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porary auditors e,ould euduw 'the Commissioners With
additional power.
Mr. BAIIiES explained that the clause rcesWe the
t-Inpnrktry app,,intment of auditors in the event or t
he
death of t an litor of a union, in order to obviate to
incon.(nience of unfinished accounts.
(.) ti.e pug;{-soon
clause wa, altered to convey the meaning stated by the
President of the Poor-law Board; and it was agreed to',
Clauses 9to 10 were agreed to—the latter with a Yer'
bal amendment.

Claues 11, 12, 13, and 14 were also agreed to.
On clause 15 being proposed, cu
Mr. HENLEY asked for some explanation 0-
necessity ?
Mr. BAINES replied, that as tbe law at present 0015
before the guardians could allow the emigration turf
pauper, they were compelled to call a "stse
els°
wevcing to sanction each case. This
was to get rid of that inconvenient maehiperifill
and empower the Poor-law Board to sanetioo
proposals to emigrate approved of by
The clause restricted the annual expenditure of ef:,,.0
union for purposes of emigration to a half of the eel.'"
rates of the previous three years. It 1,10
Mr. MILES objected to the clause in Coto. --
bad in principle, as it would have the effect of real°/jDg
;,.0
a parochial responsibility on to the unions. The colILI:g
certainly had a right to complain that the tendroOrs.
their legislation in late years had been to reduce rato
chial responsibility, and transfer it bit by bit W '
unions.
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Mr. RICE thought it was very desirable to do 11
the guardiss
with the consent of the vestry to any sum of 031-sr
which the guardians might think proper to apply
tli
emigration. It would be impracticable to carry
clause into effect if such a consent was required.
After a brief discussion, ba
Mr. BAINES proposed that the clause should
withdrawn, and gave notice that he should britig
another in its stead.
The clause was accordingly withdrawn. u 0
Mr. BAINES moved the following addition to
16:—" Provided, that the abiding of any such poor Abe
son in such workhouse sh4ll in all other respeo'neb
attended with the same legal consequences as if 5,0
workhouse had be, n situated within the union or par'
from which such poor person shall have been sent. % „0
Mr. MILES said that the powers given by this o¢",0
to unions ,and to the Poor-law Commissioners were for
great, that unless he heard some better reason givento
its inser ion, he should consider it his duty to divide
upon it.

After a few words from Captain PECHELL, sod
The Chairman was ordered to report prograso• ,e 0
the douse resumed. The other twelve o'clock
were then disposed of, and the House adjourned 0;
o'clock until Six.

The House resumed at Six o'clock.
Messeugeis from the Lords brought up several Bye"
METROPOLI I'AN BAKERS.
Mr. CHARLES PEARSON presented a Pe_egi
from master bakers iu Clapham, praying that the
Bill may not pass into a law.
PETITION OF COLIN MACKENZIE. ti
Lord DUDLEY STUART said he rose to presee
petition from one Mr. Colin Mackenzie, resident is
o
Camden-town, which was of a very peculiar chareere
and the like of which, perhaps, had never been Po
sensed to that House before. The petitioner eta
that in 1846 he contracted a marriage which had MVO
out very unfortunate for him—(A laugh)—by why
became acquainted with the evils of that state.--,00
newed laughter.) He was led to the conclusion that se
mo.t fertile source of domestic unhappiness was a °et
riage settlement, which gave to a wife great posse she
her husband—(Laughter)—and in consequence °,. of
independence which it placed her in she defied el!
against all the vows she made on the altar, se
did al sorts of things which she ought e 4
to do. (Loud laughter.) The petitioner seer'
that in consequence of the practice of
riage settlements it was necessary to enWel(idele
lawyer to draw them, who in that wkr 401
taint d great influence over the parties, and free
under pretence of being the legal adviser of the 11.1150.
became something more than a legal adviser to ineseett
—(Laughter) The petitioner finally prayed aniong,slool
things that the good old system of the duckiogloei
might be revived as a punishment for all undutiful
runaway wives.—(Oh, oh, and cries of" Order.") boil
Mr. MACKINNON submitted that such an e
petition should not be received. tr
Lord D. STUART said the language of the Pet•eoeli
was respt ctful, and he believed perfectly regular.--‘
Sir JOHN Y. BULLI.:R considered the petiticaool4
a ridiculous one, but he thought the best course Isoso
be to receive it, and to avoid giving an undue inlet
to it by discussing it.
The petition was then ordered to lie on the tahlelf the
Sic DE LACY EVANS called the attention od iOO
House to a number of inaccuracies which appeared the
report of what he said yesterday, in the discussion °
Ordnance estimates, published in the Morning Chli
O to
The Hon. Member for the West Riding was read:lo,
corroborate the inaccuracy of which he complai°eooole
the first place he was made to say that the existeo,oo`
their naval supremacy depended on the maintenniode
fortresses in Bermuda, Malts, and the lonian l!lareal
He stated, certainly, that those fortresses were nt,rolool
importance, but he never uttered such nonsense 60,,rCee0
that they were necessary for the maintenance of Pr"
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naval power. The Honourable and Gallant OffineLio
read another statement in the same speech, eelaiseeat,
the fortresses of Malta and Gibraltar, which, be at
was also inaccurate, arid appealed for the accussget
his statement to the Honourable Member for the
Riding.
1/oel
The SPEAKER informed the Honourable and Gt pe
Officer, that no corroboration of his statemeni
cessary.
holt
Mr. HUMS presented a petition from the inereef ;110
and tradesmen of Singapore, calling the attention :roe)
House to the treaty entered into between Great :00
and the King of the Netherlands, relative to the .Pereriotisli
Archipelago, and the violation of it, as regarded 9
subjects.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition againstfee
stamp duty on advertisements and on newsPaPere
rally, as being a tax on knowledge.
THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND' fitlie
Mr. FRE WEN, seeing the Right Hon. Gentleman
Secretary for Ireland in his place, called his sae
of a
to an article which appeared in the last nulnherdeed
paper, called the Irishman, published in Dublin, 0104
ably writtee. In that article it was stated that wb es .°
illuminated in honour of her Majesty's visit would
marked man; and they all knew what that We"
Ireland.
_1
Sir W. SOMERVILLE said that he bad never DP'
the paper alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman, but he
heard of it.
ad °I
Mr. COBDEN wished to know whether, sta., fot
illuminating for her Majesty, the money aollectef tbe
such a purpose, would be applied to the relief 0'
suffering poor in the south of Ireland. 04
Sir W. SOMERVILLE replied that no illuraio
would take place by direction of the Government. j
Mr. OSBORNE, in reference to a statement instia•
him the evening before, in the discussion on SzeitbPce,
market, ellen be said Professor Owen had no Praled-cl4
and which it was said hurt the Professor very
,111-eet
stated in explanation, that the language was not 13'6' of
that he had taken the statement from the evidence
Dr. Compton, given before the Committee.
WESTMINSTER GRAVE-YARD. ereble,
HLoebraldlrt.ht,MhteoAtChieKeinl,NobrneNrpOifaoNirlictsßalled the attention of the Of
'iwthhichasw
burial- were
ee
doafilythmeStorr the •
ground attached to St. Margaret's Church, Pied
cularly by Members and officers of the House, Ode% et
if he would take measures, b a l in.. to the Biel're
London, to have intermentsyprpepveynted during the P
valence of cholera.
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Lord ASHLEY heard with great regret thoee.,oo
plaints to which the Hon. Gentleman alluded; but I"witb
quite impossible for him to communicate oflicialliolid
the Lord Bishop of London until he received ant
iniormatir,n. tot
Sir CHARLES BURRELL had been informed teat
morning by the physician who attended his faenill'e tee
the effluvia complained of arose from gas. works 1"
neig hbourhood.
Lord ASHLEY said that effluvia from a grave.'tar°
could not be mistaken.
THE TAXATION OF THE COUNT.- nor
Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND then rose to in°' r
ve,
suent to notice, That when as a greater amount ofr the
ation is levied upon the people than is required fedsiel
good and efficient government of the UnitedNiegroi
and whereas large sums are expended in stIPP°O4
needless places, extravagant salaries, and unneeeB;o%,
works and establishments; and whereas the present 0111
ation of the country depresses all classes, and esPetc the
the labouring classes, by diminishing the fund 01'00
employment of productive labour—it is the opinionT Used
House that adequate means should be forthwith nuelier
to reduce the expenditure of the Government. wet
several years he had been pressing upon the Gover? tee
the necessity for making some radical change 1/1 the
mode of raising the revenue, and some reduction rnsees
expenditure of the country. The last time he bro Sold,
the subject he asked for a Committee in which, lig:boy°
they might have gone thoroughly into detail, on ate
fiiund out where economy might have been praeoiee!
One minister turned him into ridicule, while naroll'
warned the House not to be led away by so new a were
nurus. The blue books on the table of the Hous!,t 00
his justification for persevering in pressing the sursey':
m
the attention of the House. He feared her ssear eon-
Ministers would judge his motion rather with assec'a erf
connected with other motions, similar in words but, ;cell
dissimilar in tendency; because they bad usualleoC,
made by Members wishing to damage the Governligeat
and to establish some other faction in their pleceeeeee.s
was not tbe case now. In fact, the days of party " de'
an end. If the Government were to be 0°
feated in any covert way, there wee°, 90
party to succeed them. He regretted tutl"o of
powerful party existed to whom the SovereiFeyer
the country might have recourse if need be; but, rot 00
theless, they must deal with things as they were, not
theless,
they might wish them to be. It might be an adouc
w ea
or it might be a disadvantage. But one advantage
000'
out of it—an independent Member had now the opy_r tjaf,
ity, it he thou ht it right, to carry out measures lot of
public good tor, in point, of fact, the great interes'por
the country had always been sacrificed to Party
is tboth
Dotes. From the time of the revolution—he eoetLtereP
of 1688—down to the present time, every greateuld for
of the country had only been made the battlesnrsocb
iaction fignt in that House. It was so during the It 040
revolution—it was so during the American wares core
Si turilig the Catoid,A, rebellion—it was so on the trade'
laws, aret it was new every day the case On trebe,,nefill
Judie people resdile adopted that course, really
they were very larfrom it. One Lion. Member I'