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LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1847

The Lords met at Five o'clock.
Earl GREY stated that the House of Assembly of New
Brunswick had voted 1,2501. for the relief of the dis-
tressed population in Ireland and Scotland.
The NOBLE EARL then gave notice that he should on
Tuesday next move the adjournment of the House to the
13th of April.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the cre-
ditors of the Spanish Government praying that the
House would take measures to enforce the payment of
the debt due to them from Spain.
The Earl of CLARENDON said that the Government
was making representations to Spain on the subject, and
he knew that the Spaniards were an honourable people,
and that they did not sanction the proceedings of their
Government.

The Drainage of Lands Bill passed through Com-
mittee, after a short conversation,
Earl WICKLOW suggested that the adjournment for the
Easter recess should be to the Thursday, instead of to
the Tuesday.
Earl GREY would consult his colleagues on the subject.
Their Lordships then adjourned.
The Commons met at Four.
Mr. SPOONER said that he was requested by his col-
league, Mr. MUNTZ, to postpone his motion respecting
the brewers of the midland counties to the 13th April.
Mr. ROMILLT brought in a Bill for the better ad-
ministration of the charitable trusts of Roman Catholics,
which was read a first time.

On the motion of Viscount SANDON, a Select Com-
mittee was ordered to be appointed for the purpose of
considering the present state of our commercial relations
with China.
Mr. C. O'BRIEN moved for the appointment of a Select
Committee to inquire into the conduct of Capt. Wynn
during his employment in the county of Clare in No-
vember and December, 1846, and January, 1847.
Mr. LABOUCHERE suggested that the motion should
be withdrawn until the papers relating to Capt. Wynn
should be before the House. He did not only object to
the inquiry, but he did object to the introduction
into the motion, if any words prejudging the case and
criminatory of a public officer, who had a very arduous
duty to perform under circumstances of difficulty.
A desultory conversation followed, and, ultimately,
the original motion was withdrawn, and an amended
one, in conformity with the suggestions of Sir R. PEEL,
agreed to.

Various returns, on the motion of several Hon. Mem-
bers, were then ordered.
Mr. BRIGHT protested against the national fast ap-
pointed for this day, he knew that it would not be at-
tended to by nine tenths of the population, and would
therefore be of no effect. He thought instead of the
proclamation doing honour to the DEITY, it only showed
the utter want of wisdom in those who framed it, and
was rather calculated to cherish past superstitions, and
vncourage intideity, than to advance the cause of
Christianity.

Mr. LABOUCHERE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
amend and continue an Act of the last session of Par-

liament for making provision, until the Ist day of
September, 1847, for the treatment of poor persons
afflicted with fever in Ireland.

The House then went into Committee on the Poor•law
Irsland) Bal.

Clause 9, after a slight discussion, was agreed to.
On clause 10 being proposed,
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL moved the amendment of
which he had given notice, the object of which was to
place the rating of thepoor not upon the electoral,or other
union divisions of parishes, but upon unions generally.
A discussion took place on this clause, eventually the
Committee divided, when there appeared—
For the clause
For the amendment
Majority
-95
On clause 11 being proposed,

Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN moved its omission.
Mr. LABOUCHERE defended the clause. On a division
he numbers were—
For the clause
Against it
Majority —6l

The other orders of the day being disposed of, the
House, at a few minutes before Twelve o'clock, ad-
journed till Thursday at noon.

The intelligence which has reached us by the
Overland Mail from India presents us with nothing
of stirring interest. Here and there we have ac-
counts of isolated outbreaks and skirmishes, happily
of so insignificant a character as to be unworthy of
notice. For these occasional miniature disturbances,
all who are conversant with the heterogeneous mate-
rials of which the social fabric of the vast
Eastern Peninsula is composed must be pre-
pared. It is, however, gratifying to collect
from the latest intelligence that, in the main,
general tranquillity prevails wherever British rule
is established, as well as that, beyond the frontiers of
our dominion, there is nothing which menaces the
maintenance of peace. The state of the Punjaub
continues to correspond to the anticipations which
we long since entertained. British valour having
triumphantly subdued the warlike, but rapacious and
unpatriotic soldiery, which held that province under
an odious military subjection, the people now regard
the influence we have gained with the utmost satis-
faction, and expect from its continuance the enjoyment
of prosperity which, but for our successful interventions
they might have sighed after in vain; and as the
MAHARAJA will not attain his majority for eight
years, there is little doubt that the interim will effec
tually serve to strengthen the bonds of attachment
between the population and the British supremacy.
Raja LALL SINGH has been removed to the fort of
Agra, and the RANEE is said to be no longer incon-
solable for the loss of her paramour.
The military reductions, to the importance of which
we drew the attention of our readers a month since, as
affording the strongest presumption that the Governor-
General has the fullest confidence in the continued ces-
sation of hostilities, are satisfactorily progressing.
Upon the receipt of the order for diminishing the
number of troops in Sinde to the strength of an
ordinary garrison of a frontier province, Sir CHARLES
NAPIER issued a general order from his head-
quarters at Kurrachee, in which he reminded the
troops, in the inspiriting language peculiar to the pen
of a NAPIER, of the important military and commer-
cial objects which were secured by the conquest of
that province, and honourably paid the tribute of
his admiration to the fidelity and prowess of the
troops, and also to the abilities of those
connected with the civil service, by whose conjoined
exertions such brilliahnitssefuiccesses.had been achieved.
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