The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-06 00:00:00

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THE METROPOLITAN 1101711ELBEIS POOR BILL.
The house wed into committee es this bill.
Olathe 1 woe postponed.
Clauses 2 sod 3 were, with asneedmenn agreed to.
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Mr. HENLEY esid the *set el this legielatios woos that
canoes who were destitute in the skein of Lonrho should
not pariah through went of teed or shelter. The question
was whether the woods " wayfarer,* " warderer," and
"handling .• wood include all darlings persons. As to the
weed " fondling," he did set sleben the police could enr-
olee any discretion is the rasher. As to " wonderer " there
Right be some differeeoe et *dos ea to its dsdoitlos, ad
Mho as to " wayfarer." Now if the destitute person should
net be one of them three alereee, so wen would be to
Lome for not intim hire ee bar to a place of refuge. He
eddied the worde "or osier dentate person" to be added
fen the hash. Is reference to the return made to the
beam he thought that upon the whole they showed that
reasonable accommodation bad bees provided by the guar-
dims, but he wished to ad attention to the conduct of the
authorities of the Rotherhitbe sad of the St. George's South-
mirk Unions, because in the former union, wools bad 'been
provided which only contained sa arse of 21 feet 4 hakes,
mid which, is his opiniou, were not sufficiently large, for
the space allowed did not mashie women to lie at fall length.
There were several wards in thst usioe.end into theme the
night of the 24th Jasuary, were pot 11 women, the cabled
erne foe each bang only 71 feet, which wu peeing these
people as done as they were phased in timidness. Then
es to 81. Game* Shithwitrk, there were
or only 1.514
di 'ed feet of open provided f 20 women, or about 75
feet for each. He thought there might be some mistake in
them returns, and he Loped the matter would have the
serious ottoman of the right ben. gendarme.
Mr. VILLIERS odd he had no *Westin to the sand.
went of the right hos. gestleman. With reopen to the
wards provided by the guard/sae of the anima referred to,
be might state that they heed sot bees certified, and there-
fore the unions would net he reimbursed for the expenses
which they bad incurred. He thought that open the whole
the accommodation provided for the destitute of London
wee far better thee it wad to be.
After a few words from Mr. littil2T,
The amendment was agreed to.
Mr. BROMLEY movades an addition to clause 4—" That,
from the paging of this sot, every pollee station within the
metropolitan district shall be constitntrd au dike for the
Inning of orders of admission, fordestitute persons requiring
the same, into the mash ward of the workbenas of the
district in which the said police station is situated."
-Mr. VILLIERS said the amendment was wholly mine-
an cowry. Sir R. Mays* had given shim to the guardians
See he would be reedy to place constables at their disposal,
sad wilder the act the guardians could make all necomery
strangeroonts.
Atka a short discussion, the amendment was negatived
without a division.
Mr. VILLIERS in the sheen of Lord Robert Chß
moved the following addition to the clause :—" The sust-
ains of every noire or perish referred to in the mid act
shall admit without delay, either to the workhouse r' to
the wards or pleas of receptive provided wader the said
set, every poor person who shall apply to be admitted
during the hours between six o'clock in the evening and
eight in the morning is the mouths between October and
/dusk inclusive, and during the hours between eight
o'clock in the owning and eight o'clock in the morning in
the months between April and September inclusive, and
who shall not have applied is the same parish during
thirty days previously ; and the 'outline shell muse to be
tarnished to every poor person so admitted snob relief
eider such conditions as tbe Poor-law Baird seder general
ceder shall direct ;" and it was agreed to ; and the clause u
intended was agreed to.
Mr. HENLEY said that as some doubt had been thrown I
vow • statement of his respecting the number of enticed
fest per person is certain anal wards, be would give the
esenmittee the exact figures In Rotherhithe Union there
ins one ward of 36 feet, two of 48, two of 42, and one of
21. Taking one of etch be toned that their aggregate
ended contents wire 790 feet; and as IL persona had
actually slept in those wards, there would be 71 oath feet
each. In St. George'e Union there were 75 cubical feet for
each person.
Mr. A`i RTON having in the mean time entered the
house moved so amendment upon clause 1, for the pur-
pose of making the bill permanent. The hon. gentleman
contended that it was hopeless to expect any good from
the bill while it was conned from year to year. They
could net expect boards of guardians to lay out considerable
sums of mosey which might have the effect of briogiog
upon them a large number of casual paupers unless they
were satisfiaol that the rest of the metropolitan unions I
would do the same thing. For example. the workhouse of
the City of London Unice was at Bow ; and there wan two
workhouses between it sad the City. If than work-
Donate made proper arranges the poor who
properly belonged to the City would not go
to Bow; whereas if the law were permanent tbe
City would make proper arraugementa nearer its own
boundaries. It was quite dear that the very foundation of
the bill was the establishment of the most exact uniformity
is every respect, bemuse if that were carried out paupers
would sot have the sznalleet object in choosing one casual
ward in preferesce to another. But it was obvious that that
uniformity could sever be introduced unless the bill were
made a permanent portion of the Poor-law.
Mr. VILLIERS did not object to the ameadment, which
was in strict conformity with the report of the committee.
Mr. BRADY supported the amendment, which was
screed OD without a division.
The (*AMMAN then reported the bill.
COMMISSIONERS OF SUPPLY (SCOTLAND).
Hz DUNLOP obtained leave to bring in a bill to 'sable
Sisters, trustees, and others toads onamioaioners of supply
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