The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-06 00:00:00

ROUSE OF COMMONS— Last Evening.

The SPEAREU took the chair at four o'clock.
NEW MEMBERS.
Sir Roundell Palmer, the Attorney-General; Sir R. P.
Collier, the Solicitor-General; took the oaths and their
seats on their re•election respectively for Richmond and

Plymouth.
THE COURT-I‘II.RTIAL ON COL. CPA.WLEY.
Mr. FORT. ESCUE asked the Under Secretary of State
for War whether he would lay upon the table of the
house the proceedings of the late court martial on
Colc:mei Crawley, together with the plans referred to in the
evidence : and whether, with a view to the elucidation of

such plans, an opportunity would be afforded to members
of Ch:; house of inspecting the models produced before the

court martial.

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The Marquis of HARTINGTON slid it was not desir-
able generally to lay proceedings of courts-martial before
the house, but under the peculiar circumstances of the
present cas', if the honourable member would move for
the production cf the documents in question, they as well
as the plans would b 3 laid on the table.

MALTA
Sir G. 130 WYEE, asked the tinder Secretary of State for

the Colonies whether Government had received a petition
from Malta, praying for reforms in the constitution and
government of the island ; and whether it would be laid

before Parliament ?
Mr. C. FORTESCUE had not heard of any such hav-
ing been received, or being expected to be received.
Sir L. PALK asked the President of the Board of Trade

'whether a cargo from a Prussian port, consigned to an

English merchant, on English account, would be respected
in case of capture, so that it might be reshipped in an. Er.g-

fish ship ?
Mr. M. GIBSON said that the case referred to a cargo
on board of a Prussian vessel. He supposed Denmark
was a party to the declaration of the treaty of Paris, by
which goods of a neutral country under a foreign flag would

be respected by that country.
THE ADDRESS TO THE ROYAL SPEECH.
Lord RICHARD GROSVENOR brought up the report
on the Address to the Royal Speech, which was read.
Mr. WHITESIDE objected to that portion of the
conder's speech which spoke of the internal prosperity of

the empire, although he bore testimony to his high ability.
flow oculd that apply to Ireland ? He quoted the words
of Lord Macaulay as to the vast importance of Ireland to
the Imperial interests, before which dwarfed all cur colo-
nial possession?. He alluded to the statements of the
right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer last
year relative to the state of Ireland, which he described as
much depressed as it was painful. He cited the state-
ments of other gentlemen to show that the prospects of the
country had undergone no improvement. He described
the leg;slation of the right hon. gentleman (the Chan-

celior of the Exchequer) on two important branches
of production which affected land, namely, distil-
leries and paper, as most injurious. He quoted statis-
tics furnished by certain paper manutasturers in Ireland
in suppait of his argument. Two of those paper manufac-
turers resided in Galway and the county of Cork. The
result was that a large number of persons were thrown oat
of employment. The emigration from Ireland between the
years 1841 and 1863 was 2,718,567, and that emigra-
tion was increasing. Mill was a political economist
of great ability, from whom they might differ, and whom
tt, was often difficult to answer. According to his
theory cottiers or possessors of only one acre should
be displacsd, which would amount to 40,000 such posses-
sors and thsir families, and if the same principle was
extended to holders of five acres, 14,000 with their families
would be expelled from the land. If the doctrine were
still further extended it would depopulate the country to
th:: extent of 2,000,000. (Hear, hear.) After some
further observations to the same point ho thought
that there should have been some expression of sympathy
for the suiPrers in Ireland, similar to that with respect
to Manchester. He had no hope of improvement from
the efforts of the local government in Ireland. The
right hon. gentleman having referred in humorous terms to
the statement of the member for Stroud (Mr. Horeman) when
Secretary for Ireland, that he had nothing to do, next
adverted in the same strain to Sir Robert Peel, wham
he described as having dashed into the country,
and represented himself like Julius eraser to the Senate.
Veni, midi vici, (Laughter.) He deprecated the exclusion
from the Government of Ireland of its native property and
intelligence.
Sir R. PEEL was sorry hie right hons friend had not
adopted the recommendation made by the leader of the Op-
posit,on, and abstained from introducing a controversy on
the address in answer to the speech from the throne. Al-
lusion had been made to what it was asserted had been the
subject of common conversation in the Four Courts at
Dublin, and his right hon. friend had drawn an amusing
picture of what he wished the house to believe was the state
of the Government officers in Ireland. He (Sir R. Peel)
would earnestly assert his belief that those matters were
not so bad as had been stated. With reference to the sub-
ject referred to there might no doubt have been some insig-
nificant difference of opinion among the members of the Go-
vernment ; but as regards the members of the local govern-
most in Ireland he could assure the house there was very
little truth in the statements made by his right hon. friend.
(Laughter.) Reference had also been made to some gossip
about an " Old Tory." His right 'hon. friend might surely
have abstained from introducing a subject of that kind in a
discussion like the present. In reply to the assertion that
Ireland was governed by Larcom and the police, he begged
to remind his right hon. friend that General Larcom held
the post he now so ably occupied during the time his right
lion, friend was in power. The right hon. gentleman was
wrong in his statistics respecting the number of emi-
grants. The truth was that, between. 1851 and 1863
about 1,400,000 emigrated from the country. He we