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HOUSE OF LORDS.—NIoNnAr.

Lord STANLEY laid noon the table a bill, founded on
the report of the Irish Landlord and Tenant Commission,
for the purpose of securing to the occupying tenant in
that country compensation for any improvements he may
have effected on his holding. The noble lord combatted
the idea that the evils of Ireland could be adequately met
by compulsory emigration ; and contended, that in pro-
portion to the extent of waste lands, the country was not
over-peopled. Contrasting the condition of the Irish
with the English tenant, he argued for the necessity of
some measure which might have the effect of inducing
the former to expend capital on the improvement of the
soil. With this view the bill proposed to grant compen-
sation to tenants for three classrs of improvements—
buildings, drainage, and the levelling of fences. For the'
erection of buildings, he proposed that the tenant should
be secured in a compensation which should diminish to
the extent of one-thirtieth annually. Thus, should the
tenant remain thirty years in occupation arter building,
be would be considered to have received the full benefit
of his outlay. For deep thorough tile drainage he should
be assured compensation, diminishing one-fourteenth
annually, so that after an occupation of fourteen years his
claim to cgnaapensation would cea=e. On the third head,
that of Saes in Ireland a car might be driven on the
tops of fences running between small fields in any direc-
tion but a straight one, and which, notwithstanding, af-
forded no security against the intrusion of any Irish ani-
mal whatever. In order to encourage the tenant to level
those fences and add them to the general surface of his
farm, he would be allowed compensation for outlay, di-
minishing to the extent of one-twentieth annually. Thus
if he added ten acres to a farm of fifty, he would be con-
sidered in twenty years to have had the full benefit of his
expenditure. There bad been hitherto attempts to en-
force regulations between landlord and tenant; but those
attempts had failed, owing to the expensive nature of the
process for enforci'ig them. In order to obviate this dif-
ficulty, and establish an inexpensive method of equitably
adjusting claims, he proposed that there should be an
office in Dublin, with a salaried officer at its head, to be
called " The Commissioner of Improvements." He was
to have the duty of communicating between landlord and
tenant as to the nature and value of the contemplated
improvements, and to provide for the valuation, &c., as
well as the settlement and adjustment of conflicting
claims. The noble lord concluded by moving the first
reading of the bill.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE. Lord PORTMAN, and
several other Peers, disapproved of the bill ; but it was
read a first time.

The Earl of RADNOR moved the second reading of the
bill to amend the recent enactments relating to bastardy,
urging that they had revival many of the evils which had
existed under the old law.

Lord WHARNCLIFFE opposed the bill, on the around
that a sufficient check had been provided against fraudu-
lent paternity, and it was rejected.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY.

Sir R. PEEL laid upon the table, by command of her
Majesty, a copy of the treaty recently concluded between
France and Great Britain for the suppression of the slave
trade; and, in reply to a question from Lord Palmerston,
said he could not consent to produce the evidence upon
which the treaty was founded.
In reply to a question from Mr. S. CRAWFORD,
Sir J. GRAHAM said it was his intention to postpone
the Parochial Settlement Bill to a distant day.
The house then went into committee on the Banking
(Scotland) Bill, the remaining clauses of which were,
after some discussion, agreed to, and the house resumed.
On the motion of Sir R. PEEL, the house then went
into committee on the Banking (Ireland) Bill, the dis-
cussion on which occupied the remainder of the evening.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TIIESDAY. •
After the presentation of an immense number of peti-
tions against the measure,
The Duke of WELLINGTON moved that their lordships
should resolve themselves into committee ul,on the May-
noo!h Bill.

Loa' CLANCARTY moved that the bill be committed
that day six months, resting his opposition principally
on the absence of proof that there was a want of funds
at Maynooth, and upon the inappropriateness of the time
at wh.ch the measure had been introduced.
Lord WICKLOW trusted that he might regard this mea-
sure as an index of an intention to connect the Roman
Catholic church with the state by means of an endowment.
This was now only a question of time and mode ; the for-
mer was as propitious now as it ever would be, but the
latter was still one of difficulty. He objected either to
charge the endowment upon the Consolidated Fund, or
to take it from the property of the Irish church ; but he
thought that if it were placed as a rent-charge upon the
land, neither parliament nor the landlords would have a
right to complain. He concluded by urging the govern-
ment, if they meant to preserve tranquillity, to pursue
their present measure, and he prepared next session with
one for the endowment of the Romish church.
Lord FITZWILLIAII concurred in the opinion that,
after endowin4 Maynooth, an endowment of the Romish
clergy-would he absolutely indispensable.
Lord CLANCARTY having withdrawn his amendment,
. Lord WIIARNCLIFPE said that the noble lord the Se-
cretary for the Colonies had stated this measure to be in
its”lf of vital itnportance, and that the government were
anxious to do what they could to produce a better state
of feeling amorgst the, Roman Catholics of Ireland than
at present exited. At the same time, the measure was
no earnest that the government had any intention like
that which the noble lord had attributed to them. W:th
respect to himself, and other members of her Majesty's
government, he must say that they had undoubtedly on
former occasions expressed it as their opinion that the
Citholie priesthood should be endowed. He and his
noble friend near him did, when they were in the House
of Common*, vote for that question when proposed by
Lord F. Egerton. But he would fairly state that;until
he could see that the people of England would be favour-
able to such a measure, he did not think it would be pru-
dent in any government to propose it. Ile (lid look for-
ward with hope to a time when a change would take
place; but there were now -so many difficulties in the
way, that he did not know how any one could conceive
that the government had any intention of proposing such
a measure. It would be for the government to watch the
feeling of the country on the subject, and in the mean-
time they proposed this measure as one which was impor-
tant in itself, and as an earnest to the people of Ireland
that it was their wish to do all that lay in their power to
conciliate them.

The Marquis of PREADALFIANE trusted that the people
of England would take warning by this declaration.
The hue then went into committee on the bill. This
occupied;as new ly as possible, half a minute, and the
bill was repNrted without amendment to the house.
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