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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-24 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY.

Mr. O'CONNELL moved that on Monday, the 23d inst.
the house should resolve itself into a committee of the
whole house, to consider the condition of the Irish people,
with a view of adopting means for their relief.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM admitted the accuracy of the pain-
ful statements which Mr. O'Connell had mace to the
house. Government had obtained the most complete in-
formation by means of their officers, and they purposed
losing no time in carrying out measures suited to this
emergency. Already the sum of £468.000 was in progress
of expenditure upon government works in Ireland ; and at
least £2,000,000 would be expended in the present year
upon Irish railways. Government, however, had not
contented themselves with these palliations, but bad
adopted other precautionary measures, which he did not
think it necessary to detail. He was prepared to give no-
tice, on behalf of government, of a measure for founding
fever hospitals in Ireland. and he should propose, if ne-
cessary, still larger relief to be afforded. He wished the
matter to be left with the executive.

Mr. SHAW considered that the statements respecting
the disease in the potato crop had been greatly exaggerated.
Mr. OSWALD exhorted the house to take warning from
the state of Ireland, ar,d not to precipitate the people of
England into similar destitution by repealing the corn-
laws.
Mr. O'CoNNEr.r. then withdrew his motion. _ _

The debate on the corn-laws was then resumed by Lsrd
JOHN MANNERS, who said that, apart from the merits or
demerits of free trade, no case had been made out by the
Government for proposing so sweeping a revolution, and
that he felt perfectly justified in voting with the member
for Shropshire for an appeal to the constituencies of Eng-
land. lie should give his hearty vote in favour of pro-
tection.

Mr. R. Palmer, Mr. Shaw, and Mr. Hudson also spoke
in opposition to the measure ; Captain Layard, Sir C. Na-
pier, and Mr. Bright (at great length) in its favour.
The debate was adjourned till Thursday.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY.
Lord DACRE presented a petition from the city of
Exeter, praying the house to institute an inquiry into the
practices of the Anti-corn Law League, and to take steps
to prevent its improper interference with the electoral
body.
A conversation then ensued, in which Lord KINN AIRD
defended the League, whose system, he said, was not
more unconstitutional than that pursued by others who
were in the habit of influencing elections; while Lord
REDESDALE and Lord GREY expressed their disappro-
bation of the existence of that combination.

Lord BEAUMONT then moved for copies of any corres-
pondence which had passed between the French and Bri-
tish governments respecting the affairs of the River Plate,
and after reviewing the origin of the quarrel between
Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, commented very strongly
upon the impolicy of the combined interference of France
and England in a porch' internal war.
The Earl of ABERDEEN defended the policy of inter-
vention to put down a war accompanied by the most re-
volting atrocities, and which had proved most ruinous to
British interests. The French and British governments
had refrained as long as possible from hostile demonstra-
tions, and only had recourse to them eventually, with a
view to a speedy peace—a result which recent overtures
of General Rosas gave reason to hope would not long he
deferred. In the present state of these negotiations, he
hoped that Lord Beaumont would not press for the pro-
duction of the correspondence in question.
After some further discussion, in which the Duke of
Wellington and Lord Colchester took part, the motion
was withdrawn.