The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-17 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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PITITIONS ON PRIVATR BILLS.
Lord RIIDEBDALE moved that all pithier praying to
be heard %pea the vomits 'phut saybill it either of the
Weems leseMened la shading order No. 178 be petaled b 7
the petitiasere, rad_ uples timed deporited in the aim of
the Clerk of tie PaAementi at each time sad in each
&amber as the %ohms d Oemmittem may direst.
Agreed to,
METROPOLITAN AND 1117BURBA.N POOR RATES.
Lad RAVIN/WORTH promoted a petition ham the
with of Harommith, complaistag el the pierces inequa-
htg of Me par rates bottom the metropaliMa mid es.
burls& districts, sad iunied whether her YSJeetl. govern.
Milt contemplated say measures of relief is the suburbs&
&Skims is the promised bill for the ameadmeet of the Poor-
law The noble lord mid that the gabled me oar) of
maidarable interest, sad was mere or lase massoted with
the Mill wide question of union ratios. The attention of
their lordships was directed a few eveaiop time
to the rewrite of alteratioris and improvements which
had taku place is the =Sappho. They had been
told that 14,000 peaces had hem displaced, and
that 3,600 mire about to be displaced by them alterations.
No doubt the improvements were desirable oa sanitary,
mosornical, sad Nodal ; but cm rand' which fol-
lowed hos them was the while the valustioa of property is
the distaires as improved higher, the pregame upon
the nits in the poorer districts, to which the persona
iaveriably flocked, became greater. The subject was
sot now under consideration for the first time. In the year
1858 inestiage had been held and member delivered on the
Alibied, sad the great &tress arkusg ham the inspeality
el rating was forcibly pointed out. The border pressed
heavily upos the poorer MMiMi. while the richer districts
a comparative immunity from this kind el taxation.
raleseary, 11488, • meeting of the parochial clergy of
Leedom was held, Is whisk the evils Maim from the
equalit or relining were dwelt as, sad at a mortis' of the
our mows of health the evils of overcrowding is the
poser districts of Loads* were insisted ea, and were timed
inequality of rating. The remedy for this date of
thing~ was the extualos of the area of ruing from the
abuts to the metropolis. This questioe of the isequality
e/ rating was leceight before the occomittes of the Home
el Oscomoes, hat that committee neither suggested nor pro-
posed • remedy. It was true that they recommeeded
generally an =imam at the area of rating, but they mid
at the same time that regard must be had to the
mealier eireumeteaces cif the metropolis. The ow ol the
subarben die • as compared with the inerupolitas,
Wets be a is this is. short sentenos, that whereas
the wealthier dietriste of the metropolis bed the benefit of
the labour of the abloboliad dam of the poor ; the harden
of amistainiag the sick, the helpless, the aged, sad the in-
digent was thrown almost exclusively upon the enborbea
dishicts, in which they were obliged to tete refuge. He
wished to know whether the government intended to
PraCany nemeire to remedy this state of things.
GRANTILLR add it was the inteutico cl govern-
ment to introduces bill to carry out some of the recommen-
dation. of the committee of the House of Caramels, bat
It would not dui with the partioulsz point to which the
sable lord referred.
Ind ILiVRNBWORTH said be heard the statement of
the table earl with perk regret, and be could sly say
that the goveremeat weld bur more of the Babied.

ILLICIT DISTILLATION LN IRELAND.

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