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London, England, 1852-02-11 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY ll, 1852.

Chelsea Water works,

Cork Improvement,

Droitwich Junction Canal.

Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway.
East London Waterworks.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Hatfield Chase Drainage, and New Outfall into Trent.
Lancaster Waterworks, Cemetery, and Gas.
Limerick Improvement and Market.

London and North-Western Railway.
London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway.
London and North-Western and Buckinghamshire Railways.
London and Southampton Road, through Bishop's Waltham.
Mansfield Gas.
Medina River Navigation.
Merthyr Tydfil Waterworks.
Monmouthshire Railway and Canal.
Rhyl Improvement,
Scarborough Market and Approaches.
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway.
Staffordshire ani Worcestershire Canal.
Vale of Neath Railway.
Wolverhampton Gas.
Yeovil and Ilchester Turnpike Trusts.
PE fl rioNs.
Mr. HINDLEY presented a petition from a place in
Northamptonshire, praying for the repeal of the May-

nooth grant.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented two similar petitions

from the same county.
Mr. ELLIS presented a petition from Leicester, pray-
ing for the abolition of tithes.
Sir DE LACY EVANS presented a petition from
certain pensioners, praying for an inquiry into their ease.
Mr. BRIG EIT presented two petitions, numerously
signed, fromManchetser, praying for the enfranchisement

of copyholds.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from Manches-
ter, praying the House to take steps for introducing a
system of reproductive labour into the poor-law unions.
IRISH REFORn BILL.
Mr. KEOGH thought it of importance that Ireland
should he provided for in the English Reform Bill, and
he should be glad to know if the Government intended

:hat it should be.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied in the negative. Ire-
[and would be provided tor in a distinct Bill.

LAW OF SETTLEMENT.

In reply to Sir JOHN PAKINGTON,
Mr. BAINES said it was bighly important that same
improvement should be made in the present law of set-
tlamunt, but in the present state of public business there
was little hope of his having an opportunity of bringing
in a Bill for that purpose. Should it turn out, however,
that there would be time to pass such a Bill this 00811011,
he should be most happy to bring it in.— (Hear, bear.)
fie regretted that the state of business as now arranged
did not admit of his giving a more satisfactory answer.
EAST INDIA. COMPANY'S CHARTER.

I❑ reply to Viscount JOCELYN,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that Mr. Fox Maule
would state in a few days when he proposed to bring in

a Bill to renew the Ea-t India Company's Charter.

NOTICES OF MOTION.
Mr. SPOONER gave notice that this day fortnight he
should call the attention of the House to the state of
education in Maynooth.
Mr. W. J. FOX gave notice that this day fortnight
he should renew his motion for a Select Committee upon
the subject of national education.
Mr. B. OSBORNE gave notice that, in Committee
on the New Reform,Bill, he should move that Kensington,
Chelsea, Hammersmith, and Fulham, should have the
right of returning representatives to Parliament.
JURY ACT OF IRELAND.

In reply to Mr. WHITESIDE.
The A'T'TORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND stated
that it was intended to amend and improve the provisions
of the Jury Act of Ireland, and a Bill would be shortly

brought in for that purp,ie.
EXVULSION OF BRITISH SUBJECTS FROM

AUSTRIA.

Mr. C. ANSTEY said that several British subjects had
bee❑ expelled from Pesth, because they professed Pro-
testantism, and he wished to know whether Government
intended to obtain some satisfaction for this gross viola-
tion of international law, seeing that these parties had
not abused any of the laws under which they lived?
Lord J. RUSSELL said he should be prepared to
answer the question on Thursday.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Mr. THOMAS COLLINS wished to ask the Noble
Lord the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests,
at whose expense the surveys made for the Board of
Health and the Government, for a supply of water to
the metropolis, had been made, and by whom the Par-
liamentary expenses relating thereto had been paid;
and what had been the total expense hitherto incurred?
Lard SEYMOUR said 674/. had been expended by
the Board of Health in surveys, and 6,6001. in Parlia-
mentary expenses.
Mr. T. COLLINS wished to ask, if such expenses
had been paid out of national funds, whether there was
any provision in the Government Water Bill fur the
repayment, by the people of the metropolis, of the money
so expendel?
Lord SEYMOUR said it had been paid out of the
National Exchequer.
TEN ANT RIGHT.

Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD moved for leave to
bring in a Bill to provide for the better securing and
regulating the custom of tenant right, as practised in
the province of Ulster, and to secure compensation to
improving tenants who may not make claim under the
said custom, and to limit the power of eviction in certain
cases. This, he said, was called a tenant-right question,
but he proposed, if the House gave him leave to bring in
the Bill, ample provision would be made in it for se-
curing the rights of landlords. The grievances com-
plained of by the tenants of Ireland had tong existed and
were of no alight character.—(Hear, hear.) They in-
flicted great injustice upon the tenant, and many evils
were produced by the present system which would not
exist at all if a Bill like this were adopted. It could
not be said that the nature of these grievances was not
known and fully understood by the Legislature, because
the matter had often been inquired into by Committees
and commissions; and the House must by this time be
well informed upon the subject.—(Hear, hear.) The
present system gave no impetus to industry; from the in-
security in which tenants lived now they were reluctant
to make extensive improvements in the soil, and the re-
sult was bad cultivation and the non-payment of rents.—
(Hear.) Then, to aggravate these evils, the landlords had
adopted the practice of consolidating the farms, and
the people had been reduced to such a state of misery
and fright that they were glad of an opportunity to take
wing to America or some other hospitable land that was
willing to receive them.—(Hear, hear.) He did not
wish to revive the old cry against the landlord
class, but after the examples and warnings they
had had of late, he thought they could no longer with-
hold the concession of tenant right to the yeomanry
of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) The objects of this Bill
were two; first, it was to give security by law to the
property created by the industry of the tenant; and,
secondly, it would enable the out-going tenant to claim
compensation for all improvements he may have accom-
plished on his farm in the course of his tenantry.
The object of the Bill had often been approved of by
Lord Stanley, and to show the importance of adopting
it, he need only mention that his own union contained
93,000 acres of land, which had been improved by the
capital and labour of the tenants to the extent of
81. ; and therefore, under the present system,
there was at this moment more than 700,000/.
of property belonging to the tenantry that was
wholly at the mercy, whim, will, or caprice of the land-
lord.—(Hear, hear.) The object, then, of his Bill was
to meet such cases as that, and if the Legislature would
only pass its provisions into a law, the soil of Ireland
would become more fruitful, and its cultivators would
be made happy and contented.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. KEOGH seconded the motion.
Sir G. GREY said, as the House had on several occa-
sions allowed the Hon. Member to lay on the table such
a Bill as he now proposed, he should offer no opposition
to its being brotight in, but if its provisions were the
same as those of the former Bill, the Hon. Member must
expect to encounter a Government opposition on the se-
cond reading. He admitted many of the facts which the
Hon. Member had stated, while he conceded to him that
the tenantry of Ireland laboured under great and mani-
fold evils and grievances ; but he was afraid the remedy
which the ion. Gentleman proposed would be totally
inadequate to meet the case.—(Hear.) Some reference
had been made to the recent outrages committed iu
one or two parts of Ireland, but he denied that those out-
rages were the result of the bad cultivation of the land,
or the want of tenant right, but rather of a lawless con-
federation to bring about a reduction of rents.—(Hear,
hear.) Government was bound to put down that system of
terrorism by the strong arm of the law, and the House and
the country might depend upon it, no concession would
be made to those who sought to attain extravagant ends
by the force of threats and outrages.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. GRATTAN hoped the discussion of this
thet
ques-
tion would not be stopped short to-night, but
i
t would be gone into fully, and without amoment'sreferred
delay.—(Hear, hear.) No doubt the outrages
to by the Right Hon. Secretary of State for the Home
Department were not traceable directly to the
tahbesyenwceeroef,
tenant right in Ireland, but in some measure
for had the landlords abstained fromadraivihnegtteoru
tenants, like beasts, from off the land,
plea But that
would have prevailed amongst the fteethlieni;
was beside the question; what they
was at 5 loss to
was the subject of tenant right, and
fwbepereeonow discussing
understand why it was to be
trheeuesxedp.ensSeuerfelhyisalabmoaunr
who bad improved an estate at the
compensation when
and capital was entitled
to
arender his holding. Well,
his landlord made himl
whined this Bill demanded,
then, that was
and if Government we really anxious to restore the
he was at a loss to understand
camlleadnyupoonf tothoopercoisies
prosperity of Ireland,
why they should feeHl themselvese
attributed
it.—(Hear, hear.)
which prevailed in Ireland to absenteeism; fine estates
were destroyed by the neglect of their proprietors, for
the large landlords had too often abandoned their duty
and left their tenantry to the mercy of middlemen, and
The consequence was the tenantry became careless of
easistence, and banded themselves against law and order.
--(Hear.) Hence arose the dreadful evictions which
bad so recently occurred, and which had brought so
much discredit upon thelandlorda of Ireland generally.
It was, however, the absentees who were responsible for
the consequences, and unless the House wished to wit-
ness a recurrence of such terrible scenes, they would not
hesitate to give their consent to some measure of this
sort.—(Hear.) The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to
attack the absentee landlords of Ireland as the cause of
much of the evil under which that country was sufferings
and recommended that the Duke of Devonshire, the
Duke of Buckingham, Earl Fitzwilliam, the Marquis
sold
tlissoof
Lansdowne, and Lord Palmerston, should be all .
up." For his part, he would put them up to
auction,
and get rid of them. There would be sense
inthat
people of
Titers was none in exporting the able-bodied ~
Leland to America and the British coloptires-o.l.Grey)
easy enough for the Right Hon. Baronet (.8
ts tell him that coercion should be ato the proceedings
(11r. Grattan) WAS as much Oppose
bad reeourse to. Be