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reading was lost by a majority of 105 to 102 vote

HOUSE OF COMMONS
On the motion for the third reading of t
Amendment Bill,

-TrIURSDAI

Mr. WA KI
read a third tim.

moved

Poor I

ment that the bill be

that day three months. The lion.
member denounced the bill as a desperate attempt to
bolster up the present Poor Law system, which was
hateful to the people.
Mr. J. FIELDEN supported the amendment.

with having caused the murder of the people, and in-
stanced a case in which a medical officer had informed
_him that he could have saved the life of a female pauper,
only that the pittance allowed him for attendance and
medicine was so miserably small that he could not afford
to give this pauper what she required.

ROEBUCK delivered a lengthened and fierce attack
upon Mr. Ferrand, accusing him of wildness of assertion,
of want of understanding, and of disregard of truth
Mr. HENLEY, Captain PECHELI
Mr 1'

Mr. BORTHWIC

.LAKES, and Colonel SIBTHORP supported the

Sir G. GREY defended the bill, and the house divided :
—For the third reading, 105 ; against it, 35 ;—majority,

Mr. SPOONER moved the addition of clauses providing
for the granting of relief to able-bodied paupers out of
the workhouse, and enabling boards of guardians to pro-
-vide work out of the workhouses for such paupers, also
annulling All rules heretofore made prohibiting relief to
able-bodied persons out of the workhouse.
Mr. FERRAND took this opportunity to repel the attack
made upon him by Mr. Roebuck, who, he said, indulged

in personalities with impunity, because it was well known
lie would claim the protection of the house, as he did for-
merly, should he be called to account out of the house for
the vituperative language used by him within the walls of
the house.

The house divided—for Mr. Spooner's clan
against them, IG9 ; majority against the clauses, _ -
Sir GEORGE GREY proposed the addition of the clauses
of which he had given notice.
It being now twelve o'clock, Lord GEORGE BENTINCK

moved the adjournment of the 'house, on the ground that,
as the house was to meet again at noon, it would be im-
possible for hon. members to sit night and day.
After a short discussion, Sir GEORGE GREY said he
-would not press his clauses, and on that condition Lord
G. BENTINCK withdrew his motion for adjournment.

Mr. BORTIIWICK proposed the addition of a clause to
prevent, ugeu tnarrietl persons, aDove sixty years or age,
from being separated in the workhouse.
Sir G. GREY thought that making the rule imperative
in every case would frequently cause much inconvenience.
Mr. HUME, Mr. ROEBUCK, Mr. BROTBERTON, and
Zord G. BENTINCK urged on the Government the pro-
priety of consenting to this clause.
Lord J. RUSSELL yielded, stipulating for such an
amendment of the clause as would leave the matter dis-
cretionary, not peremptory, with the boards of guardians.
The noble lord moved such an amendment to the clause.

Mr. BORTHWICK refused to accept the amendment pro-
posed by the Minister, and the house divided—for Lord
J. Russell's amendment, 55 ; against it, 70 ; majority
against Government, 15.
The atnouncernent of this division was hailed with loud
cheers. _

Mr. Borthwick's clause, as originally proposed, was
agreed to, and ordered to be added to the bill.

On the'motion of Mr. ETWALL, a clause, enacting that
meetings of boards of guardians be opened to the rate-
payers, was added.
Mr. RANKES moved the addition of a clause enacting
that the rules and regulations of the present poor-law
commissioners shall cease to have force six months after
the appointment of the new commission.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL opposed the clause, and the house
divided. For the clause, 35 ; against it 71 •; majority
against the clause, 36. ,

Amendments proposed by Mr. T. BUNCOMBE and Mr
WAICLEY were rejected after divisions, and the bill finall]
____

passed

HOUSE OF LORDS.-

FRIDAY

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ted an accusation he had made on a
t the directors of the Birmingham

moved that the petitions in refe-
subject be referred back to the standing
committee for a report as to whether or no the
g orders in this case had been complied with.
1 this question the house divided, when the motion
gatived by a majority of 12—the numbers being

Lord REDESDALE moved a resolution for an inquiry ny
the railway commissioners as to the accommodation af-
forded by the several lines of railway open to Birming-
ham, with a view to definitely settling the question of the
images,

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larch, shall be made examples of. The latter being
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quate space on the Honan side of the river
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