The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

1 MYER AL I'ARLIAMEA .

lIOUSH OF I.Ok/S.—Mosait. AVO. .
The LOAD CHANCIILLOaR (took his seat 14
at 5 O'Cleek.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
THIRD READING.--Manchester. Bunton, Matlock, and Midlands
Junction Railway (deviation and Munch) Bill.
ruttLic nusoisee.
SECOND READINGS.•- Chancery Proceedings fader Regulation ;
Proclamations on Facis court of Common Mem ; Churehre; Turn-
pike Roar. (Ireland, ; Coesubulary Force (Ireland); Pailienientary
Elmore: Rile.
L'OMMITFEEti. -Reproductive Lean Fund Ituties (Irelend
Unlawitil Oath, Acts (Ireland) ,00ntanunnes andngS sansodnistit); );
Ballots guspemmot ; Itißa
THIRD RE,LUINGS.-EcClCldadf ; Loan Societies ;
Highway Ratce ; Bankropts' BUM
COMMONS' AMENDMENTS TO BE CONSIDERED.-Trustees'
Relief (Ireland) Bid.
PETITIONs.-By the Earl of LUCAN, boos the county of Mayo,
and several tither ablates In Jratual, on the subject of the Insh
poor lama.
ROYAL ASSENT.
The royal usent was gifted by commission to the follow-
ing bills :
Ase.gstment of Ecclesiastical Districts; Land.Taz 03mmireioners'
Nemec; We'd Mini Wanda Relict; Administretion of Justice (Nos. I
and 21; Protection of Juckgs from Vexatious Actions; Administra-
tion of Criminal Juctice; Canada Union Act Amendment; doint-Stock
Congo
Companies ; Salmon Breed Preen ration; Paymasters' Odium
lidahou; Prism.; Sale of lager Regulate:it ; Naval Medical
Supplemental Fund Society • ' Minden. Castle
Colonnade
sad Town
Approaches Improvement: Regent's Quadrant
Mnehange of Atacama.= in Ms Count*. of Warwick and
Stafford ; Each:knee of Fleeted:Wind Patronage between her
Rejecty and the Earl of Leicester; Public Works (Ireland) No. 2; '
Evicted Dori:ate Poor *eland, ; Leclssitntical Ultima and sions
of Paridlle. (Ire! nd)i ; Inca:thereat Prates (lrelend); Juvenile
Offenders ‘Irelood); Law of Entail (Scotland) ; Highland Roods and
Bridges (cemtliodt ; Culotta/lieu Canal; Leedom and South-Western
Railway Company's Acta Amendment, Deviation, aml Now Works
Ore n N.rthtnt Railway (Isle of Asholme branch); Lune:whim and
Tork.hire Railway (amendment of nits and regulation of capital)
• 11.11L11.7; Stirling and Dunfermline Railway (amendroentand
• itoM; ; Fahuburgli end Bathgote Railway (eaten:ion and de-
viation); Whitehaeen and Yung, Junction it
(extend..
Coleraine
or
deviation front Sdecroft to I'maleld); Londonderry and
Railway idcvlation °ince and amendment of act) ; .I.l,haw and Calt-
nraa liatitray (deviation, conn,Aitut branch, and num ovement)
Dundee and arbniath Railway , Dundee junctim); Eduthurgh and
Glasgow, Cal, or and Gtemits, Airdrie, and Moaklands .:tiection
Railway oimealment of acts(; and North-Western Railway
(branches and catenston from Leumington); Royston and Hitshin Rail-
way Eatension ; Midland Railway oiloowster anal risailehouce junta
don); Newry and Diniskillen Railway (amendmeneanicv of;
acts,
and to Author, arrangements with other com)Os- I
ford, Worttater, and Wolverhampton Railway (No. 2) ; •
Rockland and Eirkintiliceb, Ballochney and Starnannan
Railways (amalgamation or sale or Lease, and amendment or repeal sif
set.); Great Western Railway (branch from Slough to Witdsce) ;
London, Brighton. and South Wont Railway ;London-bridge and New-
er,. nation+) N,wr and Yontynool R 1011,1), Act Amendment:
Caledosian Railway ( ranch arras the Clyde and Glasgow menu)
PayWe6 rilleOLA (improvement in preserving vegetable matter) ,
Dunbar Customs, Water and Harbour Dues Amendment ; Ntioreester
Turnpike Trust; Ateravon Market; la ith Municipality and Police
Trt.ut, Markets, Paving, and limitary Improvement.; New Grand
Canal Gompaby ‘lrelaind)
;Nos. New Boas Port and Harbour
Idialderstield Improvament 2) I Londonderry Improvement
Thorne moor Drainage and Improvement: Meat of England and
South Wali c Land Draining Company Incorporation ; Edinburgh
Pelee ;Aineielineut, Consohdatiod of .kets, and folios and Sandal)
Improvement); liver Nene Improvement and Draumee ; Birken.
bend Dock Couunisnoners (Manner of Powers to New Comminion-
ers, effecting arranifetuenn. Sill% the Crown, and Amendments of
Ad.) No. 2 ; Hahne and Eters Road ; Crawford Britlye and Man-
chester Rind ; Richmond and Berth Road; Marlborough College
Chapel; Newton's Estate; luderton's Estate; Lister or Hudson's
Estate : )(Ma's ketate ; Walallotwe's Charities' titan., and Nicbad's
Divorce.
The Lords Commiaiioners were the Lord ChancelLr, the
Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Campbell.
IRISH POOR LAWS.
The Eul of LUCAN, pursuant to notice, inquired what
measures it was the intention of her Majesty's government to
take in reference to the report ni the select committee of that
house on the Irish Poor Law Arts (rating of lessors).
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE admitted that there were
evils connected with the administration of the poor law in ,
Ireland which required supervision; lint he wan not pre-
pared to soy that, at an late a period of the it would
be practicable to pa's say bill for that purpose. Early next
season not only the important matter mentbned by the
nob.o earl, but the whole subject of the poor law in Ireland
ought to be coneidered by parliament. ( Hear, hear.)
After a few obt,rvati•ins frost Lord ItIONT EAGLE,
L>rd WHARNCLIFFE, as chairman of the select com-
mittee, bore testimony to the fact that the re were vexations
in the administratiun of the poor law in Ireland which ought
to be remedied.
Tue Earl of LUCAN said the defects of the law had been
clearly established before a committee of their lordships'
house, and why should they not pass a short declarattry
set to remedy tne evils which had been proved to exist i
UNLAWFUL OATHS ACTS (IRELAND) CONTI-
NUANCE AND AMENDMENT BILL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR having moved the committal
of this
The Earl of SHILEWSBURY rose. pursuant to notice,
to ask what were the intentions of the government with re-
spect to their future policy in Ireland, nor. especially in re-
gard to remedial measures ? He wished to pay a just tribute
to the conduct of the Lord Lieutenant ; but he thought it
was time to tail!' inearnest to apply a remedy to the evils
which existed in Ireland. It was clear, from the ata'e of
that country, twit there were great dissatisfaction and excite-
ment among the people. There had ever been in Ireland a
government of tome Instead of opinion. We had the same
state of things now as in Feb , 1844, when a coercion bill
was proposed for Ireland. Tho number of coercion bills had
since been increosed, the standing army had been greatly
and the last ermine nt of the liberties of I reland had

augrnentea,
been struck dawn. And what, he might ase, hail been done
for her relief? Her enormous extent of waste and unculti-
vated land, within reach of the starving people, remained
uncultivated it'll. Every grievance, moral, social, and poli-
tical, remained almost precisely the same ; and the feelings,
desires, inairests, and opinions of the people had produced
no effect. The only material change which had taken place
had been in th' passing of a new poor law—a law waich had
In Via many i ,stances inflicted cruel injustice on the land-
lord. and had been equally unjust to the poor. In many
oases the p-ea. rates had &learned the whole of the rent.
Comil et ne Just thus to coafiscate any mon's pro-
perty ? Ought not such a tax to fall upon the
commuuity ginerel ? The poor, too, wire insurficiently
fed, and were not placed on an equal footing with the poor
of te,s country in many other respects. The system ot evic-
tions still existed under the sanction of the law, and were
often made at. the point of the aayotiet, while in, provision
had been mate for the wretched outcasts. Justice had not
been done to Ireland. The remedial measures recommended
by some twenty parliamentary committees and royal coat
me.i.iners, by every statirical and political writer (or the
last twenty rare, and many of them solicited by almost
every grand jury in the country—the measures as earneetly
Melted on by Lord John Russell in February, 1644,
in June, 1846, and at other periods—ail these reme-
dial measures still existed only in idea—none of
them had been carried into practical effect. There
was ens grievance in Ireland which was greater but
far mire diffkult to deal with theu the rest. The house
would rememeer that when a noble friend of his—a Roman
catholic member of ghat house, and who now held office in
the royal household—bad ventured to express as his opinion
that the peace and security of the empire could only be se-
cured by a t eduction ot the property of the established
church of Ireland, a noble and learned lord (Lord Brougham)
not now preseet tell upon the noble lord, and, with great
vehemence, t,unted him with the oath he had taken at their
lordships' table, Ile (the Earl of Shrews airy) woe quite ready
to admit that ac who hod impsed the oath had a right to
iota rivet it, coutendedt hat he was entitl d co the largest
interpretation e iiieh hail been recognised is the .iever Louse
at parliement, and that be had therefore • right fully and
freely to deices that most important and vital of all quest
dons, viz., tie. Irish church. No manta religious opinion.
ought to op.:- etc as a disquar.fication to him to express his
sentiments. (Hear.) Notbi tie could be more preposterous
than tee oath now required to be taken—a form ot oath to
which he believed many protestanta ev'n ohjectid. A cele.
heated political writer had declared that reli4ion and liberty
were asters, hawing upon each uthir fur support; hut thee':
religious distinctions were the bone and curse of the c nopire—
they were the n, rimary curie of all the miseries and the mimeo
vernrnent of Ireledil. The} had made the law in Ireland a
nullity, and they had defeated the whole commis of adminis-
trative iusti e. It was the feeling thus generated that
bad compelled the government to exclude from the jury
panel at the recent trial of Mitchel, in Dublin, every
R3Olllll eathilic ; and though, by such a system this country
midst continue to eceupy 'till it could not vovern Ireland.
He repeated that there was noth:,:g which had provoked
PO much ea cour or militated more lakes! socisl
imo.ovemeat it Iceland than the emit•oued refusal to reduce
the Ir Ph there to its air and leptierite prep' .rtileo. He
had no hostility to that eqabliehment, hut h.. was Sure its
coca istruction wasild be pm: uctiv, of lalwan,ige (.1 Loth, and
of 11.1,. lit .o the eation at liege. Withou a tettlemect of
that question the Emancipation A I 1939 sew merely a
no tsar,. of t He did not accuse the gyeeratueutuf
a breath of faith, but ot a want of confidence in their own
views, and if courage to carry them out. It their views were
sound in 1844 they had become still sounder in
1848, and they, therefore, ought at once to be
reduced into practice. The errors committed in the
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agitation fur repeal afforded the lef [Mature ;no excuse
for not having long since passed remedial measures, and it
wee now the more nem wary, in order to establish a govern-
ment of opinion instead of one of force. As an Irish peer, a
Roman catholic, and ►n Englishman, be could not nest the
opportunity of thus publicly protesting against the continu-
ance of a system of government which had made Ireland the
weakness instead of the strength of the nation, and had ex-
hibited her as at outrage on humanity and a scundal to the
whole world. (Hear.)
The Marquis of LANSUOWNE said that although his
noble friend had not opposed the motion for goitre into com-
mittee on the bill, and •though he Lad not intimated an
intention to opposo any part of its rrovitions, he had made
some- observations connecting the bill with the general state
of Ireland, to which he (the Marquis of Lansdowne) thought
it nrcessary to offer some reply. In the outset he (the Mar
quit of Lansdowne) protested against the bill not being con-
sider. d in the sti ictist and largest sense a remedial measure.
and he thought h could prove that the delay of such mea-
sures had origina.eil in Ireland itself, and not in this or the
other branch of the b gislatun. (Hear.) Remedial imagoes
had engem ri the perpetual attention el both—neither the one
nor the other bad been inattentive to them. One of these had
bet.. the measure fur alterine the relation between land-
lord and tenant, me eject of which was to excite and create
an inducement to improve the cultivation of Ireland. All-
ot). r question, also surrounded with difficulti. a, was the
cultivation of tae waste lands and the reclamation of bogs in
that tuantry. This cote.' o•, be done without capital, and
capit.l wooed mi. be iotroeuced without that protection to it
4,0.4.1174 u bill uuw under consideration would afford. It
wet said the people required an improved franchise and
ant :tension of municipal rights, bat be (the Marquis of Lens-
dow- held th tt ' and exercised under

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.0)) T.!) teach right+ SI %, privileges, if e. ,Utt _- Maur_
a tyranny, became a public nuisance. (Hear, hear.) Before wormy. The Repeal Association was not now in existence, nested with the sale of timber,