The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-30 00:00:00

NEW- HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE brought up the
report of the Committee on the New Houses of Parlia-
ment. He had, by an order of the Committee, pre-
sented this report of the progress made in the new
Houses of Parliament, because, in order to carry out the
recommendations therein contained, it would be neces-
sary to move an address to the Crown on this
subject. The address would be in the hands of their
Lordships to-morrow morning, and if his noble
relative connected with the Woods and Forests
wished for some little delay, no reason existed why a
postponement should not take place ; but if no objection
existed then, in accordance with the notice already given,
he should move that the address be adopted. To-morrow
he thought would be a convenient day for Noble Lor is.
THE OUT-PENSIONERS SERVICES (CHELSEA
AND GREENWICH) BILL.
This Bill was then read a third time and passed.
EVICTION OF TENANTRY IN IRELAND.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY rose to say a
few words on the motion which he had formerly made
about returns relating to the eviction of tenantry in the
counties of Roscommon and Galway. When he read
those aecounts in the Public newspapers, he felt it his
day lo bring the matter before Parliament, in order to
learn if such really hbd any existence and were not
ad captandum statements. Since the matter had first
occupied his attention, he had made inquiries, and he
was sorry to say that in the counties of Roscommon and
Galway these ejectments had taken place to a very great
extent. There was no doubt that Mr. and Mrs. Ger-
rard were the parties on whose estates these ejectments
had taken place, and that 76 families, or 300 persons,
had been turned out from their houses, and deprived of
any temporary covering they might have put up for
themselves in the adjoining ditches. His object in seek-
ing for these returns was, to give publicity to these pro-
ceedings. The landed proprietors had a right to
manage their estate; in any way they thought proper,
but not to bring abont such improper scenes as these.
—(Hear, hear.) If they wanted to get rid of their
tenantry they might encourage emigration, or
take such other steps as would induce them to remove.
But in these eases he found that, year after year, these
parties offered to pay their rents, but the money was
refused, and from 300 to 400 persons turned out of
their village. He knew little of the south
of Ireland, but he was glad to say that
no such scenes as these occurred in the north.
There was something radically wrong in the manner in
which the agents of landlords conducted themselves to-
wards the peasantry ; or else he was satisfied these
things would not take place. There was nothing that
had occurred in Russia could exceed in atrocity the
wholesale evictions of the Gerard family. That these
evictions had taken place he was well satisfied, and he
had received a letter from a Mr. Andrew Bamfil, of Bal-
linasloe, which corroborated the statement, This gen-
tleman had written a similar letter to Mr. O'Connell, a
copy of which he had forwarded to him (the Marquis of
Londonderry), but which he wouldnot read, as he did not
wish to have anything in connexion with Mr. O'Connell.
From the returns he had received, he was led to believe
that in the counties of Down, Mullingar, and Antrim,
there was no distress, and no want of employment, and
therefore it would not be necessary to have the Relief
Commission extend their powers to those counties.
EJECTMENTS IN IRELAND.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY moved that re-
turns be laid upon the table of the House, stating the
number of evictions that had taken place in Ireland in
the years 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1845, in each barony
respectively, and the total number evicted in Ireland
during those years.
The Earl ST. GERMANS said that he had not re-
ceived the information with which his Noble Friend the
Secretary for Ireland promised to furnish him,
relative to the subject on which the Noble Mar-
quis bad spoken, and he therefore requested
their Lordships to permit him to abs'ain
from entering upon any discussion upon the subject.
With regard to what the Noble Marquis had said of the
distress in Ireland, he had not seen the document to
which the Noble Marquis had referred, from the Secre-
tary of the Relief Board, but he apprehended that that
communication only referred to the particular counties
alluded to by the Noble Marquis.
(LkFT SPEAKING.)

HOUbE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at a few minutes to
Four o'clock.