The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

In .rer

A: hitherto incurred in carrying out pub►.
Ind the Poor Employment Act, was £2,000,000.
Commissariat account was a current account, and it was
mpossible to declare its amount now. If the present
relieving distress in Ireland were persevered in,
we could not expect to expend Jess -than £500,000 or
£600,000 a month till the month of August. On the
whole, he thought that if the present -plans did not cease,
the whole cost of them would not .be less than £7,000,000.

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committee to

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,o a question, stated that

'owners any

es that they might give in Ireland for procuring
..ed by an advance of money. It was thought better not
to furnish seed to the small holders themselves (hear,
1r), but to enable landowners or local societies to sup-

int.. iI'ERRAND,in bringing forward his motion on the sub-
relief afforded him by the committee. These arrangements ject of the Poor-law Commissioners, of which we have al.-
lie proposed should be carried on under the superintend- ready given the terms, asked for the,
patient indulgence of
ence of Sir J. Burgoyne, the Inspector General of Forti- the house, to which he felt himself in some degree enti-
fimtions in this country, who iagd consented' to go to tied, inasmuch as in the year 1844 it had done him on this
Ireland at any time when caller on. That gentleman very subject cruel injustice. It was not his intention that
will 13'.:~ in communication with the Lord Lieutenant, and evening to enter into any examination of the principles of
will co-operate or not, as he thinks best, with the Board I the New Poor Law—he should have another opportunity
of Work s, with the Commissioners of the Poor-law, with for that; but this he mumt say, that nothing had convinced
the heads of the constabulary force, and with any other I him so much of their rottenness, as the fact that the law
parties in Ireland that may be calculated to assist him_— ,c, _.,, , - - - -

MeMU.

ciently supplying the people
be treated in connection wi
every thing will be done to

I who are in want, will

of which the very existence •was denied in both houses of
me time, care will be f Parliament, until it was dragged forth to light in the
that its House of Commons. It had so degraded the poor of
4Y in , England that they had been reduced,to tight, not only for

ration of ti
taken, and

substitution for th

rude di is

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arrangements of

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works be commence-4

states, t,
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That law derived its birth from a

be finished

Monstrum horrendurn, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademp-

ye speedy effect to tit

Lio carrion as tom, but also tor the very bones which they
iut when all the were employed in grinding into an unhealthy powder. No
niade, then no remodelling of that law would satisfy their feelit
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repeal, ane with nothing less would they be
On the present occasion he would show, in
,nce, what was. he opinion of the Poor Law
N of each other, and of those who were iden-

He woul

!LZVERPOOL STANDARD.

One conclusion he drew from the Andover inquiry, and
other disclosures connected with ',those charges, were,
that if the subordinates of other pablic departments acted
as the subordinates Of the Poor-law Commission, it would
be very difficult to carry out effectually the public service.
' Sir •Itoßg.T PEEL denied that the imputation cast 'by
Mr. Disraeli, that some ,great official power had been ‘ex-
ercised for crushing Mr. ,Ferrand was justified by the
facts of the case to which he referred hon. members, and
which be recapitulated.
. •

-was wit

ictrawn

measures necessary for the prosecution of the war. The
democratic party' had rejected the proposed duty on tea
and coffee, and were bitterly attacked by the Official
journal at Washington.
The accounts from Mexico are derived through the
United States, and should be received with caution. Santa
Anna was said to have concentrated 37,000 troops at San
Luis Potosi, and held himself invulnerable at that point,
relying on the,strength of Vera Cruz to resist attack, and
which must be captured before the United States' troops
could touch him. General Taylor's army was represented
as not being more than 14,000 effective men. A force of
about 1200 occupied Tampico ; and it was said that a body
' of 3000 Mexicans were encamped at Tulla, some eighty
) miles distant, meditating an attack.

. On the motion of Lordl;lm RussELL,•the Brewing
fr©m sugar Bill was read a second time without any

vAitt*7ls

FOREIGN 4 COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.
We have accounts from New York to the Bth instant.
The propeedings in•Congreg'S since our last accounts had
been unimportant. On the 29th of December, the Presi-
dent sent a message recommending that provision should
be made for the appoinittnent of a general officer to take
the command of all the military forces in the field ; and
urging the Congress to " early action " with regard to the
•.

tussion

HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY.
Earl FITZ WILLIAM , followed by Lord BRO UG H A hf,
brought under the notice of their lordships the great
amount of immigration which was taking place of Irish
paupers into Ltverpool and the ports of Scotland on the
Clyde, followed by some observations on the operation of
the Labour Rate Act.

Lord ABERDERN, in reference to the correspondence
between France and England on the subject of the Spanish
marriages, suggested the propriety of its 1

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
Lord JonN RUSSELL intimated the order in which he
should proceed with Irish measures. On Monday next
•to move for leave to bring in a bill to render valid the
proceedings which bad been had under Mr. Labouchere's
letter; and when that bill had been read a second time, to
proceed with a bill for the relief of the temporary distress
existing in that country ; and next, with a measure for the
permanent amendment of the Irish Poor-law. .

Santa Anna had marched eight days of the journey from
San Luis. Potosi to Saltillo. -Provisions were getting
scarce at San Luis, so that he was obliged to send to Chi-
huadua and Dorango for corn. On the Bth of December
a courier arrived from Mexico, stating that a pronuncia-
miento'had taken place, and that lieyrera had driven, Al-
monto from the capital. In consequence of this
gencn, General Valencia had been ordered to take seven

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In answer to a question, Lord PALMERSTON stated that
no authority had been given by the Mexican government
for granting letters of marque in this country against the
United States.

A conversation ensued upon the existing state of dis-
tress in Scotland. The Chelsea Pensioners Bill and the
Distilling from Sugar Bill were read a second, and the
Buckwheat, &c., Importation Bill a third time.

regiments of infantry and march off to Mexico as quick
as possible. The captain of a company and all his. men,
Mexicans, had been seized by a detachment of seventy
Americans. The captain had letters of instructions from
Generals Ampudia and Paredes.
An attempt had been made upon Tampico by 7,000
Mexican cavalry, but, as usual, the heroic courage, mili-
tary tactics, arid undaunted heroism of the United States'
troops repulsed and routed the attacking party. -
The New York shipping list furnishes a statement of

the import and export of Wheat and flour, at aina.iioVih;i.
port during the years 1845 and 1846, which presents these
results :

Wheat. . Moor. Wheat. nom.
From Hudson River.. 289,682 1,700,198 1,172,646 2,2 f 0,628
„ Now Orleans .. 83,636 87,704 401,355 70,042
„ southern Ports 234,750 175,257 94'242 197,715

608,076 1,933,153 1,665,243
This shows an increase of receipts for the
_ Present year, of flour of

lieexport of these same articles for ti

le time was