The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-14 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY, MARCH 13.
The LORD CNANCeLLOA took big A.m. at 6 o'clock.

PUBLIC BUSINERS.

PETITIONS.-By the Muis of BIZADAIII•NR, from eensral Owes
en gootland, egairdit arq
the Diomatie Relations with coon of Rome
Bill.-Lord StA,L[T. from South Shields, against *itemise of Nevi.
dation Laws ; from clergy of Astdon-under-Lyne, for an Me ease in
the number of bishops; ham drehdoshon and elude of Boys ar Otedi
and Ram, oowplslnlog of pressure of poor-rates on their 001 y.
RETURNS ORDERED.- On the motion of Earl Frrswiusse, re-
tina of the number of able-bndied male abets rewiring relief whether
io.door or ouudoor (diatingmehing web), in the several unions in Ire-
land, on the Ist day of We., 1647, and the drat three months of
18411; also, return of the several unions in which an order has Veen
received to authorise the grant of outdoor relief, efieeifying the awes
in which outdoor relief has been given in mosey.
DEATH OF MR. CURREY.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said—My lords, I was ea
this evening to have announced to the house the appoint-
ment of Mr. Currey as clerk assistant. (Hear, hear.) Your
lordships are, no doubt, aware of the melancholy circum-
stance that has occurred, and hss deprived your lordships of
the zeal and ability of a most excellent servant. (Hear,
hear.) My experience of the lamented gentleman enables
me to say that he woe a man peculiorly qualified for the
situation he held, admirably informed as to all our modes of
proceeding, and most patient, zealous, and attentive in the
discharge of his duties. It will be necesrary to provide for
the service of the house, which at present presses very mach
for assistance ; but as I understand that on Mr. Cumy's ap-
pointment, Messrs. Ross and Edmonds were nominated re-
opectively second clerk assistant and reading clerk, it will be
sufficient for present purposes if those appointments be con-
firmed, leaving the appointment of Mere assistant for lies
Majesty's consideration.
The Earl of DEVON took that opportunity of testifying,
front long experience and intimate agusintance, to the ex-
cellent qualities, bothpersona/ and official, of the late Mr.
Currey.
Motion agreed to.
POOR LAW (IRELAND).
The Earl of LUCAN rose pursuant to notice, to bring
under the consideration of the house the present state of the
Irish poor law, as regards the rating of lessors. The noble cart,
who spoke so indistinctly that he could scarcely be heard in
the gallery, was underetood to complain that when the legis-
lature removed the burthen of the rates from the small OM,
piers, it threw it too suddenly and completely upon the
lessors. His lordship cited several cues to illustrate the
oppressive action of the law as it stood at present, and eon
tended that now the landlord was the person most oppressed
by its operation. He objected to the carrying out a a law
intended for Ireland, with machinery which was exclusively

English.
The Earl of ST. GERMANS defended the lawn it stood.
The alteration complained of by the noble earl had been
rendered necessary by the inability of the small occupiers to
pay the rates, and by the wears of misery and hardship
whick their collection bad occasioned.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE raid that the Board+ of
Guardians in Ireland were not to blame for their proceed-
ings. Admitting, es he was ready to do, the truth of the
noble earl's complaints, the circumstances which gave rise to
them were capable of explanation. The poor law °Nome-
sioncrs levied the rate. according to the course laid down by
the law. The guardians bad no alternative but to follow
out the instructions laid down fi.r their guidance by the com-
missioners, and it the noble earl felt himself eggrieved he
had his remedy by the right which WA, given him under the
act, of making an appeal against the rate within four months
dies being made. Wily bad not the noble earl resorted to
this remedy? He did not consider that the assist int poor law
commissioners had, according even to the noble earl's state-
ment, at all departed from those laws. He, therefore, se-
quitted them of all blame.
Lord STANLEY said that the complaints of the noble
earl (Lunn) was as to the practical difficulty which existed
under the poor law act of 1f43, namely, that there was no
remedy afforded for the hardship of a person being set down
and rated as the immediate lessor above his proper rateable
interest; and even in come cases he was rated without hav-
ing any interest at a'l. A. to the right of eppealo twos dif-
ficult, if not impossible, amongst so many thousand sate-
payers, to discover who ought to resort to that step in time
to adopt it.
Tie Marquis of CLANRICARDE contended that the
lessor had always the right of appeal if he felt aggrieved
The Earl of LIMAN raid there wail no instance on record
in which a lessor had appealed.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE—The real mums of
the noble earl's complaint were—first, that the board of
guardians had been guilty of a lathes in imposing an unjust
rate ; and next, that he himself had not appealed in time
against that Vest rate.
Earl FITZ ILLIAM deprecated the unjust manner in
which the landed proprietors of Ireland had been treated in
respect to the poor-law. The legislature and the executive
government had alike failed is doing their duty be Ireland,
although the people of England wee• deluded into the be-
lief that they fad done all that was necessary by passing the
Irish pour law. Het xpreord his opinion that the distress
in Ireland this year would, at the vary least, equal that
which prevailed there last year. He win convinced that,
unless the government adopted some very decisive measures,
there were many districts of that country, more especially
in its western and north-western portions, which would be
delivered over to mere anarchy, property losing all its
rights. He urged the promotion of extensive public works
in Ireland, but, still more emphatically, the effecting a
general system of emigration thence.
The Earl of LUCAN having replied, the motion was
;reed to.
lkeir lordships adjourned at half-past 7.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, Ibsen 13.
The Seesaw took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PUBLIC BUSINESS
PETITIONS. —By Mr. Pthatherron, from Blackburn, against
the monopoly of salt by the East India Company ; and a petition
referring to the growth of cotton in India.—Sir It. I. Koons
from the Weehnineier Reform Society, for a thorough investiga-
tion into the public expenditure; for a revision of the whole
system of taxation; the reauljuotment of the income tax, add
its ezvensice to Ireland, and the equalieation of the land tax, and
the impooition of equal taxes on the devise of real and personal pre.
petty.—Dr. Eloweinu, from a Vernon in Suffolk, complaining of the
illegol seizure of his vessel, although he had oared many Britieh with-
Mao from drowning, and foe redeem—Mr. Want,, Mr. Memo., and
Mr. Doneoe,trom South Shields, Sunderland, end Leith, mutest »pied
of the navigation lawn.—sir R. Inoue, from Louth and other plume la
Linrolnahire; Mr Phiwaraz, from various place.; and Mt. °mom,
from pima in Scotland, widest the Romeo Catholic Relief Sill.—Mr.
Ossoitor, from an individual, complaining of having been knelled
down by the pnliee, and for redreern—Mr. LtDDINUTON, from tee
elector', complaining of the over-erowded state of the work
and of the manner to which out-door relief le adminielered.—Sir
Boare.avihte from Canterbury, against the tertilteete duty.—Mr. &
• Coownian, from a place in Monoglion, in favour of tentht-right and
1 equitable ememment of the poor rate; from place. in Antrim, ageism
the government bill of landlord end tenant, and in favour of Meow
tenant-right—Mr. Coanothr from Munster, spinet the sforenisms
tlioned MIL—Mr. Lomas, train Clonmel, for abolition of punlsheseM
of deeth.—Mr. Scootamato, from Birmingham, and Mr. PIM OWE%
1 from Huntingdon, for appointment of medical officers under the
Public Health !AIL Sir R. thous from various S.C.. in
Lincolnshire; Mr. Howicior, from Sligo and other puree
In Ireland, against the Jewish Disabilities Bid.— Mr. 11111 n
ken • plate in Suarez, against the uni.uits of
asedwation. Mr. 131.1011 T, from Renton Mallet, P
.d ether elms+, against the game laws.—An hon. member, from a
*NM Sumemetehire, and Sir R. Palo, from Lekester, in favour eX
aired taxation, rather than on the necessaries of life—Sir W. Cut,
from the Tower Hamlets, for re-adjustment of the income tax.—Ma.
Cowan, from Edinburgh and Datheith, in favour of retrenchment of
the public expenditure and against the income tee.—By an hon. mew.
her, name nor pls.:snot heard, agalnet the renewal of the Income led
for three yeare.—Mr. 111111LioN, from Armagh, nimpluining of
urnequal operation of DIM pour law, and from Islip to name 'Nest.
and for • fixed rate--Mr. MONFELL, from high sheriff and 'rend jary
of Limerick, fur a full Inquiry into the Irish pour law, and romplege.
union
of the rejectica of the late motionirtpury.—Mr. Sean, from
union of Dungarvon, for attaching kitchen gardens to workhouse% le
be cultivated by the pauper!,
SB".`OND READING. Imprisonment for Debt (Ireland) BilL
OUMBITTEP,.— No• ough CoLev Superannuation Fund MIL
ELT CIUSti ORDERED.-oi, the motion of Mr. REYNOLD., raters,
in detail, of all fees, costa, or expenses paid or incurred by the lofts
minsioners for paving, &e., of the city of oublia.—On the motile at
Sir li. Hoot, tholes orals original mum de for the alterations at the
Tmworc .., e.. the whole of the &meal coat given In detail, and M
what minim peal.
NEW MEMBERS.
Sir H. W. Barron, Bart. (Waterford city) and Mr. Arm-
strong (L _no,ster) took the osths KO their state.
EXPULSION OF ENGLISH WORKMEN FROM
FRANCE.
Mr. A. STAFFORD inquired whether the right hon.
gentleman the 5 cretary fir the Home Department had re-
ceived any further information with regard to the English
workm, n expelled from France ?
Sir G. GREY said the day.eer he had answered the hon.
gentleman's question he teemed from the mayor of Porte-
mouth a list of the workmen who had arrived in that town
from France, mentioniug those who had come away with-
out receiving payment of the wages due to them, and thou
who had been compelled to leave their clothes. That list he
had placed in the hands of the For ign offi c, with the view
of demanding compenution to these parties !tom the Pre-
visional Government of France. lie shou:d also add that
the mayor stated that he expected many more workmen
• would shortly arrive at Portsmouth from Havre. He (Sir
1 G. Grey) had also writtm to the Lord Mayor of London to
inform him that many of those pets -ns might be expected to
arrive in the metropolis in a state of destitution, and to re.
quest that his lor,Lhip would transmit particulars of each
cases to the Hoene-office. (Hear.)
THE DEE BRIDGE.
Mr. B. OSBORNE wished to put a question to the Right
Hon. the President of the Railway Board as to the safety of
the Dee-bri(rnte, on the Chester and Hulyheed line of railway.
On the very day when this subject was lut mentioned he
found that one of the girders was cracked by a workman
driving a in with a 41b. hammer. The knowledge of this
I had occasioned much cosusternation amongst the inhabitants
of that part of the country. He understood also that of the
twelve original girders three had broken. lie had also
been informed that though the usual practice was to ghat -
off the .team when a train wee pasair4 s:war. 3b5
bridge, last week a train passed over"! with the • ;'r
steam on, the consequence of which wig- .that the
passengers experienced a frightful oecillati; -At the
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recent meeti, gof the company no notice was Ms of theme .; —..
matter!, and it was strongly suspected in the netelvheirrhooi
that tilt bridge was unsound, and that the lihß falling
on in consequence. He wished to know if bolo 7'
gentleman had received any report as to the oi
the bridge, and also whether he was aware 'Vilest
tit
girder bad cracked since he (Mr. Osborne) as . -
question on the subject ? .
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