The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-21 00:00:00

NGE.-(THIS DAY.

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Leghorn .• .• ••••• • • • • • 30 55
Genoa ••••••• • • • • • e• 25 55
Milan ................
Venice • . .• • • • • • • • • • • • •
garbles ...... • • •• 41%
Palermo, 125
Lisboa •••••••• • • • • • • • • 153 X,
Oporto.. •••••••• •• •• •• 53%
[tie Janeiro ........ • • 29
Buenos Ayres
New York,6odays'sight
Philadelphia
?AMU OP BULLION, PIB 011.
Foreign Geld in bars • . Xll 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Now Dollars • • ...• 0 4 11%
Sliver is bars 0 b Iyy

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 20.—Vice-Admiral E-ir George Sey-
mour, K.C.8., in the Cumberland, 70, remains at St. He-
len's, win, bound.
The Penelope steam-frigate, 22, Captain Lyster, was un-
docked this morning, and came out cf the steam basin.
The Pyrenees convict-ship sailed from St. Helen's roads
this morning.
The Portuguese steam-sloop weighed from Cowes roads
this morning at daylight, and sailed eastward.
The Prince Regent. 90, Captain Harris, has received a
new mast and bowsprit, and will now be docked again to
complete her outfit.
the American line of packet ship Independence arrived
this morning from New York, 20 days out.

APPOINTMENTS.
WeoLwrcir, MARCH 20.—Paymaster and Purser William
T. Grieve (1850), to be secretary to Commodore Peter
Al'Quhae, of the Imaum, 72, receiving-ship at Jamaica.
Second-Master Daniel hall (1848), from the Impreg-
nable, flag-ship at Devonport, to the Fisgard, flag-ship at
Woolwich.
The Leopard steam-frigate when out of the hands of the
shipwrights will have ballast put on board, and then be
taken round Portsmouth to be fitted at that port for

service.
Master's-Assistant C. J. Cawley to the Victory, flag-ship
at Portsmouth.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF COMMONS, March 20.
IRISH POOR-LAW.
Mr. SCULLY moved for copies of all correspond-
ence between the 'nudes board of guardians and
the Poor-law Commissioners in Ireland, between
the Ist day of January and the 10th day of March,
1851, relative to the refusal by the Poor-law Commis-
sioners to allow the board of guardians to increase the
employment of the inmates in remunerative labour ; and
return of the number of inmates in the different work•.
houses in Ireland, specifying their ages between 7 and 15,
15 and 20, 20 and 40, and 40 and upwards, the different
sexes, the number of able-bodied, aged and infirm.
Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE asked the Hon.
Gentleman to postpone his motion till he had an
opportunity of communicating with the department
to which it referred. He had no doubt the returns
would be readily granted, but as an act of courtesy the
Poor-law Commissioners ought to be consulted first,
before the Rouse acceded to the motion.

Mr. SCULLY could not comply with the request of
the Right Hon. Baronet, as the motion he had made
was one of considerable importance to Ireland and
would admit of no delay. (Oh, oh !) The Thurles
board of guardians were anxious to employ the numerous
inmates in the union workhouse, so as, if possible, to make
it a self-supporting establishment. On the Ist of March
18,1, there were in the house no fewer than 700 able males,
and 1,500 adult females. The guardians had had some com-
munication with the Board of Manufactures and Industry
in Dublin, with the object of giving the inmates useful and
reproductive employment. The Thurles board of guardians
were prepared to make advances for this purpose, but the
Poor-law Commissioners wrote, and imperatively forbade
the design. They objected to the rewards and stimulants
by which the guardians hoped to encourage the industry of
the inmates. The board wished to form a fund from this
reproductive employment for the promotion of emigration,
but the Poor-law Commissioners objected to this, on
the ground that there would be such an increase in the
applications for relief, and in the expenditure, as to make
the rates very oppressive to the smaller ratepayers.
It was right the House should know whether the
Government adopted this principle of preventing boards
of guardians from making use of the labour of
the inmates in the workhouses, and making these establish-
ments self-supporting. Let the board of guardians have due
authority to use the power they possessed of employing the
inmates of the workhouses as they thought proper, and he
believed that not only would it be the means of raising Ire-
land, and giving a stimulus to those who lived there, but,
through that source of industrial education, would confer a
blessing on the country.
Sir G. GREY was not aware that there was any objection
to this motion, but he would recall to the recollection of
the House what his Right' Hon. Friend the Secretary for
Ireland had stated before the motion was brought on, that
on Tuesday, when the Hon: Gentleman gave notice of his
motion, he had written to Dublin on the subject, and that
there had; not yet been time to receive an answer. He
would therefore move that the debate be adjourned to that
day week.
The debate was adjourned accordingly.