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HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY,

Lord RIPON moved that the Hardinge and Gough An.
nuities Bill should be discussed in committee.

Lord MONTEAGLE objected to the clause which pro-
♦ided trait the whole of Lord Hardinge's annuity, and one
balf of Lord Gough's. should be suspended, so long as the
annuities granted to them respectively by the East India
Company should be paid.
A short but animated discussion followed, and the ob-
noxious clause was ultimately struck out, on a division,
by a majority of 12, the numbers being—
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Earl FITZWILLIAM moved the resolution of which he
had given notice, that "that house would not pass any
railway bill, giving powers to raise capital either by the
issue of shares or by borrowing money, which had or
might come up from the House of Commons this session.
until ail such bills should have been read a second time."
There were also three other resolutions founded on this.
Earl DALHOUSIE objected to these resolutions and sug-
gested that the report of the railroad committee should
be acted upon. His lordship was of opinion that limits
could not be assigned by their lordships to private enter-
vise. Many of the bills had been several months before
Parliament, and the adoption of the noble lord's recom-
mendation to pass no more bills this session would be a
breach of faith to the parties. Their lordships had passed
certain s"ssional orders for the purpose of enabling rail-
way proprietors to proceed or retrace their steps, as might
be most convenient. He (Lord D.) did not see how the
house could lay a restriction on private enterprise so far
as to reject the bills before them on the grcund of the
large amount of capital required to carry them out.
After some further discussion, in which Lord Ashbur-
ton, the Duke of Wellington, and the Duke of Richmond,
took part,

The Earl FITzwILLIAM withdrew his resolutions, and
the house adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

Sir J. GRAHAM moved that the house go into commit-
tee on the Poor-Law Removal Bill.

Mr. E. DENISON moved as an instruction to the com-
mittee the following resolutions :

" After a day to be fixed for each union, all paupers of
the parishes comprising the union shall be settled in the
union, and not in any such parish of such union.

" That such paupers he maintained, and all expenses
defrayed from a fund levied from each parish in the pro-
portion of the expenditure for the relief of the poor in-
curred by such parish for the last seven ye4rs.

" Debts already charged on the rates:and interest due
in respect of such debts, shall nut be affected by the

change

Woon was of opinion that the poor-law settlement
question would ultimately compel the legislature to pay
that attention which its importance required, and he hoped
that a general assessment for the pour-rate on the plan
of the property tax would soon be adopted. With respect
to the hill, he hotted that it would be so framed as to se-
cure to persons the benefit of a proper ►esidence in any
locality. At the present moment he could not support
thescsolutions as they then stood.

J_ GRAHAM entered into a lengthened explanation
of theinetits of the bill, and concluded by saying that it
was hie intention to support the proposition of Mr. E.
Deni-or ; but if the house refused to adopt that proposi-
tion. he-vas ready to accept any other which would be an
iruprovepent, as be was of opinion it was of peat import-
ance thj,,,iwasure should be passed, to prevent the evil of
operatives. in manufacturing districts being removed, in
opposition to their will, to rural ones.
Sir R.- Le GLIB considered the measure as another of
,tbo4e blowsJevelled against the parochial system of Eng-
land. _ _ _ _

!Lord- Mon.lsrrir adverted to the evils which labourers
-endured in the Wolds of Yorkshire from the working of
the .parochial ,ffstem. Three-fourths of the removals
were ptrsons,who had lived more than five years awa
from .tl.eir respective parishes. He had no doubt the
,presentruieaaure.would greatly diminish thoseerempoorvt.als
end he si.ould therefore give the bill his hearty up
Mr. T. DUNCGKi E said that to do any good at all they
ought to abolish the law of settlement altogether. lie
was perfectly sure that the whole of the labouring popu-
lation wereo.a favour,ef such a measure, and he thought
that if ever nary alteration was to he made, now was the
time to do it. .He, therefore, had a proposition, in the
shape of an amendment,-to make, to the effect that an in-
struction be given- to !he/committee to make a provision
for the repeal.of -the laws o: settlement ; that relief should
lie given in the 'union _when the necessity should occur,
:and also that government should provide a fund instead
of an as,essment.

'Genera] SOIINIiON seconded the amendment.
Lord J. Itopscr.r, considered the question before them
a most difficult one, and that the 4 fficulries surrounding
it bad not been decreased by the course pursued by the
bon. gentle Tan onposite .(Sir James. Graham), who lee.
lured the A\ biz Government for brio/zing in a Poor Law
Amendment Bill in au impufect state. The right hop
baronet had now brought forward a.bill .which he was wil
ling to :rite-. He should give hi

is vote for.the ao:endment

lot Kit <hould be hereaftiri;;si:l;reln;cessarytn
tini,,n settlement he should be at f

!ct

to vi.te Huai,
The hous

,P's amendment,

Lord Dum!ernline

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

INDIA.

(From the Times.)

The Bombay •mails of the Ist of May have arrived•;
they are remarkably barren of exciting intelligence.
The Governor-General and the Commander-in. Chief
had reached Simla, where they intended to remain during
the hot and rainy seasons. The troops had up
their stations for the same period in the newly-acquired
districts along the Bras, and also in Lahore. The Sikh
soldiers were tranquil, but not satisfied. The govern-
ments of Lahore and Lamoo were engaged in tracing out
the frontiers between them. Gholab Singh is .not popu-
lar with the Sikhs, who accuse him of having sacrificed
Their country advance to his personal ambition. Dos-I
Mahommed, who was delighted on hearing of the inva-
sion of the British dominions by the Sikhs, has since as-
sumed a pacific policy, for the rapidity of the British
conquests had mot alio/red him time for any offensive
operations against Peshawur, although some preparations
for that purpose appear to have been made at Jellalabad
by his son and Wuzeer, the notorious Akhbar Khan. It
is evident from the position of the different rajahs and
their adherents as well at Lahore as in the neigh-
bouring states, •that the present cessation of hostili-
ties is kept up rather as a temporary armistice, than a
lasting peace. The division of the spoils of Rurjeet
Singh's kingdom is not satisfactory to them, and it is
highly probable that before 1846 expires there will be
other conflicts.

In the meantime the British are not idle either in con-
solidating their new provinces, or in weakening their ene-
mies. Amongst the materiel of war surrendered by the
Sikhs, were special!) enumerated the guns which had
been pointed against the British Indian army. Those
guns. to the number of 256 have reached Delhi, and they
are to be taken with all the pomp of a military procession
from that city, even as far as Calcutta. This procession
of nearly 1000 miles, will-not fail to produce a powerful
impression in India, where men judge from what they
see. The mighty power of the British government will
therefrom be recognised by even the Mahomedan fatalists.
It will resemble one of the triumphs in ancient Rome.

The Governor-General had issued a general order that
all soldiers engaged in protecting the camps, &c., during
the late battles, shall receive the decorations as if en-

gaged in them.
Scinde is tranquil. Sir Charles-Napier arrived at Kur.
rachee on the 15th of April in good health, notwithstand-
ing the extreme fatigues of his late rapid march to La.
bore. The invalids and wounded men from the battle of
Moodkee had passed down the Indus and arrived at Bom-
bay ; twelve had died on the war, amongst whom was
Colonel Hyan, of her Majesty's 50th Regiment. Pre-
parations weie making at Bombay at the time of the de-
parture of the steamer for sending those -invalids on to
Europe in the best transport that could be procured.

The King of Lucknow was crowned with Asiatic cere-
mony in hi s•capital on the lith April.

As all the foreign officers have been obliged to quit the
service of •Lebore, Colonel Minton, a Freucnman, and
Captain linron de Alcantara, a Spaniard (by whose
in engineering rise power tut fortifications of Ferozeshali
and Sobraon weze constructed), had come down to Bom-
bay at the same time as the wounded Europeans. Prince
Waldemar of Prussia, with his attendants, had arrived
thEre on the 18rh of April, and had come on to Europe by
t' -" the mail.. The Prince ' no

,he steamer wit'. has gainer
small experience from the late campaign on the Sutlej, as
he was continually in the company of the Governor-Ge-
neral, and witnes.ed the battles.

The N zam's dominions are in a distnrhed state, in con-
sequence of the bad management of the finances of the

vernment

Several changes had taken place in the Secretaries of
the Bombay Government and in the Council. Mr. J. H.
Crawford had retired from the Council, and had been suc-
ceeded by Mr. J. P. Willoughby, who was succeeded as
Chief Secretary by Mr. R. K. Pringle.

The heal li of the Governor, Sir George Arthur, was in
sech a broken state, as to give a colouring to a rumour
current of his intention to resign his important post
within a few days, and to come to Europe. His com-
plaint is described as of an apoplectic tendency.
It was rumoured that in consequence of the apprehen-
sions of an American war, the harbour of Bombay, which
is capable of strong defence, was to be immediately for-
tified.

Great connp'aints prevailed of the scarcity of water in
many districts in which the cholera was raging. Hopes
were, however, entertained of an early monsoon.

It is stated in a Berlin letter of the 27th, that all the
Polish ladies of the capital have gone into mourning, and
that even some of the young Polish brides have worn
black at the celebration of their marriage.
A disgraceful scene occurred on Good Friday, in the
church of the Holy Sepulchre, at Jerusalem. It is cus-
tomary on that day for the Latin Fathers of the Holy
Land, to repair in procession to Golgotha, to adore the
cross. The Greeks, however, who have usurped the ve.
nerated chapel, denied them admittance, and the two par-
ties having come to blows, the Governor of Jerusalem was
obliged to interfere, and cleared the place at the Lead of a
regiment of Turkish soldiers.

HUSBAND MURDER A LA LAFFARGE.-At the Mount-
pettier assizes, after a trial of several days, Madame Ma-
laret, charged with the murder of her husband, adminis-
tering small doses of arsenic occasionally, for several
months, was found guilty, " under ealenuatin.q circum-
stances," and sentenced to imprisonment for life, with
hard labnar. What the extnuating circumstances were
remains a mystery. M. Malaret seems to have been a
most kind and indulgent husband, and the murderess had
long carried on a criminal intercourse with a young man
named Berdet, whom, after her husband's death, she
married. The paramour was charged as an accomplice,
but acquitted.

THE INSURRECTION IN PORTUGAL. Advices from
Lisbon of the 30th May, have been received by the Pacha
steamer. Several conflicts have taken place between the
troops and the people, in the course of which some 13 or
14 of the latter had lost their lives. The Cabrals had fled
in the Pacha to Cadiz, where they had been received with
distinction by the Governor. The Cortes had been dis-
solved, and the whole of the legislation of the late minis-
try had been annulled by royal decree. The new Cabinet
was constructed on the 26th. Its constitution is as fol-
-I)ws :—The Duke of Palmella, President of the Council,
and Minister of Foreign Affairs ; Count Lavradio. Minis-
ter of the Home Department; Marquis of Saldanha, of
tsar; Count l.oureiro, of Marine ; and Joaquin Felippe
de Sonre, of Justice.

ARRIVAL OF THE WOUNDED FROM THE SUTLE.I.—
On Sunday and Monday, the steamers Victoria, Bernice,
and Medusa, arrived from Kul richee, bringing with them
five officers and upwards of 200 men who had been more
or less severely wounded during our late operations on the
Sutlrj. Many seemed to suffer from sickness as well as
from the hurts they had received ; some were sadly
maimed indeed, and all were objects of the most heartfelt
and generous sympathy. It was sad to see fine young
men, in the prime of life, disabled of a leg or an arm, or
cut up in the face and person, as so many were. Save in
the cases supplied by Scinde, we have long been o•It of
the way of such things, and custom comes luckily not to
aid in reconciling us to them. Every care and attention
were bestowed on them, a, d they are, we believe, likely
to be fortunate in having a first-rate vessel for their con-
veyance home. A good many had died on the journey,
and it was remarkable that the most of those who did so
were men who had been hurt in the lower extremities,
those who had only lost an arm or so did well.—Bombay
Times, April 26.

MASSACRE OF THREE HUNDRED PRISONERS BY
ORDER OF A BDEL KADER.—The Paris papers of Tues-
day bring a full cofifiraciation of the reports previously re-
ceived, of a wholesale massacre of Prench prisoners, by
the directions of Abdel Kader. It appears that the deira
was encamped about three leagues from the Nlidonia, the
prisoners, three hundred in number, had been placed in
the midst of a camp of regular infantry, surrounded by
high blishwork, with only two outlets. On the 27th day
of April, the French officers were withdrawn from the
deira, under the pretext of an invitation to be present at a
fele at the Kalyfa's. In the course of the night the pri-
soners were all assembled, and were a short time after-
wards fired upon by the troops of Abdel Kader. The
only survivor who succeeded, almost by a miracle, in
making his escape, was Rolland, a private soldier of the
Bth Orleans Chasseurs, who, having some suspicion of the
intentions of his captors, had contrived to arm himself
with a knife. The despatch which supplies these facts
states that the troops of Abel Kader are never paid in
money (how indeed should they ?) but in paper notes bear-
ing the seal of the Emir. It is impossible to speak of this
fl igitious massacre in other than terms of the deepest in-
dignation. There was evidently no pretext of a necessity
for its perpetration, for it is admitted that the safe custody
of the victims would have been secured by a very small
body of men.; seeing that there were but two places of
egress from the camp, which very small detachments
might have guarded most effectually. It is quite certain,
however, that there was no greater necessity for roasting
800 human beings at Dabra than there Ras for this atro-
cious massacre ; and if a civilized nation repudiates alto-
gether the dictates of common humanity, it ought not to
expect that a barbarous foe should be more scrupulous
when an opportunity of reprisal occurs. By this act,
however, Abdel Kader has deprived himself of much of
the sympathy which his previous gallant and chivalrous
bearing had excited.