The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-18 00:00:00

LANciniiitinorr OF
.HEICI!HNGTO2I, &e.

Ii Rif:KM postponed hie motion oes this subject
.4th of Mary.
THE PUNIAIIH.
ULBURN said he pereeived that a notice given
u. member he the Tower Hamlets on this subject
no perm foe that evenicg. Oa a former evening,
loathers), in ammo with many other boo. mem-
unienteed the bon. number to comsat to postpone
I seta the peps timid be in the poesteeion dine
I.er, hear.) As, therebare, the pepera had not ye t
meted, ha prommed that the hes. gentleman wsuld
nee his melon that meniag.
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LOBBOUSE was inidossieod to state that he had
a pert Olive papers on the previous day, but that
tatty:m.lmM her would not proceed until the house
utformml cm the subject.

THOIIPSON said he bad previously postponed'
in consequence of an ;ippon being made to ►im
irrupt the progress of the Rine in Aid Bill, and
WPM of enabling the government to lay the
tr,e table of the blase. As h• could see no reason
~,,ere should not then be in tle hands of member,'
.otention to introduce the question that night;
seed that the statements he had to make were of
nportsoce to warrant his taking that course,
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deLBURN obeerved that whatever might have
hon. member', intention, there were many hon.
oho, on the OCCIWOU referred to, understood him
his motion becauce the mere had not been pre-
rd had on that account, he believed, not
necessary to attend is their places that evening.
,r.)
, THOMPSON said he had postponed his 'notion
rtaight, in consequence of a direct appeal being
it, more particularly by the Chancellor of the
r, who was very anxious that the discussion on the
tot Bill should close on the Tuesday following.
OF LANDED PROPERTY IN IRELAND.

tULZIM then row, in pursuance of notice, to call
:ion tithe haute to " the legal circumstances which
~.pode the sale of landed property in Ireland, and
tacilifes whichmay be safely afforded for its free
The hon. member said, that when he looked at
al and social condition of Ireland at that moment,
considered the wide spread sufferings and destitu-
"le population, and the humiliating spread of an
mortality, which was cutting down hundreds of
cr.:tune ; when he observed the financial gm-
' ,ts of the gentry, the clergy, and the commercial
nee he remembered the cruelties which had been
• .1 in the name of charity, nadir a vide=
...ionise poor-law; when. further, he observed
cal policy of her Majesty's ministers, and
• in which they had received every ressoesteanes
imd, in casting aside, as they had dome, every me-
, s the clergy, the patty, the sueshants, sad the
vein of Ireland, des 'offing a ruin Ames
hich this senate sonld not kag some ; when
. presented eo his tt=lt that le might con-
, teim the of the Mass while
rosred to =re.what he comeeived Is be closely
4 sigh all this mieny,)tassely, tkeleplingediments
luster of lend in -Itched. It ems to
nithorities in favour of the repeal= that by fid.
tn. master of land, and *no onsompies the 'mph-
. capital to acricultneed mileset, they might
population which had hitherto been an
a the resources of the empire to contd.
the national wealth. He would only remind
e that the committee of 1848 had stated that the
tiers of land in Ireland was seriously diminished by
ea sad expansion promises &needing its transfer.
s dela particularly to show was the perniedoas
P. 4 the sedating impediments Is regarded the seats
Mum She samples character of Irish titles, aced
yotillkultp, sad expense attending the kau of
se ed:Med a flagrant and eryian evil. The sh
e power to institute what was termed is this
a ilneelesere suit enormously iesentassd the
r. The practise by which every Mam-
ma austlnad sod lama alive, and the most
grime liand sowinmy gather la, as it were,
entessfdag claim, ~ly keereesed the number of
to seek is the Court of CMMry, la mess Ia which
w. deemed mammy, sad resin ed is as amount of
a which Milted so The exuation of a
■ senetreetion of a and a disputed jat,
isms the .ulijeet of a small equity suit ; and re
tar mold be settled, a Mils of bills and answers
each other. Even when a dome had been pro-
the matter was frequently referred to the Master's
deers a new series of pagodas', involving matters of
, f construction, sad of facts, led to renewed Wigs-
,' ~tten happened that the entire legal expense was
10 per cent. of the selling value of the prorrty.
rend instances in Ireland there had been filed
ty as 180 charges in the cam of a slit for
al of a landed estate. However small might
hisand it mast be brought before the master :maes-
tros, sad landed proprietors were be the habit of en-
ac their solicitors to take advantage of every legal
'icy, en order to postpone the day of payment, for-
um the postponement was effected at a terrible *seri-
▪ own in•orest, The report of the muter was it-
de the ground of revived litigation. At length the
steed a shape in which the Court of Chancery might
cc • a decree for payment, and in default of payment
I vile of the estate. But the decree for sale was a
of renewed contest. (Lsughter.) There wsa fre-
t e protracted and bitter contest on the sub
f what were called the notes of the de-
Di.putn arose es to the meaning cf expressions
the decree ; and the muter, in addition to his other
r, was expected to assume ime of a land auctioneer,
settle the psrticulsn of gale. In nine cams oat of
renditions of sale In Ireland differed materially from
which ware acted upon in this country.—Besides
seditioes of payment on a particular day and
particular place, the intending purchaser of
tale had to determine for himself whether he
about to purchase a law• snit or an estate.
*vital effect of these conditions of sale was to involve
is :baser of land in all the sources and seeds of liti-
arising from the informal system of conveyancing
,rat for so many centuries in Ireland, from the total
I of any registeatios of land, and from the utter in-
,hensibility of the Judgments Act. In a word, the
ser ef any
_estate in Ireland was called epee se buy a
spoke. Now then, was it at all likely that capitalists
be Sound to invest their money in Irish land? The
prolix and precarious system of conveyances in De-
alt be revised, and so should the stamp duties upon
insistence of land. He thought that a fixed
might be advantageously imposed upon landed
ty in Ireland, which should exempt such land
say sump duty open transference. The existing
sot only impeded the actual sale of land;
plead a very serious obstacle in the way of obtaining
en of money open land byaff mortgage He
d that the hon. sad teamed tke noucitor•
in his amendment of the Estates Ire-
-411. weed istnion a ahem to neon the difficulties
limy of mortpge sommidss whisk wan sow imposed
e eonstruction put upon the act is relation to judg-
t. So long as the hoses *rank from dealing surges-
with the land question of Inland, all their laghlatios as
Pints would hs ssterly manailisa. The anobor
wilatioa sr riUgeell era bad h
ed Ponied the milt Alrest ant Moine remedial. He
WWI that a antsdados etGiro or four prime
"11411nald, merge* men, ruing decisively and
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"mr. seder the advice of moo able legal col-
lie weld venom all the does be WlT.sPiedill. All
Mel wee, eliesegerme, be sem transfer from
Von[ Wilts rho mossy fir fta ehan,
Ihritin tea folorigaol
henton. sunk toillmesy of 116
kart 'tersely say !sad la Irabisi add be lasnaMesl
!tem this to a hash owner ; sYats is asks* ass MU
Ilet he a ass, was sass that Iss weld set have to ILeg '
Oleins at the title. iftWooh,ba evrr;got die
elLe ft 4 was mammy anstial ; to MOMS
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