The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-15 00:00:00

IIUZa DUTIES.

In reply to a question from Mr. BARKLY,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated
that he proposed that on Monday the House should go
into Committee on the Rum Duties, when he would
state thu intention of Government in reference to that
question.
EVICTED DESTITUTE POOR (IRELAND) BILL.
Sir GEORGE GREY, in moving the consideration
of the Lords' amendments to the Bill, stated that the
Bill when sent up to the Lords contained a provision
requiring that seven days' notice should be given to the
tenant previous to an eviction, and that 48 hours'
notice of the eviction should be given to the board
of guardians of the parish, before the process of
eviction was put into force. The amendments the
Lords had made were that the latter notice should be
given to the relieving officer instead of the board of
guardians, and that it should be given within 12 hours
after the issue of the warrant of eviction instead of 48
hours before. He proposed thatthe first amendment should
be agreed to, but as the second amendment would have
the effect of defeating the object of the Bill, of giving
time to prepare relief and shelter for the evicted tenant,
he proposed to ask the House to reject it.—(Hear.)
Mr. S. CRAWFORD hoped that in the consideration
of the Lords' amendments sufficient care would be
taken that relief was given in the shape of food only.
He' thought the other House of Parliament in the
alteration it had made in the Bill had shown a
determination to p.zse no measure that would
do good for the people of Ireland. The
Bill,
in his opinion, ought to give power to the Lord-
Lieutenant to direct that, in certain cases, rates
should be levied on the estates from which per-
sons hal been evicted, instead of those rates
being levied on the district generally. If the power of the
state was to be employed to aid the landlords, the state
ought to take care that some provision should be madefor
the new location of the people that would be removed...
Mr. P. SCROPE said any one who had
paid Eaten-.
tion to the events in Ireland could not fail to have seen
that the evils which this Bill was brought in to destroy
in that country
were at the bottom of the hostility
against the English and against English legislation.onfor
The clearance system which had now
.goneh d b some
time in Ireland, and was daily extending, a eel) pro-
ductive of the greatest misery among the poorer
classes of tenants, and he believed the present
Bill had originated in consequence of some cases
of hardships which he had brought under the attention
of the House on a former occasion. The horrors which
were the result of the present system of eviction were
daily increasing, and he was afraid that the Bill would
only go a little way to alleviate the evil.
Sir G. GREY was sure there was no indifference on
the pert of the House with respect to the distresses of
their fellow-countrymen in Ireland.—Hear, hear.)
In cases of illegal eviction and acts of violence
the parties were liable to punishment. He could not
well see how parties could be compelled to state the
precise time when they intended to evict. Those evicted
would of course receive adequate relief if they were
destitute. Ile wished to amend one of the clauses by
the insertion of the words " that forty-eight hours' notice
shall be given to the relieving-officer."
After a short discussion, the amendment, as well as
others of a verbal character, were agreed to.
A Committee was then appointed to draw up reasons
for not agreeing to those of the Lords' amendments,
which the House determined on negativing.
PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND, No. 2) BILL.
On the order of the day for the second reading of this

Bill, v
Mr. A. STAFFORD rose to move as an amendment
that it be read a second time that day six months. He
said that tho constituency which he had the honour to
represent were most anxious and willing to relieve the
distresses of their Irish follow-subjects, but thought they
were entitled to expect that the motley granted for that
purpose should be properly laid out and fairly accounted
for. Recent accounts from Ireland foreshadowed a state
of things—perhaps not so bad as the famine of last year,
but certainly one justifying the gravest apprehensions
and the greatest precautions. fie bad received a letter
from a gentleman in Nenagh, stating that the writer had
been obliged to plough up four acres of potatoes, the
seed having entirely failed. Under these circumstances
the country had a right to see that the public money was
properly and efficiently disposed of. lie did not see any
prospect of such a result from the operation of the pre-
sent Bill. It seemed to him that its principle was to
be as indulgent as possible to bad landlords and to act
oppressively to all the good ones. The mode of seek-