The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

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TUESDAY MORNING,

MAY 11, 1847

The result of the proceedings in the House of
Lords during the past week has been such as to

the ministry of Lord John Russell

what precarious Position, and to suggest the ques-
tion whether or not a dissolution of Parliament
must be immediately resorted to. On Tuesday

,mendment

.o that portion of the Irish

Poor Relief Bill by which out--door relief was pro-
posed to be given to the able-bodied poor, and
.ation of the clause to the Ist

sting the or

August, 1848, was moved by Lord Monteagle, and
carried on a division by a majority of 13 against

the proposition of Government. On Friday, another
blow was inflicted upon them by Lord Stanley—

and we think with great reason-lby the defeat of
Clause No. 11, which enacted that, whenever the
rate on an electoral division should exceed 2s. 6d.
in the pound, any surplus rate should fall upon the
union at large. The noble lord argued that it was
unjust that where a landlord owning, as in his own
sif of such an electoral division, had done
his utmost to enable his tenantry to support them-

industry, the property of such landlord should be
burthened with the support of other landlords, who

had made no such efforts; and, on a division,
Government were left in a minority of 19.
Another onslaught on the measure was to have
been made last night, of a character fatal .to the
principle upon which it is founded, as will be seen
from the following extract which we give from a
leading article in the London Times of yesterday:—
It may be as well to recapitulate the successive steps of
mutilation devised by the laudowners. The first was to
reduce all the clauses relating to the relief of the able-
bodied poor from a permanent to a temporary measure of
very brief duration. The second was to confine the whole
of the rating to the narrow limits of the electoral division,
said thus enable landowners commanding such divisions
to drive out all their poor of all descriptions, into towns,
the rates of which being insufficient to their maintenance,
'they must speedily perish or become a burden on the
British public. The value of this alteration in the land-
lord's eyes, will appear from the fact that the 150,000
poor creatures recently cast upon Liverpool had all been
-immediately before ejected by the landlords, and driven
upon the towns, which, in their turn, passed on to our
shore the current of misery. The third step is that which
is to be moved, and doubtless carried, by Lord Stanley
this evening. Its object is to secure for the landowner a
perfect immunity from rating, and to leave that disagree-
-able burden to a class which, in Ireland, is notori-
ously neither willing nor able to endure it. It will pre-
vent a poor-rate from offering any interruption to the old
order of things so painfully familiar to all who know
anything of Ireland. The wretched cotters will still bid
for land ; the landlord will still get extravagant rents ; the
tenants will pay their rents with tolerable punctuality,
in order to keep their land,—but they will refuse to pay
their rate, even if their exorbitant rents should leave it in
their power; if the rate is enforced, they will combine
and offer a successful resistance. The rate will not be
collected. The poor will be left to perish. The British
public will have to pay, and the landlord, as usual, escape
scut free. Such is the game. Lord Stanley, who has
never omitted any opportunity of parading his contempt
for the great industrial interests of this country, and his
desire to increase their burdens beyond their utmost
powers of endurance, is very properly selected for a mo-
tion which has the inevitable consequence of transferring
the whole poor-rate of Ireland from the Irish landlord,
and the Irish tenant also, to the industrious tax-payers
of this country.

What course ministers will adopt in case of a
defeat here, is a matter to speculate upon. 'We
observe, however, that the Morning Chronicle and
other papers, supposed to have their confidence,
look forward to an immediate appeal to the country
as the result.

Possibly a post or two will decide this question.
It is certain, however, as we are informed upon the
first authority, that under any circumstances, a
dissolution was previously contemplated by govern-
ment to take place not later than the 11th of next

month

WE are inexpressibly rejoiced that at length go-
vernment have seen fit to adopt the steps which we
were the first to propose, for mitigating the danger
of contagion from the masses of paupers daily ar-
riving from Ireland in a state of incipient, if not of
confirmed fever. There were two objects which
we sought to secure, when recommending that the
Lazarettoe, in the Sloyne, should be mail- of
for the reception of fever
,„a„:„..Ls, and that vessels
brine,;.,, ~..per emigrants from Ireland should be
submitted to inspection, and, if found necessary,
to the discipline of quarantine regulations. The
chief object was to prevent the direct transmission
of disease, to be circulated, by contact, amongst
our resident poor in the filthy lodging houses re-
sorted to by the Irish ; and the next was to impose
a check upon the importation of Irish poor at all,
by subjecting the owners of steamers to a necessary
detention, which may have the effect of diminish-

ing the inducement to take such cargoes at the
nominal price for which they were at present
brought over. Both these ends will now be
achieved. The selfishness of landlords and others
in Ireland, who it is well known are sending over
their poor here and paying their passage, to escape
the burthen of keeping them at home, will be sen-
sibly checked ; and we may have a chance left us
of dealing with the pauperism which meets us at
our own doors
We know t

at it has been said " Wait until the
operation of the Irish Poor-Law Bill gives you the

power of removing the Irish immigrants to their
own parishes." But it is clearly a great hardship
that the expense of this removal, and of affording
support in the meantime to such large masses of
people, should be saddled upon Liverpool and a
few other ports, which happen to be the resort of
steamers from the sister country. Better far throw
the difficulty which the quarantine regulations will
create in the way of the importation of such nor-

.
Lion of them as. do not come for the purpose of
emigration, or with some slight chance—and, in

the pre:

state of our ma

t for labour,