§ MR. KINNAIRDsaid, he would beg to ask the President of the Poor Law Board, If the promised measure for amending the administration of the Poor Law Board in the Metropolis will give proper controlling power to the Poor Law Board over the parishes at present governed under local Acts; whether it will abolish the election of guardians for life, and if he knows whether the guardians of Clerkenwell have discontinued that ill-treatment of paupers which has been repeatedly commented on in the public press?
§ MR. C. P. VILLIERSsaid, in reply, that a measure amending the administration of the Poor Law would be shortly laid upon the table of the House, in which provision will be made as far as it is practicable, to give effect to the recommendations of the Committee that recently reported to the House on the subject. With regard to the Clerkenwell union he was able to say that the guardians had obtained, and now occupy, new wards apart from the workhouse for the accommodation of the homeless poor, by which the mismanagement complained of will cease in future.