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London, England, 1870-03-17 00:00:00

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THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY of ST.
PATRICK. Instituted in the year 1784.
Under the Patronage of her MAJESTY and his Royal
Highness the Prince of WALES.
The EIGHTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY FES-
TIVAL of this Society will be celebrated at Willis's
Rooms, King-street, St. James's, on ST. PATRICK'S
DAY (TO-NIG UT), the 17th March. 1870,
His Grace the Duke of ABERCORN, K.G., in
the Chair
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
The Marquis of Lansdowne.
• The Marquis of Headfort, K.P.
The Earl of Cork and Orrery, K.P.
The Earl of Egmont.
Tho Earl of Cloumell.
The Earl Vane.
The Viscount Bectiwe, M.P.
The Viscount Harbertcfn.
The Viscount Crichtcn, M.P.
The Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P.
The Lord A. Edwin Hill Trovor, M.P.

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that the Government would prepare a clause instead of
the one which now stood second in the bill, which would '
put the tenant in a more satisfactory position than he
occupied at present. He wished it to be clearly under-
stood that in voting for the second reading no member
would be pledged to anything but tie admission that the
evils at present existing required a remedy. He was quite
sure his remedy was not the Itest, but lie hoped with the
assistance of his right hon. friend the Secretary for the
Home Department to produce a provision that would be
satisfactory to most persons. If his suggestion was
adopted, he should fix the committee for a distant period,
namely, the 29th of June. He then endeavoured to
solve the rabbit question ; but he confessed he
had found it to be a matter of the utmost
difficulty, and those who felt disposed to think on the
matter would find it so, if they endeavoured to discover a
remedy for the damage done to the crops by them. With
respect to the bill for the total abolition of the Game
Laws, he thought that would be a positive injury to the
farmer. It had been su,ggested that rabbits should be
treated as vermin, but that was a proposition he thought
objectionable, because rabbits formed an important article
of food to thelabouringclass, and the consumption of them
amounted to no less than one million and a half a year,
and he had it from a good source that a
rabbit costing is 2d. gave more nourishment than the
quantity of beef and mutton he could get for the same
amount of money, and therefore it was a question which
required a great amount of consideration before any-
thing was ultimately fixed upon. He believed the danger
done by hares and rabbits to cultivated land could scarcely
be estimated, aslhey nibbled off the tops of the young
Corn, and that spoiled the whole sample. The
question had been dealt with by Lord Leigh, who had
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He thought after all it would -be found that the remedy
proposed in this bill was the best under the circumstances,
and, therefore, hehoped the House would adopt the course
he had suggested.
.Alderman SALOMONS seconded the second reading. Ho
was, as was well known, no sportsman, but he was induced to
support the present bill, with a view of putting an end to
the fearful scenes that now took place on the occasion of
prosecutions under the Game Laws, more particularly for
stealing rabbits, which many thought were not game, and
the property of any person.
Mr. KNIGHT thought the tenants always got a quid pro
quo for damage done by rabbits. He thought the bill
objectionable, and in committee he should move an amend-
ment to the effect that the game should belong either to
the landlord or the tenant, or in other words to abolish
double tenantcies.
Mr. PEASE was opinionof that the present, although but
a little bill, did not go far .enough, and that which it
proposed to do it did badly. It did not seem to touch the
hares, which in his opinion did quite as much damage to
the growing crops as rabbits, and the course he should feel
most inclined to adopt was to legislate strongly in faiour
of the tenant farmers with respect to hares. He should
not oppose the second reading of the bill, but he should.
move certain amendments in committee if he thought
it necessary to do so.
Colonel PRICE strongly objected to the further progress
of the bill, which he thought entirely useless in itself, and
nsufficient for the purposes intended.
Sir GEORGF GREY wanted to know, before he could con
our in the second reading of the bill, what the House wa
asked to agree to, and what was the real remedy proposed.
He asked whether the bill would make any difference at
all in the existing laws. Any tenant farmer might now,
on land in his own occupation, kill rabbits, provided there
was no agreement which deprived him of the right of doing
so, and not only that,buthemight do the same with regard
to hares.
Mr. BRUCE could not see why the principles which
Government had adopted with regard to Scotland could
not be adopted in dealing with England. He believed
there was a strong desire that the tenant farmer should be
placed in a better position.
Mr. LOCK and Mr. HENLEY having made a few obser-
vations,
Mr. TAYLOR expressed a hope that if the Government
were disposed to deal with the Game Laws, they would
deal with them in a manner which should besatisfactory to
the country. He reminded the House that there were in
the Cabinet men who were as strongly pledged against
the Game Laws as it was possible for men to be.
Mr. MARTIN withdrew his motion.
THE BALLOT BILL

Mr. I-Arrival/ rae,,,ved tlu sennrui rewlincr of the %lint

Mr. LIDDELL believed that, although voting was in the
future to be secret, so long as there was a class wealthy
enough and determined enough to make their way into
that House by means of their money, means would be
found to effect that purpose.
Mr. BERNAL OSAORNE said his experience of the last
general election with a midland town of England, and his
more recent experience of an election at a seaport town in
Ireland, in spite of logic, and in spite of all those stock
arguments which he had heard so constantly repeated
upon the Ballot question, induced him to say
that unless they did introduce secret voting,
the whole system of election was a farce. He left
Nottingham because it was too lively for him, and he
was not prepared to say that he was benefitted by the
change. (Great laughter.) The hon. gentleman depicted
the scenes at the Irish election in a manner which elicited
roars of laughter. He asserted that at the election in
Tipperary only four thousand voted out of ten thousand,
and the reason was that the electors were afraid to vote iu
consequence of the intimidation. If they wished to
supersede vote by bullet, they must introduce the system
of vote by ballot. He expressed a hope that the exas-
perating formality of nomination, and that incentive to
riot, the declaration of the poll, would be done away with.
Mr. NEWDEGATE complained of the conduct of the hon.
gentleman who had charge of the bill introducing it before
the members, had received the report of the com-
mittee before alluded to. It would not be creditable
to the House after having proclaimed the necessity
it felt for the information by inquiry upon the subject,
if it were to proceed to affirm the principle of the bill
in ignorance of the information which had been gathered.
He, therefore, moved the adjournment of the debate.

Mr. TORRENS recommended the hon. member who
brought the matter forward to accept the proposal of the
Oeverunlca. but at the.same. time he hoped there_ would