The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-15 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SsrmlFlELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 12s to 31165; Clover ditto.
31 I2s to 41165; and Straw, 1/ 10s to 1/ I4s per load. A full
average supply, and a heavy demand.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 14s to 31 18s; Clover
ditto, 3/ 15s to 4/ 12s; and Straw, 1/ 10s to 1/ los per load.
Supply good, and trade dull.
‘V/lITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 101 to 3/ 15s ; Clover
ditto, 3/ lOs to 5/; and Straw, 1/. 103 to 11 15s per loaf.
Trade dull, at barely late rates.

MPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Tho 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 llon.Gentleman to modify his questions, as it was not
fair to cast imputations upon Mr. Mott in the shape
of interrogatories.
Mr. FERRAND replied that the motion which be bad
read was simply an extract from a Parliamentary paper,
which was laid on the table last week. Ho had merely
adopted the words used thert in 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 had 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whole night in discussion, was withdrawn at the request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
compelled 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 badreferred from the Govern-
ment in order that the Bill be taken the first thing on
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 Hon. Gentleman had used a great deal of unneces-
sary violence in his address to the House.—
(Hear, hear.) Ho cou'd 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, ho would find
that his Noble Friend, (Lord J. Russell) had a notice on
the paper " that the Poor-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) BELL.
_ _ _

This Bill was also read a third time and passed.
HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.
Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition from the
mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Carlisle in favour of
the Health of Towns Bill, and praying for an alteration
in the 26th clause of the Bill.
MEDICAL REGISTRATION BILL.
Mr. HAWES presented several petitions iu favour of
this Bill.
The Manse then adjourned.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP XXXIII.