Sir ROBERT PEEL, in his speech on the Report of
the Agricultural Committee being brought up, ( Thursday, July 21,) took occasion to boast of the effective aid he gave to Ministers in the discussions on the Poor-law Bill in 1834. In what this valuable assistance consisted, may be seen from the following speech, the only one he delivered during the whole of the discussions on that bill. He did not vote once on the measure.
" Sir ROBERT PEEL.— I hope that the noble lord will pause well before he adopts the principle of allowing any of the legally-constituted tribunals of the country to determine whether the orders of the Commissioners are right or not. Those regulations may embrace matter of a mixed nature, partly legal and partly political ; and surely great evil would result if at any time it were put forth to the country that they were not in conformity with the existing law. I du hope, however, that whatever tribunal may be invested with power of ex- amining the regulations of the Commissioners, it will not be one of the regu- larly established courts of justice. The noble lord must, I am sure, distinguish between appealing to a court by writ of certiorari, and applying to it for its sanction of a whole code of regulations."—Miiror of Parliament, Session 16:14 ; page 2104.
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