... efficiency of the poor law in Ireland. But it is said, although I cannot trace the reason to any very authentic source, that Lord John Russell considers inquiry on the subject before a se- lect committee unnecessary, as three commissioners were some months since ...

... who sat like a political patriarch among the mnmnbers ot his section. On the opposi- tion bench Mr. Fear-us 0 Connor, with arms a-kinbo and a jaunty air, elhowed Lord Lincoln on one side and Mr. Iiisraeli on the other. Lord Granby Fat next to the las ...

... STAFFOJRDt moved that tile debate be adjourned. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said lie certaiily di (li not oposec tlce adjouirmect, but ice suggested ticct the first altendient before themil (Mr. Grattan's) should be cdispcosed cf clow, ant ticey could take the ...

... a suspension of' arms afor the purpose of negotiating terms of peace. Now, nay elords, in that last paragraph I usust say there is the greatest 0 0ohacurity. Who are the contending partics who have a agreed to a o1 uspension of arms' is not very clear ...

... mates should enable the pacific ministers of that country to quarrel with us, on what ground and with what arms it is impossible to state. Lord JOHN RUSSELL pleaded that we could not go back to the military force of 1835, because we had since acquired a ...

... [a lauigh]; also, of thi expense incurred i tc set(mdii over troops fromus Great Britain to Ireland, and of nlaittiming the armed forces etiiployed in various parts of Ir elanid duritg the late outbreakt; also, of the rumulber of per- sons arrested under ...

... observed the following :-Lord Lin- I cola, Mr. Hume, Mr. Feargus O'Connor, Lord I Dudley Stuart, Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Gladstone, Sir De Lacy Evans, Sir John Packington, Colonel Thompson, Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. C.*Anstey, Mr. Stuart Wortley, and Mr. Brotherton ...

... and for Cardigan, in the room of Mr Pryse, deceased. Mr MOFFATT gave notice that on Tuesday be should move for leave to bring in a bill to abolish the privilege of members of par- liament of freedom from arrest for debt. In answer to Sir John Pakington ...

... CHRONICLE. LONDON: S.42'L7?D.I, FEBRUARY 3, 1849. The HousE of CoMMoNS met yesterday at four o'clock. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in answer to a question put by Sir John Pakington, observed that he would, as the first business on Monday next, propose a series of resolutions ...

... the distress existing in Ireland, which, it affirmed, augmented the discon- tent existing among the people. Mr JOHN O'CONNELL seconded Mr Grattan's amendment, and, strange to say, applied himself as much to the affairs of the Pope as to the affairs of Ireland ...

... we observed the ?? Lin- , coln, Mr'. Hume, Mr. Feargus 0AConnor, Lord : ,t Dudley Stuart, Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Gladstone, I o Sir De Lacy Evans, Sir John Packington, Colonel l Is Thompson, Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. C., Anstey, Mr, a Stuart Wortley, and ...

... and apprehension, Mr. HENlIY GRATTAN likewise proposed an amendment, de. claring that the feeling of discontent, augmented by distress, which prevailed in Ireland, required the immediate attention of Parliamnent.-Mr. JOHN 0 'NxONEIXL seconded this amendment ...