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London, England, 1828-06-06 00:00:00

iMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 5.

Lt M PLuNKT.tr took his seat in the House this eveuiug.
Sir ALE:CA.4O)ER. GRANT and others, brought up the
Hotel Licensing Bill ; a Bill to enable the Bishop of Win-
chester to, Cell timber on the estate of his See, and to apply
the mo•Aey arising therefrom to eertain purposes ; and a Bill
f,)r cm:losing Lands in Great Horsham.
Sir G. HILL and others brought up a Bill for making a
aaTigable canal in Ireland.

Mr. Brea and others-brought up the Covent Garden
Market Improvement Bill. '
t ord ELDON presented petitions from the inhabitants of
Chelteuham, and Wardleston, in the county of Northampton,
apices farther concessions to the Roman Catholics. ' Also
a petition from planters of property in the West Indian
Colonies, residing in and near Edinburgh, praying that
before any alteration
.should be made in the law as
it affected Slavery, their Lordships would be pleased
to bend out Commissioners to see how the Slaves
were fed, clothed, and treated, and that the proprietors
might be properly Indemnified whenever any alteration
took placs.____

Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from a Mr.
Banks (wt thought he said), on the subject of the Leigh
Peerage, but in so low tone of voice that we could not
ascertain the substance.
SCOTCH SETTLEMENT BILL.
Lord ROSESERRY moved the second reading of the
Scotch Settlement Bill. In doing so, the Noble Lorsl
sated, that in consequence of the great influx of Irish pour,
particularly into the western parts of Scotland, the sup-
porters of this Bill had thought it necessary that it should
be introduced, and its object was that such Irish poor should
not be entitled to a settlement there until they had been
Seven years resident in Scotland. As the law now stood,
they were entitled to claim a settlement s well as
the Scotch themselves after having resided there three years.
The consequence was that many aged people from Ireland,
unable any longer to work, flocked into Glasgow, for in-
stance, that in a short time they might gain support for their
future lives. Crowds of the younger Irish population oho
glutted other parts of Scotland, and underrated the Scotch
labourer in performing the work of those parts, which wag
a great evil, and productive of considerable misery.
Lord MELVILLE gave his strenuous opposition to thu
provisions of the Bill ; he objected to the principle, and
considered that if it were even to be passed it would be
impracticable to carry its provisions into operation.
It was the first time, he believed, that ever such a principle
had been attempted to be brought into Parliament sioco
the Union, and was highly repugnant to every measote that
hid been passed, with the view of giving effect to the
legislative union. He thought it would be a harsh enact-
ment. Why should their Lordships take upon themselves
to legislate that the Scotch should be entitled to a settlement
after three years' residence, and the Irish not entitled till after
seven years' residence. The Noble Lord moved as an
amendment, that this Bill he read a second time this day
three months.

The Earl of LIMERICK cordially joined with the Noble
Lord who bad last spoken in opposing this Bill. The
Noble LOrd who introduced the Bill had said that poverty,
and he was not quite sure whether he had not added pro-
gigxey, was introduced into Scotland by ship-loads from
Ireland. It was quite new to him that Scotland, for which
he had the greatest respect, was not to be soiled by the foot of
an Irishman. What would the Noble Lord (Roseberry) say,
if this Bill passed, and the inhabitants of this country
were to say, ns he believed they did once say,—For
Heaven's sake keep us from Scotland !—(Laughter.)—
He trusted that the House would not go hack to
measures of antiquity which he had hoped were exploded
from this country. It bad been said that the worthy
Scotch labourers were ousted out of their employment by
the Irish performing the work for less wages—did the
Noble Lord not know, that only a short time agh
the majority of weavers in the West of Scotland, consi-
dered that they ought to have more wages than their eta-
ployers deemed necessary, and that at that time their
I.llxstere put advertisements in the Papers, and brought over
these Irisiituen.—(A laugh.)—He trusted the House would
not sanction the Bill.

Lord ROSEBERRY, in explanation, said that no men
out of Ireland could be more anxious than he was to have
same measures adopted tor the relief of its inhabitants.—
He meant nothing disrespectful either to Ireland or its
inhabitants : it was owing to tire great influx of Irishmen
into SCotland, that this I3ill was originated, but the enact-
ments were to apply to the English as well as the Irish
residing there.
The Earl of HADPINGTON supported the Bill.
The Earl of ROSSLYN opposed the Bill in its pre`
tent shape. And after some observations from•the Earl
Vf BELlirl7aN and Lord Miztvitte, it was agreed that the
Bill should pass through its present stage, and also through
a Committee ; that it should be presented as amended in
the Committee, and that it should then lie over until the
next Session.