The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-17 00:00:00

shakiness of a former enmities upon the maw subject. He
(Major Hereford) felt that Mr. Lyall's claim was itresietihle
and consiqn.ntly he had substituted his name for that of the;
hon. aseesuer.
- Mr. BROWNRIGO begged not to be understood as
having at all complained of being omitted.
' Mr. V. SMITH thought it altogether objectionable to
shake up committees by appointiag members of stiff and
strong opinions from either side of the hotter,.
Mr. W AWN consented to withdraw his motion.
The committee, as nominated, were then appointed ; five
to form a quorum.
OUTRAGES ON PUBLIC WORKS.
• On the motion that the order of the day be now read,
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN rose ,to cell the attention of the
geverninent to the fact that a mode of punishment had been
receetly adopted in Ireland which he considered the most
barbarous ever adopted in a works In
iie referred to
the summation of the public works in cases where any out-
rose had been committed. Now, be held in his hand a
letter from an archdeacon in the Roman Catholic church in
that country, as we understood, in Tyrone, who represented
that in one case in his barony 288 persons had bees thrown
out of employment by the stopping of the public works, solely
in consequence of the overseer having been frightened by
eight men with their faces blackened, one of whom struck
him with the stock of a gun behind the ear, and inflicted a
slight wound, or rather, a trifling scratch. (A laugh.)
The assault was one almost of a bloodless character,
bat yet the works had been stopped until the offenders
were detected. His correspondent said that he was glad,
nevertheless, to report that this tyrannical proceeding
had no' caused the men on the works to impeach any one.
What be wanted to know was whether the government and
the House of Commons sanctioned this monstrous and bar-
barous system ?
Mr. LABOUCHERE regretted the hon. member had not
given him notice of his intended inquiry because he was
of consequence unprepared at present to go into the facts of
the particular cue he had referred to. With respect, how-
ever, to the general policy, he bad no difficulty in staticg
what the policy of the government had been. The Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland had thought it absolutely necessary,
in order to defend the lives of the officers employed on the
public works, to direct that when outrages were committed
upon those officers, of which it was supposed that the men
employed were in any way cognisant, the particular work
over which the officer presided should he suspended. He
(Mr. lethouchere) had no doubt that this was a very near
eery and proper regulation ; and he must extorts his aston-
ishment at hearing the hon. member state his " entire con-
menace" in the letter of a person who expressed himself
rejoiced that the culprits concerned in an outrage on a public
weak had not been disoovered. (Hear.) He (Mr. Labonchere)
would not yield to the ben. member in the sympathy which
he felt for the suffering people of Ireland, but he did think
that that aympathp was entirely consistent with a desire to
secure due protection for the servants of the state. (Re-
newed cries of "gm, hear.") The result of the regulation
had proved Its wisdom. In several cases where crimes had
been committed, the perpetrators had been discovered en-
tirely through the vigilance of those who would have suffered
bad they gone undetected, and he did not believe that the
House of CO MM= would deem the government of Ireland
going beyond their duty 10 giving to the labourers on the
public works the deepest interest in themselves protecting the
officers under whom they were employed. (Loud cries of
„Hear.")
Mr. HUME said dud if any one subject of importance could
be'hoticed in the house, it was the subject now before them,
to/dell the evils white afflicted Ireland, the most calculated
to japriethe sobering of the nation was outrage. So far
from the gemmunent tar the step they had taken,
he doss& Roam of Commas ought at once to express
their deified egide that they had adapted one of the best
Lead cimariximirrethe rferabrird, 7: odor. (He
thank her , ,
Majesty'shear
roziannmatcbmilikr the &mama they had evinced in this matter.
Mr. STATTO O'BRIEN most entirely concurred in
the propriety of the course adopted by government in this
matter.
THE ADJORUNED DEBATE.—RAILWAY
(IRELAND) BILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
before the adjourned debate was resumed, he wished to cor-
rect an erroneous statement in the speech of the hon. mem-
ber for Shrewsbury on the 'preceding evening. On Friday
last be (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had stated on the
authority of a gentleman of great experience in the construc-
tion of railways, that not more than 25 per cent. of the capi-
tal, or at the very outside 30 per cent., was expended
.on the ground labour of ordinary railways. Last
night the honourable member for Shrewsbury, in re-
ference to this statement, informed the house tber
he had Iszen in oommn-lic."^" "4"

..... antrgeatlentan in qua-
... 2....—.. ' ono and dialed to him that the Chancellor of the
aer bad wbeft sabsonceived hie statistics, for that,
Millqw of *Mho the Ormseßw' of the Exchequer that only
26 seen pea mile were dyed on the ground-work iri the
WMftisiner
emminceMen of a railway, what he had told the
' oaths Exchequer was, *at 25 men per mile were
rawarmatly cat *mg fieimary railway. Now, be
- of the Sashogser) held is his band two
Imam from all .11111011 all he bad recurred to, end Ise would
net • pump tem gash. AO bet, to show that be Ind
aotaler his htformant's meaning, he would read a
brit Moist from the litter on which he had relied in his
ebittelmst. His bilinarat said : "Of the total capital,
=per deaf. is what is expended on the v!: Lebow." I land, from • large number
of mealb, that the MOW number of labourers em-
it" the acomboelon of a seaway of the ordi-
diamacter may bo tak at from 25 to 30 per mile,
Ihr period of bun 2to S miles." (Rear, hear.) In
kis Mime to the beam be (the Chancellor of the Es.
eilefricoll labia the maximum average, 30, and reaming
the frakeriades etthe noble amber ten Lynn, of 1,500 miles,
the somber at men 1s whom his bill would find
at 46,,0ML And now ter the other letter from
the)ean in written alms the mesa of tbe
bon alosar for . " I certainly," said he,
" never ailed on Kr. , never spoke to him, never
co 'Mated with hate is all my life. (Homo, been.) My
int to you ma simple feet." In thou sorrostiog
the statelasats of the bra. mob,: for Shrunk/Ey, ha did
sot its • moment bigot' to him might else thus Maim bad
takaaai same( to be c HOD misled, but he would squat
the kegs that the bon. Maas would in future &Min hem
laskjeur statements except es authority on whisk he could
tanisrall. ZlSlttaLi was extremely sorry that anything he
salaam the amiss rebond to should have annoyed the
right boa. gentiomm, ler when he felt all dot merest end
width bis teiedebie demedert, end lb pedthea
eg Est the sight hes. gmetlesame rather mistook
the mist bests the beam What be (Mr. Diemen) Mated
awned tbat • mmeetsebele_t imatammienminrailwaymattare.
mbe be Rhowins have been the gentleman quoted
by the Obmosiler of thrlheber lead oessamnicated with
hinters. the subject et the t bon. gentleman's state-
ments; he had not mid thO informant was the right
hon. 's inhumane, bat only that his informant
tho be wee. (A laugh.) This wu another of the mis.
undue bollix which arose from the practice of citing ano-
nymous mmanembatims.
Viseenst MINIMS amp! to ask whence the right
bon. gentleman bad aliblemd leo statements respecting the
alleged **meats in the armaii et ?
Tla CHANCELLOR at the EXCHEQUER replied that
he obtained his iaimmatioa from a gentleman who wrote to
Nimble& tie spot, eel ea whose authority he plead the
unmet Wiese&
It B. 0113101 INS them resumed the &bats. Ile demo.
ceded the parmal two which the Cbeaseiler el la Ex-
chequer all isimiseed inte the diesammiss by team em in-
itial abegisa to the smear whisk appeared al all lea of
the of
and be still Mae lalllalaall indention given by
the webs bet at the had of the neimistry, wl predaded
all bees
_that any goverament measure Or railways
in lettena would be immight in this semen: an
intimation that realism& it incumbent apes him
(Mr. B. Osborae) 11.00 NS the ball et Ohs aide
member he Lyon, it, b*, as be did, saw
tial that mem sok melesie be ourieiwideest Jakq.
As te the pesgesides AM greemument shoal net Marilee
with mihrege he Iselente bosom it might net le emmilimed
dead& kr it to latsrelee with nilways is Nagland. this
was. a shear flalmy. As the side first reemeer of
Woods and Foredo Mesaf sat aimitod in Ink that which
was perfectly emalatent with right political 'amnesty in
=tgibellysis l sallially apply to Inked.
towee& the emmatleg Inglemi It wasinto a
momple•Metate: eho bed amps hem a
state far these the irraelthr=
She had lent edam tor
rands, sad se p
is,
tallatleedend hod
bat sins Mika% end. In the sense wrist eleA
lent Inked eight selitinek et whisk beim* bad repaid
moves miner. a essepasima be woad soma Is the bon.
member ibr Inverness set my seeditable te Seedated. Be
wadi beg abo to ismthe ism, hos. sentimmem that
wanthe emdedink and very jestiy, the Wiliatis et Ike
fla aim ti~ertis of Ireland, very sway et them wen
ir=There wee the Mamie et Wakehmt rpoilies
miltheonmets el semi, may year he esmirming
tee mans% and is dembin _Usk.id hie soli* enmegh
ersatieweilby di the laaiaWi erased him, and by their
mime, who wen eamillaing their jointures, and welling their
jinni, ter the Oksidien et relieving the atomise at
we
_pew esenel theta. , Um) In his egisies
Itha phmideme bed mai le essephin of the gement
It seam mosseememese were net bat eat,
w,ELr est emem=se_ day with steaska, nor
betladthiimesseeybenth
te post may nnee_ whinedm= the Ida inallsede
a demeneg. (A=27 et the lbeargesr
bed "mad the el the houllards he the ahem
=listatetZetibei in I
sew rittlhthe Iriik landiseds sub-
mew mwh ewe em-
traded they wen ifiskteverythiug in their power. (Hear.)
Ile empeMed tain
the bon. gentleman tem and in the
how,. (Me. Zama, •is unwell.") Me eras veer lorry
to Mar at the debt ben. gentleman's iadipasities, hit he
was not at au geggebod at it, after them "eleessaloolato-
amt. he beg sae. (Groat laughter.) It the eight bin.
gentlemen hid Idea peeled, he wanted is sok him his
authority he ems are tuns he had made. Amen do
rest, the rrixlser:s gentleman had easerhed that the teat.
lords of held braised four theamad ebatenente
fat seat, be (Mr. 01111111Da lag alleand
_llle Ina llialllalla of be onanty that me a
ejectment mosses bed been beset. Theme which
Mies Mused were civil bill takes oat by Milkmen
for ammsre. Thesis bad been held sat that if the ,
bill ed the whim lord the member of Lynn, wets
canted, valstheree world 'sett,. For his pert he
had me malt 1v am the awls eat. There mpg
hare been
certain demade istimations to that effect in the green- I
mom is Dewnbgetrest, bet he believed there was nothing
in Ulla Min=
.. mime tub ham latteure lob to deport" (laughter.)
lie tem esephed hew se mate • person as the Recorder of