The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-09 00:00:00

in connexion

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deal principles was melees. If paupers were to he einpl4a
In the cultivation ofoorn, this was certainly much the same..
the sy.teni of out-door relief that had prevailed in this country.
The hon. gentleman had referred to the results of the late
census as proving the abuse of the piddle works. Now,
though he regretted to see so fearful a mortality in the
population of Ireland —owing to death and distress—yet he
thought the house would admit that, by affording relief
through the public works, they adopted the best course they
could under the circumstances ; and, though they had not
been successful to the full extent, yet he doubted not they
hail, to a great extent, mitigated death and misery. (Hear,
hear.) But the real qucetton beture the house was very
different. It was one intended to make a change
in the system, as the resolution purported, and to
employ the inmates of workhouses in reproductive
occupations, so as to make them self•supportiog. lie can•
boned hon. gentlemen from Ireland how they adopted such
a course. In England, they had been compelled to adopt the

workhouse test, so as to prevent parties throwing
themselves on the parish who could sustain themselves Shy
their own labour. And if they found such to be necessary
in England, how much more would not that necessity
evidence itself in the cue of Ireland ? Therefore his ad-
vice was to maintain the workhouse test, to keep the work-
house labour as distasteful as possible ; but if once they
departed from that determination they would find to their
cost that in the long run the burthen of taxation would
come upon them tenfold, notwithstanding any temporary
reduction that might immediately follow on the alteration
of the present system.
Sir li. W. BARRON explained that he was favourable
to the retention of the workhouse test; but he thought it
safer to support the inmates by labour than in idleness.
Mr. HENLEY said the words of the resolution went no
farther than employing labour on reproductive works, and
he could not see how by employing that labour the work•
house test would be broken down. (Hear, hear.) In the
present case if the house divided he should vote in favour
of the resolution.

Mn LABOUCIIERE said if the poor law commissioners
were to turn their attention as to how the inmates of

workhouses in Ireland were to be employed, instead of at-
tending to the workhouse test, the Irish gentlemen would
do away with the great principle of the poor laws—.
namely, that the labour should be of a stringent nature,
so us to ulcer no inducemant to any but tile most necessitous
to seek relief iu the workhouse. (Hear, hear.) Ks
confessed it was with pain be heard the fearful
tale _ which the late census of Ireland narrated.

the facts of which were unexampled in modern history:
yet he should say it was much easier to criticise the men..
sures taken for the mitigation of that distress just now,
when it was passed away, than to devise measures to meet
the dreadful circumstances in which Ireland was placed

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