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I 10 DSE OF LORDS .-Thursday , J » s . 28 . The House sat for & short tinu , b > t no businccsof public interest was transacted . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Tiiui . sdat . Jas . 28 . The Speaker took the « hair a few minutes before four o ' clock . Mr . Roebuck wished to know if the noble lord at the head of the government had made any calculation as to the cost to the country ot the plan he pro posed for the relief of Ireland .
Linl J . Uwsell said that tho amonut issued np to the 1 st January last was £ 1 . 030 . . under the Act of last session , and since then another £ 1 , 000 , 000 had been advanced ; and if the present plan were to by continued they could not expect a itss expenditure than £ -5 , 000 , 000 or £ 6 , 000 . 000 ; under the propose . ! measure , lie exyectad there wcoM &e a considerable r « luet ion ef that atneuut . but to what exten , u- could i . ot then say ; and the lion , member would th ref ire . see that it was impossible for him to give ft specific answer to the question .
Gu-NDITIOX OF CONVICTS IN' THE HULKS AT WOOLWICH . Mr . T . PciccoyiiE moved for the appointment of a t-elect ci'mmittci- to inquire into the treatment of convicts on board tiie hulks at Woolwich . The cruelties perpetrated on board the hulks were so gr . at , and abore ; il ! in eonneeticn with the medical department , as to be absolutely disgraceful to a an-1 : b d country . The ikaths were much greater than w * shown in the returns . In the returns for 1845
ti ..-deaths were given as only 1 in 58 , whereas he should he abieto show before a committee that thev were 1 in 22 . There were no visiting magistrates or inspectors oi prisons ts . viium the prisoners could appeal . The overseers of skips could order corporal punishment whenever they phased . The honourable member then proceeded to make a number ot specific charts against Dr . Bassey , the surgeon of the convict hhips . He alsu complained that there was an utter deficiency in the moral and religious instruction of the convicts .
Sir G . Gbuv th-iuiht that the House should hesitate trttake nil tfce alleged facts stated by the honoa-able member as true , derived ytobably fram Boms cmvict . As fur the extent ot punishment « n bjard the hulk- , he had been assured tUat there bad only been one case of corporal punishment during the last t-urjears . lie had that nidit heard for the finst time of the cases stated ; but if the right honourable mtniUir would tree him the uataes of the parlies viuching for the truth ot these facts , and the dates , he would tike care that there shouid be the fullest and most &earck . r . g investigation , bat inquiry before aommittce would lead to considerable inconveniences He admitted that the hulk system was defective in many respects , butsii . ee ] S 43 many steps had been taken in the way of improvement . After sune discussion a division took place , when the num ' .-ers were : — For Mr . buncombe ' s motion 44 Against it 121 Majority against the motion —77 TUE NEW POOR LAW . Mr . Fehiusd moved for a select committee to inquire intu the mode adopted by the Poor Law Commissioners and their Assistant Commissioners in drawing up their reports , and their treatment of Boards of Guardians ; and whit control the Right lion . Sir James Graham exercised over tae Poor Law Commissioners and their Assistant Commissioners durlin the time he held the office o < Her Majesty ' s Principal Secretary of State for the Home DenartnwuJ . The Hon . Member quoted the nnt compHni -ntary opinions of the Poor Law Commissioners , and ot the clerks , with respect to each other . He re j aten the circumstances of the case of Mr . Jenkins Junes , and contended that that individual had been
entrapped into an agreement to plead guilty on the nndeistanding that he would not be brought np for j . dement , but that he * as condemned to twelve ijioutiis imprisonment , and only let out of prison upon _ threatening to expose Sir James Graham ' s and Mr . Lewis ' s conduct . He went through the circumstances attending the report made by Mr . Mott respecting the Bolton and Keighley unionB , and maintaiued that there was not one word of truth in the latter report He insisted that Sir James Graham and Mr . Lewis had given instructions to Mr . Mott to get up these reparts . in the first instance , to throw discredit upon Dr . Bowriog , and , in the second instance , tocrush him ( ilr . Ferrand ) . He charged the
Poor Law Commissioners with destroving documents that militated against them ; and , to prove his ease , he read an affidavit voluntarily made by Mr . career , whe swore that he heard Mr . Mott declare that Sir James Graham had made statements in the ilouse of Commons which were entirely false , and tbat the report he trumped up was ordered lor the purposeof crushing Mr Ferrand . The Hon . Member at , e reas length reiterated all the charges he had heretofore made against Mr . Lewis and Sir James ( jrabam , and complained of the manner in which he ha- been | crseeuted , both in the House of Commons ami m the courts « f law , in which last , however he was revived and prepared to establish iiis innocence a-.. u omfauud his persecutors .
isjr J . Graham in reply said he expected that his rt-Jireaient lrom the public service , and especially his strict retirement into private life since he left ofiice , would have mitigated the hostility tntcrtaiued against Lim by the nun . membsr . Tlie ri- 'hthou ban . net proceeded to t-. uch lightly u , o > the causes ot quarrel between him and Mr . Feirand , down to the publication , in July last , of the lion , member ' s letters in the Times , char ^ in him ( Sir J . Graham ) and Mr . Lewis with conspiring to crush Mr . Ferrand In consequenteof those letters . ' acriminal informafon was tied and . n making the rule absolute the affid avit rf Mr . Parker , si much relied i » n bv the lion Mmocr was used balore the C-mrt . He ' ( Sir James brahaiE ) iiad asserted on his oath , that the charges were wh « Uv and iii every particular fal « , and the affidavit sti . tmn . ' y denying them , was fi !« J .. ml » , » .. m
be annrend . An opportunity WO u ! d be aff . ir . led to the Hon . Member at the trial to establish hi , charges , and he ( Sir J . Graham ) courted inquiry , and was perfectly ready to appear awl give his evideuce . He had also been ready for examination by the Andover Committee , if they had thought proper to summon him . v F T , PJsraeli 8 uppor { ed ih-Ferranil » and after a short debate , the motion was withdrawn , and the « . v er business hairing been gone through , the Ilouse adjourned . HOUSE OF LORDS .-Fhidat Jax . 29 . Earl Fitzwillum moved for a return from which the precisa amount of the influx ol Irish paupers into Liverpool and Glasgow from the commencem » nt of the present year might be ascer tained , and compared wku a similar account for the same period last vear . r
After some conversation to which the subject care r . se , the motion was agreed to . After some other unimportant basiness , the house adjourned .
HOUSE OF COMMONS , Friday , Jan . 29 . Mr . * ox Maulk moved the second reading of the Cliiisea Pensioners BUI . The Bill was read a second time , and ordered to be committed . Toe Chashbhor of the Exchequer moved the secand reading of the Distilling from Sugar Bill Afterashortconversation , in which Mr . Mackenzie applied lordelay . and in which his application wasopposcd by Mr . F . French , Dr . Bowring , and someother memoers , it was read a second time , and ordered to be committed on Friday next . * eeotd ^ UCkwhCa t ' Ac- > Importation BiU » Wi » feada ils ^ TsajSK *^ ^^ " day Wefethen
andtK ^ SuS di *"" * In the House of Lord * , on Monday ni ght , the Earl of Hnatoubel in moving for cwtein retams co « n " ted w ,. h theCuurt of Chancery in Ireland , ana which , he extended , would . how the real state and valoe of wo . perty m that country , and . tated . that froTa ro ^ ealcutat . oa hehadajada . he believed that the debu on WUb property amounted to one hundred millions Bter . ling , and that eight years' rental was due on the whole of the Und , , that country . After some discussion , J-owever . he consented to withdraw hu motion for one set ot return ., the collection of which was impracticaW * , and to p rsijwue a « cond motion , to give an opportunity ot ™ ett <™ ' ' jethl « - « I » retunu could be made .
HUSH PAUITEIMS » LlVERPO 0 L . -LordBwceHAii p' «« uwd a j ,, ( , on frum the authorities and a ereat « umb « of rwiMwM . inhabiUnt * at Liverpool com . pU . n , n , ' oi the i « d « « f Ir ; h paup . rs into thTse ' aport . nT 4 " o r * : ati " fSUrlMn da * ° ™ *™ 1 , 1 VT , CMW 0 Vtr frcm Irelaad . (^ e « tt , * a . i ,., f . . ! ... ) » -, « brought o « rin tiro steamers . They ita ^ nr '" ' !« " »««* " * of person , were at lb a e . r " . " 7 " h- " >•* = "' - "'« ' « 7 to the various . « £ u . i . o . Ireh « d « , « , , » ,, i ,, teuUoa of seeking their ^ "t ^!?^ . » «? - * . in Li ^ ool The , he ^ fi « prajes their ldt
.. . w W | ls tointt rft « for thetrrel 1-e ., and e «| ,. cMea a \ ^ that Pa . lianent would not seimrac , «* .,., « pausing s la , v by « hicl , the people of » m ^ Il 9 i t , wu ; . p . rt = l liir ouup , or . Hi . lordship would n .. t ,-ip ^ a any opiuiun tiitjs as v , a p ^ Lalv but foaicthi .. ; : ra : 1 , t l , » o ' oue u , rclnedy U . c ^ rious gri-vance c « ,. - « : c . J « i l-y -J , e people « tUier \ w , l . He was aware the jJiibiK- \>'< r . s intended that tin- laud of Irelaad . u ^ ht t . I * tiie-i tor ihe supp ^ it of Uie Iris ' s poor , bn ! Ji « t ivoijil be only taxiog tiie landlords mice over ' b < -aii e : 1 .- ! iiorJ , ; agee would call in liif mnrtgage . Such
a propo'ition was a specie * of cktap iivaumuy that remii- . oed U ' un » f a saying of Lcrd Elibink ' * , that there tt-re mo lhm ; s in which wo 3 t jieople wtre exceediogl y ceuirjiis—of * , r people ' * money and tiicir own adrire ( A laug-. i ) TUese persons wtre proclaiming the right <* ' ih : | . , ur to be fed , but he denie « i the riffbt of the poor « . an tu be f . d . unless b y his o . vn labour . The ( idvernla-at werv n « t bound to feed the poor , or eren to find * «« rn ° ^ ' £ . " ' hw ' » Th * «^ dut > of the Gotern . 7 lh » P « p ! e fiDdfng srark for tfcemufces . (
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TheMAXttuiof Westiieath dmied that the grievance compl : in d could be traced to the Irish Landlords as the petitioners liatl ntiemptrd to < 1 > . U did not lie at their loor , but at the di . 'Or of those l » ws which were directed against tl . e management of their estates , nnd from which they wuld not escape . Ttcre was also the greatest difficulty in putting the law ia force for the ejection of tetiants at will , [ How the granting of greater facilities to the landlords far driving the people of Inland from their holdings would lessen the immigration to Liverpool , or what connection there » a » between Vbe two ideas , i » ' not very clear to us . ] No other tartness bein * before tho house , their Lordships , after a * hort sitting , adjourned . In the House of Comumn * . afurtue usual questions , notices of motions , be , had beeu disposed of , the houso , on the motion of Lord J Russell , took up the order ol the day for the second reading of the
LABOURING POOR ( IRELAND ) BILL , —Mr . Wit . UAHS moved , as an amendment , " That the second reading , and all tlie other stages in thia house , of tha Poor Kelief ( irelimO ) Bill , shall have precedence of the said Labouring Poor ( Ireland ) Bill . " He proposed this anandtum because be wa ~ convinced that the Poor Kelief ( Ireland ) Bill was the means by which the present cula . raities of Ireland would be removed at the least expense , and tlie recurrence of similar calamities averted in future . The Destitute Persons ( ItelW- >) BiUcoutaiattiuo limit to the expense which might he incurred under it . Lord John Russell said that seven millions would be necessary tu meet tbe expenditure which he contemplated up to the first of August . But h ^ ( Mr . Willianu ) be . Heved that when the l < t oi August arrived , his Lordship ' g eyes would be opened t <> the commencement of the end ,
and that he would then be bringing in another bill for the removal of the still increasing evils of Ireland . He did not mean to express any approbation of ttiu Pour Relief Bill now introduced ; on the contrary , he thought itno improvement on the existing law . The house ought to pause before it vottd away public money as now proposed . All their past attempts 10 introduce Poor Laws into Ireland had proved inefficient . He asked the government how long they were go ng to pursue that system of one inefficient measure after another ! They bad tried their first Poar Law Bill , and what had it done for tbe p ople of Ireland ? The commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of Ireland , with the view of making out a cast ; of necessity for a Poar Law , had reported that , in 1835 , there were 1 , 131 , 000 agricultural labourers who only received from 2 s . to 2 * . 6 d . a-week wages , and
that for thirty weeks out of the fifty-two in each year one-half of those persons were entirely out of employment . Including 'heir families , here wore ' 2 . 355 , 000 dependent o » these miserable wages . And nliat provision had Her Majesty's tiien Government—of which tUt present Government was principally composed—made for these 2 . 355 , 000 persons ! They had provided accommodation in workhouses for only 99 , 200 , so that there were more th in 2 . 000 , 000 still ltft destitute . Lord J . Russell had related to the house , with proper feeliug . the condition of the people of England as described iu a vrotk by Sir Thomas More . Nuw , he ( Ur . Williams ) considejed that extract a « precisely describing the condition of Ireland at the present time , and be regarded the state of tbiugs in England then , and the state of things in Ireland now , as springing from precisely the same cause , namely ,
the oppression of the landed proprietors . After referring to the state of England just previous to the passing of the Poor Law Act of Elizabeth , and showing tbat not less than 70 , 000 ptx .-ons had b ^ en convicted of crimes committed against ytrsons and property iu the course » t two years , the lion , member remarked , that the laudlordb of that period were forced to make due provision tor the poor in order to the security of their life and property ; and no sooner was the Poor Law of Elizabeth put in operation than tranquillity was restored . Let the Government pursue the tame course as regardtd Ireland , and be bad no doubt that similar good co sequences would follow . ( Huar , hear . ) He hud heard various reasons given for tbe unhappy romtttiou of Ireland—one of which
was , tbat owing to an inherent defect in the race to which they belonged , the Irish were too lazy to work . Sow , he had seen ( he Irish in Canada and in tbe United States , where they had an open field tor their labour , and had found them maintaining a perfect equality as to industry and love of persouttl comfort with the Germans , Americaus , and others by wbom they were tture surr- unded , and all they wanted U enable them to exhibit tbe same characteristics i" > tbeir awn country was fair play . But white tiey were kept on such miserable wages as 2 s . or 2 a . Cd . a-week , what could be expected from them ! In conclusion , he recommended the Government to tax the mortgagees of Irish estates for their sbare ol k * cost of supporting the poor .
The amendment found no seconder , and the order of the day was read . On tbe motion ttut the Labouring Poor Bill be read a second time , Mr . B . Osbosne passed in review tlie measures adopted by the Government during tbe progress of the Irish distress . He especially condemued the Labour Rate Act , as one the operation of which was to be seen iu broken up roads , in an impoverished gentry , and in the wasted finances of this country . He complained that Parliament had not been called together at an early period , and regretted thst the opinion of the Lord . Lieutenam in othrr reipects had not been followed ; if it bad , reproductive works would have been undertaken , and EBg-Iand would not have to pay the expenses tbat were to be vast on her . It was clear tbat ou the 17 th of August
last , tbe noble lord contemplated tbat halt . at least ot tbe expense should bs borne by tbe finances of the country . It was not his intention to attack the noble lcrd on account of the defects of tbat measure ; August legislation was apt to be of a hasty character . When the cbarins ot grouse entere into competition with the duties ot statesmanship , there was little c . ance of a bill of that nature bei ng properly considered . Tbe unconstitutional nature of the provisions of tbe Labour Act reminded him of an anecdote of the Irish Parliament , where a fifty-miles roaa bill was smuggled through as a rider to a tobacco bill . The part of the noble lurd ' s proposed measures which bad reference to the reclamation of waste lands was Utopian . Tue noble lord stated tlie quantity of waste land capable of improvement to be 4 , 600 , 000 acres ; Mr . Griffiths estimated it at 6 , 290 000 acres , of wiiioli
3 , 755 , 000 acr e * were improvable , but oi these 2 , 330 , 000 acres could only be madercugU meadow , as pasture tor sheep . On this subject they had some evidence ot which it was as well tbe house should be in possession . Tbe Government had already r . claimed some waste lands , and there was at tbe present time a considerable model farm upon land uf tbat kind , called King WilliatnVtottn Mr . Griffiths , in bis report from this faim in 1 B 36 , say * "The cost ef reclaiming ' flow bog' is £ 9 . 9 s . lOd . per acre ; the produce for four years is worth £ 24 . 8 s . 5 d .- , tlie expenditure for the same time in £ 25 . 12 s . tid ., leaving a loss at the end of four years of £ 1 . 9 j . Id . ( Hear , hear . ) Tbe estimate for reclaiming ' compact bog' it £ G . 3 s . per acre , produce for four years £ 24 3 i . 5 d . ; tbe expenditure for the same period £ 22 5 j . 8 d . ; leaving a profit of £ . 1 17 s , 9 d . on reclaimed land of 'be best
quality . ' ( Hear . ) He was sure the Ilouse of Cymnwa& would look with a little caution before it voted a million of money for this rather Utopian scheme . ( Hear , hear . ) He had no objection to tjjp principle ef takiug a mau ' s land and improving it , if it could be proved that it was for the good of the commonwealth ; but he had an objection to tbe people of England paying all this money for a scheme at best problematical . Mr . Griffiths in his report for 1914 , further said of the model farm— " The crops of all kinds are unusually subject to the vicissitudes of the season *; but it has been so far able to keep its he d above water as to return a deficit iu three years oi £ . 23 Us . 9 Jd . ( Hear , hear . ) Tlu- house ought to pause before it engaged in sucia an undertaking , and what did the Government propose to do f There were 4 . 600 , 000 acres of waste land : a grant of £ . 1 , 000 , 000 would be
equal to 4 s . per acre to reclaim land worth only 2 a , fid . pvr acre . ( Hear , hear . ) What improvement could be effected by such a sum , which be supposed would in . elude the expense of surveying by the staff ot the Board of Works , which in Ireland was very heavy 1 He thought this plan the most complete bubble a Government had ever brought before Parliament . The plan was besides this obnoxious on account of the encouragement it gave to the retension of tbat system of small holdings which had already proved to detrimental to Ireland . As to a Poor Law , as Ur as extending outdoor relief to the aged , the infirm , and the impotent , he thought the opinions of tbe Irish members would be unanimous ; but when they came to give out-door relief to the able-bodied iu Ireland , be asked them to
remember tbat circumstances were very different In that country from what they were in England . A great physiologist defined the cholera to be " a disease that began with d * atb ; " th * proposal for gi ing out-door relief to the able-bodied in Ireland might be called " a confiscation commencing by revolution . " So low was the standard of comfort in Ireland , so philosophical via * the resolve of the Itisb peasant to want but little and to do with still less , that if they once instituted the sygtem of eut-door relief in Ireland without tbe viorkhouae test , be was confident . they would extinguish tbe last spark of self-reliance and independence in his besom . ( Hear , hear . ) That was a moral objection to the proposal ; but there were economic objections of equal force . The rental of Ireland was calculated at Ten
Millions ; the number of tbe population entitled to relief would be 2 , 600 , 000 ; who , at Is . 3 d , a-week per head , would , in a year , require £ 11 , 375 , 000 . ( Hear . ) Having thus absorbed tho whole ' rental of Ireland , what would be the consequence ! Tbat the * bole of this burden must fall upon England and the English people . Mr . Osborae then brought up tbe standing bugbear of political economists : —in ^ tbe parish of Chalesbury where the rental was insufficient to pay the ratts and tbe parish was thrown out of cultivation in consequence . This was a warning against Poor Laws , unless on a very limited scale indeed . As to emigration , the word was unpopular iu Ireland ; but he was certain that its landlords would gladly « ubmit to any tax for an useful system of
colonisation . After alluding to the necessity of reformiug the grand jury system in Ireland , be concluded his review of the noble Lord ' o plans by stating that they were not calculated to elevate the condition of the poor of Ireland , and by condemning them as the enunciation of a sentiment rather than tbe declaration of a policy . He then proposed some plans of his own for the cure of the grievances of Ireland . He was of opinion that the whoie system of the Executive Government ofthatcouutry ought to he changed . You must either nuke the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland a real king in that country , or you must abolish his office . You must also make Far . liament mett occasionall y in the Cutle of Dublin . Be btfitidioulj avoided political lobjeeti ; » t tbeuae
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time he had his doubti whether Lord John had not let slip a great oppoitunity of bringing forward a real plau for the redemption of Ireland . ( Hear , hear . ) He Could not resume his seat without saying , unless certain par * ties who never showed any great zeal for religion , except when , according to Burke , it was employed in mortifying their neighbours , —unless the ) divested themselves ot the tdimmthtologicwn . that rank'ed in tbeir breasts , the union between tbe countries wovld never be anything but one of parchment . There should be no Pharisaical pride in affording tuch relief ; there should be no anathema of the tongue to lessen the imritof the charily . ( Hear , bear . ) They had not shown that charity which bearetli all things , belitveth all things , hopcth all tilings , endureth all things ; they hud manifested only that spirit which enacted the penal laws , that spirit which would echo and callback the errors and the barbarisms of the 16 th century . If they would teed the starving , they must
delay the work of making converts . ( Hear , hear . ) They who played on the sounding brass sna tbe tinkling cymbal should remember the Universal Prayer , and , utsucli a moment , should not " Deal damnation round the land " On each th » y judged tbeir foe . " ( Cheers . ) The noble lord must search in the page of history for tbe records of England's miairnvernment in Ireland , and for the evidenceof theevils which it < vaB now incumbent on ttitm to woid . This country owed a vest debt to Ireland lor ages of misrulr , and that debt was not t * be cancelled by mere pecuniary compensation . The only way in which they could meet tbe responsibility was for that house to pass laws in a wide , largo , and comprrhensive spirit—laws which should be free both from sectarian intolerance and parochial bigotry . Thuonly could they cancel tbat debt ; these were the things the Crown could grant , and these were tbe laws which Parliament should enact . ( Cheers . )
Mr . Smith O'Dbien examined seriatim all the statements made by Lord John Russell in laying bis lrUh scheme before the house , and the measures which tbe Uinlstet had thtm sketched , Tbe hon . member asserted that the . potato loss had be-. 'n undar-estimated—the money loss having been , according to his calculation , between twenty and thirty millions sterling for Ireland alone . He dwelt much upon the absurdity of allowing exportation of all kinds of food to go on from Ireland , while that country was famishing through a deficiency ; and declared that not a single death from starvation would bave taken place bad the Government , disregard . Ing their political economy , acted as the emergency demanded . He would not object to the extension of the Poor Law ; and he thought that from proper
encouragement to the fisheries , much good eould be derived . But he regretted that emigration formed no part of the Ministerial plan . In his opinion , however , a law to secure compensation to tenants for improvements made in thiir holdings would do more good for Ireland than all the proposed measures . A tax upon those abstantees who drained the country of four millions annually , would likewise be a measure of justice and benefit to Ireland . lie conceived Mr . B . 0-b ^ mie to havi > marie ' a most unfair ami unjust attack on the scheme proposed for tbe reclamation of waste lauds . He believed thac that measure might be made a most beneficial one . He knew land in
Ireland not producing Is . which , if cultivated , would give employment to thousands of people . He thought thu the subdivision of waste lands to the extent sta ' ed by the noble lord—say , abaut 25 acres—would confer great advantages upon the people ot Ireland , not only by employing the people , but by producing in future a class of small proprietors ; a class which was found to exist beneficially in every country where they had sprung up . ( Hear . ) He concluded by declaring that if ever there was an occasion , this was the occasion on which the Government ought to consider ho w far the national resources could be directed to the formation and continuance of railways , and useful public works in Ireland .
Mr . Roebuck protested in tbe name of his hard-working , industrious fellow-countrymen , against the whole scheme of the government—against indemnifying the Irish landlords for the consequences of their own extravagance and misconduct—against squandering public money upon waste lands—anil against the inefficient Poor Relief Bill introduced by the government , Tht English Poor Law , with all its machinery , ought to be extended to Ireland ; the society in Ireland was divided into two classes—the labouring population and the landlords . It was asked to relieve the former from starvation , and the latter from ruin . The habitual condition of the former had always been on the brink of that misery into which they had this year fallen . They lived on the coarsest , meanest , and scantiest food , aud
subsisted not on wages , but on small holdings of land . They were now iu great misery , and the conBequence ' was that tbeir landlords came forward and asked the government of England to relieve them . He was not deficient in sympathy for the people of Ireland , but he could not assent to the present plan for their relief , but he believed that it would extend and aggravate the evil which it pretended to cure . Why did he say this ! Because the nominal landlords of Ireland were not its real proprietors . The real landlords of Ireland were the mortgagee and tbe tax gatherer . As the people of Ireland were always on the verge of starvation , so were its landlords always on the verge ol ruin , and were therefore always unable to perform the duties develvin R on the possessors of the soil . It was the knowledge of this fact that had
driven him to the necessity of inquiring into the justice of the claims which they were now making upon our benevolence . He found that they had themselves been the cause of all the misery of which they now complained . Along with an fficient Poor Law be would introduce a better law of real property , a better system of tenures , and better relations between landlord and tenant , There were other relations , however , ia Ireland which it was incumbent upon them to improve . The tyranny of England was now recoiling on itself . It was hopeless to attempt the regeneration of the Irish character , if we left tfce great subject of religion to stir up animosities and heartburning . He looked with equal kindness upon Roman Catholics and upon Protestants ; but he hoped tbat he might say , without giving offer . ee to either party , that we bad left the Irish Roman Catholic prieathood in a condition in which it was tbeir interest to maintain the
present state of discord . At the same time he must observe , that any government which attempted to make a State prevision for that cletgy would not stand twenty-four hours after publicly making the attempt . He thought , however , that if we were to do away with tht laws of mortmain and to allow each priest to hold land to the amount of £ 300 a year , not many years would elapse before each priest would bave that income , and would thus be bound by recognizances to that amount to keep the peace . When the great objectof obtaining religious harmony was accomplished , government would h&ve accomplished all that a government could accomplish , save the introduction of a better plan of educating the people - a subject on which he was Burprised tbat not a nerd had been Raid by Lord John Russell . He would find a fund'for the purpose in the revenues of the Irish Church , supplying all tbe religious wtnt 9 of the persons belonging to it .
Lord Bebhaad gave a description of the misery in Ire * land , and condemned in strong terms the combination of the corn merchants in Cork and other places to keep back food for the purpose of raising prices . After reviewing the government measures , he stated that they were not , in his opinion , equal to the emergency . Sir R . IsQLta supported the ministerial plans . Mr . Osborne and Mr . Roebuck had gone over a wide fieldtbe latter especially had contrived to bring in every quetto vexala which had been mooted in Parliament ef late years , including a revival of the appropriation clause . The real question before the House , however , was the condition of the people of Ireland , and the' best means of relieving it . He entirely approved of the Noble Lord ' s temporary measures for that purpose .
Colonel Comollt gratefully acknowledged the generous sympathy exhibited by the English people to Ireland in her distress . The introduction of the English Poor Law iuto Ireland would , he firmly believed , destroy all the relief now afforded under the existing Irish Poor Law which , as far &b his experience went , had worked well . The scheme for the reclamatioa of waste land he regarded as a dangerous experiment ; reclamation bad not proved remunerative to the landlord , and he could not conceive how it could prove remunerative to the Government , He hoped the amount of the proposed loan for seed would be extended .
Mr . Home wlihod to know whether the gallant officer who had just spoken , "hen be said that he would do all in bis powr r to prevent the able-bodied labourer from becoming a burden on the land of Ireland , meant to say that be would throw him as a burden on the land of England . He was not surprised that members from Ireland expressed their approbation of Lord J . Russell ' s measures , for he was giving money in abundance to the Irish landlords , and was sinking the condition of England , instead of elevating that of Ireland . When he looked at the different measures of Government as a
whole , he found no plan or system in them . He objected to granting so many millions ef money to carry those measures into effect , at a time when the slightest public calamity or disturbance might render it a matter of the greatest difficulty to obtain a loan to the same amount , He was quite convinced that these measures would not produce the regeneration of Ireland . The best mode of relieving tbe present distress of that country was , not by affording money either to the landlords or the people , but by compelling the former to provide useful employment for the latter . !
The Chakcellok of the Exchequer said that the speech of Mr . Hume did not comtfn a single suggestion forgiving that practical « mployHient to the poor of Ireland ou which he declaimed so loudly . The circumstances of tbe country were such that no man could con . fidently predict that the measures of the Government would be p « rfet » ly successful . They were , however , founded on tbe experience of the past , which was the best lessou for the future . He deft nded the Labour Rate Act from tbe criticisms of Mr . B . Osborne , and gave a history of the proceedings under it . He also described the conduct of the Governineut aud tho Board of Works
under the Presentment Act , and insisted that it was monstrous to contend that that act was unpopular , seeing tbat presentments for more than a million sterling had been mode under its authority . He admitted that many of the landlords of Ireland had performed tbeir duty with exemplary genetosity but maintained tbat other * had perpetrated the very abuses which it was ex picted they would check . He defended the absentee proprietors fcom the sweeping abuse lavished upon them , one of them , lateamember of th » t house— Colonel Wjndham—wai supplying daily rations to 10 , 000 persons . He regretted to state that the system of work was breaking 4 o * n under tbe Gernnment , and that tbeir officer * were
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uggesting to them to provide food and not labour for the people . It was stated by them that many now crowded to the work ' s who were Incapable of sustaining the fa . ttgue ^ f labour ' , ' ffti'd who'iti ' cmiKequence died upon ibem nnd that others , who a few weeks « i ; o wire able to enrn large wages by task-work , were now so reduced as to be unable to earn enough to purchase food for their dully sustenance . Under such circumstnnceii , he was afraid that the Government would be reduced to the last alternative of giving food to mitigate the evil ; and it was proposed to do it either by the gratuitous distribution of rations , or by the sale , at reduced prices , of soup and cooked or uncooked meat by the relief committees in the different electoral districts of the country , He believed that there were two great difficulties now pressing ,
on Ireland—the first was n famine , unparal leled in its extent ; and the second was a total change in the social system of Ireland , based on the failure of tbe potato . He then explained the manner in which the measures of Government were calculated to grapple with both , He showed that by the extension of the present Irish Poor Law , by loans on tbe security of private estates , by the adoption of a large Drainage Act , by the grant of a minion for tbe reclamation of waste lands , and by giving facilities to the sale of encumbered lands , the house would lay the foundation of a sounder state of things in Ireland . Ministers could not c nceal from themselves
and had no wish to conceal from the country , that hundreds were dying daily of famine . No local assistance , no local funds could provide ag . thut an evil &o extensive ; and we must , therefore , come forward to a large , and , ' indeed , to a very considerable extent , to assist our labouring fellow-countrymen . He hoped that there would be no indisposition on the part either of England or of Scotland to give aid ; and if that aid was afforded , Government must call on the gentlemen of Ireland to give vriUiout delay their personal c -operation ; without it , Government couM do nothing ; with it he had no doubt that it would b « uble to perform all that any Govern , roent ceuld perform in such an emergpnev .
On the motion of Mr . HkKittos , the debate was then adjourned . IntheHouseofLnrds on Tuesday Higlit , on the motion of the Duke of Richmond , the select committee on the Drainage of Lands was re-appointed , SUGAR BILL AND POOR LAW COMMISSION , — Lord Stamet urged the government not to proceed , without due connidoration , with the measure for permitting the use of sugar in brewing and distillation ; and stated that he thought , in justice to tbe landed interest of this country , the malt duty should b gradually reduced , simultaneously with the reduction of the differential duty onforelgn sugar , which will cease in 1851 . He alto put a question as to whether government intended to propose any remodelling of the authority of the Poor Law Commissioners , to make their authority extend to Ire . land ; and , at the same time , expressed an opinion , that the whole subj-ot of Poor Law settlement , both with re ference to England and Ireland , ought to be brought be . fore Parliament .
The Marquis of Lansbowhe said that it was the inten . tion of the government to remodel the poor-law . 'ommis sion . It was nl « o intended that onecotnmi « sioBer should be resident in Ireland , but he could not state how the poor-law commission in England would affect his au . thoriiy . The whole bearings of the subject could be considered when tbe bill wai introduced . The house then adjourned . In the Home of Commons Ihe following petitions wtr « presented : —
By Mr . O . Dorcombe , in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill -Mr . T . DrHCoMBe , from Mr . Roberts , solicitor , coinplaining of the committal of four men to Kirkdale gaol for three months with hard labour , for absenting th » m . selvcB from their work in consequence of their wages being lowered ; a petition from thn guardians of Mitton , praying for the repeal of the 9 th and 10 th Victoria , c 56 frem a parish in Nottinghamshire , against the Poor Reraoval Act , and for total abolition of law of settlement . — Mr . E . Dznison , fromguardiunsof the poor of the Wai tham union , against the Poor Removal Act —Mr T DDNcoHBE . fromGreenock , agaiust the use of grain in listilleries—Lord G . Bentihcs , from Chorley and other places , in favour of the Ten Hours' Factory Bill , Mr . Ddhcombb also gnve notice that on Wedn « Jav he would move that the pttition of Mr . Roberts be Drinted with the vote * .
MILLBANK PRISOH-Mr . T . Dtmco * . * understood Jl uh ?? ? p 9 V hird COBlmi 3 « o « er on the subject of the MUlbank Pn . on had been sent to tb e H . tne . Secre . tary , and he wished to know whether the ri ght hon . baronet had laid it on the table of the house S ! r . \ !\ l J tOldMr - ' eotttllat lleD »» t P « t the report which he had sent to him in the form of a letter instead of a report , at a majority of the commissioners IS TS ! £ * T ; and whenit ««» Presented to him in . that shape , he should be prepared to lay it oa the table . \?\ l ° Tr v h 0 Ught < from the tMras of 'he commis-« on , that he was bound to send In a report .
ft "fn TDE 8 I 0 IR illf ° rmed th " "O ™ that in the case of Howard * Gossett , the Court of Exchequer Chamber had that day unanimously pronounced a decmoa reversing the judgment of the Court of Queen ' s Zf ' tZS a ** dMlmd 8 Rainst the Justification pleaded by the Sergeant . at-Arms . This reve «» l proved 2 p * « £ r ntOlTn ad ° pted b > theH ° ™ . on the recommendauon of its committee , to brin g a writ of error , was a judicious one , and it planed tbe Hoqm in » position to exercise their just and necessary privilegeo . The Hon . and Learned Gentleman moved for a copy of the shorthand writer s notes of the arguments and jud gment on the writ of error . 6 This information was received with loud cheers , and the motion was agreed to ¦
FINANCES .-Lord Johh Rr , mlt , m " angwfer t 0 Mr . Roebuck , who conceived that he should have some claim on the Government , if he consented to postpone his mo . A ° ? 2 . * Tr ^ f ^ ole house , to consider tho Act of the 5 th and 6 th Vic , c . 35 , with a view to rxtenfl its operation to Ireland , said , that as soon as the House had consented to tbe second readiB ( C of the Irish BilU , he Chancellor of the Exchequer would bring forward HURtKhtHon . Friend would most probably make hi . statement on an early day . LABOURING POOR ( IRELAND ) BILL—Several members who had notices of motion on the paper havinp postponed them , the adjourned debate on this bill wax returned by
Mr . G , A . Hamuxow , who noticed the speech of tlie Chancellor of the Exchequer on Monday evening , with which he agreed in the main , and then vindicated the relief committees from certain charges of neglect and inactivity , which had been preferred against them After a eursory glance at the condition of the Irish peasantrv as affected by the nature and the variety of tbe land tc . nures , the honourable gentleman -went on to exonerate the resident landlords as a class from the blame which was justly attachable to some of them for their inexcu sablesupinenessinan emergency like the prestnf and to bcav testimony to the beneficient exertions of the great absentee proprietorg-to the smaller holders of which class he maintained tbat the chargo of neglect was very justly attributable . He then objected to that portion of the
proposed Poor-law which provided for the ex tension of out-dooT relief to the able-bodied poor on the ground that it would not eonduce to the social improve ment of the people . In an exigency like the urgent that relief might be afforded without making a provision font in » Poor-law designed to be permanent . Advert-Ing to the recent meeting of landlords in Dublin " he said , he was anxious to allude to an observation which fell from hl « hon . friend tbe member for the Univeroity of Oxford at an earl y period of the session , when he dewsnated the gentlemen who attended that mcerinp . and those associated with then , the United Irishmen " < A laugh . ) HedMMtthlnkttatM , hon . friend 5 dn . a * that appellation in an ofltohre souse ; but he 6 hould like to know what stronger proof could possibly be of . . , J ^ V " in whlch Ireland was now placed , than the fact that gemlemen differing eosen . tially from each other upon many most Important points litical totmtta and
join together for the purpose of en dcavouringto rescue their country from tbe perils b » which it w « s unrounded . They were united , not to de stroy , but to prmrve-nottocreate , but , if possible , to prevent the horrors of a social revolution ; -united , n .. t to involve the country in anarch y and confusion , but in the words « f one of the resolutions adopted at the Dub lin meeting , " to raise the social condition of the people and save all classes from the ruin with which they ,. re at present threatened , " He could assure his hon . friend that the union among Irish gentlemen on this subject was but a faint reflection of the unity of purpose and har . raony of feeling existing among all classes ia Ireland on tbe present occasion . This great calamity , this visitation of Providence , had softened men ' s hearts , and called forth the boiler and better impulses of our nature . It was delightful to see on the relief committees men , whom early prejudice , strong prepossessions , and , perhaps , the influence of stern principle , had hitherto estranged , emulatingeacli other in an endeavour to elevate tbe character
of their fellow countrymen . ( Hear , hear . ) It was dolightfult 0 8 ee prejudices gradually dissipating , prcpossessions gradually disappearing , and the foundation laid for friendship , harmony , and good feeling , among the different clasie < of the community , and he hoped this state of things would leng survive the unhappy occMion which had given rise to it , ( Hear . ) 'With resppct tu the measures proposed by the Government , as tbey ' were founded on the principle of introducing capital into " that country , he would give them all the support in hit power . Mr . J . O'Connell urged the house not to delay in passing these measures , because , whilst they were deli , berating , the peeple wore perishing . Three characteritttics were remarkable in this debate—a general sym . patby for Ireland , a general Ignorance of Irish affairs ,
and an accountable eagerness on the part of two or three Hon . member * t » cast aspersions on the landlords , thi > clergy , » nd tbe people of Ireland . The Irish landlords had their faults ; but it should be remembered that the Uritiih Parliament hud encouraged them in tbeir errors , and during the present crisis they bad nobly performed ' their duty . The clergy had also proVed themselves the bust fiiends of the people in the hour of desolation and death ; and the people themselves bad exhibited the most unprecedented fortitude in bearing with their i . fflic tiong . Though proposed to the extension of the Poor , law in a couu try like Ireland , where the numberof paupers was so great as compared with thst of the ratepayers , he would offer no opposition to its extension , iu the prcient initme , any more than he » e »! d oppose , if in a linking
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ship , the making ofarnftoutofheripar * and planki . It was a desperate case , one that would not have occurred had Ireland had tbe management of her own affairs . But no great meaBure of general state policy could meet in . slant misery in Ireland ; they mustadopt every expedient for the sake of preserving tt ftw lives . Under these cir . cumstances he would grasp at tbeie means of saving a ¦ mall part of the population ; though it would be attended by pernicious ultimate consequence * , it would b « of lome present advantage . He therefore withdrew all the opposition , feeble and inefectutl as it would have been , which at another time he should have felt it his urgent duty to have offered to the extension of the poor lair . It had been generally remarked of the proposed measures , that there was a want of comprehensiveness about them ;
it was because the house would not consider that measure which a large majority of the people of Ireland considered the panacea for all their evils—the repeal of the union . That measure was now laughed at in that house , but it would be forced on their attention by the present calamity . The people of Ireland believed it would restore Its prosperity , increase its revenues , and make it a useful allay mid assistance to England , Instead of being a drag and » drain on her , and prevent tbe recurrence of sucu a disaster at they were then endeavour , ing : in vain to meet . In conclusion , he implored the house to pRss these measures as speedily as possible ; and during the rest of the discussion he hoped there would be ¦ o more unjust , unfair , and unhumau attacks on tbe unfortunate people of Ireland .
Lord CisTLEBEion eulogised the Government and the English people for their liberality to Ireland , praised the Lord Lieutenant , and declared that should a tax on Irish absentees be proposed , he would g vc the proposition his support . A sentiment which was also warmly expressed by Lord Clements , and other Irish resident landlords wko followed him . Lord Clements complained of the conduct oftheab . sentee landlords for the non-performance of tbeir various duties . His greatest trouble as a magistrate , was in protecting tbe £ 4 tenants against tlie rapacity and extortien of the bailiffs and other officers of some of them .
Mr . Cecil Lawless , the new nominee of Conciliation , feared the measures were six . months too late , in v » liicb opinion Mr . Gregory concurred . He alsn thought that the Government would more profitably expend a million of money in the establishment of agricultural schools throughout Irelan 1 , than in reclaiming the waste lands . Sir II . W . Babkon gave a list of the grievances of Ireland , from the time of Henry II . downwards , chnrgine them all upon British legislation , which , he maintained , was alone accountable for them . Thus , it was that the nntneof " Saxon" was hateful in Ireland . After a speech of approval from Mr . LEFhOT ,
Mr . Labocchere anid be would join in no sweeping condemnation ngMnst the Irish landlords , many of whom had conscientiously done , their duty , but he was bound to say that in too many instances had the Government , in It' exertions to ameliorate the condition of Ireland , been deprived of that support on the part of the landlords which they had a right to expect . Unless they received a more general support from the Irish gentry , he despaired , devise what schemes they might , of extricating Ireland . Sir R . Peel deprecated a general debate on the measures btfore the house Jin their present 6 tate , as they could be weighed and considered in all their details when they were brought into committee , They should at once proceed , if possible , to enact those measures
intended to mett tbe present distress He was prepared to grant full indemnity to Her Majesty ' s Government for the responsibility they bad assumed in the crisis which had fallen uron tl » n . He thought , however , that it would be an advantage in reference to the future , that thero should be , in the bill which granted the indemnity , or explanation of the circumstances under whiih the reftponstbillty had been assumed . He was willing to give bis assent at once to the bill for giving further power to the relief committees . The evils of the present system of public works in Ireland were great , and the sooner the remedy was applied the better , lie was surprised thtt Mr . Lnboucliere underrated tbe danger which arose from the appli cation by the government of the labour of the people to public works , when he remembered that
only in Aunust last , when commenting on the conduct of the late government , he had stated that the greatest in . convenience arose in Ireland from directing labour from 'he ordinary operations of business , when only 60 , 000 or 70 , 000 people were engaged upon public works . If this was the case then , how much more must it be to now , when about half a million of people were bo employed . He w « s ready to give , under existing circumstances , a wide discretion to the government . The officers who had been engaged in carrying the present system into opera , tiou were entitled to the greatest credit . As to the lasd * lords of Ireland , he thought that great allowance should be made for the difficulties with which they were surrounded . English gentlemen should remember this , when they censured the landlords of the sister country . And
in reference to that sex who were always foremost iu the works of charity and mercy , there was no country in the world the "ladles and females" of which exhibited instances of greater devotion and sacrifice of health , time , and nil worldly interests , in attempting to alleviate the distress which existed around them , than did those of Ireland . As to the mode in which the subordinate officers of the government had acquitted themselves of their duties , it was evident that they had been inspired by the activity , the devoteflness , and the vigilance of Mr . Trc velyan . Indeed , it was impossible to rend the volumes which were beforo thn house , relating to public works , and other subjects connected with Ireland , without awarding the highest meed of praise to both the hi gher and the inferior officers employed , for
their indust ry , intelligence , nnd integrity , and for their devotion of every faculty of body and mind , without themght of themselves in the performance of their arduous duties . Hu repeated his belief , that tbe Government should in the present emergency be armed with a wide discretiona-y power , if the house nnd the country expected them to exert themselves with effect , nndin order to avert the calamity with which they were threatened , and tbat under such circumstnnr . es it would be most un . wise to attempt to limit their powers by minute and hampering legislation . He was glnd to say that he pcrceivel sufficient proofs of intelligence , of activity , and of a sense of responsibility on the part of those employed , to render him willing to grant thii discretion to the government . As to the measures which had beeu foreshadowed to them
for the permanent improvement of Ireland , it would be improper in the house to enter into the discussion of their principle at present . He thought , however , in reference to one of them , he meant that for the sale of encumbered estates , thst it was often times more importance to Ireland than were some of the meaiures which they were now discussing . With respect to the cultivation of the waste lands , he hoped the noble lord would pause bofore he appropriated the public money to so problematic a purpose . In the conclusion of his opening statement , Lord J . Ruwell had advisea the Irish proprietors to act Independentl y and for themselves before they looked for external aid . Let him extend the application ef thnt principle to tbe reclamation of the waste lands . To accustom tbe Irish people nnd proprietors to depend upon this country for aid was only to paralyse the energies of Ireland . If the speculation in regard to the waste lands
was a profitable one , private capital would soon be embarked in the enterprise ; If it was not profitable , they would only be throwing away the public money in so ap . propriatinir it . The government would absolve him from all patty feeling or hostility to them in thus declaring his opinion regarding this measure , but he would fail in the performance of his duty unless he stated wh « t were bis vie \ is with respect to it . The noble lord had many and arduous duties to perform , but If he attempted to make himself an improver , on a large scale , of Irish begs he would involve himself in difficulties from which it would be no eiisy matter to escape . He would say nothing at present in reeprct to the poor law , ns that measure would soon be before tbrtn in its detaih . and be would conclude by expressing a hope that no unnecessary delay would take place , but that the house would at euce proceed to sanction the proposals of the government which were now before it .
Mr . Simo » D O'Bbibk , in declaring that he was not opposed at present to the principle embodied in the measures beforo the house , reserved to himself thB liberty of discussing their details in committee , particularly those of tbe Poor Relief Bill . ' The bill was then read a second time , and ordered to be committed . Thi Poor Relief ( Ireland ) Bill and the Destitute Persons ( Trolniid ) Bill vrere also rend a second time and ordered to be committt-d , nnd the house then ndjourntd . The House of Commons sat for an hour and a quarter on Wednesday , no busineiB of importance whs transacted If we escept tho short discussion respecting Mr . Est . cott's report on the state of Millbamk prison . Mr . M . Goik having moved that that report be laid before the home ,
SirG . GiEi bad stated that what the commissioners were authorised to make was 8 joint report , and that report had becn ^ nrndewith the omiesion of the siynaturo of one of tho three , the hon . member for Winchester . Tuat'hon . gentleman bad no power to make a separate report ; he could only eend in a letter , and he ( 8 ir G . Grey ) had ascertained th » t the practice was to address such a letter , not to tho Crown dir « etly , but to th-Honie Secretary . Tke document sent in by the hou . member was informal in both those reipects , and lad been returned to him to b » put into the usual shape When that had been dene , the letter should be laid on ' tbe ( able of the home .
Mr . E « coTt differed entirely from thii view of the matter . The commission nas addressed to three per . sons , and they were commanded to repoi t " their several proceedings , und what they should find touching the * am « . " Not concurring hi the report made by two of those commissioners , ho had found upon looking to the commission that under its express command it was his duty to report . It did not seem to him to be immaterial whi tber the sulj' -C't matter of that report was put into the form of a letter to the Home Secretary , or was in the sliape required by tho commission ; a mere letter to thu Hume Secretory might appear rather to cmvey the writer ' s opinion on the report of the other two commissioners , than to be itself n report made under the injunctions of the commis . sion . He bad accordingly sent it in the usual shape ; of course he could not compel the Home Secretary to prosent it , but if ba should not stnd it in to her Majesty , he ( Mr . Escott ) should take other steps upon a future day . Sir 0 . Omi did not with the hon , member to criticise the report s ' jned by the othw two « omal «» iontri , or to
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alter one word of the document which hehlT ^ 555 ^ cept the heading of it , which stated it to be . „? ' ' "• •* Her Majesty , and tbe rermlnaion of itiffi ***•* I be under his hand and seal . If he JSZ " * <« S the ehape adopted by every othw « sieBlta * W ^ K it would be laid before the house . ^ " ""' "ion ,, Mr Dohcombe observed , that to act coniuw , ' practice , precedent , and the commands offt ! u ' 1 1 the hon . gentleman ought to report The t ^ , commission were commanding the conraii ,, ! ** % port under their hands and sells their •« "I "' "" to ^ ings . " Lord Cbichester show . d by the lanl mt ^ letter that he did not consider the report of th ** ' ° hi « sioners complete without the hon . gentleman ' ' COn " U > said tbat the hon . gentleman , in accordance » ' ! . ' '' * M ought to send a letter ; but , when theMuita 2 £ " S sion sat , Sir Francis PaJgrave sent in a . sep ,, !! " and the views of the hon . gentleman ought to ha " ^ l that shape if he were to act in conformity » i » K ? ' *' ' *!« really the practice . » "what » Mr . Roebuck took a similar view , and « ft words from Mr . F , Maule , the motion was withd & '' " Mr . Homb moved for certain returns as to th **** ' of railway trains with the view of ascertaining l | * am ^' travelling on Sunday , had beeu stopped parti l ? ** wholly . The returns were ordered . J <* The sessional orders of last yean , with reir ,.-,, wny bills , were re-adopted . p " f » il . , ,
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—in ^ THE TEN HOURS' BILL . TODMORDEN Lord Ashlet visited this phce on Wednead ,,. and addrcs&ed the inhabitants in the Odd Friu . 3 on the Ten Hours'Bill . tH ( " " H >!| The meeting was openo . ! by the Chairman , theR . Doughty , Incumbant of Walsden Church , in » ' speech , and resolutions were carried unanimity i " ?' vour of the Bill . Lord Ashley in supportin g them a , at great length upon the necessity ofabitUnff 8 tea . tr to the agitation until the Bill was carried , and Z" allow the opponents of the measure to lurn themfr their object by sophistry or by the promise of an JZ ment between masters and men . * The meeting was very numerously attended ; on « , platform were many of the ministers and miUowt < some of whom were no friends oi the Bill , who , hovrsYeJ offered no opposition to Lord Ashley ' s argument ! , '
HUDDERSFIELD . Petitions to Parliament in favour of a Ten Hom Factory Bill , are now in course of signature in Huddn . field . *
ROCHDALE . On Thursday Evening we had the largest meetin . ever held in this town in the Public Hall , to hear Lo , j Ashley and Sharman Crawford on the Ten Hours' BiD Dr . Moleaworth in the chair . Mr . Jacob Bright majj some observations on foreign competition , which Lo , j Ashley replied to to the satisfaction of the meeting . Tin resolutions were carried with two dissentients . Hundred , could not get admission . The DILECAT 88 in LoHDON . —On Wednesday numb a number of delegates from the manufaciuring districb of Lancashire and York « hirereached London for the n ^ pose of promoting the bill now before Parliament . Thi delegates assemble ! in the evening at their lodging [ , Northumberland Court , Strand , when they determine on their course of action . There were delegates preim
representing the following places : —Manchester , Bolto e Oldham , Preston , Blackburn , Burnley , Accrington , Butt ' Hey wood , Rochdale , Halifax , Ashton , Todmorden , D ^ field , StalybrWge , Wigan , Chorley , Warrlngton . 8 t « t port , Leeds , Bradford , and some other places in Lanei . shire and Yorkshire . At this meeting the following nil lution was unanimously adopted : — " That we , the dele . Bates now aisembled steadfastly to prosecute the pwsiii of an efficient Ten HomV Bill for all children and uiintii employed in factories , record it as our unanimom opinion that nothing short of an efficient Ten Hours' Bill will satisfy our constituents ; and that our labours whilst no * inXondon shall be strictly confined to tbe promotion of thj Ten Hours' Bill now before Parliament , as brought int >» Messrs . Fielden , Brothorton , and Aglionb y . " A chair . man and secretary having been appointed , the del « g «« separated .
Ashton-dndeb-Ltne . —Nosikboos Meeting or 0 th . lookbbs . —On Friday evening lust , a meeting of thi power loom overlookers employed at tbe mills in this 4 U trict , was held at the Ashton Hotel , Market Place , for t he purpose of discussing the propriety of petitioning Parlif ment for the Ten Hours' Bill . About 120 overlooks were pres » nt . Resolutions in favour of the meaiurt were » nanimou ? ly passed , and a petition embodying them mi adopted , which it was agreed that C . Hindle A Etq , K , P for the borough , should present .
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Sudden Acquisition of 30 000 J . —An extraord i nary and unexpected instance of gnod fortune ha <« recently occurred to an elderly female , named M'Cormack , who has lor some time resided in Coppica-row , a few doors fvom Clcrkenweli Workhouse , where she liai contrived to obtain a decent maintenance l < y vending in her small shop vauous articles of confectionarj , The old lady , who is upwards of sixty , on Saturday re . ceived a letter from a solicitor , announcing to her the death of an aged relative , who had resided neat Aberdeen ( of which place Mrs . M'Cormack is a native ) , and also tbat she had been bequeathed property to the amount of no less a sura than £ 30 , 000 ,
buDDEN DBATH . —On Wednesday morning Mr , Jonathan Lllenthorpe , a conveyancer clerk , of the check to the Queen ' s Yeomen Guards , and sewtorj to Earl Falkland , died suddenly at his bouee , No . 37 , Colet-place , Commercial Road East . Awful Suicide . —The following horrible suicide has just taken place in the Quartier de Breda , Paris : —A female was living in some style under thj protection of a wealthy person , bnt the gentleman hating reason to believe that she was unfaithful , ll called upon her and told her that he would tiara nothing more to do with her . Before she could justify herself , or utter a remonstrance , the gentleman turned his back and left tho room . After & moment ' s
pause she ran to the stairs after him , and entreated him to return . ' No , no , " cried he , harshly , " all il finished between us , " and lie continued to descend . The poor girl wrung her hands in despair , and cried , " Ah ! I will be at the bottom before you ! " And she was true to her word , for on quilting the house he fsund the mangled corpse of his mistress weltering ia blood on the pavement . The wretched girl bid thrown Herself from the window . Discovert op tub Body 0 ? an Infant is Fl « tstuest . —The [ body of a full-grown " . female child '" found on Tuesday evening , about half-past nine , in tlie passage close to the house , 183 Fleet-street , by police sergeant Workman , 66 . It was quit * naked , and is supposed to have been born ali ye , and to have been dead two or three days .
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CORN EXCHANGE , Febkojisi 1 . The stands liehiu somewhat heavily filled with samples , tbe country markets cominp down , and Ihe pi <^ pect of future importations somewhat improved , the demand for all descri ptions of wheat , of home produci , notmthRtandinpr the attendance of buyers wa » goo * . ruled , very heavy , at a decBne in the quotations obtaineo on Monday last , of from 4 s to 5 s per quarter , and alargi quantity remained unsold at the close of tha market- Although the nctual quantity of foreign whe&t « n offer w >» by no means lart ; e , that article was a mere drug , an J 1 ' 2 s per qunrtcr loww . Holders , however , were by nonicati anxious utters , hence « w above abatement was not gti * rally submitted to .
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PROVINCIAL MARKETS . Richmond iYobksmire ) Corn Mabeit , Jan . 30 .-W only had a thin supply of grain in our mavket to-Jsj-Wheat sold from , 8 s to 10 s 6 d ; oats , 3 s Id to « s lC-d barley , 5 s to Cd ; btaus , tis to 7 s per bushel . LtVEKrooL Corn Markbt , Noiidav . — The » rriT »] s ol fl . ur , iic , from abroad continue on ' a large scale . Fioi » Tuesday to Saturday last inclusive , there we « report * ! upwards 014 : 1 , 400 brls . of flour , 26 , 000 qrs . of Indian cor * 13 , 000 brls . of Indian corn meal , BflOO qrs . tif wheat , anl 2 U 00 qrs . of beans . Ou the whole but » limited buiitt « l has been transacted during the past week in any artid ' of the eroin trnde . The majority of holders have w >< prussed the market , but the oiV . ers from Ireland baitol eome jb rwawl less freely , n general decline has been suV nutted to The business done has been at a reduction , lrom last Tuesday , of Sd to 3 d per bushel on wheat , ]| M 2 d ft r barrel nnd sack on Hour .
Hull Corn MAiiKEx . -At this day ' s market we had 1 large supply of wheat from the farmers , and a good deal of awiety manifested to realise at the lnt " high raw or belt » hf ? ? " deCline of to" ? 3 s t 0 P ?' ?!«« . ? n" \ i » llhs 8 m l > l 08 »• were out of cm * offered ll " . ? ' N ° ' ttlilRctil " « i « Foreign , "'^ , v « L m , " ^ ExcHANOE .-During the preset week miUen would not buy wheat except atarrduetfo nt » i ? , * Jm , ' " . . ? » wc' « unwilling « u l 0 DI P u * Malflll K tarle ? a drug . ncrofn " ?* . "" i M * B « T- -This morning there « S" ' M" «» W » l y of irlient , and tho millers hoW »! good stoeks , thev . only a moderate extent of Nu » ess dont at Is to is p « r qr . decline . WAKmtD Cok n iUsKKTFriday W * have laif mini i
, . - a * , " —•••¦••»• . *| . 'i « UU 11 *» » — > supply of wheat and moderate of other articles . Theri is * general disinclination evinced to purchase wlwtf though . offen d at le to v ! s decHne . Manchester Corn Makbt . Saturday . —At our mm ** this moraine there was au extremel y limited iuquirv to wheat , und a decline of fully 4 d . per 70 lb « , on tliepre « ous furi-ciu-jr must be noted . Flour likewise niovcl ** ZiA& ' ^^^^ Warrinuton Cor . v Market , Weilnevdav-We " »<" numerous attet . uam * of ton era " the , nlrkrt « " •" d ' , sioi rr *> ?> sa ? 6 s •* whiC " * mk uii »
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 6, 1847, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1404/page/8/
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