LORD BROUGHAMrose to move that the Returns ordered to be made by the Poor Law Commissioners by that House be made forthwith. One was an important Return relative to communications that had passed with them. It had been proved in another place that one of the Commission- 649 ers had interposed, and the Secretary had not made the Returns. He had moved for them three times, and a fortnight since had moved that they he made forthwith, and yet they were not made. The Poor Law Commissioners were bound to make the Return; to speak gently, it was a grievous neglect of duty in the Commissioners setting themselves against the Orders of that House. The other Return was of the number of times the Commissioners had met as a board since 1840; he understood the Return would be "nil;" and if so, they had not acted in a legal manner; for the Act gave power that they, or any two of them, "acting as such board," should put the Act in force. It was necessary that they should hold a board; and yet it appeared in evidence elsewhere, that they had not done so. He deeply regretted this, because it increased the clamour out of doors against the law, which people, for reasons of their own, made against it. After a short pause, the noble and learned Lord again rose and said, that it was suggested to him that he was wrong in moving for the Returns forthwith, as he had already moved for them three times, and a fortnight since had moved that they he presented forthwith, and that he ought not to move a fourth time. He therefore gave notice that, if the Order were not complied with, and the Returns made by five o'clock to-morrow, he would move that the Commissioners and their Secretary he called to the bar.