Lord PAT.MERSTON paid his convenient constituents of Tiverton a flying
visit on Tuesday. " lie arrived," says the report, " on Tuesday even i ng, and left again at midnight on Wealmsday." In the in Teri in, probably on AMC dining occasion, be managed to deliver a long speech, containing a clever pleading for the Ministry. Ile also communicated a piece of intelligence respecting a measure in which he professed to have taken much interest, and which certainly will be news in Lon- don— " Well, gentlemen, there was another important question, which has oesaaw• the attention of the Government and Parliament—I mean the law for esiablZ ing a modified system of gelid' in Ireland fur the destitute poor. At first ther were great objections to it ; and I, for one, long doubted whether any such my: tern could be established in Ireland, consistent with real advantage to the pi, and without any great and serious injury, if not ruin to the owners of proem But further reflection satisfied me, that not only such measure 'old safety (le adopted, but that it was absolutely necessary to adopt it, and th it such a met, sure was the foundation only on which we could build our hopes if the permi. Dent improvement of the social CO011iti0I1 of Ireland. A bill was paused mor mature discussion and consul ration, and it is now exciting the approval °ph other house; and I canyon but hope that a measure which is NO Decent, for the good of the country, will come down to us without matea alterations, or at least with none to defeat the objects of those who framed tit measure."
The Vote-paper of the Commons announces, that the third reading of the Irish Poor Bill, which Lord PALMERSTON declared to have passed, and to be exciting the approval of the Lords, is au Order of the Day for Monday next !
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