The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

ANDOVER COMMITTEE.

Mr. ETWALL gave notice that he would take the
earliest opportunity next sessien ot calling the attention
of the House to the report of the Andover Committee.
DISTRESS IN COUNTY OF MAYO (IRELAND).
,On the order of the day being read,
Mr. DILLON RROW N 8 wished to call the
attention of the house to the state of distress
in the county of Mayo. He had a statement of facts
to show the dreadful destitution under which that
county was labouring, and he feared if measures were
not taken to relieve that distress, the peace of society
would be endangered, and human beings would perish
of starvation. From Castlebar, and other places,
he had received accounts that the potato crop
had not only been tainted with the rot, but the whole
crop had entirely disappeared. There were not less
than 42,000 people in that county in a state of famine,
and immense number in a state closely approximating
to destitution. [ l'he Honourable Member read
several docaments to prove that his statements were. not
exaggerated, every one ot which gave a most appalling
description of the state of wretchedness which existed
in the west of Ireland.] He hoped the House would
press upon the Government the propriety of taking itnme-
d tate and more effectual steps than were proposed to avert
the awful calamities which were impending. He did not
wish to make an inflammatory speed), but to give no
unvarnished statement of facts. He knew the priesthood
would endeavour to repress any outbreak, and to preach
resignation and patience to the people under their suffer-
itigs, but a crisis might arrive when reason and religion
would be disregarded, and cravings of nature burst
through all restraints. The Hon. Member having referred
to the landed proprietors of that country, many
of whom were entirely ignorant of the extent
and situation of their properties, and who consequently
had little or no knowledge of the tenantry and labourers
on them, concluded by pressing upon the •Government
and the House the awful responsibility in which they
were placed with regard to this destitution, and the ne-
cessity of taking immediate and effectual measures for
its relief.

Sir DENHAM NORREYS corroborated the state-
ment of the Hon. Member who had just sat down, with
respect to the great distress which at present prevailed,
and was to be anticipated in the west of Ireland.
He trusted that the Government would now seriously
turn their attention to the condition of Ireland, and pre-
pare measures which would tend to bring permanent
employment to the people, who were, as it were, children
in their hands, for they had never been left to themselves.
The British Legislature had ever interfered with the
gentry of Ireland, for the purpose of furthering their own
interests at the expense of the people of Ireland. Eng-
land owed to that country a ;:reat debt, and it was but
just that they should repay a portion of that debt by
increasing the means 01 employment ct the people of
Ireland.

would, therefore, move—" That it having been reported
to her Miik-sty, by the DeLut3 keeper of the Public Re-
cords, ttai all the 7:••certt repesitories in the me
tropoiis are subject to such an amount of rlBl
from fire, that they could be insured only at
the following premiums :—Rolls' Chapel, at ls. 6d. per
cent. ; Chapter House, Bolls House, and Wakefield
Tower, at 2s. per cent. ; Carlton Riding
How e, and
White Tower, in the Tower, at ss. per cent. It being
observed of-the hitter repository by Mr. Braidwood,
Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, that no merchant of
ordinary prudence would keep his books and accounts in
the same situation in which the'reeords are placed in the
said repositories. That A large annual expenditure is
curred ed for temporary arrangements and repositories, and
for watching the same. That the public records are
justly deemed of such national interest and value as to
occasion a largo yearly-grant of public money for their
custody and administration. • It is the opinion of this
House, that no further delay should take place in the
erection of a suitable record repository, pursuant
to the Act for heeoing the public records, passed on the
14111 day of August, 1838."
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER 5i0.49
that at present he could give no otfier opinion on the
subject except that it was necessary that come piece
should be erected for the purpose of preserving these
records.
After a few words from Mr. PROTHEROE and Sir G.
GREY the motion was withdrawn.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE.

In the absence of Mr. Hume,
Mr. P. BORTHWICK moved for a copy of the
i report,
of the commission to_ inquiren.o the salubrity °I

Buckingham Palace to Lord Melbourne. •
Mr. PROTHEROE hoped that if the arch in front of
Buckingham Palace was removed, the beautiful scull);
Lure of Mr. Blore would not be destroyed, which he III"
intended for the top of the arch, but which had been
placed at the top of Buckingham Palace. He
(Air'
Protheroe) did not quite concur in the general condenr
nation of Buckingham Palace; he believed that soon
portions of it would do credit to the best periods 01
Italian or Grecian sculpture.
Lord MORPETH said that as it was decided to plc
up the statue by way of experiment he did not wish
to say anything on the subject at present.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES PREVENTION 131Tiria
The Lords' amendments to this Bill were then re°
and agreed to.
Captain PECHELL presented a petition from 23 in
viduals, who were prisoners in the Queen's Done:
prison, complaining of the treatment inflicted oP°
them there by the keeper, who frequently put them la
solitary confinement, their treatment being that of felon
s
instead of debtors. He also presented a petition to
the same effect from Mr. P. Herring, a debtor inthe
prison.
ANDOVER UNION.
Mr. P. BORTH WICK wished to ask the Hon. one
Gallant Member who had last spoken when the evident!
adduced before the Andover Union Committee would be
laid upon the table of that House?
Captain PECHELL said that the evidence was being
revised by the Chairman previous to its being placed n`
the hands of the printer. All the members of that Coul:,
mittee were most anxious that it should be produced ov
the very earliest period possible.
The House adjourned at half-past Three to a qualW
to Two to-morrow.