The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-06 00:00:00

CHELSEA PENSIONERS.

Captain LAYARD said that he had given notice sostse days
ago of his intention to ask the Right Hon. the Secretary-at-
War, if it was the intention of Government to take into con-
sideration the petition presented on the 21st day of April, and
since printed by order of the House, from certain t helsea pen-
sioners, complaining of o/. per cent. being stopped from their
pay. He now wished to know whether it was the intention
of the Government to comply with the prayer of the peti-
tioners ?
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he thought it was a matter of
to Ireland that they should not hastily cometo a decision
this Bill. The annual importation of oats from Ireland
had amounted, in the last and former years, to a sum of money
little short of 2,500,0001. Supposing that they came to
the resolution of admitting the free importation of
oats into England from foreign countries, and that the
effect would be the lowering of the price of oats to the extent
of 10/. per cent., it would .•ffect Ireland in a very grievous
degree. It would upon the simple article of oats
amount to a tax as it were upon the agricultural
produce of that country of 250,000/. per annum.
He held in his hand a return of the prices of all oats that were
exported from Ireland from the year 1817 to 1839, compris-
ing a period of twenty-three years, and the average price of
oats in that period west I ls. 7d. per qr. ; and if oats were allowed
to be introduced into England from foreign countries free of duty,
it was perfectly clear that Ireland would be grievously affected.
He would now state what the prices of oats were in the years
1844 and 1845 respectively at foreign ports.—( The
Noble Lord then aced from some documents he held in his
hand, by which 3 said it appeared that in 1844 the
price of oats at Amsterdam was 12s. 9d. ; at Hamburgh, 10s.
9d.; at Dantzie,l2s. 6d. ; and at Riga, 6s. 6d. In the year
1845, the prices were, at Amsterdam, Ils. 9d. ; at
Hamburgh, Hs. 10d. ; at Dantzic, 10s. 6d. ; and at Riga,
l Os. 6d. He next proceeded to read similar lists, which
gave et ail s equally minute relative to the price of
the says e article in the years 1624, 1825, and 1826,
at Archangel, Riga, Konigsburgh, Stettin, and Copenhagen.
The Right Hon. Gentleman the First Minister of the Crown
asked w Iv he would give to the distress in Ireland a suspension
of the-corn-law ? Why he never thought that the suspension
of Wise laws could do any good to the people of Ireland.
He never said that their removal would confer any benefit.
'ley said emphatically 'that in the present state
of *be Continent of Europe they could not afford in a
year of scarcity to export corn or wheat. They proposed
to agree to a suspension of the corn-laws as a practical proof
for how the people of Ireland and England thatno good would
Cope from their repeal. They said that if the people of Ire-
land were excited by representations of the good that would result
from a repeal of the corn-laws, that they (the protectionists)
would not stand between them and that suspension. He had
said that there were 585,000 holders of land in Ireland. Five
hundred and eighty-five holders of farms not exceeding fifteen
acres each--men who had no capital but their industry—no
capital but their honesty.—( Hear, hear.) That was his state-
ment. Was it possible that farmers holding but fifteen acres
of land could have much capital, or employ skill in the cultiva-
tion of their farms? How could they possess threshing ma-
chines, drills, harrows, and ether useful agricultural imple-
ments?----(Hear.) But such was the state of things as they
found it. They found 558,000 farmers holding but fifteen
acres—men who, if they believed Lord Essex, having no capi-
tal and skill, should not be:farmers. These 558,000 tarmers, with
3,000,000 of souls dependent upon them, were to be sacrificed
to their political economy. Now this was in accordance with
the language which had been held by the Right Hon. Baronet
at the head of the Government, when speaking of political
economists. He gave the House to understand, that human
beings were to be sacrificed, in order to ensure abetter cultiva-
tion of the land. There was a time when the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet would have scouted the idea of such political economy as
this; there was a time when he recollected the Right Hon.
Baronet referring to the letter which the Noble Lord the Mem-
ber for London had addressed to his constituents, and describ-
ing those who were in favour of such political economy as a
body whose doctrines it was to buy in the cheapest
market, and substitute the corn of Russia and of Po-
land for their own—a body of men who were described
as sacrificing the interests of the world to the advancement of
their own—as a body of men who would sacrifice the hardy race
of the farm labourer—a body of men to whom wealth was
their only object. He recollected that the Hon. Member for
Montrose interrupted the Right Hon. Baronet in that descrip-
tion, and that the Right Hon. Baronet, addressing the Hon.
Member, said,—You sat ;for the likeness—(Cheers from the
protectionists)—you are the representatives of these harsh,
cold-blooded, political economists. In his (Lord G. Ben-
tinck's opinion the Right Hon. Baronet was rather himself the
hard-featured, harsh, cold-blooded economist which he repre-
sented the Hon. Member for Montrose to be. —( Hear, hear. )
The Right Hoir Baronet had said that the protectionists had
made things worse, and he had asked what had protection done
for the 558,000 holders of land in Ireland ? It was certainly a
difficult matter to say whether those individuals were in a
better or a. worse condition since the passing of the Corn Bill ;
he had no very accurate data to go upon, but he had heard
from an authority which he he had often quoted—Captain
Foster—that in spite of the famine -alleged to exist in Ireland,
these holders of land were rapidly progressing towards improve.
ment. That Gentleman had learned from the secretary of the
savings' banks in Cork, that during the last year the small
farmers in that district alone had deposited it
in the savings banks 200,000/. and the sums deposited by each
individual did not exceed 341.—(Hear, hear)—and yet they
were called upon to sacrifice their capital at the shrine of
free trade which had been created by the Right Hon. Baronet.
He admitted that they were not going to shut out Ireland from
the British markets, but they were depriving her of that favour
and partiality whieh she had so long enjoyed. It was true this
was not done by direct means, but it was done by introducing
more favoured competitors into the British market, upon the
same terms.—(Cheers.) He regretted that for the last thirt-,
years the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Govern.
ment had chosen to abandon the course of a great statesman,
and the course which a great minister ought to pursue ; and he
regretted deeply, both for the sake of the country, as well as
for the House, that the warning which he had thrown out, as
for as the sake of the country, had not been used in this mea-
sure. It was with exceeding regret that he had alluded to this
subject at all, List still he conceived that it was incumbent on
the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Ministry that
measures should be taken which were in consonance with the
measures of the Government ; that the subje ct taken in these
discussions should be in consonance with the impressions which
had been promulgated in furthering the resolutions of the House.
In the course of these discussions he was taunted, or rather
ridiculed, because he took notice of the fact that a ship with
60 tons of potatoes had come to England from Ireland, and he
was asked if he would interrupt the supplies destined for the
people of England by purchasing this food for the apprehended
scarcity? He would retaliate by asking the Right Honourable
Baronet why the 60 or 80 tons of oats which had been recently
shipped from Deptford to Ireland were not detained here in-
stead of being sent to Ireland ? It seemed that this proceeding
was the converse of their own political economy, which was to
buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market. In this in-
stance they had bought in the dearest to supply the
cheapest market. They did this instead of going to
the localities in Ireland where scarcity did not exist,
in order to purchase food for the support of the
people. Ireland was the cheapest market from which they
could have been supplied, while it would have been conferring
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entered into details to show that the scarcity was not so great
as it was represented to be. Now, to return to the real state
of Ireland. The Right Hon. Baronet had thrown out some
doubt as to the correctnessSeve of the returns which he (Lord G.
Bentinck) had
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times referred to. But he could in-
to show that out of the that he held in his hand returns
not less than 558,000 helc6lsfaB;
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cupiers of farms employingioreabnodu.rer4Lmaking a total of
659,613 holders of lan would givfe an, in-
crease in the holders of land for the last 15
Now he thought that this was a sufficient pyreoaorfVlat2lsret96nci
was in a prosperous condition ; and if they added the remedies to
which reference had been made on former nights— namely, a
liberal poor-law, to meet the wants of the labouring classes,
and an attention to the condition and interests of the poorer
classes of tenant-farmers in Ireland, he had no doubt that a
material improvement would take place in the social condition
of the people in every district, whether distressed or not, in that
unfortunate country.
Sir H. BARRON said that the people of Ireland very much
doubted the 'sincerity of their lately acquired friends (the pro-
tectionists), and the question the poor farmer of 15 acres asked
himself, was, What has protection done for me ?—(Cheirs.)
He confessed that he had himself been opposed to any altera-
tion of the corn-laws as at present existing ; but, on calm and
careful consideration, he was now fully convinced that the mea-
sures propounded by her Majesty's Ministry would be of the first
and most beneficial importance to Ireland ; and some of his
tenants, men of great intelligence, holding farms of from 2 to 3
and 500 acres, were of the same opinion.' He remem-
bered that on the late alteration in the tariff, it was pro-
phesied that the stock and* butter trade of Ireland would
be completely ruined.—( Hear. ) But it was not so. These
trades had increased from 15 to 20 per cent., and lan
in the " butter countries" had increased from 15 to 18 per
cent., and he challenged the Noble Lord (Lord George
Bentinck) to contradict the fact that land in his part of
the country had increased from 10 to 15 per cent.—
(Cheers.) He was satisfied that the people of this great
country required these changes, and that they would not be
inimical to any of the interests of England or Ireland.
When the Noble Lord appealed to this House on behalf of
the poor landlords in Ireland, what on earth, he would ask,
had the poor of Ireland to expect from the continuance of
a tax on human food ?—( Cheers.) He trusted that this
measure would give an impetus to agriculture, which would
oblige the farmers to adopt better measures of cultivation.
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that the Irish farmer would be. continually in difficulty
while he reaped only one crop of corn instead of three, as
under the present system. It was not for him (
Sir H.
Barron) to defend the Right Hon. Baronet, the _First Lord of
the Treasury from any charges *brought against him, but
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that the recipe of the Noble Lord for
people, namely, to send Government emissaries into the
market to buy up food for them, was a perfectly novel
one
This was the Noble Lord's plan for lowering the markets.oe
He ( Sir H. Barron) would have conceived that the better.
and surer way to lower the markets would have been
to purchase corn in foreign markets, and to
sell that cheaply to those who required it.
He could tell the House, from personal observation, that nearly
one-half of the people of Ireland were living upon the charity
of their neighbours ; and were it not forthis.charity, he could

assure Hon. Members that hundreds and hundreds of thou-
sands would die of starvation. It was the knowledge of this
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nary exertions to assist the clergy and gentry in their efforts to
lessen the distress, the misery in town would be most appalling.
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But it was said, why do not the country gentry and clergy come
forward and put these families in the way of getting
their living. Now, how could they ? Many of these
resided in the mountains, and had no claim upon the landlords
of the district ; but with aid from Government these landlords
would undertake works which would go very far to employ and
relieve the wants of many of these starving families. Within
these last few months several ships had arrived from America
laden with the very food which was wanted for Ireland, but it
was shut out from the markets of that country by the delay of
this measure. And what, let him ask, would be the conse-
quence of this delay? Why those who had money in their
possession now would be compelled to expend the whole of it
in purchasing provisions for their immediate wants, whereas, if
this Bill were passed, this money would perhaps supply them
with food for the whole of the autumn. Under these cir-
cumstances he should support her Majesty's Government.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not rise
to follow the Hon. Baronet who had just sat down in answer-
ing the speech of the Noble Lord who had moved the
amendment, but to point out to the Noble Lord that
IT amendment would not accomplish the object he had in
view. The Noble Lord moved that the words " there should
be levied upon oats on and after the Ist of February, 1849, a
duty of 15.," shonld be omitted. Now, as a previous clause
repealed the duty on all grains including oats, if this amend-
ment were carried there would be no duty on oats at all, which
he was sure was not the object the Noble Lord had in view in
proposing this amendment.--( Hear, hear.) He put it to the
Noble Lord then, whether it was fair to take up the time of
the Committee in discussing an amendment, which could not
accomplish the end he had in view.—( Hear, hear.)
Lord GEORGE BEN TINCK apprehended that the clause
to which the Right Hon. Gentleman had just referred did
not absolutely repeal the duty, and in this opieiuion he be-
lieved, from a conversation he had had with him, that his Right
Hun. and Learned Friend the Attorney-General, would bear
him out.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, it was hardly fair
for the Noble Lord to introduce his name in this matter, but
independently of this the Noble Lord was wrong in supposing
that the Bill did not absolutely repeal the duty on oats in the
event of the Noble Lords' amendment being carried. It did
not require the mind of a lawyer to see this.—( Hear, hear.)
Captain LAYA RD had come down to the House, intending
to vote against the Noble Lord's amendment, but he was glad
to find now that the Noble Lord was so stanch a free-trader.—

(Cheers.) Instead, therefore, of opposing the amendment, he
should now support it, if the Noble Lord had pressed it ; but
he put it to the Noble Lord whether it would not be better,
seeing that the country was anxious that the Bill should pass,
for him to withdraw his opposition altogether.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. STUART was understood to dissent from the
opinions oi the Attorney-General.
Mr. P. BORTHWICK said, if they introduced into the
first clause of the Bill, which repealed the existing duties on
grain, the words " excepting oats," Le apprehended his Noble
Friend's amendment would only have the elect of negativing
the Government proposal, so far as it related to oats. He would
ask the Learned Attorney-General whether the effect of the
first clause, already passed, would have the effect of repealing
the existing duty on oats.
The ATTORNEY-GFNERAL apprehended it would.
Mr. STEWART thought that the whole of the clause
should be rejected, and another clause remodelled should be
introduced in lieu thereof.

The SPEAKER intimated that no amendment could be
proposed on any part of the clause already past.—( Hear,
hear.) The only course to be adopted would be to pass or
reject the whole clause.

Mr. F. BARING thought that if the Noble Lord wished to
make any alteration, he should propose his amendment in a
proper form.
Mr. SCO TT understood that the amendment of his Noble
Friend was that the word " oats" should not be expressed.
He thought the whole of the clause should be rejected.
Lcrd G. BENTINCK then withdrew his amendment with
reference to the word " oats."
Mr. GREENE then read the first clause.

"Be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's most excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parlia-
ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from
and after the passing of this Act, in lieu of the duties now pay-
able upon the entry for home consumption in the United King-
dom, and upon the importation into the Isle of I'slan of corn,
grain, meal, and flour, there shall be levied and paid unto her
Majesty, her heirs, and successors, on all corn, grain, meal,
and flour, already or hereafter to be imported into the United
Kingdom or the Isle of Man, from parts beyond the seas, and
entered for home consumption, after the passing of this Act,
the duties set forth in the Schedule to this Act annexed until
the first day of February, which will be in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and on,
from, and after the said first day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-nirw, the following duties :—namely,
Upon all wheat, barley, bear or bigg, oats, rye, pease, and
beans, for every quarter one shilling, and so in proportion for
a less quantity. Upon all wheat, meal, and flour, barley meal,
oat meal, rye meal, and flour, pea meal, and bean meal, for
every cwt. fourpence halfpenny, and so in proportion tor a less
quantity.
Lord G. BLNTINCK moved the omission of the whole
clause.

Mr. FINCH considered that the protecting duties were of
great benefit to the people of Ireland. The repeal of those
duties would therefore, in his opinion, be tantamount to a re-
peal of the Union. The Hon. Member proceeded to animad-
vert upon the currency introduced by the Right Honourable
Baronet. He considered that if the House agreed to the pro-
position of his Noble Friend it would be a great boon to Ireland,
to which the agriculturists of Ireland were well entitled. He
would, therefore, most cordially support the motion of the
Noble Lord the Member for Lynn.
Mr. 0. GORE considered that the present question was
peculiarly an Irish one ; and, therefore, as an Irish landlord,
he should offer a few observations to the House regarding it.
He looked upon the measure as the most important which had
ever come before the fregislature during the forty years that
he had the honour of a seat in that (louse. And the passing
of it would be—and he feared it would be passed—the era
from whence to date the decline of this great empire. The
object of the Bill—as it was stated to be—was to bring waste
land into cultivation. Now, he had reclaimed waste land him-
self, and upon that subject, therefore, he was a practical man.
In Ireland it was their custom to take four, five, six, or seven,
aye, ten crops of oats in succession from reclaimed
lands, whilst in England they thought it a great
thing to take two—( Hear, hear)—and they therefore would, by
passing the measure, reduce oats to such an extravagantly low
price that it would not pay the farmer the capital which he in-
vested in the reclamation of the waste. His Noble Friend,
(Lord G. Bentinck ) had already demonstrated the evil which
weuld be inflicted by the measure upon Ireland; he proved it
by quoting the price of the foreign markets. But he would
put the House in mind of a statement made by Mr. Gladstone
in 1842, namely, that he could I rocure 793,000 quarters of
wheat, at an average of Hs. 5d., adding about ss. for
freightage—(Hear, hear)—which plainly demonstrated the low
price which grain would bring in the home markets. But he
would quote a higher authority than Mr. Gladstone, a higher
authority than the Home Secretary, and a higher authority
than the Prime Minister himself. He would quote Mr. Pitt
who said, " that the agriculture of Ireland ought to be pro-
tected, and that it would be a blot upon England should they
cease to support it."—( Hear, hear. )
Mr. SCOTT said that there was nothing which could
alienate Ireland from this country more than the circum-
stance that she could not get an adequate return for her pro-
duce. If this Bill passed, she would not get an adequate re-
turn, but would be obliged to enter the market in competition
• with the foreigner. He denied, therefore, that it would do
good to Ireland. It would, besides, have the effect of throwing
the land of inferiror value out of cultivation.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw that the House
might divide, but on our re-admission to the gallery we found
that no division had taken place.
Lord G. BENTINCK having withdrawn his amendment,
The remaining clauses of the Bill, with the schedules, were
then agreed to, and the Report was ordered to be received
on Friday next, amidst loud cheers.
The House then resumed, and immediately afterwards re-
solved itself into Committee on the

CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL,
The different clauses of which were agreed to without oppo-
sition, and the report ordered to be read on Friday next.
The House then resumed.
The reports on her Majesty's message relating to Viscount
Hardinge and Lord Gough' were brought up and agreed to.
THE POLLING PLACES IN IRELAND BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at a qurter-past Nine o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
TUESDAY, RAY 5.
The following Railway Bills were withdrawn:—
Preston and Wyre Railway Harbour and Dock (dew Dock and
Railway).
Cornwall and Devon Central (liule, Lelant, St. Austell, and Bodmin
Branches).
Cornwall and Devon Central.

The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the Bills
ordered to be brought in by the undernamed lion. Members :
Bristol and Birmingham (Bath Line)—Mr. Hudson & Mr. Phillpotts.
Warwickshire and London (Worcester and Weedon Line)—Sir C.
Douglas and Mr. Dugdale.
Midland (Nottingham and Mansfield Railway) —Sir J. Trollope, Mr.
Hudson, and Mr. Mundy.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE.
resolutionsMaThnsefiefolalloßwiailnwgay)peti
That, in the case o t were reported from this Committee:-
I.ke Midland Railway (Nottingham and
tion the standing orders ought to be dispensed
a—y That petition,t partiese
aibitfiniage orders
2. That, in the case of the li,tlT to
proceed with their Bill.
tehaven and Furness Junction
wßaitihlw:
ought net to be dispensed with.
3. That, in the case of the East at
Railway petition, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with.
West of England Junction
4. That, in the case of the Launcestonand
petition, the standing orders ought not to bedispensed with.
5. That, id the case of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction
Railway petition, the standing orders ought not to be
dispensed with.
6. That, in the case of the Bristol and Birmingham Railway
(Bath Line) petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :
—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on
abandoning that portion of their lint the plans and sections of which
have not been deposited with the clerk of the parish of Swainswick.
7. That, in the case of the Londe:, Salisbury and Yeovil Junc-
tion Railway (Salisbury to Yeovil) petition, the s -mting orders ought
to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with
their Bill, on the insertion of a clause restraining them from taking
any land from a field (No. 2) in the parish of Sutton Bingham, to the
termination of the line as shown on the plan.
8. That, in the case of the Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway
petition for additional provision, the standing orders ought to he
dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to introduce such
additional provision, on proving to the Committee on the Bill the
consent of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company.
9. That, in the case of the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Rail.
way petition for additional provision, the standing orders ought to be
dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to introduce stich
additional provision, on proving to the Committee on the Bill the con-
sent of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Company.
10. That, in the case of the Kent Atmospheric Railway petition for
additional provision, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :
—That the parties be permitted to introduce such additional provi-
sion, on proving before the Committee on the Bill the assent of all
the owners, lessees, and occupiers on the line of the proposed deviation.
That the Committees on this and the four preceding Bills do exa-
mine in the first place how far such orders have been complied with,
and do report the same to the Itouse on the report of the Bill.
11. That, in the case of the Warwickshire and London Railway
(Worcester and Weedon Line) petition, the standing orders ought to
be dispensed with
:—That the parties be permitted to proceed with
their Bill.

First, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh resolutions
agreed to.—Report to lie on the table.

THE WOUNDED MAN BLEwITT.—Last night, on in-
quiry of Mr. Duncan, the house surgeon of the hospital, our in-
formant learnt that not the remotest hope was now entertained of
tile patient's ultimate re covery, mortification of the Injured parts of
the body through which the ball had passed having at length taken
place, notwithstanding the favourable symptoms which a few days
Since apparently manueettcl tnemasive