The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-08 00:00:00

THE POOR REMOVAL ACT.

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The following circular has been issued by the Poor-
law Commissioners to the clerks of boards of guardians:
" Poor-law Commission-office, Somerset House,
December 4, 1846. _ _ .

"Sir,—the attention of the Poor-law Commissioners
has been directed to certain cases in which it is alleged
that relief has been either wholly refused or inadequately
supplied, by boards of guardians, to poor persons who,
through the operation of the late statute relating to the
removal of the poor, have now become irremovable from
parishes in which they were resident, though settled
elsewhere.
" The Commissioners believe that this conduct has,
In part, resulted from an erroneous supposition that
poor persons so circumstanced are not entitled to relief
in the parishes where they, reside.
" The Commissioners desire to impress upon the
guardians that a long course of authorities, consisting of
legal decisions and the opinions of the ablest text
writers upon this subject, has established the rule, that
the poor are to be relieved, as their necessities require,
in and by the parish where they are resident.
"Indeed, the proposition that the poor who happen to
be destitute in any particular place are not to be re-
lieved these by the officers who have the administration
of the relief, until it is ascertained that they are settled
there, or are casual poor, or that some other parish is
under a legal liability to repay the relief, is so contrary
to all established principles upon the subject, that the
Commissioners have only thus adverted to it because
they are informed that such a doctrine 17.1precently
been circulated, and may have influenced some of the
boards of guardians in their course of action.
" The Commissioners have already, in their circular
letter of the 20th of October last, pointed out, that no
difference ought to be made in the treatment of the two
classes of paupers settled, and paupers simply irremov-
able, with reference to the nature, quantity, or quality
of relief administered to them.
" The Commissioners admit, indeed, that the cases of
the non-settled poor may, for the most part, require to
be carefully considered by the boards of guardians, who,
by the operation of this statute, are called upon to re-
lieve them, because it may be found that the relief here-
tofore supplied by a distant authority has been inappli-
cable, either in kind or quantity, to the party requiring
it, or that the case has not been sufficiently investigated.
"If, therefore, the guardians direct a careful inquiry
to be made into the circumstances of the parties and the
actual necessities of the cases with a view simply of satis-
fying themselves as to the proper relief to be admistered,
and on receiving the result of such inquiry proceed to
administer the relief as they would do under similar cir-
cumstances in respect to a settled pauper in their union,
no objection can be made to their proceedings. But if
any difference be, made for the purpose of compelling the
paupers, now irremovable, to seek relief in other parishes,
it is clear that the course will be generally adopted by
unions and parishes as a matter of self-defence, and that
great suffering and hardship to the poor must ensue.
"There can be no doubt that such a course of pro-
ceeding is at variance with the spirit of the recent
statute, which assumes that the irremovable poor, so long
as their residence remains unchanged, will be relieved in
the same manner, and on the same terms, as the settled
poor.
"I am desired to revest the guardians to point out to
the relieving-officers the effect of these observations, and
to warn them that the Commissioners will consider any
neglect of the poor who may be resident within their re-
spective districts, although not settled therein, equally
culpable with the neglect of the settled poor, and will not
hesitate to treat any refusal of relief to the irremovable
poor, on the ground of their settlement elsewhere, as a
gross violation of their duty.
"The Commissioners wish to advert to one other point,
namely, the continuance of non-resident relief. In the
observations which they have made in their circular
letter of the 17th September last upon this subject, they
have not advised the guardians to discontinue the relief
in cases where the non-resident paupers are removable.

They desire it to be understood tha.,, they by no means
recommend an'indiscriminate withdrawal of such relief.
They believe that the board 4 of guardians may find it
desirable, in many cases in which the statute does not
apply, to continue that relief, Rnd the Commissioners do
not consider that it would be unlawful for them to adopt
this course, although it may not be advisable now to
allow it for the first time even in cases where it would
not be unlawful.

" I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
"W. G. LUMLEY, Assistant-Secretary.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, DICEMBIR 7.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate and
Eastern Junction, 14 p.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction, 1% p.—Birmingham and Dudley, 53/4 p.
—Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 7 p.—Caledonian
Clydesdale Junction, 14 p.—Chester and Birkenhead, 501/4—
Dundee and Perth, New, 5 p.—East Lancashire, New (No.
1 and 2), 31/4 p. ex new—Ditto, New Scrip, 13/4 p.—Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 1814—Ditto, Halves, 10 p.—
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 21—Glasgow and Dumfries,
1 p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarters, % dis.—Ditto,
Extension, 114 dis.—Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 4%
p.—Ditto, Extension, 11/4 p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 1114—
Leeds and Thirsk, 11/4 dis.—Ditto, New, 14 p.—Liverpool,
Crosby„ and Southport, 14 p.—Lndon and North- Western,
195—Ditto, New, 131/4 p.—Manchester and Leeds, Halves
(late L. and B.), 4% p.—Ditto, Fifths, 53/4 p.—Midland,
1271/4—Ditto, New, 45,i p.—Newcastle and Berwick, 141%
—North British, Thirds (scrip), 21,6 p.—North Staffordshire,
3% p.—North-Western, p.—Sheffield and Manchester,
Quarters (No. 3), dis.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, 14 dis.
—Shrewsbury and Chester, New, 2% p.—Shrewsbury,
Os-
westry, and Cheshire, 11%a dis.—Ditto and Chester, New, 14
dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 13/4 p.—Ditto, 91.
12s. 3d. Shares (B), 3/4 p.—Shropshire Union, &c., 14 dis.
—South-Eastern and Dover, 381—West Riding Union,
365. 3d. p.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 5 p.—York
and North Midland (East and West Riding Extension), 121/4
p.—Ditto, Preference, 9X p.—Dublin and Belfast Junction,
714 dis.—Limerick and Waterford, 113/4 dis.—Newry and
Warrenpoint, p.—Dutch Rhenish, 1141 dis.—Great Lux-
embourg, 635. 9d.—Paris and Lyons, par.
MANCHESTER, DECEMBER 7.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 14 p.—Birkenhead, Lancashire' and
Cheshire Junction, 1% p.— Birmingham and Oxford Junc-
tion, 7 1-16 p.—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, par—Bristol
and Exeter, New, 31% p.—East Lancashire, No. 2,3% p.—
East Lincolnshire, 1 % p.—Fleetwood, Preston, and West
Riding, % dis.—Glasgow and Dumfries, 3/4 p.—Huddersfield
and Manchester Railway and Canal, 321/2—Ditto, ditto,
41/2 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 2% ex n.—Ditto, Preferentials,
1 p.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 14
dis.—London, Manchester, and Birmingham (B), 7% p.—
Manchester and Leeds Extension, 114 p.—Manchester,
Bolton, and Bury Extension, 11/2 p.—North British Exten-
sion, 1 1-16 p.—North Staffordshire, 3 11-16 p.—North
Union (A), 222—Ditto (B), 151—Preston and Wyre, Sixths,
4% c.—Sheffield and Manchester, No. 1,3% a. p.—Ditto,
Quarters (No. 3), 14 dis.—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole,
p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 1% p.—Ditto, 91.
12s. 6d. shares (B), 1 1-16 p.—Shrewsbury and Hereford-
shire, 1/2 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 9-16 p.—
West Riding Union, 1% p.
LEEDS, DECEMBER 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York
Extension, I% p.—East Lancashire, 4% p. c. n. —Ditto, New
Shares, 4% p. c. n.—Glasgow and Dumfries % p.—Hudders-
field and Manchester, 4% p.—Leeds and Bradford, 45% n.
p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 1114 n. p. c. n.—Ditto, Half
Shares, 6% p. c. n.—Ditto, Extensions (green), 28s. p.—
Leeds and Thirsk, 1% dis. c. n.—Ditto, New, 2s. 6d. p. c. a.
—Ditto, Preference, 225. p.—Malton and Driffield Junction,
20s. n. p.—Manchester and Leeds Extensions, 275. p.—North
British, Thirds, 2% p.—Ditto, Quarter Shares (late Carlisle
Branch), 2% p.—Ditto, Extension (scrip), 20s. p.—North
Staffordshire, 35% p.—North-Western, Bs. n. p.—Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Goole, 16s. p.—Shrewsbury and Birming-
ham, p.—York and North Midland, Preference, wys p.
—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, Is. dis.—West
Riding Union, 3/. 19s. 6d.
HULL, DECEMBER 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—But a small amount of business
continues to be done, and the market is wearing much the
same aspect as it did at the close of last week, with a slight
improvement in East Lincoln, antnGlisgow and Dumfries.
The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bops.to_itG,2l/a.sglo4lsv.
—Eait Lancashire, No. 2 (late Ormskirk), p.—Ditto,
New scrip, 1% p.—East Lincolnshire, 20s.
and Dumfries, las. p.—lpswich and Bury, Norwich, 21. 188
6d.—North British, Halves, 15%—North Staffordshire, 31..
13s. 6d. p.