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London, England, 1829-05-05 00:00:00

CLERK OF THE PLEAS IRELAND BILL.

The report on this Bill was brought up. On the
question that the amendments be read a second time,
Mr. G. MOORE gave notice to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, that on the third reading of this Bill he should
propose a clause for the purpose of ascertaining the rights
and adjusting the losses of certain individuals, who would
be reduced by the passing of it.
Mr. ALEXANDER DAWSON said that this Bill
would inflict gross injuries on the individuals, whose
rights were going to be sacrificed to the Exchequer for the
benefit of the public.
The amendments were then agreed to, and the third
reading of the Bill was fixed for Thursday next.
LIFE ANNUITY BILL.

On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER, who said that since he had entered the House he
had received some memoranda respectiog this Bill, which
he had not yet read, the further consideration of the report
on this Bill was postponed to Friday (we believe. )
The report on the City Canal Bill was received—the
amendments were agreed to—the Bill was ordered to be
engrossed, and to be read a third time to-morrow.
LABOURERS' WAGES BILL.

Mr. SLANEY moved the order of the day for the
second reading of this Bill.
Mr. HUNIE felt greater objection to this Bill than to
any Bill which had been introduced into Parliament within
his experience. He did not rise to oppose the second
reading of this Bill, but merely to guard himself against
the supposition that he was favourable to the principle
of it.

Mr. S. BOURNE said that it was impossible for any
person to read the preamble of this Bill without seeing
that the object of the mover of it was highly beneficial.—
His doubts were as to the practicability of the means by
which the Hon. Mover intended to carry it into effect.—
It was notorious that in many agricultural parishes, parti-
cularly in the South of England, it had become the prae-
tice to make a money payment to able-bodied labourers in
proportion to the number of their children. The practice
had grown into a flagrant abuse, and many individuals
contrived by it to get the labour of their farms done at the
expellee of the parish. This Bill was intended to correct
such abuses ; but he conceived the means which it pro-
posed impracticable to that end. He did not, however,
intend to oppose its going into a Committee.
Mr. CRIPPS too, felt many objections to this Bill.
Mr. BURRELL would be sorry that the Bill would
not go into a committee, although there were many parts
of it of which he did not altogether approve.
Sir G. PHILLIPS supported the Bill.
Sir T. FREEMANTLE also supported the Bill.

Mr. F. PALMER considered that part of the Bill ob-
jectionable which went to make the landlord in the country
pay rates for those cottages which he had erected for the
convenience and accommodation of his labourers, and out of
which he received no rents whatever. He should not ob-
ject to that clause in the Bill, if it went solely to make the
landlords of houses in towns pay the rates for them, as he
was well aware that a great deal of speculation existed in
the erection of buildings in towns.
Mr. CRIPPS spoke in support of the Bill.
Mr. MUNDY trusted that the House would go into a
Committee on the Bill.

Mr. WESTERN bad no objection to go into a Com-
mittee.

Sir THOMAS FREEMANTLE, in explanation,
stated, that in speaking of conspiracies among the far-
mers, he had not used the term in an invidious sense.
Mr. C, WOOD recommended that the Bill should be
allowed to go through a Committee.
Mr. WM. SMITH observed, that while he concurred
in opinion with the Hon. Member behind him (Mr. Sla-
ney) that we had only a choice of evils, he was not con-
vinced that he had chosen the least.
Mr. PEEL was more and more convinced, as he consi-
dered this question, of its importance and of its difficulty.
The practice which the present Bill was intended to sup-
press was most objectionable; but one thing was ap-
parent—this practice did not increase in the same propor-
tion in which pauperism increased. His objection to the
Bill was, that it interfered with the market for labour,
and tended to lower the condition of the labouring poor.—
What he (Mr. Peel) feared from this Bill was, that, as it
stood, the change was too precipitate. The change
should, op the contrary, be most discreet and temperate.
The practice in question had long existed ; yet the Hon.
Member says it shall now be discontinued. He (Mr.
Peel) joined with the Hon. Member in condemning it,
but it was a practice which had subsisted for 40 or 50
years; and if it be a practice to which both parties, the
hiring and the hired, have been so long habituated, did
the Hon. Member require its discontinuance on the pass-
ing of the Bill ? If the case was ten times stronger than
it was, the remedy proposed should not be adopted till after
mature consideration, and a notice to the parties interested
in a charte like this, which would override the existing
practices.
Mr. SLANEY replied to some of the objections made
to the Bill.
The Bill was then read the second time, and ordered to
be committed on Thursday next.
Sir G. COCKBURN moved for leave to bring in a
Bill for altering the management of Naval Out.pensions,
and transferring certain duties in matters of Prize to the
Treasurer of the Navy.
Sir J. YORKE expressed his disapprobation of the
Bill, which was one of the consequences of the former
measure introduced by his Hon. and Gallant Friend.—
The end of the present proceedings would, he feared, be
the introduction of a bill to enable Messrs. Robins, or
some ether auctioneers of the present day, to knock down
Greenwich Hospital, its domes, its spires, and its pillars, to
the best bidder.
Sir G. COCKBURN argued, that the abuses to which
the gallant officer had alluded imperatively called for these
Bills. In bringing the first measure forward, he had
found fault with no individual-be had merely objected to
the system. It was wholly impossible that 400 or 500
irresponsible individuals could manage the affairs of the
institution properly. The Gallant Officer was wholly
incorrect in hiz assumed facts. He had stated, that
estates, apparently worth 60,0001. er '70,000/. a-year,
produced but 20,0001. That was not the truth. The
average, for five years, of the receipts of the Hospital,
amounted to 40,0001. per annum,—and not 20,0001.,
as the Gallant Officer had stated,—a sum which just
doubled his calculation. That an alteration was neces-
sary in the system was quite obvious from what had re-
cectly occurred when the deputy treasurer walked off
with a considerable portion of the funds of the' hos-
pital. So badly was the business of the hospital ma-
naged, that it was found impossible to punish that
individual. He was brought into a criminal court
and the indictment against him contained six or seven
counts; but still he was acquitted, because it was found im-
possible to make out whether he was the officer_of the. King,
or of the ,Admiralty, or of the treasurer of the hospital ;
so that they could not take the money from him, though
he was living at Greenwich in possession of his spoil.
This could not again happen, because by the Bill recently
passed, a certain responsibility was attached to the indivi-
dual therein mentioned.
Leave was then given to bring in the Bill.
Lord F. L. GOWER obtained leave to bring in two
Bills—the pne to consolidate and amend the Statutes in
Ireland relativi tp offences against the person ; the other
to amend the several Acts for the encouragement of the
Irish Fisheries.
DISSECTION.

Mr. WABBURTONohtained leave to bring in a Bill
for preventing the disinterment of Dead Bodies, and for
the better regulation of the Sahools of Anatomy.
The House adjourned at a Quarter before Twelve o'clock.

The Duke pf WELLINGTON last week visited
his newly purchased estates, Wolverton and Ewhurst.
His Grace was welcomed by merry peals from the bells of
Wolverton church, which were ci.c,tinued throughout the
day.—Hants Chronicle.
Mr. ARNOLD is making extensive and liberal
arrangements for the ensuing season at the English Opera-
house. Several of the fine German and Italian operas
which are unknown in this country will be produced in
the course of the summer ; and we trust that the public
will duly reward the good taste and liberality of a manager
who has done more to improve the taste far music in
England than all the other managers of the metropolis.
HFALING PLASTER EXTRAORDINARY
Mr. N0n4.4, the celebrated Composer, of whose musical
talent the world was nearly deprived in a late affair (II
honour, has just receiva an Indian Healing Plaster to
the tuno of Thirty Thousand Pound., besides lauded pro-
perty to nearly the same amount, left to him hi a relative
of his late wife, Authmss of Lang,reath, &c.
" NON OMIIIS NI.t.R.IAR:—SiT WILLIAM
CUAT/S is not quite dead. At a at dinner at the Old
bailey, the plower of the City Aldermen volunteered
Grace, and thus gracefully delivered himself—
" God bless the meat,
And them as pa)."

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