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ques(ion, though the attention of Parliament had been particularly called to the subject, and con tended that the grant to the Earl of kinnoul whi just as illegal as any of those subsequently made. In conclusion he adverted to the un founded and anonymous slanders circulated against him (Sir C. Long) on this subject ; he hoped that if the lion. Gentleman (Mr. Creevey) were the author of the pamphlet alluded to, he would in future attach him openly and fairly in Pie House, where he should be ready to answer hitu. If, however, he pursued the course he had begun►, he (Mr. Creevey) would certainly have the advantage, as he (Sir C. Long) would meet him with uo reply. Mr. HUME said a few words regarding the precise contents of the Reports. of the Finance Committees. CIIEVET shortly replied, relying upon the act of 1663 ; and contending that his case was unshaken by any thing said in answer to his motion. - Ile asked for the relinquishment of no pension, but, merely that the matter in future should be put upon a clear, fair, and intelligible footinz. The House then divided, and the numbers were= • For the previous question Against it - Majority against the previous question which ; of course, disposed of the original motion. Being re-admitted to the gallery, we found Clt EEVEY moving the following Resolu fion :—" That it appears to this House that du ties to the amount of 41 per cent. have been rais- ed on goods imported into . Antigua, St. Christo 'pher, Nevis, Tortola, and Bahama ; and that the 'duties so raised have been exhausted in pensions by - the Crown, whilst large sums are granted 'early for the protection of those Islands. Re solved, therefore, that the Acts creating the said duties be referred to a Committee of that'llouse, to report their observations on the same."—The Resolution was negatived. 76 FREEHOLD ELECTORS. Mr. W. WILLIAMS moved for leave to bring in•a Bill to prevent occasional 'votes arising from Freeholds under forty shillings a year in certain Cities and Boroughs. The object of his measure Was to extend the laws relating to County Elec tors to certain Boroughs. The House would see that he proposed no innovation in the existing state of the representative system, as his object -was to secure, that all who voted at elections should have a bona-fide claim to the privilege. Leave was then given. LUNATIC ASYLUM. Mr. WODEHOUSE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend an Act of the4Bth of the late King, relative to Lunatic Asylums. VAGRANT. LAWS. Mr. CHETWYND took the earliest opportunity of complying with the directions of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the existing laws relating to Vagrants, by moving for leave to bring in a Bill to amend those laws. The present system of administering the Vagrant Laws cost the country a sum of not less than 100,0001. a year, and he was entitled to say, from the evidence which had been given before the Committee, that they had not produced .a single practical good. The remedy which, he proposed to apply, embraced five different ob jects. His first object would be to suspend the present system of passing vagrants for a year, or for some given period. Great abuses existed under the present system of passina . vagrants. One of those which was given in evidence before he would relate to the House. A man who kept - a monkey was taken up for begging in York shire, and a pass to Scotland was made out for him at an allowance of Bd. .a day. The man ob jected that this sum was too small to maintain himself and monkey, and the Justice's clerk being pleased with the tricks of the animal, said he would pass his monkey too. Accordingly, a pass was gravely made out for the monkey under the name of John Strange, at an allowance of Bd. a day, and in that character the monkey actually proceeded from the North Riding of Yorkshire to Scotland.—(A laugh.)—His second object would be, to accompany the suspension of the . present system of passing vagrants with a more extended period of imprisonment. A mere im yrisonment for seven days was art expence to the country, and answered no good purpose whatso- He should propose an imprisonment of one month for the first offence ; and instead of .suffering vag rants to enjoy themselves, as they were allow ed to do under the present system, he thought they should be kept to hard. labour. Vagrancy was donsidered by the laws as a crime, ,andought.to be treated as a crime. At the same !time, he should propose that a portion of their earnings be given to them at the end of their im prisonment. His third object would be, to abo lish the present system of rewards ; and the fourth, to give a power to Magistrates to bind over constables to prosecute vagrants for a repe tition of their offence. His fifth object would be to abolish walking passes. He would not enter further into the subject on the present occasion, as the House would have an opportunity of dis cussing the details on the second reading of the ever. Mr. SCARLETT adverted to the absurdity of the present system of the Vagrant Laws, by which vagrants were sent to their places of settlement, to receive precisely the same punishment which. might have been inflicted upon them in the first instance. If it were necessary to punish vagrants at all, surely the cheaper and the more expedi tious mode would be to punish them in The place where the act of vagrancy was committed, in stead of sending them from one end of the king dom to the other at a great public expence. This View of the question was calculated,to illustrate the arguments which he had urged on a former occasion with regard to the settlement. In fact, to send a pauper to his place of settlement, was an most cases to send him to a place where he Lad no connections, and no means of obtaining .a livelihood. He hoped, therefore, that his ,Learned Friend, in introducing his Bill, would propose some measure to limit the• discretion of Justices in this respect. It deserved considera tion, that the mere circumstance of a man being reduced to necessity, was not in itself to be re garded as a crime, for it was only against the sturdy, incorrigible vagrant, that the penalties of the law were directed, Mr. F. 'LEWIS contewled that there was no ' place in which a Vagrant was so likely to abandon his-idle habits, and apply himself to useful la bour, as that in,which the law emphatically styl ed him - to be last settled. - -There would be diffi culty in dealing with a part of the system of the Poor Laws, without considering in what way the whole would be affected by' such a partial appli cation of a remedy. - :Mr. LOCKHART said that there were various sorts of -Nagrancy marked out by the old law, such as beggars, hawkers, and even players. — (A laugh.)—liut he thought it would be unjust to visit all these with the same punislunent. There was another more effectual, and certainly more merciful way of restraining vagrancy, and that was by withholding all aid from the vagrants when they were in need. lie was afraid the Committee had nor paid attention enough to the distinction of vagrants, but had allotted a punish ment for vagrants indiscriminately. It • was, however, most material to attend to their classifi cation. • Mr. Chirps said that if the House acceded this Session to the measure proposed by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite (Mr. Scarlett), un doubtedly the present Bill must go hand in hand with it. But if that measure should not be car ried this Session, he hoped the House would lend its aid to his Hon. Friend, and agree to try lan experiment, which, as the measure was limited I only to one year, could at any rate produce no very injurious consequences. A MEMBER, whose name we could not hear, observed that in the parish in which he resided, upwards of 1,4001. had been expended in one year, in prosecuting vagrants. Mr. MoNcti observed, that by the laws of this country no man was permitted to starve and die of want. Some relief ; therefore must be afford ed to destitute persons ; and though in a general point of view it was a matter of indifference to the country, whether that relief were afforded in one place or another, it was by no means a mat ter of indifference to A. and B. the two parishes, which was to be burthened with the permanent support of such persons. It was with a view to such interests that vagrants were sent to their place of settlement by the existing law, and he could not therefore agree to the plan suggested by the Honourable and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Scarlett) which would have no other effect than that of subjecting vagrants to an eternal round of punishments in the place where the first act of vagrancy was committed. He had no wish to oppose the present motion, but the sub ject was surrounded with difficulties, and a great deal of attention ought to be devoted to it, be fore any innovation was made upon the existing system. Lord LONDONDERRY said lie did not rise for the purpose of offering any opinion upon the propo sition of the Hon. and Learned Member. The subject was full of conflicting difficulties, and the object of the Legislature must be to find that alternative, which was liable to the smallest share of objection. The House was scarcely in a situation to discuss this question with advan tage, for they had neither the Report of the Committee, nor the Bill before them. Consi dering the period of the Session, lie could not help thinking that the Honourable Member had acted injudiciously in bringing his proposition before the House before the Report of the Com mittee was in the hands of Members. He could not but suggest to the llouse, therefore, that the question would be more advantageously discUssed on the second reading of the Bill. After a few words from Mr. liiRBORD leave was given to bring in the Bill. JUSTICES OF THE. PEACE. _ Mr. M. CII6EICIII:KY obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend an Act of the 513th of George the Third, to enable Jus tices of the Peace in certain cases to act out of the limits of the County in which they actually. were. Mr. HUME postponed his mction resp'ecting the lonian Isles till Wednesday. General HART gave notice that on Wednesday he would move for leave to bring in a Bill relative to the Distilleries at Carrickfergus. POOR RELIEF BILL. Mr. SCARLETT, having moved the order of the day for' the second reading of the. Poor Relief Bill, commenced his reech by observing that he wished at the outset to state, that it never was his intention, even when he first proposed the', measure now before them, to incumber it with many matters of detail. He was desirous rather to point out to the House the principles upon which he thought the present system of our poor laws vicious one, and one which required correction. He had been, desirous of putting it in the most simple form, and of calling the attention of the House to what- he conceived to be the grand sources of those evils under which we now laboured. He would shortly recapitulate the three great causes of all the various mischiefs and inconveniences which were found to result from our present system of poor laws. They were to be found, first,, in a compulsory and unlimited provision for the poor ; secondly, in the adminis tration of that provision, not to snpport_industry, to encourage good conduct, and to be a relief for -those who might .be disabled by infirmities, but to cherish the vices and the indolence of that class of the poor who were disposed to exist rather on the charity of others, than to depend for their own bread upon their own exertions : thirdly, .(which was the grand and principal source of all those evils, as compared with the others,) in the restraint that now existed upon the_free exercise of labour. It had actually been held that au order of the magistrates for the relief of a poor man was not valid, unless it contained the adjudication of those magistrates that he was impotent to subsist himself. T heLearnedG entlerrnin then adverted to a practice which he said had a direct tendency to reduce the wages of labour. This was the employment of paupers (particularly those being married and having families), who received very slight wages for their labour, because they received them in conjunction with their parochial allowance. Say that a pauper, to support himself, his wife and family, as a compensation for his labour received 9s. a week. The unmarried labourer was by this means reduced to the condition that he who by the proper wages of his own labour could support himself was compelled to work in competition with one who was, content to take gs. as the weekly wages of his labour. Let Hon. Gentle , men look at the condition of the labouring poor of England. They would find mett working almost their blood out ; and for what prospects'? For the melancholy prospect of terminating their existence in the poor house. The labourer at 9s. could have no other. In -every point of view, moral, political, and religious, the Irian who had a direct interest in his own labour, and could thus discern something like a cheering prospect to encourage him, was more valuable to society and to himself, than a man without any pros.. pact but a poor-house for his old age.. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then exposed the fallacious and ill effects of the law of settlements at some length. The total and unqualified abolition of this law appeared to him to be absolutely necessary. Before they could return to the original intentions of the Act of Elizabeth, they must remove the difficulties interposed by the regulations arising out of the practice which had grown up with respect to settlements. What was the principle of this law ? Nothing more than an arbitrary connec tion between the man and the place of his nati vity, or of some other accidental relation. Arbi trary it was, because it was not founded on any just principle of legislation or policy. After some further remarks on the inconsistency and injustice of the law of settlement, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman observed that it had been stated from 'Nottingham that there were a great number of persons who had settlements in that town, but who resided elsewhere, and that there fore the townsmen were afraid the effect of this Bill might be to increase the burden of their poor rates. But the House would see that the limitations of this measure were calculated to prevent any such additional charge, beyond a specified proportionate amount ; and therefore the churchwardens would have but a short an swer to give the parties : they would be em-1 powered to say, " You must go elsewhere, for , we cannot afford to maintain you." The Act, the 43d of Elizabeth, provided a power of taxing one parish in aid of the too heavily burdened funds of another. He (Mr. Scarlett) ob jected to the principle of such taxation in aid ; but, as the power stood upon the Statute hook, it might be quoted with some effect, per haps to meet an evil which he thought imaginary. He happened to know that the accumulated po pulation of manufacturing towns rendered the lands in the vicinity of such towns peculiarly va luable. Indeed, he could quote instances, where such lands, cultivated for the subsistence of such accumulated population, were let at so high a rent as sixteen guineas per acre. Another ob jection to the 13111 before the House was the maximum which it proposed to introduce ; and he was free to confess that cases might for some time arise, in which that maximum would be found inconvenient. But the legislature ought not to be deterred from adopting a sound and be neficial principle by the fear of temporary incon venience : let the house adopt the measure, see the effect, retain the principle, and remedy, pro tempore, the , transient inconvenience. If any gentleman Fait such - a prospect of temporary mischief, as to call for the enactment of a pros pective law; he (Mr. Scarlett) had a clause which might be made part of the Bill, and which suppli ed a certain cure for the evil. If scarcity of provi sions, epidemic disease, or any other circumstance of local affliction should be found to render an allowance necessary beyond the maximum, then let a meeting of the inhabitants of the place, not a select Vestry, but an open meeting, at which the sense of the people could be taken, have power to make an additional allowance. The system of maintaining illegitimate children, and the mode of imposing rates, were' both points upon which improvement might be made ; but such arrangements were rather matters of detail, to be treated of after the moving principle should he adopted. It was said that, under the existing laws, rates might frequently be diminished by the vigilance of Magistrates. No doubt they might; he (Mr. Scarlett) knew instances in which such reductions had been effected; but such instances were exceptions to the general rule ; and the good effect lasted no longer than the vigilance was maintained. He agreed that. the calamities under which the poor were suffering had been produced in a great mea sure by the increase of taxation. But why had those sufferings been so produced 1 Because increase of taxation, and the consequent increase in the money price of almost every article of con- , sumption, had not been attended by a propor tionate increase in the rate of wages paid to them. The, labourer was now paid, not by wages, but by charity : he was demoralized, enslaved, de prived of that independence and self respect ' which alone could make him a good man and a useful citizen. All this took place without a single shilling being saved to his employer : nay, the employer, in the end, was a loser by the sys tem. It - would be found, almost throughout England, that the state of cultivation in which the land appeared depended in a great mea sure upon the condition of the labourer by whom it was cultivated, In Lancashire and in in the West Riding of Yorkshire_ where fuel was to be obtained almost for nothing, where living was cheap and wages were compa ratively high, was not the land, in general, in better cultivation than in the southern counties, where muses were low, and poors' rates-enor mous ? Cfollowed, indeed, of necessity, that it should be so; it followed of necessity that a man should work better upon a plentiful meal and a prospect of independence, than upon 9s. a week, with the prospect of a workhouse. The farmer who paid 2001. a year in wages, got more done for his'moriey, and got it better done, than the man who paid 100/. in wages, and 1001. in poors' rates. The Hon. and Learned Member then re ferred to some returns which he had received from the parish of St. James, Bath, by which it appeared that, with an increase only of one-third in population during the last 100 years, the, poor rates had increased gradually from 9s.llid. per week to 41/. ss. This increase wa,s even now going on. Would the House stem the torrent now, or wait until its force became overwhelm ing ? After some remarks upon the probable ef fectof.the proposed Bill, in saving the immense, expellees incurred by removals, and in putting an end to laws which formed an eternal source of litigation, the Hon. Member concluded by mov ing that the Bill be read a second time. Si ROBERT WlLsori • allowed that it was an arduous task to reply to the arguments of his Learned Friend ; but painful and arduous as the task was, he undertook it from conscientious mo tives. No man could deserve more credit than his.bearned Friend, and certainly no mart was more disptAd to give it than himself. BUt his (Sir R.'s) objection to the Bill was, that it tended to abrogate the Statute of Queen Elizabeth, which Justice Blackstone had declared to be founded on the best principles of civil society. He would say, that the laborious poor could only look, and ought only to look for relief, to those who had the means of relief in their possession. Suppose that a Case happened that the inhabitants of a populous town were thrown out of employ, and relief refused them, did the House suppose that they would starve ? His Learned Friend had ap peared to think that, by the Statute of Elizabeth, the impotent alone were entitled to relief. But he would ask, if relief were refused to the indi gent poor, who were willing to work but unable to procure it, would they not soon be reduced to that impotent state which would entitle them to the benefit of the Statute ? The Honourable Baronet then proceeded - to express his objections to the imposition of a maximum. That maximum, whatever it might be, would soon be considered by the poor as a,mini mem. The system had been already tried in other cases, and had always been found inconvenient. With regard to that which he termed the anti-matrimonial and anti-popula tion measures of his Learned Friend, he would say that the clause was equally inconsistent with re ligion and morality. If they thus passed a law to prevent marriage, how could they still keep up those laws which already existed against illicit in- , tercourse ? No person could go into the country and say that children were the premiums of idle ness. The poor man seldom received relief until trig third child, and then only at the rate of one two or shillings a week. Formerly an extensive population had been looked upon as an advantage, but now it appeared it was to be considered a burden. 'He never would agree to a measure which would tend to take away the best rights of the poor until he had seen those reductions of public expence which he had so long laboured to accomplish, and until he saw every thing done which would satisfy the people that every useless expenditure had been abolished. Mr. F. awls said, he rose merely for the purpose of making one or two observations ofi what had fallen from the Gallant General (Sir R. Wilson). He- called the 43d of Queen Eliza beth the Magna Charta of the poor, the palladium of their rights'. If by this he meant to establish it as a principle that it was not competent to the House to make any alterations in these laws, that every change must rest on the conditions laid down. by the Gallant General, he would entreat them to consider what the consequences must be, and what was the nature of the right, thus claimed on the part of the poor. The principle of the British Constitution was to secure to all whatever property they had acquired. It knew of no other principle, so fly as regarded property. It could not therefore for a moment stand as a maxim of right.that the poor were entitled to support.— From the 43d of Elizabeth it was clear that the poor-rates were never considered in any other light than as a provision for the poor. The words in that statute, which might be traced to preceding laws, meant nothing but compulsatory labour.' lie would take a future opportunity of going into the details of the Bill. Mr. BENETT (Wiltshire) conceived that the, greatest evils of the existing Poor Laws were, that they had reduced the poor to the most abject state of wretchedness, leaving them without any interest whatever In property. Yet he consi dered that if the proposed measures were adopt ed, at the present period, they would create a very general state of starvation. The fixing of a maxi mum, he thought to be quite impracticable, and the alteration of the law of settlements would be productive of serious evils. Some parishes would be relieved, while others would be much more hurthened than they were at present. The sup ply of labour was not, in his opinion, too great; there was only an insufficient demand, because the progress of agricultural pursuits was checked by the prevailing distress. Mr. COUWtENAY thought it would be much better to let the Bill go into the Committee without discussion, and let the general principles be discussed when it should come therefrom. He would . merely say here, that_ he did not agree with whit had fallen from ,an lion. Gentleman (Mr. F. Lewis) as to the right of the poor to the relief which they received, but that, on the con trary, he concurred in much that had been said upon that subject by the Gallant General who preceded him. And upon a future occasion he should be prepared to contend, if the House would hear him, that the poor had a moral right and claim -upon the support of the Country. Mr. HARBORD took the same view as the Hon. Member who spoke last as to the course of pro... ceedino- with the Bills. Ile should therefore re serve the. observations he had intended to ad= dress to the House until the fit occasion should arrive. Lord MILTON said, he was friendly to the Bill, and would give all the support in his power to that part of it which went to repeal the pre sent Law of Settlement., That law he consider ed the greatest mischief to the poor themselves and to the country generally. Ile did not think the present distress arose from an increased population, for on comparing the census taken 20 and 10 years back it would be found, that in the agricultural districts the increase was trifling, if any. There was no doubt an increase in the manufacturing districts ; but it should be con sidered that this added to the rents of the land owners. The existing distress arose not from population or Poor Laws, but from their im mense public debt. The Poor Laws were no doubt a great moral evil ; but it would be remedied in a great measure by repealing the present Law of Settlement, which prevented labourers from going where they might find em ployment. lie did not, think the same piovibion allowed by these laws could operate as any great encouragement to early marriages. ire thought ii — impossibie to carry into effect the, clause re• specting a maximum. Indeed if the other parts of the Bill were successful the clause would be come nugatory. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, he rose mervly to say a few words as to what he thottra the proper...course of proceedin 'The House was indebtedqo ate Hon. and s larned Gentle man (Mr. Scarlett) for brit/ging forward this sub ject. The frequent discussion of it would be productive of this great advantage, that the country would, by degrees, be habituated to con sider it in a just point of view, and be prepared, when it was clearly understood, to act upon wise principles. This great question had been within, a short time twice under the consideration of a Committee. If so much difficulty had been felt. upon a former occasion in giving a mere modifi- • cation to the Law of Settlement, the Home would, perceive how necessary it was to prepare the public mind by mature discussion for so com plete a change as getting rid of the principle of settlement altogether. Nothing was more de sirable than to prevent, by wise regulation, the increase of that expence for the support of the poor which was tending gradually to absorb OF property ; nothing more desirable than to apply the principle of relief to those alone whom the law - , originally contemplated ; nothing more desirable than to prevent vagrancy and the other evils aris- n inn from the present Law of Settlement; but though desirable, the House should still wait till they saw how far these ends were rendered attainable by the clauses of the Bill, and how the provisions of it were reasoned by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman in connection with the prin. ciples. He would suggest therefore to have the Bill printed, and to take the discussion in the, . Committee as early as possible, Every discus sion.and every communication made on this im portant subject was a real gain to the country.— The Report of his Right_Hon. Friend (Mr. S. Bourne) did a great deal to enlighten the public. They had long before been proceedinc , on false-- principles of huma.nity, by vesting in ?M agistrates an unlimited power as to the amount of the relief they would grant to paupers. Ever since that . Report, the administration of the. Poor Laws moved in a right direction. The Select Vestries recommended in it were found to be productive of great advantages in many places where they had been introduced. Mr. CALcaArr said, although be came pre pared to enter into discussion on this question, he was disposed to defer the consideration, con' ceiving that the suggestion of the Noble Lord to reprint the Bill, with the additional claustt s 4 was the best course of proceeding. Mr. SCARLETT had no objection to read thrie - BUJ a second time, and in a Committee to move, instanter, to annex -some of the clauses. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, adverting to the money given to paupers in cases of marriage, said he had received a letter from a Magistrate, in which it was stated, that a young person, twenty years of age, had received three guineas and 3 half to be married, and when he was married, he came to the overseers to demand relief and a s re sidence. The Bill was then read a second time, null or dered to be committed on Monday. METROPOLIS ROADS BILL. Mr. D. GILBERT moved the further consideration of th.e Report of the Metropolis Roads Bill. Mr. CALCRAFT opposed the Bill, and said' he would take the sense of the House upon it. Mr. CRIPPS spoke in favour of the Bill. Mr. DENISOI against it. Mr. J. Smith supported the motion ; and Mr. H. Sumner! Sir E. Knatchbull, Mr. Williams, Sir E. Harvey, Sir J. Se". bright, and Mr. T. Wilson opposed it. The Order of the Day for taking the Report into further consideration was then put. Mr: D. GILBERT moved that the Bill be re-committed. Mr. CALCRAFT moved, as an Amendment, that the 14 0- port be , taken into further consideration on this day thtt< months.—The House divided— For the Amendment . - 34 .Against it - - - . . 33 Majority for the Amendment - - —1 The other Orders of the Day were then disposed ef, ana House adjourned at a quarter past - One o'Clock. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. • CAMBRIDGE, Mir 24.—The anniversary meeting of -11 ' 4 ' Members of the Cambridge Philosophical Society was held 3 1 - their house, on Tuesday, May 22, being the day succeeding the last general meeting of the Society for the present term-- 4- A most satisfactory report of the state of the tunds and., 0i 11 " : general affairs of the Society was made by the Treasurer :.. aft' r. which the following Gentlemen were elected officers of the SO ciety, for the ensuing year : St.. PRESIDENT—The Very Rev. Dr. Wood, Master or - - John's College,.and Dean of Ely.. VICE-PRESIDENT.—The Rev. Dr. E. D. 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Rowen Cooke, LL.B. of Trinity Hall, has t ee instituted to the vicarage of Worsbro', near Barnsley, c a lc e st presentation of his father, the Rector of Darfield, in the 11 Riding of Yorkshire. We are requested by Mr. SAMS, Booloeller I° 11. R. H. the Duke of YORK,, to announce A ;GOND LFTTER from the KING TO HIS The 24th Edition of the FIRST LETTER IS ""r ready for delivery, and may be had of ail th e Booksellers in the United Kingdom. We are informed that ABRAHAM TnotiNTos9, though lately reported to be dead, is still lvi ;1 in America. A. person who resides a - few from this city, and by whose daughter had an illegitimate child, has very r adently rc % from him,—(Lichjie/d Mercury.) • Thehesrnto!