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imperial parliament

HOUSE OF LORDS

-MONDAY

The Labouring Poor (Ireland) Bill was read a second
time.
Earl GUEY laid upon the table a bill to amend the law
for the custody of offenders, and a bill for the better
government of Millbank Penitentiary, Parkhurst Prison,
and Pentonville Prison, the details of which he proposed
to state on moving the second reading on Friday next.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY

Lord J. RUSSELL announced that it was her Majesty's
intention to summon a Privy Council, and take their
opinion as to the propriety of appointing a day for a
national fast.

In committee of ways and means, the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER stated that he had entered into arrange-
ments for the loan of £8,000,000 for the relief of the
distress in Ireland. He was now about to move a resolu-
tion in committee in confirmation of that loan. It ap-
peared to be the unanimous opinion that the best mode
of raising the loan was at the highest price in Three per
Cent. Consolidated Stock. The rate at which the loan
had been contracted for was £B9 103. for every £lOO
stock, which, on the best consideration he could give the
subject, and after communicating with various parties
conversant with it, appeared to be as favourable a bargain
as he could expect to make in the present state of the
money market. The interest upon the sum borrowed did
not equal 31 per cent., and he might add, that the terms
were even more favourable than those on which the West
India loan had been contracted. The interest would be
as nearly as possible £3 7s. 6d. per cent., and the whole
charge for interest upon the public revenue would be
£268,156 Bs., which with bank and other charges would
make the sum £270,000. As the money was not wanted
immediately, no discount would be allowed for prompt
payment, and stock would be given, if required, for the
different instalments, except the first, as they were paid.
If all the instalments were made in July, the contractors
would then be entitled to a half year's dividend ; the other
half yearly dividend to be paid in the following January.
If all the instalments were not paid in July, the whole
interest would be paid in the following January.

Resolutions agreed to.
Lord J. RUSSELL then moved that the house do go into
committee pro for ma on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill,
and briefly adverted to 'the substantial amendments which
he proposed to engraft upon the present Poor Law. He
proposed to go into committee on the bill on Monday
next, with a view to the discussion of its details. It had
been suggested that the following case might arise under
the provisions of the bill for empowering the guardians to

relieve the able-bodied poor out of the workhou:
the workhouse was full, or when fever raged in it
it would be unsafe to introduce them there

so that
viz., that

the guardians might refuse to give admission to the
number sufficient to fill the workhouse, and then refuse
to give relief to the destitute able-bodied without. He
proposed to add additional words to the clause, in order
to prevent such an abuse. An amendment was also to be
. .

went of the workhouses in certain cases. With regard
to cliuse 9, he proposed to alter the liability for out-door
relief in
_each union. He proposed to place the charge

for relief up to a certain amount upon the electoral dis-
tricts: Where the charge exceeded 2s. 6d. in the pound

per annum,

hen the ex

ra amour

Upon the union at large. He also proposed to introduce
an alteration relative to the number of ex officio guardians,
and to give the Poor Law Commissioners power to remove
guardians, and appoint paid ones in their stead, in default
of the former not performing their duties. It was pro-
posed to limit the relief to persons not possessing above
half an acre of land. Some limit was necessary, but per-
sons possessing a cottage and small patch of ground,
when destitute, ought not to be disqualified from re-

ceiving relief.
Mr. SHAW thought if they gave a right to relief, they
ought to accompany it with a law of settlement.
In reply to a question from Sir R. Peel,
Lord J. RUSSELL said the right to relief in Ireland
would not be exactly the same as in England, as in the
former the relief would be in food.

After some conversation, the bill went through com-
mittee pro forma, to be re-committed on Monday.

In committee of supply Mr. I
the army estimates for the present year

MAuLE went through
The number of

men to be voted was I
be £5,155,848 ; the charge for non-effective service would
be £2,175,227 ; making a total charge of £7,331,075.
From this was to be deducted 30,000 men, borne on the
charge of the East India Company's service, and amount-
ing to £972,211 ; appropriations in aid, £53,175 ; and
other smaller sums, amounting in all to £1,056,100 ; leav-

large woulc

ing a gross sum to be provit
number of men, 108,308.—t

tti,275,,

Adjourned.
HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY.
The Duke of RICHMOND, on moving for a select com-
mittee on the law of settlement, expressed his regret that
parliament should have been induced to pass a measure

any persons pu

;ting a sa-

tisfactory interpretation upon.
Lord BROUGHAM was of opinion that acts of parliament
-would-never be properly drawn until a board was specially
appointed to assist the leoislature in preparing them.
Lord CAMPBELL urged their lordships not to condemn
the act because it was badly drawn, its object being to as-
similate the law of England to that of Scotland, which

had been found to work so well.
Lord BEAUMONT contended that the defect of the act
was that it gave no settlement at all.
The committee was then appointed.
The presentation of a petition by Earl FITZWILLIAM
from the grand jury of Athlone, in favour of measures for
stimulating the employment of labour in Ireland by the
construction of railways, led to a discussion on the mea-

affording permanent relief to that country

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

-TUESDAN

After a sharp discussion, a select committee was granted
to inquire in the alleged refusal of sites for churches by
the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Macdonald, and others.
Mr. BANKES, in a speech referring generally to the
operation of the measure, called the attention of the house
to the report of the select committee on settlement and
poor removal, and moved for a copy of the case submitted
by the poor law commissioners to the law officers of the
crown for their opinion, with reference to the construc-
tion of a clause in the Poor Removal Act.
. . . .

A discussion of some continuance on the principle and
operation of the act ensued, after which the motion was
-withdrawn.

Lord G. BENTINCK, in moving for certain returns re-
lative to the amount of capital expended by various rail-
way companies in the construction of their lines, and in
accumulating working stock, originated a discussion which
occupied the remainder of the sitting, the motion being

agreed to

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
On the motion that the Speaker do leave the chair, for

the purpose of
Factories' Bill,

he house going in

Mr. B. ESCOTT rose to bring forward the amendment
of-which he had given notice, that the house go into com-
mittee on the bill that day six months.
After a long debate, the house divided, when there ap-
peared—For the amendment,,loo; against it, 190 ; ma-
jority against the amendment, 90.

house then adjournec

HOUSE OF COMMONS..
SMITH, in an explanaton

THURSDAY

speech. moved that

the colonies, it was expedient to increase the importance
and agency in Great Britain and Ireland, and promote
their vigilant superintendence of the passage and future

location: of emigrants.
The motion was seconded by Mr. MACKINNON, and
supported by Mr. LEFROY and Mr. KERR.
Mr. HAWES, in reply to the arguments of Mr. V.
Smith, observed that there was already an active and vi-
gilant superintendence at the ports both of embarkation

and landing.

Some questions put by Mr. Smith O'Brien on the sub-
ject of emigration from Ireland having been answered by
Lord J. Russell, Mr. V. Smith withdrew his motion.

liuma then proposed four resolutions on the sub-
ject of Cracow. He commenced his observations by giv-
ing the house a history of the proceedings, contending
that Lord Palmerston had so completely demolished the
Austrian document that no man in future could have the
audacity to pretend to give it the slightest credit. As we
had in our power, under legislative enactment, a sum of
money which we had intended to pay to Russia, under
certain stipulations, which she had broken, he saw no rea-
son why we should keep our part of the treaty, and allow
the other part of it to be violated. He considered that
we were liberated from the obligation of the Russo-Dutch
Loan by the reckless manner in which the Emperor Ni-
cholas, on whose Polish policy he passed the bitterest
condemnation—had broken through all the arrangements