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London, England, 1842-06-04 00:00:00

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of the timber duties.
POOR-LAWSTUART CONTINUANCEITOITIetsion
Mr. tor the
to the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of A/3,4' Asiong
lAnished ,
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pt li
st a
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Home Department, connected with one of the vro _
of the measure he had proposed, for making soma, ,alters'
tion in the Poor-law Amendment Aet,' on Which .2,llied
reason to believe that great misapprehension r,7
in different part:, of the country. In the original 1 o,9_ll.era
Amendment Act, by the Interpretation Act, ,al5
order was defined to be one that the. Poor-law C.°2l3!!''„ne
sioners wire empowered to issue to more tt,l,lloL'i-vid
Union at a time, and that any order of the kin t,,#fefor
come under the inspection of the Secretary idr Sr
the 'al Ilu
e e De)t
ha re
t mn
new t
o hot'
issuing such Orders was restricted. Ile had reason t
t,
in the law, the power of the Cornmisstoner; wi! h respele'lew
Bainud, beenarett•poinsrtecedrttaohir
attirtlerrvievit;
In a
re
that this clause had prodpeed animpresskon,that hyi
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general orders would .be
cable, and that they would take .eflect where ~,nib
did not now take effect under the existinr, la,-‘onet
was therefore desirable that the Right; Hon.-
should state distinctly-the real intention of this• Pru
of the Bill. made universally 11P.
C oto'
proposed was, a limitation of the poWer of the „_,,,ctetl
Sir J. GRAHAM explained that the he
Sir
stoners, who could at present, by a syegial order, ,11,10;kr,
only to one union, set aside, orreseind ttie gene!",`lld not
The restriction of their power was, that thvy-si"ls,4cill
be able to • rescind those general' orders by ;!•,tide•
order, unless with the consent of the.Socretary (1-0
Speaking in general terms, all the • regulationo▪ 0
were generally applicable to a large number o,tliror
with respect to the administration of relief et, loi
ral conduct of the poor, were now included :1..;
general orders. There would be found to bc•••'.erisl
seven general orders which contained all the 1:12„*;.
machinery of arrangements applicable to all Onion •
Mr. S. WORTLEY said if be understood, itsw.
w• OU• .
tended then to extead.tlie w poer giveto froe-
Sir J. GRAHAM sail, on the contrary-, so 1.!1'-aors.
extending; it limited the power given to general cir
DISTRESS IN BURNLEY." •
Mr. COBDEN wished to ask the Right 1.104' io'
man opposite whether the Government had• recesisocis
tellig•ence. of the distress 'and consequent distuT,apf
at Burnley. wished alSo to khoW, whetV.h...ses
money, and what amount, had been sent to the eAt5l.-
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of the people there.
• • • th'st the
. Sir J. GRAHAM stated with great- pant, lot
,1 • so
Government had received information of. a veli th
disturbance created by, the hand-loom 60 avers 2, los
4
neighbourhood of Burnley, and he was sorry. t 4. ; die
that report bad not been exaggerated. ISINJ▪ ete
circumstances the Government thought it rig h:4, 1,1011
comniend • the Poor-Taw Commissioners to tit
attention to that diStrict; with a viewto ttlfd4,o
nistration of relief : from the funds, 010
public ,•11
nsoney hail been issued,`-but from cliental* om
assistance had been supplied. • ~s4l
MANCHESTER: • ,s111)00
Mr. FERRAND said, he understood that 411,1014
chester Anti-Corn-laW League:had circulated:o)th* ose.,
of a most inflammatory nature in the midstlgree
factoring distrieta,. where -the operatives Weire 01;
distress ; they had employed the WOrk-TWV-,,,air5122
salary of Is. 6d. a day, to carry these plitcart4r; 11024"
the Prime Minister of murder !—about, A
hood. The Hon. Member then exhibited447•oir
in question : it was about four feet long, iatkitjellel"
wide, printed in large, and • headed, in enortne.o Cie
" Murder," with three notes of admiration after P'
following is a copy : ; '
"MURDER! MURDER! !I
• '
ENGLISHMEN ! 4011°,0
" Read, if you can,. from beginning to end, the belt
sickening statement made at a public meeting, lately
the town of Stirling, North Britain :-- •
" The Rev. Mr. Beith said -heli ad. heard an' '-fsoj;
which he knew to be true, and which conveyed an Wo°o ;
gree of misery and destitition,-such as, liv;believed. 2204;
unexampled in Scotland. towni- notrfar 411 19:4
young man, of interesting appearance,was Observednii
ing to. pass a huckster's shop,:: at the door Of whidhle
with some' potatoes in it was placed: After Tossing ..Pott
little way, he returned end took-one Tof the -potateevtderd
went away. The person in the shop allowed him'
out taking any notice ofo
the circumstance. On 01114
the young man returned and did the ea.me - thin_ag. tes?
third day he returned once more and took another r--,4 0
the fourth day he returned and; took four. or SeerTehii:d
them in his pocket, and and .Iwent. hurriedly offs''',o
however, the shopkeeper had a police officer in gate.
with with whom he followed the young man lilt he' I'l4o
house. They went into the house immediately aftes.4,etej
there he found an aged mother and two sisters depeilLio
him for support. There was a; pot upon the if "[hi',
be called a fire which was only a few embers. ,-(00:00
keeper asking the mother of the young man if she 13".b.60
her Non had got the potatoes which he had brought •in
replied, No; I was afraid to ask.' He then-went brought-I"t°
and took off the lid, and on looking in, he found a re'
DEAD DOG, • - ;her
which the poor fellow was boiling, ter ;oat- along wit!
tatoes !!!'
"This is the testimony of a Christian:minister. ,•,t,c,io
is in Britain 1 in educated Scotland; the land.of
sobriety ; a land where religion is established by Ist
this a solitary case, thousands are perishing around
parts of the kingdom, the victims of class legislation, '.
creating laws! Yet still the curse of monopoly hi ore .4
you and around you ; still the accursed Corn-laws dis 00..
statue-boek, and more surely, if more sloWly, thaft.Pe
and the sword, are destroying von and your children, 4%4
EN ! SCOTCHMEN !
2 Al"
Howling will you submit to this crying iniquity •
will 3 ou be participators in this national sin? •
Read once more the above harrowing ssateeOottcY
again around you, and then say whether. the tune
that you should peaceably, hut universally band-rari
itlie
gether, and, placing yourselves within the sanetuarY"'ssiy •
demand—in the name of Heaven, whoa beiseficeneoooo•6.
in the name of justice, whose requirements_ have bee°
by the sordid avarice of our legislators---the immedissoo9
tire removal of all the statutes which. destror our e(2 „!?
fetter our industry, and wickedly—limit the stiPPIY
which a bountiful Providence has provided for, all'the
oyY
of men.
•
"Read also the following extract of a letter free:,
phis; as published in the farmers' paper, the Pa
Express : tio§
-" • The quantity of land devoted to agriculture
much increased, and tl.e general opinion is that fitL2l
..;
from one dollar to two dollars per barrel lower than ..por,
before the end of the year. In such a case.- the
Europe will be enormous, especially as the tariff 0°
finer in England is about to be reduced, although ne „fp
ficient extent, perhaps, to insure the•fullest advantsg°oo
bread to the people.- Salt pork, in. Ohio. has been 9%04
a greater extent than has been wanted, and at 500_,`,1!
price has•been less than a penny (English) per - Peure,cl,l".
ceive, then, the quantity that might be sent to En,
Vetotri',
duty should be low. Beef, too, is lower than 1 everT,,,o2,,r,
it; wholesale at 20. ( English) per lb. ; and sornefilne ,'
at large quantitiec. Even in Philadelphiti b., si,•
beef sells retail in the market at 3d. and yid. 4. • *sit! ci')
giving you the results of practical experience itr'7, 0,11
will not be out of place to add, that, on Saturdayl." ri/
bought in the market, a loin of veal at .3d. per 111.;'!.;;0
day, ribs of beef at 41. ; in both instances the inert • iroo
as in England ; indeed, the cattle are all desceiggi`!.
ported English stock.' . • ).1'
stlott
" This abundacce, for the want of which •)14esi 9
away and dying, is prevented from reaching you.'ltitl'
new Corn-law nor the Tariff will bring you thisnosi ft°
Robert Peel has acknowledged that you will 11°4 1?
much cheaper; in other word=, that you must still slitotif',/
owe it to yourselves, to your families, and to yottr er is
tell him that you will not starve. It is in your. Igis:4o°/'
and for ever to free yourselves from the .landlords to die/
it, and live 1 Refute to do it, mil yeti must die; 3
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the victims of your own slavish weakness than of the r
power."] hetber,
tae wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet Ye
b
„
was prepared to take any steps to put dove Ir
cards. we
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said, that in 0115 oste.iio
question of the Hon. Gentleman he begged Wad
he had seen the placard which had been drioq,tet,ile
great violence, and circulated about Manche el V
was anonymous, and there was only the..°ll;d tos
printer attached to it. No steps were. intel'lsv o!
be taken by the Government, although tbc,40601"
used was inflammatory, yet he had great pleasti,-,1
to the House that although such great distresOledf ,o
manufacturing districts, on the whole the greit__Theo.'J
people had conducted themselves with exemplary I tr
I'
no breach of the law had taken place. He she° fide
take no steps on the part of the Government. 1001
Mr. HUME—I beg to ask the Hon. Gentle#loo
upon what authority he charges the Anti Coen' *let
with circulating that placard ? , 01,
Mr. FEHRAND—A highly respectable gentle'll '.)
chester— (Cries of "Name, name ")-.who InOrsll° volV
the Anti Corn-law League paid the men e"-of
1-`,P'-
those placards about Manchester.—(Cries of " my ire
Mr. HUME—I beg to state that I received et;
placard five days ago, from a Member of the 1
League expressing his great regret that it bad hede°„,ii.. 5/sfr
(Loud cheers.) I think it is unj Ist in th-e-
-having made the charge, not to name the individual. I,'
BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS-
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Lord J. RUSSELL said there was a motion '''"„f 0
of which he bad given notice, for the introductiggeliteol+i,
the better discovery of bribery at elections, he- ri1,,,r1(0,4
that he should be unable to bring the motion fors /00.0,
in the evening. He had consulted persons of loos I°, blit
nence on both aides of the House with respect to bath ost2)
lie was not prepared to bring the Bill on then' 000. goo'lit
to be ready on Monday. He hoped the Riehst'aii
would not object to the proposition, if he ea 'OOIA
asked for leave to bring. in the Bill at five o'eloePiooticoei;oo
It would not lead to discussion, and he bep.eg„d th',a',er
take more than a_quarter of an hour. That the nePtl/
hoped the Right Hon. Baronet woulttaceede te ' sera'
Sir R. PEEL said, he was prepared to millatlei `:•sye
tion, so far a- he was coecerned, in favour 0' ed into ~• tio
trusted it would not lead to an debste, as he„"oe st ofhsa
";
anxious he was to proceed with the tariff. mbe•ps
time, he should offer no difficulty to- the Rill. b • 'ents
at fire o'clock on Monday. He had now 41, ;10 wool
cessions, and after the Noble Lord and his ?'° ber
disposed of their motions, he hoped no .other Merl' sli°
• i 6'
him for a repetition of the favour: •t, 011
Sir R. PEEL moved that the House, at
adjourn till Monday next.
The question having put, prot4
Mr. ti UM E said, that as the Hon. GentleSr°,,, i
Ferrand) had made a charge against the Arai". „ad tlitioie td
in Manchester, he hoped the Hon.. Member ;forgo 00_40
fair to name the party from whom he had 111#2iik he, the ce.#'
Mr. FERRAND said that he did not pro o'r s 41,1
justified--(Hear, hear)—in mentioning the ivietabfo "
in that House. But he Nimbi ask the gni,' W°.,,„11 ble
tion in reply to the ene which he had,put• Jed ser to
whether the gentleman who had correspon.. prod! (IV,
denied that the Anti-Corn-law League vser' 1/,'0,:41)
suing of the placard?eal eslreoie'e
ill r. H U E said that his correspondent retest Ito 1,,
placard had been circulated, and that he V. OT0410:0
that it was so. But that was no swer ieeroed,os'''to
question. The Hon. Member had said 001 toe „, it
informed him that a respectable body, not not nsPltettil'd
transaction ; and if the Hon. Member to #OO
of the statement, all that they could d°, 1,10 „t
the Hon. Member himself.—( Hear, hear' _ddres,
Mr. FERRAND again attempted to 3
oijoofv-
but was interrupted by f
c.
The SPEAKER who put the ques:ion °
of the House till Monday.
The motion was then agreed t('. cilia, -;ks
• . WAYS AND MEANS-r.SLis•n Of 10-
On the motion of the CHANCI4IO4"