The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-13 00:00:00

-XIITING IN WESTMINSTER.

Ycateiaay ening a numerous moettog of the
mentliors of the National Equitable Poor Rate Anaheim%
took phase at as Ifileg's Arms Tavern, Palace-yard, Nen
miner. ¶'h. chair was taken by Lord Noonan.
His LORDSHIP said he bad may °binders generally
speshisg to the present system of poor laws ; senlinn m
he did In a part of the soantry when them were a nun
of small taunts, his objedions were semaisiel.
He objected to the presentsystem of rat=setart
Indust, szpeasive, and (raved with to the
ratepayers and to the poor theamehis (Haar, bear.)
Many parts of it also wan leseght operatna. not la
series arrocedanes with the law, the eat-lee =e Ja-
nne ; but the mat impernet pent hr was
thesa blealies bads. es the pen thsesshes.
The of entismost lay a the rest the on, and,
by the free diesdellis of labour through the
=;ssassomed almost hieneable injury. The farther the
t of the Min was removed from the inter-
/mom of heal satherities, the nacre likely it was to be fairly
en
newly ed, and that was to be effected only by
a gond rate distributed sew the whole country,
and tke mash able mosessemat.
Kr. shad tin the unequal manna in
which the bean of the pear else were distribteed in the
city of Enna and the sanewshag losali_q, had led to the
knalin of this moiety. The din la Norwich was, that
Was seas pans ware paned in or eight shillings in the
peer peer men ethers were mft sal y niaetesa pesos in
the peas& The halm ammin Ronda were eine-
len tiers
the semny ; it bean eznaively benzin
may other localities suffered under similar g snancee, and
the result was that the 'ablest moaned the ruble ninny
exteadvely. The people now felt that the present law drives
the poor fin the Wean of the risk to the localities new
pm, and that unless it were altered it would eventually sat
into the vials of the enetry. (Hear.)
Alderman SIDNEY, P. on moving the int resolution,
mid that it was ledinneablithat all taxes should Donnelly
bona, and test the poorntee were not subject to this role
a very kw eta alles wend prove. To show their lingual
La= seed endristato that of the 13.127 paddies in
11.308 a poor-rate varying from 6d. to le •
5,149 paid fan Is 25.; 3,135 hen 2s. to h.; 1,370 ben;
3s. to 4s. ; end 858 keen 4s. to 11. h. Bd. (Heart
hoar.) The less. sesames Shea reda anon of
statistical stnemen tan poisanly from • nest India
cation entitled " • Pisa hetho Equalisation of the Tow
' ratalllt=t as tingles," by Mr. G. I. Hankie&
He dwelt as the issequalillba
stiagir, de=
by ; nada of Stafford, Leeds, ,
ease town sad mann stating his open* or the
seers haleeinsed by Mr. • while. a eldetea.
was • move la the Ogle dietetics. by I:::=Sasthe lmt
resolution, whisk shanneed the exist.
lag between the miens perishes trilEalaail ami Wales in
the rate he the relief cif the poor as a nissast sad
gross Wadies, which demanded the immeilin n-
inths of the lesbian*, with a view to • speedy
remedy, as it appeared from the perilimentary r►
turns that the average rating of England and Wale,
amounted to le. dd., whilst fa many butane the rates is
particular localities amounted to upwards of 7s.la thepound,
and in some cases to 108.
The CHAIRMAN said that in the pada la which he
lived, they had reduced the rates from 12s. to h. in the
pound, by a system—for he amines& he was • great oaths-
siast—namely, the system of allotment. (Loud ann.)
In the pada in which he lived there were not quits
1,100 acres, and 32 acres were allotted to the poor
at the ate of 41. an acre, which was cheer-
folly and eves eagerly paid. Daring the last Irian
there was not • single able-bodied man in the parish
out of employment, and the remuneration for labour bad
been raised from the starvation rate of Bs. a week, to the
mon substantial and satishotory amount of lls. and 12s. a
week. In addict= to • general equalised rating, it would be
a great boon to the poor sad indenions gasses of the pope.
lation if government were to ends. the power of purcha-
sing waste lands, and leidig them, s had been done with
such good results in his own locality. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. WINCHES sanded the resolution, which was sup-
ported by Mr. Goodfellow, who stated himself to be • work-
-911 man, H. (MACRE= oltAddison Hall, War-
wiarair;, peopend the snood ;minion, the purport of
which was, tin the laws of settlement sad removal are no-
just Opieenthe to the poor, by caning large expendi.
tare and 'Siphon, by impelling the beneficial employment
of capitalintablederfaring with the liberty of tho per man
and the of his labour; by seneft a sar-
plus popoladis ttiCtity where it is sot seeded, and by
nanny paugashing large numbers of inmein_persons..
This sandatien having been seconded hy Ur. aOHNSON,
al IfeneW and spoken to by Mr. C. COCHRANE, both of
whom ad many facts illustrative of the injurious opera-
tion of the law of settlement in the urban as well se rural
districts, also passed unanimously.
Lord NC ENT having stated that hie parliamentary
duties obliged him to leave the meeting, Mr. &menage
was mini to the chair in his place.
Dr. LLOYD (chairman of the Warwick union) moved •
resolutioa demanding the entire repeal of the laws for the
relief, removal, and settlement of the poor ; and that their
relief in future should be charged on the general property
of the country, which wee also adopted.
A petition to both houses of parliament on the subject
was then adopted, and the meeting separated.

Cnome..--Yosterday, the following fresh owe
wero reported to the Board of Health : St. George's in
Bast workhouse, 3 fatal; Shepherd's Bush, 1; Spitalgolds,
1; Isle of Dap, Poplar, 1; Sunderland, front 7th to 11th
March, 44, 20 hind ; Olugow (10th), 3' Kilbiznie, 2 fatal;
Stirling, 4 fatal ; Pai.ley, 7, 6 fatal ; Biesanea, 4.—Total,
70 new asses; 35 deaths.

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