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London, England, 1849-07-24 00:00:00

HOUSE OF
_COMMONS, July 21.

The House re-assembled at eight o'clock.
Mr. EWART moved for the following returns, which
were ordered:—" Return, showing what examinations,
or tests of qualification, are required on admission into,
or on promotion of officers in, the Navy and Marines. The
same return as to the Artillery and Engineers. Return,
showing what examinations, or tests of qualifiation, are
required on admission of candidates for appointment, or
o❑ the promotion of officers, by the different Boards of
Revenue."

Viscount EBRINGTON moved the second reading
of the Metropolitan Sewers Bill, and expressed his in-
tention of proposing the omission of several clauses, and
adding others, when the Bill went into Committee.
The Marriages in Foreign Countries Facilitating Bill,
consideration of Lords Amendments, was postponed until
tomorrow.

STATE OF IRELAND.
Mr. HORSEMAN, pursuant to notice, brought for-
ward the following motion:—." That an humble address
be presented to her Majesty, praying her to take into
her gracious consideration the unhappy state of Ireland,
representing that a crisis of unparalleled magnitude is
afflicting that most wretched country; that the chief
food of her population and the, main product of her agri-
culture has failed to a most disastrous extent for several
years; that thereby all classes of her Majesty's subjects
in Irealand have been involved in ruin; that much of
its soil has gone out of cultivation; that the moral and
physical condition of the people is lamentably degraded,
and in spite of unexampled aid from England, vast num-
bers of our fellow-subjects have actually perished from
want. That it is the conviction of this House that ,

the very vastness of the calamity furnishes a well-
founded hope that a wise legislation, apprehending the
peculiar opportunity hereby offered and skilfully avail-
ing itself of the elements now set free for the reconstruc-
tion of agricultural relations in Ireland, might lay the
foundation of a prosperity hitherto unknown to that
country. That the House is confirmed in that convic-
tion by the evidence given before Parliament by wit-
nesses of the highest intelligence and of the pro-
foundest knowledge, of the actual state and undeveloped
resources of Ireland. That on a review of that evidence,
this House is constrained painfully to acknowledge that
while the Acts specially framed for the relief of distress
since the commencement of the famine have not realised
the benevolent intentions of Parliament, neither have

those of a more permanent nature been characterised by
a true discernment of the peculiar teatures of the present
crisis, and the establishment of any comprehensive
policy rid, quite to the emergency. That this Heus,
humbly prays her Majesty to dirict the special and
careful attention of her Majesty's Government to the
evidence which has been laid before Parliament, feeling
assured that the ability, intormltion, and practical sug-
gestions therein displayed, furnish ample materials for
a legislation at once solid, profound, and regenerative."
The session was now drawing to a close, and the ques-
tion might fairly be asked, what had they done for
Ireland ? Legislation hud been active, without pro-