The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-30 00:00:00

BOROUGH OF LAMBETH.

Last evening a highly-respectable company of between two
and three hundred gentlemen, gave a dinner to Messrs. Ten-
nyson D'Eyncourt" ald Hawes, the representatives of the
borough; \V. A. Wilkinson, El., in the Chair.
The hating been 'rem:vett, and the u=ual local tolsts
The CHAIRMAN gave, " Her Majesty's .Ministers, and may
their m..,asures deserve the confiktiee of the l co•ide."—'llns
toast was drunk with thee dines three.

The CHAIRMAN said, that the business of the evening' was
to celebrate the return of their guests, the two Members for
the borough, to Parliament.. It would ill become him to
speak of the merits of their representatives ; they were better
known to them than to him ; they were not new men in the
borough, but old, tried, and faithful servants—they had been
advocates of the rights of the people. and had rot
given a single vote which their constituents could disapprove
if. lie proposed the h&alth of Messrs. Hawes and
court. The toast was re:Tived with the greatest enthusiasm.
When the applause suLsiled,
Mr. Hawes came forward and said that he was not •arts..

i us to detract from the mu -its of a Ministry which liad
been the means of accomplishing so much for ttie
He did not forget the services which they ',lad rendered to
the cause of religious freedom, nor- could thay themselves
be insensible that they hal gained credit wit,' the coun-
try for what th"y had already dune in con:olidating ti.e
rights of the people., .. Ile wait anxious to express himself
in those terms tovra.-ds. the. Ministry, in order to prepare
the way for the subsagnent remarks which he should feel
it his duty to make, and that h 3 might be free to censure
the late exhibition which Lord John Russell had made in
Parliament His Lordshi2 had (for reasors wh'eh he could
not attempt to describe, for ho ayes at a loss to imagine
what they were). the daring to desert • the cause of the
people ; the people would not on that steecu edesert Wm.
He had, however, promised to improve the Reform Bill in i s
detei!s, to amend the defects in the mode of registering the
votes of the constituency, and to alter the clauses which en-
forced the payment of rates as a qualificatioa for enfranchise-
ment. —( Hear, hear.) These would be imrolt int invr,ve-
ments, which he knew how to value and apprciate ; but he
felt it to be the duty of their representafves t 3 point out the
course which they intended to pursue wider the circum- •
stances ; and he. felt it to be 1 eculiarly the duty of those who
acted an independent parr, and who would rot be influ-
enced by factious feelings. He would support them when
they were right, and he would oapos3 th-ra ei h. n they were
wrong.—( El: a-, hear.) From old recolle,::ions he was free
to coefess that he was more anxious to support them th in
to o:Ter them opposition. The objection made against the
Reformers was, that the more that was granted to them,
the more they would demand. It was painful that this
should emanate from a member of the Cabinet ; it Ives the
more surprising, as the Ministry had taught the people to look
forward to further improvements. The people demand the
Ballot, and he would ale by what right or by what fair de-
ductions could the extension of the franchise be connected as
a necessary consequence with the vote by Ballot ? They only
sought protection for the exercise of a political right, to be ef-
fected by means not injurLus to the institutions of the coun-
try. The Ballot, as a writer in the Examiner uell expressed
it, " was the protection of public opinion against power ; "
they demanded protection for their votes, and they would
wring it from the Ministry.—( Cheers.) '1 her would also
demand an extension of the franchise, and a she:l:ter dui ation
of Pad ament. Lord-John Russell himself had no objection
to shorten it by two years, but his Lordship was afraid of a
change. He wi,hed to see the Church based upon enlightened
principles, and not -supported by taxes levied upon their bro-
ther Christians. He wished to do as he would be done by.
The Hon. Member sat down amidst long-continued cheering.)
Mr. TReaNYSON D'EYNCoURT then came forward, ant,
having co.nplimented Mr. Hawes upon the able speech he
hal made, said he was happy to meet with such a respect-
able assembly of his constituents in a district which was
the str,mg-hold of the Teri: s in the borough, yet there, at
the last election, he and his colleague had a majority cf
two hundred. Tho support which he had received was to
be attributed to the- recollection of his forme: services.—

( Hear, hear, hear.) For his pa: the was not surprised at the
declarations which had been recently made : he was one of
those birds of evil omen who, during the discussion of the
Reform Bill, advocated Hou.sehold Suffrage. He did so in a
speech which he delivered on the 30th March, 1830. He
th n thought that would be the just medium at which the
elective franchise should rest, and he was of the same opinion
still. He was a late culvert to the Ballot, for he hated se-
crecy; but when he saw the means resorted to to coerce
the 501. copyholde►s, he thought the protection of the
Ballot necessary, for he held that what the la.v gave a man
he had a tight to use freely. Their representatives could do
nothing within the walls of Parliament, unless they were
supported•from without, an] he therefore called upon them
to be urgent and instant in their demands for the three mea-
sures Which a Minister of the Crown had denounced. His

Honourable CoPe Igue had said that it is the duty of your re-
presentatives on this occasion to declare to you aai.t the
course which they intend to follow. I can assure you that no
personal consideratkns, not even the highest honour which
the Crown could bestow, would ever induce me to give a
single vote cont: ary to my bounden duty to you, or to my own
feelings in the great cause of public liberty. The Right lion.
Gentleman coneludeil.a.very able sp^ech, sshich our limits will
not allow us to report at greater length.
Messrs. Buller, Clay and Lushington, hating addressed

the company, and the health of the Chairman and Seere!ary
( Mr. Buckler), being drank, we left the mecting in the enjoy-
ment of a social entertainment.

THE IRISH SOCIETY.

A grand dinner was given yesterday by the Irish Society to
the Earl of Mulgrave and Lcrd Morpeth, to congratulate them
upon their re-appointment by her Majesty to the important
offices of Lord Lieutenant and Chief Secretary of Ireland.
The Chair was taken by Sir Matthew Wood, the Governor
9f the Society ; John Ebenezer Davias, Esq., the Secretary
of the Society, acted as Vice-Chairman ; and Wm. Richard-
son, Esq. (the Deputy Governor), and Sir Claudius Stephen
Hunter assisted the Chairman on the right and left. Inde-
pendently of the Earl of Mulgrave and Lord Morpeth we saw
at the chief table Sir Robert Ferguson, M. P. ; More °Ter-
rell, Esq., M. P. ; R. Currie, Esq., M. P. ; J. Gibson, Esq.,
M. P. ; Sir Charles Style, M. P. ; Ncrman M'Donald, Esq. ;
and Lieutenant-Colonel York.
When the cloth was removed, the CHAIRMAN, in a short
but energetic speech, proposed " The health of the Queen."
The toast was drunk with three times three, and followed
by many rounds of hearty applause.
Other loyal toasts followed, after which the CIIAIRMAN pro
posed " The health of his Excellency the Earl of Mulgrave."
The toast was drunk with three times three, and followed
by many rounds of applause.

The Earl of MULGRAVE trusted he need not assure the
company that he was not insensible either to the warm expres-
sion of their kindness to. him personally, or the flittering allu-
sions which had been made to his public conduct in the high
office which it had pleased her Majesty to confer upon him.
It was with peculiar feelings that he remarked the striking
difference between the place in which he had the honour of
addressing the company, and that part of the United Kingdom
with which he was by office connected. Contrasted with any-
thing to be found in Ireland, he cool l not conceive anything
more distinct than the small spot of mother earth upon wl.t:h
was reared the rich and unrivalled C:ty of London. The en-
couragement of industry, the progress of intelligence, the
public spirit of her citizens, the universal extension of
benevolent and kindly feelings between man and man, had
made the City of London not only a blessing to the
land to which she belonged, but the admiration of the
whole civilized world—( Great applause)—and when he con-
trasted the condition of that hitherto unfortunate portion of
the empire which had been entrusted to his care with the
prosperity of the City of London—when he considered
the great national capabilities with which heaven bad
endowed the kingdom of Irelatid--when he looked at the
state in which she had hitherto been left, in spite of those ca-
pacities, merely by the neglect of man—( [lear, hear)—when
he considered this, remembetino. at the same time that the
Irish Society had at all times done all they could to correct
the evils under which the whole country was labouring, he
could not but hail the banquet of that night as an indication
of their disposition to continue their efforts for the im;trove-
ment of the Sister Gauntry, nor could he fail tc cherish the
recollection of the•day as a pledge that they would, collec-
tively and individually, exert every means in their power to
direct the industry and capital of London, which abounded to
an overflow, towards the further improvement of a country
which they had already and materially benefitted. He would
not at that time enter Wither into the discussion of a subjr'ct
which belonged more to the calm consideration of the phlo-
sopher in his closet, than the hasty comment of a speaker
at a convivial meeting.—( Applause.) He would add but one
word more, and he begged them to believe him sincere
when he uttered it a more convenient season tivy should
any of them be dispoied to avail themselves of the invitation
which he then cordial), gave the-n, to present themselves
where he should be in a situatian to return their hosptility,
he sbould be most happy to see them—( Greet cheeting)—
aad he could assure them that ho should then, as now, hive
the heartiest pleasure' in drinking all their good healths.—
( Continued e..eering.)
Sung, Mr. Broadhurst—" And does not a mccting like this
make amends." •
The CHAIRMAN then proposed ",‘‘ The health of Lord Mar-
p. 6, the Chi.! Secretary for Irelind."_.(CheKs.)
T'ne health was drunk with all the honours.
Viscount Monrwrii could with truth as,ure the company
that it \la:. a seurce of great pride and gritifica'ion to him to
have been so entertained upon such an ozcasion awl lv knoh a
company.—( Loud chew ) The-e was only one observa-
tion connected with the internal affairs of Ireland which he
felt himself s,ifo in h:.‘arding; and to tlint:he would confine
hiniaelf,—( Hear.) Ile could not but rejoice in the connee,
tion which that Society established between that peat
me-
tropolis, the heart of the empire, and the r,mokst provinces
of Ireland, the abode of the poorest and most destitute of
their feilow countrymen-4 Applause)--a eonnoction which he
hoped was destined to perpetuale, as it was intended t i es-
tablish, a perfect identity of interest and union of kind and

friendly f,teling betw2cn the richest city and the poorest pro-
vinces i t the empire.—( Chev rs. ) However remote-the pro.
v'nces might be, he believed he could prescribe no more effica.
cious rem_.dy for the evils and diso•ders uhich were still suf-
fered to disturb the surfice, Ertl vitiat,s tl!e syst,m of the body
p6litic in Ireland than that all the la.dlords of that country,
whether Englishmen or -nttiVas, should imitate the cxami I ttin
udicicu; superintenlence.and liberal and excellent maiiage.
merit wh;ch had Ovays been exhibited in the opefatittni of the
Ir.sh Society.—(Great eheertug ) •
Th,.! CHAIRMAN next proposed " the health of ber Mlost)(4
Ministers." Thu toast was drunk with Much m)plause.
The Earl of .111tYLORAVN, In th-0 absence of his Right tie,n,
Friend the Charic,ller or the Richequer, who watt ig.:,pera.
tively called elsewhere, briefly returned thanks, I)eing uped
his legs, he wcv..ld not longer defer a toast vit'Ach he was upon
the point of giving when I e last addrirjied them, and which
l!e felt no im.onsiderable der r`': shame should have keen
oeferie I even for s ) short a tir.,o the health of the sv ortb7
Baronet, the Governor of 'Cue Society.—; Cheers.) • r.lO-
- the health Gl' Sir Matl...w WO3Ti within the
L'ndon, be would not add nnc wor,Y, eccan‘e he b iiira give iio
exprcs. ion to any le..iintet.t in Id; prais' which 04. by, did not
every one br them already feel.—( Api lause.. • -
Sir 71iATTI1EW Woof) returned thanks., --`Whether as the
Governor, or a humble mcn.her of the. F,ueiety, no man could
be more anxious or more de,iroua i)lan he was
.to carry out
every pcsiible measure for the Vuefit of Ireland.---(CheerF.)
The CHAIRMAN next proried " Prospet ity to ti.c trade and
commerce of Ireland,.",__lirunk with great applause.
Mr. MORE O'FIP:RALL returned thanks.
The Z..,'ltatitnarr next propose.l the health of Sir Robert
Fe guson,-lhe representative of the city of Londonderry, and
One -01" t trynts of th- Society.—(Chet rs. )
-

it R. FERGUSON b. iefly returned thanks. Amongs the
ty great a ivantagea that thn Society hnd conferred upon
e districts in which its pt.( petty was situated, one of the mo.t
mportant wal the recent establishmert of the agilcultival
school—an iastitution which derived its source. "v. JO), from
the liberatit/ of the Society, and which he would in.
sure imm date and lasting benefits, not ontSr *o the tenantry of
the Society, but to the country at large. A 3 one of their
tenants, he could only say he heartily a•egrett.id that his inte-
rest under them was so small. —(Cb-..ers. )
S. veral toasts followe I, wrongs. which were the healths of
" Mr. Alderman Harmer, and the other gentlemen who ha.l
acted as deputies of the Soci-ty in visiting Ireland."
The CIIA IRMAN then .t.reposed " The health of Mr-Stephen
Spring Rica, the son of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and late sheriff of the county of Limerick."
Mr. S. Ries: very briefly returned thanks.
As it was now approaching to midnight, the party broke up,
haying, as it would seem, derived much mutual satisfaction
from the splendid entertainment.

FRENCH VOYAGE ROUND THE
WORLD.

The Annoricain, a Brest paper, contains the following
account of the voyage of th.! Bonite, the first French ves-
serth-t has circumnarighteA the globe since the revolution

of uty : •
The sloop Bonile, armed with twenty-two 24 pounders,
an two 12-pouti,lors, and e.a.eyng a crew of 1.51 men,
under the command of M. Auguste Vaillant, Capitaine de
Corvette, left T,iulon on the Bth of Februa-ry, 1836. The
Bonitc carried nut Consuls to Chili, Ecuador, and the
Philippines, so that at the time of the departure of the
sleo,) the indit idu tls embaiked on hoard amounted in num-
ler to 162.

In order to render this vovage useful to the cause of
szience, Govetninent decided that the vessel should enm-
plete a vome ronnd the globe, and persons were put on
board qua:ifitid, in concurteuce with the officers, to satisfy
the (I,..nuands contained in the instructions drawn up by the
Academy of Seitnee. -• M. Gaudichaud, therefore, phar-
maceutic Professer to the Navy, who had previously sailed
round the world in L'Uranie, and M. Darondcau, hydro-
graphical. engineer, embarked on board the Bonite ; the
former to devote himself to botanical investigations, the
latter to occupy himself, along with the officers of the
sloop, with hydrographical woks, and observations of ter-
restrial magnetism.
We Iran also from the Ajinales Maritimes that to M. Ey-
doux, Naval Surgeon of the first class, and who sailed
round the world in the Favourite, Capt. Vaillant intrusted
the zoological section ; to M. Chevalier, Enseigne de Vais-
seau, the geological section ; and to M. Fouchard, an offi-
cer of the same rank, the astronomical department. M.
Lauvergne, who had been twice • round the world in the
Astrolabe and the Favorite, was engaged as draughtsman
to the expedition.

The B onite, on leaving France, proceeded to Cadiz, and
thence to Brazil. After a short stay at Rio Janeiro, she
visited Monte Video and the Rio de la Plata. After
leaving that. river she sailed alon; the coast of Patagonia
aad Terra del Fuego, doubled Cape Horn in the middle
of winter, and arrived at Valparaiso. The Bonite succes-
sivelY touched at Goblja, Lima, Payta, and reached Puna,
in GuayaTiil. From the latter port, Capt. Vaillant took
his departure for the Sandwich Islands. It was his inten-
tion, we are told, to have taken the Archipelago of the
Gallapagos on his way, in order to draw up a correct chart
of theso :islands, but the continual south and south-west
winds, and the strong currents from the north, prevented
him from putting into execution a design which would have
been most useful, the position of those islands being as yet
but imperfectly known.
The expedition, accordingly, proceeded towards the
Sandwich Islands. After visiting the ports of Karakakao
.and Kailana, in the island of Owyhee, the vessel repaired
to Honolulu, the capital of the kingdom, in the island of
Weds- On lea‘ing the Sandwich Isles the Bonite sailed
to the Phillippincs, traversing the Marianas, by the Chan-
nel of the Assumption. Captain Vaillant, having satisfied
himself that the Mangs rocks do not exist there, as some
navigators have imagined, continued his course to the Phi-
rppines. He arrived at Manilla in December, 1836, and,
having landed the consul, sailed for China. He made
Macao on the Ist of January, 1837, and after some stay
sailed for Cochin China ; he remained for some time at the
port of Touranne, and then sailed through the Straits of
Malacca.

The Bonite touched at Sincapore, whence she proceeded

to Malnca, and from the latter place to the Prince of
Wales's Island. Thence she continued her course towards

Ben gal, and sailed up the Ganges, to within 30 iniles of
Calcutta. Captain Vail!ant greatly regretted that his in-
structions prohibited his visiting the metropolis of British

ndia.

On leaving the Ganges, after having made most in-

teresting observations of terrestrial magnetism, the Bonile
sailed for Pondicherry, running along the coast of Orixa,
Golconda,. and Coromandel. After a tedious navigation
against the trade wind she arrived at the chief settlement
of the French dominions in India. Captain Vaillant there
caused all the scientific works to -be repeated, which had
been executed at every port where he made any stay since
leaving Europe. He then sailed for Isle Bourbon, where
he arrived on the 11th of July last.
Thus, at the end of eighteen months of an active and
most fatiguing navigation, the sloop had almost effected her
circuit of the globe ;- she completed it by returning to
France by the way of the Cape of Good Hope.
The voyage which the Bonile has just accomplished pre-
sents one most remarkable fact. Notwithstanding the
murderous climates she has visited, notwithstanding the

sudden transitions of temperature to which her crew has
been exposed, notwithstanding the activity of a navigation
frequently impeded by gales, tempests, and contrary winds,
she has not had to deplore the loss of a single individual
etnbarked on board of her, either among her nutnersus pas-
sengers, her officers, or her crew. No serious illness ma-
nifested itself, with the exception of some cases of scurvy
towards the close of the voyage.
This gratifying circumstance is principally due to the
enlightened plan acted on by M. Eydoux, Surgeon-Major,
to thl assiduous cares of the Second Surgeon, M. Souleyet,
and to the medical precautions constantly observed on
board of the vessel. Tile pet feet harmony which prevailed
among the officers and the crew, and the unceasing care of
the commander or the vessel, contributed also, no doubt,
to so satisfactory a result ; be succeeded in enforcing at all
times the most exact cleanlinrs•, and made his men dross
by night as well as by day according to the variations of the
thermem ter ; he kept th m c Instal t y occiipie 3, endeavoured
to procure them every comfort compatible with the con-
finement of a ship, and (a thing unheard of in the case of
a French crew) he never allowed them to land. The
greatest care was also taken to preserve the most scrupu-
lous cleanliness in the lower parts of the vessel, and to ex-
pel every offensive smell, constantly renewing the,air by
means of ventilators and perfumes.
- -

To have performed such a voyage without losing a single
man is a fact, which, considering the number of the crew,
will form an epoch in the maritime history of European
nations. Nor must we omit to obsezve that no accident
occurred to the vessel herself during the twenty-one months
of her absence from France.

Letters from Odessa mention that two cases of
plague had occurred in that city. It seems that a vessel laden
with wood had arrived frora the Danube. On the passage a,
woman had died. Oa the arrival of the vessel the crow were'
sent to the quarantine station,•where two of them died. SO.
veral parcels of merchandise, however, through the negligence
of the health officers, were allowed to Le landed, and among
other articles was a fur pelisse of the woman who had died.
This pelisse was hou&ht by a soldier belongiag to the Guards,
and by him carv-bml to the barrack, where two soldiers were
taken ;11 and died of the plague a day or two afterwards. All
vommurluation between tho barrack and the town NM
imme-
diately cut off, ani it had not been ascertained that any'ffesh
case had since occurred.

ISLS OF WIGHT.--A new Light House, which
3,000 L, i4,About be erected ,by the
cuff near End, not a great dia-
u here the ship Chi i-chtlon. was wrecked
w4tla'n:ilenecitofy:otl,3,uoip;:ri:demniditc?lefe
last sear. M.. 1 has kindly given a piece of land for
the purpose. Mr. Thoinas Dashwood, builder, of Ryde, has
the cult-net, and Mr. Carpenter, Mariner, the appointment
to reside in the house.—Ha„ipshirc Telegraph.

LONDON :
THURSDAY EVENING, NOYEMBER 30, 1837.

The HOUSE of LORDS did not sit yesterday.
In the HOUSE of COSIMONS the proceedings were not very
irnpot tant, and do not demand any rarticular notice here. The
House adjourned before five o'clock.

The Earl of MULGRAVE'S triumphant vindication
of the policy of the Irish Government has inflicted a
deadly blow upon the hopes of the Tories. They
have been beaten on the only ground upon which
they made sure of being able to embarrass, if not to
oust, the Ministry. The Ribbon conspiracies—the
political insurrections—the direful persecutions of
Protestants by Catholics— the complete subversion of
civil law and social order—the religious murders,
burnings, and other rebellibus outrages, which, accord-
ing to Lord RODEN and the organs of Toryism on
this and the other side of the Channel, formed the
staple of every day " Life in Ireland", since the ap-
pointment of Lord MCLGRAVE to the office of
Viceroy, were shown in the House of Lords on Mon-
day evening to be mere fictions of faction—the con-
coction of brains crazed in their eagerness to force
upon the country the curse of a Hanoverian Govern-
ment. The failure of Lord RODEN was miserable
beyond conception. He looked the very impersona-
tion of blank, purposeless despair, as the Noble
Viceroy proceeded to demolish his statements one
after the other, without either compromise or qualifi-
cation, in the very order in which they were made.
Indeed, we question whetter the Noble Earl suffered
more on the occasion of his being made a prisoner by
General HumBERT, when playing at soldiers in
1798, than he (lid during the debate on his
own motion, relative to the state of Ireland,
on Monday last. That the Noble Earl was
imposed upon by his Orange emissaries we have no
doubt ; for no man in his senses, much less a Peer of
the Realm, would put forth such absurd charges against
a GoVernment and a people without having some ra-
tional and palpable grounds upon which to rest them.
Lord RODEN stated it as his belief, that a Ribbon
conspiracy existed in Ireland whose ramifications had
extended, within the last year, through the provinces
of Leinster, Munster, and Connaught; that this So-
ciety was bound together by secret oaths to support
O'CONNELL in obtaining " justice to Ireland”--(an
object more patriotic than treasonable, and so far re-
quiring not 6e sanction of an oath of secrecy) ; that
for the use of this combination of conspirators a large
supply of arms had been exported from Liverpool to
Leland within the last fewmonths—a fact of which,
he alleged, Ministers were cognizant ; and that, as a
necessary consequence, Ireland was so disturbed by
political agitation that no Protestant's life was safe in
it. This grave statement was met by Lord Mur.-
G RA VE with the following unqualified declaration :

The Noble Lord says, from authority aceorclinr, to his
own statement, that there is in existence in Ireland a con-
spir tcv. My Lor,ls, I would ask whether there has not
been at all times in Ireland a combination with respect
to the tenure of I ind—(Cheers)—but I utterly deny that the
combination which at present exists is connected with any po-
litical object.—( Cheers. ) If such a combination upon
such a subject did exist, I would take care, if it carne before
me, to sift it to the hottam.—(hear, hear, and cheers )
'ne Noble Lord goes on to:mention a Society in Dublin. Me
Lords, I took occasion, bet'. :re I knew that I should have to
appear in your Lordships' House upon the annual inaugura-
tion of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, to explain to the Recorder
and the Judges that there did exist, not a political combina-
tion, but a combination among workmen of different trades,
which originated in Manchester.—( Ileac. hear, hear.) My
Lords, as to any importation of arms from Liverpce.l to
Ireland, I know not whence the Noble Earl derived
Lis information ; but it certainly did not occur while I was in
Ireland. I have been furnished with full intelligence
by those Members of tl.e Government who remained in
Ireland, and I beg to say that I do not believe it
to have been the case—( hear, hear.) My Lords, the
" tranquil:iLy" to which allusion was made in her Majesty's
Speech, and on which were founded certain recommendations,
I conceive to mean nothing else than a general domestic tran-
quillity, founded on the absenco of any insurrectionary move.
went. and of any political agitation—allow me to add, my
Lords—for never was Ireland so free from political -agitation
as at present.—( Hear, hear, and cheers )
Here, at one remorseless swoop, are three of Lord
RoDEN's cardinal charges against the Government
and people of Leland utterly demolished. There is
no political secret Society among the Catholic body—
there was no exportation of arms from Liverpool—and
Ireland, instead of being in a state of rebellious agita-
tart, was •‘ never so free froin political agitation as at
the prosent timae." On the subject of the murder of
.Protestants by Catholics, the Noble Viceroy was
erpially explicit•:—
, syby, ray Lords, I have the authority of many, who attend
to state that they believe there is no
the ass'zes in Ireland,
'actir thing as that of a man being murdered for his reli-
gion.- A man has been very often murdered from that
combination which existed in reference to the tenure of land ;
as bo has come intopossessio? of that land he may have been
Inurdercd, but it Las been simply a coincident that he has
teen &Protestant. A gentleman who has had great experience
,1104;slafisii-that it had been asSitted that homicides had chiefly
*taken place in Ireland r.,n account cf religion, but he denied
that such was the case. I do not believe that any person has
been anurdered in Ireland on account of his religion.
.Biticir as have been the feuds between Catholics and
Protestants, the history of Ireland will hear us out in
asserting, that since the accession of WILLIAM 111.
Owe has )lot been a murder committed in that coun-

try merely on account of a difference of creed. That there
have been murders of Catholics by Orangemen, and
of Orangemen by Catholics, is a fact admitted by
everybody ; but the cause of such crimes must not be
looked for in the religious tenets of either party. "They
sprung naturally from the lust of oppression on the one
side, and the thirst of re►^enge on the other. \Ye ►:ow ,
come to the Noble Viceroy's triumphant refutatio►► of
the statement of the Noble Earl, that at no period was
life and p►operty less secure in Ireland than at the pre-
sent moment :

My Lords, on enquiring at the Home Office, I found that the
Irish returns included all offences tried at Petty Sessions—
summary convictiens, every one of which were excluded horn
the English returns; and when we gut a corresponding rcturn
from the Home Office we found the summary convictions
amounted to 53,464. Certainly that applies to a state of law
which in many respects does not exist in Ireland. The Game
Laws, the Varrancy Laws, &e., but even taking of all that
we ought to add at least 20,000 to the 14;000 included in the
English returns, which makes 34,000, leaving to Ireland only
16,000. My Lords, considered relatively to the population, the
proportion is in England one to a thousand, in Ireland one to
eight hundred. The proportion, therefore, is so far unfavourable
to Ireland as four to five. But, my Lords, who that consi-
ders the ,Jt2te of society in Ireland, and the manner in which
it has been treated, and the circumstances ( I make no po'itical
allusion)cxis'ing in the destitution of masses of the porulation
can think that this is after all an unfavourable return ?—( Loud
cheers.) One other explanation, my Lords, as to these re-
turns-340 are stated as having been charged with mur-
der. Of these, 274 were found innocent or the bils
were ignored, 22 only were sentenced to death, and from 40
to 50 sere discharged. This seeming absurd, I found the
mistake was, I am sorry to say, a very common one in Ire-
land, where death often results from casual violence, the con-
fusion of manslaughter with murder. Thus it was that the
number of persons who suffered the punishment of death for
murder out of the whole 340 was only 22.
_ .

The Tories are welcome to make the most of this
trifling balance in the relative statistics of crime be-
tween England and Ireland. If they will take into
account the protection afforded to the destitute in
England by Poor-laws—the superiority of English
over Irish landlords—the absence of tithe campaigns
to support an alien Church—the non-existence of
such.an evil as land competition—and an entire free-
dom from the prescriptive tyranny of an anti-national
Orange faction—we believe they will be forced to ad-
mit, that, relatively speaking, the people of Ireland
are at present quite as peaceable as the vaunted popu-
lation of this country. It would be strange indeed if
the Tories, after all the mischief they have done to
Ireland—after all the misery and wretchedness they
have entailed upon her by bad laws badly adminis-
tered—after keeping her for centuries in a state of
bondage, and continuing to persecute and vilify her in
every way which their ingenuity can devise—after re-
fusing her the most wretched modicum of Church
Reform, Municipal Government, Poor-laws, and
every other measure calculated to improve the
moral and physical condition of her people—it
would, we repeat, be strange indeed, if the
Tories, after perpetrating so much mischief, should
fail to discern, in the moral condition of the
country, any of the natural consequences thereof.
The people of Ireland, like the people of every other
country, are naturally clamorous when they want food
—are disposed to question, and to rebel against the
power that unroofs their cabins in the depth of winter,
and sends them forth shelterless, to die, like dogs in
ditches, of cold and hunger. If, however, a moment's
consideration' be given to the provocations they have
received—to the wanton and oppressive cruelties of
which they are, the victims—their comparative -
.
tran-
quillity must excite universal surprise and sympathy.
But to put an end to all declamatory cavil on the
queition of the decrease of crime in Ireland, notwith-
standing :the tyranny of the landlords, the Noble
Viceroy read the official returns for the first nine
months of every year, from 1832 to 1837, both inclu-
sive. For the first nine months of 1832 the number
of heinous offences committed in Ireland were 7,460;
in the same period, in 1833, they were 6,547 ; in
1834, 6,016 ; in 1836, 5,384 ; and in the first nine
months of the present year, only 3,784 ! 'Well might
such a statement disconcert the Tory Lords who came
down to the House in the hope of witnessing the first
defeat of the Ministry. But independently of party
purposes, Lord AIULGII VE'S speech on Monday
evening will not fail to be productive of great addi-
tional good as regards the condition of the unfortunate
poor of that country. We are well assured that to it
Lord BANDoN's Catholic tenantry will remain in-
debted for not being among the first victims of the
depopulating compact entered into by the Orange
conclave of Irish landlords assembled at Lord
Mous TcA El.'s after • the close of the late
general election ; and most likely it will have
the effect of abating the ecclesiastical zeal of
the Rev. Dr. QUINN of Bray, and the other
Orange landlords of Wexford. The Duke of WEL-
LINGTON attempted to cover the retreat of the Earl of
RODEN ; but never before did his Grace appear in a
position in which he cut so sorry a figure. Lord
MuLon AvE exposed the errors of his Grace's arith-
metic, and Lord MELBOURNE the absurdity of his
arguments. The " great Duke" had only one string
to harp upon—namely, that it was contrary to pre-
cedent to admit in a Speech from the Throne the tran-
quillity of Ireland ! Had the Whigs acted as he had
done when in office—had they reported Ireland in a
state of insurrection, and asked for a Coercion Bill to
tranquillize it—his Grace stated that he would have been
satisfied. People of Ireland—Reformers of Great
Britain—mark this language of the Tory leader—and
then reflect upon the miseries to which Ireland would
again he exposed were the present Ministry to go out
of office before carrying those measures of Reform to
which they stand pledged to the country. For the
sake of Ireland then, we consider it the duty of the
country to support a Government pledged to give effect
to the enlightened policy of the Earl of MULGRA VE.

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT has, we perceive, ad-
dressed a letter to Mr. SPOTTISWOODE, wherein he
expressos an earnest anxiety to become one of his
" gang." This is natural, and just what we should
have expected from a man who has boxed the political
compass, and foresworn in hi 3 dotage every political
sentiment which he held sacred in his youth, and in
the vigour of his meridian manhood. But why can-
not the Hon. Baronet advertize his • junction with this
notable "gang," and his subscription of twenty pounds,
without indulging in grim jokes about ghosts, at
the expense of " noor Mr. R A PIIA EL"—as he
somewhat contemptuously calls that very soft-
headed gentleman ? Is he riot satisfied with the
praise of being the first apostate of :the age, without
aspiring also to be its first wag ? His Letter would
be a very diverting one, if it were not for this disastrous
attempt at drollery, which is so profoundly serious and
heavy, as to read like one of BLACKNIORE'S similes
turned into sleepy prose. We always entertained a
shuddering apprehension of Sir FRANCIS'S jokes; but
since he has turned Tot v, they have become ten times
more frequept, consequently ten times more vapid, than
ever. Had he cracked as many on the Devizes hustings.
as he has cracked since, in letters to the daily journals,
and in speeches at Tory dinners, most assuredly he
would never have been returned for North
Wilts ; for it is not in human nature to suppose that any
body of electors, however well disposed, could pos-
sibly have voted for a man capable- of perpetrating
such excruciating witticisms as the Hon. Baronet, is
now 'so constantly in the habit of inflicting on a
much injured public. We pray him in mercy to dis-
continue henceforth this horrid practice. Human
patience has its limits, and really this last small face-
tiousness about " poor Mr. R APHAEL," " the King
of Denmark," and " the Ghost," is almost enough