The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-19 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1855.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GAR-
DENS. THIS EVENING. Grand Modelled View of Se-
bastopol. An attempt will be made to convey to the public an idea
of the operations of a siege, and that nothing may be wanting W
give reality to the scene the pruprietor has se mred the services of
considerable number of the woundul heroes of the Crimea, and at
half-past 6 this evening will be given the attack and defeat of the
Ras-lau sortie, in which upwards of 'On soldiers, merines, artillery-
men, and seamen wilt a sis% Final Repulse of the Russians And
Bombardment of Sebastopol, with grand Pyrotechnic Tableau, at a
quarter to 10. Splendid Menagerie, Fepitant's Car, Remington's
Aerial Bridge, Godfrey's itnrivalle 1 li and, and numerous other
atractiordi. Admission Is., daylight attack and night bimbard-
meat included. N.B.—Corp...ral Bridges and Private .1. Mackey,
of the Coldstream Guards, both severely wounded at Ink,rman,
attend every day, from 3 till atoll, to point out the various objects
of interest, &c.

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Olodk.

months. By the 14th clause of this act, which was called
the retrospective clause, it was proposed to give tenants
compensation for improvements before the passing of
the act. He was opposed both to retrospective and
prospective compensation, and he was surprised
at the apathy with which English members
viewed the application of this measure to Ire-
laud. Was such a bill proposed for England they
would view it with very different feelings. Ireland bad
been made an exception by the manner in which she had
been legislated fir. After all they were not introducing
into Irelitrid some grand original theory that had never
been tried, for he could inform hon. members that the
principle of compensation to outgoing tenants bad been
tried in a portion of Sussex and Surrey, and had signally
failed. It was a principle disliked by both landlord and
tenant, because it exhausted the capital of the. incoming
tenant, and caused inferior cultivation of the soil wher-
ever it was in operation. It had always been asserted,
and with truth, that the greatest curse to Ireland was I
her middlemen, yet by this bill the Legislature would
create a race of middlemen, and perpetuate them, and at
the same time, by this absurd legislation, they would
encumber the property of the holders of land in a man-
ner they never anticipated, and which it would be im-
possible for them to discharge. In that class would be
included those who bad purchased property' under the
Incumbered Estates Bill, and who, by introducing fresh
capital and energy into Ireland, were working out slowly,
but surely, the regeneration of that country. The
great desideratum for the regeneration of Ireland
was the introduction of capital and energy,
but he feared very much if this bill passed in its present
state there would be very little of either introduced
there. Every species of political quackery it was pos-
bible to be devised bad been tried on Ireland, and now,
when the middlemen were looked upon as a curse to the
country, they sought to establish a class of them. This
new measure, which was a weakly one, had been assented
to by a weak Government, but whilst it was powerless
for evil. (Hear.) The Government, therefore, to bene-
fit Ireland,.must reverse thefr'pandy tdwards `her,-and
roscue her from that reproach which had been truthfully
addre,sed to her, that "she was, indeed, a member
of the empire—but a withered and deteriorated mem-
ber—adding no strength to the body politic, but re-
proaci.fully pointed at by all who envied the glory of
England." (Hear.) •
Sir G. GREY thought it would be far better to dis-
cuss these clauses in committee than to prolong the dis-
cussion on the question that the Speaker do now leave
the chair.

Sir J. WALSH deprecated the course proposed
by the right honourable gentleman the Secretary
for the Home Department, believing that it would
have the effect of putting an end to the right
of a minority to assert its opinions. He
deprecated the important questions involved in the mea-
sure being discussed in morning sittings, and that was
the only reason that induced him to vote for the ad-
journment of the debate. Ile thought that the right
hon. gentleman the Secretary for Ireland had gone upon
very wrong premises in supposing that the prospective
clauses of the bill were without interest and importance.
He bolted upon them with great interest, and therefore
considered that they ought not to be discussed in a thin
house. Ho thought these clauses were a premium to a
bad tenant to hold his landlord at bay, and to afford
him opportunity of defrauding. He thought
that the propositions of the present bill set the
landlord aside, took no notice of his interest, and only
looked to the welfare of the tenant. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. I. BUTT was anxious that the bill should go into
committee, in order that the provisions of the bill might
be considered there in its details, and if it contained any
defects they might be altered The house ought to re•
collect that the bill had been introduced by the right
hon. gentleman the member for Dublin (Mr. Napier).
The hon. baronet who had spoken last had deprecated
the principle of the bill on the ground that it
had adopted the principle of retrospective le-
gislation. Had he forgotten what he had
stated on 'a former occasion ? He considered the
provisions of the bill contained the elements. of good,
and he should therefore support the motion for its going
into committee, and in that stage of the measure he
would make any objections he might have to its details.
Mr. GEORGE had great objections to the retrospec-
tive clauses of this hill, but felt every disposition to go
into committee on the bill, for the purpose of considering
its prospective clauses; in order to render the measure as
useful as possible.

Col. DUNNE thought the bill one of most serious
import for Ireland, and he believed that the Chief Secre-
tary for the country had little confidence in the measure.
He believed that the hill had been only introduced' for
the purpose of obtaining a momentary popularity—(hear,
hear)—and he must therefore oppose the measure in its
present state.

Mr. MOWBRAY said that English members felt it
to be their duty to ascertain what were the principles of
bilis to which the assent of the house was asked. When
the house recollected the speech of sohigh an authority as
the right lion. and learned Solicitor-General, in which he
enunciated the principles of the bill, it. became the house
to consider whether some farther disounion of the mea-
sure was.not necessary. Now, although objections had
been urged to the bill, which had not been answered,
-the house seemed to be disposed to sanction the further
progress of the bill. (Hear, hear.) He, as well as
many hon. members, thought the objections to the bill
were so great and its principles so dangerous that they
would object to the further progress of the bill. (Rear.)
Mr. RICE, as an .E,,glish member, quite
concurred in the objections urged by the hon. member
for Durham (Mr. Mowbray), and could not give his vote
in favour of the further progress of the bill. (gear.)
The house then divided on the motion that the Speaker
do now leave the chair, when the numbers were-
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46
Majority... —B3
The SPEAKER accordingly left the chair, and the house
went into committee.

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