The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

position, an acejficio guardian, said:—" I really think it I
the individual duty of every poor-law guardian to resist so
bad • principle as that contained in their letter, with refer-
ence to the able-bodied who receive oat-door relief, lacing
employed in stone-breaking instead of on productive work,
I think that every shilling of the poor-rate is extracted out
of the pockets of the farmer, and consequently be
has neither a pound to employ the labourer nor to
till the land. The necessity is se apparent for our
employing labourers in egricultural pursuits, that t
fuel it my duty to resist respectfully, as far at
I can, tre suggestions of the commissioners, who
cannot but feel the peat injustice, and the lamentable con-
sequences of throwing the entire unemployed labourers of
this country upon stone-breaking. I trust and hope, there-
fore, that they will give way to our wants and Lelings in
this respect, and in such an emergency as the present.—Mr.
Duane : The fact is, that if you put the able-bodied labour-
ers breaking stones, no person will he found to buy them—
for they do not want them.—Mr. Sadlier : The commis-
sioners' recommendation is capital in its way to meet ordi-
nary purposes and the ordinary poor-law ; but at the present
emergency, it is one by which, if carried into effect, we will
all be ruined, and the struggling farmer destroyed. I shall
now read for you the resolution which I have dream up
according to my own ideas, and after thirty years' experience
on the subject :
Resolve:4l,-11st this board beg leave to represent to the poor law
conunisaionera the great difficulty we find in complying with their
order, as roger& the pros:wins of employment foe all the able-bodied
paeans receiving out-door relief, MA the vast reduction to the pro-
fits of their labour which the necessary appointment of • superin-
tending scat must occadon. We, therefore, reepectfully solicit that
the comeniesiontes will be pleased (ss per 26th section of the Poor
Belief Estension Aet) to snake such rules and regulations as will
empower this board to let out on hire all snob persons for the culture
of to load la their respective localities; and from the great calamity
which has tallen on tie " tillers of the earth," we may be authorised
to give a searchable time Sae the payment of the hire of thec per-
ante, upon receiving good and sufficient security tram the different
employers
I assert, without fear of contradiction, that if the tillers of
the soil—if in a word the fanners of this country—are not
assisted in this peculiar moment of trying distress. the land
will remain untitled, because the positive and melan-
choly fact is this—that by the operation of the act of parlia-
ment every shilling, as I have said before, is abstracted from
them to feed the paupers of this workhouse. After much
more to a similar purpose, by several guardians, it was laid
down, without gainsay from any side, that there was no
labour market in Tipperary, or in Ireland. And why (said
the speaker) ? Because your gentry are for the most pan
bankrupts, your farmers are pennyleu, and your labourers,
from want of the common necessaries, are deprived of their
natural strength and vigour. The resolution was unani-
mously carried.