The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-08 00:00:00

TIE
Kr. P. BCROPE
the esteaties ef the ..
Kane* to the meaty
man • epeeist meet
Vii, be MIN
MC to glut
if see of the distressed
he
hued, the but • time
...ses great to -
TA. tales *".. -- - - --- - ---- peffeethiela them-pais me whisk precast Se e
tada*.
eartnty ofr. ibei Meg Clan ;it projected
late the Allude, I. as acute sage. It was about 40 miles
manks(lfslatelsibnrhehy ithlothaa.the tatzete. %h. imp. •
sap..
la length from east to west, sad mealy three Mee is its
whims gessienr owe frees sea tom. Thu earth, of thaf =Bre gig grititit,l,a Elk patio._ twat _h ._ _that .
bet met eseauteleue ; It wasigide . mule. awl' dollathilwind-hspi
=:"•
jaws wormed eat theys thee
.the helm. with rot treads it. (Han) -
egeleiliSdlilt ll.'
*ran De lead real if *ls: Mk lIONSELL said he weld set a SIM kin Melt
Egswows°lll2a Its
_twee wig about 60,000 semi,-her. Mad, that.p.'ilighe hapreamat " hem plea la
he 1131 wee
oir, sad the estsenes la the anion of ladrusi. BTUs Tut accouote he Misived bola
we ithelafen lathe Temeweiser that mime, it would appear lei bi piling wane Man of '
Siffelethaegre pan este hal, hod this better ; sea ha was ebeld, If the pauses" wen
en Cape Kemeny whoa he auhl oat anatica act p,epersd to deal with _ that. _ tam _la 1111 sr
sailhie4=4lll hi. a the Mem is which only sew sad nee saaner, that its einditioa
he heal the Maga *OS ejethe gibe. Cease mild not be retrieved Ci re
I: the death of a emiders ble per.
stated that the pesielsithe 'Me an asaphinue the of the pepalaticia. (Haar.) With respect tow present
irk auk Seholllll6 as they me arras,., Rot follow state of the union, there could I* so hatter authoelty Moe
the that ef the silliest barrister. Mr. Miyoe, who dated that
limer:rerkr as. etssese dial use,ib—erthisabbs it was stri with la the whole come of his life he never witained mesh
gailltae Ma nu, edam§ es the meenthes ef the ONNelle, and pageas spay, sad that had he Rot seiena
them be should
.seg=i as MOW from thee lareffeeth. Is fact he have thought the saffellags of the poor this trio, to be
of the inieegent penis 'harmer beyond hasp eadarapes. His et Mead said that
*Mem gelma=m4b as
weigathe ea newest sad meth coats there misers workhouse accemateelatioa. Hecould oily say
of based. Ii was we seethe thegian that a moieties so that he had received an comsat from ar e lakatit-
desaasteaced should hue felt the meagre of the potato an of the uses, and whisk hebelheatiostenabletaatially
le 1846 with Werwhelesiag moray. Not ode did correct, sate. that 106
ea poor perms, who, hal some from
Its
that sesesion the male subsietans of the pope- different parts of the u=iatie of them a OSUMI, 01
Mt t they ruhateed eupised to the pa pasts of these 16 miles, Ming fur ad
, had been allowed to weed
t nate to which he bed alluded, sad to which they their way back epic without haring received a mill or
ones ly liable. All sense soffered, tad it wee sot to the hem assistance ; and whined the guardians hubs the
Mt weeise.d at that whin the retie of 1847 was offered swum decesagy el Investigating their mese. (Hear,
there wee a general sausble for it. The hone would Mr.) What he would mare to wee that the
Sadly credit it that in the meaty et Clare alone the caper maagemat of the axiom should be
peal is the
Dare ler the relief works amounted to 470,0001.. sad that leads of some awe in whoa the Romanist had ten-
th Ibm sake of Inrush alone the expenditure in relief works Meson such as Mr. Truism or Count Streeleaki- that
menial to ea lea a sum dm 110,0001., early double the be should get power to tax the silos sad distribute it
sub& of the Ma. These gestema who bad looked Into as earned hest to him, either fur the promatiou oi emigre-
fhoonthla of the Commies/ire Depanaleat and of thekleard dos, for champ, Cr the cultivates ef *eland, sad that he
of Wirth Departmeet would be mite aware that In the should also have power to charge the eon of then works es
also of Illemsh the slid intended ler the destitute poor the districts whisk Melted from the.. This wei ar-
was not received by them. but nee distributed mons Mends they very mach set of the ordinary mode, bat the eon to
011ie relief committees The temporary relief grained under whisk it was tobeafipplthed wee set aa ardiaary ma He
what wee called the Soup Kiwis. Mt amounted to 23.6001. ; entreated *be eginurniat se he dismiss the tee of
eat that to the 110,000 f. ithealed a relief works in one Mei ise.sembee ferlithenL Lathe assamtheaCippj el i:atel;
per. ending Aegall, 1847, thle Moe of Karma received of let them inquire into the feathiley of sums sack plea ae he
the plans maeay no leas a stn then 133,0001. If that mousy (Mr. Morrell) bad eadeavougal te sketch at, and see If itl
heathen well espeeded he should aet have °lotted to the wield nut be preible le 'MT it See Alia. (Hear, hear.)
assent, but it us sprawl Ina mazer that tended rather le cam thieve. Meath pat this si=shis right hon.
to amuse destitution then to make the union self-support- Mesa the Beggstary ler the Hem t ; did he, or
leg. At the edge of the eosin of 1847, the Poor- law Ex- could he, halm that, seder the I siring spates, the union
MOM Au lades belga pang In that easicia, the union of of Leash amid be Weep% round without the sacrifice of
=ask, like the other Mies, wee throw& upon its owe re- the lives of themads et present resident there I (Hear )
1.010011. A. the Ilium wee aware. he "waded the eataaaiaa Lord J. RUSSELL said the speech of the host. gentleman
ef Na poor law he Ireland's it existed in England, hut he who had last sadressed the house, and who hsel been an eye
mews he a mimosa isugieed that in an anion like Hanish wine of the grievous distress that prevailed in that unite,
ObeFello Withal' we maw to succour the &mew Is did edit to his beavolesit wish end desire to improve de
IN/ he urged the Intregaings of a scheme fur the mem. coadilloa of that Mem people. (Hear, bear.) But
Nee of wastelands. width he WWI the noble lord would in when ha (Lord J. Russell) attempted to consider
baths asemeesaltent Sao paw law. gee suartuastely what the knowable gateman proposed as the inea-
ladlioll alho hied wee dam The poor law, and nothing mare to be adopted by her Majesty's government, he
bat the ruby, wee paseeL And what we the ems owned he wee sot a little surprised. The hon. gentlemaa
i=iit In August, 1847. the board of guardians of had tad the inhabitant, of the union of Klimek as
entered upon their once. In the preceding meth hang ice a most miserable and appalling condition. The
ma lim a number than 51.000 of the aliseitate had been lune& sad proprietor appeared to have neglected their
11111119011 under the Soup Kitchen Act, a proportion almost duties and to have been save only in electing the wretched
equal le.iwo-thirda of the populates. In Auger 4 1847, they people who previously ontrived to lin on anspicultursl
a rate, but the warrants were not issued for some months pewees that no longer to the same extent as heretofee
streak for the collection of that rate. It was perfectly exi-ted. (Hear, bear.) The firmen, is appeared, were
well known that it we. only is the autumn that either rents without skill or capitol, and merely scratched the ground I.
or rates could be collected in Ireland. The guardians of that order to raise a scanty crop to meet pretest emerseacisa.
union wife themselves landowners cr agents, and of course Those that ought to be labourers were looking to the poor
their gnat eject was to collect their rents. The cam rate fur a sustenance, and in many cases were Rot able to
peace 'mobil when Casa Kennedy war appointed on obtain even that sustenance. Such was the state
the 10. h of November. 1847, as the inspector of that union, of things represented by the honourable gado
he (sad is M this sere: he said that no rates, or next to moo whisk, he said, should not besufferedis
none, had he collected ; that the rate collector's warrants continue, and t r the abolition of which he proposed
had been lased too late by a meth, and that there was a remedial measure. (Hear, hear.) Now, what the hon.
great distress in souseppeace • that there was Nothing gentlemen proposed wee no lees than this, that the state
gives bet indoor relief; Mat deaths occurred he' should step is and take the whole amagenneut of these
quietly la Me alai bows • that there were 21 in one week, ad", whisk were usually neglected by the kw,' pro.
that Mere had been 536 deaths altogether, sad that there pietas; that the state should step in, and, is the first
was great ward of clothing for the inmates. And he ree' piper, furbish seeds, tegether with the agricultural Spit-
ported shortly afterwards that the arrears of rates were meats Raceway, and set the farmers to work, stabling them
May due from the guardians themselves. Bat while Ent to pay mosey wares to talent, the lad ; and then,
there was great slowness in the collection of rates, there Wall having done that, sad gone to vast expense-no doubt with
me luesitatioa ia the creation of pesperisa. Capt. KenagdY immediate benefit, that he would not deny-is producing's
cps informed that Re less than 6,000 notices to quit had ertilleiVe crop, and employing the people at present subsist-
heel eery" is the union. Is aoaewlalate the woraheaw a iag oa miserable alms, the landlords and proprietors should
-theme overcrowded. The tide of destitution rolled ate in, and find the land reclaimed and improved for them,
S. Captain Kennedy urged the guardians to make all at the expense ef the sat,. (Hear, hear.) At
ea allowance se as to enable the paupers to find shelter as meat they were merely able to collect the rates with
wit se DM. They refused. He min applied to angst difflaty and insufficiency for the maintenance of the
the eamadmisme, who retuned for easwer that Ina- &sties, which object they were amicedly not able to
bet is food smut sufkient for the impoteat poor, sad that accomplish; but if they should set about levying rates for
ea snowmen Medd be made to enable them S. procure the improvement of the land, he (L. rd J. Russell) did nut
Wpm and elethinr. That was, however, refused, and the think they ever could be raised. (Hsu, bear.) In fect,
mesh wee ea amount of mortality fearful to contemplate, thepropa 'don of the hon. gentleman wse, that the state
this hue the exposure of these pie people to the stele- should step in and undertake to farm the land, and do that
limey of the weather. The si.ery inflicted on the evicted which ought to be the duty of private individuals. (Hear.)
seer was MPtfal. Capt. Kennedy repined on the 18th By u- (terabit" any such duty the date would be
Fels., INS. tha wedges and hem levelliag were going pef incurring andemean rearoasibility which it ought
load the& aa WM allialla alone 200 houses had been levelled not to incur-(bear, hear)-and imenedittely that
*this three 'MAL Is one small towelled twelve died it withdrew its baud, the evils would be certain to recur
is ens week, and five out of six In one family. He went on to with double force. (Hear, hear.) There were certain
eats Mat he was confi lent oaktlaird of the out-door poor would autism to be made and duties to be performed,
he swept away by the ensuing summer. Oa March 7th, 1849, which were not the duties of the state, but of the landlords
the beard of guardies was emenedad, and vice pardises and tenants towards each other; and whilst these duties
wire appointed, who, he believed, did their best ; but et the were not adequate'y performed on either side, no legislature
as.. time the amount of &illation was dais the on the ie. ter government could undertake to perform them. (Hear,
°°°°°°,.. _? is °°°°°4l°°°°° of these eviction.. In Much, 1830, hear.) There were changes occurring at pretest under the
ILIIIIIOIIII Kennedy reported that 1,000 cabins keel been operation of the Eacemared Estates Bill, and if )(Arab
levied in that union within the last three maths, and should be affected by the operation of that set in the sale of
Set he looked for a steady Scree.* of paupers. Oa one an estate, they would find that p -none of capital were car-
man property 23 houses were demolished io one day, and taro to be found coming formai to invest that capital in the
the number of houselees paupers was beyood almanac. itapri. nem' of the land sad the employment of the people.
The evicted families crowded Into woe **fhb:lw.* cabin. (Hear, hue.) There was no superabundant population in
end thus dimes was generated. Meantime the workhouse the union. He believed the Encumbered Es ate, Biil
sad the fever hospital were crowded to the utivet meat. was calculated to agent a great Maiip in the condition of
la a eagle Mawr he reported that 900 hems had been Irish affairs but he b lined at the same time that the
levelled, sad he expected that 600 more would be so. A remedy proposed by the hon. member for Snead,. namely, to
IM of *videos the made out, and authenticated by Capt, make Lindh sa 'medalist union, would be productive of
Kuudy, showed that 2,801 persons had been evicted up to much harm, as it would give a bad sample and mischievous
April, 1543 ; sad upward. of 15.000 a the following precedent, and is tee end only make things worm than thee
thirteen maths. In JsaulwYe 1849, the actions were at present. (Hear, hear.)
Wen going on, Captain Kennedy dearnbad the Mr. HORSMAN declared that if a person travelled
mus of the people se starving, and the land lying waste. through Europe he could not we so much misery
He attributed this state of things to the want of employ. arising Mai one cause as he had seen ooacentrated
neat, and the lad being left usealtinted. He imploredia one week in the union of Kilrush (as we
the Maths of the house, as ma and as Christians, to aadentood the honourable gentleman.) It seemed
Use atateseate. Mr. Phelan, the mak& officer of the
.h,. to him (Mr. Haman) that the right hon. gentleman who
Pitt/14w wwwfsaWswa' had b°°° awn W °mat" '"" followed alter Me boa. member fee Stroud stated a strong
aim, and his :gm fully oosfirmed that of Captain Kek foes in essfinnation of the „cagey of inquiry, when be
aed/' It Ira.
evident
that the amount of oat-door relief'
admitted that eas-fonnk of the oscdo tie retie walla's.
given wee iesafacisat to life. This destitution had -
tend throughout Inlaid wee administered alone in Clan.
continued through 1849. In the autumn, when the The noble lord at the had of her Majesty's government
vies parables quitted office, and the boards of guardians to bad
asserted that the state should not at (a and do that
gamed their dudes, owing to the slowing with which the rates _...._. . . . . .-.. Z. _
came in, tho whole of the poor creatures, 11,600 in cumber, Wnlea wish! to ce.uou by plasmodium But were they
not,very y . yda dm, that which the noble lord asserted the
who had bees receiving out-door relief, were st once unmanly
dienekeed. oyhe relief ens suspended for three wash. ht Rot to ao 3 (Hear, hear.) Were they not at that
' moment advancing large sums of mone to the Inrush
whoa many deaths having taken piece, the Liar. union, or at east post illas the payment of sums pro-
claim ware compelled to resume it, thereby ad- _,,,,,.., ..,____., , 1 .
(Hear, beer.) He confessed that
than that they had acted wrong in the first Instance. :,;71._'"":77".. '
beyond el, that
Agate, cia the 19th of Jamey the relief was disonatieued, ,.7.. w.„starafasowfis 11.1° w. w. . Jars. s that
legally , to a state
VI II kind of apitiosat ; bat st the sod of tea days or a they
'..."
t me from coalmen causes, should not be dealt with
fortnight it was reameaseed, and had continued to the pre- did not erenneon manner. (Hear, hear.)
eat time. Meantime, the woekhouse was in a deplorable "" '
state; hod wee mallet for the intimater; for a week they Mr. HUM Weed in the stalthent of the noble lord.
win fedse turnips semi i and the deaths in consequence, that any attempt on the part of the government to become
Increased from 21 in November to 71 in D.cember, and 149 wholesale garners, sad provide seed and labour wool.' be
telemetry. Them , dame Woe Mega, Irmo diarrhea, impanel,. But that was not the question submitted to
Cngthe insufficiency of the food. Crowds who coss, them. Meer, hew.) The question before them was,
aktanos of 16 or 20 muss to go Leto the workhouse whether say portloa of Irelad, ISM% for ineteßee, wee
were templed to waltall day Is the fleet or saw, and then usfortuastely circumstanced, and whether there were en!
rears without an atom of food. Amongst those thug re- Peculiar eifoulaetaleme sad what they were whisk had lod
ithedadmittaam several deaths had occurred. Than who to that reiserable date of things. (Hear.) It wee • het that
could Oct got relief had to return in the night acme an they had &deiced sem ; and public money should set be
arm of the sea; and on one night 34 were drowned, from a Riven WWI Sec purposes of hafwoothellie. Now, In Vandal
ctruy boat. There was baton mdse remedying the evil- 11,9oniole of ISO
the
=owl to Lira* sight It a0t,....e1at
to call OD the landed proprieties to employ the able-bodied well lo intake if the odeweeee mode to other www'm m•
poor in works of arterial drainage, te., or else to do it them. been repaid why were they not repaid by Karla • eau,
selves, and impose a lien on the land for the repayment. (Rear, hear.) It had bees mated that there will
wet
What he proposed we., that a commission should be cep- Lb!* of* the civilised world that couldhil °smi
poised to epee Into toe fats he had sand, and into the kiirush. Now mu such a state of theca,'
samdisillallie Me w
caddes of the i Hanteh Unice. country or to the government ? He, felt ea. di&
Mr. FAGAN seconded Me motion. that inquiry should be pealed. They ea he mega
air W. goyouto mut said m it. could rude's, corm. off than at )neat; but the abases were=lll bs
poedence is the books to which his Isom. friend referred fat betters pad that they might lain at a e
without experisacing the most pallid feelers. (Hear.) aatilfletw7 bt the °Will.° of such a sea ef diZ
(Hear hear )
The oeadition of Yana had been anything but 6 wish- , ' ' . .
in for three or lOW years wore the period to which his Colonel DUNNE believed that so boa. gentleman would
honourable Mead referred, and therefore the eels. refuse inpary.did be believe any beeeflt Meld result. The
city whisk had fallen ea the whole country rendered the distress *ought to be ascertained by the commission was • and the government others, the nu
ad-
,
maim of that union owner the most desperate in Ireland. mitted on a side.
Noshing °mid he non distressing thus the „ports of p_uardians, could, if neemeary, bear full testimony to it.
Captain Kennedy. The Mathis it was that induced
Therefore, he could net main Mat benefit a committee Kennedy.
of inquiry could effect. In his opinion, ill-adapted Isis.
the tto peas the est of the 11th and 12th Viet.,
a 4 for Me relief of destitute perms evicted in Ireland. WWI was at the bottom of the atila of that country. (Heir.)
Tat might sot have peeved gefleiest for the purpose, Lord NAAS said that, erwurriag is the views of the
but it showed, at all ovule, that the government had noble lad opposite (Led J. Russell) that it was impossible
not neglected their duty in sediesuring to apply a regsedy for the state to interfere with the employment of the people,
to that state of things. Weald his honourable friend yet still, after what he had heard of the uoprenedeated eats
have the soveramest or the legislalls to step in and my of misery that existed is the Kdrush union, he come/lived
that they would not allow the proprietors of the soil that house would not be doing its doty to the ualurame
to take
on of their property when thus people if they did not show them tint at least they were
who cum ed it had not Milled their segmemeats ? inclined to take some steps for their Improvement.
(Hear.) is honourable head that came to the year If the government had come forward and stated that
rat
1849, and he blamed the poor-law commission's for is the rains of the year measures would be adopted by them
their conduct In Mama to the elected board of for the improlemat of the country, there would he
undies' of Kama, and to the stoppage of relief. nun to hue.
His hoe. friend had sided the he correctly. The elected Lord J. RUSSELL war understood to say that various
guardians had loot all their credit, and they applied to the Roma, were In contemplation.
sontaissiours to terry out the law. The commissional Lord NAAS had not heard mention made of one.
*aught that the guardians bad failed In the necessary He begged to support the Ratios of the hon. member for
duty of collecting the rata. They therefore refused the Stroud. -
funds which had tees asked from them, end they thus-
tad he Muck% justly-threw the responsibility of suck a Sir G. GREY ould not see the Messily of a committee
state of Wage on the gurdiens. If they bed samosa to obtain further informatics, as he did not deem it possible
funds, his hen. friend, as ho Inferred fee hie speech, they could obtain stronger information than they already
would Mane the goverment ler doing so whilst any poseemeed from the report bikes the house famished by the
rata remaiaed uncollected. There was a sec and stoppage poor law commissioners, as to the can,. and extent of the
On the lieli January. The elleetheinten neared hatstep dthings prevaleat le the lamb union. (Hear, hear.)
OD thorn of the guardises. but Mktg' at it rather as an Thu, they had also the evidence of two hon. members who
tree, for i =oat than es a proof of their determination to had be eye witnesses of that distress, and he wished to
' tritklabl , and sot wishing to have recourse again to know was it likely that any eciescasion that might be
the extras step of dissolving a board of psalm and spii granted would be more competent to report then were these
patting paid °theses ea their oleos, they took no farther boa. gatemen t The Roble lord opposite (Lord Naas) had
steps tote matter. Hie bon. friend asked for a cosamissioa, **mislead that he heed of no measure f.r the Improve-
hut he did Mese that it mold lead to any good malt ceded mat of KAMM. True ; no special moms for the is
ft mild imply any additional isermation thread what wee pronseat of that locality was contempt. ed, but measures
tobe (sada thecorrespondeseselnedy lab% balm the them we coatesplated that would have the effect of extending
He thought it might do Meths( by excites hope whisk easplopesat, tbir.sdproprietary, to the labouring point-
could ace be realised, and leading the people to rely on NOW lollies, and la at the emu time the sedition of
thing the then Sleek own essliess sad ladrelly, spat the sell. It was 7 such cases as that presented by

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'HE IL [MUM Ulf:lk V.s. high WY d9•41111d emliactifite nzi, the
PE then, pumas to le' IA Apnoea, but
/as holm to the medal 4Be ones aft list there et
meaty of Clue, and por siler eh, •Hiecatiag Qat oint 111 &MI be
semidries ie impel. hniettlee 'ea • lentrertaiAsse esess she
hat ay be Viol NI he apeelio las grinow alive top astko, .am
loe give ali sad I. tiptoe. asp anj , Ism %if The MO i
Mimed salsas ' a weefea 'reknit +MO, the Kibosh stated thpe poirrieleaswer•
at a type of many ethos is similar edema. shag,ad dm' wasis"Plial MIMI" in Mpifuw the lead,
miss a Kama, wind the welters sad Shot She quadty of potatoes teem woo pest, if set
_ —. . . . =....e..iik•m la Jr. ram Anon grid& amargadi.thaihmina_