borrowed money from them were men of Was he not a proprietor of And when he succeeded theories, it would be quite r the House of Commons to They were told also that ety entertained a high idea and that it was admirably eir purposes. Then let the it into effect. The Bible d a great deal of printing nd at a cheap rate; they , the best persons to test . No doubt the House of ht print a great deal too nsiderable reformation was head, but at that period of would be ridiculous to set stigation of that kind, and refore, strongly oppose the ENE, in reply, said, he must s possible for private indivihe value of the experiment th the House of Commons. chemselves had admitted the of reform in this branch of nditure, and as no steps had remedy the evil it was evito leave the matter in their Mr. FAGAN seconded the Motion. SIR JOHN YOUNG said, he thought there could be no objection to the appointment of a Select Committee, as proposed by the hon. Gentleman; but it was not a question, strictly speaking, in which the Government had anything to do. Many divided :-Ayes 56; Noes years ago, persons who were in the habit 24. t. DAN FUND SOCIETIES. of lending small sums of money to the ARD-URQUHART moved ommittee to inquire into the f the Loan Fund Societies He begged to call attention Parliament, passed respectars 1836 and 1843, for the E management of those sovere placed under the con- Fund Board, and certainly nts seemed to be sufficient ty of the money that was ention having been called to ces of two loan fund soounty he represented, he had abstract of accounts transament, pursuant to the Acts d referred, and they seemed far as they went; but they edingly meagre, as to leave imposition. He afterwards e loan fund office, to look rly into the accounts, and the figures in several coxceedingly garbled. It apme of the persons who had mour de contribution IET-OF-LEAVE SY Correspondence t the Irish Govern the county of Done ticket of leave of Med of a Ribbon offen to assure the rig Secretary for Ire Motion he did n tility to the Gove it desirable at the en that the public at principle upon ✨d leave were given. wd in a remote distri tich he was ab soned a consideral the magistra inhabitants of arhich the event that a man of the n ey had been convicted i fence. In about t Ceards this man heek to the same dis be had pursued a Many years ago Sw tee. MR. FRENCH said, that in 1831 a Bill was brought in by him to limit the interest paid upon the contributions to five per cent, the surplus (if any) to go to charitable purposes. Under that system 17.000l. was paid over to charitable objects in one year, and the system went on satisfactorily until the famine in 1847. He thought the Government had acted wisely in granting the Committee. greatest vigilance and accuracy of manage- | was evicted from his farm. Sween MR. F. SCULLY said, he concurred in for TICKET-OF-LEAVE SYSTEM. LORD NAAS said, he would now move Copies of Correspondence that had taken place between the Irish Government and the magistrates of the county of Donegal, relative to the liberation on ticket of leave of Miles Sweeny, a man convicted of a Ribbon offence in 1851." He begged to assure the right hon. Gen- was at that time. To show the st. the country at the last summer ass most daring outrage was perpetrated the eyes of the Judge himself. A ma about to be tried for a Ribbon offenc while the Judge was sitting in the and the grand jury were going th their business, in the presence of the the grand jury, and the Judge, a pa Ribbonmen entered the town, and away the principal witness upon the The Judge was so struck by this ex dinary proceeding that he adjourn eturned in a fortnight after- | He (Lord Naas) quite concurred with these the perpetrators of this out- opinions, and thought that it was most the meantime had been desirable to know whether it was proposed the magistrate. The com- by the Government to grant these tickets ade in respect to this man of leave to persons convicted of agrarian this that notwithstanding outrages. They ought also to know wheate of the country and of this ther they were to be given, in the exercise n, this man Sweeny, who of the prerogative of the Crown, as a y a bad character, was in a mitigation of punishment, or whether they er his conviction and sentence were to be granted as rewards for good ion sent back, with a ticket behaviour in prison. He certainly did not e place of his birth-where think that tickets of leave should be grantubt, now pursuing the same ed as a sort of quasi pardon or mitigation essness and crime. A strong of punishment. It was certainly possible was drawn up by the magis- that the liberation of this man might have nt to the Lord Lieutenant, arisen from one of those mistakes which resolutions, setting forth the would inevitably arise sometimes; and in gement to outrage which the that case nothing more could be said about of this offender gave, and it. But he could not but think that the inst the ticket-of-leave sys- inhabitants of this district, so long the esolutions agreed to were scene of agrarian outrage, ought to receive an assurance that these perpetrators should not receive tickets of leave, or at any rate that they should not be permitted to return to the scene of their former crimes. ndersigned magistrates of the al, with the most anxious desire fect the wishes and decisions of as well as the' law of the land, ay before your Excellency the ease of difficulty thrown in the by the plan at present adopted, ets of leave' to convicts, wherearn to the scenes of their former ty two prisoners of the name of and Shane), brothers, were tried sizes, 1851, for burglary, assault, n a man named William Starrett, ault, and its consequences, the y died. The cause of this outan, the enforcing from Starrett For land given to his father, from enys or their father had been ars before. convicted, and sentenced to ten ation. Miles Sweeny has now his very district since the winter BUSE OF COM By Trial (Scotland) SIR JOHN YOUNG said, there was no objection to give this correspondence, though he must observe that there was nothing in the papers which came before the Irish Government to show that the man in question was convicted of a Ribbon offence. He was sorry to say that the county of Donegal was not in a good state, that disturbances prevailed there, that a district had been proclaimed, and that it would be necessary to continue that proclamation. He apprehended that the ticket-of-leave system which had been recently introduced in place of transportation was now on its trial, and that such tickets would only be granted when he behaviour of the convicts in prison was such as to would not endanger the peace of society. give a fair prospect that if let out they Those remarks had, however, no reference to the present case. The man Sweeny having been convicted of a burglary and a violent assault, was sent to Spike Island, where he remained until two or three months ago. The Lord Lieutenant then received a petition from his wife, stating that he was in bad health, and praying for his release. This petition was referred to the medical officer of the Spike Island prison, who reported that the prisoner was in fact labouring under a dangerous disease, which would be greatly aggravated by continued confinement. That report was sent to the Judge who tried the case, and he having stated that he thought it was rsigned, with the utmost respect, onsideration of your Excellency agement this man's enlargement Obon confederacy-a system ory to protect landholders against prevalent now in this country, cy is aware the greater part of it d not only to afford encourages, but to impart increased terror e well-disposed, and to render it ss than it has hitherto been to n or assistance to bring offendnd we very earnestly pray your in the solitary instances of cones arising out of Ribbonism' ay not be allowed tickets of home, which are considered, and distinguished by an ignorant rdon; and are, therefore, calcue law still more impotent than ases." S the part of eider new mea tery and corrup proper that under the circumstances the discussion. But there are two imp man should be released, the Lord Lieu- points still to be considered. tenant ordered the liberation. Nor did he whether this House will sanction i (Sir J. Young) believe that any Govern- way, or will withhold its sanction ment would keep a man in prison at the any expenses for refreshment or allow risk of his life, when he had been sentenced for travelling, and likewise whethe to a punishment much less than death. declaration shall be made by Mer He might again remark that there was either at their nomination nothing in the paper that came under the House. Still, I hope that we may notice of the Government to show that this question, and fix the Bill for a Sweeny had committed a "Ribbon of- reading, so that it may arrive i fence. House of Lords in time. That Bill for twelve o'clock to-morrow; and Motion agreed to. or i The House adjourned at half after do not get through the considerat Eleven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Wednesday, July 19, 1854. MINUTES.] PUBLIC BILLS.-1° National Gallery, BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Committee of the whole of the clau shall propose to take it again at the ing sitting, and to proceed with it in manner that, possibly on Friday, or latest on Monday, we may send it House of Lords. There are various Bills of considerable public impor that it will be necessary to take Committee of Supply, which I had posed to take on Friday. I will tak that they are placed on the Orders Day for to-morrow, so that the Hous know what Bills are to be first prod with. With this statement, I move the Order of the Day for considerin Lords' Amendments of the Oxford U sity Bill be now read, in order that i be postponed until to-morrow se'n and I think that the consideration other Bills coming down from the Ho Lords had better be postponed, in Lords to which I have called attentio Motion agreed to; Considerati Lords' Amendments deferred from morrow till Thursday, 27th July. &c. LAND)-ADJOURNED DEBATE (T CHURCH TEMPORALITIES, LORD JOHN RUSSELL: Mr. Speaker, I rise to move that the consideration of the Lords' Amendments to the Oxford University Bill be taken into consideration to-morrow se'nnight. In making this Motion, I will take the opportunity of making a statement relative to the business of the House. My attention has been called to a Resolution of the House of Lords of May 2, which is to the effect that no Bills coming from the House of Commons be read a second time, except Bills of Sup-quence of the Resolution of the Ho ply, after the 25th of July, unless they be measures of peculiar urgency, or are brought in in consequence of recent circumstances, which must be stated to the House. I am not now quoting the words, but that is the substance of the Resolution of the House of Lords. Well, I do not know that we can much complain that, after the 25th of July, there should be an unwillingness on the part of the House of Lords to consider new measures, but at the same time there is some difficulty in making the business of this House accord with that Resolution. I have thought it best so to arrange the business of this House, that the measures that we can send to the other House shall be sent up by Monday next. There is one Bill more especially which is of the greatest importance to the three kingdoms-the Bill with respect to bribery and corrupt practices at elections. This House has given a great deal of time to that Bill, and I hope it will go through this House without much more VOL. CXXXV. [THIRD SERIES.] NIGHT). Order read, for resuming adjourne bate on Question [13th June]-" leave be given to bring in a Bill to and amend the Laws relating to the poralities of the Church in Ireland, increase the means of religious instr and church accommodation for Her 1 ty's Irish subjects.' Question again proposed. MR. KENNEDY said, that, no standing the impracticability of co ing a measure of such importance a advanced period of the Session, he dered it right that an opportunity be afforded to the hon. and learned Р at Shee) of answering the had been made, and he t he had discharged his the adjournment of the revious occasion. ། ། tai Commissioners them , at 64,4301.; ther which the surplus revenue was proposed T SHEE said, he consi- ers for expenditu f such a charge. * of them had mo 74.750 were not at a lived at home By charitable; still he had nam |