The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-04 00:00:00

PETITIONS.

Mr. F. MACKENZIE presented petitions against
the Registration and Marriages Bills.
Mr. J. WILLIAMS presented a petition from St.
Asaph, numerously signed, praying that no bishops or
clergymen might be appointed for Wales unless they
were conversant with the Welsh language, and attribu-
ting the spread of dissent to:the non•observance of this
rule.

Colonel REID presented a petition from the Dissen-
ters at Windsor, against the proposed alteration of the
marriage laws.
Colonel SIBTHORP presented a petition to the same
effect.

An HON. MEMBER presented a petition in favour o
medical reform.

An Hort. MENDER presented a petition in favour of
the Clergy Relief Bill.
Mr. COWPER presented a petition praying that the
owners instead of occupiers might be rated for small
tenements.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the
archdeacons and clergy of the Archdeaconry of Oxford
against the New Marriage Bill. The Right Hon.
Baronet presented a similar petition from Manchester.
Lord G. MANNERS presented a petition in favour of
protection, and a national rate.
Mr. MOFFATT presented a petition against the new
Drainage Bill.
Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from medical
men in Dorsetshire against intermural interments.
Mr. COBDEN presented petitions from York and
other places in favour of the Clergy Relief Bill.l
Mr. COWAN presented petitions from Edinburgh
against the Marriageta tthe and
produceof slave
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Sir E. BUXTON presented a petition from Birming-
neam r
be admitted that
into this country until they abolished
the slave trade.
Mr. F. MACKENZIE presented petitions from
Peeblesshire against the Registration and Lunatic
Asylum Bills (Scotland).
Mr. MILES presented petitions from Somersetshire
complaining of the amount of the recent grants to
Ireland.
Major BERESFORD presented a petition from Saf-
fron Waldon, praying that some control might be exer-
cised over the county rates.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR gave notice that, on this day
fortnight, he should call attention to the transaction of
railway companies throughout the United Kingdom.
Mr. THORNELY begged to ask the Lord Advocate
when it is likely that any Bill for medical registration
would be introduced ?
The LORD ADVOCATE said that in eight or ten
days he should be enabled to place a measure on the
table of the House.
In answer to a question from Mr. CARDWELL,
Mr. LABOUCLIERE said that he had not received
any communication from Captain Denholme with respect
to the excessive loading of steamers. When that was
received, it would be placed on the table of the House.
Lord DUDLEY STUART asked whether there was
a measure in contemplation for amending the Metropo •
litan Building Act?
Sir GEORGE GREY said no notice had been given
of the question.
Lord DUDLEY STUART said, notice had been
given of a question with rsepect to intermural burials. He
wished to know when a measure on this subject would
be introduced?
Sir G. GREY said that a Bill had been prepared un-
der the auspices of his Noble Friend at the head of the
Woods and Forests; but as it required reconsideration,
it was determined to bring it on at a later period of the
session.
Lord DUDLEY STUART—We may hope for it this
session?
Sir G. GREY—I hope so.— (Laughter.)
Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the House at its rising
do adjourn till Monday next.
BURIALS IN TOWNS.
Mr. WYLD presented a petition from the inhabitants
of Westminster against interment in towns.
THE NAVIGATION-LAWS.
In answer to a question from Sir H. WILLOUGHBY,
Mr. LABOUCHERE said that, so far as he was con-
cerned, there was no foundation for a statement said
to have been made by Mr. G. F. Young respecting a
conversation represented to have taken place between
him (Mr. Labouchere) and Mr. Hume, in reference to
receivedb
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intimating that the statement made by Mr. Young
at the meeting in the City, to the effect that it
Mr. Hume would assent to the third reading of ;the Na-
vigation Bill he (Mr. Labouchere) would next session
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bring in a Bill to repeal all the clauses in the Bill to
which Mr. Hume was said to have objected was en-
tirely without foundation.

LARD IMPROVEMENT AND DRAINAGE (IRE-
LAND) (ADVANCES) BILL.
On the House going into Committee on this Bill,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
wished to say a few words on the present state
of Ireland. He entirely differed from those Honour.
able Gentlemen who seemed to conceive that all
at once, by some legislative measure, the whole
state of Ireland could bo amQliorated. The change
which was required in that country was a total change
in the social system of the west of Ireland. They must
now look to an entire change in the social system in that
part of the country. Nobody could be more mistaken
in Lis opinion than
ratherthose withwho ttlihoofueghwthtohefreelt could
t
be no improvement in the present state of the west of
tllaredraend;erelle betterage prospects in store for the coun-
try. No doubt great evils existed in that
part of the country to which he had referred, owing to
the large number of small tenants who held under
middlemen, and without the means of eviction, which
had been resorted to during the last six
months, he was quite sure that no improve-
ment whatever could have been effected. Under
the recent system the landlord depended upon the mid-
dleman, the middleman upon the small tenant, and the
small tenant upon the potato. When, therefore, the po-
tato was stricken with the blight all these classes failed,
and the result had since been that the land now remained
uncultivated, because it had been impoverished by the
previous mode of culture. The letter of Captain Ken-
nedy to the Poor-law Commissioners gave a correct pic-
ture of the evil—one, too, that proved, beyond all ques-
tion, that the case was one which no
possible legislation could meet. What was really
wanted to effect a remedy was the application of capital
to the land by those who were ready and willing to invest
it. If there were any such, as he was assured there were,
Government was ready to assist them; but, besides that,
all that Government could do was to relieve those
whose estates were too much encumbered to admit of
their being disposed of in the market. To show what
improvement had been effected by a new system of farm-
ing introduced into Ireland, he need only mention
the case cited the other night by the Right
Honourable Baronet tho Member foe Tamworth.
adding, at the same time, that even in the dreadfully
distressed union of Ballina, which not long ago was
thought to be in a hopeless condition, some capitalists
connected with the Society of Friends in Yorkshire had
done an immense amount of good by taking farms
in the union, and adopting the English mode of terming.
He bad received a letter yesterday which he considered
the House would think with him was of a very satisfac-
tory nature. It was from Mr. Burke, the inspector of
the Ballina Union, in the county of Mayo. It
statedrsaunandcethoafta
the
generalact s oof
opinion indus-
tryt h whom he had conversed
was to be found in the fact
that the cultivation of waste lands had been set about.
sail,
an the
evidencepeop lede
osfirwedhitcoh draw out the resources of the
Coming from one of the most poverty-stricken
haveprevailed
increased, t hamongste
pthtose with
districts of Ireland, such a communication could not be
regarded otherwise than most cheering and satisfactory.
He could read a number of other communications, all
tending to show that better days were dawning upon
Ireland, but he did not wish to fatigue the
House.—(Hear.) He believed he should be enabled
to satisfy the House that the grants heretofore made had
led to the profitable employment of large masses of the
people. lie might observe that the Government pos-
sessed 43 inspectors, without whose sanction no money
was expended, and who exercised a careful supervision
over the expenditure of the money which had been ad-
vanced. They were the best guardians that could be
appointed, and they prevented the useless expenditure of
the public money. Without referring to:any other mea-
sures that might be necessary the welfare of Ire-
land, he thought that that which was really wanted
was employment for the people.—(Hear, hear.)
He believed and looked forward confidently
to the time when the desire for employ-
ment would not exceed the demand. The
first power which he intended to seek from
the House was that the money to be advanced might be
made in accordance with the Lands Imprisonment
Act; that Act providing, according to his idea,
the best mode of applying the money to
proper and wholesome purposes—since, under it, the
the relations between landlord and tenant were pre-
served, and the influence exercised by the Government
only extended to ordering that the money was properly
expended, and the improvements of the land properly
made. Out of the grants previously made 3,074,0004
had been applied for, and the advances of 1,500,0001. or
one half, 'sanctioned by,the Government. The appeal for
grants made to the Government amounted to 1,544,0004
given up 112,000/.—resanctioned, 59,0002; so that there
was now lent (as we understood, for the Right Hon. Gen-
tlhman articulated his figures indistinctly) 1,491,0001.
leaving a reserve of about 9,0001. 940,0001, had been
issued, leaving for the employment of labour 952,000/.
By the application of skill and industry, under the Land
Improvement Act, land in some parts in Ireland which,
two years ago, was not worth half-a-crown an acre, was
now worth I.oe. an acre. Indeed, from the im-
proved system of drainage, the land, upon an average,
was improved in value 80 percent. He knew an instance
where 175 acres of arable land occupied by tenants.
Some of whom were ejected .nd others of whom had
consigned, had been turned to grazing pur
poses, and within less than two years it yielded a
return of 10 per cent. On an average the whole
of the arable land laid down to pasture, had given a
return of 8/. per cent. With respect to aeterial
drainage there was some considerable misapprehension
on this subject, as to what was the state of
the law, and great disappointment had been felt in Le-
land that an unlimited supply of money was not always
forthcoming. The intention of the Act was
that all funds for that purpose were to be raised