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so far from an adversary, that he was a decided supporter of the
poor-law measure, and he had not yet changed those opinions.
Lord CAMPBELL heartily concurred in the propriety of
granting the Committee asked for by the Noble Duke. fie
thought his Noble Friend had made out a decided case for such
appointment.. There ought to be a clause in the Poor-law Act
which would give to an individual reside:it of so many years
standing, a claim upon tha parish with which he was so long
connected. The system had worked well in Scotland, and
ought, he thought, to be carried out in England and Wales.
Lord BEAUMONT could not refrain from pointing cut
an error into which the Noble Lord had fallen. The Noble
Lord had said, that the purpose of the Bill was to give a set-
tlement in the parish to a person who had resided in it for so
many years. Now, he conceived that the very fault of the Bill
was, that it conferred no such claim. The object for
which the Bill was framed was not carried out in this Bill.—
( Hear, hear.) The authorities of the parish could not, it was
true, compel the pauper to remove, but they could make him
miserable by petty annoyances—they could plague him in
every way, and so ineuce him to go, and thus the provisions of
the law were thrown aside.

Lord CAMPBELL agreed with the Noble Lord that it
would be better if the provisions of the Act were carried out
more efficiently, but the fact was that the public mind was not
prepared at the time for a larger measure. But the Bill was
so far good that it laid the foundation for future reforms.
The Duke of RICHMOND replied he was opposed to any
settlement like that contended for. He had read the report to
which a Nehle Lord had referred, and which was before the
other House,and from a perusal of that document he wa: more
than ever strongly of opinion as to the necessity of the Com-
mittee for which he asked.
The motion was then put and agreed to, without any
amendment.

[LEFT SITTING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Cbair at Four o'clock.
SECOND READING.

The following Bills were read a second time and ordered to
be committed ;

Cork and Bandon Railway.
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage Railway.
Dublin and Drogheda Railway (Purchase of Navan
Branch, &c).
Great Western Railway (Amendment and Extensions).
Newmarket and Chesterford Railway.
KILMARNOCK AND ARDROSSAN RAILWAY.

The report of Mr. Examiner Smith on this Bill, stating
that the standing orders had not been complied with, having
been read by the Clerk,
Sir W. HEATHCOTE moved that the report be referred
to the Standing Orders Committee.— The motion was agreed to.
LAW OF SETTLEMENT.
_ _ _

Mr. GORE presented a petition frotn:place in Devon com-
plaining of the Poor-law of last session.

A number of petitions to the same effect were presented, and
referred to the Committee now sitting.
MUNICIPAL LAW.

An Ho N. 11.1 am 13 gut presented a petition from the
Mayor and Aldermen of Cork, praying that the principal in-
stitutions of Ireland might be assimilated to those of England.

POOR OF IRELAND.

Mr. AINSWORTH presented a petition from the guardians
of Bolton, complaining that the people of this country were
called upcn to support the poor of Ireland, and praying the
House to pass a law to compel the proprietors of Ireland to
support their own poor„