The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-18 00:00:00

THE BELFAST DIBTIIEBANOEB.

On the motion few grief fate committee of supply,
Sir H. CAIRNS, in moving for ppm and collies the
Wien= of the home to the eirounsteness convected with
the communion of inquiry into the meat disturbances at
Bel and to the adminietratioe of the law against party
presemissa in Ireland, templained that at the thus at the
ACM is that town the Irish ethentive was rthreesebeil
solely by Sir George Brown, the comemedarda-
c and that the subsequeut issue of • cantab-
iles 'of inquiry bad revived ill-will in the town,
and prejoed the case as the prisoners who
were awaiting their trial. He also Wok theeptioa to the
°Destitution of the commission, and icausaa that the !e-
-quity had both conducted by the tionunimieesth and the
Lw adini by the authorities laDahlia CeeklN le•
ctioand uakteredtak With mud to the ey et
somatheimas of inquiry at all, be did not meth tory
that were illegal, bat if they obstructed the adminis-
tration of justice they become ummerlitutioeth He believed
there hod been • west of &mums, impartiality, aod withren
oe the part of the Irish govermneet, and that the revolt
was • grave and serious miscarriage and failure in ithe ad.
ministration e/ the law. The question be wished to ask the
Chief Smithery were--Seat, when the report of the Gem.
miasma would be laid before the house; and. out, whether
the commission was hated by Sir George Brown or by the
lords justices. With reprd to the law as to promesiows ia
Indeed, he feared that bath in the administration of that
law and to this inquiry there had been some west
of firmness, impartiality. and wisdom oa the part
of the Irish government. He had beard coup
pleiate *pia and again of the west of legie-
lanai for Ireland. He did not admit the justice
of all those complaints, bat what was • great deal wane
was the bad eduaboistration of the laws they already pm-
owed. Nothing could be more gullies to an intelligent and
high spirited people time any attempt to administer the law
differently for different months of the ooromthity He be-
lieved that what was said by Sir John Davie in the interest.
log amount of his travels in Ireland 250 years ago was true
still. He void—„Them is so people mbar the man that dash
better lore indiffereet Patios, or will rest better satisfied with
the execution of the law, though it may be against them-
selves, no that they have the protection and benefit of the law
whoa they deserve it." (Hear.) He (Sir 11. Cairns) trusted
that awe these matters they would bare some 'automatics
from tie right hon. inmost, or her Majwity's government.
Certainly, if they had not, he maid Mike that °twits**
of catering his protest against that which he could not
avoid militia • pave and serious failure and rotharriage in
the administration of the law. (Cheers.)
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Sir R. PEEL argued that on public grounds it would I
bare been better bad the motion and speech of the hon.
sod teemed geetleman been postponed until a more oppor-
tune moment, which would have preeented itself whoa the
commissioners bad made their report. He maintained that
the conduct of the government in the adminietration of the
law relating to part, procemioes is Ireland had been strictl
oonetitutinal and thoroughly impartial, and this be
on the authority of the opinion of thelate Attorney-General
for Ireland. It was not with the government that theMense
for what had occurred at Belfast really rested. The hon. and
lensed gentleman knew as well as he did that the loaf
magistrates of the place entirely failed in their duty, and
the lord lienteeent of the county in the town of Belfast
itself had bad the bolder to mien that if the mayor had
remained, and the local magietratie bad done their duty,
the disturbances would have bees suppressed la a few
Lien. Tie right hon. baronet also excused the absents of
the Lord Lisateeset of Wand, the Lord Chancellor sad
himself from the ecinatry at the time of the riots, nod ad-
mitted that in then alimentation Gee. Sir G. Brown wee
the only lord justice present, and that upon him aloe.
devolved the duty of issuing the eemmiasioa of Linn.
So far as the conduct of the commissioners was concerned,
its perfect impertietity and fairness had been testified to
f. court by a leading member of the corporation of
Belfast. The line came of the discord that prevailed In
the north of Inland was the religions animosity and into-
lerance which pervaded the two there, end to this It
wee that be attributed the "cal ebullitions which had
narked the remit history of Belied. With regard to the
report of the 0001111i1•100•114 it would be laid apes the
table' with the evidence, in the muse of a few days.
Lord 0. HAMILTON dialed that the north of Ireland
was the seat of religious discord, or that the seise eseterisa
dislike existed there am formerly. He charged the gees's-
meet with gross partiality is administering the Party
Prommisma Act, and declared that whilst a hundred Lunen
might be bone with impunity by a hundred thoesend men
on the occasion of Lying the fondatiou nese of the
O'Clownell monument, if a nails banner were mimed he
Ulster by half a dozen boys, the Utter would be presented
forthw th.
Mr. M'MAIION wggseted that goverment would be
well to legislate for Inland se they would for an
county, and prelimiaary to that step abolish the
viceroyalty.
Mr. WHTTESIDE urged that a more micensillutlonal
act could et have bete entesittad than for Mr G. Bonn,
or any other anis perms. to knee the ceennieloe, end te
amuse an antheeity which did net Woe( to the mreereign
' handf. The swarm would have Wm, after a ems-
, ' tala time a
" sad tie public eudienteM hell
II abated, le hoe plea esuadehia for the Wel eh the