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LONDON :
TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1337.

I i the House of LORDS, yesterday, the Loan CHANCELLOR
real a Message from her M ijesty, brought thither by Viscount
MELBOURNE, intimating the necessity of making further pro-
vi-ion for her Royal Mother, the Duchess of KENT. The
Messege was ordered to be taken into consideration to-day.
Lord BROUGHAM presented petitions for placing Negro Ap-
prentices on the same footing as Emancipated Negroes.
Slavery, and Slave Education, formed the subject of a short
discussion.
The Duke of CLEI ELAND then presented a petition from
Sunderland, praying the insertion of a clause in the Municipal
Corporations Declaration Bill, by which Jews should be en-
titled to the same privileges and rights which were conferred
on those for whom the measure was expressly framed.
The House of COMMONS met at the usual hour.
Mr. FIELDEN presented a petition from the distressed hand-
loom weavers of Manchester, and gave notice of his intention
to found a motion upon it. Petitions were also presented in
favour of the Ballot ; for the adoption of Mr. Hill's plan of
Postage ; and a variety of other subjects.
In answer to a question from Mr. LEADER, Lord JOHN
RUSSELL stated that Lord GOSFORD had expresssed a
wish to resign the Government of Canada, and permission
had been given him to return. The Government of the
Colony would in the mean thud devolve upon Sir JOHN COL-
BORNE, but no successor had yet been appointed.
Among the notices of motion was one given by Sir F.
BURDETT, that soon after the recess he would move for an in-
vestigation into the unfortunate circumstances in Ireland at
Rathcormae, and another by Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR that he
should upon the motion for the appointment of Committee
upon the Pension List, move that the name of the Hon.
Member for Southwark ( Mr. Haevey) should be inserted,
if not named, and if it appeared that there was not a pre-
ponderance of Members who had voted for inquiry, he should
move that names be substituted from those who had been fa-
vourable to inquiry.
The Message from her MAJESTY, en the subject of pro-
viding for the Duchess of KENT, having been read, Lord
JOHN Russam., who had appeared at the Bar with it, gave
notice that he will this day move that it be taken into consi-
deration.
Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR. in reply to Mr. WALLACE, stated
that it was not his intention to proceed with his Bill for the
Abolition of Lay Patronage in the Church of Scotland, as
the subject had been taken up by the General Assembly.
Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR asked whether any measure would
be brought forward respecting Irish tithes, and was informed
by Lord Jome RUSSELL that such a Bill would certainly be
brought forward after the recess.
Atter some other business had been disposed of, it will be
seen that the House went into Committee on the Civil List
Acts, when the sum of 385,0001. annually for the support of
the Royal Household, together with the additional sum of
10,0001. for the household servants 7 was granted to her Ma-
jesty ; and also an annual sum, as pensions on the Civil
List, to the extent of 1,2001. a year. The resolutions will
be reported to-day, and a measure will be founded upon them
which will be discussed on Friday in a Committee of the
whole House.
Mr. Hume gave notice on Friday, that he should upon the
motion for going into Committee upon the Civil List Bill,
move that the Officers in the Lord Chamberlain's, the Lord
Steward of the Household, and the Master of the Horse's
offices, be reduced to the standard of the period from 1786
to 1792.
In reply to an Hon. Member, Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated
his intention to move that the House should, on the 16th Feb.,
go into Committee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill.
Mr. FIELDEN then called the attention of the House to the
recent disturbances at Bradford, on the occasion of the intro-
duction of the Poor Law Amendment Act, and moved for a
return of certain correspondence connected with the subject.
Mr. WAKLET seconded the motion, and expressed a hope
that every one at Bradford, or elsewhere, who felt himself
ae•grieved, would forward his complaints to the Committee
which was now sitting, to inquire into the operation of the
Poor Law.

Lord JOHN Russimr, had no objection to the production of
the returns, subject to certain alterations which he would pro-
pose.
After a short discussion, the motion, as amended by Lord
J. IZussriLL, was agreed to.

The LORD ADVCATR obtained leave to bring in two Bills
relating to the Jurisprudence of Scotland.
Mr. NVALLacs called the attention of the House to the pe-
titon of Mr. Jones, complaining of dilatory proceedings in the
Ccrart of Session in Scotland.
After some observations on the subject by the LORD ADYO-
carrE, the House (at eight o'clock) adjourned.

The intention of the Poor-law Bill is, to prevent as
much as• possible, the lazy pauper from subsisting
-upon the industry of his neighbour ; its leading fea-
ture that the pauper shall not be better clad and fed,
01.1 have more of the good things of life than the
bonest labourer, who struggles to be independent of
ptrblie charity, The measure works well, but only in
one direction. .We opine it should operate at two
extre, 'nes of society. There is the tattered pauper and

the titled pauper, and the former justly complains
that his order has been made most partially the sub-
ject of legislative experiment, which denies him the
pleasure he would have experienced in sitting down
:.nth patrician blood to the workhouse soup and gruel
had the law been impartial. We cannot discriminate
between the pauper who subsists upon the parish-rates
And the pauper who subsists on a pension from the
Civil List or Consolidated Fund. They are both
useless mouths in society—both subtract from the earn-
ings of the industrious labourer ; and we hope to
see by the end of the present Session the principle of
the Poor-law Bill brought to bear impartially upon the
pension pauper and the poor's-rate pauper. The work-
house has been made the test of indigence, and if we
have indigent Peers, indigent Dowagers, indigent
Squires, and Honourables, let the overseers of their
respective parishes offer them the shelter and fare of
the workhouse. Oh, the vulgar proposal 1 These
people have sensibilities, fine-strung nerves, exquisite
perceptions of gentility. What a hideous proposal
And then what a loud cry would ascend to arouse the
Tory manes of your Castlereaghs, Pitts, and Dun-
dases, against the Vandal Radicals who propose to
draw aside the curtain that conceals all the disgusting
deformities of the Pension List, and to hand over the
delicate lordings and ladies to the tender mercies of the
parish beadle ! If Giles Scroggins and Molly Brown
be compelled through indigence to apply to the over-
seer, that officer never enquires into their sensibilities
and nervous constitution, but inducts them to a stall in
the workhouse. Giles and Molly may have as much
repugnance to workhouse fare and a workhouse wel-
come as Lord Pedigree or the Honourable Mrs.
Fitzroball. Molly might feel squeamish at the sight
of the gruel, but the Honourable Lady would abso-
lutely faint.
It was remarked in some public document lately,
that pauperism in some families is hereditary, descend-
ing from father to son, and accumulating at each
descent with all the certainty it would derive from
the law of primogeniture. We believe there is great
truth in the remark, and we could point to the Pen-
sion List in corroboration. Some family names
have been fixtures on the list for the last 150 years.
Your aris•ocrat c nae Hes stick to it like burs. There
is a wondrous tenacity of existence in that direction—
an astonishing perpetuity of ancestral excellence. A
certain Noble Duke receives a pension from the Post-
office revenue, not for any greatness or goodness of
his own, but his ancestor was a great General some
130 years ago, and none of all the descendants of
this great General have felt shame to pocket
the public money upon the plea of their ances-
tor's services. We wonder if the same great
General had been corvieted of selling the army stores,
whether his posterity would have been equally fond of
making an annual indemnity to the public ? Again,
we find the gentle names of Lydia and Julia, Jemiwa
and Grizzel, figuring on the list, because the mo-
ther's aunt's cousin's sister-in-law's neicc, of the said
Lydia, Julia, Jeinima, and Grizzel was attendant on
one of Queen Charlotte's Ladies of the Bedchamber.
Some such names clus:er prettily on the Pension List.
We have of ten ben struck with the perfect similarity
of the Pension List system, with the administration of
the Poor Laws under which is, now happily for us,
the " old system." It was not uncommon, before the
law was amended, for shopkeepers to get rich on the
plunder of the paupers; and paupers have been known
to accumulate money by practising deception, and plun-
derirF the poor's-rate. Stich paupers thought the new
Poor-law harsh. Such was Lord A lthorp's opinion, in
1831, when a revisal of the Pension List was talked of.
Here is his language :—" At the same time it would
be a harsh measure to overlook on this present occa-
sion that which has been the uniform usage on all for-
mer settlements of the Civil List. Pensions on the
Civil List have always hitherto been considered to be
granted for life." "It is more than probable, therefore,
that parties, relying on an adherence to an invariable
custom, have made family settlements and pecuniary
arrangements of various kinds, with all of which
his Majesty must necessarily interfere, should these
pensions for the first time be refused." This is pre-
cisely the language held by the paupers in certain dis-
tricts before the New Poor Law came into operation.
They talked of " family settlements and pecuniary ar-
rangements." We know a case in the parish of Cran-
brook where a pauper built a row of cottages, and named
them " Providence Cottages." Truly there was as much
providence in the old Poor Laws to this pauper as
there is providence in the Pension List for patrician
spinsters. No doubt the pauper had made family
settlements, and heartily cursed the harsh Poor Law
Bill, that put an end to his system of plunder.
In the meantime, before the meeting of the Com-
mittee, we suppose that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
will be fully occupied in reading the indignant epistles of
poor Lords and Ladies resigning their pensions, and the
sweet-scented supplicating notes of ancient spinsters and
needy bachelors imploring his protection. We sus-
pect that Ministers would not have had such a large
majority on Friday night, if some of the Opposition
Gentlemen of more sensitive morals than the Member
for North Wilts had not left the House, lest they
should be accused as sitting in judgment upon their
own cause.

The deep interest taken by Lord BROUGHA NI in
the social and moral condition of the emancipated
negroes, reflects the highest credit upon his Lordship
both as a consistent Reformer, and a Peer of Parliament.
Were it not for the vigilance of such persons as his
Lordship, it is possible that the emancipated
negroes would be losers, rather than gainers, by
the Act of the Imperial Legislature, placing them
on a footing of equality with their late masters,
despite of the efforts of the Government to the
contrary. In the House of Lords last night
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Bap-
tist missionaries residing in the western part of the
island of Jamaica, praying that steps might be
taken for placing the apprentices on the same
footing as the emancipated negroes in Jamaica,
Antigua, and all the British Islands adjoin-
ing—in supporting which his Lordship well ob-
served, that Seventeen millions of the Compensation
Fund having been paid by England, it was time to
inquire whether the receivers of that money had per-
formed that part of the agreement which alone gave
them a just claim to it. We trust a subject of such
importance will not fail to attract the notice of the
country, and that those who so long and so zealously
laboured to eradicate Negro Slavery will: not he con-
tent with having done so merely in name. Having
engaged to pay twenty millions of money, for what we
were entitled to demand without the payment of a
shilling, we are not now to be made the dupes of a
set of unprincipled planters, noted only for their
cruelty, arid their systematic opposition to the will of
the mother country.

Sir G. SINCLAIR is a perfect riddle. We cannot
understand him at all, nor do we believe that he un-
derstands himself. He is constantly playing a game
of political see-saw ;is this moment an ardent Re-
former ; the next a flaming Tory. Last night, for
instance, after making son3e liberal and judicious re-
marks on the subject of the proposed Committee on
the Pension List, he suddenly veered about, and
brought all the small guns of his oratory to bear
against Ministers—for no other reason that we can
discover, than that they were not sufficiently imbued
with Tory notions of R eform, as regards the
Irish Church. This incon sip ;tent course of conduct—
this halting between two bull dies—is exceedingly un-
worthy of one who aspire 3 to be a statesman, and
cannot fail to damage his c haracter for political trust-
worthiness and sagacity. 1 Sir GEORGE must make
himself conspicuous, let it b e either as a Tory or as a
Reformer; but' let him not a t tempt to combine the two
discordant characters. It it: surely no subject of boast
for a man to realize Falsta ''s description of one of
his silliest associates, that he is neither, fish, flesh,
nor good red herring ; a ma nknows not what to make
of him !"

The changes which are about to take place in the
Government of the Canad as do not speak favourably
for the line of policy which :the Ministry adopted last
year towards the Lower Pi.° vince. Lord GOSFORD,
from what passed in the I louse of Commons last
night, is heartily sick of the. business, and has received
permission to resign his nation. Sir FRANCIS