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London, England, 1851-04-05 00:00:00

THE LONDON GAZETTE, April 4.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 4, 1851.

Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold Drawing-
Rooms, at St. James's-Palace, on the following days, at two
o'clock :—Tuesday, 6th May next ; Thursday, 15th May
next; and on Saturday, 31st May next, to celebrate her
Majesty's Birthday.
N.B. The Knights of the several Orders are to appear in
their Collars, at the Drawing-Room, on the 31st of May next.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Richard Jame* Johnson, painter, Woolwich.
BANKRUPTS.

George Henry Bradberry and George Rice Lowe, mer-
chants, Great Tower-street, City, to surrender April 16, at
half-past one, and May 16, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Strutt and Cunning-
ham, Buckingham-street, Strand.
Leonard Wild Lloyd, builder, Goldhawk-terrace, New-
road, Shepherd's-bush, April 16, at one, and May 16, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official as-
signee; Abrahams, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
John Gentry, smith, Bocking, Essex, April 16, at two, and
May 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham,
official assignee; Stevens and Satchel], Queen street, Cheap-
side.

John Benson Browne, wine merchant, Newcastle-under-
Lyme, Staffordshire, April 17, and May 8, at twelve, at the
Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee,
Birmingham; Kough, Shrewsbury; Motteram, Knight, and
Emmet, Birmingham.
Robert Moate, innkeeper, West Stockwith, Nottingham,
April 19 and May 10, at ten, at the Leeds District Court.
Freeman, official assignee, Sheffield; Marratt. )oncaster.
Howell Reynolds, innkeeper, Aberaman, Glamorganshire,
April 23 and May 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Amman, offiaal assignee, Bristol; James, Merthyr;
Short and Strickland, Bristol.

William Andrews, commission merchant, Liverpool, April
14 and May 12, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Williams, Liverpool.
Charles Roope, wine merchant, Liverpool, April 11 and
May 15, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner,
official assignee, Liverpool; Fletcher and Hull, Liverpool.
Robert Andrews Taylor, Epsom salts and colour manufac-
turer, Dun.ton, Durham, April 11, at twelve, and May 9, at
one, at the New castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker,
efficial assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Forster, Newcastle-
upol-Tyne ; Bolding and Pope, Fenchurch-street.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 4.
KILRUSH UNION.

Mr. SCULLY rose to ask the following questions re-
specting the condition of the Kilrush union:—Whether
the workhouse in that union had accommodation for
4,654 inmates, or thereabouts, from the Bth of March
last ? Whether there were not upwards of 5,000 within
the house at that date? Whether the deaths within the
house for the 21 days ending the 22d March did not
exceed 200? Whether paupers to the number of be-
tween 100 and 20D were not in the habit of seeking for
relief within the house upon the admission days? Whe-
ther many of such were not in a most destitute and nearly
starving state, and after having walked some twelve
Irish miles were refused admittance? Whether any
steps were taken to afford them, so refused, any assist-
ance whatever? Whether the Poor-law Commissioners
are award of this state of things; and if so, what mea-
sures have they taken, or intend to take, in order to cor-
rect them?

Sir W. SOMERVILLE said that he could give no
answer to the question of the Hon. Member, for the re-
turns of the last five months had not been made
up ; but as soon as he could get them
they should be laid on the table of the House.
The guardians had done everything in their power to
increase the accommodation, bat they had found it very
difficult to do so. The sanitary condition of the work-
house was exceedingly bad, but the Poor-law Commis-
sioners had directed their attention to the subject with
the view of inducing the guardians to find a remedy.
Mr. REYNOLDS rose amidst loud cries of" Oh, oh,"
and "Time." When the noise had subsided, he went on to
say, that when the Hon. Baronet (Sir B. Hall) was
speaking on a comparatively insignificant subject a few
minutes ago, the House heard him in perfect
silence.—(" Oh !") In consequence of the noise
in the House, scarcely any of the statements of the
Right Hon. Gentlemen (Sir W. Somerville) were heard
on that aide of the House. It was not his intention to
address the House at any considerable length—(Re-
peated cries of " Oh, oh")—but he respectfully claimed
the right to speak on a question which iuvelved the
life and death of his fellow-countrymen and country-
women. In Kilrush Union eighty persons were allowed
to die per week for want of food, and they were indebted
to the really benevolent and chariteblo clergyman of the
Established Church, the Rev. Mr. Osborne, for bringing
to light the cruet carnage which was permitted to go on
day by day in that workhouse. What was the fact?
That a workhouse which was built to accommodate
4,465 persons was now filled to suffmation, and to
overflowing, there being 5 005 inmatt's within its walls;
and what did the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for
Ireland say? That there were 214 more persons in the
building than it could hold.—(Loud laughter.) He was
happy to perceive that on a grave and melancholy sub-
ject like this Hon. Gentlemen could be merry.—(oll!)
Let him not be understood as meaning that Hon.
Members really wished to treat lightly such a subject.
He considered if these deaths were caused by the neglect
of Government they were accessories to the crime of
murder, and as such accouatable before God, he wished
he could say before man also. In his opinion the
Secretary for Ireland had too many irons iu the fire, it
would be much better if he were to resign his post of
Commissioner of the Poor-law Board to some man who
would take coach or railroad, and have a personal in-
spection of the state or affairs himself.
Sir LUCIUS O'BRIEN bore testimony that the
facts stated by the Honourable
.Member were perfectly
true. The board of guardians of Kilrush were sub-
jected to an enormous pressure each day, and as the Go-
vernment advances had been stopped, the union was
thrown on its own resources, which were totally unable
to support the burden.
Sir DE LACY EVANS expressed a hope that the
Metropolitan Buildings Act would not be brought on at
a late hour of the night.
Sir G. GREY said it certainly would not.
The motion for the adjournment of the House until
Monday was then agreed to.
The House then went into Committee of Ways and
Means, Mr. BERNAL in the chair.
THE BUDGET.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then
rose and said—Sir, several weeks have now elapsed
since I first put into your hands the resolution to which
I ern about to call the attention of the Committee.—
(Hear, hear.) Since that time I believe the attention of
Hon. Gentlemen has been directed to topics perhaps of
a more interesting or exciting, but certainly not
of a more important character, than that on which I am
about to call for the opinion of the House. Time has
been afforded me to recooider the,proposals I then made,
and also the observations and censures which, with no
sparing hand, have been bestowed upon them. I have
also had the advantage of hearing from the Noble Lord,
the chief of the agricultural party, the course of finan-
cial policy which he proposed to pursue. That Noble
Lord is at once prepared to reduce, as far as possible,
the income-tax, to extinguish it altogether as soon as
circumstances will allow, and to aid such an operation is
prepared to propose a fixed duty on the importation of
foreign corn into this country.—(Hear.) The proposals
which I submitted, and which I shall submit, are intended
to promote the health and comfort of the labouring per-
tions of the community, by further reducing the duty on
important articles of consumption and on raw material.
—(Hear, hear.) That is the policy which I feel it is
now my duty to pursue. The two plans are now
fairly before the House and the country, and it is for
the House and the country to decide on which side the
preponderance exists, and which of them, on
the whole, is likely to be most beneficial for
the welfare of this great empire.—(bear, hear.) With
regard to my own proposal, I can assure those Hen.
Gentlemen who have been impatient for this night's ex-
position, that it has been from no wish of mine that it
has been so long delayed.—(Hear, hear.) They will
readily believe that I have been most anxious to correct
some of the misapprehensions which have prevailed on
the subject of my proposals, believing, as I do, that the
principles on which those proposals are founded is sound,
and that the proposals themselves are fair, honest, and
just.—(Hear, hear.) In such a belief, I have been most
anxious for the opportunity which this night affords me
of explaining those proposals, and of vindicating the
course which I felt it my duty to pursue. I know
I shall not ask in vain for that indulgence which
has never been refused to any one who has been so much
the object of attack as I have been.--(Bear, hear.) I
know I may ask for and trust to the kind indulgence of
the House while I vindicate my proposals, and justify
the course which I have pursued.—(Haar.) I admit at
once that these proposals were not received with satis-
faction by the House. I am not surprised that they
should not have been received wit's satisfaction by
Hon. Gentlemen, representatives of the agricultural
interest—an interest suffering, I am sorry to
say, under the pressure which always attends
the removal of protective duties.—(Bear, hear.)
Those Hon. Members has asked for relief either by the
imposition of a protective duty on foreign corn, or by a
transfer to the Consolidated Fund of a large portion of
the local burdens. Believing as I do that neither of
those proposals is for the interest of the country, and
therefore not for the interest even of the agricultural
class in the long run, it was not in my power, consis-
tent with duty, to include them in any scheme which I
had to propose. I have so often been called upon to
state my opinion on that subject to the House, that I
need not now more fully refer to it. I believe that the
agriculturists must look to their own exertions, and not
to legislation, fur any relief to the suffering which at
present exists.—(Hear.) With regard to other parties
in this House, I confess I was astonished at the recep-
tion which they gave my proposals.—(Hear.) In the
various censures and criticisms of those proposals I find
that the pervading demand has been for a remission of
taxes beyond what it is possible to grant consistently
with the due maintenance of the national credit, and of
those public institutions which I believe necessary for
the public welfare, and which I have no reason to sup-
pose the great majority in this House is not inclined to
support. It is therefore leas matter of surprise than of
regret that my proposals should have been received in
the way they have been by the party I allude to.—
(Hear.) No doubt there was an expectation of a larger
surplus than that which existed in January, or than that
which would exist in April or at the end of the financial
year; and no doubt Hon. Members were unwilling to
believe that they could be disappointed in their sanguine
expectations. If they have been so disappointed, it is
no fault of mine. I neither sanctioned such expecta-
tions nor gave any warrant for the assertions made; and
much as I may regret the disappointment which exists, I
cannot see that in proposing whet I believe was a feir
and honest Budget I could in any way have gratified the
expectations so unwarrantably entertained, I might, to