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London, England, 1845-04-18 00:00:00

NUN, LONDON) PRIDA.V. MORNING, ApnxL ii,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
ROUSE OF LORDS, April 17.
Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
The Earl of RIPON presented a petition from the
Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, praying that
the corn and wheat of that colony may be admitted into
this country on the same terms as the corn and wheat of
Canada.

able or not ; or whether it would not have been more
advisable to invest the money in Government Seeurities,
and afterwards appropriated it to the building of a rec-
tory house ?
The Bishop of LONDON did not feel himself bound
to say whether any private communications had taken
place between the Commissioners and Mr. Burgess on
this subject ; but he could assure the Noble Earl that
every document which had been submitted to the Board
in its public capacity had been laid before the House.
The question more concerned the private interests of the
Noble Earl than the welfare of the public or the Church,
and he could therefore see very little ground indeed
calling for a Parliamentary inquiry. The pew-rents had
beets considerably increased by the talents and popula-
rity of the rector, Mr. Burgess, and in his opinion it
would be extremely hard to take away that emolument
which had accrued to the rector from his own zeal and
exertions, merely to provide for the convenience and
comfort of some future incumbent, or to swell the value
of a particular advowson of which the Noble Fart was
himself the patron.—(llear, hear.) He (lid therefore
trust that their Lordships would not for one moment en-
tertain the motion which had been proposed by the
Noble Earl, because he did think he had given sufficient
reasons for the rejection of the motion.
The Earl of CADOG AN complained that the Right
Rev. Prelate had thrown out as unjust an aspersion
upon his character, as it was possible for one man to
throw out against another. He said that he (the Earl
of Cadogan) made this motion through interested mo-
tives ; such motives he despised, and considered that
they could be entertained by no one sooner than the
person who imputed them.—(Laughter.)
The motion was neg'atived without a division.
ENTAILED ESTATES IMPROVEMENT.
The Duke of RICHMOND was induced to submit a
motion connected with entailed estates, because the
improvement of such estates was closely connected
with the improvement of agriculture ; and he
believed that there was no person who was
not satisfied that thorough drainage was one of the
principal means by which that improvement was to be
effected. There was an Act in existence in Scotland
called the Montgomery Act, and in 1840 an Act was
passed to effect something of the same kind in England,
through the instrumentality of Mr. Pusey. But in those
Acts entailed estates had been overlooked, and it was evi-
dent from the owners only having a life-in'erest in such
estates, and from the natural anxiety which they felt to
provide for their younger children, that these estates
would not have fair play and share in that improvement
which was necessary for the general benefit of the coun-
try. The passing of such a motion as he had to make
would have, if passed, the effect of providing for the in-
dustrious and worthy agricultural labourer that employ-
ment which he now too often sought in vain, and of
giving him a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. He
saw, with much satisfaction, that the commission of
which his Noble Friend (the Earl of Devon) was the
head, had recommended such a measure as this for Ire-
land, and as he (the Duke of Richmond) believed that it
was calculated to do good to both countries, he should
move that a Select Committee be appointed, with a view
to some legislative enactment for enabling the possessors
of entailed estates to charge such estates with a certain
sum, to be limited, and to be expended in drainage for
the improvement of the same.
The Duke of CLEVELAND said that as the object
of this motion was to improve these estates permanently,
and would be as much for the benefit of the successors
to the estates as for the possessors of them, and as
drainage was an improvement that would last for ever,
he thought that no objection could be possibly enter-
tained against it, and he should therefore very readily
second the motion. _

LordASHBURTON saw no great objection to the
motion, but he thought that the charge ought to be for a
certain number of years, and not a permanent charge.
Lord BEAUMONT suggested that there were certain
drainage companies in Yorkshire and elsewhere who
would by such an Act as that proposed by the Noble Duke
(the Duke of Richmond) be enabled to enter into ar-
rangements with the owners of the entailed estates. By
the plan of these companies the possessors of estates
were enabled to drain their lands by allowing certain
portions of the profits to the companies. There were
some things which would have to be guarded against,
but that could be done in Committee.
The Duke of RICHMOND assented to the sugges-
tion of his Noble Friend, and would be glad to go into
details with him in the Committee.
The Committee was granted, and, 'on the motion of
the Duke of RICHMOND, the Lord Chancellor, the
Lord Privy Seal, the Duke of Cleveland, Lord Brougham,
and several other noblemen, were nominated.
LANDS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of DALHOUSIE,
The House went into Committee on the Lands Clauses
Consolidation Bill.
Lord REDESDALE objected to the clause which
gave power to the railway companies to deviate to the
extent of 100 yards on each side of their line, and also
to the paragraph which empowered them to enter upon
land to the extent of 500 yards, for the purpose of dig-
ging clay or gravel.
The remaining clauses were agreed to with amend-
ments ; and the House having resumed, the CHAIRMAN
reported progress.
LANDS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION (SCOT-

reduction made by the Tithe Commissioners, and upon
any surplus in the hands of the Commissioners, for the
purposes of the Maynooth College Act.

SIR' 11. POTTING ER.

Mr. lIUNIE postponed to this day fortnight the mo
tion of which he had given notice for this day respecting
the services of Sir 11. Pottinger.
POOR-LAW (IRELAND).
Sir R. FERGUSON moved for a return, giving the
date of the formation of each union under the Poor
Relief Act in Ireland ; the date of the first admission of
the poor ; the expense (prepared from the audited ac-
counts) in each first and each subsequent half-year for
which the accounts have been audited, with the sums
paid for maintenance and clothing in the first co-
lumn ; those paid for the proportion of establish-
rnr nt charges, repayment of workhouse loan, collec-
tion, burial and all other expenses, in the second; and in
the third, the total expense, the number relieved in each
workhouse in each half-year, the average number re-
lieved half-yearly, the average cost per head per week
for maintenance and clothing in each half-year, and the
(fete at which each half-year ended. and marking the
half years in which instalments of the workhouse loans
have been paid. Return, giving the names of the unions
in Ireland in which the provisions of the Act t and 7 Vie.
e, 92, have been acted on in respect of fever patients, spe-
c•ifying the eases in which the Poor-law Commissioners
have sanctioned, first, the appropriation cf a part of the
workhouse for a fever hospital ; or, secondly, the build-
ing of a fever ward, its distance from the nearest point
of the workhouse, the number it is calculated t,) contain,
the cost of it, and in what manner the money is ob-
tained or, thirdly, the hiring of a house, the number
it will contain, and the rent thereof. Also, a return of
the number of fever patients relieved under the 15th,
and of those relieved under the 16th clause of the above-
named Act, and the average weekly cost of each.—
Ordered.