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London, England, 1847-05-28 00:00:00

TREL SUE, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1847.

Average Amount.

Oxfordshire Witney Barak Witney—Williams,
Clinch, and Co 100,65
Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 47,530
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,904
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter-
borough—Messrs. Yorke ........................ 10,277
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson,
White, and Simpson .............................. 11,355
Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Fal
Rimou Bank, and
Truro Bank, Penzance—ckets th
, Enthoven
and Co
Reading Bank, Reading—gimonas and Co 37,005
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and
Co
Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co 6,642
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds,

and Co
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson 9,084
Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot-
ner and Son —
Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 14,658
Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 15;933
Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 21,085
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and
Co .. 12,872
Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard
and Allaw ay 4,244
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron _
___

5 033

Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and
Co 18,292
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall
and Co 23,921
Shrewsbury and Market Drayton Bank, Shrews-
bury—Adams, Adana, and Co
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons,
and Co
Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingboume
—Valiance and Son 3,530
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton—Maddicon and Son 17,19g
Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co.
St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story 2,389
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie 22,686
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and
King
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton—Atherly and Fall
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 7,080
Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford,
Wragg, and Co 16,595
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 12,079
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
Cayley, and Co.
Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward, and Co. 23,603
St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-
son and Stuart... 2,326
Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 26,448
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and
Co
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns-
ford and Barne
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,959
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But-
cher and Son
Towcester Old Bank, Toweester—J. and S
Percival
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and
15,218
Co.
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith,
and Co. 23,968
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. 11,05
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick—
Kelynge, Greenway, and Co.
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox,

7,382

17,351

12,607

9,776

10,664

28,155

Brothers
West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co. ... 43,462
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap-
man, and Co 14,610
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester—Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire blank, Winchester
—Wickham and Co 4,851
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank,
Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse
Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank,
Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. . 35,547
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech—
Gurney and Co. .. ~ 57,260
Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W
Hancock
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good-
ricke and Holyoake..
10,250
Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley,Lavender,
ii land Co. 12,678
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 82,588
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley
and Turner

3,248

12,107

Whitby 7 Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil-.

kinsOn

Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and
Sons
Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster—
Everett and Co.

19,725

_ _ 21,596

Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick 2,438
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—
Messrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney,
Birkbeck, and Co. . 50,975
Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,165
Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten
York Bank, York—Swami. Clough, and Co 45,636
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 49,091
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
ford....
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield :
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
ington . ..,
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 15,825
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham 128,423
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company:
Carlisle 25,121

19,009

34,89

Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,096
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,992
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
-25,660
pany, Darlington
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester. 149,243
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax. 16,920
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield.. 34,004
Hull Banking Company, Hull 29,288
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 13,264
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax 39,972
Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,205
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 22,49.5
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough 27,986
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,689
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 65,517
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 54,867
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Leeds and West Riding Banking Company,

Leeds
Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham... 29,318
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Nottingham 28,615

295
9,520

Company, - igrn.
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 81,914
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London
North Wilt:. Banking Company, Melksham 57,255
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 79,645
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-
ampton
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 57,959
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei-
cester ..... ...............
- Saddleworth... 3,490

Saddleworth Banking Company,
Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 34,765
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com •
pa.9y, Stamtbrd

. -J, OItUILLILUL,t .
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shsrhoipreshßiraenßk,aannkdi.ngS ................ Bank, Lang-
port 28 .........
Company,
. ..
frnai . . .. ........... 346:495834
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Corn
s hPe ',mil
eYI,4S:no
and
r lb
ir
li dug 4,
SCho:pealdny,Sl,n;
Sheffield ariliml: emshiro Banking Company,
Ideydale BarkingSto
Company,Banking
25,009
Rotherham Joint-
, Swaledale and Wen•i151,497
Richmond...
Stmkton and Do-ril'arn.... 6 ............. , _
County B ..
pany, Stockton ......... .. - an lag Com-
Storey and Thomas's ..
Bank. ... Company,
Shaftesbury ......... -
.......... .
Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield .............. 9,304
Suffolk Bankin.-, Company, Ipswich ........... 855
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking" Co..
pang, Wolverhampton • - 34,260
Wakefield and Barnsley Union. Bank, Wakefield 1368 5
Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company,
Whitehaven ..... ..,
Warwick and Leawir_gton Banking Company,
Leamington ...... ...
West of England au fl South Wales District
Bank,Bristol , ......................... . ......... , 79,897

'3,250

0,664

5,074

Average Amount.
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 72,373
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud.
dersfield
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
Worcester
York Union Banking Company, York 63,451
York City and County Banking Company, York 92,106
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Taxes, May 22, 1847.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 27.
(Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE in Banco.)
COLLINS V. NEWSTEAD.

Mr. Sergeant SHEE moved for a rule for a new trial,
or that the verdict should be set aside in a case tried
at the Surrey assizes, at Guildford, on the sale of a mare
which ultimately turned out to be unsound. It was con-
tended on the part of the plaintiff that the verdict of the
ju)7 had been given on insufficient evidence, or from a
peculiar bias which had been obtained over their minds
bll the peculiar testimony of Mr. Harding, one of the wit-
nesses, who was well known to them. It wascontended by
Mr. Bovil, on the other hand, that the jury had had a
view of the mare, for she was trotted out in the streets
of Guildford in order to show what the nature of the
1 ailment was to which the mare was subject, but they had
seen no reason whatever to doubt her soundness. Mr.
Greenlake, who had bred the mare, had seen her before
she went to Melton to be sold, and then had observed no
fault about her. She had been brought to London partly
by rail and partly by hand, and had then been kept in a
hot stable without any work whatever, after having been
used to carry a farmer of sixteen stone weight, and the
consequence was, that if the horse had become unsound
at all, the disease had occurred since she came into the
possession of the plaintiff.
Mr. JAMES said that the mare had been purchased by
the plaintiff for Alr. Benedict, a horse dealer at Paris,
and he it was who first perceived that the mare was
labouring under lameness in her feet. The mare had
been brought from Yorkshire and placed in the stables
at Lambeth, where she had the advantage of
exercise in the ride attached. to the establish-
ment, and while under supervision there she
exhibited that peculiar dotty step which indicates disease of
the venicular bone—that is a bone of a shuttlelike
form, intended by its moving backwards and forwards
to give expansibility to the hoof. ,Mr. Sergeant Shee,
in his address to the jury, had improperly influenced
them by representing himself as the farmer's counsel,
and calling upon them to give a verdict for a farmer in
opposition to the evidence of the veterinary surgeons of
London. In order to influence them still further he had
called a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Guildford,
of the name of Harding, engaged in the same business,
who was well known to the jury, and through whose
inducement they had given their verdict.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN said that they were bound to
take the general rule of looking at the evidence on both
sides, and, considering the observations of the judge, as
well as the evidence, he thought that the verdict ought
not to be disturbed.
Mr. Justice MAULE and Mr. Justice CRESSWELL eV -
pressing their coincidence with this opinion, the rule was
refused.

- -
BROWN V. RICHARDSON.—RESTRAINT OF A CA. SA.
Mr. WELLS applied for an order of the Court to re-
strain the execution of a ca. sa. pending the return of a
bill of exchange in return of a promissory note which
had been given to prevent the arrest of the applicant.
It appeared that a suit had been instituted by a person
of the name of Brown against Richardson, which ulti-
mately went to judgment. To avoid this Richardson
and a friend went to Brown, and offered the promissory
notes of two other persons as security for the debt, pro-
vided the judgment was stayed. Brown assented to this
if he was furnished with the promissory note of some
third person, but took one of the notes then presented,
engaging both to restrain the judgment and to return
the note which he held on receiving the one which he
required. He bad done neither, for, although applied
to, he bad neither returned the note nor withdrawn the
ca. sa., and the application was to restrain the judg-
ment pending the return of the promissory note.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN directed the rule to be issued.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 27.
SIMMONDS V. rzuwrz AND ANOTHER.
Mr. MARTIN appeared to show cause against the rule
obtained in this cause, which was obtained last Hilary
term by Mr. Humphrey, to set aside the verdict for the
defendants, and to enter the same for the plaintiff for 501.
or 100/. on the indebitatus count. The plaintiff in the
case was a traffic-taker, and had engaged to take the
traffic upon a certain projected 'railway, of which the
defendants were members of the provisional committee.
The line was stated to be about 60 miles in length, and
the terms of the contract were, that 151. per mile should
be paid to the plaintiff for his services by three
instalments, the first of which was to be paid upon the
commencement of the work, the second upon the de-
livery of the traffic tables, and the third was made con-
tingent upon the passing of the Bill. When the traffic
tables were completed it appeared that the line was
sixty-eve miles in length, and a claim was made by the
plaintiff for this extra amount of mileage, and also
further sums alleged to be due for services performed by
the order of the solicitor of the company, in the
remodelling of the tables of the traffic, in consequence
of an alteration in the course of the proposed railway.
The defendant had paid plaintiff the amount of the first
instalment, 3001.; previous to the action having been
brought, the second also, amounting to 3001., was paid
into court. The third instalment of 3001., the Lord
Chief Baron, who said the cause decided could not be
reviewed, the condition upon the payment was made
contingent, not havingtbeen complied with. The ques-
tion raised by the rule was, whether the plaintiff could
claim for his extra services and extra mileage upon the
indebitatus count of the indictment.
Mr. HUMPHREY was heard in support of the rule.
The COURT decided that the rule ought to be dis-
charged.
Rule discharged accordingly.

EAST LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY.
A special general meeting of the proprietors of the
East Lincolnshire Railway was held yesterday, at
No. 36, Great Georgc•street, Westminster; Mr. George
Hussey Packe in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN intimated that the meeting was a
formal one, under Lord Wharncliffe's Act, to agree to
the several Bills the company had pending in the present
session of Parliament.
Drafts of the following Bills were then submitted to
the meeting and approved of :
" A Bill to amend the East Lincolnshire Railway Act,
1846, and to authorise a deviation in the line of such
railway, at and near Boston ; and the construction of a
branch railway to join the Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Junction Railway, near Grimsby."
" A Bill to authorise the East Lincolnshire Railway
Company to purchase an existing lease of the Louth
Navigation."
And also " A Bill to enable the Great Northern Rail-
way Company to take a lease, or to purchase, amongst
other things, the East Lincolnshire Railway."
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting terminated.

LYONS AND AVIGNON RAILWAY
A meeting of the English shareholders in this rail-
way took place yesterday at the London Tavern, for the
purpose of considering the necessity of an immediate
dissolution of the company. D. Paul Esq., in the chair.
The SECRETARY having read the advertisement con-
vening the meeting,
Mr. WILKINSON addressed the meeting at some
length. He said that there was some analogy between
the case of the present company and that of the Bor-
deaux and Cette Railway Company, yet that in many
respects they were very different. In the latter case
there was no course open to them but to dissolve, but
there were far brighter and better prospects for their com-
pany. The object of the present meeting was to express
strongly and unanimously to the French Government
the conviction of the English shareholders, that unless
some important modification was made in the terms of
the contract it was impossible to carry it into
execution, and that if these were not made it
was necessary to abandon it at the risk of losing
the caution money, namely 400,0001., but that if the
French Government acceded to reasonable terms the
English shareholders were prepared to carry out
their engagements to the letter.—(Hear.) The Journal
des Chemins de Fer showed that there were 200,000 French
shareholders who were wholly favourable to the part which
they were desirous of taking. A long discussion ensued,
which was very uninteresting ; resolutions were, how-
ever, agreed to, embodying Mr. Wilkinson's views, and
a committee was :appointed to carry them out—the ex-
pense to be borne by a levy on the shares of sixpence
per share.

IRISH POOR RELIEF.

SECOND REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS.
Relief Commission-office, Dublin, May 15,1847.
May it please your Lordships—We beg leave to
submit a second monthly report of our proceedings
under the Temporary Relief Act, 10 Vic., cap• 7.
One thousand two hundred and forty-eight elec-
toral divisions are under the direct operation of the
Act, and many others have means remaining which
enable them to hold back; many, however, still re-

quire an organised system of relief, and we feel con-
siderable disappointment that this progress should
have been so slow, seeing no good reason why the
measure might not by this time have been in full ac-
tivity all over the country. The means were, to the
best of our belief, within the reach of all the local
bodies, through whose agency it was to be worked,
and without whose assistance nothing could be done;
but delays have arisen in many parts from the great
disinclination which seems to be gradually arising
against the commencement of an extensive system of
out-door relief, and a vague impression of other more
favourite systems of meeting the difficulties.
Some committees have certainly worked with zeal
and ability, and are proceeding to carry out the
measure with charitable feelings, united to the firm-
ness necessary to prevent its degenerating into abuse.
Others are equally well disposed, but experience
difficulties which they cannot find means to overcome
without inconvenient delay.
Some are negligent from an aversion to this first
essay of an out-door provision, as above mentioned,
or from a desire to force on a continuance of the
system of public works as the general means of relief;
some from animosities and dissensions among them-
selves; and others from a want of willingness and
energy to undertake the task.
In addition to these causes there has been, in many
districts, an assumed excuse afforded for deferring the
necessary proceedings under the Act, by the circum-
stance of old committees or parties having sufficient
funds remaining in hand to provide for the most
urgent wants of the moment.
So long as hopes were entertained that, by the
delay of the requisite preparations, the continuance of
the expenditure on the public works could be enforced,
on the plea that those works were to remain in acti-
vity till the other measure should be ready, a great
negligence was observed in many districts ; and it
has been only by the determination shown in a con-
siderable reduction of the works, that a tertain degree
of activity has at length been produced.
This has been the only means in our power of sti-
mulating the Committees to exertion, except by re-
monstrances through the medium of our inspectors.
Amidst the awful extent of distress that prevails
generally over the country, and with extreme inten-
sity in the west, and in parts of the interior, much
alleviation has been afforded by the benevolent efforts
of individuals, and of associations, and even by the
active sympathy of foreign countries.
The public works provided for a very large number
of distressed persons, but as the extent of the calamity
was gradually developed, together with the necessity
for providing for the wants of millions of unfortunate
beings, all of these means having been found totally
insufficient, and the Legislature has deemed it neces-
sary to meet the emergency, by an arrangement as
proposed by this Act, for the seeking out of every
distressed individual. •
We make this statement to show the enormous
arrangement that is dependent on this commission,
the great demands that arrangement must necessarily
involve, and the real difficulties that must arise in its
establishment, particularly when so much opposed to
the desire and feelings of so many of those on whose
assistance we are dependent for carrying it out, and
who are only reluctantly led to lend that assistance
because no other means remain for saving numbers
from absolute starvation.
In the development of this great temporary relief
operation, we are met by many objections to our re-
gulations, by assumed 'difficulties, and by remon-
strances against the effects of the act itself ; with the
latter of course, we have nothing to do, except to show
that such effects, whether good or bad, are inherent
in the measure, and not arising from our administra-
tion of it. -
The first and most reasonable complaint brought
forward is, that it will have the result of feeding vast
numbers of able-bodied men, who will be kept in idle-
ness.

We are hardly bound to explain why the insuffi.
ciency and enormous expense of a public work sys,
tem have precluded the continued application of tha
remedy for this inconvenience; but we point out the
anxiety of Government for the promotion of legitimate
public works, and for the encouragement of private
works, and we urge the importance of all proprietors,
farmers, and of individuals in general, affording as
much employment as may be in their power.
It must be confessed that, notwithstanding every
effort that can be made, there will still remain a vast
multitude of able labourers to be fed without employ-
ment, and suggestions have been offered as to the
propriety of establishing some useful labour in return
for the rations ; but they all tend rather to the ad-
vantage of effecting that object than to the means by
which it could be accomplished. We concur in the
principle, but consider that the result can be only
very partially attained. This we have endeavoured
to explain in our circular of the 22d of April.
Demands continue to be strongly urged upon us to
admit of the administration of relief in aid of wages,
on the plea that a man cannot support a large family
on his wages, although all above fifteen years of age
are allowed to be distinctly entered on the lists.
The principle we have laid down has been so com-
pletely understood and established in England, that it
is only necessary to advert to it, in order to explain
that, even under the present circumstances of Ireland,
there is nothing peculiar to justify its relaxation; on
the contrary, we consider that it is essential to avoid
at this moment the introduction of a system which
we are satisfied is in its nature pernicious, and calcu-
lated to add considerably to the future embarrass-
ments of the country.
Independent of the encouragement that would be
given by this provision from a public fund to early
marriages and their natural result, large families,
without any prospective means for their support, it is
not apparently perceived that the same argument
would be equally available for the partial support of
small families, or of the single labourer, and that
wages would be no longer regulated by the ordinary
competition of supply and demand, but would become
absolutely at the caprice of the employer.
If any deviation were made from this regulation
at the present commencement of out-door relief, it
would be found extremely difficult to rectify it here-
after! and we should be accused, and with justice, of
having been the means of inflicting a very serious
permanent injury on the community.
Dissatisfaction has been expressed from many parts
at the inadequacy of the amount of ration that we
have defined as the scale for distribution. Under the
present dearth it would be impossible to afford relief
to the degree that every charitable person would de-
sire ; it must be reduced to what is strictly neces-
sary ; and we have the authority of the Central Board
of Health, to whom we have submitted our proposed
, scale, that it is reasonable, under the circumstances
of the case.
We find it difficult in many districts to obtain the
establishment of soup kitchens, as the medium in
part of relief. Dry meal is universally greatly pre-
ferred, and, it is feared, chiefly on account of the
opening it affords for abuses, and many Committees,
yielding to this popular feeling, or to avoid increased
trouble, insist on its use.
Other injurious deviations from our regulations are
also frequently pressed upon us; and it may be
deemed a matter of surprise that persons who appear
to have the greatest dread of the introduction of the
measure of out-door relief, should, in many cases,
advocate proceedings that would greatly add to its
evils.

A very difficult question has been repeatedly sub-
mitted to us, viz., the extent of holding in land, or of
property in stock, &c., that should disentitlo a per-
son to gratuitous relief. We consider that this
can with reason only be dealt with according to
each individual case. Abstractedly it may be thought
that the possession of any property should preclude a
person from being considered destitute ; but,inde-
pendently of the cruelty of this principle, it becomes
a question of policy whether a man should be driven
to permanent destitution, when, by some temporary
relief afforded him he might hereafter, by such re-
served means, be enabled to gain an independent live-
lihood.
The substitution under the Act of relief by food
for that by
public works as hitherto afforded, is ex-
tremely unpopular with all classes. There is a natural
in prejudice
, favour of the useful effect that must, in a
certain degree, be produced by the latter, and for
money payments ; while the very great abuses to
which the system gave rise are overlooked, as are also
the demoralising effect of the semblance of labour for
full amount of wages, and the impossibility by such
means of meeting the extent of the emergency.
The public works, as a measure of relief, are in
course of rapid reduction. as the new measure is
f?rcedinto operation ; and we believe that the judi-
cious arrangements of the Board of Works are effect-
ing this object with firmness, combined with due
consideration for the circumstances of each locality,
t under i
i anxiously ou r Act.
boped, that a large mass of the
so as not to press on the distressed population more
than is absolutely necessary to stimulate the relief
public
committees to proceed with the means of distributing
food
community, now absolutely requiring food, will
works
commensurates ca can be e
gradually be absorbed by the prosecution of such
recommendeduti l utility yo,n t
withh e legitimatea
d due
amount
of
of work for the expenditure, by undertakings, by
public companies, boards, -and by the efforts of indi-
vidual proprietor; to establish as much labour as shall
be in their power.
The Legislature has been led by the circumstances
of the times to deem it absolutely expedient to pro-

vide for the present distress by the searching measure
of unproductive out-door relief.
As commissioners for carrying out this measure,
our efforts are earnestly engaged in the endeavour to
avoid the permanent evils to which it must be liable ;
but it is manifest that, while we indicate the means
by which, to the best of our judgment, this object is
to be effected, the interests of the country are in the
hands of the local bodies and of local influences, in
whom alone the power exists to bring it to the most
favourable results of which it is susceptible.
While some are aware that such is the case, and
are making laudable efforts to carry their districte
through the existing calamity as rapidly and with as
little mischief as possible, we regret to say that there
are others so short•sighted, so indolent, or so perverse,
as to leave events to take their course, and conse-
quently to allow of mal-practices which they might
prevent, or even connive at them for the purpose of
self-advantage.
We accompany our report with the circular orders
we have issued since our last.

\•ire have the honour to be, my Lords, your most
obedient humble servants,

J. F. BURGOYNE. D. M'GREGOR.
T. N. REDINGTON. R. J. ROUTII.
E. T. B. TWISLETON. HARRY D. JONES.
To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners
of her Majesty's Treasury, &c. &c.

IRELAND.
THE NEW LORD LIEUTENANT.

DUBLIN, MAY 25.—His Excellency the Earl of Claren-
don will be sworn in before the Lords Justices and Privy
Council, at three o'clock, p.m., to-morrow (Wednesday.)
In consequence of the very recent death of the Earl
of Besborough, there will be no public entry. On arriv-
ing at Kingstown, his Excellency will proceed to the
Castle in his private carriage.
His Excellency intends, before the close of the week,
to return to London for a short time, in order to make
arrangements previous to his taking up his abode at the
Castle.