IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 8. STATE OF IRELAND.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 8. STATE OF IRELAND.

Sm 11. W. Bamiion rose to move for a committee of the whole House, to lake into consideration the state of Ireland with a view to tho relief of the distress theie existing, lie hoped the House would bear with him while ho attempted to describe the painful and distressing condition in which the great majoiity of the people ot Ireland — he might say almost every man in that country — was placed at tho present moment. He would begin by contesting the position of Ireland in 1845 with what it was novr, because it was after 1845 that the three inniu causes to which be attributed the end change that had taken place oiiginatcd, viz., the famine, tho alteration of the corn laws, and the disastrous Poor Law. He would commence with the Poor Law. In 1845 the Poor Law rating amounted to £310,000; in 1850 it was £l ,571,000, being an increase of £1 ,2(il,000. It had been stated and boasted of over and over again in the newspapers that tbore had heen a decrease of 90,000 persons feince last year on the Poor Law lists in Ireland ; but be was in a condition to show that tbis was the grossost delusion ever practised on a credulous people. In 1849 tho Irish members pressed upon the Government tbo necessity of limiting outdoor relief by forcing tho workhouse test on every man upon that list. On the 3rd of July, 1819, bo moved the insertion of a clause in a bill then befoie tho House to the elfect that all outdoor rolief should cease ; but subsequently withdrew the clause, on an assurance* from tbo Irish Secretary that the principle involved in it would be adopted. The Poor Law Commissioners acted up to the pledge then given, and the different Poor Law boaids throughout Ireland were instiucted to provide accommodation for the poor in tho workhouses, and to apply that test to all receiving outdoor relic 1 /". This was accordingly done, and the consequence was that the list was reduced by upwards of 90,000 persons ; but tbie was no proof that pauperism bad decreased in li eland; the list was reduced simply because the wotkhouse test had been applied. Let the outdoor system bo again adopted, and in less than two months tbey would find that, instead of 90,()00> they would have 150,000 more paupers upon the list. (Hear, hear.) In one of the Dublin unions, wbero there wcie 17,000 paupers receiving outdoor relief, only 400 accepted the woikhouse test. lie found from the relief lists that there were in the worlthousos, in 1848, 191,000 paupers ; in 1049, 194,000 ; and in 1050, 197,000 ; — thus showing that there was an actual increase of paupers. But, if pauperism bad increased, so had the taxes for the poor, — thoso having risen buico 1845 upwards of £1, 200,000. The county-rates bad also increased upwaicls of ,£200,000 in the same period. It was stuted by Captain Lurcom that there were m Ireland 1,139,000 acres of laud less under cultivation for coin, benns, and peas than in 1847, while the value of the produce was diminished by The value of the swine impoitpd from Ireland into England was £1,000,000 leas than in 1805; and tho importation of sheep had decreased by £5100,000. They bad thua upwards of i.8,000,000 less of produce in Ireland, while the taxation bad increased £1, 500,000 per annum, (Hear, boar.) How could a country go on with decreasing production and increasing taxation such as be bad stated ? (Hear, bear.) Landed properly bad necessarily very much diminished in value, as the sales under the Encumbered Estates Act plainly proved. Land that 32 years ago was sold at 23 years' purchase was sold the other day for a little over 12 years purchase. It could not be alleged that bind was let at too bigh a rent in Ireland, for the well-known fact was, that land in Ireland was let 30 per cent, below tbo rent of land of tho same quality in England. Household property in tho city which be represented bad fallen 60 per cent. At this moment there was £5000 of annual rateable property in houses uninhabited in Waterford, all of winch, with four or five exceptions, was inhabited in 1845. Trade bad vanished, tbo shopkeepers, all bankrupts, were walking about with folded bands, and of the labourers about not more thiin one was employed where five wore employed in 1 845. In a letter from Dr. Mvi ray to one of his clergy, that prelate described (lie condition of Dublin itself as almost equally miserable and impoverished. As to agriculture, even the Dublin Evening Post, the Ircc-trude paper, the only paper patronised by the Whig Mimatiy, tho paper whose constant cry hud been that tho Irish landlords were the greatest tyrants in tbo woild, even thai journal bad been compelled to admit in a iccent article that anricultur.il disticss iv Ireland was a formidable evil,— an evil for which tbe;e seemed no remedy, and that the exhausting effects of /aimno and of inordinate taxation, had left the fanners of Ireland unable to struggle against deficient crops and uniemunoiative prices. (Heai, hear.) In almost all ibo huge towns, of Ireland tbo employment of coaches and oilier public conveyance* bad lamentably fallen off. For example, of the two stoameis which used to ply profitably botweon Wuteifoid and Livei pool, one hnd ceased to run, and the other was about to bo discontinued. Emigration was, indoed, an emphatic proof of niisoiy whon you found thousands and thousands of persons leaving to enrich foieign and ii\al countries with their capital and their industry, and their blighted nfloctions,— -to iif;e the words of Lord Stanley— the land of ihoir biith and of their love, tho laud which nothing

bufuttei miieiy and despair would cvot luvo induced thorn to lor calve. (llrai, hear.) As to criminal offences, tficehad Ic.u fully mo eased m In>land. In I'U> the number of ciiuiiii.il oftences without violeme win ,')0»<), in 1819 tho number bud met cased to <2A,i7S)— moie than fomlblil in fivo joins. (Hoar, heai.) Wlun lie looked at ilie In test Customs' returns, leceived >esterday, lie found tb.it thoto had been <i filling oil in ilie ('ll,loms 1 iccei|)ts in Ireland tins year, of not less Mum £.37,000. V\ lien he mquncd into (ho condition of the rn diluting medium 111 lioland, bo found Ib.il, m »be last monlb alone, tbcic was a deficiency of not lesstb.ui v Ciy 1,000. Such was the miserable — the piosti.ito condition of unhappy Ireland. If UlO llouso iodised to t.iLo inclines (01 remedying tluit Inl.se.ly and raising up that piostiation, they would bo confessing tbeii impotence, their unfit ness to govern. Ho called upon the, T'lighsh legislator as men, as members, as Chnstian% jioHo Mifler Ireland to polish, while they «o xaunted the piospenty of iheir own countiy. From the Tt cn.su ty bench (be name of lteland was never himid; m the Queen's speech, unknown lands, India, Canada, evoiy thino and evory place was .iilonded to except Jieland ; model lodging-houses for the English poor woic attended to, but not starving, desp.unng licland. Once more calling u]ion the Kn^lith Legisl.Uuio to save this unhappy countiy, be would concludo with moving, " That this House will lesolve itself into a committee to take into consideration the Mate of li eland, with a view to leheu) the dislicss there existing." Sll 1.. O'Biimn, in siconding tlio motion, slated tlio pnoimous amount of poor-i ate levied in the county of Claie, which was dnvmg tho fanners out of the country, and coiioboraicd Sir 11. Barrons icprespntatious of tbe'impovcMished condition of tbo west and south ol Ii eland. Tlie Government bad cued m weakening tho authoiity of the local genii \. Sir W. Sojii 11 vii 1 1 siud, that the lion, baronet (Sir W. IJ.uum) bad shown great ingenuity in selecting (he periods belw con which 1101 10 had made his companions. He had iiltnbuted llio disticssed condition of lieluul to the funiine, the corn law, and tho Poor i/iw Act. But he b:id commenced his obsoi v.'itions by an attack upon tho Jnsb Poor Law, and it wan not difficult to obseive Ibat be had in fact attributed tho whole o! tho misery of lioland to tlie Poor Law. ("No, no," Horn Sir \V. liairon.) Why, to hoar the lion, baionct, one might liavo supposed that in 1845 tho condition of Ireland was ever) thing that was piosperous. But lot him icier to lion, memhois of that House who wero membors ol Loid Dovoii'b Commission, who had ftamed that report nud collected that evidence, which showed what in 184.) was the condition of the lush people, and pailiculaily of the labouring population. The period at which the lion, baronet bad commenced bis coinjciiison was, in the opinion of the Devon Commission, that in which the position of the labouring population was eveiything that was nnseiablo, wiofehed, and degraded. '1 lie lion, member drew a compaiison between tbo pool -rales levied in 181) and llui^c made in 1(151, but he omitted the intoi mediate peiiods, tlio fact being that there w(-ro 80,000 01 90,000 paupers less now than theio weie then, lloheld 111 bis band a lelurn, for which be had inovoil in the beginning of the piescnt session, giving the expenses of tho Poor Law. This loturn did not begin 111 IB 15, but wa.s ooniinpil to the throe last yearn, which would show whether the expenses of the Poor Law bad mci cased or dccieased in that penod, and whether tho number of paupois had also increased or docieased. The ordinary expenses for all licland under iho Poor Law during the quarter ending the :51st of December, 1848, were £'125,0.15 ; 1849, £102,976 ; 18,')0, £247,271. Now, ho would not sny, after reading this leturn, that lieland was in a state of prosperity (cheeis from the Irish metnbeus), but «ome progress m iinpiovomont lmd at any rato been made duimg the list two or three yeais, and tho compaiison made by the hon. baronet was shown to bo most unfair, and only calculated to mislead the House. The total number of paupei.s on tlio relicf-libts at the close of tho quatter ended December .11 was, in 1018, 585,100; 1849, 290,010; 1850, 200,533. (Hear.) He could not attempt to prove upon these figuics that Ireland was in a stale of prosperity, but he thought ho was justified in asserting that there had been some amelioration in her condition, and that any comparison betweon tho present year nnd 1845 was fallacious. The lion, baronet bad reminded the house that ho had made a motion to put Jin end to outdoor lelief. He (Sir W. Soinervillo_) bad opposed that motion, because he did not see how the pauper population of lioland wero to be kept alivo if outdoor relief weio pjohibiful. But be said it was desiiablo that outdoor iclief should be stopped as much as possible, nnd the woikhouso test applied. 'Hie Voor Law Commissioners had acted up to that opinion with the most successful results. Yet the lion, buionet had visited them with bis indiscriminate censute. (" No,' from Sir W. l.arion.) The bonoiablo baronet hud leferred to Captain Larcom's returns to prove that there had been a diminished amount of cultivated laud 111 Ireland. Now he bad Captain Larcom's returns hefoie him, and ho found that in 1819, as compared w illi 18 18, thcio was an increased amount of cultivated land in lioland. Capt.un Larcom stated tbo extent of Land under crops to be, in 1847, t>, € >S*,s?b acres; 1848, ii,tO'',Od'J acres; 1849, 5,MJ,748 acies. Sir W. Bahkon said, tbo right lion, baronet bad ims•Jippiobonded what he had said, winch was that tbo number of acres in coin, including peas and beans, was, in 1847, 3,313,579 acres. He did not speak of cultivated land. In 184'. 1 , under the same heading, Captain Larcom gave 2,174,41k) acres, being a diminution between 1847 and 184') of 1,1 .39,001) noos. Sir W. SoMiavun. — Yes, the honourable baronet had picked outjust such bils of Caplniu Larcom'n returns as suited his purpose. What did it signify whether the land was laid down in corn or not, so long as it was cultivated 1 (Hear, hear.) If the amount of green crops bad mcieoscd, so much the better. (Hear, hear.) What the House had to look to was the whole result, and not the quantity of peas and beans. And it was clear that the umoutit of cidtiva'ed land was gi eater in 1» 19 than it was in 1847 and 1848. (Hear, heir.) The honourable baionet bad referred to the exports of cattle ; and hero again he had just taken so much of tho return as suited his purpose, and no more. Tho honouiable baionet bad confined hisromarks topigs, — coilainly a most valuable animal in Ireland ; but taking oxen and cows, tho exports had increased, lie did not mean to hfiy that lieland was in a flouiishing condition, but ho did say that there had been some improvement within tho last two years; and picking out bits of returns, a.s the honoui able baronet had done, was not Iho way to put tbo House in possession of lho real state of nfl.iirs, nor ought the arguments founded on such statements to carry any weight. ( Hear, hear.) Tho honourable baronet had refoirod to emigration as ono pi oof of tho great miseiy at present oxisting in Ireland, lie was afiaid it was not a very healthy symptom. They bad frequently had motions made, in that house, however, not for the purpose of checking, but of promoting emigration; but, accouling to the notions of the honourable baronet, it would be the duty of the Government to check it altogether. (Hear, hear.) Then tbo honourable baionet, as his last thundoibolt, alluded to tbo stato of crime; and hero again (he did not know how it was) lie was at issuo with him as to the fact, for he found, on reference to tlie last constabulary loturns, that crime listd greatly diminished. In January, iU-19, tho outrages wore 1,010; in January, ll'jO, they weie 1,017; and in Januaiy, 18)1, only 919. In l''obruary, 1849, they were 1,(386*; in February, 1850, they weio 1,124 , and in February, 1851, only 906. (Hear.) lie bail now touched upon the last of the statistics brought befoio iho House by the honourable baronet, and by leference to documents which were accessible to every hon. member he had, be thought, shown that tho statistics which ho (Sir \V. Somerville) had quoted were more coned (ban (hose of the honourable baronet, and woic more adapted therefore, to lead the House to a just conclusion. The honourable baronet who had seconded the motion had found great fault with the administialion of the Irish Pooi-Law, or rather with the law itself, because it mterfeied too much with the local boards, and he had also alluded to the painful subject of the Kilrush Union. Unagreed with the lionouiiible baronet that as hr as possible every power of managing then own aflaiis should be left to the local boaids. Anothei oppoitunity might bo aflcidod him of speaking of tho KtlrtiKh Union, and he -«o'ild only say at piosent that the 1. tttr of tho Rev. Mr. (Jhboine leflucling on the management of that union had led the Poor-Law Commissioners to call for a special report upon (.the {.statements which it continued, and that when bo leceived ■that rcpoit bo would l.iy it upon tbe Inblcof tho House. (Hear, hear.) He might add that tho lemaiks of that reverend gentleman upon the condition of other unions in lieland had not been <li iicgarded by tho Poor-Law Commissioners, and be t-Jionld l'iy upon the tnblo iho lepoits of the inspectois in loforenoe U> all the unions alluded to — men who were 111 eveiy respect as humane and as anxious lo provide i'oi the wants of (lie poor as Mr. Osbouie couJd bo. His honourable fnend who introduced the 7notion had said th.it lieland u.vj not cared for in fliat house Now, lie had made a 'mt of the diJluienl commis'-ions of mquny into the; states of Ireland, and he found that no fewer than thirteen had been issued since 10-10. In tlio name ficnod there had been as many a^ nitty-three comuutlecri of Louis and (Jommomi on matters relating to Ireland. They had cmfonccd, he believed, every possible subject connected.

with the .social and jioliik nl condition ol lh.it countiy, mid tho_> liiul asked not hnmlieds hut thousands ofqnesli')ii i. ( He. v, Ihmi.) Well, having those m \t)-tliu o committees to io(Vi U), tlit % honoiuablo b.ituuct ni.w asked lor .1 committee of llio wholo llonsi; to consider (lio state <it licland, and ho had noi given ilio slushiest idea ol (lie |i:uticular subjects to w lucli Us atlcniion should l)t i diiectcd. Anxious as ho was fo benefit Ins country, ho must b.iy lie ti listed the House would negative the pioscnt pioposition, because bo behoved it would only Ik 1 calculated to r.u^o false hopes which never could l)o satisfied. (Ueai.) T\li. Hi VJ.OI ns .should voto for the motion, not approvni",, liouevci, Sir 11. liarron's speech, winch, if good loi anything, would icpcal the pooi-hiw, go hack to ptoteetion, and incieaso llio power of l.wdloids. In these objects he did not concur, but no harm could bo done by lnquuy. Mr. ftl. J. O'Covntii, dissenting fiom (he e\tiemo opinions expiossed by lush momboM, thought thi'io worn points, llio disciiHsion of winch in th.it II on si 1 would bo of -advantage, to [i eland, ho was, tlieieloio, sony that tho motion, for which ho should vole, was opposed by llio (joveiumeut. JMr. S. Ciuwioiii) chained the evils of li eland mainly to tho disordoml relations of landloid and tenant, and moved to include this amongat the sutjjcotrt of iucpiiiy. Lend .1. Rvis^i 1 1. was afmidthat if tho Houspassented to the motion ol the hon. member for Waloilord, and wont into cominittcio of tho whole House, they would not havoany very clear icincdy befoio tlnm. "i ho lion, baronet, in pi oposmg to go into committee to considoi (he state of liolmd, had referred particulaily to the famine, to the lawn which it Lite to the admission ol loiTi»n corn, and to the lush Poor Law; and theopinion of tho hon. b.nonet seemed to bo that if they wore to j restoio piotcction, and to loppal the l'ooi J,aw, they would bo in a i'.ur way to loinody some of thedi^ic-ses of Ireland. An hon. gentleman who rose to suppoit tlio motion had said that the ipmedy ho suggested was, not the iepe.il of tho Poor Law, hutrathor to give it gi eater laxity, to ailoid a moie hbeial system of relief, and, in tune, to extend tho L'oor Law beyond its present limits, lie, (Lord J. Russell) was afraid, therefore, that upon J tho l ('presentation of these hon. gentlemen, the House would haidly bo likely to arrive at any veiy satisfaetoi y conclusion by going into committee. Then, with 10paid to the question of piotcction, the lion, niemhet (oi j tho city of Dublin cntitcly opposed the views ol the hon memboi lor Waterfonl. '1 hat was, of couise, a (jiiestion w Inch, if it w eic gone into at all, could not ho gone into with lespect to licland only, but with lespeet to tho United kingdom, for Ireland could not be coiimden d alone w ith loleronce to that question. '1 ho lion, gentleman who last spoke (Mr. Crawford) had su|fj>obtcil iiiuilher subject of investigation, and proposed an inquiry into the relations between landlord and tenant I'h.it was a most nnpoitanl subject of inquny, and one upon which it was most (loanable to legislate, but bow in commiltooof tho whole House tliey could come to any rational oi satibfactoiy conclusion upon such a question ho (Lord J. Russell) was at a loss to conceive. He was all. nd that if the hon. baronet induced the House to accede to his motion, he would iind in committee that lua supporters would oppose all his proposals (alaugh), and that the committee would bo unable to docide 141011 any remedy whatever. Tho light hon. Societal y foi Licland (Sir W Soinorville) had not represented, an tho hon. member for Dublin (Mr. Reynolds) seemed to imagine, that li eland was in a stuto of prospenly. It I was, howover, sulliciently obvious that, starting fiom that point at which the hon. member for Waterfonl had set out, the year 181'j, there was at that time in Ji eland a population (ni beyond the means of employment, that iv.iyes weio wrotcbedly low, that the abodes of tlio pc 1- I B.intry were miserable, beyond those of finy other country in Kurope, and that their food was not such as they piocmed by wages, but such as they inisocl fiom tho ground, and consisted almost entnely of tho potav>. When there came upon a countiy thus situatod so dreadful a calamity as the famine, — and the famine, not of one year, but of successive yoars, — it was, ho thought , a I uocesbaiy consequenco that the dreadful scenes they had witnebsed should occur. Many poisons were tin yon fiom their homes, totally unable to pay tho icnts they bad hitherto been enabled to pay entirely by the flourishing state of thoir potato oops; others emigrated to distant bhoiob, in the hope of piocuring that subsistence which they were unable to obtain at home ; and .1 q cat number of persons crowded into tho workhoubcs as a last resort, and remained thcro in a state* of weakness and sickness which pioduced very gieat mortality. I lieso weio llic consequences thpy had seen, — the conbPquonces not of any law of I'.ultament, or of any act of the (Joverninent, hut the consequences of the state of society w hich existed in lti 15, and of the dieadful famine which succeeded that year. (Hear, hear.) Those consequences woio as ccitain as that whenauoailhquakc happened buildings would bo thrown down, 01 that a pestilence in a country would cauio a dreadful mortality, or that after a hurricane trees and shrubs would bo found torn up by the roots. These were not consequencp I*,1 *, then, for which Government or legislation could I immediately provide, but consequences which had followed from tho calamities ho had mentioned. (IJoar, lii'.u.) They found, aocouling to the statement of his right hon. iuend (Sir W. SomerviUp) that, with legaid to many circumstances, though Ireland could not he described as 111 any thing like a, btato of picpciity, there weio still symptoms of less aggravated distress than that which was apparent in former years. They had seen, with regard to outdoor relief, that though it hail never boun refused when it was absolutely neces■saiy, it was diminished to such an extent that in the hist three months of the last your he believed the whole outdoor relief of li eland did not amount in cost to £.1000, and since that time it had not been above £250 a-week nt the utmost. That at least was a symptom that thoio wore not so many people lequiring iclipf now as thoro had been in former ycais. Then, with regard to crime, the* number of ciimes and outrages reported by the constnhul.ity had diminished. They saw also, by variou« accounts, with lespoct to many other circumstances, that there were tigns that Ireland was somewhat less distressed than had been tho case duimg recent years. That was tbo btato of Ireland at present. It might requuc remedies from the Government ; it might rcqune lemedies by legislation; but be thought they weio haidly likely to Jmd those remedies by going into committee of tho whole House. (Hear, hear.) Tho hon. member (or Kerry (Mr. JYI. J. O'Connell) had stated that a relaxation of the laws with icspect (0 tho application of pnvalc capital would be of great use in particular cases. If that subject icquiiod the attention of the House, it should be brought befoie the House as a separate question. If tho subject of tho relations between landlord and tenant required consideration from Parliament, let the Government, or any lion, member, bring 1 foi ward that question , but tlioy would ho hardly able to decide, in a committee of tho wholo House, upon any of those measuics, nor would theio be any plan befoie them. He therefore trusted that the llouso would not assent to the motion. Sir 11. W. Baiiuon, in reply, denied that he had expressed any wish either for a repe.il of tho Irish Poor Law, or a return to tho old state of pioleclion, as had boon alleged by tho Government in opposing Ins motion. Tho House then divided, when thuio ajipoarod: — For tho motion 129 Against it 138 Majority against it 9 The announcement of the numbers was received by the lush members with loud cheeis. HOUSE OK COMMONS.— Twi*dat, May 6. Tin Juisii PoiincAL Puiso^ius iv Van Diemhn's La vn. — Mr. Anstey asked the Under Secretary ofKtate for the Colonies whether he had received any information fiom His L'.xcolleiuy Sir William Dcnison, tho Lieutpnaut-Govtinor of Van Diemen's Land, on the subject of the lecont withdiawal of tickets of leave formerly granted to Mx'&sis. M'iMauus, O'Doberty, and O'Donoghuo, and the removal of those gentlemen, for certain tennsol imprisonment,, to tho penal settlement ol L'oit Aitliur ; whether tho measure in question were adopted at the aibitraiy command of the LioutenantGoveinor, and in contiavontiou of the decisions of tho piopor magistrates upon the wises of alleged infraction of discipline stated by his Excellency in justification of such measures ; and whether the correspondence on these subjects would bo hud before the House'! The honourable anil learned member said, that on the anival oi those exiles they received conditional tickets of loavo upon then parole, winch, in the opinion of legal men, gave them peifect libeity of locomotion. They used their licence to go to see Mr. Smith O'Jiricn. O'Donohue was Liken ill and confined to bed. The other two weie taken before the police nvagistiutoa, on the charge ol having exceeded the limits of their districts. The point was argued, but, as it wasonooi doubt, one of llio m:igistint(M iecommori<!od a compiomiso, and suggested that tho jniaoneis before him should give their woid of honour not again to puss beyond his limits. This compumii'ie was n«ioiid 10 in the oases of JM'Manus and O'JJohoity, O'Donohue, bein<; ill in '»ed, was not hi ought up holote tin- magistia es. Hut aftoi this, a icpiimand was addicted to each of those magistrates by the Liedtcu.int-Govcinoi, and tho ticl.ots of leavo vvoie 10voked. 'J liot-e exiles weio immediately airestcd, and acnicuucd to three moutha jniprisonuicnl in UlO nuuul

M'ltli meiH ot Port .Aitlnir. 'J hose v\eio tlio factboi iliu Mi. II \w i smd (lut ho lnul ii) ohsei ration to mule on the lUalement ot thi' .\Hi -<>il (,»tMs, lor In; could lK'Ulici conliim ciot crmtridict it ; hut lie inijjlit s.iy tli.it ui\ ci ;ki£(i s'.vteim in, ujion asKui^ a simple question in ilie 11011-.0 win highly niconvcmiMit. It w ;is timi tli.it irKolh of lo.no h.ul I) 'eon granicd tollio llnoo pusonon tiKMKioiicd, :u.d tli.it t!ui Jik'Uli'iianl-CJoviMiioi l>>ul tliou^lil it Ins dulj to \M(h(li!iw tli.it iii(lii]i;oncn. Ho would jo.hl lo tli<> lIOIW a jm'-s.i l^ 1 f 10 111 (lie ilospat^li ot tlio I.ioiilciiniit-Govciiior, nlndi was to die oflocl tlint \n< «,u obliged to uitlidiart- thu nulul^enco to tiio llneo pnsonoio, 111 coiisccjuouco ol llioir acting m d,i eel violition ol tlio coikliUods impo^od on all ticket of lo'ivo licldir- ; tli.it llieie v,i-i ilnoct evidence biou»lit Lcloie linn ( ii.tr the tluoo pnsoiiois loit their distiids without leave, ,nid alter having heon w .lined ; and I'ut, tlieicfoio, ho w:w ol)lit,od to wuiidiaiv llioir tickets of I j.ivo. It ilicscMiion li.ul violated Iho I{iio\mi conditions on which thei, tioKets of leave weie planted, on them, and nol on the (Jovernnicnt, should lest the consequences that nocossaiil) follow, ]le(ftli. Ilaweh) had not (ho least ol»)« n ctioii to lay on the tal)lc .1 co]>y ol tlio despatch lioni winch he had yiven the cxtiacts to the lloiisic. J\h. Avail v f;avo notice that, on tho first supply ni;;ht, ho would ino\o a vote, of consiuo on tho Liuulon-aiil-CJovcinoi of Van JJieinen'N Lund.