ren by being together, much better than they could be looked after and helped if strict separation were the rule. What the Board of Trade had done was this -They had endeavoured to get the Companies to adopt a strict rule whereby the single men's quarters should be in the fore part of the ship, and the single women's quarters in the after part of the ship, with permanent bulkheads, and the married people's quarters between, so that there should be no connection between these several parts of the ship; and that separate and distinct ladder-ways should be provided for each of the three descriptions of passengers. Among the suggestions by the Board of Trade that had been made and were being carried out was that in every emigrant ship, there should be a matron, as the noble Lord wished. The duties of

LORD SUDELEY said, he was unable to give the noble Earl any information; but the subject was one which, no doubt, deserved attention, and he would take care it should be brought before the Board.

IRELAND-THE LABOURERS'

LEAGUE.-QUESTION.

EARL FORTESCUE asked the Lord

Privy Seal, To what counties is there reasonable ground for believing that the Labourers' League, as distinguished from the Land League, has extended in Ireland, and what outrages during the last three months can be reasonably referred to it in the opinion of the Government?

LORD CARLINGFORD (LORD PRIVY SEAL), in reply, said, he had been able

to obtain some information on this sub

ment which had been supplied by the
special Resident Magistrates of the
different districts, each district embrac-
ing several counties. In the first dis-
trict it appeared that in Carlow, Kil-
dare, King's and Queen's Counties,
attempts had been made to establish a
Labourers' League, but so far it had
shown practically no vitality. In the
second district it had spread slowly in
Longford, and had just shown itself in
Cavan, Leitrim, and Westmeath.
the third district it was found not to
exist in the county of Sligo, but it did
in a slight degree in Mayo and Ros-

the matron were that she should be pre-ject by telegraph from the Irish Governsent at meal times; should receive complaints, if any were made, that any single female passenger or young person did not get due allowance of food or proper attention; that she should play the part of an ever-present domestic inspector, her special office being to encourage decency and order, and suppress any indecorum among the single females. He was very glad to be able to say that in the Companies doing the best trade in emigrant passengers, these suggestions, or nearly all of them, had been or were being carried out most effectively and loyally, with great benefits to all concerned; and it was only fair that common. In the fourth district it had he should, as was their due, congratu- shown itself in some parts of Clare and late those Companies on the way in Limerick, but there was nothing there which they had received the Board's worthy of special report. As to the suggestions and had acted on them. fifth district, there had been a few meetWith regard to the particular Line re-ings in the counties of Cork and Kerry, ferred to, he had not had sufficient time to ascertain particulars; but he was able to say that the last of the Dominion Line ships which left England had carried out all the suggestions of the Board of Trade, and it was hoped from this that the Company intended to carry them out in all their ships.

THE EARL OF CARNARVON said, he wished to call the attention of the noble Lord (Lord Sudeley) to the fact that no condition was required by the Board of Trade as to the existence of watertight compartments in emigrants ships, these being, he believed, necessary for the safety of the passengers in the event of an accident.

Lord Sudeley

but nothing had been done to disturb the public peace. The Labourers' League existed in a weak state in Kilkenny and Tipperary, and was strongest in Waterford. He was not able to find that any outrage had been directly traced to this League; but some violent speeches had certainly been delivered, chiefly against

farmers.

WELLESLEY BRIDGE (LIMERICK)
BILL.

(The Lord Thurlow.)

(NO. 207) SECOND READING. Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.

LORD THURLOW, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, that it was a useful measure, which their Lordships would do well to

pass.

Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2." -(The Lord Thurlow.)

the House any details with regard to the alleged strike for increased wages which is said to have taken place among the members of the Royal Irish Constabulary? In putting this Question, he wished to observe that almost the only bright spot which was to be seen for the last two miserable years in the gloomy THE EARL OF LIMERICK said, he picture which Ireland presented was the agreed with the noble Lord (Lord Thur- unswerving loyalty to the Crown, very low) that it would be very useful for often under circumstances of great diffifacilitating communication between Li-culty, exhibited by the members of the merick and the county of Clare. The matter had been always regarded as one of the greatest interest in the district, especially in the city of Limerick, almost irksome duties had won the re

though the inhabitants of the county would probably use the bridge very little. The work was one which ought to be proceeded with, and he was glad

the Government had introduced the measure. There was one matter connected with the Bill to which he should like to draw the attention of the noble Lord. By Clause 2, which dealt with the proportions in which the money would be raised, it was provided that of the cost Clare County should pay threeeighths and Limerick City five-eighths. Why the cost should be thus unequally

divided he could not understand.

Royal Irish Constabulary; while the manner in which they had performed their difficult, arduous, and very often

It was, therefore, with feelings little spect and admiration of all honest men. short of dismay that he read the reports which had appeared in the newspapers of the discontent, if not disaffection, which had appeared in their ranks. He saw in a newspaper that morning a statement to the effect that the men in a certain district were so disgusted with had treated their mild demands, that the manner in which the Government they had come to the determination, if

the Government did not at once take lay down their arms, and refuse to obey their grievances into consideration, to orders. If the report were true, nothing more startling had been heard of since the Indian Mutiny. He had no doubt, how

LORD THURLOW said, he had no doubt the matter would be taken into consideration, and put right by the noble Earl (the Earl of Redesdale) in Com-ever, that it was a statement which was

mittee.

THE EARL OF REDESDALE (CHAIRMAN of COMMITTEES) said, he was not aware that the Bill would come before him. It was a hybrid Bill, to which there was some slight objection; but it

could be amended in Committee. From

much exaggerated, and he trusted not only that the Government would be able to re-assure their Lordships on that point, but also that they would state that they were prepared to deal both fairly, fully, and generously with the question, and thus satisfy a body of men of whom it might well be said they were sans peur et sans reproche.

the Preamble of the Bill he saw that the original cost was £10,000, and that the sum had now been reduced to £7,076. SEAL), in reply, said, he was happy to be LORD CARLINGFORD (LORD PRIVY He thought the Bill, as a whole, was able to inform the noble Earl (the Earl rather carelessly drawn, and he hoped the noble Lord in charge of it (Lord of Milltown) that the report that had Thurlow) would see that an improve-ject was greatly exaggerated. There appeared in the newspapers on this sub

ment was effected.

Motion agreed to; Bill read 2 accordingly, and committed for Monday next.

THE ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY.

QUESTION. OBSERVATIONS.

THE EARL OF MILLTOWN asked the Lord Privy Seal, Whether he can give

was no reason to believe that the Royal Irish Constabulary had exceeded their legitimate rights in the manner in which they had urged their views upon the Government as to their position. It was perfectly true that they did think that their condition, in certain respects, ought to be improved, and some of the matters to which they

assize to court; whether Mr. Malcolm | pensed with; and, whether he is in a is the same magistrate who, a week pre- position to state that the sufferers from viously, let off without any punishment the affray at Ballina will be adeqately or fine, Joseph Mathers, an Orangeman, compensated? of Lurgan, who had been summoned by the police for having been drunk, and having" cursed the Pope," and who admitted his guilt; and, what action the Government propose to take on the conduct of Mr. Malcolm?

to give the Guardians an extension of time for the payment of the part of the instalment now due, and to allow that part of it to remain unpaid until after harvest; and I have caused the Guardians to be informed of this in case they may wish to take advantage of it.

PREVENTION OF CRIME (IRELAND)
ACT-GUISBOROUGH SPECIAL

PETTY SESSIONS.

White himself; whether the local resi dent magistrate directed the release of Hartt and Merrick, after they had been ten days in gaol; and, what action, if any, the Government have taken, or propose to take, in reference to White?

wounded in the leg; whether White fixed the time of the attack upon him at four o'clock in the morning, but did not inform the police until eleven, though they were quartered in a hut a few paces from his dwelling-house; whether, on the report being made, the police arrested and lodged in Sligo Gaol two men, James Hartt and Michael Merrick, the latter of whom had been evicted from the holding in the possession of MR. SEXTON asked the Chief Secre- amined White's injured leg, concurred White; whether three doctors, who extary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the decision that the injury had been Whether he has observed that Captain caused by the application of a red-hot R. A. Massey, R.M. and Mr. R. Mit-iron, and not by a gunshot, as stated by chell, R.M. sitting on Friday last, at Guisborough, county Kerry, as a court of special petty sessions, heard a case in which a number of persons were charged, under the Crime Prevention Act, with unlawful assembly and assault on the police, and sentenced, eight men to a month's imprisonment, with hard labour, and three girls of tender years, the daughters of Mr. Lawrence Buckley, described as "a well-to-do farmer and landed proprietor," to a fortnight's imprisonment; whether the scene of the alleged unlawful assembly was a place where the young people of the neighbourhood had long been in the habit of meeting for purposes of recreation; whether the residence of Mr. Buckley, the father of the Misses Buckley, is situated on the side of the road at the very spot in question; and, whether the Government will reverse the sentences in the case; and especially whether they will order the immediate release of the Misses Buckley ?

MR. TREVELYAN: Sir, I telegraphed for a report, and I wrote for it two or three days ago. I to-day got a letter from Dublin promising immediate attention. It is a subject which requires very considerable inquiry, and that attention is being paid to it in Dublin.

MR. SEXTON: I wish to point out to the right hon. Gentleman that those girls have been in gaol almost a week.

CRIME (IRELAND)—ALLEGED
OUTRAGE IN SLIGO.

MR. SEXTON asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, on the 7th instant, one James White, of Ballinful, County Sligo, reported to the police that, while walking on his farm, he had been fired at and

Mr. Trevelyan

MR. TREVELYAN: Sir, with the exception of a few inaccuracies, the facts of this case appear to be correctly stated in this Question by the hon. Gentleman. Instead of 4, the time stated in the Question, White fixed the time of the attack upon him at 2 o'clock in the morning, and did not report the occurrence to the police until noon. The wound was examined by one doctor only, who seemed to think it was not a gunshot wound, but a burn. White Hartt and Merrick were the persons swore positively in his depositions that who fired at him. They were taken before the magistrate, and committed to Sligo Gaol for eight days on remand, the Resident Magistrate. The case is but were then discharged by order of be very fully inquired into. one of considerable suspicion, and will

MR. SEXTON asked whether the in

quiry would be made with a view to the Government prosecuting White for perjury?

MR. TREVELYAN: Yes.

FIJI-THE LAND COMMISSION. SIR HENRY HOLLAND asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether any reply has been returned to the Petition of Colonists and landowners in Fiji complaining of the Land Commission, and praying that a competent tribunal, unconnected with the Government, may be appointed; and, whether he will lay Copies of the