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LONDON. FRIDAY. JULY 4, 1845.

The Lords met at Five o'clock.
On the motion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, the Gaming
and Wager Bill was read a second time.
Lord BROUGHAM then proposed certain resolutions for
the regulating the passing of Railway Bills, to be added
to the standing orders. The further consideration of
these resolutions was, after a short discussion, postponed
till to-morrow (this day).
The Earl of ABERDEEN brought in the Slave-trade
Treaties (Brazil) Bill, which was read a first time.

The Irish Banking Bill passed through Committee.
On the motion of Lord DENMAN, the Administration
of Criminal Justice Bill was read a second time, after A
short discussion.

Their Lordships then adjourned.
The Commons met at Four.
Sir G. CLERK, in answer to Mr. FIUTT, stated that it
was his ictention to introduce a Bill for continuing the
Flour and Biscuit Act.

Mr. DIVETT then directed the attention of the House
to the case of Mr. PARROTT, against whom an action had
been brought for evidence given by him before a Com-
mittee of the House, and moved that the party bringing
the action, and his agents, be summoned to the bar.

At the suggestion of Mr. WINN and Sir R. PEEL,
AUGUSTUS HENRY MOORE, the attorney to Mr.PARROTT,
was called in, and proved that the declaration in the ac.

tlon had been served on Mr. PARROTT on the :26th for
.Tune, in the name of KETTLE, BAKER, and GRANT, of
34, Lyon-street, for EDWARDS and FRY, solicitors,
Totness.

On the motion of Mr. DIVETT, Messrs. KETTLE,
BARER, and GRANT, were ordered to appear at the bar
on Monday.

On the motion that the order of the day for the House
going into Committee on the Poor Law Amendment
(Scotland) Bill be read, a lengthened discussion ensued,
but on a division there appeared, for going into Com-
mittee, 76, against it, 33 ; majority for going into Com-
mittee, 43. The House then went into Committee, and
several clauses were agreed to.

After some o.nver;tition a division took place on an
amendment proposed by Mr. Fox MAULE tor the omis-
sion of part of the 18th clause. The amendment was
lost by a majority of 34. The numbers being for the
amendment, 30 ; against it, 64.
Clauses up to 34 were agreed to, when, on the motion
of Mr. WATSON, the Chairman reported progress, and
asked leave to sit again.

Sir T. FREMANTLE brought in the Drainage Acts
(Ireland) Amendment Bill, which was read a first time,
and the House adjourned at One o'clock.

Nothi-g can he of more mischievous cons( quences
han that the severity of a law, admirable in its prin-
ciple, but in its operation, perhaps, inevitably unequal,
and occasionally cruel, should be aggravated needlessly,
and most offensively, by the heartlessness or stu-
pidity—or the operation of both these causes—of churl
ish officials charged with the duties of its administra-
tion. The Poor-law Amendment Act has enough to
--nswer for, HEAVEN knows, in its sins of omission,
which are many—and of commission, which are more.
But we should scarcely have credited the fact, hal we not
seen i;.bo particularly animunced—that a Statute which,
whether its intrinsic god or evil preponderate, has
certainly received an unusual degree of support from
humane and upright men of all parties, could be per-
verted to so manifestly oppressive an application of the
letter of Ls enactments as in the instance we are about
to refer to. It is a tale of tho-e social anomalies among
us, the horror of which is only blunted by reason of their
frequency.
It' a foreigner were now, for the first time, to arrive
in England, unacquainted with our laws, and the ge-
nius of our Constitution, with the professed respect
her h for the personal rights and privileges of the subject ;
but thrown into the midst of that profusion, opulence,
and luxury, which are concentrated in such masses in
this metropolis ; what would be his first and very natu-
ral impression of the people and the institutions among
which he then found himself ? Surely—that he had
come among a people with whom wealth was all but uni-
versally diffused, or by whom property was univer-
sally respected, even among the more indigent classes
of society. The magnificence of the shops, the bril
liancy of the equipages, the sumptuousness of' the enter-
tainments, the almost careless display of valuable and
precious property on all sides—and, above all, the ge-
neral patience and forbearance of those who had
least in respect of those who enjoyed the most
of these felicitous conditions of existence—could not
fail to impress the foreigner with lofty notions of
the humanity which the poorer and more miserable sec-
tions of the community must receive from the higher, to
secure that respect for property wbich its exposed con-
dition, its abundance, its accessibility, in every direction,
would at once lead him to infer that property, in effect,
must realise. Without that sort of experience, which
only opportunities for nearer observation could afford
him, he might be seduced into the dangerous delusion
of moralising on the happy influence of equal laws for
the rich and for the poor in producing, among the latter,
an unlimited respect for the possessions of the former ;
in the former, an unbounded interest and sympathy for
the condition and feelings of the latter. If this foreigner
were told that, from a variety of causes, some of then:
inherent, as it were, in our social system, our laws and
usages, regarding the descent and distribution of pro-
perty, and many more identified with, or neces-
cessarily resulting from the accidents of our
commercial relations with foreign states, and the fluctuat-
ing character of our domestic trade, there was a tendency
peuperiem in some classes, cennnensurate with the
tendency of the population to numerical increase ; h
weuld readily co prebend the beneficence and the polic)
of a poor-relief law. But what could be his estimate of
the equity of the charity—of the wisdom with which the
Legislature rewarded in the indigent and labouring
million this respect for the rights of capital and pro-
pert} in •ither-, this upright abstinence from spol atioe
e--r the str. n,.t temptations of appalling want, of
squalid sin:i the bitter contrast of their own con.
ilition ;shit that of the possessors of lands, money, and
lucrative investments ; if he looked into the practical
operation of that law of relief, which in the abstract he
would riehtlyconclude to be intended for the succour of the
" helpless and infirm, the aged, impotent and destitute ?"
Would he nest blush with natural indignation at his
own siniplieity and credulity in believing that England
was a land of Christian charity, of humanity, of mercy ?
What would he think of such a case as that which oc-
curred at the Greenwich Police-court, only a few days
ago ? A gentleman was riding, with his father, over
the estate of the latter, in a direction from Blackheath
towards tie river, and behind a bridge, in a field, detects
a human figure, almost in a state of nudity. The
wretched object proved to be a female, with a
fragment of clothing thrown about her shoulder:.
After giving her a piece of money, the gentleman
humanely rides to the Greenwich Union Workhouse, and
informs the maser of her destitute and perishing co'i-
dition. This happens on a Sunday afternoon. The
master assures the gentleman (in that strain of official
slang or pedantry, which seems, to us, never so dis-
gusting as when employed by poor-law officers,) " that
it is not the province (!) of the parishes to interfere.
The police should take the woman into custody, and then
the magistrate would deal with the case, formally."
No doubt, a very proper and delicate technicality. But Gerdes AND WAGERS. The LordwPreers,si,de(wh:h
President's Bill
the wotnan—the houseless, shivering, forlorn, naked "To amend the law
concerning games and wagers"
crewurce croueheel under the "shelter" of a bridge arch— just been printed by order of their Lordships' House) repeals thatas
skill,
33su Henry VIII., C. 9, which declares any game of mere
is this wOßrul to wait to be rescued whilst the long chain
to be be
anw nugnlacwofyutlingga,inceloyLlicay4l,iehaßlifllbowl,tennis,
of Official formalities, link by link, is strung together ? or the like," furtherat: mdoen-
Well, a policeman is found ; in due time he visits the dares that, in order to prove any house or place to be a
gaming.house, it shall be sufficient to prove " it is kept or used for
tn:seraWe ereat.ire ; X 999 is saeisfied that it is a case ; playingherey thereinoneor more
t anoyf t unlawfulhe game, l and that a bank is kept
X 999 returns, and applies to the union-house for some
plyeeyreds erxhceruesinivealreeonfortheelikoethfeairor
kind of applrel betbre he can legally remove her. Having that the chances of any game')
able to all the players, including among the players the banker or
roeure(l at the werkhouse a worn-out Covering and
bonnet, lie hies hien back to the field, causes her to dress
other person by whom the game is managed, or against whom the
other players stake, play, or bet." The power of justices is to be
as well as she can, tied marches her off to the station- exercised under warrant to enter any such house. Additional
where h'- giefs h"r into the charge of an inspector penalties are proposed to be imposed, not exceeding 1001. or six
imkeepers. irerisofnment in a house of correction, on gaming-house
4di duty. Having thus been tri 'sod through Ole.. af pli-
to the in support of ain foorfmgastroinnsgfofor for ma
mo riinegy, dticii,e is
police
et te be necessary
C..tiotis and two custodies, site is brought up I
may search for instruments of gaming, and witnesseslc superintendentare to be in-
' Gri enw:ch next ila%, and then states that,
brit g utterly. destitute, she had wandered about the bdieitiliTricletdablfarotesh
lalll prosecution, &c. It is proposed that public
tobre licepeselnsted6
Charles
Michaelmas fiel Is ter an last two days and nights. Her clothing hed proposes furthera
c II ; 9 Anne, C. 14 ; 11 Anne, c 75 I;"sc.a7nCi 106 %Ilia: IV:,
vrevi. u ta en orn to iI it droppi d eff, leavitiv
c. 41n;saltiladhlpearttooifnd1.8 George 11., C. 34 (sections 3 and 8, making
her in the miserable eetiditi,,n we have described. She.
elnottfororwiwnintiht;gii or losing at play, er byi
hail be n in the !lent I Hem, stead union fists .•tne persons
at any one Jinn:
until turn ,) L use by the mash ;1 on the Actions and informarteiocnnszasrraeboihteottintoetlnogiscroonottniwenyeunetdbY:a°fanuldrsechhpoeeuearttseinn2geoeas.t)
grow. d -1:5,;11,:: 1.1, sipe hid het play is to
notbe punishedtobe
caw. and convictions, &c., are
own Lying. ' eel, out lei see if she could Lunt not"gto"bae are
informaltty,Bl

The courtier de l'Afrique of the 21st ult. contains the fol-
lowing intelligence from Oran :—" The negotiations with
Morocco, which appeared to have been interrupted, on
account of the treaty of commerce being connected with the
main treaty, which had for object the regulation of the limits
of the territories, and the relations of the two contracting
powers, have, we are assured, just been resumed on the old
basis, and the dread of hostilities appears to be entirely at
an end."

The Funds. on Tuesday, were rather more firm on the Paris
Bourse. The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 65c. ; the Five
per Cents. at 121 f. 65c. • Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,167 f. 50c. ;
Rouen, 1,027 f. 10c. ; Vierzon, 750 f. ; Havre, 840 f. ; Avignon,
970 f. ; Basle, 252 f. 50c. ; Spanish Three per Cents, 39*
ex. div.

The following are the quotations for the new lines:—
°Hears and Bordeaux, 167 f. 50c. premium ; Boulogne,
110 f. 50c. ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 27f. 50c; Paris
and Lyons (Laffitte), 20f.; ditto (Caton), par; ditto (Gan-
neron), 71. 50c. ; Northern line (Laffitte), 32f. 50c.; ditto
(Rosamel), 6f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 10f.;
ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 5f.; ditto (Jacque
Lqevre), par; Lyons and Avignon ( Lecointe), 12f. 50c ; ditto
(Tulabot), 371. 50c.; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 71.50 c. ;
Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 50c. ; ditto and Cette
(Espeleta), 3f. 50c.; Creil and St. Quentin, par; Paris and
Strasbourg (Ganneron), 10f. ; Dijon and Mulhausen, par.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number
of deaths during the week ending June 28 was 830, exceed-
ing that of the previous week by 27. There has been a
slight increase under the head of diseases of the organs of
respiration, and the number of violent deaths is greatly above
the average, being more than double the usual returns. The
total number is 52. and of these 11 were suicides, 5 from
scalds and burns, and nearly all the rest from accidents. Ten
deaths by small-pox occurred under 15 years of age, and the
remaining two at the respective ages of 38 and 49 years.
The fall of rain in inches was 0.62.

DRURY -LANE THEATRE.
This establishment closed last night for the season,
;hen Mr. Bunn ddivered the following addri :
" Ladies and Gentlemen,—l have the honour of ap-
pearing before you, on this occasion, with no other sanc-
tion than that of custom, to return you my acknow-
ledgements for the patronage you have been pleased to
bestow up* our exertions.
" The season now closing, one of the longest ever
known in this theatre, has been beset with no ordinary
difficulties. My old acquaintance, and former rival, Co-
vent-garden Theatre, has opposed us with every variety
of alluremi nt, from a promenade concert to a provincial
haz -tar. Most of my principal performers have been ill
for a considerable portion of our time, and the elements
have been sadly unpropitious ; yet, with all these draw-
backs, it has been made manifest that the class of enter-
tainment submitted to your approbation has been the
preferable one ; for, under your generous protection, I
have brought another a, ason to a favourable issue.
" I never presume to enter upon that now hacknied '
question of legitimate or illegitimate performances. I
have but one object in view, and that is to please the
public; and when I call to mind (with no common
degree of satisfaction) that portions of all our per-
formances are to be found upon the pianofortes of every
drawing-room in the empire, I can afford to smile at the
malevolence of those who affect to be disappointed.
" I take leave to inform you that I shall re-open this
theatre, with every degree of attraction I can procure, at
the end of next September, and all which now remains
for me to do is to thank you most cordially for that
liberality which has enabled me to remunerate the many
eminent a, tistes who have had the honour of appearing
before you."