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We quote a passage or two: — The Roman, in the midst of the pomp and magnificence of his . religio n — a re li g i on o f di v i nat i on, oracle, and mag i c, a fusion and amalgamation of Eastern and Grecian superstition — found no satisfaction, uo balm, no consolation for the sor r9wil of the soul ; it was a colossal and imposing whole, bli+ !iving principle, the principle of truth, was 0-- went; it was a symbol, a h i eroglv -- 1 -* external manifestation, the ' derive no ch. erir , port it ;- a non-ex• e mass, but, from the uroken and wounded spiriteould , word—no import that could buoy and sup ... tee Surge of temporal adversities—no interpretation wa tch, like a starry guide, could illumine the gloom of being, Point a certain and propitious future. Truth is the ;""ftilttr of tim e ; th oug h i n the mysterious seminaries of t aehatt and Indo-Egyptian ' science and philosophy, in the aca d e n.les of Greece, - the human mind was in constant activity, and soared proudly in the regions of superb invention and spiritual refinement, still the doctrine of humanity was un ti!)°wil, tak Unrecognizedschools progressed in eloquence and ctic subtlety ; but individual man was an isolated being, a t "ningent to-day hanging in delight over the superb sophism of ,`'lne profound master, to-morrow weereng over the inade rq of the basted formula, oscillating between the realms of , 04 , 1 2 t t4 and error, without a specific notion to impel him on tt '4 and dependent on the reason and authority of others, in " 'ad of relying on the impulse f his own conscience, on the Power of his own intellect. 'I he weight of doubt arid uncer p,ntY pressed on and destroyed the elasticity of his energies, Ile ' , used through th e years of life like a victim bound it ° tne car of an unconquerable and inexorable destiny. Yet 11. at impossible that Christianity—the expression of hu thanltY—could have apreared before the hour of its epiphany e eyele of phenomena necessary to its manifestation was not ac complished till the world had relapsed into the slumber of Pace,aher the exterminating w ars of the Triumvirate, and the con quests of Augustu s . Th e l or dly in intellect, a race o f ment a l Prometheans, had governed the earth in ostentation and b er ile vanity; the h our h a d n ow d awne d w h en it was to be as rted that truth surpassed authority, and that this truth could 11 Psli'ing in all its omnipotence from the bosom of the mass. BRITISII MAGAZINE. ti periodical chiefly devoted to the interests of to l e Established Church, and containing, among 1 1 1 er . serviceable matters, a monthly register of i g l , ol ls and ecclesiastical information. The ‘,,i'.l lll )tr, now lying on our table, is embellished , a map of the cities of London and West iTillister, and such parts of their immediate envi rons as form a portion of the Metropolitan Dm !se• The map seems a very accurate one, and "graved by Archer. CATHOLIC MAGAZINE. ,As May be surmised from its title, this Ma t'h,aztne is intended to circulate principally ' s ,: 4 ' l3 ng readers of the Roman Catholic persua- On) with whom it is not unlikely to be popular. .11 t h e Number before us there is an interesting article on " The Massacre of the Catholics at ispaes" in the year 1567. 21 1. E CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY REVIEW. This valiant defender of the Church writes a sen sible ar ti c l e thi s time on Methodism, and the re are f e w persons but may learn something I. 'oln the cc Review" of this Church sect, which is not , a heresy b u t a s chism. There are at present, according to the statement made at the confer ence held at Newcastle in 1840, no leSs than 1,14 2,453 persons belonging to the Methodist I nection, of whom about 3:24,000 are in Great i ritain, and 693,000 in America. In England during the past year, there was an increase of 16 ) 11 0 members. The income of their Missionary Society was no l ess i n 1839 t h an 92,697/., and th eir expenditure on this head no less than i 1 3 , 596/., but they are gradually liqui vaiit, give their debt. The following extract give even• to the most orthodox Church hoots more information than they at present Possess as to the change from the gown to the surplice sects : It v t lis hardly known, even to the generality of the clergy, on s ip " ground stands the modern practice of tea s ding in the sur -1:e and preaching in the gown ; and, as an admirable oistiance of right judgment and high Church principle, we 4 1 take this opportunity of explainiag it. That all Church `nlents had some ;ymstical meaning will be, we think, uni- R et i o 'allY acknowledged that they were not merely made " for n d beauty,' but, like the robes of Aaron, to shadow ijrdi the position, with regard boll to God and the Church, of *ho wore them. The surplice, the scarf, and the cassock, , 11 ' all th at are now i n genera l use as strictly clerical; the n a l; the h oo d, an d the band s , marking simply the University f r „ .. en of the wearer. In the early period of the Anglican *'fell it was undoubtedly customary that the preacher, as ell as the r ea d er , should wear the surplice and scarf, and it tleovnt is it grad now universal. that the Our custom ol?tained—nor friends, the "I ractarians,would tea restore the old usage ; they would have all the vestments th e Ik e minister remind the hearers that he who addresses them 4 4 ; s° as the priest of the Church Catho'ic, as the authorised Irithaecredited ambassador of Christ to his people, endowed th e mystical powers, andespecially chosen by the Spirit.. At the g ame 'aloe time—and in this latter respect they are quite right— %,l' l i n , * upon preaching as but a secondary part of the 11 0 - „ r en service. The chief reason of our attendance at the of Gases, not to hear Mr. A. or Mr. 8., but to offer ci ter 'wn p, to put up our own prayers, to make our own siv e e saion to join with the Lord's flock in the public act of wor p4 and to receive the comfortable assurance that " He Beth and absolveth those who truly repent and un.feign efheY believe his holy Gospel." Ve inferior, then,. is the th e ;,°f the preacher to that . of the . priest,. and quite right are th e Tractarians raetarians in their relative estimation of the two. In this t„ are in accordance with the Reformers of our Church ; t o 1 : 5 )15 the other hand, they are very twosinconistent i n wishing T h -png back a custom which puts the . on an equa ity. Church, according to her present practice, directs that i " sermon shall he delivered from a different place arid in a el& ,Zent dress ; and for good reasons prayers are to be read in the t Alice and scarf, to intimate that he who reads, reads as an afd bred priest, and pronounces the words of the Church and 0 , ~1 1i s own. He who preaches, preaches in a gown, and to do so in a hood, if he be entitled to wear one, in hider to s h ow t h at as h e now s p ea k s i n h' s ow n person and on sg now authority, so he has some personal claim to be heard , t h th e ,respect on the score of his learning. On the same ground ti le Place of the ministration is altered ; and whereas the priest k i ti a r ks from the altar and from the reading-desk, the preacher of Is Fs'es his auditory from the pulpit, to mark the difference sobers position towards them. The Wesleyan Methodists have th e e graduates among them, but these never wear gowns in ; while Dissenters, whether literate or illiterate, in- S °. 4 T 1 ,,h e Review" also contains an article on Ranke's, ri an `nry of the Popes, which is narrow, l that AL dant, and yet fallacious notice, which Mr. , 4 4 -ea nlay wrote for the " Edinburgh Reiew.' article on the Principles of Population, being rev . th e lew of Mr. Alison 's book, only shows that Reviewer is not a whit better acquainted with a , t ' i subject than Mr. Alison himself. In another am e l° we have some account of Thomas a Becket Wi th his Contemporaries, which being overlaid 4 11 ,„ Citations and reference is not nearly so a n - sing as it might have been made. There is jitiPPlanation of Church principles which is all fo r , for Mr. Gladstone, and one on the " Tracts qi the Times," which is a severe censure on Mr. edstone's instructors and allies, the Puseyites. st r it etliing decent is said about Church music, k ti s omething learned about Mr. Peile's trans ., to: 4 of the Cheophorre of dEsehylus. A notice, ° l l the Worship of the Virgin Mary, con- Ilig ps ecl, from former Numbers, is very anti tlin,stical, from all which it is plain that th e Ateriewer hates Popery because it is not F u Church of England, and loves the Church of stet 4 nd because it is very like Popery. To ev er i nK orthodox Churchmen, ready to swallow si,t 3r tning and find everything beautiful and con the e t which goes b the name urch, lut e `' Review" will be acceptable. of It the is not Ch desti re, t °f anecdotes, some of which we shall trans ser,s°, our columns, and it makes us thoroughly e/ 1 4 1131 e how little the Church has to rest on by laideavourn ino• onto prove that its foundations are 1 (1 0 T AE rea AiEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF I\iu SCOTLAND. co urt I nber XXX., just published, contains the !11 Q „ t Y of Caithness, complete, and conclusion of land °u nty of Sutherland, with a map of the Shet ims.'siands. One agreeable feature in the des -Itri,•;'°ll of these remote and cold districts is the tilr ° 'vetnents which have taken place lately in th e external appearance and internal comforts of be b eC ltages of the peasantry. The example of eh e n.c-e of Sutherland has no doubt had a very als o ?eial effect, not only in this respect, but lot to i n the making of new, lines of roads, and Lets, during and encouraging a better sys tac ° t . husbandry. By these means the o t . the , country and the habits of the ott ert nave been materially changed for the c oi• • The accounts of many of the parishes built in such statements as these, " The well dens a I V neatly kept cottages and enclosed gar i°,vtd exceed what tenants in former days, pay .°4l 501. to 1001. a year, possessed. Every ual . 4 cle In a family has some resource in a Indus °r manual labour—all is a stirring scene of 1 94 e j and positive comfort." What gratifica \ltith ti t? blue ribbands and stars afford compared jash,d l sl Tie scenery in some of these parishes t l l tlath r .°Y the Atlantic is full of grandeur, parti ,..e 4 6 , r 1 i. n the parish of " Edderachillis, situated on 4 1 , 11- west coast of the county of Sutherland, ) ,)%0 pi'lere are about nine mountains averaging ;` l ero 4 7,t i above the level of the sea, with nu "a4ibed ~t a 4 e s." The fury of 'sea storms (as de- Mr. Stewart, who wrote the statistical t 11 , 1 4, 4 1 ',,t of this parish) is often the cause of great I l l e ii\ obs' u r u re datnage, particularly in winter, and to th r on shore is magnificently grand bi ll :3r a re from the north west; the noise of h ° e,ks i s : v s of the Atlantic heaving against the i„ e igh t 'retnendous, and only equalled by the h " s ita Lle n which they are raised, known in some 'reci t ,i t _ us ! to be y, no less than. " 600 feet against the rocks of lianda ICTI "AR Y 01 SCIENCE, LITERA . TORE, AND ARTS. b t he Th ird -Longman, and Co. AartP .art of this Dictionary, which will ar id s, eon ,,,u• It ten or at most; twelve monthly eont, in 'indes with the article " Diamond," 44 0 , rta nce s others of considerable length and C ove , such as 44 Cotton,” cc Commerce," a main stat i . . l anters." The tables in the first, con -411eree ' s eal returns of' this great article of go so far back as 1697, when the total - value of cotton goods e:lported. Was only 5,9151., and the raw cotton imported 1,976,3591b5. No Whitney's inventio n, great increa s e t oo k p l ace till 1795, when game into operation, and since tlp , ' period the increase of the trade nas been beyond all precedent. In 1838 were imported not less than 507,850,5771b5., and the total declared value of cotton goods ex ported the previous year was considerably above 20 millions sterling. The total value of the cot ton goods and yarn annually produced in Great Britain is estimated by Mr. M'Culloch at 34,000,0001., and by Mr. Baines at somewhat less. The article on the Covenanters contains some cu rious details of the doings of this extraordinary sect during the wars. They were too much for worn out Royalty, but could not resist the iron grasp of Cromwell. Like the Non-intrusionists of the present day, they attempted to make the Church Courts independent of civil autho rity. Accordingly in 1638 the General Assem bly continued its sittings in defiance of the Royal Commissioner, and when they attempted in 1653 to treat Cromwell with similar contempt, he served them as he served the Long Parliament. The Assembly had only implicitly to obey, and did not meet again till after the Revolution. The remarks on our North American possessions, under the article " Colony," will be read with interest, though many will not concur in the con clusions of the writer, that in some ten or twenty years Canada will become independent, or be in corporated with the United States. MR. WILLIAM TOOKE. A letter has been published bearing the signa ture of William Tooke, and dated from Russell square, in which that gentleman recants his poli tical opinions, abuses his former friends and asso ciates, and so prepares himself, as he thinks, in a fit and proper manner to take his place amongst the Tories. Mr. Tooke boasts that he was capti vated by the triumphs of the French Revolution, but he was terrified by the dominion of Bonaparte and became a volunteer. After he laid down his arms, and after an interval of some ten years, he became a diffuser of useful knowledge, being trea surer of the Socrety, the influence of which he has since sought to pervert to his own purposes. Then he benefited, he says, the London Univer sity and Hospital by his exertions and pecuniary contributions. What he may have done for the Hospital we know not, but the University has been rather ruined than extended by his manage ment. He has now become disgusted by the bigotry and intolerance manifested by those who are brawlers, as he was, for universal toleration He humbly admits that he, a man of character and property, is open to censure for having acted with those who have neither. His answer to this is so curious, and so characteristic of Mr. Tooke, that we transcribe it : " I own I was not prepared to fins our English Catalines, Clodii, and Alurats not only supported and encouraged, but actually courted by men of apparently sober life and conversa tion, and of strict religious pretensions ; who are content to desecrate a sacred cause, and bow the knee to Baal, for pur poses of mere political agitation, as unwise in the adoption, as necessarily fruitless in the result. How unlike their honest and uncompromising predecessors, the Baxters, Owens, Howes, Wattses, and Doddridges, who would have disdained such courtship of the gamblers and roues of their period, for any purpose, or at any price." The plain meaning of all the mass of cant, recan tation, and humbug, to which Mr. Tooke's sig nature is affixed, is, that "I, Mr. Tooke, having been heretofore a Liberal—having looked to the Liberals to promote my views, and they. having found me out, and shook me off, though great was the difficulty ; and I, having no longer any hope of becoming representative of Finsbury, or any other place, by bamboozling a Liberal constituency, hereby endeavour to make my peace with the Tories, and offer myself to re present Finsbury on their interest, and by their support, or any other place in Par liament at the next general election." Such is the meaning of Mr. Tooke's letter, ad dressed to a Tory paper, when all its flummery, verbiage, and self-gratulation are translated into the language of common sense. Mr. Tooke is not, we believe, admitted into the Tory camp, though he has been drummed out of the Liberal regiment. Those who know him best will, we believe, be the most ready to reject his aid. He will most probably have the mortification of being cut by all parties. Such ,will be the pro per denouement of the political life of the great Attorney. PUSEYISM. The Bishops have become alarmed at the ex citement caused in the public mind by the great progress of the new Popery sect, and have re solved to hush up business for the present. The attempt to bring back the English people to the bosom of old Mother Church is premature, but from the tardy notice of these Popish tracts, in the mildness with which the Bishops treat them, it is evident that they only bide their time. The following is the letter of the Rev. Mr. Newman to the Bishop of Oxford on the subject, an nouncing his determination to discontinue the Tracts : " My dear Lord—lt may seem strange that, on receipt of a message from your Lordship, I should proceed at once, instead of silently obeying it, to put on paper some le marks of my own on the subject of it; yet, as you kindly permit me to take such a course, with the expectation that I may thereby succeed in explaining to yourself and others my own feelings and intentions in the occurrence which has given The to your Lordship's interference, I trust to your Lordship's indulgence to pardon me any dis cursiveness in my style of writing, or appearance of fam'- liarity, or prominent introduction of myself, which may be incidental to the attempt. " Your Lordship's message is as follows :--That your Lordship considers that the tract No. 90, in the series called the Tracts for the Times, is objectionable, and may tend to disturb the peace and tranquillity of the Church,' and that it is your Lordship's advice that the Tracts for the Times should be discontinued.' " Your Lordship has, I trust, long known quite enough of my feelings towards any such expression of your Lord ship's wisties to be sure I should at once obey it, though it were ever so painful to me, or contrary to tbe course I should have taken if left to myself; and I do most readily and cheerfully obey Sou in this instance; and at the same time express my great sorrow that any writing of mine should be judged objectionab:o by your Lordship, and cf a disturbing tendency, and my hope that in what I write is future I shall be more successful in approving myself to your Lordship. " I have reminded your Lords's)) of my williogness on a former occasion to submit myself to any wishes of ycur Lordship, had you thought it advisable at the time to sig nify them. In your Lordship's:charge in 1838 an allusion was made to the Tracts for the Times. Some oppo nents of the tracts said that your Lordship treated them with undue indulgence. I will not imply that your Lord ship can act otherwise than indulgently to any one, but cer tainly I did feel at the time, that in the midst of the kind ness you showed to tee personally, you were exercising an anxious vigilance over my publication, which reminded me of my responsibility to your Lordship. I wrote to the Archdeacon on the subject, submitting the tracts en tirely to your Lordship's disposal. What I thought about your charge will appear from the words I then used to him. I said, A bishop's lightest word ex cathedra is heavy. His judgment on a book cannot be light. It is a rare occur rence.' And I offered to withdraw any of the tracts over which I had control, if I were informed which were these to which your Lordship had objections. I afterwards wrote to your Lordship to this effect: that I trusted I might say sincerely, that I should feel a more lively plea sure in knowing that I vas submitting myself to your Lordship's expressed judgment in a matter of that kind than I could have even in the widest circulation of the volumes in question.'. Your Lordship did not think it necessary to proceed to such a measure, but I felt, and al ways have felt, that, if ever you determined on it, I was bound to obey. _ _ _ . " Accordingly on the late occasion, directly I beard that you had expressed an unfavourable opinion of tract 90, 1 again placed myself at 'our disposal, and now readily suhmit to the course on which your Lordship has finall3 decided in consequence of it. lam quite sure in so doing I am not only fulfilling a duty I owe to your Lordship, but c 'nsulting for the well-being of the Church, and bcnefi'.- ing myself. --- ‘ 1 And now. in proceeding to make some explanations in addition, which your Lordship desires of rre, I hope shall not say a word which v.ill seem like introducing discus sion before your Lordship. It would ill become tee to be stating private views of my own, and defending them, on a I occasion like this. If I allude to what has been maintained in the tracts, it will not be at all by way of maintaining it in these pages, but in illustration of the impressions ard the drift with which they have been written. I need scarcely wry they are thought by many to betray a leaning towards Roman Catholic error, and a deficient appreciation of our own truth ; and your Lordship wishes me to show that these apprehensions have no foundation in fact. This I propose to do, and V•rat by extracts from what I have before now written on the subject, which, while they can be open to no suspicion of hiving been provided to nerve an occasion, will, by being now cited, be male a second time my own." •,,* The pamphlet alluded to is the last paragraph cf this preface colitlias about 50 pages. INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF LICENSED VICTUALLERS.— YestcrJav a Quarterly General Couit, numeroutdy attended, of the members of this Society, was held at the Licensed Vietutill.rs' School, Kennington lane, fur the purpose of electirg by ballot, from printe.l li-ta of quaitial Membi:re, new Trustees, Committe:- men, and Auditors, in lieu of those going out of office by rotation ; to transact the otuer routine business of the Court, and to elect by ballot one member to serve on no Audit Comnittea, in lieu of Mr. Evan Vaughan, late of Lower East Smithfield, deceased. We believe that the New Poor-law is a change greatly for the better ; we believe that it has atrealy effected much good ; and that it will effect much more if fair play be given to it. Let its champions stand between it and prejudiced assailants, but not between it and im provement, and from whatever quarter a grounded com plaint proceeds, let it hare a sea-thing examination and impartial judgment. We believe that the faults and miscarriages in the existing s)stem are incomparably less than in the old, but that is no reason that they should not be still more reduced in amount, and the friends of the new law should rejoice in the opportunity of weeding it of de fects, and showing that they arc not inherent in its con stitution. Errors are more conspicuous in the new system than they were in the of I, but because they are more con spicuous we are not to shut our eyes to them, or to re fuse to correct them. Mr. Hawes, in a most manly and sensible speech, truly remarked— " A degree of intense interest attached to the ad ministration of the Peor-law, compared to the interest that it excited when its administration was scattered among many thousands of irresponsible persons. The ground on which he defended the Poor-law Commission was this, that for the first time the administration of an enormous fund, amounting to between five and six millions, was placed in the hands of responsible officers ; and from the moment it was placed under the control of persons responsible to Parliament, it had been cleared of the abuses of the large number of persons who had an interest in the old system, and lived upon it. Under the old system there were 14,000 or 15,000 indepen dendent bodies with whom the House had no means of dealing, and what was the result ? The Right Hon. Baronet, the Member for Tamworth, had read a most striking statement to show that increase of relief caused increase of distress ; and in one particular parish, such had been the effect of an increase of Poor -rate, that they had swallowed up the whole rent of the pa , ish, causing, of course, general destitution. The Hon. Member for Finsbury had stated that no practical benefit had been derived from the new Poor-law. Was there no improvement in the condition of the people ? Was there nothing in the attention now given to education of the people ? Was there nothing in the attention now given to the dwellings and the sanatory state of the poor; matters that had never been meddled with until the admin.istra lion of relief was entrusted to responsible officers. — (Hear.) He believed, for his own part, that under the new New Poor•law wages had risen, and that more at. tendon was given to the moral and physical condition of the poor, than at any former period of history.— (Hear, hear.)" Gross is the injustice of the enemies of the New Poor-law in representing it as productive of a worse state of things than before existed ; but, on the other hand, because it is an improvement on the former system, it will not do to neglect improve ment on the improvement, or to argue that we should be content with what is faulty, because, under the old law there was something far more faulty. Tic best friends of the new system will be most eager and anxious to correct all defects and remove all canes of reasonable complaint that can be found in it. Acting in this wise spirit, we rejoice to see that Lord John Russell has declared his intention to consent to some changes in the law, one of which is to entitle paupers in urgent distress, brought by constables to the work house, to instant relief ; another is to extend out-door relief to the aged and infirm, and widows with families. The Chronicle justly observes on the latter alteration— " It is a cruel mockery of the labouring poor of this country to assume that they can save wherewithal to support them in their old age. It is as much as they can do to maintain themselves, and bring up families without relief ; and at a certain titre of life they should be considered as emeriti, and entitled to aid from the property of the country, which they have contributed to augment. An old agricultural labourer loves to be doing something to the last. To immure such a person in a workhouse is the height of cruelty. After sixty he cannot wholly support himself, and the aid ought tq be increased as he becomes more infirm. These are not the parties for whom the workhouse is designed as a test." Amongst the proposed changes are also authority to the guardians to establish local committees in unions of a certain size ; the transference of the ernieation fund from the rate-payers to the guardians; and freedom to the inmates of workhouses to attend the places of wor ship of their particular persuasions. We feel that we cannot be accused of partisanship on the behalf of the Poor-law Board ; though approv ing of the new system, and the general principles of its administration, we have objected to the harshness of some regulations, the objects of which do not appear to us to be worth the irritation they produce. The ma chinery Las, we think, been worked without due allow. twee for friction, and it has chafed against the feelin.gs of the people in unaccustomed places. So great a change bearing on the poor required more tenderness, aye, and more temporizing in the management, thee this measure has been in &I cases guided with. A ver) stringent system was too abruptly substituted for a very relaxed one. This is an opinion we have repeatedly expressed, and which we continue to boll ; but though we do not pre tend that the Central Board has exercised a faultless discretion, experience has only strengthened our convic• tion that the central control is essential to the Poor. law administration, and that without it there would 1 c a relapse to a chaos of abuse• Indeed it is significant enough that almost al the cases adduoed to support charges against the Board The primary evil of the system is in the law, which declares, no doubt, that the poor shall be provided for, but gives no machinery for enforcing the rule. A dis abled widow is entitled to be supported ; but to make good her right she must prosecute in the Supreme Court. The parochial authorities are virtually the im posers and appropriators of the tax, and in remote dis tricts there is one simple ruling principle on which they act, as easily comprehended as it is efficacious in opera tion. It is that of "seeping down the assessment." In the town parishes, where the poor infest the streets, this desirable object cannot he so well accomplished, and public opinion there produces the shilling a-week (in cases where there is a family of paupers there is sometiaies as much as 3s. a-week given) already men tioned. So munificent an allowance acts as a general magnet through the country, and the wretched of the rural parishes congregate in the towns, where, by a three years' residence, a settlement is obtained. The paupers best provided for are those in the workhouses, which have only been established in Edinburgh, GI is gow, and Paisley. Of these the Edinburgh St. Cuth bert's workhouse gets the character of best performing the functions for which it was e,tablished. We have before us the rules of that institution, includ ing the dietary, which is as follows :—Break fast, 4 oz. oatmeal porridge and 2 gills butter milk ; dinner, broth made of 2 oz. ox head and hough and 11 oz. barley, and 61 oz. bread ; sup per, the same us breakfast. There is no solid animal food. This gives a weekly allowance of 56 oz. oatmeal, 14 oz. ox head and hough for broth, 45 oz. bread, 101 oz. barley, and 28 gills of butter milk. - The lowest of the scales issued by the Commissioners for England shows a weekly allowance of bread, 84 oz. ; meat, 15 oz. ; cheese, 8 oz. ; potatoes, 24 oz. ; suet pudding 14 oz.; broth 9 pints ; gruel, 101 pints. The amount of solid food j n the former cue is 1011 oz.—in the latter, 145 cz. Yet to nine -tenths of the poor of Scotland the provision of the St. Cuthbe:t's workhouse would be a Clewed change. The most harrowing details of the sufferings of t!:e poor of Scotland under this system have been brought forward in the various pamphlets of Dr. Alison, in the late discussion before the British Association, in two elaborate ortichs in Taa's Magazine, in Chambers's Journal, and otherwise ; but with the means of infor mation thus in their hands, the great champions of the paupers in Parliament are dumb ; and why ?—because the poor of Sectlaod are the really destitute, oppressed, and needy, whose cause offers no better inducement for its support than the great claims of humanity and so cial order. It affords no means of wielding a great en gine of political faction, and has therefore no charms for the Waklers and the Sibthorps. It is not asso. ciated with physical force--it has not been the war-cry of armed and torch-lit mobs; it would have in view the feeding of the hungry and the clothing of the naked— not the restoration of the sturdy labourer to his idle ease. It will be when the hounding on of fierce pas sions, not the relief of destitution, is the object to be ob tained, that the poor of Scotland will receive eham• pionship from such a quarter.— Examiner. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TUB DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The Bill to admit Jews to hell Corporate offices was real ai I ird time last night in the House of Commons. The majority in its fev3ur was more then three to one : the numbers being, for the third reading, 108; against it, 31. As the words, on " the true faith of a Christian," in the declaration required to be taken by all persons elected to offices in Corporations, and which, therefore, excluded members of the Jewish faith from such offices, were introduced into the Bill by the House of Lords, we doubt whether the large majority by which the House of Commons has passed the present Bill, ashish goes to expunge these words from the declaration, will induce their Lordships to adopt a measure which calls upon them to review and rc3cind their former decision. Mr. W. Gladstone led the opposition last night ; and maintained the character he has acquired for uncom promising hostility to all whose creed is not squared in strict conformity to his own. From an apprehension scarcely consistent in an unshaken faith in the apos tolic succession chimed for his own Church, or with the more enlarged and certainly more enlightened belief in the divine origin of Christianity, Mr. Gladstone insisted that if this Bill became law the Church of England would be en dangered, and our common country be tail- Christianized Vain and impotent mortals, busily and laboriously employed in raising molehills, as outworks to protect the cause of the Omnipotent fallible creatures, pronouncing with the arrogance of infallibility upon the mysterious truths of revelation, while they violate its benevolent injunctions ; assumieg the office of a judge, and pronouncing con demnation upon the professors of creeds other than their own—your numbers are happily fast diminishing, and your powers Pre almost extinct. Mr. Gladstone and Sir 11. leglis yeur 'carters in the Commons. We have ssen what they' would have been, and what they would have done, in another ago, by whet they are, and what they a'- tempt in thi=. W'no will be found in the Howe of Lords to repeat the intolerant dogmas which Mr. Gla !- stone last night, and Sir R. Inglis on a former occasion, ad. sauced against the measure which is now beyond their before reach, t w h e at m a a uu may imagine, aagsisneein and the event, when the 811 is assembly, will disclose. (From the Standard.) The St. Alban's Election Committee having satisfied their consciences that Doctor Webster, who brought Lord Listowell to St. Alban's—who proposed Lord Listowell at St. Alban's—canvassed arm in arm with Lord Lis towell at St. Alban's--administered large bribes on be half of Lord Listowell at St. Alban's—and remained we say, who heard all with Lord Listowell silent when both were that tax we bane ed wit ah bribery—the stated sworn to, Committee,on and heard no contradiction— having having satisfied their consc ien ces that Dr. Webster did not act, for Lord Listowell , th a t bein g the English' of " agency," h it of course became useless to prosecute the petition fui then When a f e w gentlemen choose to form a judgment different from the judgment of every other man in the em pire, it is quite plain that they are not to be convinced by the proofs that prevail with other men, and it is to compro mise the interests of truth and justice to carry on a farce of reasoning with them. We are willing to put the whole case to any man upon one issue. Dr. Webster, in the presence of Lord Listowell, was publicly and so lemnly charged with bribery, and the actual bribe was pro duced. Dr. Webster was silent, and Lord Listowell was silent, Now, what we ask is this —would Dr. Webster have been silent if be had not been guilty, or would Lord Listowell have been silent if he had not been fully cognisant of Dr. Webster's crime. If Dr. Webster had been innocent, would be not at once have given the lie to his accuser ? Or, if Lord Listowell ha not been an ac complice, or rather, the principal, would he not have said something like this—" I do not believe that my friend and proposer has been guilty of bribery, but if be has I am sorry and ashamed, and declare, with a clear conscience, that I am no participator in his guilt." Such would be the course of innocent men in the circumstances : but both Dr. Web ster and Lord Listowell pleaded guilty by their silence ; and yet, forsooth, the Committee acquit Lord Listowell of any connection with his bribing agent. If this proceed, the flew Act for the trial - of eletions is waste Paper. (From the Courier. action ) The absence of any decisive manifestation of in C t r heCaleofMlj States ep d,faotres by the Br 60thesilenc i p of the ady: ces oni the United tannia may bo construed, appears, QA the other Aide of the water Mr. Armstrong was then called to the bar, and exa mined by the Ea•l cf GLENGALL—Witness is a clerk in the Order Department cf the Poor-law Commissioners' Office in Dublin. It is his duty to copy drafts, minutes, and letters. He was in that office in February, 1839, wan not ordered to make copies of any minutes or le:ters co:leveeing the officers in Clenmel. Was in the office in May, 1810, and was ordered to copy a return to the House in the early part of the mot.th ; was dirt c:cd to make that return from the original tables of the office. Did not copy a rei Jute on the registry book to make it. The chLf clerk, Mr. Wordsworth, generally gave him di rections. Thinks he did so on this occasion, but he is not sure. Cannot say whether he received any instruc tions from Mr. Stanley. Does not know whether the letter produced was the one he had copied ornot. Cannot swear whether ho ever saw it before or not. No other clerk except himself was employed in making cut this return. They were made out from the original papers. The Earl of GLENGALL—It has been stated by Mr. Stanley that that letter was one of the original papers. Witness—Then no doubt I made it out from that. Was sure he bad not made it out from the registry book. There were no other documents except that letter that he could have made it out from that he was aware of. Mr. Stanley gave him instructions as to making it out. By Mr. Stanley's desire he copied the words " Assistant-Commissioner " into the returns. Those words were not in the document when he was making out the returns, but Mr. Stanley inserted them in the body t f the document before witness's face after the returns to the House were ordered, and before he had made out the returns. There were no other words interlined, Could not say whether he received instructions to make any other alterations. There were no other alterations in the minutes then. lie copied the extract from Mr. Phelati's report from the original. Did not make out the returns presented in March, 1841 ; it. would be the duty of any clerk to do so whom Mr. Stanley directed. Had no communication respecting the alterations, except with Mr. Stanley. Had had some communication with Mr. Stanley since his return to Du! - tin from the investigation. Mr. Stanley said, he (uitness) might be correct in some part of his statement, and in an other part he was right. By Earl RADNOR—Mr. Stanley thought be was right respecting the words " Assistant Commissioner." itness pointed out some inconsistencies in the papers to Mr. Stanley, and then it was h 3 made the a'teration. Mr. St tnley and himself were the only persons then in the room. By Lord GLE NG ALL—The inconsistencies or dis crepancy was in the letters to Mr. Fennell and Mr. Bag well. Mr. Stanley did not say that it would not do for such discrepancies to appear before the House of Lords. To Earl RADNOR (the letter being put into his hand)—He now observed that there were wary other words interlined than the words Assistant Commis sioners, but these were the only words he could swear he saw Mr. Stanley write. By Lord REDESDALE—He should have copied the whole letter if it had been given to him, and the date. The head clerk gave him the letter to copy. By the Marquis of NORMANBY—tie had had con versations with different individuals about the discrepancy. His recollection with regard to it, was the same now as it had always been. The witness having been ordered to withdraw, the House resume J. On the motion of the Meryl's of NORMANBY, the witness was discharged from further attendance. The Earl of GLENGALL then gave notice that im mediately after the Easter recess, he should call their Lordship's attention to the evidence that had been taken at the bar. Lord MONTE AGLE obsetved that it would be very convenient if before the Noble Earl brought the subject forward, their Lordships were in formed exactly of what they would be called upon to determine, and probably the Noble Lord would, after the recess, inform the House of the specific motion he intended to make, The Earl of GLENGALL said that after the recess he would lay before their Lordships the precise terms of the motion he intended to submit. _ Earl RADNOR—Why put the matter off until after Easter? The Earl of GLENGALL replied that it was very de sirable, more, perhaps, for the convenience of the paiti, s concerned than for the convenience of ilimself or their Lordships, that it should be put off until after Easter. Mr. Fox MAUL& and others brought up the Popula tion Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. Their Lordships then adjourned. Election, reporting that William Earl Listowell was duly elected for the borough of St. Alban's and that neither the petitioner of opposition were frivoloua or vsxatious. Mr. H. SMITH presented a petition from Mile-end, prayirg for Church Extension ; also petitions from va lions parts of Somersetshire, against any grant to the College of Maynocth, and for the exclusion of Papists from the House of Commons. Mr. LANGDALE presented a petition from the Ce thclie Congregation of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, praying that Rsman Catholic paupers might have leave to attend their own places of public worship. Oa the motion of Mr. M. PHILLIPPS, the Com mittee on the Importation of Machinery obtained leave to report to this , House from time to time. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from seventy-three individuals praying for an amendment of the Anatomy Act, and greater stringency in its provisions; also petitions from St. G Fields and St. George's, Bloomsbury, against the Poor-law Amendment Bill and the continuation of the Commission; also a petition from different individuals in the metropolis praying for the liberation of Ms. F. O'Connor; also a petition from the Tower Hamlets' Association, praying for the Lberasion of William Carrier ; also three petitions from individuals in Shoreditch, praying for the lib ration of Frost, Williams, and Jones; and two petitions to the same effect from Manchester. Mr. DIVETT presented a peti!ion from Exeter in fa vour of the Poor-law Bill, and against the continuation of local Acts. Ms. VIL LIE R 3 presented petitions from parishes in Chester against the Corn-laws. Mr. 0. GORE presented a petition from a prrish in Salop, praying for Church Extension. Lord SAN DON presented a petition from the tents of Welington in Somerset, complaining of the diffi culty of esllestiag rates from the owners of small tenr nrients, and pra3isig that the House would take the subject into its consideration. M. G. KNIGHT presented two petitions from places in Nottingham, praying for Church Extension. Lord BARRINGTOI'J presented a pct:tion from the 13Gard of Guardians of Is?ewherry, against the rating of union workhouses. Mr. PA KINGTON presented ten petitions from places in Worcester, in favour of Church Extension. Mr. GROTE presented a petition from Devon, com plaining of the partiality of overseers in the rating of tene ments, and praying for the appointment of paid collectors. Mr. R. STEWART presented petitions from places in the counties of Haddington and Wigton, Scotland, against Church patronage. General JOHNSON presented a petition signed by upwards of 7,200 inhabitants of Oldham, praying the House to address her Majesty to grant a free pardon to Frort, Williams, and Jones. Mr. W. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Yorkshire, prayirg for Church Extension. Mr. ELLIOT presented a petition from Kelso, pray. ing for tie abol tion cf Church patronage. Mr. Alderman COPELAND presented a petition from a place in Rutland, for an amendment of the Anatomy Bill. ST. ALBAN'S ELECTION. Mr. BLACKSTONE, seeing the Hon. Mcmbc.r for West Sumcrsetsbire in his place, begged to ask whe ther he intended to produce to the House the evidence taken before the St. Alban's Election Committee? Mr. SANFORD said he had received no instruction on the subject from the Committee. Sir R. PEEL prevented a pe ition from a Board of Guardians in Ladcashire s praying for c.,rtain amendment; in the Poor-law Bill. Also from a clergyman in the county of Gloucester, praying the House to make a provi sion for enabling clergymen of the Church of England to become Guardians of the Poor. Mr. BLACKSTONE gave notice that to-morrow he would move that the minute; and proceedings of the St. Alban's Election Committee be printed. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE begged to give notice that he would mcv,s, as an amendment, by way of addition, that the evidence taken before the Canterbury Election Com mittee be printed.—( Hear, hear, ) RUM DUTIES BILL. __ _ we , - ._,:..-AiMilWkaild , -,____ • ,..e ~...-_ •, • ''''''''''-- ' .-- ' . ... _ ..... ..... _. . _ 7. - __ - 17. - - ... 111 1k i 'l -- . .. • _ . .. , -- • . _ - - 7 - 7--._ t---: , -' , , ._ - -.._ ___ ........_ 1,. . : . ___ TEE SUN . , LONDON', FRIDAY, APRIL 2. 1841. THE POOR-LAW. There is a reaction 'of clamour against which we should be carefully guarded. Unjust and violent at tacks tend to indiscriminate defence ; and the prejudice which finds every fault in a system is followed by the partiality which finds all faultless. The averments and counter-averments are thus enormity on the one hand, and perfection on the other. A clamour despicable and powerless in its direct effect does a serious mischief, if it make the friends of the thing assailed the champions of its defects as well as its merits. We think, we see a tendency to this error on the part of some of our public men with whom we most ge nerally agree. If there had been no clamour against the New Poor-law, and if Mt. Wakley had not attacked it with every extravagance of misrepresentation, we cannot but think that the rule under which medical men are not authorized to order any change in the diet of sick pau pers, wou►d have been differently considered by a House of Commons. The Commissioners say— " Such a power would be equivalent to the power of giving relief, which the law has vested generally in the guardianF, and which it is not competent to a medical officer to exercise. A medical officer can only recom mend or advise the guardians (or relieving officer) to give certain articles of diet to a pauper patient, and the guardians (or their relieving officer) will exercise their discretion upon their own responsibility, whether they will or not adopt such recommendation or advice." But is it always certain that the state of the patient will allow of waiting for the board day, or the hoard hour ? In one case it appears that a pauper with a sinking pulse had not the necessary stimulants, because the board had forbidden the use of them without a special order. Other boards have prohibited any in crease of the allowance of meat and beer. Now, every one knows that the diet of a patient is perhaps the most important part of his treatment, and the board of guardians is no more competent to decide or% the fit ness of it, against the opinion of the surgeon, than it is to cancel or alter the prescriptions. But the Commissioners say, and Mr. Grote repeats the argument, that to give the medical men the power of directing the diet would be to give them the power of rad'. Well, and when the Fick pauper is under the hands of the surgeon the business of medical re ,lief includes the management of the relief of the ordi nary wants. It is preposterous to call in a medical man to prescribe for a pauper, and to tell him, " Un derstand that you have nothing to do with this sick man's stomach, except to put physic in it. His sto naacb, with regard to nutchrent, is under the'exc!usive authority and management of the board, which leaves you free to throw in jalap, calomel, rhubarb, castor oil, &c., at discretion, but reserves to itself a judgment on the expediency of supplying it with beef or mutton, wine or beer, and any advice you may have to offer as to these perilous things must wait their judgment on board day." It is said that the board of guardians are not likely to deny what is humane and proper, and in this we agrLe ; but can the patient always wait for their deci sion, or for application to a Magistrate, without suffer ing, and is it not as unlikely that medical officers wil order what is unnecessary as that boards will refuse what is necessary. The jr.edical man who directs a more stimulating diet than the case requires mistreats his patient, and hazards his character for skill. Tne patients whom he would favour would become the evi dence against him, their state betraying his fault, and his dismissal and discredit would be the consequence. Lord Howick remarks, truly no doubt, that it is incredible " That bodies of gentlemen, acting as boards of guar dians would come to a vote to reuse to pauper pAti, , nts that medical relief which was ordered by a medical man in whom they confided.--( Hoar.) But if the medical man can be confided in he may be trusted with the direction of the diet of sick paupers, or if he cannot be confided in he ought not to have been appointed, and he ought to be dismissed. We wdl not argue that there might not possibly be some me of beet and mutton, wine, and beer, on the side of indull,enee, but would there be so much harm done by the waste of a few pounds at the year's end as by excitir ' , the public feeling against the administration of the law? The saving of the credit of the Poor-law system is deserving of care, and we see it sometimes sacrificed to the pedantry of rules with what we deem the worst sort of extravagance. In such an aJministiation as that of the Poor-laws, errors, faults, must occur, and it is wiser frankly to ac knowledge and correct them than to pretend to an im possible perfection. have only served to prove the necessity of a controlling authority. The indictment has been laid against the Central Commszion, and the evidence has been against the boards of guardians. Mr. Wakley has produced examples and imagined cases to show that the guar dians are not to be trusted, and he has concluded with invectives against the superintending power instituted to control the very errors he has instanced. We sincerely believe that the great majority of the guardians throughout the country do their duty inteli gently and conscientiously ; but, whether they so do their duty or not, the control of the Board is requisite —on the one hand to correct error, or, on the other, to remove the personal responsibility of a duty necessarily often of an ungraciou s or an unpopular character, in which cases the Central Board is the shield of the lo cal administration. To abolish the Central Board would be to pluck out the heart of the Poor law system, and we therefore look upon the ap pointed term of the Commission not as implying any question of its permanence, but as an expedient for kreping it responsible and mindful of its responsibility, the periods for the renewal of the Commission serving as periods for the review of its administration.—Eta miner as here, to be regarded rather in the favourable mast , of approximati on t o a conc ili a t or y understanding finally than otherwise. N o prec i se reaso ns are assigned as the foundation for the general impression, and there fore, except conjecturally, or by reasoning from probable events and pl a u s ibl e appearances, we ate left entirely in the dark a s t o t h e actua l pos i t i on i n w hich mat ters remained at t h e l atest d ate. W e ma y, however, be justified, perhaps, in assuming a certain nge e tive line of actio n , on t h e part o f t h e B r i t i s h minister in Washington at l east , w hi ch wou ld ten d to p ro long discussion i and pr ocrast i nate the d ecis i ve i ssue , to which strict and immedi a t e comp li ance w i t h t h e pos i t i ve n• structions undentood to hays been transmitted for his guidance by Lord Palmerston, must inevitably have hurrTei the question of war or peace. We apprehend, for instance, that Mr. Fox may have been prevailed upon, or have found it prudent, to withhold the formal demand for the instant and unconditional release of 111 4 Leol, the refusal of which must necessarily have been followed by a teque,t for his passports and the termination of his miiaion. But, although not to embarrass the ad ministration of General Harrison but just installed into office, with the instant pressure of a point so mo mentous, Mr. Fox may have consented to waive for a time the presentation of the official and peremptory note, which, once made, became irrevocable, yet there can be no doubt that extra officially and privately he must have com municated to Mr. Daniel Webster, the new Foreign Se crztary of the Union, not substantially only, but literally, the contents of his instrucians, however absolute they might be. This would account for the f. equeney of Ca binct Councils at Washington, in which doubtless the quo:- tion in all its phases was anxiously deliberated. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, AARlli 1. . _ The Eall of SHAFTESBURY took his se.it on the Wool sack at Five o'Clock. Messengcrs from the Commons .brought up the Jewish Bill, the Chelsea, &c., Poor Bill, and several Kcal The Bishop of WINCHESTER presented a petition from Farnham in Surrey, against Idolatrous Worship in in India; from Ham in Sure', in favour of Church Even sion ; and from Westminaer in favour of the tolls being takes off the Metropolitan Bridges. Lard EL LENBOROUGH presented two petitions to the same effect. Lard MONTEAGLE presented a petition from Cole raine on the subject Gf Church patronage iu Scotland. The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented peti tions from tnc Ger.eral Assembly of the Church of Scot land and others against Sunday travelling on railway?. The Noble Marquis gave notice that on Monday next he should present upwards of 100 petitions on the subject. Lord FITZGERA LD presented a petition from the clergy, gentry, and lanfled propr:etors of the county of Galway, complaining of the Grand Jury Cers Bill. SUNDAY TRADING. The Marquis of NORMANBY said that in conse quence of what had passed last Session in the Home, and the representation that had since been made to him, it was his intention shortly after Easter to move for a Select Committee to inquire into the Sunday trading on duals. THE POOR OF SCOTLAND. If the opponents of the New Poor-law are charged with a certain quantity of indignation and sympathy which they must disburse, we earne-tly beg of them to let Scotland have a share of it before it is all gone. Let them look to that end of the island, and they will behold a legitimate subject for their compassionate elo quence. They will find that the provision for the poor of Scotland is less than a fifth Dart of what would be dis tributed among the same popuia'ion under the new Eng lish Poor•law. They writ find that, where the out-door system prevals, the highest allowance given to indivi duals is a shling a-week, white the lowest is a half penny. Tie letter statemeet will carry- an air of vi sionary absurdity about it to English cars, but we have before us a " Report by a Committee of the General Assembly on the Management of the Poor of Scotland," it which the maximum and mi&mum allowance of each parish is gravely set forth in knowing-looking statistical tables ; and among these we find that in the parish of Criech, in the presbytery of Decnoch, the highest rate of relief is sc. a-year, and 'the lowest is Is. a-year! And though this he the lowest allowance which has caught our eye on hastily glancing over the table, it is not in the least uncharacteristic :" few of the northern allowances reach a pound a-year, and the average of them appears to be about 3i, Yet there is no part of the country where rents have increased to so great a proportion as in the Highlands, aed there is none where, perhaps, since the late improvement in Ireland, so much human misery can be found caacentrated—misery not created by excess or depravity, but occasioned by a state of society which makes the distribution of the in dustrial and natural produce of the district peculiarly disproportionate. We want no further words to de scribe the extent of this misery when we are told, in the report quoted above, that a!lewances such as we have stated can only in many cases be given to a select few, and that there are many competitors for such a benefit! DRAINAGE OF BUILDINGS BILL. The Marquis of NORMANDY laid on the table the Report of the Commit•ee appointed to inquire into the Buildings' Regulation Bill and the Drainage Bill, The Borough Improvement Bli had also been referred to that Committee, and the Committee had given the details of the whole of the Bills their moss patient atten tion. He beggel to state to their Lordships that houses were being built with the greatest expedition, in order that the previsions of these Bills might be avoided, and it was most important that there should be no unnecessary delay. For that reason he proposed that the three Bills should go through a Committee to-morrow, and that they should he reported after the holidays. Lord ELLENBOROUGH thought that was a most fit and proper proposal with respect to the building of houses, which could not be built under the provisions of the Bill ; a clause might be introduced to meet the case of all buildings commenced after the introduction of the Bill.—( Hear, hear.) Lord ASHBURTON said there was one great grievance which he had altogether omittel from the Bill—the bury ing of dead bodies in neighbourhoods where there was scarcely room for the living. He thought there ought to be some provision with respect to that subject. The Bills were then ordered to he committed tc-morrow. The Earl of ROSE BERY presented a petition from Nottingham in favour of the Jews' Declaration Bill. JEWS' DECLARATION BILL. The Jews' Declaration Bill was read a first time. At the request of the Marquis of NORMANDY, The Earl of CHARLEVILLE postponed his motion for a copy of the Calendar of the Queen's County until Monday next. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that before pro• ceeding with the furt'er examination cf witnesses in the C!enniel Union he wished to move for certain records of de Poor-law Commissiorers relating to the appointment of Richard Edon as Returning Of iez..r for the Union of Bandon, and he therefore movad that a copy of the letter addressed to the Poor-law Commissioners on the subject by Mr. Fowles, the Assistant Commissioner, and dated the sth of February, be laid on the tablr.—Orderce. CLONMEL UNION. ROUSE OF COMMONS, APJUL 1. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. Mr. BROTH E RTON moved the further consideration of the Birkenhead Gas and Water's - mks Bill for the pur pose of postponing it. Mr. SH EIL hoped between the present time and tte 27th of April the promoters of the Bill would see the ex pediency of introducing a cl ause t o li m it th e p ro fit s to 10 per cent. instead of 12 per cent. Ile would take that opportunity of stalling, on behalf of the de partment with v,lileh he had the honour of being connected, that for the future they would deem it their duty to limit the amount of profits on all gas and water-works companies to 12 per ecrit , and that the sur plus profits, if any, be applied to the diminution of the rkt.: , s. The third reading was then postponed till after the Easter recess. On the motion of Mr. BYNG, the Chelsea Poor Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Mr. S TR UTT, the Derby Gas Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. MACKINNON brought up the report of the Committee on the Goble Road Bill. ST. ALBAN'S ELECTION. Mr. A. SANFORD brought up the report of the Committee appointed to try the merits of the St. Alban's Mr. LABOUCHERE moved that the House should agree to certain amendments in the Rum Duties Bid, which had been agreed to by the House of Lords. The, SPEAKER had no objection to the House agree ing with the amendment, provided a special entry was made of it in the Journals. Mr. GOULBURN had no objection to the amendment undcrstalding that it was to enable the Lirovernor, if tie Collectors were too few, to appoint other?. Mr. LABOUCHERE said that that was the object of the amendment. The amendment was then •agreed to. MERCHANT SEAMEN. Mr. SHELL gave notice that he should shortly after the recess move for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation and distribution of the merchant seamen'a service. DESTRUCTION OF THE CAROLINE. Mr. HUME postponed his motion for a copy of the correspondence with respect to the destruction of the Ca roline to Tuesday next. He did so, in the hope that by that time some definite information would have arrived in this ccuntry on the subject. At present the motion would be a useless one. In answer to a question from Mr. GOULBURN, Mr. LABOUCHERE said that he had already stated the alterations to be made it the colonial resolutions, and that they were correctly stated in the public papers; on to-morrow, however, they would be pri hands of the Members. m et ,', and put in the Mr. HUME morel for a copy of the corresponden,;.7 which has taken pla 'e between the Earl of Lichfielo; Post master General, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and all pott'es desiring the stoppage of the mails on the rail roads on Sunday in ,Scotland ; and copies of any orders y the Postmaster-General fur the transmission of the mxils in Scotland on Sundays by other conveyances than railroads.—Agrecd to. Mr. DARBY moved far leave to bring in a Bill to amend an Act of the 31 year of his Majesty George IV., regulating turnpike-roads ; and also to amend an Act of the sth and 6th of his Majesty William IV. for consolidating the laws relating to highways in England.-- G mated. ~~ THE POOLE UNION. Cslonel SIBTHORP moved for the entries on the books of the Poole Union, with regard to the case of the child of Peer Rickets, deceased ; return of the period at which application was first made for relief, the name of the relieving officer to whom such application was trade, with the reply thereto; the name of the officer at present holding the situation of relieving officer, and whether he holds any other appointment, and what appoiUtment, besides that of relieving officer ; also specifying the day on which the child died, and of what complaint or disease ; whether any Report was made relative to the said child, during any period, to the Poor-law Commissioners or the Assistant Poor-law Commissioners, by whom and at what period such Report was made :—Also, copies of - correspondence that took place relative to the above case, with the results thereof; whether any inquest was held on the body of the child, if so, where and at what period, the name of the Coroner, and the verdict of the Jury. Returns, specifying the period at which ap plication was first made, and to whom, for out-doer relief to Rebecca Moore, and the sum, and also, for what pe iod it was grasted weekly; the period at which Re becca Moore was first admitted job the Poole Union, and at what period she died there, and also the complaint of which she died ; the names of the Relieving Officers at the time Rebecca Moore was an inmate, end• whether any other officer has been subsequently appointed to that situation, the name of the officer so appointed, and whether he holds any, and, if any, what other appointment best es that of relieving officer ; whether any report rela tive to the case of Rebecca Moore has been at any time made either to the Poor law Commissioners or the As :.is!ant Poor-law Commissioners, by whom the Report was made, and at what period; also, copies of the correspond mace that took place with any, a ith what persons, and the result thereof. The Hon. and Gallant Member said that be understood there would then he no opposition to his motion. He did not, however, ask for the returns ai a favour, but as a right. The returns were necessary in consequence of the cruelties that had been inflicted hi the instances to which his motion referred, and which had caused death in two instances. The Hon. Geutleman having told him the returns would be unopposed, be would not then trespass upon the time of the House fur ther than to say that ho promised them, when the re turns were before the House, he would again call atten tion to the subject. Mr, FIE LD EN, who was for the most part inaudible, seconded the motion, and was understood to say, that he would take a future occasion to bring before the House some alogations mace in the Committee of Poor law' Inquiry, egainst the the Poor-law Commissioners, and the guardians and other officers of a certain parish. Mr. FOX MAULE said he was quite prepared to grant these returns. The reason why he had before ob jected to them was tliat a correspondence was in progress on the subject. That correspondence was then con cluded, and he should be able to present the returns veeich had been moved for on Monday next. Mr. E. ELLICE obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better preservation of salmon fisheries in Scotland. Mr. R. GORDON moved fur leave to bring in the Annual Indemnity Bill. The motion, after a few words from Mr. GOULBURN, was agreed to. me o a n iie th rs e cl m e o r t e io a ti p NEWFOUNDLAND. n N t V ae r ar . 0 a pUSAL,NIKeDeitLNAGNTo.N Committee theon of the colony of Newfoundland :—Mr. P a kit i gt f o tleo l :,; ( 7ian r tg d e John Russell, Lord Stanley, Lord Viscount lloni;:k, Mr. Gladstone, Sir George Grey, Lord Viscount Sandon, Mr. Shell, Lord Ashley, Mr. Langdale, Sir James Graham, Mr. Ward, Sir Thomas Cochrane, Mr. Charles Buller, and Mr. Lascelles.. Lord MORPE TH, in the absence of Mr. E. J. Stanley, moved for leave to being in a Bill to enable the Commissioners of Wide Streets to sell, and her Majesty s t e t e n e t o e f f the . to purchase r certain hereditaments in the City of Dublin, the Crown on the north bank of the River Anna Liffey. Sir R. PEEL begged to ask in what manner it was in tended to appropriate the ground so to be purchased ? He apprehended that-it would be found useful for exercising the troops in the garrison. Leave Lord i q w oa s R t P h nEnT given v s e a n i d to o t bwouldring in n e renderedthe Bill, not an only d t v e C he om co m n i 2vailable for exercising the troops, but also to the inhabi tants as a place of recreation and amusement.—( H ear. ) House Noble L fo o r r d t 0 - gave r r 0 notice obtain a a i n t w h o l c , for the purchase of the land. POPULATION BILL. Lord J. RUSSE L L said he proposed to move the third reading of the Population Bill on the first instance, then the Committee on the Ordnance Estimates, and afterwards the Committee on the Poor-law Amendment Bill. The Noble Lord then moved the third reading of the Popular tion Bill. In answer to a question from Sir W. FOLLETT, Lord J. RUSSELL said that his Noble Friend, the Secretary for Ireland, would state, immediately after Easter, the exact course which the Government meant to pursue w i t h regar d • to t h e I r i s h Regis trativa Bill. In the meantime, it would be necessary Lord G. SOMERSET had many objections to the power to be given by this Bill to the Lords Lieutenant ; and as he was obliged to hare town to attend his duties as Chairmaa cf Quarter Sessions, he trusted the Right Han. Gentleman would have no objection to postpono the fur ther progress of the Bat till after Elute , . That postpone ment would be no detriment, fur it would be totally iirpot sible for them to surt cyan)/ county until the crops were off the ground. He was most anxious that there should be it proper Ordnance officer appointed, who would be respon sible; but as the rights of lords of manors might be effected, he was anxious that they shmild have notice, in order that they might attend per.sonaly or by deputy, in order to guard them. Sir H. VIVIAN would certainly adopt the amend ments of the Noble Lord as far as possible. But, as it was evident that there must be some person t) give information to the Ordnance officer, and as be was not gciog to survey manors but parishes and hun dreds, be thought the Lord Lieutenant was the proper person to g nppt int such person as could give the best infor mation in the various localities. With respect to the delay asked for, the Nol)!e Lord would remember that they Gould base to survey many towns and building', so that e ;ht be most profitably employed lthough they I.l3):enirv.chains be allowedacross fi e t l o d s pass until without i t t h h e o uatudt delay. resumed—tie Report was brought up and ordered to be further consilcied to-morrow. The Report on the Houghing Cattle Bill was brought cil°: S lh o do ri pn i c eedt v r e tu i b b : a I arneudnicas were introduced—the House up—to be read a third time to-morrow, POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Lord J. itUi:' , SELL moved the Order of the Day for going into Committee on the above Bill. Mr. ALSTON presented a petition from the board of guardians at Watford praying that the owners of pro pe-ty under the value of 10/. should be the parties rated. Tile House then went into Committee. On clause 18 being proposed, Lord G. SOMERSET hoped that upon consideration the Noble Lord would omit the clause. It provide.' for sudden derangements of trade when the workhouse be came too full, but it also gave the power to the guardians of one workhouse to contract foe the support of the extra poor, or poor of another parish, for a period not more than seven years, to which he had many objections. The general tendency of the practice of persons contract irg for the support of the pocto—where one party would endeavour to bring down as much as possible the price of the ether—would he most injarious to' the unfortue'ate paupers. There was another thing, too, ahich made hint object to the practice to which ha alluded; every Poor-law guardian would seek to have the Poor-law system carried Into operation in the cheapest manner possible, and the result would be, that the party contracting at the cheapest rate would be employed, whereby the poor would be very far from being benefited. lie would, also, re mind the House, that as the clause now stood every old pauper, both male and female, might be r -moved from one workhouse to another—the aged husband might be se. prrated from his wife, with whom ho had e passed Veal greater portion of his life, and sent off to a district ahero be was a complete stranger. ft wol, in his (Lord G. Somerset':) mind no small grievance that paupers should be serercd from all those tics and connections which ren dored life dear. There was nothing in the clause which would prevent a pauper being sent from Cornwall to being- pgerlel ea dt :io,t done, ea nn t enter frontn t d h i e n ttwhh workhouse, r part h e u s ot e u so o ef f , the able-bodiedhacto wasu n tr country from temporary want of employ gmeutt!t.er i s i t e ra w n Dothan,. Ha (Lord G. Somerset) did not mean to say that such a thing was likely, but then the chute nouldl i a g n l c 't :. Those labourers might be se :t to of f on t e h e t ir h those Hoer. c-1 vac, .ml a a.e d odebr m rnyoi :t i utis, t rire." o ,cbur. f etse:r s eacc u wtot e ghme h aro that instance cause a manifest in: ust; ie u mv nable to get in consequence where they where known, and the when they left the p o la f c o e pilm.o3th.,t the employment,g as c , rs the in ref t o h r c e, 'ilia clause would i nc o s ta be clause ought to he omitted, Lord J. RUSSELL said the jet oition of the clause was . not exactly that the Noble Lord supp osed. One main reason for its prop osa l was tint many p arishes had not sufficient workhouses to receive the inmates; rent there, and that it would be more advantageous ;hat the manage ment of the poor should be carried on kfiuq of sufficient siza than in temporary erectionr. At the same time, he admitted there was great force in the Noble ' Leed's objection, that the clause, as now brought up, might afters arils be used for purpose; for which it was not in t,ridecl, and so not only cause considerable disaffection among the poor, but real practical inconvenience. With respect te t,e ,ame n d men t of the clause, it appeared to hitt there were two modes in which it might be amended. One was, by preventing contracts being made with any union at a great distance--for instance, ten miles. Th e N o bl e Lord proposed that the poor sh ould L not be remov e d with out their con sent, but he ( Lord John Russell) thought ' the Noble Lord would FCC that the practical eff ec t o f t h e amen dment he p r oposed, would be to defeat the clause, 7had b ecause the guardians could no t contract, if they after wards to consult the paupers; and, moreover, it would be hardly possible, o having obtained the consent f pees, not to allow them, if theythe pans required it, to be taken back to their own - there woubl be constant uncertainty„lull"' and so he impassible to put theclause and it would There was another mode iri which . iu operation.h the clause might he altered, and '' with rceit Vh to l e him ho t ul a d t certainly be satisfied, although 4 t, would v b ' c ' ' I gt e ix:n . g u s ) the original object of the elapse , -' namely . it " claw to CO cie ;bee . ._e to the management of the infant poor and er the direction of the board of guardians. There were IT .any workhouses little used, and it would be a great to: oeantage if these were employed for this purpose insteiv : i of erecting new ones at a great expense. He could r,ot, however, as ha had said, agree to requiring the consent of the poor for their removal, which he thought ei auld render the clause nugatory, and than which it had better be left out alto. gether. Mr. G 0 ULBU RN raid it frequently happeeei that the workhouses were: for a co nsideratile period desti tute of inhabitants, and that duriars that time the guardians acre wilUng that perseans who would pay eboul I conic into them, but if the pro-Jima? contracted for Seven years to receive them at any ti me. the numbers would inceease, aed when the period erriiveel at which the workhouse wee net competent to receive: (those whom it wee desirable to receive, they .would be necessarily driven to the alterna tive of resorting to out- door relief. He was quite h aware o f the diffi,2.ulty with re! poet to parishes which had not sufficient accommodation , but he thought tine wo uld be for them to lilac° themselves in a situation to give efft.ctual operation ;to the law by erecting workhouses where they were found nocessary. Mr. WARD thought tlee Noble Lord would find it much easier to omit the clause than to amend s- 1• , for it was calculated to excite a well.fotended prejudice against th* Bill. lie knew that between 1,200 and /,bOO of the y ENIN G _EDITION to reprint the clause relative to the franchise, gad they proposed to go on Monday into Committee on the fran chise, and on the Thursday following they would mike their financial statemement. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. _ ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL. In answer toaqu;stion from Sir W. FOLLETT, Lord J. RUSSELL said that he wculd be ready to state to-morrow or on Monday, when he intended to pro coed with the Administration cf Justice Bill. ORDNANCE SURVEY. Lori J. RUSSELL having moved the Order of the Day for the Committee on the Ordnance Surrey, Sir ADOLPHUS DALRYMPLE put a qnestion to his Hon. and Gallant Friend at the head of the Ordnance Department respecting the powers left to the cfficers engagA in the Ordnance survey. The Hon. and Gallant Member spoke amidst much noise in the House, and ',as not distinctly heard. Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN was understood to say that perhaps the officers did push their instructions respecting goologiA inquiry too far, but some better arrangement would be made in future. Lord G. SOMERSET thought a proper survey Should be made, in a proper manner, by persons delegated by Ge vernment. He sad delegated by the Government, b ecause there would be in the survey interference with pri vate property. There were many provision, however, of the Bill to which be greatly ob jected. Ile objected to Lordi-Lieutenant of Counties having anything to do with the selection of the par ties who mere to mark out the boundaries. The next part of the mechinery to which be objected was the county surveyors. He thought the appoint ment of such an officer was extremely wrong. because, generally speaking, he was a man of little or no education, end therefore it ryes to be supposed that he would not understand the business that was to be delegated to him.—(Hear, hear.) So there were two of the persons to whom these powers were to be entrusted as unfit for them as could well be imagined. Then there was another person, named the high constable, but this person had not necessarily the knowledge that would be required of him for this office s nor Would the two persons who might be selected in his stead It was but right this survey should be taken so as not to gis e one party an unfair advantage over the ether. Bethought the Ordnance Department should have the sole responsibility of this measure, and consequently the sole power of ap pointment under the Bil'. He thought the lords of the manor eight to have due notice of the survey before it took place, and that they ouglis, either by themselves or their agents, to attend it. Ile thought that no boundaries ought to be fixed by the iurvey, and he should propose a special clause, ;mewing that this survey should never be tendered in a Court of Justice as evidence cf boundaries. He hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would take the Com mittee pro forma that evening, and consider the objectiens he had made, at d if the Bill were altered in that manner he should g ee. it his cordial support. Ile had shown no j, ealousy of the Right Hor. Gentleman in making these suggestion e, as every amendment he had proposell was for the purpose of throwing additional power into his :eande, at tie same time, of course, increasing his responsibility- Sir H. VIVIAN Would consent to take the Committee pro forma tint evening. He objected however, to senior of the alterati :ns proposed by the Noble-Lord. The Bill had Peen drawn as much as possible on the principle of the Irish Bill, which had been found to work exceedingly well, There must be some person aequahited with the country to attend the officers conducting the survey, and he thought the Lord Lieutenant was the proper officer to appoint such person. He preflrred the Lord Lieutenant to the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions or the Clerk of the Peace. He would prepare a clause enacting that the boundaries laid down by the survey should not ieterfere with local boundarie - , and should not be tendered in evi dence. They could not do without marks, but he would take care that the marks should be made with as little offensive as possible. Mr. GOULBURN objected to one clauseenin this Bill —the interpretati n clause—as admitting too greet a lati tude of interpretation. The word " county" was made to mean any city, town, borough, perish, borough royal, Parliamentary borough, extra parcehial, or other place.— ( Hear, hear.) The same latitude was extended to persons; h:gth coast Me being construed to mean a sheriff, clerk, steward, churchwarden, coroner, or any public °facer. He hoped the Hue.- Gentleman would see the propriety of al tering this clause. After a few words from Sir E. KNATCHBULL, the House wrist into Committee on the Bill. stoPr riot.