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MIL as far as relstoll to rownstotlities, het not with prosi-
woe., rue he rowardered it unjust to interfere with masteri,
sod to restraiu them from paying their mat either in Meristy
I r Frovisions. On the Cuotinest the farmers' uniformly
raid their labourers sr much as they could in rovislousi, sod
as little as pee tittle in money.
Mr. MY M F. tlionatit, that instead of renewing we should
away with all the Sininire existing on the subject.
• Tb. PAitino• were thew orallieried to b. priered. •
Mr. LITTLETON presented a Petition frost certain silk
wianoftiet niers in Stafford against the Warehouseiug
4.?rilered to be printed.

DISTRESS IN IRELAND.
. Mr. FITZGERALD aunt his Majesty's
I‘lloistera could not be ignorant of the afflicting ac-
e:wilds which were every day veceived from Ireland.
He wished to take that occasion to ask his Right
Hon. Friend, the Secretary for Ireland, what
spetourea of relief were iu the contemplation of the
Irtah•Government, and in what manner the money
already granted should be applied He was aware
liow irregular it was ou that occasion to do more
thou simply ask the question,. but he could nut
omit that opportunity of calling the attention of the
Hasse to the motel condition or Ireland, and to
4S4ire them that that condttion would admit of no
delay ; for be the charity of England however
active, end its liberality however extensive,• if any
Mall supposed that the frnill4 collected in that way,
kieridea the vote of Parliament. would be sufficient,
he could tell him that he greatly deceived himself. li
He therefore hoped his Bight Honourable Friend
*Mild not hesitate to state what the Government
hail in view, for Ireland awaited his answer with the
sleepest anxiety.—(Flyer, hear.)
Mr. GouLatrun thanked hi. Hight Honourable
Friend for the opportunity he had afforded hint of
inuring the House how deeply the Irish Govern-
ment sympathised with the distresses of the nation.
Taro questions had been propounded to him; the
fist as to the application of the sum already voted
fay Parliament ; and secondly, as to whether Go-
ierotneitt hail any other measures in contempletion?
With respect to the first, he had to state, that
flom the first moment it appeared to the Govern-
ment of Ireland that it was advisable to inter.
fere in @Cording assistance, a Committee was
fOrned under the direction of the Lord Lieutenant,
to. Communicate wish the Committees appointed in
the different districts the most distressed, and
the Lord Lieutenant availed himself of the power
v:ited in him by the Act passed in 1817, In apply
the sums which were remaining undisposed of to
/there those parts of the country in which the wants
were most 'riming. That Committee applied
themselves most sedulously to the task, Owl, when
Means were affinded, to distribute relief to all eases
•aflitch the exigencies required. beyond this the
Home would recollect that he had the honour of
submitting two measures to their consideration :
the one to enable the Lord Lieutenant to advance
rums voted by Grand Juries its Ireland to relieve
the distresses, and the other to obtain a sum of
60,0001. from Parliament. Immediately on the
passing of those Bills, engineers were vent down
info those districts where relief was required, in or-
der to execute that species of work which was best
calculated to afford assistance. In some districts
works of that nature had been ccommeneed,aid
from the payment of labour the poor people had
-received great relief ; and 'he had no doubt that
at the titoment lie W.il, then speaking. through the
medium of those individuals, extensive assonance
hail been afforded. When he introduced these
°leisure. he stated that be did not expect the Tuns
' he then proposed would be adequate to meet all the
distress which prevailed. but that Government was
anxious to make the commencement of affirding
asistance. He felt in common with his Right Hes-
.infieroble Friend how very pressing the distress was.
bit it was a satisfaction to his mind to feel that it-
'44l not extended to.• great portion of the country,
Vitt limited as it wen, there was ennogh of aggra-
vation in the counties where the _door.' prevailed
to justify them in calling on the Government and
Nehmen, fur atilt further assistance, and when-
ever the rum placed in the !Audi of the Lord Lieu-
.tenant was nearly exhinsited, he should submit a
prOposiiion fur whatever additional sum might be
claimer I steeping.
" Mr. JOHN SMITH said that the Right lion.
Getttletuan had stated that there was a Committee
alliibinted in the city of Dublin to afford assistance
trithe distressed districts. what they did he knew
nut. but lie knew epough to say, that what they
edid, was quits insufficient. In the accounts re-
ceived this very day were more calamities than arty
they had yet heard from Ireland. From authentic
'occilunts which had been made out in the different
hart:Mies of the county of Clare, it appeared that
there were in that county 99,639 persona subaisliug
on charity; and in Cork, where a Committee had
breei appointed, consisting of the most respectable
unit there, there were 132,000 persons who could
not subsist without relief, and who must perish if
they did not obtain it. But in addition to that, sc.
cossets bad been received this day which stated that?
in the barony of Wynn, in the county of Claret
several persons had actually perished from want.--i
(Hew, isear.)—Surely it was the first duty of any
Government worth a farthing to prevent the subi
jeets from starving.—(Flyer, hear.)—He therefore
eseantly implored the Government to grind some
immediate assistance.

Mr. Seatuo Rica stated, that in one district,
. containing 67,000 persons, there were 50,000 acto-
ally
subsisting on charitable relief. However est
the fund at the disposal of the Government, 'and
however prudently it might be assuaged, all it
cooed du would be to afford present relief, and upon
the Government Ireland must wholly rely fur per-
. liniment assistance. tie therefore hoped moat ear-
bestly that something immediate would be done,
for while they were deliberating the people might
perish,.
'Nit EDWARD 0113aten maintained that the dos.
from wive Mori dreadful than any apprehension
which seemed to be entertained of .it by the fiou,e,
trad.that it wuuld take 350,000/. to supply the lie-
u essilles of those who were tin* st.string, for six
we.ka only.

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Ski J. NEWPORT lamented that It was impovvi-
lile in how for any good fromedie contributions.
Voliourahle as they were to the ,generosity of the
• Alitrglish people. Without alleviating the distre,a,
they would lead the people to depend upon sop-
pli,s of ttharity in fu ore, and refit their rtliarice
uo acute wdu.try. Ile thought that it would be
muds better to lay not inanity in public or 011itr
evatv, than to bestow it grottittinisly.
Nr• l'aLL pledged Ittmstlf that the Irish

vernroent had its attention entirely absorbed by this
Subject, but it was one of such extreme peril and
difficolty that it could not be benefited by the'
present anode of discussion. lie, therefore,
plorid dial the further consideration of it might be,
delayed. He stated that several sums of money
had hero received by the Lind Lieutenant, among
them Due of 6,000/. for the county of Limerick, to
be expended on works of public or private utility. .:
Mr. ADIReRGIIIT approved of the course sug-
rated by the !tight Hon. Secretary.
Mr. Houk protected a Petition from the shoe-,
makers of lovernes• against the Royal Scotch
Burghs Accounts Bill. Also • Petition from the
tradeirhen of Perth against the new piton') duty on
indeitturea.—The Petitions were laid
on the table.
Mr. BRIGHT presented a Petition from the fish.-
curers of Bristol against the ga, salt duties.—Laid
on the table.
Lind Fire presented 't similar Petition from the
fish-curer. of Bauff.—Laid on the table.
Mr. Floatiouse presented a Petition from J.
Mionimer, on behalf of the Friendly Societies,
prating that • clause might be introduced in the
New StaMP Duties Regulation Bill 10 exempt
them from Stamp Duties agreeably to the spirit of
all former Stamp Bills since the 33d George Ill.—
Ordered to be printed..
Mr. HEATHCOTE presented • Petition from
Gainshortingli. Lincoln, against the two shillings
salt duties. He added his support to the Patton.,
fearing that the machinery of the tax was retained
with a view to the renewal on the first opportunity.
Lord STA* tea moved for account, of Put-tali
imporad nito Great Britain and Iteland from the
United States arid British Colonies of Americus—
Ordered.
Mr. J. P. GRANT presented a Petition from the
B•rgeolvo of blueness against the Royal Burghs
Accounts Bilt. .%;•hrci the Lord Advocate
could be induced to 'let the Bill go over till next
Session.
The Loan ADVOCATE intimated that the Bill
was too impurtuut to admit or that delay.
The Petition was laid me the table.
The LORD ADVOCATE moved the Order of the
Day fur the recommittisig the Royal Scotch Burghs
Accounts Bill.
Mr. DRUMMOND moved that it he on instruction
to the CoMmittee to divirfe the pill into two parts
if they should see t. —O, dere:rt.
Before the Speaker left the Chair,
' Lord A. HAMILTON rose to oppose the Bill, as
he wished to have it postponed altogether. No two
thing% could be' more opposed than the Bill and
the Report, "from which it professedly originated,
Amy other Bill on the table would have as apt it
remedy for the disease.
The LORD Atti!ocore would prove to the Dow,
when discoming the detail, in the Committee; that .
the Bill was every way a proper remedy fur the
evil. complained of.
Mr. J. P. GRANT denied that the Bill was any
thing like • sufficient remedy for the evils pointed •
out to the Committee.
MrAleme denied that the Bill contained any
retniedt whichasroald go to the root of the evil.
He objected •tio the Bill altogether, but in dr-
feresce to hii friends, who thought that some
good might tome of it, he would slot prevent it
from being reconsidered In the Committee. Ile
waiconviricid that the efflett ref it'wonld be to per.
petuate the evils now existing, by giving the Ma-
gistrates a perpetual power to elect their sue-
Cell/Of si
Mr. W. SMITH was glad of one drake in the
Bill, which visited Magistrates with a title of 50C1.
for utelvereatioa of the corporate funds. He
wished a similar enactment for boroughs in Eng-
land, where he had frequently seen the electitos of
officers of the ctirporatimi carried on with as much
, corruption, struach barefaced corruption, as (if be
might ,so speak) the election of oily Member who
rat in that House.— (Laughter).
Lord BINNINO said, that the Bill would correct
abuses without injuoiag the charters.
Mr. MAxwet.i. said, that lie hoped the fine
which it was intruded to propose in the Bill, as a
penalty upon the neglect or refusal of the Maps.
hates to comply with the regulations respecting the
accounte, would be • boats fide penalty, and en.
acted with a view to its being really. inflicted. He
concurred in several of the enactments of the Bill,
bet he was not satisfied with the measure as a
whole ; for he did not think any measure adequate
to the removal of the evils of the present burgh
system, as long as the self.electiug principle in any
degree remained.
The House then resolved itsel f into the Committee
on the Bill ; and in going Omagh the several chows
paragraph by paragraph, several amendments of a
verbal and lt Clinical nature were proposed, winch
• occasionally gave rise to a lengthened and desultory
conversation. Ou the clause enacting that the
annual accounts of the Magistrates of each Burgh
should be deposited in the office of the Town Clerk
ell the Ist day of October, except it fall on a Suit-
day, in which taw on the duy after, there to re-
main for thirty de). open to the inspection of the
burgesses, and in cute of the explanations given
not being satiafectory, the amine to be subjected to
the decision of the Court of Exchequer ;
Mr. J. P. GRANT moved att stnentlinent, fur
the oppoititinesit of five auditors Pi each burgh to
inspect the secomos, and in the event of the expla-
nations given being satisfactory to the mitjority
of the auditors, the accounts the, to be pouted,
but in case the explanations should not he approved
by the the majority of the auditors, then the ac-
counts in dispote to be settled on appeal to the
Court of Session.

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On this stneodeseot the Committee divided—
Ayes

Niors Milo&

lejochiratr the original Clause IB
Onour rein, ntu the gallery, we I d the Com-
mittee proceeding to dispare of the retusiassug
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deur**. •
Si, RONALD FaaGtans wished to know whether
there wirsohy arose w the prevent Bill to save the
rights aid jarisaittiun of the head courts, which
existed its some boroughs. very advantageously fur
the nsiblic. They met iiinuolly, and confirmed or
annulled the proceedings of the Magistrates and
Toren Council, and in those burghs where they
exercised their ftructions properly, the prosperity,
of the burgh was tlwtimsequesice.
The Lost, Atitilemut wool not aware of the

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