The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

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After a few woids between Sir F. TRENCH and Lord J.
RUSSELL, the conversation dropped, and the motion of
Lord G. BENTINCK was postponed till Monday.

A. considerable portion-of the attention of -the house
-L.voted to a discussion of the complaint of Mr.
inst Mr. Hume, that he had used intimidatory
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motion for a committee on the subject of the ex-Rajah of
Sattarah, in the course of which Lord John Russell ex-
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The conversation excited cor.

renewed the motion he had originally
inst the third report of the relief commissioners,
a short conversation, was negatived by a
majority of SO over 19 voices.
Mr. FERRAND, after expressing his astonishment that

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Mr. Roebuck was not in his place that evening to hear the
contradiction which he was about to give to his (Mr.
Roebuck's language on a former occasion, asked Sir G.
Grey whether the statement of Mr. Roebuck Was correct,
that " the medical officer of an union had the power of
recovering the price of the drugs distributed by him
among the poor of the union from the union itself."
Sir G. GREY believed the practice of the law to be this
—that a contract was made between the union and its
medical officer for the medical attendance on the poor,
arid that contract included the supply of medicine. If,

therefore, the medicine required was Of an expensive cha:
racter, the medical officer must pay for it out of his own
pocket. In case of sudden illness the magistrates had the
power of ordering extra relief, and in case of such order
he believed that the medicine was not chargeable on th
medical officer, but on tl

poor-rate

After a few words from kr. P. BORTHWICK, the house
resolved itself into a committee of supply.
In the committee the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
stated that the salary of the chief commissioner of the new
poor law board would be £2,000 a-year. He would have
two secretaries, who would each have a salary of £1,500
a-year. The whole expense of the board would therefore
be £5,000 a-year, which was £2,000 a-year less than the
expense of the poor law commission.
A discussion then took place in the committee on the
inefficiency of the present medical relief for the poor. In
the course of it Mr. WAKLEY expressed his reluctance to
vote these salaries, because the house had not the New
Poor-law Bill before it, and because he understood that

that bill had been mutilated in the House of Lords of two
of its most humane and important clauses, and that, too,
without any effort having been made by government to
retain them.

The vote for the Poor-law Board was then agreed to

without division.
On the vote for granting £lO,OOO to defray the ex-
penses connected with the capture of slave-trading vessels,
Mr. P. BORTHWICK called the attention of the house
to the great evils and cruelties resulting from the system
adopted under our treaties with foreign powers for sup-
pressing the slave trade. He showed that that system
cost us more than a million a year—that it produced no
advantage—and that it retarded the progress of civilization.
Furthermore he contended that the loss of life among our
seamen and officers employed on the coast of Africa was
very large, and was perfectly useless ; and, lastly, he
maintained that for every thousand negroes sold intc sla-
very, seven times that number died in the most excruci-
ating agonies. He concluded by calling on Lord Palmer-
ston to consent to the repeal of the statutes enacted for
carrying out our treaties with foreign powers in reference
to the slave trade, to abrogate the treaties themselves, and
thus to free humanity from the terrible curse which they
had entailed upon it.
Lord PALMERSTON supposed the object of Mr. Borth-
wick to be to legalize the slave-trade, and observed, that
under the guise of great regard for humanity he had in-
sinuated that conclusion by every means in his power.
He believed that the slave-trade could never be entirely,
and permanently stopped until the condition of slavery
was itself abolished. He then took a review of the va-
rious measures which the government had taken for the
suppression of this abominable traffic, recounted the va-
rious treaties by which we were bound to co-operate with
foreign powers, and showed that we could not suddenly
abandon them without great loss of honour and national

Considerable discussion afterwards took place on this
but the grant was at length agreed to without a

division.
The rest of the evening was taken up in discussing the

other estimate