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inction of this principle, which
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value, in its practical effect

to the for-

aad been deemed advis-

With respect to the small num-

the population in Ireland as
Vales, he must say that he
ice as a reason for altering

plc' had been or was to
And.s4 who had ever

I it laid down as a principle in England that a given
hould have a given number of voters,
e were too high to admit of such a

amount of populati

and that if O

number, that the franchise must be lowered to meet the diffi-
culty. The noble lord next adverted to the disinclination of
landlords in Ireland to give leases which would confer the
franchise- Ara = conduct in so doing on the

ground that t.
their tenantry

al views

was a delicate c

principle applied, he believed, tq

and there was no

sides of the house, whether whig or
deny or disguise the fact
rants to vote according to
county you might to a certainty

ted their t

foretell tl

•esult of a contest, previous

knowing the num-

ber and weight of landholders on one side or on the other.
The landlord had a fair right to say, and if in England the
same state of things prey, ile 1, would not hesitate to say to
the tenant, " It is very t, ne we have agreed very well in our
relative situations as lam lo d and tenant, but there is a
• • •

power at work which cau: es you, and which' always will cause

you to oppose me politically -;
and I, therefore, must call on
you to take a lease which will not confer the franchise." This
statement on the part of the noble lord called torth ironical
cheers from the ministerial benches, upon which he immedi-
ately added, that no honourable gentleman would be more
ready to pursue the line of conduct he had been referring to
than those who cheered him at that moment. He would, he
said, not press upon the house the argument which would
obviously suggest itself to every hon. member who heard
him, that if this lowering the qualification to £5 in Ireland
was agreed to, it would be utterly impossible to refuse a si-
milar concession to England and Scotland. The noble secre -
tary for Ireland might succeed, and probably would succeed,
in casting these elements of discord into the cauldron of agi-
tation, a proceeding so ably denounced by the letters of a
noble lord to the electors of Stroud ; he might succeed in un-
settling everything, but he sincerely hoped that he would not
succeed in inducing even one branch of the legislature to pass
the bill then before the house." On the contrary, he sincerely
hoped that upon that occasion the bill might be rejected. For
his own part if he stood alone, alive as he was to all the
dangers likely to flow from its adoption, he would oppose its
second reading. The noble lord then moved that the bill be
read a second time that day six month
Mr. C

WOOD declared his entire concurrence in the
coui:,e proposed by her Majesty's government with respect
to this bill. He quite agreed, except in some few details,
with all its provisions. He was not, he said, a little surpris-
ed at the declaration of the noble lord (Stanley) upon the
subject of the relation between landlord and tenant. He
thought their relations were recognised as of a different des-

cription, having nothing at all to do with the political feel-
ings or opinions of either, and that any influe;,,oe exercised
upon the political actions of the tenant had been always re-
garded as an undue influence—an influence to be condemned,
however repeated might be its occurrence. He thought
some injustice had been done to the bill of the noble lord

Mr. LirroN said he should give his vote against the se-
cond reading of the bill, as a covert attempt to revoke the
best provisions of the reform bill, as related to Ireland, by
opening the constituency to a body of men never contem-
plated to be enfranchised by that great measure.

A beli

that the Irish franchise was

is of opinion that, by the lowering of the
ie noble lord would altogether swamp the

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