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London, England, 1847-02-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1847.

PRIVY COUNCIL.
Her MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at three o'clock
this afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.

CABINET COUNCIL.

Summonses have been issued to the Ministers to
attend a Cabinet Council this afternoon, at the Fo-
reign-office, Downing•street. The Ministers will
assemble immediately after the Privy Council at
Buckingham Palace.

The Lords met at Five o'clock.
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the
Destitute Persons (Ireland) Bill.
After a short conversation on the subject of the pro-
gress of public business, in the course of which Lord
BaotroliAm paid a high compliment to the genius of
Mr. BARRY, the architect of the New Houses of Parlia-
ment, it was stated that that portion of it which was ap-
propriated to the accommodation of the House of Lords
would be ready by Easter.
In answer to Lord STANLEY,

Lord CAMPBELL explained the circumstances under
which the members of the Council of the Duchy of Lan-
caster had been appointed.

The Earl of EGLINTON moved for copies of certain
corespondence between the Scotch bankers and the lute
Government on the subject of a Bill for regulating
joint-stock banks in Scotland.
The Earl of CLARENDON said that the documents
moved for were not in existence.

The Earl of CLANCARTY asked if it was the intention
of the Government to introduce during the present ses-
sion any measure with respect to the medical relief of
the suffering poor in Ireland.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE could not promise that
any Bill would be introduced, but the subject should
receive the best attention of the Government.

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Their Lordships then adjourned.
The Commons met at Quarter before Four o'clock.
Mr. MONAGHAN, the Solicitor-General for Ireland,
took the oaths and his seat for Galway.:
Mr. LABOUCHERE, in answer to questions from Sir R.
INGLis and Mr. P. SCROPE, said that no measure was in
contemplation to supply seed to the Irish tenants, taking
a lien for re-payment on the growing crop.

Mr. ROEBUCK, in putting a question as to the intended
introduction of the poor-law into Ireland, admitted that
the new poor-law in England had failed, not through the
defect of the law itself; but through the misconduct of
the Commissioners. He thought some inquiry ought
to be instituted before the Poor-laws were transferred to
Ireland.

Sir G. GREY objected to any delay in the introduction
of the Irish Poor-laws.

Mr. IlumE said that the report of the Andover Com-
mittee showed, that every act of the Poor-law Commis-
sioners, since 1841, had been illegal.
Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN would support any motion fur
taking the English Poor• law, clause by clause, and ap•
plying it to Ireland.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that when those reports had
been referred to the law officers of the Crown, they had
reported that the Poor-law Commissioners would be
called upon for further explanations. With regard to
the opinion of Mr. M. D. HILL, which he had published,
that opinion was founded upon an anonymous case which
was founded upon nothing. Trie should move the Com-
tuittee of the Poor-law (Ireland) Bill on Monday, when
he would also propose a Bill for the loan for Ireland.
Mr. J. O'CoNNELL. complained of the supply of food
to the people of Ireland. Soup only was now supplied,
which would be productive of dysentery and typhus.
Solid food ought to be supplied.
Mr. LABOUCUERE said that enormous quantities of
solid food had been sent over to Ireland ; but there was
a disposition there to over-rate the powers of the
Government, and there was a feeling, on the part of the
English and Scotch, that while they were helping the
people of Ireland, there ought to be a corresponding
exertion on the part of the Irish themselves.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD moved an address praying
that vessels in the navy, not otherwise employed, should
be used for the conveyance of provisions from foreign
countries into the ports of tho United Kingdom.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that several of her Majesty's
vessels were so employed, but that he could not accede to
that motion, as it would take up much time to fit up all
the unemployed vessels in the navy for such a service.
Ile thought the quantity of grain they might expect
from abroad was very small indeed, and the instant it
became known that her Majesty's vessels were to be so
employed, merchant ships would go out of the trade.
The motion was then withdrawn.

Sir CHARLES NAPxEn in a long and interesting speech,
replete with statistical details, drew the attention of the
House to the system pursued in her MAJESTY'S dock-
yards, with respect to the building of vessels in the navy
and to the abuses which prevailed as to the use of ships
which had been built at en enormous cost to the country.
After a short conversation, the House resolved itself
into a Committee of Supply, in which Mr. WARD
moved the naval estimates.

Several votes were agrerd to, and the other orders
having been disposed of, the House adjourned.

Under favour to the Honourable Gentleman the
Secretary to the Admiralty, we conceive that the in-
crease of the naval estimates for the ensuing year by
merely 62,284/. beyond the gross estimate for 1846,
scarcely required the apologetic explanations with
which he brought the matter before the consideration
of Parliament Not even the extraordinary embar-
rassments consequent upon Irish starvation and
Highland destitution, not even the existence of a