The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, June 26.
EVICTED DESTITUTE POOR (IRELAND) BILL.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE, on the order of
the day for the third reading of the Evicted Destitute
Poor (Ireland) Bill, moved that the alterations intro-
duced into the Bill by the Committee on Thursday night
should be expunged, so as to leave the Bill in the same
state as it would have been left if those alterations had
never been introduced.
Lord MONTEAGLE supported the amendments,
and contended that they would cause the relief to be
more operative and efficient.
The Earl of ST. GERMANS did not see the utility of
the Bill. He objected both to the Bill in its original
state, and also to the amendments. There was no pro-
vision in the Bill for giving notice of the number of
persons to be evicted; and the seven days' notice of evic-
tion
would only be calculated to excite angry feelings
against the landlord, and give time forlsome oppositioa.to
be offered to the process when it was put in execution.
It appeared to him that it was more desirable that the
notice should be served on the relieving officer than the
clerk of the board of guardians, because the former
would be in the locality of the unfortunate persons to
be turned out ; and he might be ordered by the Poor-
law Commissioners, upon forty-eight hours' notice being
given to them, to repair to the spot and ascertain the
number of persons likely to be rendered destitute by the
execution of the process. He should, therefore, move
as an amendment, that the notice should be given to the
relieving officer, instead of the clerk of the board of
guardians, and that it should be forty-eight hours instead
of seven days.
The Duke of LEINSTER supported the amend-
ments.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE thought forty-
eight hours would be rather too short a notice; but it
sufficient notice was given to allow of the persons to be
evicted being provided for, he did not wish to adhere
pertinaciously to his opinion as to the seven days. He
had, therefore, no objection to consent to the period
being forty-eight hours; and he would also agree to the
notice being given to the relieving officer instead of the
board of guardians.
After a few words- from Lord MONTEAGLE their
Lordships divided, when the numbers were—
For the motion . 47
Against it
Majority
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
CERTIFICATES FOR KILLING HARES (SCOT-

LAND) BILL.

The House went into CoMmittee on this Bill.
Clauses 1,2, and 3 were agreed to.i
Lord REDESDALE moved a clause to limit the
authority from the owners or occupiers of land to kill
hares to one person only.
The Duke of RICHMOND opposed the clause.
The House then divided, %hen there appeared—
For the clause 36
Against it _ 23

Majority
—l3
The clause was then inserted.

On clause 4 being proposed,
The Earl of CARDIGAN moved an amendment, to
prevent the occupier of land from laying snares or wires
for the killing of hares.
The Duke of RICHMOND opposed the amendment,
on the ground that it would have the effect of preventing
the small occupier from preserving his crop. For his
part, he would give the farmer the power of killing
pheasants and other game, which he thought would have
the effect of preserving game more effectually than if a
whole army of zsmekeepers were employed.—(Hear.)
The Earl of Yinnonoucti and Earl GREY also op-
posed the amendment.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment 2O
Against it
Majority
The clause was then agreed to, as were those which
followed.

On the question that the preamble be agreed to,
Tho Earl of MALMESBURY objected to certain
words.

A short conversation ensued, but a division not being
insisted on, the preamble was agreed to, and the House
resumed.
GAME CERTIFICATES FOR KILLING HARES

BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee without amend•
ment.
The louse adjourned at Thirty. five minutes past Seven

ROUSE OF COMMONS, June 26.
JAMAICA.—MR. HAWES' EXPLANATION.
(Continued from our Third Editio❑ of last night.)
Lord G. BENTINCK wished now to draw attention
to the next answer, which was, " We have received
from other colonies very considerable details as to the
state of the colonies and the prospects of agriculture, but
from Jamaica I can find nothing of the kind. Except
until very recently, I think there has been no such
general dispatch received. That dispatch is now pre.
paring for this Committee. I ought, however, to state
that the Governor has been in the island a very
short time." That next answer placed the matter
beyond all doubt, for it represented the dispatch
which had been received to be not of the nature
of that one to which the Right Hon. Gentleman alluded,
but still the Hon. Gentleman said it should be
furnished to the Committee.—(Hear, hear.) Not
of the nature to which the Right Hon. Gentleman
alluded! Why, now it turned out to be exclusively of
that nature, and of all the dispatches which had been
laid before the House or the Committee, it was
the most important that could have been laid before
the Committee at that critical moment.—(Hear, hear.)
Before that Committee the Under-Secretary for the
Colonies (Mr. Hawes) stated that up to the sth of
April no dispatch had been received with regard to the
state of the island. The President of the Board of
Trade (Mr. Labouchere) had also officially declared
in the House of Commons that the Government had
received no dispatches from the Governor of Jamaica
explanatory of the political and social condition of the
colony. On the Bth of February the Member for the
University of Cambridge (Mr. Goulburn) inquired why
Jamaica had been omitted in the statement of the affairs
of the several West India colonies, which had been
laid before the House; and also if the Government
had any objection to lay the last dispatch upon the table
of the House? In reply to that inquiry, the President
of the Board of Trade stated that no dispatch had been
received giving any account of the state of the island,
bit as soon as such a document was received it was
the intention of the Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies to communicate it to the House without delay.
—(Hear, hear.) Now he (Lord George Bentinck)
was in a condition to show that a dispatch had been
received at that time.—(Hear, hear.) On the 7th of
February, which was the day previous to that to
which ho had alluded, Earl Grey stated that
out of the many documents which passed
through his hands connected with his department there
was one which very much struck his attention, from a
number of planters in the western part of Jamaica, who
had invested 142,000/. in their estates, which
they had purchased since the Act of Emancipation.
The speech of Earl Grey at that time concluded by