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

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY. Four o'clock.

In the House of Lords, yesterday, Lord BROUGHAM,
m presenting a petition fmm Liverpool, praying that
the people of Ireland should be compelled by law to
provide for the support of their own poor, drew their
lordships' attention to the extraordinary influx of Irish
pipers which was taking place daily into that town
from Ireland.

The Marquis of Weavntesvm contended that the
roil complained of was not imputable to the landlords
d Ireland, but to the defective state of the law of
kodlord and tenant in that country.
In the House of Commons, on the order of the day
being read for the second reading of the Irish Labour-
ing Poor Bill, Mr. W. WILLIAMS moved, as an
amendment, that the Poor-law Bill for Ireland should
hike precedence of the bill before the house ; bat as
the motion was devoid of a seconder, it Ml to the
eroand. the debate proceeding upon the first named
bilL—Mr. B. OsBORNE considered that the navamms
proposed by government, though intended te relieve
the pressrae of the present emergency, would
do nothing as a whole towards working a per-
lanai improvement in the social condition of the
poor of Ireland. lie complained that the 9th and 10th
sfliictoria had broken reads, impoverialied the gentry,
*moralised the people, and above all it bur-
dened heavily the finesses of the country, but
at the same time he felt bound to admit
that in almost all cases August legislation was
crude and imperfect. At all events the Labour Act
was sew les be brought to an end, and yet he scald
Sot see hew the labour to be drawn from public works
was to he absorbed by the farmers, who were them-
selves paupers. He complained that parlia-
ment had not sooner been called together,
and that government had refired to establish food
deports; and went on tb-Ongerthel—SMS-prosensed
grant of 50,0001. for seed was too small. He de-
Roomed the plan for reclaiming waste lands as a
babble, and contended that the source of Irish evil
was the system of small holdings, which this very
plan would multiply. The landlords would support
the principle of giving out-door relief to the infirm and
aged, but ifthis was to be extended tothe able-bodied,
the poor-law assessment would absorb more than the
entire rental of Ireland; in fact it would be a
confiscation of property, commencing with revo-
lution, and would destroy all self-reliance in
the bosom of the Irish peasant. The propositions
of government were defective in many particulars:
there was no systematic scheme of emigration enlist-
ciated—no plan for imprsving the grand jury sys-
tem was proposed. Having dwelt at some length
upon these and other points, Mr. OSBORNE concluded
by suggesting same alteration in the law of entail,
and the pas priety of the imperial partials/IC
meeting sometimes in Dublin. Mr. Saris
O'Bniers's speech was, in the main, a reiteration of
the views propounded by him on the first night
of the session. As to the extension of the poor law,
so as to afford relief to the able-bodied, he did not
share the apprehensions entertained by some ; but
no poor law could meet the moist calami-
ties of Ireland ; and he must admit that
without concurrent measures, providing ir the
absorption of surplus labour, it would is feet
amosue to confiscation. He was in favor
promoting fisheries, of stimulating the employ-
ment of British capital in Irish railroads, sad
of the imposition of an absentee tax. Hs seas
thankful for the measure facilitating the commutation
of tenures, and approved of the scheme for the re-
clamation of waste lands, though he would not appor-
tion them in such email holdings as bad been asp
spitted. Mr. O'BRIEN concluded by. calling ups
parliament to assist a country which, in the present
emergency, was unable to assist itself.—Mr. RORBUCE
denounced the ministerial plan as one intended to
favour the landlords of Ireland at the expense of
the over-taxed and suffering people of England, and,
above all, because he felt that if carried out it would
extend the evil it was proposed to cure. The land-
lords were themselves the cause of all the mislay.
They had neither thrift, prudence, or economy,
and to supply their necessities they had subdivided
the lands in order to increase rents, and so multiplied
the evils of which they now complained. He pro-
tested against the government becoming land-jobbers;
he considered their schemes to be impracticable, and if
practicable es be mischievous, and contended that the
true remedies for the present state of things were to
leave landlords as much as possible to their own
exertion, the extension of the English poor-law
to the sister kingdom, and a judicious appli-
cation of the revenues of the Irish church
to the improvement of the Irish people.=
Laid BERNARD considered that the poor laws should
be urimilated in both countries.—Sir H. INGLIS
denied that the people of England regarded the mea-
sures proposed by government fur the relief
of Ireland in any degree with divfavour.—
Colonel CONNOLLY thanked ministers for their
Polk, towards Ireland, but hoped the able-bodied
Pont would not be made chargeable on the land.—
r. Hume contended that the government plans
would redoceEngland and Scotland without regenerat-
inglreland. He would remove the dominant church, and
compel,,_ the landlords to provide useful employment for
‘oe,
.171e.—'fhe CHANCELLORof the EXCHEQUER corn-
PII4 that those who found fault with the policy of
the government measures, had not themselves
,Propounded any plan for giving practical em-
P!°Ymerst to the poor of Ireland. He next
i,..s'adiested the government, with respect to what
walready been done, and then explained in
hat
their present memory were calculated
to nuelert. evils to be redressed. The debate was
adjourned on the moths et sr. 115151 LTOII.

Ile Alban], packet-ship, sailed from New York on
the 9th of January, and reached Havre on Sunday
kW. uith intelligence from America to the above
~.date, one day later than that received from Liverpool.
I be news brought by this arrit ails only confirmatory
of, that linnight by the Patrick Heer. The Howie
Rqretentatives discussed the Ten Regiments Bill
on the Bth of January, but came to no dectnion.
The cortupondent of the New Fork Jimrnal of
co minerce, of the 9th of Jan., writing from Philadel-
Philt on the Bth, states that the Delaware was quite