The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-12 00:00:00

POOR LAWS.

Mr. CHRISTIE said he wished to ask the Right Honour-
able Baron, t the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment a question relative to two poor women who were ex-
pelled from the Bakewell and Ledbuty unions, with
their two illegitimate ehiriren, under circumstances of an
extraordinary and di.tressing nature. 'I hey had been confined
in the union, and their children were supplied with clothes
while they remained there ; but on their expulsion the children
were stripped of their clothing. It would be remembered
that the Right Honourable Baronet, in answer to part
of his question. r-ad an extract from a letter
addressed by the Poor-law Commissioners to the masters of
union workhouses, in which they were recommended
that on emergencies like those he had stated to supply
women with clothing for their infants.—( Hear. )
He would ask the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary of State
two questions The first was, whether he was aware of the,
existence of a letter from the Poor-law Commissioners pre-
vious to the Bth of April, directing that no clothing should be
given to infants on leaving the workhouse? The second
was, whether he was aware that, when he stated
that the Poor-law Commissioners had taken a legal opinion
upon the subject of the construction of the clause in the Poor-
law Act, relating to this subject, they had not received any
opinion front any legal advi.er upon the subject, except from
their Assistant-Commissioners.

Sir J. GRAHAM—With reference to the first question he
would say that the whole of the correspondence had been moved
for, and would be laid upon the table of the House in a few
days. With reference to the second question, he would say
th,t a ca,e had been submitted to the Attorney and Solicitor-
General ar.d Mr. Clarkson, but he declined to lay such opinion
upon the table of the House.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.
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Afe4Fengers from the Lords brought do,ll---ViSeount Har-
ding,. avd Lord G 'ugh's Annuity Bill with amendments, and
several other 8i11,..

PROTECTION TO LIFE ( IRELAND) BILL.
Mr. ROSS said that he had given a silent vote against
the first reading of this Bill. He had listened, with the
closest attention, to the statement made by the Right Hon.
Baronet, said had finally, on considering the circumstances put
forward, had felt it his duty to give such a vote. His vote had
n.ws been given on account of the severity of the Bill, nor was it
on account of the inconvenience it would occasion to the dis-
trict placed unites its operation. It was not on
' account of the innocent persons who would be
inconvenienced, for he thought that if a Government was
convinced of the strong necessity for such a measure—if they
did find it necessary to depart from the laws and consti-
tution of the country, it was the part of a w'se states-
man to adopt such measures as would most speedily re-
store tranquillity. He had, in the first instance,
a long bead roll of atrocious crimes committed that the Go-
vernment had now changed their grnundss, and the Noble Lord,
the Secretary for Ireland, had brought forward a list from
which the more atrocious crimes were cat efully omitted and
the smaller species of offences had been alleged.
Would the Government. pretend that such offences as these
alleged in the Act before him were a sufficient justi-
fication for the application of such a measure--
o ould it have been clone in Scotland or England? Every one
knew ihat the more serious crimes had been very much on the
decrease lately. Even if they were not, would such a
measure restrain those assassins who committed these
crimes in the broad noonday ? (Ct ies of "Hear.")
The Noble Lord (the Earl of Lincoln) had admitted that a
great portion of the offences which were committed in
Ireland took their origin from agrarian causes. If
they had equal rights with England with regard to electo-
rial and municipal matters, and ecclesiastical arrangements,
based upon common sense, and agreeable to the
feelings of the great majority of the people of Ireland,
weu d want no coercion, nor world England hear so much of
her complaints and crimes. He believed that atOrishman
was too contented an animal, he thought it would
he better for his interest if he was not so. If
he had but a root over his head, and could meet his friends
with a good basket of potatoes, he would be as happy as any
Hon. Member in that House. The external situation of
the Irish people was similar to the condition of
the French peasants under their seigneurs and Norman batons
in the middle ages. The first remedy which he thought should
be adopted for this state of things was a just and equitable
arrangement of the question of compensation to tenants,
and fair adjustment of the law of tenant rights.
Many Hon. Gentlem,n had taken great interest in the waste
lands question. lie believed that by a wise legislation
on that subject much substantial goad could
be effected to the peasantry of Ireland, and a race
of yeomen raised up which, instead of becoming
convicts, would be in time an ornament to the country.
If measures of amelioration and improvement failed to produce
their proper effect, then there might be some grounds for the
strong hand of power to interpose.

(LEFT SPr;AKINCE)

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