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gallows on which they hanged him as make the unfor-
tunate suitors in Chancery pay this amount. He] said
there had been no sale of offices. The Right Hon.
Baronet said there had been a sale. Issue was joined
upon that point, and a Committee ought to decide.
—(Cheers.) The Irish case was perfectly different—
there a patent office was in question—an office
which was legally the subject of purchase and sale.
'The taxing masters in the Court of Chancery had
2,0001. a-year, while the taxing masters in the courts of
common law, who had a great deal more to do, had
1,2001. a-year. When the Bill had been brought for-
ward, the Right Hon. Baronet had never told the House
that the compensation would amount to 7,5001. a-year
during the lives of the parties, and 2,5001. a-year for
some years after their death. The Hon. and L!arned
Member for Liskeard said that if the motion passed it
would put a stop to all law reform. He should suspect
fur the future all persons who talked of law reform who
did not vote for this motion. Ile had showed the House
that these fees were not worth ten days' purchase. They
had been altered by Lord Hardwicke, and one great fee
had been entirely abolished by Lord Lyndhurst within
one month after he had been first appointed to office.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the
House divided, when there.appeared—
For the motion
68
Against it

commendations had been embodied in the Act of Parlia-
ment, but in order to modify it so as to found on it a
practical working measure, he had deemed it advisable
to send to Ireland a gentleman who was well-acquainted
with the working of the poor-laws in England ; and Mr.
Nicholls had been sent to Ireland, where, although he
had only remained a short time, he had collected a
great deal of information. There were, in his opinion,
certain general principles of poor-law legislation, which
would be found as etTective in Switzerland and in Spain
as they were in England or Ireland, and those principles
ought always to be kept steadily in view. He regretted
that the Right Hon. Gentleman had not ascertained the
sentiments of the Irish Membors before he had
consented to the appointment of the Committee, but he
thought that, under all the circumstances, the best
tlinl,l that could be done would be to rescind the order
which had been agreed to without discussion, although
he could not but wish that it had never been agreed to.
Sir 11. W. BARRON thought that the House and
country would be taken by surprise if the motion were
pressed to a division. He agreed with the Right Hon.
Baronet in the opinion which he had expressed as to the
operation of the poor-laws in Ireland; and as he con-
ceived that the appointment of this Committee would
lead to hopes which would never be realised, he hoped
the Hon. Baronet would withdraw his motion.
After a few words from Sir D. NORREYS,
Sir J: GRAHAM moved as an amendment that the
order be discharged.

manufacturer, Liverpool, June 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool
District Court—J. Stuart, draper, Liverpool, June 5, at
twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—W. Farrell, cattle
salesman, West Derby, Lancashire, June 7, at twelve, at the
Liverpool District Court—J. Evans, coal dealer, Liverpool,
June 8, at half-past eleven, at the Liverpool District Court—
S. Richardson, merchant, Liverpool, June 8, at eleven, at the
Liverpool District Court—G. and J. Wilkinson, curriers, Bi-
shop Auckland, Durham, June 5, at half-past one, at the New-
castle-upon-Tyne District Court—W. Bearup, joiner, New-
castle-upon-Tyne, June 6, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-
Tyne District Court—R. Paddon, chemist, Hartlepool, Dur-
ham, June 4, at one, at the Newcastle•upoa-Tyne District
Court—J. Price, money scrivener, Lanfoist, Monmouthshire,
June 4, at half-past one, at the Bristol District Court—T.
Rawlings, auctioneer, Cheltenham, June 6, at eleven, at the
Bristol District Court—H. Jefford, builder, Lyme Regis, June
6, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court—T. and W. Reeves,
coach builders, Claines, Worcestershire, June 5, at twelve, at
the Birmingham District Court—J. Warburton, miller, Brow-
yard, Herefordshire, June 5, at eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the

contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
J. Haddock, printer, Craven-yard, Drury-lane, June 7-
R. Webster, victualler, Oxford-market, June 4—J. E. Ri-
dont, woolstapler, Ringwood, Hampshire, June 4--H. M. Low
and W. M. Westerman, merchants, Calcutta, June 6—W.
Scott, wine merchant, Regent-street, June 5—J. and G.
Ewart, auctioneers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne June 4—T. Bom-
ford, hay dealer, Ch '
eltenham, June 5—R. Turner, fancy cloth
manufacturer, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, July. 3-1. Eckersley,
victualler, Liverpool, June 4---E. Poore, druggist, Bampton,
Devonshire, June 6—W. Whitfield, grocer, Bridgewater, So-
mersetshire, June 6—H. Mitchell, fellrnonger, Nottingham,
June la—H. Grove, grocer, Birmingham, June I2—P. Sed-
don, coal dealer, Middle Hulton, Lancashire, June 5-11. Or-
bell, victualler, Romford, June 4—T. Fawcett and J. Muir,
builders, Hollingworth, Cheshire, June 4—R. Freeman,
builder, Ely, Cambridgeshire, June 4—R. T. Milbanke, sur-
geon, Burwoed-place, Edgeware-road, June 4—H. Wickham,
linen draper, Bristol, June 4 —W. Bourne, woollen draper,
Coleman-street, June 4—J. Sparham, miller, Troston, Suf-
folk, June 4—W. Carr, merchant, Sunderland, Durham, June
4—R. Goodwin, ironmonger, Eton, Buckinghamshire, June 4
—H. Edwards, coal merchant, St. Alban's, June 4.

Majority against the motion...
POOR LAWS (IRELAND.)
Sir D. NORREYS moved the .appointment of the
following Committee on Poor Relief (Ireland) Acts—
Sir Denham Norreys, Lord Eliot, Mr. More O'Ferrall,
Mr. Young, Mr. French, Viscount Bernard, Mr. John
O'Connell, Lord Claud Hamilton, Sir Henry Winston
. Barron, Mr. Shaw, Lord Courtenay, Mr. Vesey, Sir
Edmund Hayes,- Mr. Bellew, and Mr. E. P. Shirley.
This question was in a very peculiar position, and he
could not understand the grounds on which it was in-
tended to oppose the appointment of this Committee.
The poor-law in Ireland was an experiment, and all
that was asked for was inquiry. He denied that his
object was to procure the repeal of the poor-laws. The
alteration in the poor-laws in England was an experi-
ment. Some years after the experiment had been insti-
tuted the House had granted an inquiry. Why
should they refuse an inquiry into the working
of the poor-laws in Ireland ? and yet they had
virtually refused to do so. The conduct of the Govern-
ment had been most unstatesmanlike. They had, in the
first instance, granted this Committee, because they had
beep badgered into it by his Hon. Friend the Member
for Kildare, and then, because his Right Hon. Friend
the Member for Dublin said "No," they had refused
it. They were about to rescind their own act by re-
sisting the nomination of a Committee. Some half-
dozen of Members opposed it, and therefore the Go-
vernment thought themselves justifie.l in opposing it. If
the Government thought the poor-law worked well and
beneficially in Ireland, they should not have supported
the appointment of a Committee; but if they really con-
sidered that the matter required revision, they should
have granted it. The public mind in Ireland was so
much engaged on another subject, that its attention was
diverted from the consideration of the poor-laws; but
there was a strong feeling in that country that many
of the provisions of that law required remodelling.
He looked upon the poor• laws as now established in a
manner that would prevent their ever being done away
with, but he thought that there were several defects
that might be remedied. He wished that the Com-
mittee should be appointed, to consider the general work-
ing of the system, and see how far it was likely to
meet the objects for which it was intended.
Mr. BELLEW opposed the motion. He thought
that at the present time no advantage would be derived
from the proposed inquiry. He complained that the
Poor-law Commissioners had not sufficiently studied the
wishes of the inhabitants of the people of Ireland, and
he regretted also that no attempt had been made to
legislate on medical charities. But he thought that
within a year or two from this time a Committee would
be much more useful than it could be at present.
Sir J. GRAHAM said the Hon. Member for Mallow
having made his speech, he hoped he would now be
somewhat more at ease, and not press his motion. The
House would recollect that he had, at the close of the
last session, given an assurance that if Irish Peers de-
sired inquiry on this subject he would yield to their
wishes, and that he had given a similar assurance
with respect to Irish Members in that House.
A great number of the Irish Peers were adverse to the
inquiry sought for by the Hon. Baronet the Member for
Mallow, as also was his Hon. Friend the Member for the
Queen's County, and a number of other Irish commoners.
He was decidedly of opinion that the proposition of the
Hon. Baronet, for a Committee, would be attended with
not the slightest 'practical or beneficial result at this
period of the session. The questions proposed to be
entered upon in that Committee were so multifarious and
difficult, that the more he considered the motion of the
lion. Baronet he was confirmed in this opinion. He was
most anxious to allow a fair trial to the measure of laSt
year, and to be influenced by the opinions of those
Members of this House who were connected with Ireland

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Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the
House divided, when there appeard—
For Sir J. Graham's amendment 42
Against it lO
Majority for Sir J. Graham's amendment —32

OLERK ol"ruE CROWN.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
for a Selecb Committee to inquire into the duties and
emoluments of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.—
Agreed to.

Colonel SIBTIIORP moved for returns relating to
the improvement of the river Shannon.—Agreed to.
Sir DENHAM NORREYS moved for a Select Com-
mittee, to inquire whether the present townland Alua-
tion oflreland, made by the Commissioners of Valuation
under the Act 1 and 2 Vic., c. 52, can be made avail-
able for the imposition of poor-rate and other local rates
in that country ; and also, whether it be not desirable to
alter the principle on which the townland valuation is
now constructed.—Agreed to.
The County Rates' Bill was read a second time, and
was ordered to be committed on the 31st inst.
The Customs' Duties Bill went through Committee.—
Report to be received this day.
The House then adjourned at One o'clock.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, MAY 13, 1844.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Knight
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto
James Aunesley, Esq., of the Madras Medical Establishment.
CROWN.OFFICE, MAY 13, 1844.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIA-
MENT.
BOROUGH OF ABlNGDON.—Frederic Thesiger, of Bryan-
stun-square, in the parish of St. Marylebone, in the County of
Middlesex, Esq., her Majesty's Solicitor-General, in the room
of Thomas Duffield, Esq., who has aczepted the Chiltern
Hundreds.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAT 11.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.-First Lieutenant A. Benn
ebe Second Captain, vice Geary, deceased ; Second Lieute-
nant S. Robinson to be First Lieutenant, vi Benn. April 28.
MeatoeAwnUM. -The dates of the promotion of the under-
mentioned officers have been altered as follows :-Second Cap-
tain H. A. Turner, Jan. 14 ; Second Captain T. B. F. Mar-
riott, March 30 ; Second Captain W. H. Elliot, April 1 ;
Second Captain T. Ramsay, April 15; First Lieutenant D. M.
Fraser, Jan. 14; First Lieutenant J. D. Telfer, March 7 ;
First Lieutenant C. J. Strange, March 30; First Lieutenant
C. Frye, April 1; First Lieutenant F. C. Standish, April 15.
WHITEHALL, MAY 9,
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Henry Gimblett,
Gent., of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTS.
THOMAS COURTNEY LANCEFIELD, builder, Au-
gustus-square, Regent's-park, to surrender May 24, at two, and
June 25, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Yenning, Naylor,
and Co., Tokenhouse-yard.
WILLIAM BURTON, upholsterer, King-street, Soho,
rllulpatyc32,!, at two,
Whitmore,and official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Ben-
June 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
nett, Bloomsbury-square.
JAMES MICHEL POLAK, merchant, Coleman-street-
buildings, City, May 24, at two, and June 21, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee, King's Arms-
yard ; Maltby and Grant, Broad-street-buildings,
JOSEPH BOWDEN, iron founder, -Wakefield, May 25,
and June 18, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne,
official assignee, Leeds; Willis and Co., Tokenhouse-yard,
London ; Sykes, Wakefield.
JOH N 1 SUNMAN AUSTIN, builder, Bedford, May 21,
at half- past one, and June 21, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-
street; Buchanan and Grainger, Basinghall-street, City.
ELIZABETH HAYWARD, innkeeper, Castle Heding-
ham, Essex, May 22, at half-past one, and June 25, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street • Marston, Torrington-square, London.
EDWIN REEVE, fruiterer, Liverpool, May 24, at twelve,
and June 20, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Caze-
nove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Holme, Loftus, and Young,
New Inn, London ; Booker, Liverpool.
JOHN BAKER, grocer, Romsey, Hants, May 24, at half-
past two, and June 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Belcher, official assignee, King's Arms-yard; Curtis, Romsey,
Hants ; Bower and Son, Chancery-lane.
JOHN PLEDGE, carpenter, Vauxhall-street, Lambeth,
May 21, at half-past one, and June 25, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane;
Harpur, Kennington-gross.
EDWIN FOSTER, tailor, Dover, May 21, at half-past
eleven, and June 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Green, official assignee, Aldertnanbury ; Dods and Linklaters,
Leadenhall-street, London.
ELAH BRENNAND, ironmonger, Highgate, May 21, at
half-past one, and June 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Bartholo-
mew, Gray's Inn.
EDWARD BROWN, merchant, Birmingham, May 24,
and June 28, at one, at the Birmingham District Court.
Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham;
Birmingham.J. W. and G. Whateley,
JOHN TODD, son., and JOHN TODD, ironmongers,
Bury-street, Bloomsbury, May 28, at twelve, and July 3, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official as-
signee, Basinghall-street ; Roberts,o-Bride-court, Fleet-street.
THOMAS HEWETT WETMORE, grocer, Worcester,
May 22, and June 24, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittieston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Berkeley,
Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Hare, Birmingham.
RICHARD RICHARDSON, gambroon-manufacturer,
Manchester, June 10, and 24, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court. Stanavray,
twelve,Bar Barnstaple;
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la)
ined;
Moore,
e 2, official assignee, Manchester; Reed
and Shaw, Friday -street, London ; Sale and Worthington,
Manchester.
HENRY DRAKE, attorney, Barnstaple, Devonshire, May
26, atone,
Court. Hertzel, official assignee, 'Exeter ; Bemridge and
2T8I:11 cart,
London. r
ay Exeter,s Inn-square,
District
JOHN WINDOW HARRIS, wine-merchant, Wolver-
hampton, May 24, at half-past one, and June 18, at half-past
twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official
assignee, Birmingham ; Phillips and Bolton, Wolverhampton.
NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY.
J. Unsvrorth, butcher, Liverpool.
J. Balls, jun., omnibus driver, Holloway-road, Islington.
R. H. Talbot, Millbank-street, Westminster.
J. Ball, plumber, Union-road, Clapham-rise.
T. Bevins, beer retailer, Regent-street, Vauxhall-bridge-road.
T. Adams, Blackman-street, Southwark.
E. Russell, Oval, Kennington.
J. Baker, grocer, Goudhurst, Kent.
J. Taylor, painter, St. Alban's-street, Kennington-road.
F. J. Foreman, licensed victualler, Seven Oaks, Kent.
J. Harwood, tailor, Hatherleigh, Devonshire.
J. Walker, King's Norton, Worcestershire.
F. R. Williams, St. James's-place, Walworth-common.
H. Mopsey, sheriff's officer, Baker's-row, Walworth-common.
R. Blackhunt, auctioneer, Toxteth-park, Lancashire.
H. Ward, blacksmith, Eckington, Derbyshire.
J. Young, auctioneer, Durham.
W. Canner, cabinet maker, Brighton.
J. Sparke, Princes-street, Drury-lane.
J. Dyer, innkeeper, Kingston St, Michael, Wiltshire.
T. Clough, provision dealer, Bradford, Yorkshire. •
E. Hodson, clerk, Birmingham.
J. W. Hentig, wine merchant, Hamilton-place, St, Pancras.
E. Coxson, wheelwright, Sonthchurch, Essex.
S. Short, boot maker, Berwick-street, St. James's.
A. Thomas, clog maker, Oldham, Lancashire.
H. F. Brown, veterinary surgeon, Bakewell, Derbyshire.
H. W. Salisbury, goldsmith, King's-road, Chelsea.
J. Bond, tailor, Manchester.
W. G. Legge, accountant, Shaftesbury-street, New North-road.
R. Duke, police officer, Henry-street, Pentonville.
J. Griffin, miller, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
W. L. F. Tollemache, Hyde-park-place, Marylebone.
W. Lillie, wheelwright, Deptford.
J. Slade, carpenter, Bexley, Kent.
R. Nash, letter-carrier, Stockton, Durham.
R. Oake, joiner, Leeds.
J. B. Broomhead, Batley, Yorkshire.
T. Braim, commission agent, Leeds.
J. Jones, plasterer, Liverpool.
D. Blair, boot maker, Manchester.
E. B. Downing, commission agent, Birmingham.
E. Kirby, jun., paper maker, Maidstone, Kent.
W. Styles, butterman, Rotherfield, Sussex.
W. Gant, grocer, Castleacre, Norfolk.
T. Mathew, labourer, Coychurch, Glamorganshire.
B. Watkinson, draper, Castleston, Derbyshire.
H. W. Timmer, clerk Reading, Berkshire.
11. Collins, plumber, Greenwich.
W. Lys, hatter, Road-side, Mile-end-road.
J. Lynes, Bloxham, Oxfordshire.
J. Charlesworth, elothier, Alraondbury, Yorkshire.
W. H. Alsop, accountant, Manchester.
J. H. Leathes, Norwich.
S. Alcock, bent maker, Manchester.
H. North, confectioner, Mousley, Leicestershire.
F. J. Grace, tailor, Arlington-street, St. Pancras.
SECOND NOTICES.
W. Carter, pig jobber, Artillery-row, Westminster, May 20,
at eleven, at the Courtßankruptcy. Graham, official assignee.
W. Young, servant, Norwood, May 20, at half-past eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee.
W. M'Carthy, clothier, Portsmouth, May 18, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee.
J. Mathews, tallow chandler, Hammersmith, May :121, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee.
F. Whitehead, mail cart driver, ong Melford, Suffolk, May
21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official
assignee.
M. Haynes, Weston-super-Mare, Somersetshire, May 20, at
eleven, at the Bristol District Cond. Kynaston, official
assignee.
J. Barrett, surgeon, Bath, May 20, at half-past twelve, at
the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee.
DIVIDENDS.

Mr. F. FRENCH supported the motion of his Hon.
Friend for a Committee. Such a Committee had been
sanctioned on a former occasion by the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet, and he (Mr. French) certainly thought it was now
rather a singular mode, when it suited his will and plea-
sure, to call upon the House to stultify itself by rescind-
ing the opinion they had expressed on that eccasien.
Would the Right Hon. Baronet (notwithstanding his vic-
tory last night) now maintain unaltered a lass, which
tended by its operation to increase every existing evil
of which Ireland hitherto complained, because some
Hon. Members from Ireland said that amongst their con-
stituencies there existed no desire for a change with re-
spect to the Irish poor-laws? But he would challenge
them to show that in a vast majority of the parishes of
Ireland the operation of those laws was not attended
with the greatest detriment.—(Hear, hear.) • Such
must be the opinion of any one who paid the slight.
est attention to the spirit and tone of the Irish press.
(The Hon. Gentleman then read an extract from a letter
of the Rev. Mr. O'Malley,- who had been an advocate of
poor-laws, to show they had not worked well in Ireland.
The Hon. Gentleman then went on to show that Mr..
Nicholls was quite incorrect in his calculations as to the
expense of building the poor-houses, and the number of
persons who would be likely to go into them.) A
petition presented to the House, from the guardians of
the South Dublin Union, stated that the cost of
each pauper in the Mendicity, before the establishment
of the poor-laws, was 3/. 13s. 10d., while, under the poor-
laws, the cost was 71. 16s. This la y was not fitted to the
habits and feelings of the people, and they would agitate
against it from one part of the country to the other.
Mr. SHAW said he would state a few simple facts
which, he thought, would remove some of the erroneous
impressions which, it seemed, had been taken up with
regard to the working of the law. There was not one
single member of the Commission upon either side that
was not in favour of adopting the law. He, for one, had
never thought that the system was perfect ; but he
thought that some further trial should be given before
any attempt to change it was made. In a large pro-
portion of the unions the system was working satisfac-
torily—that was, the largest portion of the rates were
collected, and the paupers were provided for. On the 25th
of March last the balance against the unions was only
13,000/. He thought this was a fact which ought to
have been in fairness stated, and he recommended that,
in the present state of the unions, it was not desirable to
do anything which would interfere with the efforts of
those who were using their best exertions to carry the
law out fairly.
Mr. MORE O'FERRALL said that the Right Hon.
Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department, had
unjustly, and from his own imagination, accused him as
one of the persons who opposed the introduction of any
poor-lawinto Ireland. On the contrary, when he was
a member of the Commission, he had not opposed the
introduction of a system of poor-laws. But he was
in a minority in the Commission, in opposition
to the report on which the present law was
founded. He never voted in favour of this law, although
a Member of the late Government at the time when it
came before the House, and, rather than vote for it, he
had placed his office in the hands of his Noble Friend
then at the Government, because he was convinced
that the Bill was not suited to the feelings and habits
of the people of Ireland, and that it would increase the
evils which it was designed to remedy. But, when the
measure became law, he never attempted to start any
resistence to it. Was it not rather too bad to toll him he
was one of those who wished to upset the poor-law ?
He wished to do no such thing ; but they might depend
upon it, if they did not amend the present law, they
would cause the upsetting of that which would prove
worso than a poor-law. If the Government were deter-
mined not to grant the Committee, upon them must rest
the responsibility ; for, if once they forced the people
to resist the law, they might depend upon it they would
have some difficulty to stop that resistance.
Sir J. GRAHAM explained.
Mr. REDDINGTON said that he could not conceive
any grounds on which an inquiry could bo refused.
Great doubts were entertained throughout Ireland, but
particularly in the west of Ireland, as to the operation of
the law. But though he thought that a Select Commit-
tee ought to be granted, he admitted that much was to be
corrected at home, particularly on the part of the guar-
dians, which legislation could not reach.
Lord J. RUSSELL said his opinion was, after listen-
ing to the objections which had been urged for the refu-
sal of a Select Committee, that unless the principle of
the law was entirely vicious, the best course to be
adopted was to leave to the Government the question of
inquiry into the abuses in the administration of the law
—to send all complaints to the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, who would investigate the charges
made against the Commissioners, and who could be asked
in the House what the foundations of those complaints
were, and what was the result of his inquiries. Having
so done, there might come a time when a Select Com-
mittee would be advisable ; but at present the objections
made by the Honourable Gentleman confirmed him
that the Government took the right course. On the part
of those Hon. Gentlemen who spoke in favour of the
Committee, there was an evident blending of two
questions. Some spoke against the principle of the
law, and others spoke against its administration. With
regard to the appointment of a Committee, as the law
was entirely new in Ireland, and as many of the persons
who had to carry it into effect were unused to it, and as
it appeared those who were hostile to the law were be-
coming more reconciled to it, he thought that they
should wait for some time. With regard to what the
Hon. Gentleman had said on what had always been a
sore subject with him (Mr. F. French), he meant the
appointment of Mr. Nicholls to go to Ireland, he would
state the sole reason of that appointment. When the
report of the Commissioners appointed to consider the
question had been first presented, he had asked the
opinion of several of those practically acquainted with
the working of the poor-laws on the subject of that
report, and they had all stated that the report alone would
not make a satisfactory foundation for the introduction
of a system of poor-laws in Ireland. Ile then considered
how best the report might be modified. He did not throw
it aside entirety, for it would be seen that many of its re

At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basingball- street.
J. Bridgman and W. Dryland, tallow melters, Upper Chap-
man-street, St. George's East, June 4, at half-past eleven
—J. Sewell, money scrivener, Ely, Cambridgeshire, June 4,
at twelve—J. Hague, engineer, Rotherhithe, June 4, at eleven
—J. Farren, corn dealer, Nine-elms, May 7, at twelve—M. B.
Evans and B. Eyton, army agents, Northumberland-street,
June 4, at eleven— R. Baxter, wharfinger, Montague-close,
Southwark, June 4, at twelve—W. Hitchcock, linen draper,
Regent-street, June 4, at one—G. Simons, watch manufac-
turer, King-square, Goswell-road, June 4, at twelve.
In the Country.
W. Huskisson, linen draper, Birmingham, June 5, at eleven,
at the 13irmingham District Court—J. Moncas, chronometer