The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-30 00:00:00

On the nu(
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Relief (Ireland) Bin
Mr. J. O'CoNNEL

to the consequc
from the public

mshould be carried out to its full extent. He im-
)red the Government, while there was yet time, to take
?.asures _to stop that frightful annihilation of life, and

scenes of violence and confusion in Ireland,
nevitably take place if it did promptly inter-

fere to prevent them.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN enforced this appeal, and expressed
his fears that a process of starvation would be the neces-
sary result, of enforcing_the order issued on Saturday last.

Mr. LABOVCIIERE admitted that,'however necessary it
might be to reduce the number of labourers employed on
the public works, it must be done consistently with the
peace and safety of the country. Having explained, as
on a former discussion, the principle which the Govern-
ment had laid down to accomplish that object, he con-
gratulated the house and the country on the immense
quantity of corn and other food which was now pouring
into Ireland solely by the means of private enterprise.
He had informed the house, on a previous occasion, of
the great quantities of corn which had recently been
brought into the Cove of Cork, and he had now the satis-
faction to.'acid that on Monday last there were in the

Limerick..
After a few words from Mr. SHAW and Sir G. GREY,
T.nrd G. BENTINCR complained in strong terms

against the Government for not having supplied seed to
the farmers of Ireland. He thought that Mr. Labouchere
had but little cause to congratulate himself on the quail-
'

tity of provisions recently-imported into the Shannon,
when he iefleeted upon the hundreds of thousands of
persons who had died during his administraion of the
affairs of Ireland.
Mr. WILLIAMS called upon Irish gentlemen to take a

lesson fronl, the people of England. In a small town in
South Wales, where great distress existed in consequence
of the failure of the usual crops, £3,000 had been sub-
scribed in one week, by the magistrates and gentry of
the locality, for the purchase of food, and an order had
been sent to a great mercantile house for 1,000 quarters
of corn. Why could not the magistrates and gentry of
Ireland make similar exertions to procure prompt and
effectual relief for the distressed poor of their several dis-
tricts ?
,t he

—the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER declare(
would take: no further notice of the assertions of Lord G
Bentinck, gs they had already been repeatedly refuted

He implored tl
into a

nouse not to allow itselt to be oraggeo
mission on the affairs of Ireland when the Poor
lill•was the only measure legitimately before it.
1 IL r •

After a few remarks from Colonel RAWDON and Major
LAYARD, deprecating the remarks of Lord G. Bentinck
upon this subject,
Lord SA NDON noticed the g,reat difficulty now experienced
in removing Irish immigrants back to Ireland, whence
they were daily coming in large crowds. Was the Go-
vernment Erepard to deal with that difficulty in the pre-

sent Poor Itefief Bill ?
Sir G. GREY observed, that the law with reference to
orders for removal ought to be made more efficient, but
he did not Think that any provision for rendering it so
could be well introduced in the committee on this bill.
A vagrancy bill would be introduced for the purpose of
amending the existing machinery for removal.
A conversation of a very vague and indefinite character
then took illace on the subject of a bill for repressing va-
grancy in Ireland, when
Sir G. GREY stated, that 60,000 persons had arrived at
Liverpool from Ireland within the present year,Nif whom
20,000 had-come with the intention of emigrating to

America.
Mr. CARDWELL added, upon the authority of the sti-
pendiary magistrate at Liverpool, that 2,000 was the
average importation of these poor creatures per diem for
the preceding three days into that port.
Lord J. RUSSELL, after informing the house that the
mendicancy and vagrancy bill was already prepared, called
upon every gentleman in Ireland to aid her Majesty's Go-
vernment in maintaining the • public tranquility in that
country.. • _

--the-other performers in this dialogue were Mr. SHAW,
Mr. GROGAN, Mr. BELLEW, and Mr. D. BROWNE. It
was concluded by
sir W. JAMES, who expressed his belief that the Go-
vernment.bad discharged its duty to Ireland conscienci-

He mentioned some circums

d by Cominander Fishbourne, in his correspond.
ence with the Board of Works, to show that in Clare the
leo* had,not only refused to

;ow corn steeped in sul-

pllal.a
but had even refused to give up their lands to their land-
lords in order that they might be sown for them.
The order of the day was then read, and the house re-
solved itself into committee.
In the committee, Mr. HuMI moved to strike out that
part of the 11th clause, which increased the numbers of
the ex officio guardians in every board of guardians from
one-fourth- to one-half of the whole number. His reason
for so doing was, that the clause, as it stood, would enable
the landlords, who now would not do their duty without
coercion, to restrict and impede the relief of the poor,
and to tax themselves for that purpose just as little as
they pleased. He ' also objected to the clause on the
ground, that as there were 2,600 Protestant, and only