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

PUBLIC BUSINESS.

Loa J. RUSSiab7pedtbatatter Beater the bouts
would be reedy to begin public business at beltpest four
Vele& (Rem.)
ROYAL C 911111,8810,11.

Sir A. Cury"a apprred. at the fay., ..a ...mow

the house to the Reese Of Leeds to hear the rirl 'meat gives
by tememiadee to antral bills (far which see Lords report).
Laid J. RUSSELL hosed that as it wee the general wish
et the house that the adjourned debate as the rate is ate
should be preseeded with that night. those lea. gegthemon
who had notion fee that evening would have the Maim Ite
Ciprthem. ia order that the adjourned debut=
eceaded with, sad, he trusted, brought to a
OM Wild. (Rear, bear.)
Mr. SCOTT said he felt the greatest relasteace to rie►
pens a mace of so mush important" es hie ems with
referees@ to the colonies. but he would sensed to ties
t on the understanding that be thrill bin
treerwardatmern Thursday, the 19th Ind , after the report en
the Navigation Bill had been received.
Lord J. RUSSELL had so desire that say other oldie of 1,
the den y should precede the bon. gezdsman's motion. deeksi
that the hoe. geetleinaa had waived his prior *Pa he
hoped other hon. members would follow his esampb.
Sir R. PEEL thought the renewal of the lehltdebehe so
early as Monday might he attended with some bonsai-
emu to Irish members. It would, perhaps, be better to fix
the motion in rebuses to the colonies for that day, and the
Irish debate for Thursday.
After some conversation the right hoe. baronet's slope-
Men was adopted.
Mr. ANSTBY postponed his motion with mad b
&Wry until that day fortnight
Mr. P. KEW'S trusted there would be as eiteelleM
his introducing the bill of which he had_ ghee meth Is oir
Manes to the employment of labour in Iseksii. (A bash.)
Lord J. RUSSELL thought that as tabu bon. gentlemen
bed given way, the hos. member would est ruin.
SUNDAY TRAVELLING.
Mr. LOCKS obeerved, in reference to the bill which he
soeght to introduce, that all the petitions which had come
up ham Scotland were founded on the assumption that
he wished to compel ralwav companies to put oa additional
trains as Sunday whereas. the real object of the bill was
to compel 00111pligies to attach passenger curlew to all the
post-oo hobs travelling on Sunday. (Hear, hear.) As
there was a bed deal of agitation on the subject in Scot-
land, and se het agitation would probably continue during
the Easter be biped the house eroaM allow the bill to
be printed, in velar that the public might be made aware of 1
the nature of its provisions. (Cries of "Move, move.")
The hon. member was proceeding to move for leave to bring
in the bill, when
Mr. COWAN roee to object, whereupon
Lord J. RUSSELL said it woe evident that as the
modon was to be objected to, it could not be carried without
previous digression and delay. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. LOCKE hoped that he should have similar facalitise,
as the time for renewal, to those which were granted
to foltreden. re
numbers.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL obtained leave to Latro-
be.' • " bill for giving effect to the stipulations of • treaty
between her Majesty and the Queen of Portugal, for the 'p-
rehension of outais de enters ;" alto • " bill to facilitate
the administration of justice at the Cottle Criminal Court,
sad at sessions of the pesos in and near the metropolis."
SUPPLY.
The report of the committie of supply wen then received.
POOH LAWS (IRELAND) RATE IN AID BILL.
ADJOURNED DEBATE.
Oa the order of the day for mussing the adjourned
debate,
Mr. J. O'CONNELL said he could sot but regret that on
a Question of such deep ininortanos to Ireland any language
should have been used which was calculated to create bitter
feelings and to prevent ca'm diicussion. He especially re-
grayei that the hon. ant learned member for the university
of nubile (Mr. Napier) should have tessiled the eqnstltn-
timel movement in Ireland in ruler of legislative in-
dependence-4 movement in which gentlemen of the
honourable and burned gentleman's politic in former
days gloried. 'Dr Lividions comparison drawn between
the people of Ulster and those of other par's of Ireland
he had also regretted to hear. The people of Utter hat

many amid fieelidee, but be deviled that they were the
best sallisele of leer Mejesty ; should the Mire forget
the sekEsie prebnes end with whin the pe ogle
the se eri had bourse their diereses. With regard
to the _,,et Ware the hones, sideleg whisk be led
heard fit drawee of the debate bad mooed Ws ebilsettime
to it ; his chief objection being that it woad pees uojendy
lease, eadibelneeft paid by, the peewee drier
He did set dug thst there were mug monad la=
belied, but the mem of livelihood if =my of the terms
scow issue' tithed mile bad sot Men rableM, ani the
todesey of the meanne would be to auk the poor rate-
payees. The sells bed (Lewd
_ff. Estiell) bed set eat by
min that it wenn be siMendoe fie pat the beam tax or
the bed tax De Imbed, or Sheba the melee ands there to
a bed with the dada in this twass7—se Murk" though
I=tlis beespediest. He mainsbol that ft would be
belk Imlay and beak, and be direct violation
of the alkali welen. tee ger tg_hi that home would
be jessibil plisefies bet awl ben.- (Hes, hoer.) It that
est were to be militeekeed pants of advaatage, it mos
• equelayfiesiateined Y ride of dkadveatage to this
(Seer.) He Wes may to beer the 110 t hon. gon-
dolas' (Sir L Pail) joking the noble bed In dictating that
Wiwi aught to maks a greeter see then she had
deco, ge peebeled Wad its Whig odd that Ireland
at
mode me smnisa. There Meld be no doubt
that the intends* of the pverereent to promote
the improvement of band by uslstaime to rail-
ways, for &Mae" de., would have • ImA:id effect.
As to the security widget would prove most beneficial. it
would be the giving to the tent that which be had
riticei!
enjoyed, a acuity in the pommies
yat ef hie holding, a
bin in the remits of itsmeat. As to be expe
dient of en Moons tax ill = it would be most gill•
estrous to Ireland. At more Lee, those bon. gentle.
men who desired to *Distribute in this way to the wants
their country, let them send in their teas of pounds or
of
of pounds by way of conscience mosey. He urged
the house toles* no time canyieg oat so moth of the
plea of the right bon. member for Tanwortli se would en-
courage the small capitalists of Imbed to beirmissell pro-
pneten there, instead of carrying their money end their
labour to distant countries. An essential pebeitilb was, to
take effective manures for ehatillog
I ebesitedes and for
stopping that encases. drain of Irish 1111•1•5 and Irish tan-
dem which now left Ireland so assents. Ed *es d
to think that an excellent might cut
of the various pleas before the taking, mangle,
the hon. member for Bultlegbesehbre's iimiseme en. the
aoble herds railway and below shine, ased the
outline of the plan of the right fen member fie Tan=
Hr. LAWLESS contended that the whole course of their
legislation 'rimed the utter indlifereas of the imp Irbil par-
liament to the lives and prosperity of Irishmen. As to the
mesas before his, he considered it as based upon the
of robbery, and, for himself, he preferred that
Cal:n46 dshould labour under the reproach of mendicancy
rather than nada that of robbery. He was of opinion
that the sum required could be easily raised by an imams
tax upon ell description of
_property in Ireland, the tax
being doubled for absentees. But justice could not be a:-
pa! ed from the nob'' lord, who sat there, worse than Nero,
with his arms folded, utterly indifferent to the woes of
Ireland. (Lighter.)
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Lord C. HAMILTON said that he did not resist the rata
in aides mesa as the grated of its amount as on that of the
priest* • whisk" was levied. If it were applied to pre-
pays( easy
esker
Inked it would be lees objee-
tiseshie. The la. br keOlbashestar, whom he did
net nein his pine, noted lest alga that it would be
very ~yeer t< Ulster smell be smimilated to Ireland,
sadaom nnllmeeerion had hem meal" that Ulster had been
more fanned ilea anyStber privisee, sad, in tact, that this
district was pre-eminent one the rest of Ireland. This wee
sot true. It bad wither the fertile soil, the ports and har-
bours, son the Sang coasts of the other provinces, and yet
it flousiehed, became the inhabitants were thrifty, disposed
to look after their own affairs and not prone to run alter
seaters. (Hear.) Therefore, wine the hon. member said that
he wanted to make Ulster Ireland, did he mesa to say that he
desired Ulster to abandon those advantages which she pos-
sera sad to be lowered to the condition of Ceenanght ? His
hags IRIS tansies the other provinces to a level with Ulster,
emir he meld sot abandon that aspiration. The whole body
duties.. contained in the pore law reports from Ireland
spoke wing a rate in aid. He feared the sesemat would
Ise iselpdficant, but what he mere appreheeded was that
all the government sought to do was to get the
fine edge of the wage Insetted sad to trust to
Snare parliaments for driving it home. (No, no.) He
was glad to hear the noble lord deny this intention ; and he
hoped the objections founded on such apprehensions were
bawler. The hon. member for Manchester bad also asserted
that the fanners 'of Ulster would not so strongly have ap-
pend the rate in aid had not the landlords stimulated
item . He for one had required to be stimulated to his
app eitioa by the Lumen' although his stake in
the burthen to be imposed by the rate in aid was
not inconsiderable. Perhaps the honourable roem,ur's
view of the ease was influenced b 7 his recollection that
bodies of ratepayers had been stimulated by others to resist
those imposts, and he had applied the sane facts to the
Ulster farmers. The hon. member had also made some re-
marks on the amount of poor rates levied for the Irish
paupers in the large manufacturing and commercial towns
of England. He was unaided at the bon. member's
illiberality, more especially remembering the doctrices be
had held m a free trader respeedeg the labour market. With
respect to an observation made by the right hon. baronet
(Sir R. Peel), that Ireland had repudiated the debt due to
Ragland for building thOusion workhouses, he must Bey. he
thought that was a harsh and an undeserved expression.
The debt had not been dined or mediated, but the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, having regard le the distressed con-
dition of Ireland, had abstained from paseim Is, the repmeat of the sums advanced for the purpose- Maned to, butt
claim had never been disputed. Bodies, there were just
grounds why the Irish landholders shoal have some con-
sideration shown them in respell to this debt, for they had
been .addled with the out-deer relief of the Irish poor.
which they were sentred should set be given when the poor
law wee pees& He laped, thseasee, that any pre-
judice &rift if= the It* Ma. boom* accusation of
Ireland hiving espediated a debt mad be done away with.
He would now seeing himself to the *abject of the rate in
aid. He could net esisneuti either is justice on its policy.
Besides, it would be early inadequate to meet the purpose
Ice which it was imposed. He was quite convinced, not-
I mineteming the noble lord's unrance, that the duration
meal see be limited to two years, nor the amount to ed.
The nab bid had also asserted that it would relieve and
mu remedy the distress, but all the poor law authorities were
aspinceded it would increasethe area of destitution.
He objesta le the rate in aid, because it pressed
upon then pada community which was already the
heaviest taxed. If they wanted to levy additional taxes,
they shield by them upon that property which at this time
was the bad taxed, sod was tke best able to pay It. But
em. Maley win added to tax that clam which was
the may lazed sloes, tbes he denied that they wen
albs mesisfaery to amble them to tax that elms (quit .bly.
Their iseedia asst be fouoded epos the pesr-law yaw
ties ; and that was so =equal throughout diffirsnt parts of
Ireland, that any taxation founded upon it most be alas
unequal and mint. He was astonished that the scheme of
government which ben as much the applesauce of being
crude and ill-digested, was the only one with which they
had been favoured. (Hear, hear.) Be could not help ask-
ing whether this was the only measure that was to be sub-
mitted to them? The government stated, on entering office,
that they had conceived greet and comprehensive remedies
for Ireland. They were pregnant, then, with those remedies.
What had become of them now ? Had there been a mis-
carriage, cr were they stillborn ? Tie period of gestation
had exceeded anything ever known in animal or natural life,
and yet no comprehensive measures had seen the light.
(Hear, hear.) The poet had beautifully said
Naps sertuatersel la the human breed,
weer te, but slyer to be blot.
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Now he asked when Ireland was to be blest, and when
they were to see the issue of all the grand promisee of 1842 ?
(Hear, hear) There was so precedent in any part of the
united umpire for seek a tax as was now proposed.
It was called a national tax, and it might be supposed
that its proceeds would be paid hate the national tree-
nary ; bat net we. It was paid in to the credit
of a private individual the paymaster of the civil
swiss a mere armature of the government who
was set seepeesible to parliament, and over whom
theeirelieedellim of those who paid the tax lei me
whatever. finch a symbol would not be tolerated br
element k this coentry, and he invited the attendee of
them warm= who were so usefully employed in wale leg;
the maillemed expinditere lie this part of the abject. (Hear,
hoer,)imilead of stimulating industry and
sumalhalibe the olden of labour, whereby alone the ex-
beiselfs medilie removed, would weaken and destroy
all Miemmeim, and would involve alike thou counties such
es Demegal, when sun paellas untie& bad been made to
Mug* with the dilieellporita ethane sash Oil Clare, where
no such exertions bad been aai, to ono osmium and irre-
trievable rain. (rmiribtar.)
Mr. W. BROWN said thot the Isiels, like the waggoner
in the fable, (sesta not to all upon Jupiter so often, but
ought to lay Male own @bodies to the wheel. He did not
UM upon u:ism& they weld skim an exemption from
thisrate, when bulheen exempted hem the property tax
and all the tem. One dais eldeseallte hat in address-
ing** hams wale embevour to understand clearly the bene-
dotal meeeme peeriseiAahe right hon. baronet the member
be Teams* who of a esmaission. If he meant
that the mmededen tehe pawed= tithe embarras-
sed estates and sell them in small period to purchasers, then
bestride be del' glad to go with the right hon. baronet, bat
if they _could eel; get the title fee 6 years, then the bringing
them Iddt to sale was of no ; there were plenty of lands
for salethetedid not find purchasers, but they would be sold
if then sem a title instanter. He was rare that
this country had given prooh of a sincere de-
sire not to let any preen starve In Ireland; the Esglish
would do more when they saw that their fellow-countrymen
on the other aide of the water were &spored to make some
exertions ; but at present they must be excused from voting
expend until the Irish showed their sincerity by meeting
this rate is aid.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD as an Mailman, should vote
against the bill, because it vestei the Poor law Com.mis
stoners of Ireland with arbitrary power to lay en a rate sub-
ject to no restriction ; and as an English representative, be-
cause he thought it woul& be dangerous to England, Inas-
much u it would increase the existing discontent, an I entail
an additional expense on this country in keeping up a much
larger military force than strut, en order to the pester-
vatton of the peace in "reign
Sir D. NORRHYS exposed the inconsistency of calling
For self-exertion on the part of Ireland, when it was admitted
that lugs portions of the land were waste, its farmers
and its instantly uturty destitute ; and at such
a td, this tax was to be placed upon the landlord'.
lie interpreted the proposal of an income-tax as an Irish

us& aT6lsaifylas a dislike to a este ht-akl, it restieet to
whisk ha saterteased the spiel= that aU rake foLthe relief
of the peer is Inlaid slssuldi be foetid urea the prheliffe of
a retwiaitid, ao district being fairly resptnible for ft. web
paapstisas, which was a common burden. He approval' of
this tate-la-sid ; bat he belisead that =Was solid be
=rag foe Ireland Ismail l•s landed property was
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Mr. MONSELL contracted Sir D. Nanny's vote with his
speech, which proved the inability of the property of Ireland
te bear this rate. He wondered the government should per-
sist in this mann when they saw how universal wee the
hostility it had eneuntend, even from its own ofilepre, sod
mineldend he nequelity and insuffidency. A stronger *b-
indles still wee, that it was part of a system to deal with un-
exampled distress and famine by means of a law alone.
Of the insemene prepesed to Lpes the vanities of
Whe and.esseedered that the of Sir H. Peel would
re-
move the etetatales to the flow oa capital trees ere geeing le
the other,' whereas the speech of Lead 3eha Enema wee
shearing and hopeless.
Mr. BOWMAN said it was a most gratifyiee fact, that
In the progress of the debate, the genius had hum nisei
auk higher than esc mere Irish one, and that the bib
members were quite justified is congratulating themednee
an the improved manner in which the suited had bass'
treated, for it was quite clear that it was demisting of being
approached with eerie:wain seeing that the needy of dee
coo country paralysed thane:WWll of the ether. If deer'
tine to the rate in aid had been leas cogent than dug VIM
still he could not permit • division to be erne to waked
M ung his reasons fur opposing it. Some of kM hinds
considered it eeriest, but they appeared willing to en* N
because no batter plan had been propred ; bat he theught
the house and the country had arrived et a pried tee
grave to allow Irish question now to be disposed of after inch
a fashion. He never would be induced to vote on an Irish
question without first investigating its principle and de-
tails, and seeing its real nonage on the natural intenote
of Eogiend end Ireland. He had voted in favour of the
grant of 60,0001., but he wee quite prepared to contend that
there was • nit difference between a temporary vote
to meet an emergency sad the adoption of whet
might be considered a permanent policy. He believed that
the peeing of • nuenre of this nature would be merely a
perposerneat of the evil, which would return at no distant
day ; bat, nodding the advantages of the plan, was he in-
' Med parehaein them at say price ? He thought that it
the hetseSrn were impend atelL • fair share of it ought to be
equally horn, and dial it was neither wise, ire, nor wife to
throw the when elk apes penman nets of Irelesdevibleh
were not reeptmeible tee the distress of Connaught. t Hear,
bear.) He gessfemed that he had listened with gnat plum=
to the admirable speech as the former night of his frilled
the hon. member foe ll• nchteter, but he felt surprised
that that hon. gentleman should support the late wilten
examining into the character or policy of the measure. He
(lb. Horsemen) dented that there was any affinity ce andegy
between a Radont rate and a poor law, or that there was
any ground for the amnion and in the course of the de-
bate, that the rate in aid was • natural extension of the
poor law. The tendency of every poor law was to teach men
te rely upon the certainty which the law provided ; but a
rate in aid, while it caused the pauper te beg more sturdily,
and the guardian to withhold Ism rductandy, destroyed
ecrgeer, diminished industry, dbenraged improvement, and
di
down pentane, who previously were in a better con-
dition in life, to the unhappy level of indigency and want.
(Hear.) Cruel and unjustifiable as, it app weed to him, beta
been many pernoos .4 Irish lepisletion, he knew of nothing
se cruel and unjustifiable as the present attempt to despoil
and destroy one province in Ireland in order to perpetuate
the misery of another. (Hear, hear.) Upon what principle
was this dm* ? It had been repeatedly asked in the progress
of these disunion, what possible claim had Connaught
upon Una r which Ulster bad not equally upon Middlesex ?
The answer appeared to be, that Connaught and Ulster
wee both is belted, that Ireland was exempt from the pro-
perty and other taxes, and that this sax was to be imposed
as an equivalent for that exemption. (Hear, hear.)
Everybody knew that improvement in Ireland must be sun-
mallard. But there was one thing necessary, without which
agricultural improvement would be impossible, and that was
to convey to the mind of the agriculturist that he knows the
worst, and can make hie future calculations upon his own
scale. The rate in aid, however, would baffle all calculation.
You might tell him that the ninon rate was only 25., and the
national rate only 64., to be limited to two years, and that that
constiteted the worst. Bat who could assure him that this
limitation would be observed ? (Hear, hear.) The princi-
ple once admitted, no one could say that the insolvent unions
would right themselves in two years . • at the end of which '
time thes same arguments now used in favour of a 2a. rate
might be used in favour of a 4s. rate. He therefore objected
to the rate in aid not only on principle but as a
remedy tor Ireland at the present moment. Indeed the
objedine to it on that score were so great and
weighty that the only thing that could justify parliament in
entertaining it was its being only part of • more comprehen-
sive scheme. But then to judge of the portion before them,
they ought to be inhumed of the whole scheme. They bad
been long since promised a number of remedial mea-
sures but had heard no more of them ; and, judg-
ing from the speech of the noble lord on the
previous night, he should say that he had evinced a lament-
able unconsciousness of the real state of the cue. That
speech was neither satisfactory nor statesmanlike, amounting
as it did to this, that one of two thing' would happen—either
that there would be a good harvest, and the people would
find employment; ors had harvest, and the people would emi-
grate. The right hon. baronet's manner of dealing with the
state of Ireland was more statesmanlike and comprehensive,
while neither in matter nor in spirit did it contain any
thing calculated to provoke hostility. (Hear, hear.) In
the difficulty in which they were now placed they ought to
feel indebted to any man for suggestions to solve that
difficulty, but from the right hon. baronet more espe-
cially such suggestions ought to be warmly welcomed
and well condriered. The right honourable baronet
had already assisted the government in position
which might otherwise have been found full of difficulty ;
and he was only consistent now in supporting this props&
non for a rate in aid, although he did so with
caution, and with the intimation in which he (Mr. Hon
e
man) fully joined, that he drew hops from the very depth of
Ireland's calamity. Into the details of the right hon.
baronet's scheme be would not then enter; but be they good
or bad, practicable cr impracticable, still, as the right
hon. baronet had given them a comprehensive plan, he
quite agreed with the hop. member for Northampton-
shire, that the government ought either to say they
were prepared to adopt that plan, or put forward some other.
Many suggestions and e: lent, some of which had been
already rejected by that house, might again be fairly con-
sidered, now that the position and state of Ireland were
better understood, and might help them to some extent in
salving the difficulty. Although none of them could be re-
garded as a panacea for Irish evils, they were all practicable,
and, in his opinion, calculated to assist them. The right
hen baronet had recommended emigration ; his hon. friend
the member for Stroud advised the cultivation of wear*
lands ; a noble lad had proposed a measure in connexion with
railways. These were questions which he considered fit
for legislation ; and he thought it the duty of the
government to have comeidered how far they would have met
the difficulty, before they adopted this rate in aid, which
could only be justified as the sole alternative. Every single
official employed by the government was opposed to it, not
only as impolite but impracticable; and if the house
should sanction its principle, such arguments would be ad-
duced against in details in committee as would prove it to be
so. (Hear, hear.) The principle of the meenre win dire
necessity—lrish people must not be allowed to die; and to
save the house from the embarrassment of appealing
to England they were call- d upon to pus it with-
out any regard to what became of Ireland after-
wards. That was not the intention, but it was the ten-
dency of the measure. The English people felt, certaiely,
that the grants already made had not been as well used or
acknowledged as they might have been ; but that was uot
the reason they objected to them now, but because they
were tired of relieving destitution only to perpetuate de wits-
tion. (Hear, hear.) They law neither humanity nee
economy in relieving sufferings only to aggravate end per-
petuate them. Even now let the minister came forward
with a ocmprehensive and ateessmanlike 1111•1111110 wan
which improvement and relief wield go bead ha hind, sled
then the parliament of Eagles& net only era melba of
humanity, but of thrift m wen, wend be seedy le
give as cheerfully and bountifully as it bed ever done.
They never had such an opportunity of leglittlag cow
prehensively for Ireland es now. (Hear bear.) She wee
weak, prostrate, and helpless, reedy to accept any legislatica
they chose to impose. For the fint time within their manor
there was niziztitical agitation in Ireland, no
rancour, no (Hoer, hear.) le= I
land, we far from there being say opposition. all perdu
showed themselves reedy to strengthen the bank of
the executive. If money were wanted it was granted
with as little reluctance as if England was a mine of gold
—if coercion were required, measures of that character were
pared with even steepens; rapidity. And yet the only
mann the at had to propose was one which every
official in Ire and declared to be not only unjust and impo-
litic, but improbable of being carried into operation. If, in
spite of such warnings, and in the truth of such
evidence, they passed this measure, then did be
feel that they would incur a serious responsibility ;
for should thee predictions become true, and the distress
beanie general, then would the folly and selfishness of par-
liament have achieved its work, by substituting in thou
unions where now there was prosperity, poverty and want -
iitrilts where there was peace—and disaffection where there
was loyalty ; thus consummating the full measure of Irish
misery and of English crime. (Hear, bear
Sir. A. BROOKE opposed the rate, because it taxed the
poor man as well as toe rich, and because, under the ex-
isting mode of valuation, it fell unequally upon all. He
suggested an imposition of double poor-rate upon the pro
petty of absentees, which should be laid out upon their
tend, end that the government, instead of a rate in aid,
should call for one or two instalments of the workhouse
loans.

Mr. REYNOLDS differed from the majarity of the Irish
representatives. He was prepared to vote (or the bill, but
most reluctantly: if he could avoid this vote he would. The
opponents of the rate alleged that there was no argument for
it but necessity. That, however, was twelv.• points out of
thirteen. The alternative of an Income tea was a land-
lords' provvition, to shift the burden upon the shoulders
of hard-working shopkeepen and erasans. Raid Was
absolutely necessary, and a puoedeat fa taxing one
part of Ireland for the benefit of another was furnished by
the sot of 2 and 3 Victoria, c. GI, for levying 534,0001. on
twelve counties in Ireland for the improvemmt of the nevi-
g .tien of the Shannon, one of those counties being Mayo,
which could deny. no advantage from the always.
Major BLACK &LL eaploined his views, which had been
misunderstood, regarding the substitution or a tax upon in-
tome for a rate-in-aid, which he oppssei.
Mr. TENNENT sa-d he should give hi, dce:d.d oprti-
tion is this unhappy ocirme. He denied that Ulster sought