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LONDON :
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1838.

In the HOUSE of LORDS last night, petitions were again
poured in from various parts both of England and Scotland for
the Ballot, an Extension of the Suffrage, and the Shortening
the Duration of Parliament. Amongst an immense number
of petitions presented by Lord BROUGNA M, deprecatory of the
Ministerial policy in respect of Canada, was one from Chelsea,
c xlling for the Impeachment of Ministers. The same Noble
and Learned Lord also presented petitions from several bodies
of Dissenters against any further grants to the Church of
Scotland; and from BedfJrd, in favour of Mr. HILL's Plan of
Post-office Reform.

In the florsE of COMMONS, after the presentation of peti-
tions, and the balloting for Committees to try the merits of the
Roxburgh, Ipswich, and Salford elections, the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER moved for, and after a few words from Mr.
WARBURTON, Mr. HINDLEY, and Mr. T. ATTWOOD, obtained,
leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law with respect to cle-
rical members of joint stock companies. The Right Hon.
Gentleman observed that he felt it necessary to make this
motion in consequence of a recent decision by the Court of
Exchequer, to the effect that it was unlawful for a clergyman
in orders to be a member of any joint-stock company.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obtained leave also
to bring in a Bill for the foundation and endowment of
additional schools in the Highlands of Scotland. And in
alswer to some objections urged against the measure by Mr.
WALLACE and Mr. Gri.LoN, he said that " he regretted
to heargentlemen from Scotland speak of the system of parochial
education in that country, which had always been regarded as
great boast of Scotland, to be a sectarian system. He con-
sidered it to be national in its widest sense. He admitted,
lic7ever, that improvement was practicable, and he agreed in
opinion With those who thought that the first step ought to
the institution of normal schools for adequately qualifying
the schoolmasters."

Captain BOLDER() then moved for Returns of the number of
deserters from her Majesty's troops stationed in the Canadas,
between the years 1830 and 1837. The production of the
return—to the expressed surprise of Captain WOOD, and the
declared dissatisfaction of Mr. LEADER and Mc. HOME—was
pertinaciously refused by the Secretary at War.
Mr. FRENCH obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better
r.sgu7ation of Medical Charities in Ireland.

The Report of the Court of Session ( Scotland) Bill was
bought up by the LORD ADVOCATE, and after a few observa-
tions from Mr. HumE, in which he recommended a limit to the
granting of allowances to retired Sheriffs' Substitutes, the re-
port was agreed to.
The House adjourned at a quarter to Eight o'Clock.

In our columns of this day will be found a letter
from Mr. SIIARMAN CRAWFORD on the important
subject of the Ell now before Parliament for the rt.lie
of the indigent Poor in Ireland, to which we direct
the attention of our readers. Though differing frum
the ex• Member for Dundalk upon many important
questions, and being, moreover, by no means disposed
to regard as either patriotic or politic the course of his
opposition to Mr. O'CONNELL, WC must candidly
admit that his unwearied solicitude for the welfare of
the Irish poor is more than adequate, in our opinion,
tc cover all his poli al transgressions. His Land-
lord and Tenants' Bill, though it attracted but a small
share of the attention of Parliament and the country,
was a measure which contained the germ of vast im-
provement ; nor do we believe that Ireland will ever be
permanently happy and contented, till some such
enactment is brought practically into operation in that
country. As the letter which we this day publish is
to be followed up by others, we shall leave Mr,
CRAWFORD to explain, argue, and defend his own
peculiar views ; not because we do not take
as lively an interest as even he does in the
social happiness of the poor of the Sister
Country; but because, like the Reverend Mr.
O'MALLEY, :and Mr. MICHAEL STAUNTON, our
main anxiety is to procure for ~hem the right of legal
relief in any shape as a step to a more pet feet system.
We have again and again stated that we would prefer,
an hundred times over a Poor Law Bill founded on
the report of Mr. BLAKE, and the Archbishops of
Dublin, to a measure based on the recommendations
of Mr. NICEIOLL ; but seeing that the Government
obstinately refuse to make Mr. BLAKE'S report the
basis of a legislative enactment, we gladly accept any
Bill rather than leave Ireland any longer in her present
state of deplorable destitution. We never pretended
that the Government Bill was not susceptible of great
improvement ; but rather than get none, we, in the
name and on behalf of the indigent poor of Ireland,
accepted it with thankfulness ; content if we could
only secure the legal recognition of the principle that
the people were not to be suffered to starve so long as
they were willing to work. That the workhouse system
will ever succeed satisfactorily in Ireland we by no means
expect ; but even its failure will not be without
many advantages which are now hardly so much
as dreamt of by poor or rich. The workhouse system
is peculiarly adapted to a population subsisting on
weekly earnings—to mechanics and day labourers lia-
ble to be thrown suddenly, and for uncertain periods,
out of employment—and therefore no system could be
better adapted to England and the Western districts of
Scotland. In Ireland, on the contrary, the great mass
of the poor are cotters—depending for support on the
produce of sub-tenements of land, and therefore what
they most require is not shelter in a workhouse, but
some trifle to enable them to await the ripening of
their scanty crops. They want, in short, out-door
relief, because they have no earnings to depend upon,
and because,t,if immured in a workhouse for several
weeks during the summer, their crops must be totally
destroyed from the inroads of cattle, and the want of
culture. This fact will soon become apparent ; and
as a necessary consequence, the Bill will not be passed
a year before the expediency of amending it will be
admitted by its very framers. But once passed there
will be no possibility of adopting measures
for its simple and unconditional repeal. It will en-
gender a new state of social feeling and of society
which can never be eradicated—it will give the poor
a right in the soil of which it will be impossible ever
to deprive them—and it will, by trenching upon the
power of the heartless landed Aristocracy of Ireland,
prepare the way for agricultural and commercial im-
provements from which the labouring population will
derive the greatest advantages. Mr. O'CONNELL
complains that the Bill taxes the industrious for the
maintenance of the idle and the improvident. In what
branch of useful industry do the landed Aristocracy of
Ireland excel? 'Where are the evidences to be sought
of their provident habits? For what are they distin-
guished if not for the amount of their debts—their

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