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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-24 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY

After the presentation of a few petitions,
Mr. GRIMSDITCH, on question for the third reading of
the poor-law commission bill, moved that it should be read a
third time on that day three months. He moved this amend-
ment, he said, not with any expectation of carrying it, but
in order to elicit the intentions of government. He hoped
there was no design to. establish a permanent board. The

iw might be a' good one as far as the unions were
concerned ; but the workhouse 'system should be relaxed
with respect to the' unfortunate, and enforced only against
the idle and dissolute. The expense too of the officers was
enormous, and must be reduced.

existing

Mr. SLANEY drew a comparison between the state of Eng-
land as she had been before, and her state as she was since,
the enactment of the present poor laws. These laws, he said,
had quieted the country, and reduced the rates from seven
millions sterling to three.
General JOHNSON said this reduction was a a fallacy; and
condemned the whole system, as an attempt to introduce a
principle of centralization, incompatible with the liberties of
man. Even the promised advantage of uniformity had not
resulted from this law : and the old and the poor had been
consigned by it to a premature mortality.
Mr. HODGES was of opinion, that if all the particulars
were taken into account, the saving would turn out to be but
little. He would, however, support the third reading of the
bill on this occasion, hoping that there would be found no
necessity to renew it.

Mr. itucx, approving the principle of the poor-law, yet
regretted the continuance of the commission ; Mr. WIL-
LIAMS declared such continuance to be a mere waste of
public money ; but Mr. WARD, considering the new system
preferable to the old one, expressed his intention of support-
ing the third reading, though not without adding a hope that
the whole measure would receive further improvement.
Mr. DARBY complained of the' peculiar hardships suffered
by those who, after marrying on the faith of the old law,
were left helpless under the new.
Mr. WAKLEY imputed much of the evil which had existed
under the old system to the mismanagement, idleness, negli-
gence, and ignorance of the magistrates. lie objected to the
continuance of the powers of the commissioners for a single
day.
Sir C. DOUGLAS and Mr. EATON supported the amend-
ment, as did

Colonel SIBTHORP, who said that Ministers, a most inca-
pable set, had directed all their efforts against the country's
institutions, assailing the church, undermining the navy, and
oppressing the poor.
Mr*: F. MAULE told the gallant Colonel that his invectives
against Ministers, though amusing in the house, had little
effect in the country. For the present, the Government
asked merely a renewal for one year, and early in the next
session they would be prepared to consider the requisite
improvements. _ _

ir F. BURnETT thought that the period of the session
formed of itself a sufficient objection against the present pro-
gress of a measure so serious. That measure had increased,
instead of allayed, the evils it dealt with, and had created an
ill feeling between labourer and employer, between rich and
poor, which it would be very difficult to heal.

Mr. W. Arrwoon, who had seconded the amendment,
complained that the commissioners had acted in opposition
to the report of the committee which had been appointed to
inquire into the poor laws ; and he could not but think it fit-
ting to oppose the renewal of powers to such commissioners.

Lord .1 RUSSELL said, the commission had been intended
as a permanent one, though the first experiment of it was con-
fined to a period of five years. Further powers would be re-
quired from parliament for the useful working of the system,
but the pressure of other business in the present session had
obliged him to postpone the subject until a future one.
Mr. MUNTZ considered the poor law as a great oppression
to the labouring classes, especially in the manufacturing dis-
tricts, where they could obtain no relief but on condition of
selling off their all, and going into the workhouse.
The third reading was then carried on a division by a ma-
jority of 74 against 16, the ministers having swept all the
public offices for votes.
Several bills wete advanced a stage, and Lord MORPETH
obtained leave to bring in a bill to provide for the compensa-
tion of corporate officers in certain cases in Ireland. The
house then adjourned till 5 o'clock, when there not being 40
members present, it stood adjourned till next day.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—WEDNESDAY
The House of Lords did not assemble to-day.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY

Many petitions were presented ; among them were several
(presented by Messrs. T. Duncombe, Wakley, &c.) for the
dismissal of her Majesty's ministers.
Lord MOILPETH brought in the municipal districts (Ire-
land) and compensation to corporate officers in certain cases
bill—measures rendered necessary by what passed on Mon-
day between the Duke of Wellington, Lord Lyndhurst, and
Lord Duncannon, in the House of Lords, in reference to the
municipal corporations (Ireland) bill.
Mr. E. TENNENT said that be should bring forward his
motion regarding the delay in adjusting the British claims
on Brazil on the 4th of August.
Mr. HUME intimated that lie should on Friday direct at-
tention to the mode of keeping the.public accounts—his ob-
ject being to secure the adoption generally of the system now
practised at the Admiralty and Navy Pay-office. He also
gave notice, that when the clergy reserves Canada bill should
be again brought forward, he should submit a resolution de-
claratory of the expediency of selling the clergy reserves, and
applying the proceeds to the purpclses_of education.

Mr. AGLIOIVBY stated that on Friday he should move the
consideration of Feargus O'Connor's petition.
Sir J. GRAHAM, in answer to Lord J. Russell's inquiries,
said, that, in consequence of the delay that had occurred in
printing the papers, he feared he should have no chance of
ters.

The affirmation bill called forth a good deal of discussion.
The question of goiug into committee was carried on a divi-
sion ; and in the committee several amendments were pro-
posed.

The marriages act amendment bill, the punishment of
death bill, the constabulary bill, &c. were afterwards for-
warded a stage.
On the question that the house resolve into committee of
supply, Mr. T. DUN COMBE claimed the right to bring for-
ward a motion respecting Thorogood, of which he had given
notice ; but it was eventually decided that Lord Sandon's
notice had precedence.
Lord SANDON then called the attention of the house to the
state of our commercial relations with foreign countries. In
the first place, he desired to know how much longer the
blockade of Buenos Ayres was to be continued ? The pro-
perty locked up by it, he said, was of the value of a million
sterling ; and in Monte Video, likewise, there were large
British interests at hazard. He next adverted to the differ-
ential duties of Portugal, by which our shipping had been
almost wholly displaced from the commerce between that
country and our own ; and blamed the government that they
had not applied to parliament for powers which would have
enabled them to retaliate with effect. He complained of a
similar displacement of British shipping in the trade with
Spain, and urged that England's great sacrifices for the pre-
sent Spanish dynasty gave her especial claims to a more
favourable treatment. If Lord Palmerston had any assu-
rances to afford to the house of a more satisfactory nature
than his former vague statements, it was time, at the close of
this long session, that such information should be produced.
Lord PALMERSTON contrasted the tone taken by his op-
ponents when exciting government to adverse dealings with
foreign nations, against the tone of the same parties when
censuring government for running into the hazard of hosti-
lities.

Mr. MACLEAN observed that Lord Palmerston had care-
fully abstained from distinguishing how much of the increase
in our exports and imports proceeded from the trade with
our own colonies ; and that he had taken, on the score of
pacification in Spain, a credit which was properly due, not
to the policy of England, but to the energy of France.
Mr. HAWES reproached the tory party with narrow views
on commercial subjects, and a constant unwillingness to
cheapen the great articles of consumption, such as bread,
timber, and sugar.

Mr. E. TENIENT adverted to some of the evils which had
followed from our too long endurance of the now abandoned
blockade of Mexico, and from our still unsettled dispute with
the government of Brazil about the affairs of Para. Mr.
Shed, Mr. D'lsraeli, Mr. Ewart, and others then took part
in the dscussion.

The house afterwards resolved into committee of supply
pro forma, Mr. BARING stating that at so late an hour he
would not propose any resolutions on the estimates.

The loan societies gill, &c. were then forwZdeefa stage

COURT CIRCULAR.-TUESDAY

Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yes-
terday.

The Duchess of Kent honoured the Duchess of Sutherland
with a visit yesterday, at Stafford-house.
The Duchess de Nemours visited the Duchess of Kent yes-
terday, at Ingestre-house.
The Duke and Duchess de Nemours honoured Mr. Ross,
A.R.A., with sittings yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, for
their portraits.

. -
The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, accompanied by the Princesses Auguste end Mary of
Cambridge, visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at Cla-
rence-house, St. James's.

A deputation from the coachmakers, respecting the win-
dow tax, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, in Downing-street.
The Earl of Gosford, Major Lewis, high sheriff of Cardi-
ganshire, and Mr. Ward, M.P., had interviews with the
Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office.
Mr. Oswald, M.P., had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday.

The Queen gave a state ball, last evening, at Buckingham
Palace, which was numerously attended.
WEDNESDAY.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty
yesterday. . .

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke
and Duchess de Nemours, honoured the Italian Opera with
their presence last evening.
Prince Albert and the Duke de Nemours, attended by the
Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Bouverie, Colonel Wylde,
and General Colbert, left town at half-past nine o'clock yes-
terday morning, for Wimbledon Common, and inspected the
2d Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards, and the 12th
Lancers. The royal party returned to Buckingham Palace
in two carriages and four.
The Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of Gloucester
visited the Princess Augusta yesterday.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess de Nemours
yesterday at Buckingham Castle.
Lady Charlotte Dundas has succeeded Lady Anne Maria
Dawson as the lady in waiting on the Duchess of Kent.
The Earl of Warwick, Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Charles
ForreAer, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby
yesterday at the Home-office.
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Market, on Wednesday last,
fact, that a flock of nearly 800 diseased sheep
shire, being exposed for sale !. It seems that the
afflicted with the prevailing epidemic, and that the •
to prevent their
there had brought the disorder to a crisis. They we,), dying
by scores in the pens ; and many were. speedily taken Lay
in carts to the Great Bull yard to be killed,
dying under the influence of the attack. The terms we have
used to express the slaughter will be understood. The stench
arising from the breath of the animalspooanimalsis described as
almost beyond bearing.—Doncaster Chronicle.

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