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evening what were the intentions of the Government.
Those intentions would be carried into effect by a new
warrant ; and as soon as it received the royal sanction it
would be communicated to the house. (Hear.) He
should also lay the recent warrant on the table. He
was not just then prepared to answer the question of the
noble lord ; but if any further grant should be required,
he had no doubt the house would be perfectly ready to
vote it. (Hear, hear.)

ROYAL MILITARY ASYLUM, CHELSEA.
Mr. OLIVEIRA asked the Under Secretary for War
whether arrangements were being made at the Royal
Military Asylum, Chelsea, for receiving the 120 addi-
tional children of soldiers on foreign service, promised
by the late Right Hon. Secretary at War on the sth day
of May, 1854 ? - -
Mr. PEEL said that twenty additional children bad
been admitted, and the remainder would be received as
soon as the necessary buildings had been completed. •
Colonel NORTH said that so long ago as May, 1854,
the house bad passed the resolution referred to. The
other day he went to look at the building which was
preparing for the purpose, and found there was scarcely
a brick on the ground. He wished to know the cause
of the delay ?
Mr. BOUVERIE gave some explanation, which
was not heard in the gallery. He was understood to
say that the building was nearly np to the roof.
TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH THE
CRIMEA.

Mr. S. KNOX asked if there 'was say foundatiAn for
rumours which had prevailed for the last few days re-
specting the operations in the Crimea, and whether the
Government was in receipt of any more recent intern-
' gence than had been published?
Lord PALMERSTON—The telegraphic communica-
tion with the Crimea has been interrupted for two or
three days, and that is the reason why ne intelligence
has been received. Information has been received to-
day that that communication has been re-established,
and the last accounts were that there had been a con-
siderable amount of firing between the batteries and the
works on the other side, but there was no result of any
importance. This despatch was dated at 11 o'clock in
the evening of the 17th, and was received at four o'clock
to-day.
CIVIL SERVICE SUPERANNUATION FUND.
Mr. DISRAELI said the Government had promised
to bring in a bill on this subject ; otherwise he and his
friends would have introduced one. He wished to know
when the bill would be laid before the house ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
bill to which the right hon. gentleman referred had been
prepared before he succeeded to his present office, and
had been some time under the consideration of the Go-
vernment. It was now in an advanced state, and he
should have been prepared, after giving it some further
consideration, to ask leave for its introduction, had he
seen any probability of its receiving duo consideration in
the present session. But in the present state of the
public business he did not think there was any chance
of its passing ; therefore ho saw no use in merely laying
it on the table.

THE DEBATE ON ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.
Mr. LINDSAY asked if the noble lord at the head of
the Government would fix any night for the resumption
of the debate which was adjourned on Tuesday last, and
which now stood at the bottom of the orders ?
Lord PALMERSTON—I have postponed public
business several times for the convenience of hon. mem-
bers who wished to bring important questions before the
house. (Hear, bear.) But the season is now far ad-
vanced. Everybody knows that, by a resolution of the
House of Lords, bills which arc sent up there before the
24th of July, unless bills of supply or on questions of
urgency, will not be proceeded with by that house ; and
I am sorry to say that, until the business of the Go-
vernment has made further progress, I shall not feel
myself justified in postponing that business for the con-
venience of individual members. (Hear.)
Mr. LINDSAY—After the answer of the noble lord,
and after what fell from a member of the Government,
the other evening, I beg to give notice that to-morrow,
upon the motion for the adjournment of the house to
Monday, I shall repeat, in my place here, the statement
which I made elsewhere ; and I hope to satisfy the house
that I was not uttering a " ribald falsehood." (Hear.)
KINGSTOWN HARBOUR.

In reply to Mr. IL HERBERT,
Mr. WILSON Mated that the Government, after due
inquiry, had given instructiJns for the works at Rings-
sto wn Harbour t..) proceed as they bad before done.
TENANTS' IMPROVEMENT COMPENSATION
(IRELAND) BILL.
The house having resumed, the committee proceeded
with the discussion of clause 4, which involves the claim
for compensation for the improvement of waste lands.
Mr. FRENCH said that he regarded the clause as one
of the most important of the whole bill, and without it
the bill would not give satisfaction to the people of Ire-
land. He should take the sense of the committee on the
retention of the words giving compensation for the re-
clamation of waste lands.

Mr. POLLARD-URQ UHARTsaid it would be a per-
fect mockery to procred with the bill without this clause.
Mr. BLAND agreed with his hon. friends in regard-
ing the principle of compensation for the reclamation of
waste lands the most important in the bill.
Mr. HORSINIAN admitted that the improvement of
wastelands was most desirable,and ought to be encouraged.
But there were great difficulties as to how the compensa-
tion could bea warded—so great, indeed, that he thought it
better not to insert in the class of cases to be compen-
sated that of the improvement of waste lands. He did
not insert it, because there was no fair hope of carrying
it.

Mr. MAGUIRE should like to know what the right
hon, gentleman the Attorney-General for Ireland, who
was solemnly pledged to procure a good tenants' com-
pensation bill, thought of the omission of this principle
from the bill

Mr. KIRK aivoeated the principle of compensation
for waste land improvement as a matter of justice.
Captain JONES said it seemed to him that hon. gen-
tlemen opposite did not wish to stop short of taking
away all the property from the landlords, and leaving
them nothing but rent charges on the land. (Hear.) He
thought the principle of waste land compensation would
lead to endless litiotion between landlords and tenants,
Mr. S. FITZGERALD thought the reclamation of
waste lands was not an improvement of that character
which, if landlords did not make, tenants should make
for them against their will. ([Tear.)
Mr. NAPIER said this bill was composed of two bills,
and only one part of it was his, and the part they were
now discussing was not his.

Mr. Serjeant SHEL' was exceedingly disappointed at
the course taken by the Government, and he almost
despaired of any good being done by this bill after hav-
ing seen the amendments proposed by the Government.
If the bill passed as proposed, the landlord in such a case
would be furced to allow compensation for the land, and
would be prevented from committing an act of the
grossest injustice. If the clause was struck out there
would be little left in the bill worth having. These im-
provements required no capital to effect them, and
afforded the small holders an opportunity of employing
their surplus labour, and there would be no difficulty in
estimating the value of them.
Lord PALMERSTON thought it would be better to
confine themselves to the bill, instead of fighting their
battles over again, as some gentlemen seemed disposed
to do. He considered that those gentlemen who were
anxious the bill should pass would do better if, instead
of insisting on every provision they thought conducive
to their object, they endeavoured to shape it in such a
way as would give some chance of its passing this session.
That would be a more prudent course than to persist
year after year in sending up a bill to the Lords in order
to be rejected. He fully admitted that the improvement
of the waste lands was an object much to be desired
for the improvement of Ireland, and he agreed with the
hen, and learned gentleman that any attempt to do so on
a large scale was not likely to prove remunerative ; he
had tried the experiment himself, and would not recom-
mend any of his friends to do so. He was still of the
opinion he had expressed in the committee up-stairs,
that this part of the bill was at variance with sound
principles. All contracts and arrangements between
buyer and seller ought to be left to the parties to be re-
gulated, and any interference by law was vicious ; a
landowner was nothing but a seller, and the tenant the
buyer, of the occupation. He would appeal to the hen.
gentlemen who were anxious for the success of the bill to
consent to such changes as would insure the passing of a
measure which he believed would confer a great benefit
on the landlords and tenants of Ireland.
After a few words from several hon. members,
The question whether the words relating to waste
lands should stand part of the bill was then put by the
chairman, and upon a division there were—
Ayes
Noes

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93-46

Mr. Sergeant SHEE then moved the insert►on of some
words providing compensation for the main draining or
thorough draining of land, or for the improvement of it
by irrigation. The learned gentleman read some extracts
from the works of Sir Robert Kane and others, upon the
importance of drainage to the agricultural prosperity of
Ireland.

Colonel DUNNE opposed the amendment upon the
same grounds as those upon which it was objected to
last year, when the same proposition was negatived by
32 to 8 votes.

Mr. POLLARD URQUHART, in support of the
amendment, said that all tourists in Ireland had spoken
of the want of drainage in that country. He believed
that in Warwickshire and Lincolnshire, if not in other
parts of England, there was a tenant right custom about
drainage, and no difficulty was found in carrying it into
operntion.
Mr. NAPIER said that what the select committee
considered upon this subject was, that all improvements
within the soil should only be made by express contract;
for their value could not be estimated without taking up
all the ground, which would be very destructive. This
was the opinion they came to, after a great deal of dis-
cu,sion, and the learned serjeant was a member of the
committee.
Dir. Serjeaut WILE denied that lie had ever agreed to