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London, England, 1846-02-05 00:00:00

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Bill was passed.
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This Bill was passed likewise.

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Bill which was unopposed, was passed.
The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
There Lerdhhips met at Five o'cl. ck.
The Earl of S FRADBROKE presented s ;veral peti-
tions from various places in Cambridgeshire, the Isle of
Ely, and the county of Suffolk, against any change
being made in the present protective system.
Lord BEAUMONT also presented a large number of
petitions to the same effect, and expressing great alarm
at the measures brought forward by the vernment.

THE PORT OF LIMERICK.
A NOBLE LORD presented a petition from the corpo-
ration of Limerick, praying their Lordships to institute
an inquiry into the condition of that port, and to make
a grant of money to put it into an efficient condition.
Lord MONTEAGLE was understood to say that the
necessary amount might be attained by lev) ing au adddi-
tional tollage on the ships entering the part.
The subject then dropped.
RAILWAY DEPOSITS.—REPORT OF THE
SELECT COMMITTEE.

Lord DALHOUSIE said, I have been requested by
the Committee appointed to consider the course to be
adopted with respect to the various railway projects
which will be submitted to your Lordships, to report
that they have met and agreed to the following resolu-
tion :—" That it is the opinion of this Committee that
such portion of the Standing Order No. 224, as requires
the promoters of a railway Bill to deposit one .tenth of
the capital subscribed, should be suspended, with re-
spect to such railway bills as shall commence in the House
of. Lords during the present session. That no such rail-
way Bill should be read a first time until a further
sum of one-twentieth of the amount subscribed be depo-
sited, and not read a third time until an additional one-
twentieth be deposited, and that no Railway Bills be
received after Monday, the 23d of February." I shall
call the attention of the House to the subject to morrow,
and shall make a motion in accordance with the recom-
mendation of the committee.

Lord CLANCARTY moved for the appointment of
a committee to inquire into the laws relating to the re-
lief of the sick poor and destitute in Inland. He would
lay before their Lordships the grounds upon which he
would ask Noble Lords to grant him this committee.
Looking at the present condition of the people
of Ireland and the accounts of the agrarian disturbances,
assassinations, and systematic attacks upon private pro-
perty which constantly recal us circumstances which
might no doubt be attributed to other causes, but which
in his opinion were mainly attributable to the destitution
at present existing in that country. Looking at these
things he thought that the Committee ought to be granted
It was important for Noble Lords to inquire into the
operation of such laws as were designed for the benefit
of the poor of Ireland. The Medical Charities, and
the Poor-law Bills he considered, deserved their
mostseriousconsideration. The Poor-law Bill in order to
be efficient for its purpose should not only afford relief
to the destitute, but should also place persons above
destitution. And in such a county as Ireland it might ex-
ercise if properly conducted a most beneficial influence
If their Lordships would turn to a report which had
been laid on the table, they would see the abuses and
defects of the existing law for the medical relief of she
poor. They would see in that report abundant argu-
ments for legislative interference. He would likewise
refer their Lordships to the report of a committee of
the House of Commor.s which have laboriously investi-
gated the subject of medicalcharities. That Committee was
appointed through the instrumentality of the Hon. Mem-
for Roscommon. His Noble Friend, the present Post-
master-General, who was then a Member of the House
of Commons, was upon that Committee, and he would
correct him (Lord Clancarty) if he were wrong in stat-
ingot tahgrateethuepolomanmyittee were unanimous in their opinion
as to the importance of legislative interference with re-
spect to the medical charities of Ireland. They were
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for the treatment of &Tonic and other disorders, and
boarding schools, as it were, for the children
paupers. He trusted that their Lordships,
into the abuses or rather the inefficiency of thing
iustitutions, would legislate in such a manner eases
would remedy the evils he bad to complain of. in
Ireland there were three institutions fig the benefit
of the poor. There were the infirmaries, the fever hos-
pitals, and the dispensaries, but they were so scattered
apart that they were Jl9s of that advantage to the pm