The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-15 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

B011:4 h: OF COMMON S. —Warix rIbD %v, A t' ST 14.
IN the Houma of Commons yesterday, after our
/Spurt left,
The Appropriation Bill was read a third time
and puse.l.
Mr. litany moved the second reading of the
Ree.mlation (Metropolis) Bill.
Mr. AltiOrtUßN LAWRENCE objected to the bill,
Which he said, instead of being a bill to regulate
rho trtlie of the metropolis, was a bill to suppress
• vrit portion of the traffic. Instead of framing
'het.% restrictions the government should have taken
annasures to widen the thoroughfares. This was
alrealy being done by the City to a groat extent,
and the completion of the railways in progress
"ced tend still more to facilitate the traffic. In a
'wench of inoro than two hours' duration he pointed
out in great detail the inconveniences which the
bill would cause, and in conclusion he moved the
/ection of the bill.
ICR iwyozn seconded.

Mr. LAnovonsint and Colonel Brass objected to
'rations provisions of the bill.
Sir J. Fsitti UMON replied, defending the bill,
aid offering to withdraw some of the provisions
which were objected to, and after a few observa-
tory; from Mr. Loess and Mr. Alderman Luse,
Who both thought the bill contained some good
provisions, the amendment was withdrawn, and
the b;11 r:• id a second time.

The hletropolitan Improvement Bill waa with-
Ormyn.

—The Agricultural Gangs Bill passed through
Orarnuittee.

The Courts of Referees Bill was read a third
lime and passed.
The amendments in the Hours of Labour Regu-
lation BiU were considered and agreed to, and a
further amendment made extending the period
Within u hich labour might be performed, after
the bill was read a third time and passed.
The Artisans and Labourers' Dwellings Bill was
withdrawn.

Tho Parks Regulation Bill was fixed tore morn-
ing sitting (at 2 o'clock) this day, and Mr. HARDY
Mated-that he would consent to some modifications
Of it.

Several other bills were advanced a stage, and
She house adjourned a few minutes before six
O'clock.

RELIEF OP THE POOR.

The annual report of the Poor-law Board, just
issued, shows that the expenditure for the relief of the
poor of England and Wales in the year ending at Lady-
day, 1866, amounted to 6,439,515/., an increase of 214 per
*ant. over the expenditure for the preceding year, and
raising the expenditure to Gs. lid. per head of the popn-
&lion. The increase was mainly in the southern half of
the kingdom. The net annual value of rateable property
was 9.t,633,403f. ; ten years previously it was but
71„810,2711. The population in the year ender review is
estimated at 21,100,000. The mean number of paupers
at one time in receipt of relief in England and Wales was
916,132-137,776 indoor, and 783,376 outdoor ; the whole
slumber being :15,147 fewer than in the preceding year, and
4-3 p,r mat. on the population. The mean number of adult
able-bodied paupers (exclusive of vagrants) at one time
fin receipt of relief was 145,823, being 14,701 fewer than
in the previous year. Returns carried to a later date
show that on theist of January, 1867, the number of per-
sons in receipt of relief from the rates was 4.2 percent
greater than on the Ist of January, 1866, and of adult
able bodied paupers 6 per cent. greater. In the metropo-
lis there was at Michaelmas, 1866, an increase of 16'3 per
gent. in the number of paupers as compared with the cor-
responding period of 1813, and of 19.5 per cent. at Chrix+
seas ; and in the east district these increases were no lees
than 27 per cent. and 37'G per cent. This was in a great
measure attributable to the convulsions of trade in 1866,
and which in Poplar and various parishes bordering on the
Thames produced so much distress among the labouring
classes connected with shipbuilding and the shipping trade
generally. The number of casual paupers relieved in the
wagrurt wards io the metropolitan district in January,
1867, was no less than 48,427, an increase of 12$11 over
the number in January, 1866. Complaints of the
increase of vagrancy are general throughout the coun-
try, and memorials have been received from various
parts asking for the adoption of measures to discourage
the mere vagrant or mendicant, and at the same time
to enable guardians to administer better relief to way-
hirers in search of work. The annual sum now expended
for the relief of the poor exceeds whet it was when
the Poor Law Amendioeut Act was passed in 1834, but the
increase of our numbers has reduced the rate per head on
the population from Bs. 94d. to Gs. lid., and, considering
abo the increase of weeth, there can be no doubt that the
of the burden on the ratepayers is considerably
re
than it was in 1834. The report gives sn account of
the official inquiries recently made respecting the con-
dition of the metropolitan workhouse infirmaries and
sick wards, and the proper limit to the number of beds
is them ; the board have much satisfaction in stating
that the communications which in consequence of these
investigations they had to address to the guardians, met
generally with favourable consideration, and that much
gas been done to improve the arrangements for the treat-
ment and care of the sick, so far as the exist-
ing accommodation admitted of it. But it appeared
to the board that further legislation was required
with a view to the better care of the sick poor, of lunatics,
and of children, and that the charges necessary for this
purposs might reasonably be thrown upon a fund contri-
buted by the metropolis generally. Accordingly, the bill
of this session was laid before parliament, and was with
some modifications passed. The board have already taken
Maps to bring the provisions of this measure into opera-
tion, and state that at the time of preparing this report (in
say) they were engaged in completing the necessary
arrangements to effect a result as generally satisfactory
and beneficial as possible.

IBTRANDINO OP THE HARRIET Aowgs.—The
itdficial report of the circumstances attending the stranding
t the screw steamship Harriet Agnes, on the coast of the
Wand of Oland, in the Baltic, on the evening of the 2nd
of May, wee published yesterday. Upon the evidence
Oho court (the Greenwich police-court) came to the con-
clusion that the ease, as it appeared against Captain
Nestle, retoleed itself into three distinct charges, each of
Ahem involving the liability to forfeiture on suspension of
his certificate—the first charge imputing improper naviga.
Son, causing the loss of the ship ; the second imputing
drunkenness ; and the third imputing gross misconduct in
endeavouring to procure false entries to be made in the
log-book, in order to conceal the improper manner
is which be had navigated his ship. On each of
Ghee) beads of charge, the evidence of the wit-
illinani having been carefully and scrupulously
examined, and the master's explanation and the able de-
deuce of his counsel heard, the court found—First, that the
taster's alteration from the safe course, and his persisting
ia it after he was called by the second mate, were wrongful
sets, awl the cause of the stranding of the ship. Secondly,
that though there was no evidence to prove that the safety
of the ship had been endangered, or her navigation
effected, by the drunkenness of 'he master (unless the im-
proper coarse given by him could be ascribed to that cause),
pet there was proof of his frequent indulgence in liquor
during the voyage to an extent to be remarked by those
en board, and calculated to impair his authority and in-
fluence over his crew, and their confidence in his ability
Co navigate his ship. And, lastly, that his endeavour to
induce the first mate to make false entries in the log-
bog was proved, and was an act of gross miscen-
duct in attempting to screen Lis own wrongful act, by
tampering with the fidelity of his crew, and with the
correctness of a document of so great importance as the
bog-book of a ship. Upon these grounds the court was
endt:r the necessity of either cancelling the master's certi-
ficate or suspending it for a long period of time ; and as
gee of the very senous parts of the charge against him was
the habit of drinking—a habit which the court was inclined
to hope had been only lately contracted, and might be re-
formed at no distant period—the court was of opinion,
both in the interests of the public and of the master him-
self, that the certificate should be cancelled, thereby
Elvin; Mr. Searle the opportunity of making an applica-
tion for a fresh certificate when he can satisfy the Board of
Trade that his habits are amended. And the court thereby
declared the master's certificate to be cancelled from that
data (August 6, 1867).
CHINE IN THE LIVERPOOL DISTRUIP.—At the
ecv~eening of the Liverpool amazes yesterday, Lord Chief
grostioe P.ovill, in charging the grand jury, said that the
Wender contained no fewer than eight cases of wilful
'murder, and th.kt there were other motes also of • very
serious character, including two charges of throwing ob-
structions upon the London and North Western Railway
pith the object of upsetting the trains. If the champs
evert broiled home to the prisoners, he need not say that
this was • crime which would he visited with severe
punishment. His lordship paid a compliment to the
public-house management of the district. There were, he
Said. fewer cases of disturbances at public-houses in this
as compared with the calendars of other coucties, and it
showed that the public and beer houses were under goad
control, and did not encourage drunkenness. This he Iv-
rnrceea as of great importance, for drunkenness was the
of the greater part of the crimes which came under
notice.

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