The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-05 00:00:00

ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
Oa the moan of Lord J. Roseau, the house agreed, at
its Meg. to **era me to Monde* text.
LAND IMPROVEMENT AND ,DRAINAGE (IRE.
Ld-14M—ADVANCE8 THEREON.
The house thin west into committeespos this subject.
TM CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that,
&lb/ the Meat retracted debates en he Ratain-Aid
Me -du state Wlrelead had been a fully disettesed that be
elthiali set feel it neemerytti may mulch en that subject
Wag ate l'efelelkht whin he lied to *abaft to the weri.l
He men, beweverkast with akW areeption;'
the real date dike sentry bid Mealy been selkisaily ei
woad to lq bin menbsis. Umtata a the malted Wen
ls~tooll.l. 'end *TAW leadasne iffew el Mention a
lonia Iliwomple Imp, if steer artist hoes tibia to amen
that . The rusemest,howeveir, bdieviag each to
be the state of the potpie in the west sf Irelentoitik seeps
ID avert the danierillek_ by remain a gran of WOW,
and sera, by token fteward the Ratedo-Aid 11111, ea the
pr~ii~ltt of whieftS foram num of 100,0001. had been
It was now the duty of sea tars- to lay before
talinest two other manures whish as? had dram niter
posmouratly We oddities of Irc-
-Irafrel=was his brinier that aight to sebnit those
t mea-
t the onsidereder of the committee. The proposal
torsitswelidEss was that some advance be made out
if feed foe the rums of izeproviag the
state Of the land, 'ad for hateariag the 'roradition
*Me Irish people, by nein *ma permanent end
roitable empisement. Before ha entered into the
aetaib of his ammo he mast beg Lowe to say a few
words as as eadal system of Ireland in rowel.
TM pato bad felled. The basis of that spent had been
MT* away by fts Mare, end they mud new leek to en
Mire to asitrostan 0 misty. That was • *op, which
scald not takoloass to • sesieent, but it wee me. whisks he
believed to be Mentielly sauseary foe the prosperity of that
country. (Heas. bear.) At the ems time he thought that
no view could be se snakes as to despair of the amendment
Straw part of 7rnit ho fully believed that those who
held out prospers of &rack the emeet view of
the case. N. doubt Ike two or thew pease had bean a
„bitteeitakiereiodkr Wand ; but bitter as the lemon of elver-
ski ht here Mum, M believed that permanent benefit
WOW 'derived Irmt ft. Oa* Cl the great nib 'of the
=rem of' behind was the imeseens Dumber of small
&W paean of rale greeted. .. attempt.
whisk Wha es m
mae. get Mid tbatelysteen had hitherto
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hav . stima
removed tea grottier
short
et wa muds
ha et'
Manny -tiro land, and ' have 'Terdettea thosi
who Were tit. lemon of tba land the nesters
a their am prowty....A calmity how-
ever, had aemeelL It was notorious that hitherto • the
rent of the Milord had .depended epos the melba of the
tenantry, and stealing tenants from each other was scot un-
imaL But the system bad now recoiled with fearful weight'
epos' (Hoer.) Obvieudywhat was
was the emigrant of capital by those who were willinr to
enrol its sad's* it Co the government could these was
ready to merly capital to some extent to those who were
maims for t. What he had now referred to was no doubt
the dark 0 the picture, and he was barn to lay that,.
WM'S to ether rob of the srentry, there were el saypA
WO Oen mewled state of thisgs,,whish might
elm Wt. Shown dieneeliofrefitP_irP "WI
to him the most wholesome atio-of warridual. mew tad
*divide.' nation. (Hear hen.) He could Mt give a
Ilea drab* butane of tile exertion than the to wed&
he had beforerriarred, of Lord LIM= in Mayo, who bed
vemessed a sember et the mole .by smigratian, esiparer
sibeis in throwingtegether knee, and was bane( them ish
Eie an impeoved amen 0l orientate. But even is
orta of the country there were many similar
to be found. The right hon. 'baronet the
matter for Tansweeth, in 'that remarkable speech
Mash he made sow kw weeks ago, alined to a
who hod takes a quantity of waste land in the
Nos anon with the view of cultivating It an the &nab
,grelme._ la bad also heard that a melba Of the Society of
lea& sand
sn • large farm, of
he must erea the
lecertioud by the esemben of that society w most
Width's. Their Wier had beer conducted in the most ex-
eemplesy eel wiesser, and they were deserving
.et ell passible Weft fer humanity and the intermit they
bad shown in the of that Wintry. (Hear,
hear.) He'would reign mother mks whic had ob-
tain& seas sebbrify Is Iniesd—the union efh
which had hitherto bees ensidered es be In the most hope-
less ossaam. Tateinimftese might remember that in one
of the rpm laid en the table early in the elision it was
stated by Col. Gen on that the extent to which the
tenantry had Wes so great that a latzza:
City of the land was lying waste fee wenn'
lie would hire state, with regard to some 111111111111“1
whirs bad been persisted for musing the mere Wildest ad-
ministration of Ilse poor law, that perbape bon. gentlemen
were not aware that there were at this moment forty-
three gentlemen inspecton employed almost uncle-
steely fa the west of Ireland, under • whose superb'-
tendons the poor law was administered, without whose
application somas bad been advanced, and without whose
motion no money could be applied to the wit
hout w the
anions, so that there was every security for the economical
distributioa of the-funds. He wished pow to state that it
appeared from all be bad heard that what was now really
wanting was employment for the people. (Hear heal
believed that the time would coos. when the Moans oj
giving that would be adequate, and he believed thatit would
be well wadi while for this country to make advances for
that}pm, in order to foster the industry of the country,
sad by waist an example of the W 111319110111111 improvises,.
at the Lade, "bow what advantages might be derived from
pm/eft ensh a muse. The first pupae for which he pre-
lim& to ask the committee to omen to an advance of
sesommeill be under the Landlminuement Act, which he
hoEseetterseld provide the meat winless.* mode of employ-
Ise that we the natural releases henna master sad
end between landlord and mese, wen entirely pre-
game; slid the andiron, of the goneament was as mall
se rimale—merely to see that the newsy was duly paid
sesesaag to law, and that the works were properly executed.
Tkf beidard employed hie own tenantry and the Wide-
seme date of relation between landlord and 'tenant was main.
triadunimpaired. lie should state very shortly what the
ado of that measure had been up to this time. The amount
of *eases op lied for was 3,074,0001., and the amount sane-
timed by t was about half that ens, 1,644,0001.
There Md been given up be
_various proprietors to the
*mound 112,0001., and there had been rennetiosed a loan
to the amount of 69,0001., so that sums were now sanctioned
and allocated to the amount 01,491,0001., leaving a MOM
of about 9,0001. Of the whole run there bad been Weed
648,0001., and therefore there remained as aloud for the em-
ployment of labour during the three or four caning years
962,0001. It was proposed bribe von ed that evening to
increase that sum by 80,0001., which would give 1,262,0001.
as the total sum to be employed in that manser.
An hon. gentleman stated some time ago that the dietremedl
counties had derived little or no advantage from that gown.
The hes. gentleman found afterwards that he was mistaken,
end be (the Cheese ter One Exchequer) would now state
what those dbisemed eranties—the comities west of the
Erhanner—setnelly hod neeived. Application were made
by tam to the extent of 1,800,0001. ; and loans were
essidentel to do meant of 800.0001. Moreover, of the
actual Wee (whisk amounted to 648,00014, more than one
heft,
_186,010L had aerially been issued to them cantles.
He bad salad that the renew benefits bad been derived
from the mpenetditare et money in that way. The impostors
DinMyo perto yerabil ad;
s the mid is reedy Imployesesa ems et the leurestl
rate et reseminese, eme aareek thdala ilds and; ,
end as saboyerst mentalloy the-Len lioneleamt b sow
awashatly walashia, whoa the essatay is le Mete at undlinelle.
twos thedd Maim mien et plies the Mauer, ast la era hot
by mitiaar Wm a oast NM*/ hsmer, weaWag Nair en waft.
ahe esaltwast, le the arse merest memossme et Wog blie ready
==an none mourn he men impel Seteta/we the
la the bawls el the eleas SIM "frones." hot who hat
sew awasedlel woe Iblateg I, ether a moileft the Ka;
ther mean thdr aserdias es eholleg es wow& „,
basin lbw hest et WO& OMNI to the ge • the,
bows issemift semiseo weed haw yetthel wore taw* kw
the aseispewstsash mderthe Lad iwpiewamet Ad. In may
lormses bade, whin lam peers ago were net worth Ss. Has awe,
ere hew geed Moshe slaw kr taws or restore.
Be did not Mak it seassisry to state more, to show the
advantage to this country of the improvement of
Ireland, as wall as the advantage to the labourer
sad the landlord in Ireland from that species a
ompierient.' He proposed, therefore, to take for that pin
pen en advents at 800,0004 and to plies it at the kernel
*Ethel* ectrahnionen for the puree of being amid
albs Malice, to friable them to Writs *Sit MOM
wake the Lend Improvement Act. we 'new ems to
amass purpose for which he proposed that es mama
shield be made, and that was for the remain Cl
meads' drainage. (Hear, hear.) Upon thie eahlest
them certainly bad been no innddwabk atimenciptisa
the 'Mations, of the 'overawe% and as time had been
very great dimppoinbrest. Gifellad that thief bid ad
been an initiated supply of stony hese the ter, ho
would state what the intention of the goverment
was.
Mr. P. FRENCH.—We want nothing of the sort.
The CHANCELLOR of. the EXCHEQUER sentinued.
—Not want it ? He could only say that every day for the
last three we* he had had applications from Ireland upon
the subject. The original purpose of the act however was
that no money should be advanced by the governmeat, but
that, it should be raised by the issue of debentures. In nu-
tenon with this subject, great fault had been bound with
the board of wake. Great complaials had been wale of
their not undertaking new weeks where:EC: money
wherewith to carry them on, ea& he aim works
when all their money was**tubed. member
having read several extracts from replete showing the pro-
gress of, and beneficiri Whets resulting from,
river denser, continued. He sand say, in spite
of all the statements made aphid the Board
Of Works for the mode in which they administered
these funds, tad executed the works, ender the extraordi-
nary eireueressoes of the last two years, he did not think
that the expense was sack se to frighten proprietors from
carrying on these works. He should proms to the house ,
to advance a further sun of money for the carrying on of
arterial dreinge. He had obtained from the Board of
Works an account of the works which had been commenced
is the distressed counties in Ireland—those in which
preliminary -.proceedings had been completed mid
a similar rams foe the remainder of Ireland. What
be proposed to do was this—to Messes this year
the sum *Melt they reported could be expended'
upon those works which, in the distressed Dentin bad beer
coumnced, pad also the sum which would be required la
664 rear era these works, the preliminary premolar. ef
watch had lieen completed, but the works not MUMllliela
the ems county. He premed to adorns a sum equal to
one-half of that which could be expended in the yew be
these paste of Ireland which they all considered nose Mos-
. There were many works which had been
minced which were stopped for want of mans, and which was
not only prejudicial to the country around, but to the weeks