The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-03 00:00:00

EVICTIONS IN IRELAND.

Mr. POULETT SCROPE wished to ask the First
Lord of the Treasury whether he had yet taken the
opinion of the law officers of the Crown as to the al-
leged illegality and criminal character, at common law,
of wholesale clearances, or depopulation, as now largely
carried on in Ireland? and, if not, whether the Govern-
ment intended to reeommend to Parliament any measure
tor the purpose of checking such practices, which inflict
the most fearful sufferings on numbers of her Majesty's
subjects, and appear to provoke the retaliat )ry perpe-
tration of agrarian crime ?
Lord J. RUSSELL said no case had been laid before
the Government upon which they could ask the opinion
of the Law officers of the Crown. With regard to the
last question, he must say that it was of so large a cha-
racter, that it was impossible for him to answer it. No
doubt it was of the utmost importance, that measures
should be devised for improving the condition of the
people of Ireland, but what these measures should be was
a question for the consideration of the House. It was
to him a matter of regret that the Hon. Member, with
the view of asking a question, should have placed a no-
tice on the paper, the tenor of which seemed indirectly
to justify agrarian outrages.—(Cheers.)
Mr. P. SCROPE, in answer to this imputation,
begged to tell the Noble Lord that if he would give him
the opportunity he would prove the fact.—(Rear, hear.)

branches of industry? The Bill was objfctionahle,
moreover, on the ground of the excessive compensation
which it proposed to give the parties whose vested righti
were likely to be disturbed by it; and the
more ho examined the Bill, the more was
he satisfied that it was a measure which ought not to be
hurried by, but postponed till a fieure period in order
that it might be considered by a select committee.
He thought if the 'Bill was referred to a Select Com-
mittee every purpose would be answered, and that the
best results would ensue.

Sir G. GREY opposed the motion for referring
the Bill to a Select Committee, When the Bill went
into a Committee of the whole House, he should
be prepared to discuss its details and to
remedy many of the evils complained of. The
amendment proposed would have the effect
of postponing the Bill for another session, which he
believed would be productive of the worst effects.

Mr. C. LUSUINGTON supported the amendment,
and was

(LEFT SPEARING.)

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.
The sessional meetings were appropriately termi-
nated on last Tuesday evening by a conversazione,
given by Mr. Cubitt, the President, at the house of
the institution. The guests were received by the
President, supported by the principal members of the
council, and assisted by Mr. C. Manby, the Se-
cretary, on whom devolved the selection and ar-
rangement of the models and works of art, as
well as the decorations of the rooms, and the
direction of all the proceedings of the evening ; and
certainly, when it is considered that nearly a thousand
visitors passed through the rooms in the course of the
evening with so much ease and comfort, it is as much
a subject of astonishment how it was accomplished, 113
of admiration for the general system and arrangement
adopted.
The rooms were excellently decorated, all the win-
dows and the staircase being lined with choice flowers,
and the portieres draped with beautiful Aubusson
tapestry, sent by Monsieur Sallandrouze de Lamor-
naix, who also contributed several beautiful works of
art for the drawing-room tables.
The walls were covered with paintings ' • among
which were three well-known Edwin Landseere,
" Diogenes," " Shoeing," and " Dignity and Impu-
dence,"—the two latter contributed by Mr. Jacob
Bell, who also spared from his collection pictures by
Etty, Frank Stone, and Wilme ; the other pictures
were by Oliver, Fahey, Wood, G. Landseer, Herring,
O'Neill, and others.
Mr. Mitchell sent a beautiful Watteau, and some
delicious French crayon drawings; and the tables
were covered with portfolios of sketches by Lake
Price, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver, H. Johnson, Nash, and
others.

Two extremely curious illuminated Holy Books of
the Seikhs, contributed by Mr. Edgar Bowring, ex-
cited great attention ; as did some splendid specimens
of Chinese ivory carvings and of silver chased work,
brought from Ceylon by Sir Emerson Tennent, and
which were appropriately displayed on a fine carved
oak sideboard, by Mr. J. Thomas.
Messrs. Elkington contributed a fine collection of
electro-deposit works in gold, silver, and bronze;
Messrs. Minton, encaustic tiles; Mr. Essex, enamel
paintings; Mr. La Molte, remarkable alto-relievo
groups; and Mr. Mayall, fine daguerreotypes.
The mechanical models were very numerous, and
well arranged. Space will only permit a few to be
mentioned. Of those at work, Mr. Cotten's in-
genious machine for weighing and selecting heavy
and light gold coins, with the accompanying turbine
for giving motion to it, was, perhaps, the most ge-
nerally interesting.
Mr. Barker's Curvilinear Sawing Machine ; Mr.
W. S. Johnson's American Printing Press ; Mr. Ap-
pold's Register Hygrometer and Thermometric Ba-
lance; and Mr. Whishaw's Printing Telegraph,
worked by magnets, being in action, attracted much
attention.
Of the other models arranged around the room, the
following may be mentioned :—Mr. John Penn's mo-
dels of French Engines, and of Oscillating Cylinder
Engines ; Messrs. Maudslay's Feathering Paddle
Wheels; Captain Fayrer's Improved Steering
Wheel ; Siemen's Condensing Apparatus ; Svmon's
Weighing Crane; Mitchell's Screw Pile for Light-
houses, Ship's Moorings, &c.; Smith's Yielding
Breakwater and Lighthouse; Ransome and May's
Agricultural Implements ; Anthony's New American
Churn ; Soyer's New Portable Cooking Apparatus;
Edge's, Crosley's, and other Meters ; Chubb's Locks;
Moxon's Imitations of Wood and Marble; Perigel's
Ellipsograph ; Lemolte's Batteries; Lerebour's Op-
tical Instruments ; Fahey and Green's Folding
Models; Brunton's Mine Ventilator; Martin's Im-
proved Sewage Flaps ; Marsden's Gully Trap ; Sher-
:ngham's Ventilators; 'Wilkins' Dioptric Light Ap-
paratus for Light Ships; Shepherd's Balloons•for
the Arctic Regions ; Warriner's Deflectometer ;
P. and W. H. Barlow's Permanent Way, and.
Saltometer ; Ransome and May's Compressed Tre-
nails and -Wedges ; specimens, from Low Moor, of
Raw Material and Iron in all stages of manufacture;
and of Stirling's Toughened Iron ; Turner's Iron
Roof of 154 feet span, at Liverpool ; Cubitt's Roof
for the Goods' Station at the Great Northern Rail-
way; and numerous specimens of Gutta Percha,
adapted to new and useful articles.
The centre of the room was occupied by Dighton's
model of Gatton ; Jee's models of the Dinting Vale
Viaduct, and of the Goods' Station of the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway ; Fow-
ler's Torksey Bridge, &c., &c.
In the anti room were Dorkin's new application of
the Disc Engine ; Chubb's Iron Safe ; and Jobson's
clever and simple Reflecting Stove.
The examination of the specimens and works of
art occupied the guests, until they were drawn away
by their host's liberal attentions in the refreshment
rooms; and it was not until an early hour of the
morning that the last of the guests departed.
On Wednesday the rooms were again thrown open
for a feW hours in the middle of the day, and were
visited by many noble and distinguished ladies, who
were desirous of examining the collection, which was
explained to them by Mr. Manby, the secretary, who
received the guests in the absence of the president.
Among the guests on Tuesday evening were—
The Marquis of Salisbury; Earls Bosse, Harrowhy,
Powis, Lovelace, Granville ; Lords Wharncliffe,
Overstone, De Manley; Viscount Ebrington, M.P.;
Sirs Robert Peel, G. T. Staunton, Isaac Morley, P.
Laurie, Benjamin Brodie, H. De la Beebe, R. West-
macott, H. Douglas, James Duke, D. J. Norreys, E.
Ryan, H. Ellis, Charles Lemon, Charles Fellows, W.
Snow Harris ; the Hon. Stuart Wortley ; Mr. Martin,
MP. ; Mr. Cubitt, M.P. Mr. Locke, M.P. ; Mr.
Lacey, M.P.; Mr. Cardwell, M.P.; Mr. Pusev, ,
M.P.; Mr. Masterman, M.P. ; Mr. Mackinnon, M.P.;
Doctors Granville, Billing, Forbes, Paris, Roger,
King, Pereira, Ridge, Simpson, Sylvester, Ure ;
Barons Goldsmid, Isola ; Professors Rymer, Jones,
Hall, Hoskins, Hodgkinson, Donaldson, Graham,
Ansted ; Admirals Dundas, Sir Charles Mal-
colm ; Lieutenant-General Sir Howard Douglas ;
Major-General Sir Charles Pasley ; Colonels
Vickers, Wylde, Yorke, Dundas, Shaw ; Lieute-
nant-Colonels Reid, Colquhoun, Sir James Ha-
milton ; Majors Moore, Cavalli ; Captains Nelson,
Gordon, Rowland, Simmons, Boyle, Sweney,
Denham, Clark, Moorsam, Sir G. Back,
Rennie, O'Brien, Sir William Symons ; Lieu-
tenants Robinson, Galton, Shaw ' • the Reverends J.
Barlow, E. Murray, W. G. Watson, J. Clutter-
buck, M. Cowie, Dr. Jeff, Dr. Major ; Messrs.
Bidder, 0. Laing, T. Cubitt, Mendel, Errington,
Boxall, E. B. Dennison, Maudslay, Simpson, Field,
Soyer, Fisher, Hobbs, Colquhoun, W. Simp-
son, R. Lambert Jones, J. Fowler, C. May, Gee,
Rennie, Hestia, Liefchild, Swann, F. Bush,
Bayes, Wyatt, Babbage, Bailey, Walker, Dighy
Wyatt, L. Cubitt, Donkin, Tottie, Suermondt, T.
Webster, B. Webster, Lake. Price, Redgrave, C.
Dickens, Cotton, Loader, H. Turner, Gowan, Fox,
Bellin, Laird, Leslie, T. Landseer, Tite, G. It,
Ward,
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Fwuinllse,rM,
Peru, W. F. A. Delane, E. Bowring, J. Cubitt,
Penn, Paxton, J. Bell, Smirke, Jerdan, Roberts,
Massey, J. Knight,
H. rton, Maclise,
Wordsworth, Mulready, F. Stone, G. Cruikshank,
Barry, Klinjemann, Weld.

SINGULAR FREAK.—CLOSING TEMPLE-BAR.•—• 011
Friday night—er, rather, on Saturday morning -about two
o'clock, a scene took place which, if it had occurred during
the short sway of the renowned Cuffey and his red-hot
Chartist confederates, would doubtless have given rise to
serious apprehensions for the safety of her Majesty's good
and loyal citizens, but in these days of peace and tranquillity
tended merely to bring about half-a-dozen of the blue bottle
guardians of the night from their regular beats, and gave
rise to `good deal of merriment amongst the cabmen on the
adjoining rank, as well as the loose fish in the vicinity who
were on the look out. A thick-set, middle-aged man, in the
garb of an engineer, from some strange cause or other, took
it into his head to close Temple-bar, and with a strengths
and adroitness that was perfectly marvellous, he, with a
single swing at each, drew both the ponderous doors under
that noble a,.d expansive arch closely together, and thereby
prevehted all ingress or egress to or from the City.
The police who assembled, with much difficulty suc-
ceeded in forcing open the half door on the north side,
but that on the south aide baffled all their exer-
tion and strength. They could not move it an inch.
The wag who had called forth this exertion had managed to
get away, and might have got clear off, but for some cause
or other he returned, and his loud laughter at their perplexity
caused the police to suspect him, and a City constable, who
no doubt thought the act was au insult offered to the Loth
Mayor or the City police. instantly seized him, and was in
the act of removing him to the station, when the fellow asked
if in the event of his performing the task of putting back the
half-gate he should be allowed to go about his business?
The constable hesitated, when several persons who had
heard the proposition, thought it a very fair one, and ex-
pressed their opinion to that effect, and the result was that
the offer was accepted. The man, with a tact which evi-
dently proved he knew what he was about, took the gate in
his hands and gave it two or three shakes, after which he
pushed it back with the greatest ease, and walked away
amidst loud cries from the crowd of " Bravo, old fellow !"
Sunday Paper.
PENZANCE, JUNE 1.--The Isabella, from Fowey to
Cardiff, with iron ore, sprang a leak yesterday, and
went down.off the Land's End; crew bayed.