The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS DAY.)
The Sruicut took the chair at s few minutes past 12.
IRREMOVABLE I'tk)lt
The boom reamed the consideration of this bill in corn•
iitte&
tin clans, I,

Mr. LtII Kk. moved at the end to add " and for this pur-
pose the area eutip ct to the provisions of the Metropolis
Leal 3111J141grISItlit .tats shall be a unroo." He said
tio.t this subject had beet, brought before the
coneilemtion of the house so long ago as the year
5.',7 by his hot. friend the member for the 'rower Hamlets
ti his rilualisatioa of rates bill. The present bill, however,
111.141 M to attempt te grapple with the subject. Hi. pro.
reition, thereto*, was that the area of rating should be ex•
tooled throughont the nsetrmsdis, sod that the
metropolis for the purposes of this act should form one
uoisar. The present state of things was this :
that in the poor perishes of London the rates were the hen.
test. The city, for example, where the rates were extremely
light, wail the place when, the employers of the poor
dwelt, or rather carried on their bushman. If it could
he shown that this discrepancy arose from the effects
eel kirslatiou be thought it was sot too much
to ask that legislators should be called in to alter it. Now,
a, hug ago as the poring of the Poor Law Amendment
Hill, au alteratioo was made in the law of settlement; and
• Lime amount of extra taxation was created. Part of the
lAW of settlement was that of hiring servants. Where a
1111141.11 for 12 months as a servant
to _mother, by the perforinivice of that service for
your and by forty days rtaideoce ia that parish he obtained
A eettlenient This state of the law was altered, mainly, he
lath-veil, from the reluctance of agricultural employers to
hire Lilmitrers fur a twelventontli, and thus enable them to
have .0 settlement in the parish. It was altered
Le the purpose of enabling the working man to
go from ..11! parish to another without gaining a settle.
meet. His opinion was that the law of settlement ought
to be abolished. Kit if so. the present parochial system
add sot he maintained. What was the preemie state of
things! Take the parish of ht. Gcorge's, Hanover.
Naas ; a man !sight hire hitneolf, and peas the
beet years of his life in that parish, but he
maid gala so settlement them ; he must look
fee his matiesneet is ore of the poorer parishes. The dwell.
imp of the poor were driver) away from the richer parishes,
when inipreeenieste wine constantly male is the beauty,
health. sad rose mines of the dwelliegs. Thus the

sermote of the mbar chimes were driven to
settle in the poorer pariah... led what happened
thee! Parliameot emu° had stepped in sad mud that
when a pumas had se iedostrial residence in • perish for
eve years, mid fell into want, he was irremovable from
that perish. Now the present bill pn.posed to substitute
three years for tire. The. wee a perialis
upon the whilst-. of the di.trirt which be
partirolaily time of lienomehiry and M. George=t7r,
thontliwork. The letter was a WIMNS of itself, mil by th
bill they were bapinieg a new liebthty es the perish.
without givieg any moan. of meeting it. This was a
gro. initiate:v, sad what be proposed waa, that far the
perpowe of thia art the whole of this imetzepolie
Awl.' be ow district. (Hear, hear.) Then night be
mac difficulty in ram) ingnut the details of this erbswis asd
thvivfore io addition to the wont. he bad already seggested
he would propose, further, to add the following.- And
th.• of all pre... who ma Ipcome chargeable seder
this act, within the limits of the metropolis, es de-
fined by the act for the better governmerit of
the metropolis, Mall be delayed by ell perishes
within the metropolis, ee if the some were mule o ludas,
aid the Ponr-lse Hoard shoold twee en such orders am may
be re 'Mute for apportoeing sash charge. and levying and
appyne."s( the contributions requisite for the payment
%ben

Mr. A V )N sedireeted that tbe mdditiosel ameadmeall
'amid be mowed as a eirparete eableaative clew
Kr. Loot e raw be amid nave lee original
sad if it elieski be carried be would move Yr=
useadaileat.

Mr. WARNER thon;lit t►at in t►e ow of math patishas
I. t►ose of Norwich the clause woods!' swamis WM.'
..,k.

Mr. KNIGHT did a 4 me why the stag aris of
Norwich should be esiescial.

Yr. DODSON deiensteil a yids ezlesthre of the area
as smiled I. eateavagast ailisislatatica, east the Loaeali•
lama of the rev.
Wit G. C. LEWIS yodel despair of lb* peesiag of the
hill this sassiue if the gaieties of the equeliasties of rates
was tr. la• nliv.l up with ita simple and &baits object.
Yr. BENTINt'I{ spoke te 1.. the bill, which be
said was os attempt to boleti' the ultra it the capons, of
the rural districts

C. LEWIN remarked tbat the bill w is (avow
of the apieskand district., dimiaishing, as it did, the
somber of cases Ia which the pour could Isi removed.
Hr. HENLEY said ia his spinout the hill indicted gross
Wanks, and
he mast resin it. Ile thought it desirable
Uri Ws gnostic. shoald be postponed till next smarm sad
that the "'serenest shimald w the nieeetune consider the
policy of getting rid of settlement altoarther.
Ile C. P. VILLIERS defended the bill, sad was speaking
wham oar repeat vas despatched.