The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-04 00:00:00

themselves justified in reeomtnending 'a permanent
structure on the plan submitted to thm by Mr. Barry:
"Mr. Dod, the sei:ior reporter, and secretary to
the reporters' committee, states that they hear in the
present gallery of the House of Lords as we as in
the House Of Common, or as well thry eirif earl
in any House of Parliament. Other witnesses con-
firm Mr. Dod's evidence.
"But, notwithstanding the success which has at-.
tended the experiment made by Mr. Barry,- neither'
strangers straners who are allowed to be in the-Trecinets
of the House, nor even the members present in the
House itself, can expect to hear distinctly, unless
strict order is preserved, both beloW the bar and on
the steps of the throee.

"The Committee recommend that a portion 44he
space at the fbot of the Throne he railed off.
" The Committee recommend that the benches
recently placed below the b:ar remain, and that the
Usher of the Black Rod be instructed to preserve
silence in that part of the chamber during the siding
of the Hcu.e.

" The Committee further recommend, that the
standing order No. IS, which directs Lord, having
occasion to speak together to go below the bar, should
be altered so as to stand as follows:

" Ordered, That if any Lord have occasion to speak
with another Lord in this House while sitting, they
are totot retire to the Princes Chambers, and not to
converse in the space behind the woohack,' or else
the Speaker is to • call them to order,' and, if neces-
sary, t stop the business in agitation.'
" The Committee recommend that foreign ladies of
distinction shou'd be admitted to the galleries on
either side of the throne on application to the Lord
Great Chamberlain, and that, with this exception,
the said galleries should be appropriated to the excht-
! sive use of the Peeresses, and the unmarried daughters
of Peers, and Peeresses in their own right.
" The Committee further recommend, that the
wives of Peers' eldest sons, and the married daughters
of Peers, and of Peeresses in their own right, be ad- •
mitted to the box occupied on state occasions by Peers'
eldest sons.

"As the Strangers' Gallery below the bar is
capable of containing 120 persons, and is seldom half
occupied, the Committee suggest the propriety of
allowing every peer to issue two orders of admission.
" That the Lord Great Chamberlain be desired to
issue his warrant for effecting the above-mentioned
alterations.

" Several petitions have been referred to the Com-
mittee from shorthand writers; and from' Parlia-
mentary and law reporters. As these petitions regard
an authentic or official record of the speeches made
in Parliament, and as the reference to the Committee
does not embrace that subject, the Committee have
declined to enter into the question raised by the
petitions.
"July 27, 1849."

POOR-LAW INSPECTORS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
, Silt,—Allow me, through the medium of your
justly esteemed journal, to tender Mr. Hume, that
Igood old practical Reformer, hearty thanks for his
, ijudgment and discrimination in moving isid, Thurs.!
day for a " return of the salaries, travelling,Nrnsest
I and employments of the poor-law inspectors (*Um
Assistant Commissioners).
That return was ordered, and whenever it is made
(for Mr. Hume is not the man to lose sight of the
' subject) I fully expect it will justify his motion, and
encourage him to follow the same course with every
civil officer whom the Government pay out of the
public purse, until the shamefully overtaxed and un-
equally taxed people of England know, as they have
a right to do, what every public officer's salary is ,
and what service he renders for it. This is what
should be done, and it would operate much more
fairly and beneficially than Mr. Henley's proposed
tax of an indiscriminate ten per cent.
When the poor-law passed it was no doubt neces-
sary that the Commissioners, whose whole time and
I attention was occupied in London, should have
I assistants, who for a few years were very useful ; there
I was employment for them, and they were well paid.
I But now in most parts of the kingdom, where the
I unions have been for the last fourteen years or more
in regular working, they are no longer needed, there
is in fact nothing for them to do, and they know it,
for their visits are always short and few and far
I between. At the union with which I have been for
years actively connected as a guardian, we have seen
our learned "inspector" once only in the last two
; years, and then he sat in the Board-room less than
„m I half an hour, and ust have gone away about as wise
1 ...
las he came, fez. ~beganswered no one and asked but
`few questions.-::"He travelled on some twelve or
I thirteenl,miles in his carriage and pair, attended by
1 his livery servant, to the next union, where I under-
Istood his labours were equally long and arduous!
I And this is the way in which the public money is
I squandered to the wee of about 1,5001. a year each
for these hard worked functionaries. On the con-
trary, if there are any parts of the country where
t they are still needed, there they ought to be retained.
Mr. Hume knows, and so should your readers, that
these inspectorships are for the most part mere pai-
-1 tical appointments, filled by men selected from Tree
I sury applicants, totally irrespective of their knowledge
lof the poor-law or any fitness whatever for the office;
brieflees barristers, or other relations or dependents
of the Parliamentary supporters of the Government
'of the day—for Whigs and Tories are alike corrupt
sand extravagant, and will never part, if they can help
it, with the smallest portion of official pigf:9nage.
These are the men just adapted for . a sinecure4ierth,
•pr one in which the labour, if any, is light And pay.
large, and this system will continue so long as the
country is cursed with class legislation and governed
by parties, and until Reformers of all descriptions will
learn to lay aside their minor differences and cor-
idially unite to obtain an extension of the franchise,
Iwithout which all other reforms are hopeless. Then,
and not till then, may we hope to see our public
grievances redressed, and strict economy enforced in
every department, for we should very soon have a
return to Parliament of a majority of Members as
honest, fearless, and persevering, as Mr. Joseph
Hume.—l am, Sir, your constant reader,
I A COUNTY MAGISTRATE.