The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-16 00:00:00

POQR-LAWS.

Col. SIBTHORP 'gave notice that when the New
Poor-law Bia next came on for discusslon, h, should

movo that it be /Tad a second time that day six months.
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET said that
some returns for which he had mcvsd so long ago as
the 24 or February, had not been laid on the table of

the House.
Mr. WAKLEY said that as r.To.rts bad appra-ed in
the newspapers stating that there was an inteation to
deprive the public of access to the Green-park, he
wished to know whether there was any foundation for
that statement.
141 r. FOX MAULE replied that the statement was
totally incorrect. There was no intention either to
prevent the public from using the Park or to alter the
hours of admission. The arrangements which had been
ramie would continue only until the ground was made
solid, and the grass sprung up. . .
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, the House
then went int) Committee on the South Australia Acts.
The NOBLE Loan facts rose to move—Tliat it is
n
the opinion of this Committee, that her
21‘11.0i,j0e0stoyl.,bte„
authorised, by an Act of the present Session of Parlia
nbAlecuns(tto,r
ant oltiraa guaranteecatendd tfboart apb
provision
vtihs
ic Loan,o nncoobt:im,erx, i
ac selsee out of the Con-
i
s for South
in!
solida:el 'Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Irel ind, for the payment from time to time of
such sums of money as may become payablea under such
guarantee; and proceeded to make obserta•ions
in a tone scared), audible in the gallery. We
understood the Ishble Lord to :sly that the co-
lony of South Australia was founded by Act of
Parliamtnt. Generally speaking, the colonies cf
Great Britain were under one or two sr eeies of govero-
Int
consisting r r
ey re eithercEe ota ut7vdeer As a Local Government,
rribly, or the general
la it pr
affairs of the colony were uneer the sanction of the
Crown, or else they acre caonies under the immediat'
control of the arowo, whichuopointed Governors.
were
It was ‘ihether a Government entirely in the hands of
the. Commission was not entirely under the control of the
Govzrnment at borne. Tile prov:smos of the Act of
Parliament specitiA that th,,re were to be certain Coin-
mivioners, and that. they were to he appointed by the
Crown ; and by the Bth s,etion of that Act,the whole of
the charges and exrnses of the Gavernment of the colony
were to be defrayed under and by the direction of the
Commis ionerr. That Act eat proposed, in the first
instance, by certain 111 tubers of Parl'aehmt and other
ger.fernen, and contains likewise provisions respecting
emigration and the sole of lands. From the very first
there seemed to have been very considerable difficulty in
construing tlle Act, and the law officersof- the Crown were
reE.rred to for their opinion on cent tin
.portions of it.
It appe tred from this that the Conirr.isroners were to
he considered responsible for the general expenses of
the colony, and that they were also to have the direc-
tion in their hands. From that time it appeared to
•liirn practicable to direct to a useful rurPnse the
labours of tl.c colonists. Another difficulty- arose
in consegruMee of there being a Governor, and also a
resident Clintnissioncefor the sale and grant:of Croivn
lands, these. two persons holding different notions of