The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-22 00:00:00

CANADA.

Er.rl GOSFORD presented a petition from the Bishop,
Gergy, and Inhabitants of Quehec, stating that it was but
a small proportion cf the paople of Canada that were
tainted with disloyalty, and that the great majority of them were
anxious to preserve the connection with the mother country.
The petition was against the union of the two provinces of
Canada, and further, 1-ogltly commended the administration of
Eat Gesford. This was not a fit occasion, the Noble Earl
rii)Woitafyiti-gdlrdia 61W0ijrfCi gvc fi"riy itilkiVnToniTs ,RCr
any charges, connected with his government in that colony.
any
BROUGHAM said he hoped he should have the
support of the Noble Earl to his (Lord B.'s) intended motion
ror the ree:4 of the " Dictatorial Mission "—(Laughter)—
which had been sent to Canada, the inhabitants of which it
appeared were so 10-al.—(Hear.)
IRISH POOR LAW.

On the Order of the Day for the third reading- of this Bill,
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented a petition
against the Bill.
The Report was then received.
SARDINIAN VESSELS.

Lord BROUGHAM asked if the Government had any
objection to produce any Admiralty order with regard to S,:r-
dinian vessels ?—it appears to me a question of great im-
portance —( Hear.)
Lord MELBOURNE asked if there would be a motion to
that effect.

Lord BROUGHAM—Oh ! !thought it would be a matter
of course. I shall move for the production of the Papers on
Tuesday.
IRISH POOR LAW BILL.

Lord ELLE NI3 0 R 0 UG H suggested that the most conve-
nient course to adopt with respect to this Bill would be to re-
commit and go through the clauses seriatim.
On the motion of the Noimt Lost, the House then went
into Commit tee on the Bill. On the first clause,
Lord ELLE NBOROUG H said that he did not rise for
the purpose of proposing any amendment to this clause ; but for
the purpose of observing that, in point of fact, though it was
enacted that. the Bill should be carried into effect by the Poor
Law Commissioners of England they would not, as this Bill
at present stood, carry it into opetation, because by the present
provisions of the Bill one of the Secretaries of State was
to name the Commissioner who was to go to Ireland, and the
Commiss'oner was invested with all the authority of the
Board, except that of making general rules. The Bill
created, in point of fact, two several Commissions, and did not,
as it purported to do, leave its operation in the hands of ose
The only controul that the Commissioners in England had
over the Commissioners in Ireland was given by a particular
clause, which obliged him to come to London once in the
year, and then they could overturn all his previous regulations.
In other respects he was perfectly independent. He had only
risen for the purpose of letting their Lordships thoroughly
understand that the Bill would be executed by a single Com-
missioner, and that that Commissioner would be appointed by
the Secretary of State.

Clauses 1 and 2 were then agreed to.
On 3 clause . ,

The LORD CHANCELLOR proposed as an amendment
to insert alter the word "workhouse" the words" Houses of
Industry and Foundling hospitals," the object being to pro-
vide for the intermediate period which must elapse during the
erection of ,workhouses, and to place those institutions under
the same authority as the workhouses.
The Earl of CARBERRY begged to ask if that amend-
ment were carried what was to become of the 1,500 deserted
children no maintained in the Foundling Hospital at Cork ?
If they took them under the workhouse system they would
have at once 1,500 paupers.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that that case was pro-
vided for by the 34th clause, which enacted that the benefits
of all such establishments were still to be confined to the pre-
sent recipients ; but the object was that they should be placed
under the controul of the Commissioners instead of the local
authorities.

Lord RE DE SD ALE suggested that it would be advisa.
ble to provide for these institutions by a separate Bill.
The Marquis of CL ANRICA RD E occurred in the pro-
priety of that suggestion.
Lord BROUGHAM said that his enmity to this Bill had
not been in the least degree mitigated. Some alterations bad
been made, which rendered it worse ; and some provisions
had been introduced, which it would be impossible to exe-
cute, though the circumstances certainly ought to be taken
as a set-off against the Bill itself ; but this amendment
afforded the only ray of light in the darkness of the pros-
P—
ect if it would have the effect of putting a period to a great
public nuisance—for he held a Foundling Hospital to be
the grossest public nuisance, tending to a great injury of
the morality and property of a neighbourhood.—( Hear, hear.)
Many persons in Ireland and France supposed that they had
a Foundling Hospital in London ; but that was a great mis-
take, and he bad taken the liberty of undeceiving them in
France. It was sixty years since the Hospital to which he
alluded had ceased to receive foundlings—it could not do so—
for by the Act of Parliament no child could be received there
unless there had been a previous examination of the parents,
which, of course, entirely abolished the idea of its being a
Foundling Hospital.
The Earl of WICKLOW said that the question was not
whether a Foundling Hospital were an useful or proper insti-
tution ; but whether, there being one established at Cork, and
having 1,500 inmates, the controul over it should be taken
from those who at present exercised it, and given to the Com-
missioners. This question came properly under considera-
tion upon the 34th clause, and though he thought that gene-
rally it was advisable to bring establishments of this sort under
the same authority, if his Noble Friend on the 34th clause
proposed an exemption in favour of this particular institution
in Cork it would have his support.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the clause which
they were now considering did not give the power that was
supposed ; it only gave the Commissioners power over esta.