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r r PARLTAIIIEN I'ARY PROCEEDINGS. dulls for the future? HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 2.1. The F.arl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition from the Ranker., Merchants, and Tradesmen, of Stokesiley,in Yorkshire, praying for an alteration In the law for the Recovery of *Small 1-Xl)m-1-aid on the table. Lord KI Ni G•presented a Petition from-the , Coltman Browenrof: the Town of Stockport. in the County of Chrsttr, complaining that they were liable to fake charges from informers, and praying for telief.— Laid un.the table. The Olehe 'Land and Parsonage Houses Bill was read a se cond time. Vi-count ISIELVILLE A gave notice, that on Monday next he should introduce to their Lordships' consideration, a Bill for rego latir.g the mode of choosing Juries in Sc.nland.—Adjourned. • • HOUSE OF COMMONS. Upon a Petition being presented to the House, complaining that the Standing Orders on a Private Bill had not been complied with, The SPEAKER. informed the House that the Standing Order C. 11111 l nittee had expressed their opinion that they had no authority to take such Petitions into consideration. It was necessary that this question should be decided, and that the Public should know through the Iloue what course would be adopted with such Pe _ After some tliicmsion, chiefly among the Members of the Stand ing Order committee and the SerAKen, it was agreed that the Petition should be withdrawn limit Monday, and that some reso lution should he considered of in the meantime. Lord STANLEY presented a Petition from Chorley, praying a repeal of the Assessed Tases.—Ordered to be printed. Sir W. DE CR ESPIG NY presented a Petition from South. ampton, praying .a repeal of the House and Window Taa.—Or dered to be printed'. same Honourable Member presented a Petition from Bet ley, praying u repeal of the Coal'lhnies.—Ordered to be printed. Sir C. COLE presented a Petition from the County of Glamor gan, to the same of ect.—Ordeted to he printed. Sir W. G U ISLE presented .a Petition from the Parish of St. .1 ‘mes'is. Bristol, praying a repeal of the Assessed Taxes.--Ordered to be printed. Mr. CA WM RT G llT•presented a similar Petition from Glou ctster.—Ordi red to he printed. Sir W. I NG LEBY presented a .Petition -from a Parish in the County of Lincoln, praying a.repeal of the Coal Duties.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a Petition from the Ward of Vintry, praying a repeal of the House and Window Tax.—Or dered to be printed. Sir H. PARNELL presented a Petition from a Parish in the County of Dublin, against the Bill for suppressing the Catholic Association.—Ordered to be primed. Mr. T. WILSON presented a Petition front the Ward of Corn bill, praying a tepeal of the House and Window. Duties.—Ordered to Ii printed. Sir E. HARVEY presented a Petition from Homchurch, pray ing a repeal of the Duty on Coals.—Ordered to be printed. Sir J. SBRRIGIIT presented a similar. Petition from Ware.— Ordered to be printed. 'fhe &teams of the City of London appeared at the Bar, with a 'Petition from the Honourable the Alder nten, .Sheriffs, and Com monalty of the City of London, praying a repeal of the House and, Window TJz. _ _ Mr. AltleunanW OOD supported the Petition, and recommended it to the attention of the Right Hun. therhancellorof she Exchequer. —Ordered to be printed, after a few words from Mr. T. Witsox, Mr. H9SHOUSR, Mr. N. CALVES?, citneral GASCOndlf,, Mr. HAIM DAVIS, and Mr. Bataur. Mr. BING presented a Petition Tront Whitechapel, praying repeal of the Duty on Coals. r. AI A C DON AI. D presented a Petition from *Bury St. Ed mund's, in favour of a repeal of the Assessed Tases.—Ordered to be printed. Lard All LT')N presented a Petition from the Town ofWhitby, praying a repeal of the House and Window Tax.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. WYPI LL presented a similar Petition from York.—Or dered to be printed. Mr. E. WODEHOUSE presented four Petitions against the Duty on Coals.—Ordeied to he printed. Mr. 11. DAVIS presented a Petition from the Parish of St. Peter, iltistol, against the Catholic Association, and against say further concessions to the Roman Catholics.—Ordered to be pi Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a Petition/roan Stokely, in favour of the County Courts Bill.--Ors!ered to be printed. Mr. S. WORTLEY postponed the second _reading oldie Game Laws, until Thursday next. Mr. M•QUEEN presented a Petition from Woburn, in favour of the County Courts Bill.—Ordered to be printed. Sir R. iIERON presented a similar Petition from Peterborough. —Ordered to be printed. Sir ACKINTOSH presented a Petition oldie same nature from Knaresborough. Amongst others it was signed by several Attornies, who were withal; to sacrifice their own gaits. to the public good. Lord AI I LTON said he wished the example might be followed by others in higher statlons.=—Ordored to he printed. Sir J. MACKINTOSH piesented a Petition from the parish of St. Michael's, Dublin, praying that the Bill for suppressing the Catholic Association may not pass into a law • as the third battle is th? war against Mr. O'Connell was to be fought that night, he !should not detain the House. 111 r. T. COURTENAY presented a Petition front Tote's., against the Duty on Coals.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. EGERTON presented a Petition from Stockport, praying an alteration in the Beer Duties.—Ordered to be rinted. Mr. LOCKHART presented a Petition front the Inhabitants of the Parish of AR Saints, Oxford, praying the Abolition of the Bence lax.—ordered tribe Ili:Mod. Mr. C. II urctiINSON rose to present a Petithm from Cloyne against the Rill for Ssippressing the Catholic Association.—The Petitioners contradicted a,statement which had been made in the House as to the alarm felt by the Protestants of Ireland. The Ilonourebk Member also stated that he had a similar Petition to present from Mallow, in consequence of the absence of his Hono ur. able Friend (Nlr: W. &cher). After supporting the prayer of the Petition, and urging the im policy of suppressing the Catholic Associatioo, the Hots. Member moved that the Petitions be brought up. They were aces t ordingly laid on the talk, and ordered to be printed. RITISH Si MUM. Sir CHARLES LONG held in I;is hand a-Petition hoor the Trustees of the British Museum, to which, as it tespecied a subject of considerable interest, he beg ged to solicit the attention of the House. The widow ola Gentleman who had for many years been the East India Company's resident at Bagdad, at present pos sessed a most valuable collection of MSS. medals, and Oriental curiosities, which her husband accumulated during his stay in Asia. It was the wish of Mr.. Rich, the Gentleman alluded to, during hii lifetime, that this collection should be placed after his death in the British Museum. Mrs. Rich had accordingly proposed to dis pose, of it to the Trustees of that Institution, in the most reasonable manner, namely, that she should receive in return only whatever sum such persons as might be competent to estimate the value of the collection, should deem its fair worth. The Trustees, feeling-a disposition to tieat.with Mrs. Rich, referred to several persons uistinguished fot their knowledge of the sub jects offered to them—to Dr. M'Biide, to the Professor of Oriental Literature at Oxford, to Dr. Lee of Cam bridge, and others; and the testimony of all those ac complished and skilful judges, concurred in stating that tl.c collection was most valuable, and wou)cl be a most it:portant addition to the other Collections already in the possession of the 'latish Museum. At a future tp,o;tunity he (Sir Charles Long) should be able Le trusted to enter more fully into a descrip tion of the vatiety of cutious and important ar ticles which Mr. Rich bad with indefatigable zeal amassed during his residence in the East. He should now merely trouble the House to mention that among other things the Collection contained 900 volumes of MSS. in the Persian, C aldee, Syriac, and other Ori ental languages—that in the Persian MSS. were even some ancient Commentaries on the Sacred Scriptures, which would probably be found most usetul in illus trating particular passages in the Div hue Writings.-- net ew- al oumter of Greek works which Mr. Payne Knight, than whom few parsons wete bitter. qualified to estimate, had pronounced to be - highly. interesting. Among.the Medals were:many relatively the antiquities of ilabyinn and Nineveh, which, when. fully deciphered, werezalculated - tivelnaidate the sculpi lure ofsverrremote ages—andithbough•they had nor 'been so deciphered, the onlrdlatice of ever effecting •iti geiher. Another circumstance which gave this tion additional value was, that notwithstanding the ex tent of our Asiatic dominions, and the length of time which our authority hadezisted over that portion of the globe, the Library of the British Museum was at pre sent almost destitute of Oriental literature. For this reason, if no other, he thought it well worthy the atten tion of Pat liament, at least to examine whether the col lection now offered for sale on such equitable terms, were worthy of supplying, in•some degree, so remark able a deficiency. He should likewise beg to observe, that oaing to the circumstance just noticed, there was no possibility. in this instance, of .any loss arising from duplicatei, all the MSS. being literally new to the country, and forming in themselves not an indiscrimi-' natc, but a choice collection. He (Sir C. Long) might, belore he concluded, be permitted to remind the House, that when the Library of the British Museum was in creased by the munificent gift of the Royal Library, presenrei to the Public by his Maje..ty; he indulged in predicting that the example would be followed in due time _by other gifts of a similar kind. It would no doubt be satisfactory to the House to learn, that already those anticipations had begun to be realized—as the Trus tees had received intimation from Sir R. Hoare, that a very large Library collected by him and his family would, as soon as the state of the new erections rendered it acceptable, be transferred to the British Museum.— Among the works in Sir Richard Hoare's Library were, he understocd, not less than seventeen or eighteen thou sand volumes on Italian history and topography, se lected with the utmost taste and judgment. The present Petition he would submit to the House to be taken into consideration in a similar manner to that respecting the Lansdown Collection. The sum at which the whoje was valued was 28,000—viz. £B,OOO for the MSS. £l,OOO for the Medals, and £l,OOO for the other Curiosi ties. The /lon. Member concluded by moving, that the Petition be referred to a select Committee to report on the same. The Mo tion was agreed to, and a Committee appointed accordingly. Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved, that the Order for certain Statistical Returns relative to Ireland, which be bad obtained list Session, but bad not yet been complied with, should be received.— Sir JOHN NEW PORT gave notice,in a very lovi tone of voice, that on Tuesday, the Bth of March, be should move for leaver to bring in a Bill limiting the Plurality of Benelloes in Ireland. t' Them — were also atv ARMY ESTIMATES. - Lord PALI%IRRSTON merely rose to state•to the Rouse, that it was net his intention to go into tbt•detiih of the Army Esti mates this evening ; but merely to take a vote on account, for the present, of one million. On this day wetk, (Friday nest)•he should lay before the House, a full statement of the sums required felt the Military force of the Country; in order that the Houle might now proceed with the Order of the Day for the 'third 'Wading - or the frisk Unlawful Association therefore moved, that' the House resolve itself into a COMMITTNN 07 SUPPLY. The Sesame* having WI the Chair, Lord PALMERSTON moved that a sum not ex. Padang one million sterling begramedlo kis Majesty, for defray sbg the charges of the Army, &c. Colonel DAVIES intended to oppose the incvease of the Army, unless its-necessity were satisfactorily shewn by the Noble Lord—unless the Noble Lord could make" out a strong case demanding such an augmentation.-'.; What be meant by a strong case was, that the Noble Lord should: grove, on Friday next, that the additional troops demanded were necessary to support the system of liberal foreign policy, which Ministers had adopted. In that case he was sure not only the„ House but the country were ready to thew the Holy Alliance that we were determined to maintain the independence of chair Statue which we bad recognised.—The vote was then agreed to. Mr. BANKES moved that a sum not exceeding 15,4001. be granted to his Majesty, to defray the expenses of the British Museum for ive quarters, from the 25th December, saes, to the 26th March, 1826. Mr. CROKER did not rise to oppose the vote, but to remind the Committee of a subject to which he had last year, on a similar occasion, called their attention.— He was perfectly sure that the Custodees of the British Museum were disposed to discharge their duty most scrupulously; but he must again 'Observe, that the, price of the catalogue which they were now publishing, and which ought to be acceptable to poor scholars, was much too extravagant. The catalogue was, in fact, the key to the library of the Museum, and tb place a price on it of six or seven guineas, wail to prohibit all but the afiluent from its use. Four or five hundred pounds. would obviate the difficulty, and he was sure no sum would be more readily voted by Parliament when it went to effect so great a public good. He should not press the matter till the King's Library was added to the present coiketion; but he could not let any opportunity pass of drawing attention to so important a consideratioa. Mr. BANKES said, that the Trustees had resolved to reduce the price of the catalogue to its first cost, namely, that of printing, paper, kc. but they still found it would amount at least to four guineas, which was certainly too much for the public generally. They sheeld set, however, less algtt of the subject hereafter. Mr. HUME referred to the 'peat number of persons who visited the British Museum during the last year, and expressed a desire that Tuesday and Thursday, or at least Tuesday in each week, might be thrown open to the public, as %%ell as Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Many persons who came to town horn the country, found it inconvenient to remain a day, in order to gala admission into that establishment. Mr. BANKES said, that many distinguished fo 'ireigners and others were accustomed to visit theMusesm ea private days, and that to send such persons in with she general crowd would, he thought, be indecorous. Mr. HUME would merely observe, that he consi ,.deled if two days were too little for the few, three days were certainly insufficient for the whole community beside. He submitted that feat days ought to be appropriated to she public—(Hear). Ms. CHOKER laid no store by the argument about foreigners (Hear, hear,) but ha considered it absolutely .necessary that students, and othdr persons who went, to the Museum for similar purposes, should not be 'disturbed by an indiscriminate crowd. The Hon. Member (Mr. 1-lume) had stated that if Tuesday were to the public, two ptivate days would still rue main, bat be (Mr. Croker) wide/snood that one day (Saturday) was employed in clewing the home, Ste. . Mrs BANK ES, jun. made a few observations relative to Mr. Sales collection of Egyptian curiosities, and' recommended that the House should recompense that Gentleman for his trouble.—The Vote was then agreed to. .Mr. HERMES moved that a sum not exceeding £lOO,OOO be granted toe Civil Contingesties. 1 Mr. HUME enquired if the Hon. Member, the Se cretary for the Colonies, were repased to lay before the Home, certain Accounts which had been ordered Lift year? Mr. WILMOT-HOR*ON repien, that some of those Accounts, es for example, that relative to the Mauritius, were not yet ready to submit to Parliament. —The Vote was agreed to, atter which the House resumed, and the Reports as ordered to be brought up on Monday next. AUOCIATIONS IN IRELAND. Mr. cotri.strict: mowed the mite a the day for the thin rading of the Irish tirdawful Associations Bill. ..... e. Mr. LEYCESTER thought the ,preseat . -*mulct drive dre'Alsociation to assume a:more - form Mishit elsa racter,and,that it theseforeenglinto be Weaned. in its voesent state. If the 4isseciatiett contittned, cintitholk i aniantipation could net be: delened, aid !leerily eann tkreti how the Right-ikinotstableend Darned-Utterney-t fieneval who approvid of that measuresoltmeh, could ,so.asst.thetround.from-underhis own feet—strike the weapon from , his own hand, -as he did by the present measure. The Orangemen thought the demolition of the Association was the destruction of emancipation; and would its friends join them in undoing their own work? Ia the present state- f Ireland, he-believed the' interference of the -Association in the administration:of the laws, indispensable to the purposes, of justice. They were the only friends of a destitute multitude. The pre sent Bill made h criminal for any man to assist another in defending himself. • Thus Government, who would not undertake the'effice, Were truly like 'the-dog in the manger—they would neither be charitable themselves, nor allow others to be so. As to the expression " hate" in the Address, he had yet to learn that good could not be extracted from evila-that a flower 'was not to be gathered from a thistle. The Right Hon. Secretary (Mr. Canning), he thought undervalued his own power and popularity, for he (Mr..Leycestei) believed both to begreat. It was said of one of the ancients, that he could raise 36,000 men , bythe stamp of his foot; but the Right Honourable Gentleman, by one stir of his foot on that side of the House, could raise six millions of his fellow subjects to the rank of freemen, and his country to the pinnacle of greatness: • • Mr. SPRING RICE should not'abuse the indulgence of the House by enlarging upon the various pointsl connected with this Bill, which had already been dis • - cussed. His observations would- be confined to the nature of the Bill immediately under consideration. In his opinion, instead of destroying, it would confirm the• power of the Association. In stating this, he was guilty of no inconsistency, for he must always deplore that such a state of things should exist in any country, as to render it necessary for any body of men to usurp : the power of the Legislature, and wield the force of the nation. The Honourable Member then adverted to the circumstance; under which the Convention Act was passed in Ireland, and denied that the Catholic Asso ciation had evaded -it or any law. What that Act had not expressly prohibited was legal, and with the present Bill the Catholics would act as they did with the one it professed to extend and amend. One thing more he would impress upon the House. lie begged- their attention to one clause of the Bill, and he felt assured, as soon as pointed 'out, it wriold'heeejeCted. He should trespass on the House to read it.—" And be it further enacted, that it shall -and may be lawful Wand for any , Mayor, Sheriff, or Justice of the Peace, and they are hereby respectively authorized, empowered, and re quired, within his and their respective jurisdictions, to 'command all meetings, bereinbefore declared to be unlawful assemblies, immediately to disperse; and if , any such meeting shall not thereupon immediately di:. perse, to apprehend all persons offending in that behal4 and to demand admission into any house, outshouse, or office, Where they shall respectively /lave good reason to believe that such unlawful assembly shall be, and if refused, to enter biforce."—(Hear, hear). Somethin& analogous to this tnight,-perhaps, be found in the Penal Laws of Ireland, but he was convinced nothing like it I ever existed in the lawsof England. Would the House consent that any one Magistrate--any one 'lrish Ma gistrate, should have the power, for what he might , deem "good reason," without iesponsibility,to force into the sanctuary of private life, and violate all the rights and privileges of free-born subjects ?—(Hear). He would state to the House a few facts, to shew the sort of persons to whom . that authority was to be delegated. He should refer no farther back than the year INS, and the occurrences Which took place on the Leinster Circuit of that year. The first case occurred near Clonmel, where a pinion of the tame of Connell brought an action against a Magistrate, a Mr. Faulk ner, for false imprisonment. It appeared on the trial that Colwell had been employed to serve a civil process on Mr. Faulkner—that he refined to take off his hat When ordered to do so by the latter, and in consequence he was arrested under the Insurrection Act and committed to gaol. The Hon, Member then adverted to the address of the Hon. end Learned Member for New Ross (Mr. Dohertg and also the charge of the Judge who presided. next noticed a case of man slaughter in the county ot Wexford, and read an to tract from the summing up Of the Lord Chief Justice of the Irish Court of King's Bench, which he insisted was more inflammatory, if taken without the context, than anything ever uttered in the Association. Another instance of the conduct Of the Magistracy took plate at Tallow, in the County of Waterford, *hen a man was confined for fifteen weeks in Bridewell, by his landlord, as a means of obtaining his surrender of a lease, and only discharged when it was threatened to expose the affair. It was creditable to the Gnvernnent that they removed incompetent and obnozioui persons front the Magistracy. But still it would not be said that the Magistracy of Ireland were fit to be trusted with the powers , vested in them by this Bill. Even if they were as pure as the Magistracy of England, or of Utopia, he would not trust them with such powers. He hoped they would never hear again in that House of the fair administration of the Insurrection Act, after they had it upon record, thatthete were no less than three cases of injustice and corruption against the Magistrates in the course of the present Assizes. One of the cases un der the Insurrection Act was that in which a Colonel Dempster was taken up by order of a Magistrate for 'being out at unseasonable hours, at a time when he was actually walking with his wife. An action was :brought against this Magistrate, and damages re , covered, and yet he was allowed to remain in the Commission of the Peace. He had the authority f the Honourable and Learned Member for New Boss (Mr. Doherty) to state that this outrage pro ceeded from private resentment. The Honourable' acid Learned Gentleman,• he believed, was Counsel for the plaintiff on that occasion. But the arbitrary powers of this Bill were to be vested not only in the Ma gistrates, but in the Sheriffs and Mayors of Ireland. Now, he asked the Right Hon. Attorney-General for Ireland, whether, from his experience of that body, chosen, as they were, from a list bearing the impress of King William, he thought they were calculated foe' the upright discharge of such powers ?—(Hear, hear). He protested, in the name of the House and his country, against the peace of Ireland being pat into such hand+. He had opposed this Bill throughout, because it would be prejudicial to his country. At the same time he was ready to give thd highest credit to the Irish Government for what they had done for Ireland. For that he awed them his gratitude, and willingly tendered his thanks. His hostility, hcroreyer, to this Bill was ROE les coed on t hat account, and he felt it hi. duty tb tnove as an Amendment upon the Original Motion, that it be read that day six months. Mr. DOHERTY said, he rose under circumstances ' of great embarrassment to repel a charge which, were it well founded, would render bite undeserving, not only of the name of kiend,_ which the Honourable Member for Limerick (Mr. S. - Wet had "applied to him, but of holding a seat inthat He alluded to the charge brought against :him, _not for the - first tune, by that Honourable Member. In the sourse of `his speech he had said, that he wished he (Mr. Doherty) instead of giiing them the evidence of others, had,givert them the evidence of his own esperience in the adminis; tration of justice in Ireland, derived from his Jabbers* "as a Barrister upon the Leinster Circuit. He also tact 'gone on to add, and 'in *another cal;acity, klitown t# `him and' me." Now, if this language meant anything? it meant that he (Mr. Doherty) had sought to insprsi. 'upon the House in opinion unsuppoited by, evicieneii and unfounded in truth. This insinuation he .indigs Dandy repelled. 'Before he had the honotir of a' seatie that House, about two - years ago, he had' seen a Petition presented by'the Honourable and Learned :Ptiernber‘fire Winchelsea (Mr. Broughatn), containing grave charges against the administration of the laws in Irehand,ide claring that the fountains of justice were poisoned, nod its streams perverted. With reference to this, he'lnei taken the first opportunity of stating in that 'Houle, that as far as he had had opportunities of judging, the administration of justice was pure ; that there was bat one law for the rich and the poor, the Protestant and the Catholic. He spoke this from the experience of seventeen years in the Courts of Ireland— (icar). Again, when the Catholic Association put forth a sweeping denunciation against the laws, declaring that there was no justice in 11eland except for the rrivilegediew, he had repeated his denial. He had done this unit warmth. and he would tell the House why. All the other topic's of grievance put forth by the Catholic Association faded ii* insignificance before this one of partiality in the ad..' • ministration of the laws. In that country it operated like a firebrand, to rouse the peasant to outrage and revolt. if he should disprove this assertion, he hoped Honourable Gentlemen opposite, would give up this un worthy slander, which of late had been so industriously propagated. The opinion of Sir John Davis.upon the Irish people was, 14 that there is no ration under the sun who love equal and impartial justice so much as the Irish." Such was his opinion of the Irish people. They were unchanged since the days of Sir john Davis, and therefore be (Mr. Doherty) said, that without Ca tholic Emancipation they could live peaceably ; but revolt and rebellion would be the consequence of per. suading them that the administration of justice was' unequal. Now, with respect to the passages which the Honourable Member for Limerick (Mr. S. Rice)' had brought against him for his speeches delivered in the character of an advocate in Court, he must say, he did not think that mode of dealing with a legal Memberof that House altogether fair. When he entered the doors 'of that House, lie threw away the advocate, and'thought 'only of how he should best give his vote with honesty— (Hear, hear). With- respect 'to what he should do as an advocate in Court he referred him to the Honourable and Learned Member for Winchelsea (Mr. Brougham), for-instructions on that head. He should indeed be surprised if his consistency were to be impeachedrbe cause, in the course of one Circuit, •they could set one Speech against another to the destruction of each Other —(A laugh). But what had the cases which ,his Hon. Friend had brought forward proved ? One was, that a Magistrate, having isjured a poor man, was struck off the list of Magistrates. Did this prove that there sous: no justice for the poor man in Ireland ? That he under's stood to be one of the positions of his lion. Friend.---- Another csise was thatsf Colonel Dempster, for whom.. he was Counsel. He knew he had said in that capacitr that there was some private pique between the plaintiff and defendant, but there was not the shadow of evidence in support of the assertion—(A laugh).—The fact was, that the Magistrate was a Scotchman, nearly two years resident in Ireland. Walking the streets after the hour prescribed by the Insurrection Act,'and seeing a Gentles man, a half-pay Officer, abroad, he took mit his watch, and finding by it that all poor people were in bed, he thought the impartial administration of justice required that be should ,put the Act in force against this indivi dual. Now, did this case prove that the law was not for the rich as well as the poor in Iceland?—f Hear,frier). The plaintiff recbvered damages against the Magistratk, because he had 'matted to furnish himself with a copy of the Duidia Gintiti, which was required by the Act: to be the only eOidence admisSible of the district beia( under the Insurrection Acts So that if the Chaneollhe of Ireland had :truth that Magistrate off the list, it would have been for not having is copy of the DA. lin Gettdte. The third ease to which his Honour able Friend had alluded, was that of Mr. Faulkner.— That case, he believed, was one in whieh a 000 T thin recovered large damages against a Magistrate for a hi el term of false imprisonment—another of the Hon. Gen tleman's chosen proofs of.the maladministration of the laws in Ireland, and that there was one law for the pith, and another for the poor—(Hear, hear). The Hon. Gentleman had alluded to something very significantly, as though it were a secret between them. He believed, it was with reference to his duties as one orthe Com- auslsoners of Inquiry into the fees taken in Courts tsf Justice. Now, whatever confidence he might fiave in the Honourable Gentleman hi other respects, there was note between them in this. Whatever abuse canto ...to his knowledge, appeared in his Report, and became fhe prciperty of the public.. He *at not obliged to seek favour from the heads of his profession, and he would never•stoop to slander for the gratification of the popes lar appetite. With respect to the praise bestowed upon the Chief Justice of Ireland, it reminded hilts of the observations of some one to another, who strati •ery loud end pompons in his praise of Herculets , 6" Who said anything against Hercules 7' —( A latigh.)- , -Se he UM of the Chief Justice ; the rare conturrente of all parties in Ireland in doing justice to his talents and integrity, rendersol any of the panegyrics they had lately heard iu that House useless awl out of place—(Hear, bear). Mr. SPRING RICE declared that he never meant to impute to the Hon. Member anything like being actn— ated by personal feeling. Mr. ALEXANDER BARING still hollered, that ii, the present state of party, the impartial administrant* of justice in Ireland was impossible. The ease had always been as he stated it, and must confined to be so, in every time, And iti every country. He did not believe that it would have been possible to get justice in Ifeland, either in the late cases, brought forward the mbar day by the Right Honourable Attorney- CieneM, or in the proceedings that 6: iginated out of the wadi. kit the theatre upon the L6td Lieutenant. tifhla the' areal question of Catholic claims remained moistly