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others enriched with exquisite carvings, all of them objects of
treatg intPTe,t imiepridently of the costly matertals of which
tey were formed. Wax lights were skilfully inter: persed on
the buffet and ,-^utributed touch to the bill:hue:7 of the dis-
play. AmidA this most superb
.collection, in which the ge•
nine of the artist and the tit moat skill of the workman were
concentrated in a material therpost beautiful and valuable,
were placed two simple water lilies, in reduced copies of the
Warwick vase in gold, with an effect which it is very diffi-
cult, if not impossible, to describe.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 15.
The House met to-day at Twelve o'clock.
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from the medical
practitioners of Birmingham in favour of this Bill.
MR. MOTT, THE ASSISTANT POOR-LAW
COMMISSIONER.
Mr. FERRAND gave notice that on Monday, on the
order of the day being read for the third reading
of the Loan Discount Bill, he should ask the Right
Honourable the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment whether the appointment of Mr. Mott as a
Poor-law Commissioner had received the sanction of the
Government, and also other questions with respect to the
offices held by Mr. Mott. The questions conveyed
serious charges against Mr. Mott, which the Hon. Gen-
tleman specified.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER advised
the Ilon.Gentleman to modify his Questions, as it was nct
fair to cast imputations upon Mr. Mott in the shape
of interrogatories.
Mr. FERRAND replied that the motion which he had
read was simply an extract from a Parliamentary paper,
which was laid on the table last week. He had merely
adopted the words used therein with respect to Mr.
Mott. The words were not his.
The matter then dropped.
LOAN DISCOUNT BILL.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then
moved that the report on this Bill be received.
Mr. FERRAND said he wished to have a pledge
from her Majesty's Government that the Poor-
law Administration Bill should stand as the first
order of the day for discussion on Monday, and that it
should be taken first. It had stood first among notices
of motions for the last fortnight, but it bad been put off
from time to time; but the Government had given the
most solemn pledge not only to him, but to other Hon.
Members, that it should come on for discussion before
the other orders of the day on Monday; but he feared
from what had recently taken place, for instance, the
motion of the Hon. Member for Waterford (Sir
W. Barron), which, after it had occupied nearly the
whole night in discussion, was withdrawn at the request
of the Government, and from the delay that had already
taken place, that the Government intended to shirk the
measure altogether, and consequently to avoid the dis-
cussion of its merits. It was a most important measure,
and would affect at least 3,000,000 of the poorest class
of the population of this country, who were now living
on a diet which had reduced them to the most abject
state, and if the fever which was now desolating Ireland
was to extend its ravages to this country, he should
like to know what would become of the poor, who were
c ,napelled to subsist on the diet which the Poor-law Com-
missioners allowed them, as it was a well known fact that
the diet sanctioned by them was not sufficient to keep those
who partook of it in bodily health, and he was anxious to
have the pledge to which he had referred from the Govern-
ment in order that the Bill be taken the first thing 014
Monday. Unless he should receive this pledge from the
Government, he should consider it his duty, as an inde-
pendent Member of that House, to propose as an amend-
ment, on the order of the day for the third reading of
the Loan Discount Bill being read, that it be read fur the
purpose of being discharged, in order that the Poor-law
Administration Bill should be at once proceeded with.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
the lion. Gentleman had used a great deal of unneces-
szry violence in his address to the House.—
(Hear, hear.) He could assure them that the
Bill to which he had referred would be taken on Monday
night if possible ; and if the Hon. Gentleman would
look to the notices of motion for Monday, he would find
Oat I,is Noble Friend, (Lard J. Russell) had a notice on
the paper " that the Peor-law Administration Bill be
proceeded with before the other orders of the day."
Mr. FERRAND—Hear, hear.
The subject then dropped.
The report was then brought up, received, and the
Bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday next.
TURNPIKE ROADS (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
LUNATIC ASYLUMS (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was also read a third time and passe3.
HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.
Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition from the
mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Carlisle in favour of
Vie Health of Towns Bill, and praying for an alteration
in the 26th clause of the Bill.
MEDICAL REGISTRATION 81T.T,,
Mr. HAWES presented several petitions in favour of
this Bill.
The Lleuse then adjourned.