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imperial parlizurant

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoNnIy,

Lord BROUGHAM submitted for consideration some re-
solutions proposed by him on the 4th of May,1846, rela-
tive to the private business of the house, and made an ex-
position of his plan for private and railway legislation in
their lordships' house.—After a short discussion the reso-
lutions were withdrawn. _ _ _

The Bishopric of Manchester Bill was read a third time
and passed.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the-table a treaty
of commerce and navigation between her Majesty and the
Grand Duke of Tuscany.
The Clergy Offences Bill and the Royal Marine Service
Bill went through committee.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS--TursDAY.
The Qualification of Peers (Scotland) Bill passed the
committee and was reported to the House.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in moving the second
reading of the Poor-Law Administration Bill, briefly ex-
plained that it continued the powers, but altered the ma-
chinery, of the present law, the principal alteration being
the appointment of one commissioner at the head of a
certain board, who would have a seat in parliament, and
there be compelled to answer questions relating to the
administration of the law. _ _ .

Lord BROUGHAM expressed his admiration of the prin-
ciple of the present law, and hoped the House would not
depart from it. But when they went into committee on
the bill, he should feel it his duty to suggest some amend-
ments.
Lord REDESDALE objected to that portion of the bill
which provided that the chief commissioner should have
a seat in parliament. In his opinion the delicate duties
which that functionary had to perform should be kept
wholly apart from party politics.
After a few words from the Marquis .of LA.NSDOWNE
in explanation, the bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed on Friday. . .

On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, the house went into
committee on the Baths and Wash-houses Bill. The
noble lord said that in this bill, which was intended to
promote habits of cleanliness among the poorer classes,
it was originally provided that all the baths, hot and cold,
Should be charged at a uniform and minimum rate, but
subsequently it was thought that the classes immediately
above the poorest might be benefitted, if baths at a some-
what higher charge were established, and that, further,
the revenue derived from these latter would support tilde
baths for the poor, without any increase in the poor-rate.
With this view a clause had been introduced, authorising
in certain cases a charge of threepence for cold and six-
pence for warm baths.
Lord MONTFAGLE opposed the clause, as applying a
public rate to that which was not a public purpose. To
establish baths and wash-houses for the better classes at
the public expense would be tantamount to establishing a
tenant-farmers' ward in the workhouse.
The Bishop of LONDON said that he did not think that
any argument that had been urged would justify the house
in refusing its assent to a measure which was intended to
promote the health. the cleanliness, and the morality of
the people. Since the establishment of the cheap bath-
houses no less than 80,000 persons had taken 'advantage
of them in the north-western district of the metropolis.
After a few observations from Lord BROUGHAM,
Lord STANLEY said that the principle of the bill was
unobjectionable, and, in fact it had been adopted in the
county- lunatic asylums, wherein patients were received
and treated at a greater charge than the pauper patients,
the county rates being thereby considerably relieved by
the surplus derived from the richer patients. The fact,
however, was that, in the present bill, it was a question of
principle, but one simply of argument, and in order to
obviate the difficulty suggested by the proprietors of pri-
vate baths, some condition ought to be imposed on the
managers of the baths to be created under the bill, where-
by the higher class baths should be charged at such prices
as not wholly to supersede the private establishments of
that nature, whose existence was supposed to be en-
dangered by the measure. With this proviso, the bill
would have his perfect approbation and sanction.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the suggestion
of the noble lord was a good one, and might be adopted
with great advantage.
After a few words from Lord MONTEAGLE, the clause

was agreed to.
The house resumed, and the report was ordered to be
received on Thursday. .

Their lordships adjourned at seven o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

•TUESDAY

There being only fourteen members present at four
o'clock, the Speaker declared the house adjourned till
Wednesday.
The following members were present when the Speaker
took the chair:—Barnard, Thornley, Brotherton, Duncan,
Bowring, Hindley, R. York, Kemble, Greene, Hamilton,
Pattison, Christie, Ward, Wakley, and Trelawny.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

WEDNESDAY

In the course of a conversation Lord J. RUSSELL said
he should propose the suspension of the navigation laws,
as necessary to afford facility for the importation of corn
until the Ist of March next.
Some remarks were made by Sir D. NORREYS who
complained of the report of the Relief Commissioners for
Ireland, in imputing to the gentry of that country the
grossest misconduct and dishonesty, without producing
the documents upon which such conclusion was drawn.
Lord J. RUSSELL said the report imputed such conduct
to some of the gentry only, and added that a general in-
vestigation into the allegations would be wholly inad-
visable.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, after a discussion of some length,
withdrew for the present his Mines and Collieries Bill.
After an unimportant conversation on the removal of
the Wellington statue from Hyde Park corner, the house
adlourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS