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London, England, 1846-04-03 00:00:00

EVICTION OF TENANTS IN GALWAY.

Mr. S. O'BRIEN moved that an humble address be pre-
sented to her Majesty, to inform her Majesty that the atten-
tion of this House has been directed to a case of ejectment of
tenantry which has recently taken place at a village named
Ballinglass, in the county of Galway, in which it is stated that
not less than 61 families, comprising 270 individuals, have in one
day been expelled from their habitations, under circumstances
the most cruel and most heart-rending, and to pray her Majesty
that she will be graciously pleased to give directions that the
stipendiary magistrates, and other officers of the Irish con-
stabulary, who are in the habit of reporting to the executive
outrages committed by the peasantry of Ireland, or such
Commissioners as her Majesty may be pleased to appoint, be
required to furnish to her Majesty's Government such au-
thentic information respecting the facts of this case as they
may be able to collect upon the spot, and that such reports
may be laid before Parliament at as early a period as possible.
He (Mr. Smith O'Brien) said, that after the debate which
had just taken place, on the motion of Mr. Thomas Duncombe,
relative to the six factory girls, he hoped that the House would
indulge him while he directed their attention to this case of
ejectment. An account of the case had recently appeared in
the newspapers, and, in consequence of the sensation which it
caused, Dr. Gray, of the Freeman's Journal, who, he believed,
was a gentleman incapable of doing anything inconsistent with
the highest principles of honour, sent down a reporter to obtain
accurate information of the circumstances. 'That report he
would take the liberty of reading to the House. It was drawn
up, he would confess, in rather strong language.—(The
Honourable Gentleman then produced a copy of the
Freeman's Journal, from which he read the report in question.)
The cases of ejectment excited considerable interest amongst
the Hon. Members present. Having concluded reading the
extract, the Hon. Member went on to say that he knew nothing
of this but from what he had written in the papers. He had
beard much about the state of the Seikhs ; but he would ask
whether they or the Irish were in a state of the greater
wretchedness. The. Irish people had been called bar-
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than to live in this state. He would ask what could be ex-
pected from people who were treated in this way. He would
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Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that the Hon. Gentleman who
had moved that address, had stated that he knew nothing
of the correctness of the statement he had read in a newspaper,
and that he also knew nothing of a letter that had appeared in
contradiction of them, and those were the grounds upon which
that address had been moved. He believed that a better order of
things was about to exist in Ireland as regarded the conduct
of landlords, and that, even if that statement were true, he be-
lieved it was rather the exception than the rule. But if the
Bill now before the House should not be carried into law, he
did not see how the conditition of the tenant would be rendered
better, or how the deplorable clearance system could be prevented.
There was an inquiry now in progress on the subject, and it
would be superfluous to make this address, as they would in-
quire into the real facts of the case. It would be only justice
to the parties concerned that the House should suspend this
measure. He was in the hope that the report which had been
just read was an exaggerated one; and even if there were some
truth in it. the result of the inquiry would show how far it
might be relied on.
After a few words from Mr. CALEB POWELL,
Mr. S. O'BRIEN said that he hoped the Hon. Gentleman
did not mean to say that he took any unfair advantage
of Mr. Gerard, because if the speech before the House were
incorrect, there would no doubt be a demand for an inquiry,
and therefore by bringing forward this motion he did not
conceive that he did any injustice. With respect to the out-
' rages in Ireland, his statement had been made with no desire
to obtain popularity amongst ruffians and murderers, for on
more than one occasion he had exposed his life in the endea-
vour to suppress such crimess He wished he could impress
on Hon. Members, that it was not by coersive measures that
they would redress the fatal condition of Ireland.

The motion was then withdrawn.
HIGHWAYS IN ENGLAND.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM moved for leave to bring in a
Bill for the purpose of Amending the Acts relating to
the Highways in England. In making this motion
he was perfectly aware of the deficient state of the law upon
that subject. The House was aware that the sum levied for
the maintenance of highways in England is 1,600004 par
annum, and many parishes supported their own highway!. In
an Act formerly passed power was given to different districts to
unite and divide for the purpose of maintaining their high-
ways. That Act had not been attended with any general
benefit, and the object of his measure was to
finder
rules and regulations compulsory in certain istricts. certain
He
would not long detain the House, while he detailed the
or thraae-
chinery by which he intended to work that aystem. For

purpose o making the Act perspicuous and particular, he had
brought together all the existing laws with respect to
highways, and had consulted the provisions contained in them
all. He proposed to forte a Board of Commissioners, to
whose management all the highways in England should be re-
ferred, and that the present existing trusts, to the number of
15,0i.0, should be formed intodistricts under the control of the
Commissioners. He proposed that one superintending officer
should be appointed in each district, whose salary is to be fixed
by the board, and subject to their dismissal. r Each parish or
township is to be represented at the district by haywardens.
These haywardens are to have the regulations of the highways
in each district. This board is to appoint two paid
officers, one a surveyor and the other a superintendent.
These district boards are to meet four times in the year, and they
are to have an annual meeting, to which the accounts are to
be submitted, and estimates for the succeeding year brought
forward and agreed to. He proposed, as already there
were auditors appointed under the Poor-law, that those au-
ditors should audit the accounts of these district boards; and
that the accounts so audited should be forwarded to the En-
closure Commissioners, and reported by them to the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, to be by him laid before
both Houses of Parliament. Powers were also given in the
Bill to change parish rating into union rating, but it must
have the unanimous consent of every one of the hay-wardens.
Otherwise the mode of laying on the rates could net be
altered. The district beards had the power of appoint-
ing sub-commissioners, and to raise rates by an
imposition of 10d. in the pound in each
rate; but that on no occasion should they have the
sending o rra tien. s
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no power of levying more than three rates in the rate of :Is. 6d.
p ei
He proposed that the highway rate should be collected in the
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ency of such improvements. These were the leading points of
the measure which he now wished to introduce, and he would
conclude by stating that the Bill would not include South
\Vales in its operation, and hoping that the House would allow
him to introduce it at once.
Mr. V. SMITH did not consider that this measure would
be one of what may be called pecuniary relief to the holders of
small tenements in the different districts, because, by the pre-
sent Act, they had the power of obtaining that relief themselves.
The object of the Bill seemed to be to make that compulsory
which was now voluntary, and he doubted much whether the
farmers would not complain of the appointment of a paid
' surveyor.
Sir J. GRAHAM—It has never been tried yet.
Mr. V. SMITH—They tried to get vestries, and they re-
fused to section surveys on the score of expense. He (Mr.
V. Smith) had ventured to suggest the very principle which
the Right Hon. Baronet was now adopting in the debate last
year on the motion of the Hon. Member for Sheffield for an
inquiry into the peculiar burdens of the land. There was one
statement made by the Right Hon. Baronet, which he could
not look on with the same friendly eye, he meant the erection
of a number of fresh districts" There were few districts now
in which they would find persons willing to undertake the office
of haywardee.

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meet only four times a tear.
Mr. V. SMITt
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mer they met the less
objectionable this clause would
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at the same time, he (Mr. Smith) would
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the board of guardians, who were in the habitv of
the poor, would have been the persons to have
maderating
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for
distribution of the highway rates. He thought one of
the best portions of the Right Hon. Gentleman's measure
the appointment of an auditor, because there were at pre-
sent constant complaints that many of the charges on the
highways ought to have been added to the poor-rates. He
thought that the Right Hon. Baronet ought to direct his at-
tention to the general system of rating in England. This
Bill would be attended with another considerable advantage,
because it would do away with the necessity for temporary
amendments. He trusted, as he had already stated, that the Right
Hon. Baronet would turn his attention to thesystem of rating in
general, because it was at present so very defective, and because
no improvement would be undertaken under it. The rating
of such tenements was particularly obnoxious. He trusted the
Right Hon. Baronet would introduce further measures of this
kind, and, despite the very exciting topics which were at pre-
sent before the House, that he would carry them through in the
course of the session.

Mr. HANDLEY had heard something respecting an addi-
tion to the usual rate of 2s. 6d. in the pound, that went to the
effect of enabling the overseers to borrow money. To this he
had some objection. But there was another alteration which
had been proposed, and that was to assimilate the highway-rate
to the poor- rate. This was such an alteration as would mate-
rially interfere with the general administration of the local
finances, and, therefore, he conceived that it would require
more deliberation than the Right Hon. Baronet was inclined
to give to it.
Sir J. GRAHAM conceived that the position of the Hon.
Member for Oxford was quite untenable, for, instead of its
being a loss, he expected to make a large pecuniary saving—in
truth, of no less a sum than 1,600,0001. He had had consider-
able experience in the working of this principle, and in his
own county had been fortunate enough to induce the parties in
authority to act upon the principles which he was
now propounding. The consequence was, in the course
of the ensuing seven years there would be a saving
of 93- per cent. in the year. According to the account of
the Hon. Member for Oxford, the present rate imposed for
highways was half-a-crown in the pound; but instead of there
being an addition on that rate, there would be a relief for it.
On these accounts he trusted the House would consent to allow
him to bring in a Bill ; and as the quarter sessions would have
the power to regulate any informality or irregularity, to rectify
abuses, that no objection would be offered to the introduction
of the measure he had proposed, especially when it was recol-
lected that the highway rate would be considerably reduced.
Leave was then given to bring in the Bill.
IRISR ELECTIONS.
- • -

Mr. MACARTHY alluded to certain returns which
had been presented to the House of the number of individuals
thut had voted in the Irish elections. In the election for
Dublin, the number polled was stated; to be 6,213, of whom
70.2 came ander the letter N, and the whole number of electors
that had polled in that election in Ireland was 17,410. He him-
self could bear testimony, that all that had polled in the late
election for Cork was 348, although the number of the popula-
tion was far different. His object, then, was so to alter the
law for taking the votes, as to enable every individual
to express his opinion. Under the present system,
so little was there a probability of fair play
that most of those who came under the letter N refused to
register at all. Under these circumstances he hoped the
House would give him leave to bring in a Bill to remedy these
defects.

Leave was given to bring in the Bill.
PLYMOUTH GREAT WESTERN DOCKS BILL.
This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com-
mitted.

RAILWAY DEPOSIT BILL.
This Bill went through Committee.—Report to-day.
HIGHWAYS BILL.
This Bill was brought in, read a first time, and ordered to be
printed.

POLLING (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was brought in, read a first time, and ordered to
be printed.
'f he remaining orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock.

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAIL-

WAY COMPANY.

A meeting of this Company was held yesterday, at one,
Richard Hill, Esq., in the chair, for the purpose of sanction-
ing the several Bills before Parliament, for making branches
to East Grinstead, to Dorking, from Croydon to Wands-
worth, to give the South-Western Railway another Bill to
make a branch to Bognor and Little Hampton from the
Brighton and Chichester Railway, and others to Steyning,
Eastbourne, Sleaford, and New Haven. The meeting was
also called ito confirm the amalgamation of the Chichester
and Fareham and the London and Croydon Railways with
the London and Brighton scheme. Another point was to
make the meeting called for the 2d April special for the ob-
jects for which it was called.
All the proceedings for the branches, the first of which had
passed Parliament on its merits, and the proceedings on the
rest, were confirmed.
In putting the amalgamation of the London and Croydon
Companies, the CHAIRMAN stated that the reason why the
design for this purpose had not been carried into effect was,
that a difference had ensued respecting the arrangement of
the board of directors of the combined Company. The
board of the Brighton Company were desirous of introducing
a clause, by way of rider, into the Act for amalgamation,
which should provide for an election of the joint directory,
but it having been shown by the observation of one of the
Croydon proprietors that under the Bill there must be an
election at the first general meeting after the amalgamation,
the design of the clause was dropped. It was agreed that
the Bill should proceed as it now stands before Parliament:
Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting
separated.

LONDON AND CROYDON RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
A special meeting of this Company was held yesterday at
the station at London-bridge, at twelve, to take into con-
sideration the amalgamation with the London and Brighton
Company, and for sanctioning the proceedings of the Com-
pany in endeavouring to obtain Bills for branches to Deptford,
with wet docks and other works, and an extension to
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be reduced to ten. The matter was ultimately left to the
discretion of the directors.
- - • - •

The expense of the line to Deptford was calculated at,
33,0001., if made on the atmospheric principle. With respect
to that principle it was a satisfaction to the directors to state
that their confidence in it was not at all shaken, for, although
several accidents bad occurred to impede the completion of
the working of the engines and the pratical efficiency of the
railway, still the directors looked forward to a prosperous
application of the invention.
It was ultimately agreed that, with a reservation as to
the number of the directors, the amalgamation with the
Brighton Company should be completed, and thanks being
voted to the Chairman, the meeting separated.

COMMITTING PRISONERS.—We hare before alluded
to the practice of committing prisoners over the assizes, to
quarter sessions for trial. We have been favoured this week
with the following statement on the subject, which we re-
quest our country magistrates to peruse with care :—" In
the time of Baron Wood, when at the Stafford assizes, he
held that the assizes being a GENERAL gaol delivery, ALL
prisoners in custody at the time were entitled to be tried;
and those against whom no bills had been preferred (being
reserved for the quarter sessions) were all ordered to be dis-
charged. Commitments for trial at the next quarter ses-
sions (which are not frequent when assizes may intervene)
are, therefore, deemed irregular.' " It is really high time
that this unjust and illegal practice were put a stop to, for
it involves in point of fact A FALSE pirnisoxmrsT, and
tends to subject many an INNOCENT mall to needless Pain
and loss. As to the question of expense, it has 'IP r,ighst!,ocues,
connexion with the matter at all, which is one of umere
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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THE LAST NIGHT BEFORE EASTER.
TO-MORROW EVENING, SATURDAY, APRIL 4,
Will be performed (by desire) Verdi's highly successful Opera,
entitled,

NINO,
Niue, Signor Fornasiri ; Idaspe, Signor Corelli ; Orotasphe, Signor
Botelli ; Fenena, Mdlle. Corbari ; Abigail, Mdlle. Sanchioli.
To be followed by the Divertissement of UN BAL SOUS
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will appear.
In the course of the Evening, a New Pas de Trois, by Males.
Louise Taglioni, Petit Stephan, and M. Perrot ; and the admired
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After which, the Last Scene of LA SONNAMBULI. Amino,
Madame Castellan.
To conclude with EOLINE ; on, La Dryade. Arranged by M.
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