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LORD -GEORGE BENTINCK'S
RAILWAY SCHEME. ,
MEETING OF MEMBERS.
A meeting of Irish Members, anxious to promote employ-
ment in Ireland of a reproluctive character through the
medium of railways, was held on Tuesday afternoon, at the
rooms of the Irish party, situate at Old Palace-yard, West-
minster.

The meeting was held in order to afford Lord George Ben-
tin& an opportuni y of explaining the provisions or ft Bill
for which the Noble Lord has given notice, intituled " A Bill
to stimulate the prompt and profitable employment of the
People by the encouragement of Railways in Ireland."
Upon being informed of a desire on the part of the Irish
Members to bear the substance of his proposed measure,
the Noble Lord immediately expressed the pleasure it
would afford him to explain the nature of the scheme, and
to obtain the benefit of such suggestions as Honourable
Members connected with Ireland might have to offer upon
the subject.
The meeting was very fully attended, and among the noble-
men and gentlemen present there were the Marquis of Sligo,
the Marquis of Westmeath, Lord Lucan, Lord Doneraile, Lord
Bernard, Lord Lurgan, Lord Clements, Lord Mazarine, Lord
Ch arlemon t, Lord Castlereagh, the Marquis of Downsh i re, Lord
Fingal!, Mr. D. O'Connell, Mr. Dillon Browne, Mr. Gregory,
Mr. Grogan, Mr. G. Hamilton, Mr. Morgan J. O'Connell,
Mr. Henry Grattan, Mr. W. Smith O'Brien, Mr. Archibald,
Sir H. W. Barron, Mr. Thomas ‘lartin, Mr. F. French, Mr.
P. Butler, Mr. B. Callaghan, Mr. J. O'Connell, Mr, James
Kelly, Mr. Alexander M'Carthy, Mr. D. Callagher, Mr. T.
O'Brien, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, Mr. B. Osborne, Mr. James
Power, Mr. Cecil Lawless, Mr. Tuite, Colonel Rawdon, Col.
Verner, Captain Taylor, Colonel Beresford, Mr. Acton, Mr.
J. Collett, Mr. N. R. Collett, Colonel Connolly, Mr. Sharman
Crawford, Mr. Lefroy,_ Sir A. B. Brooke, Mr. J. J. Bodkin,
Mr. M'Donnell, Mr. Bellew, Sir Thomas E•monde, Bart.,
Hon.. T. V. Dawson, Mr. E. Corbally, Sir N. Vernon, Mr.
V. H. Hatton, &c..
Lord'Fingal( was called to the chair.

Lord GEO-RGE BENTINCK addressed the meeting at great
length, and entered into a detailed statement of the various
provisions which he was desirous of introducing ioto a Bill
the object of which would be to stimulate and proinote pro-
fitable employment by the encouragement of reproductive
works in Ireland. No one deplored more than he
did the distress, disease, and scarcity of food which
prevailed at the present time to such an appalling exteat
in Ireland. There was no doubt but that the mea-
sures proposed by the Government in the course of the au-
tumn and winter, with a view to the mitigation of that dis-
tress by employment on public works, had been productive
of advantage, and had had the effect of preserving many of
the lives of her Majesty's subjects; still he was of opinion
that greater benefits generally would have been effected
had the same means of employment been afforded to the
people on works of a reproductive character. The Bill which
it was his• intention to submit to the consideration of the
House was framed so as to substitute reproductive employ-
ment, by the encouragement of railways, in lieu of that de-
scriptien of employment which had been previously afforded
under the supervision of the Board of Works. The Bill
which he intended to propose would empower the Govern-
ment to lend various sums of money to railway companies,
legally constituted, who might apply for the same. The
loan it was intended should be extended over a peried of
four years, and be returnable by instalments, payable at
fixed and remote prriods, nor, however, to exceed thirty
years. The rate of interest to be charged by the
Government not to be greater than thLt which
the Government itself might have to pay. It would,
he considered, be necessary to raise 24 millions, eight of
which would have to .be subscribed by the sheireholders,
and 16 by the Government. The first line of kilway tee
which he thought the amount ought to be applied, would
be a line either to Galway or to Valentia, which from their
position were calculated to -become the greatest places of
traffic, not only between the old and the new world, but be-'
tween Great Britain and the entire of Europe. He was
borne out in this impression by the opinion of Lord Liver-
pool, who was favourably disposed to an undertaking of a
similar nature. Another provision which he coemidered
to be of the utmost importance would be directed to the
construction along the lines of comfortable dwellings for-
the labourers and other persons to be engaged upon them.
A provision of such a character would not only ensure the
construction of wholesome and convenient dwellings lar the
labourers, but would have the effect of considerably irereas-
ing the amount of employment to be given in the various
localities through which it was intended the line should pass.
His proposition was to build four of such tenements to every
mile of railway, which at a calculation of 301- for each for
1,500 miles of railway, would cost about 90,000/. He had
no apprehensL en that after the several works were broight to
a conclusion, the people engaged upon them would be thrown
out of employment, because he had the evidence of Mr.
Hudson and Mr. Stephenson to prove that the requireMents
of the lines absorbed the labourers in their vicinity. tHe cal-
culated that the money so advanced to companies would be
well secured to the Government, who would receive taeir in-
terest of 3i per cent., while the undertakings wodkl yield
10 per cent. For it was an established fact, which could he
proved by the evidence of the most eminent men connected
with railways throughout Europe, that no railway could be
construct ed that would not pay, except, indeed, one through
a desert. It should also be borne in mind, that while the
'Government obtained a good investment for its caps], the
national exchequer would •betenefited to a considerable ex-
tent by the increase In the• excise duties consequent upon
the large kdditiOnal consumption of exciseable commodities.
The principal line at present in operation in Ireland, viz.,
the Great Southern and Western, which Is as only partially
u,pen, already paid as well as many lines in England. There
was another great advantage which the development of rail-
way communication would secure to Ireland.—
Mr. o'oa:earns. begged to interrupt the Noble Lon, and
requested permission to make one remark before he concluded
that portion of his lucid statement. The evidence given by
Mr. Alexander Nimmo before a Committee of the Hoise of
Commons, went to show that the roads from Connemara to
Clifton, and through the mountainous portions o' the
country, paid the Government for their construction before
the lapse of many years, in consequence of the increased
consumption of exciseable commodities. He also begged
to remind the Noble Lord that he was labouring tnder a
mistake when he supposed that there existed a passenger-
tax in Ireland. •
Lord GEORSE BENTINCK, having thanked the lion. Mem-
ber for Cork:for the information he bad afforded, proceeded
to state that due great advantage which would result from
the introduction of railways would be to render produstive
the Irish fisheries.---(Hear, hear.) The fisheries of Ireland
were most fruitful, and the Irish sea contained as plentiful, a
supply of fish as that of any other sea which washed a'fo-
reign shore. The Irish fisheries were not, however, produc-
tive in consequence of there not 'being any facilities- forex-
porting the produce. And here he wished to allude tb a
-remark made a few evenings since—viz., that if the ktrge
slim which it was contemplated to expend in Ireland' were
drawn from the. Exchequer of this country, the funls would-
fall and public security would be endangered. In replf to
that statement, he ebeggod to say that he behoved
udder no such slpprehension',; for on that very dar he
had 7.mentioned- the- substance of Mr.- Hume's renark
to an eminent stockbroker in the City, who laughed
at the notion, and: referred, to the period when twenty
millions were granted for the suppression of the slave trade,
when the funds,, se far. from falling,,hacl risen.—(Hear, !tear.)
He hoped that Mr. Hume would be induced to give way to
him on Thursday, and not persist in his motion with respect
Cracow, aisopitldwabe was mborSotodgehstirabbelteortsh that
considerationis(the Noblelspdt'bse)
measure so
House before the Government measures were passed, nas-
much as It might supersede in importance, if not noetuelaaolri:es
9iin.Pitconstienmgplam'ittoen.o—(f tilh%ar, tear.)
Ih present moment to a state of
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(Loud cheers.) And he felt confident
hile En bath an Exchequer;e. as his mottoefas,
English capital
the scale of ed
character of Ireland would be raised in
promoting a kindly i.s.•
nations, while the development of
• l into Ireland and by promoting
Noble
tercourse betwqen -Englishmen and. Irishmen, tht,eiveie:csial
mote the prosperity and happiness-of her peep
her resources mold pro-
mote
interested eiroeisitwedayaiti,declared that
Mr. W. R. Coeuerr,•amiesk some laughter,
Lordparts roefstreerdoobtois. seat amid loud add general cheers, from all
any remarks he might there was not a Irian in the-United Kingdcm who was more
another 'occasion. toh welfaret
was.
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, athoolgtly
declining to express any decided opinion upon it.

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black.