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London, England, 1850-03-06 00:00:00

IMPER E./IL PikitL/AMENT

11017 SE OF LORDS, Abirch 5.

Tre Lonn CHANCELLOR took his sf at upon the Wool-
sack at Five oVo:.1:.

Lord HATITEHTON proxented several petitions
praying f.,r the extension of the jurisdiction of the
county cow ts. . . .

The Earl of ELLEN'I3OROUGH presented a petition
praying for a bete- supply of wa:er t) the inetrop,ll3.

.ALDERNEY-.C`ICSE OF MRS. RILEY.

The Duke of WELLINGTON moved for certain
papers and orders relating to this case, in addition to
those moved for by Lord Brougham last night.
COMMONS ENCLOSURE BILL,

On the motion for the second reading of this Bill,
Lord PORTMAN thought this a favourable opportu-
nity of directing the attention ( f their Lordships t) the
subject of agricultural statistics. A f3w years since
there hid been a paid:, under the idea that there would
be a scircity, whereas if they had had proper
statistical returns it would have appeared that
there was an ample supply of corn, more
or less concealed, and prices would not have risen
as they had done, in the same way, be believed, that in
good years farmers had been led to entertain undue ap-
prehensions of a glut, which they would not have enter-
tained ha 1 they li,d proper statistical returns.

The Earl of GRA:NV ILIA: admitted the importance
of the subj Pet.
After a few words from the Earl of MOUNT-
CASIIELL, the Bid was road a second time.
THE EARL GREY EMIGRANT SHIP.

The Earl of MOUNTCASHELL then rose, pur-
suant to notice, to move an address for—first, a return
of all papers connected with the Ea-1 Grey emigrant
ship, in order to embrace the dispatebe3 of the Lieu-
tenant-Governor of Sydney, with its enclosures; and
the report cf the Emigration Committee therein re-
ferred to. Second, the communication from Earl
Grey to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant. Third,
the evidence and report of Mr. Otway, Poor-law
Inspector. Fourth, all correspondence from his Ex-
cellency the Lord-Lieutenant, addressed to Earl Grey.
Fifth, the reports of the Emigration Commissioners. ad-
dressed to Earl Grey. Sixth, the reports of the Poor-
law Inspectors, Otway and Senior, on this subject; with
their marginal notes. Seventh, copies of letters from
the Poor-law Commissioners to the Belfast board of
guardians; with all other correspondence on the subject.
Earl GREY objected to the motion as unnecessary.
The papers laid before their Lordships contained
full details on the subject, and if, when
they should have been printed, the Noble
Earl considered the production of the documents
which he now moved for necessary they should be pro-
duced. lie begged to state that he bad not said it was
the Be'fsst board of guardians who had made the change
of persons complained of, but the board c f guardians of
Dungannon. He trusted, however, that nothing that
had passed would tend to check emigration to Australia.
He would now state, in order to correct
any false ideas that might exist on the sub-
ject, that out of 29,987 emigrants who had
gone out to Australia recent'y, only 486 deaths had oc-
curred. Nearly 200 surgeons had been employed in
this service, and there had been very few cases of actual
misconduct, although there had been some in which
surgeons had been reported as deficient in energy.
Many of the complaints which had been made on this
subject had turned out to bo unfounded, and it was
clearly the interest of the owners and charterers
of emigrant ships to render that service as
perfect as possible, and ho believed that
they endeavoured to the utmost of their power
to do so, and that, generally speaking, emigration
had been conducted in a manner highly honourable to
the individuals concerned in its superintendence and
highly honourable to the country.
The Earl of MOUNTCASHELL denied that the
surgeons of emigrant ships deserved the high character
which had been given them by the Noble Earl, and the
silence of the medical men under the charges which he
(the Earl of Mountcashell) brought against them proved
the truth of those charges. The great majority of the sur-
geons were incompetent or vicious, because the remunera-
tion offered was not sufficient to induce men of superior
qualifications to accept the appointment. Many of them
were merely apothecaries, and some of them only apo-
thecaries' apprentices. The Colonial-office must reform
the system altogether. He should on Friday move for
returns of penalties imposed on persons for breaches of
duty under the Emigration Act.
Earl GREY explained.
The Earl of MOUNTCASHELL rose, and was pro-
ceeding to enter into details on the subject of which he
had given notice for Friday next, when
Lord BROUGHAM rose to crder. It was not com-
petent for a Noble Lord to discuss a motion on giving
notice of his intention to raiso a discussion on it at a
future reriod.—(Hear.)
The Earl of MOUNTCASHELL said that the Noble
and Learned Lord was the last who ought to have called
him to order, as no one was to constantly guilty of
breaches of order as the Noble and Learned Lord
himself. The Noble Earl then proceeded amidst roars of
laughter,which frequently rendered him inaudible, to show
that his conduct was perfectly in order, and concluded
by giving not:ca of his intention of moving on Friday
for returns relating to the emigrant ship Sobraon, and
the subject dropped. It was understood that the motion
made by the Noble Earl this evening was withdrawn.