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it w*s desirable to 'know cruder
put?
The CUMICIeLOS of the
in • very low tone eir voice, •
tributinno allodsil to were
account. Aecesesits were making
shewiug the accounts -"'
Mr. TIBINST hoprd these
be produced.
The CIIANCELLOR of the Excaseusa replied,
" Is mots as possible."

Mr. Ttsiteue Partly afterwards) asked the
Right Ilion„ Geotleut.in whets the Bills were to be
bsooglit its 'fur the abolitiost of .the sinecures pro•
osi•ed to be relinquished lost Session, in lieu of
which eritain Pensions sod gills had been: already
psseeseby the House? The Bills fur the abolition
of the sitiecums were promised to be brought in
eattylis the present Session, hut they bad not yet
Aisade their appearinice. " As the smatter stands
(said Mr. Tierney), we have given all the pensions,
sod alley (the Ministers), have kept all the sine-
cores."—/Hear, Aar.)
ThetNiewcztt.oe of the Excuitotnim rePtied'
that the most considerable had _been abolished last
year, and • Bill was now pending for the abolition
of the Lord Justice General's Glace in Scotland.
Mr. 'ft LINICIr" There seems no hurry in the
busioevs--the pensions were not allowed to wait •
moment, but the abolition of the sinecures was
not to he rashly carried into effect.-/Hear, hear.)
—When i suggested, last year, that the more regu-
lar course would be. first to abolish the sinecures,
and then make certain provisions for those who held
them, 0. no I' was the answer from the Minister,
• let me have the pensions first, end then you shall
have the sinecures ; now we had given the pensions,
but had But gut the sinecures."—( Ilear, hew.)

ALIENS.
Ou the motion of Mr. %Vaunt, an Account was
ordered of the number of Aliens sent out of the
.country under any Acts since the year 1814, dis-
tinguishing the numbers of each year, the countries
of the Aliens, the places to which they were sent.
and the period they were kept in• custody; and
also Returns of the greatest number in the king.
doni at any one period, betweeu the Stli July. 1817,
and the present liaise. Also. for Accounts of the
number of Aliens arrested since the Ist July, 1814,
end not afterwardesent out of the country, diatiu.
guishing the number of each year.

EDUCATION OF THE POOR BILL
Mr. Batammta said. that, iu rising to move the
postponement, until Monday next, of the Com.
mitten on the Education of the Poor Bill, he
would state a short communication he had received
on the subject, which would not only render it
momentary for him to say one word further
its support of the question, but also skew that
it was decisively tannery this commission should
be extended to others upon general charitable
subjects. The Honourable and Learned Geistle-
mma then read a letter be had received from a
gentleman in the county of Berks, with whom he
was not acquainted, but who was known to many
Members of that House as me who bad devoted
much of his time in investigating the affairs of the
Charities in his county. The letter stated, that
this gentleinati ascertained that the retsina under
the Act, commonly called Gilbert's Act, were not
to hr depended upon. The returns under that Act
stated the annual revenue of the Charitable Institu-
tions at 7,0001., when it was really 10,000 L ; Ind
that in fact not more than 8,0001. were applied
to the real use of the Establishments. The names
of twetity.five benefactors were not returned it
A bingdmi alone, and large balances and surplusage
remained over from time to time, unaccounted fur.
From the tenor of this letter, as well as from other
codemustaitatiosis, the Hon. and Learned Gentleinan
exprifiktt his full conviction that no measure short
of an exatuinatiou by cotnusissiou would be found
efficacious is pursuing these inquiries.
The Committee was then postponed until Mon-
day next.

CONTAGIOUS FEVER.
Sir .loux Newporr ruse to make his promised
motion on the subject of the contagimss fever which
so long raged in Ireland. In rising upon such an
oeession as this, he was spared the difficulties he
felt on reenter oecasions. where the subject under
considerelion was one viewed in different lights by
individuals of opposite opinions. He now, on the
contrary, was about to touch on a subject which
could only, he truster, elicit one common feeling
throughout the House.—(Hear.)--When they
considered that the population so dreedfuHy affected
by this contagious disease covered a space of coon-
try containing nineteen millions of English mires,
and six millions of inhabitants within the British
empire, they would easily admit that the cousiders-
tion was one of the utmost magnitude, and which
called for full investigation and inquiry.—(Hear.)
—Whatever might be the cause or causes of this
calamity it would be for a Committee to ascertain
and if a remedy could he provided, it would be
Their bounden duty to-apply it to she relief of the
suffirrers. There were various opinions from differ-
ent quarters in Ireland sr to the causes and progress
of the nobody--wane differed as to the causes, but
Male as le the character and progress of the dis-
ease. One of the opinions on this subject he
would nut give, lest it should be thought lie meant
to couinetrasice a political allusion on a subject of
this nature.—(Cries of Hear, Aear, hear.)—
Ile was anxious to call for the appointment of •
Select Committee, with the view of getting at all
the informaiiiiii which the nature of the case ad-
mitted. It would be material for them to inquire
into the number of 'Atkins admitted into the Fever
Hospitals, many of which were already constituted
when the disease broke forth in an aggravated shape.
He felt great pleasure at heiog the person through
whose exert the first of these hospitals was
established in the city (A'sterford) which lie repre-
sented. There were previously two at 11am:heater
mud Chester The calculations of the number of
persons admitted into the hospitals of Dublin,
for seven esionihe since last September, when
the fever war at its height, were striking indeed.
In the seven mouths sine* September, 10,321 pa.
tiros had been admitted into the nroad.street
Hospital, the House of Recovery, and the House
of Industry, w Dublin. In the City of Cork,
daring the lAst 14 months.
,10,040 had been ad..
iii iii ed. This fever was not confined to large cities;
fur in the sinnil town of Boyle above 500 in right
months were infected ; and I,IW in sine mouths, in

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Legislature could make souse competent regula-
limo to control and 'impose aii additional security
on their application. Mi•eould slot, however, dis-
guise his opinion, whiCh he **Sold tie* 'fairly and
plaieti.state that wheneveitlie laboeis of the Com-
inittte embraced the irhdle sullject, they would
Sod that want of sufficient employment fur the pro-
ductive labour of the people was the main cause of
tht evil—to that eternal seam, he was satisfied, it
could he fully and iinequivecally traced.—/Hear.)
And he implored the House to look on the subject
in this view, and see if their wisdom could devise
any remedy to meet the evil. His first object he
had already said, was to provide competent fends
for the support or those receptacles arteady in ex-
istence, and to secure their funds from dilapidation.
But he hoped, at the same time, that some perms.
nent remedy would be sought for to meet whet
otherwise mast be a permanent evil. It would be
of the first importance to inquire whether it would
be possible that the labour of six millions of
people could be directed so beneficially as to pre-
serve the great majority of them from that state
of misery which led to this extent of disease, and
perhaps of crime. In calling for this Committee
be hoped the House would not adopt the idea that
he was about to trespass on any other funds than
those of the persons exposed to the influence of the
disease. From local funds alone did he expect ri-
lief.—(Hear.)—The Irish Government (and lie
spoke it in gratitude) had gone as far as possible to
afford relief, and they executed in the most honour-
able manner the well-warranted discretion vested in
them of applyiug some portion of the public funds
to alleviate the miseries which the disease produced,
and to prevent its spreading in the quarters where it
raged. As he could nut anticipate any oppositiod
tS this motion, he would conclude without further
remark, by moving fur the appointment of-
4, A Select Committee to impairs into the state of Ireland,
as to the contagious Fever which prevailed In that cavalry,
wad two the causes, temporary and permeates, which led to
the iserease and progress of this alarming evil, daring the
past and proem year ; awl to suggest seek measures, reme-
dial and preirmatlve 111111 may provide ageism its recurrence,
and o
re adequate means of affording the necessary relief
to the soererw"

The Hon. Baronet begged to observe, in eddie
tion, that the consequence of the disease, in the Cu.
feebled state in which it left the sufferer, Was as
fatal to a laborious population, as the immediate
mortality was to the community at large.
Mr. Pete said, that those who recollected the
conversation between hint and the Right Hon.
Rootlet on • former night, would easily imagine
he did not now rise to give any opposition to the
motion, but, on the contrery, to perform the more
'temptable duty of seconding it—l Hear 1--aud
addine, that so impressed was he with the import-
ance of this question, he should have felt it his duty
to submit it to the consideration of the House, had
not the Right Hon. Bart. anticipated this intention.
He hoped he would be excused if he pursued the
subject further than the Right Honourable Baronet
hod done. and entered iuto the progress of the dis-
ease from the documents which he possibly had •
aleue access to as a whole, from the nature of his
official situation. The Right Honourable Baronet
had truly said, that in September the fever, which
though it had previously existed for four or five
months, and, indeed. more or less in • slow shape
for some years, assumed a character of serious ma-
lignity, so as to call for the serious attentiou of
Government. In the month of last September he
(Mr. Peel) had taken measures for receiving from '
medical Gentlemen throughout the country their
opinions as to the origin and extent of the
disease. He had accordingly received returns
from the fear provinces, all of which referred
the origin Of the disease to the saute cause.—
They stated, that the great poverty of the labour.;
ing classes, owing to a want of employment, had
produced a marked depression of mind. The pres-
sure of scarcity we* also most severely felt, and an
excessive wet season deterintated the quality, and
reduced the quantity of that species of food, on
which the people almost exclusively subsisted. and
prevented them from laying in an adequate supply.
The causes, therefore, of the disease arose from
want of employment, and 11w poverty it engendered,
front defective quality and quantity of food, the wet-
ness of the season, and want of fuel. Another cause
was the number of wandering beggars who mimed
about the country and communicated contagion,
and also the practice of the lower classes, of ma;
sembling to attend the funerals of their friend...!
On such occasions the iurections disease of *sew,
was communicated to the many. and the disotdere
became violeut and general. In looking at these
came" it was if not lamentable at least affecting
tharthis conTagidis should have arisen front the
open character and feelings of hospitality for
which the Irish were so peculiarly remarkable, and •
from which uo sense of fear or apprehension of
danger totald shake them.—l Hear, Aear.)—No per-
suasion would induce them to shut their door against
the wandering beggar, or refuse to pay that last
sad tribute to the obsequies of their friends and
kindred—a tribute which they regarded with pe-
culiar veneration.—f I lear.)—lt reminded him of
the description given by Lucretius of the plague at
Athens, but there indeed the wonted hospitality of
the people yielded to the terrors of the contagiou—
“ Nte roar ilk sepaftune remaarbst in urbe,
" lit prig. hie popular seiner roarrgrat humari."
In Ireland no fear of contagion, no fear of death
would operate to induce the people to forego the
tidbits and feelings which they cherished. —f Hear.)
—He would now refer to the returns at Dublin,
showing the mortality winch there prevuileti. On the
lit September, titter were :118 patients in the Fever
Hospital of Dahlia—ili the six months following,
there were 796—0 n the 48th Fehruety, there *ere
1,001. making an increase or 703 in the course of
the six preceding months. On the 14th Marsh last,
the 'masher in the Hospital was 1,071. The
total ',umber of deaths daring the six months
was 456, and the überage calculi& of admission
i' war tlerty-nine patients per diem. 'flit ',repetition ,
or deaths to the sick was oft the highest uversge as
sue to thirteen, and on the lowebt as one to Hier.

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The WIT mil mostile.eff;ceifivaswl
which
people
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Dublin to mitigate
suffering. Ind the city (isiclinling 7 miler of cows-
try) was divided into districts. whrie in-dicta oft-
lions were kept iti.i:oustarit activity. lie war happy
to state, that since the 11th of March last is cousi-
derable abatement both of she extent sail inaligiiity
of the disease was observable. On the I<l.ll of
March the number in the Hospital was 1.00 ; uu
the 14th April 850 ; and the average of &mils
to admissions was as one to twenty-two. There
was every reason to hope that use fever hail greitly
abated in extent and nialigurty. On the subject of
the unemployed poor, lie fully agreed With the night
Honourable Baronet that it OVA a turlaucholy
evil, lAA he was almost afraid to mix it
up with 'the other question, from the great
difficulty of applying to it any adequate remedy,
or exciting hopes which it would be itupdssible to
realiie. Any attempt at employment on a large
scale, by artificial labour, would lie deferring
the evil day a little longer. The applicatioss of
sums of mercy by the Executive Govermuent
may do partial good, but in vain could they be
brought to' bear on au extensive scale. These
fiords. be it remembered, must he paid from the
great reservoir of private capital, which was the na-
tural source to provide labour according, to the
ordivary demand, which alone cookd be effective.
Persons of the best character had repeatedly 111).
plied for loins to the Executive Government,
which they were necessarily refused. It was its
vain to expostulate with these individuals, and
point out to them, that, so long as there was no de-
mand for what they produced, it was in vain to ad-
vance money to increase a stork for which there was
already no demand. He had mentioned this,- be-
cause the Hon. Baronet had spoken of the duty iii
fitidirg employment for the poor of Ireland. He
was afield it was not postible to accomplish that
object by any measures proceeding front the Go-
vernment. He bad been -happy to hear the Hots.
Baronet disclaim the intrentiois of introducing po-
litical considerations into the discussion on his
motion' and be trusEal the same course would be
pursued to the end.
• Mr. SENN st'r was desirous to draw the attention
of the House to a subject connected with that be-
fore the Houie. He wished that the Commit-
tee to be appointed should inquire into the state of
contagious fever in this metropolis also. There
bad existed, and did exist, in London, such a dis-
ease, and df a most alarming nature, Certain men
had taken 'upon them to declare publicly, that
there was no such thing in London as a fever of a
contagious description; but lie could assure the
House, that patients under that disorder had in-
creased so much of late, that the whole Onto-
sphere was tainted—and inconsequence many of the
faculty had fallen victims to it, besides numbers of
students and nurses. A few years ago 'an epidemi-
cal fever prevailed in this city ; at that *re an
establishment fur the reception of IleifQlll labour-
ing under that malady holi /wen established.—
From that time till the commencement 'of the last
year. it had admitted about sixty patients an-
nually ; but the House would hear. with 81114Ze-
meat, that it had received no leas than 700 to
the course of the last year. But hoterly it had been
obliged to reject many opplioants for admission.
and send them away to convey contagion among
their friends and about their habitations. It was
true it had of late suffered some arrest in its Pro-
gress; but it was with pain he must declare that it
still remained. and in a very malignant form. The
safety of this great metropolis imperiously required
a separate establishment for the exclusive manage-
- mem and cure of contagious fever—au establishment
of sufficient accommodation and ample mewls for
' the attaining i s object. He did not pretend to say
that this great city did not content many excellent
hospitals; but e,ll who had visited those of Ilse Con-
fluent must allow the inferiority of the former. The
hospitals of Paris and Viebna were superior to ours.
The cause was, the funds of our institutions acre
by no messes adequate to their objects. He there-
fore hoped that the House would see the propriety
of the Select Committee taking into their conside-
ration the state of contagious fever its Loudon.
Mr. 11'ILISERFORCE had heard with pleasure the
toggestion thrown out by the Hun. Member who
had just sat dowu ; he fully concurred in the pros
Friel), of what he recommended, its the necessity of
a separate institution, and also in the statenieut of
the inadequacy of the funds of the present one. He
was sure that when the House was investigatiog the
fitness of granting more liberal supplies to Leland,
they would not withhold an addition to the income
of the Fever Hospital in London; a larger income
was required. There never was ass institution of
the kind attended with less inconveniences to the
. public. The subject was well entitled to the coo-
sideration of a Committee fur itself, and that was
the better course. It was the glory of this country
that there was no form of human misery but had a.
place of asylum and relief in sonic shape. The
higher orders of the comity never suffered an ap-
peal to be made in vain to their benevolence t and
among the • most active promoters of every scheme
of humanity and charity, many members of the
Royal Family could be ruumerated. He had said
so much, not from tuitional feelings, but to hold
out an example to other countries, and to *hew the
world that England was not less distinguished for
her opulence than her benevolence.
Mr. BROUGH•lisaid, that, in point of fact, in all
the countries to which alluilosi had been made in
the debtor, Institut' for the reception of the
diseased were kept up by *applies from the Govern-
ment; this was the only country in the world where
large charitaLle institsitimis were supported by Yu-
Notary contributions from tlw
Mr. PHILLIrs said, that the expense of priori&
ing for the infected had been diminished by the
erection of a Fever Hospital at Manchester ; it
had also powerfully aided in the extinction of coo-
-1 tagion, insomuch, that in the space of three years
after it had been built, it was chord, front the total
disappearance of the disorder. -Contagious fevers
now prevailed its a very large part of the metropolis..
in St. Giles's, Holborn, and Spited-
fields, mad patients labouring under typhus fever .
were emistaiitly brought into hospitals established
tar the car of other diseases, to the iamm~wsit
dangger of th►e hers of tonnes ptatients, through the
in.nilficirucy of the usaly retreat lot tha►se at idea
with
rslsitiYlll:folileililes..
.rt3.,111e
Member. agreed in thee statrtstrut of the
wa

&der *hat had it mil a circiinferetae nut exceeding 5,4 matt' frs
• town. l'he omit' object he had in view
Ito EICIIII4IIIIII replied as in die drat iustauce the extent of tl
and wad. that the ant ear., and to consider of the proper remedy,
carried into the anneal other object Os hid in view was, not merely to
nuking op of the Pre- sJditioual funds to the Fever Hospitals, b
U of each quarter. 'to secure front dilapidution and injury the li
se accounts would soon lent donations of privide individuals', and to I
them frow being unnecessarily dissipated. us
. . . .