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      HOUSE OF COMMONS . TUESDAY , February 29 . BEPEAL OF THB POOR LAW AMENDMENT ACT . lit . FIELDS * presented a great number of petitions in -fxxvarofa total repeal the New Poor Law , from traces in . Norfolk , Lancashire , Yorkshire , Cheshire , and Suffolk . The . following are the Tiarnca of the places from which" they came , and the number of signatures to each : —From Tasboroueh , JSaTVingham , and Nethetttate-with-Thofpe , Norfolk , U # . The fattening from Yorkshire : —Heptonatall , 333 ; Aldmoml-- * n ^» 84 ° ; "Wadswortji , 430 ; South Crosdana , 381 ; Meltham TSi ; Gravedup of Holme , 2 , 300 ; Howarth , 712 ; Stainland ! ¦ 465 ; Cddm , ; 531 ; Qoeenshead , 330 ; Midsler , 564 ; Holds-- worth , S 52 ; Anihler Thorn , 558 ; Ovenden ' , 557 ; EDand , -340 ; Halitx , l ; r 4 ! S : SoW ei * T , 720 ; 3 Iixenden , S 10 ; Northow-Tam , ^ Thornton , 1 , 000- Stansfidd , 256 ; ClaTton , 350 ; Barasley , sagnedhr the chairman of thejneetjnc ; " Crossland , 350 ; Lepton , 59 »" ; Langfield ^ 391 ; Lineards , ~ 119 ; Skuthjaiie , 260 ; Henley ,, 900 ; Karnley TjasTlSS ; Saddleworth , -3 , 244 ; Mittonfi 2 ; Newtoa , 162 ; £ asheIheares ; S 6 ; Waddinirtaa , 160 ; Bolton-hv-Bolbind . 19 S : Horton . 49 : Middonn . 28 :

      WhiteweU , 35 ; Remmin (? ton , 223 ; Bladford ( West ) , 119 ; Xewsholme , 12 ; Sawlej , ' 124 ; Esancton , 72 ; Paytnorn , 24 ' windTeton , 252 . From " Lancashire , the following : —Hulme , -3 , 428 ; Burr , 3 , 500 ; Todmarden and Walsden , 1 , 414 ; Cul---dwth , - 1 ^ 2 ; faolsworth , 735 ; Twiston , 80 ; Saiaburn , -359 ; Worstone , 67 ; Chipping , 15 "; "Whaller , 165 ; Pendleton , 435 ; WisweTL 282 ; Hiehton Baffler and Chagler , 425 ; < Sithsroe , 8 S 0 ; Chidbum , 141 ; Gisbome , 129 ; Downham , 134 ; 3 fanchesfc » i , 18 J 22 j Blackburn , 4 , 200 ;' Preston , 7 , 60 *); Wood Chunpton , 226 ; Coosnaugh , 327 ; Salmsbitry , 195 ; tington , 26 ; Heighten , 93 ; Little Hoole , 15 ; Much Hoole , S 9 ; KibbleUm , 29 ; Ptmrortham , t 2 ; Ribchester , 163 ; Kul--srood , 61 ; Kbrorfh . 370 ; HothershaL 31 ; Broughtou , 292 ; Hcnriek , 19 ; GrJmshaueh , 42 ; Whit&Jgham , 96 ; Barton , 57 ; Eaton , 44 ; Dntton , J 20 ; Yishwirk , 55 ; Cnssens , 156 ; Chmt ^ -town , North Meols , 100 ; Latham , 22 ; NewDoitmsrh , 34 ; Bmscongh , 44 ; Farrington , 32 ; Elton , 1 , 096 ; Paddiham , 599 ; Colne , 1000 ; BMTowford Booth 500 ; Forest ofTrawden

      , , * W ; Earnaedswick , 460 ; FouIbrHge , 500 ; Roughlee-booth , 160 ; SomerfoTd-booth , 52 ; Great and Little Marsdeh , 600-Whitwnrth , 327 ; Castleton , 2 S 0 ; Blatchingworth aniCalder-Ww > k , l 47 ; Bunerwor . h , 1 , 400 ; Thornham , 411 : Herwood , 1 ^ 356 ; JBdolettm , 1 , 600 ; Oldham , 6 , 590 ; Lees , 811 ; rtorton sgned by 1 , 700 females ; Rovton- signed by 1 , 300 males Crompton , 1 , 442 : Chaddt-xton " , 1 , 051 ; Ashton-under-Lvne , signed by 2 , OS 0 females ; Ashton-undrT-Line , signed hv 5 . 200 males ; Presrwich , 1 , 753 : Ratclifle-bridee , 852 fStalev- ' bridce , ¦ 5 , 420 : GQos = m > . S . 120 ; Mosdev , 812 ; SBnthport , 3 si ; St-ok-5 ort , g 000 ; Burnley , 4 . 372 ; Rochdale , Zjgk Kroni Sufil . lk , -the JoHowinjr : —agricultural labourers and others cf tLe parishes of Wickham Market , Easton , Parham , and Glenhnm ¦

      ««; parishes of Tunstall , and Blaihall , and Evke , 4 i ' 3-HoDeslfT , Alderton , and Bawdser , 543 ; Badin = ham , Peus ? iiaaH , Krissle . and Surfling , 7 P 4 ; SaxmunabTaaa , Benh : d ] , ~ siape , _*" ri-= tnn , and Lekton . 743 ; Subum , Orf-. rd , ind But-Jer , oa " . Krran Leek , 5 tanVr 4 fhire , signed cr ] , 51 > 6 , 1 : 1-¦ cludins persons of all claisft =. Kroin Cheskire , the follow " ^ - y-Congleton , 1 , ? 16 ; Ringla ^ tcn , 335 ; Kettleihulme , 143 ; ^ oirer \\ hiiiaijrton , 157 ; - \ dlinctt . n , 157 : Sniallwood , 107 ; « vretcn-cnni-Snietii \ rick , 64 . . Maar \ , { thes * xietitioia wore -signed by Magistrates Tind Clrt- ? r . Wn riding mihin tic districts from which tLey canie , and by all the rate-purer * ¦ S » me ol them « vre- ^ lsi s ' -aed br tiie Gnardiius elected « u » der the New Law . Th ? r vVL " deserved the attenti .-n ..-i the Housp . '

      i ! r . D . W . HAH VKY presented petitions to the sin : ? efli < rt «* i-Halifax , signed by ! O , 0 n 0 T * r * . n *; fr .. ailIc « l » T Tvcvu . « jned by 10 » « jb > peri . as ; 2 nd froia Chi ; , penham " , " in ' Aur-_ Gf-r . enilJOHXSON pr ^ -seutedapetiti . n lolheinrue pG-rt Jam the bihabitant hwj . - » hjld « s of a town in Yck < iiir ? < the name of-vrhirh & * no ; reach us- ) The Uon . anil U .-b-nt -McmiwT said , ib ^ l \* e ovzhx la inK > rm the Ij uui ; - thai the paruas to ihh : petition cuied themselvt- $ remonja ^ iareK , Lu-¦^ ead of petiilunto-js , in the usual war ; but ,-as the pt-tsu . 'E oiu -ot c . ntJn anvthju : that-. v ^ s dis-i- ^ nxtful to th ^ a « . us ^> "eip ***^ " <• pisbt be ateed tn lay it on th » taVle . The SPEAKER sai 3 , it -r ^ . s clearihat tip i ^ ti : ion -. m "? t .. t miW . accwrdicg to the re ^ nilar fyrm , Tiad u" would V ! .-i L ^ r tiou ^ " « -: Qe -n-hethpr it i-xufnt to be re eire . l <_ c n < z i here \ yui . \ s « Jana is I ' m' pt-tiuou iWlf taat could induce ihv Uc-se n > A to Tecsive k . lJnt in T > "int of form It iva - ti r :-mcn > u-aac « , and nr . t a petition . a £ d if this -nvre receiv'd- hf cooM aot sjt . vhr . t «; rt of Tcincnstr ^ uces lak-Lt hf- tr .. f-. * ' - he ¦ iJtn zn . Ufear , hear- ) -

      Mr . RlCti h' - ^ l the Hon . sn-1 Gallani Z . i ^ mWr tv ,. ^ 1 cn-J- ^ J , withdraw it 1 ,-t th « vr ^ s ^ at . It was .-i-iK-d 1 > V .-n- » ir .-OJru-ual oAj . L . n h p hsh' oi *" hiu » i ; t-: ; " and other * arid' f 5 > .-r-f . •*< the H-n . and Gallast Jlrinkr l ^ u « . n ]* - to ccmn . u-iic ' v > tfcru m-liricuul thut th ? H-. u- ? , vn ap : " int ( T fonu , uni n .:- . ~ '" i \ ? mcisj ^ -iition o : dsreaar . 1 to eaturtrin ii * i > VC ; coiui . not r « -o : ve it , an ^ . thereior , * , to snjrcesfan al- * - --. i i . n puamg the i ^ amfat in the proper saap ^/ ~ . . O ^ neruj JoHXaDN aid . E- lid i _ ot tiiii that the -: n' - Jrom whj-i it . ananated woul-1 be at all dk ; -. s-a t- > n ;; . kc tiiaJt ^ ratK . n ^ rgestj-a—fa Lmirh>—and , therefor * . h ° d 3 u ,,: letU ^ usufc ; -. 1 m wididrairiiis it . ; Loud cri ^ of - 3 nv-df " ) ^ r . BU KTHWICS espn- ^ - i his detennmatio ^ t « iWCf i - ^? riv-iLit-. The Hou ~ - then dri-ided , wn there appeared -i ^ -T - 10 -,, - . ^ < jes -- « 2 » 0 - » Jaj . jnty asam-t the recer . ti ^ n of die pr-tlti-n I *}

      ¦ »^ H ° > " THE ' NEW POOR LAW . - > ir- Kll . LUhN tiiea rrt-= e . i .:-TSC ^ nt to notice , to nowf-r a rrpepl nf ihe JVcr LuW Amendment Act . We lam ^ a , tiuit Tfaen . uie occx-swned It the . nuance cf Member * r- 'iderpa ¦ tos opening pbservBdons fcr the most pan biuaoibV . ai indeed . laroimhoiU th ? whole i . f bis isr ^ cii he -. n . s ven ia . lis-- twtVh-ara in the caLer .- . He wa < UEdersu- «« l to sa ' v . that be b *> lier-J tt : c t 0 be < :, ? ,. f the nurt isip .-i na :-t « " ^ ri- ¦ - < that had ever been sulmiw--d t- the coaideraccn .. f th-t ttons- that jne-n .-n Viis wh ^ 'her thr- v ^ t of thi < ibri-Vau - = Hou . d ha- » tho .-= e nrhu restore m uie . u ^ hich haU K-. n wrer " t' * >' mtllf-IIll- . ^^ 5 > c- I ^ -ed f ; = r the amendm-ni Vf tni » r « T Ja-, r-in l ^ l . Ic ths t r . n- > - ; Iun w-u ^ c MiH ^ i a —• - -eond , and that mi wh .-th-.-r this r ^ hr . uld be catlnued un ' il inepo-.. rv . vrer « iisedt .. rcl ,-ak-a . ^ od ui :: il Vach a < - » tt-., f ' -- ?? i- . V ? brooaht aV-ui ;'^ t sher-.- wonl-1 ^ > u ,, aeroHtv i ,, r bi ? or rty : n tiii The

      , ^ er prope s country . Hon . "_ Menil-=-r rn ?;! asked vriat w-. t-. iU- ub « ses of the olG sv < teai"' ParmeEtuf wages out ulr . w , and incr .-: ii « «> f £ axc th-rA ' - i > at wuat cause . ! this ? Tax ^ ti . DI Jn 17 y 5 i : was l . r . jved hc . Vr . TJanes atlersrymaa nf Berkshire , shat a r ^ ducti-. n of a ' ,, iess than 50 j * -r celit . had : ; km vhicc in tic nase = of u-zri TO . nnallab .-. 3 r . Ts : that iu ; h-.- l ! . £ a iiQ J j-Jj centurle- a < L—^ ur- ^ c- ^ d ^ raa . jmuter of vhi-at fur 2 i days' M ,, ur A ! tae ar ? n , ff ? i . rice cl ! ai . nr . a d tV averse pr >« of the «] uarter ; or the l :-st nvenrv years , a JmiD c > Ad . net « rn a quarter of wheat unuer -if' dnrs' L-b ^ ur . What ni-aas had « re . pn . -. rja ^ to rea . H-dy iLIs ? i'h .- New Poc . r L--. v woTxhr . us-s sisj * a W .= f i . f desuruti in . and a complicated machinrry to « fiect au uniform syst- ; a oi -ulLiiinistpUou . and correct evils ; acd abuses Jii < imilar . aii £ r--. juiriiija ; ff-reatwnieui- ^ iii duT . --^ nt panshes . This uE 5 f . nu sy .-fic rrasncpracricable ,-n-hirhLh-< 5 epamn-e sh-. vr-, f . ; r th-re hasl-ea a deicirture from '

      thonjnnaJ « test . " i hieiaillr there ir . is but ' oni ' , n . w tht-re ire two , the fot relief .-ah- j . ]« .: a coaaitl .-n of t ^ ing slat i : r the other k-tterh- adfipfr-l "; -: X-ttLnzhom , vh-re the pe * . i * e aave had out-dDor lab-nr sivea to them by the parL = h at tai : k . ana without a mui ^ uia of wages . This" knds to show that the crunual t « - ^ r is a failure cvea . n ih : ispinim wfitsiavt-ntf-rs . andrlvo to shovr . whnt i- * c ; -n' ? a ; ii * 3 by " the opponent . f t ~ ! ie sewUw . that alaar cf tliis kiul t-: > work well ' shonlo b *> : icxafajistt ? red by those wan rsiird the Tales , u-= jl that that V jca ' i y . rrerniiif sr i . crht t ^ be- r < «! . r ^ a ^ vh . ch > as Wa destr . red b .--cheiiewact . He ennt »? iiir-d . iL ; i the new Liw iras uauec < - ^ - -r = rr ; iL- p « -pV Trere < j" thtt . -. laion , th ? payers f . f r ^ tss ' web as taereceirers of reij .-f . Ttwe were few ' petitiots for it . and many avainst it . Ust it isad teen admitted thitt th < - « T >* Tad ' . u of the « . ld lai » - -. V . 1 S r- > jd in s ^ me places . \ MmtTi-< -Mr . Fitl'lfn ) contr-n < l * d w ; s , that it might be just as cod _ « be « lwe : and that if abuses had crept in . ther oczht nnt to the

      iesttribut ^ dto pier , but tn xho ^ e who nrismun-iiaed thfir JtSairs- It was .-inirulsr that the Poor Law Coniiuksioners had spoken we'l of the w . rkiiia of the oia law in the borough - fOIdhaaj , whkh w .. uU "be s ^ -a in their rep ; -rt . In tho .-ie _^ ibc « s it was said the rates were la-AiTat- ? , and tlsere was iiu reas- a ^ ble obj 1 " ^ 3 to t ^ 'M law . Now , he aslced , why conliJ not thav irho comilained of the or >? ration of the "old -law in ot ! i ? r place * liaread-Tpled that system which had been used at Oldkiia ? If th « y Lad . so dune , what necessity was there for the new law ? _ \ oi 7 , h ^ begged the attention of Hon . M embers to the re =--nlts of iaoairies" which he had made into - the Terurns of the Pogt Luw C . > imi ! i = sloaers themselyes , lo -: how how far there had , aftT all , b ^ en any ndvantaje in th ™ new svston oyer the .. Id . " Fr » m returns " published bv ; he Poor Law CoEimifei ' iiiers , t h" p . > - .. T-rates -were the hlchesi iu IdIS , iaini ? then ^ ' 7 ^ 7 O . 5 > 1 : year ending Miirch 25 183 ^ -7 . ' ) 36 . &o 7 : tliat en . 3 inz . " -Jarch 25 , 1832 , jf . % 52 G . 4 i 6- that

      endinar March 2 ii . Ie 37 , Xl . « ' 4 l . 741 , showinc a decrees ? between i ^ lS soi l 1 . -33 of S'i 1--7 c-at .. between 1 SJ 2 and 1 SJ 5 . when th » Tat- »« treTe eTiTy ~ y ? nr decrea = ine 21 per ceat-, and between 1 * 35 and l-v > 7 >> f ;¦> > -r c ^ nt- Wbea payments' that used t J be made ont of llie ra tes before the neir Jli \ y , and since then have been pa"id out vt i > tLer funds , are taken intoaccouut . " it is questionable whether th new law has effected any T <~ ducdon cf rates El ^ 11 , an 3 in this opinion 1 am conurmed by the redaction of rat ° = s in "L'auca ^ ljre , andin the West Ridina of the c ; liary of York , where aidtation pre-ruils . In Lancaster ( county ) the decrease in rjtes between" 1 ^ 35 a nd 1 S 37 is 17 | ¦ per cent- ; in the Wrst Riding of Yerksiire , 21 per ceat . In a jetum made to the Boose of l *> rds , ipd ordered to be ¦ jsrinted , on the £ 22 of 3 Iay 1 i ± su the esj-endirore-is giyen for in-door mainteuiiBee and establishment charges for one year , ending December 25 , 136 , in 125 unions , comprising 2 , 312 . parishes , and a poptfLunv-n uf 1 , 666 , 150 , all that return

      embraces ; and I find by this return that the maintenance of the "in-doorpaupersayerages J . c . lLs . Id- per head for ihe jear—. xhat is 2 s- 1 W per week for oach person in these union worklouses , and 1 find that the establishment charges ayera ^ e ^ 9 . 15 « . 8 d . per head for the year , or 3 s- 9 d- per week for each person in those workhouses . ik > that the cost of maintenance ¦ and establishment charges of each parson in tout union woriiousc-sis ^ ' 15 . 6 s . 9 d- p .-r aTmntn , or 5 s . 10 jd . per head per -o-eek ! By th « same return 1 find that the establishment charges in these 125 unions amount to . £ " 2 . 2 s . 0 $ d . per head on the whole population of the unions . And by a rernrn in the last report of ^ ihe Poor Law Commissioners , " the rate per " head of expenditure far the " relief of the poor on the whole population of Lancashire for the year ending the 25 th ef - iiaich , 1 S 37 , ia but 2 s . 9 d- per head ; that is , onlr ^ 6 Jd . per hSad more than the establishment charges alone * in these . ^ unions ; and in the township of Oldham , which I have the

      "^ 30 * 001 toTepresent , the rate of expenditure for the relief of 'Sie poor fcr the same period is only Is- 2 Jd- per head on the population of that township ; that is , Is- 0 £ d- per head-less than the establishment charges alone amount to on" the whole pqpnlatun of those 125 tmioni . \ Thy , thea , should this law T » e forced on my constituents by buBets and baronets ? They " ¦ "wish to know why . From the ga ^ p returns of *^ p commis-- -sionergl&nd that in 18 counties the rate tjf expenditure per ' '• bead , ¦ Jrifhieference to the population , in the year ending the : 25 th of March , 1 S 34 , was less by 28 par cent- than the expendi-- tore tras iu 18 other counties under the operation bf the Sew ' Poor Law in the jear ending the 25 th of Mardx , 1 SS 7 , and in ¦ Trturi latter 18 counties a reduction in the rate of expendi---tare of 42 par cent , is said to hare been pffo-ted since the aewlaw was passed . In the former 18 coun&s . too . the

      - highest T » te in soy oue of them isles than the lowest rate in * -any other one" of the latter counties , in which the saving of 42 ¦ per cent , had teen effected . This shows that the Poor Law - . Xm ? ndm ^ nt Act iras ¦ annaceasary . " Then what is thepriaci ple of this Act , ' and what eflects on the able-bodied did . its ¦ framers contemplate ? The principle was , that the paupers -should in bo case be eligible unless they were more miserable than the lowest class who live on their labour . ( Hear , hear . ) - He wondered what Hon . Members meant by crying " hear , liear ! " He feared they had little idea ol what the tendency of such a princi p le must be . What were the effects contem-. ' plated ? First , conversion of paupers into independent la-* Oourexa , and reduction of rates ; aecoad , rise of wages ; third , ^ ihe diminution of improvident marriages ; fourth , increased ^ Tcontent of labourers , and diminution of crime . But there - wexe certain special eSecteiii the eye of the origmal Poor Law

      " ^ Coauniasionera . first , supplying a aelf-aeting test of the Tnerit xif all claims ; second , showing the requisite line of ~ distinction between the <^««^ of iadspendent labourers , and tjterebr rtftrkrng the tendency to the indefinite extension of * HM ^ vtnrparf » flwii removing from the distributors all discre- ' ? tA ^ mjj j ^ wpw ^ unfl thereby « Hmin <« hmg »^ yrg <» 3 dministra--t iicB- Wow , had the agency employed worked out the -pmS ^ Bj and produced tfieae eflects ? It was true that the ¦« m « test Jttd been adopted , a&d that the rates "had ¦ ¦^( Miniomep laces greatly reduced by this new law . It wa 3 :, <^ ae . gat ' ihe aiscretiaulT power tod been taken awnr , but ~ % ^ inae *] iaen ? ' Bad iaere been a retoin to content ? - Had ^< tim « beaile «» ened by thenew law ? That was the question ' * ~' v&aX called loudly &r an answer . Upon the point of crime ,

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      what was » aid by Mr . Adey in his second report ? In the second report of the Poor Law Commissioners ( 1836 ) Mr . Adey quotes ilr . Sniche , of the Bigsfleswade Union , who says the act is working exceedingly well for all parties , and , in confirmation say— " I challenge iniyiirv amongst the pooT themselves , where , indeed , the inquiry ought to be made . ' ' He then quotes from written testimonials " of several of the principal occupiers of the Union ; and of theses one says—' 1 think they frequent the 'beer-shop 3 as much or more than ever . "' Another— " 1 am sorry to Bar , that sheep-stealing and other depredations have been more prevalent since the system commenced than was ever known before . " Another' They frequent the aleheuse quite as much as ever . Poaching and other oepredations have increased double to any former . " Another— " ! do not feel able to answer a 3 to their frequenting the alehouses , or as regards poaching , < tc , aatoany alteration . * ' Another—* ' The " alehouses are , I think , more frequented than ever . I am not of oninicn that wachino

      aud other depredations have at all diminished , but that the greater crime of sheep-stealing has increased tenfold . ' Another— "I think poaching and other depredations have been quite ss numerous , and sheep-stealing is spreading more every vear . " The X-oble Lord ( Lord J . ' Russell ) had been pleased to challenge him ( Mr . ReMen . ) He had challenged him by ref'rrina , with exultation , to the Umons of Bigglesr w :. de and Amptnill . The Noble Lord had referred to these as famishing proofs x ; f the extraordinary pood working of the system , ' lie ( Mr . l- 'ielden ) had expected that thi 3 working wonld turn out to be not very good ; but he was bound to confess that the working had turned out to be even much worse than he ( JIt . Fieldcn ) had expected . He had sent two persons down into that neighbourhood to make inquiries , in order that he might the better enabled to accept the challenge of the Noble Lord . He had wished to have more evidence , and evidence of a very different kind from that which had been produced before the

      Committee . He had proposed to get evidence from twentyonc Unions , in which it had been alleged that the saving had been the greatest ; that wish ,- however , did not meet with the approval of the committee . He ( Mr . Fielden ) was permitted to take the three first uniyns on the list ; those happened to be Ampthill , 'Woburn , and Bedford . He had sent two intelligent persons into those Tinions in search of information . What was the T . 'sult of their inquiries ? It was this , and further inquiry , if made by the committe , would show whether the statement were true or false—thiit deaths in Ampthill workhouse had been quite frichtful ; th-. it in those unions widows , orphans , and the aged , have had their allowances cruelly reduced ; that wages ' had not risen , but on the contrary , that thev also were reduced , while , ths head-money , es it is called , had " been taken away ; that hundreds of labourenrwere out of employ , and that there were not more employed than there were prerious to to the new Law ; that bastard y had increased ; that the pofir were suffering distress to aa extent

      never belr-Teknown ymi-u . 'st them ; that they cannot get asiifficLairyoffuodof thepoyr . st sort ; that their furniture is Bom ? ; ihat their bedaing is going ; and that thev are reduced to tie List shift , of selling their cl .: thes to buy "bread . This i ? verj- horrible . All this , howevvr . he [ Mr . Fielden ] esptctel to ~ he : ir . But there was something infinitely more horrible thuu tliis—souiething so horriblr that he hurillv knew how to allude ; o it . though his duty tu his countrj- forced -him to ilo * i . He believed that the ctise to which , he albaded was nut the only cas ? of the . kiul which micat become the su ^ bj .-ct oi inqidry " . He beuev . 'd that the Xoble Lord [ Lord John Ru * - seilj was aware " of-the existence of another case of the same d-.-.- ^ ij tion . Th- ^ re kid been aliianbiatinni practised in th--. vo : kh use of ¦ AuipiiJH cf the in . « st horrible , descri ] ti -n . HeIi : i 3 be ? n tolfl that the porter of tlixit workhou ? a hail ma I :-it a place f . T the corrupting ' . 'f th ? V 4 ; ule y .. jith of the country > e »"' . T . il youths had been spoken cf as theobjecU uf this mill ' s wkkej " atie . nii . ts . It appeared th : it . ne youth h ? . d 'been cu ; uluitted to gaol , perhaps to b . > tried f . t tils " life , on tue .-hur- 'e

      of h ; ivln _ 2 iaflict « -d sevure woun < L > iipon tho per ^ uii » f this p . iner : Lu % if r . w . rt sj ... ke true , it wi . ul-1 app . ; : ir St ] so , ' : i : u the cvuilr . ci of tuis ^ rler ti / ivard-s th sum . " . . jm ! i , 1 i :: J b ^ en sacit as to niake the pjiter linble to l- » tried for :. c ^^ iiHl i . Ji" > rire . Th- y > = ut > i beins in iraol to be tried , ih ? V ;' rter hai left i ' ae ^ i-.-i ^ ibjurinMiJ , ua- S . -. is was : : le ^ . 'd , h : nl ; J-. « tthcT 3 s ; i-near .-d . although he . a- the i . r . > seoul ,. r , siival-. l , "S n lj ^ tt- ; i of necs . iity , be expect .-l Iu lie l " -r .. 'i ; i .. ~ t : h tii .-tn : il . [ Here the H <_ n . Meml-er ref .-rreJ to s-vcr-. l cu-es ¦ . ia :, mt ; . iahL * -. trcuMfnt , that th' ? Union ? were atj i-cjii-eTik ; - ! i :.: 'Chinrn- ; that i ' :,- c « ai « ml "board w :: s d-. «*; . i-. t ' c :. u-l tvr : iiiiii «< l ; and taut tiv > workh- ^ iso . * were d-ns nf tenure ai / . i muder . ] He cont-n-lej that the m : iE 3 cement ;• nd di ~ i-ij . ilne " 1 th ? M-. T-kh . > ti < L-s were most illecal ' and " nn : i :, ; iir .-. 3 . Hreally \ -.-: vIered'Uo-. v " K : > ii . Mi-a-K-rso .-tl'l , with ;; .. t : eiiL ^ . eiid-.-r *? i " f tu- 'HSiit . ifih- s-jv :: _ . v : ? p : r : it : n . f the - ¦ v -o , ; i ; j ; f rh : > 'letaa . s nf the : ' : j :-.-t wor ; -- th . r . a ~ v ^ z \\ , t \ - _ : i r . Li ' -h th ' -v i ^ vre < b % ed to und-T '_ - . > . As a := pecu : iea •¦ : the l :-i t-.-r . lluif L « , fLe dietary . < vst ,-: ii . J : ¦ b ; -rceil t . i refer the Hr . uv .-v . 0 . i » de l = < r ; j-ti-.-n 'iiv ^ -s 1 'V Mi . I * wen , -. viilrh ; : j- ^ :. r . -- ( l i ; i 7 / .,- Ti .,, s ~ = - " -V 5 = y :-. per " 1 tue lt ! i ir ^ t . Th-. it c- ' ! . Ue ! u ; .: i " s ilt-. ~ ivij . t : ou rt-^ r- « -J to the ¦¦ iT . t :- = .. . ; ' ;" ne w : it : T- " ^ ri : el . f t ^ e l ' -rli- ^ : ; -,-,-r Vnhn : i : irf-nz ' £ . r thiiic ^ lie stated :. s f «; l ' . ' . i-, vs : —•• h di- i :,. t rt

      := ^ , ihe po-.-r p-j-1- - - .- v . nch :, t lir-i , \ -v .: - . k-t t ^ ,- u .-e . " it ' •¦ " " a f 1 "" days . :- ¦• . - > ,-.- ; , !; ie tt-rriMy b ; i « l ; it T-. id -uv .. v l ' r ,.:: j lu .-m while staa'Un ^ uyriAt , -. is ; L-ey took it . It : ATn :.-j tnem upw :-. r . ' . s n , i . l dov . nwaTus : ail " the way < "i ...-, i ! s :,: r-:, tcrtS 3 ihiih :- !! , ; -& . ! i ! .. w : i th- u , T .: eii p ^ t ) i . " \ v : u = Jill c-rt .-v-i everr morning . : i-. ii the ~; eneh wa- uj . mble - . tlir-. v . sh 'lie h .. ; :. ? e , rsakii-T um > p . -. pi- ill " ^ . a --irk wh-.-V-ln . it . ' . f th - tharrho-a . "' He ! Xir . Ki-.-W- ! , lir . J w "» ,-i v l .-i ier .. j . lv ( L : i niomins from a LT .-H- "! iii -jr . in Jie . lKT-1-hire , vho mu ; . . '( . iu r-Qiau . irhj sai < 2 that ?;*» : ; . ni ! . t-n f ; iv ., ur : ] l , j .- to ih- i ,,. w iu ,. .-.-ure-irht-u it-, v :- ; irst ir .. ]~< eJ , who Ilk : : 1 it "tL .-u , U' ^\ . " e iv . uth col > i 1 -. vti-pr-:: iis-j tv be t-fleeted 5 v it . L _ ; iv ] io n .- » - Liiviii ^ judiri- 'l ir .:: itxTvrI-uco < -f it- ¦ no rtins , ">) :: '; f < , un : l i * . ; rl bes-j bn-1 iu eiiVct . fh- < t ho-h ^ i l . ^ c .-iiie : i < ^ tr-. ns ; : mrii- - .= -uc ' " - * cf tb ? measure ;•? ht- u ; is i-. t nrs : fi . v .. nniMe to " jt . & ¦ { " \! r fleldeii ) impliTeti tae li .-u > e tu c : a- ; id-r well whut he Jl . i . i been SijTng to i ] ..-m ; he had ]) .. j . ^ d t-. iiupr .-ss u ; -.. » tliein tiiat _ t > f wiiicb . Le U :: ise ' i" h-. i ' i felt quite Ct-rta ^ --Ui :: t this i-. tr-wri-iui ; bi -. v v . culc : ; .-v-r be t l .-r . ite . i bv ' . lie j > - . j >] t . , «• f , .. . Vxai- Tiiat was :. » sriie ;> - if iva . - sure i ' mt c . i ' -. v : v . 7 i ]< f <^ . low nivse and if li-iiMrrbTs « lrl !! : f " ¦ iiriiii

      . ; .. . ; . . .. r . ,-= ~ : m .. n -., ~^ ... " - • *• ' —^ - . «» uu » . * a . * -. » . . ' " . ii - ~ 1 ! - 'ir'I Jil ^ . ^ i lily " T j it »' I * f T * i r thi > hv U ]> Wi the ; -e . ; ]• ¦ . }; , - iu : ^ f . f-rl ^ wii " . SrArkW u ^ i Itii-t li ? w .. ula li ' - 'l iri . i- ! J ! :.-h ;' .-r th e >(; t .- of :.:,.- K , iVj .-in 51 lii tliji-. Hui ^ e- The ii-. n . :. ivmb .-r . : i : t .-r lh :-.: ikiil ^ ;]; , Iivir * ,-1--r tue - aitieiice with wliicli tb-y V > -.. u ' .-M-. i-.-d t > . " ui--l . = n . j 0 ir-n-. ..- m ¦• • v .. J-.--. r ,- ^ , l Cner- ^ it sarisfrcrion h ^ f-lt :-t the . - ' .-- ei . -:. t- wlrju It-d ^ o ' -u ni ^ de by the Hm . M ? ::, b -r f .. r t > Kn .,-:.. II- i , ; i , l c . ii . j . ieteh developed the inj :. n . iiis wurkuiir « i : h- b- ! l . \ t t ^ = - < u , krime he did not c < -r :--: L rit : aii a .-c- ^ . i , } ,. *¦ r ., to . ; .-t ^ iU iVI cf

      the piupr-s ^ yiu-.:-: 5 < inir th- in-ti , a - . \ -lih- wiiichli ,- c-jiK- ' adeJ It appeared t-vluin tt . r . ; t ' .-.-lav .- % v :. s s- .. bj .-cri .. ; ,. aie in i . riic ; pJ- » , s-. trrunc : c :. l m lU-env .-iziw . * . obii .-xicus to tl .-hab . t--- of th- ^ -T-le .-: ir , 3 sil : »» --a ^ to ;";; . ;• -pirit < f tile Kii / 'iish c ^ -nsnrc tion . th : itit shoulu n- - vt-r have V-vii -= auc : ii . ui > dbv ~ fi ; ii Hon = e . ; : nd-oueht ? i :. r : iijy l .. ii _ ' , -rt . > ivnriime o : i ihe » : ; . tiitebe .-k . < Hear , he : r . ) -The u ; . 'i :. n ¦¦! : h H . n . ~ iu-n , h- r v-, * r . c . iau ; . > i ) u ; -d by ; t ^ =: ; ..:. li .: iv . It i-r .-pui-.-. l no M ; - ; . ; ., ] - !; . rvf .-rra : it -. vent : it . : ;" e to ' thr- ' r ..-t -Vf the evil . ;! n . l ~ .,.- .- u emin \ v to er . i-Vc £ te th-.- uiisriiinf . -Hei . r . i H- " b Ii . - -v . ii {> ' . & act never would t-ive iuti-fneri . n to ihe v > - >> , . le vl ' ilii- < -i'i : n ; iv In th- - . vhole . J it .- - arr .-iitr .-iiieut .-. hi i " ' whole ., f i-, < spirit , iJ iu-entire mcchunu-jl li ^ lj . liue , \; wus utterly hostile to the ¦

      b-st Irishes an-I Ji-i-lIiiiTj if i ; .- ¦ ¦ -. ¦ i . l .. . IL . tir i t ; ... u :-st v . TsJie 5 anU Jivi-iiTj tj i ; . v y-.-j . k-. : li---. % r . j Th * -v «¦ , ' ,. iwl of the L / arJ :: > it had tt . » J .: o-J .. n tliM .-n- > rS < -, ana the imschiefe it Luu < j .-c ^< :. net 3 . 'n : > , e it ? .-r . ! r " ar-. thei , a matter of . c . 'in ; kiicu ' t .-t : iuvi . > -: but , a-. ! mit ; L ,:- tluit ! , 1 ] i "; ,, ' aavantu-jes de ^ cribe .-i r . ; . d -::. ; r . i ";> T ,-a fr ^ . ai it , hv vr ; : s l . h-pared u > c ^ btvnd t-qttal -jiiv- .-inaies w .-uM hi . veresnhe . 1 witii-. m i " ..- - - izitroJucd-u .. I such a 1-.-. 1 V . ind il w ; -. » w « m tlu . t ur , anC ) & would discuss the-j-rincis-le . ivith at thinking ¦; at :. } 1 ueev > ury to co intv luiijuie uetnils . a : the preseu ' t i-ce .- » * :-. ) i . ¦ " \ cc-. r ' Juie f . thciestTTu-nv -f Mr . Gr .: y . on- of the fu-.. rtl :-n < f the Chichesr ^ r Umt-ii . who li :-. S b-M-n csnmincd b--f . n- th .-Cmumtee , it s < ppe-.-. re « l that tii- rates in-l ! -32 : n . ^ um-u to 3 rt

      -io , » . and . m 1 > 37 . t « only . t 2 jJ 16 ; and wh-.-r-- ha-1 tl- ¦> - .. be-rn a p-eater r .-ai' . rti' n La : ~ n \ , < tin- unions which hail I .- -i . establUhed '" Kui nv the CU . A--. < i ; r U :: i < m nniler ihe r .- ' -ulati-ms of the Pw . r Law CouirnLs . - ; - ! iii r-s ? M" -. . - it i : ; -, a , . T-sjiect retrulat ^ d by th ° iu ^ ndatf ^> of the trinruvijti te < * . f SoUierset-hou . se ? itVas reguhited bv an act wliicli h-Jd b--ii in eiisTmce nn . re ttu : i K > yl-urs . N . ' r r . i . s tV-re anv plur-. iiijv I « f votes m this C .. 5 ?; lr . it every r . ite-pav .-r v . vnt to" t-. e j . « . lf I Jiiid gave one va ? for the election > . » f tli . j . -e j-rs ,, ns who wv , * - j to ui- ^ ribnte the funJs . Tha t was the ulj EnsrEsh fn-slii . n i acS , Tefurmerashe v . a > , he hud lived louz eiioiiL'h to kn :, w j that there were re'Vrms which w ? re n . ' . t improvement*—! fu ? ar , hear}—and many chunife ^ , he belii-vt-d , were made iu « , t

      S uiirefiecundythear , hear < —in si . im- instances e . xtterlii ; ¦]¦ > ¦ detrimental to the interests of tLe people . ( Hear , h : i ; r . ; ' l'i . o r " ipis bo dissatisfacti .-n in the Oh-eh-ster I ' njon , eith-r : iuiL-n-i » tue rate-payers or r . tte-re < ---ivers ; even- thine was tt-nduct ' -J in p--rfect goodwill and harmony , and they iranted n .. t fhp pterlerance of the ]' . >> r Law C ! -: uju : s ., iuner . s i . ' r ; hi-ir airents n that union . But how had the reduction Leon effect .-. 1 "•' j Was not the priricirfe the s . tme ? Had not r .-sulatioiis . siiailai to those rccomni . jii-d by rae . comnilss : i > ners been adopted and Girriedinto « -3 " ect in -. hut union ? He did not object to cram ihM fur the sak .- nf the itnrumrot . Bst if , in j , ' . " : nt of fact iuchrules coii'd be c ; irr i"d into effect without the intervention of the commit o ^ ts what did they want any more with tht cumbrous machiiien-, ihe exrr . i-.-.. siut esj *; niw * , und the nilc- 'nstiratij > nal power-. t > f the e ^ UiW ^ hiuent at > . in . T > .-t-h .. ii . se ' (• Chwra . ) Mi . rennc . orti-uui . ir . il powers certainly never weri d .- ^ ianed , fabricated , or crried into es ^ -cutkn ; for , in i » in \ of fact . thcre < ruln ; i"iis <> rtb- coBimissii > n ers had all the ;' . vni of statutes ^ d bylt \ whst

      pa-- ' x . H .. w . thev s ; . ia was ] nv therr resolutit-ns b .-cuiae the la-. r ... f the land . ' Wiv * -here ,-ver any thing of the kind iu EngLuid before ? There never wa * anv thing anaL- ^ -ius t-i it , and the sooner they c" rid of the -vstem the beue . for th-:- security and h :. pj . in ? V ,. f the pe . mle fMear .-hear . ) He to ?* his stand - oh the C * h : ch (« ter i ' ni . nne would not nsuve from it : aud there , -without the iu ( -rference of the coiiimi&si .-. ners , irithout their control , without any of their agents , every bent-fit they could derive " under th " existing law haa Ven fuilv a . nd couipletelv attained ( Hetr hpar . ) He , for one , therefore , should vote for the re--eaiof thebJL - _ ( Hear , lu-jT . ) Sure . he was the people of EnjjL-. nd would raise their vujce most indignantl y aca-n-t the' continuance of tiie unconstitutional anil tyrannical powers of " the comunssionersbevoa next year , when by Jaw they must ospu-e . ( Hear . ) 1 he secsibiliUes of the public mind were at length , beinz awakened to a full knowled ge of the dancer to which they would be exposed by" the continuance of the preseutjiystem . aEA Aweforeae was quite satisfied it conld ' t

      nobe renewed . AVhy , hi- asked , had the unions been creited of such enormous size ? He firmly believed it was to cut off the people from all opportunity of making application to the Board of Guarujans . . No doubt it might be said-thev could apply to the relieving officer ; but he was in all cases the paid agent , the too \ the slave r , f the Guardians . The poor liad mthmg toao with-him ; they" neither elected him nor could they dismiss him :: and . if that officer gave an : unfavourable Teport to the board , * nd relief were denied , how could the poor , at a distance of seven or eight mfles , probably in a state of infirmity , persouaUv cunuimnicate with the Board of Guardians ? { Hear , hear . ] Some of the unions were twenty miles milength ana sixteen broad ; then- enormous sia did ^ ?^^ w ^ J * had beeni intended to preclude the poor altogether from applying to the Board . But in _ that case it should harebeen carried into operation with , inore moderation [ Hear , hear . ] Its sevenaes should not have been enforced all at onee . Thjsy should not have treated poverty at a cri ™

      mstead ota misfortune . [ Hear . ] But they carried the law in its utmost seventy to onepLace , while in other places they had been extremely lax . In the great manufacturing towns \ vh « e the people congregated , where they consulted together knocking their heads togetherin order to get knowledge out of them ( a laugh , ) where they had been extremely lax ; but in the rural districts , where no combination existed , the tyrannical law was enforced and the _ able-bodied labourer was refused the slightest assistance outside the walla of their dark and irloomv gaola . [ Hear , hear . ] How different had been the treatment of the labouring poor in Nottingham and in HoTbeach , Lincolnshire ? In Nottingham there was a large and vigorous population ; and when the law was about to be introduced last year , the AVhig gentry , thinking it rather a . delicate experiment at a period of great pressure , generously entered , into a subscrmfion for the purpose of easing the poof rate . Thesnm of - £ " 5 , 000 was raised in order to sustain ( and employ the poor , that there might be no inconvenient clamour , witn reference totheiatroduttion

      of thi 3 "bill . In August last , the money being expended , thev said the principle of the bill must be enforced ; and was " it enforced ? Xb soch things { H ear , hear . J _ The able-bodied "labourer was provided with work , and paid out of the rate , as in olden times under ithe 43 rd of BdbabeQi . IHear . ] ^ In Bolbeach , Lincolnshire , the Guardians had made application to the Commissioners ; they had sent up a humble memorial to Somerset-House , praying that in the extreme pressing severity of the season , so many being out of employment , the Board might be allowed to exercise their discretion , and give the able-bodied labourer and his family some relief . What was th » answer of the Commissioners ? " You sha ' nt do it . " No ; it was not done with regard to the agricultural labourers , who were prevented by the severe inclemency of the season , by the rigours of the climate iuelf , and by no fault of flieir own , from -working . This was the answer : " Break up your establishments , sell your furniture , aban-

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      don your cottages . " ( No , no , from" Lord Howick . ) If such had not been the language of the Commissioners , they shonld in common honesty have used if j for , in point of fact , such vras the practice ; for what else could these men . do ? ( Hear , hear , liear . ) He was speaking of evidence which had been given .. before the Poor Law -.. " . Committee within the last week , and the Board of Quardiuio could only say , if they spoke truth , — " Our masters in London sent us dovm word we cannot give you reliefi you must come into our gaol , or be frozen to 4 eath .- ( Oh , oh . ) He did not know " whether the people had died or been admitted into the workhouse ; but a more inhuman decree never issued , under such circumstances ,, from anybody of men , or one which should more excite thehonest indignation of every Englishman . ( Hear , hear . ) He wished to know V-hy , if the " principle of this Bill were so . ' -worthy of " adoption , itlttd been deemed so flexible that in Nottingham assistance should

      be given out of £ hejpooT > rates to th- ; labourers incthe shape of wages , whDe at Holbeach it was entirely withheld ? So doubt the Commissioners were present , as they always weret when their misdeeds were discussed in that House , ' and , he hoped , some Hon . Gentleman -would take care to ascertain from them whv one mle . hadbeen applied to Nottiughairi and the reverse to Holbeach / There was another point to which he would just advert . In what condition were the people in reference to the I ' oot Law inquiry now in progress ? In order to sustain the law ^ there was a plentiful supply of pubic money ; there were the Commissioners , their -A gents * the whole organization of the executive Government and Somerset-house ; wliile , in opoositiou to the bill , there was neither money , ability , organization , nor evidence . ( Hear , hear . ) They tad no meaner of getting evidence . ( Hear . ) In the committee last sension , he und moved that two or three

      individuals Bhould go into the different unions , and ascertain , by inquiry among ilie people , the actual working of the law , find out who were opposed to the bill , and send up their names to the committee , in order that they might , if necessary , bo called m evidence . But in supjiort of that motion / fair , rational , and moderate as it must appear , he was stipported by only four out of the twenty-one members of the committee . ( Hear , hear . ) To enable the poor to make any case the utmost exertions had to be made by the . individual member of the committee , Mr . Mr . Walter , ' List year . That gentleman had to embark his money , and devote the whole of hia time , to tiie collection of theHeccssar y evidence ; but no such burden shonld hare been thrown on the pocket or responsibility of any single individual . ( Hear , hear , and loud cheers . ) If the money of the country were employed on one side in propping up a law , the beneficial or injurious effecf of which was under

      investigation , the public money ought to be-employed also on the other . ( Hear , hear . ) To . allow the whole organization o ! the Government--and supplies of the public money on One side of the inquiry , while every facility was withheld froni the other , was a mockery and a disgraco to that House . ( Hear . ) He was glad this motion had been brought forward in its present simple form . Abuses there miqht be under the Old Law , and &-o there might be under the New , but unlos 3 . they could be proved to spring naturally and necessarily froni the ijystem , they proved liothma at all . Without , therefore , ' enteruig jutj details , he attacked flie Bill on its general principle ; all the g . - 'od which had resulted from it might have been attained without / the stotuteby milder means , ' in a way mnre satisfactory to the people , aud more congenial to all tkeir habits anil feedings . ( Hear , hear . ) He should , therefore , yoteinfavdiu of t m ; ropeal of the Bill- ( Hear , hear . )

      Lord ilOAVICKvas rejoiced that tliose representations which had been made in other places , anil in a " -somewhat different . mode , - . of the facts and the uatura of the existing law respecting the adrainistrapon of relief to the poor , had this * night been broujrht forward in . -that 'house ,- ' and that thus an op . poriuintv was fjivm to government of meeting tiie assi-rtion . s and statements which haa been sola vishly m-.-de . Hv ( Lord Howick ) wished to-understand uLifilier it was the machinery to - which the honourable irentlenu-n objected , or the principles on which n-llei was " a . Cuinistfred ( "To both ! " ] . IloiiouraMo ^ eDtL ^ n . - ;) .-aid "To lioth . " As to the objection made t-. i 0 » .. » system of relief , he wished to know wa . ii it was i ; i that system to which the honourable i . \" . ! ileineu o ] . ic'fte < l I Lear , hear U ? Ili » litferlv r ! ( >

      jjici that tiie system of relief which was sanctioned iu the new act was any departure from the good and nuc : tri : jt practice of this country , or from the proper administration of the poor-law existing r . p to l $ ' 3 i [ lieur hyar : ]! The honourable member for Gldh :: m v .-ns well aware that in the town of Ivoltiugham , to which allusion had been made , the system of iiJjniiiistVr iiig relief to the poor had not only been j : ue ; utj-red under the existing law , but that in the lar :: eM parish of that tovnu St . Mary ' s , it continued tj be carried into effect by tiie s-uneiudhidiLial who h "' . l a'i ' . iiinlsierod it for several years previous to i ^ Jl . In that large and populous . mannfacnriiig ]) an « h , even before 1 S 3-1 , the system of confining relief to . tlio able-bodied almost exclusively- . to -the v . orkhouse was in full operation . The " same * was ' the

      c , !~ e at . Siijfiield , at Derby , and many others of the manufacturing towns . Nottingham had been in « iu . uit-i as a strikiniriustauceof Juuanuffictu ' riujrtown ' in wi-uchth-jc . 'niiiiiisionershad nqtventured to eiifurce laws . He ^ L'U'd Howick ) had heard with great surprise from an lion . Gentleman , who had been present in the- Pour Law-Committee , who had heard the evidence thvre of thy Pour Law Commissioner employeJ iu t ! ic district in ijuestion—he had hearil , be Wiiuld repeat , with gr « -at surprise aud astonishr iuenr . the . ^ : iitemt ut which that Honourable Gentleman had made " that evening . ( 1-1 ear , hear . ) The Honourable Gentleman stated that , in Nottingham lu-itlier tue geniry nor the commissioners'had dnred rn -enforce the l . ix . because thev thouirht it would

      , i » e caiigeroui to d <> so in a place where the poor ! could assemble together , express , . their " grievance ' s " , ¦¦ aud combine Co eoiu-ert modes of reiistaace to that ; oypres ^ ion widen was unhesitat in gly practised upon ¦ the poor in iLe-agricultural-districts '* . The Honour-; able Member had compared the case of Nottingham ¦ -. n : U ihnx of Holbeach , where he stated that , although ; u :. ; distress was equally great , any relation of the i law h :: d beru refused . Tiie Honourable Member j ^ : iid out-door reli ef was refused at Oldham , though i liiere was not a refusal in other cases to depart from j the system of m-door relief . He was astonished at ; ihe objection . The ground on which the principle j jiad been departed at . Nottingham was that the j workhouse was not able to receive any inore inmati-s ; bm at Oldham . there been no diflicultv in

      recemng-paupers into the workhouse , application | was jnade chirnjg the coinmissioners , acting on [ what be considered a sound discretion , refased the j application . Tiie commissioners saw that to relax j the rule would be to" take away the motive labourers ¦ now had to . lay by money in the tune of harvest to I provide aiiiinst the not nnusal recurrence to snow in Jan . Theuewsystmh had been now in operation four years , but had iiot corrected all the evils which had arowii up in tue lonner mal-administrationV Surely | this , instead of being an argument against the inear ! sure of ] s 34 , was one of the strongest that could be ! urged in i : ?" .-favour . It appeared that he had emto

      i p ^ 'yed ce m-n persons go from house to house in , iJedibr-Jsaire to inf ^ nire tor grievances , and thfir j statement was that the allowances of aged persons ) were reduced , and that the greatest distress existe : ! . ! No doubt those gentlemen had made their inquiries j fairly enough ; but it would have been better if the ; proofs had been brought from parts of the country I the state ^ of which had been the subject of public "in-! quiry before the committee that--had been appointed . I ( Hear , hear . ) The late Honourable Member for j Berkshire ( Mr . Walter . ) the coadjutor , of the Hoium-| rabie Member for Oldham as regarded this question , i had caused an investigation with respect to tliose j examples of the evils of the present system . The 1 state of those unions was most particularly examined j into , and his . impression was that the evidence in

      those cases su selected by Mr . Walter himself went clearly to proxe tliir , that whatever might be-the condition olthe able-bodied labourer , at all events the old , the sick , audtheinfinnhadlargerallowance . s , were more indulged , and were in all ' respects' better off under the newsystf m then they wereunderthe old . lie would ask the Hon . Gentleman was he prepared to show that in those parts where this act had come into the most decided operation , there existed on the part of thelubourersany discontentor dissatisfaction ? ( Mr . Fieldeii , " Very great . " ) The Honourable Gentleman said , " very great . ""; What were the svmptoiiis . of it ? Even this yearj which was a year ot almost unexampled . pressure , what proof was therein . the agricultural districts of ; -a general-and wide-spreading discontent ? Did he find any thing

      approaching to the state of things that existed in K ' 30 .: They had then the full benefit of that law which the" Honourable Gentleman wished to restore ; they were in the full enjoyment , then , of all the blessings of that system of poor relief which it was the desire of the Honourable Gentleman to bring back to them . —{ Hear , hear . ) In that year what was the condition of the country ? Had they for . gotten the frightfully alarming state of a large portion of the people " in 1 S 30 , when insurrectiou , when actually opeii insurrection , approaching almost to the capital itself—when outrages of- the worst description existed in the south of England—when nightly tires were blazing ,: and almost universal alarm for the safety of their property had seized the funniug inhabitants of the countrj- ? The present

      state oi things was happily very diflerent from that , y . ud iu his opinion the change Avas mainly attributable to this very Act which the Honourable Gentleman lamented . He felt confident that the present improved condition of ttiesquth © f Engtand was in a great measure a ^ p ^ tahle-td the Act passed in 1834 for the amendment qf ^;" the Poor Laws . The House could not attach too much importance to the state 6 f the corintry at the former period to Avhich he had adverted , because with that before him the Honourable Genitleman said he was ready to repeal the Act of 1834 . He ( Lord Howick ) must observe that he thought that statement _ afforded the strongest ground for saying . that the introduction , of this measure into Lancashire was not altogether useless ; Such was the former system ; and the Honourable Gentleman complained of the existing law , charging against it that it made no distinction between ' ¦ the honest man and the greatest vagabond in

      England . " He ( Lord Howick ) -would say that it didmake a distinction . It secured to the honest man the legitimate reward of honesty and industry , and if left to the dishonest or " the vagabond" to suffer those penalties which the laws of society had provided for his misconduct . The system which the Honourable Gentleman would restoie in one sense ' certainly made a distinction ako . The industrious man it punished for his honesty and industry , and the " greatest vagabpnd , " ^ to use the Honourable Gentleman s expression , iQa the one who was to receive the greatest indulgence , the gteateat - "favour . He ( Lord Howick ) asked the House , then , if it were again prepared to revert to these evils ? He admitted that the measure proposed in 1834 ; was a very strong measure . He admitted that the cure applied to the disease was of a character correspondent to the intensity and malignity of the distemper . But was the House prepared , upon the motion of . the-non . inem *

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      ber fdrGldhani , to repeal , this : ^ awre ~ -.: ' aiiot > ied ^ iji ' 1834 , and to return to tbe ; svi 3 iteiii '' iiA € le >^' aica tfiese mischiefs existed . ( Hear , hear . ) Tnie it ivas , per . fectly true , that under tbafprmer law tte means of an improved administration did exist . But there was ho security that thosermejras ^ iwould be employed . Would th « .. 'House , then - pe ^ trate the cruelty to the ;' . pobr man-r-wbuld it commit the injustice to the whole labouring populatibn ol the country of again bnnguig into force a system which , whatever its advantages n ^ ghttheoreticallybe , every one knew \ yas fraught , in its practical working , with thqi most distressing and most dreadful consequences to the poor ? There were paid officers appointed by ' .. ' . 'thepersons interested in the administration of relief , and

      above these officers there were the commissioners and assistant commissioners , prompt to ptinish all cases of neglect of the really suflering and destitute poor . Was that the state / of things under the old law ? Did not the House remember how women in the very agonies of -childbirth , were still niore frequently exposed to this disgraceful and inhuman , system ? To all that oppression , all that cruelty , ah end had now been put by the operatien of the new law . In every case where ; relief was necessary it > yas nowpromptly and effectually afforded ; These were the consequences of the law which the Hon . Member for Oldham proposed to rep ' ea'L' He trusted that the House wonld show its apprbbatipn of the present measure , and its real regard for the poor and iudustrious classes . ( Hear , hear . J .

      Mr . LIDDELL should oppose the motion . He ivas a member of the poor Law Committee which was disposed very fully to enquire into the operation of the Law ; he had been an earnest and sincere supporter of the New . Poor Law when it was introduped y nor was there any one circumstance in the whole course of his parliamentary career ^ upon which he , looked back with ' more unmingled satisfaction . He had supported it as the best remedy for the gross demoralization which existed under the old law , and as the best means that ; eould be . devised for improving the condition o £ the humbler classes . .

      Mr . DARBY maintained tHat the new law had done great-good , in grappling with uiffidul ties to which : eominbn overseers were unequaled . It was of the order of : the 28 th of July of which he principally complained . But he begged' to ask , if the House thought proper to repeal the layv to morrow , how thiugs were to be carried on ? In what a situation would the country be placed ! Unions had been everywhere formed , -and boards of guardians—gun rdians , far superior to ordinary overseers in ¦ jfi riritie ? s and ability .. But althpugh he shou'W not vote for the present motion , he adiintted all the difficulties , which attended the-. ; working of the new law : and if th . e Honourable Member for Oldham would propose some , modification of : the law , he should have his ( Mr . Dalby's ) support .

      Mr . HODGES said lie was one of those who , had opposed the new law oh its introduetion ; and nothing hud since . ' occurred ' to convince him thatoh that bceasicin he entertained erroneous opinions . But , with all his repugnance to the measure , to repeal it at present seemed to-him to be by no ine ; niithe wisest course ' that could be adopted . ' Mr . D . VT . BAKYEy could not support the motion ,, nor could he : meet it with a direct negative . He would therefore move the . previous question . He had voted for the Poor Law . Amendment Bill , but he could hot suffer himself to be entrapped into-an ajvp ' rohation ol its principles or provisions . He severely c-ondemned both the principle and the workings of the ' measure ..

      Lord iJ . . RUSSELL hoped the House would not adopt thiSiunderhanded manner of disposing of the original lnotioa . ( Hear , hear . ) No consideration that the coimnittee was npw" sitting—ho consideratimi that future inquiry might be made—ought to prevent the House fvovu coming to a decision upon a point upna which he . thought the House was fully and sufficiently informed , — namely , whether the Poor Law act should be totally and absolutely repealed . ( Hear , hear . ) He would he no party to holding outito the country , if this question was put off , that any-. decision' to which the Poor Law . Committee could come , or of which they had any prospect , would at all tend to the repeal of that law , or of

      it ' s mam provisions . ( Hear , hear . ) His own opinion was , that the excitemeiit which had been got up in the north was altogether ^ artificial ( hear , hear ) ; - and . that the persons concerned in endeavouring to excite a feeliiig of hostility to the Poor Law Act did -not , altogether , amount to a dozen , hardly oih- of whom , was respectable in point of circumstances , ii-ud but fe \ v in point of intelligence ^ They had inrited delegates from the North and other parts of the enuritry to attend meetings at which the people would no doubt assemble throug h , curiosity , to hear Air .. Oastle . r , Mr . Stephens , and Mr . F . O'Connor . The . '; ¦ . ¦ result , of all this was ,.-,-that . " .-a meeting of delegates took place . at Manchester which he

      believed was not very . ; . numerously attended . The noble lord then read an extract froin an article published on this occasion by a ¦ newspaper to which he had alluded , stating that the motion of the hon . member for Oldhinn tor ; the repeal of the poor law act was to be introduced on the 20 th ; that it would he strenuously supported by the South Lancashire Poor Law Association , which had been engaged for some months iu spreading tracts to show the injustice of the Poor Law Act , ' ¦ an d that their efforts , they ( the editors ) were happy to say , had been generally attended with conviction to the minds of the people , that the law 'Was repugnant to the . first rights which they derived under the British constitution . He would not read to the House the language which

      had boon used in support of the resolutions proposed at this meedng . The resolutions themselves , three in number , were to .. the ellect , that the act recently passed , called the Poor Law Amendment Act , has repealed all the wise and humane provisions of the 43 d of Elizabeth , ami had taken , away the ratepayer ' s control over the funds , and the management of his own ailliirs ; that under this new syste m the poor were subjected' to a most tyrannical system , by coufineiiient in lurge prisons , by separation of husband iiiid wife , by dimculties thrown in : the way of relief , and that its effects were to increase child murder , female suicide , and death by starvation . This was the statement made at the -meeting , of the

      delegates , collected after months of agitation oil the part of the opponents of the l ' opf Law Act , these the consequences which . thfty stated to have resulted from , that act .. They sent up a petition to that Hoiise signed by many , iio . doubt , who sincerely believed that such really was the result of the law ; and yet , when the question came under consideration of the the honourabid and learned member , one of its chief opponents , proposed that it should now . be put in abeyance . ( Cheers . He ( Lord J . . Russeil ) would say , that it was but just to the individuals who took this view of the subject to let them know whether the represen . tati . yea of the people of the united kingdom were prepared or riot to sanction their

      description ot a law now in operation , and by which the country was now governed . ( Hear , hear . ) If the House agreed in that description of the law , let it not loose a moment in repealing it . ( Cheers . ) If , on the contrary ) the House was of opinion ; that it should still remain the law of the land , let it n 6 t deprive those by whom if was to be carried into ¦ - . operation of ; the moral force which was necessary for that purpose ^ by withholding its opinion . After the able speech of his Noble Friend , as to tiie general effect of the law , he wouldnot now enter upon its details . It appeared to hinij however , that notwithstanding all the descriptions which had been- given of the law

      both for and against it , and although it contained many provisions , yet that ; it was tar more simple in its principle than was generally understood or CQUsideied . The poor law of Elizabeth decided that certain persons , ¦ infirm ' ; - and impotent , should be relieved , and that able-bodied persons should be set-at work . A subsequent law , | he 9 th George I ., decided that certain persons Who it had-declared should receive relief should be put upon the list , but that the : parishes liiii ^ ed together . should have the power of making poor-houses ' , and . employing them there , and that if they refused , relief under ¦ such-. circumstances ,, they / should be struck off the list . He said , then , that these two acts of Eliza .

      beth and George I ; j taken together , eenstituted the main body of the law under the present act . The latter law was changed in 1796 by another law , departing from the principle of the former but which he thought they had done very well to repeal in 1834 . ( Hear . ) The ; main body of the present law to be carried into effect was therefore contained in these two \ acts ,, " . and ¦ what they had done by the Poor L ' aw-: "Amendmeiat Axitwas ' merely to say that there should be a , bettermeans of carrying these acts into operation ; ( Hearj hear . ) Sir R . PEEL said he was not about to enter into the consideration of the question , but he felt bound to state upon what grounds he intended tp vote ! He intended to rote for a direct negative upon the proposition of the Hon . Member for Dldhainy ( hear , ) and he could not consent to vote

      for the proposition just made to the House b y the Hon . arid Learned Gentleman on hi 8 left , namely , that this question should not be' put , and that Parliament should express no opinion : on it . ; , When he recollected that four years since there was an uniVerM impression on the part of Parliament and on the part of the country that the mode of administering relief then in existence ^ vas pregnant with tiie moat injuriouB consequences . " When he recollected that Parliament with the universal consent of the eounfcry , determined to make a great experiment for ; the purpose of recovering the country from that state of things , he thought it would not now he either fair or candid on the part of Parliament to refuse to proiaourice an ' opinion as to whether that experiment shauld de ad-

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      hered to or not . : ( Hear ^ heir ;) ^ man . would be doing ' . ' : | tnore , 'tpwa ^ . \ benefi ^ g ; . 'tlie principle , and toWairos the " satisfactory operattpn of the measure itself ^ than ahy ^ ombihatjon be ^ een the ministry and opposition could effict | , because / while theebuntry was in : donht ' ;^ i ^; ' : 't'he ' -in ' tenifioa , ' of Parliaiment , no system could be satisfactory . Mt . : jFIELDEN rose to rep ^ amidst toucl cries Of " divide , " but j from the low tone in which tke Hpriourable Gentleman . ; spoke ^ and the noise that prevailed in the House , very few sentencea were audible in the gallery . He said the Noble : Lord ( Lord John Russell ) had charged him With not

      having stated his . objections to the New Poor Law Bill , but he had explained in the early ; part of the eyening ^ the grounds on which he was opposed to the principles and machinery of that measure * : ' . ; ' He had shown its pernicious tendency , and proved that the old system had given more general satisfaction . The ^ poor of England / were the ^ best , the most ^^ industrious , and the least requited for their labour of any nation in the world , and , however Hon . Members might sneer at his yiews ^ they would goon learn , not only from the manufacturing districts , but -from the country at large , what the feeUrigs of the people were with respect jtq the civil working of the Poor ^ Law Amendment Act ; On the previous question moved by the Honourable Member for Southwark .

      jtijTc" . • * - *' - - • • • * * - ' * . O ^ i ' . Majority .......... .- ^— -308 On the question that leave ' -he eiven to brine in the bill , . v : ¦ ¦; - ; . ' ¦ . - " >;¦ , ¦¦ " , "¦ ¦' ¦; - ' [ - ¦ ¦ Ayes .................. 17 .. ., ' Majority ¦ V .-. ' .. »' . v »' 4- ^ -292 ' .

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      The Pink of Patkiots .- —The electors , of Westminster should keep a sharp look put on ihe conduct of Colonel Evans . The gallant officer spokf in favour to abolish the rate-paying clauses in the Reform Act ^ -his " principles" obliged ; him to support tha motion . ; but the Colonel nevertheless left the House before ihe division . The Colonel's vote would be worth more than his eloquence any day . —Spectator .

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      TO HEADERS & CORRESPONDENTS , At the request of our friends ofHutrslet , ive hdpe very shortly to establish a Radical'Association in that Locality , based upon the five sacreU principles . The paper hitherto sent to Cumnoih was for JS / Ir M' -Cren . We now send one for the Radicul Association .. Every Radical Association in " fhe empire is entitled to one copy of the Star gratis . l \ e received the snuff " box , for which ive thank our excellent friends , and shall take another opportunity of doing so more fully . Mr . O'Connor did not pledge himself to attend the- ¦ meeting at Glossop on .. . Saturday ; he was prepared to go on Saturday last , the day for which he stood pledged , but cannot attend at the time now . appointed .-

      We are much-. astonished- at not having heard froni our Paisley agent ; jve shull expect to hear b y return of post . The polite letter from the working men of Leigh shall be shortly anstirercd in person , of which ire shall duly apprise our friends .

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      Pv B . L ., is not accountable for any rent which his friendmay undertake to pay . ' J . C . F . —Tl entirely depends upon the position and contiguity of the House of his neighbour . John Anderson . —The whole question depends upon any understanding which existed between him and his viaster-r-but I inclim to think that the demand for the £ 10 . tvill at once take the Apprentice out of the legftl custody of the . Master . . . . .- '• .. ¦ -. ' ; ' ^ - John Leeming .-T-ITffs a good claim against the Executor , provided the , date of :-. the note has been within the time allowed by law for the recovery of the moneys ... - ' H——It depends upon the Comity , Assessment .

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      yesterday's wakefield corn ; ¦ ¦ . ' market ; - ^ ' . ; : ; . . . . Three or four vessels have got up from short distances , but the Canals generally are closed ; There has been a fair demand for most articles on the spot at-fully the rates of last week . LE-ip ' s Cloth Markets . —rln * the Coloured and White Cloth Halls , during the past week , there has been an extensive demand , for every description of manufactured goods ; and a larger portion have been taken put than have been brought in during that period .- ; the . stock of-good ' s on hand iwe considered to be limited . In the Warehouses the individuals engaged are very fully employed .

      Leeds Corn Market , Feb . 20 . —The frost continues with such tenacious severity , that the supplies intended for this day ' s , market are totally interrupted ; the transactions are , therefore , from necessity , confined to a few sales in retail , about the rates of last week . Arrivals— -Wheat , 845 ; Barley 2 , 294 ; Oats , 200 ; Beans , 221 ; Shelling , 200 quarters . ; . ;; . -. ' Hay . —Price of Hay in Leeds , from 7 Ad . to 8 d .. Straw , 4 fd . per stone . . TALtow . — -The price of TaUow in this town , continues at 5 s . per stone , with an extensive : dem ^ nd . ;; ¦; .. . '' - . ¦ , .- r- ' ¦ . ¦ . ' ¦ -- ,.. ' : ¦¦ ' .. .. - . ' . . - ; - -- ;¦ - " ; - Bradfpbd WooV Market . —The demand for Long Wool , especiaUy fine Matchjng 8 , continues unabated . The supply is still very scanty , and prices quite firm . . .: Bradford Piece ; Market ;— Thei market to day has been very similar to that of last week . The Manufacturers generally are urgent for a further advance ^ v ^ ich buyers are reluctant to give .- ' Bradford Yarn MARkETi— -We have ho variation as to the state- of this market to report . The demand for ^ Yarhs continues brisk ^ and the prices of last week are fully maintained . Halifax Market , Feb . 17 .- —We have again to notice a Very dull market , which puts the manufacturers ' greatly out of spirits . There was not , however , any reduction in prices , dull as things were ; -: '; Yarns andlWooI arebpthstationary . -.- ' ' . ' . ' ! ' : H ^ J ) DiRSFIE ;] Lb 0 i'PT ^ vMASKETy ' : FBB . - ' 2 &W There was to-day an animated demand for every description of Cloths , ; Withoutj however ^ any advance in-prices . This briskhessj however , did not exteijd to the fatvey trade , and more patijcularl y to that branch of it calculated for the spring trade . The Wool market steady , but with an upward tendency , ; /

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      _ DeW 8 btjry ; Cwth-MA » KEt r ^ Feh y Very little ^ bu siness has bee n * one i ^ onV rfe Hall to-day , not a tribre dull market has been ^ lw for several weeks . ; ; :- > ? , ¦ " '• . ™? ¦ '; TaRK Cok ^ MaBket , . Feb . i j ^ Sinte K ™ . * 5- ^ turn « f fro st hau again impeded mt na ? gatipn . ^ . There , were ; hot many : samples 8 & 6 wS our market to-day .. ;¦ Choice lot / of Wheat ^ S ? ley , in ^ 8 omeinstances , fetched rather higher ratpT bat inferior qualities remain as last noted rJS fully as dear . Beam } no-aiteration . ; ™ ^ RodHDAiE -.- ;^ W 6 pL -and Tlannel Mark ** FjB ., 19 . ^ The sales ; to-day ^ as foll y a ^ S * £ that of the week previous ; middle and fine qtaHtiea sold reaojl y ,: and the demand for lo * sJrS fbr dyeing left few unsold ; pricea were as last week both for Wools and Flannels . Oils offered hotbin ^ for observation . ¦'¦¦ . ¦' - , ¦ ; ¦ ; ; : - ^

      ^) RK Market , Feb . 21 .-There was good supply of Store Pigs at market this momine for which there is still a good demand , of Pofv Figs there was but a thin supply , and well sold up , making 7 s . —Bacon Pigs , 5 s . 9 d . to 6 s . ; p ork Hams , 7 s . 6 d . per ' -stone . : , ' ¦ Wakefield Cattle Market , Fee- 21 — We had a fair show of both Beasts and Sheep at market this morning ; the attendance of buyers tilen . tiful ; and the market was very fair ; prices ai follows I—Beef 6 s ; to 6 a . 6 d . per stone ; Mutton 6 jd . per lb . Beasts , 350 ; Sheep , 5 , 000 . Intlie ' Lean market there ; was a short supply of Cattle and Calvers . ; - - . ' " ¦;¦• .. ¦' ¦ - ' . \ : ¦ V" ¦ ' : ¦ ' -. ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' -. ¦ '' - - ; ¦ ;

      Skipton Cattle Market , Feb ; 19 . —we had a very good supply of fat Beasts aud Sheepthe sale of the former was rather dull , but the latter vrere readily disposed of , at a trifling advance ia price . ; . Fat Beas ^ 503 Lean db ; , 301 j Sheep BOROUQHBRIDGE COBN MARkET , FEB . 17- ~ Wheat , 56 s . to 60 s . Barley ^ 37 s ; to 3 ls .. per or . Beans , 4 s . 6 d . to 5 s . per bushel ; Oats , lOd . to lg ' per stone , withyery little business doing . \ : '

      Hull Corn Market , Feb . 20 . —Owing to the continuance of ^^ severe weather , and the consequent stoppage of our inland navigation ; we have had but little business passing : in our -Corn trade during the past week . There was ; a fair quantity of Wheat showing by our farmers at this day ' s market , for which in ; many instances more money was ^ demanded ) but without any advance being obtained . The little business done Was on nruch the same terms as last noted . Of Barley We had a good supply , and a fair extent of busineaa done at our quotations . Oats may be quoted rather dearer For Beans or Peas we have very little enquiry Rapeseed _ and Linseed each remain unaltered in " ¦ ya'lue , with not mucB business doing in either article .: . .. - . '¦ - ; "¦¦' ,: " -. ¦ . •'¦ ' ¦ '¦ ¦ --V ; -: ; ¦ ¦ . " . - . ; - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ '; - . .-

      Newcastle Corn Market ^ Feb . 17 . —The change of wind has brought in several vessels with Wheat from the south . The farmer ' s supply at this mprnirig ' s market was but moderate , but the millers being still very reluctant purchasersat present prices sales were slowly effected without any material change in the currency . Most of the samples of new Wheat being still very roughjfresh old continues to meetinquiry . Fine Rye is in better demiand , and held higher . Good boiling Peas met a ready sale at an advance of Is ; per qr . The arrivals of Barley heirig large , this article ,, as well as maltj was very -dull . The supply of Oats was large ^ and prices the turn lower . '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - '' - . ; v ;

      From The Londo^ Gazette, Feb^W. " . ' ¦ ¦¦ ' ; .. ' .—-— - '¦ ^Ai^ " ' -' ¦' .- ; - - .. ':' . -Y.

      FROM THE LONDO ^ GAZETTE , Feb ^ W . " . ' ¦ ¦¦ ' ; .. ' . — - — - '¦ ^ ai ^ " ' - ' ¦' .- ; - - .. ' : ' . -y .

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      . " " ISrSOLVENTS . . - .- . :. ; . -. .-Feb 17-JOHN WYATT , West hihithfield , machinist . q Feb . ; W-JOHN FINDLA ^ ER , Qneen-street , Mayfair , and oalisbury wharf . Strand ^ coal-merchant . ; Feb . 20—JpSEPH SMITH HOLDS VVORTH ^ LowerEdmonton , corn-merchant . ¦ : ¦ ¦ ¦ - ' ¦

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      VOTES OF THE YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE MEMBERS ON THE FOLLOWING DIVISIONS , THE BALLOT ; . Motion made and question proposed— -f That leave he given to bring in a bill for taking the Votes of Parliamentary Electors b y way of the Ballot : " — ( Mr . Grote . )—The House divided \ Ayes , 198 j Noes 315 i •; . -- . ' . ""'¦' ; - ' -: ¦ ' \ -- ' : - ' -- : - J ' - - ;" - -v Minority—Ayes ,- ^ P . Ainsworth , E > Baines , Joseph Brothertori , William Busfield , Hon . J . C . Dundas , John Fielden , John Fehtbn ,-. ' -..: Charles Hindley , General Johnston , Hon . C . Langdale , E , Ci Lister , H . Marshnd , Sir W .. .- ' -Molesw ' orth ' j Mark Philips , Edward Protheroe , A . Spiers , Massey Stanley , W . R . C . Stansfield , Sir George ' Stricklandj- Sir C . Style , R . Walker , H . G . Ward .

      Majority—Noes . —Richard Bethell , I . ;'; Blackburne , W . Boiling , Henry Broadley , S ^ Brownrigg , E . S . Cayley , A . Chapman , C . Cres 3 weli , Hon . W . Duncombe , Hon . T . Dimdas , Lord F . Egerto'ii , ' Wm . Fielder , T ; Greene , Jamesi " . "W . Hogg ' , Sir W . C . James , Hon . W . S . LasceUes , John •' .- ' H . Lpwther , T , Marsland , George Martpn , Lord Milton , Viscount Morpeth , J . W . ; Patten j ' T . Pemberton , Viscount Sandon , Right Hon . Sir E . Sufrden , SirF . Trench , Wm . Wilberforce , Hon . B . Wiibraharo , Charles Wood , W . B . Wrightson . MINORITY OF SEVENTEEN WHO VOTED FOR MR . FIELDEN'S MOTION FOR THE REPEAL OF THE NEW PO-OE LAW ACT .

      Wm . Attwood , Thos . Attwood , H . Burr , B . Disraeli , Viscount Dungannon , W . Feilden , T , Grimsditch , T . Hawkes , General Johnson , . W . Jones , W . Lewis / G . Marion , R . T- Parker , CoL Sihthorp , W . Turner , William Wilberforce , W , Williams . —Tellers—J . Fielden T . Wakley .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 24, 1838, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct994/page/8/