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London, England, 1844-03-27 00:00:00

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RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARLIAm
- _ • MENT.
Mary-port and Carlisle Railway Bill,—Read a second time,
and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection.
Colchester and Harwich Railway (No. 2) Bill,—Read
second time, and committed, and referred to the Committee
of Selectiotr.
Manchester BitminihlMrailWay Macclesfield and
Foy-11ton Branches)._ (Nis72)-lA=ll,Reported ; Report to lie
on the table, and to.loe` printed.'.: "
Norwich and Brandon Railway Alill,f4leport considered;
amendments agreed to ; Bill to be ingro.FSed.
York and Scarborough Railway 8i11,,L-Repert considered ;
amendments agreed to ; Bill to be ingrossed:
Midland Railways Consolidation Bill,—Lßeperted; Report
to lie on the' table, and to be printed.
Furness Railway Bill,—Reported; Report to. lie on the
table, and to be printed. . .
Guildford - Junction 'Railway Bali—Report considered;
amendments agreed.to ; Bill to be ing,rossad.
Brighton,. Lewes,. ,and Hastings Railway Bill,—Read a
second time, and committed, and referred to the. Committee
of Selection.
London and South Western Railway (No. 1) Bill,—Read
a second time, and committed, and referred to the Committee
of Selection. - .

PRICE sd.

THE AMENDED POOR=LAW BILL.
DEPL'TATION TO SIR JAMES GRAHAM.
Yesterday, a • meeting of delegates from the following me-
tropolitan parishes, viz., St. Marylebone, St. Georges, Han-
over-square, St. Janies-s, 'Westminster, St. Pancras, St. Mar-
garet and St. Jelin, Westminster; St. Mary, Islington, St.
Leoeard, Shoreditch, and St. Luke, Old-street, took place in
the Court-house, Marylebone, for the purpose of proceeding
as a deputation to the Home-office, to urge upon Sir James •
Graham their ,olljections to the provisions of the Amended
Ppor-law Bill, and to solicit him to exempt all parishes
under local Acts from'the operations of its provisions.
The deputation, which was very numerously attended,
proceeded in 'carriages to the Home-office, where they were
joined by the following Members of Parliament":—G. Byng,
Esq., and Colonel T. Wood, the county members ; Sir C.
Napier, T. Wakley, Esq., and T. S. Duncembei Esq., Sir B.
hall being absent, owing to the illness of his son.
The Right Hon. Mr. Frankland Lewis,. one of the Poor-
law Commissioners, was present with Sir James Graham.
Sir C._NartEn introduced the object the deputation had in
vie* to Sir James Graham, and said, that the parishes re-
presented by the delegates present, considered that the
Amended .Poor-law Bill would setiously interfere with their
local interests upon ' several points ; viz., in the mode of
appointing auditors, and in the creation of asylums and dis-
trict schools.
Sir J. Gits.u.ssi said he thought that he had better state the
alterations Which he was willing to make in the amended
Bill. In doing so he was of opinion that it would reduce the
matter in dispute to a very small compass. With regard to
the 17th clause, in reference to the division of parishes into
wards for the election of guardians, and which was worded
in such a manner as to be considered ambiguous, as to whe-
ther it applied to parishes having local Acts or not, he
would 'remove that ambiguity by stating that that mode of
election would be confined to parishes under the Poor-law
Act, and-not to extend to those having local ones. The 56th
clause which bears more with parishes having local Acts, the
proviso tn, which is a restraint on 'the existing law and not
an extension ofthe law, he thought there could be no objection
to.. To the earlier part of the clause an ohjection had
been stated by the Hon. Gentleman (Sir C. Napier) very
correctly of what he (Sir J. Graham) had said on a
former occasion as to its object, which was to ensure at-
tendarree of guardians under local Acts at least once a forts
night, as under the Poor-law Act. Indeed, they meet less
frequently than once a fortnight under some local Acts,
and in some cases only the Chairman had been found in at-
tendance. With respect to those two clauses all difficulty
would be removed, and then the only question remaining
would be those of the auditors, the asylums and the district
schools.
Sir C. NAPIER said that the parishioners of St. Marylebone
felt that the interference of the Poor-law Commissioners was
not required with reference to the proposed asylums, as their
workhouse was open day and night for the reception of the
destitute poor.' He (Sir C. Napier) had gone through the
workhouse, and as well as he was able -to judge, it was well
conducted, so far as health and cleanliness, together with the
education of the children, were concerned
Mr. G. DANIELL, of Marylebone, stated the different grounds
of apprehension entertained by the deputation that the Bill
would affect parishes having local Acts.
Sir J. GRAHAM said he had endeavoured to remove every
difficulty, except as to the district schools, the audit, and the
asylums; and he was disposed to take the opinion of the
House on the extension, so limited, as to parishes under local
Acts. He was there to receive the observations they might
make. Why (as to that limited extent), parishes having
local Acts should not be brought under the same general foot-
ing as other parishes.
Air. DANIELL said, if the 28th clause, which appointed audi-
tors under the control of the Poor-law Commissioners, passed
in its present shape, in connection with the latter part of the
66th clause, the entire independence of boards of guardians
would be annihilated, and the wholesome control of parishes
under local Acts over their own expenditure be entirely abo-
lished. With respect to the proposed district schools, they
considered that not only a vast and unnecessary increase of
expense would be incurred, but that the removal of children
fifteen or twenty miles from their own parish, would rather
increase than diminish the evils of pauperism ; and as re-
garded the proposed establishment of district asylums for
the destitute, they objected to such a principle, on the ground
that they would tend to increase pauperism and incur expense.
DUNCOMBE. M.P., said the real fact was, that the
metropolitan parishes were perfectly satisfied with the pre-
sent state of things, and desired that the Poor-law Commis-
sioners should not have the power to interfere with them in
any way. They felt that they were quite competent to ma-
nage their own affairs, and that if the amended Bill were car-
ried in its present shape, the effect would be to place them at
the feet of the Poor-law Commissioners.
Sir J. GRAHAM said his principal object in the proviso of
the 56th clause was merely to compel boards of guardians in
parishes having local Acts, to meet as often as parishes under
the New Poor-law--at least once a fortnight.
Mr. PUNCOMBE could not see, the necessity of such a pro-
viso, for the guardians of the metropolitan parishes under
local Acts met oftener than under the Poor-law—always once
and sometimes twice a week. It was absurd, therefore, to
give the Poor-law Commissioners power to issue regulations
compelling them to do so.
Sir J. GRAHAM—There were some parishes under local
Acts, in which boards of guardians did not meet oftener than
once in six weeks, and a uniformity in such cases both for
the benefit of the ratepayers and the poor was necessary.
Members of the deputation from other parishes having
urged upon Sir J. Graham various grounds of objection,
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE asked, would Sir J. Graham undertake
to pledge himself to insert a general clause exempting all
parishes having local Acts from the operations of the Bill
, Sir J. GRAHAM said he was not prepared at once that day
to give such a pledge. He should, however, certainly deli-
berate upon the representations made by so numerous and
respectable a deputation, and he should feel it his duty to
represent to the Government the arguments which had been
adduced by the delegates from the metropolitan parishes. -
Mr. DUNCOMBE said, under such circumstances he would
suggest to the deputation that they should leave the matter
for the present entirely in the hands of Sir J. Graham.
Sir J. GRAHAM said that the deputation might depend
upon it that their representation should receive his best at-
tention.
The delegates then withdrew, and adjourned again to the
Marylebone Court-house, where a general meeting of a larger
number of deputies from the various metropolitan parishes
had, pursuant to notice, assembled to receive their report.
Mr. DANIELL having been re-appointed to the chair, a
statement was made as to what had transpired at the Home-
office ; and, after a long discussion, it was agreed to appoint
a joint committee of all the parishes to watch the Bill, and
to ascertain from Sir J. Graham his final decision on the point
Submitted to him.
A vote of thankshaving been given to the Chairman iind
the deputation, the meeting- separated.

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THE .LATE • MR. WAREING, BIRMINGHAM.—An
inquest was held on Monday evening, at the house of Mr.
JoshuaStinton, Grand Turk, Landgate-hill, Birmingham, on
the .body of the late Mr. George `Wareing, whose death oc-
curred in the Catholic Cathedral of that town. The first
witness called was Mr. George Payne, who deposed that he
was an assistant to deceased, and had been in the habit of
seeing him daily. He seemed in pretty good health gene-
-rally, and was a man of very active and temperate habits.
He saw him about eight' o'clock on Sunday morning in his
own l'-urd, and -afterwards in the cathedral. Witness *ent
into the church first, and deceased came in at about twenty
Minutes to eleven o'clock. Deceased went to the upper end
of the pew (or seat) and knelt down beside witness on his
left hand. Deceased joined in the service the same as others.
and read from his book, and .he (witness) perceived nothing
the matter with him until a few minutes before twelve o'clock
he saw:deeeased kneel down with others, and put his hand to
his face, and presently he fell back and then on his side on to
the ground. Deceased put his hands to his face suddenly, as
if from pain, and then fell- back. There was a rush of per-
sons to assist him, and his body was taken to the Palace, and
attended by Mr. Bentiow, surgeon, who bled deceased at the
back, but he expired. Mr. James Wareing, son of deceased,
stated that he complained.of being a little deaf during the
previous fortnight, and sometimes of a tightness over his
nose. The jury immediately returned a verdict of "Died by
the visitation of God by apoplexy.7'
MERCHANT SEAMEN'S SOClETY.—Yesterday, a
meeting of the governors of this Charity, which is estab-
lished for the relief and support of sick, maimed, and: dis-
abled seamen, their widows and orphans, was held at the
Society's rooms, Birchin-lane. From the report read by Mr.
Watson, it appeared that the receipts amounted to 21,7311.
3s. 9d. ; and the disbursements, including 17,6381. paid to
pensioners, tigdred 20,3301. 17s. 2d. The following are the
pensioners on the Society's funds, viz., 1,646 men, 2,519
women, and 2,785 children.
AN EARLY BROOD.—The following fact goes to
show the extreme mildneskof the past winter :--For several
months past a Mr. Curtis has been confined by Hitless, at the
Albionon Horsemonger-lane, and occupies an ,upper room
with a southern aspect. During the winter he was visited
by a brrice of sparrows, who perched on.t4ie sill of the window
near his bed, and in the severe weather they were supplied
, with food. About the middle of February they began to
build their nest on a ledge under the chamber window; and
such has been their industry. and care that they have four
young ones, able to leave their nest and nearly fledged and
as-the parent birds are well supplied with food, their chirping
offspring thrive fast. The circumstance is remarkable, as this
doinestic bird seldom prepares for the work of incubation till
the end of March. These appear to have fOrstalled St. Va-
lentine's day.
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METROPOLITAN DRAPERS' ASSOCIATION. A
meeting of the Islington District Branch of the above Asso-
ciation was held at the Parochial School-room, the Rev. D.
Wilson, Vicar, in the chair. The meeting was addressed by
the, Rev. Mr. Arnie!, Rev. Mr Hughes, and the Rev. Mr.
'Venn, MeSsrs. Owen, Foskey, and other gentlemen, and re-
saitions were unanimously agreed- to condemnatory of the
present late-hour system, and calling on the public to assist
in removing the evil by abstaining from making purchases at
late hours of an evening. The several speakers pointed out
in forcible terms the evils arising from the present system,
and, gave a very satisfactory account of the progress of the
iAsoociation. 1 hanks were given to the Chairman, and the
meeting dispersed soon after ten o'clock.
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ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY A OUNG FEMALE.—
This Morning, between twelve and one o'clock, a fashion-
ably-dressed young woman, between .18 and 19 years of age,
- whose name it appears is Mary Hodson, residing at 23, Fitz-
toy-row, Fitzroy-square, was brought into University Col-
lege Hospital, Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square, suffering
from the effects of having, with the intention of committing
suicide, swallowed poison, viz., a quantity of sugar of lead.
The usual remedies were applied, and by the aid of the sto-
mach-pump a considerable portion of the poison 'icrk's ex-
tracted, but from the length of time she bad taken it, the
extensive injury to the coats of the stomach it had effected
renders her recovery doubtful. It appears she formerly held
a respectable situation in a tradesman s establishment 4m the
neiglabonthood, but having been lately seduced andAban-
'aired by her betrayer, she was induced to adopt a vicious
and profligate life. Last night she returned home in an ex-
Lcited state from liquor, and having quarrelled with her land-
lord respecting some rent she was in arrear, she went out in
a passion and procured the poison in question.

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