The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-25 00:00:00

CHIEF JUSTICE MONARAN.

Sir T. BATESON asked whether any further informs,
tion had been. received relative to the charge brought
against the magistrates of the County Down of administer-
ing justice partially? He should like to know whether he
had made any retractation of the terms complained of.
Mr. HOGAN thought that notice should have been given
the Chief Justice Monahan that this matter was to be
brought again under the consideration of Parliament.
Sir R. PEEL thought it would have been better, after
what he had said the other evening, had this subject not
been brought before the house again. He had, however,
received a letter from Chief Justice Monahan, in which
he stated that he had no recollection of having made the
statements to the effect that the magistrates of the county
Down administered justice partially. He believed it would
be admitted that a more impartial and upright judge
than Chief Justice Monahan did not exist, and if he had
been betrayed by a little hasty feeling into making some
statements which, in his cooler moments, he would not
have done, he was not the first person who had done such
a thing. He had already said that Chief Justice Monahan
was not justified, if he had made the assertion, of accusing
certain magistrates of partiality.
Mr. HOGAN asked if the learned judge had made any
statement of the matter to the Government. '

Sir R. PEEL said he had reported.
Mr. HOGAN asked whether it would be produced, but
no answer was given.
Col. FORD then proceeded to make some observations
on the same subject,:when

CoL GREVILLE asked the Secretary for Ireland whether
he would produce the report ho had received from the
learned judge.

Sir R. PEEL said he did not think it advisable that the
report should be produced.

Mr. ITENNESSY thought it highly desirable that the
report should be produced. (Laughter.)
' Sir G. GREY said his right hon. friend had given the
best answer he could, being asked the question in the way
he had. If the hon. gentleman particularly wished for the
report, the proper way would be to move for it in the
ordinary manner.
The subject then dropped.
THE OUDE CLAIMS.
Mr. KNIGHT asked the Secretary of State for India if
the report of the Calcutta Commission on the Oude claims
had been received ; and if so, when he would lay it upon
the table of the house.

Sir C. WOOD said no such report had been received.
THE EASTER RECESS.
Mr. A. MILLS asked the First Lord of the Treasury
when the adjournment would take place for the Easter
holidays ?
Lord PALMERSTON said the state of the public busi-
ness would not render a departure from the ordinary rule
necessary, which was to adjourn from the Friday, before
Good Friday.
SUPPLY—THE HELLENES.

On the motion for going into committee of supply,

Mr. B. COCHRANE rose to ask the Under Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs whether the pensions assigned
under schedule B of the Convention of March 29, 1864, be-
tween her Majesty and the King of the Hellenes, had been
paid in accordance with that convention ; and, whether
her Majesty's Government intended to take any

steps for the security of the recipients of those pen-
sions, by placing those British subjects who served Her
Majesty under the lonian Constitution on the same foot-
ing as pensioners of the British Crown.
Mr. LAYARD said the Greek Government had not ob-
jected to pay the pensions to persons who had been in the
service of the lonian, and not of the British Government,
and whose pensions had accrued under the laws of the
islands themselves. The pensions had been paid, though
not punctually, and there were only two pensioners who
had not received them. These were Sir Patrick Colquhoun,
who appeared determined to be a martyr, and another gen-
tleman, both of whom had refused to go through a common
form as a preliminary to receiving their pensions. The
Greek Government had bound themselves to pay the pen-
sions, and he had every reason to hope that they would
continue to pay them and maintain their good faith. The
hon. member also stated that the English Government were
not prepared to incur responsibility for the payment of
what the Greeks were liable for.
A discussion ensued, in which Mr. Kinglake, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. C. Bentinck, and other mem-
bers took part, and in the course of which it was contended
that these gentlemen were appointed by the protecting
Power, not by the lonian Government, and that they had
a legal and equitable claim to consider themselves officials
of the British Government.