MR. SPEAKER: Is it a new clause?
MR. WEBSTER: Yes.

Clause read a second time, and added to the Bill.

MR. WEBSTER said, he had further to propose, in Clause 12, page 8, to leave out the word "covering." This was also an alteration in favour of the farmers, traders, and others, using the railway, and not in the interest of the promoters. He proposed it, however, with their consent.

Amendment agreed to.

Bill to be read the third time.

QUESTIONS.

stone) said that the Committee were | terests of the traders; and he believed unanimous. Now, he (Mr. Carpenter- there would be no objection to it. Garnier) confessed that he had entertained considerable doubts upon the question of the classification of guano and artificial manures; and if anyone had moved to leave out the clause dealing with that question, he should certainly have had great pleasure in voting for such a proposition. There were several other important questions raised -such as terminal charges, the rates for small parcels, and other matters contained in the Bill, which had not been alluded to at any length in the present discussion. There was also another, and a wholly different, subject dealt with— namely, the propriety of sanctioning an amalgamation with another railway. His own opinion was that the raising of the rates on artificial manures was a very strong measure, and that it was scarcely warranted by the circumstances of the case. With regard to the question of precedent, it was said by an hon. Member opposite that the Committee were creating an inconvenient precedent. That was hardly the case, seeing that the precedent of the North Staffordshire Railway was allowed to be on all-fours with the preIt was, however, impossible, in a short discussion like this, to go into all the complicated and difficult questions which were raised before the Committee; and he hoped the House would have confidence in the decision of the Committee, who had sat for many days hearing evidence, and who gave the whole matter the fullest and most careful consideration.

sent case.

THE MAGISTRACY (IRELAND)—STI-
PENDIARY MAGISTRATES.

MR. MELDON asked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to a report in the "Irish Times" of the 26th April 1881, of a motion, in three actions brought against Major Fraill, a resident magistrate, for having illegally sentenced three men to imprisonment and hard labour; whether, in the said report, it does not appear that Major Fraill had been a Major in the Army before receiving his appointment as a resident magistrate, and that Mr. Baron Dowse stated he had been once told by a stipendiary magistrate that, as he was not a lawyer he did not know the Law, and did not pretend to know it; whether, in the case of stipendiary magistrates whose duties are to guide and advise the other magistrates, it would not be desirable that members of the legal profession should be appointed stipendiary magis trates, rather than military men or private gentlemen without legal knowledge or training; and, whether all or any of the stipendiary magistrates who have been appointed in Ireland since the present Government came to office are bar. risters, or have received legal training?

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. LAW): I have seen the report in the newspaper referred to by my hon. and learned Friend, and find it is as stated in his Question. It is the case that of the few resident magistrates appointed by the present

Government since their accession to Office none are barristers; but I believe they had all sufficient legal knowledge and experience to qualify them for the office. I must decline to express any opinion on the abstract question as to the desirability of appointing members of the Legal Profession in preference to others.

EVICTIONS (IRELAND)-EVICTIONS IN

ΜΑΥΟ.

take half Griffith's valuation, and if we did not
that they would pay nothing. This offer, I
sent them word that he had withdrawn his pre-
need not say, we declined; and Mr. Moore then
vious offer to them, and instructed me to take
proceedings for the recovery of his rent.
An ejectment decree had been obtained on the
14th April, 1880, and as same was running
decree into force, but instantly reinstated
out of date on the 8th April last, I put the
them as caretakers pending a settlement, at the
same time stating that if they paid £14 18. 3d.,
a half-year's rent, out of the £75 17s. 6d., which
they would owe on the 1st of May, I would take
it and give them separate receipts for same,
thereby creating a new tenancy. They paid
this amount, and I even then remitted arrears
been a very long time in their possession, and I
to the amount of £19 12s. 6d. The holding had
am sure Mr. Moore wished it to remain as long
more should they continue to pay their rents.'
Stephen Loftus was for four days a care-
taker instead of a tenant on his holding,
and now he is in undisturbed possession
of his separate farm and recognized as
a tenant. I must say I cannot see any
hardship in this case.

MR. PARNELL asked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether Mr. G. A. H. Moore, of Moore Hall, county Mayo, has, since the rejection by the House of Lords of the Compensation for Disturbance Bill, evicted a number of tenants, and, amongst them, one named Stephen Loftus, of Ashbrook, Strard, Ballyvoy, Mayo, whose family numbers eleven, and the rent of whose holding was £8 158., while the Poor Law Valuation is only £4 78. 6d.; whether the holding has been in Loftus's possession and that of his forefathers for one hundred and ten years; whether he has been left by the eviction without any employment or means of living; and, whether he will consider the desirability of advising the insertion of such clauses in the Land Law (Ireland) Bill as will protect this class of tenants? THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. LAW): Stephen Lof-"Quinlan's Castle," situate at New tus, the man referred to in this Question, was not originally recognized by

Mr. Moore as a tenant. The farm was held by his brother, Thomas Loftus. It consisted of 38 acres; the annual rent was £28 28. 6d. ; tenement valuation, £17. Thomas Loftus sub-let a portion of the land to Stephen-about 12 acres, for which he received £8 158. per annum; tenement valuation, £5 58. I have received a letter from Mr. Moore's agent on the subject, which shows that Mr. Moore has acted with great considerateness and kindness to his tenants. The following is an extract from that letter:

"Last November, instructed by Mr. Moore, I offered the Loftuses, if they paid one year's rent, £28 28. 6d., that we would take it in full discharge of the £61 16s. 3d. due on the holding, and give them a clear rent receipt for

same.

This offer was refused, they holding out to get the land at the Government valuation; and in February last we consented to take a year's rent at the valuation. The tenants then turned round and asked us would we

STATE OF IRELAND-DISTURBANCES
AT QUINLAN'S CASTLE, NEW
PALLAS, CO. LIMERICK.
MR. T. P. O'CONNOR (for Mr. SEX-
TON) asked the Secretary of State for
War, If it is true that a force of about
two hundred soldiers and as many police
have been occupied for some days past
in warlike operations around a ruin called

Pallas, in the county Limerick, in
which some tenants threatened with
eviction had taken refuge; if the forces,
having first laid siege to the ruin,
were, after a time, directed to re-
tire, and did so, but if, subsequently,
after a council had been held between
the sheriff, the military officers, the sti-
pendiary magistrate, and the officers of
police, another advance was made, and
the whole available force invested the
ruin, with a view to reduce its occupants
by starvation; if there is any later in-
telligence from the scene of these opera-
tions; and, if he will be able to lay be-
fore the House an estimate of their
cost?

MR. CHILDERS: In reply to the hon. Member's Question, I have to inform the House that a detachment, consisting of about 200 men, accompanied the police and resident magistrate to a farmhouse, near Castletown, on the 21st instant, and returned to Limerick on the same day. I have no further informa

tion on the subject. The railway fares | bably the population will be 3,000,000 to and from Pallas Station were about £28.

the Commissioners of Crown Lands and with variolous matter would seem to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners respec- have proved altogether abortive. tively should make further purchases of real property so as to increase the extent of the land held by them in mortmain.

MR. J. HOWARD inquired, whether the 24 cottages which were pulled down at Stagsden had been reported upon by the rural sanitary authority?

LORD FREDERICK CAVENDISH said, he believed they were, and that notice was given that they ought to be pulled down.

VACCINATION-HALIFAX FEVER

HOSPITAL.

MR. HOPWOOD asked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether it is the fact that the matron and one or more nurses at the Hospital at Halifax have recently taken smallpox, a few days after re-vaccination; whether there is any reason to believe the vaccination was of variolous matter; and, whether it is the fact that there is in use in the country a large quantity of vaccine which is in fact variolous matter, or smallpox communicated from the human subject to cattle, and from them extracted and used in innoculation under the Vacci

nation Acts?

RAILWAY FARES - THE RACING

MEETINGS.

dent of the Board of Trade, Whether MR. LABOUCHERE asked the Presihis attention has been called to the fact that Railroad Companies are in the habit of making extra charges for the conveyance of passengers during Ascot, Goodwood, and Epsom Races; whether, in some cases, these charges do not exceed the maximum allowed by statute; and, whether they have any right to raise, on such occasions, their ordinary fares?

His hon.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN, in reply, said, his attention had not been officially directed to the statements contained in the Question; but he had no reason to doubt their substantial accuracy. Friend asked him to give what would be a legal opinion on the subject. He was not qualified to offer such an opinion to the House. But according to some correspondence in The Times of July 8, 1878, it appeared that a Mr. James Bussey commenced proceedings against one of the Railway Companies to try its right to make an extra charge during the Ascot week. The Company paid the sum claimed into Court, and so avoided a legal decision. He supposed the impression left on the mind of his hon. Friend would be that they had good reason to do so.

CRIMINAL LAW (IRELAND)—COMMIT-
TALS TO COUNTY LIMERICK GAOL.

MR. DODSON: At the end of March last a small-pox patient was sent to the Halifax Fever Hospital, and thereupon the matron and staff were strongly urged to be vaccinated; but they all refused. Three weeks afterwards the matron showed symptoms of the disease, and on the day following four of the nurses were vaccinated. In one of them a slight attack of small-pox showed itself in two days, and in another a more severe MR. SYNAN asked Mr. Attorney Geneattack in four days afterwards. It is ral for Ireland, Whether Mr. Clifford evident, therefore, that they must have Lloyd, R.M. did on Friday the 20th been under the influence of the disease instant at the Kilfinane Sessions, in the when the vaccination took place, and at county of Limerick, commit nine men a stage when the latter could be of no (tradesmen and labourers) to the County avail. The other two nurses escaped Limerick Gaol (a distance of thirty altogether. There is no reason to believe miles) on remand until the next sessions that the vaccination was of variolous without giving them the option of bail matter, and the medical man who vacci- to appear at such sessions, and without nated them distinctly states that it was specifying and calling any witnesses to good vaccine lymph. As to the last prove the offence with which they were Question, if by variolous matter is in-charged; and, whether the families of tended the matter of small-pox, or matter capable of producing small-pox, there is no such matter used in vaccination under the Vaccination Acts; and, as a matter of fact, all attempts of late years to produce small-pox in cattle by innoculation

the men sent to prison are not left destitute in consequence?

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. LAW): Nine men (tradesmen or labourers) were committed to gaol on remand by Mr.

Clifford Lloyd on a charge of riot, bail | ligerent Power) impeded a British ship being refused. This was at Kilmal- when pursuing her lawful commerce; lock Petty Sessions, not at Kilfinane. Witnesses were called and evidence of the commission of the offence taken in the presence of the accused. With the exception of two, the men are all single, and I am informed that the families of these two are not destitute.