The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-22 00:00:00

LAW OF SETTLEMENT.

Mr. J. 8. WURTLEY said ha had heard that the poor
law commissioners, in their recent report, had unanisously
condemns.' the present state of the law of settlement sad
nntoval. Ile wished to know whether government intended
to introduos say immure bead on that report sully enough
to admit of its toll discussion 1 _

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esafirmid his *vial's previously sabistaitied that it
smile bs ',Wiest, it sot seesseari, tos pillow Is awn-
Ike ci the law of mettleseeat sad removal. The atteatioa of
the soeumisiosers was *say dinetod to the abject,
!.et he mid est promise say wean dating the mast
moist

JUVENILE OFFENDER'S SILL.
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Motion withdraws.
REGISTRAR IN BANKRUPTCY BILL.
Os lb* surdas of Yr. alt3lllT, WkalMaring select MM.
writes wee sealseted on this bill :—Mr.lleelezitoair J. Jer-
vis, Sir D. Derides. Sir J. Grahams, Sir W bb), Mr.
Z. Dodson, Mr. Roebnek, Mr. Pool, Mr. Li , Mr.
Bourrie, Mr. Wrightson, Kr. Walpole, Mr. Wood, Mr.
Coekbers, and Mr. Seiner.
RELIEF OF THE POOR.—ADJOURNED DETZ.
Os tisk order of the day Mt tie resumption of U. ad.

Whera.lite,
Kr. • STAFFORD end. the right hem. the Sum
soy he the House deportmeat bad expressed his sur-
prise that his het. hind the menden it, Baths had not
alluded to the law of settlement. but there was not say ro-
ses why the right hon. geademea Kenai might Bettm
Mee that subject is sommlftes. (Hear, ) he
moth& embed the tight hen geatlemas that say attention
Y the law of seWoment would very mu* alter ids
ellithellet no to the distress ef the people. Is net,
way elallbtles whisk left eat the highway rate woad
He
leeporliedy reproseat the *sedition of the people.
He was asmaiebed to hen the right hos. hornet
(Ws O. Choy) declare that Is his ninon the wages
of the labouwer had hems *justly minced in these dietricts
*me thug Maya sow reetrOn bet 61. a weak, *lees taste
IMPS EM
be p(otillS. Bat what right had
the light leo. besemet, as advocate of free trade, to no.
811.01111118 quilt= di to the rate of ware, whether they
were toe er ire bleb I Wilms the &hash farmer was
expend le sompoliisa with ell the would they were told
that it wee their israrest owl their tight to bey la the
cheapest mad sell In the dome* market—(hear, hen)—bat
was it comeitent with that gsbalede sow to say that
asE
were unduly rents* ? fag r• priociple were ast
cable to wager to weciffting ens it wee walk
(Hear.) The right hon. bonnet bed alio referred the hoes
to the grimiest returns to prove the improved orthillea
of the seustry under free trade, and had quit* item
•111110.11 of the boaoarabie and learned 11110014itt
is weld It was stated that the number of aftelaals la 1849
wss esseidellably WS than ia the preview year, bet he (Kr.
gallegOgill set wadentand the Recorder as draw* the
same Memos hem the het se the sight hoe. baronet had
hawed hem ft, aid the this resses. the Iteserder was fully
aware that 1848 was the yyeoaer of the chartist disturbs**
Uhl* had tended eesidmebll le odd to the number of
Medea awns. (Hen, Mee.) He (lle which had jut
bed Iles* is his nail am said aesteasat, proved
that the Alminatiot aims bad net ben woo& The re-
tries
mid ire costly d Duthie% sell the result was
that the mine of the stain. whisk la 1846 was
23Y1, had then is 184 to —(" hear," and • laugh)—
sad the ember of vagrants from 2,262 in 1845 to 6,684 la
IS*. (Rear, hear.) The hoc. member for Maachester
(Sr. Bright), altar stating that the crimisal returns of re-
m* years were lowest in 1836, and highest ie 1847, asked
bow, with that not before him, say num could persevere in ad-
mitting a system naught with misery, demoralisation, and
mime ? but the hon. gentlest* seemed to forest that in 1836
there was • stringent ears law, while in 1847 the free trade
was is operation ; he sight therefore fairly retort co
lea
gentleman—how as you ontiewe a system so
fraught with criminality ? (Loud protectionist chore.)
The hon. gondola* also assorted that when cora roes to a
remunerating price the winded relents were highest—if the
▪ gentleman meant by that to say that • remetheratin
rice was inseparable from • large mown of crime, the
tree in/roses was that they ought to abet" aca?vaarial
is this smutty andetese. (Hear, hear.)
boa. friend (lit. Disraeli) interne* an eitemene
steams the right boa. gestlonan " Oh, it le se
gig** a maws that I outset deal with it, I asset Ulm
it fate consideration " but when his hon. hied brought
Y a neaten of less "neat, then the right hen. fieded
mil, " Oh, it is only burps*, an acre, why make so
moth talk about that ? " (Rear.) All that he (Kr. Std.
isiasseseeeld draw wu the Wand, that the right him
was at heart convinced of the judos °Moir
end as he had nudge better to say, he sendemended
ft theas shallow artifices. (Hear, ) The debt lass.
Mewed said, sow that all those meetings were wear of
sysk they had heard so much, he wee glad to lid
diet the Isa gentles= (Kr. Disraeli) had gives
up ell idea 'of a roma to easeistion sal that
the nopeskin bad, al hr all, &Arad Aiwa M Thin
Ins it within bed bees thesepatinas meetings. bet esMueitsed me
by the isilerds, es hes. _ _ but by
the teethe insan, at whist they (themeths egrisaltersi inn
ben) thee embed to de their but le reeds le • yesesi des
spin. They hod in ommifoonso Ileseght the teethes le
In ids et the opening of the endue, est bed been de.
Mod by a Wipe dejonty. (Others.) sadtheugh he was
set Messed to deny that the misority had impatient rights,
he hit that they she'll sever be exercised to the prejudice
of
the public busin sad it appeared to tte n-
ein the dismission ofess, an *street niestion is thehim hat
face of such
a majority as that by whisk it had already beta defeated,
and whose inn was not doubtful, was to reduce the House
of Comma's to the pint of a debating society, a coarse
which he would never sanction. (Haar, hear.) Bet
though derided se far for this onion. the ques-
tion of pretection was by no gnus settled. (Hear, hear )
With duties on better, *sere. timber, and manu-
factured articles, bow amid it be said the question was
settled ? The farmers dashed, and the assertion had never
been matroverted, that the agriculturist had not free trade
in laad. They said, "We have • right to deal with the
commodity of bud as we Ouse, but yea have tied our hands
is respect to malt, hops, sad is ether things you have
prevented or doting** air owl sensuldities as we wish.
• thmelan, sett yea dad with these ashen es your
ewapdedglu, /we sea yes yeessusee thieved's& i"
Re sew came to • pert of the solgest en which
Wthe Bewerary of State for the Keme Deportment
eneeplebed that the member foe Barldegkasashirs had
teethed bat lightly. He was sorry the right hoc.
lad so cLsely followed the example of
a lee maimber for Buckinghamshire ; for anything
MN slum then his alien= le lotted, be (Mr. Stafford)
id sew heed. (Prolselidit sheen.) It would he hit
plied duty bestirs the hems on the state of Ireland—
et eil emus, es tilt pit di with which he was intimately
arrested—in add tees the Irish members who intended to
vete egoist aay reddliseetio of the poor laws and local
Imatiss es real pigsty shield be able to get up in the
he and say =soy believed the present state of the
miuntly simpaid . (Hear, hear.) He took the este-
Kiehmest thanes to Inlaid to amount to 289,0001. He
leek the law at about 36.0001. • the collectors'
pedals rate et • and the adminisiration of justice
at abaft 66,0001. Altogether the mermen was about
490,0001., which he propised should be granted to
Inland by treadlarriag dun charges to the eou-
imbues& tend. (Hear, hear.) ll* hoped the right
ban.lllllll4llll foe Ireland would lay before the house
a elelseted el the Teal Indies et ths south and west of Ire-
bad. la the dessithe he wend state whet had come to
his Insowledge es that ethiest. Is • letter he had recently
received from a mow In which he could plus full reliance,
with regard
"Boma
the madition of the county of Clare—the
writer said ; 'Boma Elm** of the eonmment were talk-
ing of impeovetheat hi the mit ant west of Ireland ; but
the daily edema ef ear seems shows the utter absurdity of
those statements. The diminution in the number of out-
door paupers shish he taken place le causquent on the
numbers whisk have bees sweoff the relief' books by the
withdrawal of the order of the Poor.law Commissioners,
whisk allowed relief to the able bodied. There is no change
let the bitter to be gathered from this apparent reduction in
the neither of *upon We had the week before last a
elk ion Mr. —, the local inspector, but there was no
I nod it ban to preach economy to us, the whole balance in
ism issiolohoi 1671., whin we have to pay the contractor
(who lonia es ready ma) for meal 1451. a week, and the
sheriff le In the house with an execution. Of 120 applicants
who Is one day for relief, all ware refuted, tram
then no meal to glue them."
Lord J. USSELL—I non that the secounts were ur
teemed'!" from the county of Clue. (Hen, hear.)
Mr. STAFFORD said that under thus ammoniuse be
would heave the county of Clue and take the noble lord to
another county—the county of Limerick; sad he believed be
would not be stating any novelty to the noble lord if he read
a resolution pus* by the Limerick board of guardian',
because, if he were informed correctly, a copy of that
1 resolution had been forwarded to the government by
direction of the board. The guardians therein expensed
their regret at the ins-statements made in parliament
to the effect that poverty had been on the decrease in Ire-
land, and said that the poor law roans were not a fair
criterion to judge of the state of the country, inasmuch as
thousands of persons not on the oat-door relief lira, were
extremely destitute in many parts of Inland ; and the
member of the board who proposed this resolution stated, at
the same time, that there were 16,000 people resident is the
city of Limerick, in want of the eonsoa necessaries of life.
(Hear.) But he (Kr. Stafford) wished to ask the right boo.
gentleman, the Semo
_fee Ireland (Bir Sumerville),
whether he had not ved additional evidence, besides tkft
resolutioo, In proof of the great extent of distress existing in
Ireland. Had not a report been forwarded to his office, that
bands of people, to the great dieturbones of the public peace
and the violation of property, had paraded the streets of Li-
merick in each numbers, that it had been found abolutdy
aseeisery not nay to oft oat the polies but the military
Had in the cry of this nirguidet, deluded and deludieg
pe " breed ce blood? Was it sot tilt opinion di
oil amses in that city, that the total stance of oommente
▪ the pest of Limerick, eampallig the merchants *
mho their workouts. had been the menu of the outbreak ?
e.) He deeply sespetted OM the hes. memberhoc
trairty ef Limerick woe sat to ri bet if any
hen zoloaboo for the wed d Idled skonld that night vote
agebset the pseud mite It was sincerely
it to be hoped that
he would the ant sale the need why did so, lost he
▪ Ltd he=hslieve this he thought the present
Aped shield ensinse, or that he Pm'
idea a y m d ihnessaysety this to 'Mood. Sim
, aitegi rhea died died pallesis, sessuated without
th rot gas yeeleetisid)