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Imptrial arttamut.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--Mo"•-
The Labouring Poor (Ireland
time

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. Earl GREY lai-1
for the

upon. the table a hill to 'amen a the law

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. -.stodv of oirettiltis, and a bill for the better
,50vernment of '3,llllbank 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-
blears 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 he 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 lOs. 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 expert 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
ilifferent 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 forma 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 e npowering the guardians to
relieve the able-bodied poor out of the workhouse, when
the workhouse was full, or when fever raged in it, so 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 prefent such an abuse. An amendment was also to be
introduced into clause 2, with reference to the enlarge-
ment of the workh6uses in certain cases. With regard
to.clause 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, then the extra amount would be charged
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
Mead, in it

guardians, and appoint paid ones in their stead, in defau.
ofcthe former not performing their duties. It was pro-
--a 4,, 1;..,;. vc.lipf to nersnns not possessing above

Cilla;e-;f-fana: 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

foriner 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. F. MAULE went through
the army estimates for the present year. The number of
men to be voted was 138,195 ; for which the charge would
be £5,155,818; 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, bore 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-
ing a gross sum to be provided for of £6,275,074, and the
number of men, 108,308.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuEsnme

The Duke of RICHMOND, on moving for a select com-
mittee on the lace of settlement, expressed his regret that
parliament should have been induced to pass a measure
which defied the possibility of any persons putting a sa-
tisfactory interpretation upon.

Lord riaouGuANl was of opinion that acts of parliament
woup never be properly drawn until a board was specially
appointed to assist the legislature in preparing them.

Lord CAMPBELL urged their lordship; 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 13EA.UMONT 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
stimdlating the employment of labour in Ireland by the
construction of railways, led to a discussion on the mea-
sures already in progress, and the suggestion of others for
affording permanent relief to that country.