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i ich an inquiry into his conduct on a particular 
disgrace which an inq airy aati cae not think that a 
good defence had been made out, concluding, as it did, with an 
appeal to their feelings. He would support the motion.—Mr, 
Tuesicer felt satisfied that if such motions as the present were 
acquiesced in, the independence of ti 
charge. Instead of inflaming the m 
his tone was that of 
genius of Lord Abinger, but censured him for having, in the in- 
stance before them, departed from the rigid impartiality which 
was the general characteristic of the judges of the land. Instead 
of calming the minds of the grand jury, in a time of great excite- 
ment, he had added to it, and had reversed the course which had 
been pursued by Chief Justice Tindal. This country had an‘ab- 
o nearly related. 
His father’s offence lay in the fact that he chose to differ from 
the Chartists, and, in exercise of his discretion and 
duty as a judge, had given utterance to his sentiments. 
Lord Abinger had always been a strenuous defender of the 
ituti a i that, at different periods 
of his political life, he had been engaged in a struggle with 
i present, The general acqui- 
escence in the propriety of Chief Justice Tindal’s charge, showed 
made out.—Mr, 
the expenses of the year were ascertained. —The House then pro- 
ceeded to the consideration of Mr. Lippr1.’s Personation of 
Voters’ Bill in committee. It was suggested that it ought to 
form a portion of the Government Registration of Voters’ Bill $1 
and some conversation arose on the propriety of including Ire- 
Jand in the measure. Mr. Liddell declined to do so; but Sir 
James Granam expressed his opinion that the measure should 
apply generally to the United Kingdom, and also stated one or 
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the decision of the Court of Session be affirmed, and should that 
peat have ee anticipated effect of crippling the efforts of 
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jesty’s Government strict! 3 and beyond the limits of 
these principles and opinions it was impossibie for her Majesty’s 
Governnient to Liteon ries ort 
Mr. Wavrer proposed a seri ive resolutions, t] bs 
of which expressed that in a document entitled, « Misses cen: 
mitted by the Poor-Law Commissioners to her Majesty’s Minis- 
ters,” there was a certain suppressed passage, indicating the 
principle on which the Poor-Law had been based; and that this 
real, though unavowed principle involved such a cruel and im- 
practicable interference with the rights and comforts of the 
poor, as to justify the demand that the Poor-law be so revised as 
to it ‘‘ conformable to Christianity, sound policy, and the 
ancient constitution of the realm.”—Si GRAHAM @X- 
plained that the document alluded to had been drawn up by the 
professional individual who had been employed by the Poor-Law 
Cc issi i ir p itions a tangible and technical 
shape. Some 20 copies of this informal document had 
printed, and a copy had been given, under the strictest con- 
fidence, to a friend of Mr. Walter’s, and, after the period of ten 
years which had passed, this confidence had been violated. The 
propositions contained in the document had been submitted to 
Lord Grey’s Government, and had be: 
the affirmation, therefore, that they formed the basis of the new 
pared with those relieved within 
proper motives to Mr. Walter. It now turnedout that there was 
such adocument in existence, and it was quite right of Mr, 
Walter to produce it. It was 
an extraordinary opinion of Earl Grey’s Government, to dare to 
submit to it such a proposition. The Secretary of State should 
give the name of the writer.—Mr. Bortawick seconded the re- 
solutions, and expressed himself resolved to support the spirit of 
the motion whenever the Poor Law came before the House.— 
Mr. Acxronsy did not believe the passages quoted from the do- 
cument were made the basis of the law, but he considered the 
spirit of them appeared in the operation of it. He could not give 
the go-by to the resolution proposed by voting for the previous 
question.—Col. Sirrnorr would be contented with nothin; 
short of the annihilation of the Poor Law Commission, Mr. 
Walter was entitled to thanks for making the exposure he had done 
of the origin of the new Law.—Mr. Stuart WortTLEy had never 
pledged himselfto his constituents to vote for the repeal of the 
Poor-law. He was opposed to many ‘of its provisions, and 
wished it to be improved, but he could not support the resolu- 
tions.—General Jounson’s great objection to the Poor-law was 
thatit put the people out of the pale of the constitution, and 
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mitted for and it would 
lead to much practical i ifsuch com: 
nications, whether they had been adopted, or, as in the present. 
instance, ad been rejected, were produced and Publicly 
made use of. He adduced the amounts paid for the relief of the 
poor, as showing that there was more expended on them than on 
the poor of any other country ; and expressed his surprise at the 
course which Mr. Aglionby had avowed he would adopt. He 
concluded by warning the House against tampering with the 
Poor-law.—After some remarks from Mr. Munrz, Lord J. Man- 
ners, and Sir W. James, Mr. Ferranp denounced the Poor-law 
as iniquitous, atrocious, and blood-thirsty, and made a long 
speech, the greater part of which was a vindication of himselfjan 
attack on Mr. Mott, with reflections on Sir James Graham, &c, 
ne 
nied with intense cold, the mercury being between 10 and 
15 degrees below the freezing point, on Saturday veered 
towards the south, followed bya heavy fall of snow, which 
continued throughout the day. The storm was not con- 
fined to the Metropolis, but extended a considerable dis- 
tance into the adjoining country districts, rendering the 
roads in some places almost impassable, and causing great 
obstruction to the mails, stage-coaches, and other. vehi- 
cles.—On Saturday evening, the inhabitants of the Com- 
mercial-road, Lambeth, Bankside, and Tooley-street, were 
again alarmed by the rapidity at which the tide was rush- 
ing up the neighbouring streets, and inundating the lower 
parts of their houses. Great damage was done to the pre- 
mises and stock of several manufacturers, and boats were 
plying in the streets to the assistance of the inhabitants. 
New Houses of Parliament.—On Tuesday night a 
conversation took place in the House of Lords, in re- 
ference to the New Houses of Parliament, which is in 
many respects so remarkable, that we notice under this 
head those particulars which do not properly come within 
the scope of our Parliamentary summary. The Marquis 
of Clanricarde, in alluding to the agreement that the 
House of Lords should be the first portion completed, 
said, thathe could not find fault with anything that had 
been done, for he had no information on the subject ; but, 
as far as he could learn from general observation, he be- 
lieved that this agreement had been more or less lost sight 
of, for it was generally supposed that there was a desire 
to perfect a merely ornamental part of the building, the 
great tower; but he thought for no tower there should be 
one single hour’s delay in giving peers that accommoda- 
tion which they now stood so much in need of. If he 
thought that the Government would not attend to this 
matter, he should move for a committee to examine the 
architect on the subject.—Lord Wharncliffe said he had 
made it his business to inquire into the matter, and he 
found that the Victoria Tower would be the heaviest part 
of the whole building, and that, in the opinion of the 
architect, there was a great probability of its settling con« 
siderably, and that, therefore, it would not be desirable 
that the rest of the building should be carried on until 
this tower had been carried up to a certain height. With 
respect to the building of the House of Lords before the 
rest of the building, the architect said it was desirable 
that the whole should be carried up together ; but he said 
also that would not prevent the House of Lords from 
being completed considerably before the House of Com- 
mons, and the other parts of the building. He understood 
that the House of Lords would be ready in 1845, but he 
had not made any specific inquiry on this point.—Lord 
Brougham said he very much regretted to hear the very 
unsatisfactory statement just made by the Lord President, 
whose reason was not a whit satisfactory. The tower was 
to be made for pure ornament, without any pretence for 
use, and he agreed with the opinion which had been ex- 
pressed of it, that it was a bad specimen of the barbarous 
carry out in England, had been rigidly applied in Ireland, 
a short conversation, having reference to certain allega. 
tions of Mr. Ferrand, with respect to abuses in the Keighley Union, 
Mr. Mis declared his conviction that the Poor-law had saved 
the country from destruction, especially the agricultural districts, 
necessity of giving every facility to the operation of the sliding 
scale, as enacted by the present Corn Laws, and of forthwith 
selecting the most commodious port on the western coast of 
ay.—On the motion for going into a committee of supply, 
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id Mr. Wit.tAms called attention to the state of tl 
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CITY. : 
Money Market, Friday.—Consols closed at 953 to $ 
both for time and Money; Three per Cents. Reduced, 
96 to 3; Three-and-half per Cents. Reduced, 103} to 3; 
New Three-and-half per Cents., 102+ to 3; Bank Stock, 
177 to 178; India Stock, 2683 ; Exchequer Bills, 64s. to 
66s, prem., and 65s. to 67s. prem, 
HMetropolis anv tts Wicinity. 
The Weather.—Since our last the atmospheric changes 
have been very sudden. The wind, which in the early part 
of last week had been at north and, north-east, accompa- 
Gothic taste of the middle of the 19th century. The 
tower was intended merely for ornament, but it was so 
weighty, and was likely to be so expensive to the public, 
that he felt inclined to refer the architect to the epitaph 
written for Sir John Vanbrugh :— 
“Lie heavy on him, earth, for he 
Laid many a heavy load on thee |? 
He wished his noble friend to apply himself to the matter 
and to urge Mr. Barry to the fulfilment of the absolute 
contract which had been made, namely, that the House of 
ords was to be completed first. Mr. Barry said it was 
highly desirable that the whole building should go on 
together ; but to this his (Lord Brougham’s) answer was, 
that nothing was so desirable as to have the bargain which 
had been made performed.—Lord Duncannon said that 
the works had now been eight years in progress, and he 
had always been informed that the House of Lords would 
be completed in the course of the seventh year. He also 
wished to call their attention to the fact that the House 
would soon be deprived of light and air by the progress of 
the new buildings. He thought a committee ought to be 
appointed.—The Marquess of Lansdowne said he thought 
the best way would be to have a committee on the subject ; 
but then that committee ought not to reconsider the style 
in which the houses were to be built. ith regard to Sir 
John Vanbrugh, he could only say that Sir Joshua Rey- 
nolds had described him as a most effective and picturesque 
architect. Their Lordships had been the first to make 
Sacrifices for the general convenience, and therefore their 
accommodation ought to be attended to according to the 
agreement. He should be sorry to see the tower laid 
aside, because it was not only a most important and 
ornamental feature, but it would be useful also, for it was 
intended to be the place of reception for the public 
records. But be still said, as a mere matter of ornament, 
it ought to give way to providing for the accommodation 
of their Lordships in the first instance.—Lord Campbell 
plained of thei f the house while the Law 
Lords sat there in the mornings to hear appeals ; and Lord 
Sudeley said he saw no reason why the interior of the 
building should not be completed before the exterior, and 
why the new House of Lords should not be completed in 
1844,—Lord Wharncliffe said it was only fair that the 
architect should have the opportunity of stating his 
reasons before the committee.—The Marquess of Clanvi- 
carde then moved for the appointment ofa committee, 
which was agreed to. 
Improvements of the Thames.—The Lords of the 
Treasury, the Commissioners of Public Works, and the 
Corporation of London, caused, some time ago, a report 
and estimate to be made on embanking some portions of 
the river Thames. A select committee of the House of 
Commons took up the inquiry upon a more extensive scale, 
and ‘engineers of first-rate eminence were employed to 
