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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1847.

The Lords met at Five o'clock.

The Duke of RICHMOND naoved for the appointment
of a Select Committee to inquire into the operation of
the law of settlement.

After a short conversation, in which the Marquis of
LANSDOWNE, Lord BROUGHAM, Lord CAMPBELL, and
Lord BEAUMONT took part, the motion was agreed to.
Earl FITZWILLIAM, in presenting a petition from the
grand jurors of Wicklow, in favour of Irish railways,
took occasion to express his opinion that the public
grants ought to bo made to carry out Railway projects
in Ireland. The Noble Earl likewise defended the con-
duct of the Irish landlords.
Earl GREY reminded his Noble Friend of the measures
which had been proposed by Government for the relief
of Ireland. He believed there was a ♦ast amount of
capital in Ireland, of the existence of which few were
aware.

Lord MONTEAGLE fully concurred in the statements of
the petitioners.
The petition was laid on the table, and their Lordships
adjourned.
The Commons met at Four o'clock.
Mr. C. Bum.r.n brought up the second Report of the
Committee on the law of settlement.

Mr. E. DENISON iostponed his motion for a Com-
mittee to inquire into the working of the ecclesiastical
commission for a fortnight.
Dr. BowRING postponed his motion on the public
accounts to the 16th of March.

.*.3ir G. GREY having stated that in his opinion
Messrs. LYON and STUBS, justices of the county of
Lancaster, had improperly convicted four wcrking men
for leaving their employ, and that the four men were
entitled to take advantage of the informality in their
conviction,

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE withdrew the motion, of which hu
had giren notice, on this subject.

Mr. BouvEntE moved for a Select Committee to in-
quire into the circumstances under which certain pro-
prietors of lard in Scotland had refused to grant to the
members of the Free Church, sites for the erection of
places of worship.
Mr. EWART seconded the motion.

Sir GEORGE GREY was ready to assent to the inquiry.
Sir. R. INGLIS, while opposing the measure, admitted
that no proposition had ever. been advocated in a manner
more calculated to gain for it friends.
Sir J. GRAHAM—Although he regretted that the pro-
prietors had refused sites, felt bound to oppose the
motion.

Lord G. BzxTmcit opposed the motion. Wherever
the members of the Free Church had been refused sites,
it WM3 because they wished to build their churches in
offensive situations.

Mr. F. MAULE defended the conduct of the members
of the Free Church.

Mr. S. WORTLEY considered the motion based on a
most dangerous principle, and would, therefore, op-

pose it.

Lord J. RUSSELL supported the motion, and as they
had no hesitation in interfering with the rights of pro-
perty to form a railroad, so they ought to interfere with
those rights, if necessary, to provide for the people
places of worship.
Mr. SCOTT opposed, and Colonel MURE supported, the
motion. On a division, there appeared—
For the motion for inquiry B9
Against it
Majority —2B

Mr. BAKES film drew the attention of the House to
the report of the Committee on the settlement and
poor removal Acts, and complained that the Go-
vernment had determined to postpone for the present
the consideration of the Is orking of the measure as it

affected the comforts of the poor. lie believed the abo-
lition of settlements would be most prejudicial to the
poor.

Mr. C. BULLER defended the conduct of the Corn.
mittee.

After a long discussion the motion was withdrawn.
Lord G. BENTINCK then brought forward his motion
for returns relative to the expense of English railways.
The Noble Lord entered at great length on the subject,
in order to prove the erroneous calculations of the late
Chancellor of the Exchequer on this question.
Mr. GOULBURN replied to the Noble Lord ; and after
a short discussion the motion was agreed to.
The Consolidated Fund (8,000,0001.) Bill went
through committee, and the House adjourned at Half-
past Twelve o'clock.

Yesterday we expressed it as our decided opinion
that the annexation of Cracow to the Austrian do-
minions was an evil supervening upon the dishonest
policy of the French Government. Upon the atrocity
of that monstrous annexation we have already and
repeatedly commented. The indignation which it
has excited among all civilised nations is at once an
evidence that the deed is a direct violation of the
natural rights and constitutional privileges of the
people, and an indication that the time has elapsed
in which such crimes could be perpetrated with im-
punity. So earnest and resolute is this feeling of
wrath in Western Europe, that her Most Gracious
Majesty the QUEEN protested against the act of the
Northern spoliators in her MAJESTY'S royal address
to the British Parliament. In the language then
uttered by their SOVEREIGN the people have con-
tinued to feel a deep though silent sympathy. Only
through the medium of the Press had the
popular sentiment hitherto been able to find
a medium for its enunciation until the large
and interesting meeting, the proceedings of which are
fully reported in the columns of The Son, was con-
vened in the Freemasons' Tavern. A more impor-
tant assemblage of a strictly public character has not
taken place for many years in the metropolis; and a
more competent chairman could scarcely have been
selected than the Noble Lord the President of the
Royal Society. The unanimity and enthusiasm
which were evinced by the audience, and the accla-
mations which greeted the speeches of Earl FITZ-
WILLIAM, Lord WHARNCLIFFE, Sir EDWARD COD-
RINGTON, Lord BEAUMONT, and Sir CHARLES NA-
PIER, sufficiently attested the cordiality with which
the citizens of Great Britain engaged in the discussion
of the predatory conduct pursued by the imperial rob-
bers of St. Petersburgh and Vienna towards the last
remnant of heroic but unfortunate Poland. Pos-
sessing the privilege of holding public meetings of a
political kind at pleasure, and possessing this extra-
ordinary privilege almost exclusively in Europe, it is
always a subject of gratulation when the English
people avail themselves of it, but especially when
the object of their convocation is one of such a noble
and sublime description. Since the first villanous
partition of Poland the sympathies of Englishmen
have never been so emphatically enunciated as they
were last evening in the large hall in Great Queen-
street. Every scornful allusion to the division of the
spoil of the Polish territories was " rpplauded to the
echo;" every resolution of
an earnest and positive
character was passed with
sion of sorrow for the evil destinies of the Poles, and of
indignation at the barbarian villanies of their insi-