Law Board to know whether, if elected to another workhouse they would sanction his election. The Poor Law Board felt that he had been dismissed for differences with the medical officer; that no other complaints had been made against him; and they probably thought that deprivation of office for eighteen months was sufficient punishment. Under these circumstances the Board sent a favourable answer. Mr. Catch then applied to the guardians of Lambeth, and he and his

ASSESSED TAXES-APPEAL COURTS.

OBSERVATIONS.

MR. TREEBY said, he would beg to call the attention of the Secretary of State for the Home Department to the serious inconvenience and loss attending persons who feel themselves called upon to pay a larger amount of Assessed and other Taxes than their just and fair share, in consequence of the distance of the Appeal Court being, in many cases, as much as nine or even twelve miles from where the whether the Government have any objecparties aggrieved reside; and to inquire, tion to authorize a Court of Appeal for Assessed and other Taxes, to be held in all boroughs and towns where the distance of Appeal exceeds four miles? The House had no idea of the number of persons who tance to attend Appeals, and he thought were obliged to go to an inconvenient disthat means ought to be adopted to meet that inconvenience.

wife were elected master and matron. He
wrote to the Poor Law Board informing
them of his election, and the Board felt it
their duty to write to the guardians in-
forming them of the whole previous case
against Mr. Catch. The Lambeth guar-
dians, with a full knowledge of the facts
of the case, confirmed the election, and
the Poor Law Board had no option but
to sanction the appointment; but they
coupled this with a request that the guar-
dians would at the end of six months
make a special report as to the manner
in which Mr. Catch had performed his
duties. Since the appointment, Dr. Mark-
ham, a Poor Law Inspector, had visited
Lambeth Workhouse, and he reported
"The present master seems to me to
manage the work house well, considering
its crowded state, and the impossibility of
classification." He (Sir Michael Hicks-
Beach) trusted, therefore, that the House
would not endorse the statement of his hon.
Friend that Mr. Catch was a man of known
bad character, and would consider that the
Poor Law Board had not acted wrongly in
giving him another opportunity of conduct-dying the inconvenience.
ing a workhouse properly. If the Motion
for Papers were pressed, he should not

MR. SCLATER-BOOTH said, that if the hon. Gentleman would put his Question on the Paper for Monday, he would endeavour to have it answered. The matter rested with local authorities, with whom the Government had no right to interfere. The Government had no control over these Courts, which were appointed by the Commissioners. If anyone felt inconvenience by reason of distance from the Court of Appeal, it would be competent for him to bring the matter under the notice of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and they would no doubt communicate with the local authorities, with the view of reme

Main Question, "That Mr. Speaker do

oppose it; because he thought they would now leave the Chair," put, and agreed to.

correct the erroneous impression which
prevailed, but the correspondence which
had passed between the Lambeth guardians
and the Poor Law Board should be added.
MR. THOMAS HUGHES thought that
anything more disastrous to the proper
ad-
ministration of the Poor Law in the me
tropolis could not have taken place than
the conduct of the Board in this case. It
was, no doubt, a very magnanimous thing
to give a man a chance of redeeming his
character at one's own expense; but it was
not at all worthy of praise when that
chance was given at the expense of the
poor of the metropolis. He trusted that
that was not the last the House would hear
of the case.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
VOL. CXC. [THIRD SERIES.]

SUPPLY-ARMY ESTIMATES. SUPPLY-considered in Committee. (In the Committee.)

£4,000,000, on account, following Army Services, viz. :

I.-Regular Forces.
1. General Staff and Regimental Pay,
Allowances, and Charges

2. Commissariat Establishment, Ser

vices, Movement of Troops, &c.
3. Clothing Establishments, Ser-
vices, and Supplies

4. Barrack Establishment, Services,
and Supplies

5. Divine Service

6. Administration of Martial Law
7. Hospital Establishment, Services,
and Supplies

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£

1,500,000

400,000

174,000

200,000 16,000 10,000

100,000 2,400,000

19. Rewards for Distinguished Service, &c.

20. Pay of General Officers

21. Full Pay of Reduced and Retired Officers and Half Pay

22. Widows' Pensions, &c. 23. Pensions for Wounds

24. Chelsea and Kilmainham Hospitals (In-Pensions)

25. Out-Pensions

26. Superannuation Allowances
27. Militia, Yeomanry Cavalry, and
Volunteer Corps

Total Non-Effective Services

Recapitulation.

VISCOUNT ENFIELD asked, whether it was intended to take evidence?

MR. NEWDEGATE said, it would be necessary to take evidence, because in some respects the scheme was founded upon misapprehensions. The Commission13,000 ers had not taken sufficient trouble to 36,000 inquire into the foundation of Rugby School. It was founded for all the chil

18,000 291,000 38,000 12,000 £560,000

81,000 dren of Rugby, and not for the poor 59,000 12,000 children of that place; and the earliest records showed that the children of the gentry availed themselves of its advanThere was another charity in the tages. town, founded exclusively for the poor children. He could see no sense in the provision that, if the Committee did not act, the Commissioners should be enabled to do so without giving notice. He intended to ask that a clause should be introduced into the Bill to the effect that the privileges of day scholars should not be abrogated, his object being to preserve SIR JOHN PAKINGTON hoped that, Rugby and conferred by the benevolence the privileges enjoyed by the residents of under the circumstances, the Committee of the founder. would allow him to take a Vote of Bill was about to be sent to a Select ComHe was glad that the £4,000,000, on account for the Army Esti-mittee, and he hoped that Committee

Effective Services

Non-Effective Services

mates.

Total Effective and Non

Effective Services

Vote agreed to.
House resumed.

3,440,000
560,000

£4,000,000

Committee to sit again upon Monday

would be empowered to take evidence.

MR. AYRTON thought it would be unnecessary to add any further evidence to that contained in the blue books. Anything that the Commissioners might have omitted would in all probability be found

MR. NEATE said, that the proposal "Line 17, after rates,' insert, and payment
to refer the Bill to a Select Committee of such rates may be enforced in the same man-
ner as if this Act had not passed, and the same
originated with him. He thought it de- shall not be deemed to be church rates within
sirable to adopt that course, because if the the meaning of this Act.''
Bill were subjected to a general discussion
in the House there was little chance of
its passing.

Order for Third Reading read, and
discharged.

Bill re-committed, in respect of Amend-
ments to be proposed to Clauses A and C;
considered in Committee.

SIR ROUNDELL PALMER moved
the following Clause:-

INDEX

ΤΟ

HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES,

VOLUME CXC.

FIRST VOLUME OF THE SESSION 1867-8.

EXPLANATION OF THE ABBREVIATIONS.

In Bills, Read 1o, 2o, 3o, or 1a, 2a, 3a, Read the First, Second, or Third Time.-In Speeches,
1R., 2R., 3R., Speech delivered on the First, Second, or Third Reading.-Amendt., Amend-
ment. Res., Resolution.-Comm., Committee.-Re-Comm., Re-Committal.-Rep., Report.-
Consid., Consideration.-Adj., Adjournment or Adjourned.-cl., Clause.--add. cl., Additional
Clause.-neg., Negatived.-M. Q., Main Question.-O. Q., Original Question.-O. M., Original
Motion.-P. Q., Previous Question.-R. P., Report Progress.-A., Ayes.-N., Noes.-M., Ma-
jority.-1st. Div., 2nd. Div., First or Second Division.-l., Lords.-c., Commons.

When in this Index a is added to the Reading of a Bill, it indicates that no Debate took
place upon that stage of the measure.

When in the Text or in the Index a Speech is marked thus, it indicates that the Speech
is reprinted from a Pamphlet or some authorized Report.

When in the Index a † is prefixed to a Name or an Office (the Member having accepted o
vacated office during the Session) and to Subjects of Debate thereunder, it indicates that the
Speeches on those Subjects were delivered in the speaker's private or official character, as the
case may be.

ABYSSINIA

Consul Cameron, Question, Colonel Sykes;
Answer, Sir John Pakington Nov 21, 104;
Question, Sir Harry Verney; Answer, Lord
Stanley Nov 26, 180

Foreign Office-Papers and Correspondence,
Question, Mr. Wyld; discussion thereon
Dec 5, 606

Memorandum of Routes, Question, Earl Gran-

ville; Answer, The Earl of Derby Nov 25, 153
Mission of Mr. Rassam, Observations, Mr.
Schreiber; short debate thereon Dec 7, 678
Papers and Correspondence, Question, Colonel
Sykes; Answers, Lord Stanley, Sir Stafford
Northcote Feb 21, 1005

Presents from King Theodore, Question, Colo-
nel Sykes; Answer, Mr. Hunt Dec 6, 643
Queen's Letter to King Theodore, Question,
Mr. Schreiber; Answer, Lord Stanley
Nov 26, 179

Rev. Mr. Krapf, Question, Sir Patrick O'Brien;
Answer, Sir Stafford Northcote Nov 26, 180

Abyssinian Expedition

Egypt and Abyssinia, Question, Mr. Fawcett;
Answer, Sir Stafford Northcote Feb 18, 887;
Question, Mr. Otway; Answer, Lord Stanley
Feb 21, 1003

VOL. CXC. [THIRD SERIES.]

| Abyssinian Expedition-cont.

European Subaltern Officers, Question, Colonel
Sykes; Answer, Sir Stafford Northcote
Νου 26, 178

Exploration of Routes, Question, Colonel
Sykes; Answer, Sir Stafford Northcote
Nov 28, 337

Merchant Ships, Return of, Question, Mr.
Young; Answer, Mr. Corry Nov 29, 420
Mules, Purchase of-Contract with Messrs.
Wetherell, Question, Captain Vivian; An-
swer, Lord Stanley Nov 22, 145; Motion
for an Address (Captain Vivian) Nov 28,
336; after short debate, Motion withdrawn ;
Question, Sir Patrick O'Brien; Answer, Sir
John Pakington Mar 9, 1223

Postage from, Question, Mr. Butler; Answer,
Mr. Sclater-Booth Mar 5, 1115

Stores, Question, Mr. Otway; Answer, Sir
John Pakington Dec 2, 513

Telegraphic Communication, Question, Mr.
Crawford; Answer, Sir Stafford Northcote
Nov 21, 106

Volunteers, Bounty to, Question, Mr. Darby
Griffith; Answer, Sir Stafford Northcote
Dec 7, 677

Water Supply, Question, Lord John Hay;
Answer, Sir Stafford Northcote Dec 3, 540
See titles-Supply-East India, Troops
and Vessels

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