. INGLIS wished to know whether his Hon. Friend the Secretary for the Admiralty was prepared to state the amount of the rewards.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.") As the whalers would leave this country by the 21st or 22d of this month, he trusted the reward would be commensurate to the amount of human life preserved. Mr. WARD thought it would be unwise to state the amount. The reward that would be offered would be equivalent to the expense of fitting out a ship for the purpose. 1001. would be given for information of the ship and crew, and that would be increased in proportion to the value of the information. MEDICAL RELIEF. Lord ASHLEY then rose to move the following resolutions, founded on the evidence taken before the Medical Relief Committee in 1844 :—That every woman claiming medical assistance from the parish in consequence of being pregnant, shall be entitled, in all cases, to the aid of the medical officer with her first child, and also with the second or others which may follow, provided she present a certificate from the medical officer who attended in her previous confinement, stating that circumstances had occurred in it out of the ordinary and natural course of events, which render it desirable that she should have medical attendance on the next occasion of deli very. That, in the event of its being considered necessary to destroy the child in order to save the life of the mother, the union surgeon shall be at liberty to seek the assistance of another competent practi tioner, if he see fit, before the necessary operations are performed, and who shall be paid for the assistance rendered, on producing to the union or proper officer the joint certificate of the union surgeon and himself that such con sultation and aid were essential, previously to the expected legal and necessary deprivation of life. That it is expedient that medical inspectors be appointed by the Poor-law Commissioners, or by the Secretary of State, or with his sanction : one to each district to which an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner or in spector is attached, at a salary not exceeding six hundred pounds a year, exclusive of travelling ex penses, and exclusive of an allowance of a clerk, if the duties should require one. That the duty of the me dical inspectors should be to inspect and report on the medical treatment of the poor of the different unions, and on the fitness of the medical men appointed by the unions ; to inquire particularly into the treat ment of the sick poor in the union houses, and to regulate such treatment; to inquire into and report on the diets and healthful condition of the poor within them generally, together with such other sanitary duties of every kind as may be required of them by the Secretary of State, or by the Poor-law Comtniseioners ; and particularly with respect to the number of medical officers who ought to be employed in each union, and, under the sanction of Poor-law Commissioners, to fix the salaries which ought to be awarded to them for their services in each particular union, or part of a union, in the district. That, from and after the month of March next, the appointment of medical officers of unio::s shall be permanent during good behaviour, they being removeable only by the Poor-law Commissioners, whose decisions shall he final. That no medical person be appointed surgeon or medical officer to a union unless he possess a diploma in surgery, and a degree, diploma, or license in physic, from one or other of the Universities or Colleges of Physicians or Surgeons, or Societies of Apothecaries of the United Empire, legally entitled to grant respectively such licenses, diplomas, or degree; and that if, under any circum stances, it should be found necessary to employ unqua lified persons, such unqualified persons must have a special permission granted by the Poor-law Commis sioners, under their handwriting, with the reasons for such permission annexed: all such permissions to be annually laid before Parliament at the commence ment of the session. That it is the opinion of this House that the Poor-law Commissioners should cause a list to be made out, by the proper officer in each parish of a union, of the poor s who may be entitled to attendance from the medical officer of the union ; and that all such persons shall be at liberty to ask the assistance, without pre viously obtaining an order to that effect from the relieving officer, overseer, or other person, when so seriously ill as to be unable to leave their homes. That the poor thus applying shall not be entitled to such medicel attendance beyond twenty-four hours, unless they ohtain the signature of the relieving', officer to the printed order usually issued by him to the surgeon ; but which printed order shall in such case be given by the surgeon to the poor man in the first instance, to he carried by him or his friends to the relieving officer for his in= formation and counter. signature, as an acknowledg ment of the fact of such medical relief having been asked for and obtai ne d. That all casual poor requiring medical attendance be treated in a similar manner, the surgeon being at liberty to refuse further attendance, if the counter signature of the relieving officer be not obtained. In bringing these important resolutions before the House, it would be his endeavour to spare as much everyas p possible s r i I t l h e a t sh t o h u e ld ne ta u k s e e might discuss each on its own merits. He should abstain from entering generally into the question of e b s l o e lu th ti e oa tim se e pa o r f a t t h e e ly,t u o s r e d . er mrelslul,v and dy refrain t the qfune from the poor-laws, and confine himself strictly to the con sideration ofmedical relief referred to in the r eso l u ti ons. tiiioenssheomubldraced confineby h h i i s se o f exclusively going into matters relating to the conduct of the Commissioners, past or present. He had been met by some Hon. Gentlemen with the objection that it was not the duty of a poor law to provide medical relief, but as the law had already made such pro visions, it was too late for Honourable Gentlemen to raise that objection. In order to economise the time of the House, he had placed the most impor tant resolution first, and, in the outset, he must be allowed to protest that boards of guardians did not pay that attention to the necessities of pregnant paupers which their condition demanded. He had, thereftre, proposed that the House should entitle pregnant women to medical relief in the first instance without having recourse to the order of a board of guardians. Boards of