The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1847.

certain of the matters standing over for the consideration of
the Court. TIIO. WILDE.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEB. I.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain John Far-
naby Cator to be Adjutant, vice Needham, promoted,
April 7.

Corps of Royal Engineers—Capt. and Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel Ralph Carr Alderson to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Gosset, retired on full pay; Second Captain and Brevet
Major James Lynn to be Captain, vice Alderson :
First Lieutenant 11. A. White to be Second Captain, vice
Lynn; Second Lieutenant L. Nicholson to be First Lieuten-
ant, vice White, Jan. 26.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Argyll.
The Most Noble George Douglass Marquis of Lorne, to be
Vice-Lieutenant, January 5.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 18.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Guy, of the city
of Carlisle, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High
Court of Chancery. _ _

WHITEHALL, JAN. 27.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Mounsey, of
Carlisle, in the county of Cu►nberland, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

her Britannic Majesty and the King of Prussia in the
year 1846.
'l heir Lordships then adjourned till Thursday next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before
Four o'clock.

SECOND READINGS.
The following Bills were read a second time:—
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Rail-
way (No. 1) (Smethwick Deviation).
General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway

Branches.
Liskeard and Caradon Railway.
Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and
Dereham Railways Amalgamation.
Norfolk Railway (Yarmouth Extension, &c.)
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Lease to the
London and North-Western Railway Company).
LYNN AND NORWICH BRANCH RAILWAY

Mr. STRUTT was not able to answer the question,
because it did not come within the province of the Rail- I
way Board. It had no power to deal With such eases at
present. Whether the Act incorporating the Board
would giro them such power he could not say.
MILBANK PRISON.

Mr. T. DUNCOMMBE seeing the itight Honourable
Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment in his place he wished to put a question to him. He
understood that a third report of the Commissioners ap-
pointed to inquire into the state of Milbank prison had
been delivered at the Home•office, and he wished to
know whether the Right Hon. Baronet had any objet•
tion to lay the report upon the table of the House, and
to print the reports in the same volume with the evi-
dence ?

Sir GEORGE GREY had received yesterday evening
documents from the Commissioners, which required to be
altered. The Hon. Gentleman was aware that evidence
on-the subject was before the House.
Mr. ESCOTT felt bound, as one of the Commis-
sioners, to report in the same form as the other Commis-
sioners.

PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE.
Sir F. THESIGER said that he wished to call the at-
tention of the House to a subject of the utmost im-
portance, as connected with its privileges. It would be
in the recollection of the House, that some time ago an
action was brought against the Sergeant-at-Arms, for
having, in obedience to a warrant of the Speaker, issued
by the authority of that House, arrested a Mr. Howard,
and brought him before the bar of that House to be
examined. On that action, the Sergeant, by
leave of the House, pleaded a justification of
his act, under its authority ; and issues at
law having been raised, an argument took?
place in the Court of Queen's Bench, and, after consi-
derable time having been taken by the Court to delibe-
rate on its judgment, a majority was given against the
plea of justification. That judgment, itself, was not
more unfavourable to that House than the principle on
which it proceeded, and which, if it had been allowed
to be considered as a settled and established law, would
have placed all their most important privileges at the
mercy of the courts of justice.—(Cheers.) The sub-
ject having been brought under the attention of the
House, a Select Committee was appouted for the purpose of
considering the best course to be adopted for thevindication
of its privileges, and after a careful consid: an of the
whole circumstances, and looking at t .and on
which the judgment proceeded, and the co •e being
extremely desirous not to recommend any e mea-
sure 'in the assertion of their privileges, as . gas any
hope remained of deciding it by a legal tribunal. A
report was presented to the House recernmending that a
writ of error should be brought. On a division, a ma-
jority of that House acquiesced in that recommendation.
A writ of error was granted, and in the course of last
year the question was argued before the Court of Ex-
chequer Chambers, and he had the satisfaction to
inform the House that this very day that Court had
unanimously pronounced a decision reversing the judg-
ment of the Court of Queen's Bench.—(Loud cheers.)
It might be important to the House to know the grounds
on which this important decision was given, but the
grounds on which the judgment was given rendered it
unnecessary. He hoped however he might be permitted,
that the result of this enquiry confirmed and sanctioned
the report and recommendation of the Select Committee,
and he should therefore move that a short-hand writer's
notes should be printed, and circulated amongst the
members of that House.
Mr. P. SCEOPE said that he did not wish to inter-
pose between the debate of last night the motion of
which he had given notice, namely—" That the lives of
the people of Ireland ought to be as valuable in the eye
of the law as the lives of the people of England ; conse-
quently, it is expedient to extend to Ireland the main
principle of the English poor law, namely, the right of
the destitute poor to relief, from a public provision, to
save them from perishing." If other Hon. Members
were willing to postpone their notices he would at once
follow the example.
Mr. B. ESCOTT said he also did not wish to em-
barrass the Government, and he would not press the
House to a discussion on his motion.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD said that the reso-
lution which he proposed, namely, " That it appears to
this House, from the reports of various Committees and
Commissions, that the system generally adopted in times
past in the letting and management of landed property in
Ireland, has been one of the main causes of the presnt
distressed state of that country, and the disordered state
of its social' relations ; and that no measures can be
effectual in producing a demand for labour, or improving
the condition of the people, which shall not include such
an amendment of the laws of landlord and tenant as
shall give to the improving tenant in occupation a suffi-
cient permanency of tenure, or else establish the tenant's
right to claim by law lull compensation for all bene.
fits created by the expenditure of his labour
and capital on the premises in question," was
intimately associated with the question under de-
bate, and he accordingly felt some difficulty in yielding
to the Noble Lord.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that it was his intention
to bring in a Bill for the very same object as that pra•
posed by the Hon. Gentleman at the very earliest possible
moment. On account of the pressure of business,
_ the
Government were at the present moment unable to
give the question that attention which it demanded.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD said that he would fix Thurs-
day next for the discussion of his motion.
Mr. ROEBUCK said, that he felt very great difficulty
in giving up his motion, if he did so, he considered that
he would have some claim upon the Noble Lord at a
future day for his motion, which was, that a Committee
of the whole House be appointed, for the purpose of
referring to it the Act 5 and 6 Vic., c. 35, with a view to
extend the operation of the said Act to Ireland.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that as soon as the
House had consented to the second reading of these
Bills, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would bring
forward the whole of the question as it regarded finance.
Ireland, stating notion, His Right Hon. Friend would make his financial state-
ment on an early day, and then it would be competent
for the Hon. Member to bring forward his resolution.
ABSENTEES—IRELAND.
Mr. 11. GRATTAN said, that with regard to the
e motion of
which h
absenteese hadt.r from
gl
itoal3tingnatmheeilr yfora
run of thenames
and annual incomes derived from property therein ;
specifying the counties in which their estates are situate,
and distinguishing such as are temporarily or more than
six months absent from Ireland. That the guardiansh
of the poor•lavv unions in Ireland douf
ornis
an account of the annual value of the property
of all absentees in their respective unions
assessedperty
to the poor-rate : that the Commissioners, under
the Act 5 and 6 Vic. c. 35, do furnish an account of the
aggregate amount of all property in Ireland taxed under
the provisions of that Act, and other Acts continuing
the same: also, a return of the number of persons re-
siding in England, or temporarily absent there-
from, charged under the Act 5 and 6 Vic. c. 35 ,
and the Act for continuing the same, in respect
of profits and gains arising from any allowance
annuity, stipend, or trade in Ireland ; together with the
total amount of the duties levied in respect of such profits
and gain. That the governor and directors of the Bank
of Ireland do furnish an account of the amount of all
annuities, dividends, and shares of annuities payable by
the said company out of the public revenues of the
United Kingdom to or to the use or benefit of any
persons not resident in Ireland. Ho was in the
same predicament as the Honourable Member for
Bath.—(Hear, hear,) The Hon. Gentleman said that
his measure was preliminary to others; now the return
which he (Mr. Grattan) moved was a corollary to his
(Mr. Roebuck's) motion.—(Laughter.) He wished,
therefore, to know whether the Right Hon. Gentleman,
the Home Secretary, would have any objection to grant
the return.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said, that if he were inclined to
grant the return, he did not know how to come at the
information.
Mr. H. GRATTAN—There was no difficulty what-
ever in the matter. There was the list (pointing to a
paper in his hand), and he would be happy to furnish the
particulars, without asking for the pay or the permis-
sion of the Home Secretary.
LETTER CARRIERS.
Mr. GROGAN moved for a return showing the
amount of wages paid to the letter carriers of Class
No. 1, of this Metropolis, on the Ist day of July, 1846,
and also the average amount of all other emoluments
received by them respectively ; similar returns for the
letter carriers of Classes Nos. 2 and 3 ; returns showing
the amount of wages now paid to the letter carriers in
each class, and any other compensation they had in ad-
dition ; also similar returns for the letter carriers of
Dublin, with the emoluments they had in addition to
their salary.—Agreed to.
On the order of the day for resuming the adjourned
debate on the
LABOURING POOR (IRELAND) BILL,
Mr. G. A. HAMILTON was desirous to express the
gratification he felt at the close of the speech of the
Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer
last nigl.t, where be evinced the sympathy he enter-
tained for the sufferings of the people of Ireland.
Me really believed that it was impossible for any one to
realise to himself the extent of the misery which had
taken place in Ireland who bad not bad the opportunity
of observing it for himself. Why, in the part of Ireland
where he resided, within twenty miles of Dublin, where
the poor were within the reach of markets, where every
thing had been done which couid be done to mitigate
or to avert this dreadful calamity, he said that it was
most melancholy to observe the gradual approach of this
fearful calamity. It was most melancholy to observe
the gradual
sinking of the smaller farmers from a state
of omfort to a state of poverty ; the gradual disappear-
a_necpig,
e of his little luxuries, of his slender comforts • the
disappearance of his of' his poultry, of his articles of
household furniture, all
indicative of the gradual and
certain approach of this visitation. Still more melan-
choly was it
in t to observe even among the labour-
g classes the approach of this calamity;
the mournful countenances, the desponding
anddovvnheartedunusualpeasantry of Irel ppearance. so
of among the
Ireland all all d telling a tale famine not
likely to be misunderstood. He knew enough of Ire-
land to know that
of the Count if this state of things existed in a part
easily ry so favourably placed, they might
imagine what must be the state of
people in the more
three points ' remote parts. There were two or
in the speech of the Right Honourable
Baronet opposite •
duty to refer. Ile
which he felt it his
of Ireland, a degree e imputed to the gentlemen
not availed of
supineness, because they had
passed in the themselvesbeginning of the provisions of an Act
might be provided for tof. last session by which money
also that they had not avealizpdrovemen of estates ; and
the provisions of another Act
athemselvespassed
uaffit c i
aeliirteorf
period of the session, being Pan Act for the
better drainage of estates in Ireland. With regard to

the first of those Acts, it was tried and found to be in-
operatixe. He saw the Right Hon. Baronet, the late
Sei;retary for the Home Department, in his place, and
it might be in his remembrance that, in a conversation
between him, the Ht nourablo Baronet the Member for
Derry, and hinsself (Mr. Hamilton), they informed
the Right Hon. Baronet that a particular clause in that
Act (the clause which made it imperative that they
should apply to the Court of Chancery) would stultify,
it ultogether. The House bad already been informed
that the operation of the second Act, which ap-
plied to the drainage of estates, was rendered
imperative 'iby a defect in the third clause.
The Right Honourable Gentleman, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer complained that the gentry of Ireland
bad made presentments under the Labour-rate Act too
freely, and without any previous inquiry into the ne-
cessity of the works that were io be undertaken. Now
the truth was, the Act required no preliminary inquiry
on the part of the gentry, while the presentments
session were not called together except to meet an
emergency, and the consequence was the rate-
payers and gentry had to make their present--
ment under the most unfavourable circumstances.
This appeared to constitute a very important difference
between the Act passed at the commencement and at the
end of the Session. He thought the Right Honour-
able Gentleman had dealt rather hardly with '
the relief committees in Ireland. No doubt
many abuses existed. There might be those on the
lists who were not entitled to relief ; but it should be re-
collected that the Board consisted of clergymen and ma-
gistrates, and that the usual course was for the clergy-
man, who was supposed to be best acquainted
with the circumstances of the district—(Hear,
hear)—to represent any case of extreme distress
How then could the committees take on themselves to
exclude persons thus recommended from relief. He
thought the discretion afterwards given to the officers to
revise the lists was extremely judicious. Having
made these few observations on the speech of the
Right Honourable Gentleman, he was anxious
to state that he had no desire whatever to look
back upon what had passed within the last few
weeks in Ireland, or to speak unfavourably of the con-
duct of her Majesty's Government. He was aware of
the difficulties by which they were surrounded. He
thought moreover that the Lord-Lieutenant and
the rest of the Govennment were entitled
to the grehtest praise for having taken upon
themselves to carry out productive works, in-
stead of those that were in operation under the
Labour-rate Act. Considering the difficulties conse-
quent upon their duties, and the funds placed at their
disposal, he considered that the Board of Works were
also entitled to the thanks of the country for the manner
in which they bad discharged their duties. In
other departments be thought there might be more
vigour. lie meant the Commissariot department ; but
after looking at the correspondence that had been
laid before the House, there had been a great
desire to execute all that it was in their power
to do. He was bound, however, to say that the diffi-
culties of Ireland were still before the House. He was
anxious that every just consideration should be
given to the present great calamity. (Hear.)
and to consider of the means to be taken to alleviate
the distress of the people, and, as far as possible,
to prevent a recurrence of such calamities in
future. He was anxious to adduce a few
facts illustrative of some of the peculiarities
of the condition of Ireland, which appeared
to him to be very essential to a fair consideration of the
whole question. It was not his intention to enter into
any details, but he would confine himself to the broad
and striking features of the case. He first wished to
take the case of the occupiers. They had heard a
good deal on that subject lately. The lion. and Learned
Member for Bath, in his speech last night, drew a fear-
ful picture of the state of the occupiers of Ireland. He
(Mr. Hamilton) wished he could state that in his
opinion that picture was overdrawn. He had
heard the llonourable and Learned Gentleman sug-
gest certain means of remedying these evils.
It was impossible that the Honourable and Learned
Gentleman could have fully realised the enormous ex-
tent of destitution prevailing amongst that class in Ire-
land, and the number of those persons so affected. Evi-
dence was given before the Land Commission, of which
he (Mr. Hamilton) was a Member—and that with
The census of 1841 gave some startling results on this
subject. The census of 1841 had given to the House a
return of the number of farms above one acre.
There were 685,000 in round numbers, and of
these no less than 560,000, or nearly 80 per cent.
were under 15 acres, and a considerable proportion of
that total being under ten and five acres. If any
gentleman in England were asked what he would
consider the question of a farmer having so small
a quantity of land as five, ten, or fifteen acres, of
course the answer would be that it was impossible any
man having so small a quantity of land could
employ himself properly in the cultivation of it, and
that he ought to be turned into an independent labourer,
and put upon money wages. Yet here they had five
out of six farms in Ireland occupied by persons of that
description, these occupiers being dependent entirely on
the produce of these miserable portions of land for
subsistence, and being occupied in the cultivation of this
land, without the assistance of manufactures or other
means of sustaining themselves. The next means
(a better means of judging of the real condition of
the great body of the people in Ireland), was to be found
in the census. The Censul Commissioners made a return
and classification of the houses of different descriptions
in the whole of Ireland, and they divided them into four
classes. The fourth class was a mere hut, the walls and
floors being of mud, consisting of only one room, with no
window. The third clans was better than this, it was also
of mud, consisting of more rooms than one, and having
windows. The other two were the farm-houses, and the
houses of the gentry and clergy, and of the 4th class
there were no less than 1,75,000 in Ireland.
The Hon. Member then read a number of statistics from
the late ecnsus of Ireland, as published, with the objest
of showing how severely the famine must have been
felt in Ireland. He stated that in the
county of Mayo there were only 217 gentlemen's
houses, while there were 63,483 of the third class.
Such was the state of Ireland with regard to the hold-
ings of land; there was no labouring population as in
England, paid by large capitalist farmers, but a popula-
tion, such as he had described, with very small holdings;
and there was not throughout the extent of the coun •
try more than one per cent. of gentleman's among
them. With regard to the landlords, he begged to oh •
serve that, in consequence of the system of conacre
which prevailed there, it was with the greatest difficulty
that any improvement could be effected in the condition
of the people. Those who knew Ireland were aware
of those difficulties. Landed gentry, he had just stated,
did not comprise more than one per cent. of
the population. Now that raised the question
of absenteeism. He agreed with the Hon. Gentleman
who stated last night that some of those who were ab-
sentee proprietors were among the best landlords of Ire-
land; but they were the exceptions, not the rule.
He was bound to say that the largest pro-
prietors did their duty well to their tenantry, but
that could not be said of the smaller class of
of proprietors who comprised the great bulk of the
absentee landlords. The large proprietors kept on their
property an agent, who to some extent discharged the
duties of the proprietor himself ; but he was afraid
that this could not be said of the great ma-
jority of the smaller class of absentee land-
lords. At arty rate, there was no one who could
deny that atesenteeism was attended with the greatest
evils, and had the most injurious effects on the comforts
and condition of the people—(Hear, hear),—and he sin-
cerely believed that it contributed very mate-
rially to aggravate the misery caused by the calamity
under which the Irish people were at present labouring.
There was another evil which was severely felt in
Ireland, and that was the case of the absence of agents.
There were a number of agents engaged in the man-.
agement of ests.tes, who resided elsewhere, and who only
visited those estates once a year. Then with respect to
income. A member last night had stated that
the whole income of Ireland was about 3,000,0001.
a year ; bat he (Mr. Hamilton) bad found
from the report of the state of the estates in Ireland that
the amount of income assessed in Ireland was over
6,000,0001., a matter which was well worthy of the con-
sideration of the House. He found that out of the
property that 'was assessed in Ireland, not less than
702,000/. were under the charge of the Court of Chan-
cery and the Court of Exchequer, and that during the
custody of this money, the arrears had increased from
300,4861. to ripwards of 400,0001., and that the
amount now w itually held was upwards of 300,0001.
This showed what was the condition of a great
portion of the property in Ireland. Then there was
another evil arising from the state of the law of mort-
gage, an alteration of which would enable unen-
cumbered proprietors to get rid of their estates.
In England, if a mortgage were foreclosed, it was
customary to ;sell that portion on which the mort-
gage was imposed in order to satisfy the demand.
The practice in Ireland was very difficult; the practice
almost univereat Ily prevailed that when a proprietor
borrowed move y, he borrowed it on a bond and
judgment. This judgment (which was scarcely known
in this country) overrode all portions of his property,
extending over every township, and it was almost
impossible to get rid of the money borrowed during
the operation of the judgment. Again, with re-
ference to the existence of the class known
as middlemen, every body would feel that the
operation of this with the previous cause
had been prejudiced to the interests of Ireland. These
were matters that involved the condition and prospects
of every el at s. The Honourable and Learned
Gentleman sto .ted thhe other night that every
man in Ireland- .was out of his proper position. Now that
starement was, to a certain extent, true ; but he might
ask whether Ithe Legislature had anything to do
with it ?—(1 let tr, hear, and cheers.) For himself,
he was a str Ong advocate for the maintenance
of the union, but he could not conceal the truth from
his own mind,, -that the effect of that union had been to
draw away tbcs landed aristocracy from Ireland to
this country, and that had been a main cause
why the class had arisen which occupied a middle
position, a posit ion which the Hon. and Learned Gen-
tleman characte rued as one improper for them to fill.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

THE NEW PLANET CEIRISTENED.—The Bureau
des Longitudes a f Paris has agreed with the principal astro-
nomers of Eurove, such as Encke, Gausz, Herschel, and
Struve, in giving, the name of Neptune to the new planet
discovered by M. Le Verrier. The sign of this planet in
celestial mrips is to be a trident.—Galignani.
ENROL MENT OF THE DOCKYARD ARTIFICERS.--In
furtherance of tl ie arrangements ordered V the Admiralty
circular for this purpose, Commander Robert Jenner, re-
cently promoted , is appointed to superintend the drilling of
the battaltion in the ship .gun exercise. The number of vo-
lunteers f.tom tt is dockyard amounts to 2,000. The enrol-
ment into different companies and battalions will take place
immediately. tThe drill is to commence on the let of April
.—ldamsoshire T legraph.

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Annum. Share.
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Albion .........• •• • • 3/. 105. 500 0 0 50 0 0 75
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 -
Ditto Marine.• ••• • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 5)4
Atlas . e 13s.6d.prsh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 154
British Commercial • • 75. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7%
Clericl,Med.&Gen•Life Si. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 10
County --••-.• •• • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
Crown ...........• .. 10s. 50 0 0 50 0 -liagle .
Eng.& Scot. Law •• •• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
European Life -•• •• 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' ..• ••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe .•.•.••. • • • • • • • 61. per cent. Stock. - 132 xd
Guardian ••.. . . . •.• •• • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 4814
Imperial Fire •.•• • • • • 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 230
Imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Indemnity Marine.- • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 31
Law Life. •••.•.. • • .. 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
~egal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 VA
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..andon Fire ••.• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15
•ondon Ship ...• •• • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15
Marine.. ..... •• • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 -
1C ed. Invlid& Gen. Life 4141. per et. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
National Lean Fund.. B. per cent. 20 0 II 210 0 -
National Life.....• .• • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 8%
Calladium Life Si. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2xd
Phoenix - - 195
Pnltector Life.... ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 24e. Od
Provident Lift- -- • . 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
Rock Life..
Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - 180
Sun Fire • - - 210
Ditto Life .. • ..... • • IL 6s. - - 49
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Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 176%
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 156%
British Linen Company Si. per cent. - 100 0 0 220
Commercial Bank •• • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 167
National Bank. ..... - 10 0 0 IV. 6s
Union Bank of Scotland 7%t. pr cent. - 50 .0 0 91%
Western Bank - ... •• • 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 844
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 714
Clydesdale Bank- -• • 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 Di%
Eastern Bank •••• • • • • 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 121
Caledonian Bank - 2 10 0 4/. 9s
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. - 5 0 0 6/. 18s
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 131. 7s
Scottish Union Ins• Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1235. 9d
Hercules Insurance Co. ' 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14..
Insur. Co. of Scetlnd Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 9,,i
North British Incur 5141. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 27%
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22%
Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18
Edin. & tilasg. Railway 1/.los. pert. 50 0 0 50 0 0 764
Ditto, 4 Wiares •• • • 7s. Gd. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 19
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 LIO 0 0 1914
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 69 )4
Glasgw& Greenck Rail. 91. !ter cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 1614
Glsgw&Garnkirk Rail. Al. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39y,
Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37
Standard LifeAssnmce.l Si. per cent. 50 0 0 I 2 10 0 9
CANALS.
•.; I Z Dividend
Names of r. Dividend Price Names of t
Companies. A per - Companies. 0 per Price.
cr: Annum. §-:: Annum.
£
Ashtn& Olslh 97 5/.55. pel .£
- Monmouthsh 100 81. -
Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. .- Mntgomrysh 100 Si. -
Barnsley.... 1601 121. - Macclesfield. 100 - -
Basingstoke.. 100 - - Neath ••• • • • 100 171. -
Brknk&Abrg 150 51. - Nottingham . 150 121.
Cromford.... 100 141. - Peak Forest. 78 31. 75
Dudley lOO 41. - Regent's .... 33 1/. ss. 20
Derby ••••• 100 6/. - Rochdale.... 85 41. -
Ellsnare&Chs 133 41. 55 Shropshire • • 125 81. -
Erewash .• • 1001 321. - Somrset Co:150 71. 10s. -
Forth & Clyd 1001 41. - Do.LkFdSt 12 6/.p. c. -
GrandJunctn 100. 71. -. Stffrd &Wore 140 281. -
I.ra.nd Union 100 1/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. -
Gliunorgnsh . 1721 13%1. - Stourbrldge.. 145 20/, 315
tiler &Brkly 'OO - - Strtfrdon Av 79 11.10 s. -
Grantham - Severn and]
26 11. Bs. -
Huddersfield. 57 - - Wye Rail.
Kennt & Avu 39 7s. 6d. 5 4 .Trnt &MI
50 30L -
Lancaster .. • 47 11. 105. - 1 sey, 4 sh.
Leeds&Livrp 100 341. 522% !Thams &Med 19 - -
Leicester ...• 140 10/. 105 Worcstr &
78 2/. 43
Leiestr &Nth 83 4/. 52 Binning.]
Lougliborogh 142 701. - Wilts & Ili ks 67 11. -

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 1.
LABOURING POOR (IRELAND) BILL.
Dir. BERNAL OSBORNE said thst the speech of the
Noble Lord, the First Lord of the TresLury, was so ex-
tensive in its nature, and so important in its conse-
quences, that without making any observation on it, by
way of praise or censure, he was bound to say that it
was drawn up with the greatest care, amid the greatest
difficulties. Whilst he participated in the sentiments of
his Hon. Friend, the Member for Louth, regarding it,
and was of opinion that it was characterised by clear
statement, lucid arrangment, and deep research, he must
also say that he could not expect, from the plan proposed
by the Noble Lord, any permanent improvement in the
condition of Ireland. It appeared to him that the scheme
of the Noble Lord was nothing more than what had
been proposed to be done by all preceding Governments
to go on legislating bit by bit and temporary expedients,
without laying any permanent foundation for the im-
provement of Ireland. Parliament had not now for
the first time to learn the great amount of distress
which prevailed in Ireland. It was well known to
them that 2,500,000 people of that country were in
more than an ordinary condition in a state of the
greatest destitution, and he could not, therefore, approve
of any measures which would merely have the effect of
temporarily relieving the evil results of the bad legisla
tion of that House. He thought that the Irish Mem-
bers did their duty in- calling upon the Govern-
ment to send over food to the Irish people; and, not-
withstanding the mistakes which had been made in
carrying out their measures, he was of opinion that.
Government was doing its best to second the efforts of
the Irish Members. He would now take a review of
the measures which the Noble Lord proposed to bring
forward. With regard to the Act of the 9th and 10th
Victoria, he thought it difficult for any Member who
had witnessed its operation to speak of it favourably;
it was the general opinion that it broke up the roads,
impoverished the gentry, demoralised the people, and
burdened the finances of the coto,try.—(Hear, hear.)
It was not his intention to attack the Noble Lord for
passing this Bill. August legislation is apt to be is
hurried affitir, especially when there is a chance of
grouse shooting. But the Noble Lord should have
called Parliament together at an earlier period than he
had done. If he wanted a precedent, he had one in the
year 1800, when Parliament was convened in the early
part of November, in consequence of the high price of
provisions. As to the fatile excuse that he did not like to
inconvenience the- Irish gentry, or to take them away
from their estates, it struck him that they could have
been much better spared then than they could now. He
felt persuaded that if the Noble Lord (the Lord Lieute-
nant) had had his own way, they would have had rail-
ways and harbours, and similar productive works, con-
structed, instead of what had been done by the authority
of the Board of Works. He must protest against the prin-
ciple of the Labour Act, which went to charge the real
property of the country with the calamity. He thought
the Government was neither justified by circumstances
nor precedent in throwing the burden on the land. It
was stated that the gentry were to blame for the lavish
waste of money under the operation of the presentment
sessions. To that he would answer that the money in
many instances bad been voted under protest,. and that
the most of it had been expended under the authority
of the Board of Works, which, with its brilliant
staff of officers, amounting to 11,587, had taken
the whole matter out of the hands of the landed
proprietors. However well qualified generally these
officers might be on local matters and the
business of the various districts, they had shown the
greatest ignorance. It was, therefore, too bad for the
finger of scorn to be pointed at the Irish landlords.
With respect to the change from the present system of
public works, he did not see how it was to be done. It
appeared that these parties were in the position of the
dramatis personce in the play of the Critic, who were all
down on their knees, and the author was at a loss how
to effect their exit. The Noble Lord was in the same
predicament. He was at a loss how to effect the change.
He thought himself that the Noble Lord would have ex-
ercised a much wiser discretion, if, instead of an addition
to the rates for the purpose of establishing soup-shops,
he had taken into his serious attention the great impor-
portance of tilling the land for the next harvest. There
were 750,000 farms in Ireland, and about one-half of
them were under twenty acres. There was a grant
to these farms of 50,0001. for seed, which would
give about twopence per acre, or would cultivate
25,000 acres, out of all this quantity of land.
If there was any public work to be undertaken
let them give free labout to all farmers under 10 acres,
as that class of farmers had suffered most. The Noble
Lord did not deal justly with the Marquis of Sligo. when
the Noble Lord attacked the Noble Marquis of Sligo the
other evening, because the Noble Marquis not only sa-
crificed a large titer park, but expended 70/. a-week in
supplying the people of Westbourne with food. The
fact was, the Noble Marquis, last autumn, called upon
the Government to take off the 4s. duty upon the
importation of corn. No doubt the Noble Marquis had
been reading a letter, addressed from Edinburgh, in
November, 1845, and signed "J. Russell ;" but then the
Noble Marquis made his request in November, 1846,
instead of November, 1845. The Hon. Member for
Winchester, too, towards the close of last session,
warned the Noble Lord that he had better take off the
4s. duty, but the Noble Lord heeded not the warning,
because the corn-law question had just before been set-
tled. The Noble Lord could not be well informed as to
the real condition of the people of Ireland in certain
places. And, to show that this was the case, he would
put the House in possession of the contents of a letter
which he had received from the inspector of the
mining company of Ireland. The mining company of
Ireland, although they paid wages to 800 men at ls.'6d.
a-bead, had almost been on the point of closing their
mines, because the people found it almost impossible to
obtain food. It was a very good thing for a man in
T:eland to get Is. 9d. a day, and yet bad it not been for