The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-01 00:00:00

FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

In reply to Mr. GLAI)STONE,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL intimated that the Chancellor
of the Exchequer would make his financial statement on
Friday, the 15. h ir,st.

ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
Upon the motion of Mr. PARKER, it was ordered
that the House at its rising should adjourn until Monday
next.

COAST GUARD—REDUCTION.
Sir JOHN TYRELL inquired whether, in conse-
quence of the great reductions in the price of provisions,
and also on articles of French manufacture imported
into this country, the Government contemplated, or had
actually formally carried into execution a great reduc-
tion in the Coast Guard service, inasmuch as the horses
of the cavalry throughout the kingdom had either been
or were about to be sold?
POOR-LAW CONTRACTS WITH THE FRENCH.
The HON. BARONET also asked, whether it was a fact
that on the south coast of England the French had con-
tracted to supply poor-law unions with provisions ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
wit respect to the first question, that it
was the intention of the Government to effect a reduc-
tion in the Coast Guard; as to the second, the Govern.
ment were not in possession of any information with re-
spect to any unions having entered into contracts with
the French.

Str JOHN TYRELL wished to know whether all the
horses belonging to the Coast Guard service were not ac-
tually being sold at the various repositories in London at
the present moment?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Not
quit• all.—(A laugh.)
EVICTIONS IN IRELAND—NENAGH UNION.
Mr. SCULLY, in rising to put a question to the
Secretary for Ireland, gave an account of the total
demolition of a large village on the estate of a Pro-
testant clergyman in the Nenagh Union, the conse-
quence of which was that hundreds of the tenantry
were to be found on the high roads, lying in ditches, and
taking shelter under trees, and many of them being in a
dying state. Ought st,ch a state of things to exist in a
Christian country ? The question, therefore, which
he had to ask was whether the Government were pre-
pared to take any steps for the safety of those people?
Mr. H. DRUMMOND thought that a statement of
that kind, taken from newspapers, should not be made
in that House without affording the gentleman on whose
property the circumstances were stated to have oc-
curred an opportunity of knowing that the statement
was going to be made in the House. The House could
not take all statements exactly as true that came from
Ireland.—(Hear, bear.)
Sir W. SOMERVILLE said he had received no
official information of the transaction in question. Ile
understood the Honourable Gentleman to say that the
guardians of the Nenagh Union had failed to provide
adequate relief to the people in the workhouse. He
(Sir W. Somerville) could only say if that were so, it
would be for the Poor-law Commissioners to take what
steps they thought proper under the circumstances. His
Hon. Friend had not given him notice of his question,
otherwise he might have been able to answer it more
satisfactorily.

Mr. J. O"CONNELL would submit to the Houce whe-
thtr it u as not a matter of the very last importance to
put an end to that most tearful system of
eviction which was going on in Ireland.—(Bear.)
The people were turned , out utterly to perish
There was an Act passed last session that notice of an
eviction should b^given to the relieving-cfficer on all
occasions. It was evident from the number of deaths
that had occurred in c,nsequence of evictions that that
Act in that respect had not been carried into operation.
The Honourable Gentleman opposite (Mr. H.
Drummond) had said that the gentleman on
whose property that atrocity had. been com-
mitted should have been apprised of the intention
to state them to the House. There was no doubt as to
whose property it was on which that atrocity had been
committed. There was no doubt that between 500 and
fOO individuals bad been turned out upon the road in
the most terrible weather, and that multitudes
had suffered in consequence, and surely some-
thing must be done. lie knew no instance

where, among several poor families who had been turned
out upon the road, a poor woman was brought into the
yard before the house by three bailiffs, on a sick bed;
she was a miserable spectacle of wasting sickness; and
in Limerick, recently, Mr. Leffley, the Sub-Sheriff, had
ejected twenty families, each family numbering from
six to seven individuals. Some of these poor creatures
were on sick beds, but they could crawl out
upon the road, and take shelter under the trees from the
tempestuous weather which prevailed. Really, such
people, suffering in such a way, and meeting their suf-
ferings in such a Christian spirit, were deserving the
attention of the House. God forbid that he should say that
her Majesty's Ministers did not feel for those sufferings;
but he must say it was the duty of the House, as repre-
sentatives of the people, and as Christian men, to keep
repeating those facts, that if they were wrong they
should be refuted, but if they were right that the at-
tention of the House should be called to them and their
interference procured, for the work of destruction was
going on.