The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-26 00:00:00

The no'

landlords in Ireland to
franchise. and i

ground that t

their tenantr

le, but t

and there was no wish to

that landlord:

their wishes, and in

ry county

foretell the result of a contest, previously mu

ber and weight of landholders on on

The landlord had a fair right to say, and if in Englanu
same state of things prevailed, would not hesitate to say to
the tenant, " It is very true we have agreed very well in our
relative situations as landlord and tenant, but there is a
power at work which causes 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 £.3 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 months.

Mr. C. WOOD'declared his entire concurrence in the
cours: uroposed 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 influence 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
last year.

Mr. 'Arrow said he should give his vote against the se
cond reading of the bill, as a covert attempt to revoke th,
best provisions of the reform bill, as related to Ireland, b'
opening the constituency to a body of men
plated to be enfranchised by that great measu.-.
Mr. Lucas did not believe • that the Irish french
decreasing, and was of opinion that, by the lowed'

ver contern-

franchise to. £5, the noble lord wot;ld-';.lt-O-siethet7s"wAli;

existing constituency

Lord-MouPETH said that the charge of unsettlin
thing would apply more to the noble lord (Stanley)

disturber nor a peace-mat

himself to b...
The noble lord, the mem

North Lancashire
of the bill as a tack or a I

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lication

peth) looked upon the /oweri
essential part of the bill befoi

ould be th

oiliest hope of bringir
ithout it, any attemi