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THE DISTRESS.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, MAY 14. On the order of the day for going into committee on the Lan-A Improvement and Drainage (Ireland) Bill, Mr. ROEBUCK asked what did the Government intend to do ? Money had been voted and spent, and there was now a call fur more, on the plea of the distress of Ireland. This distress :\1 r. Roebuck traced to the wasteful habits of the landed proprietors who divided their estates into small holdings, exacting high rents from the tenants, who were forced to live upon the lowest species of food, and when that failed the Government were called upon to provide for an extraordinary emergency. If the energies at their command had been properly applied, in a year or two an ffrrin.. i remedy woma nave oeen puMueu uui, lusie&a ot this, tne Go- vernment had stimulated that desire which pervaded the highest, and lowest in Ireland, to acquire without labour. The money of England was cast into a heap, and there was a general scramble for it. This system fostered the habit of the people of Ireland "=> depend not upon their own, but other people's labour. The call of the Irish members was not bona fiile tor ihe maintenance OS the Irish poor, tu which he was ready to contribute, but he refused to expend money upon Irish proprietors, whether in name or reality. This was a measure to tax the people of England to) draIn the lands of Ireland, and they were told the money would comeback. But what was the principle which ought to guide the Legislature in the application of capital to land ? To leave it to private enter- prise, knowledge, and adventure. "Why should not the Govern- ment have adopted the suggestion of the late Lord George Ben- tinck, and at once have applied £ 1 (i.000,000 to the making of roads in Ireland, instead of giving these driblets on the pretest.of relieving the misery of the Irish? This bill was based upon the same pr.aciple, and if there was to be such a system of appJying English money, he should have preferred the plan of Lord George Bentinck. What was the concerted scheme of the Government in bringing forward this measure ? WEis *t not, under the pretence of assisting the poor, lending money to landed proprietors ? 1 rjh gentlemen came down in the hope of getting what they called a pull at the Exchequer;" this was another pull at an exchequer which was filied by the labour of hard-working Englishmen. After a short debate, in which a personal attack was made on Mr. Roebuck by Messrs. John O'CONNEI.L and KEIKSJI, the House went into committee on the Parliamentary Oaths Bill; when r a discussion on the first clause the House adjourned.

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RATE-TN-AID (IRELAND) BILL.

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