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01 so many persons, and involving so many millions of pro-
perty, passed through this House with so much precipitation.—
( No, no.) It was perfectly clear that Hon. Gentlemen must
have given their sanction to this Bill without contemplating
the proceedings of the Board of Commissioners. It was the
first time in the history of this country that such extraordinary
powers had ever been entrusted by that House to any admi-
nistrative or other Board, as had been given to these Corn-
rnh-sioners. And yet these three Commissioners might merit
the eulogy passed on them by the Noble Lord; but what was
the nature of the power entrusted to them? They were
enabled to make rules and regulations which were binding as
laws, which affected the whole property and a great portion of
the population of the country. And such were the rules made
by these Commissioners, that that most respectable portion of
his constituents to whom he had alluded felt themselves placed
in a humiliated situation. The Noble Lord defended the
principle laid down in the Report, that destitution should be
the only ground and warrant for relief. They bad been told
that a greater number of persons received relief out of the
workhouse than those who had been compelled to take refuge
in the workhouse. This was not from any feeling of humanity
on the part of the artificers of the rules, or of the Home
Secretary, but from the mere circumstance that they had not
yet erected a sufficient number of places large enough for
the reception of these poor persons. But here was the rule
drawn up by the Commissioners, and which had received the
sanction of the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Home De-
parLment ; and therefore, when the bastiles sufficiently large
and nu7eerous had been erected to cover the land, they would
be told by those persons that there were no persons receiving
relief out of the workhouses, and that the rules were in full
operation. The Noble Lord said that this measure had not
only effected a saving of two millions in the expenditure of
the Poor-rates, but that it had created a feeling of satisfaction
in the minds of the industrious part of the community. Now,
before he alluded to the latter topic, he should like to know
how that saving had been effected ? They were told that two
millions had been saved in an expenditure of six millions in
the course of two years, and this must have produced a mighty
effect somewhere. Now, when they recollected that this two
millions must form an impoi tent item in the income of the
poorer classes, there could be no doubt that this amount was
wrung from the poor by the operation of the Act.—( Loud
cries of " No, no.") He could show this by papers in tho
possession of the House.—( Cries of " No.") He said yes, and
could proa-e it to be the case. He held in his hand a paper
showing the reductions that had been made in cne parish
in the allowances to fifty poor old men and women.
_These
old men were patriarels in years, and the old women were ge-
nerally between the ages of seventy and ninety, and these
were the persons that had fertilized the fields with their labour.
These, for the most part, formerly received only 2s. or 2s. 6d.
a week ; and what did the Commissioners do through their
agents? They told these poor creatures to appear before the
table of authority, and informed them if they were not pre-
pared to allow 6d. a week to be drawn back out of their al-
lowance of 25., that they might add to this mighty fund which
was so ostentatiously offered to the landlords—unless they
ave up 25 per cent. of their incomes to those who occasion-
ally gave up 10 per cent. of the rent to their tenants—unless
4 these poor creatures, who had only twenty-fourpence a week,
gave up sixpence out of it—they must be prepared to take up
their abode in such mansions as had been prepared for the fu-
ture residence of the unfortunate poor and destitute. These
wore proceedings unworthy of a Christian country, and were
disgraceful to any Government. He did not mean to assert
there were no defects under the operation of the former
law—(Hear)—he admitted that there were many defects,
but they had not resulted from the operation of the
main provisions of the old lave, which had been in exist-
ence and operation for nearly three centuiZs, and which, in
fact was the charter of the poor. These defecn,;, which had
been so urgently dwelt on, where the growth of tha: same
selish policy which ultimately led to an attempt at the,:
correction. As long as the country went on in a rampant
state of prosperity, when .the poor-rates were eight millions
a-ye.ar ; when the rent-rolls were at their highest; when
the price of corn was exhorbitant, who ever heard of attend-
ing to the comforts of the poor ?—who ever heard of divising
a system for the improving the condition of those classes ?
who ever suggested an enquiry into the working of
the system of Poor-laws ? And they never would
heard of any such thing to that hour, if they could,
by any possibility, have gone on with the old sys-
tem. Inquiry, however, was at length instituted; but not
till they found that their expenses and their financial
difficulties had increased to such a degree that something
must be done ;—they thought of no remedy till they had
conversed with their tenants, who told them they could no
longer continue to pay as they had done before—that
the rate formed_the heaviest item in their expenditure—
that the Bill was large, and that the Poor Rates were rapidly
increasing. Until then, nothing was done, no Commissions
were appointed to inquire into the defects of the system. He
laid it down as a maxim, which was as firm as the laws of nature
themselves, and which was as ample as it was universal in its
application, that every man had a right to relief from the pro-
duce of the land on which he lived. Were the people to be
told that this provision of nature was to be turned away by a
spirit of persecution, and that those who'happened to be poor
were to become the objects of punishment and degradation ;
for to both of these were the poor now subjected prac-
tically by the -operation of the new Bill ? What could
be more cruel than the treatment of the aged patriarchs
and matrons of the land ? What harsher than the orders
which prohibited relief to be given except in the work-
house ?--(Hear.) It was nothing to say that there were
relaxations of this rule. The relaxations arose merely out of
the want of accommodation. As soon as ever a sufficient
number of these prisons, for they were no better, could be
erected, the rule would be enforced with the utmost rigour.
Another rule was, no relief should be afforded except in the
case of extreme emergency, and then that the relief should be
in food -of the poorest quality. No distinction was made be-
tween worth and profligacy, between industry and idleness.
Now could the Noble Lord say that such a system was popu-
lar, was acceptable to the people, was calculated to bring
about a feeling of independence? The Noble Lord might
rest assured that if the law were allowed to remain as at pre-
sent, it would be resisted by every man in whose bosom a
spark of humanity existed. He was at a loss to understand
what the Noble Lord had meant by saying that his amend-
ment contemplated a most enlarged inquiry. There was a
vast difference between the Noble Lord's speech and his amend-
ment is this respect. It was essential that the inquiry in-
stituted should be of the fullest and most extensive nature.
It was an inquiry in which no less than two millions of Eng-
lish men and women were deeply interested, as permanent or
occasional recipients of relief. It was due to them and to
the country at large to inquire whether it was not the case
that the Poor-laws were worked in the most barbarous and
iron hearted severity.—( Hear, hear.) The Committee must
be a thoroughly impartial one, and its inquiries must be of the
most extensive character to give anything like satisfaction to
the country, or to effect anything like benefit.—( Hear, bear.)
A Committee composed of Gentlemen in favour of the prin-
ciple—a packed Committee—would not only be `repudiated by
the country, but would be felt as adding, to the original in-
sult inflicted by the measure itself. Before he sat down he
wished to sae a few words on a point which possibly
might be allu'ded to by others. When the new Poor-
law Bill was under the consideration of the House ho
had given his vote in its favour, accompanying his vote
by the declaration that he so voted under the full convic-
tion that it was impossible the new Poor-laws and the corn•
laws could co-exist.—( Hear, hear.) For what was the
effect of the corn-laws ? Why, the effect on the poor man
with a family, earning his los. a week, was, that out of this
I Oe. he had to pay 6s. for lumps of bread, which but for these
corn-laws he would have to pay but 3s. 6d. for.—(hear,
hear.) The effect of the corn-laws, then, was to take out of
the poor man's pocket more than half the entire fruits of his
industry—to rob him, in other words, of upwards of halt his
property. The duty on tea amounted to four millions an-
nually—that on malt to five millions; and thus were nine mil-
lions of solid money taken from the pockets for the most part
of the working community, to unequallise the pressure of tax-
ation in this country. The duties en tobacco and spirits
were vindicated as being articles of a demoralising and inju-
rious character, but there were no such pretences to be urged
in defence of the duties on malt and tea, which were essential
necessaries to poor men and women. The Hun. Gentleman
concluded by expressing his gratification at the exemplary at-
tention which had been paid to this subject.
Mr. Sergeant G 0 ULB URN said that a full inquiry into
this subject was universally called for. Ile entirely concurred
in the commendations passed by the Noble Lord on those
clauses relating to the able-bodied labourers ; but he could
not approve of those parts of the Bill which bore so hardly
upon age, infirmity, and sickness.—( Hear.) With regard to
medical treatment, the Noble Lord had said that he did not see
why a man who could not maintain himself should look to have
better medical attendance at the bands of the parish than he
would receive on his own account. Now it appeared to him
Mr. Sergeant G.) that an individual reduced to poverty by no
fault of his own, and with sickness assailing him, was entitled to
the best medical treatment that could be procured The medical
attendance under the new Act required great inquiries to be
made into it, for the effect of the system was, the office being
farmed out to the lowest bidder, that the poor were almost en-
tirely neglected, or were quartered upon some young practi-
tioner desirous of gaining experience. He was quite ready to
admit that the Poor-law Commissioners were themselves men
of the greatest honour and warmest humanity ; it was not they
but the law upon which it was their duty to act that required
strict inquiry ; and as he felt that that inquiry would, be most
etOeiently elicited by the proposition of the Hon. Miaiber for
Berkshire, for that proposition he should vote.
Mr. HUME had voted for that measuic because he found
that the poorer classes of the community—those who lived by
their industry—were, in consequence of the abuses which had
existed under the former working, rapidly sinking in the scale
of society.—( Hear, hear.) The s 3 stem of indiscriminate re-
lief had worked great evil. Ile thought the Hon. Gentleman
;said his Hon. Friend had not done fairly in quoting the acts of
cruelty that had taken place. It was notorious that acts of
cruelty in the administration of the Poor-laws before this mea-
sure passed might have been selected from every week in the
year.—( Hear, hear.) He repeated, then, that it was not fair
to select evils now as evidence of the bad working of the Act
when before it passed evils existed, and to a much greater ex-
tent. The question was, whether the principles cf the measure
were correct, and whether they had been properly carried out
by the Commissioners. Why did his lion. Friend complain
now of the powers given to the Commissioners? The time
for his doing so was while the Bill was in its progress through
Parliament. If be thought with the Learned Sergeant op-
posite that the inquiry proposed by his Majesty's Government
was to be limited in any way, he should object to it. The in-
tehtion was to investigate the whole operation of the Act, to
inquire, not into its principles, but what had been the applica-
tion Of those principles.--( Hear, hear.)
Mr. D. W. HARVEY (we bejieve) said, Why move an
mendoent?

Mr. HUME—lie was asked why move an amendment ?
( Hear, hear.) When he knew that the appointment of the
Committee was moved and seconded by men who had declared
themselves hostile to the measure—when he recollected that •
the Hon. Gentleman who moved it had done every thing in
his power to damage the Act—when they bore in reir.d the
,:taternents he had made, the complaints he had brought for-
ward one after another, and over and over again, as often as
they were refuted—when it was remembered that he was op-
posed to the principles, and to every regulation which .bad
been enforced, how was it possible to go into Committee with
the expectation that there would be a fair inquiry ? Was it
not to be expected that the Hon. Gentlemen of the Committee,
men called under his auspices, would do every thing in their
}sower to damage the Bill ? The seconder of the motion said
he had opposed the Bill from the commencement, and he
( Mr. Hume) did believe that the Honourable Gentleman was
one of the minority of 20. He said lie had advised resistance
to it, and further that it never should come into his peaceful
valley—( .tear)—he would use force, and do all he could to
prevent the adoption of the pi inciple. Now, he would. ask of
these gentlemen who had the direction of the Committee how
was it possible they could go fairly into the inquiry ? But he
understood the Noble Lord that he would admit of every in-
quiry that did not go to the repeal of the Bill and affect the
principle.—(No, no.) He understood it so.—( Hear.) His
Hon. Friend complained that destitution had been laid down
as the principle on which relief should be 'given. He always
understood that it was the principle of the 43d of Elizabeth
which was acted on at the present day ; and was it possible that
his Hon. Friend could attack a principle so well founded?
His Hon. Friend said he had presented a respectable petition,
complaining of the operation of the Act, from the vestry
of St. George's, Southwark. He recollected only last year
this :tune vestry finding fault with the Commissioners for hav-
ing enforced certain regulations they had passed respecting the
sale of bread. What was their complaint against the Bill?
They complained not of the quantity of bread, nor of the
quality, but they were dissatisfied because it was supplied by
contract.—( Clear, hear.) Bread was furnished by contract
at a cheaper rate, and equally good in quality. Fivepence
per quartern was, he believed, the contract price; but the
bakers of the parish used to obtain 7d. for it.—( Hear, hear.)
If this single act was an evidence of their general proceedings,
their petition was worthy very little attention. His Hon. Friend
said that two millions of persons formerly received out-of-door
relief, and he (Mr.. Hume) believed that the gin-shop and the
beer-shop used to obtain the larger portion of the funds so dis-
posed, instead of the poor families that ought to have received
it. The Act deprived the gin-shops not only of the tax which
the poorer rate-payers paid, but put an effectual stop to the
accompanying idleness and dissipation. If the testimony could
be believed which was afforded by the different Unions in
favour of the Bill, it appeared that instead of the reduction
which had taken place in the pecuniary allowances having
been attended with that general distress which was attributed
to it, a very great improvement had taken place, both in the
physical and moral condition of the poor. He believed that
the Act promised greater benefit to the poorer classes than to
the rich, who would be relieved from the payment of the rates.
It was an Act calculated to improve the moral condition of the
poor, to increase their industry, and to draw a proper distinc-
tion between industry and idleness. Did the Hon. Gentle-
man recollect the arbitrary opinion certain of the public jour-
nals expressed? Did not the Times, a month before the pas-
sing of the Bill—did it not, day by day, attempt to persuade
the people to oppose it ? And if the Honourable Gentle-
man had not been roused by the Times and other journals,
surely he ought to feel satisfied that the Bill was not the
barbarous Act which he described it.—(Hear, hear, and
cheers.) He considered it a measure of justice, exhibiting one
of the greatest triumphs of principle against a united
L attack. Those journals attempted to write the Bill down, and
prophesied that they would do so. Up to this time they were
- retailing every story they could rake up, however improbable,
a,;l he had no doubt they invented many.—( A laugh.) He
had se,;:s stories which bad been contradicted by authority
ripped up agar :2 and again. No doubt when they had the edi-
tion of the volume winCh the Hon. Gentleman had that night
read, it would be found to bt, made up of the rakings of the
Times for the last twelve months.—(Cheers.) He should say
that the Act was generally popular in the country. He was
the last to say that unmerited poverty should be oppressed,
or that the sick and aged should be treated with severity.
He had observed, when the Bill was originally introduced,
that so great a change as it contemplated could not possibly
be made without great individual suffering; but he said it
might be left to the discretion of the Commissioners so to use
their powers as to make the. inconvenience felt as little
as possible. His Honourable Friend had asked him how he
could support the principle of conferring on the people the
benefit of local administration when he sanctioned the prin-
ciple of this Bill ? The only departures from the principle
is the present Bill were these : there were accumulated votes
given, which made the Bill very unsatisfactory; and he admitted
another evil, which he hoped would be brought under the con-
sideration of the Committee : he alluded to a portion of the guar-
dians being guardians ex officio. He believed that there had
been instances of the ex officio guardians outnumbering those
regularly elected. Such a state of things ought not to exist.
He trusted an inquiry would be instituted to ascertain the
extent to which the ex officio guardians had interfered with
and obstructed the arrangements of the Commissioners and
the elected guardians. With these exceptions to the prin.
eiple of the Act, he considered that of a local administration
by guardians elected by the rate-payers to be best. The guar-
dians were chosen by, they were the representatives of, the
rate.payers—it was to their interest to attend to
the interests of those who paid ; and as to the centralization,
he looked on that as nothing more than the supervision neces-
sary to see that a uniform system was carried on.—( Hear,
hear.) lie had seen in some of the country parishes the man
who had to distribute the rates afraid to refuse them to,those
who applied for them. Every man wishing to do his duty
must have been pleased to have a power behind him which
would enable him to carry the Act into effect. The _Act bad
surpassed his expectations ; he had no doubt it would prove a
source of happiness both to those who had to pay the rates and
those who had to receive them. The Hon. Gentleman having
resumed his seat, no less than eight Hon. Members immedi-
ately rose to address the House, amidst loud cries of " Divide."
During the contest Mr. BROTHERTON, we believe,
moved the adjournment of the debate.
The question having been put by the SPEAKER,
Lord J. MISS ELL said, he really hoped the House
would feel the importance of finishing the debate to-night.
—( Cheers.) There was some very important business be-
fore the House next week, and he thought it would be a
'()Teat misfortune if the debate should be prolonged beyond
that evening.
Colonel SIBT HO RP hoped that the Noble Lord would
consent to an adjournment.
The gallery was cleared for a division, but none took place.
On the return of strangers to the gallery, it was found that
the debate had been adjourned, we believe until Monday.
Mr. AG LIONBY obtained leave to bring in a Bill for
facilitating the recovery of the possession of tenements after the
determination of the tenancy.—The Bill was read a first time.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at a quarter past twelve o'clock.

THE DEVONSHIRE ESTATE,
AT BLACKAWTON, AND ON THE RIVER DART.

EXETER. FEB. 21.—The power of steam, it should seem,
was not sufficient to get the five plans of this extensive pro-
perty completed in time—the consequence has been that the
sale has been delayed from the 11th to the 18th of March.
The following are preliminary remarks, made by Mr. Robins,
with a view to enlist the attention of "our Devonshire Caps-
tilists"—he has been influential more than once in our great
city, and there is little doubt that his power of persuasion will
be again manifest at the approaching sale.
The valuable property, the subject of the present sale, pos-
sesses claims of a varied description, entitling it. to general at-
tention. It is all freehold, and surrounded by excellent roads,
and is in the immediate vicinity of several populous Market-
towns. That portion of it which is demised at nominal rents
for lives must speedily become productive ; many of the lives
being much advanced in years, and as they respectively termi-
nate, so will the rental increase, until it becomes, by that
means alone (to say nothing of the very cheering prospects
now existing for both owner and occupier) more than half as
much again as at present. The Church Preferment possesses
advantages of no small import to those who would find respec-
table and lucrative employment for their progeny, without a
large outlay of capital ; and as the gale is intended to
be peremptory, the present opportunity may be classed
amongst those of very rare occurrence.
Mr. Robins has .‘ many a time and (ft" admired the sound
udginent mhich inclined his Devonshire
.friends to prefer the
solid security of terra firma, to the uncertainty of thefands, or
the visionary schemes which have deluded the incautious Al- a
lengthened period ; and he trusts to be again enabled to offer
Ids congratulations on the continuance of the same spirit at
the approaching sale.—Exeter Paper.

- ---- -
NEW STRAND THEATRE•—We last night attended
this amusing little theatre, and, on the whole, were much
pleased with the performances. Mr. Webster, a most careful
comedian—gave an entertainment, a la Mathews, entitled
" Whims and Waggeries," which contained some capital
sketches of character--especially one entitled " Silly Sally."
There were also some clever conjurations with cards, &c.,
performed by a gentleman named Buck, who . has been very
successful in Paris. The house was tolerably well filled.

MRS. GORES NEW NOVEL " FEMALE DONII-
NATION."—Tbe success of this work, a second edition'of which
has recently appeared, is most justly deserved. Mrs. Gore is
an artist of high genius. It has been truly observed that she
knows bow to throw light and shade over her pictures—to ex-
cite the sympathies of her readers—to call forth their admira-
tion and love, or scorn and indignation; and, above all, she is
a mistress of the art by which whole portraits are drawn by a
single touch—a flash of light, that by a simple, but irresistible
appeal, reveals the very heart and soul of a character. Her
style continually reminds us of that of " Cecilia," to the genius
of whose author Mrs. Gore bears a strong affinity.
CONFESSION OF AN IRISH PEASANT, OR THE
PRIEST OUTWITTED.—Luke M. Geoghan being at confession,
owned among other things that he had stolen a pig from Tim
Carrot. The priest told him he must make restitution.
Luke couldn't—how could he, when he had eaten it long
ago ? Then he must give Tim one of his own.—No ; Luke
didn't like that—it wouldn't satisfy his conscience—it wouldn't
be the downright identical pig he stole. Well, the priest
said, if he wouldn't, he'd rue it, for that the corpus delectum,
Tim's pig, would be brought forward against him at the day
of judgment. " You don't mane that, father ?" Indeed but
I do," said the priest. " And may be Tim himself will be
there too?" said Luke. " Most certainly," was the reply.
" Och, then, why bother about the trifle this side the grave ?
If Tim's there and the pig's there, sure I can make restitu-
tion to him there you know,"

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PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
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General Mining Association ID 10
Rhymiiev Iron Mining Company
Eastern Counties Railway 2 1
G. rat Western Railway Company 4O 471;
Brhton Railway Company
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Brighton (Rennie's) 3 /
London and Birmingham Railwar Con•pany 75 113 11,4
Westminster and Greenwich Railway Company 2
Colonial Bank lO 7

COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam C.F. 12 5 Leghorn 47M
Ditto, at sight
:tott(rdam '3 U. 12 5% Milaq :11
Antwerp...
llamburg. M.B. 13 11,. 'tea es
&Rona—. . l3 12% Palermo per oz. 120
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 55 Lisbon
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Marseilles.
Frankfort OR Maine, Ex. M. 153 Bahia 26
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Berlin
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Cadiz 36y,
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Barcelona 16
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Gibraltar

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Foreign Gold, in bars— 3 17 9
New Doubloons

New Dollars
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Ditto Reduced -1 Ditto, 4 per cent 59%
354 per Cent. Stock 96% , Hibernian Bank
Ditto New, 1830
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Bank Stock - City Debentures, 4 per cent... 79
Royal Canal Stock 34,, ' Ballast Office Debentures, 4
Grand Canal Stock 27!.0 per cent.

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M0rning........27 minutes after 5 I Evening...... 49 minutes after 5

MR. JAMES'S NEW ROMANCE.
On Wednesday, March 1, will be published, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
A.
fit By G. P: R. JAMES, Esq., Author of " Darnley," &c.
London : Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co.
Of whom may be had, by the same Author,
THE GIPSY. 3 vols. LIFE OF JOHN MARSTON
MARY OF BURGUNDY. I H ALL. 3 vols.
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HA3IBURGH, FEB. 17, 1837.
ALL those having to remit 201. to us, are requested
to observe that they may save half the Postage by directing
their Letter via France.

HEINE BROTHERS,

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The two letters from Newport were received, but the contents
were anticipated by the result of the elections.

The publication of Tim Sun NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock.