The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-23 00:00:00

IRELAND AND THE CORPORATION OF

LONDON.

A numerous melting of the Members of the cor-
poration was yesterday held at the Mansion House. The
Lord Mayor In the chair.
His LORDSHIP s ,id he was obliged: to the gentlemen
present for their attendance upon so abort a summons.
lle called the attention of the meeting to the oh
servatiens made by Sir Robert Peel in his celebta
ted speech on Irish affairs in the House of Commons, in
which the right hon. bare held it oat as a noble object of
ambition to the corporation of London to follow the exam-
ple of their ptedecessors in former times by becoming
possessors of one of the extensive properties In
Irelsod which were likely to be brought into the mar-
ket, and thus become iastramental in conferring upon
other portions of that interesting country the bless-
sings of pear*, order, and prosperity which diatinguished the
northern provinces of the island settled by means of the cor-
poration and the greet L .nden companies.
Mr. WIRR said it was known that a bill was now in its
pusoge through parliament which would facilitate the isle of
encumbered estates and give en act of parliament title to
capitalists wishing to embark in the reclamation of land now
suffered to be barren and unproductive amid a starving po
pulation. willing to work if they had capital and enterprise
to put them in motion. The subject for consideration wee
whether the corporation would lend its aid to supply a por-
tion of capital applicable to the cultivation of land in leased
if it c uld be accomplished with safety. As the present most
be considered as a mere preliminary meeting, he should
Propose the formation of a committee of seven to collect and
digest teformation to be laid before tho Court of Common
Council.
Mr. R. L. JONES slid he wished to ask the City Solici-
tor, whether they could safely enter into any negotiation for
the purehtse of encumbered estates in Ireland, until the bid
for giving a general title t t property (deposed of under such
circumstances, shnuld pees into a law ?
Mr. C. PRAKSON said that as this was only a prelimi-
nary meeting of gentlemen, not acting in a corporate Inez
city, he did not attend as City solicitor, but u a private indi-
vidual, feeling a deep interest in promoting the sue,ess of
their object. He had, however, no hesitation in ming that
he should nev.r advise the Corporation to think of
making any purchases of encumbered estates in Ire-
land warm% a parliamentary title.
Alderman HUMPHEItY said, that although he was as
anxious u any gentlemen could possibly be to promote the
prosperity of Ireland, he felt the greatest repugnance to any
measure which was not based upon the provisions of the bill
now pending in the House of L rds.
A long discussion ensued, in which several of the mat
influential members of the corporation took part, end they
appeared to be unanimous in their anxiety to forward the
measure if, upon further inquiry, it should be found that it
could be safely n-dericken. A committee wee then formed
'0 make the requisite inquiries, in conformity with the feel-
ings or the westing.
It woe said that nearly every reember who had been in-
vited was present, and the Lord Mayor expressed his regret
that, from the pre-sure of time, he had not been able to
give notice to a larger number of the aldermen and com-
mon council.