The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-12 00:00:00

REMOVAL OF IRISH PAUPERS FROM
ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND._

Adeputation from the inhabitants of Belfast waited
at the try for the Rome Department at the Hoar-
office, on Friday, for the purpose of impressing on her Ma-
jesty's govemstnest the aeons ty ef an alteration in the law,
which retes the removal of bisb pauper from England
land Sootl~ind The deputation coward of Mr. W. G. John-
' eon, the Mayor of Belfast, Mr. Fenton, Mr. Bates, and Mr.
Bryden.
Mr. JOHNSON drew the attention of the right hon. but.
to the feet that the port of Belfast being the nearest poet to
Scotland. was continually burdened with the importation of
pupas who had emigrated to England end Scotland, and who,
having no settlement by law in these countries, were removed
by the anions on which they became chargeable. The num-
ber of paupers landed on the quays at Belfast, from the 17th
of July, 1847, to the 29th of January, 1849, amounted to
12,100, and according to the pros Wow of the Irish poor-
law, they became immediately entitled to relief from the
Belfast poor-law urn, while the guardians of that union
had no right to apply the poor rates for the purpose
of removing those persons to the plates of their birth
or former residence. Moreover, if they possesoed such
power, it was submitted that it wwld not to just
that the union of Belfast, with which the pau-
per had previously been unconnected, and to which he
had been sent under a legal process, should bear the expense.
The maintenance of such a number of pumas at the low
rate of b. ed. per bead would in one ear amount to the
sum of 47,1701. It was obvious, therefore, that sinless the
English and Scotch low of removal shall be altered, the con.
setenere of this state of things would prove moat injurious
to Belfast.
Sir G. GREY admitted the hardship of the case, and asked
what remedy the deputation e ?
The Deputation thought that the system adopted in Rag-
land with regard to the removal of English paupers from
the parish where they became chargeable, to the pa-
rish where they had a legal claim for relief could be
carried out with reference to the transmission of Irish
paupers. They proposed, therefore, that the English pre-
cedent should be adopted—that was to say that when the
Irish pauper became chargeable on the English parish and
had no settlement in England, the justices should inquire re-
specting his place of birth in Ireland, and that he should be
rest there in the same manner as when an Enlists pauper,
who became chargeable on a distant parish in England, was
sent to the parish where he had a claim for suppport.
Sir G. GREY said he would give the suggestion
attentive consideration and communicate his determination
to the deputation.

THE WOODS AND FORESTS AS COMMIS-
SIONERS OF METROPOLITAN IMPROVE-
MENTS. _ _ _

It appears from a return presented to the Hones of
Commons on the sth inst., that the Woe& and
Forests have been borrowing pretty freely on the
security of the land revenues of the crown, to carry on
the improvements in the metropolis. The act 3& 4
Vic., c. 87, authorised the formation of three new
streets—from Oxford-street to Holborn; from Long-
aere to Charlotte-street; from London Docks to Spit-
&Melds. The act 4 Vic. c. 12, authorised two new
lines of street—from Coventry-street to Loog-acre,
and from East Smithfield to Rosemary-lane. Ac-
cording to the sots 4 & 5 Vic., c. 40, and 7 Vic., c. 1,
the only limit to the amount authorised to be borrowed
fr the construction of these streets is, to "such sums
es the Commissioners of Woods shall, with the consent

and approbation of the Lords of the Treasury, judge
neceisary for completiag the improvements authorised
by the acts for forming them." Of this tolerably lati-
tudinarian permission the Woods and Foteats have
availed themselves as follows:

From the 18th of August, 1841, to the 24th of
August, 1847, they have borrowed various sums to the
amount of 805,0001.; and they have paid interest urn
them to the amount of 160,2511. Of this total paid
as interest 44,7811. have been paid out of the land
revenue income, and 115,4701. out of the principal of
money borrowed. Rather more than one-eighth
of the money raised by way of loan has been
expecded in paying the interest upon the
loans. An arrangement which has just been
entt red into with the bank is quite in keeping
with this egregious system of management. The
commissioners tell us that they have a bill before
parliament to empower them to borrow 100,000!.
from the Bank of England to enable them to replace
90,0001. temporarily advatced out of the funds of the
land revenue. Borrowing money to pay the interest
on other loans, and slipping en addittonal 10,0001.
into a new loan just because it is convenient to have
that sum, are transactions curiously resembling those
of Charles Surface with his" little Premium."

CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR
DISEASES OF THE CHEST.

The First Anniversary Festival of this charity was
held on Saturday at the ',melon Tavern, the Earl of Carlisle
presiding. About 400 gentlemen sat down to dinner, among
whom we noticed Samuel H.R. antiPaninel (junior) Gurney,
&qrs., Aldermen Sidney, Fancourt, and Finals ; J. Allard,
J. Dillon, H. Ford Barclay, Thomas Howell, I. W. Baton,
J. Masterman, junior, B. Bunsen, Rum. • musical
party, under the direction of Mr. Rumford, sang gement
songs and gloss in the course of the evening.
On the removal of the cloth, the CHAIRMAN gave the
usual loyal and constitutional toasts, which were all duly re.
sponded to. The toast of " the army and navy " was received
with especial cheerinsr, the noble chairman having in pro-
posiag the toast, noticed in glowing terms the prompti-
tude with which a distinguished soldier (Sir C. I. Napier)
had consented to cross the ocean at a moment's notice, when
the exigencies of the national service required it.
The next toast was " Prosperity to the City of London
Hospital."
The CHAIRMAN, in calling attention to the peculiar elms
of human suffering which this imitation proposed to assuage,
said that he Gould hardly make his hearers understand the
necessity of the case without a few statistics. This was a
statistical age us he knew to hie eat as chairman o
several public' boards—and in the present case a few eta-
&tics were absolutely necessary. It appeared that the
amount of hospital accommodation in the metropolis com-
prised 3,600 beds of which one.half were occupied by magi-
cal cams ; and of the remaining half the great proportion
were taken up with meted, leaving but a mere
fraction for the mass of *brad malady which was
unhappily to be found in all large and crowded
communities.
_Mem, hear.) What an amount of pain
and sorrow did not that simple statement of facts
imply ? The slow agony, the wasting frame, the weary path
to which there was no outlet but death. (Hear, bear.) In
such a state of things, every one would admit how &mixable
it was that hospital accommodation should be provided for •
class acmes whisk one-third of the mortality of
the whole himpisns."Mbilliesi no desire to oppose the insti-
tution at Beemptei. They were not envious of its ornamen-
tal turrets, nor even elks Nightingale who had sung so
sweetly eadsopstokedeely in its groves. (Laughter.) But
it was megmot is met for thew of the essbend of the
metropolises hospltal In whichillsoeses of the chest might
mast that aspmete sad exclusive treatment pronounced by
moiler* earn to be the most mitimefeL (Hear, hear.) It
wm also peeps *have In eemesks with the hospital a
sanaterhialk Mhmessesel.odexabiaeosmmightobtain
the best =Owl amistanee sad ammusodation, and to
continue Me public disposal" in which is the small
mem of six mouths 3,100 perms had already been relieved.
(Hear, hear.) Such objects were well worthy the attention
of the charitable. He remembered having seen inscribed in a
travel's:No book among the glaciers of Switzerland the
melancholy admiration of a consumptive patient whose
mesas allowed him to fly to the south to stay to awhile the
hand of his grim opponent :
Hare Moak a moment from Italia alq
And stops sad wonders on his way to me,
Bat the afflicted London artisan could not fly be the shel-
tered plains of Italy or the emirs games et Bleadra ; and
therefore they were asked now to wails he Masud' aids
and appliances at hems as would are the yes of his
cooditioo. (Cheers.) To cure when pemible, but is all
cases to cheat pain of halt its sting, sad &Pith of half its
terrors : to shelter the poor consumptive patient so as
that—

no winds anon not obit his do& w vonibly.

With these observations be dwell eeseideibe prosperity
of the institution to their ezediess. (Rear, hew.
The toast having been responded to, the tibscarrAnv pro-
ceeded to read the report, which, in addition to the fscts
touched upon in the speech of the chairman, stated that the
amount received since the commltessaqatlf the buditation

wu 6011. is. 2d., and the expenditure 6631. 17e. kid:, leav-
ing a balsas* in hand of 471.8 a. 4d.. A suss of 6001. an-
nually would be barely sufficient to carry oa the out-patient
branch of the institution.
The report was adopted, and a alludes made, which,
including donations, amounted to the mast 1,7161. The
other toasts on the chairman's Het were dm dhposed of, and
the company esparated.

DEATH OF ANTHONY WHITE, Facie—The atedioil
profession his lost ens of its brightest ornaments in Mr.
Anthony White, the eminent surgeon, who died at his
house l Farliament.street, on Friday morning last, at
an 'deemed age. M. White was of a nor*-eountry
family. sad was a graduate of the university of
Cambridge, where he took an honourable degree. He
came to London at an early period, and commenced
practice as aristantwurgeon at the Westminster Hospital,
with which institution to the day of his death he continued
to be associated. Mr. White speedily obtained celebrity for
the do:laity and memo cilia operation, in the most diMellt